HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-01-04, Page 2SOMOSVPM010004#040000014$0010040.000.1440,9014***WWW PO*"
LE:seroN 1,-.-4/AN, 7, 1912.
Tine Birth of elohn, the Baptist Fore.
teide-deuke I 543.
tionneitintaryeei. A ehildlees home
(v3, 0-74 5. In the clap of Herod, the
(heat, 'Mita tlle ruler, by lioniids tip-
reinhoent, of Pc3til 1iM authority
exteaded over Judea &Iberia, Galilee
and the impertent poree of Parma Zilch
-
Greek form pf aeliariahe e
*erne llatne Zeiehariali, means "rearm -
'leered by Jehovah." Course of Able -
Greek form of Abijah. In the time of
Lrittm i4 the prieethood wcli divided into
twenty-four course) or classen and eatat
aloes administered the temple Service
one week at a time. Itlizabetha-Both
Vim:Iberia% and Elizabeth belonged to the
prieetly, tribe. 6, Righteous before God
-A tonal denoting the highest moral ex.
Unice, They were not merely right in the
*yeti of mina but thclr righteousuese was
Of the heart, where God alone eau see.
Commantiniente-The moral law Ordi.
naceis-Theee ineluded the ceremonies of
Jewish worship. Blaineless-A lofty tri-
bute is here peel to the character of this
devoted family. 7. Hail no chid. it was
considered amoog Jewieli families a seri
ions misfortune to be eitildices, and was
regarded as a moral reproaeli or a pun-
teliment for ein. It meant the cutting off
of the family name, but, worse still, it
eut off the hope of the birth of the elms.
that in that family.
11. A gracious promise (vs. 8-17.) 8. 8,
llexecuted the priest's offico-He was per-
forming the duty that fell to his lot
faithfully and reverently. 0. His lot was
to burn Manse -There are said to have
beau some twenty thousand priests hi
he dole of Christ, and it coula there
faro never fall to the lot of the same
peleat Vet+, to offer incense. Hence this
woold hoot been, apart from the vis:on,
the mast memorable day in the life of
Zhielatias.-Farrar. It was esteemed An
exalted privilege to be appointed to burn
ineenee in the temple. 10. Multitude....
praying -The bleeding victim was upon
the altar of eacrifice, the smoke of the
buralag, incense was ascending as a sym-
bol Of prayer, and the people were lift-
ing their hearts in prayer to God in
keeping with the ceremooies that were
Wive. performed by the priests. 11.
There appeared unto him an angel -
Mats manifeetation came to him while
he was busy with the performance of
1413 duties. 12, tear fell upon him -Not
ao much alarm or dread ef dangeras
holy ame,-131iss.
la. Fear not-Thie expression is used
repeatedly in the Scriptures to reaseure
those to whom divine manifestatione
come. See Judg. 61 23; Matta 28: 5;
Luke 2: Rev. 1: 17. Zaeherims was
encouraged, by these words to attend'
earefully to the rneesage that was about
be .givren. Thy prayer -4t may rem
sonality'bupposed that the prayer of
huilarlas was twofold, ineluding a re-
quest for a son and a prayer for the
visaing of the Messiah. John -The very
atone of the promised son was Indic:a-
wl. The name means 'the grace, or fa-
veg, of Jehovah." 14. Joy and giaduess
--Ylexdtant joy, transports of joy, would
be experienced, not only because of. the
mission that that son would fulfil in re-
lation to the Messianic kingdom. Many
shall rejoiee-The coming of John was
for the purpose of preparing the way for
Christ, the greatest gift to all the
world. 15. Great hi the sight of the
Loed--Jotin was to be great in native
tome, great in integrity, great in his
perception of truth and great in his
Be was to be tt'enet in the
eight of the Lord," even if he was not
to be gerat in the sight of all men.
Neither wine nor strong drink -He was
to be separated unto his particular mis-
sion, awl was to Icea trained_ in accord -
:Mete with the Nazarite vow. See Num.
Ot 1'-5. Filled with the Holy Ghost -
lie was to be filled constantly during
kit entire life with the Holy Spirit, that
he might suecessfully fulfil his mis.sion„
16. Israel .... turn to the Lord -It
is implied that Israel had. need of turn -
in to the Lord. John gained a. hearing
th the people and pointed them to
Christ no their Messistb. 17. Ile shall
go before Hini-Johri was to appear as
a herald, or forerunner, of Oltrist. His
mission was to prepare the way for the
comtng Meesiah. He was to be, not
Elijolt retired to life, but himself PAS -
seised of the epirit and power of Elijah.
Turn the hearts -See Mal. iv. 6. The
wt:irk •of the gospel, and even the pre-
paration foe its coming, is to bring
theit members of families into their proper
relation ane to another.
ITT. The promise confirmed (vs. 18-23).
la, Whereby shall I know -The bold
puttliog the •augel to proof was a want
of proper faith. The feet that the
augOlie visitant knew his prayer, the
*picador of his person, and the tremor
Zieehariae. were vouchers sufficient.-
Wheilon. Zacharias realized that the
oatural difficulties were great, and his
looking unduly at them led him to dis-
trust meestirebly tho weeds of the hea.v-
may visitant. 10. Angel answering -The
privates question did not so displease the
angel am to came him to leve him, but
ke lingered to satisfy the query of
Zacharias. Gabriel -"Hero of God." The
only other angel or archangel named in
ttie eoriptures is Michael (ie Dao. x. 21).
Stand, ote.--The attitude of Ono who
keryes another. Sent ...a to ehow thee
--Gabriel explains to Zaeharias his
nature ad office and deelares the a.u-
therity with whieli he hapoken. 20.
Ihtmle-The word in verse 22 rendered
"epeeehleee impliesinability to hear as
well as inability to speak, and Zaehte
ries "WitS probably deof cite well as &Mat).
