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SEAFORTH BRANCH
R. M. Jones - Manager
STORMY WEATHER
HARD ON BABY
The stormy, blustery weather which
Canadians experience during Febru-
ary and March is extremely hard on
babies and young children. Conditions
make it necessary for the mother to
keep them confined to the house,
whose rooms may be overheated or
badly irentilated. The little ones
catch cold and their whole system
becomes racked. To guard against
this a box of Baby's OWn Tablets
should be kept in the home and an
occasional dose given, the baby to
-keep him fit, or if a cold suddenly
grips him to restore him to health
again and keep him in good condi-
tion till the brighter, warmer days
come along again.
Baby's Own Tablets are just what
the mother needs for .her little ones.
They are a mild but thorough laxa-
tive which regulate the bowels,
sweeten the stomach; break up
colds and simple fevers; banish con-
stipation and indigestion and make
the cutting of teeth easy. The Tab-
lets are sold by medicine dealers or
by mail at 25e a box from The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
NEW NATIONAL ORDER
REVEALS HIGH PURPOSE
It is true that professor of psy-
chology named Hall, who seems to be
in some difficulty about a board bill,
and on other occasions has conducted
himself in such a manner as to annoy
the authoritiee, was an organizer for
the National Order of Canada. But
he was not the founder of the order,
and now his connection with it is t.)
be discussed in the past tense. It is
not violating a confidence reposed in
us by officers of the order to say that
Mr. Hall's resignation will be request-
ed. The order has, as one of its ob-
jects, the lending of assistance to
persons who have fallen foul of the'
law. Several of them have been pro-
vided with jobs. When an advertise-
ment was issued asking for an experi-
enced, organizer M. Hall applied and
was appointed. His record was ex-
amined and nothing in it seemed to
be a bar. It was understood, howev-
er, that as long as he continued with
the order he was to eschew psychol-
ogy, and whether such matters as the
disputed board bill would come under
this head we cannot say. In any ev-
ent the incident would seem to ante-
date his connection with the order
which should not be held responsible
for it. The officers say that Mr. Hall
was a hard-working employee while
on the job.
The order itself was established last
October. Just who was the author of
the original idea we do not know, but
it gradually took form in the course
of discussion among half a dozen
friends. Now it has a membership
of 600, and the Quebec organizer told
us that in two or three years he ex-
pects a membership of 10,000 from
that province alone. He says the
French-Canadians are entirely hospi-
table to it, and that the Roman Cath-
olic Church has pronounced in favor
of the principles which the order is
advocating. As yet there has been
no annual meeting. But there are of-
ficers, and we gather that at the
'moment they are working without
salary. The initiation fee is $5, and
the annual dues $5 more. The order
is oprn to receive donations in excess
of t,"-ese amounts from persons who
believe that it is engaged in useful
work
And what is this work, a reader
may ask. The idea occurred to us
and satisfactory answer was given
by A'exander J. Morris, the national
scribe, who is also an auditor and an
rnglishman by birth. The main idea is
to develop Canada as a unit, and to
enlist the services of all people born
or demiciled in Canada in achieving
this ambition. The order takes the
view and we believe it to be a sound
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one, that a man need not be born in
this country to be a Canadian. Mr.
Morris. illustrating this point, or
perhaps it was some other point, or
indeed it might have been two other
fellows, told us of a conversation he
had with a man whom he had asked
what race he belong to. "Scotch,"
said the other man, and when chal-
lenged to say where he had been born,
said that he had been born in To-
ronto. "Lawks!" exclaimed Mr. Mor-
ris. 1"How long is it going to take
you to become a Canadian?" The
idea is that a man can become a Can-
adian once he becomes a resident here
and shows any dieposition to advance
the interests of the country.
We hope we do not misrepresent
the order when we say that it takes
a different viewpoint from that of the
Native Sons. In fact we should not
be surprised if sooner or later the two
organizations came into collision.
