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sa1es,_w1u COIISU II II F sales m his hands. D'I'\..I-.. I-41 on ENDOWMENT INSURANCE pououas ;1he Reliable Auctioneer FARM STOGK SALES TOWN LOTS Eas_t Mary Street. Lot 54. Apply at l'I\I`I ALLANDALE. Lots 2, 3 and 4, West Baldwin Street. North Cumberland Street. Lots 17 and 18. Jacob's Terrace, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 and 7. L. TEZBO 1 1-Iv FOR SALE. A At the steel shipyard preparations` are being made on the east side of _the ` Hurontario street slip, for laying of the keel of the steel steamer for the Clergue Co. The - piles of lumber, which oc- oupied this portion of the property have been removed and the `work of . preparing the ground is being pushed. On the steamer Hjuronic,-the plating is well advanced and the ways for launch-' ing are being prepared. It is expected that the steamer will be launched dur- ing the rst week in Septem'ber.-Bul- letin. s t BARRIE o. H. Lyon THE ADVANCEJ TI` 30! 301 Ban-in MIDLAND. ,While wheeling between` here and Penetang on Tuesday, Mr. G. F. Ptfoc- tor saw a large bear and three cubs; :- During the past few days Mr. Fred W. Churchill ticketed aboutone hundred people to _ points in - the Northwest. Among those who left on Monday were `B. Holden, Nottawa to. Regina; A. Pinnell, to Winnipegosia ; Chas. Petter to Newdale ; C. R. Sing and MissS'Sing, of Singhampton; to Newdale ; C. Mob- erly to Moosejaw ; B. Jacques end Mrs. Jacques to Moosejaw. . V Work is progressing favorably at the site of the steel works. The ground` has been largely cleared of -the ahrubbery which has covered it for many years, and this week, the preliminary work in connection with straightening the course of Black Ash Creek, has been coni- menced. . `I COLLINGWOOD. Capt. W. Farr has severed his con nection with the tug Maggie May and Mr. C. A. Ward has full control._ The Times save that Mr.` P. H.lPat- riarche is now open to buy the power scheme, and he authorized a v'l`ime s representative to make public the fol- lowing fact: He will purchase the plant from the town and pay in cash `the amount that has already been expended`) in its construction, and give the town a written guarantee that he will furnish all the power asked for at $15 per horse power. Mr. Patriarche evidently has more faith in the ultimate result of the power scheme than some of the rate` payers, but his offer will not likely be taken seriously by the city fathers, as, although the work dragsslowly one and the completion of the contract still lies in the distant future, there is no doubt but that in the end the investment -will prove a, lucrative one, and the town will be suiciently supplied with power for more than a generation at least. UU"'" ' ' ' ward, which attracted attention about fem o clock on Monday afternoon no doubt gave rise to the report.-Packet. , AI,,L'Il`,,l\'I'f `I1: . plac -`Mist; Lavelle; organist of the Macho`--i am church, has returned from` Toronto . ,4 Buffalo. During her absence her eat the organ was lled by Miss Den Dunham so efoiently us.` to reeot; 8,9,; credit.on both herself and'.hsr teacher, Miss Levelle. ' A ; `_ q A report was curren` in tqwn `on Monday evening and Tuesday morning that the big mill at Severn Bridge had been burned down. A message of enquiry over the wires; however, brought the welcome news that there had been no fire at the Bridge, `A dense column of smoke to the north- : I ,LL__--A._.I _LL_._L=-_ _l__,,; A-gs GOING EA 011' TH] on IN `rm 'i1'i<>:v{71 `s' f or THIS COUNTY. - ` . H " "-.'rr"'- ihonored. The dratio measures promis- 1 ed after September 15:11 will be wel- . loomed by ev_ery good citizen in Africa. r--.- - .._..-_ _ , ' The '(ionation' of this inagnioent building, ooating$40,000, is the first? in- tII`IoaAin-ithe, Dpmigion which I ey, wido;i-o late Here A. Massey, "but it was feared the journey would prove toqnuoh for. her strength. . , -5 `La- _--_:...