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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-10-13, Page 7S. of of H. ar, N. sr, er, se, 3d. er, eeee ;est ,net 'ear our one It ver tee Mr. •We ter Clark, of Credi- -storr; is spat for this district for I, D. Smith's „well known Nue- eery Stook. At present Mr, Clark has`to offer a full line of APPLES, PEARS, PLUMS, VINES, and small fruits, also ORNAMENTALS, ROSES, Etc. Prices and information will be furnished cheerfully, and free t of charge. Intending purchas- 4• iere are advised to send in their orders at once, while there is a full stock of everything on hand. 19 3+++++++++.1•+•4.3.++++++n mica. WALTER CLARK, Agent, Crediton. LODGE MEETINGS � '11 Court Zurich No. 1240 1. O• F• meets every 1st and 3rd Thursdayof each month at 8 o'olock p. m. in the A. 0. U, W. Hall. J, J. PKERNER, C. R. A 0. TJ "67i4T• Rlckbeil Lodge W eY No, 3 93, meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month, ab 8 o'clock, in their Hall, Merrier Bloek. FRED. WITWER ,M. W LEGAL. CARDS. ieR017UFOOT • RAYS It NILLORAN, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, etc. Goderich, Canada W. Proudfoot. K. C. R. 0. Hays. J. L. Killoran. BUSINESS CARDS. B. 8. PHILUUPS, AUCTIONEER, Exeter. Sales conducted in all parts. Satis- feetion guaranteed or no pay. Terms reasonable. Orders loft at this office will be promptly attended to. ANDREW F. HESS, FIRE INSURAN- ce agent, representing the London, Economical, Waterloo, Monareb, Stand- ard, Wellington and Guardian. Every- thing in fire insurance. DR. F. A. SELLERY, DENTIST, GRA- duato of the Royal College.of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, also honor gradu- ate of Department of Dentistry, To- Tonto I,1'niversity. Painless extraction. et. teeth: Plate work a speciality. Alt Dominion House, Zurich, -every Mon - ,dap. 7•-26 E.• ZELLER, CONVEYANCER AND Notary Public. De ads , Mortgages, Wills and other Legal Documents care :fully and promptly prepared. Office— Zeller block, Zurich, Ont. • B. W F. BEAVERS E ETER Licensed. Auctioneer for County of Bron. Sales conducted in the most approved manner, Satisfaction guar- anteed. Dates can be made at the Oroditon Star or at the Bargain Store, Exeter. .j;,.l..I,{.:�.1.,,++++++++++++++++++++++++++ H. EMBER & SON Conveyancers, Insurance Agents MONEY TO LOAN Telephone --•Office la, House lb. netee I+4 +++++i'+ :: +3W°'++++++' ++ Synopsis of Canadian Northwest Land Regulations. ANY person who rs the sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years old, may homestead a ouarter-section of avail able Dominion land in Manitoba, Sask. lbohewan or Alberta. The applicant must lippear in person at the Dominion Lands Oigenoy or Sub -Agency for the district. Entry by proxy may be made at any Agency, on certain conditions, by father, „other, son, daughter, brother or sister of Intending homesteader, Duties, ---Six months' residence upon and sulti.vation of the laird in each of three 11 ears. A homesteader may live within nine Iles of his homestead on a fans of at leash 0 acres solely owned and occupied by him Sell his father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. In certain districts a homesteader in good standing Xray pre-empt a quarter..seo- on alongside his homestead. Price $3.00 er acre. Duties—Must reside six months la melt of six years from date of homestead pintry (including the time required to earn omosteacl patent) and cultivate fifty mores lgtre. A boelntastoador who has exhausted hit, oneeten,d right) and oannob obtain a pre- ntptlon nay bake aurchased homestead oert,aln didtrlots. •Frioo• $3.00 :per acre. .uties—'lulusb reside six months in each of leieo years, cultivate fifty aures and erect 1k,house worth $300.00. Ir. Ir. CORY, Depute' of the Minister o" the l'ttl.erior, IL 1.3.—Unauthorized puhlitration of thio advertisomemb will nob oo pam toe DISTRICT. On Wednesday noon, last week, a fearful accident happened at Blyth G. T. R. station, when F. E. Rous- seau of Toronto, shoe traveller for J. D. King Co., got off the train and was 'walking up the platform when the train started again, .and he tried to catch on. He tripped over some express parcels and fell on the track, having his left leg cut oft below the knee and part of right foot also taken off, and his back hurt, Dr. McTaggart, dentist, happened to be at the station, and gave first aid to •the•' injured man, and Dr. -Milne was sent for. The injured man was placed on the train and taken to Wingham hos- pital. Depositors of the defunct Far- mers Bank still hope. They are or- ganizing, and will slake an effort to get their own. A delegate from each of the branches effected met to -day at the Walker house, To- ronto, for the purposeof complet- • ing thorough organization, and de- ciding on plans of action. It is generally understood that, should the double liability of the 'slxare- holders not be oollected, and this is doubtful, that the depositors would receive