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The Wingham Times, 1911-04-06, Page 2lawsieseweeseeegeeeeteemewesewew in tea must be dlsa tinctive, pleasing and -unvarying to merit continuous use . The flavor of Red Rose Tea is all its own; and it never fails to win and hold ap- proval because it never fails in quality. Try it, NEVER 501.0 IN BULK Your Grocer Will nocorr mend 11 R� 1! TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening, Casual advertisements accepted up to noon Wednesday of each week. F.STA$LISDED 1872 THE WINGIAll MIES. H B.ELLIOTT. PMILIdHaR 1NAPRORRIE 0r THURSDAY APRIL 6, 1911, THE CANADIAN CENTURY ON THE PRICE OF EGGS. The Canadian Century of last week devoted its attention to eggs, in the effort to show the awful disaster to the Canadian hen that is to follow reciproc- iiy. We cannot do better than quote on this subject Hon. Sidney Fisher, Dominion Minister of Agriculture, speaking at Montreal,' who, replying to an inquiry as to the prices of eggs and poultry in both countries, said: • "It happens that at the present time there is a slump in the New England and New York markets in some of these products which are generally held in cold storage. It is the practice for dealers in these articles to buy large quantities, and put them in cold stor- age when they are cheap in the fall of the year, hold them in cold storage all through the winter, and put them on the market along about May before the new products come in. Large busi- ness interests are engaged in this trade, and the cold storage people, appreciat- ing the fact that after the reciprocity arrangement came into force Canadian eggs would enter the American market free shoved all their cold storage pro- ducts on the market and slaughtered them, So keen were they to do this that they have been sending a lot of these same eggs over, paying the duty, and selling them in Montreal. That will be all over within a couple of months, the trade will have adjusted itself again to its normal conditions, and we will go on in the old course with the prices of these articles a little higher on the other side of the line than they are here." We might also quote the letter of a farmer, Mr. J. T. Arnew, of Tilbury, Ont,' in last week's Farmers' Sun: "Take the case of eggs as an exam- ple. This winter I understand there were one hundred thousand dozen im- ported from China and Russia into Canada. The Canadian farmer could. not fill the demand, and why should he play dog in the manger and keep others out. He got 40c a dozen for his few eggs and is well satisfied. Would the Century keep out foreign competition under such conditions, and allow the rich to get all the farmers' eggs at $1 Had Severe Pains in Back. Felt As if It Must Break. aria - Mr. Alfred E. Davis, Gorrie, Ont., writes:*--" For some yeast1 iuffered from severe paint in my back, and could hardly work at all, and when 1 stooped down to pick up anything felt aa if my back must break. iI was advised to try Doanr fr Kidney Piths end after taking two boxelr WWI entirely cu and f y 1 feel that I cannot speak too highly in their favor. 'mit was nearly four year ago and I still remain eared." For Backache, Lime Back, Weak Bonk, there is rio remedy equal to horn's Kidney Pills for takingpat the alit ter, twitche. and , timbering to tato stiff back andng perfect sorafterts Dotes Kidney P111. are 60 centr per box or 3 boner for $1.211, at all dealer. or diarist on receipt of price ±b by . 0o, Litalled, Oa g direct vivify ><' of fee." per dozen? 1 hope the farmer will see his best interests in reciprocity and not allow papers like the Century to pull the wool over his eyes by one-sided statements." . "STICK TO THE FACTS." There has been so much misrepresen- tation of the ducts by the anti-recipro- ity speakers and writers in the press that it is surprising the ordinary man has anything like a clear impression of the effects of the proposed international agreement. The Globe in an article bearing the heading given above, ex- plodes ene o' the most flagrant mis- representations, and as it refers to the furniture i.uiustry in which Wingham is as niu:h interested as other places, we reproduce it in full: The Galt Reporter, discussing the reciprocity agreement, says: "Furni- ture made in Grand Rapids for Western Canadians. That's what it means, How do Berlin's fifteen furniture fac- tories like the prospect?" The Galt Reporter is a well-informed neditedpaper.Itshould d ably nof seek to bolster upa bad case by false pretences. The truth wears better in the long run, The Reporter knows that under the reciprocity agreement not a comma