THE DAILY EXAMINER.

DECEMBER 5, 1890.

The Progress of Canada.

— Tat greatest marvel of newspaper en- of London, has ** The

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terprise, the Daily Graphic, lately been publishing articles om to the East through These articles were and Sir Charles doubt,

New R ule lerritory written by the Marquis of Lorne have no

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Tupper. | to the interest in Canada which

contribute is being aroused throughout Great Britain.

As to the Scottish crofters—in whose con-

dition the people of the old country are particularly interested -the Marquis writes: ‘They are comfortable, and are peaceably progressing to an assured position of inde pen- dence and competence. Many will tell you at once that this change has be n an immense advantage to them. Others, with the old habit common to every farmer in every coun- try under the sun, will have their little luxury of small complaints. Let me give a specimen of two of these. A woman said, on being questioned as to whether she had anything that she would like changed for the better, ‘Well, no, that is—I have not the Eng’ish-— but I wad say the milk isto» rich for the childer’; a man, again, on being pressed, was fur a loog time silent, and could think of nothing that could be laid to the charge of his new farm, but then his face bightened and he said, very slowly, ° It is cold ia the winter, aud itis hot in the summrr, and the dust makes me wash twice in the week! Let us hope that he will soon m ske money enough to be able to pay a visit to bis kinsmen at home, and tell them of this solitary inconvenience, and be himself bathed in the refreshing showers of the West Coast of old Scotland.”

the soil and climate the

Concerning Marquis says,

‘“ The New York physicisns recommen] a stay at O.tawa ; and the snow is less, and the air, in consequence, dryer in the cen- tral regions to the west of the great lakes. But physicians are iuscrutable, ani we must not build upon them. Let De. Koch keep the delicate world at Berlin We want the strongest and the best in our North West, and we are getting them. Hardy Swedes, Norse, Sco:s, Engish are yearly coming in good array. The immi- gration statistics of this year will show about 70,000 as having arrived declaring their intention to settle in Cwnada. But Winnipeg makes us too garrulous on these wider vopics. The homesteads of the farmers dot the green, level landscape, void of trees, as the line cuts the plains to the west. Attempts have been made to plant several kinds of fir and hardwood. At present these are not visible. ‘Lhere are at times groves of poplar, but no fir belts have as yet arisen high enough to catch .the eye. Perhaps they are like the trees in Islay, in which Scottish Island a proud native was once heard to remark sen tentiously, ‘* There are fine trees in Islay, but ye cauna see them for the geass!" Parts of Holland and North Germany are not unlike the endless levels you pass through i1 Manai- toba. But instead of small cathedral towns with quaint towers, and with houses huddled together, you arrive at little stations where a bewildering number of gigg and buggies are drawn up, and see on the grassy plains oaly the white wooden boarded -‘frame” houses, with, pechaps, atiny wooden charch spire. You hear, indeed, at each of the rising ham- lets the assertion mide that it will soon be be boss city of the West—and will cut out Winnipeg. But youlook in vain for the mighty rivecs that are one element of a city’s promise. it is, however, evident that there is capacity in the soil around to pile high the grain in every granary ever built. You hear also much talk of the harvest, which this year has beea good. There was just sufficient frost one night at theend of August to take away the highest hopes, but the highest hopes had risen to an undue elevation, and a maguiticent crop was practically gathered ali bu‘ un- harmed. The cultivators are learning every yesr more an‘ more the lesson that to sow as early as possible the best kind of wheat to come to an early maturity, means success in tle Northwest. Frosts will cccasionally come too socn. They will come less frequently as the country becomes settled; but always it wi | be advisable to get an early maturity seed assoon as may be, ‘The quality of our wheat is so superior to anything grown elsewhere that, if saved, it will always command a price.

Sir Charles Tupper writes ina diffsrent vein. He describasthe steps which led up to the confederation of the North American Colonies and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Riilway, and knowledges the great assistence rendered by the Government of the United States

