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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-22, Page 7altoglubserfeers vied do not lreoeive'tbeir :paper promptly will please notify as at wee. advertising rates on iapplieatlOn, TIE EXETER ADVOCATE. TX3URSDAY, NOV. 22, 1894.. Week's Commercial S'nmmary. The earnings of the Canadian Pacific for the last ten days of October are $711,- 000, an increeso of $8,000. 1111x. G, A, Stinson has purchased Ot- tawa's new issue of 4 • per cent. dellen - tures at 102.40 and 104.40, Tho Preston & Berlin Street Railway Company bave definitely decided to con- struot a street railway line from Preston to Berlin, and are at present negotiating with the township. council for the fran- chise. The company already have a franchise fzbm Berlin. The number of failures in the Domin- ion last week show a slight decrease. There were 42, as against 50 the previous week and 37 the corresponding week a year ago. Ontario heads the list with 19. The most important one is that of the North American Mill Building Co. limited, of Stratford, with. liabilities of $78,000. Quebec had 12, none of which were of any importance ;. Nova Scotia 5 ; New Brunswick 2 ; British Columbia 3, and Manitoba 1. We have had another illustration this week of the tendency of the money mar- ket. One of the best loans ever made on Toronto property (from the borrowers' standpoint) was negotiated a few days ago. It, was for $200,000 for a number of years at 4e, per cent. per. annum. The money was Scotch capital, and we under stand that any quantity can be had on good central properties at the same rate. The loan was tnade through Anderson & Temple, of Toronto street. The time is opportune for the making of loans, and it is largely owing to this fact that the late Canadian issues have been so suc- cessfully floated. There is a ecod deal of local money to be had on choice col- lateral, but no change in the rates have been recorded for months. Brokers are somewhat surprised at this; they are anxiously looking for .lower money. An exceptional loan on bonds was made here last week at 3:4 per cent. There is a possibility of the United States issuing bonds, and this has allay- ed the feeling with regard to large ship - meats of gold. Sterling exchange is slightly weaker in consequence. Colder fweather has stimulated the demand for dry goods and furs, but there is little -change in other wholesale departments in. Toronto. Shipments of hardware and iron have been fair in consequence of the near approach of the close of lake navi- gation and the going into effect of winter railway freights on the 15th ince. Sugars are reported easier this week, but gener- ally the change; in prices of merchan- dise are -unimportant. Remittances are likely to improve with the freer move - n) ant farm produce. Packers are buy- ing dressed hogs, but as yet the receipts are light. A. weaker market seems to be expected. OUR 111AR1Kk:T RI VI W. There has been no factor in all that goes to make up the world's market which ha' been attracting more atten- tion than the large and increasing out- put of wheat from the Argentine Re- publie. That country has everything that can promote the cheap and easy handling of its product on the English market. and. this, combined with. its beat home advantages, makes it the most formidable rival which the older wheat growing countries have in sight. The cost of transportation from Argen- tine to the markets of the world as com- pared with that of Canada is a mere nothing. as they have little or no rail freights to pay and the cost by water 'where there are n o transhipments to make is very low. Labor when paid iu tite debased silver money of that country does not cost more than a, fraction of what. it does here, and there are little or no municipal or government taxes to meet. so that the farmers there are inthe best position in the world for carrying on a successful competition against all -comers. Beerbohlns cable report says : "From the Argentine Republic the latest cable news is to the effect that crop prospects are first rate, but in a country with such a variable climate at this season it will be wise not to put too much faith in these early impressions. Meanwhile if all goes well, it may be taken for grant- ed that this new source of supply will have as much to spare in 1895 as in the present year, viz., 52,000,000 to 56,000,- 000 bushels." In Australia the harvest is expected to be rather late, but the prospect on the whole are not unfavorable. The great rush of wheat from Canada and the United States to the foreign market has begun to slow up, and the feeling seems to be that the crop has been considerably oversold up to the present, and that a very much larger proportion of the crop has gone to market than in