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et the United States, and always take pleas.
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1.50 a Year -81.25 in Advance.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13th, 1894.
THE PRICE O.8 WOOLLENS.
Mr. Dalton McCarthy in disscussing
the tarriff question endeavoured to
show to the Canadian farmer that he
was being robbed by the woollen mauu-
fitcturers of the country. The very
fact that Mr. Mc•^arthy mentions the
manufacturer of woollens is evidence
that he knows very little indeed with
regard to the question. There has
never been any attempt on the part of
the woollen manufacturers to enter
into any form of combination what
ever. The industry is a wide -spread
one ; a great many people have inves-
ted their money in it, and the very
keenest kind of competition has pre-
vailed. The fact is that every farmer
knows that woollen goods have beep
very greatly reduced in price dur-
ing the past ten or fifteen years. Al-
most every Liberal in the province of
Ontario knows Alderman John Hallam;
of Toronto,-ia staunch supporter of the
Liberal party. Writing a letter to a
member of Parliament on May 18th,
1894, Mr. Hallam says as follows
"I am a free trader, but circumstances
alter cases, and there is no rule with-
out an dception. It would be an
injustice to the present mill owners
and a calamity to the trade if there
was any sudden material change in
the tariff to lessen the protection that
our Canadian manufacturers need to
balance countervailing duties. My
interest is bound up with the pros-
perity of the mill owners. If they
are prosperous, I am prosperous, and
I would wish to do nothing that would
injure our mills, for every pound of
goods imported from abroad would
displace so many goods manufactured
in the country, and I believe thattex-
tile fabrics manufactured • in Canada
are as low, if not lower than ever they
were known in the memory of man .
Home competition has reduced she
prices to tae lowest possible point.
I believe in giving every encourage-
ment to our manufactories when it
does not create a monopoly and where
it consumes the raw material and pays
wages to the labor of the country. It
is the duty of the Government to en-
courage this in every possible way."
Mr. Hallam then goes on to argue in
favor of specific duties in order to
keep the home market for the Cana-
dian manufactories; but the point that
we desire otir readers to particularly'
note is the fact that Mr. Hallam, a
liberal, a man who knows probably
more than any other man in Ontario
in regard to wools and wollens; de-
clares that home competition has re-
duced the prices to the lowest possible
point.
7HE' REFORM ADMINISTRATION
IV ONTARIO.
In less than three weeks time the
electors of Ontario will be called upon
to exercise their franchise and indicate
fir/rough the ballot boxes whether the
`present governing party in the Legis-
lative Assembly shall be entrusted
with power for another four years, or
a change shall be effected whereby the
Opposition, led by Mr. Wni. R. Mere-
dith, shall assume the responsibility of
governing the Province through the
'incoming legislature.
It is well that the memories of the
people should be refreshed in reference
to some of the more important nets of
the government of Mr. Mowat during
the past twenty years, and also to com-
pare the methods of legislation and the
expressed views of Reform leaders of
former legislatures with the acts and
legislation of the so-called Reform
leaders and legislature of the present
day. The record of the Mowat govern-
ment has been one of broken promises,
violated principles, grasping propensi-
ties, centralization of power, reckless
and wasteful mismanagement of public
monies, and venal legislation, which
should arouse those who prefer good
.government and a careful achnistration
of the affairs of the Province to the
mere triumph of party and office -bold-
ing partisans.
Owing to a lavish patronage, a reck-
less expenditure of public monies, the
exercise of galling tyranny over a large
number of- men engaged in business
that must receive the seal of sanction
from the Provincial Government, and,
not among the least of many advant-
ages, the benefit of a flagrant and
iniquitous distribution of the elector-
ate, the government of Sir Oliver
l !twat. has been. enabl 1. to keen itself
;power for the past twenty yam,
A careful pareual of the ubliee:
t F1 i j7' in e . .
i urea aP>: it Mau Q
pend 1.1 ah gre r
orerthe ordinary receiple,andshoWbriv
the natural and Jittifteci, res4urees of
the Brttvinee have been unduly treneh-'
ed upon to keep Op the Walstp, .
It is a matter for the most seriouaa
consideration hather this et1
lbal
lowed to o on for another decade or
two and the pr nae be brotigl1t to
the doom of direct D atlon, or that an
o
economical
g vernlq ent, euoh as the
first administration of'. Qatari() after
Confederation,he again installed in
office by the votes of the people.
