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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-05-27, Page 44 'Mg."; LEV IS RUBL1ST ED EVERY '11-IVRSEAT EVENING. BY 111. ZELLER. TERMS OF SUBSCR1PTION:---$1.00 per year paid strictly in advance, When the paper is not ordered to be discontinued it will be sent until such order is given and arrei rages paid. $1.50 to be charged when not paid in advance. ADVERTISING RATES,—Tran s lent tilvertise)nents, 10 cents per Brevier line ':ar first insertion and 5 cents per line for k ach subsequent insertion, Small Advs. each as"Lost" "Estray" or "Stolen wi;l ice chargoci 50 cents first insertion and 25 eents for each subsequent insertion. Copy for change of 7dvertisement =1St Je handed in not later %an Tuesday night of each week to insurb nhange in follow- ing issue. Local notices in ordinary reading type 5 cents per line. Notices for Church en- tertainments or other benevolent institu- tion at special rates. Contracts for column, half -column and quarter -column rates for specified periods will be cheerfully given. Address all communications to The W�e,1c1, E. ZELLER EDITOR, ZURIoa, P.O FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1904. Itis estimated that the cost of the sear between Russia and Japan, to each belligerent, is one million dollars per day. England's ex- penses in the Boer war work- out at substantially that sum ; so do Japan's in the war with China dur- ing 1894.95. Military and naval disbursement in Spanish American war, at its height in July, 1898, ran $30,000,000 per month beyond the same daily average of "war cost." Last Friday's statement, by the Russian finance agent at Loml.mn. set forth that "the cost of the war for the first five months, up to .1 une 1, including $22,500,000 for railroad equipment, is $125,000,000." But as the eastern war began only on February 7, it will have Tested, by June 1, not five months, but exact- ly 115 days, which makes the daily average cost $1,000,000. The Dominion Fair at Winnipeg. Advance sheets of the Winnipeg Fair prize list :for 1904 show that the prizes offered for the principal classes of live stock are about as follows :—Shorthorns $2565, Here- fords $1125, Polled Angus and Gal- loways about $600 each, Ayrshires, Holsteins and Jerseys about $500 each. Clydesdales, $99:3, Shires $456, draft and general purpose horses $350 .and 8450 each, light harness horses and thoroughbreds nearly $500 each, hunters and sad- dle horses $700 and 8800, ponies $190, speed classes. 418.000. Sheep 1 —the different breeds will average • about $175 each, Swine—York- shires, Tamworths and Berkshires 4300 each, the American breeds about 8200 each. Good prizes are also offered in the bacon classes. Prizes of $100, 860 and $50 are offer- ed for carload lots of cattle. Arrangements have been made a •so that freight rates from On tario 1 and the East will be paid on all I 1 exhibits that are returned to thel` original point of shipment. AUCTION SALE SYSTEM SPREADING. —The auction system of marketing' live stock advocated by the Live i Stock Commissioner, Ottawa,seems to be gaining ground steadily and ( I surely. This month at Calgary IT nearly four hundred head of pure- I m bred cattle have gone under the I hammer et the sale conducted by the Territorial Breeders' Associa- tions, and several district sales aro being established in Ontario. The •Scugog Agricultural Society and the Port Perry Boardof Trade are now arranging for an important sale to be held at Port Berry on June 16th, 1904, These sales will be held at intervals, and if sntri- dent encouragement is extended to them, they will probably be held monthly to sell by auction of all kinds of farm animals, including stockers, fiat stock, dairy cows, etc. Several very prominent breed- ers of purebred stock aro consign- ing excellent animals to the first sale, and persons desiring to con- -tribute either purebreds, stockers, nmilch cows or pigs may obtain par- • titulars from the Secretary, Mr. J. H. Brown, Port Perry. • A number of 'buyers from the Toronto Stook Yards will be on hand. This will be a great eonvenience to the far. niers and stock zaisers of the ells-,trict, bringing the buyers and sellers together for disposing of surplus 'stock.' In England and .'Scotlandnearly all stock is .sold in this way in the Market 'towns on stated days, which proves a groat. advantage to the seller and eonven- tenee to the 'buyer. M &zixNGt THE FAIRS EDuoATIONA.L. —Three