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“Canada is much indebted to the great Republic of her southern border for the im- portant position she has attained. Widely asthe Republican and Democratic purties there ditfer, there is one question upon which all are united —the desire to see Canada in- corporated in the Union. The Reciprocity treaty of 1854 was attended with great benefit to both the United States and the British North American Provinces, but it was very much more advantageous tu the tormer. Al- theugh during the twelve years that Treaty was in operation the balance of trade was in favor of the United States—no less than 60,000,000 dols.—they terminated it under the impression that could cripple our trade aod starve usinto a desire fer annexation. So great is the difficulty of inducing small provinces to give up their autonomy, that but for that act of folly on the part of our South- ern neighbors it would have been still more difficult to unite all the Colonies under one Gevernment from the Atlantic to the Pacitic, and create the prosperous Dominion of Canada. Iepeak advisedly when I say that vot one of the 215 members of the House of Commons of Canada would be elected if he declared him- self in favor of snnexat’on. Unmindfal of the past, the same blind policy as that which induced the denunciation of the Treaty of 1854 has prompted thit portivn of the McKinley tariff which affects Canada. So far as trade between the United States and Europe is concerned, the McKiualey tariff is simply the policy of Protection pushed to its extreme limi. Not so as regards Canada. The increase of duty upon potatoes, eggs, barley and live stock, all of which are imported in large quantities from Canada, notwithstanod- ing a high duty, excepting eggs, will increase the cost of living to the operatives, and con- sequently, the price of labor, and thus injure the manufacturers in the United States. That our trade must be considerably obstructed, and for a short time deranged, does not ad-

mit of adoubt, and consequently a strong feel- ing of iodignation will be induced by this further attempt to undermine our loyalty to the Crown. But just as the abrogation of the Treaty of 1854 was followed by the union of all the provinces, and the creation of a

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Canada into annexation be by a manly spirit of resentment, and lead to renewed efforts to extend our trade w ith other countries, and thus render ourselves in- dependent of our Southern neighbors. The fadt is not generally Ss that the Uniied States are as dependent upon ( anada as we are upon them, Take the question of the fisheries. An international arbitration, 4p pointed under the Washington Tre aty of 1871, after hearing all the sworn testimnoy that could be adduced, awarded ¢ ‘unada $5,500,000, which was paid by the United States as the value of our fisheries over theirs for twelve years, or nearly $500,000 a year. Even in this Act we are now considering, where in- creased taxation is levied upon almost every- thing, they were, no doubt re luctantly, com- pled to lower the duty on “fish, pickled mackerel, or salmon pickled or salted. hen as regaids lumber, so necessary are out forests to the United States that they have been obliged to reduce the = tariff on “timber hewn and sawed, squared or sided, sawed boards, deala of hemlock, white wood, sycamore, white pine, and bass wood,” no Jess than 50 per cent. The duty of 15 centsa pound on nickle, for the purchase of which Congress voted a million of dollars at its last session, and for which they must rely upon the Sud- bury mines in Ontario, has been taken off, ann nickel and nickel matter put upon the tree list. The operation of the McKinley Act will undoubtedly lead tu the extension of our trade with this counuy, the West Indies, Japan, China, Australasia, and South America. Measures are pow in progress to establish a fast line of steamers between England and Canada, and to pro- vide an eflicient steam service between British Columbia and the Australasian provinces. This must lead toa great ex- pansion of our trade in all these directions, and wiil undoubtedly tend to strengthen the tie which unites che British Empire.” Describing the results of the policy adop- ted by the Government of Sir John Mac- nonald, Sir Chorles Tupper says :—

“These prevously weak and isolated provin-

ces have been welded into a uuited and powerful Dominion, furnished not only with the means of expanding their trade by a rapid and easy line ef intercommunication, but, at the same, providing a great highway between Europe, Japan, China. and Aystralasia, in- viting the commerce of these countries within our bordars. Those who feared that thecredit of Canxda would be strained by attemp*ing a work so gigantic, are astonished to find the value of U inadian securities stea lily appreciat- ing, until her 3 per cents. now command a higher price than the 3? per cents. of the Imperial Government, ILhose who thought a Canadian Pacific Railway, however desirable from a national and political point of view, would be an unprofitable investment, find to their surprise the 5,000 miles of road now owned by that company earning over 15,000,- (4)? of dollars during the past year—a million and a quarter more than the entire revenue of Canada was in 1863—and with 6,000,000 dols, of profits, ensuring a 5 per cent. dividend to all its shareholders, Toe populati n of Port Arthur is now 5,599; Fort Garry, now cal'ed Winnipeg, 28,000; Portage la Prarie, 3,600; Brandon, 4500; Regina, 2,200; Calgary, 4,400; and Vancouver, four years ago covered with a dense forest, is now lighted by electricty, aud has a population of 15,000. Scores of other towns and thriving vilages are scattered along the line. Three splendid ships, built under Admiralty supervision by the Naval Con- struction Company at Bu.rrow-in-Furness, are about to be placed on the route from Vancouver to Hong Kong, for which an annul subsidy of £60,000 sterliag has been granted by the Governments of Canada and Great Britain.”

