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lrneasured 13 feet 4 ll`! feet; 3 inches spread from toenail from 2,000 to 2,502 pounds. `me sxm of the largest fellow I ever killed inches long and t) menail, I can lift as much as the average man.` but I'm` telling it ~straight when I say that with Mrs. Chase to help `me I couldn t turn that fellow over on'his back to skin him: But ynu were telling about the seven bears you got all at one time, he was reminded. urn; 1.1.-` ';|___, :9 kn an`-A T afnrtpd I he remmaea. Oh, that day. he said, I started four bears. a thing that frequently oc- curs up there It is no uncommon fsitzht to nd :1 female with two or `tlfree cubs bisrgzer than she is._ Then the beat? of that region are kind oi sociable and it's usual to nd several - tognth er. . :11*v_'Il 1' z,.n.........-I C`-anon fnnr rinwn tog=t.h>r. -Well. I fonmved these .four down into 3 g:u1eh, than gefng into a good [position I got bnsv with my gun. I had no sooner laid the-.n'1 out than I looked up and saw fhn-eomore coming down the other side of the gulch. -U! I had to {Io was wait. unu_- 1.-.... ... ...-.4:-.-.IIu n nnwqrlv MI I hill`! to (10 was Wain. The boat is naturally a cowardly animal. Unless he; is pretty hungry or awfullv mad the hunter runs no danger uniess he etumbies over one in soma brush. Tho average hunter S who brings back stories of being (`has- ied by a hear I am inclined to think is a victim of circnrvwiances - and possiblv of undue` fimiriity. mu um fir-at ehnf. ux. hear. if not p0SS1.Dl" DI l1Il(11J.f' uuu'.uL_-/. At the first shot the hear. I seriously hwrt, iq boinnd to 90* 110 and look aronnrl and then start for some- I where. If he sees the hunter he will ga the other wav nsu:.1l`;y. If he does- n't, he is as lilrolv to start toward him as in any other direction "Twenty feet is the nearest a. bear, bent on mischief, ever pot to me. An old female. whose cub I had brnught down. came for me one day and she. was mad. She was sixty or seventy yards distant and in a bunch of alder when I took my first shot at her. She got up and came out into the clear- ing and then she saw me and came for me in earnest. I worked my gun pretty rapidly and the shots_ took ef~ feet. She was about six paces away when she dropped. u\t_.. tYl-...... nu-\r1 T.nnf n Qhtlf OHC9. seven Buns III A nlw. wnen 8111*`. Lu Uppvw 1. Mrs. Chase and I-got a scare once. * `though, in rather a ludicrous way. I `had three camps in a, lonnhr region where for three years Mrs. Chase nev- er saw a. whie woman. I had put un "~--3-- An knunna nf ("'I';f+. W0n(l. whip. woman. 1 mm pun uu 'bavra.ia8, or houses. of drift wood. the only kind available. We were \ going from one camp to another when i I brought down a bear. tn-11,. .....s.-.. 4 nn hnrrvn an We stor). We were in no hurry. so we ped, built a re and had sortie lunch. After lunch-about an hour after the ` shooting-.-we went down into ~at gulch ` where the bear was lying. Mrs. Chase was carrying an aluminum teapot. I got her to help me turn the bear over, and I was about to remove his hide, when the big fellow suddenly came to.1ife.. .. You should have semi Mrs. Chase. 1 go up thathillside. The best of it; was, spite of her haste. she took time to rescue her "teapot. I believe I jumped about twenty feet myself. If Lt...` I-mp lnn been in shape to do I brought down 9. Dear. \ jumped about twenty teen luytscu. .. I that bear had been in shape do` damage, there might have been some ` trouble-but he wasn t. As a gene;-al `; thing t.he,r e isn't much adventure, 1t s | `.4 Ana pt 3rd. 3631- % ms. A _Jap Press iUn-friendly. 'I'he.London Daily Mail s Tokio cor- respondent s recent cable, that the anticipation that the problem of As- iatic immigration to British would be settled by Japanfs imposing restrictions` is not `yet real-xzed. -H01}. In_.1..1_.L.\ Tannhanv `1`nfIRf. in 1 Columbia i ; restrictions is not `yet. I881-xzuu. -Lxvu. [Rodolphe Lemieux, almost in despair at therprocrastination of the Japanese -oiclals, with whom; he has had'-sev- -_-1 _1.-..4.'