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& Editorial Note and Comment â€"Gordon has been avenged, The Anglo Egyptian force under General Kitchener has won a great battle and Khartoum has fallen.1%X® of the enemwy bhave been slain, and about 500 killed and wounded on the attacking side â€"A combined harvester and threshâ€" er has been tested in Manitoba with such success that a revolution in presâ€" ent methods is possible. It is reported to have made a saving of five bushels per acre. â€"The Quebec Commission has adâ€" journed until Sep. 20th. The inter-‘ change of views they have had seem ‘ to indicate that progress will be made in securing agreement on most if not all of the points of dispute. _ It is pretty eertain the Canadian sealing question will be settled by the American buyâ€" ing out the interests of Canadians, and an end thus be put to pelagic sealing. â€"The Dreyfus Scandal is again beâ€" fore the world. Our readers will reâ€" member that a French Jew named Dreyfus was accused of supplying Gerâ€" many with military secrets. _ Popular prejadice ran against his race and aiter a sham trial he was found guilty and banished. The sacrifice made of him appeased French fury, but last week, a Colonel Henry admitted hayâ€" ing forged a letter which was the chief incriminating evidence against Dreytus, and followed up the confesâ€" sion by committing suicide. _ The French Minister of War, M. Cavaignac receives the credit of unearthing the conspiracy which ruined Dreyfus, and as he was a chief mover in uncovering the Panama Scandals he deserves all the credit he gets for twice exposing corruption. The nation seems about to make a rightâ€"aboutface and make a god of the man they execrated two years ago. Will the average honest citizen, (sayâ€" img nothing of churchmen) supposing liquor trmmphs on the 20th, view with complacency the evil effects of the traffic 2 Will he corsole himself if his son, (or his neighbor‘s son) goes astray, by the fact that his love, for personal liberty, (a very fine thing) made him yote against prohilition, or made him stay at home ? Viewing a too common wreck of humanity, (his own or his neighbor‘s son or brother) will he say, after the 20th, I would like to havereâ€" moved this temptation, but we needed a revenue? Or it would endanger the government? Or, it would boom the government ? Will it afford gratification to say, in supposed liquor triumph, Oh well, * It couldn‘t be enforced anyway. â€"Just as well the temptation‘s there to make men strong, a new sin would be created if prohibition carried " ! It is expected by some that indifferâ€" ance of the many will make a small vote, This may be,. We hope not. Thousands of onr best citizens hope not. The churches of the land, certainly out greatest moral influence, hope not. Mothers, sisters, wives, bewailing the rninous influence which is dragging down their loved ones, hope not. Three weeks more of earnest work or idle apathy will make all the difference bet ween success or failure in the great question of prohibition. Principal Grant is not greater than the General Assembly of his church which _ almost â€" unanimously supports prohibition, Golden Smith is not greater than thousands of literary men whose experience and judgement lead them to oppose him. The eloquent silence of the liquor men, who have few words for their traffic, but greedily utilize the pabulum prepared for them by these two men, is not to be compared to the silence of the widow, nor the blight that rests upon the drunkard‘s child. All roads led to Rome. _ All moral issues will y . rengthened by a victory for prohibit. Polticians have been blaimed for da. ying with this question ; it will now be seen whether the people will do better than themen they appoint. For the welfare of the home, the welâ€" fare of the state, the welfare of every progressive and moral movement, the welfare of hotel keepers themselves in the end, ‘all public spirited citizens should determine to mark their ballots for prohibition, on the Â¥th. â€"â€"â€"â€"# §# 4& â€"â€"â€"â€" â€"The attempt of the Liquor Party to canture the weekly press of the province by offering them antiâ€"prohibition ready set plate matter at advertising rates, has proved a complete failure, but evidence has been obtained that a secâ€" ret campaign is going on, with headâ€" quarters at corner of Scott and Wellingâ€" ton Streets Toronto. *A considerable staff of clerks is employed there sending out cireulars which are guarded with a zexlous eye." The Witness prints the circulars which contains the information that their convertion "considered that each License holder should be able to poll a6 least 25 friendly votes."