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THE HURON EXPOSITOR whi6h, the Afghans were superior to
the British, there conld be only one
end to the war. The end was not far
off.
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TREMENDOUS BOOM IN,
OIL SPECULATION
Not since the early days of Cobalt
and Porcupine, perhaps not, indeed,
since the Yukon boom of a generation
ago, has there been such an .orgy of
mining speculation ht New York as
there is now with oil as the um-
dium, with a gusher as the pea be- .
neath the shells. Tremendous for-
tunes are said • to be made and lost
almost over night and undoubtedly
SE-AFORTH, Friday, June 13, 1919.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
THE AFGIANS,?
Another of those well known "lit-
tle wars" of Britain, which are res-
ponsible for the fact that the Empite
always has more soldiers in her army
and on her retired. list who have seen
active service than any other nation
in the world, has ended. The Ameer
of Afghanistan has asked for an arm•
-
istice, and we all know what an the general public is "playmg" the
oil , fields as it never played any of
We have a limited amountlo offer a
"armistice is. If this Afghans don't
'know, the Germans can tell them. i the standard industrial stocks. One
a very special price for SPOT CASH.
The stock is here ready for the first
customers. Look at these values :---
Gilt Edge Twine
650 ft. to lb.cash
Gold Leaf Twine
600 ft to ib. cash
Screen doors $2 to $4.25
40 to 75c
Lawn mowers $9 to $12
Axle grease, 3 lb. can 35c
Washing machines to $55
Screen windows
Garden cultivators with wheels $5.50
Hand cultivators $1 .25
Garden rakes 70 to 90c
Lawn rakes, wire 75 to 85c
Tool grinders $4.25 to $7
A. Sills, %Seafort
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL "CASCARETS" WORK
FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. wintix YOU SLEEP
HEAD OFFICE--S.A.FORTH, ONT. For Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
:rake Cascarets tonight.. ber. But it appears that the Ameer demand for gasoline, for the oil
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What is not generally understood is
thatis the shares are as a
the reason for the unprovoked in -
rule in small denominations, a dol-
-
lar being par for most of them, so.
vasion of Inslia by the, Afghans,
of war upon Brie 1 that the man With only a few dol- !
their declaration lars or a few hundred doThare cantain at a time when Britwas 1 ain '
become the owner of a. considerable
readier for war than ever he was
Aft ! block of stock. When the market is
before in her history, when the
, active there is a special appeal to
ghans had not .one chance in a mil -
the speculativeinstinct, or maybe
lion of accomplishing any object ;
but killing a few soldiers or mur- ; one should say, when there is spe-
I coal stimulation - of the speculative
-dering a few settlers, and perhaps
, inetinct the market is active. At any
paying the price of their indepen-
dence for the exercise. Ignorance is ' rate, people who know nothing
about stock often have the impulse
the explanation. The Ameer of I
Afghanistan thought that Britain to go in and get their- feet wet when
they hear and see so many other people
was war Weary, that she had no ,
heavydoing it. That is what is happening
guns in India, and that if he
not only in New York, but in most
made a successful sortie the Indian
cities of Canada and the 'United States
populatiou would riee tin rebellion. at present, and oil is the medium.
Maybe some Bolshevist or German It is rather a new experience for
agent told him; maybe he saw it in oil to attract the attention. of Wall
a vision, for the Amer is subject to
dreams. I Street. Standard Oil had no need
for Wall Street. It did not re -
The story of the antecedents of quire new capital, having plenty of
the rising is told by llilr. J. W. Mc- • reserves. It was not a favorite
Laughlin, of the Joust Engineering speculative stock, but was held as a
Company, who has been in Jelala-
rule among the comparatively small
bad for a year superintending an group of insiders headed . by John
installation. He reached, Bombay
D. Rockfeller. It was supposed
last Friday, and was interviewed by 4 for a long time, in fact it grew to
the correspondent of the New York be a tradition, that Standard Oil
Time4 The trouble began with the
staunch loyalty of the late Ameer to controlled all the oil wells that were
valuable. When the owner of a
Great -Britain. He resisted all ef- new well came to Wall Street he
forts of the war party, who desfre3 found himself confronted by the
that advantage should , be taken of -prejudice that if his well amounted
the European war for an invasion of •
emained firm -to anything Standard 011 would have
India. Habibullah r
bought it, or would probably fight
however, and so . a plat was laid to the new ownerehip, if the new dis-
assassinate him. The leaders in the covery promised riches. In other
conspiracy were Aminullbah, the words, riches made from oil seem -
present Ameer, and eecond s ni of led preordained or earmarked for
the ' murdeded king, hie uncle, Nes- Standard Oil. Later on when the
rullah Khan, the eommander-in- United States Ceovernmeiat got after
chief of the army, and, a number of the Trust and broke it up, and after
high officers, belonging to the power- the dissolution, the, smaller owners.
ful Shaibar family ef which- the of oil properties had a better show,
commander-in-chief also is a Mems but it was only of the tremendous
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OFFICERS.