at the most about 25 cents on the dollar. It is claimed that the depositors will arrange to present before the Bankers' Asso- ciation and the Government .a. de- putation asking that an anionnt equal to the Farmers Bank's note circulation at the, time of suspen- sion be taken out of the pot cir- culation redemption fund, which is held by the Go-hemxnent; and paid. over to the estate.. This would :not be the precise duty of this fund, but. the amount required, about $600,000, would be very little, com- pared to the size of the fund, and would mean about 50 cents more on the dollar to depositors. The depositors will decide also on other lines of the action, should this fail.. The note circulation redemption fund is made up by the chartered banks of Canada for the purpose, of guaranteeing their bills in circula-. tion. They pay in to the Govern. ment five per cent. of the total amount of their note circulation, and ehhuld one of them .fail, and not be able to pay its notes in full,. then a aufflcielit amount is taken out of ibis general fund td make up the deficiency. As a. bank's notes are the first charge on the assets, it is hardly likely that there will ever be a call on this fund. After a long and tedious illness there passed to her reward Wednes- day last week, another of Exeter's oldest and most esteemed residents in the person of Caroline Wiltshire, widow of the late Chas. Knight, aged 81 years. Deceased was oper- ated on about two years ago, and while the operation was a success it only furnished temporary relief. Since then she has suffered much and death must have come as a happy release. Born in ,Wiltshire, England, in 1830, she calve tu Can- ada with her late husband, first settling in London, where her hus- band was for many years stati-'n agent. From London they; moved to St. Thomas, and in 1378 to Exe- ter, where she has continuously re- sided since. Mr. 011ie Hooper, of Hensall, and a Clinton Old Boy, .has purchased the baggage and express business from the Sellers Estate, Blyth, and has taken possession last week. Mr. Hooper's old friends in. town wilt wish success in his ,neve' venture. The conduetor on the way -freight from London eves fined Monday for blocking the street at,' Clinton on Sept. 18th. Sergt. Welsh laid the complaint and his fine totalled about $8, which was paid. A quiet wedding took place at Ontario street parsonage, Clinton, on Thursday last, when Miss So. phia Stonehouse of Clinton was united in marriage with Mr. Harvey Johns of Tuckersmith. The cere- mony was performed by Rev. T. OVER es VEARS' EXPERIErNCiI • etentent TRADE IVIARISR DESIENS COPYRIGHTS &C., Anyone sending a sketch and desertption Nay quleklr ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention la probably' patentable. Communion. Mona strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents Bent free. oldest Agency torsecuring patents. Patents taken through Munn .5 Co. receive Special notice, without charge, to tho Scientific iltnericagio A xto.ndsomely Illustrated meekly. largest Mr- . emotion of any seientifle Journal, 'corms for CanftdS, $8.75 a Seat, postage prepaid. Sold by ell now: dealers. UNN & C® 36t rosdway, New York .43rsOOb 41410e. 825 D' pt.. We.btnaton• D. ee. Wesley Cosens, and was witnessed by a'few immediate friends. Goderich is to have another vote in January on the Local Option. question. • Mr. John Jervis , of Goderich township, while walking along the Bayfield River•the other day came across something of a curiosity in the shape of a stone resembling in form a lien and a sheep,sitting, bank to back. The stone would weigh in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds.. Several ,people, viewed the curious formation, some giving it as their opinion that it 's an idol worshipped by the Indians of long ago, others suggest that it is a proof of the ,fulfilment of pro- phesy, the lion and the lamb lying down together. It is at least curi- ous and interesting. Another 'consignment of fish has been placed in the Aux Sable river at Ailsa Craig. They were received from the Government hatcheries, New Castle. This time it was two cans of small mouthed bass. They arrived on Friday last, accompanied by A. W. McLeod, of Government Fisheries Department. They were taken down to the river accompani- ed by a few -enthusiastic anglers. With the assistance of T. -Stephen- son, secretary of the .Angler's As; sociation, Mr.' McLeod consigned them to their new hone.. The last consignment received was one of 60,000 pickerel fry. The anglers are beginning to feel that there will be good fishing in the river again. On Tuesday of last week the rem mains of the late Mrs, David Bail. lie arrived on the evening train and were taken to the home of Mr. and Dlres. John Bell, the funeral being conducted from there on. Wednes- day morning to the Kirkton Stone Church Cemetery. The deceased was one of the early settlers of Fullerton, later moving to Usborne, and living at Kirkton. A very pretty we.dding was solem- nized at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Thos. Coward of Winchelsea on Wednesday, September 27th,' at 11.30 a.m., when their only dangle ter, Vert May. was united •in.