The Seaforth News, 1923-05-31, Page 4E YOUR.
THE 8EAFORTH NEE{
gra°14VOKTI1 DIM
SNOWDON, Proprietor.
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General Observations 1
ftt
Vote for Drttryt His Government
is the biggest bar keeper Ontario has
ever had. luring four years its total
receipts from the sale of liquor was
$11,874,131,
The Seaforth football team have
"one -nothing" (not won 'nothing) as
the result of the first two games of
the .season. Good luck to them!
What a 'beneficent thing .Nature is
with its wonderful changes as'the"sea'-
sons come and go. It is never weari-
ly monotonous, but delightfully sur-
prising in its varied moods. The cold
of winter gradually changes to the
bluster of spring and balmy, delight-
ful days of early summer 'before the
heat of July, But the change from
the cold bleakness of last week gave
Place to the heat of this week, which
clothed the bare trees with their
green verdure, giving cool shade.
Mr, \Vigte has signified to the Exe-
cutive of the Conservative Association
of Centre Huron his acceptance of
the nomination offered to -him at the
recent convention here, and has al-
ready started his organization. Mr.
Wigle
isand as
strong candidate,
a
mayor of Goderieh proved himself a
capable administrator. Mr. Goven
lock is the Liberal candidate, and de-
pends nn silent work rather than
noise in his campaign. Mr. Somer-
ville, who carries the Drury flag, is
the third candidate, though formerly
an active Liberal. In South (Huron,
Mr. Trewartha represents the Con-
servatives and is a capable candidate,
Mr. D, F. McGregor is bearing the
Reform banner, .and the U:F.O. meet
on Thursday to select their standard
bearer. to North Huron, Mr. Joynt
is the Conservative candidate and ap-
parently has secured the goodwill of
everyone, Mr. Bricker is the U.F.O,
Candidate in that riding. He was for-
merly a Liberal.
GENERAByL OBSERVATIONSWH.T. ,
"Dangers stand thick through all the.
ground
To push us to the tomb."
When these lines were written, the
locomotive was unknown, as were
also the aeroplane and the automo-
bile. Electricity, which is now so
useful, was then known to only a few
scientific experimenters. But each
one of these inventions and develop-
ments has taken and still takes, as a
return for its services to mankind, a
heavy toll of human lives, So we
may say with truth that if dangers
*ere plentiful in the eighteenth cen-
tury, they are still More plentiful, and
more varied in form, in the twentieth,
But we do not think it right to say
that dangers "stand.' They rush. Nei-•
titer do they simply "push" their vic-
tints to the tenth. They hurl them.
We therefore think, and we feel sure
their gifted author would agree that
those two .lines would be improved if
written;
"Dangers rush thick e'er all the
ground
To hurl us to the tomb."
With the auto season now fully
opened, the papers daily bring us ac-
counts of heartrending accidents—for
iustancc, that one last Sunday after-
noon when an auto filled with young
people of pleasure bent, met an inter-
urban car on Woodward avenue, be-
tween Detroit and Pontiac, Mich„ and
in the twinkling of an eye, seven lives
were snuffed out --seven human he-
itigs mangled beyond recognition,
"Nor ceased the carnage there." It
went en in different parts of the
country,
It matters not how careful some
drivers may he, they are always in
Ochi i r of meeting some one who is
careless and reckless. While, there-
fore, the auto is very useful, as well
as a source of great pleastu•e,and, for
these reasons, will remain with us, it
is also a inhalant menace to human
life.
Por some time, the weather Inas
been such as to perutit us to wtirk in
our garden and how naturally we take
to gardening; but can we wonder
when we consider that we are all des-
cended froth the gentleman who was
Bead gardener in Eden?
But no Matter grow naturally we
take to it, gardening comes hard after
the comparative rest of winter, The
turning over ofthe soil tires our
somewhat relaxed muscles at ^first,
and our backs ache as we stoop over
and try to rrid the ground of ,the obi!.
rtuitotu dandelion, the, prickly Can.•
oda thistle anti the unerad!cablebind-
weed,
How much easier our gardening
For the vurio 5
Fo t u
would bt, were it not F
an i'na1 and vegetable pests with which
we have to contend: It seems as if
every useful fruit and vegetable has
an ,enemy. Our conflict with these
pests, animal and vegetable, keepa us
busy, taxes our ingenuity and draws
00 our scientific resources. 'Horace.
