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The Huron Expositor, 1919-05-23, Page 1Styles 'eear Now. a of Fash- 1 Coats T (one of the ailored styles e. Materials es, tricotines. Radian manu- You need suallv put ai uues tiuit ish unable de - long, slender $40. find Sat- ti lored :irts not tell them ction there is Ily smart sep- or how many [ere are in the Summer for ce. But we o tell that cular Skirts Id looking, o aaterials and ttely priced. irts of wool iin, in rtavy or black nodels trimm- LI and buttons. Skirts in new Is, with broad belt, with pockets, and tiff hem; 5.00 dins cturers fresh But -priced ed. Fine soft iriises, peal- iriously trim - ions, medal - men of sy to &lip into• kpron all in r enthusiastic OW aprons of tins. Some )rrie trimmed L trimmings id so forth ses of white linens and le new neck Jors includ- md. Un- iii [0 5.00 not only for ,4 .sold at this ind of urn-, irne in theri iltinstorm to know ..rproof urn - 1 111111 FIFTY THIRD TEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2684 • 7 ig• ism. • • • • I 1 1 11111$11111111111111111111/1111111111111NBIBIIIM II1110111414111101111111111111111111111111 I Greig Clot ing Co'y Second to None " IMP PP, OPP Pip SOP SEAFORTH, MAY 23, 1919 II§ pp. mai IMP PS AM, let them have, net a copy merely, as asked for, but the original document, so strangely lost and so strangely .preserved. It, was quite perfect, save that the usual wax seal in its silver box was missing, This, doubtless, was looted by the Bolivian mob during the „.........................„. g dt n -erevolution.ot be irreparable amongna- tion Presumably the loss of one of the ine I . 5 originals of an international treaty in or ine o Ra would , ..,... ,s, t observed ordinarygood faith aith ., = But in the days of "secret diplomacy," 1 at th,, . B now supposedly departed, the theft or . "borrowing" of a treaty for purposes . = of publieation was a serious matter. --- I On this point the writer comments: = Although modern peace treaties are -•so carefully guarded m this country, - E e-ven the certified copies being Coats /PO pow Plor THE THE tioatiEHUNIsrat X•urrartityNine ee is the most attractive design ot Spring Top Coat that has ever been put on the market. rhe young men are taking to these coats like ducks to water. Combining as they do style, service and durability, top coat and rain- coat, two in one and less, in ptice than the ordinary spring weight overcoat. We have these ;n Ali the new shades and very attractive cloth pat- terns. Colors for Men—Tan, Mouse Grey, Mixed Grey, Mottled Grey and Brown Checks, Dark Grey. - Price 9Oo,. 12.00 t0_20.00. Colors for Women— Sand, Covert, Palm Beach, Dark SiIN'terifGrey. Price 10.00, 1500, to .20.00 Extra Snaps in Boy& Suits Sizes 26 to 32-6 5o to 10.00 Sizes 33 to 35-70.00 to 18.00 • Greig Clothing Co SE AFORTH ly kept from prying eyes, cases have occurred. where thear contents have =l been prematurely and illicitly made s instance of this ii with the publi Lon Globe news - t of the secret .Aeglo-Russian Treaty of May, 1878. This was published in June, on the eve of the Congress of Berlin, and the disclosures caused consternation in Russia and. England alike. The affair was traced .to a Foreign Office clerk named Marvin, who had secretly made a copy of the document, which he sold to The Globe. He was arrested, but as the Official Secrets Act had not been then passed, it was held that no charge could lie against him, and he , was discharged. An earlier case of the kind occurred in 1827, when The Times published the text of a secret treaty signed in July of that, year between Great Britain, France, and Russia. The mystery of how the newspaper in question: obtain- edpossession of the text of- this high- ly confidential document has never been cleared sip to this day. As, how- ever, the originals of the treaties were at that time stored in cupboards with glass doors, and fitted with ore inary common locks, in a private house in Whitehall, used as an annex to the War Office, is not difficult to see how an unscrupulousperson might have obtained access to them. In days gone by the signing ofpea.ce, treaty would have been hailed with glee by the higher- officials and clerks of our Foreign Office, since it was then customary to mark such auspici- ous occasions byr,a wholesale distribu- tion of money gifts among those most nearly concerned. These