The Huron Expositor, 1896-11-27, Page 1ut it is not upo4
o win your favor,
deserving merit.
patronage we re.
Li by honest, per.
at we have now
ell goods before
WO Want tO
Rill arid Winter
time. We, there.
for a good sha.re of
eontlitiou of IONV
a.y reqture.
lent of evervt
i Just now, ueh a&
,COATS
t'OATS
.:RWEAR.
cKETS
WRAPS
NTLES
..OTHS
GOODS
CAPES
COATS
NEM-.
eke their money gee
evine time anxjous.
ng, shauld all and
and alsonote how -
LING.
ods
ipany,
Dry Goods Store
Mr. John Beattie,
Kiev afternoon at 4
vitnesses were ex -
ted to Goderich to
the magistrate, he
J. Hanlon, and his
Upon investigation
been operating in
Eneersoli, London,
an, on Tuesday the
village and staid
eistering his name
ock. He left there
ellowin,,,e for Clan
-
points North,leav-
a unpaid. We have
will be tried at
ieveral charges ag-
btaining money on '
ut 32 years Of age,
4-, able to earn a
k a brick -layer, if
a -a -e are several ag-.
k.-tring the country,
-er by the people.
iicLaughtin & Com;
titian sale at the
'ames 'Walker has
:ar of his black -
res da not seem te
adsort has annourt-
[toning the mercan-
as of Gorrie are dis-
›f purchasing a lot
aterter, our former
ed from Manitoba.
has been managing
7e than a year in.
Mr. Harry King,
has moved into -hi
north of the Bap-
-So brisk has been.
row House durin
irm have sectre
V.ade, their former
nes has gone to -
l) -ow, of Mitchell,
ill.—Mr. Arnold
severe attack of
al meeting of: the
in St. Stephen's
St week. It was
ant, the agent of
ident ministers.-
4.- comfortably es -
ick house, in the
ehurch.—Snaw, to
ve inches, fell on
k.—Several cases -
present reported
lIe and family, of
ing at the home Of
ell, of this village.
o be opened thia
fence recently
ohn elsrdell's lot,
ppearance of .his
d.
Ong end -pleaFant
angelical parson -
mg, when Miss
lr. Wm. Snider,
to Mr. Henry
young farmer of
y was performed.
oung couple wilt
mile west of the
a long and happy'
z has raoved his
Jne door west of
in the Hartleite
oeder has moved
street, which he.
Mr. Wm. Pfeil --
eared to teach the
ty, for 1897. Mr.
the trustees of
choice.—Mias M.
hwood school, has
.hoal in Manitoba.
s. Einwachter, of
dsin and around.
-tiled met at the'
onday, November
all present. The
platy reeve in set-
nley suit, by paY-
• approved, and 11.0;
nt. The account
n connection with:
the amount being
deputy reeve were-
arble and expense
L The total ex-
ownship from start
An order Waft
-pensel of ehowing
ispector over the
be reeve and as -
or Bele ting jurora-
'ouriciito call a
of tl e township
nda,y, November
o consider 'the ad-
ndidate in the field
11 gravel accounts -
ed in at iregular
on Monday, No-
-
THIRTIETH YEAR...
WHOLE NUMBER, 1,511.
S.EAFO
Til, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1896.
e OUR
EXPLANATION
It often happens that no matter haw
often you may explain why a thing is
said or done, that there are a ,few who
do not hear of or see the explanation.
For the benefit of these few who may
not have read our reason for holding
what we called. a wholesale sale, we
w ouId like to say that our principal
reason fornalling this reduction in prices
a wholesale sale is, the wholesale people
are the only losers in this sacrifice of
in on
claim
prices. We make a fair mar
every article quoted. We'do no
to be losing money for other people's
benefit, but what we do claim to be do-
ing is, that having bought these lines at
about half the regular values wholesale,
we are able to sell them at about one -
hall the regulae values retail. These
quotations will be found on the seventh
page of this paper. Our advertisements
are backed by reliable goods. People
believe we have one price to all, and
yoot money back if wanted.
There is one line of stuff we forgot, to
mention in the large advertisement, viz.:
our $7 and $10 Suits, made by ow selves.
equal to custom made suits at $15 and
$16. The best value we ever offered in
Men's Pants, is a hair line stuff, all wool
tweed, at $1 a pair.
WE HAVE ONE PRICE TO ALL
aetalm
GRE1G &1 MACDONALD
CLOTHIERS,
On the Wrong Side of the Street, in t
Strong Block.
SEAFORTH, - - ONT.-
PRODUCE
WANTED.•
We are open to buy
Dressed Hogs, Hides, Tallow,
oultry, Butter & Eggs.
Call before -disposing, as we want your, pro-
duce, and can please you' with a price.
BEATTIE 'BROS
South Main Street, SEAFORTH.
IMPORTANT NOTICES.
-LISTRAY HEIFER.—Came into Lot 17, Concession
A
2, H. R. S., Tuokersrnith, about ths lst Nov-
ember, a yearling heifer. The owner is requested to
pay charges and take her away. HUGH J.
