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WINGDAMWS DRESS GOODS
AND TRIMMINGS HOUSE
TUB WINGRAM ADVANCE.
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MALI, P1tOis2tiETOR.
For tilo Balance of A
rAPRIL19o4
,Stuff M'P elle i'Ve Th. Fri. Sat
we will sell at one-half Regular Prices
our stock of Men's, Youths' and Boys'
:Ready -to -don Clothing. Following is
a list of the great Bargains to be
had at RITCHIE'S this month ;-.--
Men's $12,00 Snits. assorted sizes and colors
$0.00
Men's $8.00 Snits, sizes 30 to 42, assorted colors 4,00
Men's $500 Stilts, sizes 35 to 3a, assorted colors ,...11., 4. 2150
Youths' $8.00 Suite, sizes 31 to 30. assorted colors 4.00
Youths' $0.00 Suits, sizes 31 to ee, assorted colors,..,., 3.00
..,, 2.50
Boys' $3,50 Suits, sizes 22 to 28, assorted colors 1,75
Children's Suite--} off regular prices.
The above prices are for cash or trade only.
Bays' $5.00 Sluts, sizes 24 to 31. assorted colors
house=cleaning TInIe
is here, and we have an excellent assortment of
Carpets, Oilcloths and Linoleums, Below
we give a few prices :--
3 Pce, all -wool 3•ply Carpet, 36 in. wide, assort. patterns, yd ...$1.00
3 Pieces ail.wool 2 -ply Carpet, 36 in. wide, asst. patterns, yd..., „75
4 Pieces Union Carpet, 36 in. wide, assort. patterns, per yd,.... .50
Tapestry Carpets, assorted patterns 45c to 75c
Brussels Carpets, assorted patterns.. ,............. , ....75c to $1.25
Wilton's Carpets, a,ssorted patterns 95c to $1,50
Linoleums and Oilcloths. —Large variety of patterns
and widths — 4/4 at 25o ;
514 at 350 ; 6:4 at 45e ; 811 at 50o, 80c and e5o ; 8/1 at 75e, 90e,
$1,00, $1.25 and 31.30; 1011 at 32,00, 32.25, 32.50 and 32,75; ono
piece 8/4 Inlaid Linoleum at 750 per sq. yard,
Curtains and Lace Netts, and Madras Goods, in an
endless variety of patterns and prices.
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for
Riess Goods
Trintrega
Alex. Ritchie
BEAVER BLOCK WLNCIIIAM
RITCHIE'S
for
Carpets, -
Rugs, Etc,
starseneurer ineo r onium emmerre i10,
Take the
Baby
Out
for its airing in one of the new Carriages or Go -Carts
we have just put on sale. It wiII be
Safe and Comfortable
You will think from their style and get-up that they are
high priced, but they're not. Not having sufficient room
we have decided to sell them at a very low margin, making
profit a second consideration.
Nothing will delight the children more than one of
our small Go -Carts or Waggons.
UNDERTAKING
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St., Sth horse West
of Hamilton's Drug
Store. Night calls
tacsivtr prompt et.
tentless.
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T. A. Mills has just corn
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
fail line in Mangolds, Carrots,
Sugar Beets, Rape and. Tur-
nip Seeds.
When in the .market to buy
see my Seeds.
T. A. MILLS
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ImAlt
10 11 12 18 14 15 10
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iio"xai Baits
—C. P. R. land sales in Manitoba
during March totaled 14,827 acres,
and realized 867,405, or 84,55 per
acre. It is thought that the C. P.
R, will realize out of the twenty-
five million acres granted. for the
building of its transcontinental line
nearly seventy-five million dollars.
—Mr. Carscallen's Bill to pro-
hibit conveyancers, who are not
barristers, from drawing up legal
documents, came to a vote in the
Legislature on Thursday last. Ru-
ral members opposed the bill, be-
cause they said farmers often would
have to drive fifteen or twenty
miles to find a lawyer, and then he
sometimes made a mistake. The.
Legislature divided, on a non-par-
tisan line, and the vote stood 36
for and 44 against the measure.
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--Four thousand farmers in the
United States' Northwestern grain
belt have combined in a way that
is an object lesson to farmers every-
where. Dissatisfied with the spec-
ulations and undue profits of the
middlemen, these producers decid-
ed to sell on their own account.
They handled more than two mill-
ion bushels of grain the past year
on a capital of 8200,000, and made
about thirty per cent. to be divided
among the members. They own
nineteen elevators and take the
grain directly from the growers.
