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0. i . ' HARDWARE STORE. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T0 Iu‘.’ CUSTOMERS AND THE PUBLIC ' '. . GENERALLY. ; I desire. to draw your attention to the fact that I have and will have ,, the largest, best and cheapest stock ,- of Hardware, Paints, Oils, Tinware and Stoves ever offered in the county g of Victoria. I have succeeded in purchasing direct from the manufaeâ€" turcrs this year’s supply, and . WILL SELL IN MANY LINES AS CHEAP AS I USED TO BUY . for myself. I shall personally be ' behind the counter morning, noon x, and night, and - IF ‘om JDE’ LETS You our , WITHOUT PURCHASING it will be because you want the'earth ' for nothing. If you don’t want to ‘ s ladi‘m _ ,.“I_ _ . . buy give me a friendly call anyhow. s m, ‘hanking everyone for their patronâ€" â€"; age this last seventeen years, Yours Respectfully, . ‘. n I -'.i Sn . l an: srin aura nuts. The undersigned beg to announce to their numerous customers and the public generally that their new 0 Roller Flour Mill is now completed, and grinding night IO and day. The machinery throughout is of the most 10 modern pattern, and the quality of the output second i0 to none in Ontario. Special attention given to gristing O and chopping. We pay Lindsay prices for wheat and O coarse grains, of which we want an unlimited quantity. lo Hides and skins, Furs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, ct.e._. bought and sold. Agents for the Canada'Carriage Company. Parties buying Flour or Feed in quantities would do well to write us for quotations before purchasing. McDongnll, Brandon & Austin. BIG BARGMNS LL Nilth ins tins WM. CAMPBELL’S ---ron--~ THE NEXT SIX WEEKS. Feuelon Falls, 10th November, 1896. The Feuelon Falls Gazette. Friday, March 19th, 1897. THE BIG FIGHT. The fight at Carson, Nevada, on Wed- nesday last, for 830,000 and the heavy- weight championship of the world, re- sulted in a victory for Fitzsimmons, who knocked out his opponent, Corbett, in the fourteenth round. The new cham- pion’s home is in Australia, but he was born in Cornwall, England, of English parents. The Crow's Nest Pass Railway. The Toronto Globe has, throughout the many years we have faithfully read it, made up its mind so quickly upon matters of public interest, and an- nounced its views in such lucid and explicit language, that our inability to understand its position regarding the projected Crow’s Nest Pass railway made as fear that our intellect was becoming muddled ; and it is therefore a great relief to find that several far more pretentious journals than the F. F. Gare in doubt as to what course the Globe advises, andwish it to state plainly whether it is in favor of or opposed to the construction of the rail- way by the C. P. R. The Telegram says :â€" “ In one paragraph the Globe suggests that the C. P. R. is so independent of , the country that it can build the Crow’s Nest Pass railway whether the country likes it or not. If that be the true po- silion of the C. P. R., will the Globe kindly tell the public why Sir William Van Horne should be insane enough to surrender any corporate right or privil- ege in return for aid which the Globe has intimated the C. P. R. can get along without? The real advocates of Gov- ernment control of railways are the journals that have insisted that Canada is not now helpless. The real enemies of Government control of railways are the Globe and journals like it, which have insisted that Government creation and operation of the Crow’s Nest PaSs railway would be of no service at all to the country. The Globe pretends that it is anxious to secure concessions from the C. P. R., and yet the whole effect of the Globe’s argument has been to per- suade the public that the position of the , C. P. R. is so impregnable that it is practically independent of any and all Concessions. If the Globe’s argument be sound, what possible reason can it give for believing that, since the C. P. R. has everything it needs, it will sur- render concessions in return for anything which the Government has to give? If the Globe had. really wanted to serve the country, why should it have employ- ed all its energies in supplying the C. P. R. with reasons to be stiff-necked and haughty ? The Globe professes to be- lieve that the concessions which it would wrest from the C. l’. R. would be worth millions to the country. And the Globe asks the country to believe that the C. P. R. is going to yield concessions worth millions in return for privileges which are not a matter of life and death to its plans for controlling the trade of the Keotenay country. controversy the Globe has been profess. ing to advocate Government control in arguments which. ifthey mean anything, mean that the C. P. R. is in a position :to get everything it wants and give up nothing.” We regret to be forced to admit that there are grounds for what the Telegram says, and we still more regret to be forced to admit that the Globe has de- scendedâ€"if only a few inchesâ€"the pedestal from the apex of which it has hitherto been the object of our respect- ful