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shim" ‘ x.“ . Good Prospects. Every farmer to whom we have spoken says that the prospects for boun- tiful crops were never better on the 1st of May than they are this year. The snow lay so late upon the ground that there have been no alternate freez- ings and thawings since it disappeared, the fall wheat is looking splendid, grass is as good as it generally is two or three weeks later, birds» are busy gathering materials for thein nests, the few frogs that the catchers left; give concerts every evening, and several days have elapsed since bees came-home laden with honey instead of pollen. Some few pessimistic farmers shake their heads and say that such favorable weather is sure to be followed by frosts, but they should leave- creaking to the frogs and hope for the best. We have had just such a winter, and. are having just such a spring, as usually precede abundant harvests, and in this part of the world frosts severe enough to do much harm do not often come after a spell of settled fine weather. Owing to the scarcity of fodder, the past winter was terribly hard on cattle, many of which died of starvation, while a much larger number were almost “ on the lift " when spring set in earlier than usual and saved. them. Although a large quantity of' boy was brought to the Falls by rail towards the end of winter, there is still a good deal of it in the neighborhood, but the farmers who had it, wanted fifty per cent. more than the price they are now willing to sell at, and the present probability is that it will be very cheap next fall. Last .year there was such an immense yield 'of potatoes all over the Deminion that in some parts they have been actually destroyed to get rid of them, as they 3‘Vi“ not keep, and oats were so plentiful that some think there are almost enough of them left to last another year. ALWAYS WAS AND IS STILL AHEAD. For the Spring and Summer trade of 1896 we have Farmers needing their PLDUGHS BEPAIBED will please bring them to THOS. ROBSON, as he is in a position to put on MDULD-BDARDS AND LAND-SIDES. ' The Largestâ€"â€" The Best Assortedâ€"â€" The Newest Stylesâ€" And the Cheapestâ€" MILLINERY, DRESS GOODS, And everything else in connection with the Dry Goods trade. _ WM. CAMPBELL. The Fenelcn Falls Gazette. Friday, May 1st 1896. “ DOMINION ELECTIONS. You need not believe« What we :9. Just. call and SEE; if we can’t put. a... suit. on you cheaper than anyone else. EVERYBODY SAYS we have. the beat Hats; Nominations, - Tuesday, June 16th. Polling, -' -- Tuesday, June 23rd. M Mr. McLaughlin, the Liberal candidate, will address meetings as follows:â€" lSaturday, May 2nd, at Fenelon Falls, in Dickson's hall; Monday, May 4th, at Long Point, Fenelon ; Tuesday, May 5th, at Garden School House, No. 2; Wednesday, May 6th, at Uphill; Thursday, May 7th, at Sebright ; Friday, May 8th, at Sadcwa; Saturday, May 9th, at Dalrymplc; Monday, May 11th, at Garden School A Sensible Decision. A lawyer recently appeared before .Chief Justice Meredith with a motion - . Houses ND- 13- to get out of court a small sum of S-ono Tuesday. May 12th, at Bexlcy School money left to a boyoffifteen,whc with- Housei out an order could not obtain it until Wednesday, May 13th, at Head. Lake; Thursday, May 14th, at Norland ; Saturday, May 16th, at Coboconk. All the meetings will commence at 7.30 p. m. . Mr. Geo. DIcHugh, the Liberal can- didate for South Victoria, is expected to be present at the meeting at Fenelon Falls to-morrow (Saturday) evening, the 2nd inst. he came of age. The Judge asked what the money was wanted for, and upon being told that is was to enable the boy to study for a profession, he said: “ I won’t make the order out; there are plenty now in. the professions.” Judge Meredith will probably be blamed by some for thus cui'biug the noble am- bitionof an aspiring youthâ€"or of his friends, we don’t know which ;. but in our opinion he was right. The exist- ence of thousands of lawyers without clients and of doctors without patients proves that both those professions are overcrowded, and that such is also the case with school teaching is evidenced by the attempts that are now being made to “protect” that industry. One of the funniest things we have read of It is not known as a. fact that Dr. Nansen has Discovered the North Pole, But it is an admitted fact that if ' you wish to enjoy a. cup- of good Tea. it is absolutely necessary for you to purchase Salado. Tea. at North and' South Victoria. The campaign is now fully opened, and as a period of nearly eight wceks will elapse before polling day, there will be ample time for all the electors of the Dominion to hear full discussions of the questions upon which public opinion is _ _ . divided. Here in North Victoria we {01‘ Home 11019 Past ‘5 the Buggesuon have three candidates in the fieldâ€"Mr. All“ has be?