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Ir bowls, filled Iii rem 3k in (120811614 Sivaâ€"hard to mi Cheap M RC DIRECTORS Insident, R. J. McLaughlin, Dr. W. H. Mk. II. J. 13110. 0- chit- .Taylor W. H. Stevens, S. Armour, But. IL Hill Dr. J. W. lay. _ um LOW; linger HATHEUI ANDC et Bow) s of wea cut and 50, $5.00. 8 thoroughly fwd MdN’gretful coun'en- be°n fornaught. He int-3 buying ftom ‘ I With 3 longing for ‘that 0315’: There are 8:?“ Such Seed~merchants. A 10 “thatyOu get ynm‘ seed " 50 1’8. One *f the first hams “ fiindsay we place - 811 ex erience at. ‘ Mosul. If r . BO“ 'e Invite Your Deposit VIGORIA [0AM 8t SAVINGS (0. 0mm nounsâ€"9 A. M. to 4 30 P. M MQflflfl 8t McIntyre Cash and One Price An hour’s visit to our store win convince you that we can make your home a place of interst ‘to enter, and a haven of rest and re- freshment when fitted up with our new spring supplies. It may be that your sofa or chairs need rgâ€"covering; its really wonderful the change that is wrought by a little fresh brocade on fie furniture. Our leCCS are within the range of every purse, and our styles are suitable for the most fastidious. Now is the time for renewing your Blinds, Lace Curtains, Mus. lin Curtains, Draperies, etc. Your Carpets may need ‘replac. ing and we can supply you With new ones, which wit! be a guar- antee of satisfaction. Never buy a poor carpet, for it does not pay you. Have the best; for we keep only the best. What About House Cleaning, and! What AbQWms ‘SEKEEPERSE? Interest Com- 0 pounded half yearly. comers' in the spring, but Lney upyca- w r I ' in this class of stock has been ampng 0 A ‘ ~. . . . EYES]! Lime ‘1’; ;.f Coal infigmfimf éfififiifi, “if: . . , - - though lambing has not been, 31‘0‘ Right 06th: can, at close prices Swine have done - From variom 1”” of 1.119 prov: thWo:areheavens.offiarmproduce “pads have hm ”may, ,0,” e ymr round. . - of them W wpphqron moan? of The old reliable Gold'fledal has stood for years against comers. ~ Don’t Experiment Muipou 53mm. with newfuntried Your Sav- ings Safe , ded to the work of seeding. Spring grains, as a rule, found a good seed bed. LIVE STOCK. Considering the severity of the win- ter, live stock have come through in a fair condition. A mild form of disâ€" temper made its appearance among horses in many parts of tne province, and what is known as broncho itch is reported from a couple of points in the county of Prescott ; but the general health of horses has been ‘good, and this class of live stock are in demand. The sudden change to“ the activity of the oxwedingly warm first week of May, after the prolongâ€" ed‘confincment of winter, told againSt many working animals, and some valuable horses succumbed to the strain. Cattle looked rather thin in the spring. but they appear to bein good health. The greatest loss many sections sowing was completed, but in other quarters there was still considerable to do in this line. The plowing under and resoeding of {all wheat also delayed matters and ad- {W April was so Cold and forbidding from an agricultural standpoint that but little seed was put into the ground. The early part of May, how- ever, Was so warm and inviting that sowing operations were pushed rap- idly forward without a break, oand nearly the normal acreage was in seed as correspondents wrote. In Growth in both field and lorest was latein starting, but the first week or ten days of May were so warm that vegetation went forward with a rush, and when correspon- dents reported on the 16th of the month pastures were almost as far on as usual. In nearly every section cattle were on the grass at that date and tract and shrubs were swinging into leaf. CLOVER. The condition of the clover may be thus briefly described: 'In the eastern part of the province the crop is from fair-"to good, and in some sections very good; in the western half zit is from good to very poor. The most favorable reports come from the counties stretching Rom Lincoln .and Welland, along the Lake Erie front, to Lambton and Huron, ‘in' many parts of which the crop is an absolute failure. The greater part of the injury to clover was done by ice lying for a length' of