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I? S 4 eC Q CTars and acute. Your Commissionee has
Vlita t$ P fX„ 1.t / no doubt that were fifty per cent. added
to the above balance against the liquor
PRraft 2', AUG, 2G 1848 tratlio, ib would not then be massive.! AN ANNUAL MARCIE.
It Mpel also be kept iu mind that the
WHAT IT C08TS•,
DIRECT COST.
The report of the Royal Commission
on the Liquor Traffic estimates the
annual expenditure for strong drink iu
Canada in the following paragraphs :
Taking an average of the quantities of
wines, spirits and malt liquors antacid
for consumption in the five years ending
1893,bat exolading eider and native
wines, and taking an average of the re-
tail prime, the ealoulation shows the sum
of 089,879,854, to be paid for iiquor by
the oonenmers. Ae more than one.half
of this amount is paid for spirits to
which, it is well understood, a large ad.
clition of water is made before they ars
vended to the public, the total amount
paid is probably considerably in excess of
the cum just mentioned.
Tho money thus paid may be fairly
said to represent so much diminution of
wealth, as the liquor, when consumed,
leaves the community 1u no way advan-
taged. When money is paid for clothing,
food, or other commodities, the purchaser
suppoeed to have value for his outlay.
Both buyer and seller, respeotively, pos.
seee wealth formerly bald by the other,
usually slightly increased by the ex-
cbange. The liquor seller possesses the
wealth formerly held by his customer,
but the customer -consumer has nothing.
The community is poorer at least to the
amount of money !spent for the liquor.
We have a right therefore to state that
the country is impoverished annually by
direct expenditure on liquor to the
amount of $39,879,854.
The country is also impoverisbed by
the waste of grain used in the manufac-
tare of this liquor. Part of it was Cana-
dian grain which, had it not been used 112
making, would have been available for
export or other use. Part of it was im-
ported grain for which the money had to
go out of the country. All the grain de-
stroyed in the liquor manufacture has a
right to a place in the calculation of loss.
The Commission's estimate of the value
of the materials used is $1,188,765.
INDIRECT COST.
The sums mentioned represent what
may be called the direct Iose which the
liquor traffic imposes upon the commun.
ity, That traffic also causes other and
fax greater losses which are not so easily
ascertained. The Minority Report, how-
ever, deals with them fully and forcibly,
making a careful estimate which may be
summarised as follows :
Cost of jails, asylums, alms houses,
etc.—By a very careful calculation it is
shown that the total amount expended by
the Dominion of Canada in the adminia•
bastion of justice and for the maintaining
of penitentiaries, jails, asylums, reforma-
tories, alms -houses, and like institutions,
amounts to a total of 86,028,195. As-
suming that one-half of this expenditure
is fairly chargeable to the liquor habib
and the liquor traffic, we get as the cost
to the country, thus caused, the sum of
$3,014,097.
Lost of labor.—The country loses a
great deal because of the prevention of
the production of wealth on account of
persona being in jails, hospitals, asylums,
or in any way idle through intemperance.
The working of a gang of men in a fac-
tory or any set of persons who work to-
gether, is interfered with by the absence
of one or more in the same way, Much
of our most highly organized mannfao-
turing industry is thus seriously hamper-
ed. Not only do those who drink lose
time and possibly earnings ; their fellow
employees are also losers. The industry
which employs them suffers Ioss. An
English parliamentary report estimates
over sixteen per cent. of the productive
labor of the country as lost in this way.
Assuming that in Canada the lose ie only
eight per cent. it amounts to $76,288,000.
Shortened lives.—Oarefnl calculations
show that 3,000 lives are annually ant
short in Canada by intemperance, eaoh
such death robbing the country of at
least an average of ten years of produc-
tive power. It is estimated in this way
we sustain an annual loss of $14,804,000,
Misdirected work.—A similar cabala.
tion shows that the country loses by hay.
iug about 18,000 men engaged in making
and selling liquor, not actually adding
anything to the wealth of the country,
but creating conditions which increase
public burdens. If rightly employed
these men would add to the country an
amount of wealth which we now have to
do without, estimated at 87,748,000.
A MINING UP.
In this connection the fact must be
noted that a proportion of the national,
provincial and municipal revenues is de.
rived from the liquor traffic. The total
amount thus contributed is caloulated by
the Commission at $8,478,816.22, the de-
tails of which are given in the table be-
low.
