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l HONEY TO LOAI on Hm“ Iowans cal-mt at“. I nu u- EXPENSES 01" Lou W down to th. loved: poo-ibis point cow.- rrxm with accuracy aim no- ruminant- ALL BUSINESS of this ‘1 atdc‘ly print. and wand-1111.1. McLENNAH CU. Iron Pipe. Apnle‘ Parers. Plow Points GUNS. The leading Tobac- conist of Lindsay. All the Standard Brands of Tobacco and Cigars 111 stock. Also Smokers Sundries of all kinds. McLennan one with stone foundation *: drivâ€" ing-house, implement homo and frame stable; orchard; abundance of voter. This is o nut-clas- farm. Price 57,500, terms easy. FARM FOR SALEâ€"Six miles from Lindsay; first-class form. free of stones and foul woods; 100, 150 or 200 acres. Brick dwelling, fine barn with stabling for 65 head a! cattle. other outbuilding- good. For further porticulm _a._pply to M0 YUM SMOKE! that is the delight of the famine heart, and that makea it palpitate with joy, is a handsome piece of jewelry for personal adornment. Santa Claus couldn’t bestow any- thing more acceptable than what he can choose from our magnificent diSplay of diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires, Opals, set in all kinds of artistic creations in rings, brooches, and st ck pins, besides watches, silâ€" verware. china and novelties, mani- cure sets, gold canes, fancy clocks, etc., Town and Farm Property J. H. Santh‘eran, ‘ W. F. MCCARTY The Ideal Christmas Gift Warden PAGE FOUR HEM [DANS flflflmwnfl In: Glazed Sewer Pipe. Portland Cement FireZBricks Fire L ay thrthor psrticulm' apply to M. PORTER, 3t Watchma- MD AGENT. CO. AMMUNITION Buy Your Supplies -â€"ATâ€" CARROLL’S Lanterns. “57334: I636; RIFLES W hips only a. short time, but when she re- Piper, after the search, ordered Cash- turned she found the child lying on el back into the cell, whereupon the prisoner suddenly flashed t'wo shining: the floor, wrapped in the sheet, revolvers in the face of his guards Wm"? was .011 fire, as well as the and ordered all three back into the Child 5 01031138; «r o eel, he had just vacated. He took their revolvers and locked them in, ROUGH 0N ROOSEVELT and then walked in his shackled feet] The New York Tribune says: The to the place where the keys were following is a; translation‘in part, of kept, unlocked the shackles. and after a general order issued in Columbia - taunting the guards, kissed his hand‘;"‘With the ‘ :0! the . o te force. to them by Way of adieu and left the. such" as has new seen until to. barracks. Fifteen minutes later the 'day in the annals . nizht guard came in to find the three fine magnum-em mo‘ polieein Cashel" ’23~ ~ee'll. (w ‘ ‘ i‘flieli'uiteflSlimline fus Belt, escaped from the police bar- racks at Calgary. Alberta, at 6.30 p.m., on Thursday. Constable Pip- er, who was on guard, ordered the prisoner out of the cell until he could. make a search. On the outside were Constables Leslie and Philips. Cashel walked out and sat on a. benCh in front of a. 'window facing the street. Ernest Cashel, who was under sentence of death to be hanged on Tuwday next for the murder of Ruâ€" The British War Office is evidently _ ‘V“‘“' “““M” V“ *VDD‘J‘“ preparing to strengthen its military ,The DaSSengCrs and crew of thc position in Canada. There are at horth German Ployd StealllShip Han- present over 1,800 troops in Halifax 0"?1‘: Which arrived at Baltimore or garriSOn, and next. year another mg'i- Friday last, were treated to a novei ment a thousand strong will be staâ€" fight on Dec. 16th while 08 the New tioned there. In addition it is pro- bundland banks Where a large ice posed to station a line regiment of berg “:85 Sighted. and on the great a. thousand men in Western Canada, mountain 0f ice, perambulating one half at E9quimalt. At present ,about from clifi to cliff. were six there are more Imperial troops at £18386 Polar beam. The berg was Halifax since there have been since ! several miles from the Hanover, but 1886. A few days ago some 200 [the bears were plainly visible to men for the Royal Garrison Regi. lf’those on the vessel, and the huge ment came to Halifax, and some of van mals could be seen swinging their these were accompanied by their gponderous heads to and fro as they wives and children. The remaining [walked about on their floating home. wives and children will come in a lHOW the bears got on the berg and month or so. There are two comp- gthen' probable fate afiorded food {or anies of engineers, whereas formerly jmuch speculation? among passengers. only one c0mpany was stationed at iThe iceberg will drift south until Halifax. There are also about 360 *melted to nothing by the warm wat. of the Royal Artillery there. waters» _of the Gulf Stream. vDeath by A MURDERER’S DARING ESCAPE LASSOED 1.