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WHOLE NUMBER, 1,755. f
There is, -say, about 4,000 people in Seaforth and
Egmondville. Now, how many of these people are you per-
sonally acquainted with—possibly 3,009—but the chances
are that if you know 1,000 people of your own town, you do
well. So, when you think that 1,000 people 1 is only one -
six -thousandth of the population of Canada, and one -six -
hundred -millionth of - the world's populatiOn, it shows how
very narrow the circle of the average personal acquaintance -ship
is. Somebody remarked that one-half of the world did not
know how the other half lived. That was a, mild statement.
The fact is, that the most of us wonder how our next door
neighbor lives. - Why,. just think, th'at tens of thousands
move, and live, and pass away out of . lifip into the dark
beyond, and, so far as we may know, they -vvere of no use in'
the world; they never wrote or spoke a cheering word .that a
living soul wot's of, and so they lived like all of us, and they
perished as most of us must perish--unhonored, unsung and
unmourned, with less of a historical record ,than the dumb
beasts. All this being true, is it to be wondered at thati
when a merchant desires to let his goods and merits bei,
known, he has recourse to the newspaper,
You might be giving away gold, and if your next door
neighbor knew nothing of it, how could .you ;hope- to give
away even gold successfully ?.. ,
IN e advertise to sell goods, and it pays us, and you
make naany's the acquaintance worse than the knowledge of
our own make of boys' pants at 25c a pair, the buckskin pant
at $1, the threshing hats at 50c, $1 and. $1.25; the heavy
flannelette shirt at 50c, the blue deny overall at 500, the
men's suits we make ourselves at $8 and $10, our own cmake
of boys' worsted knee pants at 75c, ladies' tailor-madd suits
in homespuns and wool worsted serge at $15. '
Men's made-to-order suits at $16.50, being a special
blue Irish serge; also a West of England 'worsted at this
price.
Only a few left, two pair of fast black mercerised
cotton -sox for 25c. The quality known as the silk -mercerised
sox are good value at 25c a pair. So many are bothered in
summer with their feet, that the natural wool sox at 25e,will
help you.
Christy's hats, soft and hard felt, at $1, $1.25 and
$1.50, seem to give more wear than any hats sold at these
prices.
fien's 50c underwear, men's 50c soft bodied shirts,
men's harvest hats at 10c and 15c,,men's suits—a special
at 84.75.
We show a blue worsted serge at $6 and $7, that are
sellers.
It is interesting to watch our windows, showing all
the up-to-date ties at 25c, 35e and 50c; the down -to -date
collars at 15c and 20c, and the dated ahead shirts at Si and
Greig & Madolial
Clothiers and Furnishers
Formerly on the Wrong Side SEIFORT11
of the Street,
SEAF011,TH, FRIDAY, _AUGUST 2, 1901.
FREIGHT RATES.
The following is the report furnished by
the Seaforth Bosrd of Trade to Professor S.
J. McLean, the Government commissioner
on railway rate grievances, on the occasion_
of his visit to Seaforth last week :
The Seaforth Board of Trade desires to
present to you the following statement of
their grievances in the' matter of railway
rates in . force and the discrimination ?dn
fever of the United States producers as
against the Canadians, together with a com-
parison of the rates in Ontario and the
United States.
MISCELLANE0118.
Gambier,—Chioago to Grand Rapids, 185
ilea, 22 cents per 100 pounds. Leather.—
C ioago to Grand Rapids, 185 miles, 21i
o nte per 100 pounds. Skim—Chicago to
G and Rapids, 185 miles, 22 cents per 100
?
iT undo. Railroad fare from Toronto to
w York, 528 miles, $10.60.
Gambier.—To Seaforth- from Windsor,
1 0 miles, 29 cents per 100 pounds. Leath -
e .—From Seatorth to Toronto, 111 miles,
2 cents per 100 pounds. Skins.—Wind-
sor to Seaforth, 160 miles, 30i cents.
S ins.—Cobourg to Seaforth, 181 miles, 32
e ts. Skins.—Toronto to Seaforth, 111
les, 27:} cents. Skins.—Stratford to Sea-
rth; 25 miles, 12 cents. Skins.—Sebring-
vi le to Ssaforth, 20 miles, 16 cents. Rsil-
✓ ad fare from Seaforth ,to Toronto, 111
m les $3.45.
Freight is 40 per cent. higher in Canada,
and railwayfares 50 per cent. higher.
