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1901
ched, another
Ward journey
1151 St.
ed us in pirec. -
ig a stook of
e had, never
re had to be
mrnense purs
tad us busy uns
now we have
Ind richness ire
tw goads, and
tot bring you
spring shop.
Fabrics
about them.
t yet arrived,
►sh goods be-
People show
et early ; they
ens and color-
weavee, thus
.lect from a
'tee collection
Stress fabrics
lowest price
r moat invit.
iirnities,
ngs And
an eaten.
rg of stylish
sees. Both
ieentd values,
e recognition.
Grtything new
[;a¢ laces, 80
,-ery piece is
•:ern produces
)ods,.
r. goods from
4 -are surely
if you have
hie that we
r high class
come if only
ashions and
sons in the
Ie not much
tss they are
were neces-
n't so now.
ht, Venetians,.
netts, Cash -
street weer.
(ted hi, the
Departs
'UL
Cash
cc of For-
and
<ior•
and the
ourt i) ug -
tonally well.
amts.—Mr;
s Manitoba,
• ship-
ntreal last
c. frorri St.
T., Watson,
frfiecl a car
tet Mitchell,
ftt;, 11. A.,.
Beent Thee.
t r cathect the
two latter
t the Malt-,
gel M tHri1on-
S. 1).,
Intl a class.
ty.
---Another
1 f1 pissed
oil of Mrs.
rf 54 years
ruling for
Tape, which
• (I:wee of
awl large .,
to cost in
eeday, and
numnbor of
:IrCI's, testi-
it she WAS
the I'arr:.
r it1, and
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Verna, are
n Tuesday
reert. An
ranged for.
✓ councils
will be
ieters. A
'l. Every
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, t! -
WftiOLE NUMBER, 1,735.
The Unending
SEA
variety in all
things of Nature.
Its a peculiar thing, the unending variety that we find in. all things in •
nature. Men of science tell us thathere are no two things in the
whole of animate or inanimate nater 3 that are exactly alike. Is it any
wonder then that man, who is the o dest ofd all' the odd specimens in
nature, should be of the turn of mild that calls forsomething like him-
self, something that is different from anybody else, or different from
what any other person has or possesses. - Thus it is that the demand for
variety comes in. We firmly believe that the desire to be different from,
other people is the active principle of a great many people's ; views on
politics, on preaching or even the a ate of the crops. However, • we
know that many mien want something different from the general run in
clothing and furnishing. Herein li s our mission, we are in .a position
to supply the most exacting taste in clothing either, ready made or
ordered, and our stock of furnishing0 will excel all our previous efforts in
meeting the wants of the people in this respect. Come ' tous for the
variety that is so dear to the mind of every man.
The variety in the New` ats.
First,the variety of price, being front 75c to $3. Second, variety of
style, these being soft knockabouts, pearl grey fedoras with a few staple
lines of black and brown. In the stiff hat, or as it is generally known
the Christy, we have very nobby lines let $1.5{ $2, $2.50, $2.75 and $3.
The variety of the New Ordered Clothing.
Men of taste will find that this season the task of making a selection of
a spring suit or overcoat will be comparatively easy as the variety of
clothes is so extensive as'to satisy the most fastidious. We Would 'bo
better able to illustrate our meaning lin the showing of . the goods, this
we will have, pleasure in cloing.at any time.
The variety in Ties, Colo' s. and Shirts.
The variety of the new things in do and collars, rrhirts, cuffs, cc. and
handkerchiefs is such that to attempt any accurate and at the same time
full description of the new goods in this„ department would take up a
volume. It will suffice to sty- that in .the 25c, 35c and 50c lines of ties
there will be many polka d ts, scroo and 'hair line and pin head ' checks
worn. There will be no gra t change or -startling combinations in color,
the neat and subdued will h ve a preponderance over the excessively gay_
colors. Shpts for the seaso will be of' :a..q ieter design than last. Col-
lars are shaped in as many f ria ar d heigh s as the taste of men in this
respect could wish.
The variety of Men's Read ymacle C.lothittg.
For really meritorious work, we think tht the stock of clothing that we
are now showing would be hard tb excel.• The style of suit that! will
iriost be in demand this season will be a material with a hard surface,
so that lint, dust and chaff will not eling to. it as to the softer slakes of
goods ; besides, the hard fin shed goods will brush up and look brighter
than the looser make. We are showing a variety of prices in this re-
spect. - There are suitsat$'.50, $7, $7.50, $8, $9 and $10. Many of
these suits are our own snake ; this gives our customers the assurance
that everything about the suit will be of a reliable nature.
The variet y in Boys' Clothing,
First, we are showing a line
sizes, 22 to 26'^ -for 90e ; fo
and $2.00. B9ys' school ea.
