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«Bastian! In m so much It Instant ct mu “judgment In ulcttlnmhs pape'. G301! selecting dopami- on good turn to néleeh mm. Tho but a Lotion ”y ml] mper rue atom room In the 1:03.0wa undo the brighten by the help of one of our papa". find these papers don"t can much. You would be surprised at the ‘dnu In on: 10: line, vlsh (cum! and burden to much. Wom always paused to show on'r pspen. Call Ir. mm. Tho but a Lotion guy mu p-pm dad-t In tho count!) as gin will not: compat- with flu haunts! assortment dds-1mm“ FORTE B’S Bookstore. Kingston Wh’g : Pmbmbly them is no place in 01mm when Wis We irregulag‘ity about the cqmmenoement vary anndying to thasdxvlgo have cul- tivated. habits of punctuality. “a Same here. only more so. Many of means at all. Eli's is particulaxly noticeable at bou'd of trade guber- w. {the fact of. the matter. is. it n m not fora coupled dozen men. II- “.U-v â€"" 7 who MKN~ their duty to the town {39: live in. and who are always to .w wmid be but «goon-pm. ' ~ We do not mmtm is pauliam in this respectâ€"it is hm natum to aim-k responsibilities and dutfioa. firms: who so do lave mm {W003 by saying. “Oh. those fellows fits to figure in a public cibacity. and. I'm willing to let them follow‘thoir fancy." It isn‘t am my. sad the W813 know itâ€"Lhair own indoienae andeva- aion of a fair shun) of the work: that must I» damâ€"without pawn-dâ€" for. tha public ward is answerable for an" pmminemo when in all public matters by a flaw citizens. Lmkily it is for thxpeopla at. large Hut 1'.) luv» suzh man. even eh‘rugh LINDSAY, FRIDAY, Luckily it is foi- thxpeopla at. ur thzt wa hue suph mu. even Qh-rm comparatively twinnumborJ‘n tin -v_‘ is due all the audit for what we have already achieved. and if the re- aths fan aim: of Whit we might have accomplished. let the blame rest warm it blowsâ€"02 the shouldata cf those citizens who fail to takle an. interest in public emits, and whose voices are mar haudin ad‘ocacyot fouwmrd measures. Izmir policy isin- “wa selfich. though they may d2- ceive themselves. It is W'dtnbt that very‘many citizens 06 Lindsay are in favor of placing our police in chuge of com- missionars, as provided by law, and public feeling would undoubtedly be- com a umt in favor of that step if the full history of the: town’s experi- nce could be made known. The tory would mt.) hum‘lhting reading. only extrema need would Justify its recital. Let it suffice Lo say that the police: quest on has proven ~-.-_. #9 “As a citizen living all my lifls in 'u‘pu'onto, and a. judicial officer {0: the past 17 years. I have had a large period of my time occupied in con- sidering municipal questions. and as i tion of life and property in large cities. viz., the police and ' am only attain their greatest effi- My and usefulness when entirely Wed from the control ofamver- mitts body of municipil represent- atives and when they are absolutely taken out of 11:9 sphere of influenco, d! either politio'al and.municipal = busybodies and wire pullers" ‘ -- The Wéekly Post. How to Paper a Room LATE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS I'm“ “an. mallet 0} pain. “0‘03 lnterndm btonlceflact. 25c. 7 23%" the o «inflame Inn 8 1’09“" _sts or run- the? but It!!! We: A WEIGI'fl Y OPINION. Headache 3â€" 1.5004 UWV ' t ”Iâ€" 00.. MAY 18th. 1900 Wmtaw Times. May 11.) The sncoes ot the demrtment. store has com in Int through the advantages of the cash WP“?- aued. Purchases upon. an enormous seal-e hive been made possible to these stores. through a ready command ofi money. Goods ham m sold. at man- u member’s prices by the department store, but not without profit. since the merchants hue ranked the usual trade discounts for cash. In th‘s way, ordinary merchant can place more! 0: his business on the cash basis, this reputation must increase rather than diminish. It is idle to persuadepeo- ple not to trade with. these great storea upon the grounds of public policy. They must be cought with. their own these one of the moat Ln): no Uni-Ba v- _â€"~, more lax in matters of credit than the merchant iaflors. True», competition has driven them to take gmt 1'1st but in so doing my hug suffered severe 105885- Bandy-made 6101111113 13, as a. rule, now.