'Cos.1.—On car loads of coal the Grand
Trunk rate from the International bridge to
Seaforth is $1.10 per ton, while the rate
from‘the International bridge to Goderich,
a distance of 22 miles farther, is $1 per ton.
The rate on coal from the mines in Ohio to
Seaforth is $1.55 ; to Brussels, a distance of
9 Miles farther than Seaforth, $1.85, while
to Kincardine, a distance of 34 miles farth.
er,than Brussels, the rate is $1.00.
Salts—Syracuse to Hamilton, 215 miles,
7i cents ; Cleveland to Buffalo, 203 Miles,
5 eats- ; Marine City to New York, 605
mi es, 16-oents. Seaforth to Hamilton, 80
mi es, 9 cents ; Seaforth to Buffalo, 140
mi es, 10 cents ; Seaforth to New York,
565 miles, 22 cents.
attics —The rate on cattle from Seaforth
to Montreal is $58 per car, while the rate
from Chicago to Montreal is $56, with a re-
bate of $11, making the net rate $45. From
Detroit to St. John the rate is $33, while
from Seaforth to St. John it is $58 a oar,
thus discriminating largely in favor of the
cattle raisers of the western States over the
cattle raisers of Ontario.
Horses; —On a ‘oar load of horsea the rate
from Seaforth to Portland is 50 cents per
100 pounds, a rate of $130 on a car load of
20 horses. By shipping- these horses to
Buffalo, re -shipping at 13uffelo for Portland,
and paying the local rate from Seaforth to
Buffalo and from Buffalo to Portland, the
shipper effeets a saving of $30, as follows :
The rate from Seaforth to Buffalo is 16
cents per 100 pounds, being $40 per car ;
from Buffalo to Portland, • $60, making; a
total of $100. Through rate from Seaforth
tie Portland, $130. Excessive rate on
through car lot, $30.
Wheat and other grain.—In the matter
of wheat,the rate from Seeforth to Portland
or Boston is 35 cents per 100 pounds, while
the rate from Chicago to Portland or Boston
is 28 cents per 100. Yet while there is
thie discrimination in favor of the grain
growers of the west in the matter of rates,
the Grand Trunk is unable to furnish care
for the grain trade in this vicinity on ac-
count of the surplus rolling stock being in
use hauling the grain from the west.
Apples.—In 1896 a car load of apples,
199 barrels, Costing $1 per barrel here, were
shipped to Prince Albert, Northwest Ter-
ritory, on which the freight charges were
$518, or $2.60 per barrel, making the cost of
the apples laid down at Prince Albert $3.60
per barrel ; while a car of cattle were re.
turned from Prince Albert to Montreal, the
same year ata cost of $197, a very grave
diseriminaeion. With reasonable rates on
apples from this part of the province to the
veeet it would enable the farmers to ship
all their surplus fruit to Manitoba and the
wet insteafl of to the old country. There
is a steady and active demand for our fruit
in the Northwest, and an active trade in
this line is prohibited on acebunt of the
excessive freight charges. while the apples
lie rotting in the farmers' orchards.
,We have endeavored as far as possible to
oondenee our report in the ,imallest and
.moet comprehensive manner. Many more
grave discrepencies and diecriminations
might be cited, but the gentlemen who will
wit upon you will enlarge upon this
matter.
We feel, however, that we cannot close
without forcibly impressing upon you the
desirability and the necessity of the Gov.
ernment appointing an independent commie.
sion, whose duties it shall be to revise and
regulate the rates now in Woe in this
province, rates which are an 'unwarranted
burden upon the people.
Religious Instruction in Schools.
