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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1904-05-27, Page 1^ hoid a serio8 of' orth. The classes the Ottawa School, are - exports in the 'Ruled, having in the the cities and ourgelves fortuxt- s for Seaforth. Assortment of the everything °Ise re. of Finished 'worth seeing. R..- our store, will bet- insfraotion is abso.4, There will be in the forenoon, and ontinaing for three. any number -from wish. Even if you ie and see the exhi- e it will interest spices of the Gor- Lb are " t have no hesitiaiott a the ladies of Sea-. Lsh and Embroidery sale and a 'cordial desire to take ad - Company Stewart, of Clinton, ant Ian:0ton exchanged pulpits • 1t.—Mr. Ernest Adams, arn raised on Thumdayt • Stanley. ioid.—Mr Wiiliam Colerell is fame on the Pandonroat ;eorge Hanley, of Mantes, The fann contains 10Ce ri is a very gpod one. It, , a good new bonze and a 'harm Mr. Volevill intendi- a family to Minton in the ft and thinks of going on a g tour to Manitoba ant raest. Exeter. :xeter expets to have s elebration 0.11 the attb, and - arable weather, there is> be a large crowd.—liare - ts residence, which was of -- male last week, was not. 1185 SiDef; been leased to S• outheate, who win Or" The Sutherland limes mat raithwhich did such a large PV e for several years, is down, and the machinery; inaved elsewhere.2-Previout marture for their neat - rigsville, Mr. and Mrs. T. waited ou at their resie 'the pastor and a deputata Trivit Mearioriai aurae trented with a handsome t dish, in recognition of and useful services, ale eetfishly rendered in the rk.—Mrs. Sohn Leethortim former resident of Re. London this week. Sbe- ar.s- of age.—Mr, and Mrs. 'Imam farmer residents of ay, but for many years Tee California, have been here -lends. Mr. Holman. is a Mrs. W'rre Drew, a thif tiFI e playing foot ball with, scholars on the school iuririe the morning recess - last week, rerat gi of Mr. George H. Winne hen township, m:rtunet wide. e Of having a await ankle broken. Da,shwood. r. Jonas Ilartielb rec' trorixone of his colts last king two of his ribs, Tho c onf i him to rue time. --Miss Egal3a, -ho has spent the past two • Detroit, returned home on emning, owing to ill -health -. Clemen<. and family hare settled in their new bome, Lzg Peoplee' A.ssociatioo tier Rally Day 033 th6 3 a programme *ill be reit- a cellection taken in aid -t5itate•—Mr. Peter Atelesaof rat este:Laster, has bad tbe -e store nicety painted and etfice sign placed ovet 'Idds greatly -to the a of the building.—On t •t rtport was eireutatee auenther's barn wee entire* evestittatien, it was amert _a- the fire was caused WI iLv: of a brush pile. Bute i3 was ascertained, -several to the scene of the fire. Eded with about thirtypeat ed with anther rig ariet_e"t ;n the breaking a one front wheel of aa""7 Occupants ware also throwit e hard road, but save for' haking up none were irate Tailoring and readynrade Clothing FURS tes ,FURNISH INGS AN D TH1 •.. lir•"! • • • Greig & '$itew4 stEAFORTIL AftvoAAAAAAAAAA If the reader has not already bought his Spring outfit, ested and no doubt turning over in his mind what he shall shall buy. Interested in things progretsive, should our re Ws notice, we must say that he cannot afford to pass ot clothing to show him, values to offer him, such as will not to see elsewhere, For his own benefit, we want him to w he irll be inter buy, and where he arks; come under stock, We havc his good fortein4 mpare. In 1 ordl. to do this, he must see, that's all we ask. , If others are better than ours, do not buy from us. Go and see others, Come and see oUrs. We are pre- pared to cheerfully accept the result, whether it be for or against' us, The great governing principle controlling our methods of placing goods before the buying public is, that The recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten This is our claim. We cannot establish this fact with you unless you have come to see. We want to meet you. We want to 'place you on our long list of customers and friends. If we do not prove worthy of your patron- age and confidence, that is our fault. A Cool Read forGoodlidgment A man now days wants his best judgment with him. Hot(broiling days are coming. Have you, the hat to wear necessary to keep a cool bead? Straw g cad Ijiqht Felts in Head/wear Splendid aesortment, smallest to the largest in size, best in the