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UPHOLSTERING Next the D313? House. -Wedding Rings, Gem Rings -New Blouse Setts, Go! Cuff Buttons Belts and Belt Buckles UNDERTAKING as usual at the old stand MODERATE. Wedding Rings. And Ladxes’b S" The Best When yuu Buy from us Ml we Ask Same Beautiful Lines A’ 7407675074, szgem‘ 59‘ C 0. for seven] yarn put teacher of Music 3: Bronklyn EX; has cpened clauses in Lindsay at 86 Williun- sta. north. and will receive 5 limited number 0 pupils. Tum made known on ”vacuumâ€"om; Music Lessons ! are going up in prices, Stlver- ware in particular has risen from 10 to 20 per cent. We have such a large stock on hand that it will not afi'ect us for some time. We advise you to buy early if you want our goods at old prices. We have just receiv- (d the best value we have ever shown in Our special bargains are THE JEWELER. HOLTORF The last mentioned goo the best values in town. CONTINUES HIS- . MISS II. ROBINSON. Mean new homes, and new homes call for new Furniture. is none too gooa w: a bride. We keep the best, and the best only. It would not pay u: to sell inferior Fur- niture at any price. We have never done it, and what’s more, never will. you can rely on being satisfied with your pur- chases, whether it be ParlurgDining- Room or Kitchen Furniture. The prices will also please s, Mantle Clocks Hver Belts is a careful examina- tion of our stock. If we cannot suit you,then you are very much harder to please than your neighbors. In SUMMER FURNI- TUREâ€"Lawn and Ver- andah Chairs, Rockers, Tetes, etc, See these goods. WUndertak- ing in all its branches. Gem and Keeper AND REPAIRING Gold CHARGES prlces, Silver- good for Silver ING BRINGS MONEY CONSEANTLY AND ENRICHES THE SOILâ€"CREDIT SYSTEM DISAPPEARING. A Special correspondent to the Globe ‘from London,“ Ont. writes as follows re- garding the prosper“ y of farmers and the causes that bring it about: “The farmer who owns one hundred acres of land, clear of debt and well stocked is the most in- dependent man in Canada to-day.” This . is the deliberate opinion of the manager of ,_.-.-\‘v nu Vuv v-v-_~'_v._ a large western Ontario loan company,‘ who was asked by a Globe correspoiident as to the condition of the farming com- munity. “The farmers are in a better position than they have been for years, and are now firmly on their feet,” he add- ed. In another county the Sherifl‘, who as an oflicial is supposed to rise on the failure of his fellows, is complaining-of the hard times, as he has never done be- fore, while the registrar and the bailiff spend most of their time in thinking over the dullness of their business. Invest- igation in the western part of the province has resulted in finding the opinion unani- mously expressed by merchants and others who are in constant touch with the agri- cultural section of this community that the latter are sharing liberally in the general prosperity of the country, and from their naturally inrlepcnt life are in a better position even than the urban popu- lations FARMERS PROSPERING There was a dull period for the farmers, I and it lasted as long as they could well I stand it "If their condition previous to 1 1897 had continued that year and one or f two more, I don’t know what would have become of the farmers,” said a London 1 financial man. “They were then at their i lowest ebb, but the return of good crops I and good times, with a better market for their produce, has set them on their feet . again. Mortgages are being rapidly paid ‘ off and no new ones incurred, except where a man is buying land or increasing his capital. Cbattel mortgages are very rarely given now, which is a sure index of good times.” In some localities they are even reported as paying off obligations of the future, having more money on hand than they had expected. FUTURE PROMISES WELL. It would not be possible to guarantee a continuance of this period of prosperity. There areelements, however, which would indicate that farming is on a better basis than it ever has been in Old Ontario, and that for the future the agriculturists will i not be as much at the mercy of fickle weather as they have been in the past. Newer and more intelligent methods are being constantly introduced, which gives the farmer a chance to rely on his own ell‘orts, to a larger extent. Should one crop fail, he has many others. and no )car can be so bad that all varieties of his pro- ducts will be failures. The old method of raising Wheat, with enough coarse grains and ropts for a small quantity of stock! year after year, is passing, and in its place is coming in all parts of this province a svstem of mixed farming. The greatest item in the calendar of the ' P Ontario farmer to-day is stock. ThOSe who have not as yet gone extensively into raising hogs and cattle are doing so more each year. The hog industry is growing to enormous proportions, but it is owing to the policy of the individual farmer. They i are not grown in hundreds by companies or by ranchers, but in halt-dozens and dozens, by scores of men holding fifty and one hundred acre farms in all parts of this country. It is in the fact that the industry is so well distributed that the hop 3 lies. ENRIL‘HIXU THE FARMS. Each farmer who raises hours must feed his coarse grains and roots at home, while the manure comes back and enriches the soil every year. The same may be said of the raising of cattle. The latter are pro- ductive of revenue in three or four ways. There may be raised export beef cattle, or the milk of the COWs may be sold outright or delivered to cheese factories or to f creameries. Any one of these is nowa ‘ paying industry, while the advantage of feeding coarse grains on the farm is daily becoming more apparent. The fact bhtt stock-raising is capable of supplying such a variety of products prevents a surfeit in any one, and prices have been well main- tained. The price received for butter, cheese, beef. cat'le, bacon and hams has been very satisfactory this season. The diverting of a large quantity of milk from cheese to butter has relieved the former , market of congestion, While in the latter there seems no limit to the demand. INDEPENDENCE OF UNITED STATES. The fact is that in few products is the closure of the American market felt. We all remember that a few years ago the Mc- Kinley tariff killed the barley market, and prices dropped below a living basis. With the elasticity which is in the power of every farmer in changing his crops, barley was abandoned almost entirely, and other grains grown instead. The pendulum has swung back, and now that hogs are raised so extensively barley is again grown widely for feed. The bean market is now dc. - pressed because of the Dingly tariff wall, and probably causes some inconvenience f and loss to Kent county farmers. There is, however, a Canadian demand for a limited quantity, while sheep. the market for which is improving. are found to fatten splendidly on the oily grain. It is probable that in a year or two the conditions will . regulate themselves, and beans will be abandoned more or less in favor of corn, which grows most successfully in Kent and which will be used for the feeding oi hogs. Data are being grown in platk of wheat to a large degree, and thousands of bu shels of them find a good market in Great Britain. A few years ago the horse market was depressed by the American tariff wall. . Now both English and Ameri- . can buyers purchase all the heavy draught It: horses they can get in Ontario. and at good \Vw p d t a o c c s r l l c Our fruit is in ready demand at all times While the southern States supply us with manv‘early varietie=, yet the proximity of Lincoln and Essex respectively to large American cities, which cannot get enough d truitpnd vegetables conveniently on their d‘ own side, is the means of bringing hun- a< dreds of thousands of American dollars into our frontier counties annually. But we are not dependent upon them alto- gether. Fruit is being annually consumed in our own country in increasing quanti- ‘t‘ ties, while the. opening up of new districts creates a demand for dried or canned vege- tables and fruits, which it takes no small quantity to supply. England, too, is askâ€" ing for our fruit. Only the other daya request came from the Imperial Institute I for strawberries, while many apples and p.