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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-3-14, Page 4The Molsons (.01I411TEItten BY FA.ItirtAriviENet 787 Beidem Capital - $2,000,000 neet Fund, - 2.000,000 ea Mee, Montreal.. F. woulutsTANTHOUAS,Ree., GstsIsiten Meenieeat • any ad:trained to good farmers =their *yenned) with one or more enctorser a 7 per *enema annuro. Beater Branch, Open every 14,4111 day, from an. to pan • SAVDBDATS, le man, to 1 p.m alureentrates ot interest alloweLt on deposit E. E. WARD, Manager. Established in i877 S, CVNItaia, BANKER, EXETER, ONT rransacts a generiabankingbusiness. Reoeiyes the Aecounts of Meroliauts and flthers onfavorable terms. Offers every acieseareodation consistent with safe ancloonservative banking principles. Interest snowed on deposits. Drafts issued payable at any °foe° o the MerehantaBank. NOTESDISGOTMTED, and MOB TO Loax err NOTES and. MORTGAGES. NIMPVIIMINCIM Oft xittq 11110, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1805. Queries Will shutting up a Canadian fac- tory and giviag your money to a foreig- ner put money in your purse? Will it make your business grow? Will it cause your town to progress? Will it make you rich? NOTES .AND COMMENTS. In every constituency in Manitoba the Patrons have put up it man. In nearly all cases the Patron candidates are ex -Liberals, and the Free Press points out that Conservatives are going to benefit if the Patrons and Liberals do not soon join forces. IL x x The necessary $2,000, which W. W. Buchanan asked should be guaranteed by his supporters for election expenses, as a condition on which Mr. Buchanan would accept the nomination as prohib- ition candidate in Hamilton for the Dominion Parliament has been sub- scribe lid the campaign is now on. • x x x The statement published last -week to the effect that Mr. V. Ratz, Liberal candidate for North Middlesex, was about to resign in favor of the Patron candidate is denied by Mr. Ratz, who says he is in the field to win. The Patrons ha.ve endeavored to unite forces by asking Mr. Ratz to resign, hence, as matters now stand, there will be three candidates in the field. x x x The opinion held by most farmers is that if their cattle are •Itilled by a rail- way train they can make the company • pay for them.. But. according to sec- tion 2, R. S. 0., and the judgment, of Chief Justice Armour on this point, in case any damage is done to a railway train, to a trolley car, or to an indiv- idual, the owner of the animal is respon- sible, and his estate becomes answer- able for the damage. Aside from the general herd law about cattle running at large, chap, 170, section 103, R. S. 0., distinctly states that no horses, sheep, swine, or other cattle shall be permitted to be at large upon any highway within half a mile of the intersection of • such highway with railway, unless the cattle are in charge of some person or persons to prevent their loitering or stopping on such highway at such intersection, xxx A good deal of adverse comment is being passed upon the 'vote of the Patrons of Industry in the Ontario Parliament on the fee question in re- gard to public officials. The vote of the Patrons went straight with the Gov- ernment for retaining the present fee system. In the abstract the Patrons' vole) may be right, for there is a good deal to be said in favor of a fee system, as against the salary method of paying public officials. Bat this is not the point involved. in this Patron vote. One of the main planks in the platform of the Patrons was to pay all public officials by a. salary, and also to elect rev' tram , sheriffs, jailers, and Division Court clerks by the municipal councils, county or township, or if not this, by a vote of the people. This Patron conception of democracy was borrowed from the other side. Judges, all but the Superior Court, county clerks, reg- • istrars, school inspectora, and the whole range of public officials, run on a political ticket, aad aro elected by the popular vote. The Patron orators who stumpecl the country were strong ad• vocates, not only of decentralizing autocratidgpower in Toronto, with regard to appointing these several officials, but these same men went further in the so called radical referms, and wanted to take the power out of the hands of municipal bodies and have popular suffrage govern in all caSes. The action ef the Patrons in voting the way they did is ans,malous, and to the thinking pub& it calls for an explanation. • THE GOVERNIVIENT'S POL- ICY DeStitiete Nebraskans. • Lleteors, Neb., 1VItireh 10. -In reply • to Lt telegram of inquiry from the Chi - cage Board of Trade,Governor Holcomb • replied as follows ; "The Relief Come Mittee has completed an