,Another matter for serious thought
on the wart of the great free -governing
and lioerty-loving citizens of this
Province of Ontario is the centralizing
methods of. the oligarchy that now
rules at Toronto, In the ppast twenty
years our local government, instead'of
broadening down acid extending the
self-governing tendencies of the people,
has been narrowing up and limiting
their powers until almost every ap-
pointment to office or position of any
kind that once was the gift of the
municipal councils or local officers, is
now centred in the government at
Toronto, and made subject to the ap-
proval of a party head or leader.
It will thus be seen that in election
tines the government has an army
(thousands strong and well g..neralled
and equipped) of license inspectors and
commissioners, bailiffs, division court
clerks, gaolers, registrars, police magis-
trates, crown ,land agents, fire and
wood rangers, etc., etc., to assist in
keeping' it in power, no matter how
strong may be the desire of an' honest
electorate to get rid of it.
The old Family Compact of by -gone
days has been succeeded by a new
Family Compact, quite as oligarchical
in its nature and fully as tyrannical in
its functions, and hundreds who have
felt its withering breath and unfortun-
ately come within the reach of its
grasping tentacles, have many and
lasting reasons to wish for a chance.
This Compact is crushing 'the life
blood out of the people of Ontario, by
strinping them of their Powee to deal
whet. their own local affairs, and rob-
bing them of their hard earnings
through sources of useless officials
thrust into fat offices created for no
other' purpose than to provide for
troublesome friends at the country's
expense. Scores of such officials are
to be found all over the Province, and
every session of the legislature sees
more offices created and new men
pensioned on the public, all in the
name of good Reform government.
It is high time that the people of
Ontario became aware of the
deception that is practised upon
them by a wasteful administra-
tion, a combination of practical
politicians who have no opinions in
common except those of plunder and
enjoying the sweets of office, a govern-
ment that has filled the land with
office -holders, that has failed to develop
the vast resources of the Province, and
to aid in bringing to the best agricul-
tural and dairying section of America,
hosts of industrial farmers, who in
other lands are seeking such ',omes as
Ontario can offer them. For twenty
years this government has posed under
the guise of Reform, yet nearly every
real reform measure thatpassed the
legislature during that period was in-
troduced or suggested by Mr. Meredith
or one of his followers of the Opposi-
tion, while many measures in the dir-
ection of justice and reform that have
been introduced by members of the
Opposition, and which would meet
with the hearty approval of every
honest elector, have been persistently
refused by Mr. Mowat and voted down
by his followers in the House.
'a at the
avgidael
leeti' ons, loose aud scnld?l4a1
,
ohms. et1fo ae aut the�f re
"-
That the. Mowat goverronent has
prostituted the Lieeuse .,Act, for the
Week purposes, few will denyk that
they bane need it to lnaintaint therrr-
selves in power is i;.eyoed it doubt; and
that temperature linen and liquor men
have been used as the party s14tveaand
hirelings 'of a double-dealing admin1a,
teation, retending at one time to
favor proldhition and to enforce a ro-
per respect for the law and at another
time playing into the hands of funnel
'Men and licensees to secure their
money" thein' in1Juen4e and their votes,
isrpfail tony person who watches
ca e uI y thern er ents of the govern-
ment and its licenses officials.
Besides using the A.ct for party pur-
poses, it has also made the granting of
-licensee a medium for securing cam-
paign funds and filling the depleted.
coffers of the treasury at the expense of
the municipalities.
The Opposition appeals to the Pro-
vince on the ground that during all
these twenty years it has' striven to
preserve the liberties of the people and
the rights of self-government by our
Municipal and other local organize
ions; to guard the treasury and the
public dorrmaein; to secure justice and
equal rights to all classes and every
citizen against the machinations of
those who, having deadened suspicion
by loud professions of purity and
liberality, ,rave legislated chiefly in
the interests of their supporters and
friends, have wasted the resources of
the Province and spent the Remainla-
tion of their predecessors with a reck-
less hand
7HE LIQUOR LICENSE AD.MIVIS-
TRA7ION.
No actions of the Ontario govern-
ment are more open to censure than
those relating tb the adniistration of
liquor license law. In every district of
the Province the working of the
License Act has been a leve:' in the
bands of the friends of the government
to assist in keeping the party in power.