lowest in prim Felts -75c, $1.60, $2,00, and $2.50 Straws -35(11 75o, $1.50 and $2.00 Sunshades -110o, 12c and 15o. COLLARS and TIES: Your outfit is very incomplete unless the collar and tie are right and in place, The collar and tie can make or mar a man's Comfort and make-up, Don't spend your change buying little mistakes, Be sure you purchase at a reputable store, where these small details of man's attire are made a study by an expert, whose businessit is to make you well dressed if you buy at his counter, ' The best of Ties -25c, 35 and 50c. Collars -710c 15c and 20c, quality, always Special 14is eek and Next. We have strong arguments in men's and boys' suits. The prices have been cut away down in many odd lines, which have been broker?, and only a few of each line left. Good sellers, if 'yours happens to be the size left, you make a few doilars. Men's $10,00 and $12.00 Suits at Men's $ 8.00 and. $ 9.00 -Suits at Men's $ 5,60 and $7.50 Suits at Boys' $ 5,00 mid $6.50 three-pieoe Boys' $ 3,50 and *4 50 Boys' $ 2,75 and $3.25 two-piece Boys' $ 2.00 and $2.50 " T.toysl $ 1.50 Blouse Wash Suits Suits at g g g . g 0+.4-4-e4m4-•4++++++44-e-e-e-mme-• sianEtrs. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1904. A New Blast From an -Old Horn. ( Vritten for The Expositor.) T . Government must have for- get ..n the fate of Jay Cook, ono of the ablest tinanciers of his day, who undertook to build the Northern Pa- cific railway from, St. Paul te the Paeitic coast,. on the tail cwt. 1 of a boom at least twenty-five years too mon, with a population of :nearly tifty million, that proved a dieastr- ous failure. Such being the case, what nimble s is it for any govern- ment on the tail end a a boom with a population at eix million, when both aabor and. material are nearly deuble whet they were two 'years ago, to enter -into such a wild scheme. The fact of the matter is, the irresponsible Board at Trade from every little town and city in tae province, tertet succeeding in hypothecating., the property a every body to enable them to build up in- dustylea- a all kinds, went on a pil- geimage- to Ottawa begging protec- tion from the preference given to British gotids, as they required the la test -i Ill p rov ed mechinery of alt kinds dawn to printing presses which they use for advertising protec- tion, they found no fault with the American tariff. These deputations feightened the government oht of, having a policy at ail, .hence they were forced to make a new political mime to sustain themselves in power. If the spirit of Sir John A. Macdonald had mime to earth and take up its abode in the perSon Of air Wilfred Laurier, he could not have done better as an the Oovio- ces are getting their share of the $7 60 550 450 3 75 2 75 250 150 850 plunder. The more wetly an rageoue •the scheme is, the money, wIll be in it for the pr ors, who are supposed to be all es long as the money comes tbe pockets of the producers. pears tar inc the farmers in the prey- irice, whether Grit or Tory, who are willing to hypothecate their farms to -enable any Government to build a railway over 3,000 miles, costing over 150 million dollars, throegli a wilderness where nobody lives, to a. one-horse place like Moncton, or who believe in scattering six millions of people over a territory largee than the United States, are fit subjects for a certain house in Londonr The more business that can be concen- trated in a city or in the dlferent provinme in the Dotninion, th , ebea- per and more profitable can bthil- 110.S0 be carried on. It is tinie en- ough to swarm when tbe population boom:nes congested. The act that our Goverrimente have spent b,undreds af thousands of dollars in blowing up New Ontario and the Northwest, has sucleeeded in depopulation both male and Female labor of Old Ontario, the garden of the Dominion, where the condition are more favorable to farming than anywhere else. This year w4 have raised double tbe amount of both No store in the county will show you ti e variety of good, clean, up-to- date Shirts that will be at your disposal for se ection upon the , tables in our store. All men appreeiate the good points ir a shirt—want it to fit well, have their (MD idea about pattern, some loud and fancy, some quiet and ex- clusive. We have these. The price will meet all purse requirements. out- MOTO IDOL - right ut of t ap- 50c in the lower priced to $2 in the finest AS\AAAAAA.AANWIAA0~AAW1 Greig & Stewart, of them, and could have still led it if the necessary help have been ot, The Govei have lost tbeir heads, and are ing castles in the air. They estimate the grain growing capabil- ities o,f the Northwest, and alse over- estimate the future consuming pow- ers of Britain. If present riroduc- tions fall as far short of the inark as the past productions have done, the Government will find themselvas like.Jay Cook. In 1878 Charles Tup- per predicted that by 1890 Manitoba would give 640 million bushels or not produced 50 millions, half of the No. 1 hard wheat. 