The Quebec chronicle, 20 août 1912, mardi 20 août 1912

[" The Wenther Most fair, not much change.PINTS $1.60.Barclay, Perkins & Co., LIMITED ESTABLISHED 1781 DOCTOR BRAND Genuine Oatmeal Steut A.GRENIER, Founded 1882 94-96 St John Street Distributor for Quebec District.NIPS $1.10 Phones 1247-1248 Offices Montreal, Quebec, Paris, France.L.6.Beaubien & Co.Stock Brokers Members MONTREAL NO DESIRE TO REPEAL TREATY, SAYS PRES, TAFT Urges, In Message To Congress, That Foreign Nations Be Privileged To Test Tolls Question Before U.S.Courts.GOVERNOR'S FOOT GUARDS ARRIVE THIS MORNING i Day's Programme Includes Review, Citadel Visit and a Luncheon at Kent House, Quebec will leave nothing undone to make the visit of the Second Com- ! pany of the Governor's Foot Guards : of Connecticut, who will arrive here this morning, a notable occasion.8 Washington, Aug.19\u2014President Taft closed a day of conferences on the Panama canal bill with a special message to Congress suggesting the passage of legislation which would permit American ships to travel the canal toll free and whieh would also allow foreign nations to test the legality of this provision by suits in the United States courts The President discussed the message with senators and members of the House, and its wording was finally decided upon at a meeting of the cabinet which began at luncheon time and lasted until late in the afternoon.The message was read in Congress soon afterwards and will be taken up to-morrow by committees of both Houses.It was the belief here to-night that a determined effort will be made to meet the President's wishes, although some leaders, particularly in the House, were inclined to believe that the message meant no further action POLICE TRY TO Important Witness in Rosen- Temperatures Minimum, 48.Maximum, 74.ONE CENT.JUNGLE HUNT OF MONTHS ENDS IN ELEPHANT POAGCHER\u2019S DEATH James Ward Rogers, For Years A Central African Outlaw, Shot Down By British Troops Sent Into Wilderness To Take Him Dead or Alive.TAKE SCHEPPS FROM WHITMAN thal Case Arrives in New York; Will Corroborate Rose New York, August 19\u2014Persistent STOCK EXCHANGE.Private Wire to MONTREAL AND NEW YORK.McGILL BURROUGHS, | 74 St.Peter Street, } Quebec.Ces \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 | \u201cVALIQUET\u2019S\u201d Manager.Phone 5067 VALIQUET'S RESTAURANT Opposite Formerly of Boston City Hall Fine Rolls and Coffee, Steak, Chops and Eggs.Chocolates and Bonbons, our own make, VALIQ Phone 1526 UET\u201d\u2019S MONNOIR PRIEST SUBMITS TO ROME Abbe Bergeron Makes Peace with Bishop Bernard of St.Hyacinthe.Montreal, Aug.19\u2014A despaten from Ste.Hyachinte, Que, says that 8 break has come in the ranks of the priests who so long opposed their ecclesiastical superiors in the Monnoir College case, It had been understood that the priests.would sumbit, following the latest decision against them from the Vatican, and their formal submission as a body has been daily expected.There have heen negotiations going on for some time.The despatch states that Abbe Bergeron, one of the priests, has sent in his unconditional submission and made his pesce with Bishop Bernard, of Ste.Hyacinthe.BRIDGE ON STRIKE 100 Workmen Demand Raise of 5 Cents Per Hour, Which Is Refused by Contractors.The stonecutters at work on the Quebec Bridge piers and structural work that is being carried out by the contracting firm of M.P.& J.T.Davis have gone on strike for higher wages.The stonecutters, to the number of about 100, were engaged at 40 cents per hour, and later on were given 45 cents, the highest wages paid, and as they personally elected to work ten hours per day instead of the regular eight-hour day provided by union rules, earned a wage of $4.50 per day, or $27 per week.Last week the men on the work refused to work unless they were paid 50 cents per hour, or $5 per day, which 1 Upon arrival the visitors will be re- i ceived by a large deputation of officers from the lncal corps and will be played up to the Chateau Frontenac by the R.C.G.A.Band.The j company will be reiewed on the Es- | plande by Colonel the Hon.Sam Hughes, Dominion Minister of Milij tia, at 10 am, i Should the weather prove unfavorable, the review will be held at the Drill Hall.After the review, a visit will be paid to the Citadel.Luncheon at Falls.Hon.Lieut.Col.G.E.Amyot and the members of the officers\u2019 committee having the reception in charge, | have issued invitations to a luncheon at Kent House, Montmorency Falls, at 1.30 pam.,-the special train leaving the Chateau Frontenac at 12.30 noon.Programme for the Day.7.45 a.m.\u2014Arrival at the ferry and proceed to Chateau Frontenac.10.00 a.m.\u2014Review and inspection on the Esplanade by the Hon.the Minister of Militia and Defence.11.00 a.m.\u2014Visit to the Citadel.12.36 2.m.\u2014Embark on special cars at Chateau Frontenac for Montmorency Falls, 1.30 p.m.\u2014Luncheon at Kent House.Dress for Officers, 7.45 a.m.\u2014Reception at ferry, drill order.10.00 a.m.\u2014Review on Esplanade, review order, 1.30 p.m.\u2014Luncheon, undress order without sword.Combined Bands on Terrace.On the Terrace this evening there will be a combined band concert, when the R, C.G.