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The Huron Expositor, 1902-08-08, Page 1902 mutes Goods Wear- Lusion attract you, ses you, if an peals to you; ereat should Eig this store Truly, it'a m touch with rhere are so ses in its up - a — surprisehalla there is gs you need necessity of ners now, for selling fast. adIy grow. Otion to WAISTS VAIsiASGLSs LAsors HATS SUN'S )-RSETS 1110SIERY, la the sbapc !me with the and for lese elsewhere for. under -wear is Fine taste,. :ted in every lopular pricer. 5, Corset Cov- teries. roar Summer !e good ehoos- ould use, be- y stylish arid / are to be had .prices-Tpriees There's- no , embroideries, Limmings, too.. ods. oda bound to eat response. okout for true Ve would not vvay if our • re more than you could we been wait- () buy, it has .rpensi ve, but IFS LINS SLINS NDIES 300K i" LAWN )N LAWN, as cash for Lt. prices allow - Co t Crash Ilmoomercammas ler daughter, iaiting friends Lth came down 0er, sr.—Mise >f London, is , her home.— . two weeks' J.—Mr. Wm. the surviving ;era that are erich on the 'a Outing with Lre the oldest MeNangh ton, his ulster, during the rk of Mr. and Sasie McLean t the home a ,Harpurhey.- - past week, padian sheep Brothers are good sheep. _ '---The follo-w- St. Thomas tive of this - h melancholy the deceased i•s..ys : " The On, of Chicago, on 1--orn the C. White, to .11Ohn8on was eon of Wm. He formerly raI Railway, 1 Windsor and L.. during the • 1.ploy of the Chir.:ago. In to M iss Fer- 'KM, with his a are left to 'T'he members men attended :-‘1 their coin - Service was /._!! at the grave Lan, assisted yterian. The and included •i -hand," from /r. Johnson ; Locomotive otherhood of from Unity -reath, tepre- nductors and rrisaiy friends m a distance Henry from sister and r. J. S. John- eph Johnson, /land - Alex.. lases 1.3-unn, of 1 .010101BollWateMeilMallaggagglatiggialagalagMEMIEMallingall4ega THIRTY-TEEIRD YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,808. nhe„, • .7",.740 . art*. -11 - - SEAFORTH, F IDAY, Al GUS 8, 1902. _1 2 STORES 1 -50 ft. wide- 1 100 ft- long 1 _ 2 PLOORS Ground Floor RTAIL, Upper Floor 3I+NUFACZUR1. - Half -Price Saie. Twice in every twelve months we devote a feN We mean by this that evoything we advertise to be sold exactly at that figure. There is no humbug ab be—proven by the great numbers ,of people who bo when our half-price sale took place last February. Some curious people ask us.how e eau affoicl Of course, if they want to know, we tell them, but th look, do not say much; if they see the gods and pri satisfied, and they proceed at once to Make a few buying., days to a half-price sale. old at half price, shall be t it, as can be—and will agfht their season's supply o .sell goods at half price. wise people come and 83as advertised, they are °liars by their saving in Our Goodsare all iReliable. We offer nothing but honest-goodk The sam ood. lines With which we have successfully built up one of the largest clo king trades in. Western Ontario. We have nothing to do witt, goods, no Matter how cheaply we could buy them, which another man has been unable t • sell-; and, therefore, you are taking no risk on anything yQu see fit to pure as at cur sale, ..vF-#Atette The Following List fo Six Days. $15 00 men's suits 14 00 men's suits 12 00 men's suits 10 00 men's suits 8 00 men's suits 7 00 men's suits 6 00 men's suits 5 00 men's suits 7 00 boys' suits 6 00 boys' suits 5 00 boys' suits 4 00 boys' suits 3 00 boys' suits 5 00 men's trousers 4 00 men's trousers 3 00 men's trousers 2 00 men's trousers 1 25 men's trousers 1 00 boys' knickers 75 boys' knickers 50 boys' knickers 10 00 rain coats 8 00 rain coats 6 00 rain coats 5 00 rain coats 4 00 rain coats 3 00 rain coats 1 50 hard bosom shirts (150) 1 ha 1 25 soft and hard. bosom shirts (15), ha 1 00 soft and har 1 bosom shirts (250) ha '75 soft and hard bosom shirts (90) ha 2 50 straw hats ha 2 00 straw hats, ha 1 00 straw hatsl ha 75 straw hats ha 50 straw huts ha 2 50 pail soft hats 1 50 pearl soft hats ha 3 50 summer coats ha 3 00 summer coats ha 2 00 summer coats hal 1 50 sumraer coats ha 2 00 fancy vests ha 1 50 fanq vests ha 1 00 fancy vests ha 50 ties ha ')5 ties 20 collars ha 15 collars ha half price $7 50 half price 7 00 hal price 6 00 hal price 5 00 hal pride 4 00 hal price 3 50' hall price 3 00 hal price 2 50 hal price 3 50 hall pride 3 00 hal price 2 50 hal pride 2 00 hal price 1 50 hal pride! 