It has been used most corruptly and
most tyrannically to oppress and
coerce men engaged in the liquor busi-
ness, and not to the end that temper-
ance should be promoted and the law
enforced, but that the candidates of
the Mowat party should he elected.
Inspectors and commissioners are
chosen from the ranks of the Grit
party alone, in direct violation of the
pledge given by Mr. Mowat when the.
Act was introduced in 1.876, and no
more active election agents and can-
vassers are to be' foundduring a cam-
paign than these very inspectors and
commissioners. In many parts of the
Province a regular traffic in licenses has
been carried on through the agency of
inspectors and commissioners, and in
scores of instances respectable men
have been forced out of the business
and their houses closed until a man of
the right political stripe was put into
possession of the place, when the lic-
ense was regranted.
iu'A prominent Reformer, and pro
hibitionist speaking at a public meet-
ing of advanced prohibitionists, held in
Owen Sound in September, 1893, said,
respecting the administration of the
License Act : "The men who compiled
" the License law might have ,peen
"actuated by good motives, but twenty
" years' experience with the law had
"shown that so far from promoting
" sobriety " it had actually developed
" the business, not only as a business
" speculation, but as a political force.
"The law was very badly administer-
ed. Whenever there was a strong pro -
liquor sentiment, the law was not
"enforced, because a strict enforce-
"' ment would drive their supporters
out of the party and defeat that party
Prior to the passing of the (.rooks
Act, and the taking away rrgp5.muni-
cippalities of the power to license the
sale. of liquors and for several years
afterwards, all, or nearly all, the
monies derived from licenses went into
the municipal treasury and was spent
among the people . in • road making,
street repairs, etc.. etc: In 1881 the
government of Mr. Mowat imposed a
special Provincial tax and took a large
share of the funds thus obtained, leav-
ing the municipal' authorities the bal-
ance. But as money grew scarce in the
Provincial treasury, the Government
determined to take a larger share from
the municipalities, and in 1886 an Act
was passed imposing a larger Provin-
cial fee on every license granted, thus
compelling the local councils to impose
a much larger tee for licenses (which in
most instances would have been found
exceedingly harsh and unfair), or to
accept as the share of the municipality
a much smaller sum than heretofore
for each license granted. As a proof
of how this new measure has work-
ed, the figures taken from a re-
turn brought down by the Provincial
Secretary on 12th April; 1393, show how
the government has profited and the
municipalities have lost by the .Act
passed.
From the tables it will be seen that
during the•first eight-year pperied under
the Crooks 'Act, 1876 to W13, inclusive,
with government commissioners and
inspectors, the municipalities received
$2,122,1( 3.18 and the government Stn., -
422.4'i, but during the last eight years,
up to and including 1892, the municipal-
ities received only $1,897, 827.10, while
the government toot. $1,924,747.99, i. .,
the unmici-ialities got $2,"1,279.08 lees
than the carat eight-year period and
the government $1,26 ).325.52 store.
In the first eight years, 1876 to 1£43,
the municipalities received 65 per cent.
of the entire amount collected, and the
government and its officials under the
Act, 35 per cent. In the last eight
years, 18£1 to 1892, the municipalities
received only 41 per cent., while the
government and its officials took 60
per cent. . -
During the first eight years 32,072
licenses were issued, the cost for com-
missioners, inspectors, and working
the Act being $"5S,222.17. lir the
second eight years 2t,177 licenses were
issued and the cost for commissioners,
inspectors and working the Act was
$• 17,722.77.
The number of licenses issued de-
creased over 24 per cent. in the second
eight years, while the cost of Commis-
sioners, inspectors and working the
Act decreased enly two per cent.
It will be observed that the increased
amounts taken by the Mowat govern-
ment tete ont of all proportion to the
increase received.by the municipalities.
The government's share of the whole
amount collected. in 1876 was 18 per
cent., while the municipalities got P'•
per cent. In 18e2 the government took
over 45 per cent., while the municipali-
ties got only ?'.l per cent., the remain-
ing 11 per cent. going to pay the salaeies
and expenses of the inspectors and
commissioners. The license fund is a
revenue that properly belongs to the
Municipalities and should be left in the
hands of the local councils to spend on
lublic improvements in the several
ocalities, but as long as the Mowat
government remains in power, so long
will the grabbing process go on and
the people he robbea of that which for
many years was, and should now be, re-
garded as their own, and which helped
to lighten the taxes paid to keep up
the municipal institutions and provide
for local improvements. If municipal
councils all over the Province were
allowed to retain the liguor license
funds which justlr belong to them,
and spend the sane on roams through-
out the township and on streets in the
towns how greatly would the people be
benefited, and what vast improvements
Would be shown in this line. As it is
now, a laree part of the monies thus
taken by tee government goes to pay
partisan inspectors, whose services rn
many cases are utterly useless except
during election tithes and then only to
coerce voters and work for the success
of the government candidate.
