The Stanstead journal, 22 juin 1905, jeudi 22 juin 1905

[" I 000090099999 VF YP PPT Vr TY VF PITTI IFTFYTYTRYTYTY ole ch.Jor om\u2019 tly nes.and ny- UE.The Stanstead Journal.ee VOL.LX \u2014 No.25.Ladies\u2019 Duck Suits regular 83.50 for des Rain Coate regular 810.00 for os Rain Coats regular 85.00 for Colored Waists and Dress Muslins 35 and 40c.for 25c.a yard; ; 17c.a yard.Be.fT he.Prints for 7lc.; all &c.i 53,c.Pre a 250.Cloth Slippers for 17e.ies\u2019 20c.Cloth Slippers for 15c.Lac prices are good only on the following days\u2014 Friday and Saturday, Jupe 23rd and 24th, and repeated June %th and July 1st.Yours truly, A.G.CLOUGH.- TOWN TOPICS.Mr.Carlos Hopkins of Coaticook was in town yesterday.The very desirable residence of Mrs.J.W.McDuffee is now for sale.Mrs.J.Hart Gress and son from Georgia have arrived at Derby Line for the snmmer.Miss Mary Foster, after an absence in Boston of several months, was welcomed home last week.Miss H.Bernice Sweeney from Vas- gar Lollege, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.is home for the summer vacation.Rev.Fritz Baldwin, who has lately peen the guest of Mr.D.W.Davis, left for his home in New Jersey last night.Mr.and Mrs.Cecil Palmer and Mr.Levi Munson of Morrisville were among the guests in town for commencement week.\u2019 Mrs.D.W.Davis and son, Winthrop Harding, attended the graduation of Miss Linda Harding at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., this week.They will make a visit of some duration at the Beach before returning home.Divine service will be held Sunday morning and evening at the Congregational Church, the pastor, Rev.William R.Harvey, preaching.The subject of the morning discourse will be: \u201cPaul\u2019s Reciprocity Treaty Concerning Faith.\u201d In the evening the subject will be: \u201cThe Supremacy of the Spiritual, Illustrated from Science, Life and History.\u201d The many friends of Mrs.D.I.Pul- sifar will be sorry to learn that this is to be her last sammer at Derby Line.For years Mrs.Pulsifer\u2019s home was in Philadelphia, then attracted by the charms of her girlhood home she built a magnificent summer residence at Derby Line and for the past two years has wintered here.She has not fully recovered from her serious illness of last winter and, naturally enough, feels that the care of so large a country home is too much for a lady of her years.The property is now offered for sale.The services in Christ Church next Sunday will be of a special character marking the tenth anniversary of the ordination of the Rector to sacred ministry and the third anniversary of his rectorship in Stanstead.Special sermons will be preached both morning and evening by the Rev.Prof.Dann, M.A, of Bishop\u2019s College Len- noxville.The Holy Communion will be administered at 8 a.m., morning prayer at 11, evening prayer at 7.30.The Rector earnestly hopes to see all the people of the parish at these serv- lees to which everybody is cordially invited.Mr.Osmond Buckland, aged about twenty years, son of William Buck- land, formerly of Barnston, died somewhat suddenly at the home of his parents, Wilson Hill, Derby, Friday morning.Although he had not been feeling well for about a week he went to visit his sister, Mrs, Henry Baldwin on the Marvin Moran farm.On Thursday having returned to his home, he was taken violently ill dur- 10g the night and expired at 8.30 the following morning, death being due to appendicitis.The funeral took Place at his late home and was largely attended, many relatives and friends from Barnston being present.The service was conducted by Rev.O.E.Aiken of Derby, assisted by Rev.Wm.Smith of Beebe Plain.Edward Au- dinvood of Derby Line was the un- ay, er: Interment at Derby Cen- \u2014_\u2014 $10.00 IN CASH Buys Any Suit of Clothes During Camp Meeting Week.HATS CAPS AND GLOVES.Print, Cotton Oloth, and Summer Goods at Bottom Prices.M.P.DIXON & CO.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1905.TOWN TOPICS.Second-hand Cook Stove at a bargain at Mrs.Mary Wilkey\u2019s.Miss Laura Rugg from Montpelier is visiting her parents at Stanstead.Miss Blanche St.Dizier of Massa- wippi is the guest of Miss Pear] Walker.Miss Marion Lockhart, from Melbourne, is visiting friends in Stan- stead.Mr.Eugene E.Pinney and son from Cedar Rapids, Ia, are visiting relatives in this vicinity.Mrs.Stephen Foster, who is in gradually failing health, has been seriously ill for several days.Mrs.Rioux, Miss Rioux and Miss Corinne Rioux of Springfield, Mass., are guests of Mrs.E.H.Cosby.Mr.H.A.Beerworth and family left tbis morning for Clarenceville where they will remain about a week.Mrs.J.R.Sangster of Sherbrooke was the guest of her parents, Dr.and Mrs.Rugg, from Saturday until Tuesday.Mr.Wm.Spalding of Derby Line will deliver an address at the Orleans County G.A.R.Convention at Derby to-day.Miss Florence Nelson who underwent an operation in Montreal last week, is making favorable progress towards recovery.(The Olds Gasoline Engine Works of this place have sold a 50 h.p.engine to C.O.Fowler of North Troy for the electric light plant at that place.The Arion Concert Company of St.Johnsbury were greeted by a full house at Stanstead, Friday evening.The entertainment was high-class in every particular.L \u201cThe municipal authorities of Stan- stead Plain are determined to put a stop to bicycling on the sidewalks.Recently a young man in that town was fined for violation of the by-law in this respect and officers are on the watch for other offenders.- First Universalist Church, Derby Line: Rev.J.N.Emery, pastor.Public worship at 10.46 a.m.Sunday schoolat 11m.Y.P.C.U.at7 p.m.Subject of morning service, \u2018\u2018Not by Bread Alone.\u201d Subject of the Young People\u2019s meeting \u2018How to Keep the Sabbath and Why?\u201d Dr.Martin, the eye specialist, is doing an excellent business at the Derby Line Hotel and although he set June 25 as the limit of bis stay, he finds that he must remain beyond that time in order to attend the calls made upon him for the relief of imperfect eyes.Dr.Martin will remain & week or more longer.The teachers who are retiring from the faculty of Stanstead College this year are: Miss Irving, who expects to join her brother at Calgary; Miss Van Vliet, who is to teach at Waterville and pursue her studies at Bishop\u2019s College, Lennoxville; Mr.Dobson, who is entering the Methodist conference and is stationed at St.Lambert, There is hope that Miss Moran mdy yet be induced to continue her excellent work in the Elocution Department.Moses Seguin\u2019s buildings, below the old electric light station on the Beebe Plain road, were burned Sunday afternoon, together with nearly all their contents.The origin of the fire is unknown.Mr.Seguin, several members of his family, and his neighbor, Joseph house.The first warning they had was a cloud of smoke blown past the north side of the house.Running to the back of the buildings they found the big barn all aflame.With considerable difficulty they succeeded in saving two horses, a moving machine and a two-seated wagon.Mr.Se- guin\u2019s right hand was badly burned in unhitching one of the horses.No help was available and the flames spread with almost incredible rapidity so that practically everything was burned.Beside the buildings the loss includes: 1 calf, 2 hogs, quantity of hay and straw, about 40 cords stove wood, 6 sleighs and sleds, 5 harnesses as well as nearly all of the furniture, bedding, clothing, etc.The buildings consisted of dwelling house, carriage house, woodshed, barn and shed attached.The blaze started at about 3.30 and a messenger was immediately sent to Rock Island hut the fire had practically completed its work before sured in the Liverpool, London & Globe Company for 800, Mr.Se- guin\u2019s family numbers ten, all of whom were robbed of home and clothing by the flery element.They have about forty acres of land and are left without buildibgs to house the year\u2019s crop.Much sympathy is felt for the 8 Commercial 8t., Beebe Plain, Que.unfortunate family.\u2014\u2014 TOWN TOPICS.Mrs.Lewis P.Leclair of Glover, Vt., is visiting relatives at Stanstead.Miss Eva B.Heath of Coaticook is the guest of the Misses Foote, Derby Line.Mrs.B.Cadieux of Stewartstown, N.H., is visiting relatives at Derby Line.Just arrived at F.W.D.Melloon\u2019s a special line of ladies liberty silk waists in black and white.Mrs.W.H.Denault and Mrs.8.M.Ransome, from Delta, Out., are guests at \u201cBrookline Hall.