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.. .ng ,. . Paint?“ 3 3 Paint ? ?‘ is; ‘ x... g Paint. ? ? i" That is the iiuestlofi.‘ Whether it is better in the end to nutter the sorrows and disappomt~ ments that poor paint will. bring, or at the start provide the best that can be bought and end it. there. ‘ w There is but’one best, and'that is x THE SHEBWIII-WILLIAHS PAINT. With Paint you will need Brushes and perhaps Varnishes. * These- . and all Painters: Suppliesvarcgto. b; be found at./ J as. Heard’s, ‘ The Old HardwareStore. FOR STYLE AND..- ECONOMY COMBINED Go to Wm. Campbell, who has the largest, best assorted, most stylish and‘clieapest' stock of MiLLIN-E-av: . i, in town. SEE THE PLUMS‘. Our Opening takes place every day.- Come early and new STAR paper was. I The undersigned beg to announce to their numerous I customers and the public generally that their new Roller Flour Mill is now completed, and grinding night and day. The machinery throughout is of the most. modern pattern, and the quality of‘ the output second to none in Ontario. Special attention given to gristing :‘nd chopping. \Ve pay Lindsay prices for wheat. and coarse grains. of which we want an unlimited quantity. llides and skins, Furs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, etc., bought and sold- Agents for the Canada Carriage Company. l’artics buying Flour or Feed in quantities would do well to write us for quotations before purchasing. 03:99.99- ‘ 9015 l V 1. :J‘p»..~. McDougall, Brandon & Austin. x. : i TO THE } FARMERS Of ' the surrounding vicinity. If your MAGHINES . . . should need repairing, or if you should want any repairs, or new mould boards or steel land sides on your ploughs, COME EARLY, and don’t. put off till wanted. If,you think of purchasing a good Pea Harvester, Hay Fork, or any other imple- ment, give ROBSON a call, and you will get them at prices to meet the times. THUS. ROBSON, FENELON FALLS. The Fenelen Falls. Gazette. Friday, April 30th. 1897. The New Tariff. The new tarifl’ has been for over a week before the public, and hundreds of columns of criticism upon it have already been written or spoken. As might have been safely predicted, the Conservatives are finding no end of fault, though, in spite of its numerous alleged detects, some of them, with great inconsistency, claim that it is just about what they would have made it if they had only had time. The bew tariff is not as dissimilar to the old one as could have been wished, but the changes made are in the right direction, and, as Sir Richard Cartwright said in his reply to Mr. Foster :. “ The ship of State is turned‘ to the open sea. The principle of protection has beenthrown overboard. There is still something of protection in the tariff. perhaps agood dcal,.but we are sailing away from land, not. toward it. The sooner the Opposition realize this the sooner will their criticisms have point and effectiveness. The Govern- ment are notsteering aimlessly in what~ ever direction the wind may be favor- able to. There is a definite object in view- I believe the passage of this tarifl has rung the death-knell of pro- ' tection and rung in the chance of feder- ating the empire on a sound and secure basis. And, further, the liope~of the Government is not only that the new tarifi will "prove the first step toward closer. trade relations within the empire, but that it will-’prove a means of bring- :ing the United States into more har- mony with the other- portions of‘ the Anglo-Saxon world.” Opener. The municipal Committee of the To- ronto Trade's Council has undertaken the defence oftch departmental stores, and, in a recent. report â€" published, with all its imperfections on its head, in the Toronto Starâ€"makes a savage on- slaught upon the editor: of that. paper, Mr. E..E; Sheppard; who-is the leader of the fight against the mammoth ag- gregations. The report contains several fallacies, one of which is likening the departmental stores in Toronto and other cities to the co-operative stores in England ; but they are as unlike each other as they can possibly be, because in co-operativc stores the profits are di- vided between the shareholders, while in the departmental stores they go into the pockets of the owners, who. more- over, do not do business upon fair and honest principles. Not only are the un- fortunate persons who make many of the articles which are sold below their value ground down to starvation wages â€"girls being actually compelled to make shirts for (icenly. ants per dozenâ€"but all sorts of deer-prions are practised upon the public. No fault is to be found with the departmental stores for selling out of date or damaged goods at lessi than costâ€"indeed, the proprietors of small establishments-show their wisdom * by