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CLIMIE Phone 72 Wallace Street When You Think of Meat Think of No. 26 At the other end of the line is an establishment that stands for quality-and service. If you want meat satisfaction, get the habit of calling ‘“‘two- six.” The choicest fresh and cured meats, sausages, cin head cheese, lard, etc., always in stock. G. A. Kennedy WALLACE ST. SUCCESSOR TO 8. J. STEVENSON. They Were All Ready ce for certain rector, just before the} ce, was called to the vestibule to’ per | the servi r you to come forward ; and I will then perform the ceremony. e couple agreed and at the pro- joment.the clergyman said: A ' Mect a couple who wanted to be mar-! “Will those who wish to-be united in - ried. ' time He explained that-thére wasn't! for the ceremony then “Bit,” gaid he, “if you will be seated I will you an mange ae at the end of the holy bonds of matrimony pl come forward Thereupon. ‘thirteen women one man pri to the sitar, and) w: | STEAL SUGAR | And Make Get-a-Way With Ic In | Automobile { = { Aurora, May 17.—Thieves, using} an automobile, got away with four'| bags of sugar from the storehouse at the rear of James Winster’'s store |at the corner of Wellington apd Yonge Streets here at 4 o'clock this , morning, and would have made a ‘haul of ten bags, but for the inter- ference of Mr. W. A. Winter, who _ lives next door. Just before 4 o’clock 'Mr. Winter heard the sound of breaking glass, but it was a quarter | of an hour later, when he heard the ‘noise repeated, that he undertook an investigation. As he left his house he saw three mey enter a car drawn up before Mr. Winster's barn. The car refused to start at first, and | he got elose enough to determine) ; that it was a Ford. However, the | | men managed to get the car started | ' before he could get a very good idea of what they looked like. He found six bags of sugar in the lane, beside! ! : the barn, and on calling Mr. Winster. discovered that four bags had been stolen. Was Some Hoodoo— Walkerton Times—That the sction| Riley vs. Watson was something of a hoodoo for all parties cennected with | it was demonstrated on Wednesday | last when Judge Klein while going to; Paisley to preside at the trial was; shaken up in a railway wreck just be- fore reaching port. The two contes-! tants, Pat Riley of Brant. formerly of Eden Grove, who sued his neighbor, } Robt. A. Watson, for damages caused by defendant’s cattle gettingy onto : Riley’s place thraugh the fence ‘that Watson was supposed to keep up, fail- ed to get any damages whatever from the Jury, while Watson who counter- suited by asking damages from Riley for havoc wrought by Pat’s cattle get- ting onto Robert’s place through a —- = up met a like f; te at the hands of the Jury, Not only was it a lost day for the two suitors, but the two Walker- ton lawyers, to wit:| Mr. David Rob- ertson, K. C., who rode off to battle for Riley, and Lawyer Klein who was in the combat for Watson, also en- countered a joy-killer while returning home in Mr. Andrew Oberle’s car from Just-in front of the very ed ship-wrecked. for several. hours scratching their heads in search of ideas to gét the road-ship started a- gain. It was after 1 6’clock Thurs- day morning, when the trio fies “regal in ‘town, and as nobody had didn gE ; and the gcollar and cuffs taken off. ’ She was arrested and brought before h fence that Riley was supposed te keep/ fish, "exactly feel that’ it| osity: me them.” ae a keep ker % ough to Teele a timeplece: Lia ‘keep a time with the sun. * On. only four: days in the year a would» the most accurate clock be! .. ht. At poon on Nov. 1, for in-| 4 stance, the clock mae ld be 16° 1-4}. minutes’ s and 10. it) gave the genuine article + would be 1¢-1-2 minsiaet + a black eye before the consum- + The reason for. this ete that: the| ing public. . % earth turns ot its axis; it revolves}. The law. good one, and - + around the sun, and its axis, which; + Was only tonebt by the. latge Ds is inclined at an angle of about 22’ manufact nterests which. + 1-2 degrees to the plane of its orbit;.» were thriving on the fraud. and maintains that same inclination,| + These interests till in op- + in the heavens, therefore oscil slowly in relation to the sun in-its yearly-journey around the latter. The earth rotates on its axis 366 times.a year, but in its forward movement in its orbit we see the sun but 365 times jn the year. The French kept sun time until 1816, and W. M. But- terfield