The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-22, Page 4ACHE
(Px ear Abu0'rrixt1.' ,
Chas, li,'Sanders, Editor and Prop.
'THURSDAY November 21st 1995
ZI E FARMER A I J) PRICES.
The Grit Party never appear to tire
proclaiming that the Canadian farmer
is fighting a losing battle and that the
manufacturer is unduly favored by the
tariff laws, An honest enquiry. into
The facts, however, proves the very op-
posite, 'lt is quite true that the open-
ing up of vast wheat fields in many
parts of the world, during the past fif-
teen years; has reduced, somewhat, the
price of that cereal, and the very large-
ly increased production of barley in the
'Western States has very seriously af-
fected. the price of that article .in this
country.. With these two exceptions,
howeyer, the ordinary products of the
farm in Canada. are, taken all in all,
actually worth as much money as ever
they were; and if yalued, relatively:,
too the: prices of manufactured articles
etow:', as compared with their prices in
1878, the purchasing power of. the
]farmer's products is much greater to-
day than then. To facilitate a corn:
parison•of farm prices of 1878 and 1895
we quote from the Globe the report of
the farmers' market in Toronto for the
"nth of November of both years as fol-
lows:
Globe's Report, Partners' Market in
Toronto, November 7th,1878:
Wbeat, fall, per bush.... 80
Wheat, spring, per bush. 70
Barley per bush 60
Oats per bush ... 30
Peas per bush.. .. 60
' Dressed hogs per 100 lbs. 4.50
Beef hind quarters. 6.00
Beef, fore quarters.... 4.00
Mutton; per 100 Its 5.00
Chicken, per pair' . 30
Ducks per pair..... . 50
Butter, 1 Ib roll,... 15
Butter, tubs, dairy., 13
Eggs fresh_. ...... 20
Apples per bbl .. 1.00
Hay per ton ...... ... 9..50
Straw per ton .... .10.00
to 93
" 86
" 93
32
62
" 5.00
" 7.50
t° 5.00
600
" 45
e. 60
" 17
" 14
" 22
1.25
" 14.00
" 11.00
Globe's Report, Farmers' Market in
Toronto, November 7th, 1895:
Wheat, white, per bush.. 71 to 74
Wheat, red per bush.... 71 " 74
Barley per bush.. 37 " 43a
Oats new par bush, ..... 28 " 29
Peas, per bush. 55' " 57
Dressed hogs, per 100 lbs 475 " 4,90
Beef, hind quarters . , 5 00 7.00
Beef, fore quarters 8 00. " 4.50
Mutton, per 100tbs. 5.00 " 6.00
Chicken 40 " 60
Ducks • 50 " 70
Butter 1 ib. rolls' 18 " 20
Butter, tubs, dairy13 " 14
Eggs 18 -
new laid........• 20
Apples not given
'allay per ton . ......17.00 to 19.00
Straw bundled.... —.13.00
It will be seen from the above, as we
have already intimated, that the money
value of an average farmer's products
to day will run, very little, if any, be-
hind what it was seventeen years ago,
But how is it with manufacturers?
There is not a single article manufac-
tured in Canada to -day that is not very
much cheaper than it was in 78. In
some cases, manufactured products do
not sell for half as much now as they
did then. The self binder is reclined
from over $200 to $110. The wagon
from $85 to $60. The buggy from $100
to $75; and so on throughout the whole
list, the percentage of reduction in the
smaller articles being greater still. .As
for instance, the pitch fork that used to
cost $1.25 is now sold fcr 65 cents. The
axe that then sold for $1.50 now sells
for 90 cents The hand rake that used
to cost 50 cents is now sold for 10 cents.
Cotton cloth is only about half what it
was in '78 and woollens sell for less than
half what they did then. Sugar is
only about one third what it sold for in.
78. Soap, starch, molasses, are all a
good deal less than hall what they
were then. But why multiply exam-
ples?
We imagine we have given sufficient
to convince every reasonable reader
tbat while farm products as a whole ere
as valuableto day as they were in '78
manufactured products sell for from 25
to 50 per cent. less.