2 5 hal pride 2 0 hal pride 1 56 hal pride 1 00 hal price 624 hal pride 56 hal pride 37 25 hal pride hal price 5 00 ha pri e 1 00 ha f pri e 300 ha f pn e 2 60* ha f price 2 00 ha f priee 1 50 f price 75. f price 621- f price 50 f price f priice 1 M f price 1 00 f price 00 f price 87 f price 25 If price 1 25 f pri f ridefi1 15 5 f price 1 50 pike 1 00 f price '45 f price 1 0 f price 5 f price V! 0 f price 115 f price 12 f price 10 f price 44 CONDITIONS OF ILE. The sale prices do not apply to all goods in ..,tock at above ptices. S cash, and no goods on approval. - Goods will be ex banged at selling price not satisfactory. Sale to begin Friday, August 8 b, and to coatintle every until Thursday, August 14th. Arwww4AwAAAAAAAAA01AAA Greig & St (SUCCESSORS TO GREW- & Johnson Bros.' 0 SEib t if ay • I A.qDQNALD) TIXE FRUIT MARKS ACT. witxr THE ACT-tMEANS, AND HOW IT OPERATES. (Written for THEi EXPOSITOR.] - Department of Agrieulture, OTTA.WA, July 30th, 1962. Aftet:the Parliament of Canada paseed the Frait Marks Act in !190i, the Minister of Agrbitilture directed that every oppor- turiitylehould be affordeii the fruit growers and pa kers of the Dom nion to meet its re. quire eats and to fulfil their obligations to the pu lie ; and for a y ar tbe work of the Departerient in this re peot was informa- tional end educational. Thi, year ' some amendinents were made to the act as origin- ally passed, and to -day the not, in all its provisions, is as plain aa a pike staff, and every elause of it so simple that" he who runs May read." N4 farmer, or fruit grolvve*, lit• packer who i honest in his en- deavors); and straightfo ward in his trading need fear any of its o1use!. The act is being enfor3ed, and the iuspectors appoint- ed to execute its requir ments have been in- straoted to do their dut . They are the servants of the orow • Parliament has definitely :pronounced le judgment upon the fa se and fraudulentl packing and mark. ing of fruit oeneignmen 13, and these men have 4en selected to carry out the regula- tions laced on the statute book for the purpo e 1,of protecting honest traders from unpri cipled dealets, and of preserving in. violate the fair commer ial fame of Canada from anecrnpuloue pacl4orH. In other words, the at will enspre to the • pablio of the Dominion and the ;.lom issiou agents and the patine generally in Great Britain and elsewbere that the fruit is correctly marked and henestly packed. ; Thit, principle sectiont of the act are Se4itha 4.-1very person who, by hint - self or through the agency of another person, - peeks' frit in a closed package intended for sale, abed' cause the pitekage to be marked in a Plain and indelible manner, before it is taken from the premises where it is 'Harvesters' Excursion to Manitoba and the Northwest on August 21st, 1902. . All information from 'GROG & STEWART, can be olIained peek (a) name With the initials- of his Chrietian nd his full aurnae and address; (b) with the name of the variety or var- ieties; and (c) wilth a designati fruit, which shall include on of the following' six markt :, For fruit of the &at quality, No. 1. or XXX ; for fruit, f the second quality, No. a, tir XX ; and f r fruit of the third qualityi No. 3, ot X; but the said mark may elaccompanied bs any other designa- tion f grade, provided that designation is not i oointistent with, lor marked more con - spilt outly than, the One of the said six mar which is used op the ectid package. Sebtiipn 5.—No pars n shall sell, or offer, expoee pr have in his possession for sale, any fruitpacked in a closed package and intend- ed int- sale, unless each package is marked as required by the next preceding section. Section 6. —No pereon shall sell or offer, expose Or have in his posseseion for ea/a any fruit packed in a dosed package, upon package is marked any designation whi epresents such fruit as of No. 1 or XX.., inesb, best or I extra good quality, unle a such fruit censist of well grown spectra as of Ong variety, sound, of nearly umfarrp size, of good Color for the variety, of *Mal shape, and not less than 90 per e from scab, orm holes, bruises and Agents For Canadian Pacific Railway tickets and tplegraph, Do inion Express Ootapany ; Elder, Dempster & Beaver Line steam ips, n of the grade of a other c (steam, and p4perly packed. cent, fr S &ion 7.—No pereon shall sell, or offer, exp se or have in his possession forsale any frui pecked in any p &age in which the faced Or shown surfa e gives a false repre- sentation of the cont nts of such package; and it hall be consid red a false represent- ation when more than 15 per cent. of such fruit ie substantially sinalter in size than, or infeirior in grade to, r different in variety froi, the faced or s own surface ot such pee a/ Kit tak n - con raty to the proviaions ot the act, in. ape tore may, after notifying the packer by let er pr telegram, place the words " falsely peaked " or " falsely' Marked," and a fine of $401m9.y be imposed for illegally removing theinSpector's brand. anations of it hue: On pao application may be ages packed or marked Will not take any_respons the 0 mtnispioner of Agr ing, vain waist in seourin pi age s ace on oceantateam triablei be given ae to the the d desire , It °hole boxes tie of shipm-ent, an ill pay to senonl s cl individual q u ality, rather than in 1S r bi 0 0 necessary to have the peeked on the green or fi they mee7 be delivered in dorn ip such h state that ti, peree the re will no a led with a very mai or dee Whose sale o ayed ones by hands they ntres. 