elaborate corn. pulation of the number of people ie the clrouth stricken distriot unable to procure the necessary feed and seed for the crop seasoa. It shows about 2200 !fireflies to wyiao with seed. About, one-third bf those to be supplied have been reduced to extreme destitution, and are dependent upon charitable do- natteee ie melee to Obtain supplies of • 17 flew tae taberelabave beep. the rari»ern lawman,. Lion, J, 0. Patterson, Mter of Militia, addressed a meeting at Dun - dos reeently and was received most enthusiastically. We here give brief repot of the speech, which was one of the best ever delivered in Canada, on the public questions of the day. The contest in which we are about to engage is one of the most import- ant as regards the future history of Canada, and of the British Empire, in whicle the electorate of this coun- try have ever taken apart. You are called upon by our opponents to eharge the policy under which you have prospered for so many years, although they have nothing tangible to substitute in its place. The leader of the Opposition has recently ad- dressed three great meetings, in the Victoria hall, Montreal; in Massey hall, Toronto; and Sohmer park, Montreal, and he achieved the most wonderf al feat, which has never been rivalled by any man in public life in Canada before, of addressing large audiences on each occasion for about au hour and a half, and while chg.-til- ing his hearers with his eloquent utterances, not committing himself to anything that a public man could place his finger upon and say : "This is Mr. Lameer's policy." lEe told you that he would. never rest until every vestige of protection was swept from this country, and he had re- placed it by What he chooses to style the British system of taxation. Now, what is that system P To put it briefly, that system consists in the imposition of Calderas' 'duties on a few articles which I might briefly enumerate on the fingers of one hand. They are :-Tea, coffee, spirits, sugar, certain spices, and. tobacco. These are the articles upon which England raises a revenue of $100,000,- 000 every year. I ask the yeonlahry do they want a tax placed upon their tea, their coffee, and their sugar ? 1That be- comes of the free breakfast table our Liberal friends talk of giving you? In addition, there is in Great Britain a system of internal taxation. The farmer is taxed if he drives a one- horse or two -horse carriage, and for these he has to take out • a license, which has to be paid for in advance each year. The British farmer is re- quired to take out a license for his dog, and if he owns a gun he bas also to pay a tax upon that. We have a municipal tax upon clogs, but, in ad- dition to that, if we I:adopted the British system here, you would. have to pay a tax levied at Ottawa. Not to proceed. further in, this memorable list of articles, I might say that al - Most everything is taxed. in Great Britain. That -is the system Mr. Laurier wishes to introduce into Canada. We object to that system; we prefer indirect taxation. I main- tain that if the farmerof Canada choose to buy their articles in this country they can live ahnost without any taxation'. 'Yen get your tea, coffee, and sugar for yours breakfast table free. You can get your tweeds and your cottons manufactured in Canada as ,cheaply as in any country in the world; for, as . we foretold when this policy was argued out, competition has brotight down the price. Mr. Laurier would wipe away every vestige of protection, anclleave you naked to your enemies -to an hostile country, as Sir Oliver Mowat styled thepeople of the United States. Mr. Laurier did not talk in that style in past years. Let me read to you what the leader of the Opposit- ion said upon the trade question when he was a member of the Local Legislature in Quebec. These are his words :-"It is humiliating to have to admit that after the existence of three hundred years this country is not able to supply its own wants. Although nature has been marvell- °July prodigal in her gifts, and has done so much to make this a manu- facturing country, we are yet de- pendent on foreign countries. It is our duty to foster our national in- dustries." Five years afterwards, when a member of the Mackenzie Government, be said :--"It is assert- ed by many, and assumed by others, that free trade is a Liberal principle, and protection a Conservative policy, If I were in Great Britain I would be a free trader, but 1 am a Canadian - born and. a resident here, and I think that we require protection. We have within ourselves the ability to create an industry. If it be shown that we cannot maintain it unless by legislation, either in the way of premium, or prohibitory tariff, then 1 