The equity, 13 août 2008, Supplément

[" 'I'llK EQUITY ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY.BY SMITH & COWAN, Editors and Proprietors TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Equity.Vol.1 BRYSON, COUNTY OF PONTIAC, QUE., JUNE 7,1883 No.1 One dollar a year, in advance, one dollar and fifty cents if not paid till the end of the year ADVERTISING TERMS Transient advertisements.8 cents per line for first insertion, 2 cents for every subsequent insertion Professional cards, 6 lines or less, per year $4 00 Contracts by the year at reasonable rates Parties advertising by the year will be expected to pay for the same quarterly Correspondence solicited from all £arts of the county.Correspondents are particularly requested to write in a moderate style, and sign their communications.THE EQUITY Office is replete with the newest designs of Job Printing Material, and the proprietors are prepared to execute every description of plain and fancy work in a superior manner Office, on Main Street, opposite the Forest House.B.T.SMITH\tJ.A.COWAN Professional Cards ^R.E.H.Rouleau - Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur.Office - Cobb Street, Bryson 1J.E.Shepherd, M.D.Graduate Victoria College.Tororjlo, M.C.P.S.Nova Scotia and M.C.P.S.Quebec.Diseases of Women and Children specially treated.Office.Portage-du Fort QEO.E.JOSEPH, M.D.C M.Pembroke, Ont.^(successor to Dr.Lafferty).Graduate of McGill University, Montreal, Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario.Office - First door east of the Observer Office, where he can be found at all hours.Q P.RONEY, L.L.B.ADVOCATE, Barrister, Solicitor &c Office and Residence, Portage du Fort, P.Q.Attends all Courts in County and Superior Court at Aylmer.J J.ST.JULIEN, ADVOCATE.Barrister &c &c., * for the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.A commissioner for taking Affidavits for Ontario.Office and residence, Portage-du Fort.N .B.Will follow all the Courts of the District of Ottawa.THE FOREST HOUSE - R.Me.RITCHIE, Woprietor Spacious Sample Rooms.Every attention paid to guests.First Class Tables.Choice Liquors in the Bar.QCCIDENTAL HOUSE, Duke St., Chaudière, Ottawa, Leonard Link, Proprietor.Good accommodations for the travelling public.The best dollar a day house in the city.Wm.McVBXOH \u201cKeeps\u201d In storage Teas, Tobaccos Sugars, Htc, Htc.exceptionally good and at prices to suit all buyers.LIQUORS: As he is making a speciality of this branch of business parties may rely upon getting the very best article in the market, either for medicinal or other use.A call solicited.Wm McVEIGH Bryson, June 7, 1883 SBO.LETTS, Main Street, \u2022 \u2022 Bryson The subscriber is tendering thanks to the public for the very liberal patronage extended to him since he commenced business in Bryson, wishes to state that he is still alive to its interests, and prepared to fill all order entrusted to him.-:FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE TO ORDER SPINNING WHEELS, YARNS & REELS Manufactured and guaranteed to give satisfaction CHURNS of any pattern or size UNMADE TO ORDER -o- In addition to the above he has opened out a nice stock of Choice Groceries and Confectionery: Teas, Sugars.Syrup, Biscuits, Tobacco, Candied Fruits and Meats, Candies, Soap, Essences, Perfumery and a variety of Fancy Articles AT VERY LOW PRICES! CALL AND SBBI GEO LETTS Bryson, June 7, 1883 T.G.SOMERVILLE, BBNFBBW marble -AND- GRANITE WORKS.MANUFACTURER OF Renfrew Granite and White Marble MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS, CURBING-POSTS and Railings of all sizes and styles T.G.SOMERVILLE Agent Renfrew, June 7, 1883 AGENT Bryson Carding Mill The above Mill has been open since the FIFTEENTH OF MAY and is now running full time and is prepared in do with neatness and dispatch all the Wool Cardlngl for northern Pontiac, in a style and manner which cannot he whipped in the Ottawa Valley o*3 NOTICE Parties from a distance can have wool back with them same day ¦\u2022ad Work Bnarantsad Bryson.June 7.1883.O Wind that Moot out of the Weat O Wind that blows out of the West Thou hast swept over mountain and sea Dost thou bear on they swift, glad wings The breath of my love to me?Hast thou kissed her warm, sweet lips?Or tangled her soft, brown hair?Or fluttered the fragrant heart Of the rose she loves to wear?0 sun that goes down in the West! Hast thou seen my love today, As she sits in her beautiful prime Under skies so far away?Hast thou gilded a path for her feet Or deepened the glow of her cheeks Or beat from the skies to hear The low, sweet words she speaks?0 Stars that are bright in the West When the hush of the night lay deep! Do you see my love as she lies Like a chaste, white flower, asleep?Does she smile as she walks with me In the light of a happy dream, While the night-winds rustle the leaves And the light waves ripple and gleam?0 birds that fly out of the West! Do ye bring me a message from her, As sweet as your love notes are When the warm spring breezes stir?Did she whisper a word of me As your tremulous wings swept by, Or utter my name, mayhap, In a single passionate cry?0 voice out of the West! Ye are silent, every one, And never an answer comes From wind, or stars, or sun! And the blithe birds come and go Through the boundless fields of space As reckless of human prayers As if earth were a desert place.AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER NOTES.THE PROPER TIME TO CUT GRASS \u2014 As the season for cutting a large crop of grass will ere long arrive, these remarks from the report of the analytical columnists of the Department of Agriculture, summing up the results of analysis of nearly all the cultivate grasses are in order: \u201cIt is apparent, then, that in most cases the time of bloom, or thereabouts, is the fittest of cutting grasses in order to obtain the most nourishment and largest relatively profitable crops, and for the following reasons: The amount of water has diminished, and the shrinkage will therefore be less.The weight of the crop will be largest in proportion of the nutritive value of its constituents.The amount of nitrogen not present as albuminoids will be at its lowest point; fibre will not be so excessive as to prevent digestion, and the nutritive ratio will be more advantageous.If cut earlier, the shrinkage is larger, although the fibre is less and albumin is a little larger.The palatability may be increased but the nutrients to the acre will not be so large, and the nutritive ratio will be more abnormal.The disadvantage of late cutting are evident in the increase of fibre, destroying the digestibility of the nutrients and the falling off of the albumen by conversion into amides.This is not made up by the larger crop cut.\u201d GOOD SEED \u2014A correspondent of the Mirror and Farmer, says: - \u201cFew farmers realize the importance of good seed.A person in our town sent, last year, 300 miles for seed potatoes of the leading sorts, investing $40 for what would seem to some a very small amount of seed.Depth FOR CORN PLANTING \u2014At the Experimental Station it is found probable that the compacting of the soil about the seed is of more importance than we have been apt to consider.In the region, probably corn planted under a scant inch of soil, well compacted in the soil and those upon which the soil was cast loosely, the director was not able to understand why machine planting in the former planting gave so much better stand of plant than when the grain was planted by hand; but it seems evident that one value of the Western corn plant is that the wheels passing over the grain after it is deposited press the earth firmly in the contact with the seed.HOT WATER CURE FOR SICKLY PLANTS.\u2014 A Florist asks; \u201chas any one tried hot water as a restorative for sickly plants and then proceeds to say that Mr.Willermoz some time since stated that plants in pots may be restored to good health by means of hot water; ill-heath, he maintains, ensues from acid substances in the soil, which, being absorbed by the roots, sets as poison.The small roots wither and cease to act, the upper and younger shoots consequently turn yellow or become spotted indicative of their morbid state In such cases the usual remedy is to transplant into fresh soil, in clean pots, with good drainage, and this often with the best results.But his experience of several years has proved the unfailing efficacy of the simpler treatment, which consists of watering abundantly with hot water at a temperature of about 140 degrees F., having previously stirred the soil off the pots so far as may be done without injury to the roots Water is then given until it runs freely from the oats, in his experiments the water at first came out clear; afterwards it was sensibly tinged with brown, and gave an appreciable acid reaction.After this thorough washing, the pots were kept warm, and the plants very soon made new roots, immediately followed vigorous growth.SALTING BUTTER\u2014Prof.Johnston says that fresh churned butter contains a quantity of the milk serum (butter milk) which it is one object of salting to remove.When salt is worked into butter, each grain of salt gradually dissolves in the buttermilk and withdraws it from the butter, probably shrinking the bulky, jelly-like casein, just as salt mixed with a jelly of soap shrinks the soap into a small, firm cake, and unites with the water to make bnne If the salt be very fine, the result is, to fill the mass of butter, with a multitude of very small drops of brine which are difficult to work out of the butter.On the other hand, if the sap be very coarse the buttermilk will gather in large drops, easy to work out, but the salt grains will not be entirely dissolved, and will make the butter too salty and gritty to the taste.The proper fineness, therefore, is that which comes just short of occasioning the last named difficulty.so that by its use we remove the buttermilk thoroughly without making an unpleasant surplus of salt in the butter.According to Alexander Muiler, the grains of good dairy salt should have dimensions lying, for the most part, between 1.25 and 1.50 of an inch in diameter PURE WATER FOR COWS.-An anonymous but sensible writer says that \u201ccows are not near so sensitive in the matter of taste as horses, yet this should not be an excuse for negligence in the quality of water furnished them.The stock breeder and the dairyman owe it to themselves to supply their stock with the purest and freshest of water How often should animals be allowed to drink?1 presume were stock allowed free access to water in summer that each individual would drink at least a dozen times during the day If they are not allowed free access to water, but compelled to drink at stated periods, they are quite liable to drink too much.This is one of the greatest advantages of having water in pasture.In winter I am aware that the practice is to water horses perhaps twice a day -morning and night.With cows the practice is to turn them into the yard and allow them to drink what they want during two or three hours.Perhaps an important point upon this plan would be to turn them out for an hour at a time, morning and night.All those who own horses should have some way arranged for taking the chill off water for horses during winter.It will pay to do so.FOR GALLED SHOULDERS\u2014Farm horses are (in some season more than others - wet and warm season especially) subject to galled shoulder and backs, and which, when not timely or properly attended to, are apt to produce troublesome sores.The skin not only is abraded by the collar or saddle parts of the harness, but the flesh irritated and inflamed; and if the irritation is kept up, an ichorous discharge takes place, which is difficult to heal without giving the horse prolonged rest or freedom from work.When a saddle or collar gall is observed, the harness should be looked to, and the pressing points which have caused the sores should be removed.It should be made a rule to sponge the accumulated sweat and dirt from the collar and saddle apart o the harness, as well as from the shoulders and back of the horse, when he comes in from work.THE GARDEN.\u2014Anyone who is going to have a garden should be planning for it now.The country housewife who takes care of her \u201cpence\u2019 will tell you that the tomato plants which she raises from seed started in a box and set in a sunny window, will be much more thrifty than those from a hot-bed and will bear more abundantly.Nothing adds more to the appearance of the meat or fish served on the table than a garnish of some suitable plant and this might be had all through the summer if a little pain is taken; watercress, which is so appetizing, may be sown successively.Endive and parsley also are excellent, and may also be sown at different times during the summer.A little plot of ground and an hour\u2019s work every day, may be made to yield more than one would suppose, never having tried the experiment.One who is curious in such matters kept a strict account and from a piece of ground one and a half rods by two rods, after paying for the seed and ploughing had a clear profit of $12.65, besides having the keen enjoyment which comes from eating the fresh vegetables which grew for him XT-v-VX FARM NOTES.The hog, like the horse, has no extra stomach to store away food, therefore if fed but twice a day and what he will eat, he overloads his stomach, and if the food is not pushed beyond the point where it will digest the stomach is filled so full that a considerable portion of the food fails to come in contact with the lining of the stomach, and thus a very large portion of the nutrients in the food is lost.Experiments prove that a hog thus fed wastes more than one-half of the meal given him.We have no doubt the same is true of the horse when fed large quantities of hay and grain, and fed but twice a day.The culture of the larger fruits would be greatly accelerated if fruit trees were all planted a wide distance, and the intervening space kept under constant cultivation for hoed crops, and attended by constant manuring.Then the trees of themselves alone would require almost no extra work, except that of pruning during the first few years after planting.And still it will probably take a hundred years before some farmers will even hear of this method, and perhaps another hundred to get them to believe in it as the best system.VEGETABLE COOKERY.-Why should beans never be cut into cold water to soak as is often recommended?Because all the nutritious portion of the bean is extracted by the process They should be washed in warm water, then in cold, be tied loosely in a cloth, be put into boiling water, with a spoonful of dripping and a little salt in it and be kept boiling for four hours.They are then excellent if served with gravy, and not with melted butter.They serve as a garnish around roast mutton or beef and are excellent eating served whole or as a puree.To make the latter.When the beans are done throw them instantly into cold water, when the skins will slip off.Rub the beans through a colander and mix a lump of butter with them A little milk or cream is excellent mixed in.Why should plently of fast boiling water be used in boiling vegetables, potatoes excepted?Because the greater the body of boiling water the greater the heat.If only a little water be used the whole affairs soon cools and the vegetables become tough so much so that no length of time in boiling them will render them otherwise.HOW TO SELECT FLOUR.-In selecting flour first look to the colour If it is white, with a yellowish straw colour tint, buy it.If it is white, with a blueish cast, or with black specks in it refuse it.Next examine its adhesiveness \u2014 wet and knead a little of it between your fingers; if it works soft and sticky it is poor Then throw a lump of dried (lour against a smooth surface; if it falls like powder it is bad.Lastly, squeeze some of the flour that will stand all these tests.These modes are given by all old flour dealers, and they pertain to a matter that concerns everybody.Varieties A much abused editor wrote to a brother journalist, calling him an ass, and thoughtlessly signed himself \u201cYours fraternally.\u2019 An Irishman has always an answer for anything.A Corkonian on being asked at breakfast how he came by the \u201cblack eye,\u2019 said he, \u201cslept on his fist\u201d.A boy proposed to his father that he go fishing, but his father had other business for him that day.\u201cFather,\u201d said the young man, \u201cdo you know what Solomom said about young men going fishing?\u201d Solomon didn\u2019t say anything about it, replied the parent.\u201cYes, he did.He said if you spare the rod you spoil the child.\u201d \u201cI won\u2019t spare it,\u201d said the old gentleman promptly.And he didn't.But the son thinks he got ft.Id of the wrong rod.\u201cI don't care what anybody says,\u201d remarked Mrs.Fogg, warmly.\u201cMr.Bolus is a good doctor, and 1 shall employ him as long as I live.\u201cVery likely,\u201d replied Fogg.\u201cI believe it is the same with all his patients.They all employ him as long as they live, that is to say, until he gets through with them.A soldier, when under fire in Egypt for the first time, commenced a strategical movement to the rear.\u201cYou are a wretched coward,\u201d said one of his companions.\u201cPossibly I am\u201d replied the retreating sage; \u201cbut I prefer being a coward for five minutes to being a corpse for all time.\u201d Faint-heartedness would never have won the Vicksburg fair lady who refused her suitor four times, but yielded when he fell on his knees before her in a parlor in the presence of a dancing company and for the fifth time urged his suit.She accepted him on the spot, and appointed a day for the wedding.The largest cable ever made on the Pacific coast was finished at the California Wire Works on Saturday.It is 18,000\tfeet in length, and weighs twenty-six tons.Rolled on a shaft it makes a bundle about twenty feet in diameter and ten feet in depth.It is made of steel wire and cost $20,000.The cable is for the California street railroad.No marriage is legal in France except with the consent of the parents of both parties, but a man or woman over 25 may \u201crespectfully cite\" his or her parents to show good cause why they refuse to consent.If they fail to show good cause the marriage may proceed in spite of them.Such proceedings are rarely resorted to.The northernmost place in the world where rye and oats mature is at Kengis, in the Swedish province of Norbotten, forty-nine miles north of the polar circle, whereas the northernmost part where corn is grown is a Muoniovara, ninety-eight miles to the north of the circle.The rye yields, it is stated, ninety-eight per cent, and the oats about ninety.AN ORIGINAL PETITION\u2014Not long since, Lily, a little girl of five years, after saying her evening prayers, began to indulge in an original petition of her own, varying it according to her moods.She was aware that she had not been particularly good on a certain day, and her evening prayers were thus supplemented: \u201cI pray to the Lord to make Lily a good little girl and if at first you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again.