... Mmfm-nhnns- declgg-33; -oicials, with wnom ne uua uuu"uv;v~ eral- abortive conferences, declares: %We are no farther ahead than on the day of my arrival." Baron Hay- ashi in an `interview on A the subject emphasized the unocial character of Mr. Lemieux s visit, pointing out that 1 he was ngetely-`at Tokio to inspect lo- cal conditions. '1'ne Japanese plcaa has been urging the Government not to give a moment : consideration to a pro to restrict the suppl of un- The skil ed labor to Canada. ", the only independent newspaper in To- kio, `insinnates? -that the matter has been settled _already, and that the to popular sentiment- other onrnnls are distinctly abellicose. 0 Vokio 3` ck," which caricatured S_ec- \ V retary Taft` dnring.3h`is recent visit, a envoy gi_n~a ' _....:1`.:..` "'n;n`l\I| ., THE NORTHERN ADVANCE `GOLD-SEEKING [In THE vuxou A prominent lawyer of Belleville, Ont., tells the following story which * is very well known in that town, but may not be familiar to readers else- where. A few years ago "there used to be an hotel there which was no- toriously toug . so much so that it was not supposed to be safe for a farmer in his cups to venture within its walls. It occasioned little su_r- prise, therefore, when one day a visi- tor from the backlands of Hastings made the allegation that on the pre- vious night he had entered the hotel and the bartender, whom we shall call Bill, had relieved him of $100 and slugged him into the bargain. The bartender was arraigned before the magistrate and secured a remand. When the hearing took place, the vic- tim told his sordid tale, xing the date with exactness. Much to the surprise of all, when the defence was 1 called, six bizarre-looking persons from Trenton entered the witness-box and swore positively that on the night in question Bill was in Trenton play- ing a friendly game of poker with them. So complete was the alibi that it apparently convinced the pris- oner- himself, as subsequent events proved. His character restored by the dismissal of the charge, Bill re- turned to the hotel, put on his apron and resumed his vocation. Duringl the afternoon his friends from Tren- ton came in, and lining up at the bar, suggested to Bill that he ought to do the handsome thing. Cert! said Bill, have a glass of ma -.. `D{11 unit` nnn, it's `ID to beer. Say, Bill, said one, it's up you to open wine. You know how we swore you out of it this morn- o ing. \ \xn...+,P' nhnuted the horried bar- 0; What !" shouted tender, you mean to say you're a lot of condemned perjurers. Get out ` this bar; we don t allow no such --~-- -~--mm: n.;.. ham] 1" of this bar; cont. : characters around this Canadian Wheat.` I The Canadian cattle exported in 1 1907 put over $12,000,000 into the pock- ets of the cow-men, but the cow-men of the binders. A man rides away d round-up, and coming back ten weeks later rubs his eyes to see a brand new town with popcorn His Majesty s postoice where he had left bare range. It is swift work. One day the wind in the prairie, the next a surveyor s stake, two weeks later the sharp conversation of the hammer on the nail-head, the char- tered bank, the corner grocery, an- other little blotch of red on the map, and a new city of the plains. For be- hich will ice a nation is developing w be able to its vast ter- has furnished . V evolutionol Japan represent the progress the nineteenth cen- Oanada is the modern of the last half of nm numlmnimr of L..-_. . stands and ' tween the parallel of 49 and Arctic ` furnish the world with. the last. nan ox_ we umc.w...... ...... tnry; the awakening of Canada [index of the genius of the twentieth. President Creelman of the -Ontario 1 Agricultural College. Guelph, indulg- `ed -in some happy repartee at the McMaster University Literary Society, * '_"I`oronto, the other day. The princi of the Farmers Uni- versity had been invited to speak be- tore-the students at-the annual open- ing of the litera _i society; His en- trance to the pla orm was the signal iointhe` boys to begin a series of cock- . re`-does and other noises redo- L_.L-._: an- -Carin vnwlj. Without '8l1Q Olouvl u.u.Luv_u avuv dent of the farm yard. Without any apparent _disturbane . the principal opened.h1s"a.dd!,'ess by saying: "`I .o(I1oI amd centlemen; and old roosters m me gauury; ; uuu . ..... not so far rengoved from t.he'!a1-m 099 address Dy "Ladies and Benemell} ; roosters in the zsallery: 1} 1..