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WHOLE NUMBER 2736 -
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY,
MAY 21; 1920.
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McLean », IE eblishers
$1.50 a Year hie Advance
Atthe present time our
Stock is so full of Men's,
Suits of every sort that
we have decided upon
making a Clearing,; S 1e.
Of all siijts we sh,, make
price reductio , e real in=
ducement toeuye>'. s.
- We d not propose to
mak any spectacular
st. > merits as to the Qual-
of the Clothing we sell.
The general public of 'this
community are already
acquainted with the ,su-
perior grade of our clothes
` and the splendid assort-
ment we carry. -
Sale Begins
riday1 .May
-21st
Greig Clothing Co
SEAFORTH
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Seasonable
Specialties.
The Big Hardware
Use Martin Senour
10Uper cent.
Pure Paint
Covers more surface; ` lasts longer
and can be appliedby anybody
Try Campbell s,Varnish Stains
and Neu -Tone flat finished paints
for interior decoratiofl.
Poultry Netting, Etc.
We carry a full line of garden tools
Our Prices are right
H. EDGE
THE BIG HARDWARE: SEAFORTH
THE' ORGAN
(By Newton MacTavish in the Can-
adian Magazine.)
Before the advent of the piano the
"organ" as an instrument of music
was esteemed for its cheapness, . its
durability and the fine religious flavor
of its tone. In some -places, even
outside churches, it has survived, and
on a Sunday afternoon, especially in
a quiet village, its soft intonations
still may be heard intermingledwith
the softer twittering of swallows or
the blatant winding of an automobile
horn.
There were no automobiles in the
heyday of the organ. The horse was
still revered . for his ancient virtues,
and to move from one place to another
at the great speed of ten miles .an
hour was a fine thing. to brag about
-a hightribute to the condition of
the roads and • the mettle of one's
steed.
Next to the fiddle, the organ, in
all our country places, was the mus-
ical instrument of most importance,
and although ,it- played second fiddle
to the fiddle at all gay celebrations.
it gave way to no instrument -as an
evidence of luxury and refinement,
as an ornamental piece of furniture,
or for the proper spiritual rendition
of Moody and Sankey hymns and the
long metre paraphrases intoned by
the followers of John Knox. Its case
was of walnet, a wood which abounded
in Western Ontario, and which after
long years of waiting is- at last
cherished for its quality as well as
its scarcity. Sometimes the case was
plain, sometimes set off with gewgaws
and• appendages decorated in black
and gold, and surmounted with iniita-
'tion pipes. The glass vases that re-
posed in upper -- niches shone with
,quicksilver brilliance and :displayed
semblances of flowers .in primary
colors painted by hand.
- In all things ethical the organ was
the .very antithesis of the fiddle. If
you were a Methodist, the fiddl/ was
the instrument of the devil, while the
organ was admitted into the church
and cherished in the home. If you
played the fiddle you might not enter
the Golden Gates. I remember well
the earnest- efforts of the schoolmas-
ter to obtain salvation. Revival
me
et-
ings were beingheld and many per-
sons,
.among them several who played
the organ,. -were received at the peni-
tent's bench. The schoolmaster, mov-
ed perhaps by the appeals of the
evangelist, or at least suffused with'
the spiritual effulgance of -the moment
confessed that he, was seeking salva-
tion and asked that the brethren pray
for him. But his experience was not
the common experience. I.le felt no
transporting `sensations. No load of
sin was lifted fron - ;his•"'baek. The
cause was clear --clear to everybody
but himself. He could appreciate the
merit of salvation but it was, hard
for him to believe that he could not
obtain, it so long as he clung tothe
violin. Perhaps he had the soul of
the artist; at least, he risked his own
soul rather than hang his beloved
instrument on the a peg forever. And
by . so doing he at once put himself
in the same class as the two Dunlops,
who fiddled at dances, and Yorkshire
John, who scraped away of a summer
evening, when the door could stand
open for the benefit of the neighbors.