15c—these are=not wool ; other lines of w
shifts at 50c, 6vc and 75e. A line of
Al
line of Spring underwear oiling at 2p
money. Boys' pants at 25c, 35c, 40c,`
variety of goods and price.
think that these aro a little 1
the thing for the Spring.
of -school coats for small boys—note the
older boys we have lines at $1,50, $1,75
s at 15e, 20e and 25c school stockings at
col at 25c, 35c and 50c. Boys'
hits laundried shirts for 45c.
, will be found wellworth the
Oe, 65c, 75q and 85c, gives
With'regard'to the 25c and 35e lines, wt
fight for the pre ent time, but they will be
11ll' new store is Johnson Bros. 'cold ata
grocery.
d, next to Young's
Greig &
Clothiers and Fa
Formerly on the Wrong Sid
of the Street,
.opal
nishers
I5FORTII
Settlers' One W
Io Manitoba and Canadian Northwest, evil
luting March and April, 1901.
y Excursions
leave Toronto every TUESDAY
Passengers travelling without live stock, sho>111d take the train leaving
fI r,rotrt'} at 1:45 p. m.
Passengers travelling with live tock, hould tal e the train leaving Toronto
et e00 p< its.
_ t
Colonist sleeper will be attached to each! train.
Ftpr full particulars and copy. o " Settlers' Gu de,"- apply to any Canadian
Paella: lla Agent, or to A. H. NOTM.4N, Assistant -eneral Passenger Agent,
1 K ing Street East, Toronto.
R. J. MAcDONAL
C. P. R. AGENT, '.ea€orth.
THE TRAN PORTATION
QULl13TIO AGAIN..
A QUESTION OF .PARAMDIINT IMPORTANCE TO
FAR ERS,
DAAR EXPOSITOR,— t is an old saying
" the hotter war, the ooner peace." I di
intend not to trouble zither yourself or your
readers -any more, but find the Globe has
at last taken up t e " railway trans-
portation • question " in earnest, and I
may as well stay in th fight to the. finish.
The only, fault I have o find with the Globe
and the. Government is that they . had not
grit enough to make t Is question the chief
plank in their ' platfo m before the elec-
tions.
Sir Charles Tupper n ver lost an oppor-
tunity of protesting against Government
Interference in railwa mane-ement—suoh
being the case, the wh le ques 'ton ought to
have been fought ' ut a the polls. Rail-
way management is no worse ow than it
hasbeen for the past 3U years. The fact is,
during all these years oth po local parties
have been pandering to the aiiway man.
agers for their vote an • influe • ee, hence the
reason this province ha: been ade to suffer
although we have contributed ore towards
building railways and other national im-
provements than all th other . rovinoes put
together, both the rail • aye a • d the canals
are being operate in s'uoh a w y as to rob
us of the benefits whi h we . ught to de-
rive from our geo raph cal pos tion.
Newspapers no ads a constitute them-
selves the guardia of heir p: rty and cm -
ploy themselves i perverting the truth in
the interests of p rty, the poli y to be pur-
sued being entirely lost eight o ; hence the
reason we are all becoming suo blind parti•
zine, we will sod beoo e unfi subjects for
self-government,Ipolit es being limply a
fight between the ne a d outs. I must con-
fess it made me sick to see the Globe wast-
ing 80 much valuable s ace i • advertising
the building of a tioad f om To onto to Col-
lingwood at the public xpens:, to cheapen
freights from the Yest and it made me feel
Ricker still to beg Pr mier Dee lauding
C. M. Hays for hie able management of the
Grand Trunk- Rai way, when e ought to
have been the oh of k'oker in protesting
against his policy 'n diserimin: ting so much
in rates in favor o his • wn countrymen.
It it 41 years ei ce I .egan rain, buying
in Seaforth, and I don' ' hesit: to to assert
that the building f the first elevator in
Goderieh and the buildng of the Ogilvie
mills have not onl bee, a curs to the grand
old county of Hur n but have roved to be
a curse to this.pro inoe and t the whole
Dominion. The elev tor than, as now,
monopolized all the eml ty car: in the fall
when they were a 1 wa ted for home use—
ahippers bad then to •, air for weeks and
months until navi�gatio • close before get-
ting ears, just as .hipp re have had to do
ever einee.
The Ogilvie fir , un. er the old railway.
management, got .ut r: tee of f-om two and
a half to fifteen de is to Mont eel and the
lower -provinces u'der other
sides they enjoys ' the privil
-loading., I have : now • care to
6,000 and 8,000 p•unds lees th
tained . Such ad ante es ma
Bible far other mil ere t live al
a firm,'whioh.is t e rea•on the
wealth, and why othe millers
peor. 4 ,
It iswell know. tha. a Se:
entered a suit against the G
Railway for $10,0 )0 for having
inated against -min rate: for a
years. The com any wisely
case rather than h: ve i ventil
the courts.
