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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-03-10, Page 1NrSe Tank, this opening k a verI rxn rr Sutg ern. I of new Is- They all widtha, Lp, our ne* Faul, hi week, ac. his sister, ›lace. -11r. :t� his new chased from sra. P. H. Iterses this and Lendon, etherwell, is here. —The 'iateresting, us the beet net with a Wednesday std -of a tree ,nother one end of the bitn la or 12 thought he. mon rallied Cromarty a , free leo - obey evening - 11 of -Dundee. _and interes- were invited --The many Li be pleased better and or speedy re - 'atom left on ohn Brown sition at the of. W. Lee C. Hazle- in th,e con- oin _ns mane ed his large te the snore or rinks of to Herris- return match rinks being it 21 shots. den blocked dockade we rge Harris y evenirkg of usual health tly taken he fire, and arrived she rris was 71 family, who their own. da,y last and dsons were the Wrox- cert be con-, held a300rd- id • . Fax isa -Lottie mers, ana it was even being being performers was pleased. te themeel- th of their '122, which e after pay - ting of the at which all Auditors re- pted. The - epted. The structed to _mount ex - the last ten es $1,7011at e amount of o be - paid. ey arid Mc - Arbitrator pinion of the hanges being d ia Waltou djourned to lin, on Mon- ppoint pathvtewers. ve been e John Sebben day the 20t11 ged in clean - d him on the risible and in been kicked ha, on heath had eat and d from his tedly saved ton:toned and that his heat His many n that he is could be eX- • 1 duty this a well-known f this town - &belle Mc - °Laughlin, t oceaurred oR McLaughlin ' time, all of ith christian death finally pirit winged it. She watt reload, in the the time of d six months. - stent member d was highly e pleasare of a a husband- • aymPathy n their sad .ere interred Monday the to their last •se of sorrow - 10 _ TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR; / WHOLE NUMBE,R, 1,317. 8EAFORTH, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1893. , WHO'S YOU R HATTER? Want The Latest In Hats? We Show It. This season is a marked one for* the richness of its productions in Hats and nowhere is the assortment so complete as here. The general stock will show bow thorough is our knowledge Of local needs, and values display our ability to buy and sell cheap. Our direct impor- tations are all in and we're many choice styles and colors that will be found only with us. The latest productions in the WIDE BRIM TOURIST HAT Are shown by us, being the Newest Colors and Shapes of Ameri- can Manufacture. 1n.' Stiff Hats the styles are, wider brim with smaller crowns than last sea- son. Colors,—Blaek, Brown, Mode, Cinnamon and Pearl. CRUSH HATS 1n new colors at 50c, 75e, $1, $1.50, the best values in the trade. Boys' and Girls' School Caps 25c, through the medium grades to the best qualities at $1.60. The stock of Hats and Caps has reach- ed beyond comparison and on merit has a right to claim your interested attention. We are the largest Hat House in the county and can show unequalled values in any grade or style of Hat or Cap. JACKSON BROS., THE - FAMOUS - HATTERS, SEAFORT1L EAST HURON FARMERS' INSTITUTE. The East Huron Fanners' Institute met in the Foresters' Hall, Walton, on Friday last. The meeting had been advertised for ten a. m., but on account of the exceedingly bad condition of the roadie the members and others who attended were late in reach- ing the place of meeting, and it was consid- erably after the advertised time when the President, Mr. :Uriah McFadden, took the chair. sThe attendance was not as large as it would, have been under more favorable circumstances, nor as large as it will be should another session of the Institute be held at Walton, but there was a sufficient number present to make the meeting profit. able, though some of the advertised speak- ers were unable to be present. THE MORNING SESSIoN was opened by an address by President Me - Fadden on. "The Farmers' Institute." This was short but pithy. He pointed out that the farmer received muoh more than value for membership fee of the Institute in the way of information in bulletins from the experi- mental farm at Guelph, and in the shape of addreasee and practical hints from such men as rrofessor Shaw, Professor Mills, ProfessotRobertson and farmers from dif- ferent parts of the Province, who had made a distinct success in their respective lines of the vocation. He &leo showed that the In- stitute, was an ednaatingfactor in other than purely business lines. Farmers get togeth- er in the Institute and discuss in a friendly way their business, and one and another gives his views and his experience, and each learns to know the other better, and gets to think him a better and more intelligent man 'than he had ever realized him to be before. Thus mutual respect is festered,which binds together and tends to strengthen and bene- fit the whole community. It also teaches mem to give expression to their thoughts and views in an intelligent and intelligible inan- ner, for very often a man who has -always been too diffident to speak in public has got so hatereeted in the discussion under way, that before he realizes what he is doing, he is on his feet spouting away at a lively rate and bye and bye he can knock the spots off seine who 'Ave always been considered good speakers.'Then by the evening ses- sions, when music and fun prevail, the so- cial side of the farmer is educated and de- veloped. Mr. Thomas Strachan, of Grey, also Spoke on the sarao subject. He said he thought not only agricultural subjects but all subjects in any way touching the wel- fare of the farmer, should be discussed free- ly in theee meetings. He 'had been de- lighted when he was a delegate to the Cen- tral Farmers' Institute at Toronto, to find that queations of trade were discussed die- pesaionately, kindl and without ill -feeling or political biles, an Farmers are the other branches o this is as it should be. roducing element; all industry depend in a large measure upon them, and if farming doeen't pay all the people will be poor. Con- sequently the whole country has an interest in the welfare of