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f the finest embroideries ant::
sell them at prices less thaw"
Cotton Drawers, five •rows
cide embroidery, frill 50
iality Cotton Drawers, three
ne tucks, flee, wide embroidered
750.
Cotton Drawers, extra quality,
ars fine tucks, insertion and mid*
7, frill 870.
Drawers, very fine Cambric Mwte
rows tucking and extra fine ande-
iroidery $1.
White Cotton Skirts, full sir"
good quality cotton, two dust
ricking and 8 inch fine embroidery, .
850.
Skirts, extra fine cotton, full sizea -
tucking, 9 ineh fine embroidery,-
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brie Blouses, dark. and light pat.-
thehed or attached collars, welt
LS season's styles, and worth at.
for March sale
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THIS SALE.
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MARCH 12, 1897
MR . Grestars %MEM.
goomow..no
Mr. Gibson, It P., P. for East Huron,
evoke in the budget debate in the Legisla-
ture on Thursday a last week. Following
a synopsis of his remake e
In addressing the House on ring. into
- comtnittee of supply, he did not intend to
say anything to hurt the feelings of the hon*
orable member for South Toronto, Mr.
Howland, by indulging either hi self praise
or flattery of friends, or in invective of op-
ponents, but would deal with facts, which,
as Burns says, are stubborn things that
winna ding." Our friends opposite are nb
-doubt :preparing their ammunition for the
next election. Criticism ,is. their right.
They are in opposition to criticise, but crit,
itism in order to he effective must be fair.
'The member for West York dealt last night
in exaggerations • otriong other things he
stated that Stanfield Macdonald Ieft a sur-
plus of $4.000,000, when, as a Matter of fact,
it was $200,000 less, but of this he would
speak later on. As the member for Wel-
land, Mr. German, said, Bradfield was a
• Reformer so that the Opposition cannot
• claim to be hid political heirs, and
dasy have formed a narrow conception of
-his characters His objectin view
were mainly two ; first, necessities of_ the
-Province, and secondly, to Inc ase the
,railway facilities. At that time, in the
large tract of country bounded by the rail-
way lines from Goderibh to Stratford, from
Stratford to Toronto. and thence to Coiling -
wood, an area containing some of the best
land in the Province there was not a mile
•of railway. Sandfield partially ,built the
London asylum, also • the asylum
for the blind at Brantford, and
• for the deaf and dumb at Belle-
ville. He started the reformatory for boys
at Penetanguishene the idiot asylum at
Orillia, and the Chitral Prison. His ex-
penditure for public 'institutions' mainten-
• ance was $171,423 in 1871, aid his, average
• expenditurn during the four years of his ad-
eministration, $157,240. During the 25
_years since then the average expenditure
under this head has been $504,000, a differ-
- ence of $347,000 a year, and this item of
expense, it must be borne in mind, is vir-
tually uncontrollable. The Opposition do
not charge and cannot show that a single
-dollar of this expenditure was improperly
spent or misappropriated. Had it been
possible to have kept the expenditure for
public institutions' maintenance at the same
average per year as sufficed during Sand -
field's time, the sum of $8,693,125 could
have been tided to the surplus without
any allowance for interest. Take the item
of railway grants. Sandfield appropriated
'the sum of $1,500,000 for that purpose, but
'there has actually been spent in •bonusing
railways since his time the aum of $6,449,-
000. Was that amount not better laid out
in providing railway facilities to those parts
-of the Province which were without thein,
than in addirigto the surplus? On account
of municipal loan fund distribution the
• Reform Governments since Bradfield's time,
have paid -out no less than $3,447,525, an
•itein for which Sandfield had no corre-
dponding expenditure at alL For hospitals
-and charities the excess •expenditure over
that of Bradfield Macdonald has been $2,-
;500,000, and not a single word has ever
- •been spoken against the expeoditune_of the
money. Adding together all theft items,
and a sum of nearly 820,000,000 is obtained,
which has been laid out either on items for
which Sandfield Macdonald had no corre-
'spending outlay, or in excess of his expendi-
ture for the same objects. And not one
-tittle of objection has ever been made by a
single member of the Opposition to the
whole thing. (Hear, hear.) - The member
for `Wrest York, Mr. Sb. John, had Stated
that the Agricultural College cost $96,000
per annum, and he said that only 100 pupils
were in attendance at that institution.
Whet did they find? The C011ege proper
cost only $28,000 a year. Compare it with -
the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, where
there isnot a single pupil. There the cost
is $34,009 a year: But there are 250 pupils
At the Agricultural College, not 1041, and if
the honerable member had wanted te be
fair he would have stated the number cor-
rectly and would not have included the
costof the travelling dairy and other ex-
penditures which ought not to be charged
to the cost of the Agricultural College but
to the Department of Agriculture. A word
now as to the Central Prison. It was
a legacy from John Sandfield Macdonald,
and he (Mr. Gibson) had always maintained
that the Province ought never to have been
put to the cost either of building or main-
taining it. None of the other Provinces
have erected similar institutions, ami at
least two-thirds of the expenditure was a
direct saving to the Dominion Government.
The Central Prison is the institution against
which the Opposition have directed their
-heavy artMeryin the public aecohnts com-
mittee and in the House, but he did not
think that all they had made out of it was
worth the powder 'and shot. (Laughter.)
