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1' W0! be dc E 3: ND H0 L4 W nrmr ', Bill and l Ird Cl n‘ion. OPS LIA dyfa 'acili‘ ;ting clas Jty. I'AI? IHG ,th 0P [11d V i re} nth inc 1nd ' Idel“ nbjt LIN“! .c tic 'ethe :ber gm...“ :01 ; WI 'CD Jos‘ rrovf nt} 'dlv f0 Let 2: THURSDAY, MARCH 23rd. 1899 are our prices for your choice of goods. Styles of all-wool cloth selected from the latest patterns of this spring‘s goods. Fit, Finish and Fabric guaranteed. They are lined with the best of Trimmings. All in need of a. Spring Suit will find it to their interest to call and see these goods, as this special offer is only open until the 15th At a. price that should make a. factory-clad man feel ashamed of his clothes ...... of March. The Watchman-Warder THE WlNDSOR HOTEL, NEW YORK BURNEDâ€"MANY LIVES LOST. Flames, which originated from the igniting of a lace curtain, burst forth from the second floor of the Windsor Hotel, at 47th-strect and Fifth-avenue, shortlv after 3fo’clock Friday afternoon, just as the St. Patrick's Day parade was passing the building, and in a few moments they had leaped up to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth-avenue and Nth-street fronts of the hotel. Ten minutes later the flames were rear- ing through toe interior of the hotel, and all means of escape by wav of Stairways and elevators was cut off, and there was the wildest scene of excitement within and without the building. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Hundreds of guests and employes were in the hotel when the fire broke out, and for many of them escape with safety was impossible. Probably from 10 to 15 liws were 10st within a half hour and 30 or 40 other persons were injured in jumping from windows and in rushing through the roaring flames in the corridors and on the steirways. Many who were injured died later at near-by residences and at hospitals, and others who made wild Leaps to the stone sidewalk were so badly injured that; they are still hovering between life and death. GHEMPION K 00 A QUEBEC FARMER TELLS HOW Haul} WAS RBSTORED FROM ALMOSTEbE HOPELESS SUFFERING TO CUM- l he PLEI‘E HEALTH. ’th Mr. Wm. Goodard, a well known farmer ' 111 living near Kuowlton. Que., sayszâ€"“A for few years ago my health gave away nnd I j is was compienely prostrate-d. The Ie .37 3 cc exertion would nae me up and make it!88 difficult for me to breathe. I sull'erm %w from headsches. had no appetite, and fell ; . ofi‘ in Wright, unt-ilIwas reduwd t 130'“ pounds. Final‘y I'grew so bad that I w .x .11 forced to keep mv bed, and remaznrd there i 0‘ for several m'mths. I wm under the car» ofagond doctor. hut; he did not, seem t gt}. help me. One day a friend urged u v t. , : 9c try Dr. Vihiums' Pink Pil‘s and I r mu" ‘ cx ed two bum-x When I had finished them i . : (Ii I c>nld not see much lnlpI‘OVelnent n :u' 0 would have; stopped taking then; but f) n. the urging of my friend, who said the ? in E 1" my cozuiitinn I could not. expert H) ~e 1ft immediar - re-nits. Icontrinued txki’ 1 IN» E ‘71 pills, ann my "me Lime I had taken a c In; 3131 more ‘0!an there was no duuh t?! u rm-i‘ } K were hrlp a: me, and it needed. nu fu = ’ Dersuzzsz :1 co indut-e me tn (.‘UI‘IIIHIL‘ m. we I ‘8: I In the r-nuzw. of a few month~ l :=c:z' -m v ES] regaimn 1mm], hm i: . M»: ii: lg weigh. :35 .‘v' in-anlfs. That-em] , rr! umx if! justify Mi 1: I have in Dr. W' 'w‘xé‘ : “1 Pink l’w -. nu. I m’rongl~ uw'zo- ”1A. 4- 3 ~- 41 are wen; . n b oken down m .fi‘- 9 Haze-s»: :i i V fair tr'ut ‘ v’ c“ 310D made using other new, v nerve inn. s’Mejiciu‘e 0:1,, is'mck'vi: COMPLETELY PROSTRATED. RIGG’S STORE EHESEENI TERRIBLE HOTEL FiRE $12.50. $400: $l6-00 SUITS MADE TO ORDER Chain and Chainless, High Grade and Low Prices, tell the story for 1899. Call and see them at. . . . Just to Hand. LINDSAY SMYTHS’ BLOCK BIBYELES ! Ill L4: "my “0le {'8' m W Up‘nv 1'â€"â€"-_ are great harvests to be reaped, and now I thrust in the sickle because the harvest is ripe. “Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets.” In the first place the street impresses me with the fact that this life is a scene of toil and struggle. By 10 o’clock every day the city is jarring With wheels and shuifling with feet and