\u201d Miss Zora Nichols of Springfield, Mass., has lately been the guest of Miss Alice E.Gimore.Mr.C.C.Gardner of the Eastern Townshlps Bank is having a two weeks\u2019 vacation in Montreal.Miss Louise M.Foote of Brockville, Out, is speuding her vacation with her sisters, the Misses Foote.Miss Joséphine Cordeau of Stewarts- town, N.H., is spending her vacation UNIVERSALIST CONVENTION.The one hundred and second annual of the Northern Association of Uni- versalists of Vermont and the Province of Quebec, convened iu the Uni- versalist Church ot Derby Line on Wednesday afternoon.The Address of Welcome was given by Rev.J.N.Emery, pastor of the local church, and was replied to by the President, F.B.Hooker.Routine business was then carried out, after which Rev.F.W.Miller of Woodsville, N.H., gave the occasional sermon from the text: \u2018Because they had no root they withered away.\u201d His discourse was a plea for strengthening the unseen forces of character, principal among which was Faith, viz: Faith in God and in the superiority of good over bad.The communion service was conducted by the Rev.J.N.Emery, the deacons of Derby Line Church attending the table.The evening session was well attended the church being almost filled.The features were addresses by Rev.with relatives at Derby Line.Mr.and Mrs.T.Lee Quimby of Boston, Mass., are having a week\u2019s oui- ing at Stanstead and Boynton.Mr.Theo H.Lanctot from St.Charles Seminary, Sherbrooke, is home for the summer vacation.Miss Alexina Bégin of Windsor, Work.\u201d Tt was an intensely prarti-, , cal address and touched on vital prob- | Mills has lately been the guest of ber cousin, Mr.J.A.Bégiv, Rock Island.À convention of the Stanstead District Sunday School Association will be held at the Baptist Church, Beebe Plain, on Monday afternoon and evening, July 3rd.The Third U.S.Cavalry has been ordered to the Philippines.Lieut.George E.Nelson of Troop K, lately stationed at Fort Assinaboine, Mont., will leave with the brigade in November.A meeting of those interested in arranging for a series of races at Stan- stead, Dominion Day, will be held in the Union House, Saturday at 8 p.m.The promotors hope for a large attendance.The Eastern Townships calvary brigade is now in camp at Laprairie.A squadron, 13th Scottish Light Dragoons entrained at Stanstead Monday i E.E.Marggraf of St.Albans, the State \u2018President, A.Francis Walch of St.Johnsbury and W.R.Harvey of the South Stanstead Congregational Church.Rev.E.E.Marggraf spoke on the i \u201cCountry Church, its Problems and its lems.Among these were the prob lems of depreciation of the character | of some communities and depletion of | the population.Besides thie the com- | parative isolation of individuals in the country as compared with the city led sometimes to a decided egoism on the part of some, which in some cases led to incompatibility of temperament and a consequent hindrance to the work.The only chance for some rural churches was their endowment and the loving friends of the churches should set something aside for them in their bequests.The Rev.A.Francis Walch gave an exquisite address on \u201cA Vitalized Universalist Church.\u201d It was earnest, cultured, spiritual.We need to remember Pentecost, to believe in the | power of the Holy Spirit, to remem- i ber that they had borne their witness \"of protest, and now was the time for propaganda.They need not dispar- Malette, were sitting in front of the | { Morning in a drizzling rain, but this .; | failed to dampen the military ardor of age doctrine, intellect or poetry but | the men and all left in high spirits for | the spiritual was supreme.Enthu- | the annual outing and drill.Capt.H.$iasm was not to be discouraged.If E.Channell, Quarter-Master of the \u2018any present-day congregation heard a | good, loud amen they would be startled 11th Hussars, left Friday night to join | >, his regiment at Sherbrooke.and even most ministers would be .i | considerably upset.But we should The closing exercises at the Chris- have \u201cmorality touched with emo- tian Brothers\u2019 School took place to-| tion.\u201d Again devotion was a sadly day.Owing to the scarcity of room, ' ising note.Often men had to make partly due to the unusually large\u2019 their way through crowd of Roman classes, the public was not admitted, Catholics going to their solid substan- ithe examinations and awards being tial edifices whose very look revealed i made before the local priests and the | permanency, while these men went to school trustees.The results showed! their own sparsely filled churches that excellent work had been accom- | whose buildings denotes temporari- plished.\u2018The prize list will appear in | ness.We could learn the lesson of our next issue, ! devotion and loyaity from the Roman Jonathan R.Foss of Amy Corner | Catholics, and surely we would do Township of Stanstead, was brought | Well to learn it.before Justices Ball and Murdock at! Rev.J.N.Emery was down for an Stanstead, to-day, charged with cruel- | address, but he had been asked to pre- ty to animals.The case is a most side and said he was glad of this for it peculiar one.Several weeks ago an |gave him a chance to get out of the old horse which had been a valuable, address.As a substitute he would call animal in its day, became helpless as upon Rev.Mr.Harvey, pastor of the | the result of an accident and was, it is | Congregational Church in the neigh- \u2018 alleged, left at the mercy of the ele-, boring Dominion.{ ments being unable to feed only as it: Mr.Harvey spoke briefly but elo- | floundered from one place to another.| quently, his remarks breathing peace | Large sores developed and the suffer- i and harmony among all Christian ings of the poor animal were, accord- | Churches.He fully agreed with all ling to stories told by neighbors, some- , that the previous speakers had said; | thing horrible.The case is now in he had heard nothing that might not be said in any church whether it be progress.| - { Universalist, Presbyterian, Baptist or GEORGEVILLE.Roman Catholic.There was no ne- | ,; se rit: .cessity for written creeds so long as udm.Fred McGowan is visiting rela- | oo felt the hand of the living Christ.' His remarks bore the touch of poetic genius and the audience felt the power of his eloquence.The sessions are being continued to- | Mr.and Mrs.W.A.Ives have gone 'to Ottawa on the excursion where | they will visit relatives.Mrs.Greenwood is at \u2018\u201c\u201cGlenbrooke\u201d\u2019 | da visiting her father, Mr.W.M.Duoll, | %%% i and her brother, Capt.Duoll of the English army.She has lately ar-| AUCKLAND.i rived from Cuba.| We have had some very warm Rev.Dr.Barrows and family and, Weather during the past week which i party of guests are at \u2018\u2018Cedar Lodge.\u201d makes the grass and other crops look | Miss Ida Wilcox has returned from i New York.The Foresters will attend service at the Episcopal Church, Fitch Bay, on Sunday morning, June 25.Mr.J.A.Hutchinson is slowly re- coréring from his illness.help arrived.The property was in-4\u201d The Lady of the Lake ran her trial trip Monday, June 19, and will commence her regular trips Monday, June 26.The boat is burning coal and will run two trips daily except Mondays when she will only make one as in former years.On her morning trip she will only call here on her way to Magog.On second trip same landings as usual.po fine.Mrs.À.J.Wade and her mother, Mrs.Kate Mosher, who have been visiting Mrs.Wade's daughter, Mrs.Laughton of this place, returned to their bome at Ayer\u2019s Cliff last week.Mr.C.D.Dyke was in Coaticook one day last week.Mr.A.J.Wade of Ayer\u2019s Cliff visited relatives and friends in this place the past week.While here he bought a car load of lumber of Mr.C.D.Dyke.The Charles Young place at Derby, formerly owned by Charles Lunt, bas been sold to John R.Feltus for 83,000.WHOLE No.3097.IT PAYS TO BUY Diamonds, Wedding Gifts, Wedding Rings, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry TRUE & BLANCHARD CO., NEWPORT Where you can find what you want, get the quality you like, and pay the price you ought to.Our business increases because we use people right.We want your trade.Try us.Our beautiful new Jewelry Store, the finest in the State, will open July 1, in the meantime we are at the old stand.GRANITEVILLE.| FITCH BAY.Mrs.O.Reed and daughter Nancy The valuatere, Mr.F.H.Barber, of Beebe Plain visited at the home of i Mr.Amos Curtis and Charles Jenkins Mr.aud Mrs.John Reed last Friday.are at work on the check list.Invitations are issued for the mar-, Leslie Clifford saw a wolf in his pas- riage of Miss Goldie Bullock and Mr.ture a few days ago, the first one seen Fred Blake of Worcester, Mass., which in this vicinity for several years.