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Mac. gouse, St. large build - :Ong before eding room es cheered Mrding and Iit seemed nang song- ' occasions owing her vain. and 41 appear - 'and again implished," :eep such a -but J1:381e .of wonder - re than fk her work, land, and inannunate and instil is herself irtto. every Cornin' exquisite and dash or the 3ritannia,` they can over the uetry of a and 111 tb undt r ke evening date ia - 1767 5. io heve eld and kter im- nultaral ! Family ,heir al- it., J. 13. cultural 7 hasfor he Far- t as an etock will be farming be 0011- th the A tiro -2,-* ---- -- • '-t..t,N :_._- - .,:-.-.,•„..--'-- ,... .......7*.. I' xposite THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,768. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, NifUMBER 1, 1901. MoLEAN BROS.. Ptiblishers,: . $1 a Year in Advance. IT PAYS 118 TO Thb "0"0"0"AAAAAAA0,4YAmAAAA, Some peop4 have a lot to say. The most of these people have a lot to say because it •does hot cost them any- thing to say it. With us it is different. Everything we have to say here costs naoney, and our only reason for having anything to say is; that we have reliable goods to sell, and it pays us to talk about their merits. The quick way to stop a man from talking—who talks for the sake of hearing, his 'own voice—is to make it cost him something—he will soon stop. You will find that the goods we talk about are just- as we represent them. Your attention is called to the following reliable values. • Two attractive fur values—value 1, Ladies' Astrachan Jacket, various lengths,_the price is $28. •Value No. 2—a man's Canadian racoon coat at $37.50. We have often said that poor furs are not worth buy- ing; our advice is to buy reliable furs, or leave furs alone. Whatever else may be said of our goods, there is no question about their reliability. Many people have said that our stock of caperines, ruffs, muffs boas, storm collars and gauntlets excelled anything they had ever seen, We ask for your inspection, and whether you buy or not you will be cor- dially welcome. Of course, we like.to sell, however that is another matter, In the matter of robes, we are showing some nice robes in grey and black goat, hindoo buffalo, and the rubber inter- lined wool robe. From the moment you enter our doors there comes to you au idea of completene8s—of people who keep honest goods at reasonable prices, Other values Value I—in underclothing, an all wobl line at $1,50 a suit, • Value 11 --The wearer of all wool underwear will find Our '2 a suit underclothing a most pleasing officio, Never wash good wool underwear in hot wator—th ro is no need of doing HO, • Value IIIA Shetland wool lino o underwear at $2,50 ft suit, Suit Values. Value I—Our own make of suit at $8; value II—the same naake at $10 ; value blue worsted serge suit, all sizes, well lined, with the wide shoulders, smal lapels, round corner sack -coat, price $5.50; value 11 made suit, colors heather, grey and myrtle shades, with w de shoulders, small collar and. lapels, vests button.rip high without a' collar, price $6.75. Overcoat Values. , Value I—Black serge velvet collar, farmer's satin lined, dust pocket, -price $G; value II—Blue beaver, velvet collar, fly front, doubled stitched edges, Mohair linings, price $7; value III—Dark Oxford grey cheviot cloth, close shear- ed, velvet collar, half box back, fly front, dust pocket, price $9.00. Shirt Values. Value T—A top shirt, union materials, twelve different patterns, price 50e'value II—Black and blue fleece lined -top shirts, 85c and $1 ; value III—A. black Kentucky jean working shirt 50o; value IV—An extra heavy Working shirt, grey Canton flannellette, price 50c. • Seeming a proper effect intyour tailor-made gown 1E1 the most important feature. Your gown tailored by us will have this effect. Same very handsome at the present tinie selling at i7, e.20 and $25—complete in every particular. Values in Small Items. Th'e wing linen collar has come in again to stay; mices 15c and 20c— all size.-_;. A handsome green diagonal stripe derby and clr4b tie at 25e, 35c and 50c. Boys' long stockings- at 25c, 35c and 50c, three popul rices, and your money's worth in each line. Comfort hand driving gloves mad mitts at 50e. Rubber lined smocks at $1.25, $1.50 and $2,90: Buckskin I pant, ever a re• liable material, $1 a pair ; smocks the Same price. Fine worsted readymade pants at $2.50 and $3.50 a pair. Boys' reefers from $2 to $51. We have many cheaper priced hats, and. many higher, but no better wearing hat -ever left our store than the $1.50 Christy fedora; see that Christy's name- is in the myeat band—all colors. MR: JAMES PRINGLII ON FREIGHT .RATES. DEAR EXPOSITOR,—I1 ain pleased to see you keep up the good fight on the trans• portation question. More power to your elbow! There i4 no doubt the American railways and the Grand