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WEDNESDAY, At4.Y 2nd, 1804.
PORK AND OATS.
Mr. McCarthy and his associates Mr.
MMs, 'BVI;. Laurier and Sir Richard
Ware been Abusing the government
ill;'fooling the country uu agricultural
protection. '
Mere is an evidence of that fooling.
Iii 1878; when there was nu tariff on
Oats, Canada imported 2,071.513 bush-
els of that cereal; in 18)3, the importa-
tion was only 44,201 bushels, and most
of
thqse for seed. The effect of shut-
ting out over two million bushels of
•'eats 'every farrner knows.—Shall we
admit them again ?—Every thriller
who 'Mut a blind partizan, says no!
Take pork in the same way. In 1801,
the pork imported amounted to $841,-
352. The government increased the
duty. Last year only $377,892 worth
came ,an, while the exports increased
from $032,557 to $2,0$2,471. Nn won-
der that a large deputation ,:f County
Carleton fat mers waited opon the
government asking that the pork
duties be not reduced, and that they
should be specific. The government
have changed the duties back to speci-
fic•—tiy listen to the people and take
•t:eople'.. judgment.
A PPI..i 1.S TO THE 1•A R,11 ERS.
The Liberal politicans just now are
very anxious to catch the farmer, and
so they are loud -mouthed friends of
his. The farmer in Canada is just as
intelligent a citizen as Canada has,
'and sees his own interests every time.
The mistake that these Liberal
politicians make is in talking trash to
the farmer, mistaking the farmer so to
speak for a fool. For instance, when
these'politicians hound the Dominion
Government because they do not get
reciprocity, the farmer knows that
the Liberal politician is talking as it
were through his hat—crying out for
something which both parties have
honestly tried to get and failed.
And the farmer when he reads the
speeches of •these men, puts it down
in his judgement as political -ash, and
be looks upon the men who talked it
as either knaves or harmless imbeciles.
Then again, when the Liberal politician
tells the farmer that the Government
are responsible for the low prices of
farm produce that prevail, the farrner
knows perfectly well that it is nonsense
and rant. He knows that prices are
down the world over, and that he is
not suffering as badly as the farmers
in other countries, and he could tell the
Liberal politician very quickly off-
hand what the true reasons are. He
could tell him too' what is still more
important, viz., that while the price of
'what the farmer has to sell has
decreased much, the price of what the.
farrner buys has decreased still more.
He could tell him that manufactured
goods have fallen in price much more
considerably than farm products.
Sugar, which sold at eight to ten
pounds for the dollar, now sells at from
twenty to twenty-five pounds for the
dollar. Tea, coffee and other irnport-
ed groceries have greatly fallen in
price, though perhaps not to the same
extent. Woollen and cotton fabrics
are fully 314 per cent. cheaper than
they were fifteen years ago. The like
. statement is true of boots and shoes,
readymade clothing and other artit:les
of personal wear. Furniture, carpets,
wagons and farm implements have
fallen even more considerably in price.
It is almost impossible to name a
manufactured or imported article in
common use which is not very mater-
ially cheaper than it was in the closing
years of the old tariff. •
When cornered the Liberal politi-
cian tries to show that the reduction
has not been so great as in agricultu-
ral products but their pretense is whol-
ly unwarranted by the facts. It is per-
haps not possible to make such a com-
parison of prices as will show exactly
what decline has taken place in faun
products. In the following table we
have given in the first column of figures
the values put upon all articles of farm
produce exported in the fiscal year
1893, in which it is possible to make a
comparison ; and in the second column
the values which should have been re-
ceived had prices remained exactly as
they were in 1878, In some articles
quantities are not given, and compar-
ison is impossible, hut the table is as
full as it is possible to make it: -
1893. 1878.
