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When you are here to the Fair next
week, drop in and have a look around,
get our prices, exami our goods,
judgethe qualities, awl'see if our
;brim as `F leaders in the clothing fine"
is not borne out. Our Fall stock is
complete, and will be specially dis-
pla) ed next week. Our ride is our
honest goods, and our ambition is to
be known to you as a house who deals
in reliable goods only. If '` you want
'value for your money, come and see
no -
Ordered Clothing
Furnishings
Hats and Caps
Waterproof Clothing
Boys' Clothing
Men's Readymade Overcoats
Youths' Readymade Overcoats
Boys' Readymade Overcoats -
Men's Fur Goods, &e.
We ask your patronage, thoroughly
convinced that you will find it to your
interest as well as ours to give us your
"trade.
We are Leaders in Ordered
Clothing.
Jackson & Creig,
The LFA DING CLOTHIERS,
SEAFORTH.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,.1894.
waus reguiaten t y inxrislble plumb lines, mai among Hanes, the moa was . among
colors put on by invisible pencils, soulp- birds. But among the living birds in Nev
ture out by invisible chisels. On the night F Zealand's aviary are thwhale bird, black
of June 9, 1886, the moon was earning on the
into the second quarter when, 10 minutes
after 2° o'clock, the earth shook, and the
mountains erupted.. Standing 10, 12,. 14
miles off; the people felt the shook and
saw the ascent of the steam column, and
the redhot rooks, and the volcano ash and
AROUND TI WORLD.
DR. TALMAGE AMID NEW ZEALAND'S
NATURAL WONDERS.
after seed was • sown ; potatoes and other
root crops, about average. Hay in this dis-t
�triet rather above the -average, although
h back and vrhi on the breast— some districts report a shortage. The out -
morning rising from the night. -The huiz, kick for prices is decidedly gloomy,
a sacred -bird of tha. aborigines, but all especially with such a sturdy competitor as
birds ought to be sacred. The parson the Argentine against us., When it comes
bird, so called because the white , feathers to 40 cents per bushel for such wheat as
round its neck give it the appearance of a Manitoba grows, coupled with the cost of
"white choker." The bell bird, with voice production, the balance is on the wrong side
like. a chime from the tower. The New of the ledger, or to quote our friend, Mr. S.
Zealand pigeon, three times as large as the Hicks, `." agriculture is not a qualified suc-
American pigeon and more beautiful only oess." Yours truly,
because it has more expanse of wing and W. BARBER.
feathers on which to be beautiful. The
The Numbers and Social Condition of tht
Women of the Colony—A Country Fox
Artlst*and Scientists—The Wonderful
Stoae Terraces—Birds and Flo + ers.
(Copyright, Louis Blopsch,1,894.1
C>ittisTcxuxcg, New Zealand, July 31.
—Excellent and superb as are the women
of New Zealand, more good- women are
needed here In most places where I have
lived or traveled women are in blessed
psajority, and it seems that the Lord likes
them better than men, because he has
made more of them. There is in most
places a surplus of good womanhood, and
they therefore dont get furl appreciation.
-But New Zealand is an exception. In this
colony there are -50,000 leas women than
men. This will, by circumstances be ad-
justed. There ought certainly tQ be as
many iromen as men in every land, fol.
every man is entitled to a good wife, and
every women Is entitled to a good husband.
The difficulty is that war and rum kill so
many men that the man intended for the
• woman's lifetime partnership is apt to lie
in the soldier's grave trench or in the
drunkard's ditch. In the paradisiaoal
and perfect state the womanhood equaled
'the manhood, for there was one of each
kind. The women in Now Zealand have
already done well, for while in the United
States and Europe the women are discuss-
' ing in parlors and on the platforms how
they shall get their rights at the ballot
box that castle has already been stormed
and taken by the women here. After a
while the brave sisterhoods in the United
States and Great Britain will band togeth-
er, and from the crowded parlors, where so
many languish in inanition and inooeupa-
tion, they will make a crusade to these
tarts of the earth, where their presence
would be hailed and their opportunities
augmented. The theory that men must
go Into new countries alone and establish
themselves in mines, in mechanism or
merchandise and then send for their fam-
ilies to join them is an overdone theory.
The wives and daughters and sisters had
better oome along with their husbands,
fathers and brothers. Instead of there be-
ing a surpludof men in the colonies, • there
ought to be' a surplus of women out of
scoria, end the smoke looking like a vast
pine tree, according to the statements' of
the poetic, but like an umbrella or mush-
room, according to the description of the
rustic. ' Those who lived near the base of
the hills did not survive to tell the tale of
the catastrophe. The detonations were
heard 250 miles away. That was a cannon-
ading In which the batteries were touched
off by hidden dynamics. Such a. combina-
tion off wrath and splendor was never be-
fore seen in New Zealand. It seemed as
if all the hyenas of rage were snarling at
all the flamingoes of beauty. The lake
hissed as with ten thousand serpents when
the hot bombs of the mountain dropped
into la The malodors of burning iron
oxides and magnesia and chlorine and
alumina -and sulphur filled all the regions
approximate with -suffocation, strangula-
tion alid asphyxia. Sixty miles felt the
upheava), and from Auckland, more than
130 miles away, a ship put out for the.res-
cue of a vessel supposed to be burning at
sea, the n istaken fire being that of this
burning mountain. In the house of Mr.
