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SEAFORTH, FRIDAYt May 23, 1890
The Dominion Parliament.
The Dominion Parliament prorogued
on Friday last after a session extending
over a period of about four months. The
session waanot, by any ,means, an im-
portant one;indeed most of the measures
of importance were allowed to drag
along during the session and were then
dropped. There was a great deal of
talk and large sums of money voted, and
that is about the sum of the sessions
work, if we except the additional turn
that was given to the. N. P. screw and
the effects of which the people will be
very apt to feel before next session.
The -Dominion Parliament seems to be
seriously afflicted with interminable
talkers. Many members seem to go
there for no other purpose than to talk,
and what does it ail amount to after all?
Aside from a few of the beat speeches
of the leaders few of them ever reach
the outside of the Legislative Chamber,
except in the pages of Honsaad,and even
the daily hews papers do not •report
them. It seems to be a case where the
axiom (more work and less talk) would
aptly apply. Two or three useful, prac-
tical measures, like Mr. Charlton's anti-
• Sabbath desecration bill, which,
by the way, has been smother-
ed to death again this session,
would be of vastly more service to the
country 'than three -four -Mae of the talk
which is so drearily strung out during
the four months of each session. An-
other session, also, has been allowed to
pass, and no move has been made on the
part of any member to secure legislation
for the purpose of forcing railway com-
panies to live up to the requirements of
their charters and keep them from rob-
bing the people whom they are supposed
to serve. The Banking Act and the
Nerthwest Bills, two of the most im-
portant of the session have both been
dropped and they will serve to fill in
time next session. People are often dis-
posecito•complain, and sometimes seem-
ingly with reason, of the waste of time
in the 100E+1 legislature, but as much
practical work is usually done there in a
six weeks session as in Ottawa in four
months, and at vastly less cost.
During the latter part of the session
the proceedings created comparatively
little interest in the country, at least in
Ontario, as the interest taken in the
Provincial elections over -shadow all
other questions. The next session will
likely be the most important and per-
haps the most exciting of the whole Par-
liament. During it Sir John, if he
Jives, will be maturing his schemes to
capture the constituencies at the next
election. What these schemes will be
no person can yet even guess. It seems
to be a generally accepted understand-
ing, however, that there will be another
gerrymander, as the census to be taken
this year will furnish an excuse for this
and if it is done as systematically as the
former one,it is not likely any other new
device will be required, as the Voters'
List Act and a new Gerrymander Act
would make a pretty strong team. If
by their aid Sir John is not saved, pub-
lic sentiment is in a more healthy con-
dition than we believe it to be, although
we know it has been considerably im-
proved of late by the pinchings of the
N. P.
paatment of Education; the third will
be elected by the school trustees; the
fourth by the school teschers, and the
fifth -by the lJniversity Council. The
Advisory -Board, thus constitute3, will
have power to make arrangements for
the equipment and ventilation of school
houses, to authorize ltext-books, to de-
termine the qualification of- inspectors
for High and Public schools, to fix the
standard to be obtained by pupils for
admission to High Schools, to prescribe
forms of religidus eervices for the
schools, and to make regulations gener-
ally for the government of schools.
There is, however, a proviso with regard
to the religious exercises under which
trustees are to be free to accept or re-
ject the exercises which the board pre-
scribes.
Although the law is designed to do
away iiith Separate or Denominational
schools it is doubtful if it will have this
result. In the meantime,Roman Catho-
lics are continuing their Separate schools
as formerly, but, of course, they will
not receive government aid. Whether
or not they will continue to support
their own schools, for the sake of hav-
ing religioua instruction given to their
children in school, and at the same time
contribute their share for the support of
the public schoola although they do not
usp them, we can not say. Some seem
to think that they are just holding out
now, until the constitutionality of. the
school Act is tested and decided, and if
it is decided to be constitutional that
then they will give up their Own schools
and join in with the "public schools, but
if the Act falls before the Courts, then,
of course, they will go on as formerly.
Which of these theories may prove cor-
rect time alone can show. Some are
building themselves up in the hope that
the Dominion Government will disallow
the Act, while others think that the
,astute old politician at the head of the
Government, recognising the extreme
danger from a party point of view of
such a course,will do as he did with.the
Jesuits' EstatesAct, sanction it and allow
private individuals to fight the question
before the Courts if they feel so dis-
posed. There is one thing, however, of
which we may be very euro, the Act
will not be disallowed until the Ontario
elections are over.
The Manitoba School Act.
