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 ' mm â- If i^J-l- I ♦ »i "«-1 O. "W. Butledge, Proprietor. MARKDALE, AUG. 4. 1887. CROP PROSPECTS. We find, on driving throngh this district this week, that harvest is now calling for the reapers on all sides. Never in the history of the coantry was it as early as the present season. Fully one half of the spring grain will be ripe this first week in August and a very considerable quantity cut last week. July.. Crops are a uniform abundant yield, while the various kinds of spring grain, wheat, oats, barley and pease, appear to be sown in about equal quantities, or perhaps wheat the smalleat acreage •of the four kinds named. Barley has been saved in prime condition, and will thus be a valuable crop. The root crop gives promise of an abundant yield potatoes are planted in large quantities and look excellent, and fruit is a good average crop. Should the delightful harvest weather of the past two weeks continue, the bulk uf spring grain will be cut before the 15th inst. OUR ROADS. Having had occasion to do some driving through the country recently our observations were not confined to the growing crops, as the rough roads and everlasting rolling stones, are a source of perpetualâ€" though not pleas- ing â€" sensation, especially to an in- valid for. whose benefit we were driving. We find our gravel road â€" which has done great service for many years â€" is now literally, a thing of the past. The roadbed has become fio low and flat that where theie is an incline or hill, the water invariably takes its course down the middle of the road, thereby washing o the clay or fine grayel and leaving the large stone painfully prominent. There is considerable statue labor done on this road from year to year, which is per- formed in a manner which seems to us useless, if not actually detrimental, viz. â€" by scatfceringjcoarse gravel along ill places, in sufficient quantities to make the road rough. Now we are convinced that if the labor thus ap- propriated was judiciously performed in grading the road, a short distance each year, it would be the wiser plan a sample of this latter can be seen half a mile north ot Markdale. An- other strong argument in favor of our idea, is the fact that onr back roads are much better than the gravel road. It is of course too late to make amends for this season, as the statute labDr is all done, but we hope to see a change for the better another year. NOTE AND COMMENT. â€" The suggestion to add a column to the voters' liEts, giving the amount •each ratepayer is assessed for, is worthy â- of consideration. â€"The the G. P. South Western branch R. from Winnipeg; 18 of ex- Bal^ life insoranee is become pop- ular in the United BUtes. and it is said that oyer 800,000 children between the ages of one and twelve are insured ihere. They are chiefly the children of workingmen, and the insurance is generally carried to defray funeral ex- pences in caie of death. The premium is paid weekly as a rule, and is in all cases five cents a week. The benefit varies from $14 for a child that dies within one year to $128 for one that dies in the twelfth year. â€"Sir. S. A. Blackwood, the secre- tary of the Imperial Post Office De- partment, is to visit Canada and investigate as to the oonveniences and facilities of onr steamships and rail- ways for transmitting mail matter, with a view to the possible adoption of the Canadian route between Great Britain and China and Japan. Very few people have visited Western Can- ada without being favorably impressed. Let us hope that the latest yisitor will be no exception to the rule. â€" The Thombury News has issued a pamphlet of some thirty pages as a "Jubilee Souvenir" containing an account of Queen Victoria's Corona- tion, a synopsis of the early history of Grey county, together with the municipal history of Collingwood town, ship also a sketch of Thombury with a biographical sketch of the first town council of the new town. Had the editor used better paper in this interest- ing pamphlet it would have a much better appearance, especially to a critic as it is. it will be perused with much interest, and Mr. Starrett de- serves cred it for his enterprise and laDor. â€" The Dominion Exhibition for the present year is to be held at Toronto, from the 5th to the 17th of September next, in conjunction with the great Industrial Eair, and these