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‘ 2-} ”0‘33; .' , ,9. sense sasseasesecasssaseaeee i 8 d 'v-s'iu n, Ladies’ Jacket?“ 0.... RHAPS THE... [)m zzg/z 2‘5 Sati/Ofigei/ “You can save money in buying your Winter JACKET, CAPE or ULSTER from us. The stock is superb, and above criticism, Call and see for yourselves and learn prices. A lull stock of DRESS GOODS and Prices are lower than elsewhere. IN MILLINERY . :1, .1. house than in your we excel. This is ourspecial department. ‘0' - so it is time for you to . . - ~j‘ , , , - . ‘ public appreciation. hoted for CORRECT .\ I' \ DTLAM' 13- “ he“ YOL TASTE and Low PRICES. UL () aw :_ iI’U.ll ...... ( . Mrs. H. Silver, Opposite Presbyterian Church, William Street, Lindsay. “n“ FARMERS, 00 YOU WANT MONEY. ._. T RANGES. :15 ~_',",1_lOl) RANGES, “4.9.1. sTovEs, ,wooo STOVES, HVQAL OIL srovss, "'"' , â€"â€" > STOVES- I am prepared to LEND Ll. MONEY on Good Farm Property at Lowest Rates of Interest. “wines of beauty and .5115 :5 scz-ence and heating. ,1 ‘11 s'l': m 5‘ Purnace No Solicitor’s Fees. A 5 ..... be glad to give you No Commission. .. advice. its it'vaBING and TINSMITH 3 ”NE of all kinds a Specialty. lawful line of Nickle Plated Stove Furniture at a Low Price. tweets o “-73. No. 8 William Street, Lindsay. ...The... l a l. is» to Call and examine and get prices on . . . .onr stock of. . . . Lumber, Lath, Shingles, A A A‘AA‘AA Cement, Plaster Paris. I? IS THE TIME Salt, Charcoal, Hard, Soft and Blacksmith Coal to 1‘1")“ Cordwood and Millwood. KENT STREET. . We make a specialty of pleasing our country trade in all the above lines. TELEPH ONES : Town Oflice. No. 77: Agents Office, No. 773; Mill Office, No. 78. as "i M- BAKER; AEENT. I‘ll“ have the largest stock __ 'tr brought to Lindsay. $973325 away down, values WW] T an: , you if you intend building this season to consult me before mak~ lug contracts. 1 have an up-to~ date planing mill, and can supply everything that is needed for housebuilding at the very lowest prices. The best workmen, the 3 Different Bedroom Setts, dryest thug)?” and satiséaiition -- ,,.-- - guaran e in every case. narg- ’ 3 ijlliCTEDE Fancy Tables, ed premises, and new machinery ‘ ‘ just added. All orders turned out : Dit‘zerent Lounges. ‘ promptly ...... .. GEORGE INGLE The Lindsay Planing Factory. II. BRYANS81 00. -â€"Wholesa.le and Retail Dealers inâ€" E OUR w Loroom Setts from $10 to $35 feboards $5 to $30 urges $4.30 to $10 icy Rockers 75C to $16 ctures 25c to $16. ' all Racks $4 to l5 for Setts $23 to $60 sels 43c to $2 .tre Tables 65c to $8 Lumber, Rough and Dressed; All [finds of Shingles of all Classes ; Lat/i, lime, file and Cement. FUEL- FRESH MINED Egg, COALâ€"Coming diâ€" StovG, rect from Mines Nut weekly. s ' Best Dry, Hard and Soft Wood. ERSON’ Select Steam Coal. Blacksmith,_Coal a Speck“! 82: CO- Grate, Headquarters for Hardwood, Charcoal. We lead in 1011 prices to cash cus- tomers. R. BRYANS t! 00”?” 'NDERTAKING in all its ’anches. Telephone 56 Case No' We! -e ThEHW'nTo'H MAN. u NEWS OF THE WEEK â€"The conservatlves are arranging to protest the election of Hon. J. T. Garrow in “Test Huron. They claim to have about $50 of the money which was pud out as bribes, the recipients having handed the identical bills over to the Opposition managers. â€"-Hugh Brown, the man who found .the monev lost from the body of William Lunness of Toronto at the Murray Hill wreck, was found guilty Of fraudulently misappropriatiug the mono . and was sentenced by Judge Lszier of ellevule to LADIES’ FURNISHINGS of all kinds. four months in the county jail. -P. F. Rollison of Toronto, the alleged ’ lead er of the gang of forgers, who operat- I ed recently at Ottawa on the London Life Assurance Company, has been arrested in Adrian, Michigan, charged with forging the names of Mrs. Gilbert and Dr. Chaboc to a. death certificate for 3500. â€"John Murray, the operator on duty on and our success is the best evidence of the morning 0f the wreck 8t Muff“ Hill, was arraigned last week before Magistrate Duinble at Cobourg and com~ Knitted for trial on a char e of man slaughter, preferred by Mrs. \N . H. Brady, w (low of the engineer of the passenger train. -The New York Central has purchased three obsolete railroads, the Lebanon Springs, Bennington and Rutland, which have entrance into Canada. By