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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901.
THE ONE TRIM
The one thought in people's minds is to keepi
cool. The one means 'of keeping cool is to
dress properly—wear light underwear, light,sox,
a light shirt, a light tie, an easy fitting collar, a
straw hat—any kind of a sfraw is cooler than a
felt. A handsome line of straws •from 25c to
$2.25.
L's a wonder people do not wear more white duck for
the hot days. White duck suitsare cool, wash
nicely and. are low in price. The best quality
is worth $3 a suit. Duck pants singly at $1,
$1.25 and $1.50 according to. the wejght.I
Keep your boys cool—Straw hats 15c, belts 10c, bath-
ing,drawers 10c, undershirts 25c, straw hats,
Sunday use, 25c, blouses 500.
A wag of a fellow was overheard saying that, if a fell -
low would keep up to the style, one.would have
to buy a new hat, tie or collar al Greig .cCc Mae-
donald's every week. The idea is that we
never fail in having swell, up-to-date go ods:
e are artists in our line.
Hee you seen the nobby effects we have in -men's
readynaade suits, our own make, at $8, $10 and
$12
There was never a better hat made than •Christy's 2
ounce hat, the popular shade is the pearl grey,'
the prices are $1 25, $1 50, $2, 82 50, Luster
coats for the heat at $1, $1 50, $2, $2 50. Ask
for the St. John linen collar, it will be a cora-
fort to you.
Are you out for Bayfield. or any other watering place?
You will do well to take one of our combination
bathing suits with you. Are you particular
-
about your underwear? We have a feather
weight all wool selling at 75c a ,garment, or
1,50 a suit.
There is no comfort in life for the man with unhappy
feet. Try our natural wool foot lisle thread:top
25c a pair. A solid black cashmere at 25e
seems to find a ready sale. In cotton sox we
show a neat line in black and colors, at three
pairs for 25c
For the_harvest field we show a triple stitched straw
at 15c A cool durable smock at 50c, a strong
bodied overall at 50o; threshing hats at 50c.
Our own make of bUckskin pants at, :50c and $1, are
_without superiors for wearing qualities.
Neglige shirts; what, a comfort to put on one ; we are
well up to the mark with nifty goods; the real
nice things sell at 75c, $1. $1.25 and $1.50.
1 good staple line at 25c and 50c is selling well.
Greig & Macdollal
Clothiers and Furnishers
Formerly on the Wrong Side
of the Street,
S EIFORT
Manitoba and Northwest Excursions.
The Canadian Pacific Railway will run special excursions to Manitoba and the North-
west on June 18thiJuly 16th and 23rd. Round trip colonist class tickets will be issued
as under: Winnipeg, Deloraine, Antler, Estevan, Binscarth, Moosemin, Hamiota and
Swan River and return, $28, Regina, Moose Jaw and Vorkton and return, 530, Prince
41.1.bert;- Calgary and Macleod and return, $35, Red Deer and Edrrionton and neturn, $40.
All tickets valid to return within two months from date of isaue. .For tickets and all in.
formation, apply to
R. J MACDONA
C. P. R. AGENT, Seaforth.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
D A :.1 XPOSITOR, —I have promised to
writ so any people regarding these islands,
and 1 av� so lit* spare time at present,
that 1 hall take the liberty of answering
Borne of the enquiries hrough the columns
or yo r paper. .
. Th islands lie in north latitude 18 to 22
degr es, and are but dote in the midst of
the g eat ocean. There are five islands of
oonsi erable size, having a combined area of
6,700 square miles. The structure of each
ielan is that of highland in the centre,
slopi g to the sea. . This highland is in
most cases extinct volcanoesand many of
these craters, particularly on Hawaii, are
noted for their immense size. A good road
exten,ds.around each island, and the settle-
mente are by the sea and each plantation
hail is own lending. Out here on Kauai,
the temperature is mild and oven. A cool
ooea breeze is blowing most of the time
and tie nighte are cool, a person eenerally
requi ing a blanket for sleeping. It is
much cooler than in Honolulu, where the
heat s rather oppressive at times. 'The
rainfall on this island is not very great; al-
thouili in some parts of the Wands it rains
neal all the time.