Trunk and the Cenadian Pacific roads, in the southern part of this Province, have entered iato a regular con- spiracy to make all the money they ean out of this part of the country. Until this last year these roads have all competed more or lees for a share of the trede. Five years ago oats were shipped freegi London over the Michigan Central to New York at 1]o per 100 lbs. when they were being shipped from - Stratford at 17 -ie. This year the rate on all the roads south, and on the main lines of the Gland Trunk and Canadian Pacific, have been fixed at 13ic to New York and Port• land, the lowest rate on record from which •there has been no rebate, but strange to say at the first stations north of the main lines, on the roads the people built with their own Money, the rate has been 30 higher, and after getting far enough north, where the two roads have it all to themselves, the rate is 50 more, which is just equal to the rate charged on American grain from Parry Sound to Montreal, a distance of 385 miles. • Corporations have' no, souls. When the rate was 17o from Stratford to New York, the city had just granted bonuses of $30,C00 each to two industries, with exemptipe from taxes for ten and twenty years, to help to build up trade. The Grand Trunk Railway was the first to kick against their assess- ment, and succeeded ia getting a reduction ef $600 a year for ten years, at a time it ought to have been advanced that much. It cost the city mayoral hundred dollars to legalize the gift, but neither the Grit nor the Tory papers had a word to say against the deal, which shows the wonderful power corporatione have in gaining their own ends. When such things min be done iu Stretford, it is 110 wonder' our railways, have been run- ning our different Governments at Ottawa ever einoe they:were built, Canadian mil. ways are now eerrying grain from Chioago to the seaboard on the bons of 10o per 100 lbs,, and from port' on Lake Huron and the Georaion Bay at 0e and 7e, for .whieh cars are promptly furnished, and reeeipts given for the delivery of the full amount of grain reonived, This being the Qom, the newest and best earl ere given to this trade, whore - err Ontario dealers, after waiting for wookro, have to Nell ell export grain Nubjeet to sea, board weights, If luoky enough in getting toy (Are, they are generally the old worn out ones that are unfit for the Arrierioan trade, Premier WM, although full of kerning and eloquence, must be feerfully ignorant of this " tromportation question," or he would not have wasted his eloquenee in lauding 0, M. Ileyo' able management of the Grand Trunk Railway, whose policy consists in compelling men and engines to haul three times the loads they formerly did, and in keeping cars fully employed in haul - leg American grain and other feeights .through this country to the seaboard at _whatever rates can be obtained, • If the de- struotion of property aused by thenumer. ous accidents wairdeduoted from the earn- ings, there would- be little profit left, •Mr. Ham and a. -B. Reeves' able manage- ment of the Grand Trunk Railway consists In taking four million dollars to double track the line from Sarnia to Chicago and thirteen millions to build wharver and Chicago, - Ors in Portland, mostly out of the pockets of the producers of old .Ontario. Evary fall for the last thirty years, On- tario Chippers have been compelled to wait for weeks, and even months, until naviga- tion oloeed, before geteing ears. This year is no exception. We bought 150 oars in August—some oars are not yet,• shipped on October 21st. Last year we had over 300 oars that were bought from four to six weekibefore cars could be obtained. This delay caused millions df bushels of wheat to be held over until May and June of this yeer, when it had to be sold at least 50 per bushel under the fall price. Taking the direct losses caused by being discriminated against in freight rates, and in the indirect losses from the want of prompt car service, and the outrageously high local rates charg- ed—and it is enormous—it would certainly startle the people if put down in black and white. It costs 100 per 100 lbs. to ship a oar of grain anywhere in old Ontario 100 miles, or just about the same rate it costs from Chicago to Portland, 1,200 miles. The Grand Trunk Railway are perfectly willing to haul American gtain 700 miles through American territory for nothing, to beat us out of our own markets both at home and abroad. This Province is robbed out of the fruits of its labor to the extent of ten millidn dollars per annum. • Farming being the main source of wealth in this Province, and as the coat of oarrying its product to market determines their value to the producers, this being the case Premier Rose ought to have used his great eloquence in protesting against the Laurier GOvernment allowing the railways to con- tinue to