Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 17 décembre 1895, mardi 17 décembre 1895

[" Montreal Weekly Witness.\u2014 \u2014 PIPTIETH YRAR.\u2014x MONTREAL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1696.{MONTREAL WE LY WITNESS ost-Pald1 50 à Copy.SUMMARY.Str Charles Tupper, High Commission or, has arrived, and be says be has come over In connection with the fast service detween Canada and Great Britain.Halifax celebrated with great entbusi- sam on Friday las, the ninety-first an- piversary of the birth of the late Hon Joseph Hows, The greatest enthusiasm prevailed at the Old Temperance Hall, where tha celsbration was held.Senator Culloms has made a speech before the House at Washington, in which be rspresents Illinois, strougly emphasl- sing the infallibility of the Muaroe doctrine, especialiy with à view to restraining British aggression upon Bouth Ame- rien slates.Mr.Bayard, United States smbassador at London, bas been impeached by the House of Repremsutatives, at Washington.for his Free Trade speech at BEdin- burgh, Scotland, some time since.The resolution of impeachment was carried by 207 to 90.The great telescope for Harvard Ool- lege University observatory in Arequipa, Peru, bas been shipped from Boston, and will be landed in Mollends, Peru, by steamer.It la known as the Bruce telescope, and bas four delicate lenses and two prisms, each with a dismeter of twenty-four inches.Lieut.-Col.Prior, M.P.fog Victoria, 8.C., will be Minister of Customs and a member of the Cabinet.Mr.Wood, Comptroller of Inisgd Revenue, will also be made a member of ths Cabinet, and Qe Solioltor-Gensralebiip and the Comp trollershlp of Inland Revenue are to be abolished.Thess are the lniest despatches from Ottawa.» Oe.Martines Campos fs ssid to have resigned his command of the Spanish army in Cuba.A young British officer, son of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, \u2018wha has seen some of the fighting betwcen the Cuban Icsurgents and the Spanish army is quoted in New York as baving declared that the rebels will be vioto- tious unless the Bpantards suppress thew before the rainy seasoa sets in.T Harry Hayward; the murderec of Mis Ging, & dressomker in Minneapolis, Misn., was executed last Wednesday morning.What gave additional interest to the trial wus that the man Hayward had induced à man named 'Bilxi to shoot the woman while he bimeelf attended a theatrical performance.Blixt alleged hypnotio infusace, which was not proven, Sowever.Troops were ordered under arma in Topeka, Kansas, to protsct the Kansas Medical College from a mob whose mem- \u2018bers threatened to burn it down on Wed- pesday night Students had wiolen the body of a citizen from ts burial place in ths cemetery, and It was found in the dimpecting room of the college.This caused the trouble, which happily, did not come to open hostilities, Helen R.Finlay was on trial last weok for manslaughter at Owen Sound.She was charged with causing the death of a Barnardo boy, and the evidence showed Bim to have been fed on bran porridge apd milk.The boy's body was some what covered with sores, and he appear- od to have died of pneumonia, but Dr, C M.Lang.who examined the body, found no trace of starvation.The Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus- trie, à Vienna despatch says, intends to change the order of succession to the throne as Jaid down by the Pragmatic sanction.He wants to exclude the Archduke Charles Louis and the Archduke Francis Ferdinand d'Este, and place the Archduchess Valerie, wife of the Archduke Francis Salvator, nest ia the succession.Two thirds of the Hungarian Parliament are necessary to give effect to his desire.\u2014\u2014 LORD ABERDEEN DECLINES.Ottawa, Dec.16.\u2014Lord Aberdesn bas declined his patronage to the ball to he oid New Year's Eve in aid of the Chll- dren's Hospital.Lord Aberdeen\u2019s refusal is due to the fact that it is ocntrary to the principles of himself and Lady Aberdeen to take part In festivities of any kind on New Year's Eve as on such an evening bo thinks It improper to allow the pleasures of the baull-room to (n- trude upon time that could be more pro- Gtably apent on that particular evening.ses KILLED BY BANDITS.Durango, Mex.,, Dec.13.\u2014News hae been received here of sn attack made on the ranch of Gulilemero Martines by bandits.They killed threes mea on the rench and then robbed ike place of a sum of money aud valuables.The wife of Martines was subjected to severe brutalities by the outlaws and it was while dotendina the woman thai the servants were killed.FROM OVER THE SEA.What Nowspaper Correspondents Have te Say of the Political situati MR.CHAMBERLAIN'S IMPERIAL UNION SCHEME GROWING IN POPULARITY.Naw York, Dec.16.\u2014Mr.1.N.Ford cables from London to the \u2018 Tribune\u2019 as tollows :\u2014 Sir John Tenniel bite off Mr, Chamberlain well this week in a cartoon, depicting him as a smirking matrimonial agent with a Briton and a Colonial dame before him listening te bis words: \u201cMy dear young friends, if you will only let me know what you beth want I will see what I can do for you.\u201d ine cartoon, which is capitally érawn, epitomizes the recent circular from the Coloalal office.A more practical commentary was the address of Judge Conde Willlams at the Royal College Institute on the sugar- making colonies, in which it was shown that the business in the Mauritius and Ja- waica was now carried on at a loss and that the only hope for the Industry was that foreign bounties might some day be taken off.Of thls, however, there is no sign, since Russia is now preparing to increase her bountlea thirty-three percent.The Germans, by the bounty system, have destroyed English sugar refining, which was once à great industry, and have nearly rulped cane-planting in the Mauritius and the Br.tish West Indies, and Mr.Chamberiain now wants to know what can be done to improve trade de- twesn England avd the Coicnies.LITTLE NOPR POR PROTROTIONISTS.It po'ities are staguant, economies have been vitalised by the change of govern- mest.The great offices are besleged weekly by delegations apd committees asking relief measures for suffering or ruined industries.Lord George Hamilton in receiving a powerful delegation from Lancashire could not promises help In.securing the removal of the Indian duties on British cottons, which, while pominally for revenue purposes, are bringing into existence native manufactures, and are in reality protective.The shrinkage of the Lancashire cotton trade with India is great, got only because of the duties but also from the fact of Indian manufacturers employing the chéap- est labor on the planet.The Lancashire delegation went empty-handed, like the hop growers and Darley farmers, from the presence of Lord Salisbury and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach.Lord Win- chelsea, their spokesman, wanted the beer duties changed lo the Interest of farmers and asked to have shilling added it the besr were made from foreign material and a shilling taken off If it were mado from British barley, malt and hope.Tbe ministers protested that this would be protection, and would have none of it.Mr.James Lowther has been the leading spirit 10 the conference at St.James's Hall in favor of protection for home industries, and the establishment of preferential trade relations with all parts of the Empire.These outbreaks In favor of protection would be more frequent it the Democratic party in America had pot altered the tariff fn the interest of English exporters.PROMISES OF RELIEF.The Right Hen.A.A.Douglas, First Commissioner of Works, who represents the Bast division of Kent in the House of Commons, has assured his constituents that the government will introduce measures in the House for the rellet of the prevailing agricultural distress, and that thesp measures will be made the first business of the session, which will begin cn February 11 next.As the ministers are still undecided what form the relief measures will take, Mr.Dougias wes unsble to give any deGnite information concerning them.A forecast of the government's proposals based on various official utterances, includes heaides modifications In the system of land taxation, bounty on the meat products of the United Kiogdom.Lord Salisbury's declaration against a protective tariff Is held In Conservative circles to be quite consistent with the acceptance of the bounty system.In any event.uuless the government produces a measure that an in- Buential section of (ts aupporters till deem effective.no habits of obedience that have long controlled the Conservatives will prevent a disruption of the party.There are 332 members of the Meuse of Commons pledged to maintain the pi 6 of tbe Nationai Agricultural U: and they will not accept other than a œubstantiai instaiment ef thelr demands.\u2018It the government fall to satisfy us somehow,\u2019 seid a leading agriculturist, at conference of the Union, \u2018let us make a clean sweep of them.\u2019 This proposition was received with thunderous applause.Another plan in the programme of the Uniop declares for preferential trading between all paris of the British Bmpire.This programme obtains, besides the unsaimous adhesion of the Conservatives, the growing su port of the Liberals, .The ciroular of Mr.Joseph Chamber- laln, Becretary of the Colonies, to the Kovernors of the various British colonies, has raised the question of an Imperial sollvereln foto the apbere of immedBite practical politics.Ths \u2018Statist\u2019 argues that such a sollverein te impossible tn- loms the colonies consent to absolute free trade with the Mother Country, but the tone of the Conservative and some of the Liberal papers tend to the acceptance of the resolution adopted by the late Inter- colonial Conference at OMawa, which de- olared in favor of granting to Great Britain only & prefersotisl tariff over for- olan countries.LANCASHIRE SORE ALSO.The \u2018Sun's\u2019 London cable says: Tbe sorely stricken cotton manufacturers of Lancashire sent a deputation to the ministers this week to urge the abolition of the Indian import dutiss.The Eecretary of Stale fcr India had expressed great sympathy for the Lancashire people in this matter, snd early this year bad pub- lidy promounced f:r abolition.Mince then, however, he strangely forgot and they waited upon the Secretary with the assurance that ke would give them ell they wanted.They got nothing of course beyond bland assurances of sym- GOSSIP BY CABLE, PRINCES HENRY OF BATTENBERG AND CHRISTIAN VICTOR OFF FOR ASHANTER.AN INTERESTING RITUALINTIO CONTROVERSY \u2014 ENGLAND 2OS-EXVELOPED.Londen, Dec.15.\u2014An English insurance company has ressived a solid premium for writing a policy on the lite of Prince Heury of Battenberg, who volumtesred for service in the Ashantee campaign.The amount of the policy is £160,000.The consensus of opinion among military men is, that it is bard on Col.Sir Francis Scott, who commands the expedition, to be saddled with the responsibility of looking out for the safety of the Prince.As the Prince was leaving Aldershot to Join the steamer that takes Him to the Gold Coast he received « telegram from the Queen expressing her best wishes for a prosperous voyage and a safe returr, Princess Beatrice, Prince Henry's wife, and the Duchess of Connaught, wept as they kissed him good-bye Another eourt favorite, Lisut.-Col.the Hon.T.W.Btop- ford, some time « page of bonor to the Queen, bas also gone on the expedition to Ashantes.If Fleld-Maraha! Lord Wot- seley, tbe commander-in-chief of the army, expected tbat there would be serious work with the Ashantees he would net bave allowed Prince Henry and Prince Christian Victor, who also volunteered for the service, to have gone with the expedition: at least he would not have permitted them to be placed in any position where their lives were in danger, New York, Dec.15.\u2014Mr.Issac N.Ford cables from London to the \u2018Tribune\u2019 :\u2014 pathy and tbe wonder is that they ex- The new Bishop of Wicchester has joined pected anything else.When the members of the deputation opened their news.Papers the next morning they had the further discomfort of finding cheek by Sow! with the report of thelr own des pairing speeches to the Secretary of State, & statement respecting Japan's cape: trade made to a Manchester reporter by! Mr, Sugihara, the European representative of the famous limperlai Spinntng and Weaving Company of Japan.This gen- tioman, who fa\u2019 fully qualified to talk on the subject, bubbled over with cheerfulness and with good reason, for the trade of Japan is extremely busy and money Is being made rapidly.It seems that there are at present fifty-seven cotton mills, representing 838,000 spindies, working ip Japan and It is expected that ln about fifteen months frœn now thére will be 700,000 additional spindles going.A good many Lancashire people found some comfort in the fact that the exports of cotton yarn from England to Japan has increased from 5,316,588 yen in 1892 to 7.- 283,699 yen last year, But these figures are ovidently delusive, for the yaru in question, according to Mr.Sugibara, consisted chiefly of the higher grades, which the Japauess are not yet able to manufacture in sufficlently largs quantities.But, evidently, tbey intend to supply themselves just as soon as they posalbly can.American cotton growers may find comfort in the admission that all at- tempte to grow coiton in Japan so far bave been unsuccessful.The native grown cotion 1s of a very poor quality and unfit for mixing with American cotton.\u2014 TWO LIVES LOST AND MANY PERSONS INJURED.Winaipes, Man, Dec.16.\u2014This morning at 6.26 fire broke out in the boller room of the Cauchon block, used beneath for stores and above for forty residence sultes of rooms, nearly sll occupied by families.The stairways were cut off by the fire and the fire escapes bad to be used and ihe ladders of the fire brigade.The block is four stories high and bav- ing a frontage of about five hundred feet on Main and York streets, opposite the Hudson's Bay stores and offices.Several bad to jump from back windows to lower roofs.Major Morris, Deputy Ser- geant-at-Arme of the Manitoba Legisia- ture, was euffocated and his wife is miss- ipg.Mr.and Mrs.Baby were injured by jumping from the top story to the first story of the roof.They will likely recover.Several children were more or less injured by jumping into blankets.A number of aduits were more or less burned and scratched.Others escaped in their night clothes down the fire oe capes.One wing was partially saved.The loss is $100,000.\u2014\u2014\u2014 PREMPEH ON THE WAR PATH.Londop, Dec.16.\u2014A despatch from Cape Const Cautie to à news agency says it 1s reported there that King Prempeh, of Ashantes, has attacked and routed the tribe of Adansis.the native allies of the British, dispersing them with grea: slaughter.lasus with a ritualistic rector of kis dlo- cese.The Rev.R.Dolling bullt a new { church at Portsmouth and wished to erect an additional aliar for the celebration of , mass for the dead without communicants.The Bishop declined to sanction the pro- Ject and otijected to other practices in the church.Ths rector resigned, but his parishioners held a meeting and asked to remain.He replied that be con- d it his duty as a priest to ezer- cise sacrificial powers in behalf of the dead, as well as of the living, and tit the mass withou: the communicants was essential.It is not probabie that tbe Bishop will abandon his ground, but he will find it dificult to replace the rector, whose pecple are devoted to him.He must act, since the rector is now In open revolt.The incident lights up afresd the Fitualistio controversy in the English Church.A different episcde was the humorous speech made by the Rev.Mr.Rogers, the venerable rector of St.Bo- tolph's, at an eatertainment in Bishop's- gate, where he introduced Mr.Bancroft, the rector, who read Dickens's \u2018Christmas Carol\u2019 The good man surprised bis au- dence by talking about theatres and xiv- ing extracts from \u2018Othello\u2019 and \u2018Macbeth\u2019 with marked dramatic power, pausing suddenly with \u2018Lay on, MacDuff,' and asking, innocently, what was the next word.The dense fog enveloping England this week, hed its tragic and comic incidents, The wrecking of the \u2018Cumbrae\u2019 by the \u2018Germanic\u2019 off the mouth of the ilersey, was a disaster which brought out fine qualities of seamanship.The captain of the White Star steamer showed presence of mind tn bolding the two ships together until everybody bad been rescued.Even Lord Dunraven bad no fault to find with the conduct of the officers.The rescue of the theatrical company which has been playing \u2018Saved from the ses,\u2019 was a comic Incident.More ludicrous was the 'Varsity football game in West Kensington, played in a thick fog, while ten thousand spectators looked on and saw nothing.Cambridge won, in spite of a good defence dy the Oxford backs, but the play- ors were entirely lost to view during the same, and could barely see one another.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SIR CHARLES TUPPDR IN OTTAWA.Ottawa, Dec.16\u2014Sir Charies Tupper, who arrived bere trom New York yesterday mornicg.was called on by the Premice and other ministers yesterday and to-day he culled on the Premier and had & lous interview, DOMINION RIFLE ASSOCIATION.Ottawa, Dec.16.-The council of the Dominion Rifle Association met at the Russell House (his afternoon at 2.30 to prepare the annual report.The annual meeting will be held in Ottawa on Jan.22, Lieut.-Col.Henshaw, Montreal, presided and there wore present also Col.Masser, Montreal: Majcr Ibboteon, Montreal; Captain Pope, Montreal; Major Delamere, Toronto; Col.Tilton, Col.Hodgins, Col.MacPherson, Col.Bacon, Major Parley, Captain Waldo and Captain Qray, Ot- rave IMPOSSIBLE TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO THE POPB IN ITALY.London, Dec.16.\u20146ir T.W.Reid, edi- tof of the \u2018Speaker,\u2019 who has recentiy bad interviews with leadiog Italian tlatesmen, gives semi-oficial importance to a startling declaration in the issue of that paper regarding the intention of the Italian ministerialists in the event of tbe Pope\u2019s death.The sum of his long argument, which, it te stated, represents the views of the Itailen Government, is that the eomclave which will elect the next Pope must be held outside of Italy.The government means to provide what is called \u2018an honorable exodus of the conclave.\u201d The prectial eomumon sense of the Italian people Is beginning to see that « foreign Pope would be practieaily unable to pose as a pretender to a temporal throne in Italy, while to an Italian lope residing abroad such an altitude would involve the loss of the spiritual supremacy of the Italian Church, end the stale protecting him would be bound by the international laws applicable to pretenders disturting the peace of other states., \u2014_\u2014 A BRITISH CONCESSION.THB ISLAND OF SMILA CEDED PO ITALY FOR à TERM OP TRANS\u2014ABTSSINIAN ADVICES Rome, Dec.18.\u2014It is reported Great Britain has agreed to cede the island of Zaila, Africa, to Italy, for a period of swveral years\u2019 duration.The Itallan ironclad \u2018Etruria\u2019.conveying mea and war material, bas safied, it is supposed, for Zeile.The government is informed that the Abyssinian ch'ef, Ras Makonnen, has sect a message to Gen.Baratierl, commanding the Italian forces in Abyssinia, proposing terms of peace.Gen.Baratlerl, bas not yet replied to the mes- ngs.Rome, Dec.16\u2014The Italian Government has ordered In England one hun- | dred thousand tine of preserved meats for the use of the Italian troops in Abyssinia.The forts at Massowah and on the coast are being garrisoned by sailors io order to permit all of the soldiers to go te the front.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CANADIAN WOMEN.TRE EXECUTIVE MERTS 1X UTTAWA.Ottawa, Dec.16.\u2014Government House was the scene of a busy gathering of ia- dies on Saturday, où tbe occasion of a meeting of the executive committee of the Nations) Council of Women.Bev- eral sub-committees beld meetings tn the morning Lady Aberdeen presided at the meeting of the executive, at which a motion was passed providing for the afil- tation of the nbwly formed councils at Calgary.Brandon, Regina, Rat Portage, and Vernon.The discussion of the reports of the sub-committees resulted in their being laid over for presentation at the annual meeiiog of the councll, which will be held in Montres! next May.The indies present at the meeting were: Mrs.Willoughby and Mrs.Cummings, Toronto; Mrs.Hocdless, Hamilton; Mrs.Drummend.Mrs.A.T.Scott, Montreal ; Miss Metcalfe, Kingston; Mrs, F.McDou- gal.Halifax council was represented by Mru.Gordon, of Ellon; Victoria, B.C.council by Miss Wilson; Brandon, by Mine Carling: East Kootenay, by Mra.Cromble; Calgary, Mrs.(Hon) R.W.Scott: Aberdeen Association, Miss Kings- ford: Girls\u2019 Friendly Society, Mra.Tilley; King's Daughters, Mrs.(Dr) Ami \u2014_\u2014 A GLASGOW STEAMER SUNK BY THB * GERMANIC® Liverpool, D:c.13.\u2014The White Star Line steamer \u2018 Germanic,\u2019 Captain McKinstry which sailed beitce yesterday for New York, cams into colilsion shortly after leaving tha Mersey, with the Glasgow steamer \u2018Cumbrae.' Inward bound for Liverpool.The *Cumbrae\u2019 was eunk and the \u2018Germanic'a\u2019 bows were stove in.Fortunately the accident resulted in no loss of life.The \u2018Germanic\u2019 rescued the passengers and crew of the wrecked vessel, and returned to this port.A dense fog prevalied at the time of the collision.Among the passengers on the ' Germanic\u2019 was Lord Dunraven.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 AN INDIANA TRAGEDY.Evansville, Ind., Dec.14\u2014Pear! Daum, the eightesn-year-old daughter of Mr.George Lu Daum, one of thé wealthiest residents of Evansville, was stabbed last evening at the lugle Street Methodist Ep'scopal Church.She was attending revival services.Her asnailanl was George Rubright.elghtesn years of age.He in of unsound mind and for several days bas been following the girl.Al church last night he askeû to accompany der to the citer.he refused and be stabbed ber, She eamnot survive TRE HOME RULE PARTY, Pol HeGarthy'n Policy May Prove ils Death Blow.HIS SUBSERVIENCY TO ECCLESIASTICAL INFLUENCE IT MAY ALIBNATE THE BTMPATHIRS OF Nis WOPPORTESS.(United Press Special Cable Letter.) London, Dee.14,\u2014Mr.Justin McCarthy, the leader of the anti-Parnellite section of the Irish Parliamemiary party, delly- ered a speech at Walworth last Tuesday in which he deSnitely committed that party to support the Tory schemes for tarian education.Since then the d:s- position of tbe Liberals to throw home rule for Ireland overboard bas become more decided.Mr.McCarthy obvicusly expects to obtain a pact with the gcvern.ment under which a Roman Catholic unt- versity will be estiblished in Ireland, be- wides satisfying the Roman Catholic clerioals in England by assisting to pass & measure that they have long desired.No policy could more absolutely alienate the sympathies of the Liberals.The \u2018Speaker\u2019 asks If the Irish realise the fact that by thus attac)iog their English allies on a purely Engiisb question they will And it more difficult than ever to heal the breach.Already a distinguished Radical member of tbe Jate Parliament who was a most pronounced and ardent home ruler, has retired from an lmpor- tant honorary post beid by bim in the English Home Rule Union owing to his disgust with the Irish members for gc- ing over bodily to the enemy, not on an Irish but on an Engiish question.The \u2018Methodist Times\u2019, the recognized organ of the Methodist Liberals, declares that if the Irish members of the Hcuse of Commons swell the majority following the Arahbishop of Canterbury.home rule will pass out of the range of practical politics.These warnings, bowever true they may be, will not deter the Irish from obeying the orders of their clerical advisers, and all will move in oonson- ance with the general Catholic mcve- ment.Many Liberals will now get quit of bome rule with a general feellag of re- Hef and will aspire to consolidate the party on the old lines that will be acceptable to the Duke of Devonshire, president of the Counc); Mr.Jcaeph Cham- berlaio, Colonial Secretary; Lord James, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and other Unionists who are certain to refuse to follow Lord Salisbury if he attempts to gratify the Apglican clericals by an extension of the states grants to sectarian schools.The Conservative newspapers deay that there is a difference of opinion In tie abinet on the education question, and tas den(al la partly true, for the reason that a definite measure is not yet before the cabinet, but it is an open secret that the Duke of Devonshire.Mr.Chamberlain and Sir Join Gorst, vice-president cf the committes of the council are opposed to Lord Saiisbury's tentative proposals.Mr.Chamberlain's organ, the Birmingham \u2018Post\u2019, says he has clearly ranged himself with the Duke of Devon- shire against the Prime Minister.\u2014 A WISE MOVEMENT.Chicago, Dec.12.\u2014The Chicago Pe- tail Clerks\u2019 Assoclation has decided to take part in the crusede for Sunday rest inaugurated by \u201che Barbers\u2019 Protective Association.The barbers have shown no intention of giving up.If the clerks give the promised aid the fight will be given new life and vigor.There are twanty thousand stores In Chicago whers clerks are employed.Of that number only the big department stores and a very few others closs on Sunday.In the great majori'y of slores clerks are required to work at least part of Sunday.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 SIR WILLIAM WHITEWAY.Halifax, N.8., Dec.16.\u2014Among tbe passengers by ike steamer \u2018Lande.\u2019 from 81.John's, Nfld, last night, were Sir Wm.Whiteway and son.The Premier of Newfoundland 1s taking his som to Mc- Gill University.Montreal.He says busi- nass 15 in good condition in 81.John's.The revenus from July 1 to date exceeds that of the same period last year by twelve thousand dollars.\u2014\u2014 18 NOW THB SENIOR BISHOP.Kingston, Ont., Dec.16.\u2014 Archbishop Lowis In now, owing to recent deaths, the senior bishop of the (\u2018burch of Bmg- land, not only in England and Canada, but in the Empire.He bas boen thirty.four years on the Episcopal benob.He la now engaged In a oconfirmalion tour throughout the dicesse of Ontario. BY HESBA STRETTON AND ***#w**#e (All Right 2 Smtr cee CHAPTER V.\u2014PANASE After quitting Paul in such an angry mood, Halya ran till she was breathless, spurred by a sense of having lowered herself by speaking to him .She, the richest heiress in the whole neighborhood, her father\u2019s only child, baa run after a lover who bad cared little for her.and she had all but besought him to marry her.Her pulses beat and her cheeks burned ut the remembrance.She would go back to Yarina\u2019s, rejoin the evening guests, and forget her mortification and disappointment.The; adulation she was sure to receive there would heal her wounded self- love.\u2018Fool, fool that | was ?she thought, boiling with indignation.\u2018He had only to sing à song.and 1 was ready to follow bim to the world's end.He doee not love me '\u2014no.he does not love me ! she repeated.half aloud, while hot tears roiled down her cheeks.She had reached a well.and, leaning againet ks wooden frame-work, she gave way to a passion of weeping.Sud.n'y a sound startied her, and she lifted up her head to listen, like a frightened bird.1t was pothing save the creaking of the crane above her head, but it aroused her.In a minute or two.afraid of people passing ar] seeing ber in the bright: moonlight.she jet down the bucket into the well.and drew it up sparkling and dripping with water.she bathed her eyes, and cagerly quenched the burning (Hirst she felt in her parched throat.Then, with slower steps.pansing now and then as if in some doubt, she went on to Yarina's A dance was in full swing again.end Halya went on to the grass plot where it was going on.with little expression of trouble on her pretty face.Paul should know she was not inconsolable because he preferred his stupid old Stundists to herself.She was afraid her absence might have been noticed, and she tried to mingle with the crowd of guests as if she had never left it.But all at once a voice which made her shudder spoke clos: in her ear.