The Manitoba School Act came into
force on the first of May. The purpose
of the Act, as we have before explained,
is to abolish the Separate system and to
unite the educational interests under one
management, and the pupils of all races
and religions under one form of instruc.
tion. On the authority of this measure
there are •to be no State recognized
-denominational schools. All schools
receiving public aid are to be Public
schools, subject to the control of Public
school boards, and, as to the general
principle of management, to a Provincial
Advisory Board. The machinery of the
new system is very simple. There is to
be a Department of Education consist-
ing of the Executive Council, or a com-
mittee of that Councils It is to be the
duty of this department to appoint in-
spect3rs and teaehers of model and .nor-
mal schools, to fix the salaries of these
officers, and to provide for school regis-
ters and for reports on educational mat-
ters to the department. There is also
to be an Advisory Board. This body
eonsist of five members. Two of the
members will be appointed by the De.
•
How Nicely it is Being Done.
Any person who has carefully per-
used the speeches delivered from time to
time by MrhMeredith on the Separate
School ques *on will readily appreciate
the followin pen picture, by the Globe
artist,of thj manner in which the game is
being worked by Mr. Meredith and his col-
leagues to delude an innocent but some-
times too confiding public. It says:
"The leader talks himself in,to a heat
over the evils of the Separate School
system, but without promising cure.
He drives very near the edge, and suc•
ceeds often in leaving the impression
that he has promised its abolition. He
makes a half promise, and with lawyer -
like adroitness pulls it back unnoticed.
Then some of his lieutenants, following
him, come 'boklly out and unweighted by
any responsibility, cater to that class of
the community who think Mr. Mowat
carries around in his inside pocket a
power of attorney to put the Queen's
signature to any alteration to the British
North America Act he chooses to make.
They have no hesitation in promising,
unequivocally, that Mr. Meredith's elec-
tion means the abolition of Separate
• Schools. The auditor gets the speeches
of leader and follower mixed, and goes
away believing just what it was design-
ed he should. Next morning in the
newspaper there is nothing compro-
mising to the leader, but the man who
heard him continues to believethe evi-
dence of his ears. This is one of the
schemes developed during this contest."
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The Way the Money Goes.
During the past eighteen years the
Ontario Government have distributed
- from current revenue among the people
of the Province the enormous sum of
over twenty millions of dollars, or over
a million dollars a year. To say that
this has not greatly aided the people
and lightened their burdens would be to
state an absurdity. But while this large
amount has been given to the people,
the Goverment have still in the Treas-
ury as large a. surplus as they had when
they took office eighteen years ago, and
in addition to this have many valuable
buildings which are being used for char-
itable, industrial, educational, and ether
equally humane and beneficial purposes,
and all of which cost large sums of
money and form a valuable -asset to the
Province. The following is a sample of
the objects to which this money which
has been returned to the people has been
put: During the year 1889 there was
given from the Provincial Treasury for
the support of Public Schools the sum of
$226,906, and of which sum $8,370 came
to the County of tfuron, and was dis-
tributed as follows: Country schools,
$6,228; Clinton, $396; Goderich, $460:
Seaforth $345; Bayfield,. $85; Blyth,
$134; Brussels, $159; Exeter, $231 ;
Wroxeter, $59; Wingham, $273. There
was given to High Schools, $96,364, of
which $3,436 came to the Connty of
Huron. There was given for the sup-
port of Mechanics' Institutes $31,428,:of
which.$1,413 came to Huron and was
distributed among the following Insti-I
tutes : Wroxeter, $129; Wingham,
$250; Seaforth, $250; Goderich, $280;
Exeter, $158; Clinton, $238; Brussels,
$108. There was distributed for the aid
of Agricultural Societies, $61,975, and of
this amount $2,100 came to the County
of Huron. For the benefit of Agricul-
tural objects in general there has been
given during the past year no less a sum
than $138,787. There is no other Gov-
ernment in Canada that gives anything
like proportionate aid to Agricultural
purposes. We might go on to almosst
any length -enunierating similar instances
in which various interests have been
directly aided by grants from the Pro-
vincial Tretteury, and in almost every
instance had not this money been given
by the Province the people would have
had to pay it out of their own pockets.
During the past eighteen years there has
been given to the County of Huron in
such ways as we have euumerated the
very snug sum ef nearly three quarters
of a million of dollars.
In view of these facts it is scarcely
n ecessary to point out to sensible.'people
Such as the readers of THE EXPOSITOR
all are, the extreme unwisdom of turn-
ing from power a government who have
thus so wisely husbanded the ,reaources
of the Province and returned to the peo-
ple so liberally of their savings, simply
on account of a meaningless cry which
no honest person who knows the truth
would ever think of urging againet
them.
