524

Date 1912-09-23

From 524

you build, consider first. Don't be-per- buy CHEAP LUM- it's cheap use the Wo have it, and he Builder requires. stock or LUMBER, ASH, FIR FINISH, AK, MAPLE, BIRCH FLOORINGS. the agency for the: Morgan Doors, OOR BEAUTIFUL WOOD FIBRE, LATH DAR POSTS, WIL- OW POSTS J R DARD PAY MORE s Drug and Store : 33 . CURTIS aleStables ams, Drivers, Saddle ries for Sale. ) HEAVY DRAYING. lay for Sale. Ave., Phone 434 9. Box 304. mates Free, 1s Prepared. STABLE PHONR M2 728 S. FOLLIS acting Co. TORONTO ST. 1g. Sand, Coal Graveb ating a Specialty. savy Horses for sale ab All Times, LYON- RACTS FOR Y - TEAMING AND EXCAVATING nd Sand for Sale, Phone No, 415. Box 81, Reynolds TER, ETC. nples in Wall Paper. h Ave, Phone 690, Per Terms 35.00 Down, Month 9 EACH Balance 5.00 PHONE 478. RIMMER SMITH, SOLE AGENTS, 305 NORTH RAILWAY ST., MEDICINE HAT. Soetetsets aesteectecesectpsetestetoee heteatetontetoetetereecoaetoaetocratotoaestoteaesteseeteteateteatetonedeceaetnateceeteestrcesteteselesdebestnedeerteeeterteded GOOD BYE TODAY TO THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME Last of the Straw Lids Will Hie Themselves Away to the Box Till Next Year. Saturday the people of the northern hemisphere bade a sad farewell or glad farewell according to the point of view to that good old summer time, and extemta more or Jess cordial welcome to fall. The autumnal equinox began early this morning, and the melancholy days have come to remain until Dec. 21, when the winter soltice begins. Sat- urday the last straw was sent to the discard, and the last bunch of belated summer girls arriv- ed Tome, there to begin the task of removing the coat of tan which they ave been cultivating with such assiduity for the last three months. Accordinng to ancient tradition, the beginning of autumn is usually marked by what are called: equin- octial storms, but scientists have Jately dismissed with ecorn the idea Nhat ithe equinox thas anything to do with such storms as may prevail about this time. The Oldest Inhab- itant however Is equally scornful of the scientific weather sharps, and has: the facts, figures and statistics to prove his assertion, He points to the September cyclone that visited Galveston ang the Gulf Coast in 75, which continued for three days and killed a hundred people in one vil- lage alone; to the September gale which raged along the New England coast in 69; to the terrible flood which inundated the country along the Rhine sixty years ago Saturday; the Brownsville, Texas, hurricane, just a quarter-of a century ago; to the great storms in India which be- Ean Sept. 23, 1875, and left 20,000 People homeless; to the floods in China a quarter of a century ago, in which thousands of People along the Yalu River were drowned; to the September storm which ragedover the Atfantic in 1857, causing the loss of. the Now York-Havana steamship Ceatral Am- erica, which went down with over 400 souls and with a treasure in gold of more than 2,000,000; and he may even hold the autumnal equinox Tesponsible for the fact that Sep- tember is noted in history as an earthquake month. In short, the Oldest Inhabitant has the goods, and the meteorological expert will have a difficult time explaining away the proof on the ground of coinci- dence. Centennial of Molineaux s s Last Important Encounter Negro Who Almost, But Not Quite, Captured English Honors, Lost Because of Bluffed Referee. Today is the centennlal of the last important bout of Tom Molineaux, the American negro who almost cap- tured the heavyweight championship of England. On that -occasion the colored fighter was defeated by Har- ry Thompson, and goon afterward retired from the ring, Molineanx was a native of Virginia, a. full- blooded African, and a fighter of great strength, cleverness and en- durance. He. met a number of the best men in America, and then went to England, where he calmly an- nounced that he intended to take the championship from Tom Cribb. The latter was so superior to all other English scrappers that he covold get no matches, and at first he only laughed at the colored man s preten- sions, Molineaux was not 6 large a man as Cribb, but in his trial match- es he showed so much pluck and boxing ability that he soon gained many followers. Cribb was forced to accept the challenge, and the first meeting between the pair was held in an open field the Jatter part of 1910, In the ring the champion towered--above--the negro, but the muscular development of Molin- eaux's arms and shoulders showed to. advantage. It