\u2018Ha ! ha ! said Panass, with à false- sounding laugh.\u2018Paul the apostle did not come here for nothing.\u2019 He bad noticed her absence, then ! No doubt he had watched ber creep across the fold-yard and follow Paul's steps.And he hid been watching, for her return.Halya was half- frightened.ine wholly pro.oked and miserable, but she dared no: show her trouble.She\u2019 shrugged her shoulders with a little laugh of scorn.\u2018You knuw best whether he came for nothing, she said.\u2018He sang us such a song as you could never sing, nor anybody else in all Knishi.\u2019 ; The words hit him hard.and he looked so vexed that she laughed.\u2018You don't like that.\u2019 she iaughed.\u2018You ran after him I\" cried Panass.| I know it.1 saw you flying like a bird after her mate.\u2019 \u2018Perhaps I did Perhaps I ran to the well to drink some water ! What ie that to you ?she asked, with a glance of contempt that provoked him.All the other girls in the village were doing their uimost to win him.but Hu'ya was alweys laughing at him.lt was this which attracted | him to her as much as her beauty.There were other pretty girls in Knishi, but they were all at his beck.His voice changed to a sofier key, and when he spoke again it seemed as it he was continuing some conversation which had been interrupted.\u2018But you have not answered me about the matchmaekers\u2019 he said.\u2018May I send then to your father His voice was thin and piping, strangely at variance with his strong freme, and the harsh expression of bis swarthy face.\u2018You can send them,\u2019 she said petu- tantly ; \"the door is open to anybody.Father has plenty of pumpkins in his garden ; and I will roast two of them in good time : one for you and one for Paul.You shall carry Paul's to him yourslf.* Panass laughed with hearty geod humor.A roasted pumpkin offered by a gir! to the match-makers, who came with a proposal of m meant absolute refusal.Of Halya was making fun of him ; and her coupling Paul's name with his as a candidate for a roasted pumpkin was very encouraging.\u2018But Paul cannot play the bandoura as ! oan.\u2019 he maid good-temperedly ; \u2018shail 1 sing a new song I learned from the bishop's best singer ?He taught it to me when | treated him fn a public-house.\u2019 : \u2018Yen\u2019 she answered.in an indifferent tone.Panaes sang a parody of such a ballad as Paul had sung, In « high- prHrbed, fauisetto voice, accompeuy- ing §t with a really clever performance on the bandoura, She felt ss if be.his voice, and bandoura were alt alike hateful 10 her.But she would encourage him.partly to vex Paul stay behind, and left almost the last.- with a emile : !a smile upon it.meme memes - THE HIGHWAY OF SORROW.A NOVEL.Reserved.) and partly to hoodwink her compan- lions.Instead of jeering as usual et his song, she begged him to sing another.She consented afterwards to dance with him, and when it was over ætrolled away with him Into a thicket of wild roses.Suddenly Paunasa bent his dark face to hers and kissed her lips.Halys, in a frensy of dlsgust and anger, gave him a slap lo the face, which almost made him stagger.\u2018Goodness I\" he cried, after a short pause, striving to apeak playfully, though tears of pain filied his eyes, \u2018if you have such a heavy hand after we are married, you will be the worse for X.How could this little hand deal such a stroke ?* Halya was vexed beyond the power of speech.Vexed with herself for being there: vexed with Paul, who had forsaken her: vexed above all with Panaas for the offensive liberty he had taken.Oh! if she had only gone in home when she left Paul.But Panass could not boast of the kiss ne had taken.Silently they went back to the guests, who were still amusing themselves in the moonlight.Panass bade Yarina good-night in a sulky manner.and took himself away.Halya was only too glad to Yarina kissed her at parting, and sald \u2018Don\u2019t be too scornful with Panass.Your father will never let you marry a Stundist ; and Panass is the next most desirable match.He has four yoke of oxen, many sheep and mares, and a large house ; and his father will leave him a lot of money.And besides, he is a handsome man to look at.I'm right : isn't It so ¥\" she added, speaking to some giris who were standing round them.The girls tittered : some of them with envy of Halya\u2019s chance.\u2018Well, then ! take him, she said, Isugbing.\u2018you take him, Yarina, if you like him so much.\u2019 \u2018Take cere,\u2019 answered Yarina, \u2018I am nat too old.But don't be angry afterwards.\u2019 \u2018Oh, no : dearest.\u2019 cried Halya, \u2018T can afford to lose him.if 1 déd not lose you as my friend.She went home sad and down-heart- ed.Paul had forsaken her : and she knew too well her father would never let her refuse Panass, with his oxen and herds, and his expectations from his father.\u2018Oh! if Yarina could reslly help me\u2018 she thought, \u2018if I could only vex Panass into sseking her for his wite © Like Ooliana and Paul, she lay awake a great @art of the night ; but at inst slesp overpowered her, and when the dawn came i ahome upon | her pretty, girlish face, sleeping with CHAPTER VL\u2014LOUKYAN AT THE FAIR.\u2018Paul,\u2019 æ!d Ooliana, the next morning, after thelr brief prayers were ended, and they rose from their knees, \u2018I forgot to tell you yesterday that Valerian Petrovitch came home a day or two ago.He is going to stay for a time at the old Manor House with bis father.He just looked in for a minute yesterday; just the same kindhearted, free-spoken, friendly man he always was.They say he is very strange.He never goes to church ; and when he enters the poorest huis he takes off his hat and salutes everyone, even the children.But he does not bow to the icons, or make the sign of the cross.Is it possible ho is one of us?\u2019 Paul was fond of books.and did not confine his reading.as Oollana did, to religious works.He knew these signs among the upper classes did not at all imply that they had embraced the humble sect of Stun- diem.\u2018No, mother\u2019 he answered, \u2018I'm afraid it means that he has joined himself to the men who are opposing the Tzar, and we are warned against having anything to do with them.We are within our rights in joining the Mir, and helping to manage our own village affairs.But you know the Stundists are bound to shun all men who rebel against the powers that be\u2019 \u2018It 1s 1 pity,\u2019 said Oolians, \u2018Valerian visits the sick, and will not take any pay.He called about little Ivan, who fe ill with fever, and told me what more to do for the child.He is very clever and learned, and he premises me he will teach me all he knows about illness before he goes away.Do you think a maa who loves his neighbor as Valerian does is not sure to love God also 7\" \u2018It seems ae if that must be so,\u2019 said Paul musingly.\u201811 you would only talk with him * suggested Ooliama, with the sanguine hope of a trus proselytiser.\u2018Me ! mother,\u201d he maid, \u2018me! Why! he ts a very learned man ; and | know almost nothing.He has been tra- velil1.z al) over the world the last three years : and [ have never been farther than Kovylsk.I could not argue with him.\u2019 \u2018Ab! Paul\u2019 she answered, \u2018it our THE MONTREAL Windom le not of this world it is the hidden wisdom of God.which mone of the princes of this world knew, or they would not bave siain the Lord of Glory.But I have known Vale- rlan from his birth ; and I will speak to bim myself.Soon afterwards, when their Lreak- fast was eaten, Paul started off to see Loukyan, to whom as was eager to impart the events of the night before, eupeclally the oracular message from the Bible, which seemed to assure him that Halya would certainly become hie wife.But when he reached Loukyan's dwelling he found the old men had started for Kovylsk before daybreak.Loukyan started on his journey in the exquisite coolness of a summer's night, half an hour before the dawn.It was between twenty and thirty versts to Kovylsk, and his old mare.as dear to him as a friend, could not be made to go more quickly than a slow jog4rot.Loukyan's soul was full of exceeding peace ; and the stillness and silence of the sleeping land responded to it.He drove slowly along the rough roads, singing hymas from time to time as if he must give outer expression of his inner giad- ness.A fair waa being held at Kovylsk, and this circumstance and & few jars of honey stowed at the back of bis rude cart were à splendid pretext for a visit to the brethren there.It was far too hot to carry wax, and the honey was scarcely at its best ; but then no one would sue- pect that Lhe was going on any other errand than to sell it.It waa an innocent subterfuge, which did not in the least disturb his simple conscience.Kovylek was the governmental town.Here was the Governor's residence.Here also were the courts of law, the police offices, the prison\u2014 all the panoply of ruie and justice.Loukyan nodded, with a smile on his face, to the grim jail where be had apent six not unhappy months.The streets were (amiliar to him, but, as is usual with people coming from the country, the constant passing to and fro of pedestrians and the number of conveyances through which he had to guide his old mars made him glad when he reached hia inn.They knew him well, as he was in the habit of putting up there two or three times a year.In fact, Mitrev- na, the innkeeper's wife, was a women from Knishl, and always had a long goesip with Loukyan.Et vas already late: and he went to bed, without attempting to see any of the brethren.There were more Stundists than the authorities dreamed of in Ko- vylsk.\u2018They had not ventured, under the Immediate shadow o! the Governor, to have any stated meeting- place.But about two versts from the town the reeds and sedges by the riverside afforded them many a safe spot for worship during fine weather.In the winter they met indoors, in small detached parties, which were too insignificant to attract attention.They were learning to be as wise as serpents, whilst their tenet of pon-resistance made them as harmless as doves.Loukyan was a great favorite among the Stundists of Kovylsk.He possessed an extraordinary gift for expounding the Scripture, with a spirituel insight which enabled him boldly to strip off the outer husk of some knotty question and elicit the {nner truth.He sot himself strongly against any disputation or controversial question, often quoting Paul the Apostie's advice to Timothy : \u2018Nelther give heed to fables, and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith\u2019 Or again: \u20180 Timothy.keep that which is committed to thy trust.avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science, falsely o called : which sone professing have erred from the faith.\u2019 There was great loss of time, he urged, in discussing doubtful points.It was as if soldiers, in the storm and stress of battle, began to wrangle about their colors.The; were on the battlefield, fighting against sin, the world and the ddvil.When they had won the victory they would settle these minor matters.To Loukyan's great sorrow and dismay, & day or two after hle arrival his old mare was stolen from the inn stable.He loved it with a real and deep affection, and feared that it must have fallen into bad hands.But it was the sin which troubled Loukyan most.Theft ie not à common crime in a small country village, where everybody knows his neighbor's property almost as well as his own ; and thir was the first time that the sin of stealing had been brought closely heme to him.He mourned over the thief, and prayed for him as if he was à brother.But he could not return to Knishi and take his cart with bim on foot There was nothing fer it but to write to his nephew, Demyan, and bld him borrow & horse from Paul, and come over to fetch him.Loukyau carried his jars of honey to the fair, and soon sold them at a geod price, for several of the trades people, not themselves Stundists, had sympathized strongly with him In his imprisonment some time before.There was something so genial, so straightforward, and so wise about the old man, peasant though he was, which attracted the trust and affection of all who came into contact with him.All the honey disposed of, Loukyan WEEKLY WITNESA strolled about the streets, with nothing to do but te dwell on the sinful- nese of sin, as exemplified in the case of the thief who had stolen his old mare.On every hand he saw stores upon stores of goods ; wares brought to the fair for sale : anything that could feed the vanity of the buyer and bring & profit to the seller.There was not à want of the body that did not on thess stalls and in these shops meet with a supply.\u2018But what about the immortal soul ?\u2019 ald Louk.yan to himself ; \u2018le tt possible that all these crowds of men like myself are mere animals, caring for nothing but meat and drink and clothing ?Do they never feel there is something more ?Just then, in a corner of a square in fromt of one of the churches, he caught aight of a little tall, covered and roofed in ke a tent.All across the front, hanging on an iron rod.were & number of small and cheup 1cong, whilst inside Were & tew larger and bandeomer ones, Wo! three or four roubles apiece.\u201cThat In to satisfy the immortal soul?thought Loukyan, drawing slowly nearer and pausing before the entrance.The wooden panels, on which the sacred images wers painted, were casily set in motion, and swung to and fro as he touched one of them gently.There were, as usual, the conventional faces of the Saviour.the Virgin, God the Father.and a few of the principal saints.A young man was sitting inside the tent \u2014e fair-baired, dreamy-eyed man.who neticed at onoe that Loukyan did not cross himself or salute the icons.\u2018You sell icons ?\u2019 sald Loukyan, after the ordinary greeting had passed between them.He used the word \u2018sell\u2019 purposely, becauee it ts conwid- ered irreverent to sell icons; they are always exchanged for the price demanded.The young man flughed angrily.we dont sell the sacred images, he replied.\u2018An old man ke you ought to know that is not the way to speak about them.1 oan barter with you.\u2018Excuse me,\u2019 said Loukyan, mildly; \u2018but what do you bartsr them for \u2018For kopecks and roubles,\u2019 he answered.> \u2018Then what Is thé difference ?asked Loukyan.\u2018You don't decelve me.Do you think you deceive God?\u2018Why do you play the foo! 7?he replied ; \u2018if you wish to barter, look round my stall.and choose what you Ike.If you have wares to exchange, degone, for [ have no time to lose.L Loukyan looked for a moment at him with his gentle yet penetrating : and the young man's eyes fell ore him, He had been he confessed it.though no word was spoken.Loukyan latd all the money he had about him on the counter\u2014 notes, roubles and kopecks.\u201cThere 1s alt the money I have,\u2019 he sald, and if you have need of it.my brother.take as much as you want.for your icons, I would not have them even if you gave them away for noth- thing.God je not Nike that.No man hath seen God at any time ; nor can see Him.\u201d The icons are false.and teach falsehoods.\u2019 \u201cAre you in your right mind + exclaimed the icon-seller.I certainiy am ; there is no doubt of that\u2019 answered Loukyan.\u2018Do I lcok crazy ?* \u2018But why, then, do you offer me all this money?\u2019 he asked-\u2014a heap of it ; and you will take nothing for it Suppose I take you at your word ?\u2018J ehall be content.replied Louk- yan.\u2018I suppose you sell icons to get your living.Give up selling them.and live on this money til} you have found something else to do.gave it to me, and He can give me a8 much more as 1 want.\u2019 The young man picked up the money, weighed it in his hand 8 while, and theu, with a smile, put it back into Loukyan's purse, and returned it to him.\u2018I don\u2019t want another man's property,\u2019 he said.\u2018yet I see 1 am welcome to it.What kind of a man are you and where do you come from ?I have lived in Moscow, and seen thousands of people ; but never one like you.Come and sit down beside me, if you oan spare the time, and tell me why you call the icons of the holy saints false ?My name is Stepan ; and 1 come, as I said, from Moscow.For two or three hours Loukyan explained to him the doctrines of the Stundists as to icons, sud the priest hood, and the Church.\u2018Atepan !is- tened with eager and intelligent attention.\u201cThis cannot be esttied all at once he said, \u2018it te too great a thing.Lend mo your Testament, and I will sxam- ine Into ft thoroughly.To-morrow come here, or rather come to the inn where I put up.\u2019 OHAPTRR VIL.\u2014AN ICONOCLAST.Early the next morning Loukyan set off to ind Stepan.It was not far to his inn, and Loukyan, necing a group of people gaping and staring at something which was golng on in the inn-yard.turned to join them.It was a strange seene.Stepan was sianding In the midst, with an axe in his hand, striking with great strength and fury on an icon with a silvered frame.Splinters of colored and gilded wood, on which the sacred pictures had been painted, lay ali around him in a glittering pile.He was not heeding any of the spectators ; but, with the concentrated scorn of & true iconociest ou rude, and.But 85: his face, he was shivering the locus to fragments, and uttering words of ostitempt against himeolf.\u2018Fool that | was | a fool and blind * he ejaculated, in short, Interrupted cries, \u2018to live by dois! To make them and vell them! To call them gode, and bow down to them ! Loukyan stood transfixed in silent astonishmezt and admiration at the man\u2019s courage.True, the bystanders, who had just turned out of the Inn.were not devout members of the Orthodox Church, The landiord.Tsaacke the Jew, was looking on with secret sympathy, but in abject terror leet the police should hear the noise, and make him responsible for the sacrilege.There were several penal laws dealing with crimes against icons.Only to apeak disrespectfully against them was punishable with from eight months to three years\u2019 imprisonment, and wiitully to destroy one was visited by exlle to Siberia for life, Ob ! the poor man is mad, stark mad!\" erled Isaacke, from time to time ; \u2018see ! the beautiful, holy Icons ! Worth a pile of roubles! Only a raving madman could act like this Stepan had been breaking up the last icon when Loukyan entered the yard ; and now he drew himself up to his full height, facing the circle with & gaze full of resoluts courage, mingled with compassion.He litted up his face, and stretched out his arms towards the blue sky above him.\u2018Great God in heaven ! he cried, \u2018for- glve me ; I waa ignorant as a beast before thee ! Forgive them ! for they know no better than 1 did ¥* Loukyan stepped forward, and laid his hand on Stepan's ahoulder, gas- ing {nto his face with tears in bis eyes.\u2018Brother \u201d he sald, \u2018come away with me, and let us have a quiet talk together.Landlord, have you a room where we can be alone ?* \u201cYes, yes, Isaacke answered eagerly.\u2018Oh! he's mad, you know, he added to the bystanders, \u2018and tbis good man is his brother.He will take care of him.Oome in, all of You, and have a glass or two of vodka: my best! And let us wink at this.My house ia respectable ; we never have & row with the police.Come in! come tn\u201d He shut Loukyan and Stepan up tn A private room of his own, and served out his best vodka with many a heart- pang ; but then what would it cost him if the police found out that holy icons had been destroyed in his yard?\u2018ie had every trace of the catastrophe removed ; no splinter an inch in size ve to betray it; and as soon as ble he must get Loukyay and Stepan off his premises, .They were deep in converantion USGA \u2018syp{punig ox JO MOTI) oY} uodn Isaacke interrupted it with gon.ized appeal to them that they would relieve him from their dangerous presence.He was tn a terrible quandary, not knowing whether it was the better plan to trust to his guests to forget the occurrence or to report ® himself to the police, which must involve him in great trouble and expense.If Loukyan would take Stepan away he would do nothing, and take the chance of nothing coming of it.Stepan had made a sacrifice of all his worldly goeds; und he had not more money than would last him for à few montha, until he could fit himself to earn his living in some other way., Loukyan took him to one of the leading Stundists, à corn-dealer, and left him there to return home to Konishi.with Demyan, who had arrived with Paul's horse late the night before.They reached home early in the morning ; and es it was already daylight, and soon the whole world would be astir, especially Ivan, Demyan\u2019's little son three years of age, there was not much chance of sleep.They lay down to rest a while on the wooden bench, which ran around the sides of the larger of the two rooms, which formed the whole of their dwelling.They could hear the hrertsl-¢ o° Ivan and his mother, as they lay sleeping in the inner room.\u2018Demyan I\" sald Loukyan, \u2018Stepan\u2019s another msn who would die or go into oxile for the Lord's zake.' \u2018Ay ! there are a few of us.\u2019 he answered, somewhat sleeptly.\u2018A godly seed \" mid Loukyan, \u2018and it will be scattered here and there, and fall upon gcod ground, and bring forth some QMyfold, and some a hundredfold.Stepan will bring à good harvest to his Lord.\u2019 Demyan did not reply.He was ready to die for Christ : but he was not a man of ready tongue, and he had no learning.It had been with difficulty that he had learned to read: a duty earnestly Impressed on every Stundist, that they may for themselves search the Scriptures.There were moments when Demyan was sorely tempted to envy the richer gifta of men like Isoukyan, Paul and Stepan.But he was a simple soul, and he contented himself with saying In a whisper, \u2018Lord, Thou knowest all things.Thou knoweet that | love These\u2019 These words were the anchor of his soul.After a short rest the men roused themeæeives, and Demyan went off to his work with the village blacksmith, whilst Loukyan visited his numer- ons bee-hives, which stood in a regu- ler row slong the top of hin large marden.The open Tieppe ny beyon 1 thickly covered with flowers of all kinds, and the laborious bess were kifling themselves, like city men of Droamser 17, 1896.business, im à headiong, unintermit- ting chécs after the wealth that lay close at hand, Loukyan was obliged to take away the fresh honey every few days.He had now been away several days, and there was an accumulation of spoil.The bees hummed and bussed about him, and settled in dosens upon his hands, which were uncovered, though he bad protected his head and face with à gauze veil ; but not one stung him.Pressntly Paul opened the wicket gate, and entered the garden, stand- mg at a safe distance from the hus- tilng, hissing swarm that from time to time almost hid Loukyan from sight.Loukyen had slightly smoked them with & bit of burning hemp, and they were whirling giddily abowt In the air, and humming dismelly, a8 If complaining of being disturbed and robbed of the wealth they had so greedily gathered.LouXyan spoke to them now and then, as if they could understand him.\u2018What do you make such a trouble about ?* he asked; \u2018your hives are too full already.You are like the rich man who was going to pull down his barns and build greater.1 am doing you a service, if yon only knew It.One hive can ouly hold as much 48 It can ; the rest is lost.\u2019 He turned to watch a dense swarm that had fled off to a wild cherry tree ; and then he perceived Paul.His withered face Jit up with a smlle of love and welcome.\u2018Good morning ©\" he sald ; \u2018I'm glad to see you so soon.There is 80 much to tell youu That is why I asked Demyan to send you word we were back again.\u2018And 1 wes glad to come on my own account,\u201d replied Paul; \u2018I have wanted you so much.\u2019 \u2018What is the matter ?Has anything happened to your mether I asked Loukyan in alarm.\u2018No, no! Onmnly myssif, he answered.\u2018I want your advice.\u2019 \u2018By-and-by,' mid Loukyan ; \u2018only let me take the honeycomb out of this last hive\u2019 He ovenad the hive, and with a skilful hand broke off as much combd as was desirable.He placed it with the rest, which be had collected tn a large jar : and then dirested his steps towards the house.A few bees followed them all the way, protesting angrily.\u2018Go awmny, you foolish beasts,\u2019 ssid Loukyan, laughing : \u2018go and heap up riches, and others shail gather them.\u2019 The cottage was both smaller and much poorer than Paul's homestead, and the cattle-sheds were fewer.The furniture was of plain desl, and worth litile, and thére were ne pie- tures on the walls The cooking \u201c utensils consisted of a few pots, one or two of which were cracked, and rudely mended with strips of canvas, as if there was not a kopeck to spare for buying new.There was no doubt Loukyan wes quite a poor man, and perhaps rather improvident, for bad he not offered Stepan every kopeck he posseased ?But the floor was well swept, and the table dusted, and all the furniture clean.And in the chief place, where the icons formerly filled the place of honor, there was a shelf filled with books\u2014more even than those pos- seewed by Father Vasill, Demyan's wife was sitting by the great Russian stove, rocking a cradle with her foot.\u2019 She was a young women, with a round face, a snub nose, and with dense black eye-brows, which met across her nose, and gave her an odd- Iy morose expression.She arose and greeted Paul with great respect.\u2018Here is the fresh honey, Parasks,\u2019 said Loukyan ; \u2018put it in & new jar, and bring us a morsel to taste, I will look after the chîla.In low tones, and with great delight, Loukyan told Paul the story of Stepan and the riske they had both run in Kovylsk.But he spoke very cautiously, und when they heard Par- step he stopped abruptly.Not a word to her,\u2019 he whispercd.Paraska was devoted to Loukyas with her utmost soul, just ao her husband was.But being a woman of common-senre, as she said, she did not always approve of what they did.There was no need to give away everything, as they would do It she did not look after them.And as for running into mischief and danger as they did.they ought sometimes to think of her and the baby, Loukyan was a little afraid of ber.She brought in a piece of honeycomb on & wooden platter, and a cake of new bread, and Iald them on the table with the demure expression of a woman who knows how to behave properly when strangers are present.\u2018Paraska, It le boœautiful hovey.' mid Loukyan tn a conciliatory tone; \u2018better than last year\u201d \u2018Oh ! the honey ia all right,\u2019 she an- awered wth half-conacious sarcasm.Bhe went to the cradle.The baby slept quietly, with itg little arms stretched out, and its soft, toothlese mouth open.She threw a cover over it, to protect it from the Ales, and went away sgain.\u2018I shall have a good scolding from her said Loukyan, \u2018about my poor old mare.And RB would be wors: if she knew about Stepan.He is coming to visit us by-and-by, and as he is a man of some learning, he wili pro- bebly be made a deacon.But m successor is already here,\u2018 he added, gazing aftectiomately on Paul.In low tones as befoes Paul confided to him all that had passed between Halya end himself, and the eurfous 3 Dsczusen 17, 1898, result of his appeal to the Bible for directs terest., \u2018Do not let your heart be troubled, he mid.\u2018She will join us, and you will marry her.This love is a great mystery ; It comes from God, and ht to lead us to Him.' \u2018But the match-makers Are going to Karpo thie very day ! orled Paul.\u2018From Pansas ?Paul nodded, too, miserable to speak.There was no other rival he dreaded.\u2018Bhe will not marry him,\u2019 said Louk- yan, looking at him with his kind, keen gase.\u2018If God wills it, man can do nothing.To be sure, no priest would marry you ; but I know à German minister in the government of Kherson, who comes sometimes to Kovylsk, and he would do it for you.\u2019 For a moment Paul looked happy ; but it was only for a moment.\u2018Halya would never coneent to it, he sald.\u2018Then it may be there is no way out of your trouble,\u2019 replied Loukyan ater 8 pause.