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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1900-12-28, Page 1aat a he • rge eve feet ae treferrea huy- od the time of iies have ite `been to 'eing, to it, more of. our M buy, ttnanion 4n eon.- tigci in. 1ove our IB, that 'eh of sn'e ,r1 s .re and and pisa.e if .,incie is eash. no etc., iBten to s sorrow efs. A i -net are 1,f rice& tore ,jepi into Pe4 you e.per to Lar.0r.• kil just `e have ehe most er sew ari ity and and 'illy, we eigh as t a rut' e eX- etock sr eye. fawn teed. sok alik- e, ie s priced • look put - n De - re em- it(' -seise Aiee col, tit h. the fittsh. their arch iirl meat sf la on, DJ' . A en pre- er«I to er held fJczfort- t ti ng in fleate. stacke fey of ye waa 1r St. .. . deg i;ank "I he fe. 1 he le be. as le - int. .i;6 11 tt. Wa2 - t tfealle etre- u.t het a at the evlioul ild new parte ..di be • hoof :f• teen- _ etant. feel in . He e cape r from . t hese si wording frocorn. et one lividcd , .1 uly The i nizecl ranee r•_Sear a -,Ar ..--..., pe.......,.. • s, l'C'i:AP ...1„,k, I c . -- r. r,,,= ...- . ...• - WHOLE NUMBER, 1,721, THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. SEAFORTH, F IDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900. 1 McLEAN BROS., Publishers. Si a Year in Advance. Seasonable Th u 1 More important than anything else, or almost so, i ancl nature of the present you are going t your friends this season. Weo would not for think of dictating what you will buy, still that a few suggestions sometimes are a h most clear hea'ded in the purchase. There 'feel at a loss, study these lists -it nay- ,be thing you want that- we will mention. • There is Furs of all kinds. • Ladies' ruffs, muffs, caperines, capes, coats, storm collars, gauntlets, boas -there is nothin4 quite as • warm and cosy, and it is 'quite the proper thing, as e/1 as a very sensible thing, for a young Tan to buy for his lady friend. the kind, buy for a moment we think lp to the ore if you the very There is another division of the fur g ods, Men's and ladies' fur coat, cost so Much nliore paoney than a small neck fur, that special refereneb is ,neces- sary to bring out •the use ulness and sensibleness of fur coats for any one wl � has any drilng to do. Once there was a time th3 t people looked upon furs as a luxury -to -day it is ifferent. People are saying It is wisdom to have thes cold preventer ,As well think that you may put your hand in the 1re, as rea. son that you may expose Iyourself to the c ld, and4t suffer for it. rhe next idea is where to buy, humbly submit That there are few • betterf and ma worse places to buy your furs at than frorrf us. The last diviion of the fur list is ItOes. if you have a father or brother who has a lot pf driv- ing to do, he will appreciate your thoughtfu1iiess in m.aking this kind of a present ,o him this season. or any and all kinds of men. Ties, handkerchiefs, mitts, gloves, collars 'cuffs, sox, has and. caps, are sensible • and suitable presents. People of Scottish origin are justly fond, of the tartan and kindred evidences of the heathery hame. We are in a position to offer these tartans--the'genuine clan tartans -either in the shawl or made up into the cape. We feel that this is a style of present that will be well 3:eceived by any lady -with Scotch blood_ in her veins. For the little children. No doubt you will have to buy the usual house full of - toys, etc., yet there comes to oh ur Mind that a nice grey lamb cap would -not be amiss. We have a special line at $1.75, and others at higher prices. There will be comfort for the little fellows should y u buy a pair of our special long stocking at 50e. We also show a very nice line of boysunderwear. The little ones may not understand it,, but tliese will Ile the ri ht kind of presents for them. A HURON GIRL'S OBSERVA- TIONS IN OLD LONDON. LETTElt No. 14. DEAR EXPOSITOR, -One often wonders how and where London's millions findd-a liv- ing, and Wit' only when a person gets a look into one of the -many great stone buildings, where outside appearance' tells nothing of the work igoing- On inside, that he realizes how many people it takes to run the mech. inery of a single institution of the old city. I did think it was a privilege to go over the city's telegraph office, for you toe.n under. stand that such a building could not be open to the general public Jwithone some re- strictions ,as to time and- numbers, and a little help trom 110121.1 one in connection with the department The office; generally called the telegtaph of the general postoffice, and is block, quite in an old part of th is in the vicinity of the Smithfie St. Barthelomew's hoepital and oldest in London) and the Blue We went about all these old pi the telegraph office, bu to tell of them, they • some other old plac