11 ity„ but, through 'tare and Dairy. p1 Cr cold stor- if 'early inferobable quantity, he destination apples of an packed in els. It will be plea piuked and side, so that United King - y may be hand- tagof bruised ail dealers into from the whole - Ottawa in a B ' J. SMILLIIII, T Ant oe DR, R EXPOSITOR. As s,ettin this holde led b ment gUrro away pend ooloss teen great I was OUT Of sue loveli other Ascei epot, find of a 'As o the p symp tomb in fac yeste this past. 'look ition ande Half Jost i it be has to 5, figur only I for i w hol W., abr I halls equa ness of 0 look for the Guth othe Croa and wan 41 I Win be notic d that only " closed} pa kages" need be nj&rked. A closed pack-, ages is defined to be box or barrel, the coat tents hf which canno be seen or inspected when uoh is cloeed. Baskets, berry orates, or er"y boxes even, with veneer covers, are noti qrnaidered " losed packages," and th*eflpre, do not r quire marking.-Cran bet ieti and all wild ruit are not suject to -th previsions of the Act. erchante are h Id responsible for the fru t hey offer for e le (or fruit in their pos- ses io for sale), bi t the original wrong. do r, f found, will i i every case be presto cu ed iolation of the law with and marking is not lose to and not more than e ; for removing an in - dollars • for obstruct. 25 to $560. The finee etween the informant ven large powers under ises for the purpoee ion and to detain ship= it same 'purpose. The mply protected by the ediate notice mint be r to the packer when mete is at the risk f d or detained, and the s his authority is sub- ty. h Ipenalty for a ref re ce to packing thn wenty.five ce on d llar per peek s et r's brand, fleet in Ejfl inspector, are d' Vided-equally • tie crown. uspectors are g th Alet to entei pre ro 1`g an examine in At Of fruit for t pa k however, is sti u ation that im gi ,en by the inapeot fri ib,which at all th Omer, is brand in pehtor who exeee i9 t to a heavy pena h main points ro 'cl p as follows : ' 1) The face of al fe, riyi represent the 2)1 Closed boXes ip ruled with the na pa kr, the varie gr de ; 13)1It is an offeno thi Act to sell, to in peSsemion for sa or ,marked fruit, ev se ler are ignorant o f this Act may be sure- ! fruit ,paokages must ruit throughout-; and barrels must be e and address of the of the fruit and its within the meaning of ffer for sale, or to heve e, fraudulently packed n when 'the buyer and the fact, as well as whell one or both aye knowledge of the faCt ; (4), The Act does not prevent the packing or sr y packed and ma 5) The Act does tip &lion of particul pleat of the buyer ti 'aePing of any gr a de of fruit that is prop - ked ; not provide for the in - r lots of fruit at the rb- r seller. (6)' Commiseion merchants who, after no e, tandle fruit put up contrary to the ions of the Act, will be proceeded ai et. 1(7), There is no d ed "No. 2," "X lAlteady the bene being felt; and w diebtineety in peal al 0 tr finition of grades' mark- '' No. 3," or 61 eial effect of this Act ;is en it is fully known that g and describing Canade firuit does not exist, an enormous tut will be given to our fruit industry n li- the markets of ithe world. At preseat quiries are being made concerning the na-Atlantic shiptnents of early Canadian plOa. The Department of Agricultute of a dream t e piot etropolitan city brea for the first time. the parliament buil ill, from whiph the ndiug country may b mon mast One c pict reot LI ye4re , and I o meet the h us cycloramic 1 panorama ! and a histor ese will be at not aware unt f 73,000 people h costly buildings or nese as Parliament capitol of the tvorld ding the high at an not far from t urselves besid omanly woma e stands there, look st seems to came. thetic.peaceful tou e that Queen Victor' ti dead at all, it see day. Three more ill and link it to a Whose:ehould the Ear for the answer o heir names ? Jacqu McKenzie and Sir go reamily, reluctantly dreamy reveries of possible that a quart one since I heard M 00 people in Sealed seems familiar, t that time—yet an i was MacKenzie at outlook reminde ustralia. It is gr t and full ofvariety —greater than the to what is to be, a found nowhere else tawa dispel all coin in vain to the insp ords to picture in mantic) beauty so ated. Resemblance days in the land ." The past and p ridge " the great b era between Sydney er ream. AUSTRALIA. orgeous as the resque beauty of a upon the be- ne is naturally tugs to Parlia. whole city and Been stretching What a stu- iece I Such a ho only to turn re of national ed n memory. day, I was in a had not d reeree each cultivated Square. What as such a site ? most interesting band stand, we ssive monument queenly queen. g up!, how close er fethreeching makes it hard to s sollong dead,or like a dream of nuMents endear h evernents of the e ?" Need we ore than men - o