has been changed in the tariff on furniture. The duty on furniture made in the United States on entering Canada is 30 per cent, That duty re- mains. The Canadian furniture manu- facturer who cannot hold his own against Grand Rapids with a 30 per cent. duty in his favor is not an objeet for sympathy. It is quite certain that the fifteen factories of Berlin, with their highly skilled and industrious workmen, could retain the home market on a distinctly lower tariff than that now in force. They are not asked to do so under the agreement. On the contrary, so long as it remains in force they are assured of duty-free raw materials, for the woods from the United States with- out which the industry at Berlin could not exist, are among the natural pro- ducts that come in free. They have not been taxed heretofore, and they will not be taxed in future. The duty on plate -glass, moreover, which is quite extensively used in the manufacture of furniture, has been reduced, when im- ported from the United States, from! 2734 to 25 per cent. Under these circumstances the furni- ture duty, having been left as it was, the free importation of woods used in furniture manufacture having been confirmed, and a reduction having been made in the duty on plate -glass, what excuse has the Galt Reporter to offer for the statement that the agreement means "furniture made in Grand Rapids for Western Canadians?" The truth is, as everyone in the fur- niture trade knows, that there is far more business offering than can be taken care of by Canadian factories. A single Toronto retail firm is $40,000 behind in its furniture orders, and the Mechanics Wanted columns of the Globe and other papers have insistent calls for furniture makers and upholsterers. The Reporter in its opposition to reci- proeity should stick to the facts. watched for 28 Yearn. Mr. D. M. Waters, the popular drug- gist, Belleville, Ont,, sold his first box of Dr. Chase's Kidney and Liver Pills quarter of a century ago, and has since then noted many remarkable cures, as this medicine grew in popularity. The latest case coming to his attention is that of Mrs, Mark Ottrey, Bay Side, .Ont.. who was cured of serious and torturing kidney and bladder trouble by use of this great medicine.. LOSSES ON THE LAKES. Few people who travel on the Great Lakes take a thought of the dangers of navigating those waters and do not dream that the loss to vessels on the lakes compares with those of ocean carriers, and in fact is greater when the number of vesselsand the area of water are taken into consideration. During the past six years 167 lake vessels with a carrying capacity of 5,. 940,000 tons a season, passed out of existence. The boats that were lost were valued at $7,627,900. Most of the ships that were total losses during that period were wooden boats, and freight- ers of that class cut Little figure in the coal and ore trades. Since the season of 1905, 23 steel vessels were lost. Three ships of that, class were wrecked during the past 1 season. The greatest property loss in the history of the lake trade was in 1905, when 48 boats, with a season capacity of 2,000,000 tons, and valued at $2,341,500, passed out of existence, Inadd di trop to the total lobs of 1905, it costs something more than $1,000,006 to repair the boats that were wrecked in the great storm that swept Lake Superior erf in or p Nevem Der of last year. A half dozen steel ships were driven on the rocks and some of them were not released until the following season, Although only 16 veesels were lost last season, the property lode amts $1,288,000, and the steel steamers, Moreland, Pere Marquette and Good- year made up $1,005,000 of that amount, —Columbus, 0,, State Journai, THE WINGRAN TIMES, APRIL 6 International Newspaper Bible Study Course. Salient rotate in the f(es u u for Sstu+ifty, £4x11 9. Given In a Serie* of questions by Bev. Dr..14infecott. ( Registered in accorclanoe with the Copyright Aot. f Elisha's Heavenly Defenders, 2 Kings vi:8-23, Golden Text—For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Ps, 91:11, (1) Verses 840—Were wars ever realty necessary? (2) Will wars ever cease, and what are the signs? (3) How did Elisha find out what the plans of„the Icing of Syria were? (4) What reason is there, if any, to believe that some men to -day, are able to tell what is in the minds of others? (5) Is mind reading any more won- derful than • other phenomena with which we are familiar, for example wireless telegraphy? (6) Will there ever be any regret- table events in the life of any man who carefully obeys the voice of God in his soul? (7) Verse 11—If