GRIEVE, Seaforth P. 0. 1511-4
THANKSGIVING.
BY JOEL BENTON.
L
The fields a dull, dead rus-
set wear.
A frosty chill has stung the
air.
Vine and leaf and flower
have fiod,
And yo*der woods, ungar•
landed,
Stretch bare arms mite the
skies,
Stripped by summer's pag-
°entries.
11.
Where are now October's
flame,
May's fair promise, sum-
iner's fame?
Ali have gone, as bright,
things must,
Into vaporous air or dust;
But the wealth of barn and
bin
One more year has gather-
ed
-LASTRAY STEER.- Came into the promisee of
TA the undersigned, Lot 13, Concession 10, Town-
ship of Hay, a steer apparently three years old.
The owner can have the animal on proving; property
and paying charges. AB. GEIGER, Zuneh, P. 0.
151lx4
JJOUSE 111 BRUGEFIELD TO RENT.—To rent,
a comfortable house in Brucefield. Apply to
W. SCOTT, Bruceileld, or to JOHN McKENZIE,
London Road. 1509x4
ESTRAY COLT.—Came into the premises of the
undereigned, one mite and a quarter South
of Blake, about the Ulth of October last, a black
colt, two years old past, it has one hind foot white.
The owner can have the earne by proving property
and paying charges. CHRISTOPHER GASOE10.
1509x4
BULLS AND PIG.—Tho undersigned has
on Lot 27, Concenion 8, Ilibbert,' a
thoroughbred Berkshire Boar, to which a
limited number of sows will be taken.
—Tern's—One dollarpayable at the time of seryice,
with the privileze of returning if necessary. Ile
Mao has two regimtered Durham bulls for ale.
They are about 20 months old, and in every res ect
ftrst class animate. DAVID HILL, Staffs P. 0.
160 -if
III.
, For all the autumn's har-
vestiit vie s—
Spoil of orc Ards, wealth of
' fields, j•
Cellared pr ducts, mows of
hay, I
Staeks on hillside and high-
way,
Herds that month by month
. increased—
We spread this day our annual feast.
IV.
May none in gilded hall or
-cot i
Go unrewarded or for-
got.
We who have good things
to spare !
Sli °rad give to want a boun-
teous share;
p
ut gladness on the face of
Tillall.
some stream of
botuaty iknow. ei
"DROPERTT FOR SALE Olt TO RENT.—For
1 sale or to rent, Lot 8, in Worsley Survey in
Harpurhey. There is a comfortable Iran 6 cottage
with 5 rooms, hall and pantry, and & wood shed,
hard and soft water. There is also a comfortable
stable. On the property is planted a number of
good bearing fruit trees and small fruits. Thiele a
desirable property and will be sold cheap. If not
said will be rented, Apply to MRS. ISAIAH HALL,
on the premises or address Seaforth P. 0. 1609x4
AXT -ANTED .—Bright men and women canvassers
V V fer Canada and Australia--" Queen Victoria,
her Lite kand Reign," with introduction by Lord
Dufferia. A thrilling new book; sales marvellous ;
the Queen as girl, wife, mother, monarch; reads
like romance; grandly illustrated; big ehmmiesion ;
books on thee; prospectus free to canvassers ; Ex.
elusive territory; lots of money in it. THE BRAD.
LEY-GA,RRETSON GO., Ltd., 49 Richinond Street
Vf est, Toronto, Ont.
IT P'..A.:5TS TO
V.
Then the laughter of the
spring
Shall not be a mocking
thing,
And the pride of hill and
plain
Not have proved a pageant
vain;
But all the circling year's
increase
Turn to thankful joy and
,peace.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE AN-
NUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL.
1111-1.A.IV=SG-MITCA-..
livered Tay the Be. Dr. Palmer of New Or-
leans on Thanksgiving day, 1860, is said
to have aroused and crystallized secession
sentiment scarcely less than Mirabeau's
oratory did the revolutionary sentiment at
the convocation of the French states gen-
eral in 1789. So, while most ot the Thanks-
. giving pulpit talking may lack pith and
fire, it sometimes becomes a projectile I of
monstrouseforce and effect. ,
• -Thit, after ail is said, one must confess'
that the true .modern significance ' of
Thanksgiving is that of the feast day—the
family feast day. It gathers the scattered
branehes together from far and wide to
sacrifice at the altar of family love, where
are enshrined the 'Lams and Penates of
the old home. There is something of this
feeling, too, at Christmas, but it chiefly
touches the individuals of each family
branch. Thanksgiving seeks the gather-
ing of the clan and becomes in many cases
Perhaps the most beautiful and delightful
occasion of the yearafull of the purest joy
and sweetness, a veritable fountain of re-
freshment. The spectacle of three or four
generation i Of a family assembled together
from distant dwelling places under the
ancient 'family rooftree is charged with
the heart's truest poetry. The significance
is not that it surfeitshe belly with tooth-
somec/i and. succulent a inties, but that it
Ills the soul brimful of love and sym-
pathy, effervescing anew after long ab-
sence. This is the truest religious sacrifice
of the day, and so the dinner table be-
comes perhaps the most consecrated shrine
of all, though noblood of the grape is
poured out in libation there.
