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THE CAMPAIGN.

SOME TRADE POINTERS. Take forty million dollars out of five hund-

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venty-seven million dollars, and what

—_—— is left ? Five hundred and thirty-seven millions. Double your forty millic ns | t . . ur fort millio and that makes ° 7 ’ ‘* ; . ‘ < E “ohtve danbl tt sorhe ‘ GOYURNMENT'S RECORD, | ic ty; double your eighty and that makes one hundred and sixty; keep on doubling and you . . } we . ; } eens - i. eisai have three hundred and twenty millions, and » etal! => 113 } - 7 a Seas q ao — hae Z ee are SQL 257 MUONS short of the 877 millions — ioe eee rig) s. The forty millions of dollars re- } rb } ‘ re. ihey have iarge | present the total vaiue of fox l products bought ' a» i 3 Te bane . Pop ep i Y Vi Lt bri nm 1s ‘. The 577 el e strongest language they con-!] S1 sel total value of fuod vro- det ia provincialdebt. In five years] ducts bought by Great Britain of all other they bave added over a quarter of a million | ‘ ’ 1595, tetal grew to up- ot rs to our debt. . : ih n In Tago Che full re “They solemnly professed that they) ‘Ut ° » “sf imports Iron? C.nada are not eo nage our aflairs without anton. : ‘ res ( ed refer to

. ; } . ’ ul ari S of ft it pm ‘ucts imported

In years they have taken from the eae tl , nported : “fe , > shisewozoh: | OY Vreat Dritain that ar rrown in Canada, peop ¢ over one bundred and thirty-eight) cs ‘ : . oe s : ' x ) ‘ lescripucn thon-and dollars in taxes. r. is not grows in Ca: “They pretested against the practice of | : oe a. _ an a | ALONG CAWADAS § THEE BORDER bo , y monev atthe banks, uc here aes) : , sca been a year since they attained | 4 tt oA : ter part of this : 8 ne I ") ; y, a ¢ Pr as not ow .” ree aw . ‘ Of food products . ‘ } ‘ v S Lo « ui ot the | Is TOUL ! } : i \ i l et states iM : : . { \ Li LOere y cliff v piedg { mseives not to Impose . ]

; : S er whi Se class- ta) without consultir the people. : ; — ee ite es ¢ Ti S are rais it a.in favor of

. > } I , tAVOT OF . r was th romise made than it ee No i } 4 ; a Ca l er Ly d I “ek 1 which wa- iessiv t sen Dy the introauction Les ses 1o pre t can carried

. _— , is arried ‘ save into iaw Of four separate tax ito rts. | : e ner : lei,) — = 8 . . Aclil acts cets, it is ii favour cf

' seriously engaged, in 189i, to| | a. Therc is material not in dev bout 15,000 dollars of the money vour of Canada’s s essful com mn tor | to | sed by debenturesto the repair his business. W1] S there t preveat Canada

; : 14 Tice hee be } e bul is ct P of t rovincial building. [his has not] ‘ ring x I « ti Civ | , } ) s y been ¢ . The building bas received no} © ew I g repa WORTH TRYIN R a 3 ue “7 loudly proclaimed, in oppositien,} Is it worth put i effort to « that re was no necessity for a Commis—| this siness ? Car I returns sy ; aa Sas . “yy rT) . sio f Public Lands. ‘That official stil! swe! 1] ( Dem 1 1 : } the . yNorts exis lthough thev have been In power w ae wo , ind Imports : r, in tl s for which for < Six years gether, in t years fo bh th ms . : s ¥ a lit ) 2 vdenounced, with one voice, Pro | =Sur E ae ae “er? . " } j mail 1 yeal i mou! (st vil eficits There bas not been ajo 7 a : 8 . . ; Britain yearly pays out tos -JDlesand fore singie ,ear of their administra‘ion that?: ee eG I l bie there for her food stuffs alone, as above, - =: not hee arge deficit, —their} ° a “3 ; : the esi re ’ . consequentiy averages three umes as much as 3 PAS pief 2»? 1f ft ¢ : . : ‘ Ge gregate over $200,000, aud If the) oh. entire trade of Canada with Great Britain, tax v collected be added, the as-| i,. United States and all the rest of the world A000 A = 1 " : to erult of over $393,000 syill be} nut tovether Teavicd Here’s another way of getting at it. If isi dae dc neceltsnicias-sace-tgutaapescla Canada, as the result of the bid for better trade

PEGYLES’ PARTY'S MOTTO: VICTORY WITH HONOR.

