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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-12-08, Page 2BIMCLASS CALTADIAN GROW NURSERY STOC ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mr. Walter Clark, of Crede- ton, is agent for this district for E. D. Smith's well known Nur- p - sery Stock. At present Mr. Clark has to offer a full line of APPLES, PEARS, PLUMS, 3: VINES, and small fruits, also ORNAMENTALS, ROSES, Etc. +i+Prices and information will *r he furnished cheerfully, and free of charge. Intending purchas- e+ ers are advised to send in their )1+ orders at once, while there is a M. +z+ full Stock of everything on hand. .r . i+ ..++i.,i+a,.zs+;.a,».l+.i++i++.t+.i•+ +II•+o.g+++ ,,e+$++ WALTER CLARK, Agent, Crediton. LODGE MEETINGS �� Court Zurich No. 1240 C. 0.F• ;nets every 1st and 3rd Thursday of eaoh month at 8 o'clock p. m. 1n the A. 0. U. W. Hall. J. J. .Musainu, C. R. A.O.T. Rickbeil Lodge • No. 3 93, meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month, at 8 o'clock, in their Hall, Merner Block. 1IC17D. WITM= ,M. W LEGAL.. CARDS. i'ROUDFOOT SAYS & KILLORAN, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, etc, Goderieh, Canada W. Proudfoot. K. 0. R. 0. Hays. J. L. Killoran. BUSINESS CARDS. . 8. P - HLLiP$q AUCTIONEER, Exeter. Sales conducted in all parts. Satis- faction guaranteed or no pay. Terms reasonable. Orders left• at this office will be promptly attended to. ANDREW F. HESS, FIRE INSURAN- eo agent, representing the London, Economical, Waterloo, !Monarch, Stand- Wellington and Guardian, Every- ILIA'. ag, i `ilivre-r g�ns,•(••uranee. �•`Y,, .fes, S1'r+1s.V,.-+RY, D "NT i 7.1. duata a£ floe Zb yel °liege- 0 Sur eons, Toronto, also honor gre+du- erre of D'epartment of Dentistry, To- ronto University. Painless extraction of teeth. Plate work a speciality. At Dominion House. Zurich, every Mon- day. 7,-28 ENGLAND'S a DOMY PRISONS 81t-4 'snail; E. ZI LLEY, CONVEYANCER AND Notary Public. Dee ds , Mortgages, Wills and other Legal Documents care fully and promptly prepared. ' Office— Zeller block, Zurich, Ont, B. W F. BEAVERS EXETER Licensed Auctioneer for County of Huron. Sales conducted in the most approved manner. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Dates can be wattle et the Croliton Star or at the Bargain Store, Exeter. H. EMBER & SON • Conveyancers, insurance Agents " MONEY TO LOAN Telephone—Office. la, house ib. +++.'4'++'+°+'" BRITISH PENAL SYSTEM SUP. POSED TO BE HELPFUL. The Result Has Frequently Been To Make filen Degraded' and Ilopeleas.' There are still a low people who regard our prisons as places to which .those men and women are sent upon whom society desires to be revenged. This was the old idea that underlay the treatment our ancestors meted out to criminals. If a man libelled you, you cut his ear off or split his nose, or put him in the stocks to be the mark for the missiios of the mob ; if he forged, you hanged him outof hand; while if he happened to be of a different political persuasion to yourself, and your party had the good fortune to be in power, you put him in a loathsome dungeon, and left him there to meditate on his opinions, says a writer in Everybody's Weekly. When the Bastile was taken by the Paris mob, an old letter from one o£ the prisoners was found, the contents of which accurately describe this principle and its ef- fects. "If for spy 'consolation,':' so ran this pathetic epistle, "Mon- seigneur would grant me news of my dear wife ; were it only her name on a card to show that she is alive! It were the greatest con- solation I could receive! I should for ever bless the greatness of Monseigneur." Nowadays the view of society's attitude towards criminals who could produce such a tragic letter as this is no longer generally held. Our prisoners are certainly penal establishments, but we punish our convicts not out of motives of re- venge, but that, they may be made into good citizens, and other peo- ple ,deterred from the path of crime. 