two ex- hibitions combined in one will, with- out doubt, be the grandest affair of the kind we have yet had in Canada The i^rizes offered amounting to the large sum of $80,000. Entries in all departments, except in fruit and grain have to be made before the 18th of August, and intending exhibitors who have not yet obtained a copy of the prize list should lose no time in doing bo; it can be obtained by dropping a post-card to Mr. Hill, the secretary at Toronto. â€" A hen, half black Spanish and half game, has been doing a land ofiice bussiness at Rolla, Mo. She laid her first egg on the 10th day of May, 1886 andjhas continued tojlay an egg every day since. She went to setting as soon as she laid her first egg, and is still on her nest. She comes off every morning to get water and food and then goes back. She has hatched one egg a day except the first three weeks of her career. She has now been laying one year and is the mother and hatcher of 344 chickens, one-half pull- ets and the other half roosters â€" and she still looks well. â€" The Lawless Liquor sellers of Ontario have, within the past few months, made snob flagrant, desperate and systematic attempts to break down the Scott Act that the ten thousand dollars voted by the Legis- lature at Toronto last session for the enforcement of the Act has been en- tirely absorbed. The Government COMPARATIVE WORTH of BAKING pOUmERS. BOYiAX (AteoloteljrPaN) GBAirrS {Alum Powder) SUMFOBP% whcmfiMh.. HINFOBD^, when fresh... BEDHEAIFS C2I1BM (AlamFowdei) *... AMA20N CAlnm Powder)*.. caiETELAiri»S(8hortwt.io«.: PIOIfEEB (Sui rnncisoo). dZAS-- •-••-•••â-  *â- *'**" DB. PRICED â€" •â€" SirOW FLAKE (GidTB)... LEWIS*.-.. PEABL (Andrews tc Co.). BECKER'S eiLLEFS ANDBEWS4C0.«Begal" jmrnakMb (Orrnlnt tlnm.) BULK (Powder wdd looae). l^ected to betextended this fall, to mee* • bowever, are determined to vindicate the sovereignty of law despite the pecniamy cost, or the efforts of the liquor traffic to undermine it, and they have set apart a further sum for Scott Act enforcement, of twenty- five thousand dollars out of the vote for unforeseen expenses. By planting tbemselyes firmly as the champions of the law, even though frowned upon for so doing by Prof. Goldwin Smith and bis followers, the Ontario Government are doing noble service for the mora well-being of the whole Dominion. the demands of the abundant crop. â€" President John Taylor, of the Mormon Church' having died a few days ago, Wilfred Woodruff, as President of the Twelve Apostles, bus become President of the Church, the organization thus continuing without iuterruptiou. â€" Whitby has not been lucky in its l)onu3 speculations. The town has given somewhere in the neighborhood of $110,000 to secure the permament establishment of railway shops, and of an organ factory, each establishment to employ fifty hands; and to-iday Kkep toub housb QuiBDEK. â€" Keep yon, boue goarded tigainst sudden attacks of coliu cramps, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, and cholera there is but one man employed in tlie infantum. They are liable to come when -â- _ __| _i -in 1 .r least expected. The safest, best and most railway works, whde the sole occupant 'reUable^^nedy is Dr. Fourier's E^ra^f '^- the oi^an faetcry is a Hxw. Wild i^wbenr. BUMfOBIFSywIien notfreabH BEFOBTS OF GOVEBKMEKT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Boyal Baking Powdow " I have tested a paelcap:e of Boyal Baking Powder, which I purchased In the open market, and find It composed of pure and wholesome ingredients. It Is a cream of tartar powder of a high degree of merit, and does not contain either alam or pbosphates, or other injoilous sobstances. KG. LovB, Ph J)." " It is a scientific fact that the Boyal Baking Powder is absolutely pure. " H. A. MoTT, PhJ).' ' I have examined a package of Boyal Baking Powder, purchased by myself In the market. 