THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928, | a HIDNEYS MUST HAVE PLENTY OF WATER Also Tak : Salts Occasionally if Your Bak Hurts or Bladder potRers, and bladder irritations of- says a noted 8 help filter Kidney ten resuit from acidity authority. The kidue: this acid from ti on to tha bladc main to irrita a burning, s , where it may 1lding sensation, or setting up an irritation at the negk of the bladder. obliging you to seek selief two or three times during the night. The suffereg is in constant dread; the water passes sometimes with a scalding sensation and is very profuse; again, there is difficulty in voiding. it. Bladder weakness, most folks call | it, because they can't control urina-| tion. While it is extremely annoy- ing and sometimes very painful, this is often one of the most simple ail- ments to overcome. Begin drinking lots of soft water, also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from your pharmacist and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast. Continue this for fwo or three days. This will help neutralize the acids in the system so they no longer are a source of irritation to the bladder and urinary organs, which then act normal again. Jad Salts is inexpensive, and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice. and Is used by thousands of folks who are subjeet to urinary disor- ders caused by acid irritation. Jad Salts causes no bad effects whatever. 'Here you have a pleasant, efferwes- nt lithia-water drink which may uickly relleve your bladder tion. By all 'means have your physi cian examine your kidneys at least twice a year. . PUBLIC LIBRARY BULLETIN CHRISTMAS BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Your Public Library is able to as- sisj you in choosing the best and most interesting hooks for the young folk. Ask for the specially prepared list $iood and pass it| id inflame, causing combined with lithia, | irrita- | | RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY By J. L. PAYNE Early Newspaper Days and Men--Sir James Edgar's Trained Political I Choir--The Private Secretary, His Duties, Painful and Otherwise--Civil Service and Patronage. | i * -- * eo It is not proposed in these sketches order. It seems to me that readers! will not be looking here for conven- | tional history, but rather for some-| { { i : T | to follow any definite chronological | | | i a strong sidelight on men and events The merely historical facts may be found in any library. Carlyle said { that to know when a man was bor: told him nothing. What he wanted to know was the odd and unrerorded things about him, his habits, his as he looked like and even what kind of clothes he wore. Therefore I am go ing to write what are best described as sketches, and as a background to those sketches it is intended to tell about other men who formed a part of the picture, and about happenings that exemplify the times in which they lived. I am confident that is worth while; and, so meticulous arrangement will be subordinated to variety and il | lumination. { Josiah Blackburn and f Sirk owner of the London Free Press i editor A A AAA APA AAA tA | I | of Books suitable for children from | three to fourteen years of age. Py Are you too thin? | [HSE = {ee} 8 EMULSION LI n' of digestion-- YouShould Take a roast largely a matter of Good Digestion. A wise person should use Beecham's Pills to relwve digestive ills and correct stomachic disorders, ac- of their service ud tepuation BEECHAM'S "ez PILLS Largest Salelof any Medicine in the World rnd Cook's Regulating Compound Sewing Machines, Phonographs, Guns, Rifles repaired and refitted, Parts supplied. Saws fled, hnives, scissors and edge tools ground. Keys fitted to all of locks, All makes of Lawn Mowers sharpened and re- red. We cum ropair anything repairable. J. M. PATRICK "oo 8 ham St Kt to Sr. mn | | i J. IL. PAYNE D mma | during my émployment on the staff | of that paper. One of his partners was | Mr. William Southam, father of the | Southams, of Ottawa, who have cut | such a large figure in Canadian jour- J} nalism. Blackburn could scarcely be | classified as belonging to the school of pioneer days, although his start in the | Forest City was unpropitious enough. | He was rather ahead of his day, a shrewd and incisive writer, as well as a man of strong individuality. 