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Canada : Forest Wealth. y} I In 0 d Poetonl tor 'cou I I got! Qlyora and coldn. 1 namely ntranlthnm wank lungs. 'C%hIe`rry Pectoral The Divine Sarahr ' g UVC nun IIIIIVI I"! HAKi"13? 5 X;ER, T V ` 3 * West Barrie Hotel. 4- . . % -z--5-z-;:--2-4:-s----2-+-es-s:-++-2--s-++~z---:--~-:-++ '!-+- .`-~--~--~2-~:~-I-~:~-I--2--2--2~-2--E-:- ` Gdfns and Gaskets of all kinds in stock ormade to order. Robes, Grape and all Funeral Reqnisites furnished Orders by Telegraph or otherwise promply attended to. G. O. DOLMAGE, Manager, Stroud. Sieam Works and Show Room. Bullies-si.,Barrie| uooouuuuuboooouuoooououunoouuuuouoi | UN D E R TA KER, n----__.j-jn -.-_j j11j V. ,3..`. ,.:v`. {MONEY! .3: '. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM . A-a whit ~we r6 all looking for and it will come to eyerv 9 pox_1ltiVf'rIilp_; that fee"s.Dr. Hess and Colonial stock and poultry fdod. Shell.;'_,lId Gris will increase the supply of eggs. .{`:1'amfo.n still inc!-ease` your -bank account this season by investing '5 Clratam Incubator and Brooder. We have a supply in stock. L _V"If vou no building this reason do no`: overlook the fact we are x quarters for T ' NailsiijdA(Bnilders jlanlware. Eave Ttiilglning and Furnace Work. .';l'hevpr!ice is sure to advance this season. Leave your order with us and iwe will protect you against any advance. We _are handling the old reliable rPI'.V.MOUTH RINDERT\V1NE and the hem; (`.ann.di.'1n Twivm mum. u'T`nn 4 PETERB0RO`[7(:}f: L H ,v.'e will protect. against :PLYMOU.TH BINDER TWINE and the be I` II J ,` _ ,1, 'I'I,_' , 1 ,, .I We handling re|ia};|; at Canadian Twiue xnade-`*'1`H1.; L 1 L I-7JI.'I'\/l`\I\I \l I-LI - Call antfcousult us about Twine tor the coming ueaon and we will convince you than we a _n gave vou'mouey, V/tthyour,/eet warm _an& cmrrtable in Gmmv: _ -~OvRsHOE.s. colxweatlzer has_no..Ierrora. SEE SCOTT'S NEW DESIGNS. Scott's Bookstore, Barrie. Springousecleaning COMMERCIAL and PREPARE FOR,--nr P ` m `%..;.G V /` I ;g%ESLEY & CREW A WORVDFREGARDING BINDER TWINE. And get your papering done before the rush. make a specialty of Medium Price Papers. Best value obtainable . . . . . _Before Placing Your Orders Elsewhere. BARRI E AN D STROU D. Hdrdwate, Stove and Tin Merchants. .r Pr6prietors_% Tye Northern Advmce GET OUR PRICES FOR ."..CATALOGUE `FEBRUARY '16, are head. stock a_nd.f" [1, Oyster 5, 1905; (By Robert` J. Bunaette.> % M-r. Mid:dulerib`r{ne'ad in his paiaper "5;_~:9: rp'a-ragragih Tstating that .-the ting ;-"inf. a bee was a sure cure for r.'heuma`t ism; Mr. Middloeriib Ihougmtv of t`he{ wheumaiic twinges abut grappled -his] `kuesg "' ` ` u .-u - nu..| _ , -I ;-'A,___. ,`.wIi4vawi`':L'd - the artful-e several: 'umes%`l% `bee `Max: to be gripped by mh .1 [Seams and set `down upon the them `*'1n`altJi*o joint and '11-9`lAd tihere until it `stung ntwl-f. stinglbss. v -n- _-_.A...__u.-.a ___:m_ mr....a..... mr:.a.n.; Alvin: 5 avnrvnn Ialooona-0 ,;,.i . He con-tradted. with Master Middle- tnivb for a Iimiteld. supply Of -boas: _;(Is`or was `small sum of one dime Mas-,| ` iter VMidd-lerib agreed `to procure se-v- 1 feral. `to wit: six bees, sex and age. not -s'pe\oi.fi~ed. A _|__.._.... ..n i.-~...... ......a +1.... 5: Q A ` :Rheums%tisin4 .D.w 5-vv U`aV\fr\vn-.`-\a\.- . I Evening -brings all home... and the `last rays of the declining sun fell upon Master Middlerib with a short. %.wi-do-mouthed {bottle comfortably populated with `hot. ill-natured bees. fllhe -dime and the bottle changed hands. Mr. Middlerib `put the bottle in his coat pocket "and con `jatideddhis guilty secret to none of. the lta.mily.