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I 6‘ l . z. ._ :1 ' Haiti" hamvu nh’ajva- u. I 'l n FRANCIS 81'- WEST, until you see Robson’s stock. the best makes at fair prices. Dealer in IRON and COAL, IRON PIPE, and PIPE FITTINGS. The Robert, Feuelon Falls. We are new prepared to supply all kinds of reason, does: we lane-nuc- swovns: of the newest designs and from the best makers. “The.- Fciiclcn halls haiettc: A full line of all kinds of GhflThlGES Aim stdhhtll'l'lflil. Friday, Nov. 23rd, 1900. The Transvaal War; Guerilla operations still continue in South Africa, and Lord Roberts" recent declaration that he could not allow any ,more troops to leave is an indication that desul‘tory fighting is likely to con- tinue for Some cousiderabl‘etime. mandant Louis Bootha is said to have established ‘a new Government at Ros- endal, and from Heidelburg it is report- ed that? the Boers are compelling the burghers who had surrendered to take up arms again, under pain. of death. Taken. altogether, affairs in South A-f- ricaâ€":although the war is virtually over “$8130 in a far from satisfactory condi- tion; and in a recent speech at Cape Town Sir Alfred Milner said 1; ‘5 South Africa today is passing through a crisis of extraordinary. sever- ity and great duration. ’E'o legitimate warfare has succeeded-an undisciplined, straggling, purposeless resistance, in- volving all. and more. than all, thehorâ€" rors of war without any of' its dignity. Ihave added WALL. PAPER I WINDQZW Lines to my business. In two lines I in- tend to make special, offers. The stock 1s perfectly new, and, bought from the best manufacturer in Canada. J08. HEARD. It is difficult- to appreciate, the motives. of the men who are urgingtheir..fellow.- countrymen on to that hopeless struggle, kept up. by deceit and leadingto nothing but destruction ,3; but I; thinkâ€" it would be a mistake to take too despondent- a view even of this additional calamity. GO TO W. McKeown’ s " or Furniture of all kinds. in establishing ordcifandfindaying. the foundation of a stable. peace in. South Africa are called; upon, to confront. a totally new problem, and, new methods have to be devised: to. deal: with it. Methods are being; devised, and they will succeed. Let us frankly confess that we have all beentoo- apt to think we were at the end? ofrour trouble, but I see now. a. tendency, to.fa‘lln into the opposite error. fret us acknowledge that we are by; us. means out of the wood, but do not leauszhave“ the least Dfihhfi, Sfidii, TE! faggglmt the .l’lmgle-.ia.not-impene- etc., and '-â€"â€"- â€" r The Westliiirhamt-Eiectidn., moraine FRAMING A SPEGEALTY. ’ sewn, . FENELGN FALLS. There is trouble ever theWest Dur- ham election, inconsequenee eta viola- tion of the letter, if not the spirit, of the law, and the nomination paper of ' Mr. C. J. Thornton, the successful. can- didate, is declared invalid. The statute governing Dominion elections requires that 8200 in legal tender or in bills of some chartered bank doing business in Canada must be deposited in the hands of the returning oflicer at the time the nomination paper is filed ;.but Mr. Thornton’s agent, Mr. Loscombe, hand- ed to Mr. Thomas Bingham.'the return- ing ofiicer, a cheque marked “ good a” by the Standard Bank, and endorsed by him, Mr. Loscombe, instead of cash. Mr. Bingham at first objected to the cheque, but upon Mr. Loscombc, who is a barrister, saying it would be all right, he took it, gave a receipt for $200, and deposited the cheque to his account in the Ontario Bank. Mr. Thornton. the independent Conservative candidate, had a majority of 40 over Mr. Beith, the Liberal; but the returning ofiicer, having become doubtful of the validity of the deposit, refused to declare Mr. Thornton elected. West Durham is, therefore, without a representative; the difficulty is to be referred for solution to Ottawa, and there is a possibility of prolonged legal proceedings before the outcome shall be reached. The objec- tion to Mr. Thornton's election on a purely technical point appears to us to be “ frivolous and voxatious,” and the Globe is of the same opinion, for its con- cludes a long article as follows: “ The statute, it is true, sets forth the duties of the returning officer and his deputies with great precision, but H. AGENT FOR . ldcturmidr Bight Hand 0an Binder Vertical lift deer. All Shel Rake. and Com Harresier. COULTHAR“ 39"" °°" thampinn Seeder and tdliivalur. tuckshuil Plnws. Bell’s Tread Power. iiaiham Waggon. ALL. UP TO DATE. ALL, . 3.».1‘: .A...-..~. . ...........r......,,,.,,,.,,.,,,,,,,,., u. . «X He can give you a choice of 00m: The forces of the. Queen engaged now. ‘great country; this is recognized by all. product is known and appreciated on «.3 mymeWsmg-tnn mum.» u'wmuhymmnmauiwv . an ,wu y» we r :.~..:» ” "‘ MM _.. __,..___.3 ..».