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VOL. XXXIX. any lines MID ll HdPP‘i NEW YEAR TO ALL â€"_ .7521: 151:1; mm:mm ' V - next- .- -s.:u.~;a.1..-< Wu 1: .01.... I have just bought a lame quantity of mods, from the best 111akers,f01 the Christmas trade. Chains N ecklets Lockets Bracelets Watches Clocks And other articles. Prices as low as can be sold for the quality. ldiliI SLATER Issuer of Marriage Licenses. The Old Reliable Jewelry Store. Fenelon Falis. e: .._-.>\~. ru;.>. .-v; 1.1.1.. And Christmas 1equisites for quite .. while. Have done some planning-«â€" a a good deal of buyingâ€"â€"â€"-and expect to: have a little bigger collection to pleas seE % t 011 than we have ever before asked on to look at _ ‘ _ . 1' 1‘ m Professional C ards l t E: E101y housekeepei ought to pick is from pmity for this occasi011---and itsE ere-â€"~ the purity-â€"- and its cost isnt any i. i: ii is E? i' McLAUGLl-IIN, PEEL, FULTON & . STINSON. .. l ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTAR- ies. Money to loan. Special atten- tion given to investments. I5 .1011 office at Wenelon F'alls, open eve-1;. Z.‘.uesday Lindsay ollice over Dominion Bank. R. J MchGan, K. O. A. M. Fumou,B. A. JAS. A. PE1..1. T. H. S'rmsou. h highei than you’re used to paying. l1 HOPKINS, WEEKS 1i: HOPKINS. , )ARRIS PERS, SOLICITORS, AND I) Notaries. Solicitors for the Bank of Montreal. Money to loan at terms to suit the borrower. Otlices N0. 6 William St. south, Lindsay, Out. and at Wood- ville, Ontario. - G. H. Horuiss, K. 0., C. E. WEEKS, F. HOLMES HOPKINS, B. A MOORE 81. JACKSON A RRIS'I‘ERS, SOLIUITORS, 310. Of iice,William street,hindsay. F. D. Moons. ‘ A. JACKSON __,___.__,.- STEWART & O’CONNOR, ARRIS TERS, NOTARIES, &o. MONEY , _ B to loan at lowest current rates. Terms ,3 ‘-"' ‘ to suit borrowers. Office on corner of Kent "7‘ and York streets, Lindsay. " T. Srswsm. L. V. O’CONNOR, B. A LEIGH R. KNIGHT. ARRIS’I‘ER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY ff Public. Successor to McDiarmid & .â€" Weeks. Visits made to Fenelon hall‘s by appointment. Money to loan anp Real Estate bought and sold. Ollice Kent St., ff Lindsay, Telephone 41. 1‘: J. L. ASNGLQ. Groceries, Boots and Shoes, _ Wall Paper, ClOCkel y E Jifllufirqu WW flfiflufit MLW finflhudfit nth: ilk MW 1115111.. 2131mm W million Jiiiiinuflitr 1W flimfltfltJflnLflLWJNmnflhz .rilfi: Adherifliuflimnflt 21%: fig . V ~- J's-“M'T'M‘ -.,.~..,. DENTAL Dr. 9...! suns, carrier, 3 Fenelon F alls. Graduate of Toronto University and Royal College of Dental Surgeons. ALL BRANCHES 0F DENTISTRY performed according to the latestimpreved methods at moderate prices. OFFICE:â€"-Over Burgoync’s store, Co]- orne street » Chrisrmas Cards 30., 50., 100., 120., 250., 350., etc., a beautiful line to choose from. COME ZEN IN. A. NORTHEY Drs.Neelands&lrv1ne. GBOGER _ TOYS _ BAKER DENTISTS - LINDSAY. Natural teeth preserved. Crown and bridge work aspecialty. Splendid fits in artificial teeth. Painless extraction. Gas administered .to over 9,000 persons with - great success. i606 WWMMWWW MEDICAL. . Every ,housekecpcr prides herself on the goodness of her Christmas Cake. GOID GRIIBEBIES i DR. H. 11.011.111.111. -â€"1.1.o.,c.11.,11 a. c. s. Eng.,11.c.r. A 11., 0111:, 11'. '1'. 11.11.â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCH- 0111'. Office. Francis Street, Fenelon Falls. DR. H. B. JOHNSTONE, succusson TO 1111. A. WILSON, RADUATE OF TORONTO UNIVER- Are our specialty, and we sity. Phy sician, Surgeon and Ac- devote our best- energies to Siouiii-iiis Otlice, Colborne street, Fcn- getting them for y011. That’s why everything you get for us is always good and never dear. AUCTIONEER. 'I‘ HOMAS CASHORE, humanize - FENELON 11.11.13. Sales of all kinds conducts d in a first- ofa'sa manner. Secure dates before ad- Robson 81 Son, Fenelon Falls. 2... . WW ”its“. 1-“;_;"_ ff :5. 3...... ‘ 1 jun, . . . . -.... ,. â€".â€"--â€"-__....W. ........ .. . . . _ . .\. . 1.... ,. .. ”I 1 N0. 45' BANK 0F MONTREM HEJLD OFFICE ESTABLISHED 1817 CAPITAL - $14,400,000.00. ASSETS OVER $220,000,000. . BANK DEPARTMENT. .& VINGS FIONTREAL. INCORPORATED BY AC'? OF PARLIAMENT REST $12,000.000.0 Deposits taken of $1 and upwards, which can be ~ withdrawn on demand. R M. Hamilton, Mgr. Fenelon Falls Branch I The Vagueness of Socialism. Anti-Socialists sometimes talk a lot of gut? about the vagueness of Socialâ€" 1s1n.I remembe1 running across a iepiesentative of this class? Said he 1. “One thing I have against Socialism is that I can’t undeistand it. I can’t geta definition of it that will not be repudiated by the next Socialist that I come acioss. A member of the So- cial Democratic Federation gives me one definition, a Clarionettc has an- other, and one of the Independent La bor Party wants something totally dif- ferent from either. If I could get a good wo1k1n0' definition they would all agree to, we might discuss it with some chance of getting ahead.” I asked him, first of all, what