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E& our evening contemporary wishes describe the visit paid to "Albert Bossardâ€" by a deputation of Conserâ€" f!atm brethren for the purpose of urging him to give evidence for & eonsideration‘‘ we don‘t think the Hion. Mr. Ross or anybody else will seriously object. "Mr. A. W. Wright, who has been over the province, says Ontario will go Whitney by 20 majority." ‘This is the same man who declarâ€" ed that, ‘he could not pound an ounce of sense into Mr. Whitney‘s «ead,‘‘ yet in the light of all the genâ€" éral Provincial elections that have saken place during the last thirty years, Mr. A. W. Wright himself has not sense enough to place his figures properly, thus .02. "If Mr. Breithaupt had any influâ€" ence with the Government he would have secured a grant for the Berlin sewer {arim. But he is a weak man mt home and weaker still at Toâ€" ronto." It seems a pity that such arrant nonsense as the above should require to be answered. Anybody possessed of normal reasoning faculties knows that Berlin has no more right to a grant from the Government for its sewer farm than any other town in the province, and Mr. Breithaupt had too much sense to ask for a special favor for the county town situated . Ross says the wholesale deâ€" committed in North Waterâ€" during the last election was A irregularity .‘ ‘*â€"Newsâ€"Reâ€" in the riding he represented. But Mr. Breithaupt‘s action in persuadâ€" ing the Government to send the exâ€" perts, who are at present at work, o discover the most approved scienâ€" tific system for Berlin to dispose of its sewage is â€" perfectly legitimate, and _ all that could reasonably be asked for. "Had Mr. Breithaupt been alive to the interests of the riding, he would have acted on his own initiative and had the beet seed here." ‘The above is an expression made by the Newsâ€"Record when dictating the action it considers should have been taken by Mr. Breithaupt regarding seed obtained by the farmers in this vicinity in 1901 for the experimental sugar beet plots. Judging bt these symptoms one would think the Reâ€" cord man well qualified to occupy the pbsition of deputy minister of agriâ€" culture in the proposed new Whitney administration. Mr. Breithaupt actâ€" ed just as any other man possessed of discretion would act under the circumstances, and waited until the farmers _ were â€" consulted regarding their willingness to engage in . exâ€" perimenting _ with these test plots. As soon as the decision of the farmâ€" ers was obtained in the affirmative the seed was obtained at once, . and s reproduce berewith a tew cholce seils from the Newsâ€"Record‘s poâ€" al kitchen. ‘They are more than average elector can swallow. It ow for the want of something betâ€" ter to crouk about, this wiseâ€"acre complains because Mr. Breithaupt did not send for the seed on his own hook before consulting the farmers. "Mr. Breithaupt voted against parâ€" ents getting _ school books at cost. The electors _ should vote against him." 1f our contemporary would make itsell better acquainted with parliaâ€" mentary usages it might save itself the humiliation of being placed in the same position as Mr. W. Kribbs of South Waterloo, viz., of not knowâ€" ing that a private member of the House cannot introduce a bill which would affect the consolidated revenue of the province. It is true that Mr. Kribbs introduced some sort of a bill at the last session of the House which he professed was intended to establish a kind of Provincial printâ€" ing bureau, but the Speaker at once called his attention to the fact that: he was out of order, consequently neither Mr. Breithaupt, Mr. Kribbs, mor any other member of the House voted either for or against such bill, seeing it never came before the House to be voted upon. THE OTHER SIDE, ‘In the two or three years of his Premiership, Hon. Geo. W. Ross has infosed new energy into all branches of the Government, and has gone far in advwance of anything the Opâ€" position has ventured to suggest in the way of progressive legislation.