pursue a policy they were eleoted to prevent. It is doubtful if the desperate efforts our governments have been making for the last 25 yearirto scatter five millions of people over a country much larger than the United States, is a sound polioy. It stands to reason the more trade is concen- trated in a city,, or in EeProvince, or in the Dominion, the more profitably can business be done. In 1878 Sir Charles Tupper, in order to keep his party in power, predicted that by the year 1890 Manitoba would have a population of several millions,_tuid would raise 640 million bushel of No. 1 hard wheat, and would pay all their indebtedness to the Government. The results are, after having robbed old Ontario out of both her surplue labor and her wealth, Manitoba has • now only a population of 98,958, and since 1890 has only grown on an average - twenty million bushels of Nos. 1, 2, 3, and rejected wheat yearly, which is less than has been grown in Ontario. It is strange, although times are so good and exports so large and everything booming, that the _twenty million sores of land in old Ontario, with the many millions of dollars added in improvements, should be worth on an average $20 an acre lees than it was- • worth twenty yeari ago. This represents four hundred millions that have melted away like "snow off a dike." What is the cause of it? Ten years ago thl) capital in- vested in flour and oatmeal mills in Ontario was nearly kiix millions. Judging by the way the Ogilvie mills sold in Seaforth and Goderich last yearemilling property must ,have depreciated 75 per cent. in value. This is not to be wondered ate •For instance, we bought 10 oars of wheat last fall at 66o, front Winger Bros., Ayton; the milling rate waei 5-io, the export rate from Ayton to Portland was 17io, but if sold for consumption in the Lower Province,, the ratewas 25o. It is plain Winger Bros. paid 23o and 30io freight on a haul 370 miles shorter than our railways carry it from Chicago, for one-half and one-third the cost. This is a fair sample of how millers are treated, and ie the chief cause why both c-‹ +++++444-1-1-14-1•444.-14+ Greig & Macdoll Johnson BrOs.' Old StariFd, •SMIL.P'OR'111:1_ land and other property is so much reduced in value. The farmers who would vote for any Government that refuses to remedy such "barefaced robbery" stand badly in their own light. . Yours truly, JAMES PRINGLE, SR. Stratford, October 21st, 1901. Ontario Still Scoring High. The banner Province of Ontario hi con- tinually winning fresh laurels at the Pan- American likposition. In the awards in the poultry oompetion at the Pan-American made public on Saturday, it was found that Ontarro had again scored very high. Al- though we had but 1,500- out of a total of 6,000 entries, yet we received a larger amount of prize money in proportion than did the United States exhibitors. Mr. William McNeil, of London, was awarded the silver cup for the best collection of Poland chickens, in competition with all America. Oa Saturday he was called to consult with the representative of the Chil- 'ian Government respecting the sale of $2,000 worth of Ontario poultry. Mr. C. C. Creelman, superintendent of Farmers' Institutes, who returned recently from Buffalo, says the Bemoan of the On- tario exhibits of live stock and fruit opened the eyes of the viaitors from all parts of the continent, and was the subject of much favorable comment. The awards for the fresh fruit have not yet been made, but in the permanent classes Ontario recured the following 1, gold medal for display of wines; 2, gold medal for individual exhibits of wines; 3, silver medal for collection of domestic fruits, preserved; 4, silver medal for - collection of pickles ; 5, award for canned fruits and vegetables ,• 6, silver medals given by American Pomologioal Society for the excellenoe in fruit exhibit Onterio securing three silver medals and ace bronza medal for her four exhibits, • A Terrible Voyage, Mrs, Annie Edson Taylor, 60 years old, went over •Niagara Fully on the Canadian side on Thursday afternoon of last week and survived, a feat never before acopmpliehed, andindeed never attempted, except in the deliberate commiNsion of suicide, Not only did she eurvive, but *he romped withnut a broken bone,_ her only apparent injuriee being a sap wound 14 inehos long, a slight coneurorion of- the brain, Nome shook to her nervous orystem, end bruises about the hotly, She weir oonsefourr wilen taken out of the barrel, and, after a few days root, her medioal attendants say Nhe will be fully recovered, f4111/ (4/1! SAYMY Mor, Taylor's trip (sowed a mile ride throegh the CanaMen rapids before mho reached the brink of the .precipice, tier barrel, stimuli as a barrel could be mado, wastwirled and toppled and buffeted through those delirioub waters, but etrosped mimeo contact with make. As it pained through the