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The Wingham Times, 1905-08-10, Page 44 THE WINGl[A1 TIMES AUGUST i0., 1905, TO ADVERTISERS etiota of changes. Must be heft at this office riot later than Saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not Inter than lelouday evening, annual adve:rtisemente accepted up to noon Wednesday of eaeh week. ESTa:SL1S1111rt 1871 " WINOIIAll TIMES, y%1t. MT,414oTT, Pu at iglu AST, Peoee teon 'l.'HURSDA.Y, AUC -UST 10, 1905. THE BONNIE LANA. The Editor's Trip to the Land of the Heather. We spent several hours in Melrose, and from the station we get a obarming view of the grand ofd Abbey through the trees, including a glimpse of its ivy- , overed tower. "If thou. wouldat view fair Melrose aright, Go vieit it by the pale moonlight Melrose was made famous by the visit of William of Deloratne to Michael Soott'a grave, and as the Kennagahnir of the Monastery stand out prominently as the centre of interest in southern Sootiand. The original towu stood two miles to the east of the present cue, and a religious house was established there in 635. The holy St. Cuthbert was a monk in this house. It fell into ruin and was replaced by the present Abbey in 1186 by Devtd I , who endow- ed it with large tracts of laud. The Abbey was burned down in 1322, and was restored in 1326 by King Robert the Bruce. Iu 1545 a great deal of the moue artery was destroyed by the English, w)30 were afterwards defeated at An - cram Moor. After the Reformation, James Douglas, oommoudator, took down a great portion of the ruin to build a house, which is still standing. The date on one of the windows is 1590. The statues were destroyed in 1549. It is said that there is not an old house in the town but has in its walls a stone from the Abbey. Muck has been and is being done to keep the ruins from fur- ther decay. The length of the ruin is Many of the older tombstones are Iaid Play." The rules of the etude and the flat over the graYea, It was very inter- old Gross Church of St. biieholas are iu eating tor Hie to read solve of the in- the old tome It was richly endowed scriptions on the tombstones, and will by Alexander III. in 1260, and was ueed give ore here:-- for service till 1780. The bridge over "Here lyes Lsvtanent Celioeel An- the river Tweed, made of stone, is sup. drew Ker tit Kippitaw who was born at posed to have been ereoted about the Melte se the 23 February 1610. years cudend of the fourteenth century. This died at Kippfaw upon 3. February 1607. bridge is still in use and a few years ago in the 77 year of his age. And, his. only, it was made broader. At the west end sou Andrew Ker. of Kippilaw. Writer of the town are the ruine and burying to the Signet. who, died, the first. day. gr'onud of St. Andrew's Church, dating of. October 1744. aged 85 yearn." beak to 1116. Mango Park, the famous Ia the Abbey we see ninny tombs, African traveller was at one time in anioug them being Michael Scott's; Sir practice in Peebles, While here we Ralph Ivers, killed at Aueram Moor in were attracted by a red sign in front of 15455; Alexander II; Queen Johanus, a r;tore and en entering we found tiler wife of Alexander II. Here also is an auction sale of household furniture buried the heart of Robert the Bruce. was in progress. The manner of con - (Elie body is buried in Dunfermline Ab- dnoting auction sales in the Old Land bey.) Mauy and queer to us were the we found to be much different to what ius,:riptious to be found inside the Ab• we had been accustomed to. The time bey and here is a sample: -"Hair hes of tioneer stands on a large platform and guid memorie Dame Margaret Ker, first has a desk in front of bit and uses the wyfe ro James Prino of wodhous, and old-fashioned small hammer. The bid- efter his deceis mareit Sir David;Home ding was in shillings, sixpence, eto„ of Wodderburne. Kuveht gubar deceissit and may as well been in Dutch as far as the 24 of J'ebruere, auuo D. 1539," we were concerned as we oould not keep Here is another: -"Heir Isis ane lions track of how the articles were selling, ourabit man, Audro Priogil, Fenar of Around Peebles we saw that people Galloshiels, quha decesit ye 28 of Feb. were engaged in market gardening and Hare an. dom. 1586." We were so inn saw some splendid gardens. Fine pots - pressed with the grandeur of this ,old