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i Established 1865, Voi. 46, No. 43 CLINTON ONTARIO 'TH (RSDAY APRIL 18 1912 W..H..Kerr & Son, Editors and Publishers
THE GREATEST MARINE DISASTER
THE
Royal gapk
OF CANADA
1Nconrd .aT1:D 1560.
Capital .. . $6,25o,000
'Reserve - $7,000,000
The Annual Statement -ishows the fol
lowing increases for 1911,
1010 1911
Deposits $72,079 6)7 388,291,808
Loans &
Investments 55,283,676 6Z 790,072
Total Assets 92,510,346 110,528;512
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207 BRANCHES "and-
Correspondente'throughout the world
Interest allowecd,on Deposits.
R. E. MANNING, Mgr.
CLINTON BRANCH
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KODI1)1
Jueti received a fresh las-
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sontm;ent Of Eastman' a Kodaka
Br owlets Camea'as, Kodak
Films, Pap:ere and Photogra-
phic Supplies.
Eastman Kodaks have al
Ways lied en amprovemenitts
and elate) ideas.
Exahiine Mean- i land be ,coin-
vineed.
a. El. TI0V Y
Dispensing Chemist,
IN
HISTORY 0-2000 Lives Lost =: 705
Are Saved
MINOR 'LOCALS.
Gardening operatiolns have . com-
menced,
"See thert the label on your paper
reads 1012.
Taney Large Pineapples
13eauitiful Ripe Bananas
.Big Juicy, ,oranges,
and 'inei ,Gsape Fruit ' ,
will hnake a delicious` Fruit
Salad feet yew. Sundaydiiil,oer
We can also supply you ,peth
Fresh Lettuce,'
Green Qniolns$
Radishes
and ;C,elery-
See Our North Window
W. T. O'NEIL
THE HUB GROCER
Phone 48
Many Business' Colleges ,close for
vacation during the sunfiner.
ELLIOTT
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TORONTO, ONT...,
does not. NOW is an excellent
time -'to ,cohnmencei a course.
Write for; ,analogue.
The Molsons Ban
Incorporated 1855
Record of Progress f'or Five Years 1906=19111906 *
OAPNTAL , $3,000, 0.00 $•F,000,0U 00
RESERVE 3,000,000,00 4,600,000.00
DEPOSITS` , 28,677, 730.00 355,042,311,00
LOANS AND INVESTMENTS27,457,090,00 38,854,801,00
TOTAL ASSETS . •. .. . 83,090,I92.00 43,237,274.00
Has 85 Branches in Canaria, and Agents and Correspondents hi all
the Principal ' ties in the World,
A GENERAL BANHIAI;a BrSINESS TRANSACTED.
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT
at all Branches. Interest allowed at highest current rate.
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aloud, You meet a member of this`brotherhood and
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Dressers" or the "Brotherhood of Bad Dressers" ?
: Each has its passward We have given you the pass-
: word of the "Brotherhood of Good Dressers" The
• printing, publishing or uttering of the'°password used
by the "Brotherhood of Bad Dressers". is contrary to
• • the statute therein provided, Just one word more—
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• , elytion of two\, years, has been lin
• force.• ever shncei By the. vote 'last
4 September ro,hibeamn was res
• ,rained as part ref' the State's com-
• o(ti.iultie
Eight $ta,ee of the Union now
• have total rrohibition- 'Maine,
•-'GeIra. ta, nliase,ss,ipi, Oklaliorr.c
•, Tennesis,ee, North Dakota,Kalnisas),
• and North, Carolina, ,
• Thirty-twd States have local op-
••, tion just about as We have it in
Cal/nada., these are, New lfatmp-
shue, Vermont. Rhode Ieland,'Coln,
'Dec ticlit , New York Deliaware, Vir-
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World's Greatest Steamship;
At Bottom of the Atlantic
TITANIC WORSTED BY. GIANT ICEBERG OFF NEWFOUNDLAND BANKS
STORY OF .MOST AWFUL MARINE DISASTER IN HISTORY
1.. WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
London, April 16. The unwritten law of the sea, "Women and ohild-
ten first," was upheld on the floor of -the House of Commons to -day by
Premier Asquith In a speech deploring the Titanic Blaster,. "I must ex-
press the deepest admiration," he sald, "for the carrying out of that best
of sea traditions,, the saving of those least able•to save themselves.'