| taken place this week Wednesday at.Mrs.A.E.Bagshaw of Lawrence, | her home in Marlington.Mass, is visiting friends here for a i Mr.A.L.Guerin bus the lumber on few days.the spot for a new barn and work will.Mrs.Cushen of Dorcliester, Mass, le commence at vnce.visiting at the home of her parents, i Messrs.Wright Bullock and Wm.Mr.and Mrs.Robert Seymour.; Coburn left on horseback Monday Miss May Sheldon has gone to visit \"morning for the cavalry brigade at her cousin, Mrs, Wiggin in Browning- : Laprairie.ton, Vt.| Mr.Fred Blake of Lonsdale, R.I., , Mrs.Ruth Blake is visiting her cou- arrived here on Friday and is the, sin, Mrs.Moulton at Stanstead June- guest of Mr.and Mrs.W.B.Bullock, ; tion and attending the camp meeting.A gang of men have commenced\u2019 Mr.and Mrs.Willard and two chil- ! working again on the Bell Telephone dren of East Berkshire, Vt., are visit- line which they expect to have in ing parcots and friends hero.working order by the 1st of July.| Mr.and Mrs.Ben Mosher and little Mrs.Geo.Somerville and two chil- grandson of Newport, visited friends dren of North Derby are spending a here the tirst of the week.few days at the home of her parents, Rev.F.G.Vial has returned from i Mr.and Mrs.D.W.Moir.Quebec.Mrs.Vial is staying with Campmeeting is at full swing with | friends in Lennoxville.good reports of good meetings and, The hume of Mr.and Mrs.Samuel | excellent order.; Hamilton was destroyed by fire on The town valuators are at work re-, Eriday at ÿ a.m.vising the list in this part of the town.=\" They are Messrs.F.H.Barber, Chas.AYER'S CLIFF, Jenkins and Amos Curtis.The citizeps of this place are ar- Mr.and Mrs.L.A.Davis visited ranging for a celebration on Dominion relatives at Boynton the end of last Day for the benefit of the band.week.| Mrs.H.G.Jones and two children A very pleasant party was given at of Cambridge, Vt., have been spend- the cozy home of Mr.and Mrs.Asa jing the pust week at Mr.C.H.Robin- Scott on Saturday evening in honor son's.of Miss Goldie Bullock as a farewell] Mr.Chas.Libby intends building a , as she is to be married soon and leave | very large new barn this summer for the place where she has been very .the accommodation of his livery busi- popular among her numerous friends.ness.Mr.Brown is furnishing the Music and song was introduced and lumber.enjoyed by all who participated.A Mr.Wilbur Rowell of Lynn, Mass., substautial collation of cake and ice is visiting his father, Mr.W.Rowell.| Cream, fruit and lemonade was then ; Mr.Cass of Boston is the guest of ; served on tbe lawn and as both bands his sister, Mrs.Wesley Cans.| of the clock pointed upwards the good | Mra.Calvin Davenport is visiting byes were said and kindest wishes.i friends at Danville and Waldon, Vt._ ; Dr.C.L.Brown has returned from NORTH HATLEY.i Montreal.Mra.Sarah Jackson and Miss Susie! The Ladies Aid meets this week at Templeton returned to Montpelier, | Mrs.Sargent\u2019s.| Vt, last Monday, after a two weeks\u2019| Mr.Homer Rexford is improving.stay with friends here.Mrs.Jenking and daughter, Bernice, Miss Sadie Andrews and Mrs.Ruth.are guests of Mrs.Berry.Laird of Plainfield, Vt., will spend a; Mrs.Frank Worthen, Mrs.Peasley | few weeks with relatives here.| Cass and Mrs.Frank Place are at the Mrs.W.E.LeBaron returned on camp grounds, Beebe Plain this week.Monday from a visit to Concord, N.| Mr.Geo.Rexford has the frame i H., and St.Johnsbury, Vt., where she \u2018raised for his new house and the pros- visited her brother, Mr.Edward Blos- ; pect is it will be a nice addition to som.our street.Miss Susie Peebles of Fitch Bay has The District of St.Francis Teacher\u2019s ; arrived here and will assist Mre.A.C.| Assoclation to be held here Friday, LeBaron in her boarding house during | the 23rd promises to be a very inter- (the summer.esting meeting.The public are in- |\" It still continues wet with a few hot | vited to attend.Dr.G.W.Parmelee, | days.protestant secretary of the council of | Miss Pearl McClary is staying this public instruction, will be present, { week with her aunt, Mrs.O.W.Per- Also Dr.Whitney, president of the as- \u2018ry, Libbytown.sociation, and several other members There are a number of men engaged | of the committee.in moving the Sherbrooke Club House | back from the water where they will | CANAAN, VT.| put a much larger annex in front at.The rains and warm weather of late |once.Mr.J.L.Collins of Sherbrooke have brought the crops forward won- has the contract.,derfully.The grass crop promises to Herbert L.Call has his cooler and he heavy.Other crops are looking meat market all completed in J.B.| fine and bid fair to be good.i LeBaron\u2019s new block, There has heen quite an exodus from We are all looking forward to the the surrounding country into the vil- fourth annual Dominion Day celebra- lage this spring.Ten or twelve fami- ition.There will be a big parade in ilies have moved in of late.Business (the morning led by our band.Miss E.; seems to be brightening up this spring Foulds, winner and holder of the la- especially at the Falls, dies gold medal, open to the world,, The town clock has not putin an for professional championship in all- appearance yet.The manufacturers round swimming and diving, will dive have nut got it ready to set up but 75 feet and perform a series of fancy | have agreed to have it ready the first swimming feats.There will be a of next month.base ball match between Nortb Hat-| It has been quite sickly here this ley and Waterville and an excursion: spring.A number have died.Two around the lake in the evening.lor three deaths were very sudden.Mr.and Mrs.Alvin Cole of Ply-: Mr.C.O.Hibbard and wite have mouth, N.H., returned the last of the been quite ill of late but at present week after a few days\u2019 stay with their are reported improving.friends here.| The M.C.R.R.Company are put- The North Hatley cemetery is being ting in « fine station here in the place put in fine order under the instruction of the one that was burned last win- of A.P.LeBaron and 8.A.McKay.ter.Mise Boyd has finished her school| There have heen a lot of fishing ex- and gone to her home in Granby.curgiogs this summer.Some large Hay will be a big crop in this vicin- catches are reported as usual.ity.\u2014_\u2014 Master John Hovey of Sherbrooke| The preliminary objections to the is spending the week at North Hatley Stanstead election protest have been with bis grandfather, A.P.LeBaron.|dismissed.: = .ce 3 \u2018 = Tes 9 a ; = on oe 5 REA A ope ns oath x, LRP A EEE a a 2 & i 5; © 1.+ BE \u2014 NE.EEA THE CONSOLIDATION OF RURAL SCHOOLS.An Independent Consolidated School at Tryon, Prince Edward Island.By Geo.D.Fuller, Director of Mature Study, Macdonald R ral Schools, Knowlton, Que.\u201cThe people of Tryon, P.E.I, have proved that it is possible to bring about consolidation without any increased expenditure and without any outside financial assistance,\u201d says the Waterloo Advertiser.\u201cTryon had school is an additional argument in favor of this improved system of organization.It is true that on account of the irregular surface of our country with its lakes and mountains, many school districts are so isolated that the central school, but many localities exist where five or six small schools are found within a radius of three miles of a centre, with convenient roads leading towards this centre.In such localities consolidated schools formerly a schuul of about 60 pupils | would prove not only successful but taught by two teachers.This school was taken as the centre and two other small schools were united with it, | economical.It has been proved that children may be conveyed successfully a distance of six miles, but with! three teachers being placed in charge the greater distance there comes a pupils cannot, except at considerable | increase in cost, be conveyed to any | THE GREAT NORTH-WEST.To the Editor of the Journal: Allow me a little space in your valuable paper to answer numerous inquires from the East, as I promised before I left to give my friends a sketch of the country as I found it.After leaving Newport on the early |.morning train, we Pere soon in the | you have comfortable homes and great Eastern Metropolis where we | enough to live on and are contented, {stay where you are, and if not pros- stayed with friends until next day, | leaving about 9.30 a.m.for our West- | perity awaits the constant toiler.We ern home, a distance of nearly 2,560 bave good neighbors and friends com- miles.We had a pleasant ride pass- | fortable houses and plenty to eating through many flourishing towns | Will be very much pleased to enter- { tain our Eastern friends if they will where the hard toil of years had made | make us a visi, but please do St all pleasant homes and beautiful eur- | country in Cansds.Native coal can be had in abundance near by at 81.50 per ton at the miners, or dig it yourself for nothing.Wood is not plenty but enough for fuel.Native fruits abound.In conclusion I would say to my Eastern friends, \u2018young man go west.