Hazard, a devout Christian man, as the
ashes and trees and stone began to drop
heavily on the roof, a Christian daughter,
believing that they must die, sat down at.
a cabinet organ to play a piece of sacred
music, and the whole of the family joined
in the hymn. And all save one of the
family perished. At the hotel a .Mr.
Bainbridge,' who was on a journey around
the world, called the inmates of the hotel
together for prayer, and he told them they
bad only a few more minutes to live, and
as he was passing out from the hotel the
veranda fell upon him and crushed him to
death,
We talk about the dumb elements, but
it is hard for mo to believe that they are
dumb, and that the flro does not feel the
warmth flowing in its own veins, and that
the sighing,winds have no sorrow, and that
playing fountains experience no exhilara-
tion, and that the light does not enjoy 11-
1 the t a sena
tive plant does not feel your touch, and
that the rose, with all ids incense, does
not worship. It seems that in these parox-
ysms of the mountains nature must suf-
fer..
That night nine miles of the mountain
changed. "The - terraces," which bad
been the pride of the. colonies, Bank' out
of existence: No one but the Infinite and
Almighty could afford the obliteration of
such resources of beauty and :glory. • The
casting down of such altars anis the an-
nihilation of such temples would have
been an iconoclasm that would have af-
fronted the universe but for the faot that
the Lord who made Tarawera and Roth -
malaria has a right to do what he will
with his own, and the terraces, already be-
ginning to reform, niay be richer colored
and loftier and more resplendent than
their predecessors. The loss to Now Zea-
land of these `white and pink terraces is
what would be the loss of the Giants' •
causeway to Ireland, or the loss of the
pyramids to Egypt, or. the loss of the Ni-
agara falls to America. The exact phys-
ical causes of this upsetting and down
tearing and mountain splitting I leave to
geologists to ,guess about. Translating
their poientiflc accounts into easier lan-
guage; it seems that the mountains were
stiff in their joints from long standing
and went into play. For a great while
they had enjoyed no fireworks, and tiat
night they illumined New Zealand with
rockets and wheels of fire. The hills went
into games of leapfrog and ball playing
-and flying kites and boxing and general
romp. They were exhilarated with a mix-
ture of gases—sulphuric, phosphoric and
carbonio—and forgot all the proprieties
that mountains usually observe.
But- it, was not a comedy. It was a
tragedy of the mountains, and all the
King Leers, and the Macbeths, and the
Hamlets, and the. Meg Merrilies of de-
rangement and horror were that night on
the stage, qf. which the belching fires
were the footlights, and flames hundreds
of feet high were the gorgeous upholstery.
Tornadoes of ashes. Furnaces, , seven
times heated, in. which'walked the deity..
Grand march of God sounded by the ava-
lanches. The earth bombarding the heav-
ens. Dante's `"Inferno" lifted into the
terrestrial. Maniao elements tearing the
olouds into tatters and grinding'rocks
under -their heels. That night of June 9,
that awful night in New Zealand, when
the native settlements went down under
the ashes of bursting Tarawera as com-
pletely as Pompeii and Herculaneum un-
der the,burial of Vesuvius, seemed to,play
accompaniment to the words of the old
book, as much revered inNewZealand full
in America, an accompaniment
diapason, an earthquake with its foot on
the pedal, "the perpetual hills did bow,"
"the mountains skipped like rams," "the
bills melted like wax," "the foundations
of the earth were shaken." "He looketh
on the earth, and it tiembleth!" _
That downfall of the New •Zealand ter-
raoes was only a conspicuous circumstance
in the history of the world. Mountains
are mortal, and they write their autobiog-
raphies on leaven of stone. All the moun-
tains of Now Zealand were nursed in
cradle of earthquake by a parentage of
rock and glacier, and they will have their
descendants. You cannot bury mountains
snobsorved. There must be black pall of
and one clay a mountaiijurns clear round, smoke, and dead march sounded by orches -
or from standing- posture sits down with tra of elopients, and thunders tolling at
heavy plunge; or a crevice opens between the passing funeral of hills,. and spade of
dig ,.,_,,:_ grave, and the discharge
lum g world, and that thei-
which to got the supply of maiden aunts
—those guardian angels of the coirenunity
who are at home in the whole circle of'
kindred, the confidant of the young, and
the comfort of the old, and the benediction
of all.
Not only is there room in New Zealand
for more good womanhood,. but there -is
roam for more artists and naturalists.
