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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-12-01, Page 4CAVAVIAll G11,07717 1 RsE`i ,Y STOC :-ieS4•4 it+4.4++•}.,i.,i.,g,:,'+++++ +++i"'1•,(,._' . Mr. Walter. Clark, et Credi- ton, is -agent for this district for } Y • 1. { known Nur- :tory nr- 1 D. . Smith's wello 1. S s seri* Stock. At present sir. °leak has to offer a full line of APPLES, PEARS, PLUMS, VINES, and small fruits, also ORNAMENTALS, ROSES, Etc. ,. +I+ Pries said infornisition will es be furnished cheerfully, and free, of charge. Intendiug purchas- ers are advised to sena in. their .t. orders at once, while there is a full aback of everything on hand. to- WALTER CLARK, Agent, - Crediton. LODGE MEETINGS np�1 Court 7.urieh No, 1 'M1+l.O.Fa meets every lst and 3r2etd0 !Thursday of each month ab 8 o'clock p. m. in the A. 0. U. W. Hall. tMER:NE'R, 0. R. �T Rickbeil Lodge ��, a fl J .W. No, 3 93, meets the 2nd ancl 4th Friday of every month at 8 o'clock, in their Hall, Merrier Block, FRED. W ITw ICR ,M. W LEGAL CARDS. i'ROUI)FO0T }SAYS do ICILLORAN, • Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, etc. floderich, Canada W. Proudfoot. K. C. R. 0. Hays. J. L. Killoran. BUSINESS CARDS. S. PHILLIPS® AUCTIONEER, Exeter. bales conducted in all parts. Setts- faetion guaranteed or no pay. Terms Feasonable. Orders left at this office will be promptly attended to. ANDREW F. HESS',. FIRE INSURAN- ce agout, representing the Loudon, Economical, Waterloo, Monarch, Stand- ard, Wellington and Guardian. Every- thing in fire insurance. DR, F. A. SELIJERY, DJ;NTIST, GRA. - dilate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, also honor gradu- ate of Department of Dentistry, To- ronto University. Palnlees extraction of teeth. Plate work a speciality. At Dominion House. linriebb, every Mon.- day. onday, 7-26 E. ZELLER, CONVEYANCER .AND Notary Public. Dee de, Mortgages, Wills andother Legal Documents care fully and promptly prepared. Office— Zeller block, Zurich, Out. B. W. F. BEAVERS EXETER Licensed Auctioneer for County of Huron. Sales conducted in the most approved manner. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Dates can be made at the Crediton Star or at the Bargain Store, Exeter, . EMBER & SOFT Conveyancers, Insurance Agents MONEY TO LOAN Telephone—Office 1e, House lb. 4.4-+++++++4.4.444-4.{4.++++++, Synopsis of Canadian Northwest Land Regulation•. JNY person who Is the sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years old, inay homestead a quarter -section of avail able Dominion land in Manitoba, Sask- atchewan or Alberta. The applicant musb appear in person at the Dominion Lands Agency or Sub.Ageney for tho district. Entry by proxy may bo made at any agency, en certain conditions, by father, , mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending botnesteader. Duties.--Stx months' residence upon and cultivation of the. land in each of three years. A homesteader may live within nine tittles; of his homestead on a farm of ab leat(' 60 sores solely owned and oeeupied by hint or by his father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. In - certain districts a homesteader hi food standing way pre -empty q narter•soe- tion alongside his homestead. Price $3,00 per acre. Dut or--iVJutst reside six montha. in eaela of six years from date of hrtmestead entry f inch:ding the thna required to earn hemesteatl patent) and cultivate fifty acres. extra, .A homesteader who has exlrauetod his homestead right rot,' onnnob obtain a pre- emption may bake a p}erohaeod homestead lie certain districts, 1 Priit C $3,00, per, acro. iuiiciit---tfnsb reside six months in each et three years, eultivatts fifty acres and erect at house worth $300.00. tV, tc', l)opp nt of the Minister o. the Interior, N. B.