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Ff John Graham of Dutton, was way- laid and robbed by three men between Fingal and Shedden. One held the horse, another held Mr. Graham, while a third went through his pockets, tak- ing therefrom $6 in cash and an open Jace silver watch. He was then drag- .ged out of the buggy, when one of the men seized the lines and drove off in the darkness. Mr. Graham was stunned, and when he recovered he proceeded toShedden. The horse was found next morning on Shakleton street, Dunwich, where it is supposed to have been abandoned by we tolslrera, [ John Slaven, second sun of Dr. Slayer), of Orillis, and anhew of Rev. Father Slaven, . . . . . V . . . . . . one of the company of Rough Riders, was grilled in the attack on Santiago on July 1st. A letter written tohim from shome in July was returned to Orillia ‘on Saturday last and written across the since of it were the words :--"Killed in :action July 1st, buried July 2nd." :Mnch sympathy is expressed for the 3hereaved parents and family. . Miss M. B. Wallace, M. D , of Essex, Centre, recently appointed a miimion. ary to Hanan, China, left Toronto for Vancouver, Monday, Aug. 15 She was joined at Myrtle by Miss K Cameron, who has been appoin' ed to a position in the Indian School at Albertin, BO Mise Cameron will accompany her as far as Victoria. Mrs (Rev.) Murdock Mackenzie, whose husband went back to China last autumn, will also accom- pany her from Winnipeg to her destin- ation, A horse and buggy were stolen from the farm of Alex Garrick near Galt, on Sunday night or early on Monday morning. The thief went to the pasture fisld, caught the mare, led her to the stable, where he put on the her- nee, and taking a baggy out) of the shed, hitched the animal to it and drove away. M, J. C. Morrow, hotel keeper, Fer. gus, met with more serious injury last week than was at first supposed. It mill be remembered that the locomotive struck and killed bbe horse and threw the buggy and occupant) a. distance of thirty feet against a telegraph posh. Toe ligaments of the knee were broken and torn, one rib broken and his shoulder injured. He is at the home of his sister in Tottenham, near where the accident happened. The city of Ohatham, Ooh, has just; had judgment rendered againsf it for 8995 damages and all costs, owing to a rig colliding with a telephone pole in the main street. and causing serious injuries to the occupants. The city tried to shift; the responsibility upon the telephone company, bat failed, as the pole was placed with the approval of the council. Gay Freeborn, of Millbank, fell backwards off a load of hay he was climbing last Wednesday afbernoon, alighting on his head on the burn floor, He was picked up in an unconscxoua condition, and remained in that state for several hours. He was injured internally, bat to what extent is not yet known. He is in a very precarious condition, and little hopes are enter. tained of his recovery. Martin Dmb, a teamster, residing near Berlin, met with a. serious accident while crossing a railway track. The horse became frightened of a passing train and tore .awny dragging Mr Daub, who ciung to the lines over the front of the wagon. It is feared he sustained internal injuries. Mr. Ostrander, of Goshen, has, says the Woodtstoek Tunes, a c!ock in his possession that is 155 years old, and belonged to his mother's great grandfather, and has been in the family for five generations. It has brass works, stands six feet high and is in a solid walnut case, and keeps excellent time. Emma Gloxer of Mona Centre, had the misfortune to break her leg while trying to ride a bicycle. The fracture is an unusually bad one and the attend. ing physician at first thought that the limb would have to be amputated. Alex, Adams of Wellesley, is the possessor of a mammoth apple tree, the branches having an area of 150 feet in circumference. Is istf the Tompkins variety, and being in a healthy condi- tion is spreading out wider from year to year, and bears enormous quantities of apples. A. McVietor, B. A., junior master in the Listowel High Sebaoh‘bas been selected by the Windsor Collet iate Institute Board to fill a similar poution in their school at a allary