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.‘tr'iln he Best Yet a The uniform ’e wore Was nothin much before, .. ‘ And rather ens than arf of that be'ind. " For a bit of twisted rag x_ 1 And a goat-skin water bag . Was all the field equipment ‘e could find, â€"Kipling‘ h 2I. A. G. Mat-Kay, Leader of His .‘Lesty’s Loyal Opposition, by Mc- ell. the “News” cartoonist. de- ' s, as concisely as possible, the ‘ude of that gentleman in hurling * ouse he has been unloading the - month or so. Mr. MacKay has five party is drawing from his own :wers murmurs of disapproval. fife is no fault to be found with our _ 'incial Government for the past ‘ _e years. and Mr. MacKay knows 9: Better for the man from Owen 175d to wait till he gets some clothes ‘Eefore he stat ts the chastity stunt ‘ ' . cially in the present instance. I N: V. i1e above salutation, delivered to ‘3 charges the. \Vhitoeyites with V a: a: a: it corruption and poor legislation; As we understand. the situation,‘ MacKaY’S 0W“ record ‘5 nor“ too )Ir. McCannel is not a. farmer. though . , and though he may be fqnylhe was at one time. Living ashe does {ible of attending to the P051t10n:acp1-eseut, just outside the corporaâ€" “ . ow holds: this northern country E ti on of the town of Durham, Mr. Mc- Fiitill thinking of that memorable; paign in 1902, when the Liberal Carmel devotes his time to insurance and selling implements, and was, as {Y3 present leader was elected by well, up'toashort time ago. an Emi- t'iajm'it)’ 0f nine. Whmh a. recount gration Agent, receiving as his re- Lrwards reduced to one. In ““5 ward $2. per head commission. ' nt. four of MB MacKay’s oppon-l . g g :People who live in glass houses tild never throw stones." Evident- ;r. MacKay never thinks of that age when he unfolds himself the electors of a' municipality RHAM CHRONICLE acFarlane Co. *ruggists and Booksellers ,ercy’s ‘Pure Paints ercy’s Pure Paints have stood the test of time. Try them. Their floor paints are especially good, dry- ing with a hard glass surface in 12 hours. . IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. Everyone who has seen our samples of new papers say we have and at such reason- able prices. We would be pleased to show you. Come I don’t wait until the prettiest designs have been picked up. P r ballots mysteriously became ked with little crosses and the DURHAM. MAy 23 1903. :e had to reject them. But the 3 ic at large were not satisfied with i cold deal, and made things so hot l he gentleman that he had to re-it , Another election taking place, ': an Sound was found to have turned 1 i 132 Conservative majority to 581 SANCTUM SIFTINGS a; while Meaford changed 88 in favor of MacKay. All this med. notwithstanding the fact PAPER THE that no Conservatives had changed The bowl of dissatisfaction that went up over this (lea! resulted in a protest being ente1-.ed regarding Which the Bruce Herald says in p211 t: â€"â€"- I \Vith such a record staring him in l the face, at the v-'e1} beginning of his i political ca1 eel, M1 . MacKay is cer- tainly a man of mightv 11e1 we to stand in f1ont of any intelligent gathe1 mg of electms and endeavm to unload his ‘ t10ubles onto them. l In last week’s "Review” there apâ€" E E-pea1 ed a series of “Reasons why vou should vote fox Neil McCannel” andE E out of the whole bunch we have failed E to discov er a single one that savors of E Eone iota of convincing argument. In lzeasons one and two he states that - .\I(: Cannel is a faunex, and says . E that he condemns the extravagance of E E the p1esent administration in the in-E E E c1 eased expenditure, the 1nc1 ease being E lax gely in depai tn1ents that do not benefit the fa1mer. Then he branches off onto the old howl, the Redistribu- tion Bill, and says the Government has yielded to the spoilsmen, and al- most a clean sweep has been made of ' the License Inspectors, and in the last days of the session gave grants and Eguarantees into the millions. \Vhit- E ney 1s accused as well of breaking allE E his p1 onuses as to Law reform and of E making a muddle of the school legisla- Etion. being compelled to withdraw it. Also, the t1 eatment of Northern E 011ta110 has led to a. dangerous seces- Esion movement. The bungling of the E power question, says the man on the hill, has resulted in the Province losing E a valuable asset. Next. says MacKay's E right bower :-â€"-“Dr. Jamieson when in E opposition, wanted the number ofE E members reduced to 60, wanted the - : boundai 1es of constituencies to be fixed 3 by judges, and redistribution only E after a census, yet a. few weeks ago he E voted to increase the members to 110, E to have a redistribution, even when there was no census. and that a com- _ E mittee of 5 Conservatives and 3 Liber- " E als should change the constituencies.” J E And in his last turn at the bat in the ten- inning contest, he says 8 “Dr. - ' Jamieson. owing to his many cement and other interests, cannot give and the efficient service ; 8E South (119‘ desex ves and requires.” S It is scarcely possible that the ed- itor of the Review knows what he’s talking about, or he never would. have fired out his “ten reasons” broadcast among South Grey’s electors. He cer- tainly must be completely off his! trolley to imagine for one moment‘ that the electors of this riding are to be hoodwinked into voting for Mr. McCannel with such a collection of curiosas put forth last week in the Durham Review. If they were in the least correct, it might help same, but it is a foregone conclusion the people of this riding don’t want any political “burlesques” just yet. For the infor- mation of Mr. Ramage. who