Cartier, Alex- in We I turn away, collection. Can ✓ of a century Kenzie speaking The bronze gh I' saw him reset= was left, his , best. The of SYdney, N. S. nd, hold, rolling, and the legislat i Ye eatness yet, and a g-gantio richl Can da. Vision n vi lens and one tio of dreams her imaginations tura apd yet s arrri tine back t " t ie Souther sent ieem to Meet tween." My min e.nd here. e gran the tn an a Ft% 0 ores we ramble on, ders back, o conjure up the s barren track." Sem likeness awak soon, the halcyon drea le with the visions day -dream reveries vent of the present ver -present immor ed, and mueh of e away on what is not, beer." Hence this drea lar, fitful, uneven and fr dremily languid, for, min 8110 obse the 11 a fond memory wan nes across life' m mories, an reVisit us an •e think more real make us dreamil Ooneentration o 1 Nov is neglect enoe: is fritters but '4might hay y pieture-Lirrego. meritary, perhaps "11 cannot dream brig dreams-agaiu, The ancient fire is od '• i - No ardent lights illa e the brow, As in the days of ol " om Parliament Hill e lock again, and ing north, see the o't of Hull, across Ottawa river, Imost at our with its immense umber mills and . Eddtde match fa ories' and rolling • ground of wooded I ountaine. To the t is the Rideau Ca 1 with its locks, further east the Ri eau R vetI t joins the wa. On the Quebe side the . spire of ineau Roman Cathol church rises up, past it the Gatinea iver soon mingles the Ottawa on its «ay to the St. mLaw- ie.i, Two imense asseiger and two ay bridges bring e t o Provinces closely together, a' make Hull but a utary suburb of Ott: • a, thpugh it boasts eing a city able to alone, The west - bridge is among th busiest thorough - s I have seen. It is ight at the mills, re thousands of h de re employed, continually wet fri the spray of the udiere Falls, one of he t Ikecleof eighte ttawa. The clear , oar run to these s, cross the bridge, ai d co nect with the 11 electric line runnial to ueen's Park, ylmer, nine miles us the Quebec side. er places of interest each d by the or Britannia -on -the la andi Landedowne k, where the race co rse a d exhibititon ldings are, Roekliffe nd the rifle ranges. many perks and foII i tain are beauth and break th ' mo t tony of continuous inci al streets are F tut the feet E. bac rig and Ott Ga an wit ren rail ver tri of ; ern far wh an Oh of fal II at Ot are Pa bu Th f ul ro a of houses. The wi e and clean, aid th or amental and o stly. ha 1, on Elgin $treet, m nument to t e Ot he oes in the Son?h Af of his civic etre tura of hich Rev. D M. m te, is pastor. He r an " castles in the a at eet and west o Ride po toffice stands ut i a lo go ot ag fio A buildings manly; In front of the city here is 'a worthy wa district fallen an War, and south ands Knox church, msey, an old school ails boyish dreams ." Facing Rideau canal bridge, the bold relief. It is ong the first place strangers usually k for in a etrange city. It is here we the news fr m ho e, or, perhaps, an- er of whom w drea and want to dream in. he railway li the Canadian Paci- the New Yor ttawa'and Canada 'antic ;1 the w s,the Ottawa iteelf Kingston. of Parliament Hill, t to Wellington ootpath about mid-. ottom of this pre - sheltered by shrubs. squeo seclusive and he " lover's walk," ng, oath here and d drinking places— be lots of "lovers' en one, or felt the. ife's master passion, t this is unique, a. day travel. It iei g, inepiringly mitt ive, and yet within est legislativt bane lectually great peo.} NITING PAPER 1nd AENVI ELOPES PAtisRlES and PADS ! In all the latest) shades and tints and at low prices. AEI WINTER, 40----SEAIFOR ainhther for first place, and summer reitorts are full of ilummer borders. We have had in quick succession, paogit'e and Sells Brothers circus, Nor Rdwe's trained animal show and the" ton Belles' lease ball team in bloo ers right." They played on the exhib tion ore. is & 013. - undo two daps in succession agams tional (deb hero. The turn s large, ' bloomer curioeity a in attention, but as the g Were hotly contested many were pleas s e hew well the girls could hold their gainet the professionals of the Ca nd curiosity yrs changed to admire gain, by wa of contrast with Sydne dd the Otte a people different, vastly tent. Here there is little eviden the out trot - mea d to Own ital, ion. , we dif- e of 'eglish arietoeracy, no common blendieg of tioos.lity or' tongue, But, instead, the aracteristica of two provinces of cliffi rent extraction are brought together; and -yet iemain separate and will. Each are clieging the habits, enstome, religion and to guts the great old lands from which they rung. The average Frenclur.an will stick hia gibberish and talk it, unmannerly!, be, re those who don't understand. He 4.4 less ogressive than hie English speaking neigh. r, And is in many ways many years behind •e timer. Nearly all important institu- inns; industries and factories aro under the management of English speaking men. -The Toro4ao clergYman, who lately expanded himself on I 't multiply and replenish, the iarth," and Added, that- was " wontan's bief!mission,' shouldlive on the Quebec "de awhile, te even " lower town" Ottawa, here there i "too eauch child," not half a 1 ! ozeta or th i ine even drawn at ten n a amilte Fr q iontly there are upwards of, twelve, som t ines-fifbeen, and occasionally twenty is reached. These may be seen ;tiling the str ets and lanes, like the rabbit est "et Austir lia, or animal like and ragged scranibling for a place around " a basia of ea oup ' hit a "chunk" of pork. The city of Hull he capital, . 