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J‘r r’ “ ‘ THE omen turnouts. ‘- I .-mmm.m<~uwt w. hrs. ‘1” . Wm". .w.‘ . _‘_ V ‘ i. I "tee"? N ever before in the history of' Range building has the public been offered a steel Range built exclusively for wood burning, so complete in every detail, and yet ‘so low in price, as is herewith presented in the Oxford Chancel- lor. Handsome in appearance, constructed of the very best material, they cannot fail to give complete satisfaction. The Price is $40; Twenty-nine Dellars' cheaper than those peddled around the country, and worth ever ' cent of $10 more. )all into my store and see it. Great. bargains in Cross-cut saws. A 5}; foot, first-class saw for $2.50 ‘ Axes, best makes, from 50c. up. Everything for fall f trade at lowest prices. JOS. HEARD. . H. Mcnoueom, I ' AGENT FOR Mchrmiek Right Hand llpen Binder Vertical Iifl Meter, All Sleel flake, and fern Harvester; “mm “Elfin, Ehampien Seeder and Eullivahr. leekshutlaPluws. Bell’s Tread Power. Chalham Waggon. ..______.__... ._.~,._-_-‘_"‘ ‘ :2. ALL 7UP TO DATE. assortment of N NNS l llNlJSES ' 6. sensors t“ Harness SHOP. Klondike Trunks. i Just received, a complete I l Manitoba Trunks. AND BRING g . REfREillNli SLEEP. . . w. H. noeSon, th. 3., DRUCGIST. PENELON F ALLS. Philippine Trunks. GOOD .tNr) cnmr. [ Agent for Pianos and Organs uttmvdawutgwmw AL. ‘ .2. "~ ~" "2 '» HIGHEST _ # PRICE paid for old iron, cop- , per, brass etc Dealer in IRON and GOAL, IRON PIPE, and PIPE FITTINGS. Thus. in sun, Fenclon Falls. ' The Pension Falls Gazette. Friday, (iii-eh. 16th, 1960. The Transvaal War. The news from the Transvaal during the past few days has been far from sat- isfactory, and there is no telling how long the war, now in its fifth month. may drag on. Some elation was caused by the capture of a Boer pOSlth‘ll, said to be of consirlcrab'e strategical impor- tance, but nothing uppr'ul‘s to have come of'it. Buller. we were told, held “ the lacy to Ladysrnith," but now it is prac- tically admitted that the rclicf'of Lady- smith is impossible without a sacrifice of life that. would be unjustifiable. What Gen. White and his garrison will do rcmains to be seen. On Christmas Day Lieut. Winston Churchill said that the place could hold out for a month. within which time it was confidently ex- pected relief woull arrive; but. more than seven weeks have elapsed, and thc belcagurcd town will. apparently, have to surrender, although part of Buher's force was said, a few days ago, to bu within ten miles of it. The crossing of the Tugclri River for thcthird time is now admitted. and Bullcr's next move is awaited with great. anxiety. It will depend, of course. upon the orders of Lord Roberts, who has the supreme crmnnand. and is now at. Modder ltiver with about 35,000 men. The Boers are said to be massed in great strength north of the 'l‘ugela, and to have a large number of guns trained upon the two bridges across that. river. Mal'cking has been practically relieved, but the Boers are increasing their numbers and guns around-Kimberley, the inhabitants of which were said. a few days ago, to be eating horse-flesh, but thirty oxcn are slaughtered every day in Lady- smith. Kimberley is the present abid- ing place of M r. Cecil Rhodes, who some months ago said, " There is not the slightest chance of war; the armed _strength ofthc Boers is the greatest un- pricked bubble in the world; Kruger will bluster and bluff’and bully, butlit '_ will take a great deal to make him fight." ‘ Her Majesty's Ministers in Cape Colony ,said the exact. opposite. 'and warned the lGovcrnmcnt that. they were on a danger- lnus track ;, but they chose to believe Mr. ‘Rhodes. and. the result was. a, so far, disastrous war, which a great many Englishmen of all ranks in society think might have been and ought to have been' avoided. The London (Eng.) Times says : “ The war has taught us many lessons, but thclesson which sums up all, the rest is that our land forces, as at. pres- ent organized, are inadequate to the wants of the empire. That is the one clear truth which has sunk deeply into the mind of the nation. Campaigns be- I tween regular armies are almost certain to be decided in these days with a rap- idity which will leave no opportunity to redeem initial errors. Only because of the special character of' the Boer war is such an opportunity now offered us, and Lord Roberts, we are confident, will. be able to make ell'vctivc use of' it. , In this case the defects of our 'military syStern have cost us reverses and. under other canditions, might have brought upon us irrefricvablc disaster. We bare in our navy, it is true, an invulncrâ€" able defensive force, but in an empire like ours uflbnsive operations may any- tirn‘ becorm indisp-nsnblc, and these cannot, in many instances, be conduct.- c‘. by our fl eta It‘alizitu. as we do. lam our .ntiitury a, stem has proved I r serious'y deficientfwc have made up thata reform so vital and extensive should be attempted without a thorough investigation and mature deliberation." Latcst.