Discrimination n rat.s, the
elevators, the wa • t of prompt
and fav;oritiam ha e ha the e
bing tb s province of h:r.wealt
stance, take the
own of God
over three quarte mill on della
('sunk in the railway, in the her
mills, salt wells aid e evators
doubtful if the to n is , s wealt
thirty Years ago. Agai., like
the garden of this Do inion, -
the cos of buildi•g itn roveme
not a 1t0 acre far i the has no
in -value $1,000 to $3,00 Burin:
years. I There has beer) an effo
make it appear the t th price
�greatlyrimproved. Sue is not
at least my wife, ho i•. sole e
the old; homeetea , a arm of
within ten miles -o Cob urge th
refusedan `offer of $12, ')0 for, i
ed for sale for $0,000 w shout fi
chaser. j •
Agate, take th depreci-.tio
taken place in miring property.
ed in )'former let er, David
was one of the w althiest mill
province, put u a mill costingg
years ago, and las sumer the
was taken out wit out ever ma:
of flour, and the fact' that
Ogilvie °Company ave sold th
and Goderich mill at least 80 p
low oost, ought to 'o an eye ope
the country and t e Governmen
ii
It is strange how a firm can 1
fortune in milling in Ontario, and be able to
make a much larger one in Mani oba if the
business of the oouutry was o • nduoted on
the square, and stranger still thab they
would mortice mills in one pla•e and, if
report is co rest, are going to b ild one of
the largest n the Dominion at Fort Wil-
liam, if the did not have wive tages that
nobody kno a anything about. It looks as
if history w:re repeating itself, I would
not be afraito bet St. Lawre • oe a good
round sum hat, if the Govern ent would
do their du y and audit the boks of the
Lake of the Woods Milling C• mpany and
those of the Ogilvie Company fr m the time
they began • ueiness until now, thab these
firma have ad special rates and have had
wheab enou h carried from the r elevators
to their mil a for nothing in u • der billed
cars, to pay the expenses of sending our
soldiers to : outh Africa,, advantages
the two fir a enjoy is fast givin:: them the
monopoly o the flour trade of th . Dominion.
Railway o "rials are. not so mush superior
to other pe.ple that they don't •eed watch-
ing. Mr. osworth and St, La • renoe have
undertaken bo champion the ca se of the
railways. 'he latter Wks so much non•
sense, no wander he is ashamed o give his
name. If t e American farmers and other
produeere h d had the appoint ng of our
railway maagers they could not have been
better serve, . Sb. Lawrence h s no right
to complain of American oompet tion—it is
the Amerio: n roads that have : right to
complain o i Canadian competi ion which
prevents them putting up fret ; hte. The
higher thei rates are, the bett:r able we
are to comps
:te with them both a home and
abroad.- T e Jews of old would have no
dealings w th the Laurentian., neither
would .the meriette Jews have : ny dealings
with Caned ane if ttigy were • ob making,
money oub •f us in getting out atm from
our railway:—hence the reason 42,407,100
bushels of • heat and corn have been ship-
ped this las , year from Chicago : nd Duluth
to our lake sorts, whioh have all been car-
ried to Moa real and Portland t half and
some one•th rd the rates oharge:i Canadian
Mere. Be-
ge of over -
be billed at
n they con-
e it
ng idee such
became so
have become
forth miller
rand Trunk
seen disorim-
number of
settled the
ted tbirough
building of
car service,
ect of rob -
For in -
rich, where
s have been
or,• In flour
it is very
• y as it was
•ld Ontario,
tier taking
. t, there is
depreciated
the last 20
t made to
f land has
the sage ;
-eoutrix for
180 acres,
t her father
now offen-
ding a pure
that has
As I eta,
oldie, who
re in this
$50,000 six
machinery
ing a barrel.
he wealthy
ir Seaforth
r Dent. be-
er both to
se a largo
•
s•ippere' or a much shorter haul. It
stands to r:aeon the export price of grain
nd the oo: t of carriage to market deter-
ines its r iue to the producer. Such be-
i g the oae-, Canadian competition on a
o op of 4,0(0,000 bushels engrain, If it en-
anoeilts value of 3 cents, puts $120,000,
Into their pocket, and thry ought to
erive as m oh spore from other branches of
t ade. 1 ontend the Hays' and Reeves'
liolioy has. ireotly and indirectly; for the
st six yea ■, taken $10,000,000 yearly out,
of the pockets of the farmers of this pro-
vflnce on Our grain orope • of 160 bush-
e1is yearly. Can St. Lawrence tell us.why
Cur wheat orop has ruled 10 oents under
hicago sib ough weare 450 miles nearer
the seaboar . The indirect losses are emus -
ed by our r ilways blocking Montreal and.
Portland w'th American grain from our
lake ports. By the time our crops begin to
move both o r railways and ports are block -
chipper have often to wait four and
• x weeks b fore being able to get cars.
Ipuring this ime prioee have generally gone
down and o can rates have gone up two and
t ree Dents besides the want of Dare has
caused milli ns of bushels of grain to be
.-a --- until the spring, and five years
out of the six has been sold for less money.
