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ot han :anadian ; PAID. 009' ght I??? "imam Iamfort Never in all the years behind us have we1 so fully prepared to suit your ideas of Far Lam‘s. This season’s oficering‘s in every ZineT1 Mug/z. 0/” course there is no question, as to wiznmnship. Being practical Furriers, we pad always have, served our patrons consi- FZI heifer {ghan many others could do. ”37“, all reasonably low and enough of them theit worth your while tq come here first ”79 a guarantee with everything we sell. Kennedy’s Old Stand STfiisTL‘! BASH AND ONE PRIBE dark grey checked tweeds, $4 and $5 -â€"Youths’ Long Pants Suits, serge, $5 and $7 â€"-Youths’ and Boy’s Ulsters, in Black and Brown Frieze, Storm Collar, tweed lined * â€"Boy’ 5 Reefers, in Black an "Brown Frieze, storm collar â€"Boy’s Reefers, in Black and Navy Beaver, storm collar .E’ Caperines, Collarettes, Rufi’s, Scarfs, Starm fOOf Collars, Gauntlets, Muffs, Capes, Fur Lined Wraps, Eta, ‘ collars. tweed lined, $6 and_$8 â€"â€"Boy’s 2-piece Suits, single breasted coats, neatly pleated front and back. sizes 22 to 28, $2.25, $3.50 and $3.25 â€"Boy’s 3-piece Suits, sizes 28 to 33, $3, $4 and $5 â€"â€"Youths’ Long Pants Suits, in medium, light and LEM? 0F STYLES “e Popular Furs Mmssmmmmm EBargams 2% Ready- g EJ l/(m’e C/oz‘kmg E .Jlen’s Suits,double breasted,sacque shape, serges, $6, $7 and $10 -Men’s Pea Jackets in Black and Brown Frieze, with storm collars, very Special, $3.50, $4.50 -3Ien’s Beaver Overcoats, in Black, Navy and Fawn, $7 and $10 -Men’s Overcoats, in Nap Cloth, extra heavy, $7 â€"â€"Men’s Ulsters, in Black and Brown Frieze, storm KER? STREET, LINDSAY Men‘s Suits, single-bieasted, sacque shape, dark tweedS, $5, $7 and 310 Men’s Suits, double-breasted, sacque shape, dark tweeds. $7 and $10 Men‘s Suits, single breasted, sacque shape, serges, $5, $7 and $10 ' U’LBUEHUN MclNTYHE, keeping with rezmwe goods Fall styles 2 “.5 Hard and Soft Hats now in stock. Number 42 This Week we are Showing : My new {all stock of Twpeds, Overcoat- ings and Trouserlngs is to hand. v. It is vuy cgmplcte; and comp‘risgs all that is fash- ionabl'e‘ in English SCotch and Canadian broods Prices lower ‘than elsewhere." Fit and finisgh guaranteedu Inspection solicitqd.“ A Word or Two .v' " ‘ 4 T LIMe firjtaéin Tailor SPBMT KILLEN, Mention this advertisement and ask for sample “’6 have lately purchased our fall stock of Teas, both Japans and Blacks, and are pleased to state that they are coming to hand better in every respect than for some seasons. We have not sel- ected these goods in a haphazard, careless way, but have dawn each line and are pzsitive of their cup value. We can confidently say we are in a pdsition to offer our custo- mers better value than any house in the trade, and earnestly solicit a sample crder. Our specialties Read This Teas T 935 and it will interest yc u. FAMILY GROCERS Are you tired listening ”to tea talk P Japan, 25c. Ceylon, 25c. M M a About your Fall Suit and Overcoat . . . . . . LINDSAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19th. ‘, In the case 9111 1500-pound steer the packer would pay $21 more‘in 1899 than he did in 1897; ~ But the edible porticn 'of an animal is only 58 per o‘ent.~ Of“ the whole; “that is, there are 870pourxds of * good bc’ef in. a. steer weighing 1500 pcunds.. The Statistics will show this condition exact- ly. On August 10th, 1897, the best price paid by the packers in the open markets of Chicago and Kansas City for choice western cattle on the hoof was $4.80 a hundred pounds, which would mean a cost of 7.9 cents a pound for prime beef. A year later, on August 10th, 1898, the packers were forced to pay the stock- growers as high as $5.25 a hundred pounds, or 8.5 cents a pound for prime beef. On August 10th of this year the price for the best grade of cattle had gone up to $6.20 a hundred; pounds. making prime beet cost 9.25 cents a pound. In other words, the “beef barons” were com- pelled to pay the stock-raiser $1.40 more per hundred pounds for cattle in the, open market in August, 1899, than t‘L ey paid in August, 1897. , - This enormous decrease in meat-pro- ducing animals was not especiany ap- parent during the prevalence of hard times, but the return of prosperity and the renewed demand for better food sud- denly caused a shortage, and a consequent rise in prices. And the advance which the consumer paid did not go into the pocket of the packer nor of the middle- lnanâ€"it. went; directly to the stock-raiser who had cattle to sell, and it has gone far toward swelling the present) remarkable wave of prosperity in