Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 21 juin 1893, mercredi 21 juin 1893

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.and his A.D.C.Capt.Colborne, have arrived.Three Italan warships will sail for New York om June 33 to make a friend- iy demonstration.The new battle ship \u2018Re Umbert' will sail for New York in July.Nine deaths from a oboleraie disease scourred at Calais, department of Gard, fouthern France, on June 1l, and there are also traces of cholers appearing aleswhere in Europe.Ferdinand DeLesseps, his son Charles, Marius Fontaine, Heart Cottu and Gustave Kiffel have been released om the ground that there were irregularities in the procedure of the prosscutions A large petard was exploded lat wesll oa the Plan Oriental, Madrid, which is directly ia front of the left wing of the palace.All the bulldinge ta the neighborhood were shaken by the Ë The Australlun steamer © Miowers,\u2019 the pioneer of the Cenadian-Australian line, arrived in Vancouver harbor on June 9, and teft on June 14, thus commencing the trade between Canada and the Anti- podesan colonies.Im London, Eng, an earthen jug, orsamented with mythological relief figures and malacos, formerly the property of Ehakespeare and by him be- quenthed to his sister Joan, was sold at auctien recently for ils A despatch from Rome to the London \u2018Chronicle\u2019 says that the Pope in his allocution to the Consistory, has referred to the American school question tn & manner that shows that he is not in sympathy with Archbishop Ireland's views.The Norwegian Government has yielded to the demand made upon it by the Biorthing, and has agreed to trans- far It» money transactions from the Norwegian bank, and te stop the militia and the troops field driit The Chippewas at Leech lake, Minn., reservation, have become troublesome.De.James Walker, the resident physician at Leech lake, and a companion, went cut hunting on Monday morning, and the former, by accident in shooting at a fawn, shot and so seriousiy wound- od a popular young Indian that he died in à few hours.This so Angered the Indians on the reservs, a little over 400 in number, that they gave the hunters chase and eaptured Dr.Walker.United States regulars have been despatched to the scene from Bt.Paul.\u2018The trial of Lizste Borden at Now Bed- ford, Masa, for the murder of her father and stepmother causes much interest in that section, The evidence given fs clr- cumstantial, and the murder is à my- starlous affair, if the law has not really brought the murder bome to the prisoner, Lo RL TR VERDICT AT THE EDY INQUEST.Clarenoeville, Que, June 17\u2014At a late hour last evening the jury in the Bdy case came to the conclusion that Mr.and Mrs.Edy and Miss Edy had met their deaths at the hand of scme unknown person.The jury were out some time, end the verdict they returned was the one which it was confi- danty expected they would bring in.Unless some fresh and more rellable élue than any of the many so-called clues is discovered, the prodabliities are that the tragedy will go down into history unsolved.The detectives are stl at work on the case, but the threads which they take up are found broken after they have been traced a very short distance.\u2014e ee CANADA BEATS THE WORLD.Chicago, June 17.\u2014The cheese tests, which began several weeks ago in the Gairy building, were completed to-day dy John H.Hodgeon, of New York, and A.F McLaren, of Windsor, Ont, The awards will not be made for some time, but it 1s unoMcislly stated that Canada will bo given about thirty fret prizes.New York following.famous eleven ton Canedian chesss was tested 29-day, 484 found to be yery good, \u2018 RAVELS, SPANISH BSRIPS IN CANADIAM WATERS.4 GLANCE RACE AT THES RISTORY OF COLOM- BUS AFD EIS NIGETY DEEDA, \u2018The long-looked-for caravels salled into Montreal harbor this morning and were received by the Mayor and aldermen, who accorded the officers a very Warm reception.They were driven over the city, and were entertained sumptuously at the city's expense, enjoying themselves very mnch.The caravels were visited by thousands, These vessels come as & new edition of & venerable history, the original of which has long since become extinct.Every schoolboy knows of Columbus and his ships.His mind was brought to bear upoa the 'Banta Maria,\u2019 the *Nina\u2019 and the \u2018Pinta\u2019 at sn early age, and the subject found root there.\u2018This subject was for many generations past part of the schoolboy's education, and the schooiboys of the future, until history ceases, will be taught to repeat the names of thess famous vessels.Up to the present time the schoolboy has bad to take his knowiedge from his master or book, but now he has also the objects thenmelvas, or.at least what are supposed to be perfect sopies, by which to draw his attention to the events connected with the early history of this great continent.Mililipns of schoolboys will gate upon the ships and read their names and examine the hulls, rigging and general equipment.These ships will, indead, afford a great object lesson, and will accomplish a good the value of which will & thousand times repay the cost of the enterprise.The mind will dwell upon Columbus, the son of a wool-comber, who spent part of his early life in Pavia University, who at the age of fourteen became a mallor and coasted upon the unknown shores of Africa, wishing that he hada ship of his own that he might explore further.Columbus wan only a subordinate, however, and had to be content under the commands of his master.Columbus seems to have had a yearning for exploration, for he was on more than one of these expeditions, When not at sea he employed himself fn making charts and selling books.Genoa being his chief fleld of wark, But little is known of the early life of the dis coverer.His son, Ferdinand, says in an Italian publication of 1571 that the fatiguing career of his father and his infirmities prevented the admiral from writing his own life.For the first few years after his death there were various references to the new discoveries, duit ¢ not a single attempt to commemorate, by even a brief sketch, the life of the erer.Columbus, it is supposed, was some years in Portugal at a time when the air was filled with tales of discovery ard he himself was full of schemes.He read the ancients and questioned mariners returned from voyages on the great ocean, and even mads a voyage to the Faroe Islands.His theory of \u2018land to the wast\u2019 he nursed for years and finally he presented his schemes in Genoa and Venice, and tried also to interest the King of Portugal, all with no success.Columbus's wife died, and with his Httle bey, Diego, he tramped from city to city of Western Europe, presenting his scheme everywhere, until he became weary and heartbroken.One day he presented himself nt the Franciscan convent of Santa Marin de Ia Rabida and asked for bread for himself and boy.so the story goes, and there after being refreshed he unfolded his scheme to the prior.The prior took kindly to it and put Columbus on the path which finally led to his securing the patronage of Ferdinand and lIsabelia of Spain.à GREAT DAY FOR COLUMEUS.It was a glorious day for \u2018Columbus, when after years of reverses and disappointment he was summoned to the court of the conquerors of the Moors.They listened to his scheme and favored it, but when It came to matters of detail, and Columbus demanded that his reward be one-tenth of all income from the territories to be discoversd, they and his friends became frightaned und even disgusted, and for the moment ne- sotiations were stopped.Columbus mounted his mule and started for France, but he had not gone far on his journey when Le wus calied back, for isabella had become suficiently 1m- preased by the new theory to actefie to his demands.An agreement embody- lng the terms met out by Colum was signed by Ferdinand and Isa bella on April 17, 1482.Palos was ordered to furnish two armed caravels, and Columbus was empowered to fit out a third.On May 1: Columbus left the court and hasiened towards Palos.The town, however, rebelled aginst fitting out the ships, for the people felt that those of their number that salled through the Hem of Darkness would Never return.What might have been the resuit (t is hard to say had not two men, brothers of the name of Pinson, come to the relief of Columbus and offered their vessels.The \u2018Pinto\u2019 was impressed and her owners and crew wera very much terrified.On Friday, August 3 182, Columbus lied to the westwatd with his three s.Of the fleet the \u2018Santa Maria\u2019 was the only one which had a deck.while the other (wo were opon caravels.The latter were commanded by the two Pinsos.Columbus salled In Lhe \u2018Banta Maris.\u2019 On October 12 at two o'clock In the motning, after an uneventful voyage, a mariner on the \u2018Pinto\u2019 discovered land, and a new world waa disclosed to the peopie of the Haat.All this will be brought to the mind of the student and he will gare upon the \u2018Santa Maris, \u2018Nina\u2019 and \u2018Pinto\u2019 of to-day with min- sled wonder añd admiration.JUST LIKE THE OLD ONES.These vesseis are supposed to be ez- act oocies of the orixinsis but that MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY.JUNE 21, 1893.they are there ne proof.They may be similar, and like the vessels of the times of Columbus.The ferryboats which run (rom Montreal to the Teland and Longueuf] are In general appearance alike, but they differ in dimen- sons anû detail, and so It may be that the new \u2018Santas Maria\u2019 1e Ils the old one just as (he \u2018Longueuil\u2019 le like the \u2018Hochelaga® or the \u2018Cultivatevr.All that is known of the shipe of Columbus is taken from oid prints.There was no description made of the ahipe at the lime beyond the mers mention that they were caruvels and their tonnage.Columbr time\u2019 In face of ail this lt would be presumption to say that these vewsels are true copies of the ves sels of Columbus.They are, no doubt, £004 representations of the vessels of his time, and at least will give the onlooker a good lGon of the character of the times and a just appreciation of the Courage of the great discoverer, who weuld safl th his day of superstition, through unknown waters in such frail eraft THE WAFTA MARIA\" \u2018The present \u2018Santa Maria\u2019 was built \u2014 pr light and swift vessels of the class called caravels.One had a deck amidships, with high foreastie and poop, and two were without this deck, though high and covered at the ends.\u2019 Capt.G.V.Fox has given what he mpposss were the dimessions of the larger oné, a heavier craft end duller sailer than the others.He calculates for a hundred ton: es her sixty- kind of gun termed fombards, and «à crew of fifty men.This description dif- tere considerably from the \u2018Santa Maria® now in the Bt.lawrence as regards dimensions.A prominent authority says.\u2018In the variety of changes in methods of measurement it ise not eany to find the equivalent in tonnage of the present day for the abine of F TER * SANTA MARS mainmast ; under it are placed the ler and relieving tackles.Ov her and extending across her in cabin which is supposed to be like that occupied by Columbus; the door is placed on the starboard side.room Are many curiosities.There te an old bedstead, four hundred years old, and ail around the compartment are weapons of the middie ages.Columbus's capdiestick and inketand stand upon the tabla, à facsimile ef à chart k \u2018| order of the Queen Regent ; =n { MONTREAL ELE ITN 88 draws by Columbus, and marine fnetru- ments.Hanging on the wall of the cabin is the banner carried ashore by Columbus at San Baivador.The caravel is armed with four small earronades on the upper deck, and four breechloading guns on the gunwale, \u2018The \u2018Banta Maria\u2019 has & dowsprit and three masts, and Is rigged with square and triangular sails.Elevated at the stern of the vessel ls the large iron lantern, the ancient insignia of an admiral, and a custom handed down to us, a in the missentop, or on the after- mast of the flagship, there is always a light beaming from sunset to daylight.THE VOVANA, On August 3 the earavel made sall and passed down the river on her way to Palos; but the wind failing, she had to be taken in tow by a steamer.At$ am.on the 3rd, the caravel weighed, and was towed down the river, accompanied by the ships which had come with her from Cadiz; on the previous evening the larger foreign vesseis from Cadiz had accompanied the Spanish squadron of heavy ships, and had anchored off the bar at Huelva.The countries represented were Great Britain, United States, France, Italy, Ar- sentine Republic, Portugal and Mexico.As the caravel approached all sbips dressed with flagn; the Spanish vessels were stationed on the left and the foreign vessels on the right as the caravel came out over the bar.8be was towed between the lines of ships, every ship firing a salute of twenty-one guns and cheering as sho passed.All the ships followed the \u2018Santa Maria\u2019 round for about two miles, when she again headed In for the bar, and another | royal salute was fired by every vessel present.On the evening of August 4 a state banquet was given at Huelva by the Minister of Marine presided, and covers were inid for M\u20ac Officers from all the foreign ships wers present.A large monument has been erected at Palos, n garden and a promenade have been laid out at the Convent of La Rabida, near the town, and at Cadis a promenade garden has also deen opened in commemoration of the event.Thess were Eee in October last by the Regent.Boon after the queen's visit the \u2018Santa Maria\u2019 started for Havana and thence 91.00 Post-Pal THE GERMAN ELECTIONS RETURNS FROM THE CITIRS INDICATE BIG GAINS FOR THB SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, Berlin, June 15.\u2014Kiection day brought tropical heat to all parts of the Empire.Apparently the election has been a notably quiet one.In Berlin thers has been complete absence of all excitement.The wealthier classes seem to be apathetic as to the outcome of the election.The authorities, fearing disorder among the voters of lower classes, had troops, and the reserve police kept im thelr barracks, so as te HE ° pores.\u2019 be ready to suppress any outbreak, At two o'clock this morning returns from seventy districts indicate that thirty-six have been carried by opponents of the Army Bill, fifteen have been enrried for parties favoring the bill, and nineteen are in doubt, with the chances in many of them in favor of the Government.Although the Boclal Democrat gains are undoubtedly enormous, they will not prove so large probably se the reports so far have indicated.The MENTING THE CARAVEIS NEAR TRR (ITY.for New York, where she had the piace of honor at the great naval review dur- aged about 100 she went as fast as 5 1-2 knots per hour, with a fair, fresh breese wind came out ahesd she could not be depended upon to do much: when she had to go from one tack to another to work up to windward she could do it in ten points, five on one sde of the wind and five on the other, whieh Is certainly very good.although being #0 over-light, she could not hold up against very much of a sea.Besides the following officers the \u2018Santa Maris\u2019 has a crew of sixty men: Commander Victor Concas, Executive Officer Guti- eres, and Lieuts.Magas and Verdejo THR \u2018PIRTA.\u2019 The Pinta\u2019 is much smaller but similar to the \u2018Santa Maria\u2019 The deck slopes quickly forward and aft from the mainmast.From the foremast forward there is an extra deck to the bow, with a cabin beneath.The double deck aft, providing & cabin for the captain, is longer than that forward, and it runs up high, narrowing until at the top it je scarce Byard wide where itis topped by the lantern.The cabins are plain and not wpecially interesting except for their low cellings.The yard hanging near to the maintop 1s stout and serviceable.All the masts are bound about with tarred ropes.The top itself is a crown, but there is room In it for the watch, who reach it by ratlines as abundant as are found on the largest merchaat ships of to-day.The officers of the \u2018Pinta\u2019 are: Commander Rodrigo Garcia de Quemnda and Lisut.Kmilano Enriques Lano.TRE \u2018NSA\u2019 The \u2018Nina\u2019 is the smallest of the fleet and is different from the others in many respects.\u2018The foremast slopes forward and the miz=enmast rakes siightly aft, but instead of the square and triangular sall carried by her companions, the \u2018Nina\u2019 Is propelled by three isteen sails roped on prodigiousiy long yards, that are now hauled close, reaching above the tops of the masts above snd far over the rail of the vessel below.The \u2018Nina's\u2019 officers are Commander Juan returns from the cities come In and it Is in the cities that the Demccratic candidates always Berlin, June 16\u2014The police closed up the Socialist mass at the Germania Hall, the Bock ery, the Tivoli, the Concordia, the sum and the Wedding Hall, owing Ez iis ANUWARIES TRE SALUTE YRON TER \u201cSANTA MARLA.* overcrowding.The crowds poured cheer ing into the streets, where they were Quickly dispersed by mounted police.Roughly speaking.the Socialists\u2019 vote stowh a great increase everywhere.The Radical vote has diminished heavi- 17, chiefly.it would seem, because the better clase of the Radical party voted for the anti-Semitic candidates.Not ten percent of tho votes cast in Bez- iin were In favor of the Army Bill Beidom hae the city spoken in such em phatic tones.\u2018The provincial returns sppear to be equally emphatic ia the seme direction.The great success of the Boclal Democrats has caused a profound sensatico.London, June 15.\u2014The Berlin eorree- pondent of the \u2018Daily News says?\u201cThere cannot be the slightest doubs that the Army Bill will be pasesd with 8 good majority.\u201d The \u2018Standards\u2019 Visuan y Vexuau ead Lise.Pedro vesquez.d Berlin correspondent expresses the same opinion ssmewhat less emphatiesily, 1 THE CIRCUIT RIDER.(à TALN OF THE HEROIC AGE.BY EDWARD XOGLESTOK, Autor of \u2018The Hoosier School Master, \u2018Roxy, tte.Onarrza I.\u2014Tsz Cons-anvexnta.Subtraction is the hardest \u201cciphering\u201d in the book.Fifty or sixty years off the date at the head of your letter is easy cnough to the \u2018organ of number,\u201d but & severe strain on the imagination.It is hard to go back to the good old days your grandmother talks about-that golden age when people were not roasted alive tn à slevping coach, but gently Upped over a toppling cliff by a drunken stage driver.Grand oid times were those fn which boys politely took off thelr hats to preacher or schoolmaster, su- Tacing their fresh young hearts afterwards by making mouths at the back of his great coat.Blessed days, in which parsons wore stiff, white stocks, and walked with starched dignity, and yet were not too good to drink peach-brandy and cherry- bounce with folks; when Congress- Jue were so honorable that they scorned bribes, and were nuly kept from killing one another by the exertions of the sergeant-at-arms.It was in those old times of the beginning of the reixn of Madison that the ple of the Hisawachece settlement n Southern Ohio, prepared to attend | \u201cthe corn-shuckin\u2019 down at Cap'n Lumsden's.\u201d There is a peculiar freshness about CAPTAIN LUMEDEN.the entertainment that opens the gay- eties of the season.The shucking at Lumsden's had the advantage of being set off by a dim background ; of other shuckings, and quiltings, and | wood-choppings, and apple-peelings that were to follow, to say nothing of the frolics pure and simple\u2014partics alloyed with no ultilitartan purposes.Lumsden\u2019a corn lay ready for husk- Ing, in a whitey-brown ridge five or eix feet high.The Captain was not insensible to considerations of economy.He knew quite well that it would be cheaper In the long run to have It husked by his own farm hands ; the expense of an entertain ment in whiskey and other needful provisions, and the wasteful handling of the corn, not to mention the obli- sation tu send a hand to other husk- ings, more than counterbalanced the | gratuitous labor.But who can resist | the public sentiment that requires a man to be a gentleman according to the standard of his neighbors ?Cap-! taln Lumsden had the reputation of : doing many things which were oppressive and unjust, but to have \u201c shucked \u201d his own corn would have been to forfeit his respectability entirely.It would have placed him on © the Pariah level of the contemptible Connecticut Yankee who had bought & place further up the creek, and who dared to husk his own corm, practise certain forbidden economies, and even take pay for such trifles as | butter and eggs and the surplus veal | of a calf which he had killed.The.priety of * ducking this Yankee d been à matter of serious debate.A man \u201cas tight as the bark on a beech tree,\u2019 and a Yankee besides, \u2018was next door to a horse-thief.So there was a corn-shucking at Capn Lumsden\u2019s.The \u2018women folks\"\" turned the festive occasion into further use by stretching a quilt on the frames, and having the ladies of the party spend the afternoon in quilting and gossiping\u2014the younger women blushing inwardly and sometimes outwardly, with hope and fear, as the names of certain u: men were mentioned.Who could tell what disclosures the even- ing frolic might produce?For th * circumstances alter cases,\u2019 they have no power to change human nature ; and the natural history of the delightful creature we call a young woman was essentially the same in the Himsawachee Bottom aixty odd years ago that it is on Murray or Beacon Btreet Hill In these Modern times.Difference enough of manner and costume\u2014In- sey-woolsey, with a rare calico now and then for Sundays; the dropping of * kercheys' by polite young girls but these things are only outward.The dainty girl that turns away from my story with disgust, because \u2018the people are 80 rough,\u201d little suspects w entirely of the cuticle is her re- finement\u2014how, after all, there is a touch of nature that makes Polly Ann and Jane cousins-german to Jennie, and Hattie, and Blanche, and a It was just Anvk\u2014the rising full moon was Ddiaxing like a bon-fire ons the trees on Campbell'a Hill, the creek\u2014when the shucking y #uathered rapidly around the ptain\u2019's ridge of corn.The first comers waited for the others, and spent the time looking at the heap, and speculating as to how many bdah- ols it would *\u201cshuck out.\u201d Captain Lumsden.an active, sager man.under the medium sise, welcomed his neighbors cordially, but with certain eserves.That is to say, he spoke { with hospitable warmth to each new comer, but brought his voice up nt the last like & whip-cracker ; there waa a something in what Dr.Rush would call the * vanish\" of his enun- clatlon, which reminded the person addressed that Captain Lumsden though he knew how to treat a man; with politeness, as hecame an old Virginia centieman, Was not à man whose aupremacy wns to be questioned for à moment.He reached out his hand ,with a * Howdy, BIU 7° * Howdy, Jeems ?how's your mother gittn\u2019, eh 7° and \u201cHello, Lob, 1 thought you had the shakes\u2014gut out nt luat, did you ?* Under this superficial familiarity a certain reserve of conscious superiority and finty welf- will never failed to make ilself appreciated.Let us understand ourselves.When we speak of Captain Lumaden as an old Virginia gentleman, we speak from his own standpoint.In his native state his hereditary rank was low\u2014his father was an *\u201c upstart, who, besides lacking any claims to \u201cgood blond,\u201d had made money by doubtful means.But such is the advantage of emigration, that among outside burbarians the fact of having been born in * Ole Virginy \"* was credential enough.Was not the OM Dominion the mother of presidents, and of gentlemen?And so Captain Lumaden was accustomed to tap his pantaloons with his raw-hide viding- whip, while he alluded to his relationships to \u201cthe old families,\u201d the Carys, the Archers, the Leen, the YPeytons, and the far-fumed William und Evelyn Bird; and he was espe- clally fond of mentioning his relationship to that family whose ariato- cratic surname is spelled En- roughty,\u201d while it In mysteriously and inexplicably pronounced \u201cDarby and to the \u2018\u201cTolivars\u201d whose name is spelt \u2018\u201cTallaferro.\u201d Nothing smacks more of hereditary nobility than a divorce betwixt spelling and pronouncing.Tn all the Captain's strutting talk there was this shade of truth, that he was related to the old families through his wife.For Captain Lumsden would have scorned a prima facie lie.But, in his fer.tle mind, the truth was ever germi- nal\u2014little acorns of fact grew to sTeat oaks of fable.How quickly a crowd gathers! While I have been Introducing you tn Lumsden.the Captain has been shaking hands in his way, giving a cordial grip, and then suddenly relaxing, and withdrawing his hand an if afrald of compromising dignity, und all the while calling out, \u2018\u2019Ho, Tom! Howdy, Stevens?Hallo, Johnson! is that you?Did you come after all, eh?\u201d Then once the company was about complete the next step was to divide the heap, To do this judges were selected, to wit: Mr.Butter- field, a slow-speaking man who was belleved to know a great deal because he said little and looked at things carefully; and Jake Sniger, who also had a reputation of knowing a great deal, because he talked glibly and was good at off-hand guessing.Rutterfield looked at the corn, first on one side, and then on the end of the heap.Then he shook his head in uncertainty, and walked around to the other end of the pile, squinted one eye, took sight along the top of the ridge, measured {its base, walked from one end to the other with long strides as {if pacing the distance, and again took bearings with one eye shut.while the young lads stared at him with awe.Jake Sniger strode away from the corn and took a panoramic view of it, as one who scorned to examine anything minutely.He palnted to the left and remarked to his admirers that he *\u2018low\u2019d they was a heap sight more corn in the left hand eend of the pile, but it was the long, yaller gourd-seed, and powerful easy to shuck, while t'other eend wuz the leetle flint, hominy corn, and had a right smart sprinklin\u2019 of nubbins.\u201d Ye *\u2018low'd whoever got aholt of them alr nubbins would git sucked in.It was neck-and-neck twixt this ere and that air, and fer his own part, he thought the thing mout be nigh about even, and had orter be divided in the middle of the plle.\u201d Strange to say, Butterfield.after all his sighting, and pacing and measuring, arrived at the same difficult and complex conclusion, which remarkable coincidence served to confirm the popular confidence in the infallibility of the two judges.80 the ridge of corn was measured and divided exactly in the middle.A fence rall, leaning against either «ide, marked the boundary between the territories of the two parties \u2018The next thing to be done was tn select the captains.Lumsden, as a prudent man, desiring an election to the legislature, declined to appoint them, laughing his chuckling kind of \u2018a laugh, and saying.\u201cChoose for yourselves, boys; choose for yourselves.\u201d Bill McConkey was on the ground, and there was no better husker.He wanted to be captain on one side.but somebody tn the crowd objected that there was no one present who could \u201chold a taller dip to Bill's shuckin.\u201d \u201cWhar's Mort Goodwin?\u2019 demanded Bill; he's the one they may kin Mek me, I'd like to lay him out wunst.\u201d\u201d \u201cHe ain't yer.\" .\u2018That aire him a comin\u2019 through the cornstalke, I \u2018low.\u2019 sald Jake Sniger, as a tall, well-bufit young man came hurriedly through the strip cornstalks, put two handa on the elght-rail fence, and cleared it at a bound.\u201cThat's him! that's his jump,\u201d said \u201clittle Klke'' 8 nephew of Captain Lumsden.ldént many fellers do that elzht-rail fence so clean.\u201d \u201cHello, Mort!* they all cried at ence, as he came up taking off his wide-brimmed straw hat and wiping his forehead.\"We thought you wuzn\u2019t comin\u2019.Here, you and Con key choose up.\" \u201cLet somebody else,\u201d sald Morton, who was shy, and ready to give up such a distinction to o 3 \u201cBacks out!\u201d sald Conkey, sneer- ng.à bit of it,\u201d sald Mort.\u201cYou ' don\u2019t appreciate kindness; where's your stick?\u201d By tossing a& stick from oue to the other.and then passing the hand of one above that of the other, ib, THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.should have Lhe first chuice of men and Morton Goodwin the firat choice of corn.The shuckers were thus all divided into two parts.Captain Lumsden, as host, upon either side.Goodwin choose the end of the corn which had, as: devised ull manner of penalties for the boys declared, \u2018\u2019a desp'rate sight! the owners, Susan Tomkins had to af nubbins\" Then, at à signal, all hands went to work The corn had to be husked and thrown Into a crib, a mere pen of fence ralls.\u201cNow, buya, crib your corn,\u201d said Captain Lumsden, as he started the whiskey bottle on Its encouraging travels along the line of shuckers.\u201cHurrah, boys,\" shouted Mceconkey, \u201cPull away, roy sweats! work lke dogs in & meat pot; beat \u2018em all to thunder, or bust a bller, by jimminy! Peel \"em oft! Thunder and blazes! Murrah!\" This loud hallooing may have cheered his own men, but it certainly stimulated those on the other side.Morton was more prudent; he husked with all his night, and called down the lines In an undertone, \u2018Let them holter, boys, never mind Bill: all the breath he spends in noise, we'll spend in glitin' the corn peeled.Here, you, don*t you shove that corn back in the shucks! No cheats allowed on this slide! Goodwin had taken his place in the middle of his own men where he could overlook them and husk, without intermission, himself: knowing that his own dexterity was worth almost as much as the work of two men.When une or two of the boys on his kide hegan to run over to see how the others were getting along he ordered them back with great firmness.\u201cLet them alone,\u201d he sald, \u201cyou are only losing time; work hard at first, everybody will work hard at the last.\u201d Yor nearly an hour the huskers had been stripping husks with unremitting eagerness; the heap of un- shucked corn had grown smaller, the crib was nearly full of the white and vellow ears, and a great billow of Jight husks had arisen behind the eager workers, \u201cWhy don't you drink?\u2019 asked Jake Sniger, who sat next to Morton.\u201cWant's to keep his breath sweet for Patty Lurasden,\" said Ben Nerth, with a chuckle, : Marton did not knock Ben éver, snd Ben never knew how near he cane to getting a whipping.It was now the last heavy pull of the shuckers.McConkey had drunk rather freely, and his \"Pull away, sweats,\u201d became louder than ever.Morton found it necessary to run up and down his line once or twice, and hearten his men by tell- {fog them that they were \u2018sure to beat if they only stuck to it well.\u201d The two parties were pretty cvenly matched: the side led by Goodwin would have given it up once it it had not been for his cheers; the others were £0 near to victory that they beran to shout In advance, and that cheer, before they were through lost them the battle\u2014for Goodwin, calling to his men, fell to work \u2018n a way that set them wild by contagion, and for the last minute they made almost superhuman exertions, rending a perfect hail of white corn into the crib, and licking up the last ear in time to rush with a shout into the territory of the other party, and seize on one or two dozen ears, all that was left, to show that Morton had clearly gained the victory.Then there was & genoral wiping of foreheads, and a general expression of good feeling.But Bill McConkey vowed that he \u201cknowed what the other side did with their corn,\u201d polnt- ing to the husk pile.\u201cI'll bet you slx bits,\u201d said Morton that I can find more corn in your shucks than you kin in mine\u201d \u201cBut Bill 41d not accept the wager.After husking the corn that remained under the ralls, the whole party adjourned to the house, washing their hands and faces in the woodshed, as they passed into the old hybrid building, half log-cabin, {he other half block-house fortifica- jon.The quilting frames were gone, and a substantial supper was set in the apartment which wat commonly used for parlor and sitting room, and which was now pressed into service for a dining room.The ladies stood around against the wall with a nelf- conscious alr of modesty, debating, no doubt, the effect of their linsey- woolacy dresses, or what is the use of card\u2018ng and spinning, winding and weaving, cutting and sewing to Ket & new linsey dress, if you cannot have It admired.CHAPTER \\I.\u2014TRE FROLIC.The supper was soon dispatched; the huskers sating with awkward em- burrassment, as frontiersmen always do in runipany\u2014even In the company of each other.To est with decency and composure is the final triumph of clvilization, and the shuckers of His- sawachee Hottom got through with the disagreeabls perférmance as hur- Fledly an possible, the more so that thelr exciling strife had given \u201chem vigorous relish for Mrs.Lumaden's \u201cchicken fixin's,\u201d and batter oak: and \u2018\u2019punkin-ples.\u201d\u201c \u2018The quiltern had taken their supper an hour before, the table not a parties.tuble foided u kitchen\u2014and t ready to enjoy was much gawky (hemae) ves, Lt was soon decided that Rill McConkey | little shy dropping of the eyes on t pa: eclining 10 bs! the head of tha bilndf>ld Mort Good- ording room for both .his whole duty under difficult cir- When supper was over (he | cumstances.\u201cthinge' were quickly put away, the kerchief, And, while the song repeats and removed to the Itself, selecia some gentleman before company were then whom she Knoris, bestowing a kia There (a the same fashion, lensing timidity on the handkerchief to spread be: part of the young men, sod aot anew divinity.the part of the young women; but t¥o most courageous presently got some of the rude, country plays a-going.\u2018The pawns wers wold over win,.who, as the wit of the company, stand up in the corner and say: * Here | stand all and élu, Kies me quiet, a | ras Mike 6 turkey.\u201d There lines were supposed to rhyme.When Aleck Tilley essayed } BTS WOMELY S'MANTET.to comply with her request, she tried 10 run like a turkey, but was stopped in time.The good taste of people who enjoy rociety novels, wili decide at once that these boisterous, unrefined aports ure not a promising beginning.It in ensy enough to imagine heroism, Renerusity and courage In people who dance on velvet carpets; but the great heroes, the world's demigods, grew In just such rough social states ns that of Ohio in the early part of this century.There is nothing more important for an over-refined gen- craton than to understand that it has not a monopoly of the great qualities of humanity, and that it must not only tolerate rude folk, but sometimes admire in them traits that have grown scarce as refinement has increased.So that I may not shrink from telling that one kissing- rlay took the place of another until the excitement and merriment reached à pitch which would be thought not consonant with propriety by the society that loves round dances with roues, and \u2018\u2018the German\u2019 untranslat- ed\u2014though, for that matter, there are people old-fashioned enough to think that refined deviltry is not much better than rude freedom, after all.Goodwin entered with the hearty animal spirits of his time of life into the boisterous sport; but there was one drawback to his pleasure\u2014 Patty Lumsden would not play.He was glad, indeed, that she did not: he could not bear to see her kissed by his companions.But then, did Patty like the part he was taking in the rustic revel?He inly rejoiced that his position as the blindfold Justice, meting out punishment to the owner of each forfeit, saved him, to some extent, the necessity of going through the ordeal of kissing.True, it was quite possible that the severest prescription he should make, might fall on his own head, if the pawn happened to be his; but he was saved by his good luck and the penetration which enabled him to guess, from the suppressed chuckle of the seller, when the pawn offered was his own.At last, \u201cforfeits\u201d in every shape became too dull for the growing mirth of the company.selves around the room on benches and chairs and began to sing the old song: * Outs, pes, heana and barley grow\u2014 ce pont, beans and ary grow You vor |, but the farmers, know Wbers cats, poas, besos and barley grow.\u201c Thus the farmer sows bis seed, Brampe hi foot sad claps bs panda, tam 1e In And whirls sround \u2018and views bi lande * Sure 5 gras grows to the Down on this earpet yon must 1, Salute your truc love, kiss her sweet, And rise again upon your feet.\u201d It is nat very different from the little children's play\u2014an old rustic sport, [ doubt not, that has existed in England from immemorial time.McConkey took the handkerchief first, and, while the company were singing he pretended to be looking around and puzzling himself to decide whom he would favor with Lis affection.But tha girls nudged one another and looked significantly at Jemima Huddleatone.Of course, everybody know that Bill would take Jemime.That was fore-ordained Everybody knew it oxcept Bill and Jemima! Bill fancied that he was standing in entire indecision, and Je- mima, radiant peany!\u2014turned her large, red-cheeked face away from Bill, and studied meditatively a knot in a floor board.But her averted gaze only made her expectancy the more visible, and the significant titter of the company deepened the hue and widened the aren of red in her cheeks.Attempts to seem unconscious generally result disastrously.But the titering, the nudging and looking toward Jemima did not prevent the singing from moving on; and now the singers have reached the line which proscribes the kneeling.Fill shakes off his feigned Indecision and with a sudden effort recovers from his vacant and wandering stare, wheels about, apreads the \u2018\u2019hangker- cher\u201d at the feet of the bacKwoods Hebe and diffidently kneels upon the outer edge, while she, in compliance with the order of the play, and with reluctance only apparent, aiso drops upon her knees on the handkerchief, and.with downcast eyes, reccives upon her red check & kiss 80 hearty and unreserved that It awakens laughter and applauss.Bill now arises with the afr of & man who has dons Jemima itty the hand- him Lhe ore som, They ranged them- |.\u2018This alternation had gone on for some time.Poor, sanguine, homely Samantha Britton had looked smii- ingly und expectantiy at each successive gentleman who bore thé handkerchief; but In vain.\u2018Smanthy\" could never understand why her seductive smiles were so unavalling.Presently, Retty Harsha was chosen by somebody\u2014Betty had a pretty round face and pink cheeks, and was sure to be chosen, sooner or later.Everybody knew whom she would choose.Morton Goodwin was the desire of her heart.She dressed to win hin, She fixed her eyes on him in church: she put herself adroitly In his way; she compelled him to escort her home against his will; and now that she held the handkerchief everybody looked at Goodwin.Morton, for his part, was too young to be insensible to the charms of the little round, impulsive face, the twinkling eyes, the red, pouting lips, and he was not adverse to having the pretty wlel, in her new, bright, lin- sey frock single him out for her admiration.But just at thlu moment he wished she might chonee someone else.For Patty Lumsden, now that all her guests were interested in the play, wan relieved frum her cares as hostess, and was walching the progress of the exciting amusement.She atood behind Jemima Huddlestone and never wis there finer contrast than between the large.healthful, high-colored Jemima, a typical coun- toy belle, and the slight, Intelligent, falr-skinned Patty , whose black halr and eyes made her complexion eeem whiter, and whose resolute lips and proud curriage helghtened the refinement of her face.\u201cPatty,\u201d the folks mld, \u201cfavored\u201d her mother, A woman of considernble pride and much refinement, why, by her unwillinguess to accept the rude customs of the neighborhood, had about as bad as reputation as one can have in a frontier community.She was regarded as excessively \u201cstuck up.\u201d This stigma of aristocracy was very pMeasing to the Captain.His family was part of himself, and he liked to believe them better than anybody's else.Rut he heartily wished that Patty would sacrifice her dignity at this juncture to further his political aspirations.Seeing the vision of Patty standing there in her bright new calicn\u2014-an extraordinary bit of finery in those days\u2014Gondwin wished that Betty would attack somebody else for once.But Betty Harsha bore down on the perplexed Morton, and in her eagerness, did not wait for the appropriate Junk 21, 1898, wore a ring with a ls Jowal, avouchod by Little Gabe to 8 dine mond\u2014a jewel that was at least transparent.Whom would Gabe choose ?became at once à question of solemn import to every young woman of the company ; for even girls fn Jinsey are not free from that liking for a fop, so often scen in ladive better dressed.In ler heart nearly every young woman wished that Gabe would herself.But Gabe was one of those men who, having done many things by the magic of effrontery, imagine that anything can be obtained by impudence, if only the linpudence be suf- ficlently transcendent.He knew that Miss Lumsden held herself aloof from the kissing-plays, and he knew equally that she looked favorably on Morton Goudwin ; he had divined Morton's struggle, and he had already marked out his own line of action.He stood in quiet repose while the first two stanzas were sung.As the third began, he slepped uickly round the chair on which Jemima Huddleston sat, and stood before Patty Lumsden, while everybody held breath.Patty's cheeks did not grow red, but pales she turned suddenly and called out toward the kitche: *\u201c What do you want ?I am coming,\u2019 and then walked quietly out.as if unconscious of Little (iabe's presence or purpose.But poor Little Gabe had already begun to kneel ; he had gone too far to recover himself; he dropped upon one knee, and got up immediately, but not In time to escape the general chorus of laughter and jeers.He sneered at the departing figure of Patty, and raid, * I knew I could make her run.\u2019 But he could not conceal his discomfiture.When at last the party broke np, Morton eesayed to have à word with Patty.He found her standing in the deserted kitchen, and his heart beat quick with the thought that she might be waiting for him.The syddy glow of the hickory coals in the wide fire-place made the loga of the kitchen walis bright, and gave À tint to Patty's white face.But just as Morton was about to speak, Captain Lumsden\u2019s quick, jerky tread sounded in the entry, and he came in, laughing his aggravating - metallic little laugh, and saying, * Morton, where's your manners ?There's nobody to go home with Betty Harsha ® \u2018Dog on Betty Harsha !' muttered Morton, but not loud enough for the Captain to hear.And he escorted Betty home.£To be Continued.) LITTLE GARE'S DISCOMFITURS.line to come\u2014she did nnt give the farmer time to \u201cstomp\u201d his foot, and clap his hands, much less to whirl around and view his lands\u2014but lumped down upon the hankerchief fore Morton, who took his own time to kneel.But draw it out as he would, he presently found himself, after having been kissed by Betty, standing foolishly, handkerchief in hand, white the verses intended for Betty were hot yot fimished.Betty's precipitancy, and her inevitable gravitation toward Morton, had set all the players laughing, and the laugh seemed to Goodwin to be partly at himself, For, indeed, he was perplexed.To choose any other woman for hi \u2018true love\u2019 even in play, with Patty standing by, was more than hs could do; to offer to kneel before her was more than he dared do.He hesitated a moment; he feared to offend Patty; he must select some one.Just at that instant he caught sight of the eager face of S'manthy Britton stretched up to him, as it had been to the others, with an anxious smile.Morton saw a way out.Patty could not be jealous of S'manthy.He spread the handkerchief befors the delighted girl, and a moment later she held in her hand the right to chooes a partner.The fop of the party was \u2018Little Gabe,\u2019 that is to say, Gabriel Powers, junior.His father was \u2018Old Gabe,\u2019 the most miserly farmer of the neighborhood.But little Gabe had run away in boyhood, and had been over the mountains, had made some money, nobody could tell how, and had Invented his entire capital in store clothes.He wore a mustache, too, which, being an unheard of innovation in those primitive times, marked him as & man who had seen the world.Everybody laughed at him for a fop, and yet everybody admired him.one of the girls had yet dared to select Little Gabe.To bring their linsey near to store.cloth -tn venture to nalute his divine mus- tache\u2014~who could be gully of such profanity?But @manthy wes mor- Ally certain that ohe would nut soon Again have à chance to select a \u2018true love and she determined to strike high.The players did not lauxh when she spread her handkerchief at the feet of Little Gabe.They wero appalled.Gur uabe dropped on one nee, condescended to roceive her su- Jte, and lifted the handkerchief with ® delicate flourish of the Band which THRE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG AND MATING.