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The Huron Expositor, 1898-04-22, Page 11898. gfeliow. Miss Liv itty on the life of the trated by several x-ee Arriter. On the whole, eod arid furnished tlio if the best poem rincipal, Mr, •Delgaty, civered ,from his Inn It has again resume met the political at - Province of Ontario ?: laci a wondorful amount. seeing there are no - protests.. One would in the seventeenth or instead of the nine - at cause for regret that are not conducted on. ipies. - If our eketora. Ilse more and koked ust there would be lesa, Ispirants to office _ to its We hope these sighly sifted and guilt msed as it ought to be (SS say is the very etion." Buying and. mimed in real earnest, ivr means business. ery &tr." ming The Ribbons, Bi Laces, the Chiffons, re all- marked cheap.. ng a sort of a pic-nic- a doubled u stock to heir own r Bonnet you are rice" much Spring Hat int more th Here are t o special- - School -liats„ at'id or Eats, and 50e. tng Dress, t yet If not, we in -- a half hour with us. s'ha] he,st and what two very important dasilv aolvecl here.. we' slow some very iiiies and Ginghams,_ 'Ile and 15e per yard. Fancy Wash Goods '% Blouses, -there are- - -hundred new pat- , 10e„ 121e, 15c and very choice New at 12'e, 18; 25e, 356 ' Here's a- group of i the cheapest to the , ew bines, new _greens, iv Pin Checks. new Serges, Lustres and ; and fancy Silks -for iists, You will be very moderate :are Ih'ess Materials, tgnetizers. at spot cash figiFes people and ma&ea Store. iags ,pes ;"ndeTwear ened -Design Curtains. Mem . ' Dry Goods Store • THIRTIETH YiBAR. 1 ViTIEOLE NUMBER, 1,584. I A Great Relief Sometimes. It is a great relief sometimes to have a man who has been dealing loud and long on his pet topic stop, and ',close his organ of speech and bless his hearers with a few mo- ments- silence. If that speaker listens well during that silence, he raight possibly hear a few opinions filter through the air that are not exactly complimentary. He 'night hear one 'man say oh! will he never cease I Another may have the hardness of heart to say tha the man is gasing—he simply talks to hear himself talk. The clear headed practical public like to know definitely yes or no about matters that are worgi talking about. This is well illustrated in the present talk of fighting certain nations are indulging in. Now, vezy few people are so blood- , thirst,y as to wish for a fight, but yet to the man who says only what he means, a good square fight is better than a world of bluff and • words. The position whieh rational people de- sire in all things in life, from the breaking of each other's heads, when necessary, to the purchase of clothing, is to know whether or not they are getting value for their outlay. As with nations, so with individuals; it is necessary to consider the worth of -what is being received as COLDpared with the worth of what is given. I We have again to offer, as we have often offered before, and as we will continue to offer so long as we are in business, large full value for yourmoney. We talk because we have goods that will stand talking about. Values worth mentioning are two lines of - white bemstitehed linen handker- chiefs at $2- and $2.50 per dozen. Four lines of Men's Hosiery. No. 1 in cotton, Three pairs for 25c. No. 2, also cotton, blaek color, two paira for 26e. No. 3, a fine _all - wool' at 25; No. 4, three pairs of Merino or Cashmere at $1. People are looking for a better clat s of goods than they have done lately. This is very noticeable in ready- mades, as the18, 10 00 and 12.00 suits are more in demand than lower grades. Our own make of boys' 50c, 65c and 75c Knickerbockers are better than ever. Have you seen the Fedora Hat we sell at 95c1 It is certainly great value. • Our staff of tailors are busy in the or- dered clothing departmentturning out artistic Spring suits. Have you seen the new Spring clothes yet They ar:e very beautiful ma- terials. Umbrellas at 65c, 00c and $1,25. Raincoat's at $5.50j 7.50 and 10.00, are -useful articles this season. • Try us for your clothing. WE HAVE casip 11RICE TO ALL MONEY BACK I WANTED. GRE1G d MACDONALD a CLOTHIERS. On the Wrong Side of the Street, in the Strong Block. SEAFORTH, • ONT. -Er sm 'MEM C. P. R. in Travelling. • Rate to the Coast still $25. Use tke C. P. R. Telegraph. Use Dominion Express -Money orders in remitting, payable at par any where in Canada or the > United States. Our Accident Policy fosts little; insure in the Canada Accident Policy. • R4iald J. Macdonald, Agent ier.C. PNR. and Dom, Express. SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1898. MoLEAN BROS., PubliFthers.1. $1 a, Year iu Advahoe. , EXPERIENCES IN THE SLON- DItICE. , BY A ST. MARYS BOY. Mr. Fred 'Wilson, formerly of St. Marys, who is now a member of the Northwest mounted police, and is on duty in the Klon- dike country, gives a very interesting des- cription of his experiences there. Writing from Lake Linderman on March 8th, he says : - After writing my list ktter we remained in Skagway for over a week from the last letter's date, and I may as well try to des- cribe the place to you as I first saw it. Coming up from the cabin of the old " Dan- ube," our boat, (which by the way was the first vessel to pass through the Suez canal) on the morning of my arrival in Skagway I was startled by the size -of the eliff under which We were anchored. It roust have been at least 250 feet high and rose almost sheer from the water's edge. About a quar- ter -of a mile from the beach, nestling among a heavy growth of pine and spruce, lies the city of Skagway, and very uninviting indeed it looked. I have never before seen such a motely, assembly of human dwellings. Where three months before two tents had Stood alone in is mountain -gulch, there now were erected some hundreds of buildings of every