\u201d A Paduach young man took his girl on a fishing excursion to the Illinois lakes.They embarked on an improvised raft, the frail bark soon went to pieces, and the young man tumbled into the water and swam ashore, leaving this terror-stricken girl floating around on a log.The young man walked three miles to the head of the lake, got a skiff, and returned to her rescue.The young lady had given the young fisherman a cold shoulder.How To Kill t Rat Marvelously cunning are rats in recognizing devices for their capture.Toasted cheese and rank fish are the baits commonly employed, since the far-penetrating odor of these lures them to the spot where the trap is set; but in places where they are so plentiful that their resort may be counted upon, nothing is so likely to induce them to enter as a bit of fruit of lettuce, of which they are passionately fond.Another very successful dodge for catching them in a bulk is to strew a room liberally with a highly seasoned thirst-producing food - salt cheeses, or peppercorns and hemp seed - and arrange a bucket of and such like animals are highly absorbent of paper.I knew a fellow who possessed a pet boucket that could do no wrong, until one day it went into his cabin and ate a number of five dollar notes, since which he has looked upon cervidae as a very inferior group and genus caricas as distinctly immoral.Traps they rarely enter.They are suspicious of poison, and if they are beguiled into taking it they get away behind bulkheads and other inaccessible places to die and thus breed a pestilence.Anything with a strong admixture of arsenic will preserve the bodies from corruption, unless they get wet but not one rat in a hundred will even stiff at such compound, and its trial generally results in the poisoning of every domesticated animals on the board ends by its finding its way into the coffee one morning, or something of that sort.Occasionally, however, rats will make a mistake, and it is no uncommon thing to pick them up dead in the holds of ships which carry dned hides, in the preparation of which a great deal of arsenic is used.Boy* Will Be Boy* An exchange says boys will tramp two hundred and forty miles in one day on a hunt and be limber in the evening; when you ask them to cross the street and borrow Jones\u2019 two inch auger, he will be as stiff as a meat block.To be sure he will.And he will go swimming all day and stay in the water three hours at a time and splash and dive, and paddle and puff, and next morning he will feel that unmeasured insult has been offered him when he is told by his mother to wash his face And he\u2019ll wander around a dry creek bed all the evening piling up a pebble fort and nearly die off when his sister wants him to please pick up a basket of chips for the box stove.And he\u2019ll spend the biggest part of his time in trying to corner a stray mule or barebacked horse for ride, and feel that all life\u2019s charms have (led when it comes his turn to drive the cows home.And he\u2019ll turn a ten acre lot upside down for ten inches of angle worms, and wish for the voiceless tomb when the garden demands attention.But all the same, when you want a friend to stand by you and sympathize with you, and be true to you in all kinds of weather, enlist one of these same boys.New» Note* The appointment of Mr.Richey to the Governorship of the Province of Nova Scotia will make a vacancy in the representation of that constituency in the House of Commons.At last election the vote stood: Daly 2,811; Richey 2,785; Jones 2,720; Fuller 2,563.Halifax returns two members.A cable dispatch says James Carey, the notorious informer in the Cavendish Burke tragedy case, will probably be sent to Canada.Heaven forbid.Canada does not want murderers and informers among her population.Carey is as guilty of the slaughter of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.Burke as the unfortunate men who have been hanged for the crime.If the ruffian must live, by all means let him remain in Ireland.Canada does not want such characters.On Saturday a deputation, representing the Irish National Land League of the United States, waited upon President Arthur and presented him with a resolution passed at a recent meeting of the league protesting against the assistance given by the British Government to persons to emigrate from Ireland.The president promised that the matter would receive consideration.Already, he said, it had occupied the attention of the Secretary of State.The representation of the League apply only to paupers who have been landed in the United Sates almost penniless., L.M.Shute, representing a number of American Capitalists, has closed the contracts for the construction of the Ontario Pacific Railway and made arrangements to float the bonds amounting to $12,000,000.Work will begin at once on this important line and trains will be running over part of this valuable road by October 1st, 1883.It is probable that Captain Webb, who swam the English Channel in 1875, will swim the terrible whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls on July 1st.Capt.Webb was born in Shropshire, England, and is the son of a physician He took to the sea early and became the captain of a merchantman.Many years ago he jumped from the deck of the Cunard mail steamer Russia during a storm to save a sailor who fell overboard.For this act he received from the hands of the Duke of Edinburgh the first gold medal every given by the Royal Humane Society.So danng was he as a ship captain that he could never get a crew to go to sea with him a second time.After his thrilling swim across the channel, the 24th regiment, which afterwards was almost annihilated in Zululand, gave him a Burmese cup taken in battle.He has a trunk lull of decorations and trophies.\u2019 At the Methodist conference sitting in Yarmouth, N.S.on Saturday, a resolution was passed requiring all ministers to preach temperance sermons in December of each year.The Canadian and European Steamship Company will run a monthly line between Bremen, Germany, and Montreal.A subsidy of $2,000 a trip having been granted by the Government.Crop reports from the various parts of the Province of Quebec state that hay is far above the average, wheat not much grown, and oats are generally poor.Corn\u2019s average is not good.Apples are fairly good.The M Using Link The existence of a tribe of Indians in Paraguay with tails is asserted, apparently on good authority.An Argentine, who has an establishment in the Paraguam missions, in the district of Tacura Tuyn, was collecting verba when his mules were attacked by Guayacuyes Indians, who fled after killing several mules.The muleteers pursued, firing on the Indians, one of whom, a boy of eight years, was wounded and captured The boy was brought to Posados and excited much wonder, and some Germans photographed him, he having a tail six to eight inches long.The boy is very ugly, but his body is not covered with hair.A brother, in possession of Col.Roca has also a tail, and it is said, all the tribe are similarity adorned.Jewish Butcher* on Trial London, in the trial yesterday at Myre Chlaza.in Hungary, of the Jews who are accused of having murdered a Christian girl and used her blood to mix with the passover bread, only the clear evidence adduced tended to strongly establish an alibi in favour of Buxaum the Jewish butcher The witnesses for the prosecution contradicted each other, and alas their own former statements The audience in court openly threatened the witnesses for the defense with punishment.The public prosecutor in consequence of the disorder in court declared he would propose the most stringent measures for preservation of order unless the president stopped the disturbance.The Times' correspondent in his report of the trial jays that he believed the boy Moritz Schirf, the principal: witness for the prosecution, is a maniac.European Hotel CHINESE IRONCLADS \u2014The German Government refuses to allow men belonging to the German navy to take to China the Chinese ironclad which recently launched here.ANAM1TE CONSULS EXPELLED-Paris - A telegram from Saigon states that the Governor of Cochin China has expelled the Anamite Consuls from the colony because of their connection with the conspiracy against French rule RETURNING TO MADAGASCAR \u2014Pans -\tThe Malagassey envoys had a farewell meeting with Prime Minister Jules Ferry today.The envoys will be provided with a safe passport to be delivered to the French commander at Tamatave SITUATION IN TONQUIN.-London -Marquis Tseng denies that an agreement has been reached between Fricou, the French minister at Shanghai, and Li Hung Chang, Chinese commander The marquis reaffirms the statement that the Chinese troops are massing on the border of Tonquin.He says that China will not accept any Franco-Anamite treaty that is opposed to her sovereign rights in Anam.Marquis Tseng is anxious to obtain England\u2019s good offices.The total acreage of Scotland is 18,946,694.One nobleman owns 1,326,000\tand his wife 149,879 acres and a third from 424,000 and fourth from 378,000 and so on, until one quarter of the whole acreage is owned by twelve proprietors, one half the country by seventy gentlemen who \u201ctoil not, neither do they spin.\u201d Nine-tenths of Scotland belong 1,700 persons.And if the present tendency continues, the whole land will be gobbled up by a still smaller number of men and corporations.The Scotch are very like the Irish -they have not much of a land they call their own.HIS LORDSHIP BISHOP VISITS CALUMET \u2014 The days so long and so eagerly looked forward to by the children of Calumet church have come and gone -\tthree days of grace and blessing, brightened by the first pastoral visit of His Lordship Bishop Lorrain.Who amongst the Catholics has not welcomed his coming, where the Catholic heart that has not beat joyfully at his approach?Thursday evening his Lordship, accompanied by Rev.T.Repentigny and Rev.T.Ferrari and an escort from Franktown, crossed to the beautiful little church on the Calumet Island.At the landing he was met by Rev.F.Ouillette, the inhabitants of the place and a number from Bryson and conducted to Mr.F.Ouillette\u2019s residence, where addresses of welcome, both French and English were presented, the former by Dr.E.H.Rouleau, and the latter by Mr P.McNally.His Lordship expressed his thanks very warmly in both languages and followed by the people proceeded to the church where solemn benediction took place.The street leading from Mr.Ouillette\u2019s was tastefully decorated with green boughs, flags, etc., and the edifice within, in adorning of which Rev.F.Ouillettte had spared no pains, looked a perfect Eden of loveliness, seeming doubly beautiful lit up by the rays of the dying sun.On Friday morning a Pontifical high mass was celebrated by His Lordship and Revs.Ouillette and Vincent.At 3.00 p.m.vespers for the dead were chanted.The bishop, followed by the members of the congregation, walked in procession from the church to the grave yard, to visit the abode of the faithful departed and offer prayers for the repose of those gone before now peacefully sleeping in the city of the dead - the home of the once busy ones of earth - how silently they rest there! Parents, friends and dear ones come to visit them, kneel beside the grass-covered mound, with a few flowers from the wreaths which affection has laid on their graves, the Bishop chants the solemn Requiem, and yet, they sleep, silently, peacefully and forever - Oh no! Not forever; but until from on high sounds the thrilling trumpet that shall call them forth to life again.At 7:00 p.m.benediction as again given.On Saturday took place the greatest and most important ceremony of the visitation; the administering of the sacrament of confirmation to 120 children.It was a sight calculated to fill every soul witnessing it with supplements of deep and fervent piety and true religious reverence.Is there a heart on earth however lonely, however miserable and bereft, but has felt some faint ray beam over its darkness when soothed by the balm of Religion?If so that heart must indeed be utterly void of piety and penetration.Life is a large book, the pages of which are deeply checkered Every day brings its own joy or sorrow.When we are happiest and all seems bright and joyous the rosy sunset suddenly changes into gray twilight - the shadows darken and all is changed.In the hour of depression then where must we look to for comfort and strength?In Christ alone can they be found.\u201cThey that wait upon the Lord shall have their strength renewed, they shall mount up as on wings of eagles, they shall run and not weary, they shall walk and not faint.\" After the administration of confirmation at which Dr.Rouleau and his lady acted as sponsors grand high mass was celebrated by Revs Ouillette Ferrari and Vincent.At the close the Rev.F.Repentigny addressed the congregation, selection for his text: \u201cGo thou and sin no more.\" His Lordship then proceeded to the altar to take leave of the congregation.He expressed himself delighted with all he had witnessed and happy and edified with the result of his pastoral visit He congratulated the parishioners on their beautiful church which their generosity seconding the zeal and efforts of their pastor had erected, and said it decidedly ranked first among the churches of the mission.He concluded by speaking words of encouragement to the confirmed children and blessing the congregation.At 2:00 p.m.Saturday His Lordship and suite left the Calumet and drove to Bryson in Mr T Merleau s beautiful carriage at whose residence he spent a short time.His Lordship viewed the village and left in company with Mr.Merleau for Portage du Fort.A mother in Law This little incident is given by the writer to show that some travellers have not sense enough to diagnose a family party when they see one: A traveller saw a woman take a man by the collar, yank him up the steps into a railroad car, jam him down into the hot seat next to the stove, pile up a valise and two brown baskets with loose covers and long han dies at this feet, shove a baby into his lap and say: \u201cNow, sit there until I help Mary Jane on the car, and don't you move until 1 come back.\u201d When the woman reached the car door the traveller said to her: \u201cIs that man your husband?\" \u201cNaw-w-w! \u201c roared the woman \"He's my daughter's husband, and she hasn\u2019t the spirit enough to say her soul is her own! A Little Money A woman ought to have her own purse, great or small, whichever it may be ; -ten, fifty, a hundred, or a thousand dollars, according to circumstances, but her own, for which she accounts only to herself.Would you know \u201cwhy\u201d \u2014 you gentlemen who make your wives render an account of pins and farthings?Well, then: A maid servant knocks down a teacup, a servant breaks a glass; or suddenly a teapot, cup and glass all at once fall to pieces and nobody has broken them, and so on.The wife who has not her own purse, but who must replace the cups and glass, goes to her husband, recounts her misfortune, and begs for a little to make good the damage.He scolds the servants, his wife, who ought to look after the servants.\"Money, indeed! A little money! Money does not grow out of the ground nor yet is it grained down from heaven, many small brooks make a small river,\u201d and such like At last he gives a little money and remains often in a very ill humour.Again, if the wife has her own little purse, then such little vexations never come near him.Children, servants, misfortune, remain the same, but no disorder is remarked \u2014 all is made right at first, all is in order, and the head of the house \u2014 who perhaps with greatest ease could lay down a thousand dollars at once, need not for a few pence, squeezed out at different times, lose the equoise of his temper, which is invaluable to the whole house as to himself.And dost thou reckon as nothing, thou unfeeling, nabob, those little surprises, those little birthday and name-day pleasures with which thy wife can give herself the delight of surprising thee \u2014 those thousand small pleasures which, unexpected as falling stars, gleam like them on the heaven of home, and which must all come to thee from the affection of thy wife through a little money, which then must give to her the gross in order to receive again in the small, with rich interest of comfort and happiness.To every true woman's heart it is indescribably delightful to give \u2014 to feel itself alive into the satisfaction and happiness of other; it is the sunshine of the heart Besides this, a little freedom is so refreshing.Farmeri\u2019 Sons Because one is a farmers' son is no reason that he should be uneducated and uncultured so far below his city compeers as to be considered unworthy of marked distinction or personal address.But on the other hand, it is necessary in this age that he should be equally educated to any commercial class, and the demands of as great a business and as good society.The farmers\u2019 son may not appear so handsome as the merchant's son for his Oscar Wilde hat and his diamond vest charms which are in most cases all the charms they possess, or may not bow in accordance to the refined rules of etiquette, or tip his hat with such precision, but frequently the brain that lies underneath the broad-rimmed hat of the farmers\u2019 son will contain more culture and valuable matter than the full regalia of the merchant\u2019s son.But there are exceptions - we have instances of vice versa, and are we not the victims of ignorance at our hands in such cases?We are surrounded with decided advantages when compared with those of our fathers and mothers, and it is mainly our own fault if we do not attain a moderate education, or possess a few standard books of well approved authors.As we live in an age of school, and literature, we are enabled with newspapers, books and magazines to obtain a vast deal of knowledge without any great application or self denial on our part.Our best literature is published within the reach of all whose surplus dollars are not sunk with the transient gratification of this life.Useful Home Hint* The purest butter ever made may become tainted and poisoned in one short hour by objectionable surroundings.Soot is a good manure, especially for land infected with insects.Soot is good for nearly every kind of crop and hurtful to none.Soap suds may be used for nearly everything in the kitchen garden.It is also good for a lawn, and it may be used along with any manure.A string wet in kerosene oil and tied around sugar barrels, lard cans, preserves, êtes, is said to keep away ants The string should be wet with the oil every few days.RURAL BREVITIES Good feed makes good milk and batter.Destroy no insect killing bird.Toads kill insects; don\u2019t kill toads.Milk in any form is good for poultry, and it is something within the reach of every farmer Barley straw should not be used as bedding for pigs.The beards and dust get into their eyes and ears, destroying their comfort and thrift.The Navajo Indians in Arizona have 900,000\tsheep and 200,000 goats the result of an investment of $39,000 made on their behalf by the government of the United States three or four years ago A well kept flock of poultry is the most profitable thing about the farm not excepting the milk cow.The cow population of the United Sates is 12,611,148 or about one cow for every four people.This only includes milk cows, and their value is estimated at $340,000,936 an average of $27 per head.Those who think that chicken lice are of small amount should try to pick or scrape a few of them off as they sit oq the back of a chicken's head.They burrow into the flesh so that a pen knife blade can hardly loosen them.But a little kerosene will loosen them.XO SIIOBMAXBRS Two FIRST CLASS SHOEMAKERS WANTED IMMEDIATELY Good wages and permanent employment, either on piece or day work, RICHARD COUGHLIN Bryson, June 7, 1883 WANTED Immediately, a Good Cook at the Ottawa House.Portage du Fort Wages from $10 to 12 per month.Apply at once, either personally or by letter THOMAS J McWlLLlAM Portage du Fort\tJune 7.1883 à\tSâ oTlmwfàm Wommmo^a/m New y views and advertisements from 125 years ago in a souvenir reproduction of the first issue of Pontiac\u2019s weekly newspaper \u2014 THE EQUITY.First printed on June 7, 1883 at Bryson, Quebec The Equity.August 13, 2008.page 1 3* New Store! MR.THOS.A ARMSTRONG DeSIRES to inform the residents of Bryson and surrounding country that he has opened out a first class GENERAL STORE in the village of Bryson, South Side of Cobb DRY GOODS.CONSISTING OF: Broad Cloths and Tweeds, Ladies Fancy Dress Goods, in the latest patterns and styles.Prints, (fast colours) all new patterns, French Cashmere, Lustres, Black Coburgs, Tickings, Grey & White Cottons, all good and cîieap.A large quantity of goods in this department, too numerous to mention, kept in stock BOOTS : - : AND: - : SHOES A well selected stock of Boots and Shoes, comprising MEN'S, WOMEN'S, MISSES\u2019 AND CHILDREN\u2019S GROCERIES Choicest Groceries and Provisions always on hand.NEW TEAS, including New Crop Japan, Green and Black Teas, at extremely low prices.Standard and Grandulated Sugars, Coffees, Spices &c.All Kinds of FARMERS\u2019 PRODUCT taken in exchange for goods at the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE \u2022^Satisfaction guaranteed to purchasers THOS.A.ARMSTRONG STILL INCREASING! Owing to the good satisfaction given by the proprietors of the BRYSON FOUNDRY In their Manufactures, the demand for them is daily increasing.The superior quality of :STEEL PLOUGHS: Turned out by them this season have fully proved, by the excellent work done, all that is claimed for them.A large quantity of these implements always kept in stock.STUMPING MACHINES! THE BEST YET! The subscribers are now manufacturing a new and superior HAND LEVER STUMPING MACHINE which is just what the farmer requires.Possessing wonderful power, this machine is well-fitted to take the place of large, cumberous machinery now in use, and from its lightness and simplicity of operation, will save much time in moving and labour in working.Come and see a sample of the work it will do.As usual they are prepared to furnish nearly every description of Eatl-liraftfi, Catlart &», &\u2022.DONE TO ORDER, T.& WJi.CLARKE 1872 - - ESTABLISHED - - 1872 THOMAS MORAN.MERCHANT TAILOR, COBB STREET, - - - BRYSON, P.Q.The subscriber in returning thanks to his numerous customers for past patronage would also intimate that he is now in a better position than ever to fill all orders in his line with satisfaction.-A GREAT VARIETY OF- TWEEDS, ETOFFS, &C., &C.ALWAYS IN STOCK.¦^Sood Suits from Ton Dollars and npwardal Bryson, June 1883\tTHOMAS MORAN Household Brevities Turpentine applied to a cut is a preventive A hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots Smoke dried mullen leaves in new clay pipe for bronchitis To make a carpet look fresh, wipe with a damp cloth after sweeping Washing pine floors m solution of one pound of copper as dissolved in one gallons strongly lye gives oak colour.A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay and salt and a little water cements cracks in stoves and ovens Corn husks braided make a serviceable and handsome mat The braids to be sewed with sack needle and tine.In teaching a child how to sew, five stitches a day will be enough for the first few weeks, but let them be perfect and true.Starch makes a better paste to use in papering walls than flour, and is less expensive also, a little will go so much farther The livers of chickens and turkeys are nice fned with a few thin slices of bacon.Cut the liver and bacon very thin: season with pepper and sale This is a good breakfast dish HOT MILK AS A STIMULANT.