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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-12-20, Page 2{ ii gNowsHoms glrovndl® sport, health Fundi laity. Ladies' finest $3,110 Gent'' 54.®0 SILVERWARE al'ttays appeals, always useful. We offer a special 26 piece set for 515.©0. N]ICKEEILWA1 IE in Tea Pots and Kettles, $2.00 to $3.75 Special Fancy Trays 50c WRINGERS and washing machines make labor easier. Guaranteed Wringer $7.00 Special Washing Machine .... $19.00 Copper Boilers $4.00 to $5.00 AUTO SKATES Specially rivetted, complete with boots $5.75 to $7.75 Skates only, pair $1.00 to $5.00 TOY LAND—We have the Largest and IFnirnest Stock nun town. QililLLtl,J1l 1)VAB VUDDING requires skill and yrroperr dishes to be made well. Ow: baking ig 'dishes in granite and ahlbtlm are of the best quality. oa4111, 63L1 'C7Q Wee) tett^..l 4a bee been c*Tee ,^t„°, fuer eke Seeet > a148 eezitansy. mat ns ]:tett t Thou Good C>Iuft rr r? Carvers $4.00 to UM Stainless Knives and Forks $3.50 to MO Pocket Knives 25c to $2.0© EVERYONE USES SCISSORS For adults 50e to $2.00 r• Teti re.' For a child 25cetre FOOD CHOPPE 1., are used every day in the kitchen $2.25 Bread Knives, stainless $11.00 Bread Board and Knife $2.00 er'iIraiele =MO u 61 i3 O GAle ROT402,,TP Q) Std' zwen,.411WlI1 Entieldl1344/01calll bias recently as the centre gig eke= of tl fury rt4tely seen : „ ttb cat" tet'ntry, tam there hae been VideBLUread death and deaola'*loon wrought by them. t terrifying A0 the gaffes may have teen to t aose cess- po: to them, they were mere eephyne resMe Chet ala ;,, hep sues fes ed the past, and particulleerly when compared with the lain.+Tic hur- ricane of November 26th . sand ?Mb, 1?03. No precise =mud of tlfazst Stant was ever zsvedlable, sdaeldnery fiat col- lecting the eseeeteeety ceeticatiee not having been inavemted, 'meet it is sup- posed that 8,000 people were killed, either by drsuveni>til!, aur. by dlmeg beia:lie, collapsing houses caad ' :Ding trees. There meer have been even a great= casualty list than this, for it is sup- posed that the government chose to minimize the damage dere in order not to add to the panic of the people which was greater than if an enemy had landed in ''i,:eir midst. Fortunate- ly the hurricane was short-lived. It began at eleven o'clock at night and had blown itself out by seven o'clock next morning. But through the ter- rible night few people slept in the. south of England where the fury of the gale reach •-,i its height. Instruments for tracing the path of the storm and measuring its fury were also lacking in those days, but it is supposed that this hurricane a- rose somewhere on the North Ameri- can continent, for all we know at White River or Medicine Hat. It rushed seaward and crossed the At- lantic, overwhelming any vessels in its path and after passing over Eng - '.and proceeded ley way of Holland, Germany, Sweden and Russia toward the Pacific again, probably returning to where it had begun, like a wild and destructive beast to its cavern. In England it struck not as a northwes- ter, but as asouthwester. The rush- ing noise of the wind sounded like thunder, but there was neither thun- der nor lightning while it lasted. The night was black as pitch, which added to the terrors caused by crumbling buildings and uprooted trees, which marked the course of the wind as it proceeded over city and countryside. In London the gale blew down part of a royal palace and' alarmed the household. Queen Anne, in her his- toric nightgown with the Union Jack worked in front and the lion and the unicorn running in smaller figures about the hem, appeared among her frightened servants and sought to al- lay their fears by her dignified ap- pearance and patriotic mien. No further damage was done, al- though a woman .had been killed by falling masonry when part of St. James' was blown down. But the storm did not lack distinguished vic- tims for in Somerset the Bishop of Wells, Dr. Kidder, and his wife were killed as a stack of chimneys on the episcopal palace crashed through the roof. pI'he sister of the .Bishop, of London was struck dead in the midst of her collapsing house. The re- gistrar of Eton, who happened to be in London, had a remarkable escape. He was sound asleep in the upper storey of a house when the roof was blown away, the floor tilted and he was carried to the ground. But he did not leave his bed and was unhurt. In fact, he knew nothing of the storm until he found himself lying in bed in the open street, which appeared to him a very odd circumstanpe at the time. Not far away in Aldersgate street a man and woman were buried in a cellar by the fall of a chimney and when rescuers reached them it was supposed that they would be be- yond help. But they were found un- injured and the man immediately set up a hulabaloo about a pair of his trousers in the next room which con- tained 50 shillings. The chronicle of the time, accord- ing to This and That, an English We Have Hosts of Christmas Suggestions HOCKEY STEcCKS 25c to 51.00 ,. Pucks ioilke to 25c Ankle Supports 51.00 ' TOY LAND—We have the Largest shoot Finest Stock Tura ton. a (61 0 c aft Ar aaaa SUNDAY AFTERNOON Q : y Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) Bark! the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King, Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. Joyful, all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With the angelic host proclaim, '>Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King. C. Wesley. PRAYER Almighty God, grant that it may be the work of our life to obey Thee; the joy of our soul to please Thee; the -satisfaction of all our hopes and the perfection of our desires to be with Time in Thy kingdom of grace and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. S. LESSON FOR. DECEMBER 22 Lesson Topic—The Child in a riistian World. Lesson Passage—Like 7:8 -20 - Golden Text --Matthew 19:14. The fulness of time was now come, 'then God would send forth His Son, who, it was foretold, should be bora at Bethlehem. When we saw Him wrapped in swaddling clothes and Laid in a mar ger, we were tempted to say, "Surely this cannot be the Son of God." But nee His birth attended, as it is here, with a choir of angels, and we Abell say, "Surely it can be no other than the iSon of God, concerning whom it -eras said, when 'He was brought into the world. let all the angels cf God ?worship Him." The divine •visitants came to men who were actively engaged in an hon- est calling. They were wide awake end could "not he deceived in what they saw and heard. We read in Matthew an account of the notice given of the arrival of the .Ambassador, this Prince from heaven, to the wise men who were Gentiles, by a star; here in Luke's gospel we are told of the notice given of it to the shepherds, who were Jews, by an angel; to each, God chose to speak in the language they were most con- versant with. The sudden appearance of the an- gel with a heavenly glory, made the shepherds sore afraid. Their fears were quieted when the message con- taining abundant matter for joy, fell upon their ears. The inessage. was no sooner delivered by one angel than suddenly there was with that angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts, sufficient, we may be sure, to make a chorus, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." The angels, having despatched their business, returned to heaven and then the shepherds consulted together and decided to go to Bethlehem and prove the truth of the angel's words. "Let us go see this thing which is come to pass." We have reason to think that the shepherds told Joseph and Mary of the vision of the angels they had see -1 and the song of the angels they had heard which was a great encourage- ment to them. And it is probable that Joseph and Mary told the shep- herds what visions they had had con- cerning the child; and so, by commun- icating their experiences to each other they greatly strengthened one an- other's faith. The shepherds, having seen and heard wonderful things, were abund- antly satisfied that this child was Christ, the Lord. They at once be- gan to spread abroad the whnl- story of what was told them both 1".y the angel, and by .Joseph and Mary. The impression it made upon these that heard it was not of long dura- tion, they wondered but never inquir- ed any further about the Saviour With Mary it was a matter for deep thought; she hid all these things in her heart. Angels had taken notice of the birth of her child and that to her was a precious memory—(From Matthew Henry). WORLD MISSIONS "I am glad to be able to report tont conditions in and around ,he city here have now for some time been quite peaceful, and therefore we are ahle to carry on our work without any trou- ble or hindrance. It is only in the remoter country parts, where the authorities are still unable to exercise control; that the bandit nuisance is still rife and our work seriously in- terrupted. "The special gift of money, sent as a Christmas present to the lepers, en- abled u•s to buy each inmate a piece of cloth and also to give them a Christ- mas feast. On Christmas Day m'. - Chinese colleague went out to the asylum to conduct a special Christ- mas service, and the following meet- ing a party of us went out to distri- bute the gifts. They were expecting us, and we wore heartily greeted with crackers. We first had a short. ser- vice, including a carol in English, trhich we sang to them much to their delight. I gave them it short talk nn the riteanict j of Cleristmas and the consequence of the coming of the Saviour into the world. Then we distributed the gifts for which they expressed very grateful thanks. The head man asked me to be sure and send a message home to you to say how very much they appreciate the kindness of their fellow -Christians in the West who in this way bring a lit- tle cheer and joy into their lives. "Some things I have heard recently make me convinced that nothing is doing more to cement relations of friendship .between China and other countries than such purely charitable work as this. To relieve the unfor- tunate, the blind and the leper—this kind of activity calls forth nothing but admiration and praise. May God bless all your efforts in the new year, and through them bring relief to many sufferers."