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The Huron Expositor, 1896-03-27, Page 1tOff 131 18961 ice ds L5'h f March partnent will iete fep: spring The assOtn be greater th and the price than usual....... *r -t : ings, Cottonade New Tweeds, New Flannelettes, Nehs Clothing, New Curains, New Carpet; Oil Clothes, Greatest b. ds Store. Prm E. AlerAM Dry %cis, Company,. Seaforth Isemereellwesseelenenlimmeneenneenneem. ke their uponsthe sly. This * without practice, commonly crisy. Again, a number use the - es pump anti well, and of, !.st place by h:s heating stove, ni nothing in reinrn but unkind ad hie back. 'Ilia is neither honorable. However, it is triut w often drink has been. abused. ten aris-e their horses to death. ':. of this, are we to prohibit, tee altogether, and return to the d method of oxen and jumpera V t'inie honored business of life ins been terribly atnesed in recent s most hideous and revolting t we peohibit this by making it - any company to issue a policy And oven, hew often we rea& e taking away the life of their wives giving deadly drugs to. ids. IIQW- 'Would it be to pro- ge altogether, and set the risin to keeping bachelors' and el , so as to prevent -these mutates .. ? As our friend, the Egrzionis sometimes dwells on original Let saireth he to all this t * Hensall. Messrs. Robert and Cecil Rosa male this week from Boston, went with and were selling le saris fine horses.—Mr. E. John- anclin, North Dakota, who wee e winter months here, and win- ed in last week's issue, was re- iecl to Miss McClinchey, of the e left here on Wednesday for They were also accompanied Johnston, sister s:d Mr. John -- Rennie has now a large quantity on the ground, for the erection of- rik, Masa street, adjoining hiss a—Miss ; Fisher, of Zurich, is brother, Mr. John Fisher, and. sleighing, . owing to the late, tor, ha is kept good, and a large' teaming is being done.—Mise ray, of Wirigharn, is home this- eg her parents and attending th ool convention, being held here The Presbytery of Huron mett 'resbyterian church on Tuesday ttendance was good, and cou- usiness was proc edecl with, g an evening sessien —The i'4th ool conveution of tie county of in Carmel church oii Wechiesde.y. iy.—The Misses:Hi ' teof Tor- " -ere in Brucefie1d Fart of last= Lis, ha.ve returned to Hensell, f Mrand ftIrs. W. C. Da.vise— n of Exeter, and ' formerly of e in the village thie week, visit - Mrs. R. P ' attereon , jr., and also,. te Sabbath school Icenvention.— tch and Miss De Lion, who were recently, have returned, the for- risitine friends :tad the latter ing the millinery openings.—A- dressed to the mimicipal council's dap. of Hey and our police trus- Les cireadated this week and large - our 'business men and others, he said cotincil and trustees to, lioa for the raising of necessary vide good and sufficient fire fur our village. The amount' quired is to spread over a terse is and whatever little difference* - alley exist as to what amount, expeoded and what provision Lade, all sl.e agreed that gook at tire protection is absoluteir _ We are sure our trustees will the support! of every °tie in the. wisely i and pendently pro- ; important step—Mr. V. S. r wife, of taenboro'Manitoisee i Dungauncin recently, attending' ef Mr. McKay's father, the late - s were in If ensall this week visit - titer, Mr. Wm. McKay, prim- ', public school, previous to re- : their herne in Glenboro.de p, Bishop Baldwin, of London,. t service in St. Paul's church, Ori le- moon, March 15th, at the hour . ock, and a treat is in store for ' attends—dr, George McEwers Listing himself a neat office this - Le Fisk Jubilee Singer e held P !oszworth's hall on Friday even'- o.—The Ceuadian Order of For - he notice st as short, and the at -- is village, who have a. strong' it society here, intend holding se et in the same hall, on Saturclal' .rels 14tte and as the concert. be ,a /rood one, we have ttendance will be large.—Won week to chronicle the death a: McColl, of the township of Hair event occurred at her fa.theigh Wednesday. The funeral wilr this (Friday) afternoon. ile.,r e thc heartfelt sympathy of am d sudden death of their daugh,. as in fairly good health sin Lour of her death. • Bain, an exceptionally clever whose parents reside in Mothe at their residence, of consurerg, aday, February 24th. Decease% or Inc high social and religions d wise considered a very bite* terprising young Mail, helding 11° aa stenographer and court roronto up to the time of eses. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,476: !-- „ SEAFORTH, tRIDAY, MARCH 2T 194. triitor4 McLEAN BROS., Publisher% $1.00 a Year in Advance. OUR S LENDID ISOLA ION Is on the in rease, besides being on the wr ng side af the street, for there are no stores acant on either side of us. W still co thine to show increased vig r, in spi e of our isolation. This is t e result of increased trade, which in urn, we are pleased to state, has bee and is ithe result of giving to -the pe ple what we advertise, and at the san e time having and always keeping goods that will bear advertising. By this we mean the class of 'goods that -will stand the test of talk and time. $ucjh goods are Welsh Margetson's Tie, Collars and general furnishings for nen; Battersby, Woodson's, Wil- kin on's and Christy's Hats. Our line in , cotch Suitings, English Worsteds, Irish Serges, Men's Suits ready-to-wear, our own make, and the best lines of W.1E. Sanford & Co. of Hamilton, coMprising such prices as the follow- ing, in which again is seen our "splen- did isolation in prices,” none approach- ing for equal value. Men's all -wool Serge, $6. Men's all -wool Grey Tweed, $7. Men's all -wool Mottled Tweed, $8. Men's all -wool Worsted Serge'$10. Men's all .wool pure imported Worsted, $14. Alen's Pants at $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3. Boys' School Pants at 50o and $75. Boys' Suits, ranging from Sl.50 a suit to 16.50. ONE PRICE TO ALL. ORE. IG MACDONA LD, CLOTHIERS, On the Wrong side of' the Street, Strong's Block, SEAFORTH, - ONT. About Corsets. A NEVV YOilK PURLIEU. I Edith Sessions 'rumple? Visits an kas • Market Place. [Special Correspondence.] NEW Yenta Feb. 111.