À.and the hand of the Governor's Foot Guards will play a choice programme.George A.Heyer is bandmaster of the visiting company, and Chas.O'Neill, R.M.S.M., will conduct the R, C.G.A Band.The programme will be as follows: The Star-Spangled Banner.O Canada.March, Badajos .Hume Waltz, \u2018Ravissante .Godin RC.G.A.Band, March, Carillon .Laurendeau Overture, Bohemian Girl.Balfe Incidental music to Monseur Beaucaire hi.a Rosse GovernoMs Foot Guard Band.Overture, William Tell.Rossini R.G'G.À.Band .Intermezzo, he Shadows.Finck Pot pourri, ntian Echoesee eee Laurendeau Governor's\u2019foot Guard Band .Fantasia, Reminiscences of the Plantation .Chambers America.God Save the King.CHINESE PRESIDENT 1S ASSASSINATED Troops at Peking Said to Have Killed Head of the Revolutionary Party.} session.United States, in regard to the canal at the present Mr.Taft explained that he was anxious to sign the present bill, but wished to assure other govetnments of the spirit of fairness on thé part of the Wants Courts To Decide.The President was toid that an act of Congress would bave the effect of efforts of the police to wrest Sam Schepps from the custody of District Attorney Whitman and his representatives during his trip here from Hot Springs, Ark, have come to naught.To.night, Schepps, one of the State's most important witnesses in the Rosenthal murder case, is a prisoner on a technical charge in the West Side jail and under the surveillance of men from the District Attorney's abrogating any treaty previously agreed to and the decision of the Supreme Court over the Chinese exclusion act was given as the authority for the statement.His suggestion to Congress for additional legislation.designed to prevent any such construction as that of the Supreme Court in the Chinese case would allow foreign.entided \u2018an act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama canal and the sanitation and government of the canal zone\u2019 sl.all be deemed to repeal any prevision of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, or to affect the judicial construction thereof, or in any wise te impair any rights or privileges which have been or may be acquired by any foreign nation under the treaties of the United States relative te tolls or other charges for the passage of vessels through the Panama canal, and that when any alien, whether natural person, partnership, company, or corporation, considers that the charging of tolis or the enforcement of any other regulation under and pursuant to the provisions of this act violates in any way any such treaty rights or privileges, such alien shall have the right to bring an action against the United States for a redress of the injury which he considers himself to have suffered, and the district courts of the United States are hereby given jurisdiction to hear and determine such cases and to decree the apro- priate relief, and from the decision of such district courts there shall be an appeal by either party to the action to the Supreme Court of the United States.\u201d No Desire To Repeal Treaty.\u201cThis language,\u201d continued the message, \u201cnegatives absolutely any desire on the part of Congress to Tepeal the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, or to violate its provisions by this legislation, and leaves open to any person who deems himself aggrieved by the provisions of the act an opportunity to appeal to our courts.\u201cI think the importance of our standing before the world as anxious to give to the world an opportunity to test this question in the courts is an earnestness of our good faith in attempting to keep within our treaty obligations \u201cAfter full examination of the treaty and of the treaty which preceded it, 1 feel confident that the exemption of the coastwise vessels of the United States from tolls and the imposition of tolls on vessels of all nations engaged in the foreign trade is not a violation of the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty.But distinguished lawyers in the House and Senate differ from this construction and the Secreoffice who have orders to allow one to communicate with him without credentials from Mr.Whitman himself.the grand jury and is expected corroborate in story told by his friend Jack Rose ors to their causé Th the United [Upon which Police Lieut.Charles States courts, It reads as follows + Becker was indicted for Rosenthal's \u201cThat nothing contained in the act | $8s84sination.companied Whitman himself, Schepps party at Albany after a journey from his summer home at Manchester, Vt, spending the week-end.Whitman that he should personally protect Schepps from New York police interference, when it was learned that Detective Thomas, the police officer who, with Assistant District brought Schepps from Hot Springs, had received during the journey east several letters from Deputy Police Commissioner him to bring the prisoner to police BETTING ON RACES Toronto Bank Discovers Short- : the races is given as the cause of the wrecking of the careers of two Toronto bank clerks.sistant clearing house Standard Bank, has to answer to the misapropriation of about $7.000 from the bank's funds, while Arthur Richmond, paying teller of the Elm street branch of the Bank of Toronto, at death's door at St.Michael's Hospital following two attempts at suicide after he had stolen $500 or more from the funds of the hank.tellers, they yielded to the temptation of placing large bets on \u201csure things\u201d which did not fulfill expectations and their efforts to recoup their losses were in vain, flagrant offender.one of the most promising employes of the Standard Bank, and although only 23 years old, had heen rapidly promot.To-morrow Schepps will go before to every essential the Schepps reached here to-day, ac- by District Attorney who joined the where he had been How essential it seemed to Mrappeared to.night ( Attorney Rubin, Dougherty ordering (Continued on Page Eight.) WRECKS 2 CLERKS age of Employees Who Had Played \u201cSure Things.