gifts came from the Govern- ments of the foreign states with whom .he treaties were made, and were fre- quently , of considerable value. Thus, in '1793, a sum of 11,000 was received froni the Russian Government for dis= tilbution' among the under tssecretaries a.ncl 'Chief clerks of the British Foreign Office on the occasion of the ratifica- tion of two treaties between our King George III. and the Empress of Russia. The King of Sardinia, in the same year, sent £500 to be similarly dia.. tributed, and like sums were deo for- warded by the Spanish, Prussian, Austrian and, Sicillan Governments. These "good 'old times" must indeed have been "good" ones for the officials concerned, since the whole of these large sums was divided between a- bout ten or twelve people In 1831, however, the practise was discontinu- ed. In conclusion, the writer states that the first signature te the Treaty of Paris should be that of the represent- ative of Germany e for, This is because precedent demands that the original copy of a peace treaty Shall be'signed in tiles -alphabet- ical order of the various countries' names, and the official title of Ger- many, Deutsche s Reich, comes first on the. list. America will sign under her official title Of United States of Amer- ica, AuStria as Osterreich, and 13razil as Estados Unidos do Brazil. Even after all the representatives of the contracting Powers have affixed their sigeatures and seals to the treaty however it has to be ratified by the \actual rulers of the countries, who also •sign and seal it. = public. One notorio Fe: occurred in eannecti tte. I cation by The Lon paper of the full te et= 151111111M11111111111111111111111111111111111111111IMIHHINHIMM1111111111111111111111111111111g PRINCE OF WALES COMING TO CANADA The Prince of Wales will visit Can- ada in August of this year and will open the new Parliament buildings at Ottawa. Sir Thomas White stated in the Rouse Tuesday afternoon just be- fore the Commons rose for diner, that he had received a message from His Majesty the King, through the governor-general, as follows: "I am very glad to tell you that, with my entire approval, the Prince of Wales will visit Canada this year in August. He will open the new Par- liament buildings in Ottawa" It is understood that the Prince of Wales will also open the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition at Toronto the same month. It is interesting to note that the prince's grandfather, King Edward, while prince of Wales, laid the corner stone of the old building in the sixties, and his great uncle, the Duke -i)f Con- naught, laid the corner stone of the new buildings in 1916. HOW TREATIES ARE DRAFTED AND PRESERVED - "Scraps of paper," otherwise known as treaties, require much more time for construction than they do for des- truction; so, considering the magni- tude and difficulty of the problems in- volved, impatience with the delibera- tions of the delegates employed in making the new Treaty of Paris is semei.vhat unreasonable For, a writ- er in the London Magazine tells us, speaking of the conferences that pre- ceded the formal terminations ef other conflicts: In the Crimean War, for example, the conference lasted from February 25th to March 30th; in the Spanish- American War, from October 1st to December" 10th; in the Russo-Japanese War, from, August 9th to September 5th. The preparation of the treaty it- self is a long task, as peace treaties are elaborate documents. Until recent year they were written by hand in the blackest of ink, on velluni or on a specially made linen -paper known as "treaty paper." But of late years they have been first typewritten an then printed, all precautions being tak- en against premature "leaks" in the printing establishments entrusted with the work. Says the writer, continu- ing the discussion: Following established preeedent, treaties of peace practically always begin with an appeal to the Almighty, "Au nom de Dieu tout puissaat" be- ing the formula most frequently used. In treaties with Roman Catholic coun- tries, however, the phrase, "In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivid- ed Trinity" is frequently substituted; while in a treaty with a Mohammedan state the farmula is altered to "In the Name of Allah the Almighty God" in the copy allotted to the representa- tive, of that country. For each of the signatory