Party’s Platform

Peoples “ The Provincial executive will be duced trom pine to seven.” “No public money will be expended in

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excess of legislative appropriations, unlers in cas- of unavuidable necessity, such as

Caustu oy flood or sudden disaster.”

«Provision will be made for a qnarterly publication of revenue and expenditure.”

“<"ve office of Commissioner of Public Less will be abolished and the duties assigned to the Attorney General.”

“ Tle present ferry system will be re- formed with a view to greater economy of expenditure without diminishing efficiency of accommodation.

“4 reform in the administration cf the Surrog::e aod Probate court will be effected.

“A ralical change, will be made in the administration of the Public ..Works department, so that the mouey now wasted can be saved to the Province.

“The present system of taxation will be so changed that it will operate with even- hanudec justice, and not bear oppressively and uvtairly on any class of taxpayers.

“Economy will be practised fp every de- partment, and taxation will be kept down to the lowest possible limit.

“The efficiency of the Public Service will be maintained, and revenue and expendi-

ture wil! be made to square as nearly as esible.

“No turther increase of the public debt will be permitted.

“Tiere will be considerable reductions in the expenditure of the public money, and the resources of the Province will be safe- guarded and husbanded by every legitimate

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meapie (hat can be devised: AG Peoples’ Party’s Candidates, QUEEN’S COUNTY. Cari trerowxe AnD Royatty :-PATRICK BLAKE AND JAMES PATON.

Secoxp Pistricr:-A LEXANDER HORNE AND RONALD McMILLAN.

Tuirp District:—PETER McCOURT AND THOMAS A. McLEAN.

Fovcrtu Districr:—A. A. McLEAN AND HENRY WOOD. KING’S COUNTY. Georcetows anpd Royatrr: — HON.

DANIELGORDON ANDHON. A. J. McDONALD.

Secoxp Districr:—MORSON AND Mc- ISAAC.

Tuirp District :—-PROWSE AND Me- KINNON.

PRINCE COUNTY. ScumersiveE anv Lor 17:—GILBERT Des- RCCHES AND A. A. LEFURGEY.

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DENTAL PARLORS

North Side Queen Square.

You can have your teeth extracted free of pain by the means of either general or ocal anesthesia. All kinds cf work done atisfactorily. ey DR. J. H. AYERS WANTED.— A male teacher of the first or

second class, for Pisqnid East School. Appliy oJames A McDonald, Sec’y dy‘iwkyl

relations with Great Britain, and the cold

rage system about to be put into operation, increases in five years her sales of fo0d products to Great Britain, only one fourteenth of the British purchases of such products as are grown

in Canada alone, it would lift Canada’s aver- age aggregate trade from 182 millions to 222 millions a year. <A similar increase in another five years would raise our trade from 182 to 262 millions a year, and so on, quinquennially to 302 millions and 342 millions, leaving out increased imports. All experience teaches that the increased exports bring correspondingly in- creased imports. In that case, our aggregate trade at the close of the fourth quinquennial period should be somewhere about 502 million dollars a year, compared with our present 182

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millions ! ONLY A OF IT, Canada would still be a very long way from capturing the bulk of this trade—only four- fourteenths, 160 million dollars’ worth captured, out of 577 millions‘ worth—and ten fourteenths,

LITTLE SLICE

417 million dollars’ worth, siill going yearly tothe United States and other coun- tries !

In the matter of butter alune, Canada in 1896 gained about one and a quarter million dollars over the preceding two years in her shipments to Great Britain. Discussing the details of these exports in his address to the Agricultural Committee of Parliament, Pro- fessor Robertson, Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying of Canada, gave the following interesting information :—

**T will call attention to two matters. In the very large items of $114,109,534 in 18905 for dressed meats, the share of Canada was a comparatively small one, Nearly the whole of that supplied by Canada was in the form of hams and bacon and not in the form of fresh dressed meats. In thearticle of cheese, out of an impertation of $22,752,299 worth in 1892, Canada supplied $14,220,505 worth, whereas, in 1895 out of an importation of battet by Great Britain of $69,326,786 worth, Canada supplied only $536,797 worth. Tomy mind the reason— not perhaps the sole reason but the chief reason—why we supplied so litfle butter and so much cheese, is because cheese does not get injured in being carried at an ordinary atmospheric temperature. It can be carried all the way without being spoiled whereas Lutter has been spoiled.