1 owe much fo his paternal interest in my training. Associated with him in the editorial department was Malcolm G. Bremner, whose brother Archie held a corresponding post on the London Advertiser, Archic was a brilliant paragrapher, and in some respects might be identified as the originator of that feature of editorial-page jour- nalism in Canada. John S. Dewar was the City Editor, and a fine examplar of the fast-fading type of desk men of that day. Looking back nearly fifty years to the newspapers of that period, it is easy to see that changes have occurred. There was more of partisanship and parochialism then than now. Meetings of the opposing political party were invariably - lampooned and belittled. Reporters were given considerable latitude in their comments, and few of them were shorthand writers. The mo- dern linotype had not been invented, nor had the Hoe web press been in- troduced into Canada. I rather assume it had not been developed at that stage. The composing départment was there- fore on a large scale, and I remember that the foreman was an autocrat to be reckoned with. Little Difference in Press. Slow and inadequate railway ser- vice limited distribution of the morn- ing dailies, and the circulations of our present time were undreamt of. The cost of cablegrams was so high as to big American papers. In the compar- ative sense, there was just as much en< terprise on the part of the journals of | that period as by those of today, and ! I cannot detect any important changes | in the essentials of an up-to-date pap- er. There were fewer special writers, and smaller Saturday editions; but they answered the need of the times, The salient difference is in the pictor- ! ial development of the past twenty | years, and in the use of hali-tone en- gravings for everyday illustration of the news. The late Edward Farrer was a con- temporary of Josiah Blackburn, and was perhaps more widely known as an editorial writer. For many years he was' identified with the Mail and Globe in Toronto, as well as a Winni- peg paper, although™ came to know him best after he had in a sense leit journalism and taken up quarters at Ottawa. He was not only a very able + writer, /but a unique personality. Dur- _ ing the last fifteen years of his life « thére was a good deal of mystery at- taching to his apparently ample sour- ces of livelihood. In 1897 Sir Wilfrid Laurier put him at the head of an or- ganization to break up the smuggling of liquor along the lower St. Law- rence, and I shall long remember aj, night in St. John, New. Brunswick, when, until far into the morning, he told me the thrilling story of his two ' di i just the facts so as not to seriously | mar the effectiveness of his tale. Sir John Macdonald owed the wia- sociations, his likes and dislikes, what | thing more intimate and revealing -- | as they came under my observation. | what offices he held and when he died | | be almost prohibitive, which led to a; good deal of ingenious scalping of the, (aud q | force in Canadian journalism as to 1 | obscurity on his merits. | in him back of a naturally bright mine (Article One) 1891, Ned Farrer. Whether Farrer was on the Globe ah time I I think h post over about to allude. dabbling in Am prepared a p n United States could retaliate on Can ada he matter of customs dt The brochure was being print Methodist Book | in Toronto, and a compositor, named Clarke stole a proof of the matter and sent it Sir John Macdonald. This gave the as- tute old tactician the opportunity to wave the Union Jack most effectively and save himself in a precarious con- test. I ffterwards saw Clarke many times in Ottawa, a soured and dissatis- | fied man because he had not been| given a lucrative position as a reward for his services as a spy. I do not| know what became of him. or to io not clearly remember; but was, and that he lost his | he episode to which I am At all events, he was rican politics, and had let to show how the mt loom to John S. Willison | I had been a year or two in journalism S. Willison the reportorial staff of the London Ad vertiser, He had been a school teach er somewhere west of that city, and had entered into contract, so | After John joined was { told, with John Cameron to learn the In Toronto newspaper busine 1883 he transferred to was the (lobe, 1 Cameron's man juickly distinguished him his brilliance as a writer and editor. | He was still under contract very favor able to the other party thereto: bu Cameron was compelled to release him. When I first knew him, | am | { bound to say that he concealed irom me the promise of becoming such a win the outstanding recognition of knight- hood; but he was not the only an whom I lived to see rise from relative Studious ha bits, thoroughness and ambition were 1 He is now the representative of London Times Canada, and has important business connections In the very late seve was a desk-mate of the late: Edmund E. Sheppard. He had come to us fresh from Texas, where he had beenfa cow boy for a time, and affected to some extent the dress and argot of his quon- dam associates. I looked upon him as an exceptionally capable writer of pic- turesque English, and he later justified that estimate. From London he went to the Toledo Blade, and thence gravi- | tated to Toronto, where he started | m also ies | The News, in association with Louis pt P. Kribs. Both were men of excep- | tional genius. Sheppard was perhaps | the more original of the two, and came | to be best known as the founder of Toronto Saturday Night, « My own! judgment is, however, that the success of this venture was as much due to Joe Clark--"'little Joe," as we affectionate- | ly called him--as to the striking con- tributions of Sheppard. Turning back for a moment, I re- member quite clearly being sent to re-| port, with J. D. Clarke, the first poli-! tical picnic T ever attended. It was held at Alymer, Ontario, in 1877, and | was addressed' by three very distin- guished men Hon. Alexander Mac-| Kenzie, then Prime Minister, Hon. Richard John Cartwright and Hon. Lucious Seth Huntingdon. 