The Wingham Advance, 1914-01-15, Page 4Exceptional
Values
In Winter Wearing
Apparel for
Men and Boys,
Ladies and
Children
Men's Fur .,Overcoats
Mens Fur -lined Over-
coats
Men's Tweed Over-
coats
Men's Tweed Suits.
Boys' Overcoats and
Clothing.
Underwear and
Hosiery
Ladies' Fur Coats
Ladles' Fur -lined Coats
Ladies' Cloth Coats
Misses' Overcoats
Winter Hosiery and
Underwear.
For correct styles see
The Standard Fashion
Sheet for January
It shows the latest
Winter Fashions
Each customer will receive a
Fashion Sheet FREE
at our Pattern Counter
YOUR ACCOUNT
All accounts as now made up. We need the
money and would thank our customers for an
early settlement.
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KING BROS.
PRODUCE WANTED 1 PHONE 71
a
eavy
winter
Goods
We are offering to the public
several lines in Men's Fur
Coats at a Jargain, such as
Bulgarian Fawn, Corean Bea-
ver, Russian Calf, Coon, and
China Dog ; also a few Ladies'
Astrachan Jackets ; was $35,
$40 and $45
Your choice, $10.00
Phone 89
PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS WANTED.
J. A. Mills
(Successor to T. A. MILLS)
WI N G H A M
EDITORIAL. PARAQRAPIIS.
—What happened to Hawkes? just
what usually does happen to the Mort of
person.
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--»Gaud morning. In the fifteen years
of Grit rule did you aver hoer about "free
food'?
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—.What clone it really matter what
Implants to the country yc long as Mac-
kenzie Ding le in regular receipt of his
salary ?
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—Can Fielding come back ? Not un-
less. Sir Wilfrid hay changed his mind
wince the day after the defeat of the ad-
junct agreement,
—We shall expect to hear from Editor
Fielding some cold dispassionate reason-
ing on the subject of aid to the Farmers'
Bank victims,
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—"The policy I offer you at this mo-
ment" said Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Hamil-
ton In a minute or two he will have
another and an entirely different one.
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—Laurier had half a dozen conflicting
policies on the naval issue, He will pro-
bably show the sante bold and consistent
turn of mind in talking about free food.
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—Tenders are being called for the
French River section of the Georgian
Bay Canal, Under the Laurier system
this would be proof positive of a coming
general election.
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—If Sir Wilfrid Laurier could only pre.
vail on the Canadian hen to lay more eggs
he would be really doing something to
lower the cost of living,
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—Finance Minister White seems to
have trodden on some sensitive corns in
placing his last loan in London. The
owners of said corns don't like to see the
Canadian nation getting the best of the
market.
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—The new Grit policy is designed for
the benefit of the consumer, namely, W.
Laurier, Bill Pugsley, Frank Oliver,
Charles Murphy, Rodolphe Lemieux, Mac-
kenzie King and Sydney Fisher (Chateau-
guay),
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—Those plain and humble men who
used to be the Laurier Government, sat
down to a sumptuous and costly banquet
at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal and
solemnly discussed the high cost of living.
Loud laughter,
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—So expeditiously has the grain been
moved out of the west this year that it
has caused an influx of gold in Canada.
Under the Laurier outfit you never heard
of gold at this time of year, only of wheat
blockades. Things have changed.
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—Sir Wilfrid now condemns the middle-
man. He should not go back on the old
friends who acted as go-betweens for his
party when dealing in waterless canals,
sawdust wharves. North Atlantic trading
companies, and his carefully fostered
mergers, trusts and combines,
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—Sir Wilfrid Laurier with his "free
food" policy as a remedy for the high
cost of living has made an appeal to the
city consumer. But what about the farm-
er ? There is no free trade or lower
tariff for all he wears, and for all his
machinery. The farmers under the lat-
est Laurier policy must face the com-
petition of the world with the danger of
losing the great home market, built up
under the national policy and gets nothing
in return.
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=Sir Wilfrid Laurier had to be relegat-
ed to opposition to discover that the cost
of living was increasing. From 1807 to
1907 the cost of living decreased from 18
to 97 per cent. From 1897 to 1911, under
Sir Wilfrid's "Free Trade," the cost in-
creased on twenty-three different products
from 80 to 107 per cent.' Even with this
enormous increase, Sir Wilfrid and his
colleagues REVELLING IN THE COST
OF HIGH LIVING did not discover the
increased cost of living to the artisan.
Loss of office is the only effective "eye-
opener" to administer to the Laurierites.