WHERE COLD STORAGE COMES IN.

** There is nothing in the climate, the grass, or the people that is more favourable to cheese than butter, and there is just as much skill in Canada to make butter as there is to make cheese. But until 1895 there was no means whereby butter that was made in Canada could be sent safely to Great Britain. Itarrived there in a deteriorated condition, and therefore got us a low grade of customers and a low grade of prices. We had a small chance on the market. We have gained a gogd deal in butter from t he hgures of 1895 ; and we will go on increasing in much larger quantities during these coming years,

GOOD FOR FOOD, GOOD FOR SETTLEMENT

Not the least. important feature of this trade question is the influnce it must have on the settlement of our millions of acres of fertile lands awaiting occupiers and owners in the great North-west. It is self-evident that a climate and soil producing in such abundance the food products required for the sustenance of the people of Great Britain, must be well fitted for man and beast to thrive on. The more wide- ly our food products become known in Great Britain the more widely will become known the advantages Canada has to offer asa field for settlement and investment. The settle- ment of the Uuited States has from the begin- ning kept pace with her exports of food pro- dug¢ts to Europeau countries. It will be the same in Canada. A geod start is now tec made in the establishment of better trade re. lations with the Motherland. Satisfactory re- sults cannot fail to follow. The future is bright with promise of active trading development in

the right directions; Business men and travel in purses, housekeepers keep them in medicine

lers carry them in vest closets, friends recommond them to friends. 25¢c.

Are gaining favor rapidly. Er F pockets, ladies them [ : S

Carry

GRIDLEY’S CHOICE.

Wf WAS A’WISE ONE, AS SUBSEQUENT ‘EVENTS PROVED.

The Law and the Condemned Murderer Meade a Combination That Became the Cause of Sheriff Hartwenter’s Destruc-

tion as an Official.

San Pete county is located in Utah, and Utah isthe state where they sometimes shoot nrurderers instead of hanging them.

But, although custom supports death by the bullet, there was a time when the ter- ritorial laws were more liberal. They offered a condemned man a full menu of death. One sentenced to give up the ghost for a capital offense was allowed to choose between hanging, shooting and decapita- tion. At least so it was written in the leather backed books. But only one man is known to have chosen the slicing proc- ess, and it isof him that this story is written.

Gridley, who had ne first name, end whose surname was a matter of conven- ience according to the part of the country in which he was residing, had injudicious- ly killed a man who was contracting ‘to bring en irrigation ditch into the Sar

Pete country and to spend some money amon the peophke. Previously Gridley had assassinated a tew odds and ends of super-

fluous suén, and fittle had been thought of

it. but om this occasion the disappoint- iment of the people, thus suddenly and wickedivsieprived of thsir ditch and the prosperity which its construction would bring, surmounted custom, and Gridley

was arrested, and to hi

3; intense surprisc

locked up, tried and ¢gonvicted of murder. " district judge came down cone duy \ } ail nothing better te do, and

calling the eonvict Gridley beifora him told him that according to law he couid select either to be made into a turges, to be dropped at the end of ‘a rope, cr to be bisected in the neighbor)good of the neck.

‘*Well, judge,’’ said Gidley, ‘‘if it’s all the same to you, I’ve alWays kindof ban- kered to have my head chopped of. It seems such a first class an bon ton way of shufilin off. ‘Most any feller cun go over into Colerado or Nevada an be ticd toa heam, but this here looks like a sort of ex- clusive thing. Choppin it is.”’