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IN HIS speech at St. Thomas the other
day Hon. Geo. W. Ross made the fc llow-
ing pointed reference to a fact which is
apt to be overlooked by some people.
He said: "Do these people know that
Sir John Macdonald is to -day assisting
eighty-three English Church schools in
various parts of the Province? That he
is also giving State aid to eighty Roman
Catholic schools, to thirty-three Metho-
dist schools, to ten Presbyterian schools,
and to sixteen undenoMinational schools?
Do they know that from 1882 to 1889 he
has given to Roman Catholic schools
$267;000,, and to Anglican schools $181,-
000 ? In the adjoining county he t,ssists
—and I do not object to the aseistance—
the Mount Elgin seminary, a denomina-
tional institution. So, when yoar indig-
nation waxes warm against Mr. Mowet
for carrying out the constitution in as-
sisting Separate Schools, let a little of it
be directed towards Sir John Macdonald,
who gives hundreds of thousands that
might be saved by a simple stroke of the
pep.
IF THE accuracy of the reports sent
from various constituencies in the Pro-
vince and published each day in the To-
ronto Empire, is to be guaged by the re-
ports from the County of Huron, it
would not be very safe for any of our
Conservative friends to make up their
betting books on the strength of the in-
formation gleaned from these reports.
If they do, they will, most assuredly`,
lose their pile. The inaccuracy of the
reports sent from Huron to the Empire
is only equalled by the untruthfulness
• of the editorial utterances in the same
paper, and we do not know that we
could put it stronger than this.
THE Provincial elections in Nova
Scotia took place on Tuesday, and the
Reform Government, with Mr. Fielding
as Premier, was sustained by an in-
creased majority. After the 5th of June
we expect to be able to say that the Re-
form Government of Ontario has also
been sustained.
SXPOSITOR.
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of eight inches on the level. Entire
orchards and strips of oak timber were
blown down or twisted to the ground.
• Many houses, barns and outbuildings
were unroofed or blown down. Hail-
stones were driven through roofs covered
with oak shingles. Hundreds of sheep
were killed by the 'hail.
DIED IN WISCONSIN. —lion. Hiram
Smith, well-known dairyman and Far-
mers' Institute lecturer, died Thursday
15th inst. at Sheboygan Falls, Wiscon-
sin. He was 73 years old.
THE DEADLY WIRES. --In New York.
on Saturday an Italian, while cleaning a
second storey window, put his hand on a
"live "electric light wire. He gave p.
shriek, and a second later fell to the
sidewalk dead.
FAILURE OF STOCK EXCHANGE BUSI-
NESS. —The Public Grain and Stook Ex-
change of New York has been forced to
the wall. It is said to have been the
largest concern of the kind in the United
States.
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES. —The two
Presbyterian General Assemblies of the,
State e met in annual session Thursday
last week, the Northern at Saratoga,,
New York State, the Southern at Ashe-
ville, North Carolina.
SUNDAY PLAYING NOT ALLOWED. —
Warrants were leaded Monday at Grand
Rapids, Mich., for the arrest of the
pitchers and catchers of the Grand
Rapids and Port Huron baseball clubs
for playing a game on Sunday.
DIGNIFIED CRUELTY. —A destructive
fire occurred recently in Tomsk,Siberia,
and hundreds of lives were lost. The
military remained quietly watching the
conflagration, and refueed to render any
assistance.
CUSTOMS SEIZURE. —The Brooklyn,
New York, Customs officers made an
itnmense seizure on Saturday,aboard the
Leading Wind, of porcelains, rich silks,
rugs, laces, and shawls, which tne cap-
tain said he brought over for the pur-
pose of decorating his cabin. _
• BLACK LEG AMONG CATT LE. —Black leg
has aripeared among the cattlein sections
of Schoharie county, New York State.
One farmer at Sharon Hill, Jacob L.
Kilto, lost seven cows last week. The
rapid spread of the disease causes great
alarm.
ANOTHER GRACE DARLING. —A De-
troit despatch says: Mabel Mason, the
14 year old daughter of Orlo Mason,
keeper of the Manitou light, performed
an act of heroism rarely met with. Last
Sunday Mr. Mason was away from
home, When a passing barge blew several
sharp calls and the captain shouted to
Mabel to try and save a man who was in
the water off Fighting Island, a mile
away. With much difficulty the brave
girl launched a punt and went to the
rescue. The man was nearly exhausted
when she reached him, and would have
drowned had she been a minute later.
She got him into the boat and rowed
back to the lighthouse, where he was
given a warm meal and dry clothes and
sent away rejoicing.
News of the Week.
A -V A-LUABLE PAINTING. —Isfeisson-
lees painting of 1814 was sold in Paris
on Wednesday for 131,000f.
