The Seaforth News, 1933-03-23, Page 3THURSDAY , MARCH 23, 1933
In the Ontario legislature
malde' on the use off ,dogs in hunting
Tihe Bill to prdhibii't publication of
discriroigaftory matter, s,.pon'sored by
IAngue, Martian, Con., West Hamilton,
Pox the third successive se'ssi'on a wials''givien secolmd reading anid sentto
bill to give threshers lie* on the
the Le'gia1 Blllls `Celmanit!tee, at th'e ing-
Sing-
grain 'they thresh, b wlh'icfi'
they et-, On of Premier Hurry, , E, 1 . S'ing-
g� y their Money •be'fone abl� 'er, 'Cons., ,Sat ,Andrew's, Taranto,
would obtain e Y su' orted the measure, in sounding
'ar cnediltons, was defeated in second PP
r a • warning that caitastreplhtie!s may
reading in- the On'tiario Legislature.
5w I ort was exPressed byits sp'oni- spring Frohn ,the s!birring tap of hatreds
pP P 'anid that ndbh ng was mare 18'd to
sor, Wm. Newman, Lib'eral, Victoria
I d Austin Smith, 'Oonse'rva- bring dauntd'is'ardcr' than public ad -
t vetiti!selmenit elf ,pr 'hibvtionis against
ibive, Essex'Smith, the l'atter, healing classes in a continuality. Alt the same
introduced a sim'i'lar bill last sess'ian, time, the !till wa,5 opposed b
{Hon. 7. L. Etat-lady, Mlinislter of , Y Wilfred
111gnrcuplture, could see. no ass'is'tanc,e 1Heiglhinlgbon, bons., Sit, • Davids 'Tor -
to the fanrner, in the measure, while onto, Ib'ewho aricosen,
'thaw while there
limy crave arisen• one unfortunate in -
Premier Grorge' S, ,Henry conolud'ed &Wdenits, yet the legislature, should. not
the Opposition who ,also felt there was la !prove the principle orf 'the hill. Mr.
aro ,p!arti�eular advantage to the 'farrier, 'A'eigllt ingbon' felt the spirit of British
IHlon.. Wilai'atn Finlayson, , Minister
(fair 9' 1'bd' e l out
of Lands and Forest's, introdu'c'ed his P wloq xhst and 'wipe o I
such. diflicvllt'ies,
measure for aipprapnvaltion Of $''3,'000,-
!S'econd reading was given ' to the
OO'A for Northern Ontario, the almownt 1hi'lll intno'dui ed' ,by W. E. N. 'Sinffliair,
dbeing $2,000,000 fess than in other {Cetera! - 01 'ois'iteom , leader, which
years. pp ,
the wati
;The Game and F+eslheries Committee
'1!d abolislh grand juries, the, ure going' to the Legal Bilis Commit -
heard rop'resenttations from vraniou's tee at the ee
spadtsm'en and 'hinting organizations ggestion , of Attoieve
I 'enem'H
a W. H. Price, with 'bel'i'eved.
in urging the return to use of dogs ill ithere s•hoii1d be more data and opin-
Miniting deer, the chief ,spokesman fa- nom' socwre'dl on the question. Alt the
voting the dogs !being Elmer Davis, of same time, 'Ool. Price indicated that
Kingston, who _'contended the pres'oist
there may be legislation to abolish Oh,e
law pre'v'ents older then, and maimed
'func'tion of coroners' inquests in cer-
mar .veteran and others with phyishoa9 lain crimin'a'l cases, wrh'ereit is felt
limitation's w'h'o seek to , enjoy the 'criminal cases would aultam'a!ti.cail
apart of deer hunting. Huntsmen also y
petiti'on'ed the eo;nvmlittee for a buck 'fallow without the coroner's inquest
being held. Mr.,Sinc1•aer. charged grand
law with severe 'penalties for those ,junie's are a useless appendage to the
who •shoo!t does and fawns. ,oniniina1 court system, while ;Coll.
