The Clinton New Era, 1904-03-25, Page 4fSucces
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pot',NUR Millinery opening on Tuesday Evening was a great success. ° Those who could not attend the
* IV evenift opening are cordially invited to come and see all the pretty things before they are gone.
* ' ' The question nearest every feminine heart Just now is the Easter Hat, Now that our opening is
' over we are ready for every demand. This year's showing ot• Hats fafexcels every previous effort. Doz..
zens and dozens of pretty Hats await your choosing from which any woman cannot fail to find something
just to her liking. and if one has some particular idea to be carried out, here are expert Milliners to carry
it out for you. Buy your Easter Hat now before the rush begins.
Outing Hats in all the very newest Styles, $1.50 to $4.50
waava.asskAsa..aiss.sasa.
Magnificerit Stock, of New Spring Dress _Goods
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There's much of newness in our Dress,Goods Department. Winter
is practically banished from thought. The fashions are those -of spring. „
We didn't say "Summer.". So many careless readers seem to let their
minds jump from Furs to Organdies. Clinton Spring, is a cold prbpo-
sition. Its violets come mostly from Dixie Land and the hot house. -
-Spring garb, as we've planned it can be worn .now There are some.
lovely effects in medium weight tweeds of contrasting colors. Then,
' there are many novelties in the light •weightclinging fabrics. For
although the character of the dress ha changed very materially, from..
the close goWns of last:year to the full skirts of the period of 1830, the
same sheer soft materials are nece ssb,r3i to their, most perfect construe-
• • tion. The most favored. are Voiles, then the Eoliennes,Grenadines,
Etamines,Mohairs and Crepe-de-chenes. Fashion is leaning Strangly
to the softest and most transparent, woollens the loom can turn out.
We have been •told that our display of Dress Goods is the gneat
'shown in Clinton.
Tweeds at '60c, 75c. and 85c
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In all the newest mixed colorings
Harris Tweeds and Homespuns
In a very large range of New designs at $1 and $1.25 -
',Kid Gloves for Easter
Our Kid Glove Department is fully prepared to meet every demand
for Easter.. We handle only the best qualities and fully guarantee
.evpry glove we sell at $1, $1,.25 and t1.50.
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Voiles in all shades
at E.350 *1 to $1.50"
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• ONTARIO STREET -The children of
the Sunday School held their first
practice for the open session which
they will hold 'on anniversary- Sunday,
N h 7th. M
Brussels, will be the special speaker. •
_ Wrvr.,ras GEMRCEL-Miss Laidlavr. of:
Seaforth, assisted the choir of Willis
@lurch last Sunday evening, and sang
a Solo after the sermon ....There were
large congregations present at •both
• services to hear twe able addresses de-
livered by Dr. Stewart.
ST. Parrb's _ CHURCH. -On Sunday
lasttlae 1 ector of St Pool's chureh read.
letter he had received from Bishop
Carmichael in which His Lordship
stated that he expected to attend a
Missionary meeting in Hornlike on
April 12th, and could come to Clinton ,
on April 9th and preach in . St. Paul's
Church on the 10th, morning and even-
ing. Many of his parisinoneers in
ta
s,s wn and country will be glad to *el-
ate the'Bishop to Cilinton again.....
nesday evening the Ladies Guild
will meet to discuss church, decoration
for Easter and the visit of Bishop
, Carmichael to his old parish I they'
)will also 'have their annual . report
a". made out, for presentation to the
wardens at the vestry meeting, to be
held Easter Monday evening....Good
lay a. public service will be held in
th 'morning, at 11 o'clock. Further
smog& will be, made known next
week in r erence to Easter services
ana for the Sunday following.