doing the same thing; but to give slmrt weight. shor; measure or short count is a fraud and should be punish- ed as such. We do not say that actual fraud is practised by the departmental stores; but the following statement sent. for publication to the Toronto Star, ought. to serve as an “eye opener ” to the gullible crowds who think they can W The Dawn. ~‘ The little steamer Dawn, which has spend their money to better advantage been a frequent visitor at. the Falls, was in these establishments than elsewhere : recently purchased, togetherwithascow, A professional gentleman of my ac- . by Mr. John A. Ellis, who drove last qualntanee has a cottage in the country , Monday to Bridgenorth, where she is where he resides in the summer. He is lying. It appears that, after he made a great lover of flowers, and every year tries to get. a finer garden than the year before. A few weeks ago he went as usual to the Steele, Briggs Seed Com- pauy and bought a great variety of seeds. About ten days ago he read a departmental store advortiscmcnt an- nouncing great “ bargains in garden seeds," and as he read the price he was amazed. ” If they can sell seeds at. that. price and Briggs charges what he charged me,” he said, “ then the Star might as well give up the fight.” Next day, being down town, he went into the departmental store and bought a lot of seed packages of different. variâ€" eties and took them home. That even- ing be placed the departmental store seed packages on one end of his writing table, and picked out corresponding packages (the same species) from Briggs’ seeds and put them at the other end of the table. The number of packages was the same, yet. he found that Briggs’ packages had cost . . . . . . Departmental store packages had cost This showed a tremendous difference, but he is a thorough-going man, and so he decided to examine the seeds. He ing several packages he found that they contained the following average number of seeds per package :. Briggs"paekages average. . . .. . . . . .. 3,000 Departmental store packages average 15?. In other words, one package ofBriggs’ seeds, if opened and made into depart.- .mental store packages; would make about 19.1} of such packages. In still other words, to get. the same quantity of seed that had been sold by Briggs for $2.10 would cost. at the depart- mental store about 35.. Yet. seedswere supposed to be a phenomenal bargain at the departmental store.. They were loudly advertised and people clutched at them, thinking they were getting $2.10 worth for 25 cents. - People said :._“ It’s wonderful how they do it l"’ This is how they did it. and is there anything wonderful about it? The departmental store got. double the regular price of seeds, yet get credit for giving a big bargain.. The same sort of trick is worked in many ways. Be on your guai'dâ€"â€"test the thing for yourself. The Times on the New Tariff. The London (Eng) Times, comment.- ing, in its issue of the 26th, on the new Canadian tariff, says :â€" “ The new departure is most gratify- ing to all who desire to see the empire knitted more closely together. It. is the most remarkable step yet made to- wards thc fiscal federation of the empire. While it would be premature to pass judgment upon the most-favored-nation clause, we have no hesitation in saying that if such stipulations stand inthe way of freer and better. arrangement of duties between this country and Cana- da, the earliest opportunity should be taken to relieve us of such obligation. .Wc regret toisee- the- attitude of Mr. ~libster. credit the proposition as a refusal to be bound by Imperial treaty. There is ,much doubt-whether these treaties have any bearing on the proposal, but. even so the Imperial Government has an un- doubted right to alter the fiscal arrange- ments with foreign nations which ap pear obsolete and inexpedient. Imme- diate enforcement of the new tariff with the Parliamentary rules passed subject I to statutory sanction afterwards is in- aecordanec with the established rule of the House of Commons. We cannot. believe that the old fol- lowers~of Sir John Macdonald will on merely a partisan ground endeavor to obstruct the adoption of this plan for closer union with Great Britain. They should rather welcome the conversion of a Government to their ideas. No doubt it is unpleasant to politicians to see a policy that. they claim very prop- erly as their own suddenly made effect- ive by their rivals. We trust that when the momentary chagrin is forgotten found Briggs' much plumper, and then be counted: the seeds, and' after count-~ It. is unfair to attempt to dis-~ the purchase and paid half the price, Mr. Ellis discovered that the last. time the Dawn was inspected she had only been passed as a tug. and not as a pas- senger