(London Spectator.) The cock-birds usually arrive in the valley at the end of the second week in April, and spend at least a week in practising and recalling their song.At such times they are extremely tame, and the writer has often \u2018watched from « few yards distant the singers, who show far less nervousnen.In practising before a stranger than is often observed in human vocalists.The first long drawn notes are commonly run through without difficulty, but the subsequent trills and changes can no more be acquired without practice and training by the nightinglas than by a human singer.\u2018The bird stops and repeats the song, sometimes carrying it on with and then breaking down helplessly.« rush which seems to promise success, and then breaking down helplessly.Now and then the complete song fe sung 80 low as to be almost Inaudible, and then triumphantly repeated with the utmost powers which the bird can exert.Prowling bird-catchers, with thelr traps and meslworms, are wont to find their way to Nightingale Valley at this season, and the owner of the farm finds It necessar to give orders for tha protection of the nightingales equally with the pheasants nesting in the copses.By the end of May the birds are sitting, and the cocks sing to them throughout the night.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE ODOR OF SWEET-RRIAR IN A ROOM.A great many things have a very good scent, but which, when placed in & room rather overpower one.Sema people they affect seriously.The most delightful plant of all.perhaps, for a room Is the common sweet-briar, Swaet-briar should be much more rously planted than It fa It woes seeds freely : indeed, if gathered in autumn and sown (n any hardy pot, it wilt produce myriads of plants fit for planting in hedgerows, on banks and in any piace wheres we like to enjoy its delicate fragrance in gs.London - Children Cry for Plicher\u2019s Castorig pi Juxe 21, 1898.THE WOMEN'S CONGRESS, WHAT A LADY HAS TO BAY ABOUT THE GREAT GATHERING AT THR WORLL'S FAIR.«Epscial Correspondence of the \u2018 Wit- ae\") Chicago, June £\u2014W'e read the papers diligently and think we comprehend the intricacies of the world's congresses and the kaleldoscoplc views of the exhibl- tiun, but neither newspapers nor the obliging tongues of mutual friends can make up for the attendance of our own personality gathering to [itself treasures of memories.Woman's Congress filling to overflowing the ample accommodations of the Memorial Art Palgce, instinct with vitality and intense in activity, from Mise Anthony, with her sledge-hamumer blows and her big gun, which she never loads to shoot at mosquitoes, to the fair ladies who lure to health and comfort by the dalntiest devices of artistic clothing, With the exception of decollete, the throngs exempliizd every crade and style of dress, from train to reform skirt.No pranut stand, no lemonede sllureraents, no fakir devices distracted the mind.The restaurant on the first floor was accestible st moa) hours: congress badges were for sale at a nominal sum afier one had procured the registration card; programmes were offered free to all; no collection marred the equanttnt of the audiences ; no sight or sæëll of Hguor disturbed the throngs, end no wreath of tobacco smoke could de detected within the domains of the Con- greas.\u2018There was plenty of light, plenty of sir and sumetimes, what might be termed, a scramble.To illustrate : When a patient uudience had kept wary guard Over coveted seats from 6 to 7 pm.enly to hear It announced that the meeting would be held in n larger hall, the eircuintion of the blood was rather quickened for a time.Local papers exaggerated the rush of the crowds.It was Impossible to stay through one programme when alluring exercises were going on In many other rooms and celebrities were speaking, There was no loud talking and the ladies did not resort to their fists or pocket pistols.as tradition says thelr brothers sometimes do.not an oath floated out on the pure alr ; sometimes delightful bits of conversation on the stairs or im the halls, among those who were walling the signal for entrance, revealed to one another personages of world-wide reputation not down on that day's programme.\u201cThey look at us as it they thought we were celebrities, too.\u201d said a charming little woman, \u2018and\u2019 she added with naivete, \u2018they do not know but that we are?\u2018My little girl is not à brililant ehild, only has a talent for mathematics\u2019 said one lady.\u2018but she Las good powers of assimilation.In.attending the meetings of this Congress she will receive a liberal education because she will take in 80 much that is broadening and elevating to womanhood.\u2019 It was entertaining to walk leisurely through a loggia and while looking at the paintings and statuary take in the varied sights and sounds.The ubiquitous typewriters, oblivious of their propinquity to each other and the masses of humanity surging neer them, plied the literary shuttle with ceaseless rapidity, while their dictators in raised tones gave them the warp and woof and pattern.Many feminine tactics were used to gain introductions to celebrities or to present young friends to them, but it Ald not seem to approach any wearisome climax.Of course, the nervous, fussy woman was there, Interviewing ushers, asking to see the president, and complaining generally, but then, poor thing, she was tired and her bump of order was un- ary.and beneath it all was a real ambition to \u2018have everything go off nee.\u2019 No ignohig subject was mooted, but every nobld subject was, at least, touched upon, from national, state and municipal povernment to the most scientific way of making a stew.A few manifested a alight touch of re- seutment toward man\u2019s abuse of \u2018women's right's,\u2019 dut nearly all that was sald breathed unly swset charity snd high aspirations for humanity.Bs ft ssid to thelr credit that the women dealt even more seversly with thelr own faults than with those of the men, Ahd the men-bleas their hearts\u2014 looked on and applauded and admired and enshrined the falr ones deeper than ever in their chivalrous hearts and no crushing, biting criticism pro- eeeded from lip or pen of the sterner mex to discomfort or dizshearten the participants In this congress of foyal womanhood.Not all the speakers were orators; not ail had physical power to compass their audiences; at times the programmes were altered too auddefiy, removing celebrities from those who had walted patiendty, In weariness to hear them, but all these triflen will be changed by the next Congress.No nk seemed to gain possession of any department.One unique meeting was quite impromptu.It was led a woman her.£he presided with both tact and genuine hnmor.Among those who participated were ordained women who had been preaching twenty-five years, a spiritualist.an authoress, a philanthro- Piet and sweet \u2018Aunt he a ker mint, crowned with eighty-five years of Mite, who stepped à and n a deep steady voice gave an (mpes- Mire?discourse Of nearly fifteen min.tutes duration.* Prominent in ail plases were the Aweet-faced, Quiet.aged mothers who bad borne the heavy burdens in dvgune dayn.Their eyes were bright with plea- mire, and thelr tired, flushed faces proved that thelr eager minds pa souls ers reaching out beyond the y ot their bodies.Chicago, June 6.\u2014A gathering of the wehoaen ones in the Art tnatitute Hall of Columbus.Word's Fair Grounds! Greet.Iran ure being exchanged Qutween those Whowe places of labor are far distant from euch other ; light springs from eye Lo eye as westera wie bave never met before clasp loyally the loving hands : celebrities ure being looked over.No Kain alr, no waving banners herald this conquering army.Ah! no, earnest purpose, the discipline which comes from espousing an unpopular cause, the sorrow (races of those who have seen their loved ones overcome hy the demon, the tnarks of former dissipation on some earnent faces, the ateady, invincible de- termiration which characterises the gathering gives one an uplift.Ths Woman\u2019s Congress bewlidered us by ite variety of subjects ; the Press Congress was multiform In Its aspects ; the Medical Congress treated of physical evils ; this Congress centres on one focus all lle powers\u2014aggrosaive, brainy consecration to the advancement of temperance.An earnest invocatign was offered by Bishop Fallows, and President Bonney opened the meeting by & forcible and compréhonnive address.Me character- Ined the morning session ss the advance guard.The beginning of temperance wan cuvped by the law of sell-preserva- tion, not welf-seeking, but guarding individual welfare.The work ix two-fold.It is a maqral movement, with many forms of suasion, and it Is also jegal, Introducing laws of mitigation, removal or prevention.It is not, he said, by any means an Infringement of personal liberty.Lut seeks to protect people against poison that they may retain personal liberty.Man ta finite, therefore he must experiment.If results justify the experiment he continues, if not he seeks other methods.Various views are held by the workers, but all have unity ef purpose end friendly frateenity in finding & common batlie-field.We must save the boys.Leaving the moral aspect of the matter look at it from an economic point of view, and consider the great waste of money, Our work tn to transform the river of death flow.Ing \u2018through society to & rive of life and pence.President Ronney announced Iai there would be preliminary meetin of the Vegetarian, Charities and Correction and Piisou Associaton Congresses this week.He announced the sending of a cablegram from this morming\u2019s session to Mise Willard This announcement was heartily endorsed by ihe cheers of the audience.Rt.Rev.Archbishop Ireland, of Minnesota, was introduced, and made & very telling address.He was followed with the closest attention, and frequently interrupted by applause.He said that the sight of the assembled people was to alm more than a battalion of soldiers, for he now looked upon soldiers of moral heroism with their personal appetii:s under control, exposed to misunderstandings, ingratitude and indifference, yet firm In the cause.They were soldiers of practical religion.Outsiders look with little interest on these sessions but our enthusiasm Is not abated.for we are serving man in the most practical manner.The Archbishop then pictured graphically the misery sure to follow alcoholic poison, and asked, \u2018whence the apathy?I answer, the root is In our own appetites.We love the taste and its so- companytng exhlilration.Yet we should live for our fellowmen and for God.Over & billion of doliars are expended yearly on the liquor trafic in tbe United States alone, besides the tn- direct cost in time, physical strength, and Better cast the moaey into the lake.and not use the riches to bring tears, mourning and mipery.Apathy! We Christians look on and see serried ranks of unprincipled men and women defying the bone and muscle of the nation, and laughing to scorn righteous laws.The whole nation is in danger, Legislature is inefficient because liquor controls the elections.\u201cThe candidate for office must worship at a shrine of vile whiskey.(Long and loud applause.) Saloons are open Sunday In spite of laws and mock you In the successful pursuit of their trade In creating appetites for liquor.\u2019 A friend toll him this morning, the speaker continued, of carved arches of triumph on the Exposition grounds with samples of liquor therein.He thought tbe Exhibition was incomplete, for they needed not only to show the drink In ita alluring beauty, but its effects.Attending the church services and praying pharisaical prayers would no longer do.The Church must be aroused.The greatest enemy to religion is intemperance.Alcohol is a devilish fluid, for ft not only dethrones the brain but it Inflames animal passion.The question Is not \"What can I doT but \u201cWhat ought X to do?Lat each do the good within his own reach end the world will surely grow better.A few moral heroes in America will save the nation.If these Congresses but inelte to dare and do they will accomplish much.Soldiers of temperance have lost time tu fighting one another, and enemies have looked on In delight.Let tach wield his own hammer.Go at the him.The speaker had made it his rule never to speak umirind- ty of other methods and other workers.\u201cIA fact, we need all kinds\u2019 he maid, \u2018moral suasion, more) strength from heaven, law to protect from the enemy.Immense results will attain from these Congresses.Dr.Albert G.Lawson responded for the National Temperance Soclety, and referred tn the great London Temperance Congress in 13 In London, where Lyman Beecher, Hilhu Burrit and others took part.He symbolized intemperance 0s a lion with forelegs of avarice and ambition, a hind legw of appetite and apathy.proposed to bamstring the wild ani; dy abati- nence and abelition.Short and stiring addresses were made by representatives from France, England and fcotiand,' followed by Re, Rev.Bishop Fallows, of ina short speech, where he happlly united the nations under one hanmer and had thom all sing: \u2018 EET rm \u2018er the lande of the free snd the lm thy heave,\u2019 Chicago, June $.\u2014A most heartsome- looking group are gathered on the platform in the Hall of Columbus, Art Institute, World's Fair Grounds, Just the men and women ose would approach io times of wore distrens or perplexity.Dr.lawson occupied the chatr.In his opening remarks he said, \u2018No other Qemon has the wastage power of drink.Into this bi are thrown beth souls and bodies, Kk has no respest for TRo®, color, tongue, sect, vez, time, pure pose, pines or position.It strikes for the pllot, takes control of the engine- ry, und ls the same cruel thing in all Jundé; hence we gather from all nations, not as schemers or primaries, but to combine and culnpact our working forces.Mr.Amos Jchofieid represented the United Kingdom Alliance of Great Britain, a political organization.He spuke of \u2018John Bull\u2019 as rather slow to move on the total abstinence question, and the Alliance had sent him over to learn from his American cousins.He brought sreetings also (rom what he ealied \u2018the little village of London\u2019 He nuserted that suffering, crime and insanity called for the abolition of the liquor trafic, The next speaker represented the National Temperance Leagus of Engiand.He characterised legislation ws the \u2018eryatallised moral sentiments of the people.\u201d There are some things acts of pariiamant cannot do.Doctors have opposed them, but the League has peg- sed away at medical men, and every ship in the English navy has a branch of this organizativn.Fathusiustic cheering greeted the speaker's reference to their beloved worker, Miss Weston.He declared personal total abstinence to be the cement (0 hold the great temperance structure together.He said he had been requesied to convey greetings from Dublin Total Abstinence Society of Ireland snd England.The next speaker way the secretary of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union in which there are 70,000 work- ors.lie referred to a former speaker as comparing the different workers to colors of the rainbow, all making a white light.He thought the Band, of Hope might be charucterised as the yellow light because of its quiet work of prevention.Two million six hundred thousand boys and girls are enrolled as totul abstainers.Their motto im, \u2018A fence at the top of the precipice is better than an ambulance at the bottom.\u2019 \u2018This society has reached 10,000 elementary schools by lecturers who give scientific talks on temperance both in the morning and afternoon sessions He thought the people over here were saying \u2018Go ahead,\u2019 while the English people sald, Steady, boys, steady.\u2019 The chairman expressed regret that the Hon, Neal Dow could not undertake the fatigue of the journey from his home in Maine to be present at the Congress.The next speaker represented the Law and Order movement.We live, he said, in an international age.Our hobby is enforcement of law, which is back of prohibition.Phillips Brooks said, \u2018The one great thing now is enforcement of the law.\u2019 We are misunderstood, but are the children\u2019s friend.No sentiment will protect children unless it is organized.\u2018Save the boys and girls,\u2019 is our motto.Wholesome law shall be en- THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS Gellath was beginning to whine to David and gave a most laughable characterization of the giant begging the strippling not to fire stones.He endorsed the work educationally, philanthropically, legally, but above all the workers, like Da: must fing stones io God's name.Mr.Caylor spoke for the North of England Ti ranee League and Good Templars of England, They have 130,- 08 Good Templars and 1600 or 1,600 lodges or temples.The league formed thirty years ago by prominent men now numbers 50.060.They advocate total abstinence for the individual and prohibition for the State.Out of their 4 members of Parliament 28 are pledged to veto the liquor trafic.They have the majority of ministers with them and thers Is a strong temperance sentiment (a the north of Engiand At this point In the mesting the secretary read letters of regret from prominent persons; also the letter to Hon.J.GQ.Blaine, written two years ago, asking him to gather statistics with regard te liquor trafe in all countries.The tabulated replies form a most important volume, to which the aébretary calied their attention, as It lay os the table.The second or companion volume will consist of the doings and speeches of this Congress.Wished to raise 1.080 for the expenses incurred during the last two years in preparation for this meeting and the exhibit on the ¥alir grounds.The Lancashire and Cheshire Dands of Hope Unions and the United Kingdom Band of Hope sent greetings.Agents employed by these unions address the day achools and they cireu- late much valuable temperance lltera- ure._\u2014.\u2018The Edinburgh Rand of Hope Union of Ficétiand was well represented by Its delegate.Into this country of big things, the speaker said, they had sent [3 man from s small country.Highjanders are grand soldiers.They are teaching the boys and girls to march ageady and strong and true, to fight the enemy and to live pure, honest, virtuous lives, Mr.Joseph Bentley, of England, gave a very able and inferesting paper on Coffee Houses in London, and gave credit to Moody for rescuing the an- clent coffee house from Its degeneracy, They have 7.000 coffee houses and 50,000 employees.They are joint stock cora- panies, limited liability, and pay eight percent net profit.The National Coffee Tavern Association has a movable an- nus) conference.The ideal coffee tavern conserves everything which is good in saloons.They must be more than public eating houses.A piano, games of skill\u2014not of chance\u2014are under careful superintendence.It is a commercial institution self-supporting.People pay for what they get, and get what they pay for.They make it as easy to LM HITTITITR ww Ë 4 #2 2m L_ \u2014 .forced for the helpless, volceless and defenceless, The Total Abstinence Soclety of the Presbyterian Church of England, was represented by Mr.Henderson.He laughingty stated that he feared Japan would not have a hearing in the Congress unless he spoke for her.Twenty years ago he organised a small temperance society in Japan and for several years served as Its secretary.Now these societies may Be found in all parts of the country, many of them carried on by the natives, The Presbyterian Church was slow in starting the Total Abstinence Society, but the Scotch minister's glass of toddy is getting to be a thing of the past.More than half the ministers are total abstainers, and many of the students, but America has the lead in enthusiasm, The Rev.Mr.McNeal, of London, was called to the platform by the acclamations of the audisnce and interested them by an informal talk \u2018sui generis.\u2019 It had just occurred to him that he was to represent the Society, so at this late bour he had \u2018tumbled up\u2019 to find that the other man had his speech but congratuiated himself that only the reporters would suffer.As the Æord Bishop of London could not be here he was deputed to take his pince.\u201cWe are now \u201creformed\u201d Presbyterians end, therefore, interesting.I stopped drinking before I bégan.which is the safest way.Total abstinence held me until grace came.It hold® many @ young man to his mooringa.We are nearly ail Presbyterians, so we are F's, and sometimes \u201csplit P's.\u201d Where I graduated, there were 112 students: 113 were total abatainere and the query was made, \u201cWhere are the nine?When a minister Marries a brewer's daughter he begins to talk loftily of two sides to the question.That is always the way.A woman holds the balance, either up- Sats everything or keeps everything .Mr.McNeal then gave an Interest account of his Arst experience ta fie inburgh Church in preaching the annual sermod.Many of his official Members were interested In the liquor business.Temperance sentiment in the church was what the darkey called \u2018below freesing.\u201d He assured the people of the United States that they had the best and the worst of everything Eng- lah, for everything cannot be stopped at the Custom House, and then he ara- phically described the policy preacher oa total abatinence day.He must \u2018cheer the hare awd run with the hound.\u2019 and as he retired to his vestry would quary, \u2018gentlemen, under which thimble is the pea?He spoke of the slang expression \u2018sitting on the fence,\u2019 hut complained that fences were not made to eit upon.they were too uncomfortable.He thought the work was progressing with them, and ie of Gespel temperance mostings as the mest important faster.Me sonsidered fo ART fRETTIUTE-WHERE THE MRRETINGS ARE HELD get good coffes as to get beer, and it is served as quickly.Aerated waters can be had much chesper than In America.They sell a bottle of lemonade or sods water for two cents (8 penny) and then make one cent profit.They choose corner lots in best positions Instead of an alley where one has to be directed by a policeman.They put signe on the building from top to bottom end make it attractive within.These coffee houses are of many grades.One makes werking people a specialty, and supplies 90,000 people daily.The prices are very low.Their temperance success is largely in their preventive work.They try to secure a teetotaler and a Christian for a manager, and he quietly infih- ences to the signing of the pleqge.The question was thrown opens for discussion.A California lady spoke of a succeesful W.C.T.U.restaurant in Oakland, and after giving several pleasing items, suggested that some of these Englishmen settle here and \u2018start us In coffee houses.\u2019 The Chairman stated that one could now find Afty reputabie lunch rooms in Washington, D.C.The question was asked if the coffee houses tolerated cigars.Some of them bave smoking rooms, some sell cigars, but at exceedingly high prices.At Birmingham they have no smoking.Mrs.D, T.Voorhess (Dora Dermore), editor of \u2018Golden Dawn,\u2019 spoke of three successful temperance houses in Montreal, Canada, started from the pin money of ladies whose husbands had no faith in the enterprise, and which are now self-supporting.Mr.Nixon, of Manitoba, stated that they license ther restaurants, but at the last plebiscite there was a majority of 12.080 for prohibition.Now Ontario is following suit.The W.C.T.U.ladies failed ja an eating hours at Manitoba because It was on a back street.Chas, C.Smith, of England, supplemented a few remarks with regard to coffee houses.They are a boon to working girls and boys.They may bring their own lunches, and have fire, light, papers; and what they buy in whole ome and nutritious, not \u2018rubbish,\u2019 Uke the ten he had been forced to take prières bers, and nothing was cheap or nasty.After announcements, the two memorable opening meetings of the World's Temperance Congress passed into his- The World's Congress of Represmts.tive Youth will convene st Art Institute, July 11-18.The Committe in charge would Ike teachers In high echools, ssadenties and preparatory departments of colleges to make a part of thelr gra- dusting exercises the appoinimeat of delegates to the World's Youths\u2019 Come gress, these deleguten to be the dright- READABLE PARAGRAPHS POLITICS AND POLITENESS.(Puneh.) Dear Mr.Punch, \u20141 see thet the Duks of Argyl, whan Le received the freedom of the Burgh of Paisley, the other day, wid the followiag interest ing story : \u2014 * 1 waa going once to call on a lady ia Losden, amd when thé dsor wae opened and the servaat aunounced my name, | sew the lady advancing wo the door with à look of absolute consternation on Bar face.I could mot concelve what bad happen od, ead thought | had entered her room st some inconvesient moment, but, os looking over her shoalder.J perceived Mr.and Mrs.¢ilsdetone sit - ting at the tea-table, and she evideatly thought het there would be some great exploston whes we mel.Bhe was gresty gratified whem poibing of the ktud occarred, and we enjoyed a cup of tes as grestiy as we bad over dons in our lives.\u2019 Now, my dear Mr.Pusch, [ bave great oym- pathy with \u2018the Lady,\u2018 and think (with her) the meeting, a8 described by his Grace of Argyll, was mild in the extreme.If something oat of the common had taken plaes, it would have besa far more satisfactory.To make my meaning plaiver, 1 give roaghty (la dramatic form) what shocki have bappensd to have made the scion worthy of the occasion.Bosse\u2014A érawing-roem.Lady enterteining Mr.«sd Mrs.G.atten.A loud kneck heard with.eut.Mre.G.(grent!y agitated.)\u2014Oh dear, I am sare tie het Mr, G.(with csim dignity.)-Do not fear\u2014if be appeare, | shall know bow to deal with him.Lady (pale, bot calm.)\u2014Nsy, my good, kind friends, believe me, you shall aot suffer from tbe Iadlscretion of the servant.Mra.G.(purbiag her husbaad inte a cupboard.) Noy, Wiliam, for my sates ! And now to conceal wyself, 50 that he may not suspect his presence by my proximity.{Hides behind the curtains.The Duke of Argyli (breaking open the door, and eutering burriedly)\u2014And new, madam, where is my bated fos?1 have trecked him to this house.It in uealess 10 attempt to conosal him The Lady (saghiog uoeasliy)\u2014Nay, your Grace, you aretoo facetions ! Trace Lhe Premier bere! Next yon will be saylag that be and his good lady wers taking tes with me.\u2018The Duke (sespiciously)\u2014And, wo doubt, so they were ! This empty cop, that half-devoured mufis\u2014to whom do ey balosg ! Tbe Lady (with forced galety)\u2014Might I wot bave entertained Mr.and Mre.Joseph Chamberlain, my Lord Duke ?\u2018The Dake (aside) \u2014Caa I beileve her ?(AJoud.) Batif it is ae you ay.| will send away my clans mea who throag the street without.(Opens window aad calle.) \u2014Gedg 8 waddy Caller Harring { They will now depart.(A ancene heard of) What was that ?The Lady (terrified) I fasey it was the wind\u2014 the cold winé\u2014erd pow, believe me, Mr, Gladstone will abandon bocses rule.Me.G.(suddeniy appearing)\u2014Nere ! I tel Fou to your face that you are a traitor | [Sactzes, and hurriedly closes the window.\u2018The Duke (savagaly)-\u2014That soeess shail be your last! (Takes ap a knife lying on the table.Mr.G.(repeating the action)\u2014I am ready, Biz 1 Mrs.6.(rushing begireen themn)\u2014Oh, William t Do not fight ! The Lady (falling on ber kness)\u2014I peithes stay ! Mr.G\u2014 Never! May the better man win | \u2018The Duke\u2014So be it! [The scene closes in upon a desperate doel.Curtain.There, Mr.Ptoeh|\u2014What do yom think of that?Still, perheps, under the circametances of the cage, It is better ss It is.Yours most truly, ONE WHO NEVER rAID TWOPENCE FOR MANNERS.Fortune teller\u2014** Would you ike s glimpses into the futare 1\" Patriot (who bas mot beem appointed to cftee)\u2014\u201c No.What I went iss glimpes into the past.I would like to kmow If 1 voted for Grover Clevelsad just for my health.\" \u2014 Lite.\u201d Buncman'e \u2014Sell well because they cure.WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.Stranger (glancing wp from the paper\u2014\"\"They*re bad another big fire in Boston I ses.\" Old Lady (walting for « train)\u2014** Well, I éen*t wepder, ] s'pous by the time the firemen can And their way to the piace, tbe buliding ia burned dows.\"\u2014* New York Weekly.\" HORSE SEWSE First Couatzy Boy\u2014\u201c Wot makes th' city heres hold their heads up mo high?second Country Bey\u2014\"I 3'pess they don'ts the bad smells.\" SUCH I3 FAME.Affadle Étranger\u2014\u201cI can't hoip thinking I have seem your picture pomewbere in the newspapers.\u201d Hon.Mr.Greatmas\u2014\"\u2018Oh, 30 doubt, no doubt.1m often been published.\u2019 ftranger\u2014\"Then I wae nol mistaken.What were you cured of ?*\u2014\u201cNew York Weakly.PRESENT AND FUTURE \u201cJobson fa very ambitions.Hels always Sger- Ing to do something gress in the futare.\u201d \u201cYes, ba bas so much to de In the fotare that Bo dosn't have Lime to do anything in the pre vent.\u201d CAN UEB IT.ies Bleeker : \u201cDon't you taiak my new het ie simply cat of sight 1\" Mies Emerson (ef Boston, after sdjusting ber spestagien) 1 Not of all.I cam ees it quite dis- tinesly.\u201d * Mamma,\u2019 said little Harry, seven, \u20181e pape Mr, James L.Davis, senior F* Harold.\" \u2018Thea,\u2019 persoed be, \u2018are you ames L.Davis, œnoirt\" Yes\u2018 aaewered mother again.\u2018Then, if I um Mr.Jamas L.Davie, junter, wheres le Ure.James L.Davis, jenior ?\u201d*\u2014 Kate Field's Washington.When Baby was sick, we gave bor Cestoris.When she was a Ohild, she oried for Onstoria, When che because Miss, she lung 40 Costorie.'When.she had Children, gave them Casterie.eat young je in the schools, between the ages of and #1.Sil the friends please autené tbe notiset w.1834.1890.J.A.MATHEWSON & OO, 200 Motiili street, Montreal, IEFORTERS AND WHOLESALE GEOCRES.have in this establishment the sd: Buyers ma vantage of with PRESHNTSS eek and ESSORTMENT AINED, \u201c Orders carefully attended to (CONNORS IMPROVED WASNING MACHINE Fresdes seally, quickly and clean.Us the \u201cCheb ~ Wi A wanted.Tums Wide ia AT Tents.Fo mie SANS ale retell oy KR.J.Letimer.323 54.Paul street J.Mi.CONNOR.Sttawa, Ont.NGINE AND BOILER FOR BALE Cheap, an they must be removed from a) \"Rabe and the Bota EE Fe ali ER ET CREE ERT asked Lode Joux REAFTT.*VWitnesa\u201d Office, Montreal D° YOU WANT A FARM! Advertise tn the Wosiy Wites.Twenty: THE CABPET WAREHOUSE, RETARLISHED 148, Matchen fe a the Lending Emgorters mit a cae Ee distsibting the latest dans Carpets, Curtatna, Ri Poles, ma\u201d Shades, Natitage, Upholsteringa, MAIL ORDERS HA FIRMS PERSONAD 40,000 NORWAY SPRUCE TWO YEARS TRANSPLANTED; VERY THRIFTY.One Peller and Fifty Conds per Hundred.Cash with Order.BOX TO PACK EXTBA NT.O0 ARIO BUSINESS College, RELLEVILLE, ONT.est wideis attendwi Business Callage in Asmertss, DTn TRAE Send your name and sédrem to ROBINSON & JORNOOR, Pricoipals ©.R C., Bullevilie, Out.Interesting master wil! be sont you.8 \u201cFENCE PAL us, eu har\u2019 (Bh SIE SEL cu RES ETE EA à LITERARY REVIEW, MRS, TOUMANS AND RER WORE A work which has been anticipated with much interest is the autobiography of Mrs.Youmans, which is now published ®y William Briggs, Toronto, under the title \u2018Campaign Echoes.\u2019 The book was written at the request of the Provincial Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union of Ontario, and it is published with an introduction by Miss Willard,endorsed by Lady Henry Somerset, which may be useful in other lands, but will not render the book any more popular inthis.Mrs.Youmans was the pioneer of the White Ribbon movement in Canada She organized most of the early unions aud it was asa result of her efforts that the W.CT.U.wasbegun in Montreal and the Townships, Ia this book sbe tells an interesting story of her early days.She was born five miles from what was known as the village of Hardecrable, afterwards Cobourg.Her fatber was an Irishman, her mother was born in the United Btates, her maternal grandfather was a Frenchman from Paris, and her grandmother s native of Holland, which rendered, as sho says, her parentage à wonderful combination of nations.litles.Her childhood was spent on a two hundred acre farm of almost unbroken forest, about two miles from Cobourg.Deer roamed through the woods and bears aud wolves were not unfrequent visitors, Potash was at first tbe only thing for which money would be obtained, but later cordwood would be exchanged for dry goods, groceries, and sometimes a little money.Here is a delightful picture of early backwoods life : The spring of 1831 was & very importanters.I ad arrived st the mature age of four years avd my father provoanced it time for me to go to echool.The first part of the preparation wes to \u2018buy a gaily painted little basket from an Inélan woman, for the purpose of carrying my dinner.Jo this were deposited sone Dice slices of bread and butter 20d a hard bolied egg.My bloe and \u2018white calico dress sud a sunbonnet of the same plecs completed the outfit.And thus the little school girl was started oa ber lonely journey of 8 mille acd a half, mostiy forest, with bere and there u house.Afier trudging along tll Iwas pretty weil tired I wa attracted by s peculiar sound and, looking ahead, saw a flock of geese which bad lately become possessed cif a brood of goslinge; the father of the family, true tohis paternal instincts, ag once assumed the protection of bis family, aoû with protruding head and open mouth, started at a lively pace iu purenit of ths invader.My streams of terror brougbl to the rescas a dear oid Indy, whoes little hut was close by the rvedside.Iumy heart { have blessed her for it during the fost sixty years, for this was the first grest fright of my lite.She came out armed with a broom, much to the dismay of bis gandership and thus I vas rescued from the jaws of the devourer.Bhe seat me 00 My WAY rejoicing, 60 afler a while my pligrimage was eaded by arriving at the primitive seat of learning.As I look back at it now ft seems to have been about fifteen feet square.Around the sides were fastesed rough boards, se- cared by pws lo Lhe wal which formed the desk.In front of thess were the benches, constructed by slabs with the smooth side upwards, and sticks crosswise at each end for lege.Sus pended on these ancomforiable seats sat somes tem or twelve little arching, whose feet were some inches from the floor.But the most important persos luthée room was tbe teacher, seated in an old fashioned splint bottomed chair, with à good plece of sheepskin for a cushion.He was a jolly looking, weli kept Yankes schoolmaster, who had creased Lake Outario with the philscthropic design of teaching tbe youag Canadian idea bow to shoot, I did not attermpt to sound his literary at- talnmen(s, bot some way formed an opinion that be was a good, kind hearted man, and duriog the fetemoon I teak ty drst school lesson.When the sus reached the four o'clock mark on the floor school was dismissed and the little Letitia hastened home full of the day\u2019sadventures.She went toschool through the summer but stayed as home in winter.The next summer a young Roman Catholic Irishman took the school and also opened & Sunday class in which the Church of England Catechism was taught and texts recited, the teacher awarding by lot a prize of a York shilling out of his own pocket.Alter we had thoroughly commited to memory the charch calechiam, the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, be proposed to take us one Sabbath to Cobourg to be examined by (he late Archbishop Bethuos, of Toronto, them Parson Bethune, rector of St.Peter's, io Cobourg.I re- membèe bow weary 1 was after my three miles \u2018walk, sa | stoed before the vecerable man with his white serpiice and clerical aspect.My impres- alos was that be must be ihe embodiment of ail goodness.The rector commesded our proficiency, urged us lo go où in the study of the Scriptares and the cstechiem, adding that after 4 little we would be oid enough for confirmation, and berecaived as members of the church.\u2018This was my 8st theological training and it \u2018wes 8 wonderful combination ; Methodist preaching 12 a private house once a fortnight : a Roman Catholic teaching me the Enghsh Church cate chtem, at tbe same time instructing me 10 bow st the natne of the Virgin Mary, and Parson Iethunn preparing us for confirmation and admission to the English Church.The good book tells ua that in a multitude of counsellors there is safety, amd J am net aware that apy evil resvited iu my case from this variety of taidon.\u2018The next teacher was a liquor-selling botel-kesper and the next the som of à lumber merchant who taught the children the evit of drink and induced them to sign the pledge.\u2018Would,\u2019 says Mrs, Youmans, thet \u2018 every commom schon! teacher from that day to the present had pursued o similar course.I believs Ca./ nada would mow be free from tha cures of the liquor trafic.\u2019 The story of later school days in Professor Van Norman's scademy in Cobourg, and in the Burlington Academy in Hamilton, is told at some Jength.Several years of teaching followed and {on 1830 Miss Creighton, at the age of twenty-three, married a widower with eight children and settled io a home four miles from Picton, Tho neighbors predicted that the young teacher, Ignorant of farm life, might lead ber busband into bankruptey, but Mrs.Youmans tells with pride, of her success in making, not only two barrels of \u2018beautiful soft soap,\u2019 but u large quantity of hard soap, which last was a step in advance of more experienced neighbors and seemed to setile the question of qualification for the position.A home school was started for the instruction of the children ard 50 many applications were received for the admission of the cbildren of the neighbors that the little school was soon removed to a school-house a few rods from liome, and Mm Youmans taught there until other arrangements were made.Bhe further tells us of her in.torest in suger-making and gardening and how a suggestion of Elihu Bur.rts led Ler to cultivate the ae THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS desolate widow, Mre.Youmans devoted her life to temperance work until after elghtees years of unremitting soll lnflam- watory rheumatism in 1888 pus an end to her public work.She was à very powerful speaker.Miss Willard writes from Eastnor Castle, Englaud :\u2014 The first autame after the caemorable arusnde your (1674) Mrs.Youmans unheralded and unoew deatiatied, appeared in Trinity M.E.Church, Clucinpatl, at the first anniversary masiing of the W, W.C.T.Union.Bhs mod.estiy elated that obe bad come to leain bat was courteously invited w address an evening mass esting, and bar powerful voice rang out for he Bret time over tha historic baltle-groand of the asw and mighty war.er American sisters were electrified.Wiaat à magasine of power vas here, and what an explosion 18 would cause amorg the Conservatives of the Domision | From that ume om, the name of Mrs.Youmans has bees beloved and honored {a \u2018the Slates\u2019 sven ss it had already been * in her ain coantrie.* and st Dearly all the great dimmer meetings she was wout lo be our invited guest, always accompanied by her husband a dignified and genial gentleman, who was very proud of ber.Her cheery greetings and wafaliing \u2018Sombomse have greatly helped to strengthen the ties between the two sides of the line and ber favorite prediction about 'the women tying together across Lake Brie tha Union Jack and Stars ang Stripes with ribbons that are total abstinence badges, while the Yankes sagle scars above and 1bo British ilon crouches banesth,' never falls to * bring down the bouse.* 1 mmost earnestly dope that this book, which ne sort of Indus Sle?Theo letter mode wa adopted and 1 was ovletied as Lhe first offering wo the altar of female suffrage.A seme of re sponsibility areused all my snorzies as I started across the street.Ou opening the doos I found the roam oocupisd by à Dumber of men ead dark with tobacco smoke.The sickening fumes struck tee full (a the face.Jus: as it bad often been said, ' The poiling piace ls not à At plece for women.Nevertheless ] ventured luside.The mea gased at me ia astonishment and (bem ot sach other, ss much as (0 say, ** What dees Lbe woman mess 1 Fortuosiely I espled a litüe group etanf- ing spert, cumposed of goed temberance moe, Rowlog to them | sald, * You will remember, gen- Usmen, that 1 am a citisen this morning.\u2019 A smile of complacency passed over every face, plpes and cigers suddesiy disappeared, and 1 was politely escorted 1oto the inner room, the mysteries of the ballot paper explained sad & still more secluded spot poluted oat where I could designate the mes 1 chose to represent me in the town council.Wbite alone marking that paper à desp sense of personal renponsibliity rested down upon me.Noose but the ays of God was cognizant of the act and 1 would not have dared be influenced by party principles or by soy nnwerthy motives.This wondrous feat being accomplished, I re tarned to the ontér room and found the windows open apd the smoke all cleared away.My meatal inference was, such will be tbe effect of women taking part ip public affairs, it will clear wp the mors! atmosphere most amazingly.My report to my sisters induced them to go without hesitancy and deposit thelr votes.An excellent portrait of Mrs.Tou- SN O NN fes 2 T= y FOSTER-CAREFUL NOW OR IT'S SURE TO BURST.® (ee = 4 ANT | ) { ARI er = a ref?DIN Dé A ; \u20ac, = 2 pe à \u2018| A, \u2018 \u2014 .1 = =.2 a _ SJLeNRIFF REF ' | me ea À = \\ \\, SN = \u20ac \\ S =/ NN A She i WS I 4 \u2014 quaintance of domestic animals: so that she even enjoyed sitting in the poultry yard with her knitting, talking to the hens and listening to their responses.Shealso took pleasure in cheese and butter making and rejoiced to find ber name at the head of the prize list in these subjects.After eighteen years of farm life Mr.Youmans sold his farm and mills and moved to Picton, snd Mrs Youmans ergsgiog in Buuday.school work recognized the dangers besetting the children and started a Band of Hope which through unremitting labor became & great success.In 1874, Mrs.Youmans visited Che tauqua, and received the impulse which shaped ber future life work.At an afternoon temperance meeting held by the ladies an association was orgaoised.with Mrs.Jennie Fowler Willing as president, and Mrs.Emily Huntingdon Millar as secretary, which afterwards became the National Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union.Mrs.Youmans took much interest in the proceedings and retarned home to stir up the women of Picton to petition agaiost the granting of licenses, and in an eloquent imprompta speech before tie town council she commenced her career a8 a temperance orator.Her work in pr- ganising temperance unions has done wonders for Canadas, and many consider the tims when they listened to ene of her addresses as an era in their lives.In joy and ia sorrow, as à bapey wife and as à woman Cas sesd without being glad and proud that she ls 8 woman, may bave & large sale, and hat the nancial outcome of thie enferpriss may afford our beloved sister & comfortable maintes- ance now that abe is unabie to be self-supporting by any other mesns.If everyons whe hes lig- temed to that desp voice, these cogent arguments, | that motherly heart beatiog through every word, woald buy one of these books, Mrs.Youmans seed ever have another anxious thought as to the supply of current needs or the previsea fer har old age.Two of Mrs.Youmsns' most popular lectures are tncluded in the book and there are many ugful hints for temperance workers, while the record of her pumercus journeys js full of Interest, White kolding pronounced views on the subject of the ballot for women the ques tion was kept in the background lest 1 should block her path.Later on she obtained a vote of which she talls the story as follows : \u2018When in 1083 the Ontario Government gave an- married women the municipal votes, my duty was quite plain, to vote myself and urge my sleters do the same.It did esem a dear price to pay fer 8 vote wheo my husband was takes away : how ever.| was thankfol for even thle innovation on the Jaws of the past.It ie « problem ! bave pot yet beam abletoscive, wby à Woman having & hos band shoaid be disqualified from voting any more then 5 man who had s wife.An old-fashioned maxim declares, \u2018It io a poor rule tha: woa't work both ways.\" If only widows and epixetees are allowed to vote then surely bachelors sad widowers should be the only mes eligible to the same privilege.The first Monday in Jevsary, 1688, found the W.C.T.U.of Picton smembled to Alacess the mementons question of gelag te the polls.Thoquestion to be decided was: Shell we me in à solid body, ot go one 04 ¢ time de 4f f.mana forms the frontisplece of the book and farther on is given a picture taken at Minneapolis, representing Mrs.Lucas, the President of tbe British W.C.T.U., supported on one side by Miss Willard and on the other by Mm.Youmans.The \u2018book is bound in library style and may be bad for a dollar.RELIGIOUR \u2018 How to Read Prophets Part IIT.Jere mish\u2019 by the Rev.Buchansn Blake, BD.,(T.and T.Clarke, Edinburgh), is one volume of a series which gives the Prophecies arranged chronologically in their historical setting with oxplanations, map and glossary, With these helps much is made plain that would otherwise be obscure.Prose and poetry have bees distinguished, all chapter and verse divisions bave bon removed aud historical portions given in connection with each prophecy show under what clreumstances it was delivered.It is the aim of this volume, Mr, Biake tells us, © that all moy profit from a teacher so spiritual and pos sessed of 80 many affinition to Jesus Christ himself.