Now, compare the cost of administering the
Central Prison with that of administering
the Kingston penitentiary, and the compar-
ison is a, fair one, for the institutions have
like objects, and the expenseought not to be
much greater in the one than in the other.
• The pereapita, coatof maintaining the inmates
-in the Kingston penitentiary is 6202.33, as
against $164.62 in the Central Prison, and
the former has the advantage of free water. ,
The revenue per inmate in the penitentiary •
is $7.56, and in the prison $68.74, so that
the net cost in the former is $191.77 per in-
mate and in the latter $95.88. The differ-
ence in favor of the Central Prison is there -
:ken nearly $10() per inmate, but as there
is some dispna as to the earnings, let the
• comparison staled as between $202 per in-
mate for the penitentiary and $164 for the
prison. This would, give a difference in
favor of the prison of $31 per inmate. It
was somewhat remarkable that the official
teonnected with the Central Prison, Mr.
Noxon, whose scalp the Opposition were
after, had been called upon to investigate
the affairs of the Kingston penitentiary. In
Scottish vernacular he had been asked to
:give it a redding up, and if dame rumor was
anything near the truth, it was not before
it was time. (Hear, hear.) His ideas and
those of his friend from Lennox, Mr.
Meacham, were pretty nearly the same on
the subject of education. Possibly tivere
was an inclination to over -praise the system,
but on the whole he was satisfied with the
present state of affairs. Grants to trigh
Schools had not been increased and were
evidently intended to remain stationary,
and they now had the public school leaving
examination and continuation classes. The
public schools of the Province had not now
eta& eeluse of complaint; and there is not
a child in Ontario that has ability, ambition
or perseverance who cannot with plain liv-
ing arid high thinking rise as high as his
faculties will. admit. (Applause.) The
clam that Sandfield laid by more money
than his succeintors was not a well-founded
one; As a matter of feet, he did' not pay
-as he went-. In the early years of Contest-
-eration the Dominion Government spent the
-Sam M $500,000 on account of the Province,
Which had afterwards to be paid by the
incoming administration. He appropriated
a million and a half for railways to be spent
as he thought best, and had he been able tto
ay recently Mr. Foreman, of t
tile yard, drove a fractious
arys, and wishing to attend
ess, he proceeded to tie the
O t.• The colt objected te
and reared and kicked,
ke loose and galloped at a b
up the street. Mr. Foreman
agaiest the post and recedi,
1 injuries.
A TEA -GROWING PARADISE."
The Home of
CEYLON TEA
Every leaf is full of virtue. Every infu-
sion is delicious. Sold in lead packets only.
-25e, 40e, 50e and 60c. All grocers.
Dr. CHASE CURES
FATHER Jew CHILD
Both afflicted with Eczema
offs very troublesome type
and cured in a remarkably •
short while by Dr. Chase's
Ointment.
"Iwas troubled for tenyears with eczema on
one leg, the itching was something terrible;
would scratch until the Woad came. How I
came to know the value of DR. CHASE'S IHNT-
mENT, I have a little girl two year; when she
• was one year old the same disease began to
show upon he; face. It wasn't long before her
face became fiterally covered with it. In order
tokeep ber from scratching it we bad to band-
age her hands up.. I tried several doctors, but
I got no relief. Seeing DR. CHASE'S OINTMENTso
; highly advertised, I made up my mind to. pur-
chase a box, which I did from one of our
leading druggists. The first application I
oticed a change. I It was then J. began to
link about myself. With four or five applicw.
ons, to my surprise, I am completely cured,
sign of the disease, and my little irIs face
o -day is clear of all the scabs. I am only WO _
lad to ,inform any person -what a blessing IR
II OINTMENT has proved itself.
• " HIRAM FREY,
Wesel
.,Nrrier.
oankvoo
d, Ont."
c i mat upon a,majority in the House'evetier
, ,llar of it would have been allocated in
t' e summer of 1871 before the Legislature
t et. It was in connection with this mit-
t that he made his fatal 'mistake and met
h e defeat. When Mr. Blake took office he
' ed $400,000 more in cash, making $1,-
• 9 000, and also $100,000 a year for 20
y , the cash value of which at 5 per. cent.
a that time was $1,1.00,000,making $3,000,-
014, in all for railway aid,all of which has been
s d..t. In the matter of the common school
1 da the Province of Quebec was awarded
his opinion very unjustly -four -ninths
of 11 the collections, and of the money paid
o • of this account not a dollar was so paid
b Sandfield; it was all paid by his success-
or He had the advantage of much larger
col actions then, too, and collected $440,000
du ing his four years. Four -ninths of
w eh afterwards went to Quebec. He col-
lec ed 8500,000 on account of the Municipal
Lon Fund, which was a trust fund, and did
noi pay a dollar of it out. He ought ,to
have paid $100,000 for Rockwood asylum,
wh h was paid by his successors. These
thi gs show that had Sandfield defrayed all
his egitimidte expenses as he went along;his
surplua would not have been so large, and
his uccessors'-would have been larger. The
me ber for South Toronto (Mr. liowla,nd)
say that the sins ;of the fathers
ought not to be visited upon." the
children, but the operations of this
lavieitre inexorable in the political as well as
in thephysical and moral world, and the
present position of the Opposition is a proof ..
of i They were on the other side of the
Houre largely because of • the stand their
treed cessore had taken in the matter of the
tire and , territorial rights of the
Pro nee It cost Reform governments $150-
000 o defend and 'maintain these eights,
and his sum would been saved if the op-
posi on had stood by those on his side of
the i use, and resisted the aggression, and
bare- aced aggression at that, on the part
of th' goeernment of the Dominion. (Hear,
hear. 1 No one could properly appreciate the
vast mount of labor which devolved upon
their late leader in bringing the several
cases • safe fruition connected with the
dispu ed territory, and he certainly de-
serve the thanks not only of this side of
the H use, but of the other side as well.