! »at THE GREAT HOME ISSUE This is nearly always the first objecâ€" tion raisedand, it is perfectly legitimate subject for both argument and enquiry. In nine cases out of ten, this will be fol" lowed up at once by the statement, ""‘Look at Maine and other places where prohiâ€" bition has been tried and has failed for lack of enforcement." This is the misâ€" take that Principal Grant made in his letter attacking probilition. He drew an inference from a comparison. that was, in one important point, incorrect. The act merely prohibits the manufacâ€" ture and sale otf alcohol within the bouudaries of the State, but liquor may be brought into the State for private use without restraint. _ The proposed Dominion act prohibits the manufacture importation and sale of â€" intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal, sacramen tal and scientific purposes, and includes the whole of the Dominion. Now 1 de sire to state very explicidy our unqualiâ€" fied belief in the yvast amount of good. that has resulted to the State of Mame since their act has been in force ; but it differs so materially from the proposed Dominion act, in the essential point that importation is excluded in one and not in the other, that the Dominion act must be considered on its imerits, _ We know of no modern precedent. _ If sueâ€" cessful, Canada will be precedent for the world, If we obtain such a law as we seek. constitutionaly enacted after a favorable plehscite vote, what is there to prevent proper enforcement ? To adâ€" mlt the principle of the possible nonâ€"enâ€" forcement of law is to admit anarchy: We have passed through seyeral critical periods, and haye never yet failed in law enforcement when challenged. Let us, therefore, turn to the possibility of evasion,. Where is the liquor to come from in any quanity ? The open manuâ€" facture in distillery and brewery will cease; the importation will cease. No carvier will risk fine anud confiscation, and the most ordinary customs precau" tions will suffice to guard this point We shall, therefore, have to devote our" selves solely to the question of illicit manufacture _ and _ smuggling, The practicability of fully controlling these avenues of evasion is a fair matter for discussion. _ In the past ten years, whenâ€" ever occasion offered. 1 have placed the question of enforcement, as hetin submitted, before Yome of the best exâ€" perts in the administration of law in the chief cities of the United Suates, England and the Continent : and withâ€" out any exception I have received conâ€" firmation of my opinion, that a total prohibitory law could be more readily enforced than local option, such as the Maine law, or than a license law, such as generally prevails at present in all civilized countries. The reasons for these conclusions aresimple® No articlé of commerce more readily reveals its presence thanalcohol. _ All alcohol, that cannot be proved to have come from Government sources is contraband ; and liable to confiscation on sight under the proposed act. Thus, large quantities of illicit whiskey that now finds its way to market, at once losing its illegal idenâ€" tity on arrival, would, under the new law, be always contraband, and the most moderate process of Government surveillance would keep the trade more fully in check than it is toâ€"day, No large quantity of liquor could possibly find its way to a market, by eitherillicit distillation or smuggling, without disâ€" covery. Secondâ€"Infringement of Personal Lib erty. This objection to prohibition appears to be a stumbling block to many, but the most superfical study of the question will show how shallow the objection is. Residence in any civilized community involyes the necessity of a surrender of individual inclinations to laws adopted by the commumty for the preservation, safety and comfort of its members. From the time one rises in the morning, until he retires at night, he is controlled