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Coal Merchantâ€""Quick! Quick! My coalyard‘s afire!" Firemanâ€""Oh, is it? Well, if the stuff be the same as you sold me t‘other day, there ain‘t no hurry!" And there is a more important asâ€" pect of this matter still, namely, the loss of human life and the permanent crippling of thousands of persons as a result of our national carelessness in the matter of fires. 3 _â€"The saving of life and protection of property through the exercise of greater care and more systematic and scientific methods of fire prevenâ€" tion are of so much importance to our nation that every possible means should be employed to arouse public coâ€"operation. ' A more‘alert and. intelligent genâ€" eral understanding of the value of being careful and systematic â€" would save our country millions of dollars annually, which, if saved, would be reflected in lower rents and lower general living costs. f â€" It is a mark of national thriftlessâ€" ness that ‘our annual fire losses run in excess of half a billion dollars. These figures do not include forest fire losses, and, inasmuch as they represent <~largely â€"the burning of buildings, they mean that for every ten new ~buildings erected in this countryâ€"one is destroyed by fire The ‘best authorities agree that 75 per cent. of fires in this country originate in preventable causes, and. it may therefore be set down that last year through sheer carelessness we. burnâ€" ed â€"up more "than $375,000,000 . worth of buildings. For every 15 new buildâ€" ings erected one was needlessly deâ€" stroyed. : Herein lies one of the most imâ€" pressive lessons of our day on the need of thrift. Ard this point has special bearing on the greater â€"~need for thrift edumcation. ; (By S. W. Straus, President American % Society for Thrift) . A preliminary survey recently comâ€" pleted shows that, according to reâ€" ports made te the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the destruction of property by fire in the United States during 1923 was $508,000,000. This figure is â€"based on reports of 406,000 fire insurance claims, amounting to $406,000,000 to which 25 per cent. was arbitrarily added to cover uninsured and unreported losses. In New York girls are robbing men at. the pistol point. In Grimsby they do theâ€"same thing only they â€"don‘t néed guns. Our government is trying to â€"live within its income.. Wish it would try living without ours. R j A practical joke is a piston that won‘t work both ways. A MAN THAT CALLS HIS WIFE "DEARIE" BEARS WATCHING. â€" EVEN A LIAR MUST KEEP HIS wWoRrD wWwHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL TAKE TT The hard (job â€" confronting presiâ€" dential candidates is to be both wet and dry and for and against the Ku Klux. + LONG SKIRTS ARE DANGEROUS FOR WOMEN. SHORT ARE DANâ€" GEROUS FCR MEN. The government mint design upon our Canadian money has little interest for us. It‘s our own private design upon it that is occupying all our spare moments: Stay sober.. Booze is dangerous. Toronto man got drunk and told about stealing $20,000. Modernistic orthography spells it WHIMâ€"en. t TAKES NINE TAILORS TO MAKE A GENTLE_)IAN, AND ONE â€"BOOT. LEGGER TO BREAK HIM. LAST MINUTE MOVIE NEWS ‘Jackie Coogan denies that he is the father of Ben Turpin. ..If angirl can‘t get men to Wait on her any other way, she can have her hair bobbed in a busy barber shop. First ~Stenoâ€"The idea of your working steady eight hours a day! I would not think of such a thing! Second Stenoâ€"Neither would was the boss that thought of it. If you tell a girl that she. dances divinely, she is much pleased; but if you: were to tell her.. that she. is". a little angel, she would not like it. On the other hand, tell sher she dances infernally and she will be offended: call her a devil and she: will think you‘re wonderful. Lots:.of Howdy ~Friends, we have hated some people so much we wished they were jointed snakes suffering with the rheumatism. TWO A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT OFFICE DOG on S oic L112 Linpe: Of to‘show off their rings. NOT GUILTY it ing in these mountains. Anyone who has established a record for riding in the Canadian Rockies of fifty miles or more, is eligible to membership, irrespective of race, creed, sex, age or color. So far as the Trail Riders‘ Powâ€"Wow is conâ€" cerned, all that is necessary is that intending members should ride in on horseback. â€" Dr. Charles Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., is honorary presiâ€" dent of the new Order, and John Murray Gibbon, of Montreal, is the uly of this year witnesses the J first annual ‘Powâ€"Wow