conceivable shape and design ever applied to the science of log cabin architecture.. Even some old boats had been drawn up from the bay, and by a little propping and nailing, had been metamorphosed into what in Skagway language were "first-class hotels." A. closer insight into the city revealed a few more pretentious buildings along the main street, nine out of ten which, however, were saloons and gambling houses. There wu no pretenceat concealment. Every- • thing was wide open and the turn of the roulette wheel and the rattle of the dice are heard in Skagway from sunset to sunrise and on to sunset again. It is hardly necessary to describe to any extent the moral condition of the town. A sufficient -oriteion is that in one night three men were shot dead and one badly wounded in a dispute in what is known as the "Pal- ace Theatre." One of them was the United States Marshall who bad charge (?) of the law and order of the town. One thing worthy of note, however, is the rapidity with svhich the town has grown. It is wonderful. The sound of the hammer and the saw are heard all day long and fat into the night, and such is the demand for labor that even unskilled men make from five to eight dollars per day. Somewhere about February 5th SiX of us were ordered to proceed as an advance party to Lake Bennett via the White Pass to pre- pare for the arrival of the main body of men. We left Skagway with two toboggruis loaded with bedding, provisions, and camp- ing outfit, to about 600 'pounds apiece and so disposed ourselves, that while two pulled the third man exerted himself to keep the toboggan right side up. This was a greater tmk than may appear, as the trail was sid- ling and it tok the man all his time to manage it. However, kit Skagway about 8 a. in., and after pullijng up a fairly level road for about six mile, found ourselves at noon well into the Whit4Pasa Canon at a place called. the Porcupine hill. Here we had lunch and then our tron les began. The remainder of the ascent onl that first day was merely an ascent of one steep to one still higher, and some idea of the road may be gained from the fact that in that afternoon we made only a short five miles, and then utterly wearied out by the heart breaking pull, pitched our tent and camped for the night, and that was truly not a happy camp. A terrific wind was blowing making it a very difficult task to erect a tent which, however, - at last we did accomplish. Then we put up the stove and hoped for some ;comfort, but in consequence of the green wood and the bad draught, all it did for us was to •smoke ns out of the tent. To cat a long story short it took -us justfive hours to thaw out a tin of corned beef and make a kettle- of I tea for supper, which was no sooner over than we turned into our blankets about as nearly tired out as men well could be. About nine o'clook the next morning we were on the trail again, and niter going about two miles we met a man who asked us into his tent to have a cup of coffee. Needless to say we accepted his kind invi- cation instantly, and taking us in he pre- sented us to his ;wife, who was no other person than Miss Wilson, daughter Of Mr. John Wilson, Wellington street, St. Marys, formerly teacher at the Central school there. She was much pleased to see me, and was very kind indeed. She, with her husband, 'Mr. Davidson, ex -mayor of Nanaimo, Brit- ish Columbia, are on their way to the Klon- dike. Mrs. Davidson seemed very cheerful and seemed to like the camping out very much, in fact treated it miieh as you would a summer's_outing in Muskoka. -, However, at last we left them and push- ' a ed on, and after a day of the very hardest work I have ever experienced arrived at the Southern foot ofjthe White Pass, called the Ford, about mix ui the evening, having made in all that day but eight miles. It seemed to us at least eighty. The White -Pass in summer must be almost impassble, .and some illea of its difficulty may be gained from de fact that a conservative estimate of the horses lying dead in the snow puts the number at about 4,000. At the present time people are coming over the trail so fast that it is a coalmen saying that a letter could be handed from hand to hand the forty miles from Lake Bennett -to Skagway. But to resume. The following morning we left the Fort with two pack horses and part of our outfit, and crossing the summit, made Cadwell's camp that night. We had no trouble crossing the summit, as the day wasf very fine and there was no wind, but as we *ere at least a thousand feet above the timber line, it was very cold. • – The next day we made eighteen miles, and reached the police post at Lake Bennett late in the afternoon. About three days afterwards the main body arrived and then we stated to freight some of our supplies down to Tagish, a police post fifty miles awn the lakes from Bennett. Onnur re - urn we had just reached Cariboo crossing at heloot of Lake Bennett,when a dispatch was brought in ordering us to return to Bennett ( 30 miles) with all possible speed as trouble was feared with the Americans on the ail - coot andjiThite Passes. It fell to my lot to go to the Chilcoot Pass. From Bennett we crossed over Lake Linderman and 4fter a very hard trip, arrived late on the following afternoon on Crater Lake, near the summit of the ChilcootPass. There we encamped upon the ice, and as we had to haul our wood six miles up from the timber line( and half green at that) we had no very, good time. To add to our troubles, a terrible • storm came on which raged for eight days, and beating down from the mountains upon the lake with great force added to the weight of about five feet of snow, eraoked the ice so that the lake flooded to about a the depth of eight inches over the whole sur- face.. Then followed -eight days of utter misery, Although piled up on sleighs out of the