busiâ€" ness he had attacking, or, indeed, talk ing about, what on his own admission he “could not understan ” Then I took up his challenge for a definition. Anti-Socialists accuse us of being ag- nostics, atheists and free thinkers. It’s a lie, but let it pass. Attacking us on this ground is a1guing that Christian- ty is right; since, if it were not right, lJRSHIP AND MANAGEMENT. Now, the” Mr. Plausible. “One good tum dei serves another.” There me my politics in foui wor.ds Will you please put yours into fifty. You can’t? don’t you ever have the amazing efâ€" frontery to call our political platform “ Vague. ” It is nothing but colossal impudence for these old party spoileIs to talk as they do. So far from being vague in our motives, we are the only paity with a definite object, which we consistently pursue. It is the Grits and Tories, with their and ever changing .stories, who are ‘vague ’and who disag1ee amongst themselves. The Socialist Party is the only par» ty which is international. same aim and object in every country, and pursues the same object consist- ently. a definite end in View for which it strenuously works. It is, in short, the only party existing whose objects are not wrapped 11p in a. mist of words, and hidden behind a lot of long wind- ed v01 bos1ty The less old parties say' about vagueness, the better for them. 0111 being Anti- Christians would be no _\Valtei F. Hauis, Ber gen, Sask "round of attack at all. Rather, it would be a recommendation. Now, suppose one of these agnostâ€" ics, atheists, 01' free thinkers against whom you fulminate, M1. Anti, should say: “My great objection to Clnisti- anianity IS that I can’t understand it. . A Methodist insists on one principle, a Baptist on another, a Presbyterian on a. third and an Eepiscopalian disa- grees with them all. Yet all of them claim to be Christians. Give me 3. def- inition of Christianity that they will all agree to.’ What would you think of that argument, Mr. Antiâ€"Socialist Phariseei It’s remmkably thin. \Vell, it is y0111 own art gumcnt against Soci alism. How 11011ld you meet the Ag- nostic ? You would say : “Eliminate the side issues and questions of policy and government. Find out what all the Christians are agreed on. That is fun- damental Christianity.” “ Well,” I reply, “have you not sufficient intelliâ€" gence to do the same in the case of Social'sn'.l \Vhy should we not have sects and ‘ wheels within wheels,’ just the same as the Church? Have you honestly tried to ascertain upon what things all Socialists are agreed 3 01' is 1"0111 failme just the result of laziness? My opinion is that ‘ the wish is father to the thought.’ You 11 ant to find Socialists disagreed, so you follow the easy method of imagining the disaâ€" grecment.” Now for the challenge. Socialism will be defined in four words. It is a definition with which every Socialist in the world will agree. \Vhatever the difference of the various Socialist bod- ies, on that one thing they are al- agreed. That one thing is fundamenl tal Socialism. It is COLLECTIVE own- Things Asked About; \Voman Sufh'age.â€"â€"Socialism is the only movement that is consistently for suffrage for all women, regardless of! whether; they have property 01' noifl; and that has declared for the “aboli- tion of all laws that in anyway dis~ miminate against women.” By (riding at once the necessity for women and child labor in industries, it would do . more to elevate womanhood and the home than any movement the world has ever known. \Vomen are memâ€" bers of the party now, are candidates of the party everywhere, and women Socialists are almost as numerous as male Socialists. Direct Legislationâ€"The Initiative is the power given the people to pro- pose enactments through petition to the legislature. the submitting of laws, proposed eith- 01 by them 01' by the'legislature, for passage, the people’s voice being final. The Recall is the power to “ turn oil" any official whom think does not do their will; ing enforced through a petition signed by a specified number of the people. These three propositions, taken to gether, constitute what is known as “direct legislation.” Socialists have favored these measures from the first. They are cumbersome compared with democracy contemplated under the soâ€" cialization of industry, but they are in the line of popular control of things, and so are means to an end. And they are being adopted very rapidly in the various countries of the world. â€"â€"â€"Cotton’s Weekly. WHEN You WANT MONEY You may want it in a hurry. If you have a Savings Account in The Bank of British North America you can and twice a year. 75 YEARS get it at once. Deposits of SLOO upwards received and interest added IN BUSINESS capital and Reserve Over, $7,500,000. Wu} Penelon Falls Branch. '_ -fuvmg. . M.-. _ iwmfiWWMIAUWHr~r MW. Reive, Manager “ '1 33311131211111.11er wrrr The 11» long winded It has the' It is the only party which has- The Referendum is. the people may" recall b1"-