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Your first step to abso- lute satisfaction is you buy a pair of Shoes. Every {is a step of Aerie We are cléaring oue all the! old suitings, av less. mother or grandmother, than cost. and in addition to comfort 4 "| you 'will be wearing the make of shoe which sets the fashion for Canada. W H. Doubt 1.C. Forman & Son For SPRING Planting Ihave a nice lot of EVERGREENS Nirway Spruce, 18 10.24 in., $12.50 per 100 Aistrian Pine-and Scotch: Pine. same size, 25¢. each Imported from Europe, growing here three years. They are strictly first-class stocky plants with best of roots, 7 am also agent fur a leading Nursery Co. First-class Pear, Plum and Cherry Trees at soc. each. Orders should. be in this month--February. C. C. KELLETT Port Perry E. H. PURDY'S Cash or Produce Store SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS A full stock now. on hand' of recleaned Red Clover, Alsike and Timothy seed at right prices. Just received our spring supply of Field and Garden seeds, by the ounce or package. Fresh and reliable groceries and provisions constantly kept on hand. i A full stock of Flotir and Feeds of all kinds. Barrel and Coarse Sack Salt E. H. PURDY Port Perry \ CUTS JCHOICE BEEF. LAMB, VEAL 1 FRESH, SMOKED AND Live Stock SALTED MEATS. You can depend upon quality at reasonable price when you buy _ meat from Giri either the schoolgirl, the - >{iriend, but ne suitor, '| that the last chance of: there being My Fig J. 8. Hill, has spoken revi {in favor of eliminating o | nouses. The cbairman of the B Chamber of 'Commerce reeently proposed the destruction of the tariff wall between the two tries, While I write, a co Au ir: is In marked 0 he with what used to happen a short generation ago." : Canad asked: thie [1% # nation so. United States for reciprocity. similar| apy tariff wall to that which wasn force from 1854 T5028 ah as y ih to 1865. Eight times the negative Tid ( warill is a blond book te:ween|dieps to p EE amey Ina Canada h Canada and the United States, Con Bounties ha sreousd There is' a | ditions are continually changing, |** world of difference between the |2nd although the United States tariff Clo bousd h sitaation of forty years ago and the apa lust Canada produced the Cana- She in ut et Eve position in. 1909. It, is possible dian tarifi aguinst the United States | Sho Denacian free and incidentally, made Canadian [form of imported iron pays nationality a sure and. certain fo-| The United States fnepce in the world, both. tagiffa}io may be handied so us to produce greater business and 'greater friend- only one polictial: power on "the continent vanished when 'the of 1854 65 was abrogated. At that time Canadians feared that cutting off of their most direct mer lines be¢ween' the two. people. tariff ket would ruin them Vor a time the| 141 werean American 1 might oa situation was harmful, and' it had [Possibly agree with Mr, Carnegie somet hing to do with send'ig theshat the industries of the young blood of the country to the : Unlted ~ States, But presently farmers who used to send hay and to their stock, sold the p cheese and butter. and Fel instead of being ox; impoverishment _of thie soil, Were kept at. home to enrich ft, - ; The abrogation of the treaty alee gave ta Canada 'amples opportuni R ibeover herself. Even the latges towns along the border were ot Tete account," atid the most. thriving |. communities were either vonuded {' hy the bush or on' the Sof At; Agriculta € was in a'ploncering con- dition, and commerce bad 'scarcely any facility for its own expansion. The forest, instesd of being.a source of"abundant 'wealth. 'wss-an incum- brance to be cleared out; ous of the} WAY. vided, which were also Canada; as a Confederation | ded, wh eh were | phon Be be had not begun to exist ~The pro: elopment of two kind vinces were divided geagraphicully dependent nations within [1s consts| politically and socially.' And as! There the Dominion had not 'come into de re ls oye Iodesd, il existence, the section of Britis! { nd: North America that was destined [af { a eprint 3 . 4 htly: they are justly becoming alar he iopletion of tho Alors of goal and iron ore, . speaking it seems to me that w 8 continent was laid oon. ataral free-trade' zomes were pros| to become most important for Can. |, ada snd for tho British Empire generally was indeed the Great Lone and the Great Unknown Lacd, : The appearance of the 'map of lof Noith America 'even yet may ien some plansibility to she argument that the commerce, and therefore the politics, of the continent should But a fey far seeing Canadians realized the 'enormous asset which was spread over the great prairies, { between the Lake of the Woods an , Rocky Mountaios; at