Greely used to say that the Canada
thistle was not attunmixed evil inas-
much as it made Men better farmers,
However, the 'couclusibn of the
whole f matter is this, It is wisdom on
our part to bestow ungrudgingly the
labor that is necessary: to make the
best of conditions as we find them.'
DULUTH LETTER.
The weather still continues some-
what of a freaky disposition.On the
loth there were two degrees of -rost.
The leafing of the trees and progress
of vegetation is slow, but some ram
has fallen, 'which - may encourage
spring growth, though the • weather
prognosticator says colder weather is
due. We trust he is in error. Same
astrontuters claim this will be a freak
season owing to "sun spots" and will
be characterized by unusual cold
spells, and also the opposite with cy-
atolic.atorms in various places from
time to time, together with other dis-
asters. We all hope for the best and
trust place our faith in th tt,� God
whose power is supreme and c fttrols
all. Menacing forest fires had brok-
en out on the \%'isconsinside from
here, and threatened destruction to
valuable forest areas for a time. For-
e • ranger, from this side ~cut to
assist, but danger for the time being
is over, as these fire~ are now under
con trot.
Duluth has had planted this season
e me 4,000 )0 shade trees on her streets
t -s
at�elle and other thoroughfares.
g es
These include some 3,600 silver
maple,. 300 elms and some :other
tree,, 'r, they grow in the coarse of
time, these will add` splendor and
beauty to this city as their branches
overspread and their rich green foli-
age shade its thoroughfares in the
hot seminer time in days to come.
:\gain comes another story of an
alltermath of one of the terrible bliz-
zards, this time from Halliday, North
Dakota. 0s February 4th, when
Fred Webbers, a farmer living near
there, missed a 170 pound hog he did
not hunt for the animal, as he consid-
ered it trust have perished. How-
ever, when loading straw from a stack
not long ago, his pitch fork stuck in
something solid; Investigation show-
ed it was the body of the missing hog.
Next day its burial was planned. But
next morning a sack of bones some-
what resembling a pig staggered up
to the feeding; trough after a 72 -day
fast, with no chance to eat anything-
but straw. It weighed only 70 pounds
but is now giving indications of rapid-
ly increasing weight.
The other afternoon I saw a red
squirrel running along the paved
sidewalk seemingly unconcerned with
the human and cat and dog animal
kingdom near at hand. After a short
distance it crossed the street heading
north, presumably for Cascade Park
where, probably it lives and .has a
home. 1t likely had been out on a
tour of investigation.
Seeing it made me think how
shamefully and cruelly we abused Mc-
Killop red squirrels half a century
ago, more or less, often a shotgun•
terminating their earthly career, and.
at times they were subjected to vol-
leys of sticks, stones and other mis-
siles. Another cruel way was when
they were swiftly running along the
fence rails Dila worm fence, rimming
ahead of them and with a stick placed
aerose the rail they seining on, give
t 4
then a swipe a the came: to
which often finished their days on
earth. If strined, the final results
were generally the sante, as an active
dog or youth finished the job; '
I now think of this beautiful and
saucy animal as it sat on its haunches.
on a fenceor the bt :,ch of a tree,
with tail spread over its back muuch-
Mg oak or beech nuts, heads of wheat
or some other atuirrel food held firm-
ly in Its'front paws.
I remember one day a red squirrel
gave me a painful deal• I had thrown
a stick and knocked one down from a
sapling in our beaver meadow on our
old homestead,
1 pick it up thinking it dead, but
it was ditty stunned. It grabbed me
at the base of my left thumb and,
drove its teeth in till I guess they
met. Anyway, I certainly had a task
to unhitch its painful hold. My
thumb bled profusely, which prob-
ably removed any poison left from
its teeth. It is scarcely necessary to
state, this red squirrel's finish.
Speaking of squirrels reminds Mme of
the larger and still more beautiful
black variety which at one time roam-
ed and frisked and played' in Old
1Turon's woods.
There used to be an oak tree grove
on the eastern part of the Scarlett
homestead on the 9th' concession, and
not very far fromtheside line.
In memory I yet can vividly see
numbers of these squirrels one fall
when the oak nuts were ripe, run-
ning tip and down the trunks of these
trees and jumping from branch to
branch in quest of this delicious
squirrel food.
.Again in memory and in day long
gone past, I see scores of these active
black chaps running up and down
and along the limbs of beech trees,
when driving alongthe side line
which passed by the No. 4 school
housewhere stood,at least
in for-
wheett
utcr times. These trees were in the ad-
joining woods of` the Nichol and
Beatty homesteads of the sixth and
Sth concession respectively.