Sluggish Liver and Bowels -
had got wincl of the plot and was that -Was for long. regarded as a by
able to take care of himself for product, and the development of
some time, or until those too cloee the internal combustion engine that
to him were seduced. It is said cleared the way or greased the skids
that he had promised three officers for• a great oil boom. •
of his bodyguard that each should Lately new fieldhave been- dis-
have for a wife one of his daughters.. covered in North 'Central Texas,
but he kept postponing the happy Oklahoma, Kentucky and Wyom-
day, and so the plotters, realizing el& and it is in these states that
that they were suspected, made haste most of the properties are 'located,
to carry out the aseassination.
Nasrullah immediatehe proclaim- boom. -
which are the subject, of the great
Some of them are very
ed himself regent, and the eldest rich. Indeed in the Ranger and
son of the murdered Ameer, Naidul- Burkburnett fields, there , has been
lah, had to acquiesce, for he was . discovered a quantity of oil such as
surrounded by enemies, and if he never before has been tapped in the
had protested would have met his United States. - _ Altogether it is es -
father's fate. The body of the late timated that more than 5,000 new:
Ameer was then buried by the plot- companies have been formed since
ters on a waste piece of ground in the beginning of the year, with a
Jelalabad, trodden on by every pass- total capitalization of more than.
ing coolie, and grazed over by $1,500,000,000. According to the New
wandering cattle. The eldest son York Times the earlier wells in the
1. Connolly, Goderich, President
hs. Evans, Beechwood, Vice -Presided •
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AGENTS tion, Sallow Skin and Mise le Read -
.lex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed. aches come from a torpiliuvrtom-
Brucefield,
Seaforth; John Murray, clogged bowels, Fhich cau
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phone 6 on 137, Seaforth; ach to become ',filled wi t, undigested
Je W. Yeo, Goderich; R. G. Jar- food, which sour4 and fereats. like gar -
ninth., Brodhagen.
bage in Ni, swill birrel. hat's the that
DIRECTORS step to untold mi'er ndigestion, foul
gases, bad breathe ye w skin, mental
William Rinn, No. 2, Seaforth; Jan
Bannewies, Brodhagen; James Evans, fears,, everything Atha is horrible mad
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Xeechwood; M. MeEwen Clinton; •Jas. nauseating. A 'C)4 ret to -night will
onnolly, Goderich; D. F. McGregor
e your constipateld bowels a thorough.
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R. It. No. 3, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, actarnnsiningg. aTty
sty wrao 11 Iwtenbileyoyllou out
tep-
George McCartney, No. 3, Seaforth.
by
No. 4 Walton; Robert Ferris, Hariock;
ra 10 -cent 'box from your drugglit ;will
keep you, feeling good: for mouths.
G. T. R. TIME TABLE
Trains Leave Seaforth as follows:
10.55 a. in. - For Clinton, Goderich,
Wingham and Kincardine. -
-For Clinton, Wingham
and Kincardine.
11.08 p. m. For Clinton, Goderich.
6.36 a. in. -For Stratford, Guelph,
Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and
points west, Belleville and Peter-
boro and points east.
1.16 pan. - For Stratford, Toronto,
Montreal and points east.
LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE
Going South 11 -nn. p.m.
Ingham, depart .... 6.35 3.20
Ealgrave . . ... 6.50 3.36
Ilyth 7.04 8.48
Londeaboro 7.13 8.56
Clinton, 7.33 4.15
Brucefield 8.08 4.3.3
Kippen 8.16 4A1
Rensall 8.25 . 4.48
Exeter 8.40 5.01
Centralia 8.57 5.18
London, arrive 10.05 6.15
Going North a.m. p.m.
X.Rondon, depart 8.30 4.40
Centralia . 9 35 5.45
Exeter 9.47 5.5'i
Hensall 9.59 6.09
Eippen 10.06 6.16
Erucefield 10.14 6.24
Clinton 10.30 6.40
Londesboro 11.28 6.57
Myth ....... 11.37 7.05
Belgrave 11.50 7.18
Wingham, arrive 12.05 7.40.
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
GUELPH & GODERICH BRANCH.
TO TRORONTO
a.m. p.m.
Goderich, leave 6 20 1.30
Myth 6 58 2.07
Walton 7 12 2.20
Guelph 9 48 4.53
FROM TORONTO
Toronto,- leave 8 10 5.10
Guelph, arrive 9 30 6.30
Walton 12.03 9.04
Blyth 12.16 9.18
Auburn 12.28 9.30
Goderich 12.5 9.55
Connections at Guelph Junction with
Main Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon- i
don, Detroit, and Chicago, and all in-
termediate points.
GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN
WITH LEMON JUICE
Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to
remove tan, freckles, sallowness.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
you with three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of
two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put
in the orchard white and shake well.
This makes a quarter pint of the very
best lemon skin whitener and complexion
beautifier known. Massage this fra-
grant, creamy lotion daily into the face,
neck, arms and hands and just see how
freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and
roughness disappear and how smooth,
soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes!
It is harmless, and the beautiful results
will surprise you.
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF,
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Save your Hairl Get a sm/ll bottle
of Danderine right now -Also
stops itching scalp'.
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Thin, brittle, colorless and ii;craggy
hair as mute evidence of a neglected.
scalp; of dpadruff-that wful scurf.
Where is inothing so destriktive to
the hair as 3.andruff. t robs the hair
of its lustre' its stren h and its very
life; eventu4fly pied eing a feverish-
ness and itcaiing of t1escalp, which if
not remediedloauses /the hair roots to
shrink, loosand Ale --then the hair
falls out heti A irlittle Danderine
night-now-4y One --will surely save
your hair. \
Get a .smallAOttle of 'Knowlton's
Dianclerine from any drug store. You
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
of it if you will just try a little Dan-.
derine. Save your hair! Try, it!
Chiidren:Ory
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The Double Track
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MONTREAL, TORONTO,
DETROIT & CHICAGO
Unexcelled Dining Car Service.
Stratford, Ont.
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protester and as a slight concession
the body was exhumed and buried
on the golf course. Now, the
Ameer had been very fend of golf,
• but the garde was (ism:fed by his
entourage, whom he had insisted
should also play, or if not plays act
as caddies, and perhaps their idea take out of it the less there is left
was that if the Ameer was buried to be taken out. Nevertheless, this
there no Afehan would freciuent consideration will not deter specu-
the course. Then Aminullah, the
second son, called the nobles on the
Kingdom to Khabul, officially in-
formed them of their father's death,
and announced that his uncle, Nas-
rullah must • henceforth be recog-
nized as Ameer. •
But the nobles appear not to have
been in the plot. They asked ques-
tions about the assassination. They
demanded to know if Nasrullah or
Naidullah had' made any efforts to
discover the murders. The se-
cond son admitted that they bad
not. The nobles then suggested
that they were cowards and neither
of them fit for the Ameership.
"What's the matter with making
Aminullah Ameer?" demanded one
noble with a long white beard. "It
looks good to me," responded as -
other venerable chieftain and being
put to a vote it was decided that
Aminullah, instead of being a mere
second son, should be a regular
Ameer. Immediately preparations
for a hostile demonstration against
India were made, for it appears that
most of the Afghan leaders of what-
ever faction, were keen fora fight
with the British. But in ,the mean-
time the soldiers in the Jalablbad
garrison, who had always loved the
murdered Ameer earne to the con-
clusion that hie death had not been
properly investigated or avenged,
and they set up a court of their own.
They arrested the commander-in-
chief of the army and all his family,
which is one of the most powerful in
Afghanistan, and seemed on the
point of executing them when the
Ameer intemned.
He told the soldiers that he ad-
mired their zeal, but that the con-
demned men should be heeded over
to him.' They agreed, but when
they reached the Ameer, he set them
free and treated them as heroes. In
deference to the soldiers, however,
a scapegoat had to be found and he
was discovered as the colonel of the
late Ameer's guards, a man of no
particular family or influence. There
was no evidence against him except
what the Ameer found in a dream, I
but the colonel was nevertheless
executed. This healed the nnfort-
unate schism in the army, and the
movement against India was hurried
forwardo ff'he ieornmande4-in-chief.
was reinstated, and by virtue- of hie
superior intelligence or villainy be-
came the practical ruler of the
wintry. Mr. McLaughlin, who was
hexing. considerable difficulty in
leaving the country, was able to
have a chat with the dommander-
in-chief, whom he warned against
the suicidal folly of provoking Great
Britain. The Afghan leader,. how-
ever, showed hiMself completely
misinformed of big guns, armored
cars, airplanes, and machine guns,
Ranger field are already beginninss
to slow up. The McCleskey, which
was the first well brought in, from
a daily production of 1200sbarrels
has declined to twelve barrels. An
oil well is like a mine, its production
is not unlimited, and the more you
lators who can recall many mines
from which tens of millions of dol-
lars in ore have been taken out, and
whiCh contain tens of millions more
to be removed,
But there is, an element of ex-
citement in oil speculation that, is not
present in other mining ventures,.