felates in the Scientific Ameri- can what trouble they had in trying to ‘keep their clecks right. These sometimes differed as much as thirty minutes in ‘striking the same hour. In order to obviate all these dif- ficulties with sun time astronomers long ago agreed to use an imaginary sun, & Mean sun, moving through the lreavens with a uniform speed: It. is by the mean sun-that-our-cloeks:-+— tell us it is noon, and only four times in the year is the sun actually over- head at that precise moment. Besides this, nowhere in the ceivi- lized world does anyone attempt to keep even mean sun time, for if-they did -clocks in Brooklyn would differ from clocks: in Manhattan and these across the continent. In order to bring some sort of regularity into; ouftime the world has been divided igto zones, in each of which all the clocks are set to the mean time of the central line of that zone. So that a man who lives near the edge of any zone is using a sun time that is half an hour fast or slow, as the case may be. And he will find that his neighbor across the river-—if a H river be the dividing line between! zones—is living under a sun time! that differs from his by a_ whole hour. So it is nonsense to talk about sun time being good enough. For nobody keeps it, nor would any sane person suggest trying to keep it. | Took a Long Chance— Alliston Herald—People standing on the C.P.R. station last Saturday | | afternoon were given a thrilling acro-) the war batic exhibition by a young man. | weighing pranebiy 200 pounds, When! thetrain stopped, this young fellow | ran out to the lawn hydrant for a! glass of water which -he-- atl through to a little gir} who called him daddy. Then he got a drink him-! self and after delivering the glass to! his wife walked up and down the platform till the conductor pulled the signal cord to start the train. This train, being solidly vestibuled, has but one or two doors opened at a stopping place and when the train starts these are immediately closed by the crew. This is what happened on Saturday, When the young man grasped the grips and sprang to the step his foot found a resting place but he was confronted by closed doors. He stood there for a few seconds and then realizing that he would have to act quickly he ran ahead to the window of the coach through which he had passed the water. Grasping the base of the frame with both hands he sprang into the window, alighting on his chest. By his own efforts and with help from the ian side, the body gradually disappeared j through the window as the train’ moved rapidly away. I | ‘Twas Ever Thus— | Walkerton Times—-While attending ‘ social function a Leamngton lady, ad a five-hundred dollar fur coat] aielan and the polce found it in the, home of a well-known lady of that town. The lining had been removed a magistrate, but let go on suspended sentence. What & farce the law is anyway! No doubt if she had been a poor woman with a family of sev- eral children to keep, and had stolen bread to keep them from starving, or coal to keep them warm, she would ! have been sent down for two years or more. Then we boast of a fair play and equal rights. In this case the theif was well-to-do, and a member | of the ladies’ aid. Apparently a solnt | has received a coat of whitewash. It is a case where a saint today becomes | a sinner tomorrow, and it is better to lift up than crush down. If the lat- ter, why not apply it tu the poor as well as the rich? The Fine Art of Side-stepping Once upon a. time, said he, a man died whose life had been wholly in- defensible. His best friends had no good word for him. Yet it was -de- manded by his widow that her min- ister preach a sermon at his funeral. ere was quite an enthusiastic gathering at the ¢vent. People want- ed to.know what the minister could find to say. So he began with a statement of the man's name, and the date of his birth and the date of his death. Then he swept wide his arms. “Oh, my toving ad " said. he, | “during these past yea ie And he gave an Moanent descrip- tion of the period just e told of its greatness and its gener- . And in tlosing—. friends,” said he, ‘‘our de- Se ee : ‘said nw a + old game. Ina Toronto store + ‘ jJast Saturday the writersawa + + case of this imitation syrup, % which the grocer assured his + ‘+ customers is “just like maple + + syrup,” if he does not go + farther and sell it as the gen- * wine article. —— The deception is made the easier-by the label on the bot- tle, though the word “‘maple,” in