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ELECTRIC FANS Now's the Time you need and Here's the Place to get them, if you want Good Ones at Rea- sonable Prices : BRECK & HALLIDAY Princess Street. ENJOY A DRIVE? Then make it doubly enjoyable by em- sagiag ome of our fine turnouts, es HARDING'S LIVERY, 210 Wellington Sr, MONEY AND BUSINESS. ERPOOL. LONDON AND GLOBE Insurance Company. assets. $61,187,215. which the policy holders have for security the ualimited all the stockholders. property insured at rates. Before renewing old or giving get rates from Strange Kents. MONEY TO LOAN IN LARGE OR Suma, at low rates of intercst Apply te 8S. C. McGill, man- Frontenac Loan and invest --_-- VIVID REVIEW IN THE RUSSIAN "HELL ON EARTH." A Glimpse Into The Penal Inferno At Sakhalin--How Convict Settlement Works. Paris, Aug. 5.--1he Island of Sak- halid, to which "Russia now Sends wost of her hard labor convicts, has long been a sort of "terra incognita" to the civilized world. Such ghmpses of it as from time to time reach the west are the result either of personal sojourn on the island by men who have escaped, taking. their prison ex- periences with them, or of adventurgus travelers who, risking the danger of being found in Sakhalin, have re. mained there long enough to confirm the popular view of it as "a hell up- on the earth." As this description of Sakhalin has never been to the taste of the Russian government an efiort is being made to have the island "written up' in, such a way as shall represent the "facts" without admixture of sentiment or prejudice. Among the articles that have appeared giving the official view of Sakhalin, is one in a well-known conservative Russian journal which substitutes for thé "sensational" ac- count of the island as a place where nobody's life is safe, provided some- body with money is willing to pay for the taking of it, a picture of Sakhalin as a thriving community pervaded by moral ' purpose and humanitarian ideals. The sketch begins with a description of the Sakhalin climate that differs little from what has been said of it by those who have lived on the island. Sakhslin, twice the size of Greece, is far enough scuth to be a farm coun- try, its latitude being that of France, yet the temperature of its northern parts makes them unirhabitable, while the weather in the rest of the island is forbiddingly severe, This is due partly, to the proximity of the sea of Okhotsk, on which ice floats unmelted even in June, and partly to the fact that the spring ice from the River Amur blocks up the narrow strait be tween Northern Sakhalin and the mainland, remaining there and lower- ing the temperature. The result of these and other conditions is that in winter storms rage, and the chief city of Sakhalin, Alexandroffsky, is colder than Archangelsk. In its several aspects the island pre- sents a desolate appearance. Its shores are rocky and inhospitable, and so de- pressing is the sight of them upon the arriving convicts, who look for the first' time upon the wild rocks and so- litary mountains, that they frequent- Iv burst into tears. Prison discipline at Sakhalin is not Te, except when crimes are com- mitted. There is a special provision for corporal punishment, by which the loaded whip, known as the "piet," is wielded against the convicts w ho are idle, who drink or use filthy language, an especially severe form of this pun- ishment being reserved for card play- ing--an amusement of which the con- victs are passionately fond. The Sak- halin code inflicts capital punishment for brigandage and murder, but only after trial by a military tribunal, the sentence having to be affirmed by the Governor-General of Siberia. The long cogvict cloak, used in other Parts of Siberia, is not seen. at Sakhalin, because of its interference with the easv movement of the laborer, whose resembles that of a Russian peasant. For the same reason the con victs on the island are not required to wear leg fetters, After the "hard labor convict" has served from six to ten years as such he joins the ranks of the "exiled col dress onists," is aided to establish himself, and becomes a member of the "Sak halin Village Improvement Society.' He is expected to build a house for himself and cultivate a farm, receiving from the prison authoritics not only the pecessary tools and materials, but also a monthly supply of food, includ ing forty pounds of flour, five pounds of meat and five pounds of barley, which is continued for two vears The work on the farm 'is arduous and the authorities frequently have to, extend their help beyond the two vears. One reason for this is the for bidding character of the climate, which makes it difficult even for experts to raise crops successfully; another reason iz that the convict farmer is incapa citated for work during considerable periods by malaria and grows discour- aged. As a result of the conditions the convicts never remain in Sakhalin af- ter they have graduated into the fourth class as "free colonists." They usually avail themselves at onee of their freedom, and make of the Useuri region, where so manv of the hard ia bor men from Sakhalin have settled Among the most suggestive things about Sakhalin $= the status of wo men there. Although women *"'hard la bor convicts" reach the island on every boat they never enter a prison, not only for the reason that there are no prisons for women in Sakhalin, but also because women are so scarce on the island. as to be in great demand and, therefore privileged. No sooner does a batch of . women convicts arrive than they are Smmedi ately drawn up in a line for inspection by male mison convicts, who by good conduct have acquired among other privileges the right to marry. Fach man chooses a woman, and the two immediately begin housekeeping, the marriage ceremony being dic ensed with. The arrangement thus made frees the woman from hard labor in the settlement, while the possibility that she may choose another mate if WM. NEWLANDS, ARCHITECT, OF- , second floor over Mahood store, corner Prin -------------------- ELLIS, ARCHITECT, OF- Drill Hall, near cor and Montreal Streets. POWER & SON, ARCHITECT, A ITH. Anchor Building, 'Phone 345. Sleeplessness If you cannot close your eyes at night, try a MATHIEU'S NERVINE POWDER Sure and safe and no danger of cre- ating a habit. Contains no opiates, 25 Cents -- 18 powders -- Sold Everywhere, or sent post-paid by THE J. L. MATHIEU CO., SHERBROOKE badly treated leads to her being dealt with i the most deferen "Finally, it may be said that there are dow Fecapes rom in; most of those who get away never pass be. yond the military » OF are so exhausted by wandering in the forest that they return voluntarily. Former- ly the only messenger sent after an es. caping convict' was a bullet; in these days y Fy return is managed with much less severity. Three roubles is the pri now paid for recapture, and small as is the gmount, it not prevent the convicts and the soldiers from plan- ning "recaptures," in the yield of which both are financially interested. he island is at present divided for administrative purposes into three dis- tricts--those of Alexandrofisky and Drmoidy on the north, and that of Korsakofisky on the south. Alexan- drofisky is now the chief "eity" of Sakhalin. It had its foundations in 1581 and began with three houses in a setting of swamps, bogs and forests. Since then it has grown into the sem- blance of a Russian provincial city with about 4,000 inhabitants. It has an Orthodox Russo-Greek church, a Roman Catholic church and a mosque for Mohammedans, as well as a school taught by one of the exiles, and a museum. Thus far there is no port at Alexandrofisky, the convicts arriving here being landed half a mile or more away at a temporary landing stage. The Island of Sakhalin is above everything else a convict settlément. Its total population, as shown hy the census of 1597, is now nearly 30,000, the majority of whom- 20,500-- are 'men. tion, vided into "hard labor conviets," spend ajsperied of time in vict colonists, who do hare side of the prison; exile colonists, who are farmers, and have served their time, Ue anywhere in Siberia, and the free official, professional and trading class. something over The convict popula- numbering about 14,000, is di. who prison; con- f labor out- colonists, who and may set- free The hard labor convicts in prison number 4,979, 4,220 of whom rare men, and 739 women. onists outside the prison are estimated at 6,931 There are 97 settlements homesteads in the island. to the convict and official population, Sakhalin several aboriginal races, 000 Oroks, who mostly occupy the eastern parts of the island; in the south are to be found a Japanese. arrival of the Europeans, suffer from epidemics of smallpox, an evil which has been much reduced hy vaccinatian. island is fishing, ploited to the inmost. The hard labor col- (6,055 men, S79 women). and 4,712 In addition the remnants of including 2,- and a few contains Gilaks, 1,800 Ainos considerable number of The aborigines, after the began to The chief industry of the the rivers being ex- In the convict population many na- tionalities are represented-- Great Rus- sians, Tartars, Cherkess and many of the other races under Russian rules. one cf the and reach Sakhalin after a Vovage on a what is Little Russians, Poles, Finns, members of The ccnvicts are brought from ports of European Russia, long sea steamer belonging to known as the "volunteer fleet." ------ A Record Trip. The tour of the famous Black Watch brass and pipe bands, numbering six- ty, will make a new record for long distance travelling in short time. The bands, in charge of Major Rose, will at the exposition ; tour under the direction of | Houston. voted to Western Canada, with certs in nine places, they leave for the North-West, at Fort William, Rat Portage, peg, Brandon, Portage la Prairie. For | the third week they will be in onto, Kingston, be in the maritime from On the tour the band including ocean passages, miles. | train, on special sleeping cars. -------- different foods is : round steak 31.3 to 42.6; fresh pork, 42.2; chicken, Poronto Mail And Empire leave Edinburgh Castle and sail from Liverpool on August 19th. From Montreal they will go direct to Tor- onto, where they play for two weeks then they go on Stewart be de con September 17th playing Winni The first week will Tor Lindsay, Peterboro, Belleville, Brockville, Ottawa and Montreal. For the last weok they will provinces, sailing October Sth, will traverse, over 12,000 travel by special Rimouski on They will Value Of Cheese. Just now when the meat consumers are obliged to pay high prices for all kinds of meats it" might be well to compare their food value with that of cheese, and suggest substituted for meats to some extent especially in families where strict economy is essential. that the latter be of workingmen The percentage of nutrients in the Sirloin steak, 32.2, 31.3; veal, 25.4. mutton, 17.2; salt codfish, 17.6; butter, 86.0; cheese, 65.4, From this it would seem that five pounds of cheese will furpish as much nutriment as steak, or the best of veal ten pounds of fourteen pounds Cheese is more digestible than meat and hence more healthful. In England it is used much more extensively than in America, especially by the working people. Country Produce. Jeans-- Trade is quiet, with prices steady. Prime beans are quoted at 8 to £1.30, and hand-picked at 15 to S140, Hops--The market is unchanged at 2c. to Me. according to quality, Honey--The market is quiet, at Te to Tie, per Ih Hav--The market i« quiet, with offorings liberal Car lots sell at 87.50 to 83.50 on track, Toronto, the latter for No. 1 timothy, Straw----The market is quiet, with prices unchanged at 85.30 to 86 on track, Toronto. Potatoes--The market is quiet, with sales of new at T3c. to 98c. per bushel es Poultry The demand is 'fair, with limited offerings. Spring chickens, 135¢. per lb; vearlings, 9%. to 10c. per Ib.; ducks 10 to lle. per Ih. James Bensley, Belleville, aged six- ty-two, and probably the oldest acro- | bat in the circus and vaudeville busi ness in America, died Supday after a tlong illness from organic trouble. He was a native of Hastings county, Allan Ross. a Thurlow yeoman. died from a paralytic stroke on Thurs- day last, aged eighty-one. He was a Presbyterian and 'a liberal. Lever's Y-Z (Wise Head) Disinfee- tant Soap Powder dusted in the bath, softens the water and disin- fects. NEWBURGH TIPS AFINE DAY FOR THE RC. AY, PICNIC. . Too Much . Wrangling Over Baseball--Gone To Gosport School--Help Home Talent, er of rain on Sunday evenmng treville, on Wednesday, was day was an ideal picnic day, warm near began to gather about 2 500 people on the teresting programme of carried out, during the afternocn, lib- - A very in- eral cash prizes Ig Riven to the winners. No accidents of any kind oc- curred, unless you wolld class an in cident that happened in the pie-eat- ing contest, 'The piece of lemon pie was covered with frothy icing to the depth of three inches, and the con- testant eating the pie and whistling first, was to get the prize. Charlie Whelan of this place was the winner, but in his attempt to whistle bo blew a large piece of the icing in the face of one of the committee. No one was hurt unless it were Charlie suffering from indigestion. The ball match was advertised, Yarker vs. Newburgh, but it was impossible to secure a nine from Newburgh, so a team was made up on the grounds, and Yarker won by 19 to 5. The game was marred by much wrangling, which was very dis. gusting from a spectator's view, Dancing was kept up afternoon and evening. In the evening an excellent programme was rendered, consisting of a duet by the Misses Price of Hinch, a whistling solo by Miss Clancy of Wesley, a reading by W. D. M. Sho- rev of Newburgh, and vocal solos hy Mrs. C. H. Finkle, Mrs. W. B Dunn, Miss Hope, Mrs. Sharpe, P. I. Sho. rey, and W. E. Moore, all of New- burgh. Lunch was served on the grounds, and dancing was kept up until the "we sma' hours." The net proceeds were £230, It is with feelings of reoret that the neonle of this parish part with Rev. Father Hartigan, who has heen ap- pointed successor to Rev. Rather Hog- an of Napance. During Father Harti- gan's years of pastorate in this par- ish, he has endeared himself to his people. and the public in general. and he will be followed to his new charge bv the best wishes of all who know him, among whom he has always en- joyed to the full, their confidence and esteem. Mrs. Swavne and family, Oxford Mills, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hope. Miss Flormee Wil- liamson, Kineston, is at T. A. Dunwoody's. Miss x . Tor- onto, is visiting at T. B. Wilson's. Stanley Chant, wife and family, of Webbwood, arrived on Thursdav. for a visit with their parents here. The annual picnic of St.John's Sunday school was held at Vartv Lake, on Thursday. The day was fine and a large crowd thoroughly mjoyed them- selves. Quarterly meeting in the Methodist church on Sunday morning was not very largely attended. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Hawley, Mrs. Knight and Rufus Shorev, Napanee, spent Tuesday last at John Shorey's. The Hornerites have rented Mr. Simpkin's house at the corner of Main streets for their megtings, Miss Flor ence and Miss Jessie Wilson. spent last week with their brother, J. W. Wil- son, Alexandria Bav, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Shorey and fa mily, Mr. and Mrs family, Miss Clara Shorev, Miss Aletg Seriver and W. D. M Shorey, leave to-day for a week's camp at Beaver lake. Misses Maud and Ella Holmes, Fenelon Falls, are visiting their par ents, Mr. and Mre. James Holmes. Wilmot Patterson left last week for Alexandria Bay, N.Y., where he has secured a situation. Mrs. Madden, Mrs, Finkle, Miss Lena Madden, spent'Sun day at Bogart'son theRay. Miss An nie Beeman leaves this week for Kingston to enter the hospital as a nurse-in-training. Frank Burdette is visiting his mother, Mrs, D. A. Bur. dette, Grorge Welbanks, has secured a school at Gosport and Miss Effic Wel banks has been engaged to teach a school near Central Ontario junction. At the Fpworth League last evening Rev. J. F. Mears gave a very interest ing talk on his first mission station in Muskoka. Mrs. T. B. Wilson, Mrs, Clarence Wilson and son. Misses Flor ence, Jessie and Peth Wilson and Mise Sexsmith are camping at Varty lake Miss "Dot" Mears spent last week at Beeman's camp, Beaver Lake, (Op Sunday next Miss L. A. Knapp bids farewell to Newburgh as organist of the Methodist church. Miss napp as sumed her dutios asx organist here in October, 1901, and during that time has made a large circle of friends who deeply regret her departure, As an orranist she presided with a grace and skill that was de idedly pleasing and she leaves, followed by the warm withes of many friends in Newburgh ani vicinity, who will ever be pleased to hear of greater successes. No doubt the board will follow their former custom in appointing a successor, viz. , giving each applicant a trial Sunday. It is not an easy thing for any board to sclect a person for such an office, It goes without saying that we want the best for the money. As yet there are three applications for the position and the board should remember that in deciding the matter all other things being equal or nearly so, they should accept home talent in preference tq foreign talent. This is not being im- partial, but it jx being patriotic, alive to the question of the hour and true to home institutions, home students, true to the things that mnkes a village, that builds a village and that makes for the advancement of any home cause. Earl Shorey is expected home this week, the railroad work not having agreed with him. Jones Phillips, died at Ont., aged sixty-one years, e was a division_court balif and a prominent liberal. "In religion he was a Metho- | A widow and one son survive ; dav, Wednesday. Thursday and Satur- dist. him. Good Programme Of Sports-- Whistled And Ate Lemon Pie-- Newburgh, Aug. 9.