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- Although -ouri;}sale has started in with a rush, and hundreds of patrons have been surprised by the bargains we offer, and pleased with their purchases
yet we still have itn enormous quantity of high graae merchandise to sell,. and the selections ale practically as good as ever
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THESE A E GENUINE BARGAINS.
Dress' Goods., Half Price
500 yards all' wool Dressgoods, mostly all
shades, your choice, half price,
Ladies Cloth Skirts 3.98
3 dozen Ladies Cloth. Skirts, all new styles
in navy, black and grey, reg. 6 oo, sale price 3,95
Nett Waists 2.45
3 dozen Ladies Nett• Waist., cream and
white, silk -lined, would be good value. at 3 75
sale price ............... ''4 445 `.
Lawn Waists 75c
1 dozen only Ladies Lawn Waists, slightly
soi.ed, reg. L50, sale price 75e
'Satin Underskirts 1.39
2 dozen Ladies Satin Underskirts, l.adiy
_green and cerise, reg. 2.00, sale price 1.39
Sweater Coats 25 p. c. Off
2 dozen only in blue, red grey, 25 p. c off
Your choice of any Cloth Coat in stock half
price.
Table Linen 49c
200 yards bleached and unbl: ached Table
Linen, i.4 inches wide, reg. 75c, sale price.... 49e
Table Linen 84c
75 yards unbleached Table Linen, 54 inches
L
, leg. 75c, sale price ............... 84e
'.'cur, choice
of any
Cloth. Coat
in stock
Half Price
Trimmings
Half Price
1000 yards Dress Trim-
mings, all shades, choice
hail price.
Satin 15c
400 yards fancy Satin,
suitable for comforters
and cushions, reg 25c sale
price 15e ,
Black Pailette
Silk 65c
4o yards black Pailette Silk 30 inches wide,
reg. 9oc, sale price ..,...... 650
Sale Will be Continued all January
Linen Towe ix g 8c
200 yards all Linen Tow eling, red border,
reo. tae, sale price 8P7
Cashmere Gloves 22o
4 dozen Cashmere Gloves, navy and black,
reg J5c, sale price 22e
Paibbt ns 1 eic a :fid'
1000 yds gond Taffctta Ribbon, all shades;
reg. 25 and J5c, sale price 14e
Ladies Belts 13c
2 dozen Ladies Belts, patent
and 3oc, sale 'pride
Toques 19c
2 doz n Children's Toques,
and blue, giey and blue, reg. 25c
leather, reg. 25
13c
small sizes, red
sale price....t9e
Children's Clot. Dresses
1 dozen Children's Cloth Dresses, Made of
good duality serge and panania, ages i6, 8, 10 and
12 years, reg. 5.00, sale price 2.89
C.: l-tain Madras 24c
zoo ,aids cream Curtain 1.Iadras, rzg, 35,
and 40c, sale price 240
Curtain Scrim 25c
ino yards Scrim in blue and white, green
and white at d red and white, reg. 45c,- sale
price 150
eieseseese
Curtain Muslin, 14c
75 yards pretty Curtain Muslin suitable for
bed room, ingreen and red, brown and fawn,
reg, 25c, sale price )4c
25 per cent off all Furs aL d
Fur Lined Coats,
JInitett
4Ir, and Mrs. Geo Jackson and
daughter Herta spent Sunday and
Mouduy of last week with Me. and
Mee. Frani: Luugnt-w.
\Vam, 1Mfanning and \vim, McOool
etre spending a week with friends in
Termite) avid Niagara, Falls.
Mr, and Mee, Jittery Wagner, of
13nee Line si:enI Sunday with friends
• on llth con.
Wm, Govier has engaged with John
Hutton for this year,
Mies Eleie Lyon daughter of henry
Lyon is taking a course in Oliutou
Business College.
John Hutton had a• smoke stark
e.•ectctl on i'uesdmy iu pirtoe of the
that was blown (Dern.