This is the amount which the liquor
traffic pays for the privileges granted it.
It is right that this amount should be set
over against the items of loss, and the
various expenditures caused by the traffic,
berein before considered.
This may be done as follows
COST Or THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC,
Amount paid for liquor by
0009umers $80,879,853
Value of grain, etc., destroyed 1,888,705
Cost of proportion of pauper-
ism, disease, insanity and
crime chargeable to tate
liquor traffic 8,014,007
Erose of productive labor 70 288,000
Loss through mortality caused
by drink 14,304,000
Nis -directed labor ..,7,748,000
Total. .. . . . ........$140,122,716
REVENUE F1Ot0 TIIE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Dominion Government.... .... $7,101,557
Provincial Gbvernments 024,368
Municipalities 429,107
Total $8,466,022
Not LOOS 8134,667,694
This ebartllug calculation does not in -
dude, as a charge against the liquor
tragic, the great amount of memo spent
in watching it and collecting the revenue
from it. Rev. Dr. McLeod in reference
to 11 says farther :
In the foregoing table the items charged
to the liquor traffic are moderate eetl-
mates, and many things, which might
pro el bo inelodod, aro omitted because
of the dilliculty of putting tlletn into dol.
enormous balance ehargeahle to the liquor
trailio represents only one year's waste,
For many years like burdens, 1n propor-
tion to the population, 11ave beau imposed
upon the country, These facie make it
easy to appreciate the truth and fOre6 of
the statement wade in 1884 by Ron, Mr.
Foster. Under a table prepared by hfin,
showing the cost of liquor consumed in
Canada from 1868 to 1882, inclusive, to
have been $493,900,00, he wrote ;
One Can scarcely grasp the awful
significance of the above figures. The
large quantitive of graio that have been
worse than wasted would have fed mil.
lions of people. The cost of liquors for
one year exceeds the whole revenue of
the Dominion of Canada. The cost per
head has beau fully twice as much as the
total coat por head of all our customs dues
since Confederation. The total amount
spent in the fifteen years above tabulated
aggregates, without oountiag interest,
nearly 9600,000,000. This would have
defrayed all our cost of government,
built our railways and left us without a
shadow of a national debt, To all this
we must add the inoalonlable east of citi,
tens slain, labor destroyed, pauperism
borne and crime watched, restrained and
punished. The wonder is, that, with
such terrible waste, our country enjoys
any prosperity. If this waste could be
made to cease, Canada iu tenyears would
not know herself, so prosperous and
wealthy would she have grown. Surely
itis the part of all good citizens bo see to
it that such a frightful source of waste
and destruction is dried up. Prohibition
is the only effeobual cure.
Winter Wheat,
Leading Varieties Suecessrully Peeled
in 1898 on 191 Ontarlo Farms.
One million aures of Winter wheat will
likely be sown in Ontario within the next
three weeks. As the variety sown has a
marked influence upon both the quality
and the quantity of the crop produced, it
1s very important that the very best
kinds be used. An increase in yields of
one bushel of Winter wheat per aore
means a total increase of one million
bashelofor the province. The average
aunual yield of Winter wheat per acre in
Ontario for the past fifteen years is about
twenty-seven per cent lower than that of
Great Britain and Ireland and about
tbirty•one per cent higher than that of
any of the Winter wheat growing States
of the American Union. The aim of On-
tario should be to approach the record of
the former rather than that of the latter.
The average yield of Winter wheab in On-
tario for the eight years ending with 1898
is 21.8 bushels per acre, and that for the
eight years ending with 1890 was 18.5
bushels per acre. Bence the change iu
average yield of Winter wheat per acre
in Ontario is moving in the right direo•
tion.