\u201d Toronto, August 19\u2014Betting on Roland Harris, as.teller of the lies by British soldiers in the depths of the juagles of Central Africa, where for years in defiance of all authority he had pursued the career of an elephant poacher and illicit ivory trader, James Ward Rogers, an American, is dead.He was shot down by a little force of troops which had been sent into the wilderness in pursuit with orders not to return without the outlaw dead or alive.News of Rogers\u2019 death came formally to-day to the British Colonial office from Capt.C.V.Fox, inspector of Mongalla province, who commanded the expedition.Although told in an official report, the story revealed is one of the most dramatie in colonial annals For years Rogers had carried on his lawless trade, which popular opinion credited with netting him a fortune.The remote regions along the Lado enclave and Congo boundaries were the scenes of his operations.Time after time British officials of the Soudan had tried in vain to trap him.It was this defiance of years which determined the Government to crush the old man.An Uncrowned King.Captain Fox's report shows that in his long operations Rogers had done nore than had been dreamed of by the Colonia! Office.He had established an organized administration over the wild trackless country and among the natives was a virtual if uncrowned king.Tbe success of the outlaw in hand- ting his \u201csubjects\u201d and in the nit of his trade drew from aptain Fox, in his report, the tribate that Rogers\u2019 work was worthy of a better cause.Not since the explorer, Henry M.Stanley, pierced the jungles in 1871 and found Dr.Livingstone, -has such a tale of hardships, trials and dangers come out uf Africa.Capt.Fox's report, in this respect, resembles most nearly perhaps the tale of General Funston's dogged pursuit of Aguinaldo in the Philippines.\u201cDead Or Alive,\u201d His Orders.For the purpose of tracking the outlaw the English commander was given a\u2019 non-commissioned subordinate and six Soudanese soldiers.Body carriers and mules for the transpostation of supplies were part of his equipment.His instructions were plain\u2014 not to return until the outlaw was captured.With a soldier's disregard for red tape, Capt.Fox in his report.fails to mention dates in describing the manhunt.Apparently the denouement of the jungle drama came three months ago.The pursuers then had spent weeks plunging through the wild jungle that almost defied passage, Rogers cunningly leading them through the densest of swamps, forests And across deep streams, Before the outlaw was overtaken he had crossed the Nile into the Belgian Congo.Creeping up the Uganda bank of the Nile, the expedition pushed forward for six weeks before the quarry was located.The last twelve hours of the pursuit was particularly trying.The chase led over à mountain, with Rogers\u2019 men only a short distance in advance.Dramatic End of Outlaw.Dramatic in the extreme is Captain Fox's description of the death of Rogers.In the jungle into which they had descended from the mountain his party came suddenly on a According to the confessions of both camp.A native approached the English officer and said: \u201cThe commander Had Charge Of Clearings.Harris was apparently the most He was considered the contractors refused.as an unfair demand, and the stonecutters still refuse to go to work.KOCH, LAUTEREN & CO.FRANKFORT Botabtishes 1716, RHINE and MOS haw, Youay & Os.ELLE eoutrents San Francisco, Cal, Aug.19\u2014Dr.Sun Yat Sen, first provisional president of China and head of the revolutionary party, was assassinated to-day in Peking by troops acting under orders supposed to have been given by President Yuan Shi Kai, according to an unconfirmed report in local Chinese circles, The news has reached Dr.Sun's son and daughters, who are on the Pacific Coast.The rumor was not credited at the Chinese consulate, or in the offices of the two Chinese daily newspapers, where no news of an attack upon Dr.Sun had been received.At the consulate the report was dismissed as entirely improbahia violation of her treaty rights.Atdtude Made Plain, sents the law of the land.tary of State has received an informal protest from the British Government that the contemplated legislation is in \u201cI am sure that it is not the intention of Congress to violate the Hay.Pauncefote treaty or to enact anything inconsistent with its provisions, and that it certainly is nut its purpose to repeal, by subsequent enactment, the treaty.in s0 far as it repre- the highest importance, however, that this attitude should be made clearly known to the nations of the world (Continued on Page 10.) ed.About two weeks ago the position | of assistant clearing house teller fell | vacant and he was entrusted to the | post.This & an important position.Harris had charge of the clearings of the Standard Bank made through the Toronto Clesring House.Shortly after he was promoted Harris commenced playing the races and continued the practice until he was detected on Saturday, and removed from the position.The exact amount of the shortage is not known, but al.steady over $5,000 has been accounted for, while it is believed that the losses will run in the neighborhood of $7,000 when all returns have been secured from the out-of-town banks who acted wants you to come i rannot come out.