CLINTON MARKETS:
Hogs ,$8.40
EEggss 35-36
knitter 23-25
:Wheat 80-83
Oats 30-33
Peas 80-85
Barley. 4'8-50
Bran $221-1$2,3
Shorts $23";-$24
Toronto Markets
Top ,.,nutations this wc'el:,-
Ctatgtle< .1. $9,00
Lamb% $9.50
Sheep . $6,25
'Hogs • • $6.25
Cheesle 1.4 3-4
Butter
Egger
Wheat].
Cnare
Barley
Mrs, Oohler ot"L'uronto is spenping a l
few weeks. with her aistei s Mrs, Oleos. I
Stewart and Mrs, Wei. Stevens.
On Wednesday of this week John
Walt, a we It known reeident of the
13th con., passed away ih the Clinton
hospital atter• a serious operation on
'i'11eeday. The cause of his 11I health
foe .Lhe petit three years w'as 0000er
Deceased was hero in Scotland in 1S37
mei in 1542 (mute to Canada with his
parents raid settled near Hamilton.
After the death of his father, acoom,
ponied' by his mother he settled on the
farm .r he owned in Mullett, lot 8, con
13Th, and lived there for aver 50 years
11e was Lever monied. He is survived
F,y only two sisters, Mrs. Geo. Knox,
of i•tatluck anti Mee, John 61 tson near
Brussels, lie was a staunch Liberal
•tad a member of Burn's chur•cla, Tee
funeral will be held on Friday after
ncuu irons his late reeidenoe 1.:u been's
cemetery. He is survlvet' by many
nephews and nieces. Mrs. )Vitt of
Clinton is 0 sister iii law,
E3I}'lla
Mr, and hire, Amos. Spull have
settled in their home here. We wel-
come them to our ruidste
Mr. and Mrs. Hooper and two sons
spent Sunday with her aunt Mrs.
Danby,
Herbert Dexter who has been en-
gaged with Bainterfe tannery he"e is
engaged w ill Jas Cartright fur this
month,
e 26 to 29c- Rayfield
37c The Temperance meeting held in
92e St. Andrews church on Tuesday even
40c ing, last was not very well attended,
e 60tfo,62 owingningto the severe storm of that.
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- bag 901to $1 eve.
P,bF�uttoes pen,
Beans x......$1.75 t,o 1.85. temperance sermons v411 be preach
ed in St. Andrews church next Sunday
morning and in the Methodist church
in the evening.
The last meeting of the town council
was a quiet one and only two o0icers
were granted, which were, the clerk-
ship again taken by H. Erwin and B.
Blair beingointed town constable
PP
iies
for the cougyear,
We are sorry to have i:0 record the
mia
death of Mr, John Whiddon who has
been very ill for some time past at the
home of''Archie- Armstrong on the
Bronson Line. 'Mr. Whidden' died
suddenly though unexpectedly as
dden rho z h not u
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Lowe I his daughter, 141rs. Brown of Iow. ) s
been called to his bedside sometime
ago and remained until his death. The
late Mr. Whiddon will be greatly lam
ented•for as he was a general favorite
throdghout the community.
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Goderich
The Goderich Industrial Exhibition
board held its annual meeting ltof. .
Friday for electing officers and genet al
discussion ' of affairs,From reports
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given, everything was found to be in a
e ythin g
i and al.
most flourishing condition, a
though the surplus carriedrried over w as
not aslarge as to former years, was.
most satisfactory, „Better prize lists
marl'
were given in every class, ,parid: y.
in the stock and horse :racine , and pay.
lug more money for more competent
judges The prize list far the coming
year will be increased materially,
especially in the heavy draught horses
Lash year'sfair,proved to be the second
best ,in its history. The following
officers were electecte ,
d•. President
Isaac Sallteld; -first vice•president,
George Andrews: second vice-president"
Charles McNeil': Irencurer Alex Young.
se'wet Rey, t. A,l'ur howI(n tiler: ors,
Gocletich I\,ottship, Berry 5olkeltt
George La ihwa!tr Oliver Ed.:trees
Win. lIri 01(0) '0 Gaol go'cOrd y, Uol
bone 'I'nw +<•1.'p, Hugh Dill, h'r, 1
tuna,, ht Ink out Aaron Fieh,•r,
Leslie Flick tin l,.ttcit, 1)r, (enie, u'. 1
'I' Morney, ei ,yee Reid arid Tho nn)s 1
13e11. Isaac etdevid \v to 11OpoinLad to
sttend the tiietrict fair board, ro he
held et 1») ttfo'd est the end or the
month..