The Titanic, of the White Star Line,
the biggest,most luxurious ship in the
world, lies at the bottom of the sea
fust south of the Grand. Banks of
ewfoundland, .and' 600 miles south-
east of Halifax. On her maiden voy-
µge, the Colossus of steamshipsshat-
tered herself against an iceberg. No -
Ming availed to keep her afloat. The
science of shipbuilding prevails
Against winds and weathers, --but the
mighty steel ocean greyhounds of the
twentieth century are as much at the
mercy. of fogs and ice; as were the oak
bottoms of a hundred years ago.
Staggering in the icefield, into
which she -had driven at great speed,
the Titanic sped call after call to the
hurrying liners of the upper roads -
the great Baltic, the good Samaritan
of the Atlantic, and the big Germans
that were plowing their way between
the continents. And the wireless once
more proved its worth, for the Car-
pathia, wheeling in its course; sped
through the night, venturing unknown
danjers, and raced up in time to save
the lives of 800,' all. of the first-class
passengers and that portion of the
crew which mannedthe lifeboats; It
Is feared that over 1,200 other souls
1 a board perished.
It has been many years since the
!world was left in such suspense and
sed as followed the first faltering
ells for help from the crushed Tita-
to
. At 10.30 on Sunday night the Vin
nleian, speeding oh her way to Glas-
ow, picked up the ' White Star's
teamsbip's' insistently frantic O.Q.D„
e Marooni 'signal of distress and
eril that clears the air of all lesser
essages and stops ships at sea full
n their tracks. Dash by dash and
of by dot the wireless operator of
We Virginian caught the cry for help.
1 "Have struck an iceberg. Badly
damaged. Rush aid.."
: Seaward and landward, J. O. Phil -
!fps, the Titanic's 'wireless man, was
Phil-
Vs,
the appeal for help. By fits
and starts -for the wireless was work -
ng unevenly and bluirringly-Phfilies
shed out to the world crying the
tanics peril. A word or two, 'Scdtter-
(ed phrases now and then„ a connected
pentenoe made up the messages that
eri' a thrill of apprehension Dor a
Ehoutrand miles east, west and south
of the doomed liner.
Other rushing liners besides the Vir-
ginian
irginian heard the call and became on
the instant something more than oeirgo
Barriers and passenger greyhoaada.
The Mg Baltic, 200 Miles.: to the east-
sward and westbound, turned'agatn.to
The Titani-c's mato, the Olympic, the
mightiest of sea -goers, save the Ti-
tanic, herself Maned in her tracks..
A11 along the northern lane the miracle
of the wireless worked for the dis-
tressed and sinking White Star ship.
The Hamburg -American Cincinnati,
the Parisian from Glasgow, the North
German Lloyd Prinz 'Frederick - Wil-
helm, the Hamburg -American liners
Prince Adel bort and Amerika, ` all.
heard Os C.Q.D, and the rapid, con-
densed explanations of what had 'hale
pened.
But the Virginian was nearest, bare-
ly 170 miles away, and was the first
'to know of the Titanic's danger. She
went about and headed under forced
,draught for the spot indicated: in one
of the last of Phillip's messages--latl-
tude 40.82 north and longtitude 61.18.
west. She is a' fast ship, the Allan
liner, and: her wireless has told the
story of how she put in her best licks
stretching through the night to get to
the Titanic in time. There was need
for all the power of her engines and
all the experience and skill o1 her cap-
tafn. The final fluttering mammal -
grams that were released from the
Titania made it certain that the great
ship with her 2,180 passengers was
filling and in desperate peril:
Farther out at sea was the Carpa-:
thia, which left New York for the
Mediterranean on April 18, and which;
had feltchill the it in the air which al;
sailors know means the proximity of
great bergs drifting down - from Vie
Arctic. Round she went and plunged:,
back westward to take a hand in saw-
ing life. And the third steamship
within short sailing of the Titanic was
the Allan liner Parisian, away to the
eastward on her way from Glasgow to.
