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Remnant Sale! GZ?-..A..T ~ JOHN J. MASON'S Dry Goods and Jewelry !louse. Our annual Remnant sale will this year, assu1ne large proportions, and be a memorable event with all who delight in buying cheaply, we have done so large a business that we have Dozens of Piles of Remnants which we are aware will have to be sacrificed, we a.re perfectly willing to let them go cheap, we have had a good run this year The Largest May and June Sales ever done in the shop, and as a considerable portion ·of the ends are part of the McClung Stock, and~cost us cheap, we can afford to let go easy. We cHn fit the largest or the sniallest ivith a Remnant to suit them. over 40 Remnants of cashmeres or Henriettas, over 100 ends dress goods, prints etc,, ends of Silks, ends of Tweeds, Capets etc .., all n1ust go as we . have no further use for them. Call and get the choice of the sacrifice. , . . ours etc. JNO. J. MASON. for th e study of Music in its several depal'tments Over 600 Lessons in one School Year. Special attraction for lady studentP by uniting with the first and only LADIES' BAND in Canada. Tuition, $80 per School Year, OF FORTY WEEKS. · Degrees Conferred ~ Diplomas A warded by DR. BAXTER, of Baxter University of Music, :New York. Further particulars by addressing O:S:A..S_ RU-SE'.1 4~. Box 88, BOWMANVILLE, ONT. l\lI: A Y N _A._RD_ 'l':EE JEW.ELLER, Extends his thanks for the very liberal patronage he received since commencing busir:ess. His Stock being New and Stylish and his p1·ices very moderate, is no doubt the cause of his success. 'l'ltE NEW LINE OF HEAVYSII1VER ~ VT.A..TO:S:ES SHOULD BE SEEN AT ONCE. - - - : o : - -- LA.DIES G-OLD .6.NI> SILVER W .ATCHES .A.'l' ALL :E'BICES. - - -:o:-- WEDDING RINGS, SCARF PINS, CHAlNS LOCKETS AND CHARMS, lN EVERY STYLE, AND AT ALL PRIUES. - - - :o--Remember mv Goods are guarranted to be j ust as represented. WATCH REP AIRI~G atttmded to as usual, Promptness and skillful work manship-my motto- and all work warranted. Your patronage solicited. Mrs. E. B. Hale joins in the discussion of the problem of ·" useless k nowledge" in the current num)·er of Good Housekeeping, and arguou from the standp0ints of ex perience and c;ommon sense that the higher ra.nges 0 f knowledge are not useless in the practi1>al life of hous~keep· ing. Her remarks :1re worth reading. The inattention to detail that marks the average recipe for cooking is shown up by Catherine Owen in the current number of Good Housekeeping, in the first of her new series of house keeping paper. These papers, by the way, promise to be equal to the Rifted author's previous work in the line of housekeeping text-books. The July number of Brainard,s Musical World is on our table and contains in addition to the usual large amount of interesting and instructive reading matter, four choice pieces of new music alone worth about $1.50, the price of the World one year. Send 15 cents for this July nnmber, if yon are a music lover and for anything in the Jina of sheet music or music books. Address The S. Brainard's Co., Chicago, Ill. Lawn Tennis as a Game for Women in the July number of Outing, will be read with pleasure and profit by tennis players and the author, Mr. H. W. Slocum, Jr., the present champion player, gives much valuable information. Mention is made of the leading club11 and grounds where ladies play the game, and illustrations from photographs of noted grounds and prominent lady players, lend a graphic picturesqueness to the article. .TOF1l Chandler Harris has written a new novelette for the Century,-"The Old Bascom Place,"- which will begin in t he August number,and will be completed in three installments. It is a "re-conekuction" story, and is said to be in Mr. Harris's most delightful vein. The Century Co. will sl1ortly bring out as a holiday book for young folks "Daddy Jake, the Runaway, and o :her etories," by Joel Chandler Harrie, illustrated by Kemble. The Statesman for July has an article on "The Pension System," which will affords a mass of information on a vital subject. Dr. Wheeler's article on "Woman Suffrage" is a summing up and cksing of a discussion which has continued through the Jaat eix months. "The Farmer's attitude towards the Tariff" is a most suggestive article in a kindly spirit. The story "Elsie," that wonderously simple, but exasperating tale roaches the fourth chapter in this number. 