In Uo,l mei'rrmer principle, Dr. 11
I Strang, of the Col. glare 1 1811) ate
there, io Merle ieiegraiwlated upon
liivieg las, wheel 1ot.tpleletl his 50 11
year fe th 0-,1,lull,; pinf•ss:o r, De.
Strang is Icn.,w0 all uvar this put e,1
the Province as tin (dlt:ationi t .tad is
looked upon as en teoli ority on Lang
tutees, In (1 ):.eerie!) iter 0 held up as
the father etlhe reeeeing profession.
tie was born in '0.11, in Gel_ one year
after the 1' uu1!n,• of (leen ,e's College
tt leingslnn Anel the 8 Incry000 that
the Gogo' i .l) ('ugh glnte Institute wire
born, In Jai fiery, 1801, he nommen (pi
teaching in a tem 1.1 y ouh o -1, going the
next yees 511t:(1, wht to he
remained nil 1571 Ll: %ver;t to the
Goderich e. ,tlogiat- 1 mstttn e Chet.
yettr, wh t ' }le was primeval f ,r 31-
yeus, 111,1.1 11(0, whew he retied fenm
the p1100 18hip lett still rem deg a
number of ' he sL,.il tad b 01 tending
classics iu the (1. O. 1, 1.;e t. he year
10(32 he g:oduot.e(l from the Toronto
Univel'811 y nncL some y(: ml's later:' ,e
ceived the hrnoreiy title of L L D..
being one e f the !lest, heetow ed bythat
college• L Cathy, Dr. Strang is a gen-
eral favorite alio is really a ",lear old
man," Although a'rnan of 73 years of
age, he is hale ited: h:'orty stud says he
feels :as young its Suer. Go .the last
day of the y eer in 1572 he marl ie.d Miss
Elizabeth Mnrrisnn, daughter of the
late Rev. Dr. Morrison of Oven
Sound, and rrs the doctor expressed it
he told the boys he was turning over
to new leaf when the happy event took
place. Six girls and one son blessed to
happy marriage 'and the homily circle
was compete and all were able to be
O c
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e at the season of re unions,last
Presbyterian (ill l`iatma8 a t.
H ie a E res rptrrian and
regular attendant of Knox church.
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livery of their paper 1 y giving their old
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subiicrli_ tions.
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Explosion
Supt, Mole'Has Been Blind Since
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Gasoli�te. Torch blast As He
Was at Work.
Seaforth, Jan. 19, -Mr. Ed. Mole,
superintendent of the, Seaforth elec
tric "light department, 'nee with a
very painful accident, when as he
n into was pumpx g air to n a gasoline
torch it exploded, Mending the
blazing gasoline into his face and
completely blinding him.
His face and head'aee ,seveiaely
burned but the doctors in a ' ii d-
e t
, is
ance hope to. savle his sight.
be excused if called upon by tite
Lieutfenatit-Gov'eernoe •to Sorin a •
cabinet,
Hon, Mr, Hanna isProvinc:ial Sec-
rotary; IIon. Mr. Lucas, Provincial
Treasurer; Hon. Otto. Hearst, Min-
teher of Lands, Forests incl' M1liaples,
and Iran. Adarn Beck, min,isee.rwith
out portfolio, but unoffilciallyerein
iet:er of Power. -
How to improve
Parliament
Some years ago a man in Spot -
land was convicted and imprison-
ed for saying that the Britialh. eon-
eltftution rcould be improved upon.