Here are mountains 9,000, 10,000, 11,000,
12,000 feet high, waiting for some one to
take their photographs, and while most of
the mountains of the earth stand stolid
and statuesque and without varieties of
posture some of these change their shape
and altitude under volcanic suggestion, as
the man in the photographic gallery, at
the artist's suggestion, changes from side
face to full face or from frown to smile,
•
kea, that wars on the sheep, fastening it- Some Things Ratepayers „plight
self on the bank of the life sheep .fid not to Know. •
relaxing, but pecking its way through the DEAR Exroslxox,—The time of the year
wool and the flash until the sheep is dead is coming when taxes will be paid out and
kid the beak reaches the birddt around the the different ratepayers wilLthink they pay
appkidneys, for which this has a special , more than their neighbors or than those
ingetite--a habitalearned sheep
by theck- similarly located in other municipalities.
ing at the butchered sheep � around the The method of assessing property needs
door of the shepherd's hut. The storm amending, as also the equalizing by the,
petrel, like a flake of the midnight. The County Councils. I consider -the equalize -
crested penguin. The paradise duck, its tion of the County of Huron very u$just.
name taken from the fact that its .richness The members of the Board cannot be very
of color suggests the Edenlo, and •birds
well acquainted with the ' different municis.
with all wealth of tenter and curiosity of polities, or the twenty-five" assessors; who
beak and eooentricity habit and defense are sworn to value the property did not do
of claw and audacity of flight and bearing justice, or else were not capable of doing it.
all colors --the white running into cram- I suppose the Committee take one township
son; like snow melting into the fire; the as assessed' at its correct value, and com-
blue, as if in some higher Sight it had pare the others with it, also some town or
brushed against the heavens, or. yellow as village with which to compare the other
if it had nested among cowslips and but -
towns and villages. But this was not done.
tercups, or spotted and fringed and rib- Four townships •were lowered a little
d aflame until there are no more
of radiance into which they can
ip their wings.
some scientific gunner to do for
land what Audubon did for Amer-
ica. But, what I never knew before, the
native birds are dying out before the for-
eign birds that have been introduoed, and
the natide flowers are dying out before the
foreign flowers. Although now New Zea-
land le so abundant in all styles of quad-
ruped, it had not, when discovered, a sin-
gle quadruped, except the rat, and a for-
eign rat having been introduced the
aboriginal rat "`has 'early disappeared.
The.English grass brought here has killed
the native grass. The birds of America,
Europe. and- Asia, imported here, have
killed the birds of New Zealand. All the
boned a
fonntain
possibly
NEM Z
• the cheeks of the hill—a wide open mouth,
full of laughter or threat. The changes
in the mountain ranges are enough to
Set a geologist Wild with interest or send
him running up and down these altitudes
with crowbar to dig, or hammer to strike,
or tapelin.e to measure. On a night in
June, 1886, the mountains of Tarawera
and Rotomahana, New Zealand, had a
grand frolic. For many years tourists had
gone to visit th0"terraces," as they were
called—ancient forms of volcanic eruption.
They were stairs of pictured stones, step
above step of pumice and lava, reaching
from earth toward heaven, but some of
the steps of the stairs 60 and 100 feet high,
not so much a Jacob's lackler as an omnip-
otent stairway up and. down Which
walked all the splendors and majesties and
grandeurs avid radiances of day and night
and sunshine and tempest, of sumnaer and
winter, of decades and centuries and ages.
These steps seemed to be made out of
pearls, prisms, petrified hyacinth, lily and
violet, and all laid out as with a divine
geometry. Such curve, such bosses of ex-
quisiteness, such ascents and desoeuts, be-
wildering with almost supernatural glo-
ries.
Masonry smoothed bv invisible trowels.
fire to of all heaven's artillery at their burial,
and the solemn and overwhelming litany
sounded, i'Earth to? earth, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust!"
You see it will be well for geologists to
come to New Zealand. Ornithologists
ought also to conie. Last evening, al-
though it is here midwinter—New Zea-
land's July corresponding With America's
January, -although far from being as cold
—I was standing near a clump of trees
which still kept all their foliage, and there
were bira voices absolutely bewildering
for numbers and sweetness. If the notes
of the music there rendered by the winged
choir haa been written on each leaf, the
rendering could not have been more dulcet
and resonant. It would take more room
and time than I possess to describe the or-
nithological richea of New Zealand. First
of all, its extinct Moa, whose skeleton
stands in the museum at Christchurch—a
wingless bird, or only apologies for wings,
but 10 feet 7 inches high, neck like a gi-
raffe and foot as wide as a. camel's, this
Moa the'largest bird whose skeleton has
ever been reticulated, its eggs the size of a
small bendbox. What the mastodon was
among quadrupeds. and the iohthvosaurus
faculty of any duly chartered college to
practise medicine be abrogated, and that all
charges of fraud or wronwdoing made
a,gainst any medical man shall be tried by
the ordinary courts on the same -principles
and under the same procedure as applies to
criminal acts conunitted by othera ; also
that all enactments conferring special
privileges upon the legal fraternity be re-
pealed.
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.
The following resolution_ was passed by a
standing vote of all the members :.--" Re:
solved, that we pledge ourselves to vote and
act unitedly on all questions declared ,by
the majority of the Pflatron members to be
Patron questions, and we hereby declare
our determination to resist all attempts at
coalition or affiliation with either of the
existing political parties."
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LEADER.
