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Beaverton, April 14 â€" Today the Welling house and part of its con- tents belonging to Rev. J. McKee HcLellan, Lake Shore, Thorah, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss about three thousand dollars, partially covâ€" cred by insurance. “‘1 eve “mil Sc The Most Popular Route T3 ”( at N, RESIDENCE BURNED NEAR BEAVERTON y- e wn o D o t y a. w her 11 0 Y (13 n o H Hews smmmxcunsmgis *0 Western Canada No Silver Dollars Ottawa. April l2.â€"The Finance Mi- mister has decided not to issue sil- ver dollars for the present. The late government passed an act authorizing their issue. After looking into the situation Hon. W. T. White has deb cided that the time is not opportune fer the issue. Coinage of five and ten dollar pieces will be proceeded with, though they are not expected to replace paper money to any extent. mm.“ 0,, berths. reservations from -~"‘:nd Trunk Agent or write A RA Toronto, Ont 535, City Agent, A. MacNABB, Depot Agent "addressA. 1; DUFF D. P. A. Tomnto and the interior will be in keeping with thefinest of the city stores. Thd apartments overhead will be titted up as a conservatory {or rec: tale, etc; Work will start on the structure at once and will be pusned to a speedy completion. sts., and adjoining W. R. Keys hard- ware store. This will be fitted up in modern style, with a beautiful front, The company has secured a lease of that section of the old Y.M.C.A. building corner Kent and Lindsay- The Green Music Cu. opened their branCh here less than two years ago, but the business has grown to such an extent that the present quarters on William st. became too small. nil P mi; u'mrs from any Grand Trunk fawn: n:- c R Mecutéheon Alberva '10? eminent Agent. Palmer House BIO“, Tm nhfn n- * Mr. R. C. Braund, president of the Green Music Co., Peterboro, was in Lindsay on Tuesday for the purpose of selecting new quarters for their bmnCh store in this town. W‘ 3 ‘ v mu. 5;“! W111 zeave Toronto at 10.30 and Witt)??? dates for Edmonton hatcheglw m. Zvlanitcba and Sas- «:1. Via Chicago and St. Par! . ‘ c; . v'. Pnn... $7431.15; thrnugn coaches and N0 CHANCEBFCARS VIA CHICAGO Fri? 36th, 2m, and 30th I “For four years I {was to almost constant head; times so severe I was far work. Through the ; a fiend I was persuade [“9 Milcs’ Anti-Pain I ;. ;... the resui: has been tha1 entirely eradicated my 5; nose continuous headac {flawed 3 hard and co metal strain.”â€"-O. L. R fist. C. 8: N. W. Ry, LDYDSAY” JEENE fi’iESIC CO’S NEW QUARTERS To Had-Off .ontreal. Buffalo. New Yorls, lad(siphia. Detroit. Chicago 18 Grand Trunk Railway System, only double track route. , '--v ‘astllbg k. T0! Onto, Ont Carroll, of Trenton, was in They Give richer 1 53,3 Afte:-Effccts. , mud Tuesday thereafter I t inclusive Naming sizes’ Anti-Pain Pills ‘ourist Slrépers. 5:212: years I {was subject ;: constant headache. ~At ) sexcre I vas unfitted .. ”11302531 the advice of I was persuaded to try Anti Jain Pil's and 3: has been that I have cradicnted my system of :tmuous headaches that a hard and continuous train. "â€"-0 L. Russell, LC. 8; N. w. Ry, numb. lb: yA" Druggists. 4 Doses. 25 Cents. -30 CAL. co., Truman. CS $0 P In :J‘ '0 ‘ £23.13? 15 Boner than FRID~AY’ .APRIIJ a Headache Relief without Effects Pain Pill. thenâ€"â€" Take it Tune , 19th. in the form of letters to the Cana- dian Illustrated News, and attracted attention from all classes. In 1874 protection would be the next great political problem in Canada, and de- cided to do his best to secure it for the manufacturers of his country. There are no free traders in Canada. The only point at issue is the de- termination of the degree of protec- tion. The wonderful prosperity of Ca- nada under the National Policy and the recent decision of the people to adhere to it are striking. proofs of the excellence of Mr. Dewartzs poli- tical and economic opinions. a hammer. He had something to write and he wrote it. There was a. vast diflerence between this man and those who wrote to fill space and to see their names in print. In the vil- lage lights were out for hours. The storekeeper made his last period and went to bed. That man was William Dewart. whose articles, published first in 1874 and later sent out in booklet form by the Manufacturers’ Association of Ontario, played an important part in crystallizing the national policy, and in electing the Conservatives to power in 1878. The articles appeared ‘ It was Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations,” which came from the hand of the author after eleven years self- imposed exile. The storekeeper read: on, but seldom turned a page. Fin- ally he laid the book down and sat; with the look of intense abstraction I which overcasts the countenance of. the chronic thinker. By and by he took up his pen and began to write. : The sentences flowed away from the rapidly moving point, clear, concise, eflective, like the measured blows of A baby came in to purchase a cent’s worth of nuts. The transac- tion was made with due formality. A] boy dashed in with the family molas- ses jug. It was filled. A farmer’s wife set the basket on the counter, and the man behind it gravely counted: BOBCAYGEON the eggs and weighed the butter ' which it contained. Next came the village loafer to wheedle a plug of (Special to The Post) tobacco out of its case. He did not; Mr. Thomas Kitties, the Verulam get it. A girl tripped in for a yard ifal‘mer, who had three large cases of of ribbon, which she obtained, with l liquor. labelled tobacco. shipped to extra measure for her good looks. {him from Peterboro, and which was Closing time came. The blinds seized at the freight shed here last were drawn, the display goods were Saturday by License IDSPBCtOI‘ Lith- brought inside and the door was : 80W. Was summoned to court here barred. All lights were put out save 3 on Friday, the 12th inst. The news one at the desk. The storekeeper i of the trial drew a large crowd from trimmed it and sat down. What book [the surrounding district and village. was that in his hand. It was not ne- 3 and as soon as his Worship. F. D. cessary to look a second time. QMoore, K. C., arrived at the town It was Adam Smith's “Wealth of 3 hall, the crowd packed the hall to Nations,” which came. from the hand .the door, all Of whom were eager to of the author after eleven years selfâ€" - hear what was expected to be a most imposed exile. The storekeeper read important trial, but when his Wor- on, but seldom turned a page. Fin- Ship read the charge and asked the ally he laid the book down and sat _' accused “Guilty or not guilty." he with the look of intense abstraction ‘rose slightly from his seat and said which overcasts the. countenance of . “Guilty 1” this Practically ended the the chronic thinker. By and by he . 9353- IDSPECtOI‘ LitthW gave the took up his pen and began to write. court a statement of how the liquor The sentences flowed away from the “'35 packed, labelled, and‘the amount ranidlv moving point. clear, concise, in each case seized. The court said since which time he has lived in Montclair, New Jersey. He continues to manifest a deep interest in the growth and prosperity of Canada. lâ€"«. an, uuu LLVUU DUCIU Ill-Hall 1:701. Behind the counter stood a. man who said little and listened a great deal. He was about forty .years old. and slightly grey. Steady cool eyes, under straight heavy brows, a straight nose, 3 long and rigid upper lip, these were his facial characten‘s- tics. Peterboro Review: A traveller pass- f I ‘ing through the village oi Fenelon ‘1) ‘Falls, Ont... forty years ago, could q not have failed to visit the “general t‘ store,"â€"not because there was any- V thing to distinguish this institution H from a hundred others of this type, w scattered through the backwoods of c] the province, but because the “store" al was the village moot towards which a all roads ran and all feet turned. In 3 01 spite of himself the traveller was J; forced, by the laws of tradition to y‘ cross the threshold. Inside stood the w groups of farmers, gossiping or driv- {C ing bargains. The' “cracker” barrel lti was not missing, nor the jars con- w‘ taining the attenuated sticks of strip- . w ed candy. In brief, the “generan store" deserved its name. I- INTERESTING SRETEII 0T Wm PIONEER RESIDENT OF THIS CININTT Fenell utec- Ca.- and of mu- um- His 'ous :hilâ€" De- are far- L be 001, sent oth- the :ach left the :ted for .a a 2? gm . ‘ . '_‘. v -. TAKE NOTlfiE I. Whitesmith Watchmaker and Jeweler N513}. 1%! ”.4145; “ill be at .Jas Hayes ,Bobca; geon April 9,020 22 _.