DEAR EXPOSITOR,—Surely you do not 6X -
press the opinions of the Liberal party in
your editorial of July 26th, respecting
Separate schools. If so, it is a pitible thing,
if we are to go back one hundred years in
ciVilization, when priests and ministers con-
tr011ed the education of the yming. Are we
again to have a fight for liberty of con-
science? Are we again to be handed over
to the cruelty, pereecution, superstition and
ignorance of the churches, when the great-
est criminal was a witch, when disease was
the work of evil spirits, and investigations
in soience promptings of the de 11 ? No one
objects to the pure teachings o Christ; what
is that? "To be juet to one another; to be
kind, merciful and forgiving and for our
unknown future life—to have humble, im-
plicit trust in the goodness and wisdom of
The Almighty." For certain tat Almighty
Providence, who clothes wi h wonderful
plumage the little sparrows, will not forsake
his human creatures when they lie helpless
in death. This is what is t ught by our
secular common echoed, high a hool and col-
lege teachers. It embraces e erything nec-
essary to make good citizens. It is what
we all must depend on when we come to
die. But you insist we must !have religion
taught. What does religion ' mean? The
20 000 Harvesters Wanted in the Westa
it eel a belic
lief in supernaturalititn. That the
people of this earth are divided into saints
Roman CthoArchbishop W,alsh explains
and sinners., That the saints are converted
into angels and the sinners into, devils. That
the angels are commanded by a God, and
the devils by a Satan ; that these two forces
are in continual warfare ; that mankind re-
-tea/Nil:1g Seaforth station on Tuesday morning, August Gth. ceives all the good things through the
angels that by kis leg their mouldering
'Tickets and all information to be had from bones, or pr ing to t ern at certain springs,
they will per orm m raculous curets. That
we must disarim the ower of the devils by
R. J. 1VIACD0NA burning ince ee, spri klieg holy water, by
incessant rep titious Prayees ; by the build-
ing of high pi es of stone and mortar and ad-
orning them 4vitb all aorta of hideous orna-
C. P. R. AGENT Soaforth. _ contribute a t nth part of our hard earnings
mentation. ut, above all things, we must
Are you going? Ticket there for $10, via the C. P. R.,
positor4
McLEAN BROS., Publishers;
Si a Year in Advance.
for the ssuPport of an innumerable army of
idle and luxuriously living intermediaries,
claiming to have special influence over the '
Almighty.
We herewith quote a portion of an article
from the Catholic Record, of London, On-
tario of July 27, in favor of Catholic Sep-
arats; schools.It said: "When Catholics
send their children to the common secular ,
schools, they expose them to the -danger of
growing up without a proper knowledge of
their religion, without love of the Mass, the
Sacraments for the Mother of God and the
Saints."1 Is it to propagate these and kin
-
dared sentiments that the Liberal party are
willing ts) destroy our common school syn.
tem? • 7ire profess to know nothing of the
truth or untruth of these doctrines, outside
the assertions of the clergy, but we are cer-
tain that it is the duty of every parent to
see that his children are taught to make
the best use of their lives; to cultivate
those faculties of the body bestowed on us
by—not ohurches—but by the Almighty's
hand. These, it must be admitted, are
the principles which our common school
system rndeavors to vindicate. It should
be impressed on the minds of the children
that intelligence, honest industry and mod.
eration in this life are the best preparation
we caul make for that life beyond the
grave.
CATHOLIC.
The University of' Toronto.
EDITOR EXPOSITOR,—SIR a note ap-
pended to my letter of July 5th, you have
made some statements which are so inac-
curate tdist I must ask leave to correct
them.
First,—You state that " the subventions
from the Ontario Treasury amount to $40,-
000 annually,"—thiii is utterly absurd. The
"report of the committee on finaiice " for
1900 .1901 is before me, and from it I learn
that the gross income of the University for
1899-1900 was $121,716.55, of which sum the
Legislature contributed $7,000, aome of the
other sources of income being, interest on
debentures, loans, etc., $40,851 ; fees, $43,-
790 34; rents, $17,562.12 ; city of Toronto,
$6,000, etc.
Secondly,—You state that the "enrolled
attendance averages 700,"—this is nearly as
far attrity as the preceding. The attend-
ance_ foto the past year was :
Fecelty of medicine 395
arts
alied science230
799
Poet graduate 22
Total 1,446
and this does NOT. include the students of
the vatious affiliated colleges who receive
degrees in dentistry, pharmacy, music, etc.,
through the University.
At to the amount contributed by the Gov-
ernment to the Agricultural College, no ob.
jection was ever made by the University
authorities to such appropriation. It is a
state institution, and, as such, deserves that
measure of support which • will enable it to
do its work efficiently.
