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an 58 000,1,
9&cC111OV oH o! the 1w toWne•
s111 obuiW regblar,
eie'•that;,'of • a' reaaligular 'qttadri1a-
6an'nearlY aPproathing a square, but
oineWhat more eatelicted from north-
east 16' sMithwest then southwest to
,northWest, those points being nearly
'stored by the , projection of its
undaey. linee, which are as follows
athd,aanrtheast, Morris and GOY ;
to'tbo , southerist ,the township Of laci-
ejee,perea County ; .to the south-
,ewest ,the township 01 Hilbert in Pere
'th,t3Onnty, and Tuckersinith ; and to
e, 'northwest the township .of
Ilul-
In its `topigraphy formation and
'quality of soil McKillop very much
resembles the last ineettioned toWn-
. ,
.ship, heretefore described, tending
probably to a condition of the more
-nearly revel, which circumstances op-
erated against its rapid developernent
in the early days of the Country's
history to even- a greater extent than
in the case of its sister I:awn:hip ;
although the prosperous settlement
known as the "Irish Settlement" iii
the townships of McKillop and 1 -lib-
, • bert, on either Side of the Huron
Road, was one of the earliest, -at
• least Of so great extent, in the wole
Huron Tract.
"Among those who formed the settle-
ment oi • "Irishtown'' were Dennis and
John Downie, Patre:zic and miclisel VanEgniond, John Bingham and T.
. Patrick O'Sullivan, Thomas G °yenta*, and at these Mr. Flays
`Fox, II. O'Neil and McConnell ()lithe was unanimously chosen the first
1VIcKillop 1' side and Edward Reeve, Robt. Canna was clerk, 1 hom-
- Downie, Cavanaugh, Michael Grib- as Govenlock, treasurer; Patrick 0' -
bin, Thos. Carlin, Hugh Mc Sullivan, Robt,- McMillan and Tames
Laughlin, Murphey, Peter McCanus Longbottom, assessors ; Alex. Wilson
and Miles McCann On the Hibbert collector; P. O'Sullivan' and George
:theheuse of ,,-Willieent ,Leee, Lot,.•• 19,
con j,he iiihalians of the" toevie:,
ehips.,:of.Idelcillop, Logan ancle Hileheat
agreeable '16'the elAat.:aritt' ta• eyetimit
•
:ere ..„ •
-Si,itied...'ht,'"4,:athillalelelarelrson ea:4d Wile_
'llard'UleellealEalliirearatiatif,;i,e:her :5101,
i'eatjt;S"":talietiCea't ethea'Peaefe.' "aflie"
called Alexa Cameron in the, lir and.
IlaYklig chosen Jahn Goventoele 'roan
-
ship Clerk' far, the ensuing. year
The sanie minutes show that, the a-
bove town -meeting "-elected Matheva'
Ward ol Lo,gen ' 'Assessor ; Dennis
Dowaie, Collector, anti, James Grieve
John lea'cl'aw and Alea.' Oaf:am:op
Town Wardene. •Among those' evhose.
names , we see ire conneetiole with the
var'ouS offices hia "that year, were • ;,
John, Croil, John Bulger, Henry O'-
Neil, James Cita, William Hab-
kirk, Pobt. Scott,' S. Meyers, John
Kenna, William Cluff, M. - Canna,
Joseph Jenkins, Patrick Hugh
McCann, Robt. Downie, ,Edward Dow-
nie, John Lapalie, Peter Meeeann,,, J.
Henderson, Alex. Wilson, the inaor-
ity o whom being residifits of Mea
Killore Would seem to indicate that
'this township contained at that time a
greater number of settlers than the
other , two. ,
In 1814 Logan withdrew, from the
other two townships and some time
subsequently Ilibliert also withdrew,
but there always was a municipal un-
ion with one oe more - of the follow-
ing : Ilullett, Morris, Grey or flow -
ick, until 1856 in which year the two
-
latter withdrew 'leaving Mc:Sinop
thenceforth a' one, •
In 1850, the first year of the op-
eration of the Municipal Act, the
councillors elected, (Hullett and 1 -1i11 -
beet were then in the union) were :
Robert Hays, Dennis Downie, August
V F4Tain Spa ane
SPekerlei, Wash &.' 3011L
Editor, ,of The New's-Record
De,arfEditoreLaInst a few Werde re-
gatding the great issue:, "prohibition" ,•
befoye the peoplaeot dear 'old, Huron
Couity Ihave been reading artic-
lea he your -paper "The ;Record" up-',
holding the regulated iicensed sale ol
limier as the ,eolution of 'thedrink
•elteetion aii-d» I :would like te sat
that, for many', long : yeal:S` Huron
,o6bAty and Old On-tario haere ,, tried
that' SYS-taloa:but have Tailed elm*
because it's wrong , and evil in :the
sight Of God and right thinking' men .
and Will, 'always, fail because, :wrong.