Halifax,.
When they sped in thenight with
all the drive that steam could give
them, .-the Titanic s call reached to
Cape Race in Newfoundland, and the
startled operator there heard at mid-
night a message which quickly reach-
ed New York: "Have' struck an ice-
berg. We are badly damaged, ..Tita-
t . La
t. c 41:16 north, 50.14 west."
Capt. Race threw the appeal broad-
cast wherever the tendons of the ap-
paratus could carry. So, that for
hours while the world waited for a
crumb of news as to the safety of
the great ship's people not one thing
more was known save that she was
drifting, breken and helpless, and
alone in the midst of a 'waste of ice.
And It was not until seventeen, hours
after the Titania had sunk, carrying
with her many souls, that the words
came but of the air se to her fate.•
save life as she did when her sister of There was a confusion end, tangle of
!the '7ht4e Star ?feet, the Republic. was messages --a jumble of rumors. Good
jilt dowh in a fog in January, 1909, tidings were trodden upon- by evil.
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Liberal "Banish -the -Bar"
Program Part of a
Continental Movement
Liquor Traffic Fighting Losing
Battle All Over America -
Uncle Sr;;t Leads Way,
Tor on to Star W e eirl`y.
The temperance policy of the Liberal•
party of Ontario -the a.polition of the
bar -announced recently by Mr. N.
W. Rowell, the, Provincial Liberal
leader, may appear radical and sensa-
tional; but in reality it is,an;inevitable
stride in the gloat temperance move-
ment which has been gaining strength
throughout the whole of America for
years. It isjipteresting at this juuct•
ure to trace this movement from' its
beginning in order to realize how
strong it has grown.
The United States, being 'older than
Canada, organized work for . the .con-
trol of the liquor traffic 'began there
first. The prohibition policy was in,
augurateci avitle, the Maine law of
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Mucky, Ariamna, California, Nils
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sour', Olio, Wisconsin, Iowa 8ti!a-
nesota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Coilorado, :Montana,- Idaho, Utah.
Oregon, and 'Washiln,giton!. In moot
of these States local option' has
spread widely, an recent yearst, lin
recent( years. In New'. York apes
increase of 102 dense .town
epi
a e"n road nee 1909.
snip has been Is
ince
of the three counties' of Dela-
ware are dryf': Pority • ofWest
Virginals 0°11110e -1S are dry. in
moved the saloon from -thr(ee,-
guar:ters! of its 'terlr,itory, and in
most ,of thea other local optilon
States, more than half -of the 'tee-
ribory is drys,
:Prohibition has been repealed ipa
a few;,States,bu+t they remain snore
than half dry. through local op-
tion, .Te'tas, which repealed pro-
hibiti,on last vear, •iealmost en-
tirely dry, under local,. option( ,O(a
the , other hand, Oklahoma and
Baocaoosoo_soososo'aGreaocaeom00000'„p€ m?ectooecoeoeAo®A® . "•'•n"", "": , , •'r,,,i , •
"There's Something in The British After Ali," • ' Formaldehyde
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When a British ship is lost at sea, oh, then I know you'll find e.
e That there's something in the British after all • •
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the women and the children are the first to leave the wreck s
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Act, and striking proof or !the
gronitir ofitemperance sentiment in
Ontario.
- This Province .has twice given a
tnajority vote for Prohibition -Duce
in 1894, when the Mow-at'Goverin,-
menn submitted' a plebiscite -and
again las 1902, Nothing resulted
from' the former as tee cornus were
doubtful as to the potver of .the
Legislature to enact a prohibitive
meastira. The latter failed because
the majority was not large enough
to warrant the Roes Governmein;t
in putting its proposed Actin force
A majority pf votes polled at the.
previous! el,ecteen ,wa,s asked, but
the vote fell s'hort by about 13,000.
