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55‘ suffices to shatter it. A favorite but simple trick is the shooting from some distance at an orange held in a lady’s hand. Great applause is invariably forthcoming when the bullet drops out on her cut- ting open the fruit. It is inserted by hand earlier in the evening. ? Another popular trick is that of a snufiing out lighted candles. Half a dozen are placed in iront of a screen in which as many small holes are bored, one against each candlewick. it the moment of firing a confederate behind the screen sharply blows out each candle with a pair of bellows. This trick was accidentally exposed one evening by a too zealous assist- used, the confederate manipulating the spring simultaneously with the firingoitherifle. Astheball i501 extremely thin glass a mere touch and stuck together with an adhesive substance, and a thread with a knot at the end, pulled through it from the “wings,” so that it flies to bits when the gun is fired, is “how it is done.” is pushed by his tongue through a hollowed passage in the cigar-thus thrusting off the ash at the moment of firing. ant. The lady in the gallery pull- ed the trigger, but it failed to go off; the candle, however, went out just the same. In most instances where a ball or other object has to be broken on a living person’s head blank cartridge is used and the effect produced by other means, as so naively admitted by Mr. Grawdon. A special wig with a spring concealed in 'it worked by a wire under the clothes is generally ing a bullet is obvious. None, of course, is needed, the explosion is enough. The apple is already pre- pared, having been cut into pieces Generally the more dangerous a feat appears the more carefully is all danger guarded against. In the “Wil- liam Tell” act the thread if often tied to the assistant’s foot. When, again, the ash is shot off a cigar which the assistant is smoking a piece of wire When a champion rifle shot fires blindfolded at a wedding ring or a penny held between his w1fe’s thumb and finger ,or seated back to her shoots, by means of a mirror, at an apple upon her head or on a, fork held in her teeth ,the danger of .us- THE WILLIAM TELL ACT, SNUF- FING OUT A CANDLE AND DUMMY BULLET SHOOTING FEATS. Thrilling Shooting Often Simple Tricks hugsâ€"ninth you asceriain ivhat I do for you. P. J. BREEN, ‘Music Hath Charms ’ When the instrument used is a Hointzman Piano or a Karn Organ Graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and Honor Graduate of Toronto University. All modern imorovements conducive to good work wnth minimum amount of discomfort. Office over Canadian Bank of Com merce, corner Kent and William-sts. Entrance on Wil-Iam-si Phone 272.â€" The Point to Ponder DR. H. and settle right now is, “Where shall I buy my Winter Suit or Overcoat ?” Do you want a superb fit, style be- yond criticism, work that will stand the test, weaves the bait in the old land P Then come to me. We sell OVERCOATS, made to mea- sure in any style, beautifully trim- fixed, from $17 to $30. We sell SUITS from $17 up. Don’t buy till you see what we can do for you. LOU WIGKETT, 21 William=st., Lindsay, near Call at Simpson House, Lindsay. or write Lindsay P. 0. PAGE TWO Also agent for MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, WIL- LIAMS SEWING MACHINES Don’t purchase anything in ab01 Canada’s High-grade Commercial School was founded in the Electric City one quarter century ago, Great demand for our graduates as Bus- iness College Teachers, Private Sec- retaries. Office Assistants. etc. The embodiment of the most Expert Modern System known in Business Scie‘ lce. We invite comparison. Three Departments. Manned by skil- led instructnrs, Commercial Sten- Va-wr--J _,,Vv Out of town st:ud-ent.s get free ticket. to city Y.M.(7.A., T.A.S. or Y. \V.C'A. W'rite for particulars. WINTER TERM OPENS JAN. 4th sassy; *Tenegmpn‘y. Peterbaro Business Collegs GEO. SPOTTON, Principal Merchant Tailor. N ESBITT, L.D.S., D.D.S., Total .. .. 217154 These cases were disposed of ~as follows: Committed to gaol .. .. .. 7 Dismissed. . .. 9 Suspended sentence ............ 8 Fined with option of going to 39.01 H Absconded .................... l Committed to Central Prison 3 Withdrawn. . . . 