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LIIC wdgca yaxu, IUII._y uxcu, \.nuynu,- ed on the Huntsvxlle Lumber `Co's. drive at Marion` vCreek, quit work_on Monday, and came into Huntsvxlle. T4. .....\.....-a 6-lane Han 1-nan I-sash: Bonn ' - 'ft}}fs}iiLLE_Dissatised with the wages paid, forty men, employ- AA A A-Ln Iirccosl-cur;'1n T Isrnlhnr `.r`f\ Monday, and Into nuntsvxue. It appears that the men have been receiving from $30.00 to 4o.oo per month, and were asking an increase LA QAIUI-\4\ our` QAQAA Fnmnanv IUUIILII, auu VVCIC aalxuxg an uu.:\.uo\.. to $45.00 and $48.00. The Company evidently refuse to grant .the in- crease. The -average wages prevail- ing on the drive- this year range from `$30.00 to $35.00, and only in some I instances is the larger gure of $40.- -.. ....:.-I "Fl-nun announce I:#I-1.. luataucca 13 Luc Ialscl IISUIC us. spq. I V. '00 paid. There seems little likelihood `that the Company will yield to the demands of the men. Many of the lmen belong to Huntsville. and the loss in local circulation will be felt, as the annual drive operations of the Huntsville Lumber Co_.'at Marion- Creek involves the expenditure of large sums of money. A new gang . :_ L_:.... ...-.-I- na\ no-up` ' 4-lac An- |arge_suIu3 Ul. u1uu.c_y. It lluvv sans Ins being made up. andhalf the de- ciency was lled on VS/ednesday morning. Others are being sent in daily, and the full complement.will be made up, this week. `Many [ofi these are coming from outside ooints. The trouble occurred at a most em- barrassingz time for the Huntsville i Lumber Co.. as upon the artive prosi ecution of the work at this particu- lar time much depends `in getting the drive out during high water. arid `in _.time to keen the mill operations I umnterrupted.--Forester. ' DIED, Q - TH'O`MP_SON--At her `late resi- dence, I20 O'Hara avenue, Toron- .to, on Thursday. May 7th,_Mrs. J. . C. Thompson, (nee Violet Bertha Lile, of ~-Ba.-ryie.) I T Interment in .-Prospect cemetery. - Indeed, the one great leudi feature of our new Heir Vigor may we! be said to be thie- -it etc a falling hair; Then. it goes one step archer--it nature in ratouehe lnmnd c'cl1P".9.| healthy > W71ere is Your Hair? in your comb? Why so? Is not the head amuch better place for it ? Better keep what la left where it belongs! Aver : I-lair Vigor, new improved formula, quickly stops, falling hair. There is not a particle of doubt about it. We speak very posi- tively about this, for we-know. "Doeanot.eIaauetl-aeolorgftluelnalp. I ,'-~ hon ` 80 If PAPERS FOR ONE YEARQFROM DATE, for N.B.-'-By% special arrangement the above ` offer,whIoh was to have expired April 30th, p xtpn`dId' to [any 30th. Don ! -' ' .*.`.E-`_-m 5:5`. 4-`. 'c.:.`i:~.\-.-,._'Z~:`.r .. 2 5 4 M *` [vi _ . ;,r . Northern Advance For those who do not wish to take a daily paper, this offer is UN-A ----FOR----L PARALLELED. AND 3 _ s be? "m HA1! ---.| - II In our all non d::;;."3`3 _ord will In "3-~:-.;..,_; LIV} Lanny IN yo and [nomezm . natal it you out of our` 505?. ;t ' Hon; I t ` Barm. . b. on ciap. lggulshenl 3'37. r CI; _-... up-u-an Eta, Barrio . at` I .n no: [ERY Sula. '8!jT4 n rough licationa . , and by 4 acquim j as: of 5. NIL. IN gs] AM what His Government Has Done to: Educntion--A-How the License Law is Being Enforeed-_-+Local Option and Three Fifth: Clnuse. e. In the opening address of the cams ` paign, at Hamilton, Premier Whit- my gave a full account of his stew- ardship during the term of.3 years and 4 months he has been in oice. 1 die touched tersely but clearly on ; the various reforms effected by his Government, and appealed condent-' i [y to the electors for a renewal of ` support. Among other _matters tak- en up were the educational policy, the enforcement of the license law, ` local option and the three fths ` clans. Folloiving is a verbatim re- port of his speech on these. heads: M Educational Policy- "i\'ow. then. with regard to educa- tion. We promised that we would . increase the support to our common` schools, in which 