Th principal industry,of course, is tbe
suganproduction. All the available land is
taken up in the great plantations, extending
over mi iles. The land has to be irrigated,
and dn some of the plantations the great
draw ack is their inability to geta suffi-
cient upply of water. The land is first
plow d with the huge steam plows. Then
comxrences the planting, which is almoat
similafr to planting potatoes. The cane ie
cut i to pieces a foot to two feet long so
that oak piece will have at least one eye
on it. The laborers carry the cane in sacks
finite ed around their necks and drop the
piece in rows, after which it is covered.
The c op takes from 15 to 18 months to
matu e. When they are cutting the cane
they leo cut the tops off, and they are
'eitherl used.for horse feed or burned. The
cane i loaded on cars which run on tracks
all ov r the plantations, and taken to the
mill. Each plantation has its own sugar
mill, enerally situated just near the land-
1 ing. The sugar they make _here is coarse '
and 9 a light brown color and has to be
shipia d to San Francisco to be refined. On
some f the plantations the cane has only
to le lantea the first time • after that it
grow ti up again as toon as the old crop is
taken eff. These plantations pay the best,
as the -labor of plowing and planting is
saved.
RicR
growing is the second industry of
impor ance. It is grown altogether by the
ChinafrLen, who raise two crops a year. The
land as to be irrigatea, and it is amusing
to see the Chinatnan cultivating it with his
old horse or Chinese ox, wading in ' W,ater
p
up to is knees. They set the plants out in
rows y- hand and always keep about four
inohe , of 'water on the land- until the crop
is abont ready to cut. The Chinamen are
harve tan{ their rice now. They have two
patch sin the valley here, about roe, acres
in eac patch. They, cut it with sickles
and ti it into bundles when it is dry, and
carry 't off the field on their backs or on
pack mules. They thresh it with horses.
A doz n mese are kept going around on the
heap in a circle, three or four abreast, and
the m n keep turning the straw 'or chang-
ing ib.J As soon as one crop is off they get
the la d in shape for planting again. • -
' Bananas, cocoa nuts, pineapples, etc.-, are
raised quite exteneively in some parts of
•the islands. Banana patches are to be seen
every*here. They are raised mostly by
the IC inamen, who are noted here for their
indiatjry. Of the native fruits the beet are
the al igator pear, the mango papi, and the
guava The one great pest of the islands is
the m quito. We have two -kinds here,
the d y mosquito and -the old common night
kind. Winter and summer is alike to them,
and t ey are no respectora of persons. I
am gl d to say we have no bnakes, although
we hate scorpions and centipedes, great
large eritipedes, but they are nob consider-
ed ve y dangerous.
The Hawaiian is elute dark colored, but
I
not n arly black n like the negro, and many
of then are really fine looking. He is not
fond of work, and on account of the climate
oan liee without exerting himself to any
great extent. His needs . are few, and
Mother Nature suppliee them. His tastes,
too, mile simple. He is musical, fond of
water, good-natured, ,generous, but also
indolent and improvident. Poi, made fro:n
the roots of the taro plant, is the native
dish, and so long as that can be gotten he
is Thaeaepp
hers on thee° islands are all appoint-
ed by the government in Honolulu. Each
school has a principal and one or two as-
sistants, according to the size of the school.
The kincipals all get a free furnished house,
and t 'e maximum salary is $1,500 outside
of Ho olulu. There they get as high as
$2,400 and the inspectors get $3,000. The
comm n pay for principals, however, is
$1,200 or $1,000. Sense of the plantation
emple ees receive very large salaries. Man
-
ague( et as high as $15,000 a year, besides
hinein their house, carriage, horses, coaoh•
man, te., furnished by the plantation.
Very few of them get that much, however,
but the comrnon pay is $6,000 to $10,000.
The bdokekeepers and tunas are well paid,
but tho work is so heavy that it takes a
strong man to stand it. There are lots of
men bere acting as lunas or sub-lunas,
gettin $60 to 5100 a month and board, who
were jtist farm hands in America.
• Yours, etre,
ANDREW WALLAcE,
Formerly of Tuckersmith. .
Han pepe, Kauai, Hawaii, June 2, 1901.
•
. Toronto University.