-; -- Cg-` I- ` . frnm saying ; old anal-am the` farm Had to Draw the Line. ` Roosters In the Gallery. II V '1 law} 38111888 (O say, . hug. .5vu.uu. vu` LU W LIV GI. hotel !" I \oV7nA* *A_` __ FOR ONE YEAR FROM DATE, for mi_nd tn: ve-rtxscmentg ot later uh -. coov for mun.- ;---poR-;.- For those who do not wish to take a daily paper, this offer is UN- PARALLELED. AND b on rough I pplicatious ass, and by * in acquire: j mess of 3. I). and shall be` .r S2LInc which no-ntion. oIaa"i.Zv'. ice as many ENT. ETC. j INSURANCE - 11 first mart`. Icited. Jlding. OWOB 1 :i M~\1; Y; vani put. A PE`.\"l`S. E-1---S--!'4~-5'01"?!" V Est class COAL kmr increas- GI... 'm. r close at 318:. 22k %w;3~% `icky. and: ` momenta { _uiniZ' ;a1 o al advertiu 2 an advanoq on no othgg: given. Thu} {Q39 ElP_ usn must In evil` uetal banal 3 ;)O.\'IA. ordi nnn `I\ KTIONSQ` :1 Postal if you I 1: loaf of our- 1r__u;st IAN. CREAM but we of-_ ` are our fo_ea_. !I_0._9!* lD%SOM` :KERY !"!-1--I-`!'i"Q JITH vr Bradford. I 3.0 Barrie. FUL 134,61` ALL1sToN.-TTue death of Mr. - xl,.Ic'ninrl1r nne nf the nio- ALL1D1U1V.`-'Ll1C uuaux u; 4.... illiam McKnight, one of th pio- cr settlers of Tecumseth and one its best known residents, took ace on Monday morning very sud- nly. for about a year Mr, Mc- night had not been in robust alth, but the nal summons came ith startling suddenness soon after cakfast on Monday when he pass- ,.-I..II.. nII1'!17 \I1"I1In `in ons and six daughters. The re- ooii.-~H eralil. ORILLIA.--A meeting of the oard of Directors of the East Sim- oe Agricultural Society was held in he Council Chambers on Saturday ftcrnoon last and there was a good SllI`VlVC(.l Uy uvua. 1.\.un5u, .......- ie c 8 c I ttendance. It was decided to hold } he liall liair on the 29th and 30th ` eptember. A Spring Stallion and S ull Show will be held in June. A I eed Show will be held in February. ` The chief business of the after- ` oon was the proposition from the 1 own Council re purchase of the E. . A. S. for park purposes. There I as a long discussion on this im- 3 ortant subject, all the directors peaking freely on the matter, and nclining favorably towards the j Council's suggestion. `However, 1 here were a few amendments to the I own s proposition, and a few items added thereto, which will be favor- able to both parties. This proposi- tion will be submitted to the Coun- cil at its next meeting. Should this proposition go through it will un doubtedly be a splendid thing for the town, and will assist the E. S. A. S. out of their present difficulties and put them in such a sound posi- tion as to bring their shows to a successful is.sue.--News-Letter. PENETANG.--The military re- serves lying to the north of Pene- tanguislienehave long been outside of any municipal government, _but now that the land is not requiredi illiam Mcxxmgnt cauu: LU uaiiaua `om County Down, Ireland, with his rents and settled in Essa sixty ars ago. Upon his marriage to iss lilizabetli Keown of Essa, hich took place on Christmas Day, 57, deceased removed to Tecum- th, where he continued to reside for ver half :1 century. Being a man of tegrity and industry, he enjoyed e respect and condence of all who new him. He was a member of e Church of England, Alliston. He survived by Mrs. Knight, three ___I Z n -- z`nunr11f'n1'C Th ff!- CKKIEISE U11 LV.I.uuua_y vvlavan u. 3...... peacefully away while sitting_ 'in s chair at the table. Heart failure s the cause of death. The late illizml McKnight came to Canada f`.... T\.~....n `Ireland with his -L-. _'AH*URSDAY, FEB..6th, THE FARMERS OPPORTUNITY. rsx page such und, property (3108. CLO" I cash. and L-ms per W ~nI per W0 ted as wordg). 1' word will b.) rnions of Sam` 'Are Lacking in Educative Organiza- tion. a WALL PAPEF?! VVAIL%PA?1?R LJILCIJ 9A\vvv-- -~.V I Canada has material wealth in abundance. In area we stretch east and west from the Atlantic to the Pacic, and from the American boundary on the south our product- ive terrxtory extends at least 800 miles to the north, Our resources ' ` ' `:~`-~--3- rs` rnnrvPll0LlS miles to me norm, uut u,.w....,-- include sheries of -marvellous wealth, rich timber lands, coal de- posits of unknown extent, and pos- sibilities in electrical development from water power of still greater value. Our mineraldeposits are at- tracting the attention of the - whole world, and our grain elds will soon be one of the principal sources of the world s bread supply. We have the territory and the natural riches from which a dozen nations could be created. ` * ` D%0i1g.a!1, %%!t9_s- But material things at themselves suicicnt to r tion great; real greatness consists, not in the poss that people, but in mm` and intelligence. iimcoe County` and District. vuu luLuun5w..