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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1901-05-10, Page 1AVE RS delighte,1 G visited veeks but uying, jeEf !igh care `ore you r ane. and and then 3et them, ir goods. o expect find, the possible millinery ting any trimmere room a, 4 spring. Ea shown pea that the styles and the manship. nag effect itiL rneaa ipery offeringia a for you. :r is, pan - home and • richeat depart El.r.ted, to esigns M uatins, ales, but 'ew hazi- tuffs we y them. beauty: figures, here isn't any thing dress in you get ttiful one ES 'lash -s- have d only e have and armony passing app ear- ry has h us in work ; ra have The Work, le min - has ily on, ✓ man - ears of 8, 0011- -er the no de - is try. irit of h you ve not your evotion use of an in- -e ask as a. ACCorn- xprees. ✓ new t you have t well Tilt teeraeO •ather about of Mr, of his ng and had a -1`01111c1 Wait about Long, k the an rnatie 8 the ool.— folks Id re- ro., of 'hbred week. -ram 8, d luck e is :er the e of rview- 'South ron in re - own 0.1111010111111.11.11111111111101MMIIMININIIIIIIIIIIIIII.11•0113.111.10.11111..111.1. THIRTYYEAR. WHOLE N1JMBER, 1,743. -THIRD r FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1901. MoLEAN BROS., Publishers; $1 a Year in Advance. after the mare had been out of his possession for three years, that he was mistaken. —Some Of the census entimeratore have got the idea that they were to receive $3 a, day for their services. The Government has tattled; thet the pay shall be five cents a, name for each name sent in on the lists, but one man hal found that at this rate his pay fer the lase two days' work would be about 45 cents. ;Representations will, therefore, be made to' the Minieter of Agriculture in favor of fixing the rate at $3 per day. In tho rural districts the enumerators get 25 cents for every farm visited, in addition to the regular rate of five cents. —Smallpox is decreasing in Ontario. The existieg oases number 67, and are distributedas follows : Sudbury camp, 25; Carden township, 15; Admaston township, Renfrew county, 5; Thessalon, 4; Eldon township, 4; Oxford county, 2; Lakefield, 2, Toronto2 : Nipissing, London, Heidi- , mend tovieship, Grafton i3ollingwood, Etobieoke township, York Grafton, Glen- garry county, 1 each. ti —Dr, James Fraser, who has been sent out by the British authorities; along with Colonel Dent, to purchase army remounts and to report on Canada's facilities for supplying the British service with the , hones which it requires, was born 54 yearn ago on the 10th concession of East Zorra, Oxford county. To -day he tands at the head of hit profession, that of veterinary surgeon, in the United Kingdom, having been elected president of the Royal College two years ago by the unanimous vote of the council. Re is associated in his work with the finest minds in the old land, Of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine he is vice preeident, the.president being Lord Lester, the foremost man in the British ! medical profession, the diseoverer of the antiseptic treatment, through whose genius modern medical science has been revolution- ized. In his own particular line of work he is without & peer in the land of his adoption- His clients have ranged from His Majetty, King Edward, the late Duke of Westminster and others down. Horses worth as much as $100,000 have been en- trusted to hie care. Thu, is the man who some thirty years ago went out from Zorra to seek his fortune'and who now returns to the township of his birth crowned with the greatest success that his calling can give. Dr. Fraser was in Woodstock a few flays ago and paid a visit to the friends and scenes of hie youth. A Peculiar Season. This has been a peculiar season in our business. The ordered trade has been all that we could expect, in fact, the ordered clothing trade went beyond our expectations. The furnishing trade was fair, the hat trade was fair, but ready- -made clothing seems to have been an exception to all the other lines, in that it did not sell as well as the lines we have ,mentioned. It may be that it was the lateness of the season, or, possibly, that people were busy seeding. However, we have determined that this department shall show as large an amount of sales as any of the former. For this reason, then, the following list of prices is attached: LOT 1—will consist of 25 suits,' the prices_of which, in the regular way, will range from $4,50 to $6 in sonae cases. We are making a clean sweep of these at $3 a suit—the sizes range from 36 to 42. LOT 2—will consist of some all -wool suits, sizes 35 to ,44. We have some thirty of these suits , the price we put upon the sanae is $4. LOT 3—consists of some twenty suits, which sold re- gularly at $6, $7 