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'v giiiwvfihfi’VMifl‘wh-f»wflvug. , . ....... ' “4.. to Pain» .” t The man who 53 that, forgets that painting perly done is econozitsy, andthc fact is he can’t at 0rd NOT to paint. . . How often you require to psmt ts largely depend~ out upon the paint you use. ,, THE SHERWIM WILLIAMS PA/Nrs out tut others. They are the most economical paints you can use. W they cover most and wear longest. Add to this their good appearance. and 1011 113% Wife“ paints-The Sherwin-Williams Paintu They are made (or many difl'erent kinds ot‘palntlnga Whatever it let you want to paintâ€"a house, or anything in or out. at the houseâ€"we make- the right paint tot-that particular purposeâ€"not. one slap-dash mixture to: 011.. I A SEAS than Factory Bans. make we sell. Can und‘ersel’l‘ any other make-r, having bought the material before the great advance. NABLE teens. A That’s where ‘ we shinét 'No better At bottom prices. We have not advanced: the price. low price as last year. The same ANY AND EVERYTHING; V in Hardware. Do you. want to. build" a house or barn ‘3 Come and get my prices and be convinced that this IS ’ ' HOT WIND, BlIT S'flLtB: FAGTS. JOS.HEARD.V H. MCDOUGALL, AGENT FOR. McCormick Right Hand 0an Hints i‘erlita All Steel Bake. and. [um Harvester. COULTHARD SCOTT 00., osnwt. Championieedet and Cultivator. fuclshull Flows. Bell’s head Power. ‘ Chalham Wiggins. ALL UP TO DATE. TUBE, HOURS, Still, M6K®®Wm9§9 FRANClS ST.-WEST, FENELON FALLS. m. per, brass etc: .HtOEN: anti GOAL. can offered in the country than the y _ ' ‘ Friday; E1)er 13th, I900. erroneous that opinion was. was commenced in October. hasinvolved so improved that we can now borrow at is- down upon him; and’Says .relief of nutcking has not yet been 09- gl’écted‘,. and‘ the unfortunate garrison and other'inhabitants must be well nigh some progress last week, and‘ more than bubble reputation Lift Mater indication of Tory expenditure, for the simple reason that obligations which .should: have been included in those fig- ,ures were left over-for the next year, ‘aud' at least two big‘departments of the public service were so abominably starv- ed dnring, that last year of Tory admin- istration, that it cost the country many thousands of dollars additional to re- puir the damage done. The fair com- parison would be between the figures of 1896‘ and those of 1.899; or between the estimates for 1897, as prepared by the office, and those now brought down for 1900. A second reason why Mr. Fos- ter's criticism is worthless is, that a gen- eral comparison of capital expenditures is always misleading unless: reference is made to any special features that may ,be included therein. For example, ‘should the Government: decide to ex- pend 310.000.000’ in the nationalizing of the telegraph system of‘the Deminion, it would mean an additional‘expend- iturc that year to that amount, but it .wouldrbe aâ€" business investment promis- l'ing very handsome returns. and‘would therefore indicate pregressivc economy 'and not‘ extravagance. A‘gain; M'r. :Fbs‘tcr arrived at certain remarkable conclusions as to the taxation per capita, but, as Sir Richard Cartwright clearly demonstrated, his estimate of the pop- ulation of. Canada at the present time ,is much below. all the indications, and "therefore thoroughly unreliable. And lastly, in comparing the expenditures of the present time with those incurred under the late administration, Mr. Fos-I iter. took no account of. the two-and a ihnlf'miliion expended'in the Yukon, a paid fer old iron, cop, Dealer in nor PIPE, an PIPE FITTINGS... Thus... Ethan, . ' Fenclon Falls. _ W.._ .â€" -_.g_. he --_..._.. The Fcuclcu Falls Gazette. The Transvaal War. ing fund, a half million paid on interest v â€"-â€"- Eaceount. which should have- becn met. late Government before they vacated 5 argument would be more-pro this moment if it had not been doomcdl to assault by Hon. William Paterson. He knows the“~Dopartment of Customs as intimately ns'thc Liberal platform of 1893”, and when-‘he chose to hit. some 08' Sir Charles’ mathematical calculations with choice chunks of the customs re- turns, the impact was usually a Minis- ' terial success." ml’cor Sam! " Our Sam is greatly ridiculed by the- Press of Canada, and' occasionally a' Yankee paper takes a slap at him. too. Perhaps the most cruel onslaught of all .is made upon him- by Suturday- Night;. of Toronto, which calls him “ more kinds of an ass" than any other of. his assailants. It says : ' “ The daily newspapers are most uu-~ mereiiully poking fun at: Colonel Sam iliIughcs, who-appears tob‘e'a' victim of’ the letter-writing habit. As long as there was any mystery about the quan- rel between Colonel Sam and General Hutton, the militiamen enjoyed all- the- benefit of having his name coupled with that of 'a distinguishedpersonage. Since the publication of the Hutton-Huzln-s correspondence, Colonel Sam’s friends have been hiding themselves under. the- barn. in hopes that the-thing would'soorr befrirgotten. The haughty and high-- strung Hughes. however, refuses to be forgotten. and is writing more letters; the latest being dated‘from=Scnth Afri-- ca, in which he speaks of himself a+ having the best job of any Canadian- » thercabouts, and at the same time vents his wrath on General Hiltton intas way-3 half million increase in railway develop- that would get any schoolboy a first-‘- meet. a hall million applied to the sink- class whaling. If he talks to his fellow- otiiccrs as he writes to his Canadian- lriends, it is a wonder if Colonel Finghcsn thn Licut.