Vt. ESLEY CHURCH - The Junior
League Social, hold in the interests of
She Forvrard Movement for Missions
s otil.'hursday evening last was quite a •
sueCess. The stermy evening detained
/tome whom the Juniors would have
been pleased -to welcome. Theprograna
, was a credit to the young people tak-
• ing part. Besides solos by Carman
• Turner and Miss Gladys Cantelon, and"
a recitation by Clifford Andrewe, a
,sturnber of dialogues, interspersedwith
thortises were given. The grown peo-
ple liberally supplied the refreshments,
, 'which all appetently enjoyed. The
- v jkroceeds reached the satisfactory sum
• of trierey-five dollars.. ..The services
of this ehurch for Easter 'Sunday will
s be brighti the musical part to be the
Wein feature for the day which will he
' looked after by the Subday 'School
eboir, A Monday evening a special
program is being' arranged; program
laublished nett week.....In the abs
• educe alleys H. M, Manning, who will
be in Brampton mit Sunday. Thos,
notch :will take the ' serviee in the
Mottling and Rev. Musser, of Holmes -
vine, at night
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rersonal Not e't
last IVIonday. ' •
Mrs. J. Houston returned Wednee
e ening rom oron o, w ere s e
sieter-in-law, .Mrs. W. Houston. She
had the pleasure of attending the re-
ception of the wife Of Provincial Sec-
retary Stratton, it being at the dedi-
cation concert at' the' grand organ in
the Metropolitan church, and of hear-
ing Madame Nordica, sing. ,
Isaac Lawrence, who for 45.yearsbas
been a.resident of Hullett, pullirkg
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a up stakes an g.oing o earning on, o
casthis lot. Mr. Lawrence has been
in that section for the past month
r getting things straightened around
before moving his family there which
he purposes doing in a utouth'e tirae.
He was on the Bruce train that got
stranded at Granton Thursday night,
and he in company with Dr Gonne
walked in, Mr, Lawrence -was on 'his
way home to Londesboro In conver-
sation with him, he stated that Learn-
ington is forging ahead -oil, frhit and
tobacco, making it a great shipping
centre. Some years ago there were
thousands of acres a waste -land in
Essex, but with irrigation has made
tius land one of prolific growth. It is
noticable however that the earth
throughout all this irrigable section is
constantly settling, and they have
found ,it necessaryto deepen their
dikes., Mullett and this section gen-
erally will loose a good resident when
Mr.' Lawrence takes his leave.
; The ruble Estiznates �r the fiscal
, were laid-orahe e
4+ has been visitin kr a few weeks her
t e House on Wednesday' and call for
4. A. Brief Notice.of the Comings *
4+. and Goings of the People. • 4es•
Albert Seeley was in Myth, Wednes-
aay, on business..
1• Jaci;Th Taylor went to London Wed-
pesday on business. . • • -
Miss Herrangton, of Blyth, was
-visitor irk town Thursday.
' Mrs and Miss Armstrong, Hensall
are visiting friends in town.
Jas. R. Stirling, Vorter's Hill, gave
the Now ERA a tall on Monday.
• Messrs. Jack Glendinen -and Cliff
'Pugh, Goderich, spentBnnday at John
Sterling's. •
Mist Cowan, of. Hodgens Bros'. story,
Goderich, spent a few days ia town
last week. . .
COniplaints have already reached us
that- boys With air guns and rifles have
started in to exterminate the welcome
Warblers of: spring, such as robbins
etc, Mr Zoe. ider is the commission•I
en in' thirt reepect, and coinplaints i
Should be mad, to him, who will see I
,that the law is put in fovea, b
of the s•taff of the St.
Catherines Journal, is spending a few
days at home, '
Missalfartha Dinsley is the guest of
Miss Mouthith, Piccadilly steeet, Lan-
der', this week.
J. If. McClinton, of Westfleld,was in
town Tnesday, looking after. horses.
He was in tow of Horse -buyer • John-
s ton.
• Win. Gabbings and Peter Kerr re -
time to the west next week, ,The for-
mer to Manitoba and the latter to
.Dakota, .
. Miss Pule°. Commercial specialist of
Goderach Collegiate staff, was renew-
ing old acquaintances in town Friday
and Saturday.
Mr. R. J. Cluff was the tepresenta-
Use front Clinton lodge A. O. U. W.
in attendance at the Grand Lodge
meeting in Toronto last week.
Mr. and Mrsts-Vm. Lee, who have
been visiting 'M. different .partri of
Western Ontario left kr their home at
Indian Head, N. W. Ts Wednesday.
Mr, and Mrs. P. Reynolds, Mr. W.
Reynolds, mad the Misses McCourt and
Shannahan, of Clinton, were guests at
Mr: M. Lynch's. Beechwood, one day
last week,
Mrs..l3ucke, who has been the guest
of her nephew, J. P. Tisdall, tor a
month past, left Tuesday for Buffalo,
to visit vrith friends, before returning
to her home at Comma.
" Miss Othlins; InnesOine, who has
been visiting ie. Goderreh for some.
time„spent a few days here with her
'friend Miss A. T. Cooper, while Wait-
ing fora train to take her home.