water, our blankets ,became wet through,we could get no heat from the stove, and for that entire space of time we sat around the tent unable to face the storm outside, with eight inohes of water freezing slowly under us. For three nights I never went to bed at all, but sat endeavoring, with very poor success,' to get partially thawed out. I have never experienced, and never want to ex- perience again, such a time as I spent for those eight days on Crater Lake. . But at last the storm ceased and we at once shifted camp, packing all our camping outfit on our backs up to the summit, about 450, feet, and a slope steeper than .the roof of any house in St. Marys. It took every onus of strength in one'a body to paok 100 pounds up at one journey. Finally we were settled at the summit and about three days after We hoisted the Union Jack on the top of Chil000t Pass, and I proclaimed the country to be British terri- tory, much to the surprise end indignation; of such of the free and the brave'' who' came up from Dyes. But although some of the Yankees did not like it, we had no trouble with any of them. About a week ago I was sent in charge of a party to Linderman, where I still am, to reoinve a quantity ot goods brought over for Northwest Mounted Police by the Chilcoot Railway Company from Dyes. It costa 15 cents a pound to transport the goods from Dyes to Linderman, a distance of about 30 miles, and as people are flocking into the country in thousands, there is every pros- pect that the rate will be much higher m a short time. Where I now -am (Linderman), I am very comfortable, as good wood is convenient, and we have the best provisions the coun- try afford.. Linderman and Bennett have each at present about 200 to 300 people, but by the time this letter reaches you, will have as,manY thousand, if not more. Many people here are at present wild with ex- citement over the news of a very rich strike on the Little Salmon river, about 200 miles inland, but as no one is allowed to go into the interior without 1,000 pounds of pro. vieions, few people have been able to get down yet. 'As far as I can hear, there Is no doubt that the report is correekand a young fellow, who has secured a pass from Major Walsh, and who owns mines in the Klon- dike, is leaving to -morrow for the new fields. His has promised to locate and, re- cord a claim far me and as I have obliged him in different ways, there may be some- thing in it for me too. The Member for South Huron. Mr. John McMillan, M. P., as is his, cus- tom took part in the budget debate' and made an excellent speech. The following condensed report we take from the Globe: Mr, McMillan attributed the great pros- perity now enjoyed by the farmers of On- tario to the policy of the Government and the action of the Minister of Agriculture in 'going to Washington and securing the re- moval of the quarantine on cattle. Owing to that last year from 30,000 to 50,000 head of young cattle had gone into the United Ststee and had brought from $7 to $8 more than in the previous year, and these were of a class which it was notdesirable for the farmers to feed here. We sold 518,000 ..cat- tle in 1897, 66,000 more than in the previous year, and 200,000 of these were increased in price by $8 per head, and thus $1,600,000 went into the pockets of the farmers. Cold storage had been another boon to the farm- ers which had resulted in the export of but- ter to England in good condition, and one large shipment had secured higher prices in the English market than the best Danish butter. The placing of corn on the free list was, he said, the greatest benefit ever eon. ferred on the farmers of Canada, especially those of Ontario. Accepting the statement which had been made that 11,500,000 bush- els of corn came into Canada in the last six months of the last financial year and had displace4 an equal amount of our coarse grains, he pointed out that when corn, peed or oats were fed to cattle' pound for pound; corn was the beat, and toequal the 11,500,- 000 bushels of corn would take 18,941,176 bushels of oats. With corn at 37i cents per bushel and oats at 24 cents, and taking these equivalent quantities of corn and oats the gain to the farmer in buying corn and selling oats would be $1,440,882."That," he ead. ed, "is the way I want to see the Canadian farmers ruined all the time when they can get such sums of money put into their pockets." The reduction of duty and eats - mg of the customs rulings on agricultural implements was also commended as a benefit to the farming community. A great deal ' i of confidence he said, had been nspired in the minds of farmers and manufacturers by the tariff adopted last session. Mr. Mc- Millan stated to the House that he had been told by a Conservative that he should put a question on the paper asking the Govern- ment if they were going to abolish or remodel the Senate, so/se to make it responsible to the people of Canada. An irresponsible body ruling in a democratic country was an anomally in legislation. While he was an out-and-out free trader, Mr. McMillan said that he had ever held that it was the duty of the Government in remodelling the tariff to make changes slowly and gradual's:, that in dustrial interests might not be injured.If the Government went on for ten years a the mania rate as they had been going since they citue into power the last vestige of pro- tection! would be buried in the dust, but it would-be done in a manner that would no injure any interest. • I : `The Decay of the Sunday Schoot l' In Zan Exrosrroa of April 8th there hp: redl a selection taken from the Ladies' Home Journal, bearing the above title. The position assumed in that article has been pretty severely criticized by many Sunday school workars as well as by Sunday school and other religious publications. In reply to it e have been requested to