-Col. Sam Hughes said, before the present. vacrnment assutncd’ isrnot' made to mess b'y biimclf and“ in his letter written on board the Sur- nliicc. and“ many other: itcms-of’atlik'c given command'of a-~ brigade of moles; diction, that he feared the fun would’be character. who were ignorant of the character and 'the Opposition, the, to quote again resources of the Boers, namely, that ‘from Sir Richard’Chrtwright, “ the pen- _ 1 . _ After all‘ and" in spite of' l'or'they are the animal‘s most used' to- over before he reached Scuth A‘frtca, lze Tory criticism, the cold, hard that rc- _ Only voiced the geneial opinions of all mains; unpalatable though it may be to just now affecting. the literarv style which Colonel Sam is His friends should2 send him word that, while he may be- mnkiug a‘record‘ as-a-b’ravc and com-- the war was likely to be but a trifling ple of Canada do not care to the extent potent soldier in South A‘frica. he in be, practically. a “ walk over " for the trade ofitlie countryrhas near-1y doubled"~ British. Time has shown how utterly fitselt‘in the past. that” years ;:they like ‘5 The war to know that; the credit oil Cheadh has one woul'd‘think. ough’t.= to defend Sam5. auftair, would not last, at the utmost. jol decimal point onefortabulatnd statc- writing himself down a variégatcd,’ vui‘l :morc than a very few weeks. and would ments, but they db like to hear that the gar, boastful. vitupcrativc and multi-~ .lorm as in the country of his birth.” Eienth‘eu’llv‘iil and. Empire, which, :. “ Surely the sacrifiCo of many thousands of val- two or two and'a half per ccnt.;' that iCOl..Sam Hbghes has some true friend? r,uablc lives: and an Ebglish paper has imperial confidence has 50- increased or other who willlsee‘to-i‘t'that no morer lestima-tcd‘that, if' It last another six that her securities are to‘ be admitted of hispoor'letters seeprint. The read-1 ,months, the total money cost, in expen- or. the London trustee list; that for ing of’thcmmak’es one’s ears tingle withv diture-and debt, will foot up to nearly ever} $2 paid by Ehglish imports the a sense nf’lmmilifution." And the M: or quite a billion dollars. That it‘ may Innkec has to pay $3; and' that' the nml'E‘is the chief organ of the‘ pol'itv last, that long does not, at the present ilihnndian consumer is reaping the bcn- ical party of which Sam- I'lhgh'es is a moment. appear to beat all improbable. efit of the difference." less their independence be guaranteed, whichwill \Veigh with himat the ballot ’ I _ . These are the burning and‘a shining light;but per- ;as the Boers declare most postttvely substantial facts which. the average .hups-ibthiuks, as many others do, that. -that they will fight: t-o-thc-Bt'ttorendiun- icicctnr‘canivery qui'ck'ly appreciate, and' ho is quite readv to transfer his chilli- genes and his allegiance to the Minis- and Britain demands an unconditional box when the Government. whiclrh’as aerial side. One- paper thinks it is ur surrender. Lord Wolscly predicted, less ,brought'themzabeul asks. lbn'aimaeml pity that “cover” lem‘nedlto write. and1 ithan nemonth ago. that Pretoriiit: would ol' powers, be taken by May 1‘5‘th, but his predic- '_ tion is not likely to be verified ;. for the ; The Budget new; another says that‘h’c'oughttto leave. his: letters in‘th'e ink-b'ottlc; but everything 'said‘about Sam helps him to notorietv, and that, failing cclebrity,.is what‘ his: The debetc‘ upon the budget! made soul lbvcth.. Instead‘ of? seeking “thc' at the cannon's= starving by this time. Insteadof fight-k ‘one'iiuportant speech on each side has month "he is seeking it at his own ling haibg~pt'aeti-cally"ovcr'ii] the Vice been contributed thereto. The prin- S’tntc, as was aflirmcd a few days after c-iipal. result of the d'cb‘ate, so- far, has gmouth, and. consequently, is clorhed’ with ridicule as with a garment-2 Still} the capture of Bloemfontein, its cap Beento‘di'mwthc‘lincs of demarcation there arelots of'good Toricsâ€" with no- ital the Boers are Still there in great very clearly. between the trade policies isense of the ridiculous who= swear by" ‘ force uncomfona'oly close to Eon-d Rebv of the two political pa-rties.. 