-thfi bonds of matrimony to :VII, i`yreistrii Watson, a young farmer near Kirke ton. The nuptial knot, was tied bye the Rev;. Mr. Steadman; and nearly: one' hundred gti'ests :assembled' th witness the ceremony. A very pretty wedding was eel- enniied at the residence 431.".11r, John Sauvey, Oil Springs, on Tues• day of last week at noon, when Miss. Annie V. MeKowen, sister of. Min. Sauvey, was married to Rev. G. Victor Collins, pastor of the Bap- tist Church, Wingham. Mr. Robert Leathern went to London Mondayodlast week to at- tend the funeral of his son-in-law, Mr. Geo. W. Heard, who died on Sunday in his 35th year, after an illness of several years. Deceased, for many years travelled thrown, this district for D. S. Perrin & Co., and was well known to many Exe- ter people. The customs collections at .Clin- ton for the six months ending Sept..30th were I4,201.67, an increase over the corresponding period of last year of $074.10. haves es Livingstone, of Mit- chell, who has been ill here for the past seven weeks. has recovered sufficiently to go to his home in Mitchell. Mr, Livingstone has re- ceived and accepted a call to be- come pastor"- of Wesley Church. Winnipeg, and will leave lelitchell when his term expires next June. Before going to Mitchell. Rev. Liv- ingstone was pastor of Wellington Street Church. London. James McArthur and Jonathan Wells, two of the pioneer residents of St. Marys, are dead at their homes here. Mr. McArthur was in his 89th year. Mr. Jonathan Wells died after an - illness extend- ing over some time. He was in his 82nd year. The funeral of Noel Currier, Til- bury, aged 99 years, was held last Tuesday morning from the horse of Hs son, N,iah, in Tilbury North, to St. Francis Cemetery. Deceased had resided in the vicinity for more than half a century. In three months mare he would have cele- brated his 100th birthday, Owing to the .light crop, Mr. Archie Morrison, Parkhill, has wound up threshing for the season. 1 Be did business. for thirty years, i and says this was the smallest sea - on of.all. M The brickwork of the new etleo- dist ' Cherch, Ilderton, is now ,fin- ished, The carpenters are expected to recur. n to their work very seam. and the new. church wilt he com- pleted as soon as possibie. The I, ceter town council . has struck' the tax rate for the y 2(3 mills on the dollar. The work of buildin, the <y •'en - .n ot sico the Grand Trunk w•a' a 'sys tape from the new town water ::t mks in Exeter is, going along ste' ;1y, and will be completed in a ,'Fort time, A' rumor is in circulation th,,a, "the .,Whitney Government will un" to the province this autumn, and than the ° eleotions will take pi: the last week in November. Note- ment will be made by Sir w Es Whitney until R. L. Bordeidz•khas announced his Cabinet. ,1�- at g TH:R AEROPLANE IN WAIL. THE DELHI D URBAR..1• :. December. 12th Will be the (creat Day. The arrangements for the D'elhi Durban are now complete. The King and Queen are to arrive aa' Delhi. on December 7. Thewill be met by: the Viceroy, Governors rand heads of provinces. Inside the fort walls the chief ruling princes will be presented. ';Three processions will then be formed which'will move to the great canvas city outside.the city walls. The:first ,procession will consist of the Governors, Lieutenant -Gover- nors and Chief Commissioners of provinces. The second procession will be that of the King and Queen. The ruling Princes will form a third procession.' On the afternoon of December 8 the King will lay the foundation stone of the King Ed - "ward Memorial, for which $158,400 has; been collected. On Sunday, December 8, the King and.° Queen will make a public ap- pearance at divine service in camp. On December 11, the King will pre- sent new colors_ to three British and two native regiments. December 12th will: be the great day. The King and Queen will then ap- pear in the centre of the arena, Where the royal proclamation will be read. before 100,000 of their Asi- atib 4ttbjects, after which the. great feudatory Princes, rulers, satraps and bashaws will pay homage. On December 13 a great fair will ,be; held.. outside Delhi. December '14 tai11' be the day of the review. 