- It is in the country that the finest joys
of Thanksgiving are found. They go with
turkey and pumpkin pie, not with terrapin
and canvasback; with sparkling,. apPle
juice, not with champagne. The crisp,.
pure air, the association of rural life re-
vived again with exhilarating freshness,
the -warming of family ties, the homely,
appetizing dishes, into whose ooncocting
the cook has poured the purest love and
joy of the heart as well as fragrant spices
and sweets make upsomething which no
banquet of Lucullus could equal. Many a
worldworn spirit has found in suck Eta oc-
casion a new sensefiaming out of the ashes
of enntti and weariness, that, after all, life
.is_Well worth Hying. And so may it be
always. •
. We have sad nothing in this article
:about the giving of thanks, which the
'name of the day einphasizes. Well, per-
haps the indulgence! of love and innocent
joy and the new birth of all the best sym-
• pathies of one's nature are as perfeot a form
of thanksgiving to the great CrOator of all
as prayer and psalm singing Within the
walls of the chapel. Without the first
named all else is but as "sounding brass
and a tinkling cymbal."
G. T. FEInnis.
• i
•
The Manitoba Schools.
Its Origin and Ancient Manner of Observ-
ance —Its Modern Significance — The
Country 'Feast—A Tempting Ilanquet.
The Perfect Form of Giving Thanks.
An annual harvest festival of Thanks-
giving has ;been by no means peculiar to
this country or even fo,modern ages. In-
deed the HebreWs had their harvest festi-
• vals, the principalene -being -the autumn
feast of ingathering (feast o the Taberna-
cles), &thanksgiving for the whole produce
of the wine press, of the frit orchards
and the cornfields. Similarly, too,. the
Greeks and Romans had festival seasons in
'honor of Denaeter, or Ceres, the goddess of
agriculture. Alij these weees sanctioned by
_religious rite, genies and joyous indulgence
in the pleasures of the table. So our
Thanksgiving day has a no descent in
history, and the Puritans of Massachusetts
not only showed their, piety, , but their
,
scholarship, in some Of the oldsermons still
extant. A discourse of the celebrated Dr.
Cotton Mather on Thanksgiving is curi-
o, in its learning concerning the proto-
types of the Puritan festival among the
nations of the past. It shows how well
the fathers knew they lied linked them-
selves withe a great historic observance.
However the day has become Shorn of
its religious. quality in the ininds of the
masses, who sacredly enjoy the' Thanks-
giving turkey, its connecticin with Worship
is always earnestly enjoined by state and
fedetal proclamations. It is indeed the
sole religious festival observed In the Unit-
ed States by virtue of civil, authority. The
annual practice in NeAdFangland during
colonial times was Imitated after awhile
by the Duteh and English governors of
New York, and the continental congress
proclaimed the festival annually during
the great war struggle. It remained after-
ward, however, a purely state affair till,
in 1868, President Lincoln began the, prac-
tice of proclabning an autumnal Thanks-
giving annually. •
Is the earlier time'llsanksgiving day
was the most important of American hes;
tivals, for Christmas was looked on_ with
more or less- suspioion by the rigid Puri-
tans. Aside. from, churchgoing, shooting
with the rifle at turkeys was the most wide-
spread habit of the day. Thit Is still paw -
tided to some extent in the purely rural
communities. Nowadays, however, the
overshadowing feature of the holiday in
the way of amusements is the prevalence
of the great football and 'other games se-
lected fcir that date. Our universities -make
It tiae 000a.Si011 of their most brilliant ath-
tette contests. Ont of the cities whose the
.more important of these friendly battles
wouid naturally ocanar local games are ar-
ranged which perhaps evoke as much in-
terest among the spectators. It is merlons
to observe that among all the strong and
servile nations this tandem!, to connect
national festivals with athletic contests
has been all but universal. Among the
Americans, Englishmen and Gerihans of
today, the cognate branches of the Teuton-.
family,- thisis specially noticeable.
The religious exercisers of Thanksgiving
nearly always look in some way toward
matters of national gratitude rather than
those of individual thanks. So we.expect
the church addresses to be largely of a po-
litica character, dealing with topics of
truant,
to dis-
• once a
h, as
us shot
t a few
nt ad-'
The Canada Business College,
CHATHAM, ONTARIO,
• They are everywhere euocessful, and are being
placed in the best positions in the gift of the busi-
ness public. Milton Bogart just placed as Book.
keeper and Stenographer for the S. Hadley, Umber
Co. A. H. Rose as teacher of Mathematics; and
Commercial subjects in Troy Business College, Troy,
New York, at a salary of $1,O20 per annum. It:pays
to go to the best. We have placed over 60 pupils in
such positions as the one secured by Mr. Ross,and
have now an application from another American
Bueiness College to supply them with a teacher for
the Shorthand Department. For Oataingue of either
department, address, D. McLACHLAN & CO.