- He hid his 9bees in his bed-` room. andas `he looked at them `he "wished the bees `did not look so `hot ' and ' cross . tun: ,. --,,,'|.__I__ -1..- ---_._ 3.. L...) I..- IWVQVQOV OIJQ A ll Mr. Middlerib disrobed slowly. "then want intoybed. After lying a few moments he reached out and got his bottle of bees. ` Iawlvwgv was -cvv-av It is not an easy thing to do to, pick one bee out of a bottlcful with his fingers and not get into trouble. The first bee Mr. Middlerib got was 9. little `brown honey-bee. that would- not' weigh half an ounce if you pick- ed him up `by the ears. but if lifted by the hind leg he would weigh as much as thclast end of a `bay mule. Mr. Middlcrib could not {suppress a groan. ' ..1Iru_-;u_ A_I__ _..-L.L__ ---!Ll. ..-L. on 501$ V5 9909: I -W3he n =eve.rybody else was in bed he sought` his room. 1r__ 1:2.-|.1l-..:I_'.I2-..-1..-A ..I..-..I.. .L1......{ u-"'I?,\.x: as";(:r.$I. `:'l`1.a`r.<.lmI)'rul;I'r. Middle: rib to say t'hat`he only `felt `hot but he did it. He did feel very hot iinde'edi--asbout eigghty-six all over. and one hundred `and ninety-seven on the end of his thumb. He reversed the bee and pressed t`he warlike terminus of '-int firmly against his rheume-ti=c knee. . I II _ `L- a.':'\U}-V;-l;at's th matter with y.oj.1?_1 sleepily enquired his wife. '1; _____ ____.__ .1__.`__1 ;-___ 1-_ -n,f:;,1|,__ m.I?.didn t hurt '_asA; `badly as he thought. it would.` ' ~ I It didn't hurt at allr. Then Mr. Middlerib remembered thatwvhen the honey-bee stabs a fhuman foe it generally leaves its 'harpoon in the wound. and the in-` valid knew that `the only thing this zbee had to sting with` was doing its work in the -end of his thumb. , 1 vv vast III He readhed his arm out fromiund-' er the sheets and dropped this dis- abled atom of rheumatism liniment on the carpet. Then. after a second of blank wonder `he began "co feel around for the |bottle.. and wished he knew what `he did with it. .Me_antime strange things had been going 611. When `he caught hold of (`he first me -Mr. Middlerib. for rea- sons. dnew it out in such haste than V vaau urn. ...~ -..---.~. Appalling Increase in the Number of Operations Performed Each Yer-How Women May 5: Avoid thejrn, _ . e . Going through the hospitals in our large clties one is surprised to find such a. large proportion of the patients lying on those snow-white beds women and girls. either mvaiting or recovering from serious operations. V V V um... ..1.,...1A n.:. 1. H... ...m..o mm; ,:._.;...__ C ' ~_.- 7 .._____.j_.:v Women in Our Hospitals CI \l|JJ DC` I`-`I43 \}tJCJICWVI\-II-IE. Why should this be the case? i Sim- ply because they have neglected them- selves. Ovarian and womb troubles are certainly on the increase among the women of this country-A-they creep `upon them unawares, but every one of I those patients. in the hospital beds had gleuty of warning `in "that bearing- own feeling. pain at left or right of the womb, nervous exhaustion. pain in the small ofthe back, leucorrhoea, diz- ziness, atulency, displacements of the womb or irregula`rities.. ` ' `xfknn 4-I-`nan nurnnl-nvvuu $11!!!! `ii"i;1"LZa```1;3Z`Z;ms Show them- selves, do not drag along until you are [obliged to go to the hospital and sub.