\u201d\u201d Middle aged and old people, of the consolidated school which was very much increased cost, so that four formed by the union of these three miles has come to be regarded as about smaller ones.lt was soon found that the limit of economical transportation.the three teachers, by having the bet- | In many localities a country village ter classification and better grading is the natural centre of the commu- possible in the one central school, nity, and the Academy or Model school could do more and better work than in this village the natural nucleus of could he accomplished by four teachers under the previously existing conditions.i the consolidated school which should | be established there.The change would benefit both the village and To avoid extra expenditure until | the country round about, for it would they had proved the superior advantage of the new system the central schoo! board decided not to build immediately, but rented an old church, which had been abandoned for a more commodious building, and fitted it up with the desk and other furniture taken from the two schools wbich had been closed.This with the old school building at Tryon afforded very good accommodation for the larger puinber of pupils.Two vans are employed to convey the pupils from the two outside districts, one bringing ten pupils a distance of three miies at a cost of 30 cents per day.and the other conveying twenty-four pupils nearly four miles at a cost of 1.00 per day.These contracts for conveyance were made by public tender where the wages of laborers differ very little from those paid in Quebec.The economy of consolidation is plainly shown by comparing the cost per pup: under the old system and the new.Formerly the average attendance at the three schools was about 70 pupils, each costing the tax payer $11.84 per year, now the average is $4 pupile, each costing 29.47 ver annum, or a balance in favor of con- in a community\u2019 \u2018 furnish a larger number of pupils for | the Academy or Model school and thus \u201cmake it rank higher, while it would ; also bring the advantages of the Acad- \u2018emy to the door of every home within \u2018the radius traversed by the school vans.This would result in an increasingly high standard of culture and education in the rural parts of our province.Consolidation would also tend to solve another of our difficult educational questions, for it would require a smaller number of teachers than did the old system.The salaries paid would be larger than those now paid in the various departments of our best academies, and there would no longer be the necessity of employing unqual- ifled teachers.In conclusion let us urge its careful \u201cconsideration upon all who have the cause of education at heart, repeating the strongest argument in its favor, that it has been tried many times under varied conditions and has almost invariably proved itself an entire success, and while many consolidated schools may be found where the sys- : tem has been in operation from five to ten years, we have yet to discovera: single instance of its being abandoned solidation of $2.37 per pupil each year.' after a fair trial.\u201d The total annual expenditure for the | Tryon consolidated schools does not | COUNTY W.C.T.U.roundings for a distance of 450 miles.Leaving the older settled districts | we soon found ourselves in the; most picturesque part of our jourvey.Through swamps, among rocks, across | creeks and rivers, through cuts and, tunnels, we went our way for a distance of 500 miles, with scarcely any settlement, only section houses and small stations, with sometimes a store and hotel.We rode many miles along the north shore of Lake Superior, the scenery being the finest I ever saw.After leaving Port Arthur we found a varied country until we reached the Western plains.There were several incidents on the way that made our journey pleasant.At one place a freight train got derailed and we had to wait for the track to be cleared.Fortunately we stopped alongside a biueberry swamp affording the passengers ample time to gather what berries they needed and as the travelers were largely \u201cthrough\u201d passengers we got very well acquainted.We stopped only one and one-half hours in Winnipeg, the train being late.We had no time to take in the city as we intended.After leaving Winnipeg we passed through a beautiful country with nice residences and large fields of grain looking fine, prosperous towns with large grain elevators.Everything seemed to denote thrift and prosperity until we reached the arid regions where it is is more sparcely settled, stock-raising being the main occupation.After a four days\u2019 journey we reached Calgary where we stopped over Sunday.Calgary is a city nicely \u2018laid out with fine stone and brick come at the same time.Mgs.H.I.HASTINGS, Hasting\u2019s Couleé, Alberta, N.W.T.OBITUARY.Mrs.Mary Dustin, widow of the late William Dustin, died at the residence | of her son, Mr.Ozro Dustin, April 16, 1905, at the age of 79 years.Mrs.Dus- | tin was born in New Hampshire and came to Canada many years ago when | Canada was ew as compared with the country of to-day.Mrs.Dustin re- ! aided at her home near Brown\u2019s Hill ;upwards of fifty years.She was the \u201cmother of six children, five sons and | one daughter.The sons all survive t her but the daughter has preceded her ; to the better land.| Mrs.Dustin, since the death of her husband, has been lonely as they bore each others sorrows and shared each | others joys; but she was a woman of strong Christian character and tried to be patient and cheerful.She not only believed, but lived in the glorious enjoyment of pardon and peace.One great source of joy of hers was the domestic tie which bound her motherly nature close to every interest of the home; she was happy when most useful, but when feeling the weight of \u2018years and she found herself growing weak and feebie she was willing to lay \u2018her burdens down.But with faith unshaken she met the last enemy to be a ! conqueror through Christ whom she i had faithfully served.Thus we find in the life of Mrs.Wm.Dustin such a combination of goodness that she will i be greatly missed as a beloved and \u2018faithful mother, grandparent, friend \u2018and neighbor.Many sympathizing | friends attended the funeral bringing i their beautiful floral tributes.Rev.differ materially from that required, The following resolutions were for the three little schools under the passed at Stanstead County, W.C.Told system.1 U.Convention June 8, 1905.1st, We In all the consolidated schools, the reaffirm our policy which is total ab- | \u2018most striking results following imme- ! stinence and total prohibition of the diately upon transportation of pupils, | liquor traffic.is the very marked increase in the; 2nd, That in accordance with the regularity of attendance.With trans- | wishes of our Provincial President, buildings.It is kept clean and orderly .G6, Ww.Chapman conducted the service and is a great distributing centre for | and delivered an impressive address.all merchandise, live stock and farm Tne body was laid to rest in the ceme- products.\u2018tery at Brown\u2019s Hill awaiting the Monday morning we left for We- i great resurrection.taskiwin, a town 150 miles north, also Lovingly, tenderly we lay thee to rest; i i i i Dear, weary hands crossed on the still breast, our railroad destination, reaching, Dear, perplexed brain, thy labor is done, there at 4 p.m.We found my son Thy troubles are over, the victory is won.waiting for us.Thisis a town of no! The Mammot == Store = SEEDS \"WIRE To Fence the Fields with after Planting, Now is the Time to Paint We have the Celebrated Sherman & Williams Prepared Paints; also to put them on with\u2014all at right prices.Call and get a Color C pick out the color you want and BUY.Our Stock of Wall Paper and Border Is way up (one flight.) Is the your We'also have a com- Plete line of Barbeq Brushes ard, Also a complete line of Floor and Table Oilcloth one and two yards wide.Our Stock of Carpeting Consisting of All-Wool, Unions, Rope, and Straw Mattinge.Art S res i Sifferent sizes \u2014just the th ng to cover your old foors it ee mn Just Received, a Nice Line of ; Ready-Made AN .AN Suits and Skirts =| Just the thing for the Ladies | 3 and at Right Prices.The accompanying cut represents one of our popular styles.Ladies have you seen The New Shirt Waistings and Trimmings for same?They will wash and not change color.We have them.All other lines full up and mere arriving daily.Come and see us.The real test of cheapness is not so much the price as the quality you are getting.Kathan & Hopkins.April 17th, 1905.