and checked by the laws in force. Reâ€" move the right to make and enforce laws, and civilization will be paralyzed. E. L. BOND on Prohibition Issues. Property and person will be no longer safé. True liberty will be endangered. The highest court of law asserted the right of the Dominion of Canada to conâ€" trol the traffic in liquor, even to the exâ€" tent of total prohibition. _ The only question now isâ€"Do the people approve of such a radical measure ? Fourthâ€"Revenue. The question of revenue is one which the Government alone can settle. It is constitutionally, the duty of those in power to readjust the taxes to meet any new state of affairs that may arise. They alone are responsible to the peo‘)le. and cannot filace that responsibilily elsewbere. The Government very justâ€" ly refused to hbamper fthe plebiscite question with any such rider as was sough to be attached to it. The principâ€" le has been proclaimed repeut.edl{’ by leading statesmen‘in England, the Unitâ€" ed States and Canada, that the ti:xestion of revenue must not stand in the way of any moral reform demanded by the â€"The capture of Kartoum, referred to elsewhere, coming at a time when Cecil Rhodes‘influence is rising in South Africa is most momentous. The unâ€" written aim of Britain is to have a rail and water route through the heart of the Continent, scarcely longer to be called "Dark." and the result of this victory will be to advance this aim. Russia‘s Asiatic Railw:g is a menace to the world, but where Britain leads all may follow, and blessings follow too. TORONTO Possitulity of enforcement, Hood‘s Sarsaparilla is prepared by exâ€" perienced pharmacists of today, who have brought to the production of this great medicine the best results of medical reâ€" search. Hood‘s Sarsaparilia is a modern medicine, containing just those vegetable ingredients which werfb seemingly inâ€" tended by Nature herself for the alleviaâ€" tion of human ills. It purifies and enâ€" riches the blood, tones the stomach and digestive organs and creates an appetite; it absolutely cures all scrofula eruptions boils, Fimples, sores, salt rheum, and every form of skin disease; cures liver complaint, kidney troubles, strengthens and builds up the nervous s{stem. It enâ€" tirely overcomes that tired feeling, giving strenith and energy in place of weakness and languor. It wards off malaria, tyâ€" rhoid fevser, and by purifying the blood it I:ssps the w hole system bealthy. d 9 . Sarsa® 000 °S _ paritia Makes Wel! Rev. Dr. Spencer, Brantford, has issued a stirring appeal to voters & part of which we reproduce. He touches on various fesatures very forciâ€" bly. He closes his remarks on the Reyenue question thus : When Sir John MacDonald was urâ€" ged by a deputation to do something in the direction of prohibition his reply in effect was :â€"â€"‘"Gentlemen I would . like it to be done : you could do it. Send your representativyes to Parliaâ€" ment and it will then be done." Every Prime Minister would say the same, but we haye not done it. _ Now, howâ€" ever, that we have a chance of doing by our yotes what we lr?wc not been able to do by the election of members, and that withcut interfering with the position of either political party, let us do it, and in a manner worthy of the fame Canada is obtaining incther lands. The man of business need not be afraid of voting for prohibition. _ His business will be benefited by it, though the members of the trade may threaten to take away their custom, as many of them have done. ‘The $39,000,000 would go into other and better busiâ€" nesses: the increased wages earned and money made would add to the volume of srade in the country. Look:â€" ed at from a commercial point of view, every business man should vote for it, it tor no other reason, for it certain‘y means that the money put into the brewenr‘s distiller‘s and saloonkeeper‘s pockets would go into those of other trades. Hard things are often said aâ€" gainst the sabonkeepers: but they are among the men to be pitied, and would be glad of deliverance from the business in many cases. _ They are not to blame for buying a license from the peopie to sell liquor as long as the people offer it for sale. There is a feelâ€" ing of uneasiness all over the country regarding the probable fate ot the trade. A leading Ontario