FOR ONE YEAR FROM % DATE, for Wringers. $3.15 to $7.00. - t Ironing Boards, $1.75 to 33.00.` V i ; , V Polishing Irons, $1.00 to$2.00 per set. Northern Advance Hnar?$ Hardware Store ----FOR---- For those who do not wish to take a daily paper, this offer is UN- PARALLELED. $|.25 Dr West `Q9=" S Hm`- See_ our Easi Window. , - have V so at , Vien- oaf. at; Home} D I;GII - ame which tion. End shall be F:'I;r;.dIord 59 LIV . many ` mass COAL mu [ERY ostal if ybu loaf of out I81} 537 la consi L-------e ND. - The Owen Ov:]jE IatuaO1UGaS and Oil Co._ has" $0-1:1.d'agaix1 to commence drilling decl C` e on the farm of `Mr. John praii,i1)1IC1,b`~. Sarawak township. The Goodii. {U} drilling the rst well is `"j work will likely be started` `" 3 ? the end of the week. The befO(rfu11ow farm is said to `show G00\.,I1L mdiati0nS of the existence Spw-'1 Id gas, and those interested of Oier; enthusiastic about the P70` are \. Uxbout fteen years ago an PLt?',;\..{1 took place on the farm and up U ldcrable area of land raised up 10 3 di. of about three or four fcy__ It was considered a _most ex-[ traordinury thing at the time, _bl1t me ground gradually fell back 111120 its orlgillal shape. About a year 383 .a similiar upheaval took place, an di510(1gr-r1 part of the. stone founda-_ tion of the barn. This subterranean disturbance is considered a sure in- -dicatlon of the presence of gas in large quantity. The .`Goodfel.1_ow {arm is about eight and a_ half miles from Owen Sound and IS about a mile inland from the bay--`Sun. MIDLAND.--Petty stealing is in- , .l-...\nn.-lanuf tn SllCh 'from Uwen Duuuu. dllu l mm... ut< stealing creasing throughout Midland to such an extent that it is becoming a ser- ious matter. In the past three weeks Mr. Graham has caught `three boys stealing goods from his drug store. The goods stolen are pipes, tobacco, cigars, post cards, etc., and in each case no action has been taken again- st the boys through consideration of the parents. Other merchants also have been missing goods of late, and` suspicion is not resting on boys alone but on citizens of more mature years who should have more respect for themselves. During the great rush at the Playfair, Preston C0. s big fire sale last Thursday, it is be- lcivcd that a large quantity of goods was taken from the store unpaid for. Shoplifting is a habit that no person of any respectability would be guilty of and we shall not be sur- prised to hear before long of some- On: spending :1 term at Barrie for this o'c11c<'.--l*`ree Press. _A___..... 1- . . Lula \Vl|\|l\\o : --__ PETERBOR(;I}G.H.-lt is learn- ed that thc Canadian Machine Tele-' phone Cninpany will make. a big ad- (lltlun ll) its systcni in Peterborough in the llcill` future. Arrangements with lllln t".l(l in view are now being made and it is expected to com- nicncc 1lL`ll\ L' operations at an early dim-. Tlm-c or four hundred new teleplmiics will be put in which will n(fCC~5ll.'1tL` an enlargement of the K` -1~--- ..lA.,.....6:r\ar~ 111:1` }\P 1lL`CC`5ll'lLk` Zlll CllliJ.l5L`u1CuL UL I----v plnm. Several alterations will be mmslv at the building to give m0I'e room fur the increased plant. The 5ul).~'cribL'1\ in Pcterborough are well Satisml with the machine phone and there are c(m:`ti1nt requests for new W ? D%6g_1;1._!9S- DISTRICT ANEWS. Crisp Extracts Garnered from the Exchanges. VAII ;ew desisnm norm Ceilings, an sold by the R0 said at %the%d.a_ame price.;?at 1-u1zN1'J'1't1-: AND CARPET s'i`oR;-: MA`RCvI-I. ;a,%g.,g_L4 om: NEW LINE IS . I ones. The company has now. a rm ifooting in this city and th_ere v is"no %!doubt of its success.--~Rev1ew. ORILLIA.-Work on the dam `at Ragged Rapids will be suspended this ~ week owing to the ood waters - ;coming down the river, and it will not be resumed till low water next summer, probably about the end of June; The dam is well, up and might have been used this spring but as it is still a little green it_ was thought advisable by the engineer to let the old dam bear this year s oods. The plant will be closed down for about three weeks in Aug- lust for the purpose of tearing down the battle dam and repairing the forebay wa1l,`during which time the steam plant in town will be used for lighting and supplying power, as far as possible.