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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-02-18, Page 44 THB V ING2 AD"VA.NCJ. Thursday, February 18, 1904 WINGHAM'S DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS HOUS1 Watch This Space For Next Week. Alex. Ritchie BEAVER BLOCK - WINGHAM ,/ III3ADQUARTI3RS FOR CHAIRS. For cheap and medium priced Dining -room Chairs, • our styles and prices lead. New designs, with high back, double stretchers, very comfortable, at $3.25, $4.50, $6.00 and $6.75 per half doz. 4 Sets only, each consisting of 5 Chairs and 1 Arm, worth $11.50 -for $9.00. Another lot of two dozen Rockers, sold regularly at $2.00 and $2.25 -our price is $1.75 each, The most comfortable cheap Rocker made. UNDERTAKING Residence -Patrick St., 5th house West et Nsmttton's Drug Store. Night calls receive prompt at- teutten. Ball Bros. The People's Furniture Store Mttttttttttttttt tittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt M sw ."� ...= 0044 ,� _ 4444. .... ..... ... --- ....... ..... -- ....,. _• 0444. 0000 -.-. ..... -e.w M .. 0000 •,,,r . _. E T. A. Mills has decided to clear out his stock of Boots, Shoes and Rubber goods inside of 30 days. Every pair is mark- ed . down to' a clearing price - cost is no object -they must go. Cali and look through the stock, and I am sure you will buy your Fall andWinter supply at prices that were never heard of before in `'gingham.. aarrot 411.4. Wes OAR E E .w. FUR GOODS .bust be cleared out in GO days. A full line to select from. ET. A. MILLS .y. walla torme 0040. .01 ,4011 .4011 ✓44,01 0000 4.41.0 0000 111111111 Obzt:o int Botts 1 and of crop and animal products of the census year, Approximately one-half of the total agricultural values in the Dominion may be set --The presence of au official of .down to this province. Quebec is the British War office in Canada second with about one-half the is construed to mean' that Britain total of Ontario, Manitoba stands is preparing for contingencies in third in land and implements, and the far east by purchasing horses crops and animal products of the iz1 Canada, census year. Nova Scotia, bow - ,I: .ever, is third in buildings, and the north-west Territories in live stock. --Hugh Clark, M.L,A., has in- The fourth place is ocoupied by the troduced a bill which ought to be Territories in land and implements, passed, and which, if it becomes The proportionately low showing law, will very much mitigate the of buildings as against ]and and saw -off nuisance. Mr, Clark's bill crops in Manitoba and the Terri - provides that, in a controverted tories compared with Nova Scotia, election, when a petitioner aban- New Brunswick and other of the dons a petition, then the deposit is older provinces, reflects the new - forfeited to the crown. ness of settlement of these sections, 1 while the high relative showing of implements and machinery under -A. Russian of ' revolutionary the same heading follows from the tendencies living in Montreal, ex- fact of the immediate necessity of pects to see uprisings of the discon- tented all over Russia, if the war continues. He thinks the Japan- ese will be finally successful, be- cause Japan has a constitutional government and every soldier fight- ing in the ranks feels that he is fighting for his own interests. 1 The Toronto World says -Of all the political scandals that ever existed in Canada the gravest is the intimacy between the Attorney - General of Ontario and the private corporations holding public monop- oly franchises in the municipalities. How can a man who is up to his eyes in shares in these corporations be fair to the people who are tied down to them. i' -The Supreme Court of Min- nesota has decided that tobacco is a necessity of life. Vendors of mere common bread and butter and meat and eggs must not open their doors of a Sunday in Minnes- ota. It is not necessary to eat, but it is necessary to smoke, and even, we fear, to chew. All the worshippers of tobacco will salute joyously these Daniels come to judgment. Food is a luxury. Cigars, pipes and cigarettes are a necessity. '1' -The official estimate of Mani- toba Board of Agriculture places the total crop of all grains pro- duced in the province in 1903 at 82,576,519 bushels. As 'compared with previous years, this season's crop shows a falling off in total production of 17,475,824 bushels. Of this decrease, wheat shows less by 12,960,38a bushels ; oats, of 1,042,000, and barley, of 3,141,170. The Department's report estimates the acre prepared for the crop of 1904 at 2,385,$05 acres. 