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/’v '3’ on. XXV. FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 1898. No 52. Scribblers Given Free with every purchase of School Books at the ‘Fenelon Falls Drug Store H. J. LYTLE. Dec. 28th, 1897. GOOD FURNITURE Is always cheap furniture in the long run. Looks better. Wears better. Gives better satisfaction. I have the best and largest stock of furniture of all kinds, from the best manufacturers in the province, consisting of â€"DINING Roou FURNITURE, â€"nnonoo.\1 sn'rs, , â€"EASY CHAIRS, â€"â€"uooKsns, -â€"LUUNGES, â€"smsnoaaos, ...srtu.vcs AND narrnassns, â€"KI‘I‘CIIEN FURNITURE (all kinds), and prices are away down. Repairing and all ordered work promptly attended to. W Undertaking in all its branches. L. DEYMAN. SECOND DIVISION COURT â€"OF THE-â€" County of Victoria. The next sittings of the above Court will be held in Dickson's hall, Fcnelon Falls, ON THURSDAY, APRIL 28th,.1898, cnnmencingat 10 o’clock in the forcnoon Saturday, April 16th, will be the last day of survice on defendants residing in this Defendants living in other coun- county. ties must be served on or before Apt-.12tb. S. Nnvtson, E. D . HAND, Bailiff. Clerk Fenclon Falls, Feb. 3rd, 1898. IN SURANCE. \lr. Wrn. E. Ellis having transferred his Insurance Business to me, I am prepared to take risks on all classes of property At Very Lowest Rates None butfirst-class British and Canadian Companies represented ta" IPARDI PROPERTY at very low rates. James Arnold. ___________________.____._ The “ Fenelon Falls Gazette” is printed every Friday at the oliice, on the corner of May and Frencxs streets. BI‘BSCBIPTION 81 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or one cent per week will be added as long as itrcmnlns unpaid. Advertising Rates. Professional or business cards, 50 cents ‘. ‘ erline pernnnum. Cnsualadvertisements, " cents per line for the first insertion, and ,' cents per line for every subsequent inser- ' a. Contract: by the year, half year or less, upon reasonable terms. ,5 PRINTING . I ordinary kinds executed neatly, up. V :L y and at nodenle‘pricen. " n. n. nun, spirier Professional Cards. EUSIC. tutth in. MORSE, I Organist Cambridge Street Methodist .Church, Lindsay, Music Teacher. At :Brooks' Ilotcl, Fenelon Falls, every Tues- l day. Terms moderate. 32. l l y l 1' and Echelon Falls. chnt-St., opposite Market. Fenelon Falls g0fiice:0ver Burgoyne d: Co‘s store. The lFenclou Falls office will be open every llllundny afternoon from arrival of train from Lindsay. 5%“ Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. R. J. lchauontm. F. A. McDranum. PAILRISTERS, Solicitors, Etc, Lindsay. l Lindsay Office: A. 9. DEV LIN, ARRISTER, Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Kent Street,Lindsuy. c. n. HOPKINS, BARRISTER, kc. SOLICI'I‘OR FOR the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at lowest rates on terms to suit the borrower. Offices: No. 6, William Street South, Lind- say, Ont. MOORE & JACKSON, ARRISTERS, SOLIUITORS, kc. Of- tice, William street,Liudsay. l“. D. Moons. A. Jacxson MEDICAL DR. A. WILSON, -â€"n. 3., u. c. v.1. s., Ontario,â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON 3r ACCOUCH- cur. Office, Oolborne Street, Fenelon Falls. DR. H. H. GRAHAM, RADUATE of the University oi Trinity College, Fellow of Trinity Medical School, Member of the Royal College or Surgeons of England,.\lember of the Col- lege of Physicians 3; Surgeons of Ontario. Office and residence on Francis-St. \l'est' Fcnelon Falls, opposite the Gazette office. R. M. DIASON, ETERINARY SURGEON; Honor Grad- uate Ontario Veterinary College, To- ronto, l884 ; R. M. O. V. M. A. Residenceâ€"Francis Street East, Fcnelon Falls. 143. P. SDII’EI-I, ETERINARY SURGEON-and Dentist. Graduate ofOntario Veterinary College. Live Stock Inspector for North Victoria by appointment of Dominion Government. Office and address â€"â€" CAMBRAY, ONT. SURVEYORS. JAMES DICKSON, L. Surveyor, Commissionerin the Q. B., . Conveyanccr, &0 Residence, and ad- dress, Fenelon Falls. DENTAL. ~__'____.__â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"‘â€"â€"â€"-â€"v Dr. IIEELIIIIDS, DENTIST, LINDSAY, Extracts teeth without pain by gas (vital- ized air) administered by him for 27 years. He studied the gas under Dr. Colton, of New York, the originator of gas for extract- ing teeth. Dr. Colton writes Dr. Neelands that he has given the gas to 186,417 per- sons without un accident from the gas. Other pain obtunders used. A good set of teeth inserted for $10. 38"” Dr. Neelands visits Fenelon Falls (McArthur House) the third Tuesday of every month. Call early and secure an appointment W. H. GROSS, DENTIST. The beautiful Crown and Bridge work practised with success. Gas and all other auzesthetics for extracting teeth without pain. .4 set of Artificial Teeth, better than the average, for $8 00. Rooms directly opposite Wood’s stove depot, Lindsay. H. HART, L. n. s. . SET OF GOOD TEETH FORSIO. Gas and local anaesthetics for painless ex- tracting. Satisfaction guaranteed in all branches of dentistry. Ofiice Over Fairweather & Co’s store nearly Opposite the post-office, Lindsay INSURANCE. ’1‘0 the Public. HE ROYAL CANADIAN INSURANCE T Co. has amalgamated with the Alliance of England, giving insurers the security or $35,000,000 and the same good policy. JOHN AUSTIN,Agent 36" Also agent for the Queen of Eng land and Caledonian of Edinburgh. Capi- tatl combined,$45,000,900. Wm I can pay ten dollars weekly to a lady of matureage, refinement Ind tnctto spend her lime in a good cause. '1‘. ll. LIâ€"YSCO l‘l‘, Toronto, Ont. WHEN YOU WANT TO BUY W3. ch WRITE FOR PARTICULARS TO ' G. W. BEALL. Watchmaker, Lindsay. When you want a Watch Repaired Send it to G. W. BEALL, Watchmaker, Lindsay, And it will be well done. BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS. YOU WANT THEM. WE HAVE THEM- GOOD- CHEAP.'