Powers one copy is signed and sealed. These certified copies are for convenience of reference, and for printing duplicate copies from, since the °rimei sigaed and sealed treaty is a most preciou and carefully guarded document, an seldom sees the light of day 'once i is stored away in the state archive of the signatory Power. Peace treaties are not written (o printed) straight across the page, o pages, like ordinary -documents. The are written in parallel columns, one -in English, the next in French, the next in German, Italian, and so on_ accord ing to the number of languages ineus in the signatory Powers. The tex of each of these colunms is an exac translation of the texts of all th other columns, and the utmost care i taken in the selection of words tha will convey identical shades of Mean t ing. The seals affixed to ratifieci treatie, are usually very elaborate, and in order the better to preserve them, '•i is customary to enclose them in little round silver boxes. Most treaties, too are bound either in crimson morocco or in red velvet, tied about with green silk cord. Many of the -treaties in .the British Record Office, howevert, are stored in cylinders, boxes, portfolios, and bags There are thousans of these documents all carefully protected. When they were stored in the Foreign Office, they. were kept in five -ton safes that were so carefully constructed' that when the Emperor Fredrick of Germany saw them he smilingly commented to the Earl of Derby, "Yon are evidently de- termined that no one shall break your treaties." The treaties in the Record Office include, as well as peace treaties, others relating to such matters as fishery rights, boundary questions, and commercial arrangements. There are also many so-called "domestic treat- ies," such as 'Queen Victoria's Mar- riage Treaty and the Treaty for the marriage of Princess Charlotte, dated 1816. =All these documents were re-, moved to secret places of -still greater security during the period of air raids; There is a curious story in connec- tion with the only copy of a treaty be- longing to a foreign nation that hag been, for a while, stored in the Brit- ish archives. In 1877 a sailor called at the Foreign Office with a brown - paper parcel, which. was found to con- tain the original Bolivian copy of the treaty of September 29th, 1840, be- tween Great Britain and Bolivia, Says the article further: The sailor, had, it appeared, been present in Bolivia during one of their, at that time, periodical revolutions, when the state archives were thrown into the street,s by the revolutionists. A thin book, bound in crimson velvet, fell at his feet, and, stooping, he pick- ed it up and brought it away with him. On - examining it, he saw that it was a document of importance, so on .his return to England he took it to the Foreign Office in London. Here it was stored away for safety and forgotten. But eighteen years afterward—that it to say, in 1895— the Bolivian Government apparently woke up to the fact that their precious treaty was missing, and communicated/ with the Foreign Office, asking if it could oblige them with a certified copy. Search was made, with the re- sult that the Government was able to -4110- "THE HANG OVER" 'Phis Parliament, so far as I can see, is acting like a hang -over. I am not an authority on hang -overs, but I am informed that a hang -over is a bem- used and befuddled condition arising out of eecesses the night before. The victim's Imind feels like a scrambled egg, and to get it back to A tolerable state ofllarity much moneyeis spent on o John Rinses and other tonics About a billion and a half of dollars was surik in the war. It was the greatest spending jag Canada ever had. We got used to throwing money around and now we cannot break our- selves of the habit. We are still drunk with the blood -red extravagance of four years, and, being drunk, we have the customary illusion of riches which is not borne out by the famished state of the treasury. We ought to be sav- ing—pinching pennies --but we go on spending. A hundred million dollars on Government railways—three hund- red and fifty million dollars after -the - war -vote --seventy million dollars credit to three busted .countries 'in Europe. These are the cocktails and Collinses on which we sustain false hopes—filling ourselves with the east wind and calling it nouriehment Parliament gulps