ich might be interestin e got inside the gre Were taken down one theri and, I think, u d so Irany stairs I can was upstairs and wh me to the reception, r tl for a guide to tak mati soon put in an lould only remember we got t take tim to go wit ing of W When door, we along an we climb ber whio till we o we weft The ypu and if I told us, I would know a good IdeaI about telegraphy. However, I do rem mber some things, only they seem so wonderful, I hope I have got them alright, and in places , If I d� not get things qu I hope no one who knows any the subject will take -me to task up a newppaper controversy, an pose my ignorance to the pub were peeing throtigh the door department, we were in, our guide -told us that this telegraph office was th the Am ricans would acknow greater t an anything they ha are inaH shoe! 4,000 people . it. . , I alwasfs had an idea that one only was, ueed for any telegram how ver ef far wrong I was. Th we were shown was what is call ropolitan department. The let a whole flat, and was full of ro of what looked like tables. On the instruments, and as one wo about as much room as the top machine, and they werees close you can imagine how many ther each of these eat a girl, and eve in charge of a supervisor. The depertment takes in all London tle urban towns, and netdista short, a much simpler instru • than for longer distances. I eh it was a place for beginners. I were being sent from peed the er or head offices in the city t in the metropolitan district, it go to the central office, come t girls in the department I have. of, and be sent -from there to tion. , The Provincial department towns and villagesoutside of England, and here the inner e as dos ink, if ly men in the grea plicated be sent think, is epartment n the same city, for it d market, hurch (the oat school. ces before t as I can't ust be left , the tell - to you. t entrance assage and -stairs, but ot remem- oh wasn't, om, where us about. ppearance, he half he their right te straight, ing about by starting thus ex ic. As we f the first In completing the list, e will merely mention again the likely 'presents at this season : A fine satin or !a half dozen or dozen linen handkerchiefs, cuffs or collars, Ea pair of dress braces, a ni articles for muffler, a half dozen ce 4-in:hand, bow, string or 15uff tie a half dozen fine sox, a nice pair of gloves or mitts, a fur cap •or gau tlets, a nice umbrella with plated silver br gold trimmings. These are a few of the serviceable things that w comfort as well as the pleasure of those wouldiwish to remember at this season. +++++++++++++++++++ I add to the o whom you Greig & Macdoll Clothiers and Furnis On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG BLOCK, SEA ers ORT11 The handiness of sending money by Dominion Express money order, appeals to every one. The rates are: $3 and under, 30 ; oyer $3 to $5, 4e; $51to $10, 6o; $10 to $20,1 $30 to $40,15e ; $40 to $50, 18c $50 to $60, 20c; $60 to $75, 250; $7 SU/11, at IMMO rates. eFor orders payable in hurope-$10 an under, c; $20 to $30;12c ;- tit $100, 30c; over c ; over $10 th $20, lei ; $20 to $30, 25c ; $30 to $40, 35c; $40 to $50, 43o; over $50, at ssime rates. - J. IIVIACIDaNAL C. P. R. AGENT, Seaford]. With an operator, we they could be. I t rightly, there wereor mentond, beoause of there was a more co If a message were t office to one of the towns, say Cross to Birminghard, it woul the Metropolitan department t Cross i struments, add then seairs t the Birmingham ins thee fr m there to the town o To do away with meeeengers fr another, the tube system w much like that in the liege stores Pit home. Boys were al the tube stations. sending ing messaages. You can that the outside offices i are only for convenience of th thatethe real office is in the department ; from there it go vincial or foreign instrument, is intended, and then to the r Then there was the newspaper where messages are received a different newepaper offices, m have wires of their own. Thi has its busiest time about 6 after. • Going down the stairs to on I forget which, we stood on a the heads of the workers, and view of them. The place smell colony in itself, only the all of the one persuareon, men something to see so many at little insignificant looking ins united click of which made noise, and then to think of t were doing. In the foreign department, had a key board, with differ it, looking something like tha writer, and the. men seemed leisurely touching one key other. When you looked above the instrumerit you wo Rome, Pekin, etc., end realiz oes are being overcome in short time. In one corner of sporting department. The only thing edge to be , for there mployed in instrument but found first place d the Met - r occupied s and rows these were Id take 9) f a sewing as could be, were. At ry sixty