The policy of the Opposition
was clearly set forth in reso-
lutions moved in the legislature
prior to the general ele-,tions in
18: ). It is that the government of the
day should enact good and wholesome
laws respecting the licensing and sale of
intoxicating liquors and for the regu-
lation of the business of all engaged
therein, but that the issuing of licenses
should be entirely in the hands of the
local authorities; ;in counties the
license commissioners to be appointed
by the councils; in towns separated
from counties, and in cities, the com-
missioners to be elected by vote of
the people. It is the well understood
policy of the Opposition not to relax or
impair other provisions of the ',present
law, and partucufar•ly that limiting the
number of licenses to be granted, but
to keep fully abreast with the progres-
sive, moral'sentiment of the times and
to see that the law is fairly administer-
ed to all.
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Oiir, :readers will. remember that
whenthe (uertion of tigricultirai ika
plen:lenta was under discussion in, tete.
•lobes of cif mutons, Sir Riohard..Cart-
weight complair'led. that tits Inallufa--
turere had no
p
rotection
because
the e
(xqKtrnPe t had 'reduced the duty
from 30 per cent. to. 20 per cent. In
answer to Sir Richard Cartwright's
complaint, the Minister of Finance
gave the figures its follows :-.Say an
agricultural" implement costs for in -
Stance $100, the manufacturer having
20 er cent would have al protection of
$20 on that implement. Suppose,. as
Sir Richard Cartwright contends, that
everything that goes into the ,mple-
nient its taxed, the total amount would
be only abaut $7 or $8 ; the manufac-
turer would still have $12 of a protea,
tion ou that machine to give him the
home market. Sir Richard Cart-
wright thinks however that this $19 is
not enough. The knight from South
Axford, however, will not get any sym-
pathy ou that line from the people of
the country,
It is not right that any man should
hold -his bread and butter and that of
his wife and children, every dollar in
his business, at the beck and call of the
Government of the day. It is not right
that laws should be made and exercis-
ed over him in this manner. His in-
telligence and judgment as a free man
should be exercised as he deems fit; and
should not be controlled by any Gov-
ernment. We all know that these
(license) commissioners are the most
active political agents.—Meredith at
London.
THEIR RECQRD IN POWER.
One thing the people should never
forget' is that the Liberal Party of
Canada were once in power. Their
record during their five years is one
that ought to prevent the people ever
patting them in power again. They
increased the expenditure 23 per cent.
in five years, oran increase at the rite
of.,4)d,par cent, in each year, and yet
they say the present Government is
extravagant because it has increased
the expenditure a quarter of one per
cent. in five years. They increased the
debt $40,000,000 in five years, or at the
rate of $8,t 10,000 a year, the greatest
average yearly increase that the debt
of Canada has ever had in any one
period. While now pretending to be
tariff reformers they increased the rate
of duty on imported goods from 10.2)
per cent. in 1873 to 14.03 per cent. in
1878, an increase of one per
cent. per year. Since that time
the Conservative Government during
the years of the existence of the pro-
tective tariff have only increased the
rate from 14.03 to 17.38 per cent;., an
increase of less than a quarter of one
per cent. each year. Readers, never
allow these things to be forgotten.
TRAVELLING DAIRIES. ,
The Dominion Department of Agri-
culture are up to date In their en-
deavours to assist the farmer and spread
Abroad - a knowledge of those in-
dustries, which are germane to
agriculture, and upon the pur-
suit of which, farmers in the
future must largely depend for their
prosperity. Their latest move has
been to snake arrangements for the
maintenance of the travelling dairies
in Manitoba. These dairies will go all
through the province under the direc-
tion of the Dominion Dairy Commis-
sioner for the purpose of giving infor-
mation to the farmers of that province
upon this important branch of theircall-
ing. We are sure that this practical
move will be highly appreciated by the
agriculturists of that province. This
is only another evidence that the
Dominion Government is prepared to
do their best for the promotion of
agricultural interests.