was cold and rainy day, but thousands of shiver- ing spectators gathered about the rude ring. Molineaux.sent over the first blow, but Cribb came back strong, and during the first few Tounds the white man had al the best. of it. The spectators were be- ginning to treat the affair as a com- edy, and their might go to America were forgotten, when in the ninth round the tide of battle suddenly changed. Cribb went down in the ninth, and in the fol- lowing rounds the champion was again and again sent to the ground. Molineaux s backers. were offering five to one, with no takers, when in the twenty-eighth round the white man was knocked unconscious and stayed down long after the count. The fight belonged to the American, but the champion s seconds started a wrangle, and finally bluffed the referee into ordering the battle con- tinued. Cribb had meanwhile re- covered. Th aegro again knocked him down, but - fell himself -and struck his head on a post. after this he declared he could not con- tinue, and the decision was given to Cribb. A return match was. arranged but Molineaux was knocked out with a broken jaw and abandoned his championsh t aspirations, Sixty years ago, in 1852, the Inter- national Congress on Hygiene and Demography was organized to con- sider means and methods for fight- ing the epidemic of Asiatic cholera that was then raging in Europe. Since that first meeting thirteen similar gatherings have been held in various European cities, but the sea- sion called for Washington, begin- ning today, is the first on this side of the Atlantic. It has been due to this. great body of scientists and medical men, more than to any other agency, that cholera has ceas d to be ascourge to America and Europe, Tre terrible: cholera epidemic of the last century apread from India into Russia in 1829, and to Germany and England in '1830-31, carrying off nearly a million people. It reached America in 1832, th frst death oc- curring in Quebec, whence t spread to cities as far distant as New Or- Teans. Another visitation of cholera in Bngland began in 1849, causing 16,000- deaths. When the scourge reappeared h 1852, the leading med- ical men of Europe organized to combat the disease. In 1865-66 the dread disease was again prevalent in Burope, but the fatalities were much fewer thai inn previous epidemics. Since then the disease has been practically wiped out in Europe and America, Tennyson s Task Easy Answers They say that Tennyson frequent- ly worked a whole afternoon on a single line. That's nothing. 1 know a man ENGLISHMAN BECOMES PERU S NEW PRESIDENT Will Be Inaugurated Into Important Post Chis Week. An Anglo-Saxon will become the chief executive of a Latin republic this week when Guillerno Biling- hurst, the son of English parents, is formally inaugurated as Presi- dent of Peru, Dr. Billinghurst all South Americans of prominence are doctors will. have to deal with many grave questions during his administration. The terrible atrocities practiced by ferocious rub- der exploiters upon the ignorant na- tives of the Interior have aroused England and America to indignant protest, and President-elect Billing- hurst is expected to give his im- mediate attention to this matter as soon as: he has taken the oath of office, President Agosto Leguia has already taken steps toward putting an end to the cold-blooded exploita tion of the Peruvians by European Tubber companies, which have paid imbiense dividends fo stockholders, acothe expense of the suffering and death of tortured slaves. President Legula has been an able executive 48 popular wiih bis countrymen, jut the Peruvian constitution pre- yents the re-election of a president for a second term until four years shall have elapsed after the con- clubion of his first term of office. Guillermo. Billingshurst, who will take up his residence in. the Presi- dent s mansion at Lima this week, was born at Arica, Peru, in 1861. He is the grandson of an English- man who emigrated to Peru about a century ago, and bot hhis parents are. English. He was educated In the great un versities of Buenos Ayres, Argentin and Valparaiso, Chile. He's a man of culture, and speaks Spanish, English and French. He was twenty-three when he began his political career as secretary of his native province of Iquiqu : Four years later be was elected to the Pertvian Chamber of Deputies, and speedily became one of the most in- uential members of that body of legislators, When war broke out between Chili and Peru Mr. Billinghurst was Placed. th command of the army of the north, and