How much etterit would have been if the
10,000,000 ad gone into the pockets of the
1,Producers t an that $4,000,000 should have
gone into th Grand Trunk Railway, that
as foolishl epent in double tracking the
✓ ad from P rt Huron to Chinago to enable
tem to compete more'. successfully in that
arket.
Deputatio a from Collingwood, Midland
a d Parry 5 and have gone to Ottawa .to
beg money t deepen t `heir harbors so as.to.
a�000mmodat the largest American grain
o triers. hat folly II It stands to reason
t e more op osition we give them in their
wn market the more looney it will put 'in-
t the pooke s of their ;producers, and the
ore it will ake out oi, ours.
Chicago ie the largest grain market in the
orld. The a ie probably ten times more
grain bough and sold than is grown in the
o untry. T e option huffiness is looked on
a trading in winds, but it is not so. There
a e firms wh handle forty millions of oash
g ain in one eason. These ale the firms
ho play Ca adieu freight agents for lbw
✓ tes. As profits, depend entirely on the
a Dunt of business done, there is none of
t ese larger arms but would wit inglyy agree
t give the agent of the Grand Trunk their
early trade iof forty millions o a paltry
o t of two carts per bushel. There is no
t ouble in buying a few millions any day in
t at market land selling it in New York the
s me day, and securing the cut. This
ould give the lucky firm a profit) of $800,-
0, and if a all generous they could well
a ord'to make the agent who gave the cut,
a present of $50,000 and nobody be any the
leer. i
The fact iti the profit; in dealing in grain
has got BO sisal', and the risks so great, the
o ly safe way is in getting a out in rates.
I may as Weil tell St. Lawrence that I
as told a certain railway oflioial, high in
a thority, get a cheque a few years einee
f om Chicag for $350,000. Whether this
as given fo his share! in giving out rates
o for profit on a deal,; the party did not
s: y anywayit shows how much safer it is
f r a man toi speculate in that market who
n make hie own freight rates, than it is
✓ those who take their chances in the. rise
fall in the market. It also shows how
ysteriously so many railway managers be -
me millio 'aim. It is a disgrace to both
lea that they have allowed the
nt law in the land, governing
0
f
0
c
p • litical par
oat import
e carrying trade of thecountry, to remain
" dead le ter" ever since the railways
ere built.
I conform am surprised to hear the Min-
i: ter of Rail aye has no time to introduce a
b•Il this see ion. There is no new bill
anted, the old railway oharter being good
e • ough for a 1 practical purposes. All that
1: Wanted is the appointment of oommission-
&clothed with the necessary powers to
age that the terms of the old Act are fully
e • forced. Parliament, for the last five
y are, has boon sitting six months, wrang•
ling with each other about nothing unless
fir political effect, and now, when a piece
o good, useful legislation is needed, they
h: ve no time to do it
It seems our Governments in trying to
b ild up the:countr-y all use too much wind.
5 ' ch was the rise when the late Govern-
nt got back into power in 1878. Sir
e arles Tupper predicted that by 1890
Manitoba would be a land flowing with
m'lk and honey, and would produce a wheat
o .p of 460,01)0,000 bushels, but alas, they
n ver have ben able. to raise over 40 mil-
lins, and th a last year only about half this
a cunt. Let year only 4,609,166 bushels
at ived at alt the lake porta. It appears
t e Laurier Government aro also badly
t • ubled with the same complaint. Two
y:ars age, it as predicted that the St Law -
re • ce was to ecome the great highway to
the ocean an Montreal: become the grain
market for t a northern half of this conti-
nent. The onnor syndicate was supposed
tie have untold Yankee millions at their
back to build' a number ! of large elevators
and any number of steamers to trade be-
tween Chicago, Duluth and Fort William to
Montreal an carry grain profitably at 7
cai_,te per 100 pounds, but unfortunately it
cannot be do a with wird and has fallen
through, an worst of 41, the Grand Trunk
RI ilway, tha has been largely built by the
p ople of Ca ada, ie wiping to carry Ameri-
a grain froM Chicago • to Portland, three
ti es the die ance, at nearly one half the_
re e now aha ged from Ontario to Montreal,
an strange t say, the Government cannot
6' d time to r medy sueh=an outrage. The
d it has bee known to - quote Scripture
w en he wis ed to gain a subject. _- St.