MARRIED. —Secretary Blaine's daugh-
ter was married on Saturday to Walter
Damrosch, of New York.
ACTIVE AGAIN. —Bogosolov, the Al-
aska volcano, after a lapse of several
years, is again in a state of great activ-
ity.
GREAT DESTR17CTI0N. — The sgreat
flour mill in Winona, Minnesota,. was
burned Saturday morning, with ostler
property. oss, $300,000.
WHAT A BARREL OF POWDER DID. —
A barrel df powder in a burning hard-
ware store, in Havana,ca.used the deaths
of 22 persons and injuries to 100 others.
DEAD.—Judge Drummond, the yen-
ereble ex -judge of the Uuited States
Circuit Court, has just died in Wheaton,
Illinois, of old age.
MAY SNOW. —Eight inches of snow
fell Monday night at Neche, North Da-
kota. The farmers are jubilant.
STORMS IN NEW YORK STATE. —Rain
and wind storms hate done considerable
damage in the Utica district of New
York state.
DEFENCE FUND CLOSED. —The tenants'
defence fund in Ireland has been closed,
the subscriptions reaching a total of
$300,000. '-
MINING ACCIDENT. —A cave-in occur-
red in the Wilkesbarre district, Penn-
sylvania, a few days age, by which 25
miners were entombed.
SUFFOCATED BY GAS. —The wife and
daughter of President Stanley Hall, of
Clark University, were suffocated by gas
in their house at Worchester, Massa-
chusetts.
INJURED BY FROST. —Frosts in Iowa
and Illinois have caused considerable'
injury to fruit and vegetables.
A SEVERE CYCLONE. — A severe
cyclone, rain and hailstones passed over
parts of several townships around
Wooster, Ohio, Sunday afternoon, doing
great damage. The storm swept a
section three miles wide and eighteen
long. The most serious damage was
done in and near the villages of Con-
gress and Rowsburg. In Congress every
pane of glass facing north aad west un-
protected by blinds was broken by the
hailstones, which ranged in she from a
pea to a hen's egg, and fell to the depth
mimimomminimmarimmaum
Huron Notes.
The Blyth woollen mills has been
rented -to Mr. P. Purvis, of Teeswater,
for a term of years.
—Whilst spliting wood the other day
Mr. D. Spicer, of Exeter, had his eye
badly injured by a st;ck bounding up-
wards and striking th .t member.
—Mr. H. J. D. C mk, of Goderich,
passed his second intermediate law ex-
amination at Osgoode Hall last week
most successfully, the gentleman coming
out first in a class of over forty.
—Mr. Hunter, who has resided en the -
McMullen farm, 3rd concession of Hal-
lett, for Home time!, died on Saturday
from some internal trouble from which
he hadTheen suffering for some time.
—Master Barton Hooper, of Exeter,
was scuffling with some other boys one
lay last week, and by some means broke
his arm. This should be a warning to
all the boys not to carry on such danger-
ous practices. -
—Mr. E. Westlake sold his farm on
the Bronson line, Stanley, to Messrs.
Robt. E. and Thos. M. Snowden. It is
a splendid pasture farm, and was sold
for a reasonable figure. Theee boys are
now controlling 600 acres of land, and
are pushing, energetie young men.
—A farmer on the 5th concession of
Colborne, lost a fine blood mare a few
days ago, that he would not have taken
$160 for. They were working her on
Saturday and put her in the stable ap
parently as well as usual, and on 'Sun-
day morning they found her dead. ,
—One day last week as the mail train
going from Wingham to Blyth was
crossing the 8th concession of Morris it
struck a eteer that was standing on the
track, landing it some distance away in
the ditch and killing it instantly. The
steer belonged to Mr. F. McCauchey,and
was valued at $30.
—Rev. Wm. Torrance, of Walton, has
received a very hearty invitation to the
pastorate of the Methodist church,
O-orrie, for next year. The reverend
gentleman has accepted, subject to the
Stationing Committee. The Gorrie peo-
ple will be well suited • if they are
fortunate enough to secure Mr.Torrance.
• —On Monday of last week the Union
'furniture:factory dray horse in Wing -
Lam, became frightened at something
while being driven to the Grand Trunk
Railway station'and when nearlysop-
posite Mr. J. H. Stephenson's black-
smith shop he ran across the street and
dumped the load of furniture into the
ditch. Considerable of the load had to
berreturned to the factory for repairs.