any former year. European stocks and those afloat for the foreign market have always in- creased from three to five millions dur- *` ing the month of October, bat during last month they fell off 232.000 bushels, a strengthening factor which has more than counterbalanced the effects of the heavy increase in the visible supply on this continent. Wheat is much stronger in England than last week, and the reports are he fa orable de- cidedly more to grower. t v Chicago markets closed very firm, and a Decided turn for the better has evidently set in. Manitobewheat at Fort William is in good demand and at from a cent to 1t cents better than a week.ago. Local markets are assuming a much stronger tone and we may reasonably look to a change for the better during the incoming week. Red winter and white wheat have been selling at 51 and 58 cents respectively by standard and at proportionate figures outside. We do not see any particular reason for rushing much wheat upon the market. Barley is in good demand and atbetter prices than our last quotation, and there is no very immediate cause of alarm, but there are grave fears expressed in some quarters as to the probability of the duty being again 'changed by the American Government by way of reprisal for the obnoxious duty on log booms. Should serious complications arise over this it will have the effect of destroying once more the trade in this cereal which since the tariff reduction has begun to assume its former shape. The home demand is very fair and the offerings haye not been so heavy as to affect the •prices, Toronto Flees range from 40 to 44 cents, and out- side from 88 to 42, Oats are steady, and those is little or no change to note since our last report. Toronto prices range from 30 to B0i. cents, Peas have steadily held their pride for the entire week on the Liverpool market, and the feeling is that for the present there is not much cleanse for a change either for the better or worse. English and American markets closed firm. Despite the lowness of other meats, pork seems to hold its place in the favor of the English people, and there is no doubt but that it will eventually feel the effects of the terrible depression in beef and mutton. We would certainly not advise the holding of hogs, which are ready to kill, under the impression that they will be worth more money. HERE AND THERE. The most polished gentlemen are some- times rather dull. xxx Mr. Pants lived in Logan County, Kan,, and not in Boston. X X x When a fashion is "all the go" it has " come to stay." Xxxi The best uncle is the ono who never married, The best aunt is the one who did,' xXX; The omen who calls himself an idiot will never forgive another for agreeing with him x x x; It's a poor kind of politeness that won't work as well in a street car as in a draw- ing -room. xxx A. Philadelphia dealer in antiquities a:d- vertices for sale & revolver usedby Julius Casser. xxx There is seldom a day passes but a bicycle record is broken and a polar ex pediticn returns. xxx China cannot be said to bepainted red, although there is no doubt it is pretty well japanned. xxx A fast young man doesn't always ad- vance rapidly in business. xxx' A man seems 'wisest '0 himself at seventeen, to, others at sixty. xxx The bear can never see the use of a high fence around a pig pen. • ExxX Hell's pavement of good intentions is usually laid with a spirit level. xxx Any crank can lay ideas, but it takes a level-headed man to hatch 'em. xxx Orange diet is said to be a very effec- tive' remedy for inebrity. One orange before breakfast, another at 11 a,m., 8 p. m. and 7 p,m.., with one justbefore re- tiring, is the proper dose. xxx In Switzerland there is 1,064 men to 1,000 women; in Greece, 938 men to 1,000 women. In Hong Kong, according to an authority, there are only 866 wo- men to 1,000 men. X X X �, It is said that 600,000,000 fish of vari- ous kinds have been hatched and loosed un+ier the auspices of the United States Fish Commission. xxx Oh, merchant, in thy hour of e e e, If on this paper you should c e c Take our advice and thrice be y y y, Go straightway out and advert lit; You'll dud the project of some a u u, Neglect can offer no ex q q q Be wise at ince, prolong your da a a a, A silent business soon de kk k The above appeared—with one or two slight alterations—in one of our ex- changes last week. It may be a little difficult to the uninitiated to make it rhyme right ; but stick to awed. you will soon grasp the meaning the writer in- tended to convey when he penned it. Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable. Dis- covery has worked wonders for dyspep- tics, and we don't think there is a case of Dyspepsia to be found that it will not cure if the directions are followed. Mr. C. E. Williams: Druggist, Wingham, says : " The Vegetable Discovery is selling well. and I know of one bad case of Dys- pepsia that it has completely cured." For Worse,. He was in a brown study. He was so green in matters of the heart that he feels blue. He gazes sadly at the fire and works his think machine at the rate of six miles. an. hour. The storm beating furiously against the window pane tells him that he is re- jected. The 'wind shrieking through the trees with technical names in Central Park tells him that he is rejected. Even the sputtering fire tells him that she is none of his. His bull -dog, with one eye at the oculist's and most of his Melon the dis- secting table, growls that he is rejected. But he knows that they one 'and all prevaricate. Such is not the cause of his melan- choly. On the contrary, he is accepted—and she has just confessed that she is an adopted daughter, and that on the oc- casion of her matrimony she will not im ati on , share in the p y PARMELEE'S PILLS possess the power of acting specifically upon the diseased or - gams, stimulating to action the dormant energies of the system, thereby removing disease. In fact, so greet is the power of this medicine to cleanse and purify, that diseases of almost every name and nature are driven from the body. Mr. D. Cars- well, Carswell. P.O., Ont., writes s " I have tried Parmelee's Pills and find them an excellent medicine, and one that will sell well." John Jacob Astor recently purchased. two pieces of propertyadjoiningg his home in New York for $160,000. The houses on thein, said to be very handsome brownstone ones, are to be torn down to make a tennis court. Pale sickly children should Ilse Mother Graves Worm Exterminator, Worms are one of the principal causes: of suffer- ingin children and should be expelled from the system, There are Dight colored physicians in .Baltimore, NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS TUE WEDS' i(Ai'i'ENINb"rS, interesting hemi and Incidents, Import- ant and Instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces. 'Whitby's tax rate is 28a mills, Ther.eis good sleigbing in Winnipeg. Small -pox is increasing near Windsor. Belleville citizens are €asking for a free library. Diphtheria oases continue to increase in Ottawa, Burford village now has a Mechanics' Institute. .A, local Single Tax Association has been formed in London. Tuberculosis is prevalent among cattle on Vaneouvor Island. Yaniaska, Quebec, was shaken by an earthquake on Sunday night. Agricultural teaching is to be introduc- ed in the schools of Manitoba. Thomas Webster killed Wm. Bole in a quarrel over a girl at Birtle, Man. The fire losses in London during the past nine months only aggregate $18,000. A heavy northwest gale and intense cold prevailed at Port Arthur on Satur- day. Whitby harbor was frozen over on Sunday, being the earliest for some years. T. R. Parker has been elected presi- dent of the Children's Aid Society of London. Mr. Ball, Q.C.; of Woodstock, was severely injured' by falling from the verandah of his house. James Beatty has been acquitted at Brandon of the charge of shooting his wife with intent to kill.. The custom collections at London for October were $31,481. For October, '98, they amounted to $88,618. No bill has been returned 'against . Ed- ward Knoff, at Winnipeg, on the charge of murdering John Wilson. Mr. Hiram Walker, of Walkerville. proposes to erect a large creamery and cheese factory near that town. The T., H. and B. has made a satisfac- tory arrangement with the Grand Trunk to run under its tracks at Cainsville. The officers of the Kingston Peniten- tiary have not heard anything about Angus Macdonald, who escapedrecently. Mx. NV. Gerald has been appointed to report on the system of grain inspection on behalf of tau Dominion Government. The Town Council of Niagara Falls, Ont., has -decided to spend $2,200 in add- ing new departments to the high school there. The Buffalo Courier states that the Canadian Pacific has completed plans for itt branch across the Niagara River into that city. • Dr. McGannon, of Brockville, died in Montreal. He went there to have an operation performed, but did not live through it. The horse of Mr. James Scott, under- taker, of Stroud, ran away, and he was thrown out of his buggy on his head and instantly killed. The Montreal Street Railway Com- pany's new building collapsed Friday, burying several men. Two have been taken out dead. Argument was finished in the disputed eccounts case between the Provinces and the Dominion in the Supreme Court and. judgment reserved. In the Government's ease against Emanuel St. Louis at Montreal only in- formal evidence was taken, and the mat- ter was adjourned for a week. Sir Charles Tupper delivered the prin- cipal address at the annual meeting of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in