a man's plans are repeatedly unsuccessful is that a sure sign, or not, that they are not of God? why? (8) Verse 12 --Was Elisha's ability to tell what the King of Syria was say- ing, when at a great distance from him, natural or supernatural? (9). Are clairvoyants, clairaudients, and others who claim similar powers noted for their spirituality? (10) Verses 18-14 —Why did Elisha allow himself to be shut up in Dothan if he knew ali the King of Syria was doing? (11) What reason, if any, is there to believe that God sometimes plans to get his children into a tight or danger- ous place? (12) WHICH GOOD MAN AT THE END OF LIFE 18 THE BETTER OFF, THE ONE WHO HAS HAD A CONSTANT FIGHT WITH OPPOSING FORCES ALL THROUGH LIFE, OR THE ONE WHO HAS HAD AN EASY TIME, AND WHY? (This question must be answered in writing by members of the club.) (13) Verse 15—Was the fear dis- played by Elisha's servants natural and free from all blame? Why? (14) Why, or why not, should a Christian be blamed if his heart trem- bles in the presence of grave difficul- ties? (15) Verse 16—Would any man ever fear if he knew the full mind of God, and was his true follower? (16) Verse 17—Where is the spirit world? (17) What reason is there for the belief that we are surrounded by spir- itual intelligences? (18) Is there any reason to think that our spiritual visions can be culti- vated to see, and our ears to hear, the spirits by whom we are encompassed? (19) Verse 18—Did God smite the entire army with blindness or only the officers? (20) Verse 19—Did Elisha lie to the Syrians? (21) What is a lie? (22) • Was Elisha justified in deceiv- ing the Syrians? (23) Verses 20-23—When we have our enemy in our power should we do to him as he had tried to do to us? (24) What is the best way to treat an enemy when he is in our power? Lesson for Sunday, April 16th, 1911. Joash, the Boy King, Crowned in Judah. 2 Kings xi:1-20. (ADVERTISEMENT.) Will Reciprocity Increase Farm Values? From the Canadian Century Advocates of reciprocity are making statements to the effect that the adop- tion of reciprocity will immediately in- crease the value of Canadian farm land 25 per cent. or more. Instead of making wild guesses let us get at the facts. Since the recipreeity negotia- tions began the United States Govern- ment has had a report prepared by experts showing the comparative value per acre of improved farm lands in 1900 and 1910 in varions border, states and in the Canadian provinces adjoining them. This report states that between 1900 and 1910 the value of improv farm lands increased 67 per cent. Maine, 37 per cent. in New Humps ire 33 per cent. in Vermont, 181 ; e cent. in Nova Scotia, 120 per cent n New Brunswick, 70 per cent. in Prince Ed- ward Island, 80 per cent. in Quebec, 43 per cent. in Ontario, 39 per cent. in Michigan, 77 per cent. in Minnesota, 123 per cent in Manitoba, 201 per cent. in Saskatchewan and 185 per cent. in Alberta. The great influx of settlers in Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta ac- counts for the rapid increase; in farm values in those provinces but what is the explanation of the extraordinary increase in farm values in the three Maritime Provinces of Canada? Why did Nova Scotia farm values increase 181 per cent. while farm values in the neighbouring state of Maine only in- creased 67 per cent.? Undoubtedly the great increase of to the establishment of manufacturing industries in recent years. ` The estab- lishment of great iron and steel indus- tries has revolutionized conditionized conditions throughout the three prov- inces. A profitable home market has been created for everything the farmers produce. These industries have been equally beneficial to the fishermen. As the steel industries are located in Nova Scotia the influence on the price of farm lands has been most marked in that province, but Prince Edward Is- land and New Brunswick have been greatly benefited. The development of St. John as a winter port has also help- ed to increase farm values in New Brunswick. It will be noted that the increase of farm values is considerably greater in Quebec than in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and the improvement has been greater in Ontario than the ad- joining state of Michigan. In the face of such facts how foolish it is to indulge in wild dreams of a sud- den increase in Canadian farm values as a result of reciprocity. The Price of Barley. From October 1, 1890, to August 27, 1894, the United States customs duty on barley was 30 cents per bushel, From August 27, 1894 to July 24, 1897, the duty was thirty per cent. ad valor- em, equivalent