HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1905-07-27, Page 44
T 0 ADVERTISERS THE I3QNNIE LAN). ballads, teles and traditions.
(( * tivaed from page 1) All the way alopg the route teem
Notice of changes must be Lett at this isbed sow sixty or savant[.iverpoel to Bewick, a Canadian sees
orae not Inter than Seturda noon. y years ago,
The copy for abeeges mustybe tett wetthe Parliaments bald in Carlisle in Enna rad all
that b e. 1'itgs i g are tof sed
not later titan Monday eveuing. thereign of Edward the First, almost
Quaid advertisements aoeepted up six ceuturiee ago. Mary Queen of Soots. brick and as wean as wa t rater Scotiaud
te Otani
sdav of each wank, after the disastrous battle of Langeide in ibe buildiegs are built of stone. The
g.W BLiil D Th 1503, was held a prisoner volute the . small sized fields are very common and
a1t2 walla of Carlisle Castle fora few weeks veru touch different to what we were
until she was removed southward to her used to seeing at home. The fields are
THE WINtifA1I TIMES. long Captivity of nineteen years by bet famed off with hedges and atone walls,
haughty cousin Queen Elizabeth, or dykes es they are called in the old
8. It ELLIOTT.1'ifelasntgx AxoPaoritrlt'rox Passing on a few miles we come to land. The roadbed of the old country
--_ Longtown and from here a short branch railroad is much wore substantial than
THURSDAY. JULY ',',?. 190.5. line leaves for Gretna, which until the those In Canada and the trains travel at
-- - - Marriage Act was passed in 1$50, greater speed. No level railway crest -
NOTES AND ,).OWMZUTS, was famed for the celerity with which legs are to be seen, it is either a bridge
impatient lovers and runaway couples over the railway track or a passageway
It is understood that the estate of the could be married "off hand" in accord- uuder the track. This must be a great
late George Gooderhant will be declared ance with the law of Scattered. It is an Preventative against railway aooidet 1+.
at a value of $9,400,000 and that it is interesting oircurestanae that one of the Rawiok, where the writer and his
practically all bequeathed to final, des- principal promoters of the bill for mak- friend, Mr. Coohraue, spout Sunday and
cendants. This being the ease the ing illegal the Gretna Green weddings Monday, May 28th and 29th, is the lar-
saccessioa tax of the Ontario Govern- was the famous Lord Brougham, whose gest town in Roxburghsbire, and stands
meat will be levied at the rate of five per own marriage was a runaway one and at the confluence of the Slitrig and
cent. on all over $200,000. The aggre' was celebrated on the Scotch Border, Teviot, It played a conspicions part hi
gate of the tax will accordingly be about On the way to Gretna the fast flowing the Border.wartare. Au anelent fort
$soot oo. Solway Firth is to be seen on the left, of the Barons of Drumleurig, afterwarde
The latest rumor in live stock circles and the Solway Moss on the right, where the residence of the Duchess of Buco
is to the effect that Mr. F. W, Hodson, in 154e, the troops of James V. of Soot- leech and Monmouth, now converted
Canadian live stock comntiadiouer, may land were defeated by the English. into an hotel, and a conical mound,
satire in the course of a few months and From Longtowu the railway follows supposed to have been in ancient times
be succeeded by Hon. John Dryden, ex- the windings of the Liddell for many a Beat of justice, are the principle re -
Minister of Agriculture for Ontario. miles, traversing the historic land of mains in the town itself. The town has
What Mr. Hodson's intentions are have Liddesdale, This district consists chiefly increased enormously of late years, the
not been divulged but it is thought that of bare moors and pastoral hills, and is last census giving the population at 17,-
be will join a large private Corporation the country of Dandle Dinmont of Scott's 303. It is famed for its woollen maua-
in. the United States, where he has been "Guy arlannering." There are interim- factures, especially hosiery, undereloth-
offered more than one position during the arable scenes of a similar kind to Dandle tag and tweeds. In Hawk* the event
past few years at a much larger salary Dinmont's lima. Many mounments of of the year is the Common Riding in
than he receives from the Dominion Pictish, Roman and Border feudal times June. The "Cornet" or leader of the
band, bears a flag representing a staud-
ard captured frora the English, and
"Teribus"-a song to which only a
eTeri," or Hawick man oat do justice -
is sung with great enthusiasm. This
event we intended returning to Hawick
to witness on July 9112 and 10th, but our
plaus were disarranged and we were in
Glasgow on the day of days for Hawiok.