—Rev. B. G. Par- sons, China. A Scotsman was leaving on a busi- ness trip and he called back as he was leaving: "Good -by all; and dinna forget to "tak' little Donal's glasses off when he isna' iookin' at any- thi ng." A soldier in barracks asked for ex- emption from church parade en the ground that he was an agnostic. The sergeant -major assumed an expres- sion of innocent interest. "Don't you believe in the Ten Commandments?" he asked, mildly. "Not one, sir!" was the reply. "What! Not the rule a- bout keeping the Sabbath'?" "No, sir." The sergeant -major smiled. "Ah, well, you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the canteen!" A visitor to an asylum saw a pa- tient using a dry brush on a piece of canvas. "What does that represent?" "The Flight of the Children of Is- rael from Egypt." "Where are the children of Israel?" "They have left." "Where is the Red Sea?" "Rolled back." "Whore are the Egyptians?" "They're expected any minute." IDoez Your ll krree Wheeze ' ceceze GIP I� oar? Tblc;. uwollen glands cane thick wind or dram -down and make a horse wheeze or roar. Bletorbine—the famona antieeptic linlinent— @ainQn quick relief, and does not blister or re- move hale. $2.50 --at your druggist'* or general werchaat'e. Booklet on the horse sent free. 74 W. le '4Count , Ince Lyman Bldg , Montreal dlt ENGLAND CHOOSES SOBRIETY AND NOT PROHIBITION In the last British parliament there seas one Prohibitionist. There may have been several abstainers but there was one member who regarded it as his chief work to make speeches in favor of the total abolition of the manufacture, sale and consumption of liquor. There is no Prohibitionist in the present parliament if we are not mistaken. Nor does there seem to be the slightest chance that Great Bri- tain will follow "the great experiment noble in purpose," which, according to President Hoover, is what prohibi- tion is. According to Sir Philip Gibb, who is a keen observer, Great Britain will stay wet to the end of the chap- ter. This does not mean that there is no recognition of the evils of intemp- erance and that indeed there is not a strong movement in favor of curtail- ing the present consumption. It simp- ly means that Great Britain will take the British way of dealing with a problem which is hardly less grave than the problem of unemployment" The number of people who believe that prohibition will come some day is small, but hardly smaller than the number who believe that it would be a good thing if Britain should imitate the American example. As a matter of fact, the tendency ":oward less drinking has been pro- ceeding in England for 50 years, and temperance tracts and lectures had very little to do with it. It was, in- deed, an unexpected incident of the ".stahlishment of the cheap tea rooms in all parts of the country by Lyons and other caterers. Here cheap meals in agreeable surroundings, sometimes accompanied by music, were provide.l for people of small means. They were attracted from the public houses and other places where they had been ac- customed to eat and drink. .A man does not, as a rule, proceed to load himself with liquor just after he has had a satisfying meal, and these tea rooms did not provide liquor before, during or after a meal. This was the first step in doing away with the sordid life in large cities described by Dickens and other writers of the middle of the last century. These tea rnems were profitable and they multi- plied, and not a new one opened but t' -ow some business from some public house, even though there was plenty of business left to bring peerage to a score of*brewers and distillers. The next grreat step was made in war time. There was a good deal of drinking in England in those years, and there grew up a cocktail epidemic in the years immediately following the war. But liquor was heavily taxed and of inferior quality and validity, and these facts contributed to some prtent to a lowered cnnsumptinn. But the great cause was the general pros- perity. With so many able-bodied men at the front the unemployment difficulty vanished almost over night. There was a tremendous demand for women to take the plane of the inen. Wages began to rise and continued to arise unttil they had reached a point' unparalleled in English history. For the first time in their lives the indus- trial classes in England, men and wo- men, earned more money than was required for their bare subsistence with an occasional spree. They bad money to spend on the pretty things. They bought better frocks and shoes and gloves, and personal ornaments, as well as things for the home like phonographs and pianos. They em- erged from their slums and went to the west end looking for amusement. They resolved that they never would go back to the :squalor of their earl- ier years, and they knew that one of the best means of ensuring that there would be no slippings was to set fix- ed limits on the money spent for liq- uor. The girls set the pace and the boys followed them to the cinema. In the words of Sir Philip: "They found that a motor -bike on the hire-purchase system, with a flapper bracelet for their best girl, gave them more kick out of life than getting fuddled in a bar parlor. Henry Ford, the pioneer of the cheap car, has done more for temperance than any fanatic, because he has given the liberty of the roads, the chance of escape from poky little homes, the pleasure of a wider