-lf any one is fatigued the best restorative is hot milk, a tumbler of as hot as can be sipped.This is far more of a restorative than any alcoholic drink.Some one asks how fruit jellies may be preserved from mould.If the surface is covered one-fourth of an inch deep with loaf sugar, finely pulverized, they will keep in good condition and no mould penetrate.A teaspoonful of borax, but in the last water in which clothes are rinsed, will whiten them surprisingly Pound the borax so it will dissolve easily.This especially good to remove the yellow that time gives to white garments that have been laid away for some time.A little magnesia and water will sometimes correct the acidity of a child\u2019s stomach, and render unnecessary any strong medicine.Powder a teaspoonful of the magnesia, and put in half a glass of water, it will not dissolve, of course, but will mix with the water so that an infant can swallow it.Give a teaspoonful of this three times a day until indications warrant you in discontinuing it.A Printer\u2019s Devil Years and years ago there walked into Judge Sherwood's printing office a rugged, but bright and mischevious-looking boy.He walked boldly up to the Judge and said to him: \u201cI want to learn to be a printer in your office.' You want to be a devil, do you?\" inquired the Judge.\u201cWell, they say I\u2019m a devil at home, but I don't care what you all it, so I can get a chance to learn to be a printer \" \u201cMy name is Mickey Sheridan.\u201d \"All right\u201d, said the Judge.\u201cI will try you.\u201d The judge took Mickey out into the composing-room and turned him over to the foreman.Time rolled on and Mickey learned rapidly, but he was a terror to everybody in the office.There was no mischief that could be thought of that Mickey was not up to.He was eternally playing tricks on everybody in the office, even the judge After he had been in the office for two years, the judge concluded the send him to school He had not been in school more than two months, when the teacher sent him home, with a note to his father and the judge, that he was too bad for any use; that he was the terror of the whole school; that he kept every other scholar from learning.The judge and Mickey\u2019s father called on the teacher and begged him to take Mickey back.The teach told them, if he came back he wouldn't treat him well, but he would be pleased if he would stay away - he was too bad for any purpose.Mickey, went back, however, and from there to West Point.Now, who do you suppose gentle reader, Mickey Sheridan was?Who do you suppose he is?He is Lieutenant-General Phil Sheridan, the general of the United States army, upon the retirement of General Sherman.Humorous \u201cYou made a little mistake in your announcements yesterday, sir!\u201d \u201cVery likely.It is almost impossible not to make a mistake sometimes.What was it?\u201d \u201cYou said me and Lizzie Pipkins were bothered, when we are not bothered at all.We are betrothed sir.Quite a difference.\u201d \u201cAh! 1 presume you see the difference now more than you will in the future.However, I will smooth the matter out.Good morning sir.\u201d Printers are liable to err.So, at least thought the young man who blushed to the tips of his ears as he stepped up to the society editor\u2019s table.\u201cGood morning.What is it sir?\u201d was the affable greeting.\u201cWhere are your kids?\u201d a society man asked, looking at the bare hands of a poor but deserving editor at Vanderbilt\u2019s party \u201cAt home in bed,\u201d was the indignant reply,\u201d do you suppose I\u2019d bring my children to a party like this?\u201d A man started in the livery-stable business last week, and the first thing he did was to have a sign painted, representing himself holding a mule by the bridle.\u201cIs that a good likeness of me?\" he asked an admiring friend \u201cYes, it is a perfect picture of you, but who is holding the bridle?\u201d A Dutchman was relating his marvelous escape from drowning when 13 of his companions were lost by the upsetting of a boat, and he alone was saved, \u201cAnd how did you escape their fate?\u201d asked one of his hearers.\u2018I did not go in the pote,\u201d was the Dutchman\u2019s placid answer.:wvv'vx The Ute William Bell The last English fries bring the news of the death of William Bell Esq.of London, England and father-in-law of E.R.Church Esq., Q.C.of Montreal.Mr.Bell was the son of George Bell Esq.of Perthshire, in Scotland and of the Honorable Georgina Nugent, his wife.After the removal of the family to Ireland in the early part of the century, Mr.Bell was, in due course, called to the Irish Bar, and became a leading member of the Northern Circuit.In 1857 he retired from the active practice of his profession and served on a year as High Sheriff of the County of Cavan He was a brother of the late General Sir George Bell, K.C.B.of the First Royals, who served with his regiment here during the troubles of 1837 - 38 and also of Thomas Bell, R.N one of the officers of the celebrated Polar Exhibition of Captain Perry, of Nugent Bell, Barrister of the Inner Temple, London who eminent abilities and distinguished professional abilities in connection with the establishing of the late Earl of Huntington in his rights as a Peer of the United Kingdom, with the hereditary right in the House of Lords, attracted the special notice and recognition of the late King George the IV, and reads almost like a page of romance The last 30 years of Mr.William Bell\u2019s life was spent in London, England where he did much by his writings in the English and American press to cultivate and extend the cordial friendly feeling now happily existing between the people of Great Britain and the United States, Will She Thank Us?\u201cYour wife will thank me some day,\u201d said a mother, with a smile, as she gave her boy a lesson in some small practical matter on which home happiness might sometimes hinge For it is a marked fact that happiness often turns on very little hinges This mother was wise and if more mothers acted upon the same plan in training their sons there would be much less jamng m the world It is almost surprising that, while mothers take so much pains to teach their girls little, womanly arts and ways, that will brighten their homes by and by, they take so little forethought for their boys\u2019 behavior in that far-off future.Will our son\u2019s wives thank us for their bringing up, or will we be the typical dreaded \"mother-in-law\u201d in their eyes?I am sure some wives have little cause to bless her memory Some natures need a steady strong hand to reprise and guide them, and if made amenable to authority and to reason in childhood the lesson will be wholesome and salutary for all their lives.Never encourage a child\u2019s selfishness, but draw out his nobler traits of self-denial and labour for others with all the art you can bnng to bear upon the heart.It cannot be done by word of command To compel a child to give up his toy or apple to his brother will never cultivate the sweet grace of giving, but only nourish in the heart a sense of rebellion against injustice.Careless habits are most disastrous to home comfort.A husband who leaves everything around for a weary wife to pick up was, I dare say, in early Ufc a boy who was allowed the same privileges A fine sensitiveness to the feelings of others is a beautiful trait which will bear much cultivation.Children are by nature very thoughtless, and often wound the feelings of others by their outspoken statements.Pointing out mistakes of this land a few times will teach a child to be more watchful over his words and save him from giving much pam to other hearts as he moves on in life Habitual courtesy will make up for many other shortcomings and will make home cheerier than almost any element except true affection.Even the lustre of that home jewel is sadly dimmed by rude, abrupt manners.Try to train up your little boy from his very cradle to be a happy homemaker in his mature years, J.E.M C.in Arthur\u2019s Home Magazine.Common tense cure for Insomnia Sleeplessness is more common, says Youth\u2019s Companion, than at first might be supposed Its causes are many, but one has lately been discovered by an old Boston physician which seems to contradict the popular opinion.It is the want of food.It is generally supposed to be injurious to eat late night, but unless dinner or supper has been late, of the stomach disordered, it is in many cases harmless and beneficial, that is, if one be hungry'.This seems heretical, but it is not.Food of a simple kind, will often induce sleep.Animals after eating instinctively sleep.Human beings become drowsy after a full meal.Why?Because blood is solicited towards the stomach to supply the juices needed in digestion.Hence the brain receives less blood than during fasting, becomes pale, and the powers become dormant.Sleep therefore ensues.This is physiological.The sinking sensation in sleeplessness is a call for food.Wakefulness often is merely a symptom of hunger.>***v*«W< Advice to Husbands and Wives.A good wife or husband is the greatest earthly blessing.Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain a fault has been committed.Let all your mutual accommodations be spontaneous, whole-souled, as free as air.Do not herald the sacrifices you make to each other\u2019s tastes, habits or preferences.A hesitating or grum yielding to the wishes of the other always grates upon a loving heart.Consult one another in all that comes within the experience, observations or sphere of the other.They who many for traits of mind and heart will seldom fail of perennial happiness.Chat for Children.THE FIGHTING WRENS.Our Will made two bird houses out of cigar boxes.He nailed them up on the posts of our balcony.Two sparrows took one of the boxes for their home.They brought sticks to build their nest and feathers to line it.They were very busy everyday and they were as happy as they could be.One day we found feathers and other things lying ail around.Alas the spanows nest had been torn up and thrown out of the box.Two wrens did this very naughty act.Why didn\u2019t they take the empty box?I am sure it was just as nice as the other.The wrens were rascals.They wanted the sparrows' box and took it by force.The battle of the birds lasted for many days.Mr Sparrow would sit at the door of his house.He coaxed and coaxed his wife to help him, but she would not.Poor thing, she was almost scared to death, and that was the reason.Pretty Jennie Wren made herself look very ugly.She ruffled up her Feathers and spread out her tail.She screamed and flew at Mr.Sparrow with her mouth wide open.She pecked him.She struck him with her wings and drove him away.Then she smoothed her brown feathers and sat on the limb of a tree.She sang so sweetly that no one would have thought she ever got angiy and fought so.The sparrows were whipped Mr.Sparrow examined the other box many times.He tried ever so hard to get his wife to go in, but she was afraid.So the sparrows did not take the empty box for a new home.I think timid Mrs.Sparrow had good sense.She would not consent to live so near those fighting wrens.The wrens went to work very hard.They got sticks and threads and feathers.They built their nest in the box they had taken and Jennie Wren laid eggs.Birdies were hatched.The papa and mamma birds were busy every day feeding them.The wrens seemed to be quite happy But were there not some sad notes in their song?Surely there were if they remembered what they had done to the sparrows.Household recipes.A Nice Tea Cake \u2014l cup milk, 11/2 cups sugar, 3 large cups flour, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls cream tartar, 1 teaspoonful soda.STEAMED PUDDING.\u20142 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk if better, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoonful soda, fruit if you like Eaten with a rich sauce Steam two hours.A NICE DESSERT SPANISH CREAM.\u20141 pint of milk, yolk of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful of gelatine.Sweeten to taste; put in pail, set in a kettle of hot water until it comes to a boil.Beat the whites to a froth and stir thoroughly through.Flavour with vanilla, peach or almond, and set away in a cold place.Ginger Cookies \u2014Put one teaspoon of soda in a tea cup, also three tablespoons of butter or pork drippings, three tablespoons of hot water.Then fill up with good New Orleans molasses - repeat three times - mix soft, roll and bake quick, and you have a large pan full.A GOOD Lemon PIE - 1 lemon grated, 1 cup sugar, the yolks of 3 eggs, small piece of butter, 3 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch; beat altogether and bake in a rich crust.Beat the whites with three tablespoons of sugar, place on the pie when done, and brown in the oven PANDOWDY \u2014 Although this is one of the simplest and best of puddings 1 find everyone does not know how to make it Fill your pan two thirds full of sliced apples, with water enough to steam the puddmg through and spread over it a soft dough made the same as for biscuit, and mixed much thinner Cover closely and set on top of the stove, it will steam from one to two hours Eat with pudding sauce or turn it bottom upwards and sprinkle sugar over it as desired BODY FOUND \u2014The body of the young man named Toner, who was drowned on the Roche Fendu a few weeks ago, was recovered last Friday about five miles below where the accident occurred.>V*^vX A GOOD ARTICLE \u2014Last week we had the pleasure of inspecting a vety superior fanning mill made by Messrs Young of Almonte, Ont.The mill was procured for a Calumet Island farmer by Mr Andrew Mackenzie of this place, who is agent for the above firm.From what we have heard of the article, it has given entire satisfaction to all who have been fortunate enough to procure one.This is due to the fact that the mill is specially adapted to meet one of the most important requirements in grain cleaning vis., removing cockle from wheat.We have no doubt Messrs.Young Bros, will secure a large trade in the county as soon as the excellence of the machine becomes known.***v-*W< NARROW ESCAPE.-As Dr, Preston was returning from Appleton on Friday evening says the Central Canadian, he had one of the narrowest escapes from fatal accident it is possible to imagine.At the crossing near Mr, Struhers, coming from Appleton, you reach it having no range of track within sight at all on the left side.At this time the little engine was as busy as a bee about the vicinity, and was at the moment putting fiats in a siding.The driver thought there was room between the switch and the crossing to do the work and so kept his eye at the rear instead of at the front, the engine meanwhile going on to the crossing without warning of bell or whistle.The Dr.and the locomotive then came to close quarters.For the doctor to go on was death; to stay was to invite peril; to turn was to risk an overthrow and possible accident.In a moment he decided to jump from the buggy.This he did and in the instance the driver whistled for brakes, whereupon the horse put on all its great power, tore away from the doctor and across the track in front of the engine and away on into Mr.McLaren's yards, where some men caught it, not much the worse for the wild flight.The buggy, however, was considerably broken up.An Indian View of White Politics.In a curious pamphlet left by one of the friars, Father Boscana, is told a droll story of the logical inferences some of them drew from the political situation among their supposed betters.It was a band of San Diego Indians.When they hard that the Spanish Viceroy in the city of Mexico had been killed and a Mexican made emperor in his place, they forthwith made a great feast, burned their chief and elected a new one in his stead.To the stringent reproofs of the horrified friars they made answer: - \u201cHave you not done the same in Mexico?You say your king was not good and you killed him.Well, our chief was not good, and we burned him.If the new one turns out bad, we will burn him too\u2019 - a memorable instance of the superiority of example to precept.THE CANTYRE-CHAFFEY MARRIAGE ANNULLED.\u2014 We notice the following telegram regarding the Cantyre-Chaffey marriage in the daily papers: The great case in which the trustees of the Perth heiress with her immense fortune is concerned has been opened in Court.The object, as is well known, is to get the bogus marriage of the young Ward to the fraudulent, \u2018Lord Cantyre\" annulled.On behalf of the guardian five witnesses were examined by Mr.W.H.Kerr, Q.C.among them the Misses Senkler, daughters of the Judge, one of the guardians, who deposed that they formed the party which visited Montreal during the carnival week, and they were with Miss Chaffey and Allen continually and that they heard nothing of the marriage as having taken place.Mr.W.B.Richards of Brockville, a brother to Mr.Richards, one of the guardians, proved that Miss Chafffey on coming of age would be entitled to $ 170,000.He also testified that his brother was never present in Perth during Allan\u2019s visit, and consequently could not have given any consent to the marriage.Mr.Joseph, Q.C., who appeared for the defendant, made no attempt to cross examine the witnesses.It was further proved by two licensers of marriages that the would-be bridegroom told a deliberate lie to one of these gentlemen to whom he went for the license, to the effect that the bride was over 21 years of age, whilst admitting to the other that she was under that age.He further deliberately falsified the fact by answering Rev.Mr.Galbraith, the celebrating minister, to the same effect.He admitted the truth to any of these witnesses his deceptive plans would have proved a failure.Judge Rainville has annulled the marriage.Cure of newspaper borrowing Any one who don\u2019t know of it would be astonished to learn how badly some of our subscribers are womed by newspaper borrowers.They explain that the borrower is a good friend or a neighbor, and they dislike to tell them that borrowing a paper is a nuisance.It is often the case that a paper is borrowed before they have time to read it themselves.We take pleasure in giving a remedy which we find in an exchange, which prescribes the following ingenious mode for the treatment of such cases: - \u201cLet the owner cut from it some item of news, it makes no particular difference what, only let it be neatly and carefully removed from the paper.In a few minutes the neighbour\u2019s boy will come after 'he paper - he will take it home - within three minutes he will emerge from the house; he will scoot down the street and very shortly return with a folded newspaper of the same date as the one just borrowed.By the time the clipped paper has circulated around among the borrowers the street will be alive with hurrying boys.Not one borrower among them knowing just what the cut item was The next week pursue the same course, and similar results will surely follow.In an extremely obstinate neighbourhood these proceedings have to be repeated three or four times, but not longer By that time the subscriber will be able to read the paper in peace and the newspaper will be the gainer through several new subscribers The rule is said to be infallible where the borrowers are females W**v*«*< The statistics lately published by the Journal Official of France, concerning the number of foreigners in France are interesting.When the last census was taken in 1881 the population of France amount to 367,450,000 souls, which number, compared with the population of the county in 1876 shows an increase of about 500,000 souls Of this increase 200,00 are foreign- ers The total number of foreigners is now three per cent of the whole population, but in some departments the proportion of foreigners is much large, reaching in some seven and even eight per cent of the inhabitants.GLAD TO SEE HIM.-At the bndge meeting on the Calumet Island last Thursday Mr W.J Poupore was introduced by Mr McNally, warden of the county Mr Poupore was received with much enthusiasm by the large assemblage present.DIED \u2014 On Thursday, the 7th inst., Mrs John B Poupore, at the advanced age of 77, at her home in the township of Chichester.The funeral took place on the following Sunday, which was very largely attended, and indeed, is said to be the largest that ever was seen in that township Mrs Poupore was step-mother to our old and highly respected ex-member Mr.John Poupore, who m company with his wife and daughter were in attendance at the funeral.W**v*»W< ENTERPRISING \u2014Flour will be delivered to any part of the village of Btyson, or a mile outside of the village, free of cost by G.A.Purvis & Sons.Flour $5.50 per barrel.PEMBROKE Notes.\u2014a considerable number of young people were confirmed by Bishop Lorrain and received first communion in the Roman Catholic Church here last Sunday.Mr.J.Libby, fortnarly turnkey in the jail, had his hand severely cut while working at his lath saw in Thistle and Co.,\u2019s mill a few days ago.The accident was caused by a lath flying back from the saw while being cut.The steamer \u201cC.O\u2019Kelly\u2019 which recently was stuck on a rock somewhere about the narrows was got afloat again on Tuesday of last week wholly undamaged She passed down on Wednesday last with a large tow of saw-logs destined for the Ottawa mills.Two aquatically inclined individuals took a row up the classic Indian River last Sunday and it is perfectly entrancing to hear them describe the lovely scenery which abounds between the bndge and Church\u2019s mill.The dangers they encountered and surmounted - the shoals they courageously navigated over, reminds us of one of Cook's voyages.A wicked citizen who witnessed the exploring party depart perpetrated this conundrum: \u201cWhy is the sculler like Saratoga?