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•t«-.,^ htxisun \ "â- vsv' ana "TUUTH BEFORE FAVOE." â€" " PEINCIPLES NOT MEN." VOL. XXn, Nf 1101 Ficsliertoia, Ont., Xliiiiscia.y, October 2 1Q02 W. H. THUESTOMi, EDITOR & PUOBKIETOB >>x SPECIAL .,...IN MEN'S WA!CHE3, Fall Fair Bargains We have an overftowing stock at pre- sent and aoniu spet-iaily nood barsjains in Men's 15 Jewtl watciiUK. Hii-o i« 1 some va'ues thi^t dn not come your way j very often. if jou want a reliable watch be sure and ecu ours bpfure buy- ing elsewliore. When in town on Fair Day take a look through our stook ivhother you intend ', tn buy or not. ; W . A. ARMSTRONG FLESHERTON ^ t Victoiiti, Favicottiw Island, Sept. 20, '03 â-  Mt Deak Thurston, â€" I am at the far ' west of ray journey and to-night I com- mence my letum trip and expect to bo I homo in a week or in tinie for the fair. I cannot inciauiue any travel sn will calcu- i latod to uivti a conception of the vast and varied resources of our cnuntry as this trip to the Pacific. Leavinij the bright and busy towns of Ontario, its pretty villages and comfortable lookii'ij country homes, at ihe clo:>e of the first day's travel, next morning daylight reveals a' wilderness of rock nud lake and scrub forest, some parts of it. beautifully pio- turesijne, but having litrle attraction except for the adventurer, the artist or sportsman. As wo apx)roaph thehead of Lake Su- perior the Kceneiy is in some places L-raud, but night clo.sce in again and sometime in the early morning hours wc pass Port Arthuraud Fort William. Morning re- veals a country still tocky and dotted with hikes, bub with small sections of good land and eome se'^tlement. SVe at length reach Rat Portaee, a town with fine public buildings, good business blocks and a number of largo sawmills. It is siimited at the outlet of a large body of water called Liike r,f the Woodsâ€" the l.irgist lake between Superior and the Pacifio. The town has a population of ootn- 5000. A. few milts further we reach Keewal in, whore the waters of the lake sre Viacked up by enormously strong works constituting the hike a gigantic millpnnd will) an area of 3001 square miles anJ cr.ating one of the greatest waterpowers in the world. Population of Keewatin now abont 1000, destined to L'o a city of .oO.OOO. Forty miles further we leave Ontario and enter Manitoba,! the prairie irtovince, and shortly after see I the tiist harvesting oj^ieration.*;, but rm'y on a S'liall scale tiliwepass Wmnipeg. Arriveil at Winnipeg, lamsurpiised at the .substantial character of its buildings, itslino wide stree's, nothing in Toronto to e(iii:il I hem except Sijadina avenue. I h.id a ride jul. in several directions on the olectiics'.reet cars, and in thi; evening eallc'lon some friends, Mr. Wm Sprotile, and with Fred S|>rou!u called on Mr. and Mrs. JanuM Sproule. I met Mr Ui.-h- iirdaou, ex-M.P., in the sticol, and called on liiin next morning", al.so on Miss Ella .and .Mi.ss A. Uind. Had a io.ik in on the Methodist Quiidrenniul conference now in hesaion iu Grace church. Left Winnipeg at 2 ;> m. and on a beautiful aftern.)Oii sped aoro.ss the vast- wheat fi.lds if the prairies. Wheat, wheat, wheat, for miles, for scores of miles, for hundreds of miles- will it ever bo got into st^aek ? The thre.shers arj bu-iy everywhere and the immense piles of straw are burnt up as soon as the graiti is got away. At 7 p.m. we arrive at Brandon where I left the train and went up town. Saw ! a smatt, well s'ockeil watch and jewellery \ store with the name HiiJginbi.tham over it. Went in and found « son of my old , friend J. Hiu'ginbotliam «( Inistioge, the ' proprietor. The store was beautiful and the stock extensive, rich and choice â€" ; " Nothing too goixi for the peoi)le here," , Mr. H. remarked, and the stock conlirm- : ed his statement. Afterwards I called '. on Mr. Geo. Higginbocham and his wife. . Ada is ju4t the same svt-ectgirl she always was, although mother of a family of three. Loft Braiulon at H p.m. Next day the travel was over unbroken prairie, grazing and ranching lauds I naw an , wcc-iiional coyote or prairie wolf and somo • prairie fires cleaning up the dry grass and leaving scores of miles of blackened waste. Passed fle«ina, the capitnl of tha Terfiturie^. In the eveaing we stripped at a station where I saw a familiar face. 1 i;ot off the train and greeted an old friend, Wia. Cullen, «ho waa as much I surprised as if his