—Carrying forward its great national
transportation policy 'which includes the
policy of building up Canada's national
ports which Hon. Robert Rogers, as
Minister of Public Works, has been press-
ing forward, the government has awarded
the contract for the first unit of the new
harbour terminals at Halifax to Foley
Bros., Welch, Stewart Si Fauquier, for
$5,208,743.
The piers and landing stage the con-
tract calls for will be unique in their
solidity and massiveness, equal or superior
to anything to be found on this continent-
The work contractell for consists of a
landing, stage of concrete, 2,000 feet long,
a pier 1,200 feet long, and a basin 300 feet
wide built inside extensive filling in from
the land. This will be a lineal distance
for shipping purposes of 8,200 feet.
The work is to be Solid throughout, not
s structure resting on piles. The pier
foundations will coeasist of 2,500 celular
blocks, 20 feet by Lb) and each weighing
90 tons. These will Ire laid one on top of
the other. Then the celular apertures will
be filled With cement and rubble, the
latter not binding., and thus allowing for
expansion and uneting one block on top of
another, steel rails also serving to
strengthen the r infoecement,
The floor will be .laid in 'concrete. nirlk-
ing a smooth saarface over all. The front
of the entire 0,200 feet -ea nail° and a
quarter—will be faced with granite blocks
from low water to the floor of the pier
and landing st*&Ate,
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The Somers System In Weston..
On. Monday evening, the ],nth day of
April, 1913, about 100 citizens of the
town of Weston assembled in the
town hall to discuss the property
valnee of this community.
The meeting was probably the first
of Ito kind in the history of Oanade
the flr attempt a tempt to secure an expree-
cion of community opinion op stress,
values, ole, which to base an apprateal-
of taxable property,
The Assessment Act of the province
of Ontario instructs assessors to asoees
land at its full, fair, selling value.
The provincial secretary has sent to
the assessors a special circular inetruc•
Ing them with regard to one or two
pbasee of the asseeement of building..
But neither the Assessment Act nor
the provincial secretary's letter has
made any provision or given any
direction for the uniform exercise cif
judgment by the assessors, nor for
the public discussion of property
valuea.
The nearest aseeseors have come
heretofore to confiulting public opinion
has been by the recording of property
transferee A property transfer, or
sale, represents merely the temporary
agreement of two men with regard to
price. Price and value may or may
not correspond. Therefore, although
the assessors of some of our cities
spends considerable amount of money
—in Toronto, for example, upwards
of $2000 a year—in securing reports of
sales, they actually make very little
use of the information thus gained,
as was pointed out in our last article
when we showed that, in the city of
Toronto, the assessed values averaged
only 05 per cent. of the sale prices.
The town of Weston went back of
the sales to public opinion, which is
the final arbriter of sales and decides
whether a selling price is too high or
too low.
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Agriculture in Schools.
Schools intending to take up the
study of Agriculture and School Gard-
ening should
ard-eningshould send notice of their inten-
tion the Department of Education not
later than January 15th, if the full
is to bo earned. In no case can notice
be accepted later than April 15th. The
form to be used for this is to be found
at the back of the the I914 register.
About 150 schools in the province are
expected to take up the study of Agri-
culture this year ; the increase is not
rapid but the growth bas been healthy.
It is expected that a number of schools
in Huron will become interested in the
course which the Education Depart-
ment is doing so much to encourage.
What is wrong with Country Life ?
As Rural Depopulation and the high
cost of living are essentially due to
just one and the same cause, every
Canadian has a financial interest in
smashing that cause, From every con-
scientious house-cleaning of ideas that
one big ideal will emerge. W. 0.
Good and E. 0. Drury. of the Grange,
have been called prophets of despair
because they so earnestly deplore the
migration city -Wards which affects
rural life in Canada as in every other
civilized country. But they are right
to a deadly degree in giving warning
against the breaking up of our "yeom-
anry," the increasing disappearance of
our old established country families.
They blame the development of indus-
trial centres for it, and, apparently,
seek the remedy for the migration in
reversing that development and de-
stroying the opportunities which at-
tract young men and women to town.
Let us see. Assuming Canadian
cities and towns could be wiped out,
or thrown into such distress that our
young folks- would avoid them, would
not most of these young adventurers
cross the boundary line, as formerly
they did, to Onnada's infinite lose, and
the enormous gain to the republic ?