20 cents a number, $2.00 a year, on trial three months 25 cents. The Statesman Pub._ Co., Chicago. THE DOMINION lLLUSTRA.'rED.-This excellent pictorial journal e ntered on its second year with the number for July G. The title of the administration has been changed from Geo. E . Desbarets & Son to the Dominion lllnstrated Publishing Company. In the future, as in the past, it will endeavor to fulfil the promise implied by its name, and will illustrate, by engraving and Jetter-prese,every phase of nature and life in the Dominion. We commend the journal io our .readers as worthy of support from all Canadians concerned in their country' s welfare and progress. Frank Leslfo's Popular Monthly for July has a pictaresque and well illustrated article, entitled "Into Oklahoma with the Boomers," giving much interesting information about the seLtlement of the Promised Land as well as of the adjoining Cherokee Strip, "The Samoa Cyclone" vividly depiets the great naval calamity of last March, which has been ~om pared to the historic destruction of the historic destruction of the Spamsh Armada. Another notable contribution to this number is the account of the ascent of Mount Ararat, the Biblical "Noah's Mountain," by the R,ussian Imperial G-eopraphtcal Commission, whose notes and phot9graQhs were specially secnred for Frank J_ ,"eslie's P opular Monthly. "The Dynomo" is a timely popular science article. Tii.e biographical and natural history papers, sketches of travel, short stories, poems, etc., are nurr.er<. us and ex· cellbnt. Every one interested in growing fruits, flow ers or in forestry would find it to their advantagt> to tak e the Canadian Horticulturiet, a beautiful monthly journal of high standinj?, devoted entirely to these subjects, and containing articles written by the leading fruit growers, florists, and foresters in Ontario. The Journal is to be enlarged in the month of January; the paintings and engravings of fruit& and flowers continued and used even more liberally. Altogether it is to be _ made as interesting and attractive as posaibie. 1t is published by "the Fruit Growers' Aesociation of Ontario, at $1 per annum, which also entitles the subscriber to the privileges of membel'Bhip of the Association including a copy of the Annual Report of the meetings aud discussions, giv· en ;erbatirn, and a share in the distribu· tion of trees and plants for testing in various parts of Ontario, Subscriptions should be sent in to L . Woolverton, M. A .· Grimsby, Ont., Secretary of the F. G . A. of Ontario. The completion and dedication of the National Monument to the Forefathers, at Plymouth, Mass., the corner-atone of which was laid thirty years ago, gives and timeliness to the well-wPitteu beautiful illustrated article on "The Pilgrim Fathers", which leads off the August numder of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Arthur V. Abbo~ interesting!] describs the new cantilever bridge over the Hudson River at Pough· keepsie, N. Y. "The Military Road of the Caucasus," by P . J. Popoff, gives a picturesque account of this marva_ l ous highway Russia's Asian conquests. Ensign Wilkinson, of the Navy, gives a valuable and authoritative account of "The United States Hydrograp hic Office; its Evolution, its Aims and its Achievements." Other illustrated articles are : "An Old F'rench City" (Bourges); "In the