, Youi statement that , a -University educa.
tion is a luxury will not, I think, be taken
seriously' by many of your readers. Of
courts°, every man is entitled to his opinion,
even to such an opinion as that of the can-
didate in a recent alderinanio contest in this
city, whe advocated abolishing the public
schools and devoting the money spent on
them to the construction of a trunk sewer,
stating as his reason that it was " better to
have healthy -savages than educated in-
valids .!" I scarcely think, sir'that your
ideas on higher education will be apt to find
much greater favor than those of the would-
be alderman in question. Perhaps the first
nation to see olearlythe need of a hational
system of education, Suitable to modern
conditions, was Germany, and they proceed •
ed to put it into effect at once, and with
such success that they are now, one of the
foremost European nations in education, in
manufactures in oommeroe—indeed in more
than we like to acknowledge. Compare
Germany with such a nation, for example, as
Spain, which still clings to the idea that
education is only a sort of " luxury " for
those who have nothing else to do,and what
inference can you draw? To come nearer
home, what of the system of state grade
schools, high schools and universities in the
United States? Do the Yankees consider
them merely " luxuries" ? ; think not—
they are not in the habit of inveating their
money in that way, but look for a good re-
turn on every outlay. From the " report
of the- committee of education" for 1898
1899, I venture to give statistics of some
universities across the line that are doing
work similar to Toronto. The university of
Indiana has 67 instructora, 1,050 students,
and receives from the State $87,136 annu-
ally. The university of Ohio has 102 in-
structors, 1,124 students, and receives $176,-
058. The university of Illinois has 198 in-
structors, 1,824 students, and receives $229-,
550. The university of Michigan has 197 in-
structors, 3,059 students, and receives
$240,000. Compared with these, I hardly
think our State aid oan be called " liberal.
One other point,—you say that the "rela-
tive claims upon the public treasury of Tor-
onto and Queen's was not dismissed " in
your artiole—perhaps not directly, !but you
devoted _considerable space to criticizing the
chancellor's speech, and the gist of that
speech was a (which= of the Government's
action on that very score and that was
what I pointed out in my letter.
Now, sir, the figures that I have given
are &emirate, because they are taken direct-
ly from official documents, and are not here -
say reports of political speeches, and I leave
the public to judge_ between us.
0. R. ANDERSON.
TORONTO, July 23rd, 1901.
A Wail From Bayfleld.
(By one of the firfferere.)
Have you ever seen Bayfield ? If you
have not you have missed it. It's as pretty
a bit of Nature's own handiwork as can be
found on the coast of Huron, either in the
King's domain or Uncle Sam's. But there
are drawbacks. Can you guess them ?
" Mosquitoes 1" chortle, rny readers. No,
you are out there, "Then it's black flies."
No, it is something worse than either or
both these pests combined, for a judicious
application of oil of cedar will keep them at
bay in the day time, and mosquito netting
will force them to sing their songs out of
doors at night. Bayfieldians, aside from
the natives, would joyfully trade their tor-
mentors for New Jersey mosquitoes or
Muskoka black flies. But if you ' want to
understand the situation just drop round
and spend a night in one of the cottages.
You will be charmed with the view, refresh-
-ed with the cool breezes from the lake and
delighted with the congenial company. Per-
haps you will fall asleep planning out a
newspaper " write up of this ideal spot in
which to rest brain and body. But what is
that persistently recurring sound that at
4.30 a. m. breaks in upon your delicious
dreams? You strive to ignore it or forget
it. You turn your pillow, gently and,
with tightly closed eyes, lest you lose the
drowsy feeling that is your one hope of a
further nap. But you cannot shut it out
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or atop it, and you may just as well get up
and meet your fate like a man. Itle not a
fire alarm or "sanitary dairy cart," it is
one ot the town cows, who, despite a east -
iron by-law to the contrary, grazes on the
public streets, peeling her gong at every
mouthful. You may spare yourself any bad
language, for the objeot of it will go serene-
ly on her way unconscious of it, and your
bad temper, combined with the heat, may
bring on a paralytic 'stroke.
" Why don't the visitors do something ?"
They do. Oae wrathful lady arose in
night attire, "held up" a big black bossy,
and removing the bell, buried it in a safe
spot. Results,—The purchase (or theft) by
the owner of Ole animal of a new strap ands
gong.
ANOTHER GRIEVANCE.
But the eowe are not the only grievance.
The natives of the place, with an eye to
business, take advantage of the fine water
supply to rear monstrous flocks of geese.
As feathers are the object, the hand of
death is seldom busy amongst them and
they increase and multiply without let or
hindrance. Grandfathers of the 20th gener-
ation, if one may credit report, are not un.
common. During the day these feathered
nuisances wander about leaving the walks
and grass in such a filthy condition- that it
is unsafe to step anywhere without careful
scrutiny. At night they camp out in droves
of from 20 upward, under the windows of
the cottagere' sleeping apartments, or, by
way of variety, they roost on the verandahe.
