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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-11-18, Page 10 :IITY-FIFTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2814}, PRICES CUT Deeper and Deeper. The Big Price Smashing Sale is going along ati a great pace. Ouatomere realizing that we are back to old-time pricep, are buying ties winter necessities in wearing apparel. IT DOESN'T TAKE HALF THE CASH TO MAKE PURCHASES GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR CHRISTMAS BUYING FOR THE REMAINING DAYS OF THE SALE Here are some Uplifters: FOR MEN: Overcoats . .., $15.00, $20.00, $25.00 Suits $16.00 to $20.00 Pants $2.28 to $3.98 Raincoats $5.98 to $7.50 Mackinaws $7.50 to $9.50 Cape 75 cents to $1.38 Overalls, black and blue $1.38 Sox, Wool 24c Coat Sweaters ;2.68 FOR BOYS: Overcoats $6.98 to $12.60 Suits $5.78 to $10.98 Knickers 69 cents to $1.68 Raincoats $3.50 to $4.98 Mitts 39 cents 'to 98 cents Caps 68 cents to $1.28 Wool Stockings, heavy worsted 69e Coat Sweaters $1.78 Pullovers ... $1.25 to $2.18• Underwear .. 59 cents FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: Coats for Small Girls $6,89 Coats for Misses $11.98 Coats for Grown Ups $17.98 Coats for Women, Tweed and blanket cloth $18.98 Coats for Women, finest Velour and Duveteen $26.50 Fur Trimmed and Plush Coat $23.00 to $35.00 Frr Muffs ;6.00 to *15.00 Fur Stalel $3.6o to $16.00 Th'i Groat Sale should be patronized by every Man, Every Wo- man, Every Boy amd Girl, who need Clothes and who are looking for the goods at lowest cash saving prices. The Greig g. Cl©thinC o 11EXT TO ABERIIART'S DRUG STORE West Side Main Street Dominion Stores, Limited Chain Grocery Stores of Canada Seaforth Give us your Grocery Order this week and be convinced that we sell for Leas. We deliver Orders Saturdays over $2.00. Comfort Soap, 10 fears Rolled Oats, 8 lbs. Special Blend Tea, lb Sliced Bacon 33c No. 3 Pure Lard 61c No. 3 Shortening 47c Fry's or Baker's Cocoa ' 24e Strawberry or Raspberry Pure Jams, 4 lb. pail 69c Corn, 2 tins 25c Cheese, lb. 20e Lemon Biscuits 17c 100 lbs. Sugar $8:00 13 lbs. Sugar $1.04 Rolled Wheat, 2 1'bs 15c Bulk Dates, 2 lbs. 25c Good Prunes, .2 lbs. 30c Ammonia, 3 pkgs. 23e Icing Sugar, 2 Ib s. 23c Choice Lemons, dozen 35c Dominion Stores, 69e Cottage Rolls, tb 26c 23c Picnic Hams, T. 20c 33c Recleaned Currants, lb. 19c Brooms 45c Soda Biscuits, lb. 18e Seeded Raisins, pkg. 25c Good Salmon, 2 tins 20c Tiger Red Salmon, 1 Ib. tin..,30e Cooking Onions, 3 lbs 23c Matches, 2 boxes 25e Creamery Butter, lb 43c Peanut Butter, 1b 20c 24 lbs. Best Pastry flour 90c Bulk Lard, 2 ]hs 35c Aylmer Pork and Beans, tin 14c Eno's Fruit Salts, reg. $1 89e Peaelene, package 8c Old Dutch Oleanser, 2 tins ....22c Washing Soda, package 10c Cider or White Vinegar, gal3.5c Corn Meal, 5 the 25c Limited, Seaforth PROTECTION VERSUS FREEER TRADE Right. Hon. Arthur Meighen and his supporters are trying -to snatch another victory at the polls by be- guiling the electors of this country to cast their votes again, under a,false impression of the real issue. It Is an old-time trick, an heirloom hand- ed down from bygone leaders and cir- cus managers, but whieh ought. to be • tabooed by every honest statesman, who has the good of his country at heart, as it is more likely to deceive .Ms own followers than his opponents. Sir Wilfrid Laurier did not advo- cate "Freer Trade" for Canada, yet the Protectionists have time and a- gain tried to make it appear, that if the Liberals were returned to power such a policy would be introduced and the whole country would go to the "bow -wows." But however in 1898 the people de- cided to take their chances in the kennels rather titan be strangled by the sharks, which had by that time become so numerous in all Canadian commercial streams, owing to tate pro- tection of these man-eaters during tke previous elgkteen yearn, sidle other species of 'good fish were gradtrali' ilminis9tin being either sitter►, up or driven by hunger ! rondo *F fon Me& No wonder the people were longing for an open season, which was at last realized by the returning of Sir Wil- frid and his able lieutenants to take possession of, and man the ship of state, which they at erne proceeded to do, and sailed her 'during the next fifteen year's through sech,'peaceful waters of prosperity .as Canada has never experienced, before or since, not as a free trader, but as a protector of all good citizens. Her officers. pulled the teeth of tate sharks, so that one class could not become the prey of another, and so revised the tariff in the light of the fact that all had an equal right to a fair show in their pursuit of that prosperity and happi- ness whichis theirs by right, and immediately so followed the first voyage' under the new command. The Captain, not only a skilful mar- iner, was also a statesman with a wonderful outlook, and, -when in 1911 he had a vision with en opportunity for the expansion of the trade of bis country, he flret determined to ask permidaion . of the people, to go on this voystge of discovery. gut the owners of the ship were thrown 'trite a panic, alarming reportslepreed tient Ontario, the/E . -tlhe see of Meipprocity in mfteral pred%let*,' for Width= peed to ,rtaiil, Wes.