Horses $ 1,461,157 $ 1,187,462
Horned cattle7,715,083 4,164,580
Swine 1.46,090 107,418
Sheep 1,247,855 991,40()
Eggs 868,007 8.3.3,665
Wool 228,311 298,961
Flax 121,080 2:17,903
Barley 944,355 1,203,981
Beans 355,682 292,892
Oats `2,55'•3, 910 2,082,301
Peas 2,578,082 2,799,763
Rye 39,243 35,768
Wheat 7,000,033 11,358,059
Hay 1,452,872 1,438,813
Heinp 7,330 2,994
Hops 48,244 31,950
Maple sugar50,151 81,236
Straw ... 20,050 38,815
Tobacco leaf.... 1,943 731
$26,939,034 $28,109,310
A simple calculation will show that
the decline in values of such articles as
are exported has been about four per
cent. in fifteen years. If prices had re-
mained unchanged in any particular
the articles named, imported in the
fiscal year 1893, would have been vain
ed $28,109;810 instead of the $26,039.,031,
at which they were actually valued.
.As farmers have to a considerable ex-
tent changed their system by raising
rncii•e stock and less grain, they have
by their own efforts ire proved th ei r posi-
tion ; and as the home markethas increas-
ed more targelythan the foreign market;
and that is the fanners most yaluahle
market, circurnstances have aided
them. But apart Prom that, it is cer-
tain that articles the farmer buys fallen
in price to a meth greater extent than
have those articles which the farmer
haste to sel 1.
of Cotmmrions to the financial record
of the Province o) Manitoba under
Grit rule as a model one. He must
surely have concluded that the mem-
bers of the house were ignorant of the
facts.
'take the question of the debt of
Manitoba. Mr. 0veenway's Goveru-
rnent went into power on January 16,
1888.
On the 30th June, of the sante year,
the net debt was $740,065.16.
At the end of 1892 that net debt had
Increased to $1,424,771.23; ur in other
words the net debt of the province
under Mr. Greenway, with scarcely a
dollar's worth of improvement to show
for it, had doubled in about four, years.
Yet one of the cries of Mr. Greenway
and his friends was that they wished
to get to power to stop the increase of
the debt.
Now take the question of expend-
iture. The expenditure in 1888 was
$956,371.68. In 1802, that expenditure
had grown $1,192,169.28, or au increase
in four years of $235,708, or over 25 per
cent.
Now, take the last four years of the
Dominion Government and compare
the Dominion Conservative record wit h
the Grit record that Mr. Martin, said he
was proud of. In the past four years
the expenditure has been kept station-
ery, and the debt has only increased
about three million dollars, or less than
14 per cent. in the whole four years.
For pure downright hypocrisy and mis-
representation commend us to your
Grit purist and economist,
THE RECIPROCI7'Y QUESTION.
The Montreal Star is an independent
journal with pretty strong leanings
against the Dominion Government.
lthas been very strongly against the
Government recently upon a number of
matters.
Itcannot be said therefore to be
biased against the Liberals. Indeed
they have recently been quoting it in
the House of Commons against the
Conservative party.
The Star has been lately writing
upon the subject of reciprocity; and its
views are so common sense and Cana-
dian like that we quote them below.
Every reasonable man in Canada
knows in his heart that what the Star
Says upon the subject ie correct:
"Their return to the old charge, that
the Government has not been sufficient-
ly earnest .in its efforts to secure reci-
procity will he disquieting through-
out the 'country. It means that they,
the Liberals, would have been more
earnest ; and, in this case, more earn-
estness whould be hard to distinguish
from the assuming of and abject and
undignified attitude. We ,want reci-
procity as a people, provided it is se-
cured on a paying basis, provided it
does not nullify ot.r• efforts to,build up
a distinctly Canadian industrial life,
and provided it does not. attempt to
cut British connection. But we do not
want it on any .other terms ; and no
one has any 1•ea1 belief that in the
present temper of the American people
we can get it within these conditions.