1 arks. tSbhtaatta garo f erienoe of rovince. 01 ED Wherever hil '," making prolific hot -beds of die ase, , notably am 11 pox, from which the_ eati is never free.:. hese are some of the broken' kaleidoscopic pen pictures of Ottawa, , to whieh you end your M. P.'s to make laws rel good. The best may be left tl 9 Oa are and terw and the Rideau 4anal round the riir str aid fr m Wellingto at eet again, thee is a w y between to and ci itous hfllside,rnost1 It is beautifully pictu dreamily ipoetic. It is a narteri ef a Mile th re sheltered Beets a water only. There ma walks," who has not t gl wing rhapsodies of a d strongest fo culrio not found antioally en ro gestive, clreamil excl the shadew of the gre 'of 1 a morally and int pl . Like Australi no, tli ofj sporte, hunt ng, brLU, 'acreage, th atre cirsions is.re ot daily g rden parties end la ! . n ev hanti all French, being so clote to iVes more color to these tee es of the French quarter of fly corroborated by the ex - tench life in the adjotning ildren in hovel and hut, child - you go, verily" too much for the gen ut, the pelt told rambling and brief, the hole certainly, as in the outset, dreamlike, nooinplete,l abrupt, broken and jumbled up. at little hsl been written on so young a, ity4 and in eh left drifting in vacuity, ay!be caught, by another dreamer, and be- lie* a grander part of a greater applied dream. " Right thinking is the mainspring of right aeti n," and the greatest inven- tient and E,40 ievements of man are first ahaped in vis one of the mind.dreams. ' OTTAWA, Jaly 26th, 1902. • Canada. ! --t-Lightning, struck the barn of Athos_ lioffman, a firmer, living -a mile from I Mos - bow, Lenndx 'county,. The barn was barned andall its hontents, being 40 tons of hay and 14 leads of wheat. i ' .-It Ohs ;s 'money to run an electioni in a city. The election expenses of Mr. 4.13. Fut in South Toronto as given by his agent, were $3,04918, and'the expenses of Mr. W. B. kogers, Mr. Fop's nrisucceseful opponent, are 'given at $1,535.95: ---tA very severe storm, almost a cyelone, pasSed over n portion of the city �f St. Catharines, l o Sunday afternoon. Houses were blown, own, trees uprooted, barna de- mofished atdether damage *as done, in all to the ame t of about $300,000. Fortn 'ere no liver! ere lost. 1 '—John O'Meara, of London, attempted to 'jinni) on a ifilet moving freight train at Inger- sol; on Monday night last and was hutted ante. att, 'where he was found with a bad I gash on th head and one arm bi roken. Ers ' injuries are believed to be very serious. 1 n -F. w.i Holt, a New Brunswicker, who is at present engaged on an arbitration case in the 'Tithed States has been appointed by tha Minister of Railways to look iato the question of cattle guards On railways. Mr. Holt will have a prominent business man aeshoiated with him. , e -Bert Varner, of Ottawa, while robbieg sparrows' nets, climbed to the top of the barn and reached into the nest after the eggs. What he got was a large spotted , snake.- The reptile wound itself around his ante and he had considerable difficulty in sh4king it loose. ' e - Florence, the five-year-old daughter of Joieph Hanley, of . Walkerville, had her - right foot so badly crushed by a street car, my Wednesday of last week, that amputa- tion was necessary. The child etood wait- infor her father on the track, and appar- ently did not hear the oar approaching be- hind her. Thompson, staryeeotuncagr ladyin that ao t cif T1;01411:087 Mariawhi l while rid 1 y on Saturday, gotfrightened at a shower of , sparks emitted from the motor when the fate was burned out, and jumping from the ear alighted on her head, receiving such in- juries as to cause her death a few hours afterwards. r ----.The Department of Agriculture for Manitoba have decided from repoets re. eeived from each municipality that at leaet 1S,000 men will be required to take loff the h rvest of that province. In addition to this, 20,000 more will be required in the 'Territories, making an immense army of 38.000 workmen. Ottowans are fond ing, boating, base- d horse racing. EX- ccurrence. Picnics, n social's jostle one in Canada. I received weekly numbers of letters from Cenadiaus already here and from others proposing po come, all wanting berths. Let -me again; repeat, a young