publish tee follow g extracts from an article in "The t Sunda School Times" of Philadelphia, whioh e cheerfully do. That paper says ; Neither the readers of The Sunday School Times, nor the readers of The ILadieS' Home , Journal who are in tow* with representative Sunday -school work i to -day, need to be told that there is no !bagel of truth in the thought expressed by the title of the March editcnial in the latter ,periodi- cal. Seventy-three years ago the &at annual meeting of the Connecticut State as- sociation was held, representing thirty-two Sunday schools with a total membership of four thousand. At the last biennia conven- tion Of that association 1,082 Sunda -schools were reported, with a membership of • over 138,000, there being less than 175,000 aii. dren in that state,—a fair propoiti n within the Sunday -schools i That state ia not an exceptional one in its growth of ISunday- school interests and activity. In Ism the first national Sunda -school convention, in New York City,enro led about 220 delegates, from fifteen states. At the latest 1 National and International Sunday -school Convention, In Boston, almost 1,000 delegates wet6 in attendance, representing forty-eev n skim, territories, and provinces; the rep rts show- ed a total, „ in round numbeni, of 142,000 schools, one and a half million officers and teachers, and eleven and a half million scholars, with a total Sunday school mem- bership, in North America, of over thirteen millions,' This was a gain of almost one and a half milliOn in three years' time,—since 1893. The "Primary Unions," or organized bands of primary teachers,who are studying together to improve their teaching method., 'numbered, in 1896, over a hundred, having iformed themselves into an international or- Iganization ; yet that organization was not in exfstance fifteen years ago. Only last um- , mer a hundred and seventy five of those pri- ' mary teachers representing eight states, gathered at A;bury Park, New Jersey, for five days' conference and study upon primary methods. The Home Department, which is the Sunday -school at work within the homes, numbers to -day a hundred thousand mem- bers; lose than a score of years ago this; 'branch of Sunday -school work was un- knowe. The systematic training of teachers, by normal °lases formed within the schools, is to -day an effeetive and growing agency in Sunday -school work. One state alone organ- ized, within one year,nearly a hundred normal classet, with an enrolled membership of over two thousand. The Bible Normal College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is an *Mu- • tion that devotes its whole energy to the training of Sunday -school workers. Yet there Was no demand for such an institution a few years ago. It in well to hove the weakness and defects of any institution pointed out, no ,matter how harshly, by an outsider. But 'when such a one forms an estimate of the institu- tion he criticises which is so far from being borne out by facts that the only impression produced on tbe mind' of thinking men and women is one of amazement at, the displayed lack of knowledge, then the very force of criticisms thatimight otherwise have been helpful is bit,: and made of no avail. The Stmday-school world would be readier to listen to, and profit by,censure and criticism from such an Outside oritio as the eminent educationist, Pirofeesor Emile de Laveleye,of the University of 'Liege, Belgium, whose words in this connection are well worth re- membering: "The Sunday -school is one of the Strongest foundations of the republican institutions otthe United States." • . i Canada. —Viriniam Williams, a young man of Bat- tersea, took a boat, and, tying a stone about his neck, jum d overboard after rowing to the middle ofl the stream. : —At a coll °Um taken up one night not long ago at a farewell meeting to the Sal- vation Army Klondike • party, in Toronto, the sum of $ ,010 was realized. — John Matthews, of Simcoe, who was well and fa orably known, and who had been collect r of Customs there for a great iiiimber of years, died Saturday morning. ,—John A' the only son of Hugh John i Macdonald, Of Winnipeg, and the grandson Srof the late iJohn A. Macdonald, is not ,expected to,live. He has been operated on for appendkitis. —The announcement is Made that His Honor, the ;Lieutennnt Governor, bas been pleased to opoint William Perkins Bull and Miss Clara rett Martin as notaries public for the Pro ince of Ontario. —It is nderstood that Lord Aberdeen, aceording o latest advices, expects to re- main in Ca ada until September, 1899, mak- ing a six y ars' term. The English Govern- ment ther fore feel no need of hurry as to the que3ti n of his successor. —Robbi ,a five-year-old son of Rev. J. L. Strong of Sour Springs, Tuscarora re- serve, for erly of St. Jude' a church, Brant- ford, was rowned in a cistern at his home Wednead y last week. The little boy was playing a ound the house and fell in. —ores fires, a result of the dry and wards we ther'are raging all along the line of the K ngaton and Pembroke railway. They wer not caused by sparks from loco- motives, s ut from farmers setting fires to destroy srush and stubble. They soon got beyond ontrol. , —Com encing May 1st, the Grand Trunk Railway will lay 80 -pound, rails between Toronto, Hamilton, NiagaralFalls and Port Huron ; Buffalo, Fort Erie and Windsor. This wil mean the employment of a large staff of en for the entire summer season. — A iet wedding took place in Trinity church, t.Thomas,last week,when Mr.James S. 