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in n nu ated ac} from Such Brest and f, 1 be foundi [ere the mo: l‘v‘entum an ', (sum The worki RMAN, Pt: f'r-T NOR! granny Ffish 'rout 'resh [1' its f1 1’0 :36: led, 39 Bald] .. bntd 1,1..." ’5' .‘L‘.’ ?_,_._- r-if rummh a!» ~73; sum eve: Stanley", )uld be‘n mum‘- {‘21 Special Discaant 9f 20 per he introduce those special lines of Fine Pure French Silks that we import direct we will offer for the next ten days III. Number 16 f" '4 ‘1': hing, Carpets and Millinery are waiting for your selection. Everything you want elties and great in aSsort- ment, and mm mm in the LINDSAY THURSDAY, MAY 1, 3 cent, .fi-‘J'V‘I Special to the WATCHMAN. We have nice spring weather here now, the trees all budding out and a nice growth started. A good many of the farmers are well on with their seeding. The politicians are brushing up, prepar- ing for the election, as it is expected to come ofi soon. There is talk of two being in the field for parliamentry honors. One an Equal Righter. Each one will have his supporters and Both will pull a large vote, as both men that are spoken of are well liked. People are getting tired of the old plan of campaign land talk of hav- ing a change. Rozutlsuround here are Splendid now, quite dry. Special to the VVATCHMAN. Mr. 321s. Arnold has gone to Montreal on a business trip. MIS. “’11). Campbell has gone for a short trip down east. 1â€")r.Mufi‘att lectures in the Methodist Church on Phursday evening. Mr. James Te ifrue has an auction sale of household furniture on SltUI‘d'dV piim to his leaving to join his fumiiy in Kins-as City. Dr. E. S. Wilson’s auction sale on last Saturday of animals and Vehicles was thinly attended, and the prices realized were very low. There 18 some talk of the doctor moving to Lindsay next week. Adjt. Mnnton of the Salvation Army was at the Army meeting last Wednesday night. The Adjutant gave a most eXCcll’ ent address, pointing out that pride in the churches to-(lay Was Satan's great strong hold. He gave his first experiences 'of hearing the Salvation Army, while he “as a member of the choir of the Metropoli- tan church choir, Toronto, where he sang for over eight years. He has belonged to the Army since it was only six in number in the city of Toronto. He sang a piece to the air of the “Last Rose of Summer”, which alone was worth the silver collec~ ‘ tion fished at the door. Adjt. Manton de- serves credit for the way he dug at the rout‘Of that which is to-day snpping the i foundation of religion in the churches. I All those who are filled with the CVil should lwnr in mind the WUX'xlS of Solomon “that prizle goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit lit-tore it full. Saw dust is being brought from Coho- conk on scows to pack the ice with. Mr. Robert J ackett of this village has the con- tract, and as usual Bob is making a good lthidg out of it. Oliver Mowat’s faithful followers, in East Victoria are called together for a convention to be held in Dickson’s hall of this village on Tuesday next. Messrs. Jas. Dickson, Alexander Nevin, and J. B. Campbell are all spoken of as likely to receive the nomination. The Gazette in order to let their brethern down as lightly as possible announced last week that sev- eral reformers had declined nomination on the reasonable ground that their business engagements “ill not permit them to accept, but the truth we fancy is that none of these gentlemen care to Spend money over getting defeated. They know too 1 well the feeling in East Victoria and fully ‘ realize before they start out that their goose is cooked, hence the Gazette suggests :- n - ,,,J J__i._.1.‘_ A..L i/Ir. Gould. of Coboconk, and dangleé out to him its support “Will you come into my parlor said the spider to the fly, it is the snugest little parIOr ever you did spy.” I am greatly mistaken if Mr. Gould does not see through such cob-webs, and fail to be coaxed into the parlor of East Vic- toria to share the same fate as the fly. A report has been current in the village and surrounding country since the 2nd of April, the day on which the East Victoria Liberal-Conservative convention was held, that originated so far as we can trace in the mind of the Ed. of the Minden Echo, that the general feeling of the conservative voters is opposed to the result arrived at, and that a rumor was afloat that a strong independent candidate is to be brought out. The only independent that is com- ing out is Mr. Sam Swanton. He was seen on Monday and said he was going to run, but we have not heard who is bring- ing him out. It is certainly not the Liberal-Conservativcs of East Victoria for they are pledged to Mr. Fell, and some surprise is expressed at Mr Swanton putting himself forward, for at the con- vention in question, Mr. Swanton made a motion asking the delegates to make Mr. Fell's nomination unanimous, and now in a little better than three weeks time he is the first to oppose him in this part. There is no reason to think but that Mr. Swanton would make a good representative, but the action he has now taken is not going to increase his popularity. It was also said that the Reformers were going to run Mr. Swanton, but I have it on the best of authority that they have no such intenâ€" tion. The convention held here on the 2nd of April was as well represented by delegates from the North of the riding as l at any previous meeting. There was no ; delegate from Bobcaygeon, it is true, but whose fault was that ? They are, however, well satisfied with the choice of the con- ' vention. Upon a ballot being taken there was 53 votes cast as full a number as has generally been given. It is not a gocd sign of those aspiring to the nomination themselves, to try to sow seeds of dissa- tisfaction and find fault at the result of a meeting which they at the time acquiesced in. The report given of the Equal Rights meet' and the position that Mr. J. H. Delamere took in the Echo concerning that meeting is still fresh in the minds of the electors here, and until that, and this am»; is Wiped from their remembrance, FENELON FALLS. FLEETWOOD. yet at Minden. The utmnst satisfaction prevailed at the convention here, and there is not a dissatisfied voice in this part of the riding with the exception we men- tioned. Mr. Delamere will find that; his 7 placg is Fell is the” man, and those that try to undermine him with the people willy be remembi red at some future day. SIR,â€"-As you say you would gladly have published my letter but for the perSonal- ities contained therein last week, I take 1 the. liberty to submit a few remarks on the subject of Equal Rights. to more fully state my view, leaving:r outall personalities. Your courteous allusion to myself in your “explanation”. in regard to my making a good Equal Righter, is correct, but not exactly, perhaps. in the light in which you have placed it. I regard myself as look- ing at the question from an eminently “independent” standpoint. I am an Englishman; I am a staunch Protestant; i but I am cognizant of the terrible harm that has been done to the cause Cf truth and freedom, not only by Roman Catholic bigotry, but by Protestant bigotry also. In my travels nearly around the world I have taken some observations on the point at issue, and I have tried to look through To the Editor of The W'atchma'n. m. JCDUU, unnu ‘- Llw-v e-.-" - glasses at things and men unelouded and uncoloured by prejudice, party interest, or any other bias, tending to mislead. in order to arrive at right conclusions. N ow according to my opinion, to use a simile, 1 in looking at the question of Equal Rights we are looking at a pair of scales held in the hands of Justice. One scale holds the conquering people, and the other scale the conquered. In order that the balance shall be equal, exactly the same amount of freedom of language and other rights must he in one scale as in the other. If you l take the language out of the French scale and allow the English to remain in the latter. the English end of the scales will Al'~'v-‘ -_-v 7 o outweigh that of the French, and con sequently cause an unequality or unequal poise. While the British weight is all the time greater than that of the French, as it is causing an unequal balance in fan our of the former, it does seem a little out of place to hear the heavier people clamoring for Equal Rights with the light- er. I think this is logic as invincible as : ridzmmnt, and as mathematically correct as , that three from four leaves one. I havel no doubt most of the Equal Fighters are l sincere in their way, but I’ll be bound most of them dislike the Roman Catholic ‘ religion in their hearts, and wish in some way or other to undermine it, but at the same time to show a. semblance of friend- ship and toleration. I understand the Oranqemen make hp largely the advocates of Equal Rights. We are all aware by bang of drum, whistle of flute, flare of blood-curdling flags and banners and gen- eral noisy demonstrations every 12th of J uly, what the Orange sentiments are in 1 regard to the French Canadians’ religion. I It brings me in mind of British J ingoism: We don’t want to fight, But by jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships and got the men, And got the money too! It cannot be denied that their senti- ments are hostile towards the Roman Church, else why shake their fists in mar- tial array at it, as they do repeatedly? I hold the real and true inwardness of the Equal Rights Association is the same, or similar at least, to that of the Orange body The aim and object of the Equal Rights party is to establish the British and their language on a higher plane than l they enjoy already. What Will be the end ‘ in View? Wl'y, I answer that as the British ascend and their language and literature getall pervading and paramount, the, French will dwindle into insignifi- sance, Protestantism will grow in influence and power, and sap the foundations of that which it protests against, and bring about not equal rights but the decadence of the French institutions root and branch. Their nationality will be killed, and their descendants will know that perhaps they were once French, but now it is hard to say what they are. This is a consumma- tion dcvoutly to be wished from a selfish point of view, and indirectly this is what the E. R. Association is working for, and I am afraid the bottom of the Frenchman’s church will be very unstable in this way, if he officially and educationally loses his language. You had better believe they note this and see this as well as I, and as _ sure as you scheme and work for its ac- complishment under the specious name of Equal Rights there will be trouble, that might have been avoided by letting the mighty innate, natural power alone that ‘ -‘ “‘ .-. 1‘ __ null ‘Ln lies in the British constitution and the 3 English language. All history points to : the fact that it is best for a governing peo- ple to hold out the hand of peace and tol- eration to the governed. If we make our- selves too ofiicious and fussy, we create ill- will and distrust. By trying to persuade or coerce the French into dropping their language, we are sure to raise slumbering hate in their hearts, and they will be de- termined not to gratify our wishes; but by sincerely and truly treating them as equals and fellow-citizens and yielding a point or two, even though it may be expensive and inconvenient to do so, we shall win their reSpect and kindly feeling, and accomplish more in twenty years than a. century of harsh treatment could ever, do. They were here before us, and until more in- dications of separate, independent nation- ality are developed, let them be. J AS. TEAGUE. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers of America will hold their annual meeting this year at Winmpeg on July 22nd. mam. 50 Cents per Year in Advance Judge McCrary related an incidentâ€"deâ€" cidedly a. joke at his own expenseâ€"that occurred a few years ago while he was gen- eral solicitor of the Atchison railroad. “I had been to Topeka,” snid he, “and had still some other business to transact out in the big Solomon River country. My destination was a small settlement re- mote frozn the line of the railroad. When I reached the point where I was to take team I found no person or conveyance awaiting me. My time was limited and I was much annoyed, but made the best of it. There was very few people about, and as my business required the concealing of my indeufity, I could hold no c~mmunica~ tion with the station people. - Finally all the stragglers disappeared with the excep- tion of one man, a particularly rough- looking, middle-aged individual. He had been watching me for some time, and at last approached me and asked: “ ‘Séy, be you the railroad cattle-man as was sent down here to‘ payAmAe?’ “Thinking 1 might gathâ€"er' infatuation, or that perhaps this was the very man who had been sent for me, I said, ‘Possibly I may be.’ « “ ‘Well, you’ve b’n long: ’nough gettin’ here! lose.’ “Imagine my dismay when, upon my refusalto go with liim,t1.is villainous- looking fellow, in this lonely place, coolly drew a big revolver, placed it in front of my nose, and conducting me to a waggon invited me to ride. szusal was out- of the question. He took me about six miles, to a point on the railroad when, there “as a crossing, and exhibited a dead horseâ€" or the remains of oneâ€"vs hich he said had belonged to him, and demmded instant payment of $50 for his loss. He had evi- dently stated his grievance to some train- men, who had promised that achi n1 agent would visit him and make good his loss. I paid him the amount he asked. It was the smallest and, for a time, the most ex- citing business I ever transacted for the road. ”-â€"â€"N. Y. Star. The short thick set- man with grey hair, small mustache and a bronze face, who registered at the Palmer last evening as ATS. Greene, has hu‘ as rough oxya- ienCe in the United States :{:z\Ԥ during times of peace as any ozher niiimr, says the Chicago Tribune. During that awful hurricane a year ago, when the ill-fated Vandalia, of the Pacific Squadmn, found- ered on a coral reef just off the Samoan Islands, there were four of her officers clinging for their lives to a small railing. The immense waves dashed over the ship and the .oficsrs were swept overboard. ‘ Three of the men were drowned instantly. ‘ The remaining officer, Lieutenant Comâ€" ! wander Greene. caught on to some “ reckâ€" age and made the shore after being tossed about for hours on the sea. The natives cared for him. and in a day he took com- mand of what remained of the Vandalia crew. Lieutenant Greene is in Chicago to inspect some Governmet steel-shaftings l being made by a firm on the West Side. He is trying to get some recognition for one of his sailors who saved some twenty- five men during the Samoan cuastrophe. “ When the storm was furious,” he said, “ a Greek sailor on the Vandalia jumped overboard and swam over to the Nipsic. He got on to the ship by means of a rope over the side and threw a light line over to the Vandalia. He tossed the line about, seventy yards right against the wind. This was made fast by a rope. and by this the twenty-five men who were on the Vandaha were able to get to the Nipsic and then ashore. It was a brave deed, for seas over which he swam had drowned some forty men, and nearly all expert swimmers. Out- side of mere mention of this act, nothing has ever been done for the sailor, and he is still shovelling in coal as faithful as ever. At least he ought. to have a medal.” A-Hero of the Samoan Hurricane. STAUNTON. Va.. April 28. â€"-At. 3 a. m. ta-day the express tmin of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for Washington was descending a heavy grade a mile west of Stauuton, when the break-rod of the engine fell. The air-break was rendered useless and the train rushed into Staunton at the rate of 80 miles peg hunt and tore away the depot roof. The Pullman sleeper left the track and was thrown on its side. In it were fifteen members of the Pearl of Pekin troupe en route to Baltimore. an- nounced to play there to-night. Of the company, Miss Knott- was badly injured and died while being taken from the car. Miss Edith Miller had a leg broken. Mrs. Edward “’ebb, Edward Stevens, Miss Berthe Fisher, Louis Harrison and Miss Dunham all escaped with slight cuts and bruises. W. F. Kilpatrick. a lumber merchant of New York, had his leg sev- erely torn: Mr. L. Sleeman, a commercial ,traveller of Cincinnati, was bruised. The car took fire, but the flames were put out by citizens. Traffic on the Great Southern and West- ern Railway of Ireland has been brought to a. standstill by a strike of the porters and guards. It is said that unless the eight-hour system of labour is conceded by employers in the United States, over 100,000 carâ€" penters will be on strike on May lst. The United States Cabinet the other day took into consideration the policy to be pursued for the protection of American inierests in Behring’s Sea during the coming season. It is expected a. decision l “4". he arrived at 11‘. v. few days. f-‘ n “O 5‘ u; arrived at 211 k l' Come. now, we aifi’t got Em time to Spot Damages. Eighty Miles an Hour. iéfl