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'ask.. Mrs. Lian}! kinds 0 good as [I the only 1y anddo romen hurt rpast quar- E. like Mrs. lives ’ 3.8 8 Ito get re- And their the sameâ€" bm consti- Indigestion, ? when they Fever being rdicinc and well. Buy rywhen. g 1927 :11 “Eli hi )h. \V i Best hin 35 R0- 11110 H MASONIC BRETHREN HONORED MEMBER .3111. 111155 at the Toronto Dental 1,, 1. ;.111. the only class in the his- 1.. 1 111 the college that still held 1111111 gathering and kept in ‘1'.‘.‘.‘.u;1 \\ilh each other by these 1. 1-111-1)‘ 1.11'cnts. Presentation to Bio. 311111 1 [1; nilâ€"I ii the \iSit Of the DWDGRI. “2,,- 1.1' course the important part 1111;. 1,\ en1nos programme, from 11“. 11111111'11oint ot' the Masonic fra- 1,.1-1111 as a whole, we feel that 1111 an with truth that the big 1‘1. “_ 1.1tl1e eVening in many minds \1 1.~ 11111 tact that this “as the even- ;,,_ 1.11 \\l1ich,I)urham Lodge was to 1.11.1111 signal honor to possibly its 1, esteemed member. It is now 7,; 111111» 51111111 Mr. James Burt “as 1111-111111 into the mysteries of the 111-1111. 31111 since that time there has 11\1I been a more enthusiastic or ;.1\.1l n111n1be1. His every thought .111111~ 111 haxe been 'l'or the gOOd of 1111 11111111': he has been a most 1111.111111 attendant at all meetings. ”“11 1111 undeitaking of the local 1.111211 in the past fifty years could haw l1111n call111l complete Without his whit-1,1 and co-operation being sought. And not only in Masonry has Mr. Burt proved useful. Although well past the age when most people ‘38- tire and seek the comfort of the arm chair and the fireside, this ac- liw nhl gentleman has consistently refused to quit, and there are few affairs. even of community interest, in which he does not take more than a passing interest and very ac- tive part. If the I. O. D. E._. the Red «gross. or any other of the local 80-- rielies need any help. it is to “Jim” Hurt that they turn. And they lll'Vl‘l' turn in vain. There may be some. of our readers who may say that this is all “applesauce”, that in, man of 90 years can be of any sin-h assistance. There is only one answer we can give to this accusa- tion. 'l'hey «to not know Mr. Burt. I p bright and earlx each morning 11m 111111 11111 ge11t1eman is on the 11111111 '1111 1111} here. there and ex ery- \\11111'.1_1 “01111 not think thele is 1111\111111 in 111\\11. ministers included \xhn is am 1110111 taithful in Visit~ 1113.: 11111 sick 111 111nm." “hat he can 1111 1111150. in need. Birthday Cake Gut '111111'11 was 11111111111111 handclapping “hen the big birthday cake “as 111:11'1111 1111 th11tat1l11.-\n11it\\as a big oneâ€"it had to he to go round 11111 11111.111 number gathered at the festixe board. To Rt. Wor. Bro. 1'1'11'13 11111 11111 duty 01 making the first. cut. The cake was a magni- 111'1111t one. decorated \xitli the var- ious insiwnias 01 the craft, and in the 011111.111 510011 a tine \Vhite \\ \a11111‘111e rooster. the latter refer- ring 111 11111 tart that the Grand Masâ€" ter. the Hon. G. S. Martin. Minister 111 \321'11'1111111'11 101'0nta1'io. is the 11 e11- knomn \\ 111111 “11111111101113 Kim. H! 11111 111111111“) \\'111'.111 It fell to Rev. W. H. Smith or Imrl'iam Lodge to prepose the. toast In Hm. Burt.‘ who was visibly afâ€" fected as he rose to reply to the kind words said of him and the ex- tended applause of the. brethren present. ‘ . (9,--1 Aun‘ :“ ‘kh FL UCULLL‘. In making the first out. in the! cake. Rt. \Vor. Bro. Price said he felt. signally honored in being 03111;: ed upon the fulfil this duty. 8 said that so far as he knew, this was a function that fell to very few representative; of Grand Lodge, and he irommentel‘l on Bro. Burt‘s great age. his activity. his interest in Maâ€" sonry and the very evident esteem; in which he was held by his home: town brethren. Other Toasts Proposed During the