doesn’t appear to understand the situation, we’ll explain it so the following will probably be of no interest to the aver- age voter. The increased expenditure, on which Mr. )lcCannel sets his foot down 503 firmly. the W’hitney government is guilty of, and makes no bones about it. But the increased receipts from railways, corporations, license fees, selling of the timber limits for some thing near their actual value, instead of loading up some party heeler as the Ross government did, have enabled and even forced the government to ex- and pend more money per year per capita. Notwithstanding the increased ex- penditure the \Vhitney administration has turned a. million dollars annual deficit under the old government into asurplus of 1, 55,000 in three years. The assertion that the fari'ners derive no benefits from these expenditures is ludicrous in the extreme. In 1904. un- der Liberal rule. Agriculture and Colonization Roads received $623,101. Since that year, these grants have b'en increased. until, in 1908, they amounted to $1,021.316. or an increase of $399,215. Surely, the farmer has received some benefit from this. Though Mr. Whitney decapitated‘ the force of License inspectors consid- erably, it was done for the good of| the service and the accusation that the spoilsmen were responsible for it is very hollow. In Durham alone. we have our Registrar, Police Magistrate and Clerk of the Division Court, all? good. hardworking Liberals who still retain their seats. notwithstanding your charges against the government, and what about Police Magistrate Neil McCannel? The Redistribution Bill which seems to grate so hard on your nerves is acknowledged by all of fair minds to be the fairst price of re- distributing of constituencies that has ever taken place in Ontario. Under the last government there were more .Conservative votes in Ontario than Liberal. but still the Liberals had a i majority in the house. As to Mr. \Vhitney breaking his promises regarding Law Reform. why didn’t you specify. Your statement is too broad. Mr. \V’hitney has brought about considerable law reform, and will do even better the next four ses- sions than last. Surely, Mr. Review, you haven’t overlooked the fact that the Conservatives have given the province a clean election law and have abolished the numbered ballot as well as stopped the ballot-box stuffing. It has burst the school book ring, and the set of books that formerly cost $1.15 can now be purchased for 49c. It has brought about the selling by actual tender by the thousand of the timber limits instead of by priyate sale to party heelers at less than one- tenth the actual value, and this by the square mile. It has developed New Ontario. It has given a Railway Commission to protect the people’s rights. And we might, if we had the time and space, go on to considerable length and specify to your accusations, and show you the falseness of your statements when you say \Vnitney has broken his promises. Regarding the School Bill, we may say as we said before it, was placed be- fore the government for modification, and was voted for by most of your own party, Leader included. who saw not one flaw in it till the election cam- paign was on, The secession in Northern Ontario‘ you speak of is confined solely to dis- gruntled Liberal pap-hunters who can’t prevail on \Vhitney to allow them the same graft as they enjoyed under the old regime. As to the los- ingot Niagara power. it is a. widely known fact, that the power of the Falls was disposed of before the Con- servative party came into the major- ity, but who have since brought such pressure to bear on the power corpor- ations there stationed, that electric energy is now sold to consummers at a. rate never before dreamed of. ter, with that line of argument. In attacking Premeir \Vhitney and Dr J amieson you have put your shoulder to the wheel that's not in the ditch, and your assistance will not avail you or your party much. In voting for the reducing ot the number of mem- bers in 1901 and the increase in 1908, South Grey’s representative was act- } ing on the theory of representation by 'population, so you can’t attack him on that score. As to not representing ; his constituency in the House, who will bear you out in your statements, and how much better will Mr. Mc- Carmel handle the affairs of this rid- ing? Since Dr. J amieson’s election to {the Legislature, South Grey has been well represented and we don’t believe it possible for either Grit or Tory partyto puta man in the field who will come anywhere near equalling our present member in the Provincial House. No, Brer. Review, you can’t con- vince us. or anybody else for that mat- An old Scotchman. not feeling very well, called upon a well-know doctor, who gave him instruczions as to diet. exercise and rest. Among other things he advised the patient to ab stain from all forms of Spirits. “ Do as I say,” he added cheerfully, “and you’ll soon feel better.” The Scotch- man rose silently and was about to withdraw when the doctor detained him to mention the all-important !t0pic of the fee. “My advice will cost you $2,” he said. “Aw, mebbe,” aid the old Scotchman, “but I’m nae gann to tek yer advice.” DURHAM CHRONICLE SOUTH GREY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Field Crap Competition in Oats in 1908 To be carried on by the Co-operation ‘ of the Agricultural Societies Branch of the Ontario Department of Agricul- ture and the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department Jf Agriculture. $50.00 IN CASH PRIZES. Having in view the excellent results obtained last year in stimulating a greaterinterest in the production of better seed grain, Agricultural Socie- ties will l)e again assisted in the hold- ing of competitions in standing field crOps during 1908. under the following regulations :â€" 1. Nature of Competition. Compe- titions shall be limited to one crop, to be selected by the society, which should be the one of most importance to the farmers of the district. Entries for competition must consist of a field of not less than five acres, and where beans and potatoes are entered, the minimum plot not less than one acre. Selection must be made from the following crops, viz.: Spring, Fall or Goose wheat, oats, barley, corn, peas, alsike clover, red clover, nota- toes, beans or any other staple crop produced for seed in Ontario. The South Grey Agricultural Society has selected OATS for their competition. 