-L ""J """""` "cl ey, in the presenoe of a large assemblage of `inuential people. Speeches were delivered by Mr. Massey, Professor Goldwin Smith, Hon. James Young, and others. ' It had been proposed that the stone should be laid by Mrs. Mass 1'0 Tam AGRIOUTURAL COLLEGE. The cornerstone of the new Massey Halland library `at the Ontario Agri- cultural College Guelph was laid Thurs-. day afternoon` by Mr. W. E, H. Mass- l' - I ,__._ _.'_.'.-.._I_I-..- . chener has issued a.proclamation saying . so. 1 Those who persist in continuing the ` struggle will be treated `as bandits. the struggle.- of assistance, but when the` testing time They remained at home. carved the burghers, they played the _ ' traitor` to the British. While living The Beer. war is over. Lord Kit- Further ghting is brigandage. The leaders will be permanently ban- ished from South Africa, and the rank and le have their property conscated. This step has been urged` upon the Government for months, but there was reluctance to take extreme measures until every other means of securing a a cessation of hostilities had been tried. If ever aconquered people were treated magnanimously the Boers have been by` the British, and this is particularly the case with the rebels in Cape Colony. The Dutch of that Province have dis- played their cowardice in every move they have made since the inception of They encouraged the burghers of the Transvaal and the Free State toenter upon the war by promises came they failed their compatriots. As they _de- safely in Cape Colony under the protec- tion of the British Government they played the part of spies and sent infor- mation of the movements of the troops to the enemy. They were too cowardly to take the eld with the party with which they sympathized, and not honest enough to be neutral while living securely under the British ag. _ These e are the men who should be reached if possible. They deserve severe `punish- . mentfor their treason, and the future peace of South Africa requires that an; example should be made. of such char- aoters. Traitorous Cape Colony should be whipped, and loyal Natal should be The work will be on exhibition at Toronto Industrial Exhibition. Be- sides this piece Mr. Challener has other work ahead for the theater at Ottawa. SAYS THE WAR IS ovmiz. The war sittiation, gs summed up by the Sentinel, is as follows: Off to the right, on another eeting cloud, a gure representative of Elec-V tricity, who lies nnheeding the poetry. She hasin 'her hand the `electric bulb. The artist has caught the expression well. N 0 poetry for her ; she is think- ing of the lightnings, of the practical, of the future. ' Fame completes the group, end call- ing through a trumpet, holds a lame` wreath to crown the _Drema. with bald heads. ~ Drama holds the mask of tragedy in her. hands, and as she uneovers, Music and Art and the Poetess ot ' Passion; at her feet, admire; 'An`,,,g 1- I Music lies luxuriously on the -cloud beneath, tambourine .in hand, with owing hair and dreamy eye. Arts holds her pallette, mahlstiok, and brush- es, and gaze into the beautiful face -of Drama above. Art is dressed as Eve dressed, and has turned her. back. but the delightful contour is easily seen. Beneath" this group of three is the Poetess of Passion, who, scroll in hand, is reading while the others listen. ` /xnn . -...-t- '."' -. my late 6ih|~9|i|}.` it waaintotedone iintnew York, lint, Toronto. , Fredericlri.S.' `Ohaile`n`or the artist,,and this is perhaps, therst piece of work of this description and of this magnitude ever attempted in Canada. It is ellipse in `form. The canvas i fteen feet high and thirty- six feet wide. ` The subject is The Triumph of the Drama. The work is allegorical; idealistic, and imaginative. _ Seven gures. are reclining in the, clouds, clad mainly in . the easy cloth-V ing which` Nature gives, High up on the topmost eece is the gure of the Drama, the `crowning gure` `of the group. In her eyes is the cunning irhich melts hearts and lls front rows com tori m..o.;.aL...a no.....:,iA as well as other leading