The report of the special Catnln tte.e Pnice admitted that their -reoomlm'eu-
app'ainted in 1'93!1 try the House to in -
dations were not taken seriouslyanid
amine into ,the gatne situation was tab -
their fu'ndtu,ons not ' discharged-effic-
led by Hon. G. H, Ohta'lltes, M'iniste'r 'i'endiy. The bill, he felt 'could be sim-
of Game and ` Fisheries, suggesting p'ililfi'ed, and any action taken by. Ont-
Itlhbt the Department be brought under aero would be in conlj'unckcoai with the
a separate member cd the cabinet with
'Federal government
!portfolio, that bhe Tourist and Pub-
licity Bureau be allocated to the De-
partment of Game and, Fisheries, that
theAot be codified and extricated
[from misuntdersbandinigs, and' that
apdw'er may be reserved to the D'eplart-
•menit to regulate negionally as the
condition 'of game or fish in any chis
+tnidt may demIand restriction, open
season or lengthening or ahorltend'ng
!tralpping seasons, 'Co-operation with
the Pnovin:ce df- Quebec is urged in
regard to prohibiting sale of wild duck
and partridge in the open Market,
More uniformity in the game laws of
the two pravintoes, and definite mark-
ing of inter -provincial boundary upon
E. J. Munpiny, Can,,. Sit. Patrick's,
Toronto, denied the allegation' made
by Gorden 'Waldron, ICC., that he
(Murphy) had received a fee fop in-
troducing a bill to the Legislature
which would abolish the present Op-
tometry Connmie'sion, and at the same
time Mr. M'urplhy . is. .ap;pearing as
counsel before the oom'miss'ion for op-
tometrists. Mr. Murphy ternve'd Mr,
Waldrlon's invpelbaibions as "dastardly,
vile, rnaliaioius and -untrue," offering to
'withdraw From Ohre Hattie pending
:discussion on the question. Premier
(Henry observed that ht was pleased
to have Mr. Murphy make such a
waters of the St. Lawrence and 02- clean-cut dental of the clharge, point-
Waters
a Rivers, t e On the e ling ooet that the House has its dignity
question of .bo maintain, .and that nothing attached
guides, 'bhe report asks departmental ,to the member in the incident
segu'lations, for standard of qualifica-
tions, and ypecifreation ofwork in Premier Henry also read to the
:Which employment of guides shall be
.compulsory. For enlfractionls of She
laws on Crown game preserves, the
report su',ggesfs increased penalties
and im'prisonmen't for repeating of-
fenders, No recommendations were
House a menage he sent to Governor
James Rolp'h of .California, expressing
bhe• sympathy of the' Province and the
{Legislature in the loss of life and des-
triic'tion caused by the recent earth-
quake.
THE SEAF(42TH NEWS.
1ANDFO'RIYS AND ' HIOILMANIS
WERE BEST OF LOGGERS
(B'y W. 71', Jolhnisiton, in the London
Free Press,)
Alt the present we' have not many
people wn'osie• history goes back to 90
years ago, wlhen 'South Huron was
,covered' with wands,' -but in the vill-
age
ill -age', of Exeter resides James Handford
a .gentleman algrios't 94 years old, who
lovas bdrn three ,inline sbm!fh of Exeter,
orf lot 7, •conicesls'oon I, Slterphen town-
ship, and has lived, in' thalt vicinity.
s'inc'e his birth. Tolday his mind is as
'clear as when a boy ,and he 'deliirghts
in telling shames of events that hap-
pened in the long ago:
[His •father, Richard -H'andiflord, a
quiet but most energetic m!an, was a
native of Devonshire, Enlgdun!d, and
'was apprrenibiced toa farmer until he
was, 211 years old, without pay. He
heard olf,'Clanada and was determined
to emigrate,, though his parents and
Ifrliendls pleaded with him not to leave
'Dlelelosi, where ,he .was: certain of hav-
ing enough to eat, and oorne to Can-
ada, ,where he woule starve. But their
pleading was of no avail, because he
was made of the stuff that had given
us the pioneer type. He therefore had
the honor of being the first to leave
{Devons'h'ire for Canada over 100
years ago and whose letters to the
holmelrand'bnought out such an influx
of settees that for miles atiottmd his
!rime the country • was settled with
Devon folk, a sturdy, honest, thrifty
peolple who made his part of bhe
countrp blasslom like the rose.