The growing of this important crop has
received a good deal of attention in the
Experimental Department of the On-
tario Agricultural College within the past;
ten years. Varieties obtained from the
'United States, England, Germany,
France and Russia are being carefully
tested along with those secured from the
wheat growing sections of Canada. After
the varieties have been carefully tested in
the experimental plots at the College in
each of five years, the leading kinds are
selected for co operative experiments
throughoub Ontario. It has been found
that the varieties which have given the
best average results in the experiments
conducted at the College for a few years
in succession have nearly always given
good satisfacbinn on the farms of the
province. Seven varieties of Winter
wheat were sent out for co-operative ex-
periments in the Autumn of 1897. These
were divided into three sets with three
varieties in each set, the Dawson's Golden
Ohaff being used in all the sets as a basis
by which the results of all the varieties
could be compared with one another. We
have received 101 fall and satisfactory
reports of easefully conducted Winter
wheat experiments for 1898. The follow-
ing table gives the comparative yield of
straw and grain per acre of the varieties
of Winter wheat tested in 1898 on 191
farms :
R
to as
Dawson's Golden Chaff1.8
Imperial Amber 1.9
Early Genesee Giant 1.7
New Columbia 1.6
Early Red Clawson 1.7
Pride of Genesee 1,6
Poole 1.6
y d M
aitt;'ono,°n
m
30.0
29.3
28.2
27.5
26.9
26.5
24.6
This table should be of great value to
the wheat growers of Onbario as none ex-
oepb the 191 good reports are included in
the summary. Muoh credit is due to the
careful experimenters who sent us the
reports of the tests made on their farms.
CONCLUSIONS.
1. In the average yield of Winter
wheat per acre, the Dawson's Golden
Chaff stood highest among 11 varieties
tested over Ontario in the year 1893,
among 9 varieties in each of the years
1894, 1896 and 1806, and among 7 var-
ieties in each of the years 1897 and 1808.
2. Three of the varieties of Winter
wheat have been tested over Ontario for
five years in succession with the follow-
ing average yields of grain per acre :
Dawson's Golden Chaff, 82.0 bushels ;
Early Genesee Giant, 28,9 bushels ; and
Early Red Clawson, 28,7 bushels.
3. Dawson's Golden Chaff was the
most popular variety with the expert•
modem in each of the past five years,
4, in the oo•operative experiments for
1898, the Dawson's Golden Chaff and the
Early Genesee Giant Came through the
Winter the beet,, and the New Columbia
the poorest,
6, The Early Geneses Giant, Dawson's
Golden Chaff, and New Columbia pos-
aessod the strongest straw and the Poole
and Imperial Amber the weakest straw
in 1808.
b. In bhe co operative experiments of
each of the past five ysare, the Dawson's
Golden Chaff was one of the least and the
Early Genesee Giant was one of the most
affected by rust.
7. In 1808, all varieties were practically
fees from small, which is nearly always
the Case when DO smut Is sown with the
wheat.
8. The Pride of Genesee and the Im.
penial Ambet produced the longest and
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the New Columbia the shortest straw.
9. The New Columbia, Early lied
Clawson, and Dawsou'e Coldon Chaff
were the first and the .Carly Genesee
giant and Pride of Genesee were the last
to mature.
10. Tile Dawsou'e Golden Chaff and
New Columbia produced the plumpest
and the Poole the host ebruakeu grain.
The following leading varieties of Win -
tee wheat will be distributed this year
fur eceoperative experiments :
Set 1—Dawson's Oolden Chaff, Early
Genesee Giant; and Early Lied Olawsou.
Set 2—Dawson's Golden Chaff, Imper-
ial Amber and Golden Drop,
Sot 3 --Dawson's Golden Chaff, Bearded
{Pinter Fife and Stewart's Champion.
Any portion wishing to oontluot a caro•
ful experiment with one of these sots
should apply to the Experimentalist,
Agrioultural College, Guelph, for the de.
sired set and one-half pound of each
variety together with instructions for
testing and the blank form 012 whiob to
report will be furnished free of cosb to life
address. The supply of some of the
varieties is limited bet we will be enabled
bo furnish a large number with this send
before the supply is exhausted.
A bulletin giving the results of 92
varieties of Winter wheat grown iu the
Experimental Department of the Ontario
Agricultural College is now in the print-
er's hands and will be mailed from the
Department of Agriculture, Toronto, as
soon as printed. C. A.LAvrrz,
Experintenballet.
Agr'l College, Guelph, Aug. 20, '98,
Canada's Big Display.
Resources or the Dominion Jtxtenal rely
Shown at Omaha.
In the International Mill at the Trans.
Mieaiaeippi Exposition the largest exhibit
is that of the Dominion of Canada, It
occupies 5,000 feet of floor space and
6,000 feet of wall spade, covered with the
best the country oan produce. It is an
agricultural, mineral, forestry and dairy
exhibit oombleed,
The location ie drsb•class, taking in the
main entrance to the building. 0, II.