| per sououesene | à \u201c\u2014> e portation of pupils an average attend- we do concentrate our efforts more small repute, large stores, elevators, MASSACRED NATIVES.| i ÿ | | + | ance of 80 per cent.of the enrollment | fully upon the main issue which is the is a frequent occurence, one school of | annihilation of the legalized liquor 180 pupils reporting an average of 95 traffic.per cent.for the half-year which, 3rd, That we heartily endorse the closed with the Christmas holidays.' White Ribbon Leaflet as a means to When we remember that the usual ' this end.4th, Resolved, that we con- average in our small country schools | sider our various departments such as mills and as fine hotels as can be found | in any country, large school buildings, | four banks, electric light plant and | everything up-to-date.It is marvelous to see how fast these Western | Pirates Pretended Friendship and Killed 150 Natives.A despatch from San Francisco says: is only 60 per cent., we should no longer wonder that better results are obtained when schools are consolidated.It has been urged against transportation tbat in Canada the severe weather and bad roads during the winter months would prove an insuperable obstacle, although the same objectors admit that they use the roads daily for business purposes during the winter.The past winter has been the worst on record in the Maritime Provinces, railways have been obstructed and business interrupted Full Franchise for Women, Social Purity, Narcotics, especially Anti-cigar- ette work, and all Juvenile Temperance work as supreme factors in the | accomplishment of our aims, and that we slack not our vigilance in these directions.5th While recognizing the full value of these factors in our work, we do above and over all realize our entire dependence upon God who has Jed us in the past and who will lead us in the future into all good.6th Resolved, that we manifest our disapproval of the slaughter of the singing birds, by by the severity of the storms.Reports from the consolidated schools in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island all agree in reporting more than a usnal amount of irregularity in the trips of the school vans, and on some days it was found impossible to reach the school, and yet the attendance at the consolidated schools has averaged much higher than in surrounding schools, and the attendance of those pupils of the consolidated schools who were conveyed in the vans from the outside districts has always been more regular than those from the home district who walked as they did before consolidation.Another objection urged against the consolidation of schools is the larger expenditure needed to initiate and maintain a system requiring much larger school buildings and the conveyance of pupils at public expense.Many tax payers when considering the quality of work done by such large well-organized, consolidated schools as the Mszdonald school at Middleton, N.8., aliow the slightly increased cost to blind them to the vastly superior advantages of a thoroughly graded schoci with specialists in ita various departments.Many will fail to see that more than an equivalent for the extra expenditure is given in the better teachers, the special departments and the high school privileges now offered for the first time to the area traversed by the school vans.To these careful financiers, who always first consider the cost, the school at Tryon should offer a strong argument for the economy of coneolidated schools.1s the Province of Quebec the very email sise of the ocdinary country refusing to wear trimmings made from the plumage of those beautiful song- | sters and also that we urge our mil- | liners to refrain from keeping them jon sale.7th Resolved, that we extend our heartfelt thanks to the W.C.T.U.and other kind friends at Ayer\u2019s Clift for their warm welcome and royal entertainment, making our working holiday a pleasure never to be forgotten, also to the Ayer\u2019s Cliff band which discoursed sweet music, and all others who did so much for the good of the convention.The plan of work agreed upon was as follows: lst that we urge more concentrated action towards the leading principles of our organization, especially pledge signing.2nd That work among children be made a special feature of W.C.T.U.work, and that an effort be made, by especially interviewing teachers, to have Scientific Temperance Instruction attended to in our schools.3rd That special effort be made by the superintendent of anti-narcotics to organize anti-cigarette leagues in all the schools in the country.4th That whereas patent medicines containing a lar;\u2019e proportion of alcohol are becoming more commonly used we urge the circulation of literature on the subject and also that our own members abstain from the use of them.5th That a visitation committee be appointed in every Union to visit sister Unions and that Crusade day be more generally observed.oth That much care and forethought be given and wise action be taken to extend our principles among our French-speaking fellow citizens.7th That our members should never forget the moral influence of the bow of white ribbon.sth Recommended that all depart- towns spring up and flourish.Cam- | Details of a terrible massacre by pi- rose, a town on the branch line, 28: rates of 150 natives on the Siberian miles east of Wetaskiwin, less than six coast, has been received in a letter months\u2019 old, has two large hotels, two | from Petropaviovsk on the coast of lumber yards, several stores, two liv- ; Kamtcbatka.A Morogravlenoff has ery stables, harness and blacksmith | written to his brother here thatsever- shops, implement sheds and every- al months ago the natives in a small thing to make a lively town, including settlement own the coast observed a a branch of the Merchants Bank.All gchooner yachts drop anchor in the are doing a thriving business.Fifty harbor and its eoming was hailed with miles of this branch road is to be built cries of rejoicing.From the vessel this summer.came several small boats.The na- We left Wetaskiwin Wednesday p.| tives could see the crew piling what m.by team for our prairie home, made they thought were supplies into the a number of visit with Eastern friends smaller craft.Then the men pulled on our way; passing through a newly | for the shore.During that and the settled country.Many houses of rus- | next day there was heard the firing of tic design were being built, while some | arms; and later smoke and fire were very nice cottages with comfortable observed.This led to an investiga- outbuildings dotted the prairie.After reached our future home and rustic enough it was but glad hearts made it a happy spot away in an isolated region with great chance for improvement.Now about the climate, soil, etc.The first summer was a wet, cold sea- up to the latter part of September, the crops were a good growth, but on hard winter, but fine as compared with our Eastern winters.About one foot of snow fell.The past year has been the finest I ever saw.Crops were fine and excellent quality; hay crops supurb everywhere.We put up about seven bun- dred tons at a cost of about sixty cents per ton, $1 being the usual cost.So far this year the weather has been fine and warm with sufficient moisture.Crops are looking excellent.Stock run out all winter and do well having only brush for shelter.We wintered 428 head, lost only one yearling caused by a hook from another animal.Fed about three months.The soil grows grain and root crops to perfection without any fertiliser.Had an excellent garden last year and hope to have this year.Four years ago this region was known only to the surveyors, to-day it is practically all taken.Churches, school houses, stores, post offices, hotels and railroads are being built and fn the near future this country is des- ments of work carried on last year be continued.tined to be the richest of farming a four days\u2019 journey by team we then | son, incessant rain bordering on sleet value had been taken.tion and a horrible tale of pillage and | massacre was brought to light.About the streets of the settlement were strewn bodies of 150 of the inhabitants shot and cut to pieces by the pirates who, under the pretence of friendship, had gained a landing on the coast.Every hut had been ransacked and everything of marketable Who the marauders were, those who managed to make their escape, could not say bethe green side from October 1st till the yond giving the information that some middle of January was as lovely as japanese were in the party.When one could wisb for; from then until! Morogravlenoff sent his letter the April 1st we had what people called à people of Petropaviovsk feared an attack on that town.The liquidators