the farmer. Farmers min - not combine to raise prices as manufacturers do, nor would they be willing to_. do so. They must, therefore, learn to be as econ- omical as possible and learn to produce cheaply, and in this line the Institute is of immense benefit. They cannot raise prices, but they may learn to produce two bushels where before they produced but one, and thus things may be evened up. At the conclusion of Mr. Strachen's ad- dress Mr. Themes E. Hays, of McKillop, moved an adjournment until after dinner. A NTERN 0014 SESSION. At the afternoon session the first speaker Introduced was Mr, John C. Morrison, of McKillop. Mr. Morrison said he had not yetneleeted a subject, but he could talk on the:cow, the pig, made or the profits of the farm, and the company could take their choice. The majority seemed to be in favor of a talk on THE COW, so Mr. Morrison proceeded on that subject. Re said the two greatest thinga in this country were the farmer ,and the cow. The farmer who keeps coi-A is generally the thriftiest. You can tert what kind of a farmer a man is by the kind of cows he keeps. If his cows are sleek, well fed and fine-look- ing, you may make up your mind that their owner is thrifty and prosperous'but if they are scraggy and thin and ill kempt, you may be sure their owner is shiftless and hard up: It has been satisfactorily demon- strated that the nutriment required to make pound of beef will make & pound of but- ter if applied in the right way and to a strain of cattle that have been bred for milk and butter producers. A man should raise his own cows as far as possible. When you buy a cow you don't know what it is, nor if it has been bred from ancestry that would tend to make it adaptable to the pur- pose for which you require it, but when you raise it'yourself you know what it is and what it is adapted for. Heifers should never be sold until they have had two calves. By that time you can judge what they are adapted for; if for milkers. keep thein; if not, fatties them for beef. If you sell them before they have calved you don't know their value and you may sell them for half what they would prove to be worth to you. E you are buying cows, first look at , the shape. A milker should have a thin neck, broad forehead, nice -shaped head, tapering to the muzzle, large, fine eyes, large body, deep in the ribs, a large udder and a large _coeam vein. Suoh a cow will give milk that will make a lot of butter and cheepe. Short- horns make the beat kind of cows to keep if you get a milking berd,then if you don't care to go in for milk exclusively you hirve good) beef cattle. I believe in °reeving Shorthorn cows with Holstein or Ayrshire bulls. I rather incline to the Holttein cross, es the Ayrsbires are inclined to be wilder. -I once lied a cow myself with 'three crosses of shorthorn which gave fifty pounds of milk per day, and her mother with two crosses averaged 53 pounds during one sumnier. When you get the cow you want you must feed her. I maintain there is more profit in a cow than in any other animal except a pig. Some people do not think so, but I know that a farmer oan make $40 or $50 a year out of a cow. The most profitable time to have ai1cow come in is in the fall, but of course a farmer cannot have all his cow, ceme ineet that season. Some farmers do not believe in feeding a cow, but if rightly fed she will do much more than pay for her board during the winter. -We will say that you feed 8 lbs. of grain, which would be worth about 8 cents, and 20 lbs. of hay, worth about 7 cents. This shouldproduce at leant a pound of butter, which at 17 cents leaves a profit of two cents, and any cow that won't do this much is not worth heaping. Feed her for beef or sell ber or something. Cows should be brushed and curried every day just the same as horses. It will make a big difference in the cow. The stable'also, should be kept scrupulous- ly clean. The best way to tie coves is with a stanchion on eaoh side of the neck. Cattle do better -when kept clean. Feed the hay whole'never cut it. When it is long it keeps the cow chewing longer and they will lie down longer. Change the -feed often. Professor Robertson thinks that a cow should be milked with the dry hand, but when a calf sucks the teats are wet, and we cannot do better than to follow nature's plan. If the teats and udder are keptnlean no dirt -can come off and go into the milk when they are wetted. Unless a farmer has the ready money by him to build a silo and buy a straw cutter, I think clover hay is cheaper than ensilage'but if a man can have these things without having to borrow tbe money to procure them ensilage probably pays better. Always Wave the milk of eb,oh cow tested, for there is no dee keeping a cow that gives milk of which it takes about fifty pounds to make a pound of butter. Testers can now be got very cheisp and three or four neighbors might club together and get one among them. Milk should be paid for at the factory always by test, for it is just as fair to pay the ,same price for milk with different percentages of butter fat as it is to pay the same price for differ- ent grades of wheat. Then, if milk is paid for according to test there -is no temptation for any one to send skimmed milk to the factory. MreeStrachan asked if the cheese factories bought by test how they could tell that a farmer was not putting two creams with one milk and keeping the skim milk for his own use. , Mr. Morrison said he didn't know how they could remedy that in a .cheese factory, or -whether it would make much difference, but in a creamery, of course, they only buy - the cream,and there would be no advantage in anyone doing that. Mr. McFadden wanted to know if they could not make as good butter privately as the creameries make. Ma Morrison said he didn't know that it could not be done, but it was not. There was twenty_ per cent. of water in private made butter on the average and only twelve in creamery made butter and this affected the keeping qualities. Mr. McFadden wanted to know if it would not be impossible to get cream from one hundred cows where there would not be some that would be inferior or not -eery clean