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The Wingham Advance, 1904-03-17, Page 64 is: • TTNB WINGIAM ADVANCE, 11. WINGUAM'S DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS HOUSE You'll Find at your Ritchie's Easter the best material for Gowns Now is the time to get the material for it, and Ritchie's is emphatically the place. It will be a dream of loveliness this year, for the new Dress Goods at Ritchie's are especially exquisite. Light weight fabrics, soft and clinging, such as Voil, Etamine, Crepe De Cihene; Silk Eoliennes. They are all here in great variety; they are so pretty; a great range of color—Basque, Fancy Shades, lighter shade of green, also the moderate colors. The tweeds are light too, but so firm they can be made up without lining. Our lines of Black Dress Goods was never so complete, in lighter weights for even- ing wear, also heavier ones fol street wear—ranging in prices from 50c to $3.00 per yard. We want your trade, we will use you well ; will sell you the best goods for least money. RITCHIE'S - for - Drees Goode & Trimm'gs A Alex. Ritchie BEAVER BLOCK - WINGIIAM RITCHIE'S for Carpets, Rugs, Etc. ielPEofiErrlificE:IMIKF:OO*f*6-ESE4:EfEC1f*C W Tirne To • y?�i>+*jSi t • Think • Now is the time M to think of what 4131.334"4"339/""3"4"°new piece of Fur- niture will be required. Now is the season of the good housewife's discontent. So much to do to make the , house spick and span, and get ready to greet the longed for glorious spring that is to come. Just as soon as freight begins to move we will place in. our store some new designs in Iron Beds, Bedroom Suites, Sideboards and Dining -room Chairs, which we will be pleased to show you. 6 more of those quick -selling Sideboards, regular $13.00, for $11.50 UNDERTAKING Residence—Patrick St., Sth house west of Hamilton's Drug Store. Night calls receive prompt at- tention. 1 Ball Bros. The People's Furniture Store SEEDS! SEEDS! T. A. Mills has just com- pleted his stock of Garden and Field Seeds. Common . Red, Mammoth, Alsike and Lucerne Clovers Timothy Seed, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Red Top, White Clover, Lawn Grasses. A new lot of Corns and full line in Mangolds, Carrots, Sugar Beets, Rape and Tur- nip Seeds. When in the market to buy see my Seeds. T. A. MILLS w•• w▪ + wait oval w▪ in wee *00 we 4.00 MVO w d wr w. KAI --5 w▪ ade .:-. WINIP MARCH, 1904. S, Sun l\l'n Tue We Th Fri. Sat 1 2 3 4 5 2 13 14 510 157 18 1.9 19 20 21 22 23 21 25 26 27 2$ 29 30 31 .... 0.40 ' ijexn nut l,himnxe THEO. BALL, PROPRIETOR. x arxz.L.}e —Statistics show that in a single year the eggs produced in the United States have been worth more than two -hundred and fifty million dollars. —It is now said that the route of the Grand Trunk Pacific will be north of Lake Nipigon, instead of south, as originally proposed. The country north of the lake is decrib- ed as fine for farming purposes, while the route also offers a grade that is very satisfactory for railway building. —The Weekly Sun says : "The fiercest blizzard of the season was prevailing in Toronto while Mr. Pettypiece was delivering his speech on the equalization of taxa- tion. But that blizzard was noth- ing to the storm which will break out if the Government fails to im- pose upon railways the same sys- tem of taxation that is applied to farm property, and if it fails to allow the major part of the reve- nues raised to go to the munici- palities. tablished the trade on a permanent basis, by rendering it more respect- able and by entrenching it in the affections of both politicians and taxpayers through the large Gov- ernment revenue derived there- from. Therefore resolved, That though we should be bitterly dis- appointed if the advanced legisla- tion promised were not forthcom- ing, yet we would rather have the present license system, with all its glaring defects, than Government control," —The Weekly Sun says : The latest trust to afflict the farmer is in the form of a combination of the Ontario oatmeal millers. This trust controls 90 per cent. of the oatmeal mills in the Province, and will soon be in a position to prac- tically arrange meal prices to suit itself, and to largely control the prices of oats as well. Last De- cember oatmeal was selling at $1.72 to $1.75 per bag in Montreal; to- day the price is $2.15 per bag, and the end is not yet. —There is room for further de- velopment of the trade in poultry with the old land. Last year the export of chickens to Great Brit- ain was materially reduced on ac- count of the great demand in Can- ada. The poultry exports from Canada to Great Britain were only $160,518, a small proportion of the $5,154,092 imported by the mother country. The greatest value of poultry was exported from Russia, Belgium, France and the United States. Each of these countries shipped over $1,000,000, worth. —Manchuria, which was taken by Russia from China, may prove to be the scene of muck land fight- ing. Port Arthur is the important Russian stronghold of the territory. Manchuria corresponds in latitude to Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska. Its area of 362,310 square miles is only 10,000 square miles less than the combined area of these great grain States. It is two 'and one- half times greater than California and is as big as Texas, Alabama and Louisiana combined. In the northern part of the province are thousands of square miles of rich wheat land entirely untouched. Manchuria has a possible wheat area as great as that of the United States. —Two hundred million bushels of grain pass through the Chicago gateway in a single year. In the development of this business Chi- cago elevators have become of huge importance. Chicago has an ele- vator storage capacity of 50,000,- 000 bushels of grain—the regular houses 37,000,000, and the grain her efforts, transport, possesses two • railway lines tothe sea. This town will soon have ten mills running, with a daily capacity of 4,600 barrels of flour, 4-,A.nd there are more mills in other parts of Manchuria, Now, if this enormous develop- ment could 'be brought about by means of white colonization, even the most rabid Russophobe could not help favoring Russia's posses- sion of Manchuria. It would sim- ply be a case of Caueasian versus Mongolian. But a white colonization is im- possible. These fertile vallbys are already occupied by a race of tillers of soil, Even if Russia repeated over and over again her horrible methods of Blagovestschensk, she could not kill off those Mongolian peasants. And if she could do it, the teeming millions of China's population