Mew Advertisements This Week. Cheapside--J. Delaney. cam spr Payne. x Big 7"--Bunting & Sevtt. : Music-- Mies Louise Carter. of Salee--W..S..Cowan, : - Groom-Wanted.-Dr. Shaver. = } House fo Rent-~John Mason, Clothing --Thornton & Douglas. sag opeifh Market Stn. J Ferguson. - 65 Ontario §+.--. J. K. Wiltiameon, ~ Auetion Sale---Maleolm McEwen. Private School---'The Mixses Carter. _ Keal Estate Barguine---George Forman. ni 9 need oe Kate a I ny cents pumeenermers srtcne w. THE PARTY AND ITS PLAT- FORM. inator....of.. the. Commerc ~"geheme, which ng 0 of the Grit party to and purposes Mr. Wiman is the the moneys. of his rich what Mr. Wiman and his Com- * exe \. real leader, of the Opposition him- \ self, Mr. Erastus Wiman, has thrown n the the _ American c&pitalists for wishing i through the to force this measure tures those cities, but su of his|th® programme of princi * 7 faelicadicy Canada who are co-opersting with of the leadi features of his | Mr. Wiman. denied and the Canadian... +p wy da, but as often repeated in public in a These, then, given in Mr. Wiman's iy own words in every instance, are of production of manufactares which protection has stimulated "--that is, States asa slaughter market in order to wipe out_at once the manufactures rof Canada ~and-the ~exce' the manfacturing towns and villages the foreign agents of Commerrial Union venture to tell the people . ait 'tent and cliaracter of the tarif® EIS 1 rr ey Cine. ee est oy hands of leigislators elected by the veople of Canada into the hands of Vashington politicians, elected by the people of New York of Michigan, of Pennsylvania, of Texas, etg. They will carefully conceal _this_p tion as they will thé fact that none but slaves have ever been known to consent to such humiliation. agents will not dare to proclaim on From The Empire. the public platform that their object Mr. Wiman is the teader of the | is, as explained by M Grit party in Canada. He was the | place the people of our country, ial | through Commercial Union, in such Union, alias Unrestricted Reciprocity | @ position that "Canada could no tthe rs ¢: they have adopted. + * resist He put up the Globe, the Mai?, the | "which would prevail towards a on Advertiser, Hamilton Times, | 'political absorbation." Ottawa Free Press and a dozen other | able result, to which these foreign leadi ents are looking forward and for write up the scheme. He has sup-| which they are striving, in} ignored by the spouters of Canada, behalf of the scheme for this' press | although it is the boast of their allies ofthis. At his instance, and in be- | in the United States, who thus pre- half of his objects, Sir Richard Cart- | maturely disclose wright, Mr. Charlton and other | motives of the agitation. These men Opposition lights came out squarely would discover that it would be as in favor of Commercial Union at | much as their lives were worth to ap- public meetings in Ontario. He is | pear before an assemblage of British- the cause of the Opposition in Parlia- | Canadian electors and proclaim, as ment having presented the scheme | Mr. Wiman has done south of the to the House of Commons as their | boundary line, that their object is to commercial policy. To all intents | 'give Ba a portion of the leader and guide and heavy backer | "States," , tho of the Canadian Opposition, and his | 'forces which Would prevail toward "s fiends in the many "combines" of | clare the United States are freely counted | consent to such a scheme leading to upon @8 being at the disposal of the | such results, they would bring about Opposition at the next Dominion] "second" American rebellion, and election. It is important, then, that | that they "would say to the British Canadians should know precisely Crown, 'we have uo further use for "you in North America.'" Cana- mercial, Unioa scheme mean; and | dians itis a fortunate circumstance that | speech while the alias is under discussion ease greater freedomor a nobler in the Canadian Parliament, the | liberty prevails. But were Com- mercial Unionists to come before the people and repeat the in- off the mask and frankly explained | sults, the threats, the incitements to ulged in in another country