of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockâ€" ies in Yoho Valley, the wonder valâ€" ley ~of Canada‘s mountain playâ€" ground where, in , addition to the regular accommodation at â€"Yoho Bungalow Camp, a camp of tepis is being put up with capacity for one hundred guests. Last year a group of outdoor ‘lovers made an initial trail ride and found it so fascinating that they decided to form an organization to foster ridâ€" Since leaving New York on January 30th, these fortunate folk had sailed for four months in the wake of Drake, Magellan and Marco Polo, seeing all and more than all thatâ€" those adventurers saw, with none of their discomforts.. They had viewed the frowning, gunâ€"flecked rock of Gibraltar, the hallowed ports of Greece and Rome, on the blue Mediterranean, had ridden camels in the shadow of the Sphinx, threaded the Suez Canal, crossed the sparkling Indian Ocean, walked the teeming streets of Indian cities, the gardens of the glorious Taj Mahal and the ramparts of the grimfort of Agra. Ceylon, the ravishingly beautiful, palmâ€"crowned Manila, the hoary antiquities of China, the dazzling loveliness of the Flowery Kingdom of Japan, the immensities of the Pacificâ€"all these had passed before. their eyes in a‘gorgeous pageant of eighteen countries and fifty races. They saw idols, monkeys, palanâ€" quins, palaces, mosques, temples, geishas, manâ€" darins, fellahs, shicks, troubadours, fakirs, pyramids. They had adventures with elephants in Kandy and a volcano in the Hawaiilan Islands, They brought Upper left, Taj Mahai, Agra, india, one of the most Deautifui signis on the *"Empress" cruise. y * Right, "Canada" passengers on one of the elephants that took them from Jaipur to the old City of Ambar, India. Lower left, Lama Priests in the Market Square at Darjeeling. India. Right, the Canadign Pacific S. 8. "Empress of «Canada," recently returned from world cruise. % IT, would be hard to find a happier, healthier and more satisfied lot of people than the passengers aboard the palatial Canadian Pacific liner "Emâ€" press of Canada" when she docked in Vancouver harbour on May 24th at the close of her epochâ€" marking cruise around the world. Canadian Flag on Globe PLENTY OF GUIDES AND PACK HORSES ON HAND AT YOHO VALLEY CAMP ‘rail R{ders Hold First Pow-wow Col. W. W. Foster, of Vancouver, B.C., president of the Alpine Club of Canada. The underlying spirit of the order is a reverence for the majesty and beauty of nature. Its aims are to encourage travel on horseback in the Canadian Rockies; to foster the maintenance and improvement of old trails and the construction of new trails; to advocatemand pracâ€" tice consideration for horses and to promote the breeding of saddle horses suitable for high altitudes; to foster good fellowship among those who visit and live in these glorious mountains; to encourage the love of outdoor life, the study and conservation ~of birds, wild animals and alpine flowers; to proâ€" honorary â€" secretary. Among i(thc members of the organizing comâ€" mittee are such prominent individâ€" uals. as H. B. Clow, president of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago; Reginald _ Townsend, editor _ of "Country Life," â€"Garden City, N.Y.; Captain A. H. McCarthy, U.S.N., of New «Jersey and Wilmer, B.C., a celebrated mountain _climber, and back with them a host of souvenirs and impressions to be treasured all their lives and they say to the world at large "Go thou and‘do likewise." . £ Every port called at was thrown open to the cruisers, and the reception afforded them at Vic«â€" toria, B. C. on their return was no less cordial. Thousands lined the wharf on the arrival of the cruise ship, and Union Jacks mingled with Old Glory in the enthusiastic waving of flags‘ which Victoria extended to the returning _ travellers. National airs and marches played by the Naval Brigâ€" ade band were echoed on shipboard in the strains of the, Philippino orchestra. yÂ¥ es Interviewed in Vancouver as to the success of the cruise, President E. W. Beatty said, "I spoke to several passengers while crossing from Victoria and without exception they all expressed their complete satisfaction with the ship, its officers, and the arâ€" rangements+made and carried out since the day she left Vancouver almost five months ago. That is good enough for me. It is ample demonstration tmat the Canadian Pacific can successfully conduct cruises in competition with;any organization in the world and maintain that Company‘s standing as a credit to Canada." The "Empress of France" will carry the Canaâ€" dian flag on a similar globeâ€"encireling tour from New York on January 14th. â€" : THE INDEPENDELIST, "}GRIMSBY, ONTARIO ncirecling i our Last year the Banffâ€"Windermere Motor Road. was made available to tourists and eight bungalow camps were built in as many beautiful loâ€" cations among the Canadian Rockâ€" ies. Some of them can be reached by automobile, others by trail rid«â€" ing. ‘The new Order will prepare and circulate maps, descriptions and illustrations of existing trails and the country to which they give access, thus putting helpful inforâ€" mation within reach of a public that has long been waiting for just such a delightful program as that made possible by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies,. 