'On Degeniber 15 come the races and ifiI$tary tournament. On Deceen- ;b 16, the final day, there will be etsiCd e progress through Delhi city, `r xties more than half the domes - 10n: ..li e haste in' all India are -eel rets be in+ us h The King will then leavefor the eli•o'atiri'N'epal. It is estimated that the beige 'canvas city erected for the Durban' will contain 250,000 persons. STORIES OF AFRICA. ,ilaeating Lions—A Mood -thirsty Monster. Dr. Dunbar -Brunton, a well- known big game hunter, who has spent some years in northeastern Rhodesia, . has some interesting stories to tell of that country, where he rived as a district medical officer. The lions which roans the coun- try stretching southward from Lake Mwern .have been man eaters from time immemorial. Within a recent Period ' fifty-three men have been killed by then, in one district. The natives cannot protect themselves, as they have no guns, and run ad- ditional risks owing to their care- lessness. It happens not seldom that two or three men sitting in the open telling the old folklore stories,whioh they love so dearledwill be pounced upon . by a man-eating lion and killed before they can turn their heads. Many a man stooping overI Iris tobacco plants has been seized and parried off by a lion which has made its way stealthily through the outskirts of the village. It • is no wonder .that they hold 1 to this superstition, for the fere- city of their chiefs has been beyond words to describe. The late Mwani- ha was a blood -thirsty monster, Determined to show his power over his tribe and to punish them for the immoralities of which they are too often guilty, he put them to torture and death for the least offence. Fifty's/len and women were spiked on stakes and as they did not die quickly were roasted in their lase agonies by honfires lighted lose to thele. For flirting and light behavior women had their noses, ears and ips cut off and Dr- Dunbar -Brun - on has seen alas„ of these c:rei- tures. For speaking against a chief he .Punishment was'mutileteon of be tongue and ears. For stealing one hand was chopped off at the rst, offence and the other hand at s second offence.-- This penal' rode eas in frill operation as lately as .en rears ego. The present Mweee • ba is n, man of eolnewha.t milder cl]spusitaon 1 t t fi t Frantic and flernzany :Malice Satis- factory Reports. Great satisfaction has been ex- pressed in France at the success of the aeroplane in the recent mili- tary manoeuvres. Gen, °homer, who directed the whole of the ma- noeuvres, declares that the aero • plane is "the most marvellous en- gine of war we. have ever had." Gen. Bonneau said of one phase of the manoeuvres : "I learned from the four airmen I had at my dis- posal the position of the enemy'' batteries in the most exact detail. Meat of them were carefully hid- den in a valley behind a wood, and no cavalry in the world could have found them. The aeroplanes dis- covered. them in a few minutes." Col. Bernard, a very well known a,rlrall ofiim f e aye : "Two. tsries `and Went tr" times more formidable than three batteries without an aeroplane." Photographs of fortress defences have been taken by aerial observers with special cameras, and have re- vealed the most jealously guarded secrets of defence. Working in conjunction with ar- tillery, airmen by reporting the po- sition of large bodies of troops to battery commanders have doubled the effective zone of fire of the guns. It was after a demonstration of this kind that the Commander -in - Chief of the First Army Corps said to the gunners. "This marks the greatest step forward in our ar- tillery methods for many years," The French budget provides for the expenditure of $3;440,000 upon the aerial fleet, and 200 army aero planes will be in commission by the end of the year. From Berlin, too, come rratisfae tory reports of the work of the Ger- man military aereplanes, which were employed for the first time at the recent manoeuvres. In the council of war at the end of the operations the Kaiser pointed out that within thirty-five minutes af- ter hostilities had opened at day- break Field Marshal von der Goltz, was exactly informed regarding the strength, disposition and for- mation of the west wing of the in- vaders by two lieutenants who made a scouting flight in a biplane. THE TRIAL BY PORTAGE. Told About a Party on the Shores 01 Labe Superior. - There are many oecasions that' "try men's souls" perhaps as ef- ficient a tett as any is that which arises when city men have to meet the e megenciss of the woods. In "The Logof the North Shore Club," rkland B. Alexander tall how he and "Jim" and "Fred" a the Englishman: and the rest of the party, set down in the wilderness oe. the shores of Lake Superior, met the emergencies that arose out of the necessity of carrying canoes, provisions and so forth, over the "`tote -road" from stream to stream. They began with "blatant confid- ence and premature optimism." "Say, this trip isn't so tough, after all," we told one another. "Just enough nvalldng and portage :ha. • - l" Ant !'ec,rge near erfoot talk and grinned saturninely. George said the next portage was "quite leetle walk-yes—mebbe two mile and a half—sure—'bout dot." We took to the tote -road again. His lordship felt ambitious, His luncheon on the shore of the little lake had nourished him, and his heart was singing. He wanted to prove to us—and particularly to George Andre—that a blooming aborigine had nothing to show him. He picked out the sack of potatoes for that portage. Potatoes