of $750. William O'Reillyof Peel, had an alter. cation with John Bind de of Dragnet), and attack him on the head with a hammer, for which he bad to pay $10 and costs. _ Louis Schrader, the London bicycle thief, was sentenrrod to nine months in Central Prison. Ilia accomplice, War Spohn, was allowed to go on suspended mntence. his eabimated that I,000 harvest hands from Ontario and Quebec will be needed ttfs month to gather in grain in Manitoba and the Territories. A St. Thomas house wag twice struck by lightning [ha other night, The first bolt; puncture! the roof an one corner. the second the corner opposite. So the ploverb ie untrue. Mr. Jacob E'x of the 4th concession Peel township. lost a valuable horse last) week through giving him a drink of cold water when warm. The infant child of Mr. John A. Bucket was drowned in the mill pond in Wellesley on Monday, Aug. 15th. He was only two years and a few months old. UUUNTY AND DISTRICT News ot the Waterloo County District Gleaned From Exchanges. was twice A member of the Austrian suite of the Archduchess El'mbeth, mother of the queen regent of Spain, who has just returned to Vienna, states that Queen Cristina has scarcely had a mo ment’s rest since the outbreak of the war. Her majesty is busy from six o'clock in the morning until ten o'oloek at night with the affairs of the state. and' the numerous councils and confer- ences have at times necessitated her absence from the royal table. The trials of the past few months are show- Ing their traces in the physical appear- ance of her majesty, but her moral courage has never once failed her. She it is who encourages those around her when all hope appears to have fled. She received the news of the destruction of Admiral Cervera’s fleet with the utmcst calm. The young king, meanwhile pursues his physical and mental exer- cises with the lightness of heart of one who little guesses the nature of the tragedy which is going on around him. Together with his sister he amuses himself in the garden of the Casa del Sol, a charming park which the queen caused to be laid out near the palace The queen is a familiar figare in the hospitals, and many a wounded soldier has to thank her for his release from further obligation to serve his country in order to allow of his complete con- valescence. "I will give you back to your mother," is an expression which is often heard from the lipi,of her majesty, who also shows practical interest in the future welfare of the men' as, for instance, in the case of a soldier who had been mutilated by the Cubans, whom she took into the palace service. The queen is declared to be a friend of peace. She Was trom the firat opposed to the opening of hotilititsiv--Vmdoa Morning Pot Every day during the current) year Britain is paying £25,290 for the building of new ships to add to the fleet; it costs £12,866 a day to pay the offieers, seamen and marines; 23,. 793a day to fed and clothe them; and nearly £6,000 a day goes in pen- sions and half-pay to men who have ceased to be on the active list, while to nquip the vessels with their arms.- menus, Britain is spending 25,835 a day. Mr. Gladstone believed that the Christian religion was a veritable pow- er for good among the nations of the wor'd. He declared, in a speech made in North Wales, some twenty or twentrfive years ago, that he held it to be wrong to enter into trade rela- tionships with distant lands and receive from them the commercial advantages of export and import, without com municating to them also the priceless treasures that we possessed in the Christian faith. And this belief was no formal homage paid to public senti- ment ; it was the expression of a pro- found personal conviction. In the busiest times he was regularly to be seen at church. He had the old fash ioned courage of the religious man who was not ashamed of his religious habits. . i To be told that Great Britain pro- poses to spend nearly Jy22,000,000 on her navy this year conveys little to the autetatiatieal mind. We can get some perception of the cost: of Britaiu'e sea defence when we are told that the British navy costs Britain within a a. few pence of a guinea a second, day and night throughout the year. The annual income