95 per cent. of the children of this province get theiri. education. Mr. Ross used to sayi that the public school was a stepping stone to the high school, the high school zi stepping stone to_the col- lege, and the college a stepping stone to the university. It was in this way that the system of education was to be niadc complete. Now, then,` my position when in opposition was quite the opposite of this. I con- tended that the public schools should not he the stepping stone or the doormat to anything else-the pub- lic scliools, where 95 per cent of thee Ciliidicll of our people were obliged to get what education they ever got --I contended that the public school should be made a substantive inde- pendent, self-centered institution, a school in which the children of the artisan or mechanic or laborer and the iuriners of the province should be enabled to acquire the greatest possible amount of_ useful informa- tion instead of being merely a step- ping stonc in a. system leading to something else; that the public schools slioiild not be merely a. place where a child should spend a large portion of his time in preparing him- self to go to a higher institution where he could never go. That` was! the difference. (Applause) And. 30 the rst thing we did was to increase the means of providing for the sal- aries of the teachers. In 1904 we paid for this purpose $358,000, While "1 1907 it was about $1,096, , being! Rn iI'II`Fnr.n4\ nf C`--.0.\.\.\ Than (Ln) ._.: ., Many men and wome} ' thought they Were doon1_d' ` U " Ighg;-1 kidneys were baqly ted--excruciating pams `Reed... `m.m1z and 11~?ne_.. Her all their 1ive%s,1 "' `K VVIIJ Ql}\l5lL vI,\Jy`J,\- \ \ 3"": I an increase of $738,000. Then, we 1 establislu-l 21 consultative, advisory 1 board, which would take up and deal .' with questions of every kind relating 1 t9 education, embracing representa- ` twes of the teachers of the different w Institutions of the p_rovince-the dif- ferent schools-and of the trustees, We have helped the rural schols t0 the extent of $60,000 or The gram to Toronto university has been mc_rcase_d from $143,000 to $342,900, Which is taken from the sucCS510n d,US. We have increased the 0011 tmuation class grants, and then we` have done this: We have broken 319- the school book ring. We have 18+ Sued school books for children: at _3 much lower rate than before. This ammgement will last until the new books which are necessary" are creat- Cd, and it is possible that 3 ti? provinces will join, and what, 8' Sblenrlid thing it would be,, ladies and gentlemen, if the provinces tall . Should join in having a similar. 5Y5? `F3 ?! of school books! We have low- ilfed the prices so that a set of Pub` if Qknnl l\..-,I__ ,1, fA_.-.na'r .necu=u~w-~- --------. *...-...__, the back. and hips... terrible Rheuxpatism ; and sciatica every vpnter. They `knew it was lndney disease- that caused all the trouble.` U1 scum)! DOOKS! we nave Luv` eyed lic school books which formed C083 31-30 ` ~ ' ause.) Then "`3.TL;`L49_ .__"=`.`.`.'...i`.". ..m.....3_` yr--ou now cost 49 cents. (App|a_usc.I_ _ hen, take the agricultural _'co1189- We`: Wllicll my f riend,MrM.ontei.thit_:' i mlmster of agriculture, presides. 9 . am -ndance at this college has very greatly increased, so that now W579 `"3 no fewer than 1,077 pupils, Sm? f You will remember that some. 3'`"5 ago I alluded to the feet.-that 's';ng]ermzmy there were a g'rea`t:m3Y 3}!` W97 the country, and in A\.15"'i.33`. llnmm; .1m.,, .1....... ...-..- n A-F4-wet agricultural schools .~-Sca`tt_cf:df. $'uVT in thaggfy alone there were :1 mad etweet} 7_5 an_d Ioq. -"\ `t i9 a begmmng up` that. d ..- 0`)? :1 beszmmmz.` but ERY. Whitney at Hamilton. *1-Vii All new designs. 