\" Because he\u2019s a Sumtper ville.An awful future awaits this conundrumist.HANLAN, THE GREAT SCULLER\u2014 Edward Hanlan, the champion oarsman of the world, in a single scull race, beat Kennedy by twenty boat-lengths, at Point of Pines, Mass., on May 31, covering the distance of three miles in 19 minutes and 4 seconds, which is the fastest time on record for a three mile race.He arrived in Toronto on the 3rd instant, and it is reported that he is thinner than ever seen before, nevertheless expressed himself as feeling splendid and keeping himself in readiness for the Pull, 111., regatta, for which place he will shortly leave.Wallace Ross has arrived at Portland to under go training for his race with Hanlan, on July 18th at Odgensburg.THis will be a splendid opportunity for any of our citizens, who would like to see the great oarsmen.HYMENEAL - On the 12th inst.Mr.Wm McCorriston of Bristol, as united in matrimony to Miss Matilda, youngest daughter of Jas.Pratt, Esq., of Clarendon, in the Presbyterian church in this village.The ceremony was performed by the Rev James Robertson, pastor of the church, and witnessed by quite a number of the young and even elderly people of the place, our representatives, unfortunately, were not in time to see this interesting part, but had the pleasure of getting a peep at the happy couple as they drove away.May tjieir journey through life be as joyous as it seemingly was upon that occasion.\u201cOh!\" signed a young lady, as she gazed after the receding vehicles of the wedding party, \u201chow I wish I was married!\u201d But she did not observe a newspaper man pass about that time.THE \u201cFLYER\u2019.\u2014The Moncton transcript says: \u2014 \u201cBeautiful for location, the pride of the whole Dominion, is Ottawa.There flows the river which divides the cliffs of Ontario from the green slopes of Quebec.There dwells the mighty Governor-General and John A., the chief potentate of Tordydom, and there are the towers and spires, the miles of cornice and acres of plaster of the departmental palaces.But greater than these more celebrated than the cloud-capped towers, or mighty men of politics, is Clancy - Ex Alderman Clancy.For Clancy has taken unto himself wings, and doth fly On Dominiop day he will spread his pinions, and soar from the topmost tower or Parliament Hill, to alight in the plains far away, to the southward.Such is the news borne on the wires from Ottawa.When the great men in Ottawa met, The world never say such a set; Some could orate and some drink rye, But Clancy beats all, for he can fly! ***v««W< THE EQUITY\u2014 The following lines are from the pen of a juvenile of this village, only 14 years of age We publish them to encourage his literary tastes, and trust our readers will overlook any errors: In town they have started a new paper, I hear; So forward, ye Tories, have nothing to fear; And more I have heard, if true hearings be, The name of this paper is \u201cThe Equity\u201d.The caste of the paper is superfine, sure, The most unsatisfied, could he ask any more A sheet number one you will very seldom see, But a first class sheet is \u201cThe Equity\u201d.The size of this paper if Double Demi - To describe it properly, I wonder can I?; A title letter so plain - how pretty?Ah, me! So pleasing is the top of The Equity\u2019.Many people complain they cannot read print, But this paper is a new and well printed sheet, The print is as plain as it can be, When you read it in the columns of The Equity\u2019.In conclusion, one favour I would ask, Subscribe, subscribe, lis a very small task, The paper, is good far as I can see, - Now what do you think of The Equity?A SKUNK STORY - Two lovers, not a hundred miles from this village, were out for a morning walk.The birds sang blithely upon the boughs, the early sunshine quaffed the dew from the grass and petals, and all nature seemed to rejoice like a bride on her wedding day.The charming fair one gathered violets, and cowslips, while he gathered what he supposed to be a white kitten that had taken refuge in the hollow stump of a long-departed tree Miserable fate! Strange catastrophe! Unhappv man! Referring to the incident afterwards m a letter to a fnends, the maiden wrote: \u2014 \u201cIf Willie was boiled for a thousand years in the hot springs of Iceland 1 dont believe he would ever smell sweet again.Latest News Boiled Down.Joseph Belanger got his leg badly hurt last Tuesday week at Gilmour\u2019s mills His foot was caught in the gearing and twisted round the joint.The injury is worse than a fracture.The sum subscribed this year towards prizes for sports on Dominion Day is much larger than on all previous occasions.Be sure to attend, and have a good day\u2019s fund! The invitation is extended to all.The Pembroke Council, says the Chronicle, must have some mean men amongst its numbers Four of them voted against taking Mr Peter White for his efforts in securing the payment by the Dominion Government of its bonus of $80,000 to the Canada Central R.R.There are 500 men employed on the timber drive of the Moira.The wise man advertiseth his wares, and amasseth riches; his heart is made glad; he rejoyeeth with exceeding great joy.The foolish man escheweth the printer\u2019s ink and remaineth poor, he bewaileth his lot, and lamentations ill all the land.In one day Thos.Hale, with 80 hands, 75 Indians and five whites put over the Chats slides and rapids a raft containing 170 cribs of white pine, and other cuts amounting in all to 206 cribs, which were rafted and got off the same night.This is probably the biggest day\u2019s work of the kind on record.Recently, Anthony McPyke, a listless individual of about 30 was arraigned for being a vagrant at the Police Court, Ottawa.The prisoner took little interest in the proceedings, and in answer to His Worship managed to drawl out that he was from Buckingham.The police said he was too lazy to work, and made it a habit of sleeping nightly in people's outhouses.His Worship decided to set Anthony to work to pulverize the Nicholas Street pile of rocks for a month at the conclusion of which he was told to make tracks.About 500 British immigrants arrived in Montreal last week.The report that Cardinal McCloskey was seriously ill is denied.The coffee house movement for the promotion of temperance in Montreal is on the increase.It is said that Sir A.T.Galt has signified his intention to be present at the banquet to Sir Charles Tupper.There were 15 cases of sunstroke reported in New York and Brooklyn last Wednesday.It is stated that an amalgamation between the Toronto Board of Trade and the Com Exchange will soon take place, A married woman named Pearly suicided in Toronto Wednesday by taking a dose of Paris Green.Trouble is reported at the end of the Canadian Pacific Railway track, Man., by strikers.A dispatch from Victoria, B.C.says that 40 miles of the C.PR.will be competed on July 1st.The latest of all the unreliable rumours circulated is that Hon.Mr.Mousseau is to be nominated for Montcalm.Six hundred pilgrims belonging to Montreal went on a visit to the shrine at Boucherville Wednesday.It is again officially stated that there is no foundation for the alarming rumours regarding the state of the Queen\u2019s health.W.H.Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt are amongst the directors elected on Wednesday of the Niagara Bridge Company.All but one of the convicts who attempted to escape from St.Vincent de Paul Penitentiary was acquitted at the assizes, in Montreal.>r**v*w Room Enough for All Don\u2019t crowd and push m the march of life, Or tread on each other\u2019s toes, For the world at best, in its great unrest, Is hard enough as its goes.Oh, why should the strong oppress the weak, Till the latter go to the wall.On this earth of ours, with its thorns and flowers, There is room enough for all.If a lagging brother falls behind, And drops from the toiling band, If fear and doubt put his soul to route Then lend him a helping hand.Cheer up her heart with words of hope, Nor season the speech with gall; In the greatest highway and the busiest day There\u2019s room enough for all.If a man with the tread of a pioneer, Steps out on your track ahead, Don't grudge his start with an envious heart, For the mightiest once were led, But gird your loins for the coming day, Let nothing your heart appal \u2014 Catch up if you can with the forward man.There\u2019s room enough for all And if, by doing your duty well, You should get to lead the van, Brand not your name with a deed of shame, But come out an honest man.Keep a bright look-out on every side, Till heeding the master\u2019s call, Your soul should go from the world below, Where there's room enough for all.MARRIED In the Basilica, Ottawa, on the 5th inst., by the Rev J.J.Whelan, P.P.St.Patrick\u2019s, John Gornian, Auditor General\u2019s office, to Elizabeth R., eldest daughter of James Warnock, Esq., Ottawa.FOR SALE A FEW RAM LAMBS, Bred by an imported Oxford Down Lamb.James Colton Litchfield\t2m J P GIGURER.DOCTOR IN MEDICINE, from Laval University, has established himself in Chapeau Village Every attendance will be given to patients who call on him.W.J.LOUGH\u2019S TINWARE Manufacturing Emporium Is now in full blast, and while he would thank his numerous friends for past patronage, he would intimate that his show is now replete with every description of Tinware Every article in the shape of tinware required by a farmer can be found in his shop.CREAMERY CANS, Made on the latest improved principles, for sale at $3.00 a piece.Shtap Faits & Calf Skin».A large number of Sheep Pelts and Calf Skins wanted for which the highest price will be paid in either Cash or Trade.Eggs taken in exchange for tinware.All order by mail or otherwise promptly attended to.GOOD WORK GUARANTEED WJ.LOUGH McWilliams Stage Line - CONNECTS REGULARLY AT - Haleys with the Canada Pacific trains going East and West.People travelling from Portage du Fort to Bristol.Quyon or Aylmer will find it convenient to stop at the OTTAWA HOUSE.as Wyman's stage leaves this Hotel every morning (Sunday's excepted).THE STAGE LINE going NORTH, FOR Bryson, Fort Coulonge and intermediate poinLs, also leaves the OTTAWA HOUSE every morning, (except Sunday.) Orders by telegram or letter for special stage to meet CPR trains, at Haleys will receive prompt attention.T.Mc WILLIAMS Portage du Fort, June 7,1883 125 years of THE EQUITY\tWednesday, August 13, 2008 t\t%\t» Page 2 v 'I'llK KQUITY IVMHJt-VHO I Ml KMMV MY SMITH fc COWAN, Editor* and Proprietor* TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION A Special 125th Anniversary Supplement August 13, 2008 Vol.1 BRYSON, COUNTY OF PONTIAC, 01 K.JI M 7.IP (Me (foliar u year.in udoufue on* dollar and fifty imm If not pool nil Our end of Our year O Wind rfcaf binon oui of (k# ImI an that ho f#t non we reoutoe f* 125 years of Pontiac news 90 Yean .But It Stopped (Oct.27, 1955) The press broke down! Yes, the wonderful ageless, ceaseless, servant of countless owners which has dependably produced newspapers for Shawville for years beyond the life span of most present readers, just stopped working.The forms of type were ready to print, the paper was waiting to be imprinted, the pressman threw the switch.We can not truthfully report that nothing happened because something did happen but it just wasn\u2019t the right thing.The best mechanical brains of Shawville were called in and as this article is written it is still, a matter of speculation whether or not the press can be made to function properly.Whenever you receive this papier you will know that the press is back in order.June 9, 1960) Equity Founder Henry Thomas Smith, who died last week in Ottawa at the age of 102, is seen here as he looked when he and the late Mr.John Cowan founded The Equity.This early photo has been in The Equity office for many years.Mr.Smith left The Equity, celling out to Mr.Cowan, to become clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Ottawa which post he held for 33 years.(Dec.17,1953) Moving Day Friday for the Equity On Friday, December 18, when many of you will be reading this paper, The Equity will be moving.Out of this building on King Street, where The Equity has been publishing for seventy one years into the Reinke Building on Center Street.Out will go the presses, furniture, type writers and all.Next week\u2019s paper will be produced from a new plant.Before The Equity moved, into 133 Main Street, the building was home to a Ford car showroom, a hardware and appliance store and the popular Blue Moon.Peden Wilson built the place sometime in the \u201840's as a showroom to complement his garage next door.The upstairs was used for public meeting.Wilson sold the building to Kenny Pirie, who used it as a Massey Harris dealership.At the time, the Blue Moon was born upstairs.The Blue Moon was a place you could go in, kickoff your \u2019 shoes and dance up a storm.The next owner, Ed Reinke, was a hardware and appliance merchant.In the mid \u201850\u2019s, the building was sold to David and Rosaleen Dickson, who moved THE EQUITY from its old King Street location.In its 125-year history, The Equity has gone through only four owners, and today it is one of the few remaining independent weeklies left.Smith and Cowan started the paper in Bryson in 1883.Soon after, Smith left, and the paper moved to the building on King Street.After John A.Cowan died, his children, Bill and Iva, took it over.When Bill died, Iva hired Fred Rogers as managing editor.Story has it Rogers would drink half a gallon of wine and then forget to put a paper out.Jim Gray owned the papier for a brief two years in the \u201840\u2019s.Bill Kinmond and his wife Chris MacKay, of Charteris owned it for eight years.David and Rosaleen Dickson bought The Equity in \u201853, with their son Ross and Heather Dickson, current owners, taking it over in 1981.(April 22, 1910) Claims gun was fired during general melee Prisoner in Shawville shooting tragedy gives his version of affair Mrs.Murphy, it is stated, threatened to use axe during schuffle.\u201cFelonious Killing\u201d is verdict (April 22, 1910) \u201cThat Harry Howes and William Dale came to their death from gunshot wounds at the hands of Michael Murphy at Shawville, Quebec, on April 20th, 1910, and that the said Michael Murphy did feloniously kill the said Harry Howes and William Dale.\u201d The above represents the finding of the coroner\u2019s jury that sat yesterday afternoon as a result of the remarkable double tragedy at Shawville late Wednesday night, which has already been referred to.As a result of it, Murphy will today have his preliminary hearing on a charge of either murder or manslaughter, and his wife probably on one of \u201caiding and abetting.\u201d Many wounds.The two men were instantly killed as a result of one shot, and there is the further almost incredible fact that there are 45 wounds or marks on the body of Howes and fifteen in that of Dale.One piece of lead went right through Dale\u2019s heart and several lodged within an inch of it.Annie Murphy, wife of the man charged with murder, threatened one of the medical men with an axe.Murphy, at the inquest, quite willingly made a lengthy statement, contending that the young men, who had bothered him, carried him into or near an old hut and that in the scramble that old-fashioned musket he carried, and which was heavily loaded with slugs of lead, went off.He showed his hand badly cut as proof of his assertion that his hand had got caught in the barrel stock.Crown Prosecutor.As it is a double murder, on instructions from the Quebec attorney general; Mr.E.R.Barry is here today.He is crown prosecutor.Magistrates Ireland and Wilson presided at the Shawville town hall when Murphy and his wife were heard today.The evidence Iv.,**I photo courtesy Pontloc archives Number 5 School Starks Corners, class of 1918 or thereabouts.¦-t- - * Mw apr-\u201e photo courtesy Pontloc archives The Equity at its old King Street location circa 1900.was mainly the same as given at the inquest yesterday.Yesterday afternoon, several witnesses were questioned regarding the tragedy.The interior of the hall presented a rather startling appearance.When the shooting occurred Murphy was not on his own land.John McNeely had much the same story and intimated that they were no land owned by Samuel Armstrong when the trouble occurred.\u201cThree shots were fired first by Murphy,\u201d said Harold Armstrong, \u201cbut the last one was discharged right into the crowd and the two boys fell and died in a few moments.It seemed to be moonlight at the time.\u201d Disarmed Murphy P.E.Smiley, merchant, told of disarming Murphy.\u201cAfter the first three shots, which I think were blank ones, had been fired,\u201d testified Smiley, \u201cwe went to a spot north of Samuel Armstrong\u2019s land.Murphy and his wife Annie followed us, and as we ran around a little untenanted house near there he fired and the shot caught the boys just as some of the crowd were turning a corner of the building.Murphy was quite close, and as he raised the old gun as if to strike someone I grappled with him and after some trouble disarmed him.Then his wife came back armed with an axe and demanded the gun back at the same time swinging the axe.\u201d The story of Percy Green, druggist, Earl Turner and others was about the same.Drs.Alexander and Armstrong told of examin- ing both bodies and of finding 45 perforations or marks in Howes\u2019 body and 15 in that of Dale.The latter, in addition to body wounds on the back, chest and head, had been shot through the heart.In both cases the bullets seemed to have scattered and struck several parts of the body.It is thought this was due to the musket being heavily loaded, and this Murphy acknowledges, and also to the shot being fired from so short a distance.Murphy's evidence.Murphy was warned that he could make a statement or not, just as he chose.He decided to make one and after being sworn talked for a considerable time and quite rapidly.\u201cWhat I want to say is that the gun was accidentally discharged,\u201d said the accused.\u201cI went to bed about 7 o\u2019clock in my little shanty and soon we heard stones being thrown at the door, and that has happened many a time before.Some men kept on throwing them, though I told them several times to quit.I can tell you that they have even thrown stones and things so that once they put a stone through the galvanized iron side of a wagon I have.I know what has been done before, and the bother me and my wife have had; and I got the old gun and just to tiy and scare them away fired a blank charge at the manure heap near the house and then \u2014\u201d A juror \u2014 \u201cO, we do not want to hear all that; this is not an asylum.\u201d Murphy \u2014 \u201cAnd I could not get law when I wanted it.\" The Coroner \u2014 \u201cDo you mean to say there was anything to prevent you getting it?\u201d Murphy went on with his explanation and would not stop talking; he denied that old slug shots had been used; said he had bought them at the store of one of the jurymen, and that those found in the body would prove they were ordinary partridge shot.Mrs.Murphy \u2014 \u201cThat is all they were.\u201d The coroner tried to interrupt Murphy for a moment in his flow of eloquence, but the accused said to him: \u201cExcuse me: wait till I am through please.\u201d Then he went on to say that he had poured some lead into the muzzle of the gun, but he was not sure just how much.His hand had been on the lock of the gun and he claimed there had been a scuffle; that the young men in the party had either carried him or shoved him some distance and that the gun had been accidentally discharged.His hand had got caught in the barrel lock and badly cut.A Juror \u2014 \u201cWhy did you not put something softer into the gun than shot?\u201d Murphy \u2014 \u201cI had nothing else.\" A Juror - \u201cYou knew these men.\u201d Murphy \u2014 \u201cI did not know them from the Holy One.I would say that this minute if I was either to hang for it or to be paid $1,000 and let go.\u201d A Juror \u2014 \u201cYou won\u2019t be let go.\u201d Another Juror \u2014 \u201cHow did you get to be up at that old building, off your Recollecting with THE EQUITY owners, past and present Chris Alexander back in the Pontiac and The Equity after all these years CHRISTINA GRAY Equity Reporter PONTIAC \u2022 Before the Dicksons bought The Equity in the early 50s, Chris Alexander and her ex-husband Bill Kinmond owned it.\u201cThe Equity was kaput when we got it,\u201d said Alexander from Pontiac Respite Services in Campbell\u2019s Bay, where the 89-year-old now lives.Kinmond was a newspaper man, said Alexander, and had spent the war years as a war correspondent for the Toronto Star.Even though he had talked about buying a newspaper for a while, she was surprised when he came home one Sunday and told her he\u2019d bought The Equity Kinmond was the reporter and editor of the newspaper while Alexander sold ads and classifieds, answered the phone and contributed the occasional women\u2019s column, she said.There was also the Linotype operator and the women who submitted the social notes.Back then a yearly subscription to The Equity cost $1 or $1.50.\u201cOr a bag of potatoes,\u201d said Alexander.And \u201cthere\u2019s been the odd roast of pork to renew a subscription.