1486
Notice to Taxpayers.
Thomas Neelands, collector of taxes for Mullett
• Townehip, will be at the following places os the
dates named, for the purpose of receiving taxes ;
Londesboro, on November 30th and December 14th ;
Kinburn, December lith; Clinton December 121111,
All taxes not paid by the 14th of December will have
.5 per rent. added. THOMAS NEELANDS, Collector• ;
1511-3
public morals. Our ministers
avail themselves of this escape vett
oharge views of political _question
year, and many a good stump�P
well as someor ones, have been t
from the bat ry of the pulpit., N
of the most powerful and. eloq
dresses of , Efenry Ward Beecher, Eev. Dr.
Storrs, Dr. Hall, Dr. E. H. Chapin and
other preaching celebrities have owed
themselves to this occasion. A serao-en !le-
,
to be carried on in any school in pursuance
of the foregoing provisions and there are
Roman Catholic children and non -Roman
Catholic children attending school and the
school room accommodation does not
perrhit of the pupils being placed in separate
rooms for the purpose of religious teaching,
provisons shall be made by regulations of
the Department of Education (which regula-
tions the Board of School Trustees shall
observe), whereby the time allotted for
religious teaching shall be divided in such
a way that the religious teaching of the
Roman Catholic children, shall be carried
on during the prescribed period of one-half
of the teaching days of each month, and the
religious teaching of the non -Roman Catholic
children inay be carried on during the pre-
scribed period of one-half of teaching days
of each month.
7. The Department of Educatia'n shall
have power to make regulations not incon-
sistent with the principles of this act for
the carrying into effect the provisions of
that act.
8. No separation of the pupils by religious denominations shall take place during
the religious instruction.
SEPARATE TEACHING.
at 4 p. m., standard time, and that no bar
shall open on any day before 7 a. m., nor
remain oPen later than 7 p. m., standard
time.
Apetitian from tWo-thirds of the electors
residing in any polling subdivision, where
it is proposed to locate a tavern, shall be
necessary to eecure a -license or transfer to
any new premises, said petition with names
and addresses to be published at the expense
of the applicant at least twice in two of
the local papers, three weeks before the
first „meeting of the board of license com-
missioners.
That a majority petition from the elec-
tors residing in any polling subdivision in:
which a tavern is situated, shall absolutely
prevent the renewal of any license in any
year.
That the present provisions for allo ing
the existence of saloons in cities and to vns
be abolished.
That no liquor shop or tavern in towns or
cities shall be located within three hundred
yards of a church or public school.
That no license be granted to any person
to sell liquor in a public park or race course,
or within three hundred yards of any part
• of the same.
9. ,Where the school accommodation at That provision be made whereby on in -
the disposal of the trustees permits, instead fraction of the liquor license act any person
of allotting different days of the week to niay proceed at his discretion against the
different denominatiens for the purpose of license holder or against his bondsmen, and
religious teaching, the pupils may be separ- that the names of all applicants for licenses
ated when the hour for religious teaching with the names of their bondsmen, be pule.
arrives and placed in separate rooms. lished by the license inspector two weeks
10. Where ten of the pupils in any school before the first greeting of the board.
speak the French (or any language other That each conviction during the year, and
than English) as their native language, the . the number of convictions made since the
teaching of such pupils shall be conducted license -holder first received his license sh 11
be recorded upon the face of the licen e ;
and that a third conviction of any desor p -
tion under the license act shall, without
further process, thereby cancel the license,
and no license to said party or premises
shall be issued within a period of two years.
That any license issued by the commission-
ers in non-compliance with the law, shall,on
complaint and proof by any person, be can-
celled by the county judge.
•
Canada.
The Chinese in Canada now nunibet
13,110, an increase of 4,000 since 1891.
—There has been snow in Winnipeg since
October 30th.
—Forty business failures are reported in
Ontario for last week.
—There is a serious outbreak •of diph-
theria throughout the Province of Quebec.
—Ottawa University again won the foot-
ball championship of Canada, defeating To-
ronto University 12 to 8.
—Some of the fruit sent to the Queen bi
!Grimsby fruit -growers was served at he
IMajesty's table.
1 —Rev. D. J. Fraser, Montreal, , has r
ceived a call from Knox church, St.Thoma
He is a Prince Edward Island man.
—Guelph city council have passed a
strong resolution in favor of more adequate
punishment of the late defaulting treasurer
Harvey.
Walton, a Winnipeg widow, sued
Dr. Stephenson, also of Winnipeg, for
4breerlh2,o0foop.romise, and the jury awarded
' —Miss Bain, daughter of Mr. D. J. Bain,
ex -reeve of Paisley, died recently of typhoid
fever. The deceased was a very popular
young lady of 17 years.
—Fifty-one typhoid fever patients were
received into the London city hospital dur-
ing the year ending November lat. Five
oases resirlted fatally.
—JosePh McLeod, a grocer, of Kincar-
dine, died Sunday from typhoid fever. He
had been in business in that town for many
years.
