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$i,O0 a year In advance ; $1.50 to United States. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914. Vol. LX. No. 16. M. A. JAMES & SON, Propriétés Our Ladies' and Misses' Suits, Coats, Raincoats C OUCH, JOHNSTON & CRYDERMAN are showing a superb stock of Ladies' and Misses' Suits, Coats, and Rain Coats --nothing newer nor better values shown anywhere. New Dress Goods A lovely lot of new silks, plain and broche, Dress Goods and Suitings Suitings in latest weaves and colors. We also have the finest stock of Wash Goods, Crapes, Bedford Cords, Ratines, Prints hams we have ever shown. and Ging- Men's Suits See our Men's and Boys' Ready- to-Wear Suits, Overcoats and Waterproof Coats at special value. Carpets and Linoleums Carpet and Carpet Squares in all sizes and qualities, also Nairn's Linoleums, a big assortment of patterns in 2, 3 and 4 yds wide. No better values anywhere. Couch, Johnston & Cryderman , BOWMANVILLE PHONE 104 CHEERY EASTER HOPE A friend from whose family a loved one has recently been taken to the upper told, remarked to us Sunday evening after church service that two services that day had caused them to feel very keenly their recent bereavement. Once we, too, viewed death in a very different aspect from our present view of it, since we have so many dear ones "awaiting us on the other shore". Easter now brings us a real joy. It is the anticipation of a resurrection resurrection into a new glory of life, and into a new glory of surroundings, and a reunion reunion of friends gone on. before. As it ' comes from the pen of St. Paul the resurrection resurrection is a pæn of joy, a shout of exultation. exultation. As taught by Jesus it was the entrance entrance upon peace, the beginning of- a great felicity. To all the apostolic church it was the way to things prepared by God for those who loved Him, such as eye had hot seen, nor ear heard, nor heart conceived. conceived. How consoling to know that our sainted friends are enjoying such great reward, reward, a promise of exquisite fulfilment of the best of this life, in a place where victors victors stand with palms and where those who have passed - thru great tribulation stand clothed in white about the throne of the healing God, So Easter not only reminds üs of a simple continuation of life (immortality) but gain in life, transfigured, transfigured, glorified, redeemed, life in the nearer presence of the Lord. Thus the Christian hope is not simply survival of the-soul after death, but it is the "glorification "glorification of this life--a life greatly to be desired. desired. How nice to think that Heaven is to be a cdmmunity of all who have been redeemed, for the Christian doctrine of immortality promises the reunion of all those who have loved each other in this life. Heaven is a fulfilment of earth's broken relationships, where love shall come to full fruition and rich completion. "With the morn those angel faces smile, which we have loved long since, and lost awhile." Why then should Easter be other than a season of cheer and pleasant anticipations? Frbm cellar to attic--inside and out there is a particular Sherwin-Williams paint, varnish, stain, or enamel for every different use. Paint the outside of the house with " SWP, Sherwin-Williams Paint (Prepared), made of pure lead, pure zinc, pure linseed oil and the necessary coloring pigments and driers. Saves you money because it covers most, lasts longest and looks ..best. On the steps and porch floors use Sherwin-Williams Porch Floor' Paint. Withstands the weather and frequent ^grabbing. ^F/amish the hall-floor and stairs with S-W Mar-not--tough and elastic under foot. -No better floor varnish made. For bedroom walls use S-- W Flat-tone, S flat finish oil paint for walls and wood- Are you A member of the Get a buttort work. Can be repeatedly washed with soap and water. Twenty-four -artistic shades, suitable for decorating the living room, the dining room, and the bed rooms. Flafc-Tone is a durable and, sanitary finish. Bedroom furniture and woodwork can be refinished with S-W Floorlac or S-W Family Paint. Floorlac gives a stained and varnished finish resembling expensive hardwoods. S-W Family Paint produces a bright, gloss finish in attractive colors. Give the kitchen floor a smooth, hard- wearing coat of S-- W Inside Floor Paint, easy to keep clean. S-W Family Paint* will help keep cupboards and woodwork -fresh and sweet.