One emphasizes Canadian birth; the
other merely devotion to Canada. The
National Order is open to all white
people domiciled in Canada. The col-
ored brother is barred. "How about
Indians?" we asked. "Indians are all
right," we were told. "They are natirve
Canadians." It is, of course, possible
that negroes might be native-born
Canadians too, but we did not suggest
such a hypothesis. Whether brown or
other off color British subjects from
other parts of the Empire should be
admitted has never been discussed
and is not likely to rise in concrete
form in the immediate future. The
order is now in communication with
the various provincial governments
concerning a special conference to be
held perhaps this Spring, when the
question of uniform text books for all
Canadian public and high schools wig
be debated. The order believes that
these books do not pay sufficient at-
tention to Canadian history. In fact,
it believes that the Canadian history
thereby revealed abounds in errors.
The order is• registered, and later a
charter may be taken out. It has its
ritual, but is without passwords. A pe-
culiar handshake reveals one member
to another. There are three degrees—
blue, red and white. The blue stands
for honor, the red for sacrifice, and
the white for purity. "Purity?" we
asked. "Are there then some moral
qualifications required?" Then it was
explained that the purity concerned
the motives of the members and the
aims of the order. It is, as explain-
ed, non-sectarian, but it has a re-
ligious basis. A belief in the Deity
is looked for in all applicants for
membership and we gather that the
ritual would prove an effectual bar
to any freethinker erroneously free.
thinking that- he would join the or-
der. The only point on which our in-
terviewer failed to elucidate was the
need for such a society. Its publish-
ed aims would be subscribed to by
practically all Canadians; and such
an order, established in any other
country in the world. would command
the unanimous approval of all citi-
zens of that country. To dissent from
it would be like saying: "All is not
well that ends well," or "It is not an
ill wind that blows nobody good; far
from it." Nevertheless the aphorisms
of which these are perversions have
lasted a long time and no doubt have
given comfort to millions of people.
The National Order of Canada may be
something like that.
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY
DOING VALUABLE WORK
As was expected the reports of
the annual meeting of the Toronto
Humane Society show that it is in
a flourishing condition and prepared
to increase rather that, narrow the
field of ite operations. The society
now does the dog catching for sev-
eral surrounding communities and one
of tle.se days is likely to suggest that
it should take over the same duties
from the city of Toronto. That it
should also have charge of issuing
the licenses is not an unnatural de-
velopment of its work. This is the
system in New York and in conse-
quence revenue from this source has
vastly increased. It 'is estimated that
about one-fifth of the dogs in Toronto
are licensed. The others are unre-
ported. The owners take the same
kind of chance on them that the late
czar was ready to take on the last
moujik in the World War. If the
dog is not caught the owner saves
the fee; if the dog is caught the own-
er is out the dog but is still in the
fee. We are not aware that the so-
ciety has in mind the licensing of
cats, and we hereby offer it this con-
strudive suggestion. Cats, we be-
lieve, do more damage than dogs and
are More generally disowned by those
responsible for them.
Readers will probably be interest -
theY clo not ulielttn -gus Med ne
which, notronlY terrifieS the dog an
perhaps his small owner who is
witness to the kidnapping, but is ass
likely to indict injury. The society'',
agents catch every dog by hand. I
in the course of this duty he is bit-
ten once a year he is astonished. 0
course these men are used to do
and are probably fond of dogs, and
we suggest that these are necessary
qualifications for any people having
public or private business to tranaaet
with dogs. They also in the eourse
of the year rescue many cats who
are trying for flagpole -sitting records.
The humanity of a man who would
climb a telegraph pole upon which
cat is perched with any other idea
than that of making an experhnent to
see if cats would really land on their
legs when dropped from a great
height has always excited our rather
wondering respect. Nearly all the
cats collected by the society are de-
stroyed, for most of them have al-
ready been abandoned, but the great
percentage of dogs are later on pro-
vided with suitable homes. In fact,
people seem to like dogs more than
they do cats. Cats, however, are sup-
posed to like people more than they
like dogs, which is a good deal less
than they like fish.
The caring for abandoned cats and
injured dogs is but a small part of
the work done by the society. Its
agents are to be seen at the stock
yards inspecting carloads of cattle on
arrival. Frequently animals are found
which have been so seriously injured
in transit that they have to be killed
outright. Mr. John Macnab Wilson
some years ago devised a form of
cattle car Which would do away with
one of the most frequent causes of
injury, namely the breaking down of
the partitions which are used when
mixed lots of stock are shipped such
as sheep, swine and cattle. Very of-
ten a sudden jolting of the car will
break the usually frail divisions and
the heavier animals will be thrown on
top of the smaller ones with painful
and perhaps fatal results. When this
occurs and pigs are mingled with
sheep they proceed to eat the sheep
alive. It is expected that the rail-
way companies will adopt a type of
car suggested by Mr. Wilson's device.