towards adian and British people, ; would quickly discover in the week we quoted from his de- | areused public anger how thorough- liverances of the pe few days in | lythey had mistaken the feeling and and nie rg spirit of our people. d the the leading planks of the measure | mouthpiece of the movement. for the obliteration of Canada as aj} can no longer be concealed, nor can country controlling its own tariff] it be is and its Legislative independence : connected with the movement who so thoroughly understands its ob- jects--no one individual, whether in mercial Unien means te create | Canada or the United States, who is THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRES- GO EAR Beem For yeara past Montreal bas been proud of the keen detective of crime it possessed in the person of John Fahey. ~ What Vidocg was to France, Pinkerton to the States, Fahey was to Canada. He was the pet of the people besides, and made as $5,000 by one brilliantcowp. Bat.with- in a few short months all this changed, and now Fahey is an inmate 6f the same | penitentiary where he had been the means of eda scores ete rc ax etu mc: : breakers, forgers, robbers aud other sa the G. T. R. agents' returpa of money from the vault of the Company in the station building at Montreal. It was a big scheme and should have netted the -awd 250,000 er $75,000, but only $1,200 was secured One of the crowd was « "ypaotter™ aa gave the whole-busivess awuy.and Fahey waa arrested and con- victed upon letters in bis own hand writing the case against him being worked uy) two G. T. detectives, Flynn and-Maxwe;, -- Fahey was tried two weeks ago at Montreal, found guilty and sen tenced to 14 yeara in the penitentiary, The Star of that city thes relates the trip Of the etree proud,-oece popular elective from the gaol'to the St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary, and, notwithstanding the mans great downfall, the reading of it' will cause many an eye te quiver and many a sigh to escape from 1: 'ireasts of hundseds who never saw 'an! perhaps never heard of Detective Fahey :-- The "great unwashed" were gatlirred by thousands around the Dalhusie Square depot, Montreal, last Thursday afternoon to "see Fahey off," as they said. The eight prisoners condemned to St. Vincent de Paul peniten in the On the front seat were John Fahey and ffed and chained pee The crowd stood so compact that t took the prisoners fully three minutes to wriggle through it up to the door. It was painful to r the e about Fahey, made within his hearing as the scum of the city surged towards the were surprised that no arrangements had been made by the police to prevent such the depot witnessed THE AGONIZING SCENE at the | not ten minutes earlier, even ht have stood aside and respected the overwhelming grief which emcompas- eed the man, to w easily be acen ip his pale rnng face, ll the energies a last u hus lips a 's him omen with the . "Bey the ~-- Johnnie, ' we shall meet " tears spring to his eyes, and he a chair a bitterly. Bat the strong man soon regaina control over bis ngs ing out plans for their education. THE LAST SAD MOMENT finally arrives, One more fond kiss and Fahey steps out mto the hall, where he is handcuffed and a chain is attached to his foot, One more sad look and husband and wife are separated. The now widowed lady turns homeward, whilst that ' market for the excess of U.S. produstion | striving so hard to make it, if possi- 444.44 such a shameful manner. which protection has stimulated." "The exten and character of the tariff lg factures, Direct Taxation for the | ¢ larger representatioe bedy, while the total | support of the public service, ulti- amount realised from the enforcement and | mate iti ion of Canada also from the enforcement of similar i*- | by the United States, Discrimina- realised. divided by per | HOD according to ation," | Country and all the sister colonies, Fite repre wie mane thet which | arid a notice to Great Britain to quit wernt "have 'been socomplished, a the North American --continent-- desire a _# If England refuses to allow the mesoure,| _ 114 we wit. say To THE Batrisn Caows ; "$3 , 3 re | Tae Toe electors. ne he gineers and Firemen: of the G, T.R.