** f 11B of Make and deingerdue eerretret,''Stat, were 'be even able to steep* Alp - • SEAFORT$, F*IDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1921. meek on the former, the latter' were certain to divert the ship's course and eventually lead her into the hands of the enemy. This cry answered very well for the big interests of this Province, but did not satisfy them for Quebec. They sent their biggest guns down there, with very different ammunition, real H. E. stuff. There Sir Wilfrid and his crew were re- ported to be altogether too loyal, and were really intending to head the ship direct for British waters, painting in the most gruesome colors, the hor- rible results of retaining him in com- mand, -such as the mangled and dis- emboweled 'bodies of Quebec's sons lying on the decks of British battle ahipa. Where was their Canadian patriotism then? Never were such disloyal speeches uttered by any pol- itical .party in Canada. No wonder the chickens of that disgraceful cam- , paign are still coming home to roost. Why, thoae "super loyalists, even al- lied themselves with Bourassa and gave him a temporary appointment on their prospective crew, (it was only temporary), but they accom- plished, for the time, the object for -which they were launched, the defeat of the great Canadian statesman, the memory of whom every Province in the Dominion with the whole British Empire delights to honor. However, the majority must rule and he, at once, with that grace which char- acterized his every act, resigned the ship, to a new captain and a new crew, under whom rudderless, ap- parently, she has sailed a zig zag course for some nine years„ subject to every wind that blows, but get- ting nowhere. During the second year of the war the Borden ministers spurned the sug- gestion of taking Sir Wilfrid and other strong men in, and forming a union cabinet for the prosecution of the war, saying "they had better ma- terial in their own party." But the growing- impotence of Sir Robert's Government, had, by the end of 1917, reaehed such a stage that, defeat ap- peared inevitable. They then accept- ed the only alternative, reconstructed the cabinet, taking in some half dozen Liberals, and- forming a Union Gov- ernment, under Sir Robert Borden, as Premier, appealed to the country an "win the war" cry and were of course.,austained. But they were r.evee% happy family and shortly af- ter the armistice, decaydence set in, all 41e men, who had retained Lib- eral'geas and self respect, gradually 'dropped out, till Sir Robert himself, sick: -and disgusted at last, banded over the reins of power to the Hon. Arthur Meighen, who, with the wabbb- mg Liberals and faithful Conserva- tives, without appealing to the coun- try for a mandate, which would have been the honorable and proper course, yielding either to outside pressure from the big interests, the salary at- tached, or both, held on to office till the people have become so disgusted by their autocratic and blundering course, that even cone life-long Con- servatives, who placed the interest of the many above that of the big fish, havecometo the conclusion that it is time for another open season and another carefully performed den- tal operation by the same skilful sur- geon (it's not dangerous). I believe the Hon. Arthur Meighen sees it coming, as in fear and trembling he dissolves the House. The vacancies in the Senate and even prospective ones are vacated, and all filled up with former ministers, and even worse partisans; all seeking cover from the storm, when with another change of bait to Quebec he at last appeals to the country, launching the old fabrication, "that free trade will bring ruin to the country," and trust- ing to his big friends to help him fool the electors once more. But "free trade" is not the policy of Hon. Mackenzie King, on whom the mantle of Sir Wilfrid was cast, not by a moribund cabinet, but by the choice of a properly constituted as- sembly of representative Liberals. Nor, is it the policy of Hon. W. S. Fielding, his first lieutenant, the man who so tuccessfully for Canada, re- vised the tariff of 1896, nor is it that nf,Hon, Sir Lomer Grain or the Hon. Wm. Pugsley. All stand four-square for a tariff that will provide a rev- enue for the country, at the same time protecting the interests of the masses of the people, the policy of their late distinguished 'leader "free- er trade," that brought such prosper- ity during the period 1896 to 1911 and these, of 'a]1 men, are