—New York is '0 shy made up of sm411 cities. Eight] avt- I enue is a town by iteelf. Fifth even e 13 i a little world all itsIown. ' One inigi t go on stating illustratieltas indefinitely. Per- haps these division are more tuark d ioi • the east side. Mot( street is the colo y o 0?namen and Mulberry the home of Ita la s. Baxter is tenanted by 4Tews. But perhaps the fact that this big ow hate many fame is realized as much on F34Friday mornieg in Hester !Area. beginning at Orchard street and run v day to Stifl'Olk, is the weekly mar f the offsoouring of the old w rld. • The rain was coming do'n in to entjs weep the writer stepped int this m rkt laet Friday morning. As a iule, the t ue. The pave ents it o blocked with push (tort that it is 1114- bei fairly open. Butvtcha oto, squalid, plot - p Ohl° to piok one' way throligh t tli ng, but this snorting he polio had n uncommonly lieely, and the street iieres the scene wa wore paokeCi with a crowd that ovo «wed into the street vending wares. very witenan in the market,' with the ex tion o the writer, wore a it;awl over her •ead. t4any of these shawls. ere gay of hu ancl , us afforded a bit of coloring again t the background of ramshackle, dingy • uild- ings. Most of the women wer old, •wrinkled and hideous, though no and then a pair of sluniberous eyes ered ouriously out from under the heav a @ad- dress whose beauty °mild not be nied. Tese women were all dressed ali in a coarse, dark stuff skirt, barely re •hing the ankles; a °hacked gingham a n, a slouchy waist of some sort, and al those who were buying carried a huge at on their trip. ef you peeped in these hats, ten to one yetis would see a stale fi Ltour or five rotten apples, a loaf of p per - nickel and a pfht of diseased oran rries. And horsferadish I Never in my life eve I seen so much horse radish in one a lace. -Everybody was either buying or eel i g it. It appeared to be as much of a et ole as bread. _ In the Hester Street market you o • buy fish, three ter 5 cents; apples, a nt a piece; diseased cranberries, a cent pint; pumpernickel, 6 cents a loaf. Twe y -five cents would provide a banquet •m a Baxter or Norfolk street point o view. The food is horrible to look at, a • the remembrance of it Interferes ously with your meals for a day or so. Great clothes baskets filled to the bri with their bread—round loavee of pump ick- el—were ftet right down in the m A and slime of the street. The fish, the r use of Fulton and Washington markets'as in barrels and peeking boxes, the 1 tilt in push carts. Interspersed with the e com- modities were the foul clothing sh s an sweaters' dens, the little stands at which notions and dirty embroideries w re dis- We would like to have you know more about this stock, for it is one of the most im- portant A. full assortment of • the leading styles, all kinds that fit, because they're made to fit, and can't, help fitting. Special. Is the long waist ,Corset, ad- v rased a few weeks ago. The ✓ gular price is $2. 25, while o r stock lasts oue- price is 9 One HO CENTS. ice—Cash or Produce. • DGENS CLINTON. ▪ THE . . EYESIG!1 J. S. Roberts, Graduate of Detroit Optical Institute also Chicago Ophth- almic College, is prepared to fit all defects of Vision Asti iiatism, Hypermetro- • pia, k, yopia, PreStyopia or any compound defect. — intelligent people have given up the idea of buy- ing ordinary common spectacles at a counter,because. they see well with them. It may be that only one eye is brought into use, while the other may be so strained as to result In blindness. If your eyes are weak, or eight poor call at J. 9, ROBERT'S Drug Store and have them tested. Does the print blur or do the eyes tire when reading 7 Do the eyes skohe ? 1)o the eyes water? Are they sore or Inflamed? These eymptoms point to defects in the refraction, or the muscles of the eyes and can be ,perfectly cor- reoted. Do you have headache? Eye strain eausee more headaches than all other causes combined. Thous- ands of people are suffering who do nob realize that eye strain is the cause. All these eases can be cured with glasses that are made to correct the error in the The eyes of children should be eitrefully tested. many cases the defect in the eyes is shown by rictus symptoms, such ae inabilitv to See figures on Aackboard holding the book close to the eyes, trring of letters, (wormed eyes or ey e turning in, tnking, watering of the eyes and pat leularly head - to. In many cams the child Is ace lied of being 11 or etupid, when the fault is in the ight, and oan vorrected with glasses. If you are • axing glasses It are not satisfactory, bring them t4 me. In Owe Jisease, you will be recommended to the phyeigian _ace for treatment. 1458 NOTICE. r. Bethune, of Seaforth, having placed all his .untis in rny hands for oollection, parties indebt- •i to him wit plea*e call and pay the amounts due to me forthwith. On the let of May', 1890, all un- poid ven he placed in cond. F. HOLM& Seen, Sestorib. .1475-6 A STREET SCENE. played, and the omnipresent su pender emporiums. .A great many sperm wadies were on sale that day, and the • ender* called attention to the fact by licking them loudly together like oastane . Very few of the venders spoke a word Eng- lish, the mournful Hebrew gibber sh and broken patois 'making a pendent° !um of sound. • It was on my return trip up }teeter street that I met an officer stand ng in a • mud puddle and pulling his mus ache as he gazed ruefully at the babel befo e him. He was an American clear thro gh, he informed me. He has been amo g these people in this precinct for 13 ye re and knows their lives, habits and usiness methods by heart. "Look at