EDI OR EXPOSITOR : SIR, —Permit me.
to say a few words in regard to an article
in you editorial column on "Toronto Unii-
versa " in the issue of June 21st. e
THE EXPOSITOR has on several occasions
shown Ia tendency to criticize the State Uni-
i
versite and its work, and the University
i,
being public institution, the right of criti-
cism i , conceded so long -as that criticism is
fair and based on actual knowledge. You,
Mr. E itor, have, however, obtained your
inform tion apparently from the side re-
marks of a partizen journal and a partial
report of the Chancellor'e speech, supple-,
mente by some general etatements of your
own, a d on this you have based an article
as unji at to the University -as it is mislead-
ing to he public. ,
As r garde the extract quoted from the
Mail, have nothing to say, as the source
of the rticle is a sufficient explanation of
its contents. A9 to the report of the Chan-
cellor' speech, let me say that he criticized
the go ernment not solely on account of the
smalln es of the grant made, but because
the Pr vincial University had not received
first c nsideration. At the time of the
passag of -the Univereity Act the Premier
declar d that the sum required for the
mainte ance of certain departments, esti-
mated t 820,000, was the utmost that the
Provin e could afford to spend on higher
educat on, but within a very short time
therea ter, a grant of 550,000 a year was
made to a denominational college in Eastern
Ontario over which the government exer-
cises no control, which is in fact a private
corporation and no more etititled to a share
of the public revenue than le girls' boarding
school. _1
You mention certain subventions which
the University has been drawing from the
provincial treasury. Why did you not
state definitely what these were? If the
figures had been given instead of a vague
generalsotatement tthe public could judge
for themselves of the adequacy of the sup-
port. In truth the lamount hitherto granted
would not be enough to support a high
school efficiently. There is not a state in
the Union or a country in Europe where a
University is doing similar work on any-
thing like as small an inoome, and this can
scarcely be called a progressive policy for
the foremosb colony of the Empire.
G. R. ANDERSON.
ED. NOTE. —If oer information is defec-
tive and our remarks based thereon calcu-
lated to mislead the public, we must say
our correspondent does not do much either
to enlighten us or to place the public in pos-
session of the real facto. We notice that in a
recent speech the Premier states that the
"subventions" from the Ontario treasury to
the University amount to $40,000 annually
and that the enrolled attendance of students
averages 700. We notice also, the annual
cost of the Agricultural College to the
Province is $29,330, so that making a com-
parison between the interests represented
in each institution and the public aid
granted, we think the n Uaiversity has no
cause to complain. Besides this, a Univer-
sity education is by no means an essential
to success in life; it is what may be termed
an educational luxury and as such we do
not think it has strong laims for general
public supporb, and that it is now in receipt
of as large an amount of public add as
should be devoted in that direction, and if
we add to that, the amounts given indirectly
to Queen's University, our case is made all
the stronger. As to the relative claims
upon thapublic treasury, of the two ineti-
tutions, Toronto and Queen's, that ie a
question that was not discuesed in the arti-
cle complained of by our correspondent,
nor was the propriety of the grant to
Queen's 'considered. These are entirely
different questions. However, if our cor-
respondeet has more accurate information
on the subject than we have given, we shall
be pleased to have him lay it before the
public through our columns.
•
The Brussels Celebration.
(By our own Rcnorter.)
The good people of Brussels have adopted
the very nice practice of giving yearly cele-
brations for the benefit and amusement of
the people of -the town and surrounding
country. These celebrations serve the double
purpose of giving the people a pleasant
holiday, of the picnic order, and at the same
time affording them an opportunity of meet-
ing socially, casting dull care aside for a
day and mingling with each other in a social
manner, and besides enjoying an entertain-
ment which is both elevating and amusing.
That these opportanities are appreciat-
ed by the public is ebundantly manifested
by the large numbers who annually tura out
to participate in the proceedings. The
oelebration this year was, probably, the
most largely attended and most succeasful
of the kind ever held.
Friday morning dawned bright and clear,
and although the weather was intensely
warm, the seas on of the year was favorable
for an off day among the farmers, the spring
work being mostly completed and the busy
times 'of haying and harvesting not yet
commenced. The bright, neat little town
was made to look its best, banners being
strung acrosa the streets and many of the
public buildings and private residences being
decerated by flap, bunting and other ad-
ornments, In the peblic park also, which
adjoins the business part of the town, the
necessary arrangements had been made for
the entertainment and comfort of the ex-
pected crowds. The forenoon was some-
what) dull, there were not many people on
the streets, and some feared that on account
�f the intensely warm' weather, and the face
that celebrations had been held at Wing.
