7 Ape tia a : Leuk: Than: Toronto - Wholesale Prices). ListowelStandard va FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1911, ~ | th When. sending his greetings to the Conservative meeting at Draumbro on * Monday, February 18th, Sir James P. Whitney'said: "I cannot go wrong when I suggest to any gathering of Conserva tives that we should all keep in mind the great prosperity of the country and our happy position under British insti- tutions bed the the protection of the British Empire. Divine Providence bas show e Wis hessing on the British and L ple with no niggard and .. be our duty as a people to pyran or to be worthy of a continuance of these blessings.. If we do not ad th ese things, and go onin a spirit of reverent thankfulness and app' on, = who come after us will have no m to be ashamed of our will ie influenced by the same consider- ation." b RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT PASSES U, S. HOUSE ---o-- By a Majority of £29. --o-- Feb, 14.--The McCall bill, embodying the administration's reciprocity agreement with Canada, was by the House of Represent- eh to-night by 221 to 92. Five mocrats. and 87 Republicans voted adaiask the bill. It now goes to the Senate, where the chan its passage are becoming brighter. President Taft received the news of the big vote in the Hoase with great satisfaction, If it had not been for s gag rule hurriedly reported late this afternoon by Representative Boutell of Llinois, from the committee on rules, after that body had held a hasty meet- ing, there would have n a session on the reciprocity bill to-night, with little prospect of a vote before Thursday. But the gag did the trick. Washington, 'NO INTENTION TO END. PREFER- ENCE, 3 od Premier Botha Denies Report Cabled From United South Africa. --o-- London, Feb, 18.--The London morn- ing papers are much excited over the reported intention of the Union of South Africa to propose at the imperial con- ference that contributions toward local and imperial defence should be subasti- tuted for a preferential tariff. Premier Botha and Dr. Jamieson, the Unionist leader and ex-premier of Cape Colony, however, in response to tele- grams, both wired stating that there was no intention to raise the question of the abolition of preference on British manufactures at the conference. HOW THE FARM TEL TELEPHONES PAY. The inventor ofthe the telephone aid as much for the farmer as did the who invented the harvester and saenee and other labor-saving devices that con- tribute to the prosperity of the - on the farm, says 4 writer in "The " With a telephone the dairyman, nieialt gardner, poultryman, orchardist, or whoever he may be, keeps up to the minute in his knowledge of the market for his product and often knows more about what it will bring at the hour he selle it than the buyer who is direct from aseven or eight hour railroad journcy can tell him An apple grower in an eastern county had an experience last fall that illus- trated how large may be tho retarn on soon 25c. or 50c. invested in a few min- tes talk over fea distance De tines One day when his crop waa just in the right condition to market, a tra- yelling buyer offered a dollar a bartel for the thousand barrels or so bis pro- spective customer had to dispose of. The buyer insisted that the price was as high as anybody was paying, and the deal @ uld offer. So He called up the city commission house 7 had boyght i in previous and they not only offered him si. 508 a barrel, but to send a man to the farm to ed "The additional $500 I made on that transaction by having a telephone in the house," the farmer said afterwards, "wiltpay my telephone bills, tolls and all, for the rest of my 'life and leave a mnug little sum over." "TWO "SECTIONMEN ki "TRACKS nie, Jn dct, Denis.at { , Feb. 14,--Gilbort Jones a sectionmen gn tsie-and kitted "at "Guelph s blinding "fie socident oocarred:at 7.80 | ine i ere bad od Harry Winemark | at Guelph Eeef ie at E 3] store was' wrapped in flames, and im- blaze, fanhed by the the pread y to the of Pal- spread rapidly towards the Commercial and completely troyed th following places: J. & ©. McDonnell, 8 ant ; F. Mann's barber shop; J- Arthur, hardware, and the Com: hotel, The main street of the town presents a seene of desolation this morning and ness is practicaliy at a standstill. e stores on the south side of the street were all more or less by explosions of cartridges and powder in the hardware stores, and nearly all their plate glass windows are blown in. he loss of the Commercial leaves the Village without a hotel for the present. The Queen's hotel is being rebuilt, and work on it will now be rusbed, but it will re -- weeks before it is finish- li the business men declare this naar that