\u2018This is the cross your Lord calls upon you to bear after Him.Bear ft bravely.Great troubles lle befors us.Remember what the apostle mays about this very point.1 supposes, therefore, that this 1s good for the present distrcss ; I say that it is good for a man so to be.\u201cArt thou bound uuto a wife ?seek net to be loosed.Art thou loosed from a wife ?seek not & wife.\u201d Alas! the father and the husband will have bitter sorrows in the days at hand.\u2019 But Paul was too young, and be had loved Falya too long and too much to take any comfort from the thought that be might at some future day be gla that her lot was not linked with 8 own.There was à low, distant howi of persecution, as of a wolf ; but the wolf had not come to the door as yet.(To de continued.) \u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE ABUNDANCE OF THB SBAS.(From the Late Prof.Huxley.) Al the meeting of the International Fisheries Exbibition, bold in London (1883), explaining the difference between asadromous fish (those swimming from salt to fresh water, as the salmon and shad), and (he pelagic, or deep swimming fish, as the cod, Prof.Huxley said: \u2018A salmon fishery (and the same reasoning appiies to all river fisheries) can be exhausted by men, because max is, under erdinery circumstances, one of the chiet agenjs of destruction; and.for the same reasam, its exhaustion cas usualiy be prevented, because mas\u2019s operations may be controlled an reduced te any ertent that may be desired by foros of law.\u2018And now arises tbe question, Dees the Same reasoning apply to *he sea fcheries?Are there any sen fisheries which are exhaustible, and, if so, are the circum- siances of the osse wuch that they aan bo efficientiy protected ?I believe it may be afirmed with confidence that, in relation te cour present modes of fishing, a aumber of the most importart ces fisher- fos, such as the ood fishery, the herring fishery snd the mackerel fishery, are ln- exzhaustible.And 1 bass this conviction on two grounds.Firm, that the muiti- tude of these fishes 1s so lncomcelvably great that the number we catch in relatively insignificant; and, secondiy, that the magnitude of tbe destructive agencies at work upon them is so prodigious that the destruction effected by the fisherman canwet sensibly increase the death rete.\u2018At the great col fishery of the Loloden Isiands the fish approach the shore in the form of what the satives eal! \u201ccod moun- Sains\u201d \u2014vast shoals of densely packed fish, 180 to 150 feet in vertion! thickness.The cod are so close together that Prof.Sars toll us \u2018the fishermen, who uss lines, can notice how the weight, before it reaches the bottom, ls constantly kunooking against the fish.And these shosls keep coming in one after another for two mooths, ail along the coast.\u2018A shoal of codfish of this kind, a square nelle in superficial extent, must contais at the very least 130,000,000 fish.But It 1a an exceptionally good season sf the Lofoden fishermen take 30,000,000 cod; and not more than 70,000,000 or 89, 000,000 are taken by all tte Norwegian fisheries put together.Bo that one fuir shoal of all that approach the coast ln the season must be enough lo eupply the whole of the codfish taken by the Norw fisheries.and leave a balance of 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 over.: \"The principal fcod of adult cod appears to be herring.\u2018f we allow only one herring to each codfish per diem, the cod In 8 square mile of shoal will consume 840.- 000, herring in a week.But ail the Norwegian fisheries put together do not oateh more than halt that number of herring.Facts of this kind seem to me to justify the beilof that the take of all the cod and herring fisheries put together does not amount to five percont of the total number ot Ash.But the mortality from other sources is enormous From the time the fish are hatched they are attacked by other marine anfmais.The great shouls are aîtended by a host of logfeh, poliook, cetaceans and birds, which prey upon them day and night, and cause & destruction infinitely grea!- er than that which can be effected by the tmpertect and Intermittent gperations of \u20181 belleve then that the cod flabery, the herring fishery.\u2018he plichard fishery, the maekerel fishary, snd probably all the THE EXHIBITION OF 1896.The British Bmpire Exhibition aad International Display of all Nations WILL BE OPSAED OF NAY NEXT.AND WIiid, REMAIN OPEN FOR SIX MONTHS, THE PANSENT EXNINTIOR GROVEDS TO 38 USED BUT VAST INPAOVEMENTS WILL 38 Mae The story about that little Bagiish be.sier boy who, brought into the presstce of the great Napoleon, and asked to play 4 rereat, replied: \u2018Pardon, sire, but I do Lot know bow,' may have bees more fiction than verity.It is certain, however, that thers 1s à certain doggedaess in the English char- actor whieh, in spite of dificeity, persists and triumphs when, according to all re- oelved oanous, it should have confessed defeat.It will be remembered that last year, fresh from the Chicago fair and the Ban Francisco exposition, in connection with which he occupied the position of British Commissloner, snd received the thanks of the exhibitors for his imtelligeat and efficient services, Mr.H.J.Stiles came to Montreal, and, surveying the topo- éraphion! and commercial situation, con- ocslved the bold plan of inaugureting à world's fair in the first city of the bo minicn.The man bad experience; he bad years of training in the preparation, display and management of exhibits; he had etud- tod the Chicago fair and the San Francisco oxposition, and be was in touch with tbe most notable exhibitors and attraction in the world.And Mr.Stiles had the courage of his conviotions.He saw bis conception fu the concrete, and when he spoke it was with ready data and confidence.The echoes of the great fair, stil lia.gored; we were beginning to fool acutely the great depreasion which overstepped fiscal boundaries, and ignored a policy which was to give prosperity to the Canadian people.It might have seemed difficult, therefore, to arouse euthusiasm.and yet Mr.tiles interested some of the best financiers not only in Montreal, but Canada, in the project.He Isid his scheme before such men as Mr.George Hague, manager of the Merchants nk; Sir Donald Smith president of the Bank of Montreal; 8ir William Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway; the late Ald.Hurteau, chairmen ef the Fi.Dance Committec: Ald.Wilson Smith, a sound financier; Mr.James Cantlie, pre- sldent of the Board of Trade; and other men of clear judgment and undoubted substance The statements of Mr.St!les appeared to be so feasible that a meeting was called of those who had been favorably impressed.This meeting was held at the City Hall, when n plan of organization was adopted, and a committes appointed for the purpose of waîting upon 4be city authorities to ask for a grant of one bun- dred thousand doilars.This request was complied with, upon certaln conditions.The next step was to interview the Dominion government.The times were bad: the governmeat was in great political befogment; and there ssemed 10 be & more effectual benefit from subsidizing railways, and bar- bors and bridges, than from spending money tpon the rather sentimental pro- Ject of making your country known to your own people and the world, The deputation was a large and representative one, headed by Sir Donald Smith, who could urge the endorsation of 8ir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner ir London for the Dominion of Canada.Subsequent to this, a deputation waited upon the Q Government, and Mr.Stiles ma.speech to which the members of the Cabinet listened with great interest, manifestly feeling that this men knew something about the business which he bad in hand.Nevertheless, both governments refused grants, the conditional promise of the city was withdrawn, and the project, ap- pareatly, was at an end.Mr, Stiles was beaten and he Ad not know it.The facts seemed to be against him, but there was something in the composition of the man which refused to give wore the facts.\u2018This is not the last word on the sub.Ject,' be sald, before he packed bis vallse for England.For Mr.Stiles felt that what Liverpool.Glasgow, Manchester, Australia, New Zealand.South Africa, even Jamaica had done, Canada, the greatest of all the coloules and tha nearest to the Motherland, could do and should do.And this other thing he and those who had asso- olated themselves with him felt Canada should do\u2014namely, make herself known to ber own peopl Patriotic Canadians had been at once surprised and thrilled at the magnificent products of their own land disciosed at the Colonial Exhibition in London.But they were also bumhili- ated to think that they had to travel so far from home lo discover all the worth all the glory, of their native land.For It la the Caet that while Canada bas speat a large amount of money upon showing herself to others.she bas never thought # worth her while to disclose hagself to all ber own children, who, scat- tored over an immense territory, live ang Ale, many of them.without knowing the products of the province next to them, And Mr.Stiles never intended to ask any government for a single cent.He meant hiz project to atand upon its own feet as a business naderisking.He wan persuaded agalost bis will to go to the authorities for aid.And so.whet be packed his valise, he sald to bimself\u2014 When | come back, It will be straight business.\u2019 Stay; before he departed he bad 8 dls- gram of ibe present exhibition buildings great sen fishories, are inexhaustidie: that le to say, that nothing we do sert- ously affects the number of fish.And, any attempt to reguiate tbese fisheries seems, eossequently, from the nature nf, the case, t0 be useless.\u2019 and a promise of a lease of them from the present exhibition cempasy In Bis pocket.The first thing Mr.Btiles did was to form a company.This was not found a THE MONTREAL diftoult thing to do; Because the facts whieh he was able to adduce, touching the paraton) situation, tbe ssossslbllity of city, Îts nearness to the great een- tres of population in the United States, wgrther With the offers be could show from many of tbe largest exhibitors in the world, mede a strong presentment.Besides this there was the feeling amongst those who were approsched on the wub- ject that while most of the large cities In the United Kingdom, most of the large towus In all tbe colonies but Canada, bad bad exhibitions, it would be curious It Montreal, the first city In the Dominion, which was the nearest colony, and which mot enly had the population, but was within a few hours\u2019 journey of the great centres to the south, should be the notable exception tu what had been a gen- oral experience throughout the British Empire.The capital was to be £135,000.The half was subscribed and the company was lncorporated al Somerset louse, Thusastart was made and it became the duty of Mr.Stiles to realise the idea he bad in bis mind.And first of all, this {dea bad no association with the World's Fair at Chicago.It was not io any sense to be a replica of that monstrous aggre- sation which it needed two months to ss, and which was wearinans to the fiesh when Sime pressed and money failed.This was something epochal, and the deficit of mlil- licos would probably be borne for the sake of the fllumination which the apéc- tacle afforded to tho gensral mind of the country.But !t could not be repeated in & INTERNAT! .DISPLAY or the same generation.was too expensive.It was too big.It Tt was too exhaust g.Nor was the area to be spread out indefinitely, making it dificult for the people to see the whole at a comprebensive glance, which the former, who have paid thelr good money, think should be a matter of certainty.The fair was to be an exposition of the British Empire, and it was to be held within the limits of the present grounds.Mr.Stiles found that the old London exhibition, the Indian exhibition.and the Glasgow exhibition, bad been beld in an area varying from eighteen to twenty- five acres.And the present grounds of tbe Montreal Exposition Company comprise fifty-six acres.Well.Mr.Miles went to Borgeaux.wbere there was a successful exhibition in pro- grees.He came baok and visited Glas- wow, where Mr.Chalmers, the well known architect, had constristed beau- titul buildings in a limited area, and where a most successful fair was beld.At thess two places he saw most of the prominent exhibitors and attraction mas.agers.He made a contract with the manager pf the old London exhibition, which was a wonderful success, by which that gentleman binds bimaelf to spend 350, in Montreal In producing the great wpectacle.There was also an agreement concluded with the managers of the Indian exhibition.by which the famous jugglers who delighted the Londoners.and one of whose marvels fs the Sastantanenus growth of mango trees, which bave pussied all beholders, wih be seen in the city.Numerous otber attractions have been secured.but all are to occupy a subord!- nate place to the exhibition proper.Only, aa exhiditora like to be assured of an at- 4ractive place and scone which will guar.antes a large atiendance, it has been found necessary by those managing great fairs to add the slement of the unusual and the spoétacular.There is to be plenty of the spectacular, indeed, but there will be valuable and Instructive exhibits from all parts of the world.Thess will be from France, Germany, England, Italy, and the United States.Africa, too, bas not been left out, nor shall romantic evidence of Ceylon be wanting.There will be famous paintings.famous antique furniture, precious things In curios, and bric-a-brae from all lands, and thess wlll be stored In the art gal- Jery, which 1s to be bullt upon the present grounds.Having then started the bali rolling In England, having apprised by circulars all the well known exhibitors of the world of the intention of the company to open 8 British Empire Exposition and interna tional Display of All Nations on the 24th of May ln the éliy of Montreal, and having, moreover, the written agresments of many exllbitore and attraction managers tn his pocket, Mr.Siiles veiled for Montreal.He is here now: ha has been working quietly, but effectually and he is daily selling oe for the great axbibition.There in to be no deaibe early fn the fal) to have then Noomtng in doors all winter.Some of hem can be retarded, while others ar Mowed to co iato bloom.se that It |: \u2018asy to have a succession of them.CYCTAURE, Rather more than a year ago I saw in + florist\u2019s window ane of these charming ants fg full bloom, and fell in love ~ith it.It became mine for thirty \u2018ents.There wero six blooms on it when \u201c got it, and It kept on blooming vinter.1 have since discovered thx biz is one of ihe caslest plante to grow rom seed.[1 Is advertised at ten cent- we paper (or the Persicom varioty, which s one of the best.There is a glam variety which I have not seen in bloom, \u2018or which the seed costs twenty-five ents per paper.In addition to the beau- y of the flower the color or rather col- ms of the lea! make It fit to rank among folisge plants.It is a deeper green than the ivy.and like that the shades of ireen vary with age.THE FALL FLOWER Many people seerm not to be aware that his lovely, fragrant plant will grow and niooëm just as well In this country as fit loss i» England.What memories of \u2019afldhood are awakened by the very odor sf the flower, for it has a fragrance ali is own.The botanical name of thin dant is chelranthus, from cheir, the hand, an anthos, a flower, in refersnce :@ th> custom of carrying the wall-Sow- a in the band for which it Is well sult- sd from the strangth and thickness of its stem.This plant grows readily from either seeds or cuttings, and will continue blooming in winter in a not very warm room.The blooms last a long time, and it is every way one of the most desirable of bouse plants for winter bloyming.These notes could easily be extended.But ouce a taste for houne plants fs induced snd sencourag™ by showing box easily it may be gratified, it will be sure to grow until perhaps it wil) be necessary rather to repress it than give It full swing.LINDENBANK.\u2014_\u2014 FARM GLBANINGS, Look out for that big lesk in the manure pile.Draw the manure direct from the stable to the flelds.It then dos twice a8 much good es when thrown under the eaves to lle all winter, and be 4rawn out in the spring.The work will require only a few minutes each doy.and the farmer who once adopts the plan never practices any other.\u2018Thos, Jefferson.one of the fatherw cf the American Republle, and elght years nreeident, wrote: \u201cCu:itivators cf the earlh are the moat rziuable cilisens.They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virigcus; and they are ted to their country and wedded Lo lis liberty and Interests by the most lasting bonds.\u201d One of the most generally practised methods of preventing the Injuries of the Peach borer is 10 cut out the larvae either in the tall or spring, oe both.To do this the earth Is removed from the base of the tres, and wherever gummy exuda- tions indicate that Lhe borer is at Work, à sharp koife or wire ia inasrted to kil it.A bounty on bawks and foxes ls advocated by certain Massachusetts farmers, 4s an aid to poultry culture.Wii! tbcue who have suffered [cases from these pests write us the extent of their injury and their views as to the proposed bounty, Ir the trouble is again taking on considerable proportions In New England.it would be easy to obiain such a bounty, otfer- wise act.\u2014 Homestead.\u2019 Corn fodder ia being shredded extensively Iu Fulton county, Ind.Owners of husking and shredding machines have all they can do.Shredded fodder is tak- Ing the place of hay this season.Many think that the obarge of five cents per bushiet or $1.50 per hour Is high, but that the saving of fodder will comprosate fur the extra expense.Hates will probably be lower next year.Farmers are careful to have fodder dry before shredding.as It spolls easily If damp.Most people bury cabbage for winter use, and If properly done it is the very beat way to keep fy They are, however, Dot easily got at whea the ground is or covered with snow.À par, of the crop may be satisfactority kept as follows: Trim the heads very closely, wrap (uo newspapers, and pack in barrels.Bet in a cool osliar and use as needed.They whi not dry out or decay as when placed in the cellar without protection.If this process is followed, a quantity can be taken from the ground st one time.Competition and low prices, especially of farux products, make It unecessary for tbe successful agriculturist to be thoroughly informed and capable of compre- bending complex probleme.Practical experience is a gocd teacher, Lut the path of the average young farmer would be much smoother should he spend some time at an agricultural college, sven if it Is brief.Most of the state Institutions have short winter courses begloning early in January.Attend these and get what you can from them.A long course is rich to be desired, but If ibis cannot be obtained take a short ome.It will pay.The superior quality of American corn has been shown by analyses of maise from the Black Sea and Danube corn pelts of castern Europe, Just made by the department of agriculture at Wasb- ngton.Our corn of average qualky con.taine about 15 percent more protein, 39 percent more fat and fully as wuch sugar and starch as the samples of foreign corn analyzed.As Germany Imported nore coru from Houmania last year than from the United States, and as America bas an immense surplus of corn for export, this kind of work by the department of agriculture Ja to be encour- During the month of November there passged through the American canal a total of 1479313 tous of freight and through the Canadian canal 131,647 tens, making a grand toial of 1,611,020 tous, an increase of 220.134 tons over November, 1894.Inciuded in (bis freight are about 14,000,000 bushols of wheat, early double the quantity taken through the canal during the same month last yeer.Every month this year has been record Ureaker In the amount of traffic passing through St.Mary's river and it is thought the tuted will exceed the best previous year by two million tons \u2014Algoma \u2018Plo- neer.\u2019 if you belleve in the Farmers\u2019 Institute idea, why not agitate the opening of a small farmers\u2019 club, having for its members, say, twenty of your immediate neighbors.It Is surprising bow many æooû Ideas sre exchanged in such gatherings.\u2018The meetings may be beld every two, three of four weeks all through the winter season at different farm houess or In the school house.A tobic agreed up- nu at 8 meeting may be introduced at the next by a paper or talk from a auccess- fu} member of the ciub in that particular line, say the care of a dairy cow, clover culture, and so on.Let every one present contribute something useful learped in his experience, and when the chairman sums up at the end the main points made, we believe all present will vote the hour well spent\u2014much mors profitably than \u2018tatking politica\u2019 at the corner grooery.During the winter many conveniences and necessary farm tools and implements may be made in the home workhouse.Hayrucks, waggon beds, swing gates, wa- er troughs and tanks, sleds tool racks, stalk rakes, chicken coops, shipping crates and berry boxes are simple In construction.Any bright farmer.with \"he assistance of a blacksmith, can make ill of these and more.The expense will 5e much less than if bought ia town or hired made.The tools which every woll- regulated farm ought to possess will inswor, We have in mind a young farmer who does all this kind of work, and he Is prospering in spite of hard times, cheap products, etc.He raises as nuch grain and steck as his neighbors who buy everything \u2018ready\u2019 made, and has inuch more \u2018ready\u2019 cash.Try your hand it it when the weather prevents outside work.Many kitchen things are also ocasily made.LOGGING BY STRAM POWER.A Lowville (Lewis Co.N.Y.) correspondent writes: \u2018An entirely new departure in this country in logging by steam power, and while the cost of an outfit is thoul eight thousand dolltrs, no doubt that amount will be saved in a comparatively short time by the doing away with a large pumber of men and teams.Forest Commission >¢ Theodore B.Basse- lin, is the first to embark in the enter prise of this labor-saving contrivance, wblioh consists of no more nor less than à steam sleigh, which he now bas In uperstion in the big woods above Belfort.The sleigh Is of enormous size, and in appearance resembles somewhat a box car.The sle'gh le eight feet high, and the bobs six feet wide.The motive power fs supplied by a boller whica stands seven {eet high, and weighs eight thousand pounds, and two high-pressu-e cnglnes of thre bundred horsepower, weighing five (housand five hundred pounds.There are four immense drive wheels whi~h weigh four thousand pounds.ad are driven by an en-less chain from the engine.The sleigh Ww sicered nome- what after the mahncr of a steambon'.The drive wheels are coverod fr ahou* ihree-fourths of their circumference dy a scam box, into which the steam ex- Dscumsen 17, 1898, tbe water Mlitag into the track of the sleigh fresges, and thus makes à road of soll) ice.To prevent the drive wheels from slipping, those are supplied with spurs, threse inches deep and tem inches Jong.The sleigh Is capable of carrying fifteen thousand feet of logs at one time, which In equivalent to the amount that would ordinarily be drawn by fifteen teams of horses.As above slated, the oost of ihe outst is about eight thousand dollars, but it will pay tor |tsolf in the saving of teem Mire, extra men, elc.The sieigh was first put in use the past week, and thus far IL works quite satinfactorily.It ie at pressant used In drawing logs from the woods to the barking ground.-\u2014 \u2014am LIVR STUCK NOTES.The \u2018hog cholera\u2019 epidemic this season haé been one of the worst ever known la the history of the ludustry la the Wast- orn States.The lossse have been ap palling.Barnyard quarters are not to be rec- omuicnded for the dry cow.Where the cows have to be \u2018lifted\u2019 Wm the « better sell half the herd and feed all the fodder available to the rest.While silage is especisily used for cattle feeding !t also answers a good a pose aù shoep (sed.Old sheep, eartings and lambs may be chemply improved in condition If fed good silage.When sheep are being wintered without roots, oorn silage fed has the effect of keeping thelr digestive organs im healthy condition.lt has tbe game effect on milking ewes as on dairy cows, in keeping up the milk flow to a libéral quantity.A great many farmers bave treudle with their horses\u2019 lags for some time abteb autumn work ceases.In fact that seems to be the commonest season for attacks of \u2018weed\u2019 and \u2018soratches.\u2019 At a recent farmers\u2019 club meeting severs! good horsemen testified to the value of giving \u20ac small handful (a large tablespeontul) of Epsom salts in each evening's fesd for a couple of wevks.The effect is to keep Wie blood cool, aod the animale in healthy condition.Jealousy of American farm the part of agluod has just broken out in a new spot.This time Il ie di- Teoted agalost the Smportation of lve sheep except under onerous restristiove.it is mot so much fear of the Introduc- tlom of scad among thelr own flocks as fear on the t of displeasing English farmer vote.Would that the agricultural classes In America commanded as much wholesome respect amoung la wmakers.\u2014 American Ag- rlculturist.\u2019 The Union Stock Yards Compemy earn- od over a million dollars gross during four months to November, with net ears- icgs about two-thirds of that.Fifteen cent corn in Nebraska and Kansse, retailed in the yards at a dollar a bushel, accounts in part for this spug profit to shareholders who get regular dividends on the enormous cepliaiisation of thirteen million dollars.This alock yards charge is about the meanest stesi our western mock men are compelled to bear.An important trial under the Preven.ton of Cruelty to Animals act took pisos before Sheriff Campbell Smith, Dundee, Scotland, the defendant being Mr.Harry Swan, farmer, Balhungie, Moalkie, who had deborned a number of caille.seme of which diod as a result.It was shown that the cattle (stockers from Ireland) were in an unhealthy state before tbe operation and bad not been allowed suffi- clent time to rally from being driven about the country.The defendant was found not guiky.One of Ontario's most successful Dox breeders (Perth Co.) writes: \u2018I have pulped turnips and mangels for swine with the best results.It not only saves grain, but it keeps breedlag sows and store hogs very healthy.I am satisfied that & liberal supply of puiped roots fed to growing pigs will give more growth snd healthier animals, not Hable te founder or become crippled, than if an exclusive grain ration were used.Agf- other advantage is that the pigs are net liable to indigestion, so that when fate tening time comes they are not omly larger but feed much better than grain- fed pigs.\u2019 What, then, might be considered a safe practice to follow in the fesding and management of the dry cow ?First we must discriminate between the cow that takes on flesh easily and readily, and the cow that really cannot be fattened, but after the usual needs of the system have been met, puis the rest In the pall, In the former case, while dry, we would reduce the grain ration sufficient to avold a very fat condition before parturition, leaving the coarse fodder ration much as usual.Silage, if from well-sared com.and straw for our beef breeds and their grades will frequently be sufficient, while tn some cases a slight admixture of grain will be necessary.In the case of the representatives of the dairy breeds, as we have stated, when they milk to within a short period of parturition, they should be fed almost or quite as ilber- Ally as when milking.Tt is the tendency of many stock-feed- ers to undervalue oats for feeding stock other than horees.Now, we bave an immense yield this year in many parts of the North American continent, which will keep the price comparatively low.Oats are richer in protein and fat than many of the other coarser graln; in fact.they combine in themselvs just about what is considered a well-balencel ration.Not only do oats supply the needs of animale in well-balanced proportions, but rarely, it ever, do.animals Fone vick by over-feeding ou them afie¥ they mve be~ome accustomed to an oat diet.in view of thelr abundence and cheapness feeders would do well to feed oats rather than buy bran or other foods.To growiig cattle, sheep or milch cows, ground oats should be more generslly fod thas they are.meet POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.