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UTOHING PILES... Posit ively and permnanently >cured by Dr., A. W. Chase's Ointment. 15r. A. W. Chase's Ointment is an abeolute cuire for piles, and bas neyer been known te Lail jte cure the worst forme cf this disease which has baffied medical sill for ages. This statement znay sound rather strong to Iperson.s who do flot know the superior merits jof Dr. A. W. Chases inment, but i leper- fectly true, and heartily endorsed by the grate. fui testiruony of thousands of nmen and women who have hema cured by it after years cf suffer- Ing, and after trying many preparatione and consulting the best doctors. Mr. H. Bull, Belleville, Ont, says: I talie pleasure ia stating that after thirty years of suffering with Itching Piles, Dr. Chases Oint- ment has completély cured me. 1 tricd every remedy that was advertised, with litile or no benefit, but as I have told diffrent persons affected as 1 was, Dr. Chases intment made a perfect cure." Dr. Chases Olinment has a record cf cures unparalleled in the histury of medicine. It is guaranteed to cure any case of piles. For sale by ail dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. Z1hb ïaladian 5tatesmarn BOWMAN VILLE. JULY 26, 1899. INEW ONTARIO.-.No 3. The Rainy River District, that portîin of Ontario lying between the C. P. R. tracli and the International boundary from Fort William to the Province of Manitoba-a territory of froîn 20,0ù0 to 25,000 square miles in area-lias neyer been regarded as of very mucli value by the majority of the people of lder Canada A portion of this territor 'y may be comparatively worthless, 'being largely composed of rock and muskeg, but along the Canadian bank of the Rainy River and its connections and tributaries, which extend along the greater part of the southern boiîndary, there is a stretch of capital agricultural country, fulîx- a huindred miles long and varving i widtui from a haif a mile to fif teen or twenty miles, lu, tact there are places where the fertile belt may be found to mun back the fuli distance to the C. P. R. track. There are already scores of thriving farms fringing the river bauk but the country is by no means fully taken np yet; there are many first class homesteads still wait- ing settlement. Agriculture liowever will neyer be the staple industrv of this section; the iner has the fist caîl. There lias net even yet been sufficient development donc to approxîmately estimate the ex- teut of New Ontario's minerai wealth, but the temitory has been pretty thor- oughly prospected, and there are hund- reds of most promisiug "propositions," a large percentage of which- wili with- out a donbt returu a handsome divid- ,end for the money invested i their de- velopment. -These propositions lie iscattered on every hand among the hundreds of islands lu the Lake of the Woods and Raîny River, and through- out a large section of the adjacent main lands. 'rhe magnificeut wealth of the coun- try is nowlpretty generally admitted, ffome experts who dlaim f to have a pretty thorougli examination of the surface indications going so far as to declare that it is equal to the wealthiest known gold bearinir territory lu the world. Nor is gold the only valuable product that wiil be mined lu this district. There is-abùndance- of -4ron-, -extensive -veins of Copper, considerable Silver and oth- ,er minerais in -less quantities as well as ,THE HARVEST OUTLOOK. AVL BEOIIY Crop reports from the country gener- ally and particularly from the West are decidedIv enconraging. The bulletins received by Dr. Saiuders, director of experimental fanms, ail speak 'of the outlook for the crops lu Manitoba aud the Territories as excellent.. Dr., Fletcher who lias just returued fromt a trip tliroug-h some of the best grain- growing sections ef the West, deciares tliat the crops are everywhene lu fimst- rate condition. Some of those best able' to judge say that there lias neyer been a better promise for an abundant har- vest. The reduced rates ýaud other improved transportation facilities which have been secured by the present Goverument' froma the railways have come noue to soon, and it is fortunate for the farmers of tlie West that the deepening of the St. Lawrence canais lias beau in the hands of s0 eniergetic a minister as the lIon. Mr. Blair, ior the last tliree , ears, or it is pretty safe to suppose thev' would not have been readv this Faîl as we are confidently assumed they will ha. The completion of the Soulanges Canal, whicli is tlie bast link in thec dham of imDrov 'emants giving the long- desired fourteen feet of w-aterway, is of immense importance to the Dominion for it w-ll meduce the cost of transporta- tion from the western harvest fields to ithe sep -board nearl y flf ty per cent. The importance of tliis fact to Canadian shipping intemests may be judged from fthe statement of a Chîicago paper re- Scently to the effect that, " the cost of rtransporting lake freiglit to tide-water ,will be reduced beyond tlie possibility vof profitable competition by any other 7existiug