Considerably over ithree-fiftlhe of.
those voting were an favor of price'
hifellon. The majority was over
96;000. Al.i Dominion . plebiscite in,
d898 gave email Majority for pro-
bibetton, Quebec alone disseiniting.
Ainil at the Bar Fleet.
The present nio,sition of the tem-
penance people was outlined clear-
ly at 'the, recent big convolution in
Toronto,, They, donut took for
prohibiltionl in 'Heel (near futures
They: aim for 'the abolition b£ jtli&.
bar as thefirst necessi(ty4 And
.this clearlty-defin-
ed policy, His action is in hoe with
Liberal principles, for Bion Liber -
aa. Governments have .conieal].00th-
er: inrttati'vs actions ilnithe field of
reforjnf in Ontario.
The temperance, forces }:gay they
have gone about ,as far se they gin.
wall, local option, for they c antler-
er hope ;to banish the bar -an the
large een'tres, except by Provin-
cial legislation. They feel that
the, time; isnot ripe for aprohibi
tion campaign, Thein' plate wee to
have} both candidates an each red -
Mg aitthe next electiolo give a
,pledge to work for the abolition. of
'the bar'; or failings in itthat, to re'-.
ceve a pledge from one; otherwise
to place a temperance candidate en,
the field, Note they have a whole.
parity advocating exactly -what
they advocate.
North Dakota made prohibition
constitutional; what- they became
States, and still retain ;the law.
Nevada 8s thoroughly 'vet, The
Government enforces prohibition
on the . Indian ' reservation ; other -
Wise there are no provisions' for
restricting the liquor trade,, and
Reno has a,saloon for every ttveIndry
male citizens. But in every other
State, aommeply called net, there
are restrictions of some descrip-
tion` ,
InPeel sylyania, for exantple, the
law permits the filing ofrtemon-'
strasnees against applicalnts for
licenses, and 864 tomene and villages
are dry, although there is ne rf:-
guler focal option 'law; Some:
States have eoenty option by;spec-'
legislailaom--Maryland, for example
where ;ten counties and part of the
city of Baltimore are dry by spec- -
ial. ;enactment.
So Lt w.i11 be seen shat throughout
the United tSates barring Nevada,
the liquor buslne,ss is, as the Am-
erican Year Book says, "in a strug-
gle more or less, fierce sin allmosit
eyery locality," and that it is 1or:,-
ing ground steadily amid, rapidly,
Local Option In Canada.
Ili Canada, the ineaIns employed
to, suppress; fhe ;liquor trade have
not been asinumerous as across the
border, All legislation un' .thisdir-
eetion has been ilmthe nature od lo-
cal option. The Dunham. Act pass-
ed in 1864 and; ithe Scott Act of 1878,
especially' the ]atter, differed only
slightly from' the local optic» o♦'
to -day, theformerallowing: local
authoedies to prohibit 'sales of li-
quor In leas than five -gallon' quan-
titaeii and the latter giving ;coupe,- ;
ties and cities the right to prolate- r
it retail salsas. These' weregeder-
ab Acts. In1.1890 !Ontario revived
local! option legislation, alad since
than, . hut ,especially during., the
passt1 five year,s, 1o,cal prohibition
has swept over the Provence with
astonishing, rapidity. Okeir 365;"
gntie ; ,town, villages, and .towper`
ship 1 out of 8 are \ wet, and
311 mono have ;now given Maloraties for
local; option; failing. ;Lo get it Dimly
by reason of the Ithrleeeelfthe mai-
orityi ,chaise, This is a Isrtirt]ktng L.
ponitr psi( to the- failure pf )the -Sc,oittt
The Titanic in Brief.