. CALL AND SEE. GEORGE MARTIN. THE WEST SIDE STORE. VICTORIA LOAN and SAVINGS CO. Incorporated under statutes of the Province of Ontario. Head Oflice. - Lindsay. Ont. Smythe’s Block, opposite the Market. LOANS. Money to Loan on Mort- gages at lowest current rates with no delay and small expense. DEPOSITS. The Company re- ceives money on deposit in their Savings department, and allows interest there- on at Four Per Cent. A mortgage company is the eldest place to deposit money. No speculative business is done. some mnewoon, Or to Manager, Lindsay, McLaughlin It McDiarmid (Mondays) H. J. Lytle }Fenelon Falls Apply to â€"4ltf. . WANTED. In every district on the continent to take orders for high-grade Canadianâ€"grown Nursery Stock and Seeds. Largest and most complete assortment in the trade. Fast selling specialties: superb specimens furnished free; correspondence in any lan- guage. These positions are money.makers, and territory should be secured at once for the season by all hustlers looking for a good thing. Our salary or commission otters will interest anyone not earning $l,000 per year. Get in communication with our nearest oflicc. An opportunity to represent a well-established house. Ability more important than experience. LUKE BROS. GOIPAIY, International Nurseries, CHICAGO, Illinois. Mon-rust, Quebec. Bocuurn, H. Y. 31.16 ls Canada Growing ltiore Sober. V (From the Hamilton Templar.) One of Principal Grant's arguments is that in the Dominion of Canada we are now gloriously winning the tight for temperance. He says “ though the fight is not yet completely won, why should we throw away the well tried swords which have served us so well for the rusty razors of Prohibition ? ” Of course that simply means we are getting more temperate every year, and drink- ing and drunkenness are fast decreasing. His words are very rhetorical, but are they true ? Goldwiu Smith and other anti-Pr hibition writers have been using the same “ argument ” for years. But is the statement true? Are not such conclusions based on false premises? If Dr. Grant had investigated the mat- ter for himself he would hardly have ventured on any such statement. Let any one turn to‘ the last Dominion statistical year book of 1896 (which is certainly a very reliable official author- ity, and was not prepared with any view to the temperance question) and he will find that, so far as the whole Dominion is concerned, the number of convictions for drunkenness has been steadily increasing for years. If these oflicial statistics are quite satisfactory to Dr.Grant they are alarming to other earnest temperance workers. On page 420 will be found tables for convictions for drunkenness in all the provinces for the past twelve years, and they tell their own sad story. Instead of the glorious “ victory " which the principal of Queen’s seems so enamored with, there were nearly two thousand more convictions in 1895 than in 1884. These are the years included in the tables referred to. It is quite true that in the province of Ontario there has been a very con- siderable reduction in convictions dur- ing that time, but the same cannot be said of Quebec and some of the other provinces. Ontario, it is well known, has been much given to using the “rusty razors ” of Prohibition. All persons are prohibited from selling with the exception of the actual license hold- ers, and these exceptions havo decreased from about 4,000 in 1884 to a little over 3,000 in 1896â€"3. falling elf of nearly one-fourth. The decrease in the number of drunks has been also about in tiresome proportion. In 1884 the convictions nutubered 4,694, and in 1894 they had fallen to 3,132. In 1884 the number of inhabitants to each such conviction was 423; in 1895 there was but one to each 702. Had Dr Grant been writing about Ontario alone his “facts” would have been nearer correct and his conclusions more logical, but he is writing ofa Dominion measure and his premises do not bear out any such conclusions as he reached. The provinces of Quebec and British Columbia have been much more of Dr. Grant’s mind in their reluctance to trying the Prohibition “rusty razors " than any of the others; and it is for these provinces the principal pleads that they ought not to be coerced by any possible majority elsewhere in the Do- minion. But what has been their ex- perience 7 Have they been so success- ful with those “well tried swords " of moral snasion and the license system merely? The year book tells its own story. In 1884 the number of such convictions in Quebec was 1,624, or an average of one to each 862 of the pop- ulation. In 1895 the number had more than doubled, being,Ir 4,307, or one to each 359 of the population. In British Columbia the convictions in 1884 num- bered 2357 being one to each 263, and in 1895 the convictions had increased to 498, or one to