-ars are sent over when we have more than the local demand requires. LARGEST EXPORTS T0 BRITAIN It is in the stock exports to Grea. Britainâ€"“animals and their products"â€" that the Ontario farmer is probably most interested. It has taken us quite a time to win a place for our bacon and hams, but the packers are now optimistic of the future. The prices maintained this season have been very fair, which is the best criterion of the success of the product- There is neveracessation of the demand, and in most Canadian towns hogs are shipped from once‘a week upwards, for fifty-two weeks of the year. Many and varied have been the directions given regarding feeding by the buyers to the farmers. but a buyer of high standing stated to your correspondent that he believed the farmers of the province had now learned the feeding process pretty well. The contest will be to displace Irish and Danish bacon on the English market, when the Canadian victory will be complete, and the price will always be rm: WATCHMAN-WARDER: LINDSA‘Y. om. The British cattle trade, which is probably older than any of the miners, is improving, and prices are very satisfactory this season. The products of milk in the way of butter and cheese promise well for the Canadian farmer. The creameiy process of extracting butter is proving so advan- tageous to both the fanrer and the exporter that it appears to be working a small revolution. The sale of all the milk direct to the creamery, where it is churned b‘ and the butter sold, is claimed to be as tl: to private dairying, owing to the better lprice which is obtained for creamery butter, while the housewife is saved all the work and trouble of making the butter and then marketing it. The abandonment of private dairying by thousand-4 of farmers' wives will mean an immense lessening of arduous work with a corresponding increase in the happiness and comforts of the home. Both butter and cheese find ready markets across the Atlantic. Creamery butter is displacing the diiry product for urban consumption owing to its uniform cleanness, good quality and size, while in England more is wanted than can be supplied. This, at least, is the statement of one of the creamery managers, who has trouble in filling all the orders that come direct to him. The cheese market in England has improved. and the product sells this year for from one-hall cent to one cent per pound wholesale higher than in 1893. DEATH TO THE CREDIT SYSTEM The fillet of the changes in the prOducts _ of the farm is to place the farmer in the ' possession of cash the year around. Merchants note this, and see the gradual , Idiminishing of the credit system. Where 3 the sale of the grain crop in the autumn 1 and winter was formerly the only means 1 of revenue, all supplies being bought on s l’ ) credit for the balance of the year, the constant sale of one or other product of stock keeps money coming in monthly, if not more frequently. Thus are the barriers bet ween city and country life d being removed. The constant intercourse e of the one class with the other, and the e mutual possession at all times of the “sinews of war," causes a wider sym- ‘ pathy and gives a more united Canadian ' people. The lightening of farm work by the continual introduction of new machinery brings more contentment to the boys, and there is not nearly as large an exodus to the United States and to our . _ own cities as there was a few years ago. The general note throughout; western Ontario is not one of discouragement but of encouragement. There are some fann- ers who are not doing well, but impartial judges pronounce it to be their own fault. “If they are not doing well now, they never will," said one observant business man. The failure of the fall wheat is regretted, but there are so many other ways in which the farmer is now making money, that, while the loss will be felt, it will not be a serious one, and the growers of it will be at least able to hold their own during the coming year. l’rotedte‘d‘. ‘ “Yes. indeed. Bradley Biggs is a real widower." “What do you mean by a real widower. “Why. he’s so afraid some strange woman will marry him that he takes his mother-in-law around with him all the tinlc.”.â€"Detroit Free Press. Four Flushâ€"Yes. my wife didn’t want me to play. She was afraid I'd turn out a card shark. Two Sputhhe ought to see you play once.â€"Detrmt NPWs. It Would Relieve Her Mind. Two Spotâ€"I hear you have given up poker? A cynical bachelor says that ideas art like beardsâ€"men never have them until they grow up, and women don’t In" themnan. ...,.......n -. .