was letropoli tan and its sub. ces are so met is used uld imagine a telegram any small - some point would just one of the just spoken its destine, includes all London, in ments, each together as remember this depart - &r distance, instrument. from a oity rom. Charing g& first to the Charing e sent down rument, and that name. m one flat to s used, very epartmental aye busy at, or receiv- thus see the city people and Metropolitan o to the pro - ✓ wherever it oeiving town( department, d sent to the ny of which department o'clock and • department, ending above had a fine emed like a people were ; but it was ork at those ruments, the pretty good e work they an artesian well, the provi are 0 M en along are that, arou Of day, hours hours wben etrai Fano the r when whio came throu were thin such had s for room little party.. The matron t dihes were broken in la es the water au le, quiet on Good ay, and then just the hallway coffin ire s as close togeth at a distance, t d as a smokestack. course the office is different employe I don't think an You would not you hear the no se there must be what it veould be lief of Ladysmith news of any amid many people w wh rbeu tacit bid enejwoyi 1 articular y gratef imparted by the guide. We had a pleasant surp ise too when we id our ehanks o the young man e -were then ttk n to the neatron's for a ouri of tea. /It was such a cosy mem and didn't we enjoy our tea. Id us how many a month, and that of one a year for head of you, for I why they should the company have and kitchen for the can get breakfast, 'n the building for ey would pay out. k us down to the the huge "griller" room. It must be eal time (we noticed good many of the their afternoon tea the city grows, the office] must extend its .00undaries and new officee are soon! to be e eeted, as elie present ones are so orowded. When we canes out f the telegraph office it was still early i the -evening, so we uld go o Madame Tusse.ud's ride o the two penny tube s to the place. As ion is a very famous one of the best in oe hall end staircase en you came to an ery, where you meet nd women of all ages. at time you went to ould alWays be people you get tired, there here you can sit and , and take in all that ost of the figures are feel you are in quite a or you see the English arty Saxone flown to y, and as you look at other, one cannot but uch finer looking lot are, for instance, than s. The former are so , end have none of the e latter. They look as the open air and were simple living, while old by their faces of e king's court. In one If.conceited old mon- hie grand court dress, uncle(' by his numerous wives Queen beth_ et ne side and Cardin:1 Wol- at ,the other.- There was another nguished rope) ontaining Queen Vio- and all the embers of the royal ly. Then ther were the monarchs of tinguished men of the English and foreign a, newspaper men, war sentativee of the army famous jockey and P. that when I begin I o stop, but think you you can see the exhibit (iceman, who stands as to answer any gees- e in the least, but I did a table, selling cats - to the amusement of me if I did not want a adame Tussaud's don't the farther end of the e4e saw the Queen in iting a letter, and very Tennyson also looked nd cosy in his etudy, which stood before a light through number. aped penes. The desk iting materials and on re was a tray to hold stemed pipes and a the writer was a well one could read many he backs of the red you don't wait till the a story, you will see re tableaux all the men oer armies who have mend. I think Kruger day best there, for o well. he death of General 0 be one ot the tab - horrible to look at, for as the general titan& g to his own home and the sneaking Arab at dly weapon. picture of the Gordon Hi surely be there, and if yo the British generals, and White must surely ust stop, or I will have I intended and there for you when you go to S. MeL. December, 1900. gest in the city, ply. The engines Friday and Easter o be cleaned. All in the basement, r as can be, so ey looked as big going night and s on at different one has very long think they should and think of the on eaeh operator. like at the time of for instance, or nt, or something in uld be interested, ered when we got ur look about, and 1 for the informa- ony each I a have brea dishes. Well, provided a dining -room eitpl dint' very side. meant an averag mployee. ri rather geeting not yet told yo yees. The, latte ✓ and tea right well less than t The matron to basement And we saw and the immense dinky a ve-y busy piece at 1 whe upstairs ' that empl yeee Were havin at t eir deake ) As thou ht we w wax worke. A and then on a bus got you know, phis; exhibi one d to e ent and or g Men tter here Wh seats musi You lage, the Maje at a hat a en tie E wards the iltuarte or eorg etre g, so wel buil fat, okey loo