Victor Goodwin leaves next 3fonday
for Weyburn, Asses, N. W. T. This is
the third trip he has made to the west
to look after the 100 mks of land
which he took up about two years ago.
Dr. Thompson was called to AnnAlo`
list, wee ,ow4ing te the ser -
i* to the serious illness of his brother, .
was first thought to be diphtheria •
ut flintily diagnosed as severe, ease
• an expenditure of $62,9i35,338. Last
year the main estimates milted ter
$68,39L902, or 85,456,563 more than
thi eyetg. Of course the Supplement:.
ary,Es ma es are ye -to e brought
down. In some of the departments
, there are decreases as compared with,
; last year, while in others there'are
increases, notably in connection with
She Post Office, Mounted Police, and
• Stearoslup Mad Subsidies. Orits sug-
gestive fact' le connection with the
expenditure of this large • sum of
• money, and with similar sums yearly,
is that with the one single exception
.of a small sum misappropriated by a
clerk in one of the departinents, every
dollar has been 'accounted for during
She time the Isiberals have been In
office. Whatever else may be charged
against the Lioeral administration, it
cannot be said that ithas stolen money
from the public chest. • .
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OUr Calendar.'
Frunals :April 1 -Good Friday,
Suarlasse„.April 3 -Easter Sunday ; /noe-
1• mat services at Wesley and St.
• Paul's. •
MONDAY, April 3 - Wesley Sunday
School "At Home ,' -Willis Sun-
day School entertainment,
TuosnAT,April 6 -Ladies' Aid,Ontario
• street church COT1Cert
THURSDAY, April 7-2Band concert le
town hall.
StionaT,April 10 -Visit of Bishop Car -
Additional Local News. •
tner charge -St. Paull/.
s Clinton IlockeK Club fell down be-
te= by a score of 0 to 1, in that town
Wednesday night. 3. E. Cantelon re-
fereed.
The ptiblic'svill have the privilege of
160.1cmg upon Hodgens Bros. grand dis-
play of millinery, dress goods etc., on
Wednesday, Thuriday and Saturday
of next week.
michael, Montreal, toShis for -
fore the on slang t of the Ailsa Craig
Aniongst those citizens whe have
been ill and are skill confined to • the
hue are Wm. Steep, Sam Townsend, ,
and'also Arthur Couch, who has had
another slight attisek of hisold trouble.
A.few of our citizens, who are inter-
ested irk a 21th of May celebration are
working- quietly on this line, and we
would ask when the public meeting' is
called for discussing' thle • project that
a good turnout will greet the report of
these gentlemen for their efforts.
B. P. Stoddart having been offered
the principalship of Forest High
School, handed irk his resietration to
the board Monday, if it suitable teach-
er can be secure, he will be released at
klaster. $900 was the tempting salary
ff
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The Clinton Lawn Bbwling'Club will
meet next Monday. March 28,at, 8 p.m.
sharp, in the council' chamber, for the
election of officers, 'skips, etc., and to
arrange such other matters its may be
of interest to the welfare bf the dub
this summer, A Inn atm-a:lame is re-
quested. • .
Stfiquicse, April 17. - Ontario street
church anniversary.
MAUCH' 25 1904
The giinc4oi Nevir Ea
FRIDAY, MARCH,. 25th, 1994.
The "a4vance' li ,Behlond The
Tiaras
The editor of the Winghaan Advance
is in an excited state of mind, because,
at a public meeting recently held in
Winghani, Mr, Holmes drew atter.-
tion to the 'fact that little or norellance
could be placed upon statements made
in that ionrnal,when the actions of pol-
itical -opponents were criticised.
The Advance had published a state-
ment, taken from the Year Book of
Canada, that in 183. 3 the total expendi-
ture -was $7.26 per head of population,
against $9.30 in 1002; and from the
statement proceeded to argue that the
country was less economically govern.
ed by tlze Liberals today, than it was
by the Conservatives prior to 1896; It
has been said, and well said, that tell-
ing a half truth is worse than telling a
whole lie, and such being the case, we
fear the Advance *as 'of the
full offence when it undertook to sup-
press a part af the truth, 'merely for
the purpose of making a wrong de-
duction in the ease, under discussion.
