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The following is a report of the Liboral
Convention held at Ottawa Lust week, as
far as the platform of the party is cow
Darned
TIIE TAME QUESTION.
The fret resolution, that on the tariff
geestion, was then moved by Ilon. Wil.
frid Laurier in Tinglislr and French as
follows :
"We, the Liberal party of Cauadt, in
convention assembled, declare that the
customs tariff of the Dominion should be
based, not AN ib now is, upon the prot00.
hive principle, but upon the requirements
of the pobiio eorvioe. That the existing
tariff, founded neon an unsound prin-
°iplo and used, as it has been, by the
Government, as a corrupting agency
wherewith to keep themselves in office,
has developed monopolies, trusts and
combinations ; it has deoreaaed the Value
of farm and other landed property ; ib
has oppressed the masses to the enrioit-
ment of a few ; it has !beaked immigra-
tion ; it has paused loss of population ;
it has impeded commerce ; ib has rlie•
oriminated against Great Britain. In
these and many other ways it has oe-
oasioned great public and private injury,
all of which evils must continue to grow
in intensity so long as the present tariff
system remains in force. That the high.
est interests of Canada demand a re.
moval of this obstacle to our country's
progress by the adoption of a sound fiscal
policy, whioh, while not doing injustice
to any olass, will promote domestic and
foreign trade and accelerate the return of
prosperity to our people. That to that
end the tariff should be roamed to the
needs of honest, economical and efficient
government ; that it should be so adjust.
ed as to make free, or to bear as lightly
as possible upon the necessaries of life,
and should be so arranged as to promote
freer trade with the whole world, more
partioularly Great Britain and the
United States.
"We believe that the results of the
protective system.jtave grievously disap-
pointed thousands of persona who honest•
ly snpported it, and that the country in
the light of experience is now prepared
to deolare for a sound fiscal policy. The
issue between the two political parties on
this great question is now clearly de.
fined. That the Government themselves
admit the failure of their fiscal policy
and now profess to reform it, bub they•
say that such changes must be based
only on the prinoipleof proteobion. This
is radically unsound and unjust to the
masses of the people, and we declare our
conviction that any tariff changes based
on diet principle must fail to afford any
sabsbantial relief from the burden under
which the country labors. This issue
we unhesitatingly accept, and upon it we
await with the fullest confidence the
vordiot of the electors of Canada."
This resolution, Mr. Laurier said, Was
complete in itself. It contained a
thorough arraignment of the course that
the Government had followed heretofore
on trade matters. It drew the line dis-
tinctly and forcibly between truth and
falsehood, and between liberty and op-
pression. It affirms 'that the Govern-
ment has no right to take more from the
earnings of any than than is absolutely
neoeosary to marry on the administration
eoonomioally administered ; that to do
more than this was robbery, pure and
simple. Here isthe arraignment, and
on this line the oontesb must be fought
without oeasing until the victory is won.
SIR. PATERSON,. N. P.
for South Brant, seconded the resolution
in one of his stirring addresses. He said
that partyism was often denounced as an
evil, and probably to belong to some
parties is not beneficial. But to belong
to a party thab professes and lives up to
snob principles as actuated tho Liberal
party, and with snoh a reoord as theirs
is, need not Shame any honest man.
The country has not made the advance•
ment it should have done owing to the
wrong principles that have actuated the
party now in power. To -day the Liberal
party had laid down in clear language
nob anything new, for the principle of
this resolution had been upheld by the
Liberal party since 1898, but a definite
and emphatic assertion of their adher•
genes to the faith so consistently professed
and so determinedly upheld by Lion,
Alexander Mackenzie—a policy that al-
lows each individual bo work out his own
destiny unhampered by unjust resbrio-
timne, Here then is the issee. The
Tories believe iu restriction of trade;
the Liberals believe in freedom of trade,
and lie believed the latter were right be.
oanse their polioy recognized equally the
right of the provinces, of all classes and
interests, of all individuals.
The motion was then put and parried
unanimously amidst loud oheers.
nn0RnnOITr.