\u2019 (Toronto Pres.News Co, Ld, $1.85.) A very readable velums, bound in gifs book style, is entitled \u2018 Afont for Eternity, or a Pilgrim's Progress for the Times\u2019 (W.Briggs, Toronto) It is by Jas.B.Kennedy, B.A.and the introdue- tion is by Messrs, Cromiey and Honter, wbo say :\u2014 1t in propéris named \u2018 À Pligrita'e Program fer he Tima,\u2019 a0 46 fs upto \u20acats an the ansbtiéns of modern amasements, thouett nod life.Agals and again whils reading lt together, we said * That is 6 clover book and splendidly written.\" (Cloth, 60 cts.Paper, 40 cte.) IN PAPER COVARS \u201cThe Comiug Amerima Civil War) written and complied by Burton Ames Huntingdon, Minneapolis, directs attention to the purpose and designs of the Roman Catholie Church in the United States, and points out that in the writer's belief it has already begun the work of killing off American institutions, destroying the glorious Republic und build.fag up an absolute monarchy in its stead \u2014the monarchy of the Pope of Rome.The firs: part contains à record of the experience and observations of the author the second is devoted to quotations and reprints from newspapers and.books.The writer believes that: a long and bloody conflict is at band and that for this conflict one side is making busy preparations while the other side is nos oaly quite indifferent but is unconscious 1y playing into hostile bands.\u2018Boys\u2019 iu the title of an English fllus- trated monthly which has aitained s very large circulation in England.William Bryes, of Toronto, ia the Canadian pub- Usher.\u2014_ RESULTS OF IRIBH AGITATION.(To the Rditer of the \u201cWitness.\u201d) Str.\u2014The following true story will give vob one of the terrible results ef agitation tn Ireland at times when the excitable people are worked up to a fury by the threats and denunciations of altar and demogogue.It was the time of the Ribbonmen, aixty years ago, when the whole of the south, east and west provinces of Ireland were in a continual alarm, caused by the lawless deeds of that party which has always been at the bottom of national disorder and thrift- icss poverty and crime.Whether they call themselves Ribbonmen or White boys, Fenians or National Leaguera, the spirit is the same\u2014it has always for ita foundation hatred of England and subjection to Rome.The Ribbonmen belonged to a secret organisation; they wore a small green ribbon as a badge, ard were bound by most solemn oaths to obey whatever commands were given them, \u201ceven to the death when they were called by lot.At that time several people, landiords and others, had been killed, when one day Mr.Crofts, who owned a large and prosperous estate, « man beloved by ali his tenants for his kind and open hearted generous \u2018Ways, received a crumpled, ill-speit letter, telling him that his name was on the list, and begging him to go away for @ time Mr.Crofts, who was my granduncle, pooh-pdohed it and threw it away, laughing! ty In it-not & man fn Ireland would harm me\u201d Some time later in the month of January, the family, consisting of three daughters and one son, Richard, were at dinner, about six o'clock, when the servant man came ih to sey that a man wanted Mr.Crofts.The son jumped up, saying, \"Let me go, father; I'll see what he wants.\u2018 \u201cNo, no, my lad\" sald Mr, Crofts, \u201csit down.\u201d And putting him aside, he went to the door, followed by the whole family, who seemed to have & presentiment of Janger.When he reached the door, three men were standing there, and one of them, stepping forward, sald, \"Are you Mr.Crofta®\u2019 \"Yes, 1 am,\u201d said he, |\u201cThen take that\u201d and he fired straight into his face, killing him instantly.The son rushed forward and seized the man by the neckcloth, which, unfortunately, gave way, and the wretch made good his escape.The eldest daughter also grappled with one of them, and, though a delicate creature, she held him for a \u2018while; but they all escaped.The youngest daughter fell in a At on the floor.She still survives in Cork, an old lady of #8, but all her days were embittered by the stated recurrence of epileptic fits, caused by the dreadful shock she re ceived.And now, Mr.Editor, you ask, \u201cWas no one brought to justice for this foul murder?\u2019 No, no one, nor for many another just as bad as this On some occasions, when a more than ordinary brutal crime was committed, an effort was made to bring the perpetrator to justice, but seldom with .success! as It is a very difficult thing, Indeed almost impossible, to secure convictions.for crime: The poor, ignorant, priest-ridden peopie, for the most part, dare mot testify, lest their own turn might cône nert.And, besides all this.they aze taught to belleve that the Virgin and the mints look down with apprevi} ,on r.war with \u201cthe bloody\" YW.Brien; MP.sald lately, in Wex \u201cWhen dur complete programme ty aceompliahed landiordism will vanish from the country, and the soil of Ireland will be free.\u201d Here is a striking commentary on their idea how to regenerate Ireland} But, sir, not in lawless tyranny lies the new birth of a nation, but in the eternal laws of truth and justice, held up for our dally practice in the word of God, which is given us for & lamp unto our fest and a light unto eur path.The Achill Mission and the Irish Bo- clety number their converts.by thou- eands, although often more or less hampered by the want of means, and while the followers of the Pope send home much of thelr hard-earned.gains to support that system of error, how surprie- ing it is that most of the English, tech and Irish sympathisers with the lctims of \u201cHome Rule\u201d are generally satisfied to let their feelings evaporate in \u201cPoor things, can nothing be done for them?\u2019 Yes, and the best way to do it is to forward handsome contributions to the Irish Society, which is all the time at work amongst them and bringing forth the fruits in changed hearts and lives to the glory of God and the future welfare of Ireland.A W.HARRISON.Pr A build states that when bitten by - dog & man who habitually uses fatoaicating spirits is more dificult to cure than a temperate mav.Btatis- thes slearly demonstrate that the same tm true of ali other Glasanes.aayihg: \u2018Not a word of truth.Joss 21, 1893.LYNCH LAW IN UNI STATES.The following resolutions recently passed by the Congregational ministers of Boston and vicinity in Pligrim Hall, have not been given to the public in full, Considering the epidemio of lyneh law now raging, we think the full text worthy of being made public and of celving the attention of good people over our land.\u2018They were reported .\\.the Rev.Will C.Wood, the Rev, J.W.Wellman, D.D., and the Rev.B.F.liamilton, D.and wers voled unant- mously by that large and respectable Lody of the clergy of Bostan.Luw in civilised states, whatever may be sald as to pioneer seltlements, law 'n established communities where these are fixed legistative, judicial and exg- cutive departments, ought to be eff} clent and sufficient to purish erime and maintain the rights of all, not duly convicted of crime, to lita, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Lynch law, mob law is barbarous.A stats whare it is tolerated.is barbarous and not civilised, It might be fairly questioned\u2019 Whether any state which tolerates lynek law should ba allowed a seat in -na- tional legislative and judicial councils alongside with those who believe in the niajesty and supremacy of law.: Lynch law, this barbarous usurper of constitutional law, has recentiy nastm- ed such activity that no less than 1,080 lynchings have taken place in the past ten years, Increasing so that last year some 150 took pluce, and these in om.munities wheres no one denied that the persons, had they been convicted by dus process of law, would have been di punished.Some of these iynchings scgompanied with fMendish crueit perhape unparalleled during the year n any heathen tribe in darkest Africa.This state of things is a blot upon our civilisation, and @ menace to the liberty of our citizens in all parts of our land.Miss Ida B.Wells, an in-\u2019 telligent and educated colored lady,.the late editor of the \u2018\u2019Free Press\u201d a» of Memphis, has done an eminent ser % vice to the whole nation In her address before us and elsewhere on \u201cLynch Law in America.\u201d While not insen ble to the iate local exhibition of barbarity in her own city, she relates with w= calmness a story which no one can.hear with calmness: but she at once lifts the subject to the plane of sta manship.Her information given, ani her arraignment of lynch law in Amer: ica as a great and increasing danger, we regard as worthy of the rene of American statesmen, from the fdent and Supreme Court of the Untéed States down to every magistrate & nation or state.= law and order and American li! vad order and Americas food} .it the newspapers, secular~ and Le zious, here and ali over the land, would give a couple of columns to her clear and statesmaniike presentation of thd subject, An American fllegully incarcerated in a foreign dungeon would receive prompt attention from our Government.The United States laws ghould be so made and executed that the humblest man anywhere on our soll, claiming that he is deprived of the process of law, when accused of crime should recetve immediately the protection of the arm of the United Btates Government.\u2018a.\u2026\" Let lynch law coass to be a blot en our Government, our civilisation and our Christianity.\u2014* Boston Traveller.\u201d \u2014_\u2014 A CONDUCTOR'S LEMSON.A friend of mine traveling toward Racine, Wis, on the Chicago and Northwestern last January, had hid mileage book retained by the cohducter.After asking bim a few questions, the conductor put the book in his pocket and sald, \u201cSes you about hall an hour my frend ask him for the book.The official declined\u2019 to give it up.My friend then asked permission to copy something he had therein, which was also refused.At the next station the traveller aterped oft the train into the telegraph office and sent a message to the Chief.of Police at Racine asking for a policeman to arpest a thief on the arrival of the train.The policeman was thers, and my friend stepped up, introduced him- welf and pointed out the conductor as the thief who had his preperty in his possession.After much\u2019 persuasion, the conductor was taken up town in the hoodlum wagon to a julge, who took up the case at once.The charge \u2018was.made, and the conductor admitted having & book taken fron the man making the charge.The case was sven concluded, the book returned, end the conductor w asfined, having in addition - to pay the costa, amounting tr seve dollars.As they were both leaving\u2019 court, the conductor ssid to my *1 \u201cwill - smash your face for Whereupon my friend called anofhér policeman, had the: corductar od and taken at unce before the same judge, and had him bound over to ki the peace, at more costs.\u2018The condu or and my friend then passed out Descetully.\u2014 st.Louis Globe-Dere- erat.\u201d 20° ; ee MIGHEST-PRICÉD PEW NENTE, ** The following are the annual reve enues derived from pew rents in some of the most important places of wWor- ship in England (\u20148t.Peter's, atom Bquare, London, £2,000 a year ; Portman Chapel, £1,700; Christ Church, Padding» ton, £1.70; Bt.Paul's, Knightsbriage, £1,300 ; St.(Jeorge's, Hannover Hquare over £1,000; Ht.Michael's Church, Chester tiquare.London, £1.200 ; Imman- vel Church, Btreathem, £3,710 ; Emmans uel Church, Hove, £1.400 ; Christ Church, Cheltenham, (1,000.Two of the Londsh West End Churches have higher pew rents than any other churches in this country, Namely, All Saints, Norfolk Square, W.and St.Paul's, Onstow Square, 8, W.In both cases the income of the incumbents is entirely d= pendent upon the Pew rents received.In ft.John's Wood Synagogue many of the pews cost the seat-holders from (13 to £18 per Individual sittling, while in the Great Portland Street Synagogue the gic are said to range higher stiit, The ntry for big pew rents is Ameet- er.In Dr.Talmage's Tabernagla where pews are let to the highest ders, one valued at {i$ ran up, uber competition, to 1160.Another, put up ate £20, realised 1151, Twenty pounds end upwards were common prices.la other churches of less note the prices range from 17 to ER per pew.Tit-bite.\u201d* Chlidren Cry for Pltcher\u2019s Castedy > later.\u201d After - 7 \\ - a ik WC Joxz 21, 1898.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS e NATURAL GAS WELLS.EXCITING SCENES IN RIDGETOWN, ONT.(From a Special Correspondent.) Fer some time past the people of Riégstewn, Bothwell County, Ont.bave been boring for and getting natural gas, and now there are some % or 3 walls ta this town.On Saturday the Mc- Master Bros.struck a well which in volume and foros far exceeds any previously found.At the request of several of the citisens & match was lighted snd applied, when a terrific flame of fire shot up for 0 or 60 fest from the end of the pipe where the Fas was escaping, and the whole town waa illuminated with light far exceeding the moon or eleatric lights.This was enjoyed by the éitisens who gathered until ubout 2,000 persons were present; then the task of extinguishing the fire began to occupy these interested.The heat was 80 great 1t was impossible to get near the mouth of the pips which was about eight fest from the ground and the plan of disjointing Lhe pips at a connection about six feet below the surface of the ground was tried, with the expectation of cutting the connection between the que fire, but as soon as the pipe was ted the gas from the mouth of the pipe below reached the flame above like a fiash and immediately the whole ground for a rod or so around the As was like a burning, flery fur- The men who were occupled discon necting the pipe were thrown to the ground, and befors they oould escape from the flames were badly burned.One of them, Wm.McMaster, is stil} laid up under the doctor's care, with face and hands badly burned, but with 80 internal injury.The others, though scorched on face and hands, are able to be about.Then the difficulty of extinguishing the flames sad the fear of burning the town took possession of their minds,and a force of men began digging up sods and earth.throwing them upon the burning mass, but to no purpose.The fire brigade was called out, water was poured upon the flames until the supply of water was exhausted, and the work of trying to extinguish was abandoned, and the mass of earth and water which had been cast upon the spot was being heav@i up by the force of burning ges end becoming mixed up like puip until a large quantity thrown up seemad by accident to fall back upon the mouth of the pipe, choking back the gas for an fustant, and the fire was out and the town out of danger.\u2018The discovery of gas in Ridgetown is fikely to be of great benefit to the town, as furnishing ail the light and fuel ne- otesary for manufacturing purposes as nen as lighting and heating for dwellings.Gas ls found at a depth of from 30 to 160 fest.\u2014\u2014 THE VALUE OF VACCINATION. hen Prai proposed to Barna! ot the chorel which tl PoP oo te- hed foonded in Asia Misoe doring their missionary tour (a.D.45-48).Baruabes agreed with Paul.But there arose practical question.Barsabas wished 10 take na them bie cousin John Mark, who started wi them on their former jouraey, bat left them wd returned home, when they (0) to euter upon be dungerons und imeon of thelr toor.Pani refased to take him with them : and the difference of opinion was so sharp and decided that the two friends scparatod, and went difersnt ways Dever to mest hs a on earth, The brief episode te very instructive.\u2018Tbo car- rative impiles some degree of imperfection in these good mas.The original word describl i the * sharp contention\u2018 \u2018le )ltecaliy our wor or : a sharp, short, exel manifestation of of lug.It sbows that they were human.of * like reasons uw we ER vus the sams dl diticol lanl Sa 1 difrowca of of eptntone oma po that God can do great work fur the ano: of men with imparfect ipstraments.Judoed, ail the of the world has been wade fu this y the Imperfectiocs, but in spits of But while we freely ie pr oc.fection do not let us make it = CE really ler and was.It was Dot 8 bave neither put in practice way, noi them.It was not à case - wbare the exauisite and humble Christisa Jesson of fine up with Jess than his dus\u2019 br tf oe * inanger.\u2019 Nor is it true \u2018Betther would to the other : tharéfora both Botte wrong! us look at Contato fa facts.(1) Bo! markably men, each showing ho a digerant ay the Lobl t virtues, the fullest seal, the est plety, the largest lon, \u2018man wure very differetit natures, just as à lower, à fruit, a gold coin, a watch, a steam- se are all good.bat in entirely different > \u2018Thorefore It was perfoctiy natural and porter ight that they should see things in dif- torent il Bis.and desire different thi for thelr It 1s no Imperfection Jn a wal that i cdi not At [nto the cogs of s steam.no proof of wrong that the two cannot wor .1 ean concetve of two angels as working im different spheres.This Is the tegitimate way in which different denominations arise,\u2014one wishes to shout in meeting, another to be quiet ; one one lore to worship with a liturgy, another it wards born of Lhe occasion.All are right : they must met oeparate.It isonly when they separat with Frsops that there jus Der sep parsed as frie vel are Second Missionary Tour.Chap, It 1 Rime à him, and henceforth drops ar of ihe mare but pot out of the work.Paul chose Bliss, one of from the Jerusalem ahd leaving Actioch went northward throngh Syria, then to the west through his native Cicilla, thenoe reversing the first tour.(Boe 1000 Fourth Quarter, Lessons §.10).conf the charches, and delivered the decres: the Jerusalem coancll to Goole, 20 that the churches were established in the faith, and lo.cressed in number daily.Timothy, a coovert of Lystra on ger.nox ow joins the party.He was rs ral of d Kuvice, tanght the Holy Seriptares From bis earliest x yours, trained {28 religions I fe, rough the providence of God by ne or \u201che pits wafTorings to be his comfort, and companion.\u2019 one * Ni hen they had gone tbronghoat Ph + An aude 7 ed Pegion found Abou \u2018Antioch of of eharel of in to the north.eest, and west.* Lewin.\u2019 It Included the ghorches © ot of chevalier, of the Lycus, Caloasm, Laodicos, spi Thyatira\u2014* l'lamptre.* CITY OF THTATIRA.pos ps nr éacna Paul or never vielted rent in Toten Gor.s: mis tie to tho Ephesians was written about EP es and wad Probably a cireular leiter Bose for several churches, of which the church st Lecdicas was one.** And the region of Galatts.>> The grest tableland, north sod east Toro a Ia bounderiss sand Paul's work in Galatis.Here comes in sa lo: cldental account of thia tout th Kiven by Paul himself ta Gal.4 : 13-18.The Epistie to the Galatizus was written at Corinth, six or seven yours after this visit (ab.88.He had paid them a second visit in A.n.56.se wd agen of the Holy Ghost.\u201d Their by à The oN, are Siow 1 Either 1, by some spoctal po oe (3) direct communication of (he spirit\u201d Fh » ter Lnd more [oiportant kg/d.the vers.into n wider a: a el of civilized heathendom se shuts us off from one field of work suse he bas other greater work for us to do.\u2018Ass.\u2019 Asie le of course pot the continent of {hat name, nor Asle vessels predispose to rupture (usually Misor, but n Roman senstoriai provines bordering in the n), producing apopiexy.\u2014 fhe Ægean Res.In be Now Testament the phrase \u201cNorth American Review.a always thus used to designaie this icalar \u2014\u2014\u2014 Fria aa dart saa rae Epvera.sos wd Sardis.od .y ner * oaren Charches Asis,\u2019 sre eed n PERSONAL.7.\" Come to Mya.4 provisce cn the Maven » of se Sir Hope Grant's fame as a soldier Had danses) ste won lanned, Biba 1 northern ia abi > Bev.Vor.A Soir of J Jesue, moi wish them to £0, and #0 i; i Yor TAN, gredusliy &.\u2018And t M * Laft itacide witbont Semaine pe there.Hovey! *Qume down to Trosa.faily Alexaudrie Heliespont.about four tailes from Jarbor baiwesn ihe worth west of Asis Miner and Macedonia.\u2014 Hovey 111.The Macedoniss OML\u2014Vers, 11.Te Question which must have oecupl Peal tnoughte was, where be wae Bex! to the glad tidlogs of Christ, That question, bi well believe, expreseed imell fu prayer, that prayer the vision of this verse wad a ivy \u201cA vision.\" This was the third apormaturel revelation.Jt was not & mal parson, t à vision, but ur necessarily imparted in & dream.\u2014 A \u2018Aman of Mecedonls.' Something In the or appearance of the visliant, or powsib! ie jen» ke * ome over Inio Macedonis.PY Saad be appeat » Samioy from that distriet.\u2018Come ns.This vision bas Tebsly aaa by the church sé ini the tinuttered cry of besthendom for \u2018Abbot.\u2019 Apd WW has bsoa sbundantly that itis death to a church or & Christies, ive motto bear oe ble cty- or, having beard hood it\u2014* Maced Tis most Solebrated ddd lay to © Berth of Gresce.Thesealonica was Îte capital, It had n' numerous flourtsbl: Cities, of which Paulppt.Tous Arpbipafs hom cee and Rercs are et lu the Acte.Tinow constitutes en os Ga Tea and votwithetandio on of the thie ay the thug lo\u2019 laa Brea toa, exists te 10.\u201cWeendeavored.\" By soul a ah) ~=* Alford.\" \u2018 Aessreâty gators ete arias lon one A \u201cCam! henceforth Lad LO doubts as to Ea God bave bim preach, 11.*Bamotbracis.' An island of the ean Neapol of Tallon 14 vas 66 hitles from Troas.1V.The Conversion of Lydla.\u2014Vers 19-16 19.\u2018Thence to Philipp.\u2019 About tem miles Neapolls.* Whileh is the Shue city pe Macedouls.\u2019 Either the & am PS chief city, ons of the les ue city was bullt by Philip of Himmdon: Alexander the Great, who pere 1 1t after has long disappeared, and i sie ie cuvled by a # village named Fillbe,\u2014 The adjacent plain is @emoradis in Homes ki tory aa the place where the bate was I i tween the re ean under Bratas, and foyers of of Au >fèr and Augustus 04 years katt \u201cA colony \u2018of \u201cHome.was 8 miniators of the Im of Rome iteelf trans rovinces.Home of the jubabiiants, alae fr and the descendants of colonlsta, Romas citizens, sud were stil] enrolled one the tribes, and the privilege = Rome.In thess cities tbe Roman law ropolooslr observed : 3 theit own secate and pepe be sltu which befell the apostle at Sr rast connected with the 24 ia oma po Roman colony, sd Hover: aa in the reo ver side.> Qaogus.8 a) woot to be aa oitiven.\u2014* notes core \u201cbétons ule he te fo di \u201ca om 13.\u2018We went out of the city,\u2019 or, aa pn ER a RE e s choses because it erred ablations ih Jewish \"bare there Where rave vee be made,\u2019 = of prayer.\u2019 The rg proses is own aa the designation of à Slight tempor- fre bi be outside The city, Fopolo, \u201crot, Isaac Hand speak PE city of 7 pe.na Lrdiaend Myalé and oné of the beeen cb be Apocalypse, was oslo rat oory eocly 4 for En le od pars which beaught this Ladies Fiippl ou ness whic a a connected either wi Ny td A ie peosel: x, and on wes * To hit that hath shall is a preparation f s * And whea she was be; > she belloved, ied faith In the appolu ty Ce is not much cop to dat Tal snd love Tay does not desire opewly 10 confuss oer Loed Baviour, in the way of his own a Primitive \u2018waa not hidden plety.* And hey heneehold.! Whether we are to understand by cannot easily be decided.\u2014 Howson\" Wi not know whether she had chlldres.or even way coutals à mod almost the fact the prashors bid ley she vus fi for ihat, wes she unft to ptre.' * Come into my \u201cIf ye bave jo The ord thee faith by.amir bee to Rostess *\u2014* Plum ad abide there.\u201d We have hers the fom exas le so loving! arch\u2019: Howson.\u2019 Khe Dae entresty.fe in Lake : Far rar os Christ to bo itality.\u2014* Abbott '\u2014\"Condensed PROCTOR'S NEGLECTED GRAVE \u2018There is over in Greenwood Comes tery, In Brooklyn, a grave that bas {ne terested me, and I have watched {t closely for nearly four years.It is thas of Prof.Richard A.Proctor, the famous astronomer and writer.Prof Proctor, it Will be remembered, dled in 188, of yal- low fever\u2014alons in a New York hos pital.His children were In Florida, and could mot come to the funeral.The second wife, if I mistake not, was the only kin that was present at the obees qQuies.No suggestion of a resting place being forthcoming, the astronomers remains were buried In the undertaker\u2019s private lot.This undertaker way Btephen Merrit, who had charge of Gen.Grant's funeral.The body, It me understood.mhouid remain there un other arrangements could be made.But the \u2018\u2018other arrangements\u2019 were forthcoming, and the world-renown astronomer who did so much for ndvancement of science and sciemtii knowledge, still rests In a borro tomb ! The spot Is an out-of-the-way part of the cemetery, and the grave is neglected, there beng not even à stone to mark the place.© wife has married again : the children of the ag tronon.er are all making thelr own live ing, and while the wish is there to bury their father better, the means are not at hand.It seems pitful to me that \u2018such neglect of a great man\u2019s romaine should be possible.I know not who 8 to blame, bul the remedy ought to be forthcoming.For years have watched the grave, yet not a mingle token of rermembrance have I ever found the sunken mound.Is It possible tl no matter how great, how productive the work of the brain may be, thet we are soon forgotten when we are ~Correapondenee '* Detroit News. \u2018Joxs 21, 1898.MOW SUSY SOLD THB BABY.C'Harper's Young People.) Poor litle Suay sat under the tail ba- BARR tree that shaded her doll house and wu the corner of her apron, and wiink- led up her forehead until her yellow bobbed In her eyes and almost her cry.A noisy jay flew up into the live oak and scolded mt hor: a tpocking bird perched on the fence and whigtied saucily.Fat cid Phoebe was ng away on the back porch, mak- \u201cbeat-tiscult,\u201d and singing to her- as she pounded: \u201cHallelujah, my-ab soul.Halelujah, oh, my soul! Hallelujah, haltelujah!* But Busy paid no heed either to the lus jay of to the mocking bird, or even to the pounding of the beat biscuit.She was in great trouble.Pape was away on business, and mamm_mse was very ll, and :nuat not be disturbed; Freddie, George and Rob were at the plantation with Mr.Piper, the oversesr; Mary, the nurse, was always busy with the new baby.Busy was sure the new baby was the cause of ait her trouble.If papa would only come homme! Susy was obliged to use the cur- ner of her apron now for a handkerchief, Oh, dear! In all the seven long years of her life she nad never known such trouble.That dreadful baby! He cried so that he made mamma ili, and they had £3 send the boys away, and Mary wea cross, and no wonder overything west wrong.Now it was not the baby at all that \u2018was at fault, but Susy's love of \u201cground pease\u201d Gbe could not resist a peanut veller.Every spare nickel went for \u2018\u2018goabers,\u201d or \u201cground pease,\u201d as the Southern ohildren call them.The af- terucon the boys left everything was \u201cpoky\u201d to Busy, and she had strolled down, the street.She stopped nt the corner, where old Pentecoste set under magnoiia, with her basket of foie before her.The little girl ooked so longingly at them that the good natured colored woman offered to sell her some on credit.\u201cT1! pay you very soon,\u201d said Susy.\u201cOh, 1 kin trent you\u2019 said Pentecosts.\u201cEf you don\u2019t pay, I'll send the sherif£ after you\u201d - Susy had not been afraid them, for she thought her father would soon be home: but now pape would Hot be home for à week, and there was no knowing what might happen.Susy decided to find out what Pentecoste would think of the delay.She tried to saunter towards the big magnolia as if she was Just happening by.\u201cPentecosts,\u201d she axked, ne carelessly &s she could, \"Bow jong do you think Jou could walt for me to pay youl\" \u201cWell, I can\u2019t wait so ve'y long.Cir- eus is a-comin\u2019 Saterday, an\u2019 I'm goin\u2019 to go of 1 have to send de sheriff fur dat Quahter.\u201d It never occurred to Susy that the old woman was teasing her.Her lips trembled as she answered, \u201cVery well, Pentecoste, you'll have the quarter by Saturday.\u201d By Baturda5: ne, = Thursday, nd WO! nog me for a w 2 dou ae Bêt à quarter?If papa at home! If mamma were only , welll Ob, she wished she had never tasted a peanut.By this time Susy was at her own gate again.She glanced fearfully towards Pentecoste\u2019s corner.Her heart stood still.Bhe felt little funny cold things crawi up and down her back.There was Pentecoste, and talking to her\u2014it was terrible!\u2014talking to her was the sheriff himself! Now they ware looking at her.Pentacoste to hide behind the doll e big bag of peanuts.Busy gave it & vicious kick, and sat down and ust cried and crisd.And that is how it ned that Busy was in trouble.Just at this moment Phoebe came out foamy myllabube, dotted with delicious date of haw jelly.Susy could see her quile plainly between the Jong leaves of nas She stopped crying and .he Susy, oh! Miss Busy, whah you?welled Phosbe.\u201cMise Susy! Law's sake, whah \u2018bout's dat chile?Dis yer sylia- Dub is spliin\u2019 Now Susy was sure that it could not be about the sheriff, because then Phoebe would not be worrying overfher syllabub.She got up slowly and went toward the house.© *Heigho, whah you bem, honey?Run wash yoh face, an\u2019 carry dis yer sylia- hud over to Mls Laugiey's wid yoh maw\u2019's compliments.\u2019 Susy thought Mrs.Langley\u2019s as safe a ace as any, so she went.Mrs.Lang- herself opened the door whem Busy lat fall the heavy knocker.\u201cHow Is your mother to-day.dear?\" she asked, after admiring the syllabub.\u201cShe isn't very well.I mean she's draftully sick, thank you,\u201d said Susy, golefully.\u201cI am very sorry, indeed.And how is that dear little baby?\u201cHe's very well\u201d.Susy, and then blurted out: don\u2019t think he is a far little baby one bit.He cries ao, 4 he i» a drefful bother, and anyway Phoebe says we have enough boys.\u201d Susy shook her head as if she were re- Ueved of a terrible secret.Mrs.Langley laughed, but she did not seem at all shocked.\u201cDear me! Too many boys! I wish you would sell him te me [I should dearly love a little hoy.\u201d Mrs.Langley had no sooner said \u201cwell him,\u201d than a great ldsa dawned wpots unhappy Busy.Here was the way to get money.he would sell the baby for à quarter! Nobody at home wanted that baby, and Mrs.Langiey maid she would love him dearly.Yes, she would oeil the baby.Her voice phook with ex- eitament as she answered: \u201cI reckon oan have him.He lan't a very nice by, but don\u2019t yeu think he is worth a quarter?\u2018There are, probably, \"honest doubters\u201d ta the Church and if 20 they are certainly antitled to ail due respect; but it fe noticendle that honest workers com- \u2018mand the respect of everyone without Veing a hindrance to any, The way to eecape from the first class is to join the second.\u2018 United Predbyterinn.\u2019 Mre Langioy laughed more than before, and determined to fnd out whether behind the banana tree There\u2019 bring me that baby 1 will give yeu quarter.Come, is it & bargain?\u2019 \u201cYen\u201d sald Susy promptly.she wanted very much to ask for money then, but she was ashamed \u201cWhen shall 1 bring him to you?\" \u201cOb, any time will do.To-morrow, if you want When do you want your money?\u201cTA Mike\u201d Nesitated Busy.\u201cI'd like to have it now, if it's convenient.\u201d Susy was very happy as she skipped home.Now the sheriff could mot put her In jail, Bhe would pay that mean old Pentocoste, and never buy another «round pes from her.Then aho began to think of the baby.He was not such a horrid baby after all, and, boaldes, how he would feel when he grew up and found he was a sold baby?Husy began to waver.By Lhe time she reach Lome she heartily regretted her bargain.She wont to her refuge behind the dol! house.She sat down and thought very hard, giving one or two sad little sighs; then she got up, and went straight back to Mrs.Langley.She found her weeding the pansy bed.re.Langley\u2014\" she began.Why, is that you?Where is little Joseph?\" Mre.Langley inquired.Susy wonderwd why she called the baby Joseph, but was too intent upon her errand to ask.\u201cHere is your quarter,\u201d want the quar- \"Well,\" said Busy, don\u2019t believe you would If you saw him; he's weal dwight wed.\u201d \u201cBut he will grow white.\u201d But he isn't worth a quarter.Waally he lan\u2019t.His neck\u2019s bwoke!\" \u201cMy good gracious!\" ecclaimed Mrs Langley, dropping her trowel \u201cHis neck broken! What do you mean?\u201cWell,\u201d explained Susy, impressively, \u201cevery single time you try to make bin sit up, his head flops over 80,\u201d and Busy dropped her curly head on her shoulder to fllustrate the baby\u2019s broken neck.Mrs.Langley fairly shouted.\"Never mind,\u201d she sald, whan she siopped Jaugh- ing a little.\u201cI will bandage his neck, I am sura he will be all right, and at any rate even a baby with a broken neek le better than none.Husy was In de ir.She had to keep the money and give up the baby.The tears gathered in her eyes an she went down the wide, shady strest.She stopped \"at the corner, undid a piece of money from the corner of her aprun, and ded it to Pentecoste.\u201cHere's your quarter,\u201d she sald.\u2018Then she walked quickiy home, Bhe must manage to get the baby to Mrs.Langiey's without being seen.As luck would have it, Mary was just putting the baby to sleep, walking up snd down the garden path.When he fell asleep she iald him in his carriage and went off.No sooner had Mary gone than Susy began pushing and pulling the baby carriage along the path.She had à hard time crossing the street without bumping the carriage and wak- Ing the baby.Bhe reached Mrs.Langley\u2019s house safely, but how to get him into the house?Bhe lifted him care fully out.He was very heavy for her poor little strength, but she managed to carry him up the front steps.The doer, as usual, stood open, and there was nobody about.She staggered Into the cool, dark parior, and laid the baby quietly on the big sofas.Then she placed « chair so that he could not roll off.She wanted to kiss him good-bye, but did not dare, so she tip-toed out and went down tbe rond crying as If her heart would break.Bhe walked towards the country with out the least idea of where she was going; she could not go back home.She \u2018walked and walked, stopping to rest occasionaliy.She was hungrier than she had ever been in all her life, for she had had no dinner.She was so tired that she iay down under a bedge and cried harder than ever.She rubbed her dirty lite fists In her eyes until her face was a beautiful array of biack and pink otreaks.By-and-by the sun dropped down behind the trees; the little birds flew into their nests; it began to grow dark; very soon poer little runaway Busy was asleep.It seemed to her the middle of the night when she was awakened by shouts.There were many lights and big men, atd à dog was barking.She sat up terribly frightened.What.had happened Bhe did not remember that she sold the baby and run away.The shouts grew distinct: they were calling \u201cBusy! Miss HRusy! Ob, Susy! Hallo, Miss Su-se-lee!\u201d She got up and ran against a big man, who dropped his torvh and shouted.The big man took the little gir! up in hin arms and said: \u201cMy little girils, my Susy.Where have you been?\u201d It was para! Busy.was too tired and con: anything but cry, \u201cTake me home, oh, take me home!\u201d Very soon she was lying on the lounge in mamma's room.Her mother was laughing, but thers ware tears im her eyes.Susy glanced towards the crib, Bhe rubbed oe hee wt up In amasemen! ere s very identical babr he had sold.ei ugging and kisting and expila- nations! The baby winked and blinked as if he liked it.Papa held hie littie wir! very clome while she told him how she had to keep her promise and give up the baby, and how she was sorry and \u201crunned away.\u201d Then they told her how Mra.Langley had returned the baby, and how old Mrs.Paton had seen Susy trudging slong the Black River road, and hew pape hod returned unexpectedly and set out to find her.\u201cBut, you dear goosy, why didn't you tell mme one?\u2019 asked mamma.\u201c\u2018Cause there was nobody to tell,\u201d sald Susy, conclusively.When the boys came home they made great fun of poor Busy.Georgie called her Joseph's brethren, asd Rob called her \u201cpeanuts\u201d and \"Miss Goober\u2019; but they stopped when they saw how lt pained her.Busy was almost a grown up young lady before.she would eat peanuts again, but before long her very Senrest brother was the baby abe had \u2014\u2014\u2014 The State of Illinois, with a population of 3,888,381 consumed 3,400,364 barrels of beer during the year 188.This was rare than one barrel to every imbadl- tant.The State of Kansas, with a population of 1487,002 used only 3.60 barrels.The City of Cincinneti, Ohto, alone used, in 182, ten barrels of beer to =very one that was consumed in the Te would realy esil her little brother.ne Of Jove In eightesn dors ures, worth a quarter.\u201d s one uses 62 =: mt.Vive.sa rue Ma 5 ou | eos 06 Ji 00 sé Joue _ée Larhes n \u2018THE MONTREAL WÉEKLY WITNFSR RELIGIOUS NEWS.GLORIOUS WORK IN INDIA.(By Rev.J.O.Peck, D.D.) The news from india from every part of the empire where our missions are, aud from ail departiments of wurk continue to bu glorious.Victory is in the alr.Salvation ls coming to the yocpie in streams of life aud power.The mis- stor aries and native bretbron are bap- Uaing the converts on every hand.\u2018They even press upon them throwing away their idol¢ and oalling for the misslonariss to baptize them In the name of the holy Trinity.Many of these converts develop at once most remarkable evangelistic seal and power.Aa soor as lnstriotad they begin to tell the story of the creas and plead with their heathen friends to come to Jesus, One old peasant farmer (ho could not read nor writs, but who learned by heart the first chapter of 8t.John's gospel so that he could repent It, for eight years has gone out after the har- vast was over, into ths villages and hamlets, to tell the story of Jesus and hts love from his wwrm, converted heart, and repast that first chapter of John, He has since learned a little more of Beripture and has learned to read.As the result of eight years of his personul pleading with bis heathen friends and working among them, he has brought over four hundred souls to Christ.Point to me any farmer In this Christian land that lu all his life has brought four hundred souls to Jesus! Fifty thousand souls are now enquir- ors, and are waiting fur the money te coma in so that pastors or teachers say be wont to instruct them and prepare them for baptism and open confession of Christianity, Whoever heard of such » work, and yet we cannot get fifty dollars for a pastor, or thirty dollare for & pastor-teacher, fast enough to take care of these awakened wouls that God is bringing by the thousands to our missions.O- when will the Church wake up abd not play at missions, but sive with joy and gladness the word of life and ssivation now, when the people are flocking to our altars?1 append a letter from the Rev.J.E.Robinson, of Poona, which tells of the gloricus work in that fleid It was written April T: \"The Lanowll camp mesting, which we revived this year, was a grand sucoess.It has given the work in western India & mighty impulse.It means a great deal to our native brothers and sisters to meet together from various points and zpend a week in definite waiting upon God for a baptism of the Holy Spirit.Many were richly blessed, and the work will feel the new experience which many have carried with them to thelr respective charges.How I wish you had been present at the love feast on the Sabbath! To hear the deligbtful flow of heart-stirring testimony and glowing songs for two hours, In four or five different languages, would have been an inspiration to you.It was & time of great power\u2014as, indeed, was the whole day, which, with hardly an hour's Intermission, was filled up with wonderfully helpful English and verns- cular meetings from early morning tll half-past ten at night.Many of the missionaries and their wives testified to the sanctifying power of the Spirit, and all seemed to be wonderfully uplifted and encouraged.\u2018Of all the good things which we _reo- Joice over, perhaps none has deeper significance than the conversion of between thirty and forty of the boarders of the Bishop Taylor High School.Every toarder in attendance definitely sought and, as wo trust, found the Saviour.Many were under deep conviction, and rome only surrendered towards the close after much prayer and personal effort.It was a glorious victory.Our earnest prayer is that out of these promising young people God will raise up many grand workers.I am sure that this good news will rejoice the hearts of the kind friends who so perercusly provided me with funds last year to bring back with me a supply of American school furniture.This school has had a remarkable history and is, In truth, the child of prayer and faith.Tt is now enjoying the best year of Its history in all respects.\u2018We are vo deeply impressed with the posribilities of the camp meeting as a means of revival for our people, and especially for our workers, that we are resclved to keep it up at all costs, though the great bulk of the exprase has to be met out af ithe missionaries\u2019 pockets.Brother D.Osborne had charge of the religions sarvises, and guve the arentset satisfaction to all.He is a grand mas of God.'\u2014'Gespel In All Lands.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014 SYSTEM IN GIVING.The energetic young pastor of à sut urban church sald to us the otber day: \u2018I can give you an Uluastration of how systematic giving works,\u2019 In our church on thé Monday following each annual contribution, 1 announce the amount from the pulpit.This year the contributions for Forelgn Missions was $3 larger than tast your.Alter the service a gentlemen called my attention to this advance as very.gratity- ing.\u2018Yes,\u2019 I replied \u2018it is gratifying and unlike some gratifying things, it is easily accounted for\u2019 \u2018How ls that?\u2019 he asked.\u2018Im\u2018this way,\u2019 1 answered \u2018At the beginning of the year Mr.L (an eider) end ! determined to give systematically a certain definite percentage of our incomes to benevolent purposes.\u2018The percentage did not seem to be large, but it vor out so that I bythe hod to my For Missionary con ution and kr.L.added §15 to his and that makes precisely the $35 advance credited to the entire congregation.\u2019 Who can doubt that the increase in this contribution would have been vastly greater had all the members of the congregation adopted the same plan.The fact ts that one thing is needed to relieve all our Boards from debt and enable them Matantiy to enlarge greatly thelr work, and that one thing is system in giving.Hystem enough upon the part of pastors to learn at least that every congregation had the opportunity & giving something However small.stem enough upon the pert of indi vidual Christians so that the question was at least raiped, should I not do my part, however Insignificant, In this sd- vancing work ?Systers in giving makes giving easy.Expenses usually press se close a income apt te And just the day whem the personal treasury is depleted too far to risk another draft upon lt.Yet we y without difficulty other demands.by?Simply because, if at all prudent and conscientious, we have in making up our yearly budget, made provision for the ordinary necessary expeñses of daily life.It would be equally ensy to give, If we made allowance for such demand In the budget nt the beginni: of the year.One of the most Ji and chesrful givers that we ever kn.told us that his giving mever gave him the slightest anxiety beyond tha responsibility of deciding in what direc tion the money should go.He set apart one-tenth of his Income as a meparate fund for bensvoleAt purposes, and simply kept a regular debit and credit account with the fund, as IX he were treasurer for some one else.The number of persons is already large, and constantly increasing, who pursue such & method and are happy in ite results.Whether (hey thus set spart one-tenth of their income, or some other proportion ; whether they regard the ©.T.prescription as still binding, or, taking it for à starting point, vary from it as prosperity enables and gratitude prompte\u2014it helps them wonderfully to have a fixed and definite rule Such system In giving does surely make Siving easy\u2014~makes it « sober certainty of joy\u2014' The Cburch at Home and Abroad.\u2019 THE MAGIC LANTERN IN JAPAN.The Rev.G.W, Fulton writes of & magic lanters kindly sent him by a friend in the Bryn Mawr Church, peer Philadelphie On a tour, he arrives at a certain city after noon.They found one Christian thers, a member of a Congregational Church.By his help they rented \u2018a large vacant sating house \u2018 that would hold about 300 persons.They employed « mau to go around heating a drum, and shouting out \u2018A foreigner is in the city and will give a magic lantern ex- bibition to-night at the Ivoka' This packed the house.They first showed pictures of places in America and Europe and then views representing the life of Christ.The young man who thus helped them \u2018was formerly a wine merchant, but gave up bis business on beocming a Christian, and is now a alix merchant quite well off, known tc be a Christian and respectad by everybody in the place.He said that he got lonely sometimes end longed for a Christian companion, but never thought of giving up his faith.The reading of the Bible had become a fixed habit with him, and was a great comfort.\u2019 \u2018When told that Americans hope that Japan will soon become a Christian country, \u2018he turned to the evangelist.saying, \u201cOh, will it not be glorious to pee .Bible some day lying on the Par- jament table.\u201d At another toyn, Katsdama, the proprietor of the hotel offered them his rooms for the magic lantern exhibition.