ham, Listowel and other neighboring towns
the same week, there would be a small at-
tendance at Brussels, These forebodings,
however'proved fitlacious. Towards noon
a light sh wer of rain fell, just enough to
partially 1 y the duet and cool the atmos-
phere, wh n Old Sol buret forth again in
all his ref Igence and glory, and with him
came the people. Vehicles commenced
coming i from all directions, each laden
with its f 11 quota of braw lads and bonnie
lassies,am net a few Who had been young,
brew and onnie once, but whose glory in
these respects had somewhat nwaned, until
about one o'clock +e streets •presented
a lively and animated, appearance and the
park commenced filling up, until there must
have been' between two and three thousand
people on he grounds, And a peculiarity
of the gaehering was the unsually large
number ef ladies ,in comparison with the
number of gentlemen. In this respect the
gathering esem.
leled immewhat an ordinary
chureh pr4yer meeting. This peculiarity was
accounted • for by one onlooker, who
said that - so many of the young
men of , the country had gone off in
recent years to New Ontario Manitoba and
the State e to push their ffrtunes in the
newer lands, that there are not many left,
while the irls have bean left behind. How
far this aopounts for the peculiarity of the
gathering We are not Prepared to say. Per-
haps it hee something t� do with it. How-
ever, we db know that seldom before has a
crowd of People gob better value for their
money thipn did thee who attended the
celebration at Brussel li on Friday. It was
the biggest ten cents' worth on record, and
all present could not help but b pleased.
The only fault that cotild possibl be found
with the eiitertainmen was, it wa occasion-
ally too lo g between times. The igging of
post hole, the erection of pole and the
building of platforms, while all very neces-
sary, is not very amusing or edif ing when
t
carried on n front of a large and expectant
audience. This sort of thing sh uld have
been done n the forenoon before hecrowd
assembled.
The pro eedings commenced b a well
contested base ball Match, bet een the
clubs of Wingham and Brussels, r suiting in
a victoryfor. the visitor by a
score of 11 to 4. Next on the
programme was a ootball m tch be-
tween teams from Bressele and lyth. In
this match the Braude boys were more for-
tunate, vaequishing their oppon nts by a
[wore of 41 to 0. The play, how ver, was
better than the score indicates, as he Blyth-
ites made a stubborn defence, but the
superior colabination play of their pponents
was too much for them. Perhaps he great-
est attraction of the day's procee Inge was
the Forty ighth Highlanders Ba d, of To-
ronto. Th s band is cnmposed of some 25
pieces andithe players are fine, strapping
fellews, dr ruse& 'n kilts. The nusic was
simply deiightfj. and would ma e a good
entertainm lite teen', Many of the old,
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familiar airs played delighted all listeners.
Next came Professor Riley, "King of the
Air," who performed a number of marvel-
ous evolutions on a wire etrerched from two
poles, and which was eaid to be 50 feet from
the ground. He is an expert at his business
and although he may not rival the once
celebrated Blondin, his entertainment was
skilful and interesting. The acrobatic
specialties and trapeze performances of the
Darnella Brothere were among the best of
the kind we have seen. Clark, the sword
swallower and ventrilcquist was also very
good. His ventrilorquiem was excellent,
while his sword andcane swallowing was
such as to awe if not amuse the audience.
The afternoon entertainment closed about 5
o'clock.
In the evening the park was brilliantly
lighted by electricity. And if the crowd
was large in the afternoon, it was consider-
ably larger in the evening. The same per-
formance was repeated and even more en-
joyed than in the afternoon, as the weather
was cooler and the music of the band was
fully better. On the whole, the Brussels
people, and particularly the committee who
had immediate charge of arrangements, are
to be congratulated on the euccess of their
entertainment. They furnish a pleasant
holiday for the people, and they well de-
serve the success which has thus far attend-
ed their efforts.
•
Canada.
- —Woodstock was raised to the status of
a city on Dominion Day. A grand celebra-
tion was held in honor of the event.
—Mr. John W. Bell, M. P. for Adding-
ton, has been prostrated by a paralytic
stroke, and his recovery is not expected.
—Two so-called fortune tellers, in Toron-
to, have. been fined $25 each and costs for
practising their art. There names are Mrs.
Menden and Mrs. Nichols.
—A man named Campbell, was killed on
Friday last, by lightning, three miles from
Pembroke. He was carrying a pitchfork
over his shoulder when strunk.