smoother, swifter waters thab rushed over into the abyss, it rode in an almost perpendioular position, with it. upper half out of water. As ib passed over the brink, ib rode at an angle of about 45 degrees on the outer surface of, the deluge, and descended as gracefelly as a barrel can descend to the white foaming waters, 158 feet below. True to her calculation the anvil fastened to the bottom of the barrel kept it foot downwards, and so it landed. Had it • turned over and landed on its head, Mrs, Taylor's head must have been crushed:in and her neck broken. The ride through the rapids occupied 18 minutes. It was 4:23 o'clock when the barrel took its leap. It could not be seen as it struck the water below, because of the spray, but, in less than half a minute after it passed over the brink, it was seen on the surface of the scum -covered water below the falls. It was carried ewiftly down to the green water beyond the scum, then half way to the Maid of the Mist landing, where it was caught in what is known as the Maid of the Mist eddy, and held there until it float- ed so close to the shore that it was reached by means of a pole and hook, and drawn in upon the rocks at 4;40 o'clock, or 17 minutes after it shot the cataract. Ten minutes later the woman was lifted from the barrel, and, half an hour later, she lay on a cot at her boarding house at First street, in Nia- gara Falls, on the American side. She thanked God rhe was alive, thanked all who had helped her in any way, said she would never do it again, but that she was not sorry she had done it, "If it would help her financially." She said she had prayed all the time during the trip, except during "a few moments of unconsciousness just after her descent. • The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor made the journey is 4i feet high, and about 3 feet in diameter. A leather harness and cushions inside protected , her body. Air was secured through a rubber tube connected with a small opening near the top of the barrel. WHO SHE IS AHD WHERE SHE GAME FROM. Mrs. -Taylor is now a. resident of Bay City, Michigan. She wasbornand brought up at Aubern, New York, and was married whenseventeen' and a widow at twenty. She has earneda living as a teacher of physioial culture and dancing, whioh she has followed in her two years' residence in Bay City. Her motive,, when the idea originated in her mind to make a trip over the falls, was purely for the financial bene- fit. She intends going on a lecturing tour as soon as she recovers from the effects of her foolhardy expeditioa. She has earned all she can make. Her safe voyage was due more to good fortune than to any skill or wisdom on her part. Her suocess will, probably, tempt other fools to try the experiment, with the probability that they will forfeit their lives. 40 PATTERNS Wall Paper —WITH Boirders and Ceilings to Match. Rorer 10c, 12-ko and 150 per single, roll, NOW 8 CENTS. VEX. WINTER, SEAFO1tT111. an ri was a liberal giver to all good objects. had .been for ten years leader of the ung Men's Bible League of the Central thodist church, Toronto. He was mar - d in 1888, and leaves a widow and four ch ldren, three girls and a boy. There were fev more useful men in the country, and his de th, at so early an age, is a public loss. • Canada. On Saturday morning, fire broke out in th four-story brick factory of the London T4jbacco Company, doing damage to the ex- tent of about $25,000. Mr. Tames Grant, treasurer of the Lou- d n Mutual Fire Insuranee Company, and fofr 27 yeare olerk of London township, died o4 Saturday. He was 61 years of age. —Mrs. Josephine White who itood her lasteweek at Brantford, charged with having poieoned her husband, and thus causing his death, was declared not guilty, and was liberated, • —AlexibRoberb, of Dover township, lest all his barns and outbuildings by fire, hat week, The fire caught from the engine, be- ing mod in threshing clover. The loos is $6,000. —The Conservatives of East Kent have decided not to put a candidate in the field at the election shortly to be held to fill the vacancy in the Legfelature, •owned by the death of Mr, Robert Ferguson, Sir Charles and Lady Tupper are now - on their way to Canada from Engin& It is their intention to Spend the winter in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in the spring to go woo to Britleh Columbia —Mr, and Woe Henry Jewgii, a gar" wiek, were struok by a train et the Living- stone (motoring, near Chatham, on Saturday holt, Mr. Jewell wee very seriously injur- ed, but him wife tirresped with a cut in her heed and other minor injuries, —The Manitoba Government harvest re. port Ages that the threithing Write show the crop of this:yesr to average 24 • bulhele per sore, The Red River Valley has WI fered moot from rain, and outside of that dietrict the injury ie more to the oolor than to the (pant, _y of