\u2018They simply told bim to tnvite his friends but \u2018the place was filled to the uttermost\u2019 \u2018The evangelifit presented the whole scheme of salvation by means of the pictures before them, every one seemed pleased,\u2019 and the missionary and evangelist \u2018feit that a great deal of sead had been sown that, by the watering of irit, would some time bear fruit.\u2019 Mr.ton maya: \u201cThe magic laptern secures us A hearing at every place, and is a wanderfully vivid way of presenting the truth.\u2019\u2014'Church at Home and Abroad.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 RELIGIOUS ITEMS.It 19 said that half the church members from the Bakongo tribes in Africa are persistent gospel teachers.They so in bands on preaching tours, and remain for a fortnight at a time from home, mostly at their own charges.That FUL a crown coleay, bas no British troops, the only armed force being a handful of native police, speaks volumes for the value of Christianity, whch, \u20ac years ago, was not known by name in the islands\u2014'New Zealand Presbyterign.\u2019 \u20181 would never argue.If I were a mis- siohary,\u2019 said « graduate of Madras University.\u2018I would stmply give the Bible and say \u201cRead that\u2019 Bishop Thoburn, after years of experi ence in India, takes the same view.The Queensland Union of Australia holds its annual colonial convention at the time of the Montreal conventloa, and Mr.W.J.Scott, the honorary secretary, writes that midday meetings will probably be held throughout the colonies simultaneously with the cloaing services at Montreal, July 10.Baveral Australians are expected in Montreal, The \u2018Britlsh Weekly says: Princess May had long ago made for herself a place in the hearts of the people, and everyone will join in warmest wishes for her future happiness.She has concerned herself personally in numerous good works, and is as much beloved in the homes of the poor as in royal circles.Amid many reasous for congratulation not the least Important is the carnest religious character of our futufe Queen.A third experiment for Improviag the acoustic properties of the New York Presbyterian Church, at One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street and Seventh avenue, New York, has been recently tried.It consists of a wire celling, which, though simost invisible, yet acts as à check to the waves of sound which have reverberated in the hollow overhead.It fn sald that the wire cefl- ing is superior to eanvas and to the usual sounding board.his short history of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.The chief features of the new edition are & chart of the unions, divisions and reusions of the Church, and pistes of five of our coi- leges.The chart is a study, and pi fully filustrates the propenetty of bytertans to split.relieved ia this case, however, by the pleasant fact that, having wanted much time, labor, temper, and money in dividing.they bad the ood sense to reunite.The colleges look well, and represent as much con- vecrated labor aad seif-demial as any plates would represent that Dr.Gregg could put in his book.Bdmuleted by having vwitsessesd a fatal fall due 10 a piece of orange peel, carelessly thrown in the streets, Mr.T.II.Pryce, a printer living at Miller pti aie peter London, to be simply amd faithfully followed.: the ocansional ald of few friends he has suocesded in getting his hand bills on the subject placed In the Board schools ef london and other In order to Introduce them into AH the schools of the country (M4 would be required.This, it in out of Mr.Pryoe's power to furnish, and he would like to see the formation of a society to carry on bis work.A Canadian Missionary in Mexico.\u2014 Rev, James Dodds, who has recently graduated from MoCormick Theological Beminary, Chicago, is at present, with his wife, visiting relatives in Owen to Mexico as a missionary of the Northern Presbyterian Church.Mr.Dodds is a native of Ontario, as is sso his wife.He began his theological course In Knox College, snd spent some time doing effective missionary service in our North-West flelde.Mr.Dodds will leave for his field in July.The good wishes of many friends and soquaintances in Ontario will go with big and Mrs.Podda\u2014 \u2018Presbyterian Review.\u2019 At a recent Commumion season In Batanga, West Africa, a notable acess occurred.Twenty-dne adults and nine- tern ehildren received the rite of baptism.\u2018It was a vary solemn feant\u2019 says a letter from Mims Louise A.Itabe.1 think there were aRout four hundred people in the church, apd three hundred more outaide and underneath it.The people who came from afar had to start on Haturday, bringing sheir food.I bave never seen such a sight.One man, before being baptized, declared all his four slaves free in the presence of tion.He alse had his son bap! L* \u2018This looks like a dowaright New Testament thoroughness.la man's profession was evidently from the root.It was witnessing for Christ indeed, and exemplifying the whole spirit of the Gospel.What a blessing it is that the Church can learn useful Jes- oy from the ppiritual chiléren in dark \u2018The Aberdeen \u2018Free Press\u2019 quotes the following passage from Dr.Whyte's sermon at Marylebone Church oa the Sth wt: ~'Ii was during the great awakening and revival that eame to Scotland more tham tairty years ago that £ Gret made Dr.Fraser's acquaintance.He was then the Idol of Inver- ness, and I was a poor student in Aberdeen.It was at a great open-air meet- tag at Forres that I first cams to know and love your great minister.I had never been introduced to him; I was nobody to bim £ never knew why he did It, but as one of the meetings was in progress he touched me on the shoulder and beckoned me to him.I knew him, and went after him with another student.He led us into the adjacent cornfield, and.kneeling down out of sight amidst the tall yellow corn, he poured out his heart before God, first for his own salvation, then for us as students, and then for the great work at that time in progress in Scotland.I often met and often heard him speak after that oceasion.but it té always to that far off morning 1 go back when I wish to think of Dr.Donald Fraser.\u2019 A missionary writes from India: \u201cWhile touring among the villages about thirty miles from Cocansda, Î saw a sight that would melt a heart of stone.One day, just as the shades of evening were falling, having finished preaching in the caste part of the town, I returned to my boat, leaving the native preach- ars to distribute some tracts and do any personal work they might think proper.As I drew near the temple, I heard a cry like the wall of some bereaved mother weeping for her child.I paused tor a little before going nearer, lest I might disturb the worshipper and miss what I lo to see.1 had not long to walt sound eame again\u2014s low, sobbing ery.A step forward, and 1 could see à poor woman sitting oo the eround before the fdoi ; now weeping, now shouting Irantically like one in hysterics, now scolding the idol.\u201cYou killed my child! You didn't save my child! I gave you three fowls and a t, but you didn't save my child.Fou mean old thing, you killed my Were there no other children in the village?Why should you kill my only child ?You mean old thing! You are not God at all.You have no pity for me I won't give you any more goats.\u201d Thus saying, In revenge she spat upon the Idol, whick made no reply, offered no resistance, and gave no comfort to its worshipper.I had heard enough to move me to tears.I called to her.and she gave a sudden start and was about to run away, but I succeeded in detaining her.She ssid she had offered a ice to this god, but it was not God at all.I then told her of the true God and of his Son Jesus Christ, who offered himself a sacrifice for her sins.The old, olf story seemed to comfort her, as it comforts all who moyn\u201d the con, ADVERTISEMENTS.BLIND.\u201cThey are blind who will ax Ury a box of BEECHAM'S BREAKFAST SUPPER.EPPS\u2019S GRATEUL, COMFORTING COCOA BOLLING WATER OR NIL.+ Mrs.J.H.HonenyDEn, 158 Pacifie Ave, Santa Cruz, Cal, writes: \u201c When a girl at school, in Resding, Oblo, I had à severe attack of brain fever.On my recovery, I found myself perisotly bald, and, for a long time, I feared I should be permsusatly se.Friends urged ms to use Ayer's Kale Vigor, and, on doing so, my hair Began to Grow, snd I now have as fine à head of hair as one could wish for, being changed, howe over, from blonde to dark beown.\u201d 4 After a it of sickness, my hair came out in combfulls.I used two bottles of Ayer\u2019s Hair Vigor and now my bair is over & yard long and very full and heavy.I have recome mended this preparation to others with like good effect.\u201d -Mrs.Sidney Cazz, 1480 Regina st., Harrisbarg, Pa.\u201cI have used Ayers Hair Viger for several years and always obtained satisfactory results.I know it is the best ion for the halr that is made.\u2019 ~=C.T.Arnett, Mammoth Spring, Ark, | Ayer's Hair Vigor .Unlike the Dutch Process ari pure A ROYAL ORDER.An order received in a recent Eure.pean mall, by the Dr.Willlams\u2019 Medicine Co.of this town, probably stands unique in the history of Canadian œ t Re Pills, the sender being the Count de Podisco, Grand Chamberiain to His Majesty the Czar of Russia.It would appear that oven royalty, in far away St.Foters- burg, has learned this remarkable and turn te it preference to others.than probable that in the near future country is somewhat of a curiosity.note is at the Company\u2019s office Le seen by any who have not PE an Fre OURED.À mervetiqus Medicine for a Discanss of (hf Brain and Mervons fyvbem, 14 ie pramyt and only In the nation, nearly aleups sad as ff by malt errestiog ail Fim, Exolisble, Irritable, sad Up mesdy Nervous Affections be fred deg\u2019s mee of the Medicine.À trial isecuvietion.Ne deliwate- 19 ormaised Nervous system should ever be whi om Constrz erdess poompity Allo, J.A.MARTE, Agent, GLANGOW DEUO Mél 1700 Hotre Panne stroct, Mentrent.DON'T BE CARELESS Bent be toc wrelem 10 examine closly when vou ge to buy a bottle of CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILIA Many uapriseipiot écalers viit Land you » bottle, put =5 in RED Wraggee, end «ossi imitating \u201c O A-B-T-T-R-R-'8.\" Deas fil to examine sarefully, sad don't bo put of with something \u201cjust m0 goed 0s CAD ERS\" \u201cFbare le nothing ne gved es CARTER.* The Ask tr CARTERS sad be eue you gst ham.A POSITIVE CURE FOR SICK HEADACHE.Swell AD Gmelin Small 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES.ALL IN ADVANCE.5.00 1.00 » 10 capies 40 one sddrem 5.98 .- ee 10.0 20.00 = ts ADVERTISING RATES.WEEKLY WITNESS.\u2014Casual advertisements, 200 par line por losertion, isctudiag vuts and large ype.Oue-third of whon set in our usual small advertising type.Costract Rales\u20141 year, 81.50 2er line ; $ mouths, (4.00 per line: 3 movthe, $195 porline * Farma te Rent\u201d \"Parme for Bols\u201d \u201can be Inserted for 10 8 word per insertion.Meaty 0 sccompeny ores.DAILY WITNESS \u2014100 por line fred tnssrbisn, and bo par line each scbesquent insertion.Ours or Lanes Trez, double rates.Contracte eu faversbis tories.* Employment Wanted,\u201d ** Site.aidons Vecant,\u201d sta, 100 pes insertion, up Le 30 words.Money must scosmpsay order.Births sad Deaths, 350 per insertion ; Marriage, 80s, (Thess ust be sutheotiosted by the name ond nddrem of the sender].Inserted without charge for subscribers.All obituaries with posiry, 50 o line, agate measure.Monez 10 es company notions.Contracts payable quarterly is advance.Five isthe malumum number of ilses for whieh \u2018um advertisement bs charged \u2014_ Morscn To SUMCRISSRS.\u2014 When remiibing be parkioulsr te give the correct post-ofBos sddrem, oad the Provinos or Miata, and either register pour letter, whiah will cost So in additien Lo the vegular postage, or procure à post-office order iis aL cases we prefer the istter, aa it protects the sender aad cursetres).Post-ofice orders cas be obtained st the following rates : $1 to $4.30, and 9 te $10, 50.The Americe : Express Company tiso lime money orders under 05.00 for So, sad $30 8er Bo.Babecribers tn the United tates can remit by P.O.erder om Rouse\u2019 Point, N.V.or order of American Express Oo.When wiahlag to your sddress chasged from one post-ofBce to + 18 is necessary Le give the old addres ss well as the pew.1?this be not done such changes cannot be made.Address all letters concemiag œubeoriptions or advertisieg: Joux Docaais ser, \u201c Witneen\u201d Montreal.Whea stamps are sent to make upa remittance, (be only deneminaiiens we accept are l and 3 conts.\u2014_\u2014 Avy webecriber of tbe Montreal! \u201c Witmers \u201d whe would like to bare à epecimen copy of the pagaresnt to à friend con be accommedaied La ing we an à postal cord the came sad address ts \u2018which he would Mke the paper samt.Che Witness.¢ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1888.SIR WILLIAM DAWSON.It fa no longer possible to preserve that silence with reference to the retirement of Sir William Dawson {rom the principalship of McGill University which we well knew would be most grateful to him.It has for many months been known to those in the confidence of those principally interested that Sir Willam, who has always longed for leisure to complete his scientific work, contemplated at Seast a partial retirement at the pre- gent time, while some would seem to hive been counting for years on the change now imminent.It is far from gorrect to think that Sir Willlam Dawson is at the end of his powers.He 15 one of those men who seem not to know what weariness means.Throughout lite he has kept up a re- fationship with science and with Bibli- ¢al criticism more than enough to oc- by one man though doing the duty of four or five in connection with Mc- Gill University.While fulfilling with signal success the exacting duties of principal to which he has devoted the most untiring energy, be has aiso at times filled efficiently three or four professorships at once.Not only so, but & great deal of work counted as done by others under him, has been really the work of his tireless brain.It is true that home anxieties and an attack of {liness broke him down at the beginning of the session just past, asd forced upon him & winter of comparative rest, such as he would not otherwise have thought of, but there is no reason to suppose that he is not still able to fulfii better than any other man could, the duties of prinei- pal of the University, if he were only as ready to put work on others as to take it on himself.For this reason we think his retirement at the present junctures much to be deplored.We cannot believe that it would have been acoepted by the Governors had it not been absolute and final.The careful secrecy observed with regard to matters so greatly affecting the interests of an institution dear to all the public, and which claims the sympathy of so large A constituency of graduates, benefactors and others, is much commented on.It is natural, however, that a body which has the whole responsi- lity of what is done should desire to De es little embarraesed as possible be the urgence of the friends p£ pisce- » è seekers, and by advisers and busy dod.ses generally.In the present case we can readily believe that Sir Willlam Dawson's modest dislike for the public discussion of affairs with which he is personally connected has supplied an additional reason for reserve.Jt would seem well, however, that when a position becomes vacant in which it may be said the whole world is interested, which has been filled hitherto by one of the world's ablest men, and for which the best man In the world is wanted, no decisive action should bs taken until time has been given to know how nearly it is possible to reach that ideal in the appointment to be made.Those already oon- nected with the University have obvious advantages over all strangers, but such if finally chosen would take the position with much more satisfaction and with much less gainsaying if they obtained it in an open fleld against all comers.The interests of the University demand that the best man obtainable should be found.| \u2014\u2014\u2014 THB HOME RULE BILL.The third clause of the Irish Home Rule Bill has been parsed at last by the committee.There are forty clauses to the blll, so that, judging by the time taken to get through three of them, it would seem impossible for all to be put through this session.The first three clauses were, however, peculiarly debatable ones, especially the first, which brought up the whole question of the desirability of such a form of home rule as the bill provided.and the third, which was one limiting the legislative powers of the proposed parliament.Of course the opponents of the bill would have liked to prevent the legislature from dealing with any matter at all, and the amendments offered were exceedingiy numerous and proposed the exclusion of about every subject that was proposed.Most of the remaining clauses will, in all probsbility, be dealt with far more speedily.There will be = long and perhaps somewhat uncertain struggle over two of the clauses yet to be passed.That which dealn with the presence of the Irish members in the British Parliament propoees as ft now stands to reduce the number n° Irish representatives from a hundred and three to eighty, ard to exclude them from voting on ell purely Ro't- | ish questions, that is, matters wholly connected with the larger island.This! would create the double majority difficulty, = less evil form of which brought our Canadian Parliament to a deadlock before Confaderatior [It is now proposed that the I:ish shalt be allowed to take part in all legislation.This solution is the one the British radicals like, as they want the heip of the Trish with democratic legislation.The Conservatives rnd Whigs are naturally éuough very stoutly opnosed to that proposition \u2018What\u2019 they exclaim, \u2018let the Irish rule themseives and us too?Never\u201d The financial clauses vill be hard to pass.Already it hes Leen necessary to reframe them h-cause of the errors of a financier, who had furnished the statistics on which the clauses were based.Mr.Gladstone is a great finan- cler, however, and it |.robable that he will be able to construct clauses which he can persuade I'arliament to accept.The principal hope of the Giadstontans for the passage of the whole bill is that the Opposition will get weary of obstruction.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 I A 'FOUR HUNDRED' REFORM.\u201cSociety, much less \u2018sassiety,\u2019 is not given to initiating reforms ; even social reforms are generally forced from below or above, as a result of purely moral movements.The famous Four Hundred of New York, who aro supposed to be the smartest and wealthiest set, if not the most dignified and most exclusive one, Ia, it seems, going to furnish an exception to this rule.One of its members thinks that a good deal of the drunkenness, and not a little of the impe- euniosity, of the young men of the best circles is caused by the habit of treating.Four or five yqung men meet at a club, and one treats the rest to liquor, whereupon all the others in turn feel bound to return the compliment, with very bed results.Mr.8.O.Teal, one of the Four Hundred, backed by the rest, we suppose, proposes that sll society people shall sign a pledge against public treating.At home or at meals the pledged one Is to be tree to \u2018dispense hospitality,\u2019 but promiscuous treating abroad is to be done away with.This is & step in the right direction.Treating is a ridiculous American custom, and even It it did not lead to the physical and financial ruin of young men, shouid be tabooed by the smart set of New York, who know what is considered the right thing in England.We are afraid, however, that it will go only à very short way toward reforming young men of the smart clase in a so ciety which regards drunkenness as a mere peccadillo.Young men who have too much leisure time on their bands, and who have no serious duties te pocuny their minds.will soon find THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS that constant and forced amusemant loses its power to amuse, while the craving for excitement continues unabated, and then the jaded nerves must be plied in turn with stimulants and sedatives in ths shape of spirita and tobacco.What the wealthy American youth really noeds is employment.Young Englishmen, of the clans they imitate in part, generally go in for some serious work.They have large estates to manage.they have parliamentary duties, they are ambitious military men, or at least adventurous soldiers, who like to undergo great and prolonged hardships in the way of campaigning, or they xo in for the diplomatic service and the excitement of international intrigue ; they join the navy, or they pay thousands of pounds to take part in dangerous exploring expeditions ; they undertake journeys through Thi- pet to Lhassa, or through Arabia to Mecca, because aliens are forbidden, on pain of death, to visit either city ; they find some self-imposed work which they through !n spite of obstacles.Unfortunately for wealthy American youths, they do not care for the army or navy; they leave politics and diplomacy to politicians ; they have no estates except in stocks and bonds, and these are looked after by their trustees or brokers, with some notable exceptions ; they do not care for exploring expeditions, and they cannot employ theniselves in taking possession of foreign territories for their country.Employment is what the Americar youth of the upper ten thousand need.We hear a great deal about the clever doings and eayings and the success generally of the wealthy society American girl, but her brother reems tu be a complete nonentity.c\u2014\u2014 WELLINGTON BRIDGE SCANDAL.\u2018The Dominion Government had better instruct the commission it has appointed to investigate the extraordi- uary over-expenditure in connection with the Iachine Canal bridges to at least revise its decirion regarding the uwdmission of cxpert evidence offered Ly the public, thrmugh the agency of two civil enginesrs nominally representing a newspaper cf this aity.\u2018The engincers whose services were placed at thf disposal of the commission are !wo men of well-known tanilles in this province, connected with doth politicai parties.They are experienced men, in the prime of Wife, both of whom have occu] sprosible portions as chief rs un sections of grent public railWays.They ask that they be recognized by the commission as the representatives of the \u2018Herald\u2019 newspaper, which in this case claims to be represented as one of the great public which is entitled to be present and to take part In the investigation.What is everybody's business is, ordinarily, nobody's business, and for this reason the public is not likely to be represented at the investigation, unless somebody makes it his business to act un lits behalf, as any reputable citi- sen or company of citizens has, we think, a perfect right to do.The newspaper has undertaken this public duty, and the commission should re- ize the fact, and should not only admit of any evidence offered, but should be willing to place at the disposal of the civil engineers every fa- cllity and convenience necessary to enable them to obtain the informa tion they seek to place in evidence.The engineers want to have access to the plans and specifications of the bridges.The Commissioners cannot allow every Tom, Dick or Harry who may apply to have possession of these, so that it becomes necessary to the engincers that by the recognition of the commission they should obtain that much standing.The Commis sioners refuse to allow them abcers to such plans, specifications and documents as they have at hand : this ie tantamount to a refusal to allow the engineers to obtain the information necessary in giving expert evidence.The engineers wish, too, to have the benefit of legal counsel, whose protection or advice they might need in case of a hoatild, cross-examiovation.This request involves a more difficult question, as lawyers have often too much say before commissions, but where lawyers are present repregent- ing persons whose reputation is at stake, and representing the Government, which is, in a certain sense, the accused party, it does not seem unreasonable that there should be one lawyer representing the public, The public in interested in having a thoroughgoing investigation.Enough has been revealed to make it manifest that the most extraordinary waste and job- Dery took place.The counsel for the officials, who are virtually on their trial, have expressed the strongest Gistrust of the motives and course of at least one of the Commissioners.Buspicion has besn aroused that the commission weeks to exposs just enough to make a scapegoat of one or two of the local officials, while keap- ing hidden greater jobbery which is believed to have taken place in the De- partment at Ottawa.The defendants who entertain these bitter suspicions are Conservatives, as are their counsel, and the plaintiffs are Conservatives, so that it is Conservatives who are making charges and counter- charges against Conservatives.The suspicion that the big Ottawa people are making scapegoats of the little Montreal people has taken a strong hold upon the public mind here, because the jobbery has apparently been so great.Had the Department at Ottawa which sanctioned all expenditures and audited and paid every account, been properly managed, three or four Limes the amount of the appropriation could not have been spent upon the bridges without its knowing long before the job was finished that the appropriations were being grossly exceeded, If the Department is so badly equipped, and the Government engineers can do #0 little to discover or check such gross mismanagement, it is certain that they are not fit to be entrusted with the task of obtaining and putting forward all the svidence necessary to expose all the extravagalce and corruption.IR 15 also hinted that one, at least, of the Commissioners is closely connected with the Department at Ottawa which the public suspects to be at fault.Representatives of pri vate persons standing for the public were allowed befors the Conservative Commissioners which tried Mr.Mer.cler, were allowed to examine and use all documents, and even virtually to conduct the investigation.Why should obatacies be thrown In the way of would-be witnesses and their counsel in one case, when in another, counsel for the public were welcomed with open arms.Is it because Liberals were the accused in one cass, and Conservatives in the other ?\u2014 THE DOMESTIC SERVANT QUESTION.\u2018There is à home rule question that really comes much closer to us in Canada than the one now being so warmly discussed at Westminster, and though so much has already been written upon it, still it Must continue to be a vital issue until some sort of a solution is arrived at.In a recent issue of the \u201cCosmopolitan\u201d magazine, there is a story entitled \u201cThe Houss of the Dragons,\u201d which is intended to have a moral in this connection for what are called the \u201cclasses as distinguished from the \u201cmasses.\u201d The heroine is @ pretty young girl of not more than sixteen yeary of age, who had for the past six years worked successively at dressmaking, neckties, embroidery, gloves and a variety of trades which minister to the fashion or luxury of a large city.Her father and mother were both dead, and she lived with an aunt who had sent her forth telling her not to come back If she didn\u2019t find work, for she had been out of work for three weeks and her aunt would keep her no longer for nothing.In this extremity she makes desperate but futlle efforts to obtain employment in some of the lines with which she was familiar, and finally, in despair, rather than return to the tenement house where only hard words, and maybe harder blows awaited her, she accepts the awtul alternative of going into the House of the Dragons, whose dark significance needs no explanation.Now, this is a very sad, and no doubt, true picture of a moral tragedy that unhappily, is not of rare occurrence in our big cities.But the first question that naturally suggests itself to a thoughttul reader of the story.is thio: Was there no alternative to the House of the Dragons?The girl waa young, pretty, intelligent, and clever with her fingers.Because there was no demand for her services in the making of neckties and em- broldery, had the great city no other honest and reputable means of a livelihood to offer her?For answer one had need only to inquire at a thousand comfortable\u2014ey\u2014luxuri- ous homes, In any one of which her services would have been heartily welcome, and well remunerated.Is the writer's conclusion fair, therefore, that \u201cIn the darkness of night society lad committed one of the blackest crimes against one of its weakest and most defenceless members?\u2019 The phrase is a telling one, but it surely puts a heavier responsibility upon society than is just.Had the writer made her ill-fated heroine put forth equal efforts to obtain employment as a littie nursemaid or chambermaid with no better result, then society might fairly be held accountable.Here however, is the crux of the problem.In domestic service, which, at least ensures a comfortable home, and a QGecent wage, there is practically no competition, except among the mistresses.The supply of good servants ts ever far below the demand, while in the occupations of shop-girl and seamstress the position is entirely reversed, and for every place there are & dozen applicants, with the inevitable result of starvation wages and attendant misery.One reason of this ja that domestio service is regarded as menial, while the other oocupations are not, and one cannot help acknowledging that vulgarity on the part of mistresses has given much meaning to this distinction.Another is the fact that saclusion in the family of gnother, and yet from it, practionlly shute the girl out from that social life whioh iv & primary need of her nature The problem can only be solved by mistress and maid meeting one another on some middle ground, the mistress doing her best to make the social side of the servant's life as attractive nas possitle, and the servant bringing to bear upon her work the same amount of intelligence and anxiety to please ihat she would display behind the counter or in the sewing room, it she was anxious to retain her place.We are surprised to notice no direct reference to the propagation of such a conception of domestic services among the multl- tudinous subjects discussed at the Women's Congress in the White City, and we heartily commend the subject to the serious consideration of ail who have charge of households.ee THE BANKS AND THE COUNTRY.The Canadian banking system, which is modelled upon that of Soot- land, is one of the very soundest that exists to-day.According to some authorities, it has never yet been subjected to the test of a very severe strain.Owing to the expenditure of large amounts of borrowed capital and the development of rich natural resources, the financial situation has hitherto been comparatively favorable.The Australian troubles, however, show how disastrous may be the results of bad financial management where the natural advantages are even greater, perhaps, than in Canada.The general situation in the Dominlon is one, we belleve, of se curity.There is no branch of trade that is being greatly overdone ; there is no general inflation.The only danger, if any, les in the direction of the industries and Institutions which may have become inliated as a result of the working of a paternal polloy on the part of our Government.These are represented to be in a most prosperous condition.If this be the case the only real source of immediate trouble for Canada must be external \u2018The Australasian troubles are not yet over by any means; in fact, years will have to go by befors all danger from their effects will be over.Then the currency and siivér questions of the United States are clouds upon our horizon.Our chief bankers have warned Canadian business men against too rapid expansion, and they themselves have placed the great banking institutions in a very strong position, indeed.The annual reports of the banks show that all of the most prominent of them have added greatly during the year to the amount af their amsets, which in time of financial trouble can be immediately and without loss drawn upon or realised upon, while they have reduced those accounts which are least safe and secure.They have also added to their Reserves and their Profit and Loss accounts, which form a double line of fortification.Upon the strong position of the Bank of Montreal, the Bank of Commerce, the Quebec Bank, and the Merchants\u2019 Bank we have commented at different times, and in our financial review have given tables clearly setting forth the success of nearly all the Lanks doing business in this province.Among these is the Hoche- lags, which last year earned nearly twelve percent on its capital, and which, after paying a dividend of six percent and a bonus of one percent to its shareholders, added thirty thousand dollars to its Rest account, which has now reached over thirty- one percent of its capital, besides adding about thirteen hundred to {ts Profit and Loss account, which now amounts to $3,789.The Manager of this bank joined the other bankers In their warning to business men to pursue a cautious course during the year.\u2014_\u2014 STRERT CAR COURTESY.A daring writer, who must surely have been an unattached bachelor.created a lively flutter among the dove cots a little while ago by having the hardihood to characterize our \u201csisters, cousins and aunts\u2019 ns the ' manneriess sex,\u201d and to support his attack by a series of {illustrations drawn from actual experience which certainly went far to bear out his oon- tention, as regards some women at least.To one interested in the study of this question our street cars, in their present disorganized and chronically congested condition, present a fine field of observation, and while some of the incidents would certainly sive the writer above mentioned cause to chuckle triumphantly, yet, in Justice to the ladies of this city, it must be said that one has only to keep one\u2019s eyes open to note others of a directly opposite character.A sample of each will suffice.In e well-illed car was sitting a tirpd man Jows 21, 1808.congratulating himself upon having been 80 fortunate Rs to secure & seat.A lady entered, and took her stand Jusi 1a front of him.He at once offered her his seat, which she promptly took.Presently there was a vacancy beside her, and hs wat down, v\u201cily, however, to get up abein at the next corner to surrender his place to another lady.A little dare ther on the person next to the first lady left, and what did the two ladies who had been accommodated do ?By a common impulse they sliosk out their skirts and spread themesives over the three scats, leaving their benefactor to cling wearily on te the strap! On the other hand, a jsdy entering o car full of men returting from business positively refused to take one of their seats.She was & bit tired ; they, no doubt, were, &nd she resolutely stood untll a vesanoy occurred.There is no doubt.that the crowded street car is a sharp test of courtesy, and with all due deference to the ladies of Montreal one cannot help thinking that they might sometimes manage to be a little more oon- siderate of their masculine fellow.sufferers.They might time their în- cursions into the city, for instanocs, so as not to be returning just when the pressure on the car service is greats est, and in other ways they might strive to mitigate a condition of things that is not easy to be borne.The extreme courtesy of the lady who assured passengers that she tas not a bit tired was not calculated to make sitting gentlemen much more comfortable.The real enemy is the company which by not supplying adequate service forces such alternatives on weary people.emer NORTH-WEST RAILWAY RATES.The Portage La Prairie Board.of Trade tried to convince Mr.Horne, Manager of the Canadian Pa cific Railway Company, of the necttsl- ty of lowering the rates of freight up~ on the transportation of wheat enst- ward.They Iald before him a resord of the number of chattel mortgiges which had been entered at the try office of the district, the numbet of County Court suits and of Queen's Bench suits which had heen entered for each of the last six years>- \u201cTotal.476 06 «si TI 1086 They declare that while these evi.dencés of lack of prosperity have increased at an extraordinary rate dwr- ing the last two years, as the table shows, the population has hardly ine creased at all.These figures are not got together by politicians seeking to discredit a party policy, but are put forwurd by buriness men &hd farmers who declare that they are being impoverished.The Portage La Prairie Board asked for a reduction in the rate William of dight and one half cents per hundred pounds.Mr.Van Horne informed the Board that the Company had determined upon « reduction of from fifteen to thirty percent from Brandon and Regina to Fort William, but would make no reduction upon the all rall rate to Montreal, which he declared was ss low as could be made.The Winnipeg \u2018Tribune\u2019 calculates that the reduction announced by Mr.Van Horne in the rate to Fort William amounts to about one and a half cent from Portage to Fort Wile liam or lsss than one quarter of what the Board asked for.As for the refusal to lower the rate to Montreal a Portage La Prairie paper says: \u2018We \u2018do not pretend to be able to explain \u2018why the Great Northern can haul \u2018grain from Neche to Duluth or Mew \u2018York at a lower rate than the Ca- \u2018nadian Pacific Raliway oan Maul \u2018grain from Gretna to Fort Willem \u2018or Montreal, but such is the fact.* The Winnipeg \u2018Tribune\u2019 says that the Canadian Pacific and Northern Pacifie Rallways are, by charging higher rates than the traffic will bear, killing the goose in the Canadian North-West that lays the golden eggs.It says: \u2018At present these railways im \u2018the position of taking not only all \u201cthe traffic can stand, but more than * the\u2019traîîfic can actually bear, with the \u201clegitimate result of having brought \u201cthe progress of the country te \u2018standstill.The Canadian Pacific, * which serves all the wheat ares now \u2018under cultivation, is by all odds the \u2018principal offender.Not only te ft \u2018 hampering the progress of the cotn- \u2018munity by its rapacity, but it is se= \u2018riously affecting its own prospests \u201cby the narrow-minded and sherts \u2018sighted policy that it is pursuing.\u2019 If the Canadian Pacific were losing money there would be some excuse fof \u2018te hard dealing.with the farmers of the Canadian North-West who are at present suffering from the low peices of grain which they sell and the high protection prices of all they buy; buf Yan - . Jown 21, 1898., the Company's statement shows that \"its net earnings amounted to three millions last year, and that it has a surplus of over six millions on band.Surely such a prosperous Company can afford to make a reduction in rates to farmers who are compelled by hard times to mortgage their chattels, and even silow debts to be sued for at law because they cannot meet them.These appeals are all, however, to an absolute autocrat that will yield just what suits it.Any one who looks at a recent map of Mani- tobe will find it to be a tract of country singularly well supplied with railways.He will also notice that the arrangement of those raliways is somewhat singular.They are lke the legs of a spider of the daddy- long-legs species.As in ancient days it was provsrilally said that all roads went to Rome, so in Manitoba all rosés go to Winnipeg.Not that they all want to go there.There are a number of them that seem to be sneaking off towards the boundary line with a view to connecting with Unes in competition with the Cans- dian Pacific, but just when they seem about to accomplish thelr object, they find themselves within the attractive control of Winnipeg, and like a meteor brought within the attraction of the sarth, they suddenly make a bolt for that centre, and instead of liber- spider, 12 à few of these lines to accomplish their purpose and nections independent of the possibilities of freight reduction in & new light.\u2014\u2014 LEPROST.Laprosy is far from being unknown in Canada there being a leprosy hoe- have for years been interned.Occasional cases have occurred on the Pacific coast, but thess have been confined to the Chinese and to associates of theirs and are imported cases ra ther than indigenous ones.There have algo been cases discovered in some of our Ontario and Quebec cities, but these have been very rare indeed, and merely of strangers passing through.It is doubtless owing to the publicity given to such cases by the ubiquitous press that the impression has gained ground that leprosy as a disease has -become very much more prevalent of late years.So firm Is this impression that the anti-vaccinationists ascribed the spread of the disease to the practice of vaccination.Thess charges had such an effect upon public opin.fon that the Imperial Government threes years ago appointed a Leprosy Commission to investigate the whole subject and report thereupon.The Commission visited India, where the disease is perbaps most prevalent within the Empire and, therefore, at- forded the best field for a British ofll- clal investigation.Their report, which has just been made public, is calculated to reassure the world with regard to the increase of leprosy.It denies that the has become at all more prevalent curing recent years and declares that at the very worst {t is only stationary.It was charged that the last census had underestimated the number of cases in India, but the commission, after a thorough investigation, charge, and declare that so far from this being.true, of nine hundred and eighty-seven cases referred to in the census, over ten percent had been found under examination to have been free from disease.It states that there has been no increase whatever in the number of cases during the last thirty years, and that investigation clearly shows that the use of vaccine matter has had no effect what- aver.Analyses of vagcine matter fall to show in any caso the presence of the bacillus of leprosy, nor could a trace of these germs be found even in the blood of the lepers.Another striking fact has been brought to light by the commissioners, oy not à ai: case of congenital could be vered and that, of over two thousand cases examined, in not more than a half a dozen could any in a single case that | deny thisp THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.A contemporary does not agree with us upon the consequences likely to follow tbe practice of further economy in the expenditures of public moneys.Rather, perhaps, that paper doer not sgres with Mr.Clouston that there is need for further retrenchment.It states that for some years back the Dominion Government has been practising sconomy, and that, therefore, there is no inflation of trade consequent upon lavish expenditures.The question is one of fact.The theory that business will grow duller when more economy is practised, entil it reaches the normal, is not disputed.Au to the facts, Mr.Clouston Is a man of great observing powers, possessell of unusual means of reaching the truth, Mr.Clouston does not deny that some progress has been made towards economy alrcady.He says nothing about the past, except that too much good money has been wasted, His eyes are directed to the future and with him we looked in that direction when making our comments, It is true that the monsy spent on the Canadian Pacific Railway, for example, did much to give to Canada busy times just bafore 1887, and that the cessation of extraordinary expenditures caused in some measure in this country the quieter years which have since followed.It must also be true, therefore, that every railway bonus and every public work must, to a degree commansurate with its extent, add to commercial activity in appearance, and consequently take from it when arrested.It is clear, therefore, that if governments, mun!