\u201d At the time, the home of The Equity was on King Street in Shawville.But, Alexander and Kinmond lived above the current home at 133 Centre St.There were three apart ments back then, above the Reinke\u2019s hardware store downstairs.\u201cWe had a lot of fun,\u201d said Alexander.\u201cIt was five wonderful years.\u201d See ALEXANDER, page 4 Happy 125th from Rosaleen Dickson ROSALEEN DICKSON Fprmer Publisher Congratulations.The Equity has made it to 125.That\u2019s great.We celebrated big time when it was 75 years old, and that was way back in the previous century, at a time when we wondered if we would survive into the 21st.And, wonder of wonders, some of us did.If I ever find the time, I will write a book about the invincible people who were intrinsic to this weekly newspaper in its early days.But life keeps us so busy, there\u2019s little time to reminisce, and even if we do you never know who would rather not have their incidental adventures brought back to life between the covers of a book.Only way to be sure I won\u2019t step on anyone\u2019s toes is to outlive them all; and I\u2019m working on that.But now I am tasked to write my \u201cmemories of The Equity back over the years.\u201d That\u2019s the way the request was phrased over the phone from Shawville, yesterday.Everyone who lived in the Pontiac during the years when I was there will know that those were the best years of my life.See DICKSON, page 4 From helper to publisher, Heather Dickson has been with THE Equity for 32 years CHRISTINA GRAY Equity'Reporter PONTIAC \u2022 Heather Alberti-Dickson has been involved in The Equity for the past 32 years.She came to the Pontiac in 1976 with husband Ross Dickson right after the first Quebec sovereignty referendum, she said.With the issue of Quebec separatism in the forefront, people were leaving for Ontario.\u201cThere was a huge exodus and we thought we wanted to stem the tide,\u201d she said.And Ross had always dreamed of taking over the family business.So, she arrived with her biochemistry background in tow and set to learning photography, writing, interviewing and get to know the community.\u201cWe started out just doing anything and everything,\u201d she said.Though she particularly enjoyed photography.Over the years she\u2019s seen the technology behind the newspaper industry change dramatically.When she first arrived the stories were typed on a typewriter.Then came the com-pugraphic machines and then the first graphic arts computers, the LNWs.\u201cThen all of a sudden, Macintosh came out with a program called Ready, Set, Go,\u201d she said.See HEATHER, page 4 Lg-R yrT/WerW Happy 125lh anniversary l I IIK HQIJITY, Congratulations In I lie stall, i past and prcfRftj« Hesl wishes In your rcadCT^.\u201d I .awrcnce ( aimnn, dcpute/MI\u2019 Pontiac I '866-281 8774 wwWfl\tne(*( .union.com i 125 years ot THE EQUITY Br Wednesday, August 13,2(X)8 THE EQUITY archives One of the homes of\tPontiac\u2019s famous George Bryson family.At one time, Bryson\u2019s family owned many homes throughout Pontiac.Pontiac in the 1880s How farms, clothing and life have changed CHRISTINA GRAY Equity Reporter PONTIAC \u2022 Not surprisingly, the Township of Clarendon census of 1881 lists the occupation for most residents as \u201cfarmer.\u201d There is at least one \u201cfarmeress,\u201d a few tradespeople, some teachers, but for the most part, they were all farmers.The census lists birthplaces for the residents of Clarendon.Many are listed as being born in Ireland, but quite a few were born in Quebec.It also lists the residents\u2019 age, religion and how many children and servants lived under the saune roof.Back in 1881, most farmers would have been growing turnips or potatoes to start, according to Pearl McCleary of the Pontiac Archives.They might have eventually moved on to oats and cabbage.Since there was nowhere to buy seeds for planting, they would have had to bring seeds from the home country, she said.And often the men would come over first to get established before the w'omen and families arrived.Horses and cows were not common at first, she said, because the farmers wouldn\u2019t have a barn ready.Instead they would use an ox to plow the fields.A milk cow, horse and maybe a pig would have come later, said McCleary.And once they were more established they may have had sheep, she said.The wool could have been used to make the very modest outfits worn by residents of the Pontiac at the time.High necklines and dark colours were the common theme for the very religious residents.In keeping with the modest dress, women would not have worn make-up or jewelry- Pontiac Population 1895* Shawville 500 Bristol 100 Fort Coulonge 500 Campbell\u2019s Bay 100 Biyson 537 Portage du Fort 700 \u2018according to The Equity, Sep.2,1965 Pontiac Population 2006* Shawville 1,587 Bristol 1,210 Fort Coulonge 1,369 Campbell\u2019s Bay 745 Biyson 618 Portage du Fort 280 \u2018according to 2006 Canadian Census Michael Bradley hanged (Thursday, April 11, 1935) CAMPBELL'S BAY* In the yard of the Court House at Campbell\u2019s Bay on Friday morning, as a church bell tolled a solemn death knell, Michael Bradley paid the supreme penalty for the murder of his father, mother, brother, sister and uncle, at their farm home at Demers Centre, Allumette Island, on July 21, 1933.Mass was celebrated for the condemned at dawn and at 5:55 Bradley walked from his death cell to the scaffold.He dropped through the trap at 5:57 and doctors pronounced him dead four minutes later.He was attended by a priest, doctors, prison officials and the sheriff.The carrying out of the execution marked the first time in the history of Pontiac County that the supreme penalty has been inflicted.As Bradley walked to the scaffold, with steady step, .one of the committee of eight official witnesses fainted and had to be carried into the outer-yard.A detail of 12 men and two officers of he provincial police accompanied Bradley from Bordeaux jail on Wednesday, where he had been held since his arrest.The five Bradleys, Were shot in the house and barns of the Bradley home with a .32 calibre hunting rifle.Michael was placed on trial for his life at the County Court House at Campbell\u2019s Bay in July 1934, but when the jury disagreed, a second trial was ordered.His case was transferred to Hull crim- CAMPBELL'S BAY CIMENT SINCE 1982 withit to Tto Equity on bringing tifimnofl jiilliim Thank Ton.Pontiac Electric Inc.Electrical Contractor Shawville 819-647-2417 Happy 125th 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Toll Free : 1-877-647-2670 Telephone : (819) 647-2670 P.O.Box 646, 409 Highway # Shawville, Quebec.Canada JOX 2Y0 48 Congratulations and Thank You Community newspapers are founded on a basic principle that a good local newspaper provides its community with a forum and a voice.The award winning Equity has selflessly reported on the everyday lives of citizens, documented the ongoing history of the community, and played a vital role in maintaining its very identity.It can be proudly said that the Equity provides a constant reflection of the community itself thanks to the unrelenting efforts of its owners and staff.The Quebec Community Newspapers Association thanks and salutes The Equity on this milestone anniversary and for The Equity's many important contributions to the community and to the Quebec Community Newspapers Association.QCNA Quebec Community Newspapers Association Association des journaux régionaux du Québec AJRQ Greg Duncan Executive Director tpucherdu bois a Touch wood Using local forest resources to build: -\tKitchen Cabinets -\tVictorian Doors -\tCustom Furniture C710, Route 3Û3 Nord Shawville, QC JOX 2YO Tel: 819-647-6759 Fax: 819-647-2064 hi6A*rC~\\J'\u20ac& Happy 125th Anniversary Equity! Municipality of Clarendon Congratulations to the publishers and staff of The Equity on your 125th Anniversary from the Mayor, Councillors, and Staff of the Photo Credit: by Studio Andrée Seated: Cr.Mavis Hanna, Mayor John (Jack) Lang, Pro-Mayor Terence Elliott, Assistant Secretary Treasurer Ixrrna Younge Back: Director General Ruth Strutt, Cr.John Armstrong.Cr.Dalton Hodgins, Cr.Keven Knox, Cr.James Howard Wednesday, August 13,2008 Page 6\t125 years of rl\u2019HE Kui ITY ALEXANDER: A cow named Viola Continued from page 3 One of the stories that sticks out from those years was that of Iverson Hams\u2019 cow Viola Kinmond had mentioned to the local veterinarian that he\u2019d like to do a story if the vet had to do an interesting procedure.That day came when Viola managed to eat some wire that ended up in her thfrd stomach.The initial operation to remove the wire went well, but not long after, Viola became ill again.It turned out the vet had removed too much rumen, said Alexander.So off Alexander went to Hull in her new car to pick up replacement rumen from a freshly slaughtered cow.On the way back, with the rumen in the backseat, Alexander ram out of gas right at Wymam MacKechnie\u2019s house.Alexander said she had to ask MacKechnie if he had any gas amd she was in a hurry because she wasn't supposed to let Viola\u2019s new rumen get cold.As soon as MacKechnie found out what was in the backseat and that it was for Viola, he helped her get on her way.When she tried to offer him money for the gas, he would have none of it.\u201cNever mind the money for gas, get that rumen to Viola,\u201d Alexander\tremembers MacKechnie saying.Alexander got back in time and the rumen was fine, she said.But that was one of the memories that sticks out in her mind from her time at The Equity After they sold The Equity to the Dicksons in the early 50s, Kinmond went to China as a reporter for The Globe and Mail.Alexander moved to California after she and Kinmond divorced and there she married an avid sports man, Alex Alexander After losing him to Alzheimer s disease, Alexander returned to Canada and just this past May moved back to the Pontiac, to Pontiac Respite Services.She said she\u2019s happy to be back here and very comfortable at PRS in Campbell\u2019s Bay She grew up at Thorne Lake and still has plenty of family in the area.\u201cMy cousins still own the farm up in Charteris,\u201d she said.DICKSON: My memories of The Equity HEATHER: From science to journalism Continued from page 3 Producing a new issue of The Equity every week for 32 years was not only a livelihood, it was a labour of love in every sense of the word.When David and I arrived on the scene, the equipment was archaic, even for that time in the history of printing.When it first came into our hands we gazed upon it in wonder, figured out how to use it, and set about keeping The Equity going.Over time we updated the system, donating much of the original machinery to Upper Canada Village where visitors now gaze on it in wonder.Then we indulged in the pleasures of keeping up with the rest of the publishing world, which meant buying an endless line of new machinery, which sometimes became obsolete before it was paid for.Printing is a demanding business.In line with the needs of the community, we kept enough of the old stuff around to publish books, posters, receipts and ledgers, funeral cards, Christmas cards, maple syrup labels, voters lists, ballots, and other essentials, but even those procedures changed from letter-press, to offset, to computers, and dear knows what comes next.Serving the community was our way of life.In those days it was not just a matter of getting the paper out, it was being a \u201cmother hen\u201d (as one early colleague once put it) to the whole County.There were groups to deal with from Eardley to La Verendrye, (yes, Pontiac included the big Park in those days when it was the largest County in Canada) and even up to the Swisha.We had the WI, the WA, the PTA, Curling Club, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Pony Club, Fair Board, and so forth ad infinitum.Everyone, including Town Council, County Council and all the mayors needed attention, all the time, and that included the Court House, the County jail, and the QPP.When David took his turn as President of the Hospital Board, he got them started on becoming accredited, a major step for the County.When the new school was built, I chaired and nurtured the first Home and School Association in town.When the Shawville Fair needed a new attraction to compete with all the other seasonal attractions, we brought a full fledged rodeo to town which, with good publicity by Frank Ryan and his new brand new radio station (CFRA), packed the arena.For weekly editors in those days, these energetic pursuits were all in a week\u2019s work.I never had a problem finding topics for editorials.Advice was always available from Peden Wilson, Harland Rowat, Jack Argue, Jack Tolhurst, Evans Schwartz, Phoebe McCord, Norma Telford, the Drs.McDowell, Powell, and Horner, Orla Young, Hosmer Turner and his kind, hospitable sisters who ran the ice cream parlour where David and I used to meet everyone in town, slurping old style ice-cream sodas and milk shakes, and generous bowls of home-churned ice cream.But what memories of The Equity does the young reporter want me to recall?There are none by themselves that can be transferred into words here and now.It wasn\u2019t just an adventure, it was a life which could never possibly happen again, to anyone, nor even be understood by anyone.The only people who could even believe what 1 might write would be the very few who have outlived most of the main characters and were there when it all happened.Among that group, those who read this now will be having a lovely, and very private, chuckle.With apologies to readers who have no such recollections, I must conclude with these few hap hazard \u201cmemories of The Equity\u201d \u2014 messages from the past from an old-school variety Canadian Weekly Newspaper editor.In our days, you were what you did.People delivered coal, people delivered ice, people delivered babies and people delivered newspapers, and they all were essential to the whole, and took their responsibilities to heart, along with teachers, councilors, nurses, carpenters, repairmen, notaries, merchants \u2014 everyone who delivered services to the neighbours and whose names always turned up in The Equity.Children s names were always accompanied by the names of their parents, or their grandparents, so readers would know who they were.Hearkening back to the \u201cold days\u201d requires time, true affection, and an open mind.The \u201cnew days\u201d are upon us and need all our attention.I\u2019d really rather be tending to the daily problems of Shawville and the Pontiac than struggling with the exigencies of keeping a National Press Club in Canada.But today is as pressing today, as yesterday was yesterday, and my current preoccupation happens to be with the National Press Club.Dreaming about writing the stories of Pontiac people, and their horses, babies, gardens, celebrations; flying around in the little two-seater airplane with Iverson Harris, taking aerial potos of lakes, farms and forests; helping Wyman MacKechnie sort out the chapters in his great series of books \u2014 What Men they Were, Well Remembered, and Weathering the Thirties; solving copyright problems for the Rusty Leach collection of Songs of the Pontiac; and the golden hours that David and I spent together, morphing what was happening all across the County into a weekly newspaper.That was a good life.Those are my memories of The Equity.Continued from page 3 She\u2019s also seen the polaroid camera come and go and watched as The Equity went from not being able to develop photos, to having a dark room to using digital cameras.She\u2019s also seen just about every nook and cranny in the Pontiac.\u201cWhen I say I\u2019ve been everywhere, I\u2019ve been everywhere in the Pontiac,\u201d she said.And often with her kids Leslie and David in tow.One of her fond memories was a St.Jean Baptiste Day celebration on Calumet Island.She was going to cover the day\u2019s events, but they didn\u2019t have enough competitors for the canoe race.So she volunteered to fill a space.One of her most vivid memories is of Raymond Villeneuve, and his attempted visit to the Pontiac in 1999.The Quebec separatist and former member of the FLQ was on his way to the Pontiac, but was turned back at Quyon by police because the streets of Pontiac were lined with federalists.\u201cPeople here were showing him we\u2019re Canadians first,\u201d she said.The police then took Alberti-Dickson and other media to interview Villeneuve in Quyon.\u201cHe was the scariest interview I ever did,\u201d she said.\u201cDuring the interview I realized what emotional hatred he had for English people.\" Looking back, Alberti-Dickson said both the Pontiac and The Equity have been good to her.And even though her background was in biochemistry, journalism and running a newspaper grew on her.\u201cIt\u2019s probably the best job I could ever have had because I get to think about different things all the time and there\u2019s always something new around the comer,\u201d she said.And even though she'd like to be able to spend more time with her grandchildren, Owen and Tessa, Alberti-Dickson isn\u2019t retiring just yet.\u201cRetirement is in the future,\u201d she said.\u201cBut I\u2019m not old enough.\u201d Congratulations for the 125th year anniversary of The Equity.Shawville 819 647-2953 1 888 292-2953 Fort-Coulonqe 819 683-2227 Gatineau 819 682-9587 Gracefield 819 463-4766 Maniwaki 819 449-2962 Everything starts with trust PROMUTUEL LA VALLÉE VALLEY MUTUAL promutuel.ca Th» mutual insurant» Msociâtlon is a damage insurant e and f inant tal servie»* firm.INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Happy 1 25th BRISTOL Anniversary to The Equity 5 TÉL: 819 647-5555\t32, CH.AYLMER 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NATIONAL BANK « INAM.lAl riROUf NATIONAL BANK WHERE SERVICE COMES FIRST * f LOCAL INTELLIGENCE PAINFUL ACCIDENT -Mr Thomas Farrell of Shawvüle had two of his fingers taken off by a plaining machine last Tuesday NOT FOUND \u2014The body of the young man named Toner, who was drowned at Rocher Fondu, according to latest accounts, has not yet been recovered, FOUND AT LAST-A good find of Mica has been discovered in the Ottawa district.Sheets of it, clear as plate glass, have been made nearly a foot square The agent who negotiated the transfer netted $4,000 on the transaction.w*v*vw< WHAT IS A CASE?\u2014 To this question a number of answers are applicable, each case at the same time, being exactly suited to the case in point.For instance, the printer says it is a place to hold type, while the express agent argues it is two dozen of beer.The physician confidently remarks that it is \u201cthat patient of mine,' and the lawyer assures you with \u201cevery suit I have,\u201d The preacher with all sincerity declares it to be every sinner he sees The grammarian, curtly: \u201cwhy, a rela-\u2022tion of nouns, of course.\u2019 Merchant \u2022 /¦Nothing more simple; the place to shew ¦goods.\u2019 Librarian - \u201cSome shelves for books.\u2019 /Architect - \u201cThe face of a house.\u201d Undertaker, -gravely - \u201cThe place for your corpse.\u2019 And a hard case?Why, the man who takes a paper five or six years and then orders it discontinued without paying for it.THAT GROUND HOG \u2014An exciting adventure with one of these little animals took place today on the street between this office and the Forest House.One of our staff while going to dinner noticed the little fellow running past, and at once giving chase, with the assistance of 13 or 14 dogs, bravely succeeded in bringing the savage animal to bay in the ¦hall of mine, host Ritchie's hotel.Our representative with due regard for the safety of the large detachment of canines, lustily called for assistance, and as if by magic, the place was instantly filled by a number of men and boys armed with every conceivable weapon, and the wicked glare of grim determination in their eyes.For the welfare of his hogship, matters had now assumed a gloomy aspect, and giving up all thoughts of escape he made good his retreat to a room where he was securely shut up for the time being.After dinner the attack was renewed with vigor, and although contrary to the intention of the besieging party, resulted in the destruction of the diminutive but formidable animals.**v** DEATH ON THE DRIVE.-Few people have any idea of the number of casualties that occur every spring in connection with the lumber drive.So far this season, no less than five men have been drowned on the Black River alone.Of these one of them was in the employ of Messrs Fraser & McCoshen, one in the employ of J.R.Booth, one in the employ of Hamilton Bros., one whose employer our informant was not acquainted with.***** PORTAGE NOTES \u2014Mr.John McIntosh is doing a good business carrying passengers and freight between Portage and Sand Point and intermediate points.The \u2018Janet\u2019, is nicely fitted up and runs well.Business is very dull in consequence of the farmers being hard at it, tooth and nail, getting the spring seed sown.The following are the quotations for this week: Hay, $14.00 per ton; oats 45 cents per bushel; butter, 17 cents per pound; eggs 13 cents per dozen; potatoes 35 cents per bushel.****** FIRE ON CALUMET ISLAND.