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or tphmelBrRMErRBl.at the seat of Government as aforesaid, during the ten days next before the meeting of Parliament, shall be free of Canada postage. 'he long and short of Mr.Gladstor1e'is '6 rule bill is that he sets up a local legislature, such as n Canada, with a legislative ch as they have in some of provinces, and to this body over the control of all local Ireland, Irish representation mined in the Imperial Com. t as Ontario, although having aislature, is represented in fCommons at Ottawa, certain larger or nab [he bill is being ated: ently appeared in the igencer,whicl, has been erlin contemporary, in mpt is made to show that iber in the House of Com- . E. Bowman, has been hat is termed " somewhat useof thefranking privilege" g out circulars and receiving ring the parliamentary ses. mvinr tation from anndn, Chap. Athena are no how; conclusive, is strictly within Home Rule. railable matter y the Speaker or or of the House of seat of Government ada postage, and ble matter AI): JEMBEII OF eat of Govern- s" Parliament. _ at the seat of In: PIIIVILEGI-I. ent customs tariif upon the great ',he Dominion and ughly reformed in Lde, and that the I be limited to the tunecessicies of the and economically ht. Following rTe voted r. McCarthy rm, Lvemment (rht Fam enc Tded 70mm ted S3 From our own Correspondent. St. Jacobs. Mrs, Wm, Hauck returned home from Toronto on Saturday after a month's visiting in the city. . . .Miss Chapman of Guelph was the guest of her sister Mrs. W. H. Brubacher on emand for . . . .Mi, -A.'C. Clemens went to Forest on business... .H. Hellman of Berlin occupied the pulpit of the new Men. nonite church on Sunday evening. . . . Pastor Andres of Berlin preached in St, Peter's Church on the 23rd, inst. .. Miss Brisker went oat to the country for a few weeks for her health. Mrs. Smith sr.and Mrs. F. Ovens are visiting in the village. . . .Mrs. J. Knight has gone to Waterloo . . . .A grand concert will be given in the Town Hall on Saturday evening next by the Debating Society. It will be a rare treat. Come one, come all. . . .The Tea:meeting resulted very successfully, the total amount on hand being about ninety dollars. . . .Miss McKibbon oi Millbank spent a few days in the vil- lage. . . .Mrs. W. Hammond who had her arm broken a couple of weeks ago is mending slowly. . . .W. Coutts is still very low. ' . . Efforts are being made to organize an order of the Knights of the Maccabees. We will soon have orders enough in Crosshill. From Our Own Correswndent. Cross Ill. From our own Uni-respond‘oun. BrerMu. Mr.Schster sold the machinery in the shoddy mill to Mr. Bauer of Wa- terloo. He has also disposed of the manufacured stock on hand . . . . A par- ty drove to Kossuth a few days ago. A good time was spent in music and games. On going home the roads were drifted and they upset a number of times. They arrived home at an early hour, One had several fingers fronen and another his nasal organ . . . . Another snow blockade, county roads badly drifted,woodchoppers have stop- ped chopping wood. Snow three feet. rinse in the """""iak,'."a"s Great LOIS " Vienna, Feb. 28.-0wing to a sud. d rise in the Danube, the 1,600 inhabitants of Gergely, 60 miles south oi Bufa, found the mud hats in which they lived surrounded by water. The frail dwellings gradually yielded before the furious current, and the people took refuge in the church and school buildings. The people led by their pastor offered up earnest prayer for safety, and mothers and children clung to the altar beseeching the intercession of saints. The swelling waters began to beat against the church and school building with fury. Opening the doors they started out into the flood. Fath. ers and mothers carried their children and the sick and feeble were helped along by those who were stronger. One mother with five children sank in the waters and perished. Many others were drowned in the flood and the sur- vivors reached Paks In a most deplor- able condition. Nothing can be done [ toward recovering the bodies oi those who have perished until the river l retires. I’ERISIIED IN THE WATERS. From our own Uorresponaenh. Heidelberg. Mr. Louis S. Weber has finished drawing sew logs. On Saturday he gave his men a holiday. . . . Mr. Chas. Kreutziger has now about 500,000 feet of cherry lumber in his yard with about that much more to draw. He also got about 300,000 feet of pine logs from Louis S. Weber. . . .The sale of John Frey on Tuesday was largely attended as was also that of Daniel Fries. Mr. Frey is going to more to Lisbon . . . . Mrs. C. S. Schmidt is home again from West Troy where she was attending her mother's funeral. . . . Last week a calf got under the shaft while men were threshing at Wm, sattler'e and had the skin all born off its back. ' . .Our teachers last week attended tne teach- ers' association meeting at Berlin . . . . Several from here were to St. Clements on Saturday evening attending the dedication of 14 pictures, representing the life of"Christ from the cradle to the grave." The frames which are well finished and beautiful were made bi Mr. Rosenblatt, The pictures are reg attractive and quite an ornament” church. . . . Mr. Wm. Arnold off” tor was here on a. visit last W011" took his parents and his wt him on a isit to his otherf sister. rig there. . ca' .owmnn wen? st Sundry)“ fast an/M, Y woorid Lvird FAImEns’ INsTvrUrrt,-The meeting of the Farmers' Institute on Wednesday last was well attended. At the after. noon session Mr. Josiah Hellman opened she subject of "Catch Crops." An interesting discussion followed. Mr. G. Bettschen then gave an address on "Hog raising," which was followed by instructive remarks by various speakers. During the evening session the hall was filled to overflowing, many being compelled to stand. The meet. ing was presided over by Mr. R. C. Tye of Haysville, president of the Institute. Humorous, interesting and edifying addresses were delivered by Messrs. I. Masters, Berlin, Wm. Slater and W. Cowan, Gait. Messrs. S. Groh and A. Rice, teachers, enlivened the proceedings by an animated discussion on "Agriculture in the public schools." The music was furnished by a quar- tette of singers and the Dundee orches- tra, under the leadership of L, Bock. The music was of such a stirring nature that several greybeards could not con- trol their feet. One in particular crossed the floor nnd proposed to a married lady. His proposal was, how. ever, that they have a dance to such music. The people of Dundee were gratified by the evening’s proceedings and are living in hopes of having another visit of the Institute at an early date. The teachers of the village school attended the sessions of the Teyehers' Association or) Thursday and Friday last. . . . Mr. W. S. Rose of Berlin and Mr. Geo. Wegenast of Hespaler visited the village on Monday on insurance business. . . . .Misses Leyes moved last week. They now occupy the dwelling north of their former home. On Tues- day evening last week the villagers in goodly numbers visited the ladies in their new home and spent a pleasant evening . "h" DUNDEE. ’mmpices of the almlmer’s church 1r't? room on tha' at . fast (cook ; krone " more After the 'pening, prayer iby Mr. Carscaddee Gult, a comm nication Ye N rk Teachers' As: ociation, that_ I s advisable that township comm)” appoint one or tw truant offices, . ', . or each township, WI scarried. Pi; ouston then continua} his sub. J; on composition and led 1 a very , eresting and profiuxble dis . ussion on 1bject. f Pearce then delighted I all'present Adjournment for dinner over, Mr. Wm. Houston, M. A. Direct/0r of In- stitutes was introduced, who opened his series of lectures by speaking on the, "Prmcticul treatment of English." HP thinks script should be taught before print and 11 whole sentence should be given the child to begin with rather than a single word or a single sound. The sentence being the exprelr sion of a thought and a single word expressing no thought. The child should be led to discover the sounds of the different letters by pronouncing words containing the same letters hav- ing the same sounds, slowly and dis» tinctly. 1f Mr. Weidenlmmmor followed With nu able paper on "a subject in which the profession is deeply interested.” This subject was discussed by (ur. Kuntz and Mr. Pearce. EVENING SESSION. l At the evening session the ltwo spacious rooms in the model S/cliool were packed to the doors. The pro- ceedings of the owning were opened by the rendering of "Poet and le-asnnt" by the Berlin academy ot / music orchestra in a moat nppreciutiv/o style. The choruses sung by a host oilOentral School scholars, worn flue ard ' showed the good sense of the Berlih sohool board in engaging so able 3 t§acher as Prof. Zoellner to take char ce of the music in their schools. 11t solo by Miss Racie Boehmor evoked , a. shower of applause. Mr, Houston Ilium spoke the subject of "Histoi class." He thought taught at all in thisc very simple and as n more serious work in the' The subject was discus) Martin, Mr. Ward, Mr. Hall and others, There dMbrence, 0L opinion on where shall we, liegin to ten. some holding that you should berm W. the beginning and work up to the pres- cut, otlmrs holding that you should llt‘gln with the prt-m‘nt of which the the Phild knows mun-thing nnd work hack to tho hoginning lioth sides were :1!ny mrtintaiued. cu literature, basing his r'eugwks on the poems "Three Fishers" ' reak, Break, Break" showing wl a oints he would bring out in 3. cl The, Or- Chestrn's rendering of ,' 0 a. plain' took the house by g . 