'Brie e , proprietor of the Journal and Montre I Hsrald, was united in marriage to i Miss Arcs Gunge, daughter of Col. B. W. Gunge of St. Thomas. Rev. Canon Hill perform d the ;ceremony. —Lie t. Joly de Lotbiniere, son of the M heists of Inland Re venue, arrived in Halifax last we k on the steamship Lake Superior. He is returning from India, where he was on aotij,e service in the frontier trouble. Be wasj seriously wounded, and is on his • way to iie home near Quebec to reou rate. —Twlo graduates of the Royal Military College h 'ye been asked to join the United States n vy in case of war with Spain. They h v been offered large salaries for their se 'cesand are seriously considering the pr4p' sition. Gunner Ross, "A " -Bat- tery, u ht his discharge the other day, and left f r United States domains to join the Ya k e troops. —Mr Mem Cowan, had his large stone reaiden4s on the West River road, about half a from Galt, totally destroyed by fire one ternoon last week. It originated by a sp from the kitchen chimney. The loss is ially covered by $1,800 insurance in the rth Dumfries and South Waterloo Farina Mutual. Some household effects were say d. —It e vidently intended to make King- ston pe. ttentiary, a place of punishment with al the meaning of the word. After having d prived the convicts of their tobaoco stir, he order has gone forth that they be ur h r deprived of sugar for their tea and bet r for their bread. The convicts find th ry fare, but what they get of it is wholes e and substantial. — M ..Cope, widow of the late Mr. Jacob Cope, o Copetown, whose grandfather found d he village over a century ago, died at the idence of her son-in-law, Mr. John Kerne, amilton. one day hust week. Mrs. Cope reached the age of 89 years. She WRS b4 in Cobourg, but went to Copetown 82 ye re ago, passing through Hamilton on the a . lithe lived in tlutvillage over 60 years. —Aln old man named P ter Chantler, a lsbor r iving near the waterworks' pump - "Mute a Woodstock, committed suicide on Satur a morning last by *miring himself fram4 am in Mr. John Lie, dsay's barn.The man la recently shown.siga of mental der- angei$e t, probably caused by inability to work t rough illness. —A serious break in the canal at St. Cath r es between looks' _23 and 24 was covered only in tine one night last week avoid what might have been the desir o ion of Munro and Roantree's mill at Thor 1. The heavy current washed out part f the bank on the north side of the flum the extent of &belt? four feet wide by e en feet deep, allowing the water to rash with great force. ' For a time the safe f the mill was feared, as the water was '30 g in with such force as to endanger 1 . 1 I s • . the foundation, which, had it given' way, would have wrecked the whole building.The water was drawn eff and workmen set to repair the damage. Their efforts were fruit- less, as the heavy pressure and strong cur- rent penetrated it a second time, whieh will necessitate the drawing off of- the whole level to get at the bottom of the break. —The Son Jose scale seems to infest the outskirts of the city of St. Catharines very badly, and the res all of the examination now being is that Aaron Cole will have to out down 300 trees, while James McBride and P. Bogardus will have to dear out al- most their entire orchards; When Ald. Beattie first brought up this San Jose scale matter for prompt action he was laughed at, but the laugh has all gone now: --Reports from southern Manitoba are that seeding operations were general in east- ern localities. Around Morris, Roland, Emerson, Letellier, St. Jean and Grans farmers were sowing all last week. In Gladstone district seeding began a few days later. The Portage plains district hae been ready for seeding for several days. The season is nearly a month ahead of last year in the Red River Valley, where the high water' retarted Needing operations. — Mr. J. J. Kelso, Provincial Superintend- ent of Neglected Children, who went to Winnipeg about two weeks ago to speak before a committee 04 the Manitoba Legis- lature, on the care at neglected and desti- tute children, is now engaged in a similar work in British Columbia. His visit to Manitoba has been successful, and there is every probility that the Manitoba Govern- ment will adopt a system for the dare of neglected children similar to that- of the Ontario Government. • — The death took place lest week, at the residence of her on, Wallace Harrington, lot 18, conceesion 9,East Zorra, of Catherine Morns, widow of the late Jared Harrington, a well known firmer of tbe township, who died some twenty years ago. Mrs. Herring- ton was one of the oldest residents of the district, having resohed the advanced age of 92 years and 6 months. For 62 years she had lived in the neighborhood. —Early last Saturday morning fire broke out in Olmetead'S mills, Sutton, which were ,reduced to robes in a short time. It was then thought all danger was over, but about x o'clock another blaze started in the out- buildings of a private residence, from there the fire spread, and in a short time every building ut the centre of the town had been attacked and some completely destroyed. Estimated lose is about $100,000 but it is believed most of the buildings were partly insured. — A fearful concussion took place at Ottawa Monday •night, caused by the ex- plosion of °a large quantity of dynamite stored in the Ottawa Powder Company's mill between Hull and Ironsides. The dynamite factory is about six miles from Ottawa, but the concussion broke numerous plate -glass windows, both in Ottawa and Hull, and shook nearly every building in the city to its foundation. The factory then caught fire, and was burned to the ground. About five years ago this same factory was blown up and two men killed. —Another shooting affair occurred one morning last week about three miles out of Picton, when Adelbert Wyoott went to Mr. Alva Carson's homeand shot him, after hav- ing had a few unpleasant words, the outcome of a past quarrel between them. After re- turning home Wycott sent his wife out to inquire how badly his neighbor was shot. While she was away, however, he took a large dose of carbolic acid, and died a few hours