OF PRACTICAL USE.
bas been gang, :on ter years . If you:
r oats,a o:
p�+vleh a. anew variety 4t>ty Qf of tvh at,>
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sins f potatoes', h. have e:
. to s i e +� tkl
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g'l4 to sup ly'it.y The' I 'oyerl
rent keeps them gorefor the nr asst
and suppplies ,these ".seeds, 4e.! for
free distribution,
.As an evidence that the farmers of
ho rterniuiell are
frttprpvlxighe
Weil?
OP
,
Po funit it may be mentioned, that
during 1,
the lettere: received at and
seat trent the Central Bx eriwental
Vann alone totalled no less than 38,09).
The present Dominion Central Ex-
perimental Farm and the other Experi-
inentaal Stations at various points in
Dominion grew out of the appointment
of a committee of the House of Com-
mons in 1884, to enquire into "the best
means of encouraging and developing
the agricultural interests of Canada.'
The history of 'the institution and the
methods adopted i1, connection with it
are good evidence that the design of
those who suggessed it is fully eitrried
out. The danger in connection with
all such institutions is that they be-
come mere schools of theory of no
practical utility to the farming com-
munity. The department of Agr-icul•
ture have tried earnestly to prevent
this institution sinking into any such
useless position. And it must be ad-
mitted, pn the light Of the work it con-
tinues to do, that they have succeeded
well.
They have sought to make both the
Central and outside stations practical -
eve y -day -aids to the farmers of Can-
ada.
In order to do this, those in charge
of these institutions have conducted,
and are conducting, thousands of
practical tests, the results of which are
made known in bulletins sent out to
thousands of farmers from f Tule to
time, at short intervals. These tests
include all the methods of stock feed-
ine•; all the varieties of foods; all the
dit,'ecent nannies, both artificial and
natural ; the proper selecting of stock,
and their care ; the. art of properly car-
ing for milk, making butter and cheese,
and marketing the •s€tine. The correct
method of f,: afting, budding, etc ; the
proper selections of seeds. In short
every subject upon which the farmer,
the dairyman, Lie horticulturist, the
bee -keeper, the poultry fancier, etc.
should e informed.
These experiments and investigations
are for the benefit o° the farmers them-
selves, and if they do not get the bulle-
tins it is because they do not ask for
them, or their names have not been
handed in to the Director. If you do
not get thein, send a post -card to Prof.
Wm. Saunders, Ottawa, Central Ex-
perimental Farm, and he will put your
name upon the list. If you have any
seed to test whether as to its purity or
its vitality, send him a sample and it
will be fully tested and no charge
made, So with any :othersubjectupon
which you want information. The
staff at the farm and in all the depart-
ments are excellent practical men, and
are there to serve the farmers of Can-
ada, and you are putting yourself un-
der no obligation to them in asking for
information.
Some knowledge of the work
they are doing may be gleaned from
the latest annual report.
The figures there given show that
from the farms all told in 1:x!2 they
distrib.ited no less than 16,f,)5 sample
of seeds of different varieties, This
CURRENT TOPIC'S.
What the Opposition contends is
that, so long as the license system pre -
Valls, we must not leave it to the
power of the Government to•say who
shall hold these licenses.—Meredith at
Loudon.
The mines of this 'country, if they
contain the wealth which the people of
the province of Ontario and those out-
side of it believe, by developing these
mines we will give an impetus to the
country, and give employment to those
who are now seeking it and desirous of
obtaining it.—Meredith at London.
Wh le with regard to the eependi-
ture of fifty or one hundred dollars
under our constitutional system not a
dollar can be taken out of the public
treasury unless the people's repre-
sentatives in Parliament assembled
have by their votes determined that
that money shall be expended, yet it is in
the power, it is in the discretion of the
Government of the day without the
consent of Parliament; to.. place upon
the market any quantity of the timber
limits of this country without consult-
ing your representatives in Parlia-
ment.—Meredith at London.
How thoroughly Mr. McCarthy and
Col. O'Brien are embittered against the
Dominion Government may bo under-
stood when we mention that on a mere
question of procedure which was up in
the House last week, Mr. McCarthy
and Col. O'Brien both voted with Mr.