time on‘ flat or low-lying fields. Most of the loss has ocwrred with old fields, the more freshly seeded fields almost in- variably turning out ;well. The rains prevailing about the middle of May have given the crop a good start for the season. ' ince for some years. Very little in- ' ‘ been re ' ported this spring. Corrmpt‘dents have been almost silent regarding the Hessian fly, while a few have made mention of the presence of thc‘ Wire-worm. While winter-killing was‘ more or less severe wherever fall wheat has been grown. tht greate8t damage to the crop was sustained in the Lake Erie counties. Next in or- .der of injury reported come the Lake Huron and West Mliddlesex groups, two Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario districts following with a somewhat lighter but still serious proportion of loss. The bright spot in the out- look for fall wheat is that fact-that since the beginning of May the wea- ther has been most favm'nhle hr the recuperation of the crop, and the latest reports to hand indicate that many of the fields are making en- couraging recovery. :hort owing to a” uni Merit} 01' the ' mm: SUPPLIES SPRING SEEDING. THE G ROWTH. uWet! one of the most ‘ fall wheat in its his- by winter-killing rang- o 30 per cent. 01' com Wheat land will not be much of it had been With grass; neverthe- e many Years since so I ”'ley and oats, or oth- 19 for feed. The chief to the crop was the T890112 for May mart a good number a! store cattle are “ramble in most localities, where that class 01 live stock is mined In some innume- in the county of lid- die-ax. homer. cattle for stung StOCk. there is less of those products on hand in the spring than formerly. The fact that all classes of live stock wa-e kept confined for a longer time than usual also drew largely upon the Supplies of fodder. However, a. anddenriaeinthoprioes olhay and ‘0“! would would lihly bring out n ‘oonlldmblo quantity of ' both oi the. comedian- which otherwise wouldwbolgdtoliwuock. Itcan I It seems to us a matter of pro- found regret that the products of breweries should have been allowed such such general and obtrusive lprominence inside the inclosure of the great World's Fair. We do not wish to be dogmatic or synical, and do not claim that our way of looking at this matter must become a law to others; but we do say that the dis- play and indulgence in beer and othâ€" er intoxicating liquors, in all parts of the World’s Fair, is a disgtkting oflcnce to L's. We believe that we thus express the feelings and views of the [organ-and better portion of visitors to the World's Fair. and that we would not be true to our convictions and duty to remain si- lent ion the subject; Hicks, the weather prophet, says in the last Word and Works : upward. Let a schoolroom be pro- perly heated with a ventilator in the ‘ ceiling to allow the impure air, which always rises, to escape, and the win- dows made to open at the top and bottom. Thenjhe air can be- kept pure and wholseome, without any frills or fal-deâ€"rals, theorists endea- vor to make a reputation by. ' our‘ worthy inspector objects to and is likely to place his ban on the Sabbath school being held in our sch‘e’olroom. "What next !" is the question in my mind. Mr. Stevens advises the Department of Education to get the advice of a man who knows something of the “practical side of the case." That sounds like g fishing for a better job. but it woul'ul be a woeful day for Ontario if the . position was secured. The country f schools need changes, but it it in the j line of teaching that the mistakes ‘ are made. The ineterests oi the nineâ€" 1 ty-flve percent. of pupils whose edu- i cation, so-called, is finished in the Public School are wrongly saczifieed to lay a wide foundation for the higher -tr,a.ining. of the five percent. who go forward to High School work. The aim should turn to mak- I ing a finished product of the common pupils, and fit them to be better able to enter their life's work and succeed therein. My humble opinion is that 51 the pupil leaving the Public School i1 these years, is not, by long odds, as a well qualified to make practical use ea of the lessons taught as the