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oepted) from 8 a.n1 to 7 15 p m., but holders o
lock boxes have access to the lobby until 8 p.m
Money Order and Saving Bank office open
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Tuesday and Friday, arriving at 5.25 audtleav-
ing at 5.30 p,m.
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from this office to Londesboro and Belgrave,
also to Mitchell and Dublin, mails closing as
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tries intended to be forwarded by Now York,
must have written on the top left hand oorner
of envelope VIA NEw YORK.
The Late War.
Some of our contemporaries feel in
clined to criticize unfavorably the Un
ited States in connection with the
war just concluded, and accuse them
of other than humanitarian motives
Those who have studied the Spanish
ethods of governing her colonies
must admit that the situation in these
colonies was desperate. Taking Cub
as a sample, there is not a civilized na
a
tion on earth that could approve of
the tyranny and injustice meted out
to this people—taxed beyond the point
of endurance, robbed of everythiog,
that is valued by man, promises of re-
form violated again and again, there
was no redress but revolt, then carne
slaughter and rapine that shocked
every sense of humanity and apparent.
ly left nothing but annihilation for
them in the future. Submission meant
slavery of the worst type, and to fight
to the bitter end was all that was left
.to them. That Spain would have ev-
entually crushed the rebellion is cer-
taiu, hut what then ? There would
have been no amelioration in the con-
ditions, everything pointed to a worse
andharder rule. Slavery
or death
th
was Spain's fiat to the Cubans, and
they chose death rather than submit
"-,to their inexorable task -masters. It
nnust be remembered that this was
happening at the very door of a nation
that had sacrificed thousands of Iives-
and, millions of money, and had run
the risk of dismembering the Union, in
freeing the slaves of the South, whose
condition was net worse, if not better
than the Cubans under Spanish rule—
a nation whose citizens bad large pe•
cuniary interests in Cuba, which could
not be, or were not, protected under
Spanish government, it became neces-
eery to take decisive action.
I'tinay be that the Cuban proper is
but a poor specimen of manhood, ig-
norant, savage. quite incapable ot self-
government; looking at their environ -
silents, is it to he wondered at. But
who is to blame for this? Had Spain
given them a liberal amount of free-
'dom, and the blessing that freedom
ever brings with it—education—they
would, in all probability, have had a
prosperous and happy colony, instead
of hatred, rebellion and bloodshed.
The unpardonable act of sending such
an incarnate fiend as Wheeler to sub-
due the insurgents banished all hope
from their minds, and roused such a
feeling of loathing and resentment
throughout the United States that
could but result in intervention. The
course of the American Government
has been in such close touch with the
sentiment of Great Britain, that no
o e need marvel at the outburst of ap-
e val manifested by her and her col -
Planning to the Philippines we find a
similar state of affairs. Here, as with
the Cubans. the Philipos were ground
between the State and Church mill-
stones. Where the State failed to
grind fine, the Church ground to pow-
der. The resources of the country
;;were absorbed by the hordes of priests
and Spanish officials. Let us try to
imagine ourselves in the position of
r'.Ihe Philipos and Cubans, and then
"dei y. them the right to revolt if we
i" Again, in Porto Rico the smoulder-
ing fire of rebellion must have been
tiered and deep and only held in check
by the military force of the Govern-
wetlt; the%moment there was a chance
o -evade that force the yoke was cast
Off titid, the foreigners, who, under hap-
pier Circumstances, would have been
'net asforbs, were welcomed as friends.
ppi�e nierely.claim' for the Cubans and
Philiparweertain quality of bravery
and aciyilized status equal to their en-
vironments staid a hope that the new
' irderr.%f+things will enable the United
States,^ Government to commence the
elfgiotitand educational reconstruc-
\;tion Of the government of the islands
on a 'basis similar to that enjoyed by
`theftlselVesi When this is done, and
orrder And happiness brow ht out of
ha>tos and misery, the United States
May leek back • on one of the greatest
bh evellataite of the century.
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TUE CLINTON NEW ERA
Tt e nes that falls to a country which
allows disease to assail its lige stock is
fittingly exemplified by the experience
of ('ape Colony with the rinderpest.
The total number of thte cattle before
the recent outbreak of the plague in
that colony was 1,639,433, and of this
r
number X70 861, or almost one third of
the whole, were lost through this dis-
ease. We in Canada are fortunate in
that we have healthy herds, acd what
is of almost as great importance, a dis-
position on the part of our agricultur-
ists to keep thein healthy.