of t if t ey had lived i con thos the gro aro surr Eliz Bele diet tori fam foreign kingd ms. di church and 4ato birth, auhore4 artis corr spondent , repr and T. har will for tho tion thi hog sbm eat for ups her Wel ver 9itt win les wa the thr tob fill faOE coy Bo of ha mu ne nd suppos orld. T ery fine nee room llustrioue act, no m building, ng about. oirfo tabl to good on e. out al 1 ekin ant seem eign , fro Gra ioue and Ithen owle ge the are imm the I ex this • look are lista g008 so r brill sove Her one ack of he instrument nt letters on. ofa type. o work very nd then an- t the name Id see Paris, what diatom - an incredibly flat is the instruments here are kept for rinsing messages or for the different games. These ape busy, as the season for each is on, -but our guide told us the racing ones were nearly always in use. He also told us that a man a instruments generally knew won at a race before many one . of the whioh horse on the field. As Soon as the flag went dowx the button of an instrument was pressed and in an instant the name of the home was -received. in the e the names all particulars: time. kept be. clubs, and to as it cornea. truMent said, So and so has " and not a course knew hey were not message send- strument. In ere • working rforated paper width. These spapers. The London office, strurnent, into language of its re. Of course the language same strip of re having the London office. Then later ea • of the others and at last the There is generally communie tween the office and the city them is sent the news as fast One day an operator at his in giving the namo of a horse, fallen ; no, he is ep again quarter of the people on .th the horse had fallen at all.• ] on the vantage ground of the er nor yet at the receiving i another department men with yards and yards of p about an inch or half inch in contained telegrams for ne telegram would come to the be worked off, on a special i this perforated paper, with own, and then sent to pap the receiver must understan and then write it out. The paper would do for all pap same message. We were even taken dowi to the engine rooms, where great engines, pumping away night and day, run the ma hinery of the immense building. We o learned that nt with rethe of later years gay doings of t p we, saw the s , Henry VIII., i 1 Go lea th on at th navy, mad even arnem. 11 fin ly know *here have to wait: til ourself. The p gh he wete read a, did not -fool k the figure a LOS was reel, mu eone, who' asked logu . Then You go to et to; look a)ou airs room. The private room w she looked too. comtortable ng it a ' desk dow, that 'let eh little diamond a covered with ' window BiU th, e or four lodg coo Ljar. Behin d bookcaoe, and iliar names on red books. If ✓ war is too; ol ng the dowesta he British and the right of co t be in. hid 5 er saw him lOok ehould think don would alw X. It isn't a bi picture is tak ho tpp step lead rst you don't se foot with hie de he well knewn hlandere will ale don't see all obs," K itchener beret Well, I pen more h 1 be nothing ne dame Tuseaud's, LFORD, ENOLANI A Souvenir of Searortih Containing 60 photographic views . of the principal streets, churches, schools, factories, places of busi- ness, residences, etc. Pric3 e 25c b'y mail 30c AL X. WIN R, sEAFO TH. photographs of selected animals, showing the Clyde and Shire crosses, with accom. paning reading matter on drafe horse breed- ing. The executive officers of the society are; John McMillan, Constance, president; D. McIntosh, V. S., Brucefield, vice-presi- dent; P. McGregor, Brucefield, treasurer; James Mitchell, Goderich, secretary. • County Board. The Board of Examiners for the county -of Huron, met in the Model school, Clinton, on Saturday, December 22nd, at 10 o'clock a. m., to finish the work of the Model school term. There were in all 47 candi- dates and of these 24 attended at Goderich, and 23 at Clinton. Of these candidates 8 held Senior Leaving non-professional certifi- cates, 35 held Junior Leaving and four held Primary. The total number of marks re- quired was 900; the pase mark 540, or 60 per cent. The honor mark 675, or 75 per cent. All the candidates made over the pass, and were granted Third Class Certifi- cates. The following is the list : HONORS. be tol wi Ti Do wa we an fo eh wi cel th on th la A cu Chid ley, Agnes (Jou rtice, Hattie Campbell, Mabel Duff, Martha Alice Mattie Howie, Jennie McEwen, Alice M. Pierce, Amy Amelia Stewart, Mary McI. Scott, Ethel • Taylor, Augusta B. Turner, Florence Wellwood, Margaret Wilson, Eliza, A. R.V PASS. , eckett, Nellie Campbell George • ooper, Eva Down, Ernes Edgar Doan, Mint Durrin, B. Richard Govenlook, Jennie Hackett, Walter Leff. MoEwen, Elizabeth Hallid, Donald McLean, Amelia J. Hamilton, Thomas, J. McLeod, Flora Hooper, Alfred M. Patterson, Mary