down its -cocktails without fluttering an eye, sticks its thembs in its vest pockets, ,and says "How clever am I!" It does not choose to think of the day of reckoning when the accounts' can no longer be squared with stage money. A. sensible man just naturally hates tO reflect on the exiguity of the gold' reserve which carries all this high finance. The announcement is, made that there will be another domestic loan in the fall. That is to say we shall bor- row from Peter to pay Paul. We are going to lift ourselves by our boot- straps again. One loan washes the other. It is even on the cards that we may use -the principal of the last loan to pay interest on the others. i This procrastinating finence must 'come to a. show -down somewhere. The 1 44 e Heart of Humanity' Pdsitively the greatest picture in the world r and it is Canadian Coming to Seaforth one day only Cardno's Opera Hall Friday, May 30th Afternodn p.m. Evening 8.00 p.m, Auspices Soldiers' Aid Commission Children 25c, Adults 35c. 0e, 75e and .P.00. . Admissi n-_---Afterno Plan now open at .Aberharts most cheerful annual deficit o dollars—which interest on the predicted that hands—I am t CaryelPs gl-ooni "Heaven knows get it!" observers predict an one hundred million is approximately the war debt—and-haNing they throw uptheir inking UOW of Frank y candor—and say: ow we are going td There is one way to get it, of cours —more taxes----Ibut this is a Unio Government, *ening that it consist of two parties which are afraid 0 each other. It follows that neithe party -will do anything to get in wrong with the tax -payers. and matters ar at a stand -still. Union Government i willing enough 1to share office but i draws the line at sharing blame I prefers to pass the buck to various boards and co missions which will stave off the ,evil day by dilatory proceedings. Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, Union Government ha SO many troubles that it doesn't know whateto do; It doesn't knew what to do because it d esn't want to do it— begin taxing—so the shoe goes on pinching. process is simple but effective. The -manufacturer of woolens or tinware or ploughs or cement Or bacon, or what- ever it may be, sells to a bankrupt country in Eueepe, accepts a long-time note with Canada's name on the back of it, and discounts it at the Dominion Treasury. As Omar Khayyan might have put it had he known anything of post-bellum finance—he takes our n cash and lets their credit go. We must have, money to burn be- cause we go on burning it. Not only r do aye plunge into near expenditures in the name of export trade, but we e even neglect to make such retrench - s ments as we can. Being in the hang - t over stage we are too, low-spirited to t lift a finger and so we allow war board and commissions that have out- lived ing p The s Comri as pu hc service is concerned, goes on speaking to the extent of two hundred thousend dotlars'a year. The Censor's Department lags superfluous at the rate of one, hundred thousand dollars t a year; so does ..the Department of Public Information—another hundred thousand. Nobody is cruel ehough to heir usefulness to go on draw - when there is no work to do. patriation. and Employment tee, although quite dead as far There ate signs and omens tha Union Gov -eminent is beginning to fade away and gradually die. The coun arliament in' its yearn - to party lines, but ns are pommencing to ystem by which a man ing he willed in open meeting instead l of breathing it to his shirt front or not saying it 'at all. Fielding has served notice that he will shift at the rig.ht time; Carvell has more than once cast a wistful eye at the Opposition hp,n what he will dot the need arises try is ahead of ing to get bac even the politici hanker for the might say the benches; Crerar has or two just to show with the pailful when Maharg has to the moon complained; the twenty free trade seats in the West threatened to take the soft Clark has shift to be nearer hi Fred Pardee ha al off; Dr. Michael d to the- cross benches former opinions; and gone over body, bones and breeches t,4 his okl friends. All these things go to apprise Union Government that the rapids are near and the daylight it past, and that the tudget speech- which cannot be Post- foned much loi•'ger—may be the filial plunge. Ther can be hardly any doubt that both , :) arties lire waiting for somebody