In eve instance he was on the defensive,
and in every instance he came out on top.
(Chee ) To all these sums 'should be add-
ed $2 0,000 cash in deposit on 31st Decent-
ber 1 V. Adding together then the items
which •e had given and which ought either
to ha e been paid by the Sandfield Mac -
clonal government or were fairly and
proper4ly chargeable to them, and a sum of
$3,l50000 is obtained which if deducted
from »e surplus left only some $600,000.
Sandfieid had sources of income which were
now died up, or nearly me The &dice -
Mons account of Crown. laIds gave him
$1,000,:000 all told, but now not more than
$40,0 or $50,000 it year is realized from
this so rce. If this item is taken into ac-
count is surplus vanishes entirely. But
I
there isanothor sum that is rightly charge-
able -to the Sandfield government, namely,
the cot of teachers' superannuation&
That ystem was introduced during his
regime, and all that he ever paid under it
was $6,!143, whereas there has been paid
since no.t less than $1,260,000. True, the
system miglit have been abolished and the
sums paid in return to the teachers, but
this w Id have worked. hardship to de-
serving en and tarnished the good faith of
the Pro ince. Nevertheless the Bradfield
govern ent imposed upon the Province the
necesei of paying out this large amount of
money; ufficient to have paid all the rail-
way su. certificates which are now paid.
Now, t re has been - a good deal of unfair
critieis of the liquor licensing system from
the oth side of the House. He could not
speak f others, but he wished to say that
he defie • the face of clay to point to single
individ 1 hotel keeper in East Huron who
had bee coerced. (Hear, hear.) One of the
most pr minent hotel keepers in the ' tiding
had tol him personally that he had done
his best o defeat him, and more than that
had sub eribed money to protest his (Mr.
Gibson election, although he was himself
opposeu to a protest being entered. Did
that lo as if he were being, coerced? An-
other p minent hotelkeeper in his county
had tolil him he would rather be under, the
present ystem than at the mercy of a reeve
or depuu reeve, as he used to be. (lifter,
hear.) Henaid he got fair *play from the
license lommissioners, and if he broke the
law he as entitled to be punished for it. A
good d I of nonsense had been spoken
about t e activity of the license commis-
sioners in political afiairs. Are their
mouths to be closed? They receive no
emolu nts, and it mould be impossibleto
get pro er men to act if they were to be
" cribb d, cabin'd and confin'd," and if their
right I exercise the franchise were to be
taken a • ay from them. The member for
West 1 rk in commenting upon. the ex-
penses the Agricultural College gave the
Minist of Agriculture pc) credit for the
travelli g dairy and other means of im-
provin the manufacture of butter which
have en introduced during the last few
years. Now, the quantity of butter made
in the rovince is not to be ascertained from •
the Bu u of Statistics, but the quantity
of crea ery butter made last year was in
the nei hborhood of 4,000,000 pounds. He,
though ! he was within the mark when he
said th t the experiments which have been
made a the Agriveltural College have in-
creased. the price of that butter by five
cents• r pound, a net gain to the Provinces
of 8201 000. Den mark has gone to consid-
erable • nee in improving her facilities
for ma mg good butter and has captured
the Lo don market - and if by the expend-
iture o $4,000 or $5,000 a year we can reach
the aa • e position in the batter market ef
Engle as we have reached in the cheese
marke he thought •the money would be
well s '.nt. (Applause.) There has been a
tremel ous wau on account of the timber
policy f the government, but the timber
policy f the piesent administration is the
same that of Sandfield Macdonald. He
did w at was right; he sold timber berths
by a time and so has the present
gover ent. • Sandfield's sales averaged
158t s uare miles per year, and those, of the
blowa. government 176 square miles. But
the p sent administpion has been far
/
more successful in realizing good prices for
the timber than their predecessors. Con-
trast their action with that of the late gov-
ernment at °Ottawa, who within three
months sold 112 berths of 50 square miles
each, or 5,600 square miles in the, disputed
territory, and never a cheep from one of
the gentlemen opposite, neither from his
friend fiom Lanark, his friend fiiom Lennox,
nor his friend from Halton.
Mr. Kerns, -I beg the hon. gentleman's
pardon. I was not in the House then.
Mr. Gibson, -Then you tire one, of the
children, and you are being punished for the
sins of your fathers. (Laughter.) 5,600
square miles were sold to members of par-
liament and others for $5 per square mile,or
$28,000 in all. We bane sold' 4,321 square
miles during the Mowat regime, and the
average sum of $1,205 per mile has been
received, or $5,102,000 in all. This shows
the advantage of having our affairs looked
after by Reform , administrators. (Cheers.)
Mr. Speaker, theie are faots plainly stated,
and such things as these are what the peo-
ple want to know and can appreciate. It is
such facts as 'these that catuie -me to be-
lieve that the people are not going to
change their ministers for a littlewhile yet.