Meyers, commissioner from the Domin-
ion of Canada, is in charge, toasted by
W. V. Bennett, the resident Canadian
agent, and his daughter, Miss June Ben-
nett. The exhibit is viewed by 90 per.
cent. of the L'xpoeition visitors, a vest
proportion of whom are astonished by
the vast showing of bbs ooanbry's re-
sources here made. Wheat that grades
"N o. 1 bard Northern," and is produced
to the amount of 38 to 46 bushels per
acre all through the Dominion is the
principal agriaaltural product shown.
Coinmicsioner Myers says the Dominion
oan supply the breadstuffs for all of the
nations of the earth. Not only wheat,
but oats, barley, rye, corn, and all of the
cereals known to the United States, grow
and flourish iu every locality, yielding
abundantly. The Dorn is as large ss
that grown further South ; the small
grain has a lighter oolor, the berry being
more plump and larger.
The dairy business of Canada has
grown with great rapidity during the
past few years. Last year's shipment of
butter to Great Britain aggregated 12,-
000,000 pounds, valued at 92,900,000.
Along with the butter goes the cheese,
which lest year amounted to 165,000,•
000 pounds, valued at 915,000,000.
Roney and maple sugar are two other
staple products of Canada shown in the
exhibit.
The lumber industry of the Dominion
bas assumed great proportions since the
destruction of the forests of Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan, and most of
the material used in the United States
is from the eocntry to the North. The
lumber exhibit is interesting as well as
insbruative, both on account of the
numerous samples and the ohnraoter of
the exhibits. There are eome oak, pine,
poplar, hickory, birch, walnut, maple,
cedar, and a snore of other varieties of
the woods of the forest. One of the
most interesting is a stub out from a
log of hard pine. It is 6 feet across, and
Mr. Meyers vouches for the statement
that the tree from which this plank
oame measured 160 feet to the first
limb. In addition to this, he declares
that there are millions of aores of pine
forests in the North of the Dominion
that have never been visited by the atop.
per.
A great showing of apples, pears,
plums and other fruits is also made.
In grasses there is no end to the die -
play. There are all the varieties grown
in the United States, both tame and
wild, and the assertion is made that
some of them produce as high as three
tons per acre.
In the centre of the Court is the
mineral display. Three large oases are
filled with rich speoimeue of gold, Dopper,
silver, lead, zine, tin, iron and other
metals, from the gray sulphates to the
most beautiful and delicate forms of
crystallizations.' A number of photo.
graphs of mining aoenes from Bribieb
Columbia and other camps are also
shown,
The enclnsure contains a number of
comfortable seats where visitors are ie.
vited to rest themeelves. A large Legis•
ter is open to visitors and is being rapid.
ly filled up. The low railroad rates now
in throe make it possible for many Can -
adieus to visit the Omaha Exposition.
Mr. Cole, caretaker of the Molsons
Bank at London, teas injured by au ex-
plosion of gas in the bank vault.
A boymareed Tougher stabbed a corn-
panioo named Beach with a jack-knife at
Beachburg. Beach is in scritical con-
dition.
Don. M. Dickinson saw Sir Wilfrid
Laurier at Quebeo, and laid before him
the view of the Michigan mill•owners
as to the log legislation of the Ontario
Government.
At Warkworth, George Yule was upset
out of a boat, with three companions.
Yule was the only one who could swim,
and after saving the otheie he was so
exhausted that he Bank and was drowned.
Cook's Cotton Boot Compound,
Is sneeessfnliy used monthly by over
1o,o00Ladles. Safe, effectual. Ladles oak
_your druggist for Cooks Woo Root Com -
sand. Take no other, as all Mixtures, pills and
imitation ante dangerous. Priam, lio, 1, Raiff
box; No, 0,10 degrooa stronger,$s per box. No.
L or 2, mailed on receipt of price and two 6•.cent
Racal, Tito Cook Compaay*Windsor, Gni,
ro ibe Dregglete 11 Causdgmended y All
Ties. 1 Mal2 sold innemeses.10fAN,
Druggist, Beekeeper .11 Optiefan.
S POST
Aye. 20, 1898
We take no second place
for First-eln,s,s,
}-ardwaro
Ci fiery
'hell n Goods
amps, &c,
Our Tinware Department
Complete.