them," he said as the motley, ragtag procession hustled and jo tled be- fore us. "Did you ever see a liner filthy, miserable looking lot? And yeb tilt me tell you that many of them own te ements and get enormous rentals. The live on this offal and refuse you have seen and ap- pear to thrive on it. And that's the way they save !money to accomplish th ir great ambition to buy tenement." "Are they a disorderly people?" "Oh, bless you, they will kiok up the biggest kind of a row over 5 cents ! Sel- dom a day passes that some on4 doesn't come flying after rne. belief)! Come gfickt Zwel I men killed treaty.' I hurry to the place, and I'll have to push my way in, to find the entire ten ment in an uproar and two stunted men ft earning and clawing and scratching 1 ke oats. And when I can get order enough restored • to find out what they are fight ng over nine times out of ten it's a Woke " "Are they a vindiotive class, as a rule?" "Not when they can do any usiness. You may insult and einem them as much as you please if you will buy so of °thing. They will only laugh and smile and bow and rub their hands. But if th • 's noth- ing to be gained by this peacefu attitude they will have their revenge. "Now, after 6 o'olook tonight,' pursued the officer, "until 6 tomorrow n ght you oouldn't hire one of these peopl to light the gas or a fire. Now, do you see that grille of women over there? Th y are all Irish women and have just corn around from the station house, where t ey slept last night, to get a job With . I me Jew family for tomorrow to do thi eort of service." "And the sweatshops?" "The sweatehops are a ours to this town" said tbe officer seriously. "Every morning between 8 and 41 stop e'en car- rying suspicious looking bun',lee, but usually find they are only going to work. They work till midnight and be in again st 4.. A prominent ewenter over in Eaten ttreet was telling me the Other da what a apital band he had about the olidays. 'Be -vork two weeks till 1 o'cloo Lied pa- in again at 4, and he earn rn000 money, taost hundred tollar."And wh re is he _ ow?' I asked.'Vel], de man d ed,' was t110 answer. , Such is an outline York's &eat last side. pleasant, but t is wo consideration Of Hoot men. EDITH THE a part of New The picture is un- til', ehe study and logistsand stetes- essteies TuPPEits MCA 0 PRESS. MANY RADICAL CHANGES THe PAST YEAR. DURING The 1 Cent Dnilles Losing Money on Or- d onlation and the Advertiser Di raying the Piofits—tehanges In Polley 01 The TimesJilerahi. [Special Correspondence.] cnichGO, March 28.-4 great many m changes have Imo over the newspaper world o; Chioako in the las year A suc- cessful editor end proprietor has died; a new paper haseseen started; a new force has entfred the field and made itself bane and the price of' the leading papers has been re weed to 1 tent each: , That eduction in prioe is the most as- tonish' g development of the year. The Tribun led tbe way and it was followed quiekbeby The Inter Ocean and The Times - Herald. Today there is but one paper selling or as much as 2 cents a copy, and that is The Evening Post. Its competitors sell for a cent each, but The Post with its 2 cent price prospers, and the keeper of the newsstand le one of the big office build- ings told nie recently that he sold twice afr many dopies of The Post as he did of any other paper except The News. His sales of The Nowa were 175; of The Post, 140 copies day. The tory tf the reduction of the prioe °ming' papers is told very tor Lawson, the publisher of nd The News, morning and s sold at a pent each, was of the big quickly. Vi The Record evening pa makin heavy inroads on the circulation of some of th older morning papers. The Tribune see ed to feel the competition most, and o e day, without warning, it met the com etition by cutting the price of the paper to 1 cent. The other papers Spamsh and we both understood a little followed, th Times -Herald protesting vig- French, so we got along swimmingly. °rowdy. T • e Times-Heeald has never At dinner 1 macje the acquaintance of the ceased, to pr test, and its I publisher, Mr. other passengers o whom there were very Kohlsaat, ea s he would be very glad to few. The captai i, a companionable little papers in a return to higher , iglishman, sat at the head of the table. the papers now are losirig re Oposite me w aoung German who oulation anL d the advertiser is , profits. Every extra paper looked just like t magazines of Ge means an additional Joss, end spoke English ve proposed recently to print and could tell a g pies of one a the papers be- the same side w g news event, the proprietor owner from up th en the regular edition was people might buy some other girls, and at the o some people I did and who got off t 1 a publisher eaw a possibility After a, chat in • I I • A Huronite in Argentina. UP TR URUGUAY. [Written Or TRH EXPOSITOR.] i ' One fine morning:towards the latter end of June, that is well on towards the middle of winter here I found myself on board a river steamer here, d for the Province of Entre Rios. The st amer was advertised to leave from a certain part of the city where I had never been, and when I came to go there I found some oifficulty in getting the i eght tram • car, on account of the dense ; etupidity of the Polipe and my faulty. pro - ish. However, after o of my usually serene eal more needless hurry- vy parcel in my hand, nunciation ; of pa much reckless was temper andl a good ing about With a he I arrived a the lading stage some tone after the a vertised 'time of leaving and a good while before nr luggage arrived by express wagon. B t as the vessel did not start fora couple o +hours after I reached it all my hurry and w rry were for naught. All things come t those who wait and finally we did get 'Lifted. A friend in the city who knew th ,agent got me the best deck berth on the at and I must say that I never was more comfortable away from home even