Wherever they are, they converse amongst
themselves off and on all through the hours
of darkness, and before the dawn they rise
with great commotion and go off to seek
the luckless little fish. A pile of stones by
your bed is a good idea, but by the time
you have fired them all out of the window
and driven your tormentors to a distance,
sleep has fled, and you have to begin the
day at 5 a. m. instead of (as you had intend-
ed) 9 a. m. or later.
-Last winter the council decreed that the
owners of geese and cows should keep them
off public thoroughfares. For reasons not
difficult tc find the law has not been en-
forced. Every year guests leave this
pretty and healthful resort vowing never to
return, because the rest they came to obtain
is impossible owing to the selfishness of
some and the indifference of others.
Mr. Editor, can you suggest a rtmedy ?
Praise of the Canadians.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier is in receipt of a letter
from Major•Generall Baden-Powell, in which
he pays a high compliment to the bravery
and skill of the Canadians who served under
him' in South Africa!, and their particular
fitness for military duty in that country.
The General says :
" Will you forgive my writing you a
short note to tender my gratitude for all
that you have done in assisting the develop-
ment of the force with whose organization I
am charged? By. your good offices the
Canadian contingent has been added to our
establishment, and with the excellent
material of which it is formed it will be a
valuable addition to our strength., I have
learned in the recent campaign to admire
and to appreciate the worth of the Canadi-
ans in the field, and am, therefore'truly
glad to mieloome your contingent to our
corps. Comprising, as it does, men from
every one of our great colonies, as well as
from the home 'country, the South African
Constabulary is par excellence an imperial
corps, and as such I hope it will typify the
empire itself as working honestly and
harmoniously in the great work of bringing
peace and prosperity over the territories
now added to our rule. And in this good
work the Canadians will have a prominent
share. I trust the connection thus com-
menced between Canada and South Africa
is but an augury of a close and profitable
connection in the future."
Canada.
—Two oases of smallpox arezreported in
Simcoe county.
—Natural gas has been struck at Whitby,
in a well being drilled in the park.
—Hamilton purposes to expend- $10,000
in entertaining the Duke and Duchess of
York.
--Fire at Laprairie, Quebec, on -Thursday
of last week, destroyed 26 dwellings and a
number of business establishments.
--It is believed in well informed circles
that Mr. Jones McMullen will get the seat
in the Senate rendered vacant by Hon. G.
W. Allan's death.
—Sir Mackenzie Bowel' is off for Dawson.
The eloPremier at seventy-eight ie a regular
globe trotter. Sir Mackenzie is a wonderful
man, physically.
—Albert Kipp, of Princeton, has been
committed for trial on the charge of passing
counterfeit money, which he is believed to
have manufactured himself.
—West Zorra and Embro councils will
eubmit by-laws to raise $50,000 to subscribe
for stock in the electric railway vaich it is
proposed to extend to Youngeville.
—Spontaneous combustion of hay caused
a fire on Jefferson Steel's farm, two miles
west of Port Colborne, on Sunday morning --
last. All the wheat, vegetables, farm im-
plements, and barns were completely des-
troyed.
—A despatch from Ottawa on Friday last,
says : Sir Louis Davies returns to Ganan-
oque to -morrow, and will remain there over
Sunday. Next week he will be back in
Ottawa. Later on he goes to Prince Ed-
ward Island for a visit, and hie elevation to
the supreme court bench will follow.
—Hon. William Mulock sails from Liver-
pool, on the Lucania, on August 10th. He
expects to reach Ottawa about August 19th
or 20th. He is on his way home from at-
tending the ceremonies in connection with
the formation of the Australian OOMMOR•
wealth.
—The third annual picnic and reunion of
the Bruce Pioneer Aseociatiori was held in
Lakeview Park, Port Elgin, on Friday, and
was attended by crowds of people from all
parts of the country. The Bruce Old Boys'
Association, of Toronto, also ran an excur-
sion, and brocght in a large number of for-
mer residents of the county. After refresh-
ments, addresses of welcome were read to
the Toronto Old Boys by the Reeve of Port
Elgin and the Pioneers' Association. Speech-
es were made by Messrs, Wm. Houston,
M. A., Hon. D. H. McFadden, Provincial the produce of the mine there was an in -
Secretary of Manitoba, W. S. Johnstone, crease of $15,000,000. The exports of
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W. A. Skeane, of Toronto, John Tolmie, foreign farm produce amounted to $15,820,-
M. P., C. M. Bowman, M. P. P., Col. J.: B. 302, as compared with $12,101,213 for the
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Rankin, of Chatham, Malcolm McDougall, previous year. The imports for home con -
J. P. Johnston, John MoPhee,D,M Jermyn, sumption last year were $181,225,389, and
of Wiarton, and others. A series of games , for the previous year $180,804,316, The
was then gone through, and a baseball 1 duty collected in 1901 was $29,128,558, ana
match played between the Toronto Old in 1900 $28,889,110, The average rate of
Boys and the Bruce Pioneers, resulting in
favor of the latter. Music was supplied- by
the North Bruce - brass band. A day of
pleasant reunion and fellowship was passed
by all.
