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WINGHAM'S DRESS GOODS
AND TRIMMINGS DOUSE
New Dress Goods
Everything Fashion Hints
About For 1904
New weaves, new shades, new cotnbinations, news
of all that's new in Dress Goods, awaits the visitors
here hi our Dress (foods Department. Von cannot go
anywhere to see more that is of fashionable interest,
you cannot see all that is of fashionable importance
elsewhere. Exclusiveness combined with wealth of
choice, comprehensiveness combined with taste, our
Dress Goods stock for the spring of 1904 is at once
the most liberal and the most safe, the freest and
the most defined, for nothing confines it except refine-
ment, nothing is debarred but ill -taste.
New Black and White Suitings
New Canvas Weaves
New Worsted Granite Suitings
New Mohair Buitings ,
New Tweed Voiles
New Saxony Tweed Suitings
New French Broadcloths
New Scotch Tweed Suitings
New French Voiles
New French Etamines
New French Crepe de Chines
New French Cheviot Etamines
New Fish Net Voiles
New Fantasie Voiles
New Drap de Paris
New Eoliennes
New French Novelties
New Cream Fabrics
New Silk Voiles
New Voile Bontonne
Our Luce and Trimming Department has some
beautiful New Goods, including the latest New
York and: Paris styles See them
Alex. Richie
BEAVER BLOCK ▪ WINGIAM
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
5t., Sth house West
of Hamilton's Drug
Store. Night cells
receive prompt at- -
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▪ pleted his stock of Garden and
Field Seeds.
Common Red, Mammoth,
• Alsike and Lucerne Clovers
Timothy Seed, Orchard Grass,
- Blue Grass, Red Top, White
Clover, Lawn Grasses.
A new lot of Corns and
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full line in Marigolds, Carrots,
Sugar Beets, Rape and Tur-
nip Seeds.
When in the market to buy
see my Seeds.
Ball Bios.
The People's Furniture Store
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bitorial Baits
descendants Massachusetts has
since spent about $1,000,000 of
public money, says Il arper's
Weekly. They have cost it many
---It is expected that the British million dollars besides in damages,
Parliament will be dissolved at The old method of fighting them
Easter, and an appeal be made to was to find and destroy the co -
the country. coons, The State finally gave that
up, much to the regret of mauy of
its citizens. The bugs have since
increased very innch and carried
destruction into the woods. It is
now proposed to fight these pests
in the latest fashion by breeding
parasites which will attack them.
The whole country is concerned in
this experiment because a Massa-
chusetts Congressman has invited
Congress to declare the gypsy moth
anational enemy and to appro-
priate $250,000 to fight him.
—A British warship has been
Qrdered to Corea for the protection.
of Canadian missionaries in that
country, who will be taken to
some British port for safety.
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—A deputation of those interest-
ed in the manufacturing of sugar
from Beets, waited on Premier
Ross, desiring the bounty on beet
sugar continued.
—Dr. P. H. Bryce, Provincial
Registrar, in his report, states that
the total number of marriages in
Ontario in. 1902 was 1$,072, an in-
crease of 37 over 1901. The deaths
numbered 27,864, as compared
with 29,608 in 1901.
—The Ontario Government will
place the main corridor of the Par-
liament buildings, at the right of
the entrance to the, Legislative
Chamber, a bronze tablet commem-
orating Ontario soldiers who fell
in South Africa. The tablet will
be uniform, with the memorial
tablet to the volunteers who fell at
Ridgeway, whioh is located to the
left of the entrance,
—The net returns from a per-
centage oI Estates to the pro-
vince of Ontario for 1903 were
much larger than expected, and
will be about $387,000. The total
receipts by the Province since the
enacting of the act in 1892 are $2,-
493,790. During 1903, the De-
partment has received an unusal
number of large sums. From Sir
Frank Smith's estate, $42,000 was
received during the year, making
the total from, the estate $67,000.
Other large amounts received were :
George Cook estate, Toronto,' $38,
000 ; Robert Ferguson estate,
Kent, $15,000 ; Henry Cargill es-
tate, Cargill, $26,000 ; A. T.
Wood estate, Hamilton, $24,000.
There have been over 2000 estates
which have paid succession duties.
—The tendency to concentra-
tion of wealth in the hands of a
few, and the control of industries
by combines and syndicates is one
of the noticeable features of this
age. Patrick Henry once said --
"We can only judge the future by
the past. When Egypt went down
two per cent. of her population
owned ninety-seven per cent. of her
wealth. The people were starving.
When Persia went down, one per
cent. of her population owned all
the land. When Babylon went
down, two per cent. of her popu-
lation owned all the wealth.
When Rome went down, 1,800
men owned all the known world.
The aggregation of wealth in the
hands of the few has always been
the prelude to the downfall of
nations."