\u2018The day before Thankagiving Day 16 lo 30 cents was offersd for turkeys ln Winnipeg, and it was Impossible eves at those pricas to fil demands.Biggs.strictly fresh, are retalling at 30 conts per dozen.Surely there's a chance of making sovething out of poultry.Use common tobacco mnufl scattered liberally in nests and In the dust beds >r wallews.Pour It also into cracks in the poultry house.It (3 also very affective when eprinkled liberally under the wiogs and on the neck and comb of growo fowls.When bandliog fowls in- Ducxusen 17, 1896, VE fesiod wità vermin er parssiles uss 08 She hands woollen gloves weil saturated with greass or kercesns all.T6 will net pay one with limtiod means te risk his all In poultry il be knows uvihing about it, and the poultry bush Dass, though looked upon as a \"csort by those desire to forsake other oo cupations, is really very unsafe, except when capital and experience are joined.Nven wilh the most experienced parsons, (be climate, location, cost of food, soil and markets may not be favorable lo success.Bat Witte risk 1s Incurred when the beginner starts with a small Bock, and with pa:lence his flocks tn a few Years may pay well.Bury cabbage sad turnips so tbat they oun be easily got al.Cut up fine and feed two or three times a week.dbat- tered clover, scalded hay and chop feed stirred up with tho green stuff inake & fine winter food.Keep « pot handy, in- te which potato and apple parings, table aoraps, etc.can be thrown.Boil ail together and thicken with chop, addiug a ul of linseed meal and a pod or two of red r.Feed only enougb to partially miisty the bens.Let them acratoh for the remainder-\u2014out of doors in Ane wealber, and under the ehads in eut etraw ou stormy, snowy days.The foeding of poultry has now become almost a science.The main ides used to be that anything wes good enough to feed Lo the poultry.Now the poultry are fed In a very rational and intelll- gent manner.They are given rations that are known will stimulale egg-pro- duction without causing (bem 10 become too fat.When the object is to fatten the poultry quite a different kind of food Is given.Tie fact bas also become established that different breeds require diasimilar diet to produce the same of- fects.The large breeds do nce forage to any great extent and would become too fat if fed on certain food that ean be aliownd the active breeds without any danger of impairing their laylug qualities cr making them too fat.The low price of whea: last season has dune more to convince many fermers that (bere is & profit to be derived from (eeding wheat to fowls than they could be toduced be fore to believe.On many farms bere after wheat will be fed to the poultry, a0 matter what the price.\u2014_\u2014 EXPERIMENTAL HEN FEEDING.At tbe New York Experimental Station vous of Leghorns and Cochin were fed experimentally to ascertain whether a diet of whole dry grain or a dlet partial- 17 0: Cranhe 1 a1d mois © ed giaia gava the oest results.Buetiu No.su gives Lne following summary of result: 1.Two lots of laying be of large and small breeds respectively, ba: their grain food ouly dry and whole, ate sere food at greater cost per fowl and for the live weights than did two similar lota having about thirty-five percent of their grain ground and moistened.2.A pea of Leghorns, which had for the year 37 percent of their food ground snd moistened grain, produced eggs at a greater profit than did an exactly similar pen fod whole grain.3.Of two like pens of Cochins, the one fod whole grain produced egge at much leus cost than did the pen having ground grain, which result Is attributed partly to the exercise assured In feeding whole ip.= With the kind of whole trains crdf- marily available it is not possible to fesd a largely grain ration having an narrow a outritive ratio\u2014that Is, containing as large a proportion of the nitrogenous food constituente\u2014as is perhaps necessary for best reauits from laying hens.5.By using some of the highrst nitrogenous by-products (such as cottonseed, meal, pea meal, gluten fexd, etc.) with ground grain, It Is possible to feed a somewbat narrow ration without feeding an excessive amount of meat.& With beus fed simliar rations, when the hens of smaller breeds give only lhe same egg yleld an the bens of larger breeds, the eggs are more cheaply produced by the smaller hens, but taking into consideration the cost of raising and the ultimate pouitry value of the Yeas, the profs will be equa! ur more fu- vorable for tbe larger hens.\u2014 WINTER EGG PRODUCTION.In order to have eggs in winter.the ordinary grain feed must be supplement- od with animal and vegetabis matter.Hens of any \u2018breed will consume & great deal of food before they commence to Tay: then they will not need so much When laying.the desire for grain ls largely replaced by a craving for animal and vegetablo feed and egrshell material, such as old plaster, oyster sheils, etc.Do not conclude that the more feed the more eggs.Too much torcing ie not advisable.It is difficult to feed highly for eggs without making some of the bens too fat.A fat hen soon becomes broody.The number of eggs a ben wil lay before she begins to sit depends upon her condition when laying.A laying fowl requires animal food, sitber cooked or raw, to supply the albumen fn the egg.A pound a day is suf- clent for a dozen hens.Any kind of meant will do\u2014rabbits, squirrels, et.are excellent.Feed regularly.A soft, WAND mess oust be given in tbe morning.Feed whole grain at noon and in the evening.A very little graln scatter od ta some clean litter, to keep the hens busy scratching.will suffice at noon.but & full meal should be given at night.Fowls go on to the roost early in the evening and remain until daylight, sad this long fast demands a gond, substantisl meal.Wheat n excellent egg: producing grain, a Is & good noou-day diet.Oats are good if the hens bave plenty of sharp grit within reach.As the weather grows colder, more corn may be given.Always teed oid corn If It is obtainabl New !s apt to cause a louse- ness of the bowels.Sweet milk Is a complete ratfon for egg productim, ard should be given dally.Buckwbest orce à week is good for laying hens.If they Tebune to eat it alone, mix with other grain.Mers are flavored by the food on which the hens feed.Those fed on putrid meats, decayed vegetables, and from a dirty surface will lay eggs not ft to sat.Very often eggs oondemned as stale are net 0 old as we think.Tha musty.unpleasant odor, and @avor come from Inferior food.To produce weil flavored rægs tbe hen muet bave clean food.The feed trough and Île- ter in which the grain is scattered must de clean The drinking vessel should Soaided twice a week with boiling Pure water must bs kept before tbe bena all the time, It is surprising how much a dock will ériok im à day.Belag one of the principal substances in AD egg.laying heus crave it.The benhouse shauid be warm and dry.Heat from (he sun's rays Is suficient.The bens bave a heavier coating of feathers in winter.and are thus prepared by nature for changes.If thé house is free from dampness aud is built reasonably warm, the hens will uot suffer.The early molting hens and the early hatohed pullots will the winter layers.To recapitulate, a warm, éry house, exercise, clean food, pure water, sharp z-it, and cleanliness will jucrease the egg produe tion qu give healthy fowla the year round.\u2014\u2014 A RECORD OF FACTS CONCERNING THE RFFECT OF A COLD STABLE.Kvery careful record of an experiment concerning any of tbe principles of dalry aclence, becomes al once valuable matter to the eareful student.What we don't know ln à big volume; what we do know is a small primer.The (rue daity- man is bungry for facts of experience.We bave often spoken of the effect of cold on the milk-giving function.Here fe a little bit of an experiment which teaches a lesson: The grain eaten per day, first, second snd third days wus corn and cob mesl six quarts, wheat chop Lhres quarts, a to:al of nine quarts per day; fourth and Anh days, two quarts of corn and cod mal and one quart of wheat chop added, making a ratios for the fourth and firth days of twelve quarts feed morning snd evening.Sixth and sevenlh days there was added a noon ration of obs quart of oob meal and one quart of wheat chop, making fourtesn quarts per day for the last two days.The first three days of the test there was drawn from this cow 146% pounds of mitk, the last three 139% pounds, a difference of seven pounds in favor of light fesding.but while there was a decrease In milk there was an in- erease in butter of one-fourth in favor of heavy feeding., { account for the decrease in milk by tbe fact that when the test began temperalure was moderate, but on the third day began to fall and went down to eight dogreee below zero, or it was cold enough to freeze manure bebind cows In stadls.Here is a pointer in favor of warm stables.As only tweo- ty-seven quarts of chop was consumed by the cow the first threes days and forty quarts the last thres, thirteen quarts was required Lo keep up animal beat from which T received but little return.\u2014Josiat Gibson in \u2018Natiooal Stockman.\u2019 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS.[We tartie questions où a!i pasihic suljosts of peacval énterest, to which tes shall do our best (0 obiais correct answers, end shall insert rech queries end venir as we ann make room for.Thio must not ba weed, however, as ax advertising co'umn or as om evywiry bureau for matters not of public taterer.Every query must be sommpanied with the name and postal address of the sender, and ne netics wail bt taken of anonymous cou eumications.} GENERAL.DR.BARNARDO'S HOMES, AT.Trenton, Ont\u2014i.Please give Dr.'s addrews.2.Giv short account of his work.staling wh the homes are situated.Ana\u2014).Head offices of Dr.Bar- nardo\u2019's Homes, 18 to 36 Stepney Causeway, london E.England.2.Dr.Barnardo be- xan his philanthropic work In 1806, being a the time a oun tedical student, attached to the London lospital.Touched by the story of a young waif, he opeoed, on his own respaneiblli'y, a smeil house in Stepney Causeway, for the arcommodaiion of homeless children.Applications for admission were qumorous.The work gradually extended.the central princi] of the fneutution being that \u201cevery applicant should be ad- mited irrespective of age, creed, netional- Ry, or physical.condition: but the inmates of the homes selected for Immigration into the colonies are a pirked class, cobsisting of those who have proved themselves to be honest, herd-werking and lotelligeat.Five hundred of these are sent out every year.Some seitle In the British Isles.others in the colonies.There are Afty homes alto- wether, of which thirty-six are in London, nine in the Bn counties, ons in Jersey, one in Scotland, and three in Canada.Two of the Canadian homes are in Ontario.the other consisung of an induetrial farm of 10.000 acres, is at Russell, Manitobe, Over 6.500 boys and girls have been placed In colonial situations, of whom ninety-sight percent have béen auccessful; 22,000 children of different ages having paused through the homes: the total expenses of the differeut institutions for food alone being £150 or $780 daily.The children are taught various oc- ocupations; 14 different trades being open to the cholce of these inmates.at the shops on Stepney Omusewny; 5,000 children are living in Brilleh bomes.h cases are belug admitted at the rate from fifty to sixty per week.OONCRRNING PARROTS.Subroriber.\u2014Piease give tbe following information concerning 3 How long do they lve?! 2'W causes them scratch themselves?3.How should they be fed when mouliing?4.How should they be bathed?5 Which le the best kind for talking?6.What temperature should they be kept in?Ane.\u20141.Grey birds live from ninety to one hundred years; Macaws, to agventy; Cubans (a ) twenty-five.2.Dwilng meat in qu will cause parrots to scratch.Take ay the mest and feed on sunflower seed and hemp, especially the latter, for general food.Bread somked in milk or weak tea and coffes is good twice por week.3.Give celery and raw ontons in addition to usual food.Sunflower seed Ir always 4.They should have a sand or gravel bath.Once & week they may be sprinkled with water and afterwards placed in & warm room and allowed to walk or fly about; care being imken to keep them out of draughts.5 The small grey Cuben la the best for tadki and lstling.Grey birds une the sentences and are the most intelligent.Mexicana with ras temperature; say \u2018ahrenhoit, MALTE BRUN AND GREAT BRITAIN.Sabecriber, North Bedeque.\u2014Plense answer the following questions: !.Can you give a short sccount of the life of Malte Brea?2, Doms the term Great Britain inciude Ire- bodies and yellow heads are lhe best for singing.6.Ordinar) trom 60 to 70 degrees land, or England and Scousnd only, Ans.\u2014| The distinguished ographer, M: Brun.was dora on Aug.12.1776.at Thysted, in Denmark.He died st Paris on Dec.| 1626.His real neme was Maite Con: Bruun: after setting in France he decane known by the more familler name.He was a famous poet while living at Copenhagen, and also a distinguished pamphleteer.In 100 he waa eentenced bv the Danish Gorernment to perpetual banishment.He advocated the principles of the French Revolution; Anding saylum first in Swedon, and then in Paris.He looked forward to a political career, hut protested against Napnison's ambitions onal visws.Thenceforward he Mmanif with Monielle and Herten in the compliatien of the \u2018Gnograptie tique\u2019 In a Sow THE MONTREAL years he besaire one of the foremost geo graphens In France.Malte Hrum founded with others the Ceographical Hoclely of Pacts originated the Annales Voyages n an .Oreste Britain Ere a5 a whole, fales es & whole.spoken of in a local.and narrower pened.It only {mcludes Kogland and Scotland.For Insieste.wo \u201cUnited K of GUreat Britaln and Ireland.\u2019 NOTICE.Those whe ask questions should siwaye write their names and addresses on the paper which contains question, tmatred of placisg it upon & separate sheet.ut not for the Brikieh LEGAL.ONTARIO EXECUTORS-\u2014SECURITY, Nelson, Ont\u2014A dies and leaves a will with B and Ü a» eze- een, Can any one the heirs compe]! B and C to give bonds or estyrily to the effect that whea pa: are due, the money Wil be forthcoming?Am not sat'sfled wilh the actions of one of the executors, aaa it lile- pb want him to give security for moneys nde.Can 1 ert in bi compel hin to sive security?A FOREST FIRB.Rubscriber, Ont.-A farmer pute fire in a \u2018stash\u2019 In the month of June to clear the land.The fire rums through the woods of the jot next hia lot, and dr stroys some timber.The owner of (he Umber asks for from farmer who put out the fire.as he was not gotified that this \u2018slash\u2019 was to be set a-fire.lv the farmer who net the fire Mable for damages?Ans.\u2014We think so.TEMPORARY OLOSING OF A POST-OF- FICR.Ans.\u2014No.\u2018Witness\u2019 Reader, \u2014A post-office ln à small miring vii which makes up tri-weekly mails, ae which ihe le of the surrounding ~vuntry.within a radius of two miles, get thelr mail.ts closed two hours each day.from twelve o'clock until one.and from six until seven o'clock 2 m.During thess hours the uffice is tively closed, and stamps cannot be pure! el- though there 1s a alot in the window for mailing letters.Does the law allow the punt.master of said offire to close during the hours above tmentioned?Ans.\u2014The post office tb for the postal division in which the office in question le eftuated should bs seen or wrillen to regar: matter.DEHORNING CATTLE.J.A.8.Ont\u2014Have we an act in Ontario ectcerning the deborning of cattle?Ans.\u2014No.NAMES AFTER À DIVORCE.Old Subscriber, Onl-\u2014A party marries in Ontario, and shortly afterwards moves fo the United States.he wife of sald party gives birth to a child whom this husband claims is not his own.le.therefore, obtains a divorce, giving Mm the privilege by law 10 marry sgain.Should this woman still bear her hu: d's name.she not belng his lawful wife?By what name should the child be called?Ane -We cannot answer your quastions definitely without seeing ihe act or decree whereby the divorce wax sranted, But for ail that appeers from Your slatement of cese we are unable to see oy sufficient reason why the woman and child are not legally to be called and known 88 10 surname ty that of the husband.PREVBNTING A DISPOSAL, OF CH\\T- TELS, Subscriber, Ont.\u2014In a case where the w'ly han the deed of the farm.has she the i.ht of the disposal of tl tock and imylemente when said stock and implements belonged to the husband before the deed war civen to the wife?2 in rase she has not.how can she be prevented from doing so?Ans.1.No; that is to say her having title to the veal estate would not give her any such Tight In respect of the chatlels, 2.An in- Jurction might be obtained from the par- pose by one sufficiently interested In auch chattels.from the proper court in that behalf, and served upon Hodasavilie, Manitoba \u2014Ans.\u2014You will require to consult, perscoally a local lawyer.ALCOHOL AND LONGEVITY.Dr.Crothars, of Hartford, who has bad long experience In the management of institutions for the Inebriate and inmne, says that \u2018Inebriety Is the active cause of trom fifteen to fifty percent of all insanity; from thirty to eighty percent of all idiocy: from sixty to ninety percent of all pauperism, and from Afly to eighty-five percent of all crime,\u2019 then asks the question, \u2018Who can estimate the relief of the taxpayers by the removal of the perils to both property and life from drunkenness?\u201d Dr.Day, of Boston.in his late annual report cf the Washington Home for the Traatment of Inebriates, says: \u201cOn the Individual the effect of vicious al- cohollc Indulgence is disease of the body.Sconer or later it must succumb.Disease of the mind is not far off.it may be delirium or insanity.\u201d Dr.Formad found to the dead house autopsies of the to Philadelphia Hospilal tbat in 250 chronic alooholists nesrlv misety percent bad tatty degeneration of the liver, sixty percent bad congestion or a dropsical state af the brain; the same pumber an Inflamed or degenerated stomach, while not quite one percent bad normal kidneys.To be convinced of the cause of so muc® pauperism io the country.we have only lo examine the siatistice of the liquor raffle in the United States.\u2018According to the report of lnternai Revenue Commissioner Mills, for the year 1392, the patrons of the saloons paid $609,000,000 (or whiskey and 3617,358,460 for beer, à total of $1,228,269,460, the interest of which for one minute at six percent per sonum Is $8,516.48.\" This would more than pay off the national debt, and would feed and clothe all the poor of the country.When we look abroad over the world and take a birdeye's view of the evil effecia of Intemperance in Ka various aspects, its production of disease and death, the destruction of happiness and home, pauperiam and crimes innumerable with general demorwlisation, we are as- tonlehed that any thinking man, much less a physicien, should come to the conclusion thal drinking men snd drunkards snjoy greeter longevity tban total ab- ataioers.\u2014 Medion) Progress.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.Brantford Grain Grinders and Wind Mills.\u2014~The attan\u2018ion of eur readers is called to the advertisement in this (eme it Qoold.Shapiey and Muir Cr.(lady Brantford, Ont.manufeæturers of the celebrated Ideal Bteel pumping and power Wind Milis and Mapir lLerf Giraln Grinders, They will be pleared ta answer any and all enquiries about their goods.WEEKLY WITNESS, THE SULTANS \u201cDBVIL'S CURRENT.WHERE THE DESPOT DROWNS HIS VICTIMS IN TRE DARK WATERS OF THE BOSPHORUS.HORRIBLE NIGHT MUBIIERS WHION NAVE RENT ONTOLL MEN AND WOXEX TO DEATH.Along Europe's most terrible stream, the Bosphorus, lowing dark, deep and owiR from the Black Bea past the gilded minarets of Constantinople, there is coe dread ribbon through iia eatire length known ae the \u2018Devil's Current\u2019 With inconceivable rapidity Lhe water rushes madly down to the Mediterranean, leaving far behind, as a king of racers distances his flestest runners, the fying currents on either side Reddened wilh tragedy drs ribbon of water bas lcng been the scene of the must dastardly, cowardly and always silent crimes of the world.It bas been Lhe pet of successive Sultana, the shitty stages of Turkey's bloodiest dramas, \u2018The Golden Horn, that famous, hroad- bosomed harbor of the near-by Orient, divides Constantinople.or Istambiul, as the Greek Church called the historic me- tropoile, luto two sscilcns.Two bridges of iron bind together the two haives of the éultan's town.To the north-east Is Pera, tbe foreign quarter, the ity, good Musaulmans term it, of the Franks, Across the Horn le Mosilemdom, properly Stamnboul, and on the great rounded point where Horn and Bouphorus meet are the many palaces of His Majesty, among them his seruglio of white and gold, that vast barem at which the entire civilized world looks askauce.Most prominent of all.survival of the old Church of By- zantlun, though now Mahomet's temple, the golden minarets of tbe Mosque of St, Sophie, visihle far away on the Bosphor- us, glitter at eventide from tbe rays of the settinx sun, Beragilo Point.ca whose shore Horn and Bospborus mirgle thelr waters, Is bat & few rods dis:ant from the \u2018Devil's Current.\u201d which at this peint nears the land.es if by some dread design.In the dead of night.Its waters IK only by the pale stars, time and again swift, long black calques have Zlided out with muffi- od cars pulled by Dlack-garbed servante bent on their master's cruet blading.Here orimes of a h:rror that It is herd to picture heve been perpetrated unwii- nersed.Plash.down in the deep, dark waters, struggling.but voiceless, unwept, uscofined and upsung, form after forma has xone to death decause of \u2018he caprice or hatred of the fretful, dark-eyed man ta the palace ou tbe height.KED WITH IZNOCENT BLOOD.More corpses of men and women this «Tim current has borae upon Its breast thau any cther stream in all the regions of the globe.All who bave sunk into its tide of death wili never be knuowa.but the ghaptly whims of the commander of the faltbfu) have thrown to it dalnty women, valiant soldiers, ardent sistes- men snd ycuths whose only fsuit wes that they loved their couniry too well.In the embrace of this cold current has been stifled forever a large share of Turkey's patriotism.abliity and womanly loveliness.Abdul Hamid.though he seems from his presence (0 be the most relentiees of all the Sultans, is but following In the footsteps of the Padishabs that have gone before him.Thess crimes have been going op silenily, siealthily, fiendishly.fcr centuries.But Abdul Hamid.bis hands alreudy stained with the blood of Armenians and other law.1éss acta committed in hie domain, put the final touch, which has aroused the whole civilized world.when by his express orders within the past month he deliberate:y drowned like dogs a score of brilliant and patriotic youths whose ohe aim was the betterment (f thelr count y.and wb belong -d ts tht fearless thoughtful.earnest band the Young Turkish party.Though the Mussulman poten now orloges feverishly at the feet of ul! the powers of the Old Werld, asking pardon for his intqulties and promising lavish reforms, there is litile question that during the past few years wholesale sacrifices to the \u2018Devil's Current\u2019 have been æolng on with the virulence of seventy years axo, whea, with one fell awoop, the Janisaries were wiped off the face of the earth.That was a crime some deialls of which have gone down to history.THE LITTLR GATE TO DEATH.Down by the water's edge, along the «en wall of the cid city, and on the beach below the palace terraces, the ift- tie gate or dour, with Ite arched top from which the Janizaries were thrown one by one afler they bad den how- strung by order of the reigning l'aJishah, Le still to be seen.WhenJanizaries were rent to their death a quo forth as each body was cast into the Bospharus, signalling to the imperial despot that vengeance bad been wreaked 06 bia enemies.The llttle door bas been the avsne, besides, of many a barem romance and the mate of death for many = seragilo favor- ike.The novelist, Marion Crawford, telly the oft-repeated story In a single rnpient sentence.\u2018 Tradition.be remarks, \u2018says that through that narrow water gate more than one rebellious beauty of the harem was car out, sewn in a weight- od sack, that her soul might explate her fally and ber body reed the of the Bosphorus.\u2019 It is impossible even to estimate the number of fra!l fair ones thal have mat this awful death, for the harem of the Moslem autocrat Is « sealed book to the outer world.What goes on behind its ever-closed doors, what hes gone on for nerations past.will never be told.Ptcon hundred inmates make up the harem of the Suktan, and IL is & remarkable fact that the seragiio ls constantly recruited at an enofmos rato, slave girls being contiaually brought from ail parts of the Turkish dominions.particularly Georgia.Ch idren ars also secured, taken In at a tender age and placed under the charge of women of «xperience to be tralpsd ia manners, music and dancing and fitted for the position of harem favor- tes t becomes of the older in- matos In many cases may be readily sue.maised.MANKM WIVIR ANS PAILNNEN A harem is a lliin worid.in faci, hy Weel.Bh constitution is proviier and known by few.Inin four classes the women and girlie are divided, Ar thr | bead stand the Kadiues, wbo are more or less legitimate wives, though never.officially espoused.Turkish Rul'un lo marry, though ine stances of Fadishahs buviug dour ao are matters of history.T wonen of the first Kadines\u2014number four.They are grandes dames of haran lite.Each her equal court in every \u2018detail.from mistreases of robes down to vruilions.Though éwingly equal là rauk, there is some slight difference ln title.The first iv called the Hach-Kadine.Then comes the Skindji-Kadine, ur second lady; the Artanle-Kadine, or middie lady, snd the Kutohuk-Kadize, or litle lady.Over all these, however.tbe mother of tbe reigning Bulan (or bis foster mother if his own mother be dead) has pre-eminence.She Is calied Vallde-Sul- tane, and her title is Tatchal-Mastou- rat.or \u2018Crows of the Veiled Heads.