the West. If, however, this were the only cause of the recent advance. there might be ground for accusing the great packers of the West for manipulating prices. But it is only one feature in the present remarkable de- velopment of the cattle industry; for not only has the demand of the consumer in- creased, but the supply has actually been decreasing for years. On January 1, 1810, there were in the United States, accordiy g to the Department of Agriculture, 36,549,- 021 head of cattle, or 589 to every 1000 of population. By 1895 this number h: d decreased by upwards of 2,000,000 head, the total being 34,364,215. This would mean about 490 head of cattle for every 1000 of population. From that time down to the present year the. number fell ofl‘b/ nearly 2,000,000 head annually, dropping to a little more than 32,000,000 in 1896, 30.508,- 408 in 1897, 29,264,000 in 1898 and 27,994,225 in 1899. At present, therefore, counting the population of the United btates at 75,000,009, there would be only 373 he.- (1 of cattle to every 1,000 of population. Since 1892 the number of cattle has dtcrc ased by fully 10,000,000, or nearly 27 per cent. At the same time the number of swine has decreased from over 51,000,000 in 1890 to 38,651,631 in the present year. The num' ber of sheep also fell 011‘ between 1890 and 1897, and then began to increase, being over 2,000,000 greater in 1899 than in 1897, showing that people were consuming more mutton. But it was not a trust that advanced the prices of meat: the change was the result of the remarkable condition of prosperity, growth and expansion in the great West. Indeed, there could be no better indication of the return of good times than this very advance in the price of meat, for no other commodity is so sensitive to the financial condition of the people. With the appear- ance of hard times, and the necessity of economy, the average American saves first 1 on his meat billâ€"he buys cheaper cuts, he eats more mutton and pork and less beef; he lives on corn meal and Wheat flour. The statistics of the Department of Agri- culture shows that three times as much mutton was consumed last year in propor- tion to the population as was consumed in ,thg‘years .of plenty during the late 80's. With the return of prosperity, however, the demand for beef, and for the choicest steaks and roasts, at once began to in-i crease, and this demand has had a natural ‘ tendency to force the price upward. I Early last August the price of beef was suddenly advanced from ten to thirty per cent. in all the markets, to the consternat- ion of the retail dealer and the consumer. Every one eats meat, and everyone’s pocket was instantly and disagreeably affected. There was no apparent reason in the East for such a spectacular rise in prices. and it was inevitible that the trus“ bogie, which may yet be blamed for the failure of the peach crop, should at once be singled out as the cause of all the trouble. In Neav York the butchers even went so far as to discuss, seriously, the advisability of'forminp; an association through which they might obtain their cattle direct from the ranches of the West, and slaughter them in opposition to the Chicago “beef barons.” PEOPLE BUY BEEF IN PROSPERITYâ€" THE GRAZING LANDS DECREASINGâ€" THE CATTLE INDUSTRY PROSPER- ‘ OUSâ€"THE PASSING OF THE TEXAS L STEERâ€"STOCKMEN AS FEEDERSâ€" THE OUTLOOK GOOD. Early last summer the Watchman- Warder drew attention to the sudden rise in the price of beef and as our readers will remember, published a number Of articles on the subject. These included interviews with the stockmen, butchers and farmers and dealt with various phrases of the sub ject. In the last issue of Harper’ 8 \Veekly there was an excellent article on this topic. We take pleasure in reproducing it for our many readers who are interested in what it. rontains. AValuable Paper by an An: erican Auth ' T‘it y WHY MEAT BECAME DEAR The long-horned, wild-eyed, gaunt Texas steer, so familiar to the markets a few years ago, is passing away, and his place is being 'aken bv the plump, horniess, corn- fed animal of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. This year there will be the largest crop of corn in the history of the country. The farmers of the corn States will raise nearly 2,000,000,000 bushels of it, and the value of it will exceed $000,000,000. Corn cannot be shipped the world over and sold like wheat, and so it must be convert- ed into beef, pork and mutton, and here is where the farmer makes his great profits. In the tall he buys a large number of cattle, brings them to his farm, fattens them on