Snider, a traveller for Christie,
Brown & Co., fell violently while alighting
from a Grand Trunk train at Welland and
had his head badly cut.
hursday, 19th inst., was the coldest
ber day Manitoba experienced for
The mercury dropped to 30 degreee
McLEAN BROS., Pub1isber.
$1 a Year in Advance.
in Toronto but throughout all Canada, and by the pastor, and Reads. Messrs. Ashton,
also in many parts of the United States. of Elimville • Nethercott, of Woodham;
—Thomas Jull, a well known citizen of and Greene, Of Fullerton. Music was ren -
Orangeville, is dead. He was 79 years of dered by the choir. The attendance was
age, a staunch Liberal, a most worthy citi- fair, and everyone there reported having a
zen and a settler in Trafalgar township and good time.
Orangeville since 1835. He leaves a widow --Mr. Henry Balfour, Thames Road, had
and two soles. the misfortune lately to lose a very fine mare
—W. E. & C. Stanley, of Lucan, have from inflammation. She was valued at $150.
contracted ' t 1 five carloads of I —Batten & McDonald, of Bornholm, have
turkeys, t
three to
10,000 bird
—Cherie
tuner, who
girl, June,
burg, plead
was sent
months.
—S. B. Morris recently shipped from
Rodney 3,000 bushels of 'beans, making the
largest shipment ever made in one day. He
reports having shipped over 16,000 bushels
• within thirty days, paying as high as 65
cents.
—The body of a child, several months
old, dressed ha white clothing and placed in
o cars to go to Quebec and I engaged, a first class architect to draw
,
lanitoba. It will take about 1 up plans for a new stable for their pure bred
1
hogs.
Gilbert, the London piano- —Miss Seehaver, has arrived at Brod-
etrayed and abducted -the young hagan, from Muskoka, and will spend the
front her house near Wallace- winter with her uncle, Mr. Frederick
ed 'guilty to both charges and IfiI3Z.
to the Central Prison for 22 --Mr. Charles Dingman, of the Stratford,
Herald, has become proprietor of the
i Gananoque Journal, and removes to that
town.
' —Mr. James Elliott, teacher in school
'section No. 4, near Bornholm, shot a mag-
nificent white owl on the evening of the
12th inst.
—H. Thurlow & Company, of St. Marys,
have furnished IGO chairs for the Welbinn
Methodist church Sunday school room, and
are putting in some more.
—Mies Jennie Cameron, a bright yoinag
lady of Mitchell, who hear secured a first-
class certificate, has been engaged to teach
at Stirton village, near Elora.
a rough box, was found in a pig -pen on the
• property of Seth Welch,in Cashel township,
near Belleville. An investigation is being
made.
—Albert Whaleni arrested in at. Thomas
mpton of a gold and
nd other articles, was
agistrate White at the
d guilty, and was given
e Central Prison at
Toronto.
—Messrs. Mahler Bros. made a shipment
of a car of dried apples from Bothwell to
London, England. The car coratained 500
boxes, paeh box filled with 50 pounds of
fruit. This is the first shipment •of the
product of thiv testablishment to England.
It is expected more will follow.
—Thomas Hardwicke, of Niagara Falls
South, attempted toscommit suicide first by
throwing himself in front of a train and
then by hanging himself in a barn. On the
firat occasion he was dragged off the track
and on the second he was cut down after he
had become insensible. He had been drunk
for about six months.
—Charles A. Stuart, V. A., of Glencoe,
has left for Mexico city, under the care of
his brother, Duncan Stewart, barrister, of
London, for the benefit of his health. The
foriner is a premising graduate of Toronto
University, and was recently received a
member of the faculty, but over -study caus-
ed a physical break -down, and he is in a
critical condition.
in French (or some other language) and
English upon the by -lingual system.
11. No pupil to be permitted to be pros-
. ent at any religious teaching unless t e
parents or guardians of such pupils m y
desire it. In cape the parents or guardia s
do not desire the -attendance of the pupp.s
at. the religious I teaching, then the pupils
shall be dismissed before the exercises or
shall remain in another room.
In Defence of Edmonton.
1 An Edmonton, Northwest Territory, cor-
• respondent, signing himself " Fear Play,"
in reply to the letters Of Mr. W. T. Gem -
mill, which appeared in THE EXPOSITOR a
few weeks ago, says :
Now, sir, for a few plain facts. It is true
that the school district where Mr. Gemmill
teaches veracity and such things is a very
poor one. It is quite newly settled there,
but I am Berry to say tit a good many of
the assertiens made are ot true, and Ivery
far from it. He says it does not pay to ship
produceout of here, and that the only mar-
ket is the town. As a matter of fact, we
have been shipping potatoes to the Kootenay
all fall by the carlead. Oats are being ship-
ped out by every train, and the oat meal
mills here buy all the oats they can get,and
pay from 17 to 24-7 cents, cash:- The mill
here, .one of three in the distiriet,has already
bought 35,000 bushels of wheat, and will
buy all they can get for cash. Prices to -day
are from 60 to 67 cents for it. Butter has
never been lower than 15 cents this sum-
mer, that is good butter. There has been
$40;000 worth of gold taken out of the
river this year,—this by men who are will-
ing to work, and who can make from $1 to
$3 per day. As high as $60,000 woeth of
furs have been bought in one day. These
figures will show you, Mr. Editor, that we
are not the miserable, starved -out people
Mr. Gsmmill would have you believe us to
be. Mr. Gemmill's letter would give the
impression that nothing comparatively
can be raised here, and that anything that
is raised can not Ise sold. I will give you
two instances of people who came from
within a thousand miles of Seaforth. Mr.
