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We are not yet through with thle; moving picture show business. may be we have hurt the feelings, of a few, but we have sounded a note of warning to the council and . given the people to understand what they should expect, and what the council should exact. Wee haven’t one bad word to say about I Mr. Damm, who owns the show. Since he came here, he has proved himself a gentleman in every some of the word; he has given gov] clean entertainments as far as we know, on every occasion; he his been always watchful to main- tain good order, and has generally succeeded. On a few occasions, some of the rougher element were admitted, but on boisterous signs. being manifested, or improper language indulged in, the offend-j ing parties were asked to leave the ' place, and asked in very kindly: terms. As a place of innocent ' amusement, we have no desire to, see it removed, and judging from: the management of the past year,’ we know of no better hands into which it could be placed. 1 This week, we reproduce from Bansard, Mr. R. J. Ball’s maiden speech in the House of Commons. As it appears in its entirety. “'9 do not think it necessary to make any comments. Interested reader! may judge for themselves. We may say that Mr. Ball is not 0V er anxious to appear on the public platform, and as he is yet young in the business, his address may lack the oratorical flourishes of many of the older members. We think that the people’s represent- atives in Parliament should be heard from occasionally. It’s all right to Say that a man is good in committee, and all that sort of thing, but the public as a rule like to see something in print to show what their member is doing. Mr. Ball is recognized as a good shrewd business man, and as such he must have considerable execu- tive ability. Such men are genera~ ally level-headed enough to give good advice in committee, but to satisfy their supporters, it is well they should be heard from some- times. With over two hundred members in the House, it isn’t pos- sible for them all to make long speeches, and make than often. We hope to hear from Mr. Ball again. This is his second session, and we feel that he acted wisely in waiting till thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of parliament- ary Speech making. The business will soon be trans- ferred to the old Mockler building and is likely to become a perman- ent affair. For the public safety. we urge upon the council the necessity of seeing that the law is carried out with regard to proper exits. It is necessary that every precaution required by law should be rigidly enforced. Whatever the owners of such concerns may say or think. the underwriters consider that moving picture carry with them a certain element of danger. The increase in the in- surance rates proves this without anv further argument. but we may add also that the Government calls for protection and a sufficient number of exits in case of danger. A false alarm from some foolish attendant might cause a stampede with much loss of human life. Stringent laws are made to guard against such dangers, and the council, let us say, will be ne- glectful of its duty if it fails to enforce all the requirements. ‘4 .Q. DURHAM, DECEMBER 5th. 1912, IHE DURHAM summon f “7e have felt all along the build- ing now used was not properly provided with means of escape, but fortunately no mishaps have oc- curred. Had fire broken out and curred. Had fire broken out and a general stampede- followed, with almost certain loss of life, We would have reason ever after to have a guilty conscience for not panting out the danger. It would be poor satst‘action to the maimed. the injured and the dead. to say that we knew of the danger, but we ddn’t want to tell about 'it. We understand that the Mockler building is properly equipped and all law requirements adhered to. not, we’ll keep up' the agitation. What we have to say, we’ll say openly and above board. All we want in to satiety the requirements of the law in prov1ding tor the mety of the public. We have no feeling of antipathy to the owner of the Ihow, nor the owner 01 the building, but the light is on, and i1 danger: to human lite exist, we MOVING PICTURE THEATRES not, we‘ll keep up’ the agitation.i The election of proper men to What we have to say, we’ll say handle the affairs of a municipal- openly and above board, All we ? ity is far more serious than most want is to satisfy the requirements 'people suppose. Much power and of the law in providing for the .responsibility are put in the hands safety of the public. We have no 'of the elected officers. It is only feeling of antipathy to the owner Reasonable to assume that such of the show, nor the owner of the bodies of men should have ability building, but the fight is on, and 1t0 (1130113139 properly the duties if dangers to human life exist, we 'placed at their command. T00 01- want to see them removed. {ten candidates for municipal posi- ‘1. WWW 'E "a: awi Proprietor. ,3! P. HAIL’S ADDRESS ‘ This is well in line with an opin- ion expressed by The Chronicle a few weeks ago in attempting to show that the farming community ‘should rejoice at the growth of towns and cities, rather than find gfault with their rapid increase in- ?population. These, as the article in question pointed out, form the