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New Series Vol, 19, No.ti
HOARDING
The Seaforth News
The Food Centreller nye hoarding
ie one of the naw words of the war. It
means etoring in ozone of rognirementa
especially of tooda and fuel just at
present. Now storing aid laying up n
prndont supply for real needs ie not :t
mime in peace tunes: but the men or
woman wire wilfully and cooly decides
today to attire more food then she
would buy in ordinary times to cont-
mitting something that has the moral
effect of a crime 13tr le also helping
to Tadao the price to hirnn.lf for fut•
are snppiifs.
11101.0„i8 1111 ouune for pitta°. stuerg
the people of Canada 'Nt must ex
'dt peat to make aomo food anr:rifiees sed
be willing to modify our eating habits
and even to eat lean in order that our
• Allies and soldiurs may be fed. There
is a world shortage of foods ileoarse,
eo far as we in Canada are concerned
other people have had to be withdrawn
from farm to fight what is our joint
Sight. Our obvions duty is to cid them
by at least sending them as much food
• se before they took op our common
task.
"Hoarding" is the crime of selfishly
taking care of one's own
skin to rue detriment of athero
either in warring lands or at home
Buying too much for immediate cellar•
.peeking !" Canada also imposes a
:burden on the poorer classes in the
Dominion. The railway difficulties
ere especially great this winter, as
in dietriubtion of foodstuffs are adding
V the shortage. Moreover, hoarding
by people who lack proper facilities
for storing may result in heavy waste.
For this reason especially, public opin•
iuu should be aroused against this
practice.
Itis a thing that comes down to the
°ease of tight in the buyer. If he or
she knows what patriotism means,
knows what others have to undergo
only because they did not happen•eto
live in Canada, and in whose plane
Canadians might have been but for the
acoident of geography, there will be no
boarding, Public opinion -and public
dieapprobation of hoarding may do a
great deal to discourage the praotioe
but nothing can be really effective un.
less the moral sense of the buyers tella
,14ere plainly when they are laying in
e legitimate store or grabbing for an
opportunity plenty for the chief reason
that they baro enough money to get it.
it is no weeder that ender the stress of
war tension the Britieh people found
far the man who attempted hoarding
the expressive title of "food hog".
There has been eume boarding in
-0anada of sugar, _-flour end perhaps
ether commodities. Tho praotioe
fortunately is of small proportions and
The effectof measures now under eon -
adoration may result in the rxprsute
of the Canadian "food hogs." Hoard-
ing is unnecessary and unpatriotic, The
better elements in the community will
refrain from it so far as their own
koueeholds are concerned and will use
heir influence against it elsewhere.
. Cfteu people will buy large quant•
hies of thesefeuds without thinking of
the way in whioh they may be depriv-
SEARORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1018
ing °there. livery true Canadian will
do well to resolve that he will "play
the game" fairly with his neighbor and
with the poorer;olassee, by pnrohastug
food oily,in normal quantities while
the present auorgenoy !'sets, end by
discouraging horadlug wherever he finds
evidence of it:
Successful Beekeeping
The drat requisite for stlootnofull bee --
keeping is that the owner of
the boos eho.tld be interested in
them, tfe will than study their ways
and will learn to manage thein well,
Ifo will learn from bee hooka and jour-
nals as wall as by oxperlouosa, find al"o,
perhaps, from the friendly advice of a
hee•keeping neighbour.
Another important condition is an
abandaneo of honey producing llowora
within a mile or two of the apiary.
There is hardly a place in the settled
parts of Oanada where this condition is
not,fulfrlled to some extent. The kinds
of plant that produce the bulk of the
surplus honey are not many. By far
the most important are aleike and
white clover found on almost every
arm, and most plentiful, `of nurse
where they are grown for hay, paettire,
or Beed. in southern Alberta and the
dry interior of British Columbia, cloven
yields first place to alfalfa, and in the
seem oleared lands of the Borth to
fireweed (Epilobium auguetifolium) a
promising honey plant which is now
the subject of a special inyeetigatroe
by the Bee Division of the Experiment-
al Farms. Among minor 6000'056 of
surpine honey are buokwhoat and base -
wood in southern Ontario:and south-
western Quebec; goldem•od and aster,
principally in eastern Canada; wild
raspberry, sweet clover, Canada thistle
and various weeds. Red clover is an
example of a plant containing abund-
ant nectar in which the flowers are too
narrow and deep for the bees to collect
it.
