AH Weoel-Fweeds and Serges.. ~----~are selling at ¥% and 34 prices. 'Toronto. Cash and - oe One Price. : BOYS' ants_made from strictly Tweeds in light and dark sttipes, checks and plain _pat- terns, You get them for about what the cloth woulc cost you. Boys from 5 to 14 years of age, 75c,*$1 and $1.25. . They'll help out your boy's suit when the coat -and vest are good and the pants are gone, 150 pairs to choose from. -We've.just. finished. .stock- taking and have laid out a table of Odd Garments, which Men's Pants in this lot, 75¢, $1 and $1.25. -- 1% off Furs, } off Boy's|- Overcoats, 1-5 off Men's Overcoats. In a few weeks we'll have the Largest and Finest Clothing Store west of Thornton & Douglas, Crotnes, Hats anp Fur- 15 Market -8t. ar on "J. H. DUFTON, No. 1, Old Albion Block. New Hymn Eooks. " Triumphant Songs No 2," by Excell. ** Canadian Hymnal." a ee oe J5e., 9. and $1.00 cach, in Stall Notation. All the other popular Hymn Books " containing 756 pieces, either Tonic-Sol-Fa or Wrapping Papers and Twines. the COST, as we do not i 'again. "J. H. Dafton, BABY CARKIAGES--We are remsirder of our ty at AOrUat intend keeping them Stationery and Fancy _Goods, Wholesale 'and Retail, Be er oe ' ~ an Announcement Extraordinar POWELL & HAMILTON \ Will Open the Fines Celection of New. Spring - Dress Goods, MILLINERY, MANTLES, AND -- General Dry Goods Ever Shown in Stratford, 25th March, In the Store Now Occupied by THORNTON & DOUGLAS, as a Clothing House, No. 15 Market Street. Our Stock, when completed, will be the most attractive in tHe city, and will comprise all the new Styles and Shadings in fine Dress Goods, Silks, Millinery, Mantles, &c. We have made our selections with the greatest care, both as regards Style and Values, and have no hesitation in saying that Our Prices will be the Lowest in the City. Miss Anperson and Miss Pritcharp--who have always commanded the Leading Millinery Trade of the City, for Davin N. Hocc & Co-- will have full charge of our Millinery Department, and as the Young Ladies are at present in the Eastern Markets, coking out all the New Ideas in this branch of our Business, our numerous Lady friends will be delighted to hear of their remaining in Stratford, and no doubt it will save a great many the trouble: and expense of going to Toronto, Hamilton or London for their Millinery. | One Price, OD I tS A Fixed Price. --.\ 'Cash Price; Wilf! be our mode of. ioe Business. +P Re Po ee = We will have more to say next week. 'POWELL & HAMILTON, Fine Dress Goods and Millinery, No, 3 Ola Albion Block. 15 Market Street, 15 {Post Olfce ine. Taba RESUME BUSHES ship, b Patre Productions Have A MACNAIR 2 Having been closed for a few d: 1ys In re-org aninin Partner- 8 4 now to announce that _ have been affected whereby this ns, MHd Customepe generally, efficiently than ii the past. of the season. favors, we are, yours truly, , CO,, arr ingements Old < and Reliable Firm Wil be in a position to cater to the wants of their numerous more Large and Extensive Importations of NEW SPRING GOODS Are now arriving, embracing all the Novelties and Latest Quality, and above all, Prices, will be -beyond. the. closest. competition. , Present Stock has been marked away down, Some astounding Bargains will be given. Thanking al our Friends for past A. MACNAIR & CO. The Classic Hub, goog Eittowel spring show is fixed for e ane of Mitchell has not as yet been made for this year. The trouble is that the sustionshe are asking similar The by-law-w and the Semanal tender msesiet. Mr Ed, Das Chief cf the Fire Department, of "St Marys, declines to act in that capacity. Mx Guittard, formerly.of the Commoer- cial Hotel, 'Mitimay, has lrased the sor Hotei, 8 prying for a term of years 3 e aan f the to: and Police Maaistvate Field, of the place, are at loggerheads. The aud were ordered to inspect the magistrate's = which he ery to allow them to He, with two other _ broke The family of " Bailey, of the 4th » 0 ie ar been sorely af- magistrate of that tow: The wife i! Mr J ing Ww Waterloo, presented her Jord on Monday morning last with three lively daughters, ** All the world's a "aaa the young lady's father and the dog. | of a double line of rails be- tween Hamilton and Toronto on the Grand Trank, will, as pee early in n April. otal length of the line * forty yr nal the cost of the un- mt $750,000. The work of sumpietion the double line be- een Toronto an itreal will be re- newed in the epring--142 wa out of the 331 miles being already duplica The Grand Trunk scales aa are » under! contract 7 haul one thousand cars of ice from Devil's Lake, near pens, on the Haliburton division, to Rochester and New York, and also pan five cara daily from Orillia and seventy-five from Barrie. a pecial trains Port Perry and other poin points. This is quite a boom for way company, and also for the ice men. STRATFORD | aehtg un ial? | 9 Lr OLD COUNTRY MAILS, Mail via Halifax Packet cloves every Thurstay at 8.000 m. ie Mail via_N-w York, closes M , Wed- and aha me nad 108 