For it was a certainty that the fiddle
gave lodgment to .the devil, and one
woman, visiting a nearby town, and
looking into a Window that gave a
display of violins, saidto her little
boy. who stood awed, beside her:
"There, Johnny, are a lot of devils.
"And what is that one?" asked
Johnny, pointing to a 'cello.
"That's the daddy devil."
I Then for a brief space Johnny re-
garded in silence a big bass viol.
"And what's that great big whop-
helength aske
asked.
at
Per,.
"That," said the woman with much
a perity, "is the grandaddy of them
all."
With the organ went. as a matter
of course the old-fashioned music
master, who was the organizer of
the singing circle . and, . newsmonger
of the neighborhood. He had long
thin legs, used hair oil, waxed his
moustache and affected some of the.
For he
the dandy. F
of
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Y
eccentricities
carried a 'golden -headed walking -stick,
wore prunella shoes, and in fashion
was fit company for the hoop skirt or
the .bustle. He could play "Ti=le
Battle of Waterloo" without the score,
dance the schottische, the polka and
the. Oxford minuet and sing with a
tremolo which he declared was an at-
tribute of all great tenors.
But it was the organ, not the organ-
ist, that first attracted our attention.
You could hear its low, slow droning
any Sunday afternoon, just at the
hour when everybody was rousing
from the customary snooze. It would
start with only the dulcet and piano
stops open, playing restful airs such
as -"There's a Land that is fairer than
Day," "In the Sweet By and Bye"
and "Rock of Ages." Then, with
more assurance the celeste and vox
humana stops would be opened, and
over the orchard and through the
poplars you could hear "One Sweetly
Solemn Thought" and "Oh, for a
Thousand Tongues to Sling.,' Gon-
vinced by now that everybody would
be up and about, the organ, strength-
ened first by the treble coupler, and
then by the bass coupler, would pour
forth the stirring notes of "Shall we
Gather at the River?" or the martial
measures of "Onward, Christian Sol:.
diers."
The first person to appear would
be Joe, the teamster. He always
smoked the very best five cent cigar
and put a dime on the plate every
Sunday. A clever fellow was Joe.
Although he made no profession of
•
religion, ,he was rated as hig- marks:
some that did. Inzthese days of pro- mawhy, look you now, how unworthy
hibition I may be permitted, as a
uction Sale
Registered Holstein
and Jersey Cattle
There will be sold by public auction on Lot 9, Conces-
sion 1, Tuckersrith, on the Huron Road, adjoining
the Town of Seaforth, on '
Thursday; May2lth
AT °NEI O'CLOCK P 141 HARP
35 Head of Regis red Holstein
Cattle - and R. stered Jerseys
INCLUDED IN TH N BER' BEING A COW WITH A 20
POUND SEVEN DAY I TTER RECORD, AND ALSO A 23
POUND AND 24- POUN 1 - COW AND A 161/2 POUND TWO YEAR
OLD HEIFER; ALSO A TWO YEAR OLD HEIFER WHOSE DAM
SOLD AT TORONTO FOR $900.00, AND HER SIRE IS A $3,000.00
BULL AND SHE IS BRED TO A $5,000.00 BULL. THE BALANCE
ARE ALL GOOD STRAIGHT YOUNG COWS AND WILL BE
FRESHENED BY TIME OF SALE.
TERMS -CASH, OR 6 MONTHS' CREDIT WITH 6 - PER CENT.
ADDED,- ON FURNISHING BANKABLE PAPER. -
Catalogues furnished on application.
T. MARRIOTT MOORE
& T. BROWN, Auctioneers..
2734-3 PROPRIETOR.
J. R Archibald
matter of history, to record that he
drank to excess on fair day and holi-
days and used, strong language when-
ever his load from the quarry stuck
in the mud. He was'noted for strength
of ` body as well, but was so slow in
action that whenever he got -into a
fight he was knockedout almost be-
fore he was aware 'the thing - had
started. In liquor meant for him in
fighting
mood too, and he always had
it in mind to whip the wagon -maker
-if he could only get him into his
clutches.