—There are three vacancies in the Senate
and nine in the House of Commons. In the
Senate there is one vacancy in Ontario, an-
other in Quebec and a third in Nova Scotia.
In the Commons there are four vacancies in
Quebec, three in Ontario, one in New
Brunswick and one in Manitoba.
—A sad accident happened about two
miles from Harrowsmith,Addington county,
on Saturday afternoon last. A young lady
by the name of Miss Flora Snider was help-
ing her brother at their home to saw wood,
when the machine broke and cut her so bad-
ly that she died in a few minutes.
- Reports received at Ottawa state that
Maclaren's valuable timber limits in the
Gatineau district, near Thirty•one Mile
Lake, are on fire, and the'flames are extend-
ing towards the Lievre. Quebec Crown
timber agents estimate that the recent fires
in the Temiscaming district must have caus-
ed a loss of at leftist $2,000,000.
—The revised programme for the Duke
of Cornwall and York's visit gives the dates
of stay at different points as follows : Que-
bec, September 16th and 18th ; Montreal,
18th to 20th ; Ottawa, 20th to 24th; Win-
nipeg, 26th; Vancouver, October let; Vic-
toria, 2ad ; Toronto, 10th to 12th ; Niagara
Falls, 13th Hamilton, 14th ; Kingeton
and Thousand Isles, 151.11 ; St. John, 17th;
Halifax, 19 th.
—Mrs. Lynch, caretaker of the free
library at Guelph, fell from a cherry tree
on Saturday ) evening. She alighted on a
picket fence and fell to the ground, a dis-
tance of twelve feet. Her injuries consist of
a wound on the right thigh, which required
dozsn stitches ; a bad cut on tho hand and
a severe shaking up and bruising. Mrs.
Lynch is over 50 years of age, but she is not
considered to be dangerously injured.
—Recent reports from Winnipeg give a
good idea of the bountiful harvest which is
expected this year . in Manitoba and the
Territories. Warehouse Commissioner
Gesell estimatea the wheat yield for Manito.
ba and the North-west at - 60,000,000 bush-
els. Mr. McInnes, assistant C. P. R. traffic.
manager, places it at 55,000,000. T. T. W.
Bready, the well known lboal grain author-
ity, puts it up to 65,000000.
--Hon. Clifford Sifton has abandoned his
proposed trip to the Yukon this summer.
He has a number of important matters in
connection with British Columbia and the
Northwest to attend to, and to permit these
being done he would require to give up the
idea of going through to Damson. Besides
this, everything in the Yuken is proceeding
very satisfactorily under the- Commissioner -
ship of Hoc. J. H. Rose.
—Valera, the four-year-old daughter of
J. W. Maokley, of Brockville, had a narrow
escape from being gored to death by ti
heifer. The child and a number of other
children were chased by the animal, and in
her efforts to get away she fell. The cow
made for her full speed, and drove her bores
into the child's face,.causing a deep lacer-
ation, which required several stitches to
draw it together. The animal was driven
off.
—Saturday was the 92nd birthday of Mr.
James Latchford, of Ottawa, father of Hon.
F. R. Latchford, Commissioner of Public,
Works in the Ontario Government. Mr
Latchford was born in the city of Limerick,
Ireland, 011 July 27th, 1810, and came to
Canada in 1846, settling in Ottawa. He halo
lived in and around Ottawa for 55 years'an
honor of which few living can boast. M.
Latchford is in perfect health and the f011
enjoyment of all his faculties.
—Thursday morning, after tbe C. P. R.
train had paesed Benton, New Brunswick,
the body of a man was disccvered ;lying
acroas-the track. It had been cut in two.