and would taint the whole lotiaa to speak. klr.Morrison &Powered that -the *operator would remedy anything pf that sort. Mr. T. E. Hays, of MeXillop, was then called on and spoke for a few minutes on " Schools." He thought that too great a proportion of the public money was being spent on high schools and higher education, whereas the poor man's school was the pub- lic :whoa/. He did not condemn either' high schools or the higher eaducation, but he thought there should be fewer high schools and the money thus saved should be used to make the public schools more efficient. This is not a politioal,question, for if there were a Tory Provincial Government 'they would probably follow out the s ame policy in this matter that the Grit Government are now doing, but it is a is,ubject that is very closely allied to the interests of the farmer. Mr. McFadden said that the Montreal Witness had proposed a plan which would remedy -this evil and, at the same time, pre- -serve the high schools. It was that each bachelor should be taxed eighty dollars per year for the support of educational insti- tutions. Mr. Strachan of Grey, was the next speaker. He said he agreed with a good deal of what Mr. Hayes had said in regard to schools. He thought a boy could get suf- toient education in the common school to fit him for a farmer or an ordinary business man, and get a groundwork that would enable him, if he so desired, to go ahead and procure fot himself a liberal education. He then spoke on the subject of DAIRYING. He thought there was no branch of farm- ing so profitable at the present time, unless it were pig feeding, and that came properly under the head of dairying, for the very best pork, and that which found the best market in England, came from pigs fed on milk and coarse grain. Professor Robprtson had made particular enquiries in the old country regarding this matter, and that was the con- clusion he came to. Some Englishmen even declared that they could detect the differ- ence in the pork. There is no branch of in- duotry that brins more money into Canada than cheese making. Many things that were once profitable are not now so—for in- stance wheat. We can raise just as good wheat to the acre in Huron now as we ever 'did. The soil has not deteriorated, but the price is very low, and, consequently; it does not pay to raise it. But it seems , that the dairying business is not one that isigood for a little while and then goes down, but both demand and price have kept krowing. There were 12,000,000 pounds More of cheese shipped to the old oountry in 1892 than in 1891, and the price realized was considerably more than it ever itad been previously. If farmers had not fatind the business profitsble they would net have in- creased it. In butter, also, there Was an in- crease of some one and a half nil1id pounds in 1892 over the previous year, itvhile the cattle and horse trade decreased in 1892 from the previous year, both ih 1: quantity and in the prices paid. Farmihg is, un- doubtedly, the most important inclostry in this country. Facilities for eduAation in this branbh of industry are much 4,reater in the present time, than they were r20 years ago, and' in the future it will occupy a still more important place. Dairying iS sure to become, in the eastern part, at lehet, of our country, one of the most importafit (if not the most important) branch's ofAhis Im- portant industry. This branch isliould be encouraged, not by bonuses or props, of that nature, but by local support of tie butter and cheese factories. This shouidibh done, not for the sake of the factory men alone, hut for the Sake of the farmiug cchnmunity. The farmers themselves ask no brsduses or props, but simply educational finnilities, in order that they may become exPeat, in their business. Along this line there f has been opened at Guelph a dairying 10001, where our sons and daughters may go to learn to make butter scientifically. He thOught the boys and men on the farms should relieve the women, to a large extent, of treis work; it is properly men's work, and should not be saddled on the women, and butser should be made scientifically, not by bphazard. He believed in having butter efkotories in winter, and having the cows oalvh: eitrlyeso that they can make money for the ti• owners all the year around. It would 14 a great advantage to hey° cheese factoriee intsum- iner and butter factories in wpatet, and would bring in a great deal of moigey. We should not go into this branch ehithlusively, however, but should have other, btanches in additiont should have good dews, cows not adapted solely to milking purtioses, but general purpose cows, so that if o out to be nota good milker she c for beef. The great thing is proper bull. This is the key o success. Calvea can be raised even if the milk be sent to a factory. They can be fed on krain,with a little boiled oil -cake and flax -seed, and, if properly handled, can be kept beialthy and in good condition. They must,however, come early, so that they will be Officiently advanced when the factory opehs. If the cows ealve early in February or March, they will give a good fiow of rni1ka1l winter if well fed,'and will more than pay their board. Our horses are fed up al; the time until sold, but if a cow gets a lit* hay once in a while, and has no other .atteation paid to her, we think she ib all right. Mr. Pollard, of MoKillop, askehl if it was practicable to milk a cow right up to, or nearly op to calving time. Mr. Strachan said he thought it was, though he had never done so hipself. He also added that he considered chop better than whole oats for feeding purpthses. Mr. Pollard then epoke for a fe1w minutes. He said that times were depressing and we must study our business well." We must study not only how to produce, hut we must make a study of the markets as I, well. He could remember quite distinctly When wheat was the staple product of the 04tario fernt- er, but new wheat had got so lovi in price, owing to over -production 411 the great wheat lands of the West, that it no longer paid to raise it here. We mutt pay more attention to stock -raising and other branches of farming. In