in a hot 1. The vessel was One of the Platense flot la, built on the Clyde and owned by E, glish company. I mild say before going farther that the accommoda- tion could not well be surpaesed, everything considered. Well we were started at last and soon steadily plowing out acroas the broad bosom lbf the Plate and leaving Buenos Aires, lo king its best in the sen - shine, behind us.. the docks we pa come to grief th collision, and fe passed close to an coming in. The d shiny and there breeze bowling one's blood dance.1, Under these circum- stances the Plate idoked almost like its ally it sadly belies. duced before starting to a ommertial traveller who the Uruguay. He spoke ish, I spoke a very little found ourselves wit near the outlet from ed a vessel which had day before through minutes afterwards we gentine despatch boat y was bright and sun- l*as a delightfully fresh ver the water that made name, which gene I had been intro young Argentina. also was bound up a very little Eng join th prices. money e oth All on ci paying the printed now when it wa some extra c cause ef a b said nt. W • sold, he said paper. Of course of inereaslog circulation to a point where advertising tattepuld be raised, he would seize it. But a temporary inorease not desirable when circulation represents loss. The reeult-of the reduction was a loss of circulation te The Record I at first. But that loss has been repaired, and the other papers cannot find any phenomenal in- crease. In fact, it has been the experience of editors elsewhere that a reduction in cost brings only temporary increase of oir- oulation—that no permanent gain results from it. It is quite possible that the price will be restored by some of -the papers be- fore this year is out. In the matter of country circulation the records of the postoffice here show The Times -Herald now has the lead. Mr. Kohisaat, who graduated from a bakery into journalism, has developed surprising capacity as e newspaper man. His chief editor, Major M. P. Handy, tells me he never knew a man more fertile in sugges- tion than Mr. Kohlsaat. If he develops on the lines of his recent progress in jour- nalism, be peomises to give the nevvspaper world one of the most striking examples in history of independence. ' Mr: Kohisaat ' can afford to be independent. Ufmally the jeurnalitst of high ideals is hampered by the restrictions of the ceunting room. Mr. Kohisaat's paper is edited and its pol- icy cOntrolled entirely "up stairs." ,It has loft the field -of sensationalism' and is building up a family oiroulation. It was probably the only paper in Chicago which published the story of the recent prize fight in an Inconspicuous place Oh an in- side page. The 'Tribune, which once rep- resented dignity and 'conservatism in Chi- cago Ijournellem, now caters to the taste for serisatioe more thareany other journal. But sensational journalism is at a dis- count in Chicago. The recent conviction of Joaeph lit Dunlop, the publishe:e of The Dispatch, mad Ms sentenoe to the peniten- tiary en a charge of sending obscene mat- ter through lthe mails, will, be a lesson to publishers ear a long time. Fortunately for Chicago Dunlop was the only one of Ms ohm. r -But to return to Mr. Kehisaat—for Mr. Kohleaat interests me. The proprietor of The Times -Herald. promises to become a factor In national politics. He has boon a warm admirer of Major Moleinley, and he Is pressing MeKinley's claims to the Re- publican nomination- in the columns of his paper, not, he says, for any influence he may jaossess in case. Major • McKinley is elected, but because he believes Major Mc- Kinley to he the best man (o be president and because he thinks the people want him nominated and elected. He has told his friends that he does not want anything frem the adnainistration if McKinley is elected, that he will not take anything and - that he will not sign a reconsmendation for any than Who wants an appointment. It will be an object lesson to- the news- paper profession it Mr. leohlsaat lives up realism and provers. The Times and Herald independent, byphen- tn the Democratic : to hi ideals in jo The transfer of from Demecraoy ated Republican's party withent an rgan, mad The Chroniole oame lInto being to fill this. short felt want. H. W. Seymour,ivrho helped make The Herald newsy and prosperous under. the ager, and he r an excel - ho was the The Chron- to . prosper. some of Ito or, and The and 'enflu- in Chloago late Jamed W. Scott, 1sthenan has suet:seeded in giving the pa lent stare John R. Walsh, backer of The Herald, is behlnd lobe, and it is pretty sure Though The Tribune has lost prestige, It is still a leading fao Inter Ocean is still prosperou ential. There is plenty of roo for five first class morning pa One not of the Chicago publishers which ID the sell - t with ap- as the first lishing the publishers an agreement to give away no more co pictures or like "euppleneents." As these obromo supplement' oost as much as a cent aOiece in some cases, the publish- ers are saving a groat deal ef money. But they are striking that and more in the 1 cent price at whit% they sell their papers. GEORGE Gaut -num m Ranh ite followed °Lose on the reduotio ing prioe of the papers has m plause In many quarters. It step let the direction of a chronic) in journalism. Th sign e pit ures you see in the man army officers. He y we , played the piano d et ry. Beside him on s a jo ly fat old saladero river with his two little her d of the table were '4 g t acquainted with sam evening. he ca in and a turn about the deck we turn in a d when I awoke in the morning my commercial friend was gone, having got if at Frey Bentos, where is situated the teat Saladero at which Liebig's extract o beef is prepared. I spent a rather idle day for there is not much to see, but I was much interested in comparing the appearance of the two differentiRepublica. The Banda Oriental is rolling, and