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The Wingham Advance, 1909-08-26, Page 4a ,t4666wwwwwww. viwnimiwwwww 1 1 August Sale Desiring to clear out our Summer Stock, we wile offer, for this month such bargains as have not been offered in town for Some time. We have a window full of Colored Silk Parasols worth up to $3.50 ; we offer you your choice for $2.00, Also a line in all white, with band of insertion at 990. Children's Parasols at 20o. A few other bargains worth mentioning, are :—Corset Cover Embroidery -24o a yard. Whitesyear at reduced prices. Shirtwaists at cost and a few below cost. BOYS' SUITS—sizes 22 to 2 —Price $1,50. BOOTS—All sizes --99c. Fresh Groceries always in Stook. Highest Prices for Produce. D. M. GOR, ON TRH WIN'GB AM ADVANCE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909. ��►�tori�i� —Dr, Haanel, of the Department of Mines, has initiated a plan of national importance. He hopes to experiment with peat as a fuel and so treat it that it will not only be as good as, but much better than coal. It will also be much cheaper, .An experiment sta- tion is now in course of erection at Ottawa, and when it is ready the first peat will be broughtfrom an excellent bog which is situated near Alfred, Ont. The difficulty regarding coal is that it is exhaustible. The end of the supply is within measurable distance. However, ioith peat the situation is different. It grows, and it is believed that there are enough peat bogs in Canada to provide a practically unex- haustible supply for an immense popu- lation. The experiments are not now, of course. We are shbply following upon the heel of Norway and Sweden, but the" prospect is that, like Scandi- >navia, we shall be placed in possession of a cheap and thoroughly adequate domestic and manufacturing fuel. King's For Bargains I I We Want Your Trade Your Last Chance On Summer^ Muslins, &ca This week will close one of 'the most successful Sales of Sommer Goods wove ever had. We, still have a few pieces of Fancy Muslins, Linen Suitings, a &0., on which you can save from 20 to 50 per cent. Bay a Muslin Dress. Save the Money. FLANNELETTE BLANKETS.—Another shipment here. Regular price $1.85—for. $1.00 SATEEN UNDERSKIRTS.—The best Black Sateen Underskirt you ever saw—for 790 FANOY TARTAN.—That 5 cent Fancy Tartan is worth the money. Don't let it slip?rough your fingers 5o NEW FALL GOODS.—More about these next week. In the meantime come in and have a look. Eggs 22 Cts. Tub Butter 20 ets. GEO. E. KING Good 1 Cheap Prices Whitechurch Hardware Store News The Season For Stoves Is Almost Here. a. Be sure and see our New Steel Range, with hearth and copper reservoir -enclosed, large oven with drop door, fitted for both coal and wood, handsomely finished, afid the price is only $20.00. When in the village, call and learn how you can get a Handsome Parlor Lamp free for a New Year's gift. Does your house need Painting 2 Get our figures for the finished job — they'll surprise you and you will get a first-class job. I will furnish genuine Frost Wire Fencing, hooks and staples, for an 8 -wire fence, and put it up for you, for 40 cents per rod. J. T. Holmes - Whitechurch ill 1I 4yiq fP1 .1 WJ. BOYCE Sole Agent Wrngham For 25 Cents The ADVANCE Will be sent to new subscribers until Januar. st, 1910. Subscribe at once. —The next session of Parliament will be a fiscal session. The decennial revision of the Bank Act will attract unusual attention. It is safe to say that Mr. Fielding will propose few changes, but many others will be sug- gested by private mellibers and some of them will find support on both sides of the House. One reform which may be, urged will relate to the matter of savings banks. At present a large part of the savings banks business is being transacted by the chartered banks. It is believed by many, that the chartered banks should confine themselves to commercial, business, and that in some way, long-time de- posits should be conserved for people who desire long-time loans upbn real estate security, for buying and im- proving their hones. It is also felt that the Government savings banks, including the Postoffice, are not get- ting their share of the business, and that this is due in a large degree to defects in administration. Govern- ment inspection of banks may also be insisted upon in view of recent dis- closures as to the Ontario Bank and the defunct Bank of St. Johns, Que. • —The Royal Mint at Ottawa has at coined a, great deal of money, and 'there is complaint that American sil- ver is flooding the country, The Gov- ernment has pursued a vacilating policy in this matter. Some years ago, it brought down legislation to encourage the banks to ship back,sil- ver to the United States. The Act seemed to work well enough, but for some reason it was discontinued after a year's trial, only to be re-enacted at the last session. It..is an accommoda- tion to American tourists to have their own money taken at par and merchants naturally seek to accom- modate them where a sale is in sight. Were Canadian silver coins accepted at par throughout the United States, the result would probably not dimin- ish the output of the Royal Mint. But, except, along the border, our coins are only accepted in the United States at eighty per cent.' of their value and this naturally has the effect of reducing to the minimum their cir- culation in that country. The silver coins of both countries are only worth as bullion about forty per, cent. of their face value, The profit made by the Government on coining silver is quite large and there would be a greater coinage and of course a great- er profit, if all the fractional silver used in Canada came from our own Mint. —The Minister „ of Lands, Forests and Mines in Ontario, has 0given no- tice by advertisement that timber and tie berths situated in the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Ke- nora and Rainy River, will be offered for sale by public tender on Wednes- 'day, the 15th September. ,This is a new way of doing things, which it would' be well for the people of Can- ada to insist upon the Federal Gov- ernment adopting. The right to cut ties on Crown lands heretofore, has been granted either by permit .or by public tender. Now the Government announces a new policy. Henceforth the right is to be granted only upon public tender. This policy, if adminis- tered strictly, should eliminate all favouritism in the distribution of those' rights. It should provide also substantial increases in the public revenues. And there is in the record of the Whitney Government convinc- ing assurance that the policy will be administered strictly. Beginning with the coming sale of timber berths, all logs less than eleven inches in diame- ter will be sold by the piece, instead of by the thousand feet. The large lumberman will pay 20 cents for his ten -inch 16.foot log, the same as the small man with the axe, who gets out only a few hpndred ties, As the nulla- her of railway ties annually cut in On - tarso is very large, the addition to the provincial revenue thus secured should be considerable. arrimaroprororrirmormrilermat It Was A Snake. Little Jimmie `Young, son of Mr. R. Young, of the Commercial hotel, Arthur, three years of age, Was quiet- ly playing in the rear of the hotel last Wednesday with what appeared to be a stalk of rhubarb. After about an hour, Mr. Suggitt, who was working in the yard, went over to speak 05 the little fellow and found that the play- thing he was so interested in *as none else bat a foot long garter snake. No harm eared to the ohila.ond the inake was tioott put out of the way. Farm -Values. Bound To go Up. (Weekly Sun.) There are at present many cases in which. Ontario farm lands can be bought at e. price not more than equal to the cost of improvements on the property. The principal cause of this state of affairs is found in the removal to the West of thousands, who would otherwise ,have purchased homes in this Province. From perfectly natural causes, the breaking up of families and so on, a numlier of farms come on the market every year, and when the supplf of'- buyers is reduced by un- usual causes, such as this Western movement, prices are bound to go be- low actual values. The Springfield Republican, which is published in Massachusetts, in com- menting on the situation at present existing here, says New England has been through a similar experience. While the Western States were in the condition that the Canadian West is in now, a constant stream of popula- tion poured from New England out upon the American prairies and Eas- tern farm values declined almost to the vanishing point as a consequence. But, in the case of New England, the turn of the tide has already set in. The American West is now full'; land prices there have, as a consequence, risen up to or above real value, and population is turning back from Wes- tern to Eastern States where prices are away below actual value. Al- ready this return movement has reached sufficient dimensions to bring about an increase in prices even in Central Maine, one of the poorest dis- tricts in the eastern seaboard of the United States. ,ad An American Opinion. Rather remarkable is the change of opinion regarding Canada in connec- tion with the American press. A few years ago, scarcely a word of praise. washeard of Canada or her resources. There seems now to be a disposition to give Canada some little credit. This is what the Minneapolis Tribune has to say :— "The drift of American indt tries to Canada in search of cheaper raw. material and fewer restrictions upon enterprise is perfectly natural. Capi- tal is the most mobile . thing in the world, and international boundaries have become imaginary for it. You can exclude emigration and shut out goods, but no nation makes laws against money -seeking investment. It is a,s natural that Americans should build mills in Canada for working up Canadian products as that the beef trust should take over Argentine pl;Lnts to kill the cheap and abundant cattle of that country and ship the meat here in refrigerator ships. When fuller development- solves the power problem, Canadian wheat will be ground largely in Canada and American capital will finance the grinding. An earlier phenomenon probably will be the transfer of our paper pulp n 1ls, if not the paper mills themselves, Canada, is helping this with restrictions upon export, and we are encouraging it with our general tariff policy. Already Ontario pro- hibits export of wood suitable to pulp making from crown lands, though pri- vate owners may do as they please, Ontario has not yet built up a pulp mill industry, but its policy has tend- ed to concentrate the pulp industry of the United States in the east, with a consequent rise in price of paper." A LOSING GAME. There is some chanot of winning it ' 'most every game that's played, From polo down to ping-pong, and from poker to old maid You always have some show to prove your strength or craft or skill, And if friendly fortune favors—call it luck, Or what you will— You may carry off the honors, but one game you'll surely lose, And that's the game that people play with Old Man Booze, No man was ever known to make, a winning at this game ; All kinds of men have tried it—the result was just the same ; Your luck may change at faro, you may carry off a stake, But there's just one game that no one was ever known to break, And it has broken many—it will break yon if you ehoose To go against the game that's ptayed with • Old Man Booze. Yott ►nay dally with tins ponies, buck fi the wheel, or take aEound Out of fluctuating finanee, and still 'scope cafe and sound ; Y u tna;� margin May, if hopeful the ' pride go up or down, Or get a little hatchet, CarriegsTation- ize the town— Out up,any crags? caper a fickle fancy choose, But it's awful hard`"ta get the best of Old Man Booze. Beware Of SItbstfttttes Greedy dealers endeavor to pan an off substitute for Pattern's Owen.Extrae- Pattern'stor. Insist on Putnani'e onlyit ouree °erne and warts thoroughly, The Imitation may fail, POULTRY NOTES. It, will not burt either fowls or chicks to roost in the trees from now until the beginning of cold weather.. Both turkeys and, geese will find nearly all their food in the fields dur. ing August, if allowed free range.. When shipping any kind of live poultry at this season of the year, do not crowd the coops and be sure that the coops allow suflioient. ventilation. Always remember that lice breed faster in summer than they do in win- ter and double the precautions against thein on that account. Old ducks which are being kept over need considerable bulk in their feed and therefore coarse wheat bran and cut clovdr, etc., should make from a third to a half of the ration. It is never advisable to feed old and young stock together far the quality and amount required by the young for proper growth and development will usually fatten the old stock past its best usefulness. If the young ducks stretch out in the sun and. -become apparently life- less, they are affected by sunstroke and should be put in a cool place to recover and shade should be provided where the flock can reach it during hot days. If the fowls are yarded during the summer always see that they get plenty of green food, either refuse vegetables from the garden, green, apples from the orchard, fresh cut green clover (cut and feed while the dew is on), or,a part of each. A good summer ration for old fowls on free range is.a reasonable amount, not too mucb, of corn, wheat and oats, fed separately and alternately morning and night, with an occasional feed of barley. The fowls will pick up all else they need in the fields, Watch the youngstock as it "grows and note and keep track of the indi- viduals that make the fastest and most uniform growth and which show no signs of disease or sickness. Those are the ones to breed from next sea- son if the intention is to improve the flock from year to year. Only One Left. When Lord Thurlow first opened a lawyer's office in London, he took a basement room which had previously been occupied by a cobbler, He was somewhat ' annoyed by the previous occupant's callers, and irritated by the fact that he had few came to seek legal advice. One day an Irishman entered. "The cobbler's gone, I see," he said.., "I should think he had," tartly responded the lawyer. "And what do ye sell?" inquired the Irish- man, looking at the solitary table, and a few law books. "Blockheads," responded Thurlow. "Begorra," said Pat, "ye must be doing a mighty fine business, ye ain't got but one left." New Telephone Directory. The Bell Telephone Company of Canadais about to issue a NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY For the DISTRICT OF WESTERN ONTARIO, including WINGHAM Orders for new connections, changes of firm names, changes of street ad- dresses, or for duplicate entries, should be handed in AT ONOE to L. BINKLEY Local Manager 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. Office over Malcolm's Grocery A. E. SMITH BA 1N-1(ER WIN'G'HAM E— ONTARIO FarmeT9 who want money to buy horses, cattle or hogs to feed for mar- ket Can have Won reasonable terms. Money transmitted and payable Lit par at any Bank in the Dominion. RATES.—$15.00 and under, 3 ets. $10 to $30, 10 eta, $30 to f150, 15 ots. Same rates . charged onrincipal banking points in the U. S. Jas. Walker & Son WINOI1A1Vi Furniture Dealers and Undertakers 'We aro spsetaliy, qualified under- takers a1n�u 3lmbaffners, and those 011 itstbeingtowell doth 1'Ntghtvoalls reediVed at resideiioe. ptltie'phon _.tad floeee 'l►ona YeaNevousemeamsmiellsivammaimilosimossaniamplair 4 Take Comfort. Hat weather is here. To enjoy it, get one of our Coaloil Stoves —OR— Gasoline Stoves And. Save Fuel and Cook in Comfort. Graniteware and Tinware. Ranges of Best Makes. Reliable Garden Nose. Plumbing our Speciajty. w W. J. BOYCE Stone Block r-Wingham, TRY al MAI{COLM'S WITH YOUR NEXT ORDER FOR Choice Teas, Coffees and Groceries. FRESH VEGETABLES ALWAYS ON, HAND. Call and see our display of Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Toilet Sets and Fancy China. They „are worth looking at. Produce Wanted. Malcolm's PHONE 54 t Fall Term Opens Sept. 1st ELLIOTT TORONTO, ONT`. This school is unquestionably one of Canada's greatest, Best and Most Suc- cessful Colleges. Our graduates readily secure employment. Let us educate you ' for positions worth from $35 to $100 a month. We know how. Write to -day for magnificent catalogue. . W. J. ELLIOTT, PRINCIPAL, Cor. Yonge and Alexander Sts. 1 Fall Term From Sept. 1st. CENTRAL STAATFORD. ONT. After twenty-two sears of solid work we have become the largest, best and most successful practical training school in Western Ontario, with no superior in Canada. Throe departments—Com- mercial, Shorthand and Telegraphy. Wo assist graduates to positions as well as give a most thorough training. Got our free catalogue at once. ELLIOTT & MCLACHLAN PhINCIPALS D011llON BANKI HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. Capital (paid up) - . $3,980,000 Reserve t ed ;gig- • $5,297,000 Total Assets, over $50,000,000 WINGRAM BRANCH. Interest allowed on deposit of $1;00 and upwards, Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts sold on all points in Can- ada, the United. States and Europe. M. J. 1O1tRAECE, Manager n.'Vanetone, Solicitor The ADV tto1J is North Huron's leading news- paper. Are you a sub, scriber ? If not, *by ? Only $t per year. Popular Store Pou�ar ��org The Peoplo's Agents Ladies' Home Journal Kerr &Bird Agents Home Journal Patterns 1 Mid = Summer Sale. DRESS MUSLINS.—All Dress Muslim at Sacrifice Prices to clear. Must go now,, at any price :--10c Muslins 8e ; 15c Mullins Ile ; 20c Muslins 15e ; 25c Muslins 18c ; 30c Muslins 22c ; 40c Muslins 30e: LADIES' WHITE WAISTS.—New styles, handsome goods, well made. $1.00 waists for 69c to 74c. $1.25 waists for 98c. $1,50 waists for $1.15. $1.75 waists for $1.29. $2.00 waists for $1.48. $3.00 waists for $2.29. SUMMER PARASOLS.—Colored and white ; not many left, but we don't want them. Every one new. Regular '$1125 for 94e, $1.35 for $1,00, $1.50 for $1.12, $2.25 for $1.69. MEN'S AND BOYS' SUMMER HATS.—Straws, etc., must go. Regular 25e for 19c, 30c for 23c, 50e for 38o, 75c for 56c, 60c for 45e, $1.00 for 750. Common Straws— Regular 20c for 15c, 150 for 10e, 10e for 8c. Now For A Big Sale Of Quarterly Style Books. The New Quarterly Style Books for Fall are now in stock. They are certainly the best yet. 132 pages -illustrating the "Ladies' Home Journal Pat- terns." This number not only gives the newest styles of garments, but also the colors and styles of material to be worn. 132 -page Style Book, worth -200 And a L. H. J. Pattern 15o • 85o } All For 20c 1 Our New Fall Dress Goods Have Arrived VENETIANS.—We're showing some very pretty colors in plain and striped all -wool Venetians, in ashes of roses, wedgewood, brown, purple, green and blue—with Linings to match. BLACK SERGES, ETC. -- In black Serges and grey Broadcloths, we have a good range to choose from. FOR CHILDREN.—For Children's Dresses we're showing a fine:, line of Scotch Plaids in the different colors. LAbIES !—Call in and inspect ow Fall Material for Ladies' Coats—extra good value. 0 SUGAR ! We're selling Pure No. 1 Granulated Sugar, fully guaranteed, at 20 lbs. for $1.00. $4.90 by sack of 100 lbs. 4 Goods delivered to any part of town. Flour and Feed always on hand. T. A. Mills WINGHAM i. . ..