— On Friday of last week Mr. Joseph
Davis, Exeter, met with rather a pain-
ful accident. It appears he had been
pitching off some straw front a wagon
with the horses attached, and when un-
loaded he carelessly threw the fork on
the ground which scared the horses and
caused them to make a sudden spring,
throwing him out on the wheel and cut-
ting his head badly.
— Wm. McNeelands, of Atwood, while
down te the river one day last week,
fished out a turtle, and to his surprise
he found these words neatly engraved
on the shell : "J. J. McNaught, 1881."
The owner of the name, and we suppose
the turtle, resides in Grey township,and
is well known to many of our readers.
The turtle appeared to be quite in-
nocent of the fact that he has been
sporting an assumed name for the past
nine years.
—On Thursday of last week two ladies
from Crediton, Mrs. -Baines and sister,
had a narrow escape from death or seri-
ous injury. They had been in Exeter
and were returning home. When leav-
ing the village their spirited animal took
fright, and turning suddenly around ran
along the street at a rapid gait, colliding
with telephone and tie poste. Finally
it came to a halt, having become en-
tangled in the harness and rig. The
ladies—one of whom leaped from the•
buggy, the other being thrown to the
ground—were not injured. The buggy,
however, was totally'svrecked, while the
horse escaped. •
--The Montreal correspondent of the
Toronto Globe says the diploma of the
Royal Canadian Academy was awarded
at the exhibition just closed in Montreal,
to Mr. G. AeReid, of Toronto, for his
large painting, entitled Mortgaging
the Homestead," and the Academy
purchased another picture from the
same artist. Mr. Reid is a -son of Mr.
Reid, of Turnberry, near:Winghatn, and
brother to Mr. T. A. Reid, principal of
the Teeswater Public School.
—Andrew Morrison, of Walton, who
was in durance vile for several weeks,
is once more enjoying British liberty.
The following is the legal note concern-
ing the same :—McKelvey vs. Morrison.
—Judgment on application, under the
Indigent Debtor's Act, for the discharge
of the defendant from custody. The
learned Judge holds that, although the
defendant had preferred some creditors,
there was. no evidence of fraudulent
conduct on his part, and that he should
be diseharged from custody.
—The fax mill at Shipka owned by
Messrs. Switzer, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday morning, May 10th. The
fire occurred about 7.30 o'clock, and its
origin is a mystery. By hard work the
saw mill was saved. A quantity of
manufactured fax was saved. The mill
contained over $800 worth of finished
flax. The machinery was also in a good
condition, having been overhauled very
recently, and was worth in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000. The total loss will be
about $3,000, with no insurance. Mr.
Switzer has been very unfortunate in
businese end has been continually in
hard luck. We understand a list is be-
ing passed for his assistance in rebuild-
iog by some of his well wishers, i.nd we
are glad to hear that the subscriptions
are qnite liberal.
— On Thursday of last week a man
named James Wilson was brought be-
fore Mayor MoIndoo, of Wingham,
charged with stealing a horse from Mr.
James Pollard, who reeides near Dun-
gannon. Several witnesses were ex-
amined, and the prisoner was commit-
ted to Goderich jail to stand his trial.
From the evidence, it appears that the
horse was stolen on Saturday night, May
10th, and taken to the prisoner's
brother-in-law, near Belmore, and from
there it was taken to near Guelph,
where it was traded to a farmer, the one -
received from the farmer being traded
to a livery rnan in Guelph. Mr. Pollard
and Mr. Harry Day, of Wingham, fol-
lowed the prisoner, and captured him
at the residence of his father-in-law,
near Milton'and brought bine to Wing -
ham, where he was tried with the result
above stated.
— Some really excellent cattle were
shipped from Clinton last week. In Mr.
McLean's lot were the following : 15
head bought off Mr. E. Turner, Tucker -
smith, weighing 19,530 Iles, an average
of - over 1,300 pounds each ; six
from Mr. Jae. Cornish, Hullett, weigh-
ing 7,380 ; 7 from Jas. Johnston, West
Wawanosh, weighing 9,335; 2 from C.
Washington, Wawanosh, weighing 2,840.
and 5 head from W. Hill, Colborne,
weighing 7,000. The weights show that
all these were good cattle. The follow-
ing were delivered for Mr. Smith : J.
G. Steep, Gode.rieh township, 3 head,
weighing 3 460; John Middleton, Gode-
rich townseip, 27 head,weighing 33,455;
Mr. Dennis Varna, bull, 1,920 lbs.; J.
Diehl, Stanley, 2, weighing 2,420; J.
Caldwell, Stanley, 2, weighing 2,530;
Thos. Fraser, Stanley, 3, weighing
4,360. Altogether they were a pretty
good lot of cattle.
The New Parliament Building.