- mcy '! Letters. For mischief done naught can amend The letters men have failed to send. And hearts are pierced with harsh mtcnt By letters better left unsent. Great woe comes to us. I believe, From letters that we don’t receive. But heaviest on my soul doth sit Those letters that I've never writ. â€"Chicago Record. â€"S.r Charles Tupper. the Conserva- tive leader, sailed for England on 'lhurs day morning or the Parisian. He was accompanied by Lady Tapper. ~Announcemenb is made of the en- gagement of Lady Randolph Churchill to Lieut. G. F. M. Cornwallis-West, son‘ of the famnus 'beauty, Lady Cornwallis- West. It is said the marriage will occur in October. â€"-rv 7â€"Up to July let the treasurer or van Buren county, Michigan, has paid bounty in six months for the destruction of 15 077 sparrows. It is figured that at each year this rate the sparrow bounty costs Michigan .3550 000. It is claimed that people are making the breeding of the birds 3 very lucrative vocation . â€"Two farmers, each about 65 years Of age who lived about two miles south of Belle River, were struck by a train while crossing the CPR. track at 4 30 p m. Thursday. instantly killing one man Joe. McMorran, and so badlylinjuring the other, Benj imin Blancher, that he died the following day. Both were well-to do farmers, and are supposed to have been under the influence of liquor when the accident occurred. -â€"-An Indian tomahnwk was found em- at) Petix’e mitl, near Comber, Essex. The somehawk was evidently stuck into the tree by an Iudmn and 5051:. There Was, by acruxl count, sixty years growth of wood over the instrument, so at least calcuhtion the tomakawk was placed there considerably more Lhan \ century ago. The esw had made its Way into the eye of the instrument before it: was dis- covered by the workmen. The log was the property of M. Prendergaet, and the tomabawk is now in his possession. â€"The other day two men named Con- nors. one from Belleviile; the other from Syracuse, N.Y., went to Kingston, Ont., to transact business. Accidentally they met in an hotel and entered into a con- versation. One was a corn doctor, and his namesake had a bad case. They ad.‘ jonrned to the doctor's room, and lncl- dentally the doctor in showing a ph oto' graph, remarked. “That’s my poor old mother,” the other picked it up. ex- claimed, “That’s my mother, too." and he showed a picture like it. The men were brothers but had never met. The doctor had been taken by an uncle when three years age, and had never me: any of his family again. -â€"L')ndoo, England, is wi‘hln sight (,f a serious Water famine. according to the ‘ testimony of unbiased experts. 1-: is . already rumored that the supply of the East end, which is derived from the River Lee, is about to be cut off during the greater part of the day and'night, ‘ with what consequences to the teeming population of the E let end may be easily imagined. The major portion of London‘s - Water supply, however, comes from the Thames, Iwhich. according to latest re- ports, is praczically drying up. Last weekâ€"so it was stated at the London county council meeting on Fridayâ€"the flow at Teddington Point, just above London. dropped to 040,000,003 gallons a day. The parliamentary commission appointed to investigate, counted on an average daily flJW of 1,350,000,000 gallons, leaving after the water companies were supplied, a surplus of 1,000,000,000 gallonsâ€"none too much to keep the long ‘ wide estuary clear of shoals and mud- banks. and to carry impurities out to sea. If August and September are as dry as last year the water companies may have to take the whole flow of the Thames in September. or put customers on shortest ‘ rations. With the Lea exhausted and the Thames depleted. the question of the ’ hour is: Where is London to turn for a water supply? It will take years to bring wa' er from the Welsh bills, as has . been suggested; yet the government is ' taking no steps seriously to grapple with a question which clearly must soon be . solved if the health of the city is to be regarded. The l’itilels Sex. Miss Passccâ€"l accepted Dick Bradford last night. Miss Youngcâ€"ch: I expected it. Miss Passecâ€"â€"\Vhy'.’ Miss Youngeâ€"Bccause when 'I refused him he said the next time he would pro- pose to some one old enough to know her own mind.-â€"Tit-Bits. N eWs of the Week Checked. “Do you know." he asked as he tum- ble-d around in his coat p.0cket “that mg- metre smoke will dxive away mosuuiâ€" toes?" . “Perhaps it will." she replied. “but prefer the mosquitoes.”â€"-Chicago Tim: Harald. The Cake \Valk. Miss Angelina in do race, De sweat dos streamin f’um her face. She Kwine tor win dat walkiu raceâ€"- Sl‘c gwine tcr win dat race, sub! Her slecvns des hangin wid de 130e, Eu 3 big blue sash is roun her waist; She R‘Wine ter win dat walk-in raceâ€"- She gwine ter win dat race. suhl Miss Angelina, hcah my hanâ€" YOU ‘36 iiwectea‘ gal in all de lan. E“ Nah" a gose Fun 3 nice young man, Dat time You win dc race. ma'nml -Atlanta Constitution. lndlncrlnnnnte. The path of glory ever since Time first began was rocky. The public first salutes a prince, And then salutes a jockey. 4W3§hiv¢ton m. of Van Here in the forest wild, full well thy ‘ Yet this is not thv home, frond Of pale green flourisbeth, These dark wild woods, doth ride His Viking coursers, foam, In some dim, old world g1 thine home. but far beyond where ocean oft with great necks of an is found 0ft have I climbed the rocky mus mat . bare Their hoary foreheads to our northern sky, To search the verdant spot wherein do lie Thou and thy “ far 011‘ cousin” maiden hair, With other forms and memories dear to song, ‘That bid, e’en now, their Wild like notes prolong. Here dost thou, by. this dark solita:y stream, Of well-known paths in breezy uplands tell, Or low-land rambles, in some favorite dell, When life flowed past like a fair sum- ' mer's dream, Ere furtune's gales had joined our wander- ing lot, , Two hapless seeds, by all the world forgot. ‘ Write not “forgot.” but let our fair memory sweet Range Austral's distant, ever verdant I plains, With one, who all his bovish heart retains, And doth o’er ocean‘s his 10st boyhood greet; Bidding ambition, honors, stand aside, While back to home his homeward fancies glide. On an Oak Fern in Muskoka. Or yet by Afric strands, Tugela’s stream_ 1 Where the dark Zulu hunts the wild gazelle, Ere yet the page was turned the tale to tell The night-mare of many a brave dead heroes dream, Where fought a soldier free from Britain‘s steep, Nor Lower Tugela’s sad mournful strand. Where lie the loved of their dear father- lend. Brave men, who died, their sacred trust to keep, Bid memory seek a still more hallowed SDOt. First. to be recalled, last to be forgot. By Craig Longh‘s hoary pile, where in early day Rome’s vetran took his lonely post, and stood Looking o’er marsh and moor, and hamlet; rude, To Italy‘s sunny sky so far away : Perchauce his eye had caught, e'en there a flower, That. spoke to him of home and home's sweet hour. So thou and I in this wild land together Careless of the extremes of heat. and cold, Mid varied soenes of beautygreen andg old, With bright and glorious sunny weather Look in vain for the moist. Northumbrian And for the forms that made, e'en thee more fair. But not by Austral's distant wave and Dauphin, Manitoba. name. What does it do? It causes the oil glands in the skin to become more active, makingthe hair soft and glossy, precisely as nature intended. It cleanses the scalp from dandruff and thus removes one of the great causes of baldness. It makes a better circu- lation in the scalp and stops the hair from coming out. l! Prevents (and il Cams MMRCSS Ayer’s Hair Vigor will surely make hair grow on bald heads, rovided only there is any life remain- ing in the hair bulbs. It restores color to gray r white hair. It does not do this in a moment, as will a hair dye; but in a short time the gray color of age gradually disap- pears and the darker color of youth takes its place. If you do no: obtain all the henefits yon ex cod from the use of the V130: write 0 Doctor about it. Address. DB. J. 70. AYBR. Would you liké a c0py of our book on the Hair and Scalp? It is free. est wild, dost thou abide, thv home, full well thy THOMAS C. Ronsox. rocky hills that Loieil: KENT-$1., LINDSAY, on Seasonabl Goods... Milk Cans, Chums, W; Machines and Wrin “Blue Flame” W165 Oil Stove We have then in difi'ercnt sizes. 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