There is .only one tight way and
will onlY be one right yeay, .fter God
eays "woe unto 1)110111 that tarry long
at the 11rjile.:l and he that Putteth taw
cup to his neighbers lips and puts
athrnbling block in his neighbors
way is committing Sin, so when in-
dividual or state makes provision
for the sale ureter 'law of auch aw-
ful, tratic it _ surely sin on the
part of each and every one who vot-
es' for such law. ' So then, if sin,
the eonsequencea are )death either in
,murder, suicide, -accident; or the
countless member of results that fol -
lbw the liquor traffic. It's very
pretty to adyanee the need of regul-
ated license ,because ofincome der-
ived therefrom. All false, as can
readily, be proven, and has been
done, by actual experience in many
many states in the United States of
America. The fact is men do not
vote as they pray and cannot for
one moment stand clear before 'God,
•voting to litense the sale of intoxi-
cating liquoe. - Any sane man knows
and recoils at the thought of licen-
sing the "Red Light District." So
why license an evil that causes much
of the "Red Light District" in our
land ,to -day.
May God • open the eyes of the
church members in dear old Ontario
to the •great responsibility resting on
them in this great issue beore them.'
And may each and every voter re-
member that some day he muet give
an account before the Judge of all the
world for deeds done in the body
whether they be good or evil.
I wonder if thoSe who vote for lic-
ense could -stand before Him and de-
clare their action just. If they could
not, an:! I'm sure from the word of .
God they could not, then be sure
you vote to destroy and put' out of
the land this awful destroyer of body
soul and spirit "strong drink".
• "A Subscriber"
And Huron Old Boy,
W. A. ELLIOTT
side. There was also a " Scotch
Settlement" formed about the same
time or very shortly after, prong the
first line back of Harpurhey, but the
precise date which witnessed the lo-
. cation of the first settlers of either
Scotchtown or Irishtown, cannot be
ascertained. found in the general history. Next
Unlike some other new townships year,1854, Robert Hays was Peeve
in which certain localities wexe set- of MeKillop and G-rey and in 1855 he
tled by Scotch and others by Irish was Reeve of McKillop, Grey and
the people of McKillop seemed to get Howick, but that was the. last year of
along amicably in the management of municipal union. Dennis Downie was
Thompson, auditorta; Rev. Clias. Pict -
cher, superintendent of education.
Up io ,and including 1853 -the year
of the withdrawal of Perth County
from the union -those who represent-
ed the several townships in the Dis-
trict and County Couneils will be -
their municipal and other local af-
fairs and a perusal of he township
records show the varions offices to
have been monopolized by neither of chair for one year, 1863, being again
the nationalities, but fairly distribut- followed by Mr. Govenloek in 1664.
ed among those of both. The first In 1865 Mr. John Elliott was Reeve
'organization of McKillop for municie and the next year the township- for
-pal purposes took place in the year,
1842,, in connection with the town-
ships of Hibbert and Logan, now in
Perth. The records of that year have
been lost, but from those of the
succeeding year we give an extract to
show the proceedings of their town
reeve for 1856-57, followed by Thais,
GoVenlock from 1858. to 1862, when
Mr, Downie agaan occupied the civic
the first, time elected a deputy
reeve, From then the representa-
tives to the county were 1866, Jo-
seph Evans, Samuel Hannah : '69-71,
W. J. Shannon, Samuel Hannah '72-
75, W. J. Shannon, James Hays; In
1876 the township- was divided into
meeting. - • wards. Thos.. D• Hays was elected
"McKillop, January 2nd, 1813, in reeve and Alex. Kerr deputy reeve,
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By=Law No.10for 1913
of the Town of Clinton.
Seafertli • s7o-aftal.
re A. ,
Dominion Bank, aied , Mrs, Colhon
were in Guelph teat week owing to
the illness and stilesequent death of
• ,
" COISmrmanager • of
Mr, Chojrce of Steatford visited' Mr,
and Naas. Murray of towea foe at
few days recently.