'C -Russia wanted time ; time to get over the worst of the Siberian winter ; time to further complete her trans -Siberian railway ; time to get more troops, coal, transports and supplies around to the Yellow Sea ; time to raise more money. Japan knew this and every day that the Russians gained by their devious methods of diplomacy was a strain on the patience of the eager Japs.and a direct blow to their cause. This strain ended in a Budded snap. Japan was ready and reaped the benefit of that fact ; she knew her enemy was not ready and she inflicted a deadly thrust. these as compared with buildings. The total valuation of the industry for the whole Dominion, including land, buildings, implements, live 'stock and animal produots of the census year was $2,169,086,269. -''The wastage of war" is a terrible phrase which soon may be- come familiar to newspaper read- ers. The experience of the first contingent which Canada sent to South Africa may illustrate its meaning. The 2nd Royal Cana- dian Rifles Landed in Cape Town on November 30, 1899, not far short of 1,100 strong. A. draft d£ more than 100 men was sent ont early in 1900, so that the battalion included from first to last about 1,200 officers and men. Six months after Ianding, on June 5, it marched into Pretoria, and then was only 450 strong. Over 700 men bad been left on the wayside. Yet the regiment had been in gar- rison for ten weeks, and only about 100 men had fallen in battle. The other 600 men had succumbed to disease and hardship. Unbusinesslike Government. The Laurier government is truly a wonderful business contrivance. It has increased Canada's expendi- ture $25,000,000 in seven years. Of this amount millions have been thrown away. More mullions have been called for because of the reck- less manner in which the business of the great spending departments has been conducted. Money is no object to the existing cabinet, so long as the people can be bled. Estimates are submitted to parlia- ment and ministers officially an- nounce that certain undertakings will cost Bo much. Another ses- sion is called and the original es- timates are found to be entirely in- adequate to defray the expendi- tures. The great Liberal party is thereupon commanded to vote more money, and the injunction is obey- ed to the letter. The Opposition may protest, but its voice is ignor- ed. So great an evil has this un- businesslike method of doing things become, that there in no keeping track of the party in power. Here are a few examples which show how absolutely ignorant the minis- ters are of the expenditures they endorse : Estimate. Cost. Dredge Feilding.t ............$300,000 5500,000 Port Colborne Harbour improvements 395,000 495,000 Sorel wharf. 175,000 935,000 St, Joseph wharf 5,000 15,000 Hillsboro Bridge 450,000 1,494,000 51,325,000 $3,439,000 In six items, it will be seen, the government required $3,439,000 to complete works which were origin- ally intended to cost only $1,325,- 000. Dozens of other cases of the same kind might be cited, but the above is sufficient to indicate the incapacity of the present regime. 