HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-05-11, Page 4THE WINQ UAM ADVANCE, THURSDAY, MAX
COUCHES
The Comfortable Kind
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A better" assortment of Couches can't be found
than our stock contains at the present time, and
the prices -well, they are so reasonable you might
almost imagine the goods were stolen. Upholstered
in best velours, at $ 7, $7.50, $8.50, $13, $17.
Examine our Mattresses, at $3, $4, $4, $4i.
TVs an acknowledged fact that our Dining -room
Chairs --for comfort and style --can't be beaten, at
$3.25, $4.50 and $5.50 per half doz.
Headquarters for Window Blinds, Curtain Poles
(complete for 15e,) Carpet Matting and Felt.
t*N nERR.itinNG.
Night calls re-
ceive prompt at-
tention, 5th house
west of
ton's Drug eUere
Carpets, Linoleum and Oilcloth.
L. A. Ball& Co.
Just In=A
Carload of No. g
Colied Steel Wire
As this Wire is the genuine Frost make, and as the
demand is likely to be so great for this particular kind,
Farmers will do well to leave their orders for it at once,
as there will likely be a scarcity in the market when most
required for fencing.. We are selling it cheap.
Massey=Harris Repairs.
I have just taken over the agency for the Massey -
Harris repairs and will try and keep the stock in good
Shape, so that the farmers may be supplied in future with
what they may require in this line.
i am sole agent for the celebrated Sherwin-Williams
Paint. The best on earth.
Best Brands of Cement in season at lowest prices.
A full line of Lawn Mowers, Garden Rakes, Spades, Shovels,
etc., on hand. Prices the lowest.
We are now aking orders for Plymouth and International
Binder Twine.
GIVE US A GALL.
A. VOUNG
The Time To Buy.
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TUEs0, HALL, PROS,;ZUETOR.
St'nsenter ine Prue*. -$1.00 per annum in
advance. $1.60 of not so paid.
Anvr.RTls o .ItNrss.-.•Legal and other eas.
ua1 advertisements 10c per nonpariel line for
first insertion, 3o per line for each subsequent
insertion,
Now is the time to buy Furniture for Spring. Our
prices are away down on some lines, as Chairs, Couches,
Rockers, Bedroom Suites, Sideboards. just call and see
our $5.00 Couch, and our $2o.0o Parlor Suite, done in the
best velour covering. it will pay you to get our prices on
all kinds of Furniture. We will use you right.
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SPRIG
1905
Now that the spring has come, 1 beg
to notify she general Trade that 1 am still
in the ring ith t to Largest and Purest
Seeds in the tra e. ccr„sisting of
Red. A!.sike, pr- rnth, L :.erne and \Melte
C_lov er ,.
Ti 'ct' - i s *d ass Red Toy Kentucky
and
Pty`, alit. a new varlet, and strongly recom-
w .+J .t i,.lz•.. a-.r.Z'i v..0 L..u,.x,i:l Farm,Otta-
Fara, Guelph.
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V.J �•S.."..+�'n Cl�.J .�.._,:..i L•i�..l 1~y i'�wL.�' Wheat.
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h L n.r 1t.• Strain, put tip in
"'I'ra ;J Le_1 Ca=t. P pe,very cheap.
All k"w s of
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✓rn by the Car a ,:1 i r..1!; -ht say," that I
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was the ti5.i r e s a + in the Canny
tilzo '.41441 u.tt O!.'a::l the uaraL.°'� a last year in
the Corn ge hating.
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Advertisements in the local columns aro
charged ton per line for first insertion, and Se
per line for each sbse t
nt insertion.
,
Advertisements of Strayed. Fartns for Sale
or to Dent, and similar. $1.00 for first three
weeks, and 21 cents for each subseaiuent in-
sertion.
CONTRACT Rt1ts.-Tha followtng are our
rates for the insertion of advertisements for
specified periods:--
Sraca 11 Yr. 0 Mo. 3 Mo. 1 Mo.
One Column $7000 $10.01 $22.30 $8.00
Half Column 40,00 20.00 14.00 0,00
Quarter ColumnMOO 12.50 7.50 3.00
One Inch.... 5.00 3.00 2.00 123
Advertisements without specific directions
will be inserted till' forbid and charged ne-
eordingly. Transient advertisements must be
patch for in advance.
