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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-6-7, Page 2Subscribers who do not receive) their paper tee:eller). r will please notify ista at ace. Oat at the office for aevertiolue rates DIE EXETER ADVOCATE TRuBsDA.Y, JUNE 6, 1895. Week's Commercial Summary. s.ngular, not to say puzzling, eon- ditioxi of affairs exists in the lumber trade at the moment, There is a sort of pause not that any one has fear of values receding, the f . oelinee Ar is an enough, but that the iinprOved activity in other merchandise either in the States oe °anode has not reeohed the lumber trade, and consequently there is bat little doing....A. good deal Of buildinge is going on in American fties, and here and there in the manufacturing districts quite a 'boom' is announced in certain kinds of goods, but lumber dealers are not busy, or if so, their activity has not ex - heated their stake or mused them to look abroad for pine stook. Wholesale trade at Toronto is in a sat- isfactory shape. The Volume of business is increasing, and prices :generally are firm. The hopeful feeling previously noted continues, and. the weather is more favorable. There were renorts of damage to fruits and grain by the frost early in the -week, but the injury sastained by grain is likely to be small indeed. Wheat is a very hardy plant, and. at this season of the year is not far enough advanced. to hurt much. There was a large decrease in the num- ber of failures in the Domitlion last week. There were only 21. as against 87 the previous week, and 80 in the same week of a year ago. Ontario had 11, a decrease of five, none of -which were of any com- mercial importance. There were only fotu: reported from Quebec, a decrease of nine irom the previous week. Nova Scotia had five, an miussually large number for that province, and British Columbia one. N -o failures in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba last week. If wheat has been so greatly injured. by the snows and frosts in 111ay that the sud- den riee of 12 cents in two weeks is justi- fied, tho calamity will affect all business prospects. The markets do not believe it, for stocks do not collapse, iron, leather and. hides still rise, and no holder of wheat wou14sell at 80 cents,a lower price than had been known at the season ior thirty years prior to 1898, if ctuwene re- pute were credited. Here and There. The number of men out of work this winter is far less than it was e year ago. There has been iao public appeal for gi- gantic assistance. x x x The japanese soldiers are certainly in- dustrious. They find a new fort to take every day or two, and they take it, too. x x x People get wisdom by experience. A man never wakes up his second baby to see it laugh. x x x Wooden pipes are used by the water - work e of Denver. They range from thirty to forty-eight inches in &meter, and are made of Texas pine staves, band- ed with iron. x x x Too ranch use of the opera glass is one reason why so many city women of fash- ion have bad eyes, and must deform themselves with eye glasses—so says an x x x If things go on much longer, we'll all be hypnotized by the incessant babble about hypnotism. x A man may not like the fashion of his nose, although he follows it. x x x This winter fightin.g on an enemy's storm -bound coast gives the world new and cogent proof of Japan's vigor and tenacity. x x x The Japanese, fighting vigorously with the raerenry thirteen degrees below zero, take rank among the world's hardiest soldiers. x x x It is no uncommon thing to see strap- ping fellows in our street cars. One way out; Sweet Girl—"Oh, papa, I have found. a way for yon to escape the income Father—.`Guess not." Sweet Girl—"Yes. T have, You give half your stocks to Mr. Slimpurse, and then Ill marry Mr. Slimpurse, and so all the money will be kept in the family, and the government won't get a cent." He Relented. "Draw !" cried the knight, advancing with hand on sword, "Draw in the name of chivalry 1" He paused. "Craven !" he sneered. His face softened. "Perhaps he can't" he muttered. "Per- haps he's an impressionist." - h e Reason. Cross—I wonder why our friend, Dr. Sawyer, can't get any practice ? He lives in a well-to-do neighborhood, and he really is a most excellent, physician. Bleckwell—He told me that he conldn't wear a silk hat—it always gives him a severe headaehe. A Natural Desire. "Say, my bey, how:old were you when you were married "just tweaty ?" "How aid you come to marry at sucb a tender age 2" "Well, the girl in the case said she preferred to marry me while I was ten- der to waiting until I got tough." Sztane Old Story. your mother Consent, do you think." Angeline—"Yes, I can fix that, 1'11 'get papa to oppose it." A Scandal. One of the departments at Weshingtoie is said to have a terrible sandal on its hands. One of the chiefs must harem for- gotten himself—and worked. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS, THE WEEK'S HAPPENING. nteresteng. Items and Ineidents, im- portant and Instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces. Dresden has a cycling parson. Oollingwood taxes oirouses $20.). Baton has a good minstrel troup. brewery is being erected at Perth. Victoria Harbour has a lacrosse club. A hunt dub is to be formed in Berrie, Belleville needs more school accom- modation. . The Port Elgin brash factory is to be .old Collingwood. will celebrate the 12th of July. Penetangaishene is to have a new paper. A. new school is to be established at Bunyan. The surplus o fOttawa's winter carnival is $1,150. Guelph printers have organized a base- ball club. The Salvation Army have opened. out in North Bay. The tax rate at St. Thomas this year is ten mills. The St. Thomas Bicycle Club will build a. new track. , Traanps are seeking work on the Trent Valley canal. Listowel stores close at 7 p. m.., except on Saturdays, Progressive crokinole parties are all the go in Whitby. The 0. T. R. have built a new coal dock at Collingwoocl. .A. beer bottle factory will be establish- ed at 14angton. Petrelea young ladies , are going in for physical c attire. It is ramourecl that Arnprior is to have two more papers. Tilsonburg and. Port Burwell are to be connected by rail, Frogs legs are selling in Ottawa for 15 cents per dozen. .A. co-operative ba,kery is to be estab- lished in Stratford. . Bicycle dabs are being formed in all parts of the country. Carlyon is the name of e new post -office north-east of Uhtoff. Woodstock water -works receipts last year were $13,414.58. The assessors report the population of Brockville to be 9.08, The C. P..8. is building a flour and freight depot at Windsor. It is said that the harbour at Kings- ville is practically useless. Last week oil property worth $25.000 changed hands at Parolee. An extensive evaporating plant will be established at Owen Sound.. The Ingersoll Collegiate Institute young ladies have a baseball club. Woodstock will raise $1,000 in deben- tures for local. improvements. The Kingsville Preserving Oonepan.y's plant has been sold for 86,000. The electrio road between London and Springbank is nearly completed. The trout pond at Locke Springs is to be stocked with 10,s0.1 trout fry. The Pembroke fire brigade will hold a demonstration. on July 19 and. 20. A. steamer this summer wili run be- tween Port Stanley and Montreal. Towns about Toronto are visited by hundreds of wheelmen every Sunday. Prospects for a large crop of wheat throughout Ontario are said to be good. There were only fourteen convictions in Huron county during the last quarter. Renfrew is moving in the direction of securing fifteen acres of land for a park. Ottawa hotel -keepers propose to raise the price of whisky to ten cents a drink. Many farmers are giving up the raising of wheat and going into the dairy base- ness. Exp,?rimentai work at the Guelph Agri- cultural College is being extended. this year. Ten carloads of hops for the English markets were shippe,d from Trenton last week, Belleville declines the offer of the Do- minion Bridge Company to establish its plant there. An anti -tobacco league has been. organ- ized. in connection with the Teeswater Public school. The price of beef cattle in Manitoba has gone ap the past month, and there is a scardty. Owen Sound is thinking about the ap- pointment of a committee to show visi- tors about the place, Pro. Cuff, from Bournemo-uth, Englancl has been engaged as organist of St. George's Church, Goclerich. A new lighthouse has been built by the Victoria Harbor Lumber Company at the edge of the shoal of Burgess Point. .A. farmer delivered a spring lamb in Drayton the other day, just eight weeks old, whieh weighed forty-four pounds. George Jackson, of Peel, had a sink cow and he killed her. When opened a knit- ting needle was found lodged in the heart. It has been decided to unveil the monu- ment: in Montreal to Do Maisonneave, the founder of Montreal, on Dominion day. A St. Catharines,hen laid an egg weigh- ing ftuir ounces, and a few days later another weighing only one-eighth of an 0 11110.0 . 