This was the sign to sent Zaeharites tn
itnevrer to his elevation (v. 13). 21'. Mar.
veiled that he ta,rried--Ile had remained
honer in the holy 'due than usual. A
eaared awe moved the priests to com-
plete their work Ata retire promptly
from the place, and when Zacharias tar-
ried long the people feared that some
harm had befallen hive 2.2. A visiott-
mAde it lcuovve in glomc way to the
people that a sapernaturel manifeeta-
tion had eome to lane 23. Days of hie
Mitten. to. tion-Sev en days.
Qneetione.-Who was Zaeliariae? Who
was ittlee in Paleetihe? When AM the
eveseto of tide leseeen weir/ What was
the ehara.eter of Zetbarlee end Eliza.
lietht What leek was there in their
home? Deeeribe the experienees of built-
ttrie.s SS he lairned inetnise in the temple,
What ilegeee of feith did Zech:trine have?
‘ilett alga was given bial? Whet were
to be the character end work of john?
PRACTICAL SURVEY.
Topte--Anewered prayer,
eompleted tlomestie felieity.
11. i11ei prophetie elainee
U. Prodtteed perfect reeigeetien.
}lemon life is intended to be
the rot lization of a, hmvenly
The lemon liefere Le 15
beantiful eelribir ei • of t,er-
eottel itel family religieu. eieeere, bre-
preaehable, praetiettl; a very beautiful
view QI human life whieh hate ia it titll
tho element* of an exeellent complete
neete-righteone before God, blemeleee
before men. in and uniformly
righteotte, tIu $attle in every eituation.
"Both regliteone." The melon cement-
ed by affection, was streagthened by
piety, "No ehlitl." Here 'VMS desola-
tion withoet murmuring. Yet the ani
ewer to all tree prayer rauet erne. De-
lay is not denial, Were the Ammer im-
mediately to follow prayer, Christiane
WOIlld COMO to look 1on their preyere
ae Meg the efIllSe of the anewer with-
out any referenc.c to God's will, The
mesenger of joy to Zilehariaa began
with the mention of aeeepted prayer.
His mat and official prayer was that
the expected Meesiali might come, Hie
personal prayer had been for a 8C11. The
angelaneeeeeeter promieed a sou, gave
lein a signifieant nem, foretold for him
a specific offioe, but greatest of all he
enioCtimed the louger-for coining of
the Messiah, whose forerunner the child
wee to be. Though affected by the pree-
mie° of the angel. Zoeharias was proper.
ed for U by the sanctity of the plaoe,
by the solemnity of the serviee which
he was about to perform, by the spit-
pathy with thee() who prayed for na•
tional deliverance and by the sense of
his own domestic trial. Zacharias WaS
a good man living under a bad govern-
ment, a good man retaining his recti-
tude mold corropting influences, a good
priest among a degenerate proiethood.
When the promise of actual parenthood
was deearled to Zaeluirias he scarcely
realized its meaning. Instead of speak-
ing prilieee to God, he asked a sign and
received it in a long -continued dumbncesi
Elizabeth found joy in the promise.
II. Fulfilled prophetic claims.., Not
only was the househoid to be blessed by
the advent of a son, but the nation
would be affected by God's gift to his
devoted children. John Was to be God's
ideal of true greatnees, hotel to serve
his generation. He woe to be God's
choaen human instrumentality. An era
of new and fuller grime Was to begin
with John. Ile was the morning star
of the goepel dispensation. He was by
stern and moral grandeur to bring the
people to a sense of sin, and thus pre-
pare the infor the adnent of the Savior
, -
He was to reclaim the notion from its
departure from G-od, to preaoh repent-
ance, to proclaim the approach of the
kingdom of heaven to usher in 0, new
dispensation. John's whole soul WS*
to concentrate in his objeet, Men wore
to recognize in John the power of mast-
ery, which is always granted to per-
fect self-denial. John was to place the
people in a position that they might
know and recognize Clarist when he
came', and them to make ready a people
premixed for the Lord.
111. Produced perfect resignation.
The aged priest and his wife seem to
have kept up the form of prayer for a
son long after they had ceased to ex-
pect stieb a gift, but God marked their
integrity to him. Ile would have every
elailda pateeess the great inheritance of
godly parentage, and. so choose Zachar-
iee and Elizabeth to be the parents of
the great herald of °heist. Zacharias I
had indulged in reasoning and question-
ing frora a human standpoint, thus lim-
iting the power of the Holy One of
Israel. Such ekeptictsm doseeved Ghao.
tisement rather than sympathy or en-
dorseenent. Elizabeth' i baritanness ne-
cessitated the annunciation and made
known God's design for her. Zachar-
ias was not permitted to speak of his k
joyous prospects to the people. He
received the chastisement and devout-
ly e,ontinued his minstrations in the
temple, trusting God and continuing in
duty. He acqueseed in the divine will.
-T, R. A.
1000
.,,05.11,vilel
itee.melle•
TORONTO MARKETS.
r444.1.00J8s. litattiatith.
Deed eoen'..$ 815 ; 0 ee
itutter, god ebolee 30 a 36
Eiriza, new -laid, dozen 0 50 0 66
Chickens, lb.. .. .14 0 la 0 15
Duelts, lh IF 44 4* .4 •••• 0 13 0 15
Fowl, lb. .. , 0 10 0 12
T.urkeYe. lb.-,. 0 21 0 24
Geese, lb... 1.001/ brs 14 I ••• 0 1.2 0 la
AnDlee, bbi..,. ., 2 50 4 50
Potatoes, bag .... •,. 1 30 1 60
Cabbage, aozen 0 50 0 60
Beef. hindquarteis 0 60 11 00
forequartert6 nO 7 GO
Do., choice, carcaee 0 00 9 76
leo., medium. carcase 750 8 00
Veal, prime .4.. 10 00 12 00
Mutton. prime 7 00 800
Lamb, Spring -.11 00 12 00
IIIDES AND WOOL.
Latest quotations;
Cit Y lildes--No. 1 inspected steers and
eoWs. 12 1 -ac; No. 2 inspected steers and
cows. 11 1-2c; No. 8 inspected Steel's and
cows and bulls, 10 1-2c.
„•
Crty Calfskine-140 to 160.