'The British penal system is suppose a deterrent.. It may be that in its leiter in- tentions it is successful,- that., the embryo criminal is cheeke•cl by a ed to be once a discipline fear • of the • punishment that m awaits hie • the it i c rie . s n {ydere a e, 1.iinr tdorpy+1:S{9n; ea" ;, 1 see .full. But •as a liealtlay ells,k: eipline, which shall make a` wor' irrg man out of a waster, and a' good citizen not of a graceless criminal, it has been a complete failure. I have visited all our great penal settlements, I have seen a thou- sand men parade in the grotesque uniform of the Broad Arrow. I have observed their faces, and found nearly every one of them hopeless and degraded, the faces of animals rather than men, and it required no peculiar sagacity to arrive at the conclusion that the state had failed. To make gond citizens of such men by such means is impassible. MAN AND CRIMINAL. 1, a.%1 ditn Y t nienedes from the dock to the to son. They may,b•e' good tailo but it will: never be possible f ltr them t4. be good citizens In out a single instance, in the course 4 F. many years, so a warder in cliai+te. of one of these tailoring shops teles me, has a man been known 1,0 oair his living as a, tailor when he ,lkdt prison, a "THE PAIN OF LIVING,!'', '!'here was a man at 'Prtneete who had been in prison since lc It was rare for lulu to be abt for mere than a month.; Outsii he was a nuisance to .society; r in, leading the life to • which lho . s accustomed, he Was a MOM. of,!-, r.0. behavior Just before my vielt,ile had saved the life of a .aided ,7itdl for this three months were line:-_ ;sincerely regretted as are this uncle ed off his sentence. He re d- of King George and his wife and ed whatwas intended as a :r•ewgrd fanhxly, writes a London correspon- • ae dent. A5 11i Of course the leas of Princess Pa - „,d tricia causes the deepest pang. She is the ,only princess in Great Britain 'who is really pretty, clever and wit- ches i? it produces red such "veiny cin y i she has s 91 a little l as un tibio 1 hero to of these? Birds re ? romance which rouses all the sonti- dcn•ow only the lite of, (i'„ meet in English, breasts. She is. cage; we •should u cont 'ii r+xuet'ac+, g e some - set them free in the woo, nd gwhat stodgy Eno • ite unlike her cousin, in, th of enberg, net we are continually doing, 'who is n•owQueon of Spain, anti !similar thing with regard.1.',9.,'.tltlr e• qually unlike the thus, .shy, deli- convicts.cafe 'd,a.ughters of the Duchess of Of late there has been n+stihi:,i` l+ifo: She is just a typical healthy, meatal crusade tri brighten 1 es of charming English girl, only with far convicts by giving . thein col Certs, more than their usual amount of brains and a most unroyal sense of humor. ' it e '$ynopsis of Canadian Northwest Lana Regulations, 71, NY person who is the sole head of a family, or any mule over 18 years old, Pay homestead a quarter -section of avail tole Dominion land in Manitoba, Sask- ttchowan or Alberta. The applicant must tppeur in person at the Dominion Lands Agency or Sub.Agenoy for the district. Cntry by proxy may bo made at any tgenoy, on certain conditions, by father, another, sou, daughter, brother or sister of latonding homesteader. Duties.—Six months' residence upon and „eoltl,'tvation of the land in ouch of throe years. A homesteader may live within•nine ioilos of his homestead on a farm of at least )0 acres solely owned and occupied by him pr by his father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. In certain districts a homesteader in rood standing tray pre-empt a quarter -sec- tion alongside uarter•sec- tion.alongside his homestead. Price 3.0o per, acre. Duties—Must reside six months in each of six years from date of homestead entry (including the time required to earn homestead patent) and cultivate fifty acres extra.m Ahoestettrlor who has exhausted his homestead right and cannot obtain a pro, ernptiou may take a purchased homestead in certain districts. Price 3.00 par acro. Duties --Must reside six months in each of three years, cultivate fifty notes and erect a house worth $300.00. W. t+, CORY, of the Ministerof the Interior. .