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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-3-25, Page 4THE eXt"ter Abnorate) Chas. H, Sanders, Editor and Prop THURSDAY, March. 25th, 1897 A TAX ON COAL, It is instructive to notice how fertile in excuse supporters of the Laurier Government are for its impending re. version of policy in fiscal matters. Lib_ orals have been taught to lookforfree coal and free no one knows how many :articles. But Mr. Fielding now intends •to put a tax on both hard and soft coal. He will remain a staunch free trader in principle and the imposition of the (duty will cause him agonizing pain, The overpowerinir motive which push- es his free trade sympathies to one side is that of retaliation upon the United States. The Globe's Ottawa correspon- dent announces Mr. Fieldi:ng's policy is tiz to net only retain the Canadian duty on soft coal, but also to impose a duty en hard coal, now free, if the Congress increases the duty on coal," Canada imports from the United States over five million dollars' worth of anthracite coal. "Anyway," continues the corres- pondent, "the Government must dimin- ish the enormous free. Iist under the ex- isting tariff, amonut.ing as it does to nearly 850,000,000." The policy evi. dently is, then, not only to desert the principles of free trade, hut to tax pear - le? everything in sight and make it impossible for even the poor man to con- gratulate himself that his articles of ,greatest need are free from taxation. There is talk of the Ontario govern - meet being asked to bring in legisla- tion directed against departmental stores. It is suggested that some form of taxation might be discovered which would strike at these establishments and make it t unprofitable o carry them en. Legislation of this kind is most dangerous and certain to be futile. Trade must follow its own laws and the stream of its own development. Ariy attempt to check this will in the end be injurious to the community It is im- possible to tell what the complete effects of any alteration in the manner of conducting business will finally be. The first impression is usually partial and quite wrong. The desire to sup- press departmental stores is akin to that old animosity of wage earners to labour-saving machinery. The labour- saving machinery seemed to be throw- ing them out of employment, but the fact is that it has multiplied work and immensely improved the condition of the working classes. mesanamerMaimaMomonam In MacDonald, Manitoba, it is alleg- ed some months ago that there had been extensive ballot box stuffing in the in- terest of Nathaniel Boyd, the Conserva- tive candidate, and those charges were multiplied through the Dominion to show the manner in which, as was . al- leged, that province had been induced to support remedial legislation. The Manitoba government began prosecu tions against the persons charged with fraud and the result is that of all the eases instituted only one conviction was obtained at the assizes. The person found guilty, George Saunders, has ap pealed to the Supreme Court. This is a somewhat inglorious ending to so much violent clamour. The result of the recent prize fight is no doubt gratifying to most people in Canada, who take interest in such matters -Fitzsimmons is a Britisher and his opponent has been boastful Nevertheless it must be admitted that Corbett is not only a brave man but a model of physicial strength and agility, probably the cleverest and most sole's- . tific clera-.tifie boxer in the world. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Paris Review : Barb wire, Judge Jones holds, is not the proper material for a line fence. At Wednesday's Di vision Court, Watson Eliker sued Rich ard Lawson for $60 damage to a mare. The parties live on adjoining farms on lot 1, eon. 1, Blenheim, and on Aug 31, a mare owned by Eliker caught and cut her foot on a. one -strand barb wire fence owned by Lawson. The judge awarded plaietiff 835,70 ruling as above. During the past few days the Code - rich eitizeos' committee has been :busily engaged negotiating with several steamboat lines with a, view to placing a line of really first-elass'boats between Cleveland. and Sault Sce.-Marie, calling at 'Toledo, Detroit, Windsor, Sarnia, Port tIeron Goderich,Kincardine,South- hamptom and all ports on the north channel of the Georgian Bay. A large American gine i8 anxious to secure this route, arid M C. Cameron, M. P,, is ap- plying for permission. Humors, pimples, boils, aro very an- rioyine. They quickly disappear when 'ilia blood is purified by Hood's Sarsa- parilla. • ONLY FOUR SAVED. FRENCH STEAMER SWAMPED OFF CAPE HATTERAS. Hight:I-two Persons on Board -sadness r and Starvation's Fatal Work—Horrors o the Voyage. Now York, .March 20, -,The ]french line steamer, Ville de St. Nazaire, Cap- tain Jacgueneau, which sailed from this port March 0 for the West Indies, faun, dered at sea. • Of her 82. passengers and crew only four are known to be saved. These ar- rived here yesterday on the schooner Hilda, after a week's drifting about the Atlanta in an open boat, during which 9.1 of the 38. occupants went mad or died of starvation. THE SAVED. Those saved were: Berry, inspector of the Compagnie Generale Transl,tlantique; Maine, the ship's doctor, Stouts, third engineer; Tagado, a San Domingan. STATE OP THE SURVIVORS. Mate Collins, of the schooner I-Iilda, now lying at Perth Amboy, was inter - on board that vessel to -day. In telling of the rescue of the survivors of the wrecked steamship St. Nazaire, he said that never in his long experience on the sea had he seen such an awful sight as was presented by the small boat and its oeeupants .when the Hilda came along- side. The four anon alive were trying to stand erect, but their legs refused to sup- port them, and time and again they sank to the bottom of the boat, where four of their companions wero lying cold in death, Not one of them had the strength necessary to catch the. line thrown to them, and not one ooulcl utter a word plainly enough to be understood, The sivall boat containing the survivors, he continued, was sighted at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The schooner, which was then about ten miles off shore in the neigh- borhood of Fenwick Islands, was brought around and dixected towards the boat. A. very high sea was running at the time, and it took aliuost au hour to reach her. After some manoeuvering the Hilda; was brought so close to the small boat that her crew could see its interior. Half standing, half kneeling in her were four Men, hollow -clinked. and wild-eyed. Their lips swoollen and parched, moved slowly, but not a sound came forth, other than a gasp like that coining from the lips of a dying man. Their tongues, cov- ered with sores and clotted Mood! pro- truded froth between their teeth, too much swoollen to be longer retained in their mouths_ Their eyes protruded, as it the men were being choked. On the stern' of the boat sat a man half dressed and apparently laughing. His mouth and eyes wero wide open, and as the boat rose and fell he seemed to nod his head to the men of the Kilda, who leaned over her sides, half afraid to go into the toss- ing craft, On the bottom lay three other men. They rolled about as the waves passed, but none of them rose. They were dead. So was the man who sat on the stern with that ghastly smile on his face --dead from exposure and starvation_ The four live men were insane and weak as men could get who had gone for a week with almost nothing. to eat and no water. They were alive and that was all. The men on the Hilda threw a line to them, and, while it fell over their shoul- ders, none of them had the strength to hold it or tie it around their bodies. So far as they depended on their own efforts safety might have been a thousand miles away. Repeatedly a line was thrown to them, and repeatedly it trailed across their faces while they knelt 'there in the boat, moving their lips, yet unable to move their arms or close their stiffened fingers. Finding that the men in the boat wore helpless, two of the Hilda's crew climbed down her sides, and when a wave lifted the boat within reach step- ped aboard. ;Quickly the four men were passed up to the Hilda's deck. Then the rescuers turned their attention to the man in the stern and the three lying on the bottom. They were all (lead. The bodies wero removed in a few minutes, but none too quickly. The small boat, hurled against'. the Hilda's sides by the waves, was splintered so that it began to leak, and as the two men from the Hilda left it it filled. The bodies were sewed in canvas bags and buried in the sea. Then the Hilda: s crew turned their attention to the four surivvors. Exposure to the salt water had blistered their skin in great blotches, and their hands were raw from pulling at their oars. A little coffee was given to them, and allfour were put to bed. They quickly 'went to sleep, and by the next morning were greatly im- proved. HAMILTON NEWS. Assessor Sutton's Position -A. mysterious Poisoning Case. Harniiton, March 19.—In connection with the deadlock between Mayor Col- quhoun and Assessment Commissioner Hall over the question of re -appointing Mr. F. R. Hutton as assessor, Solicitor MacKeican points out that under the statute the assessor holds office until re- moved by the proper authorities. He does not say who are the proper authorities, but the Mayor and Assessment Commis- sioner having the appointment it is rea- sonable to ea-sonable:to assume they have the power of dismissal. If this view is correct Assessor Hatton will likely be retained. ' William Heatley, hostler at Matthew's livery stable, Market street, who sleeps at the stables at nights, wasfound in an Unconscious conditi"bn early this morning in his bed. He wasremoved to the hos- pital, where emetics were applied, and he recovered. It is thought he was either drugged orpoisoned, but ho has not thrown any light on the question. The Dire Record Montmeal, March 19.-A. fire in Berard & Major's carriage factory on St. Cather- ine street to -night madt n bad 'blaze,but the damage will not amount to over 21,000. The Hull Electric Company has served the Ottawa Electric Company with notice of a clang asking for 220,000 damages for infringment upon the territory rights of the Hull 'company. Ottawa is divided in opinion as to whether the military celebration should take. place on May 24 or on July 21, the diamond jubilee. Sir Richard Cartwright bas promised to talk the matter over with Major-General Gascoigne. Hon. Sidney Fisher announces that the Government has made final. arrangements for the cold storage of butter and other perishable food products which will be shipped weekly on steamships running between, Montreal and Avonmouth, :Lon- don and, Liverpool. File at Clandeboye, Clandeboye, March 22nd. --At two o'eloctc yesterday niarning the stables of William Cunningham, hotel keeper, of this place, were burned to the ground. It is not known how the fire originated, but suspicion attaches toa tramp, who the day previons had been refused quarters in the hotel by the proprietor, andwho, through muttering threats,. had appeared to leave the village. Dancing Killed Her New York, March 20th—Dora Dors- man, 17 years old, died suddenly at her home on -Thursday morning from heart disease, caused by excessive dancing. Dr. Samuel D, Broders refused to give a death certificate, so the coruner was notified. The girl attended a masqucr• ade ball at Tammany Hall Tuesday night. She danced nearly every deuce up to 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, when she complained of feeling ill. Her death followed shortly after. A Village Flooded. Georgetown, Ont., March 21.—There is great excitement in the village of Glen William to day on account of that place 'bens„ completely ;flooded: The recent rains and mild weather broke up the ice on the River Credit very suddenly. This has made a massive dam, just below the village, causing the river co overflow, The main street is a running torrent, and debris of all kinds are .floating along the street. Some houses, are :half filled with water, the inhabitants having vacated them. A Startling Dream New York, March 17.—Mrs. Mary Sunshine's weird dream yesterday more ing saved the lives of her two children of No. 215 Miller avenue, East New York. Mrs, Sunshine saw in a sleep vision her two young daughters lyiug dead in their bed. The mother awoke with a start at 2.80 a. m..and hurried into the adjoining room, where her daughters, Tillie, aged 7, and Frances, aged 9, were asleep. She found them both unconscious, overcome by coal gas. She caught them in her arms and car ried them into another room, and sent for a physician, who, after hours of hard work, revived the children. Perpetual Motion. Mr. Thomas Felly, of Wiarton, claims to have solved the problem of perpetual motion, and informs the Canadian that he has constructed a machine which has now been running for several months, and is capable of producing power. As an evidence of his inven- tive genius, Mr. Kelly promises that he will place the machine on exhibition in The Canadian window in a few days. If Mr. Kelly has really solved the prob. lem, the combined wealth of Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, Rockefetlers and other multi -millionaires will pale into 4nsig- nificance Compared with what such a a discovery will be worth to the world. —Wiarton Canadian. Killed on the Track. St. Thomas, March 22.—The body of John Patterson. a railway employe, was found under a freight train near ,the Grand Trunk station last night, badly mangled, Investigation showed that deceased had been killed by the train some distance away, the body be- ing dragged along Patterson was a married man and leaves, besides his wife, one daughter, Mary, at home, and one son, Rev. A. Patterson, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. Mr. Patterson was a native of Glasgow and had been in Canada 36 years. He was insured in the I. 0. F. for $1,000. Fatal Runaway Stratford, Ont., March MO.—About noon to day an old resident of the city, Mrs Jas. Monteith, met her death in a runaway accident. While crossing Market street, a horse and delivery wagon, belonging to Walsh Bros., dash- ing along without a driver, struck the old lady, bringing her to the ground' and the wheel passed over her body. Medical attendance was speedily at hand, but nothing could be done, and. death ensued in a few minutes. An in- quest will be held. Afterwards the runaway horse turned on to Market street and collided with Warden Mon- teith's rig and overturned it, throwing him out. He hada narrow escape. Geo. Bennett, jun., a Raleigh farmer had a narrow escape from a frightful death. He was running a sawing ma- chine, and, stepping to hear the tumbl, ing rod, the knuckle caught his cloth- ing, and in a second he was whirling round at a frightful rate. Nothing could have saved him had not the red become detached from the engine, when he was liberated from his perilous. position. As it was, his right knee'. was dislocated and his side terribly, bruised. Fast Losing Ground. CI'olx?