1. August the binder twine faetory at the Kingston Penitentiary will have six hunrirod tons of twine ready for the market. , Miss Lillian LittlelubIes of Hamilton, has received the degree' of "Assodate of the Royal College of Masic," at Kensing- ton., England. Last year bicycles and. tricycles bo the value of 6888,413 were imported into Canada. A tax of 8100,040,41 was col- lated on them. The wife of John Mutrie, of the 12th eoncession of Greenock, has presented her liege lord and master with triplets—two boys and ona girl. Mr. Ed. Thisloyt the well-ltnown G. T. R. low/naive engmeer, of Hamilton, has been appointed Head Verne Warden of Ontario, lit the pleee of the 7114.0 of Hamilton, Three hundred labor inet on Wednesday night and pi against the importation outside on work being done in th etye: The Meech/nal monexm t will 0 1 n - veiled in Meares). on the Jth. of uno by the Governor-general,ubw e ister Foster will deliver 04 ora on. ttawa tested a hour Mrs. Crane, Guelph; re odsl9d00111.0111• a suit against hotel-lteepot husband liquor, under the influence oi which he was drowned by falling into e mill -dam. Times are yery lively at Whitney, the new limber poiat on the Ottawa, Aro- prior end Parry Sound 1.•.tilway, Over 100 men. are employed in putting in the machinery of the new mill. . At the laet meeting of the Ha inilton City Connell a motion ness passed, re- cemmeneling a by-law to separate 1 il- lima, pool rooms and bowling alleys from places where liquor is sold. Steps are being taken to provide Owe n Sound with a drY-clock capable of accom- modating the largest, vessels that ran on the great lakes. It will be 480 feet in length, with 10 feet of water on the sills. The leading firm of merchants in Stouffville have inaugaerated cpeite a novel anode of advertising their basiness. They give a first-class concert and present each of their customers with a free 'deka on purchasing 82 worth of goods. The will of the late John Kidd, of Mono Mills, was probated in Peel Surrogate Court. The estate, of which so much has been said is valued at $11,150 in realty and $3,972 in personalty, The widow G ertie was not mentioned in the will A curious feature in connection with the erection of a new wing; to the Pro- testant Hospital at Ottawa as that it will be called after the late John Roberts, who left a bequest with that condition. Yet the largest proportion of the cost some from the bequest of .Allan Gil- MMUS The Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo railway has passed. the Governotent in- spection, and a certificate declaring the line open for traffic was received by the Manager. The excess in the clearings at Winni- peg for the last four weeks amounesd to more than hall* a million dollars over the corresponding period last year. Tak- ing in this week, the increase amounts to 8835,702. The Bev. Dr. Galbraith, of Elm street Methodist church, Toronto, has been of- fered the presidency of the Methodist College of Tokio, Japan, and, in connec- tion therewith, the superintendency of the missions in that country. He declin- ed the offer. Mrs. Anna P. Lovelace, of Buffalo, is seeking a divorce from her husband, James M.. Lovelace a mounted police- man in the North-west of Canada, who has deserted her. The Council of the Board of Trade of Montreal have forwarded to the Domin- ion Government a resolation urging them to endeavor, by conference with the Government of Newfoundland, or by ar- ranging. a conference in London Eng.. between representatives of the imperial Government and delegates from the Cana- dian and Newfoundland Governments, to consummate the Union of Newfoundland. with Canada. FOREIGN. Great Britian, it is reported, has select- ed the Fanning Island route for her mili- tary cable. A. complete statement of the affairs of the Grand. Trunk railway has been for. to the new Board of Directors in London, and it is expected that many economies will be practised. In an engagement between Col. Sando- val's command and the Cuban rebels Jose Marti. the insurgent leader, and twenty of his men were killed. The dignified Mr. Charles Francis Adam bowling alone. on a biciycle is one of the sights of Boston. Lady Mary Hamilton, the daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton, will be the richest heiress in England.. The rentals from her estate already amount to one million dollars a year. Oscar Wilde was found guilty on Sat- urday of indecent practices, and was sentenced to two years hard labome Alfred Taylor who had been previously convicted, was given a similar sentence. The Duke of Cambridge, as Ranger of Hyde park, has given a reluctant consent to the admission into the park of bi- cyclists, but the riders will be only al- lowed to remain there until ten o'clock in the morning. 