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DROVER PASSES Thomas 'Bdge. 'Hard Was Born in 1867, Dominion's . Birthday (By Staff Regarter) Wohi By. Su 3--Thomas Edgar rd. or many years a resident of Whi y, passed away at noon yester- day puceumbing at last to an illness Which he had t courageously for ears. Mr. Hardy was born in ih nville on July 1, 1867, on the birthday of the Dominion of Canada: He lived for some time in Darlington Township and from there came to Whit- by, aceupying the Mayfield farm part of which lies 'within the town limits. Mr. Hardy was perhaps better known as a drover than a farmer. The scope of his business was remarkable extend- ing as far north as Orillia and as far east as Kingston. During a consider- i able time Mr, Hardy was in paftner- ship with T. G. Caldwell and at the ! time of his death he was connected with Oliver Denny. Seven years ago, after having spent twenty years on the farm just north of Whitby, Mr. Hardy moved into the town ptoper, The deceased was a member of the Roard of Trustees of the United ------ =i a ---- 8 %, To receive large orders for flowers from such renowned firms as Steele Briggs Co. and Miller, the wholesale florists of Toronto, is convineing testimony of the great success achieved by Mr. Russel Perkins, whose large gardens on the east side of Park Road, present to the visitor's eye, a veritable riot of colour. Mr. Perkins specializes in Asters, and it is his Glant Aster which is making him famous, even among the greatest seed-growing firms in Canada. He has recelved orders from Toronto dealers for over 10,- 000 blooms, and has already deliv- ered about 7000, His gardens, comprising an area out his life an ardent worker and a generous supporter of its undertakings, in politics, Mr. Hardy was a staunch Liberal, Besides his wife, the deceased leaves to mourn his loss three brothers, Ar- thur of Bowmanville, Alfred of Hamp- ton, James of Uxbridge, a half brother, John Davidson of Meaford, and three sisters, Mrs, J. Knight, Oshawa, M¥s. Fred Cornish, Whitby and Mrs, Fanny Walkey of Sturgeon Point, The funeral service will be held in the United Church, Whithy at 2.30 on Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. M. Irwin, The body will he inter- Church, Whithy, having 'been through- red in the Bowmanville cemetery. sr LO Tine FIRMS of six acres, contain almost every variety of flower which can be grown in this latitude, besides vegetables of all kinds, Mr. Perkins has recently pur- chased Dr. Shirley's home, at 74 King Street West, and intends to build there a large glass conserva- tory, 40 feet by B50, which will be open to the public. Among other plans are the extension. of his greenhouses on Park Road, where he intends to add 100 feet to the existing hot-house. Other changes are in Qontemplation wich will make these gardens equal to the best in this section of Ontario. ------ A -- DROWNED IN SWITZERLAND Paris, Sept. 2.--Although search has been carried on since Miss Beatrice Byrne, daugh- ter of James Byrne, New York lawyer, fell into a river near Berne, Switzerland, last Friday, no trace of the body has been found, ac- | cording to word recelved in Par- | 1s, Her hrother-inlaw and sister, | Mr. and Mrs. Francis W, Taylor, of London, who hastened to Berne by airplane when Informed of the tragedy, have led the search, Miss Byrne had gone to Switzerland for- her health, Witnesses sald she stumbled on a bridge and plunged into the stream, disappearing In the swift current before aid could reach her, ; constantly | peril is over, pes ASTON AIDS WESTERN CROP Conditions Better With the Rust Peril Practically Over Brandon, Man., Sept, 2.--An elec- trical storm on Thursday afternoon turned the scale in Western weather. Moist muggy sair passed in a twink- ling, and the south wind gave place to gales from the west which mourn in the leaves and proclaim the ar- rival of September. Wild ducks {leave their southward trails, drop to the sloughs for feeding, and show little fear as the train whirls past Their presence is the harbinger off autumn, Conditions have changed over- | night, and it would seem the rust | The mischief of the | past two weeks is done, but if may | not be renewed. Instead there has come the fedr of frost for late crops. As yet it is only a fear, for today's weather was entirely favorable. Clouds broke the sunshine, but the mercury is not threatening, and the north wind has not yet 'roused the | bitter armies of the cold." But it is September, and the race between the forces of nature for | perfection and destruction is going | forward at a critical pace. Here in | the lowlands of the Assiniboine hd ley considerable wheat is yet im- mature, The West stands by the ring to whateh the battle, and it will not rest | | PEAD STREWN ABOUT CITY OF NANKING Shanghal, Sept. 2.---Foriegn re- ports from Nanking state conditions of indescribable misery prevail there, due to the vase heaps of dead | and wounded soldiers along the iriver bank, with a cholera epidemic | breaking out among the troops, due to lack of medical service and sani- tation and aggravated by the in- tense het and humidity prevailing. Japanese reports from Nanking tonight state thousands of Northern | troops were drowned as a result of the sinking of dozens of Chinese | junks and transports by the Nation- | allst avy. At one place the re- treating Northerners were unable to obtain junks and were forced to use rafts in order to escape the Southern machine guns, but the Southern fleet cut the rafts to | pleces, drowning hundreds. The | river for miles below Nanking is covered with almost countless num- bers of corpses, AEROPLANES NOTIC ED London, Sept. 2.--The Air Min- | istry tonight received a radio mes- sage from the master of the Stand- ard OIl Stenmer, Josiah Macy, stat- ing that at 9.44 p.m., GMT. on Aug. 31, an aeroplane passed them at latitude 53.15, longitude 29.45, 29.45. The Alr Ministry stated that the message from the Josiah Macy sald the steamer saw the aeroplane in mid-Atlantic Wednesday night, in a direct line with North Scotland. Aviation experts say this aeroplane must have heen the St. Raphael, but the message gives no idea of what LE bp ay bh VN hb nN | BEDROOM MATS Well ade Wool Mats in pretty shades of Taupe, Grey and Blue, These are re- versible and will give good service, ti "la LADNER, B.C, IS Ladner, B.C,, Sept. 1.- valued at between $70, $75,000 was destroyed Ladner Lumber that plant, a dry kiln, of the wiped out a number of sheds of lumber and five Great Railway freight cars loaded lumber, wit (El Paso Times) PHONE 79 . VISITED BY FIRE 000 an | 1900 | fire originated in the planing mill | Company | high grade | Northern PETERBORO MAN HEADS | easy for another week, Two million | people of the Prairies, who produce {one-third of the world's exportable {surplus of wheat, cannot escape an- xiety; the consuming 'millions of {other lands cannot be indifferent, SIR KEITH DECLARES :| THEORY UNSHAKEN | British Scientist Says Test of Time is Proving MAGISTRATES' ASS'N| Acsurney Kingston, Ont.,, Sept. 2--0. A, Leads, England, Sept, 2.--Taking Langley of Peterboro was today as his subject the formidable text, elected president of the Ontario ~Parwin's Theory of Man's Descent Magistrates' Association at their an-| #88 It Stands Today," and giving him nual convention here. W. A. Mikel | an antiquity of one million years, ro 1 - ( ¥} 4 *y 4 Belleville, was elected as Vice- | I'rof. Sir Arthur Keith delivered § { 2 } 1 i § § President, Wednesday night the inaugural & } The Association went on record | presidential address here on the A as favoring the establishment of an | 96th annual gathering of the Brit- institution for the confinement and | ish Association for the Advance- i treatment of arcotic addicts and |, ont of Science. hs chronic aleoholie cases. "The subject of my address is vid > BSS PRA A man's remote history," said the dis- MUST AMEND PEOPLE, TOO tinguished scientist whose *"Anti- quity of Man" is a standard work, his work stand the test of time? a ------------ "As | address these words to you I cannot help marvelling over the difference between our outlook to- was convinced almost without a dis- sentient, that man had appeared on earth by a special act of creation; whereas the audience which I have now the honor of addressing, and that larger congregation which the wonders of wireless bring within the reach of my voice, if not con-! vinced Darwinists are yet prepared to believe, when full proofs are, forthcoming, that man began his | Pack Your ! ; Dor Into the Laundry Bag IFE has other worthwhile