Country alarkets-The prices thr coun-
try stock being paid by city dealers are:
Hides. cured, 110 to 11 1-2e; green, e 1-2c
to 10 1-2c; lambs and pelts, 80e to
horsehides, No. 1, $3,26; horsehair, 30e to
lac; calfskins, 13e to 14e.
Wool-Unwaehed, 12c to 13e; 'washed,
18c to 20c; rejects, 15e.
LIVE STOCK.
Toronto report: Th ototal receipts for
the week at the Western cattle market
were 46 cars. with 700 cattle, 575 sheers
and lambs. 225 hogs and 100 conies.
Cattle are firmer to -day on account of
the scarcity. The top for choice butch-
ers is about $6.25, and col:ninon and med-
ium classes are stronger according to
their quality. Sheep and lambs are
steady. but there are no noticeable
changee for the entire week. Hogs are
about stationary,
To -day's receipts: 21 cars, containing
540 cattle, 246 sheep and lambs, 125 hogs
ana 50 calves.
Export cattle, choice, 88.35 to $6.75; do.,
medium, $5,90 to $6.30; do., bulls, ;4.75 to
25,76. Butchers' cattle, choice, #6.20 to
86.36; do. medium, $5,60 to $6.06; do., com-
mon, 5 to $5.20; butchers' coNve, choice,
$5,36 to 25.70; do., medium, $4.60 tu $5.10;
do.. canner.) $2 to $2.25; do. bulls, 84.25 to
$6.25; feeding steers 84.76 to 25.36; stock-
ers. choice, $6,25 to 85.40; do., tight, $3.25
to $3.76. Sheep, ewes, $3.50 to $8.76; bucks
and cuts, $3; lambs, 25.76 to $6.40; hog,
fed and watered, $6.20; hogs, f.o.b., $5.90;
calves, 23 to $8.
OTHER MARKETS..
WINNIPEG GRAIN MARKET.
Prey.
Close, Open, High. Low, Close.
Viibeat-
May, .. 99¼ 99% 9•9% 89 9931
Dec. . •,. 94 94 94 1, 93r
May. neW ..,. 98% 98%. aS% 98 8 98
Oats -
Zion•• so 1..• 29 .. 00 00 39
Dec. .• P414 4. 44 •P • • 38
DULUTH GRAIN MARKET.
Duluth Whaet No, 1 hard, $1.04 1-8;
No. 1 northern, $1.03 3-8; No. 2 northern,
$1.01 1-8; Dec„ $1.02 5-8; nonalnal; May,
$1,05 5-8; July, $1.00 5-8, nominal.
lialeeetnAPOLLS GRAIN MARKET.
311nneapo11e-Cose - Wheat, December
81.04. nominal; May, $1.06 3-8; July, $1.0/
to 21.07 14; No. 1 hard, 21.06 7-8; No, 1
-northern, $1.06 3-8; No. 2, do., $1.04 to
81.04 3-8; No. 3 Wheat, $1.01 3-8 to $1.02 3-8;
No. 2 yellow corn, -590 to 00c; No. white,
cats. 44 1-ec to 4e; No. 2 rye, 87 1-2c to
Etc; bran. 223 to $23,60; flour, first pat-
ents, $5 to $5.10 ;second patents, 24.60 to
$4.90; first clears, $3.50 to $8.$5; second
clears, $2.40 to 82.80.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK,
Chicago despateb: Cattle -Receipts es.
4.--•-•-•-••••••••
A GREAT STRIKE.
Over 400,000 Looms Now
Idle in Lancashire.
London, Jan. 1. -The labor trouble
in Inmeashire is assuming the most ser -
tette proportions. It is announced that
420,000 looms or, three-fifths of the
whole number in the district are now
idle. The workers will lase) $800,000
weekly in wages..
It is estimated that $300,000 weekly
will he,ve to be distributed from the
weaveni strike fund. Should short time
become effective in the spinning mills
which are still running full blast, the
loss in wd'ges every week will amount
to aver $1,250,000.
A spirit of unreet pervades union
labor all over the 'United Kingdom.
Yesterday 200 miners employed in the
collieries at Treorchery, Wales, went
ont on strike as a proteet against the
employment of non-union workmen. In
Lancashire the dispute has spread to O
cane° printing mill at Cheshire. Six
hundred employees have been locked
out there,
PREFERRED JAIL
To Freezing Outside Said
Self -Confessed Embezzler.
New York, Jan. 1. -Pending the arri-
val of officiates from Atlantic City, the
New York police are holding teeley
(Tease 33. Adanue who proved himself a
philosopher host night and surrendered
with the remark that he would rather
be in jail than freeze, Penniless and
numb with cold ha walked into a pollee
atation and said between ohattering tolls
that he Was wanted bar embezzling $600
belonging to an Oddfellows' lodge of At-
lantIO City The pollee took hie word
for it.
TORPEDO BOAT RAMMED,
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 1. --let tow of the
I-et/elute tater, Onondaga, the crippled
torpedo boot destroyer Warrington, ie
8Iowly limping up the Atlaritie coaet
to -cloy and ehottld turn the Virginia
Capes and get to the Norfolk navy
yard to -night,
Ithe identity of the ship tied ran the
Werrington down off Haeterae in the
gale of Wednesday night, rammed a
hole hi her starboard side, flooded her
hoed and injured two of her crew, hos
not boon (Hoovered.
GUELPH MAN DROPS DEAD
•
Cnelph, Ont., deepatehe William Smith,
for tee peat tee years employed by the
Cuelee earpet mills, fell dead on the
eereet this morning. Ire ent to work
after breakfzet feeling well, but wax
taken ill shortly after and etarted for
hie bonding-hot:tie, dropping dead. De-
eeoetel was 60 years old, and leaves one
dleteelter, Jeeeie, Preeleeteriert mitoonary
in CI:intt, tend one eon, Willittit, aeeti,
raplaia. HO hal no relatives here.