8'01-ier dc `r -h" sold by the Roll and: at t.el`sam`;'|:igse',a.': mmN11*6iEANn CARPET s-ma our: NEW mm: is .4 VEOII: ----- vu vvC_ \uu.uUI- UU. pnuu` We ate not surprised at that because every- body understands that this is the most diicult part of any govern- ment's duty to carry on and admin- ister the license law of the province. To show you what condition the licenses were in in some of the larg- er centers of the province, just let me read_ a few lines from the rst commission. that was appointed by us in the city of Toronto. `Col. David- son said; `We found an absolutely rascally ,condition._ Some of the hotels were not fit for human beings to live in. Another commissioner, Millichamp, said: `I do not know how to express the lthy and abom- inable condition in which some of lthese hotels were found. Now this [is the way some of thehotels in `Ontario were managed under the [former government, and right under the nose of the provincial secretary himself in Queen s_ Park, The con- dition of some of the `hotels was simply horrible. -Now, it Isn't so to-day, andif any one here or else- where will say it is, and say it loud, we will take_ him along and prove to him that it isn't so, WhiCh We did not do. ,And~ we are nnt Gun-nrienrl nI- 41...; L . . . . _ _ . . _ _ -_ . tion, positively ` cl1n_ed to "Now,_we have reduced the num- ,ber of licenses. I have not the g- ures _before me, but we have reduced the licenses to quite an extent with- in three years. .And then, as to the enforcing of the law, let me give you the names of some of the gent- lemen who have declared that our action with regard to `enforcement has been good.- George F. `Matter, late leader of the Conservative party `. of -Ontario; Joseph, Gibson, president" . of the Ontario alliance; Dr. `C, V. . Emory, Dominion secretary of the Royal Templars. Now, all these au- thorities declare that we `have en- a forced the license law. Local Option. Now, let me say something about local option. That is a question there is `a good deal said about in these days everywhere. The leader of the opposition-, I notice, says very little about it. (Laughter.) That is a strange thing. *Mr. Lucas, during the last session _of the legis- lature, drew the attention of the leader of the opposition to'_the fact that he had not declared himself In relation to local option and the ad- visability of it, and strange to say_- though not strange from our P01"! of view--the leader of the opposi- tion, when asked by M1`. Lucas t0 take some kind of stand. on the Q1-195' and specically de- do so. 1111 netinn Cil'Cu1' '-uoll, C! ___A_.... He said that local SO. Slul 5||-,3`: ;._,\,._._ U option was a question of c1rcum- i, stances and other things--that we 1 were to be governed entirely by local p conditions. He said not a word to `show whether he was Opposed to t] local option or in favor of local 'op- tion. Now, then, when we went into b power the law said the people could } not get a vote on local option if the municipal council were opposed to it. We altered the law so that wherever `I 25 per cent of the electors desire a ( vote no `council can prevent the 3 taking _of the vote. -Besides that, we 11 did this" on the ground that we re- 3 quired a three-fths majority of the '1 people who voted on local option. t Another thing we have done is this-- 1 1 `we have arranged that wherever the < l people.vote for a local option by-l_aw ` A and carry it by a three-fths r_naJor- E ity, no tupenny-hapenny technicality , " `shall be allowed "to set aside -the pee: _ ' .ple s{ will. (Applause_.) So that to; -, moi`-row_ if a by-law 15 passed. and if 1 1 1 little error, it, is "it was a giltaedged ' it contains 'so_x__n_e ' Just as goodjas if 'i by -law. - 1 . nt`:U'L' flsncu v_....- , :n, as to the three-fths quirement. .V_Vg_have re- :at deal. of,cr1t;c1sm about :'ths clause: `It has `been- titish, un-American, and "things. This is the kind- used towards us by.peo- rhaps have _never entered _e_x_'i'ous examination of the . in ;4__. Ann r ;ell you. one u; u... id tci t-he three-fths. ,thing that under cer-' -by-laws for` the im _ 2 ...:4..