In the last of 'the 70's and when
black squirrels for some reason or
other were rapidly diminishing +u
numbers, Alex. Cowan, a former Mc-
Killop boy (better known as
"Sandy") and a son of the late An-
drew Cowan, formerly of the seventh
concession, another of those sturdy
Huron pioneers who did his share to
convert the wooded forests into the
beautiful hones and fields of waving
grain, was building our house on the
old, never -to -be -forgotten homestead
on the eighth concession. "Sandy"
asked me if I thought I could get a
black squirrel for !rem as he would
like to have a stuffed and mounted
specimen when he returned to Peo-
tote, I11.
So out one afternoon I went hunt-
ing with shotgun and accompanied by
our dog Help, of fox -rooting fame. I
located blacky on the limb of a huge
elm tree on the Duffus' homestead,
on the eighth concession,
While trying to get a shot at the
wary black chap, who constantly
maneouvred to keep the limb between
its body and me for safety's sake
Help, who in the meantime had gone
on a scouting expedition of his own
had rooted up a red fox. As he fol-
lowed on• rite' scent of,the latter, he
gave occasional yelps which showed
me his quarry,was coming in my di-
rection. I cocked the shotgun and
waited and sure enough, along came
lfeddy on a slow trot. As he came
near me, I let blaze. He ran a few
yards, staggered and fell. As I pick-
ed him up, along came Help on a fug
run. I had a hard job to keep him
front getting hold of the dead fox and
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giving its body a terrific shaking, as
I: did not wish the skill or fur torn.
I suppose Help thought the same was
due hien as t reward for his interest
and success es snth ease. , ase. As for me, I.
got a red fox, but no black squirrel,
Duluth,,
--ROBERT.
nn,, Slay 81A11U 923.
Fresh Supplies in Demand. —
Wilere Dr, :.Phomas' Eeleetric Oil has
been introduced increased supplies
have been ordered, showing that
wherever it goes this excellent Oil
istpresses its power on the people, No
matter in what latitude it may be
foiled its potency is never impaired.
Itis put up in most portable shape in
bottles and can be carried without
fear of breakage..
BLYTH.
A Ford car driven by Clarence
Johnston crashed -through the wood-
en fence guarding the approach to
the bridge over the creek at the north
end of the village on Monday even-
ing into six feet of water. Johnston
crawled out unassisted and is appar-
ently uninjured. The, machine was
wrecked by. a fifteen-fgot,,drop. John-
ston purchased the car only a few
days ago. Driving out of town Mon-
day night he stooped to turn on the
lights. The car struck a stone and in
an instant' had carried away the
,bridge rail and overturned into the
water. Johnston was standing on it
when help came. He is a son of Jos,
Johnston. Blyth, a farmer here.
CROMARTY.
Miss , Irene Walker has returned
home from London, where she has
had a position for the past five
months.
Mr. Norman Park has been in To-
ronto'for the past fortnight building
a new house for Mr. T.. M. Hamil-
ton, formerly of Staffa. He returned
home Saturday evening.
Mr. Ed. -Howe, of Detroit, Mich.,
sent the
spent week -end art he
parental
home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Chittick and family,
of Granton, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Chittick's mother.
The Cromarty baseball club played
Staffa last Monday and were victori-
ous, and the Boundary club on Sat-
urday and were. defeated. The lat-
ter club will play them again this
week in our village. ,
Mr, and Mrs. Russell, of Avonton,
spent Sunday with the latter'a"moth-
er, Mrs. Currie, of the village.
Mrs. Speareis in Brampton at
present. Her brother, Mr, Upshall,
died at his home there last week, and
she attended the funeral.
Much sorrow is felt in the commun-
ity over the death of. Mrs. Mahaffy
on Monday of last week. The fun-
eral on Wednesday was very largely
attended by sorrowing friends. She
was greatly beloved, and deep sym-
pathy is felt for the husband and
family.
Corns cause much suffering, but
Holloway's Corn Remover offers a
speedy, sure, and satisfactory relief,
If they had a fewdivorcejudges at
these peace„ conferences, they might
accomplish something.
Princess
THE GREATEST ROMANCE OF THE DESERT
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Btiruing Sands
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That "Burning Sands" will do this we are entfrely,confideat.
Written by a man who spent years on the Sahara, it treats Brit-
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a story of wonderful heart . appeaI, tenseness and swift; dramatic'
action.
Paramount bas staged the sets with a Lavish Hand.
Hundreds of native horsemen and. British Cavalry are employed
to the desert scenes.
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