â€" Exchange. The Toronto World narrates how train loads of settlers are rushing into New Ontario. The efforts of the Ross Government to open our new morth land have not been wastâ€" ed. Those settliers are an effective arswer to Tory abuse of the Govâ€" acswer to To ernment‘s policy ‘The Liberal Government in Ontario :uu. first on the continent of merica to punish offenders against the purity of elect‘ons . both within EDITORIAL NOTES. have to collect taxes. We do . not e‘;rthul :'m-bllvihlb in province. No one ever lhtubm.bvnlu-mm vincial tax. Those of you who have lived in any state of the American ’Unlol will know that in that state there â€" invariably appears so . much for state taxes.. The Provirice of Quebec collects provincial taxes in the way. of business taxes. The Proâ€" vince of Ontario dues not collect one dollar of taxes from you. We have vast resources in the way of ‘timâ€" ber, etc., and to relieve the people from any payment in the way of proâ€" vincial taxation, it was desirable to sell large areas of pine and pulp lands and in this manner derive adâ€" ditional revenue. Mr. Harcourt, the Provincial Treasurer, _ looked over the field, how to secure a revenue in order to impose the least burden on the people and what did he find? Looking abroad to England acd nearâ€" ly every European country he found that a tax was imposed on large esâ€" tates at the death of the owner . of it, and he brought forward a . proâ€" position in favor of imposing a sUCâ€" cession tax. Estates under $10,000 paid nothing, estates under $100,000 paid nothing if a man left everything to wife and children. A man worth over $£100,000 paid something, a grade | _ rising with the amount oi his deâ€" £ tate, because that determined . his x ability to pay. Now that tax hurts '] nobody. It was, therefore, only fair L that after the rich man had employâ€" | * ed it as long as he could, that some Z »art of that wealth which he had acquired from the people should go I back to the people. n This was, Mr. Latchford said, emâ€" £ nently fair, and nearly every civilizâ€" | * ed country has adopted it. (Hear, P hear.) Now our Conservative friends | \ propose that this tax should be reâ€" 8 d@uced. It would mean that threeâ€"|‘ quarters of a million dollars of your e property would have to be sold . to |‘ meet the expenses of the province. 1 t said it was the most populat form | { of taxation. There is another form |! of taxation which has received popâ€" f ular approval wherever it has been ( imposed. You know that this is a | time of great corporations. Indiviâ€" b dual effort counts for very little in ! our day. Men by combining their apital and concentrating their abilâ€" ’ ites have been able to acquire wealth belonging to the people to | the great profit of the men who have secured these rights. A great many of these corporations make their money out of the people. Insurance companies have great magnitude and bring irto their fortunate shareholdâ€" ers enormous sums. MassaqQusetts collects five million dollars by taxes on large corporations; Vermont colâ€" lects about $500,000;, Maine, $840,â€" |n00; New York, five million by this | taxation on corporations. Corporaâ€" |tions are well able to pay. These _|states need the money to meet pubâ€" lic expenditure just as we need it \Iwe nced money for schools, for asyâ€" â€"| jums, for sugar beet factories. The i |ordinary people are not so well able , | to pay. We follow the lead of the g States in taxing large corporations and compelling them to pay a sum lout of their vast revenue towards â€"| the province which gives their proâ€" .|ceity protection. It . was brought _| about a few years ago and we . reâ€" ~| eived from this measure somewhat ® |over $300,000 last year. The followâ€" d |ing companies contributing toward ~â€"|this _ amount: _ Waterloo Insurance g [ U 4 $209; Confederation Life Assurâ€" a | am * ©5,600; Bank of Hamilton, $2,â€" ;i00; Bank cf Commerce, $4,000. Are " Inot the peopie relieved by just the sâ€"| amount _ we collect? Now, _ would not you think that Mr. Whitney would approve a tax like that, that ~ | e would say that it is a proper tax. tâ€" | Mr. Whitney‘s policy is that he t | would relieve _ the corporations _ of the tax imposed on them by the Onâ€" ce | tario Government â€" if he is returned , _ |to power. He will not have the ~ Ichance to do this if I can help it. Now there is another matter. We For the most part you can say that if the Liberal Government, which looked _ after your affairs through every stress or storm is not going to abandon all interest in your affairs now, is not going to do aryâ€" thing that will hurt the people in this province and when they charge us with doing what is wrong, deâ€" mand their proof. They say, why don‘t you put up the pulp lands as you did the timâ€" ber? Now it is not _ 62 sufficient ans wer to that to say you yourself did not put up the timber in the disputed terriâ€" tory when you thought you had it. Two wrongs do not make a right and to their friends the Conservatives, in the city of Ottawa, they gave in this way at five dollars a square mile, large tracts _ of timber _ lands. 