The elected leader of the Patrons iu the
Legielature is a man in the 1:mime of life, a
vigorous spe'aker and a politician of some ex-
_perienee. He has a self-possessed manner,
a face with a strong, square jaw, which
gives a determined character to kis count-
enance, aad good-humored eyes, which make
it a pleasant one. He was born in Lennox
County in 1850, his father being an English-
man and his mother of Irish d.eseent. , He
attended the Common and Grammar Schools
until he was eighteen years of age. He was
a clerk in a general store for three years. In
1871 he moved into Froutenac County,
where he has lived ever since. For a year
he was book:keeper for Sexemith & Steven-,
twelve raised 42,301,691, and paying
son, the lumbermen, John Stevenson being
$4 027.96 more count rate. The whole of
the member of the Legislature who was
Speaker of the House during the first term
after the Confederation. Mr. Haycock went
up through the grades in municipal polities,
and for seven years represented the town-
ship of Kingston in the County Council.
Seven years ago he retired from the muni-
cipal field. He has always taken an active
interest in politics, and at the time of his
nomination as Patron candidate was Vice -
President of the Reform Association. It
was only a month befere his nomieation that
he joined the order. He is President of the
Midland Central Fair Association which
holds its exhibitions in Kingston. lie lives
about two miles out of Kingston, and is a
general farmer, he says, paying special at-
tention to market gardening, and with a
particularly good poultry attachment—so
good that he and his partner captured
almost $1,000 in prizes at the World's Fair.
He is a successful man in business, and his
entry into politics in carrying by 31 of a
majority a county which had been Conser-
vative for 62 years was a remarkable enough
achievement to warrant confidence on the
part of the Patrons that he will be success-
ful in the new political career upon which -
he has entered.
the nine towns an villages were lowered
$825,266, and paying $1,442.21 less County
rate, Goderich town alone paying $333.96'
less County rate than it would by the valua-
tion of the town assessor. Now I am pre-
pared to s
cheese
and oth
and tovin
the townships as in the towns and villages,
and when this is the case, is it just to make
the County pay for flower beds for the in-
habitants of Goderich and let them off with
$333.96 less than their own valuation. No
wonder the local municipalities want to
keep Deputy Reeves to vote against the
town Reeves, and the Patrons demand farm-
ers in our legislative halls, when our county
rates are so unjustly equalized, but I sup-
pose when I find fault I should give my idea
of a better way. The sixteen townships
now pay about $1,280 every year to assess-
ors. I think that would be sufficient to
pay two men to go together over the whole
in the summer time, between May and Octo-
ber and let their assessment standee a basis
for"ten years, and have all the clerks noti-
fied of the reatals of the different farms in
each township fer two years previous, and
before starting furnish the assessors with
this information. If one man owned four
hundred acres in each township, say one in
(each ward or polling division, and they all
rented at equal rents, would they not be of
equal value to him ? And as long as build.-
ings are assessed the Council could add for
those each year. Have two assessors for the
towns and villages also. As long as the
present system continues the ratepayers of
the rural municipalities will not consent to
the single tax, (which I think is the pioper
way of assessing,) for fear of the urban mu-
nicipalities having the advantage, and as it
is they have a big advantage now, as any
person looking at the equalization for 1894
will see, and when we have the County
Poor House the difference will be more. I
have before advocated the meeting of
Reeves and Clerks to talk over such matters
also similarity of by-laws and methods of
doing business, but none seem to think it
worth while,
Yours,
JOHN C. MORRISON,
ow that saw nulls, -creameries,
ries, park lots,blacksinith shops,
roperties alike in villages, towns
ips, are assessed just as high in
A VOICE FROM MANITOBA.
8110Will.MES, September lbtb, 1894.
DEAR EXPoS/TOR.—I must pause, even in
the throes of a Manitoba harvest, by tbe
wayside, to have a few words in a general
have not written since the 26th of June the
date that South Huron did itself the honor
of electing Mr. McLean, I tender my con-
gratulations to him, although the taturns
showed that those bad, naughty Tories
struck some hard blows, and ft is even as-
serted that a number were below the belt
too. However if an humble opinion at this
distance is worth anything, 'those petitions
will be used to kindle a fire at an early date,
not a fire between Conservative and Reform
neighbors but a fire to light the pipe of
peace for 'Mr. Weismiller and Mr. McLean.
But when this question of fire kindling is
up might I be allowed to turn my attention
to the larger arena at Ottawa, and wish for
as big a fire on Parliament Hill, as was
kindled for Latimer and Ridley, only differ-
ent in nature ; one that would as effectually
consume the Ottawa crew, politically, as it
did the bodies of those revered martyrs,
Latimer and Ridley. Or, would it be right
to wish for a second Cremwell to fling open
the doors of the main corridors to the right
of Mr. Speaker, and say in his most ma-
jestic tone of voice, " Get you gone," with
another three hundred bayenets to back it
up. But, I know the way that peaceable
Canadians wilt do, will be to sgY them with
the ballot, and I have every reason to be-_
lieve that the Government feel the roll ef
distant thunder in Manitoba, as they have
been dilly dallying for months over appoint-
ing a Lieutenant -Governor for this Prov-
ince and if the appointment were to fall to
Government would have to face the music
in this constituency, and now comes ti4
cowardly announcement that Lisgar is not
to be opened at the present time, Tkey
know full well, if you will all allow a prize
ring phraze, that they would " get it in the
Mr. Laurier, as you know, is at present
in this Province, and it is to be hoped that
he will be able to visit every corner,and if he
only repeated that one sentence,that he made
in his opening speech at Brampton, Ontario,
" that if he had to choose between the
manufacturer and farmer, he would take the
farmer," it is enough to induce even us, ig-
norant farmers, to draw a pretty distinct
line of demarcation between Foster Com-
pany, with their clerical errors and their
shamefult truckling to the manufacturers.
