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We" ’ -v .... . s... * gnaw. 1‘? hi To enable me to give the cry Best . to my customers I have bought largely from the manufacturers the very best quality of . . . . Cook and Heating Stoves, Axes and Axe Handles, Cross-cut Saws, Rope Ties, Cow Chains. In these lines everything is a bargain, and 111 some liqu ‘35 per cent, cheaper than any other years. The only genuine COLD BLAST LANTERN kept. IF YOU HAVE TEN CENTS to ten dollars to lay out it will pay you to come and get my once... J 1. FOR STYLE AND ECONOMY COMSNED - Go to Wm. Campbell, who has. the largest, best assorted, most stylish and cheapest stock of MELLINERV in towni Come early and see THE PLUMS. Our Opening takes place every day. nm em nouns nuts. The undersigned beg to announce to their numerous customers and the public generally that their pew lloller Flour Mill is now completed, and grinding night and dav. The machinery throughout is of the most modern pattern, and the quality of the output second to none iii Ontario. Special attention giv‘cn to gristing : ud chopping. We pay Lindsay prices for wheat and coarse 21‘ nine. of which we want an unlimited quantity. llides dud skins, Furs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, etc., bought and sold. Agents for the Canada Carriage Company. Parties buying Flour or Feed in quantitieswould do well to write us for quotations before purchasmo'. McDongnll, Brandon 81 Austin. oéooooooo' . ....--_. FARMERS WANTING Ensilage Gutters With Roller Bearings, Root Cutters and. Pulpers With Roller Bearings, Flows, Gang Flows and. Earrows, would do well to 'call at Thus. Robson’s, Fenelon Falls, as he has a. large assortment to choose from at low prlces. The Fenelon Falls Gazette.” ' Friday, October 15th,1897. A Just Principle. Nothing we ever saw in the editorial columns of the Globe gave us more pleasure than a recent article annouu cing that the Postmaster-General, in letting a small contract. for mail~bags, has inserted a proviso to the effect that the work shall be done in the contract- or's own factory, that the men employed thereon shall be paid the current wages, and that there shall be no transfer of contracts or sub-letting without the written consent of the Postmaster-Gen- eral. In an article entitled “Cheap and Nasty Clothing "â€"written. many years ago, but which we happened to read quite recentlyâ€"Charles Kingsley drew a vivid picture of the “ sweating system” in the tailoring trade, by which. the wretched artisans were compelled to work at, literally, starva- tion wages, while fortunes were made by sub-contractors who knew no more about tailoring than they did about trigonometry ;~ and it was declared that the system was the outcome of the British Government’s practice of letting contracts for army and navy clothing at the very lowest bids. that could be obtained. Since then the sweating sys- tem has been to some extent modified, if not abolished, in England {legisla- fi tion against it has been passed in the United States; and we are delighted-to learn that if it obtain a footing in this fair Dominion it will not be the fault of the present Government, for the Globe tells us that the example set in the Post office department is to be followed in all the Others. Our sympathy is always with the “under dog in a fight,” and in the battle between capital and labor the latter is almost invariably the underdog. It is all very well, in theory, to talk about free competition and the law of supply and demand, as the Brit- ish Government did when expostulatcrl with by the oppressed tailors ;~ but it is uotjree competition when working men are reduced to the alternatives of ac- cepting the wages offered them or dying of starvation. The recognition of the just principle that for a. fair day’s work a man should receivn a fair day’s pay will greatly add to the already great popularity of the Dominion Govern- ment. and a strict adherence to the. principle will, as the Globe says. make Canada “ a. workinzmnn’s country," and bring desirable immiurnnts to our shores. What we want here is a wel'. fed, well clad, well housed, happy, and, consequently. Contented, populationâ€" not a few milii'maires, made so by legally, but no less immorally. appro- priating the earnings of the masses. The Whitney bloating. The Conservative meeting in which 311'. James P. Whitney. leader of the Opposition in the Legislative As_~‘eu)bly, spoke on behalf of Mr. Carnegie, wits held. according to announcomcnt. ID the skating rink. Fenelon Falls, last Tuesday evening. and our prediction in last week's G-lchle that. while it. might amuse the Conservatives it would