Everybody in the courtroom wes sur- prised and many were eminently dis- pleased. ‘*The Gridley hangin’’ bad been talked of for two weeks and several ex- cursions from outside camps had been ar- ranged for, and it was a serious question with the reception committee whether or not anything but hanging would suit the tastes of the expected guests. Especially was James B. Hartwenter, the sheriff, dis- turbed by Gridley’s decision. Hartwenter was a humane man, and he had been put- ting in several days of practicing a crew of marksmen aud a gang of scaffold experts with the view of making Gridley’s exit as comfortable and expeditious as possible when it came tothe day of the passing out. Hartwenter himself had no liking for the business of methodically killing men by programme, but he felt that with a lot of unknown riflemen aiming at a culprit’s heart there could be no after remorsé@, be- cause nobody woyld ever know whose bul- let had killed, and to some extent the same éonditions prevailed in a hanging where the cord wis cut by aman unknown to those present. Buta decapitation! There was no fashion of concealing identity in such a case—no comfortahle way of heliey- ing that ade kucw just who had done the killing. And as he, the sheriff, was the official directed to perform on the slaughtering Gay, he felt intensely worried. He went to Gridley in his cell.

‘Look here,’’ hesaid. ‘‘What kind of a fool notion is this ef yourn? Don't you know you'll spile your clothes an waller around in a disgustin way analogous toa chicken killed for dinner? What sort of a uignity is there to the demise of a man ab- breviated by use of a butcher’s cleaver?

Piline and Piling all kinds of Lumber daily.

Everything new and good. _—_ Shingles in Cedar and Spruce—all classes;

VWre VWfant ‘eS OU

to see us before you build or repair. New customers come again and bring others. It will mean mon- ey in your pocket if you give us a oall. Lumber of all kinds in stock

JAMES BARRETT,

Telephone 181.

Connolly’s Whar

KOKANIE CREEK SHARES

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Bri legitimate mining. FOUR CLAIMS. One being on the famous Molly Gibson vein. Two above Enterprise, which sold $300,000 cash, and another one half mile from Slocan River. igh grade ore out cropping on threee Well defined ledges ons.), Capital only $250,000 in 25 cent shares, First issue for development 3 cents, non assessable. Next issue not less than 10 cents. Reliable management. Nothing Jess than 500 shares sold. Order through bank.

GEO. D. SCOTT Agent

42, Fort St. Victoria, B. C,

“hat you waht to U6 is Ge giv up sacrS ascaroia like« man with some idea of etiquette and be swung off like the Swan Creek people expect you to.’’

Gridley fired up. ‘‘Who is furnishin the goods fer this here entertainment,’’ he de- manded, ‘‘me or Swan Creek? The judge passed the thing up to me, an I made my bet, an it was for the cuttin.”’

‘‘But, doggone it ail, don’t you see I’m an interested party? I don’t want to have to stand out there in the sun an chop at you like a man workin on stove wood. I ain’t used to it, an, moreover, you ain’t used to it, an we'll make a blamed botch of 1.”

Gridley leaned back independently and puffed twice at his cigar. ‘‘Jim,’’ he said, “*F yoted fer you, an I’d do most any rea- sonable thing for you. Butlook here! This matter of your desires ain’t nothin to me, This is a parymount case. I ain’t makin no kick on the killin, but bein the star boarder, so to speak, I demand my rights. Look here! Who was shot last month? Hunko Pado, a blamed Mexican tbat you an me wouldn’t reco’nize socially. An who was bung in June? Old Bill Grason, a yoiserable critter without lineage nor posterity. An that’s the way it’s been since I been here. Not a decent, high toned gentleman has ever been hung or shot. Do you think I’m goin to start it? No, sir. There’s somethin penowned an blood stirrin an dignified in bein behead- ed, an them’s my choosins. Why, they'll telegraft about it all over the east, an VU be notorious like the president of the United States, an soon. It’s the greatest moment of my life. ‘There is a tide in the atfairs of men,’ you know, an this is my tide. Who remembers Hunko Pado or Grason today? Noone. But fer years this tamp’ll talk about how Gridley stood up an took his killin like a man in a pictur, an you'll none of you fergit me.”’

Hartwenter was sad and gloemy. He had no taste for his forthcoming job, and he argued and entreated Gridley to be obliging, but Gridley would not. It was the chance of his lifetime, and he did not mean to throw itaway. Hartwenter offered to paint the gallowsin three colors and have some flowers for distributiorr as sou- venirs. In vain. The heartsick sheriff on the night before the day set for the execu- tion visited Gridley for the last time with his final appeal. But Gridley, growii_ eloquent concerning the unique character of his impending decease, positively re- fused all proffers of rope or bullets. Hart- wenter eyed him for a few minutes, and then, with a sigh, he said: ‘‘All right, Gridley. They’s only one thing fer me to do.’’