--The heavy show- was very much needed. The Roman (4th. olic picnic at Evan's Grove, near Cen. Ww. one of the greatest successes of the year. The and pleasant. The people, fron, far and pam, and by 3.30 it is estimated there were Sports was to position of greater trust sponsibility, been given of either the disposition or the auility to copa with those of loss import; that secks to occupy new ficklds for cultivation possessed are fallow and unimproved. It was Henry Ward Beecher who said : and Baldwin , AUGUST 11. Be content with such things as yo have. --hebrews, xiil., 5. The interpretation of the above words doubtless may best be found in the lifo aud character of the man who wrote them. 'here is a difference of meaning be tween "contentment" and its synonym Usatisiaction © which at the outset, we shall do well to remember. Howey er ime this distinction may appear, it is none the levs real, and in the pres- cnt application vital. Contentment may be defined as the feeling that enables a man to make the best of a situation, and not Pine ovtr the hardships which it entails, while satisfaction is that condition that simply accepts the situation and finds in it the desives fulfilled and de rives pleasure from the very limita tions that the situation presents, Cer. tainly St. Paul did not intend that we should be satisfied with the various circumstances of life any more than he was. Life with him was always rest less, agressive, strenuous, Let us interpret it by his life and know that he was not satisfied by his position, but that he made the best of it and endeavored to use it for the ac complishment of his purposes to the limit of his opportunity. And to again when he bids us "to be content with such things as we have," he does not mean it to be the content of indiffer- ence, of indolence, or of unambitious stupidity, but the content that ex- presses itself in industrious fidelity. It 18 not to be conceived that he would commend anything less than this, and surelv not the passive acceptance of the things we have and the condition in which we may be found without a disposition to advance and improve them. For this would dwarf all ambi- tion, stop all progress and improve: ment and suspend all growth. Not to grow is to decay, and ultimately it would result in physical, material, mo ral and spiritual death. Again, the apostle warns against the oppesite extreme--a discontent that ex. presses itself in constant complaining and fault finding; that spends its en- ergies in murmuring against the diff culties and hardships of a situation without embracing the opportunities at hand to relive or remove them: that is ever clamoring to be advanced and re when evidence has not when those already "A man proves himself fit to go up higher who shows that he is faithful where he is, well in his pre A man that will not do it place because he longs to be higher is fit to be neither where he is nor yet above; he is al- ready too and should be put high ower," That class ix a large one that neds to learn this lesson. The world is full of grumblers they which, in fact, to merit, and they are filled with envy of their deservedly more successful fol lows. It may be that the display of energy and fidelity is sometimes slow complain because secured recognition they have done nothing who have "not of appreciation, but in the end jt js always sure of recognition: and oven when it is not openly acknowledged there is the inner conscionsness of hay ing done our best, which ix, after all, the highest personal reward and itself gives happiness, Finally, we live noblest when we work best, and we work best when we are "content with such things ax we have." Happiness and contentment are correlative terms. Men who have rigen from a low os » to places of trust and responsibility are the men J. E. Shorey and ext upon ta fill, | lesson intended to be taught. Such a he hristian virtue, life of the great