fel- low without five handfed dollars ought not to come, but, having that sum, I think he could use it to better advantage in Canada, at any rate for some time to come." —Daring the eityy leeotrical storm about 11 o'olook on Su day xihb, lightning struck the barn of A exan dr Campbell, about three miles fr in inchester, Dundee county. The ou handlings, including barns and 50 tone o ha were burned. The stock was saved and early all the iraple- mer Vs and curia ee. —Rev. Dr. C urtic , of Toronto, editor of the Christian uar ian, recently suffered a stroke of pare ysis, nd is now at Mini- mer's Point, Mu koka. In a letter received in Toronto recer4tly i was stated that he was able to go oiJt cai oeing and it was ex- pected he trout be quite recovered in a month's time. —The weather in Manitoba and the Northwest is said to be favorable for the maturing of crops. It is expected that August 14th will star the binders at work in the southern part Iof the province. In the Northwest Terr taries it will not be much before Septernb r let, with cenditions as favorable as they re now, when harvest commencer,. 1 —The Ontario Edu Won Department is sued new regula ions on August let, to the effect that in the cou se of a year or two public school t aches will not have to qualify on Latin or ot i er classieal languages, but will have to pars a chemistry. examinaT tion. Next yea , the e will be no publid school leaviog or par I. junior leaving ex. emanation, —Isaac Groff ' a attle breeder, on th outskirts of Elm rin aterloo county, sol 1,200 export tea tie or July and Augus delivery to one Of t e largest dealers i America, Mr. C. W. ampbell, of Chicago The 1,200 head will average about 1,40 pounds each. Ir. ampbell is reporte having made thelatat ment that thie is on of the best lots expor ed from Canada. _ —Mies Rubie Ad ms, a popular yonn I lady of Toronto, ,whoovith her mother, were visiting friends in Tenawanda, was drown ed in the Niagara river, near Tanawanda, on Monday evening last.' When passing from one part of a pleasure Yacht to another she fell off into the water and was drowned. De. Howard Gray, a young friend, who wais with her, jumped int6 the water to vase rowned. ' Watson, of Portage I in Ottawa a few da a her and he, too, was —Senator Robert Prairie, who -arrived ago, says that there will be a record crop i Western Canada aga cations all point to proportions, and if the railways busy to ale. The wheat alo reach 50,000,000 bushels, while the oth Bing I equally well. d that 2,000 deeds will be partment of Crown Leticia f land grants to obi and modern veteran t This numberis now ready for signature. 1 Altogether about 118,000 ,claims have -been received from the , veter- ans, and a staff of officials are busy' ascer- taining thoee entitled to grants. Ordy the veterans of the Fenian raid who saW active service will be givemgrants. I _ —Last Friday night when the echooner, New Dominion, washiff Long Point, I a ball of fire shot out of the sky and appeared to make straight for the veiled. Whoabout ten feet from the stern it burst overhead, shooting fiery piecese in different directions. The report of the burst-ing of the meteor was louder than the beriitiag of a cannon. The crew were stunned,' and the captain, who was at the wheel, - thought he would be thrown overboard. ! —Miss Lizzie barnpbell, daughter t of the late Daniel Capb*11, of Duntroon, near Colliugwood,iefti on her journey to Benguela, in Angola Territory" West Africa, on Thurs. age in going erician Missionary Society Id Boston, and expects to be absent for , sothe years. Miss Carap- bell is a native of Nottawasaga, and Was educated in the so eels there and l at the Collingwood Colleeate Institute. —Richard Hodgehn, lumber dealer, a Well known and respected citizen of Sunderland, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon, 2t3bh ult. He was assisting at the raising of a barn, on the farm i of John Farrow, &beat four miles from the village. About 5:30 he was Been to throw back his head and fall to the ground. He scarcely breathed after the doctor reached his side. The deceased had ed ad. a thia.year. The Ind - yield of last year s his is so it will keep guard against a bloc ewill in all probabilitjy grains are prom —It is expect issued in the D in a few days !