years ago when Mr. F. -Hodson, Live Stock Commissioner, -pointed out to the annual meeting of the -.Association of - fairs and Exhibitions the Utter inefficiency of many of the agrioultural socie- ties of Ontario, and • unfolded asystematic plan of improvement, he was looked upon by znany of • the delegates as Ma dangerous inoono- clast, The fact that lairs which received, government grants were intended to be educational seemed to be aalinost• forgotten, and the proposal to arrange the fairs in ,convenient circuits and send them expert judges who would .give edu- cational addresses in the ring was considered impracticable by many'. Still the project was taken lip in an experimental way and the results have been so satisfactory that this year it is expected that about . 170 agricultural societies in Ontario will arrange with the provincial Department of Agriculture for the services of expert judges. Last year 152 societies in that province were supplied with judges, while in the other brOviuces and the Ter- ritories many of the fairs had ex- pert judges furnished by the local and Dominion Departments of Agriculture. Tar. nixie CnoP —The replies to enquiries by the Fruit Division at Ottawa concerning the injuries done by frost and mice indicate that the less from these causes this year will be vory serious indeed, The injuries from nice Will amount to 25 per cent of all nursery stock and young trees under four years of age in Ontario and Qnebec The Maritime Provinces suffered to a much less extent. British Colum- bia escaped almost entirely, Little or no precaution was taken any- where to prevent the ravages of mice. The damage by frost. though exceedingly serious in Ontario anti Quebec, will not affect to any great extent the amount of fruit put or:. the market this year, except in the case of plums and beaches. Apples and pears were seriously injured along the northern border of the fruit belt. The Baldwin, Greening, Ontario, Spy and Blenheim have been killed in places where they are usually considered hardy. Top -grafting only very slightly in- creases the hardiness of the variety. None of the large apple -producing, sections were seriously injured. Tho Flemish Beauty Pear again proved one of the hardiest of good varieties. In both apple and peer orchards the trees suffered, much less from frost and more from mice when grown in sod or ole ver crop. Plums were killed in some of the heavy plum - producing sections, and in all probability the buds are so seriously injured everywhere as to render a heavy crop this year improbable. The reports fermi the Essex peach district show a damage approach- ing that of 1899 ; 50 per cent of the trees will be killed outright. The Niagara district is not so severely injured. The flrawford type prov- ed. particularly tender. Cherries aro also injured severely n bud. Somali fruits escaped with. ess injary. West Huron Teachers' Association. The 27th annual meeting of the West Huron Teach ors' Association vas held in C4oderich on Fridley and Saturday of last week. The fleeting; was well attended and al). wesent seemed to take a deep m- erest,in the subjects brought for- vard for discussion. On Friday forenoon the meeting vas opened. with the president Mr.A. Bowles in the chair. Inspector 'mil conducted devotional exercises The minutes of the last meeting. were rend and. approved. Inspector Vont npsned the discussion by reini- ng over the changes which are to be made in the ceuree mf steely in the public schools. Messrs. Strati::, Tons Howard aced Misses Parlee and Shtermnan also 'oak part in the discussion. In the afternon,t Mr. McKay, Hensall, introduced the subject of The Superannuation of Teachers. Mr, N.N. Ti•ewartha, Holu:esville road a good paper on Ventilation. Miss Jean McIntosh, of Nile, read an. excellent paper on School Win- dows. Mr. Baird, Stanley, then road a comprehensive paper on cen- tralized schools. J. A. Field B. A. of the Godor.ich Collegiate discussed Literary Style in an able and instructive manner, and D. McDougall introduced How to Secure Attendance. In the evening a successful at home was held in the assembly room of the Collegiate. On Saturdriy morning the Assoc- iation meet at 0 a.m. J. W. Hogarth Hills Green conducted devotional exercises. Miss Sharman introduced the subject of Composition, which she considered one of the most ilnpor- taut on the program. The dates fixed for next year's meeting of the convention are May 25th and 26th, The. election of officers resulted as follows: President, G. S. Howard Blake ; Vice -President, Miss Con- sitt, Hills Green ; Secy. -Tress. W. H. Johnston, Kippen ; Councillors, 0, Bluett, Crediton, T. W. Brown - The Zurich Herald lee, Hensali, F. Ross, Lochalsh, Miss Parlee and Miss V, Ball, Godo - rich. A number of resolutions were `passed. The separate sections then met. Men's section. --A number of in- teresting discussions took place. G. S. Howard read a valuable paper on "What can be done to retain Mea in the Teaching Profession?" Women's section.