the wheat, The grade as a rule wit! be No, 1 Northern. —Jonas Cline, a prosperous farmer, re - ;Aiding two miles west of Kingsmill, in the county of Elgin, was killed Monday evening while walking on the Michigan Central track. The track is double at that point, and in stepping from one track to another to pals a freight he was struck by a train coming in the opposite direction. —A beet sugar factory, with an output of 600 tons of sugar daily, is to be established, in the town of Sandwich, Essex county. It is expected that the works will be in oper- atien by next fall. More than 200 hands will be employed. The company, which is compoted of English,American and Canadian financiers, is capitalized at $600,000. --A twelve -year-old son of Mr. Samuel Marrotte, of Montreal, was followed into a field by a Dane named Tobin Hanson, who cut the boy's throat and threw his body on a pile of stones. Hanson murdered the boy for a few cents which he found in hie poc- k etc Hanson afterwards gave himself up to the police. —As an instance of how little even Some intelligent people in the old country know about Canada, the following is given: "1 would like to start farming in Toronto or Ontario," writes a young Scotch agrioultur- int to the Crown Lands Department at To- • ronto. He asks for information regarding the Crbwn or other lends situated in eieher of the localities. ---Peofessor Shuttleworth, professor of chemiStry at the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, Guelph,has resigned his position to • take a more lucrative one with a beet sugar company, that intend establishing a factory in Ontario, probably at Berlin. Professor Harcourt, assistant chemist, has been ap- pointed Mr. Shuittleworth's successor. —The railroad to be constructed by the Ontario Government from North Bay into the Temiecaming district will be begun next repring, and in the opinion of Mr. Latchford, Minister of Public Works, the whole line of 100 miles, extending one-third of the way from North Bay to James Bay, may he completed within a year. An easy route through an excellent country has been picked out by the surveyors. HA correspondent says "A general surprise has been furnished to cowmen all over the country by the French-Canadian • °attic: competing in the dairy test at the Pan-American. They give milk when living practically on nothing. They have taken fifth place in net profit on estimate butter, and i are beaten by the Guernseys by a margin onl of 23 cents in seven days. Hiram Chesney, a prominent farmer livi g in Blandford, Oxford county, after king around the farm as usual Monday • —Mr. W. E. H. Massey, died at his resi- dence. in Toronto on Monday afternoon. He had been ill for about a month. Typhoid fever, with accompanying complications, was the cause of death. Mr. Massey was only 37 years of age. He was the seoond eon of the late Hart A. Massey, the founder of the Massey Agricultural Implement Man- ufaotory. The deceased was a native of Newcastle, Ontario county, but was edu- cated in the United States. He was presi- dent of the Massey -Harris Agricultural Im- plement Company, and first vice-president of the Toronto Board of Trade. He was a man of immense busineEs oapaoity, and was closely connected with and largely interest ed in some ten or a dozen important manu- facturing concerns throughout the country. In addition to his extensive businees con- nections, he owned and conducted a large model farm near Toronto, where his summer residence was, and where he died.. Here he spent what hours of leisure he had, taking his relaxation in superintending this farm, and was extensively engaged in the im- portation and breeding of high class Jersey, Oinernsey, and Ayrshire cattle, and was a very successful prize winner for these animals. He was one of the wealthiest men in Ontario if not in Canada. He Wall a wo moping, came in to dinner, and in a few minutes oomplained of feeling unwell. Death ensued almosb immedialely from an affection of the heart. A brother of the deceased al- so died about a tnonth ago of sudden heart failure. —A fetal accident oocurred a few days ago,in Haldimand townehip,Durham county, by which Rice Stoneywell, a well-known resident, lost hie life. While in the mow in the barn he in some manner fell through to the barn floor, fracturing several ribs and receiving injuries that caused his death in about three hours' time. He was 74 years of age, and leaves a widow, six sons and two daugh term. —The greatest irrigation project ever at- tempted in the Canadian Northwest has been undertaken by the C. P. R. for the land liptween Medicine Hat and Calgary. Mr. Iliteorge Anderson, of Denver, has made the surveys, and estimates that 3,000,000 acres may be irrigated at reasonable cost, and every foot of it made compensatorily pro- ductive, The road has decided at once to irrigate 300,000 acres, and