L. Kilpatrick, Wm. E. Riohie, Annie Matheson, Wtn. T. Stanbury, Floretta McDonald, Alex. F, Sinillie, Agnes Eliza Smith, Alex. Thompson, Winnie Stelck, Robert Wright, Eethwell Taylor, Hugh Waugh, Isabel Wightme.n, Wm. H. Aikenhead, Albert Weir, Robert Anderson, Robert Williams, Edwin L. Blake, John GEO. Benue, Secretary, Clinton. • Mr. Macdonald, having left the provincial arena, -where he could be of ecfme service o the temperance party, and gone into the arena of Dominion politics where he could not be of any service to that party, still en- titled to the votes and support of the tem- perance party in hie new field? It was because he did not receive the solid support of the temperance party in his Brandon • election for the Dominion Parliament thet • he complains. We say that he has no right to complain on this score, and if our corres- pondent thinks he has, it rests with him to show in what respect this complaint is well grounded. When he does this we may have something more to say to him. *- Huron County Council. The nominations for the Huron county Council took place on Monday last and re- aulted as follows in the several divisions : Division No. 1, --Including Ashfield, Colborne and Goderich town. -Philip Holt, • Goderich, and Hugh Chambere, Ashfield, by acclamation. Division No. 2, --Including Hullett, Gods erich township and Clinton. -James Con- nolly, Goderich; James Snell, Hullett, and S. 5. Cooper and D. Cantelon, Clinton. , Division No. 3,-Inaluding Hay, Stanley, iHensall and Bayfield. -john Torrance, -Hay, and Wm. Lamont, Stanley, by acola- mation. Division No. 4, -Including Stephen, Us - borne and Exeter. -H. Spackman and A. Q. Bobier'Exeter; John Delbridge, T.Ta- borne ; R. D. Hicks, Stephen. •, Division • No. 5,-Ineluding McKillop, Tuckersmithi and Seaforth.-John B. Mc- Lean and Pater- McKay, Tuckeremith ; Phomas E. Hays, Seeforth ; Bernard O'Con- nell, McKillop. . Division No ;6, -Including Grey, Morris i nd Brussels. -W. H. Kerr, Brussels, and ames Bowman, Morris, by acclamation. Division No. 7, -Including West Wawa- osh, East Wawanosh, Blyth and Wing - am. -Donald Paterson, Alex. Stewart, M. ,Lockhart and M. Webster. Division No. 8, -Including Efowick, urnberry and Wroxeter. -Robert Miller, urnberry ; D. Weir, R. Ferguson and A. oig, Howick. Hugh John and Prohibition. DEAR EXPOSITOR, -My attention has been galled to an article in your issue of Nevember 30th entitled " Hugh John and the Prohibitionists." I have been a reader of THE EXPOSITOR for a number of years and have always been pleased with its at- tempts at political fairness. After quoting at some length from the remarks of the hon. gentleman you make the statement that) "as a prohibitionary measure it is useless." If so, why are the liquor men all over the Do- minion denouncing it as the most infamous law ever passed? Why are they contribut- ing money to aid in having its legality teated ? The Dominion Alliance, a non- partisan body, have proclaimed it to be the most sweeping prohibitionary measure ever placed before the people in Canada, limited only from being perfect by the rights of the peovince, as set forth in the laws of the Dominion, which do not allow the province to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. Again, as to the • bill being so "changed, altered and emasculated as to be no longer recognizable." That state- ment had its origin in the Manitoba Fres Press which organ had, in a few days after he publication of that article, to publish another article from the pen of Mr. J. A. Aiken', the framer of the bill, to the effect) that such was not the case, and that the bill he its meet important aspect was entireS ly unchanged. The Dominion Alliance also stated that no changes were made without due consultation with and sanction of the Oommistee appointed by them to look after the pasting of the measure. Of this corn. Mittee, Mr. Muloek, a relative of Hon. Mr. Mulock, Postmaster -General, was one. Again, Mr. McDonald did not throw the case into the courts. When the liquor men sew that it would become a. law they, through their solicitor, Mr. ,Phippen, aske leave to submit a test case to the court *teed of having to wait till June of next year. Mr. Aikens,the framer of the measure, was retained by the Government to defend it. The prohibitionistieby their action in the last election, have done their cause a geoid deal of harm, and until they can show that they are more coneistent in their dealing with this matter, they will be long e're they re. ceive support from either Liberals or Con- servatives. As long as they talk- prohibi-: Mop and vote otherwise they will be a long time in receiving the consideration which I think the subject deserves. Hoping, Mr. Editor, that I have not encroached toe rouch on your valuable apace in this at, tempt to rectify your