torp, beans, beets, carrots, etc., and Abbey that we were forced to visit itwhile in many of the gardens I had my the second time a week atter our first eye open to see if potato bugs were to be visit. found; but not a potato bug did I see Thursday morning, June 1st we take during my five weeks in that country. train at Galashiels for Hasseadean, A walk of a mile along the banks of some 15 miles away and walk from this the Tweed, west from the town, brings plane to Minto, the home of the Earl of us to Neidpath Castle. The walk was Miuto, and here we find David David- a delightful one and the scenery beauti- son, a brother of Gavin Davidson, of fat. This Castle originally belonged to Wingham Junction, and are given a the Frasers, and passed by marriage to hearty welcome by the family. Miss the Hays of Tester, afterwards Earls of Davidson spent a few hours in showing Teviotdale. It was the principal rest - us around the estate. This estate is a dance of that family towards the end of fine one and our first walk was' to the the seventeenth century, and at that summit of Miuto Crags, On the top is time it was in full glory. It is now the a recently restored old castle, celebrated Property of the Earl of Weaves. It in song by Sir Walter Scott as the re- was besieged by Cromwell and stood out treat of a border bandit. From here an longer than any other plane north of excellent view cau be had all along the Forth. Teviotdale and the Merge to the Lam- Four miles from Peebles in a westerly mermoors. On the top of the crags are direction is the "Black Dwarf's cottage. three old cannon. One was from the Near the town of Peebles, Wm. An e r- Parapet of The Redon Sebastopol, 1856, son, of the Bluevale road was born and 258 feet; breadth, 75 feet; length of and was brought home by Col. The Hon.. he would now see many changes in his Transept, 130 feet; breadth, 44 feet; Gilbert Elliot. Another was from the . old native land. While in Peebles we height of remains of tower, 84 feat; Chinese war of 1857 and the other had walled at a number of stores and all the daylight of east windows, 36x16 feet; been used in 1760. The buildings on daylight of grand south window, 24x16 the estate are many in number. Large feet. The Abbey is in form -like all barns and many small houses for the anoient churches -symbolical of, and workiug people of the estate. The represents the cross, and stands due Castle is a very large building and when east and west, and was dedicated to St. we were there a large addition was be - Mary. Melrose Abbey unquestionably ing built to accommodate a electric light; affords one of the finest specimens of ing plant, so that the various buildings Gothic sculpture and Gothic architec- will in future be lighted by electricity' tura which Scotland can boast of; and - Much of the estate is in pasture land though it may not be the most entire, it and a large number of cattle are kept. may fairly rank among the moat beauti- We saw a large herd of Highland oat- ful of all the ecclesiastical ruins which t1e, with their large horns and long lie scattered throughout the land. It is Hair. During the evening Mr. Davidson impossible for us here to give a detailed kindly took us through the flower gard- description of the Abbey. Every win- I ens, This is one of the prettiest sights dow, pier, arch, cloister, doorhead and buttress is a study in itself. The stone carving is unequalled for beanty of de- sign and delicacy of exeontion. The tracery of the west door and window see almost alt kinds of trees, eXeept oar above is very beautiful, and the little own "Maple." Mr. Davidson Bias work - window in the west transept, worked ed on the Minto estate for upwards of into a crown of thorns, is quite unique. twenty-five years and was born and AU the work has been done in stone and raised within a few miles of where he ' even the window frames are made from now lives. We also see Dean£oot, the stone. The best interior view of the farm where our friend, Gavin Davidson isatthe extreme sent hie boyhood window cod and also the eastern F y days old west end of the nave, near to the rood church and school in Minto where he or organ screen. Through this screen is attended before coming to Canada« In an arched doorway or parch, which is the churchyard. at Minto, our townsman, tastefully decorated with a miniature