great body of consumers, while 'the farmers who remain on the :land must ever be regarded as the ’pioducers of agricultural food- :stuffs. The greater the number of iconsumers in comparison with the 7number of producers, the higher will be the prices of all such com- ~modities. The law of supply and ‘demand regulates the cost of farm products just the same as it regu- [lates the cost of any other article. lThe more farmers the more farm Eploducts, and the more farm pro- !ducts the lower the price, provid- ing the consuming population re- mains unaltered. No article of :foodstuff in recent years has ad- ‘vanced so rapidly as farm 'pxoducts. Hon. James S. Duff, Minister at ‘Agriculture for Ontario, is no; §pleased with the Toronto Board of iTrade when they say that the tiarmers are partly to blame for fthe high cost of living. He says, “‘11 the Board or anybody else is tired of paying prices, there’s lots of land in this province that they can go out and work. That’s the only remedy for the high cost of a living. No legislation on earth can control the prices of foodstuffs, and so long as there are men Who would rather drive a street car in Toronto than work on a farm, they deserve to suffer from the high cost of living.” The following article from the Meaford Express has more sense than sentiment. Sorry to think that the statements made are only too true: “Some of the counties are making the boast that they are reducing the cost of feeding inmates of houses of refuge. They should be ashamed to publish any such statement of fact. It is all right to be economical in handling public money, but when a public official is forced to hold his es- teemed job by no other qualifica- tions than his ability to feed old and destitute persons on oatmeal Without milk or syrup, and stale bread without butter, it is about time that someone hit him on the head with a claw hammer. Any Tom Fool can make a living by killing people by means of a grad- ual process of starvation. Such individuals should not be in charge of public institutions. Their proper place is where the Worm (lieth not, and the fire is not quenchedfi’ I We have attended the show fre- .quently, and enjoyed it. We hope Ito continue our patronage, and we i like to see others enjoy themselves iand wear away the blue spells that are sure to come to most of us. Councils are made up too often of transparent nonentities. There are indeed many municipal con- tests where such ambitious know- nothings are to be found in the field. Many an election expense might be saved if the incapables had the good sense to stay at home. zBut no, they can’t see things in that light. The honors and emoluments of office are right in their path. All they have to do is to reach out and gather in the plums. It’s a case of now or nev- ier, and they won’t be convinced till the voice of the people tells them through the ballor box that their services are not Wanted. Many of them are sadder and wiser men the day after the battle. The time to elect the councillors for next year will be here in a few weeks. Even now the aspir- ants for office have a sort of an itchy feeling, No doubt they feel that “large and influential bodies of ratepayers” lie awake at nights devising means to drag them into the municipal arena. It may be that one or two make very casual suggestions to an itchy aspirant. With apparent reluctance he con- sents to offer himself a sacrifice for the good of the community. For the next few weeks he be- comes a most servile flatterer, and his hand goes out automatic- ally to every voter. He is too transparent to conceal his motives. Everybody laughs at him, and when the ballots are counted they may well laugh again. TH E MUNICITAL CANDIDATES TrIE HIGH COST OF LIVING ; The price of a pool-room license in Mildmay is $50 for one table, $25 for the second, and $1.5 for each additional table. Wallterton is more generous, and charges only $10 for the first and $5 for each additional table. Durham charges $200 for the first, and $100 for each additional table. 'lhere are three tables used and the revenue from the pool-room is $400 a year. if Durham had been as liberal as Walkerton, the same revenue would furnish enough amusement for all the pool players in Durham vicmity. Let us see. At Walker- ton’s rate of $10 for the first and $5 for each additional table, we could have 79 tables all in one line. There would be no lost time then in waiting for your turn. We believe, however that the present license is better all round. At a ten dollar license there might be too much opposition, and the business would soon die a natural death. There should be honor among printers as well as among thieves. The man who lacks honor lacks everything worth having. He can’t be trusted in anything. Wise men make good laws, but fools are always ready to break them. If a man with brains writes an article worth clipping, the man who reproduces it should have courtesy enough to say where he got it. Some haven’t. Some of our readers last week received a Chronicle belonging to the Week before. We didn’t do it as a joke. It was a mistake. Our idea of a joke is bigger than that. We may say before closing that Durham has not always been free from these municipal burlesques, and strange to say, people who should have had better sense have supported incompetent candidates. It’s