would soon frustrate "hospitals," where grain is dried` and cleaned or mixed for grades, 13,000,000. Within recent years there have been as high as 30,000,- 000 bushels of grain in storage in Chicago. Nomore tremendous example of the daily readjustment of traffic conditions can be had than in the story of the downfall of the elevators in the economy of transportation. Two years ago these elevators held 12,000,000 bushels ; last year their store had shrunk to 9,000,000 bushels; to- day it is 4,000,000 bushels. There is just as much grain as ever, but prosperity has so intrenched the Western farmer that he is no long- er compelled to sell on the day that he threshes out his crop. Moreover, the constant trend in railroad affairs is to transport com- modities without re -handling. —According to an official report recently received in Ottawa, the fortifications at Esquimalt, Z. C., have been greatly strengthened. Large guns weighing thirty tons each arrived lately from England, and have been placed at the top of the hill that commands the harbor. The cost of these guns was $26,000 each, and they are said to throw a 380 -pound projectile a distance of five miles on the level, and seven from an eminence. A. battery of quick -firing guns is also being in- stalled to cover the entrance to the harbor, where extensive mines have been laid. This strengthen- ing of the fortifications at the pres- ent juncture is, no doubt, due to the fact that, in case Great Britain should become involved in the war in the Far East, it would be neces- sary for Canada to be well pre- pared, especially along the Pacific coast. Jap And Russian Contrasted. The Japanese have shown great shrewdness as well as moderation by assuming a protectorate over Corea instead of annexing it. They have guaranteed its independence and entered into alliance with it. By this act they have secured the good will of the Coreans and the assistance of the Corean army of 20,000 men. They have also given a guarantee to the world of the liberality of their policy and made their success in the war a result to be desired by all the trading peo- ples of the world for their own in- terests. In regard to their pro- gress and intentions the Japanese are "saying nothing, but sawing wood." The Russians, on the contrary, are still alternately blustering about the great things they are go- ing to do' and whining about the "yellow peril"; trying to make out that ,the success of the Japa- nese would result in the supremacy of the yellow races over the white races. If it did amount to that, the world would suffer less from the supremacy of a yellow confederacy headed by Japan than it would if Russia could establish her suprem- acy over all other nations. But as a matter of fact the "yellow peril" is a mere figment of the imagina- tion as far as the present genera- tion is concerned. As an indication of their disposi- tion toward the peoples whose lib- erties are at stake in the war, the Russians have ` issued terrible threats as to what they will do to the people of Manchuria if they dare to show sympathy with the army that has come to set them free. —The W. C. T. U. of London is opposed to Premier Ross' proposed temperance legislation, and last week unanimously passed the fol- lowing resolution :—"Whereas it is feared from hints thrown out by the Government organs and sup- porters, that a bill, including amongst other provisions the Gov- erntnent Control of the liquor traf- fic, is to be introduced at this NOP sion of the Ontario nouse ; and whereas, this system where tried, has neither lessened the sale nor Lie' ,evils of the liquor and has att- IMPORTANCE OF MANCHURIA. What she is going to do if she is given a free hand, is to develop the country with money borrowed from other nations, to insure, if neces- sary,'the labor of the native hus- bandmen by making them serfs or mere slaves. She will then swamp the world with the produce of the country, and at the same time exclude it from having a due share in that increased wealth which is sure to pour into Manchuria. Ultimately, by enrolling the Mongolians under the banner of the White Czar she will dictate terms to the civilized world.—Philadelphia Ledger. By exerting all her force, first for acquiring and now for retaining Manchuria, Russia makes a bid for the possession of one of the vastest wheat -producing areas known in the history of the world, an area, which when fully opened up and developed, will bring about almost a revolution in' the international division of labor, and will change Britain's dependency on the pro- duce of the American wheat lands into a dependency or Manchuro- Russian harvests. East will meet West, and the West will not like it. The agriculture of the immense valleys of the Liao and the Sungari is a thing ' already in existence, while capital, railways and steam- ers will extend it beyond the dreams of the most vivid imagina- tion. Concerning the land watered by the Liao and its tributaries, some 62,500 square miles, the United States Consul in Newchwang says that its largest part can be culti- vated, and that almost every acre through which the Chinese Eas- tern Railway passes is under culti- vation. It already exports some $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs each year ; its soil of sandy loam, so easily worked, which to -day pro- duces more pulse and millet than any other part of the world, will lend itself prominently to wheat production of the first quality. The lands that are drained by the Sungari are specially adapted for the eultivation of wheat. The cereal has always been grown there for local consumption. Even with the present primitive methods, thirty bushels to the acre can be obtained, and bad crops and fam- ines are practically unknown. Already a promising milling in- dustry has sprang up at Harbin, which, besides the cheep river MONEY To LOAN -11.t 4t' per cent. on improved farms. 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See them in our window. it ac $1.99 Per Set. sir dr l Maple Syrup icTheirid goothatd you by the Quart or Gallon. Not put up $1.35 Per Gallon. Marmalade Oranges fashioned can buy in tins. The season for making Marmalade is now here and to make it properly you must have the right kind of Oranges—the better ones from Seville. zo cts. and 25 cts. Per Doz. at Griffin's OC 21( OC MC afi▪ C 114 VC IC Homuth Bros. TAILORS and GENTS' FURNISHERS Removed. We have removed to the store lately occupied by Jno. and Jas. II. Kerr in the Mac- donald Block. Call on us there. Your esteemed orders shall re- ceived careful attention.