L wronce ha no right to quote the Chicago
rate on cattle against tale Lietowel rate of
$64, He knows Ohioan rates are. made to
be broken ; grain rates lave gone down 10
cents inside o
cattle rates,
changes. -
Neverthelei
in some thing
!Rent is far to
too many mei
nymen w
git,andt
tied. W
t
a
two months and so have
but Listowel rate never
as I agree with St. Lawrence
s. The machinery of govern -
o complicated and requires far
to run -it, and there are •too
m e{nting to have a hand in run-
ni }Hjere are too many railways outs-
et. Here Sb, 1eawrence is to blame
no fault .to find with the
ntil they talked of putting on
to watch the railways, and
It to find with the most out-
rrsgeous subsidy that ever was granted -the
building of the Canadian Pacific Railway
alongside of the Grand Trunk from Wood-
stock to Wintleor—to enable them to com-
pete for the American trade. What sur-
prised me most was that St. Lawrence
weuld name tike name of A. G. Blair. There
is no doubt American grain has been carried
frrm Parry Spend to Sb. John for 6 Dente,
the same as it has been from Bernie, Gode•
rich and Mi land by the Grand Trunk
Railwayo P rtland. It is strange if A. G.
Blair icarrying grain so cheap how he has
managed towipe out in a year a loss of
$7,000,000, a$i d stranger still that the old
management Should have had such a loss
ie that he ha
G vernment
c
mmiseioner
had no fau
Sprin
Wall
No
Ne
Wt
to
Fr
Mc
Hanging
roll until A
1901
Papers
Icharge or export, as well as for the freeing
of Can: dian .herds of tuberculosis. The
Militate has also decided to send an officer
to Engl nd to have the cattle tested there
`-instead • f on this side.
—Th: Peterboro Examiner printing office
and bo -k bindery were completely de.
stroyed by fire on Saturday morning last.
Hon. J. R. Stratton, provineial deoretar-y, is
the pro deter of the Exarpiner. � The loss is
stated t $35,000 and the insurance is $16,.
000. T e fire is supposed to be of incen-
diary o igin.
—Jo n Shields, who died in Toronto lase
week, i his 85th year, enlisted in the 84th
regimen in 1837. He served for many
years, i . eluding the campaign of 1857-8,
taking art in the defence of Luoknow,
for w Loh he had two medal and two
clasps.
opened in all•the
est Designa and Colorings
mthatobrders and belling
m the Cheapest to the
t Expensive.
all or ceiling paper 5 cents per
ril lat.
SEAFORT
111
when the e port rate was three times and
the local ra e five time' hi4her from On-
tario. It ie well known the Cenadian
Peoiflo Rail ay got the cream. I am a firm
believer in iving even the devil hie due.
In some res eots the Hays nianagement was
-much bette than the old-Hthere was not
so muoh fa ritism, and the appointment of
district frel ht agents is a great improve.
ment over t e days when the Earl of To-
ronto was f eight superintendent, when it
took days t bear from him, and if the Ex -
preset Comp ny could talk, it could tell how
cheap some dealers got favorer in those days.
Stratford, arch lltle? 19014
Whe e Are Vire 14 China.
chateke slowly, but certain things are known
that help a to appreciate t e extent of the
is to be.. Mr lees than oite hundred and
fifty, probe ly two hundred, missionaries
have suffer d martyrdom. i The number of
native Chri tians slain is very large. Some
estimate 4 ,000, but let us hope that the
number is not so great. At the lowest
estimate, it is a terrible slaughter of Chinaho
best people
It is lin wn that Hen Ching Cheng and
Yuen Chan , two intelligent officials in the
Chinese for ign office, refueed to transmit
the awful e tot to " massacrcrall foreigners"
and change it into " proteetall foreigners,"
On account of this refusal they lost their
e als known that the Viceroys along
the Yangte e Valley entered' into a compact
RI
with their °multi in Shan hat to protect
foreign lif and property. Several other
viceroys a d governors and many minor
officials ha e shown great kindness to
foreigners, lying money, esciort and facili•
tieg to ese pe. In spite o! the Empress
Dowager's ommand and the determination
of the react onists to have these commands
carried out one half the mandarians of the
empire ref sed to obey. This is proof that
the mi sio aries had not excited the hos-
eility of th mandarins, as alaimed by the
critics. Indeed, in some cages Chinese are
to -day ek ng the missionaries to return to
their fie d ed work. There is no longer
any, do bt that the Boxers were in the
employ of the Chinese G vernment. In
of the Po ere, showing o nolasively that
Tientsine o rrespondence fel into the hands
the Bo ere had sent in claims for their ser-
vices in eta ghtering foreigners and native
Christie s, nd that these claims were hon-
ored by the Government.
The ou try has become, so far quieted
that m ny missionaries haVe returned to
to thei fi Ids in the proeinces near the
coast, a d ome have even returned to the
inland ro Inds. The danger in Henan is
not so mu° from Boxers alp from famine.