A third factor of great importance is
suitable weather for the development
of the honey plant and for the secret-
ion and in gathering of the nectar. In
he case of most plants, including
white alsike clover, a moderately wet
spring followed by fine, warm weather
when the planta are in full bloom, pro.
duces the beet result,, In mob a sea.
ton it is not unusual to get 150 pounds
of honey per colony in a good olover
district, On the other hand, contin-
uous rain or broken .weather during the
honey flow, may prevent the production
of any surplus' honey, Ws cannot
foremast the weather in any part of the
country, so that the honey crop is as
mncertein as any farm crop, In 19ie
the highest yield per colony from °lover
was obtained in Nora Scotia; in Ontario
the orop was only moderate, and in the
lower mainland of British Columbia a
failure. In 1916 Nova Scotia gave less
than the average, Quebeo, Ontario end
Manitoba gave above the average, and
the lower mainland of British Colum•
bia again a failure. Ih 1917 Nova
Scotia recorded a failure; eouthern Ont
ario elntoet an average; Quebec and
Manitoba below the average and the
lower mainland of British Columbia a
"OLYMPIA"
RESTAURANT AND CONFECTIONERY
EVERY ONE
tastes like more it they are the
delicious oonfestions we offer.
Dainty and attractive in appear,
anco, sanitarily made, pure and
wholesome.
OUR CANDY
is the kind you can safely oat,
offer to yotir friends anti, give to
the children,
Isn't that the good, safe kind
you have been looking for,
beautiful crop, 'rhe shifting of the
good yield from one region to another
was due to weather oonditious. In , the
aggregate returns, however, Ontario
and Quebeo led, the Maritime 'Prov
Ineee oamo next, and British Columbia
third, a comparison of considerable
importance to the epeeiallst but less to
the amateur,
The Hee ii sugar hes }weir relieoter
in the honey market, lu the last two
years the demand for honey )tae been
very groat; the price has risen 3 to 6
oonts a pound within the past few
mr nths, and white extracted honey at
the time of writing is being • quoted at
14 to 17 cents per pound wholesale,
Lee -keeping mode hut little oapitsl
eau be carried on anywhere, even in a
rile .00 lot 10 the city, and is not $part-
taulnrly luboriene - The •htou requite
attention in pleasant weather, know-
ledge and foresight being needed to do
ell that is necessary until the weather
is again likely to be favorable,
The Old Acquaintance,
Mirrors aro telltale evidence. They
force one to willing or unwilling con-
clusions, Pretty Mrs, Smith owns that
once at an evening, she caught sight of
herself ina gine Borns the hall, thought
involuntarily: "What a nice woman
that must bel" She acknowledged it to
no one but her husband; but inasmuch
as he time becomes rsepousibie for the
fact being known, it is no offense to
repeat it,
The Pbiladephia'Telegraph' tells a
story of a certain old lady, one of two
charming twin sister who looks so much
alike that nobody ever aucosede very
well in distinguishing between them.
One of them, Ann, went out shopping
the other day, and as she started in
haste, she put on Susan's bonnet by
mistake. In walking through a store,
she came suddenly in front of a full.
length mirror, and stepped back in
in astonishment, saying.
"Why, Sue, I didn't know you were
coming down -town this morning!"
Tale et Two Parrots
The Rev. Philip C. Fletcher, the
most eloquent and popular of St, Louie'
younger clergymen, was dieousetng the
ether day the sermon wherein he said
he saw no harm in cosmetics.
"What 'meant in that sermon," said
Mr. Fletcher, smiling, "was that a
woman owed it to herself to make the
most of her looks. According to some
people, 1 advised every woman to lay
on powder and paint with a towel. I
would never think of giving such advice
of course, Such advise, coming from
the pulpit, would have a strange sound
au etrauge a sound as the tally of the
miuieter'e parrot.
"A certain minister, you knots, call-
ed on an old lady, and found a new
parrot in her parlor, The parrot kept
saying every little while;
"I with the old girl would die !"
The minister turned his head to con-
ceal a smile.