the fittest to again put such in force. Don't cast your vote for a lawyer heenuse he is a lawyer and able to talk, nor foe a farmer because he is a farmer, but"vete for the candidate of integrity and broad vision. who has sufficient ability to express his ideas, and intelligence enough to support only such measures as are in the best interests of this fair Canada of ours and the Empire of which we form a part. ALEX. WILSON. MR. T. A. CRERAR By Sorutator in MacLean's. A plain unvarnished man, large of frame and soft of voice, hesitating in opinion, honest and, unimaginative, loyal in friendship, fond of fun and devilment, but with a deep religious strain -such la Mr. T. A. Crerar, who guides the Agrarian storm. It is these homely' qualities that make Mr. °rarer eo pleasant a figure to dwell upon. Inpoliticg, as in other spheres oltaracter. is of more sone= quanta than intslieet. And it is, an - happily, more rsre. It- le certainly rat'senema* beet.bee. It is the a taitlilai : often the intriguing that uses !Miele panics es irt - Christmas Cards. WE ha'c an assortment of the most at - TV a n d Prettiest Christmas Cards that you have ever had the chance of buying. I;et them -now, have your name printed In thecal, without extra cost, put them in tbe envelopes that go with them, address thorn and then they are all ready to mail a week or a day before Christmas. - No otherremembrance is more acceptable and no other of like value can be purchas- ed at so little cost. See the samples at The Huron' Expositor Office SEAFORTH struments of personal advancement, that directs its course, nut by fixed stars but by the weather vane, and drops a principle as tightly as the mariner drops ballast from the hold. Now Mr. Crerar itas:never dropped anything that- he believed in, nor adopted anything thatbedid not be- lieve in. He is, taken in the groes, an entirely •honest man, whose thoughts "lie clear as- pebbles 'in a brook." He does not try to deceive either himself or the public, and •his motives are as transparent as his utterances. The scope of his mind is limited it is true. It is a bucolic, unimaginative mind. But within its scope, it is singularly sincere and public-spirited. It is mote e I not by personal consideration of his own class, but by real devotion to his coun- try, to this conception -however wrong it may b.r- of just, e and duty, tc .his sense of what is right. Perhaps there are incidents which qualify this view. Therc is, for ex- ample, his well known ref isal to Make a pronouncement in Pealienrent last year either for or against the eight- hour day; a bit of seeming opportun- ism which injured hire, with farmer and laborer alike. There is his re- cently developed tendency to "hedge" on the tariff. Yet one must pardon much to an election campaign. It was Mr. Roosevelt, I think, who said that there were three occasions in men's lives when they were incapable of telling the truth. The first was after a golf game; the second after a fishing trip and the -third during an election. And so perhaps Mr. Crer.u•'a venial sins may be pardoned to a great tempta- tion. It is in the gross, not in com- parison with perfection, but in con- trast with other leaders and other men, that he must be judged. No man of his time has been more misunderstood. We are told, for ex- ampleeJ1e is a visionary and a radical, tha"he, is a fanatic who believes in class, that he is a socialist, preaching a dangerous revolution and seeking to tear up cherished institutions un- der the guise and in the name of re- form. There could br no greater caricature of the real inan. For Mr. Crerar is not a revolutionist. He is not.a revolutionist to the extent that Joseph Chamberlain was when he burst into the smug Victorian parlor and smashed its idols. His radical- ism is not half so fierce as was the radicalism of 'Mr. Lloyd George when, to the cry "the Land! the Land" he preached his blazing crusade against the Dukes. Compared with Mr. Robt, Smillie, Sir. Ramsay Macdonald and other leaders of Radicalism in Eng- land to -day, he is obscurantist in re- actionary eactionary views. -- The truth is that Air. Crerar is a moderate Liberal of the pld-fashioned British school. True, his economic views, as well as the platform of his party, show traces of thinking that incline more toward colleotivism and state socialism than toward the in- dividualism of the Liberal school, but these are but the influences of his party and of his times.' In all essen- tials, as well as in most of his policies and in his speeches, it is tbe old English Liberal note that it upper- most, the old Manchester doctrines, "peace, retrenchment., reform." If Mr, Crerar had his way in Can- ada to -day, it is not ''the Agrarian party, but a sanctified Liberal party, that he would lead. .Ile does'not be- lieve in the domination of a class. He knows that triumph will be denied to a class-conscious group. But for the moment .he is powerless to stay the western tide. His present task - bow he fulfills it the coming months will tell -is to manipulate tke stores, to give its purpose and direction. When he left the Union Ministry in 1919, it was not to promote a Farm- ers' Party. His real purpose, 'the ideal which -ha cherished, was the re- juvenation of the old Liberal party under new leadership and with new ideals. 