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hes is i : It would be' & most om | peculiar matter if young farmers did not leave Ontario and go West. Oris lor they SO Are the pictures of Western life and pros. rity not glowing enough? If we want to keep the people at home « fwe Rad better advertise Ontario--the banuer province; the land of : ort convenience; the land of sure markets; the land depen- denit-on no single crop and seldom suffering from untimely frosts. ; Advertising pays all right, but the Ontario hasn't done the ad- vertising, at least if she has it's been the wrong kind. It will be . | evond human power to stay the tide of emigration to the West, so jo} 190% as the home folk grow! and 'croak and the Westerners continue come Home with stories of fortunes made and boundless opportun- ly for su cess. The same business enterprise and willingness to suf- In as is endured by the Westerner would bring equally results here in Ontario. : Men do not bejieve sufficiently in their own possibilities; Life i¢ [often a dtudgery without ambition or bope. In town or country---it tean't be done--is the cry. There is not half enough determination to success by. alter abuses, but people go'along enduring: "them; and, worse than. Sr iy that; la at anyone who with new life and hope makes the attemipg irs Were ate mend matters. A dozen determined men in any community could EAS make things hum if they would work together. depopulation can be stopped-biit it will take common sense, 4 'patience. «Above all things we must, believe "in our that the town doesnit boom: own hill can offset-a great: deal : Last Saturda wing re oc me Ss % A Terrible Death " y, on the William Gaynor farm, about a : : £2 ; {mile east of Lotus, a fatal accident occured by which Hilton long: They are getting shorter and} Baggs lost his life. From what we can learn Mr. Baggs was 8 tobe looked upon as partiof théfa young laboring man who lived in 'the neighborhood, He - _Whed farmer's. worked framfwas margigd and the father of five ¢hildre ses. Long hours sap the vital=f = "Op Saturday, he undertook to repair the cribwork in domuch if any more than hel Mr. Gaynor's well. His first act was to lower Some twelve took proper. rest and recreation: [foot planks into the well which he proceeded to place slant- ir Bias to do his. level [Wise from one wall of the 'well to the other, bracing each nachine 1 ink ax the top, putting the second plank on top of this brace lanting it in the opposite direction to the first plank; and so ip. He next examined the wall while standing on a brace id one of the planks. "After hammering around a bit, he terrible misfortune to loosen past of the cribwork; and ; own a mass of material which buried him up 'to the He called for help, and his brother and some other i tesciie, and tried to to pull him out, but he. PIn-%0o tight for that and the earth and quichsand in on the unfortunate man" until he was com. id" ght. - The plank behind which he was | him ings immediately, 'and time ie directed the men in the work of rescue. all was quiet, and the end had come. The ac- Lm., and it was not until § p.m. that