-â€"‘ 7 ,_ " ‘this is for their guidance .nnd‘for the insuring of a fair election, not for the purpose of digging pits into which a candidate may fall. It is true that section 34 enacts that no nomination paper shall be valid and acted upon by the deputy returning officer unless the sum of$200 in legal tender or in the bills of any chartered bank doing busi- ness in Canada is deposited with him. This section would probably have auth- orized the returning oficer to refuse the check, and, if he did not receive the deposit in regular form, to ignore the nomination, and declare the other can- didate elected, as being the only one who was properly nominated. But hav- ing received the check, deposited it in the bank and given his receipt, he seems himself to- have decided on the sufficiency of the deposit. He went on to hold the election as if the deposit had their ballot on that assumption. No one was misled or injured by the irreg- ularity, and no abuse can arise from the irregularity being condoned. Par- liament probably intended merely to prevent disputes between the ofiicer and the candidate as to the sufficiency of the deposit, and one can understand a dispute arising in. the case of a. check more easily than in the case of bills. It. may be said that candidates ought not to be let off easily when they ne- glect to comply with the plain require- .ments of the law. But an election is not a more game and contest of wit and skill between two rival candidates. It .is an attempt to discover the opinion, judgment and will ofthe electors, which the candidates, and ifthey or a majority represented in a. certain way, it is right that their will should be carried out, and not set aside by errors for which their decision.” There were twoother- constituencies, successful of a protest having been entered. in filed with the Clerk_of the High Court of Justice and Senior. Registrar, on, be- in his favor, audasking for the neces- he claims he is entitled. Mr. Thorn- ton was for some time a resident of the Falls, aud‘was deservedly popular. He and his partner, Mr. Rollison, built the stave factory, which they soldto Messrs , T, H. DeCew &-_Sons,. by whoxm it is now being successfully run. . Our Poultry‘antl the BritishMarkei.” As the poultry interests of this coun- try are taking such great strides for- ward, and as the farmers. and, “hen men ” are about to realize large profits on their poultry productsif properly 30f the Government Poultry Department at Ottawa, is writing a series of letters on the subject, The first has..already fappeared in circular form, and. is..as as follows: regards the cold storage firms. them: selves and the cold storage cars for towards perfection, and-it-willnot be long before we have in Canada a cold world, At present there istuothing so much talkedâ€"of orâ€"xwrittenmbout in the Canadian Press as the necessity for the perfection of themeansot placing our perishable goods on the foreign or Eng- lish market. Canada. is becoming a That the greatest revenue of this coun~ try must come through its agricultural sources is a point, undisputed. The live question before the farmers, then, is which departments of their farms will yield them aquickaud paying return ? Undoubtedly, of all the.~.co:nparatively undeveloped sources. of agricultural wealth, none will more surely fill the bill than poultry. The demand for the superiOr quality on the English market is unlimited: The home market is rap- idly increasing. Az-belpto this develop- ment is the cold storage system of the Department of Agriculture, and the fur- nishing of reliable instructions as to poultry culture from.the experimental farm system and the Commissioner of Agriculture. But the most direct aid is in the shape of such large firms as the Canadian Produce 00., Toronto, who buy the chickens from the farmers and do the fattening, packing and shipping of the birds. By means of private enterprise the expense of initiation and the risk of loss which inevitably attends the opening up of new enterprises will not come out of the pockets of the farmers. It may be that when the superior quality of our H, . ....- 'r- .. . s “ been regular, and the electors ‘marked . are of more importance than those of ,cfZ them declare that they wish to be. they are not responsibls, and which do ‘- not in any way affect the grounds of East Peterborough and East Northum- _ bet-land, in which the deposits of. the ' candidates were made by ‘; cheque, but both of them, were declared "’ duly elected~ and we have not yet heard: ';held in. Dickson’s hall, Fenclon Falls, either case._ On Monday a petition was ' half of. Mr. Thornton, setting forth, that he had a majority of 4.0 votes cast sary order to give him the seat, to which, marketed, Mr. A. G. Gilbert,_manager. Our system of ,cold , storage, both as. transportation, are making rapidstrides , storage system equal toanythiugiu-the . the British market, and the prices es- tablishedso that