—Miss J. Ham- ilton took the subject, "How shall Teachers deal with Slang, Profan- ity, Impurity and Quarrelling? On Saturday afternoon Miss Con - sift read, a splendid paper on House- hold Science at the Summer School. All the subjects were ably dis- cussed by the teachers present. The Association then adjourned all feeling that a very successful meeting had been held. . W. C T. U, Beer -Drinking. It is a painter fact that the habit of beer -drinking iuerease.s more and- more every snecceding . year. When lager beer was first intro- duced into this country, less than fifty years ago, its use was confined almost exclusively to our foreign born population. Since the close of the civil war, it has become com- mon with a large number of- those born Within our own shores. It has become so common throughout the Length and breadth of our land that we may with some degree of propriety be called a beer -drinking nation. The time has come for ev- erY lover of his race to enter his protest against it, hang out the signal of distress, and whistle down brakes. It is an expensive habit. Much money is spent in this worse than useless bad habit, The money spent in the indulgence of it passes out of the hand so slowly and in such small sums that per- sons hardly think their "beer mon- ey" amounts to much. Twenty- five cents spent a week, and most beer -drinkers spend more than that armpit, in twenty years, at six per cent, compounded semi-annual- ly. amounts to nearly four hundred dollars. This amount, if judieious- ly investgd, wort(' command many conmforts and conveniencies, and be a. great power for good in this world, It i a health destroying habit. This is a fact patent' to every ob- serving. mind. Nothing is more destructive of gond, health and lone life thein the ewessive and constant use of beer. It is the prolific cause of many of the most fatal and pain- ful diseases. It is a fact worthy of notice tent tMedicine hats no effect on confirmed beer -drinkers. Their bodies have lost all responsive power. This is the verdict of ourbest and most . eminent medical authorities. It is a habit that almost invar- iably lends to drunkenness, The most of the drunkards of to -day be- come suet through'the continued ase of beer. This is a fare that no onewill for a moment contradict. Drunkenness; is generally at the bottomof most of the crimes that are committed in the land and the sorrow entailed upon our race, The Lord have mercy upon us. Let us be vigilant, decided, keep an open eye on the movements of the ene- my, and do our utmost to suppress the manufacture, stile and use of all intoxicating liquors. Press Supt. .A Fool Discovers Himself. A letter was once received at the postofiico in New Orleans directed to the "biggest fool" in that city. Tho postmaster was absent, and on his return ono of the young clerks informed him of the receipt of the letter. "And what became of it? inquir- ed the postmaster. "Why," replied • the clerk, "I clicln't know who the biggest fool was, so I opened it Myself," "And what did, you find in it?" inquired the postmaster. Find? replied the clerk. Why nothing but the words "Thou art the Dian." By taking Rival Herbs you will not be fooled as Mr. Solomon Mar- tin has been cured from his head- aches and run down system. Ask him and he will tell you the rest. J, Dumart, Agent, Zurich, MARKETS Revised every Thursday afternoon. Wheat .. 88 tU 00 Oats Barley Peas Flour,,.,, Butter Chickens 1h'.... , .. . Ducks Geese Potatoes............ 30 32 40 45 00 62 25 2 .50 11 12 13 14 4 5 6 6 5 5 30 30 HENSALL MARKETS. Wheat ........... .. 88 to 90 Oats 30 32 Barley ..... 40 40 Peas 65 75 Flour.,.. •....2 00 2 10 Hogs (live) peicwt. , 4,25 to4.75. le*Med3Ellir The time is here when you want a new r1 Side -Board, Parlor Suite, Bed -room Suite. ' , R anything in the line of furniture, new •� �designs, new finishes. 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