to a little over ten cents per bushel. On July the 24, 1897, the specific duty of thirty cents per bushel was restored and it has been continued ever since. Of course during a period of 21 years there would naturally be considerable variations in prices, but for purposes of comparison it will be fair to take the three years previous to the reduction of the duty, the three years during which the low duty pre- vailed and the first three years after the duty of thirty cents per bushel was restored. According to reports of the United States Department of Agricul- ture the farm prices of barley averag- ed 44.26 cents per bushel during 1892, 1893 and 1894 under a specific duty of thirty cents per bushel. In 1895, 1896 and 1897, under a duty of about ten cents per bushel the farm prices aver- aged 34.53, while for 1898, 1890 and 1900, under a specific duty of thirty cents per bushel, the prices. averaged 40.8 cents per bushel, Thus, instead, of the Canadian farmer getting an in creased price for the barley he sent to the United States as- a result of the re- duced duty the price came down in the United States. It is reasonable to draw the conclus- ion that if as a result ofreciprocity large quantities of Canadian barley, wheat and oats go into the United States, it is more probable that the American prices will come down than that the Canadian prices will go up. • GOOD ROADS AND DRAINAGE. Simeoe Reformer: "Good roads are always good things wherever you find them, but in the counties of Kent, Lambton and Essex the advantage of good drainage systems is apparently much more appreciated than even good roads. Drainage in these low lying counties has been always a heavy load upon the farmers, and they are seeking same mitigation of it, by proposing to the Provincial Government that they should forgo their rights for assistance under the Good Roads Act in place of an equal grant to aid their drainage systems, The Government was cautious in t f m tt n it3 elf to the he gIan sug- gested, p u g gested, no doubt fearing that other in- terests in other counties may claim a similar division of the funds intended for the special purpose of the Act, end no one could estimate what injury might he occasioned to the goal roads eause if the diversion should become extensive.” Essex, Kent and Latrfbton does not ask any diversion of the Good Roads funds, but theg point out that they are not getting a square deal. While the three southwestern Counties are patting millions into drainage and re -darning fertile low spots, ouch rich counties as ..,,....dam Wentworth are drawing $105,273 from the Good Roads fund. The southwest- ern counties spend more than four times that amount under the Drainage Act each year. Essex alone expended over $184,000 last year. The debenture debt of .all the townships of Wentworth only amounts to $76,068 as compared with $412,939 in Essex; $356,058 in Kent, and $268,709 in Lampton, or $1,037,796 for the three counties, which is almost wholly contracted for by the construc- tion of drainage work and bridges, and this is continuous year after year. Then again, not one dollar of Provin- cial aid to railways was ever given in Essex county, while we have all the trunk lines and two electric lines. These e l s all pay the Provincial tax, which go into a common fund, and the three southwestern counties get the short end. Take the eight townships com- r f ` -f3 the county pstn u ty of Norfolk, their debenture debt amounts to some $25,- 000. That county is out for good roads. We wish them success.. Now if in Es- sex, Kent and Latnbton, the residents cannot get more than live or seven miles from a railway, C�yyd don't require roads, but want the fiat thing neces- sary for good roads -drains and bridges —why should they not be encouraged in the good work they have been spend- ing millions ort in adding to the coun- try's wealth. 1911 TOWN DIRECTORY., BAPTIST CHURCH --Sabbath services at 11 a, m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p, In. General prayer�meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. G. Vic- tor Collins, pastor, B. Y. P. U. meets Monday evenings a p, m. W. D. Pringle, S. S. Superintendent. METHODIST CHORCH Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a, m, and 7 p. m, Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. F,pworth League every Monday evening. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings, Rev, W. L. Rutledge, D. D., pastor, F, Buchanan, S. S. Superintendent. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH—Sabbath ser vices at 11 a. in, and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:80 p. rn. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev, D. Perris, pastor. Dr, A. J. Irwin, S. S. Superintendent, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPISCOPAL,—Sab- bath services at 11 a, m. and 7. p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. Rev. E. $. Crolyy, B. A., Rector. C. G. Van Stone, S. S. Superintendent. SALVATION ARMY -Service at 7 and 11 a. m. and 3 and 8 p. m., on Sunday, and every evening during the week at 8 o'clock at the barracks. POST OFFICE—Office hours from 8a.m, to 6:30 p. in. Open to box holders from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. P. Fisher, postmast- er. PUBLlc LIBRARY --Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5:30 o'clock, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'clock. Miss Maude Fleuty, lib- rarian, TOWN COUNCIL — George Spotton, Mayor; D. E. McDonald, Reeve; D. Bell, William Bone, H.B. Elliott, Theo. Hall, Geo. McKenzie, and Simon Mit- chell, Councillors; John F. Groves, Clerk and Treasurer. Board meets first Monday evening in each month at 8 o'clock. HIGH SCHOOL BOARD—Frank Buchan- an, (Chairman), Wm. Nicholson, John Wilson, C. P. Smith, W. J. Howson, John A. McLean, W. F. VanStone. Dudley Holmes, Secretary. A. Cosens, treasurer, Board meets second Mon- day in each month. PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD.—C. G. Van - stone, (Chairman), Alex Ross, John Galbraith, Wm. Moore, P. Camp- bell, H, E. Isard, Dudley Holmes A. Tipling, Secretary-Treas., John F, Gaoves; Meetings secondTuesday even- ing in each month. HIGHSCHOOL TEACHERS—J. C.Smith B. A„ Principal and Classical Master; H. A. Percy, Science Master; Miss Rice Teacher of Mathemotics; Miss M. J. Baird, B, A., teacher of English and Moderns; Miss Anderson, fifth tercher. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.—Jose h Stalker, principal, Miss Brock, Miss Reynolds, Miss Farquharson, Miss Wil- son, Miss Cummings, and Miss Taylor, BOARD OF HEATH —Geo. Spotton, (chairman), Richard Anderson, Wm, Fessant, Alex Porter, John F. Groves, Secretary; Dr. R. C. Redmond, Medical Health officer. FARMERS artloleand they wish to having live a oa d adver- tise the same for sale in the Tunis. Oar large oirerlation tells and it will be strange indeed if yen de net get a customer. We can't guarantee that you will sell because you may ,ask more for the artiole or stook than it is worth. Send your advertisement to the Timms and try this plan of disposing of your stook and other articles OUTSIDE ADVERTISING Orders for the insertion of advertisements such as teachers wanted., business chances, mechanics wanted, articles for Bale, or in fact any kind of an advt. in any of the Toronto or other city papers, may be left at the Tunas office, This work will receive prompt Attention and will save people the trouble of remitting for and forwarding advertisements. Lowest rates will be quoted on application. Leave „r send 'our next work of this kind to the TINFIS OFFICE. Winghs= Waldorf, Colorado, 11,000,600 feet a- bove,sea-level, claims the distinction of having the loftiest post -office in North America. The paid advertisements going 'the rounds of the newspapers (such as was in this paper) representing that reci- procity lets in twelve countries to com- pete with the farmers of Canada in natural products, is one of the most absurd attempts the anti -reciprocity ring has made to excite the opposition. of Canadian farmers to the agreement, tnent. Of the twelve countries named not one of them is in a position to ex- port to this country any of the fruits or vegetable products of Canadian farms, One or two might ship grain or cattle, but as Canadians are export. ers of these products this country offers no market for them. In the open mar- ket arket of Great Britain these competitions are successfully met by Canadians, and as they do net fear them there, there is no reason to fear them here, --Sarnia Observer, 80 YEARS' • (EXPERIENCE ATEHTS Than MARS* DUMP 60141014TO Jilt:iti. mn�oil trStet... anddescript�lonway fcti�f 1ppro.:i•n roeMhather.en mer ourwaboatik ESTA11LI8HED 1&is. -TnE' I1 IAl''IllOS. rizabieasil EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Tile Times OMee, Beaver WINeRA6I, ON T41110, Tanya o? Sunsoalpr -.41,00 Fir annum in advanoe, 41.60 if not ea paid, No paper dieoon. ti fined till all arrears are paid, except at the optica o! the pnbifeher, AnviMaTI5INo BATaa. -. Lega1 and ether casual advertisements 10c per Nonpyariel line for first insertion, Be per line for each suhe ,gaent fneertion, Advertlsemente in local columna are onarged 10 eta. per line