—Mr. J. W. Flavell, of the Davis Pork
Peeking Company, Toronto, is having a pal-
atial residence erected in Queen's Park,
near Hoskin avenue, which is to cost
550,000.
—A disastrous fire occurred in Elora on
Sunday morning, which destroyed Mears.
Bain & Co.'s woollen mill. A portion of the
cloth and wool was gotten out, but the mill
burned, so rapidly that it soon became unsafe
to attempt any further salvage.
—An old man named John Falkner, was
cut to pieces by the Grand Trunk Interne-
tional Limited near Millroches, On Wednes-
day of last week. He left the quarry where
he had been working, complaining of illness,
and was walking on the track, when he was
struck by the train and instantly killed. •
—There were eight ministers from British
Columbia and the Territories in attendance
at the Presbyterian General Assembly as
commissioners, the week before last at Ot-
tawa, who, on the home trip, would have to
travel a distance aggregating 42,000 miles.
They were each allowed $25 for extra mile-
age.
—J. G. Moulton, working for! Contractor
Cawsey, at Renfrew, drove his team into the
river to water them, but they went beyond.
their depth, and were carried over the dam
and the falls. His body was recovered
about an hour afterwards half a mile down
the river.
—Mrs. Duff, one of the oldest citizens of
Markdale'was found drowned in a cistern
at her home on Thursday of last week.
The deceased was subject to spells of faint-
ness, and it is generally supposed that while
clipping some water one of these came on
and she fell in. She was found by her
grandson, who started to look for her when
she was missed.
—Two heavily laden freight trains came
iato collision on the Grand Trunk,near Bow-
manville, on Monday afternoon. Several of
the care with their eontents were smashed
into splinters, and afterwards took fire and
were burned. The loss will be between
$30,000 and $40,000. Only one man was
injured,
—Joseph Ladue the founder of Dawson -
City, in the Klondike, died last week at his
home in Schuyler Falk. Mr. Ladue had
not been well since his return from Alaska
and spent last winter at Colorado Springs,
in a vain search for wealth. He finally fell
a victim to consumption, contracted in the
severe northern climate. He is survived by
a wife and one son.
— Three men were engaged in putting a
screen cap on the top of the 150 -foot smoke
stack of the McArthur mill, Little Current*
Ontario, on Monday morning, when the
staging gave way. One of them succeeded
in catching hold of the rim of the stack.
The other two were hurled 135 feet down
the inside of the etaek on to the top of the
boilers. One man received fatal injuries,
but thenther will likely recover.
— Hon. J. 0. Villeneuve senator for the
De Salaberry division in the Dominion Sen-
ate, and ex -mayor of the city of Montreal;
died Thursday evening last, at his residence
in that city, aged 65 years. Senator Vil-
leneuve, who has been ill for many months,
was one of the oldest and beet known
French-Canadian citizens in Montreal. He
was appointed to the Senate in January
1896. He was a life long Conservative.
—Mr. Andrew Allan, head of the _Allan
Steamship Company, and one of the mer-
chant princes of Canada'died at his resi-
dence in ontreal, on
MThursday evening
last. Mr. Allan'who was in his 79th year,
had been ailing for some time, and for sev-
eral months past had not been able to at-
tend to his business duties as usual. He
was suffering from general debility due to
old age. The immediate cause of death
was heart failure.
—A party of six repeesentative farmers
of the Molaken tribe, of South Russia, have
arrived in Canada, in charge of A. Landy,
of Hamburg, Germany. The men, who are
fine, stalwart looking agriculturalists, are
pioneers coming after a delegation of the
tribe who visited Canada last year. These
six will settle and at the same time look
about them for good land. The tribe num-
bers some 12,000 in all, and is looking for a
home where good land can be had and lib-
erty enjoyed. They are a sect by them-
selves, neither smoking, drinking nor eating
pork. They are trinitarians, do not use the
croas either as a sign or.emblern. They re-
fuse to do military work, but are not
Quakers. They are seeking a new home for
politieal reasons, and have plenty of neoney
for all the men of the tribe to set up on
well without requiring any aid.