I do not wish to be understood here that I
think we can do without the manufacturers,
bat I think patriotism ends with some of
thein right where dollars begin, when they
can sell a binder in South America cheaper
than they will to a Canadian farmer, simply
because they have to compete in an open
market in South America, and were former-
ly - protected by 35 per cent. to sell to us
brother patriots. I hope I may have the
pleasure of meeting Mr. Laurier, if only, to
tell him that inrthis Province, at least, he
has a. good many independent Conserva.tives
ranged, on his side, who are prepared to do
sentenced to twenty months in the Central.
He has been one of the moat troublesome
men in the Institution. - He has repeatedly
broken the rules and been punished for it,
each ca.se being met with condignpunishment
—During Thursday night last week, or
early Friday'' morning, a. sneak thief entered
the residence of Mr. W. D. Bell, of Chen-
`ley, while the family were asleep, and stole
$65 in cash and a gold watch and chain
valued at $150.
—Alexander Wood, of North Oxford,who
was president of the first association of Pat-
rons organized in Oxford county, has been
expelled from the order for alleged violation
of his obligation during the late election.
He claimed the right of independent action.
—The electric storm of Saturday, last was
ore
McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
A. $1.50 a Year in Advance.
terribly destructive on hams, not
a dozen in different parts of the Proiince
having been. struck bty lightning and. eorn-
pletely destroyed. In many instances llttle
_or nothing of their contents was saved.
: —A newapaper devoted to the inceretts of
;Imperial Federation will shortly appear on
'the literary horizon. It will be fathered by
J: Castel' TIopkins, of Toronto, who wi be
its editor and principal contributor. Pr
'ent members of the Thiperial Parliament will
elso supply articles to the publication, which
will be a monthly.
- —At ''' the General Conference of the
Methodist church, held in London last
week, the pastoral term was extend (I to
four or fiveyears as may be desired, o the
approval in all cases by three-fourths o the
quarterly boards and twe-thieds of the
-stationing committee that vote for it. ,
, —Four men in a sinall sail boat Were
caught in a gaIe on the Lake of the Woods,
a few miles from Rat Portage recently.
- eir boat was blown' over the KeeWatin
falls, and J. S. Shippey and A. Macdanald
were drowned. Shippey's family reside at
'Dutton, or Chatham, Ontario.
last Sunday night, aged 60 years. 4 De-
ceased had been in failing health or a
time,- but was taken with ihflammatioa of
'the bowels and a surgical operatioa 'was
performed. Death ensued. Deceasedwas
=marled and left an estate value at
--There are 26 teachers in training at the
Kincardine Model school. Five are from
Kincardine, five from Port Elgin, three.
from- Pine River, two from Ripley,' twa
from -Underwood, and one each from South-
amptol n, Willow Creek, Dumblane Loch-
alsh Glamniis, Paisley, Lanes, Am' berley
and 'Lucknow.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. Garland, of Greenock,
brought their ten months' old. child td, Dr.
Sinclair of Walkerton, to have a tumor re-
movedlrom its neck. The child waS put
under the influence of chloroform, and the
operation was almost complated went it was,
noticed that the heart action had stlped,
and the yoimg life went out.
,prietor of the Daily Telegraph, of Lmiaon,
England, was at Ottawa last week, =di eallt
ed on Sir Hibbert Tupper, and other mini-
' eters of the.Cabinet. He represents eine of
Canada.
A large number of London school child -
rep continhe to remain away from school
owing to the vaccination law.
•
—The license commissioners of Hamilton,
have decided to close all the nickel-in-the-
siot machines in that city.
—An old-fashioned 22 -karat gold ring
was dug up recently at Hamer's farm,
near Brentford.
—A hen and thirteen chickens were all
killed by lightning, the other day, in
Guelph.
—Four Owen Sound lawyers are the as-
pirants for the vacant Grey County Attor-
neyship, $1,000 a year.
—Mrs. Marion Burk, of Bowmanville,
won a $25 special prize for a fifty pound
firkin of butter at Winnipeg's late fair.
—Typhoid fever is- alarmingly -prevalent
in Winnipeg, due, the doctors say, to
drinking river water.
—Dr. Wrigtt, headmaster of the Belle-
ville High School, died on Sunday at Pic -
ton, aged 56 years.
The Patrons.
WHAT THEY WILL DO IN THE LEGISLATURE.
- The Patron party in the Legislature has
been duly organized. It has now a leader,
a platform and a pledge that the members
will vote unitedly whenever a majority of
the members so decide.