Mrs, Will Charters of Saskatoon is
spending the winter with, Mrs, R,
Chartersof town,
Mee, George Sparring, of the west;
Who is a guest at the home of , her'
sisterein-law, Mrs, J. Welsh, is quite '
the
A BY-LAW Fon; ENTRUSTING TO
ONE COMMISSION THE CON-
TROL OF ALL PUBLIC UTIL-
ITY WORKS OWNED BY THE
CORPORATION OF THE TOWN
OF CLINTON.
WHEREAS by virtue of By-law
No. 11 for 19111 Of the said Town the
control of the Waterworks Sygtem of
the said Town hal been entrusted to
a commission and commissioners
have been duly elected pursuant
thereto ;
AND WHEEE'AS the said Cor-
poration has heretofore entered into
an agreement with the Hydra -Elec-
tric Power Commission of Ontatio
for the supply ol electrical power
and it ,is necessary that a commis-
sion should be elected to control and
operate the works undertaken by the
Corporation for the distribution Mild
supply of electrical rows e in pur-
suance of Section 1 of An Act Re-
specting Municipal Electric Light and
Power Works, being Chap. 45 of the
Statutes passed in the Second year
of the Reign of His Majesty. King
George V (1912) ;
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'_ •
-MT. Eindblir Of • Suoyvflake, Man,,
lia$ been visiting Mr, and Mrs. Ged.
Chesney and other friends in town
d, vicinkey,
Miss Mary Gilleapie hag accepted a
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THE FARMER'S CHRISTMAS
STobicfNet,
position on the staff of the Lanett;
High School aol will commence her
new duties at the beginning of the
AND WHERE -AS It is -desirable
that all public utilities of the said
Town should be placed under the con-
trol of a commission to be known as'
"The Public Utilities' Commission of
the Town of Clinton."
AND WHEREA7a it is also
dosir able that the commis-
sioners elected -to control and oper-
ate the waterworks system of the said.
Town and being in office at the time
when this By-law shall come into
force shall constitute "The Public
Utilities Commission" of 'the said
Town until their successors in office
Shall have been elected ;
THEREFORE THE .MUNICIPAL
COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
CLINTON ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. That all Public Utilities owned
by the Corporation of the Town of
Clinton be, and the same are hereby
placed under the control and manage-
ment of one- Commission to be
known as "The Public Utilities Com-
mission of the Town of Clinton"
and to be composed of three Com-
missioners of whom the head of the
Municipal Council of the said Town
for the time being shall ,ex -officio be
one and the other two shall be el -
elected in the manner provided. by
the Municipal Waterworks Act.
2. That the Commissioners who,
having been duly elected, shall - be
the Water Commissionera of the
Town of Clinton at the tithe when
this By-law :shall come into force
and effect shall be "The Public Ut-
ilities Commission of the Town of
Clinton" ,until their successors in of-
fice shall lave been duly appointed.
3. That thie By-law shall come in-
to force and, take effect on the day
of the final passing thereof.
4. That the votes of the rate -pay-
ers of the said Municipality shall be
taken on this By-law on Monday the
5th day of January 1914 commencing
at the hour of nine o'clock in the
forenoon and continuing until five
o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day,' at the following places within
the Municipality :
The ohoii 0 11 0vte,111orl
met at 1 lie le, "'-1:
'1. l'ettl on
-titect on
Mr, Norman, Henry, formerly.' of
the Dominion Bank staff here but
now manager of the Huntsville
branela was acting manager' here,
during the absence of Mr. A. E.
Colson...................
Mr. Henry, Adams of Toronto Via-
ited his parents in town Inc few'
days recently. -* • •
' „Miss Margret Cowan, who has been
teaching in Windsor, has becn quite
ill. Her mother has been in atten-
dance upon her.
Mr. James Cowan, who has 1 eon in
the west all summer, h is re turned
home. ,
Mr. A, Davidson of lVfitehell who
has been laid up at the home ef his
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Alex. David -
eon, is now slowly recovering.
Mrs. E. Davis of Tilsonburg and
Mies. Watson of Vancouver are guests
at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Dav-
idson. -
Mr. John Gillespie, who is just re-
tiring from the position of engineer
at the Oglivie Mills here, during his
service of thirty-one yeare never lost
one working day,
Mrs. C. Stewart visited her sister,
Miss M. Friel in Toronto last 'week.