The ler that warms it mrentroli warm-
ed .1 beer. -Pope.
tangled at 8,500; market slow, but
steady:
Beeves , . .. $4.75 $8.60
Texas steers .. .. 4.25 5.75
Wee.tern steers 4.40 0.60
Stockers and feeders on 3.26 5.85
Cows and heifers .. 2.00 6.40
(helves , • .... 5.25 8.00
Hog receipts estimated at 29,000;
market slow, steady to 5c lower.
Light 5.85 6.25
Mixed e. , . . 5.95 6.40
Heavy 6.00 6.40
Rough . , 0.00 0.13
Good to choice hogs .... 0.15 0.49
Pigs , . , . . , 4.80 5.95
Bulk of sales ..• , . 6.15 0.35
Sheep reeeipts estimated at 13,000;
market steady.
Native ., '2.75 4:50
Western , , . 3.0.0 4.50
Yearlings . • 4.65 5.0Q
Lambs, native .. 4.25 6.50
Lambs*, western 4.75 6.50
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE.
Wheat -Spot, steady; No. 3 Manitoba,
7s 8 1-20; futures, dull; Dee., 7s 4 1-20;
Marcia, 78 4 1-40; May, is 2 3-40,
Corn -Spot, steady; American mixed,
new, 6s 3d: do., old, Us 70; fatares,
steady; January, Bs 80; February, 7s 7-
5-8d.
Butter --Good United States, 112s.
Linseed oll--40s.
Flour -Winter patents, 27s 60.
Hons---In London, Paeific Coast; £11 lis
to 412 5s.
Beef -Extra. India mess, 96s.
Pork -Prime mees, western, 92s Dd.
Ifarns-Short cute 14 to 16 lbs., 54e.
Bacon -Cumberland cut, 26 to SO lbs.,
45s 60; short ribs, 16 to 24 lbs.'47s 65;
clear bellies., 14 to 16 lbs, 48s; long clear
middles, light, 28 to 84 lbs., 43s; long eFear
m'aldies. heavy, 35 to 40 Ma,'47s 60; short
clear backs. 46s 60; shoulders, square, 11
to 13 lbs, 4Th. 91
Lard -Prime weetern, in tierces, ies 60;
American refinen, in pane, es ou.
Clieese--Castadian finest. white, 71e 60;
do., colored. 72s.
Tallow -Prime city, 35e Od.
Turpentine spirits -57s 80.
Resin -16s 4 1-20.
Petroleum -7s.
BUFFALO LIVE STOOK.
East Buffalo despatch: Oattle-Re-
ceipts, 250 head, fairly active and
eteady.
Veals-Iteeeipts 500 head, active; 85.-
50 to $11.
Hogs -Receipts, $6,400 head, active
and steady to strong, pigs $6.40 to 80.-
45; roughs $5.70 to $5.85; dairies, $6.-
25 to $0.56-
Sheep and lainba--Receipts 9,400 head
active, sheep 25c, laretbs 36c higher,
lamb, $3.50 to $7; yearlings, $4.50 to
$5.50, a few $5.75; wethers, $3.75 to O.-
25; sheep, Mixed, 81.60 to $3.90.
-
FOUR MORE DEAD.
Berlin. Jan. 1. -Four more deaths
from poisoning oecurred toelay at the
municipal 1,4,14 aholter for the Time-
less, briligiog the total of the fatalities
from the eating of the tainted fish by a
member of the itetates on Dec, 26 up to
52. An additional 26 new eaees of sick.
nese from the same eause have also been
regletered, and altogether between. 70
and 80 men are atill suffering from the
effecte of the conatunption of the putrid
fish.
4.46.44:444 ,
SAVED BY CANADIANS.
Fringe Depart, le 0., Jan, 1, -The
Halibut steamer Grant of Seattle,
went reeleore off White Reck, Danks IS.
land, and quiekly sank, 'Tuesday tight.
Her erew of forty men Wok to the dor.
leo and Were pieked up by the Canadian
fishing steamer thileon, from here. Ow-
ing to the rough weather the Felon
did not report her until to -day. The
Grant had 30,000 lbs, of halibut on
boord at the thue she eank
G. T. R. WAGES RAISED,
Itifehe jail. 1, - Railroad
men here have reeelved iritelligenee
from 14011116a' that the ineretieed rates
of pay protnised the treili and yard-
men of the Grand Trunk Railway eye-
tem,at tho time Of the aettlemerit of
the strike in the summer of 1010, will
become effeetive jamteey lat. This will
Mean ait ilierealle Of about $480,000 a
year ht the peyrolls GI the (rend Trunk
fer flee elees Of labor.
ELECT PRESIDENT FOR
CHINESE REPUBLIC
•
Dr., Sun Vat Sen the Choice of Eighteen of
of the Provinces.
4
Seri is a Native of Canton ---The
Troops Must Withdra,w.
Shanghai, Jan, le -The news of Dr,
Sun Yet Sen's election to the preeideney
by the delegates of the eighteen pro-
vinces of China proper at their con-
ference at Nanking, spread with ex-
traordinary rapidity among the popu-
lation. Crowds made their way to the
house of the French coneeesion in
which he tuts resided since hie arrival
here. When lie appeored he was greeted
with an enthusiastic ovation.
The city ehows evidences of great ac-
tivity. Members of the provisional cab- ,
inet, which was formed by Dr. Wu Ting
Fang on Nov. 6 and delegates who were
sent by. both the imperialists and re-
volutioniste to the peace conference'
which is now regarded as hewing lapsed,
pass frequently along the streets On
their way to President Sun Yat Son's
headquarters,
It is believed that Dr. Sun Yet San
will immediately demand the withdraw-
al of the seetalleel imperial 'troops from
their strategical positions in order to
avoid the possibility of conflict with the
troops of the republican givernment, As,
sonn as this has been effeoted the Arm-
istice now existing will be extended and
the Manehu troops will be ordered to
lay down their arras or to enter the -
:service of the republic.
As soon as military arrangenlente
have been Completed negotiations will
be opened. on the subject of the pensions
to be offered to the former prinee,s and
Meaehu governors.
ACCEPTS POSITION.