“ mad" ‘0 P353 a; law that R. J. McLaughlin, Liberal, and Mr. J. young aspirants to pedagogic honors H. Delamere and Major Sam Hughes, shall not be allowed to teach until they Conservatives. Mr. McLaughlin Would ha.” taught for “3° years; Wlllfih re' greatly prefer a straight fight with Sam minds as of the Irishman who said that Hughes, because the victory of which his b00135 were 30 light that he bad to he feels confident would in that case We“ them a Week before he could get mean that he was the choice of a major- 'Cllem‘ 00. The absurdity of the propo- ity of the total number of electors; but sition doesn’t seem to strike those who our 13“, member has fallen into such favor it, which shows that when nature disrepute that we do not consider his has omitted 8 39080 or the ridiculous withdrawal from the contest outside the from a man’s mental mnlfeâ€"up'. peither range of possibilities. There is an old .SOllOOlB, 001192889 DO!" uanGrBltlcs can saying that it is a work, of supep’eroga. Impartft. W hat appears to be really giou {0 “ pour-water upon a drowned meant 18, that nobody shall be allowad rat,”'and' although Sam is (politically) §0 1708011 for 8 Salary “Dill he has taught not yet quite dead, he is so surely sink- "1 a _ “ 8_0l10_Ol 0E pedagogy or some ing beneath the waters of oblivion that 500“ {HWWUOD .for'l'wo'yeal‘s .“Ddel‘. “1- it is scarcely necessary to weigh him structtons; but,1fthat be the Intention, down by heaping any more of his slan- what we want to know is, whose chil- ders, misstatements and inconsistencies dren “'9 to be expenmented With and upon his head; Clarke Wallace, his partially spoiled during that period 2- whilom. friend, gave him a great dress- Pâ€"m ing down upon the floor of the House; Farmers and Protection._ many of his old supporters have openly expressed their disgust at his course in parliament; and Tuesday‘s Past assails him in the “deadly parallel,” giving five pairs of quotations from the War- der, showing that he has over and over again made diametrically opposite statements regarding the course of the Government re the coercion bill. Of Fine Grades 01' Men’s TrousCrS course the mutable Blajor has a “ com- and Spring SUltlngS- f pact little phalanx " of good old-fash- ‘ ioned Tory followers in whose eyes he can do no wrong; but he has caused so many to throw off their allegiance to him that,_cvcn if he remain in the field, Mr. McLaughlin’s most formidable opponent will be Mr. Delamere, who, though behind the times in politics, is L. ROBSON’S. The A ~anion of he La in IS DIRECTED TO- MY STOCK OF‘ Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Prints, Ginghams, Cottons, Flannelettes, Waterproof Cloaks, Umbrellas, Bed-spreads, Ladies’ and Childrens’ Vests, Babies’ Knitted Woollen-Caps, Tam O’S‘hanters, Cashmere Hose, Ladies and Children’s Fancy Knitting and Fingering Yarn, Ladies’ Belt Buckles, Fancy Combs, etc., Wash Silk, Embroidering Silks, Kid Gloves, Cash- mere Gloves, etc. Thanking my customers fer past favors, I respectfully invite them to inspect my stock and get prices. HcArthur’a Block. MIS- A persistent effort is being made by the protectionist craters and press of Canada to lead‘ electors to believe that the abrogation of protection in Great Britain was followed by a fall in farm land values in that country, and that the competition induced by this measure brought 0n the agricultural depression that now prevails there. The- not-i'on that farm land in Great Britain fell in value after the final abrogation of protection in 1859 is absolutely false and contrary to fact. It is equally false to assume that the competition induced by free trade reduced the farmers" pro fits. The broad fact is that the average value of farm land in Great Britain advanced steadily for 37years after the first great move towards free trade be- came law in 1842. The official returns give the total rent of farm lands in England and Wales for 1843 and 1880 as follows: 1843 ............. $200,850,000. 1880 .................. 259,000,000. These figures indicate an advance in rent of 30 per cent. The fact that rent did advance during this period proves Fenelon Falls. IT IS ONE THING TO COVER UP YOUR BODY. Robinidi Crusoe did that with Goat Skins. . 3 ; But that time is past. It. is not necessary to clothe yourself in any unsightly garb when ; at My We a gentlemen. and) as fat as , 0, t 1 th th t fit u l-ke b 1.1, t . lwc know. has never been so much as )0“ can Ce CO es. a .y0 l . 