Length over all • 882 feet 6 inches
' Breadth over all 92 feet 6 inehes
Nee register 45,000 tons.
Displacement 66,000 "tons.
Cast $10,000,000.
Value' of hull for insurance pur-
porsee $5,000,000.
Insurance• (Lloyds) $5,000,000.
Pasaengersl on board, including
318 first-class and 262 second-class
1,470. ,
Total accommodation, 600 saloon,
500 second-class! and 1900 (steerage
13,000.
Crewe 860.
NOTES
FROM SOUTHERN
ALBERTA.
To The Editor Of The New Era
Itehas been generally understood un -
till this last few years, that Southern
Alberta was notadaptedfor anything
except ranching, and a good many
people, especially B++astern people
think so yet.
The country lying between the Cy-
press Hills and the Rooky Mountains,
and all the country south to the Inter-
national boundary, is called or rather
has been called "the dry belt of the
Canadian West,"
The majority of ,he ranchers have
been quite willing to bare it 'called
"the dry belt", because they were op.
posed to having their pasture ;lands
taken up by a lot of sod busters as
they call the homesteaders,
if you area stranger and want to
get information about the country
better ask a homesteader who has
been here a few years, as a rancher
may tell you some dry'weather stories.
Some of the ranchers seeing they
can not do such a large ranching bus-
iness as before; are making the beat of
it and starting to raise grain them-
selves:
The summer of 1910 was,Ao dry . and
was a summer of prairie fires, high
winds and no growth of any account,
but intppite of all•a few farmers. here
and there who had summer followed
their land the year before bad 20
btishels of wheat to the acre.
But Southefn Alberta was not alone,
es Southern Saskatchewan and Mani-
toba and Dakota were in the' dry belt
that year to share and share alike.
The summer of 1911 was extra wet,
`very little wind and lots of growth.
More rain fell than the averageSum
mer in Ontario, and the rains contin-
ued till late in the Fall.
Frost hurt the crop some as it did in
several other parts of the West, but
some had extra good Drops, especially
of oats.
Mr. McFarlane, of Glenbanner, har-
vester 100 bushels of oats to the acre
and 20 bushel of flax. This ought to
look good for a new country and "a
dry belt."
The land is pretty well settled now
and a big crop is expected this year
and a'lob more will be broken up this
Summer.
There are three railway surveys
through here, running east and west,
two of them are under construction
now, so that looks as though the rail
ways bad lots of confidence • in the
country.
Hoping the readers of the New Era
will not think I have been exaggerat-
ing any. I remain, Yours Truly.
Wm, Archambault
Fourways
Alberta
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Make you money -
Ask those who have used it.
Leaves bright, clean grain
Directions on every bottle
Eats grain smut
Helps your neighbor
You will make no mistake
Dbn't sew without it
Everyfarmor should tree it
In full pint bottles and standard
strength at 50c each,:
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The, last few years we have
Made -a reputation for selling
'the beat Formaldehyde. This-
year we have the same good
brand-
Star
rand Star Brand
Formaldehiyde
It is al ,sure killer for Smut
in ,Grairj. Use it -it mealne..
money in your pocket,
h0e'a Pint
REXALL STORE.
W.Q.R. Holmes
Phm B,
New
Sprinq
dais it Caps
For Men and Bolls
THIS week we pass into
•stock the very latest
in Hats and Caps for, Men
and Boys and Children,
These are well worth a
visit to this store.
They comprise the natti-
est range it has ever been
our pleasure to display, the
prices
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We are showing a very
swell range of Spring and
Summer Shirts for men and
boys, in plain and" fancy
colors,
We are particularly anx-
ious to show you through
our stock of Summer Shirts
with .soft cuffs and detached
collar, from $11 up,
Come in and Look
Thele Over.
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Men's Tailors aaci fliP5iSitCPS
MINOR LOCALS.,
Watch Clinton grow this isulnan,es
Wild flowers will soon be in
bloom. •
Trouit fishing 'tune"opens bntthr,eo
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