Now, in this• eonnectiou it is well to
remember that the producer ordinarily
sells his product for money and uses
that money to buy the product of oth-
ers. By this indirect exchange of pro
ducts, each is compared only with the
money used is the transaction, and the
actual, or barter value of the 'products
is lost sight of. Wheat, for instance,
has suffered a reduction in its money
-value, but this does not mean that it
has suffered a like reduction, in its ex-
change value. For example, it took
ahout 230 bushels of the Ontarto farm-
ers' wheat, in 1878, te pay for his self -
hinder, while ,o -day it takes only 150
bushels to pay for it. Cheap and all as
the bushel of wheat appears to be,to day
it will go further in paying for the ordi-
alaryarticles required by the fanner and
leis family than it W4tttld sixteen years sources, ,and reaehiug a nl;l(ilitude
ago. In other worth, the exchange, that is surprising,.
value of wheat even, hasnot suffered
ie comparlsou with that of the naanu•
fecturers' products, What thou must
be the purchasing power of the farmer's
products, as a whole, the money value
of which, as shown by the markets re-
ports giveu above is as great as ever
it was!
rD1iZ'OB(AL, VOTES.
Where all must shovel and hoe,
wages must be law.
It is easy to ruin in a year industries
built up in a generation,
The rewards of labor increase as oc-
cupations become diversified.
Free Trade denounces its wretched
victims as surplus population.
The power of creating wealth ie
more valuable than wealth itself,
Where manufactures flourish, land
and its products are most va]uaele.
The foreign market buys by the
bushel, the home market by the ton.
The preservation of freedom depends
upon diversification of employments.
The man who finds a purchaser for
his own labor at once buys the labor of
other men,
Free Trade pills are often nicely
coated with "revenue reform"—don't
swallow thein.
The more a nation can produce, the
less it needs to purchase, and the more
it is able to purchase.
Foreigners using our markets to sell
goods we can produce oueselves should
pay their share of our taxes.
Foreign industries sustained by a
nation in times of peace frequently sus-
tains its foes in times of war.
It is proximity to the cotton mill
tbat makes the naturally sterile soil of
Massachusetts more valuable thau the
rich bottom lands of the West.
Free Trade sells a piece of iron ore to
a foreign country for one ceut and buys
it back iu the form of watch springs,
for instance, for $500. Protection says:
make the watch springs at home and
save $499.99.
Turkey's sultan bas promised reforms
but the sultan is much the same kind
of a Reformer as many Canadian Grits
who bear the same name: his promises
of reform are made without any
thought of fulfilment.
Taking all railways in England and
Wales, the average cost of construction
per mile has been $269.851. In the
Uuited States, the average cost per
mile has been $61.409. In Canada the
average cost per guile has been $57,
Ehgiisir statesmen take the consump-
tion of tea and sugar as a guag'e of
the prosperity of the people, In 1878,
the people of Canada consumed less
than 2.1• pounds of tea per head. Last
year they consumed over 4 pounds per
head. In 1878, they consumed 26 pounds
per head of sugar, last year they con-
sumed 61 pounds per head.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Teeswater News: The secretary of
the school board in Erintownship sent
the following reply to an applicant for
the school:-"Yer name is not in ityure
salree to hie, you should have sent a
3c. stamp as I am 3c, out yares truly."
Readers of Toronto papers who have
a taste for readiug murder trials will
likely get their desires gratified on fol-
lowing the trial of the Hyams that is
now before the Assize Court. The last
trial lasted fourteen days.
A farmer of Albany, Ore., is exhibit-
ing a bunch of forty-two stalks of wheat
with 924 meshes and about 3,500 grains
which grew from a single kernel. An-
other farmer, in Cedar Rapids,
Neb.,
,
has a cucumber five fent long and still
growing.