The 'vt-aoily` nakernis i eared
g � . y . app
about the time the "organ began to
play "Oh, for a Thousand Tongues."
He would sit on the verandah of his
shop's false front, with a clay pipe
unlit in his mouth, wondering what
in blazes things were coming to any-
way. He hadn't much use for relig-
ion; and it didn't even move him,ex-
cept in contempt, to see Deacon Sriiith
going to church and carrying on a
tray under a napkin the communion
bread and wine. He, sometimes won- •
dered about the possibility of the. °
devil lodging in the fiddle, and he
us-
ed -
e tatelltheblacksmith,whose shop .,
was on the other side of the road,
that as to sacred music and fast music
he didn't believe in leaving to Old
Nick all the •best tunes. .
The blacksmith was inclined to
sympathize with that view, because
i thefiddle his son played and d his ,
daughter vamped on the organ. In-
deed, his daughter was regarded 'as
the best vamper in those parts, and .
she could sing, as Joe used to ex-
press it, like a starling, if sufficiently -
urged, "The Walkerton Murder" or,
e a "The
•Yellow Rose of
bl
Trfarexas." But the blacksmith after all
had an open mind, induced no doubt
by his practice of parting his hair
all the way down at the back,. He
had been something of a gay dog, he I
was known to confess in confidence,
but hes t
inthe olddaysa
back 'ome,
in communion just as a matter o'
course. He knew, as everyltody knew,
that the -footnote forbade cards and
dancing; but he
knew alp that yo
un
g
folk must have .their fling. Dancing
was a pastime that people took ,,to
like a hot tire to the rim, anti., the ,
fiddle made the best dance music,
especially with good organ aecom
paniment-good vamping.
Many an argument he had with
Deacon Smith. The deacon• ran the `
grist mill. The mill grinding was
his music. And to his mind, the
church was the proper place for the
organ, : fire for the fiddle. But there
were other evils beside fiddling and
dancing, He knew well enough -'that
the wagon -maker used to steal his
cordwood, but he never could catch
a thing you make of nie! You would
play upon me; you would seem to
know my stops; you would pluck out
the heart of my mystery; you would
sound me from my lowest note to
the top of my -compass: there is much
music, excellent voice, . in this little
organ; yet you cannot make it speak."
I well remember -that some young
upstarts, the offscourings of a
per-
verse
versegeneration, r i ed the cry
that
an organ should be placed in the
Presbyterian church. In that sacred
edifice no profane music had ever been
tolerated, ,and therefore the proposed
innovation was regarded as a device
of the devil. The fathers, those dour
creatures who - revelled in the sober
things of life, who had been used to
the tuning fork and the human voice,
foresaw • a calamitous upheaval, the
supplanting of the paraphrase by the
evangelistic song, the suppression of
the - long metre Doxology and the ex-
pression of "Pull for the Shore." It
was a crisis. The minister, held back
by the strong ties of tradition and
urged forward by the spirit of the
time, was like the key log in a jam.
At heart he was with the fogies,
but he had seen enough of the world
to make him sympathetic with the
upstarts. Donald Maepherson, one of
the last of the hand -19m weavers
in this country, stood out strong for
the fork, and it was he who denounc-
ed the organ as "an abomindable kist
o' whustles." He himself had" been
precentor ever since the congregation
had first met in Sandy McLaughlin's
log -house, and it was hard therefore
for him- to pull away from simple
things, from unaffected worship. Let
the Methodists praise with itththe organ
'
if so they wished: the Lord knew the
contrite heart. Let them attract the
young to their services: the righteous`
should not perish.
It so -happened on one aceasion that.
an overcrowded meeting of the Farm-
ers' Institute, at which there was to
be light entertainment, including
music, caused some misguided person
to suggest that they move in a body
to the .church and carry the organ
with them. And they moved. But
Donald Macperson moved also. He
entered the Church just as the enter-
tainment was about to begin. He
walked up into the pulpit, thumping
his walking -stick heavily on the floor
with every - step, and forgetting to
remove his bonnet, an offence which
only the extreme gravity of -the oc-
casion could condone. He ordered
them all, together with their ungodly
paraphernalia, out from the synagogue
into the market -place. And they
went.