\u2019 The whole harem acknowledges her as com- Dlete mistress of the housshold.No ene dares dispute ber away, and no one dares come unsurumoned before ber, nor caû any woman of the harem venture inte Ber pressuce sve tn full court dress, and without a mantle, be the weather warm or cold.She has full charge of all de tails of the household, and is widely honored.Her assistant 1s the Hasnoda Ourts, grand mistress of the robes and tressurer, usually an eideriy woman, who bas the title of Vipe-Valide.The second class of women of the har- om are Ikbals, or favorites.from amouz whom the Kadines are usuaily selected claus-1he 1h whenever a vacancy occurs in their ranks.The third clame of harem beautjea are the Guienzdes, !lterally, \u2018The youug ladies who are plessant tn the eyes\u2019 of thelr master, who may ln their turn atiain to the dignity of [kbals.The fourth casa is known as (ho Alalkes.and consists of | the children, who are gradually trained iu the ways of the barem.When they get! to be old enough they begin to serve the Kudines, and frequently rise to the highest ranks.At this point an interesting question suggests itself.What becomes of the harem children ?Unyuestionably few of them ever grow up.unquestionably, too, there are many born, sud the rate of mortality in the Sultan's paiace Ia high.it is known (hat generations ago the most if not all, of the daughters of the Padishah somehow dled in very early infancy.The present Suitan is sald to be less severs ou this point than were bis ancestors.Yet all events few children grow up in the Turkish seraglio.Contrary to accepted belief.the Turk- (sh harent woman Is not altogetber the indolent lodividual.spending all her days lolling upon cushions of slik, that she was several generations ago.Though the Sultan is cruel, though be has no coneci- euce and shows little mercy, he allows \u2018he women much more personsd liberty than might be Imagined.Their faces aidden and thelr forms coticesled in ihe regulation yasbmak and feridje.they drive, pay visita, go to bazasrs and are ten seen on the Grande Rue de Pers, the great driveway of the Frank quarier of Cenatantinople, and other public prom- spades.Never however, are they seen on foot.They bave enjoyable times within tbe four wails of the barem, where many entertailnments are given and in the palace is a little theatre in which el) sorte of performances take place.DROWNED IX A SACK.Nevertheless this freedom is only a mock one.These women are continually watched by spies, and ebould they venture to const even a look upon any man they might pass, their case is bopeless.According to the Sultan's views thers is infidelity in @ look.He orders but one punishment for anything of that sort, and that Is death.Death In the \u201cdevil's current,\u201d tossed like a leaf ia the arms of tbe wave.It bus always been the popular idea that tbe sacks in which these women are sewn up and then tossed to the mercy of the current are heavily weighted, But that is mot the case.The account of an eye witness of the tragic death of ene of the Sultan's harem favorites proves that the grim monarch of Turkey bas ne ides of extending ever such mercy io the woman he has condemned 10 death.Painless and sudden s.nking, & quick merging into eternity.not for ber\u2014sbe must be tortured ss she dies.So far ns la known this ie tbe only authentic accoumt of tbe terrible death that Is meted out to the frall woman who hae somebow offended her impetiml mas ter.The simple.dramatic narrative is given complote.The writer lived for many years in Constantinople, and knew customs «f the Turks, their mode of life end their opinions in ail detail.He a: here ts no romance in one of these frightful executions\u2014ail is dared, unmitigated horror \u2018 The victim may.or may not, be yeung end beautiful: her executionars bave no oppertunity of judg- fug.She may be the impersonation of grace and they must remain equally ignorant of the fact.for she bas neltber power she the loveliest hourl whoever from the paradise of Mahomet.\u201c1 have a friend.a man in place and power, who had been detaineé in the alaon of one of the ministers until three nurs past midaight.and who on passing arrom the deap bay near the Cantle of Surope, nas miartled by percctving tws nor opportunity to excite sympathy, were p escaped erjques bearing lights.Irving upon Cher ira in the rentre cf the alream His euriosity doing eccited, he desired pantnen to pull ai the instant he oo.ored thai they were Qlled by polies! 12 ablrers; and at the mime moment à fe- 1t should be reuvm-}maile closely shrouded Iv a yasbinak and bered that It Is aot the custom: fcr the} with the moulh of the sack.inte which the whol boly had been thrust, tied about wan liftri be the ares o the botiom of the furthest dung ints the deen waves of As no weight had Leen sp veuded lo the sack \u2018he miserable woman almost instantly resppeared upon the surface, wiirn she was beaten down by the oars of the Losliuen, and this ruth- leas snd revolting ceremony waa ro several times ere tbe budy flually sank.The miolsters of death liagered yot awhile tn convince themselves that the body would not reapprer.\u2019\u2014N.Y.\u2018World,\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014 .FOR LAND OR WATER.Last week our readers were furnished with a description of a strange looking eruft in operation in Denmark that ren on land and water, proceeding on rails when out of tbe water, like an ordinary car.Here is an inveution, the Alligator Warping Tug.which the inventors say will eltmb hills and go through swamps snd woods, or up sruall streams from one lake to another; In fact, (t will ge anywhere.Simcoe, Out., is the home of this boat, which bas been patented tn Cansds and the United States: and the foliowing particulars are from the Simcoe \u2018Reform.of: \u2018In the \"Alligater Warping Tug.\u2019 lume THE WARPING TUG \u2018OHIO, NO.29.bermen think that they bave just what they have been looking for fur a time.Lumberiug operations have of late years been driven so far back among ranges of smal! lakes conbected by narrow and uncertain outlets that It has become a serious question bow tu get tim- bet and logs over these lakes and out- Jets during the short season of high water.The old horse capstan has beem found too slow, besides being awkward and involving much Joss of time in moving it trom place to place.The \u201cAll tor\u2019 Ia intended to take the place of capstan, and does it too.After warping down a boom of logs it will retwrn with the empty boom, doing the work cheaply and thoroughly.with a great saving of time and number of men.The engine of the \u2018Alligator\u2019 can be thrown in gear to drive the paddie-wheels or to drive the cable drum which holds from bait a mile © a mile of five-sighth cast #teel wire cable.The hull ia built scow shape, and is thirty-seven feet long and ten feet beam, decked all aver, with berths for the sieeping accommodation of four men arranged in the bow.The bottom is of three-inch white oak plank, the sides of pine, six inches thick, lad In white lead.A! jutervals of twelve inches, five- sighth inch bolls run through from top to bottom.On the bottom of tLe bas twe runners are placed, aix feet apart, each runner being six by eight inches, shod with three-eighth by eight inch stéel or iron.Part of the bottom and all up the bow of the boat is also covered with steel boiler plate.A steel drum is placed on ber bow.over which the cadle runs in paying out or winding in.There ls also & carriage in the bow with twe stive pulleys which is moved backward and forward across the bow hy a sovew amd drive chain operated by the engineer from tbe inside.This arangement windg the cable lovel on the drum.The bolier Is hung on an axle in the centre, a scrow being arranged on the front end to enable the fireman to tip the boiler forward or back, in order to keep lt level when going up or down bill, la crossing à portage.The boiler !s of special design.twenty- two borse power and will furnish steam to warp \u2018en hours with three-quarters of a cord of dry wood of any kind.The engins is Dine by nine inch, and will make from one to three hundred strokes per minute, propelling the boat from five to six miles per hour, either hackward er forward.as may be required in werpiag.* A ADVERTISEMENTS.For Indigestion Horsford\u2019s Acid Phosphate Helps digest the food.Sunday-School Teachers.I?you went te remember in à nire way the birthday of any Sert a roy should consider tbe \u2018Northern Messenger, providing.of coarse, the ac r does nod 1t through she school \u201cNorthern eus \u201c oñly come Lhirty cents to separate addresprn (still Joes tn clube for classe or echonls), and is a present thet will be more and more appreciated ss the year goes \"it in a moet profitable 3 cent Investment.fang for sample sopise and other afnrmas lon te JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publichera.Witness Ofler.Vonirent \u2014_ HE WEEKLY WITNESS Crreulateu from ons ond of the Ueminics \u20180 he other.smongut the best class sndem 14 __ADVERTISEMENTS.The moet prompt pleasant and pers fect cure for Coughs, Colas, Asthma, Breachitis, Hearsensss, Sore Threat, \u2018The healing anticonsumptive virtues of the Norway Pine are combined in this medicine with Wild Cherry and other pectoral Herds and Balsams to make \u20ac true specific for all forms of disease originating from colds.Prica apc.and pec.MEENZIES INHALANT For the Relist and Cure of Catarrd, Colt ta t 1 he Head, Influenss, Hay Yover.ste.Price, Me.TFLIIDE D'HIVER or WINTER FIXTD Fer Chapped Hands.Lips snd all Roughnera of the Skin, which it renders Seautitully smooth and soft.Price, 25c.DENTIFOAN.An extrermely pleasant and effective Raponaseous and Astisiptic Wash for the Teeth, Gums asad Mouth Pries, 2c.J.A.RARTE, bru; 1500 Notre Dame si dt 2380 Ne.Cathorine st.Telephones 1190 and 3540, \u2019 1 was cured of rheumatie gout by MINARD'S LINIMENT.Halifnx.ANDREW KING.I was eured of acute Brea.chitis by MINARD'S LINIMENT.Lt.-Col.C.CREWE READ.Sussex.1 was cured of acute Rhenma- tism by MINARD'S LINIMENT.C.8.BILLING, Markham, Ont.n es See 1826, Te CHIMES.Ero.School Trustees Fi Consclentiug teachers are naturally reeched through the medium of a conscientious paper.Teachers Wanted.\u2018The cost of advertising under this head la, 3% words or less: ln che Daily Wilness.six tuseritens, 50e «Weekly Witness.twe ses, Remittances to accompany order.Afiditions] words ar igeertions may be had ot pro rata.Initials and Sgures are each counted as one word.cash with order rate.in is not sent with the order the If you want a tescher vou are sure to applications from the right kind through te.charge is very much higher as there is 2d.ditional bookkeeping and postage involved.Address JOHN DOUGALL & SON.Witness @fice, MONTREAL.GRATEFUL \u2014 COMFORTING.EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST \u2014 SUPPER FT Je ey tn arn operations eation x 60d by 5 owrefu.application of the Bae properties all Coova, Mr.Kpps has provided for sad sepper 8 delicately farored \u2018way sve \"us many heavy doctors by tn pies of St Le constitution ma) : racugh to Tete story tendency Hiindreds of subtle maladine are fon per ed to stack herve verbe © may escape many oping well oried with pure blood and a properly frame.¢ iki § simply with boiling water or milk Sold SHEET ae TERE Ë PILES me rar, mes.He 519, New Vora Oty, NV AGENTS WANTED TO CANVASS FOR the \u2018Daily qu ' er Wao and * janmaniger.* a or samp! and 'particutare, ve JOHN DOUGALL à BON, \u2018Witgess' OfSca, Mestresal 31 PCTOGRAERS OF THR ALGONQUIN.NEW DISCOVERY OF GREAT ROCK PAINTINGS.ABORIGINAL ARTISTS\u2019 WORK ON TAN SLIFFS OF LAKE MABIANOG.(Ottawa Cerrespondence of the New York * Herald\u2018) \u201c An excursion party, plloted receatly through (be wooded wilds of South Ren- frew County by the wife of Senator Mo- Laren, of Perth, huppeusd upon & number of Indlan plotographs, which are exciting the interest of Canadian enthnologiste.Amoug the pariy was Dr.of lweth, an ardent archaeologist, who made photographs of the figures.The discor- ory was made on the sast shore of Lake Massanog, in Barrie township, not far from Waeslemooon Lake, visited some time tage by Dr.A.F.Chamberiain, of Clark University, Worcester Mass.\u2018The rocks along the shore of Lake Mas- sanog rise to a height of three hundred feet above the water level.They consist of granite and marble and it is along the base of thess rooks, nol more tban six fest above the waters of the lake, that these paintings gocouwr.They extend for upward of two miles along the shore, at wide intervals, but are more aumercus toward the northern end.These productions of the aboriginai artist are executed In well definad lines, from bal?an inch to two inches wide, druwa with a red pigment, probably hemas- Ute or ochre.There are representations of arrows, trees, canoës, crows, anchor.like figures series of strokes, denoting numbers, probadly; figures of animals and men.Bolentists who have studied these skelches proncunce them the work of Algonquin Indians, a tribe noted for their predilection for picture-making.Dr.George M.Dawson, C.M.G., director of the Geological Survey of Canada, is perhaps the leading authority In this country upon Indian archasology.I had bim examine the wketches of these Lake Massenog paintings recently.He sald he considered them chiefy valuable as an addition to our knowledge of aboriginal progress.\u2018I have seen many of these pictographe FETROGLYPH AT ESOPUS, N.Y, io western Canada\u2019 he sald, \u2018and I bave remarked that the Indians themselves attach very little importance or meaning to them.They have little or no superstitious significance, and only in a very few cares, as, for instarce, when their undoubted age Is accspted as proof of su- Pernatural origin.do the Indians regard them with veneration.Many that | have seen in Manitcba and British Columbia appear to be but the production of the {mmediate predecessors of the Indian pec- pie of to-day.Very often, too.they appear to bave been the production of some loltering aborigine, who thus employed his time while walting on shore for a ture, of the tide, or, perhaps, a change of wind.\u2018That, In the majority of instances their Tecondite significance Is valueless I firm- iy believe.DLoubtiess the markings were designed in many cases to record passing events, or {0 convey to friends following the same path intelligence of noteworthy by well unforstcod characters directions as to Lhe courss to be pursued in warlike or hunting expeditions.\u2019 Dr.Imwson regards as the most eminent authority on these sudbjents Colonel Garrick Mallery.And for the must re- able data upon the picture writing of American Indians he referred me to the report of Colonel Maliery's researches made to the American Bureau of Bthnol- ogy.In that report, 1893.he says: \u201cThe Information thus far oblained shout the petroglyphs In Canada ie mes- gre.This may be partly dus tu the fact that through the region of the Dominion now most (horrughly known tbe tribes have generally resorted for their picto- graphic work to the bsrk of birch trees, which material Is plentiful and well adapted for the purpose.Indeed, the surus fact affords an explapstion of the paucity of rock carvings or pajotings In ihe lands imenediataly south of the boundary line separating United States from the British possessions, \u2018It muet be considered that the country on both sides of t1nt boundery was in general heavily timbered.and Lhat even It petroglyphs are there they may not ss yet have been noticed.Hut that the :nere plenty of birch tark does not evince the actus] sbeence of rock picturss in !regious where there was also an sbund- ance of suitable rocks, and where tbe native Inhabitants were known to be plc- tographers, 13 shown by the account given of the multitudes of suca pictures lately discovered in a single Alstrit in Nova Heotla, It 1s confidently believed that ; * many pletographs wii.yet be found in the Dominion.The discovery just made om Lhe shores 1of Lake Massspog proves the correctness \"of Colonel Mallery's prediction.Moreover.this eminent ethnologist sseme to at- jucldents.or, perhaps, to convey lo them! TER MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS to the ploture-writings of the North Am- orican Indians than doss the director of the Canadian Geologicla Survey.Colonel Mallery discovered on Nipegon Bay, about thirly mitlos west of Legke Superior, a number of pictures representing Indl io ospoes.wild enimais and the like, which he supposes to be of great antiquity as the Indlaus whom he mel in the Ais- trict had no traditions concerning them, and were themseives certainiy devoid of any artistic tendencies.One of the most interesting petrographs in North America ia that at Esopus, N.Y., concerning which Schoolcreft, writes: \u2018There is à pictographic Indian inscription (how obliterated) in the valley of the Hudson, above the Highlands, which, from its antiquity and character, appears Lo denote tke era of the introduc- ton ot frearms and guapowder amoug the aboriginal tribes of that valley\u2014 namely, between 1609 and 1614.\u2018 While it te tot Hkely that much valuable information will ever be gained from these carvings or paintings, they are nevertheless important ss showing the grades of cultura reached by their au- Sor and the subjecte which interested om.: _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 EDUCATIONAL WORK IN CANADA.{To the Editor of the \u2018Witnels.) 8ir,\u2014Important changes in our school systems are ia the uear future Kx- cellent in most respecia as they are auill they contain elanents of discord which must be eliminated.For years past the achoo! question bas besa in a state at once unantisfactory and distarbiug, Our ways are out equal.Separate sohools, ac coimppnied by exemption from laxation, are granted to one sect apd another is asking the logical question, '!f due to one why oot to ail 7° Accordingly, at a recent meeting of an Episcopalian synod in Toronte two distinct proposais were brought forward to seoure the extension of the privilege hitherto held exclusively ia Ontario by Roman Catholics.The same purposes was exhibited by a ma- :Jority of the speakers on Lhe question of schools when that subject was under dis- .cussion in tbe ineeting of the synod of tho same church a few weeks ago in Montreal.Changes of some kind will take place, and it 18 our duty to ses that ther are benefcial, not retrograde and injurious.Seperate schools for ali who demand them means the destruction of our wide and liberal public schoo! system and the establishment of a weak, in- Jurious and iveffective system of denominational schools.To this we cannot believe the intelligent pecole of Canada will ever consent.Sectarlans to whom the advancement of their ecclesiastical organisation is of more value than the good of the commonwealif, may beg for state favors to enable them to leach their limited views of religion but they wili probably supplirate in vain.The desire of tho citizens ls that we may advance, not recede.in this vital matter.In view of this manifest Setermination to lmproye our methods we again ask from such as ogee to socuiar schools a pro- posml which will do justice to alt.and secure the best educational faclilties.Here lot me say what will In one een- tence answer several objectors cotlective- 1y.1 do not affect to be able to propose a plan which will be ar end of strife, but an endeavoring simply to present a method which will give the best education without doing sn Injustice to any.This I hold purely secular schools would accomplish.and If any are so indoleat or în- competent as to endeavor to obtain for their cbildren the religious training they will not give let them pay for IL as an extra, but receive no aid from the public chest to which all taxpayers, irrespective of their creed, contribute thelr proportion.To still the unreasoning clamorings of bigoted sectarians who wish Lo âraw money out of the taxpayers st large to pay teachers in separate schools for making the children as narrow as they themseives are, is to attempt the impoe- sible.Deal justly with them and publio sentiment will effectually silence them In the near future.Pardon me for nay- ing that you prudently express wbat I will Interpret as a fear In your first sea- tence in the editariel \u201cThe Secular School,\u2019 tn these words: \u2018IL is probable that in the tong run the slate will need to take its bands off education altogether, as it has had to do off religion.\u2019 yet you add In the same articie the wire suggestion in which you «lec'are it probable that in the future the state will no more than see tbe reach of all.This ta one of the moat important functions of government for wbea a state allows a Man tp grow up in ignorance 1t is guilty of a gTeat poittt- cal sin of leaving in its raw state the richest natural production to be found withis its lite.The mate should fur- leon à higher archacological l:mporténce uy A 7 1 JL era PICTOGRAPHS AT LAKE MASSANOG.aleh educational facilities for afl and com.Ipel all, with ressocable exceptions, to avail themselves of the opportuniting afforded to transtorm the raw material of possible mental force into the manufactured article of an educated man.A few words ing the valuable article of Mr.McMurchy, though it does Dot help to solve our problem as they who CRININAL STATISTICS.The Records of Crime in Canada for a Year.LARGER INCREASE IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC THAN IN OTHER PROVINCES.The criminel statistics of the Dominion of Canada for the year ended Sept.34, 1884, reported by the Minister of Agriculture has just been Issued.During the year 1894, there were 7,601 charges of indictable offences in the criminal couris of Canada, an inersaze of 826 over the prevlous year.From that number of charges, 3,252 were acquitied, 14 detained for lunacy, and 47 received no sentence through several causes, such as \u2018nolie prosequi,\u2019 \u2018jury disagreed.\u2019 \u2018bail forfeited,\u201d etc., while in 1893 out of 6,768 charges, there ware 2,083 acquittals, 9 detained for lunacy, and 74 cases receiving no sentence.The number of convictions is therefore reduced Lo 6,258 or 10.50 per 10,000 Intabi- tants ia 1894, as compared with 4,030, or 9.36 per 10,000 inhabitants in 1893, for the severw) provinces in the following order: : ik 4 mm 1s 276 2% 20 857 48 40 218 96 9.08 .10.7 12.44 26.11 ss As will be sesh by the above table, the aumber of convictions during the year 1884, has diminished in New Brunswick, would desire: literary demand unconditionally that thers sball be religious teaching in the pubiic schools 1.The pina for the bible which he pre- sects le in favor of It teaching pure English.This reason for which oil the atrife about re figioun Leaching Is forced upon us.the morslity resultant that is the piea, not purely he value of the bible from « t of view.2.But do these extracts favor bible a text-book for not the Tete teaching In public schools ?Bunyan was pot taught the bible in\u2019 public schools, and Ruskin, in tbls very quotation, uses these words: \u2018My mother's list of chapters with which learned every syllable accurately, she established my soul in .ife, otc.Here homa-teaching is enthroned, 254 not a word about the value of the re- Udon taught by the school-master.S$.The whole force of this able article Mr.MoMurohy goes Lo prove that In Omtarto Protestant schools, where y have the bible as a text-book, the pupils were more familiar with heathen Nova Scoia and Britiab Columbia, while It has increased in all the other provinces, more especially in Ontario und Quebec.Out of the above number of convictions, 377 belonged jo the female sex in 1894, against 343 fn 1893, 18.0 percent were young offenders under 16 years of age in 1894, against 14.4 In 1693.The educational states of the convicted for 1894 stands thus: Unable to read or writs, 13.1 percent; having as elementary education, 74.8 percent; having a superior sducalion, 2.1 percent; agaiust 18.9, 71.2, and 1.9 respectively for 1893.The use of liquors is represented by the following figures; Moderate, 64.3 percent; lmmoderate, 38.0 percent in 1894; against 54.4 and 37.5 percent respectively in 1693.Out of the 5,258 convictions, 4,517 relate ta persons convicted for the first time; 165 to persons convicted for the second time; and 376 ta persons convicted three times and over in 1894; agninet 3,838, 466 and 337 respectively in 1893: The following table gives a detail of the several sentences for the years 1583 and 1894:\u2014 ; mythology than with biblical knowledge.1888.2894.{ Mr.MacMurchy's words regarding bin|Seatenced to option of à fine ar Ts .test of the knowledge of these pupile la Sentenced vo jsil for lens than 116 208 [8 terrible Indictment of the system of [Oh TOI.Lo co be oe 34 4 i what is erroneously called teaching re-| and less (han two.2.243 |Mgion ta public schools.He says: \u2018Judg- Bentenced te penitentiary for ing Irom these results one might some-| two years and under five .274 3 [Umea be in a little doubt as to whether Sentenced to penitentiary for these chlifren have been brought up is Ove years and over .n Christian or heatten bomes.\u2019 This testimony ie disheartening to such «sa hold that the publte school is the place in which religious teaching is a Cecessity.It furnishes too frequently a place for the consciences of negligent parents, while the cbildren leaning upon this broken Teed have lo bear the consequences.the writer It appears that io the near future Canada shall bave the following dilemma forced upon her: All public state supported schools purely secular, with no ald to schools for sectarian teaching, nor tax exemptioas for the supporters of such schools; or the destruction of our Sentenced Hee .Sentenced te ref: Santsnced to desth.Other sentences, such to pes to keep the psace, monte de ferred, ete.\u2026 0.000.Totals .In Class 1., 'Offences against the per- 4620 6,255 9 1% un ses son,\u2019 into which are Included: murder, manslaughter, assault, etc, etc, the number of convictions has increased by 3.5 percent, the figures helng 1,128 for 1893, and 1,168 for 1894 and Manitoba show a larger In this class Ontario increase ta it that primery inatruction fs within | shall it be?tics to ail.pubite schol system, and a system of sectarian schools If Manitoba would confine her public schoo! curriculum to purely secular teaching and leave each denomination to pay for instruction teaching in its peculiar creed, If it desired such school, her position would be unasssilabl from the standpoint of even-handed jus- established.Which BPECTATOR.Nov.30, 1895.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOPE FOR THR CANCER-STRICKEN.The conviction is gaining ground tEat cancer Is parasitic, that it la à microbiai disease, like tuberculosis.If this shouid prove to be so, ihe cure of several large classes of cancer Is within sight.The results of operations during the pest fif- tion.late.vorable, operations.\u2014'The teen years cerisinly polnt ln this direc- Speaking at the British Medical Association's annual congress In July last Mr.Jonathan Hutchinson made the assertion that cancer statistics would have to be rewritten, ao large bad been the pproportion of cures during the last decade or two, But there are certain qauuli- fications of this otherwise aatisfactory progress.The most Important cf these are that the cancers which have been \u2018cured\u2019 on so considerable a scale have been on or near L the body, and they and operated upon at very early si of their growth.sans, which are seldom diagnosed very early, and which cannot be reached by ths surgeon's knife, still present the same hopeless features point of early diagnosis and operation, Dr.Roux of Lausanne bas collected some important statistics.classes of cancer, which offer reasonable bopes of cure If operated upon early, are lost In an many as sixty-two percent of cases, for the simple reason that they are drought to the operator a few months 100 In another claus, still more fa- (welve percent meek operation whea ail hope iv past, and ne many as fifty porcent present thethaelves when It lu too late to do anytbing hut palliative ternal surface of ve been diagnosed ges Cancers of internal or- ss before On the According to these The moral for all persons 1s thot in every rase where the least suspicion of the presence of a new growth is entertained medical advice should be sought without the lose of an hour; and the urgent warning Lo family prectition- ers is that as soon sa they sro convinced of the presence of a Dew growth they should take the operating surgecn Into their councils without the delay of a day, Losdea Hospilal.than the other provinces.In Class II, \u2018Oficnces against property with violence,\" including burglary, house and shop-break- ing, etc, etc, the number of convictions was 262 for 1893, and 450 for 1394; the Increase in this class being principally in Ontario and Quebec.Class 111, \u2018Offences against property without violence,\u2019 comprising larceny, borse and cattle stealing, embeszlement, fraud and false pretences, etc.etc, shows en Increase of 16.7 percent during the year; the figures being 2,801 for 1893, against 3,280 for 1894.In this class all the provinces, with the exception of New Brunswick, show an in- creass in the number of convictions.In Class IV., \u2018Malicious offecces againet property,\u2019 tho number of convictions for 1893 was 68, against 86 for 1894; Ontario and Manitoba, in this class, showiag the greater decrease.Class V., 'Forgery and offences agaiust the currency,\u2019 also shows a slight decreass in the number of convictions, the figures being 48 In 1893, against 37 In 18M.In Class VI.\u2018Other offences not Included fn the (foregoing classes,\u2019 the figures stand thus: 225 convictions in 1893, and 277 in 1894.The higher Increase Iu this glass are to he found in Quebec and Ontario, where the total convictions for the two provinces amounted to 118 in 1598, inet 238 in 1894, and the larger decreade In British Columbia, wheie Lhe figures fell from 69 to 15.