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VOL. XXVI. g “Ewpoési'dml AND Biff BIOHT. PERFUMERY, WRITING TABLETS, turns and ENVELOPES IN LARGE VARIETY. IS MY TRADE IN WEDDING RINGS SO LARGE ? I TRY OUR ferleelron Headache Powders news. a... ._M.,,_ and against all temptations, used only the purest gold, and I pay my work- men sutiiciently well that they can afford to be honest. I have bad workmen ofi'er to make rings for nothingâ€"they would steal enough gold to pay their wages. When you want a ring of any kind write Gill... ll. Bllll, Oldest Established Jeweller, LINDSAY. Perfection Catarrh Powder and be convinced of their efficacy. Cheap Shoes. We are constantly adding new goods in all lines to our stock. PRICES ARE RIGHT. CHEAP is a word with two meanings when applied to Shoes. First, something that is low-priced and poor; and: secondly, something for which a low price is asked, and yet of good quality. We intend to call your attention to a few lines of goods coming under the second meaning, as follows: The old reliable Drug Store. LVTLE 8< GO. Professional Cards. .7 Wopan's Doncgola Oxford Hand-.trned, black, Regular $51.75 for $1.25 r. ' #â€" 7;.“‘I_" A “A :2 “ Siacs3and 3:} “ for LFEAL- “ “ “ I “ earmine, 3,35,4,4.}»,5 “ ' 1.40 for 1.00 “ “ Strap Slippers, hand-turned, black, 3, 3;, 4 “ 1.25 for 90 MoLAUG I-ILIN 8.: MCDIARM ID, BARRISTERS, Solicitors, Etc., Lindsay and Ferrelon Falls. Lindsay Ollice: Kent-St., opposite Market. Fenelon Falls Office: Over Burgoyne 8: Co’s store. The Ferrelon Falls office will be open every Monday afternoon from arrival of train from Lindsay. WMoney to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. R. J. McLauonms. F. A. McDrArnnn. VICTORIA : LOAN and SAVINGS GO. Incorporated under statutes of the I’rovince of Ontario. Head Office. - Lindsay, Ont. Smythe’s Block, opposite the Market. These goods MUST be sold to make room for Fall stock. Can you use thee/n :3 A. P. DEVLIN, ARRISTER, Attorneyâ€"at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Kent Street,Lindsay. I. I. AWN. Fire Insurance Agent, representing the Northern, Imperial, and Phoenix of Hartford. 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 safest place to deposit money. No speculative business is done. G. H. HOPKINS, ARRIS’I‘ER, &c. SOLICITOR 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 dc JACKSON, Apply to naarsrsas, SOLIUITORS,‘ die. or. JOHN MAG-WOOD, fice,William street,Lindsai. J _ or to Manager, Lindsay, . .r\ . . ACKSON F D [00“ _. McLaughlin8z McDiarmid (Mondays) --'â€"-â€"â€"-â€" H. J. Lytle }Fenelon Falls â€"4ltf. m Correspondence. DR. A. WILSON, -â€"-M. 13., M. c. r. a s., Ontario,â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON 82 ACCOUCH- cur. Office, Colborne Street, Fenelon Falls. we can HARDLY ' SPARE TIME To write advertisements, as our trade this season has Opened up better than ever. Instead of telling you a lot in this paper, call and see what we are doing in Suits and Overcoats for the The Sidewalk Question. To the Editor of the Gazette. Sm,â€" My attention has been called to a letter which appeared in last week’s issue of the Lindsay Watchman, and which pro- tended to set forth in terms intended to be final, the “ facts ” and exact circumstances in connection with the purchase of the sidewalk plank in May last. Now, sir, although this letter was not addressed to me, my name has been so freely used in connection with this matter, and the argu- ments used by the chairman of the streets and bridge committee are so manifestly unfair, and calculated at any cost to any one to protect himself and cover up the DR. 1). GOULD, Graduate Toronto University, Member College Physicians and Surgeons, Ont. Office at Lytle & Co.’s Drug Store. Resr- deuce Francis street west. E. 1). SDIITIâ€"I, ETERINARY SURGEON and Dentist. Graduate ofOntario Veterinary College Live Stock Inspector for North Victoria by' appointment of Dominion Government. Utlice and address â€" CAMERA), Os'r. ...â€"â€"â€" MUSIC. Vvvvvv AAA/\AA ' . , .' ' , t fl'd-.'t,t,tltll:' MORSE Winter. We w 111 make 1t worth your 3235351.:.33...2.‘}1‘.3i°3as .‘rir..g.,‘.‘.‘.