centres of art. `v 7|`. .1... Al, I don't know that I'd be as good an ' iditor now as wud ve been in th 01 days. In th times whin Horace Gree- ley was r,-rnnnin pa-pers, `they `niver . talked iv annything lower than a face oard. `Twas th thar'1' an the war an whether th Givermint ought to call in th silver oertycatss or lave thim out in th night air. Thin: ol lads didn t know they was such a thing as lawn- tennis in th wnrruld. But nowadays an iditor has to be on to as many things as a depart_mint' store. -Wan minyit he's addhressin wuirruds iv good cheer to th Czar iv. Roosha ; another A an he's tell_in' Andhrew Oarnagie th best way tomaks-steel `billets isto mix in a little shopped feed ; a minyit later ' he's writin : ~Olarenoe Dudley has won _th' tennis champsenship iv,Noo J arsey. A We _ar-_re glad to that this risin young. statesman `is i'mproyin in his volIe_vln ,. thongh his l obbin' is still a trie-`lobby. 'Or,_ 'We'lane sthrongly. to th ?0P`i0n' that th rmnlt iv `sh 1 yssterdah shows: Tutsi: ea : steal. ;`But it thus be grain to be a rale . iditor! I come down town in agoold barroohe fr m me boar-din -house an brush asideth Cabinet Ministhers at th dure, an go to me palashial cham- ber with tillyphone connictions to iv :-y part iv th wurruld. I sind f r wan iv `th spry rayporthers, an says 1, `What's goin on up th sthreet '1 -`They was a ght between a man called Rooley an one called Fennessy, be- cause Shannessy wudden t wurruk for Rooley any longer. -`Very good, says I. `Ye may go, I says. An I set down an write: `As we go to press yisterdahl with our spicyal midnight to- morrah s extry edition, _we larn that a dispute has broke out between capital, as riprisinted be Martin H. Doogan, in th person iv th affable little Oscar .O Cal1aghan._ We do not know any"- thing about th causes iv this unforchnit dispute. but all we can say, gentlemen ! - This is no time f r puttin forward ' sil- sh motives. Th inthrests iv capital an? labor "is th same, wan thryi,n to make capital out iv labor, an th other thryin to make laborin -men out iv capitalists. -1`herefore, we say, arbi- trate, arbitrate," arbitrate ! Whin I've Schwartzmeister s case : {We view with alarum th rayport that Herr Alfonso Sohumaoher is demandin that none iv his customers shud fork th lunch befure mak1n signs at th bar-tinder". This is an inthrusion on th r rights iv the peoplethat shows how correct George J ifferson was whin he madehis famous utthrance, ,Oh, `if we only knew. How long will this here be tolerated in this oommunitylv We warn Her; Schmittstein that we have an eye on him- WW0 know what he done in Germany. Let-himhave a care. T an labor, th hulwarks iv our liberty; got this` off . me mind, a I take up Tisa hard job,_ said Mr.-Dooley, but tie a fsscinatin wan. They se nawthin schard as mindin ye er own business, an an iditor niver has tcdo th" at. i.He"s like mesilf, I'm sick iv the perpetchooi round iv examinin th beer pump an "ccuntin , up th receipts. I wantto put on me hat an go out an take a peek _ at th neighborhood. How s Clancy gettin on with his wife 2` Is it thrue she hates him? How s Schwartzmeister s business ! _Whin is Flannigan goin to paint his barn? Afther Ixget through with me investi gations I come back here an give yo me opinyion on th _topics iv th day. "Be hivens, I am an iditor in me wav. All I need is a cover iv a yellow man hittin a blue golut ball with a green shtick to be wan iv the gr-reatest news- papers the wurruld iver see. An if it wasn't f- r th likes iv ye, 1. wudden t be alive. Ye :-e me circulation. . Ye re small, Hinnissy, but `ye re silict. Ye want to know what's goin on an ye want some wan to make up ye'er mind about it, an I give ya th ivints iv th day an tell ye what they all mane. ms. DOLLEY oN.AN mnrrbn-s bunms. ` D ye know 'I d_ like to be iditot-,f_ said Mr. Dooley. ` It must be} hard job," 1 Henneaay. _ (`Ye have `to know much. i unoontlttionolly to on inntitntilonl wholly under the control of o` Provin-` oinl Goveinmeit. By this notable gift the/Massey family ehow their interest in former: and their college, and it will benet the people of the Province, and, in feet, of the whole Dominion. ' Mr- KILLED AT MIDLAND. Mr. R. Doherty, an employee of the Perkin. Shingle Mills, Lindsay, was one of those who came to Midland on the C.M_.B. A. excursion on Thursday last. While "here he was naturally interested in the _mills,r,and spent some of his time in visiting theui." While at the Chew B`ros."