LN.urier and the Grits. There was
no principal involved, and if Mr. Mc-
Carthy had desired for a moment to
make even a show of independence he
could very easily have voted with the
administration.
The London Times has recently pub-
lished a series of articles upon Canada.
In its latest article it speaks with
great pride of the solid progress that
Canada has made since Confederation,
and in conclusion says: "Canada
should he spared the evils of un -
native' inflation, depression and revolt,
which is brought on by the excessive
massing of the population. The pres-
ent measured progress will best fit her
to take a place of increasing influence
in the Empire from Which she cannot
be scored without results incalculably
hazardous to herself and the Empire."
Sir Richard. Cartwright has once
more bobbed up as a friend of the poor
man. The laboring man and others
who have small sums to place in safe-
keeping at interest, use the Post Office
Savings Banks for the purpose. On
these deposits the Dominion Govern -
meat pay u: per cent. When the
matter was under discussion in the
House of Commons Sir Richard Cart-
wright urged that a reduction he made
to 3 per cent., as it was injurious to
the banks to have the Post Office Sav-
ings Banks paying so high a rate of
interest. It should be remembered
that Sir Richard Cartwright has a
large amount invested in bank stocks.
When Sir Rickard's interests conflict
with the interest of the farmer Sir
Richard is found voting for hirnself
everytime.
Sir Richard Cartwright was not
quite as rabida free trader in 1876as he is
at the present time. Sir Richard then
declared in his budget speech "I do not
entirely agree with those gentlemen
who maintain that there is no ground
for the champions of the protectionist
party. I haye always myself been of
the opinion that in a new country like
this there is great force in the argu-
ment that it is not well to allow our-
selves to depend exclusively upon
foreign manufacturers, and if we do,
there is some chance that we may be
supplied with the mere refuse of expor-
tation." In that speech Sir Richard
hit the key exactly. We are a young
country, and if we ever hope to be a
great and self sustaining country, we
must not allow ourselves to depend, as
Sir Richard says, exclusively .upon
foreign manufacturers. Sir Richard
was in power then and he is out of
power now, hence the difference in his
tone.
News Notes.
In Kingston the mayor's chain each
year has a link iulded to it with the
name of the mayor of that year en-
graved thereon.
Chas. Robinson, of Guelph township,
has in his possession a ewe which gave
birth to a lamb on April 28th and
another on May llth.
In a church in Madrid on 1 hursday
evening a young girl screamed, "Here
is a bomb that will explode." A panic
followed in which many people were
trampled to unconsciousness and some
will die. There was no bomb and the
girl admitted the alarm was a hoax.
On Tuesday night of lest week some
heartless wretch stole into Keeleys'
barn in Arthur township, cut the heads
off ten hens and carried away their
bodies. Not satisfied with this the
wretch proceeded to the field where the
sheep were and cut the head off a lamb
and carried it away also. The party
Who did the work is very handy with a
knife, and suspicion rests on a fellow
who has been blamed for stealing be-
fore.
The Clilgary Herald, of a recent issue,
has the following reference to a former
resident of Wingham well-known to
Clintonians:—"The improvements now
being made at the residence of Mr. H.
W. (1. Meyer, Q. C., will rank that pro-
perty as one of the handsomest in the
eastern suburb of Calgary. Rs loca-
tion on the Bow river, and the luxur-
ia.ut appearance of the grounds, go to
show that Mr. Meyer, though only a
comparatively late arrival, has evident-
ly faith enough in the country to in-
duce him to permanently cast in his lot ,
amongst us."
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has cured thbousands. and ; Clans 1017
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Sold by J. Ti. COMBS,
The Bell Telephone Co. suffered
severely by the storm of last week' in
the northern section.
HEART DISEABS BELIEVED IN 80 SxNuTEN.—!'.'1
cases of organic or sympathetic heartdieeaee restored
in 90 minutes and quickly aided, by Dr. Agnew's,
Cure for the Heart. One done convinces. Sold by
watts .t 00. and Allen & Wils.n, Dtuggtste.
The little daughter of Wm. Ross, of
Portage la Prairie was drowned by
falling into an old well Friday night.
Dr. Low's Worm Syrup cures and re-
moves worms of all kinds in children
or adults. Price 25c. Sold by all
dealers.
A young man named Will'ams, from
Brantford, had his foot partially taken
off while boarding a tram at Galt on
Thursday.
Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw-
berry cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Cramps, Colic. Cholera.Morbus, Cholera
Infanauui, and all looseness of the
bowels. Never travel without it. Price
i:5c. O
The Reeve o� Uxbridge, while riding
his bicycle on the sidewalk, lost his
egnilib.•ium and falling against the
fence broke two ribs.
GicNTLEMEN.—I have used your Yel-
low Oil and have found it unequalled
for burns, sprains, scalds, rheumatism,
croup and colds. All who use it recom-
mend it. Mrs. Hight, Montreal, Que.
A good Tory says be has at last found
a use for the Mercuuv. He placed a
copy of the weekly over some beans
the other nie,ht, and kept off the frost.
A BOON. TO HoasEMEN.—Ono bottle of English
bpavin Liniment completely removed a curb from my
anise. I take ',teatime in recommending the remedy,
Ss it acts with mysterious promptness in the re-
moval from horses 0f hard, soft or calloused lumps,
blood spavin, splints, curbs, swceny, stifles ane
sprains. 010110E BOBS, Farmer, Markham, Ont. Sold
by Watts & Co, and Allen dr Wilson, Druggists.
Peter Jacksou announces that he
will Mari; for England in about two
week with the intention of forcing
Champion Corbett into making a
match.
In summer, autumn, winter, spring*
If you'd be happy, wise,
And to your household pleasures bring,
'Just use the Diamond Dyes.
air if you mail this verse and notice
and 25 cents in stamps or money to
WELLC be RuateanSON Co., Montreal;
you will receive Our Home, Canada's
new monthly family paper, for one
year; also illustrated book on "How to
snake Mats and Rugs," and one pack-
age of Ink Powder, for making 16
ounces of best black ink. tom" MenJioa
thi8 paper.
Mr. Geo. Powell, of Blyth, and two
of the contractors fell from a scaffold
at the forrier's new residence Wednes-
day, a dis.;ance of _') feet. The two
brieklaye .s were noc 'hurt but Mr.
Powell sustained painful although not
serious inju lies about the head and
body.
"I enclose $5. Send me six bottles
Royal Crown Remedy."
R. B. LA]DLOW, Blyth.
During the thunderstorm Sunday
week, the pump factory of Mr. P.
Willows, of Blyth, was struck by
lightning. Mr. Willows detected the
s.aoke issuing from the coiner of the
building before the fire was far advant•
ed, and with the assistance of a few
neighbors succeeded in extinguishing
what might have been a serious blaze.
(2) SHILOH's CURE is sold on a guaran
tee. It cures Incipient Consumption.
It is the best Cough Cure. Only one
cent a 'lose ; 25 cts., 50 cts. and 31.60
per bottle. Sold by J. H. Combe.
Jack Wright, the missing hostler of
Woodstock, is reported to have been
seen in St. Thomas recently. Wright
gave as hi:, elplanation of his disap-
pearance that lie had grown tired of
'Woodstock and not liking to tell his
employer, Mr. Henderson, he was
about to leave, thought it would he
best to just slip out and say nothinrr.
He left Woodstock on a train which
took him to Buffalo, and he has been
working since at Buffalo, Syracuse and
some places between.
For Over Fifty Years
Mas. WINsrow'S SOOTHING Brave has been used by
millions of mothers tor their children while teething
11 disturbed at night and broken of your rest by y
sick child suffering and erring with pain of Outtin
Teeth send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Win.
Blow's Soothing Syrup" for Children Teethling.
will relieve the poor little sufferer immedately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about
it. It cures Diarrhoea, regulates the Stomach and
Bowels, cures Wind Celle, softens the Gums and re,
duces Inflammation, and givos tone and energy to alai
whole system. "Mrs Wlnelow's Soothing Syrup -
tor children teething is pleasant to the taste and
Is `the prescription of ono of the oldest and best
female physicians and nurses In the United States.
rrioo twenty.fivo cents a bottle. Sold by all drug
gists throughout the world. Be sure and ask fo
MRS. WINlLow'9 So TeeNO STROP."
While Jas. Kearney, of Morris town-
ship, was clearing up a piece of land
some weeks ago he cathe across a
partridge on a nest with fifteen eggs.
As the land was to be plowed, the nest
and egos were taken home and set
ander a hon, with the result that four-
teen young loartridges have been
hatched out. It is said that you can't
tame a partridge but these seem as
Ianie as chickens yet.