Eavet-roughing a Specialty.
Call and see us,
N 'GER
11
BRUSSELS Buggies and Wagons.
PUP WORKS.
I wish to inform the people of Brussels
and surrounding district that I have pur-
chased the Pump Business of JAMES
BELL and will be found ready to attend
to all wants in either new work or repairs
at moderate prices.
No better Pump in the market.
Order left at my shop or residence or
at P. SCOTT'S shop will be promptly
looked after,
12'0rders taken for the Digging of
Wells and Cisterns.
Gomer Green
MILL STREET, • BRUSSELS.
Tk!LORINC!
M, G. Richardson
Is prepared to do all kinds of
work in his line.
Good Workmanship and
Good Fits Guaranteed.
LATEST STYLES,
Snits made for $4 and upwards.
la -Shop in Garfield Bleck.
A. COUSLEY
Real Estate 86 Loan
AGENT, BRUSSELS.
Money to Loan on Farm Secur-
ity at the Lowest Bate
of Interest.
Money Loaned on Notes and
good Notes Discounted. Sale
Notes a Specialty.
Fire ce Life Insurance Written.
Special Attention given to
Conveyancing.
Ar COUSLEY,
°Moe over. Deadme.n'e Drug Store,
BRUSSELS.
Always on hand and away down
in price to suit the times. 1 can
give you a buggy for the next two
months, second to none in the
town foz' either quality, finish or
style, for $i65. If you want a
Buggy you will find it to your
interest to call and see my stock
and yon will say lily statement
is correct.
JNO. WYNN,
CARRIAGE MA KM.
White Star Line.
ROYAL MAIL STTEAMSHIPS,
Between New York and Liverpool,; via
Queenstown, every Wednesday.
Au the steamers of this line carry only a
strictly limited number in the EXERT and
SECOND CADIN accommodations, intending
passengers are reminded that an early ap-
ptioation for berths is necessary at Mlle sea-
son. For plans, rata, eta., apply to
W. H. Kerr,
Agent, Brussels,
EVERY
GOOD
THINGYG
Coate an effort and reading my
ads is the primo you pay for the Puroh•
acing advantage you possess over your
less enlightened neighbors.
NO GUFF
GOES WITH US.
Honest trading needs no tatty. I do
not balk customers into buying, I do not
Lave to, the goods talk and ottetomers
take the goods on their own sound judg-
ment.
All Summer (Goods
At and Below Cost, Must be
cleared out. Fall goods arrlving. A full
line of the best Gr008riea in the market.
Nothing but the finest goods kept,
Agent for Parker's Dye Works,
J. G. Skene.
taV w0
For Sati.i stay Shoppers.
2NerenienaLeal
Saturday morning at 0 o'clock,
We started to clear out our en-
tire stock of Ladies' Blouses, all
itt the same price,
50 Cents Each.
Some of the Blouses cost 1no1•e
than double the money.
•
. LIS O
100 1 oys9 Suits
To be sold itt half price.
Come with the Crowds tom --
B.1119
The Corner
Store,
1SEAF ORTH,,,ga ,
To Clear Out
Ocld Lines of Summer Goods we will
make Special Reductions in, price.
ALL LINES OF
12-1c. Light and Fancy Prints reduced to Ito ;
the 10c range to 82o, and the Oc for 6 o.
—.o --
Fancy Colored Muslins
at Reduced Prices, All new Goods,
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Only a few Shirt Waists
left, to be Sold at a Bargain.
Sun Mats and all lines of Straw Hats going Cheap.
A.
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DON'T liEADTFHSAD
And then throw away this paper betore you o0nolude you are toeing
good money by nob buying your DAIRY SUPPLIES from us. We are
prepared to supply every person with Dairy Cans
Pails, am Pane and Tinware off all hinds ab prices according toquality.
,..ackGraniteware of all kinds.
HARDWARE.
Raving put is a stook of Spades, Shovels
Forks, cbo., of the best quality we olio
your Patronage.
Paint Your House with the best weather and water
proof Paint in the market. We sell it.
Screen Doors and Windows on hand and made to order.
The best line of Cook Stoves to choose from.
.Eaoetrozs, hirtg and '.1?epairiijg
promptly attended to, __�„�►
N. B.—Wit for our wagon, it will call on you for your truck in a
few days,
Wilton & Turnbull