1.n 1903 tihad er t crop being unmarketable if proper- ly graded. Great Britain, having no longer the monopoly of the trade, of the world, and having a debt on her shou1der,3 of four billions, with bey revenue fallen 27 millions abort this year, if she continues -o lose ber trade, and ber population, who are now constunere become produc- be ex - good a s been a, Am doub- could nment build- Over - dohnion 'Bros: Old Stand, SaLA_POIVTIEC.. - The largest and best stocked Clothing, Hat and Shirt store in Western Ontario. Highest Prices for Butter and Eggs ers in this country, it cannot pected that sbe „will be as 'market in the future as elm h the past. Even now Russ gentina and. India are supplying her wants, Canada and the States hav- ing nothing to send, altbough the steamships are willing to carry it for almost nothing across the ocean. The Government got both them- selres and Great Britain into a mess in giving theta preterence over 9thor countries. Germany used to be tour best customer for -fall wheat. In 1900 our. supplies were all bougbt and shipped to American porte and smuggled into Germany under the favored nation clause. This sharp praetice is what led to our trouble with Germany. The Germans being our most snccessful and best farm- ers and manufacturers, do .not like the present treatment. Govern- ments, like individuals, cannot stand prosperity. It is great presumption on the part of any government any- where an this continent to take cred- it to tbemselves for bringing, on this wave of prosperity, goverements beitig only flies on the wheel. Cer- tain causes are sure to produce cer- tain effects. The fact that the nav- ies -of all the great powers of Europe all became us fare, caused 0 spend millions ing mod.ern ti tion. Fortino useless. Groat 22 millions 1 even the roc the farmers of the whole continent. In. 1898 josep-h Leiter started the present boom in putting up the price 'of wheat from 65c to' $1.80 in Chicago and from 60e to '1.20 in Canada, which enabled a -gr at many farm- ers to clean out their graoaries of Several yearcrops.The 1002 crops sold as high on the 'ttici.fie 'mast for export to China, Japan and, Austral- ia as they did in Now York. No. 2 -wheat ruled from 50 to 100 per buehel higher in Chi ago than in On- tario 500 miles neti rer tbe British mark:et, and No. 1 and No. 2 Mani- toba sold higher to Canadian millers for blending purpoee.s to coax On - Ontario farmers to eat some of their' own wheat, than it was worth in the old country. From tbe first of July to the end of Irlarcb last, the tario farmers to eat some of their a to 15c higher for 11our local mar- . 2 wheat, corn, oats and barley M kets. Last fall millions of bushels of corn were shipped from Chicago by water to Montreal at 2 1-2c to ac per bushel. If tilie United States 11107'0850 in the fut re as they have dene in tbe past thirty years, they will have a population of 120 mil- lions and it the preduction of hard spring wheat falls off as it is doing, they will require all the had wbeat that Manitoba and the Territories can grow to supplytheir wants for _blending purposes, to enbance the aralue at their flours at home and a- broad. The Americans are DO tools. As soon as they can buy wbeat cheaper and better than grow it they will throw off the duty just as Can- ada has done with corn, and J. J. Hill will at once riddle the country with opposition roads leading to his two lines. Besides, the Americans cannot very. well bull prices in their own markets without controlling the markets in Manitoba. There is no such -thing as friendship in trade, and supply and demand are bound to regulate prices. It is well known that cheap food etuffs and cheap raw materials are 'Great Britain's salva- tion and they are 'doing their best to c'heapen prices, In Egypt they have spent 125 millions in irrigation work, and in India. 