should be ready to take that into consideration." That is a very differ- ent story from what Mr. Laurier tells to -day. He desired some few years ago - and some of his followers in , recent meetings in -Western Ontario have held out the hope that it will yet be obtained -reciprocity with theUnitecl States. He tells you that he is in favor of doing away with every ves- tige of.protection; that he is in favor of havmg the English system of tax- ation, and at the same time that he is in favor of reciprocity with the United States. But; how he is going to adopt the English system of tax- ation, which 1 have partially des- cribed to you, and at the same time have reciprocity with the United. States, is something I would. like Mr. Laurier or some of his followers to explain at the next meeting when they have leisure, and an audience is assemblecl to hear them. They have got to march up every year and make an affidavit as to their income and pay it percentage tax on that Mamma. Would you like the income tax adopted in Canada ? You have had it applied in your cities arid towns to professional men and merchants. Have you had a satisfactory return? How are you going to arrive at the 'income of the millionaires and the , moneyed men of the conntry ? Their money is not invested in lands, ex- cept it may be partially. It is in- vested in bank stocks and railway (tracheal) companiesshares. A. man can have in an envelope not larger than that(irelieating, an ordinary - sized. enenlope) it hundred thousand dollars' Worth of securities as good. as the.Bank of Englatal, and the tax eollector would not be able to get at •TETE EXETIosR rtnetterserdsreealoosatvenernreeseseenes..--- it for- the menine tax. How would it affect the farmer$ and the antisen? A. farmer mania hide hie farm in 0, stoviepipe or in it niattrase. . It is conspietumely to be seen, Tholes. is 110 evading the tax for him. The artisan who has hi$ little all invested m a cottage in the. town In which he is employed cannot take in his little eottaese or garden home andbal them in hi0? hat,but the rich luau can evade the tax, and by so doing makes it the heavier on the farmer anti the artisan, Ad this is the system which Mr. Lamier thinks we should adopt in Canada, and which he urges hi glit- tering generalities about free trade and the British systezu of taxation. As I told you, in Great Britain they collect ahandredmilliondolltersayear on articles that come into this coun- try absolateler free, "When Our on- ponents were in power they taxed those articles, They had a tax on sugar, and tea, and rice, and • coffee, which wo have.free to -day. If we had a tax on these articles to -day we Would have a Surplus of $7,000,000 in our treasury. But we have wiped. out that tax and the people have the money instead. To return to the question of Mr. Laurier and free trade. Mr. Laurier has not abandon- ed.the reciprocity cry,and some of the • creak -mien who have been addressing meetings in Western Ontario in his behalf declare thatif they get into pewee they will have a- reciprocity treaty that would humiliate us at the feet of the American people. Let us deal with the subject of reciprocity, and some of you may have seen' my foreeer remarks on this subject quoted recently in th.e -newspapers. The United States, in a fit of pique at the Canadian people after the war, and without any justifiable cause, abro- gated a treaty which they had. enter- ed into some ten or twelve years be- fore. • The then Goverimient of 'Can.- ada, a coalition Government, did all they could to prevent its abrogation, and in that event to restore it. That coalition. Government of which Geo. Brown and John A. Macdonald were prominent xnembere sent .delegations to Washington to remonstrate, and George Brown took the stand then that the United States were not justi- fied in abrogating the treaty, ancl that if they Wanted it treaty they should come. to us and. not us go to thenn He left the Government and endangered the scheme of Confeder- ation rather than rernain ha a Govern- ment that sought to bring ' about re eiprooity with the United States, Ten years later Mr. Mackenzie's Government was in power, and sent 'George Brown as .Ambassador to Washington, and. he, after holding out, innumerable -inducements, and offering to build canals and to give up ourclaimsin the treaty of Wash- ington, from which -we afterwards got $5,000,000 in gold, he, toe, failed.. Mr. Blaine, in the Senate, Made a speech in which he credited the var- ious preceding Governments, Whether coalition or Conservative, with hav- ing done everything in their power to bring about reciprocity. They would not even discuss it M the -Sen- ate, and the dust was allowed. to as - cumulate