\u201d Entering the hut, Captain Fox found himself in a room dimly lighted by a candle.A white man was lying on 2 couch and beside him sat a companion, also white.\u201cWhich is Mr.Rogers?\u201d \"Mr.Rogers hag heen shot,\" replied the outlaw's companion, \u201cYes,\u201d interrupted Rogers, \u201cand by your men.\" \u201cCome, stand right here so I can look at you,\u201d Rogers continued.His eyes were blazing and from beneath a blanket he drew a revolver and pointed it at the officer.\u201cI am a dying man, 1 guess,\u201d he wid.\u201cI didn't think they could kill old Rogers, but they got him this time.Still, you are in Belgian territory, and you stand more chance for arrest than 1 do.\u201d Recognises Own Death Rattle.Fearing that the revolver which menaced him might be discharged at any moment, Captain Fox argued with the outlaw to gain time, Finally the He is sick and as agents for the Standard Bank (Continued on Page 4.) Bi STORY ONE OF MOST DRAMATIC IN COLONIAL ANNALS.\u2014W London, August 19\u2014Hunted downflle\u2014\u2014ee\u2014o\u2014\u2014 MURDERS WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Terrible Tragedy at Englaf Summer Resort Follows Dis covery of Double Life.London, Aug.19.\u2014Reports, whic were given scareheads in the earlieg afternoon editions of the London newspapers, that a rich American named MacKie had murdered his wifg and three children and had then come mitted suicide by shooting with a ree volver, horrified the American colony here.Later the American residents were greatly relieved when investiga< tion disclosed the fact that the aue thor of the horrible butchery was \"A an American, but the story is one the most revolting.tragedies that has occurred in England in recent yea Capt.Hicks Murray, formerly the Gordon Highlanders, some seves or eight years ago, took as his mis tress Florence Taylor, à young woms an of respectable family, and two years 2go he married Florence's | youngest sister, Edith.- ; By the Taylor woman Murray haë- two children and by his wife one.Mrs.Murray did not live with her hsuband long, but her sister remained in the house.Represented Himself as American.Representing himself as Richard Charles MacKie, an American, thé former army officer a few weeks aga rented a house in Eastbourne, a fashionable watering place, 66 miles southwest of London, installing there the Taylor woman and their two children, Last Sunday night the legal wife and child appeared on the scene and tragedy followed.Murray, in a fit of frenzy.whipped out a revolver and shot his wife and three little ones dead.He also fir two shots at the Taylor woman, bot! hullets taking effect, and then, aftes setting fire to the house, committed suicide.The bodies of the five per« sons killed were found charred in thé ruins of the building.- The injured woman was taken to = hospital, where she lies to-night in an hysterical condition.She was vise ited at the hospital this afternoon hy another sister, who said that hes brother-in-law was formerly a captain of the Scots Grev and later was connected with the Territorials.He had twice suffered from sunstroke while in India, she said.and had showm signs of insanity, for a time having been confined in an asylum.APPROKCH OWNERS OF ST, CHARLES LANDS Federal Govemment Seeks Prices for Lots Needed fos River Improvements.Acting under instructions from Mow F.D.Monk, Minister of Publi Works, an official ot tne department has approached the owners of thq beach lots on the north side of thq St.Charles River, and have been ree quested to name the lowest figure they are willing to take for theig properties, which are required for the improvements proposed in connees tion with the dredging and damning of the river.The agent for one estate that owns 2,000,000 feet has already made a price and expresses a willingness to accept 40 cents per foot.which offer the department has under consideration, bug so far no contracts have been passed, The owners of the properties, wha acquired the land some sixteen years ago, at approximately $ cents per foot, in the United States and are represented by a Quebec agent.There are other beach lot proper ties on either side of those under discussion that are even more impor tant to acquire, whose owners have also been approached, but as yet havq: given no definite answer.Thes lots, however, are not so large in si and the owners consider them higher value, but neverthless are wills ing to treat with the department on @ basis of valuation. CANADA'S ag, 3lst 1812, Sol, 7 EASTERN EXHIBITION SHERBROOKE The GREAT PROVINCIAL FAIR of Quebec TWO LARGE GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS FARMING AND EDUCATIONAL Agriculture, Industriel, Nartieulturei and Live Sleek Bisplays ATTRACTIONS ARE PERFECT AIRSHIP FLIGHTS TWICE DAILY 25e Genoral Admission 28c CHEAP RATES ON ALL RAILROADS From Quebec $2.75 Return EMILE JACOT JEWELER 9650 Joseph Strect Fine Railway Standard Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Optics, Silverware.i Prom vey part of this city and country surroynding city Phone 2042 for Stan for Standard Time.EMILE JACOT, Jeweler QUEBEC I YIN SICKNESS OR IN HEALTH «fhe qualities that make.ROYAL BLEND SCOTCH the best Whisky for those in robust health also make it best for medi- cian! purpases, for any Whisky made as ROYAL BLEND lé made can never be saything but PURE, WHOLESOME and INVIGORATING.This excellent Scotch can be had at any first class hotel, club and bar in the City.% BAILLARGEON, Agent for Quebeo 3 Peter ot.Phons 920 | English Levers We have recently secured the services of a trained English mechanic, who will attend to the repairing of English Lever Watches and English Clocks.Any one possessing an English time-piece that is out of order should send it to us, or telephone and our man will call By securing thoroughly skilled workmen we are deing our utmost to provide a first-class repair department, and the ever increasing amount of repairs that we are receiving is evidence of the satisfaction of our cv stemers.If you have à watch or clock to repair, send it to us.We also repair apera glasses, cameras and music boxes.We refinish and silver plate spoons, forks and ail kinds of electro plated table wares.Old jewellery we remodel.repair and 1 most like new.We buy old gold jewellery and antique solid si!- ver wares, or we will ac:ept such articles as part payment for new goods G.Seifert & Sons Jewellers 16 FABRIQUE STREET QUEBEC | casions as there is an inclination to hy ke Quebeg Ghroice \u201cPRESIDENT TAFT AND THE PANAMA BILL President Taft has the ball at his foot, if ke can only pisume courage enough to make a drive at the Panama Canal Bill, so as to save the hou- aur of the United States.Never had amy man such a chance to make a name for himself in history as a magnanimous statesman; and this we say not because this commercial interest or that commercial interest is being impsrilled by.the passing of that measure, but because the squashing of the bill is\u2019 an absolute necessity for the saving of the good name of the nation and the establishing of an in- ternaional faith in all treaty bargaining.The \u201cpros and cons\u201d of the situation are hy this time well known to everybody; and it must be confessed that there isn\u2019t § \u201ccon\u201d in behalf of the measure which hasn't a special pleading about it that carries its own condemnation.What a pity it is that President Taft has been a day too late in the sending of his remonstrances to the chairman of the Committee of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committes of the Senate.Yet that he did send such remonstrances is something in his favour, and may be taken as § plucking up of his courage to save the situation, We cannot but perceive the \u201cvoice of the nation\u201d in its swelling to concert pitch, as a guidance to him in the line of action he ought to take #s a constitutional ruler to save the people over whom he rules from the pit which has been unwittingly dug by certain misguided party men, wherein to bury the national honour and thus bring a blush of shame to every other nation in the civilized world.There is a commendably peaceful rivalry between Britain and the United States in their school- mastering of the nations who cannot of themselves get rid of the mediae- valism of war-threatenings and non- progressive methods of conducting public affairs.To plead for the overlooking of the terms of the Hay- Pauncefote Treaty is medievalisti run mad at the behest of partyism run blind.President Taft, by vetocing the bill that embodies that behest, may lose some partizan votes in the presidential contest that is on\u2014but he will have the good will and commendations of the republic as a whole behind him.Indeed.with him at the present moment, it is not a yuestion of what Britain and the other nations are going to say, should the Panama Bill become law, but what the people of the United States are saying now about the action of Congress as a misguided action, that should lead him to veto the measure as a saving from national disgrace.THE GIRL OF THB PERIOD AND THE PUBLIC.The ladies have been having à good deal of attention of late in the editorial colmuns of our contemporaries all over the world.The question is one of dress; and the Chronicle was satisfied to leave the question in the hands of the mothers and the modistes of our day, since, in a case of retaliation, the men folks might get as good as they gave.The dardy is never safe when he becomes imperti?nent; and there is an inclination to over-dress among men on state oc- under-dress on the part of the \u201cGirl of the Period\u201d who is so foolish as to try to outrival the sisterhood of the demi-monde in the matter of feminine attire.Yet Captain Eliason, a politician of some note on the other side of the line, has been brave enough to identify the \u2018\u2019over-spooning\u201d indulged in openly on excursion boats and elsewhere, as an outcome of this under-dressing that has come into fashion on the part of the \u201cGirl of the Period.