1t would not be right for us to do the same, and if the pulp was in the same condition as the timber, if the onditions and circumstances . conâ€" cerning it were the same, it would be most wrong to make any agreeâ€". ment with any person and to put the pulp lands up by public auction. First of all you know that pine is grown on . land unfit for settlement and pulp land is good land. Pine grows in considérable bodies, the pulp wood is found in scattered clumps, but nowhere in a large solid area. Men come to us with this proâ€" position, We have a water ;vw or we believe it would be in inter« ests of the country to establish: a large "t:-ky at such a point. "fl you us enough assurance to 7 m % -:t.-'u 3‘ not say to them, We (Continued from Page 2 ) will give REMEMBER ROSS. |.=; PULP INDUSTRIES 6 it would h;-;:l'.;ri;;h: Too bad Scott‘s Emulsion he country to establis a ad in time for those _ wq; | was not made in Or 8 ':."’,,::fi::.:,fi;;.: old Kings. Scott‘s Emaulsion is a L M m «» itive cure for King‘s evilâ€" le it, having the | POS! :":‘n'::y u.:u-':'.:"'- or scrofula. lt.\hdl the sores, you a sufticient area to * | aa4s. strongth and. fiesh And these monopolies are simply this, that they bave a right to get the wood on this ares. > + eR We want . settiement, not â€"an interview with our deveopment of a village, but . W. H. Bowlby, K. C., want _ settiement all through tBAt| ipa« no did not wish to have a newsâ€" countty. We have a vast extent Of| ; ,, ; ~with‘ burb just as fine and agricultucal district bus, ..m :: '..'l 1 % as you have in Waterloo. Birtee® OT)ny pim at the late session ~Of 18 _ million acres as fing 1806 38 | (ounty Council efin‘ s the sun _ shines on. NoW, th@]r,l.e allegations â€" false insinua~ first thing is to guarantee *D¢|riong that he felt bound 10 answer rights of the settlers. The man "f then. & % . ::V:uhroh'mmal lon . acreg As as is to guaran ‘ .w.fi'&..m... The man who will go there now will be the. rich man of the future. They will have to undergo ithe bardships of your iathers, and which some of yourâ€" celves have endured, Just as .s008 as the settler is located in any part of the territory the right to get pulp wood there ends and the right of the settler begins. We do not claim that it is perk f You have the cheapest text | :off! any country on this continent.. y years ago Mr. Meacham brought in a |‘ measure that the schoul books should be printed in the Central Prison. | Now that was a policy of the Conâ€" cervative party â€" at that lime. Of course it was absurd. Did any of you want books that had been handâ€" led by these people? I say the Govâ€" crament has stood for the interest of the people. It has stood for proâ€" gress and . development and its obâ€" ject in establishing these industries n the north is for the advantage of the people. One industry, that of Savlt Ste. Marie, started with a pulp agreement involving an expenâ€" diture of $400,000. Toâ€"day an exâ€" renditure _ of $15,000,000 has been made ard it is said that $12,000,000 cr $15,000,000 will yet be expended. it In' revolutionized the town; proâ€" perty} is enormously enhanced in value and in the Clergue works alone at Sault Ste. Marie there are 29 miles of railway. The steel works are over a third of a mile in length. Steel rails are being made there for the first time in the history of Canâ€" ada. Now _ you people of Berlin should know to what advantage it is to have manufactures in your toOWt, and I think you consider what a benâ€" efit it would be to all those northâ€" etn districts if you had centres of industry _ established there as here. 1t would mean stores, clothing, horâ€" ses and in all the earlier rtages they would draw altogether from the oldâ€" er parts of the province. In conclusion be said: I ask you | to rot mere‘y support a good Govâ€"| ernment, men like Mr. Breithaupt â€" such men are not very plentiful, men | as manly and _ honest and straightâ€" forward as â€" you know Mr. Breitâ€" haupt to be. We want to have him back this term. I do not think that any man can safely say that we are entitled to any blame and we have a great many grounds on which we can ciaim credit. The interests of labor are , well looked after and _ have