It is rather alarming to learn that
the public is dependent upon the in-
cidental activities of the society's ag-
ents to protect it from eating much
food unfit for consumption. Cattle
inspection by the Dominion Govern-
ment applies only to wholesale but-
chers who export some of their meat.
Butchers who do not export seem ta
be free to kill any kind of diseased
or injured animal and offer it for
food. There is a difference of opin-
ion as to whether inspection of these
butchers should be a Dominion or a
provincial duty. ' In the meantime the
public may be consuming with mis-
taken relish a lot of flesh that would
be a dubious ration even on fox
farms. The society in its .campaign
against the cruelty to animals which
results in bruises and consequently
damaged carcases is doing education-
al work which should teach breeders
and drovers that kindness pays fin-
ancial dividends.
The Toronto Humane Society was
brought into existence .some forty
years ago through the enthusiasm of
Mr. J. J. Kelso. who was shocked by
he brutal treatment of horses in the
treets. Horses have a particularly
ealous champion in Mr. Wilson, es-
pecially the old horse that may be
old for $5 to a junk dealer and then
alf starved to death. Frequently in
he course of the year the agents of
he society find it necessary to shoot
horses in the streets. This( means
hat the horses are in such a state of
weakness or emaciation that they
ave not the strength left to walk to
he owner's stables or to the head-
uarters of the society. One thing
hat hampers the work of the society
n practically all its activities is the
rifling penalties that the law impos-
e for cruelty to animals. As mat-
ers now stand the most fiendish
ruelty to an animal cannot be pun -
shed with a more serious penalty
han a fine of $50 and imprisonment
or three months. The almost uni-
versal tendency of magistrates is to
nflict something less than the most
evere penalty, and a fine of $5 with-
ut imprisonment is perhaps the com-
monest penalty for acts which Should
make a man an outcast from all de-
ent society. It is hoped that there
may be an amendment to the crimin-
al code doublitig the existing penal-
ies, and that magistrates may be-
ome sufficiently humane to impose
he maximum punishment in those
.ases which plainly call for it.
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KIDDING THE CREDULOUS FOR
ABOUT $100,000
For the past 20 or 25 years the
names of David Kidd, David Kidd -
Byrne and Rev. D. S. Kidd -Byrne have
become familiar if a trifle confusing
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Some backs ache all day long—a
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Cottage Prints 25c
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ADVANCE SHOWING OF
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The new features of the Spring
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2. Higher waist lines.
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4. Handsome new sleeves.
5. Clever skirt draping.
Crepe finished materials in the bet-
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WART BROS„ Seaforth
to many people throughout Canada
and particularly in Toronto, where
Mr. Kidd resided for a long time.
Born as Kidd, he changed his name to
Kidd -Byrne to secure a legacy, while
the title of "reverend" was acquired
some time later or earlier, the exact
date being unknown. A few weeks ago
Mr. Kidd was accused of having made
fraudulent representations in Mont-
real and was arrested. Later the doc-
tors decided that he was mentally in-
competent and therefore unable to
stand trial. It is just one more of
the tribulations that have beset Mr.
Kidd since, as the result of a truly
humane and meritorious deed, the
white light of publicity was turned
upon him, and instead of being a
reasonably obscure tea peddler he be-
came a potential financial mag -nate
with large sums of money to be dis-
tributed as he thought best. For
more than 20 years he has been en-
deavoring to pass from the stage of a
potential to that of an actual million-
aire, but has been unable to do so.
One legal difficulty after another he
has surmounted only to find others
confronting him. Really, a less re-
igious man might almost be led to
believe that the very powers of dark-
ness were leagued against him.
The first record we have of Mr.