evening there were other toasts proposed among them heing that to the visiting brethren. The toast. of the Junior \Varden brought a most pleasant. evening to a elose. It is the first instance in the history of Durham Lodge that. it has had the privilege .of honoring a 90-year-old member, who was also presented with a suitable and tang- ihln gift. and it will in all likelihood be many more before a similar oc- casion oreurs. __ n :1 ‘I-____:- \(‘FlUlL K" LLtluo _ With the brethren of the Masonic Order. and with the Citizens of the town. The Chronicle j_o‘ins in Wish- “A-.. ing for this grand old man many happy returns and it may be that on the anniversary of his one- hunilredth birthday ten years hence. it will take the. form of a Masonic- t‘Zommnnity affair in which the whole peptilace may join in honor- ing a centenarian who has for a long number of years enjoyed and held the respect of all. Mr. Burt was born in Glasgow, Scotland. but spent the first nine years of his life in Liverpool. com- ing to Canada in 1852. After a short residence in Toronto he mov- ed to Brampton where he worked for five or six years, and where he learned his trade as a moulder in the Haggard plant. the foreman of which was the late Adam Cochrane. Shortly after the Cochrane foundry was built. in Durham he moved here and has been a resident of this Vicinity ever since. In connection with his life as a moulder, Mr. Burt. also engaged in farming as a sideline. . A I - ‘ The subject of this sketch was with the Cochrane people for abOQt "0 Wars. when he retired to his farm south of town which he dIS-i posed of some fifteen years ago tol Mr. James Nichol. the present own-3 or. Shortly after coming to Dur- ham he was bereaved by the death of his. life partner and since then makes a trip almost annually to Bag- ot. Manitoba. where he spends the summer with a nephew. For a man of his years we doubt if there is In the whole of Canada one so ac-' tire. Blessed with good health still. Mr. Burt gives evidence of years of activity and it is the Wish Thursday, October 13, 1927 Continued from page 1) ON 90TH BIRTHDAY SLAVERY EXISTS IN MANY COUNTRIES No great nation has so "fine a re-I cord .as regards slavery as Great Britain and it seems ironical that in the twentieth century it should be Great Britain’s bad luck to ap- pear before the world as one of the, powers countenancing the bondage} of human beings. The case in point arose in Sierra Leone where there IS a British colony as well as a British protectorate extending far into the hinterland. In the colony, of course, there is no slavery, and in the hinterland there is a law which will automatically put an end to the practice in another generation, but at present it exists. In the pros tectorate the real authority has been exercised by native chieftains. and the British Government has in- terfered with them as little as pos- sible. These Chieftains claim a right over slaves which is comparâ€" able to the old rights of seigneurs in feudal times, and unwisely, as it ‘inow appears. the British Govern- iment has acquiesced in these lcl'aims. as she usually acquiesces in Him native customs of the backward lpeopleg whom she has been trying Ito lead into the light of civilizaâ€" ,tion. There are probably 100,000 of these slaves in the protectorate. Last year an ordinance was passed which provided that all persons brought into the protectorate are to be free. and every person born is lik13VVise tree. \lm eOVe1 when the 0VV 11131 111 aoslaVe dies. that slave becomes a free man. Another pro- vision is that no claim for or in re- spect of any slaves shall be enter~ tained by any of the courts in the protectorate. This means that no compensation can be paid to any chieftain who loses possession of any slave, and the whole ordin- 311113 means that slaV erv is confined to the present generation at slaves and slave owners. .Encouraged by this ordinance many of the slaves 0803110” and reached the colony of Sierra Leone where they were de- clared to be free.’ Some of them did‘ not get clear of the pI'OteCtOI‘ate,1 but fell into the hands of other Chieftains. These Chieftains might have been VVithin their rights in declaring.' the slaves free. but being slave owners themselves they have chosen to take the part of the own- er of the runaway slave and have returned the Victim to his master. ;One of these recaptured slaves is iresponsible for having brought the whole practice into the Open. A Curious Decision He accused his master of assault and in the lower courts won his 13513 B111 is came finally to the ib‘umeme (.10111t of K1131 ra Leone, and Itwo judges out of the three who lheard the case, decided that‘ rea- lsonable leicc’ might be used to re- take a runaway slave. The other judge dissented in strong words, saying. “Slavery is repugnant to natural judgment. equity and good ‘conscience and they should not lsupport the institution in, any shape 11:111-111.whether the Legislature eXpiesslV torhids' it 01 not " The mattei will not be peimitted to re- main VVheie the decision of the two judges has left it and it will be brought up in Parliament it' the HOVeinment does not forestall cri- ticism bV having the law altered, or in tinding some means to set-’aside the majority opinion. The League of Nations has done good work in the. cru usade to wipe out slaVerV from those parts 01 the earth where it continues to exist. But for the Opposition 0t Fiance Italy and Pmtugal a British prOposal giving, anV VV a1sh1p the right, to search any Vessel suspected of being in the lslaVet1afi‘ic would have been ac- c’ept last Veal when Sir Austen Chamberlain and Viscount Cecil de~ nounced the traffic as a crime against the human race. Five Million Slaves It is estimated that there are pro- bablv 5.000.000 human beings in bondage to-dav, a greater number, as P. W. \\ ilson points out in the .‘Ver Y01k Times. than were set free by Lincolns proclamation. The 01‘ every citizen that. he may long be spared and that 1118 famlliar fig- ure may grace the streets of Dur- ham for many years to come. NOBLE’S GARAGE THE NEW NO KNOCK IMPERIAL OIL CO. GASOLINE Sold at NOBLE’S GARAGE SERVICE High- test Gas No Extra Charge Have You Tried Ethyl Gas ? The Fugitive Slave chief 51an holding nations‘ are China and Abyssinia, the latter ad- mitted to be the most enlightened of native African states, and the only one which has survived into modern times as an idependent sov~ ereignity. In Abyssinia one person: in every five is a slave, while in China the ratio is only. one in 150. Slavery is in China, therefore, a much smaller thing than in Abys- sinia despite the fact that each has about the same number of slaves. namely 2,000,000. In the African state the slave markets are still open and the slave traders capture natives of other African states and. sell them into bondage. The little colony of Kenya is said to spend $200,000 a ‘year in protecting its natives from bandits who have their headquarters in Abyssinia. »Ras Tafi‘ari, the Regent, is person- ,ally opposed to the traffic, but is in much the same position as a Prime Minister of Great Britain who hap-z pened to be a prohibitionist. He has to «:leal with an ancient custom which is also a very profitable one to many of his most important sub- jects. In China the women and children sold into slavery, most of them beâ€"' cause their natural protectors can- not afiord to support them, are called "adopted children”. The survival of this institution is large- 1y due to the fact that China lacks a strong 'central government and that local ,tuans are a law unto themselves. Within the last few years the Maharajah of Lepal, was persuaded by Britain to set free 53,000 of his subjects held in ser- vitude. In Burma, 5,000 slaves were freed at an expenditure of $15 each paid by the British Government. When the territory around Lake Tanganyka, formerly held.by Ger~ many, came under a British man- date. slaves to the number of 185,000 were set free. In Turkey, Morocco, Tunis and Algiers there is slavery and tens of thousands of the Armen- ians who survived massacre are still held by their captors and dealt in as though they were dom- estic animals. At 40 a woman stOps patting her: self‘ on. the back and begins under the ch1n.