humming with voices and ,covered with the breath of smokestacks and a-rush with traffickers. Once in a while you find a man going along with folded arms and with leisure- ly step, as though he had nothing to do, but, for the most part, as you find men going down these streets on the Way to business, there is anxiety in their faces, as though they had some errand which must be executed at the first possible moment. You are jostled by those who have bargains to make and notes to sell. Up this ladder with a bed of bricks, out of this bank with a roll of bills, on this dray with a load of goods, digging a cel- lar, or shingling a roof, or shoeing a horse, or building a wall, or mending a watch, or binding a book. Industry, with her thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet, goes on singing her song of work, work, work, while the mills drum it and the steam whistles fife it. All this is not because men love toil. Some one remarked, “Every man is as lazy as he can afford to be.” But it is because necessity with stern brow and. with uplifted whip stands over you ready whenever you relax your toil to make your shoulders sting with the lash. Can it be that passing up and down these streets on your way to work and business you do not learn anything of the world’s toil and anxiety and struggle? Oh how many drooping hearts, how many eyes on the watch, how many miles travelled, how many burdens car- ried, how many losses suffered, how many battles fought, how many victor- ies gained, how many defeats sufi‘ered, how many exasperations enduredâ€"what losses. what hung-er, what wretchedness, what pallor, what disease, what agony, what despair! Sometimes I have stopped at the corner of the street as the multi- tudes went hither and yon, and it has seemed to be a. great pantomime, and as I looked upon it my heart broke. This great tide of human life that goes down the street is a. rapid tossed and turned aside and dashed ahead and driven back --beautitu1 in its confusion and confused in its beauty. In the carpeted aisles of the forest, in the wood: from which the eternal shadow is never lifted, on the shore of the see. over whose iron coast tosses the tangled foam sprinkling the cracked cliffs with a baptism of whirl- wind and tempest, is the best place to study God, but in the rushing, swarm- ing, raving street is the best place to study man. the voices of the noisy and dusty street. You go to your mechanism, and to your work, and to your merchandise, and you come back againâ€"and often with how difierent a. heart you pass through the streets. Are there no things for us to learn from these pavements over Which We pass. Are there no tufts of truth growing up between these cobblestones, beaten with the feet of toil and pain and pleasure, the slow tread of old age and the quick step of childhood? Aye, there â€"__,'.I ..-â€"w Going down to your place of business and coming home again I charge you to look aboutâ€"see the signs of poverty, of Wretehedness, of hunger, of sin, of bereavementâ€"and as you go through the streets and come back through the streets, gather up in the arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all the losses, all the sufier- ings, all the bereavements of those whom you pass and present them in prayer beâ€" fore an. all sympathetic God. In the great day of eternity there will be thousands of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one Word who will rise up and call you blessed, and there will be a thousand fingers pointed at you in heaven, saying, “That is the man, that is the woman, who helped me when I Was hungry and sick and wandering and lost and heartbroken. That is the man, that is the Woman.” And the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: “I was hungry, and ye fed me; I was naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me. Inasmuch as ye did it to these poor Waits ofanhe streets, ye did it to me.” Again, the street impresses me with the fact that all classes and conditions of Society must commingle. We sometimes culture a. Wicked exclusiveness. Intellect (impises ignorance. Refinement will have naming to do with boorishness. Gloves have the sunburned hand, and the high fni'ehead despises the