Anyone who knows these boys and
girls who leave the farm knows that
when they want to go, they will go, if
it is only to seek blindly, at any dis-
tance, at any risk, that Eldorado of
free opportunity to strive for them-
selves, to prove themselves, to be mas-
ters, each for himself 1
The reason for migration lies in the
country not in the town.
New Year's Accident
What might have been a much
more serious accident happened on
New Year's Day, at the foot of Laird's
hill, about two miles north of the vil-
lage. Mr, Rheuben Harding was tak-
ing his sister, Mre. W. Watters and
'her daughter, Mise Ruby, to his home.
to spend the day and when not far
from the bridge the horse choked, and
suddenly swerving to the right went
straight over the steep embankment
the distance of some ten or twelve feet.
Midway down the embankment the
cutter struck a post, damaging it con-
siderably, breaking the shafts, and
freeing the horse. The post held the
cutter While the occupants went head-
long to the ground below. Miracu-
lously they escaped serious injury,
through feeling considerably dazed by
the fall. Mr. Harding was aeon upon
his feet, assisting his sister and secur-
ing his horse. Mr. Cruickshanks, of
Linwood, driving along at the time
kindly took the ladies to Mr. Laird's
where Mre. Laird made them as com-
fortable as possible until Mr. Harding
arrived and took them horse in the trig
kindly proffered by Mr. Laird. Mr.
Watters was considerably bruised and
was confined to the home for a few
day., Miss Ruby felt little the worse
for the adventure and Mt', larding
carried a very etiff and sore neck for a
few days but all felt thankful they had
escaped serious injury. The road
where the accident happened had late-
ly been renovated an d gravelled and
the railing had *tot .been, created.—
t 'otdwioh Record,
Wh
Are You?
Thera are two kinds of people on earth.
today,
Duet two kinds of people, no more, I
say..
Not the sinner and the saint' for' tis,
well understood,
The good are half bad, and the bad are
half good.
Not the rich and the pear, for to count
a man's wealth,
You trust first know the state of his
conscience and health,
Not the humble and the 'proud, for in
life's little span
Who puts on vain airs is not counted
a man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift
flying years
Bring each man his laughter and each.
man his tears,
No ; the two kinds of people on earth I
mean
Ave the people who lift and the people
who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the
world's masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes.
And oddly enough, you will find, two,
I wean,
There is only one lifter to twenty who
lean.
In which class are you ? Are you
easing the load
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the
road ?
Or are you a leaner. who lets others
bear
Your portion of labor and worry and
care ?
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
BEGIN THE YEAR WELL.
The pleasure of every member of
the family dnring 1914 can be con-
siderably increased by reading each
week that greatest of all weekly
papers, The Family Herald and
Weekly Star of Montreal. It has
papers for everyone, old and young,
It is realy surprising what wonderful
value one gets each week in that paper.
One dollar is a small sum indeed for
such a 'vast amount of good clean
wholesome reading during the year.
No mistake can be made in sending
one dollar to The Family Herald Office
Montreal, for a year's subscription.
It will be the best New Year's Gift to
the family.
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Determining Lake Currents.
This bottle was thrown overboard
on the morning of Nov. 22nd at 1 a.m.
from the steamer LaBelle, by R. W.
Mac0onchie, wheelman, 18 miles S. e
W. from Thunder Bay Isle. If found
kindly correspond to above named per-
son at Abbottsforc, St. Clair County,
Michigan. This is to help determine
lake currents at this point, Please
state when found." (This is the mes-
sage found in a bottle by Duncan Key-
es on the shore south of Kincardine.)
Fighting His Way Up.
A husky little Scotsman, who was
out of work, gave an Hoglishman a
sound thrashing in front of the City
Hall in Guelph the other morning be-
cause he insinuated that the Scot
would not work if he got the chance.
A Puelinch tovinship farmer watched
the fight from his waggon seat and
after the Englishman had been
thoroughiy conquered, he remarked to
the Scot—"If you can work half as
good as you can fight, you're my man."
Terms were quickly arranged and the
sturdy Scot and his new boss drove
off to the farm.
Thiee Wishes.
To the great god Buddha came the
representative of the Catholic, Froths.
taut, and Jewish religions, to pay him
homage. Buddha, very flattered, told
each of them that if they express a
wish it would be fulfilled. "What do
you wish?" he asked the Catholic.
The answer was "Glory". "You shall
have it," said Buddha, and turning to
the Protestant, "What do you wisb?"
"Money." "You shall have it." "And
you?" This to the Jew. "I do not
want much,' quoth he, "give me the
Protestant's address." (Pall Mall Gaz•
ette.