- cipalities and cities keep a tighter hold on the purse strings this year, those trades which depend upon the expenditures of public money will show a corresponding dulness.We are also of opinion that commerce on the whole will not be injured, if the public do not launch out too boldly.The amount of business may decrease but the proportion of losses will di- miulsh also, while the strong founds- tion to which trade will be brought, will doubtless repay any temporary sacrifice.There is no reason to be pessimistic regarding trade in Canada; there is no cause at this juncture for despair; but because the disease is not mortel is no reason why a proper regimen should be omitted.Bank reports continue to be the our- rent literature of the street.So far the annual statements of several banks are to hand, and we tabulate them below for convenience of comparison: Rate pe $284,007.38 $300,000.00 - 30 mis 17821008 9 336,511.98 0,000.00 7 190,008.50 105.000.00 |?WIRY 722000 6 106,000.87 10456078?1,885 510.90 1,300,00000 10 Merchants, 00.206.880 10,10887 7 M1700 BN 14 03796 MNOS CT \u2026 15,007 TANGO 6 Merchants made also, in addition, and carried to reserve $00,000 from the sale of $300,000 of new stock.The Hochelaga Bank paid 6 percent and a bonus of 1 percent.In addition to this quite satisfactory showing as to dividend, the banks \u2018were able to show a considerable addition to their reserve funds, profit and loss or contingent.HHT | serersesegyap| +1nesees opaymO) pa) fssilistii * Exciuaive of the $00,000 alvady mentioned.ee It will be observed that these banks are fairly strong in their profit and loes accounts, which may be regarded as the loose change which they cerry in thelr pookets with which to bear the unforeseen losses of the day.Their reserves are In some cares almost equal to thelr capital, and the advantage to be had from this fact is very apparent in, for example, the comparative earnings of the Merchants and the Bank of Commerce.These Institutions are probably equally well managed, they have not experienced any considerable difference in the omdition of trade In the localities covered by them, yet the Merchants, with more tban_deuble_ths reperye the \"| where the Act has lapsed the excuse à fruit.These men have been all alive _THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS Commerce shows oorrespondingly ahead in earnings.We need scarcely take up further space in considering the lessons of these tables, but, in view of the statement sometimes made, that the banks earn undue profits, we may call the attention of our readers to the following table, showing that the net earnings of the banks upon the total nasets which they have the use of do not, by any means, indicate undue profit.Peronnt- quot B Assets.Zarniuge.te A $1407.100 $2497 190 sis 1.90 sesii 108 150,008 1.00 nm 18 1.008 83 51,580,478 1898.60 8.87 0530000 COLE LM 4.901.890 84.176 1.78 4,700,009 ou 157 Da Penpie.7,000,041 155,20 1.98 If it were not for the large amount of reserves, profit and loss, circulation and deposits without interest , the banks of Canada would have materially to reduce the rate of Interest upon savings deposits or increase the rates upon discounts in order to pay the same dividends upon their capital that they pay to-day.This table indicates indirectly what would have been the effect had the note circuls- tion been withdrawn in 1890, or had it been covered by the possession of Government bonds.It is also seen that the banks in Montreal, on the whole, seem to be able to earn more than those of Toronto upon their resources, which probably indicates a closer competition for trade in Ontario.The New York banks have just decided to issue clearing house ocertifi- cates.As this has not been done since the excitement which attended the Baring crisis, it is regarded as indicative of a serious condition of affairs in the United States.The proposed relief of the country from the silver incubus will not take place a moment too soon.The money market in that city did not, however, materially change on receipt of this news, possibly because it was already discounted and possibly aiso on account of the reduction of the Bank of England rate to 2 1-3 percent yesterday.What a difference from 13 percent for call money which ruled in New York upon the same day! \u2014\u2014 A SCOTT ACT VICTORY.It is hard to measure the strategie importance of the victory for the Scott Act in Brome.In many places has been a ready one that the people had looked too much to officials for its enforcement, with the result which they might have expected.Look at Richmond County and Brome County,\u2019 said the advocate of prohibition.\u2018In \u2018each of these you wiil find one or two \u2018men who will stand by the Act \u2018through good and evil report, and \u2018in both it is, in consequence, impreg- *nable\u2019 The civilized world, and particularly Great Britain, has been looking to Canada with straining earnestness to learn the results of permissive prohibition.Buf for one county or two the testimony of our electors \u2014false testimony, we believe, in the worst of cases\u2014is that it is a failure.Had Brome, the County which gave birth to the permissive law and which has enjoyed its benefits from the first, treated it with like contempt the enemies of the permissive Jaw in Great Britain wouid have been jubllant and the Canadian Royal Commission appointed to find out what can be said against prohibition would have had a fine thing to report.Happily, this highland fortress has stood the shock.From despatches s0 far received, It would appear that every township in the county has given & majority for the Act except one.The courageous and self-sacrificing work of men likw Mr.M.B.Jewell, Mr.8.A.Fisher, and a few others who have determinedly, but with singular leniency, secured the enforcement of the Act through all these years, has borne during the contest just ended, organising and working with the same seal that would be shown in a political election and have fairly earned the congratulations which the world owes them to-day.The Woman's Christian Temperance Union also has by cease less work and prayer proved mors effective in securing the result than any equal number of voters.een KIPLING AND QUEBEC.Mr.Stead, the great paradoxical Journalist, is of the opinion that the triumph of 1898, the Imperial Institute, is very much of à failure.As far as any valuable purpose is fulfilled, it has cost millions more than it is worth.Yet, he says, the mil- Hons are well invested, It only for having evoked Mr.Rudyard Kir- ling\u2019s great poem for the oocasion.Krratic nebulosity is & phrase which describes that great poem, though pos- .|and viewing with scorn the mis- other great works of art in our day.Mr.Rudyard Kipling would not, we suppose, be a great poet If he were not under the absolute influence of the seitgeiat, that is to say, the spirit of the moment.Sympethy with the oversoul\u2014dominating sympathy with all that is about one\u2014is one of the principal marks of true greatness.We presume, therefore, that Mr.Rudyard Kipling is none the less, but all the more, & great poet because almost nobody oan make much out of his great poem.For nebulosity is oer- tainly the spirit or fad which governs art, both in painting and poetry, during the ragnaroek, the dseminer- ung, or evening twilight of the nineteenth century.The classic, pelucid clearness which marked the art that prevailed at the dawn of this een- tury was much better able to lift the average man to its level, whatever level that was; but it has, perhaps haturally, given way before the machine methods of this mechanical age.In panting, for instance, the most perfect imitative art is easily excelled by the cheapest photograph.Representations of form and light, and shade are, as it were, brought to perfection by machinery, and we are now assured that color is also graphic process.What then, is left for art.Mere imitation is no longer ts sphere, if ever it was.Its function is to unlock the door of the imagination and set it wandering and wondering.What wonder, then, that mystery and nebulosity are the characteristics which govern the painters\u2019 art in our day.Poetry, like painting, has forsaken the stately recurring numbers of classic form, and sought its material in the shapeloss forms which inhabit the dusk, One may say, what is literature or art for, if not to convey a clear meaning to the multitude?The artist, himself, will perhaps reply, yes, I would give the world to know what I do it for.Mr.Kipling hag only one verse for Canada, while he celebrates five cities of Australia and five of India.His verse about the eity of Quebec is this : From my grey scarp I watch with scornful eyes Ignoble broil of freedom, most unfres, Fear nothing, mother, Where the carcase lies, That unclean bird must be.It is pretty plain, at least, what this means.It presents the ancient stronghold sitting aloft on her cliff, Title of surrounding American Ge mocracy.Presented as a rock of feudalism rising unshaken out of the \u2018wide, tossing sea of democracy,-Que- bec fs, on the face of the picture, lot a representative city of Canada.Yet it would appear that, but for mediaeval Quebec, Canadas is too contemptible to have a place in the poet's soul.But what are the facts?Is Quebec as exalted in her morals as in her dwelilng place on the rocks?Alas, we fear that by the time feudal Quebec shall be able to despise the rest of America for its corruption, it will be altogether too modern and regene- rato to have a place in the sympe- thies of Mr.Rudyard Kipling.\u2014_\u2014 The International Typographcial Union of America, in session at Chicago, has passed a resolution recommending Government control of the telegraph system.It is over twenty years since the Union, while in session in this city, laid on the table a motion to do that same thing.The strongest argument in favor of the project was that a postal telegraph system would destroy or mitigate the power of the press association of that day, which by refusing to grant favorable terms for telegraphic matter, could fn effect prevent anyone starting a newspaper in any large city.But the Union is, perhaps, the most conservative of all labor organisations, and, while desirous of increasing the means of giving work to its members, declined to take the re sponsibility of placing so much power in the bands of the American Government.Even the Typographical Union, however, changes with time.Probe- bly there is not a member of the body to-day \u2018who will recollect the oircum- stances of that Montreal session.Flow much influence their present recommendation may have in securing postal telegraphy for the people remains to be seen.That tt would have cost a bagatelle twenty odd years ago to what the United States would have to pay now to secure the telegraph lines is certain.The Western Union Telegraph Company is much more influential ss to legislation at Washington than is the Typographl- cal Union, They hold the monopoly of the telegraph lines almost all over the North American Continent, snd will be loath to part with it.rere The elections in Germany have perhaps for the first time in her history been the free voice of her people upon the fasues of the day.Hitherto the sibiy not sa wall as it does many Emperor and his Chancellor and the right and left sh the shoud minor royaities have exercised a8 undue influence upon the electors.The people always felt when at the polls that they were under the eye of the Emperor and Prince Bismarck, and within reach of the swords and carbines of the cavalry.In this election the democratic spirit has been predominant.The Government has come out of the struggle somewhat strengthened, perhaps, but it has been at the expense of the more moderate Liberals, who opposed its policy, and who have been !aimost overwhelmed.Large masses of the mode- rats Liberals have apparently broken away from their party, one to join the Conservatives and the other and larger to join the Bocial Democrats.The Army bill may be passed by the new Reichstag, but it will only be after the bill has bean greatly modi- fled, and fair warning has been given the Emperor and his advisers that they must look forward to a time in the near future when Germany will have to contrive to get slong with a greatly reduced military establish ment.That ls the policy of the Social Democrats, who are gathering strength at the sams tims that the more Conservative parties are modi- tying their opinion as sity, and even the maintaining the robes, silver bells and harness, was, it appears, the suggestion of the Coun- tems of Derby, who Is far more likely to know what would be pleasing to ber Royal country-woman than are the people of Canada, and the chief consideration in the selection of such a gift is that it should give pleasure to the receiver.The Countess\u2019 suggestions might therefore have been very well allowed to stand, but it appears that she has decided to refer the question to the Duke of York, who will , it is to be presumed, consult the personal desire of the Princess.It is not improbable that the fashionable form of an accepted cheque for the amount of the subscriptions would be the really best form the present could take.An English paper states that already gifts are simply pouring in, and that many of them are being sent to storage and will never be seen again either by the recipients or by the publie, who wish to see the display of royal marriage gifts.It would be & pity if the Canadian gift were to be numbered among the useless and cumbersome.\u2014_\u2014 The * Gazette\u2019 thinks a great opportunity is before the Dominion Government which it should not fall to seize.It says: \u2018A rebuff in a consti- \u2018tuency which he (Mr.Dalton Mc- ¢ Carthy) has selected as a field for the \u2018 propagandism of a new turn of opin- \u2018fon in his mind would reduce tariff \u2018reform to the level of unrestricted \u2018 reciprocity.\u2019 \u2018Only open Cardwell \u2018by making an appointment of the \u2018proper person to the Collectorship \u2018of Montreal\u2019 says in affect our contemporary to the Dominion Govern ment ; \u2018defeat Mr.MoCarthy\u2019s candi- \u2018date In the election that will follow, \u2018and tariff reform will thereafter \u2018no longer trouble you.\u2019 \u2018But what \u2018if we don't defeat Mr, McCarthy?says the Government.\u2018Oh, well, \u201cyou would then have still the satis- \u2018faction of having made a fine ap- \u2018 pointment to the colientorship.\u2019 The Government still wags its bead doubtfuly at the programme drawn out for it, and Cardwell is still un~ opened.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The victory of the Conservatives in Linlithgowshire was not an unexpected one.The Government has aroused an unexpectedly strong nppo- sition in Scotiand by its course in fe- vor of disestadlishment.The pastors and people of the Established Church have worked for all they are worth against the Government, and it must be admitted that they have had some success, wrought by the Government's disestablishment policy and the opposition of the Established Church that it is fresly predicted that Mr.Gladstons cannot again de re-elected for Mid- lothian.The resistance of Ulster to home rule has doubtless also had some effect upon the Scotch peoples views of the Home Rule Bill but they would not have allowed that to turn them (n favor of the Conservatives.re RIOTOUS SOCIALISTS.Berlin, June 13.\u2014A mod of 3 Social Democrats broke into & ball near Et- bing this evening and attacked the Conservatives, who were meeting there.The Conservatives made little resistance Upon the advice of Herr von Puttakmer, who was conducting the meeting, they withdrew as quickly as possible, leaving the Socialists to smash the ssats and tables.The police wers called out and cléared the hall, but the Socialists refused to disperse.Xv Event ually the police gharged upon cialists before the Many rioters were It is owing to the ehange (the CALLED HIM A MURDERER EXCITING JCENES AT THE IM- QUEST OVER THE FORD THEATRE VICTIMS.Washington, June 13.\u2014At the after Doon seasion of the inquest on the Ferd theatre victima, a well dressed man walked forward and in a voice trembling with passion, and shaking his fist in Colonel Ainsworth\u2019s face, shouted, \u2018You murdered my brother and you shan\u2018t sit there intimidating witnesses.\u2019 The man was Charles Barnes, whose brother Was a victim of the disaster.After the uproar thus occasioned had quieted Mr.Davis, representing Colonel Ainsworth, started to speak, when a dozen exeited departmental clerks rose to their feet and ahouted for him to sit down.The Heutenant of police endesvored to quiet the outbreak, but his voice was as ineffectual as It would have been in a cyclone.The excitament grew to intensity.Nearly every clerk present who was employed in the old theatre building, was on his feet shouting.At first they only called \u2018sit down,\u2019 \u2018shut your mouth,\u2019 but finally some frensied individual cried \u2018hang him, hang him.* Men were springing forward by this time and mers spectators sought cover.1t looked as if harm would come to Ains- worth for some clerks were shaking their fists over his head and others were pushing forward as if they wished to tear him in pieces.Mr.Warner, one of the jurors, finally managed to quiet the mob and the deputy corones adjourned the tnquest.Dr.Shaetfer adjourned the taquest wn.til 11 o'clock to-morrow morning at the first precinct police station.After the adjournment the department clerks stood about the hall talking excitedly over the accident.Col.Ajusworth sal tn his chair for a minute and then walked quietly out of the bullding through « side door connected with Willard's hotel.When the hall was emptied the excited language of the clerks continued on the sidewalk and finally old Butler Fitch mounted the entrance of the bullding and proposed an indignation meeting immediately.The propesition was adopted and the clerks took poses- sion of the hall.Smith Thompsen was elected chairman of the meeting, and bitter denunciations of Col.Alnsworth and those who justified his course were indulged in.A committee cousisting of Smith Thompson, W.N.Bayre, B.Fitch- Percy Munroe and M.M.Jarvis were appointed to wait upon the President and protest against thé proposed secret session and to urge the suspension of Col.Ainsworth pending the investigation.Bubsequently it was said that the inquest would be resumed to-morrow in the same hall, but under befter police arrangements À MANDANUS IMSUED.Washington, June 12\u2014A writ of mandamus has been served by the Bu- preme Court of the District of Columbia on the application of Col.Ainsworth, directing the deputy coroner to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue against him | from continuing further the inquest over the remains of the victims of the old theatre &lmaster, \u2014_\u2014 METHODISTS AND MISSIONS TER SUSJECT DECUSED AT TKR ZCRONTO CONFERENCE YESTERDAY.Toronto, June !12\u2014At the Teronts Methodist Conference yesterday the amendment to transfer the Committee report not to station the Rev.J.H.Locke from the Bay of Quinte Conference till all the active members in the Conference be placed, was withdrawn.Dr.Sutherland, in presenting the report of the Missionary Department, spoke of the Woman's Missionary Society and the amount of good which it was accomplishing.Referring to the present and future relations of the Epworth Leagues and Young People\u2019s societies to the general mission work he pointed out the dangers which might occur from not working through the regular church channels.In closing, ha referred to ths vast opportunities which were now offered for missionary work.Bome reference to the remarks of Dr.Douglas regarding the action of Decennial Conferencs at of opinion on this matter, and ft would de well before any action was taken to have the fullest light in regard to action which had been taken n the Decennial Convention.A ttes Tas sppointed to report the whole mate \u2014_\u2014 A NEW YORK HORROR.New York, June 13.\u2014The six-story building filled with \u2018sweater shops\u2019 af Nos.10 and 12 Montgomery atreet, caught fire at 8 o'clock this morning and in the mad rush to the streets of the 250 souls working thers at the time three were killed and several injured.The firemen are searching the different floors of the burned building and it is possible their search will result in adding to the death list.It was impossible to identify any one of the three bodies that lay horribly mangled th streets, The dead are: Unknown woman.2 years old; unknown man, 30 years old: unknown man, 38 years oid.The injured are Gusaia Augustorsky, ¥ years old; she jumped from the first story or what happensd to hi these, many people muttered dight In- Juries In scrambling snd falling down the fire escapes.It is believed that ait got out safely but the three killed and the half-dosen who were injured.It 1s said two of the Injured will die.It was reported at Il o'clock that two more bodies had bees found tu the building.There is a stable on the ground floor of the duflding and three horses were burned to death there.The loss will reach many thousands of dollars, but is well Insured.The canes of the Plas is & mystery, is supposed to be of inoendiery Ton \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A DEADLY FLASH.Adrian, Mo.June.M-\u2014Mix Wright brothers were sta: under a tres near their when light.home ning killed four of them outright aad injured the ether twe os that Lay may \u2018 CANADIAN PLUCK.A BUCCEEBFUL CANADIAN BUSINESS EXTENDED TO RNGLAND.ALTROVON BUT A SEONT TINE IN THAT COUN- TAT THE PRESS PROXOUNCR TEE SUOCERS PHEXOMEN AT.The phrase \u2018British pluck\u2019 has become an adags and not without good reason for wherever enterprise, courage, or \u2018bull-dog tenacity\u2019 is required to sweep AWAY OF BUrmoOUDt Oppumng obstacles in order that the pinnacle of success may be reached, your true Briton never finches, and facing all obstacles works until success has been achieved.This same \u2018British pluck\u2019 is a characteristic of the native born Canadian, and there are very few walks in life in which it does not bring success as the reward.This much by way of prelude to what bears every Indication of being & auc- cesaful venture on the part of & well- known Canadian house.When it was announced a few months ago that the Dr.William's Medicine Co., of Brock» ville, intended establishing a branch of their business in the motherland, there were not a few who were inclined to be skeptical as to the success of the venture, while some boldly predicted fallure.\u201cThere would be an objection,\u2019 they urged, \u2018to taking up colonial remedy.the business methods differed from those prevailing in Canada; \u2018the field was already crowded with proprietary remedies, long established agd well advertised.\u201d These and many other objections were urged as reasons why the venture was a doubtful one.But the Dr.William's Medicine Co.was not to be deterred by any objections that might be raised They had unbounded confidence in the merit of Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink 1'lls for Pale People, and the pluck to back up their confidence with their cash.This latter is well known to Canadian newspaper men, who know that leas than three years ago the company first put upon the market in the form of Pink Pills à prescription which had previously only been used in private practice, end with a skill and audacity that has not been surpassed in the annals of Canadian advertising pushed it in the van of all competitors.Of course, the remedy bad to have merit, or this could not have been done, and it was the company's sincere belief In the merit of their remedy that endowed them with the pluck to place thelr capital behind tt.It was this same con- victlon that merit, skilfully advocated.will command success that induced them to venture into competition with the long-established remedies of the motherland.And we are glad to know\u2014 indeed we belleve that all Canadians will be glad to learn\u2014that short as is the time the Dr.Willlam's Compaay has been in that field, their success has been rapid and ever increasing.As an instance of this success the \u2018Chemist and Druggist, the leading drug Journal of the world, and probably the most conservative, in & recent issue states that the success of Dr.Wil Jan's Pink Pills in Great Britain has been unprecedented and phenomenal.\u2018While.no doubl, it is the advertising that bas brought this remedy into such rapid prominence in England, it is the merit of the preparation ihat Kees it there and makes it popular with the people.There are few newspaper readers in Canada who have not read of the cures that, to say the least, border on the marvellous, brought about by the use of Dr.Willlam's Pink Pills, and already we see by the English papers that the same results sre being achieved thers.Is it any wonder then that Pink Pills are popular wherever introduced?We have done business with this firm for a number of years.We have found them honorable and reliable, and worthy of credence In all that they clalm for their remedy.We cannot close this article better than by giving in a condensed form the particulars of a striking cure in Nott ingham, England, by the use of Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills The cure i» vouched for by the Nottingham \u2018Daily Express the leading journal of the Midland Counties: The picturesque suburb of old Bas- ford, some three miles from the Marketplace of Nottingham, has just been the scene of an uccurrence which has excited considerable attention among the local residents, and of which rumors have reached Nottingham \u2018tseif.The circumstances affect Mr.Arthur Watson, of Old Basford, formerly an employee In the bleach yard at Messrs, H.Ashwell and Co.'s hosiery factory, in New Basford, and afterwards employed at the Bestwood Coal and Iron Co.'s factory near Nottingham.In conse quence of the gossip which has been in circulation with regard to this case.a local reporter called upon Mr.Watson at his bright little house situated at No.19 Mount-pleasant, Whitemoor road, Old Basford, and made enquiries as to the curious circumstances alleged.The visitor was met by Mrs.Watson, but Mr.Watson himself immediately afterwards entered the room, looking very Jittle like the victim of sudden paralysis He told the story of his life's health as follows:\u2014In boyhood he was prostrated by a severe attack of rheumatic fever, which, after his alow recovery, left behind it a permanent weakness and uncertainty of action in the heart, and he had always been debilitated and more or less feeble, On giving up his work at Messrs.Ashwell's bleach factory, he sought change of employment, and undertook the work of attending to furnaces at kilns at the Bestwood Coal and Irom Co.'s Works, being at the time an out-putient of the General Hospital, Nottingham, where he was treated for weakness of the heart.The circumstances of bis work at the furnaces were somewhat peculiar.Exposed on one side to the extreme heat of the furnace, he was attacked on the other by the chilling winds which 0 distressing to many people t October, and one day in that month he was suddenly prostrated by a stroke which had all the appearance of per- marent paralysis, and was pronounced uch by the doctors who attended him.\u2018The eourse of the stroke appears to bave been down the entire right side.His leg was entirely powerless, and he was unable to stand.He could not Îtft his right arm from bis side or from any position in which he was Bit face wns horribiy, and / the organs of spesch completely paralysed, so that he was abie neither to stand nor speak His condition is described by (huse acquainted with him us being most pitlable.He luy in this condition for more than three months, suffering intermittently considerable pain, but more affiicted by his utter helplesgners than by sufferings of any other kind.His wishea were indicated hy signs and feeble mumblings.The distortion of his face was rendered the more apparent by the ghastly pallor of his features, and he lay in bed, anticipating nothing batter than that death should eventually relive him of his helplessness.The Rev.Walter Cooper, Wesleyan Methodist minister, whose flock have their epiritual habitation In a substantial building tn High street, Old Bas- ford, took a pastor's intereat in the case of this unfortunate man, and is acquainted with the circumstances from almost the first to the last.A week or two ago Mr.Watson began to astonish all his neighbors by the sudden improvement in his appearance and capacity.He is able to walk about, and his right arm.which was formeriy per fectiy incapable of motion, is now mov- eu Almost as rendily as the other, though the fingers have not yet recov- ervd their usual delioate touch.Per haps the moat striking circumstance, however, is the great improvement in the personal aspect of the man.The deformity of feature caused by the paralysis is entirely removed.His speech is restored, and the right les, the displacement of which kept him to his bed or chair, has now recovered its function so completely that he is about to take some out-door work iu Basford snd Nottingham.Questioned as to the cause of this remarkable Improvement in & case uni- vermally regurded as incurable by the medical profession, Mrs.Watson, wife of the patient, unhesitatingly attributed her husband's miraculous recovery to the use of a Medicine called Dr.Wil- Hams\u2019 Pink Pills for Pale People, and brought Into considerable prominence by the publication of some remarkable cures affected by their means in Canada and elsewhere.\u2018Since I have taken Dr.Witliame\u2019 Pink Pilla\u2019 said Mr.Watson, \u2018I have unquestionably been better not only than I was before the stroke of paralysis seized me, but than ! bave been at any time of my life since my boyhood,\u201d a statement confirmed by Mrs.Watson, who zaid the appearance of her husband now was proof of the enormous improvement in his health.\u2018The pills,\u2019 she said, \u2018seem not only to have cured the paralysia of the face and lez, dut to have effected a most remarkable change in his general health.\u2019 Mr.Watson was always remarkably pallid and of & sickly appearance, but the ruddy glow of the patient's face confirmed Mrs.Watson's words.\u2018I assure you,\u2019 ssid she, \u2018we can spesk in the highest possible terms of Dr.Wil- llam's Pink Pills.Nothing either at the General Hospital or from the doctors who have attended my husband at different times, has done anything like the good which the few boxes of Dr.William's Pills he has taken have effect- od, and, under Providence, we feel he owes his life and his restoration to work and usefulness to this wonderful medicine.Mr.Charles Leavesiey, Insurance Agent, at Cowley street, Old Basford, has among other neighbors been deeply moved by the sufferings of Mr.Watson, and profoundly impressed by his miraculous restoration to health.The case has, in fact, been a topic of conversation in the entire neighborhood.Attention is drawn to the cireum- stance that every fact in the above remarkable history is vouched for by independent evidence which it would be morally impossible to doubt.It is shown by conclusively attested evidence that Dr.William's Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine in the ordinary sense, but & scientific preparation from a formula long used in regular practica by one of the most eminent of Canadian physicians, a distinguished graduate of Edinburgh University.They are shown to positive ly and unfailingly cure all diseases arising from impoverished blood, such as pale and mallow complexion, General Murcular Weakness, Loss of Appetite, Depression of Spirits, Anaemia, Green Sickness, Palpitation of the Heart, Shortness of Breath, Pain in the Back, Nervous Headache, Disxiness, Loss of Memory, Early Decay, all Forms of Female Weakness, Hysteria, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxy, Rheumatism, Bciati- ca, all Diseases depending on Vitiated Humours in the Blood, causing Scrofu~ la, Rickets, Hip Joint Diseases, Chron- 1e Erysipelas, Catarrh, Consumption of the Bowels and Lungs: and also invigorates the Blood snd System when broken down by overwork, worry, df Theses pilis are not a purgative medicine.They contain nothing that could injure the most delicate system.They act directly on the blood, supplying to the blood ita life-giving qualities, by assisting it to absord oxygen, that great supporter of all organie lite.In this way the blood becoming \u201cbuilt up\u2019 and being supplied with its lacking eonstitucnts, becomes rich and red, nourishes the various organs, stimulates them to activity in the performance of their functions, and thus to eliminate disease from the em These Pills are manufact by the Dr.Willlanw' Medicine Company, of 4 Holborn Viaduct, London, England, (and of Brockville, Ontario, Cane- da, and Schenectady, N.Y.), and 'hre sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrappers at M» 9 « box, or six boxes for 13 Ml.Pam- phiet free by post on application.Bear in mind that Dr.Willlam\u2019s Pink Pills for Pale People are never sold In bulk, or by the doten or hundred, und any dealer who offers substitutes in this form fa trying to defraud you, and should be avoided.eo vues Piok Pills be had of cf sts or direct by post from Dr.William's Medicine Company from the above address.The price at which these pifls are sold makes course of treatment comparatively in.expenrive «9 compared with other remedies or medical treatment.D° YOU WANT A FARM! Advertin is the Wolly Wine.Tentp sans for bueniy-ive vents co tr 3 nééittenel vends vus em each F THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS AGRICULTURAL HORTIOULTURAL (Wr duvide camerunicaions from formers piving thelr auporience 0m matéors intercating Ve thew 02 6 01420 ; end also cugu.riés, te which, (fe cannot casser them our anttes, soma af our rvadare may be able te f'urnieh cuite factory replies, Questions wat always bs sarompanicd by sans and addres, though net aesarily for pubic: cation.) FARM GLEANINGS.To have a perfect stand of corn, each stalk well developed and good ear, it will be n out the poor and sickly stalks early in the season.Do it as 3008 as the growth of all has procesded far enough to enable you to determine which the backward ones are.Double tol) should be charged for every loaded waggon that has narrow tire.You cannot compel s man to use wide tire, but if he is wo narrow-minded aa to use a narrow one, a double tax will widen his views.Those who Wear out the road and gst the most benefit from tt should also pay for it\u2014'American Garden.\u2019 Give the corn crop the best cultivation of which you are capable.Ian many sections of the country the season has been so wet that farmers have been unable to get their corn in until very lata, d unless sl! conditions are unusually favorable it will have hard work to mature before frost.Consequently corm may be of more vilue presently than it now fs.Frogs greadlly devour insects of all kinds except large hard-shelled beelles and snails, which they cannot swallow.Slugs, grubs, files, etc.never seem to come amiss to them, while they are particularly partial to moths; they catoh the latter by springing at them as they hover over the flowers in the evening.An earthenware saucer should be kept in the shadiest part of the garden, and filled with fresh water daily.When files become troublesome in a house or room they can siways be expelled by a very simple mixture.A half teaspoonful of black pepper, finely ground, should be mixed with double the quantity of brown sugar, and the compound be moistened with cream.The flies will generally eat greadily of this mixture if placed where they can easily reach it, but {t will ba their last meal, for the least taste of it is to & fly rank poison.If watched they will often be seen to drop dead within a few feet of the plate they have just left, and some of the healtbiest esters do not ilve to leave the plate.To keep bugs away from the squash and melon vines, dissolve about a teaspoonful of saltpetre in a quart of water and aprinkie the vines with it twice a week, wetting both the upber and lower side of the lenf.It is most effectual if done in the early morning when tbe dewis on.A atift brush is the best irm- plement to throw on the water with if there are not enough to require the regular spraying pump.Being nitrate of potash it In also ore of the best feetil- isers for them, and Some say that nitrate of soda may be used Instead of the saltpetre.An experiment made in France for the treatment of rust in wheat is paid one-half an acry one-half was up! with a solution of four and one-half pounds of sulphate of copper, and six and three-quarters pounds sulphate of soda, dissolved In two gallons of water.The sprayed portion produced at the rate of thirty-six bushels per acre, with clean white straw, while the other produced only twenty-two bushels per acre with a very rusty black straw.This would be at the rate of eighteen pounds of copper sulphate and twenty- seven pounds of soda sulphates to eight gallona of water per acre, and a gain of fourteen bushels of wheat.Every farmer should study to know the character and growth of weeds, as well ag the crops on his farm, as without this knowledge he cabnot Succeastully exterminate the one or perpetuate the other.Some wesds grow from the seed only and mature the seed crop the first year.Some are perennial and propo- gate both from the roots and seed, and mature seed each year.The first should be cut down before the formation of blossom or maturity of seed; the last should be dug entirely out of the ground.These last Damed varisties are easily distinguishable.If, after the growing season has passed, and the seed stem has matured an examination of the roots is made there will be found a small bulb at the centre of the atool, or small tubers projecting from the seemingly decayed roots, or small pea- shaped bulbs attached to the root (owing to the variety).These are the germs that produce the stem and support the blossom that matures the seed next year, and the new crop seed again produces other nsw plants.This being the case it is easily comprehended that, by digging this stool out, the germ that produces the seed, stem, and blos- nom, for the next season is destroyed, or if permitted to grow the next season and eut or pulled out before maturity of blossom, the same result is accomplished.Three consecutive seasons of such treatment will utterly exterminate this class of pests.No noxious weed should be allowed tp mature its seed on any part of the farm, or along any highway contiguous to the farm \"The \u2018Detroit News\u2019 pablishes the following comparative statement of market prices in that city and in Toronto: to have been successful.On = dad pt toe, Detroit.Toronto.coarse wool, Ib.= 1 Wheat, bushel.n - Bariey, bushel 5 » Outs, » s Beans, bushel $1.60 $110 No.1 timothy we ue Eggs, dos 16 \"w Coal oll, 1 16 Wire fencing, 20 +50 Wire nails, owt.3.9 Cut steel nalls, cwt.50 The Government have determined to offer à Sret prie of £L10, and & second of 8 fer best collections of dried spocimens of uoxious weeds collected in ti colony, and similar prises for the best collection of Innects injurious te vegetation in New Zealand, and their natural enemies and parasites, The collections for competition (says the New Zealand Times\u2019) must be sent into the Department of tculture within a specified period\u2014probadly up to the end of the present year.It is expectef that the competition will con- Guee largeiy % the destruction of moxious weeds aod Insecta, besiles en- souraging habits observation amongst sountrx setters, IVa nadecstand that it ig also in contemplation te offer prises for collections of the internal and external parasites of stock, and langer prises for the best eollections of grasses and forage plants, native and introduced.And yet some farmers cannot understand why they are not making money, and why their sons and daughters re fuse to remain in the Dominion.While the rate of taxation hav greatly increased.the values of the farmer's products have greatly decremsed.In 187% when the high tariff was first adopted, one bushel of wheat, ons bushel of barley and one bushel of oats were together worth $3.3; to-day the same quantity of wheat, barley and oats ls only worth $1.40.The prices of what the farmers have to buy is kept up by the tariff.Farmers do not get any advantage from the reduction of priced abroad, while the prices of what they have to sall have fallen In sympathy with those ruling in free trade England, \u2014\u2014\u2014 LIVE STOCK NOTES Don't keep more bogs than you can feed and care for well.Hogs should have salt regularly, an occanlonal feed of ashes, charcoal aud sulphur.An average farm animal, well fed, weighing one thousand pounda will produce about seventy-two pounds of manure per day, or thirtesn tons per year.Froperiy handied, this should be worth ous dollar per ton This is an item that is worthy of serious consideration.For breeding sows save the best pigs from the beat mothers, and be aure the mothers are good milkers, also have à good disposition, There is as much difference in sows in this respect as there ls in cows, Keep well bred hogs of the breed that suits you best.The day of scrubs ought to be past.Hut to go back to the pigs again, I lke to get the little fellows to eating for themselves as soon as possible.To do this, make a feeding piece for them where the mother cannot get to them Give them a little warm skim-mik in a small trough at first to coax them to feed, and keep Increasing the feed, xiving them all they will eat up clean three times @ day.Keep on giving the milk if you have it, ading some shorts.This I find to be the best feed to grow young pigs.1f you haven't the milk mix the shorts with water.Get the pigs on pasture as soom as possible.Clover is the bast.1 think they sbould have a little corn with their other feed.\u2018To teach a young calf to eat oatmeal first give it a little in the hand ; It will soon learn to eat it, and then a small feedbox may be fixed in the pes, in which the meal is placed.At first the calf cannot digest this kind of food, and not until it is three weeks old, and its teeth are beginning to appear, because the saliva is not secreted until them, and this is needed to digest solid food.The quantity given at first should not be more than one ounce, and thin may be gradually increased until six ounces daily are given at the end of a month.he increase should be gradual after that \u2018Some Virginia farmers make a dog law, and live up to it in their farm prac- and with the full knowledge of their neighbors.One of these who koeps dogs himself agrees that anybody who finds his dogs off bis farm and alone may kill them, and that he shall Kilt any dogs he may find wandering alone on his farm.Another one has & standing bargaln with his hired man to pay a bounty of Afty cents on dog scalps killed on his farm.This gentleman has s pair of trained bulldogs that kill every strange dog they find alone on the farm.He says they make quick and sure work.Another very enterprising sheep-ralser shoots every dog that prowls around his premises, day or night.He makes it & rule to get the dogs befors they get his sheep, and thus avoids the losses and annoyances usually experisnced.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PUULTRY PARAGRAPHS, Pork is selling at about the same price as chickens The question is: Will the people eat it at the same price?Don't try to raise a thousand hens tilt you are sure you can make & FUCOMS of a hundred.Feed young chickens a little and often.Allowing them hungry and then feeding them as much as they can eat is injurious.Bone meal is one of the best things that can be used in rearing poultry.A tablespoonfui mixed with each quart of soft fcod will make them strong and vigorous.An unventiiated poultry house is simply a breeding place for sll the diseases that fowis are subject to.Nearly one-holf the young turkeys die from lice.Bearch closely on the skim of the head and neck of each.anû use 88 a reamdy ose or twe drops of sweet nearly dry condition is the best.Name if you will the cow, borse or sheep on the farm that will pay anywhere near as well proportionally es a good flock of hens.The waste from the table usually finds Its way to the pie peu; but It is quite clear that fow! would yield a much larger returs from thie foed than the ordinary hog.Such waste ad bits of bread, meat, potato, is particularity desirable for poultry, that can only be heaithy and proliie whea mipplief with a diet of great variety.kept by the housewife = MALIGNING MANITOBA.I recentiy saw a letter published in the Edinburgh \u2018Beetsman,\u2019 written by « very pessimistic individual who is residing with a friend tm Manitobs, and who has & very poor opinion of the agricultural capabilities of the Oansdlan North-West.He recounts and sxagger- ates all the things that help to make farming unprofitable and unpiessant, such as excessive cold in winter, summer frosts, low prices of farm produce, high rallway freights, exactions of im- plemant sellers, and, worst of all, the N.P., which seems to be peculiarly adapted to squeese tha new settler où à prairie farm.After giving his ideas of the real causes which hinder agricultural prosperity ia the North-West, he goes où to give his ideas about stook- raising.He says :\u2014 As regards cattle raising, it anybody can convince me that it can be made a paying industry, where cattle have to be housed and hand-fed for six or seven months in the year, snd beet realising two and a- quarter cents per pound, live weight, I will admit that this fs a stock-ralsing country.I would advise farmers\u2019 delegates from Bootland to visit Manitoba in future in the months of January or February.They would them be better able to judge as to the adaptability of the country for the British settler, and 1 have no hesitation in saying that they would pronounce the climate as unfit for any white man to live tn.\u2019 With unlimited aress of pasturage end almost unlimited quantities of wild hay\u2014 to be had for the gathering\u2014cattie-rais- ing ought to psy the farmer, even at the low price quoted, but really good fat beeves usually bring four cents per pound, live weight, in Manitoba, while in the ranches westward of Manitoba as good enttle may be found as où almost any farm in bonny Scotiané, and these ranche cattle have not cost over ten percent of the cost of raising such cattle in Great Britain.The writer does not refer to tha great poesibilities in the way of hog-fesding in a country where there is a supersbundance of cheap grain to fatten them on, nor does he may a word about the still greater possibilities of successful dairying, nel- ther of which is liable to be injured by summer frosts.Indeed, I am surprised at the dilatoriness of our North-West- ern farmers in not going mere strongly into the dalrying industry, with its co- relative branch of pork raising.This Manitoba maligner has the following remarks sbout free schools \u2018In regard to free education, it le fres to fhe children, but not te their pareuta or even \u2018other settlers who have ao interest in a school.My friend here has no children to send to a school, nevertheless he has to pay his share of school rates.In the school division to which he belongs the average attendance of scholars in ten during the summer months: in winter the school is discontinued.For the education of those ten children for six months im the year, every farmer occupying half à section of land has to pay « special school tax of about ten dollars, or £3 aterting, yearly, Besides this there is a general school tax.