Mr. Hugh J. Grieve of Tueleersznith
west of ,Egrnonclville, who had just
returned from a vialt with his son
in Detroit, died at his home on Sat-
urday afternoon.
Anothee pioneer of Hullett passed
away on Tuesday of last week in the
person of Thos. Livingstone. He had
reached the great age of eighty-eight
years and was only ill a few weeks.
Mr. Livingstone had been a resident
of Hullett and the farm on which
he died, since 1844, coming out here
from Ireland. His wife died some
nine years ago. A faenaly of three
sons and six daughters survive, The
funeral took place on Friday after-
noon to Clinton cemetrey.
Mr. Samuel Dorrance of McKillop
passed away on Tuesday of last week
after a severe illness extending over
many, months.
ST. ANDREW'S WARD.
At the Town Hall
Thos. Watts, Dep. Retuening-Officer.
G. E, Saville, Poll Clerk.
ST. JAKE,S' WARD.
At the Sample Rooms south of the
Rattenbury I -louse,
A. J. Grigg, Dep. Returning -Officer,
J. II. Twitchell, Poll Clerk.
ST. JOHN'S WARD.
At Geo. Levis Office,
J. C. McMath, Dep. Returning -Officer.
Frani; Evans„ P011 talerk. •
ST. GEORGE'S WARD.
At, David Elliott's Carriage Shop
S. J. Andrews, Dep. Returning -Officer.
John duninghame, Poll Clerk.
Passed this day of
191 ,
CLERK,
MAYO
NOTICE.
TAKE Netioe that the above is a
true 'ecioy of a Proposed. which
has been into. enneidaration
end, which will be finally itessed by
'he coeneil oi the reeniehmeity 11
'he: event of •Ihe 55fl nl p'
n.otore 1-Plt19, O'l I a' eat' • -
ene'-montli --'n- ' II
'et Th± r'l n' on isee,
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1, p
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haps never before, lends the chantey
of timelineas to the popular article
by Mr. Chauncey' G. Jarvis, on "The
Achieving Sores of Ireland." Every-
one will turn eagerly, also to Peter
McArthur's Christmas Talk and Mab
le Osgood Wright's brilliant article :
"Song Birds -The Farmer end His
Wife." The introductory article is, a,
unique one, dealing with the remark-
-able agriculture terminology of the
best -read book in the world. The
art reproductions in black and white
include several of the world's best
modern paintings. There are in all
over sixty beautiful engravings. The
publishers and editors of "The Farm-
er's Advocate" are to be congratula-
ted upon their achieVeTment, and its
rceaatdioenr$ upon receiving such a publi-
FiENSALL,
1VID, A„ Whitesi,dos wad In Go4°1:011
last week attending court,
Mrs. Geo. ()nese has •been visiting •
her sister -in St, Mary's.
MPS. Haight cif Colo0 is the guest
of lier'da.ughtee, iVfes, flecks of the,
Me timclist, parsonage -
Messrs. C. 131aelewell tana W. Buch-
anan have returned from weete
Mr. Ca, d. Potty was ie. Torpid°
Miss Pollie Carlin has returned
, •
from a visit. vrith Bothwell friends,
CHRISTrIAS AND
NEW YEAR RATES
Single Fare Dec. 24, 25 good for
return until Dec. 26 ; also Dec, 31
1913, and Jan. 1, 1914, good for re-
turn until Jan. 2, 1914,
Pare and one-third Dec, 22, 23, 24,
25 valid for return until Dec. 17 ;
also Dem 28, 30, 31, 1913, and Jan.
1, 1914, valid for return Jan. • 3,
1914.
Between all stations in Canada
east of Port Arthur, also to Detroit
and Port Huron, Mich., Buffalo,
Blaa Rock, Niagara Falls --and Sus-
pension Bridge, N. Y. ,
Tickets now on sale at Grand
Trunk Ticket Offices,
John Ransford & Son uptown Tick-
et Agents. Phone 57.
A. 0. Pattison, Depot Agent Phone
35.
Mas PfCS111K
FOR
LADIES
Ebony toilet sets
" manicuie sets
hair Welshes
cloth brushes. •
nail files,
hand brushes
mirrors •
Up -to -r1 rite hend bags
Perfumes -ell prices,
FOR
GENTLErlEN
Ebony military brashes
." . cloth liteishes
" hat henshes
Shaving brushes
Gillette srifety Name
Anto 111011 e:t-Coty razors
Gun safety razors
Pipes, Ogees and eign r Cases
TOInteco pooches
For the
Whole Family
Tisitik, 92 to 920.
w. s'. R. Holmes
[Tne Rexall Store.]
nAl3,1,"
-D'Oft GOLD COINAGE,
It Will Be Some Time Before It Dire
places the Familiar "Rag Money."