THUILISDAY,r JANUARY 15, 191 4
Coal Dust. The. Greatest, Danger To
The Miners.
In thethirteen years of this century
there have boon thirteen: appaliog die.
asters in coal wines, with a 'loss of
nearly 1,0000 iivee, The first and last
of these disasters were in tbie same col-
liery --the Universal Colliery at Sep-
ghenydd, Wales.. The most serious
was at Oourrieres, France, with a loss
of 1,009 lives,
The first explosion of this country,
on May 24, 1001. brought out a report
from Prof. Qolloway, the findings of
which have not yet been modified. 13e
pointed out that, while the intake air
passages contained pure air and in-
flammable coal dust, but no fire damp
the return air passages contained air
mixed with all the fire damp produced
in the workings and uninflammable
stone dust but no coal duet, As these
return air -ways. speaking generally,
were untouched by the explosion, he
arrived at the conclusion that coal dust
mixed with air played the part of an ie
flammable quasi -gas in the explosion:
The London Times' experts remarks
that one of. the greatest dangers in
coal mining results from a frequent
over -estimation of the amount of se-
curity afforded by any safety device,
for safety at its best is only a relative
term.
Since the invention of the "safety
lamp" many safeguards have been in-
troduced, but nothing done to prevent
explosion of coal dust.
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RHEUMA WILL STOP
URIC ACID DEPOSIT
Rheumatic Complications Checked
and "Human Sewers'; Restored
The Kidneys, Bowels and Skin are
the "human sewers" which carry off
the impurities in the blood. When
these are clogged Uric Acid sediment
lodges in the muscles and joints and
Rheumatism follows. RHEUMA, the
great remedy for all forms of the ter-
rible disease, checks the deposit of
Uric Acid.
"Nor many years I suffered with
Rheumatism, I am 71 years old, but
am proud to pay that after using one
bottle of RHEUMA the Rheumatic
pains are entirely gone. I daily r•ec
ommend RHEUMA to my friends"—
Willie Guff, Bridgeburg, Ont.
J. W. McKibbon will return your
money if it fails; 50 cents a bottle.
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CH RISTit S
GROCERY
PHONE 59
STOCK TAKING SALE
OF CHINAWARE
According to our weal custom we
take stook last week of January.
As Chinaware is one of the moat
difficult things on earth to take stock
of we are going to make SWEEP-
ING REDUCTIONS on various
lines. Kindly note that these reduc-
tions will be withdrawn jest as soon
as our stock gets to right proportions
TOILET SETS
Onr 10 piece Toilet Sets at $4.25
have been winners. They are with-
out doubt well worth $5.e0 They
were tinted to our own order and
daring the past year have been big
sellers. We offer them
For cash only - - $3.25
FANCY TEA POTS
At One -Third Off.
Our stook of Fancy Tea Pots is a
very select one. We imported them
direot from England and at regular
prices are cheap. At ons -third off
They're a Snap.
Jardiniers at 25 per cent.
Reduction.
Our stock is large and we cannot
begin to detail them, If you want
to buy a cheap Jardinier
Now's your chance.
Cake Plates, Fruits, Salads
Vases, etc.,
At Reduced Prices.
Onr Chinaware has not been re-
marked for sale purposes. Most
pieces have the regular price markets .,
in plain figures. ii
SPECIAL SALE OF PANTING
For one day only we will
place on sale 21 Pant
Lengths.
Regular $5.00 to $7.50
For' $3.50.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10th
PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED.
Orval Taylor
Ladies' and Gents' Tailor.
The reproducing
point of
the new Edison cylinder
Phonograph is a diamond
It was appropriate that when Mr. Edison was
seeking the utmost perfection in sound repro-
duction he should find that this power lay in
the diamond. He discovered it in the course of
more than 2,500 experi-
ments, always looking toward
rarer sweetness, mellower,.
stronger tone.
He has equipped every
new Edison Phonograph with
a diamond -point reproducer.
When this marvelously impervious tip rests upon
the surface of the unbreakable Blue Amberol
Record, the jteavier pressure can produce but
one result—wonderfully increased volume,cpm-
bined with rarer sweetness, Hear a Blue Amter`ol
at your Edison dealer's today,
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Edison Amberola I
Has Diamond -Point reproducer,
double spring motor, worm gear
drive and automatic stop. Beau-
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Circassian walnut and oak,
A complete line of Edison Phonographs and Reecc ds will be found at
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Once you try them you will use
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They are the newest and. the
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pet Sweepers, Sleighs and
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