—Unauthorised publication of this azi.wortletnnent will bew, ea paid or. HABITS OF 1NESTFRN PEOPLE I ENGLAND SEEN THROUGHA1 ORIENTAL'S SPECTACIAES. Japanese Admiration ion of Great Britain Is Tempered With • Ileal Criticism. I once • inquired of a Japanese staff "officer who .had visited Eng- land, what surpri*d him most here. He and I knew one another well, so that he was Willing to talk more freely than is often the case with his tountry men, says '.a writer in. Ever'yboriy's ,Weekly. "The' thing that surprised and horrified me most in England," said he, "was when I first saw a husband kiss 'his wife in public, at a railway station, In Japan emo- tion is a thing to be concealed, not to be displayed. It is something too precious and too sacred to trail in the view of all chance passers- by. When I'saw a man in front of crowds of others. salute his wife in this fashion I felt a sense of Sickness.' The English writer who attempt- ed to show to the full the Japanese opinion of ourselves, would be very bold. It is not easy* to find what the average Japanese really does think if us, and the man who supposes• that he has ascertained the true Japanese mind is usually wrong. The Japanese are polite and secretive. Their politeness leads them to say= kind things be- cause they think it amatter of courtesy to do so; their secretive- ness leads them to conceal their in- ner thoughts. No one doubts that the sons of Nippon feel a very real admiration for our material prosperity. They recognize that so far as money- making, manufacturing, and mer- cantile skill are concerned, we are away ahead among the nations. Many of them, influenced by European teaching, are beginning to sympathise more and more with our ethical codes. But' the aver- age unsophisticated Ja.pan.ese who visit's England for the first time, feels amused • rather than over- whelmed by our odd ways. • He re- gards us as .morally in avery bad state, and our.. habits seem •. as whiriesieal tt3.lziin•, as the etistr,mg'.of , e', , tel n. a.bAr . the :pct ralo:.al,t 1Vil,.h � • x), ei,ririW to 'the ,;a• rert•401. ;rutin l^tl'Et-wTorld tourist, HOW WEST .INFLUENCES EAST A year ago a large- number of Japanese came over to England for the Exhibition as exhibitors, as craftsmen, or as tourists. •\Vhen they returned home, enterprising journalists of their race sought to obtain their frank opinions of Great Britain. These opinions were certainly frank, but as print- ed in the papers they were very far from complimentary. The Jiji Shimpo summed up these impres- siona in a biting article: "These tourists went to the West believing that they would acquire much useful knowledge, and look- ing forward to carrying home many valuable hints for their country's improvement. Al) this outlook has been falsified. Actual disgust has taken the place of admiration. The first and most striking feature of Western civilization is flagrant extravagance and luxury of living. In this respect the tourists appear to have been almost stupefied by what they observed. Enormous sums are spent 'upon the .most ephemeral pleasures—upon cos- tumes, cuisine, equipages, furni.• ture, ornaments and•every kind of luxury. • "In 'the next place the relations between the sexes shocked the mind of the orthodox Japanese. The state of affairs that ho observed seemed to suggest universal morality. Finally, the huge egos that tares'one in the face in every. page of the life of. Western peoples struck Japanese visitors as incom- patible with any strength of patrio- • tism or any willingness to sacrifice oneself on the altar of country." - 'the great difficelty of -the Jap- anese in • understanding England and the English is to comprehend drat in this country liberty in the relations between the sexes does not mean license. The woman of 'the West is allowed amuch larger measure of freedom than her sister in the East. Even in enlightened Japan of to -day, women is still regarded as the inferior of man. This is a tering not argued about; it is taken for granted. It is the wo- man's Tot to subnoit; the man's right to command, While, West. • ern -civilization hes modified ens - toms very largely; it °is still the general practice for the wife to walk after her • husband, not with hirn, and for the father to put his male child furemns?t, and not his Wife, The way the Japan'' kept in the baekgrata'rt alized by 'visitin'g A J PANT 1 There• ---ss;: re, ; of fansirl ,es that are