—Thomas McKee, county clerk o Essex, dropped dead at his home in SandWich, on Friday, at the age of 76 years. The de- nee.sed wae 'born in Sandwich in 1836, and aId lived there ever mince. He had been ounty clerk for 37 years and Wa8 the ether of W. J. McKee, ex -Whip of the On- ario Liberals. _ . l—J. G. Jardine, Canadian agent to South rico., writing from Durban, under date of ly 5th, encloses extraots from Natal pap- s referring to stranded' colonials. He Says "Large numbers of returning refu- els, Boer prisoners and discharged soldiers, maining here are beginning now to abor market. We must remember a he white population - throughout Africa numbers less than 200,000 three milliens of natives and coolies, nig expenses are three times what they are glut the so that South to over and liv- day of last week, w missionary' work. out under the au here she will en Miss Campbell i pices of the A always resided in on basines as a de Ho leaves a widow —A local teleph ful operation op miles this side of t Union Telephone C at vicinity and carr ler in lumber and wo and ono daughter. ne system is in sum t. Joseph's .Island, e Sault. The Farm mpany is the name of organization, and not only have the vi ers on the island been connected, but majority of the far:ir.ere have instrument their homes. The area. of the island about 600 sqaar 400,000 acres of wooded throug pertino one of t communities dn —An electric visited Kingston last, and did co a ning struck the b ing near Croyd n stroying the barn, hay, two home va hogs, buggies, w plements. The oi's was over $2,000, with $625 insurance. ightning also struck and killed a valuable trotting mare owned by M. Conroy, of Kingston. The animal Was valued at $900. , ! —The Southdown Steamship Company's vessel, Rustingtonwhich went ashore on . the west point f Barnaby Isle, at 11 o'clock last Thursday night, is the fourth serious loss that has occurred in the St. Lawrence river this season. It is the eon - census of opinie among the shipping in- terests that seta further action should he speedily takenl t awrenee route more saf possible every stated that t4 increase' the made and to t lessening the —On Thar tremendous st while Mr. Fre coming down a lightning strap top of the ladd running down i one side turned to Rockwood, wbero he was joined and crossing qv his •hody, andl running 1 by a friend, and they returned to try and. down the other eide, stripping off his c °tin overtake the runawa . About three miles ing, even his sock oat from Rockwood an on the add° road the whole of is s to the body of Mies McColl Wag. his feet, knee i found. The deceased luta apparently jurnR- he fell senselese t ed or was thrown fr m the buggy, and is miles, containing ne !Ace rolling land, hes originally, but now ost prosperous far tario. orm of unusual seve on Sunday after erable damage. Li rn of Isaac Harrison, liv- de- s of five ini- eh ou 0 Mailia411111445 MoLEAN BROS., Publishers $1 a 'Yearlin Advance. less than a miracle. ! It is the first 0/118 of the kind ever heard of, when a person is struck by lightning, the whole of his body burnedand almost entirely etripped ef his clothing, even to his socks and boots, and notinstantly killed. The patient is now doing pretty well, and the chances for his recovery are very inuele in his favor. !—Growing rye, eeven feet three inches ill height, has been received by the Dominion Immigration authorities in Winnipeg from the farm, of Paul Bredt, of Balgonia, near Regina. The growth of all kinds of grain in the Regina district this year is said to be phenominal. , --Three prominent Texas stock -men have come from Dales, Textue, to the Canadian Northwest, where the intend to engage ex- :. tensively in ranching. Heretofore Texas cowmen have been Be ding cattle to the Da- kotas and the Wyoming country, but next e experiment el tieing Leh le said to be more ble to nieet disturb- horities. The Texas '- pasture about 200,-- anada next year. lder, who for nearly fleeted with the staff errety as teacher of - d who was widely ireles throughout the . spring they will try t ,a Comedian ranch, wh- convenient and less li mice from public au :combination expects t 009 head of cattle in : —Jacob M. Hiroo :half a century was OP of the Toronto Uni Oriental languages, 'a 'known in educational ,Dominion, died on S turday last, aged 83 'years. Mr. Hirschtel er, who was a native of Germany, came t Catiada when ten years of age resided for a short time la Quebec, and then removed to Montreal and 'from there to Toronto, -where he bad re - tided ever since. The deceased. gentleman wrote quite a number of books, and is beat . known by his " Expositor,'' and his ' " Answer to Bishop Colenso." —Sanford, the young man who was buried ia the well near Paris is slowly improving, but the shook sustained by hit nervous sys- tem had been bard to ;overcome. The yeang well digger, so the dootors isay, will yet be able to earn his livelihood, although he will have to learn some new occepation and will begin it practically Penniless. He is now able to walk about the streets. The ab- scesses from which he suffered are now gradually disappearitin, and evidi his ability to get out it is expected ' he will regain his strength. ' The nurses- report that San- ford is still quite nervous and cannot yet be left alone at nighte. —D. J. McKinnon,' of Giimsby, the own - orchard in Canada, the crop of pears and t will be larger than as large as in 1900. gg. 25 re the ag- the in rly ily 913ing - ity oop bt- Addington county, ogether with 25 load ued at $300, twenty. gone