if this proves satisfatory the canals will be extended. the King preferred to have the observance take place on the birthday of his deceased mother, May 24. The Secretary of State for Canada has already intimated that Nov. 9 will be a public holiday, and possibly a proclamation will be issued shortly, making a formal announcement of the fact. —Prairie fires are ringing in several parts of Manitoba. A despatch from West Sel- kirk,on Wednesday night of last week, said: "Yesterday southwest winds blew the prairie fires into the Clandeboye District, and the following lmes are reported: D. Matheson, most of hie hay stooks; Alex. Cummings, stables and all hay stacks; K. McNabb, all his hay; M. O'Donohue, 100 tens of hay. B. Whiten, of Rockwood, the same day, had twelve grain stacks burned by a spark from a threshing machine, and his horses were badly burned. —A very valuable strike in oil was made at Wheatley, Kent county, last week, when a gas well was shot in order to increase its capacity. After the shot was made oil was seen to be shooting in a large stream from the well, with the gas. Experts claim that the quality of the oil is far superior in its natural state to any produced in America, and they say it can be put on the market as first-class lubricating oil without any refin- ing whatever. They estimate the capacity of the well at 50 barrels daily. The well is owned by J. J. White and A. Lamarsh, two residents of the village. —Corn grown from eeed over two thous. and years old is attraetiog a great deal of attention on the • farm •of Samuel Wilson of Sandwich West, Essex county. ' Mr. Wilson received a small quan- tity of corn seed from a friend who was in Egypt last year, and who secured it from the covering of a mummy thought to have been interred 20 centuries ago. The corn fe bright red in color, and bear. no similarity to thienative Canadian cereal. • —The large barn and outbuildinge belong- ing to Mr. W. Hough, fruit -grower, situated on the lake shore, about three miles from St. Catharines, were totally destroyed by fire between one and two o'clock Tuesday M013:1 - jog, Several horses, a number of cattletand large quantities of hay, wheat, oats, and agricultural implements were also burned. 7Me lose is about 83,000, with small insur- ance, The cause of the fire is 'aid to be in- eendiery, —Fred Lee Bloc, the only eurvivor of the Aurora Dank burglars, wise on trial this week in Toronto, eharged with the murder of Conotable Boyd,on June 4th, The prison - or, who was taken from Kingston retain), tiary, merle hit appearence in the deck heavily maneelel His eppearenoo Was neat end dapper, isnd he loomed in mueli better physiefal oondition than at the time of his trial last Juno, II. plaided "Nob guilty," The Memo is that the .hooting was done by one of the other derperadoes, —The death of Colin Maedougs,l, K. 0,, of St, Thome, who recently died in his Ofith year, will be mourned by a wide circle of friends. Although a prootraoted illness st, his advanced age prepared the OOMMUtliby for the news, regret is none the less keen among those who remember his many geed qualities and the wide influence he excited In the days when he enjoyed health and strength. Mr. Macdougal was a staunch Liberal, and represented East Elgin in the House of Commons from 187‘, to 1878, when he was defeated in the general election, whio resulted in the retirement of the Mao- kenzi Government. —The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, before leeving Halifax, gave Sir Wil- frid Laurier a Royal present. It is a memento of great value for its intrinsic worth, enhanced by the hands that offered it. The present consists of a white satin - lined light blue velvet casket, in which a magnificent gold snuff box is encased. The precious stones ornamenting the lid are large diamonds, and in the centre is a ducal orown and coronet in brilliants. Inside the case the following words are engraved: "To the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G, C. M. G., P. C., Prime Minister of Canada, from the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and aYdoar,k,19inimrynembrance of their vieit to Can- -It certainly looks as if the T. Eaton Company, of Toronto would soon own the whole of the big cit'y block bounded by Yonge, Queen, James and Albert streets. A deal has just been completed whereby the company becomes the owner of the Queen street property, on which stands the provis- ion store of William Davies. For years it has been Timothy Eaton's desire that his big department store should occupy the entire block, and he seizes every opportunity that is presented to get possession of the land in the block that is not already in his name. Months ago the company bought out the leases of Revers.' adjoining stores on Yonge street. As soon as the leases expired the occupants were obliged to vacate. Thee° stores