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59“ ‘ s Jaw-w «a «an, "M , ~ ~ - “"“n ” tom STAllllllLlEll MILLS. The undersigned beg to announce to their numerous customers and the public generally that their new Roller Flour Mill is now completed, and grinding night and day. The machinery throughout is of the most modern pattern, and the quality of the output second to none in Ontario. Special attention given to grlstiug and chopping. We pay Lindsay prices for wheat and coarse grains, of which we vant an unlimited quantlty. Hides and skins, Furs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, etc., bought and sold. Agents for the Canada Carriage Company. Parties buying Flour or Feed in quantitiesovould do well to write us for quotations before purchasmg. McDougall, Brandon 81 Austin. BIG Basel-nus “.13.”- * lL NERY and DRESS GOODS AT â€"â€" - WM. CAMPBELL’S FOR--- THE NEXT H SIX WEEKS. Fenclon Falls, 10th November, 1896. .3. O <-v-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"- 600000;) We Don’t Talk Much. we m- If you want a SUIT OR OVERGOAT before Christmas leave your order with us as soon as possible. A. CLARK & SON. l ' THEY ARE no. new. - Only want to be tried, and ithen, after taking into§ consideration style and prices of my difiereut hues of stars AND snare etc. you will be able to say the same, if you make your purchases at W. L. ROBSON’S. MMMME E i t i i 94W 'WOWWW W0 OM Tailor-frag to Suit the Times. sans reissues so; rants nvescsrs sin. 01‘ anything you require in the Tailoring line at rock bottom prices ; quality, lit and make guaranteed. 5. PENEALE, THE TAILOR, Opposite J os. Heard‘s. The Fenelon .._.________ .v. ..A.____.. -. _.. Friday, February 26th, 1897'. lialls Gazette. The Slack Cooperage Co. In the Gazette of the 29th ult. Wt‘ published a letter received by Reeve Mason from L. Grov‘sbcck S: Sm. of Wanstcad, Out., ulannlaczurers of sl:-.ek barrel cooperage stock. who are seeking I, a location in which the kinds of wood ' they use are plentiful, and the head ol the firm was here on Monday last. He appeared to be favorably impressed by ' what he saw and heard, and told coun- cillor Martin. who happened to be on the train with him to Toronto on Tues- day, that he would send his son to visit the Falls. We have strong hopes that the industry. which will employ from 60 to ’75 bands, will be moved here in the course of a few months. The St honiface Election. The election at St. Boniface on Sat- urday last resulted in the return of Mr. Lauzon, the Separate School candidate, by a majority of 188 over his opponent, Mr. Bertrand, whose defeat was a fore- gone conclusion, and who was hardly expected to receive as many votes as the 200 east in his favor. In the constitu- ency is a large body of utterly illiterate French and half-breeds, and it is de- clared that the priests, exceeding the instructions of Archbishop Langcvin, “ wan from door to door, threatening the men and the timid superstitious wo men, that if the former did not vote right the crucifix would be torn from the wall, they would be turned out of the church, and ifthcy died their bodies might be buried in the back yard, as they would be refused interment in con- sccratcd ground." Uducr such circumâ€" stances, it is surprising that Mr. Ber- trand got as many \‘l t- s as he did, but in the four wards ol the town itself, “from which radiates all church au- thority,” but where the people are edu- cated, Mr. Lauzon's majority was only ten. There is some talk of protesting the election on the ground of undue clerical influence. m Fancy Bdtication. We publish on our first page this week nearly the whole of a long letter that lately appeared in the Buffalo, N. Y., News on the subject of public school education, which appears to be much the same in the States as in Canada, and against which, there as here, many protests are beginning to be board. We have maintained for years that a boy or girl should not be given more than a common school education at the public expense, and we are pleased to see that Professor Goldwiu Smith, in an address delivered a few days ago before the Dominion Grange, said, in answer to a question, that “ the Govern ment had no right to spend the people’s money in providing a fancy education.” That is exactly what we have always maintained, and many others besides Prof. Smith are openly expressing the same opinion. The contention that the poor man’s child can obtain as good an education as the rich man's is not true. and will not be until there is no charge whatever for admission to the colleges and universities and the poor man’s child is provided with books and is boarded and clothed while he is pursu- ing his studies. Of course, “ poor ” and “rich " are relative terms; but we think that, if the names of the fathers of the young men who are now obtain- ing a fancy education were all publish- ed, it would be dillicult to pick out a dozen whom the concensus of public opinion would call poor men. But. the really poor men, whose boys and girls have to earn their living as soon as the law releases them from the commOn I >0l100l, are compelled to pay for part of the education of the children of the. comparatively rich, and that is where- the cruel injustice of the system come.