making a couple of short connections the who‘e route will become a through line from Montzcal to New York, shortening the time between the two (l'leS by three hours. -â€"A number of Uitlanders have organize l â€"a la the inform cornmittee of the Jamie- son midâ€"to investigate an outrage on a British resident of the Transvaal. In a recent disturbance Kruger’s police opened fire, and shot an Englishman named Edgar. No efforts have been made by Oom Paul to punish the policeman who did the shooting. -â€"As a result of a visit to the North-west during the past season of _four farmers from Minnesota and Wisconsm, the Department of Interior is adVIsed that 200 families from the States named Will move to the territories next Spring. They. have decided to locate in four townships in the Beaver Lake country, which is east of Edmonton. â€"Methodisis of the United States have a scheme to celebrate the .advent of the twentieth century by raismg a fund of $20,000,000, a millon for each century of ihe Christian era. Half of this fund Will be devoted to educational purposes 19 the Way of loans and gifts to struggling inst» tutions of learning. Dr. Potts million 0 R. Go COI‘H 911, dollar scheme is a trumpery affair beside this. â€"Down in Murray township, Mrs. Lillie . Rosebusn, a poor woman, with five child- ren to support, pastured her cow on. the highway, and consequentlv the animal was placed in pound. For attempting to iescuc her cow Mrs. Ro-cbush was lined. and in default of payment has been sent to gaol for 30 days. , The authorities of.this township should be proud of their achieve- nient. â€"~An Oshawa paper says: _One.of our subscribers writing from California says that from 300 bushels of barley pinata. ’not one blade appea'ed, the district lc'ng P RatthI] C00 for $2 each to be killed and their bones used its fertilizers, as they had nothing: to com letel burned u . Ranchers with horsgs wgrth from $50 to $100 sold them feed them. A few more such reports coming to us from abroad will cenvinc: us that we are living in a land schiall) favored. c - -â€"The Milltr Electric Construction Co. of Pitsbui‘g, Pm, has invented a new plan to utilize the power of Niagara Fall-l. and it is exiected work will begin the first of the year, necessitating the expcndmure ol about 8.300.000. It is proposed to erccta large building close to the fails, it being kept in place by anchors and heavy iron cables. With a. series of contrivanccs ll is expected to utilize all the force of thi- falling water. Electric fluid is to be trans- ported by conduits and heavy Wife to d: . taut points. -Once more the correspondents detect war preparations at Wool wich, Davenport, Portsmouth and Chathuni. There is n renewal of the activity which prevailed during the excitement of theFashod» incident, but this time the public are left guessinu as to the quarter of the glob.~ in which the expected outbreak may occur. This much seems certain, how- ever, that more warinanma’s are being sent out by the Government to foreign stations than was ever known before. â€"J. W’. Yearsley, customs officer at the ferry dock, Windsor, on Thursday made a Seizure of five ladies" inackintOshes from John Albert of Windsor. Xearsley notic ed that Albert loosed rather corpuient, and he was requested to step msxde the. office when he came off the bout. He objected at first, but when‘ threatened with arrest. followed the officer into one of the private rooms. where he was sear- ched. Three of the garments were found under his overcoat, and he had One strap- ped around each of his legs under his trousers. He was told that he would have to pay the value of the goods in addition to the duty before he could recover them. â€"A crusade against the wholesale PAY di orce business transacted in Indianahas been undertaken by the clergymen of that state. Nearly every denomination was represented at a recent mes: mg, where it was decided to prepare amendments to the law. to be submittedto the legislature next month. Last year 2,903 divorces were granted, the majority of them for desei'tion. Judges present at the meeting said that the same men and women are in the divorce courts year aft r year. It i~ not proposed that divorces be limited to the scriptural cause, but only that it he made more difficult to obtain them, and that the re‘marriage of divorced pers n.