__ „-m.,,w:.,S ..p,,RICI GOOD HORSEWOMAN. PrincessPatricia is an excellent horsewoman and hunts with the Garth and ether celebrated English S A GREAT FAVORITE IN ENG. packs She plays golf and tennis USU. SOCIETY. sails a boat ,and lands a fish •witli. lover' a good old-fashioned romp Young Princess of Connaught with the royal children, who count Is' Full of Life and those"d.a, s red letter ones on which S iirit. their big, good natured cousin 1 comes to stay with them. King England has a real 'grievance in' Edward used to tell a story of walk - the ,fact that owing -tog the Duke's irig with thc••Ma.rquis of Salisbury new appointment the "Popular through the gardens at Sandring- Oonnaughts are, all going to live ham when they came upon Princess. m Canada for a. time. it is safe Patricia on all fours crawling about to ,say that all the other members with Prince henry en her back and ofthe royal family might have left Prince Albert gravely loading her en masse, and not have beep e.s with a piece of string. She was not in the least disconcerted, and laughed as much afterward when her uncle told the story as the. King olid himself. In society Princess Patricia is very popular both in the extremely English and the Anglo-American set. Dances are always given es- pecially for her in the season, and she enjoys herself as any ordinary girl would. the best of sportsman; but she still as an act of gross injustice, swore that the next warder he beaten to death before he go to his assistance. Can our penal system be and by letting them attend v ly evangelical .:mission ni These things, it is thought humanize them. It would a s well to give them un +: alcohol, for the effect ort. minds•, living the lives the cannot he very different cert for them• can .only bees,' iutoxicnnt, the effects of pass off, leaving depression For a convict to be herder beast, 'tr, he perpetually and audited as if he were Goin' in- animate, object, to beerier -le dcallress like a zany, to be eirhidu",e)•t;' to sneak, to be chained er1, to be condemned of each day in th•e se wretched cell where watched without, his 1 be. madete„ lead the whole year, an: to get any benefit, ental, faeh a peesea Beethoven s oth, Sadie giae's5 lay:- t . art, . ire ay lust iced 'heir do, Pon- ntal ,hich .tend. Ike a anted: diode- 'most of a bo e, to o, a t him or e , of WILL ENJOY CANADA. Prig ess Patricia herself is quite enthusiastic about going to Canada. She intends, to visit all the interest- ing places in the Dominion, and she and her brother Prnce Arthur of Connaught, are planning to see -something of America also, travel- ling incognito 'and visiting most of the large cities. Princess Patricia saw her father and mother off for Canada, on Saturday, then she her- self started for Sweden where she ,ins to have a farewell visit with her sister, the Crown Princess of :Shveder.. About Christmas she will join the Duke and Duchess iu their new home. USED TO PLAY CRICKET. Princes Patricia is • full of life and animal spirits. As a child she. was ,a great hoyden. Sb played cricket like' an expert, and was able to -handle -bat and ball with •equal IFiG" Sly was •resolutely fear- riufi;" , he'but;hass Connaught' ca,ye that -she spent most of the time when° Princess Pat was a .child in expectation of having her daughter brought home on a stretcher. It was quite an ordinary tiling to havo her ttnnble into. a lake, or off her horse or de something equally startling. KING TRIED TO SPOIL HER. King Edward loved his niece Pa- tricia dearly. In fact site seemed to interest li•n more than any of 'his own children except Princess Maude, row Queen of Norway. He did his hest to spoil her. He used to urge her to give imitations of her friends and relatives and roar- ed with laughter at her skill. As she grew older it is said she was able to exact from him a promise that he would never use his royal prerogative to force'her into mar- riage she did not wish, and certain- ly if ,she has not been able to marry the man of her choice she has at least been able to keep her free- dom. Princess Patricia, who 'seems quite devoid of any superabundance of reverence for. royalty, used to treat King Edward as a jolly good pal when she was a child, and as a very dearly loved friend and coun- sellor when she was older. She was always devotedly fond of him, and cried herself sick once when she thought ,she had hurt