high time to turn over a new leaf and nominate and support only such candidates as give reasonablc evidence of ability to hunailc the affairs of the municipality. If a weak man is hit by a newspaper item, he mustn’t fancy he is going to stop the whole business by refusing to take the paper We have known things like that to happen, with no seri- ous rcsults. tions are nominated as mere jokes and the evil of such folly is . not seen till the toy candidate is elected to office, with no chance of turning him down. The best available should be selected, and in no case should support be gn en to candidates who gixe no evidence of making good. ‘ How many municipal aspirants see}; the support of the electors by simplv saying they’ll do the BUNESSAN. Nice sleighing for the past few days, but at time of writing it is thawing, and We won’t be surpris- ed to see some plowing weather yet. Miss Eliza McCoi'mick, who has been sick for a week or so, is a": present Vlsiting her sister at Walkerton. Mr. Dan. McInnes has been fix- ing up his dwelling house on the old McKinnon farm, and intends mgying into it {n the spring. Mrs. A. B. ‘McArthur returned home on Friday, after attending to her mother, Mrs. Frankes, of (Sale- don, who was stricken with apo- plggcy, and l_ast_ed but a few days. Mr. Wm. Jackson, who has been seriously ill for the past few weeks, is somewhat better, we ar_e_ glad to say. _ M13; Dan. ana Miss Maggie Mc- Lean, of Bentinck, visited one day last week with their cousin, Mr. Dan. McCormick. Mr. Chai‘lie Mcfiirlane is visit- ing with his sister in Toronto, and-taking in the sights of the be_a_uti{_q! city; _ Mrs. Kennedy 'Visited with her daughter, Mrs. N. (McQueen, of’ ngthngle, _;‘ece1_)tl_y. _ Mr. Silas 'vEdwards is engaged wi_t_l_1 My: T. H. Binnie for a month. Miss Kate McCormick, of Wal- kerton, is visiting her old home here at present. Miss Annie McGillivray returned from Toronto a couple of weeks ago, feeling unwell. Hope she will‘ soon be all right_again. The telephone men have been busy the past week installing poles for local use. It will be quite a convenience for farmers who live, Mr. John Jackson, M. P. P., of British Columbia, who paid ashort visit to his sick father recently, returned home last week. His brother Frank, who is from the same place, is remaining for a while. a long piece from town. There is some talk of having a rural email delivery in this vicinity, which will be helpfuLalso. Our teaclfer, Mr. McDonald, was laid up for a day last week, but, pleased to know he is at his post again. Misa Jennie Marshall, of Egre- POOL ROOM LICEN SL8 H ITS AN D MISSES THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Miss Mary Edwards gait for Hamilton last w.eek ant expects tq remain for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Willie BCMltOD of Waudby, Sundnyed with the im- mer’ s father, Mr. John G. Beatom We were sorry to hear of the death of an old neighbor boy in the person of Mr. Thos. Ryan. who died last Week at his sister’s in the west. Mr. Lorne AJlan arrived home from the west last week. mont, \isited at her uncle’s, Mr. Donald McFarlane’ a last \\ eok. Mr. Richard Nichol, from the West, is visiting his brother. Mr. Thos. Nichol. Miss Kate McLean, of Priceville. visited with Mrs. Frank Irwin last week. Mrs. Harris, and daughter. Misq Harris, left Saturday to Spend the winter at Fort William. Mr. and Mrs. Blake Batty. of Toronto, are spending a week with Mrs. Wm. Ritchie, sr.. and other friends and relatives. ' Mrs. James Heughan. of Hano- ver, is spending a week with her son. Mr. and Mrs. W. Heughan. here. Mrs. Halpenny, of Dromore. ac- companied by her son and daugh- ter, visited the home of her aunt, the late Mrs. Burns-Lauder. Some valuable articles of jewelâ€" ry have been left at this office. The owner may have same by fully describing property and paying expenses. The young girl who found them is entitled. we think. to some reward for her trouble and honesty. THE TOWN COUNCIL The town counfil met on Mon- day night in regular session. mayor Black in the chair. Reeve Caider and all members of the councxl were in attendance. with the exception of Dr. D. B. Jamie- After disposing of the minutes of the last regular and special meetirg's for November. :1 hiq grist of accounts were examined by the. Finance Committee. and p..nyment recommended. That’swhat the Uoctot told him SJ»?! Mr. J P. Telford, Dr. Farquhar- son and Inspector Campbell rip- paai'erl as a deputation from the Unite“! 511.001 Boards to explain the necd of further school ac- commodation in the near future. ant to secure the assent of the council to purchase additional school property. It was intimated that the Boards did not intend to press for the immediate building of a new school, but that ere long such accommodation would be absolutely imperative. To secure land while it was yet avail- able. the Board regarded as a wise move, and building could be don“ later. Discussion followed regarding the Continuation and Model schools, but the opinion of the majority of the council ap- Peared averse to losing either or any of their present educational institutions. A motion was carried appointing a committee, consist- ing of the mayor, and councmors Saunders and Young, to confer with a committee from the school Boards to examine the matter and report at