-This Thursday moring the bam, stables and outbuildings of Mr.William Bowie of the Calumet Island were destroyed.All the contents, with the exception of a fanning mill were also destroyed.We have not ascertained the exact extent of the loss sustained, but we understand that it is a heavy one.Cause of the fire unknown.RAILWAY TIES \u2014For two or three days this week, a quantity of timber intended for railway ties came floating down the river past this village, and as there were no marks upon it to indicate that it belong to anyone in particular, the members of The Bryson Flood-wood Association (not limited) - who always have a sharp eye to business - speedily secured a lot of it to shore.On enquiry, however, it was ascertained that the timber had been set afloat at Lapasse by some individual who had made it for the PPJ Railway, and was trusting the current for its safe delivery at the Schenaux boom, from thence he woulii take it to the required point on the line.When this became known, and not wishing to impede the progress of our railway in any manner the \u201cassociation\u201d at once set the ties adrift, in order that they might reach their destination in time to be used in the \u201cfirst laying\u201d by the contractors.Yet is is possible, as far as gathering driftwood is concerned, the virtue of honesty\u2019 may exclusively belong to the Bryson \u201cassociation\u201d, and if this notice should come under the eye of our enterprising, but in a measure, too confiding tie manufacturer, we would advise him to watch his interests more closely and have his material marked otherwise he will awake to the painful reality of its having mysterious disappeared.****** PERSONAL \u2014 We call the attention of all our readers to the card in another column of C.Barsalou, Esq.who has returned to this village to resume the practice of his profession as Notary.****** TIMBER NOTES\u2014It's reported that some of Mr Allan Grant timber, on the Black Creek, which runs into the Bois Franc Creek, near Kippewa, will be stuck, owing to low water.****** SCARCITY OF LABOUR\u2014The phosphate mines in this vicinity, says the Ottawa Citizen, are at present all being worked to as great an extent as the scarcity of labour will permit It is, however, a very difficult matter to obtain a sufficient number of men to work them properly.At present common laborers at the mines are paid from a dollar to a dollar and a half a day with board, but in spite of these good wages there is great difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of hands.Mill proprietors in the neighbourhood of the mines complain of the same thing; for men employed by them at lower wages than these mentioned are constantly deserting them to accept better inducements offered them by the mining men.****** NEW KIND OF RIVER DRIVERS -A resident of Chichester is responsible for the statement that he lately observed myriads of Colorado beetles, alias potatoe bugs, quietly seated on the logs floating down the nver He avers that soon as a log touched terra firma their bugships all at once became quite active, and opening their eyes made a beeline for the shore where they safely landed.He thinks that efforts should at once be made to prevent said logs from touching on the Chichester shore, and thus compel them to go farther down river, say to Bryson, where, in tumbling over the dam, they might break their necks.REPAIRS -The Litchfield townhall which has a very dilapidated looking appearance, is at present being renovated, and when thoroughly repaired, will, it is said, be used as a store, etc FARM WORK-Farm work is now well advanced, but farmers in many sections complain that low-lying lands are much saturated on account of so much rain having fallen lately It is feared that in such lands the crops will be injured if the rains continue.****** DIED -We are sorry to have to chronicle the death of Mr John Snider, of Upper Litchfield, which sad event took place on Tuesday last He was a quiet, moffensive young man, and the afflicted family have the sympathy of the entire community His remains were interred in the family burying ground today.Truly in the midst of life we are in death.WW*** SCARCE \u2014There is at present quite a boom in the servant girl business; and in many instances one can be procured neither for love or money.As much as $8 and $10 per month is freely offered, and still the supply is not equal to the demand ****** PASTORAL VISIT\u2014His Lordship, Bishop Lorrain is at present on his pastoral visit through his diocese.He will visit Lapasse, Fort Coulonge, and Bois Franc on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday evening will reach the church at Vinton, Upper Litchfield, from whence he will proceed to the Calumet Church.Our readers will remember that he was elevated to the Episcopate last summer, by Leo XIII., as Bishop of Cythere and Vicar Apostolic of Pontiac, and established his See in Pembroke, consequently the present is his first pastoral visit and great preparations are in progress for the event.ww A FALSE RUMOUR \u2014After all the rumpus got up by the local press generally, as well as the Toronto Globe and Free Press, it seems as if our Local Member, Mr Poupore will not retire in favour of Mr Mousseau after all.We observe the rumour has been contradicted by the writer of the \u2018Chronicles of the Pontiac,\u201d who doubtless has sufficient authority to wanant the contradiction.It is a pity Bill won\u2019t cave in and give Mousseau, or some other aspirant, a chance to run for Pontiac.But, then, he appears to possess better pluck; and had those gentry who are endowed with such an aptitude for writing on subjects they know little or nothing about, but waited until he had bartered and sold the county, they might have abused him to their heart\u2019s content.Bless your soul that would never do, they are bound to go for him anyway, and would be grieved and disappointed if everything was OK.****** FIRST COMMUNION\u2014On Sunday next, at the Calumet Church, a number of children will received their first communion, preparation to confirmation next Thursday by Bishop Lorrain, who is expected there on that day.**\u201cv*«V< THE WEATHER.\u2014Since Vennorant Wiggins have given up the business of manufacturing the weather to order, there is a great change for the better.Old sol\u2019s rays are darting down upon us with daily increasing vigour, and vegetation is at present progressing rapidly.The piping of the bull frog awakens the echos each evening, and in short, nature is appearing in all her beauty.**^*** DEANERY MEETING.\u2014Service was held in Shawville last Wednesday morning at ten o\u2019clock, immediately after which the Deanery Meeting was held.The following rev.gentlemen and laymen were present: * Rev.Messres.W.H.Naylor, Rural Dean, Shawville; H.S.Fuller, North Wakefield; T.Everett, Bristol; Robert Acton, Portage du Fort; J.A.Greer, Thorne; T.E.Cunningham, Aylmer; Messrs Shaw and Elliott, Shawville; Mr.Armitage, Onslow; Mr.Hamilton, Thorne; Mr.Hodgins, Shawville; Mr.W.H.LeRoy, Bryson; Mr.Conley, Bristol.****** OBIT\u2014In the recent demise of Mr E.W.Murray the county has lost one of its enterprising and valued residents, and his loss will not be easily forgotten by the many friends to whom he had socially and otherwise endeared himself.Mr.Murray was born in England and came to Canada with his father, Jas.Murray, a member of the Royal staff.Mr E.W.Murray settled in Buckingham some 45 years ago.and there engaged in the lumbering business of Messrs.Bigelow & Co.When that firm suspended he assumed business on his own account, and successfully conducted his enterprises for a number of years.He was afterwards selected for the municipalities of Buckingham Village and Township, a post which he honorably retained until 1880, a period of over 20 years.Mr.Murray, although not bom in Canada, was a truly representative Canadian.Gifted with strong natural ability, altho' not with early advantages of education, he made himself not only a shrewd business man, but also one of the best read of the Ottawa Valley.In business he was energetic and far seeing, and as a friend generous and steadfast.His funeral took place at Buckingham on Friday late, Fathers Clerk and Charbonneau officiating.The cortege which followed his remains to the grave was the largest that has been seen in that vicinity for many years.His death leaves a blank in the community not easily filled.****** COMING ROUND \u2014Our national fete day will soon be upon us again, and if we are going to have a celebration, it is time steps were taken in the matter.Boys bestir yourselves and get up a day\u2019s fun.Don\u2019t let other places have the precedence.****** A GOOD THING \u2014The Litchfield Council has commenced to make some alterations on the Ingram bridge between this village and Portage du Fort.We are glad to have this intelligence to chronicle Any change in this structure will be welcomed by the public and regarded as an improvement.ENTERPRISING \u2014Flour will be delivered to any part of the village of Bryson, or a mile outside of the village, free of cost by G.A.Purvis & Sons.Flour $5.50 per barrel.****** AN OFFICIAL VISIT-Mr Willis Chief Immigration Agent for this district was in Pembroke last Saturday to make arrangements for placing of some immigrants.He returned to Ottawa Monday ****** OUR RAILWAY\u2014We people of the Pontiac have been hitherto sadly deceived in railway matters, and now we find ourselves in the month of June and no work going on Only a short time ago we were told that the money was raised and that the work would be pushed vigorously to completion Now we are told that the contractor failed in floating a loan in England The latter report, we fear, is only too true.Since wnting the above rumours from the lower end of the county, that work on the Pontiac Railway is to resume immediately, were floating around here The approaching county council meeting is, perhaps, the cause of these rumours In the meantime the council will act wisely in deferring the levying of the railway rate for at least another three months BRICK MAKING \u2014We understand Mr Daniel Kennedy of the 12th con of Clarendon has purchased the bnck making machine used in the yard here some years ago, by Mr.McCuaid, and will soon commence the manufacture of that article on his own premises Mr Kennedy having secured the services of a first-class workman, we bespeak for him a good trade.>*v** ARRIVED -The gay and festive mosquito has at length arrived on his annual summer visit It may therefore be inferred that summer has at length come to stay, for the mosquito seldom makes the mistake of coming until he is sure of settled warm weather PRODUCE - The following are the quotations for farmers' produce this week at Bryson butter 20 cents per lb; eggs 13 cents per doz; potatoes 40 cts per bush; flour $5.50 per bbl; pork 12 1/2 cts per lbs; oats 40 cts per bush; pease 7 cts per bush.****** THE GRAND RIVER \u2014The Ottawa River is now at its highest, although about six feet lower than it was last year at this time.No northwest ducks have so far passed down, and a gradual fall of the stream may be looked for without continued heavy rains which are not now to be looked for, and which farmers do not want The water may be expected to be low this season.****** DROWNING ACCIDENT \u2014On Thursday last a young man named Terence Smith, of Chapeau village, aged 23 years, fell off the bridge at Mattawa, and in spite of evety effort met with a watery grave.He had been engaged as clerk in the store of Messrs McCool fii Co., at Mattawa.His remains were brought to the Chapeau, and were followed to the grave by a large concourse of mourners.He was a universal favourite and highly respected, and his untimely end has cast a gloom over the entire neighbourhood.His mends have the heartfelt sympathy of all in their sad bereavement.***** NOT IMPROVING \u2014Mr.Daniel Smith, of Upper Litchfield, who has been confined to his bed for some time, is still in a dangerous condition, and but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery.****** FOOTBALL\u2014The boys in this village are infected with the football fever a present, and two clubs are being organized shortly.****** PERSONAL\u2014Mr.J.W.MacFarlane of the News gave us a call last Wednesday.Notwithstanding a rush of work in his office, MacFarlane, like all printers, is fond of a holiday now and then, hence his appearance here subsequently at the county council hall.****** THE GATINEAU VALLEY RAILWAY\u2014The Gatineau Valley Railway has been given to Messrs.Large & Co., and the subcontractors for the construction are three Norwich, Ontario men - Messrs.Donald Jones 8i Bray, Mr.Ryan of Perth is their surety and the price is said to be $16,000 per mile.Thirty miles are to be completed this year, the rails for which are order by Messrs Cox & Green of Montreal ****** NEARLY DROWNED.-While engaged in gathering float wood with a number of other lads, a son of Mr.Joseph Ringland of this village, narrowly escaped drowning last Tuesday week.It appears the boy had a number of logs secured by one end to the shore, and had ventured out on the floating ends in order that he might have a better opportunity of catching more as the eddy brought it found.He was so busily engaged with his work that he did not notice the timber on which he was standing, had become loose until it was some forty or fifty feet from shore.He made a race and jumped towards short into fully 16 feet of water, from which he was rescued by a man named Chesse; had he not done this his chances for going over chute were almost certain.****** PAINFUL ACCIDENTS \u2014Last Thursday a six year old son of Mr.Barclay Anderson of Leslie had part of the first and nearly the whole of the second and third fingers of his right hand cut off while playing with an axe, in company with another boy, aged 9 or 10 years.How the accident occurred it is not exactly known, but it is supposed that the elder boy let the axe fall, accidentally on the hand of his little companion, causing the injury described.The parents of the child promptly bandaged the hand, but it became so painful that they were obliged to bring him to this village on Monday when Dr.Gaboury dressed the wounds again, much to the relief of the little sufferer.A young son of Mr.Thomas Richardson of Clarendon also had one finger taken off by an axe last week.****** DEATH BY LOCOMOTIVE POWER.-On Thursday morning last the driver saw a horse and wagon, in the latter a man, directly on the crossing at Bell\u2019s Corners.He whistled the alarm.But the horses had no spirit and the man no ears, perceiving which the driver called swiftly and lustily for brakes It was too late, however, and the engine crowded on the obstruction, which was scattered like chaff to the winds, the man and horse going to instant death in the general wreck.Wien found the man's head was seen to be crushed in at the top, both legs broken and his body mutilated from head to foot.A whisky bottle was found in his pocket quite uninjured - a most remarkable escape.It was empty, which fact accounted for the condition of the man's ears when the whistle, loud enough to wake the dead, couldn't pierce them.The man's name was Corrick, a farmer near by.****** A FOX STORY \u2014A good fox story comes from Bristol, which we give as related to us; Mr Richard Docherty of that township has been annoyed very much of late by the incursions of master Reynard on to his domains.Mr.Docherty, unfortunately, never could catch the miscreant, to deal with him according to his works till he procured a dog whose worth as a farm animal cannot be over estimated.In the meantime Mr Fox continued to perform \u201cthe tricks that are vain\u201d to his great delight.One day however, he happened to be more careless than usual and this was the opportunity for the dog to display his agility.With a fair field before him, he gave a lively chase and succeeded in catching hold of the rascal's tail; nor did the latter make good his escape until that luxurious appendage was kindly removed by the unusually expert canine.The cur tailed animal signs not again to enter the precincts of Mr Docherty\u2019s hen roosts, etc.****** FREAK OF NATURE \u2014Mr H Isherwoods' garden, says the Almonte Times, contain a curiosity well worth viewing - roses on a crab apple tree in blossom.****** ENERGETIC \u2014Mr McCritchie of the Forest House, of this place is remarked for the good taste displayed by him from year to year in improving and adoring his premises.He has lately completed a very handsome cedar rustic fence around his garden which sets it off nicely Last week he erected the frame of a very large two-story shed which is spoken of as being the finest in the neighbourhood Mr W.H Walsh prepared ana put the timber up.BETTER THAN EVER \u2014The sports in Bryson for the approaching Dominion Day celebration promise to surpass all previous lists enjoyed in this place.***** \u2018A SAD CASE IF TRUE\u2019 - Under this head an item appeared in last week s Advance in which it is said that a man named Cole, residing in the township of Aldfield had his land sold over his head by the agent of the Quebec government; on good authority we have been told that no such case has occurred with the agent\u2019s knowledge The only lot sold in this township was sold to the person who repre-sente4d himself as being the one who occupied it.The government never did, nor does it yet, recognize the claim of a squatter But, there is a clause, however, in the receipt given by the Crown, biding the purchaser to pay \u2018for any real improvements existing thereon belonging to any other party\u201d ****** ALDFIELD NOTES\u2014The Halverson post office has been removed to the residence of James Moore, Esq., secretary treasurer of the township.Mrs McGale of Onslow was arrested yesterday under a warrent issued by James Martin, Esq., for shooting at and wounding Patrick Riley, a neighbour of hers.The shot took effect in his arms and was extracted by Dr.Falls of Peche village.The wounded man is doing well under the circumstances.****** COULONGE \u2014Hoping that you will soon have things in shape to issue your first number, I forward you a few items from Coulonge, that pretty tittle village contained the \u2018lofty mansions\u201d which are such an eye-sore to your neighbour of the Advance Firstly, then there are three new building in course of erection, (one intended for a general store), two frame, and one sided timber; and a fourth, the walls of which have been up for some time, has been roofed, and I understand is to be fitted up for a tinsmith\u2019s shop, which I have no doubt will be a paying investment.The bazaar which has been going on in the Roman Catholic Church here for the past two weeks, came to a termination on Saturday evening last, when a considerable quantity of stuff, which remained unsold, was put up at auction, and brought good prices.I did not learn the exact amount realized from the bazaar, but it could not have been less than three hundred dollars, which went to paying off the debt of the church.It was a decided success, mainly attributable to the energy and perseverence of Rev.T.Nap LeMoyne, resident priest, who seems determined to at least \u2018pay as he goes.