At an inquest that afternoon it was estab-
lished that the man, who was identified as
Charles Millery, a farm hand, had been
killed by, a train going north the night be-
fore. It is not known whether deceased
fell from the train or was struck while on
the track. M illery's relatives live in Boston.
—Oa Saturday afternoon lest, Mre. James
McCormick, wife of a Kingston township
farmer, started to walk to her home, near
Kingston Mills, six mites east of the city.
She took the Grand Trunk track, and when
within a mile of home sheenet a train going
west.' She stepped off the one track to the
other, and was struok by an east bound
train and instantly killed, her body being
badly mangled and her neck broken. She
was aged 68 years, A husband survive,.
She had nearly $1,000 in her pocket at the
time.
—Charles Hughes,a farmer from near Salt -
ford. in Oxford county, was nearly killed in
an accident in Whitelaw's foundryein Wood-
stock, a few dim ago. Mr. Hughes had a
thresher at the foundry which he was hav-
ing repaired. He was putting On the wheels
of the engine himself when the engine top.
pled over on him, pinning him down to the
ground. The man was released from his
most uncomfortable position,and Dr. Murray
was sent for. A big cut in his head requir-
ed several stitches, and Hughes was badly
bruised about the beease and shoulders.
—Mrs. Margaret Robinson Christie,widow,
of the late Hon. David Christie, died at the
residence of her eon-indaw, Mr. Charles E.
Leonard, in London'on Thursday afternoon
of best week. Mrs. Christie was the wife of
the late speaker of the Dominion Senate,
who was Secretary of State in the first Mac-
kenzie administration. The late Mrs.Chris-
tie was born sixty-niae years ago in Jed -
burg, 'Scotland, her maiden name be-
ing Margaret Robertson Telfer. She was
brought to Canada by her father, the late
Wm. Telfer, the family settling at Paris,
Ontario. In the year 1860 she married Hon.
David Christie.
—While shingling the roof of John Shiels'
barn, on the 4th concession of Huron town-
ship, Bruce county, on Friday afternoon of
last week, James Borden, in attempting to
catoh a hammer that had slippsd from him,
lost his balance and slid down the roof, fall-
ing a distance of thirty or forty feet, receiv-
ing a severe wound on the temple, dislocat-
ing him hip and breaking his left arm in two
places. He also received internal injuries,
which proved fatal, death relieving him of
duty, after deducting coin and bullion and
the value of Canadian coin imported and -
afterward exported, was 16.89. The rate
of duty in 1900 was 17.22 per cent. The
trade statement is regarded as highly satis-
factory.
—The convict Rice, undergoing a twenty
years' sentence in the Kingston Penitentiary
for burglary, and who is also accused of
shooting Constable Boyd, of Toronto, ie is-
solated from all the other convicts in the
Penitentiary. He occupies a cell in the in-
sanity department. His cell is the only one
occupied in the entire corridor, so that his
confinement is as solitary as it canbe. Theonly
person he sees is the guard who brings hint
hie meals. Rice was placed in the insanity
department, not because he is suspected of
insanity, but because tbe confinement would
be mere solitary, and he would not eotne
into contact with any of the convicts.
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Perth Notes.
—Stratford's tax rate for 1901 will be
mills on the dollar.
—Mr. Walter Thomson, of Mitchell, has
gone on a business trip to the old country.
— Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rooney, of
Mitchell, returned last week from a pleasant
trip to the old country.
— St. Marys Creamery Company ehipped
1,400 pounds of butter last .week to the s
Klondike, and also 5,750 pounds to Great
Britain.
—Cheese from the Monkton factory, at
the Pan-American Exposition, secured the
highest percentage out of some fifty fac-
tories.
—Mr. W. White, of Hibbert, was elected
Grand Censor of the 'Grand Black Chapter
of Orangemen, at the Grand Lodge meeting,
in Toronto, last week.
—Messrs. J. G. Constable and David
Maxwell have been elected by acclamation
to fill vacancies in the St. Marys council and
school board respectively.
— Miss A. R. Bolton was recently pre.
sented with a handsome bedroom secretary
by the members of the Lietowel Congrega.
tional church, as a token of their approeia.
tion of her servicee as organist.
—A thunder storm of more than ordinary
force passed over Tavistock and vicinity,
early Monday morning of last week. Light.
ning struck two shocks of wheat on John
Streicher's farm and burnt them. One of the
schocks was very close to the barn, but the
latter was uninjured.
—Miss Rachael Kirk. of Kirkton, met
with a painful and serious accident recently.