Kidd is in 1900, when after three
years as assistant superintendent os
the Protestant House of Industry in
Montreal. he came to Toronto. In
Hamilton a few years later he had a
wretched domestic experience, having
gone through a form of marriage with
a woman who apparettly had other
contemporaneous husbands. The time
consumed by his courtship and subse-
quent housekeeping in Hamilton would
appear to be reckoned in weeks or
even days. But a son was born of the
union and later was taken from his
mother by the authorities and sent
to a foster home, the mother being
deemed an unfit person for his cus-
tody. Afterwards the child was tak-
en back by Mr. Kidd who was warmly
attached to him. These experiences,
however, were by no means the most
important events in the life and times
of Mr. Kidd. Besides being an indus-
trious and energetic salesman of tea,
going from house to house for years
to serve his customers, he was of a
strong evangelical turn of mind and
was active and zealous in s6me local
religious societies.
The missionary instinct was strong
in him and it was this, indirectly, that
was the cause of most of his later
troubles. It appears that on one oc-
casion he went to Chicago to visit his
brother. Not having a very clear idea
of where his brother lived he entered
a house to look at a directory and
there met a young woman whose hab-
its of life were only too deplorably'
obvious. She asked Mr. Kidd to pro-
vide her with beer, but Mr. Kidd urg-
ed her to take water instead and wash
away her sins. He yearned over her
to such an extent that she was pro-
foundly moved and sobered, and when
he was leaving 'VII-. Kidd, reversing
the customary process, gave her his
card. He then forgot the incident or
at best remembered it as one of those
countless little acts of kindness and of
Jove that bestrew the path of a mis-
sionary. But some years later he
was thunderstruck to learn that the
girl was an heiress, and that her
father, in gratitude to Mr. Kidd for
having saved her from a fife of in-
discretion, if not indeed shame, in-
tended to leave him part of a huge
fortune with which he could build a
rescue home for erring girls.
r Lucy Burn was the name of the
girl Mr. Kidd had met in Chicago and
Wellington George Burn was her
father. Mr. Burn appears to have
been a Pittsburg millionaire, but
when after his death Mr. Kidd sought
to locate the fortune, estimated at
about $8,000,000, he discovered that it
wasin Australia or F1o4da or some
other out-of-the-way pad. In Aus-
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tralia it took a long time to unearth
any assets and then they appear to
be properties in the name of some-
body named Byrne, whose hairs show-
ed no disposition whatever to hand
them aver to Mr. Kill. We cannot
follow the various wanderings of Mr.
Kidd and the interminable interna-
tional correspondence he has kept up
from that day in 1908 when he first
saw the will and the date when his
mind gave way temporarily under
the strain of the search. But he was
supported by the confidence reposed
in him by his friends in the religious
organization to which he belonged and
which he would have enriched nad he
been able to lay hands on the elusive
mullions.
Nor was it with mere Godspeeds
that his friends supported him. It has
been estimated that in the past 20
years no less a sum than $100,000 has
been invested by those who listened
to Mr. Kidd's story and were anxious
that he should not be kept out of the
millions for lack of funds to fight his
claims. But the difficulty was to find
an open enemy or anything tangible
to fight. It was even difficult to find
out anything about Burn or Byrne.
There were plenty of people of those
names routed out, but none willing to
execute the terms of Wellington G.'s
will. There grew up finally a suspic-
ion that Mr. Kidd had been the vic-
tim of a horrible practical joke and
that Burn or Byrne had deliberately
concealed his fortune so that it might
not come to Kidd or the rescue home.
Doubts arose even that there was a
fortune, and the conviction became
general that Burn or Byrne had at
least grossly exaggerated his solv-
ency. Early backers of Mr. Kidd in
his quest lost interest and refused to
advance more rioney. But others
were found to strengthen the serried
ranks and the search continued, and
if Mr. Kidd should decide later on to
renew the chase we have no doubt
that he will not hunt alone. In the
meantime the rescue home remains a
dream, but the report of the alienists
constitutes a reality.
For better or —orse, this island is
becoming suburb; L..—Dea- Inge.
A Toronto lady ef 99 years blew en
98 candles on her birthday Another
proof of the Value of breefhing exer-
cises.—Lethsbeidge Herald.
damewriorea.
It is easier to -day to get to Orford
or Cambridge if von baybrains and
are born it a London slum than if
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HELPS REMOVE RUST
That a soft dry cloth will remove
the dust from a lacquer finish if the
latter is not too heavily encrusted, is
known to all motorists. The same
cloth slightly moistened with kero-
sene will do a still better job, which
is something that many do not know.
The user should be careful, though,
not to get the cloth "wet." It should
he merely dampened if the job is to
be worth while.
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