of the Ville Marie Bank will pay a final dividend of about 2 cents on the dollar early in July.15 per cent has already been piad so the creditors will receive only 17 per cent of their deposits MELLOONS We invite public attention to the varied assortment of new goods we arenow showing.We have particularly good values to offer in the lines mentioned below, but they do not by any means constitute our complete Histof bargains for Spring and Summer.Dress Goods Corsets Fashionable Spring and Summer All styles and lengths.We have Fabrics, all shades and all patterns, several styles at 50 cts, all of which from 15 cts.to 35 cts.a yard.All|are good bargains.new and excellent values.M en ss C lo th ng We have Priestley's Cravenettes, Mohairs, &c., in black and lighter| We have some special values in colors, for people of refined tastes.Men's pure English Worsted Suits These goods are standard of the at 810; All-Wool Tweed Suits at world; they are sold in the United 86.50 and 87.50.Cheaper Snits for States against the so-called prohibi- those who want them.Also Boys tive tariff and the prices are much Suits at bargain prices.lower in Sune Sam ple Sh i rts Sh 1 rt Waists We are offering a line of \u2018Sample\u2019 We have White Lawns from 50 Shirts for men, some worth 81.25 cents to 82.25.Our Special at 81.25 some $1.00, some 75 cents, all at 48 is a bargain.Also colored Shirt cents.Waste.Hats & Caps Petticoats Men's Straw and Canvas Hats.pew line just in, also Boy's Hats We have a line of Ladies\u2019 Black |and Caps.Sateen Petticoats at $1.76, which 3 are excellent values for the money.Men\u2019s Hose Our line of Cashmere Hose at 25 Straw Hats cts.is especially attractive: also cheaper grades of these goods.A carefully selected line of these goods, Fancy Styles for Ladies, Shoes Misses and Children, in all colors, y d line of these 25 cts.to 81.25.Plain ones for less vods fan Ladies Misses, Men and money.oys, All of these goods are New and Up-To-Date.We are not afraid to match them against city offerings, quality for quality, price for price.FRANK MELLOON.J ob Printing Journal Office Ww es 99 ur ot ve es te vo 18 \u2014 re = = 25 s0 se nd n puosonouonouoRONÉBOBOBONONOHONCNONONONOHOROUOSOS HOUSE | FURNISHINGS In addition to our regular stock we have made arrangements to handle a large line of Wool and Tapestry Carpets.We have samples of New and Distinctive Patterns for Cut-to- Order Trade and would be pleased to show them and quote prices for an quantity.New Spring Furniture, Veranda Sets, Lawn Mowers, Baby Carriages.Our goods are New and Up-to-Date.See them.CASWELL & 0'ROURKE oe 0l0NOBO «>0HONORO ©» 0 P.A.BISSONNET | Having been in business for 32 years and believing it is long enough for any man to bein the same business, I have decided to sell out, My stock is so large that I must reduce it a great deal before finding a purchaser for the entire stock.For the above reason I will sell at retail all my goods AT COST DURING vof or APRIL Not having decided this before now, I had bought many goods for the Spring Trade, consisting of $1000.00 worth of New Dress Goods | $3000.00 worth of New Ready-made Clothing $500.00 worth of New Boots & Shoes $300.00 worth of Table Linens, Towels, Napkins, &c.$200.00 worth of Ready-made Costumes & Skirts $100.00 worth of Gents\u2019 Furnishings Furniture, Parlor and Bedroom Sets À Large lot of Wall Paper from dc.up Which have all arrived and which will be sold at cost prices iogsther with the balance of my stock which is more than ,000.00.Ô This space being too small to enumerate all the goods ¢ we have in stock let it be sufficient to say that everything that is kept in a country store is here and must be sold as soon as possible, and the sooner you come the better bargains you can procure.The Sale will Begin Saturday, April 8 and will continue until all goods are disposed of.Do not miss this opportunity, if you want Bargains.P.A.BISSONNET «> oNoNORO 0 sa olelol wae -\u2014 mme.Wall Paper! 10c.TO 40c.PER DOUBLE ROLL THE RICHEST DESIGNS LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND LOWEST PRICES | IT WILL SOON BE TIME TO PAPER | Wi.M.Pike a ES THE RETURN, He sought the old scenes with eager eet\u2014 « The scenes he had known as a boy.Oh, for a draft of those fountains sweet And a taste of that vanished joy!\" He roamed the fields, he mused by the streams, He treaded the paths and lanes; On the hills he sought his youthful dreams, In the woods to forget his pains.Oh, sad, sad hills; Oh cold, co d hearth! In sorrow he learned the truth, One may go back to the place of his birth .- He cannot go back to his youth, \u2014John Burroughs.DICKEN'S TRIBUTE TO NIAGARA.Power Spoliation Moves a Yankees Paper to Reproduce It.Now that two-fifths of the volume of Nlagara Falls has already been diverted for commercial purposes and legislative action has become imperative to save the falls, it is interesting to recall Charles Dickens' tribute to Niagara, says the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Leader.It will be found in his much maligned \u201cAmerican Notes.\u201d Imagine Dickens returning to life and to America to-day.gazing upon the lessened Niagara, with its environs obscured by the smoke of a dozen factories, in his ears the dinning of hundreds upon hundreds of whirring wheels, grandest waterfall commingling with towering chimneys and unsightly bui.dings.and then dashing off this lmpas- sioned tribute: \u201cThen I felt how near my Creator T was standing: the first effect, and the enduring one\u2014instant and lasting\u2014 of © the tremendous spectacle.was peace; peace of mind, tranquility, calm recollections of the dead.great thoughts of : eternal rest and happiness; nothing of i gwom or terror.Niagara Was al once ; stamprd upon my heurt a mirage of beauty: to remain there, changeless and ! indelible, until its pulses cease to beat, : forever.\u201cOh, how the strife and trouble of daily life receded from my view and lessened in the distance, during the ten memorable days we pase:d on that enchanting ground! What voices spoke from the thundering water: what faces, faded from the earth, looked out upon me from fits gleaming depths; what heavenly promise glistened in those ; angels\u2019 tears, the drops of many lives, that showered around, and turned themselves about the gorgeous arches which the changing rainbows made! * * * *® \u201cI think in every quiet season now, still do those waters roar and leap and roar and tumble all day long; still are the rainbows spanning them a hundred feet below.Still.when the sun is on them, do they shine and glow like molten gold.Still, when the day is gloomy, do they fall like snow, or seem to crumble away like the front of a great chalk cliff, or roll down the rock llke dense white smoke.But always does the mighty stream appear to die as it comes down, and always from its fathomable grave arises that tremendous ghost of which has haunted this place with the same dread solemnity since darkness brooded on the deep.and that first tlood before the deluge\u2014light\u2014came rushing on creation at the word of God.\u201d Lake Temagami Islands.The Ontario Government will not sell any more of the Lake Temagami Islands.Instead they will be leased for a term of years, and under certain regulations, the infragtion of which will result in the canceilation of the lease.It is probable that a clause of the lease will give the right to purchase at the end of the stipulated period if the lessee has lived up to the conditions.There are over 1,300 islands in the lake, which is one of the most beautiful of Ontario's summer resorts, and very few of them have been sold.The last sale, it is + said, took place some ten years ago.The building of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway has made access to the lake quite easy, and, as several steamers will ply on its water this surner.tourists and campers will have few difficulties in respect to transportation, There are a number of applications on file for the purchase or lease of islands in the lake, but these will not be considered.having been received prior to the adoption of a policy in regard to the islands.The wildest publicity will be given by advertisement : to the Government's intentions, and the new applications will be dealt with as received.The Government will retain the mineral and the usual Crown rights, Shot the Wild Man.Capt.Owen, piot, reported fn Vie.toria, B.C., recently that Indians had seen and shot at the wild man previously reported to have been seen neat Qualicum.The creature, which was naked and covered with hair, was engaged in digging clams with his hands when the Indians came, and thinking him a bear, shot at him and wounded him.The man ran away shrieking.The Indians returned to Union much frightened, and reported having wounded the wild man.Search parties sent to look for the creature have failed.Residents of Unlon and that vicinity firmly believe in the existence of tha .wild man.Some allege that he is a young man who disappeared twelve years ago.The Early Rising Law.tific authority that eary rising tends to promote insanity, and that our Jun- atic asylums are being filled with misguided creatures who have risen cre thelr time without reason.Certainly we ought to get rufficient sleep.and less than eight or nine hours daily ie not nough.As a rule the life of the ordinary citizen ix much too strenuous and the mental powers are not giver sufficient rest.Rising with the lark ls not much better than staying out for a lark.Reason must be used, and certainly sleep, gente sleep, should be diligently woned and never slighted.