regatd to what had just been said, he thought it unwise to milk a cow right up to calving time. He let his cowsnest for about 3 months misery year, and thought he was amply repaid by the improvement in the calves. He also found it impossible to raise calves without milk. Hie plan wan to feed on new milk for two or three weeks and then give mornibg's milk at night, skimmed a little. This witss kept up. for four or five weeks, when began to feed * little oats, which he conijidered the best feed. He had always obkiined good results in this way. ..e turned ld be fed select a Mr. Morrison thought it depOided a good deal on the cow as to whether she could be milked right along or not. Sorne1cows you could not get dry if you tried, and others you couldn't keep from going drp no matter how you fed or handled them. t Mr. McFadden thought if ai heifer was fed up and kept milking %Nen she first calved she would always milk !all the year around, but if allowed to go Ory the first time she could not be kept from going dry again. This question was thoroughly discussed, and the general opinion s'emed4o be that it paid to keep cows milking. t Mr. Morrison then gave*** talk on the " Profits of the Farm." ETe waa, of opinion that farmers were .prosperousin spite of what had been said, to the cntrary, and gave a schedule whioh showed tat a -farmer should have about $700 clear pretfit in a year off of an ordinary hundred 'demo farm if he handled it right, but most of thnse present thought he had made his figured too high on the profit side, and not sufficiently high in the line of expenses. THE EVENING semi& Consisted of musical selections, vooal and instrumental, addressee, etc. The following is the programme: Instrunientel music on the organ, Miss Morrison '• address, J. C. Morrison ; Misses Smith and McAl- lister; -address, .A. S. McLean; inatrument- al, (violin and organ), Mr. Rand and Miss MO1TISOn • address, Thomas Strachan • in- strumental music, Mr.. Rand and ifiss Morrison; song, George Ferguebn • instru- mental trio, (violins and ergen) idle Misses Sage; recitation, William Winter ; in- 'strumental trio, the Misses Sage ; address, Mr. Archibald Hiklop, The entertainment was first•clase io every re- spect, and was thoroughly apPreciated by the crowded audience. All did woll, but probably the feature of the evehing was the instrumental musio by the Misses Sage, which was remarkably ,good, and would have done credit to a much more pretentious programme. Mr. Strachan and Mr. Hislop gave ringing addreeses on topica of interest teeall farmers, and the genial chairman, Mr. McFadden, simply overflowed with humorous anecdotes and --happy little speeches. Votes of thanks to the speakers, the chairman, and those who had taken part in the evening's entertainment were passed, and a very pleasant and profitable session of the Inetitute was brought to a close by sing- ing "God Save the.Queen," when all de- parted to their homes feeling better in many ways for the visit paid to Walton by the East Huron Farmers' Institute. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. story, but next day he made an examina- tion. He found there actually was a gold ring firmly lodged on the baok of the gen- der s tongue, and a ring one of Mr. John- stone's daughters had lost eight years be- fore. It is supposed the ring had fallen into a spring at which the fowl drank, and that the gander had fished it up with his beak, the ornament slipping to the back of its tongue. The edges of the ring were somewhat worn. Reminiscences of Thirty, Years Ago. DEAR EXPOSITOR. —Your notice of a copy of the Seaforth Express which has fallen into your hands, calls up meny memories, which I snatch a few moments to jot down for your paper, or the waste basket. I was one of the compositors on the Express at that time, and found Mr. Call—who now resides in Toronto—a kind and indulgent employer. Seaforth was young in years— seven if I do not mistake—at that period, and everything about it new. Harpurhey, on the contrary, though moving _down the road to the new town' was an "old an- cient "place, in whicha Mr. Knox had built a particularly fine hotel, with a view to restoring theProsperity of the old and keeping paoe with, if not checking the growth of the new. But the fates, in the shape of a direct road from the great north- ern country, were against him, and, I have been told, the hotel was subsequently taken down and re -built in Seafortb. Harpurhey had stipulated—in return for a bonus to the railway, I understand—that a station should be placed there and kept opeu, but there seemed to be little business at it even then. It was common on the Harpurhey road to see houses moving towards Seaforth. Mr. Edward Cash was the most prominent and almost the only business man remaining, in Harpurhey. The father-in-law of Dr. Cole- man was then living at Harpurhey, and was familiarly styled "the old (lector." Much of the property of Seaforth being owned by minors— 'wards in chancery"— the Main street was built up on one side to the Harpurhey road, and on the other be- yond that point. Downey"! hotel was on the north-east corner of the Harpurhey load and the Main street, and further on east was the new shop of J. &R. Duncan, who, however, aeon removed to the principal thoroughfare. S Oa somewhat further was the Express office and in the front there was a shop where if r. Cull kept stationery and transacted the telegraph business. A corner near the window was sub -let to T. P. Bull, watchmaker, subsequently Captaini of the V olunteer company, and also an enthuei- astic chess player. The Egmondville chess club was then one of the strongest in the Province, and frequently assembled in that office for telegraph matches with Hamilton. and other places. Hickson brpthers, a pair of energetic young men from Peterborough, were building up a good trade as general dealers. The market was very lively, farm- ers coming long distances with grain and other produce, and sometimes the bidding among rival buyers ran prices to a figure most gratifying to the seller, but sometimes the reverse to the purchaser. There was a young clerk, Dixon by name, in . a shop di- rectly opposite Hickson's—with whom he had some personal differenoe—and who used to boast of " sticking " his foes with sundry loads of pork on the eve of soft weather,and attprices simply ruinous. That was the day . of enthusiastic volunteering, and Captain Coleman commanded as smartie company as could well be "found. They were drilled by a stelwart Sergeant of the Coldstream Guards, with a voice that could be heard aU over the village. This Sergeant had been . in a London stationer's before enlisting, and on the night before publication usually help- ed U19 with—i.e., relieved me of—folding the Express. The next year, while I WW1 in St. 