150 million, where labor is cheaper than any where else in the world. There is no doubt tbe Northwest is a great country, but it is a_ mere patch in comparison with the immense territories .of virgin lands that are ready for the plow in Russia, where No. 1 hard spring wheat .is grown and where there is plenty of both male and female la- bor to be had for 2e and 3e an hour. Both Germany and , America are do- ing an immense teade in supplying them with modern, mericultural im- plements of all ki ds, and the Yan- keelns are spending Miens in build- ing modern flour_Iills to grind hard wheat Argentina ;is a larger coun- try than the Northwest, where Pro- vidence has provided over 3,000 miles fot navigablir rivev, 22 feet deep, free of cost, whe et live stock can live and grow fat outdoors the year round. This year they have a sur- plus or over 200 million bus'bels of wheat and corn. T. 0. Curtis; who is now in India, gives a most glow- ing account ot the capabilities of that country. He tells where the government spent 10 millions in a barren desert in irrigating 1,700,000 acres of land to keep the natives from starving to death in 1891, In 1902 the population had grown. to 800 prosperous farmers who bad suc- ceeded in paying ten per centon the investment and had raised a crop valued at 17 million dollars and steps have been taken to irrigate two /pillion more acres of land. He also bells of # Mr. Philips wbo was so impressed wilt% tbe, country that be gave Lord Curzon and his good wife 'one hundred thousand dollars to build an agricultural college to in- struct the natives in the modern system of farming and liow, to use American implements. Wben suoh rapid changes are taking place all over the world our Gover:nraent, in, stead of losing their heads, should be cautious, The handwriting is now on the wail. Cattle, hogs and sheep have fallen 3c a pound. Oboes° and butter are down 5c a pound, from the highest- point and t be chances are that our grain 4rops, unless there is a failure will be down from 10c to 20e a Inishel. This means conse- quently the purehasing powers of the country will' 3e reduced to tbe same extent, Wimp the great major- ity of ind-ustries that have been pro- moted with wind and water will tot- ter and fall. . This letter is already sufficiently long and I shall have to finish it next wmk. Y4rs truly, . JAMES PRINGLE, SR. Stratford, Mak 13th, 1904. The eorrespondek of the Toronto Mail, who aceompenied the Canadian Pres e Association on their excursion to St. Louis, has this to say about the position taken there by our own eountry; . Canada, indeed, is very much to the front all throagh the exhibition. The Dominion trophy in the Agricultural Building, speaking, as it does, of the wondeousagricultural capabilities of the country, is exceptionally fine, Every class ef product is shown, and the specimens proclaim the marvel- ous productiveness of our soil and the scientific knowledge of our far- ers. In horticulture we are surpass- ed only by California, where, of course, the tropical. fruits lend nov- elty to the exhibit. In the depart- ment of mineralogy there is DO dis- t of Canada. an mining en- represe.nted. are also well eless for modern war- e and all of them to and billions in build- plements of destruc- tions becanae just as Britain had to spend t year to strengthen of Gibraltar. When one thinks of he money spent in the Boer war and the craze the Ameri- cans, Japanese and Chinese have tak- en to own p werful navies, Provi- dence could • ot very well prevent such a prospe ous time from taking place. The vernment have done., and are doing their best to augment the boom. he increased revenues have all been pent as fast as raised and the building of a road costing 150 -millions goodtuntil su bursts. If farming wealth, Caned are, ciommerci ly connected one country cannot live and prosper without exchanging the natural pro- ducts of eac other. We are now one of their customers and in one sense, in ite of fate, they are our best customer. The Chicago bulls are th great benefactors to • ought to make times b time as the bubble • our main source of and the United States 117 speaking, as close - the Siamese twins, Wall Papers Window Shades Curtain Poles Picture Framing. AUX. WINTER, Piotare teaming a Specialty. meetatoateeme 111111111MINIMIll Ito be, a centre for Canadian visi- Ors. Altogether, Canada shows up shattered fortunes as best le. efaild. But, whether, fortunntely - wise, lia made a largo profit. Ilen-•'• the. spurious agrvement 1,4 trot i out, the mythical ten per cent. rake off is held Up 10 scorn, and very na- turally 1.1.VOUSOS rightenue indig- nation a Conservative writer:4 and spea k e who an: int e y in in damaging the char:totem a their political opponents and driv- ing a Liberal Government. 