his corn, and sells them a few months later at a big advance, and they have left behind the fertilizer which will make his fields produce another big crop. A single instance will illustiate this business and its profits. On September 20th an Indiana farmer sent seventeen head of cattle to the Chicago Stock Yards market. They had been fattened on corn. and they averaged ' 1386 pounds. There was lively bidding for { them, and they finally sold for $6.90 a hundred poundsâ€"the highest September price paid in fifteen years. The average price per steer was, therefore. $109.43, and they yielded a large profit to the grower. In this way the farmer made his corn crOp highly valuable. Indeed, so important has the business of fattening cattle become in the com States that the stockraisera actually buy poor- grade cattle in the open stock- yards market at Chicago, ship them out by rail, feed them well for three months, and bring them back at considerable profit. Recently Chicago has been sending from 7,500 to 10.000, cattle a week In this way (so the farms. Not; only that, but Illinois and Indiana stock-men have actually been shipping cattle to the West from Virginia. â€"bringing the cattle to the {God instead 0; bringing the food to the cattle. This is a comparatively new development of the industry, and at the present high price of producer. Few peOple have any realization of the en ormoua volume of ‘ the cattle trade, or how many persons are-affected by an im- provement in conditioz s. In general, every farmer is a. tuck-raiser, although possibly “The live-stock business in the West was never on a more substantial basis. The industry is rapidly passing from large to small holdings. The big herds formerly ranged upon the open plains are being divided into small ones, and are now owned by many small rannhmen in place of a few large ones. The cattle are ranged upon the free grazing-lands of the plains during summer, and pastured and fed during: winter. This method of conducting the business eliminates the risk and specu- lative features which characterized the earlier history of the live-stock industry, and, combined with farming, makes it one o! the most substantial and profitable of the industries of the State." All this would seem to indicate at first glance a vely unsettled and unsatisfactory condition of the cattle industry, but the facts show quite the contrary. The cattle business has never been more prosperous than it is at this momentâ€"indeed its pros- perity is hardly short of amazing, It is just at the edge of a new era. The day of the vast range herd is past, and the day of the small herd, carefully bred and judi- ciously fattened, has come. In reply to a question as to the conditions in Wyoming, Senator Francis E Warren, of that State, has this to say of the cattle industry : on’a small scale. Ont-January 1, 1899- according to the statistician 'ot the Depart- ment of Agriculture, the United States In seven years the great cattle State of Texas has suffered a decrease in its herds of 2,500,000 head, or nearly a. quarter of the Whole decrease in the United States. Cuba has also lost heavily, owing largely to the war. In 1895 she had 860,000 cattle, and now she has fewer than 25,000. And the decrease still continues all over the man try, in spite of higher prices and greater demands. There are several reasons why the num- ber of cattle has been decreasinsz. The first and most important of these is the failure of millions of acres of grazing-land in the West, because of its having been over- pastured. On some of the semi-arid ranges the grass has actually been eaten out, roots and all, and the stock-men are com pelled to drive their herds far into almost inaccessible valleys among the mountains. Sheep have also been crowding the cattle out, and settlers are coming in and fencing the ranges. of the rich man, whereas the percentage of increase on the poorer cuts, the focd of the great middle classes, is small. In this connection it may be well to observe that; most of the retail advance has been made on the choice cuts of the beefâ€"the roasts and the steaksâ€"the food not raise its prices fast enough to keep pace with the rise in the price of stock- The retail dealers were equally slow about putting up their shop prices, for fear of losing trade; they kept comforting them- selves with the hope that beef would soon go down again. And thus, two months ago. when the demand began to be sharp, they were compelled to put up their prices suddenly, to the consternation of the con- 1 sumer. , ‘ bee: advance must therefore be spread over the MA it, means