againi ]koro a Cttroe- pean—the wife may bti when you first go in, rho, un - ,r . and r e rul• r ' i e1 s+,t ii bow . he fa w 1 ,11 . she disappears wh le e �t , ,' l r being sit at men 'have the metatialo orneeir ' is be re - entertained. Sher' dile the same table ii-athaz'ard the Now it can be ens]",rr�ra�+; li rt to the people of a. xial cit'•;; ,i re wo- man is kept in tlii'°i!g'eoied;;i,,. place, the position of eedifien fel, , lis:l;attd seems monstrous It inxisieneSenthe. Japanese visitor, :often oteeegh,as highly shocking and inns, t:. He may havdatried tux him- self to our modes- et thi t.gt s 1"1'e has not yet becc:,rie nc i,rqa,l xedl: to our ideas of love.'And triiit- of the greatest ditficultiee fees, i. eating the gals; of. lj classes in Japan to -day lines is that the,Eiiroprxat love will coma in, s,' be absorbed rhrpu i, a:tr.:Teen literature, and'`; til iaigl 'the unconscious influences 4J1 'European. and American teetlierr:. ' Apart from our odeleideae ..holt love, the next thing thine* rpres- see the Japanese •abxi'ttt s. 'earextravagance. He has 1n; 11 train- ed to live on veil: l'it'tle . 1I' .y, a very poor count gin- faRattinee i' high, food is dear, money iR teeente :lie exists --and •apparently "this es often enough ori"aurni whi' i a beg- gar would 'scorn in Engl. re Vat, milk, and meat are•to • .n -i eaere superfluous luxuries „ He is gradually acgiilrl +, more costly tastes, howeve '.'t He is learning to become ee . t, a donate cigarette smoker and a. 1.p..1rTiik= er. An old Japanese penalise lice ; a little time ago was beweihnq Se sae the growing extravagan 'e of his fellow -countrymen, '' a s ersei be lieve it," he said, „!`thereaseeinany families in my .oeve iii& n a=•t who every day have a Bettier# milk left at their houses; a hrrt;c 'of rnillc a day for people who tale, to earn all they get. If thir't ,s like. this go on, and are eiicoura 'regi by the .state, what cart become 1 one land 1 These growing "hal is ' of extravagaeees are, tiitdernirat g our national character!" eelui.- better 3Veetern ' sof 17 ill ADMIRATION AND • The Japanese avhcio a ltuitltr ,. o .*res • d'ifiwr igiar d, and whit In place of the meal; charcoal. in cold we0iler, ` e 'seer roaring fires; our "shops- sfot'e'piled up with articles of ostentatious luxury; the groaning •luua:irds of the average middle class family disl?Ia,y- a rich variety of food; he. notices the expenditure on dress, on pleasure, on mere ornament: and he is, as as rule, net attracted but repelled by the costliness of our life. , One Japanesewriter recently set out to correct theviews of his fellow -countrymen on this ieuestien.. He explained to them that the standard of living is much higher in the West than in the East, and that for them to raise hande,of hor- ror over our exti'avagaier•. is as though the house -wife Iiviisgin an alley were to compare hg1r state with that of a lady living in a 'great mansion. -• When the Japanese runies to know us bettei; marry of leis first hard impressions of." Eri frill are modified. Often ,aeough, he 11ie- comes a passionate adreire'• of ..our ideals of home life gii,.liberty,: and of constitutional governrneet But - even then it may lie que,Gtipncd; lf. some doubts do iitt'lie`"ltiehintl: He considers that we Fare over-indiTid- ualistic, and thet'thes freedom, of the individual has bee4 t 'hail yond the limits of slay ianpr��se/�d by the greater clairnsCif . the. etate. He will not have some of '001' in- stitutions at any priee.;:`The jury system, for example, he consielens an absurdity; and mime It ns are not sure that be is Trot right, He can not understand why we give such freedom to the ifgitatrir: It would, of course, be possible to add to this article,rneny beauti- ful end sincere at`trihutee to the English character an 'ways pa.idby the Japanese. t, ; R , JAPAN'S ST [ET HOURS A COUNTLESS PROCESSION OF HAWKERS. Medicines Men,. :Repairer of Bam- boo Pipes and Vender o$ Sweets. Passing and repassing through the streets of Tokio are ver'ders �f every description. •Early in the morning one's slumber is disturbed by their plaintive cries, and should the window of the house look upon a -thoroughfare, there mat, be seen through- the sudari a countless procession of hawkers, but they do not need to be seen to be recogniz- ed, for their characteristic crise echo and recho from morning until night. 