â€"-Life. As long as sha can fascinate men, 119 woamn worrles about her age.â€" Kltchener Record. Poxerty is often justa astate of mind c1eated by a neighbor s new car .-â€"Atchison Globe. Most parents object to the state looking after- thoir children. They prefer to leave it to chanceâ€"Bran- don Sun. Mexico is making a big mistake tI'V’iIig to put a PM Oloution 0V er dur- the World series VVeek. â€"Nevx 111g York Sun. An old- fashioned girl is one who still che1ishes a secret ambition to swim the English ChanneI,â€"â€"Phila- delphia Inquirer. The Clay Centre Dispatch-Repub- lican quotes a. 50ph0m0re to the ef- fect that. love at first sight is a gsrlgeat saving of time.â€"Kansas City ar. Not long ago they were cutting clean the forests for lumbed. Now they are cutting them down to make parking spaces .â€"-Syracuse Herald. Great Britain’s Influence CRISP COMMENT THE DURHAM CHRONICLE It has been as much too dry in Western Ontario this fall as it was too vs et last fall. At time of writ,- ing pasture is xery sho1t and wheat is makifig 510“ p10gress. ‘With the hundred and one jobs waiting to be done before winter sets in, the outlets to drains should not. be neglected. A c10g ged outlet renders the drain useless. t The more protection new seeds have the better their chance of withstanding unfavorable climatic conditions during the winter and spring. Avoid pasturing new seeds too close. A. top dressing of man- ure in the fall or early winter is beneficial. " The results of not cutting the burdocks growing along fences and waste places is seen in burrs stick- ing in horses’ manes and tails at this time of year. It would really take less time to cut the burdocks at the right time than to clean the burrs out of the animals? tails. Wihen plowing the corn land take extra precaution to see that all stalks, leaves or'refuse are turned completely under. The law requires it in borer-infested regions, as it is a practical methou of controlling the pest. It is also good farming to turn a clean furrow. ‘ Subsoiling is practiced in a very limited extent. It consists of loosen- ing a few inches of soil below the regular plow depth but not bringing it to the surface. Will some of our readers who have tried it furnish us with particulars as to doing the 'subsmling and its effect on subse- quent crops? The use of .jointer or skimmer on the plow may increase the draft, but is certainly makes a better job of the plowing. The benefit will be noted next Spring, especially if the Season is wet. Where the jointer is used grass does not show up nearly so quickly between the furrows. How mam readeis 0f '1 he Fami- ers Advocate’ haxe t1ied topping mangels with a 1100 and hammxing them out? “76 tried it at \Veld\\00d last fell and found it much easier than pulling- an tonping them hx hand. Mangels keep just as \x 011 and it 11 as June befme the last of them were fed. There was much less b1 eakln" of the mangels bV the harroms than we had anticipated. Jag-Ink fig“! 41 Afte'i' Sunset After sunset comes the thought. of the deed you left undone, 01' the word you did not say, of the beggar turned away, these return at. set of sun. After sunset, when the light is a glory in the west and its rare reflected glow, gilding fields of end- less snow, lingers on the mountain‘s crest, walk the ranks of splendid things, words and acts that might have been, friendly hands you might. have clasped, chance for good you might have grasped. love you did not pause to win. Never, through the busy day. do they come to vex your peace; but when twilight sha- dows fall creeping slowly over all. sunset gives these ghosts release. Why not change this sombre train to a pageant of delight, where shapes gay and gracious move? Why not let faith, kindness, love, after sunset lend lift light? Silent Reioicing A little girl came home from school because her teacher was ill and could not be there. The child’s mother said: “You must have been very sorry to hear that your teacher was ill.” f .1 THE PARK IVâ€"Isla Richardson 77. Ross Irving 76, Pearl Harrison 73, Ethel Richardson 63. Sr. IIIâ€"Verlet McNalty and Rob- ert Plester 75, Ray Richardson 52. Jr. IIâ€"Jessie Lane and Carlotta Plester 75. Ad'alaide McNalty 73, Myrtle: Cpphitt 91, Dqgglgs Cla_rk 60. :Ir. Iâ€"Mary Lahe 83: Ivan Porter 78. Goldie Wilson 67. Sr. Pr. â€"Ceci1 Lane and Wilfred McNalty (equal), Stella Corhitt, Kathryn Thompson, Emerson Ples- ter. Clifford McLean. Jr. Pinâ€"Gertie Wilson, Jean Knox and Billie Lane (equal), Marguerite McLean, Elroy Harrison, Helen Ir- ving. No. on rollâ€"31; avenage at’ce 2‘7. SCHOOL HONOR ROLLS FOR PAST MONTH Asterick denotes those present and punctual every day. . Sr. IIIâ€"â€"\\ illin Poarf'. Violet Bunk? . Iua"1\1<.\al Jr. IIIâ€"1.213111 Jach" Imsy Street', Elvie Hastie, Ada Banks'. Sr. I'-â€"Walter Street‘, Esther White". Jr. Iâ€"Bruce Clark, Vic-tar Street. Average attendance 10.89. Sr. IVâ€"Gordon Couts, Gladys oxander. Borden Brown. Jr. IV-Jean Coutts, Joe ' Mcâ€" Cullock. Russell Hartman, Lillian Park. Sr. IIIâ€"George Bailey, Charles Mightor}: Clareq Real: . ~ S}. IIâ€"Mrytle Bartman. Grace Reay. Clifford Brown, Albert Reay, Herbert Wells. ‘ Jr. IIâ€"Jean Reay, Pearl Bartman. 7” $611 wadiockd ‘lfiuquqf S. S. No. 7, Proton S. S. No. 3, Bentinck J. H. Harding, M. Dell Macintyre, teacher. S. S. No. 5, Glenelg â€"Re-ta L. Barbour, teacher. Stock Carried, Information Furnished and Service on Brantford Roofing rendered by Brantford RRO’LOC.‘ Al- ST. ANDREWS MALE QUARTETTE 0F OWEN SOUND TO SING HERE Durham music lovers, who at- tend the Presbyterian Anniversary hot supper Monday night, bctober 24th, will be treated to a program of high class quartettes, solos and duetts in addition to the address of Rev. Dr. Alexander Forbes. Two members of this quartette. Messrs. Boorman and Kellough. de- lighted Dm‘hamites on a former occasion. Miss Malcolm will be ac- companist. THE ANNUAL RED CROSS BAZAAR will be held in the A. Y. P. A. rooms on Saturday, October 29. Doors open at 3 oclock. X hot 33c. sup- p61 “in also be seneei f10m5 to 7 oclock. F\(Pl)’b0d\' \\ eleome. Xny donations thankfully received. THE H\\'0\ER CIDER MII L \\ ILL he 11min" men Tuosdm and Pri- «lax of Pat]! \\(r01\1‘0111v. 1013 2pd Brantford Arm-Locks are fire-retardent, permanent, econ- omical. Brantford Roofing Co. Limited Brantford, Ont. 101 TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE DURHAM FURNITURE CO. LTD. â€"You couldn’t make it as tough and strong as Brantford Arm-Locks. Brantford Arro- Locks are locked on. Soverest winds, storm and frost cannot budge them: _ Notice is hereby given that the Annual General meeting of the sharehoMm-s of the Durham Furni- tm‘e (20. Limited will lwlwld at the head office of the Company. Lamb- ton St., Durham. 0111., on Saturday, October 22nd. 1927. at, the hour of 2 o‘clock in thleternoon, at which. meeting the Annual Report of the Company will he presented and such other business. transactml as may seem necessary 01' advisable. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD. Jr. Yâ€"Bernice Wise, Ruth Bart- .an. Pr.â€"H0ward _Ba_iley. H) 13 Durham Jas. B. Duff ield, Secretary Irvin Sharpe, teacher PAGE 5. 10133