and in some cases $10 ; we are going to clear the lot at $5. LOT 4—This is the highest clothing that we will make in this special price list. At $7.50 we offer fifty suits, sizes 35 to 44, every suit of which sold regularly at $10 to $12. As the summer approaches, we find •an increasing de- mand for the 25c school pant we are making for boys, We are showing just now some very handsome lines of new collars, ties, ctffs, summer underclothing, etc. Let us show you how well we can satisfy your particular likes and dislikes in these things. There is no qUestion of it, that if you want a really nice thing in men's furnishings, we can supply it. A few specials that are :finding a ready sale are -the children's sailor at 15c, 20c and 25o, the knockabout felt hat at 10c an all -wool woisted long stocking, at -250; the heaviest weight buckskin at 20c a yard,,ailid we out it ,free kir:you ; an all -wool sweater for boys at 50o; the heaviest weight buckskin pant, " our own inake,''?, $1 a pair the 50c blue .derry overall, with or without the aPron ; the smock to match at 50o; stonemason and plasterers' overalls at 50c a pair ; machinists' overalls„ Hack jean, at 50c a pair ,. factory caps, without lining', 150 each. • In the matter of summer comfort, our new line of soft shirts for men, who appreciate style as well, as comfort, are certainly desirable goods. They are fast colors,. made in this year's peculiar cut, which permits you to Wear them without a coat, if you have the desire that way. If you want to be well dressed, tastefully ciressed, dressed like a gentleman, we can furnish you with All the requisites Greig & Macdonald Clothiers and Furnishers Formerly on the Wrong Side of the Street, SEIFORTH It's handy, just call up 'phone No. 32, and the money orders will be lying on your desk ready for mailing in five minutes' time, and besides it is c eap. Up to $3, 3e; up to 85, 5c ;up to $10, 6c, and so on. Rates for express, C. RR. and ocean tickets givenon applicA tion. Folders, guides, etc., on application to R 3. MACDONALD C. P. R. AGENT, Seaforth, ROGRESS 0 DA SON. r. J. H. Davidson, residents of the ofty of of the golden Yukon ronto a few days ago, ing account of the p future prospects of deatre. Mr. and Mn their return trip to h relatives in Qaeb hen Mr. and Mrs. ., Da son first, in the ne rly the whole wint '.thpI trip, camping out ti :nig t found them ; zow the tep can be Ana e in seven days, sr of which re spent e, on he stage from Da son to Wh te Horse, anI one day on the railway fro White Heise to Skagway, 11 miles. Mr. Davideon ,came out in M rob, and ooescquently the popul tion was a its low- est, as many -I now oo e out to pend the winter eltewhpre and g baok to w rk their. claims and °eery on bu iness in the summeri He, thereforeput ir the winter pop Wien o Dawson at about 6, 11, and th t of the creeks at 15,000. In he summer the pop- ulation of the district ill go ove 25,000. This populatipn will p educe he stimates, this summer betw en 25,000,000 nd $30,• 000,000 in gold. his is all from he placer mines, but quartz mins have beea discov- ered, and these, with , ow creeks °intently opening and the new a a a cheaper processes of working the power claims, wit tend to give Dawson a perman nay. Fron this on summer mining will be the rule i stead of mining in winter. In he first ye re of the • camp all the mining w s done in ti e winter, • because there were n roads and supplies , co Id only begot in o er the ice long the ri era. - New roads ha e, been ooi struoted, wlfiich can be ueedbott winter and summer. Winter mining was al o carried o beoause the. surface water in summer flo ded the ,oliiiins. Now, howeve , improved machin- er , including pumps, vercomea t is diffi- au ty ; while suthmer Ming has t e great advantage thrit the pa dirt can b dumped at once into the elue -boxes and a second handling avoided. Pa dirt mine in win- ter must be thrown on a dump, til spring, when it must be handl';d a second time be- fore it can be washed, nd this at the high price of labor takes off a good pa t of the profit. All t ie mean of pr du tion are beaoming cheaper. Wood, which used to cost $100, and later $50 per cord, sold last. winter for $1. Horses which tie d to be hired at $80 per day can now be ired for $40. Another impdrtant deco ery for Dowson has beer the opening ip o a mine of lignit coal abe'ut ei hteen miter from the city. But little of the oal was sol in Daw- son last year, but the Alaska Ex loration Company, which owns the mine, hes secured the charter; for a railw y into De son, and will be telling fuel ne t winter. he same company has Sr80 a ch rter for ait eet rail- way in Dawson, and i is hoped vti I lay the rails this summer. ! SUPPLY 0 "WATER. ' Of Dawson itself an 1 