we will know what it is, possible to get, that the time will be opportune for the individual farmer or association of farmers to fatten and ship for themselves. By that time our farm- ers should be well acquainted with methods of shipment to an already es? tablished market with guaranteed prices. This year the poultry trade with Great Britain has developed as it never has before. As early as the middle of last month one firm has sent to England a shipment of Canadian chickens which is five times larger than all shipments sent before from this country in any pre- vious entire year. Next year there will. be a demand for chickens unheard of“ before. The farmers for the present year, and probably for the next, should not try any direct shipment, but find reliable firms in this country. It may not pay the farmers to do the fattening, but it will certainly pay them to raise chickens to sell to the large firms who -Z will do the fattening and shipping. My services are at all times at the use of the farmers. It is my duty and pleasure to give full information as to- the best breeds for the farmers to-.ha-n- 'dle,,how to rear and fatten the chickens, ,whcro and who best to sell them to, to- :gether with all such practical informa- tion as years of experimental work is calculated to make of value to farmers. It is hoped by a series of letters, of which this is the first, to interest the farmers in a poultry department of their farm, which will give them, surely and quickly, in the near future. a revenue "equal to any other branch of the farm- ing industry. , All information as to breeds, care, feed and fattening, etc., will be furnished free on application to my Department, Experimental Farm, Ottawa. ' A. G. GILBERT, Manager Poultry Dep’t. Ottawa, Oct., 1900. Farmer’s institute Meeting. The annual meeting of the East "L‘ictoria Farmers’ Institute will be ".on Saturday next, and a full attendance .cf members is hoped for. There will she, as. usual, two sessions, one com- mencing at 1.30 p. m., and the other at 7.30m. m. In the afternoon, after the President’s address, Mr. Tlnmas Rob- ertson of Bobcaygeou will tell what he knows about “ Corn Growing and Silo Filling,” and Mr. John McMillan of :Seaforth will talk about “ The Breeding and Feeding of Cattle,”and a discussion of the two subjects will be introduced by Mr. John Suggitt of Cameron and .Mr. Alexander Jamiesom of Glcnarm. At 2 p. in. Miss Laura Rose, Lady In- structor in Dairying at the O. A. 0., Guelph, will meet the farmers’ wives and daughters of East Victoria in the Mansion Housc parlor, for the purpose of organizing a Woman’s Institute, and ‘at 3.30 they will adjourn to the hall, where Miss Rose will deliver an address upon “ Difficulties in Dairying and how. ,to, overcome them.” At the. evening session addresses on subjects of interest will be delivered by Messrs. McMillan. and Robertson and Miss Rose, and the proceedings will be enlivened by plenty of music, both vocal and instrumental, including three or four songs by Mr,- Dan Gilchrist. WEBJni at. it. The Toronto Star says : “A traveller who was being driven. through North Victoria about ten days before the election remarked to the young man who was driving : ‘A lot of Canadians have been shot or died of; sickness in Africa.’ ‘Yes,’ replied the driver, ‘aud it was Laurier's fault.’ The traveller enquired how that was -. so. ‘Wcll, if they’d sent troops when Sir Charles Tupper first wanted to send, ’em, and had made Sam Hughes leader- of ’em, there wouldn’t ’vc been no war ’ " We do not doubt that the above. statement is perfectly true; for we have heard scores of Sam’s admirersâ€"gem. erally very young onesâ€" assert that if; had been Commander-in-chief of the. - British forces in South Africa he would either have terrified the Boers into sub-. mission or have painted the Transvaal. red with their gore within a few weeks. of the commencement of hostilities. In his oration on the day of his reception .. in Lindsay, Sam Hughes said that he. would not speak of his own doings in Africa, as they would be recorded in the official annals of the war; but he . wasn’t so modest when surrounded by a little knot of his constituents; and a . short time ago one of them (a COD‘- servative) said to us with a laugh, after being in Sam’s company : “ Oh, but I do love a good cheerful liar.” As we remarked in a previous issue, Col. Hughes's victory on the 7th inst. was largely the result of a belief, (based chiefly upon his own letters in the Watchman) in his heroic achievements. at the seat of warybut we have since. out and send his chickens to the most . ' 1 .‘I r Hmim‘v.-:-anrâ€"F1'Sm~‘ _. i» 'V v a. - a“: ‘,_,:‘f. t a "’t‘f' "15‘ 35%;”; HT. ' an ‘ .G’WWF-~ ‘ A . «4.4». H, ‘ ,.~ ,A. p .- g .. -’ “54?”, ’3'" . <~_.~v~“-’»,-‘wr ~ ‘ f. "z “w":-. ' momma» a.“ “wtâ€"w r. ,. A‘A‘ - A AAAA‘AAAAM AA AL: AAAAAAL.A " .. m, a.” ....