â€"Gecerals French and'Gorl- don have captured five Hoor laagers, with their supplies. The British loss was small. The Dominion Parliament. The fifth session of theeighth Par- liament has opened with a genuine sen- sation, for the debate upon the address, which last year occupied over four weeks and was participated in by a third of the total members of the House, was disposed of in two sittings, only two on each side, in addition to the mover and secondcr, taking part therein. All that was necessary to be said, however, was t-asily compressed into those six speeches. Sir Charles 'l‘uppcr and Mr. Foster ex- ercised their rights to the full of crit- icising every aspect of the Gavernment’s policy, doing so much more effectively than if the usual procedure had been followed of reiterating those criticisms through a score or two of their support- ers, until suchxpoints as they were able to make were entirely lost sight. of in wearisome and unending verbiage. The brief discussion was equally advantage- ous to the Government, for it enabled the Frontier and Sir Richard Cartâ€" wright to present a concise, clear-cut and complete answer to their opponents, and the country is now in possession of the real situation, from which they will have no difficulty in drawing accurate deductions. The Opposition leader confined his remarks to a criticism of the Government’s policy in the matter of the South' African contingent, and that criticism consisted of a two-fold complaint, first that the Government had refused to not until compelled to do SO by the unmistakable es'pressiou of public opinion pond, second, that when action was taken it stopped for short of what it. should have been. inasmuch as no provision was made for paying our volunteers out offh‘c' Canadian treasury after they arrived at the sca't of war. The P‘remi‘er replied to each of these charges categorically and conclusively. He reminded the' House that he had clearly stated at the first that. the-Gov- crnment had no power whatever to spend the public money in military operations without direct authority from the' people expressed“ through their representatives in Parliament, or otherwise ;' that Par- liamont, although it had been iii session but; a shert time previously, had not anticipated the cmerget cy that. arose, and that it was therefore absolutely necessary that the mandate of the coun- ' try shou‘irl' be expressed beyond all per- adventure before the Government could act. The desired expression of the pop nlar will was given, and instantly actiorr was taken in compliance therewith, and so thoroughly well prepared Was the Militia Departnwnt for all contingencies that. within three weeks ofthc call being . made. the battalion was mobilized and on its way to the scene of" conflict. As to the second charge, that the Govern- ment had: fallen short of' their‘ whole dirty in not undertaking to pay the men after their arrivali'n Ca ‘ 'i'mvn', Sir Wilfrid laid before the mist! the cor- respondence with the Imperial \Var 01'- fi‘ee, which showed conclusively that the . o or had been made and srmcilically dc- - cliond. upon the ground that “ [fer Majesty's Gavernment were of opinion that the arrangementby which pay at imperial rates should be provided from the imperial cxchcqucr from the date of disembarkation in South Africa should be ' applied to all the colonial forces." “ Therefore "- added the Pre- mier “ vou have the principle laid down and determined by the imperial author- ities and absolutely put. outside the pale of discussion." But while it was thus shown tobc impossible to meet the en- tire cost of the Contingent as the Gov- crnment and people of the Domiaron would have preferred. the Premier demonstrated how completely his Cab- inet was in'accord with public opinion, by intimatin'z that it was the intention to a~k Parliament to provide a fund sufficient. to pay the men the difference between imperial rate and the rate they Would receive under Canadian regula- tions, such monies to be held in trust from them until they returned, or to be placed at the dispoan of their families during their absence. This announce- ment took the fight out of the Opposi- tio, for it went further than they had at any time suggested, and substituted 3. just and feasible proposition for their- proposal, which had been shown to be impracticable. It had been the inten- tion of the Opposition to propose a grandiloqnent amendment, which romld have been utilized. they fondly hoped, to some purpose during the next cam- paign, but the ground was knocked from under their feet, and there was no- _ thing left to make a pretense offlzhting for. The result was that when Sir Richard Cartwright sat down, there ‘ was not a man to be found on tho Op- our minds to amend it with the least possible delay, but that does not mean ~S'tratbcona's force.