The town has many good churches, pub-
lic library, stores, hotels, eto.,all built of
stone. The streets are kept very Olean
(riot as in Wingham) and the people ap-
pear to take a pride in their town and
homes. In EIawiok we spent a few
hours in the loveliest public park it has
ever been my good fortune to visit. The
park is one mile in length and covers
many acres. Part of it is thickly wood-
ed and many walks are through the
place. The park was purchased by the
town a few years ago. In Hawick we
called on a number of people who have
relatives in Wingbam, and we were
given a hearty Scotch welcome at every
place we called and the many kindnesses
of these friends will not soon be forgot-
ten, Among those we met were Mr.
and Mrs Robt Turnbull, cousins of Mrs
D Currie, East Wawanosh; Mr and Mrs
Adam Turnbull, Mrs Miohie, cousins of
Messrs F and Archy Patterson. of town;
John Taylor, uncle of F and Araby Pat-
terson; Mr and Mrs AIex Stewart, aunt
and uncle of F and Archy Patterson ;
Geo Hnggan, an uncle of Mrs Geo Ter-
vit of Turnberry and Gavin P Murray,
a nephew of Gavin Davidson of the
Janction. We also visited the house in
which our townsman, Mr F Patterson
visited when he was in Hawick in 1574.
We were informed that hardly any
change had been made in the building
since Mr Patterson visited there. I
shall never forget my visit to Hawick, as
the two days spent in that town were
very wet, and made it very disagreeable
for sight-seeing. The Monday we were
in the town was moving day or 'flitting'
and scores of carts loaded with house-
hold furniture could be seen passing
through the place, From the time I
landed in the old country until I left it,
I did not see one of our common every-
day lumber wagons. Carts are the
principal conveyance used, and one
could see farm bands working with two
horses, but each horse attached to a
separate cart. The workman sits in one
cart and drives the horse and with a
shank he leads the other. It looked to
me as a waste of time and a great in-
conveuieuce.
THE W!NGIA,T[ • UL.Ir 27. (9D5.
Government, a salary which, according are in existence:-
Government,
the last report of the Anditor•GeneraI "And many a cmigh grey e irehipyramid.
+ Where urns of mighty chiefs lid hid."
is $3,000 a year. Near Penton statiou we pass the beau.
tifui ravine of Penton Lines, through
THE SALARY GRAB. which, with sparkling brilliancy, dashes
the waters of the Liddell. Penton
Liuns is a favorite resort for picnic
Hamilton Herald (Ind.): Not since parties. From Longtown onwards we
1873 has a session of the Dominion Par- have just been inside the English border;
Bement been brought to a close amid but passing Eershope Foot we cross the
such general disgust and resentment as Kershope Barn (river) and enter into the
prevails throughout the country, Can• Kingdom of Scotland. The districts
ads has a bad taste in her month. It is immediately on the Border form pre-
notthe
not too mach to say that Canadian
eminently the land of Scott, and abound
people generally are ashamed of their in scenes and objects described or al -
representatives in parliament,who, in the laded to iu his works and in the book of
face of au overgrown and rapidly grow- his life by Lockhart.
ing expenditure, eagerlv and expecte ..I marvelled aR flap aged, hind
tiously voted some three hundred thou- with some strange tale bewitched my mind.
sand dollars a year into their own * * * * * * * * * * °
kers-thee ovation of ten million And togged deeds recount io ragged line,
po q Of moonlit foray made on Teciot, Tweed
dollars on the public debt. or Tyne."