1 w bile A Ruby sang the "V) " E lh ay" (I good effect and th 3 by ti 1e , bes Zoellner were inf to no p art Mlle programme. , no of thanks was utimnimouslyl o Miss Kennedy, Miiss Pearce,l e little boys and girls who so ,ave music and sonng by way of ion to the associatiod. .VVerner, chairman oh the Elmirn ol Board introduced the subject, it in the interest of our children to ise the standard for High School (entrance!" He said the time oi the pupil in the public school is too short to stamp him with the individuality of the teacher and prepare him properly for the High School. A child of 12 or 14 is too young to leave the parental roof and attend high school. Mr, Lin- ton of Hamburg followed in discussion saying that he was in favor of raising the standard by raising the required percentage on the Home course now on _ the programme. M r. Knowles was also in favor of raising the standard ’nnd dropping the leaving exnrrdn . Mr. "lpg),ti,y2l,1ia"avaiix'A""g1it. FIUDA‘ROCEEDINHI aselcctiou of mu all'preseut do on the NEW and L6VELY.""This“§é§;éoh we have made Erbium It wasgevir so LARGE, our ASSORTMENT new?“ so fi'ltdt".fd you e t e Judges, the fact that for f3 we Tave one. e IS EVIDENCE to us that our mica/WEE? BE RIGHT. je. (33159 tal.lr.ipgpho_u_irthe Weather, IT NEVER fl, addresses and to the rttirl'g OWE-"3 the association adj/unwed umeet "g""' in Oct. / rr Elect/ind r"v96"'l'" The openin, (address rl President Wright at the i's,)'i?i,ifiii,'i,i c Vention of the Cana- dian Elect cal Assoc' 'on, lieldat Toronto, contains emote of “vi-hing to capitalists and investor{ as well " electricians, He said: "That hile it is undoubtedly afect that so- lid "iilj,i,srlii,iii1s,'r:,iii',i, progress has been made by (mserratire management of electrical en- terprise, a word of caution may not be out of place to investors in securities based upon electrical speculation. There is a danger that the fact of this solid progress may be I made the means of ulimute injury to the con- l cerns identified with it. It has caused a growth of schemes, having electricity as a basis, to sprin up as fast as mushrooms. The f',2'J/du failure of many of these will discredit, to a certain extent, legitimate l enterprise and prufittble business, The I many schemes for the long distance trantr 1 mission of power, thoughscarcely to be class- I ‘ed with what may be termed the electricl fake,ure still somriwhaxfar removed from the line of commercial sucess. Experimentally, much bas beenaccomplished in this direction, though the complicated nature of the appara- tus and its cost for operation and repair make financial success rather more than problematical. At the last convention of this Association I took occasion, in opposi- tion to views then set forth, to mildly sati- rize the hundred-miles-an hour enterprise that was to carry the denizens from the wilds l of Missouri to the World's Fair at Chicago. l Where is that enterprise to-day? Several miles of road are crnistrueeed-all but the track-in a straight line, too, I believe, as considered necessary by the projectors, but no plans are forthcoming, and we do not see the name of any engineer ofstanding corfgizec- ted with the scheme, The sole energy Ibf the iromoters appears to be expended in the production of a very rosy-colored prospectus, showing impossible ptofits, and an elaborate engraving of the happy farmer sawing wood and pumping water by electric light and power for: a couple of miles on either side the right of way. To come nearer home. good hard dollars have been extracted from the pockets of the liege subjects of the Queen in the name of electricity, as the magic wand was waved even under the nose of Broek's effigy on Quoenstéwn Heights. Where is that scheme now y, The Utopian dream of a railroad on every farm that is being promul- gatednow will nottnateriulize in our genersti on except as n. sin -hole for the funds of the unwary. A word of warning is needed now, and as President of thisAssociatioi1 Igive it. It is open to you todissent from this position, to criticize it if you see ht, and to prove it m. .. ct.,'..'..,,-.., ClUCDI HAL] CIIUMA t" luv ”4 Fee" ,, a " trailing upon the cred ‘li‘y of the people." Those seeking electrical investments should be wary of the rosy-colored irospectus tiug,' gestive of marvelous dividemls to bu made in heating by electricity, combining uml oral- gauratagyomrPnie? and sG-cnllad wonderful improvements in telephony. The field forthe latter in the U.S. to-day, owing to the expiry of patents, seems to be widening. and we read of telephone ceilipzmies heir 't"qillll ‘* ted indifferent 9”“ Te w u.u.v.-\..y..l__,, . - needless if you can. Thesafety of legitimate electrical enterprise is endangered by this - ' ", t A.“ “mi- ,, BRIO DR4friiifi; GOODS DEPARTMENT, for choice Teas and Coffees. 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