Hon. T. H. Davies then moved the
following resolution :
"That, having regard to bhe position of
Canada and the United States as adjoin-
ing countries with many mutual inter-
ests, it is desirable that there should be
the most friendly relabious and broad
and liberal trade intercourse between
them. That the interests alike of the
Dominion and of the empire would be
materially advanced by the establishing
of smell relations.
"That the period of the old reeiprooity
treaty was one of marked prosperity to
the. British colonies.
"That the pretext under wloloh the
V Government appealed to the oounbry in
1891,1roopsoting negotiations for a treaty
with the United States, .was misleading
and dishonest, and intended to deceive
the electorate. That ne officer!) effort
has een made t'
bby item to obtain a
treaty, but that on the contrary it is
manifest that the present Government,
0onbrelled as they aro by the monopolies
tand combines, are not desirous of scour•
ing molla treaty.
"Tina the first atop to w.
ards oUtainining
1 the end in view is to Finale a porty
power who aro sincerely desirous of pro
meting a treaty, on terms honorable to
both oorihtries.
BRUSSELS,
'Ttrot a fele and liberal reeiprooiby
treaty would develop the groat natural
ro00nr000 of Canada • would enormously
inoronso the trade and commeroebetween
the two countries ; would toed to en•
mourag° friendly relations between the
two peoples ; would remove many pauses
wbio t have in the past provoked irriba•
tion and trouble to the Governments of
both countries, and would promote those
kindly relations between the empire and
the republic which afford the beet gone -
auto for
oer•anteofor peace and prosperity.
"That the Liberal party be prepared
to enter into negotiations with a view to
obtaining eaoh a treaty, inolnding a well -
considered list of manufactured articles ;
and we are satisfied that any treaty so
arranged will receive the assent of her
Majesty's Government, wibhoub whose
approval no treaties can bo made."
ER. DAVIBS
said that eleven years ago he had moved
a resolution in favor of reclprocity and it
afforded him great pleasure to make a
similar motion before thin convention
that precedes the triumph of the Liberal
party in Canada. In those eleven years
ibis party has sustained many defeate,
but not one of then by the will of bhe
people, but by the aid of iniquitous
measures fornecl through the House for
the purpose of keeping a oorrnpb Govern.
ment in power. They had fought stren-
uously but constitutionally, though if
ever a party was justified in taking feral
ble resistance and tyranny the Liberal
party of Canada was, and he was glad to
know that alter all these years of eon•
lest they were on the eve of moms. In
this resolution and in all that was said
in this convention there was not a shade
or a shadow of a suggestion of disloyalty
and if there were any annexationists in
Canada they could net be found at that
great convention. The speaker then re-
ferred to the old reciprocity treaty dur-
ing which Canada enjoyed an era of
prosperity such as she had not known be.
fore or since. He traced the history of
the Conservative party as far as their
connection with this question was con-
cerned and showed how marked by dit-
pliaity and treachery that course had
been, and he pointed out some of the
many benefits that would flow from free
trade relations with the U. S.
00100 (MARLTON, ac. P.,
seconded the resolution. He glanced
briefly at the resources of the Dominion
and showed that the course of nature
pointed to the fact that on this continent
profitable trade must flow North and
Smith. The old treaty was of untold
benefit to Canada, yet that was only
partial reciprocity. What then might
they not expect from a more extended
reoiprocity treaty ? Sada a polioy would
benefit all olasees—the farmer, the
miner, the lumberman, the fisherman
and in many or most instances the manu-
facturer. As to loss of revenue, he point.
ed out the fact that by imposing one -
firth. of a cent on sugar in snoh a way
that bhe tax wnnldgo into the treasury
instead of into the pueket of the refiner,
$8,500,000 of a revenue would lei pre- -
duoed and yet the people not be taxed
any higher on sngar than they are now.
Many other instances might be given of
how the loss of revenue might he made
good. Reciprocity he believed to be not
only desirable but essential to the pros-
perity of the oonntry, and he was confi-
dent teat the Liberal party could secure
a treaty that would be fair and honorable
to the country.
W. P. 0000.
The chairman announced that as the
manufacturers were the ones whose inter -
este would be injuriously effected by re-
ciprocity if those of any olase were, he
would call on one or two manufacturers
to state their views.