admiration. Judging from its past record, its readers expect it to regard the Crow’s Nest Pass railway question with a single eye to the public interest; but, as the Telegram plainly shows in the above quotation, it has also an eye for the interest of the C. 1’. R. True. the Globe insists that the C. P. R. shall receive on aid to build the line from the Government unless the Company give a quid pro quo in the shape of a surrender of some of its present rights and privileges; hut in one of its early editorials the Globe declared that ex- perience showed that it was impossible to control a great railway corporation ;» and, if this he so (which we doubt) the Government might as well say at once -to the C. P. IL, “whatever you say shall he, must be : ifyon are strong, be merciful." Bodies and Souls. There is reason to suspect that some, at least, of the missionaries in India are trying to make the interests of the bed- ies of the wretched natives subservient i to the interests of their souls; in other words, that, mixing almsgiving and pro- selytising, they are making the receipt of relief conditional upon the receipt of Christianity. A short time ago we saw Throughout this i it stated in a letter from India that the famine-stricken sufferers were given just enough food to keep them alive, because if they were fed liberally they would go away in search of employment; and the only meaning we could attach to this statement was, that the missionaries wished to keep the poor creatures within their reach in the hope of converting them. Something the same spirit is breathed in a letter written to the Oril- lia Packet by the Rev. R. P. .‘lackay. Secretary of the Presbyterian Foreign Missions, who says: “ Congregations that use their regular missionary funds and divert these to the Famine Relief, are not serving the best interests of In- dia, in the long run. The famishing should be fed, but much more should we give them the Broad of Life, that saves the soul, and will make the recur- rence of such distress as this less fre- quent." This is the first hint we have ever had that the religion of the people ,of India had anything whatever to do with the famine, which was owing to want of rain at the proper season. but which, a writer in Ifeyuolrl‘s's Newspaper asserts. would have cost. but few lives if England did not tax the people of the country so nnmcrcil‘ully that they can't lay up food, or its equivalent, money, in plentiful years to support them in a year of scarcity- Whatever the cause of the famine, its Consequences are most deplorable, and those who have Contrib- uted to the fund for the relief of the starving millions intended that the food purchased therewith should be distrib- uted unconditionally, and not given in exchange for “ works that will be for the permanent advantage of missionsâ€" such, for example, as the preparation of building material etc." That labor is demandedâ€"from some of the sufferers, at leastâ€"as payment for food, is dis- tinctly stated by Mr. Mackay, but upon ; what grounds he or any other missionary assumes the right to make religious cap- ital out of a national calamity he does not say. Well-meaning Christians who think that heatliens will suffer endless their forefathers, for hundreds of gener- ations, have lived and died, are right in establishing and supporting missions, but the appropriation to that purpose of a single dollar of the famine fund‘is per- fectly unjustifiable; besides, what reli-» ance can be placed on the profession of conversion ofa starving heathen who may fear that his painfully empty stom- ach may not be satisfactorily filled un- less lie pretends to be overcome by the eloquence and arguments of the mis- sionary. A well-fed missionary and a starving heathen are not on equal terms in a. theological discussion, and our sym- pathies are with the weaker party. The missionary should give his opponent. rations until he is restored to his full bodily and mental vigor and then en- deavor to convince him of the beauties of a religion that prompts its professors to send relief to people of a different race and creed thousands of miles away. The Cost of Education. A recent issue of the Toronto Star had an article on the cost of education, in which it said that it is right that every care should be taken to see that the resulting benefit is commensurate with the outlay of the enormous sums spent annually by the people of Ontario on. the education of the young in ele- mentary schools, secondary schools and universities. The Star thinksâ€"or, rather, says that many appear to think I -â€"that full value for the money expend- ed cn elementary schools is not got, and that.