6 Delivered over ”to Children’s Aid:: 1 Dismissed ...................... 21 Dismissed on paying costs .. .. .. 6 Adjourned .................... 2 Committed to Industrial School” 2 Committed for trial ..... Eerease from 1907 inCases Before Police Magistrate Drunk and swearing.. Non-payment dog tax Abusive language Drunk and disorderly Breach Liquor License To the Police Commissioners of the Town of Lindsay: Gentlemen,â€"I have the honor to submit my annual report upon the Police Department for 1908, together with statistical information for the same period, for the consideration of your honorable body. There has been a decrease of sixty-three cases brought’ before the Police Magistrate 1M "11...... WV“ w v-v-_--e, brought' before the Police Magistrate as compared with the year 1907. The total number of cases dealt with was 154, as against 217 in 1907. There have been very few tramps seeking shelter and food, and only three vag- rants committed to gaol. Offences. ANNUAL REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICEâ€"RECOMMENDS ADDITION- AL CONSTABLEâ€"TEN VAGRANTS HEREâ€"RECOMMENDA- TIONS TO COUNCIL M ET WITH NO RESPONSE. Assaults . . . . Total ...................... 154 Amount of fines and penalties im- ........ .. 9 Th ice ............ 8 proo: 1 of going to gaol t4 Gan; ............... l lict ntral Prison 3 he is .. .. .. 6 of h ‘ Children’s Aid.. 1 ings ................ 21 ever ing costs .. .. .. 6 tions ......... 2 he v Ldustrial School. . 2 Th ial ............ 4 Wed ’07 ’08 Inc Dec 18 20 2 - 13 .38510 The' hard-headed farmer sought proof and found it. Undoubtedly Mr. Gough will keep faith with the pub- lic this time, as he has in the past; he is desirous of turning a large block of his stock of clothing and furnish- ings into ready money, and will sell everything at the substantial reduc- tions advertised. What he promises he will perform to the letter. “All sales are not true to newspa- per announcement,’ remarked a Mariposa farmer last Saturdayâ€"then he added, “but I believe Gough puts up the real thing. I’ve just bought a suit of‘clothes for $10 which I priced two weeks ago at $14, so I know his Manufacturer’s Outlet Sale means business. I’m going to send my three boys in next week.” The severe cold spell which set in Wednesday, the opening day of the big sale, kept the couptry people from attending in numbers, yet the large stafi was kept fairly busy attending to' the wants of town customers. To- day, with a milder temperature, buy- ers from a distance thronged the big store all day, and parcels went out in a steady stream. In many quar- ters of the country where the mail A 10531 man goes further and says that marriage is the judgment that follows a. trial in which there is con- Judges, and that the sentences are seldom as heevy u therculprits de- service is not good the firm’s an- nouncements are oil-y now reaching the people, who. will flock in next week to take advantage of the big re- ductions. The sale promises to be a record-breaker. SUCH LOW PRICES. WERE NEVER BEFORE HELD OUT AS IN- DUCEMENTS TO BUY. Gough’s Large Sale Attracting the Crowds All of which is respectfully sub- mittedâ€"Your obedient servant, RALPH C. VINCENT, Chief Constable. The press of Lindsay has been most helpful in giving publicity to the var- ious by-laws, and I would take this opportuninty of thanking the news- papers for their assistance. The number of petty thefts which have been committed in various parts of the town of late, particularly at night, brings the question of an in- crease of the police force prominent- ly before the attention of your hon- orable body. Personally, I Ibelive the time is ripe for an extra man to be added to the force. It takes all the night constable’s attention to look after Kent-st., and when he is doing this the other parts of the town are at the mercy of chicken thieves and night prowlers. While crime is not on the increase in Lindsay, and while the two men on the force at present are endeavoring to cope with all cas- es, I feel that we cannot cover the whole town with the same degree of success as would mark the efiorts of three reliable men. The Toronto News remarks edito- ially: “The misanthrope says that rial marriages are nothing new, as narriage is always a. trial.” of vicious dogs infesting the streets. These