W. F. Copp, of Hamilton, stove mann-
Waterer, responded first. He said he be-
lieved the manufacturers in Canada were
equal to any emergency if placed on an
equality with their competitors. Cana.
diens are in all respects equal to Ameri-
01411e and are able to compete on equal
terms with any nation on earth. He was
ploased with the resolution. He Was a
free trader and if these resolutions are
put into effect, and if they set their faces
hard as flint towards free trade that goal
would soon be reached. They must
move with care and with a due regard
for the interests of all classes, but when.
moo a step forward is fatten they nest
never look bank or retrace their steps.
P. BOAS,
of St. Hyacinthe, the leading manufao.
turer of knitted goods in Canada, spoke
next. He said he was able hp enter into
competition with the States or any other
country. Canada could. not he beaten.
There are three conditions necessary to
snows in manufacturing enterprises—
good labor, good and cheap power and
good markets. The first two Canada
now has ; the last she has not got. If
she did have it her Frenoh-Canadian
exiles could find at home that employ
mont they were now obliged to go abroad
to seek. He favored not only reciprocity
but free trade with all the world. No
other country in the World was so able
to take Dare of itself if left alone. If
people were allowed to May in the cheap,
est market and all restriobions to trade
were removed, the manufacturing intim!.
trice for whish Canada is best adapted
would spring up ou all sides and proepee-
ity would ensue such as this country has
never yet known. He was nota party
man but he woo willing to follow Mr.
Laurier and to advocate and support his
policy as set forth in these reeolntious.
O0AS. 0100108N0I5, 7I. 0.
brother of Hon. Alexander Mackenzie,
next came to the front and received an
ovation. He eulogized Mr. Laurier io
the highest terms and asserted that in
his opinion reciprocity would be of lin.
told benefit to Canada. One farm lands
he said, are tow dsoreering in value,
busineee is depressed, our ports are
empty, ode skipping trade is going down,
and every intoned is suffering, He be.
Roved that rsoS r pit
rwould en
efib every in the county.
lin, mum, 01P SUUITE'S 5.1LL5,
manufaotueer of farming implements,
said that as a manufacturer he had wee
ONTARIO,
been able to discover any email why,
under a Liberal Government, the mann•
faobnrsrs would nob be in every respect
in 00 good a position as they are now.
Nearly all of our most prosperous mann.
Mitering iuciuetrios were established be-
fore the N. P. was inbroduoedl and if
they wont hank to the old aondibtons they
would be is as good a position as before.
What they want is more onetomors and
this reoiprocity would give them. IIe
was quite able to oompets with the
Ameriaaus on equal terms, and he bad
much pleasure in supporting the remota-
tions submitted.
Ma, tr'ORAN, OP 00101,00,
supported the resolution on behalf of the
farmers. To that plass reciprocity would
be of untold advantage. He hoped that
not only "the moldering branches" but
the groeu onee, too, of the N. P. would
be chopped off and that the axe would bo
laid even at the roots of the tree. He
believed that if need be the farmers were
ready to accept direob taxation.
(CONTINUE ON mon 6.)
THE TRAVELLING DAIRY.
The Travelling Dairy, sent oub by the
Ontario Department of Agriculture, has
made a tour of the Oounty of Huron do•
iog the South Riding early in June and
the East Riding during the past two
weeks. The deputation in charge con-
sisted of Mr. Day, of the Ontario Agri-
cultural College, and James Hume, of
Aybon, Ont., which factory received the
gold medal for butter making. They
parried with them their own apparatus,
and at each place where they exhibited
were furnished with sufficient cream and
the. The program each day consisted of
a lecture by arr. Day, in which he point-
ed out very clearly the most profitable
method of feeding and caring for oows,
the beet method of treating milk so as to
extract all the oream, the proper mode of
ahuruing and During the butter, and last-
ly how to paok and market it ; illustrab-
ing lois remarks as he prooeeded by the
work being done by Mr. Hume. The
olmrn used was the well-known "Daisy
barrel churn," holding 20 gallons of
oream, operated with a little less than
one-third oapacity, six gallons of cream
being what Mr. Day recommends fora
20•gallon churn. Mr. Hume, who fully
understood the art of butter making, suc-
ceeded in getting the butter from the
oburn in a granular form resembling oorn
meal very mush in appearance. It was
then planed on a three oornered table,
salted and worked with a
lever, one end of which is attached to
the corner of the table and the other end
pressed down by the butter maker. The
butter was then stamped into pond
prints and wrapped inparobment paper,
about one poled of butter being produced
from eaoh gallon of oream. Ab the olose
of each of these lectures Messrs. Day and
Hume tested samples of milk with the
Babcock tester for all who brought
samples for bloat purpose. The address,
.tbs nrooess of batter making and the
milk testing agars all of a very interest•
iug nature and it'ier expected that the
result will be a marked inopenvement in
butter malting throughout the bou lkr'y.