one who t1 was taught the fewer branches 30 9' years ago. Our country schools are is put on low ground by Mr. Stevensâ€" tl rooms and pupilsâ€"but allow me to p4 remind him that of all the successful w men and women who shine in the cl professional worlds of our towns and or cities, over 90 percent. got their '11 early training in the despised and Ti condemned country schoolroom. '11 Yours truly, th JOHN CAMPBELL. Woodville, May 27th, ’04. HICKS LIKES NOT THE BEER. ,, - __ .. . was. The cold air duct from the outside to the furnace is an old folly of which we had a trying dose in our chumh at Woodville. The suction of cold air from the floor is another ex- ploded hobby; that is the attempt to send it up false flues. You might (.3 mil ‘â€"-â€"A way of ventilating buildings. And the conlusion 13 this : That more nonsensical plans and theorties are in vogue at. resent regarding the ven- tilating ofbuildings than anything I know 0! in connection with building. tn... -4.- _,,7 - - -' v___ vvv.J wvun W honie, I have the opportunity 0! testing its merits and faults person- ally, but have failed to see anything wrong with it. I study ventilation, Li.‘ I:;;- , would be handed as my contribution: to oppose so ridicalous a proposal. ’Tis possible some schools sufler ‘ from improper ventilation, but ours is not one of them. The latter part Of mv ”Ionian“ nu... __-_A - N°~ 5» lfariposa, got us I- _I‘ .- was wnth considerable curâ€" It I read Inspector Stevens' 15011-3 of West Victoria Dms, as related by you last, We have hm hearing "I_ do along that figéfv "I"; m- Spatially interested in ‘~‘ That the bill proposes to raâ€" tify and confirm agreements im- posing upon the country enormous obligations for the construction of atranscontinental railway, a large portion of which is to be- come the property of a railway corporation to whom the remain- ing portion is to be lmcd for fitâ€" ty years on terms onerous to the country. That obligations taken by the country under the propos- ed, agreements will provide unrest entirely for the cost of construc- ting the proposed railway, while the obligation assumed by the 3 y I ;‘ ‘ -.« 1 (”i .e i i 1 1 The western people required increas- ed and improved railway facilities, but he believed they were also unit- ed in the demand {or public owner- ship of the railways. The prosperous condition- in the west necessitated increased railway facilities. lwlth. They would do justice to all clones and «code and were convinc- ed they could outline ‘e school policy that would satisfy their own people. They had no school trouble now, .and if other provinces left them alone they would have no Ichool trouble hereafter it autonomy were granted. The Hon. F. G. W. Houltain, prem- ier of the Northwest Territories, was in Toronto a few days last week. He said he could not tell what the Gov- moot would do about granting the Northwest autonomy. but the peop'e in the Territories were a, unit in the dmnd for it. He believed the school question should be left to people in the Territories .were a unit The Conservative party has come out. in favor of making the new transcontinental railway a state-om road. In the House on Thur-day Mr. Borden moved an amendmt to the Railway Bill. It concluded as follows : TWO NEAR BELLEVILLE. Thomas Leahy, while gathering whey at a cheese factory near Queens- boro' on Wednesday of last week, awas struck by lightning and killed. During the same storm 'Frank H. Reed's dwelling in Thurlow, Was struck by lightning. The end of the building was torn oil- and the in- ‘terior was considerable damaged. Fine started, but was nut put beforej it did much damage. A man named William Camb, who was working for Mr. John Scott of Dereham. near Tilsonburg, was struck by lightning on Wednesday morning of last week, while he was planting corn in the field, and was instantly lqille'd. The electric current struck him on the head, ran down across his breast, through the right arm and the planter to the earth. The man was {rightfully burned and the implement he was using was Islam to status. He was a. na- tive of South Norwich, Was about ltweptyâ€"two years old, and unmar- IR. WEI FAVOBS STATE-OWNED ROAD - ‘ ------ 1"“,â€" ent, with prices very low compared with last spring. 