the rieer banks are generally high and steep. In fact it is a very pleasant country to look at, but the Argentina shore as far as the eye can reach, is flat. The lore line itself can scarcely be dis- tinguished on acbount of the numerous swampy islands which line it and the great marshes in some places whieh are hall water and half land, not rn any sense of the term "terra fi a." The River Urug ay is a magnificent one, broad an - deep u til you get up as far as Salto, wiliere the avigation beoomes dif- ficult an traffic, cempete traoffid cstein go .and eve .ply upo on its Uhrllga sore, Oriental broad .8 number was at o of Entre govern river. town an fine iro threraotugh there, a it was n g cultural floursh. to the p thriftyhte o, Urugua were di comfort dangerous. It supports quite a there are no railways which with the tiver route for the through freight, and besides several lines of mere, large numbers of schooners I square igged vessels constantly it. The e are several good towns ariks, the prinoipal ones being and- Concordia on the Argentine nd PaySand.0 and Salto on the side. Ail Paysandu there is a fine retch of water, in which a large f vessels were at anchor. Uruguay e time die capital of the Province Rios, buti the seat of the Provincial ent is no* at Parana on the Parana owever, Uruguay is still a thriving has the best mole an the river, a strudere, but a schooner sailed it one day and at the time I was onsiderable while after the mishap, t yet fixed. Near this town the ebrew philanthropist has. an agri- colony whioh is said to be in a very g condition, these Jews, contrary pular belief, making very good and. rmers. We had a number of them steamer from Buenos Aires to , as second class Passengers. They y but well dressed and apparently bly off. Some ista.nce farther up we came upon a coupl of ideally situated beams, on the bank of the river I doubt if much nicer places f r a resid nce could be found even on the autiful udson, than one or two I saw on he Orien 1 side of the Uruguay, though • be sur the South American river lacks th mountain scenery. One of these places a as an old! white house surrounded by fine rees, satiated on a high bluff over looking shining expanse of the river, while at one s de was a beautiful little natural port or ve, with a nice beach. Thia place the ca. • tam tol Scotch an, whe propert , which This w uld be a , per acr a high i Land , a ross the only about a thi I don't ow wh ference except Oriental is he familiee o that market at all. who ea affor pleasant and pi good soc ety bu , We h d exped that nig • t, but pilot di not es. ity of ru ning t as there is the anchor as dro wereo' the and my If lef manag to p evening with m Very &ries in up to ashore not ve y pleas hada y gon side of Is e river tain g • • • -bye, 1 boat, m baggase There as nethi, except muddy' and a.h. on w i house. The Ian it air, en• plank,s. But notwithst nding thsse rather unprepossessing signs, the river Was craft, , and there seemed to be trade. As I landed I as besieged baggage as taken y an old porter, bit I hack, w ich took the men, and my • possetision of got safe into a baggage to th Hotel me is owned by 8, young paid $50,000 gold for the onsiets of a league bf land. the rate of about 18.00 price in South idmerica. river in Argentina l brings of that or a little more. there should be this dif- hat land in the .Banda principally by wealthy very seldom gets on the Consequently only those there. to pay a high price for reaque surroundings and d to get into Concordia hen we got near it the to take the responsibil- ough a dangerous place, , up to the town, and the d for the night. There tain, the young German at dinner time, but we ID a cosy andpleasant ic, story telling, etc., etc. e morning I was roused It was raining a little and t. My fellow passenger ever to Salto, on the other I bade the jolly little -cap - d stepped into a shore being handed in after me. g of Concordia ,be seen ooking " barco " or levee; h was perched the custom stage was a very prim- isting of a couple of full of riving y• cab orcib finall nd th Corona," a hostelr kept ley a Scotfrih widosf ladfr, with a Spa ish American zed famier, most of who could talk •E glish, but inuch preferre Spanish. Ho ever, the " Viuda ' Patte son was very oo1cl to me, and after I ha breakfasted seit one of her boys out to fin my employer's agent, s6 that I might repo my arrival. Agisens S. McLneN. • of So from The that Own as tlt "Hub" or business centre of the county, nd you will read in othe joureals outsid+ the county such headline as "Localities 4t the Hub." Now let youe readers look at it from any standpoint, unt less for poor tseeple, and Seaforth is far ahead of any Own in the county. Take customs collected: In Goderich, $3,717.22 ; Clinton,13,322.163 ; Seaford', $6,372.82, in 11 menths, the rest in one year ; and in the six ports and Searh, Kinc Win ham, a tot Seiaforth .Jeads. 1 R EXPOSTOR.—I consider the town forth does not receive justice either he town press or other local papersi, linton press for exartiple, advertisee outports, Goderich, Clinton, ardine, , Southampton and al customs 41 $20,513.55, Seaforth has nearly a third of the whole, and her exporta are far iheed as well. Her prese has a larger circulatidn than any paper in any town in the county; the best furni turel in the province, eventhe nabobs of Montreal think and admit 00 her Canadian tweeds are noted for the bestlanti cheapest ,her flour and oatmeal equal continent; her business men lino of goods in the count tell me, cheaper than TOTOR London. The distance reed forth is an indication l of her and cheap prices. People' .ersinitla, Stanley and . Huila best townships in the county to Seaforth. And MoKilio proving township, although any. of the others, is fast them, while you will meet ' a of farmers from Morris, Gre bert, tideborne and Hay. • dents Of Clinton, when they Want real goo articles, come to Seaforth. 