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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-03-24, Page 441 4 THE WINGBAM ADVANCE. I , � WINGHAM'S DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS HOUSE You'll Find at Your Ritchie's Easter the best material for GOWIIS Now is the time to get the material for it, and Ritchie's is emphatically the place. It will be a dream of loveliness this year, for the new Dress Goods at Ritchie's are especially exquisite. Light weight fabrics, soft and clinging, such as Voil, Etamine, Crepe De Chene, Silk Eoliennes. They are all here in great variety ; they are so pretty ; a great range of color—Basque, Fancy Shades, lighter shade of green, also the moderate colors. The tweeds are light too, but so firm they can be made up without lining. Our lines of Black Dress Goods was never so complete, in lighter weights for even- ing wear, also heavier ones for street wear—ranging in prices from 50c to $3.00 per yard. We want your trade, we will use you well ; will sell you the best goods for least money. RITCHIE'S for Dress Goods & Trimm'gs Alex. Ritchie BEAVER BLOCK - WINGHAM RITCHIE'S for Carpets, Rugs, Etc. t! fc:E. EEE EEE EEE EEE 6EEEEF: EEE“ EFE EEE F E -C - w Time To fi m Th 1 n 33 ilr'JS1333i31 TNow is the time to think of what 491.3134 -3 -"*3 "1 s s:.3-3-3-34. t ''. new piece of Fur- niture will be required. Now is the season of the . good housewife's discontent. So much to do to make the house spick and span, and get ready to greet the longed for glorious spring that is to come. Just as soon as freight begins to move we will place in our store some new designs in Iron Beds, Bedroom Suites, Sideboards and Dining -room Chaos, which we will be pleased to show you. 6 more of those quick -selling Sideboards, regular $13.00, for ' $11.50 UNDERTAKING Residence—Patrick St„ Sth house West of Hamilton's Drug Store. Night calls receive prompt at- tention. Bali Bros. The People's Furniture Store 11I1II1II11IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I11I1II1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIM .-,- III ..... _,.. _.... 011s. mil SEEDS!.,....._„. SEEDS ! er-- ,. T. A. Mills has just com- 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 full line in Mangolds, Carrots, Sugar Beets, Rape and Tur- nip Seeds. When in the market to buy see my Seeds. r: Pr. A. MILLS ; (11 Oi11 g'I1 311T cab.b ante THEO. HALL, PRQI'RIETOit. r'H,19o4• Sun 11'n Ttio We Th Fri. Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 28 29 30 31 ,,., . ...: Obi#hhzaI Bolts —There are 200,00`0 doctors in the United States, collecting in fees each year more than $150,000- 000. Then there are the prescrip- tion bills and the huge expendi- tures for patent medicines. Clear- ly, sickness is one of the main events in the routine of the average American's life. I• —The municipalities of Ontario collected about $330,000 in railway taxation last year. The Provincial Government paid out $216,000 in the same year on account of bonus- es voted new roads. With one hand we collected $3 in taxation from one lot of railway owners—or about one-eighth the amount we should collect—and with the other we handed back $2 to a new lot of railway promoters. —The rapid increase in the out- put of books is causing alarm to authors, who fear that along some lines authorship is being "over- done," leads the Saturday Even- ing Post to remark that --"It be- gins to look as if the time was coming when authorship would be able to hold out a reward of dis- tinction only to him who writes a good book." Well, let that time come, and it will be better for the world at large. —The fiscal problem in Ireland is capable of very simple demon- stration. Last year the population of Ireland had dwindled down to about 4,413,600, yet the amount spent on whiskey and beer alone in 1903 reached the huge total of £11,00(,,000, and the sum paid to the British Exchequer as excise duty exceeded £6,000,000. The expenditure upon intoxicating drinks of all kinds during the year is estimated at over £14,000,000, which would mean about £15 for each family of 'five persons. No wonder that poverty stalks through the land in the presence of such a self-imposed burden. —The war which is furnishing so much sensation is the fourth upon which Russia has entered within the last three-quarters of a century. Her first and second were with Turkey. The first caused an expenditure of £20,000,000 ster- ling and a loss of 120,000 men. That was in 1828. Twenty-six years later came the Crimean, in which France and Britain took hand. It was spread over 1854-6, cost £305,000,000 and 485,000 'Men. Then in 1876-7 followed a further fight with Turkey, in which £190,000 were expended and 180,- 000 men disposed of. The Crimean war cost Britain dearly. She put into the field 97,860 men, of whom 2,755 were killed in action and 18,- 280 wounded, Of the latter 1,847 died in hospital ; 17,580 died of disease. Deaths totalled 22,182, or 221; per cent. of the whole strength of the army. • --The Toronto News, speaking of the proposal of the Ontario Gov- ernment to aid the Soo industries with two million dollars, says :— "Iu short, the proposal of the Govern- ment to pledge the credit of Ontario to the extent of $2,000,000 in support of the embarrassed industries at the Sault is mischievous, dangerous, improvident and unwarranted from every standpoint and it is hard to find any rational ex- planation for the Government's action eaTAnt it be true, as has been suggested, that there aro men behind the hlialeters who have a direct financial interest in some of the Sault concerns, and whose votes are absolutely necessary to main- tain the GovernMent in office." If reports are correct, two of Mr. Ross' supporters in the Leglaletgre are financially interested in the companies securing this two mil- lion dollar graft, The public may now see another result of the evil of so small a majority as the Gov- ernment now has. Two members of the party may practically "hold up" the Government and force it to pace Iegislation by which they personally profit, but which is in- imical to the public interests. Pre- mier Ross has perhaps to do some - "• thing that he would rather not do, or elite endanger his Yarrow ma- jority. A man of sterling /Rind - pies would refuse to further private schemes by such legislation. Judged by this standard, Mr. Boss is Aadly lacking, As he said him- eel", imself, in replying to a temperance deputation, be regards it as his first duty to 142ake care of his majority." The luterefits of the people are of secondary impart - won. w ...- -.- -.- M ---. 40.0 M 6.00 r *a. roar �f�UilliUlIll{liillUtUi{lliitUtlJiUlU{AiiilUili{UiUifiiiiiUti� ----The speech from the throne to the Cohnmous was most barren. The announcement that a modified contract for the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific was the only important measure referred to. A militia bill providing for a citizen army will be introduced. The Commons was advised that the session will be a short one, but in view of the very great increases in expenditure and the decision to present the Grand Trtink with more millions, the opposition may be expected to discuss at length the many short comings of the ad- ministration, —The Springfield Republican says : The prediction is made by Nice -President Paul Morton of the Atchison Railway. System that "when all the railroads are owned by one syndicate, there will arrive a time when a vehement demand will be made for Government own- ership and operation of the rail- roads of the United States," It is a perfectly safe prediction, and the time when the railroads of the United States are under the con- trol of interests so closely related as to form practically v. single bodg does not seem to be far distant. If future progress in that direction is maintained at the rate of the past five or six years, that time would not be more than two de- cades away. '1' —Referring to the temperance question, and Premier Ross' shirk- ing of the question by blaming the Liberal caucus, the Stratford Her- ald says :— "We notice that it is only in case of a moral question -that attempt is made to throw the onus on the caucus. On other subjects the Government decides and its followers must obey. The Lau- rier Government conducted and closed the Grand Trunk Pacific negotiations apart from the caucus—great secrecy, in fact, shrouded the negotiations until their completion—and when Parliament assembled, the party whip was cracked and the members were forced into line, all obeying except Eon. A. G. Blair. Many like illustrations could be given. Mr. Ross himself has cracked the party whip more than once and made his fol- lowers line up obediently. But when it comes to "abolish the bars," which he aches to do, he leaves it to the caucus to decide. It is a new species of throw - clown for the temperance people. —A remarkable operation was performed in Philadelphia, on a negro who had been stabbed by a jealous woman. After the assault Emerson walked without assist- ance to the hospital, a distance of five blocks, and was put under the influence of ether as soon as the wound had been examined. On the operating table the heart was exposed by a long incision which necessitated the breaking of several ribs. The operating physician in- serted two fingers below and be- hind the apex and lifted out the heart. It was drawn clean out of the trunk, yet it went on with its work with almost normal steadi- ness and regularity. Holding the beating heart in his hand, the doc- tor put six stitches in it, restored it to its place, and the man is in a fair way to recovery. —T. H. Race, editor of the Mitchell Recorder, has been a faith- ful supporter of the Ontario Gov- ernment, and it was generally ex- pected that he would have been appointed Superintendent of Farm- ers' Institutes, a position for which he was well fitted. Instead of ap- pointing Mr. Race, the Govern- ment appointed a very young man, and passed by the man of experi- ence. Iltr, Race scores the Gov- ernment he has supported so faith- fully, as follows :— "All recent appointments have been made on the family circle or family compact system. If you are not one of the household, or of some wife's re- lations, it does not count. It wonld ap- pear as if all those were to be looked after before the