\u2019 It would not be & large school district which contained thirty halt sections of land, and st ten dollars of special tax each it would amount to three hundred dollars, a rather large sum for educating tem children for six months.Such costly schooling must be rare, even in Manitoba.RUSTICUS.\u2014 HORSES FOND OF WOMEN.Not long ago a muscular 3-pound man, with his wife beside him, was driving a fast, high-spirited horse, har- light waggon, write H.C.Merwin in en interesting articie entitled \u2018When Woman Takes the Reins,\u2019 in the June \u2018Ladies\u2019 Home Journal\u2019 The horse pulled very hard, and at last, tired out, the driver handed over the reins to his companion, saying: \u2018Hold on to this beast for a minute, if you possibly can, sc that 1 slay rest my arms\u2019 Accordingly the woman the reins, and no sooner had she done so than the horse stopped pulling.siackened his pace and became aim and obedient.But when the man resumed control the animal immediately began to pull and to fight against the bit as hard as ever.A second time the woman took the horse in hard; as before, he submitted at once, and under her guidance he trotted gently alopg till thelr destination was reached.Another case that fell under my observation Is\u2019 the following:\u2014A gentie- man who is a good shot and an expert tennis player, but who has mo \u2018faculty\u2019 drove out with hie daughter, a very strong, mettiesome animal, soon began to plunge and pull.Unable to eontrol him otherwise, the drivers ins Ç \u2018Juxs 21, 1898, NOISE IN CITIES.A GREAT EVIL AND HOW 10 REMEDY IT.(New York \u2018Times.') There always comes @ period ia the history of a progressive community when a desire to keep down noige begins to show itself.In the primitive stages of culture the savage, the bare barian, and the semi-barbarian, the pession for noise ls always strong.All savages and barbarians love to make all the row they can.Their joy and surruw both express themselves in yel wails and shouts, and the beating blowing of loud-resounding instruments, more eapeclaily the drum and tbe hern.The noise of primitive savage warfare slmost equals that of the gunpowder engagements of modern arme, nithough it was, as we might say, almost wholly manus! or vocal.The din of a barbarian funeral, too, way and is semething appalling.The practice of hiring mourners to make a loud lament on such ot casiong has come down Almost to our own time among the Celtie Irish.All African travellers describe the noise of little merrymaking In an Atrogn no Inge as something which awful shriliness and intensity.In fact, it i hardly an exaggeration to say that the progress of a race ia civilisation way be marked by a st reduction in the volume of seund deaths, births, marriage, fesatings, merrymakings, ita wars and trade, commerce, and manufactures.\u2018The more culture of all kinds it Quires, the ises noise it produces.There 1s no aurer sign, in fact, of an upward movement of the tribal than the ; ask this or that could not safely be with fewer yells or smaller @rums, it shows that it is becoming aelf-con- scious, and is feeling the throbs of a new life.After thia comes a change in the character of musical instruments, of the tones of the military drill.18 of cour dapiayed re repression of eourse of street cries, of street music of all noises made (or mere amusement, sueh as bsatiag of drums, and blowing of horns, and ess and persistent shouting and yelling.\u2018These are but rudimentary steps, and we have already taken them In New York.The next god most important one, tke reduction the noise made by the gitimate street trafic, we are ginning.Its importance has cognised in the modern worl sausu\" With the increasing in and care for public hygiene.no modern ity health city doctor, + well aware of the evil affecte sant noise om the vast and | multitudes who, in all the great now live, one might my.by their but, mere accurately, by their nerves The amount of mental operations which require silence, or at ail events an ep- proach to silence, for their healthfulness in cities like New York, London or Paris, carried où by nurchants, brok- ere, bankers, book-kespers, teachers, professors, architects, designers, engravers, painters, students, judges, lawyers, editors, ministers.is something enormous.snd grows with all our material growth, The performance of work in the midst of tremendous roar of any kind, of course, inereases the expenditure of vil which accompanies all mental exertion.Consequently the reduction of city noise is now one of the most Important elements tn all city reforms.made « begipning on it by the introdue- tion of the asphalt pavement, but this is being rapidly extended, and must produce a marked effect in wound reduc tion before long.What this pavement does to lessen nolse on the street br which it exists, everybody whe has & i \u201cfe He 12 Es Ë NE sleep in summer nights with open jo dows an easy possibility\u2014facts are really a complete answer to ail complaints of slipperiness.Better that an occasional horse should come down than that the nerves thousands of hard-working men and men should be continuously set ea by clatter which is all the more wearing for being intermittent.Im Londen the hard-grinding, soul-penetrating noise of the New York stons pavement has bees su; or rather has bewm largely conver into s subdued com- tinuous roar or boom by means of wood, eaphalt and macadam; and though horses fall much sr them, all humanity gains.But in London there is a strong de- 4 % 8 ?Th sdgeid\u2019 rindi fair way of abatement in the side but not the slightest attempt has been mads to abate the awful storm of noise on the great Imes of traffic, Broadway, Fifth, Sixth and Third ave- more fraportant problem oan tres; dally and nightly contact with the oper tion of this great modern fury, and with a itttte be made te sue that there \u2018is cer many) in puietez strpois, aE Jonx 21, 1898.QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (Ws tavite questions on ait pocséble oubjrcts ef general nisrest, te which wv shail do our bas te obtain sorreet Snouers, and shall inser { sue qucr ice and replies as we ann male ross for, This must net bu ward, Arcewr, as an advertising solumn or 84 an onqnicy bureau for matters noi ef publie taterest, ansompaniré svith (he nome and postal address of the ormêrr, and ne notice will be (ales of enenymous vom anieations.AGRICULTURAL.#Cenducted by VV.JF.Clabes * Lisdenbant,\u201d Queiph.) CHECK REIN AND BLINDERS.B.B., Hi Oat.\u2014Weuld you advise uping are rein with a attached to It in ion fo (be ordiosey bit, supposing the chick Je not very Ught, in breaking tu & colt to do farm work?Also would you vues blinders} Ave.\u2014My +wply le *no' to beth queries.lu brenklo; coit » (2 work | woald dispense with à cheek thee whee peter et work II colt facitned to hep bis heed down would cesssionally give him à iltt'etraining loose the Soid wilh à light riding bridle attached to sotapper.A givth band bs bee may to keep ihe reins and crapper nap Ju place.le exercise should be riven a shot while ais time, apd die se 6000 As it seers Lo be palu:al to tbe heck rein le good when 1be animal is ined to briggy nee.but It aboukl mot be w check, ned it abould euly be 1ixht 4 keep he colt from geting hs fore in the reins while tied 10 8 Ritch linders are 0 locèdle st time whe hee yuan or .so vision (bat the poor animal dues not Fete view of colecw and 00 becomes tightened st imeaglasry twrors.LARGE YORKSHIRE PIGS., W, J.Britoaville P.O., P.Q.\u2014As 1 ee nues PO ES oer * Montreal Wha an ini bre of stock, and belag guxisue cur à Tours os a the large \u2018orbobire (white) [esse take 1s, der x writing to to asl un ou wual 2 game the address I; parues wbo are aly 10 have any fo dlapose of, also the probable hava applied to Dawes snd Co.of La band.Ans \u2014Im.buained el 1 4 ei 33 Wa.EB & Son.Box 180, Woodstock.Ont.: J.r.Burford, Brant County, Unt.; sleo of Caléwesl Brothers, Orchardville, Opt.I do net the f young boars, bat & postal card cad of toe aries mamed will elit the deon.SALT AS A FERTILIZER.J; Soudos Meanett M.D, Halifas.\u2014 soe by the > à wrltes about salt.The beet mix- tare $0 pat on land is salt (eva eait) or Torks Lima, which le prepared from tbe sea water.it, mized Iu lou to eix pails to ons of common wan! makes « acy 6.specially where du ty 4 it aloo complatly kilie 1he ° it i i peadwoes mi \u201cTasers cross now ites well.ad ie Le tels coesp ferili od od clover (hoe to four feet high.PLAN FOR A STABLE, Charles Mills, Architect, Hamliton, Ont Joes rest Bert Mad tai card Nd ., Platteville, Ont.1 pul 2 plan for à stable workieg drawlog, size of plan theet, It me farsa stubs avd & graat many valuable paiuters are wh.Loodoa * Farmes' Advocate says It fa worth ten (lmes the smount forit.The price $1.and no book of plans could give the amount of information as com tot any .ah a tow Jets and Te reduced the pose to cl, Ant.Tocmation £ ven ia the foregoisg postal card je esicaiatad to be usta) to others as well as the eu apecially referred inetd of 1oand it to the query property belongs.eme VETERINARY.(Conducted by D.MoEnchren, P.RG.V.A) DOG WITH OFFENSIVE BRRATE .\u20141 have an Eugiieh terrier RE the pest ox mouths be generally.To what age dom of hat od generally lve.Plon pre- Avs.\u2014Rxamine the 'e mouth very yed teeth, which may be wba the trouble.If any are foned have 10mm and wash out the month once or Inice & day with a little weak salt dod water, If the from the MAMMITIS.Caledonia, P.E |.-Q \u2014Pleass to state \u20ac of cows sbout to calve to t The cure for the same.swelling peinte! to the cow and the milk taken fi 1s with blood.Aue.\u2014If the come dre not 8 EE A Jag UH ane Ioju! udder, perhaps 08 Some bard saberuhon, A Rick from tBe ain Gant or versetblog of the rort.If givieg milk the cease is meray 1he mik mot og aly drawa, t t is, locally, bot forsentation ot pouiticing two or three ti 1 .Give Internally three or four one-half ounce of niuste of potash ; give ene sach more a mash.[f the lafliamamation Is severe give a Bee gout tid waren, ine [ald pipe milk - that it is all carefully LIVER, GALLBLADDER AXD BILE.ss amount ef poursd into the jutestings sat ae of the Sree alzed fot on 4 our bon \u2018 \u2014 GENERAL.TILES FOR DRAINAGE.GB Mes Ont 0.Plas sta ch the in Montrea) en- los for drainage NOMIMATIC.Oousty.1 foul the ogy OF ea Sptareed pod Sas A pd et ENT pd 2 8ved A peus It hed bese handle.Please state the sge of ¢ and ibe plohahia mekery, Ane.\u2014 Your a at) of Lake Faparior oo EE Rvery query must be Ÿ*: \" .0 | fier meals.Qompencd repo Urpophepe a thes early Mines, some of them appar vers bacieat The minis Indians caries ve commerce it Ma native copper Ac OR an axtebal wiih the sorruundiux Bations, so thal co plemente are found sil over the contimes cording fo the character of the potiery end other remains found arousd the Peterboro lakes it hes dewo concinded thal at ose time they were oË- cupled le Hurons, The Jesult missloneties ely underiook their missions to these trides trade waa thas o) with the French towards the using of fhe sevenissnib oceatury, whem lron to replace \u2018be koile, lt may be clalmed.was made Uma in the sixteenth cont south of Lake Superior.P.M.M., N'H.\u2014Q,\u2014Plesse teil me through ihe oslumns of your valuable paper how many col cents were colaed in Nova Hoots Is the year I t are they worth now for numiematic pus- Feo, Where can tl be sold } Ans.According to the report of 1he Royal Mint thery were one million cents colned for the Province of Nova Scotls in 1988.This must be & mistake, so these cents sre much scarcer than contol years in which the reported lesue is mueh loss.3.Npeci- J at twenty-five cents and oe Au only the ratée culos are is great demand Jt se impossible to disposs ol y cents much, if an above face vaine.All the advanced ectiecion 6 eupplied, and the beglaners cannot afford high pi THE VETERANS' OF \u201817.Constant Reader, Nnidetone.~The volunteers af 1897-88 are ot ei Huron Indien some Vary from copper mined coles, occeslon when asked 10 provide such pensions, the Goveramen has Pointed out that the rebellion of 18357 wes before be Creation of he Dominion.snd was mors .matter for provinces to .No ons should fou torward to the recel) oa.toc th) proapes a (ae ever ve ee.LEGAL.(OFTARN.) A LIFE INTEREST A TAX RATE.ly ORR.-\u2014-Widew A who maver ediidren, widower B, who chiidien by his former wife.Wheo B a will which gave A ali the money he had 100 hee of his nour aoû lead a 230 nation fu) Gus house and lot to get something for her to live on | {.) If pot wbai can he do 1 farm of ono bun.£ A BREACH OF CONTRACTA Subscriber, Cedar Dale, Out.\u20141I A espase B Boa d avo aod Bars arrived, Better can ciaiss from a day's wages Ans \u2014No.Aa cjalss woaid be ou0 Tok dumps FATBER AND SON\u2014BOARD.L.8.Out\u2014I have à som 85 old, not work- Ur motor à Long time ani be la acting us Se js there any way Charglu ra for m and die bôrse, or cas 1 pat bis sway In enf Let \u201cla Ane.\u2014Yon are not ly obliged to keep him for nothing if be te able to provide for bimseif, bot may cilhér charge im for board, if be sl remain vith yos after Dotics thet be will be expected to pay, oc give him notice to leave und treat hin: as a trespasser If he sboald decline or fall to comply with such notice.& DRIFTWOOD.A Subeceiber, Opt\u2014Q.\u20141 forty acres of mill nad ly opi Kd va poly Ty oe ry Se bas \u2014 Yon ars.sabject of Her Majesty.LIFE INSURANCE \u2014WILL\u2014INTESTACY.O:d Friend, Ont.\u2014Q.\u20141.Does à will over raie 1lfe insurance moseys though Pole are made bla ts one\u2019s wife ?2 (a) If I die In Ontario witbogt a will who would wind up my estate ?How mech of m: perty can my famit: Saumon vie e LPS 311 de mi out à will and bave life Insnrance mosey pays! tomy wits cas my ciildren claim any of KY 4.Where can I goto emall concise work relating te wills, we gen, etc.! Ans \u2014t.Speakla, ally, no.But he may, by hla will, extend the eos of the insurance policies to tbe children, orto ome or more of them, and spportion the mosey.3 (8) Your edmivietrater.The letters of admin! would bably be takes out by your wits, (h) Your Hy \u2018would take all after payments of dubs, funeral and jastamente m= peases ; your wife taking one-tylrd, N & No.& Wrile to en the rest In aqua] shares.Ths Cuesvell ce.Herons: \u2014 TO SEVERAL CORRBSPONDENTS.W.0.Black, Port Ost.\u2014Jsve solic attend te Oe a Fo ed Ges.B.Price, Bu I HBA law.shoei Carine 17 dit fo proc Derion of their ini the er MEDICAL.(Lettre for hs department should be addvesnd \u201cMadicot Bitter \u2018Wuncss,' Montreal\u201d bhou'd a publication, « reply «til de sent by matt (7 « damped adiromed covelops and $1, shpeisian's fir, be enetoeed Of with woh guration] VERTIGO.Subscriber, Que.~Q.\u20141 am & married tase, seventy thie vears .! have siwars on- rps besith.This winter I commensed violent we ul whl continned a couple of weeks a seat virtign, from the effects of which I canoot walk wiboat 1be ssmistance of some one or & #up- port of some kind to steady me.THis has heen golae on Tot the last six mers.1.Cu, the cul .50, please preseribe.Ase.\u20141, douttfai if le cas be eatirely removed.2.Take your food Ia liquid o much a oatmesl x ris.Gatsrmite, fat except Ricans.als , \u2018or Tine waour hour bread ; Bo sor coffee, 20 soupe.Take werm bath two or \u20ac Take as much exsrciee a 4.0.8.City.\u2014Q.\u2014! am sometimes troubied with à white matter forming in {he corner of ny oe Will bathing the eyes with cold waier rongthen them ?If sot what will?Ans\u2014 Baibe the eyes wilh bot water might asd morsing.11 thls |e sot sofficknt to remove the troubir pat afew d of the following into the eyes once ot twice 4 day : Bicarbonate of sods, Ave gi ; camphor water, ons cones.A QUARMITTL OF QUERIES.Teabal, Out.\u2014Q 1.Has dered borecie acl teudeses Ÿ hair Lo crow ob tha face ?re fresh emoked dah whoiesome ?2 1s wail log every au sufficient exercise fora el?Would ilght cakes be injorious ose onbied with lntestioal indigestion Ÿ Ans\u2014L, Jt Les 8 olixbt stimulstive action whem a tothe ekiu and through this maght stimniete La of hair.3 Frerb Ouh are essiiy di not reer biph autritive vaine as food.Most vori- Stee of eæschod Ash are difficult to digest.3 Yes NERVOUS DEBILITY, Bodentsry.\u2014Q.\u2014-1am & married map, forty-five soars of ary Sook Fors \u2018ear of [Ore my nervous of weaken 1ng.1 um at times affected with Sisainate 0 8 fouling fuloeas ID the bead.Iavos bat em Lroubled with ce.lat very {ar (n 1m bal Prom when not excited or ce 4, what pot to.% What is the best else to sLreû; tbe nerrouseyatem ?8.medicines Would you recommend ?4, Oso an Impalred nervous system be restored to normal couditios ?Ans.\u20141.Grain foods, as oa(meal and wheat poeridge, stale whole wheat, flour, bread, Prine of rice, sego sud teploca, traiter ail inde very freely.No tea mor coffee, nor mest soups, bo fresh bread.Drink weter freely between mesls.As arnle, nervous persons do pot drink sofficient water.Cultivaie the Abit of drickiux ons or two glasses of pare water betwesn meals.8.Bicycle riding $8 peo- bably the best known form of exercies for Sresmbentog the nervous eystems.If this is not possible substitu: same other outdoor +.se 84 gardening, or walticg 3.Nese.4.Yes, if no osganie have akon place.IMPROPER DIET.A Constant Subecriber, N.B.- Q.\u2014Woukt 3 (hick hair be fu any way injurious to & aye-sighi?She is eight years oid and hee been ul with her eyes for about à year.She but ettll hss pain lo her eyes, Ans.\u2014Pain in thr eyes 18 one of the dret oymptoms ot want of nutrition.\u2018Fbe mout delicate stroc- uo meat.\u2018The bar La in no way injurious.Pay careful et- tention to her diet No tes nor coffee ; vary little soups, fresh bread noe sugar or meat, no thnat pickles.Give grain fs frit very freely, and plenty of pare water to drink between Tea.A od beth every mavnisg.Out-doer y.NUMBNESS, ETC.M6.0st- 0 Tam à ree years ol i live oa 8 the tS ote\u201d trou! à pembnuese snd hand bands, the It le not Shes fot lay Doth n at they do sometimes.hen start to Enyers become numb and then my bands and ares begin to pâla up so toy elbows and ducing the middle of the sacamer, when the pein severe, it extends ap to my thoulders, and completely powerlees for à Ume.For the week my bands have besa very painfol at any séwini ive .1 ean scarcely do {og the summer.Thay never pain during the winter.My face and ears become very red and barciog at times.1t makes me feel very uncomfortable, especially when tn sompaoy.me say it Is being out In the wind that causes It, but it often just 86 bad when [ have not hese out cal atall.1.What du you think is the ase of my trouble ?% Can it be cared t 3.What woul you wdviss me tv do! Aus.chap in the warterisl sys: 2.Ît can be hacked in a parton 01 Jour age.à Sto .miiking and ng heavy work.Do not use trong sear.Taks & more liquid diet, drick bat- tormilk, skimmed milk and water freely botwesa Reais, drink at mesls.no meat, ts, cof ve ner fresh \u2018Take à warm bath at bedtime thres or four times a week, and while fa the bath sponge the hands snd arms with very hot water.ACID DYSPEPSIA.Bubecriber, Ost.\u2014Q \u2014I am a married woman thiety years prape ; AVOOR à farm ; very nervous wmpersmaat.[wie aiways healthy uniil twenty yours of a.¢ when I began to be troubled wits my .8d 1 bave been troubled with lvat times ever Pince.My stomaok ie very bave à barniog eensalion ft when it ls Irritated.At there times my food turns sony and rises.X ren cold water increases the sorzness.Biuce tbe birth of ver litte girl, foar years ago, | bave been uas- able to work or walk much on account of weaic- boss and a stzangs feeling in my head, It foals high and light.My beats ory, rapidly afr meals.1 am constipated most of the time.1.What is the trouble ?2.Can i becured?3, What should Jest ?Ame \u20141.Acid dyspepsia.8.Yes.& Grain foods, fruits and Kren vert tables.Take no drink at meals, but drink skimmed milk or buticrmilk between meals.\u2018Take à warm batb at bedtise two or three Lines à wesk, snd a coo) spoome bath rez er 3 possible in open ai dally.Add haifs pint of boillug water to the following lor and wden cool take à table- afol the clest liquid before ench mea! - dered rhubarh.eme dractum : bicarbonate of soda, iwo drechms ; oll of peppermint, three drops ; mix.WATER DRINKING.AN N.B.\u2014-Q.I often notice ln cotamn the advice given not to water for two hours sfter meals.Does Water drank from tam Lo fifteen misutes before weals bave as bed an effect digestion aa If taken after meals ! For instance come home from work, where | have not an op- poral of drinking water betwesn meals, and fecling thirsty \u2018ah nlarge drink of water before sliting down to meals.| have wesk digestion.Bow long before meals should water be drunk ¢ Aus.\u2014 A8 à role it ie ess harmfui Lo drink wader Just before meals than after It would be better 0 commence the dinner with some plala ble soup, and provide for a free ces of ia water between meals, when It % Ihe mout neodeds and has no injurises sétion upon digestion.ANOTHER OF THE SAME.= three or four times à weck at bedtime : #blle in the bath bathe the arms, chest stud spine with Tho mats and allow the surface to dry without YALLING BAIR, oi ie iy thin A wath 4 valse coats ind en 1 was aévisek about as ego to velteut which I did, but ben prow out hl ate her ars Ace Have it singed 8 few thoes, at Iaterrsh of aboot 6 moni, 10 SEVERAL CORRMMPORDENTS.For past threw years 1 with osterrh 008 tity, - ML Mel, N.8.\u2014 Follow the seme directions as ale in fm Sub Es ome ern Sl A ST Ares.worse.seems.wer down Ga cam care! et th and to the upper part of the chest.Mantes yg the of your ising in the morsing my throat seems to with moens.my tougve ls coated and | have sn ospataral taste.Plense preecrive.Ane.Use the imnaiée vorers] times à day.Take Pullow's ita ok ad Stem apn ee y othe: gf tention.Place yourseli uoder local physteian Without delay.j& Oubecriber- Canset anewer (hrough this come Sand addressed poste! ad.Delte-Weak ciromiaiton in the caves eû troables.Di Lans tro ov tans Bie & frooly betwoah meals, take à ver voi THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS FORD'S THEATRE.IT WAS ORIGINALLY A METHODIST CHURCH BUT WAS SOLD TO JOHN T.FORD\u2014 LINCOLN'S MURDER.Washington, June 3.\u2014The walls that witnessed the death of a martyr have fallem ; the doors tbat lent escape to the assassin have been choked with the bodies ##* victims of à later catastrophe ; over by the Rev.Obatieh B.Brewn, worshipped until 1857.Because of financial difficuities it was sold to John T.Ford, one of the most prominent theatrical managers in the country, end converted Into Ford's Theatre, long the most fashionable amusement resort in the city.The purchase Molesey was raised by subscription, and the (nterior of the building changed In aceerdance with the latest improvements in the atrical construction.From the very beginning the theatre was a mucoess.Here Forrest played one of his most sucressful engagements, and all the FORD'S THRATRE BUILDING WHICH COLLAPSED IN WASEINGTON.the one building in all the country upon which the band of Providence might well be supposed to have rested heavily is now a mass of ruins.To those possessed of the slightest ch of superstition the scenes of to- 's horror might well have been obe- sidered cursel.Certainly the destruction of Ford's Theatre at this time ham furnished a remarkable coincidence.Here Lincoln geve up his life to the man whose name will be handed down te history with the curses of a nation, and, as the parting words of bemedic- stellar lights of the dramatic profession held the boards from time to time.Manager Ford prospersd, and the thestre grew in reputation.THE MURDER CF LINCOLY.Then came that fateful Friday, April 14, 106.Never was a more fashionable audience assembled in the house \u2018Our American Cousin\u2019 was the play, with beautiful Laura Keene in the SCENE IN THB RUINED BUILDING.tion are being said over the body of Sawin Booth, the brother of that man, duiidieg crambles into rutns.It was away back in the fifties that the then Imposing brick building was erected on Tenth, between M and streets.It was 71 feet front and 10 eared chosthes 1a Che capital.There the fin ch t a El ¥ the latter two betroth ing and the orchestra struck up \u2018Hall to the Chiet.\u2019 Preseatly in the upper boxes to the right of the stage the familiar form of President who was accompanied Miss Carrie Harris and coin, Mre.T4nooïn, Rathbone, lovers.The | President acknowledged the tumultuous (greeting And took Riz seat.The play wan , and every eye was again npen the stage Suddenly a man hed and with 6 shout of \u2018Sic semper tytan- ois!\u2019 rushed from the stage.gomiop him! He has shot the Presi- ar The cry was takes up by the maddened audience.Men jumped from the stage In pursuit of the assassin.Others rushed to the box where the dying President lay.Tenderly he was borne to & bouse across the sireet, where he was put upon the bad from which he never rose.The rest is history.A nation's Joy over Lee's surrender was turned te profoundest grief qver the luas that nothing could remedy.Disaster seems to have attended all of that little theatre party, Mrs.Lincoln never recovered from the shock of that night, and the eccentricities which caused so much remark in after years undoubtedly resulted from the strain ef that ordeal.Major Rathbone and Miss Harris were - married soon after the murder, and their marital life, at first se happy, ended in the wife's murder by Ber hushand, snd his Incarceration in a lunatic asylum.Immediately after the assassination of Prestdent Lincoin, the building was closed by order of the Government, and next year Congress bought M for $100,000.The interior was remodelled for the accommodation of the Army Medical Museum, then under the 8.rection of Burgeon-General Barnes.The boxes, stage and galleries were tors out and the building divided into three floors.All trace of the exact scons of the tragedy was removed.In 1875 the interior of the was again altered to suit the incress- ing requirements of the Medical De partment.On the north aide in the rear of the building a small wing was erected for the museum workshops, and another wing on the south side fog the chemical laboratory.On the first floor of the main dufide ing was the record and pension division of the Surgeon-General's office, where more than 16,000 volumes of hospital records, upon which the payment of pensions is based, were preserved.On the second floor was the library, which, es a practical working collection of medical books is said to surpess that of the British Museum or the Nationa) Library of France.On the third wap at one time the famous medi museum, the finest of the kind in the world.One of the objects of greatest interest to visitors in this collection was the section of the vertebral column taken from the body of Johm Wilkes Booth, in which could be seem the hole of a rifle bullet On the completion of the new Army Medical Museum on the Mall, the med- fcal collection and library were moved from the theatre building.and the late ter was used for office work dy the record and pension division of the Was Department.\u2014 THE CHINAMAN IN THE HOUSEHOLD.Au servants the Chinese are very cae pable In many respects, and very undesirable in others.They never gossip about the affairs of a family that employs them.\u2018They learn whatever it fo desired they should ksow, acquiring skill with appmrent ease by means of their wonderful power of imitation.\u2018They are perfectly willing to do every sort of household work, and the average servant will act as cook, chambermatd, laumderer, and walter all at omoe for one salary.They cannot bear to be ordered about by women.They will take any amount of scolding or faults finding from a man, and none from a woman.In two cases of which I heard the Chinese servants chased thai mistresses out of their houss with axes.A very vexatious thing is thay they never give warning When then are going to leave a place.They suds denly announce, \u201cMe want to go.\u201d and the utmost questioning is not likely, to elicit any more then \u2018\u2019Me want to go: me tired.\u201d One lady in Victoria told me that she moved from one house to another, and employed à new ser vant.He staid an hour.The next staid an afternoon, the next one sf a day.Pussled and worried, she perv suaded one who was about to leave heü to teil her why he was dissatisfied, He took her to the sink in the Mitchen, and showed her a peculiar mark tm chalk under the sink.It was à notif- cation by one servant to ail the others that the head of the house was no@ kind or honest in his dealings with his servants.Ghe explained that she hal but just moved into the house, and the servant took off bis street apparel and remained with ber.But he told her that whenever & Chinaman came to worik in à new place he always looked through all the pots snd pens and kettles and rds for some piece of paper où PE D ie ts, explalnin, ot the a Tiorpers Weskiy.' FACTS FOR DRINKERS.Ladoring men of the United States complain of poverty, and the tyranmwm of yet they gave last year for liquor.The police authorities in Natal are the necessity for asylums fom tnebrittes of both sexes, the moral wrecks through drunkenness being sade as the result of his experience as prison chaplain, he looks upon erime as simply, cond alcohol, and that if it werd not - there would de tew prie sons \u201cThe temperance movement.\u201d seys tbe Gissgow \u2018Herald, \u2018 8 spreading rapidly among raliway men.Already ten thous sand white buttons.stamped with Mle tials signifying the Raliway Tempe rance Association, have been distributed among engineers and trala men, and the demand for them has been so great hat acy thousand more have heen or- One of the best Greek scholars !n New York is a guard on the Six avenue elevated road.One morning was rewarded by meeting the learned \u201cman.I asked him, \u2018How does it happen,\u2019 showing him my oard.\u2018that « Greek echolar of first rank, de doing mich work as thuT Me looked at me osély, ant his red face grew move flushed than usual.1 wag the best Hellenist of my reat at Dublis, he sald \u2018My Greek is still what ft used to be.but my career has bren ruined by whiskey.'~'Boston Traveier.® re Children Cry for Piteher's Castecig 13 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS June 21, 1898, PRESBYTERIANS MEET.NINETEENTH SESSION OF THR GENERAL ABSEMUBLY OF THR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA.Brantford, Ont, June 14.\u2014The nine teenth General Assembly of the l\u2019resby- terian Church in Canada met to-night in Zion Church, Brantford.Of the four hundred delegates, lay and clerical, commissioned to attend the Assembly about three hundred had arrived during the afterncon and evening.The chair was occupied by the retiring Moderator, the Rev.Principal Casen.The lirst session commenced by singing the 15th verse of the second version of the ci psalm.after which the Moderator delivered his retiring sermon, taking for his text ind Timothy, chap.xiil, ih verse.Dr.Caven dealt especially with the inspiration of the Itoly Scriptures, adducing proof of the divine and human character of the \\Vord of God.At the conclusion of the addrezs a call \u2018was made for nominations for the mod- eratorship, when the Rev.D.M.Gordon proposed, and Principal Forrest, of Hall- fax, seconded, the appointment of the Rev.Dr.Sedgwick.of Tatamaguuche, N.S.as the future Moderator.This nomination was made unanpinous and Dr.Sedgwick was robed in the gown of office and escorted by his mover and secondes took the chair.In a brief speech he thanked the brethren for the honor done him.He looked at it as a compliment to the rural clergy rather than as an honor to himself.This concluded the first business session of the Assembly.The Rev, Thos.Sedgwick, D.D., the new Moderator of the Assetably, is the eldest son of the late R-v.R.Sedgwick, D.Da of Musquodoboit, N.8., and brother THE REY.DE.COCHRANE.Pastor of Zion Church, Braatford.of Mr.Justice Sedgwick, of the Supreme Court of Canada.He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, May 5, 188 He was educated at the Grammar School, and King\u2019s College and University Aberdeen, and at the Divinity Halls of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh, and of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia.He married Christina Patterson, daughter of Roderick Mac- uregor, of New Glasgow, N.8., and grand-daughter of Dr.Jumes Macgregor, the apostle of Presbyterianism In Fast- em Nova Scotia.He wan ordained in Sept, 190, as minister at Tatamagouche, N.8., where he has ever since remained.He has been clerk of Presbytery for about thirty years, and clerk of the 8ynod of the Maritime Province since He was Moderator of the Synod of the Maritime Provinces in 1385.He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Preshyterian College, Halifax, 19 April, 1883, being the second on whom the College conferred the honor since it received the power of granting degrees in divinity, some ten years ago.He has taken an active part tn the work of the Church since the beginning of his ministry.FORMER MONTREALERS.It will be Interesting for your readers tp know who have enjoyed the honor of being Moderator mince the union in 28%.Here is the list: 187, the Rev, Dr.Cook, Quebec: 1876, the Rev.Dr, Topp, Toronto; 1877, the Rev.Dr.Me- Leod, Sydney, C.B.; 187, the liev.Dr.Jenkine, Montreal; 1579 the Rev.Dr.Reid, Toronto; 189, the Rev.Dr.Me- Mae, St.John, N.P.; 1881, the Rev.Lr.MacVicar, Montreal; 182, the Rev.Dr.Cochrane, Prantford; 1883, the Rev.Dr.King, Toronto; 15%, the Rev.Dr, MacLaren, Toronto; 135.the Rev.Dr.MacLanight.Hallfax; 1856, the Rev.Dr.K.K.Smith, Galt; 1887, the Rev.Dr.Burns, Halifax; 188, the Rev.Dr.McMullen, Woodstock: 16%, the Rev.Br.Grant, Kingston; 18), the Rev.Dr, Laing, Dund: 189, the Rev.De.Wrad- rope, Guelph; 1888 the Rev.Dr.Caven, Moronto.Dr.Sedgwick is a Maritime Province man and makes the fifth of the brethren Dy the sea whom the Assembly has dalighted to honor in this manner.The others were In the years 1877, 1888, 1888, 167 and 188.CAMPBELL MERESY CASE.Brantford, Ont, June 16.\u2014Tbe General \u2018 bly, opened this evening., The was intense, the congregation very large.At 7.20 Divine service was conducted by the reiiring Moderator, Dr.Caven.Me tock for his text I Tim.It.18, \u2018All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and Is profitable.\u2019 He called attention to the fact that it was ail Scripture which was Inspired.It referred to the 018 Testament, not to a part of it, or farts of it, but the whole.Inspiration terally meant \u2018hreathed'\u2014God-breath.And, further, the text declared that all is profitabie.The two were related, and the nrofitableness depended upon the inspiration.The Scriptures were written vy the hands of men, and this applied, an far as we know, to the Whole, with the exception of the Ten Commandments.Bil they were guided into the truth by the Rpirit of God.\u2018They were not mere machines; their in- @viduality was respected, the spirit made use of the pecuilarities of each, but guarded them from all error.Their freedom was mot compromised.but rather eshanced by this inspiration.In the next pince.if the Scripture may ln calief à bumes production, it 1s, to py.ail intents and purposes the Word of God.The teaching Is such as never could huve originated in the human mind.We can appreciate the wonderful combination of wisdom, power and love, which the Ribie munifests.But this is not all.The Scripture Is full uf \u201cThus saith the lord.\u201d it claims to be the Word of God.No more direct cluln to inspiration can be made than thut which the Bible makes for itself.Thin ls beyond ali doubt.But Is the Claint valid?Yes, in an especls! nun- ner.There ean be no comparison he- tween the llible und even the highest utterances vf wa.No man can claim | that his speech is the word of God.\u201cThroughout, it Is cerlainty human: but throughout it Is met emphatically Divine.There ruy be some anulogy of thin In he lncarnate nature of Our Pleased Lord.He was human; but he was also beyond all question Divine.The life of the body porvaden covery part of it, and the Spirit of God pervades the whole of the ible.Then the whole of the book is \u2018profitable'\u2014not ore part to the exclusion of another; not for one age to the exclu- i sion of all other ages.13ut ail Is profitable.God never speaks in vain; He speaks 10 purpose.The Bible is not the Saviour, Lut It leads to him and to the everlasting life.All our duties are laid down here, and are rightly laid down, too.It has graduatly unfolded the will of God, but never revealed any thing that {a false.Our Lord abolished the ceremonial law, but he did so by fuifiting it, He did not reveal any other God than the God of the Old Testament.God does not contradict himself.The flowing blood of sacrifice led to the awcat drops of Gethaamene.Those very parts of the Old Testament which mien are saying are obsolete are not so; they are still profitable.All {may not be of equal value to ux, but \"it is all of value, How deeply grateful | should be our hearte for the gift of , this inspired Book! The Church'a teach- jers may err.but the Scriptures cannot.+ Then Jet us faithfully use it.The : commandment of the Lord is pure, en- ; lightening the eves.If we read tt with { intelligence and prayer, we should never | make it our God, but our guide to God.Let us make use of it In defending and in propagating our Protestant freedom.God is with us, with our Church, and we cannot fail.The preacher then left the pulpit, came down to the communion table, and formally CONSTITUTED THE ASSEMBLY in the name of Christ, the only king and head of the Church.The roll of Commissioners was then called by the Rev.Dr.Campbell.The retiring Moderator then informed the Assembly that the time had come for fhe Court to elect his successor.| The Rev, Daniel M.Gordon, of Halifax, nominated the Rev.Dr.Thomas Bedgwick.of Tatamagouche.This was seconded by the Rev.Principal Forrest, of Halifax.There being no other nomination, Dr.Sedgwick was elected by acclamation, amid great applause.The newly elected Moderator was then conducted to the chair by his mover and seconder.He thanked the Assembly for the honor so unanimously put upon him.On motion, the Assembly temdered its thanks to the retiring Moderator After some other routine business, the first sederunt of the Assembly closed with prayer.THURSDAY MORNING, Brantford, Ont, June 15.\u2014The Assembly spent the first hour this morning in praise, prayer, and the reading of the Scriptures.The business proper began at eleven o'clock, by the reading of the minutes of last night's sederunt.A committee was appointed to arrange for the services in Zion Church next Sabbath.Dr.Caven repliel to the loyal addresses, sent by order of the last Assembly to the Queen and the Governor- General, Committees were appointed upon Recruits, Reception of Ministers, App'ica- tions of Students, and Retiring of Ministers.The foliowing ministers of other churches mude application to be received Into the Presbyterian Church in Canada :\u2014The Rev.F.Davie, of the C'ongregetional Church ; the Rav.Alex.King, of the English Presbyterian Church; the Rev.1.' Bruneau, of the Congregational Church in the United Btates ; the Rev.T.W.Winfield, of the Reformed Episcopal Church: the Rev.C.EK.Dobbr, aifo of the Reformed Epts- copal Church ; the Rev.E.W.Florence, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States: the Rev.A.L.Me- Fadyen, of the Congregational Church; Mr.Mclver, Meentiste of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.All these names, with relative documents.were referred to the Committee for the Reception of Ministers.it is understood that the applicants, also, will have to appear personally before that commit tee.A number of applications from Presbyteries for permission to license and ordain a number of students and misslonaries were all ref to \u2018he committee Appointed to consider these applications.One of these young ren- tleman Is Mr.Colclough, an honor graguste of McGill, and who has been & theological studgnt in the Congrege- tional College, Montreal.The following ministers applied, through their respective Preabyteries, for leave to retire from the active duties of the ministry :~Tho Revds.Dr.Ward- rope, Dr.Middtemisa.Jaa.Wilson, N.Patterson, A.F.McQueen, Alex.Young, G.M, Clarke, A, T.Coulter, R.Hughes, and Dr.Ure, to be placed upon the Aged snd Infirm Ministers\u2019 Fund.Al these applications were referred to the committee appointed for this purpose.This closed the morning sederunt, and the benediction was given.THUBADAT AFTERKOON.\u2018The Moderntor took the chair at 230 and conducted devotions.Tho minutes of this morning's sede- runt were read and sustained.The committee upon Sabbath service reported as follows: \u2014Morning, the Rev.GQ.M.Goran: afternoon, Communion services; evenin: the Rev.Dr.J.G.Paton, of New Hebrides.The Presbytery of Lanark and Ren- frew overtured the Assembly to the effect that presbyterles as well as the (creign missionary committees shall in future Le represcnted at the designation of lady inissionaries.This is Intended to refer to the presbyteries within whose bounds such designations shall take place.The overture was sup- fun LEY an .Dr, Renfrew.The Rev.Dr.of Renfrew, said that this move arose out of the fact that a young lady well known and much beloved in the Ren- frew Presbytery, was designated to foreign mission work without even the knowledge ef the Renfrew people.The overture was sent tc the foreign mis- klonsry commities for consideration and report.An overture from the Presbytery of Calgary was resd suggesting some kind of MISSION WORK AMONG TUE NONNCHE in the North-West Territories.It was asked further that a deputation be sent out tu the Mormon settiements to consider the situation.These mettie- ments are five or +x In number and are said to be very active and prosper- vus.The foreign mission committee had haen axked to take the matter up but it hud declined on the ground that such work did not belong to it.For this reason it had been brought before the Assembly.Finally it was agreed to recelve the overture, commend the seal of the Presbytery of Culgary, and refer the whole subject to the Home Mission Commit- tes for considersticn.TAR FROY, CAMPARIL CANE came before the Assembly this after.ZION CHURCH, BRANTFORD.noon, upon the overture by the Presbg- tery of Montreal.The overture cif his ordination vow, which was repea at his induction as Professor, to the effect that he believed the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and the only rule of faith and practice.This was followed by a number of citations from the now notorious lecture In support of the overture.An attempt was made by the Rev.D.L.McRae to show that any discussion of the matter at this stage was out of order, seeing that the matter is at present before the Presbytery of Montreal.The Rev.A.Y.Hartley, of the Mait- land Preabytery, appear=d in support of the overture, and asked that the Assembly take the necessary steps to inaue this case as early as possible.He urged that white the Professor should in the meantime receive all the emoluments of his office, the Assembly should prevent his having the opportunity to repeat such statements as a professor of this Church.The Rev.Angus Mackay, also of the Presbytery of Maitland, read a number of passages from the Profeasor's lecture as a reason why the overture had teen presented.Mr.Walter Paul, of Montreal, explained the apparent tardiness of the Presbytery of Montreal In taking up the question.Ha assured the Assembly that the Preabytery had not the slightest wish to shirk its obligations.Dr.R.Campbell, of Montreal, moved that all the papers be referred to the Presbytery of Montreal.This was aec- onded.At this point the Rev.Principal MacVicar sald that it was superfluous to refer the papers, \u2018The Assembly knew all about the matter.He had not said anything as ret on the merits of the case, but he was prepared to do 80 when tbe proper time arrived.The Rev.K.Mcisnnan aiso thought that It was superfluous to send these papers to the Presbytery of Montreal.Dr.Laing.of Dundas, had perfect confidence in the ability of the Presbytery of Montres! to deal with this case.Whatever the decision of that Presbytery might be, he felt sure that there would be very reasons for Its action.x The Rev.J.L.Murray said that if this matter were allowed to go on.and Prof.Campbell be sllowed to continue his teaching, It would he disastrous to the Church.\u2019 vi The Rev.Mr.Bummervilie salé that, should the case be referred to the Montreal tery, and should Prof.Campbell ever withdraw bis offensive utterances, and be allowed to continue his work, he would be very aohtr FOR TEE AFOLOOETION which would be taught.It may be sald that the Professor had sald these things in a moment of weakness, but professors should have no moments of weakness.Mr.George Hay, of Ottawa, said the Assembly had t power to irsue the case at once.Tie publle mind is much excited, and to defer this matter would leave the public mind whers it is Dr.\u2018MacVicar agreed with Mr.Hay, but was anxious not to interfere with the constitutional order, as provided by the Blue Book.Dr.Robert Campbell, with the consent of the Assembly, here withdrew his motion.The Rev.@ Munro, of Harriston, moved that the lecture de referred to n comsmitteés, whe shaïl carefdiy exsmine it and report to this Assembly what, in its view, should be the course to be purasusd, Mr.Ray, an eider, apoke in favor of Mr.Munro's motion.He hal every confidence In the Presbytery of Montreal.But suppose the Presbytery should proceed by libel and that Prof.Campbell should express regret and withdraw his utterances, there was nothing to prevent the Professor continuing his teaching In the colleges.He felt that the case should be considered and gettied by this Assembly.The Moderator here advised caution as to the language uied in this controversy.Dr.Macdonald, of Beaforth, protested against the prejudginx of the action of the Presbytery of Montreal, The Presbytery may of may not accept sn apology and allow Prof.Campbell tno continue his teachings.But we must not prejudge the case.He was not In favor of asking any committee to bring in uny deliverance upon this question, in the absence of Prof.Campbell himself.The matter was before the Presbytery of Montreal, and (hat body is capable of depling with it, Mr.Eckford, of Bruce Presbytery, enid that the laws of the Church were capable of dealing with all such cases 4 itself distinctly understood by the Church.as this The Assembly should make Principal Forrest spoke against Mr.Munro's motion.He was In favor of doing, a» many had urged, according to the laws of the Church.This meant that the case should be referred to the Presbytery of Montreal.He knew most of the members of that Presbytery and had confidence in thelr judgment.He did not want the General Assembly to lose its head.\u2018Let us make haste slowly,\u2019 Principal Caven asked the Assembly to move slowly.A great body like this can afford to be calm.He was anxious to have true teaching in our colleges and pulpits, but he begged the Assembly not to adopt the motion of Mr.Munro, or in any case to refer the matter to a committee at the present time.Mr.Munro then withdrew his motion.All the other motions were also withdrawn in favor of one moved by Principal Caven, which is as follows: That Law Unies.acetmubly 18 du Impressed with the Len portaace of 1hc raaster on t before them by the overtare of the Presbytery of Mait- land, and is deeply alive 10 the Importance of the prescevation of sound repchivg lu all tie sc 20d college and commends 1he zeal of the Pres- byt tn tbe case.but ss this Amembly Joarne that Preshytery oc Mootres! Is taking action in the clicumstances, the Assembly isaves the Presbytery of Montes! to act lo the matter In the conaritational way.This was pissed unanimously and so the matter is settied as far as this bly is concerned.This closed the abternoon procecdings.In the evening the Moderator took the chair et 7.30.After the usual devotions end reading of minutes, the rest of the evening was taken up in the discussion of Home Missions-eastern and western\u2014 and augmentation of stipends.MUNK MINGUMS The report for the western section was Dresented by the Rev.Dr.Coch- rane.So elaborate and minute was it that (tu details furnish ample materials for a whole year's study.A large number of new fields, especially In the North-West and British Columbia, have been taken up, while many missjon tions have passed on to the list of augmented congregations, and a considerable number of augmented congregulions have become self-sustain- ing.The demands made upon the com- mittes are constantiy increasing year by year, requiring & much higher degree of liberality on the part of our cun- gregations, if the Chutch Is to maintain the position she has attained, and advance to still greater things, in the years to come.The of the committee is that, as the ability of the older provinces to give is gradually heing leas- ened hy constant emigration of Presby- terlan families, these newer provin and territories, as they become mos thickly settied, will be able to make much larger contributions to the funds.A detailed statement is given according to Preshvteries, of every nussion station in the Church.Barrie la clearly the banner Presbytery in home mission work.It reports no less than forty groups, comprising more than one hundred stations.and their contributions to mission work will compare favorably with those of the average congregations of the Church.An effort is being made by the new Presbytery of Algoma to commences the work among the many Fretich settlers Who are making homes for themselves in thls new part of Ontarie.To this nd they desire the services of a wis- sionary under the muspioss of the French Evangellmition society, firmly conviuced of the need of such, belleving that a wide field vould thus be opened for such an agency.The inltlatory uteps are being tuken and we hope soon Lo ses the man on the field.Mun sbAL PEIRNYiNRY.\u2018The Home Mission work in the Mont.treal l'resbytery has been prorzecuted vigorously during the year with en- coulaging results.At Montreal Junction a church bulld- Ing was erected al @ cost of about $4.00.This suburb is growing and there are good prospects of à strong Presbyterian congregation here in the near future.At Bt.Lumbert's services were commenced in July last, since which time « beuuti£ul new church hua besn built at a cost of nearly $000 including site.The congregation was organised lust fall and they havo in view the calling of «& minister this month.At Cote Bt.Louis a congregation was organized during the ycar under the supervision of the wession of Knox Church, Montresl.A new church buiid- Ing was erected mt 2 coat.Including land, of 29,000.This has given an impetus to the work, the attendance at the Sabbath services and Babbath-school having largely Increased, and the prospect for the future is most encouraging.In the Avoca and Harrington field a new church building was erected during the yeur and it fs hoped that ere jong this may become a self-sustaining charge.In other mission fields of the Presbytery the work continues much the same as in former years.Iinmigrants are pouring into the North-Western provinces trom all quarters.At Edmonton and Red Deer, two points only one hundred miles apart, over 1.20 homesteads were taken last season, and large quantities of land were bought from rallway and land companies.Where four missionaries of the Church labored last summer, nine will be employed this season.The growing confidence in the mineral wealth of the Kootensy lake District has attracted miners, prospectors and traders to that region.A mine that went begging In Montreat, but which could not command $40,000, has this spring, been purchased by a Glasgow firm for 31,800,000.Quite a number of villaged are springing up in thet district, and the people should be provided with ordinances.It is not yet two years since the first missionary entered that valley, end we are asked to provide five men this spring.The same certainty of future does not mt- tach \u20180 a mining as to a farming district, but yet the duty of the Church in plain, to follow the people wherever they settle.At the provincial election in Manitoba last summer, the Legisiature endeavored to ascertain the mind of the people on the question of prohibition by means of a plebiscite.The vote stood nearly three to one for prohibition.No attempt has, however, been made to express the mind of the people fn legisiation.The Legislature made some representations to Ottawa, but not much reilef need be expected from that quarter.The information given about Mant- toba, the North-West Territories and British Columbia was of special interest and value.According to the census bulletin, recently published, the relixious beliefs of the people are :\u2014Presbyter- lans.679: Episcopalians, \u20ac368; Methodists, 50,715: Roman Catholics, 63.946 ; Baptists, 20,765.À new colony of Mormons has heen established at Boundary comprising some 70 persons.They are under ekilful management.and are rapidly acquiring land.Of courwe, they have given pledges for proper behavior in relation to marriage, but some observant people are (nclinel to doubt their sincerity.Considerable difficulty has been experienced in securing sultable missionaries for the work.Still 212 men have been engaged in the misisons and con- gregationa.These have given a total supply for the year of 5,46 Babhaths.The familles increased over 1,N0 und the communicants over 2,000 during the year.And 2 churches and five manses have been built.That the position may be clear It may be stated that the church has west of Lake Buperior two synods and nine preshyteries, Connected with these are 49 self-sustaining congregations, 23 augmented congregations snd 155 separ- ute missions.There are 712 where regular services are heid.The families number 11,04, the single persons not connected with them 4.277 and communicants 15091.The nyssionaries, ministers and professors number ZI.It may be added that there are I3 Indian misston- aries and teachers in addition, making a total of 270, of whom 13% are ordained and 14 unordained.Resides these, all the colleges of the church have students\u2019 home missionary societies, and have had men employed during the winter months.Then again, many of the Presb) teries have women's home missionary societies, and young peoptes home missionary societies.These ure rupldly.Increasing In number, and do good service by assisting the funds.The total income inclusive of balance In hand, May, 1992, has been $71,327.But to this should be added $50.84, reported as having been given to mission work by congregations and individuals, apart from the regular contributions of prosbyteries.Also, 33,196 rulsed by the student's missionary mo- cleties of the five colleges in the western section, making a grand total for home missions, exclusive of the Augmentation tund, of 814467.la closing, Lr.Cochrane sald that the whole tene of the report was that of expansion, more work and greater income than in any previous years.Then he appealed la impasslened language to the ministers of the church to bring the whole work of home missions bglore their churches.Prin 1 Grant moved the adoption of the report.In speaking to his motion he asked \u2018What do we mean by home minsions * Home Is a word which te always dear.In youth, and In men- hood it was dear.The home missions means that the Christianity of Canada cannot be estimated by the amount of our preaching abroad, it must be judg- od by what we are doing at home.Then what Is the nature of the home mission work required In Canada ?What iv it that is necessary to take hold of the lapsed masses ?To make them pure and noble and God-fearing citiseas we must give them the Gospel.The country is filling up just as rapidly as he wished it to fill, because it was filling aa foal a8 we ean supply it with erdia- ances.What are the difficultles in the work ?There are the differrnees of nationalities, there are the indifferences of the churches.We must arise 10 mest these.Ws must open our eyes to the signs of the times.We must bave union church.He would never ba contented with 30 percent of the people within the pale of the church.Jehn Knox did not pray \u2018Give me 30 parcent of the people,\u2019 but \u2018Lord give me 8cot- land.\u201d This is what we must aim at in Canada.Dr.R.N.Grant sald.well the people are all there.What are you golug to de with them ?You must give them the Gospel and you must give it to them by home mission work.We myst give It by the practice or the principle of the strong helping the .After some remarks by Dr.Robertson the report was adopted.\u2018The report of TEE KARYRAN REOTION was read by the Rev.Mr.McMillan, of Halifax.It covers the whole fleid of Home Mission work In the Lower Provinces.He auld the Eastern Provinces of the Dominion cannot boast of rapid growth of population ; but the spiritual wants cf the people are not lesa on that «ccount.Therefors, although some of our mission fields are struggling with the difficulties incident to the smallness of numbers, the committes and the Presbyteries have striven all the harder to secure to them the boon of & preached Gospel.Our agents have tolled mith.fully, and on the whole with much encouragement in their work .\u2018The details of the work are much the same as last year.A new and important fleld has been organised by the resby tery, of 8t.John, N.B3.on thes.Francis River.The population was largely Presbyterian, and had gathered there for lumbering and farming from different places in the Maritime Provinces.They received the missionary gladly, had built one church and taken steps for the erection of two more dur REANTFORL YOURE LALLKS' COLLAES.ing the year.The total number of laborers engaged was 103, an increase of six over the previous year.The contributions amounted to 510,433, white the expenditure had been 311.353.More was done for the supply of stations than In any previous year.After the accounts were all closed, the sum of (50 sterling had been received from the Colontal Committee of the Free Church of Scotland.In closing, he said tha: several members of the committee are convinced that the work would be cared for much mora efficiently if a wise and energetic superintendent were appointed to organ- 12e and to stir up the enthusiasm of the people.Mr.McMillan's address was full of spirit and was warmly received.In closing he moved a resolution expres.slve of gratitude to God for the many tokens of his favor, expressing regret at the deficit in the income, thankimg the Church in Scotland for Its timely gift.and referring the question of a superintendent of missions to the Synod of the Maritime Provinces for Issue.The Rev.Mr.Robins, of Truro, in scconding the resolution sald that the great work of the Home Mission Committee was conserving rather than expanding.He spoke of the vast nutural resources of Nove Beotla and declared them to be equal to any in the Do.minlon.For this very reason he fully expected that the tide of immigration would turn into that direction.There Was good reason to thank God and taxe courage.The report was adopted.As closely allled to this department of the Church's work the Rev.George Bruce, of St.John, gave an account of the augmentation fund in the presbyteries by the sen.This had been nd- ministered with care.The fund bad been of the greatest service to them in settling pastors over wesk churches.In the presbytery of 8t.John, out of 17 congregations 17 of them were upon the suxmaentation fund.This rt was presented by Dr, Cocke rane.object of this fund is to assist weak congregations in paying the stipends of their ministers.It fixes the minimum at $750 per annum, and a manse in country charges; and $1,000, with an allowance for house rent in towns and cities.Were it not for the help thus afforded there would be whois districts of the Dominion without the bloasings of ordinances.When the fund was established, in 188% there were 256 giving less than this amount.nce then, 169 more have been added to this number.But during these ten yeurs 230 of these congregations have becomo self-supporting, and 58 have been removed from the list from other causes, The number remaining, and now re- colving aid, is 147.During the past year these ald-receiving congregations were helped to the extent of §26,000.The ordinary income has never been able to meet the claims upon It; but the average deficit of about 34.000 has always been made up from legacies and private subscriptions.But fer the $3,000 of Mrs, Nichol's legacy, received last year, and an additional $2,000 raised otherwise, n very large reduction in the grants wouM necessarily have been made.This year, notwithstanding that there was a balance to begin with of 32,488.04, thers was a deficit at the close of $L000.This has compelled the committee to reduce the grants.This they deeply regret, and express the earnest hope that this will not occur again.In pleading the interests of this scheme Dr.Cochrane insisted the stipend aimed at was not too high.1t was a shame that a great church like ours should ask Its ministers to work for and live upon less than $1000.Many of the skilled mechanics are receiving more thas this, yet our men had given seven or eight years of their lives to preparation in college for this work.Tha report was then adopted.This institution is the enly one of tte kind west of Ottawa reporting to and approved by (he Generul Avsembly.Its faculty consists of twenty members, chiefly specialists tratned (a continents! colleges, conservatories aad On nadlan universities.= Jos Z1, 1898: \"No CHURCH ONION ¥HE FROPOSAL PRESENTED TO HB PREGBYTERIAN ASSEM- .BLY AT TORONTO, ; VETOED.London, June $\u2014This afternoon the Canada Congregational Foreign Mis- slonary Bociety held its annual meeting with Mr.8 P.Leet, Montreal, the vice- president, in the chatr.* In the evening the Home and Foreign Missienary societies bald a joint pubila meeting, the Rev.Dr.Coraish in the chair, THE QUESTION OF CEURCE UNION.* London, June .\u2014The union met at 9 o\u2019clook for prayer, the Rev.A.W.Mann, evangelist, presiding.At 10 o'clock the meeting was opetied by two members, the Revds, Messrs.Webb and Griabrook.A resolution to appoint a standing committee on Babbath Observance was adopted.Another resolution deprecated the action of the directors of the World's Fair in opening the exposition on the Sabbath.The dabate on the Rev.Charles Duff's motion took up the balance of the morning session.This motion, a very long one, which commenced by speaking of the suggestions toward union by the fraternal delegates at the meeting in Montreal, asked that a committee de appointed to confer with s committee appointed by the Presbyterians, to consider a basis of union; to form some practical plan of working and to report to the union next year; that the committee shall mast with similar commit.tess from other denominations.Mr.Duff referred to & committee on Church union appointed fn 1888, which commit- never acted, \u2018Therefore, those who sent in the memorial to the Toronto Presbytery had presumed there was no commities.The course which they had takeh\u2014perhaps a mistaken pne\u2014was that the cause of the Master should be furthered.- They halieve the genius of Congregstional Churches was Christian unity.This 16.a golden opportunity; lét us go forward.The Rev.J.G.Sandérson,in seconding the resolu spoke of the deplorable tendency of ristianity to-day.The strain wes excessive, we exvended our energies on subdivisions, having too many churches in smaller villages.There are perhaps four or five where one or two would do, while the surrounding district was unchurched.Some simple question of Church government or Calvanisss or baptism kept them apart.\u2018There @ no good reason for what Givides us.We believe that « general union of God's people must be productive of = vast deal of good.The Revds.Mesærs.J.J.Hindier, W.F.Clark and Mr.D.D.Hay spoke in favor of the resolution.The Rev.J.R.Black moved In amendment that the resolution om Christian unity passed in 186 de reaffirmed and the committee reappoint- PR : amendment affirming that the time had not come for union.A third amendment proposed to refer the whole matter to & committee to report a suitable resolution for the sce ceptance of the union.Those speaking against the original motion were the Rev.Prof.Warriner, Dr.Jackson, W.T.Gunn, Messrs.James Woodget, D.D.Milne and H.O'Hara.At half-past twelve the debate was adjourned until Saturday at ten.Apart from the original petitioners and a few of their friends there were few, if any supporters, to the original motion.STATISTICAL REPORT.There wan a large attendance at the evening meeticg.The chairman, the Rev.E.M.Hil, spoke of the sucoess of the evening meetings and then called upon the.statistical seeretary to report.The Rev.ir.Barilion, of Paris, gave the number of churches as 108 parsonages, 13; sittings, M,508; value of church- ea, $818,047, parsonages, $50,100; total 508, 047, less debt, makes a net value of 952.647, an Increase of 36,838 from last year.The total amount raised during the year for ail purposes was $70,00 of which 357,000 was for the local churches.Only # churches reported so that the amount is much larger.In thess there are 5 pastors and five stated supply.The presont membership is 8,600, a slight increase on last year.The adherents number 20,000, London, June 10\u2014lhe Union met for prayer at nine this morning, Mr.Cusb- ing In the chair.At ten the chair was taken, and the report of the temperance Committee, heard through Mr.J.M M Duff.There was not much advance made in temperance during the year.In Ontario a plebiscite on temperance wis ordered.The Temperance Commission had dragged its weary way along.In Quebec a resolution was passed defining four percent beer as non-intoxichting.The report was referred to the Business Committee.\u2018The discussion on the motion in favor | cie) Rev.Wood, of union was continued.The Messrs.Richardson, Morton, MacCaul, McKillican, Dr.Wild, B.D.Slicox, Macintoeh, Dr.Jackson, Dr.Cornish, Mears., Atkinson, Leet ant Duff, spoke against the motion, while the Rev.Méssre.Williams, Ban- derson and Mr.Hamiiton spoke fn its favor.- The proposition to withdraw the main motion and the second amendment were accepted, and the first amendment re- afirming the old resolution on Chris tian unity, and proposing the uppoint- Ment of a standing committee, was ted unanimously.The idea of tistian union pervaded the whole but there was little if any sentiment in favor of organised union.It was compietely killed.London, June &\u2014The Union met In EL Congregational Church last n After devotional exercises the Rev.A.¥.McGregor, the retiring chairman, in a few well chosen words, introduced the new chairman the Rev.B.M.Hui, of Cajvary Church, Montreal Before entering upon the subject of the chairman's annual sddress, Mr.Hil spoke of how last year a Korest In the west had sent & chalrman to pre- #8 over the union meeting held at he foot of Mount Royal.Now east had sent a Hill to preside over the meetings Ia the Forest City of the western plain.TRE GRNITS OF OUR CONOXSGATIONAL CERIS- TIARITY, ngrogationslism is not a negative as some express ft but a positive Christian life Its right to exist is not because it denies church courts and creeds, but because it is here to do aggressive work against the\u2019 common cnemy, the spiritual darkness of this world.Boms claim that our only dit- ference from others in our church government, but If that were sll we have no need Lo exist.We have more.Our churches bring out the manhood, the full Christian life of the man and of the church.Mr.Hills address referred to tha martyrs of the church, and progress since they had paid the penalty with thelr Lives.; The genius of the church stretches out its hands to heathen lands, and seeks to save them.This work was commenced in the United States on union principles.Each of the other denomina- tiuns withdrew, and set up missionary societies.© Congregationalists did not withdraw, for they were left alone to control the original cause.We claim no monopoly of our principles.There are hundreds of Congregational churches not bearing our name.Why hand our work over to others?We are doing good work; we are levelling up we other churches.We do mot grow, because we help to build up others; therefore, our apparen growth in small compared with the real growth.The nominating committee reported on éhie following as commitiees for the coming year : Temperance Committes\u2014The Rev.J.P.Gerrie, B.A.; Messrs.J.Thompson, Zjon Church; W.W.Buchanan, Hamilton; H.O'Hara, Toronto.Babbath Observance Committes\u2014The Rev.E.M.Hill, Montreal; the Rev.T.Hall, Montreal; Mr.J.R.Dougall, Montreal.Credential Committes\u2014The Rev.Dr.Jackson, Kingston; Messrs.I.Wood, Ottawa; J.Morton, Hamilton; Chas.Dubb, Toronto.Union Committes\u2014The Rev.Prof.W.H.Warriner, B.D., the Rev.Joseph Wii, D.D, the Rev.A.W.Main, the Rev.J, Morton, Hamilton; the Rey.C.Bolton, Ottawa; the Rev.R.Aylward, London; the Rev.Mr.Daley, Bayfield; the Rev.W.W, Willams, Guelph: the Rev.W.Johnston, Toronto; Messrs.J.C.Copp, Toronto; W.McCartney, Toronto; T.Bale, Hamilton; Chas.Duff, Hamilton: J.White, Woodstock; H.Yeigh, Brantford.Aunual Preacher\u2014Ths Rev J.J.Hind.ley, Ph.D.; siternats, the Rev.J.P.J.P, Gerrle, B.A.Statistical Secretary\u2014The Rev.J.T.Daley, B.A.Committee on Church Unien-\u2014The Rev.Dr.8, Jackson (convener), the Rev.Dr.Cornish, the Rev.J.Wood, the Rev.J.G.Banderson, the Rev.J.Burton, B.D.the Rev.Chas.Duff, M.A, the Rev.A, F.McGregor, the Rev.J.Morton, the Rev.W.H.Warriner, B.D, the Rev.BE.D.Silcox, the Rev.Robt.Aylward, B.A, the Rev.W, Johnston, Messrs, & P.Lest (Montreal), J.M.Duff (Montreal), H.O'Hara (Toronto), C.J.Atkinson (Toronto), J.Goldie (Guelph), A.Alexander (Hamilton), J.White (Woodstock), 11.Yelgh (Brant- ford), C.Cushing (Montreal).The following ministers were invited to sit as corresponding members :\u2014The Rev.J.A.Murray, the Rev.Dr.Antiifr, the Rev.Ira Smith, Dr.Leonard, Rev.Canon Richardson, the Rev.W.J.Cisrk, the Rev.M.P.Talling, the Rev.J.R.Gundy.The Finance Committee reported that the collections received amounted to $42.50.The Sscretary\u2019s account for sundries amounts to 5123.59, which leaves à balance of 551851 to be divided.claims made by ministers and delegntes amounted to 3625.31.Of these claims, two (from detegates) are not allowed, because the contributions from thelr churches Were under 35 in each case.The Rev.J.R.Black, Mesars.Leet end Hay will form a committee on Sabbath School and Christian Endeavor worl The Rev.W.F.Clarke arose at this point and treated the Union to « general surprise by giving notice of his resignation as a member.He gave his reasons in.detall for taking the step that would sever his connection with a body with which he had been connected for half a century.A number of clergymen, among whom were the Rev.John Morton, the Rev.William Johnston, the Rav.B.B.Wil- Hams, the Rav.Charles Duff, the Rev.Wm.Hay, and the Rev.AW.Richardson, arose one after another, ag regret and sorrow at the step taken, and asking that Mr.Clarke reconsider his decision or consent to have the matter referred to & committes.Mr.Clarke said he was deeply moved at the way his resignation had besn received.He ultimately eon- sented to meet & special commities this afternoon agd discuss the matter.The Union then adjourned.\u2014\u2014\u2014 CANADIAN CATTLE IN BRITAIN.Toronto, June 12\u2014The following spe- cable appears in this morning's \u2018Globe,\u2019 dated London, June 13:~At Dept- ford to-day trade was firmer.Four hundred and fifty-two Canadian animals of the primest quality sold at four shillings two pence per eight pounds ; second quality, three shillings ten pence.Thirteen hundred Canadian cattle at Glasgow included some very first-class cattle, but, while trade has been no worse, shippers are losing, it is reported, no end of money.\u2014\u2014\u2014 VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OORVOOATION Toronto, June 15.\u2014The convocation à Vistorts University yesterday closed the firet your of the institution under tbe Federation Act, and was one of the most upefal if notthe best in the history of the University.The men of the fourth Joa won 13 first-class places out of 58 a led ip that year, Ohan- llor Barwash, in an address, said of one thing the University regents were now oer- tain that in s university already embracieg 19 colleges and 1,830 students, as ibe present BEHRING'S SEA CASES.WERE THE SEIZURES LZGAL THAT MW TER QUESTION VEICE ENGLAND WANTS TES BARSING SNA TRIBUNAL TO ANSWER, Paris, June 13.-8ir Charles Russell, Sir Richard Webster, and the other counsel representing Great Britain before the Behring Bes Tribunal of Arbl- tration, to-day asked the Tribunal to find that the searches and seisures In Behring Sea, mentioned in the British schedule, whither of ships or goods, and \u2018| the arrest of masters and crews were made by authority of the United States ; next that the searches and seisures were made in hon-territorisl waters for alleged breaches of United States municipal laws committed on the high seas, and further that said searches and sejz- ures, imprisonment of masters and crews and the fines Imposed upon them were not made, inflicted or imposed under any claim of right or jurisdiction except such as have been submitted to the decision of the arbitrators.The welzures set forth in the British schedule comprise twenty vessels.The first seisure, that of the \u2018Carolina\u2019 was made by the United Btates Revenue cutter \u2018Corwin,\u2019 on August 18, 1886, and the last, that of the \u2018Pathfinder,\u2019 also made by the \u2018Corwin,\u2019 on March 27, 180.Among those vessels seised was the \u2018Ada.\u2019 15 miles from land, and the \u2018Onward\u2019 LS miles from land.None of the seizures made were within the three-mile limit, the \u2018Ada\u2019 being the nearest to land, and the \u2018Onward\u2019 the farthest off shore.Meszsre.F.J.Phelps, James C.Carter, and the other United States counsel propose that the Tribunal find that the salsures occurred under the authority of the United States, and that they were made over ten miles from any shore, but that which and how many of the vessels set forth in the schedule were in whole or part the property of British or United States citizens be a fact not passed upon by the Tribunal, nor shall the values of the vessels or their contents be passed upon by the Court.The American counsel next propose that the Tribunal find that the orders warning vessels to leave the Behring Sea were made by armed vessels of the United Btates, the commanders of which were duly instructed to issue such warnings, and further, that the District Courts of the United States which condemned the vessels referred to In the schedule, had all the jurisdiction and powers of Courts of Admiraity, including prize jurisdiction.Lastly, the American counsel propose that the Tribunal find that the searches and condemnations were not made in non-territorial waters for alleged breaches of the municipal laws of the United States committed ou the h h seas, and that the Sear ches, oe! prisonments and fines were made under the right and Jurisdtetion ot the United States.MMA VILL PUNISN POAOHERS CAUGET WITE- IN HER SEALING WATEAL Bt.Petersburg, June 13.\u2014An Imperial law has been enacted to provide for the more severe punishment of sealing poachers in Behring Ses.Hereafter, all poachers, Russian or foreign, ff caught sealing in Russian waters, will be liable to sixteen months\u2019 imprison.meant and to the confiscation of their vessels, together with cargo and tackle.Paris, June 1&-\u2014At to-day*s session of the Behring Sea Tribunal of Arbitration Bir Charles Russell said that the the United States proposed regulations of the seal fisheries that would leave the British interests in a worse condition than they were under the Russian ukase issued in 1831 in regard to the sealing industry.Sir Charles closed his re marks by submitting to the Tribunal a preposition that vessels engaged in pela- The gic sealing be not permitted to leave thelr ports before May 1, and that a close season be declared in Behring Sea until July 1 of each year.Sir Richard Webster followed in behalf of Great Britain's side of the onse.He argued that the treaty of arbitration entered into by Great Britain and the United States, gave the arbitrators no power to make regulations that would be of effect outside Behring Sea.He admitted that it would be desirable to prevent the killing of gravid seals or seals nursing thelr young, but he declined to attribute the decrease In the number of the herds to the action of pelagic hunters.He then started to read the correspondence with Russie bearing upon the establishment of a modus vivendi in connection with the seal fisheries, but Messrs, E.J.Pheips and J.C.Carter protested ugminst the reading of this correspondence on .the ground that the proceeding was irregular and amounted to the introduction of new evidence.In the course of his protest, Mr.Phelps offered to Drove from the same documents that Kussin and had not disclainiad her right to seize vessels outxide the limits of Behring Sea.ren CONSERVATIVES AT COOKSTOWN.Cookstown, Ont, June 14\u2014A grand Conservative rally was held here today.Among those present were the Hon.George Foster and Messrs.N.C.Wallace, Col.Tyrwhitt, M.P.; Wm.Masson, M.P.; Geo.Cochrana, M.P.; Dr.Willoughby, M.L.A.; W.H.Ham- mill, M, L.A.: W, H.H.Bennett, M.P.: Mr.Sproule, M.P.Dr, Norris, president of the Bouth Simcos Libernl- Conservative Association, occupied the chair.Col.Tygwhitt was the first speaker.He denied most emphatically the truth of the story that he contemplated retiring from politics to take charge of the experimental farm at Ot- tawe.The Hon.N.C.Wallace was heartily received on rising to address the meeting.He spoke at some length on the platform of the party and the prosperity of the country under Conservative rule.He defended the course pursued by the Government in the Jes- uite\u201d Æstates Act and tbe Manitoba Bchool question, and declared Mr.Dai- ton MeCarthy wished to pose as the champlon of the Protestant faith.The Hon.George Foster expressed confidence in the Government and the people of the country.He hoped that the Liberals would succeed In securing à tts Platform at the coming convention at Ottawa.After ridiculing the course pursued by Mr.Dalton McCarthy, he closed his remarks by showing the prosperity of the farmers of Canadas.Motions endorsing the Dominien Government, the local Opposition and Col Tyrwhitt were unsaimoutly asp THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS ADVENTURE WITH A BEAR.OUR RAWDON COLBESFONDENT HAS AX ELFRES- BNOE WEIGH WiLL LAN?KIX FOB À LIFS- Ie.Rawdon, June 12-\u2014Travelling as I am duily through a rough and mountainous section of thé Provinces of Quebec, slong the Laurentides, one meets with many scenes of hardship and suffering and many cases of human depravily, also many Incidents both dangerous and romantic At a future date I shall give to the readers of the \u2018Witness\u2019 a brief sketch of this locality, and the customs and habits of the ple.To-day 1 must confine myself to one incident, owing to time and space.The distance from St.Donat to Mr.Page's, ft.Emile, is sald to be fifteen miles, more or | and I am sure that anyone who tra over it, as 1.have, in the early spring, will say yes, by all means, much more.Well, there is ten miles of that road cut through the primeval forest, where there is no mark of civilisation,\u2014nothing but the tall trees swaying to and fro with the wind, the ocho reverberating with a solemn snd pensive sound, chanting as ft.were the dirge expressive or grief and sympathy for lonely.traveller; and I may well say lonely, because you ean pass and repass and not meet a human soul.This brings me to the incident.About midway In the gloomy way, my horse, being naturally of a shy and nervous nature, suddenly stopped om the road, snorted and plunged fearfully, fully determined If poasibie to turn around on the road, but that was utterly impossible owing to the narrow cut upon which he stood.In quick time he would have made a somerssult, probably reducing both waggon and driver to small fragments, had I not held him with à firm hand and instantly sprang from the rig and seized him by the bridle, and with areat coaxinx and patting got him a little reconciled.I then took a few steps in advance and just around & curve in the road lay À LARGE BROWS AND SEAGOT-LOOKING BEAR, and withia a few feet lay the carcass of à ded horse.Some poor and perhaps fajthful beast that had been driven to death on the bad roads, abandoned by the mangled and torn appearance of the carcass it was plain that the bear had gorged himself to such an extent that he did not care to move and lay dows and went to sleep.You may be certain that fear began to creep over ma and what to do, placed as I \u2018was between two fires, a mad horse sud a slumbering bear and five Jes {fom any human abode.For- tuna I had a strong three-quarter inch J in the front of the rig, which I faspéned securely upon :the horse's aeck, the other end through the bit ring and tied it to the nearest tree.X did alt this very quietly and gpparent- Ly without fear and never mentioned the bear to Jim because I well knew his dread.\u2018of bruin since the Italian bear trainers stopped at our house a few years .go.Now I had to face the all important issues, To get Jim past that was a physical impossibility; so 1 picked up a lot of stones, and, stepping a few paces ahead, I began pelting bruin.I struck him several times before he moved a muscle, then he slowly | tly stood on his hind legs and zavagely snorted and locked pt\u2019 me steadily.I shopted and ellen 4% top of my Shakespearean voice In imaginable way until I was really sôgred at the sound of it as it echoed through the woods.Of course 1 continued my stone fushiade, which had the desired effect snd his bearship moved slowly a few paces from the highway and stood behind some brushwood, partly hid from view.I then quickly sprang to the horse, untied him, led him by the dead carcass, held him firmly by the bit with one hand and fired a few shots in the direction of the bear as he retreated.What effect .the shots had I aid not wait to asceptain, but quickly into my seat.\u2018Jim\u2019 started with a bound and for abotit half a mile he went ét his level best over one of the roughest and most muddy roads on the face of the earth to-day.1 arrived at my destination all covered with mud and pretty well shaken up.J \u2014\u2014\u2014 PRINCESS MAY'S TROUSSEAU.- London, June 14.\u2014Orders in connection with Princess May's trousseau have been piaced with nearly all the larger houses in varjous rarts of the country, so as to please as wide a section as possible.From the silk works at Spitalfields comes, the dinner dress, the color- ground of which fs fleur de peche.The damask is composed of rosebuds, jasmine and maidenhair, each bouquet connected with a silver metal tie.From Spitalfields comes also the material for an evening costume of pale blue and gold, The work of the Manchester makers commands admiration for a simple home dinner dress.The color sels is pale green, ornamented with spots, Btripes and daisies.A charming morning robe, composed of thin summer silk, bears testimony to the high standard of the Leek industry in printed silks.The ground of this dress is myrtle green, with violets adorning the desigh, Which is of perfect workmanship.The going-away dress is to be of Irish poplin of a particularly pretty shade of ivory white, with rellef of gold.After marriage the young coupie will ride.in \u2018state through the city.Arrangements at St.James\u2019 Puiace are finished, and seats for about 160 peaple altogether have been planned.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DR.WILD\u2019S RESIGNATION.Toronto, June 19,~Dr.Wild, in an interview, Bays he has been suffering from the effects of grippe for two or three years, and requires a long rest.He does not wish to embarrass his congregation financially, and has concluded that the best solution of the difi- culty would be for him to resign.The trustees \u2018insisted on his preaching every Bundsy when at home.When he went away the income of the Church fell off.If he could arrange for a long vacation he would remain.en - THE ARMENIANS SENTENCED.Constantinopte, June 10\u2014Fhe trial of the Armenians sccused of being concerned in rioting at Cesarean and Mar- sovan last spring has just been oonciud- ed at An Beventeen of the prisoners, incl Prof.Thoumalau and Prof.Kayayan, were condemned to death: six, Including the Protestant pastor at Clmeric, were sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment ; eiahteen to imprisonment for terms ranging from [tol Joars, asd\u2019 fiftesd were acquitted Its owner and cruelly left to die.From of BAPTISTS IN SESSION.THS EASTERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AT THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.Quebec, June 15.\u2014The astern Ay- sociation of Baptist churches is holding its sixth annual gathering with the Que- bee Church, About 20 delegates from ail parts of the province are in attendance and the greatest enthusiasm Is manifested.: After the reading of the Scriptures by the Rev.A.C.Baker, of Bawyerville, and prayer by the Rev.W.B., Hinson, of Montreal, the annual sermon was preached by the Rev.W.T.Graham, of Grace Baptist Church, Montreal, from Ira.82:1, \u2018Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion!\u2019 It was an able and eloquent address calling for Increased energy on the part of the Church In the work of evangelization.The dangers of lethargy were clearly pointed out AFTERNOSH SESSION.A twenty-minute prayer-meeting led by the Rev.C.W.Townsend.of Sher- brooks, was the prelude to the afternoon business meeting.The reading of church lottern was continued.On the recommendation of the committes on roll and applications the Bulwer Baptist Church (fcrmerly belonging to the Freewill Baptist denomination) was admitted to fellowship and the hand of welcome extended to their representative.EVENING NRASION, The Rev.W.T.Graham, Association Foreign Mission Becretary, presented the report of the local board.The report was somewhat discouraging.It gave the true resson of the Rev.Mr.Lorimer's return from India and pointed out the duty of the churches towards the work.After singing a hymn the Rev.W.B.Hinson, of Montreal, addressed the gathering on the sams subject.This address was bristling with epigrammatic statements and glowing with enthusiasm and eloquence.A collection was taken up on behalf Foreign Missions.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BROME COUNTY VICTORY.\u2018The majorities were as follows = Township of Brome Against.For.Knowlton \u201c - Fulford .» Iron Hil.3 \u2018West Brome.8 Brome Corners.s Majority for the Aet.= Township of Sutton.Olmated School House.1\u201c un s 3 « ° » 3 For = Lid bd » = am Total majority in favor of the Act 195.\u2014\u2014 A GLADBTONIAN DEFEAT.London, June 17.\u2014The seat for Lin- lithgowshire in the House of Commons, previously held by Mr.Peter McLagan, having become vacant, & writ was issued for a new election to be held yesterday.The Conservatives nominated Capt.Thomas Hope, who contested the district at the last election against Mr, McLagan, and who was defeated by a majority of 161 votes.The Gladstonians nominated Mr.Alexandr Ure, who wes beaten by Sir Donald Currie, Liberal- Unionist, in the West Division of Perth- shire at the general election in July last.The 1esult of the ballotisg yesterday was a majority of 18 for the Conservative candidate, the vote standing : Capt.Thomas Hope, Conservative, 3,240; Mr.Alexander Ure, 3,00L The victory of Capt.Hope, of course, reduces the Government majority In the House of Commons.Mr.Nclagan, the previous incumbent of the seat, was an setive supporter of Mr.Gladstone.\u2014\u2014\u2014 THB BORDEN MURDER.New Bedford, Mass.June 18.\u2014The night before the legal battle is particularly quiet and uneventful.The work of preparation among the counsel in the Borden case has been going on all day despite the fact that it was Sunday.The work was considered one of the essentials of good work to come.\u201d The Go ernment has the beat end of the argument because it has the ears of th Jury last and it is barely possible thai provided the jury have not the most retentive minds in the world the words last spoken and beard may fall upon the most fertile ground.The consensus of opinion hers in that Miss Borden will be acquitted in short order or that the jury will pr ANNOYED AT THE CONCESSIONS.London, June 18\u2014Severai of the antl.Parnelilte members of ihe Houses of Commons have received complaints from their constituents for not opposing the Government concessions to the Unionists ia the debate on the Home Rule Bill.The Parnellites have intimated to the Ministry that they will withdraw from the House in the event of further concessions being made.Mr.Sexton's supporters are disposed to take similar action.The followers & Mr.the oars (ATO 9 Mharing A MONTREAL NEWSPAPER RXVAXASES ITSKLY 700 FREELY, AND I TO BE SUED FOB LIBEL AS 4 CONBBQUENCE.Quebec, June 14.\u2014It is somewnat um- usual for the members of a Government to meet the charges of their political adversaries against them, as a Government, by actions of damages for libel, 8 pelicy of the kind being always chen to the objection that it wears the appearance of a desire to gag the free expression of opinion, and to stifle, If possible, every unpleasant accusation, right or wrong.Yet this is the course taken by the members of the Tuillon Goverm- ment against the \u2018Patrie.\u2019 of Montreal, for publishing an alleged libel against the Government, individually and eck lectively, in announcing that they come template the perpetration of a huge job in the transfer of the property or ous- trol of the Jesuits\u2019 Estates to a ayndi- cate of their party friends.The books.of the Supe:for Court here showed to-day that the following actions had beem - taken out, Provincial Secrecary Pelletier Jezding off : The Hon.I.P.Pelletier va.the Patrie\u2019 Publishing Company, action of - damages .amount demanded, 919.5, - Returnable, July 31.JESUITS\u2019 ESTATES SCANDAL, ' The Hon.F.C.Casgrain va.the sams, - same action.The Hon.E.J.Flynn, same action, The Hon.¥.Chapats, same action.The Hon, L.O.Reaublen, same action.The Hon.G.A.Nantel, same action.Mr.J.A.Prince, advocate, of this city, represents the plaintiffs.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNITED STATES - TRADE RE TURNS.\u2018Washington, D.C., June 16.\u2014The ad verse balance of trade during May gl- most exactly bears out the recent prediction in these despatches that the amount would drop from $24,000,000 in April to $10,000,000 in May.The exports for May have advanced to $69, ,752, an e imports have fallen to $79,429,795.Po \u2018The indications are that the figures for June wlll be no worse than those of June, 1392, when the adverss balance was a little more than $7,000,000, The figures for May, 1892, showed an adverse balance of $1,007,308.The total exports for five months, ending May 31 last, were $420,414,293 showing an adverse balance of 386,- 401, or an average of about 000,000 per month.se The excess of gold exports over imports during May was $15,202.00, making the excess for the five months ending May 31, $60,252,003, and for eleven months $85.801.251.This change in the balance of trade so that It is less hostile to this country is expected to have an important affect in reducing gold shi ta relieving the treasury ron er berrane ment, \u2018The growtng demand for our bread- stuffs in Europe and the fact that Great Britain appears to have unloaded a large part of her surplus stock of cheap goods even encourage the beliet that the balance of trade In June will be in \u201cavor of this country, instead of against it, and that gold balances may return-bere from Europe.