While returning on her wheel from picking
berries, she was overtaken near Mount ,
Pleasant by a man the worse of liquor, •
driving at a furious rate. By hurriedly
vacating the road she was precipitated into
a deep ditch, breaking her leg.
— The out buildings of Mr, Isaac West -
man, near Granton, were struck by lightning
on Sunday evening of last week, and with
contents totally consumed. This season's
fall wheat and hay crops were lost, as well
as a lot of implements. There was an in-
surance of $600, but the loss will be more
than double that amount.
— Dr. R. S. Ludlow, a Stratford dentist,
who formerly did business in Mitchell,
where he was considered a most-- exemplary
citizen, was before Magistrate O'Loane 16,st
week, charged with assaulting a boy, with
intent to do grevione bodily harm. Defend-
ant was found guilty, but was released on
giving security that he would in feture
keep the peace.
—The members of the Baptist Mission
Circle, at Atwood, met at the home of Mrs,
John Switzer, on Tuesday evening of laet
week, and carried out a very pleasing pro-
gramme. The occasion was the presentation
to Mrs. Andrew Little, who for some years
was secretary of the Circle and orgainst for
the Sunday sehool and church, with a hand-
some dinner set of 94 .pieces.
—The other morning, as Mr. Swishes, of
St. Marys, was going to work a stranger
inquired of him if he knew where he could
get a house to rent. Mr, Swales referred
the man to several likely parties and the
stranger asked his name. That saine fore-
noon a man called at Mr. -Swale.? home,
saying that he had been, sent there by
Mr. Swales to get 50 cents. The vieitor
told a "fairy"tale and gob the Money.
From the description Mrs. Swales gave of
the man, it was likely the samnperson who
met her husband in the morning.
—Mr. Jeff. Pearn, of Blanshard, son of
Mr. Thomas Pearn, of St. Marys died at
hie home, near Anderson, on Wednesday
morning, July 24. On Monday Dr., Wis*
hart, of London, performed an operation on
Mr. Pearn for appendicitis, The deceased
man bad not been well for some time,
and
had only returned homes few days agofrom
a trip up the lake in the hope of benefitting
his health. - He was soddenly taken worse
on Sunday. Dr. Wishart stated that had
Mr. Pearn been operated on some Weeks
ago his life might have been prolonged He
leaves a wife, who has been ill for several
years, but no family.
—A very distressing accident occurred ab
about three o'clock 011 Thursday afternoon
of last week, on the farm of Mr. Michael
O'Connor, of the Gore of Downie. His
young son was on top of a load of straw,
which in some manner suddenly upset. Is
falling he struck a hayfork, the prongs of
which entered hie body below the heart,
piercing it almoat through and through.
Medical assistance was at once secured, and
all that Was possible done for the unfortun-
ate young man. He suffered intensely
throughout the night, and latest reports
seem to indicate that his recovery was im-
possible. The injured young man is about
18 years of age.
—A very sudden and unexpected death
occurred on Friday, July 1.9th, when Mr.
James Brock, lot 20, concession 2, Elma,
departed this life, aged 46 years, 5 months
and , 28 days. Mr. James Brock and his
brother, William, were stooking wheat in a
field on the former's farmwhen about four
chlock in the afternoon James told his
brother that he had a severe pain over his
heart and that he was losing the power of
his left side, and complained especially
about his arm. He looked very bad at the
time, but laid down for a short time and
then seemed to almost recover, and would
have started work again, bot his brother
told him he had better go to the house and
his sufferings at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. rest. On the way to the house he likely
He leaves a widow and three sone. felt bed again and seemed to realize thathe
—The customs department has just pre-
pared a statement of the exports and im-
ports of the Dominion for the year ending
on June 30th last, In round figures the
had not very long to live, for, meeting his
wife, he told her he was done for. Wilh'sen
was sent for and at onoe went for the doc-
tor, who was out on the farm in out
aggregate trade of Canada for the year was twenty minutes time, but was too late to be
$394,000,000, an inorease of $13,000,000 of any aid in prolonging life. The deceased -
over the previous year. In 1900 the aggregate never spoke after reaching the house'his
trade was $381,517,276. The total export , death being very quiet and peaeeful, after
of Canadian produce was $177,639,192 as ! only about 12 hours' illness. The doctor
against $164,180,858 in 1900, or an increaee 'said that the eatute of his death was heart
for the last fiscal year of $12,458,000. In failure.
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