its soeial life Mr. and Mrs. Davidson speak in th highest terms. Water worki the cit' h a had for some years. but at fir t not w1 lolly success- ful. The -firat pipes were of wo d, which were laid on top of fhe grou )d, he Man- ager believing he coul keep the w ter from fre(zing by forcing live steam into the pipes. • This worke( successful y until Christmas, when the ipes froze u , and the water works went o t of busine s. Last winter the company t ied plae ng Lon pipes enclosed in wooden bi xes, wit an air space all round, about tw feet u der ground. The water was then p mped fr m the well into a large tank, here it aa heated by an immense coil of seam pip s. This at- tained the desired en 1, and th works were kept running all winter. Ver few house connections exist, the water being got from hydrants on the stree corners. In winter these hydrant° are rotected by a little house, containing a a eve. This Purnmer it is expected the water will be piped into the houses of the resident. i one of t o pioneer Dawson, t e Capital country, as in To- nd gave ari interest- esent con ition , and hat far -oft business . Davidso were on aweon, aft r a visit o. Davidson ent into winter of 1897-98, r was eat Burned in n the trail wherever PRICES FOR Fi 00 PRODUCTS. Food products are constantly becoming cheaper. Eggs, whicl once sold for $10 per dozen, now retail fo 60 and 75 cents. Meat sells at from 40 o 60 cen s per pound, butter 50 cents, w ile pota oes, onione, • beets', cabbages and vegetab es generally are fairly cheap, as th y are no, v grown on the spot. Barley„ o to and bay are also grown successfully, b t wheat has not been tried. Native hay ells for 6 cents per pound and imported •aled ha for 10 oents per pound. Canned goods are sold at reasonable prices, an Mrs. Davidson said, with pride, that Ca adian canned goods were preferred by c tizens of all nation- alities to American anned gdods from the Pacific coast. Tte, On axle fruit has a much better flavor than th t from Oregon and California. ' They we e sorry that they could not make the same report about . Canadian butter,- a eta e of affafrs caused by one large lot of can i ed bansdian butter turning out bad. Ca adian pickers should - be careful of this in fu ure. The health of the ci y was now as geed as,. that of any place in 0 nada. Though there had been some smallpox, the I matter was handled with the grea est caredand as a re - suit not a single death had occiirred. As a result of drainage and waterwerki, typhoid had been almost bani hed from the city. In this connection Mr and Mrs. Davidson could not give too inu h praise to Rev. Dr. i Grant, of the Dawson Presbyte ian church, who was the guiding s irit in the erection of the Good Samaritan hospital, and who had done more they believed, than any other man for the mo al and Physical ele- vation of Dawson. D . Grant' family re- side in Toronto, and it is the hope of the people of Dawson that he will !bring them out this summer. I All the churches are oing a !good work, and what is more, the are all filled on Sun- day. Dawson never w s a wild, wide-open mining camp, and now ts social life is of as high a tone as that of a y other city in Can- ada. , . _ Very interestingfind4 are daily coming to light in the mining ex° vations in the shape of the tusks and bones f mastodons which roamed over kthe Yuk n when it was a tropical forest. Tusks en feet in length are not infrequently ma 1 with, and a num- ber of these have been a cured for the new Government museum at %AMU. Mr. Davidson, who the holder of a number of valuable alai is in the Klondike, is a native of Quebec, b t real ed, prior to going to Dawson, for a umberj of years on the coast, and was for s veral ears Mayor of Nanaimo, and both h and Mrs. David- son prefer the bright, or ap, su ny days of Dawson to the comb clitnate. 1 . —Rev. Thomas., Webster, Dr D., died at his home, at Newbury; Middiesex county, last week, in his 93ed year. He was perhape the oldest and iseat known Method- ist minister in that district. He ;lives born in the Glen of the Seven Church a, county Wicklow, Ireland, on ! October 24, 1809. In 1812 he came tol Canada with lie father, and after a short resi once in ork State 1 , removed t time had home, n Webster's Lon raoti oh fath the Meth dist anxious to ha better eircume house for the There, on Ju preached the fir ship, thuo for Methodist Soar has held seve connection wit ohuroh. on township, which at that ally no settlers, no school rase nor preaching. ,Dr. r was an ardent member of Episcopal church, and being 'e his family reared under &noes, he opened his own preaohing of the gospel. e, 1819, Rev. S. Belton t sermon in London town. ing the nuoleue of the firet ty in London. Dr. Webster al important