to lead them out of the wilderness. And their waiting is more han watchful—iit is eager. In a word Union Governintnt is' a hang -over from -1 he wee and displays the mental onfusion incidental to that low state f health. Iteie true that every !other Parliament in the civilized world is in he same state of hang -over, but that doesn't make itie,ny the more pleasant or the governing classes, or for the overned classes either. This mental fog, as I eaid before, is videnced chieffr in our Weird financ- ing. Whenevee I see a crowd in the Chateau La `` r lobby—and there is day except Sunday— 't is another band of g the capital to grab ad ft of money was raise and of course every - a new one eve know that atriots in 'credit." A I in Victory L body with something to sell has to get his bit." Noblod, y stands to lose but he people whO put up the "bit The • lift anybody else out of an unnecessary 1 job. Two thirds of the inside Civil Ser- vice ought to. be fired and the other third hired at better wages but noth- ing has been done except to "classify" it, which means more pay all around. Build a erandah So that we may assist you in Making choice of the partieu- tar Style of Verandah, - which, you intend to build this sum- mer,- we have on exhibition in Mr. Buck's Studio window, opening to -day, 'a collection of photographs of representa- tive typos of Verandahs. GREAT IN VARIETY— BEAUTIFUL IN DESIGN— Verandahs are not expensive. They provide the utmost de- gree of comfort and external improvement to the home. Make up your mind to BUILD NOW N. Cluff & Sons SEAFO'RTII, ONT. " 1/11eLBAN BROS, Publis' her& $1.50 a Tear in Advance IINIMPOS A.Pallamp,..........10,1111•1111111.111.11011111.111ii, The war bureaus are crowded with. . women cleats whose occupation is gone but who are kept on because they have acquired the seal -skin - segues and silk stocking habit and don't want to go back to their dish- pans. The rnan who will lift his hand against a woman—on the pay roll—is a brute. Union Government tis nothing if not chivalrous to. the fair sex, but It runs into a lot of money. It's all due to the hang -over. Not only are we spending money that we haven't got but we are else throwing money away that we can get. Hav- ing denied eurSelves any intoxication, save that of throwing money to the birds, we part cheerfully with the twenty-two million dollare a year that we might draw in revenue from the sale of liquor. Twenty-two million -dollars a year is what we pay for our remorse: It appears that our remorse is melting, because Quebec has gone partly wet. And just here hangs tale. Quebec has not gone as wet as she expected to be because a, Dominion order -in -council, dated February 24th, prevents her °drinking anything that she does not ma.nufactufe within her own borders. Beer she can have but whoever heard of the wine of Quebec? Unable to make wine of her OWD, or to import it from Ontario or France, all Quebec gets Out of her effort for freedom is small -beer. No doubt the - order -in -council will be amended if not by the Commons, by the Senate, so that the will of the Quebec people will not be defeated. But the question a- rises Why that order -in -council of February 24th? An order-in-eouncil passed four days after Parliament was on. the job in the face of an expected plebiscite in Quebec which might make it look like thirty cents. What reason for this order-in-ceuncile-except per- haps the precipitaney of Mr. Rowell? The gossip runs that a great deal of the prohibition slipped over by means of the War Measures Act is ultra -Vires of the Canadiae. -constitution. in times of peace. The British North America Act forbids interference with inter- provincial trade end a test case will soon be on the waSe H. F. G. CONTROL OF SWARMING The measures that are needqlto control swarming depend upon the intensity and duration of the domin- ance of the swarming -impulse, which in 'turn depends chiefly on latitude and the date, size, and duration of the honey flow' or flows ia spring; and early summer. In many places in southern Ontario, there is usually one well Marked and, rather short honey flow during- this periled, and it is generally Compara- tively easy to prevent swarming' by simply expanding, the brook-charnber, in advance of requirements, and. giv- ing good ventilation. A good practice is to let the brood nest extend into