- mit to an o era.tion-but remember _tha.t Lydia . Pinkha.m s. Vegetable Compound - has saved thousands "of ~ women from surgical operations "Knnn urnrnnn` oven Q-vnrIh1At` mr`.11 VV\-Isl-JUL]. J-L\Ju4 uucstuw; vllvbwugvuu When women"are troubled with its regular, suppressed or painful 1_nens_t_ru- ` ; ation, weakness. leucorrhgaa. _disp1a.ce- ` mentor ulceration of the womb. that bearing-down feeling, inammation of` the To_va.rie's, backache, b1oating`(or at- ulency). general debility`, indigestion, 'g_nd- nervous -prostrution. or at-e,_ beset 7With suh aymiztoms as dizzit'xess",1a.sVs`i-;' ty.:1rri.tabi1ity,' nguvouf ewe-9.; u __\j.d_u.~ axeitsbll 3.11:: [uni `%i%:gg"e"`ii t8i}'g3t Hl:l %abuk 7::2$: I bottle and` its remedi 1 ooniients. and`; left it lying unoork d in the bed. __--__. I_!._-__-Il ._ ,_-..-___..J_ -v-v v- -v ---3 `--u--v-cu-v- qu- between himsiellms A and L -his":3;;iot:e`xi_i':' wife. In the .tdn:rkness_" there `had been? a fquietv _T_l)gt genera! emigra- tion from the bottle. The bees were om-w-ling aimlessly elbdu-t- over the sheet. While Mr. Middlerib` was.'eel in'g'around for it his -ears were sud-' denly thrilled and*_his `heart frozen by ,a wild.` zpiereingjscream from his wife. ` roared : And`a lame ;buxi1f)le. xvifin Aa sting as .pitiless as the finger of scorn. just then climbed up -the inside of` Mr. Mj'd~dl-erib s nig!htshirt.. until it got sqimrely between `his shoulders. and then it -felt for his marrow. . [And Mrs. M'i'ddleri'b fel_t ashamed` of her feeble soreains _when.Mr. Mid- .dleri*b thiqaw up both arms, and. with a howl that made -the windows rattle nan t\1, I-..) -1? QAAI-# ` .`:1;d'Zurder'!' js'he screamed. Mur-! `ll-Bl`! 0'11! Help me! Help! Help! nu-v;si___91_ _,'-L 'I.`_IL _--__e._.1_L 2.. --qv- . _---`- _-v - .-_-_r . --v_r . ` Mr. Middlerib _s'a-t bolt upright` in lbeod. His hair} stood on end. The night was war`m.`ibut he turned to ice in a minute, T ' - 0\-it one up guunucnu-vvp \ Where in thunder--he said with pallid'lipS. as he felt all over the` `bed in frenzied haste: "where arej [them bees?" _` _- , - 1 ILI , _L!..__.\ 1 L IJU-INUVI o ; -`teak-e him out Oh. land or soott.` 3 somebody take him off!" __-L_.. - Iu..LI.. Ina;-unv_`\nn hnrinn L WGQV &lll-bl Va... . y _ And when a little honey-bee began tickling the sole of Mrs. Middlerib s_ foot she shrieked {and went into .-apaauxa. '1ihe household was `aroused by this time. Miss Middlerib ,a.nd- Mas_ter_ _Middlerib and -_the -servants were pouring into the room. adding to the general confusion by howling_ at random and asking irrelevant ques- tions. while they gazed atthey fig- ure of a man a little on in years. arrayed in Da long nightshirt. -*paw- ing fiercely "fat the unattainable spot in the middle of his back. while he danced an umnatural; weird, wick- ed looking jig by tlhe dim religious lightof the night-lamp. `And while he danced and howled. and while they gazed and ivondered and shout-. ed. a navy-blue wasp. that .Master Middlerih had 'put in the bottle for good measure and variety and to keep the menagerie stirred up. fired himself across the room. and to hisj dying day `Mr. Middlerib will always believe that one of the servants mistook him for a burglar and shot him. - ' If. Il'!j.!I-..!l.| spasms. lIIL_ 1.. LII!-Ll: No one. not even Mr. Middlerih. hfmself. could "doubt that -he was, at least for the time. mcst thorough`- lyv cured of this rheuma.tism.-"The -- - .cu-v `sv York ' Weekly." - Ado`u:.yon'_Me zel,- man artnst xs ead. 90 years. . . ` 1 Dear Mrs.` _1 661...... .. .IJ8l' _ll.I`S.._I'lllKlllllll P`. I was In a V8!` semous co wrote to you for vice. I had -...a ..... .. o......I..I.-. ......l `I ...u. nditio when I a serious womb IA uni p....-.