2. (Imnpetitors. â€"(}ompetition shall be limited to members of Agricultural Societies. and the fields entered must not be more than fifteen miles from its headquarters. Competitors shall be allowed to make entry in only one society and but one entry can be made by each competitor. 3. Societies desiring to enter this competition must nocify the Superin- tendent not later than the first day of May, and must; make not less than ten entries nor more than twenty-five. 4. Individual Entries.-â€"-All individ- ual entries must be forwarded by the secretary of South Grey Agricultural Society, who will forward the same to J. Lockie \Vilson. Superintendent of Agricultural Societies, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, before the first of June, 1908. Prizesâ€"The Ontario Department of Agriculture will contribute $30.00 to each society on conditim that prizes to the amount of $50.00 be offered, these prizes to be not less than $15, $12, $10, $8, and $5. The Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture will pro- vide expert judges for these competi- tions free of cost to the societies. ' Address all communications before Thursday, May 28th. to C. FIRTH, Secretary, Durham, Ont. May 14 3t. Your vote and influence respect- fully solicited. A local jeweler submits the follow- ing tnck of the Watch trade. which, he holds a'pplies to every Other line of merchandise. ‘-The superintendent of a watch factory, while insrructing his classi- tier. holds in his hand two watches which in appearance are exactly the same‘ but there is a great difference. \Vatch No 1 is as nearly perfect asl human skill can make it, and is sold through the jewelers and cannot- be sold for less than Q25. While watch No. 2 looks to be the same as No.1, there is an imperfeCtion. It is true that it has 'be same number of jew els and Other parts, but you see that some of the jewels are faulty, the pivots don’ t ht their jewels and the springs are imperfect It has been handled.roughly, and to make it per- fect would cost about as much as it would to build a new one. out and; out, and if it were sent to thejeweler‘ it would come back. So. as a matter of course, it is money for the factory to class it “second” or “discontinu. ed,” sell it to the mail order depart- ment of the catalogue house at one- third less than the first quality, or watch No. 1, or a discount of $8 50. The {accory has nOthing further to do with this watch. The mail order house is at liberty to do what it pleases with it and sell it for what they choose. As .a matter of fact. the mail-order house proceeds to cat alogue it and sell it to those unaware of the tricks of the trade and who lives thousands of miles away. ONTARIO ELECTIONS June 8th, 1908 Tricks of the Watch Trade. D. JAMIESON. Long Red Mangel Half Sugar Mangel Yellow Mangel NEW WALL PAPERS have received the largest Sllllblllwllt e of Brand New Wall Papers right from the machines, ever brought to Durham, and are showing, without a doubt. the finest stock of wall papers ever shown in this part of the country, so if you are looking for something extra nice, in papers, at the lowest possible price, you will not be disappointed when you look through our large stock. We couldn’t begin to deSC‘I'llW them here, so we won’t try. We will ask you to come to the store, and we guarantee to show you the nicest and largest range of up-to-date wall papers to be found outside of the large cities. Field Carrott Two big Stores We will be pleased to have 3'0“ .1001" Gun’s Drug Store R. B. Keeler Sons Evans’ “Saw Log” Steele BrigO’s ’ “Mammoth" Rennies’ “Perfection” Steeleâ€"Briggs’ “Royal Giant" w “Giant White” Steele-Bmggs “Yellow Globe‘v “ “Intel mediate Terry’s “Yellow Leviathian “White Belgian” Rennies’ “Giant" Durham and \Velland M av in real first-class Silver Our stock for the wedding 5‘ of silverware is now compiwi. everything up-bo-dace. This store has the mimv fur class goods, and always xvii} m: as there is such a thing; 5 u j« fbusiness. Wedding ' Engagement Rin We have always in stock. three dozen wedding tings 14' from, every style, and aim: hundred engagernent x-.ings i1 ing Diamonds, so you 1mm 11‘ son to go away disapppdmvd. Percy (i. A. Web We have decided 10 In Stock of Dry Goods during “#0 weeks as we need z ' - 31' l'gom for our sprmg mm- W out quickly. we :11»: f 001' entire stock at cost. 5 our 881ections are ‘ 75 Men’s Ready-made Pa; Overalls. A few Ready-made S Overcoats. Aquantity of Ladies' :1' That hack' Because y your powers q Take 5C ‘i . It builds up and s It contains Cod LE prepared that it is 6 ALL DRL’ W¢¢¢¢ Mgket Report. P DURHAM 9 -~ ~ 75 Men 8, Boys’ and (tn-b “GEORGE IMPERI Watchmaker J eweler and Optican. SALE The High Steppi S. SCOT AT COST ate charges not travelli B. Philli 1501 ’4