route." The peculiarity about 1the wheat market is that theworld's cumment prices are fixed lu Liverpool, without the slightest regards to local costs, consequeutly any saving lu the cost of transportation is so mucl inl the pocliet of tlie fammer, and lunliandling millions of hushels a cent or two ou ecih usliel hecomus a very large item. The western farmer will theref ore read- ily appreciate the advantage that the deepened waterwâv is to hlm, TWO POLITICAL SONS. Bystander wlio writes usîtally froru a Conservative point of view lias given us two word-pictures of w-ail known poli- tical persouages that w-e reproduce for their menit as sucli and to show tlie es- timate of a claver Conservatîve writer of the two men. One reg-rets, says this wmiter, that Mr. Hugli John Macdonald gave up faderai politics, for unless 1 am -reatly mistak en, this man had it iu hlm to Iead the Couserative party 'W victory. I have lad the pleasure of many intimate con- versations with the present leader of Manitoba Conservatives, and w-as mucli struck by lis facial and temperamental mesemblance to lis distlnguished father. uis manuer is most cordial. Hie shakes the hand w-ith meaniug. lHe impresses you witlh lis singleness an d siucaritv. Wlien lis face lig-lts np, lie is lis father over again. And lielias the most wi-lu ning manner. You are not fiv 'e min- utes lu lis company tili you assure yonrself that this is a w-hole-souled man, a personality calculated to draw like a magnet, by reason of simplicity, direct- ness, the open mmnd and heant, meflected by a singularly clear and expressive countenance. Macdonald lias the 'dis advantage of being- rathen short, but -this is--forg,,otten il- the-charm -ot-- te- man.- lie-could-nover -offer a-lomdly- utterance lu the hous-e,-nom --is -this ab-- enorinous depceut& of Granit-e. and. aller-1-oluteiy uecessary;-wliat -is- certain - is- commrercial- products._- The timbr in 1 that his grace aud optimism, lis sunny1 Thore seems to have beau an intuit- ive forsigît lu the refusai of the Govarn. ment to concede to Sir liibbertTupper's petulant aud imesposibie demand for a commission of inquiry into the admin- istration of the Yukon, for scarcely a day passes witliont its addition to the mass of unprejudiced evidence favor- able to the Administration aud contro- verting Sir liibhert's charges, evidence ample lu quantity and qualityta satisfy the couutry,without the vast cost of the proposed commission. The latest con- tribution, and one of the most valuable yet made public, 15 a brochure fron tlie pan of Mr. A. N. C. Treadgold, M. A., of Oxford, Eng. which is described by the Mail and Empire as the best *'Kion- dike book" that has heen published, adding tliat "Mr. Treadgold is a thora- ughby competeut man," who deals witli lis subject'lui a calmn and hnsiness-like way." With sudia certificate ofchtir- acter fromn sucli a source the f olowiug extmact will carry weigit,, oua would imagine, eveu xith Sir liibbert Tupper. Aftem setting out lu detailithe dharactar of the population of the Termitomy the writer says- "A perusai of the aboya will show how plentiful a crop of griev- ances could ho collected hy a corres- pondent witli an appetite for the garb- age of a miuing camp, and witniout that pow-er of perspecti; e which is 50 necess- ary and yat 50 diflelut to exercise lu hnrried latter writiug. "I thiuk that every correspondent who wrote upon Yukon grievances" and' Yukon scandais" would probably write dîffarentby, if lie were askad to write again ou the sainie subject, for it is beyond question that "grievauces" and "1scandals" w-ra made on the ont- sida to assumeana importance which they neyer possessed lu the Klondike itseif. Iu regard to certain shortcomings in the details of administration w-hich lie points out,Mm. Treadgold says. "Thesa sainie diflicuties must always occur lu new placer camps, in intensity pro- portionqte to the size of the camp, but the Dawson authorities showed singular inabillty to improve the record office and the postoffice. At hast they were both very slow indeed and the miner wlio conseuted to accommodate hiniseif to their methods lad to put np with great incouvenience and great boss'of time, It is not too mudli to qay that the iuefficiency of those two offices was to blame for the bond talk ou the ontside as w-aIl as lu the Klondike about "1offici- ai corruption." Sudh talk is puarile w-lare the claracter of men lik¶ý' Major Walshi sud Mm Thos. Fawcetý s lu question. _TIare is not a man ,. ving w-ho dame opeuly suggest that eîther of then w-as corrupt." TOW>S CHANGE ÉARCIIITECTUR- Bystauder says that Canadian archi- tecture suffers by the ovesladowing influence of that of the United States. Even there' the evo]utiouary pmocess is most marked. WIau w-e desire some- thing stiking, original and perhaps daring, w-e have the notion that we must go to the United States. And it is the trth that in this, as in every other domain, we fiud a confidence, an optini- ism, au enterprise whicl, thongli they sometimes find extrema expression, ara the guarantee for divemsity ýand pro- grass. Our ideas are more consenvative, more lu-consonance with settled- tradi.