It is stated that an unfair advantage
was given to Mr. Waite, the architect of
the Parliament buildings, because he
was not limited at any cost, while the
other architects were so bound. The
fact is that an express agreement was
made with Mr. Waite upon this point,
as the following extract from a letter
from Mr. Fraser to Mr. Waite will
show. The letter is dated Department
of Public Works, Toronto, January 8,
1886
Sin—Having reference to the con-
sultation had with you this morning
with respect to your being engaged to
prepare plans, etc., for the new Provin-
cial Parliament and depertmental build-
ings to be erected in this city, I here-
with state briefly the terms and condi-
tions upon which the Government will
be willing to engage your seryices as
architect in the preparing of these plans,
ete., and for the usual architect's control
and supervision of the work until fully
completed.
"(1) The total cost of the buildings
when fully completed, is not to exceed
the amount of $750,000 set apart there-
for by the Provincial Legislature, and
within the limit of that expenditure
ample provision and accommodation
must be secured for the several depart-
ments and their offices and vaults, -the
Provincial library,the Legislative cham-
ber, committee rooms, Speaker's and
House -officers' apaatnients, etc., as
fully, in all respects, as is set forth and
required by the printed general instruc-
tions issued by the Department of Pub-
lic Works in April, 1880, for the guid-
ance of architects, then being asked to
submit • competitive designs for said
buildings; and you will consider these
general instructions as a guide in the
preparation of plans, etc., by yourself.
"(2) The remuneration of your ser-
vices (including all necessary and usual
superintendence., etc., duriog the course
of construction), to be atehe usual rate
of five per cent. calculated upon the
total contract cost; such total -coutract
cost not to include any sum or sums to
which contractors may become entitled
for any work commonly known as ex-
tras."
It was true that it was afterwards
found that the cost would exceed the
limit, as had 'been the case with the
other plans. But, except for the in-
creased freedom and scope that it gave
him, the architect did not profit by the
change, as his fees were and are limited
to a percentage upon $750,000,
—Among the very latest of the grudu-
ates of Stratford Business College, who
have secured situations are J. W.
Livingstone as stenographer and book-
keeper, with Mr. D. D. Wilson, egg
dealer, Seaforth • Miss Kenny, as steno-
grapher with a Toronto real estate firm;
W. Wells, stenographer and book-keep-
er with Dominion ProvidentrAssociation,
Stratford; R. T. Livingston, steno-
grapher with a large law firm, in Penn -
field, Pennsylvania; and Miss M. Hen-
derson, as book-keeper with the firm of
Memoir. Hamilton dr Powell, dry goods
merchants, Stratford.
Died in Kansas.
TALItA81, KansasMay 12th, 1880.
DEAR ExectstTon.—Many of your
readers will learn with regret of the
death of William Bailey, which took
place at his home near Talmage, Dickin-
son County, Kansas, on Friday, May
2nd, of neuralgia of the heart, at the age
of 63 years. Mr. Bailey was a native of
Nottinghamshire, England, and emi-
grated to Canada about 40 years ago.
He remained near Toronto for two years
when he moved to Huron county and
purchased a-farmin the township of
Hullett, near the village of Kinburn,
making his home with his sister, the
late Mrs. Abraham Taylor. In 1873 he
moved to Kansas and settled in Flora
township, Dickinson County, residing
with his neice, Mrs. Edward Gibson,
until October, 1889, when he moved to
Buckeye township, where he resided
until his death. He was of a kind,
generous disposition, and was a univer-
sal favorite with all who had the pleas-
ure of his acquaintance. The remains
were laid to rest in the niff cemetery
and were followed by a large concourse
of sorrowing friends. The bereaved
friends have the sympathy of this neigh-
borhood in their sad bereavement.—
G.T.
The Kind of Horses Wanted,
DEAR Exenosrron'—Having read dif-
ferent views on breeding horses I thought
I would give the farmers a few pointers -
on breeding for profit, as this is the
breeding season in our famous county.
I am speaking for the welfare of farm-.
ers, myself, and other buyers also. In
these hard times there is a great mis-
take made by farmers ;they are " penny
wise and pound foolish" when they use
miserable light boned scrubs, because they
can get their services at any price be-
tween four and ten dollars. They are
only sinking themselves deeper in the
mire. They may save five or six dollars
to begin with, and in the end lose ten
times as much. When they come to
sell they have to keep their screbi until
they are five or six years old, and wait
until some cheap third rate jobber comes
and then have to sell at his price, not
theirs. Another pointer is, if stock-
breeders want to make the best of their
opportunities they must look at the kind
that is in the most demand and likely
to be wanted for some time to come.
There has been a tendency to breed
nice, tidy, twelve or thirteen hundred
weight horses. But this sort, that was
worth from $180 to $200, is now only
worth from $130 to $150. While a good,
round, stylish horse with free action,
1,400 to 1,600 pounds, is worth from
$200 to $235. This latter kind is scarce
and costs a lot of time to find, and is
expensive to buy. You have the mares
to breed from if you only selectsires of
good size, action, soundness and good
'breeding in particular. I do not mean
big slouches, a horse may have size'and
good quality also. You cannot expect
the services of any such horse for a
small fee. I am prepared to purchase
any number of the animals I describe at
any time at high prices, that kind al-
ways snake me some profit. I have to
handle the little fellows because I can-
not get the others. I am not booming
any particular horses nor trying to hurt
others, I am simply giving my experi-
ence and difficulty in finding horses
of the size I would like to purchase,
near home. As it is, I have to travel so
far for what.we could breed at our own
door. You are always welcome at a
farmer's house if you can pay him a big
price for his horses. Show me the right
kind and I'll get them.
JOHN MetlaNer, Seaforth Ont.
Crops and Farm Operations.
The following bulletin has been is-
sued by the Ontario Bureau of Indus-
tries, the reports of the crops and gen-
eral outlook being based upon informa-
tion supplied by 971- correspondents
throughout the province:
FALL WHAAT.
This crop presents a very uneven con-
dition throughout the province. Some
fields are exceptionallytfine and others
unusually poor in appearance in the
same township, and even on the same
farm, according to the soil, cultivation
and physical aspect of the country.
Hence it is extremely difficult to make
an accurate report upon the outlook of the
crop. Throughout the west seeding was
driven late into the fall on account of
the drouth, and the acreage was some-
what reduced thereby. When winter
set in flee crop had hardly made suffi-
cient headway to stead the alternate
freezing and thawing of the mild winter
which' followed, with insufficient snow
to protect the young plants. On this
account the crop suffered more or less
from winter killing, and In the extreme
west it is very uneven and poor. Con-
sidering all these unfavorable conditions
however, the crop may in other portions
of the province be said to have winter-
ed better than was expected, as seen in
Huron and Bruce, and ,sozne other
counties, but the night frosts and cold,
dry northerly winds and. rains, com-
mencing In February last and continuing
late into the spring, played. havoc with
the crop and greatly reduced its vitality
and retarded Its growth. On low, loamy
soils the condition of the crop is very
unpromising on account of the frost's ac-
tion, being pitchy and delicate, but on
light, rich loams, where well under -
drained, and especially where protected
by bush or the lay of the land, and
where the crop was got in early and the
land well prepared, it generally presents
a very fine appearance. This is partie-
ularly the case in Norfolk, Welland,
Huron, Brant, and some other counties,
-while the worst reports come from Es-
sex,- Kent, Lambton, Lincoln and Hal-
ton. In these latter counties, &sex and
La,mbton especially, it is probable that a
considerable portion of the wheat land
will be plowed up and seeded anew.
Many farmers are harrowing spring
wheat into the bare patches amongst the
fall wheat. Little or no damage is re-
ported from worms or insects of any
kiud. The recent rains appear to have
• irnproved the outlook, although the
crop is still backward, and with a favor-
able season there is reason to anticipate
a far, although not a large, harvest.
CLOY ER.
Tile condition of clover is not very
satisfactory, being very similar to that
of fall whet. The seed appears to have
made a very good "catch,' but the light
snowfall during the winter afforded lit-
tle protection to the roots and much
• MAT 2' 3 -1.8a:
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damage has also been caused by alter-
nate freezing and thawing, especially or,
el ol wd mandeadepoorlywsan dd r wa i hn ee rde. t Ah e land Wa
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instances are given where it is said that
the roots may be raked into heaps, and
the laud will be replowed for other
crops. But on high and sandy soils the
new -clover presents a more encours
appearance, and is reported as 100 g
very well in many cases and promisinga
good crop under favorable conditions,
The most serious damage from all causes
has occurred in the southwestern coma
ties, more especially in Essex and Kent
In the central, northern, and eastern
portions of the province the reports are
more cheerful in tone,.
FRUIT AND VEGETATION.