� �aitotiaY s
-Tire Weekly Sun very properly.
says :-A bill is before the Dominion
r betting legaliziu!, ba, tt►zlg art races. At
the sante time we are waking strenu-
ous efforts to put down gambling.
'Khat is betting but gambling? And
what hope is there of waging success-
ful war on the practice in low resorts
while you legalize the propensity in
high places 2
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-Collier's Weekly, in giving some
figures dealing with life insurance in
the United States, says the regular old
line companies of that country have
insurance in force about equal to the
capitalization of the railways of the
Republic. Their actual assets amount-
ed to two and a quarter billion dollars,
and they are ander obligations to pay
ten billions to five million policy-
holders.
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-Our new Governor-General, Earl
Grey, thinks the temperance workers
will make slow progress as long as we
license men to make all the money
they can out of the sale of liquor.
That brings us back to the question of
the elimination of personal profit from
the traffic, and points to the Govern-
- ment dispensary system. With no
money in the business there would be
no incentive to push the sale.
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-- The total mineral pi'oduetion eat
the Tt'ausvaal of 1901 was ,as held at
$8%201,000, an increase of $21,220,0(t0
over the year previons. The poodtie-
tion of gold alone ainounttel to $7S, -
()00.O00, an ine'vease of sixteen Sind a
half millions. Tltis increase of the
Transvaatl's output was secured at art
appalling oast. The labor of produe.
tion was performed b,' a little over
16,000 whites, aided by upwards of
97,000 colored natives and nearly 21,000
imported Chinese. The natives and
Chinese worked for a there pittance
under conditions which are equivalent
to slavery.
-From the following figures it
would appear that there is room for
the development of Canada's egg trade
with the old land. During 1904 Great
Britain imported $32,755,000 worth of
eggs. Of this total nearly $10,000,000
worth were received from Russia, a
little over $7,000,000 from Denmark,
close on $0,000,000 from Germany, up-
wards of $4,000,030 from Belgium, and
nearly $3,500,000 from France. Cana-
da's contribution to the total was
$630'000, as compared with something
over $1,000,000 the year before.
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-During a banquet at Montreal
Saturday. Charles M. Pays, President
of the Grand Trunk Pacific, said it
would take 500 men three years to
produce the ties required for the new
line, and when the road is completed
it will add 20,000 workers to the rail-
way employees of the Dominipn. Mr.
Hays said no properly constituted rail-
way management would object to
Iaws against discrimination in ratee or
to safeguard life and property, but
legislation should not be a bar to pro-
gress. It was most important, he
said, that saw: enacted should be such
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-Cauandiaun insolvencies in April to
tailed 88, with defeedted indebtedness
of $1.07,070, Manufacturing failures
numbered 16, and involved $53,933 ;
trading insolvencies were 69 iu num-
ber, and $311,093 in amount; while
three other suspensions added $9,050.
In the corresponding month of 1001
tbere were 91 failures, with liabilities
of $081,179, Of the total, 29 occurred
in manufacturing occupations, involy-
ing $000,757 ; trading defaults mina
bered 59, acid aggregated $374,92'2 in
aLmonnt; while three other commer-
cial failures provided $5,500 of in-
debtedness.
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-The report of the provincial in-
sprctor of liquor licenses for the pre-
sent year will show a reduction of 58
licenses for the year ending on Sun-
day, April 30th. The total was 2,899,
compared with 2,957 for the preceding
year. The reductions were seven shop
licenses and 51 tavern licenses. The
wholesale Iicenses remained stationary
at 22. Secretary Spence, of the On-
tario Alliance, says that the prospect
is that the present year will see the
largest reduction in Iicenses that has
taken place in a long time. This is
owing to the number of places which
came under local option on Monday,
and to the action of many of the new
license boards.
WHAT THU WAR. HAS COST RUSSIA.