'Thomas, there was a prospect of "active service," owing to some frontier trouble be- tween Southern refugees, mainly escaped, prisoners of war, and the Yankees, and I, wrote Bull offering my services as a full private in. the Seaforth company. Evident- ly he was not much impressed by my zeal or adaptability, for he did not reply, and I, never again saw him to demand an expla- nation for the omission. The first toll- gate I ever saw was on the road to Ainley - villa, (Brussels) and I have a vivid recollec- tion of my surprise when the driver pulled up beside thesmall house, so obtrusively near the roadside, and' waited for someone to oenne for. the toll. However, when re- turning with a Seaforth youth, I was initi- ated into the moat approved method of "running" a gate. This he did, not for the amount involved, but from pure love of the sport—though, as it involved a lie, I have ever doubted whether the game was "pure sport." Two or three of the gates on that road were leased by a man who had a wood- en leg, but whose name I cannot recall. That winter the snow was very deep, asid, I think, it much resemisled the present season. On the 1st of January eleven persons were frozen to death in Upper Canada, one of them, a stage driver, in the County of Huron. The mistaken notion that alcohol proper antidote for or protector against cold was, I believe, responsible for every one of these deaths. Mr. Dickson, father ef your postmaster, was then member of Parliament for.the united counties of 'Huron and Bruce, and re- presented 60,000 people. Mr. Cull conduot- ed the Express for one ,year, and then fail- ing to obtain what he regarded as suficient guarantee of future support,he discontinued it. He continued to oarry on a job printing business,- and I remained with him for some time, until an extra printer was wanted for a few weeks in the Stratford. Beacon, then earned and edited by Mr. Wm. Bucking- ham, with the late Mr. Moss,—subsequeetly publisher of a military journal at Ottawa— as "local," and Mr. Harry Butler as fore- man. Thence I went to St. Thomas and worked until the following January on the St. Thomas Journal, then owned and edited by its founder, the late Alexander Mc- Lachlan, of whom I have only pleasant memories. A Clinton man having made preliminary arrangements with Mr, Cull for reviving the Express, I was recalled, but reached Seaforth only to findthat the nego- tiations were broken off. Mr. Cull kept me employed until an offer of work came to me from Mr. C. Blaokett Robinson, then publishing the Canadian Post at Lindsey. Then my connection with Seaforth ended. Now that it is written', I think this letter fit Only for the basket, but the writing of it has afforded me an hour of pleasant memor- ies and relaxation. One more circumstance may interest you. The first time I remem- ber hearing of Orillia, my home fcr 25 years now, was when Mr. Cull gave me the copy of a half -sheet poster to print for his brother- in-law, Mr. J. J. Hid, a well-known and much esteemed resi nt here unto this day. Three years later when I told the late Mrs. Hind I had worked for Mr. Cull, she - brought out one of those posters and asked me if I recognized it. How the whirligig of tinie goes round. Wishing the ExPOSIToR success in everything except smashing the N. P., I am, Yours Respectfully, G. H. HALE. Osibrals, Ontario, March Ord, 1898. —Mr. Frank Johnston, llorteIn township, near Kingston, was hissed at by a gander. He thought there was something peculiar in the noise, and that -he saw a ing on the gander's tongue, The family lkughed at his • Dakota. From Brussels to St. Thomas, Affairs are in a critical state, as thenatives 1 are opposed to the missionaries taking pos- DEAR EXPOSITOR,—To redeem my prom- 1 sessi on of the property. The magistrates lee to several of my Huron friends, I take I of the country favor the rioters, and it is difficult for the Canadian workers to get the pleasure of writing to all through the • justice. columns of THE HURON EXPOSIToR. Be. tween Brussels and Chicago there was noth- ing of note until I arrived in the great .city of Chicago. I then took the bus to the World's Fair Groundrewhich are three miles from the Dearborn street depot, and made a tour of the buildings,Which are well worth inspection, as they cover nearly six hundred acres. I then left there and made a tour of the mum= and looked over the curiosities, which are well worth seeing. I must say Chicago surpaases any city in the United States for commerce, that is to say outside of New York. I was in the city about twelve hours, and learned that when the Fair opened the hotels were going to send pricesout of sight not less than five and six dollars a day, whioh *would make board very expensive. I started at 6,30 in the evening for St. Paul, and arrived there at eight o'clock the next morning. I then made a tour of that city and Minneapolis, and viewed the larg- est grist mill in the world, which is some -- thing wonderful, and surpasses anything .1 ever saw in that tine. I arrived in North Dakota 011 February 28th. In speaking of the weather, I should say we are having nice weather now, and good roads and beautiful sleighing, but since my return from the East 1 have been in• formed that January has been a very severe month with frost and storms. There is ex- pected to be a large emigration to Dakota from the Eastern States and Canada in the spring. In fact this is the place for the Canadiatis to come to if they want to be among their own