For the half•year ending June 30,
the Grand Trunk carried 130,000 more
passengers and 11 per cent more ton -
age, than in the corresponding six
months in 1897. Despite the passenger
rate war, the company declared a
dividend of £104,000 on the 4 per cent
guaranteed stock, and carried over
£2,500 surplus. Under normal condi-
tions the showing would have been
still better. The company's financial
improvement in the last two years has
been very marked, and is the best
trihute to Mr Hays' tnanagement.
Hon. S. C. Wood, managing director
of the Freehold Loan and -Savings
Company, has just returned from his
annual tour of inspection through Man-
itoba, and is enthusiastic over the pros-
pects. Manitoba, he says, is no longer
an experiment, and investments there
are as secure as in any other province.
Farm land has risen in value, and new
land is being rapidly sold. The towns
are also doing well. Slr Wood says the
theory is advanced that the province is
net as liable to injury by frost as was
formerly (ha case. It is maintained
that the fact of the increased area
brought under cultivation gradually
affects the climate, and has of late years
materially prevented the summer frosts
which 'formerly occurred.
The Vancouver World sagely ob•
serves: —"There is nothing more detri-
mental to the usefulness of any public
institution, which has for its object
the furtherance of the country's inter-
ests, than to have it attacked by poli-
ticians for the sake of furthering their
ends politically," And it scores a
point when it makes this forceful ap-
plication of the principle laid down:—
"In this respect there is no institution
that has been so bitterly and persist-
ently attacked as the Ontario Agricul-
tural ^College, but despite this it has
gone forward and flourished, under the
most adverse conditions." Who can
tell how much more good the country
might derive frotn the Agricultural
College if the Opposition were to take
a hint•from the Liberal course toward
the Dominion experimental farms,and
instead ofdect•yingand fighting it, help
to increase its usefulness to the Pro-
vince."
The Poor Men Made Canada.
Hamilton Times.
Did it ever occur to the kid -gloved
editors who ate turning up their aris-
tocratic noses at the idea of Galician
immigration to the North-west, that
this Province of Ontario was converted
froma howling wilder nessinto a bloom-
ing garden, not by rich men, but by
the poor and the ignorant. It was not
the Dicksons and the Boultons, the
Talbots and the Pillingtons who cut
down the trees, but ned t he brush and
started the plough. The rich men
bought or stole—in any case theyac-
quired—large tracts of land in Canada,
and then they stood off waiting for the
labor of poor men to make it valuable.
The McGillivrays and the Ellices used
a part of the money they had made in
the Hudson Bay fur trade to launch
the Canada Company, which has been
taking toll from Canada's workers for
three quarters of a century. Other
rich men grabbed land by thousands
of acres—sometimes a whole township
at one swoop—on the main lines of
travel, or in the vicinity of town sites,
thus making it hard for poor. working
farmers to pet to market. Real Gour-
lay's desctiption of the wilderness
around Toronto, in 1820, and of the
state of the road between Toronto and
Kingston. Consult any old man who
located in the Huron .ract half a cen-
tury ago. The greatest hardship the
real developers of Canada had to con-
tend with was to shake the rich fellows
off their backs. Peter Robinson's set-
tlers inPeterborough were poor enough
and they brought their old -country
factions to Canada with them. The
Cavan blazers in Durham were as fond
of a fight, as the Wallace lambs in
Perth, Their wives made butter that
would not fetch a high price in ary
market, and the men farmed in a rude
and shiftless way, with poor tools.
But they cleared the c.iuntry, and who
would dare throw a stone at their de-
scendants in this generation? Provi-
ded the Galician settlers in the North-
west are not surrounded with railway
companies' and spectators' reserves of
of land, they will be civilized and rich
in less than half the time it took to
change the Irish a d Scotch immi-
grants into thrifty Canadians, Land
and labor can worry along without
much capital to begin with. The poor,
,and not the rich, make a country
great.
The Official Programme issued by the
Western Fair Association this year is the
best yet published. The work comprises
52 pages, with ohromo cover, and inside
printed on fine book paper. It contains
useful information for visitors and a num-
ber of illustrations showing the prinoipal
attraotione, also advertisements of some of
the leading business houses appear in its
pages. An excellent map of Weetesn . On-
tario, in color, is also given. The book is
in keeping with this old and reliable u -te-
datefair. In the number and quality of the
exhibits and the attractions to be presented
the Silver Jubilee Exhibition will far ex-
ceed the excellent exhibits of former years.
Our Ottawa Letter
(Special correspondenoe of the NEW ERA)
(Intended for last week.)