\u2018There was a small decrease of 116 in the total number of summary convictions for the Dominton during the year, th sp, pots 30.907 convictions, as against 31 cen- victions for 1898.The provinces showing & decrease are: Ontario.1,014: British Oolurahia, 249: New Bruaewick, 208, and Manitote.142: and those showing an in- cresze are: Quabéc, 806: Nova fcotia, 811; the Terrkories, 91.and Prince Rd- ward Island, #7.Out of the above number of summary convictions, 3,042 or 9.8 perrent, belong, to fomaies in 1894, against 3,156, or 10.17 percent In 1893.During the year there was a diminution of 638 in the number of offences against the: liquor license acta, aleo a diminution of 93 in the cases of drunkennees.A new table has besn introduced in the present report giving the number of fines imposed by police magistrates and other justices of the peace.According to this table there were 27,100 persons sentenced to pay fins by the several police magte- trates and justices of Lhe peace of Canada during the year 1894, which fines amounted to §199.436, The following table gives the total num.Decexee 17, 1898, ber of cenvistions (Indietable and ou mary) wilh te number of lshaditants tor eack conviction returned by provinees, ln the erder of oriminalMy.\u2014 | J i 184.| 158 14 1 L 1e \u2018The Territories .Te 8N 10 17 British Columbia .1,744 1,487 6 8 Canada .\u2026 25,653 26,165 128 188 By the aboue table it will be seen hat the total number of convictions bas inward Island, Nova fcotia, Quebec and the Territories, while & has dascreased in New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba aoû British Columb.The number of cases tried before à ur during (he year 1854 was 904, against in .During the year 1884, there were 164 oases In which the prerogative of mercy tas been exercised (including sevem death sentences commuted) against 109 in 1803 with one death sentence commuted.\u2014_\u2014 * AVENGA, O LORD, THY SLAUGHTER BD BAINTS.Oh, for a year, à month, a day of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Proteoter of Ilng- land ! What means this long delay?! Wii England, will Christian Burope never awake, and never command this horrible slaughter of (he Armenians by the Turks to esass T The Bassoun massacre was horrible.and seemed alone enough to compel the intervention of the powers and the extinction of the rule of the Turk.But the five or ten thousand thers murdered are mow not less than fifty thousand, not in Sazsoun alone, but in Erzeroum, \u2018an Diarbekir, in Aintab, In Marash.in Baiburt, in Treblsond, ia Bitlis, in Constantinople even, in a dozen large towns and bundreds of villages.They are desolated, the men are slaughtered, tho women and children are selsed and bela, or are wandering beggars.They will dis by the tens of thousands this winter of starvation\u2014ane nothing is done.Not even one beggarly guard boat has entered ths Bosphorus.Ths Sultan sits on his throne, now mocking, now besesching, while all the tims the massacres continue uuchecked, unavegng- ed.How iong, Salisbury * How long, Emperor William ?How long, Lord God Almighty ?Whatever Abdul Hamid may pretend or even wish, his government, his people, are bent on blotting out the Armenian people.That is something which the general feliowship of civillzed people ought not to endure.England and tbe other nations by treaty responsible for Turkey, ought to unite to suppress the outrage, and aven America ought to be willing to join ta putting down this worse than piracy.Let us be allowed soxe part in it.Let us demand nur part io It.The blood boils as we think of these nameless atrocities, without precedent, which set at deflance all laws of interna- tioual comity.Wa call on Bogland, we cry to England to put the strong hand of her fieets on Turkey.as once Admiral Blake sailed the Mediterranean.Will the powers glares jealously at each other and allow the Moslem utterly to amni- hilate, in this Christian century, e Chriatian pegple of Turkey Ÿ Will not one power, will not England, as in the days of Cromwell, take the noble step ?England could dare when King Thebaw was murdering his missrable barem and courtiers In Burma; has she no heart, has she no courage when a bundred times as many of thelr own Christian brothers and sisters are slain close under her own surveillance by the government for whose existence she 13 chiefly responsible * O England, Christian England, where sleeps thy faith, thy duty ?Perhaps the duly is ours, if the powers of Europe fail.But there ls another instant pressing duty of ours, that of giving ald to the starving tens, more likely hundreds, of thousands.Our missionaries and the Europ a\" parpis în Constan- tinopie say that not less than a million dollars will be needed to clothe and feed the victims of these barbarities during this present winter, This aid must be immediate.Do not wait.There are committees alresdy In the field.Lat every church take up a generous contribution.The need is Imperative, fo beyond what we can supply.Begin lm- mediately.Let individuals not wait tor churches.Let the great commercial or ganizations sverywhere take the load.Let eyery sectlon,every cliy bave its committee.Do not wait for next week.The money can be sent to the treasurer of the American Board tn Boston, or to Mr.fipencer Tratk, 27 Pine street, New York city, who is treasurer of the New York committes.It will be wisely applied by responsible pcreons in Turkey; and perhaps the Red Cross organization will sid in tho work: This we can do, and let us do it speedily and gensrous.y.\u2014The \u2018Inde- dependent\u201d \u2014_\u2014 THR TURK IN ARMENIA, (By William Watson.) What profits it, O England, to prevail In camp and mart and council, and be- trew - With sovereign argosies the subjest blue, And wrest thy tribute from each golden le, 1, 1n\"thy stronghoids, thou canst heer the wall Of maidens martyred by the turbaned crew Whose tenderest mercy was the aword that slew, And lift so band to wield tbe purging fall We deemed of ald thou held'st a charge trom Him Who watches, girdled dy His Seraphim, To smite the wronger with thy destined rod Wall's thou His sign ?Poough the nieepless cry or rss souls for vengeance, and on ig The et of the blackness of the wa à .\u2014~Werd and Work.\u2019 Dacmezn 17, 1896, WRECKS MADE INTO MEN, The Work of the \u2018 Darkeet England Social Scheme, A VISIT TO THE LONDON COLONY AND THE ESSEX FARM.I have devoted some time to examining wa interesting part of the Salvation Army's social work.The idea wus to ahosrtaln just what happens to the indi.widust who goes In at one end a wreck sné oomes out at the other a real man.There is room for a great variety of wrecks at the Whitechapel headquarters.\u2018We can employ men of every trade,\u2019 an official told me.\u2018Aut wha! do you do with sailors?1 asked, thinking that mariners, anciant and modern, could do little in the heart of London.\"They sew for us.\u2019 was the prompt re ply.\u2018In winter we have two or three domes of them working away at mattresses.Sailors exosl whers there is Beary stitching to be done.\u2019 I bad threaded my way to \u2018The Bleva- tor in Hanbury aswrest.The day was GENBRAL HOOTH.dull and the slums were dirty, and the @reariness was only relieved by the laughing face of some saall boy who was Bappy for the moment.Little mudiarks were disporting themselves nolsiy in the road, and when a Balvation officer hove in sight there was a chorus of not altogether irreverent \u2018haltelujahs.\u2019 The Army caters for children as well as for men and women, and bas \u2018Junior\u2019 barracks all over England, \u2018The \u2018INevator\u2019 is an extensive bajlding, though only two stories high, There are seven or eight similar buildings in Lon- dom, in which a total of a thousand men work nine and a half bours every day ex.$B uy Thess met are fed and by the Army.ENTRANCE OF THE WIEOK.This Ia the course through which each of the men passes.Having falien low, of baving never risen high enough to fall any Boticeable distance, he enters the Social Wing Headquarters.®°1 ams hungry,\u2019 he says.They ses that be ia dirty also\u2014dlrty to the point of flthineas; but over- Jook that paint for a while.iN you Grace up and work?they ask.\u2018It you feed me.\u2019 Hs gots & basin of soup\u2014e res) basin, Bot & smucer\u2014and a substantial section of @ loaf of bread.\u2018You can take a bath Dow, my brother, and then we will xive you thres mesls à day and a bod et night tor sorting paper It is not diMcult.You have a § of waste paper of various colors, and must eort the stuff Into a dosen smaller according lo color.Ses?© \u2018ao08,° takes hia bath, and is led to \u2018the Elevator.\u2019 They sat him to work with a word or two like this: \u201cYou don't have to stay a minute longer than you like, my brotbor.God bless you.Come to our meeting to-night, if you ilke* There ls a meeting every night in every branch of Salvation Army work, but attendance is not compulsory.THE WAKCK MADE UBKPUL.If, in a few days, the wreck proves capable of better work than sorting paper he is promoted.For they can accommodate men of all trades in the Social Wing, even sailors.If be bas no special aptitude In any other direction, be stays on at his job of putting blue paper into one bag and whitey-brown into another.\u2019 om & week to thirteen months,\u2019 said the officer, when I asked what time men stayed in the place.Situations are found for those who desire to take them, as a rule, but ft often happens that the wreck develops Into ust the mort of a tan the \u2018Army\u2019 needs for somes part of its executive work, and he is kept on at increased wages.The wreck receives a minimum of sixpence a day.which is sometimes fourpeuce more than he bas earned.This sixpence Ia in the form of three twopenny meal-chacke, called \u2018tok ens.\u2019 One check will secur: much food as an ordinary man can dispore of.The industrious individual gets more luxurious âtet, for be can earn three fourpenny tokens and a small amount of money every day.But lazy or energetic, each man gets bis food, bunk to steep In, a bath once a week, soap, with use of washtubs, for cleaning clothes, and barbers attendance.Before long the wreck be gins to look better.PROMOTION, 1¢ he is bandy with tools he is promoted to the mechanical departments.If his inclination Is for agriculture he may ask to be sent to the Farm Colony, \u2018Promote when possible,\u201d Is the rule with the authorities.It is decidedly not possible to promote the mors Allapidated wrecks for a long time after their entrance.Pa- per-sorting Is a sufficiently Intricate task for some of them.1 found tbe mechanical department 1n full swing.Carpeotry and kindred trades ars most In favor at Hanbury street, but shnemaking.talloring, ote, are done at Lo pulp, and remanufacture M.While the mills pay well for It, as prices go, there is aot enough money In iL to pay a profit to the \u2018Army.\u2019 General Booth 19 down upou oakum-pécking, as carried on la many institutions; it is a useless wasle of (lime, be says, and the \u2018Army\u2019 does not admire useless things.THE WKECK 8 FOOD AND BED, 1 turned my fost In the direction of à Salvation Army Food Depot.\u201c° of a Salvation Ariny Food Depot \u2018IC I bave a tuppeny Loken what kind of a meal will [ got ?' I inquired.Tbe man at the counter was systematic, Hoe plied the viands upon a piste.There was a block of bread covered with preserves, a good quantity of boiled rice, and a cake Besides this combdinalion he placed a pint of tes in a bowl.\u2018You could have soup Instead of the tea and cake and preserves,\u2019 he said, \u2018or three or four potatces instead of the rice.\u201d Men who can afford to spend threspenny tok- eon on a meal will order a pound and a half of a delectable compound known as meat and potato ple.It look 4 to be sufficiently nourlsbing to keep a man sat- ised for forty-eight hours.The cook- Ing Is all done on the premises.It i» 00 sasy task, for about a thousand meals have to be served every day.Tlere are three similar depote in London, and three In the provinces.At a \u2018Bhoelter\u201d I was shown the bunks or \u2018chenp-sloeps\u2019 which the wrecks occu- PY ad Bight.Imagine two hundred long boxes, without covers, lying in orderly rows on the Boor of a large room.The mattress, pillow, and blanket in each box are covered with waterproof cloth, so that all may be ecrubbed with cold \u2018water and soap every morning of the year.Désinfecting fluids are also freely used.In the eyes of the \u2018Army\u2019 authorities com- tinued dirtiness is not cos of the accompaniments of righteoumness, and they will net have & on the promises.THE PAUTHING BERAKVANT, As there ars 35,000 wandering childres in the siuigw, and about the same number of homeless famiiles, i: was decided, one winter, to give to any Child who applied at the \u2018Sheiiers\u2019 a mug of tea or oocoa and a thick piece of bread, spread with butter or preserves, for a farth- * We want to help you if we can,\u2019 the officers told the children.The addresses of the parents were ascertained, and Mrs.Bramwell Booth's staff of assistants went among them, distributing food and fual, small pieces of soap, and a few words of chest.Occasionally a child was seen wrapping up her plece of bread In a newspaper.\u2018Why don't you eat it 7\" asked the offi- corn.\u2018I have to take t home to mother.\u2019 * How's that ?Is father out of work ?\u2018 Yes, he hasn't worked for three weeks pas and mother's only just got a little y It was another case for the slum vini- tors.They found a starving family.Ke- let was given.After a score of auch Incidents, buns were supplied to all che children as they left the breakfast table.A child's farthing must naturally be added to from philanthropists\u2019 purses to enable the \u2018Army\u2019 to supply such a breakfast TEE SONENE AT WORX.In addition to workshops, food depots, and sheiterw, thers are oightesa labor bureaux in England for the use of the \u2018submerged lenth.' Over 6,000 situations ha.e bsen found for \u2018out-J'-wo.ks' through Liese.Abou! seventy yousg wen have been taken back to their homes, Lhe \u2018Army\u2019 having persuaded the families to receive the prodigals again.At the different labor factories aie departm chopping firewood, carpei-weavin gineering, tin-working, match-making, etc.In the Women e}.ere, bookbind- log, laundry work, knitting, and sewing are done.The idea is the same in ail these branches of the work for the \u2018submerged tenth.\u2019 If a man or woman works, he or she shall have sufficient to eat and a good place to siesp, with the means of cleaniiness\u2014and godliness\u2014closs at hand.Tokecs are given for work all over the system, aud may be spent for \u2018food or clothing.On Seturday each worker gets a double æupply\u2014\u2018like the manna.\u2019 &8 an officer suggested.Some of the institutions have pets.In cone case the pet Ju a dog.\u2018The \u201csubmerged\u2019 dog, we call him,\u2019 observed the gentleman who took me through the Dace \u201cthourh 1 think he was the only one o for THE FARM IX BOARX.Getting into a Great Eastern Reilway |b carriage 1 set off for the Farm Colony at Hadleigh, In Essex.There are 1,300 acres of well-watered land, of which Colonel Stitt and his assistants bave charge.The piace ix a farm, a village, and à missionary enterprise all rolled into one.\u2018But nct an infirmary,\u2019 sald Captain Ward, who was deputed (to pilot me about th busy felds * we can\u2019t bring people here to Duree them.\u2019 \u201c Still, I suppose you dont get any really strong men from the city ?* I ventured.* Mostly milk end water,\u2019 he returned: \u2018but you wouldn't know them jn a month's time.When they come here they're run down, as a rule, but In moath you'il find them properly tanned and filled out a DR.Every man's work fs kept account of, also bis general conduct and habite of speech.There are thres grades of sleeping accommodation\u2014the dormitor- les, the cubicies with thres beds, and the rooms with single beds.If a colomist proves bimsel! ciean and worthy, we recognize the fact by giving him a fret- class bed.\u2019 A nine-and-a-ba f-hour day prevalls upn the farm.Cricket.quolls, and (ootbal) ate played in the evening, many of the officers taking part with the men.The atmosphere is made as pleasant aa possible.There tu à genial spirit about Lhe authorities.Captain Ward culls each colonist \u2018my brother\u2019 or \u2018my sn.\u2019 EVERY MAN His OVN PARNER.A «rip of laud, 25 by 100 feet, about the sise of a city building kt, Is allotted to each man who wishes to do a bit of farming on bis own account in the evenings.He must buy seeds In Lhe spr) but the officers will sell bis crop to best advaniaxe In the autumn and band Mm the money.When the wreck goes tn far this extra work ii seems as if man- ford is returning.other \u2018Elevators.\u2019 The best work is produced, as some of the bast workmen find .their way thers through drink or misfortune.A guiness or two a week is the 18 tbe mechanical department, but \u2018 paper-sorting business fs conducted at a loss.The paper-muills reduce the paper It a lazy mea begins work at the Farm Colony.or, rather, ® to pretend that be ia working.his ilfe je not a bed of roses.The straggier receives po encouragement to siraggle.He ls guyed and \u2018joilied' by his mates, unless he is | incagastitated for labor, and be is gemer- THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, ally glad, oveatually, te keep pace with them.\u2018You know, you don't eal bere if Jou don't work, is a [favorite phrase.The principle of the Social Wing is to Sive instant alo, and with it instant work, to the frisndiess man or woman, without regard Lo age, past history, or prospects.And, by way, this, I take Ît, le the invitation g! by the \u2018Army\u2019.\u2018To tbe sinner, get your soul saved: to the weary.gol your soul refreshed; to the wreck, brace up and begin again.We'll help you.The Lord bless you.\u2018 THES WERK AT THE PARU, \u201cThe men onme here from the Elevators and tbe prison-gate bomes.Many of them have been in prison ten or fiftesn years of their lives.But we show them that we trust them,\u2019 said Captain Ward, with a twinkle in his sys, \u2018I ran a prison- te home for the \u201cArmy\u201d once, and we never locked a door.Fiftesn ex-convicts were allowed to run the whole house, and any ons of them could Mve stolen my clothes and things; but was anything siclen ?Not that much! and the captain anapped his fngere \u2018They knew I trusted them.You cam win them by trusting them.\u2019 \u2018Do the mes have Lo remain à syset- fed time ?* 1 naked.\u2018It they don't Hke to stay they oan leave within an hour.On entering they sign an agreement not to visit « pablic- Bouse while connected with the colony, and they promise to obey the rules.They are examined by tLe doctor, and given such work as ls thought to be best for In payment for his work the wreck recelves tokens for meals, and if be improves, a shilling a day io cash is sometimes added.COUNTING THB COSY.There are three hundred men om the farm.There is no policemen on the place, and only one wilhic several miles.The men are a good, quiet lot, according to the captain.We walked scme miles altogether, I should fancy, while examining point after point of interest.\u2018Is the work paying expenses 1° 1 \u2018Ars we making men ?\u2019 the captain asked, quietly, in reply.It was really the better question of the two.1 saw the point It seems that the agricultural part of the colony is making a profit of several hundred pounds a year, but that the brickmaking, steamjolnery and other industries are not so successful as they might be, owing to the condition of the market rather than to any fauit of men o\u20ac management.Yes, thay are making mea.A personal interest 1s Laken In each poor wreok.Ho sppreciates it and tries to give matinfac- In the en of his Wools Sim Hot where.lilies grew, but he learns how to the weeds, and some day the lilies blossom again.Some two thousand men have graduated from the Farm Colony since it was started aboul four years ago.About fourt=en hundred of them left under satisfactory circumstances to accept sitom- tions plsswhere.They came im wrecks and they went out men.Last.year a financial loss of (3,446 was experienced, the operations of the colony for 1994 {howicg receipts £46,421; expenditure, £48.- A WOBKMAN'S WORDS.\u2018 \u2018The \u201cArmy\u201d led \u2018me back to God,\u2019 sald a workman, who stopped digging long enough to bave a short conversation with os.He had been born north of the Clyde, \u2018beside the bonnie brier bush,\u201d but bad travelied with bad companions te various countries.Thers was little about him as he spoke Lo suggest that be had been a wreck.\u201cThrough \u2018ts industrial department T I asked.\u2018Through its industrial departments, just that,\u2019 hs returned.\u2018And 1 the orly one This mado me ask « few questions about the religious features of the work.\u2018 Don't think that we try to make Protestants out of Roman Catholics,\u2019 sald Captain Ward, \u2018What we want Is to get the men saved according to their beat lights.We bave meetings every evening.The only compulsory meeting is not au essentially religious ome, though fgr a time it was given up te hymna, testimonies and addresses, Now we have wonge, recilalions and refreshments on thet special night, as we did whea the meetings were first started.But we 6 scores of rouls converted here.Sometimes we aro disappointed over the fallure of some man we have labored with to meet our antleipations; but thea wa see anotkter's soul saved, and, bless you, one such victory over the devil does ud good enough to drive away a dozen disappolnt- ments.am not FLOWERS AND FRUITS, We walked through an immense fleid of color.There grew roses and asters, mignonette and everlastings, and I! know not what wonderful masses of bloom.\u201cSell them at Southend,\u2019 sald the captain, when ! acked what the \u2018Army\u2019 did with the flowers \u2018Our vegetables go there, too,\u201d he continued, \u2018and our fruits.It costs us little to get lhem to that place, and the demand is always great In summer and autumn on account of the visitors.When the strawberry seamon closed some weeks ago we found that we bad sold no less than twenty-seven tons of strawberries alone.Le have a hundted and twenty acres in 1\" We procesd to the dairy the piggeries.tho bakery wnd the restaurant.There was neatnets overyhers.Men were at work in the fields and in the market-garden, \u2018Are those strong fellows all from London gutters 7\u2019 I asked.\u2018That fa where they came from.\u2019 1 was surprised.They locked so weil and hearty.\u2018We walked about many fields of wheat (nome of which threshes out fifty bushels aa acre), and saw many more, containing ryo, oats, barley and a grest variety of v milk produced at the \u2018Army's\u2019 airy is readily sold, and the colony maintaine & butcher-ehop in the village o Hadleigh from the stock upon the e rm.RO CONPETITION \u201cMany of those houses im the village are quits new.\u2019 1 said.\u2018Yes; great meny of them have been built alson we eme bere.Hall-a-dozen of (bone yellow Lriek houses were built dy our men trem our ows bricks, We, take building contrests, but never enter Into competition.If a man eays \u201cBuild,\u201d we bulld, but not If another did bas been made.We do not propose to undersell any one.\u2019 \u201cWhat do the mem do in winter t' | onked.\u2018They worked ell last winter digging Over a good many acres for early fruits.In wet or frosty westher they turn into the sorting shed and sort potatoes and odlons into first and second qualitisse.\u2019 1 enquired * How doss tbe professional \u2018ramp get along ?* \u2018Où, he is one of the \u201cWon't-Works.\u201d Thers ought to be & placs wbere men of the \u2018\u2018cadger\u201d stamp would be compelled by law to work; their dist to be reduced It they refused.\u2019 THE OFFICER'S STORY.I heard many storiss of maved lHves while making my enquirtes, but I liked that of Captain Ward's oareer best.°I vas à drunken cablnet-maker for many yeara\u2014blsse you, I don't mind everybody knowing it now; they knew it then right enough\u2014and about thirtesa years ago I dropped into & watch-night re-ing.wT Booth was the leader.It was 11.58 p.m.\u201cThere's only two minutes before the New Year begins,\u2019 she said, \u201cyet you ean enter the New Year with a new heart.\u201d ! came to Christ, and tn some years became a sergeant In the \u201cArmy,\u201d though 1 md by that time budit up a large cab- Inet-making business.One Sunday night I was asked If 1 would take charge of Clerkenwell Shelter, which was to be opened on the following Thursday.\u201cBut my business!\" I exclaimed.However, we prayed over it, and the way was made plain and I sold out.The sheiter wus opsned on Thursday and I was made a captain.I have been in charge of sev- aral other sheiters ani homes, and when the colony was started I wus given ths management of the home department, which includes tho housing and feeding of the men, the oversight of the laundry, free library, and so ou.\u2019 A GLANCE AT THE NEN, 1 bad look at a score of men bustly on, in gastronomical pursuits in the resmurant.\u2018There were ex-convicts and professional thieves, artists, and postmen; also a music-hall singer.Drink and various misfortunes brought them down, bul they are having a chance now.Pensioners are not in favor at the colony.The recurring quarterly payments are sources of tampeation which few who have been at the farm have proved able to withstand.On two siles of tLe colopy runs the River Thames, and I counted twenty ves- 2els, big and little, within sight.scenery is very pretty.The ruins of Hadleigh Castle, at one time a Royal residence, bullt about 1200 A.D., loom up dark and majestic on a bill within the limits of the property.Saying \u2018Good-by\u2019 to Captain Ward and other officers I made towards the gate when I heard a noise of music: The Léon of Judah will cieanse every etain, And give us the vict'ry again and again.\u2018Is that a choir?\u2019 I asked, turning round.\u2018Ob, no.That's the music-hall singer.He's cleaning out a dormitory.He ways sings.\u2019 It made me think of George Herbert's poera concerning the servant, who could \u2018make drudgery divine\u2019 by doing things as unto the Lord, even the sweeping of a room.\u201cThe bright surroundings, regular hours, systemat'c smployment, suitadle food, and the influences for good, transform the \u2018Wrecks,\u2019 1 sald to myself as I walked towards the rullway, \u2018and they come out men.'\u2014H.Cochrane tm London ° Family Cirele\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 AN ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE.The closing years of the nineteenth century are apparently following in the footsteps of the last century and all the world is wondering what the outcome will be.The writer in \u2018Harper's Weekly\u2019 thinks that only in case the possible event of England standing aione among European powers in defance of civilization there might bo an alllance of the lwo great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race.Thin is somewhat sentimental.There are different views of tho result of such an al- llañce.The great nation to the south of us is in a very different position from what it was when all Europe was In a turmoil a bundred years ago.Even then their ablest statesmen barely kept their country from being embroiled in the fear- fat wars which deluged Europe with blood.When a comparatively amail na tion so barely escaped the entanglements of fore), relations, does anyone talok that A; nation as the United States is to-da uld pursue the even tenor of its way ®ith all Europe in « life and death gle.The question will not be one sentiment with the United Btates, it will be of the most serious importance with whom they will ally them- seives.Generally these great questions Tesolve themselves into the unromantic but terribly practical question of trade and commerce.The British Emplre ls the great foreign market of the United States.This trade bas been of long growth and now ls almost a life and death question with the Union.Imagine for a momen! the British Empire, at home and abroad, being blockaded by foreign powers, what would be the effect on American trade.With their great market closed there would bs sa Awakening among the people as to what pation they had better ally themselves with, or imagine oo the other hand, the United States in alliance with other European nations opposed to England.Then (hey would possibly suffer still more fron Britain's overwheiming sea power, for we naturally thnk that the day will never come when any combination of powers can completely biock- ade British commerce.Nor need the citizens of the Union think they can stesr clear of Eurcpean troubles.What would be the result of the massacre of a few American missionaries in Armenia by Turkish soldiers 7 Would there not be « cry from every part of the land for immediate interference, and when the active Interference begins who can limit the afier effects ?Instead of all this nonsensical talk of war belween the two brothers about the most trivial questions, let them both seriously consider what will be tbe better part lo play in the coming convulsions which ali tho ablest statesmen of the day foresee 10 be coming on the civilized nations of the earth.hat strength, what power, what safety In the ond will result to the Anglo-Saxon race from an alliance offensive and defensive between there giants ?Cowaansville, Nev, 26, 1896 1 - trees turcs rene A_\u2014 JONN STUART BLACKIE.