flat head, and the m-im hedgerow will have nothing to with the wild copsewood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not; so to be. The astronomer must come down from his emu-y revclry and help us in our navi- grztiun. The surgeon mtist come away fi'wrm his study of the human organism and. set; 0115 broken bones. The chemist mint, (2mm: mvuy from his laboratory. \riwre he has bcun studying analysis and 33.1: iwsis, and help us to understand the «2:1.1'0 0f the, 50018. I bless God that 8.11 (1.55% of people are compelled to meet on Lhe street. The: glittering coaoh Wheel clashes aga'nst the scavenger’s om. Fine rob-cs run against. the peddler’a pack. Robust, health meets wan sickness. Hon- esny confronts fraud. Every class of peo- nlu meets every other 0108.35. Imaldmco THE CRY 0F WISDOM. DR. TALMAGE’S EXPERIENCES. IS HEARD IN THE STREETS OF GREAT CITIES; Lifeâ€"Splendor and the yarn, W V 6" ed spars and count the bullet holes and look with patriotic admiration on the flag that floated in victory from the mast- head. But that man is more of a curios- ity who has gone through 30 years of the sharpshooting of business life and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the street. Oh, how many have gem down under the pressure, leaving not so much as the patch of canvas to tell-where they perished! They never had any peace. Their dishonesties kept telling in their ears. If I had an ax and could split open the beams of that fine house, per- haps I would find in the very heart of :t a. skeleton. In his very best wine there is a. smack of poor man’s sweat. Oh, :s it strange that When a man has devourel Widows’ houses he is disturbed with ix- digestion? All the forces of nature are against him. The floods are ready to drown him and the earthquake to swat:- low him and the fires to consume hin and the lightnings to smite him. But the children of God are on every street, and in the day when the crowns of hea- ven are distributed Dome of the brighten: of them will be given to those men who were faithful to God and faithful to tie souls of others amid the marts of busi- ness, proving themselves the heroes of the street. Mighty were their tempta- tions, mighty was their deliverance, and mighty shall be their triumph. Drounm‘uwu w. munâ€"- Again, the street impresses me with the fact that it is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and get to heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from these places of public concourse Amid so much affluence, how much temptation to covetousness and to be dis contented with our humble lot! Amid so rtunities for overreaching what temptation to extortion! Amid so much display, What temptation to van- ity! Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allurement to dissipation! In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a' man-ofâ€"War comes back from a battle and is towed into the navy yard, we go down to look at the splinter- . AL _ L--1‘-‘ LA1A0 and â€"â€"_O‘ ‘J Again, the street impresses me wish the fact that life is full of pretension and shmn.. What subterfuge, What doul’Jo dealing, What two facedness! Do all pm- ple who wish you good morning really hope for you a happy day? Do all he peeple who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your heakh who inquire concerning it? Do all want to see you who ask on to call? Does ill the World know he as much as it proâ€" tends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a. brilliant show window? Passing up and down he streets to your business and your work, and modesty, P: and beastliness, meeting on fihe are you not impressed with the fact that society is hollow and that there are sub- ttrfuges and pretensions? Oh, how many there are who swagger and strut and how few people who are natural and walk! While tops simper and tools chuckle and simpletons giggle, how few people are natural and laugh! The courtesan and the libertine go down the sheet in beau- tiful apparel, while within the heart there are volcanoes of passion consuming their life away. I say these things not to create in you ineredulity or misanthropy, nor do I forget there are thousands of people a. great deal better than they seem, but I do not think any man is prepared for the conflict of this life until he knows this particular peril. Ehud comes pre- tending to pay his tax to King Eglon, and while he stands in front of the king stabs him through with a dagger until the heft went in after the blade. J udas Isceriot kissed Christ. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that it is a great field for Chris- tian charity. There are hunger and sufl'er- ing and Want and wretchodness in the country, but these evils chiefly congregate in our great cities. On every street crime prowls and drunkenness staggers and shame winks and pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for aims. Here want is most squalid and hunger is most lmn. A Christian man going along a street in New York saw a poor lad, and he stopped and said, “My boy, do you know how to read and Write?” The boy made no an- swer. rl‘he man asked the question twice and thrice, “Can you read and write?” and then the boy answered with a tear splashing on the back of his hand. He said i}: defiance: “No, sir; I can’t read nor write neither. God, sir, don’t want me to read and write. Didn’t he take away my father so long ago I never re- member to have seen him, and haven’t I had to go along the streets to get some- thing to fetch home to eat for the folks, and didn’t I, as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out and ick up oin- ders and never have no so ooling, sir? God don’t want me to read, sir. I can’t read nor write neither.” Oh, those poor 1 Wanderers! They have no chance. Born . in degradation, as they got up from their hands and knees to walk, they take their first step on the road to despair. Let us go forth in the name of the Lard Jesus Christ to rescue them. Let us ministers not be afraid of soiling our black clothes while we go down on that mission. While we are tying an elaborate knot in our cravat or while we are in the study rounding oi! some period rhetorically we might be saving a soul from death, and hiding a multitude of sins. Oh, Christian anmen, go out on this work. If you are not willing to go forth yourself, then give of your means, and if you are too lazy to go and if you are too stingy to help, then get out of the way and hide yourself in the dens and caves of the earth, lost when Christ’s chariot comes along the horses’ hoofs trample you into the mire. Beware lest the thousands of 1 the destitute of your city, in the last great day. rise up and curse your stupid- ity and your neglect. Down to work! Lift them up! 30m: cold winter’s day, as a Christian man was going along the Battery in New York, he saw a. little girl seated at the gate, shivering in the cold. He said to her, “My child, what do you sit there for this cold day?” "Oh,” she replied, “I am waitingâ€"I am waiting for some- body to come and take care of me.” “Why,” said the man, “what makes you think anybody will come and take care of you?” “Oh,” she said, “my mother Dn THE WATCHMAN-WARDER: LINDSAY, ONT. pride and humility, purity hs, frankness and hpyocrisy, Le mme block, in the same same city. Oh, that is what 11; when he said: “The rich mot together. The Lord is died last week, much, and 511‘ Though I _am gone, the Lord will send somebody to take care of you.’ o lie. She said someone would come and take care of me, and I am waiting for them to come.” Oh, yes, they are waitâ€" ing for you. Men who have money, men who have influence, men of churches, men of great hearts, gather them in, gather them in. It is not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones should perish. I A , ---------- tuit‘h Lastly, the street Impresses 1116 n...» the fact that all the people are looking for-Ward. I see expectancy written on 31- most every face I meet. Where you find a thousand people walking straight on, you only find one man stopping and looking back. The fact is, God made us all to look ahead, because we are im- mortal. In this tramp of the multitude on the streets I hear the tramp of a great host marching and marching for eternity. Beyond the office, the store, the shop, the street, there is a world, populous and tremendous. Through God’s grace, may you reach that blessed place. A great throng fllls those boulevards, and the streets are a-rush with the chariots of conquerors. The inhabitants go up and down, but they never weep and they never toll. A river flows through that city, with rounded and luxurious banks. and the trees of life, laden with everlast- ing fruits. e, bend their branches into the crysta . ..