With hem came William Ralttenbury
wide settled in Clinton, where' he ran
the well -{known Rattenbury Hotel for
nearly half a century. When the two
young advenlburens reached' Toronto
they had 50 cents, or rather .two shil-
lings, but nothing' daunted and they
went out into the Townrship of Ching-
uac!o'u!sy, 'County of . Peel, and gat
w'tarlc. They remained there for two
years and learned shingle m'a'king.
PAGE` THREE
moss and a splendid roof was
suit.
Soon Has Neighbors
he re -
{Sloan the settlers came strealmrng iaa.
and nei'ghlborls made the country life.
more pleais!ant. Alfter a few years in
the ' slitan!tiee the • fanners 'began to
ibuild log houses and it was then that
iMr, Htandlfoird found thait, his knowl-
edge of shingle making was a fine as-
set. He began making them. and sup-
plied the fanners for ;}rainy amides ar
ound with hblrnemtadre but , excellent
shinglesfor houtses and barns. His•shlingde ,buisiness was quite profitable
and helped him through tlhe trying
'early days in the weeds,
'Among the early se!btlers was Thos..
JBlislsebt, :with a growing family., One
daughter ,Do'ro'thy, was 1'4. years old
rwih!en they re'ac'hed' Traroolto, ',She re-
mained, be'h'ind and worked for a year
there, then site also walked from Tor-
onto to E'gnsondlvi;ll'e and joined her
IfaIhe'r1s family south of Exeter, Three
years later, when ahe was 118, Richard
.Handford married her. Their union
was blesseld by the birth of 111 child-
ren, eight sons and three daughters.
elf th'else only .three survive, Samuel,
of Slnblwil8ake, Man,; Mfrs, William
May, of M'i'tchell, and James, the sub-
ject of this sketch, in Exeter, who will
be 94 yearts old tryJuly.
These were the days of large fam-
ilies, many of 10 or more A neighbor,
{Lours Holman, and his wife, J'an'e
Bailey, were the ,parents of 10 child-
ren. The Holman and Handford fam-
ilies were inseparable friends, grow-
ing up side by side they loved like
breathers and sisters and yet never
inter'm'arried. The H'andlfo•nd boys
:were; with ane exception, six feet tall
or over, , while the Hofmlans were
shorter but not stout. The youngest
son in the latter family is George W.
Eloilman, of Godericlh, county. Clerk
far Huron county.
{Having a little money and having
caught the spis'it of the lew land, i.e.,
a longing to be a land . •owner, they
walked to Egmendville along the Hu-
ron. road that had been opened by th'e
Canada Oomlpany to Goderich. Here
they separated, William Rlattenlb'u'ry
going on to . Clinton and Richard
Handford to Exeter.
Three miles south of the present
village, on the 'London Road, he tarok
up 300 acres, a Targe estate for.the ap-
preittice 'boy" who less' than three
years before left Devonshire far Clan-
asic 'ith'111,5tenough money to oay
for a steerage passage across the At-
lanitic. At ou'ce he set about building
a shanty, which was rodfe'd with ,bass -
woad scoops,' i.e., basswood logs, split
in half amid hollawed out. One raw of
!these was laid on the top of the
s'h'anty with the hollow side up, then
the ;cracks between were .covered with
an'olther row with the hollowed side
downwards, cracks were filled with
Champion Loggers.