Shanghai, Jan. 3e-immediate1y fol.
lowing the receipt of word from Nan-
king thathe had been elected president
of the republic of China, Dr. Sun Yet
Sen iiiindod the following statement to
the press: "r consider it my duty to
accept the presid,enoy. My policy will
be tee seeure peace and a stable govern-
ment by the promptest methods pos-
stble. My aingle aim is to insure the
Little Farm
Well Filled
The little farm well tiled is the senth
ment of the present-day farmers. Years
back it Was the custom to own large
territorice, so much so that xnany were
rendered land poor. It is different to
day. Successful aggiculture means the
work thoroughly done. Just what size
of a /Arm should ise satected depends
Upon the amount of capital and. exper-
ience at hand. It cannot be measured_ by
acres. One hundred acres would be but
an ordinary farm. to einem fertecen
while 50 acres to others would be a gi-
gantic affair,
While it may not be intrinsically de-
sirable to have a small farm, there cer-
tainly is everything in the farm that is
well tilled, It is for this reason that the
small farm is desirable. Other things be-
ing equal) it is probable that the same
economies are possible in farming on
large scale that prevail in either eall-
Inge, and that large scale farming may
thus be made relatively more profitable
than when it is done in a, small way.
In every business there are "fixed
charges" that increase ite the magni-
tude of the busineee increases, but not
in the eame proportion. Where one has
euffieient capital and. plenty of good
labor, farming on a large scale will nat-
urally result in greater profits than
when clone on a. small scale.
As already mentioned, the size of the
farm is not neceasarily measured by
acres. That in a farm becomes too huge
when its purchase requires iso much mei
that there is an insufficient amount left
to farm it, well, or where there is a
lack of good labor. One hundrei acres
and net sufficient money left to farin
it will be a loss. Far better to sell half
of that land and have the money that
it brings to properly work it.
It is wad that the English tenont
farmer reeognizes the necessity of letv.
ing capital proportionate to the amount
Of land he rents to a degree undreomed
of in this country. For every acre of
land he rents he wants $50 in meney.
If the farm should eontrein 10 acres, his
working capitol nnl9t represent $500.
Under no other considerations would he
undertake it.
The conditions in this country seem
to be different. Here a former. with $50
caSh for each titre of lend be wished
to farm would buy a farm of his own
with hall or threeifourths of the money,
and use the balance to stook jt and car.
ry it on, and in the end he would -tome
out all right, although lie would have
to work hard :end manage well.. It is
innpoetant, however, that there be work-
ing cepital on heed. The "little farm
well tilled" is little enough if it is not
beyond the owner's Means in either cap -
or labor.
A number of incidents can be told of
how email limns furnished very good
ineomes. Some gine ago the writer came
across a small farm eontaining only
five «mete owned by a, widow lady with
an 1.8-yeateold son and a 16 -year-old
daughter, The daughter attends to the
household, while the mother and son
do the work about the Place. The farm
oonelste of several hundred fruit freeze
with art acre and a het of berries. The
garden vat is ut an acre. In stock
there is a horse, tivo 'COWS) about a
dozen mge and 200 lieod of pintitry. In
the eellar of the honne two ineubatore
are operated from November 1 to April
1, and in the roar of the farm are sev-
erel hives of bets.
It is rteedleito to say there is ft rev.
ler inemne-it eomes from the ealee of
milk, batter, broilers, roneters
pork, honey, vegetribles and fruit. Wm
1110, on this five -neve tract is realizing
An ineorne of n thousand dollars a
year.
It goee to prove whet ten be profitILblyconentrnted on a ernell traet of
mperial
peace and contentment of the millions
of my fellow countrymen."
..1••••••11..1.1..••••••••
Dr. Sun Yat Sem who hoe been elect-
ed by the delegates of the- eighteen Pro-
vinces of China proper as firet president
of the Chinese Republic, is a, native of
Canton. Ile won educated at Honolulu,
where his, father was in business Linde
later studied, medicine at Canton, af-
terwards engaging in practice there, He
hale been c-onnected with the revolution-
ary movement for a considerable time
and took a Most radical point of view.
He was one of the promotera of a plot
to seize the city of Canton in 1895. The
plans of the conspirators were dlicover-
ed and a. number of them were put to
death, but Dr, Sun Yat Seen escaped and
reached the British colony of Hong
Kong, where he became a British sub-
ject. He was heard of next in England
and America, where he delivered a ser-
ies of leetures in order to convert the
Chinese students to his revolutionary
principles. While he was on a lecture
tour in England in 1900 he was enticed
Into the Chinese legation, where he was
told that he was on Chinese territory
and would be deported to Peking. This,
however, was prevented, as he claim.
sed British citizenship and he was set
free.
At a later period he visited Japan and
stirred up the Chinese there to revolu-
tionary ideas. He also resided for aome
time at Singapore, in the British settle-
ment, where be was surrounded by a
bodyguard of ifellow-revohitionarists.
U. S. WILL WAIT.
Washington, Jan. I. - 'the TJnited
States will not recognize the new Chin-
ese republic formally at *this moment -or
until it become,s clearly apparent tat
the imperialists are no longer capable of
maintaining themselves in power. But
this attitude will not prevent the rep-
resentatives of the State Department in
Chim from doing business with the pro-
visional republic to the extent of eafe-
guarding American lives and property
find in doing any needful thing to as-
sist in the restoration, of peace.
land. It shows that a, combination of
profit-making crops is more euro of a
big money yield than ten times the
amount of land devoted to a single crop.
The small farmer has not only lees ex-
pense, less risk, but he has such a Var.
iety of goods to sell that if he loses
on one article he makes on another.
Extensive farming cane for a heavier
investment in land, with relatively lees
in equipment and Jabot. Intensive farm-
ing calls for mebhods adapted to fertile
and. high-priced land near to good mar-
kets. Stich methods will not fit loca-
tions where the soil is poor or the mar-
kets for away. But with the same crop
intensive methods are, as a rule, re-
latively more profitable than extensive
methods. The crop must not be neglect-
ed. Additional cost of, labor and fedi-
liar often doublets the profits. The farm
should be run at, its full capacity, and
all things done at the right time. A sys-
tem must be adopted -delayed atten-
tion is costly. *Ha,ving good labor and
paying and treating that labor So it
will temain is a great aid. in solving'the
problem.