- in. As the Toronto Star suvs. “ edu- cation has become a fad in Canada, and the Province is paying for high school~ which the people themselves should in- dividually pay for.” About a month ago the University of Toronto asked l for $20,000 to meet the estimated defi- cit lor the Current year. and the (1/qu ifavorcd the granting of that sum for 'scvcrul reasons, one of which was that “ a State Cannot afford, for the. sake ot acornparatively small espenditure, to allow the special talents of its sons and l daughters to remain undeveloped or to compel lhem to go abroad tor their l l cots who cinuot offer! to pay the. pres- - l i training;” but it appears to us that par l ;.-ut mo lcratc university fees are not in ‘ a position to send their children abroad for their training. l l It would be bad enough to tax the; p ,_ ._ ,, I, \H .1 “Yum, lentire body of ratepayers for the higher 1 1" “My Ml'son’ ‘11 ' “it ‘ I" ' 3 education of the children of a few if value vecrc obtained for tho men-iv so expended; but there can be no doubt at. all that. a Very musixlerable portion of it is worse than wasted, because in l i i l l l l many cases the learning‘ acrptired is ' Ontario would take a loll~ from th .413, ‘O- so? either forgotten from want of use, or the l departmental stores and advertise and unfortunate youths find after years of study that. from want of natural quali- fications, they are lamentable failures in the prof'eSsions into which they have been minim-d. The G/obe admits lll‘ll “ it wcnll be better for the community if ll\-‘ Margit-s of a larger proportion of its people were devoted to productive Clnpi-lelu‘tllfi.” but “ protests against sell goods as they do, they would speed- ily secure a larger and better trade than they now have. and bring dollars to their own town that at present go to Toronto and elsewhere The wayâ€"- and the only wayâ€"that this much-lo- bee-desired end can be accomplished is to secure a generous space in the adver- tisiug columns of th - l v ’.ll papers and the -i-:e'ri::..- that any cl I55 of Ca mdim l advertise persisletttl. anl Well, quoting - u ‘ o I citizens ought to be kept in lu‘: While in order that they any be e-uitent to do gin of profit. The (Ho/m , simply bt‘t'IUSi‘ l‘l-‘v c.1lâ€"-â€"â€"-ir {hi lk Um,- mauunl ltlmr for the rest." can. if it think ill, cal. everyone. who has not had a c loge education ‘- ignor- ant," but John Ruskin did not, neither do we, and it is almost certain that at 101131 nllltllt't‘ll-twcllliclhs of the promi neut and the professions) in the whole Dominion, are ignoramuses, judged by the GIobr's standard. lint what is the result of the costly crammng process, as l lr, at least, as teachers are coucu‘ued? School liisp-‘etrr James L. lid-hes of Toronto ought to know, and this is what he says: " The average public school teacher is a repository of petty knowledge, undi- gested and inaccurate. His science is only sciolism. 'For the most part, he is a narrow, pedagogical, unsympathetic. dogmatical ass. llc knows nothing outside of the text-books, and those he has by rote.” The duty of the teacher is to make his pupils like unto himself. and what parent is willing to have his son converted into the kind of an ass described by Inspcctor Hughes ?â€"â€"to whom some of the teachers may feel in- clined to reply: " You’re another." We have. nothing whatever to say about. colleges and universities except in their favor, but they should be entirely sup- ported by those who derive benefit from them. The Carnival. Wednesday night's carnival was a success. In fact it was a howling suc. cess. It was something like what a carnival ought to be, like what more of them will be, and not like what some of them have been. Any and all carnivals heretofore held were eclipsed. There were more costumes, and more of them really good ones, than have been seen at like events at the Falls for many a day. The rink directorate are pleased. And they desire as to thank those who im- orted costumes from Toronto and those who designed and constructed costumes at home, for the trouble and expense they incurred to make the car- nival what it was. Iccmakcr llIcClcn- nan- was pleased, too, for the ice was erfect, and he made the ice. The Maypole was perfectly lovely. So were the young ladies who wound it with ribbons around and around, and around and around and around. the confusion, caused by the contact of a ribbon and a hatpiu, was l0vel_v. The Master of Ceremonies tried to look cross, but it's a sure thing that away down in the bottom of his heart he was hoping the blessed tangle would stay tangled forever. He also was lovely. In fact cvurything was lovely, and everybody was pleased, masqueraders, skaters and directors and spectators. The following is a partial list of those in costume. There are others, but they didn't hand in their cards. Miss Minnie Archer, Fantasy. Mable Sandford, Fairy Witch. Maud Sandford, Liberty Bell. Maud Bell, Good Luck. Ethel Lytlc, Viclelc. Irene