Three sum salve harvests have failed and
the fourth a certain to fall. The people
have bedi e desperate, and the country is
infested wit bands of robbers seeking loot
or in any w y to sustain life.;
One mis ionary now in China writes :
" Our nati e Christians have been sorely
tried, lent we have very greab cause for
gratitude i the faithfulness they have been
that believe a are being tadde even in such
times a t ese ? It is true in other places
also, tha men are being con erted through
the loyalty apd nobleness m nifested by the
'Chrietie. 8 under persecution., I feel that as
sure as od ie in His Heavene there is going
to be a arvelbus ingethiering into the
chureh f hrist, when these troubles are
over and past. I cannot underiitand any man,
who has a true faith in God, giving way to
despond no because of the things which
have ha pe ed. They have been dreadful
enough-efa more dreadful than you at
certain o the ultimate trium h of Christ in
home w 11 ver know—but ad many more
been al& n, t would only ake me more
thie land. The Russians a co:mad Tientsin
claim th t the land upon whieh the blood of
their fel ow countrymen ha4 been shed has
been ma e graded by therm 'Christ's peace-
ful alai upon this land, wtere His saints
have die far Him is far m re certain of
realizati n. 1 The Annie of Christ must not
and can ot g,o back on this uhdertaking."
There a the right ring aboat these words.
Toronto, March 12th, 1901
—The Hespeler postoffice building and
the United -Workmen's hall *ere destroyed
by fire o,n Saturday night, during a very
il
severe rain and lightning etor .
—Mr. Justice Sir William eredith, who
is ill ab 'hie home in Lon on, has been
granted six months' leave of 4bsence by the
Governmenti and will go to' Italy for hie
—Dunean MeBean, one of lithe oldest and
mod respeoted residents oef Forest, died
suddenly at his home last Sattirday night of
heart failure. He was at ope time one of
the leading merchants of that town. He
leavee a large family.
—A number of cattlemen from the
United States held a conferlence with Mr.
Arthur White, divisional freight agent of
the Grand Trunk Railway, at Toronto, on
Saturday, tol arrange special rates for the
ehipment of deckers from aerie to the
—The estate of the late , Getting Gun
Howard, who was killed recently while
serving' with the Canadian volunteers in
South Africa, is valued 'at tween $175,-
000 and $200,000: His will has just been
probated at Montreal, and lesives hie entire
estate to his eix children.
—Hon. Sidney Fisher, Dotriinion Minister
of Agrioulture, recently visite Washington
to negotiate for the removal o the tubercul-
in° test for animals going int the United
States, but his miseion has no been success-
ful. The United States Seer tary of Agri-
culture adheres to his policy, but has con•
sented to take the certificates of the depart-
mental offieers at Ottawa for the purpose of
facilitating the work. The! Minister has,
therefore, deeided to a point C'few more de.
partmental officers to o this testing free of
—Mr. Clorgue is quoted as saying : " We
have al eady arranged for 10,000 settlers
for Alg ma, as we agreed with the Govern-
ment, b b we intend to make ib ten times
that nu ber ; that is our present stint."
to mul iply them by ten a plains the
miracle f Sault Ste. Marie some*, hat.
— Chi f Justice Faleonbridge, on Monday
last, ga e judgment at Osgoode Hall, Tor.
onto, a arding Joseph Boonville, a Port
Severn armee., $900 damages egainst the
Grand runk. Bonnville loat ata arm in an
acoiden at Midland, a flying bole oar from
a shunti engine crashing into his wagon.
He sued lOr $3,000.
---Che les McKay and Elizab th Parke,
who we e adopted nearly fifty pews ago, by
a couple residing near Woodstock, have lov-
ed each other all the time;ebent get married
only on May last. Their adopted parents
would n ver consent to the union, but finally
they die begneathing all their property to
the pati nt lovers.
—The Mayer of Ottawa received a lettter
from ndrew Cernegie, the celebrated
multhm llionaire, a few days age, stating
that he ould give $100,000 te the city of
Ottawa or, a, publie library, provicliug that
the city give a eite and $7,500 ,a year for
maintenance. Mayor Morris II delighted
with th offer, which he will premptly ac-
- J. . Patrick, proprietor of private
rested on information laid y several
lib
banks i Estiex and Wheatley, as been ar-
Woods1 e farmers, and was recently taken
to Win sor jail. It if: alleged that he hes
been in nancial straits for some time and
has bee holding meetings with creditors.
The inf mation charges fraud in misrepre-
senting is capital.
- -On Sunday afternoon last, a retired
farmer tying in Brandon, named Van
Tassel!, as leading a bull, whe n the animal
became unmanageable. In endeavoring to
restrain it, the farmer was thrown to the
ground nd the animal's horns peened clean
through the man's body. He ied shortly
—The provincial health office a se.y that
afterwa de from the severity of is injuries.
the die ase of smallpox, which has been
extreme y mild in Ontario up te the pres-
ent, is n w assuming a virulent form. Ow-
ing to he continuance of the (Inmates in the
Algoma pine district, the Government have
ordered the postponement of the timber
—At he provineial live stock sale held
last we k at Ottawa, Hon. John Dryden,
Ontario Minister e of Agrioulttire, sold a
Shortho n bull for $505. The animal was
;rumbas d for the Prince Edward Island
Govern ent. At this sale the average price
at whie bulls sold was $140.