- mill he walked out on one of the trainways. and by some milstep he fell o to the ground -below," -`a l of some `fourteen feet. " He $7.001, D..M. 'c1....g., $710.00; and Ii: Ooughlin, $2.50. T Tie ouhoin adjourned subject to the _call of the Reeve. ' The following accounts were ordered to be paid : `Clerk and Treas., $17 5.00 ; Wm. Oouplsnd, $20.00 ; Alf. Keely, $19.50 ; A. Debenhsm, $2.15 ; John Robinson, `$2.00. The following amounts were paid for work on roads :- 13`. Carson, $2 00; Henry Priest, $25.00} J as. McBride, $16.7 5 ; Thos. V Young, )5: A- -I\ 91- In '. O In".- Coutts-T-Finley-0rdered that the Clerk besuthorized to get deeds drawn for the transfer of side road between east half lots 15 and 16. 4thicon. to J smes Russell and from James Russell to this Council, in line of side read, each part. of said lobes desori bed by M. Gsviller; 0.L.L. T - Primrose - Coutts - Ordered - that pathmasters appointed by this Council are hereby reqoiredto strictly comply with all the conditionsi\contained in the by~law attached to their lists. De- faulters will be surely proceeded against and the nes mentioned in said by-law exacted." ' ` Fioley-Ooutts-Thst the Reeve and` Councilman Primrose are hereby ap- pointed a committee on Swsley Creek Drainage works to let contracts and oversee the work. ' Primrose-Cameron--Ordered that the o'er of Mr. Potter to pay $15 and all costs re road timber be accepted. I % VFinley-A---Primr6ae-Ordared that D, Coutta be paid $25 for gravelling hill and that J amen Richardson's acct. for work on the 8th line $1-7 be paid. VESPRA. COUNCIL. Aug. m-., 1901, inst. Au members present. The minutes of the last meet ing were read and conrmed. Several communications and accounts were pre- sented by the Reeve and read :-Appli. cations from the public and separate school Board for rates to be levied and collected in their several school sections, M. Gaviller, township engineer re 8th line drainage; Hewson and Creswicke re Potter acct. ; Hon. M. Gibson, At. torney General, enclosing a copy of a bill to amend the Assessment Act ; R W. Campbell Esq., Road commissioner enclosing a copy ofa by-law to commute the statute labor in the township of Pelham ; good roads Machine Co. en- closing a copy of judgment in saw ca-e Challen vs. Poole, W. H. White re bcndsman. ` On motion of Contte and Cameron ordered that the township rate be 2;- milla on the dollar realizing the sum of $25.00 and that under sec. 66 of the Public School Act the sum of $20.00 is required to be levied and collected by 3 rate of 2 mills. By-laviv to be passed conrming the same. ` Primrose-Coutts - Ordered that Coutta and Finley inspect` the work done on 8th line and if satisfactory give an order on Treasurer for payment of same. `I ; Coutte-Primrose-Ordered that the I bondamen submitted for approval by W. H. White collector of rates viz 3 `Henry Williams and Horace `White along with himself he accepted. I think I wudden t like to be an iditor; sfther all. I sometimes wondher they don't come out with a line printed scrost th t-st page: `We don't know nnnything about it an we don t care, an what business iv ye ers is it nanny- how `I ` ` ` "5 destr WFIRST PAINTED IN CANADA. . hen the Russell Theater in Ottnwn` d Oved by fire the management moth nL.L-_A . idd 150 build a new play-henna o_n_nv It does? said Mr. Dooley,VManny great iditora is dead. A V I ahud think th wurruk wnd kill thing, said Mr. Henneaay, sadly. gm. .2; ` .y....; wan. 1.0,. the `plants. How much more wholesome th"fol -`fashioned crinoline ! I hate to think whin a guest iditor has settled the currency question an th sthrikers and partitioned o'- China an handed insthrnotions to th crowned heads iv Europe, on -rivolntionized th? paokin business, an tel th ladies what kind iv a hat to wear with a lavender skirt, he has to go home to his wife an con- ss that he f :-got th baby's carredge. iVh3$T;;V;;:gaid year. Or,` We `note _wil`i`:egga: me Mrs. Hnnkerbiltla bull Gno. Snnwrn. % Clerk. 