(London \u2018 Spectator.\u201d Professor Blackie says of Mr.Ruskin that he posessses every virtus of a good Writer exoept sense and self-control.If this eriticism will not apply to Blackie a» as author it describes with suficisnt accuracy his character as a man.\u2018Boy- bood in him,\u2019 observes Mrs.Stoddart, \u2018survived its proper term, and its inoal- culable influences, noisy, impish, laugh- terloving, inconsiderate, © heckersd bis character as a professor and as a lecturer.\u2019 Neither person nor place had the least restraint on Blackie's jooularities.lie poked his fun at the dons of Oxford, drove Jowsit on one occasion from the room, andl is even aaid-\u2014but the story \u2018lasks written confirmetion\u2019\u2014to bave clapped the Princess Louise on the back and called her \u2018a boonies lassie.\u2019 An Bdin- burgh professor dancing jigs, singing songs and convuising his class with bu- morous perwonalities, was a shosk to propriety not readily to be tolerated; and he nearly lost his appointment to the Greek chair by the reckiess way in which he visited the town counelllors and tout- od for their votes.\u2018Do not come up to Bainburgh,\u2019 one of his friends wrote, \u201ctill the election 1» over; it is a pity you came up last time, some of the tailor electors were quite scandalised at your costume.It you do come just Dow, for my sake Uring descent clothes with you: but your best policy is to stay at Aberdeen.\u2019 At Aberdeen Blackie had spent bis bey- hood, his father being manager of & bank there.The youth was designed for the law, but be elected to study for the ministry, and in bis sixteenth year became s student at the Edinburgh University, applying hims.if to Greek, logic, and moral philosophy.Then we read of him as a student of theology in the university at Aberdeen.At this time Blackie war deeply troudlsd with religious difficulties, and the burden of Scotch Calvinism weighed him down.He comsuited a friendly minister as to his theological reading, and especially with regard to Boston's \u2018Body of Divinity.\u2019 \"What bave you to do,\u2019 was the reply, \u2018with books of divinity by Boston or any other T Are you a Christian?what should à Christian read before his bible ?Do you know Greek ?Where should & student of tbso- logy fetch his divinity in preferences to the Greek Testament Blackie took the advice, and was able to say in bis old age that few mea were more familiar with the Greek of the New Testament than he.The divine who gave John this advice had also a plece of counsel fer his father.\u2018Send your son to Germany.\u2019 he said, \u2018his jacket wants widening.\u2019 With two friends and a fallow student, Blackie started therefore for Gottingen, whetice, sftor six months, he migrated to Berlin, where he attended the lectures of Sch- lelermacher, Neander and Raumer.There his jacket so far widensd that he gave up all thoughts of entering a Church which demanded subscription to the Westminster Confession.From Berlin, where he found bimæelf \u2018perfectly master of the German language,\u2018 Biackie fliéted to Rome and studied hard with a view to a Professorship of Humanity in some Scotch university.There he gained the warm friendship of Bunsen, and that he should have done so, speaks well for the sterling qualities of the youthful student.His passion for Greek dates from this period.and having found a young Greek student in Rome, he studied modern Greek with him, and was soon able to converse In the language.After two years and a balf 3 shrence.years wpent in vigorous study, e returned to Scctland.and by his father\u2019s wish began reading for the Bar ln Edinburgh.The law was uncongenisl, and Blackie refreshed himaelf with Hteraturs.His translation of 'Faust\u2019 won an appreciative letter from Cariyle, and later on from Lewes, who quotes It In his \u2018Lire of Goethe.\u2019 Five years passed, during which he held only two briefs.but mas- aged to liva In a brifty way by writing for the magazines, the vacations belng spent in walking-tours.Ome of hia friends io those days was Mr.(now Sir) Theodore Martin, \u2018who records of John Blackie that hia life cf strenuous Industry, of geolai and grateful temper.and of stalniess purity.made bim & mode: and example to bis comrudes in the struggle.\u2019 The appointment to a Latin Chair in Marisohal College under the title of Re tlus Professor of Humarity was a bappy exchange for the legui studies whica he detested, and that post Blackie held until his ambition was ten years later by the Greek Professorwhip in Edinburgh.about this lime the hricfless barrister, who.like all Scotchmen.bad heaps of cousins, fell tn love with one of them.and was diymissed oy the young lady's parents in consequences.He appears to have accepted his lot with resignation : but after vainly making an offer to apo- ther lady, rerurned for consolation to his first love.\u2018I feel no much for you.\u2019 she said; and the result may be anticipated.The courtship was.inwever, not renewed withoul the strenuous opposition cf he lady's family :\u2014 \u2018It was not altogether wonderful that Mr.Wyld should have mizxivings about the engagement: John Blackie had chiefly impressed the outer circle nf bis cou- sinbood with his volatility and want of the virtues most bwid in estesm by res- pectabllity.He had changed his mind so often with regard to a profession; he made a precarious living by the ven which the well-to-do deemed then a paltry-trade: he dressed badly: his manners were abrupt\u2014they called them \u2018harum-scarum® \u2014the Blackie manners; they did not be- eve that ho would hold hie professorship for six months, \u2014they gave him just that Lime to \u201cto go to the devil.\u201d One member of the family called on bim at Dublin street to expnatulate about his manners, We may almost suppore they were at the bottom of the family opposition.\u2019 From this time it Is unnecessary to follow closely Rlackie\u2019s varied and ecosdtri.arses.For forty years or more he fe- 18 ured as a professor, and was probebly as widely known as any man ln Rcotland.He made a vow amd kept {1 to do nothin, by halves, and his labors of mind and body were inexisauatible.Everybndy knows who cares to know, Professor Klac- kte\u2019s efforts in the oause of the H!ghland Crofters, bis work as an educational reformer and hia success In founding a Cel- sic Obair in Kdinburzh, .When Blackie was a young man, Care Iyle, whom ho found \u2018rather terrible In a amall parlor,\u201d treated him with the civility due to a brililant countryman.He breakfasted with Lord Brougham, dined with Lockbart, and visited Coleridge, who \u2018told the young enthusiast for German philosophy, that he had thrown speculs- tions overtoard, and found perfect satis faction for every luquiry in Lhe first ebap- ter of Lhe Gospel of St.Jobn' From bis student days Blackie pursued the art of rhyming with amazing facility, but Mrs, Stoddart admils that be was not a 8008 judge of poetry, and with the sole exception of Burne, whose songs he sang on the top of one of the pyramids, sad talked of in bis dying hours, ke Goes not seem to have feit the power of any of our great poets.For Wordsworth, indeed, be bad at one time & fit of fervor, but he was not long subject to an influence which bis biographer, strange 15 say, cunsiders more \u2018isolating then enlarging.\u201d Of Tennyson, however, he spoke \u2018witn a reverence very unusual io him, 13 allusion to his coniemporaries.\u201d and he enjoyed Lis trisndship with Browning, who loved him \u2018as a brother.\u2019 \u2018I wish.' be writes, \u2018his maDner was as easy and and nstural io bis books as at his luncheon-table\u2019 For Imaginative prose literature Blackie seoins to have cared litile, and the only sovels which he pruises are \u2018Rumola\u2019 and \u2018Lothair,\u2019 the latter of which be calls \u2018a wise, and a true, sad a noble book.\u2019 His scosntricitiss were manifold, and by sober citssns be must hsve been regarded as an eminently unsafe man.He was a notable Unionist with regard to Irish home rule while advocating with all hie zea! home rule for Sootland.When Mr.and Mrs.8.C.Hail celebrated their golden wedding, the chair was taken by the Earl of Shatlesbury, who wondered why be had been asked to #1} it.Blackie expressed wonder as well he might, on presiding at a meeting of teetotallers.I think they should bave had the nomination.Mr.Feather- stone, M.P.for Peel.who was here, left on Saturday to give Mr.Henry a hand at the finish.Mr.Stubbs 1s raid to be personally a very por candidate.\u2014_\u2014 MANITOBA SCHOOLS, MR.GREENWAY SAYS THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT COMPROMISE.Wianlpeg.Man., Dec.3.\u2014There baving been recently pcralstent, rumors emanating mainly from Torcnto nwspapers, that the school question was to bs aet- tled by tbe Manitoba Government, the Mon.Mr.Greenway has.authorized the publication of the following statement : \u2014* The goverzment have had under consideration.at various times, the Order- in-Councit of the Nominion Government of July 27 last, inviting action on the part of the Legis.ature of Manitoba to remove the alleged grievanre rf :he Roman Catholic minority {a relation to edu- cation.It has b:come perfe-tly c.ear that no concessi.by the Legislature will be regarded 8 solution of the dificulty or a3 removing the alieged grievauc.s unless auch concession admita the p-Inci- ple of and re-establish state aided separate schools.Upon tbe question of the re-establishment of separate schools the government will make no compromise.\u201d Ottawa, Dec.10.\u2014At Orangeviils the Minister of Finance said the government would not re-establañ in Manitoba the separate schools as they exinted prior to the passage of tbe Manitoba Public Schools Act of 1890.Mr.Foster bas no authority for making that statment, and it lz contradictory of the pledge he was authorized to give in Parllament session.He stated then that the le lation would be on the lines of the Mal Order.The Remedial Order de- es for the re-establishment of separate schools in Manitoba precise:y as they existed prior to 1890, that is under the control of the Roman Catholics.The words of the Remed!s] Order are that an act should be passed restoring, (a) \u2018The right to build, maintain, equip.manage, conduct and support Roman Cstholie schools In the manner provided for by the statutes which were repealed In 1890.(b) \u2018The right to share proportionately fn any grant made out of the public funds for the purposes of educaifon.\u2019 (ec) \u201cThe right of exception of such Roman Catholics as contribute to R span Catho- lie schools te the support of other schools.\u2019 That Is the language of the Remedial Order word for word and if the Manitoba Legislature did anything less the province would stil] be liable to the passage of & coercive act at Ottawa.No option was given.They must restore everything as before 1590.What authority then has Mr.Foster for saying that the Remedial Order dnes not mean what it ways?It Archbishop Langevin and Senator Bernier are to \u2018manage and cop- Auct\u2019 the separate schools what guaran.tes has Mr.Foster that they will be eM- client ?If Mr.Laurier comes into power he will repeal the Remedial Order which stands for coercion.MB, ANGERS ON THE SITUATION.Quebee, Dec.11.\u2014The Cartier-Macdon- ald Club held a geceral meeting on Hun- day pight at which the Hon.A.R.Angers was present and at which an address was presented to him by the president, which is extremely significant of the attitude of thin important Conservative clud towards the present Ottawa Government, ous paragraph of the document distinctly stating tbat the members of the organisation frmiy helleved thet the whole province was with Lim In the stand that he had taken in the Manitoba echonl question, which they heartily approved.In his reply Mr.Angers declared, among other thing, that he hoped to be mistaken, bul he maw.unfortunate.1y, nothing which preaaged that the rights of the Mani'vba minority were likely to be more protected now than they were when he leit the government; thal there was still an utter lack of unanimity in the cabinet on the L>.d8 of remedial leg- felation an eridenred by recent apeerhas in the Ontario by-elections.In this connection be also remarked how singutar it was to see those who were honestly in favor of remedial lexislation go out of the cabinet, while those who were opposed to it remained In.Ile aiso said that leading Protestants of (he province bad done him the honor of cengratulating him upos the sland be bad takes, telling him that they kusw Lust if 1be case bad been their own he wouid bave done likewise, \u2018Yes.\u2019 be added, \u2018Il ever the Fro- viuce of Quebec stopped them of une purticle of ibeir rigs and privileges i would be tuc first to Ogbt for justice to thew.| would, perhaps, have felt 101 satisfaction in all 1 did If IL bad buen In favor of a irotestant minority, fur then my distintcres.eauess would not have been auspected.At one time | feared lor a momont that I would aot be understood.\u2019 Ia conclusion, he said: L bope thal justices will be dune to the Manitoba Catholics, who are our own poople.But be it done now or later, I im not doubtiui.If not dene by the men of to-day It will be dons by thoss of tomorrow.The lime bas not yel como! to agitate.We must hops and wait.Our stiltude is oùe of cxpectancy.But if we are deotived In our uoyes It will be then lime to press our cialm vigoruusly and it will not be then a few tbouzand men apposliag for justice, but we wiil bave two millions of Cathollea nnd loyal subjects at our backs te sup,ut us.- THE VERDUN ASYLUM BILL PASSED AFTER AN INTERESTING DEBATK\u2014PROOCESD 1XGS OF THE HOUSE.Quebec, Dec.11.\u2014When the Housse met m four o':lock yesterday aflernoon the Hoa.Mr.Morris presented a petition from the ONIXESE LAC XDRIMEN of Montreal against the clause in the Montreal city bill imposing a wx of à hundred doliars upon all public laundrios! which, if persisied ln they proposs te evade as far as they are concerned by combining all their establishments into one with branches and deliveries all over the city.THE SEEPUN ARTLUNM.The first item taken up op tbe orders was of special interes: .o tbe Protesiant community of the j.o.oze, being tbe bill to authorize the guvernment Lo pay, for ihres years, dating (rom July 1, 1895, Intemo organi- zatlon, which is equally condemned by the laws of the Church and by natural law.We do not preiend that all Free- , masons and all members of a secret.so- cley.the offspring of Freemasonry.ars rascals end voiaries of Satan, There are among them many who have been mls- led and who, though nat free from alt fault, as Leo XIII.teaches, for joiniag such societies, are nevertheless far from understanding the res! aim of Fres- masonry.which ls the destruction of Christianity and the establishment of na- turaitsm and the reign of Lucifer.Mr.Tardivol's biok only attacks the Mascnie spirit and the leaders of mecrat mocie- tle, * * * We wished to strike a blow at the Masonic sect and the yells of the anti-Catholic paper provas that we have passably succeeded.* © © Ag regards the purchase of 500 cop'es of the book by the Provincial Government, It does nt concern us.The author ner the publishers cf \u201cPour ia Patrie\u201d dd absolutely nothing to effect tha sale.The government acted spontaneously.Mo over, no sensible man who bas read tha book will cast the xligh ext blame upon the government for having bought a certain number of copies.We ony know the \u2018Witness,\u2019 the \u2018Citizen.\u2019 Mr.De- chene, and 11 service officer who hava deemed !t right to kick up a noise on the subject.But this ls not enough to em~ barrrass the Ministers.\u2019 4 CATATIC VIEW.Referring to the decision of the Quedes Government not to give \u2018Pour la Patrie\u2019 as a prite fn the achnols, the 'Revail' says: \u2018The government had burdened itself with five bundred copies of a vulgar imitaticn of a political story, a work of disiruse and fapaticism, calculated to ret two face tions of the people one against the other, it ii were taken in earnsst.The members of tha Qucbec Opposition protesied against the imunorael purchase.The Tali- lon Government did not fiinch and hoast.ed of its fine deed.But the \u2018Witness\u2019 foined in and à few lines In that paper were sufficient to break the barzain.What the French-Canadlan (athers of familles could not obtain for the proter- tion of thelr children they now owa to English write.Wg thank the latter for this.Ths putting in piliory of all that exists of \u2018Pour la Patrie would be a work of useful purging.What we regrel ia that we had to get outside help to obtaln justice in our favor.\u2019 Quebec, Dec.10.\u20141It Is understocd the government has ordered the coples of Tar- divel's book against Freemasonry pure obased by ft to be withdrawn from distribution es prizes to school children, WOW A QUENRC FATERPAMILIAS REGARDA IT.Quebec, Nec.12.\u2014The 'Electeur\u2019 sa \u2018We are informed that a civil service officer here.a French.Canadian Catholic, has entered his children In a Protestant school.It seems that he came to this decision of reading the declaration that tbe Tatllon Government intended to offer Mr.Tardivel's political romance as prize books in the ecbools whem he.a faithful and submissive Catholic, had deemed t his duty 10 forbid his children to read Mr.Tardivel's book as being subversive af so.clad order and consequently contrarv to the teachings of the Catbolle Church.\u2019 1 -_- - PRESBYTERIAN YOUNO PROPLES SOCIBTY.Toronte, Dec.10.\u2014At a mesting of the representatives from & number of churches in the Toronto Presbytery last evening it wan decided to organise a Young Peo- pla\u2018s Presbyterian Ualon, which will embrace all the young people's sonieties in the Presbyterian (\u2018hurch under the cone trol of the Presbytery.Officers were apposes pesto the anaual meeting to be i» Februay.+ tian.ARIES re.e300 con a ee ltt roan = re and cra 8 cmd ace sf a \u2014\u2014\u2014 18 TuS WAR IN ABTSSINIA Natives Invading Italian Territory.ANDIFOROEMENTS BRING HURRIED TO THR ICENR Leadon, Des.11.\u2014A Gespatoh te the \u2018Central.News,\u2019 from Roms, says that General Barstierl, Governor of Krythrea, and commander of the Italian troopæ telegraphs that fully seteaty thousand Abyminians have invaded the Tigre country, Forty thousand of the cueay are la the vicinity of Adows.(onsaguently be bas ordered the italian forves at Ado- wa to fall back to Adigrat, where be has only 6.000 men.Upun Teceipt of the foregoing despatch the government ordered tbat the preparations for ssnding relutorcements to General Baratiert be pushed forward with the greatest possible despatch.Werk in making ready the sending of additional men to Africa will be carried on night and day.1 bas been decided that 3.000 troop.qd two batterics shall depart immodiately.Every available transport at the dock- been ordered to be put in 0 convey troops.Some war- eccompany the reinforcements the capital of the Italian colony.The government has decided te postpome until next Naturday its request that the Chamber of Deputies vots credit of 5.000.000 lire to be expended os Sarrying on war operations in Abyssin! STORY OP THE TROUDLE.The terrible disaster reported in the foregoing despaich marks another stage.in the history of Italy's troubled career 1a East Africa and may possibly lead to a tightening of her hold upon Abyssinia, | over which she exercises at pressat a nomipal protectorate.That protectorate dates back to the year 1883, when Italy, in accordance with the principles laid down by the Berlina Contersuce.notified the powers of the trealy,, concluded with Kivg Menelik.by which Abyssinia and all her dependencies were placed under Italian protection.By this treaty Mecciix II, King of Shon.became the suprems ruler of Abyssinia in succession to King John.The agreement with Italy was repudiated by King Mere lik, but he was subsequently forced to submit.There wero rebellions in severs! parts of his dominions iz 1892 and 1892, which were quelled, the King bor | rowing money in ltaly to aid him in bis expedition.Dervishes from Egypt also harassed the fromtiers of his territory, but were repuisad by the Italians, who occupled Kassala with a military force in order to stop their raids.Last summer Menelik, fearing the encroachment of Italy.sent a mission to St.Petersburg to obtain the diplomatic support of Russia.It was well received aod since then Abyssinia has maintained « hostile attitude towards Italy, and there hare been collisions between their re spective troops.ln July Baron Blane, ltaly's Foreigu Minister, made a strong statement In the Chamber of Deputies, conoerning Menellk, who, he declared, had flagrantiy violated the terme of the protocol probibitiog slave trading in Abrasiots.In October last the news came that Menelik had been struck by lightning and killed.A prominent leader on the Abyusinian side has Leen Ras Mangescia.sou of the King John, who loug resisted every effort ol the Italians to establish thelr in- flusace In Abyssinia.After the death of his father Mangascia tecame a pretender for the Ethioplan \u2018hrene, but In face of the assistance given to his cousin Mene- GENERAL BARATIBRL Commander of the itaiten Forces 1s the Soudan.lik by the Italians was compelled to abandon his candidature.Retiring to Tigre, be made his pears with the King, and received in exchange for his eub- mission the riceroyalty of the province.He is ap sable administrator, a valiant soldier and a bitter enetvy to the Italians, whom he has never forgiven for thelr interference ir.the domestic concerns of Abyssinia which Jost him his kingly heritage.General Haratleri's victorise over Res Mangascia and Ras Alule, another prominent Abyszinian leader, wou for him a moat enthusiastic reception by his fel- low-countrymen on the occasion of his visit to Rome a few months ago.A RUSSIAN LEADS THE NATIVES AGAINST TES ITALIANS.London, Dec.11.\u2014Further adrices from Generui Baratieri, commander of the Ital- lan troops la Abyssinia, give additional details of the surrounding of Major To æslli aod bis command.The Abyesinians.who were direcied in part by Chiafs Ras Mangascie, Mikael and Ras Makonnen, fought with great vigor and skili 10\u20ac aix Bours.It ls reported that the entire force of ths enamy was commanded by @ Russian major.The bemined-in Jtxi- {ans feught with extreme desperation, Fortuantely.dal re the fight was over General Arimon.ii arrived upon Lhe field wilh bis command and drove the Abys- olatans back, enshling the three hun.dared doleagueret Jisllans who remained alive to make their escape.Three Abys- ofnlan chiefe and three lbousand of their followers were kitled or wounded.(len oral Baratieri hes arrived ot Adigrat ud assumed command of the Jtallan forces.He that the reverse sue \u201ctained by the Italians through the disas- \u2018Naltan troops, shows that the ltalians tor to Majer Tosslil's command das net | produced any bad effect upon Lhe native æoldiers in the Italian army « he 2e CAPTAIN NICOLAI LEONTIEFF, Commander of Rustia's Latest Bxpeditien te Abyssinia tives previously favorable te Italian eol- onial authority.Rome, Dec.13.\u2014The government bas asked the Budget Committees of the Chamber of Deputies that the sum of 4.000.000 lire in excess of the 3,000,000 lire already provided for in the Budget for that pur- Pose.be assigned to the expeases of carrying out Italy's military campaign in Africa.Three thousand troops will embark from Naples on Saturday to reinforce the Italan army in Abyssinie.Rome, Dec.12.\u2014The Chamber of Deputies this afternoon paid a tribute to the RAS MANGASCIA, One of the Abyssinian Leaders.memory of Major Toselll, the commander of the Itallan column in Abyssinia which was decimated by a surrounding force of Abyssinlans and who was himself among .the killed.Afler a number, of eulogistic speeches the president of the Chamber invited the orators of all parties to salute (be glorious dead and the members of the body stood up in perfect patriotio accord.The scene was à touching one.Rome, Dec.12.\u2014Genera! Baratierl's account of 1be battle with the Abyssinians at Ambalizim resulting 1n the partial an- oihilalion of Major Toselil's force of threw their cannons, mutes, ammunition, etc, inte an abyss in order to prevent the enemy from capturing them.RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN RUSSIA AXD ABYSSINIA.A noteworthy feature adoul the reverse that bas befallen the Italian arms In Abyssinia is the repcri that the entire force of the natives was under the command of a Russian major.Russia's relations with Abyssinia during the last six or veven years form an interesting story, and are bound up with a curious religious strugele of which the east coast of Africa is the theatre, \u2018The people of Abyssinia profess a form of Christianity which in many features approximates to the (Greek Orthodox Church, while io its ceremonial obeerv- ances it Is sirongly Judaical.The latter element is accounted for by the tradition that Ethinpla was peopled by exiles from Judes, who converted the aborigines to the Hebrew faith.The Falashes are !n- deed stated to be a relic of thin Judaimal sect.However that may be, the Eastern and Western churches have long coveted the conversion of the Ethiopian.and Rome and Antioch are now excrilng their utmost to accomplish this task.Rome has taken advantage of the ltallan protectorate to establish 8 Bishopric of Erythrea, while Antiorh\u2014re« presented Ly the Hussian government\u2014 has done her best to nstablish her influence In the land of the Negus.Intercourse detwren Russia and Abdys- sinla began in the latter part of the eighties, when Frees Cossacks who aided in the Russian conquest of the Trans- Caspian were encouraged to wo to Africa aa ploneers of Russian influence.Some enlisted under the Mabdl, while Atchin- off.the famous soldier of fortune, te- paired to tha court of King John and groatiy assisied him in arranging for the defensive and offensive measures adopl- od against the Italian forces at Massowah.It was Atchinoff who by taking some Abyssinian priests to Rursia created Interest in the project of asaimilating Aby- sinjan Christianity to the doctrines and worship of the Russian Orthodox Church.ATCHIROPE'S FAILURE.The attempt which Atchinoff made to establish a reguisr Oresex propaganda in Afrion end to found a Russian coloay in Fast Africa resulted in failure, and io the shelling of Lis expedition by the Freash at Sagulle.Mis credentials were unsatisfactory, for the Russian Foreign Minister bad ne confidence ia Lhe scheme of this wandering \u2018Heiman of Free Cos- sacks.