'But it was too late. The uprising in the West, which Mr. Fielding and Sir Wilfrid Laurier had foreseen ten years before, had gained too mue'h momentum; the official Liberalism of Otters was in eclipse on the Maim; and bier. Crerar, much against hie de- sires, had to shun the Liberal conven- tion. But his views have not chang- ed. To -day, as much as ever, he be- lievee in Liberal principles, in the transformation of the Agrarian up- rising into a Liberal party, regene- rated and penitent and freed of the many evils that dimmed it in the past. In office, Mr. Crerar would be a mod- erate. There is much, perhaps, that he would change, but there would be no revolution. He would prune the tree; he would never tear it up by the roots. In Parliament Mr. Crerar is any- thing but formidable. His tempera- ment is as remote from that of Mr. Meighen 80 one temperament can be from another. Nature made him an amiable gentleman, naturally consid- erate of the feelings of others, entire- ly without venom, overly anxious not 1 stiiop below a certain level of "good forms" and decorum. Mr. Meighen's mind is as swift as cavalry. He will pierce a foeman's urmor with the rapidity of lightning and he will•dis- pute a point to tate last ditch. "He'd undertalfe to prove by force "Of argument, a mans' no horse." Mr. Crerar's intellectual equipment is less sharp. His mind is clear and honest, but it is slow and elemental. and his voice entirely lacks that sharp incisive quality that makes Mr. Meighen's verbal thrusts stab like a stiletto. It is in his private life, in his as- sociation with his friends, that Mr. Crerar is seen at his best. He has none of the stern, unbending puritan- ism that one instinctively associates with radicals. He loves good living. I1 was said of the late Keir Hardie that he hated the palace because he remembered the pit Mr. Crerar does not hate the Rideau Club because he remembers the farm. He likes luxury and comfort, enjoys a good dinner, smokes, a thick black cigar, and is fussy about his clothes. His winsome ways are perhaps his greatest asset. In the Press Gallery, where he often drops in for a chat, his friends are legion„ and he is never happier than when, leaving the Com- mons behind him, he romps off with his journalistic friend, the incorrigibly iconoclastic J. K. Munro, for a round of the Rivermead links. Mr. Grerar's success, in fact is com- forting to the plain man, for it is the success of .his own russet -coated virtues. It is the success of one like himself -of a plain man without a touch of genius, almost without a touch of brilliancy, but with many of the qualities of the average man in perfect equilibrium. Mr, Crerar is not without culture, laves painting, tells a good story and enjoys -a good book. But he is essentially the ordinary man, his mind full of daylight, the range of his thought limited to the daylight vision, his instinct for jus- tice sound, his spirit strong for the things he deems best for his country and •his race. He is not one of those who bring new light into the thought of nen or add to the sum of human effort, He is the type of the practical man who docs his task honestly, firm- ly, and good-humoredly. He will never shine in an office that demands rare qualities. He will succeed in a task that demands common qualities in a rare degree. ANNIVERSARY AND FOWL SUPPER AT CAVAN CHURCH, WINTHROP NOVEMBER 20th and 21st • Rev. i2. C. McDermid of Godorich, will conduct services at 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Sunday. Programme on Monday evening by Seaforth Presbyterian Quintette and Quartette and Miss Nedlger, elocu- tionist, of Clinton; also addressee by neighboring ministers. For Sapper and Entertainment• ... Adults 76c1 Ciildrie !be COMPOSITIONS ST PUBLIC-. SCHOOL SCHOLARS The following are some of the best compositions submitted by the pupjls from Principal F. T. Fowler'q }pom in the Seaforth Public School Sri the recent medal competition by the l'ir'e Prevention League: The Pennsylvania Expreaa - was rushing a1ong ,at it6 utmost speed be- cause time had been lost at the hast station on account of a heated'axle, and had to be made up before reach- ing the terminus. The direinan heaped up the coal and the engineer, who loved his engine like a child, pushed the starting lever over as far as it would go to make up time. They had been travelling through a forest for about two hours and just as they