8' x o ,suepectcd of wabbling. Until today a. tree, and at prices conclstent With the - (Thursday) we thought,“ knew who times. Call and select from a lot of choice the candidates in Sputh Victoria were 9 pieces. we will make it worth your while. to be, but “"5 morning we 5” '1 Poster announcing that, "at the request of S. PENHALE, THE PASHIONABLE CUTTER Mr. Fairba'irn " a meeting of the Con- FENELON FALLS. AND FITTER. oerosrrs JOS. HEARD'S. servatives of that riding is to be held in Lindsay to-morrow to choose a can- didate and. transact other business. that the competition induced by free- trade increased the profits of agriculture, for owing to the monopoly of the land by one class, the landed gentry 10,207" of whom own two-thirds of tho and of England and- Wales) and the compo- tition among the farmers (who are con- tinually increasing) for the privilege of renting the land, rents are always at a point that leaves the farmer but a bare living. Therefore a steady increase of' rent such as we see took place after protection was abolished must have been ,the result of an increasc in farmers' profits. A reference to a list of prices for this period, such as you will find in Mnllhall's Dictionary of Statistics, dis- covers the faot that, though competition and other causes reduced prices pretty generally, the prices of all that the farmer had to buy fell at a greater ratio than the price of the things he produced. When we consider the ob- vious truth that the farmers of England, like our own, have only one way of profitably utilizing their surplus pro- ducts. and that is by exchanging them for things they cannot or do not. pru- dncc, it is easy to understand why the English farmers’ profits increased as prices fell. These profits were promptly eaten up by an advance in rent. The- following is one case out of many that come before the “ Royal Commission on. Agricultural Depression in Great Brit-- ain" (the final report of whieh is in course of preparation) that points to the real cause of the distress amongst English farmers. It appears from the books of a well‘ managed farm in Lincolnshiro that be- tween the years 1879 St 1893 the net .profit to the tenant was $275.00 or about $19.00’per annum. During the-- same period he paid his landlordtin cold cash as rent the enormous sum of" $69,435.00, or about 85,000 per annum. Second report, page 52. In 1548 Lat- imer in a sermon before the King and: his courtiers, rated them soundly for» rack renting their tenants and causing, the suffering amongst the agricultural class of the time. According to the- late professor I. Ei T: Rogers, between the early part of the fifteenth century and 1879 the average rent of English farm land advanced 9,000 per cent. or' from 120. to $10.80 per acre. Accord- ing to the new Doomsday Bock pubâ€" lished in 1876, the farmers of England alone paid $621,000,000 in rent and: tithes for the year 1873. Encyclopmdia Britanica Vol. 8, page 223. The peculiar conditions under which. Agriculure is carried on in England (the conditions in Ireland and Scotland: are more favorable to the tenant owing, tc.the long leases in one case and Gov- ernment intervention in the _other) must always tend to increase rents at a‘grcatcr' ratio than farmers’ profits. Hence we- find that distress has overtaken the English farmer when. prices have been: excessively exalted for any length of‘ time, as when prices are normal, as at present. It will be seen from the fore- going that English farmers were. benc- fitted by free trade, as farmers any- wherein the world'would be benefittedi by a similar measure, that the real. cause of their-distress is the enormous burden of rent and tithes they are- obliged to pay for the privilege of. tilling the soil. Protection is fast forcing the- 'once independent yeomen farmers of the. U. S. into a similar subservient position. According to. their last census 52 per: cent. of the farmers there are now rent.- paying tenants. Before protection was. introduced in the sixties rent paying; tenants were almost unknown. According to our. last census we in- creased the number of tenant farmers. in this free Canada of ours 50'pcr cent. more rapidly under the first decade of‘ protection than we did under the last decade of revenue tariff. Farmers of’ Canada, whither are you drifting ?.‘ Forty per cent. of the value of the- larms you have with such infinite toil won from the wilderness has already been frittered away by the most corrupt government Canada was ever cursed. with. Remember,theprivilegesgrantcd: under protection can be voted away, but landlordism cannot. H'. Wasumcrom Ottawa, April 15th, 1896. n Personals. Miss Alice G'rise of Midland is visit« ing at Mrs. Twomey’s. Little Miss Vera Bonnell of Bob- caygeon is visiting at Mr. James Dickson's. Mr. Thomas Graham, of Graham & 00., left on Wednesday afternoon for a business trip out north. Mr. Walter Ellis returned home last Saturday, having passed his examina- tion at the Belleville business college. Mrs. R. Spratt of Lindsay and her son Richard were at the Falls last Fri- day attending the funeral of tho late Jennie Twomey. .9‘ WHY WEAR YOUR OLD HAT whe'l you can get a new one so cheap and prett} at H15. R. Mchugall'e T