always been well looked _ aiter by the Ontario GGovernment. _ You intelligent men who are interested ir the beginning of things, do you ever ask yourselves what was the origin of the Liberal ard Conservative parties. The formâ€" er has its origin from among _ the working people, vhile the latter started from the lords and peers who oppressed the hardâ€"working and comâ€". mon people. I have no patience with the working man _ who, forgetful of the record of the two parties, says that he is a Tory. It is a contrm« di tion in _ terms. _ The . working» men‘s rights were contended for by the Libecal.party. .A Liberal which has regard to. everything: which exâ€" ists, mot a Liberal which is destrucâ€" tive and tears down, but a Liberalâ€" ism which bas regards to what is proper for the great masses and not a class or section. a class or section. Now gentlemen, I trust you will give a rousing support to Mr. Breitâ€" haupt, the worthy representative of the people of this ridirg, worthy in every sense of the word to as good Government as Ontario ever had. _ When Mr. Latchford resumed seat he was loudly applauded for excellent and interesting address. The meeting closed with cheers for the King, Hon. Geo. W. Ross, Mr L. J. Breithaupt and the Hon. F R. Latchford The will of the late Henry Cressâ€" well Shaw has been filed for proâ€" bate. The estate of about $700 has been left to his brother, George E. Shaw, Toronto, who is the sole exeâ€" cutor ‘Those old English Kings made history. â€" Those old Enâ€" glish Kings were fast livers. Those old English Kings got sick. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM One disease became so comâ€" mon to them as to be called " King‘s evil "â€"a royal discase. It is now among usâ€"the well known scrofula _ Thoseâ€" old English Kings handed it down, spread it through the nations, and here it is. «KING‘S EVIL * are â€" simply this,| ChargesofCountyCouncillor his his For twenty nnww *o Deâ€" cember, 1900, the> of the Peace was paidâ€"a salary of,$1,000 a yeat for the County â€" Cousel? Rase Jn 1579 the County . Courn in 1879. Both parties bad the power to put an end to this salary agreement on notice to the other.. During the year 1899, when Mr. Debus first came in to the County Council, Police Courts were ) Berlin and ‘Waâ€" i(-lopv , witk the asâ€" sistance of a n perso® outside an m“u?“ Co\fifi_tmil TRORC . AMHIVOL. 1N IGEDEIE AUE MUS to abolish the salary system â€" and | 5"4! audit and _ then, as we are put the Clerk of the Peace back on |bound to do by lew, we would have payment by the fee system and Mr.|{@ A0cePt just whatever amousts he Debus then stated to the Council|20Wed us, and if any of the officers tutwmummmtol"“”‘m°““"'m“' the Police Magistrates he had positive |OfMcial would _ have to refund the knowledge that if I were put on payâ€" | AmOURt . to the County Treasurer.| , ment by fees I would not make $400 This was satisiactory to every memâ€" | " a year out of the fees payable by the bet of the Board, including Mr. Deâ€" |I County. This compelled the Council|®"5 and yet he now comes forward | 10 take action and motice was given and makes the complaint that I was terminating the salary system | on allowed fees on four charges when Jan. 1, 1901. The first year of payâ€" only three should have been allowed. ment by the County to me on the fee { I had not told him at the sitting system ended on the 31st December | ! the Board that fees in only three | last, â€" and my â€" fees for that year ases against the same person would amounted to $1,255, besides which be allowed to Crown Att.'omeyl, he J the County had to pay $48 extra to would never have known it. the Board of Audit jor extra time| Mr. Debus gives a copy of a resoâ€" consumed _ in auditing my accounts, |â€"ution _ which . was passed at the | / o that the first year‘s tiial of Mr.