1 shall have something to say in a later sketch | about Mackenzie and Cartwright; but I want to refer in passing to Hunting- | don, long since dead. He was not only | a man of remarkable presence and abi- | lity, but he had the best op. air foice | I ever heard in a public speaker. Ev-| ery syllable he uttered could be heard | with: the utmost clearness by even the | most distant listener. Hon, William | Patterson, of Brantford, also had a] great carrying voice, and when he was | in his prime I have heard him literally | shake the rafters in the House of Com. | mons; but he had not Huntingdon's | clear and musical enunciation. | | of our day, if published at all, would Political Choirs. Political picnigs were fashionable at | that time; but they had a relatively | short life. Later, Sir James Edgar | introduced the innovation at partisan | gatherings of having a choir sing the] slogans of warfare, and it was then, that "The Traitor's Hand is on Thy! Throat," to the southern tune of "Maryland," came into evanescent If Headachy, Bilious, Sick, i § No. grigaug of mconveniedes fol- lows a gentle liver and bowel'cleans- | ing with "Cascarets." Siek : . - ITT and all such distress gone by ing. Most harmless laxative for Men, Women and Children -- 10¢. boxes, also 25¢. and 50¢. sizes, any drug {the head and | pletely i proud of his achievement and so con- iS | does not come ta you naturally, tear | vice, | Minister should be written in his own | hand or the hand of his secretary. That IOWA PHYSICIAN MAKES | STARTLING OFFER TO CATARRH SUFFERERS. . Found Treatment Which Healed His | Own Catarrh and Now Offers to Send It Free To Sufferers Answhere, Davenport, lowa.--Dr. W. O fee. Suite 2032, St James Bldg.. this city, one of the most widely known physicians and sur- geons in the central west, nounces that he found a treatment which cotiipletely healed him of catarrh in nose, deafness and head noises after many years of suf- fering. He then gave the treatment to a number of other sufferers and they state that they also were com- healed. The Doctor is so Cof- Hotel fident that his treatment will bring! { other sufferers the same freedom jt gave him, that he is offering to send' a 10 days' supply absolutely. free to any reader of this paper who writes him. - Dr. Coffee has specialized on eve, ear, nose and throat diseases for | more than thirty-five years, and is | henored and respected "by countless | thousands. If you suffer from nose. head or. throat catarrh, catarrhal deafness or head noises, send him your name and address to-day.--Adyv. WNT aN AAA Al NN NANA | that. fame. It went meliiluously in "Ontario, | Ontario but would have caused a riot in Quebec. Sectionalism was then rampant® + It fell to my tragedies while Free Press. The first was the fa Biddulph murder, February 4th, 1850. I'he of | Biddulph in ch it occurred was a transplanta tion from Tipperary, and a long-stand ing feud between the Donnelly family bors was brought to a lot to report two great | serviiig on the London | mous ot section wh and their bloody t the hands of a group I ive men and wonien were or butchered, and the old log homestead on the Roman Line was burned. F'wo trials fatled to bring | bout the conviction of the accused. Such lawlessness is rare in Canada. | he other melancholy event was the sigking of the pleasure steamer "Vic toria" in the Thames river on 24th May, 1881, when 187 souls lost their lives. I was tearing up sheet after sheet in an effort to start my story on that fateful night, when Malcolm Bremner said, "Boy, don't do that. Ii the in spiration for an adequate introduction | 1 of lynct shot down, ing up paper will not bring it. Just start and tell your tale as if you were telling it to me. The simpler you tell it the I never forgot that ad- | better." Within my lifetime the electric lamp, the telephone, the phonograph, and the | electric. trolley had their birth. In the | retrospect, must seem surprising with what case and readiness humau society appropriated these inventions | It was so when the automobile came along. We must, however, not lose | sight of the typewriter, the first varie- | ties of which I very well remember. The caligraph was puton the market | in the late seventies, and about that] ime 