error in regard to WO matter, I remain Yours, A PROHIBITIONIST. Carroll, Manitoba, December 3rd, 1900. ED. NOTE. -Our correspondent is not • ecourate in his statements respecting the temperance bill. After being amended and finally passed by the Legislature, instead o allowing it to take its ordinary course, the Government withheld it and submitted i to the mute to test its validity. Had the allowed it to become law in the ordinar way, as they should have done, the Gover nor -General would have vetoed it had i pot been constitutional, And ha the even of this not being done, the onus of testin its validity in the courts would have reete with the liquor party. The Government however, while professing friendship fo the temperance people and a desire to hav the law passed, assumed the responsibilitie and expenses which should have been lef for those opposed to the bill, thus ebowin on stoo shipped for that they had no confidence in their ow the committee on that legislation and that its premature deat e their efforts. Messrs. would not vex them seriously. If such n, and James Hender. course is satisfactory to the temperanc appointed delegates to •people of Manitoba, they are thankful fo Breeders' Association, mighty small mercies, and if, as our cor. IcIntosh, Brucefield ; J. respondent says, the Dominion Milano , and John McDiarmid, gave their assent to the changes made ii estern Fair, London. the bill, they are a deal more pliable thee otice of motion at next the similar organization in this province is. raise the standard for However, these matters are all entirel four to five accepted • aside from the main issue which we di and arrangements were cussed in the article to which our conte ication of a number of porary takes exception. That issue is, w e Horse Breeders' Association. he fourteenth annual meeting of the inion Drought Horse Breeders' Society held at Clinton on Wednesday of last k, with a good attendance of members a keener Interest than has been shown some years lease, The annual reports wed an irnprov ment in the amount of d no impairment of the ex - al con lition which has marked ince its formation, the balance the bank being ever $800. he old officere nd retning members of board were r elected for 1901, and a go amount of ro ine business transacted. ong the atte a of general interest dis• sed was t t of obtainingthe reduced trensporte.tio rat breeding pur oses, berlf will contin Al x. Innen, Clint son, Belton, were the Canadian Hors and Messrs. D. E. Blacken, linto L cknow, to the r. lanes igave nual meeting t ietration from istered creases, de for the pu rk done, a ent finano society deposit in a re re • Canada. -The Farmers' Co-operative Pork Pack - ng Gompanyeemploying about 30 men, has commenced operations in Brantford. The factory is a magnificent one and the pros- ecte for a busy season are exceedingly right. -Mr. G. R. Vanzant, of Markham, for- merli, a member of Yoek county council, has been appointed governor of the Toronto jail in succession to the late John Green. The -position is a gpod one, the salary being $2,000 a year with free residence, fuel and light. -The Very Rev. J. S. Lauder, Dean of Ottawa, and chaplain of the Canadian Senate, died last week at New Brighton, near Liverpool, England where he had been lying ill for several !months. He Was seventy-one years of age, and was promi- nent in the Anglican ch rch of Canada for a great many years. , --The Hon. John Dryden, Ontario Minis- ter of Agriculture, hap .received a letter from J. G. Jardine Ontario commissioner to the Paris Exposition, saying that, Can- adians have been awarded in addition 2 gold, 15 silver and 5 bronze medals for fruit, and, with a total of more than 20 awards for agriculture and horticulture, have beaten every country in the world. -A very serious accident occurred at Kirkwood on Saturday, as the 6.30 o'clock train from the east was pulling out. John Carmody, in stepping off the train, had his top coat caught in some manner on the train, and it drew him under the train, cutting off both legs abpve the knee. Doc- tors were promptly in attendance, but give no hope of Carmody's recovery. --Three children were drowned on Satur- day afternoon in Turkey Creek, five miles down the river from Windsor. They were the children of Raymond Reaume, a farmer, whose property is on the river front. The little ones were playing with a hand sleigh and drawing one another on the ice in the creek. 