—Referring to the debate in the
Legislature on the payment of the
Soo workmen by the Government,
the Seaforth Expositor says :—We
think most people will agree that
Mr. Whitney has the best of the
argument. It was a very excep-
tional proceeding, the payment of
these workmen and it can only be
justified on the ground of human-
ity and in the interests of the pub-
lic peace. But this justification
does not and cannot apply to men
who receive salaries ranging from
two to thirty thousand dollars a
year as in this instance. Hence
the Government would have been
quite justified in drawing the line
at them. Indeed it was their duty
to have done so. No jest or ten-
able reason can be given `Tor the
payment by the Government of
these extraordinarily high priced
men.
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GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC.
work, owing largely to the magni-
tude of the undertaking. The
Government was led thereby to
take upon itself the construetien of
sotne of the costly and important
sections, These difficulties, how-
ever, were sufficiently solved in
the year. 1880 to enable the Gov-
ernment to enter into acontract
with the Canadian Pacific Railway
Syndicate, under which contract
the work was finally brought to
completion. The main line was
opened for traffic in the year 1886,
which was within the period called
for by the syndicate arrangement.
The total railway mileage in the
whole of British. North America
but slightly exceeded 2,000 miles
iu the year 1860; but during the
next two decades more rapid pro-
gress was made, so that in 1880
there were in round figures 0,900
miles in actual operation. Rail-
way building has proceeded since
that period with still greater ra-
pidity and at the close of the year
1902-3, on June 30, Canada had
19,000 miles under operation.
The increase in the last two de-
cades over the preceding two has
therefore been two and a half times
greater; but it goes without say-
iug that the average mileage cost
of construction and equipment dur-
ing the latter period would be in a
still greater proportion to that of
the two preceding decades.
Inasmuch as the statement has
been made on the public platform,
that the Grand Trunk Pacific
railway will only cost sixteen mil-
lion dollars, it might be interesting
to our readers to know what Hon.
A. G. Blair, late Minister of Rail-
ways in the Laurier Government
says about the cost. Mr. Blair is
a railway expert. The• fact that
he was Minister of Railways, and
that he has been appointed Chair-
man of the Railway Commission at
an enormous salary, is a proof
that his opinion is entitled to con-
sideration, and more likely to be
correct than that of any very or-
dinary man. Mr. I3lair's speech
has been published in pamphlet
form, and from it we make the
following extract :—
Returning to the question of the
Liabilities which the government
assumes, oh the eastern section
it will assume 65 million dollars.
On the prairie section it guarantees
$9,750,000, and on the mountain
section 13.1- million dollars. This
will make a total on the three see -
tions of $88,250,000. To this I
add the 3 per cent. interest on the
cost, which for ton years on the
eastern section would be $1,950,
000 a year. I have taken this at
ten years because that is the expec-
tation of the contracting parties
themselves. This is a railway
which, for the carriage of western
traffic, would only operate through
the Moncton end during the win-
ter. So, I think we make no ex-
travagant estimate when we say it
would not be likely to pay suffi-
ciently to enable it to pay interest
until after the expiry, not of seven,
but of ten years. So we may as-
sume that this interest will run for
ten years. This' will make a total
of 19i million dollars to be added
to the previous sum. Upon the
mountain section interest will bo
borne for seven years, making $4,-
050,000 more. The interest on the
prairie section for two and one-
half years, which would be half
the time of construction, would be
$750,000. The interest on the
eastern section for half of eight
years, or four years, would be $7,-
800,000 more. If, as is apparently
the expectation of the government,
the bonds or obligations to enable
the government to carry this large
sum, may have to issue at a higher
rate than three per cent., at say
three and one half per cent., this
would add a very large sum to
what I have already given as the
gross cost of this enterprise to the
country. If the Finance Minister
has to borrow at that rate and get
back three per cent. only, he will
have to count on one-half per cent.
of a deficit during the life of this
bargain, which is fifty years, to be
added to this accumulated burden.
If you add $18,850,000 on this ac-
count, you have a total of 139
million dollars •representing the
direct and indirect liabilities which
the government assumes in connec-
tion with this enterprise. But,
even if you strike out this $18,-
850,000, I say yon have a direct
liability of 121 million dollars
which this project represents to
the country. That is a large pro-
position, I think a proposition of
such magnitude that we may well
think that some have seen visions
and others have been dreaming
dreams.
—Russia doubtless has immense
military power, and if it could be
all concentrated against the Japan-
ese, the latter would be vastly out-
numbered. But it is an open
question how many soldiers Russia
could put into the field in Man-
churia within three months, even
if the Japs would wait that long
and it is an open question whether
any force that Russia could possi-
bly send into Manchuria could
cope with the army of Japan, pro-
vided as it is With latest rapid -fir-
ing guns, In Manchuria the Rus-
sians are the strangers, the Japan-
ese are at home, by sympathy and
by understanding with the people.
Harbin is only 225 miles from the
Lorean boundary, but it is 4,000
miles from St. Petersburg in a bee-
line, and ,much further by the
single-track railway, broken by
the shifty ice of Lake Baikal,
which forms the only line of eom-
munioation,
.t. _.