- A WFUIR3 DU 'uu LU!" W4lV1L`rUq I. uuu uaunuua VVUIIIU and ovarian trouble and I could not carry a. child to maturity, and was advised that an 1 operation was my onl hope of recover . I ` could not bear to thin of goinglm the i- ` ta.l,`so wrote you foruadvice. I `d as you u- 3 structed me and took Lydia. E. Pinkham' j Veetable Com und and I am not on] a"! we . . woman y,but have abeautiful but y i ah-I uiv I-nnnna nhl `I nvinn all sink and 1 Y6; ya; WUH WUUIIII uruuy , uuu LIGVU G IEGUIIII us USU] I girl six months old. I advise all sick an suffering women to write you for advice, as ! you have done so much for me. A - " VV MU WU GIVU OGUSUU -Ill. LIIU unnuug ] schools through the country to look down t upon patent medicines, and while the doctors 1 inthe hos itals slightingly of them to y Ratiehts, have ound that they really know j immmnl-. `I lunni {'1-Anncmv lznnwn Phv`. % Miss Lillian. Martin, Graduate of Training School for Nurses, Bx-antford, Ont.A, writes: T . - Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- BGYXYLIIA Q2"; nu}: \uunn`-uC- "In 1 ~ 4 I lI.DI.BlI.l3' L LKSVU I.Ul.llU. Idlllall DIR! IUGIIJ ILIIUW ` gitferent. I have freql1>1io}:1tly known Ph- sicians togive Lydia E. kham`s Vegetab e finnun.-xnn fn urnmnn alinna with thin mnf. ` 310111;]!!! DU 1VU Hyull I34: I uuulnua B V cgvlvlll Compoumi _ serious complications of ovarian troubles, fallin of the womb, leucorrhoea and other Aian an: Thnv urnnh-I nah mild nnh it In to women suffering with the most 15115" UL IIIIU WUHIU, IUUUUl'AlLIUCG UUUUI` ` We S-.,.1~T'::Yb';:...`i` dz .:`1;t*1?:o`*~ *5: re or m xc e es an a mo 1 orgother names, but I knew it was your Oom- I gonad and have seen them fill it` in f>1_'eacrip- on bottles. Inammation and aeration have been relieved and cured in a few weeks by its use, and I-feel it but due to you to give %r};dPi;Lr m s Vegetgble Coxppound 1 Lydia. E. Pinkha.m's Vegetable Corns; ' `und at once 1-emoves_>`s1:el_1trou_bles.r., .us,e to be any other for` ;.y_o1 1:;eedd.ati;_e` ` gt. {~_;,-.:.> 1 A vD`h`!]I`!I'\Lhiw`I' ` . " veal J!l,l'5- .I{llJ&l.lu.l.lIi"" While we are taught in the ml-unnlaui-hnvnluah tho nnnntl-1r fn Inn`! dnwn ` the noted. Ger- at the agc_of No; it aint - `Royal `Household eaFTd thefiumer. L , ,, ' ` -ibutrit is just on good .-_-fax? the arocer_eeid so. "-Ii_hen I asked for `Royal Household , he recommended thie kind saying it wee just. as good, `but didn't 5331: as much, so I laid I'd try in. The Honest F|ourBanelL and the Farmers Wife.` ` 9 Onoiipott :`stifm_eIiTI l1oheat_ohr barrel was ten: out to 3 farliiaz-. s houee, full of our-I:ha wise wife looked fthe bprre` o'ver carefully and then said toher huh- band.-- ' ' --Iaom think this is the flour I wanted- I don : nee `Royal Household- on it." nli n {I _ I 1)) , `on `:1 wish you had done .31 seid.-I don t think much of these ` just. as good" grocere any, woy-I went the our that is puried `by electrihity for I believe 1:. is healthier 1' However; since we have i-xst got this, suppose we might so well use ' it, endshe had the barrel rolled into the {pantry and opened up._ . "Lookspretty good, `she and to herself. ~ Modem spoke up the Honest` Flour Barrel even our experts can : tell about onrjust by. looking or it. Any our, if there is no other our to compare it with. looks white and nice--but if yon bake it into breed and then belie "Royal Household into breed you can see the difference. Now, the truth about this ovur i, it is I made of cheap wheat, in 8 cheap mill by a cheap brocees. Flour that is not highly puried contain: a lot. of sum that ient our and the process` 1of takinjz. all of it out in expensive---tbat. s why pure out (.03.! more. ' ' The