on the records. For three years after that Mr. Mackenzie and the Reform party were in power, and all they did. in relation to the reciprocity measure may be summed up in .one Or two words. Mr. Mac- kenzie was asked by a supporter in the House what he was going to do abouteatreaty, and he replied that he was going todo nothing more, and that if the American people wanted to revive the question they would have to come to him. Eighteen lines iu the Hansard contains all that the Reform party did when in power in the matter of reciprocity. Sir Riehardearterrightspoke on the sub- ject at a public meeting in Charlotte- town, Pe E. I., and said that if the United States did not choose to have a reciprocity treaty with Canada we could -do without them, .and that we had men' and ships, and Would carry the war into Africa. The Reform party . went out of power, as you are a.ware, 1n1878, on the trade question. Very shortly after that they began to attack the Government which succeeded theme, - the Government of Sir John Macdon- ald -eon the ground that they were not seeking an outlet for our trade. They have always tried to deceive you. They do not tell you the whole truth: The National Policy -and when we speak of the N. P. we do •not mean simply the tariff, which has to be -changed to suit the require- ments and the changes whieh natur- ally occur from year to year in the fiscal conditions -ma. National Policy Made possible the development of. the national spirit' in ..Canada, --the building up of Canada's internal re- sources, the extensiou of Canada's trade to every country, the strength- ening of Canada as an integral • part of the Enipire. That is our National Policy. Now, I may say, recurring again to the subject of reciprocity, that in the tariff which is known as the National Policy tariff two clauses were inserted in which the right hand of fellowship was extended to the American people. In those clauses' we offered them reciprocity in al- most all the natural products if they would by legislation grant us it simil- ar measure of' reciprocity in those articles. But our opponents will not ten you that. They will not tell you. that for 12 or 14 years that, was a standing offer in the statute books of Canada,. Neither will they • tell you that infornaal negotiations were car- ried on with the Washington author- • ities through the .British Minister there, Sir Julian Pauncefote. They also omitto tell you that in 18871 when the Right Hon. Joseph Cham- berlain and Sir Charles Tupper were representing Great Britain and Can- ada at Washington hi connection With the fisheries- dispute, and when a treaty was entered into which Mr. Cleveland at tha time admitted was just, and honourable,negotiations were opened by oar representatives with the United States Government, and they were rejected at every point. Then in 1801 the Right Hon. Sir Sohn Thompson, Mr. George E. Foster, our present Finance Miniger, and our present worthy Premier, Sir Mackenzie 33oweli, Were sent as Arabaesadoes from Canada to,Wash- ington to effect a treaty, and: they: spent some thne there endeavouring to negotiate it treaty theotigh Vita ,LVE El S. Blaine, who was then, •Seeretary of the State, and they failed to succeed, bemuse they could tut obtaiii site - cess without humiliation to Canada, When the Liberals were in power the fitriileril groaned tunler tiattyy butelens, especially in this part of the eountry. 1 can well remember how the farmers dwelling in the section of county -e between the Detroit and r 1\ 'agate rivers had to compete, dur- ing the years of the olcl reciprocity treaty, whieli was abrogated ia 1800, with the products of the American famines, whose harvest was much earlier than ours, and W110 used to send artieles into this coimiey under the treaty, and thus keep dowa the prices of Canadian farm products. They continued. to do this after the abrogation of the treaty without pay- ing duty, but your peoducts could not enter the United States without the payment of cluty upon every ar- ticle. Under the Reform Govern melt the Americans could send. into this country their barley, wheat, oats, beans, peas, rye, buckwheat. India)t corn, oatmeal, rye flour, and corn meal free of duty. But when the products of the Oanadian farmer came to enter the American market they were met with these duties :- Barley, 15 cents pee bushel; wheat, 10 cents per bushel; beans, 15 cents per bushel; oats, peas, and rye, 10 cents per bushel; buckwheat, 10 cents per bushel; Indian corn, 7?, cents per busheleoattneal, 1:,t, cents per pound; wheat flame 50 cents a barrel; rye flour 50 cents a barra; and cornmeal, 10 cents a barrel. These figures may not sound very large, but au average of $15,000,000 