AGE TEN. A STUDY WORTH SOMETHING: i To i ln EXPORTS FROM THIS PISTRICT | ---- the United States, in i Amomnted to Sondre. tive venr :beiore the { Kinley tariff into effect, and when thefe was recprogdy between Honmada amd the sited Riates-- in pac} The Contents of the last Labour | L ' {tural products, the amount of » {pots ir wa the Are Disclosed. Kingston tract the L nited States {296.70, according Consal John 'son's books. The' total exports were What "Makes fo Dearer---A Close Examination of 1558, went ey to was 5604, to Hiarger them this because omly pro- | | chste valued st $160 apd over had to! {be véporteds at the consular office. The) {fig WER were "Bore : £8572 butter, cattle, %1.067.25 $15650 90 thorses, $59,488 lambs, 33.5515; peas, $2414, poultss;, 32,556; sheep, ¥l, 1463; wheat, $97; total, $659.246.%, I Mehivley tarili duty poorer ri cent imposed on bar- rave lay: de. arpound ou bulter 20 fruit prices would indicate cent. «gp cattle; dozen Vutario frut-growers have 120 per cent, on horses; 20 per from re The {¢ lambs 0c bushel on widened 2) aud 3c. a pound on poultry; on sheep, 20 per States Lue a per United than | animals The elaborate repart prepated by the be the Department of Labor dealing with the prices of various articles of food both sides of the now given to the public. work live stock, grain, ds duce, ete, extending over six presents sone, stufthng facts evident from a study of its that the duties on oatural both sides of the have make prices lower to the producer the same time that the consumer was made to "pay throug During the six years covered by investigation, ewes have averaged 54.47 per owt. in Toronto and $1.85 in Buf I New Y ork falo. Lambs have $6.06 in district. Montreal and $7.40 in Baifalo. The | i Pears average cost of mutton to the wo {received sumer, even in the distant Boston, averaged 2¢ pound than it did in Toronto. The price of best hogs in Toronto the #ix vears was $6.96, while falo it was 37.35. Still, the hams averaged a little over pound in Toronto as against and a fraction in Boston competitors of the removal of these duties on ( tural produce will tend to benefit both | four producers and Conwinmers, in farm produce there will be saving. Durihg the last six the price of barley in has ranged from 19. to 30c, above the hig Torobto level. Tne average difference' has Been 196. Even if only half of comes to the Canadian producer, will be an excellent thing for tht agriculture, Nine cents a bushel last year's barley in this avince wolld have meant an addition of wearly two million dollars to the farm ors. In buckwheat there he moval of the 15¢. United States opening o profitable market The duty on Canadian hay entering the United States is $4 per In four out of the last six vears the price of No. 1 timothy in Bafialo was 81 or wore above Toronto quotations. The average price for the six years in Tor onto was 812.57; in Baffalo "$16.30 That is a good outlook for Canadian farmers. "In cheese and butter and the removal of the duties will have a stead: ing olect on the market and an avoid alice of the extreme flutoations which the trade, and at'times huvden or the householder, while the average retin will be hotter for the poodacer, In beef cattle, taking the. vear thr h, the advantage has been un: ory in favor of the American mar- kot by from seventy-five cents over a dollar a hundredweight. Take the w six years together, the average for top quality in Toronto has been 51, and for Buffalo $6.45. A differ enite of a dollar a hundredweight means ten dollars on the average bullock sold. In lambs, it is shown that in each oie of the last six vears, the s\erage price in Buflalo has been higher than the Toronto price, the difference ~in | some caves ranning up to about : Hay lar 4 hundred weight. for In horses more difficulty found in making comparisons, but erally prices for best horses appear Personal Power Is the essence of success the ref was on on eggs; cent. fine hus een | oe. & The meats covers that ry » leat proc a for born buy the balance Capadian who gets States market fetched highor Uri ted exoaptional pry cars. It Ope thing tables no » © wa l-be with of cent. and cent | per wheat, ces lon Last} prices | Slates, Lhe produie on the Lnites apecated to year's apple 00000080000000000000 Outaro than in the . . this was caused by crop atin { bt the BOSH, SAYS TAFT. the nose." reity prevailing here. In small fruits COmparisor | between the is the | of aunexation is who kpows realizes that To make the possinility the annexation of anada to United States a hasis far ohjection t, steps to- | : wards thei economic und commercial wnon should be roated as one of the jokes of the platform, and should pot enter into the consideration of serious men engaged in solving is "The I bush talk Fveryone about it "ns made in Lara J enches a is prices paid for State and in the This shows that New York growers her than that plums break; that raspberries v thing averaged n bosh i of the vi generally 1" nig ¢ thelr rival prices it 18 both markets of | Niagara in wes fnhout - an even greater raved erage daring fren tr d wherries a the a higher But : img beans the of tprive und $10 ton [while in tomatoes the Ontario g¢ } rather better. ths New York. O-grow the cents higher in Ben n pri - the states usually been at live in Buffalo than in Montr I'he Toronto Star sums up "Taking it all all, in and your out, the facts given fn the report the department that recipro- a wider market, a market, and generally higher wadian producers. of food- a pound gained, af "ost of production" for mora than would gp A total from price mn ne price 1he thirteen effect na rons ayo a per TwWers their prolem. Canada youth, anxions rejoicing in to run all it the terri- God in- the seem to do arn serious The in potat of a strong ta test his muscles, the race he is ready ° The United States has ® can attend to with ® tory and trade that ® tended hetween us, let litical governments remain they are. L abloish and artificial obstructions with our upon the north and that A great, mn prices inl Lave Honey nts al. anadian ers have yvenrs out six found wenty B foronto ten to ithan in vears heen much hig Buffalo has Lreat | ther in sold po- her as ar o ue this in year trary to our friends the eortainls # ¥ association de- it a0 | of show on mutual profit bring. city will mean rive crop pro- | steadier will prives for stuffs; E ter line + | passed, counts » ach cent "0000000000000 0000000 a ---------- Budget From Inverary. luverary, Sept. 19.--A large number from here attended the funeral of the late Miss Emma Roberts, of Perth] Road. Andrew McFadden has pure chased the store and dwellmg from James Dillon. Thomas Thompson building an addition to his dwelling. Miss Lurg Tolls has returned to her home, after visiting Watertown and Ogdensburg fairs. Carmen Drader ul James Johnston, suffering from phoid fever, are improving. Miss Keever, has charge of the public school for another year, at an increased sal- Macdonald News. aly. Miss Craig, ve- | farm Macdonald, Sept. 19 turned to her home on the 5th inst, thas purchased Wilkie after spending a couple of weeks with [house in the village, where he will in | ber sister, Mrs. W. R. Miller Mrs. future reside. Baby girls have arrived | Nelson Dingman, under the doctor's at the homes of Thomas Arthur and care for the past few days, is improv: | Perdinand Holmes. The work on ing. Mrs. Henry Galt is a little better. Geraldi's new cement store and Th A corn husking last Thursday night, | ling is Heing rapidly pushed forward | st William Miller's, Bardolph. Mr. and | He expects Lo ovcupy it before winter Mrs. B. Woodcock, and Mrs, Dixie, of Bthlurt and Eimer Lake have returned Boston, are vigiting their parents, Mr. 'from Toronto fair. Mrs. J. N. Holmes, and Mrs. Nelson Woodcock, Mr. 'and ja away on 4 couple of weeks visit to Mrs. Arthur Galt, of Hawley, spent | Seeley rsBay and sicinity. Farmers are] Sunday, at George Hawlev's. Mrs. E. | preparing to fill their silos. Corn and Sharp, Hay Bay; visited Mrs. Luther potatows are 5 poor crop. The frost Hawley, recently. The voung people of [of last week did considerable damage. | Bay, are practising a programme | Miss Myrtle Teepell will attend' school, rally Sept. 24th. Miss 'War- [ja Kingston. Word been roeceived oi has been engaged to | from Miss Amie Thompson for. the re -|Akroyd. They nre having a time in the western province, will A Te the of is duty {pear from a bare comparison « When the case {this standpoint does ex jtravagant to look for in | the net income of Ontario farms to the {extent of result of the opening of the market fo Canadian farmers." same time freeing of the will benefit the consumer bs Lim in ¢loser contact with ducer, viewed om prices is ton it not an Increase cent.,, as a 8 American At the market bringing the pro twenty-five per the eu, Thompson, Akroyd's a dol day, has Deseronto, Macdonald year, ren, and teach