What are.the facts ? On page 522 of
the Year Book, from which the. Ads
vance quotes, not only the expenditure
per head, but the revenue per head, is
published; but as the revenue per head,
makes a favorable showing fot the
Liberal government, the Advance
quietly ignores that feature, and de-
votes its arithmetic to only one side of
the question.. This is the view of the
ease Mr. Holmes helcl,when,in address-
ing the people of Wingliam, he said ;.
"sr that steteinSia is true; the government
'must have increased the taxation, sotto where
Will any one tell rite how -much Ctorns taxa, -
tion has been increased: under Liberal rule?
The statement is either tru4 or untrue, and it
the editor putit therp,Isnowins it to be untrue;
he N not a fit 1ereofl'to rut a newspaper."
When the editor of the,Advance Was
etudying the Year Beek, with the no
doubt laudable intention of giving an
honest statement of the facts as he saw'
themebe knew,that if he made a com-
parison of the revenue per •liead, and
of the expenditure per head; for the
years 1890 and 1902, the showing would
be very materially infavor a the Lib-
eral government; and he therefore em-
asculated.the data contained in the re-
port, by omitting the figures which
told in favor of the present govern-
ment.• The editer a the Advance may
regardthis as an honestproceeding,
but, fortunately, very few , will agree
with bira, • We submit both Bete of fig
ures, and challenge arty one lo deny
their accuracy -for six years preceding
the defeat of the Conservative govern
meet, and pix yeitrs following the ad
vent of the Liberal administration -so
that our readers may the more readily
see the deception of whichtheAdvance
was minty. Following are the figures
under the Conservative rule
Revenue • Expenditure
• . per head per head
1891 . . ... .....07 96: , 07 50 •
1•11188948889253 .677%2975535 ."' '7777 .58544562:''
1896. 7 20 • 7 2/3
It will be observed gratin the year 1891.
the revenue per head exceededtte ex-
penditure by 46 cents it 1892 bythree
cents ; and in 1893 by 27 cents ; where.:
as In. 189,1, expenditure exceeded re-
venue -by 25 cents per head; in 1895 by
83 cents
foregoing figures represent a deficit of
$1,048,474 during the last six -years of
Conservative rule, and do not won-
der the Advanee was unwilling to give
a fair statement ef.the CASe. But that
is not all. • The figures for the sixyears
of Liberal administration, to 1902,
prove conclusively that the Advarice
had good cause for desiring to suppress
the full data which is to. be foiled. in
the Year Book : •
Revenue ' Expenditure
per head • .per head
1807 ...17 v. 46,
1898 .. ,:.... 7 80 747 , .
1899 88Q 707 '
1900j. 059 • 807
1901 ... . . 975' 70
• 1902 .. 10 64 • 980
In 1807, it will be teen, the benefit of
the Liberal tariff, had not begun to
make itself apparent, and the expendi-
ture per head, exceeded the revenue by
10 cents. After that year the. benefits
accrued as follows 1$98, excess .per
head, of revenue over expenditure, 33
cents'; 1899, 92 cents .1900, $152;
1901*. $1.05; 1902, • $1.84. The result
is that instead of a deficit of $1 948,474,
as Was the cnse during the six years of
Conservative rule, there was a; surplus
of $27,034,924. Is it any wonder that
the .Advance was anxious tO publish
nothing that would give its readers a
fair idea of the real facte as they ert-
isted,
. There are many other' points. of in-
terest to his readers, Whidis the editor
of the Advanee failed to note when
delving into the financial coisditions of
Liberal rule. He did not tell his read -
tars (as Mr. Holmes ilid.when speaking)
that in 1902 the government spent on
the Militia $846,000 more than in 1890 ;
hat 52,750,000 more was spent.on Pub-
ic Works (for which good- value was
eceived) than in 1806; that $500,000
lore was spent on 'light -houses and
cean service in 1902 than in 1896,; that
$332,000 more vsasspent On Customs ser -
ice in 1902 than in 1896, but that there
as an increase of $17,170,000 in collec-
lona owing to the ' "growing time";
hat $13,000more was spent for excise
eevice, but that the better enforce-
ent of the regulations retrelted in 'an
erease of re'venue by $4,087,0001; that
here was an expenditure' of $440,000 in
nsproving the postal service in 11102,
ore than was paid in 1896, but that
a revenue was inereased by $1.418,000:
int tha.t scores of otherinetarkeescould
e cited where judicions incite/Wes in
penditure of public motley brought
rect benefits to the people of this
untresand helped to meterially swell
e surplus in the public treasury.