The Government sent a representative
to Washington when Congress began
its consideration of the tariff, who, the
Premier tells us, was commissioned to
ascertain "whether it was the desire of
the United States Government, or of
the •committee then having charge of
the tariff in the House of Represen-
tatives, to enter into negotiations with
the Government of Canada on the
subject of tariff concessions on either
side of the line, and with a view of
ascertaining whether information was
desired with regard to the trade of
Canada, or whether it was desired
that it should be a communication for
the purpose of receiving information
from the American Government."
The "impression derived" from the visit
was that communication between the
two governments as to tariff conces-
sions was undesirable ; that any reci-
procity negotiations should be brought
about formally through the medium
of ambassadors ; and that the tariff
when in course • of construction "was
Nein made for the United States and
the United States only."
"What could the Liberals have done
further that Canada • would not have
been ashamed of? The last formal
offer of re' iprocity was met by a de-
mand for discrimination against Great
Britain. This formal advance was re-
pulsed. Shall we he for ever offering
a hand that is never taken ? The Li-
berals will not gain the confidence of
the country by professing that in this
matter they would exceed the Con-
servatives in limberness about the
knees."
.SCARED.
The Liberal manufacturers—and
there are a great many of them—have
tried to help their party by declaring
that they hail no objection to tariff re-
form. Some of them went to the Ot-
tawa convention and talked very loud-
ly of what they could do, and what they
wanted. The Government were glad
to know that in the fifteen years the
National Polley has been in force the
industries of Canada had become so
well established, and in pursuance of
their promise to Parliament they in-
vestigated the whole question of the
tariff, and wherever they believed a re-
duction could be made in the interests
of the consumers, without doing in-
justice to those who have invested their
capital, they have made the reduction.
Lo 1 then there was a noise. Suddenly
every Liberal manufacturer or his
friend rushed off to Ottawa to save
himself, as he puts it, from ruin, And
imtnediately the Grit press and the
Grit politicians began to sympathize
with them. The fact is, the Liberal
manefacturerand the Liberal politician
understand each other. The former
knows that what the latter talks is
bosh to catch votes. He remembers
that in 4887, when a general election
was on, the Grit party sent to every
tnattyfucttrrer 9>ti 0anude,' a %tie eh'..
emir containing .one extract from a
speech of the Ron. lir dward Blake say.
ing ',manufacturers need not be
afraid."
The Liberal manufacturer, however,
has discovered that Conservative Gov-
ernments mean what they say, and so
be is very much troubled in spirit bo;,
cause the Government have brought
down i,trch a tariff as will kill utono -
lies like the biscuit combine which Mr.
Paterson, Grit M. P. for South Brant,
tDined. Let it be well understood,
hat as one of the speakers in the
recent debate put it, the Government
is favorable to a manufacturing tariff
in the sense that they wish to • en-
courage industry, employ labour and
keep Isere the people the farmer must
feed. But they are not in favor of a
manufacturers' tariff that means the
encouragement of combines and the
raising of prices beyond the rates which
free competition will determine.
Houle industry ! Horne markets! No
combines! Tfrat is a good Canadian
policy.
LINKED AGAIN.
Last session Mr. Tarte and Mr.
McCarthy joined hands in a motion of
censure of the Government. The one
wished ,to condemn the goveriirn int
because it had notdissall.-rwed the Man-
itoba Srhndl F,ill, the other wished to
t•nndentn the s:t:ire govcrninent because
they had not peretnptor•i!y refused to
have the quest ion even avfori cd to the
courts for a de4'ision.
Both, however, were sufficiently filled
with a hatred of the government and a
desire to destrhy it, to join hands even
upon a question upon opposite sides of
which they were extremists, if possible
to hamper it and destroy its useful -
11088.
It was a strange sight, and Many
were the believers in Mr. McCarthy -
who felt ashamed of the company he
was keeping, and the tactics he was
adopting, incl many there were who
in conect;nence dropped him.
