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Bays" and Youths’ Soft Hats 5 00, 75c and $1. ’Chich-ren’s Fancy Caps, 100, 150, 250. 350, 500. iiBfixziix mwiflmmfi W Newest styles in Men’s Shirts, Ties, Collars, Underwear, Gloves, Umbrellas, etc. ~0er stock is large and complete and will be sold If so, we invite housekeepers to “ Table Linens “ Pillow Cottonior Sheeting “ Towels or Toweling “ Ticking, heavy weight figfigfi‘fm“ “ Bedspreads or TambouredShams Or do you want any other house article in our line O’LoughliM McIntyre Do you want New Hatters, Men’s Furnishers etc.. 96 KENT STREET. LINDSAY CLOTHING Made to fit don’t cost any more than that which does not. We make clothes for hundreds of peeple W and give them perfect satisfaction, and we can do the i ‘2 same for you. Now is the time to order your Fall --~g..‘- + an .. and Winter Suit or Overcoat. Don’t put it off until "' .- the coldgweather sets in. Have the benefit of it the full mseason. Prices always right. Remember the place fl 6‘ 66 65 at lowest prices '. G. BLAIR SON, Number 18 ‘6 $6 ‘6 ‘6 6‘ Window Blinds Window Curtains Carpets, Wool or Union Floor Oilcloths Reps 0r Denims for cosy corners FOR SOFA Plain or Fancy Sateens, PILLOWS 6‘ 21“" Doors 6‘ Muslins, for DRESSER or STAND j m; The Latest in Style The Finest in Quality The Most Reasonable in Price N ew . Spring Shoes W. L. White K ENTâ€"ST-I for any depth of well up' to one hundred and fifty feet, and guarantee satisfaction, Mr. Dennis still has charge oi the Pump Business in our employ. 000000000000 PUMPS' PUMPSé 3 Sylvegteg Bros. glllllfllllll{llllllliillllllliIllIllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllll”ERNIE . MFG.CO. a 3.....000060660‘ Our abi‘izv to Repair your Watch or any Mme-piece must be appreciated to induce nne of our customers to send hie wa'ch an far to be repaired by us. sed. Our present stock is away ahead of anv year. New goods for everyone who are in need of. . . Having taken over the Pump Business from Mr. Dennis. we beg leave to announce to the public that we are prepared to supply both. Wood and Iron Pumps Orders for Pumps or Re- pairs will receive prompt attention. and the largest assoxtment of in the County. If you cannot be suited in our store you will be hard to please indeed. We would also be pleased to supply Wind-Mills on specifications. â€" Write for prices or apply at Office. New Brooches, Stick Pins, New Belts and Buckles. Ladies’ Long Chains. Gold. Silver a. n d Plated Hearts, An endless varietv of Gen- tlemen’s Chains. Bring your repairing to. . . . The J ewelei‘, Next the Daly House. S. J. PETTY, Our counters and shelves are full of them. These are the very finest goods made in Canada, and will give pleasure and satis- faction to the wearer. 2500 MILES he Leading Shoe Store, must give satlsfaction. 'Nufi' Watches. ClOCkS! Jewelry. Silverware. Spectacles LINDSAY. THURSDAY. ‘MAY 3rd, 1900. LINDSAY My Dear Amy,â€"I received letters of Jan. 29 and Feb. 4 and 5, and some papers. I am sending some papers by this mail. Concerts and music being mentioned, remind me of the kind of music I have been listening to lately. There was mauser, the high soprano; Martini, the contraito; Vickers-Ncrden- teldt. tenor (he is great of runs); Krupp and Howitzer, basses. I did not enjoy the series of concerts much, but I Was very much pleased to hear the bassos on one occasion when the tenor was too prominent. Another class was the march music, the swish, swish, of the infantry’s feet through the grass, the clatter of cavalry, the conglomeratlon of transport sounds, and the loud metallic rattle of artillery; bag-pipes sole accompanist. Then there is a grand round of thousands of voices of man and beast, and the noise of picks. shovels, axes, kettles, fires, etc“ when we pitch camp. I think these will ii-‘ve in my memory forever. But what do you think was the sweetest music I heard since I left home? It was the chorus of church bells on Sunday morn- ing. There was a church parade on Sunday morning. I seldom have the opportunity of attending. A GREAT VARIETY OF SOUNDSâ€"THE CANNON AND THE CHURCH BELLS â€"-BIG RAIN STORMâ€"ARE. THEY COM- INGrlHOME SOON9â€"THE RECEPTION WHEN THEY DO ARRIVE â€" O F. S. POSTAGE STAMPSâ€"FIFE AND DRUM BAND. :3 The following letter was received from Sergt. McCrea by his sister, Mrs. R. J. Mulligan, on April 28th. Mr. John MoCrea has received from his son the first: five issues of “The Friend,” the newspaper published in Bloemfontein and edited by the war correspondents with Lord Roberts’ force. They contain all Lord Robert’s proclamations to the burghers in Dutch andEnglish, ands great: deal of interesting matter besides. The letter : I had a pass and visited the town on Saturday. It is not much of a