for Bret insertion, and 6 °nuts per line for each snbaequent insertion, .Advertisements of Strayed, Farms for Sale or to Bent, and e1nil1 r, 41.00 for flint throe weeks, and 26 Dente for •doh subsequent in- sertion, O0NTuAOT RAras—The following table shown oar ratee for the insertion of advertisement. for specified periods:— BPA41, 1 Ya. a no, a Mo. new OueOolmmn ,--, -470,00 440,00 422,60 fio.o0 Half Column 40.00 46,00 15.00 d 00 Qaarteroolmmn.. ,.._ 20.00 12.50 7.50 1100 One Inch 5.00 p8.00 2.00 1,0u wllll be toe ted till toil d end.00hargeed e000ca ingly. Transient advertisements must be paid Lorin advanoe. exten ive assortment o fail regnio tes1or print- ing, affording facilities not equalled in the county for turning out first olaas work. Large type and appropriate outs for all styles of Post - ors, Hand Bills, old., and the lat,et styles of choice fanoy type for the finer elegises of print H. B, BLLIOTT, proorielor and Publisher Bloch DRS. KENNEDY & " CALDER ()Mesa—CornerPairlek and Centre Sts, Paorrzs: Offices Residence, D. Kennedy 148 Residence, Dr. ()alder 161 Dr. Kennedy specializes in Surgery. Dr, Calder devotes special attention to Dis eases of the Bye, Ear, Rose and Throat" Eyes thoroughly tested. Glasses properly fitted. 7'� R. JAS. L. WILSON, B.A. �+-,Physician, Surgeon, Accoucheur. Special attention paid to diseases of women and children, also Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes thoroughly tested. Glasses properly Sited. (Dr. Macdonald's old stand.) Wingham, Ont. DR. AGNEW, Phyetoian, surgeon, eta, Drug Storm tight calls answeredatoffice DR. EOBT.O. REDMOND, M. B.O.S. (Eng) L. B. 0. P. London, PHYSICIAN and SUBGRON. Office, with Dr. Chisholm. R VANSTONB, •BABRISTBR, SOLICITOR, BTC Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of interest. Mortgages, town and farm vrlno boughtproperty Book Ingham jr.A. MORTON, BABRISTBR, &o. Ningbo/in, Ont. R. L. DIal/now, DUDLIY HOLM, s DICKINSON & HOMES BABBIST$RS, SOLICITORS, Rte. Monter TO LoAA. Orman: Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IRWIN, D. D.13., L. D. S. Doctor ofDentalSur eryofthePenneylvanle Dental College and Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Macdonald Block. Wiraftain Office closed every Wednesday afternoon from May 1st to Oct. 1st. TAT J. PRIDE, B. S. A., L. D. S., D. D. S, 1111 Licentiaal te Otao, and (*adatoUni- versity of Toronto" Office : Beaver Block Office closed every Wednesday afternoon from May 1st to Oat 1st. Wingham General Hospital (Under Government Inspection) Pleasantly situated. Beautifully fur- nished. Open to all regularly licensed physicians. RATES FOR PATIENTS --which include board and nursing), $3.50 to $15. per week according 1 to location of room. For further information, ad- dress Miss L. Matthews. Superintendent Box 223, Wingham Ont. RAILWAY TIME TABLES. GRAND TRUNK EAILW4Y aYSt851. �'� TEAlxs IaAVI rola London.. 8,85 a.nt,,. 8.80p,m, Toronto *Beet 11.084.m., 6.45 a.m., 2.40p.m. Hi ndardine..11.69 can... 8.08 pent.._ 0.15 p.m. AnttIVI rao'& Kincardine 6.46a.m.1i.00a.m... 2.40 p.m. London,..,..,11.54 8,141... 7.85 pan,Palmereton 11.24 a.m, Toronto Jif $set2.08 p,1n.... 9. 249.1n. G. LAMONT, Agent, Winghem, f -CANADIAN PLoi1'I0 RAILIPA7t, WW TRAtzta r1AY>f Pon Toronto And $alt........ 0.88 *,111,... 5.98 p,m. TeetWater .............. 1,20 p.m...10,17 p.m. AttttxPti rnort Teebwater,.. ,...,..., ..8:8Ka.1n,... 8.28 p.m. Toronto and AU' ......1.09 I1,1a.,,,10,00 p.m, .1. , R. s$ $ M$R . Aant r .Winohsin, T PAYS. TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES. RUSSIA WOMEN ,l REVOLUTIQNISTS Goaded Into Anarchism by, the Her, rors of Czardomlem---Car. eers of Some Leaders "Let the Great Powers intervene and Insist upon a comprehensive reform of Russian monarchical methods In that unhappy country, and we shall hear no more of Anarchism, of Nihil- ism, nor of the terror that turns men and worsen into murderers." ' And like the writer of this para graph, Which is quoted from a London noWs, viper many others, since the terrible Stepney tragedy, have pointe4 out that a great measure of the re- sponsibility for the presence of An* archists in England lies at the door of Czardoinism. 