\' THE RIVER ’ After hmingr attempted to rob the ‘First National Bank of llohoken, N. Y., in (laulimht l‘rnnk Stone, 11. youth of nineteen. of Youngstoun, Ohio, sprang into the Hudson river when followed by a great crowd and would have succeed-ed in making his escape had not a tugboat man thrown a. IaSsOe about his neck and hauled him in. . {one suddenly seized the wicket; window and at- tempted to pull it apart, and seize the cash that lay in large quantities on the counter. He was still pull- ing on the counter Window when the cashier came upon him and attempt- ed to capture him. With a. ‘Wow the thief managed to wrench himself loose and bolted for the street. He made his way to a Delaware, Lack-awanna Wesiem pier and jumped into the the river. FROZEN IN FOR FIVE DAYS Mayor J amcs Brnault of Amherst- ‘hurg arriwtl in Windsor last Thursâ€" day after an vxpwrienCo .n the mid- dle of Lako- Eric which he will not Soon t‘orgct. For live days Mayor llreanlt and a number of his friends were imprisoned on the little tug Thistle in the centre of the ice ilocs of Lake Erie, with but a. meagre supply of fuel and provisions on hand. The ice had become deeply \vinrowed, and the boat’s engines were powvrl-css backward or forward. The party Wa-re far out. of the track of any be- lutml freightcrs passing up or down. and t-hcir signals of distrnss could not be set-n from l’t‘lt-c 'lsl-tmd. Just Win-n the situation ltttd “000‘”!!! most critical a warm wnvc svt, in. nnn’hâ€" ling the 1m: to iorcc a passage in a southerly dirchion, and after many weary hours' work the lights oilb‘unâ€" dusky were sightvd. inotlii 'drms takSn off. Death Was in- stantaneous. A misplaced switch is said to have caused the accident. Dc- ceascd was thirty years of age and leaves a widow and a. child six months old. 9 BLACK EYE FOR SOCIALISM According to unofficial figures of the Bostén 'city elections in the state socialism again got, a. black eye, the O O 9 :first. heavy deft-at coming in the re- to move her eithcrtcem state elections, when «was 'singlo Socialist the _ vote 25 per cent. Not a mayor was olcctcd in any of the nineteen citins holding .ploctions, although nearly all had Sm Icialist. candidates. Thirteen of tin- 'Stwccssiul candidates were lit-publi- cans. thrm Democrats. one huh-pon- dent and the others citizen's can- ldidntes. Ten cities voted for licnnst- and nine defeated it. showing a gain reduced [01' three cities for the Ito-license ad- u-AAAOM. nun“ Inc? "now far {Inn uninn A large number or" farmers will leave Yorkshire, England, in April for Manitoba. Another Yorkshire party will follow shortly after, and others will lane Wiltshire, Lanca-i shire, and various Scottish centres for different parts of Canada. The parties comprise. in addition to ag- riculturists. mechanics and artisans who are unable to find work in Bri- tain or who are tempted by better wages in Canada. Most of the emiâ€" grants are going out. under the aus- pices of the Canadian Government emigration Ofiict's.'1‘he emigration to Canada last vear was 60. 000 out of a total 01250.000 rrom England. The Express. referring to the York- shire movement, s.ays - They are the pick of our people; thev will have the pangs m- homesick-mess but their children “ill have the love of England mixed \\ ith the hitter hat- red of English history and polotics. SALE OF TIMBER LIMITS N” All previous records were broken by the sales of timber limits held“ in the Legislative chamber at the Par- liament buildings, Toronto, on’ Sat- urday of last week. The 826 square miles of timber limits sold at $3,- 677,337.50, the average price / per mile being $4,450. The largest amount realized at a previous sale was $2,315,000 on Oct. 13th, 1902, when 633 miles were sold at an av- erage price of $3,657.18. "Phe re- cord ior highest price per mile was made last week, when T. Mackie, 3L. P., secured berth Not 5, Hammell township, in the Nipissing district three and oneâ€"quarter miles, at the rate of $31,500 per mile. The high- est previous price per mile was $17,- 500 bid at the 1892 sale. Interesting News Items Culled Fra'm Our Exchanges and Telegraphic Despatches THE NEWSUF THE WEEK ' TOLD IN A BRIEF WAY MORE TROPS FOR CANADA EMIGRAXTS FOR CANADA a general order issued in Colbmbiai: “With the luxury of the brute force such as has not been seen until to- day in the annals of history, and us- Ray Gwendoline Vosper. aged two years, daughter of Mr. Charles VOSpâ€" er of Barton township. was burnt to death on Friday at her parents' home. The mother of the unfortu- ‘nate child went out into the yard to {get some fireWOod, and left a, sheet {over a, chair in the kitchen. The littlg :girl was in the kitchen at the time. $.Mrs Vosper was out of the housd 'only a. short time, but when she re» turned she found the child lying on the floor, wrapped in the sheet, which was on fire, as well as the lchild’s clothing. , -__ â€"uv-. melted to nothing by the warm wat- waters of the Gulf Stream. 'Death ‘by starvation or drowning for the bears is ineviatble. berg was sighted, and on the great mountain of ice, perambulating about from clifi to cliff. were six large polar bears. The berg was several miles from the Hanover, but the bears were plainly visible to those on the vessel, and the huge an mals could be seen swinging their ponderous heads to and fro as they The passengers and crew of the North German Lloyd steamship Han- over, which arrived at Baltimore on Friday last, were treated to a. novel sight on Dec. 16th while 03 the New bundland banks where a large ice- 5 "When people leave .191' hos-hm: there will be little or nothing for the doCtors to (lo. Pneumonia. colds, and a hundred other ills rvsultE from the foolish habit oa‘ mashing the body. To bathe .:~ to 13¢: “nu i for you thereby make a smwx .31 the' skia Blood, attract-3d by 111') skim! gives up products that should Iroi left to seek a natural outlet and‘ soils the skin,” said Prof. John Hill! Robertson at the annual meeting- on" the Chicago Eclectic and Surgicah Societv at the Auditorium. ’I‘ho' habit of taking dry baths was also denounced. The rubbing) of a rough towel over the skin removed the nat- ural scales of the skin or the “false skin.” This he said conducted to the growth of bacteria on the skin. . According to unofficial figures of the Bostén'city elections in the state socialism again got a. black eye, the first heavy deft-at coming in the re- cent state elections, when the _ vote was reduced 25 per cent. Not a single Socialist mayor was ok-ctcd in any of the nineteen citing holding ,oloctions, although nearly all had Sm ciaiist. candidates. Thirteen of tin- SUCCCSSflll candidates were lit-publi- cans. thrno Democrats. one indepen- dent and the others citizen's can- didates. Ten cities voted for licnnsu and nine defeated it. showing a gain of three cities for the Ito-license ad- vocatos over last year for the same 19 cities. e1 is supposed to haVe started for {the United Statw. He was.21 years old IaSt Thursday. A fatal accident occurred in the .»\1- landalc yards one morning last week, of which Edward Lyon, brakeman. second son of Captain 0. H. Lyon. was the victim After a, run, his train had gone on the siding, and he, hav- ing discounected the engine, was stomping down fixing the air brake connections, when a yard engine coming on the same track struck the other engine, which had just started to move, and jammed it back upon the train. The unfortunate man was crushed through the chest and had Major General MacArthur, U.S.A., says that in all probability war \xviil take place between the United States and Germany in the near future. The Pan-Germanic doctrine is growing among German-Americans, few of whom volunteered in the war with Spain. He believes that German in- terests are growing to such an exâ€" «tcnt in South America that the strain upon the Munroe Doctrine will eventually result in a, conflict. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH POLAR BEARS ON ICEBURG TO FIGHT GERMANY KILLED BY A TRAIN W H AT NEXT “'4' William Curvy. propriutor of the he Albion hotel at Kingston. ()nt., had ls, .a narrow oscnlw from poisoning the '1‘ ’other day. He was in the kitchen. "fizand, picking up a. piece of meat .\'. [he scattered over it what he sup- “0 :DOSC'd to be salt. The substance was “- fcxtract of lye. and when the first h" {morsel of it wont into the hotel [‘d keeper's mouth the burning; sensation '11.;caused him to spit it out. The in- 01 side of Mr. Carey’s mouth was bad. The name, a89 and school of each commitm- must be attached to the bound. The essays must not exceed one thousand words, and must be in the hands of the chairman of the com- mittee. Rev. A. B. Chambers, D..D. 5 Oak-st..'1‘oronto, on or before Feb: wary lat.1904. All school children attending lic schools outside of Toronto compete in this contest. In addition to the effort to awak- en interest in Toronto, in. the cele- bration of the Centenary of the Bri- tish and Foreign Bible Society, it is proposed by the committee to affix 100 prizes for competition among the pupils of the public schools out- side of Toronto, for the best essays on the bible societyâ€"its history. won‘t and claims. George Padglcy of Lockport, N.Y., Sat down on a cushioned chair ninth teen years ago and a needle penetrat- ‘ed his hip. It gave him no trouble until three years ago. when his left ankle began to trouble him. He visi- ted several specialists and submitted to the, X-ray without results and eventually the pain passed to the left side. He was pulling on his glove a few days ago when he pulled the longburied needle out of his hand. 1 Because he was trespassing on game reserves 0,415 the Dotnoit Club #1 the Canard River district below Sandwich, Victor Allor received a charge of birdshot in the neck from a. shotgun in the hands of a man a-l- leged to be Henry Meloche. who is the guardian of the grounds. Allor was not seriously injured. - The prizes will be bibles, authorizâ€" 1 version. Centenary edition, well ldeclined to give her pupils :1 "Trent" before the school adjourned for .Christmas, and this brought. on the trouble. Miss Sinclair is nineteen years old. . That she is a brave girl Iis evidenced by the fact, that. as her first. charge she accepted "unlucky 13.” which has the imputation of be- ing the toughest in the cnumy. Pre- vious teachurs hiu‘v c-x}v."ri1'li.:ml. rough‘ treatment at the hands of the pupils of No. 13. Miss Sinclair caused warrants to he issued for six pupils on charges of assault and battery. 1 l 1y burned. Fortunately none of the extract touched his throat. THE PEOPLE'S CAI-‘ES ' ' The first, of the People’s Cafes, which ave to counteract,~if possible, the. evil influences of taverns by pro- viding a. place where temperance re- freshments can be had at minimum of cost, will be opened at. the corner 01 Yonge and Gould-sts.. Toronto, at an early date. The locatiqn places it in the vicinity of several hotels, a. brewery, business colleges. Normal School, and a large boarding house district for students. It, is the intention of the committee ‘have ing the matter in charge to include I: _L‘. ing the matter in charge to mcmue a large public cafe, rooms for light refreshments, reading and recreation rooms, and for club, committee and smoking compartments and other conveniences, and the whole should furn sh an attractive and Wholesome resort for young and old of both Roland .\l. Vonning. a yummy: Eng- lishman, who came tb Stratnrd, Ont... from London in (.110 summer. has received a cablegrum announcing that he has fullnn heir to $20,000. Miss Erliine Sinclair, teacher of dis, m'ic‘t No. 13'school. Inddahapoli' 'Imd. Locause of a little friction beween her and some of her pupils, was tak- en to a pond near the schoolhouse, a hole was cut in the ice and Miss Sinclair with her feet tied to an iron hog trough, was plum-d in the pond. The water rose to her shoulders and her pupils returned to the ' school- house, leaving her alone. She had been in the water half an hour and was fast becoming. numbed to un- consciousness when her sorry plight was discovered by passing farmers, who rescued her. Miss Sinclair had declined to give her pupils a “treat" A gas machine in the Revere ho- tol at. Dolomino, Mum. about 6.30 Thursday morning. Ruin-rt. McKin- bon, the pm‘lvr. was kiilml. and the building badly wrwlued. Luckily the flro was got under control. and not; much damage was done by that. ele- ment. In the [Tum-d Stun-s senate Mr. McCrenry declared that the markets of the world would soon be closed to the United States it her present tur- rii was maintained. PUPILS DUCK THEIR TEACHER 0! Interest to Public School Pupils The transfet books will be closed from the 25th to the gist of Decem- ber, Inclusive. By order of the Board. STRONG All) VIGOROUS. Ivory Organ?! the Body Toned up and Invigonud by N itice' rs herebv given that a divi-l dend at the rate of five per cent. per.‘ annum on the paid up Capital Stock of this company has been declared for the half year ending December ”st, 190}. and that the same will be pay. able on and after Saturday, the 2nd day of January, 1904. IIALF YEARLY DIVIBEND Team Bells Dwmgwmgvoicemfln "if VICIORIA [OAN AND SAVINGS (0. MIHS! MIUS! J. 6.[th1de (0. Every Farmer in Canada shmndrediaethefiaflnhnd theserviceTn Sunburn- deredhiminapublicway. 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