--days sold for c and with impwvement in cloths, styles and. wmhnsnahip, proves a. fwmidqble rival‘to the handiwork of - A44--3A-‘nl|w n hanafichl Lv n...“ â€"__. 1111311103018 nun ,, the: tailor. Occasionally a beneficial understanding is arrived at in the trade in regard to this. matter; as when then merchant tailors in a town unite 'to insist upon cash pay- nmnts from thsir formerly long-wind- ed. customers; or whats generaJ deal- ers come to an agreemont to limit credu. We can scarcely expect the cash sys- tem to become universal at. once. Im- . ' ust be gradual. There are instances in whigh. for eumpie. monthly payments am more con- venient to the customs-and. invoive 111.3 manhunt in commtivaly littha risk. Local consideration must be tak- en into account. But beyond adoubt. the financial and industrial condi- tiona of this country would be great- ly improved if more business were done by cash methods. And it is very amass-try for retail deolurs in coun- try districts to relieve themselves anyhow from the dreadful nightmare of lhomnds of doihrs 0! practical- ly uncollectibie outstandings. I Haven-uh: I“ uâ€"_ ‘_ - on- ‘class of politics in‘ the: tory ranks. l The: tendency of the opposition is l manifestly go demoralize parliamen- i taJ'y insutunons znl bring th' :11 ‘nto contempt. ‘ Thwy exhibitnota. saint-.1113. ofstateu- ! manship and their course not only in i this disorganized horde which nomi- . mlly follows lh) lead of Sir Charles I Tapper can only be called afactinn. (Ottawa Free Press, May 15.) ' ’l‘htt the tory opposit’on in partin- ment is in desperate straits is suf- ficiently notoriou3.' Broken in'o tac- tions. each trying to knife the other, f with. a host of aspirants to the lead- ‘ erahip and without any fixed policy. new throwing one side of the musk in Quebec. and then another in the Englirh-speaking provinces. its 10‘. is not ahnppy one. Ihatit has nothing but the poorest and meanest of fa:- t‘uous opposition to otter the govern- ment was brought into fresh promi- nenoe yesterday afternoon, when it caused almost the whole of the after- noon session to be wasted overadis- cussion on a question of prozedure. Notwithstanding the fact that the records of the house showed it to be wrong and violating 3001 faith, the opposition. in spite of pro;est, in spite of honor, continued for an hour and ahnlf to prevent the house getting down to important business and considering 1h: Crim’ml Code bill. And then to add to the paltri- 11.355 of the whole procedure, the first lieutenant _<_>f the leader must needs _ :_._x.. ekn’v Hm (Ottawa Free rrua, 4 Thu the tor: opposit’ou mm is in despmte am tiniently notorious.’ Broke: Hons. each trying to knife with a host of aspkam t ornament. M "p.--â€" -v c gm of the scandalous record 0; the Han-1 39rd of th) session, which now. scores nearly three thousand pages, the major part occupied. by the obstruc- tionist nations, mot'ons and ques- tions of the opposition, the assertion was amusing, as well as offensive. «Tv acountry w'l guage the tacticsot 1h} opponition at their true value and scandalous abuse parliamentary light and dignitynathey deserve. An opposition is a neceasity, desirable. and calculated to promote good gov- tion in .the paxltamentary sense and. no way promotes geoiadministmtion. but tends to nn_ke tha_puhlic regard the proceedings 1n parliament as not. serious and with contempt. The course followed by the present op- position' recalls very vividly by way of odious comparison the Qlendid tactics of Sir John Mnodonald. during the years he sat opposite the Hon. A, Mackenzie. His was a. true and. pawlirxmenmry “opposition," as it in anppoeed. to be under our British in- mnn more during the [our years re- to than in office. 'lihere are but a flew that sat With him in the Widen ranks to-d. I. but it Pg ro- gnettable that that few, cannot haven-4.11.3 lump and promote a. h’gh- “an... 0? nolitics in: the: tory rank-s neutenuun m. u..