Minister of Agriculture. in reply, said Mr. Lennox had (brought up `an important question. and one which was apparently'engaging the attention of the public men in the old country. Mr. F-isher said he `had watched closely the report of the utterances on this subject of pub- lic ~men of both parties during the campaign now going on in the old country. but he hiaid felt it was not for _any public man in Canada to interject into a `political cotnrtrover_- sy in he old land. the view of the Canadian people on this subject. He thought that it would injure the position tlhat Caanadia mfght occupy in the discussion of the subject with the British Government when the" time was not ripe for re-opening the discussion. Som-e time ago the then `Minister of Agrioulturein England declared emphatically there was no use discussing the question. because the embargo would not bewremoved. Since that`-statement the Govern- me_nt felt there was. nothing "to do until an opportunity arose for re-. opening the question. Within the last few: weeks." continued Mr.Fish.- or. What `appeared to me` to he an opportune occasion `for ;e- openiing_th-e questions occurred. i There was a re- port. appa-ren.t.Ly a-uitheinitic. that the ~present- _,Minister of Agriculture in- England had declaredwthat if-rom his own observation the people of Can- ada .-seemed satisfied 9 with the pre- sent condition, of affairs. an-d tlmil`. being `the case. there was no no- cessity `for -further -ldiscussing "-the matter. I. took the liberty of mak- ing a recomme'ndation~to His Excel- lency` in .cou_ncil, that -'a despa-tch. `should be sent to the Home Govern- ment. drawing attention to this ut- it were correctly reported. and Vpointi-`n-g out that it `o;_1.._tJhe` Ljfiniater of Agric~u_lture_'was 1@bc:ins.i1d`9r 5%` .mStj crave _mis+. ' `eppzelliensfqn as to the ' condi`tion- . of" A :o`pi`n`ion'..-eon `tc_hijs .` question "in- Canada. - "1 re 1 v`to"`t`h'ate;1,d;e'spa-toh. '-has Pure out is worth all it costs and more too If you` knew the whole truth alwout. our, yon d send `me back and get `Royal Household . ' And the Honest Flouf Barrel having said its any subsided. but after the tirat baking. back went the barrel to the grucer and Roval Honsehuld Flomj was sent in its stead ' --azzclz {he gr)cr\,.:1::ut sell the jst asi goon" our any more. Any reader may have the Royal House- hold" recipes free by. nodding name and ad- dress to the Oc.n.vu:A 1~`LocP. MILLS Co , LTD , Mox'rm:.u.. Mr.` Haughton-Lennox. M. I .. inj a recent sittivngtof Parliamengc. drew attention to `the_ca b1e report of the speech oi`-Mr. H-enry Chaplin. M. P.. at Oakham. in which he character- ized theproposalt to remove the em- bargo on /Catnadia-n cattle in Britain as "an_a-ct of insanity. Mr- Len.- nox wanted to know what steps. if any. t!he`Government was taking to have the embargo removed.- lI'\L- `ll"_.!-L-# 5 IA ,__ ; -n\ the Farmer : Wife uses Rays! 1 Household and n0tl1'\ug else . .. u u I The Cattle Embargo`. THE` NORTHERN ADVANCE`. Pohiladelphia North Americ-an.:_ A-5 cross the great {lakes in Canadal there `lies one of the worl_d s largest a reserves_ of timber. In spite of `the tani-ff imposed. mwah of this `timber is today coming "into the United, `States. The forests of 4t'h-e Dominion are `beginning to yield abundantly. More- `than. 100,000,000 feet of pine sawllogs `and sfq;-u'a.re timber. during a recent `season. were out upon the territory held under "timberrlicensc from the -crown. 