things in store for you than steaming and scrubbing away your health and happiness you can have your entire v3shing returned to you 'snow-white a few days after you send it to us. Call Phone No. 2520 for _ & deiver to explain our various services. | career as a humble primate animal and has reached his present estate by the action and reaction of bio- | logical forces which have been and | are ever at work within his body | | end brain. | "This transformation of outlook | on man's origin is one of the mar- | | vols of the 19th century. . { | Many a soldier of truth had at-| | tempted this citadel before Darwin's { day, but they failed because they | bad neither his generalship nor his. | | artillery. i "Will Darwin's victory endure for | all time? Before attempting to answer this question. let us look at | what kind of book 'The Descent of | | Man' is. It is a book of history-- | | the history of man, written in a! | mew way--the way discovered by | | Charles Darin. . . He gathered his- | | torical documents from the body and | behaviour of man and compared them with observations made on | the body and behaviour of every {animal which showed the ieast re- | semblance t oman. He studied all that was known jin his day of man's ewmbryological history and noted re- semblances and differences in the corresponding histories of other { amimals. He took into comsidara- | tiom the manner in which the living | tisswes of man react to disease, to {drugs and to environment; he had to accoun{ for the existence of di- verse races of mankind. Br a logi- {| eat analysis of his facts Darwin pe- | constructed and wrote a history of man. "Fifty-six years have come and gone since that history was written; anenormous hody of new evidence has poured in on us. We are now {able to fill in wmany pages which | Darwin had preforce to leave blamk | and we have found it necessary lo | alter details in his narrative. but | the fundamentals of Darwin's out- line of man's history remain un- | shaken." FATHER OF 54 OHILORENX Andrew Jukoff. 113-yvear-old Si- | beniam citizen, recemtly arrived im Moscow to prove to buearucrats his for an old-age pension. father, he says. of 54 Joi the oldest is now 86 oz of age. is | | : iy = -- Only experience will convinee | And Whose most recent publication, ' this country that It can't amend |? COUDIR.Of years ago, was "Reli- 9 a constitution without first amend- | 50D of a. Darwinist," "Fifty-five " ing the people to fit it, years," he said, "have come and | gone since Charles Darwin wrote a history of man's descent. How does day and that of the audience which Sir Richard Owen had to face in| this city 69 years ago. The vast sseemblage which confronted him | happened later, and no other news of any kind regarding the missing plane has heen received. LONG RECORD BROKEN Kenora, Sept. 2.--With the call- [Ing of a jury on Sept. 6 for the case of Stokes v. Longley in the Division Court, a long record in the Kenora Division Court will he broken, It is well over 10 years since a jury sat on a Division Court case in this | district, CANADIAN TAY IN TARIFF ARGUMENT New 'England States Ask for Reduction to Tariff Commission Washington, D.C., Sept. 2.--Can- adian hay has suddenly become the subject of controversy in tariff cir- cles of the United States. The Tariff Commission, which ad- vises President Coolidge on proposal for tariff changes under the flexible provision of the Customs Act, finds itself considering application from dairy interests of the New England Statse for a decrease in tariff on hay from Canada and at the same time unnamed parties in New York State are applying through Congressman John Taber of Auburn, N.Y., for an increase in the duty on Canadian hay. The first interests represent that they must have clover hay of the type imported from Canada for feeding of herds, while New York hay growers complain that their product is losing out te imported hay and should be protected against the product of a foreign country where the cost of production is less. The situation is further complicated hy the fact that the hay situation enters into an investigation now under way by the Tariff Commission into the cost of the production of milk and cream in the two coun- tries. 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