'Of course a admit that at the present Clinton, or th Hub,has more retired farmers Enid more poo than ISeaforth, but they are not the mos profitable classes for either :country or town. VVhst Seaforth does need "most: now is ad- vertising. She does not even let the people know Who the officers of the town are. Half of the people in the surrounding munini- palities not know who is her Mayor. p has set the example for years to eighbors know who the officials are, y are known to be Such good admin. s of public affairs that her lands are just now. Of curse, if Seaforth er municipalities are ashamed to let s know who look after- their affairs, e of our business! I think also it e a help to the town if, they Would o MoKillop Insuranceapany a free meet in, and their manager to be ree hours each day. Besides this, • the Mechanics' Institute and soci- tch any on th keepthe bes , alnd Petro , gamilton o biome to uperior g frem Tucke t, three of th , Mostly all g , & fast irn yohnger. tha °Ming up t large numbe , Logan, Hi 4veli the resi- 1 cKill let her and th istreto boornin and ot outside it is no would offer th office t there t there i eties s ch as Foresters and United Work- men, the latter society with a membership of one hundred, the largest in the county. Theseall show Seaforth to be equal for either usiness or men in any a the sport- ing clubs to any town twice hee size in On- tario. My reasons for writing r • is may be a little Selfish, as what benefits Seaforth benefits McKillop, and to a ce tain extent all the surrounding municip Wes; and what benefits McKillop bone ts me and every other person in it. ur readers will, therefore, pardon any sel Ames they may see,ii looking through Can a n spectacles. Joilli G. ORRLSON, Canada. George Dobie, private bank re Glencoe, has, suspended payment. --edit a social re -union at Woodstock there wee 22 guests whose average age was 76 years. e -William James Hammond has been committed for trial at Gravenhurst on a charge of having murdered his wife, known as Kate Tough, by poison. —James Stevenson,- f Cartwright, Mani- toba., and formerly of Chesley, has won the trophy cup given by P ender Greenway for i thc champion curler. . The Henderson f,irrn, in North Ox- , a short distance from Ingersoll, con- ing 75 acres, was Ir. rnes, of Culloden, f - As the result of a J. C. Madill, pastor of church, Sarnia, was a MCLaren, and received andpa ebtreorkeA nn ndroeses. 0 n, ex -reeve will go extensively in stew thisyear. He has a maple tree his Albemarle farm, and purpos 2,,s00 trees this spring, --Professor Craig, hortioult pe ch trees in the Grimsby an ari es distriots have been much d maged by fro t, and the crop next seasonwill be a sm 1,1 no% e return: checker ma it between I G1 nmorris and Paris, which took place at th Glen on Monday night, the; P a risians were defeated. Slaty games were played in all, and the Glen supporters came out eix I g aeTsParis haehhYea slum. nrgegala r phyeical instrue Men's Christian Aliso at the person of Professor D. M. Barton was recently in Toronto with Send° great strong man, and was pronoun endow as being.his best pupil. ' —From a slight wound m the elm hand, George Steven, of Deaboro took poisoning, and all the flesh fel off for tai Ba sold to Fred. r 11,800. church ci anti' Rev. Zion Congregationai mulled by Mr„ Wm. a stab ii the face Arnabel, eking this reserve on tapping ebst, says St i Cath - tion r, in He the by f his lood til water cold be sent elearithroug his hand. He has been under medical trettnent and the progress of the disease is t$yd. It is now hoped his hand Will be • —Lawrence Sutheiland, a has already served a !term o the Penet.ang reformatoty, tak n to the Kingston penile years, for breaking "nto on at Beeton, and atealin ts. _ _ Rev. John H. MeV car accepted the call fr m regatioa, Fergus. T are fixed for r Th Rev. Principal MoVi cted to preach on th Mr. J. L. Payne, p two - stet tick has eon vice The exni Sir ackenzie Bowell, is ew Hamburg. On i so of vi sch 1 at New Hamburg he apprentice to Captain F. druggist, of thatOre, her proficient telegrapher, a d o ploma as a dem in for shorthand taut. 11 af most expert wrsteri ID 1 g man who years i lust beea ry 40;serve ti6 railway f bir railwa of Montreal, dials char° Vtion see, 3', APHL of i ,is retary to of Mr.Payne, g the Public entered ;as an H. McCallum, e became a tallied- IS di- ards I went the drug business and became connected wit)a the London Free Press, afterwards be- coming private secretary to Sir John Car- ling. He visited Australia with Sir Mac- kenzie and has been across the continent twe or three times. Mr. Payne is a maga- zine and isewspaper writer of considerable Charles Ryan'cf Buffalo, N. Y., who anted by the Canadian authorities for robbery and attempted murder of Ed- d Russell, at Bridgeburg, Ontario, last ben' was captured. in Easton, Pennsyl- a'and is awaiting extradition papers o Canada. Mr. J. Wickett, of Bowmanvillo, was killed almost instantly a few days ago, at the Grand Trunk Railway station. He was standing on one of the tracks, looking at the morning express from Toronto, when the local from Peterboro came along, and hurled him against the other. --Alexander Archer, a lumberman, on his way to his home in Glencoe frorn Marquette, Michigan, was sandbagged and robbed of his winter's savihgs, amounting to 185, in Windsor, the other night. The po- lice have arrested a well known crook, who was seen in Archer's company eerier in the evening; on suspicion,. —Hugh McLaughlin, of Brooke, called in one of his neighbors to assist him in butch- ering a 400 pound porker. When they had everything ready, after making extra pre- parations for handling so large a hog, and went to the pen, they found that death had got the start of them'as the pig had. been dead for some time and was froze" stiff. --Mr. James Hastie of Egremont, while driving