—Sir Thomas Galt, formerly Chief Jus•
tice of common pleas, died suddenly on
Saturday morning lent, at his home in To-
ronto. Until a year ago he retained his
edger and interest in all npublic events; but
since then Owing to muscular weakness he
was confined to his home and grounds, hie
bodily strength gradually failing, though
mentally he remained strong to the end and
until a day of his death was able to transact
private business. He was 75 years old.
—Three employees of Ringling Bros.' cir-
cus, who were paid off at St. Thomas on
Tuesday last, were sleeping under an Lempty
car on the L. E. and D. R. siding, Wednes-
day morning when the oar was struck by a
shunting train. One man; Barney Murphy,
of Buffalo, had his leg so badly smashed
that amputation is necessary. The second,
Edwin Clerkin, of Ogdensburg, New York,
had his big toe cut off, while the third,
Charles Taylor, of Montreal, escaped with-
out injury.
—Mr. John Acland, of Paris station, was
killed last Saturday evening about 930 as
he was crossing the Grand Trunk tracks on
his way to Wilson's bakery. . When Mr.
Acland was on the crossing an engine and
tender backed ,down and ran over him,
dragging the body about 15 feet and mang-
ling it terribly. Mr. Acland was 72 years
old and quite deaf, which partly accounts
for the accident. He had been a resident
of Paris for fourteen years and was highly
respected.
—An attempt at train wrecking was
made a couple of miles east of Midland, on
Saturday lest, about 7 p. m. The special
train conveying Hon. J. I. Tarte and party
came upon an obstruction on the track half
a mile east of Old Fort bridge. The ob-
struction was seen by the engineer and the
train was brought to a standstill without
doing any damage. The obstruction was a
number of ties and stones piled up. As yet
no clue to the guilty parties has been
found.
—Mrs. Thomas N. Baker and Mrs. J.
W. Welsh, of Toronto, have fallen' heirs to
a large fortune by the death of an uncle in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Welsh
are ehe principal Canadian heirs to the es-
tate, which is supposed to be valued at
5300,000,000. • Colonel Bacon, the uncle, a
soldier of the revolutionary war, owned, it
is claimed, a big tract of property in the
heart of Philadelphia, upon which a 99
years' lease has just expired. He was never
married.
-S-Strawberries, which have hitherto been
coneidered too periehable to ship from Grims-
by, Ontario, to Ottawa, were successfully
brought to the capital on Wednesday last,
in a refrigator car modelled specially for the
purpose. The berries were shipped on Mon-
day„ and they arrived in the city Wednes-
day abeoulutely dry, all the moisture having
been carried off by the automatic system.
The success of this shipment is said to have
solved the problem of shipping perishable
fruits by a system of refrigeration which
may be relied upon.
—A peculiar point was raised" at the Ot-
tawa police court in relationto the case of
the Barbera' Protective Association against
E. Miles, who was charged with permitting
his employees to work on Sunday. Mr.
Henderson'the city clerk, or a clerk acting
for him, had been in the habit of signing
the indictments with a rubber etamp anti
putting the initials at the bottom. The
point was raised by Mr. T. Beament, soliei-
tor for Mr. Miles, thab this rubber stamp
signature was not legal, and hie contention
was sustained.
--Following are some figures of excessive-
ly hot days in years gone by: 88 on June
30th, 1872 ; 89 5 on June 19th, 1873; 86 on
May 9th, 1874; 87 on June 23rd, 1875; 87
on June 21st, 1876; 84 on May 18th, 1877;
87 on June 30th, 1878; 82 on May 13th,
1879; 90 on June 24th, 1880; 91 on May
126h, 1881; 90 on June 16th, 1887 • 92 on
June 22nd, 1888 • 92 on June 16th1893 ;
91 on June 22n, 1894; 93 on May 30th,
1895; 91 on May 9th, 1896 '• 90 * on June
30th; 1898; 88 on May 14th, 1900. The
hottest day ever recorded was in August,
1854, when the thermometer registered
99 2
—There arrived a few days ago at Ash.
croft, British Columbia, from Ciriboo,whae,
it is believed, is the largest ingot of golel
ever cast. It represents the greater portion
of the year's clean up of the Cariboo Con-
solidated Hydraulic Mining Company. The,
big gold brick weighs a thousand pound!,
and is worth approximately $200,000. It is
worth $10,000 more than one which was
sent to New York a year ago. Tne gold
was brought down on a dray in charge of
three mounted officere. They were four
days making the trip with a four mule
team. The ingot is three feet long and 2
feet thick, and is to be sent to the Glasgow
Exposition.