1.. Prof. Goldwin Smith says: -It was hardly to be expected that the two judges who tried the Gamey eases would give their' time and labor for nothing. Still, the knew - ledge that they were to be paid by the Government will hardly help to satisfy the public, What we all wanted to know was whether there was a corruption fund, and wheth- er it had been used to corrupt Mr, Gamey. A committee of privilege, if its members had retained a spark of regard for the honor of the Legislature and their own, would, by a few direct and search- ing questions, have arrived at the essential facts. Alt that we got or will likely get from the extraor- dinary tribunal into which the Government shunted the inquiry was a legal verdict on the purely secondary question of the personal guilt or innoeente of Mr. Stratton. For thio we pair# $47,000, not reek- orning the expenses on the other side. -Ontario leads by a eonrsider- able margin in values of land, b i1'i v6. ibook'. Immo in Manitoba wheat prices. F W. Thompson of Ogilvie%, pre- dicts that No. 1 Northern will be one dollar at Fort William before April let. Some other millers are predicting two dollar wheat inside six months, The increases which have oc- curred arejustif4d by the struggle that has begun. Russia is the third largest wheat producing coun- try in the world, and, awing to the waste of war her wheat will all be withdrawn from export, Japan again, has just begun to develop a taste for bread, a taste which will enormously increase her purchases for Sour is order to make good the waste of their own foodstuffs caused by the war which bas be- gun. Besides this there is the proba- bility, indeed almost certainty, that a large British force will be assembled on the British Columbia coast within a few months, and this will make an immediate and enormous demand for wheat and all classes of food material, If on top of all this, which is not at all improbable, half of Europe becomes engaged in war before spring, no one can venture to predict the prices which may be reached in all classes of foodstuffs. The eventual results of the war between Japan and Russia will be, of course, injurious, because war is always destructive, but the imme- diate effect will be an enormous stimulus to market prices, and Canadian farmers should be pre- pared to take advantage of the con- ditions that have arisen and which the Sun has been cautioning them for some months past to anticipate, The immediate effect of the war has already been felt in several other lines, both in the United States and Canada. Three special trains from Kansas City and Omaha recently arrived in Cali- fornia with over 3,000,000 pounds of beef for the Russian army. This with others in prospect, must affect beef prices. The Japanese Government again recently placed an order for 389,000 pounds of low .grade salmon with British Colum- bia canners, and salmon is expect- ed to advance in price with the further orders that are looked for. Our Industries Threatened. The government decided to en- courage the manufacture of binder twine by paying a bounty of three - eights of a cent a pound on all twine manufactured in Canada of Manilla fibre. The whole people will be taxed for the benefit of the manufacturer, and little good will accrue to the industry. Without straight protection the Canadian factories have been placed at the mercy of their American compet- itors. The United States cordage trust shipped 14,698,690 pounds of binder twine, valued at $1,810,238, to Canada last year, while our manufacturers did not sell a pound of binder twine across the border. Taking advantage of the helpless- ness of the Canadian binder twine producers, the United States mon- opoly threatened to undersell and close every Canadian factory, if the owners maunfactured more than 25 per cent. of the amount of twine actually sold in Canada, and those who had money invested in the in- dustry in this country were com- pelled to submit to the terms. Proof has been offered to the gov- ernment that sueh an arrangement exists, but Sir Wilfrid declines to hold an inquiry and rectify the in- justice by excluding American binder twine. Before the Liberals came to power binder twine could be purchased at a lower pride by the farmer than at present, and many, more hands were engaged in manufacturing it in Canada. PE/CES ADVANCE. (weekly gun.) War between: Itnasia and Japan, which has at last broken out, has produced an [immediate and mark- ed effect on market conditions. At once wheat for May delivery jumped to 040 in Chicago, 8fc above last week's figures. In Ontario this : effect was almost as