and all farm er of tha largest pea, 9,000 trees, states tha peaches in that distri last year, though not a a Creelman, superintendent of Armen' Institutes, has just returned from a trip through Halton county, and reports a good orop of apples, except in the northwestern portion, where a hailstorm did much dam- age. Buyers are already in the orchards, - offering $1 per barrel for fall fruit, and are buying orchards in bent and taking chances_ on a windfall. Generally -speaking, Mr. Creelman says, there is a good apple crop throughout Ontario. —The citizens of Gaelphein the neighbor- hood of the street railway poWerhouseshave been terrorized for the past week by the ap- pearance of an enormous reptile. Several persons have seen it, and they judge it to be all of mee en feet long and several inches in diameter. It first made, its appearauee somewhere in Sleernan's flaitt and is now lo- cated in one of the quarries on Waterloo avenue. Oa Thursday eveoing of last week e number of young men itt that neighbor- hood turned out with guns and clubs to do away with the monster, but the snake thonght it safe to stay under -coven it is thought that the snake is nue of the pair that escaped from the !Fourpaugh-Sells menagerie. 1 —Mr. WM. Harris, secretary Of the Tor- onto public echool board, has received an intereeting letter from Miss Augusta R. Hoover, a Toronto Junction young lady, who went as a meMber of the Canadian contingent of teachere to South Africa. The letter is dated Concentration -Camp, Fetch- efsstroome Tranevatil,South Africa., June 19, 1901 Misa Hoover States that she has just seeded down to work teaching in the town school. She says alie'finde the pupils quite advanced and eager th learn. The principal of the oohed is a, 'Mr. Dove% a nephew' of the Genetal, and his method of teaching is greatly admired by the Canadians. Mies noover adds that the concentration camps are fast breaking up and farm schools beiag organized. They are very comfortable and have plentei of luxuries: —Richard Benjamin VanHorne, 8011 of Sir William; 'chairidem ef the Canadian Pacific Railway, lies in the -quarantine hos- pital at New York, di with fever and the effects of What is supposed to he poison, given him for vengeance by a Cuban -cook in camp, near Matanzas, Qaba. Mr. Van Horne has been chief engineer of the new Cuban railway, wide his father is project- ing.. In Cabe he die man, who more he ening to Aloof Van man left (maw, and 1 render the St. nd to remove ment of danger. vernment will be urg ts that are now additional steps to , ere which now exist. I - of last ; _week, during a of thunder and lightning, Teeter, of WalIaceburg, adder from a haystack the ladder, smaithing r, fa as b is d to eing ards Was the the barged a native work- ould get even, threat - erne on eight, The ter got backennknoWn, as cook. I Mr. VanHorne complained. of poison symptoms for sailing froze Matanza was taken violently When he a 'ved at severe,' rlays before for a visit home. He ck on board thealdp. 6V7 York his temper- ature was 103. His recovery is considered ear* Of age. ars ago, David Parent, mato a young woman. hey 'qu reeled and sep- doubtful. 1He is 30 y --Twenty-three ye of W-indson, was mow A few months later t arated. The wife wen Detroit to live. She drifted- entirely out of Parent's life. A few da s ago a y ung marl called on Parent, w o had con inued to live in Wind- sor and carrying on h n gardening Wenzel*. The youdg man a flounced _ himself as David's son. Parent ad never heard that heaves a father. ,Af er some conversation, young Par nt told Ins father that he wished tff his paron would liv together. He pleaded hard with ,the father, and filially gained hie consent tP a reconeil &pion with hia-evifte. The son brought bis other back to Wind- sor. E lanatione °flowed. Both were t of the blame, and it that Mrs. Parent _ er hueband's home, willing to shoulder pa was fined y arrange should eo e back to the folio mg day. iss Maggie M about 20 years of age, away accident about night of last week, n (waged left Guelph ea James cAteer, to vi wood. The horse wa train, and in a sudden nese. Ma McAteer, the horse kip premptl the rig and stunned. the horse had gone Coll, a young lady was killed in a run - 11 o'clook Thursday ar Guelph. The de= y in the evening with it friends in Rock - startled by a passing hitch broke the her - in his efforts to pull , was thrown out of When he recovered "th the rig. Be re - and boot, burning al dy from his shoulde him from the ladder, and the ground. Medical aid red, and although terribly cal man pronouncedthe to prove fatal, although against the sufferer. His eath ie nothing more or W&8 at once to burned the ed case not likely great chances are eseaping sudden supposed to have had was the daughter of Drayton, and had with her aunt, Mrs. few months. her neck broken. She Mr. Ifegh McColl, of D. making her home McAteer, for the past L-sgett oe