One of the Brockville dentists was the
recipient of a left-handed Scotch com-
pliment a day or two ago, which sin-
gularly well exhibits the Scotch charac-
ter. The Scotchman called for the pur-
pose of having a big double tooth pull-
ed, and by the way of preface said:—
" I would sooner be pounded wi' a elub
than have yon tooth pulled," "Why ?"
asked the dentist. "Because," said
Scatty, "it'll hurt." The dentist said,
" Man, I can give you gas and you'll'
not feel it." " Well, I'll take the gas."
While the dentist was preparing to ad.
minister the unaesthetic, Scotty began
to count his money. The dentist said,
011, you needn't pay till after." Scotty
says •' It's not .that, ,I thot I'd just
eouut ma ca welt before I went to sleep."
Six millions of books are a great
man', and that number represents the
world's output of the Christian Scrip-
tures during the last year. The num-
ber of bibles distributed einee the or
ganizitt•ion of the British and Foreign
Bible; Society, of London, in 1804, is
260,000,000 or enough volumes, if laid
end to end, to reach a distance of more
than 50 thousand miles. The British
Society and the American Bible Society
of rw York, since its establishment,'
in 1816, has been the two great orga-
nizations., of the world for the transla•
tion, publication and circulation of the
books of the, Bible, Their work hat,
been a tretiiendous and a growing one,
eai ,
;v rip exhausting their increasing, re.
Decision was reserved in the apptlea>
tion made before the court at Phile
detphia for a new trial for 1I 11, Holmes,
the murderer of the Dietzel family•
la making the application Lawyer
Shoemaker emaker presented an affidavit which
the District attorney immediately prov-
ed to be fraudulent, and Mr. Shoemak-
er was placed under arrest,
The ludependent Order of Foresters
of Western Outario will hold their an-
imal "meet" at Parkhill on May 24th
next. 'Court Parkhill is determined to
make the detnoustratiou the best ever.
held is the town. It is intended to
have a Foresters' parade, headed by
Oranhyatekha, the ,Supreme Chief of
the order, laerosse matches, football.
matches, bicycles races, music by a
number of bands, etc.
The ladies of London, Ontario, have
caught the political fever and have or-
gatiized themselves into a Maple Leaf
League.. The objects the women hat e
in view are; (a)'10 Winer Conservative
womeu together in uuired work for the
advancetnettt and maintenance of Con-
servative prineiplesab)
on-servativeprinciples;(b) to assist by work
and influence the Conservative party
generally,and especially to aid the local.
party in all matters where the advice
or help of women will be of service
Au exchange says ; " The editor
that can't stand the abuse of the whole
town he is situated in had batter ge out
of business, for he will never be of any
account as a journalist. It will not
pay for any editor to be at all sensativo
to abuse. Why is this? Because an
editor talks to and for the public; every,
thing be says foi'this thing and against.
that is said publicly, and as every
question is supposed to have two sides
the editor is dealt with accordingly.
Things in which he may have do in-
terest personally, if he publishes one
side, he must expect to be handled
without gtovea by chose who see differ
ently. With the editor that is all right.
He expects it, and would feel abort' 'as
lonesome as a last year's bird's nest
without it. He would feel about as
important as a linen duster in mid-
winter, if no abuse evert i
me him, and•
his fceliogs would not be deceptive.
Give him plenty of so called abuse and
he knows at once that his work is efec
tive, and if he is right he will work all
the harder, and If wrong he can correct
his work."
Seaforth: Mr. Harry Town had the
tnisfortune to get one of his hands se-
verely cut while working with Mass.
Seaforth: Mr. Samuel Bennett, of
the planing mill, had three of his fin-
gers badly cut on Friday last, which
will necessitate his laying off work for
several days.
Uensall: Mr. John Sheppard, the
popular reeve of Tuckersmith, thinks
of erecting a fine dwelling in our vil-
lage on the lot he purchased some time
ago from Mr, A. Weseioh.
St. Marys: Mr. W. Butcher had the
misfortune to break the sideplate Glass
window one day last week, while ar-
ranging his window. A window that;
size will cost about '$10 or $20." �.