§ ORWI“ A' ’ . not in any way as an employee of the To. Organist Cambridge Street Methodist \Vhlle. ronto Bank millâ€"to ask you to kindly grant me a little space in your paper, that I may be enabled to give to the ratepayers . of this municipality the benefit of my ex- , I perrence in lumber in a frank and impartial criticism of the letter; and in this way prove to them how far Mr. Austin was cor- rect in his statements; how far he was actuated by a desire to advance the inter- ests of the people, and how far he was actuated by the first and foremost instinct of man, the art of self preservation against the evil day to come. First of al1,liow- ever, before I go any further, let it again be distinctly and most emphatically under- stood that Mr. Wright, whose employee I am, and whose interests I always consult in every detail in matters pertaining to business, and who, furthermore, is amply competent to write himself if he wished to, has no knewlcdge whatever ofi this letter. but I am acting exclusively in 3 my capacity as a ratepayer of Fenclon l Falls. Now,I have no wish in the least, degree to be personal, nor do I wish to be . anything else than fair to all parties conâ€" i eerned; but let us look into this matter without fear, favor or affection. To begin ‘, with, I contend that the street and bridge 3 committee chairman’s letter is unfair, and is above all things actuated by a desire to persuade the ratepayers into believing that if their best interests were served, and thar,r Church, Lindsay, Music Teacher. At llrooks' Ilotel, Ferrclon Falls, every Tues- day. Terms moderate. 32. SURVEYORS . I ._.._... ..___‘._.____. JAMES DICKSON, L. Surveyor, Commissioner in the Q. B., P. Conveyancer,&c Residence,and ad- dress, Fenelon Falls. MW The Dominion Government’s Last Requisition ‘ for Tea Called for SALADA Ceylon Tea or its equal, thus showing the standard value of DENTAL. ,_..___._â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" Dr. llEELIllDS, DENTIST, LINDSAY, Extracts teeth without pain by gas (vital- ized air) administered by him for ‘27 years. Ilc studied the gas under Dr. Colton, of New York, the originator of gas for'exlract- iug teeth. Dr. Colton writes Dr. heelands that he has given the gas to 186,417 per- sons without an accident from the gas. Other pain obtunders used. A good set of teeth inserted for $10. 38‘ Dr. heelandsf visits Fcuelon Falls (McArthur House) the i g L D third Tuesday of every month. Call early‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . and secure an appointment _________._.._____.â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" I. H. GROSS, DENTIST. The beautiful Crown and Bridge work practised with success. Gas and allother anmsrhclica for extracting teeth without. iW. L. Fenelon Falls. TAKE NOTICE.-â€" The only place you can purchase this Tea, here is at even if this was not the case, some one‘ else, and not the street and bridge com-' mittee chairman, was to blame. If not, 2 why should Mr. Austin strive to create the ‘ impression that the Back offered them cull lumber only, when in reality four kinds of: _. pain. A set of Artificial Turk, better than the average, for $8 00. Rooms directly ppposito Wood's store depot,Lrudsny. ; = lumber wereIofl'ered at four different prices 'I \I by should he try to throw the blame on to the shoulders of another by stating that Mr. Martin said, “As the Bank had no cedar they had better award the tender to Mr. Ellis”? whereas,whnt Mr. Martin really said was that the best thing to do would be to go and see the lumber and choose after- wards, and he was not the only member of the council who_ to my own knowledge held this same opinion; but Mr. Austin was chairman and Mr. Austin had a grudge to settle,nnd settle it he did. The village paid the shot because Mr. Austin's motto was triumphant, viz: “ To h-â€"ll with the Bank, we will buy no plank from them i i' I am sure the Bank did not care a great deal, for it could not possibly have made any very material difference in the length of time required in getting rid of over 30,000,000 feet of lumber, even if they did make a sale to this village of a couple or three carloads of what is considered the most saleable stock on hand; so that, after all, the triumph was robbed of the sting as far as the Bank was concerned; but still the sting was there, and somebody had to get it, and the ratepayers filled the bill, because, if any advantage was to accrue to anyone, through having the Bank submit a tender, it would and should be to the rate- payers and not to the Toronto Bank, .