1 find it entfrely free from alum, terra alba, or any other Injurious sub- Stance. Hknbt Mobtoh, Ph.D., President of Stevens Institute of Technology." " I have analysed a package of Boyal Baking Powder. The materials of which it la composed are pure and wholesome. S. vaxjl Mirza, State Assayer, Mass." The Boyal Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors at Che Vienna World's Exposition, 1873 at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876 at the American Institute, New York, and at State Fairs throughout the countrv. No other article of human food has ever received such high, emphanc.and uni- versal endorsement from eminent chemists, physidans, scientists, and Boards of Health all over the world. NoTBâ€" The above Diagham ffloBtrates the eompanitfre worth of various Baking Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis and experiments made by Prof. Schedler. A pound can of each powder wv taken, the total leavening power or volimie in each can calculated, the result bein^ as Indicated. This practical test for vorth by Prof. Schedler only proves what every observant consumer of the Boyal Baking Powder knows by practical experience, that, while ft costs a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds. It is far more economical, and, besides, affords the advant age of better work. A single trial of the Boyal Baking Powder wHl convince any fair minded person of these facts. While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a higher destea of strength than ot£er powders ranked below them, it is not to be taken as indfcat- ing that they have any value. All alum powdeiSj oo matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as dangerous. MARKDALE CARRIAGE WORKS. -M^~- R. McNALLY â€" Would hereby announce to the people of Markdale and the public generally that I have moved into my new carnage shop opposite the Markdale House, where I will manufacture every article in the wagon and carriage line, and having long experience in the business, and by using first class material, I can guarantee satasfaction to every one WHO will favor me with their order. Repairing, Fainting and Trimming promptly attended to. A call respectfully solicited, li. IWiclV^^LX^'Y' Proprietor* Massey Agency, Holland. Centre. TOBONTO n^ -|- MASSEY larvester MASSET MOWER. woodfromeSSfeetcat TOBONTO MOWER ue and two A full stock of repairs kept constantlv on band for the above machines REPAIRS STRICTLY CASH. Also agent for Hall's patent reversible HayCarrior, Manufactured by Cochrin Bro's, St. Thomas, and Fox Pea Harvester, Owen Sound. THOS. WILLISCROFT, Agent. MAf^KQALE and i RY. Having erected and fitted up in every detail a Sash, Door and Plain Fac. tory, containing aU the latest and most approved machinery, everytiiini? being new, I am now prepared to turn out Sash, Doors, BMs, Monldings, Hollof Battons, FRAMES, LITH, FENCE PICKETS. Sc, And everything needed in the building trade, in a manner second to none in Canada, and haying engaged superior mechanics m every department, I would now refipecttully solicit pubUc patronage. Every iEffort Made to fill Orders Promptly PANE LUMBER Dressed and Undressed Direct from North SJiore. all sizes, on hand. Plain and Fancy Tonuug done Qarefui iffentton to' Orders from a Distance. 808 THOS^ I^Kj^E^. STARTLING mm The knife driven ti into the bone. is going to sell eyej yard of summer dre goods at and uncijj cost. 15 cent Check Lustres for 10 85 •• Ottoman Cord for 25 15 " Cashmerettes for 9 1 Stripe Balermos for cents. Camlets and DeBiegegJi 22 cents. Canvas Clothes forl2Jt 87i " All Wool Lace Stripe (west end cloth.) 25 ea 30 " 80 '• 20 " Note, only a limited number of jjJ of these goods are left. 65 cent Ladies' silk mitts for 25c, 27 Ends Colored and Black and Silks under cost. A yariety of remnacts of difl materials under cost. 2000 doz. Ivory Buttons all sk from 8c, per doz. up. 3 Only handsome Embroii Dresses $1.50. Lace Gloves, Parasols, at actualw A good sensible Parasol for 15c, 24 Men's Balbriggau Undersl and Drawers 30c. 24 Men's Balbriggau Undersl and Drawers 50c. 60 Youth's and Misses Straw! old price 40c. now 20c. Agood useful Table Linen only 2fe Garter Elastic 2c. per yd. 16 doz. Woman Hose 10c. pe»I 60 pairs Womens Fancy Stitched Hose former price 55«' the counter now at 25c. 71 Men's Black and Colored ^\ Hats old price ranged from §10" $2.0a youi choice of tlie lot for 50c I 5 Cases Men's Long Boots i\ harvesting at $1.60 per pair. Heavy Dureet Importations araD(i| on the way from the Earop£j' markets and room must be made them. Come in and ask for gooa' advertised and we will give yon ^^ eye openers. Every article in this GolBiitfl in stock now. If you want tlie» J on us early after seeing this, t "^^^ may not be under the painfui nefi^- • of lelliug you we are sold out. W. J. ICi Direct Importer- MARKPAtE. A"S- iiUi^MiiHi -,,L.A~ .â- j.,u^...^ba:tU^J»..i^.-t.â€" ~.