111.1Saia breeds .Anar- chists and Nihilists—high-minded men and women who sacrifice their free- dom and lives because of their hatred of the despots who grind down the common people with prison a^4i the knout, and others who, having suf- fered cruelty and torture, pursue a systematic course 'of revenge on ail society. A striking illustration of the manner in which Russians are goaded into Anarchism is to be found in the fact that, according to statistics, 85 per cent .of all Russian Revolutionists and Nihilists are -women, Not ignorant, uneducated women, but in many cases women of culture, wealth, and good breeding, who are so stirred by the wrongs suffered by their countrymen and countrywomen that they gladly join the Revolutionists, well knowing that sooner or later they will be forced from a luxurious home and surround- ings to a living death in Siberia. The death was recently reported, for instance, of Vera Sussulitch, a woman martyr, whose work and fate have in- spired thousands of followers. She,, together with Vera F)gner—both young women of high ideals and edu- cation—were arrested as Revolution* aries after the assassination of Czar Alexander II. For nearly twenty years they were Confined in the solitary dun- geons of Schlusselburg, the Russian Bastille in the middle of the Neva, from which no one has ever escaped; and then they were sent to Siberia,. Ultimately, when they were aged, grey-haired, and broken in health, Czar Nicholas gave them a pardon and they Were released. One of the most picturesque fig- ures amongst women Revolutionists of Russia is Vera Figner, whose father was one of the distinguished generals. of the Napoleonic wars. Betrayed '.)y• a traitor, she was condemned to twenty years in the Schlusselburg fort- ress for alleged participation in every one of the attempts on the life of the late Czar. Those incarcerated in this fortress are considered as buried alive,, no intercourse or communication with the outer world being allowed, not even with their own nearest relatives, But Vera Figner survived the horrors of twenty years' solitary confinement rind exile in Siberia, and is still work- ing for the enlightenment of ignorant Russians. Flogged to Death A name revered by all Russian Re- volutionists i that of Mme. Sigida, who, aroused to a frenzy of indigna- tion througn seeing an invalid female prisoner in the Siberian colony et Kara, to which they bad both been exiled, flogged by a warder, was her- self flogged to death because she struck him. In the prison records It is written, "Mme. Sigida committed suicide by poisoning herself,' but truth, like murder, will out, and the crime of the warders of Kara has been fully proved. Terrible indeed were the torture and cruelty meted out to Marie Spiri- donova, who three years ago shot Colonel Luzhanovsky, who flogged the peasants when they were unable to pay taxes, or ordered the Cossacks to shoot down the strikers and to tor- ture their wives and children. She was condemned to death, but the in- human treatment she had suffered be- fore her trial induced the authorities to commute the death -sentence, al- though it would have been more mer- ciful to have carried out the extreme penalty of the law, for today she is working out a miserable existence in a Siberian mine, and is said to be the only chained woman convict in Siberia. A Princess in Exile One of the most remarkable inci- dents in the Ihistory of the Russian movement was the sentencing to Siber- ia of M. Lopukhin, President of the Police Department until 1906, who was accused of sympathizing with the Revolutionists. His wife, born a prin- cess and a friend of the Czarina, fol- lowed her husband into exile, and the once Ieader of fashionable society In St. Petersburg is now a member of a Colony of Siberian convicts. These are but a few of the women Nihilists of Russia, who, in the words of M. Prelooker, "have given up their homer, sold their costly ! gowns and furs, and have gone bravely out to face death, and worse than death." Of these women, Catherine Bresh- kov9kaya Is the honored leader, She le known as the "Well -beloved grand- mother of the Revolutionists." For twenty-three years she was inearcer sited in various 'view hi Siberia, sometimes in solitary confinement, gometimee with a few companions in en Arctic climate surrounded by an; eternity of snow, but 'undaunted in . spite of all. "We may die in exile, and our children may die in exile, but som t e cin,► will BColne Out of it at last, she says. HOW CROCKETT SCORED Among popular o ul present-day p p esent•da y novel• lots *hots work was condemned .ii the flrat place by publishers io Mr. S. R. Crockett, of "Btickit Minister" fame. When he offered hie Brat vol. ume to a Scotch firm it war! returned With a polite noes assuring hila that there wee no market for that sort of thing. The letter was marked "NO an." In later Mei whets the wine publlahere asked him for ono of his ranuaoripta he politely requested then to refer to their previous corms. In_II.tiettee with lriin marked "1196b."