The unanimity of the house makes it The next station of importance that
difficult to blame either party, or any we reach is Newcastieton, which is cele -
person, more than another. Not a brated as a cattle rearing district. It is
single member protested against the surrounded by numereus places of in -
grab. It -is all very well for W. F. terest. A mile and a half to the south,
Maclean to enter his protest now, on the left bank of the Liddell, stood
through the columns of The Toronto Mangerton Tower, a stronghold of Wit -
World, and abuse the men who engin- lie Armstrong, the "Kinmont Willie" of
ered the deal. But he is not less re- the Border ballads. On the Hermitage
sponsible for the deal than are the men Water, about three miles up the stream,
he blames. Why did he not enter his are the ruins of Hermitage Castle, built
Protest from his place in the house? in the thirteenth century by Comyn,
He accepted in silence the addition of Earl of Menteith. It belonged success-
$1000 to bis way as a member, and his ively to the Sonlises, the Bothwells, the
simulation of indignatiou, rtow that the Douglases and the Scotts of Buccleuch,
deal has been completed and his $1000 a In 1324, William Douglas, being jealous
year is secure, only serves to show that of Sir Alexander Ramsay being appoint -
he can be hypocritical as well as greedy. ed Sheriff et Teviotdale, seized him in
Of course the Government is techni- St. Mary's Church, Hawick, and carried
catty responsible for the salary grab. him off to Hermitage Castle, where be
Bat we are inclined to blame the oppo• starved him to death. It was visited by
sition leaders even more than the gov- Queen Mary when Bothwell Iay ill there
ernment. Prominent Conservative mem- after the murder of Rizzio, and is of
bers have been posing all session as the great interest as one the largest, strong -
champions of economy -had been ecru- est, and best preserved of the Border
tiuizing the expenditure and searching baronial castles. This stronghold is the
in the public accounts for evidence of scene of Leyden's ballad of Lord Saulis,
Extravagance and graft, as is the wont beginning: -
of the opposition. Then in the closing "Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle,
days of the session, they enter into a And beside him old Redcap sly." „
confidential =augment with the min- Near hermitage Castle is the Nine-
istetialists by which hundreds of thou-
Stane Rig," so called from a number of
sands of dollars ate added permanently Drmdical stones,
to the public expenditure for the benefit Moving along we come to Riccarton
of critics and criticized alike. Junction. The mountain scenery id
The thing has come as a shock to the this vioimty is very magnificent and tin -
public mind. An inevitable consequence preasive. Here the railway Lina com-
mencesof it will be a lowering of the confidence to descend the eastern watershed
of the people in the integrity and public and we pose whitrope tunnel, and it
spirit of their represetativee. The takes four minutes for a train to pass
Hid s a keen dtsa araconfesse' ppaintment through this tunnel which has been cut
Ont of the solid rock. . Shortly after
in R. L. Borden, who, more than any passing through the tunnel we get a
ether man in parliament, might have ti.L£NFAItitOW. +++++++4.4++++++4++++++++++ ltNlt!l4+l44tt4ttt#t♦lttt
been expected to resit above the plane of glimpse of Stobs Castle, and a little Miss Lon Higgins visited friends near • •
self-interest and refuse his assent further on we reach Slobs station To ♦•
FMOUSPI�PLE
BY FANNIE M. LOTHROP
('hats fly.glllott4 Fry 1.culo&
SIR HIRAM MAXIM
The Inventor of the Automatic Gun
The man who has invented more deadly instruments of war than any?
other inventor in the world's history is Sir Hiram S. Maxim, an American,
who left his native country about twenty years ago in a burst of indignation;
at the lack of recognition of his genius shown by this government at Wash-
ington. Lord Salisbury said of him: ""tie has prevented more men from dying
of old age than any other man who ever lived."
This mechanical genius who has added to the horrors of war was the
son of a wood turner in Maine, where he was born in 1840. He "began life,"
he says, "with a common school education and a jack knife," He showed
more skill in handling the knife than the education, and the mechanical turn
of his mind soon becoming evident, he was apprenticed when lee was fourteen
to a carriage builder. After four years of this service he studied metal
working and before he was twenty-one was foreman in a machine shop ,pre•
paratory to a better position in the extensive works of his uncle.
Itt 1873 he took up the problem of his famous automatic gun, which was
not perfected until eleven years later. The, inspiration of this invention of
destruction came fromthekick of an old musket he was using; it was so
severe a kick that it threw him over and bruised his cheek. When the eters
that he then saw faded away, It occurred to his bright mind that the energy of
the recoil might be caught and utilized to reload. the rifle, and the result of
his experiments was the Maxim automatic machine gun, a death -dealing affair
that murders humanity in war at the rate of three thousand shots a. minute.
In
This is but one of his many improvements in ordnance and explosives.
1877 his attention was turned to electricity, and some of the earliest electric
lights in America were invented by him.