final act, and the man of long service may toil on for the re- ward that cometh at the cemetery gate. "Well dono, thou good and faithful servant; have promised and deceived thee many times, but it is a long road that has no tarn; only centiny.c faith- ful; serve on and thy turn will come sure—at the cemetery gate," That is the language of the present Ross, Gib- son, Dryden combination. "To be within the family circle or to have r'adered services of the Jackson quality in South Oxford, is the only qualifica- tion that counts for recognition in politics to -day." THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC. In a contract dated February 18th, the government agrees to re- lease the Grand Trunk from almost every obligation it took upon itself in the matter of the Grand Trunk Pacific. I very boasted safeguard to the people's interests is swept away, and strong as was Hon. 4. G. Blair's denunciation of the scheme a year ago, one uncon- sciously wonders if that gentle- man's vocabulary would be equal to presenting the deal, as it now stands, in its true colors. In brief, the period of construc- tion of the Western Section is ex- tended from 5 to 8 years, with a further provision against strikes ; the G. T. P.'s liability for rolling stock is reduced from twenty mil- Iion dollars to fifteen million for both sections ; the Grand Trunk deposit of £ ve million dollars may be made in ",cazibi or approved se- curities," instead of !'cask or ap- proved government seeuritiefi,?' and will be repaid on the com5le- tion And equipment of the Wes- zt ,section tt nd not he1di as origi- 1 pally intended, until the Eastern Section is completed ; the G. T. P. may lease the Eastern Section piecemeal as construction is com- pleted ; the guarantee of the bonds of the Prairie Section is unchanged but on the Mountain Section the government undertakes to guaran- tee 75 per cent. of the actual cost, instead of a maximum of $30,000 per mile ; the government under- takes to refrain from foreclosing its mortgage on the G. T. P. until 5 years' interest is due, upon which the government shall operate the road until such time as it will have recouped itself, when the pro- perty will revert to the company ; the G. T. P. is given permission to present to the Grand 'Trunk twen- ty-five million dollars in common stock which may be sold in open market in place of being held by the Grand Trunk as a company for 50 years ; running rights over the Eastern Section to bo guaranteed the Grand Trunk for 50 years after the expiry of the lease in the event of the government taking over the road ; and the G. T. P. to have the right to sell td the government, at the expiry of the lease, all branch lines which may not be considered desirable by the com- an pay. will be seen at a glance that the few redeeming features of the original agreement are wiped out. The company assumes no risk, the hazard being the government's alone. WAR 1 WAR I 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 new or old subscribers paying in ad- vance, $1.20 for both. A fine Map of the Seat of War, in three colors, 18x22 inches, will be mail- ed free to every subscriber to the two papers remitting us two cents extra for cost of mailing. MANY CALLS are received from business firms and Many Students aro placed in good posi- tions each year by the famous CENTRAL best in business education in Canada to- day. Many business colleges employ our graduates as teachers. We have scores of applications from other colleges. .Ask to sec them the day you enter. W. ‘1,.3.1, Principal, REXALL HOLD- DYES These Dyes will dye `wool, Cotton, Silk, Jute or Mixed Goods in ono bath — they are the latest and most improved Dye in the world. Try a package. All colors at W. Messer's store, Bluevale, and C. B. McOlelland's store, Belgiavo, Ont. Every Box of `Doagkass' 7Jysveps°ta tablets 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 014cp G.N.W. TO. Cg. NIMI111I1II11I I I1I111II I II1111TIM -.-4 A� ..— --4 r -.,� woll, 111::IIII 1...... te w • -.. DR. HESSF'S We are sole 3 a encs for ._...► STOCK FOOD I For Sale only by E Coln A, Campbell 1 ETHE DRUGGIST ":": 51111UWitailithiliMillaa Thursday, March 24, Igo4 1 1 11, IY11III, 1111 .,1ntI111161'.:XN II F111,IJ110 e People's Popular Store 1 $ 1 WINGHAM rr L 11 II 11 1 :cerr I t We Have Moved To Our New Store. s.Mlle IIMIER 4 � COME AND SEE US. THE ROYAL GROCERY BANANAS. This week we start to handle Bananas, and at present will have them arrive twice a week -25c per doz. THE HAPPY TWINS. Buckwheat Pancakes and Maple Syrup. Try a package of our Buckwheat Flour and some new Maple Syrup, ex- pected to arrive this week—Buckwheat flour 15c per pkg. ; Maple Syrup 350 per qt. CANNED GOODS. - You all know the way Canned Goods have advanced in price lately. At present we are selling at the same price as the canners—Corn, Peas and Beans, 10c per can ; To- matoes 12•c per can. at Griffln's Homuth Bros. TAILORS and (TENTS' FURNISHERS 111 .11 I. ,I. ,4110 Remove ■ We Wive removed to the store lately occupied by Jno. and Jas. I3. Kerr in the Mac- donald Block. Call on us there. Your esteemed orders shall re- ceive e-cei ve careful attention.