\u2014\u2014\u2014 WANT THE SHERMAN LAW REPEALED.; New York, June &-The \u2018Wor:d' bas 1n- terviewed nearly all the members of Congress by telegraph on the following Questions :\u2014 1.Do you, with presént information, want the repeal of Sherman silver law?2, Do you favor an income tax ?3 Do you favor the repeal of the State bank tax 7 The \u2018World,\u2019 In commenting on their answers, says: Many of the answers deviate no far from the plain \u2018Yes\u2019 or \u2018No,\u2019 and Involve so many qualifications that no tabular statement would fairly present the feelings expressed.The important facts shown are that to the first question there are éighty-six representatives who eay practically 'Yes.\" while only eighteen say \u2018No\u2019 Of the rest many who quality their answer so strongly that they cannot fairly be placed in the aMrmative column, show plainly that their inclinations are in favor of a repeal.The sentiment of the lower house on that question seems to be overwhelming.\u2014_\u2014 ONE LIFE LOST.AND THE SHIP ORS TO THR BOTTOM Queenstown, June 14\u2014The Cunard steamer \u2018Servia,\u2019 which arrived to-day, reports that on June 7, she ran down.- ' the American ship \u2018A.McCallum,\u2019 from London, April 38, for New York.The \u2018McCallum\u2019 was so badly damaged that rhe filled and sank a short time after the accident.The \u2018Servia\u2019 rescued twen~ ty-four of those on board.One maa was drowned.The second officer of the \u2018A.McCallum\u2019 was sound asleep in his berth when the bows of the \u2018Servia\u2019 shattered his cabin and threw him to the floor.The shock overturned a lamp, which ignited the bedclothes.Wreckage blocked the door of the room, and the water rose to his knees before he managed to burst through a wooden partition, and got on deck just as the vessel rank, He was left struggling in the sea, attired only in his shirt ep UNDERPAID WOMEN WORKERS Toronto, June %\u2014At a public meeting under the auspices of the Working Wow men's Association last night, several clergymen were present.The Rev, Father Ryan.as 8 representative »f the Archbishop, and the Rev.Charles Bhortt.\u2018The latter said If the difficah ties between labor and capital were not soon settled there wouid be à greater and more disastrous revolution than the French revolution.Mr, D.À.Carey thanked the minieters on behalf of the\u2019 working women for their sympathy, and stated that there were women in fac tories here compelled to work for $1.50 per week.The association's alm was to help such people.CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE POPR the \u2018 Rome, June £\u2014The sums of money given to the Pope during his Episco bilee by bands of pligrims, by Cat Ne orders and by individuals amounts to 9,000,000 francs.American pilgrims gave $00,000 francs.2 THE QUEBEC LOAN PLACED.Quebec, June 17.-Mayor now in England.cables that he placed the Quebec city joan.of LEN.Ustactorily em Fremont, the MagUsh money, © 14 THE TARIFF.MR.M'CARTHY DKNOUNCES THR PROTECTION l'OLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.Mr Nalton McCarthy, QU, MP, nd- dressed a large meeting of peuple last week in Henderson's Rink, 8t.Thomas, Ont.the Rev, Principal Austin being chatrman, and on the platform were the Rev, N.Mcintyre, Rev.N.J.Trelevan, Rev.G.N.Phillips, kev.A.li.Munro, and Messrs.I).McColl, M.E.P.for West Kixin © D.Glassey, Ald.Hawes, All Banders, Ald.Miner, J.T.Fraser.Dr, Marlatt, W.Davia, W.Little, J.M.Kirhy and Rev.M.Grey, of New Sarum.Me McCarthy was received with applause.He spoke for an hour and a- half, aud was at times enthusiastically cheered.He devoted most of his time to the question of tarif reform.In 18% he was one of thre wh ht it was necessary in « (he manufacturers tu ou te with those of the neighboring republic to inuugurate a policy of protection : but at thut time it was only Intendad that the policy should be a temporary one, nut permanent.Protection added to the cost of living of ail, but benetitisd only à few.The national policy hud served 115 purpose.and the tariff should Le readjusted.With the start the manufacturers had new got they whould be able to stand mlone and compete with the manufacturers of other lands, We ure told we can get articles as cheap and cheaper under protection.If that Is so the manufar- turers do not need protection.The pro- ple would not llkely travel out of the etes country to got gouds, puy freigh if they are no better or ne che time has arrived when the turers should hold thelr own or crane to exist.The people of Canads pay $20,- 000,00 a year in customs charges on manufactured goods, but to this must be added profits of wholesaler and retailer, which increase it $0000 nore ; tut the manufacturers are putting up the price of thelr goods ar high us the price of the same Foods If Imported, with the 2 percent duty added.which goes into the pockets of the manufacturers and not into the revenue of the country.So the people are paying 32.0000 as revenue and another §20,000.000 which goes into the pockets of the manufacturers.He would not say thut free trade was under all circumstances the policy that Canada should adopt.but thers were strong arguments in favor of that view.In 1891 he bad believed it would benefit the country if protection were adopted and manufacturing industries established.but it wan never intended that the people of Canada should pay 3 percent to the manufacturers for all time to come.They should be now made to live with such incidental protection as could be derived from necessary customs duties.Protection, according to the Government, had done much for St.Thomas.\u2018They would be surprised to learn what it had done for them by the returns of the census enumerators.It is seen that Bt.Thomas has 23 manufactories\u2014 (laughter)\u2014and 1,566 hands employed therein.From the $20.000,000 paid by the people no corresponding advantage Is ohtained.Take the farmer, he pays 30 percent more for his raw material, his tools and what he and his famiiy consume.What Is he getting to compensate him on the other side uf the ne- count ?What good ts protection to the farmer when it does not raise the price of farm produce In the home markets 7 Before 1579 our markets were open to the American farmers.In 1892, after thirteen years of protection, we find that $12,000,000 worth of farm produce alone is kept out of Canada.The value of farm produce in Ontario alone is $60,000,000, and if to that ta added the value of the produce of all the other provinces, we will see the measure of benefit to the farmer by shutting out $12,000,000 worth of produce.The farmer saves about 10 percent by not having to export $12.- 000,000 worth of produce, and as there are 700,000 farmers it means a saving of $1.70 per head.On the debit side of the account has to be placed the largely fn- creased price the farmer has to pay for all his raw material, what he uses, wears and consumes.The price of wheat Is fixed by the law of supply and demand and no policy can increase it.In this and other things our farmers have to compete with the whole world, while the manufacturers have a 33 percent wall about them.Last year raw cotton had decreased in price, but the manufactured article was now selling at 38 percent more than it would sell for if there was free trade.Bar iron was $2.6] a ton in Liverpool.With duty and freight added it brought the price up to about $48.There are two rolling mille In Canada, but they do not sell bar iron at $27 a ton, but at $46.The fron can be manufactured for 827 ; the rest ix what they call profits on account of the N.P.Go down the whole line of articles and it will be found the same.The people were paying 38 & head for every man, woman and child to keep up these manufacturers, and there is not four percent employed in munufacturing industries that would not be if there was free trade.There were combinations in every line, which controlled the output and fixed the price.\u2018The Hon.Mr.Foster says the Government Is pledged to readjust the tariff us soon as they get sufficient information, and why withdraw confidence from them ?It was not right to ke changes ih a hurry.Notwithstanding Mr.Foster's statement, he was still a doudting Thomas.The import policy of the adininistration was \u2018causing feelings of disloyalty to the Crown.Mr.Foster tells the manufacturing firms that they will not always have the national policy, but the keynote will always be protection.Mr, McCarthy said he wanted the electors not to slumber ; the manufacturers will not slumber.Nothing but a victory fn Cardwell when the constituency 14 ned will teach the Governéinnt that the people of this country arc ii earnest in regard to tariff reform.Why ure the Government talking of moving in this matter?They never dreamed of it when the administration was formed : but Sir John Thompson attended the kioard of banquet in \u2018Toronto, and, seeing the feeling of unrest, ha promised to lop off the mouidering branches.fut at a peopie\u2019s meeting in Toronto shortly after they were told that the next session the tariff would be mmended.They did emend ft: they took a little duty or Mader tire and 8e a gallon off coal ofl, and left the reat on.tut Mr.Foator ay * Give Ua another year's time unttl Wwe #0 alout the country and get lafor- !{ mation, and then we will act.\u2019 He hoped they would, fmit he must say that he duubted it.Mr, Clarke Wallace sald that he (the speaker) had cronsed out the word * Protestant* In an address which was presented to him In London.This was not true.He had never seen the addrena before it was rend to him, and he did not know whether the word \u201c Proteatani\u2019 wan in it or not.But he w not à Protestant champlon, though opposeil 10 the aggression of the Roman Cathotle Church In civil affairs.He had nothing tv do with Catliolicism ne à re ligion.Jie had nothing to de with the retiplous (aith of any man.He had no desire to set up na a l'rotestant champion.but to have all religions free before the law.Mr.McCarthy, in concluding, referred briefly to the dual, language and the Manitoba school questions, sxpress- ing his well-known views upon these matters.He was loudly applauded on taking his sew! \u2014_\u2014\u2014 EDUCATION IN QUEBEC, The Montreal \u2018Witness\u2019 says :\u2014 \u2018The Toronto \u2018Globe\u2019 falters out à half apology for publianing a long letter upon the connection between the ecciesias- tieal control of education and the bad- nen of the Quebec school system.It sya that Protestants, and especially I'roestants vutside of Quebec, are Mkely to do more harm than good by condemning fresh assumptions on the part of the Roman Catholic Church, such as the recent decision of the Coun | «it of Public Instruction of this province fret Lo require members of religious cnlers eujaged In teaching schools to ! puss examination as rigld as are ex- ucted from laymen.The only thing, or, at lenst, the best thing, for Protestants tw da is to close thelr cyes to ail the evil (hat ecclesiasticlsm works around them, lest, by exposing and condemning !t, they should give offence to Roman Catholics, and, perhaps, provokd possible opponents of the evils into becoming defenders of them.\u2019 This is gross misrepresentation, The \u2018Glube\u2019 took no such positicn us that laid down by the \u2018Witness.We did say \u2014 \"We are quite ready to assert the right of free speech for any Canadian Journal touching the affalrs of Quebec or of any other province; but the fact stands that reform in Quebec must come from within tbat\u2019 province, and that outside effort to amellorate unsatisfactory conditions there must be largely futile, and barren of good effect We believe that to be a sound view, but we would be sorry to argue that Protestants or Protestant jour should not exercise the full night to discuss Quebec affairs.We submit that any fair-minded man wiil agree that the \u2018Globe's\u2019 article of May 31 last which the \u2018Witness\u2019 has criticised, was wholly favorable to what we described as \u2018a popular and liberal measure of educational reform\u2019 for Quebec.It may tickle the good \u2018Witness\u2019 to denounce the \u2018Globe\u2019 ms a party organ, and we would not rob it of its amusement.Hut we are not willing to have the \u2018Witness\u2019 put into the mouth of the \u2018Globe\u2019 statements we did not make.We ave not willing the \u2018Witness\u2019 should present us with an audacity that would shame the most rabid party organ in the country.We have not quarretled with the \u2018Witness\u2019 method of handling Quebec questions; on the whole, we confess to a good deal of admiration for the \u2018Witness\u2019 honesty and courage and no doubt that paper will take an early occasion to confess it has quite misunderstood the \u2018Globe's\u2019 attitude on the school question in the neighboring province.\u2014Toronto \u2018Globe.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 THE CONGREGATONAL UNION ON UNION.(Toronto *Globe.\") It will be In the mind of our readers that early In January of this year several pastors of Congregational churches appeared before the Toronto Presbytery offering a conference on the sub- Ject of denominatonal unity.One of thelr number, the Rev.C.Duff, of this city, after notice given, proposed & motion in the Congregational union affirming the desirabllity of continuing conference with the Prestyterian brethren by appointing a committees representing the Congregational body, such committee to meet with similar committees of other denominations, should such be appointed.It appears that some years ago the Congregationalists appointed a standing committee on union, and as Mr.Duff's motion did not recognise this faet, and endorsed the action of the brethren who met with the Toronto Presbytery, about the wisdom of which action differing views were held, it was at the close of the debate, which consumed two full morning sessions of the unica, withdrawn in favor of an amendment which, afirm- ing readiness to confer, appointed a committee for sueh conference with any Christian body that would meet with them.This motion was carried by a standing vote, with two, perhaps three.dissentients.This action of the Congregationalists is significant, an was aiso the debate upon the subject.Some were inclined to resent the manner in which the question had been forced upon them, two or three werc prepared to justify the existence In perpetuity of denomi- nationalism, & few thought the ides of corporate union Utopian, but the overwhelming sentiment was favorable to union, i\u20ac only It could be atialned on New Testament lines.Of course, Shere was the usual affirmation of \u2018our denominational principles,\u2019 fears of absorption, dread of evil consequences attending the discussion of such a radical change as union with the Presbyterians would imply~\u2018all of which,\u2019 sald a prominent Methodist divine, who was prasent during the debate, \u2018reminded me of the utiermnces of some of our own men when our own union was under consideration, and which Rave all melted {nto thin air since the union bas been realised.\u2019 But the question has been raised, the possibilities discussed, and the continuance of de- allan as such scarcely able to ind a defender, There 1s every rea- :son tn believe that the Presbyterian body, which mests this week, and before whom the sama question will come by overture, will do its part in meeting the advances made, and aly though no immediate results are to be expected, the drift has in.As one of the speakers waid, \u2018Union ia in the air\u2019 sympathies are broadening, and Canads may keep the land in the work of unifying the dlsjointml rpem- tars of the Christan Church.° THE MONTREAL WAËRLY WITNESS \u201cCOL.O'BRIEN SPEAKS.FOR MR M'CARTIHYT AND AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.+ Near Thoro Road, Ont, Col.O'lirien spoke the other day mt a MoUarthy plo.nie.He said he supposed It was bee cause Mr.White had fought the party fight so well that he might now retire to a comfortable position, attached to which was a good fat salary.There was too much of the practice of placing politicians in these comfortable havens of rest.Men were wanted In l'arlla- ment who could take & broader view of public ilfe than that which tended toward perscnal aggrandizement in the end, Bo Impressed with the warmth of the reception that had given to Nr.McCarthy at Orangeville was the Government at Ottawa that it hud sent a throng of ministers and members to that town to reply to what he had said.A voice-They were your old chums.Col.C'Hrien-They may have béen my old chuma ; they will not be but old chums politically much longer.Con tinuing, he questioned whether it was worth while for Mr.Yoster and the other niiniaters and members to visit Orangeville, considering all they had said.They had gone thera wimply to prove that Mr.McCarthy had been inconsistent.Mr.Clarke Waliace was a man whom he would like to buy at his own valuation and sell at Mr.Wallace's, Mr.Wallace had attacked Mr.Mc- Carthy, though the latter had in none of his speeches wasted time or words on Mr.Wallace.The moment that Mr.Watlace became a pald servant of Sir John Thompson, a hostage for the good behavior of the Loyal Orange Assocla- tion of British North America, hls poll- tical opinions or anything he mixht say were hot of the slightest consequence whatever.He had taken the shilling : he was bound to obey ordors.He was politically dead.and hia words were not worth the value of mn old hat.Mr.McCarthy's old platform could be summed up in the words \u2018 equal rights.\u2019 McCarthy was not endeavoring to d nationalize any section of the community, but he insisted In maintaining this as a British nationality.He would not sllow the ecclesiastical authorities of any church, Roman Catholic, Methodist or Presbyterian, to claim privileges not accorded to any other ecclesiastical body.Referring to the charge of Mr.Wallace that Mr.McCarthy had allowed his bINl to amend the North-West Territories Act, introduced last session, to go by default, he explained that the order for the second reading of the bill was reached at 11 at night.but as It was early In the session it was not proceeded with because it was reasonably expected that it would be reached again in good time.But it was put at the foot of the paper, and never was reached a(- terwards.ut voice\u2014That 1s & very lame excuse, Ir.Col.O'Briea~I will leave it to this meeting to say whether it is a lame excuse or not.He then entered upon a discussion of the trade question, and from the farmer's standpoint Thede a plea for tariff reform.As far ax agricultural productions were concerned, the farmer, Col.O'Brien said, was not protected at all, while the articles which were necessary to him to carry on his business were highly protected.He protested ngainst class legislation In all forms, the object of which was to protect one portion of the community at the expense of another, as did the tariff.He warned the Patrons of Industry against asking for legislation of a special character, but while doing so he entered a protest against the comparison which Mr.Foster had made at Orange- ville between the Patrons and the ordinary combinations which were the outgrowth of high tariff.The figuren quoted by Mr.Foster to prove the rapid growth of the country, the Colonel raid, were mont unfair, misleading and Inaccurate, because he had taken the years of small est production in the past and compared them with the years of highest proddction.His deduction from these figures were just as absurd, misleading and false as the deductions which he had drawn from the census \u2014\u2014 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY, Gen.N.Giadky, of Bt.Petersburg, has recently been in this country on his way from Viadivostock to ft.Peters- burg.Speakng of the railway from dt.Petersburg to Viadivostock, he says : \u2018There are about 900 versts to be bulit to Kalarowka alone.From Viadivo- stock weat about 200 versts have already been completed and the cars will be running to Busse on that stretch by the end of Juns or the middle of July.From Ural in an easterly direction and Irkutsk out track is being laid.Con- viet labor is used exclus! .dock at Viadivontock panese and Chinese labor is empioyed.The dock will be the largest on the const\u2014#00 feet long and 100 feet wide.The harbor 18 being much improved also, and when completed the Russian sjuadron, Instead of wintering at Nagasaki, in Japan, will make Viadivostock its heag- quarters exclusively.\u2019 = 0e TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION.London, June 18.\u2014TH$ liquor veto de- tmoustration of the temperance people was beld in Hyde Park on Saturday.More than 8 huddred thousand persons were present.Speeches were made from twenty platforms.Among the most conspicwous speakers were Lady Somerset, Mr.Wm.Crane, Radical M.P.: Sir Wilfrid lawson.Radieal M.Pend president of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Trafic; Mr.Jas.Picton, Liberal M.P.; Sir Wm.Haunders, Radical M.P.; Mr, Wm.Cremer, Radical Reform M.P., and Mr.John Carvell Williama, Advanced Liberal M.P.\u2014\u2014 A TREACHEROUS MANDARIN.Paris, June 14.\u2014The Under Secratary of the colonies receive] a telegiam this evening dated Vo-Bon, June 1b, enying: \u201cThe Slamese Mandarin oceupying the pet of Camoun has butrayed us The \u2018ranch resident has abandoned his guns and returned to MeKong escorted by Inspector Grogurit.On nrriving at Kengkhien Inspector Groxurin beoame sick.The Mandarin immediately aur.rounded the fnapectar\u2019s house with a Lang of Mimmine, Who murdc-el fourteen rative roldiers.Tha Mandarin himeet?shot Orogurin, who lay hoipless ta bed.\u2019 BATHURST (N.B.) SCHOOL QUESTION.RESUME OF THR (MAROXS MADR, \u2018The Inquiry into the llathurat (N.R.) schuol affairs has been upon several alleged violations of the schodl law and regulations, which are held to have been perpetrated by the Rev.James Rogers, Roman Catholle bishop of the dieccese of Chatham, N.R, Tho complaint Is that the bishop entered into an arrange ment with members of the Roman Ca- tholie church In Bathurst to bring members of certain religious teaching orders of the Roman Catholle Church lo establish conventual schools with a viow to having children of Proles- tant parents taught within them ; that special arrangements were made so that the teachers cuuld bo examined and licensed at the convent, and that they were so licensed contrary to law ; that Roman Catholic priests interfered with the public schools In the district in giving Instructions from the Roman Cathatle church in Bathurst as to what children should attend the conventual school, and in ordering & parent to take her child from another school and send her to the conventual school ; that a teacher, T.Langlois, was ordered to teach the Roman Catholic catechism In the schools, and that the trustees were requested to and did rent part of the convent and engage teachers from the religious orders there; that under the Influence of the Itomun Catholic priests holy days have been observed in the common ae well us the conventual schools that a report of Ge.W.Morsereau, setting forth certain of the priesta* deeds, had not Leen laid before the bourd of education.Complaint is also made that the board of education persistently declined to take action upon complaints, that the grading of the schools haa not been according to law, that the action of the trustees han resulted in inferior and incompetent teachers being employed, the closing of the superior and grammar schools, and that Protestant children were compelled to submit to thin (n- ferior system of teaching In districta No.& and No.16 It is also set forth that an immoral and dissolute teacher, once discharged by the school board as such from his position as inspector, had been placed in charge ns grammar- school teacher at the beginning of the present term ; also that the replacing of the public schools by the conven- tual schools worked injury to the former ; were for the special benefit of the Roman Catholic Church and for the Injury of Protestants; that Protestant teachers had been refused employment because of their falth and consclentious scruples preventing them teaching the Roman Catholic catechism.Charges are also made that Protestant children have been compelled to participate in Roman Catholic worship and nave been ordered out when they refused, the non-sectarian nature of the schools being thus attacked and the spirit of the public school laws of the province viciated, \u2014 DR.DOUGLAS AND THE CABINET.Toronto, June 18\u2014Dr.Douglas remarks about Methodist representation In the Government is still a good deal talked of here.The Rev.W.F.Wil- WOR, Mm a sermon on lessons for the Conference yesterday, disagreed with Dr.Douglas, and said a man's suitability for a public position should be the only thing considered In the making of appointments to the Cablnet.A letter published to-day by the Rev.Dr.Potts, educational secretary, on the same question, will create interest.Dr.Potts takes occasion to deny the report that since Dr.Douglas\u2019 remarks | Justice Rose left the Methodist Church ! and joined the Anglicans, and adds, | In his opinion, the principle of appointment to office In the state because of Church relationship was utterly indefensible.PRINTERS MEET.TEE INTERNATIONAL TTPOGRAPEICAL URI IN SESSION AT CHICAGO.Chicago, June 12\u2014Madison Hall was crowded to-day with delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada to the forty-first annual Cunvention of the International Typograynical Union.Fully 30 accredited representatives of the crafts associated with the printing press were present at 9.3 o'clock, when Mr.W.P.Prescott, of indianapolis, President of the organization, called the asrembly ta order.After prayer by the Rev.Floyd W.Jenkins, Mayor Harrison welcomed the Union to Chicago In a characteristic address, and tendered them the freedom of the city.They were in sesison for several days.Chicago, lil, June 15.\u2014At the second days\u2019 session of the International Printers\u2019 Protective Fraternity, resolutions ware adopted favoring the adoption of type-setting machines in newspaper offices.CALLS THRE ALLIANCE INCONSISTENT.Toronto, June 16\u2014The refusal of the Toronto Anglican Synod yestanday to commit itself on the liquor proaibtion Question has attracted more atténtion to the Synod meeting than it usually creates.\u201cThe matter was brought before the 8ynod by a letter from the Dominion Alliance, conveying greetings, and ssking the Bynod to appoint four delegates to the annual Convention In September.The Alliance letter added that it would be greatly pleased if the authorities of the Church of England could ses their way ef to co-operate with it In the work of temperance re form.The Lev.Wililam Walsh, of Brampton, said he liked consivtency.He had attended the gatherings of the Alllance, and knew the leading elements in connection with it.and there was strong feeling that, to put it in the leant offensive way, the Alllunce was lo « rather (nconsistent position.In other words, it was being handled in such a political way thet the Byhod ought to be careful.If he had made a mistake.he wan willing to be corrected, but he felt the Church of England should not be drawn into expreseing ts\u2019 opinions In a resotution In any form.\u2018 The strongest temperance men of the country felt that the Alllance was being used for political purposss.On motion of the Rev, I.H.Kirkby, sec- onird by the Rev.4.P.Tæwis, the Recretary was Instructed to acknowledge thr fotrer u44 foræurd to the Alllance a: copy rf the tuies and regulations of | 0 the Church of England mag, py! IRISH QUARRELS HAMPER MR.GLADSTONE IN HIS FIGHT FOR REFORM.London, June 10\u2014There ta no need to take Mr.Sexton's resigmation, as such, too serfously.The atmosphere of Par- finment is literally the breath of his nostrils.He hibernates in a semi- comatose condition whenever the House is not In session.As it Is, he could never sustain the intolerable privation of not belng a member of it when it was in session.This is 0 essentially à part of his character that nobody regards his resignation as other than a bluff, 8 mere aduit variation of a sulky child's threat to take her tin dishes and go home.Just what will follow is not at ali clear, but it may at least be taken for granted that Mr.Sexton will continue to sit in I'arliament.It is no news to readers of these despatches that ever since Mr.John DU- lon and Mr.Willlam O'Mrien came out of jall they have been devoting thelr cnergies to undoing the work of the national rescue from chaos which was rformed during their confinement.hey are not bad men, but they are ingrained egotiats, wholly unable to con- celve uf anything helpful being done in Ireland or in Irlwh politics which docs not recognise their heaven-born Jeader- ship.The party at large has long been sick of this, but members have gone on patiently condoning one piece of renoue folly after another In the interest vi harmony, «ccepting the crushing re- sponaibility for the absurd plan-of- campaign blunder without outward complaint, and even lending the party organization to take the \u2018Freeman's Journal\u2019 away from the men who had fought the fight for It and owned It and turn (t over to these intriguing malcontents to keep them quiet.Yesterday, however, the tension on this long- suffering patience grew too severs and abruptly snapped.Tho substance of the story is this: Messrs.Dillon and O'Brien some months ago captured Mr.Sexton by playing assiduously on his vanity and made him chairman of the 'Freeman' Company.They then laid alege to Archbishop Walsh, got him as well, and by his aid kicked up such a row that Tim Hegly, against whom the whole campaign has been directed, consented to retire from the \u2018Freeman\u2019 board and aliow them to put a Parneilite In his pla Not satisfied with this the combination of marplota had the cheek yesterday to demand at a party meeting that Alderman Mooney, who Is one of the two remaining men on the \u2018Freeman's\u2019 board who had any right to be thers at all, should aiso be ordered to retire.This proved to be too much, and the party not only voted this proposal down, but gave its promoters an extremely frank description of themselves as the wearied.dingusted party sees them.They were much surprised and chargrined at this, and as a last resort put forward Mr.Sexton's resignation to frighten the party into reconsidering its action and submitting to their demands.There will be a meeting of the party on Monday to decide whether It has frightened them or not.There would be no doubt of the issue on its merits.The party stands.roughly, # to 20 against the pretensions of the faction known ag the Bounders, and the majority has two-thirds of (he Irish National electorate at their beck, If not four-fifths.There [s this compileation, however, that a majority made up of men who are not self-neekers, but - cerely devoted to the cause, dread an injury to the cause at this critical time, | as It Is a powerful consideration to them und may effect their action on Monday.It does not prevent their saying ruefully to-day that there must be after ail & curse of double original sin on 1reland, which is continually getting within sight of success and continually being balked of it by the vanity and Jealousy of her own sons, when not sold out by their venality! Poor old Mr.Gladstone departed for Brighton yesterday afternoon to snatch a two-days\u2019 rest from hie great burden.all unconscious of this wantonly- vexatious addition to it being piled up in Commities Room 16.No telegrams apprising him were sent down last night, but to-day two ministers have gone down privately to discuss the ait- uation in fear that this new reveia- tion of the selfish distoyalty in the camp of his Irish allies may effect his nerve and depress his spirits.The most disturbing feature of the whole wretched affair, is the circulation of various versions of his reported remark that he doesn't expect to live through the summer.These are now widely circulated through Parllament and the Liberals are gloomier than at any time since the election a year ago.London, June 14\u2014The fourth step In tha passing of the Home Rule bill in committee was taken up in the House of Commons this afternoon.\u2018The aebats on the third clause commenced on May M and was only finished last night.\u2018The obatructive methods employsé by the members of the Opposition, who offered amendment after amendment to the clause, excited the ire of the Irish members, and they were loud in their demands that the Government put an end to tha tactics of the Conservatives and Liberal-Upioniats, who, they declared, were offering amendments with little, If any, idea of having them adopted, but mimply for the purpose of delaying the bill.Amendments which Mr.Gladstone thought would not affect the genera) purpose of the bill were accepted by the Government.much to the diagust of the Irish members, and, it may also be sald, to & number of the But finally the clause was adopted, and the House proceeded today to discuss clause 4 which i» as follows :\u2014 TAR FOURTH CLAURS.The powern of the Jrieh Legiglatare XRG 10 the making nf an late shall 20 1.Mespeciiog the establishment or endow of reileion, ur prohibitisg 1De free exercies thereof ; or, 4.dirabllity, er enaferaii peivil on count et religions allel | fn ur 3.A ting ©?preindisiaily affaction tbe right to esiahiirh or malntain suy pisces of depomt- national edneation or sey demominaf taatha.tion rf LL or 4.Prejudiciaily sifsctine the riett ef LA attente à aebon] rerov mg pablic vus ait-mdiag the religious insirsctton af that oid ey, wid bou aa.5 boretr env porses A kite] us Joxs 21, 1898.bo denied the equal protection of the laws, en! ely private ropuety lay be taken withoat oat CRIN Sing copes.3 any ex a porated bi oer charter ons any local er act Farilament (not beiug a corporaties rolel for pubic posts taxes, at, Tole or ndraisloteriag Sunde on ri font) ior 7.Whersby say ianbabliant of he Usaiied Kingdom may be deprived of equal righta 60 re pacts Lilo asa Gahorios.of this w made ventior section aad volé.Ka contre Sir Charles Russell has returned to Ioadon and to-day appeared In (ke House ef Commons in time to take part in the opening of the debate on the fourth clause of section one of the Irish Home Rule bill.\u2018The Hon.Thomas Cochrane, Libera}.Unionist member for the north division of Ayrshire, proposed that the word \u2018prejudictally\u2019 be omitted from the third sub-section of clause 4.With the omission of this word the clause would read: \u2018Abrogating or affecting the right to establish or maintain any piace of denominational sducation or any denominational institution or charity,\u2019 the word \u2018prejudicially\u2019 appearing in the clause immediately before the word \u2018affecting.\u2019 Bir Charles Russell opposed the pro- sed change, and he was followed by r.Thomas Sexton, anti-Parneilite member for North Kerry, who also spoke in opposition to any change in the subsection referred to.After a short des bate Mr, Cochrane withdrew his motion to amend the clause.Mr.Vicary Gibbs, Conservative member for the Bt.Alban's division of Heft.fordshire, moved the adoption of an amendment restraining the Irish legisla ture from Imposing disabilities or cou- ferring privileges upon any institution owned or conducted by any relir'\u2018ous sect.The Government was not will to accept the amendment, and se: Liberal and Irish speakers protested papiost its being incorporated in the When the question ¢f Incorporatiag the amendment into the bill was put to a vote the House rejected it without 8 division.\u2014 THE STEVENS-EALLETT TRIAL Dorchester, N.B: June 12-In tls Hallet-Stevens mansisughter trial te day Judge Landry decided to admit the evidence antecedent to Jan.1 last, showing the course of ill-treatment pure sued by the prisoner towards the deceased, nm he believed It necessary enable the jury to arrive nt an inteils- gent finding as to the cause of death \u2018This disposed of one of the strongest Contentions for the defence.Several withesses gave evidence, one about the fll-treatment and the whipping given by Mrs.Stevens to Mabel Hallet, another retalling the conversations had with Mre.Btevens about the beatings administered oy the latter to deceased, and another about the different stories the prisoner told about the girl's death.Dorchester, N.B., June li\u2014In the Hallett-Stevens manslaughter trial * day Judge Landry intimated that did not think it would be admissible to go beyond a year in the enquiring into the antecedent acts of violence by the prisoner towards the deceased, Warrants were issued against two ree calcitrant witnesses.Hall a dossa witnesses wére examined.One of them was Agnes Shes, whose evidenos was got from her with difficulty.She was à servant at the Stevens.She testified that the afternnon before Mabel Hallett's death Mrs.Stevens sald she was going to bent Mabel.For two months Mabel occupied the lumber room and was not treated as well as a oer vant.She was forced to eat her meals » ; from the sink nl her bedroom as there was no table there.Mabel never hal company.Bhs took her Christmas dinner at noon alone white the rest of the family had thetrs at night.For two months Mabel waa treated in this manner.Mrs.Stevens warmed the castor ofl with which she dosed Mabel.\u2018Witness admitted she heard the child cry in the afternoon and after Mrs.Stevens said she would whip Mabel.Beveral of the coroner's jurors described the stripes on the deceased's body around the thighs on the back of the legs and on the body.Dorchester, N B., June i5.\u2014In the Hal- lett-Btevéns manslaughter trial to-day one of the coroner's jury gave evidenes of the marks on Mabel Hallett's body.Mrs, Edward Milligan swore the prisoner told her the doctor came before Mabel was dead and said there was no hope for her recovery, and left her a powder, and that Mabel died at reven o'clock ta the morning.Mary White testified that last October she heard cries (ssuing from a coal shed, and shortly after Mra Stevens came out with a whip in her hand.Then Mabel appsared, with her eyes swollen by crying and her hair hanging loose.Two fellow-apprentices of Mabe! swore the latter hud no marks on her face on the morning before her death, but they saw the marks there after she was dead.They maid Mabel often came to work with bruised hands Dr.Robert Mitchell, penitentiary sur Keon, gave axpert testimony on the marks.He was positive some of them were ante mortem, and that the marks generally must have been produced by violence before death.He believed the whip purchased for Mm Stevens might have caused the marks, sition would not produce such marks.Dr.Mitchell was on the stand at the adjournment.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014e THE FAIR 70 BB OPEN ON SUR.DAYS.Chicago, Ill, June 17.\u2014The Court of Appeals has unanimously decided 8 favor of opening the World's Fair om Sundays.The Court holds that the esl directory 18 in full control, and thed the Government has no standing.The dectaion settiss the case finally, as an t appesl would have to go to the Supremes Court of the United States, which does not meet until October, when the Fale will be ended.The Court held that the gift from the Government to the Mixpo- sition was in no sense a charity trust and that in the Court's opinion, whel the grant wes made in considefation j of the local corporation having expend- : ed upwards of $16,000,000 toward à pub llc enterprise, it was done for the pure post of obtaining control ia whole \u201d part of tbe Exposition, ê Juxs 21, 1808.pp A COLD BLOODRD MURDER.Windsor, Ont., June L.\u2014One of the t murdars ever commitiod in this lity occurred abcul seven o'cloek this evening in front of the Manning House.Two men, numed Capt.James Hickey, a submaring diver, of Windsor, and John Vrooman, a ischanio In the Trunk car shops here, were driving aleng the atreot, bentid in the sume bussy.When opposite the Mauniog House Vrooman drew @ tuvoiver und shot Hickey in the left breest, then gave him a push out of the bucyy.He then took the relny nnd drove along Chatham street and Windsor avenue, until he reached Miilard\u2019s very stables.Here he halted the horse an mot out of the buggy.Policemen langlols and Lester were in pursuit, and overiook him just as he alighted, and put him under arrest.Hickey died aimost instantly.Ones of the policemen anked Nrooman why he shot Hickey, and he replied, \u2018Because hie smashed me first.\u2019 Nrooman's fuce wus covered with blood when arrested, which would Indicate that he had received a blow from Hickey before the shooting, as he sintes, Ut te sald that Vrooman has hecn Intimate with Hickey's wife for soma time, and about & week ago sho disappeared.Nrooman's statement mufter being arrested is about as follows: He was driving along Handwich street when Hickay appeared aud insisted upon getting into the buggy to talk the raatter over sbout his (Hickey's) wife.\"Their conversation soon grew Into a quarrel, when Vrooman says Hickey hit him, and be balleved Hickey intended to shoot him, snd tor self-protection he shot Hickey.Hickey had a revoiver in his lon when shot.The inquest ta at ten o'clock to-morrow morning.Windsor, Ont., June 16.\u2014The inquest va the death of Jas.Hickey, who was shot by Johan Vroomen on Monday evening, was held this morning In the City Hall by Coroner Dr.R.Lambert.Aftor hearing the evidence of several witnes- two doctors who made the post rom, and the two policemen who arrested Vrooman, they brought in the Yollowing verdict :(\u2014'We, the jury em- elled on the inquest of the late Jas.Tickey, find that the deceased came tn his death from the effect of a bullet wound fired from a revolver in the hands of John Vrooman.The prisoner will be held for trial at Sandwich at the Tall assines.\u2014 DEATH OF AN OLD KINGSTONIAN.Kingston, June 16\u2014Mr.Joseph Murphy, aged seventy-five years, dled last evening, after a brief lliness.He resided hers over fifty years, and for twenty-seven years was landing waiter tm the Customs Department.One son survives, the Rev.B.L.Murphy.De ceased, when typhus fever raged here in IM1, gave succor to & barge load of tients who came up from Montreal.¢ caught the fever, and was lil for three months.His companion, a priest.died in three days from the malignant disease.\u2014\u2014 ATROCITIES IN VALPARAISO.New York, hme ~The \u2018Herald's Valparaiso correspondent cables : Frightful atrocities are being practiced by the Castilhistas in Rio Grande.Gov.Cas- tilho ordered a man\u2019s throat cut becauss he was ted of aiding the revolutionists.eo murder was committed in the presence of the wife of the victim.Barbarous punishments sre inflicted on mere suspicion.The revolutionists are duily receiving new recruila Many offices of the National Guard have deserted the Government and gone over to the rebels.COMMERCIAL Wines Orvson, Mendez, June 19, 188 FTRANCIAL.Monsy te unchanged, st abeat 6 percent on call snl 4 6 te Ÿ percent em time fer commercial purposes.\u2018Tos market for Sterling exchange is very wuak, the weakness being due to the stringency of the woney markst in New York.Ronnd amocats of 00-day bills between banks are quoted at 166 11-16 to 10804.and 10834 over the counter.Demand bills are quoted at 108 15-1\u20ac to 100 1-16 between bashes, and 10856 over the counter.Cables are quoted st 10044 10 1003 between banks and 110 over the counter.Currency is quoted at 1-38 dis- oount fo Jé premiom.The stock market was duil bat mominally very frm.Litue business was dame.Morning esles.\u2014100 Duinth Rallway (Com.), We ; 98 do (prefd.), 19h40 ; 9 Bank of Mentresl, = et 20006 ; GOAL RM, The sfternoon sales to-day were: 108 Duluth Common 8! 096.8 Duluth pref.at MW.16 Osmmereial Cable se 144 § Mavohanis Bank at 156.§ Moutres! Cotton ot 19434.(PFurniched dy Macdeugell Bres., Brokirs) Mourunit, Juxe 19.Boots ant Ghors-Wanu) thelr Tall cutting and will enon ordera, Ti THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS STATE OF TRADE.Dry Geods.\u2014The wufavorable westher of the pest Lires weska rather unestUed basinées and it is doubtful If wre was suy lmprovement upon Ihe whole over th trade of laét spring and esrly enmmer.There was some improvement Jast week, but more noticesbls fu the city and suburis.The dumand for summer goods Increased com siderably.bat the trade on the whale, a» com 16 wiih former years, Is rather disappointing.taveliora report n better fevliug in the count (he past week and a very coud enquiry for fall goods, Remiltanccs are slow bot tho \u2018adications are for the liter, Pactareen\u2019 are dois he working on { Tue demand is Lesther.\u2014 Trade continues ibe business of 8 small jibuiog order.Les are unchanged.Weynnie an foliows :-Manu- factarare' sois, No, 1, 18e La 150; do, Nu.1 15\u20ac 10 1% No.8, 17 te 14e: ortisary, No.1, do.No.2.Lde to 16e ; do., No.& 13 maux bter sole, 20e to #80; harness, 1Ke toile waxed appers, to2se ; French calf, 4 05 10 $i.40 : aplita Quebre, He to 130 : Weewrn, elo 186 ; pebbie, 10e to tie; russwis, heavy, Bc eo = 'tlet and tho bulk of Hilen \u2014Trices are somewhat msier.The de tend coutiauca Ugh.We quote :\u2014No.| at 3! No.2 81 4c.No.at 314C tu launore, ca'failor te an Sc, aud abeepakins at $1 to $1.8, ja aking at fc ta Sc, Iron and Uardware.\u2014Plg Iron cootlunes dull sad price weaker, Bar iron hus hoen mov- jug & titie wore freely at uuchanged prices.Tin ena dull Metais aro quint and casy.Ws quote ympicrios at $IN30 : Garteberria, $i ; Cerobro, $17; Wiemcws, $10; Ralinton, $17.80.Wrought sorsp.No 1, $13 to B16 ; bar, $1.90 Lo 1.98.Tio pl 3 15 to $3.2 ; charcoal, 33 & us piates.84 30 to seo! terme patos, §7 3 ai copper, to 1xbge : imgot Lib, A Cement and Firabricke.- -\u2018Fhe m te brisk, ap sitbougb the receipis are large the demand ls bik, and Ba far Lhore la lite nccumuile- Uon, Prices are unchançwl.Firebrioks are meeting with a very fair demand.The fol lowing are w-day's Guntstions : Cement, os hr $1.08 tv $