gratidfathor's ghost had | appeared suddenly. Eo looked remark- 1 ably well. Ho was visiting a married (lau.diter, wh'jse busltand k';eps a store | here. 1 purposed getting off at Calgary, : but we leacli it so aarly ne.vt morning I ; concluded to go on. We are now ap- ; proaching tlio Rocky Mountains. Grad- 1 u.illy lising and piutsing through a narrow ; deiile called the Gap We are among the giant hills which lift their snow capped summits into the cliudland. Here the road runs between two almost vertical walls of dizzy heiaht and the Bow river, whose course we have been followii?g from Calgary.rushes through the narrow gorge, a turbulent torrent. There is a station here ca'lod the Gup and we are now at an altitude of 4,200 feet. Th& mountain with summit divided into three peaks called Three Sisters is now on pur left, while on our right are fantasticijly broken and castellated heights. We now notice the wonderfully varied hues and richness of coloring on the mountain slopes which are penetrated by deep alcoves in which ha«e and shadow and gorgeous coloring lie engulfed. Up, ujj, we still climb, until wo reach Canmoro whei-e there are large coal i mines, .An open coach called an ebserva- tion car is. here added to the train. The prospect increti.ses in grandeur and mag- nificence. On each side as the mists fliiat upwards aijil ri'vay we see great m-rsses of scarred rock, range towering I aliove rangi!. The clouds hiiug round the hills but the snowy, glittering peaks peep out, above the clouds. K.ich curve -if the line brina new vistas of mountain peaks, away hefi-rt and around us, all clad iti 2armoi:ts of light ros-.>, blush sdver braids on purple haze, briniis a new mystery, the blocked again and again, pink with Every tarn way seems with huge !m)untiiins,but our engine and train looks so small among these monster liills.twists and glitlcs in and out in .such sharp curves; th.it h.ilf the time we can .see our enj/ine and fote part of the train without putting a head out. _, ^^ At length we reach Banff", altitude 4500 feet, situated in the National Park, 2U miles loi-g by 10 miles wide. We saw I the Governincnt herd of, Buffalo, theireii' cli'sure .coming up to the railway. Th>j station here is situated in the mi.lst, of most impressive mouii.tain seci ory. Cas- cade Mt. to the noith is 10,000 feet high, and other peaks ri;^e 8000 to OOOi feet. 1 1 stopped off hero .'inJ viaited the hot springs. I had the ii.ivel experience of ( bathing ainl swiinming-in water toiling | up in the crater" of an extinct geyser at a ! temperatijre of 90 degrees with a snow | stotm falling on my head. The water is- strongly iinprcfnated with sirlphur and at one spring it comes up 120 degrees hot. I There is a curious cave hute which has a ; small opening at the lop a few fdet wide. A gallery or entram^e to it has boon exca- vated tliiouijli the side of the hill by which we caiue intojhe cave at its base. It has a basin about 20 feet wide with the water at a teuiperaturo of 7» degrees, bright, clear iitK^.^paifcling. The temper- | atuie of the- cave is 90 dejiBees. All j ai'ouii'l aie stalactites hairsji^ig in fantas- j tic shapes. One looks like aft enormous : bat wnh outftretehed.»ii)gs and monster i head, springing from, the "(ide of the cave,; and ove!,ywhere -ore gliitoiing crystals' sfiarklinij in the limestone in myriads. j I met Frank Bi>attie at Bauffand Pl.iii^j j Hurlhurt of Kiniberley., lio'ili very Itifjd- 1 Iv tendered mo servio-.s in drives lound. The day, however, turned out wet and i snow fell on the hills to a dtptli of nine' inches. Next moruing Mr.Beatlio called - at my hotel with horse and rig aotl ki:nlly drove with me to several points of interest and thence to his home where I had break fast and an inh'oduction fo his wife and family. Frank is llie same genial, kindly nature we kniw him years ago. The mountain air has not gjioiU-d him and i he is a fine specimen of physical man- 1 hood. His wife"^i« from Aula Scotia. I Her cheeks have the bloom of the heatljci' I of her native hills and her voice the' musical cadence of Inverncss-shire. . 