hese facts Were stated by Mr. Holmes
the public naeeting. liedid not 'in -
Federal Parliament for Provincial a4t. -.:4•:444044444.44•4“:•.«
onoray, The departments of govern- t
meat are being tested to their utmost y
capacity by the great development of se 0 0 0.
trades cominerce. agriculture.and Mara v.
ufacturing industries and the trane- 1;*.
portation facilitieo 01thecountry are sSs
run to the limit. Is this a time to harp .7,.. ''......0i-araesterZset'Laslla.°) sage
upon increaeed expenditure, when Osei.
increase means largely increased
Venue 2 What would be thought of Iv
the manager', of a manufacturing busi- es.
ness or a departmental store, who •$:
would refuse to increase his. expendi-
tura Bo that his firm should get the X
greatest benefit and largest return
The Advance is behind the tunes.; a
more.progressive and broaderminded. X
man Wanted to guide it in a truly ,*
patriotic and Canadian -sense.
In conclusion we may say that the At
effort of the Advance to answer the t.
question put by Mr Hohnes,rega,rding
the speak))) of increased taxation, y
would disceedit a school boy. Mr, a.
Soirees asked this question;
a.
"Will any one tell me how much Customs tax- t
ation has increased. under Liberal rule ?"
The reply. of the sapient editor of the sses
'Advance Is that the receipts of the cus-
toms houses of Canada have inereased
from $20,000,000 to $37,110,354, as be-
tween 1806 and 1902. But that increase
has not been brdughtabout became the
Liberals have increased the CUStOMS
taxation; which they have not done.
The contrary has been the result. The
customs taxes have been reduced from
a percentage of 20.06, in 1890, 'mop. the
total value of goods entered for 'con- A
sumption irk Canada, as against 1590 +
in 1902- a decrease of 4.07 per cent. 'y
And yet the wise man of Winghann
claims that the rate has beenincreased
and poiets with pride to the increased $
volume of trade in evidence of his con- X
filiation. Of course there has been an sts
increase in the imports of ()anodes and .t.,
the people have not been slow to lake' .3•
advantage of the better fiscal 'condi-
Oohs that now exist. The country has
been more than ordinarily prosperous. y
since 1896, under Liberal rule, and we.,
are able to buy and pay for more for- *$:
eign goods under the reduced -Liberal 'S
tari of 1897. So long as a, Liberal
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government controls Canada's fiscal
policy, juet so ion will the trade and
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P ATI lain ii 1....ary: f elm I Ili g s
(by the Editor)
•' - SOCIETY DCiINGS
' Considerable of this letter will be de-
voted to "society!' matters ; net that giving explanations for•iL Some •
pagers awe discussisg the omission;
Pileople will, I fear, be cruel enough to
I am a "society man" specially: but be -
smite at "their high mightiness." In -
cause I think roy readers are interest- .
vitation tickets are usually 'sent to
ed in more than exclusivel•y political
those 'outside of the House, who are -.
sketches, and it is only rarely that one
eapected to be present at the 'formal • •
has an oppOrtunity to talk about
opening, and tickets were ' sent thi.
society. People in the rural sections
haste no idea to what extent 'society" usual to the members of the Supreme
holds sway and carTiesa high head in
have recelyed a; special invitation in :
Coutt,, but they claim they : should '
the cities, and instead ot becoming
lesa, it is becoming more year. by year; additioir Whether they looked for
Irk the country. nearly - everybody ., • ..
wives alardairghtere ° To most
people it would pot seem te make an •
atom's difference whether these per-
sons were present or not. Not so.
•societypeople in Ottawa: •Speaking
.figuratively, they are shedding tearIt .
over',It to shell an extent that the
. p invite";in the form of an Mingles In social encles on a ceminon
delivered by a footman in livery, is not
addit renal letter through, the post, •oe
- extent data few outsiders realize: There
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It did not affeet the opening of, '
footing. but in the cities there is class
to 411 Raid ; (tut theY did .not get a special
s distinction. and "swellocrany"
, an they all. remained
p7arl'iaan. ent very seriously : few. even ,
• is no place in the Don:union where, away "society." figures so prothinently es .iri
of the members, 'would have known
stilt of it being the capital,: and, wheni
Ottawa. This may be the natural, re-.
they were not present unlese told aboht. ..