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—The following facts regarding
Manchuria, the Chinese province
seized and held by Russia, will be
of interest now :—Manchuria cor-
responds in latitude to Manitoba,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Min-
nesota, and Nebraska. Its area of
362,310 square miles is only 10,000
square miles less than the combined
area of these great grain states. It
is two and one-half times greater
than California, and is as big as
Texas, Alabama and Louisiana
combined. In the northern part
of the province are thousands of
square miles of rich wheat land en-
tirely untouched. Manchuria has
a possible wheat area as great as
that of the United States.
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—The Weekly Sun has the fol-
lowing timely warning :—At the
end of 1903 the Province was al-
ready pledged to the payment, be-
tween now and 1924, of over six
and.one-half million dollars on ac-
count of railway subsidies granted
in past years. Premier Ross now
proposes asking the Legislature to
guarantee the bonds of the James'
Bay Railway to the extent of $5,-
000,000 and of the Sault industries
to the amount of 82,000,000 more.
On top of all this there are the ap-
plications for subsidies for the
Grand Trunk's Port Arthur and
North Bay branches, and the minor
demands of a. Iot of little roads.
Time was when Ontario boasted
that this Province alone among all
the rest was free of debt. Time
may be, and will be, until a halt is
promptly called, when Ontario will
be the most heavily burdened
among the sisterhood of Provinces.
It is time to seriously consider our
financial position.
--The Toronto World, in discus-
sing the Grand Trunk Pacific rail-
way bill now before parliament,
says :—Mr. Borden makes a good
point when he Says that the gov-
er'nnreethave no mandate from the
public to defeat or delay public
ownership. Our ministers and le-
gislators, not content with assert-
1 ing that government ownership is
impossible, do their best to make it
impossible} handing franchises over
with eager haste, as if desiring to
head off the popular movement and
to accamulate a pile of private
rights and intereata that will be
inimical to public ownership, The
government is afraid of the burdens
that ownership would involve, yet
it undertakes enormous burdens
without the benefit of ownership.
It undertakes to build the most.
eastly portion of the road, and it
hands over to the company the Sec,
tion that is most easily built and is
ante to 'tie profitable. In substance,
though not in form, it is a oantintl-
astion of the policy that hart always
been penned in this conntry--the
people paging for the railwaye, pri-
vate corporations owning them.
ttlY1414,8 DANGER.
War with .apart memo �r
denger to ansa& than the till. ids
world know*, Any aeprlowe
for 'Russia is almost certain to be
followed by an outbreak of the re-
volutionery spirit that has been
brewed by the loug, silent struggle
between the masses in Russia and
the selni•barbarien troops the Ozer
imports to keep thein down. Many
close observers assert that. Russia.
is absolutely incapable of ender-
taking a trial of strength with a
formidable enemy. Whether things
are s,s bad as this or not, it ie cer-
tain the growth of the revolution-
ary movement has beCom,e a serious
embarrassment to the Czar and hie
Government, and that Russia is a
far less dangerous foe to meet than
she would be if her people were
contented and patriotic.
Discontent is just as prevalent
among the aristocracy of Russia as
in the lower classes. Russia is
governed by the Czar nominally,
but in fact by his bureaucracy, of
which he is the slave. This bu-
reaucracy is composed lareg5"; e,1
the most corrupt class of tlie`popn'.
lation. Its servants, the minor
Russian officials, are almost with-
out execption petty tyrants, ene-
mies of education and culture, and
often blackmailers on a large scale.
Russian aristocrats, despite their
own country's police system, and
the intellectual middle classes of
Russia, share these feelings. They
travel abroad• and learn to appreci-
ate the greater degree of freedom
enjoyed by other European coun-
tries, They read in foreign news-
papers the truth about the actual
condition of affairs in their own
country, and when abroad purchase
all kinds of political books, which
are strictly prohibited in Russia.
There are many booksellers in Ber-
lin, Vienna, and other cities fre-
quented by Russians whose profits
come almost entirely from the sale
of books prohibited in Russia. On`
returning to their own country
they swell the ranks of the political
malcontents, either active or pas-
sive, and contribute in some degree
to the steady growth of the revolu-
tionary movement. Coming down
in the social scale to the lower
middle classes and the intelligent
workers in the towns, there can be
no doubt that these classes are
saturated with revolutionary qoe-
trines. There are four important
revolutionary organizations in Rus-
sia, all of which are working for a.
common end, but differ regarding
the means of attaining the realiza-
tion of that end. These are the
Russian social democratic party,
the Russian social revolutionary
party, the Russian Jewish revolu-
tionary party, and the Russian stu-
dents' revolutionary League.
OUR SHARE AFTER 50 YEARS.
The new Grand Trunk Pacific
contract leaves little to Canada but
the payment of bills amounting to
millions of dollars, The responsi-
bility assumed in this transaction
is for over 8151,000,000. This vast
sum will be spent in constructing a
line from Moncton to Winnipeg and
the guaranteeing of the bonds of
the Western Division, The Monc-
ton -Winnipeg section will cost at
least 8120,000,000. This will be
leased to the Grand Trunk for a
period of 50 years and at the end
of that time running powers for a
further period of 50 years will be
granted to that corporation. The
Grand Trunk, before the expiry of
its lease, will have constructed
most important branch lines in all
directions. It will be in a position
to know just what lines can be
operated at a profit. The paying
investments will remain in the
hands of the company, but the
government with a due regard for
the welfare of the country will buy
out all the lines which will have
become ao much scrap iron,
At Winnipeg the Grand Trunk
will own all the terminals. If the
government, at the end of 50 years,
desires to enter that city it will be
compelled to spend enormous sums
to secure right of way and termi-
nals or will have to be content to
take what the Grand Trunk is wil-
ling to provide. And what does
all this mean? It means, if it
means anything, that after expend-
ing such enormous sums, the peo-
ple of this country, at the termina-
tion of the Grand Trunk's lease
will own tufo lines of steel rails
from Moncton to Winnipeg, will
be compelled to buy out all nu,
.profitable branches radiating from
those rails, and will be shut out
from Winnipeg, a city which the
government .professes to be so anx-
ious to reach. A. mere "skeleton
of a skeleton" will fall • to the lot
of those who will pay the bills, to-
gether with the responsibility for
the vast sums invested. Is that a
scheme to ht#rrall for? The more
it is examined the worse it appears
as a sound and sane proposal.
flIE RtMEI3Y,
in referring to the condition of
Ontario politicos for the past year or
more, and the probable effect, "By-
s;ander" (Prof. Goldwin Smith)
writes AS follows :—
"At the rate at which thinge are
going in the Provincial Legislature,
respect for Government will pres-
ently eeaae to exist. Nor is the
baste of the ease likely to be im-
proved by the struggle now impen-
ding in the election courts. 'Where
is the remedy? To what can we
oo for it but the exercise In ex
tremwr need of the prerogative of
the Crown ? Matters such as the
calling and dissolution of legisla-
tures, which in other common-
wealths are settled by law, in ours
remain parts of the prerogative, It
might be better that they should be
settled by law. But we roast take
things as they are. A. prevalent
opinion is that the prerogative is
constitutionally in the hands, not
of the representative of the Crown,
but of his Ministers, who, acting in
his name, are fully at liberty to use
it for the furtherance of their party
ends. Froin this view, which
would meke the representative of
the Crown merely ornamental, the
Bystander cannot help dissenting.
It seems to hien that the holder of
the prerogative has power to emu. -
else it, and is bound to exercise it
in cases of extreme necessity. Ile
sees nothing to prevent the Lieu-
tenant -Governor at this juncture
from putting an end to a state of
things so noacious to popular insti-
tutions in that which is apparently
the only way, that is by providing
that there shah be a speedy appeal
to the people."
MR. BORDEN'S POLICY.
Mr. R. L. Borden, leader of the
Opposition in the House of Com-
mons, delivered an able and com-
prehensive speech in the house in
opposing the expensive Govern-
ment scheme for a Transcontinen-
tal railway. He did not, however,
confine himself to simply pointing
out the evils of the Grand Trunk
Pacific bargain with the Govern-
ment, but he proposed an .alterna-
tive scheme which will no doubt
commend itself to the people of
Canada, As an alternative policy,
Mr. Borden proposes a system of
national transportation, including
1 --The immediate construction
and control by the Dominion of
such lines of railway in the west
to the Pacific as the enormous
importance and increasing devel-
opment of the great western coun-
try require.
2—The extension of the Interco-
lonial Railway to the Georgian Bay
and thence to Winnipeg, and the
extension and improvement in the
Province of Quebec and in the ma-
ritime Provinces of the government
system of railways.
3 --The development and im-
provement of our Canadian inland
waterways and the thorough and
efficient equipment of our national
ports and termini on the Atlantic
and Pacific, as well as on the St.
Lawrence and on the great lakes.
4—The thorough examination,
exploration and survey of •the coun-
try between Quebec and Winnipeg,
with a view to the future construc-
tion of such lines of railway as may
be found in the public interest.
!I:
Oshawa, April 9.—Truth is sometimes
more strange than fiction. Such is the
case in the story related by Mr. Charles
Chatters= of the Base line. On De-
cember 18th, 1903, Mr. Ohatterson
threshed for G. Pierce on his faros, just
west of the Oshawa station. While
threshing was being done, a sow be-
longing to Mr. Pierce was accidentally
and unknowingly covered np with straw,
and seen no more till March 1st, 1904,
when she crawled out from underneath
the straw stack. The long confinement
of 75 days, without food or drink, re•
dated her to a skeleton, but she had life
enough left to walk. The cattle had by
continually rubbing against the straw
stack made a hole to where the sow lay.
and thus saved her life. The animal is
rapidly gaining strength and will soon
be as healthy as ever, The case is a re-
markable one.
Thursday, April 14, 1904
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'(:lloi & as. J. Derr'
The Largest Store in Wingham,
Get the Habit, Bay at the Big Store,"
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Ladies who visit Kerr's will see the authoritative dis.
play of DRESS GOODS. Style is the all -essential.
You must have a suit that is stylish, whether you. can -
afford an expensive one or not, and just there is where
we excel. We have taken some trouble to have a great
variety of weaves, styles and colorings in Dress Fabrics
for Spring and Summer. See our values before buying,
Our Spring Trimmings and rangy Goods, though
a little Iate in corning, are now in stock. Our cus-
tomers will be glad to know that this store is head
quarters for the Ultra Fashionable Laces (Cluny,
Yack, Valenciennes) Insertions, Braids, Applique, etc.
We show a splendid assortment of Ladies' Collars,
plain white Linen, all sizes, fashionable height, 2 for 25c,
Chiffon Collar Frames, white or black, 1Oc each. Chif-
fon Collar Frames trimmed, very pretty, 20c each.
Fancy Stock Collars, all the best colors, new designs,
25c up.
Ladies' Kid Gloves in all the newest shades.
Every pair is guaranteed. Price $1,00, $1.25, $1.50,
Ladies' Silk, Taffeta and Cashmere Gloves 25c, 50e, 75c.
New Spring Roller Window Shades. Very large
= assortment of Window Shades. New .colors, new designs.
Best quality of shade, roller and spring. Prices lower
than ever. See the handsome shade we offer for 40c
complete. We put thele up for you free of charge.
New Lace Curtains. Our new Curtain Holder makes
it possible for us to show you 30 different patterns in
Lace Curtains in about 5 minutes. Of course we'll not
hurry you through like that. But we do want you to
see our display of Curtains. We'll take pleasure in
showing them to you.
Floor Oil Cloth and Linoleum, New goods all in
stock. Splendid assortment of new patterns. Any pat -
1 tern of Floor Oil Cloth for 250 a square yard.
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These Dyes will dys Wool, Cotton, Silk, Jute
or Mixed Goods in one bath — they are the
latest and most improved Dye in the world.
Try a package. .A11 colors at W. Messer's
store, Bluovale, and C. B. McClelland'- store,
Bolgravo, Ont.
and when up, send him or her to
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Send for College journal.
C. A. PLSMINQ A. I.. M4,NTYRB
President Seofy,
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MANY CALLS are received from
Many Students are placed in goodapost
tions each year by the famous
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STRATF'ORD, ONT.
bet in schoolness stands
duccaation for in Canada to.
day. Many business colleges employ our
of applications from rother We
score"!
to see them the day you enter.
W. J. Elliott, Principal.
ROBT. H. GARNISS
BLUEVALE -- ONT.
Auctioneer for Huron County
Terms reasonable. Sales arranged
for at the office of the
WINGHAIlf ADVANCE.
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Visite Wingham monthly. Gx.ssus FITTED
PRoxAnLY. NASAL CATARRH and Dnarilnss
treated. Wingham ofiee at Campbell's Drug
Store. London office -225 Queen's ave,; hours
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dates of visits—Mondays—
Rob. I, rob. 29, Mar, 28, May 2,May 30. June
27, July 25, Sept, 5, Oct, 3, Oct. 3, Nov. 23.
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THS BEE HIVE
(THE KEELER CO.)
Who Will in "a few days' open up
a magnficient stock of
Dry Goods, Men's Furnishings
and Oroceries ... ..........,,
in c enzie's New Store. it will
pay you to wait for them.
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