Clinton : Mrs. 'Alice Cattelon, widow'
ofthe late David cutel
on has marr
ed
Samuel Porter, former resident of
Goderich township, now a prosperous
rancher at Aiediciue Ilat, Assiniboia.
Goderich: We understand that the
farm of Mr. J. Churchill, being lot 34,
on the 14th con., has been sold to Mr.
Thos. Churchill, for the sum of $3,600.
It is a good farm. •
Tuckersmith: Mr. Hugh J. Grieve
has purchased the old Martin farm, on
the 3rd concession. H. R. S., Tucker.
smith, for $4,400. It is a splendid farm,
well situated, and contains 100 aeres.
Blansbard: A surprise party took
possession of the residence of Mr. and
Mrs Alex. Jameson Base line on Tues-
day night and presented them with
three handsome chairs, ou the occassion
of their leaving that neighborhocd.,
Hensall: Miss Simpson had the mis-
fortune,
isfortune, on Saturday evening last,
when engaged in her household duties,
to slip on the door step, sustaining a
serious fracture to her leg, and is now
confined to her room, uuder medical
care.
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Catarrh in the lead.
Is due to Impure blood and cannot be
cured with leen.' applications. Hood's
Sarsaparilla has cured hundreds of cases
of catarrh beeauseit purifies theblood
and in this way removes the cause of
the disease. It also builds up the sys-
tem and prevents attack of pneumonia,
diphtheria and typhoid fevey.
Hood's Pills become the favorite
cathartic with every one who tries them
25e.
WHEN THEY WERE LADS.
Edison was famous for his inventions
when 23,
Bacon was a member of Parliament at
43; at 26 one of its leaders.
Poe was a poet at 16; at 84 he wrote
"The haven." tie died at 88.
Bryant wrote poetry at 9: 4.t 18 his
masterpiece, "T'hanatopsis, ", was pub-
lished.
Longfellow's first poetry was published
at 13. At 32 he was ranked with our best
poets.
Shakespeare left school at 14, Clay at 14,
John Bright at 15.
Scott entered the fair realm of litera-
ture at 25. At 34 he was the most popu-
lar poet of the day.
Galileo discoverred the isochrouism of the
pendultnn at 19. When 36 was the most
famous astronomer in Europe.
Byron's first poems appeared at 19. At
24 he reached the highest pinnacle of his
Literary fame.
Wilberforce entered Parliament at 2L
'William of Orange commanded the arrhy
on the French frontier at 22.
Burns' first volume was published at 27.
At 80 critics conceded hineto be the most
richly endowed by nature of any 'living
poet,
Napoleon at 27 commanded the army in
Italy. Al.At
i5 was Veneerer. r Saes Waterloo
at 46.
Tennyson at In took that high stand
among the poets he held till his death,
Peart McFarland
• Wailaceburg, Ont.
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Given to Rejoicing Parents
A Child's Health and Strength wilt
Up by Hood'sSarsaparilia.
The gratitude which is felt by pas
rents over the recovery of their children
from distressing diseases it is Hardly
possible to express in words. Many
fathers and mothers have seen the good
effects of IIood's Sarsaparilla in rostor.
ing their children to health. and they
have written gladly of their great joy
and thankfulness for the virtues of this
;medicine. Following is melt a case:
"My little girl, aged 4, weighed but 9
pounds at her birth. During the ,first
three years and a quarter she was not well
.s single day. I was recommended to try
ca bottle of Hood's•Sarsaparilla. I had little
faith in the medicine,but as I had tried
ellother medicines, I thought I would
givel3ood's Sarsaparilla a fair trial, and I
began giving it to the child according to
directions. The result is that she
Has Not Had a Sick Day
since taking the first bottle, which was
seven months ago. You do not know
what a comfort and relief it is to my wife
and myself to have her restored to health.
She is now robust and weighs as much as
stay child of her age in town." GEORGE
MCFARLAND, Wallacoburg, Ontario.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
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WESTERN ADVERTISER,
London Ontario.
CENTRALIA
The new harness shop is
now opened for business.
All kinds of
Harness on hand, heavy
double, light and single.