In 1883 he took up his permanent residence in England, and became a
British subject and was knighted by Queen Victoria four years ago. The
latest invention of Sir Hiram, who, it is said, has never failed to solve any
problem he has attempted,•is an airship that really does fly -so many of the
recent airships, though beautiful in theory, have failed in this one par-
ticular. The persistence of Sir Hiram is shown by his carrying the flying
machine problem through thirteen years of his busy life, during a large part
of which time he has been a member of .the Arm of Vickers' Sons & Maxim,
which employs 14,000 men.
%Meted according to Act of tho Parliament, of Canada, !n the rear 1904, b7 W. C. Nark at tie Department of Agriculture.
Feeders -
light, 800 pounds and up -
3 40
3 60
225
wards
Stockers
900 lbs
Butchers'-
Cltoice 4 00
Medium 3 75
Picked 4 60
Bulls . . .......:d 50
Rough . 300
Light stock bulls 200
Milk cows.... 80 00
Hogs -
Beat 6 50
Lights 0 25
Sheep -
Export 3 75
Backs . , .. 3 00
Spring Lambe 6 25
Calves. each ... . 200
3 75
3 80
2 75
4 60
4 0.)
4 60
3 60
3 50
2 40
5000
400
3 25
0 75
1000
• WI? sHAli MAICKET REPORTS
Wingham, July. 26th, 1905
Flour per 100lbs. ... 2 50 to 8 00
Fall Wheat 0 90 to 0 95
Spring Wheat 0 85 to 0 90
Oats, , .. 0 36 to 0 37
Barley 0 45 to 0 48
Peas 0 65 to 0 60
Ruckwheat 0 55 to 0 55
Butter .... ...- 0 16 to 0 10
Eggs per doz 0 10 to 0 16
Wood per cord 2 50 to 3 00
Hay , per ton.. . 0 00 to 7 00
Potatoes, per bushel 0 40 to 0 46
Tallow per lb .. 0 04 to 0 05
Lard .. 0 14 to 0 14
Dried Apples per lb 0 03 to 0 03
Wool 0 26 to 0 26
Live Hogs, per owt. 6 25 to 6 35
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• Domestic Coal, and Wood of all kinds, always on hand. +
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RDress Goods to be cleared out: -Black, all -wool
r Serges, 54 inches wide, at 6oc, 85c and $f,00 per yard.
All wool Serges, brown, green, blue and black, for 25c per
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d, regular 35. Lustres, Cashmeres, etc., at less than
cost.
,►, A big stock of Prints, from 8c to 14c per yard,
► wide, mercerised effects, in the fashionable swell check for
CShirt Waist Suits.
C A job lot of Lawns, 42 and'45 inches wide, very
Especial, from ioc to 25. Fine India Lawns for blouses,
i pretty muslins for dresses and blouses, special price 7c.
► Fancy Muslins worth roc, for 6c per yard, Handsome
t White Figured Madras for Blouses and Shirt Waist Suits.
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Embroideries, very cheap- to inches wide, 12 /c.
EInsertion for roc, etc. These goods are selling at half
price.
Heavy Ducks, plain ands figured, fast colors and
very durable for shirting or skirting.
A beautiful assortment of Ladies' White Under-
wear at very reasonable prices.
to the the west of the railway, and including Belmore Sunday. !
would not have been attempted. Stoba Castle and estate, the Government Bra y p
salary grab. It he bad opposed 11, it Con atniations to the boys
that aa- +
has acquired a large tract of hilly conn- sed their exams at No. 9. •
` -' try -close on 80,000 acres -as a military Mise Vietta Curtis of Morris is visiting 4.
9 ' camp, Here the Scottish Army Corps friends on the sixth this week, + i
practising the methods linked to warfare work of sir woe's straw shed,
have an admirable training ground for
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Mr Douglas has completed the mason ♦ car of MnV 4 Coiled Steel Wire t
a rough and mountaiuou0 country. Mr and Mrs ltierkley, also Miss Dingley 1 Coiled v
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;Here are camped thousands of the Scot of Winghant visited at Mr (zea a.terk•
Ugh soldiers. Before arrivingat Hawick v lay's on Sunday ast. wwe cross the Slat* Water, Sud, just be- !
Losing your hair? Coming ',foto entering the station we cross the bar, James Wylie, jr., returned home
out by the corbbfui? AtId I iteriot by a high atone bridge, front from Manitoba on Monday after spend.