positions in the Canadian Methodist • Dog vs. Bicycles. DEAR EXTON OR,—T6e tender sympathies of your Blueval writer seems to have been touched by the ruel treatment accorded by a citizen of that burg to a dog, in having ib chained to hie b cycle. As Britons we love freedom, ond o r sympathies naturally go out to anyone o anything that is placed under restraint. Perhaps in the case re- ferred to there ay have -been cruelty to the dumb animal, b t we'll stake our reputation on'the fact that in compelling the average dog to mare a" forced run" after a bicycle the hardship (t the dog) is more apparent than real. We e you ever out wheeling in y, ge ting the fresh air and drink - lands ape at every pore? You in a teed of self satisfied com- ond ring if a little adventure add z et to your enjoyment, when he lo d barking of a barnyard the • 'stance and in another in - is a loud of dust and fur coming d. ou have 40 rods the start but !ou know from the "wish" r fro n past experience that he you quicker than Boat. You few ispland words and seeing ng ro 'Its of the proper size just deoi e on the Jewish mode of deat by stoning). But before ime tu slow up, and while you ing i there will be any eyo- o the coming tragedy, and what dama es the owner of the brute some hing like a cyclone strikes feel : sudden twinge of pain • and efore you can properly in - and ocalize yourself the miser - 20 ro s away with a piece of und: trousers in his mouth. urs 1 those miserable cur1 In- ing e ained to a bicycle the5, ehai ed to a through freight car " to ced run " that would take • Ap il, out 1 them. 1900. ROMEO. • W s mas Walks from New • Yor to Toronto. ,the count ing in the ride along placency, would not you hear mongrel i stant tiler up the ro of the our, in the air .oan catch ejaculate a few shin ahead, yo exeoution you have are wonde witnesses - amount of will claim you. -- Yo somewher dividualiz able cur is your best Oh, thole stead of b ought to b as the onl all the sna HENSA The Tor nto lobe of Friday last says : A middle. ged • om-an, travel stained and weary, wa ked i to the Court street police station las night, and asked Sergeant Sey- mour for infor ation as to where a night's lodging co Id b: obtained. She was plainly dressed, b b her evident respectability pre- vented th Serg ant from offering her quar- ters in the wom t-n's cell. The police matron was summ ned, nd to her the visitor told a curious st re. She said that er name was Agnes Jeffs, and that s e ha walked from New York to Toronto. She as born in England and came to.A eric , to go into service. After working nN w York for twenty-one months sh deci ed to return to England, as she did not 11 e the city. She was re- luctant, h weve , to return home without seeingmo e of America, and particularly the Derain on, he had very little money, so she de ided upon a tramping journey west. He funds were sufficient to provide her with f od ai d lodging, but with the ex- ception of ne ri le in a farmer's wagon she walked th enti e distance from New York to Toronts, On y two nights were spent by her out of •oors, .Her first experience at sleeping o • the round was caused by dark- ness overt king ier while she was a consid- erable di tance from a village, and on Wednesda nig b she slept behind the railway st tion t Port Credit, because her supply of mon y had become exhausted. She walke fro Port Credit yesterday. In her 1 ng jo rney she kept to the public highways, nd a much as possible avoided railways, s tha she would not meet tramps. She told t e ma ron that she passed many wandering gent y, but was never molested. Miss Jeffs 8 a w 11 built muscular woman, which may acco nt for the respect shown her by wa farer of the other sex She said that s e su ered no ill effects from her long walk, and e joyed the prospect of see- ing the co ntry. She w 11 sec according Io her to Montre I to t • —Owen'; town, were day morni with an in —A resi Tamwor th put to hi was sum fined him —Mr. R ter at the while play days ago, College an leg broken —While Wednesda. house at Pacific Rai of the Gra was Wile destroyed. with his li • —Durin electricity Orlando F was struc posts were struck the Fqrdyoe el jury. Blake, the in London, on her wa had reache Edward B She was 62 heart dise —Mrs. Stony Id county, w on Tuesda from the Grondin when the coiled ,up sprang at on the left hand, and bites was were enea big doses ternally. doctor oo the arm h re work in the city, and present plans will then go ke ship for England. . Canada. saw and planing mills,in Ridge= ompl tely destroyed by fire Sun- g. he loss is stated at $4,000, uranc of but $600. ent f Addington county, near decl ned to answer questions by a census enumerator. He oned before a magistrate, who • and costs. 