social intercourse to vast numbers of people of moderate means. They may like a whisky now and then, or a glass of beer for lunch, or a bottle of wine when they entertain ,their friends— they mostly do in England --but drink is no longer their obsession. It takes its place in the scale of values." The girls, too, have become advocates of temperance through adopting the cult of health to keep their skins clear and fresh and their bodies rid of cumbering flesh. They want to keep fit, and the boys who want to please them are handicapped when they advance, with gin tainted breath, for a kiss. Then there is finally the economic question. When the working men had war wages they could afford the best liquor available, but, as we have seen, at that moment a new world opened before them, thanks to their pros- perity. After the war when wages declined they had,_formed tastes for something else. To -day the price of liquor makes it almost impossible that the workingman can do any con- siderable drinking and keep his fam- ily decently. When gin was first im- ported into England a sign publicly displayed declared that one could get drunk for a penny and dead drunk for twopence. Now the price of a drink in theatre bars and hotel restaurants is two shillings and six pence. To ger drunk in England to -day is an ex- nensive business for the price of liq- uor, owing mainly 'to taxation, has gone up and the quality has decreas- ed. The more stringent hours of sale are also having their effect upon con- sumption and the Hon. Philip Snow- den said recently that for next year's budget he would he considerably em- barrassed through loss of ,revenue from wines and spirits. There is probably too much drinking in Enw- la°nd even to -day, but the tendency is hest ROE O6 CANADA AIM CLAW. C llel-firII' e cisee feleFe, iivan®revee vas:. 11 magazine, notes that "neither ex— pressed any gratitude to either - God or man for their timely deliver— ance." But in truth most people who. passed through this terrific istorn: were probably too dazed to realize ex— actly what had occurred. The furpr of the gale at sea may be gaugedll from the fact that 12 ships of the= - British navy with 1,600 men and 524e guns were wrecked, and the new Eddy— stone lighthouse, with its designer,— swept esignerswept into the sea from the rock: upon which it had been built. After - the storm subsided the British House. - of Commons presented an address tact. the queen lamenting the disaster tore the royal navy and urging that arrderse might be issued at once for new ellipse to take the place of those destroyed.. The queen. thereupon set aside Jams.-- arir 19th as a day on which the peo— ple should fast in remembrance ofe what they had suffered. This was. the only occasion, as Macaulay nates ,,. that a tempest produced in Errgrank either an address from pariia7neat or- e general fast. The property damage was terrific amounting to note less than £4,000,- 000, a ivast sum for those days. Howe many tens of thousands of domestic. - animals were drowned could only be,. guessed at. On a single level of tile~ Severn 7,000 sheep were drowned. - Hundreds of thousands of trees: were: uprooted, and in St. James' park at - hundred large elms, some of therznui. planted by Cardinal Wolsey, were tornr up. Daniel Defoe, an enterprising re- porter of the day, rode about severed parts of Kent and coeuted up tog 17,000 fallen trees before wearying of the task. The rivers rose and houses. were flooded. Streets became riga= and people used boats instead or horses to go from place to place_ "Portsmouth," says a contemporary - writer, quoted By This and Mak.- "looks hat"looks like a city bombarded by thee enemy." Perhaps the most dramatic= and tragic single incident,of the hur— ricane was the destruction of MBES— Mary, a 64 -gun ship having an heard. Admiral Beaumont and •a company et - 269. This gallant vessel was struck off Deal and sank to the ibettom. Only - a single sailor made 'his way ashore ar ri kl another �ccau eof.�y 66 93 ...e11k' ,..s t�) L 1L 99 —business Lost �EN a call comes for a man at the far end of the office the line is tied up for useless minutes until he reaches the telephone. Anyone else trying to call is told: "Line's Eby", but in reality the line is idle. An office with only one telephone when it needs two or three, or an office in which telephones are poorly located, is a sure cause of unnecessary "Line's Busy", a sure time -waster, a sure business loser. "Line's usy" is the chief cause of the million tele- phone calls a day in Ontario and Quebec which fail to get through. ' They mean two million minutes a day wasted --- congestion of traffic — constant irrita- tion a handicap to all business. We are making every effort to provide the best pos- sible telephone service.* But it takes three peeple to complete a call. Only through public co-operation can we reach maximum efficiency. We would be glad at any time to have our experts survey your telephone facilities and submit a re- port., It will save time --- yours and other people's — and it will get business for you which you are now losing through "Line's Busy." °New telephone plant and ser- vice improvements will mean anoutlay for 1929 alone, of snore than $27,000,000.