Canadians now have their first gold
coinage -that is, those who are for-
tunate enough to get hold of them,
for no doubt the gold coins will prove
shy and elusive as always have been
the silver ones or the paper currency.
Will our five and ten dollar gold
pieces come into as common use as
prevails in the Old Country with re-
spect to sovereigns and half -sove-
reigns? Possibly not, for some time
at any rate, because this generation
of Canadians is not aceustomed to car-
ry any considerable amount of money
in coins. The Englishman has his
neat little coin -ease, and it is an ordi-
nary practice for him to meet current
expenditure by paying out gold. The
only coins witwhich most Canadians
are familiar are those of silver, and
we only use them as "small change."
When small change will not pay the
bill we use the notes of the Dominion
up to four dollars, and bank notes
for larger amounts.
A use of our new gold coins would
possess certain advantages, one being
its cleanness. The filthiness of much
Of our paper currency is notorious. It
has been complained of time and time
again, and several Ministers of Fin-
ance, Mr. Fielding in particular, pro-
mised to do something to drive dirty
paper money out of circulation. The
promises have not been fulfilled, and
there seems to be m re filthy bills in
circulation this yecr than ever before.
Gold will be elen -but it is heavy,
and although not a bit harder to
spend than a bank note, it is easier
to loeo.
However, there wi'l be some demand
for gold, and the demand will in-
crease, and its uee will increase as
the people became- more accustomed
to the prettiest morey in the world.
Any way, it is a ' ter, of legitimate
pride that hereaft, e the demand of
the Canadian peoe s for gold coins
will be supplied by a Canadian gold
coinage. •
There is one thing wh'eli. the Mint
might do to good advaatage in imi-
tation of a determination just arrived
at aeroes the border. It might make
it possible for us to sub -divide eqnally
the five -cent and the twenty-five cent
pieces of our present coinage. It is
undeniably hard on our poor people
that they should have to sacrifice the
11a12 -cent in paying three cents ine
stead of two and a half, and thirteen
instead of twelve and a half, as is
often the case in making their tiny
purchases :at the stores. There is ia.o
reason why we should not have a half -
cent coin for the convenience of shop-
pers. It will be found on enquiry
that the approach of civilization gen-
erally clomanide-subdivision of the cur-
rency coinage. There was a time when
two bits, or twenty-five cents, roughly
speaking, was the lowest coin in use,
west of the Great Lakes. Until quite
recently one bit, or ten cents, was
the unit of smallness. Following the
civilization the :railways brought, one
cent has now become the smallest eoin
found in- the West. It is fully time
that we had half cents for the use of
our more crowded population. We
eannot, however, see the .necessity of
adopting the Clhineee plan of punching
a hole in the half-cente as is likely to
be the case ,elsewhere. Our ladies are
unlikely to carry their coppers through
the streeta on e string. -Montreal
Standard. ..'
. ' PEOPLING THE AND.
New 13runswick Has Launched on a
Striking Campaign.
New 14runewick has decided le keep
young farmer e in the east and to en-
courage inunigranta of an agricultural
turn to settle en lande as yet unfarm-
ed In that province, 'says Harold
Brown in The Canadian Conner.
Spending $12,000,000 to make a nation-
al harbor of Courtenay Bay does not ,
epitomize the progreesive policy of
modern New Brunswick. There, as in
all other fertile arena of Canada, the
land is the thing. New 13rOnswielt is
AM a province of large unclaimed
areae of arable land. While the marl
rush for free land is still on in the
valleys of the Saskatchewan; vrhile
the trek to the free lands of the Peace
River is going ahead of the railroads;
while large areas of good land are be-
ing settled upon in British Columbia; -
and while Ontario is still pushing
back the unsettled boundaries of its,
huge clay belt - the Maritime Pro-
vinces are beginning to' realize that il
is better etionomice for the east an
better for the immigrant, to settle
land which has lain idle along the
Atlantic since the Miemaes first hunt-
ed the moose in Nova Scotia.
New Brunswick's forward policy ore
the land question began in a vigor-
ous protest against the continual exo-
dus of thousands of her best young, -,
agriculturists to the west; and against
the almost more serious efflux of pro- ..
ductive population to the eastern'
States. Newspapers and Boards ot
Trade, merchants and manufacturer
and people in general made the pro-
test something of, an organized howl.