- position side to-continue the chute.- They .ignoniniously retired .fromiiJho' I battlefield without even the honors of, war, and,thc motion for the address was carried without a dissenting voice.- Hair‘ Splitting as a" Fine Art.- Thursday afternoon's sitting of Par"- limnent was enlivened by a somewhat remarkable speech by the leader of' the‘ Opposition, in which he made a most strenuous effort to repudiate the .chargc‘ _ which has been frequently made and pretty thoroughly proved. that the Com servativc party, bath in power and in Opposition, has made a practice of rip-:- pealing to racial and religious preju- dices to secure party advantages. In‘ the course of this endeavor he treated the House to a somewhat eaten-led ill"... ‘ obiographical sketch altouethcr‘ too dis: cursive to follow in detail, but one in- stance may be given as a fair sample of: the whole. Sir Charles complained that Sir Wilfrid Laurier had in 18.96 false: ly charged him with appealing to tho electors of' Manitoba to vote for him‘, an Englishman and a Protestant. rather' than for Lauricr, a Frenchman-Can: adian and a Catholic. That, said the Opposition leader, was a gross misinte- ment of what occurred. The fact was ‘1 ' that he was addressing the Conserva~ lives of Manitoba who Were dcserting,r him, and he said to them, “Why do: scr't me, an Englishman and a P‘rotest: ant, because of my course on the school question, to vote into power a French- Cana‘dian and a' Catholic who is pledged.i to do evenrmorc for the minority than I am' 7” This distinction without a. dif- ference was greeted with loud laughter from the Government benches, and it is more than probable that it will be re- ccived in a similia-r manner throughout. the country. deginning‘ the New Year W'elli The trade returns between Canada‘ and‘ the old3 country fot‘ the first moutll‘ of the present your are exceptionally gratifying, for the increases in the principal lines of export are in excess of any previous month. The increase in l u the value of wheat Imported front Can- ada-is $500,000; of bacon. $00,000; 4 cattle, $l65“.000'; flour. $115,000; oats, . $65,000; lumber, $60,000;- fish and ‘ timber. $30,000" ea‘cl- ; cheese and hams, . ' $20,000 each ;1.a'n‘d eggs $10,000; or a‘ total increase in them: articles of' over" $1.2l)0,000'. As an offset against this,- there is a small decrease in sheep and horses, pcase. corn, butter and pulp: ' But. the total decreases are less than $200,000, making a not increase for tho' month of considerably over: 311000.000; » British imports into Canada also show’ a general" increases especially in wool. lens, carpets and metal materials: Major-General Hutton Has' Resigned; _ A‘ special desp-ttch from- Ottawa to’ the Toronto pa'pers‘ states that Major- Gcneral‘ Hutton,commander of the Canâ€" adian militia, resigned on Saturday last,- ' and that his resignation was accepted‘» ‘All our r‘ead-‘crs‘ are“ aware that hard, =l'ecling has existed for a considerable . time‘ between Gien / Col. S’anr Hughes ;~ but only last weelc’ « we copied and commented upon a des- Hiutt’on and Lieut- patch to the elliect that the “ breach had been bridged.” and that Sam would be recommended to- a position on Lord1 When it was said; some time ago that the correspondcnco' between Hutton and Hughes would be produced in' Parliament, G‘cn. Hutton“ more than hinted that. its production: would be a bad thing for Sam ;' but the Goneral's resignation gives rise to a“ suspicion~ that the correspondence may contain something of which he himself has no reason to feel proud. It has al- ways been understood that. tli‘c trouble was caused by a breach of military eti’u' qn‘ette on the part of Sam Hughes, which, his friends alleged, was provoked by the haughty bearing and dictatorial language of Gen. Hutton. 'l‘he prob- ability is that both were more or less to blame; but the resignation of the com-- mander of the militia is certainly a feather in Sam's cap, as the storm that was brewing in Parliament on his he'- half was undoubtedly the cause of it, and it is said that, “ if’ the worst had come to the worst, Hutton might have been dismissed." The dcspatch, which was dated February 11th, said that;- Gcn. Hutton was to leave On Thursday for England, and that, he and his wife having a good deal of influence at Dowmng "street, he has already received an appointment to South Africa. If" he should there fall in with LieutnColt. Hughes, it is to be hoped that they willâ€"forget their quarrel, shake hands, and agree to see which of them can do the most towards “ saving the empire." ._ ..__..__._ ___.___.â€".â€".__..__-â€"â€".__.__. ~ W A. J. Graham‘s great solo is not! going on and will continue until Saturday night. Bear in mind that this is'Graham'a' last week in Fenelon Falls, and ifyou cure to save from St to $5 on a cult or overcoat call on Graham at once. r, o i. i. V...‘..'._>â€".â€"_-_.’ < .'r'::r:.:':~..<t’ Tiw‘m ' r" ‘ . ~ gar-rut: ‘ v. "as