Donald was a good weaver, a good
him in the act. It was done, he -knew _
on black nights, in a thunder storm, ,,
or during other periods when honest
people are indoors.•
...-.••-mm••
Honesty used to be one of the chief `
virtues. Every community had its Dedication.and
honest John, and everboy was sup- '
posed to be honest, even if everybody-,
locked his doors at night and contriv- Unveiling of
ed to turn his back to you whenever
he `opened his wallet. And one 'might
suppose that the organ was pernZit-
ted in the churches, except in some
of the Presbyterian churches, because
it produced honest music blown
honestly through reeds, which is one
of nature's ways of making pleasing
sounds. The reed, indeed, is the poet's'
ideal instrument of music, and we.
know that the greatest of all our
poets has used it to denote genuine-
ness and to expose dishonesty. For
Hamlet, when he is parleying with
Guildenstern, who has confessed his
inability to play upon the pipe, re -
SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL TABLETS
will be held
ON SUNDAY, MAY 23rd, 1920
in
DUFF'S CHURCH, WALTON,
at 11 a.m.
KNOX CHURCH, MONCRIEP,
2.30 p.m.
_ Capt. (Rev.) George Little, B. A.,
of Guelph, will officiate.
Returned soldiers
cordially invited.
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citizen, but a /poor politician: he could
not divine the spirit of the time. But
when at length an organ was placed
in the church and the tuning fork.
put upon, the shelf, long after Donald's
loom had fallen a victim of the fac-
tory and the mill, Donald himself,
chastened perhaps by the frost of
years, and at least .resigned. to the
inevitable, would sit in his corner in
the new brick edifice, a seraphic look
upon his face, listening to his own
granddaughter playing, first, music their annual meeting and election of
suited to the psalms and, then, one officers on Wednesday last_ Reports
"o' they new -(angled tunes," He show a very successful year's work,
even liked the practice of chanting,receipts for the year being $94.71,
softly as the congregation took their expenditure $638,45, leaving a balance
places in the pews, with only the of $310.26 to begin the year's work.
dulcet and celedte stops free,.and then The officers elected for the conning
again, as they went out, with both year are as follows: President, Mrs.
treble and` bass couplers on and the R. Richmond; 1st Vice -President, Mrs,.
gloriana stop wide open. Poplestone; 2nd Vice -President, Mrs,
J. -McElroy; Secretary -Treasurer, Mrs.
R. Wightman; Asst. Secy.-Treas., Mrs.
Herrington; Pianist, Mrs. H. McElroy;
Dist, Director, Mrs, Poplestone; Re-
presentatives to District Meeting to
be held in Winghain in June, Mrs,
Steinhoff, Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Richmond,
Mrs. Carr.
KIPPEN
Just a word to the Farmer's
are nearing the time when the f
is seeing how ' much she can
her cows. Are you sati fieri y
an out of the milk t a
not it will pay you
that is second to none,
known there. - 'The bride was .attired
in a travelling suit of Pekin blue and
hat of georgette and straw and wore
a corsage bouquet of sweetheart
roses: The _ bride was mended by
Miss Evelyn Charrette, of Toronto,
the best man being Mr. Cecil Cooper,
brother of the bride. After the wed-
ding luncheon the young couple left
for a short trip and upon their retoLn
will reside in Toronto.
-The Blyth Women's Institute held
SAVE A MILLION TREES BY
SAVING OUR WASTE PAPER
Every ton of waste paper that can
be substituted in paper manufactu e
will save eight trees of mature growth
required to produce a ton of wood
pull), and we are sending annually to
the dump 150,000 tons of waste paper,
representing substituted pbwer for at
least 1,200,000 trees of mature growth,
says the waste reclamation service of
the Department of Commerce,.in fnrg-
ing a more extensive use, of waste
paper as raw material in paper manu-
facture.