Another item shows that our affairs are ads
ministered with economy. Although the
population of Ontario- is '500,000 more than
• that of the Province of Quebec, the cost of
legislation and civil government is less here
than it -isethere. • In the matter of pliblici
buildinge, the average expenditure of. the ,
present gohrnment has been just about
• that of the Sandfield government. He was
astonished to hear his friend from South To-
ronto criticize the new Parliament buildings
in the way he bed done. In ventilation,
comfort, lighting, heating, etc., they
would compare more than favorably
with the Parliament buildings at Ob.
Ottawa, which have coat three or four times
as much. He had never yet conversed with
a man on the subject who did. not give it as
his opinion that the buildings were admit. -
able ones and a credit to the Province. And
there was thiscto be said about them, that
-there has not bean a shadow of a, shade of a
scandal in connection with them. (Cheers).
The late minister of Publie Works -he did
not hesitate to say it now that he haat gone
--lad by his faithful andhonest adMinistrii-
tion, and especially by the work which he
did in connection with these buildings, add-
ed fresh lustre tO that good old Highland
name, famous in story as it was, and his
name and memory will live as long as the
buildings endure. He wbuld add the re,
marks in closing that his friend beside him
'(Hon Mr. Baxter) and himself were now
the only two left in the House who could
say with reference to the matters he had
been speaking of, -"All of this we sive, and
part of it we were," (Loud applause). At
the conclusion of Mr. Gibson's speech, the
House rose, and a number of members, both
Opposition and Government, gathered
round his desk and warmly congratulated
him upon his successful effort. •
Remarkable Testimonials.
• Atwood, September 28th, 1896.
J. M. McLeod, Goderich
Dear Sia -I beg to apologize for not
writing you sooner to thank you for the
marvellous cure effected threugh you. On
December, 1893, 1 injured my knee. Two
weeks thereafter I was obliged to have the
debtor. I doctored all winter. From the
lst of May, 1894, I was confined to my bed
for Reyna weeks. I had no rest day or
night, the pain was intense. I got so thin,
and became quite helpless. The doctors
had a consultation over me, and said if they
could save the leg I could never have the
use of my knee again. An operation fright-
ened me, and it was then my husband took
me to Goderich in a very helpless condition.
I took your System Renovator for my sys-
tem and to build me up, and applied E. A.
MeLennan's Liniment as recommended,
which you kindly applied when I couldn't
do it myself. I remained at my brother-in-
law's in Goderich for five weeks. In about
a week I was able to walk' with a staff. The
Renovator gave me an excellent appetite
and I gained considerably in weight, as
well as in 'strength. My knee is quite
• .supple and as supple as ever it was, It
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hold duties ever since I came home. My
husbend joins with me in tendering you
our sincere thanks.
• Gratefully Yours,
MRS. JAMES STEVEN.
For sale by J. S. Roberts, Seaforth.
News Notes.
--Grenville P Kleiser, the well-known
Canadiae reader, left for Roseland, British
Columbia, on Saturday evening last. Mr.
Kleiser will investigate the merits of several
mining enterprises on behalf of eastern cap-
italists.
-Early Monday morning of last week a
fire baoke out in Murray's large dry goods
stare,on King street, Toronto. It was soon
subdued,but not before upwards of $150,000
damage was done by fire, smoke and water.
-A well on the premises of Mr. W.
Caldwell, of the Galt nurseries, has been at-
tracting considerable notice lately by the
strange agitation /going on in it. It does
not matter whether a breeze is blowing or
not, a strong current of air comes up front
the depths of the well, apparently through
the water, which is strongly agitated.. In
winter, the air seems to be warm, and in
summer icy cold. It sometimes emits loud
hissing noiees as of rushing wind or escaping
steam.
-By the death in Montreal lately of
Margaret Murray Robertson, at the ripe
age of 73, a very distinguiehed author pass-
ed away from the Canadian world of letters.
Miss Robertson belonged to a very brilliant
Scotch family, which produced such men as
the late Prof. Robertson Smith -perhaps
the most notable figure which has appeared
in Scotch theology since the disruption -but
although born in Scotland, she spent most
of her long and useful life in Canada. Her
father was the Rev. James Robertson'of
Sherbrooke, where one of her brothers, the
Hen. Joseph Robertson still lives., One of
her brothers, Andrew Robertson, was thirty
years ago one of the leaders of the Montreal
bar, of which subsequently another brother,
W. W. Robertson, Q. C., was Batonnier.
The death of one of her sisters, Mrs. Mary
Robertson Gordon, the wife of Rev. D.
Gordon, seven years ago, is still keenly felt
as a severe loss to the Presbyterian church
in Canada. But she left an indellible im-
press upon its intellectual and missionary
life. Miss Robertson's literary work was
better known in the old country and the
New England States than here, but in Can-
ada her books found many appreciative read-
ers, and warm admirers. Among the best
known may be meneioned "Christie Red -
fern's troubles," " ‘henae," "`Daeid Flem-
ing's Forgiveness," "Janet's Love and
Service," "The Twa, Miss Jean Dawsons."
A VICTIM OF ASTHMA.
IIAD NOT SLEPT IN BED FOR TWENTY-FIVE
YEAB.S.
Seemed Doomed to Torture and Continual
Misery-sFather,Grandfather and Great
„ Grandfather had Died from the Trouble
e -Release Conies in Old Age -The Care
Looked upon as a Miracle.