Ace.dian Land"; "Turenne", Louis X IV.'s great General ; etc. The} short stories, illustrated poems, miscellaneous ef!says, etc , are up t o the first-class standard, and the new literary department begun in this number promises to be a valuable feature. A BllnN Olt CllT " -u1 l1cal qnicl·ly :nut lea,>c less ecur If \'iclorlu CJ:u·bollc Sah·c is a1·1tllctl :u once. DISTRICT NOTES. The Moulders of the lock works, Peterboro, went out on strike last week. Rev. M r. H a nns, of Tarn, hasacceptG d the call to the Uxbridge Presbyterian church. The evils resulting from habitual costiveness are many and serious; but the use of harsh, drastic purgatives is quite as dangerous. In .Ayer's Pilla, however, the patient has a mild but effective aperient, superior to all others, especially for family use. :t: Mr. Geo. H. Ash has resigned the headmastership ef the Brighton Public School. Mr._ and Mrs. Chas. Rennie, of lot 17 ~nd con., of Brock, celebrated the six tieth anniversary of their wedding, recently. KELLY'S Cnoss, P. E. !.- Kidney complaint and bad stomach troubled me for years, but I was cured by taking less than one bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters. For my present good health I owe my thanks to B. B. B., writes James Gorman, sen. Mr. Edwin Down, of the Base Line west of Demill College, has a large field of hay which, it is said, will average three tons to the acre. FREELY UsED.-Mr. Wm. Mann, of Ottawa, Ont., writes : I have ueed Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry in my family with the very best results. - I recommend it to my friends and think it the best medicine in use for all summer complaints, diarrhc:ea., dysentery, 01c. A lady resident of Orange street Oobourg, recently set a bantam hen upon seven eggs. The other day the hen brought out eight chicks. Thousands have been relieved of indigestion and loss of appetite by a single bottle of Aye1"s Sarsaparilla. 'l'he use of this medicine, by giving tone ani strength to the assimilative organs, has made innu!llerable cures of- chronic dyspepsi·. , Pnce $1. Worth $5 a bottle. j: Mrs. Ratcliffe, who resides on the Front Ro ad between Uobourg and Port Hope, was thrown from a buggy and had her arm broken last week. 1 THE AN CI:to:NT CAPITAL.-Quebec. have been troubled with indigestion for the past two years and have trie.i many medicines without avail. I tried Burdock Blood Bitters and can say there is nothing equal to it. Thomas O'Brien , B. B. B. cures dyspepsia, biliousness and constipation. The brains of a boy named Russel aged 15 years, were blown out by the explosion of a gun while shooting at crows in the vicinity of Wark worth the other day. A CLOSE CALL.-After suffering for three weeks from Cholera Infantum eo that I was not expected to live, and, at the t ime, would even have been glad had death called me, so great was my suffering, a friend recommended Dr. Fowler's E xtract of Wild Strawberry, which acted like magic on my system. But for this medicine I would not be alive n ow. John W. Bradshaw, 393 St. Paul St., Montreal P. Q. A NEW DEPARTURE JN t.fEDIOINE. ,- Tho four grea tet1t medical centres of the world nrc London, l'nris, Berlin and Vienna. These cities have immense 11ospitals teeming with suffering lrnmatiity. Crowds of studen ts throng ihe wards ~tuclying unc lcr the l'rofessors in charge. 