Probably the most satisfactory thing in
aonneotion with the Travelling Dairy is
the simplicity of the apparatus used. It
may be all purchased for a trifling sum,
and most of it could be made by any
man handy with tools. The Iiab000k
tester itself only costs from seven to
eight dollars. Samuel Walker jr. sup•
plied the necessary cream for the butter
making here. Ten samples of milk were
tested, the highest being 6.4 and the low.
est 2.0. The average being over 4%. A
sample of skimmed milk tested 3,4, The
highest test was from a cow owned by
Jas. Kelly, Brussels, an Ayrshire and
Devon oross. A test was also made of
the milk of a 2.year-old heifer from this
Dow, with a Jersey sire, and a record of
6.4 obtained. This animal weighed 840
pounds when 14 years old and 1,000
pounds when 2. Mr, Day says with boyo
expopbions this is the highest toot made
by thetas this season. There was a larger
attendance at Brussels meeting than at
any in the Riding. There was a lack of
definiteness in advertising the series.
MATS ON 0IITTn0IIANL00.
Cleanliness Important.—In order to
Insure suoasss in buttermaking ft is
necessary that 'great cleanliness should be
observed. The cow should be kept olean,
the food should be olean, the stable must
be olean, the milk, oream, pails, strainer,
ohurn, worker -in fact everything about
the dairy, inoluding the person or pereons
working in it, should be a model of clean.
lineae. Cleanliness and intelligence are
two regnisibes for successful butter-
making.
The Cow.—Keep none but good aowe,
eaoh of which will make at least 250
pounds of butter in a year. Feed the
cows that you have liberally, hoose oom-
fortably, oars for kindly, and milk
regularly, Give pure water only, and
keep salt where it can be readied by the
aowe at all times. Having done all this,
dispose of those that do nob attain to the
standard.
Utensils,—Proours proper utensils, he.
011,1100 With tbo best there is a great deal
of labor in snaking butter, Amobg them
be sure to include a good Dairy Ther-
mometer. (A. ORS one proferred,) The
following is a list of most of the articles
required in an ordinary farm dairy, to-
gether with their probable cost :—A
barrel or box churn, size to snit herd,
46.00 to $11.00 ; a lever or roller worker,
46,00 to $8.00 ; a butter mould—size, one
to two pounds, $1,50 to $8,00 ; a ship-
ping box with los box in mare and
wooden trays, 44,75 to 116,00; a thee -
minder, (glass,) 20 ciente to 50 emote;
a salt dove, Clothe) 41,00 to $1.50 ; a pair
melee, to weigh quarter ounces, $5,00 to
$10,00 ; a buttermilk strainer—size, two
to 4 quarts --with perforated bin bottom,
25 Dents to 50 cents e a Matter ladle,25
Dents to 50 ; a oream pail, (tit, ith
bundles on sides and tin ebirring spoon,)
$1.00 to 42.00 ; Dreamer oasts and box for
cold wattle (8 cows,) $5,00 to 440.00 ; a
hand oream separator, (10 or more cows,)
$100.00 to $125,00 ; a stiff brush for
FRIDAY,
JUNE 30, 1893
oleansing utensils, 20 omits to 80 mole 1
a supply of wool -Ong soda or borax— ;
a supply of good butter salt, per sack, 70
omits to $2,00 ; butter color, if drought
advisable to use it per bottle, 25 Dents to
$1,00, or per gallon, $3,50.