'from power, Yours truly, ARCH. HiSLOP. Grey, May 17tb, 1901. • Canada. —It is said that there is a great , • . e tirush of peoplto the %elms anain The, Press party examined the g welt the fair. V, 1.1olislwd. W hill. eLimbi.ring areund eCa- district this spring and all the botls lee yournitter slip' • d alio f• 11 and tralus are over crowded. amdian exhibits with a degree of foremost. 11110 a iiiiii of Water, to • —Rev. Dr. Potts, Rev. Wm. Friz- eatriotic pride, for they combine to lidoLEAN BROS. Publiehers a Year in Advance, dustry al Mno I, El!"/I, 3..• _ niained 1,1-en1y -31'1 t 31 4,0:- e.d. 113 T1i1i01111111 .4, 1-1..' ;n bus:111 Ile 1,- yeas ago,havinm g gaed m cope,- ene••• At env t'rue 1;‘, (ma,' i•-• ,-o- sivo • rao • i/i Lind 18 :M.3 nit ob.a,but (rip prolo.r.y Illy! :•oi:a. ye aito,„ Ile ot--ned faie f ii 130 atin'S 18•1341:131,, and 111:+o ov.11fli r••al •!....oale in Tilson- burg, lf:s e,ife. died 111,001 three: yeirs age, —Whet Are. Chilies eat• Campbellford, e as doing mails Nv1)rk she itie hoe 13 old son. Chcrlis CI:ffor 1, in ch., ge of ha, lisle sistr9-. reett 'linking it would be ter tniertain the, little fellow, took him out into the n, up- Cenada at St. Louis zell and other Toronto delegates to falling it as supposed that he must announce to the world that the DO - the 'World's Sunday School C.011Vvo- 11 i Tr.:•13 render•••I unconscious, and minion is second to no other country. tion at Jerusalem reached 1 elle on IJVJbl( 1O l'4"11) Mr. Hislop, M. P. P. Explains. Saturday, —The Canadian Marconi C enpany Dear Expositor, -1 have no desire to provoke. a public discussion with one a your long journalistic exper- ienee and. recognized ability in con- teoversy, but I wish to point out that in your article in The Exposi- tor a May 13t13, on tbe Soo question, you, forgetting for, the moment a few essential facts, unintentionally, I am sure, arrived at cond.11110113 which will be misleading to those of your many readers who look to you COT inspiration. and guidance in pub- lic erfairs. You say"During the re- cent session ot the Legislature an agreement was produced. which had brim made between Messrs. Conmee and Bowmen and another firm of railway contractors, known as Foley Bros. This agreemeint is to the af- fect that all work of whatsoever kind or nature hereinafter under- taken or acquired by Conmee and Bowman from Mr. Ciergue, of the Algema Central or the associated companies without conmetition,shall be done by Foley Bros., at certain prices, with a rebate to Messrs. COD - /MO and. Bowman of ten per cent, upon the gross cost of the work to Messrs. Foley Bros," It is true a deeument was produced and read in the House by a Co.nservative mem- ber. It is also true that Conmee and I3owinan, Mien and there, most em- phatically, stated that no such a- greement was then, or ever bed been in form, that it had been prepared without their authority or consent, that it had never been signed or ex- emuted and that it had never been aeted upon either directly or indi- rectly by tbe parties to the contract. Mr. Conmee promptly produced a 'etopy at the actual agreement be- tween his firm and- that of Foley Bros, In it there was no intimation of a ten per cent rake off." I read it carefully, It 'Was a plain business like agreement, no such conditions as you suggest were found in it from beginning to end, There was nothing said of a future con- tract or anything else but what re- lated to Abe one therein deecelbed, Your article would leave the im- pression that Conmee and 1301M/1D obtained the contract without corn - petition. It is a well known feet tbat the Clergue Company called fer minstraction tenders in the ordinary way; that Conmee and Bowman, like many other contractors �f Canada and the United States put in a ten- the frost of last winter der and that on the merits a their eneirely destroyed all the straw - trays - has tender they were awarded the con- beery plants planted in beds last play