- f ■ .7' RICE & CO. HARDWARE, PAINTS, OILS, ETC. Opp. Post Office, Bowmanvillé Phone 66 1009 A SUNSHINE CITY. Miss Clara Donnelley Further Describes Describes Her Trip to Florida; THE PRESS St. Andrew's Church Magazine, Co- bourg, for April is to hand and is the best issue yet received. Miss Herdman's letter letter from India is very interesting. We suggest a page of editorial paragraphs of religious flavor and local colorings. A complete church directory and more congregation congregation personals. WAR IN ULSTER ? The Stirling News-Argus is receiving congratulations on its evidence of prosperity prosperity in adoption of all hey^/.-print. It wae a bright and whoîesc-ifi^^îage paper before but should now find "more space for local news. Unless crowded by local advertisers and home and country news the ready print system will be fotfnd considerably considerably more profitable, however. This has been our expeiience. The Pembroke Observer is putting on airs these days in spite of the alleged business business depression by installing a new power press. The Observer is a great credit to the growing town of Pembroke and from the quantity of business advertising it is* carrying seems to be appreciated. We are astonished to find Mr. D. A. Jones the publisher, admitting to its otherwise attractive attractive pages some liquor advertising, thus placing himself in line with the bartender bartender in the lowest class of grogeries in the land. LETTER NUMBER TWO. The rush of tourists from Canada and the Northern and Middle-West States to to the Carolinàs and Florida the past winter winter has been very great and the hotels have reaped a rich harvest. Èach year sees the number of tourist hotels increased increased and some exceedingly large and.splen- didly equipped hostelries with the most modern accessories have this season been opened to the public. Americans especially especially do not consider the cost so long as they find the comforts and kind of environment environment they seek. From $50 to $100 per week in the more pretentious hotels are readily paid for room with bath by man and wife or two persons touring together. ^lore than once I have wished you, Mr. Editor and Mrs. James had been with our jolly party to enjoy the pretty scenery and summer climate of Florida. I know you are fond ottrayelling because I always read your artiçles on your travels and enjoy enjoy them so much. No one could wish for more congenial fellow-travellers than we had--Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt F. Wither- stine of Lake Bluff, Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur McKim of 3911 Page-ave., St. Louis, Missouri; these with my sister Mrs. W. C. Wells and myself composed our tourist company. I wrote you from St. Petersburg the letter you were so good as to publish. From St. Petersburg we sailed down TampaBay and up the ManateeRiver passing passing several fair sized towns and villages along either side of the river. Palmetto was "one place at which we stopped to i let off and take on passengers. It would surprise you to see the number of people who are going to and fro between the towns and larger centres, and possibly more so to watch the loading and unloading unloading of the fruit and vegetables. A large quantity of fruit and garden stuff was taken on here. At Bradentown farther up our steamer took on a half-boat load of cabbage, the other half being grape fruit and oranges. Ellenton was another port where more fruit and vegetables were taken. Here is a large manufacturing manufacturing plant for refining Fuller's earth, the output being two to three carloads daily. The old Gamble mansion which figured prominently in the Civil War still stands here and is a centre of considerable interest interest to Americans. Manavista is the location location at the Atwood Grape Fruit Grove which they say is the largest of its kind in in the world. The owner has his own packing house. The mode of sorting and packing* the fruit was a novelty to us and we watched the operation • with intense curiosity. After being washed the grape fruit is emptied into a large receptacle and a series of troughs are the mediums thru which the various sizes find their way to the packers who fold them in paper and then they are placed in boxes for shipment. The price is regulated by the size of the fruit. The day spent on this river trip was an ideal one for such an outing. Imagine a lovely clear June day. in Canada and you will realize somewhat the pleasure of our sail up and down this river. Not yet, though inflammatory