\u201d The different saw logs concerns on the Coulonge, are busy putting their logs through\u2019 the slide, and out into the Ottawa.Mr.Fraser\u2019s Jiare timber, in charge of Mr.John Cuny, is over the slide and forty or fifty cribs of it are already rafted up and ready for Quebec.I understand he will have two hundred cribs, and very handsome, well made timber it is, too.Our young friend, Mr.Alfred Gander came home from college last week, where he carried off the \u2018gold medal\u201d prize, and a cash prize of $60, and in fact everything in the way of first prizes.The Coulonge Brass Band turned out and serenaded him the next evening after his arrival, when he made a neat tittle speech - short - but to the point.I believe he intends to remain at home during the summer months.Most of our stores are doing a good business just now, as they invariably do when the shanty boys are around.Business of all descriptions is brisk here; Mr.Morrison, blacksmith, having turned out no less than six new wagons this spring already; and our two shoemakers, Messrs McCuaid and Merleau have more work than they can do.What we want here badly here, is a good tailor - none but a good one need apply.I am certain that a good tailor would do well here For hotels, we have not fewer than four -three too many; but a new license law will regulate that, and cut the number to one.Although there are four, they all seem to pick up a good, easy living.The Brass Band under Pros.Farrell, gave a very successful concert here a week ago.Some forty to fifty were obliged to go away, as they could not gain admittance, the house being crowded before the performance commenced.Mr.William Ardill of your billage is busily engaged re-plastering one of the \u201clofty mansions\u2019 of the \u201csomber shadows\u2019 which hurts the Advance man's eyes so badly - that of George Bryson, Esq., Jr and Billy is just the boy who can put a finish on a good job.The steamer Sir John Young, Capt.Ovide Blondin, continues to cheer the natives once or twice a day, with her ringing toot, toot, toot, as she lets go each boom of logs.She must have received a thorough overhauling during the past winter, as she looked much better than she did last year.Her enterprising proprietor, Capt.John L Murphy, was round on a tour of inspection last week.All who have occasion to travel the Black River Road, will be pleased to learn that the Mansfield Council have had the bridge across Connolly\u2019s Creek torn away, and a culvert constructed instead, besides having the hill on both sides considerably lowered, so that now a team can take any reasonable load up without the least difficulty.The work was done by Mr Oliver Piche.COULONGE NOTES \u2014The principal event of the past week was the arrival of Bishop Lorrain, from Pembroke, on Thursday evening.Some streets of our village were very tastefully decked off with evergreens, a handsome avenue being formed from Morrissett\u2019s corner to the R.C Church door, with two arches, one stretching across Broom Street, under which the Bishop had to pass, and the other headmg towards the Church.He arrived at Coulonge about five o'clock Saturday evening, and proceeded, after a few minutes delay, to Lapasse, where he remained till Monday about noon when he returned to this village and then went on to Frank town I understand a large number of children received their first communion at Lapasse also.The brass band turned out on the Bishop's arrival at Coulonge, and played while he passed through the arch and up the avenue to the Church Mr Dempsy, on Saturday last, shot a muskrat which was swimming in the water, at a distance of three hundred and fifty yards, and that without a rest too A breech loader was the weapon used Who can beat that?Mr Cuny will be pushing out from the Coulonge boom about the 21st or 22nd, with a very handsome raft, neatly and securely put tether The Messrs.Whites' saw log drive on the Coulonge has stuck for the season McLaughlan's drive is beginning to come in at the head of the chute Mr Richards' boys have got down this far with their scow, and occasionally pay us a visit when they happen to be snubbed near the village McCoshen's drive of square timber has arrived at the Black River slide The slide is working well this season, a great improvement having been made on it during the past winter Water has risen of late in Coulonge and Black Riven, and is now about as h$i as at any time this spring An abundance of potatoe bugs in this village, five or six hard-shells to every hill, with a fair prospect of becoming more numerous Another new building is in process of erection in the outskirts of the villager.We had a visit from a regular tramp last Sunday afternoon - a hard looking seed He was seen prowling about the backyards in the middle of the night, when some parties conveyed him out of the village some distance, and sent him on his way rejoicing.He said he didn\u2019t like to sleep in a hotel - too close and warm for him, he preferred to sleep in the open air The Advance man works himself into a white heat in his half column of billingsgate over your Coulonge correspondent: ana men after the froth has boiled over and run off, how funny he attempts to become Now, don't you think he should rather be thankful to your correspondent for furnishing him with a new hobby.The \u2018Olive branch\u2019 hobby is worn out; the \u2018Bryson-Poupore\u2019 hobby is threadbare and now it is just simply amazing to see him spread himself on \u201clofty mansions\u2019 and \u201csomber shadows' His grim attempts to poke fun at \u201cWatchman\u201d is sublime - a whole half column devoted to low slang.What a pity he mistook his calling, he might have been really useful as the \u2018phunny man\u2019 (commonly known as clown) in some circus.Narcisse Marreon Jr., came near losing the number of his mess last Sunday morning, about daybreak.It seems his bark canoe upset with him near the village here, when his legs got caught between the bars somehow, ana as he could not extricate himself, he lay on his back, and kicked and splashed and shouted lustily for help, which brought his brother Oliver to the rescue.Young men should not be gallivanting so early on Sabbath morning.Mr Alfred Gandier preached here last Sabbath, and also at Black River, his father being too ill to officiate.The Rev.gentleman has had very poor health since the middle of winter, and contemplates taking a spare for a few weeks, during which time lus son will fill his place here.John Bryson, Esq., M.O arrived home from Kippewa on Friday evening, looking not a whit the worse for abuse he has had to regularly dished out to him in the News and Advance since his election.What a pity the people would not elect those two ranters the Advance and News men to represent them.Mr.Bryson is hiring men to go to Quebec on his timber.The hay crop in this vicinity promised to be more than an average yield Coulonge River falling fast, Ottawa keeping up well.-******- LITTLE LOCAL LINES Glorious weather.The fish story season has arrived.Anglers report that fishing is poor just now.The month of roses is now with us.Fifteen hours of daylight just.Oh! my goodness! Gracious! The weather is very warm! The ice water and lemonade season has set in Howling dogs make things hideous at night in the precincts of this village.A raft of dimension timber belonging to Mr.Mason arrived here yesterday.Mr.George Letts will shortly open a baking establishment in this village.A load of 3,400 pounds was drew from the station to this village - a very rough hill road - by Messrs.O\u2019Meara\u2019s team.Sawlogs are running past here very thickly at present, indicating that the rivermen and steamboat commanders are doing their duty.The boys have commenced to practice baseball in the evenings.It is said they intend having a friendly game with the Quyon Club on Dominion Day.We are sorry to hear of the death of Rev.N Austin, last pastor of the Portage du Fort Methodist congregation.The sad event took place last Wednesday at his home.A good deal of sickness prevails at this present time in different sections of the county, and altogether the past winter and present spring have been trying season with many.There is some talk of an effort being made shortly to start a farmers\u2019 grange in Pontiac.The idea is a good one, and would certainly be a great benefit to all parties concerned.A saw mill is badly needed here, the supply of lumber furnished by those in the vicinity-being inadequate to the demand.Dressed lumber has to be imported from Renfrew or Amprior.Oh the tiny tittle ants, how they clamber up our pants, at the pic nic heath\u2019 the willows in the glen, how they seem to take delight in the obnoxious sport of bitin', indefensible and modest gentlemen.The following young ladies took diplomas for teachers at the Aylmer examination: Miss Maggie Morrison and Miss Maggie Miller, Clarendon; Miss Annie Morrison, Bristol.The Miss Miller referred to here is sister of the editor of the Pembroke Observer.Cheese factories do not appear to be in a flourishing condition in Pontiac at present, owing to the difficulty of procuring the necessary supply of milk.We hear the one of the Calumet island is about beginning operations The cold and backward spring coupled with the high price of butter must militate more or less against the industrial enterprise.Pembroke merchants have adopted the early closing movement.The strawberries are ripe, a beautiful large ripe one was handed to us the other day Vegetation has made wonderful strides since the rains of last week.Meat cattle are very scarce and sought by local and Ottawa butchers.The thermometer registered 95 degrees in the shade of the Sabbath last Some fat people were taken down.The Bryson people as usual are subscribing largely to the Dominion Day Fun.There is a rumour that Mr Eddy is going to start a paper manufactory on Batson A Currier\u2019s old mill site.Wednesday's frost did not find the gardening community unprepared Some of the ladies \u201cpapered up\u2019 their corn plants.A young man by the name of Lapointe got one of his hands badly shattered by a saw in Mr.Eddy\u2019s mill on Saturday last.A raft of timber was towed down by the Steamer \u2018Sir John Young\u201d last Saturday night, belonging to Mr Mason.The raft is in charge of Mr Peter McCauig of this village Our streets were beautifully decorated on Saturday with green trees and flags in honour of Bishop Lorrain's arrival on nis way to Portage du Fort.Rev Mr Christie of Beachburg preached in the Presbyterian Church here last Sabbath taking for his text the first clause of the 5th verse of the 45th chapter of Jrmiah \u201cSeekest thou great things Barueh?See them not \u201d.Those who have never witnessed the attractive sight of a miniature balloon ascension will have a chance of doing so by attending the celebration here on Dominion Day.\u2018Professor\u2019 Jolicoeur of animal-training fame is progressing wonderfully in.subjecting to his will the animals he has in charge Don't miss his performances on Dominion Day.A man winks his eye an average of 30,000 times a day.and a woman's tongue makes 78,000 motions every 24 hours At this rate how long will it take the man to catch up?Unprecedented 1 GREAT STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, At E.B.D.Lafleur\u2019s Store all to be sold out to make room for New Stock Go and see EUSTACHE who is always ready to show goods for inspection.PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS -TAKEN IN EXCHANGE AT- At Discount of 5 per cent on all Cash Purchases.EE.B.D.Lafleur BRYSON, JUNE 7, 1883 HENRY PORTEOUS Popular Store The public is cordially ivited to inspect my good and compare prices.Note the following: Good factory Cotton at 7c per yard\tWhite Shirtings at 9c per yard Dress Goods at 10c\t\u201c\t: Past Coloured Prints at 7c per yard Duckings from 15c and upwards Cashmeres, Prints, Muslins, White and Coloured, Parasols and Umbrellas.Don\u2019t buy until yous see the bargains I am giving.GENTS\u2019 FURNISHINGS.READY MADE SUITS FROM $6.50 UP WHITE REGATTA SHIRTS FROM 70 CENTS UP.TIES, SCARFS, COLLARS, CUFFS, SOCKS, BRACES, In endless variety.THE BEST\u2014All Wood Tweeds, worth One Dollar a yard, I will sell at 75c HATS AND CAPS.A grand display in this department.Felt and Straw Hats, BRODERIES.A No.I TEA at 20 cents a pound, or 6 pounds for one dollar.Twelve and a half pounds of Good Brown Sugar for one dollar.Nine Pounds of Grandulated (White) Sugar for one dollar.TOBACCOS 40 cents per pounds.FOOTWEAR Ladies and Gents\u2019 Footwear \u2014 a very fine stock.A beautiful Ladies Buttoned Boot for $3.50 a pair.My stock of Boots and Shoes will be found CHEAPER and BETTER than any establishment in this vicinity.Those who favor me with their patronage can rely on civil treatment and prompt attention.HENRY PORTEOUS Bryson, June 20, 1883 Wednesday, August 13,2008 125 years of THE EQUITY Page 7 \u201cT Mon whe: TWO BOYS WANTED.O intelligent lad.who can read and &peU well as an apprentice Apply at this office THi: HQU1TY.BRYSON.Jl NE 7th, 1883 PROSPECTUS We take much pleasure today in presenting the public with the first number of THE EQUITY newspaper, to which we invite its attention.In making our appearance in the journalistic arena, we do so deeply cognizant of the responsibility which attaches to that position A definition of the word which we have chose for the name of our journal at once suggests the course it is our intention to pursue: Equity \u2014 that virtue which treats all persons according to the rules of reason and justice \u2014 an adherence to which, it must be admitted, is no very easy task; and, if through mis-judgement or indiscretion, our efforts to do so prove futile, the indulgence of a discerning public is solicited.In local affairs THE EQUITY purposes taking a most active part.Believing that the interests of the inhabitants of the County of Pontiac stand paramount to all others, we will consider it our first duty to advocate and protect those interests, and to further this end, our columns will be open to those who choose to discuss matters identical with them.Being firmly convinced of the wisdom and excellent of the policy pursued by the leaders of the Liberal-Conservative party of Canada in the affairs of this country, and believing that to the great measures they have introduced is mainly due the cause of our prosperous condition today, the columns of this journal will be devoted to the interests of that party.Matters which have no immediate connection with our county or provincial affairs, and with which we do not presume to be familiarly acquainted, will receive such consideration as we deem it prudent to give.Our express object is to supply our readers with a good local paper, and in carrying out this aim, we respectfully ask their assistance and support.In introducing THE EQUITY to the people of the Pontiac a duty of grave importance devolves upon us: the duty of defending ourselves and others (whose names have been associated with ours in connection with this enterprise) from the vile attacks and gross misrepresentations of parties who, - long before we had an opportunity of defining our position - were untiring in their exertions to blast our hopes of success in the field of journalist, imagining by so doing, that they would enlist public apathy in their behalf, and push to completion the object of their own ambitions and unscrupulous ends.Through this means and the medium of the local press, a number of people have been led to believe that our publication is the creature of the so-called \u201cBryson-Poupore clique;\u201d that it is the personal property of the gentlemen who have the honor of representing this county in parliament; and that it has been rallied into existence solely for the purposes of defending themselves, and securing for their own especial benefit, the patronage of the Dominion and Provincial Governments.These insinuations are as groundless as they are cowardly, and we trust the public will see hem with that contempt which they so richly deserve.Sewn broadcast with the two-fold and decidedly mean object of injuring us financially in the pursuit of our business, and tending to convey the idea to the minds of the people that the above-mentioned gentlemen are possessed with the spirit of avarice which so exclusively belongs to the originator of these low, underhand method of endeavoring to gratify selfish ends, we have confidence in an intelligent public taking no stock in them.In the first place, we wish it to be understood that we have absolute control of this journal; that we are the proprietors, and that we are at liberty to support whomsoever we choose, so long as their actions are inaccordance with reason and justice.Secondly, although we freely acknowledge having received aid in starting this enterprise from a number of friends in the Conservative ranks, not one dollar by way of bonus has been given by the members of this county towards the establishment of this journal, neither have they been the instruments by which it came into existence.In accepting aid from outside sources, we cannot see anything wrong.Our confreres in this county have been materially aided in like-manner; our only hope is that, in consideration of these favors, we will be enabled to repay the debt of gratitude by a true observance of j\\rsti< e and fair play to all; and if by extending to the members elect for this county that right which has heretofore been denied them - a fair representation through the columns of the press - we claim it as our privilege to do so.MARRIED - At Montreal on the 5th of June by the Rev.Cahon Evans, John R.Hayman to Miss August Eaurance Willoughby, both of Pembroke Page 8 THE CORONA TIOS OF THE CZAR OF RUSSIA In March 1881 Alexander ascended the throne of Russia, but has not dared to show himself to his subjects sufficiently long to be crowned until the present time For two years he has been a pnsoner in his own palace He dare not eat anything until others had tasted it, and his chamberlain has had to take a sip out of his wine glass before the Autocrat of all the Russias felt safe in drinking the contents Guarded as no other Sovreign has ever been, yet plots were always being discovered.A cake of toilet soap turned out to be a dynamite bomb, and once the wash-stand blew up a few minutes before Alexander approached to wash himself At last he felt that it was unsafe to delay the coronation any longer, and on Sunday, May 20 the ceremonies commenced, and were completed on the 27th.On the last day of the ceremonies of the procession to the cathedral was of immense length and comprised deputies from the Asiatic States of the Empire, university students, the clergy, judges, the nobility, and prefects from every section of the empire.On entering the portals of the Cathedral the emperor was received by the Metropolitan of Moscow.The thrones, for the emperor and the empress, were place upon a dais erected between the two middle columns of the cathedral.In front of the thrones were two tables covered with gold cloth, upon which were placed two crowns, the orb and the sceptre.The people were then asked if they knew any reason whey the Czar should not be crowned.No answer being given, selections from the Gospels were read and the Metropolitan of Novgorod and Kieff again ascended the ascended and invested the emperor with the imperial mantel of ermine, the Metropolitan of Moscow saying at the same time: \u201cCover and protect they people as this rob protects and covers thee\u201d The emperor responded: \u201cI will, I will, I will, God helping.\u201d The Metropolitan of Novgorod, crossing his hands upon the head of the Emperor, then invoked the benediction of Almighty God upon him and his reign, delivered to Alexander III, the crown of Russia, who placed it on his own head, and, assuming the sceptre and orb, took his seat upon the throne.He then returned the insignia of his title to the dignitaries appointed to receive them.The Czar preserved throughout a grave and decorous dignity and a nobleness of demeanor, which provoked the admiration of all.In the midst of all this splendor, surrounded by all the pomp which human ingenuity can devise, there will be not many in Moscow more unhappy that the Czar.Even though the crown be placed upon his head, how long is he to wear it?Even though conspiracies sleep, how long will it be before they awaken?It is the utter hopelessness of his potion which makes is so melancholy.He cannot create a Parliament for what sort of a legislative assembly would it be which fathered half of its representatives from Europe and half from Asia! He cannot grant a constitution, for that, by the tradition of his family, means abdication.He can only pray before the shrines of the Kremlin and his life may be spared, that his reign may be prosperous and in the awful despair which must visit him in his hours of prostration there is something so sad that none among us can do aught but pity him.THE PROVINCIAL FARM SCHOOL The Course of Instruction The following information will be useful to all those who have young people to send to the new Provincial Farm School.This establishment will open at once.The post-office addresses Whitfield\u2019s, Quebec.1.\tAll application must be addressed to MS Lesage, Asst., Commissioner of Agriculture, Quebec.Certificates must accompany them testifying to the good conduct of the candidate, his capacity, and his desire to work as men usually do work on a farm.2.\tThe Government will select 20 apprentices, one for each judicial district, who - will received board, the washing of their working clothes, and a salary, varying from $30 - $100 according to the value of their labor.The young men will be expected to have been previously at work on the land for at least two yeap, special mention of which should bé made in the application.3.\tEvery apprentice who turns out idle, incapable, or unruly, will be immediately discharged in order to make room for others.4.\tThe course of instruction at the farm school will be, above all things, practical, that is to say, the apprentices will be under the charge of skilful instructors, who will show them how to perform, after the best fashion, the work of the following departments: the field cultivation,; the fruit and vegetable garden; the orchard; the plantations; the stables and cattle sheds; and the butter and cheese factories.5.\tThe evenings and intervals of leisure will be usually employed in the perusal of books and journals on farming, and by lectures given at odd times by managers and sub-managers of departments.6.\tThe board of management under Mr.Whitfield himself will consist of: 1st a general superintendent; 2nd a manager of cattle department; 3rd a thorough dairyman; 4th a farm manager; 5th a gardener nurseryman, and forester; 6th an accountant.Each of these will have an assistant as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the business.7.\tEvery evening the work done on the farm will be entered in books, its value notice, and the work for each apprentice for the next day be pointed out.8.\tThe farm account and the work book will be always open for inspection by the pupils.9.\tThe catholic pupils will be under the care of the Rev.Cure of St.Cesaire, and the protestants under that of the Minister at Rougemont.Both these gentlemen have promised their best aid to the General Superintendent, who will watch over the morals and conduct of the pupils with all possible devotion.10.