home from fiarham, on Monday, 16th inst. had a narrow escape from being killed. *hen crossing the railway track at abut three miles from town the up -train ran into a span of horses he WM driving, kiUing one and severely injuring the other. Mr. Hastie escaped unhurt. .L -Mr. and Mrs.Walter Anderson, of Ayr, celebrated their golden wedding on the eve ing of Friday, 13th inst., when a large bee of guests gathered at their residenee an exceedingly happy evening was t in honor of the occasion. Mr. and . Anderson were married in 1846, and the whole of their married life has been Spent in Ayr or the immediate vicinity. IBM the war Oct van fro nu an ape Mr Everybody is familiar with the travelling idaity, but the "travelling barnyard" is Something new. The other day, a farmer from near Neustadt passed through Chesley foriPark Head, with a load of all sorts of dothesticated animals. He had erected on Mal sleigh a box 14 feet long, 12 feet wide and 5 feet high. Within this were 7 hogs, 7 sheep, 3 yearling cattle, 4 turkeys, 40 hens and other animals. —Mrs. Lucy Ryder Meyer,M. D., founder of the Deaconess' Aid movement in connec- tion with the Methodist church in the United States and Canada, and presi- dent of the Deaconesses' training school ID Chicago, occupied the pulpit of the Parkdale, Toronto, Methodist church last Sabbath morning, and addressed the congregation on deaconess' work. This lady is a fluent and. effective speaker, and her remarks seemed to make a most favor- able impression upon the audience. —One thousand people gathered to cele- brate the julailee of Rev. A. Sutherland, Presbyteriau minister at Ripley, on Mon- day, 16th inst. Many kind and appreciative words were said and messages received, on the occasion, in favor of this worthy cler- gyman who, for fifty years has been a faith- ful pastor and expounder of God's word. Mr. Sutherland was plat:ea at Ripley, on December 134he 1876. The congregation at that date numbered 19 families, with 26 communicants on the roll. Now there are 130 families, with a largely increased mem- bership. A free-will offering of $160 was presented to Mr. Sutherlsnd at the jubilee. —On the night of the 17th inst., an old man of over 75 years, named James Agnew, a retired farmer, living in Lindsay, was shot wed killed at his own stable door, while feeding his horse. That the murder was committed for money was apparent from the fact that 115 and. a watch that Mr. Agnew carried in his pocket were gone. A young man named Carney has been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer. Mr. Ag- new's watch and chain were found _en Car- ney when arrested. A revolver, with two empty chambers, was also found on him. He is a boy with a bad reputation, and the authorities think they have a good case against him. —On Wednesday morning /est week, a train on the C. P. R., having on board. amongst °there''Clarke Wallace,- M. P.- Alex. Smith, Reform organizer ; F. J. Gil- lespie and W. J. Hickey, of North Ontario, • came very near being wrecked by the break- ing of a driving rod. Only the presence of mind of the engineer, who at once applied the brakes and reversed the engine, saved the train from being an entire wreck. Edgar Wills, secretary of the Board of Trade, To- ronto, who was a passenger ou the train, telegraphed Sir William Van Horne an acknowledgment of the bravery of • the engineer and fireman, who stuck to their posts, thus avoiding what would have been a very disastrous accident. • Perth Items. The farm of Mr. R. Hothan , of Hib- bert, has been sold to Mr. Mark Drake, for 25,000. =Mr. Robert Thompson produce mer- hant, St. Marys, fell at his own door the other day, and broke his leg. J—Mr. John Mann has bought the Dawson at in Elma 2 ct bi1 miles west of Listowel, ting of 124 sores, at $4,300. Richard Honey has sold his fifty re farm in Logan, on the 3rd nonunion, o Mr. Chester16,-us, for $2,250. —The bankrupt stook of Messrs. Mowat Rosaiter, of (Shakespeare, hsa been oughtby Mr. G. A. Cole, at 63k unts on he dollar. —Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Uniac, after spend - g three months visiting friends in Kitchell and Logan, have returned to their home in Manitoba. —Mr. David Nichol, of Elute, left on fuesday, last week, for Langdon, North akots, accompanied by Miss Jennie Grey, ho goes out 'west to visit friends. —Mr, W. C. Kidd, of ListoWel, has done ell with the cargo of horses he took over o England recently,and he has now a second argo on the way to London. —The much admired four year old mare f Messrs. Kidd, ef Listowel, has been pur- hased by Rev. Father Gnam, of Hansom he reverend Father has got • fine goer. —Dan Henry and Jake Ament, of Top- ing, sawed a oord of hardwood the other Lay, in less than 28 minutes. They want o know who can beat this. —The open meetings, under the auspices of the St. Marys Women's Christian tem- perance 'Union, which were held on Thurs- day, 124h inst., afternoon and evening, proved very interesting. Mrs. May R. Thornley, of London, president of the On- tario W. C. T. U., an earnest and devoted temperance worker, gave a thoroughly prac- one of the tical and interesting address on temperance, Hs left and methods for W. C. T. U. work, Mrs, Rev. Healey, of St. Thomas, also gavea re- markably fine address. Besides the ad- dresses there was an excellent programme of musie, recitations, etc. —At the sale of Bates Shorthorns, at the farm of 'John Idington, Q. C., Stratford, which took place last week, tolerably good prices were realized, considering the depres- sed state of the markets, —Mr. John Fisher has purchased the 50 acre farm, near Kurtzville, from Mr, Fred Steve, for $1,700, and Mr. David Philips has bought the south part of Mr. Johu Kurtz's lot, for S700. —A Stratford lady discovered a nest of grasshoppers in her kitchen wood box a few days ago. Grasshoppers in March are a rarity indeed, still one would not be desir- ous