Many initere'stinig stories are told of
the early days when these two fam-
ilies either together or separately per-
formed deeds worth recording, and
as one looks at the airno t giantlike
proportions of this old gentle --man in
his 94th year one can readily, believe
all one is told. At, l'oggin'g 'beds they
always went togetherand were never
beaten. Oetce when a newcomer came
to the distriet he challenged them to a
race. They gladly accepted and told
hint he nbighlt get all the men from
Exeter and Centralia. on the second
and third concession's, 'to help him
W'h'en' the day of the race cane one
and 'Odle half acres were measured for
each gang, The newcomer took a
small strip up one side and seemed bo
be forging ahead, but, the Handlford-
rHlolmt'an, gang took aYl ahead of them
and finished in 90 minutes. The others
took three hours to lag theirs,
ISiometimes Pike 'the d,ayts .elf long
ago in, the time of the 'tou,ruamentbs
they met in edmbiat 'an'd fierce : and
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News
,de'spe'nalte were the strti gdes" Once
they met a large nundber one and a
qularber miles east 'of Devon, defeated
them and chased therm to the next
concession, one and a quarter miles
Alt 'barn raisings Mr. Handford was
geneaallly captain for one side, and'
alnlols'lt invariably won„
!As a 'b!oy Jlames was a gond plow-
man. Alt, twelve years he was in his
'first match, in a field where the Eai-
eter opera houlse, n'ow stanrrls, and won
first prize in the boys' class. For three
,successive years he won first with his,
}nonce of oxen,
(Boys had to work in those early
dlays, and Often took a man's place
with credit to t'h'emselves. Beeforehe
was 112 years old he took the oxen
with a gilistt to B'ell'smill at K'lppen,
QLD miles' from home. He lead to wait
umrtil the next day for the flour. die
was .allowed No sit by the kitchen,
'stove until morning while the ' rest
went to bed. •
On this trip and every other trip,
minter or aemnve'r, bhe leadla were
drawn on homemade sleigh's or junip-
ers, as they were called. The runners,
were unshod and the people ,got along
well'1. with them and were satisfied.
•Sime moo had from 60 to 80 acres
cleared before they bought a wagon.
Clash With Soldiers
rAt 10 years of age Mr. Hran'dlhord
in company with his uncle, Jack Bis-
sett, made his first trip to :. London
and he h'ad en exciting time: Alt Lucan
he sarw bhe first colored nvan, and did
not like his ]rooks, They were one and
a half days going. On their arrival
there they were standing on bhe street
.when ' two soldiers came by, one '.car-
tying a dog, which he thrust iruto his
unclets , face. He proirmpltly knocked
the soldier down, and bhe mooted one
when he came at him. They did not
seem angry, 'butt invited him to come
dawn to the barracks, where they told
hint they had, a man he couldn't man-
age. Uncle Jack sent the little laid
hrome and wlantaed, him not to tell
where he had ,gone. But alflter dark he
bald, and when his friends went to
the barracks the soldiers told them
that Ulnae Jack had beaten all their
best men, so ;they rewarded hien with
plenty to drink and .put h'im to bed.
(When he was 'a boy, 30 to40Ind-
iane camped back, in the woods o0 his
father's farm beside a little stream'
far many years, .and the white 'boys
delighted to visit them. They became
very fniein'ddy and learned a great deal
about each ,other's ways and thoughts.
The Hlan'dlfo'rd's and Holmans Yearned
the Inndian language and war dances
and were able to do almost any'th'in:g
the Indians could de. The chief was.
named 'Sarponacc and was .a warn
friend of the elder Mr. Handford, and
the whites in general.
When the.Prince of Wales, in 1860.
visited Lon'd'on, the old chief took his
braves along and gave an exhibition
of a war .dance for the en'tertainmen't
of the prince. With them went James
and. Richard Handford and Richard.
(Holman. The two Dierks danced with
the Indians, but they kept an their
clothes, while the Indian's wore only
a breechcloth. The prince was de-
lighltod and amased. The next day
there were doings at the fair grounds
an'd these three young men wanted to
see what they were like. When they
got .so far they ,were stopped by a
member of the prin'ce's bodyguard.
bet they wished to push farward to
get a nearer view. The soldier drew
Ks s'w'ord and said he would cut off
their heads if they tried to go farther,
Dick Holnnaan's fish caught him on
the chin and the sword flew through
the air, Then they realized what he
had done, Dhle two Dicks lost theta -
selves in the crowd and James fell
hack suddenly. They got home all
right. Many other stories are told of
the great strength aolsi prowess of
these men in the early days.