0. J lliffe, B. A., classical mas- wen ound Collegiate Institute, ng in game of football a few etwe n the Northern Business the 1 ollegiate Institute, had his belo» the knee. the torm was at its height on . t of last week, the watch - the iamond of the Canadian way nd the Port Dover division d Tr nk Railway at Woodstock • by lightning and completely The watchman barely escaped e. the iolent storm of rain and ast ek the new residence of rdyc , at Union, near Toronto, by lightning. The verandah splin ered, The electrie current •ed.') st, wherein Mr. and Mrs.. pt. Luckily they escaped in- • lake, wife of Hon. S. H. emin:- it solicitor.of Toronto,died Engl nd, on Saturday. She was to a erman health resort, and the esidence of her sister, Mrs. ake, when death overtook her. years of age, and was a victim of e. ouis Grondin, who lived on nd, ear Amheratburg, Essex s bitt n by a huge rattlesnake of 1-st week, and bas since died effects of the poison. Mrs. as pi king up chips in her yard, rattlin who had been lying uno .zerved near by, suddenly er, ii flicting three distinct bites hand. Medical aid was not at the , ld Indian remedy for snake error i:d to. The hand and arm ed t iokly in blue clay, while whi key were administered in - ever 1 hours elapsed before a Id prooured, and meanwhile d a ollen to almost twice its 11. WALL PAPER BARGAINS. 1800 Rolls Grounded, Glimmer Wall Paper with ceilings and 9 or 18 inch borders. Scroll and floral designs in all colors, regu- • lar price 103 and 12io per single roll. On sale now for 8c. ALEX.. WINTER, SEAFO T natural size. In spite of all that could be done, the patient was unable to rally from the shock and died the following morning. The snake, which was killed, was one of the largest seen in that neighborhood for many years, and possessed nine rattles. —One day last week, while Mr. Wm. Graham, of the 7th concession of Chatham township, Kent county, was burning some brush, one of his children strayed so close to the fire that its clothing became ablaze. The father quickly grabbed it and rolled it in clay to extinguish the flames, but was un- able to do so before, the child was seriously if not fetidly burned. —Anteresting wedding took place in Montreal last Friday night, the contracting parties being James Cushing, one of the Lillputiane appearing at the Theatre Fran- nie, in that city, and a French-Canadian girl named Houle, whom the little man had only met a week previously. Cushing is only 32 inches high, while his wife is fully developed. She should be able to boss him. —It is. stated that Mr. Alex. McNeill, ex -M. P. for North Bruce, is returning to Ireland, where he and his family will in the future reside. Mr. McNeill, who grad- uated from the Middle Temple, London, England, as a barrister, during his resi- dence in Canada led the life of a farmer. He was first returned to Parliament in 1882. —Over 700 horses will be shipped from Montreal, next week, to South Africa'for British army services. These horses have been inspected and passed by the army offi- cers in this country for that purpose. All these horses have been collected in Ontario and Quebec. Some were gathered at Lon- don, some at Woodotook, but most of them were shipped by dealers to Montreal and inspected there. —The customs department at Ottawa, learns from Lord Strathoona that the same lady who a few days ago sent £50 conscience money to the high commissioner's office, has handed in another £25 for the same reason —norepayment of duty, or the payment of an insufficient sum. —Rev. Henry Scadding, D. D., of To- ronto, died in that city on Monday. He was 88 year*, of age. By his death there is removed one of the pioneers of Toronto, a man intimately connected with the history of the city, if not of the Province, one who loved hie country and commemorated her in his literary worka. lie had been a pro- fessor in Upper Canada College for 25 years and for thirty years was rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity. —Hugh Carson, the big defence fielder of the old Capital lacrosse team, is lying in St. Luke's hospital, Ottawa, in a dangerous condition as a result of an attack of lockjaw. Some three weeks ago Mr. Carson had the misfortune to have a nail run into his foot. The wound was dressed at the time and no ill effects were expected. The foot began to trouble him a few days afterwards and the prospects are that he will not recover. —Jacques Snider, the third son of Henry Snider, of South Cayuga, near Dunville, met with a terrible death in his father's saw mill. The young man had an injured hand, and while trying to adjust a belt to a rapidly revolving shaft, with his elbow, his arm was caught by the belt, drawn into the pulley and arm and shoulder torn from the body. Death resulted immediately from the shock and from loos of blood. —The Conservative members of the House of Commons at Ottawa a few even- ings ago, presented LieutenaneColonel Sam Hughes, M. P., with a silver salad bowl and dinner gong, suitably inscribed, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the marriage of Colonel and Mrs. Hughes. The presentation was made on behalf of the members by Mrs. Monk, wife of the Conservative leader from Quebec. —The death is announced of John C. Henry, in Denver, Colorado. He was the inventor of the trolley car and many other electrical appliances. He was a native of Woodatock, Ont., where his father and one sister, Mrs. Morriaon wife of the town clerk, still reside. He was a telegraph operator, and went to the United States when quite a young man. He was 50 years of age. —During the Pan-American Exposition 40 trains a day—that is, 20 each way—will leave and enter the Toronto Union station to and from Buffalo. Theee trains will be divided 'between the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railways, and the " day" here meant is between 7 a. m. and 1 a. m. Five of the Grand Trunk trains each way will run between Toronto and Buffalo without change of oars. —A young son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hatcher, of Mount Elgin, had a narrow escape from drowning in a whey tank re- cently, The little fellow, with a pail in hand, was trying to dip whey out of the tank at the factory, when he became over- balanced and fell into the whey. His older brother heard the splashing, although he did not see the fall, and quickly gave the alarm. He was rescued just in the nick of time to save his life. —Mrs. George Sherman, an old resident of Paisley, was found strangled in her bed- room on Sunday last. She had been living alone for several years, her youngest son having procured a remunerative situation in Langdon, North Dakota. The neighbors saw her on Friday, and she was not well,and seemed very much troubled in mind. She WBS not seen again until Sunday, when she was found as above stated, having strangled herself with a cord. —A severe thunderstorm struck Brook- ville section Thursday of last week, and the electric current was felt at several places. Lightning struck the window sills of a Buell street residence and forced open the frame. A yelling lady named Boucher was standing four feet from the window and was badly shaken. The cupola of the Smart works was also struck. The heavy clap of thunder frightened several horses and run- aways were numerous. —The executive of the Century Fund committee of the Presbyterian church met in Toronto on Friday last and earefully went over the reports received from con- gregations of the church. These indicated that the sum of $525,000 was actually sub- scribed for the common fund, including estimates of subscription*, yet to be got in a number of congregations in the Northwest. There is thus lacking $75,000 of the $600,- 000 asked for. An additional special effort is to be marls this mont additional! amount. Of eceibed for the common already been received b Nearly $800,000 has, in co Century Fund movement, church debts, over and * subscribed - for the corn while what is known MI th short, the entire fund has $325,000. —Mre. Maria Gardin Wellington county, died septicaemia. Mrs. Gardin child three days before refused to, have any me She belongs to a religi objects to, medical treat inquest subsequently held the husband and of othe shows that they wished t but that the mother ob preferred to leb her have he —The annual meetings of stitutes are to be held t June let and 20th. There inge all told. A special feat work will be the meetings of prominent fruit growerse ter enable the lecturers t demonstrations in spraying, ing and orchard cultivat Wentworth Institute has street care, and will visi fruit farms of the Niagara monstrations. —A deputation of the Cox menial Travel- lers' Association recently w ited on Hon. J. R. Stratton as head of the 1 cense branch of the Ontario Government, as ing him to en- force the establishment of b tter and more sanitary accommodations the hotels of the smaller towns of the p evince. Hu. Mr. Stratton replied.that 8tp3 had already been taken in this directio , and that it was the policy of the Gov enment, acting through its license boards, o improve the hotel accommodations of th province. —What came very nea to being a re- markable coincidence occur ed a few days ago, when two ladies of advanced age, whose sons are femora church workers and evangelists, died at their omes within a day of each other. Mrs. M rgaret Crossley, mother of Rev. H. T. ,Cros ley, died at her home at King City, Ontar o, at the age of 88 years, while Mrs. Sanke , mother of Ira D. Sankey, the world