Edinburgh Monday evening. The Manitoba school case will again come before the Privy Cauncil shortly. Mr. Ewart, solicitor for the Catholics, leaves for England in a few days. r (In a fit of epileptic insanity, John $overs, of London Township, on Sunday hanged himself, but through the vigil- anee of his wife his life was saved. The import freight from Montreal dur- ing the present navigation season has shown a decided falling off, while the ex- port of cattle has greatly increased. The jury in the Westwood case at Parkdale returned a verdict Monday night that Frank Westwood came to his death from a bullet fired by an unknown person. The Government inspectors of live stock at Montreal estimate that over $5,- 000,000 ha§ been paid to Canadian farm- ers the past season for cattle exported to he old country. The Dominion revenue for the four months ending October 31 is less by $1,587,000 than for the corresponding period. of 1893. The expenditure has in- creased over $800,000. Col. Fred. Massey, of the Gurney - Massey Company, has been nominated for president of the Dominion Commer- cial Travellers' Association. His oppon- ent is Mr. J. H. Morin. Michael Cavanagh, a laborer, who has been working in Windsor, Ont., has fal- len heir to a $30,000 fortune in Galt. Chief of Police Wills, of Windsor, loaned him enough money to get to Galt. At Brampton Judge McGibbon gave his decision in the Giles pool -room case, finding the defendant guilty of keeping a betting house at Port Credit, One point is reserved, to be argued before the Superior •Court. At Yamaska, Que., at 11.40 o'clock on. Sunday night, an earthquake shock was felt, which shook things quite violently for about ten seconds, and was accom- panied by a low,, rumbling sound, which appeared to travel from west to east. Mr. James 'McLerie, freight agent of the Grand Trunk. Railway in Hamilton for the last twelve years, was presented with a purse of $400 and a gold chain and locket by the business men of the city on the occasion of his removal to Buffalo. At the investigation into the cause of the collapse of tho Montreal Street Rail- way building, Mr. E. C. Hopkins gave evidence tending to show that the devia- tions from specifications of the Dominion Bridge & Iron Company were responsible for the accident. A by-law for the ringing of the curfew bell has been confirmed by the pity Council of Kingston, It will have the' effect of malting boys and girls under fifteen yeare keep good bou.rs, Ttt the winter the boll, will be rung at 8 o'clock. in the evening and in the summer at 9 o'clock. Children found en the streets for pleasure after this hour will he locked up, On Saturday Walter Cooper and John McDermott, charged with robbing the mails, were brought before Judge Price at Kingston for election, Cooper refused to elect in the absence of his counsel, McDermott asked to be tried before a jury. Mr. J. McIntyre, Q.C., asked for bail on behalf of McDermott. The ap- plication was granted and the bail fixed et $6,000, with two sureties of 83,000 each. The counsel for the prosecution wanted the bail fixed at $10,000.. Mr. John McNulty, a millwright, de- serted his wife and family at Sharbot Lake and ran away with a handsome maiden, Miss McCue. He was surprised at Jefferson, N.Y.; with Miss McCue by his wife and five children. In the pres- ence of the company he admitted that the woman who visited him with a police officer was his wile. A settlement was effected by the wife refusing to push the charge of bigamy against him. She said she had made a living for her family for nine years, and could continue to do 90. She is a resident of Kingston. PROVINCIAL APPOINTMENTS. Dr. Joseph' Octave Resume of Windsor has been appointed an associate coroner for Essex in the room and stead of Dr. Onesime Langlois, deceased. Mr, James Edward Day, solicitor, of Toronto, has been appointed a notary public. Under the provisions of the Division Courts, James McLaren of Fort 'William has been appointed bailiff of the First and Second Division Courts of the district of Thunder Bay, in the room and stead of James Alexander. James E, Mulligan of North Bay has been appointed bailiff of the Third Division Court of Nipiseing, in the room and stead of Charles La- marche, resigned. Daniel Sinclair of Essex has been appointed bailiff of the Eighth Division Court of the County of Essex, in the room and stead of Richard E. Millard, deceased. • PRISON STATISTICS FOR NOVEMBER. During the month there were dis- charged Trona the Central ,prison 51 prisoners. Of these 81 were Canadians, 9 English, 8 Americans, 7 Irish, 1 Scotch. The discharged were convicted for the following offences : Against the person, 12 ; against property, 38 ; drunkenness end disorderly conduct, 1. From the jail there were 67 discbarged ; 55 males and 12 females. Of these 27 were con- victed for the first time, and 40 more than once. There were 16 eases of drunken- ness. The Prisoners' Aid Association as- sisted after their discharge 21, from the Central prison 12, and from the jail 5. During the month the agent had 180 personal interviews with prisoners in the jail or Central prison. The Central prison night school (secular) is now con- ducted four nights a week. The average attendance of juniors and seniors for last month was 68, Street Car Accident. Mr. Thomas Sabin says : " My eleven - year -old boy had his foot badly injured by being run over by a car on the Street Railway. We at once commenced bath- ing the foot with DR. THOMAS' ELECTRIC OIL, when the discoloration and swelling was removed, and in nine days he could use his foot. We always keep a bottle in the house ready for any emergency." The Bitterness of Bed. To drink and play the night through, and become, with no interval of oblivion, a sober and respectable unit in the morn- ing had its charms for boyhood. To reconcile yourself to sleeplessness and read or write till they call you to break- fast has a tolerably sustaining air of manly determination and triumph over brute. But to go to the longed -for bed stupid with sleep, feel sleep coming over you speedily, and never sleep at all—that is the torture of the gods. You light the gas and open the book you took to bed from habit. But fatigue has deprived you of emotional appreciation ; you have no sympathetic terror as you read De Quincey's dreams, or, if you go to the other pole, no delighted chuckle for Jane Austen's irony. Tho more common place matter is, however, your better friend, and you close your eyes and have a brief half dream of yourself snubbing the colossalsnobbery of Emma. Encouraged., you turn to the gas, compose yourself carefully, and are fully conscious once more. . . At this stage you fancy for yourself a superiority. over the healthy, snoring boors you imagine at rest elsewhere. Then questioning if the unwholesomely abnormal be finer than the common state, you are led to philo- sophizing on the relation of genius to madness, until you feel that a devil in your head has tied a rope round your brain and is pulling steadily. Will your constant sleeplessness end in madness or an early death? You take a dose, but your mind is stronger than that amount of chloral tho doctor allows you, and the conviction is despair. But gradually you begin again to entertain dreams, hundreds of them in maddening succes- sion. One moment you are dreaming, the next you are reasoning on the dream's history. The growing light through the curtains serenely reproaches you. At last you sleep for an hour, then healthy humanity is on your nerves again, and you join it with a dazed un- derstanding and dim perceptions. Your mother, and your sisters, and your wife, they are people in a dream country, um til the gods cease their torture and will let you sleep. Holloway's Corn Cure is a specific for the removal of corns and warts, We have never heard of itsfailing to re- move even tate worst kind. All Hope Lost. Margaret, aged seven, is afflicted with embonpoint. She is, in fact, so stout that she can hardly play with other girls of her age, because of the sharpness of her remarks and the shortness of her own breath. Margery, having not yet learn- ed that even the gods fight not against necessity, is therefore inclined trebel against She deoree of fate, and even 'to murmur a little in her prayers. But be- ing a pious child, she is accustomed to read the Bible and apply its maxims to her daily life. One day this week, after spending a whole hour over a single chapter, she came to her mother and an - =uncoil with a, sigh that she thought she couldn't pray any more to be thin. "But why ?" queried nes mother.• "Cause God won't like it," responded Mar ery. "ut why won't he like it?" "Why, on't you know? Whon He was awful generous He promised the chil- dren of Israel that they should be blessed with fatness." J FROM 1 UNITED Ti 7D 1, �E � I I, STATES I',A.T S )O11W'GS ACROSS TICE Uncle Sani's Broad Acres Varnish Quite a Pew Small Items that are Worth a Careful Beading. In New York hive cases of smallpox are reported. A Chicago despatch says the sugar trade is booming, .A. great international fair was opened at Los Angeles, Cal., on. Saturday even- ing. Tho National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio, was insil robbedver. on Thursday night of $500 Forest Ares in West Tennessee have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property. All the Hebrew hatrnakers of New York City have returned to work at the old. 'wages. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst has been made a member of the Union League Club in New York, The advance guard of negro emigrants for Liberia, Africa, has started from Bir- mingham, Ala. Michael Dwyer, the New York horse- man, is said to have won 880,00 on Tuesday's election. There is talk now of investigating the Chicago police because of lawlessness during the election. Owing to lack of money about 500 of- ficers of f-ficersof the police department of Chicago are to be discharged. It is said the United States Government will ab once ask New York bankers for another loan of $50,000,000. The athletic eounoil of Cornell Uni- versity hasdeeidcdto send a crew to com- pete in the Henley regatta in London next Juno. James J. Corbett's nn ilistie champion belt is reported to have been stolen from a store in Davenport, Iowa, v here it was on exhibition. Mr. Levi P. Merton, Governor -elect of New York State, spent $19,700 in the election, according to re statement fyled by his private secretary. A lion is at large near Washington Court House, Ohio; and the people are in a state of fright. The beast is supposed to have escaped from a circus. President Cleveland has decided to call for tenders for another issue of bonds to the amount of fifty millions for the pur- pose of replenishing the gold reserve. The new steamship St. Louis was lauaiched from Cramp's shipyard inPhila- delphia Monday. Mrs. Cleveland did the christening in the presence of 50,000 people. • Wilbur Robinson andFrank Seiler,two prominent and well-to-do young men of Niles, Mich., bave been arrested charged with burglary. Their arrest has caused a sensation. Attorney -General. Patterson, of Ten- nessee, has filed suit in the Circuit Court against six members of the cotton trust, asking to have their charters forfeited, for forcing down the price of cotton seed. At the meeting of the Central Labor Union in Buffalo Stuart Reid, its presi- dent, resigned owing to the attacks made on him in consequence of his alleged membership in the American Protective Association. Theodore Davis, the war artist and the designer of the celebrated White House dinner -set during the Hayes Administra- tion, died on Saturday at Asbury Park, N.J., of Bright's disease. He was fifty- four years old. Governor Flower expresses a willing- ness to allow eai,rrts to make a test to ascertain whether a man killed in the electric chair can be resuscitated. The Westinghouse people declare that men electrocuted were not killed in. the chair, but that the subsequent autopsy made death sure. The United States Government Com- mittee's report on the great railroad strike has boon =sae public at Chicago. The commissioners blame the Managers' Association as well as the A . R. U., and endorse the calling out of the federal troops to quell disorder. The first elections under tb.eRepublican Government took place recently in Ha- waii. Every candidate was pledged to support annexation to the United States to the exclusion of all other matters. Only one man ran against the Govern- mentticket, and he was defeated. ;Al'„ QUEEREBI5T. One of the most remarkable bets that were made on the result of the recent election in New York State was that be- tween two citizens of Binghamton, N.Y. The wager was offered of $100 to one cent that Morton would defeat Hill, with this previso, that for every vote Morton received in excess of Hill. the Democrat should pay one cent to the Republican. Thus, if Morton were elected by 10,000 plurality, the loser would pay $100, but as Morton's plurality is nowover150,000, the Democrat stands to lose over $1,000. The $100 and the one cent were put up, and the winner insists upon exacting the full conditions of the wager. • So rapidly does lung irritation spread and deepen, that often in a few weeks a simple cough culminates in tubercular consumption. Give heed to a cough, there is always danger in delay, get a bottle of Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syr- up, and cure yourself. It is a medicine unsurpassed for all throat and lung troubles. It is eom ounded from several herbs, each one of which stands at the head of the list as exerting a wonderful influence in oaring consumption and all Bing diseases. All About Phosphorous. Phosphorous is one of the most potent life-giving principles, and it is found abundantly in the Norwegian Cod Liver. Combined with hypophosphites of lime and soda, it 'forms the most wonderful blood.creator known to science. M'iller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil produced from the Norwegian fish is the finest prepara- tion of this oil in the world. Its flesh and blood producing qualities enables the sufferer to gain the mastery over con- sumption. and commence a new life under higher physical conditions. Miller's Emulsion is the great .nerve strengthener and blood maker, and cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis? Scrofula and all Lang affections. In Big Bottles, 50e, and $1, at all Drug Stores. 