'Under a bridge they ran into an air hole and all were drowned. There was a girl aged 8 years and two boys aged 6 and 4 respeetively. , --Mr. John Meguire, a well known resi- dent of Belleville, was A few days ago found dead in his buggy a few miles out of that city. Deceased was 65 years of age, and was a fur dealer. He was driving out in the country when death •overtook him, apoplexy being the cause. For nearly half a century Mr. Meguire had lived in Belle- ville. He was a member of St. Andrew's church, and in politics a staunch Con- servative. -The enrolled attendance of art students this year at Toronto University and Vic- toria is 800, as compared with 725 last year. Trinity has 27 and Me -Master 145, so that the total for Toronto is 1,032 art students. The Toronto ' and Trinity Medical Colleges have over 650 students, and the various theological schools about 300, in addition to the arts men. ' -Samuel Dear, 'one of the oldest and most trustworthy conductors of the Grand Trunk Railway, ,whose run for the past, 33 yearn has been . between Brockville and Belleville, was taken ill Friday night on hie train at Kingston. He complained of not feeling well and at Mallorytown he went to sleep, and when efforts were made to arouse him at Brockville it was found he was a corpse. The doetors attribute his death to hemorrhage of the brain. Deceased was 58 years of age, -At the Kingston penitentiary on Thurs- day morning of hot week, an operation was performed on George Pare, the Napanee bank robber, in which the famous convict lost his leg above the knee. When Pare was arrested be was suffering from a run- ning sore in his left leg about two itches above the knee, The bone became affected and Pare was unable to walk. A consul- tation of physicieni resulted in a decision to remove the leg about three inchea above the knee, which was carried out Thursday. , -At a recent meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association at Bratferd, Mr, W. A. Whitney, of Iroquois, showed a strange freak of nature in the shape of seedless applem produced from blossoms without petals. The sante tree bears them every year. One equally interesting exhibit gave promise of orange culture in Ontario. It was a number of large naval oranges and lemons grown outside in Queen • Victoria park, Niagara. They were grown in half barrels and kept in the cellar over the winter. -A very important step taken by the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association at their recent meeting was the adoption of standard sizes of fruit packages. This subject was presented in a paper, " Fruit packages for export," by the secretary, Mr. Woolverton. The sizes he recommended and which were adopted were as follows: Apples, -barrel, staves 28i inches long, head 17i inches; circumference at bilge, 64 inches; box 22x and e. inch ends. Pears and peaches -box, 18x11xa inches, with inch side and inch ends. Grapes,- crate,16x16x4i inches, with inch ends and eeinch slats, and con- taining four veneer baskets. The barrel adopted holds 96.51 imperial quarts, while the old one contains 103. • -Mr. J. B. Laing, the Provincial muni- cipal auditor, is just ending up his work for the year, and once more it is demon- strated that the new law regarding the examination of the books of neunicipalitiell has been of muali good. Before the law came into force every year defalcations amounting to large sums were occurring. Last year about $6,000 was lost by the various municipalities, while during the past twelve -months the municipalities who had irresponsible officials lose nothing. During the year, the ProVincial auditor found shortages amounting to $6,000, but restitution was made in every case.' -Mr. James Rettie of Norwich, was a double winner fo the Provincial Fat Stook Show, held last, week at Guelph. Mr. Reale not only had the champion dairy cow at.the show, but he produced the champien - pair of dressed ,hogs in the slaughter test. One of these champion hogs was taken se one of the subjects of a lecture on Invite carcasses. This was the product of a Tani boar and a three-quarter York sow, a cross which is, in the opinion of Mr. *hite, ief the Stratford packing house, the best croes there is, being in his opinion an improve- ment on the York -Berk. -Mrs. Alfred Price, of Toronto, whose husband occupies a good position in the Grand Trunk Railway efficee, in that city, left her home Thursday morning of last week to do some shopping for Christmas. She purchased .goods at Eaton's and other places, which, le accordance with her in- structions, were I sent to her home, but she failed to return herself. Diligent search was made for her for several dayi but she • could not be foued until Sunday, when. her dead body was i discovered in the lake neer Sunnyside. It is supposed she coMmitted suicide owirg to illness and partial insanity. She was a. highly respectable lady and moved in eocod society. She leaves behind her an intl. ahout three months olcl, -The to an of Hanover was visited by a disastrous fire ,Friday afternoon. It orig- inated about 4.30 o'clock in the Knechtel furniture factory, one of the largest in the Dominion. There was practically