“ there is an uneasy feeling abroad that the quality of the teaching profes- sion is deteriorating," which dctcriora« tion is attributed, chiefly, to the fact that young, inexperienced girls are taking the place of men in pedagogic chairs._ Not only in teaching, but in every occupation not requiring niueh bodily strength, women are superseding men, and the Star will take high rank as a public benefactor if it can discover a remedy for the evil. It is an evilâ€" not because Women are not as compe- tent as men to fill many of the positions tliey_occupy, hutâ€"because female com- petition solowers the rateof wages that the number of young men unable to marry is annually on. the increase ; and the only remedy we can think of is to legalize polygamy and allow rich men to have as many wives as they can afford to keep. ‘ There is not only an outcry against the cost of education, but against the lowncss of teachers' salaries also; and some time ago a resident of Orillia suggested, through the columns of the Packet, that the school trustees, when advertising for a teacher, should state the highest salary they could afford to give and then select the best applicant for the position. The sngchtion was dictated by a liberal spirit and was therefore commendable; but we doubt whether any good would result from it except to the teacher chosen; for the offer of a high salary would attract so many applicants with (apparently) ham, 356.25; that no board 0? school trustees could certainly decide which one they ought to engage. A similar suggestion would be laughed to scorn in nineteen localities out df every twenty. for the people feel the unreason- able school tax so grievous a burden that the man who advocated a voluntary increase of it would be looked upon as not much better than a lunatic or sns‘ pccted. of some personal motive. The only feasible way to lessen the cost of education is to deprive it of Its “fringes” and thus lessen the number of teachers in the public schools School Board Meeting. Feuelon Falls, March 15th 1897 Regular meeting. Members present- Messrs. F. McDougall (chairman). Jos: Heard, T. Austin, Dr. Wilson and Geo lattleton. Minutes of previous meet: ing read and confirmed. Mr. Austin made his re Xc~ - It a . mg the schools. P mspwt \ Moved. by Mr. Heard, seconded by .lr. dustin, That thefollowing accounts he paid and the chairman give his orders for the asa'i‘ne 1â€"Mr. Mnybcc, quarter‘s salary, $97.50; Miss Cullen, do., 375; Miss Sullivan, 881.25; Miss Bellini"- Miiss ilfiicniveu Q7"; Mr. Rolland, from Feb. 8th tb :Xpril lst. 1897, S38; Miss Bell. caretaker, glsiigoi‘hlil's. Deymnn; do., 811.25‘ . m'ensure re nirinu nu . ‘ well, $13.11.â€"Carri)ed. a p )p and \I Moved by Mr. Austin, seconded by l r. liittlcton, That the clerk notify the ‘stafi' of teachers of 'both schools that thle sermons terminate at midsummer. ~â€"(.arned. , . The board then adjourned. Personals. â€"â€" lllr. Del. Bosw ll 1 f Midland. e 0 t on Mr. George Jewell left on Tuesday Monday for for Huntsville. torments for being of the faith in which ' Mr. Townley, of Graham & 00.. went to Lindsay on business last. Mou- day, returning the same day. Miss Lily, Burgess left on Mondnv for a months Visit to her friend, Mr; W..S. Seott (nee May Greene) at T0- routo. Mr. Lew Wukeley, who left the Falls several weeks ago for liindSay, returned on Monday, and is again a member of Graham 8:. Co.'s staff. Mr. Philip Burgess left on Monday as delegate from Feuelon Falls Circle No. 127 to the Supreme Circle of Home Circles at Brantford, and will return to. day, Friday. Mr. A. Clark, Jr., who left five weeks ago for Manitoba and the Northwest got home on Tuesday with a largei‘ number of orders than he ever booked on any prevmus trip. Mrs. R. McDougall returned on Tues- day last from Toronto, where she iii- spected the stocks of spring goods just opened in the wholesale millinery estab- lishments, and picked out a large and chOiec assortment to bring home. Mr. Patrick Kelly, caretaker of the public library, was 80 years old on St. Patrick's Dayâ€"Wednesday lust. Not- withstanding his advanced age, he is nearly as erect and soldierly looking as licavas when he came to the Fella-and is in, the enjoyment of. anaellent health. Kinmount. (Carrcspomlcnce of! the Guwlle.) Mrs. and Miss Rutherford. of Fen- elou Falls, are visiting friends here. The local Union .of the Young Peo- ple’s Christian Endeavor Societies held a meeting in the Union church on Fri- day, March 12th.. Quite a number of deaths have occurred lately. There were four funer~ als in the village last week. Since our last correspondence the family circle of Mr. John Train was increased by the addition of a “little blessing " in the form of a baby girl. On Tuesday, March 16th. a party was held at the home of Mr. Joseph Crcgo. It was a decided success, and, as the weather was clear and cold (none of your damp, wet, foggy nights) the walk of half a mile from the village to the home of Mr. Crcgo was enjoyed immensely by those who attended the party. Powles’s Corner. (Correspondence of the Gazelle.) The evangelistic services held here have been brought to a close, and several have chosen a new leader and a faithful guide. and a friend that stick- eth closer than a brother. Our prayer is that they maybe faithful unto death, and they shall receive a crown of life. Mrs. E. Beacoek is in a low state of health at present. Dr. McAlpine, of Lindsay, is the medical attendant. It is to be hoped that she may be restored to her former health. - --____mwv"~’