'Take the oichini, for instance, the strolling medicine vender. Often he is a musician with a tuneful ac- cordion. Envious glances maybe east at his red and white epaulet- tes, his uniform and his cap. Maria a youth, says the Japan. Advertis- er, might consider it the height of ambition to be able to go about the city in Just thesame manner and Win ,miles from all the young wo- man in the streets through which he passes, Lut the oiehini has all lie tan do to make his daily bread, and his lot is often very hard in- deed, The centre for the distribution of this medicine is at the merchant's house, which is situated on the little island eff Tsulciji, Tsuikijima. The applicant who wishes to be- come• a travelling apothecary must pay 5 yen as a guarantee to be faithful to the master. The next day he is given a cap, a suit of clothes and.,a, pair of shoes. In addition he receives medicine to the value of r yon, and his break- fast is supplied every inorn'ng, For his other meals he must shift for himself and eat them in what- ever part of Tokio he finds him- self WHEN' HE BECOMES HUNGRY, All the venders must assemble at the master's house in the morning and be ready to start out by 8 o'oiock for the 808 streets of Tokio. The uichini sings a song which has for eennlnsion the- expression > eliini, or oite,;-two, keeping step ?It,,+ innsie °'f . ,A i leccereelion and the- street .geniis's hear 'this• song they run after the eichini, just as the rats ran after the mad piper of Hamelin, His song is an advertisement of his medicine. It is difficult to learn and often takes several days before the vender can master it. If he is not a success at singing the song he will be of no account as a vender, for the secret of his popu- larity lies in his rendering of the peculiar melody. When you hear the Ba-uya, or repairer of bamboo pipes, in the neighborhood, it seems as though a miniature locomotive was Letting off steam, for one peculiarity of the Ra-uya's trade is a cart which has in it a little furnace, a steam vent over which the pipe is placed to clean it thoroughly on the inside and also through the roof of the cart a steam whistle. For the privilege of pushing his cart through the ,streets the Ra-uya pay three yen a year as tax. It "takes a long apprenticeship to know all the tricks of the trade and no one who is not accustomed to this kind of mending can be a sec - cess. The number of Ra-uya, is steadily on the decrease, perhaps because there are fewer old fash- ioned people now who use this kind of pipe. - A FAMILIAR CRY, • In' the old Yedo days the trade was a brisk one and the Iia-tiya ran through the streets, two baskets slung at the elide pole across his shoulders and his cry was s most familiar one. Now he is minus the baskets and the cry, but the cart and the steam whistle have taken their place. Then, too, so many people to -day smoke cigars and . cigarett-es that the Ra-uy:a finds his old bamboo pipes few and far between. According to stat- istics those who use the pipe have fallen off considerably and the menders have decreased one-half in the past ten years. It is a sad commentary on the passing of many old style people. , In Tokio there are ,about fifteen merchants who sell the bamboo for the pipes, and the Chinese bamboo is consider -ed the best, This busi- tiess cannot be •carried on• when it is.rainy, as the repairing most be done out of doors. • . The Ra-uyai, must be examined by the officers in his district twice a veer. It his cart passes the examination he' nua.y continue; his work. Ho charges time sen to replace a - From a height of. 8,100 feet a man in an aeroplane can s•ee a• :submar- ine gliding eighteen n feet •beiow water - Russia; the 'United States:' Rou- mania, Austria-Hunggrry. eri~iri Bar- tnn, e,l'e the prineipal ail-fi skis '.of the world. The average •lifetime'4 an e+ e- nhant:.is 100 nears: rabbit+.' ; Pik, 2t, ; cow', 151 pike, ISO; 'sedition, 10; .lion, PS to +0, pipesteni, and he ']must use about ten sen worth of eharcoal a day,. so that the :profits accruing are often very small. This business is practically limited to old mere They take off the, silver or brass bowl and mouthpiece and put in a new bamboo stem, they clean -the whole by steam and polish the metal mania seems as good as new, Another personage among the street merchants is the Amazake- ya His cry Amai, Amai ! Sweet, Sweet ! is so suggest've of sweet things that the cry brings the chil- dren from every quarter. The men who ply this trade are genetal- ly old. They form one of Tokio's picturesque street elements with their two large red laepuered. boxes on either end of A SHOULDER POLE, Amazake is sold to the street . re- tailers from thirteen. wholesale merchants •who thus supply , the trade. An applicant who wishes to enter this business goes to the merchant with a person who acts as a guar- antor, and borrowing the outfit,. which consists of the aforesaid red boxes, is almost ready to set forth on his travels. But be must buy his own clothes, which consist of coolie nether garments and a blue cotton coat with the advertisement of his trade in white characters on its lapels and a Chinese character fur Amazake on his back. He must also be fitttd out with an iron pot for boiling the sweet liquid. His red boxes contain the hibaschi and the heavy pot, also charcoal, drawers, trays and cups. It is very hard for an old man to carry two such heavy boxes, and the Amazake-ya is often taken with a desire to rest by the wayside. But this is against the law, and if the policeman catches sight of him he is told to move on in the polite language of Kora! Kora! Some- times he is fined from 20 sen to one yen for thus loitering on his way. Like the proverbial milkman of Western countries who waters his milk, it must be confessed that the Amazake-ya has the reputation for diluting his liquid so that it is doubled and sometimes trebled in quantity, But then he only charges one sen for a cup, And the musical sound of Areal! Amai ! is such a pleasant ono to the ears that the Amazake-ye may be forgiven for all remissness in his business. fI4P:T;AC.`i? G CANAL NMI/. Tarnish Irti ge • Owners lie& Chea 1per Freight Rates. A successful trip from London to Birmingham has been completed by a motor barge earrying a cargo of sugar. It is claimed by the builders of the boat that the system of motor barges which -they have in contem- plation will revolutionize canal traffic. The motor boat which made this trip is somewhat smaller than the ordinary barge, being 71 feet long and seven feet bean. Its di- mensions will enable it to enter any canal in the United Kingdom. This motor boat travels at the rate of three miles per hour at a cost of two cents per mile, while a horse barge, it is stated, only travels at half of the speed and the expense of operating is twice as much, It is predicted by the builders of this boat that in a comparatively short time motor barges will re- place horse-drawn boats on the ca- nals, and that in many instances these motor boats will offer a satis- factory alternative to the some- what costly railway -transportation. Since 1838' the employment of dogs for drawing carts has been abolish- ed in London. , The proboscis of a flea, with which he "bites," is twelve times thinner than the finest needle made. For arguing our world is only cn•e of many, Giordano, Bruno . was burned to death in Rome in 1600. We are told that it is never too late to mend, but a lot of people manage to put it off until they for- get how. O4'ER 94 YEARS; EXPERIENCE . TRADE MAlttts Oelt+YRtGH'TS asTone emcee; it, sketch and dlcrtiontttitIon may. entekttyy asoertain our Opinion Pi'[,ti'w otfliot an invonttott is probably t,a t 1., •Coe,n,asiea-.: ttette.strtotlieoufdentfs). Aria Olt onPetcate sentfree, oldest stoneyY s oUrmapiaento. Patents tamed tbrougglt Mann 8 Ce. se e special ?tato, wirtioutobarse, le the citutific eiic l A 'ha'ndsomely tlin.sxated vtoehly, Largest eh,, tunrtttien d�ogff