him. The King, then Prince of Wales, had been asked to play cricket with the children. He consented to" make up one of the sides and started to play without either pads or gloves. Suddenly one of Princess Pat's "shooters" hit him a sharp blow on the leg, and the King "retired hurt," according to the rules of the game, leaving the Princess in de- spair lent she might have caused serious injury. wopl,inder, to 'let drunk Once a year, fai +i " 1,`ati least, as Dr. Johnson '$41.4, `_fk,y would for a space "fo.rgc i , , : pain of living."' ONLY CHEERFUL PIT),1, . Our.present ey tent lain ii, t ihr of its primary objects=the t,iehixsg f ood`oitizens out of Hadi lleoati e it is a dehumanising syttena. Nei a prison official to whom slob in the course of my 'inquiri s hon - estly, believed that any of the convicts under his charge would ever pass into ordinary life fit to begin his duties anew. The ,`dif fieulty of the problem is dee to the fact tha4t the state atte'apts to do two things, whichare iitritually The difference between the ordin- antagonistic. If prison is to be a ary man and the criminal is simple I deterrent, it cannot be diffi•rent to what it is; if it is to exist 'ich snake good citizens of crimnals, ! t must of ,necessity cease to be , n; deter- rent. Sooner or later we shall have to decide which of those prin- ciples is to be retained, and which is to be rejected. At Borstal—the only . ?•ltcnex•ftil prison in England—some scent 'of —one has the social instinct which keeps his desire to break the ten. commandments in check, the other is entirely without it,. He robs and murders, he is vicious and brutal, simply because he recognizes no obligation to the society which guarantees to him 'certain rights and liberties. When his crimes are found out the estate takes him, compromise between 'these •ttvo herds him with others of his kind, principles is being attemped; but denies him all intercourse with men better than himself, and de- clares at the same time that 'it is trying to imbue him with the so- cial instinct. Could anything be !how he should be treated hat not more absurd? The man who has hen touched upon, and still awaits not the social instinct is dehuma,n- solution. ized, and to humanize him we sub- ject him to a discipline which is a contradiction in terms. The fact is, no man comes out of prison, after serving a, long term of penal servitude, quite sane or responsible. In nearly every case he has illusions, which usually take the form of thinking that he is watched. The system nearly u always leaves its mark upon him, and you can tell an old jailbird by the suspicious glances that he casts around him, his nervous gait, and his air of ,apathy. To think ex- oonvicts could ever be useful citi- zens is ridiculous; mentally and morally, they are incapable of sharing the white mari':s burden, Moreover, trace a: lean has serv- ed a long sentence, the only life he understands and for which he is fitted, is the life of the prison. To give him freedom is like opening the cages, at the Zoo, and. letting ent the animals, expecting them to live and behave themselves be- cause they are free. In the tailor- ing shops at, our penal establish- ments you may see men over sixty, with white hair and specta- cles, busy at sewing-machi]es, do- ing their work well.. They are lase liv here only the junior adulti or the. youthful criminals are being dealt with. The problem of the;,old lag —whet is to be done with him and PHONE RECORDS TALK. A reproach which has oftipi, been raised against the telephone` is that it leaves no trace whatever of the conversation transmitted ' Thus, atelephone conversation earl never figure in a law suit. It is not sur- prising, therefore, that for some time past efforts have been made to devise an apparatus by means of which a permanent record eau be kept of the words spoken over the telephone, and the phonograph has often been thought of in thie eon- nection. It is stated that Prof, P. Perotti, of Italy, has just, ec:ored. a success in this direction. The tele- phone receiver is composed' of two loud speaking telephones ;• one of these is furnished with the usual mouth -piece; the, other is eenneeted