Authority on Horses.
itir, Handford, besides farming, en-
gaged iu the horse business and
bought and sold thousands of horses.
IHe was noted for his integrity and
ability to judge horses. For 20 yearns
he was a judge et the fail rfaias in such
places as Exeter, Rayfield, Seaifortli,
Merton, 'Stratford., etc, His proud
boast is that he bought and sold with-
out lying.
II -1.5 went to school with the late
Thomas Greeaiivay, late premier of
Manitoba, worked for him. . for.: eight
years in the snore at Devon, and
when he went West he •accomnpanied
{tun to assist Brim and at same time
make his first tshipn:ent of horses to
'Winnipeg. That was' 51 years ago
The' last time he went West wars 14
year ago' when lie was 80 years old,
this .,tine to sere his son 'Wesley, who
died on the 23rd of January :this year.,
aged 63 years: ,
The late Thomas :Handford was the
youngest son off the family and ways
a dealer In 'horses to a very large ex -
ant. His family lived in Ingersoll.
1fr, ;landlord is quite pleased ,to
tell thnt'in the early days in the large
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district with the 'English around Ex-
eter and. Devon, the Iirisib to the
south and the Scotch to th'e north,
'that all were honest. Pt. wars not nec-
eslsary to ask a man for his note when
you lent him money, because he
'world and did pay his debts,
as father sold th'e, first horse in
London. that brought $100; Ilt was sold
to Jailer Lamenie, He, James, .sold the
first .Norse that brought $1200 in the
same city,,
'His farther and ,a11 the neigh'b'ors left
home, to quell the rebellion, of 118317.
'His wife and children were left in the
care of the Indians and they prayed
to be the truest of ,friends. Sixtyseiven
Years ago bis turn came and he, with
many other young men, went to Goal
enich to meet ;F'enians hilt 11 prove
to be a bloodless campaign. They did
not get a sight of the enemy but they
had a good time.
THE PERFECT LADY ONCE
HA:D HER TROUBLES
Some of our modern ladies have
been living in a very unladylike fash-
ion—if a series of directions to young;
ladies .published . about 1840 is to be
taken as a criterion,. Thus, for in-
stance it gives• the following advice
:'Practice the effeminate virtues and,
do not meddle with horses, d'o'gs,
Euclid, politics or the dead lan-
guages"; and adds:- "If a lady in-
trudes into the studies cohn'tnonly
appropriated to the other sex, it gen-
erally 'follows •that either health is
the sacrifice or duties and studies are
neglected which are incumlbent upon
her own sex. At the same time T
would net and ,de not countenance
light and superlficiad acquirements;
the female mind, as far as its cap-
abilities go, should be exercised."
The compiler goes on to say that
"of all the monsters in creation• a fe-
male demagogue is, next after a fe-
male infidel, the greatest outrage."
Of course, demagogues of any kind
are something of an outrage, but
one cannot help wondering what
Miss Agnes Macphail and other wo-
rsen who have taken arm active part in
public affairs will think of the sug-
gestion that ladies should leave the
study of politics alone 1
iBut '11 is when these early tomes-
come to the regulation of social 'be-
,havior that they become most re-
strictive. The one question, for in-
stance, decrees that "two ladies may
teach take the 'arm of a gentleman,
but a lady should never take the arms
of two gentlemen at the same tine."
Another of the same period stipulates
that "young ladies do .ant .receive calls
from gentlemen, unless they are very
intimate with them, or have passed
the rubicon of thirty summers," 'This
last at least will sound very strange
to the young lady of today. G -'min;
down to the year 1885 some further
instructions in regard to 'the treat-
ment of gentlemen callers are out-
lined. "When your visitor's retires,'
writes an etiquette authority of that
period, "ring for the servant: You•,
may then accompany your guest as
far towards the door as the circum-
stances of your friendship seem to
demand." There is a certain saving
grace in the discretion allowed in bhe
last sentence, but there must have
been tinter when the lady was hard
put to it to. determine just what the
circumstances demanded.
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