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Feed the blood oxygen by taking Powley's Liguified Orone--give it its proper food so that it can distribute nourishment toall the organs of the body and make them satrong. Then your system will throw off these germs when they make their attack You will then become immune (3h WHIG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. { prictor of the stage line and mail con- where he was well knows. hath in a well known character about Napa i HILDREN see for years. So far as we know, PAVE 3 ONCE. BORN there is not one of the name now liv IN THIS DISTRICT. ing. fn 1Lé Rev. John Langhora's early church baptism = register; at Bath, chore i the rechrd of the baptism of a wamber of negro children, belonging to some of the well-known and prom inent of the early familiem Tt is not nrobable, however, that one family in ten. even about that locality, took the pains to have the negro children born in their households . given a christian baptism. Here is a record of Rev. Jobn Stuart, of Kingston, Brought His Slaves From the Mohawk Valley--Negroes Were Personal Property. T. W, Casey, in Napasee Beaver A Brough the kindness of Stephen Gibson, county registrar for Lennox and Addington, we have seen a rare A. Smith 3 TREATMENT GUARANTEED TO CURE Btretehing iso Blood o or Joss of time; & Bladder con' revklin, 17 Sydenbem St. EIR ABSOLUTE ~~ SECURITY, Carter's ise | Little Liver Pills Muet Bear Signature of er Boni See Pac-Simile Wrapper Below, 4 wv MINDER. Now is the time to Have your Very small and as cosy: BACKACHE LAME BAOR RHEUMATISM DIABETES A DIZZINESS ano avs 'KionEY-& URINARY [=3 Mzs. IL. Stax about. cured, ot with it since." A VES, Land. ing, N.B., writes on Jan. 18, rqo1 14 "In the fall of 189g I was troubled with a severe pain in the back. I) could scarcely get up out of a chairs and it gave me great pain to move 1 took one box of Doan's Kidney Pills and was completely I have not been troubled "probably the first stone church of any church as a place of worship, and fo country, we believe, but a number of Now is the time. out. Shorey and James McKim, all quite Yrrainent Methodists, we ay - it may bate eventually become Ht with «© old document, in regard lo the exist coe of megro slavery in this country, among, the first of the U, E. Lovalist piogeers. Is is the will of Gasper Boter; of the township of Camden, and bearing date of Jane, 1504, and! which was probated before judge Alex ander Fisher, at Adolphustown, Oc- tober 25th, 1364. Mr, Fisher was the List judge of the surrogate court of the Midland district and a4 maa of mich prominence among the carly U. E. Loyalists. He hved and died in Adolphustowr, and his remains . lie buried in a field on the farm he own ed in the third concession, on the south shores of Hay bay, now well known as "the Platt farm." Among the provisions of the will are the fol lowing : "I give to my dear wife, Miriam Bower that part or parcel of land situate lying wd being in the town- ship of Camden--lot § in the !st con- cession, 600 acres, dwelling house, barn, outhouses, four milch cows, yoke of oxen, one horse. 1 also give and bequeath to my wife, Miriam Pow er, to hold during her natural life a regro wench naméd Charlotte, and from and alter the decease of my said wife, Miriam Bower, 1 give and be queath the above named negro wench, Charlotie, to my grand-daughter, Elizabeth Bower, daughter of Adam Bower." > Then the will goes on to provide for the disposal of other property, lands, cattle and chattels, Evidently that time a negro wench, held as a slave, was as much a piece of decdable pro erty as a fann, cow or a horse. Gasper Bower was of Duteh origin and one of the U. FE. Loyalist pio roers of this country, According to the eurly (rown lands record he was a corporal of the King's Royal regi ment, of New York, during the war of the American revolution. His name appears with the other early Loyalist settlers on the government provision list in 17%. He owned the | farm on which the village of Strath (ona now stands, and built the first grist mill thére at a very carly date. It. was probably the first will of that Kind on the Napanee river farther vp streain than where the first mills at "Appance Falls'™ were first built hy Robert Clark, for the government in 1786. His name appears on Hobert Clark's old Re NT hook in connec tion with the building of the first mills at 'Napanee, as having furnished a team of horses for work at that fime. It is quite probable, therefore, that he was among the first owner of horses in this section of the country. fle was a Presbyterian and on his farm was built a substantial stone Presbyterian church at a very early tirae in the last century. It was kind built in this country. Later on the early Lutherans also weed the did the Methodists, it was torn away, years ago, to make room for the present sabstantial brick Metho dist. church at Strathcona. Mr. Bow- er died and wad buried about 1506, on his farm, at what was long known as "Bower's Milis," whore his sons and other descendants lived for years None of the name now re ide in the the descendants are well-known citi zeus elsewhere. There was also a school there at dn early times~one of the few early schools in the