______ 23 \Vill offer special v xlue in i .L Mr. Wm. Murdock, formerly 0! Lindsay, but now of Toronto,‘is in town on a visit with friends and re- latives. “I order Mr. Lithgow to notify the Department for a permit as to how the liquor shall be disposed of, and after consulting the inspector I shall impose a fine for the violation of the Liquor Act. The minimum fine is $20 and the maximum fine $50 in this case. The inspector and the depart- ment are after the shipper now, and will bring further developments. Mr. Squire Simpson and his wife from Niagara, are here spending a couple of weeks among their friends. The directors of the Agricultural Society are making arrangements to start building their new speeding track and a grand stand. Wild geese have been hovering about the lakes in this vicinity for the past week. In 1859 he married Miss Jessie Gra- ham, daughter of Robt Graham, who lived at Smith. They had eleven chil- dren, seven of whom are living. About 1880 he moved to Rochester, N. Y., and lived there until 1901. since which time he has lived in Montclair, New Jersey. He continues Mr. Dewart was an educationalist, a geological student, and a student of chemistry. His collection of min- erals was extensive. When it was proposed to build the Victoria railway from Lindsay to Haliburton, it was William Dewart who spent his time and mony in se- curing the necessary bonus to en- able the accomplishment of this enâ€" terprise. The road is now a branch of the Grand Trunk system. Mr. James Ross, of Montreal, then a young man, was one of the engineers. “The store” was the meeting place for the men engaged on the construc- tion of the road after the day's work was done. Among them James Ross was often seen. I am not much at this kind of thing, but Dewart there can answer any questions you want to ask and prove to you that I am right." ", The Farmer’s Sun in 1901 interâ€" viewed Benjamin D‘. Waldbrook of the township of Trafalgar, in the coun-g ty of Halton, who is described as a? “man whose memory forms one of the most complete links connecting‘ the Ontario of today with the Ontarâ€" io of pioneer times.” The spring of 1816, he told a representative of the Sun, was probably as promising as is the outlook of today. But the bril- liant promise of early summer in that7 season was speedily followed by the. iblackness of despair. That was the7 1 summerless year. Snow commenced: falling in the middle of June; by the; 1middle of August it was a foot in'* depth,and from the first fall in June until the following spring, the earth; remained under the covering of the ' wintry blanket. Absolutely nothing in the way of harvast was gathered, ev-‘ erything in the way of crops rotting' in the ground. What did people live on? Meatâ€"and fish. There was no v+3.~- E etaticn and there was no flour. It' by fish and the flesh taken from " slaughtered cattle, for which there f was no sustenance all winter through. } My father did not come in until the; following spring, but when he came; the country was still full of stories of i the horror of the year-long winter,i which had just passed away. One off these from whom father heard partic- ‘ ulars on this dreadful period was the! lateShefi Conkrite. Mr. Conkrite was; nine years old at the time, and he? told father that his people lived thro" the long winter on porcupines, ground‘ hogs and any other meat they could get. Hay was shipped from Ireland to save the starving cattle about Quebec and it sold there at $47 per ton. Even the next spring when father arrived. flour was selling at $17 per barrel at Quebec and potatoes were a penny a pound. I But that was not the only bad year that the settlers 11 ad cause to rememâ€" ber. “Even in my own book," con- tinued Mr. Walbrook, “we have had There Was No Summer in 1816 500% Of Snow Middle of August viaâ€"awâ€" é WAY POST‘ nglish and Ameréeam Qaymemg < arriving flaéiy Bobcaygeon, April 15’â€"â€"During the fierce electric storm, which passed over this district last Sunday night, : Edgari able to Dorset, from which the direc- Harrison who lives five or six miles! tion is 3 Huntsville the barns and stables of Mr. north of this, were struck by light- _-_ van-Uh"- --â€"_ â€"- -vug: Uw v“ granted to build this far and through to Mountain Lake but a good road- way in a very direct line is obtain- nearly westward through and thirty miles beyond ning and burnt to the ground There to its destination. A line of railway were seven head of horses in the5 stable and five of them were burnt| as only one horse and a colt could get out before the stable was envel- oped in flames. All his seed grain and feed were destroyed so that Mr. Har- rison’s loss isa very heavy one, as he had only a light insurance. , {good fishing grounds within is crossed at Huntsville, but the en- tire distance of the proposed route is through territory much sought by the tourist not immediately served by railway. The building of such a road would place the Highlands Haliburto-n, the beautiful lakes an? easy SEREQUS FIRE “Early in the thirties, there came also a visitation of frogs. The frogs came down with the showers, falling from a clear sky. They descended in thousands. I remember as a lad, how I jumped when they fell on me. But this was not all. The continual rain- ing, with the blazing sun and decay- ing frogs gave us a West India clim- ate in this province. The air was poisoned with decaying matter, and then pestilence stalked through the land. Almost every home was visited by‘ the cholera, and the victims were numbered bv hundreds. th‘ (Spe'cial to The Post' NEAR CAYGEON 5 The entire distance would be cor- ‘ cred in less than 150 miles through a 'country needing railway accommoda- . tion in the natural direction this line would run. The new road would con- ,nect at Lindsay with all the com- !peting lines radiating from that ,town, pass through a well settled ' country west of Balsam Lake, cross the G.T.R. near Kirkfield, touch the 3 pretty village of Norland and pro- ‘5 ceed up the Gull River Valley to Min- den. A charter has already been granted to build this far and through i to Mountain Lake» but a good road- l way in a very direct line is obtain- i able to Dorset, from which the direcâ€" ‘tion is nearly westward through g Huntsville and thirty miles beyond ito its destination. A line of railway ; is crossed at Huntsville, but-the en- . tire distance of the proposed route 1 is through territory much sought by ‘ the tourist not immediately served by railway. The building of such a road would place the Highlands qt It is proposed to build from a point west of Lake Joseph, where the C.N.R. and C.P.R. are quite close to- gether, north of the lake to Hunts- ville, continuing north of lakes to Dorset thence to Minden. The first proposition was to build on through to Gelert or to the I. B. 0. Junc- tion, but now the plans seem to have changed to either merging with the Lindsay-Minden railway and asking for an extension of its charter to the Georgian Bay through the points named or forming a. separate company and building to Minden. Minden Echo: For several weeks the Echo has been in touch with a pro- position which comes from the Mus- koka people through the Huntsville Board of rade, which may mean either an extension of the Lindsay- Minden railway through to Dorset, Huntsville and westward to a point where two railways come together, west of Lake Joseph, or the develop- ment of a. new company to build to Minden from those points. EXTENSIBN 0F MINDEN-LINBSAY R R. $30363 HUNTSVIUE AND WESTWA-E Made of extra fine white mull, low neck and short sleeves, all sizes, ver’y special. 31.03 Plain taimrefl. Some have Tuck fm.ts ank Plain fronts. Linenette quaiizy. These are the very newest, special . . . . . . . . . . ..$1_19 Black Moire Silk Taffetta underskirts, frills and tucks. These are very special only . .31 19 Job lot embroidered and taflored shirt waxsts made of fine vestings, Lincnette, Linen and Muslins, Reg. $1.25 for only . . . 7‘}; no--. Black Sateen. Extra good we New fashion skirt. Wide and n2; Shirt Waists Underskirts Underskirts Fine ‘v’v’aists Blouses (Special to The Post.) Bobcaygeon, April 152â€"Arrange- ments have been made by the W for West Peterboro, Mr. Burnham, I. P. to have a supply of Black Bamfry deposited in Pigeon Lake this am from the Dominion Hatchery. The schools opened on Romy morning after the Easter 1105:1233, with eVery teacher on the stafi pne- sent to begin their daily roamd at work. Mr. Vincent Fayle, of Toronto, fer- merly of this town, is registered at the Benson house. BLACK BASS FOR reach of those who seek the beaz" spots of Canada, while many ind; tries would be sure to develop ale. 3 line where there is woaL. tanbu. and timber, much of which 1’25:va able. r. r'. MATCHETI‘. Cxty Agem J. \V. ANDERSON. Depot, Age-n! mmjrmwm. imam '40! «(mmflmaz O>Z>Ufi WINNIPEG RETURN; 3w gnmomm RETURN, $42.4 Propurtionate rates to nthvr poi: n: Return limit 60 days. THROUGH TOURIST SLEEHIG cm to Edmonton via. Saskatoor‘, aka Winnipeg8; Calgary via Main Line Ask nearest C. P. R. Agent {affine-J seekers Pamphlet. a Wide and narrow widths ..only 79c HOMEWSEEKERS’ Will Leave 10.20 p.111. El EXCURSION? every Second Tuesday SE? 1'. 17th Steins-ire APRIL 16 and 30 1 Leave TORONTO .m. EACH TUESDAY During. APRIL .2!ng quality PIGEON LAKE PAGE 3.