are now being renovated end made a part of the mammoth store. —While Daniel McKay was threshing for John McCallum, north of Wallacetown, Elgin county, a few days ago, some evil - disposed person went at night to Mr. Mc - Kay's engine and tightened down the safety - valve so that the steam would not blow off until it burst the boiler. The valve was set to blow off at 85 pounds pressure. Atter threshing for some time the next day, Mr. MoKay,on glancing at the steam gauge, observed that it registered 150 pounds pres- sure. Mr, McKay, in trying to adjust mat- ters so as to allow the steam to escape, slip- ped off the engine, fracturing a knee -cap, from the effects of which he was had up for several days. By heroic efforts he saved his engine himself and those around him, fez. the boiler would have certainly exploded only for the timely notice and action of its owner. The water gauge was so manipulat- ed as to show plenty of water in the boiler' when there really was not. The callous vil; lain who could do such an act deserves hang- ing without ceremony. —The St. Thomas Journal has the fol. lowing about sugar beet culture " R. S. C. Neely, of Detroit, sugar beet expert of the Peninsular Refining Company, Caro, Michigan, has been in the neighborhood for two or three days arranging for sending the sugar heath grown by farmers here, under contract with the London Sugar' Refining Company, which will erect a factory at Lon- don next year, to Caro. Mr. Neely is well pleased with the results and says that the soil in this vicinity.is well adapted to sugar beet culture. The yield in this vicinity will be from fiteen to eighteen tone per acre, while twain!, is considered very good. Some of the beets tested at Caro gave 14 per cent sugar, while 12 is considered stan- dard. °fled 'the best plots in the vicinity is that of James Coleman, River road, —The Governor-General has received a Southwold, and me. Dickson, in the same oablegram from the Right Hon. JONaph 1 vioiniby, has another fine one. The farmers , Chamberlain to the following effect : It are paid $3 per ton delivered on the Michi- is His Majesty's wish that the usual birth.' gan Central Railroad here, the company day dinner in the colonies be given in 1901 paying the 75c per ton duty, and the freight. and 1902, on Nov. 9." His Excellency will They are also taking the beets raised in the ohaerve the King'. wish so far as Canada is neighborhood of London and Strathroy." ooneerned. It is evident from the Colonial —The many Canadians who visited the secretary's cablegram that the King desires Pah-Amerioan Exposition at Buffalo will re' to have the anniversary of hie birthday ob- grab to learn that It is likely to prove finan- served, although early in the year it was oiaUy disaetrous to all who have bad to do prominent member of the Methodist church, stated in press despatches from London that with its promotion. A despatch from Bd. falo sus : The decision of the directors to close the Pan-American Exposition on the night of November 2nd enables the account- ants to make a fairly accurate estimate of the loss which the Pan-American will suffer. It will exceed $4,000,000. The stockholders will receive back nothing for the $2,500,069 which they put in. Contractors who erented the buildings will lose $1,000,000, and the issue of $500,000 secoud-mortgage bonds will be defaulted, as well as 20 per oent. of the first mortgage'bonds. The banks acting as trustees for the first - mortgage bonds have paid 50 per cent. to the holders out of tAie gate receipts, and have on hand enough to pay 30 per eent. more. The contraotors mean to fight the division of the money in court, and will endeavor to establish liability for the debts on the part of the directors and stockholders. The . act incorporating the Pan-American Exposition Company epecifically states that the directors and stockholders shall not be liable, and this, it is contended, is unconstitutional. • • Perth Notes*, —A license has been granted to James Murphy for the Kastnerville hotel. —The autumn assizes held in Stratford last month cost the county $872.70. —A small fire occurred at the cordage factory, in Stratford, a few days ago, but was extinguished before any serious damage we s done. — While picking sorties on the farm of Mr. Earl Francis Fullerton, Mr, Harry Chapman, of Mitchell, fell from an apple tree and sustained severe injuries. —During the month of September 45,704 -pounds of butter were made at the t5t. Marys Creamery Company's factory. The butter was solid for $9,867.10, or at the rate of 21, 5 8 cent e a pound. —While Mr. and Mrs. John Moffatt, of Downie, were driving to Stratford the other day, the hellos ran away, throwing out the occupants of the rig- Mrs. Moffat had her leg broken between the knee and ankle. —During a heavy wind storm the other day, a shed belonging to John