"But 1 think 1 can set this matter
right for you, dear madam', lie said,
'I, too, have a parrot, as you know, It
is a very honest bird, lie talk ie very
edifying, 1'll send it here, and it will
soon guide ycur parrot into decent
speech'
'He sent on hie parrot that evening
The grateful old lady put the birds
side by side. Then, with a pleased
smile she prepared to listen to their
conversation.
"I wish the old girl would die" said
the parrot host.
"And the guest „rolled -his oyes and
declaimed solemnly; •
Wo beseech Thee to hear ue, good
Loral"
A. H. Musgrove, Postmaster
The auuouitcetueut has been made
that A. H, Musgrove, .f, P. P. for
North Huron has been appointer) Poet
toaster in Winghant to suceend the
late C. N. Griffin, who passed away
uesrly n year ago. Mr. Musgrove bee
tendered his resignation as a uteinbor
of the Ontario Legislature and will at
min enter upon his new antics,
Mt' Musgrove has been a resident of
Winghant arid district for upwa'da of
fifty years. Hu was born at Pickering
Ont. and when a lad of four years his
father, the late .lean Muegroro, seal+d
011 a farm in Turuborry Tov:uehil', Hear
Bluevale, His early life wag aped en
a farm and at the age of -eighteen ho
oornmenoerl teaching soltool. He waa
Principal of %Yiigltant Public :Scheel
for eightoon years and prior to that
ho taught in the schools of 13luevele
and Whiteehnrult, •
Mr Maegrove Iran been in active
politics for many years and was elected
to the Legialaturein 1908 and again in
1911 and 1914. He wss a good puolic
speaker and always took .a keen inter-
est in the gnestione before the House
He was an able supporter of Union
Government and assisted on the public
platform and otherwise to secure the
election of the Union Government can-
didate, Since the commencement of
the war he itas giver weeks of his time
in attaining at recruiting and patriotic
meetings,
Mr Musgrove is Winghan's fourth
Postmaster' The late Mr Griffin held
the position for some years,- the late
Peter Fisher was Postmaster for up-
wards of fifty years, and the late E,
Foley was in the position prior to Mr.
Fisher. J
THE WAR
To. the Editor, Newt
Dear hit•;
Everybody iutereetod iu the war
(and who is notie is just now watching
the Western front with oonaiderable
ttitriety Uwing to the Russian miliaria°
Germany has betel able to augment her
army 011 the west with large Aimee that
era no longer needed on the east, She
/fele it is vitally important to her to
strike a oruching, tied, if 1300aible,
decisive blow before the United Staten
can get a large artay,there Moreover,
this blow will he directed by that great
mister of strategy, Pott flindcrborg,
t4 '1 rte tetany with title )nighty army
handled with cuttOumtnete skill, be uhie
t•.r inflict disuuter on the opposing
forces as she did on the Steffens a few
tt °tithe ago:
There are good renew, why this cines.,
fluff may be answerer) with the words
"'She will not he able'. The German
army now on the western front is a
very different army from that, which
elate with the confident expectation of
speedy victory, tnurohed into Belgium
in August 1914, The present army has
not this confidenue It has experienced
rrverse after reverse at the hands of the
foe in whom it has met its matoh; and
this want of confidence—of buoyant
hope—of morale constitutes the lack of
something, which, though intangible,
commands regard as a potent facture
in the makeup of au artny
?aiklow, if the hurriedly oollected,foroes
of Belguine, Britiau and France defeat
eel at the 7farne the spleudtd high
spirited German army of 1914, a'
eimiliar force would find lege difficulty'
in defeating the present tyermati array.)