T. G. Pierce, late of London township, this
year has .1,1001 bushela of wheat from 33
RCM, which he iC selling at from 60 to 65
cents per bushel. Mr. Andre* Walker,
late of Centralia, his second year, has 1,200
bushels from 45 acres, which he sold "en
bloc," at 65 omits. This wheat weighed 65
pounds to the bushel. Some of the oats this
year weighed 41 pounds to the bushel. I
could cite hundreds of similar instances, but
I have said enough to show that your Mr.
Gemmill was writing of something he did
not know much about, and that when he
nese rubbed off, and be-
ainted with the country
e will likely change his
to be an intelligent young
The following is the, ofhcial statement ar-
rived at by the Dominion and Manitoba
Governments for the settlement of the
Manitoba school difficulty :
roduced 9,nd
ssion of the
bodying the
in amend-
ment of the " Public School et," for the
purpose of settling the educational questions
that have been in dispute- in that Province.
2. Religious teaching to be conclacted
as hereinafter provided : (l) If authorized
by a resolution passed by a majority of
School trustees, or (2) if a petition be pre-
sented to the board of school tru4tees- ask-
ing for religious teaching and signed by the
parents or guardians of at least ten children
,attending the school in the case of a, rural
'district, or by the parents or guardians of -
at least 25 children attending the school in a
city, town, or village.
3. • Such religiout teaching to take place
.between the hours ef 3:30 and 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, and to be conducted by any
Christian clergyman whoae charge includes
any portion of the school district, or by a
person duly authorized by such a clergyman
der by a teacher when so authorized.
• 4'. Where so specified in such resolution
of the trustees, or where so required by the
petition of the parents or gua
ous teaching during the pres
may take place only on cer
days of the week, instead of o
ing day.
• ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHERS.
1. Legislation shall be in
passed at the next regular s
Legislature of Manitoba em
provisions hereinafter set fortl
diens, religi-
ribei period
ain: specified
every teach -
5. , In any school in towns and cities
where the average attendance of Roman
Catholic children is forty or upwards, and
in villages and rural districts where the
average ettendance of Butch children is 25 or
upwards, the trustees shall, if required, by
the petition of the parents or guardians of
such number of Roman Catholic children
respectively, employ at least one duly cer-
tified Roman Catholic teaeher in such
school. In any school in towns and cities
where the average attendance of non -Roman
Catholic children is
village and rural di
40 or upwards; and in
tricts, where the aver-
age attendance of th children is 25 and up-
wards, the trustees hall, if required by the
petition of parents dr guardians of such
children, employ at least one duly certifi-
cated non -Roman Catholic teacher.
WHERE ACCOMMODATION IS LACKING ,
6. Where religious teaching is required
for robbing Mr. H
silver watch, $5,
arraigned before
police court, plead
six months in t
Allen,
childre
spectab e servant girl in the city. He also,
under pretence of investing the money at 6
per cent, interest, took from her $175 of her
wages, and which he afterwards denied
having received. For all these crimes he
receieed the comparatively light sentence of
.six months in the Central Prison.
,—Matthew Miller, a man from Kingston,
arid A. Macarney, a bartender, are in cus-
tody at Napanee, charged with attempting
to rob a young man named Giles Van
Btaricom, of Deseronto, of $325. On Sun-
day evening, Blaricom deposited the money
at the Paisley House for safe keeping and
on the following evening Beverly H. Ross, a
guest, stole it an0,afterwards disgorged it.
He Ian away,but was captured in Milbrook,
where he is now i
day evening Mill
in the city and,
arney in a lonely spot, the stranger repre-
sented himself as a detective and pretended
to arrest both on a charge of having stolen
money in their possession. Macarney induc-
ed Blaricom to let him draw the money from
the paisley House and it was paid over to
Miller and his mate. When arrested a
thimble -rigging outfit was found on Miller.
All the meney was recovered.
—Mrs. Jane 11/Ptigrove, of Delaware
township, 'passed laway a few days ago at
the age of 83 years . and 6- months. itirs.
Uptigrove was a Woman of great ability.
No one coald give a better history of the
early days of this country than she could.
She was born at Lambeth, and was the first
child of European descent born between St.