superior to b Every branch of Cana terprise is t-boroUghlJy Our lumber resource_ illustrated in the'Forestry and Game Building. Here the Interetolonial Railway makes an exhibit, emphasiz- ing the resources of the Maritime Provinces. Sere, too, the Grand Trunk -has a handsorae Oavilion in Dorio and Corinthian style, direct- ing the visitor to the wonders of Muskoka, and to the fishing and .hunting grounds, there and else- where 'in Canadat The Canadian ex- hibit is in charge of Commissioner Hutoltinson, who ;is provided with a Canadian bundling, which, although pot so imposing as those of some European countries, is nevertheless ornate and capacious, and is bound • 11:s head r•-maine•I under the water. and before help could arrive he had drewned• Every effort was made to has signed a ua contract to bd sev- . • • resuscitate lam, but all to no avail. en wireless te egrap s ns ii; _Rev. Mr. Abeiham, elm is organ - the: Gulf of St. Lawrence t id on 5 izing voters' hatglIPS and addressine She Atlantic seaboard. public gatherings on behalf of the, —The total insurance payable on Ontario Alliance, has just returned losses sustained in the late dis- in a trp through the riding of estrous fire in Todonto .amounts to tna-- !,atetst Welliegton, re. he addres- P,000,000. Most of this money will sed meetings at Palmerston, Ilar- be drawn from England and tbe Un- riston, Moorefield and Drayton. Mr. ited Statespioneer of Abraham reports that the meetings a —John MacDonald, were most successful, and that the Bruce county, died last Friday, lige(' majority of the electors premnt at 77 years. Ho settled in Eldersida e , very meeting signed the pledge of towil$1 p forty-nine years ago, aria , tne 'Voters' League. The temperance Lor nineteen years WAS 11. member ot people of both political parties, and the township councilin some cases, active politicians, he —The death oceured at Burford, a round to be determined to pledge few days ago, of Archibald Harley, their candidates at the next Provin- ex-M. P., at the age of 80 years. Ile plat election to the abolition of the represented South Oxford in the Do- e minion House from 1882 to 1887. He "a" :• —On Thursday of last week, a very retire•d to make room Tor Sir Rich- ard Cartwright. vere thunder storm visited Brock- ville and vicinity, accompanied by —The seven -storey carriage fact - heavy rain, Mr. Samuel Flint, a ory of B; Ledeux & Co., of Montreal, resident of Brockville, perhaps the largest in w Canada, as wealthY eompletely destroyed by fire a few lease health has not been robust for some time, had. a narraw escape. gays ago, and Mr, Ledeux says the Lightning struck the chimney of joss will be $300,000, half of wilich , •bis residence, throwing the bricks a - is covered by insurancen lively fashion —11m winner of the Sing's Plate b°11t 4' It passed at the Toronto races on Saturday gown the chimney througb the li- brary, in which Mr. Flint was sit - was Mr, N. Dyment's Sapper' ' a ting, into the miler. iie. was shock - black gelding three years old, by cd, but not injured, MrS, Flint and " Courtown." TIOe time wa-5 2,12 and eaughttir, wbo were in another room, the value to the winner, $2,105 and a were not hurt. At Maitland, a short piece of plate. Thie is one of the distance from the town, Mrs. Boy - great - racing events of the teaseder was rendered unsoeseions by the This, ere were 39 entries for thram, —Dr. Francis C. Sibbald, a Geor- ”glItning• and fw° men, StaceY and gina tewnship, York county, who Jackson, "rki" in tl'e fie"' w°1't' badly, stunned, All ivill recover. bated at Snor,b2,8r xanostesoffattliepreoe: died —Fire in the bakeshop of the Rim - tate is composed of cheiese stooks -mi House, Ottawa, Friday morning did #3,600 damage. It was mottled in which the careful doctor bad in- to the cookery, which lay immediate - vested his spare cash. Tbey are con- ly beneath the dinieg room, Tbe he - :adored t'o be first class securities. The estate ,is willed, principally to tel was speedily filled with smoke and the 225 guests departed in haste: nephews and nieces of the deceased, -The 'Armen were limited after first, —The by-law granting a bonus et several of them coming down by the $15,000 to Alma Ladies' College was fire emapes. Then the men scut - voted upon for the second time on tied out, and potent, grave and rev - Friday ,and carried. by a majority of erend Senator‘ and members ot Par - 198, 