Ottawa, August 20.—We oan understand
the natural chagrin of extreme Conserva-
tive partisans at the unqualified success of
the efforts of the Liberal administration to
give practical effect to the long existing de.
sire for closer union with the Empire, more
particularly as shown in the adoption of
Preferential Trade and Imperial penny
1 ostage, bet we oannot understand why
they persist in making themselves the
laughing stook of the community. The
"I, William Mulook," incident of a year
ago was ocueidered by those who could not
look very far ahead a most excellent joke,
but as a matter of faot the amount of at-
tention which the persistent attempts at
ridicule drew to the Postmaster General
and his project, had the exact objeot whiob
he desired of making the country and the
Imperial authorities so familiar with the
idea that when he went to London thio
summer to olinoh the matter it was com-
paratively plain sailing.
Then again at the manner in which a
large number of the opponents of the Gov-
ernment persist in their attempts to "guy"
Preferential trade is funny. Only this
week the Mail & Empire treated its readers
to a column leading article to demonstrate
that"the policy of the Liberal Government
is only one of drift from Great Britain to-
wards the United States. It is designed to
keep British and Canadian interests asun.
der and to bring Canadian and United
States interests in closer touuh." . Almost
the same day that this oracular utteranoe
appeared there was published a copy of a
cable sent by Sir Howard Vincent, M P.,
on behalf of the United Empire Trade
League•to Bir Wilfrid Laurier expressing
"the undying gratitude of the British race
of today and forever to thtrr brothers
throughout the vast Dominion for their
patriotic and filial inauguration of Prefer-
ential trade between British kith and kin,"
adding "may this Preferential trade grow
and grow into the complete commercial
federation of the British peoples and pos•
sessions the whole world over." Evident-
ly the point of view makes all the differ-
ence.
A SAMPLE OF ACCURACY.
The sensational yarns originated by dib•
contented American miners at Dawson and
industriously cupied from American news-
papers by Conservative journals through-
out the Daminion oontinue to appear with
monotonous regularity. In view of the faot
that thorough investigation will be institu-
ted by the Government it is not worth
while to occupy space to discuss it further
here. That the alleged facts are absolutely
unreliable in the abeenoe of testimony from
responsible parties, may be judged from
one sample statement copied in the Mail Jr
Empire reoently.from the Seattle Post In-
telligencer, where it is stated that Major
Walsh has had the power to remit royal-
ties on gold taken out of Klondike claims
and that he has been exercising that power.
MajorWalsh has absolutely no such power;
the regulation requiring the collections of
10 per oent. royalty is as definite as all the
other regulations, and is being administer-
ed without qualification by the officials to
the best of their ability.
ANOTHER ONE OF THE SAME.
Another all•'gation squally without any
shadow of foundation is that Major Walsh
has resigned because he is sick and tired of
the widespread corruption and general dif-
ficulties of his position. While this state-
ment may have originated in the honest
ignorance of those who started it, it is now
well understood that the Major only accept-
ed his commission for a year. Adminis-
trator Ogilaie had been practically selected
as his successor long before he went to
England, and tha present reorganization of
the governmental machinery is simply a
carrying out of the general scheme which
has been gradually formulated by the Min-
ister of the Interior• as he has become in-
formed of the requirement ot the case. 6o
far, however, the Conservative press, that
has so industriously circulated the mis•
leading stories before referred to, have
failed to rise to the requirements of honest
journalism by correcting the error into
which they have fallen.
FOOLISH OF HUGH JOHN.
If Mr. Hugh John Macdonald ever hopes
to occupy his dietinguisbed father's place
in the estimation of the Canadian people
ho will have to exhibit more of the tact
that was so characteristic of the old Chief-
tain. There was a time when -it appeared
as if he appreciated Abe fact and was en-
deavoring to cultivate the suavity for which
Sir John A. Macdonald was noted, but his
recent exhibition of personal feeling in re-
fusing to preside at the banquet given by
the Manitoba Club, of which he was presi-
dent, to the Governor General,was a break
that has attracted considerable notice., We
don't suppose it bothered Lord Aberdeen to
any extent, but it has caused no little an-
noyance to Hugh John's political friends.
Distributing legal advice and services grat-
uitously among those from whom he hopes
to receive future favors is all very well, but
it will not take the place of the ordinary
amenities of public life.
GOOD IMMIGRATION WORK
The report which Mr. Pedley, Superin-
tendent of Immigration, makes of his trip
of inepeetion to the United States agencies
is decidedly gratifying. The interest
throughout the North Western States in
the Canadian North Wept is rapidly in-
creasing, and the agencies terou,hont that
district have had an excellent season's bus.
iness. Mr.Pedley found abundant evidence
of the splendid impression made upon the
newspaper men, who have just r•e:urned
from an extended tended tri
Ptaken a1
the au,_es
_
tion
of the Minister of the Interior and
under the guidance of the representatives
of the Government. Nearly every paper
throughout that vast agricultural dietriot
is publishing from week to week most glor-
ious accounts of the resources and oppor-
tunitiesof the Dominion. He also found
that the Canadian exhibit at Omaha was
doing us an immense amount of good.
PROVINCIAL POLITICS
Provincial politioe are absorbing atten•
tion in Ontario just now, all interest being
centred in Toronto. The debate on the
address has considerably oleared the at-
mospbero and the policy of the Govern-
ment is now before the country in blank
and white. It differs in no material point
from that outlined in the discussion that
has been ooinpying so large an amount of
spade in the press for the last month, and
there is practically no question that an-
other month will see the new legislation
upon the statute book and the House ad-
journed until the new year.
Provincial affairs in British Columbia
are also occupyinga very large amount of
public attention and the kaleidoscopic
changes from day to day are at this die.
tense quite bewildering. The one point
that certainly appears settled is that the
late administration has definitely dropped
out of existence, and that the af1`aire of the
Province will, for the next Parliamentary
term, be in the hands of new, though not
untried men, whose part record for pro-
grese and knetvledge of affairs ie an excel.
lent certificate for the future of the Paoiffo
Province.
Crisp County Clippings
Wm. Grainger, of Hallett. had three
c Lives killed by lightning during the
storm on Tuesday night.
The Goderich municipal finance com-
mittee has decided to recommend to -
the the u nil that a rates ot 25 mills on
the dollar be levied again this year.
Mr A. J. McCall, who has just been
appointed Chief Justice of British
Culuuibia, is an old Huronite. He
practiced law for a time at Brussels
and afterwards at Goderich.
There died at his residence on Jose-
phine St , Wingham, on Friday even
tng, Mr John Wellwood, who has been
in a very low condition for a number
of weeks. Deceased has been a resi-
dent of that town for a number of
years, and was held in high esteem by
a large circle f friends.
The death of Thomas Wallace, of
Donnybrook, took place on Tuesday of
last week. His remains were interred
in the W inghatn cemetery and a large
host of friends attended the funeral.
He was a very successful farmer, being
the owner of a 200 -acre farm.
Perhaps the largest crop of oats ever
raised in Ashtleld was this year raised
on nine • acres on the farm of John
Hutchison, on the 8th con. Forty,
fifty and sixty bushels to the acre have
heretofore been looked upon as record
breakers, but Hutcbison's caps the
climax with over ninety bushels per
acre.
On Sunday evening, Aug. 21. Rev.
T. E. Higley preached his farewell
sermon in Trinity church, the edifice
being crowded to the doors by many
of the citizens of Blyth and neighbor-
hood, who were eager to hear the fare-
well words of one who was untiring in
his labors for the cause of God. List
Sunday Mr Higley commenced his
work at Blenheim.
The many friends of Mr Wm. Milk-
er, West Wawanosh, ate sorry to hear
that he is not recovering from his ill-
ness. He has been confined to his bed
for the pest three weeks and it is fear-
en that his age is against him, he be-
ing St years old. He is one of Huron's
pioneers. ha"ing settled in %Vest Wa-
wanosh 45 years ago. He has always
been a strong healthy roan.
0,1e of the oldest pioneers of Turn -
berry passed away to the great beyond
on Saturday, Aug. 6th, in the person
of John Wilson, at the ripe old age of
78 years and 7 months. Deceased was
a native of Berickshire, Scotland, and
came to,Lhis country when I1 years of
age and lived in Montreal for some
time, where he was married. He then
came to Turnberry, And lived there
for over 40 years. He and his wife
had lived together for upwards of 50
years.
Messrs Asbury and Pullen, of the
D.lminion B talk, Seaforth, are estab
fishing for themselves quite a reputa-
tion as pedestrians. On Saturday last
they walked from St. Joseph to Grand
Bend, and on Sunday they walked
from Grand Bend to Hayfield. After
resting a while there, Mr Pullen start-
ed Seaforth, via Clinton, and got there
in good form early in the evening,
making a walk of about thirty-five
mires in a day.
Mr C. Prouty, Clerk of the township
of Stephen, is 81 years old, and is pro-
bably the most active of his age in the
county. Notwithstanding this great
age and being somewhat indisposed
last week he started out in his official
capacity and drove 167 miles and ser-
ved 240 papers in three and a half
days. We question whether many of
the younger men of to -day at twenty
would perform the same task in so
short a time.