\u2014 Bobcaygeon Independent, Big Sis.er'a Bowing on a neighbor was asked, \u201cIs Mr Hutchingson your sister's beau?\u201d She ing home she ran to her sister and eagerly inquired, \u201cEva, is Mr.Hutch fngson your ribbon?\u201d in his eyes the waning glory of nature's! spray and mist which 1s never laid; It has been pronounced on high sclen- A little four-vear- old girl while call | did not make any reply, but on arriv- : CANADA GIVES AND TAKES.Differences In Trade in Agricultural Products With the United States ~An Instructive Return.A return just brought down, in answer to a motion In the House of Com- the import and export figures of certain agricultural products as between Canada and the United States, In 1903 Canada imported 37.527 head (value $472,689) of horned cattle, paying $94.- 637 thereon; in 1904 36.456 head ($412, 264), with $52,453 duty, all of which, less about a thousand head, went into the Northwest Territories.In these years Canada's imports exceeded 30,- 000 horses per year, valued at $800,000, the great buik of which went into Manitoba and the Territories.The duty on these was about $160,000 a year.Canada bought 30,000 pounds of beans from the States, each of these years.British Columbia imports more beans than any other Province, Canada imported and paid duty on 813,276 pounds of corn in 1903 and 1,- was for distilling.Our import of free corn in 1903 was 6,033.896 pounds, and in 1904 9,687,122, in this \\aiter year lars.This great increase in imports of corn is surprising.Quebec alone imported nearly 7.000,000 pounds of corn, We bought over 500,000 dozen | eggs trom the United States In 1903 and double as many in 1904.It is the Yu- | kon, British Columbia, and the Ter- | ritories that buy most of these eggs.i Canada does not buy much butter from the States.British Columbia buys some 8,000 barrels à year of United States apples.the rest of Can- \u2018ada 21,000 barrels.We imported cach of these years over five and a half billion pounds of Yankee pork, over two- fifths of which goes to Quebec.Ontario takes half as much, We brought in less than $100,000 worth of canned goods, mostly in British Columbia and the Yukon, We import about 600 horses a year for improvement of stock and 700 head of cattle.These are duty free, We import nearly 3,000,000 of free hides from the United States, also about two milijon pounds of wool.We bring in 14.000.000 pounds a year of unmanufactured tobacco.We exported to the United States less than 2,000 horses, only 3,500 head of cattle, only two-thirds the quantity of hides, imported only 35.000 dozen eggs, two million dollars\u2019 worth of hay in 1903 and half that in 1904.Here are the tariffs of the two countries on the agricultural products; Canadian duty.1903 and 1904\u2014Horses and cattle for improvement of stock, free; horses, cattle, 20 per cent.; butter, 4 cents a pound: hides, free; eggs, 3 cents a dozen; pork, salt, 2 cents, fresh, 3 cents a pound: corn, for distillation, seven and a half cents a bushel; all other corn free; hay, $2 a ton.United States duties\u2014Horse, $30 each; cattle, 27 1-2 per cent.pork.2 cents; bacon, b cents; Indian corn, 18 cents per bushel; tobacco, 650 p.k., 35 cents a pound; wool, 4 to 26 cents a pound; hay, $4 a ton; eggs, b cents dozen; hides of cattle, 156 per cent; beans, 45 cents per bushel.Six Brave Canadian Girls.In an attempt to save the life of }1t- tle Olive Clegg, six girl friends, members of the Girls\u2019 Friendly Soclety of St.Georges Church, Hamilton, went to St.Joseph's Hospital a few days ago and one aftez another submitted to being placed on operating tables to have pieces of cuticle removed from their bodies to be placed on the head of the little sufferer.The child was adjusting belt fn Miss Connor's tailoring shop when he hair caught in the machinery, and in an Instant her scalp was torn completely off.She hovered between life and death for days, and Dr.McNichol decided the girl's only chance for life rested on a skin-grafing operation.The first to volunteer were the two brothers of the lady in whose place the child met with the accident, James and Thomas Con- nor, who reside on York street, near the Dundurn.In all pieces of skin were taken from their bodies, but this was not sufficient, and Dr.McNichol found it necessary to ask for more.The six young ladies of the Girls\u2019 Friendly Society, of which Oiive was a member, then volunteered.Their names are Jesse Williams, Edith Smith, E.Gardner.Emma Gillies, Marion Marshall and Rose Bowden.They are all getting along nicely.| Canada\u2019s Long Frontier, The Earl of Meath, in an article on the defence of the Empire in The Nineteenth Century, referring to the Canadian frontier, says: \u201cIt is earnestly to be hoped that we never shall be at war with our friends In the United States, © but still it is only right for a nation to consider all eventualities.Because we hope never to go tn war, we ought not to neglect to be prepared for war, even against those whom we think there is little chance of ever having to contend.Here we have a frontier 6,000 miles long to defend.It is absolutely necessary for the Empire that we should have predominance of the sea.We should be starved out if we failed to maintain that predominance, Moreover we should be unable to defend our Empire by conveying our troops across the ocean.On the other hand, we must remember that although we may possess that predominant power at sea, still it will not in any way prevent certain nations from being able to make land attacks upon us, of which the United States might be one\u201d What Can a Boy Do?This is what a boy can do, because boys have done it: He can write a great poem.Alexan der Pope wrote his famous \u201cOde to Solitude\u201d when he was only twelve years old.v He can write a great book.Macau: lay wrote his first volume, \u201cThe Primi tiae,\u201d which took the literary world by storm, before he was in his teens.He can write a successful play.John.O'Keefe, the famous Irish actor and playwright, wrote a play that {8 con: sidered good to-day when he was only fifteen.He can enter a great university be fore he is thirteen.William Pitt did it Fertile Eggs.as with a very little heat they begin to incubate.! the same nest sometimes furnish heat enough to render the first eggs laid un: fit for table use, | mons of Mr.Clements of Kent, shows : 112,420 pounds in 1904, yielding over $83,000 in this latter year.All this valued at almost five millions of dol- twenty-seven Fertile eggs should be gathered often, ' A number of hens laying in.; AN ACCURSED BRIDGE.No Wedding Party In England Will Pass Over the Structure.Standing in the center of an open ' fleld at Hoxne, near Kye, in Buffolk, is an obelisk erec to the memory of King Edmund, who met bis death there | at the hands of the Danes In 870.On the site of the monument stood an oak tree, in the branches of which the king sought refuge from his foes, At night.full he emerged from his leafy hiding place and secreted himself under a bridge which spanned a stream called the Goldbrook.A wedding party, however, parsing over the bridge in the evening, observed the king's gold spur glittering lu the moonlight, and in this way his retreat i became known to his enginies.Ie twas taken back to the tree in which he had previously hidden himself and shot with arrows, and his body was afterward removed to Bury 8t.Edmunds and interred in the monastery there.On Goldbrook bridge is inscribed a \"record of the event.local tradition has it that many years ngo the existing inscription was followed by the words, \u201cCursed be the wedding party that passes this bridge.\u201d No part of this anathema is now visible, but the tradition is so well known that a bridal party will take a circuitous route rather than puss over the bridge.