| ~ourt of General _ Sessions of the |‘ Debus‘ plan _ ended ir costing . th« ‘eace in reference to letters to be| County _ $1,303 for fees instead o|| vTitten by me and follows this copy $1,000 for salary. This fact has proâ€" ot're.olution by an assertion | that | duced a desire on the part of Mr. chis motion gives me power to | Debus to show that I was paid more | "Tite as mahy letters as I like and for fees than I ought to have got. mnakes me the sole judge as to the My accounts were audited by the iecessity _ thereof.. ‘This is another Board of Audit, consisting of three |_@lse allegation. In the tariff of members, â€" two of whom are highly | °*s to Clerks of the Peace is conâ€" competent and well qualified for the| ained the following: ‘""Item 61 â€" position, namely, His Honor Judge Letter and transmitting or deliverâ€" Chisholm _ «od _ County _ Treasurer | "E to the party interested or affectâ€" Bowman, and the third member oi|>4 thereby, 25 cents." Now under Ithat Board is barber Debus, who his item of the tariff as it stands, knows no more about auditing crimâ€"| [ might write and charge for unâ€" |inal justice accounts thar he does| ©â€"@ssary and improper letters, if 1 about a Greek grammar. Does anyâ€" | Y°re dishonest enough to do so. The | one suppose for a moment that men fll‘isttll.fl at the General Sessions |of such high standing in the comâ€"|thought it better to direct me . as ‘\ munity as our County Judge and| O the letters I ought to write and |our County/ Treasurer would allow | hCY passed a resolution ‘"‘that the \lto me fees which I was not legally | ‘letk of the Peace be directed to ‘|and justly entitled? In his communâ€" | vrite all _ proper letters upon matâ€" , |ication _ to the County Council Mr.| te!8 connected with his office o1 , | Debus professes _ to speak for the ourt business or . the administraâ€" , | Board of Audit; â€" which he has | nc tion of justice.‘" This resolution , |authority whatever from that Board | ‘ArTOWs instead of widens the abovc |to do. I know pérfectly well thai f tem of the tariff in reference to letâ€" neither His Honor, the Judge, now | © 8 and directs that I shall be j|the County Treasurer have any ‘a‘id only for proper or necessary ; |sympathy whatever with the charge: letters. Mr. Debus _ stated in the , |he makes against me. In order t« ‘ounty Courcil that in the years , |give some color to his charge that 1 899 and 1900 I received about §$3,â€" g |have obtained ‘"many a dollar fron C0 a year by virtue of 13y offices. l $ |the County _ for unnecessary _ serâ€" | a\e no doubt this is true, in fact it ] |vices‘‘ he instances the case of Editt | s below the mark, because in thosc ,â€"| Dysor, who _ was tried â€" in the|years I was _ Sheriff, Clerk of the e |County â€" Judge‘s Criminal Court | ‘®a‘¢ and Crown Attorney and it r|on _ four _ criminal charges, _ the iddition to that $3,00( T received p | costs of which must p, | onsiderable _ sums for services i1 i. |all paid by the Ontario Government| iVil cases, but I had . to pay out n |after an _ audit by the Government |atout $800 a year to two clerks _ it ,f| Auditor in Toronto and in which the | he offices of the Sheriff and Clerk oi ~; |County therefore has no especial in | e Peace, and large additional sum: ° , | terest. Mr. Debus makes this bold. o bailiffs for their services in conâ€" z. | alse statement im his report to the rection with the Sheriff‘s office. y County Couneit, ‘"only one of thesc Nr. Debus spent a good deal of the p | charges ‘wasâ€" laid: at Hespeler, wherc| ime of the County Council in de 3. |the prisonmervresided: and was arrestâ€" | ending his fellow inembers from th« o. |od, the other ~three charges were | harge made against themn in a lette» 1. |Jaid‘ at Berlin at the instigation oi| o the newspapers, signed ‘"Next,‘ is | the (Crownâ€"Attorney by Constable| wherein it was shown that the 1« t | Huber without the knowledge o1 | nembers of last year‘s Council _ re consent ofâ€" the parties concerned.‘" | eived $524.60 more for vheir attend This is utterly false and untrue. The fance at Council and committee meetâ€" charge o which the girl. was first | ngs than did the 31 n:embers in committed for trial was laid on the |1895, but he carefully abstained from 11th of March last, before Mr. Jarâ€"{giving any details of the items makâ€" dine, J. P., of Hespeler, and that| ng up the $224.20 rakeâ€"off, which he charge was that the girl had on the | zot from the County last year, while 10th of March last broken into a fais _ fellow councillor, Mr. Anâ€" @welling house and stolen a large|thes, from Berlin, only got _ a number of articles therein for which|fair _ payment of _ $50.70. No she was committed to jail to stand| member of the County Council from her trial by Mr. Jardine, who sent } Berlin ever before received oneâ€"hali her up to the Berlin jail with his such an amount. It is a puzzler to warrant of commitment for trial and feverybody to know how he came to the information and depositions takâ€"| zet $196 for attending three . short en before him in the case, and the|sessions of _ the Copnty _ Counâ€" magistrate _ also sent along another | :il and _ a _ few «short sitâ€" information, which had been taken at|tings of a commitee. His long Hespelet on the 24th of February |experience as a tonsorial artist has ?