Many of our readers will regret to
learn of the death of Mrs Daniel Man-
ley, of McKillop, the wife of Deputy -
Reeve Manley, which took place on
the 13th inst. Mrs Manley was quite
a young woman, being only 27 years
of age. She was a daughter of Mr
Leeman, of McKillop. She was a most
estimable woman, who was greatly be-
loved and respected by all who knew
her. Her death is a severe bereave-
ment ,Her
her respected husband and
family.
•
Mr Thomas McKay, of Kippen, has,
for the past week, been nursing a
sprained leg, the effects of a straw
stack falling over while Mr McKay,
with others, was assisting at a thresh.
ing at Mr A. Montieth's. Mr McKay
was one of the four on the stack,which
was well tip, when to their great sur-
prise, the stack tumbled over, landing
all on mother earth. It looked a little
serious for a few moments, as it was
thought some of the company was
likely to be smothered in the straw.
On Wednesday afternodn of last
week the residence of Mr and Mrs R.
James, of East Wawanosh, was the
scene of a very happy event, the oc•
casion being the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Annie; to Mr W. Ben-
nington, of Cleveland, Ohio. The
ceremony was performed in the pres-
ence of a number of the immediate
relatives and friends of the contract-
ing parties by Rev. Dr. Pascoe, pastor
of Wingham Methodist church. on the
lawn, under an arch which was beauti-
fully decked with flowers. The brides-
maid was Mies Katie Phillippa, of
Teeswater. The groom was assisted
by Mr George James, of Cleveland.
The bride was the recipient of a large
number of very handsome and costly
presents, The happy young couple
will spend a few days visiting among
relatives and friends, after which they
will take up their residence in Cleve-
land.
We very deeply regret this week to
chronicle the death of Mr Bernard
Shirray, second eldest adn of the late
Mr Nicol Shirray, of Hay, which sad
event occurred at the family home,
near Heneall, on Tuesday, about noon,
and after only a week's illness. The
depeased was a young man in the very
prime of life, being $1 years of age,
and was .most highly esteemed for
many excellent qualities, and was the
hope and main stay of hie widowed
'mother and the refit of the family, he
being the eldest son at home. Only a
little over a week ago he was in the
full enjoyment of health, and took a
trip up to Goderich to spend a day or
so there. Returning home he at onee
entered upon his work as usual, and
although feeling a little nnwell in the
evening of the day he returned, after a
busy day's,work be did not feel himself
at all seriously ill,but before the morn-
ing of the following day he was at-
tacked with acute inflammation of the
bowels.
The "Nen* Ern will be sent to new subscribe
I ere, for the balance of tiro year, for 26 cents*
R Pair, Square Transaction.
The Conservative newspaper editors
are filling their columns with jocular
or sneering references to the fact that
Mr Daniel McGillicuddy, llicuddy, proprietor of
the Huron Signal, has received a con-
tract on the new harbor works at God-
erich. Their attitude is ungenerous.
They might profit by the example set
them by Liberal editors when the Con-
servatives were in power at Ottawa.
In those days, when a Conservative
editor received some consideration at
the hands of the Government, the Lib-
eral papers did not sneer at him.
Journalistic ct,urtesy restrained them
from calling any more attention to the
matter than was necessary in the pub-
lic interest.
It is not suggested that journalistic
courtesy should go the length of spar-
ing Mr McGillicuddy,, if he had done
anything wrong, or if he had become
implicated in a questionable transac-
tion. But he has done nothing wrong.
There is no evidence that he even used
his political influence to secure the
contract. He tendered with many
others, of all shades of politics, and
won the prize in straight competition,
if prize it be.
And this is not the only point on
which the funny men of the Conserva-
tive papers are astray. They are con-
stantly jibing at the Huron editor's
dredging plant. They seem to be ig-
norant of the fact that the contract in
question is not a dredging contract at
all. What Mr' McGillicuddy is to do is
to build a breakwater. For this pur-
pose he has associated with him a prac-
tical contractor, and there is every ap-
parent guarantee that the work will
be well done. In view of all l:he facts,
itis plain that there is no earthly reas-
on why Mr McGillicuddy should not
turn contractor. In doing so, he is
not more remarkable than were one
set of his critics when they annexed a
tea-shop to their journalistic enterprise.
—Toronto Star.
POSTAGE.—The reduction in domes-
tic postage from 3 cents to two cents
will take effect on November 9th, sim-
ultanoeus with the inauguration of Im-
perial penny postage. The matter has
not yet been officially decided upon,
but it is understood that Mr Mulock is
hastening his return to Canada in or-
der to prepare for the change. His col-
leagues here are convinced that domes-
tic postage cannot be maintained at
3 cents while the imperial rate is two.
With the cut in domestic postage the
rate to the United States will also come
down to two cents.
READERS OF THIS PAPER
DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING
ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUM VS
SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING
WHAT TREY ASK FOR REFUSING
ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS.
Children Cry for
CA ST O R IA.
A Curiosity
A Leamington correspondent writes:
W. A. Quick has a curiosity in his gar-
den. It is a pear tree. Two years ago
he grafted a tree, putting a graft from
the same limb on each side of the tree.
This year the two grafts are hearing
and they have two different varieties
of pears. One is a large pear and the
other is a small variety, Will some
fruit grower explain how this happen-
ed? A graft is cut in two pieces, a
piece is put on each side of the tree
and they procnce two different varie-
ties of fruit. Let us hear from some-
body.
1
aro
"Merit talks" the-
intrinsic value of Tai
kHood's Sarsaparilla.
Merit in medicine means the power to
cure. Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses actual
and unequalled curative power and there-
fore it has true merit. When you buy
Hood's Sarsaparilla, and take it according
to directions, to purify your blood, or
cure any of the many blood diseases, you
are morally certain to receive benefit.
The power to cure is there. You are not
trying an experiment. It will make your
blood pure, rich and nourishing, and thus
drive out the germs of disease, strengthen
the nerves and build up the whole system,
00
Sarsaparilla
lathe best, in fact—the One True Blood Purifier,
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Man.
Hood's Pills g iiipe cA-iPa ugan26o'.
CLINTON
Subscriber is prepared to
rom tl
fill all or-
ders Wood or Coal. which will be sold at
lowest tato. Office on Isaac Street, at LAVIS
IMPLEMENT ROOMS. W. WHEATLEY
A Great Event
CANADA'S GREAT .. .
••
Industrial Fair
'Toronto ...
AUG. 29th to SEPT. 10th, '98
ale
New and Wonderful Attractions
Excelling all previous years%
The eubatl•Anseriican War
ExoitinglNaval;and ,Military Displays
The latest inventions &Novelties
from all parts of the world
Entries of Exhibits close Aug. 8th. Cheap
exoursions trona everywhere. For prize lista,
entry forms, programs, and all partionlars,
address
J. J. WITHROW, H. J. HILL,
President Manager, Tolent0
Oats Wanted
IN E%013 II' GE
12
lbs chef
tee Oatmeal for 1 bush. Oats
13 lbs. choice Family Flour fort bush Oslo
Oats taken in exchange
for Groceries
There are our present rates,
but we don't know how long
they will oontinue.
0. OLSON, • - Clinton
IT PAYS TO
TheCanada Business College
CHATHAM, ONT.
still leads its contemporaries in plaoing pupils
134
of our pupils were placed in ohoiee positions
in the ten months ending July 1st an average
of nearly four per week What do you think
of it?
It pays to attend the best
College ne•opens for the Fall Term
Tuesday, September 6th. Write for cat
alogue of either department to
D. McLACHLAN & Co,Chatham
PROPERITES FOR SALE OR To LET
FOR SALE.
The undersigned will sell at a saorifloe, Lot 451
or 12,
Railway
upon iation JAerrMES SCOTT, Barrister) &o
FOR SALE.
Factory and contents on the property of D.
Buchanan for 8125; by paying $15 down and
balance at 810 a month. Building to be re-
moved. Apply to J. SCOTT, Clinton.
HOUSE TO RENT.
Street,llateeyfoccue occupied by Mr. Todd, with )halt
an acre of land. Rent moderate. Apply to
JAMES SCOTT, Barrister.
H9USE TO RENT.
orooe ettcnfaStreet, ncoodalcregadenad
hewing orchard, with promises of lots of fruit.
Rent low, W. MOORE,
Sewing Machine Depot, Huron Street.
HOUSE TO LET.
Good
large
house
tstreet, rsix lare rs, celar dw dhd, summer
kitchen, pantry, hard and soft water, large
stable. Will be rented cheap to pormaneut
tenant. Apply to NEw ERA Office, or to
JOHN H. WOItSELL, Goderich.
CHOICE FARM FOR SALE.
A splendid farm of I60 acres of improved
land, on the 2nd con. of Stanley. All but 15
acres cleared, good frame house, frame baro,
bearing orchard, running water. Situated two
miles from town of Clinton. Will be sold on
reasonable terms, D. MCTAVISH, Clinton.
New House and Lot t'or Sale.
Subscriber offers his house and lot on 16111
Street for sale on cheap and reasonable term%
Tho oellar, hard anis a d soft w K ao terrYLot olne withuater of
an acro. Reason for selling—owner wishes to
move nearer to his work.
W. MENNEL, Clinton.
COTLAGE AND LOT FOR
SALE.
The undersigned eratgned tellers for sale a frame cot-
tage of four rooms, with kitchen and woodshed
attached. Centra,ly situa ed. Good water and
drainage. Will be sold cheap. Apply to
Clinton Dec. 10th W. C. SEARLE.
HOUSE FOR SALE.
houses on buys
aenbury two
semi-detached
asthe_Fox
on Property.
they houses and also vacant lots for sale.
Money.—Private funds in large and small
guns Ll liaa 0.1 i,v)r,.o te.. Rates low.
Vrl. BRYDONE, Barrister.
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR
SALE
That bert Stu Clinton, occupied usinby rable Briak Mr Stands . Robson, is
offered for sale, including rear lot and stable.
The location is one of the best in Clinton. The
property is free from incumbrance and title in-
disputab'e. Price reasonable and terms to suit
purchaser. Apply to GEO. STANBURY, Lon-
don Road, or address Clinton P. 0
Farm tt.r Tale or to Rent.
The eolith half of lot 5, concession 9, Town-
ship of Morris, containing, 100 acres, 80 acres
cleared and in good state 01 cultivatiyation.
The, e aro un the premises a frame house, frame
barn. frame drive house, good orchard, never -
failing supply of spring water. Situated 1 mile
from the village of Blyth. Will be sold on rea-
sonable terms, Apply to C. HAMILTON, Wyth
or THOS. R. WRIGHT Execut r, 948 Princess
Ave„ London, Otit,
Excellent Farms to Rent.
Owing to i11 health of his wife, the subscriber
habaso line to rend to t.Oneof the farmr his splendid sr contains 8rms on 0
acres, in Goderich township, nearly all cleared
and In first-class state of cultivation. There is
good frame house, bearing orchard, bank barn
80 feet long and stables- plenty of water on the
place and also inside the building. Also lot 33,
4th concession of Huliett, (near the other con-
taining 83 acres, all cleared and seeded flown.
In the both farms are 110 acres cleared and
without a foot of waste land, and 25 acres will
be ready for fall wheat, The farms are ori good
gravel road, about. 2 miles from town of Clin-
ton. s1 ill e rented to a good tenant at a rea-
sonable figure, with privilege of going en at
once. Apply on the premises, or by letter to
Clinton Post Office.
THOMAS MASON.
g AGENTS WANTED.
locality to sell ournele ovelt novelties. t Big commisssion
paid. Send app'ioation and 29 cents for full
line of samples. The FRANCIS MTV Co.*
Confederation Lite B7d'gs, Toronto
I PY1 la tie
Ie hereby extended, to all young then and'
wanton interested In practical education,
to write for the New Prospectus of the ;
Central Business College
of TORONTO. Fall term opens Sept. f.
Eight regular teachers, unexcelled fa-
cilities for Accouynting Tologr•aphy,shor,
did positions each term. Gut partioulare.
Address, W. 13, SHAW, PRINoneAt.
Yongb & Gerrard Ste., Toronto,
mamommaiammiummominimmuummem
A
Professional and0therCards
SCOTT & MoKENZIE.
Barristers, Solicitors, &o.,
Clinton and Bayfield.
CLINTON Orrice -Elliott Block, Isaac Street.
HAYFIELD OFFICE—Open every Thursday,—
MainStreet, set first door west of Yost Office.
MONEY TO LOAN.
JAMES Scorr, - - E. H. k
ker
W. BRYDONE.
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY
PUBLIO, ETC.
Office—Beaver Block.
Up -stairs, Opposite Foster's Photo Gallery
CLINTON
M. Gl CAMERON
(Formerly of Cameron Holt & OameronM
BARRISTER AND SOLICITO
Oliloe—Hamilton St opposite Colborne
BARRISTER AND SOLICITO4
GODERICH, ONT
JOHN RIDOUT.
CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER, RTO
Real Estate and Insurance Agent. Money 10
lend on Mortgage and Note security.
Office—HURON STREET, CLINTON
R. AGNEW.
DENTIST, CLINTON
AT ZURICH THE 2ND THURSDAY OH
EACH MONTH
Office Hours -9 to 5.
DR. T. C. BRUCE,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Graduate RODS of Ontario, and Trinity
varsity Toronto.
Special attention given to the Preservation
the natural teeth.