'The Post Odice ix to serpenin,. and lower than i salary fixed | repealed. usty, the newly appointed | Wind-' wn of Woodstock commenced | ts, also, daily to United States ' 7 --}-broke he'll not take it out. Will buy a new one and tet Art for Philistia. To begin with, art for the classin ques tion means oil painting and nothing else. | Atthe great Philistine show there are rooms for water colors and sculpture, but these are tever inane and the majority of the visitors are those who +-come to find a seat, Philistia, asa rule, | is kind to its votary, and gives him what" he wishes to look at--landscapes, with | yelléwy green trees and* bie pray stad: | ows, with --, up clouds aud proper sized patches of sky-thrown in between, | In genre, the poor governess and the- | fisherman's wife are safe cards. The rish peasant at one time was a great | favorite, and it is still almost impossible , tooverdo the market with the varying humors of babyhood and serio-comic animals, Portraits must be smooth and -- a little extra carnation thrown in the ladies, and for the men guns, with, flybooks lying about for territorial mag: nates or apocryphal sportsmen, while for thé frankly commercial the silver ink- stand and the crimson curtain are still valuable - Any 'Tron these canons is liable ~ 'Cause the picture to be branded as outlandish, or fanciful and new fanzled; and works to which such epithets as these can be ap- plied are not often hung upon the walls of the upper middle class. But for sev- yedrs there have been signs that Philistia is uneasy, and they point to open revolt within ber very walls.- 'will or not, has to pe painted, apparently, in soot and water, , with skies the color of the Thames at pha see at haggard faces staring out of y expanses of gray and dirty white by way of genre, and at portraits in which the soot has again been called in | to denote shadow and the whitening brush for the high light. The mind stag- | gers in contemplating the result, should this revolt become a revolution; but | Philistia will probably be wise in time, ; and not suffer the eccentricities of ge nius tocheck the cheerful flow of shil- lings at the turnstiles.--All the Year Round. A Mind Reading Pawubroker. A well dressed gentleman entered an Eighth avenue pawnbroker's, and taking a silver watch from his. pocket said to the proprietor: "I'd like $2, please." "Can't give but $1.50 on that," was the reply. "But you gave §2 be "That may oi but ri i on give $1.50 today. The gentieman insisted on §2, but finally touk the $1.50 and went out. "Why didn't you give him $2?" asked the reporter, who overheard the trans- action. "Because I knew he would take $1.50. The watch is worth$15. [can sell it for $6 easy. That's a pretty good profit on $1.50. The odds are 100 to 1 tliat he won't take it out. -The first time he came I gave him $2, and would have given him $5 if he had asked for it. You see, he is new at it, but now that the ice is if he makes this go. Over two-thirds of the people who 'hock' a watch the: second time do not redeem it." e "But you say be is new in . pawnbrok- ing experience.....How.,.do you. know that?" "My friend, I haven't been in this months. I'm a mind reader."--New York Sun.. Obtaining the Necessary Le Permission, : The Young Man (rapturously)}--And now. Flossie, it only remains for you to' name.the happy day. -- make it soon, very, Fery soon, The Young. Woman (in che kitchen a later}-- interfere with any of- your int be three weeks from hext Wednesday --Our..middle class. gazer, whether he look &t landsca; The Only Guaranteed Cure for all blood taints and humors, pimples, a, eru a and skin diseases of pam pature, is Dr Pierce's 'Gole en Medical Discovery. A certificate | of guarantee from a res ible business house warrants it to benefit or cure, or money refun Chronic Nasal by Dr deage's Remedy. 50 cts, s, by Caial ? Hagyard's Pectoral B Ja : colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, ---- whooping cough and all bronchial one Price 250. per hottie; or lung troubles: for $1.00. | keep all the best brands of abacco amt a we buy -- --_ the manafact- urers, our go also meh Wi | 80 alsh Bros sell chea; $ | iq Natural batteries and = sapeee spon the bate of the this and are aleo to be used, it is said, | for There is some ornaments | curlosity to see who will be the Bret woman Li a at cater- pt pam yj ge ars are CHOICE 'Groceries | -- AND -- | Low Prices. "Any Grocer building a trade on lowness of price, "without regard to good quality and honest quan- tity, will have to keep get- ting new trade ail the while, because his new trade will 1eave him for more reliable stores." So. says the " Monetary Times," andsosayl. While itisalways my aim to have prices in-all lines as low as possible,--quality I recog- nize to be of first import- ance, and judging from results, 1t is pleasing to me | to notice that good quality _ and honest 'quantity are } being tully appreciated by my customers. Prompt Delivery. W.L. SCOTT, vt "aaa ak, owe,