'phe taaiiufaetured product of Great Britain amounts to abott$4,100,000,000 a year, A VICTOIRIA CO M) EACLE. THE STOIra OP' AN EX -REEVE 01? CARDEN"TOWN SIII> w; Seventeen Bears of Intense Sufi'oring from Rheumatism-•.I'.oc l Physi- cians; apciz Treatment hi Toronto General' 'Soepitai Failed to help brim — How: Ile was Restored to Health andCA.etivity. From the Lindsay Post. There are few men better knots n in Victoria oou.t:ty than Mr. Richard Fitz- gerald, who was one of the fist settlers of the township of Carden. He was elect- ed tothe honorable position of reeve of that township for twelve successive years, and filled the position with so much ac- ceptance to the people that he was press- ed to continue the office for &longer time, but was compelled to decline the honor. It therefore.goes without saying that M'. Fitzgerald is not only known to all the residents of the township, but that his word is considered by those 'who know him to be as good as his bond, and that upon anything be may say the most im plieit eonfidence may be placed, When young, a stronger or more hearty man could not be found, but pos- sessed of an iron constitution, he olid what too many are prone to do, negiect- ed his health and exposed himself to all sorts of weather, often. in the pursuit of his calling as a farmer, being wet to the skin for hours at a time. A little over seventeen years ago he found that he had contracted rheumatism of muscular form, and each succeeding day found him in a worse condition. Ple applied to the local doctors in his neighborhood, but received no relief, and was then induced by them to apply for admission to the general hospital at Toronto for treat- ment, and was in that institution for several months, until he became dis- heartened at the want of success attend- ing his treatment and returned home, as was thought to die. By this time the muscles of his body had become so con- tracted that he could not straighten his limbs, and was forced to spend the great- er part of his time in bed, and when able, to get around at all it was only with the aid of a stout pair of crutches. When he attempted to raise to his feet his legs wou]dcrack at the knees like sticks of wood, caused, as the doctors told him, by the fluid in the joints being completely dried up. He was constipated to a fear- ful degree. When he retired at night there was not sufficient blood in his awns to keep him from feeling intensely cold, and in order to ' keep him warm bis daughter knitted him woolen leggings and lined them with soft wool. Several times his family, a portion of whom re- side in Michigan, were summoned. home to see their father for the last time, as he sias thought to be on his death -bed. P - molly, after suffering as much bodily pain as would have killed an ordinary man, and at a time when he had not set his foot on. the ground for a year, he was in- duced by his son to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial, as he had heard of the many remarkable cures made by that remedy. It was after much persuasion that he was induced to give them a trial, as he had then spent a smallfortune in medicines and different modes cf treat- ment under which he had steadily grown worse, and h. had despaired ox finding anything that would help him. At la et he began the use of the Pink Pills and had not taken them long before be began to notice a decided improvement in his condition. Continuing their usehe found he could get around much better than he had been able to do at any time formally years, and after a still further use of Pink and he was entirely relieved feem all rheumatic pains, and is now a 'wonder to himself and all who knew him. Mr. Fitzgerald is now 70 years of age, is able to walk to Kirkfield every, day and is enjoying better health than he has had since he was first affected. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a perfect blood builder and nerve restorer, curing such diseases as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration and the tired ieeling there- from, the after effects of la grippe, dis- eases depending upon humors in the Mood, such as scrofula, chrome erysipe- las, etc. Pink Pills give a healthy glow to pale and sallow complexions, and are a specific for. troubles peculiar to the feucale system, and in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of any nature. Dr. Willian, s' Pink Pills may, be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company Brock- ville, Ontario, or Schenectady, N.Y,, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment compara- tively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. TIIEATJiI.CAL GOODS. 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