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 couginthere is always danger in delay, get a bottle of Bickle s Anti -Consumptive Syrup, and cure yourself. It is a medicine unsurpas- sed for all throat and lung troubles,. It is compounded from several herbs, each the of which stands at the head of the list as exerting a wonderful influence in curing consumption and all lung diseases. The total amount realized by the sale of the art treasures of the late Mrs. Lyne Stephens, formerly a well-known French dancer, was seven hundred thou- sand. dollars. Agitation in the world of homospathic medicine has been its very soul of pro- gress, as in politics and religion—the diffi- culties of opinion and the individ ualities of men have been parent to the disagree- ments by which the standard of these bodies have been elevated, So with most of our famous preparations—foremost in illusbration of which truth stands the world. -famous remedy to general debility and langour "Quinine Wine," and evhieh, when obtainable in its genuine strength, is a miraculous creator of appetite, vital- iby and stimulant, to the general fertility of the system. Quinine Wine, and its improvement, has, from the first discovery of the great virtues of Quinine as a medi- cal agent. been. one of the most thoroughly diseased' remedies ever offered to the pablic. It is one of the great tonics and natural life-giving stimulants which the medical profession have been compelled to recognize and prescribe, • Messrs, Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, ha,ve given to the preparation of their pure Quinine Wine the groat care due to their im- portance, and the standard excellence of the article Nthich they offee to the pub- lic) =nes into the inarket purged of all the defects which skillful obsavation and scientific opinion has pointed out in the lese perfect, preparations of the past. All druggists sell, it, e MT UNCLE SAM IS AT,. DOINGS 9YEII THE. UNE. What Our Neighbors Rave Done During ;the Past Week in IlIaking the Ms.. tory of the World. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt has paid 875I- 000 for a fireplace in his Newport rose, (1611'0%.(5'. the first time in the hietory of Ohio women are to be permitted to vote for members of Selma Boards. It is rumoured that John Saab Astor, who has made a beginning, as an author, is ambitious to becoane a playwright. Dr. Oliver Walcott , Gibbs, who has been elected president of • the National Aoademy of Sciences, is 78 years of ago. Theron Clapp and Miss Emma Bechtel, of Wabash, Ind., have juet been married atter an uninterrupted courtship of 81 years. The Rey. Joseph A.. Stephen, of Wash- ington, has been znade private chamber- lain to the Pope, with the title of Mon- signor. Stanford University has socared the valuable private library of the late Prof. Hildebrand, of the Leipzig, Germany, University. The Delaware Legislature, which can grant divoece for 'incompatibility of temper," has now forty-five divora bills on its calendar. The court records of Stafford county Va., date back to 1699. The writing of the oldest document is as distinct as the day it IVLIS traced. The New York charities,conference has decided to make, arrangements for the cultivation of the unoccupied city lots for the benefit of the poor. A. syndicate of New York and Atlantic City capitalists has been formed for the purpose of building an electric railroad irom Atlantic City to, Now York. Capt. Jonathan Pinkham, of Bath, Me., thinks that he is the oldest pilot in active service in New England. Re is only, a few weeks short of 84 years of age. Nary Anderson (Mrs. De Navarro), who has been in poor health for several years, is now said to be looking stronger, and, if possible, 1110111l beautiful than ever. Dr. Jay W. Sever holds the position of associate director Of the Yale gymnasium, bat this does not prevent his being the bitterest foe that college football has. Eight languages are regularly heard in the meetings 02 Chicago local Endeavour Societies—Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, German, Bohemian, Chinese and English. James Whitcomb Riley declines to make any platform engagements for next season. He intends to remain at home and finish a novel on Hoosier life on which he is engaged. One edict night a Lee county (Ga.) farmer, after being away during the evening, returned to the hoase and found cuddled up on the hearth in his room five live wild rabbits. The areny worm has appeared in Ken- tucky ancl many surrounding counties, They are devastating fields- of young corn, and hundreds of plant beds have been literally eaten up, Senator Stewart is spoken of by the Los Angeles Times as the Nevada goat and silver lunatic, and probably the most consummate bore in the United States. °Senate, if not in the whole United States." A.. J. Blackwell, a rich and erratic In- dian, who owns the cities el Blackwell and David City, in the Indian Territory, has decided to build a temple in David City, to cost 8800,000. He wishes in this way to perpetuate the Indian religion. Willard Fountain, which was presented to the city of Chicago by the children of the world's W. C. T. U., was unveiled and dedicated. on Saturday. The fountain cost 821,0./0, and. over 300,000 children, living in Europe and America, contribut- ed to -the fund. William Deemer, the soldier who saved thousands of lives in the Mexican war by: preventing the explosion of a powder mine at Chapaltepec, is living in Bethle- hem. Pa., where he washes windows and polishes door -knobs for a living. He re- ceives a small pension. The United. States Circuit Court has re fused to grant an injunction. restraining a photographer of St. Paul , from selling. photographs of the World's Fairland says that, as a question of law, it doubts the power of the fair managers to grant an exclusive photograph privilege,. Dr. William ELliot, of New Havenewho has just celebrated his 97th birthday, has lived under every president of the United States since .Tohn Adams, and under every Governor of Kentucky, ex- cept the first. He still lives a very active life, and shaves himself twice a week. James Cruickshank, now in his 92nd year a,ncl very deaf, crosses the East River regularly every week day to his down -town office in New York. and stays there usually until the close of banking hours, lunehing at a favorite restau- rant, He sometimes walks across the big bridge. • Joseph Rogers, who died at Santa Cruz, Cal., was for eight months, about 1850, a veritable King of the Cannibal Islands. He was shipwrecked on one of the South' Sea Islands, was also worship- ed by the aborigines, who held a white man in superstitious awe, and he man- aged to escape with difficulty. A recordfor rapid ' Says the Engineering and Mining Journal, "was made by the south works of the Lacksevann a Iron and Steel Company at Scranton for the week ending Mazeh 9. The converting mill made 6, 42 tons of ingots in eleven turns, the south rail rain rolling 5,201 tons of finished rail. Major Jed Hotchkiss, of Virginia, in a balk about the battle of Fredericksburg before the National Geogra,phical Society the other evening, expressed the opinion that the famous stone wall whero the Southern riflemen checked the advance of the Irish Brigade was pro!/ably the scene of the greatest slaughter damg the civil War. Mrs. Jolla J, Underhill,now animate of a home for destitute women and children at Brooklyn, was left 81.00,000 in 1871, and at that time wee a recog- nized society leader. She lost heavily in the panic of 1878, and, being forced into the boarding house business, lost all she had left in the Hotel Regent fire last May, Mr. John C. S. Hatieook, of Haneock, Md., who' has only his left arm to shoot with, his right having boon lost in a arrange meddent, has kilted, this season with his shotgun 200 squirrels, 125 Tab. bits. 217 partridges, 02 pheasants, 28 wild turkeys and 85 woodcook, Of wild duckshe has shot 23 mallards, and 7 redheads. Tho Wimem trial in New York will take place in October. The late Robert Tyler Jones, President Tyler's grandson, had the distinction of iseing the only male child ever born in the White House. A majority of the advisers of the Sul- tan have canselled him to agree to the propositions of the powers regarding re- forms in Armenia, but the Grand 'Vizier opposes these counsels, and his attitude is likely to lead to complications. . The Medinine for Liver and Kidney CorriplaintMr, •Viotor Auger, Ottawa, writes : "I tette greet plasare in recom- mending to tho .generel p ublie Parmelee's Pills, as a care tor Liver and Kidney Com- plaint. I have doctored for the lest three years with leading. phydisians, and have token many medannee which were recommended to me without relief, but rater taking eight of Parmelee'e Pills I was quite relieved, and now I feel as free from the disease as before 1 was trou- bled. Formosa has declared itself a, republic, and this svill add. to the difficulties of the 'Eastern question. As Parmelee's Vegetable Pills contain Mandrake and. Dandelion, they cure Liver and Kidney Complaints with un- erring certainty. They also contain Boots and 1-forb.s which have specific virtues truly wondereul in their action on the sto- mach and bowels. Mr. E. A. Cairnoross, Shakespeare, writes ; "I consider Parma- leee s Pills an excellent remedy for Billions - nese and Derangement of the Liver,having used them myeelf for some time. It is now freely predioted in London political circles that the general elections will be held during. July. The Prince of Wales will give his cus- tomary dinner to the members of the joekey elub on the evening of Deely day. A cerephor famine is threatened as a result of the war between .Japan and China. Sho •id a warm summer bring cholera and dysentery the demand for camphor will be very great, and its price Will increase ebormously. A Life Saved.—Mr. ja.»es Bryson, Cameron., states ; "I was confined to my bed with inflammation of the lungs and was given up by the physicians. A neigh- bor advised me to try Dr. Thomas' Elec- tric Oil, stat,ng that his wife ha,c1 used it for a throat trouble with the hest results, Acting on his advice, I procured the medicine, and less than half a bottle cur- ed me ; I certainly believe it saved nay life. It was with reluctance that I CCM- sented to a trial, ea.( Was reduced to such a state that I doubted the power of any remedy to do ine any good." One of the saddest and most vexatious trials that comes to a girl when she mar- ries is that she has to discharge her mother and depend upon a hired girl. sick Headaches. Is your life a burden to you from Sick Headache ? Dr. Carson's Stomach Bit- ters is the best remedy used for stomach trouble. Send to Allan & Co., 58 Front St. Toronto, Proprietoes, or ask your druggist. 50 cents a bottle. He wouldn't marry her because she had false teeth. But, when. his -wife kept him awake nights with the toothache and neuralgia, he wished he had. Dr. Carson's Cough Drops. Mrs. Henderson 32 Cameron street, Toronto, writes; "I was suffering from pleurisy and bad cough. I was wasted and very weak, having to be propped up in bed. I was told to try Dr. Carson's Cough Drops, Six bottles restored me to perfect health." Price 50 cents. For sale by clruggiets everywhere. Allan s Co., proprietors, 58 Front street, east, Toronto. Japanese stocking are made -with a separate compartment for the big toe. as the fastening of the sandal comes between that and the next. Few working people wear stockings at all. Pectoria, Pectoria, Pectoria. Are you suffering from cough or cold ,on your lungs. Ask yorr druggist for Pectoria,,and take no other. Just try and see for yourself how soon Pectoria will care you. • Send to Allan & Co., 58 Front St., Toronto, Proprieters. 25 cents a bot- tle. when Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them ciatoria. It is noted as curious that the most beautiful girls,and those with the greatest social advantages, more often die old maids than their homely. sisters. THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR MAN OR BEAST. Certain in its effects and never blisters. Read proofs below t . . , . . KENDALL'S SPAWN CURE. Itox 5., Carman, Henderson Co., 11.1., Pals. 24,94. Dr. 10 .0 kotronzi, (.1o. .Dear 51i5 - Please send mo Ono of your Horse noolta 'old oblige. I Intim used a great deal of your ICondal Pc yam Oure With geed enema, it le a wonderful medicine. I once had a Ware that had an (Non I t oily and five bottles mired lier. I keep a bottle oynolgandtraulilythe tithoo.nmi..pontrz. . . . KENDALL'S SPAM DUBE. °karat, Mo., Apr. 3, 'OS.. Or. n. KnanAr,f, Co, Dedr gira—i have used several bottles of your " Korai air§ Spavhn Clare', with much suedes& I think it the best Liniment I over usedRabe rd. Indilect Otte Curb, 'ape Blood finavin and killed two gone SpaWitim. liaVtl reemilmenddd it to several of my fricutis who are much piessod with and lidap 11. ResnectfielF,8., For Sale by on Druggist.% or address Do. Di J. K7?JYD4LJ ODUIPANT, LNOEMUFiGH FALLS, VT. DOMINION PARLIAMENT. FIFTH SESSION —SEVENTH PAHL. 'ANENT, R1013] IMPORTS, Dir. Wallace, in answer to Mr, pavies,. Wel 0,008,792 pounds of rice were import - ea into Canada between july lst, 1894, and Unroll 81st, 1895, and 4,884,74 pounds of riCe, nneleaned, unhulled, or poddy; were imported in the same period. GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS. Mr. Foster, hi renewer to Mr. Devlin, said the Government does not permit per- manent employes, mon as surveyors or civil engineers, to compote with outside - surveyors end engineers'or to swage bit.bit.antracts not Government 'works, TOBACCO DUTY. Mr. Wood, in answer to 111r. Girouard (Two Mountains), said tho amnant of' foi duty colleeted on Canadian teabece for '94 was $19,517. Three hundred and ninety demand nine hundred and forty-six pounds of tobacco WM snbjeoted to duty in 1894. BUDGET DEBATE. Mr. Rider, continuing the. Midget de bate, compared the nuMber of Govern ment employes in 1878 with the number in the Government service in 1894, with a. view of showing that economy was not practised by the present Administration to the same extent as by the Reform Gov - eminent. Mr. Hyde:man reminded the House that he was one of the representatives of a city which was be home of the National Vol- ley, and. a great manufacturing centre. He had seen the benefits that had accrued. from tho National Policy, not only to the citizens of Hamilton, but to tho farmers for twenty miles round, The House would remember the hard Unice that prevailed during the Mackenzie regime, when work- shops were deserted and hundreds and thousands of workingmen were unable to find einnloyment. Row different had been. the condition of things under the National Policy. Industrial establishments sprung into existence, capital was everywhere in- vested, employment was given to aar mechanics, and thousands of dollars were paid. out in wages. He cited instances to show how beneficial that policy had been. to the city of Hamilton. The greater the number of men employed in this country the larger the home market for the farm- ers. The farmers raised a large quantity of perishable articles, which they could. not ship out of this country,and there was tho greater need, therefore, for a home inarkot. He contended that the National Policy had not enriched the manufacturer. at the expense of the farmer; it had bene- fitted both classes equally. A careful esti- mate placed the value of the entire pro- duct of Canadian farmers at $500,000,000, Of which one-tenth was exported; • the: balance was consmned at home, another evidence that the home market was by all odds the most important. What had the' Liberals to offer in place of the present policy/ They had declared for free trade. eseese Oaneclians did not want a repeition of the gloomy scenes of 1878, when their indus- tries were paralysed and the young men of the country had. to go elsewhere in ' search of a livelihood. The policy of keep- ing this country for the Canadians was much more likely to commend itself toq rheir jtalgment. The protective polio* wasione that had tended to the building Up of Canada, and as long as it was adhered* this country could not fail to flourish. f• 14. Mr. Gibson said that after an experience of 25 years in Canada the building tranc was never worse. Men were eat .getting al hour or two of work at the will ofithe contractors. The hon. member for Lain- ilton had taken a corisderahlo credit for the Canadian postal sytem. Did he not know that it was a branch of the United Hngdom SOITIOe and that the United States; had quite as much, to do with its esta,b- lislunent as Canada had? The hon. gen- tleman' had also asked what the Liberal party offered farmers. They offered farm- ers taxes for revenue only, economy in ad- ministration, and no boadling. The Cur- ran bridge matter was again reviewed. It was by reason of such steals,.said the hon. gentleman, that the Minister of Fintince had to go to England to borrow money. Mr. Rosamond thought many hon. gen- tlemen opposite did not understand what the N. P. was. The actual expense to con- sumers under the policy of the Reform Party from 1878 to 1878Was as great as or greater than now, for while the duty was 171-2 per cent. ()nth° average, and was now 25 or 80 per cent., twice as much could now be purchased for a dollar as then. Mr. Davies, criticising some of the ob- servations of the previous speaker, said. the hon. gentleman had made the remark- able admission that, notwithstanding the fact that goods had fallen at least 50 per cent. in value, to use his own figures, the Government's tariff policy was so onerous to the consumer as to compel him to pay the same figure or equivalent to what he did before, and he received no advantage from the cheapening of goods throughout the world. If that were true, said the speaker, it was an acceptance of ono of the, points urged from time to tiine by the Lib- erals against tho National Policy. One of the Main grounds of complaint against the present tariff by those who would re- form it was that, in additimi to the pay-, anent of a larger amount lium wOs 210005- sawy into the treasury, the people wore ob- liged to pay to the manufactheor of home- made goods an enormous sum that never went into the treasury at all. Ho denied having slat( d in any public utterances that a tariff (or rovenue only meant the adop- tion of a system of taxation similar to that. which prevailed in England. He 'then, took up the definition given by the Con- troller of Casten s of the method of raising. a revenue in England, and twitted the, latter with displaying ignorance on the subject. A large proportion of the taxes. which tho hon. gentlemen had said went into the Imperial exchequer were collected. by Imperial officers and. distributed among' the local authorities of Great Britain. The' polity in the North-West Was anderaned. That part of the country had not develop- ed because of unnatural restrictions im- posed on the trade and conameree of the country. If it had not been for the un- natural land laws enforced ageeinst the set- tlers there would have been a half million. people in the North-West. Tho Liberal party eondenined the proteetive policy be- cause it taxed the people $10,000,000 more dirootly than under the Mackenzie Ad- tnInistration. Itinaugurated a carnival of extravagance, and enabled the. Governs enent to fleece the people' by several mail - lions a year, The .National Policy pre- vented the people getting the bouellt of sheap goods produced aro' do