county (hir venerable eitizon, John Gibbard, J. P.. now sieathy ninety years of age, well re members, with his older brofhér Wil lap, going to that school, in his ear lv. youn. They then lived bevona where Newburgh now stands and bad. therefore, . seme miles to trudge through the woods every night ana morning to reach that school. The late Willimn Gibbard once told the writer he well remembered, over eighty vears ago, playing in an old frame build ing. then abandoned, which was the first Bower grist mill at that place. More Early Slaves. Gasper Bower was not alone among ths early settlers as a slave bolder. wor was much thought of it at that vime. His neighbor, John Carscallen; living then east of Newburgh, was al 20 i slave owner. ana it & Girobable that several others of the pioneers of Camden, as well as of the other "ad Joining townships, were his associ ay in this respect. Ana there was néthing thought of it tg be inconsist hei positions as good church wembdrs. The escoutors of Mr. Bower's will, whose duty it was to soe that the negro wench, Charlotte, was duly hand over with the land, cows and horses, as provided for in 1he will, 'were Rufie Shorey, Elisha of Oharlotte we have no record, or what may have become of the many other earl staves, and their descend district, of » vome that oecur in Langhorn's regis tor of the first baptisms in this coun tv. Thev are pecorded among the other vegular baptisms: 1. "November 13th, 1791. Richard, son of Pomp and Nelly, a negro fiv- ing with Timothy - Thompson." Mr, Thompson, it may bs * remembered, was a retired BE. loyalist officer, re- siding in Predericksburgh, near where Sandhurst now is. He was for many vears a member of the Upper Canada fegislature for Addiagton. He died at his farm. and was buried in the Sand hurst churchyard. He leit "ho chil- dren. 2. October 6th) 1793. "Richard, sur- named Pruyn, a mo » living with Harmen Pruyn, Fredericksbhurgh." It is said that the Pruyn family, who ve- sided on the bay shore, front of Fred erickshurgh, owned a Jarger number of slaves than almost any other fam: itv then resident in the county. There seems gow no record of any of their descondante, if they left any. 3. March 2nd, 1796. "Belly, surnam vd Levi. a negro girl living with Jo hannes. Walden Meyers, Thurlow." Movers weve one of the old and weal thy families residing at what is. now the city of Relleville. The place was first known as 'Meyers' Creek." in honor of that family, who were am ong its principal foanderss t. March 2rd, 1796. "'Ashur, sur name Hampton, a negro boy living with Samuel Sherwood, Thurlow." Jt is quite probable that Mr. Sherwood was a near neighbor of the Meyers, as the baptism is recorded the next day after the foregoing, and its Pe cord occurs among quite a number of other baptisms just then in that local ny 5. April 22nd, 1805 "Francis, son of Violet, a negro woman living with Hazelton Spencer, Esq, by Francis Green." Mr. Spencer wag a resident of the front of Fredericksburgh, near Conway, where he died an was bur ied on his own farm. He Ss a mem ber of the first Upper Canada legisla tire, represénting Addington and Has tings. He was also, for vears, a churchwarden of St. Paul's church, at Sandhurst. which aefording to Lang horn's record, was first used for vine service on Christmas aav, 1791, aud was, he records. "the first church that ever was built, new, from the ground, in the province of Quebec ( he fore Upper Canada. was. set apart) solely for Church of England choch excepting one of the Mohawk churches on Grand river lave elaim to.a seni ority." There is a record, in the same church register. of the bucial of Fran cig, on January 17th, 1806, ' The anti-slavery act was passed by, Extreme Case of Nervousness, Female Weakness and Exhaustion --Had a Very Painful Opera- tion--Was Pale and Weak and Fainted Often--Doctors Failed to Help Her. » There is scarcely a limit to the sui- ferings which women endure when their nervous systems become run down and give way beneath the hur dens wi are*forced to bear. There are ills peculiar to women, which in mine cases out of ten are the result of a low state of vitality and a depletion of nerve force. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food cures women of their ills, irregularities and weakennesses - by thoroughly restoring the vigor of the nerves. Every woman will read with interost the following letter from a lady who has been cured of a serious illness by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. She says the testimonials she reads are not half strong enough. : Mrs. Benjamin Hatfield, Hillyard street, St. John, N.B., writes: "For three years 1 was a sofferer from ex> treme nervousness and female weak- nessa and found it necessary to under- go a very painful operation. | was pale and weak, had no appetite and would sometimes mint two or three times a day. For seven weeks | was under the 's care, but he seem- ed unable to help me. Despair of reso I took the advies of a friend who me that Dr. Chase's Nerve Food would build me up and make me stung and" well again. After four mont use of this preparatian Tae Ozoxe Co, Lp. : I feel I:owe you my testimonial and I have been Gentlemen » thanks for su¢h a good remedy as you have terribly troubled with I3 grippe and bronchitis for years, and even after | got it under control it would leave me weak and miserable system which kept me weak I felt there was something in my When the last attack came son, which was a very severe oue, |' thought 1 would try Ozone tried anything that did me so much food, 1 am in a position to tell you now that I never I feel likomy hott again The Ozone hav strengthened my vitality, and can now eat and sleep well, and also work without jeel ing tired eur=d her - 1 fool that Signed) My wife alco had the grippe and Ozone complete cannot praise too highly the remedy whic has done so much good for my wife an Jonny BeyNoy, 306 Davenport Rd. Toronto. 