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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-09-19, Page 41 1 4 THE WINGI<IAM ADVANCE ---- TIWRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907 FALL AND WINTER Suitings and Overcoatings We have the best range of these for this season ever shown in town. The fancy broad stripes are taking the lead in Suitings, although a few overchecks are still in vogue ; the style of make is varied, so that you can have the style you most prefer and know that it is all right. Colne early and make your selection. FURNISH-IINGS. We have a full line of all the latest Fur- nishings. New and nifty goods arriving daily. iaxwell & Tailors and Men's Furnishings Stoves! Ranges! Cook Stoves for Coal or Wood .... Heaters for Coal or Wood ... Ranges for Coal or Wood ... Sheet Iron Heaters .... Parlor Cook Stoves.. ..Sole Agents for the celebrated Happy Thought Ranges ....OId Stoves taken in exchange. . .Whether you wish to buy, sell or trade, give us call. H. Bishop - Central Hardware RAT The only way to start a Savings Account Is to start It. Good Inten- tions do not bear interest—neither does Idle money. The Bank of Hamilton pays interest at high- est current rate, compounded quarterly. WINGHAII BRANCH C. P. SMITH - Agent THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HELD OFFICE, TORONTO ESTABLISHED 1887 B. E. WALSER, President ALEX. LAIRD, General Manager A. H. IRELAND, Superintendent of Branches Paid-up Capital, $10,000,000 Rest, - - - 5,000,000 Total Assets, - 113,000,000 Branches throughout Canada, and in the United States and England A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED COMMERCIAL AND FARMERS PAPER DIECCUNTEDI 24 SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Deposits of $1 and upwards received, and interest allowed at Current rates. The depositor is subject to no delay whatever in the withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the deposit. W!NGHAM BRANCH — A. E. SMITH, MANAGER. ......NNi►►� ................................ Coal Coal We are sole agents for the oelebrated Scranton Coal, which has no equal. Also the beat grades of Smithing, Cannel and Do- Iaeaida cott1 and Wood of all kinds, always on hand. ►Oftliddence Phone, N. U66 Vila " No. 44 We gas..a fu' stock of Limber (e re i b~ is 'xi eC' 16d), Things „ Lath, Cedar Poets, Barre;s, etc. Highest Price Paid for all kinds of Logs. J. A. MoLEAN Theo. Hall - Proprietor. E?)1to1:IRt --If this trouble between Japan and Canada, leads to war, we recommend that our w:11.4 steamer, the Vigilant, be plaeed on a C. P. 1L fiat, car ,and rushed through to the Paeifle ocean to defeat, the Japanese fleet. For am- munition use some of The Toronto Globe's editorials. If they did not kill the Japs, they would certainly make thein very sick. • • —Some Liberal newspapers place no dependence in Mr. Borden's new plat- form, and others declare it to be "un- practical." If it is true (as Hon. Mr. Aylesworth declares) that the plat- form was stolen from the Liberals, what else could you expect ? They certainly ought to know the quality of their own property. Mr. Borden ought to have known better than to go to that shop for a new platform. We all know what happened the pret- ty platform they made for their own use in 1896—every plank in it went to slivers, • • • —Our readers will occasionally gleet with the word "Esperanto," and it may be that some will wonder what it means. "Esperanto" is a new lan- guage invented by Dr. Zammerhoff, a Russian Pole. He has spent many years at it, and its value lies in the fact that it is easily learned, and thus may become an international language so that all nations may easily learn it and thus readily communicate with each other in business or social life. Esperanto contains about 2,000 words, and as much grammar as may be learned in one day. It is gaining in popular favor, and is taking hold of the public mind in Great Britain. At a congress recently held in Cambridge University, twenty-five nations were represented, and Lord;,Roberts was elected President. ** • —Commissioner Starr has issued his report on the License enquiry in To- ronto. The report is lengthy and seems to have been the result of care- ful thought. The part that refers to the general license system of the pro- vince recommends radical changes. Among them are the following:—That a Board of License Commissioners have charge of the liquor traffic of the pro- vince, employ all officials and issue all licenses ; that the Province be divided into license districts, with chief in- spector ; that license fees be on a slid- ing scale ; further efforts to end the "tied house" system. Shonld the Gov- ernment see fit to crystallize the re- commendations in this report into legislation, it will revolutionize the whole system. The Toronto condi- tions are also felly dealt with. The first impression seems to be that Mr. Starr's suggestion regarding the Cen- tral Board, if adopted, would go a Iong way towards removing the license question from the political arena, • —The cost of crime to the world at large runs up into the billions. At this advanced stage in the Christian era, one may be pardoned for wonder- ing why crime is so prevalent. Take old London, in the centre of England's boasted civilization and progress, and even in that one city, the cost of crime for this year is figured at over fifteen million dollars. And yet not nearly all the crime comes to light. The thoughtful observer, however, will not attribute this pr-evalence of crime to any lack of preservative or preventative power in the religion of the Master, who gave His life to re- deem this sinful world. The reasons are not difficult to ascertain. Among them are—the natural perversity of humanity; the innate tendency to evil ; sinful associations, and the fierce temptations of the present day, espe- cially in the cities. We are not sure but that there are two other causes that have something to do with it, viz.—the tendency to relaxation of parental authority, and the very thin line of demarcation that in many cases exists between the Church and the world. Such conditions, however, are not always to exist. "There's a better day coming." ~ —The CanadianCourier voices its opinion thus r—It begins to look as if there would soon be an era of declin- ing wages. The population is increas- ing faster than capital, and soon men will be looking for work. Nor will this be an unmixed evil. Wages have been advancing so fast and the hours of labor shortened so radically, that the workingman has become some- what careless and over -confident. He has forgotten that there are two sides to every question, that wages cannot it se indefinitely without increasing the price of articles which labor pro- _::es, An era of low interest and an era cf rising wages might continue to- gether fcr a Fang period, as they have dyne in Britain fsr the past half een- t. ~y: In America they have run fair- y well tsgether in the more settled ratis_.s cf the continent for some t4zrQ, real have tow parted and in- sstr:ai expansion is likely to be limit - i3 fcr a year r;r two became of the scar *:ty cf capital, An era of station- ary r,r I+ywer wages *sold mean ehea- ler nrer ant:fsct':lred *ratite, including ower pr sea for bread, milk, meat and other ger tiea of life. This is the c 'snpensettion vehich would come to the wage-earner. If he has legs honey to /Toad, his money will buy more. --The very cordial reception accord- ed Mr. Borden, in his Ontario tour, Must be exceedingly gratifying to liim, as well as to the Conservative party generally. Not tale least pleas- ing was his reception in the province of Quebee, and it is safe to say that he made many friends during his brief stay in that province. His platform appeals to the good judgment of the electors, especially to those who desire to see the politics of Canada on a bet- ter and purer basis. It is tolerably clear that in Doluinion affairs the con- ditions obtaining are similar to those that wrought the ruin of the Ross ad- ministration in Ontario. We cannot agree with the opinion held by some, that the electorate is utterly corrupt, There may be bad men in both politi- cal parties, who lower the tone of po- litical life, but there are honest public men in both. It does seem to us that if both parties pot forth an honest. persistent and united effort, the influ- ence of the bad might be reduced to a minimnna, It is too much to expect its elimination while human nature continues as it is, so predominantly selfish. The extreme selfishness of the present age lies at the base of corrup- tion and graft, and it is difficult to banish selfishness altogether; it will raise its ugly head in social, political, and even Church life. A good plat- form is a necessity, but let it not he as some we have heard of before, whose planks, when its authors reached the place of power, were smashed so as to be unrecognizable. •• —The Montreal Witness, though a staunch Liberal paper, has the follow- ing pleasing reference to Mr. Borden's platform :—"We do not know who at the present time is backed by the most voting strength throughout the country, but certainly Mr. Borden has made something like a. triumphal pro- gress in his itinerary so far. Last week, at the Monument Nationale, the atmosphere was so electrically con- fident that the battle must have seemed to many to be won—as an eloquent lawyer can persuade us to his side until we hear the other. But whatever the voting may tell us pre- sently, Mr. Borden is certainly pre- senting an attractive programme that on some lines must appeal to Liberals as much as to Conservatives, if not more so. The next best thing to a good government is a strong opposing force with high ideals, and during the next few weeks Mr. Borden promises at Least to supply a pressure that will make it easier for his opponents to do right and harder for them to do wrong." Here is Mr. Borden's pledge to the electors of Canada :—"Let the people send to our aid at the next election a reinforcement of sixty men, the best that Canada can produce, pledged to stand for a progressive policy, to maintain the rights of the people, to uphold HONEST GOVERN- MENT, and No OTHER, and to enforce decency in public life. In return you hare my pledge that any administra- tion which I am called upon to form shall be so constituted that it will not be unworthy of the great country which it is to serve." AN HONEST OPINION. Bro. McKenzie, of the Teeswater News, had an excellent editorial in last week's issue of his paper. It seems that because he did not approve of the policy pursued in order to oust the postmaster of Teeswater, son1e` of his Liberal friends taunted him with "turning Conservative." Then the editor of the News hit back, and no person can blame him. He severely scorched those who hold the opinion that a newspaper must simply be the re-echo of the political party to which its editor is supposed to be attached. Fortunately, there is a growing independence along this Iine, and as Mr. McKenzie remarks, this class of insane politicians who ex- pect the newspaper to endorse every- thing done by the party, is dwind- ling. The Advance believes Mr. McKenzie is an honest Liberal. He offers stric- tures on both political parties, from which Conservatives and Liberals might make a few notes (if they would.) We give below a couple of extracts from the editorial referred to, for the perusal of our readers :— "The Conservative party always has been, and still remains, the party of privilege and inertia. With that The News never had, and never can have, any sympathy. Apart from this, as the two parties stand, the Conserva- tive is the more respectable of the two. Though its ideals are bad, it has, at any rate, been true to them. In office it was protectionist, and in matter of organic change, conserva- tive, but it didn't pretend to be any- thing else," "It has been different with the Lib- erals. The Ieaders of that party gain- ed office in 1896 on as good a platform as ever was put forward by a political party on this continent. But they no sooner took charge of the business of government than they forsook their platform—every plank of it, and have ever since been outdoing the Conser- vativea in everything that discredited that party. They forsook not only their platform but the ideals proper to a Reform party—freedom and jus - tide in matter of trade and commerce, organic reform in the direction of greater democracy, and economy in the expenditure of the public money. In this they betrayed their followers, and they shirked their high duty as representatives of the apirit of reform progress." "And yet one iS asked to pares no adverse criticisms I" TtiE SITUATION. A close student of finance says that the acute stage of the money market has passed, for the following rea- sons:— L--That the critical period must work for a change. 2. -That curtailment of business will allow of a recuperative period. 3. That the earnings of the people will provide additional funds. 4.—That financial institutions have piled up a bigger reserve for the crops than will be needed, 5,—That money in the large finan- cial centres is working easier, Byron E. Walker, President of the Bank of Commerce, says restrictive measures have been beneficial. Henry S. Strathy, of the Traders Bank, thinks looney conditions are slightly less onerous, but that cheap Money is not yet in sight. ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIaMENT 1'01110ves all bard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from. horses, blood spavin, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney, stifles, sprains, sore or swollen t hroat, eouglls, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the Most wonder- ful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by A. L. Hamilton. WINGI-IAM General Hospital. (Under Government Inspection.) Pleasantly situated. Beautifully furnished. Open to all regularly licensed physicians. Rates for patients (which include board and nursing) -5L50 to $15.00 per week, according to location of room. For further informa- tion—Address MISS RATHRINE STEVENSON, Lady Superintendent, Box 223, Wingham, Out. ARTHUR J. IRWIN D.D.S., L.D.S. Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pen- nsylvania College and Licentiate of Dental Surgery of Ontario. —081ce in Macdonald Block— W. J. PRICE B.S.A., L.D.S., D.D.S. Honor Graduate of University of Toronto and Licentiate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, OFFICE IN BEAVER BLOCZ — WINGRAM BRITISH AMERICAN BUSINESS COLLEGE Toronto Oldest in Canada, the most thorough, practical courses. Unequalled facilities for good work. Rates reason- able ; enter any time. FALL TERM from Sept. 3rd. Catalogue and Journal of Business Education free. T. M. WATSON PRINCIPAL We Teach Telegraphy. CENTRAL" STRATFORD. ONT. We have three departments :—Com- mercial, Shorthand and Telegraphy. We employ the best teachers that mon- ey can hire, Our courses are thorough and practical, and we assist worthy students to positions. Those who wish to get a MoNEr-MAKING EDUCATION should get the best. Write for our new catalogue and get particulars. This is best time of year to enter our classes. ELLIOTT & MCLACHLAN PRINCIPALS Hundreds of Students of the Popular and Successful 1, ELLIOTT TORONTO, ONT. Have secured positions this year. De- mand is far greater than the supply. Educate for business positions and you will get them, but the education must be FIRsr-CLAss. Students admitted at any time. Write for catalogue. W. J. ELLIOTT, Principal (Cor. Tongs and Alexander Sts.) Protection and Safe Investment are combined in The Endowment Policies —OF— The Dominion Life. A sound, well managed Canadian Life Assurance Company. Average rate of Interest earned in 1906- 6.73 PER CENT. WALTER T. HALL Local Agent — Wingham, Ont. ➢0%INION BANKI HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. Capital (paid up) • $3,633,000 Reserve (ani vco ;d- . $4,720,000 Total Assets, over $51,000,000 WINGHAM BRANCH. Farmers' Notes discounted. Drafts sold on all points in Can- ada, the United States and Europe. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Inowed todpltaup aids, anrest d added picia4narand. D. T. REPBHRit, %anuger E, %resetoas, Schaffer The Great Clearing Sale Is Still Going On. Bigger and Better Than Ever. Bargains That Are Bar- gains In Every Department. Keep On Coming For Bargains. We'll Let You Know When The Sale Is To Chase. mosiosuranoursaarssoavanamoom CARPETS, CARPET SQUARES, RUGS, &c, All Wool, Union and Tapestry Carpets, Stair Carpets, Car- pet Squares, Rugs, Mats. etc. Big out in prices. A saving of at least 25 per cent. That means a $20.0) Carpet for $15.00. Terns, spot Cash or Trade. MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING. • Our stock of Ready-to-wear Clothing is right np-tn-date in style. Good workmanship. Easy fit. Every Snit, every Rain- coat, every pair of Pants and Overalls MUST Bit HOLD. You'll save 25 to 50 per cent. on clothing bought here during this BIG SALE. Terms, spot Cash or Trade, BOOTS AND SHOES. Boots and Shoes are moving out very satisfactory, but there are a lot of bargains waiting hero yet for all who come. We're putting the bargains in bunches in this department. A bunch of Women's Boots and Shoes, regular price $1,25 to $L75. Special Sale price, your choice for $1.00 A bunch of Men's Boots, coarse and fine, regular $1.25 to $2.25. Special Sale price, your choice for $1.00 A bunch of Boys' Heavy Boots, regular price $1.00 to $1.50. Special Sale price, your choice for 75e .And so on all through this department. Every pair of boots or shoes at reduced prices. Terms, spot Cash or Trade. GROCERY DEPARTMENT. • We guarantee the quality of Red Bell Tea, black or mixed, Regular 500 quality for 35c, regular 35c for 25c. Bulk Teas, Japan, black or green, 50c for 40e ; 40c for 30e ; 30c for 20e. Your money back if you want it. Granulated Sugar 20 lbs. for $1.00. Peanut Butter, regular 15c for lOc. Big bargains in Soaps, Washing Powders, Ammonia Pow- ders, Breakfast Foods, Olives. DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT. Everything in this department at reduced prices. Dress Goods, Muslins, Laces, Embroidery, Ribbons, Belts, Collars, Gloves, Hosiery, Silks, Velveteens, everything, everything, for spot Cash or Trade. CHINAWARE DEPARTMENT. Limogues China, Austrian, Getman, English, Fancy China. Every article in this department at a cut in price of from 25 to 50 per cent. Cut Glass at Clearing Sale Prices. TERMS OF SALE — SPOT CASH OR TRADE. Goods will not be charged at reduced prices. Jno. Kerr •s .e •NN You Make A Mistake If yon bny a Piano with- out seeing our stock, comparing prices and taking into account the quality of the instrument. All the best makes always in stock — Heintzman, Newcombe, Dominion, and others. Also Organs, and the very best Sewing Machines. Stand—Opp. Skating Rink David Bell s NNN�A�NI LOCAL SALESMAN �g� T 1�i WANTED�FOR R� YY .i. G H A M and adjoining country to represent "Canada's Greatest Nurseries." A permanent situation for the right man, for whom the territory will be reserved. Pay Weekly. Free Equip- ment. Write for particulars. STONE & WELLINGTON FONTHILL NURSERIES (Over 800 Acres) TORONTO — ONTARIO 00000 WOOD ................... Scatteration of Goods ,** Some Special Values 4 k 4 4 4 4 Y k k K 4 4 WHAT YOU CAN BUY FOR, PER YARD - 5c I lOc{ 1 25c Flannelettes, worth 7c wholesale Dress Muslins, fast colors, regular Se White Cross -barred Muslin regular Se Tea Towels g Children's Cotton Hose Embroideries, worth 7, 8, and 9c Flannelettes, one yard wide, regular 12c Shirtings in Blue, Brown and Gray, regular 14c Ginghams and Prints, regular 14 and 15e Heavy Wrapperettes, pretty patterns, worth 14c Heavy White Toweling Dress Muslins, regular 14e Ladies' Cotton Hose, regular 12 and 15c Men's Cotton Socks Embroideries, worth 155c Ladies' Summer Vests Men's Shirts and Drawers Ladies' Vests and Drawers Lace Curtains, regular 40c Dress Goods, regular 50c Cashmere Hose Tapestry Carpet, regular 35c Table Linen, 55 inches wide, worth 35c One pair Linen or Bath Towels Gray Flannel, worth 35c Ladies' Belts, SVasla and Silk Ladies' Fancy Silk Collars The above are only a few of the genuine bargains we have for sale. All Dress Goods will be sold at 50 cts. on the dollar. Something really special in Black Silks. Handsome New Black Sateen Underskirts, very cheap. .A. fear odd Wrappers to be cleared out at Cost, and A TABLE OF REMNANTS VERY Y CHEAP. T. POULTRY OF ALL KINDS WANTED. -� A. Mills