great, winter Wheat selling at Western Ontario points yesterday at 88c, as compared to 72c 1ti year ago. it is cause for Congratulation that a great part of the increase in price will accrue to the advantage of Ontario farmers, as it is believed they still hold half of last year's w The Courses of Study in the CENTRAL STRATFORD. ONT. Are up to the highest standard of ex- cellence and that is one reason why this popular sohooi is now eujoyin. a "record- breaking" attendance. You want the beat training and we give it, therefore enter at once. Circulars free. W, d. Elliott, Principal. Every Box of Doug\ass' iJwnvska eallikets is guaranteed. to give entire satisfaction in all cases of Stomach trouble -if not, money refund- ed. Try a box and be convinced. I have room for two students in Telegraph office. R. A. DOtIGLASS Chemist & Druggist Otttte 0-.N.W. Tel, Cs. a Ntttttttttttttltttttttttttttttt11114 0000--� r» ... w. w. ..-- .�. 0000.. e.+,•� 4000 .w.. 0000. w '^+ .,..w 0400 We are sole g. E. agents for DRi HES E'S STOCK FOOD E For Stile only by G01111 AN Campbell crop. They are in no hurry to THE DittlOOIST unload, tither, as present condi- tions indicate they are holding for the even dollar. There has been ss corms onding ,r ! IpL I I,I The People's Popular Store Macdonald Block - Wingham as1 004•+0.. M 1 6rt; rurs nue dew. i I 1. Inn ii J , ,, IIi i ISI FEBRIJARY FEBRUARY SALE. Winter Dry Goods must be cleared' out be- - fore spring goods arrive, We offer you bargain chances that you don't often get. Buy early. Until further notice we will give a 25 Per Cent. Discount off the follow- ing lines: - Wool Blankets Wool Sheeting Men's Underwear Boys' Uuderwear Ladies' Underwear Misses' Underwear Fur Coats, Caperines, Capes, Ruffs, Mug's, etc. Winter Gloves and Mitts for Men and Women Ladies' Coats and Skirts . Men's and Boys' Ouercoats, Ulsters and Suits Mantle Goods, etc., etc. Bargains in Dress Goods as advertised last week. Seasonable goods at a big reduc- tion in prices. Farmers Z Bring your SALE. We will continue our sale of winter Footwear during this month., Money saved is money made ; we offer you money - saving chances, Men's Heavy Rubbers Never Break' Duck, 4 ply with rolled edge, laced or buckled, regular price $2.50, sale price $2.00 a Snag Proof Rubbers. - $2.25 buckle for 51.75 '! $1.50 1 buckle for 1,15 51.25 boys' for 1,00 Men's Overshoes. Regular $1.75 for $1.50 Regular $1.80 for, 1.60 Regular $2.25 snow excluders, 1.75 Ladies' Rubbers. Regular 40c for 25c Lumbermen's Sox. Regular $1.00 for 75c Regular 70c for 50c Regular 50c for 27c ._ Regular 40c for 30c Long Boots, Pelt Boots. Regular $3.50 for • $2.75 Regular $3.25 for..... 2.60 Regular $2.50 for 2.00 Regular $2.00 for 1.60 reins. Potatoes in now. We pay Regulai $2.00 $1.50 r Regular $1.50 for 1.20 Regular $1.25 for 1.00 70c per bushel. al THE ROYAL GROCERY SP a vt We are now in a position after the storm to . f supply customers same an. usual. Pm ,RPUNES.-At this season when your jars of fruit Jo are getting low, there is .nothing to take the ilk JP place so well as Califoria Prunes. Harvest mi Brand -10c, 12c and 15c per ib. for dwiot ORANGES. ---California Oranges, Seedless. These IV 15. Oranges are coming in now, nice and sweet- i 311 30c, 40c and 50e per doz.04 ft APRICOTS. ---The price of this fruit has again advanced. We had a lot secured some time ago-12-ic, 15c and 18c per lb.oe me o4. ct ONIONS. -Nothing so nice with beefsteak as Onions. This season they are very scarce-- , viS $1.00 per bushel. ew at Griffin's „,„.i • LikliAMMMARAMMUltliMillUISHIMUMMINAIIIIII wwwwvsyvvvvinil sect Homuth Bros. TAILORS and GENTS' FURNISHERS Close Prices As we intend to remove in a few weeks to the store now occupied by J no. & ,Jas. H. Kerr, in the Macdonald Block, we offer Special Inducements. We have a great variety of Worsteds, Serges, Tweeds, etc., which we can make up to order in the very latest style. A very fine line of Shirts, Ties, Hats, Caps, in fact a full line of Gents' Furnish- ings, which are nobby in style, reasonable in price, and sure tri please. A call solicited.