—A. few years ago a scientific
person in Masachusetts imported
some caterpillars that interested
him, and kept them in a bottle.
Bat one day the bottle tipped over
and some of the caterpillars escap-
ed into the scientist's garden, and
presently stocked it with gypsy
moth*. To rima $heir And their
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CANADIAN RAILWAYS.
WAR! .WAR !
Do you want the latest and
most reliable War News, Well
illustrated, then READ
THE WEEKLY
Montreal Herald
which is clubbed with this paper to
now or old subscribers paying in ad-
vance, $1.20 for both.
A fine Map of the Seat of War, in
three colors, 18x22 inohes, will be mail-
ed free to every subscriber to the two
papers remitting us two cents extra
for cost of mailing.
Canadian Order Woodmen o
The World
CAMP NATIONAL 139
Hold their regular meetings every 2nd and
4th Friday each month. in Oddfellows'
Hall All visitors welcome.
R. MAXWELL, CC. R. H. CROwDER, Clerk
rLarge Attendance.
Hon. A. G. Blair, ex -Minister
of I .ailways in the Laurier Cabinet
has an excellent article to the Fi-
nancial News, on t;3anadian 1411 -
ways. From it we make the fol-
lowing extract :—The agitation for
railways in British North America
began almost as soon as the s::.ccess
of George Stephenson's railway
was assured. One of the earliest
efforts, was made in St. Andrews,
New Brunswick, in 1827. In 1832
the first railway charter in Canada
was granted by the Province of
Lower Canada, for ashort line of
sixteen milds, and in 18$7 this line
was in operation. In 187$ a char-
ter to the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way was granted by Parliament.
The territory through which the
railway was to pass was then being
rapidly incorporated politically
into the Dominion, and it became
clear, in order that the political
consolidation should be complete,
als well as for the commercial well-
being of the whole country, that
such a railway as projected should
be as speedily asossible con-
structed. Many difficulties were
encountered by the company from
time to time, ,in oarr''ing: en the.
CENTRAL
STRATFORD. ONT.
We have enrolled as many students dur-
ing the last five months, counting from
September, as we enrolled last year in 10
months. This tells the tale, The young
people of wostern Ontario EvinEWTI,n
mvow whioh is the best sohopl to at.,
tend. New students admitted at any
time. Write for catalogue,
Elliott, Principal.
Every Box of
"Do4us'
`pysopevsia
Eabkets
is guaranteed to give
entire satisfaction in all
cases of Stomach trouble
—if not, money refund-
ed. Try a box and be
con vinced.
I have room for two
students in Telegraph
office.
R. A. DOUGLASS
Chemist & Druggist
Office O.R.W. Tel. Co.
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We take pleasure in announcing that on
March 15, we will (health and weather per-
mitting)
Move Into the llomuth Store.
This store has been' re -painted and such
other improvements added as to make it the
most up-to-date store in Huron county. This
splendid store, 24 ft. wide by 120 ft. long,
will be equipped with the most modern and
complete store furniture, which will enable us
to give our many customers much better ser-
vice, and will put us in a position to success-
fully cope with our constantly increasing
trade. This new establishment is an indica-
tion of the
Remarkable Growth of
This Business.
Our New Store with all its modern
equipments bas involved a largo outlay, but
we trust that with increased facilities, double
the floor space; splendid, light, modern fix-
tures, larger and better assorted stock, and
attentive and obliging employees, that our
business will increase more rapidly.
We thank all who have in any way
assisted us in making this business what it
is to -day, and we trust that when we move to
our new store that we will be favoured by all
our old customers and many new ones.
Remember the ' place — " Homuth's old
stand." Look for our sign on the front of
the building.
A good second-hand safe wanted.
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Toilet Sets
Just arrived from Bishop &
Stonier, Staffordshire, Eng.,
one crate of Printed Toilet Sets, ten pieces to
each Set. The colors are pink, brown, green
and peacock blue. See them in our window.
$1.99 Per Set. .
Maple Syrup The good old fashioned
P kind that you can buy
by the Quart or Gallon. Not put up in tins.
$1.35 Per Gallon.
The season
Marmalade Oranges f o r making
Marmalade is now here and to make it properly
you must have the right kind of Oranges—the
better ones from Seville.
io . cts. and 25 cts. Per Doz.
• at Griffin's
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Homuth Bros.
TAILORS and GENTS' FURNISHERS
Close Prices
As we intend to remove in a few weeks
to the store now occupied by Jno. & Jas.
H. Kerr, in the Macdonald Block, we offer
Special Inducements,
We have a great variety of Worsteds, Serges,
Tweedst eic., which we con Take pp to order
in the very latest style.
,A very fine line of Shirts, 'Vies, Hats,
Caps, In fact a full line of Gents' Furnish-
ings, which are nobby in style, reasonable in
price, and sure to please.
A call solicited.