'l'he most renowned physicians of tho world teach an1l prac· tice here, and the i nstitutions arc storehouses of medical knowledge and' e-,:periencc. With a view of making this experience a vailable to the public the Hospital Remedy Co: at great cx_pense secure cl the prescriptions of these hospitals, prepared tho s pecifics, and al· though it would cost from ~2;, t o StOO to s·ecure tho attention OI their distinguish eel originators, yet in this way their rrepo.red s pecifics are-Offered at the price of the quaclt pa.tent medicines that flood the ma.rkot n.nd absurdly claim to cur e every ill from a. single bottle. Tho w11n" t always felt for a. reliable cla.ss of domestic remedies is now filled witlt perfect satisfaction. '£he Hospital Remedies make no unreasonable claims. Tho specific for Catarrh cures thn.t n.nd nothing else i so with tl1c specific fo1· Bron· chitis, Consumption and Luug Troubles; Rheumatism is cure1l l1y No. S, while troubles of Digestion, I Stoma.ch, Liver n.nd Kidneys ho.vo their own cure. T o these is added - a. specific for ]! ' ever u.nd Aguo, ono for femal e weakness- a ge11c1 ·nl tonic and blood-maker thn.tmnkcB blo"d !md gives form and fulness, and an incompa.ra.ble remccly for Nei-vous Debility. NO. 1-0UflES CATARRH, HAY FEVER, Rosi COLD, CATARRHAL DEAFNESS- The onlIJ authentic cure emanating from scientific sources now before the public. Thi· is not a snutfor ointment-both arc: discarded as iujurion1. 11.00. NO. !-COUOHS, COLDS, BRONCH/TfS, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION-An incompa~ab/e remediJ: does not m erely stop a cough, but e'adfcates the disease and strengthens the lungs and reator~s wasted tissues, giving a 11ew lease of life. 11.00. \ NO, 3-flHWMATISM-A distinguished and welf· known specialist in this disease i11 Paris, who trea.t8 nothing else, built his reputation 0'1 this remedy. $1. NO. 4-UVER AND KIDNEYS, DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION, OONSTIPATfON, BRIGHT'S DISEASEA favorite slaughter-field for tha quacl1 who has ruined more stomachs than alcohol. Usa a remedy sa11ctioned in high places. $1.00. NO. 5-FEVER AND AGUE, DUMB AUGE, MALARIA, NEURALGIA-Few /mow what graue damage this does the system; it is treated to break It for a time. Use a remedy that eradicates it. $1.00. _ NO, 6-FEMALE WEA/I.NESS, JRREGULA.RITfES, WHITES-Mang women ara broken dow11 because they neglect these diseases until chronia rr11d seated, Use No. 6 a11d regain health cwd strength. $1.00. j if scrawny, use this perfect tonic. 1$1.00. NO. 1-HEALTH, FORM AND FULNESS dep~rcl on good blood and lots of it. If weak, If blood i:; p!for, NO. 8-NERVOUS DEBILITY, LOSS OF POWER-A quack cure-ridden public will hail a genuine rcmed11 f or a11 unfortuate condition. No. 8 ls Golden, which one tr/a/ will proue. Beware of fg11ora11t quacks who charge high prices f or ch6ap and worthless drugs and pills, the properties of which they are utterly ignorant, and who expose 11011 by selling your confident ial letters to others in th same tiofarious b11.· iness. Use flo. 8 and liue again. $1.00. DOLLAR EACH. 'I'O BE HAD OF ALL DRUGGISTS. lp lnsecticid~s. ----o---- U re Mr. Joseph Hr.rris, of Gore's Landing, is 96 years of age,-probably the oldest inhabitant of Hamilton townshii-' and wae for over 40 years quite-bald-headed. He now has a crop of hair rrnd beard which came out ·a few months ago as thick as a boy's and as black as a raven's wing. Paris Green, Insect Powder. --AND... ~ For Rickets, Ma1·asmus, and all Wasting Disorders of OhUdren Scott's Emiilsion of P itre Cod Liver Oil with Bypophosphi tes, ia unequalled. 'I'he rapidity with which children gain flesh and strength upon it is very wonderful. "I have used Scott's Emulsion in cases of Rickets and Marasmus of long standing. In every case the improvement was mark· ed.- J. M. Main, M. D., New York. Sold by all Druggists, 50c. and $1. All KINDS OF FLY PAPER -AT- ,. . A · . Chemists and Druggists. BOWMANVILLE. · THE RATHBUN COMPANY, General Offices. rn Deseronto, Ont., Feb. 6th, 1889. WiLLIAM J~s~ c~ - · Montreal, Que. Dear Sirs, - We have been very much pleased with· yo~r MACNETIC IRON PAINT, which we have used on the ca:i;s we have recently been building. Its color is good and bears evidence of excellent last~ng qualities. , ' Yours very truly, THE RATHBUN COMPANY (E.) \ . "Md ¥NJ.RD Tlie Jeivelkt·.n Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria~