Regal swelled backwards pelle Lager Lager spelled backwards spells Regal Users of al don't get less than the best. e take care of that. JAMES M¢PARLAND, REGAL AGENT. Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion En- tomologist, says, referring to the infantile death rate from intestinal diseases and diarrhcea spread by the house fly, he believes that the so-called harmless fly is yearly caus- ing the death of thousands of infants, as well as spreading the germs of typhoid fever. are the best thine to'rid your house of these dangerous pests. ASTORIA - or Infants and Children. : The Kind You Have |: Always Bought Bears the Ne 2ge table Preparation infor As As- . similating the Food and Reg uta - ting the Stomachs and Bowels of IRS LER Promotes Digestion Cleetfil- and Rest Contains neither Oomuen Morphine nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC. ect Remedy for Constipa- Jie Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms Convulsions Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. | For Over "Zam JY Thirty Years smn RT LE ISAS RE LXACT COPY'OP WRAPPER. THREE COOKS AND THREE REASONS differ wide! bility dad i bat all are agreed thet the prime ChSeaial nd Sookin I hove on FAIS be Sook sod Hi Sone tet Fea stove necessity ismetin a GURNEY-OXFORD RANGE For no matter haw much or how little conking is dong; no matter what experience Nether the the stove mast %, sad o y of air to the fire with 5 saving of fuel handling. For these three problems 9a which sil souks sre ufrond--ehe GURNEY-OXFPORD RANGE has three answers, three good reasons for the steady waistensace of heat, IE OXFORD BOONOMIZS ZEN 1 a weal} Seal Je Cf labor, Noa anly an Cuties Dutords. tefiscts 8 ea genie that dives in and see our taried line, and these features io your entire . Avcrsy 22, 1011, COMPARATIVE PRICES AEFECTED BY PACT i | VALUABLE COMPENDIUM HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM OTTAWA. | Covers Products in the Schedules-- Statistics of Effect That Reciprocity Willi Have. Mtawa, Aug. IS. ~One of the tiumrgative contributions to the it eratuce dealing with the economic as pect of the reciprocity agreement has just been issued by the Labor De partigent and has been - mailed to every newspaper office in Canada. : + | It # the compendium of compara- [tive prices in Canada and the United | States for agriculture, fisheries, lum- {ber and mines products covered by {the schedules of the agreement, to {whicls reference was made some days {ago by Hon. Mackenzie King. | It overs 316 pages and is a verita- ble mine of wealth for political can- [uidates, campasgn speekers, editorial iwritprs and all students of the vital [poing at issue in the discussion of ithe mgreement--mamely, as to the econpmic effect reciprocity in natural | products will have on both producers jand wondumers in Canada, { The comparative statistics of mar- ket parices at representative points on leach side of the border, as' gathered "Tron | reliable Auily Warket --veports; cover the past five and a half years, {thus giving a true index as to the I rage prices. Haldfax, St. John and Montreal price are compared with those of { Boston and New York; Toronto {Buffalo and Detroit and Winnipeg with Chicago, Minneapolis and Du- Iuth, | In general it may |most significant conclusions to be drawn from the voluminous and com- prehensive statistics of the report are | that prices received by the producers fin Canada affec ted by the agreement Are the whole. considerably below | those dives by producers the | united States, while in many in- {stances 'the prices paid by the con {sumer in Canada are above those paid jin the states. The first conclusion bears argument that the farmer fisherman will greatly reciprocity. The second most be stated that the in the and the benefit from conclusion ont w ILL BENEFIT FARMERS, Address to Constituents in Peterboro. national in this Stratton's The volved city," question chiefly in- contest is "recipro- or free mutual exchange of natural, mainly farm, products, with {the United States, [I believe that receprocity of this kind will be of benefit to the farmers of the ocoun- try, and through their prosperity to all other interests--manufacturing, fi- nancial and commercial, as well as to those of the mechanjc and work- ingman. The round Good erops of benefit is natural. and good markets mean money for the farmer, which spent with - the merchants of all kinds, means increased orders for the manu- facturer and increased employment to their workmen. 'Thus reciprocity, by affording wider and better markets, promises to be a benefit to the whole country and an mjury to ual class or interest, and it is worth teysng, especially as the agreement, not being a treaty, can, if unsatis factory, be, cancelled on reasonable no- ice, 1 If 1 thought for wx moma that i would hurt any important interest, especially the manufacturing sntetest, I 'would oppose it. 1 anr neither an extreme free trader nor an extreme protectionist 1 believe in a reason: able amount of both. High tariff in the United States has lost to Canada ninety million dollirs in barley alone, The British preference, as it effects our manufacturers, goes as. far as desirable in the direction of free trade, and | am opposed to, and will oppose, any increase t& it I myself am a manufacturer in terested in manufacturers, in a modest way, but, at the same time, to an jextént, important to myself and | associates, and I feel that our |dustries and workingmen could {stand the keen manufacturing {petition of either Britain or { United States. | In this regard I am in accord with the assurance of Sfr Wilirid Laurier, [speaking for the ernthent, when the gave this pledge, "We hqve not the gave thi§ pledge, "We have not 'hurt them," amd 1 applaud the stand of Mr. Feelding in negotiating the reciprocity agreement, in refusing to leven discuss rediprocity in manu {factured articles with the WUnfted States. my in not com- the Resurrecting Goblin Story. Btratford Beacon, | 'An' goblins 'll get you if you don't wateh out™ is what the conseriatives tare saying. The boy who is depicted in this familiar poem bad been wrong- ily taught. There were no goblins to catch little boys, © though foolish mothers in the old days taught them that there were, often to their great injury. The goblin of loss of the { British markets, the goblin of the thin- lend of the wedge to ruin our manu factures, the goblin of loss of control 'of our commercigl policy to the United States, and greatest goblin of (all, annexation, in which the United { States is pictured as ready to swallow {us body and ones, are held up to scare us from reciprocity, but fort tunately the people of Canada who will decide the question at issue are not children. They are British sub [ject of af least twenty-one years of age. and are no longer to the iright- [ened by goblin stories. George Dowsley, one of the oldest |résidents of Escoti, died in the gene ral hospital, Brockville, on Friday, last, aged eighty-four years. He was 'postmaster at Escott, the post office hing in the family for over forty L en Delbert Patterson, an old and with [\ out'~ the argument Canadian consumer in cases suffering from. enhancement of prices by ' the middleman, a condition of ' afairs which reciprocity would tend to ob viate and which explains the opposi- tion of certain interests to the pact Compargtive prices for fish indicate the immense benefits which free entry for fish into the American market will confer (mn the maritime provinces. Halibut at Halifax averaged, during the five and a hall years 9.12 cents per pound, as compared with 14,375 cents per pound at Boston cod at Halifax averaged 3.62 Sents per pound as compared with 7 cents at Boston: mackerel at Halifax averaged 14.8 cents per Ib, as compared with 33 cents at Boston. A few of the most illuminative fig- ures in the report may be cited in this brief summary. In regard to grains the average of yearly prices from 1906 to 1911 shows the following cofparis sons Spring wheat--Winnipeg, per bushel, 5c; Oats--Toronto, average per bushel, 40c ¢ Buffalo, 46c. Barley --To- onto, average per bushel, 37c:. Winni- peg, 47c; Buffalo, 76e.; Duluth, 6le, Rye--=TOroWs, "aversges per -- bushel 7lc.; Buffalo, S8ec. In regard to fodder, the compardson, covering the average of the five and ome-half-year periods, shows the {ol- lowing : Hay--St. John, per ton, Myntreal, £12.95; Boston, $19.69. Yosk. 321.89; Toronto, $12.57. falo, £16.30. In dairy compared for on the whole 5 fairly equili- brium, with market sometimes slightly higher on one sde of the line and gometimes vice versa, but the general average about the same on both sides. In =ON bears the many due that mn un- average Minneapolis, $1.04. 'RI2.87 New Buf produce average as the various prices cities stahle prices show regard to live stock of for covered shows the following Cattle--Toronto, export steers; ewt., £551; Buffalo, $6.45; 84.22: Chicago, $7.04. Hogs per cwt., 36.96; Buffalo, $7.35, peg, $360; Chicago, $6.99 the compari \werage price! the period per Winnipeg, Toronto, Winni- LAURIER'S PLANS FOR WEEK Montreal His Headquarters--Speak in Surrounding Places, Montreal, Aug. 21.--During week Sir Wilfrid Laurier will Montreal his headquarters going out every day ridings in the neig Mhorhood of Montreal, where meet ings will be held. On Monday he to St. Julienne iu Montealm eounty During the week he speaks at Joliette, Farnham and a number of places throughout the eastern townships. Next week it is expected that he will go to the maritime provinces. ------------------ the make varions Best Business Arrangement. Heman H. Lang, Cobalt, 'The al "mportant question, to my mind, What kind of a customer is the Un od States ? If a good one, it ap to our administrators to soek out the best and most convenient' market un- der the best arrangement obtainable This, I believe, they have done on the agreement before Sentiment 18 a fice thing to treasure up, but how few people make the application when they get down to business, and since this is a fact why not face it in a. business. way 2H the business of our country oan be run with one-half of the present luties is it not the same thing to lower it 'to what is re guired * Why should this and the next and each succeedis be taxed, a thirty-five per cent duty on every acticle they touch from the cradle to the grave without a change simply because the United States or some other country did not as we thought they should fifteen, . thirty or a hundred ago ? Our government is lating for the present the past, and we look to our administrators the best business arrangement ble with other countries." says : 18 you, generation one say, use us just some years legis and future, not as Canadian citizens make possl- to Russia Strengthens Navy. Petersburg, Aug. 21.---The cab inet has awarded the contracts for the construction of two battleships to be added to the Black Sea fleet to the Ivanofi Shipbuilding company. The work will be done under the direction of the English firm of John Brown & Co. Each ship will cost $9,771,035, 10 which will be added an expense of $4 M746 for the armor aud of cach vessel, The contract for a third battleship was awarded to private works at Nikolaev, under the technical direction of Vicker's Sons & Maxim, The will he $9,575,000, Six submarines, to cost $300 000, will be built by Baltic firms. The con tracts for nine torpedo boat destroy ers were given, four to the Nikolaes works and the others to Baltic firms, Mrs. James Fletcher, formerly Brockville, died in Brooklyn, . on Friday, aged - eighty-six fears. The remains will be interred in Broek ville, At Belleville, on Saturday, the house of Robert Mackie was destroyed . by fire. Mackie and these children were compelled to jump from a win. dow, B. R. Hepburn is the conservative candidate in Prince Edward county. at | guns cost of well-known resident of Kitley, last. on Thursday bed STORY OF THE AGREEMENT. Sir Wiltrid Shows the Great Need of It. at Quebec the English market, but United States: tried to gain access | All the governments have tried, that of Siri The Premier We have we must also have the market. We have to it for vedrs. { of Canada : John Macdonald, Sir John Thompson, | Sir Mackenzie Bowell and of 'Alexs ander | Mackenzie, All waited to have the | bargain. And whem we came inte | power in 1896 the first thing did { was to send commissioners to W ash ! in to seek reciprocity. Our were not hstened to. Then | at to the government of Washington that if they could dispense with could dispense with them. | "Reciprocity Would be to our enn) tage and to your advantage, but ; must come to us to get it sod pot we to you," "In 1910 President Taft gates to (Mtawa to seek reciprocity. We received them gladly. It would | have been a crime against civilization | to have rejected them. Now we have | a pact drawn up, a commercial con- | vention, whereby we can send nat: ral | products to the United States and re ceive them without duty. Tt interests | we gton us said : sent as as We are all sous of farmers, and when atl NINE, ---------- ---- ---------------- OI OE © NEAVE'S uric (Starchless) Is Sure To Agree With Your Baby. You can't be sure of your oun mild--you can't be sure of cow's milk. But you can be absolutely ceviain of Neave's Milk Food. No matter iow hot the days or how humid the weather--or where you take the baby--Neave's Milk Food #5 always the some. It is the same in agro ~the same in food value--the same health and strength Neave's Milk Food may be given from birth, being absolutely free irom starch. x mother. Ormiston Road, London, writes : "Baby required more nourishment than I conld him on Neave's Mi'k Food drvast. He took to it at egee---it has sever disugreed with Mim, He is thriving and bas gained 2 pounds" Sold in 1 Ib. airtight tine by oll Druggists in Canada. FREE TO MOTHERS Seid Wholesale fi Pending Lyman Bros, & to, TORONTO * The Bois Drug Co. Martin | & Wook Co Teepuaten & On ht 1 COU VER. Canadian Agent: EDWIN UTLEY, Mirs. J. R. NEAVE & CO, 14 Froat St. E., TORONTO. = ] l 0 | | the workman much the farmer. | i the farmers are prosperous the labor rs are prosperous. All the woffing men, all