'When submitted the first time liament appeared in their pyjamas in it Was defeated by a majority of 11 heavy rain on Sparks street at half - on a total vote of 1,277, The total past five in the meriting, The fun vote polled was 1,220. Second thought of tbe thing item apparent only after is, sometimes the best thought. Hadit amd been ascertained that the Ails bonus not been granted the COl- danger was paet ; but nothing but lege would 'have been removed from the prompt and effective work of St. Thomas, the Ottawe brigade saved the Cap- -George W. Bennett, fruit farmer, trom a disastrous eonflagra- ef the townsbip of Sandwioli East, tion it one of its danger paints. —A rear -end c,ollision octurred a- bout one mile and a half east of Guelph on Saturday night on the Grand Trunk, a -double header train ;smashing into the caboose a another freight train. Several ears were Mashed, and three were burned, con- taining miscellaneous articles, in - eluding druggists' material, a car- load -of paper and dry goods, also a oar of lumber. A few minutes after the wreck a large erewd had gath- ered, hut when it became known that one car was loaded with ainunition and tbat car took fire there was a rapid dissipation a spectators, Loaded cartridges were strewn for a hundred yards around and an exploit - i011 was momentarily expected, but Slei fire was put out before the ex- pected -happened, One engine made a complete somersault, and eleeht cars 'were piled on -top of it, almost eompletely hiding it from view. Strange to say no person was injured the engineers and firemen having Jumped in time to save their lives. The loss will amount to about $15,- 000. —The tide of emigra.tioe to Cana- da bids fair to esta.blish a new high water mark this year, ghat surpas- sing last year's record of 134,000 ar- rivals. Special despatches received in St, John, Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa, indicate that the emigrants are mostly settlem for the west, and are .Of a very superior eheraoter, the majority of them coming from the British Lake. A shortage of woroen appears to be the roost regrettable feature, The immigration into Can- ada during May total about twenty-five thousand souls, the larg- est influx that has ever occurred in any single menth in the country's history. On account of floods and other untoward events, which have interfered with tbe regular opera- ation of railway lines in tbe North- western States, the inflow of set - 'tiers from tbe States into Manitoba and the Territories is not milt° tip to the mark of last spring ,but it is hoped that the sunceeding months will improve the showing, and that at least forty-five thousand Ameri- cans win eros the border this ma- son, to make homes for themselves under' the British flag. tract of building a certain section of the road. It le a fact that ehey af- terwards eub-let the work to Foley Breie, not on the hasis of a ten per omit. profit, but at certain fixed sche.dule prices without any refer- enee to a rebate. I believe you are correct in your statement that they cleared sense $39,000 on the transac- tion, I agree with you that if con- tractors make Mich large profits in the building of the road the public contribute too much to the. scheme. We must remember,however,that no railway promoter or government ca.n tell how much the building of a pro- jected read will cost till after the contracts have been let And the practice of sub -letting contracts is much older than the building of rail- ways. We see men in the humble walks of life taking contracts from municipal councils or from Drivate individuals and, sub -letting them at a profit. There is no doubt that rail- way contracts will be sub -let just as freely after the public 00030 giving Subsidies as they are now. The trend of your article would in- dicate that Comnee and lawmen were the men who prevailed on the Le•gislature to grant the subsidy to the Algoma Central and that it was in consideration of that service they were given the contract. It must not be forgotten that there were many other contracts let. Mr. Macdonald, a Conservative ex -mem- ber was another fortunate man, Mr. Macdonald worked as hard against the granting of the aid to the road as Connie° and Bowman did for it. Yet, strange as it may appear, be was awarded a contract and permit- ted to- pocket what you are pleased to. call a "rake off," in the very same manner