talk might possibly bring about or hasten such a calamity. calamity. ' It is now proposed to take a vote in each county in Ulster to decide whether that Province or any part of it shall remain remain for six years outside the Administration's Administration's Home Rule bill. This was the Asquith proposal in the House of Commons Commons recently, but it met with opposition from Mr. Bonar-Law, leader of the opposition, opposition, who did not like the six year limit. Mr. Redmond, Ireland's champion of Home Rule, in the same debate stated that while they disliked the exclusion of Ulster they were disposed to swallow the dose in the interests of peace, whereupon Sir Edward Carson arose and, on behalf of Ulster, said the proposal would be rejected rejected by his people as "it meant a sentence to death with a stay execution for six years", but it Mr. Asquith. would withdraw withdraw the six year limit he would summon a convention of Ulsterites to debate upon the idea. Such is the status of things respecting respecting Ulster and the home rule bill at present so far as Parliamentary action has gone, and the matter may be considered considered as practically settled, at least as far as the war scare goes. What does it all mean ? Has not the Ministry ingloriously backed down and Our heartiest congratulations to Mr. George H. Wilson, Lindsay, on installing a new Cox Duplex Web Perfecting Press on which the Daily and Weekly Post will îereafter be printed. The new press has capacity for turning out 6,000 papers an îour --100 a minute--printed on both sides, cut, pasted, folded and counted all at one operation. This press is the last word in a newspaper office equipment and places The Post Printing House in the city class. Lindsay citizens will share with. Brer. Wilson the honor of having such a modern piece of mechanism in their town, for it is a luxury that only a prosperous establishment can afford, the monetary outlay and up-keep is so great. TOWN PUBLIC SHCOOLS . Spring Assizes open at Cobou'g April 2ist before Chief Justice Falconbridge. % Mr». John Pring and two children Eva fiind Muriel and friend Miss Pardoe, Tor- onto, spent Good Friday with Ihe former's tister Mrs. Fuller Cator. Misses Myrtle and A'Edra McReynolds gave a very pleasant progressive euchre party Thursday evening to about forty of their friends at the residence of Mrs. Fred Lyle, Scugog St. Avery pleasant evening evening was spent by all. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cooper, Kendal, announce announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Winpifred May, and Dr. Robert Oakley Frost, only son of Dr. -R. S. Frost, Kinmount, The marrriage will take place early in May. Honour Roll for March Sr. IV Class.---Dorothy Johnston, Doris Courtice, Jane Grigg. Jr. IV Class.--Greta Muir, Eileen Cous ins, Emma Coleman, Cecelia Lowe, 'Enid Souch, Ina Burns, Marian Moorcraft, Ina Pethick, Mary McClellen, Winnie Varcoe, Hellen Worden, Garnet Richards, Eva Moyse, Marjorie Westaway, Kenneth Purdy, Purdy, Ethelda Hazlewood, Elton Manning. Sr. Ill Class.--Philp Tilley, Alice Stan- den, Lome Plummer. Ruth Martvn, Mildred Mildred Lawrie, Ted Pethick. Jr. Ill Class.--Herbert Goddard, Prow- er McMurtry, Britton McCabe, Eva Cor- den, Cecil Dudley, Gladys Downey, Vera Veal, Agnes. Maynard, Laurie VanNest, Mary Finlay, Helen Knight, Rhea Dey- man. Second Class (A)--Dorothy Bellman» Charlie Morris, Gilbert Jones, Nellie Bounsall, Queenie Wrenn, Selwin Rom- bough, Leighton Souch, Elmer Clarke, Jack Bird, Irma Lyle, Leona Quinn. Second Class (B).--Leslie Rowe, Harry Terry, Ruth Grigg, Gladys Dunn, Ross Tilley, Harold Jewell. Part 11 (Central).--Teddy Goddard, Lily Tabb, Helen McGregor, May Manning, Manning, Yvonne Hazlewood. George Tabb, Mabel Goynë, Fred Tabb, Stuart James, Daisy Cully, Walter Finlay, Gecrge Smith, Howard Freeman, Edward King, Edna Jewell, Katherine Rowe. Part il (S. Ward).