1 1 bade adieu to Banff with regretn. It is a i pleasant spot. j At the next station, "Cascade," Castle Mt. looms up nn the right a sheer preci- pice of oGOO feet, a giant's keep with turrets, bastions and battlements com ' plete. At Laggan Station, the ro.ad, which i has been still following the course of the Bow river, leavp8,and here we come in siuht of Mt. Hector and get a view of the lir.st of the great ylnciers. It is n broa<l ' crejicent shaped fr..zer. liver. aw.ay up! 1300 feet above us and ten or twelve miles away. A few miles further and we come to the Great Divide. An arch is erected ' near the track on our left where a spaik- ' ling stream sepaiates into two. One , ha f Ihe waters Hew to the Pacific, the other Hudson Bay. From a pretty lake on our light Ihe waters at the east flow out to meet ua, as we travel up stream then skirt the lake its whole length, and the waters at the west end flow westward and we are travelling with it dowuiitreani. A succession of now .sceuesi each seeru- ing to surpass the last iu n'.ugniticence, beauty and sublimity, through rock tiui- uela, thiough mile.s of snow sheds, often cut in the sides of the precipitous rock, on the one side we ctinnot see the sky bnie, while on the other we look down yaiyiiihg gulfs below us, often with a river rushing rapidly as though racitig virith us. SoiuiS- times we see tha line we are to travel far below, for our road mysteriously doubles again audatjain to get down,doivii tiowards the coast. I skip 300 miles and 40 stations. j At Vancouver city, the bermiuus of the road, at noon Wednesday, a city of j 20,000 population. . Only 25 years ago its site was covered- with dense forest. It 1 had a marvelouBly rapid growth for a few; months and then was completely tin- i strayed by fire, ouly Que house escaped. la the afternoon I visited Sumley Park, a reservation of over 1000 acres. Wander- ing amid its big trees I lost my way ami, for over an hoar was uncertain wliiither I i (]) would get out before night set in. Trees j ^ measuruig 60 t<j 70 feet in circumference ] "fc and growing 300 to 400 feet high. I ! vjz walked the log of a fallen piua averaging i'(^ 5 feet through and it measured 2(J0 feet ^ from root to where it threw out its first branch â€" fancy a log of clear pme witliout a knot 200 foct long One (jiaiit cedar haa an opening chiough its bas« tliiougii which a buggy may be driven. J picked up a maple leaf I could not sjian across with outstretched hand. Next day 1 went.to New Westminster, 8 miles distant, population 8000. I visit- ed there two saluiun canning establielL- ments to see the method of putting up salmon not only in cans but also of freez- ing salmon and packing in boxes whole for export. On Friday I weut^y boat down Puget Sound to Vancouver Island to Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. It is a most beautiful sail of five or six hours from Vancouver city. On the way down we saw several whales and wiinessed a, most exciting scene,, a battle betweeti a wluile and his morxal foe, tlie thraslior. It is -probable lliat more than" one (j£ ili« thrashers attacked the whale but we could, only see one as hi.s l,irL;e wliito body stuck up 10 or 12 feet out o^ the water and came dinvn'V-ith.onormouK wh;i-.;l<s on t>b-(( whale, which spouted spray ami iwliod thte waters with its tail, nn.li^ig roriilic i eoiimotioti. The thrasher, a ipects of largo .shark, i.s the. otily lish. that will at-, "tack the whale, ami their conllic.ts a:o lrei|Uoiitly very bloody,, reddeiiiu:^ the waters for a iwide space around the sceiio of conlliot. Victoria is a' bri^h', liiely city, -with a population, of 20,000 and ,the handsomest government build rVy.s uf-aiiv f-7f^ province in the Dominion. They co.-jt ! ^a when complete and furnished a inilli'jii yi/ of dollars and are unu'O buautiful intern- ^ itlly and extuinaliy than theJ^'oionUt pik- [^ which cos: much more, lliere i.s if very ^ ^ line nuisi-iim in one wing coiilaii.iug"no^ ' ^^y specimens of the deiiizenaef »o» stid toivstj l^^i?' al.-?o laige collecfcion of Indian relics. A ' l.lrgu park ailioin.n;: i lie city has liuely laid out roads, picturesque l^hectl^,!lf wn-er uu « hich some very line large swaiisafe kepj ; U'idtjes, briule paths, iiower X->artc; n s iiud Halics. It. has. a'liopu'.v.tioij. of 5O00 CIum- ceso. . I viiiteti ili-j:r seeMijii 1)1' tiie e-ty which, is unlikp Uhiiiatown in Ivw Yor^ for here t!ii:y. sueui [.etfor uU' .;M>>Pi.ie los^ crowded t!u.n there., ~Jfe tutu liftu for homo. 1 wr.te.tbis co.,-rijg uj> the .•'•oiilul at 1.30 ».!»