Dulls Iioueo.. -A dry, cool collar of uni-
form temperature, free from bad molls
or smell of vegetables, is a very good
plane in which to keep mills. Milk or
butter, when kept for any length of time
where snob smells exist, quickly becomes
tainted and lessened in value. A milk
house with double walls may be con -
abraded quite cheaply. A pantry or
cupboard Is not the best piece in which
to keep mill!.
Milking. --Milk only where the air is
pure ; brush the cow's udder before aorta -
mincing ; milk rapidly and quietly ;
strain immediately, and get into the place
of setting or separating as soon as pos-
sible.
Sebring.—Set the milk while it is
warm. Set in oreamers or deep pails,
These are better than shallow pans, es.
peoially in Summer. Pub the cans in
water at from 40 to 45 degrees—keep it
at that temperature—and skim at the
and of 12 hours in Summer and 24 hours
in Winter. A water tight box about two
tub deep will be a convenient plane in
whioh bo put the pails where a creamer
is not used. Cane may be used which
are either put wholly under the water or
set in water which is as high as the milk
in the can.
If shallow pans are used, skim at $the
end of 24 hours in Summer and 30 in
Winter, and always before the milk be.
Domes sour and thick. Keep the tem-
perature of the milk room even at from
50 to 60 degrees. A hand oream separa-
tor will pay with a herd of ten or more
coWs.
The Cream.—The oream should be
kept sweet until 24 hours before churning
by keeping it pool, either in the creamer
box or in a pool cellar. Get a oream
vessel (tin is preferable) large enough to
hold the oream for a whole churning. If
there is not sufficient for aoharning from
one skimming, stir the cream thoroughly
at every addition of fresh cream.
In Summer warm the cream to 63 or
65 degrees twenty-four hours before you
wish to churn, and it will be about the
right degree of sourness or ripeness in
that time, but as soon as it becomes
alightly thickened and sour churn it. Ib
is not abvisable to allow the cream to be-
come warmer than 63 degrees in warm
weather. In Winter the ripening tem•
perature will be from 64 to 70 degrees.
In case the oream does not sour properly
in 24 hours, it is a good plan to add a
email quantity (about 2 per cent.) of sour
milk of sone oream to aot as a starter.
All changes in oream should be effect-
ed gradually. Never add hot or very
cold water directly to bhe oream to warm
or cool it. To effect this set the cream
vessel in another vessel containing warm
or sold water, and stir the oream all the
time it is being warmed or cooled. Do
not allow the milk or cream to freeze.
If the butter is white, a email amount of
good butter color may be added to the
dream, just before o0mmeuoing to churn.
Churning.—Strain the cream into the
churn and you will not be troubled with
"white specks." Use a churn without
',addles or dashers on the inside. Churn
often in Soner'er, not less than twine a
week. In Winter do not ohurn less than
ones) a week. The churning tempsr'abure
for Summer will be from 56 to 60 de.
pees, and Winter 64 to 68 degrees.
Everyone must find out for themselves
what is the best temperature. Start the
ohurn slowly (50 tarns to the minute, in-
creasing to 60 or 70 after a few minutes)
and if a closed covered churn each as the
Daisy be used, it will be necessary to re-
move the plug at the bottom of the ohurn
two or three times during the first ten
minutes. When the butter"breaks" add
one quart of cold water (if the day is hot,
and warmer water -55 degrees to 60 de.
pees—if it is oolder) to the churn for
every pailful of cream, and thea continue
churning until the butter is about the
size of grains of wheat, when the churn
should he stopped, the buttermilk drawn
off and as much water added as there
was cream at the commencement. Give
the churn a few rapid turns and draw off
this water ; repeat the operation, when
the water should come away quite olear.
If it isnot, then a third washing may be
given to the granular butter.
Never "gather" the butter in a solid
mass, as this method leaves too mush
buttermilk in the butter. It also Leaves
the "even salting," so requisite in good
butter, more dnflloult to perform.