--Frances Worden, Marian Clough, Doris Kelley, Harvey Rice, Gordon Witheridge, Harold Cousins, Cousins, Muriel Dech. R.D. Davidson Principal. We returned to St. Petersburg m the evening and the next day being Sunday we spent it in a Christian manner, attending attending services in some of the larger churches. churches. You may be surprised to learn too :hat the churches here are very fine and lavé as pastors well educated and popular ireachers. Central Avenue is one of the sights of this city. It is seven miles long, as straight as an arrow from Tampa Bay to Boca Ceiga Bay and is brick paved and las a street railway all the length. Numerous Numerous trolley lines run out in various directions to pretty suburban places. The electric pier is a novel feature, built far out into the bay. People sit out in the sunshine watching the fishers, bathers and catching the health-giving salt-sea breezes. It is a pleasant place to be, Mr. Editor, when you Canadians are experiencing several degrees of frost and have to envelop envelop yourselves in furs and great coats to keep from freezing. This is carnival week here and you should see the elaborate city decorations. The doings are varied and interesting, something different every day, sports of various kinds, parades, and the whole populace and thousands of visitors all out for a good time and I tell you they have it too. This pleasure function is conducted conducted after the character of the Madi Gras at New Orleans, no expense being spared to make it a drawing feature for strangers. Great efforts are put forth in this city to attract tourists and they claim to entertain entertain from 25,000 to 30,000 sight-seers and health-seekers annually. St. Petersburg is called thé Sunshine City because they say Old Sol gives thé citizens a bright, warm smile almost every day of the year. The. publisher of one of the daily newspapers newspapers offered to give his paper to everybody everybody free on every day that the sun did not shinë on the city. He told us he gave them free only four days of the year, City water supply all comes from artesian wells. Your people up in Canada who were never here where tropical conditions prevail can form no idea of the natural and artificial beauties of these southern towns and cities. This city is remarkable remarkable for fine tourist hotels, beautiful residences residences with lovely lawns and gardens, such a wealth of tropical trees and immense immense flowering shrubs and plants, brick- paved streets and avenues, and all kept clean and neat. Bidding adieu to pretty St. Petersburg on the west side of Florida we embarked on a steamer for Tampa and enjoyed another another delightful sail across Tampa Bay which is like a great inland lake. At Tampa we took train^ for a long journey up the State almost half its length to Jacksonville. Lakeland was one large city passed that looked good to us. The country in Florida presents as great changes as most States and the land is not all tillable by any means. The central part is most fertile but die pine -barrens are frequent. Swamp lands are numerous too, but when drained is quite fertile. Cotton, tobacco, corn and rice are the chief cultivated products, while fruit lovers may luxuriate on native oranges, lemons, limes, pineapples, figs, olives, grapes, and the whole variety of smaller fruits of the berry family. The chief manufactures are pine lumber, tar, resin, turpentine, cotton seed oil and cake, palmetto hats and braids. Big shipments of oranges especially, other fruits and vegetables are made to the northern cities and even into Canada. Jacksonville is a very business city. It is on St. John River, is the largest city and the commercial centre of Florida. The Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line and other railroads and an excellent harbor afford splendid shipping facilities. Its business importance may be judged from the fact of there being over thirty wholesale grocery houses there. The retail retail stores are large and fine, and like St. Petersburg the grounds, streets and avenues are of the finest. Being a winter resort, too, there are many side trips a tourist can take by rail and water. Like most of the inland waterways the St. John's River is skirted by all kinds of pretty scenery. A trolley trip out to Ortega Ortega is a lovely ride along the riverside and thru much attractive scenery. Ortega Ortega has a number of pretty parks right in the city. Public spirit" is everywhere in evidence and the tastes and comfort of tourists receive every attention. The water supply here, too, is from artesian wells. An ostrich farm was something of interest, so were the alligator farms with the sauev animals from three weeks old up to ripe ages. In a large souvenir store we met a Canadian who owned it and we had a long and pleasant talk. We could have spent a month at Jacksonville Jacksonville and found new pleasures every day but our holiday was gone and off we Started for home. We had not travelled generally. surrendered to a small province in arms? Englishmen everywhere are smarting under a sense