The United' State's; with' its "30,000
or'more newspapers, is said to publish
nearly one-half the total 'number of
newspapers in the world, the aggre-
gate circulation for the United States
and Canada being 'given as B4,363,000
for dailies and 17,233,000 for Sunday
+apers in 1919. These figures indi-
cate the enormous quantity of news-
print paper required by the daily
press, exclusive of that used in other
branches of the publishing business.
This newsprint paper made up four-
fifths of the tottil . value of imported
paper and paper.manufactures. in the
country in 1919, says. the . division of
statistics, bureau of foreign, and do-
mestic commerce. Imports of news-
print paper in 1919 increased 5 per
cent. in quantity and twenty-five per
cent, in. value over 1918 i
mports and
1919' exports sh'owed� an increase of
fourteen per cent. Iii `quantity and 25
per cent, in 'value over these •of the
previous year. ' -Argentina 'was the
chief buyer frowns of both'riewsprint
and all other printing paper in 1919,
and Canada is the chief source of all
classes of pulp wodd and wood pulp
as well 4 as printing-; paper imported
into the United States. •
Some years ago the United States
produced , the entire , supply of wood
pulp- consumed, but the domestic ins-.
•dustry is no longer able to supply
raw materials.
In urging the salvage of waste
paper, the waste reclamation service
says that the largest tonnage of waste
paper consists of any and every sort
and scrap of paper, sueh as old news-
papers, and its chief use in for paper
boxes, roofing and building boards,
paper shipping containers and wrap-
ping paper. More than 2,000,000 tons
of ordinary waste papers are need for,
boxes and shipping containers alone,
the use of waste papers for
this
pur-
pose preventing' the consumption of
over 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber an- -
nuallly. To 'a limited extent, says
pulp and paper experts at the foreet
products laboratory at Madison, Wis.,
old newspapers are used in making
new print paper, but the resulting
it
:paper is weak and requires an addi-
tion of sulphite pulp to give the finish-
ed product the requisite strength. Re -
pulped old news stock cannot be so
readily rung through the paper ma-
chines, but its use in the manufacture
of boxes, wrapping paper,. tc
a � e is
.
thoroughly practicable and satis�fac-
ory, A great variety of old paper
s used by the paper industry, rang-
ing from the best qualities of old book
paper, for which $6 a 100 pounds mill
price is quoted, to waste common
papers at 90 cents to
�
.
HURON NOTES
-At a
meeting of
the Clinton
Model School Board last week it was
decided to grant an increase of $150
in the salaries. of all the teachers
under theprincipal.
ha
also been
n
decided to make this a seven -roomed
I school, except during the model term.
The Government grant to the board
i this year will be $1,200. Heretofore
$ the grant has been $1,000. Work,will
• be commenced almost immediately, as
', much ,can be done toward the repairs
I even before scheol closes,
-The W inghani Advance of last
week says: Three dogs were dis-
covered attacking two calves belong-
ing to Mr. eorge n ey one ay
recently and Provincial Officer 'Phip-
pen was at once notified. and hurried
to the pasture with his gnu. Before
he arrived the calves were, badly
worried and torn and were sta
in the river where they had run for
safety. On Sunday the dogs were
again at their favorite sport and did
considerable damage to Mr. Benson
Cruikshanks' cattle and to Mr. T. T.
Fields' cattle. A couple of cattle ran
madly into a barn and one broke her
horns off when she hit the building.
Cattle are too costly and needful to
have them thus abused by worthless
dogs, and dogs once found worrying
cattle or sheep should be shot with-
out being given a second chance.
-The marriage took place in Os-
sington Ave., Methodist church, To-
ronto, on Thursday . last at twelve
o'clock, Rev. W. E. Baker officiating,
and friends of Miss Maida Cooper, eldest dangle
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Cooper,
of Clinton, to Mr. Percy Hitchen, a
.former member of the 1,6ist Battalion
and aiso a former resident -and well
.e. -We
ex.'s wife
aCe out of
are getting: -
be got. If
y The , machine
De Laval, X will
be glad to show you 5 any time. A full
line of the best separator oil, brushes, etas,
on hand. W. L. Mellis, Kippen. 27544
Notes, -Mrs. Peter Bowey, of our
village, spent a' few ° days with her
daughters, Mrs. Joh. Granger and
Mrs. Drew Swan, of Bruceleld dur-
ing the latter part of the week. -Mr.