large d partmental store in Montreal, have
made an assignment with liabilities of about
$225,000, Messrs. Thibadeau, wheleeale
member s, of Montreal, are oreditore to the
amount f about $71,000, and about $78,000
largest erea tile failures of recent years.
are due theriihanks. Thia ia eine of the
— The be.r of James Fletcher, e, Bin -
brook fa mer near Hamilton, was struck by
lightnin and completely destroyed about 11
neighbo a hu ried to the rescue and suc-
ceeded n re eying all the antmals save a
which were destroyed
$2,500. mes The loss will feet up about
—The carriage factory of John Campbell
& Sons, f L ndon,„ were serious y damaged
entirely gut ed and the showtoorn badly
by fire ond y night. The pat t shop was
sdaavnier, eb t all the stock in promise of menu -
number of vehicles were
.facture was destroyed. The firemen
worked ard or two hours before subduing
the fie es. he loss will be about $30,000
on stoo an $10,000 on the building,
largely ,c1 by insurance.
Donald
urday
ing a se
George
good he
fell dow
be aumm
Caithnes
resided i
Ni
icho
orni
hal g
alla
and
ned.
hire,
Ha
holson, widow of the late
son, died suddenly early Sat -
g Hamilton, white attend-
thering at the residence of
ce. She appeared to be in
ut without any warning she
died before medical aid could
The deceased WW1 bora in
Scotland, 63 years ago, and
ilton for over fifty years.
—Dr. , D. Macdonald, the oldest phy-
sician i the city ef Efaimilton, died last
Saturda , having been ill for a long time.
He suffe ed from an attack of the grippe,
which a sated the heart. The deceased
was bor 81 , years ago in Scotland, and
came to smitten in 1854. He built up a
large pr °tido. He retired from active
practice a few yeses ago, being medical
examine of he Canada Life and chairman
of the pr vine al board of health.
—An speei Ily gad death occurred in St.
Catharin e la t Friday evening, when Mr.
G. H. So kett was called to mourn the loss
of his bede af er a month's happiness. Mr.
and Mrs, Soo ett had been out spending the
evening nd alked home rasher fast. A
few min tee e,fter entering the house Mrs.
Soekett omplatned of feeling unwell, and a
doctor w s called, but before he arrived she
had died in her husband's armee The de-
ceased as but twenty yeara of age, and k
daughter of Mr. Phillip Meith, of Port Dal- _
housie.
River, 0 tari , not far from Sault Ste.
Marie, n 8 ,nday. The deceased Was
driven o t of camp in Sunday's blizzard by
the fore an, with whom he had had an
altercati n. he body was buried in the
snow in a ravine, and was found by the
master. Littl
child at Gra
from the am
--Prof Ro
another ortio
William Mao
It
in cash p izes,
Canadia boy
grain se rdi
system. The
suoceesfu in
ed heads of
og, which had followed his
was married and leaves one
enhurst. The foremari fled
to the American Soo.
rtson, of the Dominion. Ag-
partment, has distributed
of the $10,000 which Sir
onald, the tobacco million-
eal, donated to be distributed
to encourage and stimulate
and girls who live on farms
ely and select carefully seed
g to a scientific and practical
names of those who have been
ate in the Province' of Ontario
and Nellie MoBeath, North
tie Andrew & 0°4 Sheridan,
MOLEAN EROS., Publisher
$1 a Year in Advance,
i Judd, Doe Lake, $12 ; John Price, Mars-
ville, $10; oiaua Coon, Athens, $4 ; Charles
$5; Alfred Mountain, Avonbank, $15.
—C. .M Bosworth, freight traffic man.
ager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has
been advised by cable from London that
Lord Strathoona, and Mount Royal has
oompleted arrangements with the Imperial
Government to send an officer of the war
&pertinent to Canada to purchase horses
for use in South Africa. It is under --
stood that the officer will soon sail frost
London, striving in Canada the latter part
of this month or early in April, and will
purchase feom 1,500 to 2,000 horses which
will be shipped from Halifax.
—The people of Watford village are
aroused over the condition which prevails in
the Salisbery faintly. They are Christian
Scientists, and firmly believe in the faith
cure. The entire family were taken sick
and the father and daughter died. It is
asserted that no physician was called in
until 15 tninutes before the girl died and
that the father , died soon afterwerds from
the shook.1 Mrs. Salisbury then discharged
the medicel doctor and sent for a heeler,
and claims that after being an hour under
hie treatment she was able to be up and
The increase beet year over 1899 was 1,314,
about the ouse.'
—The b rth rate of. Ontario is increasing
again after several years of a steady decline.
and the authorities think the figures have
some relation t° the institution of prose-
cutions for failere to register births. If
this is the,• case, the decline in former years
has probabiy_been more apparent than real,
The marriages increased last year aiao eon-
eiderably. : Dia also show an inereiuse.