1 was doing considerable work'as | a court stenographer. It was a poor machine, in comparison with the mod- ern typewriter; but it was nevertheless a Godsend. Painful Etiquette. When I became a Private Secretary | in 1885, official etiquette and tradition | demanded that all letters signed by al word "hand" has a place in my me-| mory suggestive of pain; for I can never forget with what weariness of | the flesh ministerial correspondence | was then carried on. To write irom | twenty to fifty letters a day with a pen, and have them presentable and} legible, was an exhausting task. And | | that was so down to 1892. The same | ancient tradition prescribed that a Mi- | nister must address the Governor Gen. | eral in his own hand; so that private | secretaries were not the only sufferers. | About 1892, however, the cruel old | rule about the use of the pen broke | down under the obvious claims of the | typewriter; and with that collapse went | something of the art of letter-writing. | Epistles written laboriously by hand were apt to be better in diction and | arrangement than those typed. On the whole, they were, Facility and expedi- tion have been gained, therefore, at a genuine sacrifice. Books devoted to "the life and letters" of eminent men not bear comparison with those of the early Victorian age in refinement of language nor elegance of construction. Progress imposes her penalties. We] are moving more swiftly than we did when 1 was a boy, and are undoubted ly paying for the pace. It is fitting that I should say a word or two respecting the lifications of a private secretary, his relations with his chie!, and also about the class of men who were thus engaged when I went to Ottawa nearly forty years ago. In the first place, there must be made a sharp differentiation as between an amanuensis and 'a true private secre- tary. The former merely receives the dictation of letters, and turns them out mechanically. The real secretary does that, and much more. He takes perhaps seventy five per cent of all letters entirély off the hands and mind of his minister. They go over them to- gether, and the minister does no more than indicate the nature of his answer. The secretary soon learns the very language of his chief, and his general methods of dealing with a large pro- portion of his correspondence. - A capable and efficiently trained se cretary is in a very large sense his minister's right hand. He receives callers, and must be patient and diplo- matic with them. He must intuitively appraise them, and, if possible, save his minister from needless drafts upon his precious time. That calls for tact. He mus! also be careful to warn his, chief of engagements. Still more important, he should be capable of helping him, in scores of ways in his departmental and nolis i] S "Cabin te: R it almost impossible to give up the time necessary for the preparation of Lsidesable. SXPeFIRRES 0] | of | to young | U.S. Agents Watch Trains But | veyor of customs got possession speechzs and data for Parliament. The ; I and when information | subject is wanted, he | r have it or know where to go his minister vent to Ottawa I found there a most interesting group of pri- vate secretaries, some of them of con- ELE 1 good penman and short 1 rs, I recall Mr. Joseph Pope now Sir Joseph Pope, and Deputy Minister of External Affairs--who was atfached to Sir Jc Macdonald. He naturally became my pattern, and de- servedly so; /for I found him to be probably the best-informed man in t} civil service. The Prime Minister lean. | ed heavily on Pope, and was rewarded | by both devotion and the very highest | | grade of service. Pope afterward ! { came Sir John Macdonald's worthy | biographer. Civil Service Changes. THe civil service has. changed per ceptibly since those rather years. In all the departments were not in 1885 more than eight or ten girls 'employed, and they more or less hidden from view. Today the inside service at Ottawa is ver) largely made-up of young and elderly women. The typewriter helped to do These girls began to come in| about 1886, and, since the appointment | the Civil Service Commission in} 1908, the proportion of young women | men has been enormous. | of the gentler sex | remote there were These members { make excellent clerks, and the only| criticisth that be fairly directed | against them 1% as to the uncertainty of their tenure and the difficulty of adapting them for administrative res can ponsibility, | As a conscientious advocate of the | elimination of patronage from the ci- vil service, I am compelled to make al confession. Patronage was not an un mixed evil. It gave the head of a de partment the widest latitude in selection of his staff, and, obviously it was more to his interest to choose a| really capable man than to merely re- ward a friend. As a matter of fact, | the best men.in the service today were | recruited under the patronage system. From the inside point of view, the story told of a .famous E sh Cabi- net Minister has always been true While at a dinner-party a note was sent in to him, and, after he had scrib- | the | | bled something across it, he turned to | a fellow diner and said: 'There goes | | one ungrateful friend and twenty bitter | : i" 3 eneniies.'"" As | saw it, patronage was a | curse to those who dispensed it, and I | know that all the chiefs I served held | | that conviction about it. | (To Be Continued Next Saturday) | SEEK TWO CANADIANS OVER BEER SHIPMENT Their Quarry May: Have Crossed Lake. Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. T7.--~Govern- ment agents are watching all the trains in an effort to intercept two wealthy Canadians, reported on their way back to Canada after engineer- ing the shipment of five cars of beer, valued at $150,000 to - New York City. The men escaped the government drag net spread for them there, but the New York sur- of the beer in New York Central yards at the foot of West Sixty-fifth street. According to local government men, information wired them said the beer was consigned to Kountz Beverage Company, No. 140 West 42nd street, New York, and was shipped from tht Kountz Brewery, Limited, Waterloo, Ont. The beer was hidden under top layers of bottles filled with ginger ale. The cargo was consigned as a soft drink beverage, government | men say. They declare the seizure | obviously points to a giant conspi- racy to ship large quantities of beer from Canada over freight lines. The cars crossed the border at Niagara Falls, one at a time. Autho- rities there, it is said, edamined the papers and gent the cars on their way under bond and seal. It is said each car was billed "Ginger Ale." All last night secret service men kept watch but this morning had nothing to show for their vigil but fatigue and drowsy lids. They would not divulge either the names of the Cawadians or their Canadian destin- ation. Yesterday there was a report their quarry had dodged them by way of Rochester and had crossed the lake by motorboat to Canada. Find Girl Penned Up In Crazed Condition Hamilton, Des 7.--Five-year-old Mary Morgan, daughter of Joseph Morgan, was rescued almost crazed with terror on Wednesday morning after being penned up all night in a shed in the rear of an empty house. She says she was én away from school by a big boy who gave her candy. When he seized her In the shed she screamed so loudly that he fled but bolted the door as he went out. Although the little girl shont- ed and pounded on the door for hours, there was no one to hear her cries, and she was not rescued unti! 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning. -------- Appointed to O.H.A. Executive. Toronto, Dee. 7.--On his return from Winnipeg this morning, Pre- sident W. A. Fry of the Ontario Hockey Association, announced that he had appointed J. Percy Bond, Peterboro, and Allan German, Port Colborne to the O.H.A. executive. Owen Sound, Dec. 7.--Rev. J. A Reddon, of Toroatp, has received an | unanimous call from Allenford of the business and professional life | was represented by ASPIRIN SAY "BAYER" when you buy-Gemuine Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuralgia Rheumatism Accept only "Bayer package which contains proper directions. Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles cf 24 and 100--Druggists. Amirin is the trade mark (regiaterad in Can ) of Bayer Manufacture of Mono- sceticacidester of Salicylicacid. Walle 1t 1s well known that Aspirin means Bayer macufacture, to asedst the public against limitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company will be stamped with their general trade mark, the "Bayer Cross." Form msn LATE SIR WILLIAM MacKENZIE. SIR DONALD MANN GRIEVED, Cancels Moscow Plans and Will Re- turn to Canada. London, Dec. 7.---On learning of the death at Toronto of Sir William Mackenzie, Sir Donald Mann, who has been in London for three weeks, at once cancelled his arrangements to visit Moscow and is preparing to return to Canada on Friday. He hopes to be able to make his project- ed trip to Russia in a few weeks. Sir_Donald had received daily cab-: les about Sir William Mackensie's illness, and the last message before J. P. Fotheringham. the news of his death stated that Sir The homorary pall-bearers were | William was a little better. Sir Sir Edmund Walker, Sir John Aird, | Donald was too overcome by the E. R.-Wood, D. B. Hauna, R. J | shocle of losing his old friend to re- Fleming, C. A. Bogart and Thomas | ceive your correspondent or make Tall. | any comment. The Burial Took Place at Kirkfield - on Friday. Toronto, Dee, 7 The funeral of the late Sir William MacKenzie, leading Canadian financier, and pio- neer railroad builder, took place today with a simple Teremony at Kirkfield, Ont. 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