--\.. Are we in this country seeking t,_ ' develop this strength and , 1t.u"'f gencc? Are we as farmers `perform- ing our whole duty in the matter} On the farms of -Canada we `should find the moi-al backbone.and.stabtl-~ ity of the country. As landowners we are capitalists in a_ sma1l_}N3Y3`?._ '9 so inclined to be conserVa_tW;., 35 tillers of our own `elds weiare lab~ orers and so naturally disposgd J10] sympathize with those xvho-.*tQllt-*"_|.1h` their hands while still `free(_l. 50m- the tendency to ultra radical1s_m..A_ freeholders we are no man ! Iig Tno employing corporation- control our will. ~ ' - `II-II VV I110 But are we as farmers hvma to our opportunities? = Are. ' ping ourselves_ with the. k?V`f`;n`;`E. and understandmg by which .`1:)h' sion may be fu1=_l_led?_-';_ If. t * -that knowledge 133?? " of giving expressoa;on`t1.. _ the; best ;'"s`ystet`n"'o_f dc lernmentj injothe , ` c_ia1 _Lg;gi'slatur.e_ I. in P (E. C. Drurry, Crown Hill.) _..L,...:..1 u-nan`!-I1 More VAII new designs. BoI?de`r'and Ceilings, all sold by the R011 and At the same pri_ce. at FuRN117tT1'mANn cAnrm~ srom-: WHAT THE EXCHANGES =SAY. Than Material Things. are .not of icnt make a na- greatness of a. people possessions of t moral strength` OUR NEW LINE IS for the purposes originally intended, is is proposed to give it to the ad- joining townships; A petition to this effect has been sent`. to the Do- minion Government and was pre- sented by Mr. W; H. Bennett, M.P., on Monday. There are a number of settlers on the land, and it is that these may enjoy the benets of muni- cipal and educational organization that the present move is being made. -Collingwood Bulletin. uu IUl' HUG. `(:53 office not: onday in an nnouncemen ' week follow. allowed osition ring I` d to use the 1 outside th they do no for such an l COLLINGWOOD.-The Colling-. `wood Shipbuilding Co. opened its works yesterday morning with a large `force of men, which will be added to from time to time as work opens, up. We understand the com- pan y`liad applications to the niimber of several hundred, from all parts of the Province. The fact that the yards- will again open is a. matter of great satisfaction to the townspeople iand_':`i t is-to be hoped that they will not,--cl_9s,r_e again for some years at lea'l.~?'"`I-.n any case they have con- tracts that will occupy the next eighteen months with a staff of six or ~(sexi'eti' hundred men.--Enterprise. gt! OWEN SOUND.-The' question of elect;-i,c power promises soon to be- come a very live one. The Geor- gian Bay Power Co. has been going on with work on its plant at Eugenia Falls, and the time has about -come when the town must take action if it would obtain power from this` WHCH lllc I.\J VV ll Jnluub van.-- -____ power from this 5 source. A representative of the com_- I pany is in town to-day, to confer l with the council in the matter. It 1 will be remembered that early this ' winter the terms `offered the town for the supply of power were stated in The Sun, The bargain looks like a good one--to deliver up to 3,000 horse-po.wer, at $20 per h.p., the town to build the transmission and service lines. 'Now, we have good authority for saying that the Ontario Government is willing to undertake the building of the transmission line, on the same terms as it is proposed to build the lines from Niagara. to the various towns in the southern part of the Province, viz.: That the Province builds the line, and the ,municipality pays for it by the issue of long term debentures. The mar- ket for Eugenia power in Owen ` `Sound has been pretty well canvas- " sed, and the demand appears to be suicient to justify a contract fora supply of 3,000 h.p. On the whole the proposition looks,` on the sur- face, like a good one for the town. 3 The -Council will, no doubt, go into t it fully, and make no move without; 1 full investigation.