Following are t e figures for the neat three
years : Births, 1898, 46,599 1 1899, 44,705 ;
1900, 46,019. `Marriages, 1898, 15,375;
at present I occupied by Mr. Wm. Hackled,
for the mine of $2,200, This lot contains
7d0a—yacwarnehricl'..ileraectured her hip.
day previoCe.
ed lot 13, ien the 15th concession of Logan,
celebrated their golden wedding on March
2nd. Thee/ were presented with a purse of
gold by their children.
She had been ailing for some time.
of last week. No cause can he attributed
for hie death, as he was in good health the
ard bred trotting stallion, with a record of
Kemp, of Staffs, departed this life en Fri -
found deadl in bed on Wednesday morning
chased the hardware business of Gaber &
Sons, in Steatford.
Bryclone, elf Milverton, sold an 8 months' old
tem.
j ust purcheeed from the States a fine Stand.
day, let Wet., at the early age of 22 years.
granted the prineipal, Mr. McRoberts, an
increase of $50 in his salary.
Death was due to a breaking up of the aye -
Marys, died at Foreet on February 27th.
Durham bull for $142,
dents of Downie, died on Friday; March
1st, aged 69 years.
—Mr. Fred Biddick, ef Mitchell, has
--Mr. Jehn Berlet, of Menkton, has de-
-Fanny, youngest daughter ef Mr. Thos.
—Charlie Louie a Chineee,who conducted
—Mr. an,d Mrs. Schaefer, of Milverton,
—The Mitchel; public school board have
—At the Guelph stock sale recently, Mr.
—Joe di Dobson one of the pioneer resi-
-John Coddle, a former resident of 8b.
Perth Notes.
—Mrs. Michia, of Stratford, fell the other
ntering Knox church, Monkton,
on Sunday, 3rd inst., Mrs. M. Golightly,
sr., was seriously injured. The wind blew
the door agitinet her, knocking her down.
In the fall tine rib was broken, and she was
badly bruised.
—The readdence of Mr. John Flanagam,
of Downie, Was almost completely deatoyed
by fire on Feiday night, lst inst. Nearly all
the furnituee, however, Wan saved by the
help of a large number of neighboring farm-
ers, who arrived on the scene shortly after
the alarm wee elven. .
—On Satarday, 2nd inst., a -carcass ef
beef, offered ler sale on the Mitchell mar-
ket by Chafles Dungey,sof Logan, was ton-
fiscated, as it had the appearance of having
died before ,being bled,. The town eonstable
laid information against Dungey, eharging
him with " offering meat for sale unfit for
—Mrs. Alex. McKenzie, ef Donegal, died
on Thursday, 28th ult. The deceased lady
had been ill for several weeks with pneu-
monia, the •effects of which resulted in her
death. She was a daughter of the late Mr.
Duncan KiPpen of Mirth Easthope, and
leaves a fereily of three eons.
—The ceee of Knaggs vs. Colquhoun was
tried se Woedstook assizes last week. In,
thin case Ktiagge, a resident of East Oxford,
brought suit &gaited one Colquhoun, -of Mit-
chell, for $750, the price of a stallion sold by
Colquhoun to Knaggs. The horse did nob
turn out well, hence the suit. The jury re-
turned a verdict for $800 in favor of Knagge.
- —The other day Mr, M. Whalen,lf Dow-
nie, met with a rather painful aecidene. He
was driving'through the oovered passage of '
the Grand Central hotel, at St. Marys, when
a high ridge:of snow upset the cutter and
threw him against the aide of the building.
His face, under the right eye, was cut so
badly that it required severed stitches.
—What Might have resulted in a serious
railway accident occurred near the old tile
yard, just west of St. Mame on Monday
morning of last week. The four o'clock ex-
prees from Chicago wail humming down the
grade at a lively rate, when a wheel flew off
the tender. The train was at once itopped,
and no damage was done, although it would
not have been safe to premed.
—Mr. James Irvine, of Fullartoni claims
to be the oldest resident in the district. He
came to Mitohell in 1852, when there were
only two houses in the place, and he has
seen every sere cleared and every improve-
ment made *ince that time. In all that
titne, Mr. Irvine says he never voted /Against
the 'frit party, except when he voted with
Easthetie Passed away on Thursday, 828authia
ult., in the person of Mr. David MeArdle;
of Harmonys Deceased was born in Ireland
76 years midi 6 months ago. At the age oaf
19 he came to this country, and settled on
the present farm, lot 40, concession 6, South
Easthope, t° hew a home out of the wilder -
nese. Fiftyqour years ago last October he
married Miss Jean Newell, who survives.
—The residence of Mr. Hooner South
Easthope, about a mile out of Harmony,
wag the scene of a very pleasant event on
Tueeday eve ing of last week, when his two
Stratford, and Mr. Geysler, of Tavistock,
daughters, aggie and Tillie, were united
in marriage o Mr. Charles Brodhagen, of
respectively.( The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Mal Veit, of Sebastopol, in the
presence of Over one hundred guests,