'lhc va- :Sinu Hughes; and‘ when becomes home) bets’s line- of communication. and on ernmcnt’s policy is clearly defi‘ned’as :2â€" 'April 4'th, after alight extending over a-rcvenuc tariff'secured' in part by a {with a dozen Boonscalpa'dhngling from: 'his tongue, they will probably tote him- nearly thirty-sixhours, they surrounded substantial preferential,reduction. upon :around as the central figure in a pro-v and captured five Companies of British infantry. about 600 men. Whilth a; few of. nod-ucx'dtauxatibn-are fully redeemed British imports, whereby its promises cession. and will certainly do their best" ,to-scndihim-b’ackdo Ottawa-as theirrev mil'cs of B'lhemfnntein. On the 5th and'intcr=imperi:tl trade cncouragedtand' Epresentati'veiirtlie‘liouse of commons, some of Mcthuens troops surrounded developed; the Opposition policy is no from which he has been absent during a- Gcn Mareutl and asmallbody oi Boers, concessmn to Great Britain unless at Wholef session, though, in consideratiom and, after a four hours' fig-ht, eaptua‘cd- :lba-st-anx equal concession is made to all of them, not a man escaping. w'xn. Canada, in rcturm Mnreuil, who was one of the eight kill- appropriately " It is an exemp- . This-hasbcen very ’his $1'000'is likely to be made. > . stigmatized as “ The friends say everything they can think; ged was a French officer in the employ pound of flesh policy. :of his “'natriotism,"'no deduction from Sam's: of as oli'n-ets to his- colcssal egotism, of the Boers, is said to have been. their lification of the old Tory principle so fwhich they are forccd‘to admit, and one' best instructed soldier to contlmentalr- boldly enunciated by Sir John Mac. of them (a physiognomist, we suppose) methods of warfare. . According to: late donald" and the Mia-it newspaper twenty remarked the other day : “ Sam Hughes; reports. the Burns are becoming more years ago, but carefully liiddcu away daring near Bloemfontein, are advanc- since. “If B’ritish connection: is im- will never be hangedâ€"his eyes are too: far apart." we never measured or par-t ing southward in Natal, and are plant- pcrilled by our trade poli'ey ((thc N. PI) .ticularly noticed: the- distance between ing heavy guns near- Eland's Laagte. so much the worse for British connec~ the eyes in his countenance; but we do A despatch in Wednesday’s daily papers tion.” The contention that the farmers know that, in his speeches and writings. says that the Boer general Dcwct has of Canada have experienced no relief in his I"s are'asvery great deal too- near: attacked the British three times within taxation through the new tarifi‘ was ‘tOgether. ' a week at. Meerkatsfontein, killing and pretty thoroughly- destroycd by Mr. wounding 600. and capturing 900 men P‘aterson in his budget speech. and twelve waggons. There has also Indian corn, binder twi’nc, barbed ten- been hot lighting at. Wepener, and it is ciug wire, and cream separators,- are t‘oarnd that Gen. Brahant's 2.500 men now admitted free. are surrounded and may have to cap- imported would have paid under the “Mam old tariffnearly a million dollars There ___.â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"_ Where Mr; Foster Missed It. pronged forks, hay tedders, rakes, Easter Millinery. As Easter approaches, every woman: The quantities is greatly interested in the new spring- hats and bonnets. Always in the van.- whcn millinorv displays are concerned, were reductions in the duties on many as in everything else, Mrs Campbell, articles used by Farmers. including with the assistance of hcrhcad milliner, Miss Archer, has this year- prepared a- Ml‘~ F05l9rq exrfinance minlSter and ,scythcs, spades and shovels, threshers. great millinery surprise, On Friday TOW financ‘al 0mm. “wk f0“? df‘ys ‘0 f and separators, and other portable ma- afternoon Mrs. Campbell's millincrv Prepare and four 1‘0"” m delwer “.chmes, StOVGS. axes. Saws. tOOlS Of all parlor was filled to. overflowing, and“ labored and sophistical criticism of the ' kinds and coal 0;]. 0n woollens there many were the ejaculations as the ladies. Finance Minister's Speech on PI'GSentiD‘l has been saving of $451,000. on cotton, passed up and down the room, which the budget; but his effort l st much, if $163,000 on iron and sum} manumc not all, its force, from the utterly unrc- tapes. 3850000. The fact Of um m,,t_ llflble fiat“ Winch he tresentegl and “P' , ter is that the speech of the Minister of 0r} “41.1011 be based 1313 dCdQCUOD-‘fi {33 Customs created an impression in quar- Sll‘ RIClml'd Cartwright Pm"th 0‘13"] ters where it was least expected. The in“ reply. afld 33 has bfm} P01“ted 0'” Toronto Telegram, for instance, is not a score of tunes before. It IS utterly and noted for its sugceptibmty to sound most manifestly unfair to take the ex- Grit argument, but even it is constrain- Pendlture or 1896 and Tm“? 1‘ as an 1 ed to observe“ Sir Charles Tupper’s was Very prettily decorated with arti» ficinl flowers of every shape and hue. Two or three large natural palms were also used as decorations. The large mirrors were gracefully draped with beautiful chiffons. which threw a soft,. pleasing elf-ct. upm the smiling faces: reflected therein. On a long table in the, centre, of the room. the, trimmed hats.