mainder of the bas been ¢ school to If something seems to hamper your efforts, suppose you look for the cause. One common, but often unsuspected handicap, is Coffee. It contains caffeine--a drug-which dulls the brain, hurts the nerves and interfers with digestion To know for a certainty how coffee treats you Ho brings clearer brain, steadier neves and ou have solved the problem health comes increased " a Ifthe a consular disp $25.95. per ! peas; | 20 and | brik | Robert etter has disposed of 2 to nis brother, Mrs ! delightfal | { department of labor shows that, HE DAILY BRITISH WHiG, W EDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 260, Inti. iS "RENOVED BY A Tariff That ot! {Toronto Xtar, ] About (wo and onehali million dol- tars were paid in duties by the Cana- dian people fast vear on those pro- ducts, imported from the United States, that are covered bv the re leiproeily agreement. Assuming we do the same amount of busisess with the {American people mext vear, , in the i sume lines, we shall have two and one- half mithon dollars in the form lof taxation to pay on that business ithan we bad last--that is sssuming | reciprocity goes into force i less A Relief That is Worth While. The extent of the burden removed {will be really greater than indicated by these figures, because there is this peculiar feature in customs taxation, that 1 steadily mereases as it ap- proaches, the man who ultimately pavs it. The tax is paid by the wholesale importer in the first place. Then he adds his profit to the tax and passes the burden on to the retailer. The ve (tailor in torn adds his profit both to {the original tax and to the whole {saler's profit, amd then passes the jwhole thing on to the ultimate eon sumer. Hecause sll this "moval of two and owe-half million dol. {lars in customs taxation under the reciprocity agreement will probably {mean relief to the extent 'of three {and onehall millions. That is about {equal to the sum spent in maintaining {all the rural schools in Ontano. is so the re Farmers Will Reap Great Benefit. The agreement, will do more than that, It will, assuming the volume of business done next is the same that cwrried on last, exports to the { neardy tive milhons customs tion paid to Amer customs { cers. Every part of Ontario contribu | ted some of the products on which this {tribute was paid. The turnips ship. | ped from Burford station alone last { vear were levied upon by the Ameri lean customs authorities to the extent {of 81,200, This 81,200, thousands ok » other similar levies, vear Cana states of Laxa oth 35 relieve {chan med ali no longer | Duties on Pork Products and i or Star hore is this outstanding difference { bet ween supporters and opponents of { reciprocity : Supporters of the policy stand for broad policy for the benefit of the opponetits stand for a narrow benefits the i. many, | poli v, fen Opponents would its, both in buying and that they fown enrichment, supporters held operations hoth buy henetit A 1 with exclusive to have lim selling, .wo for their and the that have the may control prices, both in buving would widen to the and sellers may competion prcal case was A, peas, | farmers for the Amer against the ! United States duty j these peas. The | although it would for hundreds of Canadian { and be the means of { prices for them, would, { time, bring new competition jwith a pessible veduétion in i the buver who {pretty well to himself { i ng. of end ers of fre the deal grown Canadian ican market removal of thc. a bushel removal of of jor in seed by who the on | protested of this duty, widen fhe market PeA-growers, better same securing the buying profits to a field al mn one now has Both Ends. afforded by report of the tak vears, buy af- | Pork-Packers Profit at i Another ty pical case is {| some pork packers. The last six able below | ing the average of the packers have been hogs at Je. per ewt falo price This report shows that the average price of hams, made from hogs' purchased at a lower price thar that ruling in Buffalo, was 15 lie in Toronto, against 13 7-10¢. in Bos ton, The report shows an average price for smoked bacon of 16 3-16¢. in Toronto and 15 $lbe. in New York. It shows heavy mess pork 321.82, in Toronto and $18.13 in Chicago I shows lard selling at 12 8-ibc. in To ronto and Ie. in Chicago. Bt ie not swrprising that men whe profit at both ends of the deal in this way desire a continuanes of the nar row market, conditions hy which sach profits are