of having them in the family, —Samuel Dazed, who had his foot badly lacerated by the machinery whilo werking a chopper at AmuIree, is recovering. • The amputation of the foot was found not to be necessary. —Farmers who do their marketing in Stratford, say that the sensational reports about -cattle starving are all nonseuse. Thee will be plenty of feed to bringanimals fairly through the winter. —Mr. Roach's sale in Hibbert, on Tues- day, the 10th inst., was a success. Cows ran up to $37, two year olds, $31.50 ; yearlings, $16, and pigs sold for about 8es Per Frfrui.ld —John Sherer, teacher, took the Shakespeare string band out O Mr. For - raster's at Sebastopol, one evening lately, and they entertained the guests it the hotel with eome first elass music. —Perth Sabbath school convention will be held in St.Marys,onApril 134h andl4th. Miss Brown, of Brantford, one of the prominent primary workers of the Province, will bo present and takepert. —Instruments have been placed itt the local telephone office at Stratford, which enables Stratford business men to hold con- versations with persons at seven or eight hundred miles distant. —John E. Fleming has rented his 100 acre farm, on the Huron road, adjoining the Stratford corporation, known as the Cashin farm, to Mr. Richard Meenamara, of Bi- llet) township. —Mr. A. W. Levy, formerly in the boot and shoe business in Mitchell, but who- re -- moved O Ridgetown, about eight years ago, died at that place recently. Mr. Levy was at one time a prosperous farmer in Hibbert. -e-Thomas Flynn, late Grand Trunk Rail- way agent et Shakespeare, is et present in- capacitated for duty from paralysis in his right arm and hand, and his medical attend- ants hold out very little hope forpermanent recovery. —Dr. H. S. Krug, son of Mr. Fred Krug, of Tavistock, holds the position of house physician in the Dr. Allen Inetitate, in In- dianapolis, Indiana, which is one of the largest "private hospitals in the United BeStates.fore leaeing for North Eastitope,Mrs. Waldie was presented with a handsome chair by the members of the ehoir at the Carlingford Presbyterian church. M. Waldie was a "'ember of the choir for many years. • --Mr. E. Ronan, of St. Marys, has for a couple of weeks been off work with a sore Nand: He received a small cut or scratch by a nail of a boot, which developed into a case of blood poisoning, but he is now recover- ing. —Mr. Thomas Evans, of St. Marys, has been appointed judge of horses at the next Western Fair, in London; and Mr. M. Bal- lantyne, of St. Marys, and Mr. R. H. Hard- ing, of Thorndale, judges of cattle, sheep and pigs. —At the annual meeting of the Reform Association of the township of Downie, the following officers were elected for the en- suing year: President, James MeVittie ; vice president, John Murray, secretary, treasurer, Wm. Murray, —George Chapinate's farm house, near w the Presbyterian church, Atwood, was burned a few days ago, the fire starting through a stove pipe, igniting the ceiling, The contents of the building were saved. The loss' wag $500, insured in the Waterloo .Mutual for $350. —M r Thomas Cardwell, of Downie, has purchased from Mr. Vincent Weiss, the farm of 100 acres, on the 5th 'concession of the Gore of Downie, the price being $6,600. The farm was bought for Mr. Cardwell's son, who purposes dealing largely in Jersey st°---Tck.he remains of Mrs. J. W. Bate, of Stratford, were laid to rest in the Metho- dist church cemetery, at Milverton, on Sun- day, 15th inst. Deceased was a member of the Salvation Army, and the funeral was conducted itt their. peculiarly solemn. man- ner. —Mr n Wm. Keen, of St. Marys, who was teaching in the Metropolitan eehool, has been deprived of his certificate by Public School Inspector Alexander, for administer- - in unnecessarily severe punishment on the scholars, for persisting in ceiling him Sir" instead of addressing him as Mr. Keen." —A very pleasant event took place at the residence of Mr. Wm. Rae, of Downie, DU Wednesday, March llth, when his eldest daughter, Mise Edith, was married to Mr. Robert Porteous, of the same township. The ceremony Wa8 performed O the pres- ence of a large number of guests by Rev, T. A. Cosgrove, of St. Marys. —During an entertainment, held its the school house at Kink -ora, 'On the evening of St. Patrick's day, a• lard's was accidentally broken, and, the oil catching fire, caused a first class panic in the large crowd present. However, the fire was promptly stamped out before much damage was -done. Only two or three were injured, although the wildest donfeeion prevailed for a while. , —The Atwood Flax Company have dis- posed of all their flax to the Barbour Flax Spinning Company, of Paterson,_ New Jer- sey, at a satisfactory priers. The freight will be 8198 for the three cans required to ship the season's output O Paterson, or $66 a car. Last season's flex crop was inferior to that of 1894, en account of the summer frosts having cut down the young plant. —Mr. Albert Gray, formerly of Elms, is now engaged at cheesemaking in Garden Prairie, Illinois, U. S. Be Pays there is a lot of filled cheese made over there. The cream is skimmed off the milk and made into butter and lard, said other fats substi- tuted when the milk is madeinto eheese,and • the oheese is labelled "hill cream cheese.b Such frauds are perpetrated right along • where he is. • —In August, 1895, while Mrs. Ed. Skin- ner, and hired man, of Blanshard, were driving home from St. Marys, their • horse became frightened at a turkey and immedi- ately bolted. • On account of the road being narrow and the ditch deep, the ooeu te were thrown out and the buggy was • ly damaged. About a month ago Mr. Skinner entered s suit against the township for damages, but as it was not properly entered heulLozt. It was tried again in St. Marys co before Judge Woods, some ten days •'ago, His Honor awarded the decision itt • favor of the plaiatiff.