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E”uunh- loudly the praises of their country ever since. But whero is Now Ontariot ‘To many no doubt its exact boundaries are not known. By referâ€" ence to a small map just goiten out by the Manitoulin and North Shore R‘y Co. we find the dividing line to run ‘naross from Georgian Bay to* the Ottawa River way of Lake Nipissâ€" ng. ‘The older and newer portions ' wre in different colors thus indicating | at a glange the immensity of our newly } @iscovered possessions. . Old Ontario| 4s estimated to contain 27,000,000 meres; New Ontario 113,000,000 acres, or over four times as much as the former. The latter extends north to James Bay and west to Manitoba. It 48 a country full of potential wealth. Pine and spruce cover the land. The latter is an extremely valuable asset, in view of the world‘s large palp and paper needs. Once cleared of timber there are <ast areas of good farming land while the mineral wealth can wnly be conjectured. Sault Ste. Marie Béems distined to be the centre and eapital of this promising country, and one of the large cities of the continent. Clergue is the good genius of the 8oo. He is an industrial wizard and his "work is only begun. The Manitoulin @nd North Shore R‘y, now being agitâ€" _uted ° would run ‘ from the Bruce peninsula across Manitoulin Island direct to the Soo making ferry wrossings and would provide the most direct route possible from Western ‘Ontario to the heart of the new Tegion. It would reduce the distance for the traveller from Berlin to Sault Ste. Marie from 384 miles to 214 miles. Old Ontario and New Ontario cannot get into too close touch with each other for the benefit of both. _ North Bruce had a day off on Wednesday. In other words it was a Halliday. ‘The path of the Roblin Government is not strewn with roses. Their rail« way deal is not considered a good one by business men, and now they have been caught bringing down false reâ€" turns. The House made an order for & return showing the names of all emâ€" ployees of the Government whose appointments have been rescinded sitice January 7, 1900, and the names of all officials appointed by the Governâ€" ment since that date. The return brought down by the Government conâ€" tained the names of thirty cight disâ€" missals and fiftyâ€"two appointments. ‘The public will be interested and the MHouse will no doudt be shocked to learn that so far from having complied with the order of the House, there is official record of 108 dismissals since January 7, 1900, beginning on the 22nd of that month, and the number of appointments is much larger. Of this number of 108 dismissals the 60 game guardians are not included, neither are 441 Justices of the Peace. ‘The Manitoba Tories have accepted with a vengeance the motto"To the vic tors belong the spoils. Success of Benjamin Bock, a Waterloo 2 County Pioneer, Benjamin Bock is the son of the late Jacob Bock who came from Pennsy]â€" vania to Canada in 1809 and establishâ€" wd on the bank of the Grand River near Freeport the first pottery in the County. He then moved on a farm mnear Centreville now known as the ©"Rby" farm where he lived about eighteen years when he moved to Wilâ€" mot, one mile west of New Dundee Wwhere he bought and cleared the farm now known as the "Bergey" farm where he resided until his death in 1885 at the ripe old age of 76 years. hese are the days when we hear h of New Ontario. ‘The Provincial erament has made the develop» =_u part of the province a part of their policy, and ‘afew days ago an enthusiastic IN MANITOULIN ISLAND NEW ONTARIO. EDITORIAL NOTES Hiv: wieiio t the Hreron £xponier written a letter to the in which he deals ably with the transâ€" priiiiinarce is saice tes igored ts in rates has %fib country. Space does not of the reproduction of Mr. Pringle‘s exâ€" cellent article in full but we have selâ€" ected such portions as give the meat of his T-nt as follows: "It is 41 years since I mnm buying in Seaforth, and don‘t tate to assert that the building of the Arst elevator in Goderich and the building of the Ogilvie mills have not only been a curse to the grand old eounty : of Huron but have proved to be a ourse to this province and to the whole Domâ€" inion. The elevator then as nOW, monopolized all the empty Car8 in the fall when they are wanted for home useâ€"shippers had then to wait for weeks and months until navigation closed before getting cars, just a8 shipâ€" pers have had to do ever since. The Ogilvie firm, under the old railâ€" way management, got cut rates of from two and a half to fifteen cents to Monâ€" treal and the lower provinces under other millers. Besides they enjoyed the privilege of overlo-‘ding.n N{nhu: yBV PACCSRT C sc known cars to be billed at 6,000 and 8,000 pounds less than they contained. Such advantages made it im possible for other millers to live alongside such a firm, which is the reason they beâ€" eame so wealthy, and why other millâ€" ers have become so_poor. Discrimination in rates, the building of elevators, the want of prompt car service, and favoritism have had the effect of robbing this province of her wealth. Forinstance, take the town of Goderich, where over three quarter million dollars have been sunk in the railway, in the barbor, in flour mills, salt wells and elevatorsâ€"it is very doubtful if the town is as wéalthy as it was thirty years ago. Again, like old Ontaria the garden of this Dominion, after taking the cost of building imâ€" provement, there is no‘!a 120 acre farm I S o groocdter.d. tn walua PE USIENAIOE NOA isA in . that has not depreciated in va.lue‘ $1,000 to $3,000 during the last 20 years. Again take the depreciation in millâ€" ing property. David Goldie, who was one of the wealthiest millers in this province, put up a mill costing $50,000 six years ago, and last sammer the machinery was taken out without ever making a barrel of flour, and the fact that the wealthy Ogilvie Company have sold their Seaforth and Goderich mills at least 80 per cent below cost, ought to be an eye opener both to the counâ€" }try and the Goverpment. . HOW RAILWAY DISCRIMINATION HAS OPERAT _ TO INJURE THE FARMER. Transportation Question. .. t dhisieortiiiret diinins somachae s It is strange bow a firm can lose a large fortune in milling in Ontario and be able to make a much larger one in Manitoba if the business of the country was eondncted on the square, and stranger still that they would sacrifice mills in one place, and, if report is correct, are going to build one of the largest in the Dominion at Fort Wilâ€" liam, if they did not have advantages that nobody knows anything about. It looks as if history were repeating itâ€" 1 f Ned a c9e, BV POoy mR N ied C VE 1 self. I would not be afraid to bet ‘St Lawrence a good round sum that if the Government would do their duty and audit the books of the Lake of the Woods Milling _Qogpmgoand those of the Ogilvie Company, m the time they began business until now, that these firms have had special rates and have had wheat enough carried from their elevators to their mills for nothing in under billed cars, to pay the expnâ€" ses of sending our soldiers to South Africa. â€" The advantages the two firms enjoy is fast giving them the monopoly of the flour trade of the Dominion. Railway officials are not so much superior to other people that they don‘t need watching. Mr Bosworth and St. Lawrence have undertaken to chamâ€" and bas also had the satisfaction of capturing a bear, an experince he would l Nee olsn CA sA Ccap{InUs S CCR C TY L. ha had not care to have repeated as he had a very narrow escape. He and hi« rifle are great chums and make freâ€" quent visite together. Among his reâ€" lies is Squire Bettechen‘s old rifle, now over a hbundred years old which he prizes highly. _ 1e MIo on n e ELEA AY tha Iin_ EME CCC * Mr. Bock was converted at the l'n-‘ ion Cburch, Blenheim in 1859 under the ministry of the Rev. Charles Price. Both he and his wife united with the U. B. (Radical) church of which they are still members. Heis now in his seventioth year and has the promise from his hale and hearty appearance of many inore yoars The Servant Probléfi in Mexieo, "You foreigners," says a Mexican woman quoted by a correspondent of the Boston Transcript, "are so silly with servants. You come here and exâ€" claim, ‘How awfully the Mexicans treat their servants! and then you give them jron beds and mattresses stuffed with wool, where with us they have to lie down to sleep on their straw mats, as is best for them. You think it nice to give them ribbons for their hair and neck, and some of you put the women in corsets and make them wear caps and aprons! This turns the heads of the young women, and they think they are real senoras (lndies) and grow impudent. That is h;: you spoil our servants, who, when t! y got angry with us, talk up londly and eay they will go and live in a foreign family! t* you forelgners are so shortsigh Hoon you will see how there are no more good, loyal, old fash» loned servants! ~You pet a race which A remarkabla voincidence is l";’md from Huntington, W. Va. Mrs Walter Swanson “: birth to triplets. An hour later Howard 8wanson #imâ€" {larly surprised her husband. The -ngmmm.m-dmm twin brothers. ‘They were married at the n-or less than a year from the date of the births of their trip« needs firmness and discipline kindness, not, pampering," mmm of the railways. The talke so much won der he is ashamed to € If the American farmers .r.-; ducers had bad the appointing of our railway managers they could not have been better served. . 8t Lawrence has mmmmmmou.mu- nfltbn-â€"lth American roads that ve a right to complain of: Canadian competition which Wth-m ting up freights, The higher rates are, the better able we are to compete with them both at home and abroad. The Jews of old would have no dealings with the Laurentians, neither would the American Jews have any dealings with Canadiansif they were not making money out â€" of us in getting cut rates from our railWwaysâ€" hence the reason 42,407,100 bushels of wheat and corn have been shipped this last year from Chieago and Duluth to our lake ports, which have all been carried to Montreal and Portland at half and some oneâ€"third the rates charâ€" ged Canadian shippers for & much shorter haul. It stands to reason the export price of grain and the cost of carriage to market deterniines its value to the producer. Such being the case CnnodBn competition on a crop of 4,â€" 000,000 bushels of grain, if it enhances its value of 3 cents, puts $120,000,000 into their pocket, aund they ought to derive as much more from other branâ€" ches of trade. I contend the Hays‘ and Reeves‘ policy has directly and indirâ€" ectly, for the last six years, taken $10, â€" 000,000 yearly out of the pockets of the farmers of this province on our grain erops of 160 bushels yearly. Can St. Lawrence tell us why our wheat crop bas ruled 10 cents under Chicago alâ€" though we are 450 miles nearer the seaboard. The indirect losses are caused by our railways blocking Monâ€" treal and Portland with A merican grain from our lake ports. By the time our erops begin to move both our railways and porte are blockedâ€"shippers have often to wait four and six weeks before being able to get cars. During this time prices have generally gone down and ocean rates have gone up two and three cents; besides the want of care has caused millions of bushels of grain to be carried over until the spring, and fire g;o'ars out of thesix has been sold for l&ss money. How much better it would have been if the $10,000,000 had gone into the pockets of the proâ€" ducers than that $4,000,000 should have gone into the Grand Trunk Railâ€" way, that was foolishly spent in double tracking the road from Port Huron to Chicago to enable them to compote more successfully in that market. _ Chicago is the largest grain market in the world. There is probably ten times more grain bought and sold than is grown in the country. The option business is.looked on as trading in winds, but it is not so. There are firms who handle forty millions of cash grain in one seéason. These are the firms who play Canadiau freightagents for low rates. As profits depend enâ€" tirely on the atount of business done, there is none of these larger firms but would willingly agree to give the agents of the Grand Trunk their yearly trade of forty millions on & paltry cut of t,'!o cents per bushel. There is no trouble in buying a foew millions any day in that market and se.ingâ€"it in New York the same day, and securing the cut. This would give the lucky firm a profit of $300,000, and if at all gengrous they could well aftord to make the agent who gave the cut a present of $50,000 and nobody be any the wiser. “"I"l;‘; fact is ;fiéâ€"JpQSfit in dealing in grain has got so small, and the risk so great, the only safe way is in getting & cut in the rates Seville, Spain, and the country round about is flooded. . ND OF IIF British and Russian Generals DIPLOMATS TO HAVE A CHANCE Leaders in the Lords and Commons Make Statements Confirming the News of the Mutual Withdrawal of the British and Ressiaus Until a ‘ Diplematic Settlement Is Reached, Pekin, March 22.â€"(2 a. m.)â€"Count Von Waldersee, General Barrow and General Wogack, have been in conâ€" sultation and General Wogack . bas azreed to _ withdraw the Russian troops from the disputed ground at Tien Tsin, provided the British also He ifsisted also upon a guarantee that â€" work _ on the railway siding should not proceed until the matter had been diplomatically settled. This disposition _ and stipulation was satisfactory to Gen. Barrow and was accepted by him. . {o s Consequently the British and Rusâ€" sian troops will be withdrawn at 5 o‘clock this morning (Friday), thereâ€" by avoiding all trouble at p:-ut. vithdrew Orders have been issued, however, that no British officer shall leave or even ‘‘sleep out‘" at night or to (o.z dinner . without furnishing his dress to the adjutant. % The â€" marines will return to the ships. Admiral Seymour objects ~to any of the Australian naval brigade, who, voluntsored for service on the railway, remaining. The military authorities _ say he does not underâ€" stand the @ituation, that his interâ€" ference is uncalled for and that the Australian marines are just the men stand the situation, that his infar» Why He Returned, ference is uncalled for and that the| . =p,,, again!* exclaimed the botse Australian marines are just the men wife. "Why, 1 gave you some soup yesâ€" needed . terday |" 'n-mn.nm.nt "Dat‘s all right, lndy," samd the ‘ mient to proceed from Port Arthur to -o-.uummw Tien Tsin. Agree on Terms. Secret Treaty Suspected. FRICTION. A Grateful Woman Tells of Her Release From the Agonies That Her Sex After Three Doctors Had Failâ€" ed to Help Her. o The amount of suffering borne by women throughous the country can :omhu-muu:d mm oplh.l ure frome ::'y:‘miem;:mmm fillhn: W * stor mul.‘:?n:'mmmo!mtcl{u Hoeg, of Southampton, N. 8., ought to g hope and health and happiness m sufferers. Mrs. Hoog â€" «For nine out of the thirty â€"two of my life I have suffered as no woman, unless she bas been similarly afflicted, can I-l*inn I could suffer and yet bave lived. _ Three weeks out of four I would be unable to move about and, indeed, at no time was really fit to Attend to my household duties. I consulted physiâ€" ciansâ€"three of the most skilful doctors lnfl::”om&dcwmda at differâ€" ent my case. These all -gmdm diagnosis, but the treatment varied; and while at times I would experience some relief, ntn:fflmownmro any hope given me permanent cure. Many a night when f went to bed I would have been glad if death had come before morn ing. Inever had much ffaith in proâ€" prictary medicines, but at one time I took a half dozen bottles of a bloodâ€" making compound that was highly reâ€" commended. â€" This like everything else, failed to help me. ‘There seemed to be not a particle of bk?;d in my body. My face was absolfitely colorâ€" A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO THE WEAK AND DEPRESSED. C o ood ts I less, and my appetite almost entirely deserted me. I often saw in the newsâ€" pa%orl letters testifying to the merits of Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, but nine years of suffering and discouragement had made me too sceptical to see .‘:z hope of relief, wheu doctors had fai to accept a cure. But at last I came across the story of a cure near homeâ€" that of Mr. Moses Boss, of Rodney. 1 knew that at one time he had been reâ€" garded as a hopeless consumptive, and its cure through Dr. Williams Pink Pills determined me to try them. I had not taken two boxes before I began to feel better, and grew confident of & cure. I kept on taking the pills, all the time feeling new blood in my veins, activity returning to my limbs,and the feeling of depression gradually wearâ€" ing away. To many women it may seem incredible that the mere making of new blood in my veins could restore to a healthy condition misplaced interâ€" nal organs, but this has been my happy experience. My pains have all left me, and I am now as healthy a women as there is in this pluce. This health I owe to Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills, which have rescied me from a life of suflerâ€" ing, if not from the Lgr':‘v‘o.” walg o B / eeveane 1 COsE CL Paitls & Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills are cspecialâ€" ly valuable to women. They build up the blood, restore the nerves, and eraâ€" dicate those troubles which make the lives of so many women, old_sn_d young, a burden. Palpitation of the heart, pervous headache and nervous prostraâ€" tion speedily yield to this wonderfal medicine. â€" These pills &re sold only in boxes, the trade‘mark and mgg;r printed in red ink, at 50 cents a 3 or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont. prToF clalm to The "disputed Concesâ€" Bion â€"at Tien ‘Tsin:â€"â€"Unfortunately, this fijspute is only an isolated inâ€" stance of the friction of interests beâ€" tween the two powers. The othet Instances haye not obtained . such ments made by Gen. Bailloud, the French commander, are regarded as completely satisfactory and all danâ€" ger of collision ‘between the British and French is considered obviated, Lord Lansdowne‘s Statement. | London, March 22.â€"In the House of Lords yesterday the Foreign Secâ€" retary, Lord Lansdowne; announced that Russia and Great Britain had agreed to withdraw their troops from the disputed territory at Tien ‘Tsin and reserve the question of title and proprietary rights for subsequent exâ€" amination. _He also supplemented his statement by giving a history of the entire affairs _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ Lerd Cranborne, the Foreign Under Secretary in the House of Commons, yesterday assured Sir Ellis Ashâ€" meadâ€"Bartlett that the Government considered the statemerits of the Rusâ€" sian Foreign Minister, Count Lamsâ€" dorfl, Feb. 16 and 17, as .ppllo:bh to any agreement in regard to Manâ€" churia between Russia aad China. Ascended an Eminence, Knolt, Calied on Mohammed and Expired. London, March 22.â€"Advices receivâ€" ed from fimgo, in Uganda, Africa, dated Thursday, March 14, say that Muludizi, the Mohammedan prophot, who recently prodlaimed himself . as leader of a new religious doctrine, in Uganda, died at l‘:z: that afterâ€" noon under . extra ary _ ciroumâ€" stances, after a short reign n# a proâ€" phet, The Suitan of Imbego, _ the head of Mohammedanism in \iganda, denounced the new doctrine, and a native court declared Muludizi to be an imposter, Whereupon Muludizi inâ€" dignantly declared that he would no longer remain on earth. He left the mative court and ascended & amall eminence outside the King‘s erclos= ure, whore he knolt, called leudly on Mohammed and suddenlgy qm'l Pekin, March 21.â€"The arrangeâ€" Whole Family Barned to Death, Wellston, Ohio, March 20. â€"â€" The charred bodles of Joff Hill and wife and five children wore found Monday night in the smolderifig embers _ of their burning house. MULUDZI‘S DISSOLUTION, Collision Obviated. to Death, A NIGHT OF SOBBING. MWBI. GALLUP LAMENTS THAT HER TIME ON EARTH i8 SHORT. {Copyright, 1909, by C & Lewin] : _ .. After j;_,‘i_ | gone . ever to the store D and a paper of carpet tacks, and as be west Mirs. Gallup was washing with. great t Jn balf an bour, _ ast 4 the xitchen door the 1 met his cars.. He ) fiad Mre. Gallup weaying rtl on‘ & chair with ber check, f ;uc‘s Bometbing bad ed didn‘t inquire what it was, w about ludutdlt.hoflp«'lg#:l“ an ab. sent way began s! a sickle with the stone he ‘2 It was five minutes before Galtup yolunâ€" teered an explanation, ‘, she saw that he had nelther afÂ¥lety nor symâ€" pathy, she hitched her chair into the doorway, used ‘a ‘fresh spot on the apron to wipe her eyes and Analy said: ihe Heard the Summous to Get Ready to Be an Augel and Had a Little Tallk With Mr. Galiup About Whom He Should Sciect For His Becond Wite. "Samuel, when you‘ve got that sickle sharpened you ‘might go over to Mrs. Bebee‘s and tell herthat I shall be a dead woman before tomorrer Â¥es "gIt READY TO BB AX ANGEL!" needn‘t beat ‘around the busb at all, but tell her right out. ~She‘ll rather be expectin the news. Bhe.was over here this afternoon,.and she said I was liaâ€" ble to git my summons at any time. i‘ve got it all arranged with her about the funeral." ns Afr. Gallup did not fook around. With ealm deliberation he spat on the whetâ€" stone, and with ¢aim «deliberation he drew it back and fortb mcross the blade. * "Yes, Samuel, my. time bhas come!" sobbed Mrs. ~Gallup safter waiting a reasonable time for him toâ€"spe@k. â€""A few bours hence and you: will be a widower, and a fewâ€"days Hence you will be wearing a red neektie and canâ€" terin around after a second â€"wife. When you started over town, I was as bappy as a lark and hadn‘t the slightest idea of dyin... Ten minutes later when I went to carry the butter down cellar there cateâ€"seven knocks on,tbhat empâ€" ty. cider bar‘l, and â€"as I stood there shakin f beard a whispered vok:e.(a.fly- in. ‘Hanner Gallup, git ready to be am angel" It was my summons, and I‘ve zot to go. Nobody. kin hold back ag‘in a summons. What kind of a second wife shall you marry, Samuel?" â€" Mr. Gallup bad paused in his Inbors and was looking absently at a robin in # Cherry (POG® q; ; c e co c +) "You ncodn‘t feel at all delikit about talkin it over with me," said Mrsa. Galâ€" lup as she dabbed at her eyes with the apron. "I‘ve allu8 s‘pected you‘d git married ag‘iin if I should die, and I shan‘t Bo#wI and squeal about }t.~ Mrs. Debee says if her hbusband marries ng‘in she‘ll Launt bim, but you needu‘t be afraid of me. I‘d ruther you mar ried ag‘in. If you didn‘t, you‘d be goin to cireuses and dogfights aud . candy pulls and become As wlck‘e? ias Silas Jobhnson. . tpose you‘ve kinder bad your eyé out, bet‘n‘t you, Samuel* that is, you‘ve kinder made up your mind about what sort of a woman you‘d marry ?" C f Mr. Gallup withdrew ‘lis gaze from the robin and returned to his work of sharpening the sickle, and Mrs. Galâ€" lup‘s nose had grown.very red with the pulling when she (_:ol_mngec: PME PCP ORA ET 1 "There‘s the Widder Lapham, Samâ€" uel, and everybody ways she‘s wuth $2,000, but I wouldn‘t want you to mar ry her. She‘s too hity tity for ® man of your age. While she was aswingin in a hammock she‘d Tet the bread burn uy in the oven. ‘Bhe‘A want you to go off to a picnic évery ‘day in the year, and if you bad @#y"Boft soap in the bouse you‘d hev to buy it And there‘s the Widder Davis. She‘s a good houseâ€" keeper, Samuel, as I‘ll admit, but they say sbo gits streaks on.â€" .One day she‘ll be laughin and gigglin all day long, and the next day sbe‘llsbe as sulky as & mule. Sbe kin make a pound of tea go as fur as J kin,. but ahe told me with ber own mouth.Abat. she bad four pairs of stockin‘s.last yeat. Could you put up with sich extrayagance as that, Samvel? Wouldn‘t you be thinkin, of how 1 allus got along on two pairs a year?" € wl Wl o o e P L CHL Sss * Mr, Gallup whistled softly. to himself as he felt of the edgeâ€"of the slckle with his thumb. The whistle conveyed no direct Information, but was . whistle in the abstract, . Mra. Gallup look»d at the back of bis neck for a moment and worked up and choked back a sob and then sald: __. ... .. There‘s Phobe Consins, whom ev erybody likes, but she‘s an old mald and sot in ber wiys. She never bick bites nor gita mad, but she wants ev. erything jost so. I you come Into the house and thi your hat down or the foor or _ gour boots off in the parior in thz cvfln{ who‘d raise the awfulest kind of a row., . I guess you‘l hey to marry Ofi Ramucl ~You «re old ‘nuff to be &mi of any gal érr:;. "A ,SM?.‘;. 1 . Hev R «n m t j Bue Sabins ...‘fi. IJ" yeark dld and {n”n:hz" youâ€" 4« 1 was i it Inal to to wotk, and mabbe you‘d mother say® ou‘ve never l.,;'m,uph‘..h“ riles. been no shoulder patting or ear pulling during all those long years brought & fresh outburst of emotion, and for two minutes Mrs, Gallup sobbed ‘bitterly. Mr. Galiup laid down the whetstons and the sickle and picked up the paper of tucks and balanced it on the point of his finger, but he was oblivious of his surroundings. % Cl rads "Lâ€"I don‘t complain, Samuel," said Mrs. Gallup when she could control her voice again "When I sw that you was no hand to pet, I let it go. I‘m old and wrinkled and seraway, and !_el.n‘g look â€"fur pettin. It will be different with a gal, however, If you don‘t pull her ear at least once a week and call her angel, she‘ll git sulky and fnally run away with a tin peddler. Mrs. Bebee was sayin that Bertha Williams would make a good gal wife fur you, and Mrs. Williams says that you could not do better than to marry Mary Hawkins, but I ain‘t goin to pick out mobody fur you nor M'fn!t with your cboice. All I‘m goin to do is to die and become an angel and let you do jest as you want to. I‘ve got jest one leetle favor to ask." ‘The lump in her throat and the tears in ber eyes checked hor speech for half a minute, and during that time Mr. Gallup put the tacks down and lifted up the sickle again. "It‘s only this, Samuel. You needn‘t do no weepin fur me when I‘m gone, and you needn‘t hang over the gate and try to look all broke up over my loss. You kin go right to playin checkâ€" ers as soon as the funeral is over, but some uight, later on, when you are all alone in the bouse and the crickets are singin, I want you to remember that I had my good p‘ints as well as my bad. 1 want you to remember that I used a. clothes biler with seven holes in the bottom fur nine years without mendin and that I bain‘t had a new corset fur ‘leven years. Our teakettle is over 0 years old, and I‘ve made one set of cups and sassers last us since we was married. That‘s all, Samuel, and now ‘ll go in and die, and you kin be lookim around fur your second wife!" She rose up with a sob and retreated Into the bouse, but Mr. Gallup knew nothing of it. He bung the sickle on & nail near the door, put the whetstone and tacks on a shelf in the wood shed, and then walked down the path and closed the henhouse door and cast a look into the pig pen. When he re turned to the bhouse, Mrs. Gallup was looking at her bow! of emptyings under the stove and.bumming the air of "I Want to Be an Angel." She bhad bad her lamentationâ€"and got over it, and it would be three or four days before she would break out again. M. Quap, & Pbysician Whose Reputation as a Critle Was Blasted. There‘s a physician in Baltimore who adores music. His taste, to be sure, runs rather to "Old Black Joe," "Suâ€" wannee River" and such classics, but still any sort of music will do, and he iistens to it all ecstatically and with a ‘properly intelligent look on his face. It was therefore believed that he had a fine taste for barmony, and his repuâ€" tation as a critic was established and grew apace as reputations will, good or ‘The other evening as his daughter approached the house in which ‘this physician lived she beard the straing of "Home, Sweet Home," proceeding from the library. â€"*"Father‘s at it again," she said to herself softly. "I wonder who he has eoerced into playing for him now T'A A glance disclosed the fact that he had bribed three street musicians, two violinists and a harpist into giving hins a private recital. They finished the air just as the young. woman enter ed, and the physician turned to her with a beaming face. "That ‘Nearer, My God, to Me," ien‘t it?" he asked It was the first time he had commitâ€" ted himself on the subject of "tunes," and his glory began to diminigh from that moment, for his daughter told the Incident as what she considered an exâ€" cellent joke. s Now the worthy man says that he likes musilc solely as an incentive to thought and listens to it when he wish »s to solve some knotty problem of ar tery or bones, jJust as those who suffer from Insomnia go to church and listen to the sermon to be put to sleep.â€" Haw a Woman Uphel4 Her Rep#t#+ tion For Reonomy. l She was the wife of an ofcial of # Bt. Paul street corporatio®. Her one pet hobby was economy. ‘Though bef husband made an excellont salary, sbe was rigld in ber rules pertaining to the buying . of : the:. necessaries for. the household. Shbe would haunt bargain ¢ounters aod market stails for hours in order to get the benefit of. a ‘reduction u.mmutnufiebm ‘The corporation offcial, with much -w.-odhhmbhmhlll about what he called her "stinginess." hmm”h‘:h“‘ whe resolved to take to .market oc a Mhen t ttik a thent economint WHY HE LIKES MUSIC. J. S. ROOS â€" Sole Local Agent. cLOSE FIGURING. Me,‘ is a beautiful thing always . have their selections up to the times. Shoes . ;2 ed, ~perfectly several purchases,â€" and" TReg‘. A%_ 909 stall Inquired the price of tgg#® "What," she exciaimed, "16 ’ dozen? No, indeed, that is a She dragged her + after her from one stand to amother, still inquiring the price of egge and ab ways receiving the same answer untl} near the upper end of the market Here she found aâ€"dealet who offered to sell her eggs in any quantity for 15 cents. To hber husbandâ€"she said Joyâ€" "There, L told you so./Why, thess others were robbers." Turning to the salesman, whe ordered half a dozen eggs, gravely handed him the 8 cents asked in payment and went home, prattling away ‘@bout the worth of economy. m and the alleged , to gouge the unsu«pecting _ A Aund to this day=she does not that her hbusband and bis, COMPAMY. HEAD OFFICE, â€" ~ WATERL Dominion Life Assurance The 20th Century :zau-lw- in a splendid posl l-â€"-i:& m?xgt;..mm and equity are Inugbed over it at the clubâ€" We have increased ourâ€"Bubscribed Capital from m.flllbm We have increased our ip Oapâ€" ital from $64,000 wW s We have placed all our old business on at 4 per cent. Reserve Standardâ€" hlgheflx:nflwmmtnqnln-d?- We have increased our Assets fro@k $416,897 to $530,206. V All forms of regular sound life and endowment assurance are issued.> ‘ We ues a thoeeg See any of onur agents or wirte Head Office for particulars, esc Arriving at the market, Rcovomical Mutual Fire Ins. o. Joux Frmwzit â€" â€" _« President Grzorez Laxe â€" â€" â€" â€"â€" Yjceâ€"Pres, Huco Knaxs â€" â€" â€" â€"=> Manager. W H. Sommars â€" â€" â€" â€" â€"; Seoretary. Jou A. Roos â€" â€" â€" â€" * ‘Infpoctor Total Assets Bist Devamber ‘99p WATERLOO ~MUTUAL «ill FIRE INSURANCE~COMPANY INCORPORATED N 1863. Mutual and Cash Systems. BOARD OF DERRBOTORS. Geo. Randall, Feg., Waterioe, John Shub, Esq., e ©.Bnyder, Kaq, _. _ " William Snider, Keg., * Geo. Dist» 1, Req., John Allchin, Req., New Haimbarg. Allan Bowman, Reg., Preston. P, E. Shants, Preston. Thomas Gowdy, Req., Gueiph. James Livingstone, Reg., M. P., Baden. George Randall, President, John Shub, Viceâ€"President < Frank Haight, Manager. M John Kiler, Inspector, Meesrs. Bowiby & Clement, Solicttors, Ber Progress in 1900. Yim. Sond no Money. and>thep. at one our Subscribed UOH & 00Y. Agents.