-in their struggle for justice and fair play play some twelve years ago, and, being in the right, this paper and its editor has never "regretted the stand taken then, We say to the men now on trike, '* Stand shoulder to shoulder" and your cause must win, Right must prevail. If the strike extends to Canada, Tue Tinss will stand _by the men against those who would ae ck EE a E --! oa 5 rif iL ee 45 7 BE Fe isclose the real meaning of the iH rae ie if Empire, and traitors to their own and their posterity's interests ! THE GREAT "@." STRIKE. The " scab" element introduced to fill the ee positions of the strikers are haying « hard The © ial Union agents time of it, and now the drivers and firemen of other roads refase to haal C B. & Q. ~ Ouietts them pass ears; and brakemen, yardmen, switchmen --_ ad and other railway. men refuse to touch . we . |" Q." engines or cars in any shape. We 's platfonn They take hope the men will succeed, as they are Wiman's only asking from the grinding Yankee mr - : } rallway what is right and tair-}-j make When they reached the interior of the locked prisoner, who rear of Fahey, half "pot yet of the dead ! liberty is life still?" These there Fahey's last words before the prison doors closed mouey by" thewands;~ pocketing--aa nacir- the, right, by a jur LB ee Te Aiet he apd-others_put tp.a job to steal- brazen-faced thieves, scou ers, incendiaries, and mid-night destroyers of property, who are to-day webring the livery of justice and professing to be offi- ters of the law and order. more about French-Canadian led astray through religi after Fahey's conviction and the escape o those who entshone him in Stratford. If he had committed the same crime here he would have been rewarded with a medal and the prayers of the goody-goodies ! ! ~--~There is one thing about the trial and pcouviction of Fahey which door; gig to the people of Montreal. made to save him--national and religious prejudices being exerted in order to affect Fahey, notwithstanding his 5 ' F : econ. Tater, etmtwcniing | 5th @th and 7th, and Following... dian, and he chose ae ~ ~ en ai -- ™ -- y half French and half fal "& Bie dpethis sectionn : [these 12 men threw aside, religious and | national prejadice, and gave a verdict ac cording to evidence. _ Had this rule gov erned juries which have tried police de- faulters in Stratford--rascals ten times worse, some of them,. than Fahey ever dreamt of--Kingston penitentiary would ia Sie pesscns-at ndrels, perjur- way around, Life without Every effort was Let us bear ne juries being 3S aceiinihe 7 SEBRING VILLE. S. Kastner sold 43 pair rubbe: urday. Women's 35c. ; men's, BLUEVALE. 7 Tury Came Back:--Wam. Dulmage, Bluevale merchant, who -- to i emale clerk with the misguided girl to their s at Bluevale. A number of the to. | young people of the village, who were justly ind t at the conduct of the em a pretty warm reception, ** musical " uns, tin cana, etc., which amuse- ey kept up until an early hour in serenade with tin isgraceful act. Poor Fahey! Had the ragged mass at #9 hich, it could } 84 uinane, 70. 2nd c ly, 91; Annie Roche, 89; Jno. hest sleigh and Medical aid was called in, is taken to the station, where receiv- 7 in the | board &c., &c., that they the KINKORA,. The eater | are the names of the pils of 8. 8 No "ee Ellice, who took the ing du the months of 'ebruary and March :--Senior 4th--Mary | Ellen Kelly, 95: Robert Kelly, 78. Jr. 4th--Maggie C. Kelly, 97 ; John Carthy, . Srd--John Roche, 90; Katie » 74; Bridget Crowley, 68 ; Jr. rah Crowley, 85; Nellie Carthy, merit marks dur- same months :--Annie Roche, 267 ; Robt. McDonald, e, 244; ie Kelly, 233 ; Nellie Carthy, elly, 215. FULLARTON. the which bound it to the sleigh and the other end trailed in nd The h broke and the log break: between the knee and ankle. After work the un- fortunate man ex imself from his perilous position, rolled himself onto the started the horses for home. LOGAN. The council met on the 26th of March ursuans to adjournment, all the members The new oe 4 pe H 4 rs last Sat 50e. the the rolled over on to it when the frac- as_reduced, and Mr, Nethercott is now getting along nicely, although it will be some time before he can be ex to be around again, --Advocate. CHEAPSIDE. - GRAND SPRING MILLINERY- OPENING ! Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April a E 4 <p oe 2 ET ee LEO NEA Pst EE SsIP ow "- oe "We extend a cordial "invitation to the Eadies of the rCounty of Perth to examine our Display of . FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND - _ AMERICAN..HATS-AND--~ BONNETS, . ee) The newest, largest, and best assorted Stock of DRESS - - GOODS IN THE CITY -----o Black and Colored Silks and Mervelieux, Mantle Silks and Velvets, Spring Jackets, Coats & Jerseys. ----o BIG DRIVES in Gloves and Hosiery, Parasols and Laces. MAGNIFICENT Range of Prints, Sateens, Ging- hams and Skirtings. oO WOOL, TAPESTRY AND BRUSSELS CARPETS, Oil Cloths and Rugs. Lace Curtains and Colored Scrim. Se saninagua edi MEN'S, BOYS' AND YOUTHS' Ready-Made CLOTHING. ' Boys' Jersey Suits. Cheapside, iinery, "Carpet and Clething House of Stratford. J. DELANEY, Manager. Thought He Was Lucfy. NEW HAMBURG. He was a belated citizen going home. As); Tat New Warervoo Gaor Governor. be turned into High street from Beaubien a|--Mr. J, Cook, the new governor of the pedestrian suddenly vonfronted him auticonety pel, bee ER ben See 'duties at "Mister, if you please kind asjof Waterloo, Before leaving he waa enter- tell me what time it is, I'd be". \tained at an oyster copper by Be man "Just one !" was the reply, as the friends in and around New Hamburg, with his \presented with a magnificent leather. cov- the fellow into the ered The ladies of the English inactivity, i r for his nose to bleed on, and m: tered to him-BAT* him a handsome preyer- and i'bymnal companion. self: "Wasn't Tin luck that it wasn't just strik-| ing 'leven or twelve !"--Detroit Free Presa, nig tering annon iJ . having +4 " to k the dis- official was so surprised at this thought-|cussion out of it's columns. is state- eyes got as big as sancers,'ment isa lie. No one ever offered any to|money or inducement for Tuz give expression to the words his tongue wouldTimes to either shut or it's co;umns. utter,--New York Evening Sun. Even the advertisement which crept in the EL STR aL Oe was not paid for, asthe party who declared he * A Ged State of Affairs. it only Old Mrs, Bently--Have ye beerd anything intended it for an item of news. The about Mra. Brown lately, Obadiah? ~ father of the Langford-boys asked... Old Mr. Bently--She died several days ago, 'u# a8 a favor not to allow them to uze our, Lthought ye knew ump ventilating their private Old Mra. Bently--I never beerd of it. Peor quarrels, and we promised to do so-- soul! An' so she's dead? when we mage eacsarb ge gaP cog: & Old Mr. Bently--Yes, dead an' buried. «nr will prevent it being ad- a 2 i 5 ; 8 g i The first kiss the ae between the spinster patroness Scrofula duced to her by the marriage her} 44.one of the. most fatal scourges. which " is described by bangers on It ts often inkerited, but as being amusing to a seem | tnay be the result of you about the girls!" "No for you !" and moreof the ackily the train. soon left B= sit fi a ily st ' as * ifr i 1 of cuffe!".. 'No. Fahey 'They i bi He 14 al Fi: i i a F a tee > bar cubic fot. 'i Somme nated Entirely Cured isitor--Don"t you miss your little nephew. sn.1, for the past year, have not found it Freddie?- ' a to , a7 mae, . -_ Oe ea | fore}--Yesa, I miss him very much, but I like|than ever before.--O. A. Willard, to be the uncle of an angel. --Life. | Tremont st., Boston, ae i Naturally Indignant. Aten clematis. « poo Apts ye | sores Spoggs--Was it not disgraceful, the way Eiizsheuh Warnock, Sf Appleton.stre in which Smiggs suored in church today! | Lowell, Mass, street, Stuggs--I should think itwas. Why, be! . e woke usall up.--The Review. |, Some if pF Dreadfully Afraid. jnores The wages.of. sin is death, and,if you, will sive . Every tailed, notice it, there area great imany persons in I used Ayers . this world who seem to be dreadfully afraid three of this a that _ i healed, > i cr Poston faly peared, 1 my | 5 Heat --regue * te = by tone, in the cours: of a coriversation { Dr. 3.0. &Co., Mase. size of feet: "My teot are fearfully big pombe ' Syab bresaie: "Fine 6 or bonis