each 264. Taking the Dominion as a wholeâ€"and it is with this that the plebiscite discussion has to dealâ€"the total number of convictions for drunkenness has increased from 9,877 in 1884 to 11,558 in 1895. If such a “victory” for well “tried swords is quite satisfactory to some it is certainly not so to many. others. Not only has there been this deplor- able increase in the convictions for drunkenness, but. there has been also a large increase in the quantities of liquor annually consumed in the Dominion. Turn again to the official Dominion year book, page 202, and it will be seen that in 1872 there were consumed 3.808.291 gallons of spirits and 9.557,- 328 of beer, making a total of 13,365,- 619 gallons. In 1890 the consumption had increased to 2,332,859 gallons of spirits and 18,018,714 of beer, making a grand total of 20,351,573 gallons; being an enormous increase in the last twenty-five years. Dr. Grant may well remark, in view of just such facts, that. ‘ The victory is I) not yet completely won, but is he warranted in going on to ask, “ why in the name of cuminon sense " should we attempt any other methods when such “ have served us so well " ? These figures very plainly show that the consumption of liquors has increased more rapidly than the increase of our population. Dr. Grant refers to the small consumption of liquor per head in Canada being a source of congratnha tiou. But does any reference to such figures indicate that Canadians are now growing more sober, as he would give the people to understand ‘1 Turn again to the year book, page 203, and it will be seen in 1868, when Confederation . began, the consumption per head was as follows: Spirits, 1.60 gallons; Wines, 0.17; beer, 2.27; making a total of 4.04 gallons per head. In 1896 the figures stood thus: Spirits, 1.05; wine, 0.07; beer, 3 53, making a total of 4.65, being quite an increase. The fact is our “ progress ” has been backâ€" wards. The brewers may have reason to declare we are doing well as it is, “though the victory is not yet complete- ly won,” but have the dignitaries of a leading Presbyterian university any such grounds for congratulation ? The police statistics of the city of Kingston for the past year have just been published and they go a long way to show that even in that good old city where those “ well tried swords " have been, no doubt, so faithfully used dur- ing the past year, the victory has not been “ completely won,” or anything as near it as some have good reasons to ex- pect, all circumstances considered. Out of the 327 cases for all causes brought: before the police magistrate during the year, no loss than 200 of them were for drunkennessâ€"nearly two-thirds of them all. Of the others no less than 50 were for vagrancy, which is almost invariably the direct results of drinking and drunk- enness, and fourteen more for disorderly conduct, also, as a rule, the results of drinking. The assaults are also nearly all attributed to that cause. Deduct these and the balance left for all Other causes is very small indeed, but one class of them coming up to the dozen mark. The last quarterly return of the coa- victions made to the clerk of the peace for Frontenac, including Kingston, has recently been published, and it shows that of the seventy-seven cases before the Kingston police court during the last three months of 1897 no less than forty-three of these were of the drunken and disorderly claSs; twelve more of them were vagrauts, and several of the others. as the police reports from day to day plainly indicated, arose dircCtly out of the drunken condition of the criminal at the time. Is it n time to lull the public mind into a state of peace and tranquillity in regard to the liquor traffic when facts like these are staring us in the face from every quarter? Did Principal Grant ever really study the question at. all before he cssaycd to supply others with facts and conclusions ? [l' he ditl, what can be his possible ideas about; “ our comparatively happy condition of things," so far as the licensed drink traffic is concerned? Both his {acts and his conclusions are sadly at fault. His“ facts" and inferences regarding the Scott Act are similarly incorrecu and misleading, but these must be re- served for another letter. .' â€"â€"‘-â€"â€"â€".§ New Zealand. The eyes of all social reformers are turned to New Zealaud, that plucky lit,- tle British colony which is working out the experiment of so many reforms. Single taxch delight to quote New Zea- land, and the laws with respect to inâ€" dustrial reform are probably farther ad- vanced and more favorable than in any other cornar of the Queen's dominions. New Zealand is also the scene of a mag- niticent woman suffrage victory, and the splendid result is largely due to the leadership and pcreisteucy of one we- manâ€"Mrs. Sheppard of Christchurch. Year after year for twenty years the woman franchise leaders of New Zea- land have maintained a constant and vigorous demand for equal rights attire ballot box. 00 several occasions great petitioning campaigns have been carried out, the last in 1892, when more than twenty thousand women signed the pc- titions. Here is encouragement for our Canadian woman franchise leaders. end else where .-â€"â€"43t[ A Sunderland lady writes Dr. Neelands that be had made her a successful cum: having eight sets of teeth made in Tomato d