This was the work accomplished at the
meetings in Toronto last week of the mem-
bers of the Grand Board of Patrons, with
sixteen of the ,seventeen Patron members -
elect. The report of the proceedings fur-
nished by Grand President Mallory gave as
the object of the gathering a conference
about the action to be taken by the mem-
bers on behalf of the order during the com-
ing session of the Legislature. The meeting
throughout, he said, was of a most harmoni-
ous character, and the greatest unanimity
prevailed in the passing of the several reso-
lutions. Grand President Mallory, by re-
quest a the members presided until the
organization was perfected. He read a
West Kent, expressing his regret that, hav-
ing been summoned as a witness to attend a
Chancery Court in Chatham he would not
be able to be present to confer with others
at the Convention.
THE PARLIAMENTARY LEADER.
some effective work.
Frontenac, was unanimously chosen leader
amidst the greatest enthusiasm, and Mr.
John Senn, M. P. P. for Haldimand, was
selected to perform the ditties of Secretary.
wHAT nark ARE GOING TO DO.
It was unanithously. resolved that the
united influence • of the Patron party be
used during_ the coming session to secure
legislation as indicated by the following
Resolved, that there be au enactment to
render it a violation of the independence of
Parliament to accept a pass from any rail-
way, steamboat or other transportation com-
pany.
Resolved, that the payment of any sum
for the Lieutenant -Governor's clerk hire or
serVaillts' fees by the Ontario Governrnent,or
for the furnishing of a free residence or sup-
plies of any kind to that official, be here-
after prohibited by. legislation.
Resolved, that beyond. the salary attached
to any office there should be no allowance
or gratuity to any employee of the Govern-
ment for living expenses, or for any other
pm pose.
Resolved, that, while we approve of the
principle of the payment by fees, the
amount retained by officials should be !fixed
at a fair remuneration for the services ren-
dered, and that the balance of fees be paid
into the treasury of the manicipality and
treated as general revenue.
Resolved, that a bill should be passed in
accordance with plank number seven of the
—The wild rice in the mars es o g
Pointe is ripening at a much earlier period
this year than in any previous season.
—Wm. Oliver, hotel keeper, Tha.mesford,
was fmed $20 and costs for selling liquor
during prohibited hours.
—Several farmers in Lambton Norfolk,
Haldimand and Huron counties h'ave recent-
ly been fined for skimming or adding water
to milk supplied to cheese factories.
—104,555,000 feet of logs have been taken
out of the Spanish River this summer up to
the 4th of September, and towed away to
American mills.
—Thomas Bishop and Frank Bacon have
been coinmitted for trial at Paris, for the
larceny of ten head of cattle from the farm
of Mike Skelly.
—The Ontario Provincial convention of
the Society of Christian Endeavor takes
place at Kingston, beginning on October
—An Ottawa corporation laborer has just
fallen heir to valuable property by the
death of his father—a Presbyterian minis-
ter in Ireland.
—On Labor Day the Galt and Preston
Electric Railway carried over 1,800 passena
gers, the largest day's work since the road
started.
—E. B. Axworthy, a Toronto eontractor,
was kicked by a horse, on Sunday afternoon,
and died Monday from the effeces. The de-
' ceased was a very prominent member of the
Sons of England.
—Mrs., Anna T. Winch, aged 70 years, of
Watertown was married the other day at
Kingston, tn Archie Wiltsie, of Syracuse,
aged 25 years. She is worth $75,000.
—A load of hay capsized on Mr. James
Dickson's farm, Westmeath, near Kingston,
a few days ago, and fell on his little son and
killed him. A daughter was badly hurt.
—The Stratford City Council recommends
to the electors the purchase of an electric
light plant to be operated by the city, and
also that they proceed to build a fire hall.
—Out of the 400 acres of flax delivered at
the Thamesford ft is estimated that
the grasshoppers and crickets have been the
means of destroying nearly $2,000 worth of
seed.
—The Massey Manufacturing Company,
of Toronto, is making- arrangements for
moving into the United States, so as to en-
joy the advantage of free raw material pro-
vided by, the new Wilson tariff Act.
Freeich Canadian politician, at one time
Premier of Canada, and afterwards Lieu-
tenant -Governor, of Quebec, died in the
city of Quebec on Friday last, aged 86
years.
—Coroner Johnson decided that it was un-
necessary to hold an inquest on the death of
Mrs. Tealmer, of Toronto. said to have been
treated by Christia-n Scientists. She had a
physician attending her since the latter part
of June.
Patron's platform ; that the existing system —Arthur Herbert, a colored inmate of
of inspection of county offices be continued ; the Central prison, Toronto, threatened
that office be held during efficiency and good Guard Hartley with a long -bladed broom
behavior, and that, where incompetency or knife Saturday .afternoon. The guard re -
irregularities exist in any office the inspee- sponcled with a revolver, shooting the
tor shall lay his complaint before a non- prisoner once. The bullet has not yet been
partizan tribunal to be specified in the act. extracted, '.although Herbert may live.
Resolved, that clause 16 of the medical Herbert who is a --citizen of the United
act be repealed, and that the power of the
1 Co cil to annul the certificate of
-where he fell down. He was discovered and
sent to the hospital. As soon as,Cavanaugh,
left the house Brooks ttirned upon his own
wife, and but for the timely arrival of the
police would have killed. her, She was sent
to the hospital, badly slashed with a knife.
Brooks -was remanded one week, to aivait
the outcome of Cavanaugh's injuries.