Ofhee, Coate f look, over Taylor's shoe store
N. B.—Will
isit
rayfeld every Thursdayt afternoh on during the
summer
DR. WM. GUNN, L, 11. C. P. and L. R. 0. S.
Night calls atgh. frontd000r or residence n Rotario Sreet tten
bury St., opposite Presbyterian church.
DR. TURNBULL,
PERRIN'S BLOCK, Up Stairs,
U'LINTON.
Night calls answered at office.
DR. J. W. SHAW, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
A iooucheur, etc„ office and residence On..
tarso St., opposite English church, formerly o0
cupied by Dr. Appleton, Clinton Ont.
IDR. MacC., LLUM.
M D., C, M., 5IeGill. M. C. P. & S„ Ontario
Late Resident Physician to Royal Victoria
Hospital, Montreal.
Office—Dr. Dowsley's stand, Rattenbury St.
Night calls at Clarendon Hotel.
DR sTANIsUTA1, URADUAIL Or' TSR
Medical Department of Victoria Uniyer
city, Toronto, formerly of the Ilquaaals and
Dispensaries, New York, curve or he
County of Huron, Bayfield, Out.
JE. BLACHALL VETER1NA1 SURGE()
li• iionoraryGraduateof th eon tario V etgri
College. Treats alldiseases of domesticated i.
male
on the most
pieaOffice- immediately south of the Neel Ere
Office. Residence — Albert St„ Clinton. Cal
night or day attendedto promptly
y
JOHN F. MILNE, VETERINARY SURGEON
has returned to LIlnton and opened an office
at the Queen's Hotel, where be may be consult-
ed for the treatment, of all diseases of horses,
cattle, &c.
All calla, night or da
tended to. Y, promptly at
ARRIAGE LICENSE, JAMES SCOTT, ,� $R.
111. +l
'sourer of Marriage Licensee, Library oam
and Residence, Mary street, Clinton.
JAMES CAMPBELL, LONDESBORO
ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES,
No witnesses required
iD W. FARNCOMB, MEMBER OF ASSN OF
Civil P, Engineer, L. Provincial
Lndon, Ont.- Ofttceyat Geo,
Stewart's Grocery Store, Clinton.
CLINTON MARBLE WORKS.
COOPER'S LD STAND,
Next to Commercial Hotel.
This tlisnment is in full o' eration and a
order filled in the most satisfacto,y way, Came
ery and granite work a specialty. Prices a
sonable ae those of any establishment
BEALE & HOOVER, Clinton
WIN FED High Grald de aor Wd oman,
of good Church standing to act as Manager
here and do office work and correspondence
at their home. Business already built up and
established hero Salary 8111x) Enclose self-
addressed stamped envelope for our terms to
A. P. ,Elder, General Manager. 189 Michigan
Ave., Chicago, Ill
AGENTS.
Fapble book, elling dike a whirlwind. Beautiful
BRADLEY-GARIiETSON COMPANs. Y,Lnirre,Don time.
Toronto,
AGENTS
writes Lor ilife Lorne Her Majesty
Victoria."
BAgents
A LIY GARfiT RETSON Cs OMPANY, Lamm),
Toronto.
AGENTS — Book business is better than for
years past;also have bettor and faster selling
books. Agents clear from $10 to $40 1veekly. A
few leaders are: "Queen Victoria,' Lite of Mr
Gladstone," "My Mother's Bible Stories," "Pro-
gressive Speaker." "Klondike Gold Fleitfs,'"' Wo-
man," "Glimpses of the Unseen, ","Breakfast
Dinner and Supper," ' Canada; an Encyolopao
dia." Books on time. Outfits free to canvassers,
The BRADLEY•GARRETSON Co., Limited
Toronto.
McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE CO.
FARM & ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY
ONLY INSURED
OP'FIones
Geo.Y
McLean, '{ippon g1 I'. 0., Vice -Pres.; rlok0. J.
Shannon, Seoy Treae, Seaforth P. O,; r
Hays, Seaforth P. O., Inspect
m'uf'ixls;
DIRECTORS
Winthrop P. 0.; George Dale. Seaforth- ; John G. Thos.
E. Hays, Seaforth; Jas, Evans Beechwood
0.; Thos, Garbutt Clinton; Thomas Fraser,
Brucofleld; John B. McLean, Iiippen,
AGENTS
Robert Smith Harloek; Jno. W. Yeo, Holmes./
ville; ltobt. McMillan, Seaforth; Jame Cum-
ming Egmondville;John Govonlook and John
Morrison, auditors.
Parties desirous to Wein ln1;11m oo or trans*
aot other business will be promptly atteeded to
on application to any of the above officers
addressed to their respective oftto%
t