From the Whitby Chronicle.
For years etc:ties of famous cures wrought
by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have appeared
in the Chronicle. Daring this time we have
been casting about for a local case of such a
nature as to leave no doubt of the efficiency
of these pills. We hive found several, but
in each ease it proved to be a sensitive body
who could not bear to have his or her name
and disease made public. Recently, how-
-••—•;<,,,Kcfm<44,4 74,
ever, a rnost striking case came to our ears.
Mr. Solomon Thompson lives on a beauti-
ful farm on the west shore of Mud Lake in
• Carden township, North Victoria. He was
reeve id Carden and Dalton townships
thirty-five years ago, before the counties of
Peterbero and Victoria -were separated, and
• he used to attend the counties' council at
Peterboro. Mr. Thompson has, been a vic-
tim of asthma for forty years or more. How-
ever we will let hint tell his own story on
that head. • .. k
On October 15th,1806, - we took a trip to
Mud Lake to visit tbelhaunts long familiar
to us, and made it al deity and found it a
pleasure to call upon Mr. Thompson and
• learn from seeing him and hearing his ac-
ccount of ib how he had been cured, For
twenty-five years we had known him as a
gasping, suffering asthmatic, the werst we
ever knew who ever managed to live at all.
We often wondered how he lived from day
to day. On calling he met us with a cheer-
ful aspect and without displaying a trace of
his Old trouble. Being at once ushered into
his •house, we naturally *made it our first
business to enquire if it were all true about
the benefits he had received from using Dr.
• Williams' Pink Pills. "Beyond doubt,",
said he. - "Hove long have you titled them,'
and how many boxes have you used ?" he
was asked."1 stetted a year ago and took
eight boxes." We next asked him if he fele
that the cure was permanent. "Well,"
said he, "1 have not taken any of the pills
for three or four months. Still L a not
entirely satisfied yet. You see my fa her,
grandfather and great grandfather di d of
• asthma. My people all take it sooner or
later and it always ends their days. I have
lost three brothers from the fatal thing.
Knowing my family history it is hard for
me to gain faith, fout I can tell you for
nearly thirty years I never slept in bed un-
til I took Pink Pills. As you must have
known, I always slept sitting in the chair
you now occupy. I hada sling from that
hook in the ceiling and always sat with my
„head resting in it while I slept. I now re-
tire to my bed when the other metnbers of
my family do." "How old are you, Mr.
Thompson," " Seventytaix," was the re-
ply, "and I feel younger than I did thirty
years ago, I was troubled a great deal with
rheumatism and other miseries, probably
nervous troubles arising from want of sleep,
buttnearly all the rheumatism is gone with
the asthma."
During the conversation Mrs. Thompson,
a hale old ,, lady, the mother of thirteen.
ehildren, came in aud after listeuiug • to
her husband's recital of these matters, she
took up the theme. "I never. expected
that anything could cure Solomon," said
she. "We were always trying to find
something which would give him relief, so
that he would be sleep nights, but nothing
ever seemed to make -much difference. At
first he took one of the pilleafter each meal,
but after a time he incrersed the dose to
two. We noticed he was greatly improved
after taking two boxes and began ^ toehave
hopes. Later on ,when we saw beyond
'doubt that he was much better, I reCem•
mended the pills to a niece of mine, Mies
Day, whose blood had apparently turned
into water andmho had run down in health
and spirits so bad that she did not care to
live. 1Why, she got as yellow as saffron,and
looked as if she would not live is week.
You would hardly believe it," said Mrs.
. Thompson, "but that girl was the health-
iest and handsomest girl in the neighbor-
hood before three months had passed, and
all from taking Pink Pills." lire. Thomp-
son was called from the room at this junc-
ture to attend to some household daties,and
Mr. Thompson resumed the subject of his
marvellous euro. "You can have no idea,"
said he, "what it is to go through twenty-
five years wiehout a goodenight's sleep with-
out pain. I can find no words to make
plaip to you the contrast between the com-
forts I now enjoy and the awful life I had
for so long. rhad a big family of mouths
to feed aid had to work when at times I
felt more like lying down to die. 1 would
come in tit night completely tuckered out,
bat even: that was no guarantee of rest.
There was no rest for me. I seemed doom-
ed to torture and continual misery. When
my folks urged me to try DaWilliains' Pink
Pills I thought it would be useless, but I
had to do something or die soon, and here I
am as tight as a fiddle." The old gentle-
man shook his head to add emphasis to his
last sentence, and looked like a man who
felt joyful over a renewed lease of life, with
all his old mietries removed.
• After congratulating our old friend on his
divorce from the hereditary destroyer of
his kindred; we drove away. At many
places in the neighborhood we opened. dis-
cuesions upon :the case and found that all.
regarded it as a marvellous cure. Where
the Thompson family are known, no • person
would have believed for a moment that any-
thing but death would relieve him from the
grip of asthma. Even, word that it writ-
ten here can be verified by writing Mr.