0 ' Sarmh Bernhardt, whose persever- ance knows no flagging is now on- gaged almost .continuously in lherg spare moments in studying the Eng- lish language. with a view to appear ' ing. and tihat first in the United. States. in a play written in English.` `She will make her first efforts in a play by Pinero. `but has `not yetde- " cidedv just when or where. Bern- hardt says. somewhat dolefullyythazf English is the `hardest language she has yet `attacked. `but that she is quite determined to conquerit. Mme. Bernhardt is one of the most .sa'i.'is- factory examples. of women. _who` never grow old." and` one who proves that it is not those whose lives are` beds of roses who retain youth. A "life of incessant activity. and varied interests. or, in other words. hard work. but variety of it, .would seem , to `be he real .fountain_ of youth; to_ those who take` reasonable "care ji off their health. - , V Everyone knows that Bernhardt paints "and sculptures with -no small '~- man .and that she dictates many `skill; that she is a good sportswo- I I articles for magazines and papers. Aside from all these, however. she; designs her gowns. embroiders and" engages in animal breeding. being very fond of the :dumb beasts and well acquainted with their 'habits.3 and is also an ent'hu,siasticp student of `plantlife. No matter what is on the tapis, she neyer "misses her` morning. hour with `her fencing mas- ter. When one considers that `the great French actress is over. 60 years of age. an.d that in addition to all- these fads and interests she works laboriously as an actr_ess- before and-` iences w-hi'c-hexpect the. highest art possible on the stage, one sees,wh_at can `be accomplished in many lines- by' women blessed with brains and ; Aver : Pills. Increase the activity of V `the llvor. and thug alcl rocovory. J It has `been estimated that. at the : present rate of cutting. the_ `greatest timber resources of the United S`.ate s . -those of the Pacific coast--will Poe! exhausted in less than half a` den-: t,ury. The annual cut of shingles and lumber in these regions is 4.-' '500i.000.000 feet. The standing tim-2 her in'- .VVashing'.ton. Oregon and- Northern California at present is! (twice that of the original timber lands of ibhe northern woods. `Wash- ington produces about as many feet. of shingles and other l-umber as 0re- ; gen and California together. The State of Washington islnoted for . its shingles. -there being more than; one thousand shingle mills within its borders. At Tacoma are located the largest` saw mills in the United States. 4 I F" ` 61 '4 I \ IL. I anwrccc -..v Much of Canada's timber land has not yet vev-en `been explored. In `the newly-developed` district of Algoma. which is close to the great lakes. it is estimated that there are more, t-hans10o.ooo,0o0 cords of spruce -and` pulpwood. While in the districts of Thunder Bay and Rainy River there are nearly 200.000-.000 cords more. _ A belt at least 3000 `miles long is be-. lieved_ to -exist A in Canada between ' Alaska and rt'he Atlantic. I 1(1;>.alt.l1VV. anon` roetoru tor conga: um oouu. ; know t out! nttongthou weak lung-3. us. . A. Bonnrson. Spline. men. .7. c. an oo.. Lowell Hui. Take c_6Vld%aslly? Th:-on`: tender? Lungs `weak? Any` relativcs. have consumption? Then` a cough means a gregt deal to you. Follow your! doctor's advice and take. .Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. = It` heals, strengthens, prevents. u-_-'un _'--.._ 9 q___- .|.__...1..I ._ A...-D- "VVcak'vI.uT1gs CROV P io one of the dunqoru of child- hood. It must he outed quick- ly and pormononqly. Sl_lloh'o C61-3-mlmon Cure jib,-A ;;I`-xi.-is 4