—Dr. Koch bears witness to the value of sunlight as a promoter of health. He says sunlight is as potent as chemicals in the killing of the bacilli of tuberculosis: that sunlight kills a layer of the tubercle in a few minutes or hours, according to the thickness of the layer. Ordinary daylight has the same effect in from five to seven days. These facts tell against window cur- tains, and especially against the darkened rooms in which not a few housewives de- light in summer. F.ies are not to be com- pared in deadliness to the microbes of the darkened parlor. But, of course, there is the effect of flies in irritating the nerves to be taken into account, and this possibly may in some instances be more direful than smallpox.

+ ee BeLLIGEKANT Lawyers. — A Quebec despatch says that during the trial of a case at St. Thomas, Montmagny, a dispute occurred between two lawyers, Choquette and Belleau, when the former accused the latter of a talse representation of facts. Belleau demanded an apology which Cho- quette refused. JBelleau then slapped Chovuette across the face. Judge Pelletier demanded an apology which, not being forthcoming, the judge adjourned the court.

ountiniens SomEWHAT PARTICULAR.—They want a school ma’am at Port Greville, N. S., and a writer in the VParssboro Leader says: She must have the culture and the refinment of a Mis. Browning—the originalty, readiaess and wit of a Swift,—the intellectual force and the exalted spiritualty of an Arnold of Rugby. She must be so imbued with love for her profession, so absorbed in watchirg and as- sisting the moral, intellectual and physical development of her pupils that salary will be a secondary, if not an altogether unimportant consideration. sgl

Wuenre 1s Cnicaco /— The largest in America is in process cf erection at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, New York. Itis the property of the Astor estate, and will be niusteen stories above ground and two _ stories below. It will have a steel frame, fitfled in with stone and satin finished red brick. It will be 225 feet h'gh. Not until 1892 will it be completed, but when it is done it is expected to stand out as the most mag- nificent hotel in America, if not in the world,

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Creuetty To ANiMALS —A correspondent writes: ‘**A man by the name of Martin Griffin, of Newton, brought a horse to Ver- non River Bridge about a week ago, and turned the animal loose to live or die. ‘The poor animal has been roaming around ever since, covered with snow and ice, in conse- quence of being expused to the last merci- less storm.” We call the attention of the authorities to this brutal act. If the state- ment be true, the offender should be se- verely punished. There can be no excuse for such abominable cruelty, when a shvt from a rifle or a blow with an axe would at once put the poor brute out of misery.

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For honest bargains in reefers go to D. A.

Bruce's,

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The Farmer's Wife.

(The Empire. )

Of all the diversified industries that flour- is) in Canada that of the farmerfis the most important. It is therefore of the most vital consequence that the policy of the country should be beneticial to the agricul- tural community. We have already de- monstrated the advantages received by the farmer—his confessedly cheaper and better implements, his absolutely bigher prices and larger demand for sume of bis produce, his relatively higher price for his exported surplus through the improvement and ex- tension of means of communication, his protection against cheaper produce from abroad, the sedulous opening of new mar- kets, the encouragement and facilities for improved farming and the favorable influ- ence of the general prosperity of the country.

But the farmer's wife has also a right to consideration. How has the policy adopt- ed by the people of Canada operated in her own peculiar sphere / We read in a con- temporary the following remarks on this subject :—

‘* Every farmer's wife knows exactly how restriction as embodied in the N, P. and the McKinley tariff affects both the price of what she has to buy and the price of what she has to sell; and, not being a ferocious partisan, she does not hide or juggle with the facts as slie finds them.”

This is very true. The intelligent far- mer’s wife does know all this. She knows that under the National Policy she bas been able to buy her tea cheaper than dur- the reign of Sir Richard Cartwright as Fi- nance Minister. She knows that she has been able to buy her sugar cheaper, that she has been able to purchase cotton goods and woolen goods at lower prices... She knows that her bills both at the grocery and dry goods stores have beer smaller for similar purchases since the N. P. than be- fore its adoption.