complaints have been careful- 1y looked into, and the animals in question have either been destroyed or removed from town. I have vigorously enforced the va- grancy act, and very few beggars have visited the town, those coming under my notice having been sent to gaol. I regret to say that during the past year very few (if any) of my recommendations made to the town Council have met with any response from that body. Of course, I refer to the need of an oflice, prisoner’s dock and telephone. The town is too im- portant a centre to be without these necessities. They are urgent and should be secured in the interests of justice and the enforcement of the law. Livery licenses collected.. . Pedlars’ licenses (balance) - collected ................. Billiard licenses collected . . . Exhibition licenses collected. Plumbers’ licenses collected. Booth fees, collected ....... During the past year visits have been made by the police to the var- ious pool-rooms with the view of pre- venting boys of tender years from frequenting them, and notices have been left with the proprietors to the same efiect, and, as far as I can see, the law is being respected. Nine cases were brought before the magistrate under the Liquor Li- cense Act by the local inspector. Many complaints {lave been received Lindsay, Jan. lst, 1909. MARRIAGE, A TRIAL. $2017 03 At Wilmington, Dela... an entirely new- musical invention is operated in connection with the telephone system from a central station. The company has an instrument similu to a talk- ing machine in the centnl office, and at the stations where the service is taken are the horns like the regular talking machine horn. with s receiv- Sunday. The instrurnentaecnbegetion. wastogivethembocriberthebeno- "W fit of the whoIe programme or can be 48; shutoflbyhimntmytimc. was; Thecompcnyintendltouketheino hoe; nation into the cities «menu ria- In a short time the memy ex- pectstotakeorders fortheinm ments and place them in homes. When this is done the people him!!! the instruments will pt! 3 Wm.“ er attgched. The music is made :2. the central station, and is carried ov- Jan. 5th. The outfit was last heard of in Peterboro on the same day. The horse is a red roan mare with large white face, both hind and one front feet white, white spot on left side under belly, dark mane and tail, and about 1,050 lbs. in weight. The cutter was a black one with green lines. 1he man suspected of being the thief is English, about 20, smooth faced, and about 5 feet 2 inches, and speaks With broad accent. er the regular telephone wires to the other end, where the music is repro- duced the same as the music coming rate of rent for them at! have the benefitof music fromBnntil 12pm. eachdayand homQtoll 0,511.01: Chief Vincent has received notice from Hastings that a horse and cut- ter was stolen from that village 1 n THE WEEKLY FREE HORSE AND CUTTER STOLEN FROM HASTINGS. There would be no use in trying to capture the animals instead of lull- ing them, because they are utterly worthless. They are scrubby little beasts, weighing from five hundred to eight hundred poundsâ€"a sort of mon- grel breed, such as inevitably results from the propagation of horses under natural conditions without control of The most successful method adopt- ed thus far has been to drive bands of the animais into canyons, and then set traps for them with portable corals Such a trap consists of an inclosure solidly built of tall posts. from which wings of wire net. about eight feet high are extended for miles. It is a simple matter under such (‘i'cm- stances to drive the wild horses into the corral, and there to shoot them to death. They are so terrified by cap- ture that often they kill themselves by dashing against the walls oi the prison pen. The dificulty of the problem will be realized to some extent when it is understood that the natural increase of the number of horses mentioned would be from five thousand to six thousand in a year. They are abso- lutely wild, and have to be hunted much in the same way as antelopes, being not less diflicult to approach. To try and run them down, even With the fastest horses, has been found im- practicableL the most experienced rough-riders and marksmen havmz been vainly employed in this kind cf work. .A Plague of Wild Horses Exists in Nevada State A Dollar a.Horse. The country is most admirably ad- apted for horse raising, and the peo- ple out there are anxious to develop the business; but it is practically out of the question to engage profitably in this sort of enterprise while the re- gion is infested by numerous roving bands of equine outlaws. Every sort of expedient has been tried for des- troying them, and at the present time ranch owners are paying the 111de a dollar for every wild horse they can kill Nevertheless. the animals are raher increasing in numbers than otherwise Whoever heard of a plague of hor- ses? Such a thing seems an absurd- ity, scarcely creditable. Yet at the present time a very serious amiction of the kind is disturbing the comfort and welfare of peOple out inA Nevada, and to some extent in neighboring state 5, the mischief being so alarm- ing that appeals are being made to the Government for aid. The situation is particularly bad in the scocalled Toyabie forest, which embraces an area of about one hun- dred miles square in Nye and Lander counties. Nevada. This is a reserva- tion set aside some time ago as a na- tional forest, and of course is under the administrative control of the U.S. Forest Service. Within its limits. as would appear, there are fifteen thou- sand or twenty thousand wild horses â€"beasts of no value whatever. who not only devour the herbage. but en- tice away many domestic horses that are 200d and useful HORSES THAT CANNOT BE TAMED HAVE BOUNTY un HEADSâ€"OVER-RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND KILLING HORSBRMSINGâ€"HORSES BY THE HUNDREDS ONLY MUSIC BY WIRE IN HOMES. Driven into Corals. a- the bene- "Why shouldn’t I and him P a or can be 413’: nought but a Mantel“: and it us. was s Monuitb thnt betrayed Wd- hketheino hoe.” Jwttrifleofniewoentn- «noun riubnttheenmityotthedq- of incomplet- Bdrudlisndentirelylupflanln ‘ theduuolndwud VII. WORTH TH EIR HIDES. 8E TAMED HAVE BOUNTY tit. He avvdu A vnâ€"VVW , One reason for its disinclination is that news of the wholesale destruc- tion of wild horses in Nevada would be sure to stir up a great deal of disapproval .in the east. Such disap- proval might be due to misconception of the facts; but it would be none the less likely to injure the Forest Ser- vice. tha‘ inedinfinehintdriciuh- Animal Outlaws. repent. however. hen the horse is the aid 0‘ am. it develops into we so much ad- . trottel'. the Per- night .md are not first the light was n it wu thought tint got oollyvoba in it. mbntflndlyitm ELECTRIC LIGHT! II BOBCAY. 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Novifyounfl'ufiunthb wfibly painful fitment jutbegnided by the foregoing an! Donftdohy! Don’tmshdmconthingsntdtobe“jutugooc_" c,fl PM‘ ’with the old crown in; monthly. and i they will give suflic the" “slit. Mr. Wesley Dunn charge of the removal. a . mm. mpuu'wvtd 1318M mau em 3 I i ‘ very good job under all on- W. The new wheels fitted work' THURSDAY. JANUARY 6WD wheels are md it i8 ho auficient Power firs wmked 'red by tht 'red. Tu “mu: bylaw the n ploy mvu',~ ini boys" lflhul‘ 1' the firm >11“ 5 for mvn in 5 25,466 'J‘i-h 3-53.. O\'¢‘r rmll 5 0f nu-n'.~ 1; boys’ lalml‘. the mam: ‘ than doulm :11 Geo. (‘omu ‘ tment as ins; ,asking for sun ‘ cil to that pa; ht that at La ‘ for the Work. 111 Thoma> (R. in the (‘tuu n . try Show on .14 J rred to tln- = ‘ dealt with ”1 number of Nd and refo- In “I consideration Report of the C? ”The report of Ihv c wved and road :15 2 the Polk-e (l'tiiJl W Town of Lilmm)‘ ntlemen zâ€"H‘ 'I'«'V my report u! I! for {110 mull he varous This stun an “‘cl‘c: Ll tom the 1 ioners for matter: appeah a pad. From the ¢ Won rclmh' ip. From J. L. curing IN“ a COM :10! the war u nt busim'sa, present, being me, the reading ,minutes Of {hr 5 communicatimw rderly and sw ncy. 1; IN] cases WNW s: Fined with 3; dismissed. 1 u’s pxpim with all 1 1e were eight police magi Be of fifteen hes and pvunltim taxes collected. he collected, $3 fled, $5.00; b: p collected, $2! L $142.70. [6! which is m fitted for trial, bunt. of penalu' 01n- obedient ' RALPH ( Slah‘l Better Than 7. Jan. 151, 1 Met Clef-l W of Mr. L was meet I fees for th I to 877.55 3 the total on of Chie ‘gn which * made that had a mom! ha of In List of O‘ Communi Comm II’CMI JAN 1115p! I. I! ”HI