in hulk .stimulate neither the memory nor the imagination. There is no poetry, no inspiration, no reserve intellectual force, no response to devotion --nothing but coarse, back -breaking, soul-rerolt- inng weight in a sack of potatoes. We wondered at his Iordsllip`s taste when he selected potatoes and left cameras and rod -cases. But away he went, blithely, en that two -and - a -half -mile portage, Fred took a pack that eclipsed Fred's physical self—and went through with it, too. George, Billy T., Tommie and Pete had toted the canoes two miles, where the trail breaks off from the tote -road, drop- ped them, and come back for anoth- er load. I won't say what I carried. The first mile I was ashamed of it and glad I was last. Then I began thinking of the others' selfishness in giving me all the hard work; until, at a mile and a half, I was just! about the shiningest little martyr that ever wandered the avoodlan4J without harp or halo. But then I overtook his lordship. He was sitting on his sack of pota- toes, his face buried in his hands. I spoke lightly, cheerily, and he gasped something through his fing- ers. 'I blundered then. I offered to carry that sack of potat<ie:s-• rath- er, to try to carry that sack of pota- toes --for a while. What I received was what I deserved. His lordship rose, flung the pota- toes upon Ms poor tousled, steam - int; bead, and staggered off, without another word. I had bluted out my suspicion that his lordship was atenderfoot, .a not even particularly "game-' tend- erfoot. Then and there I began making over my et iinate --bd t auso throughout that trip, whenever there was a man's work, lrr two men's work, to be done, his hard- ship was camping right on the jeb, every minute. It simply goes to show that an ex- pensive camping toilet and waxed mustaches can, and often do, dis- guie the kind of stuff of which wilderness friendship:: and endur- ing admiration are made. a. WORLD'S COAL SUPPLY. Great Britain's Will Last About 175 Years. The dwindling visible coal sup- plies of the world are engaging the attention of the Governments of most countries where coal is found. Sir William Ramsay, the English scientist, startled the British Aaso- , elation some weeks ago by saying in his presidential address that the coal supply in the United Kingdom . won't last another 175 years if the wasteful use of material is not! promptly checked. And 175 years is only a span in a nation's life Now comes the German technical journal Kohle and Ez'z (Coal and Ore) which has made a general sur- vey of the world's seal production and says thet barring the United States and perhaps north China. i Germany is still the richest coal bearing country. America, with its huge production of nearly half a million tons a year, is, it says, rap- idly approaching exhaustion, and the same may be saki of the coal fields in the United Kingdom, where the production is aIso high and must end in the giving out of the supply in 150 or 200 years, at all events in the north of England, Northumberland and Durham. The other English sources may last half acentury longer. The first mines that will have to close down will be those of central France and Bohemia, which only have 100 years more to live. The north of France and the Saarbruc- ken basin in western Germany comet next with a life of between 400 and 500 years. Still better situated are the Belgian and Westphalian coal regions and the fields in the Au- strian and Russian parts of Upper Silesia, which may reckon on an uninterrupted output for the next 800 years. Prussiate Silesia is safe for an- other 1,000 years or more. Nature has made here vast deposits of pure carbon, with lodes of .an average thickness of 40 feet. Some of them are 00 feet thick, so that coal con- sumers may take heart of grace. averted. "Oh I yes; he's a very intellectual man." "What makes .,ou think that?" "t judged so from his talk." "Why, what does ho talk abort f" "He's forever talking about, how intellectual be is." SURPEiSE VERDICT. Mother Who Cinched filer Son %Vaq Acqui t ted. The acquittal at Teschen, Silesia, of a mother who wilfully strangled her .son has caused much surprise. For trebly years Johanna Kier- Bron, a carpe'nter's widow, aged 42, had suffered martyrdom in her domestic relwtionships. Her hus- band, hating been a notorious drunkard. she had to sustain her family of eight children out elf her poor earnings. All her children gave her trouble, but George, a boy of thirteen, drove her to despair. Arrested for a burglary. last sum- mer, he was released on account of his youth. He went straight to a cellar in his home, and remained there all day. His mother took some food to him and found him brooding over another •burglary. In despair, she strangled him with a cord. Although the mother admitted that she had clone it intentionally and although her mind was declare+ to be normal, she was acquitted of the murder. A cold snap looks like a soft snap- to the torsi man.