Russell, of near Carlingiord. was WWII down. One of hie cattle was killed and another had its leg broken. —In St, Marys, on Wednesday, Ootober 22o4, in the Catholic church, a quiet but pretty wedding took place, the contracting partial bring Miss Maggie Egan,- of So. Mary*, and Mr, Joitt 'Amore, of Tilbury, The Motherwell Proebyterian congre- gation have pretiontaid their retiringorator, Roy, Dr, Hamilton with *purse of 00 in gold rind an easy chair, The Lediee Auxin. ary presented Mies Ilemilton wth an Deo ohair, County Committer end Mrs, Robert Arrturtrong, of Billee, were the other even. Ing, meds the recipients of an address, companied by two hendsome ohairs, the gift., of a number of friends who gathered at their residenee, --Mr. 47, IC, Brooks, of Mitchell, hae pur- °hared iron /An! Wm. Colquboun the fine stallion, Prince of Johnstone, which the latter imported from Scotland butt Summer. He is considered the best animal of the kind that ever came to Mitchell. —Mr. James Callin, J. P., of Stratford, met with an unfortunate accident one after-. noon recently, as a result of which he is now in the general hospital. Mr. Callin stood up on a chair to fix something in the kitchen, and in doing so he fell, breaking his hip bone. — Mrs. Thomas Coade died at Workman, Manitoba, on Monday, the 14th ult. De- ceased was born in Mitchell and lived until 1885 near the brickyard, when she went west with her family. Two sons and a hurband are left to mourn their loss. She was 75 years of age. —Another of the aged members of Munro has crossed the river, and entered those realms from which none ever return, Mrs. James Nethercott passed away on the even- ing of the 16th ult., at the advanced age of 82 years.. She was not one of the early settlers, having come with her husband and family to this country about the year 1870. —Mr. Christopher Bennington had the third and fourth fingers on his rigtt hand out off and the thumb and second finger so badly out that they had to be amputated, at the Orr factory, in Stratford, OD. Monday of last week. He was stooping over Mar a rip saw, when he slipped, his hand coming in contact with the saw. —Annie White, relict of the late David White, peacefully passed away at her late home in St. Mary., an October 20th. She was born in Scotland in 1846, and was the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Adair, who came to Caneds, from the old ooitry 48 years ago. She was married to David White in 1864. Four children, two sons and two dauglaters, survive. —After a long and painful Mistime, from a cancerous growth in her breast, the beloved wife of Mr. Charlie Greve, of Mitchell, passed away on Sunday morning, 20bh at the age of 48 years and 4 months. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn their loss. Decoaised spent the best cif her 'years in Mitchell and had a large cirele of friends. Muchlsympathy is felt for her sorrow -stricken family. —With but little warning death' a hand was laid on Mr. John Corrigan, a muCh re- spected resident of Stratford, on Saturday evening, October 19th. The deceased' had of late been in unusually good health -and continued at his daily work up till late on Saturday afternoon, when he complained of a severe internal pain and while being driven to hie home was taken with come vulsions. Medical aid was summoned at once and Mr. Corrigan revived, but shortly after 8 o'clock he had another attack and died. He was a native of Quebec province, and had lived in Stratford for upwards of 26 years. lie was 56 year of age. —An event of particular interest was witnessed at the Kennedy homestead, Kin - kora, on Wednesday evening, Oetober 16th, when Mr. C. Kennedy and his sister, Mies Lizzie Kennedy, were made the re- cipients of an _address and presentation previous to their removal to the .Classie City. A large crowd of friends mad neigh- • bors gathered at the homestead and Mr. Henry Foley was voted to the chair. After a few introductory remarks' Mr. P. R. Kelly read an address to Mr. Kennedy., while Mr. Jeremiah Crowley presented • him with a handsome gold -beaded cane. The presentation of a beautiful toilet set was made by Miss Kate Kelly to Miss Ken- nedy. —Michael Hagerty, a young farmer of • Ellice township, was killed SatOrday whlla taking a load of grain to the elevator - at Branner. Mystery surrounds the -exact manner of hie death, but it /a presumed that • he fell off the load. Another farmer com- ing behind him found tbe. dead body lying on the road. The wheels had passed over his shoulder aria neck. Death must have been instantaneous, the neck behig broken. The team proeeedei on without the driver, and were caught a quarter of & mile further along the road, trotting briskly.Bags of grain were scattered along the roadside so the theory is that Hagerty was adjabing the load when he fell off, Deeeased WAS unmarried. 1 a it 5