The doctors say he has one chance in ten to
—A young farmer named Wilkinson, re-
siding near Waterdown, had as close a call
for his life as he liable to have. He was
moving about in his barnyard before day-
break Saturday morning, preparing to eome
to market, when the lightning struck a
lantetn he carried in his hand. Wilkinson
was stunned, and did. not know what was
the matter after he returned to conscieus-
ness until he found. the I. etern with its
glass and tin melted into lump. He is
suffering severely from the ehoek.
—A- young lad. named William Scotts,
about. 16 years of age, working for D.
Scroggie, grocer, Guelph, was sent to tile
Bank of Commerce to d.eposit $90. The lad .
did not turn up at three e'clock, and- Mr,.
Scroggie telephoned the They replied
that the money kad not been deposited. A
ription of the youth was given to Chief
f Police Randall, who put the wires an
operation, and secured the boy's sTest
in Stratford. When searched by the Chief
of Police there, 487 was found in his posses-
sion.
—Mayor Kennedy, of Toronto, has re-
ceived. a letter from Lieutenant-Colemel
Hamilton of the ist King's Liverpool
Regiment', asking that the remains of
Captain Neal McNeal, of- the 8th Tones
Regiment, found while excavating in the -
rear of the Berkeley Street Fire hall a
couple of weeks ago, be forwarded to Eng-
land, where they will be buried with mili-
tary honors by his regiment. Colonel Ham-
ilton also states that not only will his
regiment erect a monument to the memery
of the dead soldier, but they will be pre-
pared to purchase any relies, such as
buttons, etc., found with the captain's re-
mains.
—Shannonville village Ontario, WAS visit-
ed by a heavy thunder storm between 7 and.
8 &dock last Saturday night. Lightning
struck a large maple tree in front of the
post office. Mr. Wilson Lloyd, a cheese -
maker whose home is in Plainfield, Was
standing near his horse and rig; asul both _
man anchbeast were killed instantly. Mr.
Cornell end *a horse near by were knocked
down and stunned, Miss Earl, telegraph
operator, was badly hurt by the shock ;
Miss Davidson, Miss Appleby, Mrs. Mat-
thew Hill, Miss Earl; a sister of the tele-
graph operator, and a young lad named
Winters, who were in the office, were Imock.-
ed down and more or less hurt. The offiee
and contents were badly damaged also.
'the divisions of Gloucester, and is a Li
He goes as far as the Pacific Coast,
at Toronto and Winnipeg on his way.
—The total receipts of the Toron
dustrial Exhibition were about $6
This is $3,000 less than last ear; t
o In -
,000.
e de-
crease was attributable to a fa mg off m the-.
takings from the grand stand on the varlets
wet clays on which no performance was
given. The attendance was larger this year
than last.
—Ameriean anthracite coal is bein
in Winnipeg now for $7.50 per ton,
cheaper than last year. It sai
dealers are losing,big money at the reduced
priee and that it is the result of a disagree-
ment'between rival companies. Meantime
Winnipeggers are laying 'in their sapply
listegfroereemetuhte. warring companies come to an
—At New Hamburg on Saturday, an in-
furiated two-year-old' bull charged Idown
the sidewalk, knocking a daughter ot Mr.
J. Gingerich down, with slight ininries.
Afterwards the bull attacked,its owner, Mn,
Frederick Vogt, of East Zorra, smashing
two of hiayibs and cutting him abont the
head. He was rescued promptly by Mr.
Jacob Falk, a neighbor, who kicked the bull
in the eyea The bull was shot. 1
--At the Methodist Conference, in Lon-
don this week, a communication was t read
from Rev. A. Hamilton, of Port Colborne,
stating that the will of the late W. M n -
to
the „Methodist church. It was --di ided.
$10,000 to the Superannuation Fund,1 and
over $50,000 to the Foreign Mission Fund.
—On Thursday of last week, an att4mpt
was made to wreck the express by placing a
number of ties on the C. P. R. track eaist of
Kemptville Junction. Fortunately a
freight train came from the west. The! ob-
struetions were placed in such a position
that a train from the eaat could not avoid
an accident. Four tramps were arrested
next morning in a barn close by, but
nothing could be proved, and they Were
let go.
—Mrs. Emily Rocheford, a widow rand:
ing in Windsor, was awakened early Friday
morning by a burglar at her bedside, who
demanded her money or her life. The
brute said he knew she bad momey in the
house. A long struggle ensued, Mrs.
Rocheford pluckily fighting her way to the
front door, when her screarria brought as-
Isistance. The fellow fled, but Chief Wills
_says the police have a good clue and will
soon have the fellow. Mrs, Rocheford is
adly injured.