Solomon Thompson, Dalrymple post office,
and an intimate acquaintance of twenty-
five years enables the writer to vouch for
the facts narrated above,and for,the veracity
of Mr. Thompson in any statement he may
make.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to
the 'root of the disease. They renew and
build up the blood, and strengthen the
nerves, thus driving disease from the sys-
tem. Avoid imitations by buffeting that
every box yon purchase is enclosed in a
wrapping bearing the full trade mark, Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
et -n-' --•
THE CHINESE SACRED LILY. - -
illTed With good non, and, tab manse Wre
more than half covered with it. They were
packed in about as closely as they could
be, room only being left through whioh
the water could easily run down to the
thirsty roots. The box was set in a south
window in a room in which no OTIS was
kept, but opening off from one .kept very
• well warmed. The bulbs were watered
, 'freely and frequently. The soil may be al-
mostanuddy if not cold enough to rot the
bulbs. .Plenty of water must be supplied.
• This box was a sight to be remembered
when once seen -simply a 'raise of blos-
soms and, probably half a dozen stalks
nearly frora each big bulb. The blossoms
were all double except those produced by
• one bulb. -Boston Globe.
How to Cultivate and Treat the Bulb So
as to Have the Best Results.
I have grown the Chinese sacred lily
every *inter for years, and each year finds
me- ordering a larger supply for indoor
blooming.
For the benefit of those who know
nothing about this bulb I will say that it
may be grown either in water, sand, peb-
bles or solL
I have found in years of growing that
the bulbs put in water come to growth and
bloom earlier than those grown in soil,
but I have noticed frequently that the
flowers en the water grown bulbs are more
apt to be single. It may be it justhap-
pens so,' but it is generally supposed that
the manner of growth makes a difference.
• It certainly is not an infallible rule, as I
have had double flowers on water grown
bulbs and vice versa.
For quick blooming choose a dish perhaps
6 inches in depth and with an open top. Is
bites used a large rose bowl, kit these are
too small at the top and too large and
deep to be wholly satisfactory. I think
E1 eam better than porcelain. Having se-
lected your MO, take your bulbs and Place
themon a layer of sand, pebbles or shells,
then Raths shells well around the bulbs
in 'such a way that When the stromg roots
begin to push: up from the bottdea of ths;
recepteple they will net push the bulb -it-
self out of the water. This viems to nie to
be about the only thing to be looked out
for. Water is the ohief essential to strong
growth, and this must be supplied fre-
quently even to bulbs water grown, as they
.soon drink up what is placed in a shallow
dish. I like te keep my dishes full of wa-
ter, and it hi an easy Matter every niorning
to fill the glasses. It is not neceseary that
the bane should be covered with water,
but it Is !Waggery that they should be
about half submerged.
Bits of -charcoal placed in the water will
keep it sweet, and a little GlIGKOOIGIBi in the
water will moist in nourishing the bulb.
Last winter I grew some eight bill113.1 itt
a box'and when I say eight I nsean eight
large bulbe, and these were surrounded by
some four or five smaller ones'so probably
there were IMMO 80 or 40 bulbs altogether.
The box was about 6 inchesbe deigth was
4
• Pipe Coloring.
Even in a pipe coloring contest the in-
evitable fakist plays his part. Said a to
• bac:oculist to the writer: "We gave a prize
to a competitor whose pipe was most, beau-
• tifully tinted, but we discovered when too
late that its color had been imparted arti-
• ficially. What the exact stain was we could
never determine, but it gave a natural hue
to the bowl and had been used time and
again at similar contests by the originator.
'A prize of 5 guineas -offered by a
meshing tobacconiet-was very nearly
awarded to a smoker whose pipe was of a
lovely golden brown. Careful investiga-
tion revealed the fact that its complexion
was barely skin deep, and a few minutes'
gentle -rubbing reduced it to its original
state of whiteness. '
• "To color his pipe in a faultleee state of
uniformity a winner of many prizes baked
the bowl in a dish containing some color-
ing solebion, This placed in an oven and
cooked gently fastened the color.
• , "A perfect spechnen of the fakist's art
would have oarried the day, but its depth
of color -a brown black of unusual elch-
nese--excited suspicion, and put to the test
the pipe was discovered to be hand tinted.
But for the artist's ambition to attain
something extraordinary itt the matter of
color he would undoubtedly have come up
first "-London Tit -Bits.
Mary 'Morris' icier.
Rossetti has been credited with making
% William Morris acquainted with the lady -
who was to be his srifeeand the legend
turns that he did so because he had fallen
in love with her eyes and *anted Morris
to possess them. A new story about MTS.
MOTTiS' eyes and Rossetti has appeared.
Not long after the marriage Rossetti asked
a few friends to a "consolation dinner."
During the festivity there was .some dis-
turbance outside the-windows,nind when
it bad ended Rossetti went to one of them
and drawing back the curtain showed a
bull.in the garden tethered in the midst of
the ruin he.had made. As his friends -es -
claimed at the Presence of such an unruly
element, Rossettl ruefully explained that
this was his "consolation," though he
feared he should have to get rid of it to-
morrow. "I bought the bull, and Ieneant
to cherish it while it lived because -you
can see -he has Mary Morris' eyess"
Pertinent and Impertinent.
It, was while Henry Liddell was head
master ofestminster school that his
j
fame began o as extend the author of a
Greek lexi n, published a few years be-
fore. One day he told the boys in his class
that then -must write an English epigram.
Most of the scholars declared the task to
be impossible. Dr. Liddell' insisted that
they were wrong. It way not inipossible.
Each scholar might, choose his own sub-
ject, but epigrams must be written. This
. was what one boy produced: .
• Tato men wrote a lexicon—
_ Liddell and Scott.
i -0ae-ha1f was clever %
,
And one-half was not.