In Canada wegua'rcl against✓ (moil-
,t' bySec. 33,of the
ar rose u of s
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criminal Grade which, among other
beings, provides ;
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Hensail, Jan, L0. -The .11°1401, King
ow dib
George,. ale yr 'Co es of 1Vl . op ,
Cllutou and than d byR11
gerM1 C
ing here, was partially desQtoyed.
by fire last night. The ,structure is..
of brick and was only put up about
It o years ago. The "fulemen did
good evork in saving othel. build-
ings around it, which are of frame-
work, The inside of the building is
badly gutted.
The loss is about one nth
ousand
dollars, covered by insurance. The
cause is riot known.
N' otwitheitanding`Sir James Whit-
s s, r' L• "e', a
nes e loos condition t le., is
'wicl✓e!epreiad 'Ltelief that the grim
figlet 1h,o s waging in.the Manhet-.
can Rotel, v ' 1 not vith-
IIo re New ] of , is t
vith-
out la Should i - ha that Sir
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hope. Sh Ll L 1
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James 1c overs 2nd 1etulus taTnr-
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onto; 11. 1s conesdercd 1m ossibl'e
that he will that ever asst me tho1encl
t
er'ship he
ice party again, but that
he(will yield to thjo wishes of 'his
friends!,and in order to `eonseu e
his iettlv
enetle, evil:l have to ;1e6`ir(e
'froom. 'the 1qu5Ilserore o1f a,orxz ex"
life. In this event 'itis lit=el y that
the choice of the Conservative par
(tly in 1Onitario will be one of, hale
above clan. All ante able, andpop-
ular 'till their party, and .pro b-
alily none of the four Would aslt 'to
part 01 it, or of Canada ovally
Province thereof, or. in tither
muse of parliament.
We are, the;efone, al liberty to
su of.
e. t that'the constitution
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rIi en weight bele
our Domi�iio p p+1 Ilam
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improved upon t10perhaps,
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1 ata re of
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�enfitnl respects, but1tm e
s e z 1, >
cll4 tiaiI
L as tater, too
7 o begin with, ])e et t
large, the mere bui]clen of expanse
ids' cot4s ckeable,eand thje .body` Is
less lroprlese'relative because se
unwieldly,' •Senators ebo.uld be
men of such weight and distinction
that no government would dare to
appoint mere hangeersoii, If ()ne-
aten had three ou'Isle eentieors,in-
stead of twenty-four it would be a
great •clisetipetion for - amen to be a
great
from •Ontariio. If Lhe Do -
0110200 selnlate' consisted oftwelve
or twenty-four big repriesetutative
men insteadofanpneity odd mem-
bees---some of t'hiem nundesct'ip„--
the senatorial veto would carry
more weightl Incidlentalty, it
would Le easy to swamp a email
(`h mteer by,special creations, and
thus the senate could always be
quickly brought into poltticatsym-
pathy with the house.
With a senate of twenty-four
members, we might get along very
w'etl
wail the houste oe commons
limited to 100 01'150 memlae.'s, and
illis quite conceivable that mgrs
mefeeble), un e'en: our pretsettk
y3f.tem, may 5000 Lncreas;e or. fall,
had wo the sante population 118 Lee
United States -and many now ih--
ing wall seer 100;000000 peeped. m
Canada -our house of commons,
witlh the present unit of rept,esen-
tation would contain about 1000
tne-mbci•s.
At present ytleget our unit for
parliamentary repro:imitation after
each census, by dividing the pop-
ulation of Qucbcr by c5, chat prov-
ince being entitled under the11.N.
A, act to 65 members- Would it not
be more dee iirable to limit lhemem-
bership of the house, to say, 150
Members, arriving at. the unit for
parliamentary 1lepreeentatime, after
every (teen. sus, by dividing 150 into
the population of Canada?
Dee ,bigger men for parliament.
would result with the adoption of
1 salary systom Parliament should
assurable anllomaucaliy, say, on
Scptiemb:ev 15111; and again, say, on
February 15th, remaining in eessioe
the grealler pelt of the year with
committees at work between .ses-
sions.. Perhaps the cabinet should
be reduced from 10,meerebe4gstdo8,
The praslent parliament contains
allot of brainy men, bnt they will
probably agree that the present sys
tem could be improved upon,
LIVES BY HER WITS.