not hurt the Grits. was fully verified. Mr. H. J. Lytle, President of the East. Vic- o toria Conservative Association, ofiiciated l as chairman, and the following gentlc- ‘ .men spoke in the order in which they are named : John Fell. F. D. Moore, Samuel J. Fox, Col. Kindly-Bounce. Them Hughes, J. H. Carnegie and at once to the Khyber Pass, and Hughes might relieve Blood and the rest of them out there of duties which they must. have begun to find irksome. We can see him already, divested of the heavy overconts and fur mits which James P. Whitney. each of the first hampered him so cruelly in his last en~ three speaking for only a few minutes. ‘ We must congratulate Bro. Hughes up- on tbc benefit he has derived from his visit to the old country. where the peo- ple of birth and breeding with whom he was permitted to associate, and whom he is evidently trying to imitate, are entirtly free from the brag, bluster, at- tidudinising and desire to show off which have hitherto been the gallant colon‘el’s most marked characteristics, and of which, we are pleased to see. he now appears to be trying to break him- self. Mr. Whitney is an easy and ex- cellent speaker, with a pleasant voice that could be easily heard all over the rink, and his speech was, of cour‘s’e. the. speech of the evening; but what did all he said amount to ? It was simply ab- surd for him to tell his hearers that when the Reformers came into power. well nigh a quarter of a century ago, the affairs of the province were in such a position that any ignorant man could have managed them successfully, but that Premier Mowat and his able col- leagues were not equal to the task. It. was absurd to tell them that the Pro- vince was reduced to such financial straits that the Government had either .to “discover something new to tax, to resort to direct taxation, or to repudiate its liabilities.” It was absurd to tell them that by the sale of the people’s patrimony, the crown lands, millions of dollars had been raised and had utterly disappeared. Mr. Whitney’s mission, at present, is to do the Hardy Govern mentall the harm he possibly can by magnifying molchills into mountains. at which work he shows some little in- genuity; but he said nothing that can- not be answered. aud, some time before the coming election. thoroughly posted Reform speakers will expose the. fallacy of many of his statements and the gross exaggeration of others. There never was yet. and never will be, a Govern- ment some of whose acts were not open to criticism; but the Reform Govern- ment of Ontario has never been charged | by its most bitter and unscrupulous op- ponents with a hundredth part of the ill-doing that has been proved against the Conservative Government at Ottawa. The meeting closed with three cheers for the Queen, three for Mr. Whitney and three for Mr. Carnegie. There was a fair attendance, 0. large percentage of the audience beingladics; but the points made by the speakers were so few that the applause was both faint and infre- queut. General Lord Hughes. Under the above heading the Teronto Star thus pokes fun at the distinguiéh- ed M. P. for North Victoria. : “Sam flughcs’ elevation to the com- mand of the 45th Victoria Midlmd Regiment has been signalized by the offer of the scrvicesof the corps “ in any part of the globe.” In his despatch to the Minister of Militiaâ€"4t. is surely big enough to be called a “ despatch ”â€"tlio gallant col- onel declares that he has in view the object of assisting to uphold the British Empire .and to strengthen the bonds uniting the motherland and the colonies. And he expresses “ full confidence that none would more loyally uphold the honor of Great Britain, or bear them-' selves more bravely in the hour of dan- ger than the young: men from the Vic- toria Midland'district ot Canada." In conclusion, he craves “ authority to in- crease the establishment of the corps to 1,200 men.” The eye of the every-day mind will find it hard to take in the encircling vastness of the prospect. hereby opened up. Such an offer once made is as good as accepted. the more so as “ Bobs” and the rest of them know Sam Hughes not in story alone -ns they know the illus- trious Bill Adamsâ€"but have met him face to face, have marked his noble front, and have touched stirrups with him in the Jubilee procession. One can hear them say: “ If llughes is willing to offer him- selfa bleeding sacrifice on the altar of his country; if he is Willing to fore-:0 his brilliant chances of advancement to l the incoming Comervative Government ' in Canada; it he is willing to lay aside . his trenchant pen and take up the less : trenchant savor-d, if he is willing to al