the super, and then, early in the honey flow, to confine the queen again to the brood chamber by means of 'a queen chamber. In the rest of Canada, and especially where there is a prolonged honey flow, or two honey flows, the prevention of swarming is less easy. The plan of finding, and destroying queen cells every week throughout the swarming season is labourious and not always effective. A better plan is to re- move the queen at the beginning og the surplus honey flow and destroy all queen -cells, except one, eight or nine days later. In this way a new queen -ie raised and she starts laying in time to produce- a large number of young bees for the winter. In a -small apiary that can be watch- ed all day from the ?Louse, it is often satisfactory to limit set/arming to the prime swarm, and to prevent the swarm from flying away by the fol- lowing simple method: The queen's wings are clipped be- fore the swarming season. When the swarm is in the air, the hive is moved away and a new hive, in which the queen is putsis placed on the old stand to receive the returning swarm. This operation weakens the -old colony too such an extent that it rarely swarms again, but to make sure, it is advis- able to cut out all queen -cells, ex- cept one, a week later; at the same time, the swarm is reinforeed by the field bees from the old hive, and it gathers almost as much honey as a colony that does tot swarm. THE VALUE OF CLOVER SOD FOR THE CORN CROP Ideal soil conditions for the corn crop are represented by a well -drained mediumlieam provfided with decayed vegetable matter (hum- us). That the successful growth of corn is closely associated with abund- ant soil humus will be clearly appar- ent on a brief consideration of ,its functions as related to the needs of COM. Humus is the most important soil constituent and imparts that highly desirable, mellow physical condition, denoting • warmth and life, to both light (sandy) and hellvy (clay) soils. The practice of manuring is based on this fact. Humus is the medium which supports the favorable bacterial life of the soil and is the chief source of the valuable nitrogen which these organisms release—along with the nuneral constituents of humus—for -the nourishment Of the :growing. crop Furthermore, the acids produced dur- ing the eletomposition of humus exert a solvent action on the mineral soil compounds, liberating phoshoric acid, potash, etc„ itt assimilable forms. Humus acts Iike a sponge. absorbing and retaining moisture; it e. the upper soil reservoir of water which it yields up gradually to the feeding roots and will thus enable a corn crop to with- stand or more rapidly recover from the effects of a prolonged period of drought. Fee its favorable germination, corn demands a warm seed bed, and to lack of this essential condition many fail- ures are due.- Corn makes a rapid, succulent growth and—like all leafy crops—imbibes and transpnes water freely, requirhyr threwith a .bounti- ful supply of nitrogen and ininerd for the building up of ite tissues. A good crop of red clover (cut for hay) is an ideal forerunner of corn; the decaying residues of clover stems, leaves and roots furnish a large a- mount of humus rich in nitrogen. Clover, alfalfa and other leguanes poszess the tmique faculty of assimi- lating atmospheric nitrogen and thus of emiching the soil in that valuable element. Furthermore, their deeply ramifying roots draw mineral plant food, in solution, from the subsoil and in their subsequent decay, liberate this mineral matter in zones access- ible to. the roots of corn. A sod -carrying a heavy aftermath of elover or alfalfa may furnish auch an abundance of humus foraiing ma- terial is to dispense with the necess- ity for the addition of barnYarcl manure. Investigations made have shown that a vigorous -crop of clover will contain, at a moderate estimate, he its foliage and roots, from 100 to 150 pounds of nitrogen 30 to 40 pounds of phosphoric acid and 85 to 115 pounds of potash peracre, approximately equal. in fert- ilizing value, to 10 tons of go -ed barn- yard manure. Further investigations showed that the roots, dead stems and leaves (the clover residues ordinarily remaining after removing the crop), collected immediately before spring ploughing, contained from 60 to 80 pounds of nitrogen, 20 to 30 pounds of phosphoric acid and 50 to 70 pounds of potash per acre or