people, for nearly all of North Dakota is settled with -Canadians, and all are satisfied and doing well. I should say to any farmer wbo is now re- siding in Ontario and barely making a liv- ing, to come West and you will find the old saying to be true that "there; is corn in Egypt yet." At our school land sale, in North Dakota, the lowest price any qifarter section of land sold for was $2,500. Some land sold as high as $4,000 per quarter sec- tion. Does that not show development ? The Manitoba echool lend only sold for limn $800 o $900 per quarter *motion. DANIEL MCMARTIN. Sr. THOMAS,' North Dakota, February 28th. • Not Such Sinecures as is Some- times Supposed. DEAR EXPOSITOR,—In your issue of the 3rd instant I noticed a communication from a correspondent signing himself "Niemand," in which he undertakes to criticise and de- fine the duties, responsibilities and salaries received by certain of the county officials, viz: The Deputy Clerk of the Crown,Maater in Chancery, Crown Attorney and myself. While not wiehing to be drawn into a news- paper controversy, I take the liberty of re- plying to some of his strictures. When your correspondent says "all these officers are purely clerical, and the duties could easily be done by a book-keeper of average ability," he betrays ignorance of the sub- ject about whioh he is writing. He seems to forget that the first three offices are filled by members of the legal profession, and further, that it is essential that they should be, for the proper performance of the dut- ies devolving on them, which are of a judi- cial nature, as well as clerical. He then goes on to say, "The Sheriff of Huron drew $3,473 from the general coffers last year;" and wonders " what grave responeibilitiee he shouldered in return." In mentioning 1 Canada. —It took five cars to transport the fishery exhibit of Canada to the World's Fair. — G. W. Robinson, of _Kingston, is sending eight fs.ncy rigs to the Chicago Fair. — Rev, A. F. McGregor, of Forest, has accepted a call to the Congregational church, Woodstock. — Mrs. Isabella Dorcas Ryerson, mother of Dr. George S. Ryerson, M.P.P., Toronto, left an estate worth $7,031. —Mr. J. M. Ferris, ex -M. P. P., for East Northumberland, died on Thursday last week at Campbellford, aged 64. • —Wise Balmer, lately appointed examiner in German, is the firdt lady to hold that position in the University of Toronto. —The Oxford House of Refuge, which cost about $20,000,has been formally opened for the reception of inmates. — The River Street Presbyterian Church, Paris, is offered for sale, a new church being in proems of erection. —The Thorold council adopted a resolu- tion thanking Crossley and Hunter, ' the evangelists, for their labors in that town. — Captain J. A. Porte, captain and owner of the steamer Varuna, well known on the Bay of Quinte, died a few days ago at Trenton. — There are a large number of typhoid fever oases in Montreal, all of whioh have been traoed to impure milk. Some of them have resulted fatally. — Rev. Mr, Strachan, who formerly offici- ated as pastor of the Fonrth Ward Presby- terian, ehurch,, Montreal, has accepted a unanimous call to Hespeler. —Rev. Mr. Hossack, of Orangeville, besides receiving a call from Parkdale, is the favorite in the call for the vacancy in Chale mer's church, Guelpht —Mr. James Moffat has rented George E. Long's farm of 50 acres on the 2nd concession of Maryborough, for three years, paying $115 a year. —Preparations for the 250th anniversary of the founding of Montreal are under way. The festivities will begin on June 24th and extend over four days. I—Mr. William Dooley, of Ashded, Ren- frew county, aged 93 years, is infair health. Fifty-three years ago he took the temper- ance pledge from Rev. Father Mathew. — Mr. John Charlton, M. P., has just given $1,000 as a subscription in aid of the endowment fund for the Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund of the Presbyterian church. —A bar of gold weighing 170 ounces and valued at $3,350 was brought into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday last, from the Righ- ardson mine, Isaacs Harbor. —The cost of the new court house of Ox- ford county at, Woodstock, is $109,949.77. A. J. Brown, contractor, of Toronto, has put in a bill for $16,368 for extras, over which there is some dispute. —The customs collections at Guelph for February, 1893, amounted to $5,742.37, an increase over the receipts for the eorrespond- ing month of 1892 of $514.03. — The Rev. Dr. McMullen, of Woodstock, has been appointed a member of the advisory counoil of the world's congress auxiliary inclo8nnection with the Chicago Exposition of 9l —4 two-yeariold -boy at Coulonge, Que- bec, who was playing with a small screw - nail in his mouth swallowed it, when it lodged in his throat, choking him to death almost instantly. the above amount he omits to state (unfair- ly I think) the legitimate disbursements ----The 24th, annual convention of the paid out by me in connection with theedu• ties of my office, and for the matter of that the disbursements of all other officials he refers to. 'My returns to the Inspector of Legal offices for the years 1891 and 1892 are respectively as follows : Aralrearned Am't recd Am't disb's'd Net inc. 1891 $8,473.74 83,062.01 81,600.60 $1,87814 1892 8,121.21 2,792.61 1,634.95 1,486.26 , in regard to the responsibilities of a Sheriff, nO one, I think, outside the mem- bers of the legal profession, has any idea of the perplexities and disagreeable du- ties involved in the office. The sword of Damocles is continually hanging over a Sheriff by reason of the duties he is called Railway train or the west to see more of of clerical functions altogether), and he Ruin to perform from day to day (outside the world, Their parents are very anxious never knows the moment it will drop, in the to hear of them. called ' —On Saturday afternoon fire broke out in upon to defend for some supposed der - shape of an expensive law auit, he may be the woodworking shop of the Central prison, *diction or excess of duty, or error of judg- ment. Those who think the position is a 'Toronto, and froin the inflammable nature of the