And he went out and seemingly forgot to lock the door.

The Swan Creek people came near mak- ing a demonstration with a rope in connec- dion with the sheriff when they arrived ia town the next morning and found that Gridley had escaped. But wiser counsel prevailed, and they evened it up by bury- ing Hartwenter under an avalanche of votes at the next election, his successful competitor being a redheaded butcher who sad no fine feelirnes about decapitation or mu: of anzthi.™ else. —Chicago Record.

Tea Party

A GRAND TEA PARTY in aid of the Funds of St. Margaret’s Church will be heid on the Church Grounds at

St, Margaret's, Tuesday, July 6, (897

The Managing Committee are endeavoring to Surpass alltheir previous successes in tea party making, and are desirous to make this the undisputed Tea of the season.

A well furnished Saloon and all the amuse- ments usual on such occaions, together wit several new attractions will be provided.

Teams will meet the morning train from Souris, to convey passengers to the Trea Grounds free of charge,

Should the weather prove unfavorable on that day the Tea will be held on the first fine day following,

A hearty invitation is extended to all ©. come and cnoya splendid day’s outing | t :e seaside.

A. J. McCORMACK, Sec’y.

GRAND

Tea Party

AT WINSLGOE

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June 25

A tea party will be held at Win- {

sloe Road near the Methodist Brick Chureh, on the 7th of July next. Proceeds in aid of the repairs lately made to the parsonage. Tea on the tables at 1 o'clock p. m. Tickets for adults, 25c; children under 12 years l5c. Should the day prove unfay- orable the tea wili be held on the first fine day following.

The 82nd Batt. Band is expected to be in attendance. swings and all other amusements will on the grounds,

By order of Committee. ISSAC HOLMAN

Secretary.

Rarm For Sale.

FARM FIRSALE,— The subseriber offers for sale her farm of 6) acres,in West Roy- alty,4 miles frem the city, fronting on the North River! with good buildings thereon. Apply on the premises, Jane Fleagher.

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Masonic Temple Go

The Annual Meeting of the Masonic Temple Company, will be held in the Masonic Temple, on Wednesday, 14th day of July, 1897, at 8 o'clock; p. m. for the election of Directors and gen- eral business. By order,

D, MacLEAN June 28—d3i, wli

be

sale

GEKS BE AU Days learelee

Nress Goods, Gapes, Wiillinery

The Jubilee is over. The superabundance of loyalty sentiment has spent itself. Queen Victoria has lived through it and so have we. We come back to every day business again with more vim than ever toe serve you to our mutual interest

Commencing Friday, July 2nd, this big midsummer <q! begins.

35c for Dress Goods worth up to ........ 80c

\0c for Dress Goods worth up to ....eeee 1.00

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At 35¢ we offer three thousand two hundred and fifty

yards of all kinds of dress goods—black and colored cashmere,

serges, fancies, plain, bought from very best English and French makers, at this big midsummer sale 55¢ for goods worth up to 80c, Includes evening dress goods, light colored cashmeres, crepons, etc. :

At 50c, worth ap to $1, the choicest dress goods in our stock, nearly all this season’s importation. Plain, fancy, and light colored goods. This is one of the rarest offers we have ever made to the buying public.

LADIES STRAWS AND MILLINERY |

10c for hats worth up to...... s.ccecceee 40€ 26c for hats worth up to.....2 sscccccece 60C 50c for hats wO-4h dip to. oc ccvcves eoccceh QO

All shapes—Sailors, Flaps, Black and Colored fancies— all must go.

Blaok and Cnlored Capes, Velvet and Lace Capes,

EVERY CAPLAG 25 NEW THIS SPRING

At $2.00 worth up to ........-.. $4.15 2.75 worth up to ...cccccscce OD At 4.00 best, worth upto ...... 8.2

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LADIES WATERPROOFS.—Best English make. 20

| per cent. discount off every garment;

Our big sale of Ladies’ Blouses will still continue: Blovses- from 25c up. Discount on all high priced Blouses.

Big midsummer Sale from July 2nd to 12th.

. A. WEEKS & Cl.

The People’s Store—Wholesale & Retail,

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££4424444 Lawn Mowers from $5 upwards. t

Sereen Wire from 10c yard. Rubber Hose Nozzles, ete.

Dodd & Rogers,

WaAOLESALE & Reral_-