of a Otbinet Minister would be absorbed in less than an boar and twenty minutes, and there are not a dczen men in the kingdom whose yearly income would pay two day's cost of the navy. .. . . Mrs. Smith and children of Ham. burg are visiting at her homo, c, A. Heinricb’s . . ' . Pastor Walbaum of Conestogo, held service in the Lutheran church on Sunday, in place of Mr. Shultz. who was engaged at Linwood. British Fleet Costs a Guinea a Second. A happy event took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J ll, Hill, Mill. bank on the afternoon of August 9th, when Miss Henrietta Fear, daughter of Mr, Joseph Fear, formerly of Elmira, was united in marriage to Mr. W. J. Tyler, of Woolwich, Tue bride was becomiogly attired in a. gown of cream serge With tshi,ffon silk and pearl trim- mings. She was assisted by Miss Eva. Hill daintily attired in white dotted swiss muslin, while Mr. Norman Hill supported the groom. After the cere- mony the party repaired to the dwing room where they partnok of the delica- cies prepared for them. The presents were numerous and attrs'ed the papal- arity (f the bride. orare, N. J , where he is engAged in an electric workshop. . . ' .Mies Mary Mayer of Salem is visiting under the parental roof. ' . .Mr. N, S. Snyder, who has been holidaying in town, has left for his place of business in Toronto. 'drsiiriii'Jrsi, has bee; visiting; in the neighboring vicinity, has left for E st OraDgP, N. J , where he is engAged in A, The Queen Regent ot Spam. Religious Convictions August Nuptuals. TYLER-FEAR, Be sure that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not bo'ievo those who too lightly say: 'Nothing succeeds like success.’ Effort-honest, manful, bum. ble effort-succeeds by its reflected action, especially in youth, better than success, which, indeed, too easily and too early gained, not seldom serves, like winning the throw of the dice, to blind and stupefy. Get knowledge, all you can. Be thorough in all you do, sud remember that though ignorance may be innocent, preteniyyCy always despicable. But you, like men, be strong and exercise your strength,work onward and upward, and may the blessing of the Most High soothe your carts, clear your vision, and crown your labors with reward; la the German army only six or seven cases occur annually, and there can be little doubt that this almost com- plete immunity from a disease which formerly decimated continental armies is due to the thorough way in which vaccination is carried out. All recruits are resraoeinated, and the regulations prescribe that there shall be at least ten punctures in each arm. A further tuwfirrmstioa of tbi, view may be found in the fact that the one soldier who died from smallpox in the period from 1874 to 1887 was a man who was twice unsuccessfully revaccinated when recruited. There can be no doubt that other diseases are sometimes com- munieatod. through the medium of the vaccine lymph, but the unpreju- diced observer will arrive at the con- clusion that these form but a very inaignifieant fraction of the number of smallpox cases which would ensue from the abolition of vaccination. There are, no doubt, many objections to either human or animal lymyh, and we look forward to the time when the cultiva- tion of vaccine virus shall take place in a sterilized medium which can trans- mit no other diisease.--. Westminster Review, Gladstone's Advice to Young Men. 604 89--Alextutdre Champagne, Sorel, Ointment. 605,03---John A. McKellar,A1vinston, Ont., improvements in locks. 605,10--William J. Curry, Nanaimo, 13.0., collapsib‘e bed. 605,39--1ildward Porter, Sidney, N. W., telegram transmitter. M)5,34--Willitun Keys. Montreal, car advertising device. 606,22--mnry John Greyall, Endarby, 3.0., cant hook. 606,33-F. L Rowe, Hemmingford, P.Q , tire fastening attachments for bicycles. 606,67-Janvier Letournean, St. Hy- acinthe, ribbon measuring machine. 606,7i-Joseph Roy, Montreal, closet systems. 607,18-OJilon Feher, Montreal, ice creeper. 607,19-Jobn Messenger, Denfield, Ont, suspenders. 607,20-Laeien Vial, Willhun'e Lake, snap books. . ti07,iN--Leo Jacob, Waterbury, Conn., car coupler. 607,46-William Nortbgraves, Perth, Out, corn fork. . 607 49--Etnilien Alfred Manny, Beauharnois, canal locks. 608,11-J. W. Wright, Quebec, drain. age conduits for pavements. BELGIAN' PATENTS. 135,900-Ed, Heroux, Yamaelneho improvements in shoes. 135,901---Paul Lair, Lotbiniere, engine. Below will be found a report of patents recently granted to Canadian Inventors through the agency of Messrs. Marion & Marion, Solicibors of Patents and Experts, New York Life Building, Montreal, by the Canadian, American and Belgian Governments. Hning with some diffiaulty backed the carriage into the brush, they began to congratulate each other on the 8tttr cess of their maneuver. The old gentler man, letting down the window, to their utter surprise and alarm, very quietly said : . A plan was formed among some of the boys that on a certain night they would remove this offensive vehicle from the eoaehhouse to th wood about half a mile from the college. Their intention was to run the carriage into the thick- est. of the woods and underbrash and leave it there. Bat the principal by some means learned or suspected their intention. Accordingly, in the evening, he quietly went out to the coachhouae, and, well wrapped up, crouched in a corner of the carnage and waited. Boon the boys came, very stealthily, and, without looking into the vehicle, began their operations very quietly,and in whispers, and with many a "Hush" and "Take care" and "Look out," they succeeded in getting lb out of the house and yard and info the road, There thov Wrre all right, bat they were hum, d he tLui the thing so heavy MI , nu , 41d amid grumbling" and puff. nugs and pautiugs, varied occasionally with a sorong expression cf disgust, they succeeded in reaching the weak, the principal lisbening to their com- plaints and rather enjoying the situa- tion. "Now, young gentlemen, just take me back very carefully, if you please." --Spare Moments. The Boys Hauled the Professor Back, Much to Their Chagrin. A very good story is told of the head of a college who was the possessor of a very clumsy, old fashioned vehicle to which he was very parlial and which he constantly used in riding through the streets of the town, to the disgust: of most) of the students. WHERE THE JOKE CAME IN. NOS. CANADIAN PATENTS Patent Report. Vaccination. ‘Oh, I fancy they have their share,' resumed the first woman placidly. 'One has enormous dentist/s bills, and they are documentary evidence of a certain amount of suffering, don't you think l The other is anything but robust con- stitutionally, but she is seldom ill because she takes good care of her health instead of talking about it. I don't think I have been an unsympa- thr t c mother, and I fear I'm not made of Spartan material ; but when my girls got old enough to talk about head- aches and toothaches, and ailments, real, exaggerated or imaginary, I made up my mind to discourage it at once. I refused to listen to accounts of myster- ious aches and sensations when I had reason to believe they were the out. come of too much introspection and too little exercise. Fresh air and occupa- tions were the prescriptions for bead. aches and bad temper, and a bread and milk supper and early to bed was the treatment for other ailments. Real' illness seldom comes unheralded, and when eyes keep bright, pulses regular and appetites good there is scarcely anything that cannot be cured by witchhazel or a good sleep. We are a busy family, and there is seldom an hour of dreaming for the girls. They had plenty of pleasure, but it was active and jolly rather than leisurely, They never got into the summer piazzs complaining habit because they were always playing tennis or sailing boats or reading books. I suppose their education has been sadly neglected as far as fancy work is concerned, but the hours that most women spend over fancy work are, in my idea, like those hours after dinner which Thackeray says women always spend in discussing their diseases. To remember a face, as a person is called,tbe rule is not difficult to follow , pick oat some feature or peculiarity by which you can distinguish that face or person from all other faces or persons, and associate the name with that feat- ure or peculiarity. N o two features or figures are alike, and it is by noting how they differ one from another that you will remember them. In explaining his remarkable memory for faces,Speak~ er Reed once said to a reporter that he never looked a man in the Gee but some striking peculiarity, a line, a wrinkle, an expression about the eye, the set of the lips, the shape of the nose, something set that man's face down in his mind ineradically and dis- tinguished from the rest of mankind-- so that when a man approached him he would think: "Here comes that man Robinson whose right pupil is bigger than his left," or "thig is Thompson whose nose is crooked,"---) culture. There is a. grandeur in simplicity which is all its own, The plainesb language is the most effective. The noblest acts seem an this time the simplest. True greatness is like the mountain that does not impress you with its massive ruggedness until you gaze back ah it from the far-distant valley. Almost all the deaths among the bathers by drowning result; either from heart failure or cramp, and not from fai'ure of skill or muscular force. A skillful swimmer can resb quite easily, “rocked in the cradle of the deep," provided his heart and nervous strength are not already exhausted by violent muscular exertion. It, however, the circulation is impeded or the nervous strength exhausted, cerebral conges- tion, heart failure or nervous spasm is liable to seize even the expert, and render him as powerless as a baby in the mighty arms of the ocean’s waves. - 'I may not have achieved anything great in my life,' add a. woman the other day, 'but I have brought up two daughters who never talk about their pains and aches.’ The nervous strength is exhausted almost as much by exposure to cold as by muscular exercise. To remain in the water until one is chilled through --blue, trembling and chattering-is to invite cramp. It is a signal that the blood from the surface has re- treated to the central citadels, and that the blood strain on these is at the danger mark. Such exercise is not a benefit to health, but a distinct harm. One should never bathe just after eat. ing-that is an old rule supposed to be known in every well regulated house. hold, but hundreds seem to forget it at the seashore. - ‘Maybe they haven't any,' ventured a wgnap _who enjoys poor health No sensible man would attempt to run as far as bis strength would permit, if, at the limit of bis endurance he knew that he must- go through an equal amount of violent exercise to awe his life, Yet foolish men and foolish boys daily try to see bow far they can swim, putting their lives in peril and worrying the spectators on shore by their exhausted ttrts to re- turn. The first dip is especially dangerous, and the expert who knows that be can reach a certain point be- cause he did it last year. would better try some shorter trip for his first dip of the season. At this season it may be well to mention afew familiar facts, showing how the dangers to which bathers often expose themselves may be avoided. One of the simplest of these facts is that, as in all bodily exercises, moder- ation is beneficial and excess is danger- ous in swimming. Especially is this trneif the bather suffer from organic trouble. The man who uses tobacco to excess or who is weakened by long confinement an a sedentary occupation needs to take fully as much care as he who is the victim of chronic disease of the heart. To Remember Faces. Success That Counts. Points For Bathers The section in which Mr. Lamb teaches is in the Mennonite settle.. ment, just on the border. He has an average attendance of about fifteen scholars the year round, while his as- sistant, a young man of Russian par- entage and birth, has about twice as many. Both English and German are taught in the school, equal hours being devoted to each language. The reser- vation is forty miles square, witha population of about 100,000 persons, comprising nearly one-half of the pop' ulation of Manitoba, according to the census of 1895. In this district there are 150 schools, one-third of whiclrarts district or public schools. The proneness of the Mennonite to retain the habits and customs which characterize their friends in Europe is due to the power, which is almost dom- inant, of the clergy. These people are good, and live good, moral lives, but insist upon retaining the customs of their forefathers. Were it not tor the Mr, George Lamb, who has for sev- eral years been teaching school near M orden, Manitoba, has been sojourning recently in Stratford and has given a Beacon reporter some interesting par- ticulars about the Mennonites in the settlement in southern Manitoba. The Mennonites in the neighborhood of Morden are well ssahitrfitsd with the district schools, although for some years after their establishment they refused to allow their children to attend, al.. though they paid the school taxes. The village system of settlement which characterizes the Mennonite reservat- ion of the west is, on the borders at least, gradually becoming a thing of the past. Already disintegration has commenced and in many cases the villages are no more. Near Morden some years ago there was a village of about one hundred families of which nothing is now left but the mounds and cellars where the houses stood, the people having moved to their farms and erected houses there, like the English settlers. The Mennonites are anxious to teach their children EnglishJ but at the same time insist that Ger-. man also be taught them. Contrary to the usual run of foreigners, Mr. Lamb finds that his scholars are very intelligent and pick up English quite rapidly. The are industrious in their habits and very frugal. MRS. WINSLow’s Soomma SYRUP has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If disturbed at night and hrokeg of.your rest by a sick child suffering and crginn with pain of Cutting Teeth send at once an get abottle of “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" or Children Teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it mothers there is no mistake about it. It cures Diarrhoea, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums,reduces In- flammation, and gives tone and energy to the wholesystem. "Mrg.Winalow's Soothing Syrup tor children teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Price tweuertive cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists throughout the world. Be sure and ask for: “Mas. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP ‘You're a pretty good guesser,’ said the Colonel. 'Why don't you admit you’re guessing where those shots land l' .‘I'll bet you a box of cigars,’ said the junior officer, 'that I can call twenty shots in succession.’ ‘Tuken,’ said the old warrior, Lieut. Booth fired. 'Miss,’ he announced, and ared the; from the target told that this was correct. Another shot. 'Miss,' he declared, A third shot. ‘Miss again,' he said. Fourth shot. ‘Fourth miss,' announced Booth, Another shot. 'Miss,' again sang out the lieutenant. 'Hold on there,' put in Col, Bart, 'What are you trying to do 7 I thought you were going to fire at the target.' ‘I’m trying to win my box of cigars,' said Lieut. Booth. 'Don’t fire any more,' said the Colonel. ‘They’re yours '---Ohieago Journal. An old physician, retired from praetice,having had placed in his han ds by an East India mission- ary theformula of asimple vegetable remedy. tor the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption Bronchitis, Cat-arm, Asthma, and all throat and Lung Afrections, also a posltive and radical cure torN ervous Debility and all N ervousComplamts after having tested its wonderful curative pow- ers in thousands ot cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive ends. desire to relieve human Hut testing, I will send free of charger» all whodesire it,this recipe, in Geirmart,Frerfieh or English.with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper. W. A. NOYES, 820 Powers’ Block, Roch- ester. N, Y. Mr. Lind objects to the 10 per cent. royalty imposed by the government, and calls it a hardship to the miners. He and his partners had to pay $10,. 000 last spring as the government’s share of the year's clear-up. He expects to go to Ottawa shortly to meet other returned Klondikers and interview the government in this con. nection. He says when he left Forty. Mile Creek only enough mining was being done to pay expenses, the miners holding off in the hope that the royalty would be reduced. He expects to return about the end of the year. had considerable experience in mining in Montana and after spending nearly a year in unsuccessful journeying about in Alaska, he settled with two other young men on Forty-Mile Creek. There fortune smiled on him. He has been in that vicinity ever since, and when he arrived home last week he brought out about $25,000, he has a third interest in mine claims, situated on the E'dorado, Bonanza and ILsnker. For one of these claims he says he and his partners paid $50,000, and he thinks his interest in all of them is worth in the neighborhood of $150,000. One day when Gen. Andrew S. Burt was liF-utenanb colonel of the seven- teenth United S.ates iuiaLtrs, Capt. Charles A Booth, then a. lieutenant, met, him on the rifFravge. Lient. Booth was shooting, and he 'ealled' each shot as he fired, without waiting for the markers to signal the result. Among those who have recently re- turned from the Klondike is Mr. John Lind of Pond Mills, who went west; with a surveying party in 1893 He The Mennonites of Manitoba, Bow Gen. Burt Was Tricked Brought Home a Fortune. CONSUMI’T10N CURE”. For Over Fifty Years clergy, Mr, Lsmb believes that the great majority of the "itslanderts" would, in a. very short time, adopt the mode of life of their English neighbors, as they do on the border of the tsettlement. Another class of foreigners, altogeth- er different from the Mennonites, are the Galicinns. They are Roman Catholics, while the Mennonites are Protestants. These people are dressed in skins and there is no difference in dress between the men and the women. They are rude in their manners and not nearly so industrious as the Men. nonite. Although the firat settlement arrived only two years ago, they are coming out in large detachments and are likely to prove an important factor in the LIP-building ot Manitoba, One of the largest and most successful schools in the Dominion. Graduates eminently sueceststul, Write for beautiful catalogue. first class delivery service Fall Term Opens September 1st. /CpctTt,if-5Ct.ttitzetvp' Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, a. amb,Batson, Ham, Pickled Pork and Tongue Corn Beef and Dried Beef always kept a 11 and also all kinds of Sausages as, Bologna, Head Cheese, Liver, Pork, Wiener and Summer Sausages, All Policies Guaranteed by The LONDON & LANCASHIRE FIRE INS. ao' with Assets of $15,000,000. The Leading Meat Market Is the only up-to-date Butch 2r Shop in town where customers can rely upon getting only the choicest,chea.pest and best of meats Ihiss establishment, has the reputation o keeping only the best and finest varieties of N. B.-Orders taken daily and meat de SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL - - " - $200,000 00 DEPOSIT WITH DOMINION GOV’T - - 50,079 'N W. A SIMS, President. JOBN Hill, Vice-milieu JAMES Locum, Managing Director; T A GALE. Inspector. Mr. Lenhard is making preparations for supplying customers with strictly fresh and It,t,tg,1.a" Lmeats during the hot summer man s. Ontario Mutual Life (1) 1877 (2) 1887 (3) 1897 CM. Taylor, lat Vice-Pres.; A. WrMrin, Q. C., 2nd Vim-Pres; B. M. Britton, q.C., M. P.; Francis C. Bruce; J. Kerr Fisken, B. N.; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G. u. M. G.; E. P, Clement; 1)rci,: Kidd, B.A.; Geo. A. Somervllle; James an. GEO, WEGEYAST. JM. WEBB,1|I.D.. Manager Medical Director T. B. EARL, Superintendent. ot all kinds a specialty. All meats delivered promlftly and customers tr eated with courtesy. A ca solicited. and satisfaction guaranteed. MEATS AND SAUSAGES On account of the large demand for the McLachIan carriages 1 have just received a. curload. This will give the buyers the best and greatest to choose from in the county. Iwill be able to give you cheap buggies, style and quality considered. also sell the Milner Lumber Wagon and the Wilkinson steel drum land roller, ploughs and other farm implements. Horseshoeing as usual. I am noted by the leading horsemen to give Comfort and develop the feet, inter. fering and knee knocking prevented. Beef, Pork, Veal, Lamb, Mut Rams, Bacon, Corned Beef, and Sausages King St. East, THE MERCAN TILE FIRE A Drop In Meats livered to any part of the town through a McLachlan Buggies MRS. J, _LE_N§[AR_D, Milestones Showing Wondrous growth LrlililtlP'8 MEAT WONT. 377. .,.