Ycnr elil.Ottito aonrttni. ' TAMIL_totaialnCs dotila a real postage iDroi,wlci:. Solby ��$iy8fosdt , N 1w 7b� pamn mea tr�wasntnaaoft, OUR WONDE 1 'Utt `.l.'ONGU1.l Some of the' Humors and fifficitl ties of, the English 'Language. In spite of certain undeniable lis advantages, the English. ,Tan' a.g: .stoWily makes 'headway, headwa , • 'htsz are fel. tongues so hard to master One foreigner,who has had -hi troubles, ut has wen his stray' to perfect command of the Jangling has presented in The Bceknits some of the humors, and solzte -•the"ditiieulties which' belong bki th richest of living languages, ., :ls a lbegenoy, d I whheardich, to .a cny 'xfanta3.nst Turkish 'ri aptly illustrates the actual €•ao concerning the origin and form tion of modern English. After creating the first parents each of the races, the story run Allah took a large piece of mart and cutting ib into slices, di stribu ed them among all the people:. serve- them as tongues. For so reason the Englishman was abeer when the others, reooived•, the abate At last he came into ti presence of his Maker, and inmu humility begged 'him to put ate gue into his mouth." But nothi was left of the meat. So All was obliged to cut a little .ie from the tongues of all the other and joining these pieces, he fae ioned a tongue for the Inglis man. The orthography of the Engii language does not by any mea contain all of a foreigner's- trg bles. One of the most per lexi characteristices of the Engli tongue is the fact that, as a ru the same word has different me ings. My dictionary gives to t verbs see, lead, hold and dr fourte,en, eighteen, nineteen a thirty-two meanings respective Now, for a foreigner to be able distinguish all these various me ings is a tremendous task. words which have- only one or t meanings are comparatively fie It is surprising that a foreigner often puzzled by the numerous a sometimes opposite meanings many an English word? Just an illustration, consider the pe plexity •rtf a persevering 'Trent man over the meaning of the wo "fast." "Zia horse, sair, he go • quee what you say 1" "Yes, he is a fast horse." "Ah, pardon, monsieur, b your friend any he make feet 1 horse, and he tie him to a post he nes ``.V'er title,' lie is mad . fast TS .. ltr4�ng rat eanncit lues nest illi, fast.:r Tiut what yii i eat ii' ii that keeps fast't" "Oh, he is a good man. that do not eat on, fast days." "But I have seen one h vivant, who cat and drink a ride, and do everything. Ze pec say he is a bad man—he is ve fast." "True, that is caned living a fa life." "Ah, certainenient. Zen all days of his life must be fast day. "No, of course—" "Eh hien. Does he eat ev day 1" "Certainly he does." "Zen how can he keep fast?" "Why, he keeps going, to 'sure," "Nry, yon tell me -to stand f s when you want me to keep .t and go fast when you want me run. How can I understand?' KING OT! PRUSSIA. The Most Decorated Ruler. in World. The German Kaiser is the ns decorated personage in the wo and if he were to display all. orders and stars he is entitled wear' his entire person would ,hidden, As King of Prussia ti'izilli II. is head of every Pressian c, panionship, including, as the eh that of the B1a,ck Eagle (the high of all) the Iced EagIe, the Knzg of Jerusalem, the Ordei of Crown, the Order of the Hohene lerii House, and `the Ordre pour Merite, Besides imperial Prussian decurtetions he. is entit to wear those of almost all fore orders of distinction, Anrong th are the English Order of the .0 ter, the Russian - Order of St. dreas, the Italian Order of Annunciation, the Danish Ore the Elephant, the .:Swedish .Or of the. Seraphine, the Norwa Order of the Lion and -the Spar Order• of the Golden Fleece. Foreign orders are only worn the Kaiser in honor of a ,fore guest or when lie is in 'the erten of the order. One; of the deet tions he most constantly .display ths.t known as the "Generals' der,,' instituted in rerneiilbeaiic the veteran officers who formed staff pt, the oldEmperor_ Willi Hardly leer of a favorite with Is the ineiialiion . eorrrmeinynr;a hitt ssil;:aer`'weddin,g with tts„l;t",C:' set in a.tsilvcr svreatia.