'I‘oo large a. per- centage of the boxes are flimsy, and, therefore, damaged before they reach here. boxes generally vpry inferior, caused I suppose, by the reason thud as a general rule the cheese-maker only gas a. certain percentage for making. ‘L- ‘l WAIT TO BE A PROVINCE KILLED BY LIGHTNING ‘ on “'0 SHOE? first. put efore As the cartridge was thrown the dog dashed after it, and, to the bar-- or of the editor, came out with the cartridge in his mouth, the fuse be- ing tolerably long. The men tied and so did the owner of the dog. the dog following the latter. Frightened n.1- HIO! most to death, the editor rushed to'â€" ward a deep ditch, fortunately quite wide, and leaped across this, contin- nem- uing to run {or fully half a mile. "E: 'At the moment the dog reached the I bank of the ditch the cartridge ex- °"' pioded, literally tearing him to piec- ”In, Evcry child in the country nevds, at some time or other a medicine to correct the ills incidcnt to child- hood. If Baby's Own Tablets are kept in the house and occasionally given to the little ones they will prevent illness and make the little ones rugged. strcng and cheerful. Mothers should insist on having this medicine because it contains no opi- ate or harmful drug, and children take tb'lhblets as readily as they take candy. I! you have a neighbor who has and the Tablets ask her 1nd she, will tell you what splendid actuation they give. Here in what on W. In. Wm. Sinclair. Beh- Brother Tcherbackoflsky must be the same sort as a divine from a. neighboring town who, when lxctur- ing here recently, fervently ex- claimed concerning one of the com- Intent. in this war: “God cover their heads in the day of battle." The Bobcaygeon Independent says : " A report from Manchuria says that Father Stephen ’l‘cherbackofl'sky. the prlett who carried the cross at the battle of Yalu and was wounded by two bullets through the chest while leading the heroic charge of his regi- ment has left for Harbin. Father Stephen has been awarded the omâ€" en' cross 01 the order of St. George. A fig! for such Christianity. A fig 5103‘ such religion. The idea of men murdering their {allows for 25 cents a day and being led by an awowed follower of the Prince of Peace, is monstrous. That pricsb will un- doubtedly give as a reason for his conduct. that the God of Love must also be a damnablc demon, because he has .to be‘just. Such logic, such religion is fit only for pigs." was on the bank at a deep pool. when some men came up and one of them threw a dynamite cartridge in‘ to the pool in order to kill the fish. I A factory well cannot be kept un- contaminated, so long as the drain- age and whey disposal system of the factory is not camfully looked after, so that the first ementi‘al for pure water supply from the ordinary well is good drainage. Next is the prop- uer construction of the well, including. ' its covering so as not to permit sur- face washings flowing in. Appearance and odor often do not reveal the presence of very dangerous microbes [that one present. Mr. Robertson, editor of the Hust- ler, of Wilkedboro of North Caroline,’ owned a halfâ€"grown setter dog, which he was training to retrieve. The dog was wry fond of bringing objects from the water. His owner A Canine Brought Dynamite Cartridge from Waterâ€"Results be immediately condemned. Later Dr. Connell had an opportunity of seeing two of the Wells from which the samples' were taken. Both were subject to direct gross contaminaâ€" tion from drainage water lying under the factory floors, and the streams of dirty slime could be seen opening into the: wells about [our feet below, the surface. Both these Waters were very foul. so foul that animals would not touch them. Such a well is generally termed a "mi‘neral" bne in the section, probably because the sulphuretted hydrogen of decompos- tion causes an odor sommvhat like that of natural sulphur water. gréater number are utterly condemn- ed, while others are reported as $113- picious, putting them in the cate- gory of those. that are unsafe to am THE ILLS 0F CHILDHOOD Rough on the Pigs WAS T00 HANDY