Give me the answer, boys,
• Quick to this riddle—
• Which was by Scott
And which was by Liddell?
"I think you are rather severe,". was the
master's only comment. -Youth's Com-
panion.
• Advanced Backward.
The expression "advanced backward':
gained great cement:3y just after the ren -
counter on the floor of the -United States
senates between Senator Henry S. Foote of
Miesiasippi and Senator Thomas H. Pen-
ton of Missouri. In that famous verbal
duel, which almost culminated in a bloody
tragedy; one of the senators perhaps
Foote, though this is a matter of red:Oleo:
tion -bore down on Benton, when the lat-
ter drew his pistol, an old Allen, common-
ly called in those days a pepper box and
sometimes a wasp nest. Foote stopped.
And afterward in detailing the occurrence
he saM that when "Mr. Benton pulled his
ppeper box I advanced backward." Mon-
tague refers in his works to "rowers who
advanced backward. "-New Orleane Pica-
yune.
All—She Required.
A Certain shopwalker in a large estab-
lishment is noted for his severity to those
under him in business.. One day he ap-
proached a junior assistant from whose
counter a lady -had just moved away.
"You leb that lady go without making
a purchase?" he asked severely.
"Yes; sir, I" -
"And she was at your counter fully ten
minutes?"
"Doubtless, but then you see" -
"Exactly. I saw that in spitoof all the
questions she put to yon you rarely an-
swered her and never attempted to get
what she wanted."
"Well, but" -
"I shall report your cansIeesness."
• "Well, I hadn't what she wanted."
"What was that?"
"Half a crown.' She's a book canvasser,
getting su bscri hers bathe `Life of Moses. ' "
And the shopwalker retired crestfallen.
-Pearson's Weekly.
•
-Jimmy Clyde, a St. Marys' boy, while
sleighriding down a hill in that town, saw a
team coming, and to prevent a collision
with the horses ran his sleigh against a
tree. The rate of speed was to, great that
the sudden stop threw him with great force
against the tree. For a time he was uncon-
scious. He has some bad bruises on the
head, and one thumb badly jammed.
•
EPPS'S - COCOA
ENGLISH BREAKFAST COCOA
Possesses the following
• Distinctive Merits :
Delicacy of Flavor,
Superiority in Quality.
GRATEFUL and COMFORTING
to the NERVOUS or DYSPEPTIC.
Nutritive Qualities Unrivalled.
In Quarter -Pound Tins only.
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The Lif'e of Dr. Chase.
As a compiler of Chase's Recipe Book, his mune is
familiar in every household in the land, while as a
prectiting physician his works on Mmple formulas
left an imprint of his name that will
be handed down from generation to • gener-
ation. His last great medicine, in the form
of bis Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, he
heving the large public patronage that his ointment,
Pills and Catarrh Cure are having. Dr. Chase's
Byre, p Of Linseed and Turpentine is especially
adapted, for all Broncbial and Asthmatic troubles.
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CUTITREI and SLEIGHS.
We have on hand now a full line
of all styles, made from the best
material and by the best workmen.
Call and examine our stock before
purchasing elsewb.ere. -
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Wastes furnished en short notioe.
Works--Oppostie 0. T. E. Stitbos Goderiote
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A large, elegantly equipped eommercia
school -none better in Canada. Students
may enter at anythne. Write for catalogue.
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Mr. Thos Bennett. for over 22 years
in business as ta, -wholesale and retail
butcher, gives his experience with the
• now famous* remedy, MI:burars ,Heart
and Nerve Dills. ,
"Gentleimen,-I have for a king time
been afflicted with extreme ner,vone-
nese. and ailments resulting tnereirom.
Frequently I lad sharp pains under
my heart. At times my memory was
clouded, which was a great annoyance
,to me in my _ I) e sinese, -causing me to
forget orders which were given to me,
and MY attention had to be called to
such matters frequently. Very often
there "-w-as a sort of mist came before
any eyes, and I was extreinely dizzy.
One of the worst features ws..e that
business matters of small importance
assumed exaggerated foe7s, and I
n
brooded Over them unee carily. At
• night I would,aften wake up with a
st rt and it would be a long time- be -
foe I could. again. compose . my-
self to sleep. So unstrung were
ray nerves that I had fits of
trembling occasionally, and cold
sensations would 'nun down meP
limbs. The least excitement or mese
startled me and set any heart flutter-
dong.
"I have taken a. box of Milburn's
Heart and Nerve Pills, ' which
I, got • at Me. H. W. Lovels
drug store, corner Broadview and
Danforth -avenues. They restored nay
nerves to their normal condition, and
toned up my sy-stein to such an extent,
!that all the distressing ailments I
have mentioned have completely dis-
appeared. I say it without any qualifi-
cation whatever that they- are a splen-
did medicine for shattered nerves and
their attending evils. I cannot too
highly praise the wonderful virtoes of
these pilla in all cases of heart trou-
ble."
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AUCTION SALE.
IICTION SALE 'OFA VALUABLE FARM.—Be-
„et • leg Property of the lates Henry Prang, lot 10,
concession 10, township of Hay. Ninety-three sores
cleared, 2 acres of bush. and 1 acre of orchard ; good
buildings and fencer ; 8 acres of fall wheat; 26 scree
of fall ploughing done. Sale at Huron Hotel, Zurich.