- doing nothing? No sense in k which a Brie view of the towit and tut- ing six weeks in that part.
that! 'Why don't you use trounding country can be obtained. Ia
pk ' Hair v i n-• n d the neighborhood are Goldieiands Tower s
yet $ $ etre took Market*
d • and breterholo. Hall, Goldielands - Toronto, July 25 --'rhe feature of the
flaiVi of Tower is one mile and three•quarteta ';Western Cattle market today ryas the
ilorthtteet of the town and list oil the advance in the prices of cattle and
( right tank of the Teviot. It is a well lambs, while bogs were also firm et the
telt?: not esterda The ch"
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preserved Borderoeleb Siad n the- 1 ' promptly stop a t peel,ue to the limited offerings of cat -
t Tour hair' will begin to grow, to rte, and strictly first -clans animals 'were
,ballad "Abele Telfer Of the fair lied -
WO, Mad all daadrutt wilt .iso- ;head." It frequently suffered the tate hard to seotate. The ran of sheep was
scarce, egpite - e ig er ant la i
- *ppest Could you reason -of the Border'TOWett. moderatde in.its tnha me, hila hogs Were tea OW
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I have just token othe agency for the •Mas&ev-liarris Repairs and
A4 this wire is the genuine Fr,st melte, and as the demand is likely
to be great for this particular kind. farmers will do Well to leave their
orders for it at once, as there will Iiksly be a searclty in the market when
m Ist req•iired for fencing. 't'i'e are gelling it elteap.
will try end keep the stock in good shape, so that farmers may be supplied
y in ftiture with What they may require in this line.
I AM ALSO SOLE AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED
I SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT -THE BEST ON EARTH
"' test Brands Of CEMENT in season at lowest vrie8s.
Itbiy expect anything better? footed tho kyeont.tine and 6'. obbeitted kir there. 'Trade in feeders
w ami rfuhRR6ckied the hove richt Well and and Rockets was quiet. w'1'he . deliveries
A�� (lair W • tt*Mt w� *MU ill ley
tdetttett viKer do t,xrt,ar
all rtsaw."--rv. C. d►arsw3.106 aqr, Ani at the T'eviot, Was for Pushy generations sheep, 1u0 hags and 126 calves.
err. r bait *brio tit• *at i,i+rw rtatittlmlm fifth, Oh e t batik of Were 53 ears, containing 796 cattle, 738
44 isuses. ad.x+trtlteo, the *eat of the :footle of l adeleaah. Tbetottowlni> the gaatatlouat
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told ° !standing salt aloes in a commending Etportets' cxttte- Per 100 lbs.
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$4 60 $500
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eto.r Ott hand. (line us a oall. `
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3 Counterpanes, worth $i.00 for 75c; larger
$1.5o --reduced price.
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In Couches and Perim. Suits one stook is strictly no -to elate- that is
why we have sold so many lately. We have a number left yet to ohoose
from. They are excellent value.
Oar Sideboards are the best.
Our Mattresses and Springs are great sellers.
Don't fail to get prices on all kinds of Furniture.
Window Shades and Curtain poles.
WINCUAM'S I"1ILLIONAIRE.
Mrs Wise (to her worse half) -How comes Abraham to be the only million-
aire in town ?
11ir wise --Abraham's great wealth was acquired through upright dealing.
Re hasnd
Co noted the
boot and abbe business for 39
years in the same shopand is
still prepared to repair your boots at your own prieea.
tire, Wise -what has happened to cause you to smile so good naturedI ?
Mr. Wise -I got my boots mended at Abraham's, and I am so delighted with
the work and the cost that I won't show you a frown for the next year.
Mrs. Wise -1 wish you hedoone to Abraham years ago with your boats; i.
Might noW be wearing silk and have fewer gray hairs in my head.
Mr. Wise -'EMy deer, don't you know it is never too late to mend -"booth" ---
As Abraham always ttrses the golden rale,, no other testimonial is required los 3$
Years in one spot is: clear proof of square dealing. --Yon ebe see With one eget how
he can work cheap; he is tinder no expense. Abraham's record has no equal in
Wingha n. --Neither the Governor General nor the Prime Minister can boast Of so
long a term( of twtllort.
A wooden boot idgn hangs at the door--Wiaghaui's land mark-Viotorifr.
street.
Botts repaired While you waft. THOh1AS AHRAU.& 11«