This year Mr. McCarthy has once
more done that which was pleasing in
the sight of Tarte, and this is the way
Mr. Tarte writes of 11Ir. McCarthy in
his correspondence to the New York
Sun:—
"Mr. McCarthy has some views
which I cannot adopt, but I appreciate
hila because his labor must contribute
to the downfall of the present govern-
ment, whom we hate in common."
Exactly so! Mr. McCarthy is appre-
ciated because his attitude will contri-
bute to the downfall of the present gov-
ernment whom they—the noble pair,
McCarthy and •Tarte —hate in common.
What do these men think of this who
believed in Mr. McCarthy when he said
"He was still a Conservative and a true
one."
Isn't Mr. McCarthy now somewhat
ashamed of the company he is in. His
sympathizer and hater in .common of
everything Conservative, the fire brand
Mercierite. His applauders -=the Op-
position factionists, who hounded Sir
John Macdonald to his grave. His
counseller, guide and coacher, Mr.
Edward Ferrer, who prepared his
notes for the platform, one moment,
and the next one was engaged in plot-
ting the destruction of Canada with her
enemies abroad.
It is a hatter of deepest regret to
every lover of Canada, we feel sure, to
see a man of the ability of Mr. Mc-
Carthy for usefulness and good sur-
rounded and guided by such a crowd,
and all because of a pique upon his
part against his old associates.
LOGIC EX RA ORDINARY.
There are some things which it would
pay Laurier, Cartwright, Mills, Davies
& Co., to let :Clone. One of these
things is the large amount of money
in the Savings Banks of Canada. Mr.
Mills and Mr. Davies both told the
House of Commons this year that they
were sick and tired of bearing of these
deposits. No doubt, since they present
an effectual bar to their political ad-
vancement. How ridiculous these men
make themselves is plainly demonstrat-
ed by their statement that "the large
size of these deposits was evidence of
ruin." Funny fellows these ! When
Sir Richard was in power in 1877, he
said : "These Savings Banks Deposits
($2,600,000) are especially valuable as
an evidence of prosperity." And now
lie and his friends say "These Savings
Banks Deposits ($22,600,000) are an
evidence of ruin !
Mr. Mills has been taking some palm
to look into the question. Let us refer
to hon particularly. He says it means
that there is a "total want of oppor-
tunities for good investment."
Let us see of what kind the Deposits
are—Mr. Mills' theory is defective in
this, that the bulk of the depositors in
the Post Office Saving Bftnk is made
up for farmers and artisans, represent-
ing small sums. An analysis of the
deposits during the year 1892 shows
that 512,891 of the deposits were from
$1 up to $10; 25,141 deposits• were of
sums from $11 to $20, and 36,457 depo-
sits were of rums from $21 up to $50.
The average deposits were $47 52, and
the average to each depositor was
$201 24.
This disposes of the objection of Mr.
Mills. Now, taking the opinion:of Sir
Richard Cartwright as to the deposits
being properly regarded as a sign of
national prosperity, what do we find ?
In the year in which he made that
acknowledgment in his budget speech,
the number of deposits in the savings
banks were 36,126, representing a total
sum of $2,639,937. It had fallen from
$3,096,500 in 1872, the last year of the
previous Liberal -Conservative regime.
In 1879, the first year in which the
Conservative Government rettu•ned to
power, however, the deposits recover-
ed to the amount of $13,105,190 and from,
that period to the present the loafringla
have steadily grown as follows .;—
Tear, T'l deposit. Average anti.
1880 $ 3,94069 11 ....$12J1 80
1881...... 6,208,220 77 156 75
1882 0,478,001 53 184 08
1888 11, 976,237 81 190 13
1.881 13, 215,552 64 108 63
1885 15,090,54.0 31.......... 205 81
1886 17,159,372 09 212 18
1887...... 10,497,750 15 210 26
1888 20,689,032 82 203 41
1880 23,071,422 57 203 41
1891) 21,990,058 40 195 78
1801 21, 738,648 09 195 44
1892 22,'208, 401 65 2012,1
the fact is that this constaut amount
rising of the amount of the savings of
the people is a nightmare to the Grit
party. No wonder• they are sick and
tired of it.