after. Wycott attempted suicide while in Kingston last winter. He leaves a widow and one daughter. —A sad accident happened it Bowman- ville last week, on the farm of Mr. M. Burk, south of the town,- whereby Louis Terry, aged 16, last his life. The boy was driving a team -attached to a field roller, when he fell off, the roller passing over his body, breaking his ribs and rupturing his heart. Just how the accident happened will never be known, but it is thought that he dropped .one of the lines, and in reaching for it fell, and the -roller passed over him. Not com- ing into dinner, another brother went out to the field and foundhim lying there quite dead and the horses standing near by. —J. D. King & Co., the well-known Tor- orto shoe manufactures, are having trouble with their rnen,and a big strike is on. Just before noon one day last week 42 men in the buttoning department quit work and as a result the whole establishment is closed down and between 275 and 300 employees are temporarily out of work. The immedi- ate inciting cause of the strike is the dis- charge of two employees who are members of a union that was organized in the works, but the struggle has resolved itself into a fight between employees and employers for recognition of the Labor Union. —The spook hunters of Mille Roches, a few miles from Cornwall, have a sensation which seems rather difficult to fathom. A couple of weeks ago a woman's hand appear- ed in a pane of glass in the residence of John Martin, and since that date it has been seen by hundreds of reliable persons„ who scorn the supernatural, yet are at a loss to explain what they have with their own eyes seen. The hand is only visible from a certain hour in tke afternoon, and is clearly defined, with an unintelligible in- scription underneath it. The superstitious - connect the apparition with a recent death in the family. —A sad shooting accident maimed. at Prescott one day last week. Four young bofs named Horwood, White, West and Murphy, all from the same town, went down to Spencer's island shooting duck. One of the boys 'saw some ducks, but the range' was too far to shoot, and laid the gun down in the boat with the trigger raised. Young West was baling out the boat, when it gave a lurch, and the gun went off, completely shattering Harry Murphy's leg near the thigh. He was brought to shore, but died from loss of blood before medical 'lid could reach him. Murphy was a son of Mr. John Murphyonistoms officer, of Prescott. —One morning last week fire destroyed two dwellings owned by Mr. R. Boyle, of Colborne. The blaze started in the one ten- anted by Mr. A. Wheable, and he, being aroused by one of hie children, proceeded downstairs, only to find tr e lower part on fire and was forced to jump from an upper window to the ground. He secured a ladder and saved his fluidly from the burning build- ing, dressed in their night clothes. A piano and nearly all the effects were destroyed. Insured for $500. To. save the adjoining hones was impossible, and the family were awakened and taken out, with all their household effect'', in safety. Insurance on ooth buildings $600. —Mr. W. L. -,Dawson, of Guelph, who i fell downstairs n Bell's factory about five years ago, is a cured man, and claims that faith did it. In this fall he injured his spine, causing paralysis in both legs. He has since been confined to his bed, more or less, and was pronounced incurable. On the strength of the medical evidence given he has receiv- ed three yearly instalmeats from the total disability claim of the Royal Templar' of Temperance funds. One day not long ago he clame that he was prompted to put aside his crutches and the conveyance he used in moving about, and to get up and walk. He followed the promptings and immediately left the vehicle and found that he could walk as well as beforethe accident occurred. He attended church the following Sunday, and is apparently cured. --Owing to the death of Cardinal Tascher- eau there is already a good deal of specu- lation as to who will be the next Canadian prince of the Church. It is generally express- ed in Montreal that Archbishop Bruchesi will be honored with the high dignity, but many are of the opinion that the Arch- bishops of Toronto, Ottawa, or Halifax have a prior claim. • —John Walton, jr.'a farmer living on the Ilth line of East Zorra, hid the narrow- est call for his life on April 5th he ever had. It occurred at the Dundee' etreet crossing of the St. Thomas branch of tjle Canadian Pacific Railway, at Woodstock. Mr. Walton was going into town with a load of hay and had reached the crossing before he noticed the swift approachaof the west bound express. Mr. Walton whipped his horses up and °leered the track just as the head of the engine caught the end of the reaoirpole. The load was jarred somewhat, but was not tipped. The horses attempted to run away, but were got under control be- • fore an damage was done. —Another of the very old men who are residents of Galt passed away about noon Thursday, April l4th,in the person of Thos. Blyth,whose death occurred at the residence of his siater-in-law, Mrs. David Blyth. The deceased- was a sturdy Bootehman, being born in Fifeshire in_1816, and emigrated to this country, as so many of its pioneers have done, when but a young man of 18 year*. Be settled in Ottawa, then called Bye -Town, and after working there for several years removed to Brantford. He was a cooper by trade and worked at that occupation in Brentford,' for a long time, being a resident of that oity for over 50 years. About four - years ago hercaine to Galt and has reidded there since. A Perth Notes. — Mr. George Scott, of Harmony, left a short time ago for Virden, Manitoba. —Mr. ;Robert Barlett, of Des Moinee, Iowa is visiting his mother in Mitchell. — Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wade, of