apostle, but is worthy ment to all, timistic view and gives hope where oth- erwise there would be despair. true to who have been content to do their ut most in every position they were call And this is just the is not only a as illustrated by the t of contentment of emulation and full of enconrage It presents life in an op ------------ | Men Workers In The Kitchen. Philadelphia Record There are more men employed for general housework, including cooking and all kitchen work then most per sons realize. It ix affirmed by those who have placed their kitchens in such hands that aflairs are conducted in a more business like way and that the service ix much more satisfactory than it hee ever been under the rule of the girl, that the efficient voung men *ave more than the difference between the wages of girls and the higher wag es of themselves. Should the scarcity of domestic servants be serious en ough there will doubtless be an army of men ready to undergo thorough in struction in housekeeping for the pur- pose of taking the places of the eman- cipated kitchen girls, tessa Everything Eaten In Korea.. The Korean is omnivorous, Firds of the air, beasts of the field and fish from the sea--nothing comes amiss to his palate, Dog meat is in great re quest at certain seasons, pork and beef with the blood undrained from the ear case, fowl and game birds cooked with the lights, giblets, head and claws intact, fish sun-dried and highly malodorous--all are acceptable to him. Other dainties are dried seawerd, shrimps, vermicelli, pine seeds, lily bulb¥, and all vegetables nnd cereals. Metallic. Seventy-five cents' worth of iron ore when turned into bar iron is worth If you make it into horseshoes it is worth 810, or into table knives 8150. Seventy-five cents' worth of iron ore manufactured into needles ix worth 86,800, and when converted into some kinds of fancy buttons it is worth about 830,000, If the iron is made into watch springs the product is worth ten times more than the hut- tons, and when turned into hair springs it will sell for the enormous sum of $400,000, ------ The buggy tound at Belleville in pos session of Charles Storms, the alleged j horse-thiel, has been claimed by Nath- Belleville, ! an Kersey, Woodbridge, Ont., who saves his new buggy was stolen and an old one in its place. Rideau boat for Ottawa every Mon- day at 6 a.m. J. Swift & Co. THEE SUNLIGHT Household tensile ean be made to look as sudy solution of Sunlight Soap. They will shine an make the home bright and inv iting. 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LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED, TORONTO For the- Best Trunks and Valises at the Lowest Prices Try Shoe Abernethy's Store. res iit certain jines bave now alvis. blo to substantially re the ¢ thicrough ard inmediste clears ice. them over--it's coatrary to our way of will show you how cost Las ! een lost sigh 00 Waists 00 Weappers for : L530 Wrappers for Wash Warh Skirts, white A RE 75 Waists reduced to $ 50 9 Waists reduced to 65 00 Waists reduced to al 2.95 256 Waists reduced to . 05 A5 Waists red to 1.00 50 Waists redy to 110 5 Waists red to 1.28 reduced to 1.201 1 skirts Spence & Co., ™ "dn D! a -- d workmanship have placed u fession. : Foes, ~~ ta ag In required in washing with com- : Superior to all others as regards APPEARANCE, DURABILITY and CONVENIENCE For sale by dealers everywhere. LIKEWISE EDDY'S MATCHES. Jv. A. HENDRY, Agent, Kingston. CORD-MA Shirt Waist Sal This bas been our largost Bhirt Waist season--much tho largest. Asa tecome broken in sizes and we've deemed it duce pricos on the Waists that remain to effect We don't propose to carry one of doing business. These price hints t of in the pruning :-- 82.25 2.50 8.00 8.35 4.0 ass 4.00 Waists PRINT AND SATEEN WRAPPERS FOUR POPULAR LINES SPECIALLY REDUCED In PRICE o- Wrappem for .. wo ov ww 756 Wrappers for . .. .. WASH SKIRTS. TOO, white ground with spots or stripes, regular, $1. ., > ground with spots or wtripes, regular $1.50, ing Millinery D it ever strike poor : to employ en unskilled la- borer of any ly a plumber? § workmen and fine produce good work. will consult us when have a . 8 RO! 81.25 s at the head of our pro A ---------- . ELLIOTT BROS ..- 77 Princess Street. Heavy Machiner When babbitted with Imperial babbliit runs true. Ne charge If metal is not the best in the world. & 3% & |THE CANADA METAL COMPANY,