Robt. Tennant has three sisters buried. grained roof. The centre or keystone is This was a day well spent and we were finely carved, and represents the face of amply repaid for our long walks. our Lord as the "Man of Sorrows." Walking in the Old Land is a pleasure The beauty of Melrose Abbey, however, as we find so many things to attract is not that which proceeds from the one's attention. The roads of Scotland flush of health; but from the fatal are a credit to any country and put our though flattering eymp1ouis of decay; Canadian roads to shame. Yt'o matter not the beauty of summer, but the mel- in what part of the country you may go armhole, grace of Aatumn, of which you will find the same roads -good. Bryon says:- They are made from broken Stone mixed •'So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, with clay and then a good application of till 1812, when he moved to Abbotsford. We start. for soul is lacking there; Its is the ronliness in death water, after which they are rolled with We pass over Ashiestiei Bridge, a fam- Thatportsnotquitetitithpgttinttbreath. ,, large steam rollers. During my whole ous whinston ateb of over 100 feet span. But beauty with that fearful bloom, The hue wiileit haunts it to the tomb; time in Scotland I never saw a piece of As the train climbs up the incline" and A glide halo, hot rs ing oray, decay." road that was in as bad shape as our rounds the bend at Cadonlee, 1136 feet The old burying ground about the own Josephine street in Wingham. above sea level, a truly magnificent Abbey is very interesting and many of Some of our Canadian road makers view of the expanse acid sweetly seques- the graves have been there for centuries. could spend a few months in Scotland tered dales of green Tweeddale and the and get some valuable pointers that Tweed is to be had, reminding one more Would be very profitable to them. of highland than lowland scenery. We - Ott the morning of Friday, June 2nd go along and pass Olovenfords, In this we find ourselves in Peebles, and a vicinity Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth ebright ,lune morning it was, tihe and other worthy writers spent ae por- • weather during the whole time of our tion of their time. The scenery ne visit was delightful. Only two days of viewed from the train was beautiful. - rain and an occasional Shower dieting A short distance from Clooenfords, at eamearasse 001104 the night, std Torwoodlee, we come in eight of Don't lrtrycheap cough eiedi• _ „peebles, the mctronolia of the shire, Gala Water and a chart ran brings es to 6 -,,es. Get the best Ayerla Sir times three praises doth from me require- Galashiels. Cherry Pectoral. rhitt t 71iteadorten,t9, Hires ports, three bridges it - record it has, sixty years of And =old steeples by three churches - of the day. We in Canada have not the variety of flowers that are to be seen in the Old Land. The estate also bas a very extensive piece of forest, and we people were eager for information about - Canada. We Leave Peebles during the afternoon for Galashiels and we pass through some interesting country. About a mile from the station we pass the Peebles Hydropathic, a palatial 'building in red stone. It is 200 ''feet in length, and has five floors. Since con. ing home we learn from a late issue of the Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman that this handsome building has been de- stroyed by fire, but it is to be rebuilt. On the left of • the railway, two miles from Peebles we pass Horsburgh Castle which was inhabited till 1775. Before reaching Innerleithen we pass Traquair House, which was the seat of the Earls of Traquair. The title is extinct. The late Principal Shairp wrote some beauti- ful lines on 'The Bush aboon Traquair,' beginning thus: - "Will ye gang wi' me and fare To the bush aboon Tragnair? Ower the high Minehmuir we'll up and awe', This bonny summer noon, While the sun shines fair aboon, And the, licht sklents gently doon on holm and ha." Ianerleithen is a thriving manufac- turing town, tnrin w , w ith several e ai large mitts en- gaged in the production of tweed. It is also a fashionable summer resort. After leaving this place we pass a high hill called Lee Pen, which is 1647 feet above sea level. Going along we pass Walker - burn, another manufacturing town of considerable note. Above Walkerbnrn are seven terraces, supposed to be of Roman origin. Two miles lower dawn on the right is Elibank tower, a ruined "peel," the house of "Machete mon'd Meg," and the birthplace of Dr. Russell the historian, Next we reach Thornilee, where Sir Walter Scott lived from 1804 les Cherry Pectora clog! Ask your doctor it lbe doesn't use it for youths, colds, bronchitis, t Hct tit throat and lucre troubles. 