&st from Constable McMaster before | ‘acght him the advantage of colâ€" C. M. Schultz, J. P., in which this |lecting small sums for shaving and girl w.s acoused of having commit: | heaiing and now the barber habits ted three other criminal offences of{ tick to him, for he not only shaves theit and false pretences, and Mr.{his customers but shaves the Counâ€" Jardine told the Constable to hand | ty. this information for three charges to| 1 thark County Councilior Plum me, or to the Governor of the Jail|‘or his kindness in stating in Counâ€" for me, and say that Mr. Schultz,| i! that in his opinion the Crown J. P., was not in Hespeler at th¢| attorney never received one dollar time the girl was committed for]to which he was rot entitled and 1 trial and be was uncertain whethe! |thank other Councillors, who â€" have he could act on the information for | to‘d me personally that they are sick the three charges taken before Mr.|and tired of hearing Debus‘ attacks Schultz, but that I could use this|on me and of being compelled to lis information and have her committed |ten in Council to the irrelevant mat |on t‘ ese three charges by a Magisâ€" |teâ€"s brought before them in refer \ trate in Berlin or send her batk to |ence to the amount of fees which the him to be dealt with at Hespeler. 1| Ontario Government shall pay to it: had been previously informed by letâ€"|officials in this County and in refer ‘\ter from ‘Mr. Schultz that the git!l|cnee to Semiâ€"Centennial celebration | had become a confirmed thiel and it|and other things not connected wit! was well known to me and to the|municipal affairs, which have bee: | | Magistrates at Hespeler that unless |prought before the County Courci she â€" were convicted on several|py this loudâ€"mouthed barber. i | charges she would not be sent to the fi Reformatory. I did not think Nesn ts ie cgssieicctes * (is Heapeiet ue at Toriier Aromcctited to to *rame o# Cit? or Tor®DO, on this information containing three ivess coortt, }= ,m.mwum’b Fnixx J. one®! . ons unu-pw-nelm "*:. in the City 6t Toledo.O ° |ed in Berlin, . as less expen: | wnd state aforanid and ~k';3\‘1 a | sive.. udr% A I mid Wroty caee of Untantd thet cohne £ [A No MY. 1 aws ‘Rax® I Carn®! ges: taken before . and" anbmertbed in i1 6. | S ©AhesiP â€"4, . Â¥OE ,h_;. " am'.'- Huber with Cofinty Debus il, commenced to him . to ime | Mr. Debus gives a copy ol a resoâ€" nts |.ution â€" which was passed at the | / Mr _| jourt of General _ Sessions of the | / th | ‘eace in reference to _ letters to be | j | vritten by me and follows this copy pro. |of resolution by an assertion . that | Mr.| his motion _ gives me power to | ipre | vrite as many letters as I like and gor. | nakes me the sole judge as to the the | :ecessity â€" thereof.. ‘This is another hree | alse allegation. In the tariff of ghiy | ces to Clerks of the Peace is conâ€" the | ained the following: "Item 61 â€" agge | Letter and transmitting or deliverâ€" urer | ng to the party interested or affectâ€" pj| J >4 thereby, 25 cents." Now under who | his item of the tariff as it stands, rim.â€"| [ might write and charge for unâ€" does | e:essary and improper letters, if 1 any. | vere dishonest enough to do so. The men | Magistrates at the General Sessions com.| thought it better to direct me _ as ang | 0 the letters I ought to write and llow | bey passed a resolution ‘"that . the gally | ‘lerk of _ the Peace be directed to mun. | vrite all proper letters upon matâ€" Mr |teis comnected with his office o1 the | ourt business or the administraâ€" nc |tion of justice." This resolution oard | :arrows instead of widens the above thai f tem of the tariff in reference to letâ€" no; | & s and directs that I shall be any ‘a‘d only for proper or necessary arge; |letters. Mr. Debus stated in . the 1« | Sounty Courcil that in the years hat ] | 899 and 1900 I received _ about $3,â€" fron |C0 a year by virtue of 13y offices. l ser. | 1ave no doubt this is true, in fact it Edit | s below the mark, because in those thefyears I was _ Sheriff, Clerk of the Court | ‘ease and Crown Attorney and it the | iddition to that $3,00( T received p, | onsiderable _ sums for services i iment | ivil cases, but I had to pay ou! nment fatout $800 a year to two clerks | it h the| he offices of the Sherifl and Clerk 0; al in | be Peace, and large additional sum: bold.