material great difficulty was experi• enoed in Suppressing the flames. Damage to in my opinion, much more of a thorny one. the amount of $55,000 was caused. bed of roses are very much mistaken. It is ROBRRT GIBBONS, —Mr. Thomas Shaw, a wealthy farmer GODERICM, March 7th, 1898. . Sheriff. living near Wallaceburg, mourns the loss of $1,000, which he drew ,from the Bank of Montreal on Friday last, and which he dis- Time to be Stirring. covered on returning home was miosing from DEAR Rxresrroa,—The Conservatives of his pooket. South Huron are actively at work, with Mr, —Mr. Ross, M. P. for Dundee, is asking Weismiller as their candidate, perfecting the Dominion Government to erect a suit - their organization of the riding, and doubt. able monument on Cryider't farm a short less from the fact that it the last election distance east of Morrisburg, where one of they succeeded in so materially reducing the decisive battles of ,the war of 1812 was the Reform majority, they have good hopes fought. et capturing the riding at the next. In —While e young daughter of Mr. Hobert view of these faots is it notj time the Re- Anderson, living near Severn Beidge, was formers were putting their house in order a 'carrying a dipper full of boiling water she There has not been a meeting ef the Reform accidentally spilled its content' upon her Association for years, and it is probable 5 -year-old sister Josephine. The child was that there are to -day, from death and other so frightfully sc&lded that she died from its causes, many vacancies in the official ranks effects. in the differeift municipalities. If, as I —A hackman named Kelly was fined $20 am told, the elections are to be held on the at the Ottawa police court a- few days ago voters' list of the present year, this is cer- for assaulting W. J. Anderson, local agent tainly not as it should be. Anyone who of the Bank of Montreal. Mt. Anderson re - has taken an active part in an election will monattated with the hackman for abasing agree with me that it is of the very greatest his horse. importance that the names of all our friends —Scarlet fever is still quite prevalent in should be properly on thevoters' lists; and Ayr, a number of new cases having develop - we know that no matter how honest and ed during the past week. A yoang 8011 of careful the assessors and clerks may be Mr. Alexander Reid died from it recently, there are usually found to be many °mire and five more of the family are down with sions that require to be looked after by local it. committees. It seems to me that there —Mr. A. C. Osborne, editor of the Nortb should be a meeting of the Reform Associa- Bay Despatch, is at preeent in jail. He did. tion held at as early a date as possible, and not register his partnership in the paper as that there should be a thorough organisation the statute requires,and rather than pay the of the Reform ranks, so as to be in a posi- fine of $100 lposed he went to jail for 40 tion to keep an eye on the voters' lists. and days. Mr. Osborne was connected with the see that all our friends who are entitled to Penetang Herald from the time of it estsb- vote shall be in a position to do so. The lishment until a year ago. omission of two or three names in each poll- —Gunn Brothers,of the Strathroy canning ing sub -division through carelessness or factory, lately shipped $10,000 worth of any -other cause might mean the loss of the canned goods. They are now unloading riding to the Liberal party. I trust the several thousand cans for the trade of the authorities will, as Sir Oliver would say, coming season, which they expect will large - "take the matter into their serious ly exceed that of last year. consideration." —The A.mherstburg Annexation Club held REpORKEB.. its first meeting in that town last Friday night. Over 500 people attended, among —Rev. R. P.McKay,ef Toronto, secretary them many ladies. There was a large-repre- of Presbyterian foreign missions, has receiv- sehtation of farmers. Alderman Patten, ed serious news from Tsin Chin, in Ronan. president of the club, occupied the chair. Rev. Dr. Smith and Rev. Jonathan Goforth, The principal speaker was Mr. S. R. Clark, two Canadian missionaries, have been work- of Toronto. ing hard in Henan for some years, but the —The bodies of old Mrs. Wonch and the natives are very much opposed to Christian- baby, victinis of the tragedy near Meaford, ity and missionaries. Lately they resorted were disinterred again and a second post to violence. The missionaries have purchas. mortem held. It confirmed the result of the ed a. building, but a mob attempted to de- first that on neither body were there . any molish it and made matters very unpleasant. Brant county Sabbath School Association was held last week in Brant ford. The num- ber Of schools in themoun ty is 115;. officers and teacher/3, 1,218; scholars, 10,372. —It is believed in Montreal thatthe order of the Dominion Government compelling im- migrants to labd at Quebec instead of pro- ceeding to Montreal will have a bed effect upon immigration. —Dr. Allen, the medical health officer of Toronto, was dismissed from his office on the groiind e that his conduct of the de- partment had not been in the interests of the city. —George Thompson and George Baker, two Woodstock boys, after receiving their pay the other' day, took a Canadian Pacific more certain every day that no evideli'ci; can be adduced to show that Jennie Wench murdered them. — A flock of Grossbealts are visitors about Galt. The Grossbeak is an Arctic bird and it shows the intensity of the temperature to the North when we find them driven south. They are fond of feeding on the berries of the Mountain Ash. They are very rare visitors her and never come so far south except in the coldest winters. — Alderman James Palmer, of Gae1/3h, left recently for Vancouver, iritish Colum- bia, with two carloads of horses. One car- load was compoeed exclusively of heavy drafts, weighing from 1,200 up to 1,700 pounds. The other carload A as made up of heavy drafts and a few drivers. , —J. A. Griguard, a lithographer for the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, has re- signed to go to