\u2014I.ondor Standard.UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN.A Scene of Wondrous Grandeur Tha Awesn the Beholder.Hammerfest, the most northern {Hw of Europe, is bleak and desolate, hu: scen by the witeh light of the undnight sun it touches the imagination nov than many of the world's more fivoret spots, writes Jean Murray in the ou.Track News, The traveler passing through Norway finds himself constat: iv seeking for words that will expres: his wonder and admiration, but when ut last be stands on the North cape Li the light of the midnight sun and looks out over the awful solitude he no more longs for words to express what he feels, but stands ana gazes into the glorious northern light that glimmers on the glittering waves of the aretle sen, while thoughts too deep for words well up in his soul.He feels that after this hour he will have a greater rever- cence for this wouderful world wherein be is permitted to spend his little span of life, and that if in future years the touch of discouragement and discontent falls upon hin he will remember this moment when Le stood on the lonely heights of the North cape looking out over the blue Arctic into what seemed the shining dawn of eternity and feel that it is well to have lived If only for this.TWO TRADE SECRETS.One Is Jealoukly Guarded In China, the Other In Turkey.\u201cThere are two (rude secrets,\u201d said an artist, \u201cthat the outside world, it seems, Will never learn.One ls a Chinese secret\u2014the making of the bright and beautiful color called vermilion or Chinese red.The other Is a Turkish se- cret\u2014the inlaying of the hardest steel with gold and silver.\u201cAmong the Chinese and among the Syrians these two secrets are guarded well.Apprentices, before they are taken for either trade, must sweur a strong oath to reveal nothing of what passes in the workshop.These apprentices, furthermore, must helong to familles of standing, must pay a large sum by way of premium and must furnish certificates of good character and honesty.\u201cYou have seen damascened steel, of course, and you have seen vermilion or Chinese red.Remember the pext time you look at these two things that their secrets have been guarded inviolably and have been handed down faltlifully from one generation to another for thousands of years.Good Enough.\u201cIs your name Goodenough?' asked a bill collector of a man on whom he was calling.+ \u201cIt is,\u201d answered the man, with a look of surprise.\u201cThen I have a bill against you.\u201d And he handed him a slip of paper.\u201cThat 18 not my name.\u201d said the man.\u201cBut you said your name was Good- enough.\u201d \u201cSo jt is,\u201d said the man as he prepared to close the door.\u201cIt's good enough for mue.\u201d The Repter\u2019s Advantages, \u201cIf we economize,\u201d sald the hushand, \u201cwe will soon have a house of our own instead of baving to live In rented property.\u201d \u201cBut I'm not sure I should like that,\u201d answered the wite.\u201cI couldnt drive nails anywhere I please In the walls or woodwork of our own house, you know.\u201d Fooled Him.\u201cWhy am I like a pin?\u2019 asked Mr.Jones triumphantly of his wife.He expected she was going tn say, \u2018\u201cBecause you are so sharp,\u201d and he was simply paralyzed when she replied: \u201cBecause if you should get lost it wouldn't he worth while to spend time looking for you.\u201d One of Them.\u201cMy wife has a remarkable collection of curiosities.\u201d \u201cWas she collecting when she married you?\u2019 \u201cYen.\u201d \u201cThat's what I thought.\u201d Evidence, First Lady\u2014Here's an article, \u201cDo Animals Think?\u201d I wonder if they do?Second Lady\u2014l\u2019ve voticed that my bus band gets off am occasional bright | thing \u2014 Life, WHEN LOVE PROVES FALSE.When love proves false and we seen forsaken, Our epirits shaken With sorrow sore, There ls one soluce Time can't deny us, Which lingers by us For evermore, ; We dream on our lips a soft mouth presses The sweet caresses We used to know; Our hearts yet revel amid the pleasures And chertshed troasurea Of long ago \u2014J.A Edgerton.CANADIAN GLEANINGS.Little Nuggets Gathered From All Parte of the Dominion.Ca'gary's tax rate is again 22 mills, Steelton is to have à $21,000 school 8t.Paul's Church, Regina, is to be enlarged.The Montreal Y.M.C.A.wants $150, 000 badly.The dam at Fort Frances is well under way.Annapolis has just had a Musical Sock Soclal.Fernle wants $9,000 to bulld a road to Flathead.Herring are unusually plentiful at Bay Chaleur.Stratford clamours for spitting bylaw, Sault Ste.Marie 1s asking for a marine hospital, Banff is to be lighted by electricty from Bankhead, Vletoria Is spending money on park {mprovement.The Crystal theatre at Victoria has been re-opened.Four boys caught a turtle at l'etertoro, Berlin's library is going In for up- to-the-minute fiction, an anti- monster mud A London colored womah swears she was born in 1740 The beer shops of St John now close an hour carter.Listowel Is to have a new station hotel at a cost of 83,060.The Y.M.C.A, of Orlllla will erect a bullding to cost $20.000, The mines about Greenwood are handicapped by a lack of roads, Dogs are dying of strychnine polss oning all over St John, N.B.The sunetity of the chicken coops of Lindsay 1s being disregarded.Halleybury is to have a half-million dollar woodworking factory.A militlon young whitefish have been placed In the Bay of Quinte, Howe's jewellery store ut Regina has been vitled by daring burglars, The Weodmen of International Falls are planning an entertainment, The Canada Furniture Co, will erect another factory upon Seaforth's terms.New Liskeard people may have a blueberry festival to advertise thelr town.A well with à capacity of 150,000 gallons a day has been struck near Berlin.Recent applleants are as a rule not tall enough to join the N.W.Mounted Police, Sault Ste, Marte is having a home fndustry campaign against the Ame erlcan Koa, ! Fort Frances hag ordercd a steam fire engine and accessories, The total cost 1s §6.000, It 1x said that work on the new C.N.R.«tation at Edmonton will be= gin in a month, The exorbitant demands of the peoe plo of West London are keeping back the elty's hig dyke, Galt thinks of setting aside a $10,- 000 fund to lend to intending house butlders at four per cent.Port Stanley pler is to be completed, the Government having proe mised a steam plle-driver.I An old man was overtaken hy a train on a bridga near Bloomfieid.He had a miraculous escape.The C.P.R.is putting up a new grain elevator at Fort William, with a dally capacity of 760,000 bushels, Sault Ste.Marie Board of Trade suggests detectives helng appointed to assist the Custorhs officers there.Work has been resumed upon the \u201c pipe line which is to combat the quicke sand near Regina water- works, | Dr.T.H.Farrell, of Utica, N.FT, has donated $500 towards the propose ed chair of anatomy in Queen's College.The Berlin Board of Trade are discussing the purchase of the street railway between that place and Wate erlon.The Methodist of Mitchell are Took- ing for the person who pulled up the row of young maples In front of thelr church, I Trying to emulate Samson.& man cleared the streets of Memracook, N.B, with the jawbone of an ass, He is in jail now, A Norwegian near Bruce Mines used a rope, a razor and a knife in an attempt at sulride, Frightened by firecrackers, a horse belonging to Mrs.Frank Grass, of Portsmouth, holted, and that lady was seriously Injured.A wedding celebration in Portas mouth was the cause of à small rint, during which the bars on the iock-up windows were forced and a youthful prisoner rescued.A Customs officer wna sitting on a bench In Montreal when somebody Jerked his head back.When he was released there was no =ign of his as- sajlant, his watch or his money, Victoria's Tame Moose, The young bull moose in the park at Victoria, B.C., was captured in the north of British Columbia when quite young, whiie swimming a river in company with {ts mother, and was halter-broken and brought down to Victoria.It 14 now just about a year old, and its horns are just appearing.At first this moose used to browse on different young trees, such as the willow and alder, but at present this diet is rather limited, tt having killed off most of the trees in {ts enclosure, so that it usually fills up on grass.The grass clippings from the lawns are placed in the moanse\u2019s enclosure, and {| when it wishes to eat any grass it ! kneels down on its forelegs and feeds in this position.I dn not think the \u2018length of the animal's neck would permit it feeding on the ground unicrs i kneeling, This moose, however, dos not seem to flourish on this diet, as it fe getting rather thin.1 es we VOWS