Salting.—Fine salt at the rate of from
a ounce bo one 011100 to the pound of
batter may now be sprinkled on the
granular batter in the churn ; or the
butter may be salted by means of brine
put on the butter while in the ohurn ; or
the granules butter may be removed to a
cool room and placed on a slanting table
which has butter cloth spread on at, and
there salted and allowed to drain for 8
or 4 More, or over night. Afterwards
work very slightly and peels or print ab
once, if for immediate use. Or the
granular butter may be removed from
the ohurn as soon as washed and drained,
placed on the worker, salted and printed
at on0e, or be packed in tubs or orooks
for market.
Working.—Be careful not to overwork
the butter, injuring the grain and mak-
ing grease of it. Work by present° and
not by friction. A slanting worker with
a moveable roller, or with a lever attach-
ed at one end, will be found to leesen the
labor, and ie much preferable to the
bowl and ladle.
Markebing,—Pub up in a neat and at.
tractive form, and get it to the oonsum°r
as quickly as possible. If it is thought
better to do so, it may be packed solidly
in tubs or orooks and novena with butter
cloth, or parchment paper and a salt.
plaster, so es to oxolude the air. To
this salt-covering,fresh brine should be
added from time to time.
To prepare ash er spruco tube fo be
filled with butter, they should be soaked
with brine for one or two days, after -
Wards rinsed, scalded, and have salt
sprinkled of Soo ineide before poking in
the butter, Tin lined butter tuts are
need by a timber of butter makers.
CHURCH COMM.
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Melville church Sabbath school pio•nio
cu Monday of next week,
Rev. A. Y, Hartley, of Blnevale, and
Rev. John Roes, B. A., of Melville
ohuroh, Brussels, exchanged pulpits last
Sunday.
The 10lethodieb Sabbath school was
withdrawn last Sunday afternoon so as
to permit its members attending the
fnnoral of Archie Jackson.
The names of Mrs. Dobson and Miss
Braden were inadvertently omitted from
the list of teachers in the Methodist Sab-
bath school published last week.
Rev. G. H. Cobblediok, M. A., B. D.,
will proaoh the irltrodcotory sermons of
lois pastorate in Brussels next Sunday.
Mr. Cobblediok and family arrived in
town on Tuesday afternoon.
Fourth Division Court.
The usual sittings of the Fourth
Division Court was held ab the Town
Hall, Brussels, on June 27th, Judge
Doyle presiding.
The following oases were heard :—
Jas. Steep' vs. Z. Molleo—An adjourned
case from last court. Settled by parties,
Coates et al vs. Broadfoob—Disputed
account, Referred to arbitration of A.
Hunter.
Humphries vs. Coltes—Aotion for prioe
of a pea harvester, returned by defen.
dant on ground of not being satisfactory.
His Honor gave judgment for plaintiff
for full amount with costs,
Burton vs. Milne—Disputed account.
Judgment for defendant with posts.
Graham vs. Taylor—Action on note.
Judgment for plaintiff for full amount
with costs.
A number of Judgment Summonses
were beard and the usual orders made.
Supreme lodge, A. 0. 01, W.
The Supreme Lodge of the A. 0. U.
W. which met at Toronto,
spent most of Saturday discussing a
report of the Committee on Laws. It
recommended among other things that
the exolusion of those engaged in the
manufacture of gunpowder, dynamite
and other explosives, in blasting, mining,
operating oiraular saws, also mariners,
submarine divers, locomotive engineers,
firemen, switchmen and brakemen on
freight trains, be made mandatory.
These recommendations were defeated.
Then the Supreme Lodge took up the
question of the liquor dealers again.
There was a great fight over the proposed
exclusion of wholesalers. It was con-
tended that if it was made mandatory in.
steady of optional with Grand Lodge
jurisdictions it might result in the ex.
elusion of druggists who sell liquor.
The proposal was finally defeated. The
proposal to refuse all applioations from
retail liquor dealers benoeforth carried
unanimously. At 4 o'clock the delegates
were reoeived by His Honor the Lieut-
enant -Governor at the Government
House, and at 8 o'clock a banquet was
held at the Roslin House. The meeting
will not finish this week in all probabi-
lity. San Francisco, 15a1.; Evansville,
Ind,, and Cinoinneti, 0., all wanb the
Supreme Lodge next year. The chances
are in favor of the Pacific Slope. After a
lively debate, it was unanimously decided
to bold the next ineeting in San Francium.