low the Birrs to resume thcjob oi" boss- , in; Lindsay, if he is willing to come ‘ i away and give Johnnie Brrron a chance. to get back into Canadian public life; , if he is willing to do all this; we can do nothing but subm-beg pardonâ€"we 1 can do nothing but welcome him to our midst.” ' Wolseley would not object. He's getting old at. the game, anyway. Rob- erts might hold the place for a year or two, while Hughes was getting his band in. hasten-off, the 45th might go ganemeut in the savage fastuesscs of Lindsay's-we can see him charging an army of Orakzais or Afridis, while. at every step he takes, a rebel bullet opens up an old lacrosse wound in his hand- some forehead. And behind him thun- ders the 45th, who “ Were. at llatoche. And fit at Fish Creek. too, beget-h l." Thepicture is inspiring. Let the movement go on. But surely. surely, there is no need to increase the strength of the regiment. With such a Colonel, what's the good of a regiment ?” There is an ambiguity about the Slur‘s concluding question that we do not like. Is it intended to insinuate that Col. Hughes would be such a host in himself as to render a regiment un- necessary? Or that, with him for its colonel, no regiment would be of any use ? There is one thing certain, and that is that Sam would rather not go to Khyber Pass. It sounds too. much like Kylie, you know. Binder Twine. The following remarks, which exactly: express our sentiments, are from last. week's Whitby Chronicle :â€" “ The binder twine factory and other works were destroyed by fire in the cen- tral prison on Monday. and. though thousands of people will be glad of it, few will come out squarely and say so. The manufacturing of binder twine has been entirely relegated to prisons. and' in the course ofa few years the living of thousands of families will he thus taken away. It is not in most cases considered that prison labor should come in contact with honest workmen, but wherever the farmer is supposed to gain by it any outrage or skiullint. pol-t icy is allowed to go. Convicts can cer- tainly turn out cheaper binder twine than can honest men; but it is equally family is cut out of its living by convict labor the farmer finds one less family to supply from his product, and the de- mand and prices of his product will be that. much less. Many farmers are short-sighted in this matter, and the politicians take away the bread of the honest artizan to secure the support of" such small souled and narrow agriculm We do not believe there is a. worthy farmer in the country who would turists. wish to gain a few dollars yearly by robbing honest mechanics, even ifdoing so did but injure the prospects of sclln ing his produce. It is to be hoped that such an agitation will be set up now as will prevent-the erection of‘ the binder twine factory at the central prison. and will also cause a like establishment to- bc removed from the Kingston and“. other pcniteutiarics." been received by Mrs. E. l‘l.‘ Sharpe, the Victoria County President of the W. C. 'l‘. U. :. Moneton. N. B., Oct. 2nd, 1897.'. w Dear Sister: Will you see that every person from your locality attending Dominion and World's Convention in Toronto, October 20th to 27th, deleâ€" gates or visitors. male or female, buys a regular single fare ticket to Toronto, asking ticket agent at same time for standard certificate, which must be given to Dominion Corresponding Sec- retary at Convention to sign. This will entitle holder to free return pro- 'vided 300 holding.r such certificates attend ;- if less, a one-third fare will be required. Ell'llCSt date of issue of cer- tificates, October lfithâ€"«honorcd until November 9th. 'l'ickctd good for con- tinuous passage only. Thix means much for those at a distance, as only certifi- cate holders count. EMMA ll. A'rmvson, Cor. Sec. Dominion W. U. T. U. World’s W. U. T. U. Convention.. The following communication has. Village Council. I’cnelon Folk. October llth. 1897. Council met at regular mun-tine. all the members- present except .\lr. Hey- man. Minutes of prrvinus meeting read and :qiproVevl. Moved by Mr. .lchwown. H"CDDdC!I by Mr. Martin, 'l‘li-o the following ac- counts be piid and the rwve give his orders for th-e s'um: : .‘lr Wessels, work on street. 88.15; L. ll. Quiz; work on : sidewalks. 33 50: Jos Carpenter, work on sidewalks, .2; J. .‘IcOillvroy. as- sisting to repair fire engine. 500.; S. = Nevison, salary tidatc, 829â€"horsc and rig to convey Sarah Ann Itilcy to Long Point. 81--â€"â€"two meals for same, 30c; W. Fountain, work on sidewalks, 81.35; G. Gatcboll. recline hose. 20c; J. In:- ram, work on sidewalk and reeling hose, true that‘cvm'y time an honest man's. f?