A 0EN-UTNE .GRIEVANCE,
The Montreal Herald has at Last
found a genuine grievance against the
now tariff. • It points out that the duty
upon school slates has been very great;
ly reduced, but that the duties upon
roofing slates are still kept high, the
former being put at 20 per cent. and
the latter at 30 per cent. At this the
Herald growls greatly. `Vehevegreat
pleasure in informing the Herald that
the above is just in the line of the Con-
servative policy.
School slates are used by the boys
and Os Is of every family in the coun-
try.
They are used by limey boys and
girls whose parents are exceedingly
poor. They are used by the children of
every farmer in the country. Roof-
ing slate is the roof material of the
wealthier class. It is used by wealthy
institutions; by the buildings of corpora-
tions and spun the houses of these
who cars afford to pay well to tiro re-
venue and who ought to be made pay
to it well, Next, Mr. Herald 1
3- 1.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Mr. Campbell, the Liberal M. P. for
Kent County, • Ontario, spoke the other
day in the House, and demanded that
the duty he taken off wheat. It is
needless to soy that Mr. Campbell is
not a farmer, but a miller, and would
be glad to get American wheat to
grind.
This is what the Brandon "Mail'
thinks of that little sci ap at the Russell
House, Ottawa, some -weeks ago.
Some are endeavoring to create Fa
sickly sympathy for Joe Martin because
of Hugh Sutherland's attack on him at
Ottawa, but it is a good fleecing he de-
served. He is one of those bullying,
thick -hided men • who care nothing
for the feelings of others, hut want to
force their way by brute force. At
every meeting in the Daly -Martin con-
test in Selkirk in 1891 he was on for
fight whenever crossed, but always
selected as subjects for attack, men
between 8 and 15 and 75 and 85 years
of age.
From every quarter, except from the
mouths of the leading Grit politicians,
Canada is being praised for her pros-
perity.
The latest testimony is "R. G. Dunn
& Co.'s Weekly Review," which says
of the financial condition of Canada :
"In view of the extraordinary disturb-
ance of business in this country during
the past year, it is remarkable and
highly creditable that the business of
the Dominion, • separated from this
country only by an unaginary line or
narrow waters has been so little affect-
ed,"
Corning from a United States finan-
cial sheet this is cheering to all Cana-
dians, except to Cartwright & Co. To
them it is gall and wormwood.
John McMillan, M. P., poses as the
friend of the farmer. The outer clay
in Parliament he wanted the duty
taken off wheat and flour, giving as his
reason that the poor man would get
cheaper bread. Will John kindly tell
ns how this will help the farmer ? It
is on a par with Sir Richard's line of
logic. He says to the Government,
"You have reduced the price of agri-
cultural produce 'and hence should
he defeated," and in. the next breath
he says, "the Opposition policy is to
make this a cheap country to live in."
Logical John ! Wise Richard! 1 The
farmer knows'yon`both as lookers after
the loaves and fishes.
Colonel O'Brien is Mr. Dalton Mc-
Carthy's chief and only lieutenant.
How independent the Colonel is may
been seen by his recent conduct. It
is usual for members when they go
away from the city to get a pair.
That is they agree with some opponent
that he will not in their absence vote
on any question that comes up Of a
party nature. Col. O'Brien the other
day got the chief (frit whip to pair him
for absence against the Government.
That put into other language means
that no matter what question came up
during his absence he wanted his vote
to kill one Conservative vote. It did
not matter to him at all what the ques
tion was or what the arguments were
upon it. The Colonel is indeed an
Independent of whom the Grit party
may 1>e proud. But what do Conserva-
tives think who looked upon hint as 0
Conservative "who differed from his
party upon some matters but was still
a Conservative at heart."
The latest charge against Mr. Weise -
miller, the popular Conservative candi-
date for South Huron in the Local, is
that he has been reading the Globe
newspaper and should not be trusted.