with the vibrating membrane of ,a Pathe phonograph. The current required for this telepho1he: is .a little grcnt sr than for ordinary iii stallatiens. • The phonograph re- cord ,canbe made to teprodues the s eech in the usual manner. p CREATURES OF HABIT. Some Remarkable Stories of a Flock of Sheep. A little. contribution to the trou- bled subject of .animal psychology is given, incidentally, in Rev. H. D. Raw•nsley's book, "By Fell and Dale, at the English Lakes." Some apparently stupid and meaningless behavior, interpreted in the light of previous facts, would seem to indi- cate memory, and perhaps even a species if imagination. Visitors to our lake country, as they ramble over the fells, must be constantly ,struck with the exceed- ing beauty of the delicate, lithe lit- tle sheep, with their shy, black. faces and their dainty feet, that give life to the mountainside. The most remarkble characteris- tics of these Herdmick sheep are their homing instinct and their mar- velous memories. Of this there are many proofs. For example, e flock of sheep, driven down a road which was blocked at the time, had to pass through agate, and so back again through another opening in the wall to the roadway. "They did not pass along.that road flooded with the rosy hues of dice „agaiii'Lor many menthe.. ',Phe road fulness and love:• w g was nono longer blocked and the' • '"It is a `reat mistake: to compa ;all had been :built up,' but as soon • our existence with :soahaeother on as they Game to the place they .all who is richer than we. If we nr topped the wall, and insisted upon eomparc, then let it be with so going back again through the gate+ one whose life is burdened w I myself have seen a, flock sudden- i'soi'row, losses and unhappiness.. ly, at a certain place, spring into i Banish the ugly, envious htt the air without and apparent rea- i thoughts that spring up like weed son, and was told that at that parti- cular point the year before apole had been across the road, and- the, sheep had jumped it when they came to the place. Although no obstruction now .existed, they leap- ed over an imaginary pole. 0000 0 0 0 0f0! s' o hope u eeosJ Dem "Rich people don't get half as much fun out of life as isozne of us poor folks," exclaimed little Phy- llis Hall, tie she sat darning her boy& stockings, . while she rocked the cradle- with little. "Babbie" in it, with her foot. "Just imagine having all the things in life that one could wish for; never' having the fun of asaving up, for a treat, or • to know the triumph 'of . making your own gowns I" :she laughed, •ass she bit off a piece of thread ;with her gleam- ing white teeth. "Don't you ever .envy the wome• you know who have all the luxurie of life and never have a wish an gratified 1" "No ; I agree with Ruskin, whe he said it is happier to live in small house , and have Warwiol castle to wonder at, than to live Warwick castle and havenothin to be astonished at, • "It's really fun to be poor if yoi look at it . from the right angle You see, dear, that is what mos women are unable or declives -t do." And reaching to 'the "baske at her side, she took up anothe pair of stockings that were pearl all holes. "Women," she contin ed, "are more apt to notice the di advantages 'of life, and breed ov them until they become so big tha they hide 'all the little advantag and benefits. "A housekeeper who can affor but one servant bemoans the fat that she must spend part of t morning in the kitchen, and start to think how lovely it Would be have a whole staff of servants, an a housekeeper to manage the. "Straightway she' begins to pit herself.beeause she. cannot epen hours -in social pleasures, as do li more fortunate neighbors. "About this time all the ordinal little worries and- .annoyances a surae huge proportions, and el grows fussy, ill-tempered and sa life is not worth living if it mu be spent in drudgery. "Life is always worth living. "Eveir if it is not free from eo row and disappointment, it is glorious gift if we will let it 1 ode eseee —77 000! 