Permission was granted to the District
of Oklahoma to leave a separate bene-
ficiary as soon as they shall have attain-
ed a membership of a thousand. A
number of obanges were recommended
by the various committees, and were
adopted without debate. The following
officers were elected. :—Supreme Master
Workman, Dr. D. H. Shields, Hannibal,
Mo. ; Supreme Foreman, Lewis L.
Troy, Chicago, Ill. ; Supreme Recorder,
M. W. Sackett, Meadville, Pa.; Supreme
Reoeiver, J. J. Anker, Albany, N, 7. ;
Supreme Overseer, Jos. D. Riggs, Kan-
sas ; Supreme Guide, John Milne,
Exeter, Ont. ; Supreme Watohman,
Benj. F. Geiger, Detroit, Mich. ; Su-
preme Medical Examiner, Wm. 0. Rich-
ardson, St. Louis, 1010.
Perth County.
A woman named Cushin was in Strat-
ford on Saturday loolcing for her husband
who beaded her in Mitchell. Cusbin
went to Mitchell from Clinton last week
and was followed a few days after by his
wife and three small children. Tiley
rented a house in the town and the hus-
band wont to work for Andrew Forrester.
Cushin failed to turn up at his work and
investigation showed bloat he had shipped,
leaving his wife and family to shift for
themselves. The town authorities oared
for the family for awhile and Coen Mrs.
Oushin set out to look for her recreant
husband. At Ssbringville she was told
Seat he was in Stratford and she went
there to look for bis but he load not
turned up at last accounts. Cushin is
said to be a British pensioner. What
induced him to desert his wife is not
known, bot it is surmised there was some
atbraction in Clinton that led him to
leave his family.
The Stratford Herald obrouldes the
death of George Brunner, one of the old•
est settlers of Dlliao township, whore he
lived for 55 years, Mr. Brunner %vas a
native of Alsace and a Frenchman in
sympathies, though speaking both French
and German languages. He was bore
near Ingeubeim, Alsace, 88 years and 5
menthe ago. About 60 years ago he
came to Canada, settling inn Waterloo
county, where he married Mies Elizabeth
Hoffman, who died 15 years past. After
four or five years residence in Waterloo
he moved into Ellice, and settled on the
lob on which he died, He was a man
widely known and respeoted, and enjoyed
excellent health and strength for hie
years up to some six weeks ago, when he
Was seized with an atbaok of the grip,
which led to hie death, He was attach-
ed to the Lutheran (huroh, and in
politica was a staunch Conservative. lie
leaves a flto family of two sons and four
daughters to mourn his lose.
W. H. KERR, Prop,
PEJISUSAr, PAIIA41R.tI'115.
Dir. Stitt, of Chicago, is in town,
Miss Mabel Smith was visiting ab
Listowel.
W. Nightingale and wife, of Allleton,
are in town.
R. Pelton, of Innerkip, was in town
lamb Sunday,
33, Coobrano ha away to Hamilton on
a business trip,
Mundy Mclennan, of London, was
here this weals.
Jas. Tuompson, of Wroxeter, ie in
town Ilia week.
D. M. Ferguson, of Stratford, was in
Brussels on Thursday.
Mrs. Harvey Beam is visiting her
father at Mount Pleasant,
Lincoln Hemblyy has taken a situation
in a Woodstock flouring mill.
B. F. Brook, the Listowel woolen mill
lonelier, was in town on Tuesday.
Hrs. Bennett and daughter, of Sea -
forth were visiting at Jno. Shaw's.
Mrs. McKay, John street, who was ill,
bas got quite smart again we are pleased
to hear.
Miss Frank Pelton and Frankie Wilson.
have gone to Chicago to see the great
Columbian Fair.
Miss Kate Shaw has hap laid up with
a lame foot occasioned by mooning a
piece of zinc in it.
Miss Braden started for Calgary, N.'
W. T. last Tuesday where she will spend
a couple of months.
Mrs. Wm. Thomson is home from an
extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. M.
McLennan, London.
Uriah McFadden, law student, of Sault
Ste. Marie, is visiting relatives and
friends in this locality.