famoi a evangelist -and singer, died in Newcastle, enneylvania, at the age �f 90 years. —A very severe wind, rai 1 and hail storm passed over a part of the co nty ot Elgin on Thursday of last week. It vas particularly severe in the townships of 8 uth Dorchester and a portion of Yarmo th. The gale struck a large new barn on he farm of W. and E. Legg, conceseion 9, South Dor- chester, and completely de olished it. The barn had been roofed and sided and was raised on timbers, the bas ment walls not yet having been erected. Many other buildings were unroofed an 1 more or less injured. —Considerable damage v as caused in the vicinity of Woodstock by he heavy elec- tric storm Thursday morni g of last week. The heaviest losers are William and Archibald Weir, of lots 12 and 13, on the tenth line of East Zorra. Their fine bank barn was *struck by light ing at an early hour in the morning and completely de- stroyed, together with 15 ti no of bay and some grain, all their impl ments and 16 head of cattle, with calvei and horses. A barn belonging to Arth r King, near Platteville, was also struc , and, although the building was only part ally destroyed four head of cattle were bur ied. —An old man by the na ie of Munsen, who has lived in Keppel, A goma, about 30 years, happened with an aec dent on Satur- day that ended his life. t appears that the old man, who was rime 2 years of age, lived alone on a piece of and on the Col- poy's line. On Saturday so e sheep, which was the only stook he has, required, he thought, looking after, an. while looking for a lamb that had falle, into a crack in the rock, fell in the crevice and not being able to extricate himself, as nearly dead when found on the evenin on Seturday. He was extricated, but . ied soon aftet- wards. —A strange freak of natu e has occurred on the farm of Mr. A. li mphrey, Troy, Beverley township, Went orth county. Mr. Humphrey has a halfb ed Jersey cow that gave birth to a fully developed calf about the middle of last t'ovember. The cowdid well, and gave a good flow of milk for six or eight weeks, when she began to show signs of drying up. 51 e was fed well and heartily, but still conti . -ued to -dry up. Mr. Humphrey could not ccount or the animal's strange behavior. He, however, allowed her to dry up, as he milk was un- wholesome. But be had s areely done so when, to his and everybody s astonishment; she gave birth to another fully developed calf on the 29th of April. r. Humphrey would like to hear from ot er cattle men who have had a like experi nee. —Mr. A. P. Ohoate, a we I known news- paper man in Torento, and for some time past financial editor of the ity papers, has retired from active work, alt d is going to enjoy a short rest. That M , Choate is able to do this is -due to success ul rpeculations on the stook market. Mr. Choate for some time past has been exoe tionally Recently Mr. Choate was o e of the heaviest speculators in Toronto, an his judgment almoet invariably resulted i an increase to his bank account. He has snsistently fol- lowed the bull movement u to a few days ago, when he cleared up retty nearly all his holdings and took his profits, said to amount • to a half million oilers, and will enable Mr. Choate to live comfortably if he keeps out of the market. —A long continued and very peculiar horse dispute has just been eettled in Wood- stock. It was tried at the 1 et county court there, for the third time, t e jury having disagreed at the former tria s. In brief, the history of the case is as foll we : An action - of replevin was brought la t November to recover a bay mare, alleged o be 11 years old and in the possession o Mr. Loosing, who lives in South Norwieb, Oxford county. The plaintiff claimed that h lost the mare in 1897, and did not see her again till 1900, when, with his daughter, he noticed the animal in the possessisn of the defendant's family at the Otterville F ir. The plain- tiff was corroborated by fou membere of his family and 13 other witness e. The defend- ant and iaix of his family ore that they had raised the mare, foaled n 1888, and she had never been out of his • ossession. Al- together 21 witnesses for t e plaintiff and 27 for the defendant were xamined. The parties were the most re peetable In the townships of North and So th Norwich,and the judge declared that t e nee was the moat remarkable he had eve heard of. He did not submit it to a j ry, because the council for both parties sta d that a jury could not be empanelled w o would likely agree. The judge, &ltd-ome weeks de- liberation, has given a ve diet in favor of the defendant, Mr. Leasing, with full costs. He held that the onus of p oof should resb on Mr. McNally and there as a probability to secure th he amount sub und $265,000 ha ht ieo