classes society have al ready pronounced in its favor "In the House of Commons position declared against ijt, vented a vote. Obstruction obstruction; we could only ge you, the judges and. masters And {ti is vou who are udges and mas ters. It is yon whom | addréss, and | especially the 'workingmen Do vou, ! do you not want reciprocity *" Loud longed cheegs and | cries of oui." { the op and, pre | followed | before our or and "Oui, pr ! . It is most important to use THE BE PRESERVI Make YOUR; The 20 po nd bags are convenisnt-also sold in 100 pound bags and barrels ; as well as by the pound TeserVil hv usi ing g a cert #55 Sugar MoNTREAL. NG The St. Lawrence Sagar Refining Co. Limited, 6! JOHN R THOR NTON WESTERN WHEAT CROP. Grain Filling Rapidly in the Districts. Winnipeg, Aug, 21 of perfect crop weather mpetus to the belief the latest districts ready cut before ger Rain quantities at three nothing in the downpour Late F'wo moredays have given that mn gran be there js dan record even will to frost. sheht points, ture of a general curred. In the crops an) of ed tn four has been or but na has o« Saskatchewan and Alberta, where are latest, filing ramdl, the yield from su ceived veaterday well developed Between grain i In promises report Narthern be Alberta sample ed to eral district ve | malty showinp» shoots xerptii ind fou thou harvesters have and south ( Manitoba placed, in three and | more arrived fr the eral in all reported mn east ting and the men beer Ahreshing some * districts Waving the Old Flag. Medicine Hat News I he of the ol { anti-reciprocity element ix ha waving combines the rich gluten of Manitoba Spring wheat and the lighter, ime portant, properties of Ontario Fall wheat. bined form a perfect! You don't need to be am expert in baking to attain the best results with BEAVER FLOUR. But if you are an expert, you will readily recognize its incom mparable qual nies. Your grocer has BEAVER FLOUR, will recom mend it, but equally The two com- y blended flour that makes bread | white, nutritious and ly palatable, made with a crisp, brings many a compliment to ght, extreme- while pastry and Beaver Flour has DEALERS ~Write for prices on of Feed, Coarse Crating and Cerssls. THE T. I. TAYLOR C9. Limited, flaky texture that the contrary effect to what d, and wib-met influence the + who just flect an elector will pause a fact that time or moment and re t he both another to States upon political parties at "one have been pledged to endeavor | secure reciproeit the United Without entering into =» of the conservative plank denying time with the | this | question as to when party their platform the fact that and in | pass \ cussion thandone in there made ciire f ch were States sure, all of wi cause. the United consulting think of Macdonald was flag in relations party that disloval to i for Closer come a would saving he seeking 'with the United States those Why then is at disle now ? Gays, Tlieir Usual Inconsistency. Brantford Expos r The conservative make some approach to What is the use, for claiming eredit for Mr securing the dissolatior the reciprocity time asserting parfiament was cut mvestigation of sea the government pariiament run: ita full course if the had not resorted to a svstem ganized obstruction to b reciprocity, and 11 1s the country to As: for the so-ealled past experiefice has shown that great majority of them are every-day slanders. ht to] press ou consistency of | Borden for | of parirame at | and at the the life mxtance, on "an issue, that short 16 av 3 oid 3 ndals refleéting om! wardd have! conservatives | on i red yey ASK believe else anything | scandals, thet common, | adios | Winnipeg Lighting Rates. Winrapeg, Aug. 21.----The Winnipeg | Electric Railway company has an-| nounced the rates on commercial Hi i mg to meet the schedule of the{ municipal power plant, issued rocant- ly by the city. The rates are in of : fect duplicates of those offered by the, city, excepting mm the matter of die counts 4 small users, wheré the dy | has the advantage. } | i i i Thomas - Bailey. aged eighte- san] years. a pioneer farmer of Mountain] Soanabip, die on the 7th inst. ¥ How the King Ash Pit Disposes of the Ash Job and it's either man simi ishes bother HE ave rage T no job for a King With the King beneath t grate ba ' hs You can sift The tders to be installed he Lome Rave an wif tar the ashes without moving th ash dust falls t thrown back ash-pan bel "A vinie the « into the fire hi KIN BOILER & RADIATORS 'olishes the ar dirty tracks ob varnished and muss fresh cleaned floors ash-sifting. Por ail the SEND FOR BOOKLET raised in sifting is 3 nformation on BWAY up and out 1h Pipe by a direct draft question Ask This. 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