\u201d He claims that the increase in this over familiarity in company between the sexes arises from the fact that the girls of to-day are io much more attractively attired than were the girls of a generation ago.We are not prepared to take sides with the Captain, though the subject is funny enough to take part in, if only as an enticement to the ladies of Quebec to take an interest in the editorial columns of the Chronicle for once at least, We leave the Captain, moreover, in the safe hands of the Baltimpre Sun, whose editor, male or female 8s the case may be, goes for him in no very ungentle way in these words: \u201cNow, the girls of twenty yesrs ago were just as attractive as those of the present, no matter how they were attired, and the sly Captain knows it, and the girls, now mothers of other giris, know it too.And they dont like what the Captain says one bi.The fact is, clothes make the man, but changing fasions cannot add to or detract from the eternal feminine from the unchanging attractiveness of woman.There may be more public \u2018spooning\u2019 than there usec.to be, Nis mind back he will recall that the sweet little cherub Cupid haw beey sitting up aloft and below ap his steamers these many years, and has been a regular passenger covery day of every summer through innumerable changes in female fashion.The Captain owes aff apology ta the ex-girls, which he should mske with all an old tar's\u2019 frankness and gallantry.\u201d The question of the over-attenuat- ing of the female garb bas thus developed into the attractiveness or its opposite as an inducing to \u201cvpoon- ing\u201d in public places; and of course the question will have to be left ig \u201cthe hands of Captain Eliason\u201d and the Baltimore Sun.Adam may have admired or found fault with Eve's way of dressing, but he had 1he \u201cspooning\u201d all to himself, and, unlike Captain Elisson, could not very well be \u201cdrawn over the coals\u201d for speaking a kindly indirect word in its favour or disfavour.CABINET MAKING.What an object lesson Canadians are having given them just now in the \u201cfish-out-of-the.water\u201d business on the part of the under-world of Liberalism, whose only hope has ever been ta keep ane political party out of pawer and keep another party in power.The Montreal Witness is not of that unger-world, neither is the Hon.G.P.Graham, former Minister of Railways, of that world, but both of them are trying, at the present moment, to pump a little hot-air, in order to bring some little measure of relief of the poor gasping \u201cmeet- mouches\u201d as they keep leaping up and down in that under-world to get their share of the bait the vrgan and the Minister offer them.Mr.Graham gives another year and a half ta these \u201cfish out of the water\u201d to beat the hot-air with their tails.A gen- oral election is not likely to take place within ancther eighteen months, says Mr.Graham, little knowing what an eternity that is to the denizens of the Liberal under-world, wha would have another election \u201cthe day after tomorrow,\u201d and are busy at the present moment in reorganizing the Borden Ministry, and would, if they were not afraid of leaving some of the Pugsleys and the Sir Fredericks out in the cold, declare what the personnel of the next Laurier Ministry is to be.Their cabinet-making has become quite a business with the poor \u201cfish out of the water,\u201d to the amusement of everybody, THE SCHOOL LIBRARY IN ONTARIO.When the Department of Education Her Ontario has once got to the bot- Treur of a school accessory as being something necessary to the welfare c* the school, there is no halting in the face of theoretical difficulties, while having it placed in evidence as part of the machinery of every school.The school library has become such an accessory in every school district tn that province, and a special officer is intrusted with the oversight of what is known as the Library sub-depart- ment.The present head of that sub- department is Mr, Walter R.Nursey, who lately headed a contingent of about one hundred and fifty library representatives sent by the Minister of Education to Ottawa to meet the nine hundred delegates from the libraries of the United States in annual convention, and from whom the city of Quebec had a hurried visit.The American delegates were more or less inspired at the support given by the Ontario government in aid of the public and school libraries of that province.It is said, indeed, that no State in the American Republic begins to compare in respect to the financial aid extended towards inducing every community to have its rural school library as well as a public library.Mr.Nursey continues to do pioneer work in establishing new libraries, and to inspect those that have been established; and has been invited to visit several forthcoming State Conferences on the other side of the line in order to tell the story of what the people of Ontario are doing for themselves in the matter of placing the right kind of books within the reach of their young folks.To mention what is thus being done elsewhere in establishing school libraries, may be taken at once as a vote of want of confidence in what is being done in the Province of Quebec.The English-speaking resident in the rural districts of our province are being arraigned just now for the neglect into which their schools have run; and no doubt in time the authorities around our Superior Schools will be arraigned for their neglecting to have a suitable selection of books on general literature outside of the ordinary text books located in the school building of the viliages and towns where the Academy or Model School is located.Of course there are school libraries in these institutions, that is there once was established the nucleus of a school library in each of them; but further than this it would though if Captain Elissan will cast not be spfe to go, while referring to THE QUEBEC CHRONICLE, what is being done elsewhere in this connectian.