were imported from that couutry, and to show you how it figured out, take the last year of Reform Government. In 1878 we sold to the people of the United States $12,000,000 worth of agricul- tural products, and. in order to gain access to their markets to7effect that sale we were taxed $1,000,000. They soldus during thattime $15,000,000 of products, and we taxed them noth- ing. The farmers did not like that, and. a petition, signed by more than 100,000 was sent down to Ottawa praying the Liberal Government to grant what they asked for, and that petition set forth.: "As practical farm- ers, we cannot but view with regret our 'markets filled with American produce, free of duty, while Canad- ian produce' is heavily taxed when sent to the United States markets. Your petitioners respectfully pray for such protection as will secure the home market for the home producer; or that the same rate of duty be lev- ied on all agricultural products com- ing int() the Dominion from foreign countries that is imposed by said foreign countries upon our products." What reply did the members of the Liberal Government make to this? Speaking at Fergus, in July, 1877, the Finance Minister, Sir Richard. Cartwright, pointed out that the proper course for the farmers would be greater frugility andharcler work. What did Mee 1il1s have to say? His statement was :-"During tb.e past four years we have ianported from the'United States cereals to the value of $50,000,000, and we exported there $84,221,020, or we imported in- to Canada $20,822,7;i4 worth more than we exported to that country." Now, Mr. Mills tlid not think the farmers were d.amaged by that, for, he said, the people who clidthe carry- ing trade made money out of it. It was a great comfort for the farmers of Canada. You could have used that excess of $34,000.000 youinaport- ed for a• home market, but Mr. Mills said, although you imported $20,000,- 000 more than you exported, nobody suffered; the carrying trade, the American railways and the American steamboats, benefited; and what did it matter? Now, they were in power, their own supporters persist- ently pointed out to th.em the course they should pursue, and they per- sistently refused to follow it; and I maintain what I have said on other occasions, that they have been the persistent and determined enemies of the Canadian farmers. I am twit- ted by a Toronto newspaper with having made that statement, but here again I repeat it. I do not pre- sume to say that these men have sinned perversely with light and knowledge, but I'do say it they have not so acted they have sinned owing to ignorance, incompetence, indifference, and incapa- city. On the other hand, we reversed that pblicy, and we have protected the Canadian market for the Canadian farmer, and we have developed the channels of trade with different coun- tTo illustrate the development in our foreign trade you need only take the articles of cheese. At one time I re- member when we imported a very large part of it from the United States; and it was a very poor article. In order to encourage the manufacture of it a duty was imposed, and. that industry has prospered untie it has made the name of Canada famous in the markets of the world.. Not only do we now supply our own country with cheese quite good enough for any of us -of course some of those wealthy Reformers may prefer to import Stilton or Cheshire -but we ex. ported last year $13,500,000 worth, and that meant so much in the pockets of every farmer in Canada who supplied milk for the article. To illustrate on similar lines, I may say that in 1880 some of ourtnembers at Ottawa, among whom I have no doubt was my friend, Major Carpenter, waited upon the Government, and pointed out that an enormous, quantity of pork was being brought in from the United Stetes for the convenience of the Canadian lum- berman, and the Government; took prompt measures, and, raised the duty. The consequence was that at the time the request was made, tho quantity being imported was 27,000,000 pounds of pork. in 1801 the import had fallen to 14,000,000 pounda, almost oeci-half. In 1802 ±1 1011 to 11,000,000 pounds, and in 1898 it fell to 4,000,000 pounds, We displaced that by encouraging our Canadian farmer to go into pork raising. We gave them the home market for 23,- 000,000 pounds that had formerly been supplied by the Americans, When the lumbermen sent acrose the line for their pork the money went to Chimp, and when the pork wee eaten neither'inotiey not pools was in Canada. But,in addition, we have- developed an export trade in pork In. 089 ere ex- ported only 4,000,000 pounds, and after the ditty was raisecl we illOnaSed he eXport to 7,000,000 pounds in 1891, to 12,000,000 