place, strange-looking of course. What; struck me most was the flower gardens, and the number and variety of caged birds. I looked at the parliament house and office, go'verment house. O.F.S. artillery bar- racks, and the Dutch and Presbyterian churches. The British occupy the bar- raoks and are mounting guns in the un- finished force. I went through O.F.S. museum where they have samples of everything in South Africa. Io rained lash nlghb, and it in wonder- ful how well the boys take 10. Hwy quack like ducks. and crack jokes about: regattas, etc. My mate and I, by means cf some short: boards out of the cute, kept: our- selves about three-quarters of an inch above high-water mark. It: soon dries, however, when the rain stops. THE MUSIC * OF THE WAR Sergt. McCrea Tells of the OratoriOS inflthe War- God’s Temple. It looks as if this was to be a large per. menent: camp. I hear our tents are com- lnz up from Belmont. I have had splendid health, not a touch of asthma. There are reports of us {Icing home, but I don’t see why we should ttlI the war is over. When there was such a noise about the Sunnvslde episode. what must it have been when Roberte’ and Smith- Dorrlen’e reports of Paerdeebnrg were received in Canada. I try to picture the reception when we return. ()ur brigade is to be inapecgad to-morrow by Gen. Colvllle, and the naval brigsde, after in. apeotlon. leave for their: uhip Powerful. N ore the stamp on this letter. [The stamp is a very pretty Violet- colored one, the design being a tree with three horns of plenty under it, and the words “Oranje Vrij Steat Een Penny.” Since the British occupation of Bloemfon teln they have had the letters V.R I. and 1 d. printed 1n black over the face of the design.] Mar. 22.â€"A few days since I was made Acting Pioneer Corporal. It just means extra work, no pay. The only redeeming feature is that I am placed over some over-bearing spirits in the Pioneers, and I am placed in the way of promotion. Al- 1 though not looking for it, promotion may} come soon. Pio. Set-gt. Medhurst was sent over to N eebitt’a Horse yesterday, to see about his being made sergt.-major. If he remains I may be made eergb. It is wonderful how quickly the men recover when they get a few days rest. There is an order than hands and faces must be properly washed. The boys spend part of their time mending. Another large column streamed into camp yesterday. Bloemfontein, Mar; 20th, 1900. Not long after the war broke out, Dr. G. Sterling Ryerson of Toronto, went out to Africa under Red Cross auspices. In one of his letters Col. Hughes spoke of ‘meetlng the doctor who was then appar' ently on his way up from Cape Town to -Kimberley. Since then he has been busy among those wounded at Paardeberg where Cronje surrendered, and since the Canadians suflered so heavily there. a large percentage of these he has been tending must have been men from the doctor’s own country. We are all glad to learn that they were in such good hands. The doctor has for years been well known and a favorite here through his associa- tions with Lindsay people at Sturgeon The Cape Town Paper Speaks of his Services in the Hos- pital. Mar. 23.â€"A fife and drum band and a brass band marched up from town this morning. This is the first band music I have heard since we left Orange River. Love to all. Yours, JOHN. Tell Sam Grandy that I have not: fOrgot- ten that his letter is unanswered . DR. RYERSON’S GOOD . WORK IN AFRICA Point in the summer time. A couple of years ago he put up a new cottage, which is the finest at the Point, and his friends hope that: the war will be over early enough to allow him to spend a few weeks there this year before the season closes. The says of him: “Lieutenant-Colonel Sterling Ryerson, the Canadian Red Cross Commissioner, is now in Cape Town. having come down for a few days from Kimberley, where he rendered very great assistance to the Im. perial authorities in looking after and bending the wounded ab Paardeberg. Col. Rverson, who was thanked by Lord Methuen for the work he did in Kimber- ley. has seen service in Canada, having taken part in suppressing the Fenian Rebellion in 1870 and the North-west Rebellion in 1885. He was for 6 years a member of the Provincial Parliament: of Ontario. having sat for East Toronto, and since he has been in South Africa his efforts, not: only on behalf of the Canadian ‘troops, but for the British wounded, have l been highly appreciated." C O 0 O O O Q C O O O Q OOOIOOCOOO . m fi 0 C â€"-â€"Mra. Austin Wlnegarden of Scotland, Ont, gave blrth to triplets on Aprll 26. They are all finely developed children, and thelr weights will aggregate dbout 23 pounds. A l are doing nlcely. rM~l«M~l'++~MW020H~P+’M‘W'WhM”! Ready to dance, hr ready to fight, and never been known to