The howl became an intention. The
intention took form in legislation. The;
bill to encourage the Settlement at
Parra Lands was the result.
Precedent to the bill, however, and
the direct cause of it, was a somewhat
remarkable paper read at the recent
Immigration Conferenee in Frederica
ton, by Charles H. McIntyre. Mr.i
1VLoIntyre was born on a stone -knob,
farm in New ,Brunswick. While WI
a youth he managed to get an eduerta.1
tion as far as graduating from the
University of New Brunswick al
-Fredericton; after which he studied a
Harvard, took a course in American'
law and set, up a legal office in Boston%
where he is now- a peominent citizen, 0
past president of the Boston dan
dian Club, end as much interested i
his native province as though he re
still living in Fredericton.
"Speaking generally," he said, "tale
average young man without funda
cannot purchaes a farm and from its
proceeds redeem himself from debt be-
fore he ie worn out."
Mr. McIntyre cited the examples o
several other countries in dealing with
the manless land question: England
Germany, Ireland, Brazil, Australia,
1
New Zealand, The lbasie principle i
all these somewhat varying meth
of getting idle people on to idle land
and of building homes for week! '
men was -some form of state oasis
Linea Most of the aid given by th
state took the form of loans to farm-
ers. Mr. McIntyre outlined three me,
thods of Government all to potential
farmers, and he recommended the ap.
pointment of a land settlement go
mission to be the agency by whie
any one of the three methods shout
be carried out.
The first -mentioned was the case o
the fund in Government sayin0
banks on provincial credit as advanc
loane to farmers. The second eves prai.
vincial debentures. The third wilIN
bonds issued by the Land Settlementl
Commission itself, under provincial
guarantee. i
The bill of the New Brunswick Leg-,),
islature, barn of this idea set forth byi
Mr. McIntyre, makes the idea into
fact. It provides for the creation ofl
a "Farm Settlement Board" of three'
oommissioners, one of whom must be
the Provincial Superintendent of Im-
migration, who becomes the secretary'
of the board. , •
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l'-aTeZa 3; a
DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN ONTARIO
47th -Annual Convention and
Winter Dairy '13-,hibition
‘3TRA
New Western Senator.
Dr. F. L. Schaffner, M.P.'for Sou-
ris, Man., it is announced. will be
the new Senator for one of the Sena-
torial districts created by the exten-
sion of the Manitoba boundary under
the bill of last session. He is one of
the sturdy political stalwarts of the
Government benches who during the
dreary days of opposition won his re-
ward by service of a faithful and ef-
fective kind and hie translation to the
'Upper House is now said to be cer-
tain. Di. Schaffner is another Mari-
time -Province boy who has made good
ancl has proven that the provinoes
clown by the sea can produce plenty
of brainy men as well as fish. Ile '
conies of German and English parent.
age and was born in 1855 at Williams
Town South, Annapolis County, and
was educated at -Acadia College, N.S.,
and Tidally College, Toronto, where
he took his degree in ene,dieine and
surgery. He also took post -graduate
caueses in New Yoxlc and Chicago
and after moving to Manitoba he
made rapid success in his profession
and is now health officer for Morton
and Bossevin, Manitoba, and also a
member of •the Board of Health tar
the prairie province. He has been,
councillor and mayor of Bossevin. He
es an able debater, a well-inforthect
politician and would add materially
to the talent of the Senate.
File the Documents.
Sir Joseph' Popo and Mn, 3, -Ela
Ewaet are again eating. up newspaper
space at a tereifle rate in the discus-
sion of "The Canadian Flog," It •is
about the 'steenth time these valiant
wielders of the pen have fought/ MK'
the question, and the probability 15,
that befere 1920 they will have threehe
ed it over many 'times.
In ordt: to save the valuable mo-
ments of these eminent gentlemen, We
enegost that, the preeeet eterrespond.:
ence be filed nevay in the Dominion,
Archives. Then, whenever occasion.
warrants, Me. Ewart can call atten-
tion in the press to "Exhibit 1-43,1
-chap. 763." and Sir Joseph, in wrath,
can ;reply by mentioning "Exhibit'
-T--RI! ehap. 19, 603,"
The increasing cost of nowepapee,
• composition and the growing 'teasel
egy for a conservation of the tenamta
augit eall for this reform,--Ottawn
66 2125.5,