real estate man told me the other day that he has a number of prominent hotels placed on his list for sale since the plebiscite question Â¥assed the House of Commons. In spite of the desperate efforts being made to thwart the vote, there is a growing conviction that the people are becotning concerned, and mean to do all they can to purify the nation. Hundreds of saloonkeepers‘ wives and families sigh also for deliverance, but they are compelled to stay where they are. . We have no business to find fault with the men who sell intoxicants: we license them to do it, and they pay for their license without a murmur. It is bad grace in any man to call a man names for doing what he has been licensed to do by the very men who speak iil of him. The public, after all, are to blame the most. Now. the pubâ€" lic are to be called upon to correct their own error and cancel the licensâ€" ing system. Let us give them notice to quit, and tell them we are sorry to have encouraged them in such a deâ€" moralizing business. â€"Itis time the con science of the whole Dominion was aroused to put an end to so. gigantic a fraud. Is the bestâ€"in fact th Sold by all druzgists Hooad‘s Pilis On the Liherty question a specious cry raised in many cases to cover up sensual desires, though with a few, tt may be, honestly held, he is equally explicit : ‘"Robbingy the poor man of his beer" is an old cry from over the sea, and it is freely used on this side. The quesâ€" tion of liberty is a sacred one and canâ€" not be lightly interfered with. In fact we hayve got so far ahead here that liberty is largely synony mous with ‘‘do as you please." Anything that interâ€" feres with personal likes or dislikes, whims or tancies, is construed as a violation of one‘s liberty. We have libery to do right, but not wrong ; we have liberty to bless, but not curse ; we have liberty to do good but not evil. If, therefore, we have giyen liberty to men to engage in a business or indulge in a pernicious habit it is license.â€" We have no moral right to foster a habit or trade which produces bad results. Our liberties lie in the direction of promoting the wellâ€"being of the comâ€" munity and in remoying temptation out of its wag. Our liberties demand of us rectitude of corduct and rightâ€" eousness in all our relationships in life. Whatever damages > own character or reputation, or infi ; injury upon others we haye no liberty to perform. Well Made "AN APPEAL TO VOTERS.. and he One cure all Liver Ilis and Sick Headache,. 2¢. True Blood Purifier, six for €5. Mr. James and Mr Thos. Coleridge went on a wheeling trip co Flesherton, Walters Falls and Onen Sound last Tuesâ€" day, Mr and Mrs Arch McDonald are spendâ€" ing a month visiting their many friends, who are happy to have Mr McDonald aâ€" mong them. again after a nine years absence. f Mies M. Dailey is spending a few woeeks with her sister Mrs Geo, Watson here‘ Mr Jno Scott and James Coleridge also spent a few days at the Toronto Fair this week, Threshing is about all over around here grain has turned out well. Mr Frank Coleridge and bride passed through here on Monday week, to their home inAllilato:. we join in dwilbing the oung couple happiness and prosperit {htongh life. _ . % * Mr, and Mrs Hugh McKinnon, Dan Meâ€" Kinnon and Susie McKinnon took in the Toronto fair a few days this week, Miss A. B. MoLaughlan visited friends bere last Thursday eyening. FAIRWELL CORNERS. A Plebiscite meetizng was held here in Allans Hill on the 3rd and was fairly well attended. The weather las teen very hot and dry lately, waier is scarce in wells The two Mrs Alleus left iast week to attemd the Exhibition in Torouto, Mrs Glenester is prepa ing to visit Toronto. Miss M, A. Searlett, i~ fixing up to deâ€" part back to Torono, John MeWilliams Ir had his arm brokâ€" ou last week and our Dr. hbere is in at endance f The Rev. Ur Ross formerly otf Dundalk and Ventry preached bere im the 10th Con. School House to the Pres"sterimmns. The Presbyterian church, l1th Con. is near completed and will look ««ii. lNeports sav that there wilil be a large gathering of Evangelists here several Preachers fron Toronto are expected and there is expected quite a wakeing up aâ€" mong backsliders, South Grey $ Industrial, Toronto 2 Western, London [s Northern, Walkerton Markdale Owen Sound