made possible. The same conditions appear to ap- ply in regard to some other meats as well, While im the last six years yearling lambs have aver $1 more in Buffalo than in Montreal, mutton has sold on the average of the last six vears at ® 9-10c. in Toronto against T 1-3¢. in Boston. mini. Will Ald the Consumer... Reciprosity pide not only for to the our same Equals Sum Spent on AI of Our Rural Schools. : rinsed And There Wil Be Even Greater Relief to the Farmer--- What Tumips From Burford Station Alone Paid--- TO FOLLOW RECIPROC Material Used by th Masses to Be Cut Substan- | tially Under the Agreement 4 RECIPROCITY. sof nie 3 ealth Restores color to Gray or Faded hair-- Removes Dan- druff and invigorates the Scalp ~Promotes a lu xugjant . healthy hair growth--Srops its falling out. Is not a dye. $1.00 and Sc. st Drug Stores or direet wnon receipt of price and dealer's name. Sead Jc 8 bone, = Fie Hey Specishics Co A. Hay' Harlina Soap i veegusied tor Shampocing the buir sud keeping the Seaip clens and healthy. alse fof red, rough chapped bands sod (sce 25¢ at Drugginie. REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES JAS. B. McLEOD, AGENT BiSH SEMEDY, No. No. 2. HON i Fithe w. 90 Beekman Co. 11d Toronto deers sed envelope HaversteckRd rewDrages Ts ares sy to take, safe Yagi cure. Ld -~8 ? seagate sela seesee THECLUB HOTEL WERLLIN N {Near Princess), There other hotels sone approach the Club homelike surroundings Logated in centre of oity close to principal stores Charges sre are moderate. Special rates by the week MN. THOMPSON, Proprietor, BBV VVUVBVREVBRTR BRN v ea TETRA BRRRREN ut for and sod i # 33 Ls pene C000000000000ORGORENS TAKE IT AWAY «That's what our atrony say «Wh served with el fnst r 1 er Ale or English Ginger that de not bear uur iabe Our bottled goods for family ise have nu superior, Samp it t any of the lead. Ing hotels © rielephone 304 for a trial case. Thompson Bottling Co. 293 PRINCESS 8ST, KINGSTON. Prevents Trade. when wall profits the coliected force. Relief the double the ageregate of collected in duties Canadiap duets entering the Lunited Sistes It is umnecessary who pays the duty sy that somebody the payment plac trade which fitable. reciprocity mn also 'be had from pad by somebody $3,008), fn) " on now | on pro THE NEW Fi « THER A 10 Poon rr os that ile & oe St. New Yor If im donbt No for free back to 12 1 Hampstead Lowmion F to It pays v heavy burden on | mutually pro: argue 18 is sufficient it, and w | peonsessersrrnsersessn The American 3 should be ¥ ¥ Cafe 185 Wellington St 3 The Up-to-date satan and Eating House. Separated appartments. Well furnished and lighted. Try our Full Course Disserp Se. > hd THOMAS GUY, Prop. | JBSYIIFIIIIISIFFIIIIOE Industries Killed by the Tariff. Not tariff burden trade. In many cases it prevents | trade. Take cattle for example. few Ontario are entering the United States although prices across the hing running about fifty per mdredweight hy here. The American tanfl yer prevents this, If ved, and reciprocity or nd the Bal fale » remained a ten hun dred pound Ontario hullock would be | increased in value to the extent of $13. Assume the producer only got half the § t benefit of the abolition of the tanifi: | | the jnvrease would be $7.50, Let each farmer up the number cattle his own weekly this means dollars rhborhood anly does the Try Pickering = For Meat and Groceries of | + all kinds. Special Just Now-- Pure Spice and Vinegar for Pick- ling Purposes. C. H. Pickerin 490 PRINCESS Sree Phone 30 1: Shoe ----- Boois and Shoes repaired while you wait by all the Tates machinery; also a large stock of Working Men's Boots for Sale § enn nr . --- ROT ® + JOHN GREEN * ' » INO PRINCESS STRERTY. » } 0000000000000 0RDIODS Very cattle now, FS oe are dollar k than cent that were i f remo : 4 removal, ¢ For Pickling Pure Vinegar, all kinds of whole and Ground Spices. D. COUPER, 76. 341-3 Princess Street, Delivery, stationary, reader count of gn shipped from and what and cents to his neig station | 10 Ree | $3,600,000 Gained in One Crop Alone' Fake At present, the United bushel, o the shipped aleven Is of harley of IM barlev as illustration because of the existence of | of 30c¢. per le barley is gowmg | ® At time | ® and one-half mdlion United States bushel. The in United statement that un another { . 