-Ne.ws-Letter. CRE'EM.ORE.--What came very < near being a tragedy"occurred here on Friday afternoon. Chas. Barber, of Feversham, who has been here lunder medical treatment for a couple of weeks, started to walk out to We_bsterville on the railway. Just as he got to the outskirts of the village, he was seized with epilepsy and fell in a fit between the rails. It was then just a few minutes before train time and the train was coming. For- tunately there is a clear length. of track for some distance and the en: gineer on looking out of 7 the cab window saw the man on the track and brought the train to a stand a `few feet from where he was lying. The man was put in the. baggage car, brought to the station and taken to Dr. Ni'ddrie s oice, where the face was found to be covered with blood from contact with. cinders. About this time consciousness returned and he realized the narrow escape he . had had.-Star. lFOR AND ABOUT THE BOY. Editor of_ The Advance : Sir--One of the varied and` useful departments of Work undertaken by `lthe ladies of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is that of ' anti- narcotic endeavour. A - - n . nnunn vv--7 .-, Realizing the deadly inuence of!` the cigarette upon the mind and the deteriorating effect upon -the body of ;the child or youth, the ladies `have made many earnest and successful efforts to educate the young people as to the evils of the cigarette habit. One of their efforts takes -the form of a Temperance Quarterly issued in connection with the international Sunday school lessons. On one quarter Sundayof the year, this pub- Legislature `Makes :Spec.ial %5Grant of $60;000 to Urban} . Shools to Improve theLQualifiAatiAon of Teachers. Mmfe % Money . for Education; . When `the House went into supp1y,; on Tuesday lastb,rHon. Dr. Pyne ex-I plained that"thej'sp'ecial grantbof $60,-i 000 to urban Public. -and `Separate schools had never been given before. It would be used to _ improve the conditionxand gualication of teach- ers and would be distributed. on the 1___:- _: -__.:r:-_..- _._.1 n`.~.._..1_ .: ...... DIG GIHJ VVUUILI UV Mllblllllll-C\.l` U18 Elly bgsis of certicate and length of ser-', wee. ' V l `be-brought to, "the door There was an increase in the grant for Continuation "schools from $40,"- ooo to $45,000, as it was the intennon of the Government to have ayjunior High school in the fth book class- es, so that secondary education could _ of every farmer In rural districts. I j -It was` tel-tmthat when teachers were employed in schools where French was spoken they should be well trained in that language. Hence . the grant of $3,000 instead of $2,000 for schools in which teachers could learn to impart instruction in both English and French. Lschool gardens drew from the Min- An appropriation for$I_,ooo for iste.r of Education a comment on `the value of the work, which could be done for agriculture by the addi- _t1on of garden plots to schools. New School Text-books. Mr. Preston (Brant) asked for an explanation of the new text-books. He understod that in the cotrfpilation of the new books no ethics were in- cluded{ He hoped the new books would-be patriotic in tone. REAMZ; `Hon. Dr. Pyne repliedthat it was the intention of the Government to ,have but ~ one class of `readers. To do so it was necessary for the prov- inceto own the plates and copyrights of the books, and when that was de- cided upon the books would have to be considered by a committee and the Education Council before being nally adopted. The books would contain articles largely written by Canadian and British authors. Something about our own country, said Dr, Pyne. Our books will be practically Canadian, and while we may have to go outside Canada for some selections which are desirable, we trust that the books will be all British and materially Canadian. i D They had -already done something ` ito inculcate patriotism, continued