A k;ensattiof waas caused in St. re-
ter,sbnu•;; grid throughout the world lay
the statement itt the Russian army
organ of what the War Office had ac- •
cozuplislted ►lp to snatch 12th. This
showed that 1:3,087 otlleers, 701,467
then, 140,#0,l horses, and 316,321 tons
of supplies. had been sent to the front
over the Siberian Railway, and was
issued as a reply to scathing criticisms
of iucapacity. But the public seized
upon it as alar , admission that nearly
half a million Rts.ialis have been lost
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sitter the ber,tutunl, of hostilities, and
if this be true nearly a third of the
number must. have perished from dis-
ease --a striking contrast to the almost
incredible success of the Japanese in -
sanitary control. It is estimated that
a. thousand millions of dollars have
gone in the same dreary way ; a whole
navy has been annihilated ; the ifiter-,
nail loss is impossible to compute, but
correspondents assert that "enough
grain is thrown away alongside the
railroads every week, owing to luck of
transportation facilities, to cover St.
Paul's Cathedral" ; and the blow to
national prestige is incalculable. It is
a staggering total, even of the items
now known. Hardly the least of the
losses, intangible as it is, is the change
from awe to ridicule which the world's
attitude toward Russia has undergone.
The official Muscovite seems seriously
lacking in both a sense of shame and a
sense of htnnor, and the other nations
have had to hide their faces at sight of
his blustering pomposity h the midst
of disgraceful defeat, and such mani-
festations as the statement that official
circles in St. Petersburg were encour-
aged and confident been use of the "ex-
cellent reports" from Admiral Rojest
vensky as to his -target practice]
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-Amidst the thunders of the Japa-
nese war, that which is going on in
Arabia is little noticed. It seems,
however, that the forces of the Sultan
have there met with utter defeat, and
that there is hope of the escape of the
province from Turkish rule. The loss
would be not only material, but moral,
Arabia being the cradle of Islann and
the sovereignty of the Holy Places
being regarded as a talisman of em-
pire. We may hope therefore that the
despotism of the Ottoman, after pro-
longing the baneful and biightiug in-
fluence over some of the fairest and
once the most prosperous regions of
the earth for four centuries and a half,
is now gradually yielding to its doom.
It is painful to think that for the last
half century British policy has been
its main support, and that Great Brn-
tain is holding Cyprus as her fee.-
- [Weekly Sun.
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-There seems to be no valid reason
why the telephone at a reasonable
rate should not be in almost every
farm house. Dr. Doan of Harriets-
_ vine, in Middlesex county, gave some
interesting information to the Mulock
Telephone Committee of the Dominion
Parliament last week. He said that .
19 nines of single wire was put up in
1901 with 19 phones in use. Now
there are 26 miles with 58 subscribers.
The rental of phones is $9 a year, and
on the first four uzonths of the assoei
ation's business a dividend of 4 per
cent, was declared. He sees no reason
why farmers in any average township
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A Readjustment of World Power.
Whatever may happen in Russia, or
between her and Japan, no event of
this generation is more largely signifi-
cant to the whole world than the sud-
den rise of the latter country to the
position of the "seventh Great Power"
with a peculiarly strong position in all
Far Eastern questions. Already the
foreign offices are beginning to specu-
late upon the imminent situation
when Japan shall have expanded from
her home islands to Saghalien, Korea
and Manchuria, with a dominant in-
fluence in the future of China.
A suggestive forecast of some com-
mercial effects of Japanese success
was giveu by the remarks the other
day of the head of a great transporta-
tion system to the Orient. "There's a
great deal of talk about Russia's ex-
clusion of foreign trade," said this
gentleman, "but the people who es-
pect that American commerce is going
to find an open door in Manchuria
ander Japanese control will have a
rude awakening. In fact, we never
had any real trouble about getting
goods in, with Russian mastery.
There were apparently harsh restric-
tions, but trade flourished. What will
happen if Japan has matters in charge
is that we shall be greeted with effu-
sive politeness, there will be much
. talk about liberty of commerce for all
the world-andA.inericaa. and the other
nations will presently find themselves
facing a stone wall of secret preferen-
tials for Japanese merchants, heavy
subsidies and the like, which will ena-
ble Japan's own people to gobble up
everything there is. This 'slur t a
- theory; but at
statement of whas
already happened elsew=here." -
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