New York. Some time ago he invented a new lithographic process by which 18 tints could be printed at one im- pression. A New York company has bought the invention for half a million, of which $200,000 is cash. —The other evening, as the children of Mr. William Hardy, merchant tailor, of Wallsceburg, were being put to bed, the lamp exploded, and in a few minntes the upper portion of the dwelling was in flames. The family immediately got out, and with timely assisttece succeeded in recovering most of the household effects. There was insurance on both building and contents. — The total liabilities of the suspended Poison works, of Toronto and Owen Sound, including capital stock, are $500,434. The capital stook was $261,000. Nearly all the money the firm lost was dropped in Owen _ Soind in shipbuilding. Theybavek nominal surplus of $139,066. A liquidator has been appointed. —The Grand Council of the Royal Tem- plar' of;Temperance in convention at Mont- real last week, passed resolutions denounc- ing the Dominion Government's Prohibition Commission as a farce and declaring against any more money being expended by the temperance people for keeping a representa- tive before the commiesion. —Me. William Hall's residence on the eighth line, Sarnia township, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning, 26th ult. Mr. H.all and family had a narrow escape, having to jump from the upstair window to save themselves. Everything was destroyed, and it is understood that he carried no insurance. — Ada, the 14-yeer-old daughter of Mr. 11. Wessenger, of Dereham, while walking heron a beam in the mow of the barn the other day slipped and fell to the floor. In the fall her thigh struck upon the crank shaft of a fanning mill,which pierced the flesh clear to the bone, making a terrible gash and leaving the cords quite bare. The young girl is progressing very favorably. —Miss Piggot, of the 9th concession of East Zona, had the misfortune to lose in ear on Saturday last, She and her sister were driving home from Woodstock, and while passing a load of wood their cutter i upset n the deep .now And she was thrown against ths load of wood with the above result. Had the ear been kept the doctor sold it could have likely been put on again, but it could not be found. —While two little sons of Mr. Henry Cook, of East Selkirk, Manitoba, were play- ing upstairs in their home, one of them, seven peen old, twisted a clothes line that was hanging from the ceiling around his neck and got on a oradle and jumped off. Ile remained there for some time until his little three-year-old brother told his mother, who was 'downstairs, of the act. When the mother went upstairs her son was hanging lifeless from the ceiling. - —Robert Worthington, a young man about 20 years of ogee son of Mr. Robert - Worthington, who resides: west of Wallace - town, died very suddenly the other day. He had been complaining for some time of heart trouble. His father is in England in the interest of a Guelph real estate firm and a letter had been received from him which Robert desired to hear read. His mother complied with his request and had just con- cluded when the young man raised his hands and immediately expired. —Mrs. Phillip Booth, who died in King- ston a few days ago at the age of 91 years, was born in Kingston in 1802, and lived in Odessa all her life until about six months ago. Mr. A. P. Booth, Kingston, and Mrs. Dr. Yeomans, Mount Forest, are -surviving children. The grandmother of deceased came to Kingston from Mohawk, New York, when there were only three log houses in Kingston and the grandfather of Sir Rich- ard Cartwright kept a general store in one of the buildings. One of the houses was preserved until a few years ago. —The other day 3. A. Nelles, -of Guelph, received through the post a lady's gold pen with a pearl handle acoompanied by the following note: " Mr. J. A. Nelles,—Tke accompanying pen was stolen from your store on the south side of Wyndham street, about t4n years ago, I think, perhaps more,. I now return it, trusting to your mercy and generosity feir forgivennees. Yours, in sincere penitence, The Thief." —Mr. McDougal bas been obliged to re- sign the management of the Berlin Daily Telegraph on account of the precarious con- dition of his health. The Telegraph will hereafter be published by a stock company. —Two members of a family named Len: nedy, residing in Kemptville, and a young girl employed as a domestic servant in th, house, wale poisoned while partaking of porridge on Saturday. There appears to be no doubt the poieon was in the porridge. Mr. Alex. Kennedy died a few hours; after- wards Mrs. John Kennedy is still in a critical condition, but the servant girl is ex- pected to recover. —A short time age Mr. James Walker, of the 6th eencession of Maryboro, Welling- ton county, suddenly and mysteriously dis- appeared and has not been heard of since, and so far as heard of there is not the slight- est clue to his whereabouts. His stock and implements have been sold and his wife, who is in very delicate health, has gone to live with her mother, Mrs. Higgins, near Stirton. He was highly respected by all who knew him, which makes the surprise all the greater. —One day last week 3. W. Brooks, of Springfield, Elgin county, arrived in Wind- sor, hunting for his wife and his hired man, who were in Windsor but had crossed to Detroit. Mr. Brooke claimed they took more than $800 of his money that he had in the house. He said his wife was 30 years of age. They had been married about six months. He became acquainted with her through an advertisement. He has now ascertained that a man named Herbert Peters, whom he hired about five months ago, was her first husband, and they played a game on him. —Mr. Allister McKay, the Chatham con- tractor, who has the contract for the Pelee Island marsh drain, will put up two pump houses, with a capacity of 16,000 gallons per minute. These will be driven by two 70 -horse power engines. The tract to be drained consists of 7,000 acres. The work, at present is at a standstill, owing to the ice wounds except the burns. It is becoming on the canals, whioh is two feet thick.