-I , ,,,_.LL-_--.A U“ V. No plumed hearse rattles over the pave- ments, for they are never sick. With im- mortal health glowing in every vein, they know not how to die. Those towers of kstrength, those palaces of beauty, gleam in the light of a sun that never .9. 1 a .___.._I “An --Wm. Kerr, Q. C.. of Cobourg has been appointed to fill the Ontario vacancy in the Dominian cabinet. â€"-Alex. McCrea. of Eldon last: week sold a team of heavy draught. horses to a Montreal buyer for $300 â€"Mr. W51. Craévtord of Blackstock died on Friday last, after a. lingering ill. ness of two months. He leaves a. widow. one son and one daughter to mourn his loss. â€"Mr. W. J. Beacock,Caesarea,has leased the driil shed for the summer months. He intends placing therein public and private bathing rooms for the accommo. dation of the people of Cartwright. The scheme is a good one. â€"Cannington is to have a model cream. ery. The capital stock of the company will be $3.000, in three hundred shares of $10 each. It is proposed to sell all its pro' duct under the Cannington brand, which will be registered in Canada and Great Britain. â€"Th.e Orillia. Packet says: The Heirson wheat is one of the most productive and best for milling purposes tried by the ex- perimental stations. Messrs. B. H. Rowe and Wm. Fell find it well adapted to this district. Some shown the Packet by the latter is a fine. plump, hard grain. which tested sixty-four pounds. â€"Mr. Olif Anderson of Harvey met with rather a bad accident last week. He was in the woods chopping, and through a glance of the axe it landed lengthways on tohis big toe, taking off a piece of the bone and making a nasty gash. Medical assistance was obtained, and the foot is now making good progress, though the extent of the gash is indicated when it is mentioned that thirteen stitches were required to draw it together. â€"Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Beacock of Black- stock were surprised on Monday last by the invasion of a number of their friends who met to bid them farewell before their departure to their future home in Bow- manville. Miss Beacock was the recipient of a very beautiful cake basket and fruit dish set in silver. The presentation was made by Mrs. Robt. J ebb and Mrs. W. J. Holmes. Mr. W. C. Ferguson made a. very suitable reply on behalf of Miss Beacock. Short speeches were made by Rev. Mr. Howard, Dr. Fish, Mr. Suggitt, Mr. W. J. Beacock and others. â€"Mr. Reid (Addington) last week, moved for an order of the House for a return showing all fees paid to Alfred Stunden, a constable of Bracebridge, in connection with the enforcement of the game laws of the province. Mr. Reid stated that he had been informed that this man had been in the habit of making persecutions solely for the fees. He cited a case where a man named Stevens, from an unorganized district. in which settlers are allowed to kill deer for their oWn pur- poses, was arrested because he brought three deer skins from a neighbor to a friend in Bracebridge. The Hon. Mr. Gibson stated that among the many officials it could scarcely be otherwise than that there should be some who were too anxious for fees, but he had no informa- tion touching the‘caso in question. It would, however, be investigated, and the man would be reprimanded it he deserved it. â€"-â€"BARREDâ€"â€"â€"â€" PLYMOUTH ROCK EG 1?. for sum, 26 for $1.50. from a. limited lot 0 arr-fully selected hens. 01ny Cook iu yard was 2nd prize wine: at the .‘ueirh ?¢-uit.ry Show last‘Deoembex, when his sire, 1,3,0 ten trum New York was that. qucm fined he received. 3t! DISTRSCT HAPPENINGS. Ll yo; Lou. the streec impresses me with at all the maple are looking I see cxpectancy written on al- ' face I meet. Where you find [people walking straight on, and one man stopping and uck. The fact is, God made us JOHN CAMPBELL Fairview Faun), Woodville 1G5 It Don’t Pay J. J. RICH., You can buy anything you need in the -- ..way of ........ Little Britain Business House Little Britain Drug Store ALWAYS 0“ HAND. LITTLE BRITAIN PLAIIING SHOPPING MILLS A First Class Meat Shop in connec- tion ; Fresh Beef, Lamb, Pork, Sausages. Smoked and Dried Ham. Come and get prices before you purchase elsewhere. Do You Want Farm Implements? $35 .09 Single Harness for . HARNESS. HARDWARE" 0'. 1800 â€"'UWI 9, Via-7", m VVVVVVV U' â€"Uatched Lumber. â€"Rough Lumber, Bill Stuff. â€"l.ath Shingles and Lune. â€"Best Grades Hard Coal on hand at â€" Hah'posa Station. â€"CHOPPING done every day. â€"8tane or Roller work. -â€"Came early in the day and avoid THE LITTLE BRITAIN FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP Ikecp only the best MASSEY-HARRXS Goods, Bicycles, Cultivators, Drills, Mow ers, Tedders, Rakes, Reapers, and Bind- ers. Also a full stock of Flows and Scufflcrs, Bain Wagons and Toronto \Vindmills. ISAAC MCKEE, â€"â€"Drugs, Dyes. â€"â€"Patent Medicines â€"And Drug Store Staples at To wear shabby clothes when a. New Up-to-dabe Suit can be pur- chased so cheaply from . . . J, J. The Tailor, Little RICH. Britain. 3.1a" your Clothes promised. A nice shock of Tweedsz Worsteds, , £_-L A. nlce 8006K m. .L WCCUD, vv Vhowuv, etc., to select from, and a perfect, fit is guaranteed in all cases, DrOp in and see me if you are thinkin of ordering a. New Suit or Pair 0 Trousers. T139 p_rioe will ‘be. right, are Drugs the Rush. Has every facility for filling 9p agd p_t_1tti_ng in thpr'gugh Repair all classes of Farm Implements and machinery. Engine and Boiler Repair. ing a specialtv. YEREX, Little Britain IS h. Sash, Hay/dings. â€"â€"THEâ€"â€" The Tailor, Little Britain Practical Machinist 6‘ H ‘6 . MAUNDER FROM Nflw UNTIL APRIL FIRST WE SELL1 There’s nothing like Leather When it’s well put Together. mwm 197 211 véheti E. PRBUSE, 0M It Neverfiys Little Britain Furniture Store. out in all sorts of WINTER‘GOODS REMN ANTS . . . . CLEAR lADlES! come under this head and we are anxixl to clean them out even at, a big discount Our usual stock of good FRESH GROCEI IES always on hand. Have you tried our SUGARS Have you tried our 25 LBS, FOR THE DOLLAR- Blacksmith and Carriage Builder. The Best in the Wm WeIdon C Little Britain Tin and Stove bbore His Harness has a good reputmion.l deserves it~ The Stock and Workm are both first-class and the prices :1} Eck knows the Harness Business and isfies his customers. Repairng a spec All sorts of Saddlers' Supplies. DENTIST. - LINDSAY Will be at JEAKIN'S #05 m Little Brita!" on the FOUR.1 TUESDAY IN EVERY MONTH. 1“ the date in mind. A The season is here for a. general c GLOVES, FLANNELS. OVERCOATS, HOSIERY, E10, . E. DILLMAN IF you WANT A SET OF HARNESS â€"-buy it fromâ€" $16 00 Single Harness for 14 00 The stove business is my business. I sell the Gurney Stoves and Ranges. I also sell the best of TINWARE. I make a specialty of all work in Tm, GALVANIZED IRON and Pmmamg. My stock of Store and Household Utensils is com- plete. Patronize me. DR. J. NEELANDS, 1000 A GOOD HORSE Horse owners to be 1 . making purchases of m?‘ HORSE GOODS, or even in matter of REPAIRING. In the features which go to make a desirable place to trade, we that. we are at the head. Goods absolute reliabilltvt prices that reasonable and. fan, and a fill stock with judxclous selection“ goods, render our place a desk“ one on which to bestow Fourth“ We know we can offer “Winn“ and to this end we solicit “It: tavors. ' 1 MARCH 231m, -.,v Table, a. Fancy Chair, 3 LOunge Sofa. Perhaps it‘t half-a Chairs or 3 Bedroom Set: vou m Even if it is a. Parlor Suite buy 3 from me. When you want a New piece ‘I FURNITURE for the house an go away to Toronto or some 0 place. Buly it here in yourm village, keep the daintia: things infiUPIIOLSTERED Goons ‘ John Eek. REPAIRS on Short Nofiql NB BUT SN JOHN ECK. Little Brit RICH. SMIT A. M. RUSLAN ‘£ Yours truly, - he meant sens! flied. Peter Mcqu‘ H B. Ins been up“ MdSenator Adaq hummentlum a native Dart in on P“. West North '85 found dew 8 Hotel Tuesda “3 “10mins In. Ishon. visit to t] W trading stat m mother cities uwmwded 1 is claimed by the? .16. Hi 11 Ll ‘4 The tOp Of ‘5 mob '9 to awaken hi "be starting dis m- 01131188 Dru; [More Justice 15 “need With his : If ‘58 11 “11088 01197! of: the ‘cm