the select go in for a , gay time here
itt an anyone else.- Whis democratic ' •
and theylost more by their absence r
they have it,with all the etceteeas
country is likely to survive the shbek,
that maybe thrown in, regardless •of i
expense, It is often said that society 1) u s h ci, w s how society is permeated '
people owe more for their clothes than ' ii,i4e.ir ally event. ‘
• can be collected from them,' but this ' ,
pe or custonas that are of no
"'mustofhbee • ahgaroods ss 0libel,oi1y.fgoorwsotierile 1 y 1 andoine es 1
AcegnsanLo . STATEMENTS • , -
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• would let their dressmaker go unpaid,
T-wo impertant 'announceMents Wert- '
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• anymore than the Yvellsgroomed men :
made
and witty speech on the Ad-
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by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in his
. and the State Ball ,(also given by the.
G, G.) are the twovent that Ottawa f :
• s The '. Governor General's reception
would "stand off" • their tailor.'
that during the present session of par_ -
litunent the wrestlers of onion i?etWe6t1:
' dress freer the Throne, The first • was
socieotyri_a_regpa,hrtodsliees the swellbatffoffirhse,.., ,syzimpathy_vit:ith4t,.......nreiterinisitiomr t;r
and Newfoundland , .(are in
this natere-and the nation, is Ottawa. 1 -Canada
that territory as part of this eountry,
"they are the swellest 'of . the swell."
I hitsalways been looked upon as nec,
: -The reception always takes place_ a essary fertile skrOper rounding out of
'day or two after the openingef Portia,- i
the Dominion. From north :to South,
naent, the State ball coMinglater. For i a
thousand miles of Newfoundland
weeks -perhaps •longer ---the best
1 coast conies between Canada and the.
this event ; the fair sex doubtless
people, in.a society sense, anticipate) Astassasis,
IY'''• henetittecl by union. The other an- •
• Both countries would be '
ing awake at niglat in planning for Its -nouncement Was that the Joiritlfigh
• and they must tax tb.e TeSources
01' ' Commiesion is a thing of the past. It
rstestaadelre.s ps an , alarming ,extent when
.
• This being the last year Lord Minto'
wilt hold office, here, his reception on
Saturday evening was located upon as
a sort of farewell, and is said to have
been more than ordinarily brilliant.
Lord and Lady - Mink, in court tini-
form; stand on a raised dias. She is
tall and remarkably pretty, while he
is a head shorter than she Is; her dress
was a beautiful blue satin gold. and
silver bespangled one, With a sixteen
foot train, carried by two pages in uni-
forin ; the military attaches cif his
household. were all in uniform and
most of the members of' the Cabinet
were also in court uniforns, resplencla
ent with. gold braid..
• My readers in their innocence,might
suppose, that being "presented" is a
case of ''fiest come, first served." But
they would quickly find their Mistake.
Everything here goes by "precedence."
The Premier is first presented • then
the; niernbere of the Cabinet and' their
fainilies ; then the members of the
House of Commons and senate; after
these the eonsniork people- civil ser -
1VIILLINERY OPENINGS. - New-
combe's heldtheir rnillinery opening on „
Tuesday evening and the desire of the .37.1
fair sex as well as many ladies' men,to 0
see what spring was bringing forth,
brought out.a conetant stream from .v
eight, to ten o'clock. T,he general ap-
pettranct of the store was odd and
fairy-like. On the first floor was rang- 4.
ed a great dis.play of the new dress ;
1 goods, trimmings, shirt waists, nick In
necks, etcs such as ladies like to wear.
Itt onaporner was arranged a beautiful
display of curtains, port ers, cording.
etcs The ceiling was alive withstinted
paper butterflies, and this decoration al
carried so the inillineryonseeandfloor. a
We do not like to pasks judgment on b
ladies' headwear, knowing so little s.
about their likes and dislikee, lout theai
general appearance of the shapes are' 00
eatremelypcid,while the trimmings are, th
pretty, Mr. Newcombe reports the, T
opening it suceees, • at
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NOTES. -Jerry Dalton left tent for
Winnipeg to take up land.. John us- six
say has bought Michael Pinn's farm ha
for the,surn of $2800. The C. M. B. A. Yi
members were all out on Mareh 175h,
One of the window frames of the new Ho
I
church blevs doWn it few' daysago. The no
roads are fairly good now as they have �u
been cut down with disc harrows. * yin
nuate ' that the contention of the
dvanee untrumhe proved it was.
Cat:lido today is not the Canada, of
or eight years ago. The eceintry
a grown by leaps and bounds. The
ikon was practically unknown in
1896 ; today i Is represented in the
use of Commas, and hits made a
me for itself as an impertant part of
r Dominion, The North -W, est ?ra-
ces are knocking at the dont of the
was originaisr convened for the,. pur- •
• pose of promoting the. trade relations
of the swo countries, but split on the
question of the Alaskan boundary;
since then the Americans, have ap-
parently thought that we would ask
for its re -assembling. VVith a ring in
his voice, and defiance in his manner
that won applause front both sides of
the House, the Premier. 'said "We
have no favors " to ask of the United,
States." While admitting himself to
be admirer of the Americans in many
respects, he voiced the feeling of every
member of the House, and . many
people 1,n the. country, when he pens,
tively refused to approach thein as. a
suppliarit for favorable eonsideration.
Be said we are ready to negetiate
with them tit any time, bist we will
not take the initiative, ',to allof, witch
the house said with emphasis, "hear,
hear." ;
UNCALLED FOR ATTACE
The adoption of the Speech froirs the
Throne was moved on Monday after-
noon, in two graceful and able speech -
yank and others -who earn their es, one by Mr. Grant,of North Ontario;
bread very often by the sweat of other
people's brow, (sonae of the civil ser- attedotthheedrobbsratMerihReriloent, olof'sifedocollnetivigeact!.
vpraenstostaTiigthwtyoui'd'uhnocirls"hoaotk tilfmesso)ro.le needay afternoon, befote six o'clock.
This is a record -breaker, being mane -
one tried to lse presented out of the thing unusual in pailiamentary pro -
ac ae ur sef tPhreesse ecidoenz w' a t out two or three weeks. But the No pohneesotrulheshoidt: eedure, as the debate frequently dings
dis-
cussion, participated in mainly by ,the
Opposition,- was marked, unfortunate.
ly, byone bitter and vindictive speech.
The Premier was particularly happy
in his remarks Mr. Borden, leader of
the Opposition, only little less so,there
not being s uch that could be, objected
oor, to the amusement. of others svho Btoa.stBsultmi oowea, lwethtotoitsheuinnedinnubbetredfol:
clever, to make a speech that was ton-
sidered unusually bitter, vindietivds'•
and vitriolic, in an attack on Sir Rich-
ard. Cartwright. No objection can be
offered to healthy, vigorous discus-
SiOn, and the Opposition is clearly
within its rights to make the nkost of
its opportunities for criticism. For
the past two years the debates of the
House have been fairly free ftorn
acrimonious statements, members on
both sides regarding the amenities of
(Milt° herself. The crowd was so great
and flirt •vit the lac ies, °Vert to Lady daitilsciethsswioans Irrie;reCtrabnlantdhaabblethmeraennas, .
that a couple of members Who had not been any deviation here from, more,
the honge, found it im ossible to get inentary eqteer, personal ietegrity,and
attended' the reception, but Were in restipleicielksalelyrveleseSs,iraRreicthraeeridy's,Iticokengowpaierciliz
ed by many Conservatives; as Well :is
Liberals,
The reception itself simply consists of
passing; in turn, before their excel.
lencies, when your name is announc,
ed ; theybow, you bow, and. pass on ;
that is all there is to it Some of the
ladies, in their attempt to make pro-
er obeisance, almost squat ' on the,
have passed the ordeal. But you vizi-
not be "presented" unless you. are in
regulation, evening dress -gentlemen
in swallow tail coats, ladies in airy
decollate costumes, not quite eo
collate" "this season as, I have seen
glens before, As soon its each one is
presented, they sit down wherever
handiest,or stand about, until this part
of the ceremony- is ever; then the
band plays "Ood Save the Xing." their
Exeellencies lead it promenade, and
for en hour- ou mingle with the deet
out, until the crowd me ted away.
As I have before said, society here is
stickler for aeremony,, and sometimes
"tans ins ha nose" if it does not, get
what it believes to be its rights.At
pi °sent certain fashionable circles are
greatly exercised over the absence of
the judges of the Supreme ,Court from
the Opening of parliament, and their
• ° Winah1011
SOrd Onta..'rhenevs WeverlY is adrnItted to
be the lreaviest cropper and befit s tamed Oat
'ever broth:tilt to eanase. we etweekein fit 60e.
per bushel. G.E, ICING Winghatt.