CHAMP CLARK
Tariff Revision Question in
Presidential Campaign.
f Oklahoma City, Okla., Jan. 1. --Tariff
revision will overshadow all other issues
in the coming presidenial campaign, ae-
cording to Ohamp Clark, Speaker of the
Nationol Itouee at Ropeesentatives. Mr,
Clark is here endeavoring to learn the
preference of Oklahoma for a candidate
for Presiclenit on the Deenocratie ticket.
Rumors have been circulated in Okla.
homa for several day a that Mr. Clark
would formally announce .his candidacy
at a banquet at Tulsa On Saturday
eight.
"The report is fooliah," said Mr. Clark,
when he heard of it.
ogee-.
BURNED TOTEM
To be Buried in White Sat-
in Wedding Gown.
San Francisco, Jan. 1. -With her
trunk packed and in the depOt ready
for her journey to New London, Ohio,
whore relativee were to care for her,
Mrs. J. M. Hubbard, for many years a
sehool teacher in Hartford, Conn., pub-
lic sehools, Wts burned to death in a
fire yesterday in the apartment of a
family which had befriended her. She
was 72 yeare old. In her trunk were
her white satin wedding gown and
:slippers in whiek she had often express-
ed 0, desire to be buried.
PRINTER MISSING.
London, Ont., despitteh: Richard Rind,
an Advertiser eompositor, left Saturday
to epend Christmas with hie family at
Hageraville. On Monday afternoon he
left foe London, and einee that time lets
rot been seer: or heard from. As
sult of his dieappearanee his wife is Elan%
gerouely ill. There Was nothing in his
manner to indicate that there was any.
thing wrong.
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS.
Ottawa., Jan. La -The total clettorne
revenue eolleeted ihir the firat eight
nionthe of the fie& year amounted to
$50,330,708. The estimated revenue for
the year ending March Met nett, is
$85,000,000, tt gain of thirteen millione.
The inland revert:le ree6ipts for the
eight monthe will amount to $14,347,528
as ageinet $12,883,118 in the eorreeperal.
Ing period.
Ante cerry loath front 40 to 50 times
their own weight -
Sophisticated
Eggs
49.0 arc one of the most important
artielee. of -food used nowadays.
item of them are consumed each yeer.
They are used boiled, fried and 'welted,
and they are used in making caleee,
pies, puddings ami numerous other
things. When eo many of tbe ni are
eaten 16 18 deeidedly important that
they be. in a palatable and healthful
state, When the eggs housewives buy
from groceries and dairies are not
fresh they oan be thrown away, bet
when we buy cakes, pastry or cameo-
tionery of which they are a part we
have no way of telling whether eggs
of good quality have gone in, them or
not. Egga that are absolutely bad can
he used and in the baking or eooking
procese which they are subjected to bad
taste and unpleasant odors pass out of
them, So thoroughly does fire destroy
traces of their badness that even
scientists by careful analysis eannot
find out the quality. Yet if they are
unfit to Cat the germs remain and
people are made sick by them.
So the task of the pure food agent,
vlioee duty it is to protect the public,
is decidedly hard, He Can only get at
the men who sell egga by the wholesale
and force them to :sell better producta.
The dealers often plead that 16 11 nu-
poseible to tell whether egge are good
or bad, This has been proved a fal-
lacy. An egg is adulterated within tee
meaning of the law when it is in a de.
composnag or decomposed state, as it
then coneints, "wnolly or in part ot
filthy, decioniphied or putrid substance,"
which is one of the legal definitions of
adulterations as applied to food pro-
ducts.
CANDLING ASTONISHINGLY RAPID.
By what is known as "candling" eggs
may be divided into good and bat
lots 'without much enance of error. The
work of candling is done by woremeo
who are skilled in the science of select-
ing rapiclly, and unerringly the good
eggs•from those teclanically 'mown as
"rots" and "vote" An egg that is
"clessifie-d as a 4'rot" if3 one in Willett
decomposition has proceeded ao far that
the content is no longer divided into
yolk ana white, but is one moss ot
putrefying material, sometimes
but often semi -fluid. or even solid.
"Rots" are divided into "red rots" 9.nd
"black rots" according to the color of
the egg contents. Such an egg may or
may not have ptesent the gases hydro-
gen sulphide aed hydrogen paospaide,
which are mainly responsible tor the
disagreeable odor. After a time these
gases escape and the egg content is
almost without odor, aittiouga it is
greatly changed in appearance and in
its chemieal composition. In China
duck eggs are sometimes buried in the
grouod and allowed to remain there for
yeare; total decomposition ensues, the
gasesi rupture the shell and eseape into
the soil, where they are absorbed. The
eggs are then dug up and used for food
purposes'being esteemed a great deli-
cacy by the Oriental.
A good candler can examine 40 crates
of eggs a day, each crate holding some
300 eggs. The men who do the candling
work wonderfully fast in dark rooms.
In front of them are electric bulbs.
Taking three or four eggs in each hand
they pees them rapidly in front of the
light and are able to tell by the appear-
ance through the shell whether the egg
is good. A geed egg haie a clear, pine
appearance. A "rot" is known by ite
almost black appearance throughout,
while a "spot" is known by the dark
spot that tan be seen against the side
of the shell. *An egg that has been in
storage for i more than six month e can
readily be. recoguized by an expert
candler, as the air space is much larger
and rapidly changes its position in the
shell ots.the egg is moved around betore
the light. ,iiiithen 'an- egg has been. in
_storage for seven. ,or eight months it
Acquires a degree of fluidity which
rendersdthe separation of the yolk from.
theWhite almostimpossible, and if such
an egg in the whole state be agitated it
will be found upon opening that the
white and the yolk have become almost
entirely blended. In a freeh egg the
most violent shaking usually fails to
cause a mixing of the yolk and white..
A TRICK OF THE TRADE.