boat; but. Mr. Purser, her late owner, explained that, as he did not want to carry passengers, he only got her passed as a tug, which is cheaper.» At two previous inspections she was charv tered to carry forty passengers, the charter is to be revived at Mr. Purser's expense, and Mr. Ellis will then take possession and bring her t0‘ti10 Falls. The Dawn is about fifty feet in length (a little longer than the Empire) and, being only seven years old, is in first‘ class condition. She will be the only steamer run above the locks except one or two punts-or snows driven by small engines and owned at Coboconk. Mr. Ellis tells us that she will be kept busy nearly. all thetime‘ towing logs to his own mill, but. may be spared occasional- ly for excursion parties. He has been asked to run-her between Coboconk and Lindsay, but. she is hardly fast enough for such a long trip and through four locks in a. day, as her maximum speed is not much more than nine miles per hour: 85m» Terrible Floods. The Mississippi in the States and illC‘ Red River in the Northwest are over-- fltnving their banks on account ‘of the sudden melting of the snow that accu- mulated during the past winter, and terrible floods are the result. Axrcport from Winnipeg says that two men who- went from that city to Emerson paddled all through the town in their canoe, many of the houses having only their caves above water, while in those most' favorably situated the occupants were living in the second stories. From the Northern elevator, which is a hundred feet high, the scene was most'appalling, the country being under water as far as the eye-could reach in every direction,- with the exception ofa few ridges upon which the cattle had taken rcfuee, and where they were supplied with fodder taken to them in boats. Oil some parts of the N. P. railway cars on the track were up to the middle of their doors in water, which actually covered telegraph poles planted in gullies along the line. The worst state ofalfairs is between St“ Nebert and Mori'is, where the Red River widens into a vast sea,- aud at the last named place water is standing in the houses from two to ten feet deep. Many cattle were to be seen perched on straw stacks and manure piles, and the steamer Assiniboinc, which left Winni- peg on Thursday of last week to assist the settlers, passed floating sidewalks, portions of brdiges and household ef- fects, showing that the deeds had done e-greatldeal of'daniage, though as yet: no loss of live stock has been reportcdi Personals."- Mr. Clare McArthur returned home= last Friday, after spending nearly a year in the business college at Bellevillc. Mrs. Dr. Wilson: returned on Tues- day from-a'ten day’s visit to Mrs. W. 8. Scott at Toronto. Mr. A. Clark Sr. left last- Friday to visit his son Neil' at Cannington and came home on Monday. Mr. A. Clark Jr. left onMonday for Kinmount, l-Ialiburton and Mindcn, and returned by yesterday’s train with a. satisfactory number of orders for spring and summer clothing. MissMinnic Dougherty of Guelph is. atthe residence of her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Fountain, at the Frills, under the treatw ment of Dr. Wilson for a somewhat serious affection of the nerves. Mr. James Dickson left. on Thursday morning' to survey several townships about 150 miles north-west. of Winni- peg, and will probably be away from home about three months. Powles’s Corner. (Correspondence 0)’ (he Gazelle.) This week. we are glad to be able to , say thatdiphtheria is on the wane in there will be no desire to prolong carp- l this locality. Since last. writing it lies ing criticism or carry out the threats of] claimed another victim, Mr. Jeffrey’s strongly Opp0>lnLY the new tariff, which l little daughter Ada, Mr. and Mrs. is the most. striking step as yet made Jeffrey and Mr. O. Glaspcll have the towards commercial union between the? sympathy of the whole community in mother country and the colonies. Ofl their sad bereavement. no little significance is the fact that. it 1 The weather has been so unfavorable is by the first French-Canadian states ' that scarcely any seeding has been done man, the Liberal and Catholic i’rlme , yet, but today (Wednesday) it. is mod- )linister of the Dominion, that. it has" crating, i been brought. about. l School has been elm-ed hero on ac< If Other British colonies shall follow 7 count of diphtheria being in the section. suit and the day comes that free trade it. may Open on the 3rd of May, or per- exists from one frontier of the empire 3 hope not until the 10th. to the other. it will be mutual satisfncq There was no service or Sunday tion to recall the circumstances of the School in the church here last. Sunday. firststepiu the initiation of that policy." 1 Mr, Charles Edwards of Echelon»