funk, Dragging his gun behind him, he’s fighting his way to Heav’n, Domg the thing he is told to do to the tune of the Four-point-seven. He keeps his hat for his own haid head when whispers of friendship fly, It isn’t the thing tor a Handy Man to sw0p with a fond ally ; And it isn’t the wish of a Handy Man that a furriner’s arm should pull A single oar in the trim tough boat whose skipper is old john Bull. He keeps to himself does the Handy Man, when the clouds are packed for a squall, But he comes with his gun from the ends of the earth, when the bugles give him the call, And the trader may plot and plan. for under the stars on the rolling deep stands the vigilant Handy Man. Handy afloat, handy ashore, easiest soul to please, Ready to straddle a merry-go-round or ride on the plunging seas, Son of this sea-girt England, ward of the world wide breed. Jack is the man for the midnight watch, or the hour of me Empire’s need 2 Last week thin‘space nontained “The Song in Camp" by Mr. Harold Begbie, cousin of-Maneaer Begbie of the waterworks. Hemwith is another song by the same author. It has been set. to music and made a great hit in the Old Country. We have seen him dragging his guns along in the Agricultural Hal], Trotting about on the noiseless tan, as if he were playing ball ; But nobody saw him in far Natal, tugging away at his load. Through the ruts in the road that the rain had cut, and where there was nev'er a road ; Nobody heard it or saw it, and there wasn’t a band to play, But he landed them up at Ladysmith from the crusier down in the bay; And just when the guns were needed, and looking quite spick and span Wlth a nod to the gent of the Absent Mind, up double the Handy Man. Handy afloat, handy'ashore, handier still in a hole, Ready to sWarm up the mountain side or walk on a greasy pole; Lugging a gun thro’ the desert, scrubbing a deck milk white, Jack is the man for a children’s, or the awkward hour of a fight! He finds the range in the time it takes to cock his eye on a foe, And he stands as stiff as a Noah’s Ark till his ofiicer says “Let Go ” And as soon as he’s hit where he’s told to hit, and somebody’s said “Well Done,” He turns with a click to the right-a bout. and trundles away with his un, . His eyegis the eye of an eagle, that sees and knows from afar, . His hand is as swift as the hand that smote the triumph of Trafalgar, And the heart is the heart of a lion, that hides in the glorious dress Where the only gold is the name he loves with its pennon H.M.S. Handy afloat, handy ashore, sleeps like a babe in his bunk, Cape Times of Cape Town (Che 1banby (than [forthwith when i agents. 5 Before the poll opens the deputy to count ballots in the presence of agents, and the same to be open for inspection by agents. 7. Deputies to be provided with war- rants for personators and to issue came 4. Deputy and poll clerk to be at the poll half an hour before it opens. 3. Deputy returning officers and poll clerks must be residents of the electoral division in which they act. 6. Deputies to administer oath to voters when requested to do so by agents. 2. Returning officers must: announce on nomination day names of deputies for each poll. 1. Returning ofiicexa must be resident: of the electoral division in which they acto During a. recent speech Mr. Matter took up the Premier’s appeal for assist- ance to and his Government’s conupdon campaign, by offering fifteen suggestions, most of which touch the lines on which these offences have been committed. The suggestions are as follows:â€" Suggestions of Mr. Matter for the Cure of Corruption in Elections. FIFTEEN ANTIDOTES T0 CORRLPTION 8. Constables to be empowered to de- tain such pereonabora until warrant is pre- pared when asked by agent. 9 Scrutineere or agents no heve the right of endorsing their names across the fly of the envelope containing the ballots after they are counted, in order that tab- etltntion eennob be made. 10. Any person found outside of a poillng booth with a ballot in his poe- aesslon to be liable to instant: arrest. 11. The numbered ballot to be done away with. 12. That it be muscle a. criminal offence for license inspectors or commissioner: to bring pneunre of any kind npon licensees to influence their votes. 13. That any violation of any of these regulations be punishable by imprison- ment, without the option of a fine. 14. That It be a orlmlnal ofienoe for any Minister, candidate, or any other person to intimate that the election of any candidate would result in the obtdno lng of Government favors for the con- atltnency. 15. That constables be empowered to enter any hotel for the discovery of any partie- who may be hidden for the pur- of tendering money to inflame: 75'Cenvs per annmm called upon to do an by PAGES 5 T0 12