\lr. Ellis or any other person who had plank to sell. I have always been of the opinion, and have expressed myself that way to Mr. Ellis personally, that, all things being any way near equal, he, by virtue of being a long resident here, and a profitable one at that, in so far as being a manufacturer and employer of labor, was the person who should be favored if any one was. I have never tried, nor do I wish in any way to criticize Mr. Ellis for his part in the trans- action as far as concerns what he paid for the plank, when he got it, 110w he bought it, what amount of profit he made on it. what he did with the portion that was not suitable for sidewalks, or what proportion of it was obtained from the Bank mill yard. All these things are Mr. Ellis’s own busi- ness, and I can see where he may have made only an ordinary legitimate profit on that portion of it which he purchased from the Bank, and he is at liberty to make any profit that he can; many people around here have purchased that same plank, and it is well known what it is like and how much is charged per thousand for lumber marked 89. However, in this instance he sold the corporation for $11 per thousand what they might have purchased for $6.50 certainly not more than $8 per thousand. delivered on the ground in all lengths re- quired. The street and bridge committee chairman states in his letter that the To- ronto Bank mill offered cull lumber forSG.50 per thousand; but it was all lengths and widths and was unsuitable for sidewalks, as the said walks are 4, 6 and 8 feet wide, so the waste in cutting cull lumber would be very great and make it dear lumber in the long run.” Now let us see how far Mr. Austin was right in this statement, and how much he knows about lumber. I say and I know that the Toronto Bunk offered four kinds of lumber, two of which at least were away below the tender accepted. First of all we come to the item of the 2x5 and up, 10 to 16 foot long mill culls; and this is the most important item, be- cause Mr. Austin has said that it was no use for sidewalks, and I am going to prove that he either did not know what he was talking of or else considers the ratepayers a dead easy mark. By his own admission we have it that the sidewalks were to be four, six and eight feet wide, and as this class of plank is cut at the mill into lengths of 10, 12,14 and 10 feet, I am un- able to understand why it could not be made to apply. 'I‘en foot will make 6 and 4 ; l2 will make two 6 foot pieces or 811ml 4 foot; 14 will make 8 and 6; and ll) will make two 8 foot pieces. So much for the lengths, now for the widths. Five inchr-s and wider, mostly 8 to 12 inches wide, is the average, as is there still to be seen in the piles-â€"-halfa million feet or over of it. This would be rather better average width than what was used,and this could have been had for $650 a thousand, but they paid Sll for it, and all because, as Mr. Austin says, the llank had no cedar; just us though any sane person could be made br- lievc that Mr. Ellis or any one else who had it would not sell them cedar at the price paid unless they bought plank of him also. Then, if this were not good enough, there was still within their reach the 2 x it! inches wide, l0 to It] feet long, hnx grade, at $8.50 per thousand, which, besides bu ing all one width, is certainly 24) per evnt. better plank for sidewalk purposes than that which was laid down. Another assur- tion which the street and bridge chairman makes in his letter is that ‘- we before: this got some of the same quality from the Hard: and it cost SHIN per thousand, Now here we have another instance of Mr. Au.» â€" rin’s unfairness. He puts hinmrll in it‘, an authority, and in the same sentence prov 1»: how little he knows about lumber, Mousse he does not state, and. it must be brain-'1' he does not know, that the plank for which they paid $l Lao was very much superior .zr quality to the class of planks in the silic- wulks In conclusion I might add that, thoughl have not men the bill, the no”! conservative estimate of the 103:.- [1) zip, ratepayers in this one transaction which ' I have yet heard mentioned. and which has the earmarks of reasonableness In recon:- mcnd it, wurld be $10“ or more, and which might have been saved lwl the degrw: of economy and ordinary Slit-:Wliflvti been practiced which we as ratepayers havr a ’ right to expect from the head of a depart- ment which has the spending of so IIHI‘ZII maney, and who is trusted to leok uftcr ll": best interests of the peOplc. A.l-1.GCIDAL. Fcnelou Falls, Nov. 1:1, 18:18.