4 assist in every possible way to enâ€" sure complete preservation of the National Parks of Canada for the use and enjoyment of the public; to create an interest in Indian c¢usâ€" toms, ‘costumes ‘and traditions; to encourage the preservation of hisâ€" toric sites as related to the fur trade and early explorers and. to coâ€"operate ‘with other organizaâ€" tions with similar aims. ‘ th e against fire; to Prof .Stowe asked the magistrate what had best be done, and was advisâ€" ed to convey the girl to a place of safety until pursuit was abandoned. Accordingly ,that night, he and h‘s brotherâ€"inâ€"law, Henry Ward Bee@ier, performed for the fugitive that office wh‘ich the Senator in the story is repâ€" resented las performing for Eliza. They drove ten miles over \ a lonely road, and crossed a rapidly flowing creek at a very dangerous fording, reaching at midnight the . house of John Van Zandt, a noble minded Kenâ€" tuckian, who appears in the story unâ€" der the name of Van Tromp. _ In Safety at Last After some rapping the owner of the house appeared at the door, candle in his hand and ‘Prof. Stowe said: ‘"Are you the man that would save a poor colored girl from kidnapping?" The original Uncle Tom belonged to a man in Baltimore who did not believe in religion forâ€" slaves. He forbade his human chattels even to read the Bible or pray. Because Tom constantly disobeyed> this edict, his master, sold him in New Orleans, where, fortunately for the Negro, he was bought by a gentleman of huâ€" mane_ disposition. This gentleman had a brother residing in Maine, from whom Mrs. Stowe got the story. j Trusted to Any Extent Tom was of such â€" remarkable probity and honesty that his New Orleans master trusted him literally with all he had. Often the master would pull out a handful of bills without looking at them, and hand them to the Negro, bidding him buy what he needed for the family and bring him>the change. The brother from Maine told him that this was foolish, but the master replied that he had had such proof of the man‘s conâ€" scientiousness that he felt it safe to trux him to any extent. Action of this sort was possible unâ€" der the old fugitive slave law because of an organized system of kidnapping in which unserupulous justices of /‘the peace worked in cahoots with slave iraters and tricky lawyers.. _ Lawyer Marks, who has the low comedy part in the play of "Uncle: Tom‘s Cabin," was representat‘ive of the type. â€" The authoress writes: ‘"The charâ€" acter of Uncle Tom has been objectâ€" ed to, yet I have received more conâ€" firmations of that character,‘ and from a greater variety of sources, than of any other in the book. Many people have said to me. ‘I knew an Unele Tom in such and such a Southâ€" etn State.‘" It is pleaging to know that the real Uncle Tom did not fall into the hands of any such brute as Legree. That "Guess I am," was the prompt reâ€" sponse. "Where is she?" ‘ "She is here." / > "But how did you come?" "We crossed the creek." "The Lord must have helped you," said Van Zandt. "I ‘wouldn‘t dare to cross it myself in the n‘ght. A man and his wife and five children were drowned there only the other day." Mrs. Stowe, in the Key, says: ‘‘The reader may ‘be interested to know that the poor girl never was retaken; that she married well in Cincinnati, and, became the mother of a large family of children." | It was another slave girl, however, who furnished the riverâ€"ctossing inâ€" c dent attributed to Eliza in the book; and in that affair Mrs.‘Stowe herself importantly figured. Planning Slave Girl‘s Escape In 1839 Mrs. Stowe, at that t‘me livâ€" ing in Ohio, had in her employ a young colored maid, a slave belonging to a Kentucky family, who for some reason had been left behind temporâ€" arily by her mistress. The people who owned her were of low class and condit‘on, and had treated her brutalâ€" ly. Being in Ohio, she was free in law; nevertheless, news came that her master was looking for her with a v.ew to recovering possession of her. Prof.. Stowe (husband of ‘the authorâ€" egs). consulted a magistrate, who told him that the law would protect the girl if she could get a fair hearing. "But," he added, "they will come to your house in ‘the night, with an ofâ€" ficer and a warrant, and they will take her before Justice Dâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€" and swear to her. ‘He is the man that does all this kind of business; he will deliver her up, and there will be an end to it." it ow d Wh‘le travelling in <(Kentucky the authoress chanced to attend service one Sunday at a church in a small town, where her attention was called to a beautiful quadroon girl who apâ€" peared to have charge of some young children. On inquiry, she was told that the girl was as good and amjable as she was beautiful, and that she was "owned" by Mr. Soâ€"andâ€"so. Someâ€" body remarked, "I hope they will never sell her," and the reply was, "Indeed they will not. A Southern gentleman not long ago offered her master $1,000 for her, but he answered that she was not for ‘sale at any price." The most dramat‘c incident in the book, of course, is the escape ~of the slave girl Eliza across the broken ice of the Ohio River. .Her portrait, says Mrs. Stowe, was sketched from life. book, and who the originals were, from whom the portraits were drawn â€"as in the case of Uncle Tom, Eliza and George Harrisâ€"and recites many facts and circumstances not included ‘n the history, which make the latter more interesting. > _ One of the rarest books in existence is sa.d to be the "Key to Uncle Tom‘s Cabin,"‘ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Not even the! Congressional Library . at Washington is said to be in possession of a copy. ‘ A copy has, however, been unearthâ€" ed at Philadelphia, and it tells of the pr ncipal characte‘s in the famous Discevery of Decument Written by Harriet Beecher Stowse, : Telling Where Authoress Got Her Characâ€" wu1ere aNPROress tGobt ner Characâ€" ters For Her Famous Bookâ€"All the Eâ€"gures in the Volume Taken From Real Life, f § KEY TO UNCLE TOMS CABIN | Funeral Directors and Licensed Embalmers â€" Motor Hearse,. i Office Phone 72. Night calls 333j Residence, 24 Ontario Street. ‘ GRIMSBY ONTARIO | s$e A. L. PHELPS, L.D.S., D.D.S. ‘Dentist _ Officeâ€"Farrell Block, Main St.. . Office hoursâ€"9 to 12, 1.30 to 5.30 Phone 92. Dentist Officeâ€"Corner Main and Mountain ¢ Streets. _/ Officeâ€"hoursâ€"9 to 12, 1.30 to 5.30 Phone 127. ® Grimsby,, Ontario Grimsby 45 Federal Life Building. Hamiltox; â€" t A married legitimate ‘daughter â€" of the master, who avas the dread of the whole family on accéount of the violence of her temper, took ons ‘of the colored children a girl, and reâ€" duced her toâ€"/id ocy ‘by.‘ abuse. Then she brought the: girl. back, saying that she was good for nothing and lemanded another child. Her choice fell upon Lewis, who, after being tortured and beaten during a long per‘od by the woman and her drunkâ€" en husband, managed to get away. Josiah . Henson The story told by George Harris, in ‘"Uncle Tom‘s Cabin," of the gale of his mother and her ‘childten, was really that of a Negro manâ€" named Jos‘ah Henson, who eventually escapâ€" :‘ : iss Phone Regent 2140 § P f . \2o ce aSe cle ofe oBe obe cBe ofe eb ofe oBe ofe ofe ale ofe oo ale ofe oBe aBe ole ols eBe afe ofe afe aBe e ofe ce ofe ofe ofe ofe oBe oTe ofe sho ofe ofe ole ofe ofe afe afe obe ofe ofe ohe ofe ofe of n Eliza‘s Husband Mrs. Stowe‘s portrait of George Harris, Eliza‘s husband, was drawn from a young colored man. named Lew‘s Clarke who, after,. escaping from slavery, was employed in the household of her sisterâ€"inâ€"law. He was a quadroon, a fineâ€"looking man, with Causean features and an agreeâ€" able expression. His conduct was such as to win for him the . utmost respect and his intelligence was of a high grade.. While a slave on a plantat‘on, he had invented a pracâ€" tical machine for cleaning hemp. His mother, a handsome ‘ mulatto woman and the: daughter of her owner, had been given by him in marriage to a free white man, with the unders\tanding that her children should be recogn‘zed as free. This arrangement, however, was not carâ€" ried out; for, when her husband d‘ed, she was obliged to return, with her nine children, to her father, all of them as slavesg in his house. Rc oBe oZe iB Te oGe eB oBe oBe oGe aBe aBe aBe aBe aBe oBe aBe aBe oBe oBe aBe aBo aBe eBe Bs aBe aBe Be 1Be eBe aBe aBe aBe aGe ofe oGe cBe se Bo nBe sGe oBe aBe aBe aBo oge cBe oo ofe 12e obe sbo no protection for himself, or in his family relation, save in the character of his master; and no law required any test of character from the man to whom the absolute power of