\tAll branches of agriculture to which they intent to devote themselves, they will receive certificates and diploma's in accordance with 125 years of THE Idttl their révérai merits It will be observed that time has not permitted all the intended changes in the establishment.Thus, the number of bed rooms is insufficient, the reading room wants finishing and furnishing, and a wing wants building before the place can be called complete In the meantime, it is thought better to postpone these additions for the pre sent rather than defer opening the school for another year For all other information apply to Ed A Barnard, Director of Agnculture Provincial Model Farm, Whitfield\u2019s, Que.Sir Francis Hincks THE QUESnONS OF CANADIAN INDBtMH«C Closing a long and interesting speech at the banquet given in his honor in Montreal on Thursday evening by the Montreal Club, Sir Francis Hincks made the following reference to the independence questions: \u2014 I have avoided touching tonight upon any of the questions of the present day upon which difference of opinion can arise; and it was gratifying to me the other day to see the address presented to the Governor General, from which I want to read one sentence: - \u201cThe success of your Excellency\u2019s efforts has fortified us in the belief that a full development of our national sentiment is perfectly consistent with the closest and most loyal connection with the empire.\" The address containing these words was moved by Sir John Macdonald, the leader of the Government, and seconded by Mr.Blake, the leader of the Opposition Well, gentlemen, we hear a good deal in these times about independence and I confess that before I read that address I could hardly venture to name the word independence because I should be afraid to come on a party question; but when the leader of the Government and the leader of the Opposition are agreed in the sentiment there expressed, it must be perfectly clear that the question is not a party one.Now I am not so ignorant as to think that we are all of one mind as to which is the best system of Government - the Monarchical or the Republican.It is natural for some to prefer the Republican.I confess I am not one of them.What I want to point out - and I wish you to take notice of it - for there are, perhaps, some young men here who, after I am in my grave, will think of something I have this day.What I want to point out, and my last advice and warming is that you may depend upon it that you will have no change from a monarchical to a republican government, without a revolution and bloodshed.During the last few years I have devoted myself to literary pursuits, writing a good deal for reviews and papers, and engaging in controversies and having made that assertion once I was told by a distinguished literary man, who is one who believes that our political destiny is annexation, that there are plenty of instances of States changing their allegiance without revolution; and the instances given were actually instances that proved my own assertion to the contrary.You will scarcely believe that one of them as Alaska, an uninhabited country sold by Russia to the United States.Another instance was Cyprus, transferred to Great Britain only the other day.Another was Nice and Savoy, transferred to Italy by am arrangement between French amd Italy, and another was Alsace and Lorraine - both the result of the war between France amd Germany.Another instamce was the Transvaal, which was amnexed to Great Britaiin, amd succeeded in getting its independence.Many will say on this question of independence that Great Britain won\u2019t interfere to prevent our independence.It is not a question of interfering.It is a question of the Canadian people themselves.You won\u2019t get the people to be unanimous in preferring a monarch in favor of a republic, he has nothing to do but quietly to go to the other side of the lines, and he will do that rather tham fight at the risk of life amd property and everything.My firm conviction is, and I know of no case in history where a change of political institutions has been effected without a revolution and bloodshed.A Perilous Position A YOUNG MILL HAND'S ESCAPE FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH Yesterday morning a young French Canadian mill hand named Narcisse Meunier, in Eddy\u2019s new mill at Hull, had one of the most marvellous escapes from death on record.It seems that while attending to his duties in the lower part of the mill he slipped and fell into the water beneath.At this point the stream resembles a gigantic seething chaul-dron, but notwithstanding the warning of the rushing waters Narcisse, who is a powerful swimmer struck out boldly for the shore.In spite of his efforts he was hurled down the waterway toward the Devil\u2019s Hole, where the stream enters the underground passage.Nothing daunted by the tremendous strength of the current against which he was battling Narcisse continued to fight for his life.At length he succeeded in getting near enough to the shore to clutch a projecting piece of rock to which he held until rescued by some parties who had witnessed the accident.When the news spread about the mill that this had occurred few could credit it, as it was considered utterly impossible, says the Citizen, that any man could have fallen into the maelstrom beneath the mill and escape with his life.When he fell into the water he shouted as loudly as he could, but the noise of the mill prevented his cries being heard, consequently is fellow workmen did not know of the occurrence until it was over.Fortunately for him some outsiders happened to see him clinging to the rock on the shore with the energy of despair, while the force of the current was almost tearing his arms out of their sockets, and came to his rescue Had it not been for this he would inevitably have been sucked down into the Devil\u2019s Hole probably never heard of again.No description can give the faintest idea of the dangers of this spot, but after one glance at it, it seems incomprehensible that a human being should have been there and survived Notwithstanding the fearful peril from which he had been rescued a few hours before, he was cooly ITY engaged at his usual work as though nothing out of the way had happened He is a stoutly built young fellow, of about 19 summers, and although he looked rather pale after his battle with death, he made light of the affair He said he didn't feel very bad at the time, but he wouldn\u2019t like to be there again.THE BRIDGE ACCIDENT.NEW YORK, June 2 - at a meeting of the bridge trustees yesterday it was stated that a committee, of which Mayors Lowe and Edson were members, had been appointed to investigate the causes of the recent accident and consider plans to prevent a repetition of it.The investigation will be private.The committee on organization of the bridge trustees to whom as referred the matter of the disaster, met today and declared it to be unwise to allow pedestrians on the roadways for horses and vehicles.The committee received many suggestions from all parts in regard to prevent a recurrence of such a disaster.John Sweeney, one of the work men employed on the bridge, was mysteriously shot in the arm today.The police are unable to find the man who wounded him.THE APACHE WAR SAN JOSE - Chichulrus, June 2 -Mexican officers fear that the Apaches are being driven toward the southwest by Crooks\u2019 operations His recently reported fight on the Sonora Line is confirmed by rumors from the scattered hamlets and villages on the Chichuahua Slope of the Sierra Madrés.The squaws and Indians who came into Wilcox are the remnant of Chato\u2019s people cut off from the main body.They have probably been in the United States all the time.TOMEBSTONE, May 28 - Couriers have arrived from the Mexican headquarters at Opusara, bringing alarming intelligence.The Indians appeared in force at Narcori on Thursday last.The authorities there asked for reinforcements and were afraid of being attacked at any moment as there were only 30 soldiers there.When the courier left the Indians were killing cattle within 60 yards of the town.The Indians were nearly all dismounted, and have evidently fled from the Sierra Madrés to escape Crook.No news of Crook had been received.Reinforcements have been sent to Narcori and news is hourly expected.It appears that the Apaches escaped from the Sierra Madrés owing to the failure of the Mexican forces to cooperate with Crook.TUSCON, June 3 - Information reached this place via Hermosville, Mexico, that the Indians have been forced out of the Sierra Madrés by Crook, and were scattering among the settlements stealing horses and killing cattle.The Mexican forces, which are not strong in the locality fear that many citizens may be murdered unless Crook comes to their relief.The sensational dispatches sent out form El Paso, Tombstone and Deming last week about an Indian fight, were without the slightest foundation, in fact, as it is well known no fight had taken place up to Monday.**-v*»< Sir Roderick NEW YORK HISTORY OF A KNIGHTED CANADIAN Roderick William Cameron, the founder and senior member of the shipping firm of R.W.Cameron & Co.of No.23 South William St., has been knighted by Queen Victoria in recognition of his services in establishing and developing commercial relations between the North American continent and the Australian colonies.The first news received in this city was a congratulary dispatch from the Marquis of Lome, Governernor General of CAnada, which was addressed to Sir Roderick at New York.Mr Cameron was born of Scotch parentage at Glengarry, int he province of Ontario, Canada, about 57 years ago.He came to this city in 1852, when he was about 25 years of age, and engaged in the shipping business.The present firm was formed in 1870.In 1852, soon after his arrival here he sent out the first ship that ever sailed from the United States to Australia.This was the beginning of the Australia Pioneer Line, which since then plied between two countries.The firm afterwards sold its interests in the vessels of the line, but the regular communication is still kept up.Mr.Cameron was Commissioner from New South Wales to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876 and also to the Paris Exhibition in 1878.He was honorary commissioner from Canada to the international exhibition at Sidney, New South Wales in 1879, but was not able to attend it.He was appointed special honorary commissioner from Canada to the Victoria Exhibition, which was held at Melbourne in 1880-81.He was present during the whole time, and on his return home made a compete report on the conditions and resources of the Australian colonies.To his industrious labors at this Exhibition is due, in large part, his present honor of knighthood He has always maintained allegiance to the British Crown, and although he has spent the most of his life in New York and has won success there, he has never sought to be come an American citizen.About 15 years ago Mr.Cameron took a strong interest in the breeding of race horses and established a breeding and racing stable on Stalen Island.He imported the famous stallion Leamington, the greatest sire and the greatest race horse ever brought to the country.Sir Roderick is now in England, having sailed from New York last December His family is in Paris, where his children are educated.Nothing to do A man who has nothing to do is a pitable object.He is simply a kept man.He is living on charity.Some amiable snoozer, now dead, has left him the money he is now living on and all he has to do is to draw the money and eat, drink and sleep No eyes can be brightened with happi ness when he comes home, because he only comes home when other places are closed He cannot come home tired and be petted and rested by willing hands, because it would be a mockey to pet a man who had got tired doing nothing.Such a man simply exists and is no good on earth.If he would wheel a bar-row and earn a dollar, and get tired, and buy a beefstake with the dollar, and have it cooked, and eat it while the appetite was on that he got wheeling the barrow, he would know more enjoyment than he had every known before That man with nothing to do on earth Wednesday.August 13, 2008 no doubt, thinks, as he lays around and smells frowy, that he is enjoying life, but he knows no more about enjoyment than a tom cat that sleeps all day and goes out nights to play short-stop to a lot of boot-jacks and beer bottles Such a man is a cipher, and does not know enough to go in when it rains.If there were less incomes left the lazy young fellows, and more sets of carpenter tools, there would be more real enjoyment.Matrimony and Finance \u2014\u2018In our country,\" say the Englishman, as he leaned back in the chair, \u201cbefore we marry we arrange to settle a certain sum upon the wife.\" \u201cYes, I know,\" replied the American, \u201cbut with us it is different.It is after we are mamed that we settle everything on the wife and arrange to beat our creditors \" Haw! I See And how do the creditors take it?\u201d \u201cThey never find anything to take.\u201d How General Grant\u2019s Wife got her First Sewing Machine I remember when we commenced housekeeping.I did not want Julia to do the family washing, because I not only thought it foreign to her abilities, but I also thought it work of a menial nature that a man should not impose on his wife.For three or four weeks I had the washing done a at laundry, and the expense was from $1.25 to $1.50 per week.And it was not always satisfactory at that, and imposed quite a little attention and annoyance upon us Julia never remonstrated or mentioned the subject, but when I came home one evening I found two washtubs and a board standing in the kitchen.She then told me that she had decided to have a sewing machine.And before the year was out she did have one and a new one, costing 25.00 at that, and virtually got it out of the washtubs.First off she bought two secondhand tubs for $1.20.She said that a good second-hand tub was better than many new ones.How that is, I do not know?The washboard cost 20 cents.I viewed the arrangements some what skeptically, I will admit, and was not more than half pleased with this experiment.Julia, I think noticed this, and did not discuss the matter with me.Well the next morning after her first day\u2019s washing, she accidentally mentioned how strained her hands and wrists felt.I said, \u201cJulia are you determined to do our washing?\u201d \u201cCertainly I am,\u201d she replied.\u201cCaesar was a bigger man than you, and his sisters did the washing; and there was a time Marie Antoinette did her own, and the whole royal family besides.Why should not I.\u201d \u201cBut,\u201c I asked, \u201cdo you think it fitting to your social position - to your station?\u201d \u201cSocial position - my station?Why Ulysses?\u201d And the way she brought that \u201cWhy Ulysses?out made me feel very small.I told her, very well then, I would help her.And did.I put up a nice easy-running pulleys and lines, and brought a clothes wringer and a clothes basket, so that with one she might not strain her wrists, and with the other her temper, for I have noticed that when a few pieces of wrung clothes fall off into the dirt from a washboard on which they are being carried, it is rather more exasperating than the work.In six months she came to me and demonstrated where she save $25 by the tubs, and went off and bought a sewing machine to suit herself with the money.>**v**< THE CHEMISTRY OF BREAD MAKING An ordinary grain of wheat, if sliced through the middle and examined as to its structure, will be found to consist of several layers, the outer a hard coating, which contains mineral salts, lime, sand, etc.Beneath this is a zone of matter very rich in gluten, the flesh-forming constituent of the wheat, while the central portion of the grain is occupied by a white, powdery mass, which is nearly pure starch.In manufacturing flour the two outer layers, which together form the bran, are usually removed, leaving the white starch flour of the central portion.Let us now briefly consider the chief points in the chemistry of break making.If flour be worked up with water it forms a sodden, insoluble, indigestible mass; but if heating to the temperature of boiling water the starch nodules burst, and it is thereby rendered a little more digestible, although still form a close, stiff, and not very palpable cake.Such is the character of unleavened bread and of sea-biscuits, a slightly different form of the same thing.To be fit for digestion starch must be dissolved or softened by boiling or baking, hence the reason why raw nuts are indigestible as compared with the favorite roasted chestnut; and hence one reason for cooking food, which mankind has been taught by experience, ages before chemistry could give a scientific explanation of the reason why.Cooking is, in fact a partial digestion, and the same is the case with baking, both being preliminary aids to the changes which take place in the mouth and stomach before the food is in a fit state for the preparation of the blood Accordingly, we bake our bread, and we bake it in the way we do because a soft, spongy loaf is more readily moistened and acted upon by the saliva and the juices of the stomach.There is a good deal in the chemistry of bread making and our bread might be much improved if bakers had a more intelligent understanding of the science involved in their business, for, although several improvements have been introduced of late years, the most of our bread is still prepared in the old fashion.The necessary quantity of flour is put into a trough with about half its weight of water and sufficient salt and yeast or leaven, then thoroughly mixed up into water is known as the sponge.(Here we may remark that the best flour takes up the largest quantity of water, and a rough test of the quality of two samples of flour may be made by comparing the quantity of water required to obtain a dough of similar consistency!.After the sponge is made it is left for about five hours in a warm place to ferment, after which it is kneaded with the rest of the flour and again left to rest some time.The dough is then weighed into lumps, which are put in tins and set aside till they have risen to twice their previous bulk.It is the yeast or leaven that the rising of bread is due, and the action is identical with of the fermentation of beer.The flour contains a small amount of a nitrogenous substance which changes a portion of the starch into sugar: the yeast then attacks the sugar, splitting it into alcohol and carbonic acid gas, the little bubbles of which try to escape from the mass of the dough, but get entangled by gluten and gum which the flour contains, and thus every part of the bread becomes penetrated with little cavities Eventually the fermentation would cease, and the bubbles of gas would find their way to the outside, thus leav ing the dough less light and spongy than we wish it to be; but the baker guards against this by putting it m the proper time into a hot oven, the heat of which at first increased the fermentation.Just a few minutes, however, the temperatures becomes sufficiently high to kill all yeast germs; the fermentation is thereby stopped, and, by continued heating, the starch granules are burst and the mass is fixed in the porous form it has then attained.A little of the alcohol is retained in the bread, but practically almost the whole of it - in London amounting to some 300,000 gallons per annum - is driven off by the heat.EXPERIENCE in editing a newspaper we do not claim to have; our connection heretofore with journalism has been purely mechanical, and this proves to us how ever essential it is to have experience before venturing on any undertaking.But in all explorations a commencement has to be made and if we have chose the sea of journalism as our future element we are simply following the footsteps of many others.If, at the end of ten or 12 years - should our journalistic career be so prolonged, - experience does not teach us any more about conducting a newspaper so as to meet the views of the people.S A MACKAY, B.C.L., Notary Public, Portage du Fort, will visit Shawville every second and fourth Thursday of the month.PHOTOGRAPHY ! THE SHAWVILLE GALLERY.The undersigned having leased die Photography Gallery in the village of Shawville, from Messrs.Taggart, is now with the assistance of a FIRST CLASS ARTIST, Ffrepared to carry on the business with renewed vigor.ENLARGING A SPECIALITY ALL KINDS OF PICTURE FRAMING ROM $1.00 TO $25.00, DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH He is determined to exert his best effort to please the public, and would therefore respectful solicit a call believing that he can satisfy the most exacting with his work.T.A.WAINMAN Shawville, June 7, 1883 THE EQUITY, PUSUBHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY Is supplied with the latest and most fashionable designs in Printing Material.And its proprietors are in a position to print, with neatness and dispatch, all descriptions of Job Work from the Luge POSTER down to tho smallest Card Bill Hoads Letter Heads Latter Circulars Statements Hand Bills Law Forms Bnsinass Cards, ate., ato.All order by mail will have our prompt attention.Particular care will be taken in the printing of pamphlets, &c to have them free of mistakes and printed in plain, readable type.Satisfaction guaranteed.Subscription price one dollar per year in advance.AGRICULTURAL DEPOT ! MAIN STREET.BRYSON The Farmers are respectfully requested to come and inspect the following AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS: STEEL PLOUGHS, STEEL HARROWS, ACME HARROWS, REAPERS, MOWER, PULVERIZES, and HORSE RAKES The Mowers and Reapers are all of a superior quality and this coupled with the fact that the foundry is so convenient thereby rendering it easy to get a break repaired, which is a decided advantage, leads us to ask an inspection of these machines before purchasing elsewhere.All the extras in connection with these implements kept on hand or ordered on the shortest notice.W.G.LEROY AGENT FOR FROST & WOOD 4 "]