\u2018The notian of having 4 grawing schaol library in every well- equipped academy is all very fine in theory, ju\u2018 as the Consolidated Schaol in sparsely settled districts is all very fine in theory; but there isn't timq to indulge in mere theorizing, unless during a conference for the stirring up of a make-believe fama against somebady or other.There is too much time demanded for the written departmental \u20acxaminations for the teacher to waste his or her time in the davelopment of character through an appreciation of the better kind of books, the collection of which would be no essy task for an overworked and underpaid teacher, or for i the school commissioners either.That is what some of the theorists are saying to themselves, perhaps; but it cannot be accepted as a valid excuse, in the light of the principle that the school is made for the child and not the child for the school, in spite of all the money making desires there are in ever so many written examinations.OUTSIDE CAPITALISTS ; WANTED.When we hear of certain Canadian capitalists going all the way to Staten Island to invest in real estate, we wonder how many of them have heard of the bonanzas to be met with in the \u201cnew Quebec\u201d that is on the verge of being realized.There is a mild kind of building boom on in Quebec at the present moment.The Battlefields Commission is doing its best to make à beauty spot of \u201cupper- town,\u201d and we are all on the alert to see a counter commercial movement inaugurated in \u201clower -town.\u201d In connection with the latter movement, there is a splendid opportunity for | half a dozen capitalists to begin operations in more ways than one.The bars of the door against outsiders coming to our aid are on the point of being removed.The Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern and the Allans are with us already, to help out the problems of Quebec's progress.But we would have other capitalists from outside follow the lead.The West is crowing over the chances it has for the capitalists; but there are just as excellent chances {or the investment of capital in the East, and no where will there be such 3 chance of making money to the outsider and the insider than in Quebec, when it is once equipped as a first-class seaport, with all these pests of \u201cknocker- gnats\u201d put an end to.PARTYISM AND PARTYISM.Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is taking great pains to announce that the \u201cPrograssive Party\u201d has been organized to stay organized: and one cannot hut wonder what he would have paid about that party.if a certain namesake of his had not Leen chasen as its candidate in the present presidential campaign.Mr.Taft.on the ather hand.is anxious to classify the \u201cProgressives\u201d as cowardly bolters and would send every one of them to \u201ckingdom come\u201d as an example of what he would like alsa to do with every Democrat who would think of voting for his former friend and ally, the irrepressible \u201cTeddy.\u201d It would seem, from what Senator La Follette advises, that the \u201cProgressives\u201d are on the brink of sore distress with two sub-partizanisms within their ranks on the howl against one another.We wonder when this whole thing of par- tyism run mad is going to he engulfed in the satirical laugh of the people of the United States, as it is being laughed at by the \u201cwise and prudent\u201d of Canada in their own political world.We have not yet over three parties in Canada; but if the underworld of Liberalism continues in its illogical wayward course there is no saying what the Hon.Mr.Graham and the Montreal Witness may do in the way of organizing one, HOW THEY GROW OUT THERE.A clergyman, who had his home in Quebec for over six years\u2014the Rev.Wylie C, Clark of Knox Church, Saskatoon, passed through the city last Saturday on his way to spend a month or two in Europe.He was accom- paniel by Mr.Clare, one of the prominent real-estate agents in the growing city where Mr.Clark is now stationed.The story of the growth of Saskatoon, as told by these gentlemen to some Quebecers, is one of the marvels of modern city records in Canada in these later days.The first stage of Saskatoon\u2019s progress was when the Barr Settlement first broke ground, only to lift stakes to plant itself further West.Thereafter a village of about five hundred inhabitants began to spread itself out on both banks of the winding Saskatoon River, until now it is a city of twenty-five thousand, with ail the modern appliances of city