The unscrupulous wholesa1e. dealers
who separate eggs by eandling attempt
to justify themselves by marking the
bad ories "not to be used f or food pur-
poses." Then they frequently eell theee
to bakeries and candy. manufacturing
establishments: Harry P. Cassidy, the
Commiseioner, is endeavoring to destroy
tido .loophole by whieh the dealers are
able to sell bad products. Bad eggs
are used by tanners in their business,
but the tanners never pay over 50 or
60 cents a crate for them. NOw the
dealers sell the bad eggs for $2 and
$2.50 a. crate to the bakers. It ie the
intention of the Pure kood Cominiselon
to have a law pained that will tome
these unscrupulous dealers to drench the
orates of eggs marked "not to be used
for food purposes" with coal oil, which
will make them useless i'er bakers, but
will not impair their value for use in
tanning- factories, the only places where
they should be used.
Some time ago a cake made in a
bakery was eaten by several persons,
aud it made theni sick. The cake was
analyzed by Charles It. La Wall, ana-
lytical chemist for the Pennsylvania
and United Rata Food Departments.
He could find no evidences that bad
eggs or other injurious substances lied
been used. Yet it had made the per..
Sons who ate it sick, The feet Was, as
a subsequent investigation proved, that
ill the baking of the cake the heat had
destroyed all evidences that the egge
used were rotten, so that while the in.
jurious eubstenees were there ever: the
ehemiet could not detect them.
SICK BEES.
4444•44•4444004444444
Can be Cured By the U. S.
Agrieulture Department.
n.ow to doctor
t. eiek bee een be ascertained by writing
to the Unitee States Department of Ag-
rieulture, for ite Meet publieetionis
"The 'Treatment of Pee Menem" lefany
farniere have been losing their colon-
ies of hem the lattet report showing
los of 800,000 culotiem on the farms
of the eountry. This lees Net be deck.
ed, the ilepertmeut deelares, apeeeedea
the beekeeper knows how to treet the
diterote," kitewledge of whieh can be
totvertained,
COMING HAIVESTS
441•44••••••••444•04.4
The Outlook Bright in Bri.
tish Columbia,
Other Provinces Look For-
ward to Good Crops,
a
Toronto, Jan. 1, ---The outlook for
.agriculture and frniti raieing is ex.
eeedingly gaud in liritieb. Columbia,
says Hon. Richard Mcilride, in an
article contributed to the annual
number of The Monetary Thne. 'The
nerthern part of the province ie eom-
iugto the front and in all the lines
i
of nduetry the situation is 'emelt
hopeful. Hon. Welter Scott inthe
same pa -per, (mem that 1116 fellow Can-
adigns itt other provir ees may rest
content that ”tiekatehewan will con-
tinuo to confront with resolute cour-
age any aid all obstactee. Saokatotte.
wan sees no reason to look forward to
1912 with other than hopeful eenti.
mente.
Sir Lomer Cronin is eoneinceel. that
Quebec agriculture, eonamerce, dairy-
ing and manufacturing, foreetry and
mining indueteles, will maintain their
onward mareh during the coming
year. He talks of the' happen:esti and
the content of the intelligent, in-
duetrious and frugal population of
that province.
Hon, A, L. Sifton details the factors
of progress in Alberta and eaya that
this deeirable state of affairs, eem.
blued with good itnenigration, muanot
do otherwise than maintain and en-
hance the present undoubted pros-
perity of the province.
Our people are hopeful and the
future lecke bright, writes Hon. j.
Flerninino of' New Brunswick,
The harveet nt tliat province was
bountiful and good pricee prevail for
farm produee.
Manitoba is lengthening her cords
and strengthening her stakes every
year, ee,ye Hon. R. P. Roblin, and
Manitoba will become a healthy rival
to any of the . other provinces that
form a part of the. splendid Dorainion
of ours, he adds,
Hon. MT. Murray, Pre.mier of Nova
Scotia, reports that the refiamoes of
that richly endowed country were.
utilized to advantage by a hard-work-
ing and thriftypeople, with results
that assiet matexially in gotabliehing
a sound basis for future prosperitY.
Although the past year was the meet
generally profitable in Nova Scotia's
history it is only the forerunner of a
greater ndi
r cotionsi
onein1912.
hn prin
ce Edwax4
Iela.nel this year were favorable, writee
Hon. j. A. Matihieson, the Premier.
The prices of farm pro-duote were gen-
erally good, trade proepeets are eatie-
factory and the outlook for next yoar
enssme
couraagin•gs.
Si
W
hitney
tells The Mone-
tary Timethat °uteri° Ls advancing
in every line of production with
eteady and continuous strides. New
plans are being matured for the re-
motion of agrieulture, road buikting
and imneigratiem itt co-operetion with
the Dominion Government. After
dealing with the prograsein the old
Province during the year, he says:
"If these are sufficient reasons for
us to regard the 'past with satisfac-
tion, they are still greater and that
more inepering reasone for ue to look
to the future with confidence."
1
FLOCKING HERE
Immigration Figures Given
by Interior Department.
00.
Ottawa. despatch: The Departinnt of
Interior has compiled' figures suowing
immigration to have totalled 351,595, as
against 311,084 in z010.
Up to Dec. 1 the total was 330,714. The
December figures are placed at 11,831.
The British immigration shows a par-
ticularly increase, reaching 141,835, in
comitarison with 123,013 for the year
1910:
The Amerimin immigration has in-
creased some four thousand, the figares
this'
year, December excepted, being
125,399. The continental immigration
jumped 6,000, totalling this year 72,478.
Advices received by W. D. Scott, su-
perintendent of immigration, ebow that
there has been a remarkable movement
from the United States to Southern
Europe this year. One steamship com-
pany alone has reported to hira a falli
leg off in ocean traffic that is from.
Europe to the United States of 30 per
cent., and an increase in traffic from
New York to Europe of 48 per cent. The
figures were:
Traffic from the United States to Eu-
rope -1011, 166,000; 1910, 112,000.
Traffic from Europe to United States
-1911, 160,000; 1910, 253,000,
No quell movement has been reported
as yet from Canada.
COFFIN NAILS
Montreal Recorder Con-
demns Smoking of Them.