- m..- _,, have the effrontery to imply that. the government Jud wasted time. In view of tho scundalous record of the Han- ”T31 of 111.) session. which now. scores nearly three thousand pages, the A”; Lâ€" ‘34 (ix-fI‘I‘P- ‘N 4",. v, A Mackenzie. Hi8 pan-linmemary “0le Supposed. to be. m stitutions. and it with much force t1 domld shamed pie 1 The Useful Body I: Bopwonutlvo of the Push and Energy at the Citizen: unWholo The Mlowins from the Barrie Gaz- ette does mt apply. to Lindsay, but we deem it well to print n:~ in the hope that it many stir our board of trade to still greater. efforts“ and in- dune individual members to feel that _,L:-.‘ ttmde to still greater. efforts” and in- duce individual masher: to feel that without their active! oo-omration. and regular attendance the: interest will languish : “It is a. difficult matter. toaaaig L-‘ :â€" taut. in ”19 ma. 0 relations to that 8004 energetic... etc" but it was ed. The officers we left the work that WM *0 b9 ‘ the attendance at math dwindled dawn to a carpi)! {the present board ‘1’“ 3' n at about 100. and‘tfiwch m‘ notified by post card 0‘ ‘ meeting on TM evenil week at which importantfl to be transacted. Ibo on a few others. numbering m were 913503“. “oh “”381" ABOUT BOARDS OF TRADE. A {Emacs opmzrmox. ounrr up om. ::difficult matter. toaaatgn a for the Wt lack of in- in the: board 9! trade and ita a said. perhaps with truth, as of mmhanta have been matters of credit than the “-Iv , . to the; good and welfare 0: A few, years ago a board. 6. in. town composed ;ot busi- who were mpposed. to be etc" but it was short liv- rfflcers were left to do all that: was to be done; until W at metin finally dawn to a corpora 's guard. at board has a. mmberahip 100, and. geach member m 13* post card of the annual In Tpesday evening on last VNch Wm‘businesswaa Lnsactei The officers and am, numbering twelve: in all, out, not enough to .form a flat the business men he so little inpegest in‘_an common or manual unlined In the mutatmum KW 031mm”. «Malian-snot. What is th'o min mump- tion of alcohol in the' m civilized. countries of the world! To answer this question we dam 1d sonata-10' . _ _.._AA hair this qmfim we Mk1 ascertain. first. the total quantity comm” annum. and. mm. the ..mount W head. of the population The data- to- mting to the subject an 86*- m in a parliamentary 1)“th 0'0 3W man. woman and child. The consump- tion of beer has signally included in Pram during tho last thirty yum; yet. own: now, it dons not “Coed 205.- 000.000 gallons. which is equivalent to 5.8 gallons par head. , mariner” Frenchman were compan- tively abstention: in. the an at ardent spirits. At present. hammer. the tow bonsmnption of liquor in France macho: 74,000,000 gallons. or 1.913;!â€" lona par. inhabitant. Germany con~ sumes 100.00%!” Enllonn of spirits per year, or 1.89 gallons to «all unit 0! thus population. The total annual con- sumption of spirits credited to tho United Kingdom is 46,250,000 gallons. or 1.02 gallons par had. The Unit- ed States conanmn 63,000,000 salon. of liquor, but :11“: is only equivalent to eighty-six ou-hundnpdths of a gal- lon pan inhabitant; . Ol‘ 1h: four peoples considered. it. is mnifiest an}. the Amqricanu m. decidedly the moat abammioua. whether the alcoholic beverage con- sumed be wine. beer or spirits. 0n 1h: whole the United Kingdom stand: next, notwithstanding the quantity of beer which it imbibesper head. for. it in estimated that a. thirty-six gal- lon barrel at beer does not contain more than three gallons of prcof spirit, and it would be very strong beer 'to exhibit that proportion of alcohol. Measured by the amount of alcohol consumed per head in all 05 the three forms mmed taken together, Erance is the least abstinent of the {our coun- tries and to that extent affords a. basis for the pessimistic prediction of certain scientific observers touch- ing theettect otalcoholimflnponthe French temperament and health. com-anion}. or MOHOL- Qneen-st. Musical Entettninment. The musical entertainment given in the Queen-st. Methodist church last evening under the auspices of Mr. Musselmnn. was a decided success. The attendance was perhaps not a. large as the excellence at the enter- tainment merited. but those present enjoyed a musical feat. The nine- ing of the choir was most creditable. The Mutant selections on the «:1th. by Mir. E. Pearson, ot Stouflvule, were brilliantly executed. and in each instance resulted in an encore being demanded. The orches- tra, composed of about a. dozen pieces. gave several pleasing mlections in good style. (limo violin symphonies by Messrs. Denniatoun and. Mumlm. were exceptionally well rendered. A. 5010 by Mr. Bl. Harris was well receiv- ed, also aqumtette by Mid-anam- han. Graham. and. Mann Harris and Graham. and Menu Harris and Keleher. A ml duett by mass ROGERS â€" W! mm. -- At. the resi- dence of the- bride's father; Mr. G. Wyatt, on May 9th, 1900. Fredarick Rogers was united in marriage to Miss Beatrice Edith. Wyatt. all at the township of Snowden. The core- mony was pat-tarmac]. by Ron P. E. ’WILTFOR'D -â€" At Iroquois, Out, on M. May 15th. thowjteotm BL leflord. C. E, of a son. WNAIEE.â€"In the township of Nerulam. on Monday. May 1th, 1900, the wife of Mr. George Metulte, cfimificsâ€"In the township ct Eons! , on Mpnday. May 7th. 1900. thewitootm.Wm.Oumminga,ot Baumâ€"In the township of Sam‘- Ma: «ville, on Thursday 1900, the with allot odanshmn - 3rd. ..J Hillier. 0f KEITH â€", In'thetdwnmmotm. olon. on Monday, In: 7th; 1900. N. M. Keith. aged. 82 yap. Poms. --In the W1;- of non- elon. at two o'clock. mm, on Sun- day. May 6th. 1900. Adam Potts, ag- «169m. IMMS â€" In Lindsay. on :Ihnrsday. Miayfiofli. 1900; ms. Philip mum, eggs! 61. yea-q, 20 days. ' ,dul I--." “‘A' “mil: Riverside‘ oemebetyitor inteIMt. _: MORRISONâ€"In Lind-q, on, ’ , May 11th; 1922, WW1? _ H . 50‘“ 901M- -- “8W M593“! Neville. $.35? fidfi “l" my was next with. 76.- >13. or 1.5 gallons W he United States 21.500.- of wins am consumed an- :1 other words. only three- WAGES. BIRTHS. DIATHB Whoa. Mot Wu Sufir-Wo-tlor I yon. Won Used to Sn“, 1... Hutuâ€"Tho LIIQII Quotation. Grainâ€" Wheat. mute. bush. . . .. 'red. bush .. " Me. bush " goose, bush. .. Outs. bush .. .. Bax-icy. bush ........... Bye. bush ... ... Pen. bush ........._..... Buckwhent. bush Hay and HI}. PC? nay. mlxed. per ton Straw, that. per ton Straw. loose. per ton Dairy Minceâ€" Bntter, lb, rolll.. .. .. Em. new laid .. 0 App“, per bbl. .. ““8300“,“ Potltoel. not be: ... ... 035 0 1030er LIV: STOCK. Toronto, May 16. â€" The receipts of live stock at. the western stock yards. yesterday were large, 90 car- loeds .11 cold. composed of 1.583 cat.- tlc. 1,208 hogs, 380 sheep end 85 calves. The quality 0! lat cattle Wu generally lair, some few loads of ex- tra well finished cattle being sold. Trade was equally as good u if not ‘A-fi COM MERCIA L NEWS n no“. 7â€"... _ mnun.u.u L” Me. bush goose, bush. .. E 033% 8 OOccCcOd e; .'.4- 8 asgnggog 2!. bush ........... .... bush ... ... .... bush ............... .... wheat. bush ..-..... um! Stavrâ€" xnlxed. per ton .... I. shut. per ton â€" lm nor (on ... ”081 'H txco 93_ 8858 H...» 39 to 8. Wont-r BO. SEE HERE! We don’t know whethet you need a. new Stove or if it's some hing else you want in our line to make you comfortable for the Winter. Whatever it is, it will If you have a Stove you hialr will not do the work this wine: tell us about itâ€"we’ll ad- vise you honestly and charge youi nothing. Some peOple buy new Stove when there is no need; others expect a small stove to doi the work of a furnace There”: a happy medium. Call and we'll i explain. ! Summer Wants. JAS. BOXALL to your interim to I about it. Directly Opposite . Allan ite Post Office, ,Kcrr’s Old Stand, Lindsay. fordundothingwool. Outwoonengoodswillbe chute for woo! at last Fall’s prices, so our custtomers WOOL! WOOL! WOUl Window Shula, Lwe Curtains and Cumin Poles, Tim, Wool and Hemp Ctr-pen. Men’s and Boys’ Department We hue a very Luge stockofMend end Boye’ Clothing, Men's Tweed Suit: from $3. 50 (0312.00 permit. Mens Black Wanted Suite of every style and price. Hats, Caps, Furnishings. Suits. House Furnishings. managers,»Wands“be