of humiliation at the spectacle spectacle of a powerful nation intimated by the display of Sir Ed. Carson's puny - strength of men and guns in a province by no means united in real opposition. True, the great soldier and hero, Lord Roberts, foretold the dire consequences of a a rising in Ulster upon the British army, which will precipitate the declaration declaration of war by a foreign power at the critical moment, and it seems that Mr. Asquith dare not face the risk of such an appalling catastrophe. It is said that King George forced the hand of his Prime Minister, and this has been loudly proclaimed without denial by Royalty. The situation has been rendered rendered intense by the resignation of officers of high rank in the army who refused to embark embark on a campaign against Ulster, or, as it has been forcibly stated, they refused to be connected with "a campaign for the subjection of Belfast to Dublin." These evidences of military sentiment and insubordination are what has alarmed the King, and caused him to summon Mr. Asquith to the Royal presence, where it ' is said the King told him of his inclination to dissolve Parliament and bring on new elections, etc. But there is no occasion for alarm. Any man who views the present situation in England as one to be deplored has not kept posted on English history or read the signs of the times. Her history is a long drawn out struggle for emancipation of the people, for the uplift of the masses, - the securing of the right to govern themselves themselves against aristocracy and privilege, and the fight is not ended yet. Those familiar with English history know how the power of her kings has been curbed, and the powers of the Commons Commons were strengthened and extended; and, in our day, the prerogatives and assumed assumed powers of the Lords have been made subordinate to the Commons, when arrayed against fairer taxation, land reform, reform, better education of the masses, etc. Government is tolerable only when it uses every honest endeavor to make life better for the masses, and that is all they are trying to accomplish now. The present present struggle is to decide whether the aristocracy, aristocracy, represented by Parliament, shall control the army, and the issue is conceded conceded to be one of the most important and far-reaching in its effects of any that has occurred in the history of the country. Privilege, we know, dies hard, and it is always able to fight because it. embraces the brains and wealth of the country as a rule. But it is gradually giving away as the masses become enlightened and know their strength and their rights) and the House of Commons has again become the scene of the old, old struggle. Home rule is but an incident of this struggle, and the rising of the people against aristocracy whether intrenched in land monopoly, or wealth, or army dictation, is what makes the present day memorable in the great world march towards a higher freedom and equality of opportunity for humanity. „ Whether Ulster is to be turned over to an intolerant majority is quite another question; and it, too, must, be answered, but the newer England is for greater freedom and liberty, for the supremacy of the nation, and by that I mean the people These quefstions must be work|- far when we noticed changes in the scen- out in the old way, but humanity cannot ery, climate, homes, people and industries, go backward again to feudalism, much Spring seemed to be just nicely opening, less to chattel slavery, nor will it remain Our homeward trip was thru pine lands, in economic dépendance with its accus- mines, some good farming districts and tomed patience much longer.' We wel- many towns and cities. After two nights come the-uprising and the power that en- and one day on flying railway trains we j ables the great masses to see and realize reached St. Louis and home once more. their rights and to enforce them. As usual we met many good people and j CHAS. M. Bice. on this trip we found a grand company in ; Denver, April 8, 1914. the Pullman which helped to pass the time. We hope to* meet them again sometime. Many nice friendships are formed in travelling. Weather in St. Louis is already quite warm. Kind regards regards to our Durham County friends. Mr. C. E. Horning, District Passenger Agent, Grand Trunk Railway, was is. town Tuesday looking over the railway field here for what purpose was not revealed. revealed. 1 Success in Retailing I I I I I I ! 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