turned a bend the fireman called his mate's attention to a yellow glare ahead. They both knew at once that it was a forest fire. They each knew it meant death to ately there so withouthesitation the engineer sent the train straight into the flames. They passed numerous clearings where there had been vil- lages 'but where now there was noth- ing but flames. A terrified puma crossed the cow -catcher and dashed headlong into the roaring flames. The fireman, whose hands had been badly burned after filling up the firebox for the last time, sprang into the water tank and drowned himself to escape being burned to death by the fire. The engineer, ihowvver, would not quit the engine, for he well knew the horrible death that awaited those in the crowded train if he did. On, on the train rushed through the flames of the burning forest. The flames came nearer and nearer to the flying train leaping from tree to tree with lightning rapidity. The stand became so hot that it burnt through his shoes and the levers burned his hands. With a last spurt the train shot out of the forest; hoes.; es came into view, and the train stopped at the station. The people crowded out of the train and cries such as, 'Where is he? Where is the brave man who brought us through; we will make bim a pres- ent of money?" But they were all too late, for just as the engine stop- ped at the station the brave man dropped dead 'beside his beloved en- gine which had taken over one 'hun- dred passengers through the fire to safety. If campers had put out their fire, over $3,000,000 worth of valuable tim- ber would have been saved and also the life of the engineer and fireman and many animals. It is up to us Canadians to prevent fires of all kinds as much as we can. We should in all way's encourage our Fire Brigade. Don't leave matches where little children can get them. Never throw oil of arty kind on a fire. .JACK FROST. It was a cold winter morning about two o'clock and not a sound was heard in the apartment house in Toronto. All of a sudden a woman's cry of terror, feliowed by the excited bark- ing of a dog, was heard. In a few moments every one was - awakened. The fire hell clanged 'and the frightened people hurriedly gath- ered up their belongings and wrap- ping blankets around them hurried to the stairs, where everything was in confusion and the people were push- ing and crowding in their effort to get down. By the time the fire'engine arrived the fire was going pretty well and the flames were creeping higher and higher. The half-dressed people were scattered in frightened, shivering' groups watching the fire when sud- denly a cry arose from them for et a window about half way rep the building, was alittle ehild about three years old. It was the janitor's only child. The flames had surrounded the stairs and it seemed as if no help could reach her for the ladders were too Short and there, were no fire escapes, as the owner of the building had thought they weren't necessary. At last one brave fireman volunteered to force his way through the flames to the child so he threw his coat over his mouth and started up. He reached the room where she was and picking her up he threw a thick shawl around her and started down. He managed to reach the second floor and with a mighty effort he dragged himself down the last flight of stairs to the dour just as the roof fell in. He %+-on greeted with a hearty cheer as he appeared. Someone took the little girl from him and being weak from hip burns, he fainted. The fire was ever• the building was burnt. to the grouni, and the people h ei left. Two men going home for dinner. stopped to look at the ruins. "Was the child badly hurt?" asked Toni. "No, but poor Bill is in the hospital. The doctors haven't much hope for Do you know how it started?" .Jim said. "Yes. The janitor, after lighting his pipe, threw the match away without putting it out and it fell on tame oily rags which had been carlesely thrown in the corner. A few minutes later a woman awoke and thinking she smelt smoke, went to the door and when she saw the flame's she screamed. He has been taught a sad lesson, Jim." "Yea, be feels pretty badly to think Bill may die through his carelellmew and for ills dhild." 