the approximate equivalent, in fertilizing value, of 6 tons of the best barnyard. manure. HURON NOTES —At' the annual -meeting of the. Clinton Board of Trade, the following officers were elected: Hon. president, D. Cantelon; president, IL Wiltse; vise C. F. Libby; secretary treasurer, A. T. Cooper; committee, J. A, Ford, N. W. Trewartha„ F. T. Jackson, Dr, Shaw, D. L. Macpherson, IL R. Sharp, S. E. Rozell, J. W. Treleaven, H. W._ Pollock, -W. Jackson, George McLen- nan, R. E. _Manning. —County Clerk Holman has one of. his sons, Gordon. Holman,' with him this week, in Goderieh, the young man having returned from overseas where he saw five years' service. He re- turned on the Baltic, landing on the 15th, and reaching Goderich on Tues - do. Gordon enlisted irt the old 33rd at London and went oyer in the lst battalion lst draft. —Last Thursday S. Carte; of Brus- sels, accompanied by a_ traveler, was touring northward- and just ready to pull' out to pass S. Tirenisteni's horse and wagon. The latter, not hearing the car, 4j,ted to turn into Harvey Byaia.1rm gate. To miss'a coUisiot with the horse Mr. Carter steered the -car-so close to. the -aft that he upset. - Nobody was hurt and the ear was soon, right side up. • —Me:tnikedhisatParseovielangt-et7kWiPnigachae mat, .ohne. Wednesday, May 7th, when Mr. Earl Charles Bentley, and Miss Ellen May Glousher, both -of Blyth were joined in, wedlock. The -ceremony voles -perform- ed by Rev. E. F. Armstrong, The - bride is a sister of Mrs. Edgar Patti- son of that town. Mr. and MTS. Bentley will reside in Blyth and will vethebest wishes of a large circle friends.of —The Jackson Manufacturing Co., of Clinton, which has branches at urich and Goderich, are entering in. arrangements with the village of Hensel- to establish a branch there. A. by-law is being submitted to the people of Hensall endorsing the agree- ment between the inenicipalitY and the company and if passed the comp-, any will begin operations there. It is found impossible to obtain sufficient - help in Clinton to enable ;this industry to develepe as fast there as it might do otherwise. —About one o'clock on Saturday af- ternoon the fire brigade was called out - for a fire at -Bill Garrett's house on the south boundary of Goderich. The roof Of the west wing of the house had, taken fire from the chimney. Bill was preparing his dinner, and while he was out of the house for a short time the blaze got under way, with the result that the roof on that part of the house wasbadly burned. Neighbors with, buckets probably saved the fire, from getting much greater headway and the brigade stretched a line of hose from - Mr. Nairn's corner and finished the job of extinguishing the fire. There was no insurance. Bill is having the roof repaired. —An Old and highly esteemed. resi- dent of Turnberry township, passed a- way on Monday morning, in the person of Mrs. Thomas Ball. Deceased- had reached the age of seventy-seven years and death was due to general debility after an illness of several months. She died on the farm where she came with her husband shortly after her marriage fifty-three years ago. She was a true wife, loving mother'a kind neighbor and during her life had been a very energetic and enthusiastic church worker -in Salem Methodist church with which fib.e was connected. A ihusband and a family of daughters and son survive. Interment was made in the Wroxeter cemetery Wednesday' afternoon. —Because the Change made by the Department of Education in the time of the midsummer examinations to be held this year Hon. Dr. H. J. Code issued a statement as to the dates the results Will be made known. He said that the public probably would not fully realize the fact that the change had been made and would make their summer plans in accordance with the dates the results were made known in former years. The dates alba e aminations were put off for alicitit two weeks in each ease this year because of the unavoidable Aliterruptions to school work last Year, 'chiefly froti influenza epidemic and there will he* corresponding delay itt announcingthe. resulta as corapared with preyious years. The dates of the exaininati eav: Junior high saltool ep. July 2nd; junior public school tion, June 30th: lower school, July 2n middle school, ;July Ilth; Pass nuttric- dation, July 2nd; upper schwa- and • liurtur matriculation). June 30th, 46 74.