immenge profits to the It will be seen, therefore, that the re- turn of good times to the stock-man meansa much wider distribution of the fruits of prosperity throughout the coun‘ tryâ€"indeed a much more favorable condiâ€" tion all over the nation â€"than a Jsingle good wheat or corn or cotton crop. And not only is the tattleman himself profitâ€" ing by the rise in price, but the railroad man is doing more business, for after bringing the lean cattle to market they may freight them out to the farmer to be iattened, and then back again to the market, whereas in ordinary times he might move them only once. In the same way the boom in cattle means better business for the slaughtexers and packers, and for the great number of men engaged in the business. In Chicago alone 40,000 men are employed in the packing-houses, aid the average annual output is valued at more that $250,000,000. And the fur. ther the price goes up, the more money will flow into the country, for we feed half the great nations of the earth from ,our surp’us. ‘During 1898 we sent abroad lnearly 500,000 head of cattle. to say noth- :ing of 37,000,000 pound of canned meat, 35,000,000 pounds of fresh meat, and nearly 45,000,000 pounds of Salt beef. 0118 London agency of a Chicago plant handled, during 1893, 423,764 quarters of beef. ll.- 725,045 pounds of pork product, and 79,100 pigs, bringing upward of $10,000,000, near- lv all from Great Britain and Ireland. The cable advices of last September quoted choice American steers in the London and Liverpool markets at 12 and 13 cents per pound, estimated dressed weight, com- pared with 9% to 10:1; cents for the corres- ponding week of 1898. Two and a half cents a pound advance. on the millions of pounds exported means an enormous increase of money flowing into the United States, and going at that to the producer. And with more money and mom business activity the wages of the ordinary work- ing man and the nonâ€"producer must go up, as they actually have been going up for months pastâ€"sometimes at the end of a strike, but more often withoutit. And with more wages the workman can buy more good meat even at a higher price. Beefstea ks cost more than they did a year azo, but the country can better afford to pay for them. Thus the great chain of prosperity is completed in other lines. And the end of the advance is not yet in s‘ghi. The cattle raiser has much profit yet before him, and the packer will yrt be instrumental in brnging still larger sums of money into the (ountry from foreign lands. The well-known authority, The Breeders’ Gazette, says of the present con- dition of the cattle industry : “With excellent; export markets, a home demand that is almost unprecedented, and constantly decreasing supplies, those who study the conditions most closely can see- nothing but high prices for some time in. the future.” RAY STANNARD BAKER. a.-.“ u 'crop of corn in the United States has a value of about $500,000,000. and that of ,wheat $400,000,000. more or less, but there *is never a full crop of either on hand’ because the consumer begins to eat the wheat and corn, and the exporter begins to send them out of the country, as soon as the harvest is over. The value of both wheat and corn on hand at any one time. then, is onlv a very small precentage of the value of the cattle on hand. possessed pearly 44,000,000 head The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, 'lhe Nations in their harness Go up against our path: Ere yet we loose the legicnsâ€" Ere yet we draw the blade, Jehovah of the thunders, Lord God of Battles, aid ! High lust and froward bearing, Proud heart, rebellious brow â€" Deaf ear and soul uncaring, We seek Thy mercy now ! The sinner that torswore Thee, The tool that passed Thee by, Our times are known before Thee - Lord, grant us strength to die ! For those who kneel beside us At altars not Thine own, Who lack the lights that guide us, Lord, let their faith atone. If wrong we did to call them, By honor bound they came ; Let not Thy wrath befall them, But deal to us the blame. From panic, pride and terror. Revenge that knows no rein, Light haste and lawless error. Protect us yet again. Cloak Thou our undeserving. Make firm the shuddering breath, In silence and unswerving, To taste Thy lesser death ! E’en now their vanguard gathers, E'en now we face the fray- As Thou didst help our fathers, Help Thou‘our host to-day ! Fulfilled of signs and wonders, In life, in death made clearâ€" Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, hear ! Hymn Before Action 75 Cents per annum RUDYARD KIPLIKG ~ PAGES a T0 12 of cattle,