Even in a rich mine fortune are
hardly to be made overnight. When
a vein is struck it takes certain time
to explore it and estimate the size
of the body of ore. It is not so with
mining. Whea a well is struck the
oil rushes to the surface like water
from a fire hose and reveals itself
instantly. Similarly when a flow-
ing well suddenly stops those who
hold stock in it can go out and
measure themselves for crape. For
speculators who desire quick action,
either oil or Crown and Anchor can
be heartily recommended. Haw un-
certain the game is may be illustrat-
ed by the Ranger field. One cps-
pany bought in a 10,000 barrel
gushed on the edge of its plot, the
custom being to always drill first
on the edge of the plot. The next
move is for the owner of the adja-
cent property to sink a well in order
that the first well may not draM a-
way all the oil that lies under adjacent
claims.•
So the owners of'the neighboring'
field bored and bored and after they
gave up drilling all they had to shins
was a dry hole. The wells were a
vert short distance apart, but one
was a fortune maker, the other was
a fortune breaker. The average
cost of an oil well is $40,000, so it
will be seen that unless considerable
capital is available a few mistaken
borings might prove ruinous. When
the Pennsylvania fields were discov-
ered there were many pioneers, but
the number of wells that survive are
small in comparison. The Standard
Oil Company says that four-fifths of
the wells in the country, numbering
in all some 225,000, produce less
than a quarter of a barrel of oil a
day, the lowest production being in
the oldest fields. The moral from
this, drawn by the Times, is that in
order to be successful an oil company
must continue to develop new territory
because if its acreage is small its life
cannot be long.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
The silk filatures in China occupy
thousands of women.
Over 1,500,000 women in England
replaced men in various positions
during the war.
In July, 1918, there were in Eng-
land,
Scotland and Wales over 113,-
000 women employed in agricultural
work.
Over 47 per cent. of the women in
England, who were employed in pre-
war occupations, were absorbed by
Best Goods
Self Service
Lowes
somMINIMIle
Prices
iGold - per bar 8c
'Comfort per bar 8c
Surprise per bar 8c
Lifebuoy per bar 8c
Sunlight per bar 8c
Lennox per bar 7c
Castile per bar 5c
Old Dutch Cleanser -
Handy Ammonia -
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Gold Dust -
pkg. 11c
pkg. 9c
pkg. 12c
pkgs. 25c
Toilet Paper cr,
Special per roll. la iho
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85c, 95c, $1, $1.10
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war activities.
The first woman ledge appointed by
the soviet govemmeutrecently pre-
sided on the bench with a tailor and a
carpenter as her colleagues. She was
formerly a milliner's assistant.
During the last year salaries of
school teachers in Pennsylvania have
increased- 29 per cent.
The next biennial of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, to be
held in 1920, will be the fourteenth.
The first woman in Brooklyn to be-
come an American citizen under the
special act of the navy passed. by con-
gress on May 9th, 1918, is Mise Eliza-
beth N. Megnin,es French girl.
The seventh biennial convention of
the Women's Trade Union league will
be held' in Philadelphia during the
first week in June.
The men in Texas, on May 24th'
voted on a proposed amendment to
the state constitution to allow women
full suffrage in the Lone Star state.
Mrs. Laura Maggini, a pioneer resi-
dent of San Francisco, who died re-
cently at the age of 85 years, had for
21 years following aroperation, lived
without a stomach.
Thirty cents an hour for night work
and 26 cents a hour for day work is
the minimum pay for women engaged
in cleaning private offices in Beston.
Motorboats. equipped with- mowing
papyrus for manufacture into paper
pulp by a plant in Zululand.
By the use of a new motor driven
machine old concrete sidewalks and
roadways can be crushed so the mater-
rial can be used in new ones.
Using only bamboo, Dutch engineers
have built a bridge in Java more than
100 feet long and with a central span
of more than 60 feet.
Eaiily adjusted redulcing 'valvee
have been invented to permit high
pressure fire hydrants .to be used for
streams of ordinary pressure.
A patent has been granted the Span-
ish inventor of a process for utilizing
banana fiber instead Of hemp and jute
in textiles and cordage.
A crib fer babies has been invented
that folds so compactly that it can be
carried about and used. by tourists in
an automobile or hotel room.
English scientists have decided that
passing electricity through freshly cut
timber makes it more resistant again-
st decay and fungous growths.
On the principle of the old fashion-
ed bullet' mold is a mold for recasting
on an iron handle the head of a lead
hammer that has been battered.
Practically all the • equipment for
wireless stations that are to be erect-'
ed in remote parts of China will be
carried to the sites by aeroplanes.
A recently designed motor scraper
to build roads or clear them of snow
has two small scrapers in front of the
fore wheels to give them good trac-
tion.
A dive to a depthof 262 feet in the
sea by a Greek sponge fisherman is
believed to be the world's record for
a man -unprotected by diving appals,-
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