accordance with the law, is not mentioned. , The inscription reads “CANADA'S FIRST PURE eo dh > , te +b oe bet ot, ot, oe tle ele . of < SYRUP.” What was Canada’s ‘ first purg syrup? It was the every buy- ~ er is familiar with the fact. Therefore, while the letter of ‘+ the law is observed, the spirit + is broken, for the syrup is not maple syrup. To heighten the delusion, a wreath of supposedly maple leaves is twined around the label, and a forest scene shows an old “‘habitant” standing be- fore-asbeckground of the bare trunks of a typical sugar bush. And the signature on the label reads ‘ onserve Works, Montreal.”” These twe- bits of lettering are the only reading matter on the case or the bottles. The ‘law should prohibit the use of even map- le leaves on such a label, the purpose of which is only to defraud. a. ft, Sy *, *, ve * “heh « *, * * ofr ele ete *, Cae ole ee ele ety e « ae fe fe ote ale ae fo ate ote % a * + a of. ole ete *. ate eye ate at ate ote ate ‘." . ote . whe fe ate leche + Noafoegrefecte foofnefeefnefvofoaloaloatocfecfonfectecfects - A Pointed Rebuke— Orillia Packet—-Un a train lately coming from Chicago an Orillian was somewhat irritated by a sharp-voiced American who was holding forth in loud tones on the topie of “‘we won when we got into it, to finish the job;"' “Their boasted Lioyd George could not eve r=06 oL-peauce-when we had won the day for them. and h®d to send for our President to help him out” and so on with tiresome iteration. But nobody contradicted or offered any comment, until the Canadian border was reach- ed. By that time a fierce storm was raging. "Oh, dear'’ exclaimed the American, “‘one of those awful Cana- dian blizzards. Does the wind al- ways blow in this country?" ‘Yes muadam,"’.replied the Canadian bland- ly. “In this country, the people keep quiet and let the wind do the blowing." New Cent Issued— Authority has been given for the issue of the new Canadian cent on and after May 15. The coin will not, however, actually be in circulation until towards the end of the month. The cent will be slightly larger than the Canadian ten-cent picce, or three- quarters of an inch in dimension, PROTECTING AIRMEN. British Officer Invents an Ingenious Contrivance. Much interest is being taken in a new and most ingenious contriv- ance, the invention of a British offi- cer, Col. Busteed, for saving the lives of flying men when their machines fall into the sea. Under such circumstances the or- dinary airplane, weighed down by its eavy engine, sinks quickly, dragging with it the occupants. If a hydro- Plane (which carries floats) or a “flying boat,’ it may support itself on the surface for a while, but is likely soon to be shipwrecked, those on board losing their Hves. The device above referred to con- sists of two cylindrical balloons at- tached to the bottom of the airplane’s body, one on each side. Under ordi- nary conditions, collapsed, they have very small bulk and oppose no ap- preciable resistance to the air. In case of an accident they can be readily inflated at a few moments’ notice, attaining a diameter of about three feet. This the aviator accom- plishes by pressing a button which releases avalveandallows compressed air to flow into the balloons from flasks contained within the body of the. machine. . Thus provided with means of sup- port on the water, the machine, if it falls or is compelled to alight _— the sea, cannot sink. If no help is ear at hand, it will float for days while those on-board await rescue by some passing vessel—a prospect made much more hopeful by the fact that the airplane, being upheld by its balloons, is a conspicuous object. Our own and other navies phen ing much to develop the fiy' which is assuming so curious forms. In o ema the propelier is neither at ead nor. the tail of the machine, but actually in the middle of its body. ‘another built for running on land or water (when not in the air), its wheels be- ing drawn up out of the way when it-is starting from or =< upon the surface of the sea, ©! wived on both sides of thé Atlantis, Bs ¢ dp <p de sh sh * ote “It didn't take us long, officers;" after: that it drops. out be” sight, like many - other international © ae importance, * % Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord ~ Northcliffe, has suggested that the Bnited States to help balance Great Britain’s war debt to that ‘country, amounting to more than $4,000,000,- 000, and a similar suggestion has been made by William