Only Its Sense of Humor Saved This!
Hen Fromit
Decap anon.
leer some time, writes "Suburbanite"
In the Glasgow News, one of my bens
has been indulging itself u a practice
that but for the little joke involved
world have ended M Its decapitation.
it is one of at -,pen of eigit egg ma-
chines, or seven, rather, for its egg
producing meebttncsm is considerably
out of order. its best average being
about one in the fottnight. Yet until
recently that hen was scheduled on my
book es Ole piimier layer e]'That hap-
peued in this way:
Every morning when 1 made my ap-
peiTtIli,ce In the garden Nora (the hen)
would be for ti
1 d '1
t clucking
beside one of
b
the eggs with all the force of its rau-
cous throat.
If any of its sisters raid claim to the
Property there would be a wild Clutter,
and tbe'nn d tcio
t us bird would continue
her boasting when she had cleated her
bill of feathers.
Some thin n^ro I discovered bei in
the act of taking up. her stand over the
Production of another leu, and e. wt re•
Pul watch thereafter disclosed bei trite
capabilities, A sense of humor is nn•
cionb 1 • u
ted o e of h n
ter atll h
y c tis is be'
ing regarded as a saving grace, for 1
hove decided to allow her' to continue
living by het' wits.
PERSIA'S POET LAUREATE. '
His Job, When He Had One, Waa
Anything but a Sinecure.
Persia is the only country besides
England wbere a poet laureate has
been officially maintained until re.
ceutiy,
$bale Muzzaffer el Din iu 1890 abol-
'shed the post of honor. which the
court of Teheran for centuries had
boasted. But the duties of the laureate
of old Ivan were far more onerous
than those of his British confrere.
Court etiquette demanded that when-
ever the "king of kluge" traveled his
entourage had to include a dwarf,. a
giant, a )ester, a historiographer and a
poet laureate.
The Inst two were kept busy, for,
while the historiographer bad to record
for 'posterity all the doings and sayings
of the shah (path -shah), the laureate
was called •upon to celebrate a large
proportion of these in verse. This cus-
tom was not so bad after all, and it
was rigidly observed and fellowed op,
for the shah, knowing' that many of
his deeds and utterances would be
crystallized mato an ode, on bis imperial
wandering felt bound to Speak and to
behavemajestically,
a thing that Muz-
znfl'er el Din, 'who abolished the lau-
reateship, never did. i]
ad I
Pbio
Ledger.
An Uncomplimentary 'Composer.
A young tenor, whose misfortune it
was to be hideouslyugly, waited on
Cherabini one day and asked to be al-
lowed to give a specimen of his vocal
powers Ford hi 1.i ti
a won err s app es on
was met by a sulky nod of e000ies-
educe. IIe sung, and sang superbly.
There carne another nod, accompanied
by something like a snort of setisfac-
tion. Then came which, after
P 1111
' a minute or so, was brokenby the
youthful artist asking in faltering ac-
cents ,whether he might eventually
hope for an engagement at the grand
opera. "Nor thundered the director s,
"Bu m
t 113. Chert
Rin "- "Nor No
The d1s-
eonsol
ate artist was .slowly departing;
when Cberubin' rose. took him ey both
arms atld looked him fully in the face."
t"I am sorry," he said,'+'very,sorry, but,
mon cher, do you think thal,the opera
could
geta company for
,
P a m pa❑ y o , z3ng ou-
tangs to sing with you?"-Sala's "Life
end Adventures."
Worth the Penalty.
John, four'en '
ns old, yPASr trying : to
run, the lawn mower, whicb he had
been forbidden dden
to touch.
His mother came
to tate door
and
told him to stopit,bu
John ran the
mower down • the strip of lawn and
back again before be stopped.
"Yon will
have to come into the
house and stay for an hour," said his
mother.
"Why did you run that mower after
I' told you to stop?" sbe asked.
"Wel], °'mamma," ' said John, "1'd
rather
e have run it
twice and have to
stay y n the loris( for an hour than not
run it at all," -National ]luontbly?.