- tions. At the sainie time, our own ardui- tacts only desire the-chance, ta prove -that, lu-the realin af taste at any mrate, tliey are not whit- behind the fonemost ~Arnericatis. TheyL-are-teaehiug architec--j À VALUABLE OPINIOX. WestEndH ouse BQWMANVI LLE. expresses at once simplicity and retic- ence; ln the business districts they hav e the antithesis almost as acute as in Chicago. Some one suggested long ago a civic committee of taste, but as the civic and provincial govemuments are the worst offenders against good taste,' in ail they have put their hands to of a publie character, not imuch conld be hoped for lu tliat direction. Indeed it miglit be said of Mont real architectur ally, as it was said of Topsy, that it 11j ust gro wed. " The pili box leaus up against the public constitution; an experience of outrageons floridity insuits the sever- ely classicai desig-n.They sometines say that Motreal is an old city, but only commenced yesterday to make history. They are in too big a linrry to care mucli for architectural ideals ; by and by. when they get settled a bit, they w-lit begin to make the city over lu the new Indeed, ail cities should be thns transformed every century, of course retaining certain landmarks to indicate the regularity of pogress. A M'ODERIN TOWN. Visitors to Montreal should not fail to visit the growing and modern town of Westmonnt. Building lias perliaps been a littie overdone, notwithstaîîding tlie populamity of this model town; but this was lu the direction of the flat system, whici,* ideal for a dense popu- lation like Montreal, will not so rcadily find recognition lu a centre of whicli the chef f eature is the en couaging one that eacli mau desires to own the bouse lie lives lu. Westmount lias become tiie Mecca of tlie wealthy mercliant wlio desires to escape, iu lis home life, the hnmly burly of business. He is tired of liaving lis shop at lis elbow. I7he roar of bis loois lias been lu lis ears ahl these years, and now he hies him to tlie mountalu sida wliere lie fiuds idyllic conditions of rest, of view, of freedom from thelvain noises of city life. Hie builds himself a lordiy dwell- iug-house; lie plants him a garden; lie cultivatas the poetic and the osthetic. Away below hlm lie sees a city strnggl- ing and working; lie sees the smoke beldhing f orth it is ail ferocions. Let us take our ease a littie. We have worked liard. Wa began at the foot of the ladder. Ah, many, a day our hands were iard, But no*S the mom- ent is easy., Our fortune is secure. Give us tlie simple lieart again, and the cnltivation of fiowers, and the me- newal of oue's youtli. That is wliat Westmount stands for-rejuvenescence. It is bult-or mostly bult-upon the mountain side. It overlooks the St. Lawrence. Upon a clear day one mniglit sea State of Vermout. A glimp se. of tlie Adironciacks is not impossible under favorable conditions. And the mountain air is for youth and health aDd buoyancy ; and middle age lu young, and feebieness becomes strong, and death always apologizes lu West- Mount! Here is thie only town lu the dominion -possibly on this- continent-in whicli there is absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic. W 'e know that i the prohibition states liquor is sold 'nuder conditions which degrade the manhood; lu Scott Act towns lu the dominion, the law lias neyer commanded respect be- cs&use it was neyer enforced. This was oue of the reasons wliy it was me- cently defeited in Brome. In West- mount, whidh is now a modemn town of 10,000 inliabitants, there is net a drop of -liquorr-- sold under--anv--consideration througliout- its precinc-ts. -9-f- course, -the city -of- Montreal la at-the elbow,- and liquor canbebrongltitnl for -family use, as is undonbtediy the case; but Muslins. Commaencing, this week Thursday and con-, tinuing tili sold, we will seli our choice " Muslins, which have been splendid Sellers at15e and 20. al a, O one. price-per yard to25 m mI a A few niee Muslij Blouses left-regular price 7,c $1.O-reduced -while they last to' Pa rasols. A choice lot of, Parasols, no two alike. These were this season' s samples bouglit at a great reduction. While they last we 'are selling theýa belo.w -wholesale prices. Hatsl. m a A f ew S traw and Linen Hats left to clear at eost price. 0 o Hot Weather Bargains In, Shoes. A few lines of Summer Shoes at prices that will make you replace that used up pair with new- oDes. Ladies' Vici Kidhand turned and sewed soles, coin toes, regular $1.35, special $1. i &5. Look over our one dollar bargain table' in front of the store. You will.see broken lhnes and sizes in Ladies' Oxfords and Slippers that cost in the regular way $1.50 &nd $1.75. If you flnd your size. there $ 1.00 buys them. Men's Two Buckle HEarvest Shoes $ 1.00. Boys' Running Shoes, Rubber Soles 45c. Girls' Oxford Shoes in Kid and Glo ve Grain 7 sc. Childrens' Oxford Shoes from .50c. Womens'-Prunella SBlippers 50e.- Womens& -Prunell& Gaiters Osc. blouses.