�,I. Dealers and druggists who, handle and sell common package' • dyes for dyeing are finding out that they are fast losing ground as busthes men. Once a woman is deceived she never, returns to the merchant that caused her loss of time and money. . The dealers who give their customers .Diamond Dyes when dyes are asked for are, the successful and trusted "busi- ness glen in•every part of Canada Diamond Dyes are perfect in color and dyeing power; the onlydyesthat can warrant satisfaction.` Every bu er should see that the mane Yalnond „ :appears on each package handed to there by a dealer, Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union, Co -Operative :Experiments in Ae:ri- culture, ' Upwards of 1000 varieties of farm erops have been tested in the Experi- mental Departments of theiOntario Ag- ricultural College, Guelph, within the past 'eleven years, and six hundred of them have been grown for at least five years in .sue,:ession. Nearly all the Cauadian sorts and several hundred new varieties imported from different parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Austra- lia, and the United Stated have been included in these carefully conducted experiments. Some of the new varie- ties have done exceptionally well and have already been distributed over On- tario, through the medium of the Ex- perimental Uniou,with very gratifying results. The Siberian Cots, liandscheu- ri Barley, Herison Bearded Spring Wheat, and the Cloud's Early Yellow Dent, Mammoth Cuban, Wisconsin Earliest White Dent, and Salter's North Dakota varieties of corn, which are now becoming so popular in Ontario, were imported by the Experimental Depart went and after beiug thoroughly test- ed were distributed in small quantities The present system of co operative experimental work in agriculture was started in 1886 with 60 plots, which were situated on twelve different farms in Ontario, Since that date, however, the work has increased from year to year and in 1896 there were 11,124 plots, which were • situated on 2,260 farms. We are again prepared to dis- tribute material for co operative ex periments with fertilizers, fodder crops, roots, grains, grasses and clovers. In terested persons in Ontario who wish to join in the work, may select any one of the experiments for 1897 and inform the director at once of the choice made. All material will be furnished entirely free of charge to each applicant, but he will be expected to conduct the test ac . cording to the instructions sent with. the seeds, and to report the results of his test as soon as possible after harvest. Liss, OF EXPERO1ENTS FOR 1897. 1. Testing nitrate of soda, superhosphate, niariete of potash, mixture, and no roan- nre with corn. 2 Testing nitrate of soda, superhosphate, muriate of potash, mixture, and no man- ure with mango ids. 9 Testing six leadin varieties FodderCorn. 4 Growing three Leguminous erops for Green Podder. 5 Growing throe mixtures of grain for green fodder, G resting four varieties of grasses for hay. 7 ' " clover for hay. 8 " three " of buck wheat. 1) " four " of sluing wheat. 10 " " " of barley, 11 five " of oats. 12 •,. four. '. " of iloas. 13 " three " of beans, 11 " five " of carrots. 15 " " " ofmangolds. 15 " three " of humps. Material for either No. 1 or Nu. :2 experiment will be sent by express, and for each of the others it will be forwarded by mail. All fertilizers and seeds will be sent in good time for spring seeding, providing the applica- tions are received at an early date. The supply of material being limited, thbse who apply first will be surest of obtainiug the desired outfit. It might be well for each applicant to make o second choice for fear the first could not be granted. Particular varieties need not: be mentioned as all the kiads to be dis- tributed are those which have done ex- ceptionally well upon the trial plots in the Experimental Department. C. A, ZAVSTS, Director: Agricultural College, March 22nd '97 The Latest News in Brief. Windsor peach trees have not suffer ed from frost. A Stratford sport who backed Cor- bett has to saw four cords of wood to pay his bet A very serious water famine exists in central and southern portions of the Island of Jamica. Mr. John Patterson, a Grand Trunk employe at St. Thomas, was run over by a train and killed. 'The writ for the bye -election in Champlain has been issued. Polling takes place on April 7. Willie Little, a Weston bov, slipped off a bridge over the Humber River and was carried away. The Novae Scotia . Legislature has been dissolved, and the general elect- ions ordered for April 20. Safe-crackers stole over 3240 from the T. E. Walkor Company's safe at Hamilton; Monday morning. The ministers are censuring the newspapers at various cities for de- voting too much space to the prizefight. Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were executed at Newport, Ey, on Sat- urday for the murder of Pearl -firma. There are 113 inmates in the county of Waterloo House of Refuge, the larg- est number in the history of the in- stitution. The jury in the Clark election ease at Portage to Prairie disagreed and were discharged. The trial goes oyer to next Assizes.. 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An Echo - phone will be shipped you' (express charges to be paid by the purchaser), and "Leslie's Week- ly" every week for one year, for the remarkab yl low price of $,8.00. The Echophone is run by clock -work. Any child San op orate it One record goes with each machine; extra records, 50 cents each, The phonograph and graphophono cylinders can be, used in this machine. If the talking machiee is not perfectly satisfactory, we will refund You your money. "Leslie's Weekly " is considered the best and most pop• alar illustrated weekly in America. Its subscription price is 24 00 per year, and the Echophone 810 00. Now you wonder. how we can sell both for 88.00. We will tell you. We wart 250,000 subscribers to "Leslie's Weekly." We believe that we caa get them this way. Those who advertise with us when we publish that number of papers will pay for our loss now. Therefore, the number of machines will be limited—" First come, first served," LESLIE'S WEEKLY, 110 Fifth Avenue, New -ork City. A cyclone wrecked the High School beilding at Arlington, Georgia,. Nine of the children were killed and a large number seriously wounded. There were 107 prisoners committed to Bruce' county jail during the year ending Sept 30, 1895, The total cost of maintaining the jail was 88,127,74 The Buffalo bug, or carpet . moth, which caused so much damage through- out the Western Peninsulia last year, has again made its appearance at St, Thomas. The veterans of 1866 of Perth county have formed themselves into an associ- ation with Major G. T. Cooke as presi- dent. The association starts off with a membership of 64. The Rey: Dr. Lyman., ' ,'1�bott, of Brooklyn, will not be alio a id to lecture in the Y. M. C. A. hall in Philadelphia, because he recently threw doubts on the story of Jonah and the whale. Mr. Richard Halford, of Welcome, drove into a stream and was carried away. His horse was drowned, and he was rescued with groat difficulty after being in the water about two hours. Three sheep belonging to Mr, Craw- ford, a farmer near hlinesing, gave birth to four lambs each a few days or twelve altogether. Two belonging to another farmer gave birth to three Serious damage by floods is reported/ at Brantford and Glenwilliems. In the United States vast tracts of country are under water, the loss of Itfe and proper- ty and suffering of the people being ap- palling. At the Lambton Assizes at Sarnia, a man named Wannamaker was found guilty of attempted criminal assault ou a child 8 years of age. He was sen- tenced to five years in the penitentiary for the crime. said. " You never know you have taken a pill till it is all ever." 250. C. T. Hood &. Co., Proprietors, Lowell, Mass. The only pills to take with Hood's sarsaparilla.'. For Infants and Children, Tao fao uimile tigtatun of icet every NkM Dz, The M&&aces Bank. (Chartered by Parliament 1855.) Paid up Capital.......... 82,000,000 Best Fund .............. 1,400,000 Egad office Montreal, F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, Esq., GENERAL MANAGER Monoy advanced t.5 rood Farmer's on their own notes with one or more endorsers at 7 percent per annum. Exeter Branch. Open every lawful day from TO a. m.to 3.p m., Saturdays 10 a, m. to 1 p. m Ageneralbanking business transacted CURRENT HATES allowedfor mon- ey on Deposit Receipts. Savings Bank at a per cent. N. D. HURDON Exeter, Dee. 27, '95. Manager WAITED, ICAN employ five men and three ladies to work at and around home. A good thing, with good salary for pushers. T. R. LINSCOTT, Toronto, Ont THE EQUITABLE SAS tiGS LOAN AND BIJILDIU ASSOCIATION, EX E17ri1AC LOCAL S3OAR19. OFFICERS AND SRECTORS: J. A:Rollins, RI 13,, Pros.; Frank Knight, 1st Vice Pros.• N. D. Hurdon, 2nd 'Tice -Pres, Oh as. Snell., �'r.,T..4v, llawkshaw, Jno. J. Knight, Chas. R. Sanders, Galvin Lutz.; Geo: Te nip, Sec.-Treas.; Sole: Parma ,Y Val outer; -Lewis 7I, Dickson, Solicitor. )for further particulars apply to GEO. KEMP, Exeter, Ont. E IN 10,1 SHOULD TAKE PENNYROYAL WAFERS, T To comet irregularity and weakness, keep tin manes1n healthy omrditluh. The wafor'aara •'Eifo Havels" l ayoung women, aid g,deaful development, provide pain, Iosa,rog�inrperinda. Ask for .vboDetroit, brand.' .e U1 d,•nggIsiv sel14i,em at $1. per box. roLutteric,aeayr rvomcn known, While standing on the landing at the top of the stairs in the Blenheim public school and leaning over the bannister looking down, Willie Tait, the young- est son of James Tait, was rudely push- ed over by some of hie companions, "in fun." .Willie lost his hold and fell 111- teen or. sixteen -feet ori the hard floor beneath, breaking his right wrist and otherwise injuring himself.