t rwe aitshu rtehro, ne n been raised for eve the amount on fund. Thusj eornmon fund een exceeded by r of .Arthur1 last week of r gave birth to a her death and, int attendance. us body which • ent. At the: the evidence of s of the family call in a doctor, ecotednway. , and they w the Farmere' In - is year between ill be 100 meet - re of this year's O the orchards This ie to bet - give practical pruning, graft - on. The South bartered several the principal istriot for de - 1 Perth Notes i —Dr. Anderson, of Mitchell, is going to Chicago, to take a post graduate course in the dental college there. —Miss Clime, of Stratford, has written Iter.record.pet r —r 51,030 lettere on a poet card, breaking_the wo Robertson, of North East. hope, sold a:team of chestnut horses on Sat- urday, to a ',Toronto buyer, for $800. —Mr, Themes Sherwin has *sold his fifty. acre farm, on the 17th concession of Elma, to Mr. A. Cuthbertson, of Atwood!, for $1,200.1 I . —J. M. pronto', secretary of thethrat- le ford Young Men's Christian Assooi tion, has been asked to take the secretarysh. of the association at Vancouver. — On July 2nd, the ratepayers ot 8t. Marys will yote on a by-law to raiee $15,000 for the purpose ot the extentiOn and im- provement of the waterworks and electric light plant.1 —Rebore I Struthers, eldest son of Mr. George Struthers, of the 16th concession of Elma, died on Sunday, ,April 28th. De- ceased had been suffering for about a year f roflruanietgrapr ublee. Fnk , the eight-year-old son of Mr. William Draper, of Prespect Hill, bad his skull badly fractured by being kicked by a horse the other day. The boy hair been unconscious for several days, but hopes are entertained for his recovery. —During the month of April the follow- ing wills were probated or entered for ad- ministration: Robert Roger, Fullerton, personal $1,070, real, $4,800; August Stiakel, Fullerton, personal, $4,60 ; Jona- than Day, Me D., Fullerton, personal, $410n99.2tFriday, April 26th, Jasper Pridkam, one of the earliest settlers of Fullerton township, departed this life at the age of eighty-five years. Deceased had taken up land there nearly sixty yeare ago, and had resided continuously in the township since that time. He leaves a family of four sons and three daughters. —Amos, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Sch- weitzer, of Gadshill, died early Thursday morning of laet week. He was aged 4 years, 9 months and 8 days. Death earne very suddenly, as he was about on Sunday, but early Tuesday morning became suddenly worse. The cause of death is supposed to have been orri.Tu P* — Dr. F.Lhompoon has sold his medi- cal practice ,in Texas and arrived home in Mitchell on Monday night of last week. He was doing algood practice in the south, with a good prospect of enlarging it, but be pre- fers Canada4 and it is his intention, after taking a special course in some of the medi- cal institutiens of Europe, to nettle some- where in his native land, —The Stratford Collegiate Institute Board have decided to erect a building to :&000minodate departments for manual training and domestic science. The building will cost $2,000 to $3,000, and will consist of a base- ment and two stories. Stratford is the first of the smeller cities to erect a building es- pecially for those departments, and antici- pates a handsome grant out of the $10,000 appropriatien for this purpose by the Mini- ster —Death, 00 Tion. uesday of last week, de- prived Motherwell of one of its best citi- zens, and left Mr. and Mrs. John Laing to mourn the less of their only son. Mr. Wil- liam J. Laing was in his thirty-eighth year. He was a, member of the Presbyterian church, and, by an exemplary life, had won the respect of the community. Mr, and Mrs. Laing and family have the sympathy of a hoet of friends in their •sad bereave- ment. - —Mrs, W. K. Yost, of Poole, died on Wednesday of Iasi) week, after a long illness, which was not considered dangerous until a. day before her death. She and her husband had nearly completed fifty years of wedded life, most of whieh time Was spent on the farm on whieh she died. She was one of the few pioneers left in that section of the coun- try, and was a woman of quiet, unassuming character, loved by all who knew her. A family of three children and a husband are left. —One day recently, while a number of men were working on an old building for Mr. Thomas Roney, of Mitchell, a young man named Elligeon, of Logan, came near losing his life. They were on the roof when it caved in and the brick walls tumbled after it. The men jumped and escaped in- jury, but the boy wan more unfortunate, be- ing buried underneath, and when reamed it was found that one of his shoulder bones was broken, besides being otherwise badly bruised.