—What nearly terminated in a wholesale
poisoning case, and resulted in the death of
a well known resident of the township of
I3raugham, occurred at the home of Stephen
Westney, 3rd concession, near Audley. As
far as can be learned, four of the family who
ate porridge at breakfast took sick immedi-
ately after. Medical aid was hastily sum-
moned, but_ arrived to late to save Mr.
Westney. They succeeded in saving the
lives of Mrs. Westney and three of the
-
children who ate the porridge. Mr. West-
ney came from Scarboro about 15 years ago,
a well to do and prosperous farmer. It ie
supptsed that some paris green had got into
the oatmeal as a package of the poison was
kept near the meal.
—A. M. Chisholm, manager of the Helena
gold mine, near Italadar, Barrie Township,
is under arrest at Kingston, charged with
fraudulently obtaining $153 from Michael
Seitz, a partner.," At the police court he
pleaded not guilty. Council for the prose-
cution asked for a postponement in order to
lay two other charges of theft against the
prisoner, stating that the prosecution had
150 specific charges against the prisoner,
who was overcome by a fainting spell and
had tie be carried out of court, a physician
being summoned to attend him. New York
capitalists are prosecuting. The unfortun-
ate /ran has since had his will drawn dispos-
ing of his estate valued at nearly half a
million dollars. Mr. Chisholm is very
feeble.
—Hon. N. Clarke Wallace, Grand Mas-
ter of the Most Worshipful Orange Grand
Lodge, of British America, has issued the
following circular to the members of the
order: "The annual meeting of the Most
Worshipful Orange Grand Lodge of Britieh
America, will be held in the Orange hall,
Toronto, at 2 o'clock p. m., on Tuesd7,
the 23rd of July, 1901 The Grand Lod*e
at its last meeting seleeted Winnipeg.
Members of the committee and myself have
exhaueted every effort to get fair and favor-
able rates to Winnipeg, but have complete-
ly failed. The 0. P. R. tell us that they
have arranged with the G. T. R., and no
deviation will therefore be made from the 1
rates that they have agreed upon, which
we consider arbitrary and exorbitant, being
,.........--_____,
1 MoLEAN BROS., Publishers:
Si a Year in Advance.
from 20 to 25 per cent. more than the rates
.they gave us in 1888, instead of a lower
-rate that we might fairly expect. I have
refused to accept the dictation of a combine
in this matter, and have decided as above,
that the Meeting of the Grand Lodge shall
be held in Toronto instead of Winnipeg."
This has received the tacit approval of
the Grand Lodge of Manitoba.
Perth Notes
—Mitchell's population, acecrding to the
assessor's returns, is 1,954, nearly 160 less
than last year.
—Over 800 excursionists went from Sonth
Perth to the Model Farm, Guelph, on
Tuesday of last week.
—While hauling hay, the other day, Mr.
John Albright, of Shakespeare, slipped from
the load and broke one of the small bones in
his ankle.
--Stewart), the II -year-old son of Mr, F.
W. Thompson, of Mitchell, died on Wed-
nesday of last week, after two weeks' illness
from typhoid fever.
—A Fullerton correspondent claims that
half of the Kansas red winter wheat, intro-
duced by the Ontario 'Millen' Association,
has turned out to be rye.
—Clarence Beattie, the little son of Mr.
Robert Beattie, of Ellice, the other morning
sustained a nasty cut on the knee with a
cross -cut saw.
—Rev. Dr. Hamilton, of Motherwell, has
purchased a residence in Stratford, with a
view to making that his home after he re-
tires from the ministry.
—While engaged in making shingles, one
day recently, Mr. Wrn. McNeil, of Avon -
ton, had the misfortune jeneset his hand
caught in the machine. The tops of two of
-his fingers were taken off and another badly
cut.
—While assisting at a barn raising, on
the farm of David Knechtel, near Rostoek,
last week, John Weber, of Sebringville, fell
25 feet,from a scaffold, breaking his collar
bone and three ribs, besides sustaining
other injuries.
—Mr. W. Robinson has sold his 50 acres
on the Mitchell road, Fullerton, to Mr.
James Jackson, for the sum of 53,500. Mr.
Robinson, who is an old and highly es-
teemed resident of Fullerton, will- move to
Grey in September, where he has pirchased
a fine improved 100 acre farm.