life, from @ university quadrangle to three railway stations.The sounds of civic and commercial nrog- ress are in all its streets; and when once there has bean called a halt to TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, Stomach Treublo of 12 Vears' Standing Ques Way to Duffye MR.FRED J.ZINK.Fred .F.Zink, 2228 Saratoga St, New Orleans, La., writes of the great good done her husband : \u201cMy husband suffered with stomach trouble for over 12 years, during which time he doctored with three doctors Mrswho gave him no relief.He kept growing worse, had to be very carefu! as to what he ate, as things always soured on his stomach, but, thank God, after taking three bottles of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey he was entirely eurad.He still takes it as a tonic and we would never be without it.He now looke fine and weighs 180 pounds.I can highly recommend it to any one afflicted with stomach trouble.\u201d s Pura Malt Whiskey Few diseases inflict upon their victims greater suffering than do dyspep- sip, indigestion and other stomach troubles.If you have dyspepsia or indigestion in any form you should use Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey.Its action is most natural.When taken at mealtime it stimulates the mucous surfaces and little glands of the stomach to a healthy action, thereby improving the digestion and assimilation of the food and giving to the system its full roportion of nourishment.Sold in sealed bottles only by druggists, dealers and hotels, $1.25 4 large Bottle.Be sure you get Duffy's and that the seal over the cork is intact.Our doctors will send you advice free, together with a valuable medical booklet on application.The Duffy Mait Whiskey Ge., Reshester, N.V.Joseph & Co, A.J.Turcatte & Fils, Local Distributors.a call that is already being heard\u2014 Saskatoon will become a well- quipped community.with the lesson of civilization in its hand for the whole country around it, that has still to be spoken of as the \u201cwild and wooly west.\u201d GARDEN HOSE REELS Lawn Mowers Grass Shears Agricultural Tools of all descriptions Poultry Netting and Fencing Oe CR HOA AT THE W.MARTIN & MARTIN & co.2,4 and 6 D'Youville Street.PHONE 3020, Furniture repaired, recovered polished, packed and shipped.Estimates free.Repairing old furniture a specialty.Mattrage ses remade.Cartage done.Gaspa Steamship Ling 88.Lady of Gaspe.This steamer will leave Quebec on Tuesday, 13th and 27th August at 4 p.m for-the Gaspe and Baie des Chgleurs ports as far as Port Daniel Freight will be received at thy Custom House Pontoon until 2 p.m, es sailing day.For further information apply te BOUCHARD BROS.40 Dalhousie St.Hone & Rivet, and F.8.Stockin mayIxtf Ticket Agents.A.LEOFRED (Grad.Lava! end McGill) CIVIL ENGINEER SPECIALTY WATER WORKS 39 St.John St, Quebec.Phone 545.Standard far Gleet, : Gonerrhaa apd Runnings EA] 'N 48 HOURS.Cures he ce ney and Bladder Troubl Troubles.Ef at Reduotionsc; $1.68, now $1.38, now 82.39.ranging in prices from Vc to $3,50.| the buying snd selling of real estate\u2014 LADIES\u2019 CHEMISES\u2014AIl reduced, 45c, now 36¢; now 48e; 95c, now 76¢; $1.15, now 92c; $1.48, now $1.19; $1.68 now $1.35.LADIES' CORSET COVERS\u2014AII reduced: 25e, now 19e; Me, now Île; 48e, now 39c; 69c, now S6c; 75c, now 60c; $1.10, now 88e; $1.48, now $1.19, LADIES' DRAWERS\u2014AII reduced: Z4c; 45c, now 36c; 58c, now 47c; 75c, now 60e; 95e, now 76c; $1.10, now 86 cr \u2014\u2014\u2014 ID OF SEASON SALE Parasols, Flowers and Hats at Half Price Bathing Suits, All Reduced Bathing Drawers, All Reduced All Sales STRICTLY CASH Black Dress Goods, all Reduced Satin, all Reduced Silk, all Reduced Ladies\u201d Whitewear a Speolalty, all 58¢c, now 47¢; 60c, 23e, now 19e; 25c, now 20e; 30e, now LADIES\u2019 NIGHT DRESSES\u2014AII reduced: 7%c, now 60e; 8Sc, now 66e; $1.10, now 8c; $1 45, now $i.16; $2,10, now $1.68; $2.88 now $2.41; $298, WHITE BKIRTS\u2014AIll reduced; finely embroidered: 69¢, now 56¢; 98¢c, now 79¢; $1.30, now $1.04; $1.90, now $1.52; $2.10, now $1.68; $5.25, now $4.20.CORSBETS\u2014Best makes, large assortment, all reduced, comprising ever 60 styles of the latest importations and also the favorite D, & À.and P.C, simons & Minguy , 20 Fabrique St.Telephone 338. THE QUEBEC CHRONICLE.» \u2018 x Special Purchase Boys\u2019 Knee Pants WELVE Hundred Pairs of Boys\u2019 Knee Pants, just received.These RR RR ERE LTR ay | 8 ?OÙ can ge your glass doors and windows the appearance of stained glass by means of ) Windowphanie.Hundreds of Quebec Homes are made more beautiful by its use.Windowphanie is sold by the yard in a great variety of attractive designs and panel effects.Jur Prices, per yd 14¢, 18c, 20c, 22c, 24c, 25¢, 27¢, 2Bc, 32¢, 35¢c, 40c and 45c.EE LA & Pass OMPA GIMIT Retail Division, 157-173 St Joseph Strest.Ee tising is wiltully exaggerated or mislead your confidence and retain it RS ES SESS TSE TTT EET This Advertisement is Guaranteed A\" our advertisements are guaranierd to be sbrolutely true.We have deposited with The Quebec Bank, St.Rock Branch, the sum ne is City, if it can be en the: our adver- to à Charitable Institution of thi a Pour ee be pro pour aver.statement made in our advertisements and feel that this store iz always striving to earn Thousans Dollars, which will perry -