`. rate I. NC : uvuuuululs C136 EUUUC tne Inl'eC"nItn5. .I could quote the utterances of. lead- papers, but I am not `going to take the time. Let us see how it - is in England. There never "was a sugges- tion ofany description leading to locaT `option introduced in the British parliament which provided for a de- cision byia majority vote, and yet ing clergymen and `leading news-I they tell us that thi-`cc-fths majority] is anti-British. I couid quote to you court, one of the members of Mr. 'Gladstone s cabinet, on this point, in which he said that the local veto the utterances of Sir William Har-I measure he was about to introduce .`i1u1"ehes bf _the `ttxajority V0 d0_8 gotvgovern in certain mat- ters of `internal economy. 3 I do not kn0Wjwh} . except 1; is for the same @5011. a reason that everybody un~ .d`ert_ands,e namely, that we want a pos1t1_ve, strong, unquestionable ex- presszon of .- the voice of thelpeople who vpte. Well, now; let me say. somethmg else about the three-fths. I nnnlrl nu.-.4- 4.1.- ..n.-__..-__ _: 1.-__n doLLINGwoon.-Two Tpetitions,l ,in all about seven feet in length with` four or gve hundred signatures at- tached, praying the_ old town bell would again ring out the morning and vesper hours, were presented at the meeting of the Board of Educa- tion on Tuesdayevening. Even these- failed of their purpose, the Board having twice previously decided that their caretaker should be caretaker and not bell-.rimzer.-Bulletin. ` 7 I OWEN SOUND.--The stables of-' the `Carney Lumber Co. were de- stroyed on Wednesday night, May: 6th, and 16- valuable horses were burned. The building was a frame structure, and burned ercely, but as it was in an isolated portion no dan- ger to the lumber yard or mills oc- curred. The re is supposed. tovhave been caused by tramps, who evident- ly got in while the watchman was in- e specting the place, a few hours be- fore `the `re was"discovered._ The loss is estimated at $5,500, with an "insurance of $3,200. uncut. v -vg Y1 I V '. Yu,-'v. ORILLIA- - Assessor Henderson completed the assessment of the Toygg of Orillia on May 1st and has returned the roll to the clerk. The gures show an increase in values all round, while the population is 224 more than it was last _year. The population by wards is: South ward, 1.685; North 1.745; West, 2.141; total, 5,571, which is the highest pop- ulation yet __recorded for the town, last year's being 5,347. If the Mount Slaven suburb, which is really part of the town, were added we should have a population of about 6,500. The assessment has been in- creased over last year, the total tax- able property of the town now being $1,915,380. This is made up by wards as follows" : South ward, $680,750; North ward, $771,730; West ward, $462,920. It will be seen that while the West ward is. much the highest in population it is far the lowest in! assessed value, being notra great deal more than half ofthat of the North ward. Following the usual rule the assessment will probably be cut f- teen or twenty thousand dollars at the court ofrevision and judge's court so that it is likely the probable net increase over last year will be in the neighborhood of $150,000. The West ward leads in the birth rate, there being 38, births in the year. while in the North there were 29 and! , C-_-LL AA _ L.-Ln`. A` Ana-:O1rv wnuc 111 L11: uunun Lu-cnc vv\.I\. allu in the South 29, a total of 96 Hiring} the year. In the same time there were; _ _ J ; _ LL- .. -.-L:-L vn an-noon :01 14114] INC _vt:a.x . 111 Luc aaunc Luuc |.IlL.l\. vvwncl 21 deaths of which 12 were in.thc West ward, 4 in the South and 5. in the North. The assessment roll; shows that there are 244 dogs in town. of which the South ward pro- duces 87, the West 82 and the North 75.---News-Letter. _ = ` . ALLISTON.-The directors of the A1liston_Union Cemetery have a scheme under consideration to pro- vide for perpetual caretaking of all the plots in the cemetery. At pres- ent the care of the plots rests en- tirely with plot-owners, and a. rather small percentage of these appear to "beautifying the plots, or even keep- ing them free of weeds and grass. The directors are now considering a. be in_clined to do anything toward` -`--- LA ---Inn on `anti fh The cnrectprs are now ,\;Uu:uuc1un5 .. plan to ralse 3. fund the mterest of which will provide. for the care of the whole cemetery. A meeting of` the shareholders and plot-owners will be held to `consider the scheme.