Dakota, are at present in Mitchell, visiting Mrs. Thomas Ford, sr. — Alexr Drummond and C. A. Cameron have leftiNorth Easthope to reside on their new farnis in the township of Logan. . —Mr. :Edward Kruspe has left the em- ploy of Messrs. Ford & Company, of Mit- chell, to accept a position in Detroit. —Mr. W. Hurlburt, of • Mitchell, has rented his fifty acre farm on the second con- cession of Hibbert, to Mr. Thomas Pullman. I ---Ald. J. L. Bradshaw and Mr. J. H. lKenner, of Stratford, who have spent the past seven weeks in England and Scotland, arrived home last week. — Miss Bessie Bell, of St. Marys, left-Jast week for Boston, where she will be the guest of her uncle, Professor Black, of Harvard University. —Mr. Albert Johnston, son of Mr. George Johnston'of St. Marys, has gone to Galt, where he has secured's situation in Cowan's hardware store. — Mr. Hunter, of Galt, son-in-law of -Mr. J. D. Moore, .who is now a partner in the firm, has removed to St. Marys. His fam- ily will follow later. i —Mr. W. S. Duncan, of Stratford, for- merly proprietor of the shoddy mill there, has purchased a fruit farm near Beamsville, and will move his family there at an early ate. ' —Hon. Thomas and Mrs. Ballantyne, of Stratford, returned recently from the Hot Springs, Arkansas, where- they spent a month. Both are greatly improved in health, Mr. Ballantyne especially being benefitted by the waters. • —3. A. Begg, Mrs. .Begg and two sons, of Innerkip, with Miss Adams,of St. Marys, Mb on April 5th, on a pleasure trip to the Pacific Coast. The trip will include Califor- nia with British Columbia,, returning by some southern route. The party will be absent a month.- -George Patterson, junior clerk in the - local branch of the Bank of Commerce, of Stratford, has been removed to the Berlin branch. His place will be taken by MT. Lynch, of St. Marys. Mr. Patterson de- parture from the city will be regretted by a large circle of friends. — Mr. W. Thomson'of Mitchell, arrived home from the south last week. He had a very pleasant visit to his son, Dr. F. L. Thomson, at Gilmer Texas, and then he took a run down to New Orleans, and haw the country through the State ofLouisiana and the great Mississippi river. =On Wednesday of last week, Mr. Mark Drake, who was born in the neighborhood of Staffs, after a little over akweek's illness, passed to his long home, 1ea7eing a widow and four small children to mourn his loss. He was highly respected, and much regret is felt over his death. —The town council of Mitchell held • a special meeting one evening last week, to let the contract for a granolithie sidewalk on the south side of Main street, from the mar- ket to the opera house. The contract was let to Mr. Mills, of Ingetioll, and the work is to be completed by Mit itth. — -Mr. Money, of Mito-hell, painter and decorator, had a Ina fall one ay last week. He was working at the house of Mr. Fred Ross, when the plank on which he was standing', which rested on two high trestles, gave way, and he was thrown to the floor, lighting on his hip. • No bones were broken, but bad bruises were sustained. —Bandmaster Smith, of Stratford, has accepted a situation with Brook's Chicago Marine Band, as ;solo clarionetist. He has given notice of his intention to resign the leadership of the battalion band and of St. James' church choir, of that city. The Marine Band will spend most of the sum - met in Philadelphia. —One night last week, safe-craokers en- tered the office at Gillies & Marten's foun- dary, Listowel, drilled a hole through Beyond the damage to the safe no harm was done as there was no mewy in it the door of safe and blew it open. The Imperial hotel was also broken into the same night and some hiquor, cigars and eat- ables taken. No trace has been found of the burglars. ' —A pleasant affair took place at the resi- dence of Mr. Richard Babb, Riverview Villa. Mitchell, last week, when his, daugh- ter, Mks Jelina,,was married to Mr; Foster De Coursey Hutehiruson, merchant, of Staffa; The ceremony was performed by Ret W. Holmes, in the presence of a large number of guests. The bride was highly esteemed in Mitchell, which was shown by the many wedding presents. —After an illnees of six weeks, during the later part of which he lay at the point. of death and the end looked for by his friends at any time, William A. Purcell, the third son of Joseph J.Purcell died at his residence, in Listowel,on Saturday, April 9th, of peri- tonitis. The deceased was n young man 22 years, 6 months and -24 days of age and leaves a young Widow and two children, a son. aged 3 years and a daughter 6 months old. Mr. Purcell has lived all his life in that. town and was employed for the past 8 years with Messrs. Thompson Bros. as a clerk in their dry goods store,where he was welliked both by his employers and the oust/others. He was married to Minnie, daughter of the late Jonathan. Wilson who is about the same age an her husband and who is left by hie sad death to face the world with her young children. —Howard W. Thomson, druggist,. of Stratford, returned recently from a kip to Toronto, where he had been attend; in a meeting of the executive com- mxttee of the Canadian Lacrosse Association. Mr. Thomson is one of the ten members of ' the executive. Amongst other matter's taken up was the re -installation of win coppin, the Mitchell player, who het sum- mer played with Stratford &gaunt Berlin. —Married, an April 8th, ei the residence of Richard Coghlinia liEhna by the Rev. Dr. Williams, of Lilt() el, Iler! J. Pope, of Toronto, to Miss essie B. ' Hamilton, of Rime, formerly of Atwood. The wedding was aquiet one, only relatives ands. few i - very ntimate friends being present. The young couple are well known in Atwood, Mr. Pope having run a harness shop thole for some time. The good wishes of Their friend's thereabouts go with them