masâ€" ter was granted. f St. Clsre‘in the: book," treated their human chattels with unvarying and indulgent k‘ndness; but often it " was quite otherw‘se. The slave enjoyed Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public monster of cruelty is not a portrait of any individual, but represents JA type of slaveâ€"owner only too familiar, though perhaps ~not common, . in antebellum â€"days. There were plenty of good people who, like the noble G. ARTHUR PAYNE & SON BUSINESS D G. B. McCONACHIE Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, etc. Office: Main Street, Grimsby. Phone 7 1 Money to loan at current rates Officesâ€"Grimsby and Beamsville zas administered for extraction "z"t"r%-%'?q"x‘wq‘*?**?*******'!"I"I‘****%********%*ifib******%z BUILD YOUR HOME : PRICESâ€"$S PER FOOT AND UPâ€"TERMS ARRKANGELD We will help you to finance the building. No need to pay rentâ€"hbecome your own landlordâ€"for rent receipts are worthless. . See your local builder for plans and prices. Lakeâ€" view Gardens have every modern convenience: Sidewalks, town:water, electricity, telephone‘; down by the lake, bathing, boating and fishing. > y i Issuer of Marriage Licenses COUNCIL CHAMBER, HENRY CARPENTER 32 MAIN STREET EAST FUNERAL DIRECTORS MARRIAGE LICENSES LAKEVIEW GARDENS : ROY C:; CALDER . F. RANDALL G. E. ABMSTRONG *D. CLARK DENTAL LEGAL RFGTORY im in Grimsby Ontario tf tt IN meet the eye of some young man who ‘desires to marry a farmer‘s daughter, |eighteen years of. age, kindly. comâ€" imuni,cate withâ€"â€"" WVWVMVWWV\WVMW\,W John Clarke, C. A., W, F. Houston, C.A., M. I. Long, C.A. 809 Bank of Hamilton Building, Phone Regent 1549 Hamilton 58 Wellington St. E., Toronto CLARKE, HOUSTON & CO. Calder & Hazlewood MONEY TO LOAN REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, Dominion Land Surveyors, Ontarie Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers James J. MacKay, Ernest G. MacKay William W. Perrie ? Phone Regent 4766. 72\ James St! N. Home Bank Building Hamilton A middleâ€"aged bachelor was in a resâ€" trnrant at breakfast, when he noticed this ‘inscription ‘on his egg: ‘‘TOo whom it may. concernâ€"Should this meet the eve of some vouns man whn After reading this, he made haste to write to the girl offering marriage, and in a few days ‘received | this, "Your note came too late. I have been married five months today."; MacKAY, MacKAY & PERRIE When linen turns yellow ; after washing, you may know that it has not been rinsed. enough.. The presâ€" ence of soap causes the discoloration. ~Miss â€" Ophc‘a," ‘ says \<the ~ Key, "stands as a rasresentative of a numâ€" erous class c he very best Northern peopleâ€"unflinâ€"hingly _ conscientious, with great loz‘cal and doctrinal corâ€" rectness, but wanting in that spirit of of love without which the most perâ€" fect character is _ deficient. When the gentle Eva solves at once, ‘by. a blessed inst‘nct, the problem which Ophelia has‘long been trying vainly to solve by vehement effort, she at once: perceives and acknowledges her mistake, and is willing to learn even from a little child." Topsy, the imp of mischief who was never born but "just growed," must not be forgetten. She represents, says the Key, a large class of children growing up under the inst‘tution of slavery. Quick, subtly ingenious, apâ€" parertly utterly devoid of principle or conscience, she feels her black skin to ‘be a mark of hopeless inferiority. She is."noth‘ng but a nigger":not reâ€" garded as quite human. Ophelia, she rerceives, means to be kind, but would no more touch her than if she we‘re a toad. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS ed and became a missionary ada. . He w=â€"~, ratsed" in. A and his earlie‘ t recollection of seeing his father, â€" mutila covered with blood, suffer lawful penalty for the cr me ing h s hand azainstea white overseer who had attsmpted sault »his ~mothet; (IT‘3 ~~ acc ed, the unfortunate man | wa south", ang sep:rated | f1 family forever. 5 "*Miss ‘Ophco‘a,"" says > \tp You will find our prices moderâ€" ate. All work guaranteed. Furniture Dealers Phone 72. fok e We shall be pleased to call at your home and give you an estiâ€" mate on repairing and upholsterâ€" ing your furniture. | Wednesday, August 6, 1924 I. B. ROUSE (Globe Optical) i Optician 52 KING ST. E.. HAMILTON _< Established, 1901 Office hoursâ€"8.30 to 6; 830 to 9 on Saturdays. G. ARTHUR PAYNE & SON UPHOLSTERINGC LAND SURVEYOR Phone 7, Grimsby OPTICIAN e a missionary in Canâ€" i raised" in Maryland. t recollection was that father, â€" mutilated and blood, ~suffering the HAMILTON Grimsby e ] Ontario tf of raigâ€" man, an to ‘asâ€" mplish< s â€" ‘"‘sold om his tf