0001 0 (��i PP ��-gg ••gy�pp pp yy�+� 6� Coiitentrnent 0 QUESTION A. POSER, Queen. Vietoria rather disapprov- ed of her granddaughter of Con- naught's boisterous ways, though she too loved the handsome child and had her come for visits when she was at Osborne or Balmoral. These 'visits were. not unalloyed pleasures to Princess Patricia, . for she was constantly getting into trouble. Once when the Princess had been running about the lawn like a wild thing for some time, 'Queen Victoria summoned her and inadet<hcr sit down, saying; "Little girls should not run about so." said the old,Queen severely, where- upon Patricia isighed and unca:ossed them, then sat deep in thought for a few moments. Finely she 'Dela very gently; "What do little girls have Iegs at all for, grandma? His - es not relate Queen Vie - WORKS WITHOUT PAITH Faith Came After the Works Had Laic? the Foundation. "While a coffee drinker I wee a sufferer from indigestion and in- tensely painful nervous h+:n cache., from childhood. (Tea contains oaf- , feine—the same drug •found in •c:if don't cry; mother will get the blab fen.) her dinner right away. "Seven years ago my health gave "Bock the cradle gently a mina( entirely. I grew so weak that b f heel" the exertion of walk:ne,•, if only a few feet, made it necessary Per me to lie down' My friends t,liought I was marked for consumption••=• weak, thigh and pale. . `I realized the clanger : was in and tried ,faithfully to get relief from medicines, till, at last, after having employed all kinds of drugs, the doctor acknowledged that he dict not believe it was in his power to cure me. "While in this condition a friend induced me to quit coffee and try Postum, and I did so without the least hope that it would do me any good, I did not like it at first, but when it was properly made I found Postum was a . roost delieious and refreshing beverage. I am. especi- ally fond of it served at dinner ice- cold, with cream. "In a month's time I began to improve, and in a few -weeks my in- digestion ceased to trouble me, and my headache stopped entirely. I am so perfectly well now that I do not look like the same person, and I have so gained in flesh that I am 15 pounds heavier than ever before. "This is what Postum has done for no. I still use it and shall al- ways do so." Name given by Ca- nadian Posture CJo, Windsor,• On- tarit "There's a•reason," and it is ex - and break up our 'selfish discont•e arid make room for the beautif flowers of the soul to flourish. "Never say, `I cannot be co tented; it isn't my nature.' Tl thing to do •is to cultivate 'centers nient and make` -the best of whr material you have to work with. "In all probability you would no better, even if you had all t advantages enjoyed by your nil bora. all the money and everythhn it could buy. " 'Make the best of what is an never worry over what 'might hav been,' is my motto. " When I b come dissatisfied I strive as hard a I can to improve matters, and I ways succeed. "There, there, Babble darling plained in the, 'little book, "The Road to Wcllville,'' in pkgs. 'ever road the above letter? A heft' boo appoars tetiin and fu11oof imttnTh1nter t will you, dear, while I warm Bal ie ,s milk • or As she left the room I breathe a, prayer of thanksgiving, for th -valuable lesson in contentment th I had just been taught. FACT AND FANCY. The French are now making win from bananas. As if the band: hadn't already caused enoug downfalls 1 Korea hes paper raincoats. There are few classes of men tI go to the wall as often as pap hangers. Never be in your place of bus nese when a person wants to I rn row money of you, because if yo are in you will be out, but if yo are out you will be in. OVER Os Y'EA,FS', 9PRnos finnshtca- y tr. OESidNS 'Col�YRI0HT3 &C+e' Itnyona sendtng at°katch and deaeripption o z Ctilakly ageertanr out•. opinlon free w otnror-fit t,tventdon .is probably patentable. aommnnirh, Hong strictlyeottadetitlat. WINDI300i{ on stilet• •-Ibcttt free. Oldest agency for esourtng 5ttt nta. Patents taken tar*u li11ittini & C. reooiy epectal itottce, tritbont onar$e, Fri the Cieniffie k A. ltandaorneir irinatrtced Sveeklp, T ergs e s ettlntlon or. any sofentiile 'journal 7r fns . Caught, $a.+rt; a year, i,oatato lireprba.. rola 'an eewsde,leta. • muN & CO 384u1roaaway., 1 kirau Otllae,fi,'65 5' St.,;Wactttgton