'Phone States duly Ontario States no t | nited t one we KINGSTON BUSINESS COLLEGE (Limited) "Highest Education at Lowest Cost' Twenty-sixth year, Tern begins A ist 36Lh Courses in Bookkeej Rhorthand graphy, Service and HE Our posit ic ever sixty ol poral time tide busi to the il an average « per : level of pri { pre States justihes toe bts free trade farm products le ley bring at He That selling price would | add the value e of the limited barley raised in Omtariq this sent os the in least would incre £3,600 000 agam 186 Ci n get Y f kradiates crop of yr Within a sh | vear fons Call « SH '¢ Kingston, Reeiproeity i worth while Metcalfe, Prine cipal Canada | evs assssssssessssese COAL! The kind you are looking for is the kind we sell Scranton Coal w good coal and we guarantee prompt delivery. BOOTH & CO. FOOT WEST STREET. Gores srnssssassssssse OOOOH CHOCOLATES Ganong's, G. B. THE FINEST IN THE LAND A. J. REES "Thome BR, 188 PRINCESS STREET. | G ATES, FENCING, ETC, Manufactured oy PARTRIDGE & SONS Crebeent Wire and Iron Works, Also Electire Pinting. ------------------ ------. DANIEL WEBSTER NIA rt tai Pl MP i Many Other Lines of Food and wan market for | Defines the hogs and other | "the act of it provides, of a servant; a reduction 'in the Canadian [labor for the benefit of or on meats, etc., prepared for he at another's command; The duty on Inrd imported from (Oe who serves; labor States for another; useful office; 1}e age conferred." ® and bams and THE CHANCES ARE WEBSTERS similarly reduced WIFE COOKED ON A GAS STOVE "SERVICE' as the occupation the performance of word serving; free access to the Amer the Canadian classes of stock: sale of ve FT PVVTT TVR BT BCTV TTS 8 another the deed performed advant well, duties table the from for i of 2000000000 reduced baer is to be} is to be I'he duty barreled pork he tax on to Be more than United ) to OO OOOO O000OOCOOOOO00000L ( on nm bams Iresh kinds is $e all of all half change gomew hat of meats t | he may profit 5 dends but in from above definit us, The fon good with these the packers, up in respects abnorm thvi cent alike reduce ul whose per benehecial pork rn ~ "ALWAYS READY TO CHEAP, OLEAN, CONVENIENT. COOK WITH GAS. hay run to they will prove skERve i wucers of hogs in selling me ntage ned selling, to the pre the consumers of Auother both in buving will both ing markets of the and sale of likeli and ats in buving reciprocity is that rmaty With to adv in it o Light, Heat and Power Dept. C. C. FOLGER, Gen, Mgr. ROTEL DIRECTORY. make: Lor anit bu greater and selling continent open purchase uffs, there ~ X a8 peri of NOOCGOOO00000DON | "\ BO00000000000000000 00% NN IYI 'S will be lo wis alternate EE -- ---- mr Year-out Both, A case in point tory of the potato trade Year-in and Benefits to 3 is found in the his In the six months of this year potatoes aver 63c. a bushel in Toromio 54c. in Buffalo. At that time it! would have been an advantage to To ronto householders had it sible to import from Buffalo. In the average price in Paffalo was 75% against 63e. in Toronto. In that ves: Ontario producers have bene fited the opening the American 1OUS | « : nurket them selling. Taking it i HA 3 year in and yvedr ont, both parties 3 h Ss Vib would profit from free interchange + so h far ax potatoes are concerned be first | aged and only been pos wonld hs of to mn There is another class of consumers | x profit hy the reciprocity This class is made up of | agers 'of cemvent. During the first six mont he this vear the price of Portland cement in Toronto averaged 374c. a barrel shove New York prices A slight reduction is made under the reciprocity in duty on American entering Canada. ! This reduction may not prove suffici- ent te squeeze all the walter out of the vement combine, but it will give! at least partial relief to users of ce! ment who have been squepzod in the | prices paid by them since the forma: | tion of that sombine Wider markets in both buying 2nd) selling, with Jess for the puddioman | and more for both producérs and con- | sumers, i= what the reciprocity agree weit Provifles for all the way through! of agreement the coment of well, the 4 That's the kind we sell Shoes built of leather that and hold their shape ' Our Shoes Will Satisfy You Wear one pair of our Shoes, ®» go for your next pair very built newest ~Bhoes wear 'and they | A then you will { } location than the New Haven posses | ses in Boston, The firand Tronk mid | road will be sending its froght cars| the piers to be built at | by the New Bowtom Bowk | came mm ----_-- . H. Sutherland & Bro. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES