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VICTORIA DAY SE TICKETS WILL "BE 18 ED AT GLE FARE GOOD GOING MAY 2rd AND 24th. Meoturiifg unttt May 2618, 1902, Wi wd GPR SS P. JR. The Council Oreats a Monopoly in Meat--Butchety Have Shut Up Because of the High Local Fie. Eingston, May 12.--(To the Editor): I cannot understand the action of oar eity council in raising the price of wit by raising the licenses fee Jor butchers, My iden is that one of the functions of a ¢ity council is to make the city as cheap a place as possible to live dn. Instead of doing this, hy putting on this fee, they practically creble a' monopoly in meat by placing the sale of it in the hands of a few well-to-do butchers. It eannot be advanced that the five or six hun: dred dollars to be derived from this license is needed by the city for a greater sum than this is every year thrown pay, in useless celebrations. Not only that, but for this five or sin hundred dollars token from the [butchers the citizens, poor and rich alike, wifl have to pay four or five times this sum. They may say what they like about beef being high, It may be it has advapced in price, but there are lots of the smaller butchers who ean live if the old license is cons tinved and sell their meat at reason Quinte {2 prices 124c. being the maximum, Quinte {zy 2 it will be fifteen and perhaps cighteen if this new law is cartied in- to effect, Beef at five or six cents live weight, it seems to me affords its buyers a large murgin at 124c. pound, It 'bas been said that several but . chers have closed their places of husi- SE $ Lc tray av, 7 pla a deo, Fe 2 antire deck 86.50 re five the case, that they closed 4 to our school system J ianlt which ness use of insufficient profit at present peices. | understand this is rather that iace the higher license and if it 4 inquired into it will be seen this is actually the case. Trusting that our city fathers may look into this before committing ives' to this new license and that old prices in beef will prevail CITIZEN ---------- Can Offer/No Improvements. Peterbero Exgtaine No stronger tribute could be paid than the in akbility of its eritics, mostly politi cians, to find any substantial fault or to suggest any remedy 'of & supposed in not already in force, Of course our school systend is not perfect. Nothing devised by human agencies reaches finality--improve- ment niust and always will be made. The British constitution is pot per- fect; though it has been in course of growth 'for g thousand years, it is still in the formative stage. So with '® school system. Changing condi tions and the lessons of 'esperience Joint out weak spots and all that government can tHe is to add sitengih where needed and remove defects which experience may - have disclosed. But the liberal government has been anxious ad energetic in effecting ime provements when necessary and prac ticable, The improvements that have been made in the past fifteen years may he submitted as evidence of this desire and this endeavor. p---------------- House Cleaners. Use furniture restorer and save money and time, at James Reid's, Three applications of Peck's Corn Salve will cure hard A soft corns. In boxes, 15¢., at Wade's 3 drag store. ave your mattresses, odd ire or Seti setts, made over, at James Wise Parents Provide iz Paine's Celery Compound For Their in Foved Ones. The Wondrous Melieine Quickly Bx REL Blood and ; a Forties the .W A nr patois, have any of your chil dren suffered from an attack of the bruel mm dusting the past winter oT ry Surin your boys and ihe irritable, ant ot or weak ? 5 5 t i 1 fl a i [ae ¥ The aristocratic Hérse. Se -- -- READ THIS RECORD. Of the Ontario Liberal Gpvern- ment in Thirty Years. Crown Lands. It has collected a revenue of £31, 791,278 since 1873-an average of over a million a year. It has granted, sold or leaded 4, 851,396 acres of icdtural and min ing lands since 1872. The population of New Ontario has inereased by 199,819 since 1871. It has surveyed 310 townships, of whic 171 are free grants and 47 sale ips. ay has sold, - since 1872, 5,152 wyuare miles of timber limits for $6, B12, or an aver bonus ' per square. mile of $1.38. Dues are $i and' $1.25 per M feet; ground rent $3 per square mile. It 'has created three parks--Niagara Falls, Algonquin. and Rondeau, and three Forest Reéserves--Temagani, the Eastern and Sibley. It has built 5.202 miles and = re paired 10M6 miles of colonization roade, and built twenty miles of bridges in New Ontario since 1872, at a boat of $3,338,743, 1t has established a buresu of mines placed an. advanced wining law on statute Giooks, phrchaped two dia mond drills, ereated summer mining schools, assisted in developing the nickel, copper, corundum and other industries, and protected the prospec tor and miner, It has encouraged iron mining and steel and iron manufacture by means ies, The production of pig iron and steel reachetl a value of over two mil lions in. 190%, It bas prohibited the export in a non-manufactured condition of 'pine saw logs, pulpwend and hemlock bark cut on crown lands. It has increased the dues on pulp- wood from twenty to forty cents per co It has perfected. a fire vanging sys- tem that is admittedly the best known. It has explored extensive agricultur- al and timber aréas in northern On tario. It has assisted in the opening up of New Ontario by means of land nts and honuses to colonisation railways. 1s has maintained a progressive po- liey in connection with the pulpwood pmood agreements entered into The pei investment of a winimum sum he $3,000,000 the employment of at least 2,40 men, and the erection of seven lavge pulp mills It has qreated a buremn of coloniz- ation, which is assisting in settling New: Ontario. It. bas protected the rights of the public in the valuable crown water powers, > A Popular Candidate. a de ove 4 ans attended the pn at Harowsmith Freeman and ret a well for ths Clan, Kingston. Ee ae aaa BRITIS] AL -- The fire horse. EE ------------------------------------------ WELLINGTON WAFTS. A Reform Meeting=Confirmation Service Held. Wellington, May 3.-Mrs. A. (. Wilson, accompanied by her daughter, Mra. J, 8. Hill, has arrived home from Pittsburgh, Pa. Mes. Hill will spend the summer in Wellington, Rob ert Rogers, of Pickering, preached two very able sermons in the Friends church on Sunday last. Rev. A. H. and Mrs, Ford, of Sault Ste. Marie, arrived here on. Friday. ~ Mes. Lord will, with her two children; spend the summer with her parents. Mr. Lord returned to his home. Joseph Sta pelton is not expected to live, owing to sickness from pueumonia. The recent frosts bave done great dam: age. he political meeting of Dr. Morley Curry, the reform candidate, was lar- gely attended on Saturday evening in the magic hall, A number of able speakers were in attendansd. A long mbmber of conservatives were also in attendance and. all gave a quiet hearing. Roy Fitagerald and Miss Peters were united in marriage 'on May Ist. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Rankin. visited at Gilead on Sunday. Kenneth: I. Mill, wife and sister visited at his parents', . Rose Hill, op Sunday last. James MeDonald, of Belleville, spent the week at his home here. Both conservatives and reform- ers speak in highest terms of Dr. Curry, the reform coudidate. . Frank Harvey, of Sydenham, is visiting friends here. Postmaster Spencer, af- ter 5 week's sickness, is. able to be about again. D. Clinton is still con: fined to the house. Thomas Stinson has heen unable to attend to business through sickness, Mr. and Mes. R. Hadden, of Piclon, were visiting Friends here on Sunday. Fred McDon- ald, 4th concession, of Hallowell, has moved into Wellington. St. Andrew's chireh was crowded to the, doors on Sunday evening last, owing to the confirmation of three parties by bis. hop Mills, Kingston. There were in attendance also Rev. Mr. Geen, Belle ville Rov. M. Westmacott, Brighton. DOWN THE RIVER NOTES. Parks In Beautiful Condition -- Some Arrivals. Thousand Island Park, May 12. The untunal bad weather still con tinwes. On Friday night it froze quite bard, destroying plants and shrubs that were well advanced considering the backward spring. There are few arrivals 'yet, the unusual cold weath- or being the! carise. The pew steam: boat dock is about completed, and will give more accommodation 'to the steamers. The various hoarding houvs- es are open, but are doing no busi ness, The park looks splendid in ts em- erald coat, intermingled with mil. tions of Mowers of variegitad hues, and many of the tiees are leaved out. Saptahs Jra Campbell. of this Place, of the steamer St. "| not soum SPICE OF THE anticiEd' mw VICINITY NEWSPAPERS, The News Put Into Condensed Shape--The Episodes That Cre- ate Talk in the Country and Hersabouts. The Free Methodists have purchased a lot om south side of Arthur street, corner of William street, Gananoque, und 'will 41 once commence the erec tion of 5 church Me. Crouch; Napanee, bas been en gaged as superintendent of the wand working department of the Morden munufacturing company, and will re move his family to Gananoque short: Ye Brockville is shortly to lose an #8 timable young citizen, George Shir reff, of the Ontario glove wor a. who leaves about the i8th inst, to accept a Position in the offices of the New York & Ogtario Western railway. Mrs. Busan Sager, a wellknown lady of Pictow died at the family residince on May © 5th. 'The funeral took place on Tuesday Just. Inter ment at Glenwood cemetery. A. son of the deceased, W. H. Sager, ae hi gad, "and a davighter, Mrs. vie Hoge, New York; were present Wd the Just few days of her illness. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Jobn Prinyer, North Maryshurgh, have been called upon to mourn the dedth of the former's aged cistery Miss Helen Prin: yer, which sad #vent pocurred on Wednesday, The decvased 'was born in the township of North Marvshurgh in year IS12, and had thereiore attained the ripe age of ninety years. re------------ TRIBUTES OF THE PRESS To The Life And Work Of Prinei- pal Grant. Toronto Globe : All Canada will mourn the death of George M. Gram. He was a national figure, and where he stood erect the other day there a great gap of grey sky and bare horizon, * * *.* He lived and wrought as an eduvationist, but he was epsen- tially a politician, and a statesman, and few men whe have lived in North America, exercised a greater individu al influence, more divectly Mapiced the councils of statesmen, or more ovat ly fashioned the public opinion of which : statesmen must take aevonnt in, free communities. * * * 'We may rightly claim for George M. Grant it least a bumble seat at the table of that family of immortals, who, in thy words of John Morley, have na 'great spaces in human destiny vy luminous." Hamilton Herald: Canada has col to mourn the death of that great alg good Canadian, the Rev. George Mun ro Grant, D.D., CM.G., principal of Queen's university. He was one of the most Sint inguishd Canadians of | his time--distinguished for intellectual ability, for moral elevation, for pat- riotism. of the best sort, and for pui- lic spirit. He was perhaps the lea i ing Canadian edcationist. What he did for his native country can never be estimated, With voice and pen, with a force and eloguence mot sur passed hy any Cenadian SPopker or writer of his generation, he tried hon estly to do good to his country, and his opinions on - publie questions. spoken or written probably earried more weight than those of any other Canadian. He did good also by' the forte of his noble example. Peterboro Examiner : In the death of. 'Dr. Grant one of the most | dis- tingwished of Canada's sons passed away. He was a man of ability, sharpened by wide culture of undsual intellectual and moral force, and of noble convictions strongly held. He was a man of powerful personality, great venerability and untiring ener gy and perseverance. He was an edu cationist of intense ardor. He wos a great polemist, and at the same time a strong and génerous adversary. Belleville Intelligencer : In the death of principal Grant Canada bas Jost ove of ber . greatest soms, a man of many parts, of indomitable will, im bued with a love of conflict, which was sometimes niistaken for an itch for notoriety. Queen's university and the Presbyterian church in Canada owe & front debt to the theological gins who now lies cold in death in ingston: Toronto "Telegram ; Grant, was not an offiee-holder, ora soldier, or a money maker, and = yet his fame equals that of any leader in these three classes which supply a mo- dern nation with its heroes. + Montreal Gawetie : As minister of his church as head and builder of Queen's college, as a leader in phiblie thought, principal Grant stood in the front wank. H in Mauitoba and the west the Presbyterian church leads all the denominations it is due is no small degree to the confidence in the country created by Dr. Grant, Hig church, his. eollepe and his country baye to wait long for gpe who p14 fill his place, with such mbny- sided ability. amilton Spectator : The sad intel ligence of the death of princips Grant, of Queen's university, King ston, will cause the Ftopie of Ontario to fo party ities: for a time a Io) a great, and good 'man, who had. won for himself a high position in the es teem of his fellow countrymen. Toronto Mail Empire: As a preach: SEL ak 41 sduleeitiotliot Lo w and aheakes on public sfairs the ts Grant's © ve : ny ri and activity will disappear. His death is an loss to Queen's university, in public file of Canada it aug a gop that will not easily be George - Munro is REFRIGERATORS! 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