there will be a boom in building i in the village this year, and it is likely that one of the best buildings will be another good hotel, At noon the fire had completely died out. FARM VALUES AND WAGES IN CAN- ADA. Ottawa, February 6--Tho Census Monthly for January siys that values and wages in Canada make a good re- cord for 1910. The total value of live on the farms is $598, 78.000, which is $34,979,000 more than in he price head sheep $6 against show a drop in average price, being $11.30 per head against $11.80. The total value of horses is $298,898,000 for last year against $278,789,000 for 1909, of milch cows $121,613,000 against $103,601,000, of other cattle $151,781,- 000 against $126,326,000, and of sheop $15,819,000 against $15,735,000. The value of swine however fell from $34,. 868,000 in 1909 to $31,157,000 in 1910. The highest average price of harses was ip Saskatchewan, of milch cows, other horned cattle and sheep in Ontario and of swine in Quebec, Horses three years old and over reached the highest price in British Columbia, where tho average was $225. Swine per 100 Ibs, live weight ranged from $6.50 in Mani- toba to $9.62 in Quebec. The price of unwashed wool was 18 cents in 1910 and 17 cents in 1909, and of washed wool 24 cénts for each year, Tho average value of occupied farm land in the Dominion was $38.45 per acre Or 15 cents less than for the pre- It was highest in Britiah Columbia, where the cost of clearing is heavy and the land is largely occupied for fruit growing, the average being $74 per acre, or 56 cents per acre more than in the previous year. Ontario comes next witb $48 per acre, which is $2.22 less than in 1909 Farm help for the summer season shows ep avarage of $35.15 per month for males and $20.70 for fomales. count- ing board, as compared with $33.69 and $1908 respectively in the previous year. Males have an average of $347.10 and females $209.69 per board, as against $886.29 and respectively for 1 The highest rices per month in summer sre paid in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, whero they are $40 and over KILLED cl jay-the cELEE orcial | Pe Mr, abd Mrs. Robert: McoConnachire of Shelbourne were visiting at the home of Mr. Wm: Heygate' during . the: past Mr. John Ague of paris was the lic from whom they solicit a liberal Jo. 7 Miss Emma Groff of Stratford has been staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. Dippel and also renowing old ; in th acquaintances in ~iiew. Jas. Elford hgs Been appointed as delegate to represent the Young People's Society at the Alliance Con- vention in Toronto next w: The report of 8.58. No. 1, "Wallace; for January. Those marked with as- terisk were absent for one or -more ex: aminations: Sr. IV., total 950,--Earl Manning 818, Alex. Livingstone 773; Ernest Treits 718, Guy Gordon 670, *George Kritzer 568. ~ Jr. IV., total 350, --Duncan Chamney .701, Cecil Mo- Cracken 628, Vincent Torrance 609, Edith Manning 575, "Ivan Bender 486, oa tle Chamney 412, *Dora Langhran Sr. ILL, total 850,--Wallington Traits sagt Edith Swift 728, John Bin- ning 718, Morton Torrance 684, Archie Livingstone vine Harve Chamney 534, *Lioyd Bender 440. Jr, IIL, total 750, --Delbert Seow | ~y ney, Gertie McDowell, iv th ina Hollingés. First <~ Vernia cDow Vera "Laugh- Mi ell, Harry Marks, ran, Alice McQutcheon, Janet Living- stone. FRED. MANNING, teacher. oO The Guelph Water Commissioners' will plant a large number of trees on the waterworks property. Daniel McLeod was seriously wound- ed in a shooting affray between miners and Italians at Cobalt. At the Welland Board of Trade ban- quet Mr. W. M. German, Liberal M. P., came out in opposition to the trade a- greement, A Soldiers' Church. The military church of any garrison y has been attended-by the members of the garrison for nearly -- a century. Situa as it is in a tof-the-way part of the city, the c mal is per many of the best known military men . The present rector, Rev. | ex. Williams, has labored for years | christenet, pee aha for confirmation, him, it n ly Sietioninn of tl soldi tle building is beginning to show the wear and tear of the years, and in- ure eel this ndid ediffee," when as ee s rebuke the eloquence a of pes > gel a -- Se oat rr the id House and Lot For. Sale. HRS. B.-A JORGON.: FARM te SALE. ria, "and of i. 'with mayors and --S .< Teachers For Canadian West, W. J. Blac s founc "| No more: desirable route "oral vig S|AND WEST do.lnok after the pd Grend Trunk and scpcetie -- Mines... VERY 'Low RATES. © Secure tickets and full Te arene Re SE = ' Sage --~ a oe sie mi he - Ps Ne ad JM. ore aS ASS: ESrowtl particulars fron me oy HACKING, Town. Agent.}: "SMITH. Denot Agent. TO - WINNIPEG. 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