1. ,io4 *Mo+t Aers'11%74n."50. � t wscvtFes�titre c�ar� iilLL i3Osas r,18.D Sty lf, Y, a.8.4T-16' a, for•tea`" i onchitis riaeas=ut awaoiit� Throe mills' toserve their town intune ofneed NOTES AND COMMENTS. On Peebles water and the river Tweed Their arms are proper, and point forth their .r.,.+..:.. meaning, Three Wolman fish nimbly, counter a�ritn. The tetnrn of the hoinestead entries ming." for the past month show An inereaee of Peeblett like alt the other torte we visit- 710 over Jnly last. The entries for the ed is laid out withotrt ‘tanyf idea of the pest mouth are 3,720, against 3,019 for present day laying ant of towns. The JuIy last year. The largest increase wear streets are very narrow and nOt kept 111 at negina, where the number toss from a straight line. The town is about 27 743 to 1,110., 13itttlelord came nett, with Miles froth Edinbrirgh and is mentioned 622i sweet 277 be Jtttyt, 1904, There in deeds int old as the eleventh century, - woe an increase at Alatneds of 104, of 56 and the ptabe abounds in Metnorisle of et +Calgary, 148 et Red riser. Whets antiquity. Peebles was the favorite Ire• were decibasee aat torkton, Lethbridge, /loft of aunty Hoottiali kings. It Wu and Etlmonttn, and Prince Albert, rte- , noted for it* IOWA of Beltane, a feast Ns tweed ete,tioneity, Baal, when firm jm Wort ykiindieti yen all ll t t sops, 'dila has bee* normae a:eld by alma* 1. i>x 'bis Song, "rabies to the The "sits to $aWtttlaty,1906, folr 25o. 4730S P1OPLE BY FANNIE M.LOTtiROP Pbb,a LY MM.* 146c41. .., t. `,IACOO GQUt.* SCHURMAN The President of Cornell University When Jacob Gould Schurman was a boy on his father's backwoods farm( on Prince Edward Island, where he was born in 1854, educational advantages were scant in quality and costly in time and energy. Books were few, the one newspaper that connected the family with; the outside world was but a provincial weekly, and the district school was taught by one teacher who gave the staple things of education, with no fancy dishes of the modern class. When Jacob was thirteen be had to become self-supporting, and secured a clerkship of the general utility type in a country store at thirty dollars a year and his board and washing. In his second year he received sixty dollars, and with this coming of wealth came a longing for a better education. In two years he bad saved eighty dollars and with this as a bulwark against starvation he attended the village high seboot, studied voraciously day and night and entered a competitive examination for a scholarship at Prince of Wales College at Charlottetown, on the island. He won the scholar- ship of sixty dollars and went to the'coliege. Then after a year of teaching he went to Acadia College, where his appetite for prize-winning became in- satiable. He won a scholarship of 1500 a year for three years offered by the University of Landon, followed by his winning the traveling fellowship of the Hibbert Society, and other prizes, scholarships and similar rewards, with predestined certainty and monotonous iteration. He studied in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Berlin, Gottingen, and half a dozen other cities, and when six or seven nations had given him all they could supply but not nearly all he could absorb, he returned to Canada as professor in one of the colleges. In 1885, Andrew D. White recommended bin to Cornell, and the year following, at the age of thirty-two, he became head of the Department of Philosophy; in 1891 was made Dean of the Sage School of Philosophy, and` in 1892 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh University and became President of Cornell, being the only man even considered for a moment for the position. Dr. Schurman is remarkable as a lecturer, broad and Iiberal as a teacher, searcbing for truth with his students rather than giving them his opinions as finalities; sincere and thorough as an investigator; clear, eloquent and effective as an orator; simple and direct as an author; and as a man, popular, magnetic, sympathetic, sterling and broad -gauge. Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Caned.. in the rear 1904, br W, C. Mick, at the Department of Agriculture. • AILING WOWAN, Gain Health and Strength Through Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Bloodlessness is the surest starting point of consumption. When your blood is thin and weak and watery your whole health declines. Your face grows pale, your lips and gums white, your appetite fails, and your heart jumps and flutters at the least excitement. You have frequent attacks of headache and dizziness, and sometimes fainting spells. You are always weak and wretched and lose heart in everything. These are the sign poets of consumption, and you may easily slip into a hopeless decline if you do not build up your blood with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They actually. make new, strong, rich, red blood, whioli brings back your rose cheeks, your hearty appetite, your strength, e• :my and general good health. Here 1:: trong proof from Mrs. Samuel Behie, ife of a well known merchant and ear rector at Sheet Harbor, N. S. Mrs..cehie says: "Same years ago I became :o ran down and distressingly we: t.:1 life seemed 'not worth Iiving. I • a• a bad cough, was tired out at the . " st exertion and was unable to do eve . light housework. I had the best of medioial aid and medi- cines, but did not get any benefit, and grew se seriously ill that I was at last confined to bed, and my friends thought I was in a decline. My cough grew worse and I dispaired of getting better. My husband then brought me Dr. Wil» liams' Pink Pills, and to my joy they soon began to help me. Gradually any strength returned,my appetite improved, and the cough left me, and day by day I grew better until I was again a well woman. I have since lead perfect health, and when I compare my condition now with the state I was in wheu I began taking Dr. Williams Pink Pills. no one need wonder that I ata euthusiatia in praising tlii8 tnedicine. Casts of this kind cau only be cured by filling the veins with new rioh red blood, anti every dose of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make riot) health -restoring blood, which goes right to the root of the disease. That is why these pills cure every -day aliments like anaemia, heart trouble, indigestion, nervonsnesd, headaches and backaches, neuralgia, kidney trouble, rheumatism, erysipelas, and the special ailments of womanhood and girlhood. All these troubles are touted in the blood, and Dr. Williams' Pink.Ptlle le the only medicine that actually' make neva blood. Common medicine cannot do this, to you should insist upon getting the genuine pills with the full. name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Piiie for Pale Peuple," on the wrapper around every box. If in doubt send direct to the Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont., and the pills will be seat by trail at 60 eolith n box or alt boxes fot;2.50. Welland was visited bye sevete storm. &erode and bridges Were washed out, and hail did .ranch datnege t0 farm crop*. The Lake of the Woods Milting Omni• pang'* wan 6hbtfae at Mile Sod, near Mien!, Wada damaged "byr fire to the extent ot $110,000 ed '$200,000; aoraered try ieittmra1i00. Between twenty and thirty people were killed by the collapse of the departmen- tal store of the John G. Myers Company Albany. The Lancaster Syndicate of London have purchased the Bruce Copper min es and formed a company with a capital of £200,000. Fresh fruits, such as the apple, pear and plum, when taken without sugar, diminish, rather than increase, the acidity of the stomach. The vegetable sauces and juices are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. A pain in the eyes or back of them is often due to undue pressure or.straining of the optic nerve, and this condition is often canned by glasses. The evident misfit should be corrected immediately. Glaaees should fit so as to cause no pain or unpleasant feeling. !Ave Stock Merketd. Toronto, August 8.