Dr. Pyne, who spoke ofthe regul- ations regarding the Union -Jack. He favored a. national series of- school books for Canada `which do much to add tothe unity of and bind together the whole Dominion. Dominion Should "Aid. sMr. Studholme commented on the fact that no reference had been made to technical education, and Dr. Pyne stated that nothing had beeni placed in the estimates for the rea- son that the question was a gigantic one from the nancial standpoint.' So far `as technical education -in the Dominion was concerned, he thought the Dominion Government had a duty to perform. Special grants Government for technical education sand the provincial authorities could lwork things out themselves. I should be made by the Dominion` lication takes up specially the sub- ject of the cigarette. Last year 20,- iooo copies of this leaflet were dis- tributed throughout the Dominion. These were given into the hands of Sunday school teachers chiey. So it is hoped that many children were beneted by the instructions given. Cigarette Sunday comes on Mani 29th this year, and a leaet full of stirring facts has just been issued by the Society. We should like, in` view of the appalling increase of the use of cigarettes in this country, to quote one or two of the many strik- ing truths set forth in this valuable aid to the" moral education of our boys and young men. The chief reason why cigarettes ; ido more harm than cigars q,r pipes is . ithat the mildness of the tobacco A. makes it easy to draw the smoke in- ` to the lungs, and nearly all those who use cigarettes have this habit. A deadly gas (carbon monoxide) is formed by the burning of the tobac-I co and the paper, and this, when taken into the lungs, attacks and` destroys the red corpuscles inthe blood. So the strength of the body, "that should have gone to make grow- th, has to be used up renewing the stock of corpuscles. And since the . new ones are attacked as _soon as V they come` on the scene, the blood . is poisoned `and the poor body has q` its"strain all_ for nothing. This is why we see so -many ,sickly, stunted, pinch-faced. `boys, among_ cigarette 9 users. But, perhaps you say: `Oh, yes;" I know they injure those fellows who use them all the time--cigarette ends--but a. package now and then doesn t .do any `harm. Think not? Listen__ to, this : Illustration I.----Prof. Mik_e-FDono- van, Director _of the New York Ath- letic Club, says: `To do any athletic `work _at all, tobacco` must be absol- {jutely tabooed. Smoking injures the .nerves," softens the muscles, and weakens the stomach. How man y of you la -the baseball news last you know all about the ' tionals-lthe highest sal in the `world-l-and the ,'the ' younge i champion te ;; four g`ames ?'-tied -iv tl1_ 7 _f st average: am. Last'Ti `from the l tl1~.._and are ~ Iflietefga vlrh: 3.}? "1 V -.Vf`mi_:s_tra\,tiIc> n }IV1[,-V--_`. I_jh;-,. m_os_t essen-_ -tilf` pf. ' ` hfte -tramrn.__g;.is _to.: -1). ' army NORTHEIW ADVANCE 1) of boys followed last` fall? Then .1 -Chicago Na- salaried players 1-`-and` men `having t average. age `of any am. Last `T fall they won from the `D,e'troits' and h-qand now. World -s ; Hre?;_.na what theire train- Mr. Preston (Brant) thought that something could be done for techni- ical `education without great-expense. In industrial centres an industrial `de- partment rnightrbe added to -High schools, , - 1 There is a good deal in the sug-- lgestion, and I thmk it well deserves ?eonsideration, commented the Prime I Minister. ' r _`The leader of the Opposition ask- ied for a statement of the intention of the` Government as to `Model schools, and the Minister of Educa- tion replied that by degrees the. , Model schools would disappear. The Model school system was not at present a success, because of the lack of uniformity. In one county the institution was of high. standard and in the next was considered a poor one. Itwas proposed to retain .. ........$..... A: H... m-hnnlc hm-smse fnr D001 One. ll W33 plupuacu LU tuba.-u a number of the schools because for some years Model school teachers would be required in .the northern districts. -By having a.