no fire protection system in that town. Aid was summoned from Walkerton, Palinerston, Neustedt and Chealey. The first, brigade arrived in the course of an hour or so, but the factory was burned to the ground. It covered about two acres of land, and not a wall is left standing. About ten minion feet of lumber in the yard and the saw mill were saved. The loss was about $120,000, and the ineurance 860,000. Both Mr. Daniel Kneohtel, head of the firm, and Mr. J. S. Rneohtel, secretary and treasurer, were in Toronto at the time. -Dr. Rykert, who was recently sum- moned from Paris to Holland to attend to some dental work for ex President Kruger, is a young Canadian who has Achieved marked success in Paris as a surgeon - dentist. Probably the Boer president had not the faintest suspicion that he was placing his mouth, so to speak, in the hands of a British subject, and worse still, , of a Canadian. it shows that, go where he will, the Boer leader cannot get away from the hated Briton. Dr. Rykert is ,a native of Dunham, Miss:mg-110i county, Quebec, his father being Asa Rykert, one of the most substantial farmers of the county. The son, Dr. Archie 1tykert, studied dentistry at the Ameriean univereities and after completing his course travelled in Europe. He finally settled in Paris, where he has been prac- tising his profession for several years. His position with the dental profession of the French capital is indicated by the fact that he was elected to try Kruger's nerves in the •dentist's chair. -At the annual meeting of the Ontario Fruit; Growers' Association, held last week in Brantford, the special committee on the San Joie scale in their report emphasized the tremendously rapid spread of the pest, Large orchards in which & few isolated in- fested trees were found during the inane°. don of 1898 ere now entirely covered with the Beale, an less. It in growers we orchards. that the eye coneinued, an be exterminated, instead of wholesale de- etruction of the trees, an endeavor should be made to coirntrol, and that such treatment be made opulsory upon individual growers', under the supervision of the de- partment of agriculture, both ae to material and the carrying it out. It was recom- mended also that the department be urged to relax no effort in the matter, and, that a. committee be appointed to confer with the Minister as to the neethods to be put in operation during the -coming season. "Your cominittee believe," the report con • " t - cluded, he.* a serious mistake was made by the large 'number of owners of infest- • ed orchards, eition to the intention of opision had e much of the fruit was worth- tanced several cases where e about to destroy` whole he committee recommended m of general inspection be that as the scale cannot now ho offered determined oppo- carrying out of the original he act, and that if public, pported the Minister in his effort", the sale to day veould be almost, if not entirely, txtermineeed, We desire also to place on ()cord our appreeiation of the efforts of Hon John Dryden in behalf of the fruit industry of this Province." -Another errible railway crossing acci- dent oocurre last Saturday morning south of Eimvale, n the county of Simcoe, by which Thorne Lennox and his two 'bough- ters lost the r lives. Lennox lived on the 'Sixth concespion of Flos, his barn, being right alongside the track, the road gate not being more than three rods from the rail- way, He and one daughter and his eon's wife left their hotne and had just reached the crossing when they were struck by the morning express, whieb hurled horses, sleigh and occupants into the air, killing two and injuring the daughter so badly that she lived only a few hours. ,The two horses were killed and the sleigh completely de- molished. T e party were just starting. -for Barrie and w re well muffled up 011 account of the stor Mr. Lennox wa,s a man of about 65 yea s of age. The feats obtained from an ey .witness show that Lennox whipped up horses, trying to erase ahead of the train The engineer save him and applied the brakes, but too late. The engine bit -t e horses, throwing one against the fence wit such force as to break a post, and carrying the other ahead a dozen car lengths. Lenox was found dead 100 feet ahead, with his legs broken and badly cut ab -out the heed, the lines still in his hand. The women were thrown alongside the track, the daughter in law, Mrs. James Lennox, dead, with both legs cut off, and the daughter with a crack at the base of the skull, from which she died shortly after- wards. The sleigh euffered -little damage, being only swung off the track and over- turned, Miss Lennox was 24 years old, Mrs. James Lennox left three email children. Mr. Lennox leaves a widow, a 101 inches, inside Tieasurmnt, inch sides married daughter and seven sons.