in their n ewlifel —Bhe death of Mr. Jas. Newell, who paased away Sunday morning, April 10th, outh Easthope loses one of its -oldest sett- lers. Deceased was widely known andbighly respected. For SiX months past he had been afflicted with gangrene in the foot, which finally caused his demise._ Eighty-two years ago he was born in the county of Down, Ire - band, and emigrated to this country hi the year 1854, settling on lot 42, con, 4, South Easthope, where he resided ever since. His - wife and six children most of whom are married, survive hi. ; — Mrs. Wm. Knott, of Carlingford, about twelve miles from Stratford, was found dead in the doorway of her house one day last week. She had evidently risen to get some wood for the stove, and had fallen And ex- pired instantly in the doorway. The child. ran were out at a neighbour's, and no one Was with her at the time. Death WAR due to heart failure. She was a native of Sligo, Ireland, and ovas seventy years old. She leaves a husband and a family of seven. —A; fair-sized audience attended - the closinreoncert of the Mike -ten Literary, Society, f held a short time ago. A good programnie was rendered, the following taking part I The Misses Roney, McCal- lum and Mr. McCauley, of Stratford'Miss Reid, Mrs. J. B. Weir and J. Stewart, of Millbank A. Davidson, of Newton,' and Misses L. TVhite, P. Griffin and Mr.Beirnes, of Milverton. President D. Smith occupied the chair. The proceeds amounted to about $20. The society has been a grand success this season, and, in consequence, the public library fund will be increased about $60. —A qukt but pretty matrimonial event took place one day last week, ah the resi- dence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Thomas Edwards, of Stratford, when her youngest daughter, Miss Clara H.'was united in the bonds of wedlock with Mr. A. D. Runei- man, a well known and popular young man now attending the Central Business College, Stratford. Rev. M. L. Leitch performed the ceremony. The bride is a much esteem- ed member of the Central Methodistchurch, Stratford. The groom is a native Of Gode- rich. After finishing his course at the Business College Mr. and Mrs. Runciman wilb —Thomasreside Fn4Ge I:de beer n ir cah. d Isaac Ferris were going into St. Marys- on Monday morning on top of a load of hay, driving a spirited team of horses. When near the Grand Trunk Railway crossing west of the junction station they stopped to allow a west -bound freight train to pass. The horses, however, became unmanageable and ran against the side of the passing engine,- overturning .the wagon: load. Mr. Ferris was instantly killed and Mi. Fuleher was badly, but not Beriously injured. Both heroes were more or less hurt, one of them beyond recovery. The wagon and harness aro a total wreck. —Stratford had 'some visitors from the , other side of the earth last week, in the per. • sons of Mr. Wesley Spragg and his tlaugh- . ters, Mary and Muriel. MT. Spragg comes from Auckland, New Zealand. He is mana- ger of the New Zealand Dairy Association, of Auckland, and is on his way to England. He landed at San Francisco, and has stop- ped off at different points on his long jour- ney from sea to sea. He is incidentally packing up all the information which he can upon the dairy industry of this ossuary and the United States. Mr. Spragg was conducted around the city by Hon. Thomas Ballantyne. Accompanied by that gentle- man, he visited the Black Creek and Seto ringville cheese factories. —Mr. Chas. A. Cameron'son of Mr. John Cameron,lot 66, con. 6,North Easthope, was quietly married on Wednesday, April 13th, to Mies Nellie Campbell, eldest daughter of Mr.; Donald Campbell, of North Easthope, by Rev. M. L. Leitch,at thermos. in Strat- ford. Only a very few were present, the services of groomsman and hrideamaid hav- ing been dispensed with. The ceremony over, the party returned to the home of the groom's father where lunch was served. The Toms couple are well known in the city and in North Easthope and their friends wish them a long and happy wedded life. They will reside on lot 5, eon. 8, Logan, Where Mr. Cameron recently purchased a farm. David Catlin, .on — Mr; JAMS Callin, J. P., of North Easthope, died at the home of his father, early on Tuesday morning, April 12th, at the,sge of 24 years and two monthe. Last October the deceased was taken to bed with a very severe attack of pleurisy, from the effects of which he never survived. During the winter, hope* were held out for his recovery., but for the putmontli or two he showed signs of de- cline, and it was conceded that death was only a matter of 11 Short time. Mr. Callin svas of a kindly and sociabledispoeition, and won a host of friends whose 'sympathy will be extended to his sorrowingfether and broth- ers and sisters in Melt loss. It will he re- membered that only it short time ago death deprived Mr. ,.John Collin- of his wife, making the two deaths inside of a year., —Thomas Armstrong, a pioneer of the township of Blanshard, -aged 81 years, died at his residence on Sunday, Apri1,10th, after an illness:of four weeks. Be WM the last of eleven, most of whom came to this country, early in life. He was born in the county of Fermanagh, Ireland, and came to Canada in 1844, remaining a short time at Kingston, soon came west, and located on the farm where, hrough hie industry, he soon made a comfortable home, where he lived until a few years before his death. He was married in 1846; to his much esteemed partner, Agnes Switzer, who now survives him, they having passed the fifty -mile mark of married life in 1896. In religion he was a Methodist, being prominently associated with the early history of Methodism in the township. In politics he was an independ- ent Conservative, keeping Well posted in public questions. Besides his respected partner eleven of a family survive him,