G. McAdoo, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who i4 anxious to find a way of enabling Europe to pay off her indebtedness to America. At the same time, Senator William 8. Kenyon of Iowa comes forwar with a suggestion that the President be asked by the Senate to undertake _ negotiations with the British Govern- ~ ment looking te ee, se uigition by. “the United Sta Bermuda Islands, which ite oat due east from Charleston, S8.C., are about two days’ sail from New York ina south- : easterly direction, and have long been regarded as the principal North At- lantic naval station in the chain which Great Britain has established around the globe. Perhaps Halifax, N.S., would dispute this claim; never- theless, Bermuda is a station which American naval men have coveted since Revolutionary days, hence one: of. the reasons for Senator Kenyon's resolution, which has been referred to ihe Committee on Foreign Rela- tio Within the last twenty-five years the United States has slowly improyv- ed its naval position in the West If- dies. The Spanish-American War made Porto Rico an American colony and _— Uncle Sam Guantanamo Bay in Cu as a naval training station which used by the Atlantic fleet in winter. Then the opening of the Panama Canal provided additional security, and finally the United States acquired the Danish West Indies (St. ° Thomas and St. Croix), now the Vir- gin Islands, by purchase, thus obtain- ing bases for the protection of the canal. American naval experts have al- Ways coveted Bermuda, and during | the Great War they had an oppor- | tunity to test some of their theories “fo the colony’s strategic value. They established a at< Bermuda for small craft, and the American submarine chasers, tugs and mine sweepers were supplied there on their way to Europe via the Azores, where another base was in operation. Thus the small ships went across the Atlantic by the longer but safer southern route, using Bermuda as thelr first way station going over and their last on the return voyage. London despatches say that there is no intention on the part of the British Government to consider the cession of any of its West Indian pos- sessions or Bermuda to the United States. Even if Great Britain ser- iously considered such a move it would be necessary first of all to con- sult the wishes of the people of the islands. Self-determination is more than a phrase in British colonies as old as Bermuda or Barbados and Jamaica, and no British Government would attempt to barter their future out of hand, and for very good reasons, Bermuda disputes with Newfound- land the distinction of being the old- est British colony. The Bermudians have a distinct political entity. They have made their own laws since 1620, when their Parliament — the oldest legislative body next to the mother Parliament at Westminster -— came into existence. The British Govern- ment demands nothing of them. They Pay no taxes or tribute to Great Bri- tain, and acknowledge only the Brit- ish Government's right to send them @ military and civil governor, whose constitutional powers are limited. In return for the protection of the Brit- ish army and navy the Bermudians give their allegiance to ‘Britain, and being British by birth and tradition they are satisfied to remain a part of the British Empire, although union with the United States would un- doubtedly give them certain commer- cial advantages which they do not now possess, because while their nat- ural market is New York it offers re- strictions in the way of tariff sche- dules. But the commercial argumesi~ would not outweigh the fact that Bermuda is content as a British col- ony, and if the question of union with the United States were put to a popu- lar vote there is no doubt that the majority would be opposed to a change in allegiance. Again, Canada would doututees have to be considered. Canada has an eye on the West Indies as a mar- ket for her products and ah outlet for her surplus capital, and the ques- tion of giving the Dominion control over the islands has arisen more than once. Canada now buys great quan- tities of West Indian sugar and gives in exchange farm products and manu- factured articles. Union with the Dominion might prove of advantage to the West Indies, provided that Canada could offer the same military protection which Great Britain ae vides xue her colonies, - A Bot-sir Bath. A German invention enables a per- eon to tal a steam or hot-air bath ver b “British West Indies be sold to the