Thomas- and Byron: There were no roads
in the country then.' The people travelled
on foot, guided only by the blaze on the
trees. Wolves and bears were numerous
and very troublesome. Mrs. Uptigrove
could remember one big bruin that her father
shot close to the house. Nine balls were
put into it before it was killed,and the meat
wh 'n dressed weighed 500 pounds. The
sheep had to be penned close to the house
to guard against the attacks of wolves. Her
huaband, the late James Uptigrover,died 21
years ago. He helped to build the first
houses in London, and for many years was
a county co stable - and a sergeant in the
militia. •
—The reunion of the veterans of 1866,
consisting of the old North Ridge Rifies,and
the Leamington Infantry, who were out on
duty at the time of the Fenian invasion,
ace in Leamington on the 18th inst.
these there were several veterans of
ho were invited as honored guests .of
n of 1866. There was a large turn-
achiriat in Toronto, named James
marriedna n with a family of 'six
, weed and won, and betrayed a re -
gets his home me
comes better acq
and its resources,
mind, as he seems
man.
What the Temperance People
• . Want.
A few days ago Et very large delegation of
temperance people, composeEl of members of
the Ontario branch of the Dominion Al-
liance waited on the Ontario Government,
and submitted ft statement of the changes
whibh they demand in the Liquor License
Act The following are the changes which
they ask fur:
That all revenue from licenses belongs ex-
clusively to. the Provincial Government.
That not more than two tavern licenses
be granted to the first thousand of the pop-
ulation of any incorporated village, town
or city, and not more than • one tavern li-
cense for each additional 1,500 of the popu-
lation.
That on Saturdays all bar -rooms be closed true sport, he was widely known, not only
Nove
ears
belos zero at Winnipeg. At Regina it
reached 40 below.
—A. W. Campbell, Provincial Road Com-
missioner, has accepted the invitation of the
West Zorra township council to address a
series of meetings throughout the district
this month.
—The Montreal 'Ladies' Benevolent • So-
ciety has receivedsan anonymous gift of
$10,000, the annual income therefrom to be
used for the maintenance of the intnates of
the ladies' benevolent institution.
—Twenty-one ladies have just graduated
as nurses from the training school of the
Toronto General Hospital. A notable cein-
cidence in connection, is that seven ol'these
nurses are named Mary and three Elizabeth.
—E. W. D, Butler, secretary of the Can-
adian Loan & Building Association,Toronto,
while chopping wood met with 'a painful
accident. The axe caught in a clothes line
, and descended on his head, 'tnflicting 474 deep
gash.
—Mr. E. W. Gardner, o4ie of Toronto s
tieens, died at
Thursday, 19th
brother-in-law
, was 58 years
custody. On Wednes-
r and another man arrived
eetin 1131aricom and Mac -
—Mr. John Miller has bought the Pus-
chelberg property, at Brodhagan, on which
a new house has lately been erected, from
Mr. 0.0. __Rook. •
—On Monday, last week, Stella, the eld-
est child of Me. and Mrs. John Balfour, of
Russeldale died at the age of two years and.
six Month:. she was ill only a fewshours.
—Mrs, George Dalrymple, of Lakeside
has a golden pheasant hen 22 yeart
This shows that poultry will live a long
time when cared for. Who can beat this
record?
---The Avonbank Butter Manufacturin
Company are making extensive repairs an
improvements in their factory. As soon as .
these are completed butter making will be-
gin for the winter.
—The anniversary entertainment of the
Methodist church Sabbath school, St.
Marys, was one of the best things of the
kind ever seen in that town, $70 being
taken at the door.
—The body of Mr. John Kinsman,brother
of Mrs. Gerry, of Mitchell, arrived in Mit-
chell from London on Wednesday, last
week, and was buried in the old Bible
Christian cemetery.
—Mr. George Dalrymple- has arrived
home at Lakeside, from Dakota) and his
friends were glad to see him looking so
well. He thinks there is no place like
Dakota.
—Mr. Frank Dougherty, who a few years
ago played lacrosse on the Stratford team,
and was well known by lacrosse players in
the county, died in OwenSound, a few days
ago, of infianunation of the lungs,
—The other day in St. Marys, Hubert,
the little grandson of Mrs. 115. Rupert,
was badly scalded on the face. He acci-
dently ran against his aunt (Mrs. F. Sharp)
while she was crossing the room with a
pan of hot water.
well-known and popular a
his residence in that city o
inst. Deceased, who was
of Mr. John Ross Roberts°
of age, and leaves a widow and daughter.
He was a prominent Mason, and always
took an active interest in the affairs of that
order. As a true lover of all branches of
took p
eside
igs,7
helm
ut, n ealy one hundred responding to the
all. Mayor Capt. J. E. Johnston extend-
ed to them the freedom and hospitality of
the town. Ths veterens then, led by the
Leamington band, tnarehed through the
principal streets, which were lined with the
c tizens. The line o
th the Presbyterian
had provided a s
them. Dinner over,
the town hall, whe
were made by Col.
lings, an old teteran of 62 years, who was
captain ofthe North Ridge Rifles during
those stirring times '
I • Major Fox, captain of
the old Learnn gton Infantry, and others.
• '
'
march brought them
hureh, where the town
mptuous banquet for
they again marched to
e patriotic addresses
Wilkinson, Capt. Bil-
—Mrs. J. H. Dawson, of Winnipeg, has
been visiting at Mr. C. Brine's and Mrs.
Ingram's, St. Mary's. After a visit to
friends in . Seaforth, Wingham, etc. she
will return to St. Marys till after the New
Year.
—On going to his stable on a recent Sun-
day morning, Mr. Charles Pearce, of Mit-
chell, found a favorite driver with n leg
broken and the bone protruding through
the skin. It must have happened 'while the
animal was rising.
—Mr. John Kemp, of Blanshard, near St.
Marys, died a few days ago from inflam-
mation cf the lungs, caused by a neglected.
cold. He was only 28 years of age, and.
was an active church worker and much re-
spected in the neighborhood.
• Perth, Notes
Stratford has now several eases of diph-
theria.
—Mr. C. W. Taylor and Mr. W. Oliver,
of 4vonbank, have had artesian wells
drill d.
'he confirmation class in the Lutheran
church, at Brodhagan, began with an at-
tendance of 26.
-I-, Miss Irvine, of Blanshard, has been en-
gaed as teacher of Metropolitan school for
18q7, 2
-1-Mess1.. Heal, of Mitchell, shipped !a
car lead of ,sheep to the Liverpool •market
last week.• i
—The S. Marys Argus has been enlarged'
to 12 pages, and the . price is only $1 a,
year. It it a first class paper too.
—Mr. Ingram Vernon. of Souris, Mani-
toba, is filiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.,
N. J. Vernon, of St. Mary3.
—Mr. Andrew McConnell, station master
at Cainsville, visited friends around Pros-
pect Hill diring a few days last week.
—The nniversary of the Methodist
church at 'rir
kton was held on Sunday and
Monday, the 15th and 16th. On Sunday
excellent sermons were preached both morn-
ing and evening by Rev. Dr, Willoughby, of
Exeter.Ctn Monday night a hot fowl sup-
—Archie, son of Mr.George Kreaanyer, of
Fullerton'was accidentally struck in the
face by a board one day lately, causing a
terrible gash near the left eye. The wound
was brought together with stitches, and
Dr. Wood says Archie will soon be all right
again.
—Mr. Richard N. Epplett, who is attend-
ing Stratford model school, hats secured a
school in Kent county for 1897, and Mr.
Frank Epplett has been re engaged for
1897 at Wheatley, at an advance of salary.
They are sons of Mr. Thomas Epplett, of
Blanshard.
—Mr. R. G. Swanson, Bon of MT, D.
Swanson, of St. Marys, is one of the lucky
men of Algoma, being owner of a section of
land on which coal and gold mines are
awaiting development. An American com-
pany have contracted to operate on them
shortly.
,—The death is recorded of Mrs. Dicken-
son, widow of the late Charles Dickenson,
one of the pioneers of Blanshard township,
but who retired to St. Marys some 16,
years ago. She leaves two sons and several
daughters. Ain,ong the latter are Mrs.
Robert Whaley, of Usborne ; and Mrs. W.
Walks, of Paisley.
—Mr. Thomas Leggett, of Logan, has dee,
cided to spend the winter in Manitoba, and
sent home last week for his winter clothing
to be forwarded to him. By the accounts
we hear of the severity of the early winter
weather in. the Prairie Province, Mr. Leg-
gett will require to pile on all the clothing
he can scare up.
—Mr. John McVittie, lately of Avon -
bank, now dairying in Sudbury, Algoma,
has invested in some real estate in that
town. They have electric light and water
works, and expect a great boom through
the mining, especially if the coal fields are
proven tole() valuable.
—Mr. John Messersolarnidt, of McKillop,
has bought the 100 acre farm of his brother-
in-law, Mr. JohntKnechtel, on the 6th con-
cession of Logan: He takes possession in
March next The price paid is $5,000. MT.
Knechtel has bought a 100 acre farm near
Rostock, on which he will_raove at the same.
time.
—
—Mr. S. W, Cady, the man accused of
pointing a revolver at R. McArdle in the
Grand Trunk Railroad yards, Stratford, on
the 9th of August, was convicted in the
police court on Monday afternoon and fined
$100 and costs. Seventy-five dollars were
allowed to stand on the books, and Cady
handed over $25 and $3 costs.
—Wm. MoVittie, of Whitefish, formerly
of Avonbank, has been successful in locating
a deposit of the much talked of coal or
anthraxolite, or whatever it is called, in.
the Sudbury district, Algoma. An expert
has pronounced it to be the same as found
, on the surface of coal deposits in England.
Mr. McVittie has formed a, eompany, and is
selling stock.
—Mr. Peter Wright, son of Rev, Peter
Wright, of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,
formerly of Stratford, was married on Wed-
nesday, November lith to Miss Lizzie
Hoy. The wedding took plaee in the
afternoon and was attended by a large
number. In the evening the -couple left
for Grand Forks, British Columbia, where
Mr. Wright has large mining interests and
per was gen, and followed by addretupes intends to make his home,
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