—Harry I3:- Johnson superintendent of
-the agencies of the Anglo-American Sav-
;ings and Loan Association, of New Yerk,
.'Who has been in Detroit since April, was
:found dead on the street Friday night.
eDeath resulted from heart failure, superin-
duced, it is said, by excesaive smoking of
eigarettes. /sin Johnson was the eldest
brother of MisssPauline Johnson, the fam-
0118 elocutionist. He was 85 years of ege
;and a native of Brantford, where his moth.er
;and sister reside.
sold
that
—Du.ring Exhibition week, in. Toronto,
nearly every jewelry store in the eenter
the city was besieged by visitors from the
rural distriets who did. not want to buy,
but to have a valuation placed -upon some
article, generally a watch, that they
had purchased. from the fake jewelry atm-
tioneers on the Fair groands. One of the
most expert -judges of jewelry in the city
says that the farmers imist have left thous-
ands of dollars with the fakirs, who gave
them in many eases not more than ten per
cent. value for their money. Nearly all. of
the watches that were sold for gold were
stamped 18 in. order to deceive the unswary
puresee, and the printed guarantees
that were given out were worded in such
a way' as to leeve the fakirs a loop -hole
en case `they were brought before the
—Quite a sensation was created at
Quebec by a wedding which oecurred last
Friday morning, without any previous an-
nouncement, in St. Matthew's church, in
which Lord and Lady. Aberdeen were the
principal guests, and at which the bride
was given away by Ilis Excellency the Gov-.
ernor-GeneraL The contracting parties
.were Captain Kindersley, A. D. C., and
Miss Jean Ramsay Brown, of- Ottawa, and.
the ceremony was performed by Rev. T, G.
Gardiner, rector of St. Georges church,
Southwark, London; assisted by Rev. Len-
nox Williams, rector of -St. Matthew's.
Lady Marjorie Gordon acted as bridesmaid,
with the Hon. Dudley Gordon and Hon.
Archie Gordon as pages. The bride* wore a
travelling costume, and looked exceedingly
well. The - presents were numerous and
beautiful. The wedding breakfast. was
given at the vice regal quarters at the
citadel.
—Last Saturday morning's newspapers
on july 3rd, of Miss Marjorie Campa
daughter of the late Lieutenant -Governor ef
Ontario, Sir. Alexander Campbell, to Mr.
W. Wallace Jones, barrister-at4ave, and a
son of Mr. Clarkson Jones. The ceremony
was performed in St. Thomas' church by -
riage being a private one, the bride was un-
attended by bridesmaids. There was noth-
ing sensational in connection. with the
The marriage was simply &private
one, the friends of both the bride and
groom being aware before it occurred of its
intended celebration. The marriage wee
simply a private one, and -not the affair of the
general public, and -was a fitting close to a
long and. romantic engagement, the bride-
groom being one of the best known young
men in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Jones UM
for Philadelphia on Friday afternoon. Ime
mediately before leaving Mr. Jones resigned
his position on the Internatiorial cricket
team, but while in Phils,delphia. he and his
bride will witness the contest on the crease
between the representatives of Canada and .
the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Jones
have taken a residence on North streetr
where they will reside on their return to
—A horrible accident occurred in Queen
Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, late Saturday
afternoon, of which an American lady was ;
the victim. Shortly after 4 o'clock a trolley
car on the Niagara Falls Park and River ,
Railroad, with a tr.ailer, was coming down
the road, when an elderly lady suddenly,
walked out -on the track opposite Inspira
ation point, and, despite the 'warning of the'
motorman and the frantic signalling of a ,
lady in an approaehing carriage, the woman
stepped in front of the trolley and was in-
stantly killed. Her head was severed from
her body, which was. also badly mangled
and cut. The lady was Miss Elivabeth
Edgar, of Plainfield, New Jersey. The lad
in the carriage was her niece Mrs. C.
Morse, of Delaware avenue, itieffalo. Miss
Ed ar was visiting her niece and the ladies
come to the Falls to; pass the day.
After dinner they strolled up through. the
Park, and Mrs. Morse left her aunt at In-
spiration point to go and secure a earrigge
to take a drive. It was while returning
with it that Miss Edgar .ncet her tragic
death. She saw her niece approaching, and
started to meet her. She did not hearthe
approaching ear and eon& nor her niece's
words of warning, as °she was quite deaf.
States, was arrested at Hamilton, Ontario, got a hatchet, broke into the house and at- The motorman made evety effort to
an average ; oats and learley, very light, in the summer of last year, on a charge of tecked Cavanaugh, giving him twenty bed warn her and stop his car, but it was too
caused,by too long a period without rain any physician aegulaalY authorized by the burglary. He was tried, found guilty and Cuts. Cavanaugh escaped to the street, late.
—A sad tragedy occurred at St. John,
New Brunswick, on Saturday. . Willip,re
uinsley, -who carried on a, bologna and
'sausage business, being found by his wife in
his smoking room with his throat clit.
Quinsley used a butcher's knife, and haolled
his throat in a fearful manner. He Was
around about his business in the forenoon,
and ended hie life about one o'clock. De-
caased was 50 years of age, and leaves a wife
eud seven children. lespondeney over
basiness matters is alleged to be the cense
of the deed.
—Friday, at mid -night, Michael Casks, -
was almost killed by .Benjamin. Brooks, a
firmer resident, who is well known to the
police. Brooks and. his wife returned to the
city Friday, after a year's absence, and ar-
ranged to occupy Cavanaugh's house. When
Brooks came to the house late at night
Cavanaugh refused to admit him. Brooks
In conclusion, I would. say that Manitoba
crops will rank as follows : Wheat, hardly