$ 55,320. . . .. 8 110,210 387, ...$352,925. . . .. $1,089,500 397. ”$819,980. . . . . $3.741AOO Policies in force over $22,000,000 DIRECTORS ROBERT MELVIN, President, Opposite Alexander House Watérloo A. C. THOMAN STRATFORD, ONT. HED OFFICE, ASSURANCE GO. John B, Fischer .,.THE... W. J. Elliott. Principal. INCOME OFFICERS W. M. BIDDELL, INSURANCE COMPANY. Berlin, Ont ASSETS INCORPORATED 1815. Secrétary. Undertakers and Embalmexsz Calls answered day and night a: the faclory. C JohnFennell o.-.........-........-. GeorgeLang .-.-....................V WHBowlby.QC...............,.........Berlln 1rt.Bnyi1mri.,........,.....................mrrlin ILmte1r.....,......,......................Beaa J.A. Maokie...-.,,o.-...,...,Beriis H.L.Jauen:..............................Betllu L.J.Breithaupt............................Berlh P.S.Lautenaohla,ger......................Bar11n P. Jacobi ..............,...................Toronfp Hon.s;Memer..................NewHamburg C.Patmt ................................Haap¢lor Frank Turner, C.E......................Toronm Geo. Pattinaonl..........................Preatol| - Jog. E. Seam-am, Ma?.............,.. Waterloo 'c J OHN FENNELL GEORGE LANG F- Hueo Kama Total Net Assets Amount " Risk . Klippert Undertaking Go. Economical Mutual Fire Ins. Go. Total Assets 31st December '96 $334,083. _ Authorized Capital Gov't. Deposit at Ottawa Subscribed Capital V Paid up Capital . In No. ot Lives Assured . In Cash Premiums . . In Number of Policies . la Amount Assured .. ' In Interest Receipts . - In Assets - . , In Surplus over all Liabilitlas Head 0mm The Dominion Lite has made handsome gains in every essential feature during 1897. In N o. ot Lives Assured . . 8,2 per cent: In Cash Premiums . . 8.5 " " In Number of Policies - . 8.6 " " In Amount Assured _ . lo 5 " " In Interest Receipts . - - 16.5 " " In Assets _ . - l9 0 " " In Surplus over all Liabilities . 42.2 " " No Company anywhere is safer. sounder, more equitable or more favorable to the assured in all its arrangements than the Dominion Lite. Call on its agent when thinking ot putting on more Life Assurance. WATERLUD MUTUAL Dominion Life Mmm JAMES INNEB. M.P.. Crm. KUMPF, Est, President. Yieea?rmridettt THOS. Hrraaama, Mgr. Director. h GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANBACNID.', Interest allowed on mm: of ram mum and upwardsln Notes discounted at lowest current rates. Drafts bought and sold. Farmers' Sale Notes collected. Advances made to responsible Farmers on their own unmet! at lowest current at: of discount. Collections promptly "tended to. Highest current rate of interest paid on Savings Bank Deposits and Deposit Re cei ts, and compounded half-yearly. 318.1111: note forms su plied free of char 0. A General Banking Eusiness 'ik',',',',",,'?, tltTitttlr02,000,000. 1teMl,li0th0l" Drafts Issued on all Principal Points. The Traders Bank The Molsons Bank THE SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMER'I‘ ”Highest current “to: on neck) devout WATERLOO, ONTARIO. OFFICERS! George'Randall, President. John Bhuh, VimrProtsidemt, C. M. Taylor, Secretary. John Killer InspectorJ W. A. Raymo, Inspector. Messrs. . {Bowlby * Clams”, Solicitor: Berlin BUOKBERROUaB& GO’Y. Agents ELMIRA BRANCH Geo. Randall, an., Watarlo John Shah, 11:51., " P Ill. Bowman, Each, M. P., Waterloo B. Snyder Elam, Waterloo William Snider, Esq., " Geo. Diebei,Esq., n J. L. Wideman. Each " Jacob; John Allohin, My, New Hamburg Allan Bowman, Esq.. Fulton. P. Ill. Shanta, Preston. Thomas Gowdy. £311., Guelph. J amen Livingstone, Elam. M. P., Bade Thomas Comm, Esq., Gall). FIRE INSURANCE COMPANYI mCoRPoRATtD' is 1863. Mutual and Cash Systems. HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL, Norman T. Hillary Manager. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF.BERLIN. BOARD " DIRECTORS. COMPANY It Has Gained '...rrsr.........rr......... bu......................... JACOB mum“ Manner Wnterloo Bunch. Watcrloo. Ont, 8230,!" $13,084.41. President Vice-Pre- - Managu- . . .Borlln . . .Berun . . 39an . . . Berlin . . .Berun . . .Berlln . . .Betltn . . .Btrrtir . . .Berljn .Toronbo $1,000,000 $50,000 8257,600 8U,i00