Collingwood East Grey, Flesherton Central, Walters Falls Holland, Chatsworth Centre Bruce, Paisley A select Party McLean» on Sat List of Fall Shows. rty was held at Mr. Thomns Saturday eyening the 8rd. HOPEVILLE. Sept. 27 to Sept 28 Ton VALUABLE FARM PROPERTy YÂ¥ virtue of an order for Aq ministration made in an action in the High Court of Justice, of GADD versus GADD, et al, and dated the 12th day of April, A. D. 1sos and with the upEmlm!ion of DUNXCaX MORRISON, | Esg., Master of th Supreme Qourt of Judicature for Op tario, at the Town of Owen Sound, in the County of Grey. there wil h offered for Sale, at the " MIDDAUGH HOUSE," in the Town of Durham, i the undersigned Master, on WEDNESUAY, the 28th DAY of SEPTEMBER, & 1. 13 At 2 o‘%clock in the afternoon, the lowing valuable farm property, hb Lot No. 15, in the Brd Concess W,. G. R., in the Township of Normn by, in the County of Grey, know the * Thomwas Gadd Farm," contai 100 acres more or less, Eighty acres of the sa id lot are cleasy ed and in a good state of cultivation ; the balance 20 acres is hardwood bus} There are said to be on the premises three bhouses and a barn, the house: being two log houses one story high, about 21 feet by 18 feet and a frams« house about 26 feet by 20 feet, Th barn is a frame barn 55 feet by 36 feet, with a stone foundation. â€" There an three wells on the property with 1 good supply of water, The fences ar cedar rail in a fair state of repair, and there is a small orchard on th premises, The property is distant from the Town of Durham by a good road 6 miles; Church in the immediat« neighhborhood and â€" Public school 2 miles distant. The said premises will be sold sul Leecttou lease thereof to James Web r, Junior, which expires on the 15t} March next and under the terms o which purchaser will be entitled to d this season‘s ploughing, and subject a reserve bid fixed by the Master, Purchase money will be payable per cent. at the time of sale to the V. dor‘s Solicitor and the balance n Court _ within â€" thirty | _days, with interest. â€" Conditions of Sale are t standing conditions of the High Cou The Vendors will only be bound produce a Registrar‘s abstract of T and such title Deeds as they have their possession. The further conditions of Sale further information can be obta from the Vendor‘s Solicitor, or t the undersigned, or from A. G. Kay, Esquire, Owen Sound, or i J. W. Frost, Esquire, Owen Sound Dated at the Town of Owen Sound the County of Grey, this 28th day July, A. D. 1898. 6. LEFROY MeCAUL, Vendor‘s Solicitor, The Owen Sound Colleginte Institute = open on Thursday, Sept. lst, 1859s, for the ©: meut of pupils, Classes will be ftormed ! andu of Teachers‘ Certificate: ; for Pass onor Matriculation , jor entrance int learned professions ; @nd in the Comu» ‘The Staff copsists of Eight Toacher ALL tm:unmenn are in charge of expo Specialists, Art School Certificates.............. Form I nid (11 with honors Form iI (Primary) Certificates i4 honor Form If Pur6 U ... ..................>. ... Part I Matriculation ................. Partial Metmculation............... Form III (Jumior Leavicg) certificates Form III Matriculation t Form IV Part I only............... Form IV Part II only ............... Form IV Parts I and 1J (Senior Leayi: Homnor Matriculants.................... Scholarship Matriculation ......... At the last named examipation one 1 this school won the Prince of Wales n\l.‘t General Proficiency Schbolarship is \= matics. For further information, list of bos! houses, etc., write to D. R, DOBIE, W, H. Jll.\'l\‘I\F Secretary. Princ Form IIJ (Seconda Class). Junior Matriculation ... . Form IV (parts I and I1) Form IV (Part I) ...... .. Art School Certificates .. A. McK. CAMEROXN, Candidates prepared for Commercia‘. Second and First Class Certificates: also for the yvarious Matriculation Examina tions, The School has a staff of four experi enced and successful teachers. 9 _ Record tor 98. Form 1 (Commercial) ............... Form II (Third Class and Part I Maâ€" t# REâ€"OPENS #f SEPTEMBER 1, ‘98 Hicm ScHooL UDICIAL SALE OWEN SOUND DUNCAN MORRISON, the Township of Normanby in the County of Grey ~ VERSVUS REâ€"OPENING SEPTEMBER IST, 1898 MEAFORD Master at Owen Sound. GADD, E~ aAi A, MOWAT, B, A. Principal. 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