1V ith The Wilkinson Plow Co, Toronso Junction, : $ Powlev's Efquited Orore Wwadt ia combination of drugs not a hedicine--contains ho alcohal.SIBpIE; Nature's gregt element. oxysen in condensed form, prepared so that the'systea can use it to build ap conditions and make rich, red blow} 50¢. and $1.09 af afl Druggists. THE 02 the Upper Canada leg slature previous to the time of the record of these hap tisme. and after that time the word "wlave" seldom or never appears That act did not actually abolish davery at thut time, and free all thy from bondage, as many how NOZTOCS : It merely prohibited the im suppose any more, portation of to the termina wher provisions as : tion of the bendage of later on. Of this: the meke further week. ---- Some Other Slave Owners. In all thé early U. E. loyalists ap pear to have brought in several hun dreds, i not thousandd, from the Qiates, into what is now the domin ion of Canada They, or their ia thers, had been slave owners in New York. New Jersey, the New England elsewhere, 'and slaves States, and articles of pro were among © the few pérty they brought with them : Rev. John Stuart, of Kingston, th first Chureh of England minster 1a Upper Cypada, makes record im his snwritten® memoirs, that he brought his slaves with him from the Mohawk vallpy, where he ta the revolution He then wrots Mv negroes, being personal property f tale with me, one of whic h being al 1 capable of bearing | voy man, wl ame, | have md hack give £100 security t a "white prisoner in his sload Robert Perry the head of a known family, in wore slaves, A large and we county, had also one or who came and remained with him here In these columns wentioned before that among the wells has been known early pounty were Maj, VanAlstine, Capt Jogeph Allen, Capt Thomas Dorland, Cant. J. Huvek, Capt. Trumpour. the logarts, Petersoms, Capt Peter Rut tan. and others, all of Adolphustown the Fairfielde, of Ernestiown; y Clark, of Fre jertekeburgh, after the ones thriving village 'of ville was named ------------ Tuskegee Negro Conference, Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 19.--The chapel of Tuskegee normal and industrial ir stitute was filled to overflowing to day when Booker 7. Washington call ed to order the eleventh annual ses sion of the Tuskegee neérgo conlerence The session was a spirited and inter esting ove and the reports presented showed in the main an improved oon. dition among the colored _spticaltur jets of the south, who have come un der the influence of the Tuskegee in stitute. Mr. Washington's address was fairly characteristic of him in its hard headed common sense. In a spit ited manter he emphasized the im portance of the negro farmers to a quire property, to get out of the one-room cabin and te take more in terest in the education of their child ren. He warned them partienlarh against entigration agents, them 16 keep out of the courts to keep their wives and children offi th streets and away from poblic places and to avoid Sumday excursions Arbitration Comumittee Meets. New York, Feb b= The industrial commission appointed by the national civie federation for settlement of dis putes between capital and labor held its hist meeting today at the mission Fourth avenve and Twenty soand street The purpose of the pweting was to formulaie general plans for the work in view. A report was received from the sub-committes appointed to draw up the preliminary plans. The comumitiee was composed of senator Hanna, Oscar M. Straus, John J. MeCook. Samuel Gompers. Harry White, lewis Nixon, Samuel R Callaway, Franklin McVeagh and Ralph M. Easley. general plan, the details of which are 40 be svenngnd later, the report recom wonded the appointment of auxiliary arbitration committees in all of the large labor centres, the eommitices to be composed of representative | labor men and employers in their respective districts, By thie arrangement it is planned to eficctaally cover the entire COMI. > house, A Great Bargain For $1.50. og ed OME.CO. of TORONTO, Limited, TORONTO and CHICAGO, with certain | those born Beaver will { reference, probably next | had resided previous | this | slave owners in this | exhorted ONCE A YEAR YOU CAN SAVE 20 PER CENT. ON KITCHEN ENAMELLED WARE AND THAI IS DURING OUR FEBRUARY SALE, Famous cooks always require the best of cooking utensils and our live of granite i$ a fine one und no mistake. 1f you waat to delight Bridget or Eliza you could not go about it in a better way and at the same' time 'got deplete the treasury. 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