pounds in 1892, and to 20,- 000,000 poUncls ia 1893. Even _if the price is comparatively low it is betser so, and keeps the money among our Canadian farmers, than send it to Chicago to buy mess pork and help the farmers of illinois and Iowa. While the Tories hin e the same pblioy every- where, Mr. Laurier has ono story in Calgary, another in Freath in Montreel, another in Toronto, and another some- where else. It is a pleasant little song he sings -but it is always a different song This is what Mr. Blake said in Toronto in. 1875; "We should, as far as we legitimately can (1 don't think he was in power then) distribute the taxes so as to give a benefit to our home in- dustry. if not absolutery essential to the greatness ot the people, variety of industryis certainly a great 'help to its growth.', Mr. John. Chariton, whom I look upon as one of the fathers of protection, the one who educated us all in protectionist views, although now described as John Charlton of Michigan said in 1870, when his party was in power :---"I believe the agricultural interests would be benefited by protect- ion. I would make a, market by bring- ing the manufacturer to the door of the farmer. The home market is of great- est value." Not to weary you at muoh further length, I may say that the Government are in favor of free raw material, so that the articles brought in can be manufactured in this country, indus- tries built up in our cities and towns,. anda home market may be developed for our farmers. We are in favor of free necessaries of life which we import from abroad, in contra -distinction to the English system, which imposes a tax upon the former. Our tariff and our policy are not offensive. They are defective. We have no hostility to our American neighbors. We are willing to enter into any fair and reasonable treaty with them, but we are not going to entet into any trade relations which would be humiliating to Canada and in - j erious to the Empire -and I would like to know the loyal Canadian who would wish us to act otherwise. I know there are plenty of loyel Canad- ians in the Reform ranks who are thor- oughly anxious for the welfare of the country, but who are misled and de- ceived by their leaders. We are taunted with our treatment of Mr. Alexander Mackenzie; but our opponents are the men who hounded him. They caucused secretly against him, and deprived him of his leadership. They took up Mr. Blake, and were not loyal to him, and he resigned in a fit of pique, and as a temporary expedient they adopted. Mr. Laurier. Mr. Laurier, then, was only their nominal leader, Mr. Endes Wiman, of Staten Island, N, Y., was their real leader, and went from place to place with crashing of cymbals ad- vueeting commercial union. .But he found the people of Canada would not adopt that policy, and he called it un- restricted reciprocity. Filially they were compelled to adopt :Mr. Laurier out and out, because they could not always get access to the person of Mr. Wiman, owing to circumstances over which he had no control. 1 would say to you be always ready. earnest, and vigilant, and do not be led away by catch cries. If any association of fatmers is formed it is perfectly legi- timate, and I have nothing to say againstit. In conclusion, let me say that while our opponents have always shown themselves hostile to the farm- ers, we have given protection to them, and although last session many reduct- ions in the tariff were made, and many articles were added to the free list, that protection was continued But we do not overlook the interests of the farm- ers. We say that we must help the manufacturers in order to establish a valuable home market for our farmers.. The Union. To the Editor of the Exeter Tillta8. A deputation of the Reformers and Patrons of North Middlesex met at Orediton on March 61h for a debate on the subject of which was the stronger party, it being the opinion of both parties that one candidate should resign in favor of the other, The opinion of prominent Reformers was that the Patron man would be snowed under by a majority of 150 for Ratz, while the Patrons and independeut farmers were of the opinion that Mr. Ratz would do very well if he succeed- ed in getting 150 votes in all. The Patrons ot this riding are determined to keep their man in the field and are not so easily bluffed by hide -bound partizans, who declare they have gone through this riding so very easefully and can tell us what vote each man will receive ; and if the Reformers are of the opinion that their candidate will be the coming M. P., let him run and then we shall see where Mr. Ratz' majority will oorrie from ; but we are afraid he will be with the minority. A PATROL Stephen, March 11, 1895. TO CURBDROPSY. A. NEW TREATMENT THAT DIFFUS PitatlITRE OLD METHODS AND XS INVAIIIABLY Suceinsseure MOINTyRE, Ont,, March 11- -Dropsy is due in the majority of cases to mime die order of the kidneys. .14 is one of the symptoms of Bright'e dieease and indieattea an advanced etitge ot the disease. One reasott why ao maey cases of dropsy proye fatal is that a wrong system of treatment followed. If the cause be removed (he disease will disappear. Make the kidneys all right and dropey will go. This is the plan used by Hugh Lamont of this place in the case of his fourteereyear-old son, who bad dropsy Singe he was an infant. Mr, Lamont gave the boy Todd's Kidney' and he is now. thoroughly eared and etrong and hearty. While no physician or pharmac let can ooriscientiouely warrant a cure, the J. 0, Ayer Co. guarantee the purity, strengtln and medioinal virtues of Ayterf Samna. rills. It was theonly bloodspurifier admitted at the great World'e Fair in 0hieago, 1898, A Letter from Florida, Mo, Eniroa,-Mould you ensign this letter to your purgatorial basket do not ex, pot ono cent from me to have it prayed out, I still give you 09arte blanche" to do with it as seems best in your judgrcent. One of my reasons for writing you ie iny letters gets greater pUblicity among my many friends, and another is, 'tie pleasant to see °net) name in print, .A book is a book altheugh there's nothing in it. You remember 1 said in tbe former letter that this is a very juin), State, and indeed it looks as if Father Atlantio had given it up very relnetsatly, as he has left5 great many souvenirs of his late occupancy in the shape of lakes all ever this land. I cannot say that I get fonder of the people or country, although the climate is certainly glorious. I imppoSe if the frost bad not spoiled the groves and. oranges, my ideas would have been more favorable. But the natives, oh, the nat- ives I they manage to blend their voices and idioms in all that is moat offensive in the style of a New England Yankee and the nigger dialect ol the plantation. His manner is demonstrative, his utterances loud and his self laudation incessant, with little or no ainbition. No wonder he gets the high sounding name of "Cracker." As lo, the poor negro; he also liyes in a hand - to -month way, and you. may rflaily Bee that the frost hes bothered him greatly. Still they aro mueli more cheerful than the whites. Yet the trail of old slavery days is over them all. Neerly all miters prise here (tomes from the North, and they, like the natives, treat the poor blacks badly. Enclosed I stead you a rough map of the aurroundingcountry. You will notioe that Waldo is at the junction ot the Florida Centre]. & Penin. sular railway and may yet be a great railway centre. Although the place looks flat they say it is' one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level. To the east of the town lies (as you will see by the map) a perfect net work of lakes, which gives to the country its significant name of Central Lake region. But a few miles distant is lake Santa. Fee, the lergest lake, and be- tween it and Waldo is lake Alto, con- siderably smaller. The Santa Fee canal runs into and sense lake Alto, and thence into Santa Pee, giving access by a small steamer to one of the finest agricultural sections in the State. The shore line thus reached is some thirty miles in extent, and embraces connection with Melrose at the eastern extremity cf the state'and from thence to Green Covesprings on the great St. John river. Nowhere in the state were there better looking orange groves than could be seen around Waldo. But alas 1 the grandeur of the groves have departed and it will take many years for the land to recover. Some few of the people here yet harbour the idea that all the trees may not be killed. A few days now will tell the tale. That many are gone there is no doubt. However, many will sprout up from the root, but it will take at least five or six years before they can realize on the trees. Good bye, from your old friend Jonx MoCsrmusr. Waldo, March lot, 1895, 'COLD WATER TOA THIRSTY SOUL.' Rev. feats° Baird, Templeton, Oal., e ell .knownin Canada: 'I have tried IL D: C. and also the Pills, add find them just the thing -vastly better then what the doctor ordered. The first dose of Ire D. 