-` Herald. On Friday night last Chief Bell gave accommodation to twenty-eight men who have come in mostly from Toronto, seeking employment. c A `meeting of the business men was_ held in the Y._ `Saturday to discuss.'the situation, and `it was learned that the Labor Bureaus of Toronto were responsible. for so many men coming to Midland. They are announcing` lots of work at _`Mid- land, and the result has been that over 200 men have had to be given accommodation in the lock-up. The business men contributed to a fund `V ;for`t'heir `maintenance for a few days. } '-'-~Free Press. .9 '6I6w -yw PETERBOR_OUGH`\.---The musk- rat. season, which closed on May 151:, was a rcord-breaker in` this district as far as'.the_numberv of rats caught is concerned. 1 Not Afqr many. years did the trappets have such greag: luck en _se'cure such a larg; A Not V .on1_Y; .,Was% the Crisp Extracts Garnered from the Exchanges, DISTRICT NEWS. 1'1-rm NORTHERN Anvmcn . last ~ Bell `A - A.--.A..bqp A3:-vhf the basis of a _'two-thirds majority at the -polls. V-Let us see how. it is,in the British. colonies. In_~New South Wales athree-fths vote isprequired to pass a law and three-fths to `re- peal -it. In West Australia a maj- ority of all the voters on thelist is required. In New Zealand three-f- ths is required. `In Queensland two-_ thirds is required, and yet we are told that this threeaiths require- ment is un-British, We believe that the results of` this requirement have been unmistakably" good, and we are endorsed in that by a. great many people who perhaps do not care to come out publicly and say so. vWhen the time comes that we see that it is necessary to make any change in the ~license law, any change that will have the eect of restricting the traic in intoxicating drink and of minimising or diminishing the evils of that traic--such a change will be made. } must be;,.passed:.~' if meet atfall. on LPeterborough, jone rm a.lo_ne secur- mg 15,490 rat pelts. The h-xgh water in the nvers and `lakes is said to be responsible for the big catch this yeag. The trappers have been able I-n rrnf n-H-upr bar`: in Hue marshes ycag. Luc uappcla uavc u\.\.u sun, to get further back in the marshes than in pre\_'1o_us years, and the in`- creased terntory has enabled them '_....`-A .. 1:.-pun nnnk zd 6 lcrcaacu LCILILUAJ uaa \.ua.un.u uuun to "make a large catch-. There is as big demand `for muskrat skins among furriers at the present time and the trappers have been able to secure a ,ready sale for they pelts; The in- creased demand has resulted in a rapid rise in the price which has al- `most doubled during the pastp ve years. Five years ago the ruling price was 20 cents per pelt; this year it is 40 gents.-Review. COOKSTOWN.-On Sunday,_ May 3, 1908, Mr. and Mrs. George` A. Jebb _celebrated the ftieth anniver- sary of their marriage, at Fair- view, their beautiful residence near Cookstown. On this auspicious oc- casion Mr. and Mrs. Jebb were sur- rounded by all their children, several grandchildren and one greatgrand- child. The members of the _family present were as follows: `Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Taylor, two daughters and one grandchild, from Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ness of Barrie; Mr. and Mrs. Speers and three children, of the S00; "Mr. and Mrs. D. F Kidd of Essa;_ Mrs. Talbot Fisher and Miss Josephine Jebb. Mr. and Mrs. Jebb `were the recipients of many beautiful and costly presents from the various members of the family. A very sociable and pleasant day was spent, and many wishes were expressed that Mrs. Jebb, who has been very ill lately, might soon be restored to her usual good health.- |Beeton World, _______.._.._.>._ _. - ... ,- 'n l 5:19.86 dv 8) Etc" 11. and`:-m`