Saturday. 20th March, at 1 p. nee TERMS,—Ten %
down, balance in 30 days. For further partieuIars
see posters, or apply to GABEOW & PRoUDFOOT,
Vendor's Solicitors, Goderiche or L. 11. DICKSON,
Exeter. B. L. DOYLE, Master at Goderich.
4e25-3
.11C1IO1.- SALE OF A VALIJA.BLE FARM.—
With good byname, well lanced and well
drained, will be offered for sale en Saturday, March
13th, 1897. at the Centennial hotel, Hensel!, at 2
o'clock p. m. sharp, the following valuable farm:
Being composed of lot No. 11 on the 2nd concession
of the Township,of Hay, Huron county, containing,
100 sores, ',lore or leer'. There ate 27 scree of hay
and pasture. The balance all fall ploughed and ,
ready for spring sowing, except 7 acres. This ie a
desirable farm'well situated, in good repair, and
must be sold. Terme,--One thousand 'dollars within
10 days after sale, $1,000 at the end of 6 menthe.
Tine can be given for the balance as may be agreed
upon by parties purchasing. Further perticulars
will be cheerfully given on application to the under-
signed. D. 3icCOLL, proprietor ; W. McCLOY,
auctioneer. •1525-2
TTNRESERVED AUCTION SALE OF FARM
ae STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS.—Mr. Edward
Bossenberry has received instructions from Mr.
Hatay lepphardt to sell by publie' auction on lot 27,
concession 10, Hay, on Tuesday, Mareh 80tb, 1897, at
1 o'clock p. ni. sharp, the following valuable proper-
ty: HORSES.—One marc 9 years old, 1 mare 5 years
old. CATTLE,—Two stanch eows and calves, 1 cow in
calf, 1 heifer' in oalf, 1 farrow cow, 2 heifers 2 years
old, 1 bull calf 1 year old. 1 heifer aide 1 steer calf.
SHEEP AND PIGS,—Four sheep, 2 pigs. Also four
dozen hens and 8 ducks. IMPLEMENTS, --One
Noxon binder, 1 Brantford mower, No 8, new; 1
reaper, 1 sulky rake' I land roller needy new, 1
Noxon combined seeddrill, new; 1 set iron harrows,
lumber wagon 1 truck, 1 Hill plow. 1, Yankee
plow, 1 No. ill Preston plow, new; 1 scattier, 1 culti-
vator, 1 hay rack, 1 bobsleigh, 1 cutter, 1 earriage, 1
buggy, 1 set double harness, 2 sets of single harneme
1 fanning mill, 2 gravel boxes, 1 sum kettle, 1 cop-
per kettle, forke, chains, sap buckets. 1 grain cradle,
1 grindstone ; also other articles too numerous to
mention. Everything roust be 'mid without reterve,
as the proprietor ham rented his farm. TERM[3,—All
sums of $5 and under, cath ; over that amount eight
months' credit will be given on furnishing Approved
joint notes. A disoouuteet the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum will be allowed off for caeh on all credit
amounts. HENRY LIPPHARDT, proprietor • ED.
BOSSENBERRY, auctioneer. 15C5-4
THE FARMERS'
Banking_ - House,
SAJOIT
(In commotion with the Bank of Montreal.)
LOGAN 8c, CO.; .
PANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENTS.
OFFICE—In the Commercial Hotel build-
ing, next th the Town Hell.
A General Banking liminess doie. Drafts
'amid and cashed. Interest allowed on deposit*.
MONEY TO LEND
On good notes or mortgages.
• ROBERT LOGAN, MANAGER.
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-BARGAINS-
In Crockery.
As we intend going out of the Creamy
Business, we are offering some of the best
bargains ever given in the county in Diniker.-.
Tea and Toilet Sets. We have a good cotTP
lection to choose from and the prices are ,
away down below the usual.
Our Stock of Groceries
Will be found complete as usual, In. Teas,
we are giving extra values; our Japan Tea
at 20e and 25e per pound cannot be beat..
Although currants and raisins are Iiigher
„hen last year, we are selling a good cleaned
urrant at 50 per pound.
° We are paying the highest market prices
all kinds of good fowl, butter and. eggs
-cash and trade. s
ROBB BROS.,
SEAFORTH.
The c. op Mutual Fire
Insurande-Company.
4.0.0111•M
• FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN
PROPERTY ONLY INSURED
01•011.01,11=1•110
OTTIcNIS.
oeo. watt, President, Maio,* P. On rinds
Brosdfoot, Viee-Presiderit,-Setiforth P. O. ev. J.
Shannon, Seey-Treme, Beeforigi P. O.; Maid
Kurdie, Inspector of Losses, lesidoeth P. O.
Posnerose.
Jas. Bradlee!) Seafeeth; Oszeiner, Let&
bury rs deotte Pee, &aortal ; Thomas E. Hays,
Seaforth; M. Murat, fleeter!), Taos. -Garbutt.
Clinton • Thomas Fraser, BruceSekl ; John B. Mc-
Lean, HIPPen-
Thos. Kellen., Harlook ; Robe MOVian, 88,0Orth
Jame/ Cumming, egroondvills ; George Mardi*, and
John C. Morrisoneaudiors.
Parties desirous to effect Ineusimees or Were -
Pet other businesterill be promptly &needed to ow
application $oany otthe Above offleers, addressed te
their reepeotive poet °dem ,