'That rem -lads etre teat thaw it a box of matches Where little;Ask tan reach them, that meet be saoved, and there $ some old rub tub !t the 'cellar q tare, to Halals alp,* AviE still. i> 94 AuYsar in Advener itthi an Wes. Publishers "I am going to see abaatt getting the cbimney cleaned. this afternoon. Thea 1 won't bare anything to be sorry for. I think it is a patriotic duty of every Canadian to try to.pre-- vent fires. They say that set OutsrSo alone the fire loss is over a million. dollars a month." - "Yes, and I think we about¢ try in every way to encourage ons brave firemen." Tom replied -se they walk- ed,.ioward home. MARY JACKSON. Ding, dong!.in the deep dead silence of the night! Well,' I remember that awakening sound. With the first ding of the •bell I was upon my feet with - out hesitation. I war dressed but not before I 'could hear the big red fire truck making its way southward. I immediately serarnbled for my out and bat and joined the'crowd of peo- ple going the same direction as the truck. The din and clatter of tbe pea- ple could be heard for blocks around' on account of it being such a clear. frosty night in January. After running for about fon blocks - we reached the house, whiew as on fire. By this time the firemen were - doing their beet to rescue the pec They rescued the mother and father- and at r- and -one little girl and were making a last attempt to rescue a daring baby boy. One of our brave firemen had received several burns and bruin-. es but in spite of that insisted upon bringing the child to safe ground and did so. It was the most pitiful sight to see the gallant hero, with the in- fant in his arms, break through the clouds of smoke with flames facing him on all sides. "Alae! I have ac- complished it," he said, ae he handed the baby to its mother, who 'would have rushed through the fire and al- together likely would have lost her life had it not been for the confidence she had in this hero, who shouted: - "On with the water, boys; we must try to save the building now." This was all experienced through the neglect of not having secure- chimneys. ecurechimneys. I am sure everyperson. left that fire fleeting that a little ex- pense before hand would have saved hundreds of dollars and that every one 'of us could spare a few dollars. on our homes in order to prevent fire. We must always be careful of match- es; paints stored away, or old clothes pushed in a box with matches in the pockets. All these things may save hundreds and thousands of dollars. Is it any wonder that Canada's losses in fires amount to four times. that of Europe. WiU your please bear this fast in •mind and .help, make:,.: the figures smaller? -" MARGARET STEWART. It was a clear, brisk and frosty morning in late December. The peo- ple that went to work early were up - lighting their fines and getting im- patient most throw coal oil on it. The mother did not notice the hot black coals, which were laying peace- fully is the ;^-ate-. Se forgot about them and. of cner'e. it. Inst made her lose her life and lots of money be- sides. Her heshami had been drunk and came home •orly in the morning and being*, afraid :.,, waken him she - lit it herself. The firemen arc ekuected to do everything; of ,,,'1 --' it is impossible to do that Any healthy man should lend a hand to these in need. The boys were still i'.-irg in bed 'hen the bell kept tinl-'ing and the whistle blowing. but ,has'- mother did not make them h,ar her moans, so they didn't think if their n'vn sweet home. They only .ei,,hed Ween they smelt the smoke ural run to see their mother burnt to a crisp. that they had only - gotten up to hc;r her light the stove that morning, bit a stitch in time didn't save their mother that time, They soon rerevercd and realized that t:hrir home and belongings were nearly gone. Pet the stuff they got nua was not e -,•i -third the cost of what was Inst in the flames. The ashes reminded him of the morning he killed time. which was not to be - forgotten. The boys :ted girls are not so care- ful as the chi!dmn thirty years ago, bat tf corn-:" they didn't have -any gasoline stoves or things like that to fool with. or the young men. didn't smoke so ninny cigarettes and throw their stubs on the ilry leaves. We - have of course a number of things to• consider. .lust jog the person's mind' Who cleans out the chimneys at home'? When was ou-s 19t. cleaned, people say. Mark it on the calendar; do it - monthly. Ask rii'rsf that often. .Just take a lost;. There is lots of - soap and water -your hands aren't the main 10i:,:r in life. The soap and water you wash' �11 your hands does - not cost Pnc, tint.. -hal does your bulild- ings cont? Ontario has over $1,000,000 loss every .ment.h, with her lumber and' cigar st.uhs. Don't smoke when a- round elothing or things that would' go up in smoke, easily. The timber alone amount t, over $100,000, - whereass it would keep a good many pair of toes :Farm this winter, which there is going t, be many. The insurance re mpanies should look around and investigate mors closely at the average fires. Some people think wrongly of the firemen of this town; you have le be reasonable witk them. All men have a tendency to be lazy, but not in a fire. Aek then to be quicker next time in a civilised tone and manner. Encourage OUT Fire Brigade. Don't go around scold- ing them; cheer them rep. Give them dl Iseatty congratulation for these long and tiresome work Soy hews. It is a patriotic duty, do it new; lited a kind in need. EMS A. PAT!'SOR'1. •