Montreal, Jan. 1. -"It is pitiful to
see the state of health some youngetere
who have appeared before me have been
reduced to by smoking eigarette,s; satl
Recorder Dupuis:, this morning, before
fining Armond Tremblay ton dollars for
selling cigarettes to a fourteen -year.
old boy. Continuing the Recorder said:
"The evil has reached such proportions
here that only the most eevere meas.
urea will end it, I recommend that the
pollee make a eampitign agaihst the men
who persist in selling eigarettee to
lade, Only lust week Ihad an eight..
year-old lad before Me. He was already
cigarette fiend." The Chief of Police
has promised to inauguarted the cam-
paign urged by the Retarder,
DEWEY'S IDEA.
Washington, San, le -Peace, but with
four new battleehips each year to as -
mitre it,. le Admiral George Dewey' e eolith
for the future of the Milted States in
He foreign relations. As head of the
general naval board, the admiral remit.
mended that four nOW neet-of-wer be
built, but an effort probably will be
made in Congreet to eut the ember
down to two.
-
A RSPUT8D ADAGE.,
OVeshineton SI tied
°Vila Is elmari," eernmented the ready-
inAatriggiV'. rtood Rommel. Sere-
eurn, "nrovel that You have never under-
taken to na.v the traVeling eXpeliSrs011(1
betel bills et a party Of earntakiga Oita
torte"
The Wi righam.
Advance
THEO. MIL
Proprietiv
DR. AGNEW
PllYSICIAN, SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUlt
°facet --
Upstairs in tlee 4a0dona14 BlOolco
Night calls answered, at office.
DR. ROBT, G. REDMOND
R 8: (LIZ
Physician and Surgeon.
ChIsho)m's old stand)
ARTHUR J. IR191N
DAB., TADS.
Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pen.
torylvania College and 1.41cent ate of
Dental Surgery of Ontario,
,-0.3ines in letsedonald Block--
•
W. J. PRICE
lasSpAsi LDISI, D.D.S.
/once Graduate of University of Toronto
and Lieentiate of Roysa College of
petted Burgeons of Ontario.
°mos irr Brecritia 13roXix. - Wm:mum
WINc1UAM
General Hospital.
_(rinder Government Inspection.)
Pleaeantly situated. Beautifully tarnished.
Open to all regularly licensed physiciang.
Ratea for patients (which include board and
eure1ng)-93,60 to 16.00 per week., aocorcling
to loesaten of room. For further informa.,
tion-Addredis
MISS L. MA.TTBEWS
Superintendent,
Box 923, Winghani, Out,
R. VANSTONE
BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR
Money to loan at. lonreet rates.
OFFICIO :--BEAVER. BLOCK.
WINGHAM. -
••••••••••..0T.
DICKINSON- & rtoLmEs
Barrigers, Solicitors, etc.
Witco: Meyer Block, Wingiramf..
E. L. Diokineen Dudley Bolles*
J. A. MORTON
SARFeISTER„ AND SOLICITOR.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Office :-Morton Block, liVinghain
WELLINGTON MUTUAL
FIRE INS. CO,
Establishes:1AM.
Read OMee GUELPH, ONT.
Risks taken on all clones of In-
surable property on the cash or pre-
mium note system.
JAMES GOLDIE,
President. .
CHAS. DANrID5010
Secretary.
RITCHIE de COSENSe '
Agents. Wiugham, Ont
A. E. SMITH
BANKER
WINGHAM - ONTARIO
Farmers who want money to buy
horses, cattle or hogs to feed for mar-
ket can have it on reasonable terms.
Money transmitted and payable at
par at any Bank in the Dominion.
RATES. -$5.00 and under, 3 ask
0.0 Vio, (its. $30 to 160, 15 eta.
Same rates charged on _principal
banking points in the u. 8.
C. N. GRIFFIN
GENERAL AGENT
Issuer of Marriage Licenses.
Fire, Life, Accident, Plate Glass
and Weather Insurance, coupled
with a Real Estate and Money
Loaning business.
4 °VCR Oa YEAR
gen. EXPERIENCIE
,
TRADE MARK$
DESIGN*
COPYRIGHTS &Or
wrens sending a4k4teh and description rnny
quickly fireman* our opinion tree wnether 1.13
litY0fitiOn Egobsibty patents:Lb rntn
Sounles.
ttont strict nadential. tau DOR on Patent4
sent fres, est agency for secnruny_patants,
Putouts taken through Munn it C0.4"aays
au natio*, without Otterao. In the
CitlitifiC American..
A. esaleemiely Illustrated Weekly. Likroall
nr any setenttne icourIlid• Taro" or
0,7s a year, postage prepaid, bolt
tlillneeradeolers,
ERIN &Col,triproadw*Y.New/gic
Drawn Onice.,re 1' et" WashinatOn. .
OMPTLY sEcuRgu
e e0E aciareln-i-16-01-ralganueedurere,
03,1 Ugera and others who realize Ma adoetyabit.
(Ly of iniving their latent business trebsaetat
by II -averts. Preliminuryridvict tres. CLaigai
010derata. oor 'weenier's Arivieer tontac
taguest.•,1040,a &Merlon, Pl'eA41.tort Life
Wow. i lbw/. P.C.% VA*.
I'LL BET HE'S NO GROUCH."
On the east side of City Iran Park
there iii au 0u:ovation on the edge of
whieh a little erowd gathered ;Neter.
day morning to wilted: a man who was
mooning low, evidently in searelt of
something. Presently he began to
etvaighten up and aid: "1 found it."
holding up a five etilt piece, which he
had dropped. Then his glasses fell off
and were broken into fragmentA
on the cold asphalt. lle joined in the
laugh' whieli the mishap vaurd forth,
handed the nielde, the eauee of the
tronble, to a nevishoy Ana. still
t.ait for the benefit if the sl.eetatoelA.
"'ow for new elaseve," and w,Alked
away. MI tato saw the little onnedy
agreed with the Wall hI tl,k, 1011)
/tail "Ill t 1x&' u, toteliel ntly
Yck Tribune