1 UP-TU-DATE BUSINESS MEN alighted fairly on the top of his head, sus- taining a concussion of the brain. Partial consciousness returned during Friday morn- ing, and Doherty recognized his friend, but he soon again lapsed into unconsciousness, and passed away about eleven o'clock a.m. Music Issued the First Issue of Each Monih to 5 `PAID UP SUBSGRIBERS ONLY. The [Bell `telephone ecompany Gofflns nd Gaskets of all kinds in stock or made to order; Robes, Urape and all Funeral Requisites furnished. Orders by Telegraph or otherwise promptly attended to. ~- -v uuuu. ll IIUW pl.By'OIlUU on II "9 elaborate plan than ever. To .` the artistic and decorative features 1 m kPing with the rest of 6116 building ii? `3mpany called for designs, forgo. imntnng for the `projdnium 1 Win and over the W39-ii i _ G. O; DOLM'AGE,-M'a/nager, Svroud. V r team Vlorks and Show Room, Gollier-sl., Barriqg UNDERTAKER j-:jlj --l: Ljjjnj Many a man has spent all his earnings in trying to get rid of rheumatism. It cost Mr. James Da- -vison, Oconto, 0nt., between 31,000 and $2,000 before he tried Dr. IIall s Rheumatic Cure. He {was `a help- less invalid for six years but suf- fered from sciatica in his liip joint for ten years. Six bottles cured him completely and he is now working his farm. ' great blood puri- er is put up in bottles containing V ten days treatment. Price 50 cents at all drug stores or The Dr. Hall Il..'.I..:-nu (`A '1z'~inaal-nu nni 1 2 Pieces of Sheet Music DU nu ,uLu5 Dvusva VI. .1. Medicine Co.,` Kingston,u;)n`;.:. Advertising in The Advance -f I ` BRINGS You FACE TO FACE WITH A BUYING CIRCULATION. TELEPHONE 53. THE NORTHERN ADVANCE, __v-1 V in hav- Mr. Jae. B1'W.n' of Wazlfglzond in ing material placed. upolllwuw for the rear of G.T.R- wand - mill. The erection of hi aw oplwmgushed 81038 work of erection will b: :0 doubt the as rapidly 55 P55ibl an ion , . ' to .099? Institution W111 oe 8` m V ~ this fall. ' NORTHERN ADVANCE G. Sn/1:1-E11`:-:i:,% Use the Long Distance Tele- phone and have Long Dis. .tance `Equipment in their oices. Ask the Local Man-_ ager for Rates. ' 11` cost uonav. or CANADA. Can you nd anything more certain than advertising in a local paper. The sworn circulation of a Local Newspaper is a guarantee that your money is well and properly spent. It is the very best medium by vvhich youcan reach your custom- ers, being a welcome visitor in every home. No experi- ment in this kind of advertising. ,- lenge comparison, BARBIE AN D STROU D. ONLY $1.00. `new sidings from the foot of King" t'- The Grand ']::runk Railway Co. have ;n l`fA" been making a number of changes about WW9 f ` Midland of late which include three example` I Street to No. 1 elevator another from .,bl"hiPP` 0hew s lumber ofoe to the smelter and !h9`.'d' one in rear of the station. `I 5&9 l _ M J39 Brown. Waverlev |m.d We have the largest circulation .in -tihe district, ano. chal- FOR ONE YEAR AND THE 123 Dunlap Street, Brrie. lmenise in "THE AnvAucis." IOIICIBI, Ill reua. thereon. L Apply I5 UTQI attended t Highest as}: price ' for Endowment Insurance Policies, in reliable ompaniee or money loaned thereon. Aonlv Are a specialty, and partxes intending to have sales, will consult their own interests by placing their nalen in his hands. VALUATOFIIAND APPRAISER. HANDLES ALL KINDS OF AUCTION SALES. `a Mr. P. Fletcher has commenced the erection of the new rink on Midlnnd AVE. `If the erection of the building is Fried out according to plans Midland will have one of `the best rinks in the Pf0vince.--Argus. I"