the next meeting. Mr. N. Harvey, on behalf of the Poultry Association asked for the use of the lower hall for the Win- ter Poultry Show, and had his re- quest granted. CHESTERVILLE, ONT., Jan. 25th 19:: “For over twenty years, I have been troubled with Kidney Disease, and the doctors told me they could do me no 800d. and that I would be a suflerer for the {est of my life. “Yllli‘il SUPPER All YOUR [le” I doctorea “ith different medical men and tried many advertised remedies, bu_t.nox_1e of them suitec} my gase. Nearly a year ago, I tried “Fruit-a- tives”. I have been using this fruit medicine nearly all the time since. and am glad to say tliat I _am egregi. Ivgive “ Fruits-fives” the credit of doing what the doctors said was impossible. In all the world, there is no other remedy that has cured so many cases of so-called “incurable” kidney disease, as “ F ruitâ€"a-tives’ ’ . Thisfamous fruiflmedicine actsdirectly on the kidneysâ€"healing and strength- ening themâ€"and ridding the system of the waste matter that poisoqsthc blood. Mr. Zenus Clark addressed the council regarding taxes on his factory. He claims that in the verbal agreement leading to the purchase, he was to have tax ex- emption, except for school pur- purposes, for a period of ten years, and that the assessment I. am now seventy-six years old, and in first class health” . GEO. \V. BARKLEY. 50¢. a box, 6 for $2.30, trial size, 25c. At dealers or sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited. Ottawa. “Fruit-a-tives cured Him JE WELRY FOUND PERSONAL. g-MM-z-MM+++++~a~++++++++++ ~e++++~g~+++§~+++++++w+++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++z ++mz§++++++++++++++++++++++++++ should stand fixed at five hund- red dollars. There seems to have been no Written agreement, and the question remains in dispute. It was pointed out, how- ever, that the taxes paid in 1910 811.20, covered all the general and school tax for that year on a 8500 assessment. No action was taken, and it seems improbable that, in the absence of a written contract, the point in dispute will ever be settled to the satisfaction of both sides. A general open discussion Was conducted regarding the suit on- tered against the town for alleged carelessness which led to Mr. J .G. Wilson falling down the embank- ment at the Lambton street bridge, and receiving bodily injuries. some weeks ago. Mr. Wilson has sued the town for unstated dam- ages, and the case will be heard in Owen Sound about the middle of this month. “fl”. "- ' MISS L. McAULIFFE :Iqqqcmumzmmmukmmnrnm: Beginning Friday and Saturday November 8th and 9th No man should drive withnut a whip. lfzyour hmwgete frighten- ed how can you prevent him hacking nu into the ditch. “'9. have some good Rawhide and \Vhalebone \ 'hips at a reasonable police. Have you seen our stock of Rnbes, nothing like a good rite when you are taking a long drive. \Ve have size, quality and um- priees are right. Don’t forget we carry a good line of bland Sleighs. also some choice Child’s Sleigns. We will sell you the right kind of bells». if you will give us a call. for we have Body Strings. Half Strings, Shaft Grands and Open livlls. In Hnrse Blankets We mm satisfy your taste. and your horses will he more comfort" hle. Houses are valuable, and they should he pro. tect-vd from the cold. ()ur blankets range in price from 75:: L0 83 00. “79. are selling a number of Surcingles,but alwuvs have some mom in stock. Call early and get what you want in this line. ~ W. BLACK a fitters supplies. Engines and Thrashers. Sash and Doors, Planing and Genvml \Vood \Vork. I run and Brass Castings and general Repairing. Feed boilers. Swami DURHAM Successor to Miss Dick. Lsmbton Street. Durham. Without the Right Drugs Wherein Can the Druggist EXcel ?. The Sleigh Bells ring wich a nwrry ring. Big Millinzry REDUCTION SALE SMITH BROS” Much is due m the quality of the dings as well as the. tech- nical knowledge of the Druggist. in determining the medicinal value of a prescription. “’9 have the knowledge and the experience. and the drugs ton. ()m- drugs are selected with speeial care as to eharucber. freshness. potency and quaiitv. They are handled right. This is why our custmners get i'ea! “rug values, the results the dumm- pxppcts, Bring vmn- prescription here. TH E DURHAM FOUNDRY GUNS DRUG STORE We have a number of triunned and untrinnnml hats. that we will sell re- gardless of cost. For Matron's Misses and Children. Hardware ' Chickens ...... l Fowl .............. Bailey .............. 5! 0 L0 Hay ..................... 10 00 to Butter. . 24 w Eggs .............. 27 to Potatoes, per bag“ ....... l 00 to Diied Apples. . 5 to Flour, pet cwt .......... 2 70 to, 0nt11:eal,per sack ...... 2 75 to Chop. per cwt.... ...... 135m Live Hogs. r cwt..... 8 00 to Hides. ppr if... 10 to Ducks ........ I DURHAM, Dec. 4 1912 Fall Wheat ........... 8 9! Spring Wheat . i . . ,_ ..... 9 Milling 0ats...... . 3 Feed Oats ............... 3 5"“ V'Uvu'......... Pmfluw m to Barley .................. 50 to H” ..................... mun» Butter. 24 m Eggs .............. Potatoes, per bag ....... l Dried Apples ........... Flour, per cwt .......... Oatmeal. per sack ...... ppoplper cwt . .. . ...... FINN 888885 888888 The Chronicle to January 1914. 81.00. Subscribe now. MARKET REPORT DURHAM, ONT. December 5th. Ontario wwww 5mm” 10 (