William Doig, Sr., of Port Huron,
visited at - his home here the latter
part of the week. -Mr. Cecil Johns-
ton, who is attending the Medical
School at Toronto, visited his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnston-
of our village, during the latter pari
of the week. As Mr. Johnston is
through with the school for some
time he intends to spend' the sum-
mer in the West, Mr. William Ivi-
son, of our. village, who believes in
keeping -things neat and tidy, has
improved the looks of his dwelling
by putting up a fine new verandah
to his house and -a fine fence along
the - front, whiei- add greatly to the
appearance of the place. -Mn. James
Jarrott, who has been, attending the
Medical University at London, is now
home for vacation, but intends to
go to the city_ for the summer
months. ---Miss Margaret McLean, of
our village, attended the women'u
meeting in Exeter during the latter -
part of the week, as a delegate
from St, Andrew's Sunday School -.
Mother's Day service was held in St.
Andrew's church on Sunday, when the
Rev. Dr. Aitken gave a splendid dis-
course to the mothers. The choir
gave special .music which added much
to make the whole service a, great
success. Also the beautiful solo sung -
by Mrs. James B. McLean had a
great impression on all. These ser-
vices
ervices which take place annually are;
looked forward to from time to time
with greater interest, and it .is to be
hoped will prove more benefieiaT each
year. -What might of proved a very
serious motor accident befell the two
sons of Mr; WesleyHarvey, on
Fri-
day evening as they were going home
from our village. When almost op-
posite Mr. Alex. Moritieth's place,
something went -wrong with the steer-
ing gear of their car, which they
were driving, causing the cat to.
taket theditch andr
t turn upside
o
down. One of the boys was throve,
clear of the ear while the smaller
bay was pinned beneath it. Some
of the neighbors witnessed the asci -
dent and hurried to the scene as
quickly as possible and succeeded in
raisi thecar h
ing, a off -the boy. When
picked up he was found to be some-
what bruised, and Dr. Peck, of Hen-
sel], was called, and on examining,
him found that no bones *ere broker
and he was removed ` to' his, home,
where he is doing nicely. The car
was somewhat broken but can be re-
placed easier than the loss of life.
could. -Mr. Jas: W. McLean, of the -
second of Tuckersmith, intends re-
modelling
his barn this season. Hti
is now busymakingready. Mr,
.
John
Doig, who is always noted
for mak-
ing an Al job, has the carpenter
-
work; We are sores to yet. `t:
Miss Margaret' Watson, of our
lage, 1las not been enjoying bei
good health the last few days,° but
we hope she May soon recover,•
Our village people are all busy these
days in the garden 'and are putting
forth every effort to help ;production,.
Rev. Mr. MeKibbon, of Weodham,,
will conduct the service :its the Meth-
odist- church on Sundt
As Mr. McKibben i,
the Kippen people, t3
doubt,but what a large.
will be present. -Mr. Geor#
and family, who have lived on w
was known as the Graham fa
south of our village, are now moving.
to their new home, which they pure
cliesed near Clinton, As Mr 01..
land and fancily have proven them-
selves to be of the very finest type.
of citizens, the people of Kippen and
vicinity feel sorry to lose thein, but
we hope what may be Kippen'e lose
will be Clinton,'- gain, -and that health
and prosperity will fellow thein to,
their new home. -The nice warm
showers of the past few days are
doing much to help the grass and
spring grainer--Qiute a number of the -
young people attended the musical
concert which was given in the tow
hall, Heusall, on. Tuesday eyoping of°
this week. -Mr. Jo.: Word
piement agent of our -villas
busy manthese day eupplyl
farmers with the
which they need
make work lightel