—A A.;'ciod Citizens" league has been
formed in Mitchell. The object of the
league is to work for the better government
of the town, to see to the proper enforce-
ment of all laws for the better social and
-moral welfare of the place and to labor for
the better interests of the community gen-
orally.
—Mr. J. Dick, a machinist in Mae Strat-
ford 0. T. R. shops, recently met with a
painful accident. He was setting up some
work in a lathe when the machine _started,
jamming his bit thumb between a rocker
arm that was in the machine and_ :spanner
he was using, almost severing the first)
joint.
—Thab dread disease, consumption,
claimed another victim on Monday of laet
week, in the person of Miss Jessie Rainey,
daughter of Mr.sand Mrs. John 'Rainey, of
Carlingford. The deceased was 23 years of
age and had been ill for a long time. She
was up to the time of her illness, organist
in
was,
church, Carlingford, and an ardent
Sunday school worker.
—John W. Poole, one of the most highly
respected residents of St. Marys, departed
this life on Wednesday of last week, in his
78th year. Deceased had been ill all spring.
He was born in Lanark county. Deceased
always took an active interest in public
affairs, and was for two years mayorsecif the
town, besides being a trustee of thee Col-
legiate Institute. His wife survives him.
—Mr. John J. Fisher, a prominent Mt.
dent of North Easthope, died at his home,
on the 3rd concession, on Tuesday of last
week. A couple of years ago the deceased
contraeted the measles, and other complies.
tions set in and left him in a weak state.
The ultimate cense of death, however, waft
en affection of the throat. He WAS 35 years
of age and unmarried.
—The races at Stratford on Monday and
Tuesday last were largely _attended, the
several races being keenly contested, and al-
though the time made was not extra fast,
the sport was good. On the first day the
jedges fined two of the drivers $10 each for
holding in their horses. The weather both
days was intensely hot, but this didsnot
seem to militate against the attendance.
—What might have proved a very serious
accident, occurred with Mr. David McNeil,
of Wallace, on Saturday, 22ad ult,, when
his horse suddenly took fright at the bridge
just west of the Wallace cheese factory.
The horse took to the ditch, upsetting itself
and buggy, with Mr. and Mrs. McNeil, to-
gether with a little boy, underneath it.
The buggy was seriously wrecked, but the
parties received very little injury.
—Mr. John Phinnamore, who has been
acting for yeare on some of the Methodist
circuits about Mitchell as a local preacher,
was kindly remembered last week by the
ladies of Bethel congregation Hibbert, they
having presented him, through Mrs. Lavery,
with a nice -sum of money, as a slight ac-
knowledgment of their apprecietion of his
faithful administration to their spiritual
wants.
—The Willow Grove Butter Company, of
Logan township, declared a dividend of
dine per cent, on its season's business. At
the annual meeting, on Friday last, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, W.
J. McLagan ; ealesman, W. Squires, T.
Wood ; shareholdera' secretary, M. Leake ;
patrons' secretary, J. Hintz and J. Heck-
man; new directors, J. Looker and Fred ,
Wood.
'—On Monday morning of last week, aa
Mr. George Warnaburg, of the Rostock
road, Ellice, was going from Milverton,
station towards the village, the tongue of
the wagon slipped from the neck yoke and
the team became unmanageable, Mr. War-
naburg was pulled over the frent of the
wagon, falling behind the horses. One of
the wheels of the wagon passed over hie
stomach, injuring him internally.
•
—On Friday, June 21st, Henry Render,
an old pioneer of Hallett township, passed
away at his late home, at the advanced age
of 90 years. He has borne his years well,
notwithstanding that during the past 25
years he has been paralynd from being
thrown by a bull, and has suffered there-
from ever eince, until his death. He was a
thorough Englishman, being born in York-
shire, and came to Canada in 1853, settling
in Harpurhey, where he lived for a few
years, and then moved to lot 17, concession
6, Hullett, then all bush. Here he cut out
a good farm'and has been a resident ever
since. In his dealings he was always up-
right and honest, and all who knew him
placed the utmost confidence in him. Mr.
Render was of a retiring disposition, but
very genial and companionable; 1 religion
he was a faithful member of the English
church, and in politics a true Liberal. His -
wife survives him end also their only son,
George, who lives on the 16th concession of
Goderich township,