and, for anything I know to as great an extent as those two zealous, influential men, wbo had borne the burden and heat of the day. 1 believe it to be inconsiat- ent with our parliamentary insti- tutions that members who vote sub- sidies to railroads should hold a coo - tract with the beneficiaries of tbe aid. so given. It has, 1 think, a ten- dency to destroy a member's inde- pendence, and render him -unfit to at all times take tbat broad, independ- ent view of public questions that a representative should. However, Mr. Comnee was a rail- way contractor long before he enter- ed the House. Ile says, and I have no reason to doubt the statement, that he was a-muoh richer man be- fore he become a member than he is now. This does not look as if he had abused his trust. Had be, in this now famous contraet, lost all his money, as I am informed he did a fete years ago in a contract on a road as heavily subsidized out of the publIe treasury as the Algoma Cen- tral Is, the outside world would have heard nothing of it. Be would have been permitted to brood over tbe disaster in solitude or -repair his year. The older plants survived tbe bard frosts, but, as many of the gardeners dug up tbe old vines when they planted the younger ones, they will haven* berries to sell this year. Small fruit trees were not injured, and a plentiful crop from them is looked for. ,jamets Learn, of Yarmouth aownsbip, has, through his motion - ors, Messrs. Maxwell & Maxwell, :sued a writ against Mrs. Sartip)1100 Biddle, of Port Rowaneclaiming da- mages for breach of promise. Mr. Learn is a. widower, about 50 years of age, and he claims that the de- fendant promised to inarry him, but, that about a month ago she became the wife of Edward Biddle, of Port Itowan. Mrs, Biddle was formerly Miss Saraphine White. —Hon. John Dryden, Minister of ,Agriculture, and Pea. G. E. Day, arm superintendent at the Ontar- io Agricultural College, sail en June 10, for England. Ono of the ob- jects of their visit to the old coun- try ifs tbe purchase of thoroughbred etock for tag mille•ge farm. Thy will probably extend their trip to Den- mark in order to investigate the hacon 4ndustry, which, it has been fitited, threatens to become a keen competitor of Canada in the British markets, —Hon, James Sutherland, Minis- ter of public works in the Dornieion Government, has left Ottawa on ac- count of his health and is now at his home in Woodstock. It is said he may cross the Atlantic before bis yeturn to the Capital. Hen. 0, S. alyIllan will aye the Minister in charge of Mr. Sutherland's depart- ment during his absenee. Mr Suth- erland seems to have nearly every- thing else a man can enjoy in this life save health and a wife and fam- ily. Ile is a bachelor. —The death occurred at an eariy hour Sunday morning at Brantford, 'of Dr. Reginald Henwood, one of the most prominent surgeons in Ontar- io. Ile was 76 years of a,ge and came to Canada from England in early youth locating at Toronto, where he secured a provincial license to prac- tise in 1846. Fifty years ago be re- moved to Brantford and for nearly a half century did an enormous prac- tise, retiring about four years age Death was due to general decline. Dr. Henvvood was Mayor of Brant- ford in 1882-83, —The death occurred at Tilson- aurg, on Saturday, of Mr. Robert B. Miles, who had been a resident of that section nearly sixty years. Mr. Miles, wbo was in hte 82nd year, came from Tyrone county, Ireland. In his youth lie learned to weave, hut, on coming to t his country, be learned wagon making, After be had served a tour -years/ -appretice- ship, he started in business for him- self in Brantford, but about a year later left that place and establish- ed a carriage and wagon making in - —Two a Mr. Thomas Skinner/a cows died a few days ago from rate: Ing piint. He used pails to pnt 1318 paint in aria aft•r•r he got through his Job of painting h(1 washed the in- side of the pail -4 thoroughly, but left paint on the enttide. The cows lick- ed the paint off the pails and took enough pant into their system to nalile. &Int. —A quiet wadding aook place May 18th, at tbe residence of Mr, James Laing, SS Marys, whim -their eldest daughter, Mias Maisie, became the blade of Mr. W. -L, Armstrong, of Maffei°, The Rev, A, McWiniaette B. A„ of Hamilton, officiated at the ceremony at which were present only the near relatives or olose friends of the young couple.