his heroism and mil- who has been working the last six itary strategy won praise in high years on one, sentence, quarters. Educated as an engineer his services were invaluable in Loose Leaf System Tho News Job making strategical surveys. The Department has eve facility tor fears that the title supplying the most, tailletadtory, Chilean army) was far better trained than that of Peru) and in the end, although the Peruvians fought yali- antly, Chile gained a victory, and took Mr. Billinghurst s native pro- vince of Iquique as the price. of peace. Mr. Billinghurst was em- ployed by the conquering Chileans to Teorganize the province, and after completing that task to the satis- faction of both the Chilean. and Peruvian Governments, was made peruvian consul-general at Iquique, This year s presidential campaign in (Pern was marked by bitter struggle between the Civil, Liberal and Constitutional parties. The can- didates nominated for president by all three parties were unpopular with the masses of the people, 50 they turned: down an empty glass, and stayed away from the polls so persistently that the election was declared nuit and void, The Peru- vian parliment was called upon to choose a president, and last month named Mr. Billinghurst for the of- fice. The choice was enthusiasti- cally ratified by the people, ahd gave satisfaction to all other South American nations, and to Washing- ton and London: It is lkely* that the administra- tion of President, Billinghurst will be the most notable in Peruvian history, as thousands of miles of Tallroad and immense new docks will be built during the next two. or three years: fn anticipation of the opening of the Panama Canal. Moderator Matthews, Heretic. Hunter, Will Seattle Cleric, Head of 1 of the Presbyterian Church in the States, Celebrates Birthday. The Rev. Mark Allison Matthews, of Seattle, moderator of the Presby- terian Church in the United States, will celebrate his forty-fifth birth day tomorrow. In twenty-five years he has risen from the pastorate of a country town church in Georgia to the leadership of a great religious denomination with a total member ship of 1,339,000, Sinee his recent election as moderator of the Presby- terians of the United States he has gained further fame as a ther sy hunter, and has brought to an isswe the internal strife that has lon teen waged in the denomination between the conservatives who remain true to, the old doctrines and the pro- gressives who hold that the church should keep step with the develop- ments of modern science and criti- cism, Dr. Matthews has aligned himself definitely with those who stand by the old time religion, and in the course of an addiess before the In- ternational Bible Conference last month he called to account those who pretend to believe. in the resurree- tion of Christ, but who so explain it as to deprive it of any of its literal reality. He followed with a bitter attack on Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, in which he said: Perhaps some of you young mn- isters study The Outlook and think yourselves very wise. If ever there) was a publication-edited by heretics be 45 Tom orrow continue to read it you will have theological menigitis, s0 iological neuritis and political gastritis. Such an application of the nom- enclature of sciemee to. the already ecmasle denunciatory Vocabulary of theology naturally at- tracts international attention, espec- ially.as Dr- Abbott's editorial as- sociates, denominated a bunch of Pheroties, includes no less a person- age than Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The Colonel has always been con- sidered regular and orthodox in the matter. of religion. (He it was whose enthusiasm for the true faith led him ed to , take it back fronted with evidence by the Moneure Daniel Conway. was never an atheist. Roosevelt, himself -a hunter. tics, should be included im of heretics, bas the indignation of a Porters. Mark Allison Jackson, Tenn. He was -admitted to the vat 3 tion, bition law was in court at. Wi of a century A Stewart, a drug store who had pleaded guilty to an indictment of 2,080 counts, Was sentenced. to seventeen years in prison and to pay a fine of 20,300. to refer to Thomas Paine 3s a filthy little atheist, and who retus- The Outlook is that sheet. It is edited by a bunch of heretios; if yon chee grade of coffee, a few cents, extra. per pound will give you an immeasurably 9 finer beverage worth many timestheextraexpenditure. A-trial-of ING A

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