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Lutz, Druggiet, 018 liB1111111111'3 TiBTTER. MAGNIFICENT WORK' ACCOMPLISHED IN ST. ANNE'S PARISH. The Sick and Diseased made well by Paine's Celery Compound. Thousan d. s in the Commercial 1V3 etro- polis know what the Great Spring • Medicine has done, In the great archdiocese of Montreal,. the parish of St Anne's is one of the larg- est and moat important. The parish ia a ' populous one, and the work of the dozen or more clergymen who devote their time and talents to the spiritual and charitable. interests of the people, is heavy and never-- ending. In this thickly settled and congested parish the sick and suffering are numerous, but christian help and consolation is ever near:in the hour of danger. In scenes of, sidemen and diseases this great parish has' becn blessed by an agency that has saved. thciusands of lives in other parts of our Dominion. We now refer to that marvel - lone medicine Paine's Celery Compound, so. well and favorablp known in every Can— adian home. The popular clergymen of St. Anne's have, from time to time, heard wonderful reports from their pariehioners of the. magnificent work of Paine's Celery Com -- pound, Fathers, mothers, brothers end sitters haye been raised• to health ands strength, Those pronounced incurable by physicians have been snatched irony the jaws of death. The Rev. P. Rioux, one of St. Anne's most popular clergymen, knowing About the good work done by Paine's Celery. Compound, and having experienced most. satisfactory regalia from its use in hie owns • Cale, 'writes as follows -- 'I ain fully convinced both by personal experience and by the statements of many' parisbioners instructed to my care, that. the celebrated medicine Paine's Celery ' Compound deserves a high recommend- ation. I therefore, willingly endorse the testimonials already given in its behalf." Premier Greenway, of Manitoba, is' rapidly regaining health. The Dominion Dairy Station, -at Belle -- villa, Ont., has shipped ten tons of winter made butter to England during the season bow closing. That tired:feeling, loss of appetite and nervous prostration are driven away by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which makes pure • blood. At Saturday's meeting of the Cabinet, its - is understood, J. A. Valhi, barrister, of Ottawa. was appointed judge of the netv judicial district of Nioissing. It is not to be woedered at that Ayer's Mlle are in such uniyersal demand. For the euro of constipation, biliousness, or any other complaint needing a laxative, these pills are unsuipassed. They are sugar coated, easy to take, and every due- ls effective. BORN. ERWIN—In Bayfield, on the Ist inst., the wife, of tt. W. Erwin, of a see. GAISER-In Orediton, on the 8th inst., the. wife of W. 13. Geiser, of a daughter. YOUNG -In Exeter, on -the 10th inst., the wife of Will Young, of a daughter, . MARRIED SOHROEDER-LIPPIIARDT-Inorediton,on • the 121h inst., by Rev. Mr Litt. Mr. Louie' Sohroeder, of nue. to Miss Lipphardl, of Kblva. OVENS—XONES—In Exeter, on the 13th Mat, at tho residence of the bride's parents, bY Rev. H, W. Locke, Difr 3%0. Ovens, of Mc- Gillivray, to Miss Jennie, only daughter of Mr. EdwardJones, PENBALE—OBING—La London, on the 12th Inst., Mr. • Saniuel Penbele of - Toronto, formerly of Exeter, to Miss.ltfary A. Ching of Exeter, daughter or Mr. John Ching of Manitoba. MoOALLITNI—MORLOCK—In Creditor, on the 12th inst., at the reridenee of tbe brid* mother, Mr. Albert McCallum 'of Toronte, formoriy of Exeter, to Miss Lavine Morlock daughter of Mrs. Morlook. MARRS—SI:JAW—At the residence of the bride's fatber,Brussels, on the eth inst., by , Rev, John Ross, mr. Marrs, 7.). D. 13,, Port. s Elgin, to Minnie E., second daughter of John • Shaw, of Brussels. etneanss-TBORNE„-A t the Jesidenee of Mr. Wm. Thorne, father of tne bride, on Feb, mb, by Rev, Dr. Williama, Mr. W.W. Burgess, to Miss Nettie II. Thorne. all of • Mitchell, and sister of Mrs. Chown, of Clin- ton. DaWS—OREERY—On Werinesday,Ma rah etb, 1895at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. H. D.Steele, Incumbent of St. Paul's Church. Kirktom .7ohn Davis, Esq., Bid- " dulpb, to flannel Adeline, youngest daugh. ter of Robert Creery, Sr,, Esq,, of ilebo rne. DIED. MAST -In Orediton, on the 7th:inst., Mrs oiebn, • Mast aged 45 years. SWETrZER-In Oredition, on the lith 'nat.. Erederika, wife" of Henry Sweltzer, aged 64- • cyealrOsH MaEL-In afoXillon, 00 6111 twit., Mara' ' Bireball, Wife of Mr, Wm. IC MeMiehael, aged 65 years. MyAellaNrsIN23Gasygi,-fi. Exeter, orf .7tn inst., Harriett, wife of Richard Manning, aged dee .~ TRUMNER.—In Petroloa, on the 41h inst., the wife 02 51t- Trumner. in .,the 81th year of her nab. 1.1XLL—In Stephen, on the 1211i lest., Mary Brokenshire, relict of tho late Wafter 11111, aged 6s years. LITJTO SING M tehell, on the 2nd inst., beloved wife of Doo, Hutchings, aged 37 " Years and 6 deys, 61-.1 I, Eitel rf et% ttell 'hoe. S l. nsha t "vro M, tt! erly of Geolph, aged 67 years and la daya4 ANNIg.—At the parsonage. 454 Park avenue, London on Mareh eth, 1895, Rev. 3. pis, M. A, pastor et di:eon's Avenue Church, - in his 45tb you,