| 0 bailiffs for their services in conâ€" a th, faection with the Sheriff‘s office. account vd and allowed in full, subject to the approval of the Government Mtot in ‘Foromto, FReR my aCCOUEl CaIne up, containing the for al the four " cases, and I iate tated to the Board of Avdit â€" that three cases should have been for, as only three would be owed â€"to me by the Government, His Honor <the Judge i &tlhu“‘? for the fourth wase, charged . account, they would have to be consistent and go back ard reâ€"audit the Sheriff‘s ~account and disallow nim his fees : in the fourth case. 1 then stated that although it was quite certain that my charges would be disallowed in the fourth case, yet the Government Auditor might alâ€" ow the fees in all four cases to the sheriff and the Constables and, with a view of not prejudicing the claims of other officials, I suggested that they should make no change in . my account and send all mccounts in relâ€" srence to that case to the Governâ€" ment . Auditor. in Toronto for his fAinal _ audit and _ then, as we are bound to do by law, we would have to accept just whatever amounts he allowed us, and if any of the officers had got more than he allowed, the official would have to refund the amougt . to the County Treasurer. This was satisfactory to every memâ€" ber of the Board, including Mr. Deâ€" bus, and yet he now comes forward and makes the complaint that I was allowed fees on four charges when only three should have been allowed. f I had not told him at the sitting 1 the Board that fees in only three ases against the same person would be allowed to Crown Attorneys, he would never have known it. an:e at Council and committee meetâ€" ngs than did the 31 n:embers in 1895, but he carefully abstained from giving any details of the items makâ€" ng up the $224.20 rakeâ€"off, which he got from the County last year, while 1is _ fellow councillor, Mr. Anâ€" thes, from Berlin, only got a fair _ payment of _ $50.70. No member of the County Council from Berlin ever before received oneâ€"hali uch an amount. It is a puzzler to everybody to know how he came to zet $196 for attending three . short sessions of _ the Copnmty _ Counâ€" il and _ a few .« short sitâ€" tings of a commitee. His long experience as a tonsorial artist has ‘acght him the advantage of colâ€" ‘ecting small sums for shaving and hearing and now the barber habits Nr. Debus spent a good deal of the ime of the County Council in de ending his fellow inembers from the harge made against them in a lette o the newspapers, signed ‘"Next,‘ wherein it was shown that the 14 nembers of last year‘s Council reâ€" I thark County _ Councilior Plum ‘or his kindness in stating in Counâ€" vil that in his opinion the Crown Atiorney never _ received one dollar to which he was rot entitled and L thamk other Councillors, who have to‘d me personally that they are sick and tired of hearing Debus‘ attacks on me and of being compelled to lisâ€" ten in Council to the irrelevant matâ€" teâ€"s brought before them in referâ€" ence to the amount of fees which the Ontario Government shall pay to its officials in this County and in referâ€" cnce to Semiâ€"Centennial celebrations and other things not connected with municipal affairs, which have been brought before the County Courcil by this loudâ€"mouthed barber. my accourt came SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL â€" .0 . . . $250,000.00 DEPOSIT WITH DOMINION GOV‘T e 117,140.41 All Policies Guaranteed by the LONDON & LANCASHIRE FIRE INS. CO. with Assets of $16,306,638. . Hon,. Mr. Marter, formerly leader of the Ontario Opposition, deskâ€"mate | of Mr. Whitney, and now Independâ€" end candidate, read the Riot Act, so | ‘o speak, to Mr. Whitney and his supporters at North Toronto . the other evening. Among other things he said: He was prépared to meet Mr. Whitâ€" cey anywhere and discuss with him their points of difference. Party caucuses were a fraud and if clected he would never attend _ anâ€" other. Mr. Whitney was as unstable . as water. In 1895 he supported the firs water. In 1895 he supported the irst pulp concessions to Mr. Clergue and _ denounced others later as ia henomenal steal. Mr. Marter had tried to induce AKhitzey and his collcagues to treat subsequent pulp concessions as they aad the first, as he was satisfied they were an eminently good busiâ€" ness proposition. AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE He expressed confidence in the Government‘s attitude _ regarding New Ontario, and thought that by building _ up that country, Toronto ard the rest of old Ontario would be the beneficiaries. The Mercantile Fire Dear Sir:â€"I noticed an article in rour paper _ a few days ago headed ‘Linwood‘s _ Quota,"‘ referring . to \shton Fish leaving for South Afâ€" ica. Your correspondent speaks of te young man as having a "fair edâ€" cation‘‘ and _ then says he is "a ompetent bookâ€"keeper and an iexâ€" eptiona‘ly smart â€" young man." I ‘on‘t think the writer of the article s capable of judging a scholar when he makes such statements as he did. @or the information of your corresâ€" :rondent I would say that the young nan with the ‘"fair education‘‘ passâ€" »d h‘s entrance examination before ue was eleven years old, something I eel sure the writer of the squib nevâ€" °t attained though he has lived to ee the frosts of more than seventy winters. Perhaps if the young man would have bowed his knee to Baal and kissed the image of the old pilâ€" grim correspondent, and would have vboked up to him as a kind of suâ€" erior being hbe might have called Ashton a good scholar instead of a ‘‘fair scholar." Two splendid meetings were held. n behalf of the Liberal candidate, Mr. L. J. Breithaupt, in Heidelburg and Erbsville on Thursday evening. There were good crowds at both places and all of the speakers reâ€" ceived _ an attentive hearing. . The speakers at Heidelburg were Messrs. L. J. â€"Breithaupt, Levi Staufer, J. A. Scellan and C. Bitzer, the chair be‘ng occupied by exâ€"County Counâ€" cillor C. S. Weber in his usual satâ€" isfactory manner. In Erbsville the speakers were Messrs. C. Bitzer, wW. M. Cram, L. Stauffet and L. J. 3PLENDID LIBERAL MEETINGS Breithaupt I am sick and tired of listening to inuendoes that _ everybody is a thief or robber.â€"Marter. * Yes, it‘s time for a change, but a change from the blow And the bluster of brag . and of brass, Whose policy all is simply to call ‘Their betters a thief or an ass. It‘s time for a change from a habit that hangs A culprit before he is triedâ€" That swears in a thousand bombasâ€" tic harangues ‘That the opposite party has ‘IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE â€"OFFICE SEEKERS. It‘s time for a change from deluâ€" sions that men '::;v.o managed ~so well in the Will not still be as clean and as 1 I HopMe ob s oi rmenks, Irotin Sies 1701 c/r 80. .c . +.6 + LLABILLITIEE. Meporde: 1 200 0k ger oonle :scc cnecc on i tra ns sn e rairer t ioi es ts sal es THAT LINWOOD QUOTA Alfred Wright, Secretary, T. . Hail, Inspector. HEAD OFFICE _ â€" â€" â€" WATERLOO, ONTARIO. lied L and Ansuitiqs INSURANCE COMPANY. J. W. FISH _AZ ..,.I.li--::::::: BUERPLU B ABB ETE Total . WEAD OFFICE, _ WATERLOO, ONT. Dominion Life Assurance The 20th Century finds this Comâ€" P‘I?Xi :n a splendid po;mo;t Security, so y, progress and eq are our watchwords. 7 We have increased our Subscribed Oa_piul from $257,600 to $400,000. We have increased our P-id-upO.p- ital from $64,000 to $100,000, We have placed all our old business on at 4 g:r cent, Reserve â€"Standardâ€" higher than Governmentrequirements. We have increased our Surplus over all Liabilities from $21,210 to §$35,852. We have increased our Assets from $416,897 to $330,206. All forms of regular sound life and endowment assurance are issued. See any of our agents or winexnud Office for particulars. WATERLOO MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED IN 1863. Total Assets 3ist December ‘99 $334,082. BOARD OF_ I;I_BECTORS.' Geo, Randall, Kaq., Waterica. 8. Snyder, Keq., * William Snider, Eag., . " Geo. Diebel, Ksq., . . . J. L Wideman, Keq., St. Jacobe. Allan Bowman, Keq., Preston. P. . Shantz, Preston, Thoma : Gowdy, Keq., Gueiph. James Livingstone, Esq., Rader, Economical Mutual Firs Ins.Co, Amount at Hiak=""°°° m .0% Government Deposit Cycle and Motor Co. for BRANTFORD GENDRON Wheels both chain and chainless from $40 We also represent the Berlin Buyd:Ouh BERLIN and RACYCLES 4 from $85 to $65. New and Second Hand wheels from $5.00 up We also handle full line of© sundries Repairing done promptly. Give us a call. OFFIOERS : George Randall, President, Win. Snider, [ Vioeâ€"President. Frank Haight, Manager, X, T. Orr, Inspector. Messre. Bowlby & Clement, Solicitors, Ber tin. RUCKBERROUGH & OO‘Y, Agents Progress in 1900. Mutual and Cash Systems. 1901 Models We or BERLIMN. Organized 1871. W. . Riadelt,