If Mr. Weisemiller reads the Globe the
assertion is in his favor. The late Sir
John Macdonald always read the
Globe, but he did not stop there. Like
Mr. Weisemiller, he read ALL the lead-
ing papers. So does Sir John Thorhp-
son, Mr. Laurier, Sir Oliver Mowat,
Mr. Meredith, and even the Grit candi-
date for South Huron. Public men
must grasp current events and meet
the charges of opponentsand they condo
so at least more intelligently by read-
ing the newspapers. THE Nnws-Rtt-
coxn would regret to learn that Mr.
Weisemiller did not read them all.
Reading the G obe places him in a
bettor position to win South Huron,
and he is the one man that bids fair to
emerge from the coming battle with
victory inscribed in large letters on the
Conservative banner.
4Umost every 'description and.,
kind of Carpets from; .2+0,
Hemp to the t.nestMo .uette
and Brussels kept at thisstore.
CE CURTf\JN
in Cream and White from 35c.
per pair to $8.
Floor -oil Cloths, Linoleums,
Crumb Cloths, Rugs, Mats,
Portiers, Window Shades,
Curtain Poles, all at the
very lowest prices.
--o—
GILROY & WISEMAN.
The Central DrugStore.
J. H. COWBE, CHEMIST ` AND DRHCDIST.
- - SEASONABLE GOODS. - -
CARBONATE OF COI�PER for Spraying Trees, destroys all Insects and
Fungus Growth, Black Spots on Apples, etc.
HELLEBORE AND PARIS GREEN.
TAYLOR'S AND SELLEY'S PERFf7MES at CO. T PRICE
We are special agents for PARKE, DAVIS & CO., and carry a large assort.
tient of PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS.
N. B.—We carry the largest stock in the County of Huron.
By the way, has any one heard re-
cently of a policy called "Unrestricted
Reciprocity?" In the opinion of its
friends it was the hope of Canada ; but
those same friends have permitted it to
go "Where the woodbine twineth."
How fickle' is roan—especially the Grit
politician man
The Gritty Ottawa Free Press says :
—The Ontario government's proposal
to bonus the pig iron business should
he opposed, and if possible, defeated in
the legislature, no matter whether its
defeat involves the overthrow of the
Ministry or not. There is no. More
excuse, for granting of "out -door re-
lief" from the Public treasury to makers
of pig iripn than there is for granting 0
bounty of so much per bushel upon
potatoes or wheat raised by farmers.
Mr. Charlton is a member of the
Canadian Parliament, but his business
interests are in the American Union.
He has his mills at Tonawanda, and
his office in New York city. Where
Mr. Charlton's business are there is his
hear t also, and so in the course of two
or" three speeches in Parliament Mr.
Charlton has mentioned the United
States something like 125 times.
Mr. Charlton may very fairly be call-
ed the member for North Norfolk via.
Tonawanda.
E. J. Pearson, county secretary of
Oxford Patrons of Industry, writes to
the Farmer's Sun that Mr. Horsman,
the Patron candidate in North Oxford,
"is becoming more popular every day,
and before the close of the present
month a dandy Patron team will can-
ter through the riding in such style as
will make a deeded impression upon
the minds of the free and independent
electors. it is ' a noticeable feature
that Sir Oliver's supporters are mainly
composed of the aged veterans who
were engaged in the battles of the
party long years ago and who repre-
sent the ideas of the past rather than
those of the present day."
This is bow the Toronto Globe de-•
scribes the independent member, Mr,
McCarthy :—"For three hours he con-
tinued to pour hot shot into the Govern-
ment's fiscal policy. His points were
emphasized by the appreciative ap-
plause of the Opposition members."
Exactly so 1 Mr. McCarthy at every
turn for the past year has been cheered
by the Opposition. Does the country
want any better evidence that Mr. Mc-
Carthy has thrown in his lot with the
Opposition ?