Anything made
to order. Repairing prompt-
ly attended to. Robes and
blankets of all kinds; also Buff-
alo
uffalo robes, trunks,.combs,brush-
es and everything kept in
the harness line,
fail
Don't at to
call and see prices.
W. COTTRILL.
Harness maker.
Hullett: Mt'. John Rapson, of the 10th
concession, has purchased the farm of
his neighbor, Mr. George Allan. This.
farm contains 100 acres of excellent
land with good hui.hlings; acid was pur-
chased for $6,000. Mr, John Stephf has
also sold`his farm, on the same conees-
sion, to Mr. Thome' Beatty, of McKillop,
his nei;thbor, for $4,150.,, 'Ibis farm
obtains 100 acres, but bas no buildings
n it, :``Mr, Stephf still keeps his $fty
acres,
YOUR IEE: CAN BUN
Any of these Famous Cook Stoves.
BERMUDA,
A, stove which requires
recon mend as Jere
numbers of them
are in use in the
vicinity, large
fire place
large Oven
Buteaiful
Baker.
no
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BRIGHT IDEA,
A. stove which owing to
its latest superior, mod-
ern. and useful im-
provements, places
it above all others
as a baker, etc.
We claim
them to be
second to
none.
SOUVENIR
A stove with a solid. Steel
oven, whish enable
it to bake quieker'
and burn less fuel
than ordinary
stoves. flee
sure and
see them.
We Can sell you a good cook stove for $11.
And she would be very, pleased to inspect one the. number of the latest
cook and heating stoves on onr floor, (a largo shipment just in to day)
amongst ^which we have the ranters "Art Amherst"
Coal Heater.
Call and Inspect. Wo have a very large stock of very superior coal on
hand.
H. BISHOP & SON.
AS CLEAR AS A BELL.
If a pupil of the
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FOREST CITY BUSINESS COLLEGES 6i' LONDON ®WI'.a
- does not grasp a subject redily we repeat and repeat until wo get it. We
drill—some schools don't. 'W'e got our reputation that way, we intend to sus-
tain it by giving 'a thoueough grind in all subjects taught. We teach book •
keeping and business paper by a new method. Enquire about it, your money
back if not satisfied. Catalogue free. - M. Motion has accepted the position of
assistant book-keeper with E. D. Smith, Windsor, Ont.
J. W. WESTEI1vELT, Principal.
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IT ABSORBS EVERY DROP.
"THE LADIES' SAFE ABSORBER" is an article designed for the
prevention of any disagreeable trouble under special circumstances,
It is absolutely reliable, easily adjusted, and cannot become misplaced
under any circumstances. It can be worn without the knowledge of
another when desired. It is simple and inspires coufideoce to the wo-
man using it• It taunt t possibly injure the health. It is medicated
with one of the best and strongest Antiseptics, which gives it power
to prevent and destroy Putrefaction, or what is the same thing, the
Bacteriaupon whichPutrefactiondepends. We;Viii positive-
ly guarantee "The Ladies' Safe Absorber" to be
perfectly satisfactory, or money refunded. It will
be sent securcti> sealed in plain wrapper (with guarantee) upon 're-
ceipt of Price; 50 cents or 3 for $1 00 (which we guarantee to last for
one year), with full directions how to use.
We do not send Circulars but will in all cases re-
fund the money if not entirely satisfactory.
Address:
LADIES' SUPPLY CO.,
La Crosse, Wis.
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by Itself. Dills every form of external or internal pain. rY"'a
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The Same
Old Story.
'Every week we continue to tell
you the swine old story of the ex•
cellence of our goods and tits.
Its an old story perhaps—we
have been been telling it fn • t
long time --but a good story ,will
bear constant retelling and we
propose constantly re=telling it.
We Personally
"Gut" Every Garment
that's made up at this establish-
ment—as well as fit it and all the
details. This is the Only nNE
reason why our prices are moder-
ate,
Don't Catch Gold.
Winter is here and you want to
keep warm,
We shall be pleased to show
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