Bet we are ntforreed ,1, grad eeth'
ortty that the allied Purees are emu) to
them in number°, superior to them,ie
artillery and in morale, while we have
every reason for confideuoe to the airilt
of their leaders,. We may therefore
rust assured that, in the septum° toot
of the great haul° which is expected
our fermi will he victorions.
l'4', 11. •I'relhei y
Arrii,inia11 Relief
Egtnendedle F f
Mrs 1. L Mattel .,. 1 00
Harry Scott 1 00
W. E, Keslak.• .,. .. .. it 00
John Rankin.. ............. ........ ... 6 00
11 Henderson, McKillop......,.... 1 00
hisJamieson .................. .. 109
John Woods -...... ................... 2 00
Methodist 8 S .:............. ......... :33 00
Toal,amount contributed...... $368 65
Donations to date have bean most
gratefully acknowledged by Mr D A
Cameron, manager of the Bank of
Commerce, Toronto, who is Honorary
Treasurer of the Armenian Relief Fund
111 Canada, Any further subecriptione
will be forwarded if left with Mr, John
Beattie
$I.UQlper year
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Treasurer's Report
The following is the Treasurer's
Report of the Huron Presbyterial Se.
ciety:
Auburn, .......... „ ................5101 47
Bayfield .................. .... 127 00
Blake ..,. 39 98
Blyth ......... ,.. ... ..
•, 180 00
Blyth "Marion Oliver" Circle.,, 17o 00
Brucefield .•.................. ...... 194 52
Brucefield Kelly Circle I6I 00
Clinton ........ . 183 00
Carlow or Smith's Hill,......., 80 00
Egmondviile ,.• 178 00
Exeter i19 00
Exeter Logic Circle . ,,,..,,. ,,, I60 75
Goderioh .... ............. 267 00
Goderich Arthur Circle,...,.:.. 86 86
Goderich Township Uaion ,,: 60 00
Grand Bend 76 00
Hensel] 183 00
Hensel! McGregor Citole,.•.•• 50 00
Hills Green ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,„ 100 00
Kfppen .....................:........ 139 00
Kirkton ........; ,,, 177 45
Leeburn 43 00
Londesboro ................ ...... 79 00
MaKtilop, Duff's Church .,,...... 58 96
Seaforth ...,.. ...... 409 48
Thames Road ,.,,., ,.•..,.„ 228 34
Varna ....... ... 50 00
Winthrop Aesooisted Society .,. 30 45
Junior life member Preabyteriai 5 Oo
Total from Auxiliaries ,,.,,•.,,
Mission bands—
Blyth,'MoLoat'....................$ 72 00
Brucefield 'Little Disciples'...,.. 28 00
Egmondville'Little Helpers' ,,, 17 00
Exeter 'Willing Workers'......,,, 9 70
Goderioh 'McGillivray' , 100 00
Heneall 'King's Own' , .. 14 20
Seaforth 'Barbara Kirkman' ,,. 32 o0
Beefed!' '1 unshine' . .. .... ,25 85
Varna 'Willing Workers' ,,,,,, 12 25
Total of Mission Bands ,........$ 311 00
Auxiliaries its Miesiou Bands $4006 76
Tho Treasurer suggests that each
member try and increase their giving
by 10e extra this year and thus make
the oontrlbntion for 1918 ootne up to
$4,100,
Minnie V. Greig, Treas., H, P. S.
$3,695 76
Yogi Can eorae Here
Now and See the
INSMEMIRSHO
New
spring Models
in Coats
and Sits
While our as`sortmeut is not com-
plete, the range of styles is so rep-
resentative that you will find a
very satisfactory selection to
choose from.
Many of the valises in this early
showing are of exceptional merit.
Ladies' New Spring Coats
310 to $75
This Is one of the
New moderately
priced f>fnaciels
for Spring 1918
Ladies' New Spring Suits
$15 to $30
Comite and see the new things --Yost do not have to
buy because you look.
Don't forget to aomo in and get your Lunch
before you go borne after the ialmw,
Asthma Cannot Last when the groat
est of all asthma specifics is used. Dr
j, D. Kellog's Asthine Remedy assured-
ly desorvee tide exalted title, It has
ocmttioae aures to its credit,vhieh other
prepsratione had failed to benefit. It
brings help to ever most 616vero ansae
and bringe the patient to a condition of
blessed relief. Surely Buffering trout
asthma is needless when a remedy like
this le so easily seemed,
BIRTHS.
ELLLOTT---In Logan, Feb. 7t to Mr
aid Mrs, Melvin Elliott, a daughter,
17 BATHS.
SEA FIRTH
NORRIS—in Staffn, Feb, 6th, Joseph
5, Norris aged 88 years,
ItEHOE—In Seaforth, on Wednoedoy
February 13th, 1918, Wm, 11, Itahoo
aged 67 yeas,