And this is the man who says he
reveres the memory of Sir John Mac-
donald 1 Now talking for the applause
of a gang of political adventurers that
hounded that statesman to his grave 1 1
Mr. McCarthy const indeed be proud
of their cheers.
The latest United States Banking
Circular says:—"Perhaps the most in-
fluential cause of tree prevailing dull-
ness conies from the condition of legis-
lation in Congress."
"The financial resources centering in
Wall street are kept in suspense, plans
for new enterprises have to be pigeon-
holed until these legislative triflers are
through with their exhibition of fac-
tional feeling and fencing, and manu-
facturers and merchants ate kept on
the gridiron of doubt waiting for they
know not what."
How different in Canaada1l In three
short weeks our tariff has been prac-
tically settled by a business Govern=
ment i'n spite of the Opposition triflers
and kickers, and business goes on as
usual.
The bad packing of Canadian apples
is said to be militating against their
. popularity in England. Mr. Down,
the Government agent at Bristol, re-
ports that to prevent Canadian goods
from sinking into disrepute, it is nee
essary that they should be honestly
packed. Too many people put large
and good fruit in the ends of the bar-
rel, and small and inferiorin the middle.
The trader sees the whole lot, and
after he has been disappointed once or
twice comes to look with misgiving on
all shipment's from the source of his
annoyance. On the continent of
Europe they do better, and are profit-
ing thereby. In packing apples, as in
other things, honest', is the best pol•
icy.
The Toronto Star has an admirable
cartoon of Mr. McCarthy, M. P., who
abused the Government's fiscal policy
and then ran away before the vote was
taken, though three hours wait was all
he would have had to make. The car-
toon ,represents Mr. McCarthy in full
flight while the chalk marks upon the
door of Parliament made by him call-
ing for tariff reform are very plain.
The reason why Mr. McCarthy did not
vote was well told by a gentleman who
knows Mr. McCarthy's mind pretty
well. "You see Mr. McCarthy thought
if he voted with the Grits he could not
catch any Conservatives in the country,
while he was so mixed in his conten-
tions that any resolution he might have
tried to move for himself and Coh
O'Brien would have been laughed at,"
Evidently the man from North Sim-
coe finds statemanship troublesome,
West 'W awanosh.
Seeding is nearly all done around
her now. S. Medd being the first to
finish.
Mr. Roht. Plunkett, of Ebenezer, is
engaged at present surveying the Alps.
We expect him back soon.
Mr. DuiIlex passed through this
vicinity on his annual trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Mills, of Crawfootpoint,
spent Sunday visiting at H. G. Taylor's,
of Beaverton.
The Deacon was seen taking a pleas-
ure ride on his faithful steed last week
at such a speed that it took him all day
to get there.
Mr. E. Collingh, of Castle Grove,
has engaged with Mr. R. Medd for the
summer months.
J. Taylor takes his annual trip in the
direction of Clinton; girls must he get-
ting scarce, or Jerry would not go so
far from home.
Mr. Robert Jones was visiting at Mr.
Helwig's, of Auburn, once already.
Mr. Stafford is no the sick list ab
present. We hope to hear of his
speedy recovery soon.
Ben Hamilton, of Bloomington, was
the guest of Mr. McArthers, of Dnn-
gannon.
Mr. Washington, of Goderich, spent
a few days visiting at his son's at
Pleasant Valley.
The lost Charlie Ross has taken his
departure from Beaverton for parts
unknown.
Mr, S. Bruce is spending a few wee
visiting under the parental roof.
Miss Windmill spent a week visiting
at Mr. Alex. Scrirnungeour's,of Beaver-
ton.
Mr. James Boyle has his hat nn the
back of his head and wears a broad
smile; it is a boy.
J. Bruce is employed with J. Mills
for the sntnmer months to look after
the garden.
Reports from various points indicate
that the poach crop in the Western
peninsula will be unusually abundant
this year. The trees in many orchards
:teein blossom, which bas not happen-
ed so early for fifty years.