When the farmer's wife turns to what she has to sell, she knows that under the N. P. she has been able to sell her poultry, her butter, her eggs, her milk, her cheese, at better prices than when Sir Richard guided the policy of Canada. She knows that for the vegetables from her garden for her small fruits and other ‘‘ truck,” she not only finds a readier an larger sale but higher prices in the nearest market town or flowish- ing village. In many cases she recognizes that her customers are the operatives drawing wages from the local factory, and even where she cannot thus directly trace their custom to the N. P., she is intelligent enough to per- ceive that the diversified industries that have been established or enlarged and the general prosperity of the community have caused the increased purchasing power by which she thus benefits. She knows that if Canada were a merely agricultural com- munity, purchasing its manufatured goods from abroad, she would not go readily dispose of her wares at satisfactory prices, when there wou'd be few to whom to offer them but other farmers’ wives as well stocked as herself,

The Canadian farmers’ wife much to be deluded by the Wimanite scheme

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A Question to be Answered.

Sirrm,—As one interested, I would like to know fromthe Trustees of Upper Prince Street Schoo] what disposal they have made, or intend making, of the money realized by them from the sale of the land and schoo} building, as well as how they have applied the rent received for the last thirteen years from the City School Board? Is the rumor true that they intend paying the money over to the Methosist Church, in direct vielation of the object for which the origin- al subscribers gave their money ?

INQUIRER,

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CHANGED Her Farrnu.—The Washington Critic says that the wife of Senator Stanford has been converted to the Roman Catholic faith, and chiefly through the influence of Mises Helen McCarthy, her private Secretary. Miss McCarthy is a youny woman of superior intelligence. She is a devout Roman Catho- lic, and as a society correspondent has no superior in Washington, and few equals in America. Miss McCarthy’s brother, who is also a newspaper correspondent, is Senator Stanford’s private secretary. The conversion, the Critic adds, is an event of interest and importance alike to the religious and social world, owing to Mrs. Stanford’s wealth, in- telligence, charitable disposition and high social standing. It will take rank with the conversion in England of the Marquis of Bute, and be comparable to the entrance into the priesthood of the son of Gen. Sherman or the taking of the veil by Miss D-vexel, of Phila- del phia,

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Just opened at Davies’ Drug Store, the fol- lowing brands Havana cigars: Entre Nous, Oscar Amanda, Newton, Nanon, La Ingenui- dad, Manuel Garcia, Lucilla, Diaz Garcia, Tomas Gutierrez, Flor de Vincente (Queens), Spanish Girl, Picador and other popular brands selling low for Christmas month.

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We make good nap reefers for $7.50.-—D.A.

Bruce.

NOTICE,

HE list of defaulters for Personal Pro-

perty and Poll Tax is being prepared, and will be handed into the City Court in a few days. Those who are in default should pay up at once and save expenses.

ROBERT VANIDERSTINE, City Coilector.

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FRED. de €. DAVIES, DISPENSING CHEWIST,

Late with Smith & Woodman, Chem-ists, St. Augustine, F.orida.

URE DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES.

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Call and see our Jine for the Xmas Trade. Manicure Sets, also preparations for same. Walking Sticks suitabie tor Xmas Presents.

Best line Havana Cigars in the city, and fresh stock, in 25, 50 and 100 boxes, suitable for Xmas presents for smokers. Also, Pipes in and out of cases, Tobacco, Cigarettes, PS

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AND COMPRISES

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Latest Novelties from the English and Amezican Markets.

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E CAN NAME BUT A FEW of our many nice things :—JAPANESE WARE,

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BROWN’'S BLOCK,

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Childs Long Boots. $1.20, now &bc.; Boys’ Long Boots, $150. now

Strong Boots,

$41.28, now $1.00; Women's Strong Boots, $1.00, row Tee.; ) Ken's Lorg Boots, reduced 50 to

GOFF BROS.

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Instead of our usual Gift, we offer this year an additional 5 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, besides the regular discount, to all Cash purchasers who meu- The largest assortment to select from of Jewelry, Fancy Goods and Watches we

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Millinery Millinery Millinery

JAMES PATON & CO'S. Stock of HATS, BONNETS, WINGS, RIBBONS, etc.. etc, is very large. Hats and Bon. nets trimmed _in the very latest styles by experienced hands.

FURS! FURS! FURS!

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GOAT ROBES very cheap.

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CARPETS.

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CURTAIN POLFS ; Blinds with Spring Rollers. Bargains in Curtains.

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MARKET SQUARE.

NOTICE.

We request an early settlemeat of all accounts due us.

JAMES PATON & CO. Ch’town, Nov. 22, 1890,

HARD OAL!

TO ARRIVE IN A FEW DAYs:

A CARGO OF HARD COAL,

CHESTNUT SIZES. «. LYONS.

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