*,, expeciuig to iie US Vaueyuvcr city by B u clock 'jind l,iieiic-j-,j»po ,'d homo ward 8t;'i''-'- , " M.li.1,1. ncFARLAND,STAFFORD&CO. | HARKDALE, ONT. % Qrey Country's Biggest and Cheapest Store. ^ ^ ei[ Worth S eeing. The old Country joods are l^ere. The goods from the Canadian Manufactures arahere. We w^vjit you to see them, whether you come to buy or ouly look, you will be made heartily wblcome â€" A hop-step-and- jump through the dili'erenl departmentft. have revealed these prices. There are hundreds of others equally as good. 40 inch Dross Cloths, fancy heather mixtures in browns, grays, greens, etc., good heavy winter weight and nice rich Hnish,good value at 25 cts., out price '16j 42 inch Satin Cloths in black.and staple oo]orings,bright rich satin finishin^ imported wooL Usually sold at 00 ots. yar4, .special this season at 50 5(5 inch Coating serije in navy and black, pure worsted yarn in bright bard finished twill, usually sold at $1.00 a yard,,^tKis sttason .w.e have them marked <at . - " 75 50 pair Boys' Corduroy pants, a line we imported direct fi-om an Old Country manufacturer, and equal to wUat we have been selling 7f)c. pr. They aro just the thing for school wear pnd very cheap at 58 20 Boys' Imported Tweed Suits, (2 piece,) for small boj's, good quality cloth, nicely braid trimmed and worth §2.00 each. While they last 1.50 25 Ohildren's Frieze Reefers, (imported) rich shades of blue, green, red and brown, double-breasted, lai'ge sailor collar, well lined and made and very natty for ilie small girl. They run at SI. 90, $2.25 and 2.C0 20 Children'ii Frieze Ulsters, (imported direct from a German Manufaot.- urer,) assorted sizes in blues, gijeens, reds and browns, stylish made, and much loss-in price than any we have ever h-id former seasons, prices run at §2.25, $2.60, §2.75 and 3.00 â-  20 dozen vVomen's Im pouted, Cashmere Hose, same as last season and '' very special 2 pair for " "' 25 .10 Ladies Mantles, all sizes, made from rich, blnck wool cheviot, tha latest cut, full 36 inch long and extra value, only 5.00 -60-pair Men's Dongola Laced Boots, all sizes, nice fine (juality, sewed,, soles, the kind usually sold at §1.75. ft. pair ; while they last you can buy them at .' 1.35 25 dozsn Men's Wool Sox, ribbed tops, grey legs,. white heels and toes, a big snap i^tthe price, 2 pair fcr 25 Linen Towels,, size 15 by 30, fancy borders, per pair 12^ 200 b-rrrels Boot Buttons, 50 buttons iiia bauTel, for 3 Sewing-needles, 3^tii 7T-^pOcial 2 packages for 5 5 pioces-TPowoUing, 14 inches wide, pure linen with fancy red border, extra \3rlu0 at per yard 5 6 Stone China Toilet Sett«,g;iod quality in, red, blue or pencil decorations, jc pieces to set, usually a»ld at t?2.00, our price 1.29 3 dinner .sgis, 07 pieciSs, handsoiuely dii"corate4 coIbrs,re(i bluejind green, gMjd value at 87.00 a set, our piico .... ' 4.90 jVldF^riaiid, ^tkffoi^d ^ Co Kai!Stedt*s F©r Whei'e you tvill i'md a choice and well assorted, stock of : To T'nc liditar of Tin Aiiuiiiice,^ .•' * â-  Dkak S14â€" We notice another cIRisiori" iu your issue of 25ih insb-,. signed by Mechanic, but realy wiitten by the well known lath "butcher." The I'iily Iking Worth itpljii g to is where In; nieiilionfl a a lady's iiame in connection withdhc mat- ter, who surely does not figiuro in cither trade or business. My opinion i* that a man who is wipable of taking the pulpit on Sundays and preaching t& us ordinary niortaU should at least respect the fair sex and not bo too personal even if a woman has to Kork for a living. As to his reference to our work his advertising will certuinly not hurt us as the wulk is there and will b>!ar itispec.ion. Wo do n :it at present require the seix ices of a laborer and if wc did wo do not want ladies to mix Hiortiir as we have a higher estimate of their abilities than to allow them In engnge in that work. Perhaps Meclianic Would like to have tbeni on ih« same level as hiiii8c]f,or perhaps he would like theiti to du the lathing and he do the stonework. Patton Bkos. Dres8'T5o')ils Wmppei'cttey â- Towelling; \yaterproot Clothing Sbcks- &reT Cotton Suit Lengths Shaker Flannel Jiubbers Blankets Mitts White CoUun Dress .yrimniiiigs Grey Flanuels Boots and Shocj, Quilts Gloves nat-s and Caps Ready-made Clothing A Specialty Choice Fresh Groceries away s in Stock. John Oaillnn, of Oroeaiore, late- of Roddickville, is the owner of a cow from which they make 18 pounds of butter per wtek. Now that it is nearing cold weather we are prepared to put up all kinds of iSiot^es and S^an^es at the verj/ jGowest jrn'ces, FURNACES A SF»EOIALXY •4P â-  1^' F. Q, KARSTEDT, FLE5!iERTON ;M-