Mrs. A. MoLean and son, of Seafortb,
are visiting at P. Scott's. Yee. MoLean
and Mrs. Scott are sisters.
Percy Jackson, of Toronto, is in town
thie week. He came to attend the
funeral of his brother Archie.
Mrs. George Cardiff left Brussels on
Tuesday for a 40 day excursion to Mani.
robe among relatives and friends.
A. Konig is on the sick list suffering
from the effect of the collision on the
Driving Park last Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Newsome was summoned to
Chicago by the dangerous illness of her
daughter. She left Brussels on Monday.
Mrs. (Rev.) W. G. Reilly is visiting at
Chesley. She and Mr. Reilly attended
the funeral of an old friend in that town
last week.
Principal Cameronpurposes visiting
the World's Fair during the holidays.
He will likely go from Owen Sound per
steamboat.
Wm. Begg and wife, of Collingwood,
Miss MaKeohnie and Miss Reid, of Olin.
ton, were visiting at the Queen's Hotel,
Brussels, last week.
Jack Sanderson, Wroxeter's popular
merobant, was in town on Tuesday ar-
ranging some preliminaries in connection
with their celebration next Monday.
Rev. W. Baugh, and family, were in
town on. Wednesday en route to Auburn,
their new circuit. Mr. Baugh was
stationed at Walton a few years ago.
R. 3. Strong, artist, is away on a
holiday trip to Ms home at Toronto.
Some folks say be may bring "Mrs."
Strong bank with him but we cant say
e,s to that.
Willie Wilton had his right Ieg injured
lash week by the wheel of the peddling
wagon of Ballantyne ex Wilton passing
over it while attending to his duties in
Grey township.
Mr. Collinson, of Midland City, Mich.,
is - visiting his daughter, Mrs. I. 0.
Biobards. He intends staying a month
or more in the hope iof bh
oe e
is t change being
beneficial 1 o his health which has been
very poor of late.
In a letter received by A. Reid from
Colorado Addie Cormack is reported to
be considerably better. Mrs. Reid ar-
rived there without the folks having any
intimation of her ooming as the telegram
sent had gone astray.
Robb. Armstrong arrived house last
Monday from Bark's Falls where he had
been for the past three months erecting
and putting machinery into a shingle
mill, with capaoiby of 60,000 per day.
Kennedy Bros. are the proprietors. The
mill is said to be the best in the County.
Jas. Menzies, formerly of Ethel, was as-
sociated with Mr. Armstrong iu the
work.
• -LOSDIXIONAL LOCAL MEWS.
AsouT 200 tons of hay have been de-
livered at the Maitland rink, Brussels,
this weak for Messrs. Graham ea Van -
stone, where they intend pressing and
haling it for the Old Conutry market.
CRIT.—The Listowel Banner of last
week says of an unole of Chris. Ziiliax'e,
of Brussels ;—"On Monday at his place
near Lebanon, the death 000urred very
suddenly of 0, Stsurnagel, for many
years a resideub and one of the beet
farmers of the township of Maryboro.
He was working in the field with hie
man, hewing some timber for a culvert.
Tho man noticed him stoop down and
fall forward and going to his assistance
fouud him dead. Deceased was a native
of Hesee•Darmsbadt, Germany, and was
65 years, 5 months and 15 days old. He
lived for some time in Conuistoga and
for about 25 years in Maryboro. The
funeral took place on Wednesday to the
new cemetery, Listowel, and was very
largely attended. One of hie sons is
practicing medioine very successfully in
Chicago, another is living in Dakota, and.
a number of married daughters live in
bhe neighborhood. He leaves a widow to
whom his sudden death is a severe Mille.
tion in the evening of her life. Mt.
Sbsurnagel was of a partioularly kind
disposition and was held in much per-
sonal regard by his neighbors and friends.
Ile was an earnest and coneisto b sup-
porter of the Methodist (thumb at Le-
banon."
Thos. Jones alit
ppod from Mitchell sta-
tion the other day eight pare of fitst•alase
cattle/or whioh was paid the sum of
410,000. James Sills, Ed. McLaren,
Arthur Hicks and Fred. Hord acnom-
parried them to the Old Country as
tourists, •