~ be prohibited. â€"The terrors of the Wite Pass, on the Skagway route to the Yukon, Will soon be but a memory of the past. The rail- way, which is being built by British capital, will be in operation to Lake Ben- nett before navigation opens. Wl'hln five months 2;) miles of the road has been com pleted, notwithstanding great difficulties, such as at one time in August, when 100 men dro ped their picks and deserted to Atlin. e result of the work accomplish ed so far is that the summit of the Pass can be rescued in a comfortable carriage, and within an hour. The company have extensive shops 80 Skagway, and_are pay- ing out monthly in wages over $0,000. . t is evident there is some British capital coming this way after all. â€"An Austrian engineer, by name M. Demeter Ovetkovics, Will rank as one of the benefactors of his race, if an invention b him proves to be what he claims for it. Lil: claims to have solved the problems of of preventin collisions at sea. Ijlis appliance consxsts of what he callsa marine brake by which a steamship travelling at a high rate of speed is to be instanty stopped. E iments have been man.- which are sad to have been succe~sful One test was made with the steamship Clotilite, of 2000 tons. and the vessel, it is reported, when running 12 knots an hour, was brought. to a standstill within 30 seconds, and before she had travelled_40 feet the engines still working ahead With full power. It sounds too good to be true. â€"During the past three weeks all .the letters sent outby convicts of the King. ston penitentiary have had written across them by order of Acting Warden Foster these words :-â€"“Christmas-boxes will not be received at this institution this year.” For some years past it has been the custom to not only open all the packages received at this institution for the con- vietn, but it also became neceswry lo cut up everything to see that thry did not contam any DI‘whlblled gowls. Bar-A of scan, cakes. turkeys and poultry of mi sows, puddings. etc., all had to we disse- t- ed, and this work us d to take up consid- erable of the guards’ tme. Fi'cqu'ntly money was found in cakes of swap or hid- den away in the corner of a. box. There were other no ~ds found that the gum-d3 dreaded worse than money. so m not .. atom to the risk it was found nccc~-;i'j.’ to end the old time custom if lu-‘('l~lll.fi parcels. it seems a hard~hip. but IIIUI convicts are being made to suffer for the unwise sols of friends. â€"The steamer New England, from Queen Charlotte Sound, brings news of a desperate encounter between sea lions and Boaton fishermen. Six boatloads of men, when a mile from the steamer, found that they had allowed themselves to drift near a dozen rocky islands in the Sound. Surl- denly they were surrounded by a herd of Walruses. There were a thou~and seals in the herd, and the males were as big as heavy draught horses. The men signalled to the steamer, and turned to meet the terrible onslaught. With a mighty roar- ing noise the ~ea lions approached the boats from all directions. A few feet from the. frail craft, where the men stood up, each with an iron-headed halibut. club in one hand, a revolver in the other, the animals hesitated. Then 0 e monster male sprang at the foremost bust, crunch ing to matchwood aw oar that u as mm- med down his open mouth as he ml‘. :inced. This was followed by a. blow on the head and a bullet through the rye, which mom- entarily discomfited the sea lion. This gene the men another respite, though the boats were fairly on the backs of the plunging monsters. The end of the fisher men would have soon some had not the steamer in the nick of time rammed it-~ way through the densely packed herd and lowered rope ladders to the men, by u hich every one of them esc med lo the (leek. Before the last man re l('hell the are ~mer the boats had been smadied to driftwood. This is the first time sea. lions have been known to attack men on the Sound. _____ O.â€" THE SIERRA BEAR. He Eats Everything From an Insect to u Mountaineer-’3 Bed. In this happy land no famine comes nigh the sierra bear, says John Muir in The Atlantic. All the year round his bread is sure, for some of the thousand kinds that he likes are always in season and accessible, ranged on the shelves of the mountains like stores in a pantry. From one to the other, from climate to climate, up and down he climbs, feasting on each in turn, enjoying as great variety as if he traveled to farofl? countries north and south. To him, almost everything is food except granite. Every tree helps to feed him and every bush and herb, with fruits and flowers, leaves and bark and al- most everything living or dead within reach, animals and insectsâ€"badgers, go- phers, round squirrels, lizards, snakes, std, an ants, bees, wasps, old and young, together with their eggs and larvae and their moss, grass and paper nests. Crunch- ed and hushed, down all go to his marvel. 311$ stomach, and vanish as if cast into I re. What digestion! A sheep or wounded deer or a pig he eats warm about as quick- ly as a boy cuts a buttered muffin, or, should the meat bc a month Old, it still is Welcomed with tremendous relish. After so gross a meal as this perhaps the next will be strawberries and clover or raspber- ries, with mushrooms and nuts or puck- ery acorns and choke cherries. And, as if fearing that anything notable in all his dominions should escape being eaten, he brooks into cabins to look after sugar, dried apples, bacon, ctc., and if still hun- gry he eats the mouiitninucr’s bed, but when he has had a full meal of more tempting daintics he usually leaves it un- disturbed, though he has been known to drug it up through a hole in the roof, car- ry it to the foot of a tree and lie down on it to en joy n siesta. Eating everything, never is he himself eaten except by man, and man alone is an enemy to be feared. “B’nr meat,” said a huntcr from whom I was seeking infor- mationâ€"“b’nr meat is the best moatin the mountains. Their skins make the best beds and their grease the best butter. Bis- cuit shortened with b’ar grease goes as far as beans; a man will walk all day on a couple of them biscuits." ~â€" “â€" Dreum and Reality. There Is this real distinction between the dream and the Waking stateâ€"that when awake I know there is another con- dition, while in the dream I take no thought of the waking state. Awake, I know that I have been living the fantastic dream life, and have come out of it into a real life completely dis- tinct from the other. I am in a first state and know there is a second. But when I am dreaming I have no thought of anoth- er stnte that I have come out of and must return to; I do not feel that there is anoth- er existence, radically separated from this one, and I never compare the visions of my dreams with my waking world, for I know nothing of it. I have the impression of having always lived the life I am in, which seems natural, and even if I ask whether I am not dreaming it is a merely verbal expression, with no accompanying sense of the meaning of it. Another distinction, and the only abso- lutcly clear one, is that while we always Wake from the dream we never wake from the reality. This is why we believe in the reality and not in the dreamâ€"M. Camille Melinand in Popular Science Monthly. A. “Home Body” In an Art Gallery. A plump little woman with an absurdly infantile air despite a silver thread or two in her hair and a faint crew’s foot at the corner of her round blue eyesâ€"eyes of the color we used to call “gander" blueâ€"went into the Corcoran gallery on the arm of a dignified gentleman in clerical garb. They stood, the two of them, a little later. among plaster casts of antique statues. “These are very beautiful, Emily," said the clerical gentleman, “very beautiful and very famous. It is a privilege to see them, and I hope you appreciate it. “ “Oh, yes, J ohn," said Emilyâ€"you could see that her very soul was a “yes, John," echo of her husbandâ€"“they’re beautiful, I think, but, oh, dear, what a work it must: be to dust thcml”â€"Washlngton Post. .â€".- . . .._ .._â€"... Silent Karen Brides. During the first day of her married-life a Korean bride must not speak, not even to her husband. It is considered a very reprehensive breach of etiquette‘ But the next morning she is permitted to give free rein to her tongue and may jabber there- after to her heart’s content. The shooting fish is a native of the End Indies. It has a hollow cylindrical beak. When it spies a fly sitting on the plants that grow in shallow water,.wlth remark- able dexterity it ejects out of, a tubular mouth a single drop of water, which scl- dom misses its aim, and, striking the fly into the water. the fish makes it its prey. . dies of wood are found in the workbaskcts NDSAY. Ttlu'nSUAY. DECtMBt’P. 29m, 1898 7 4" awmw-M. .i-M... _ ”r w.” e..- .s- _. .A-.._... ~____. _.A.. _... DUTCH WEDDING AN ORDEAL. Other Curious Customs of This 1::- tel-eating Country. A Dutch wedding is a portentous busi~ , -â€"-â€"â€"â€"_..__â€"______â€"_ ness. Smart Holland does its devotions in biiriilike French Protestant churches. The wedding service is inournful to a de- gree and lasts two hours. The bride- groom in full evening dress and the bride l in orthodox white satin sit upon chairs in front of the black robed minister. He de- livers an exteinpore address fairly bristling I with personalities. Meanwhile relatives sob in pews, until finally every one who . ' 1 can prove the remotest connection with the bride kisses her. i Next follows a tremendous breakfast in ! French style. It is “de rigucur” for all the friends of the bride to send her in the mornings bouquet or basket of white flow- 1 are plontifully ribboncd. With numbers 5 of these a very gay effect is produced, though the Dutch are lainontnbly behind the times in table decorations and posy making. With the advent of the “hers d’ozuvre“ come speeches. The bride’s brother or other delegate first rings a small hand bell. Then amid a silence broken by the cheerful clicking of knives and forks a health is proposed. Then comes a quaint postscript to this very ordinary ceremonial. Ladies and gentlemen must alike rise from their seats and, solemnly filing up to the person toasted, touch his glass with their own. After a score of speeches the thing gets monotonous, but it is carried out to the bitter end. Any person omitted would feel aggrieved. In Holland it is the family before everything. A loading barrister was recently compelled to throw up an important case in order to attend the birthday party of an. aged fa- ther who lived three hours distant by rail. The Dutch are excellent husbands, but quite propostcrously jealous. An Eng- lishman who found himself in aparty con- sisting almost entirely of assorted couples ventured to pay a few compliments and mild attentions to a charming young narl 9:: C3: C: c: .4 c: C: CD :2 a: = :1. , m s «yeâ€"- E MAR“, TRAD The above cut Ill-(“sly reprrsmis ihe quality of Timber that 1 am usmg in my CUTTERS and SLEIGHS. This season I have enlarged my premises and am now in a position to turn out better work than ever before. All intenolng purchasers of Sleighs and Cutters should not fail to call and see for themselves that this shop is headquarters for G( on AM» STYLISH Wonk. M‘â€" Lzzow flaw Sp/wzdm’ Fan/222?: for REPAIR- ]ZVG and REPA/NT/A’G R2375 C1264; and in First-Class Sty/e. RICH. KYL ricd woman. He even had the assurance to include her in a general offering of roses made to the company. The husband was furious. He canceled a previously given dinner invitation, and there were awful rumors that, though duels are now very rare, he desired to challenge the of- hndor, who wisely placed the sea between himself and his would be opponent. Babies have a comfortable time enough in Holland, where the cramping swaddling pillow is replaced by English lnycltes. It is, however, expensive to know too many, for every woman who visits or is visited by nurse and infant for the first time must give the former at least 5 shillings. Mourning is very long and very strict. Even the poorest leave ofi‘ their gold cap pins and hoadpieccs for more than a year after the death of a parentâ€"London Globe. BOOKKEEPING B. C. Clay Records of Business Transac- tions Tenn). Darius H. An American archaeological expedition excavating at Nippur discovered in arooni 20 feet below the surface some 730 clay tablets, the business records of a rich firm of merchants, Uluroshu Sons. These doc- unicnts are dated in the reigns of Arta- xcrxcs I (464-424 B. C.) and Darius II (4213 N105 B. 0.). The tablets are of vurl~ ous sizes, some resembling the ordinary duke of soup of coniiiicrco. They are covo cred with cuneiform characters clear and distinct as when the bookkeeper of Clu- rashu inscribed them 2,500 years ago. Among them is this guarantee for so years that on emerald is so \ch1 set that it will not fall out: “Bol-ahiddina and Bel-sliumu, sons of Be], and llatin, son of Buzuzn, spoke unto Bel-nadinshumu, son of Morashu, as fol- lows: ‘As concerns the gold ring set with an emerald, we guarantee that for 20 years the emerald will not fall out of the ring. If it should fall out before the expiration of 20 years, Bel-ahiddina (and the two others) shall pay to Bcl-nndinshumu an indemnity of ten mama of silver.’ ” Then follow the names of seven witnesses and of an official who is described as “the scribe of the Concordance of Proper Names.” The document concludes with the thumbnail marks of the contracting parties. There are also lenses of various kinds and contracts for the sale of sun dried bricks and other merchandise, and for the loan of seed corn and oxen for plowingâ€"- New York Commercial Advertiser. Viif’ifi" PLAN NG M LL FRAMES I MOULDINGS SASH . . . .. . TURNINGS DOORS . . . I ETC, ETC. CALI. AND INSPECT WORK AND GET PRICES. J. P. RYLZEY lBell Pianos and Organs, I I O o ' Dominion Pianos Organs MENDELSSOHN PIANOS. ‘2. l HEINIZMAN PIANOS i or any other muke desired at special low prices :for the holiday trade. Also SEWING MA- ‘CHINES, I still continue to pay the com- mission oficred in my former advertisement. Not Good Enough For Her. “Did you hear about Samuels?” asked Mrs. Graymaro’s husband. “NO, I didn’t hear about Somuels,” the lady answered. “When you have anything to tell, why don’t you tell it?” “Yes, dear. Well, Saunuels was going home the other night when a footpad shot at him, and the ball hit a latchkey in Sainucls’ vest pocket, and his life was saved. SO you see what good a latchkey is.)l “Indeedl If Samuels had been going home at a reasonable hour, he wouldn’t have met any footpad. Secondly, he car- ried $10,000 insurance, payable to his wife, and if it had not been for that key she would be a rich widow now. So if you are hunting around fora latchkey you will have to bring home some better story than that one. That’s all. I’m going to bed now, and out goes the gas in two tick: Latchkey indeed!”â€"-Pick Me Up. THE CHINESE CHOPSTICK. And the Question. Wan Middle Amer- ica l’eopled From Asia? With the evidences of Asiatic contact supposed to be so strong in Central Amer- ica one might have imagined that so use- ful a device as the simple chopsticks would have secured a footing. Those two sticks, held in one hand and known in China as "hastencrs or nimble lads, ” are certainly the most useful, the most'economical, and the most. efficient device for their purposes ever invented by man. . Throughout that vast Asian region, em. bracing a population of 500,000,000, the chopstick is used as a substitute for fork, tongs and certain forms of tweezers. Even fish, omelet and cake are separated with the chopsticks, and the cook, the street scavenger and the watch repairer use this device in the form of iron, long bamboo and delicate ivory. The bamboo chopstick was known in China 1000 B. C., and shortly after this date the ivory form was won.- ’7 l l I All goodiwarranted, and exchanged if not I s itisfactory. j 57.: discount to parties coming to my office to purchase. J J WETHERUP Corner Sussex and Peel-Sta. I . 9 BOX 415, LINDSAY They have a Horseshoeing and General They do good work and their charges are mod- < They build anything that runs on Wheels or runners to order. Al- ways at heme. E This is PEDLER EMMERSO ’8 Card. Repair Shop on William-st. North. crate. f I carry a full line of the Best Stoves made in WHERE . ..... Canada. These comprise...... 00!. “Ill WEBB CCOKS MD RANGES, HAND- doviscd. Their use is one of great an , SOME HEATERS. BOX STOVES, ETC. tiquity in Japan, as attested by references» to it in the ancient records of that country. Prices ”9 10"" than elsewhere, hence my increasing One may search in vain for the trace of sales. Inspection invited. EAVETROWGHING AND GALVANIZED IRON WORK any object in the nature of a chopstick in A Sescumv. Central or South America. Knitting nee. associated with ancient Peruvian mum- mies, but the chopstick has not been found. Curious pottery rests for the chop- sticks are exhumed in Japan. but‘gven this enduring testimony of its early use is yet to be revealed in this country.â€"“Was , Middle America Peopled From Asia?” by I Professor E. S. Morse. in Popular Science ? -- GEO. F. MASON. Oskwood Stove and Tin Store “we; .