The majority of correspondents, more
especially those in the eastern part of the s
province, report vegetation as rather
backward. Very few fields were consid-
ered fit for grazing as correspondents,
wrote. The reports concerning orchards
-
are on the whole favorable. On the litt
May the peach was in. blossom along
lake Erie and the Niagara River, and
the damage to this tender tree during
the winter ia said to have been very
slight. While not so far advanced m
bud, apples promise well, more especial-
ly in the Lake Huron and West Mid-
land counties, where it was an "offyear"
in 1_889. Plums and cherries are suffer-
ing from black knot, the latter to such
a degree that the extinction of the fruit
in Ontario at an early day is threatened -
unless decisive measures are taken to
deal with the disease. A heavy wind
storm uprooted orchard trees in several
cotinties, but the damage was not at all
-general. Grapes and small fruits gen-
erally are considered as promising, al-
though in two or three western counties
strawberries were injured by lying too
long under water. As was reported last
Year, mice or other field vermin did no
perceptiblei nju,r oy.r.
PROGRESS SPRING woRx.
• In the western part of the province
seeding was far advanced when corre-
spondents wrote, as the season proved to
be a favorable ope for spring work. In
a few of the Lake Erie counties plowing
was not uncommon during the winter.
In the eastern part of the province
work was not so far advanced, wet land
in some of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa
counties having delayed plowing opera-
tions. It was generally noted that but
little growth was observable at thittime •
correspondents reported. Oats and peas
contis ne in favor, and there will -be a
consi.. rably enlarged area of spring
whets.. sown throughout the province,
severel correspondents mentioning goose
wheat as being much in favor at present.
On the other hand, barley will be grown
to a much smaller extent than in for-
mer years, many correspondents putting
the area at two-thirds or one-half of
last year's, while a few claim that there
will be as much sown as ever, A num-
ber of farmers- are experimenting with
two -rowed barley, having an eye to the
English market. Most of the •corre-
spondents who have expressed an opin-
ion as to the cause of the decrease in the
acreage of barley attribute it first to the
low prices prevailing of late, and see-
ondly, to the fear that the United States
tariff will discriminate against Canadian
barley and thus shut out that grain
from its best market
• ENSILAGE.
Correspondents report a yery slow
movement in the erection of silos. The -
idea seems to have met with the great-
est favor in the Lake Ontario counties,
and in some of the counties along the
St. Lawrence river, but even in these
sections dairymen are proceeding cau-
tiously. One_correspondent claims that
an objection to the silo is "the large
amount of work it demands during a
busy season of the year!' Corn is the
principal crop used for ensilage. Some
correspondents report the silos as be-
ing remarkably successful, while one
suggestively describes a neighboring silo
as "smelling like a brewery." The silo
is yet in the first experimental stege in
Ontario.
BEES AND HONEY. -
The winter was favorable to the
apiary, the losses resulting -chiefly from
stocks wintered inside finding the quar-
ters too warm. Dysentery was reported
„by a few correspondents, and some
colonies died of starvation, but titling
the province over the losses will not av-
erage over eight per cent., and with ex-
perienced apiarists the percentage of
losses will be reduced one-half. West- - -
ern beekeepers appear to have been more
successful than those in the East. •The
spring was rather backward for bees,
and when correspondents wrote many
colonies had not been out for a fly. Two
cases of swarming in April were men-
tioned in Grimsby—an unusual occur-
rence.
LIVE STOCK.
Owing to the plentifulness of fodder
and the mildness of the winter the pres-
ent condition of live stock is with few
exceptions all that could be desired: In
very many cases there is a superabund-
ance of food, which will be carried over.
Hay is very cheap, ranging as mow in
one instance as $4 per ton. A few in-
stances are reported, however, from the
esitreme south-west in which there ap-
peke to have been some scarcity in the •
rt: supply, and where the corn crop
w too largely depended upon for fod-
der. Cattle are generally thrifty and
strong, although a few correspondents
.(especially in the district referred to) re- '
port them as thin in flesh. Horses are
ID exceptionally good condition for
spring work. The mild winter and,
small amount of labor would seem to
have been unusually favorable to them.
Sheep and pigs are also thriftygenerally,
except in eases where they were allowed
the run of the fields throughout the win-
ter. Sheep are reported as scarce in -
parte, but the lambing season has been
a favorable one, and there is a proba-
ble increase in the number of lands/
all over. There seems also to be as
increase in the number of young
pigs, but complaint comes from the east
that there has been an unusual mortality te_
among them from some unknown cause.
Among cattle there is one occurrence of
the " corn -stalk" disease reported fin
the township of Bosauquet), with four
deaths out of five cases. Distemper and
influenza have also been strongly inarked
among horses. Some describe the symp;
toms as approaching those of "la grippes'
but there is a marked immunity from all
malignant types,
FARM SUPPLIES.
Correspondents exhibit a remarkable
una,nimity in their statements regarding
the small amount of wheat in the hands
of farmers. In only a few instances sis
any considerable quantity saidto be held
over, while in two or three counties, 110-
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