McDougull, lIousc-maid. Mmaie Ellis, Cretan Maiden. Janet li‘. tobinson, Gipsy. A. Robson, Italian Gipsv. Leonie Calder, Sailor Lassie. Lena Austin, Ina 'I‘remaiu. A. Austin, Queen of Diamonds. Bird Clark, Highland Shepherdcss. Mary McArthur, Dolly Vardeu, Jennie Graham, Lady of 1860. J. Sullivan, June. Emily Hind, Juliet. Funny Brandon, hittlc llood. Clara Thompson, Stars and Stripes. Annie Todd, Flower Girl. A. Aldous, Papa's Only Girl. Mr. James L. Arnold, Irish Gentleman. Thomas Austin, Pink l’ills. Frank Rutherford, Negro. Dennis T .vumcy, Spanish Cavalier. A. Applrby. Dutchman. J. It “and. King OfSpadt-i. Lewis Wilson, Sportsm ll). John Denny, Volunteer. All; -ri no my. Hit and Miss. Arthur York. Santa Claus. tuber! Lee, Jester. I}. (l. Hand, Marmaduke Travers. lIarry Slodd.-.rd. British Soldi 1'. George ll only, l’edro. Wilbert “catty, Jockey. Walter llcll, Sailor. Ellsworth Austin. Farmer Wayback. Willie Maybee. Clown. The following prizes were awarded: Ila-st costumr. lst Miss lird Clark, 2nd, Miss tcd Riding S.n-i,;u;.- and Miss Mary Nevison ; Girl's rncc, Advice to Merchants. The Whitbv Chlmticlc says 2â€"- priccs for cash at. the vorv lowest mar~ Poop-3 bit; in Toronto 3 can «buy chmper; but ah ‘3' also know l i successful men (outside ofl hundred miles away, they will choose . Minnie Archer: Ilest couple, Mr. Thomas l. l l l 'wo have “been there." that they must have the spot cash. lt' buyers are shown by prices quoted that tin-y can buy as :ltl\':l'l.'ll;t‘illl>l_\' in their county town as in a city fifty or one the former every time. People in the country buy in the larger towns simply because they believe they can buy cheaper; and people in the. towns buy in the city for the very same reason. It is only by advertising liberally and quoting prices ‘hat. our merchants can show these people their error. They can be reached much quicker through their pocketsâ€"especially when times are hard and everyone is trail): to make or save the mighty d lil.ll‘â€" than they can by preaching loyalty to their own district." Darwin’s Theory. Darwin’s theory of the “survival of the fittest" is that the weakly die and the strong and robust live. The re :e- table and floral kingdoms have illus- tratcd this grand theory Io every person planting vegetable and flower seeds. It is not necessary to be familiar with the writings of Darwin, Huxley, llaeckcl or LcCountc to prove how essential it is to plant seeds which nature, assisted by science. has evolved into the highest, state of p-rl'rction. The great seeds- tnen, D M. Fcl'l‘l’ & Co., Windsor, Ou- tario, have done more in the practical evolution ofasceds than any other seed house in the world. They produce and send out Seeds that not only grow but attain a high type of perfection; for nearly forty years they have devoted their best skill and energy in this di- rection. We are. just in receiptof their beautiful Seed Annual for 1897, which is full of practical information lor not only the skilled gardener but the num- teur. We note, with pleasure, the entire absence in this book of exagger- ated and impossible products listed by secdsmen as novelties. They offer to send thi.s expensive work free to all who apply for it. Ferry & Co ’8 seeds are sold by all first-class tlcnlerswif your merchant does not. keep them, send direct to them. Personals. Even . Miss‘ Ada McK -own left on Monday to visit relatives at Garden llill. Mr. W. C. Moore and Mr. Wm. Givens of Bobcaygeon were at the Falls. on Monday. Mr. Joseph Irwin. who has been visiting friends at Fenclon Falls and Dunsford since the let of January, left last Friday for Fmrcuta, Manitoba. Miss Kate Austin, who is studying in the Collegiate Institute at Lindsay, was home from Saturday last until Mon day. Mr. Thomas Graham, of Graham & 00.. left on Tuesday for a business trip to Kirkficld and Victoria Road and rc-- turned next day. Mr. Frederick Grise. eldest son of’ Mr. Didacc Grisc of Midland, was at the Falls on Monday last. Miss Todd of Btrrie, niece of Mrs. H. J. Lytlc, is visiting- hcr relations. at the Falls. Miss Boyd left for her home at Peter- borough on Thursday morning, after a. three weeks’ visit at Mr. Wm. Mom Kcown’s. Kinmount. (Corraepomlmzca 0/ the Gazelle.) Mrs. Allnach of Fem-ion Falls is. visiting her friend, Mrs. W. J. llarpcr. Q lite a number are sick with the Mr. A. Moore. jewellor, has been away for a few daysvisiting his brother in Stanhopc. \VO hear that .‘lis- J. (ia'uplr ll, for- mer teacher of this place. is to be Hun < ried this week. We wish her away happiness. Mr. Whitewnith is wi'h us again sellingjcwollury :l'l'l l-‘p"(:lll’3lté.-i. Judg. I ing from his frequent, visits, business in his line must be very goo-l. grippc. They hive our sympathy, for and can say from experience that any one who has it needs all the sympathy he can get. for, besides pain< and aches from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, the sufferer must. swallow about a. dozen different kinds of medicines, and poulticcs and liuimcnts are applied will you begin to feel like a travelling drug, “ It the merchants of every town in store. :7