-A moderate business was done at the Taranto cattle market to -day. If anything prices were a shade firmer, 54.20 being about the top notch for export cattle. Receipts were comparatively light. Demand for good butchers' cattle, was fairly strong, but they were in light supply. Total receipts were 71 oars, consisting of 960 cattle, 1,400 sheep 350 horn and 164 calves. The following are the quotations: Exporters' cattle-, Per 100 lbs. heavy .... 54 50 54 75 Light - 4 30 4 50 Bulls 3 50 3 75 do„ light .. 2 75 800 Feeders - light, 800 pounds and tip- warele 300 350 Stockers ,».. 2 00 3 50 Batohere'-- Chbice ,,., 8 75 400 Piked 4 255 4 40 Bol 2 00 2 50 Light lstock bulls 200 2 25 3idilk cows.... 80 00 50 00 fags-- Best 6 811 Lights - 6110 Sheep --- Export - - 400 4 15 Bucks .»,. 800 3 40 Spring Latnbe.. 560 6 25 Calves, oath 200 1000 Weeten/AM. MAR*Et 1m/trouts Wingham, Augnet 9th, 1905 Flour r 100 Ib..... " 2 50 to 8 00 Fall Wheat 085 to 090 Spring Wheat «, 0 85 to 090 Ckate,.» »...r.,...... 0 8$ to 0.40 Batley .»....»...»....1111. 0 45 to 048 Peak r,r..,..1..1... 0 55 to 060 Buckwheat 0 55 to_ y 0 0 65 Sntter...Y./1 011414i 401 11 0 17 to 17 per dots 0 16 to '0 16 wood per cord 2-50 to 800 !flay r per ton...., aS 00 to 700 Potatoes, pet b'e1,10 60 to 060 Tallow per lir ... .., /..,,004 to 005 Lard ....... ...1,1.1., 0 14 10 0'14 Dried Appler per Ii.,..../ 0 OS t0 005 026to026 ,.67610700 i'r'4 .,W. 1»1.......11 $frgi trivet YUMMY, x 'Y V NEVE ARE 'Some Bargains For You 1 Dress Goods to be cleared out. --Black, all -wool • Serges,. 54 inches wide, at 6oc, 85c and $ x,00 per yard. re All wool Serges, brown, green, blue and black, for z5c per ▪ yard, regular 35. Lustres, Cashmeres, etc., at less than cost. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM, A big stock of Prints, from 8c to 14c per yard, wide, mercerised effects, in the fashionable swell check for Shirt' Waist Suits. A job lot of Lawns, 42 and 45 inches wide, very Especial, from Inc to 25. Fine India Lawns for blouses, ▪ pretty muslins for dresses and blouses, special price 7c. 10Fancy Mullins worth me, for 6c per yard, Handsome EWhite Figured Madras for Blouses and Shirt Waist Suits. i for 6oc. 3 3 i 3 Embroideries, very cheap- to inches wide, 1 z x a c. 2 Insertion for ioc, etc. These goods are selling at half price. Heavy Ducks, plain and figured, fast colors and very durable for shirting or skirting. A beautiful assortment of Ladies' White Under- wear at very reasonable prices. Best D & A Corsets, worth $1.00 for 85c, and 75c 4 Counterpanes, worth $i.00 for 75c; larger ones for $1.50 -reduced price. Lace Curtains from 35c per pair up. A special E Iine, at $1.25 and another at $2.00 per pair. Nice wide Turkish Chintz for comfort for 15c. 3 1 ra 3 i s 1 Come in and see these goods and you will be glad Voir you come, f '1 ProduceTe A. MILLS. 1 Taken e. As Usual. /AAAAAA,/►ih..444/4ai44AAACkAAA A.AAA4hA AAAA,Ai,Au 6A AAA4fliAl- Couches and Parlor Suits In Couches and Parlor Suits our stook is strictly up -to -date -that is * why we have sold so many lately. We have a number left yet to choose f from. They are excellent value. Our 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. 1 WALKER BROS. & BUTTON Undertaking promptly and carefully attended to. W I NGHAM. M/tMMMMIWti,MNWM/tMAA1 WVWVVVVVVVWVWVVWNNVVy a WINUIHAM'S r1ULLiONAIRE. Mrs. Wise (to her worse half) --low coins Abraham tit be the only million - aire in town? Ur. Wife-Abrahaaa's great wealth was acquired through uptight dealing. He hes oondueted the boot and shoe business for 89 years In the tame shop and is still prepared to reppair your boots tit your own prices. Mrs. Wire -What bade happened to oauee you to smile so good natur'edt t' Mr. Wire -I get my bogie mended et Abraham's, asnd I tttn eo delighted with the work and the cost that I won't show yon a frown for the next Year. Mrs. Wise -4 with you had gone to Abraham years ago with your boots; I might now be Wearing silk end have fewer gray hairs in my head. Mr. Wise -My dealt, don't you. know it is never too bite to n send-'-"bootsit Ae Abraham Always rinse the golden rale, -no ether testimonial It r'egrdxed m Sgt Years in oneepot it clear proof Of square dealing. - •Yon can see with ono eye ho* he ean Work Witlgiaam.-lei i lie the Gor'ernotr Genesi' nor the Prime Minder no exotic,. A.btithiStant ister to u.1 et sa tong *tam of office. n bead .pt w ' A wooden hoot ralgn heage At the door Wlfgl'oneo land fn#rk- Vlototfa street' �.,,.! �p�,yy �{, 3ootr rep�al> I wrtt#tti TMt. 1817 1� t# IR Q