- few schools `of uniform types the Govermnent ihoped to get a better class of teach- ` ers than in the past. The absence of any grant for the enforcement of truancy laws was noted by Mr. T. U `Dc-no`-r191 Pt`Ifnf(`(-`,- truancy law: was uuscu IJJ avsn. .. ;H. Preston (Brant). The enforce- `ment of those regulations was left to the municipalities, and two or three methods were adopted. He believed that there should be several officers directly responsible to the Minister of Education. Mr. Preston advocated the establishment of com- pulsory night schools, in which for- eigners could be instructed in the English language and placed in 0 position to learn -Canadian customs` and laws. 7 =Hon. Mr. Harcourt asked how much of the grant `of $60,000 for ur- ban schools was for Public schools He expressed the opinion that the peo- ple of cities should learn to care for i their own- schools. He hoped one day to see the sympathies of philan- th.ropists enlisted. The item of con- solidated schools struck me, said Mr. -Harcourt, who thought it strange that more advantage was not taken of the scheme. The depart- ment could not do more than it was doing at the present time. It was a wonder that rural residents did not avail themstlves of the opportunity of having one school, with six teach- `and how much for Separate schools. I _ er_s, rather than six scattered-schools ' with one teacher to each. "Regarding Normal schools, .Mr. Harcourt said it was better to have one good Model school in a county- `than two for three poor ones. Re-1 `garding the new school books, Mr. Harcourt did not think good liter- ature should be barred because it `was written by an American. The policy should be good literature first and the nationality of the auth.ors {should be a secondary consideration- He hoped to see school libraries in all schools, for the purpose of sup- plementing the pupils reading. His objection to the Model school had `been that the term was too short, but the term had been doubled and he was glad to see that there were to `-- ---~..A nalnnnle _ I NC Was 5Lau L\I .... `be more schools. tea, coffee or milk, a small cup at each meal, apd as .for ltquors, cut them out entxrely. No man can be ,-____I ..L`l.l.-.4... bland cvvnnlrpc t`;0'..` IHCIII Uul CIILIICIJ. LVU Allan: vans wvy a successful athlete that sn1okes c1g- arettesf Not only does the cigarette lead directly to impurity, but it ensures the sensualizing of the soul by lead- ling to drink. Illustration I.-The Inuence of `Tobacco upon the Drink -Habit.- `Smoking and chewing tobacco, by rendering water and other simple liquids insipid to the taste, dispose very much to the use of ardent spir- its. --`Tobacco, by Dr. Hall. -doctor examined thirty boy-sm`0ke_r.s, ' ' I Illustration II.--`Boys who smoke them seem to have their moral sen- sibilities blunted so that they are led easily into other vices. . . A between theages of nine and fteen. 7-- L--.....;.... `--ulx Ln tnuqnri cprinnc diu Detween U16 ages U1 uuu: auu ~uu.\.\.u. In twenty-two he found serious dis- _orders, and a more or less marked l taste, generatecl by tobaccovfor drink. \The cigarette in the mouth of the boy, therefore, is doubly an accursed thing+-accur'sed for the physical evils it brings obout,_and accursed for the moral evils. -Pearson s Magazine. . Thanking you, -Mr.'Edit or, for your `unfailing courtesy and hoping you may have space for these few thoughts, I am yours in war against evil and fo: the best life of` our boys, by 153 use uun mu: `lune u.............,,. Contains no oily or greasy ingredients. Is entirely unlike any other hair prepara- tion: ever offered for sale. ` A good. reliable Canadian preparation. liuollclted `Testimonials. Edith A. Bu ke. Missi aryll. M. Ch :3 ` rt. and fglllld. greatlyp um Akhimim with results 1- two years using. L. A. Hopes. Wiiner. Montana. My hair and whiskers reltnred to natural eoloi. dark . brown, by using Canadian Hair Restorer. L M.O:-um. e. Ont. 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