-=Sun. these legislative bodies, and leave we means of laying opinions befoze these bodies if we had them? In too large a measure these questions must be answered in the negative. We lack alike the legislative organization in.which.opinions can be formc:l,and still more the organized means of expression. - Every farm home should have its own library--a library not made up `of yellow trash, but of stand.-u-d works containing the tnatwrcd thoughts of the'wor1d s thiu`. More than this is `required. In every farm neighborhood there ought to be a common centre in which farm- ers can come together and discuss public questions which aect them and aect the country _as a whole- a place-not for partisan debat.-.s or by means of which selsh _3ntcr<:sts ....... 1... nrnmnfed- but one in which `Dy HICRIIB U1 wuA\.u us. .... .. ---,, e may be promoted, but one in farmers may t themselves for the immensely important duties rcstmg upon them as members of :1 sili- governing community. This rrcc-ling place should be asocial. centre, tco --one in which people of all shades of religious opinion, and of all con- ditions in life--men and women, boys and gir1s--can come together for social enjoyment and` the pro: motion. of goodneighborhood. Fine : ally, we `should have all these local j centres linkd together in one. cum-p" mon bond-, so that the opinion which . - `is created in them may nd united. expression" through the central body. Grange Fills the Bill. Such an o:_,ganization as I. have pictured can be found in the Grange; In this there is a;place for all the members-* of the f_ar_me_rs families ;. in this there. is;a means by which" _ opinions, V based on knowledge, can ; be created: in ,th1sf1.wfe`Lfhave a means through *which `opinions, when form- .- ed, may berexpressjed in sucha man--_ p` ner as to .carrylthe_wei gh_t' `tofwhich ..thex..-ar9ctnSl$!s$1:., ; .3`f'- it 7 Ia: r-i` '- V` - . 1` `V , .. outnu- ":a;1. Ilvgp ' lrooms). of acreqt % H "Peel i.hd;Welllngtoii Sti-iota. Barrie. IV, - _yw- _. stible. drtvahonse. sheds land` in gnd lawns stable gnd shed. Large ist. Vien- t-Loaf. at inc Home A Library and a School. `Adventure Vwith Big Game _lt'I the " ` . Wilda of Alaska. `.'There is good bear-hunting on true Alaskan peninsula. I got `seven ink i zliee one afternoon, seven of t em ` -within a quarter of a mile and not o've r-"half an hour s timer. The small-. est. of them was a. three-year-old and I should say they averaged 2,000 pounde. It took thirteen cartridges to bring the seven down." anon` (1 (`Hanan I'IIII'|tAI' Dung I-Ill-3 seven uuw ; Grant G.. Chase. hnlntere a.nd`pros-' pector, who for eleven years` has spent most of his time "in the Alaskan /wilds, recently told 9. western reporter a few bear stories on the eve of returnmg to his favorite haunts. ` fl`- -_- ._l.-..- nnqqnlnn Inn; in to ms Iavoru-e nauzm-1. _ _ .To one whose gunmng lore -1s l1m1t ; ed these accounts of big game in the Far North are likely to awaken won- der-, but seven bruins _all at once is nothing to excite incredulity. accord- ing to Mr. Chase. It s .a poor da.y. s tramp that does not yield four or. ve big fellows. . ML -.. n-.. --......|..,....'-hm thorn in the D12 fellows. -- Then. for corroboration, there is the ` testimony of Mrs. Chase, who for sev- `eralvyeara "has shared her husband's life. and who has kept a diary where- in is `faithfully recorded thenumber 0.` boar, -caribou, sea otter and other fur-bearers brought down daily. and ci'{1reul_-measurernnts of the biggest 3 ms. ` III ______ -- 1 1.....- umlma am hr 600' sxms. - V V _ I suppose I have killed 500 or 13100 .bears , altogether." continued r. `Chase. O course a good deal of my itime has been given to some copper- properties I am interested in, or the number. might have been much larg- -- AL A-.. Hmn and nnnthpr I have number. mlgm. nave ueeu uluuu ....g, er, At one time and another I have hunted bear pretty much all through the Rockies, but there isn't another 1 plavcefo equal the_Alaskan peninsula. "Big? We11. .T 1l tell you. Those bears up there are the largest in the world. A full grown mule weighs 2.500 pounds. The skin ,g u., 1.......,.,.4 -',-'*l`:\nr 1 cmvnr killp [SKIN