\u2019 as be styled himself.Bul Russia Bevertheloas watched with kesa Interest the progress made dy the Italians io Baw Africa, and (a 1888 Lieutenant Mashko®R Was sent on & mission Lc the Abyssinian Court.This was the beginning of a Tegular siaret iniercouree between the Russiens and Monelek, which Italy das found ta de one of the most serious eb- étacles to her, plans in East Afrion Last January ap expedition was sent by the Russian Government to ths Negus of Abyssinla, King Meoeilk.The expedition was charged to undertake a acien- tie explomiion and at the mme time to adopt measures lo counteract the Roman Cathoille propagande.The commander, Capuia Nicola! Stepbanovitch Lson- lief, a retired officer of the Russian Imperial Guard.who had done work in exploring Ceatral Asla, wes only about thirty years of age.The second in command was an officer of artillery named Captain Constantine Semenowitoh Evis- Kin, while Dr.Alexanier Yellsseye was in medical charge.The expedition was provided will many beautiful presents to be distributed tn Abysginis, thoëe for the Negus himseil boing of unusual magni- ficenoe.The fruit of thin expeditien was seen a montha later, when the Abyssinians, dismayed by Italy's military success, sud eager to obtain European allise, sent, in their turn, envoys to Bt.Petersburg.Of- ficlally, theses snvoys were simply charged with the duty of drawing closer the religious tlea uniting the two nations, but the netare of their reception at the Russian capital gave their mission « political complex\u2018on, which Italy was not slow to perceive and comprebend.Ras\u2014i eo, Geasral\u2014Mangascia, who is mentioned in the despatches, has besa 4 prominemt leader on the Adyesinlan side.He is a son of Menelik's predecessor, the Negus John, and long resisted every effort of the Ita! to estadlish their influence In Abyssia After the death of his father, In 1889, Mangascla became a pretender for the Ethlopian throne, but in the face of the assistance \u201cthat he would not allow an innocent per- given to his cousin Mecellk by the Ital- lane ia the treaty of Ucclali he was com pelled to abandon his candidature.tiring to Tigre be made his peace with the King, and received in exchange for his submission the viceroyaity of the province.He is an able administrator, a valiant soldier and a bitter enemy of the liallans, whom he has never forgiven for their interterence in the domestic concerns of Abyssinia, which lost him his kingly heritage.\u2014_\u2014 \u201c APACHE KID'Ÿ CARBER.A GOOD INDIAN UNTIL HIS STEPFATHER WAS MURDERED.Denver, Dec.12.\u2014\u2018Apache Kid' the supposed leader of the Indians who have recently resumed their murderous operations, was twelve years ago first aer- Keant of a company of scouts organised by the government.He is said to have done faithful and excellent service until a white man murdered his stepfather.The Kid shot the slayer and surrendersd to the government authorities at Ban Carlos.While being taken to the guardhouse, with several other Indians, he escaped, and, gathering a Jot of bad Indians around him, took to the mountains, where he began a series of depredations.The Kid and bis band were finaliy captured by Gen.Miles, and the Kid was sen- tencod by couri-marual to a term of imprisonment at Aloatras.He was pardoned after he bad served a year and was taken back to Sas Carlos.Then he was rearrested at the inetance of the civil authorities and tried at Globe, Arix., and \u201cAPACHE KID Supposed leader of the recent outbreak.senteced to a long term in Yuma prison.Ou the way to prison he killed Sheriff Raymond and left the waggon driver for dead, and once more ed to the hills.Innumerable murders bave been ocom- mitted by him-\u2014or, at least, have been attributed to him.He bas plliaged out- JyIng settlements and raided ranches with astonishing audscity.: Adjulant-Geaeral Ward, of the United States Army.Department of Colorado, recelved à message to-day from Fort Apache stating that a man named Boles and two other men, names unknown, gave \u2018bemselvee up for trial on the charge of kililag tbe Indian whose body was discovered on the Cibique last measage stated that the was discovered In the act of robbing » store and was pursued by Lhe etl.tens.The report that a family of five had been murdered nesr Bowie Station le denied.AN INFAMOUS POLYGAMIST.London, Dec.11.\u2014Willlam Cadman, aged fifty-four yemrs, was sentenced In the Old Batley Court to-day to seven years\u2019 imprisonmént under conviction upop a charge of polygamy.Bince 1870 Cadman bad married seven women by whom he bad twenty-three children.Some nf tbe victime were rich whes he married them, but they did unt long remain es.When he wae arresied he had !n his possession à large number of forg- od rallway tickets.THR MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS TUE PRESIDENT PRINCE THE DISGRACEFUL ATTACK UPON HIM Conceraing the rumore 2m elroslstion ta Paris of aa alleged campaign te som pel the resignation of President Faure, the \u2018Figare\u2018 disciosse the secret with ths publicity of whiak the President has been threatened by his enemies.that President Faure's father-in-law, M.Belluot, left home four months after his marriage, baving dissipated all of bls fortune, tncluding his wife's dowry, whioh made him gulity of breach of trust.Bel- MME FAURE lvot\u2019s daughter, berm after his disap peargnce, was .brought up by an uncle, M.Guinot Wbea M.Faure wanted 0 marry the daughter of Belluot the lady's relatives informed him of what Bad occurred, whereupom M.Faure declared Sol to suffer for what bad occurred be- | fore her birth.and married her.The \u2018Figaro\u2019 says the story furnishes a further motive for respecting the loving per son who has been attacked.When M.Faure bocame President of the French Rapubllo it was generally an- nounoed that his wife was the daughter of M.Gulnot, Mayor of Ambotse, and subsequently Senator for Indre et Loire.MLLE.LUCIR FAURE Thanks to M.Delabaye's (the member in the Chamber of Deputies making war où the President) vesearches, it appears that M.Guinot was ber uncle, who brought ber up in consequence of her father's desertion of his family and flight from jusiloe.Mme.Faure is & well- known figure in French society and is noted for ber charm as a hostess.She was married on July 10, 1885, al the age of twenty-three.Ehe was then a beautiful brunette with jet black hair and sparkling eyes.She ja @ very Intelll- Jen! woman, 10seeses, like her husband, a keen sense of humor, and is one of those whose temperament leads tbem to look at the bright side of things.The bome life of M.and Mme.Faure has a)- ways been charming.They have two daughters, the younger of whom Is marred to M.René Berge.caonaul-general of the Seine Inférieure.His profession is that of a mining engineer, but he does not practise and ocoupies himself with the mans ont of his large estates Dear Havre.6 elder daughier, Lucie, has literary tastes, has published a volume of verses, and bes frequently acted as ber father's secretary.She accompanied him last year to Egypt, where both were very well received, \u2014_\u2014 B/.PTIZED AT 110 YEARS.AN INTERESTING EVENT AT THE KINGSTON HOUSE OP INDUSTAT.Kingaton, Ont, Dec.$.\u2014The Rev.G.R.Beamish, M.A.curate of St.George's cathedral, on Thursday last baptized the oldest person who has ever received the necrament of baptiem in modern times.This was the oid woman, Mrs.Orr, now an inmate of the House of Industry, and who has reached the remarkable rye of 110 yearz.The old lady was baptized hypothetically, thaï is.she received the sacrament for the second thi mistake or omiarion was mi first occasion.This cireumetance had been fretting her a good deal, and she decided that she would be baptized regularly, and requested the Rev.Mr.Beam- ih to officiate, which he did.The ceremony was performed at the House of Industry, where Lhe old lady has been bedridden for sume time.- -\u2014\u2014 A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.\u2018The announcement In this issue of ape- clal club offers, under the heading \u201cA Current Library.\u201d fs one that will interesting to very many of our reade What better Christmas present to ma 10 your own family or pesalbly some fam- (ly relatad to you by the ties of blood or friendship.The son or daughter, brother or sister away from home, would welcome such a mite.Those subscriblag to these clubs may bave (bo severe! papers all sent to the same address or to scparate addresses a» they may prefer.Postage will have to be added when addresses are pot in this continent or when bey are ia the city of Montreal.MONTREAL NEWS.Norman Stewart, ffteen years old, som of Mr.John Slewert, eagineer, nie loft arm caught and badly crushed le a fining press he had been fesding at SL Paul street on Wednesday moru- ne He was taken to the General Hoe Three or four thousand dollars Gamage tb stock and\u2019 premises will result from a Bre shortly after one a.tn.en Priéay tn the fos house of Messrs.Harper Brothers, pork packers, 81.Phillip street.What the origin of the fire was bas not yet ascertained.1t appears] been Bir Willlam Van Horne, president and geuers! manager of the C.P.®., who wan declared certain to resign at an oarly dale, says the assertion ls premature and that he bus not yet determined to leave ths scene of active operations 43 there are some few thiogs he would like te do befors he does so.Coal was discoversd to be om fire in the basement of Ann street publio Pro- tratant school on Tuesday leet, and it bad been burning while the children were {8 their class rooma, though they were unaware of the fact.They had a holiday on Wednesday, however, and took It kindly, as chlidres generslly do.There was not much damage dove to the school The coldewt day of tba season was registered on Thursday woraing, whea it vas sevenleen degrees below mero at the Golr Club Houses, and Ofteen degrees below at St.Lambert.Two men cross- +4 on the river 1ce at Longueuil on Fri day, and if the severe weather which came so suddenly only holds, the tce bridge of the St.Lawrence may form before Christmas Day, which would be an unusual event Sometimes justice appears lo to blindly about punishment.James Mulling was arrested for brutally beating his wife.There was hardly any furniture in the bwne, and no food.Mrs.Mullins and ber children were aimost naked; yet tbe unmanly wretch best the woman three times one day and that she became Insane surprised none of ber neighbors.The man was fined ten dollars and costs or two months.Mr.F.D.Shallow, of the \u2018Moniteur du Commerce,\u2019 who (ound a plumber in his basement warning himself in the dark ons evening.kicked the lotruder out The man explained that he was not a burglar, but bad come in on the Invitation of the servant girl.The plumber took action in court against Mr.Bhal- low, for assault.The court decided on Thursdsy that Mr.Shallow was justified and dismissed the ation with costs.Notre Dame Hospital doctors did their best to save the life of Alex.Fievary, à young man who bad endeavored to kill himself with carbollc acid on Wednesday.The medical men used every effort but Flevary was all too successful.He had taken enough of the deadly fluid to kill several men.He was am un married glassblower by trade, and had been considered to be in confortable circumstances.\u2018Wiilfui suicide\u2019 was the verdict.The olty surveyor, Mr.Bt.George, has reported favorably the prepesal te build an electric railway te the summit of Mount Royal, and thers is every prospect (bat it will be carried to comple: tion.The City Council doss not it bicycle riders to enter Mouot Royal Park out of regari to the driving end riding public; and now there is little doubt that the shuddering sensation of the electric railway car will mingle with the shimmer of the summer trees, a much worse trigit for horses.The contest in Montreal Centre be tween Bir Willlam Hiugston and the Hon.James McShane is to be a hot one, as is evident from the work being done by workers on both sides.Mr.McShane is making a personal canvass, while Sir William has the wholes Conservative machinery at his back.His eminent re- spectabllity will serve him with Lhe commercial and professional classes, but it it doubtful if he will poil very largely among the working people, with whom Mr.McShane is popular, The second trial of Napoleon Demers tor the murder of his wife last spring was commenced on Monday, Deo.9, and it hus been dragging along from day to day.without special feeture.Only one new phase of the case was presented.It came out that a litllo girl had deen sect to the house of the murdered woman by Miss Sauvé, a material witness in the case.She bad found the door locked when she went.No new evidence of a specially Incrimina character has been reached thus , and it is thought that If in the new trial there is nothing more positive than went to the last Jury the prisoner will get off.Barly one morning last week a police officer ordered a man who had thrown himself down om St.Lawrence street to move oo.There was some hesitation on the part of the man, and in response to the peremptory command of the officer he retorted \u2018Leave me alone, I've poi- soued myself, and I want tu die.\u2019 The young man had been drinkiog but tbo officer determined lo take him at his word sod sent for the ambulance.At the General Hospital he said he was a plano tuner and that he was tired of life.He appeared to rally during the afternoon after passing through a period of delirium, and afterwards recovered.Ae he bad already tried more than once previously to commit suicide he was sent before the Recorder, who fined him for drunkenness and gave him a warniog.\u2014_\u2014 .INTERESTING TO WORKERS AND CANVASSERS.Last week the \"Witness announced A number of interesting offers for workers and canvassers.There Is something for everybody, and the young fulks will have an opportunity to work for a premium that can be used for a present for father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin or a very dear friend.A little effort on the part of sach boy and girl is all tbat is required, and they have the double sstlsfaction of earning a premium and alding the circulation of good, wholesoma .reading matter.Thus can they unite pleasure and profit in the home Drcamsxr 17, 1698, PATHER CHINTQUY'S LASY APPBAL.The name of Father Chiniquy is ews the wide world over.It will remain In eaparably connected with tbe Metory of Causés, whatever may be thought of his aggressive spirit, and of \u201chis methods of work, there can be bul ene miad en his marvellous powers.For many years Dr.Chiaiquy has steed in the front rank fighting the grent dastie of freedom.He bas sought te give te his tellow countrymen all the privileges, fiberties and rights to which British subjects are entitied, but of which the French-Canadians of Quebso are la a Kood measure deprived.Of late, the grand old man dan told we Tepeatedly that he fesls bis chsckered oa- reer is drawing to a close, and that his voice shall soca be silenced by the hand of death.The work to which he has devoted his talents and strength since bis conversion to Protestantiam, is still very near to bis heart.He takes a deep interest In the various departments of this work, and generously gives away all the money Ged sends Lim to promote ts ta torests.Father Chinlquy ts now itn his sighty- seventh year and !s sutitied to some rest He has served his church and country well.But he Goes Dot take the rest whioh both mind and body iLmperstively demand.He has a burden on his heart, and he asks the peopls of God to remove it In Montreal there is a aburch which be has been instrumental ln starting, is which be has labored abundantly, and over which his som-ln-law was pastor for several years.The Bt.John's French Presbyterian Churoh is the most lmpoe- tant French Protestant church in Canada, It ccouples a strategio position, 8 has a most britliant future before ft, 1 at this present juncture !a ite history 1t can completo and equip the modest ¢di- fice now in course of oons.ruction, and no indispensable for the prosecution of lt important work.The sum of $4,000 ia needed at once, and ~ until that sum is secured the werk must remain at a standstill or retrograde.Father Chiniquy has felt so deeply the need of prompt action, that be bravely said to the managers of the church: \u2018Here am I, send me.\u2019 It Is touching to see an oid man of eighty-seven undertake a journey of three hundred miles to deliver wd- dreszes on behs'l of this cause Last week after three or four vigerous appeals in Toronto he was completely +x- hausted and was im bed tor thres days He felt discourages because the responses to his appeals were meagre.He asked God to take him to his rest as one no longer of any use in the Master's cause.We feel assured that the of friends who have admired his Christian boldness, his fortitude in hours of t perl), wiil not allow this wonder old man to pass to his reward without sse- ing the desire of bin heart satisfied.All communications addressed to Dr.Chiniquy, 66 Hut-idaon street, Montreal, Que., will reach bim.CALVIN E.AMARON.A GIRL GRADUATE'S SUOCREE.* The many frisads at Point M.Charles and elsewhere of Dr.Josephine Cunin, gold medailist, Bishop's, 95, will be pleased to learn that she was one of the few successful candidates for degree of LR.C.P., 8.E.L.F.P., and 5.G,, Bdin- burgh, taking highest honors after a short sojourn there of three months, Dr, Cunin is at present in Paris.\u2014 HOPELESS SEARCH FOR A CHILD.a fe of a well-to-do farmer of South Prairie, Wash, has lost her daughier, Mary Jardine, aged 1l.and bas come to the conclusion the child has been stolen by enemies, and is being passed as à prisoner from convent Lo cohvent.Almost crazed by grief, she has been prosecuting a fruitless search for her little one sinos 1890, in all paris of the North- West, and yesterday she oame here on the information of a Tacoma detective ageucy that the child had for several months been Immured In 8t.Ann's Convent, of this city, where Sister Mary Providence is Lady Superior.Mrs.Hasking instituted bal corpus proceedings ia the Supreme Court to-day to require Sis ter Mary Providenos to produce the missing child.In reply Sisters Mary Providence, Mary Ann end Mary Lucy filed de- nlals that \u2018Mary Jardine\u2019 had at any time been admitted to the convent bare.these afdavits the mother's application was refused by the court.She still Insists tbat the child is here, despite the direct denisls by the suthorities of the convent, WAR ON THE NEGROBS.NOT ALLOWED TO WORK AND ALMOST STARVED, Tampa, Dec.10.\u2014Nearly two hundred negroes have arrived here from Lee county, having besu driven out by whites.They went down to pick oranges but when they reached Fort Myer- they were ordered to leave.The negroes refused and armed whites forced them to the whar! and thers guarded them for \u2018wa days and nights till a steamer came.The negroes say they wers not allowed to get onything tr eat and an the guard were firing ali the time they feared they would be killed.They alro ntate that twelve negroes In their terror jumped into the river and It lv thought they were drowned.The negroes were wargel not to return.A MESSAGE FROM TUE SCHOONBR \u201c HARRIDT\" Halifax.N.8., Dec.12.\u2014A remarkable tale of the sex has just bern made pub= fie.John McPherson, of Boston writes that on Dec.9 at Cane Elizabeth, Maine, he picked tp a battle containing a little plece of paper on which was written the following :\u2014 Jan.3, 1000.Wo are in a gale of wind and a snow.eurm.We are sinking; our vessel 14 the 0 hooner \u2018llarriet,\u2019 bound to North y y 0 Portland.cone) to Joh vers.meds \u201cCARE WILLIAM Ya On New Year's Lay, 1569, the zchoemer * Harriet\u2019 esiled from Portland for Nerth Sydney with & oargo of flour and was never afterwards heard from until the finding of the botlle just à month ago.The crew consisted of five men, one of whom was the brother of Mr, W.MH.Mocre., the well-known North Sydn: merchant.The bottle has boom earri about by the currents for over à quarter of 6 century. Ducempen 17, 1895.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, DO NOT DELAY ' weak side, an6 100 Bu, would be about the generally brin in ome cass | TRA A COMMERCIAL best price for soot\u2019?Oct, re hold Porn hat in.TROUBLEB\u2014UIS DOUIOR MAI! RE MIGUT , > rice o « Corn shows a decrease =; bushels om- thery Bax beed no change Fresh and mise ae a US Jane cate in Te a.creased some.Sugars are eer and driea DROF DEAD AT AKT MOMENT \u2014 TELLS The market at the aftermoon scesion was Pied, Wil 8 week ago.and ea lacreass eq fer have been Tairly active and steady.| big Waâneséay market.À constierabie nuin- | fruite aise.The movement of greis shows & HUW HE OVERCAME THE TROUBLE fairly active and stead Je wD a year 880.of 4133 bushel {The \u2018produce and provision markets have | ber of buyers being preednt, a fair rade wag | SHEBL increase.but prices sre hoary aad, y y.a with the mms weak fast 7 | been very dull.ts and ils.sement,\u2018 experlonced at prices unilaï Lo thoes current | weaker for wheat snd oats, There fe a (From the Ingersell \u2018Chronicle.\u2019), The sales ai the afternoon bonrd were as \u201cCpared wi rane ot Kaa Tear batiiels, SR Deval sores.are as usual at ifaliow Fair,\u2019 snd a nearly (o.al clearance further decline in dressed hogs and products, follows: \u2014100 Gae a6 36%.§0 at JW.LI al! compared with à week ago, and Gucrease 1119 time of year, The city \u201chide dealers wus \u2018erected.Fre quality \u2018of the.ature Receipts fn hogs ace large.40d, considering Thal & sound mind iv « sound body ia 208: 50 Street Rallway at 230%.30 at 238, of 106.164 with a year ago.je formed themsalves into a combine for heep on offer was caly rate.and trade the fact that lard and ribs are lower now | one of the best and greatest gifts of a .\u201c are shows an Increase of 1.0238 bushels, purpose of checking In'Mscriminate cute \u2018wus quieter at barely previous prices.Milc In Obloago then for 20 years.it 1% not likely | king Providence no ope will deny.Maa- M at 38Y.3 Richeliew at 101, 33 at 101% bared with a week sgo, and an increase dm of Blow.Green hides have declined cons met a rather worse trade at about 108 that our farmers are making much from | xind in all ages.have scugbt to obtain the % Toronto Street at 76 OL BG with à \u2018Tour ago: | Surine the week Yo per Lane ess BOW 4 head money.Bost beet alu to be 3j (his branch of industry.elixir of life, have unted fof some means Reported by Mamens.Nieools & Macler.shows an increase of 641 bushels.37 Soda trade ta ét Dut the unariond te So Vione current ok Ta,8d,t0.78 3 per atone: of prolonging health.vigor, and vitality\u2014 Boivves Pants Cour: Sompared with & week age, and à promising for the begtüning of the new jear, london.Dent 550 id por ib.UNITED A TRADE.have in fact hoped that they might find wees ter [af 1.80 wilh a Year ago.Canadian pelroleun.hae vanced 4 of a London, Dec.2.\u2014Smaller supply of second New York, Dec.Hreéetrest'a\u2019 to- Buyers.LLY Flour shows 3 increase fig barrels, con per gall \u20183 sand middiin beasts, at Runibering about w wil say has weather has rg Si, pese wine 1e ériax same week same as Monday last, intter maeti morro ; Or elfe os coul New York Ponda 116 prous.4 prom.5 to 8 prem, OMPATEd WILD (RO same week last year.|ntendy demand at into rates.and a cleacance a a bea aul 0 rer And to boone ormereal.Boros.pe eu MovexENTS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR TORONTO CATTLE MARKET.made.Slow sale, but unadlered In valu | 36, Dep oN PUR PEt SRY LY trade But while man can bardiy hope to at- ; boi Receipts.Shin'te Toronto, Dec.1\u2014This being practically '4d to 4s 7d por § Iba Hritish arrivaie\u201420 dull, merchanis preferring to reduce stoeks tain that coveted prize thin side of the = the principe] market day for the Christmas Scotch; 200 Irish: 140 Norfolk, Bufolk and | &t {be end of the yeur, Lo make resdy for eterna) world.yet It Is evident to all who business was active.Prèces realized were Fasex ; 10e ide midiend.home, and western | SnDusl inventoriss.In retail lines, partieu- give the aubject any considefation, 0 poor as compared with those rung at countles.iy Son Brin | any in the holiday specialties.there has od tence.ekiii and educati ns former Ohristmes markets, Receipts were \u2018and foreign Lae, ibsen a marked ficrease in demand, though, MOTE AcleRC he ery Deir fairly heavy of everyihlog: 2 cer loads for aide former ins in te .casse me per thus far.in come fostances.not equal to treatment of the ills that flesh is heir to, came in on W 2 yesiorday and 60 A 84 ibe.lower.Calves nominal.Pigs Ae expectations.[rreguiarity la shown in mer- bave worked wonders In restoring tbe car loads to-day.To-day's o offerings Included | Dresbed.eantéle collections, burcan body to its originat \u2018form divine\u2019, |cows and about 10 calven.About hail a Mutton.3s 84 to 5e 104; vrai, 3e 84 te Ge 4d; 629 sheep and lamba, -,200 16 mich Neel, 25 4d to 4a 8d; pork, 2a 4d to 2a #4; There are 213 business fs!lures reported and in rellering many sufferers from ub- throughout the United States this week.told misery.bringing them back to besith beasts, 1.780; shesp, 10,460; bh compared with $18 last week, and 382 fn the !donen car loads of cattle were (akcn to ra 6 sheep, pies, ke \"week \"one and happiness, snd giving them a feeling 41,606 L J -_ that life in Indeed worth living.A case At Milwaukee Dutchers' Comtle\u2014Gond cattle were sell- ihe To Se ras at, end He in point, Io our own town.having reached n Wheat, bush .2,000 108 Vk Ut She poor aad common ones (bird, 4d.Best Sooict whewp.shed and 64; BRITISH DRY GOODS TRADE.the sers of a reporter of the \u2018Chronicle\u2019 At Duluth\u2014e i were selling fully ic per ib lower than they ober sorts, Tha, and d.An increases Manchester, Pec.IL.\u2014The \u2018Guardian\u2019 tu! the scribe determined to satisfy his ou- Wheat, bush .4,000 have done at former Christmas times.Tbe A.28 beasts an.of #0 sheep.its commercial arilele, says: \u2014There ju & yiogity by railing on the party who bad At Detrolt\u2014 best figure realized during the past three Slow demand tor it classés = about late mcre cheerful feeling la some uarters where pad sucha bappy experience and fnvestl- \u2018Wheat, cere BOR Lens days was 4lac per lb, which wañ pald to.\"816.Chrismas sbow, Dec.sellers have mote business.nll leading.In At Minneapolis\u2014 day for about one ear load.Buying of \u2014 ree 94 ever heres + decided Wheat, .bush .ceinee 719,000 60,000 ! the ae Mk at the Destoniog of LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.marked demand for yarns and clothe made At St.Louis\u2014 hours advanced and los buxchers bee Dec.7, 1896.from plian cotton.The decline In the Wheat, bush .\u2026-\u2026.104,080 6000 aupplied.Taken ail round the prices ruled BAcon\u2014Importers are all free sellers.and oe of silver discourages business.There At_Toledo\u2014 about as fodows:\u2014Poor and common cattle, 41 1?demand continues to be disappointing nave been inquiries from China for heavy Wheat, bush .15.000 3c do Thee.per Tb.medium to pond tke | uirtons have further declined from la (Sbirtings dole sbestiags and blesching \u2014_\u2014 to 3 < per fe choice to fancy, Sac to ge 1?=# Per cui.We quote choice Cumberland cleths.but the aalse have largely been un- | Pony a few touching dee.per Ib.GR i ibe, si 2a to Jou! MH 0 20 lta.ae interfered with Te Foie CE .CHICAGO MARKETS.at 1s to 2%; to 40 tbe.at 27s 6d to hers ore 2 of iapravement iw | Tha following table shows the range of prices la Chicage to-day, and the ciosisg quotations as compared with those of yes- vo cattle were bought in GQuelpu yew.erda; for Ottawa at Te per Ib., Export Cetide\u2014Tasre was some buying in his line to-day to ship to the oid country Porttand .Good cattle were selling for : Staflords, lean on.and Hirmingham.at wt to 3s; N.Y.ibs.aver: t 278 to 298; clear bellles,14 10 i Ibs., ordinary brands, at Ns to 3s.one er Iwo exceptional brands up to 3a, rib-in or clear Stalfords, #8 to 45 business for the minor markets.CHEESE SALES.oa ib, These were picked up Lrllles at Te lo 33a; long middies, rib-In, London.Dec.14.\u2014Fitrorn factories board- 6 To-day's be Neue 15 to 24 lbs.of at to Me; short ed 3,05 bees, September and balance.Sales Open.High.Low.Close Bulle Export bulls aoid to-Gny for \u2018$iic niddles, rib-in, 28 to Ibu., ak 3Le to 33s 64; 686 at $c: market slow.7 \u201c & A to 4c per Ib.Three or four desisrs wef short clear backs, lean on, 15 to 30 ba.af \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 pb es operating.Mostiy the males wore In (Be vin 64 Lo 30s; fal backs al 208 Lo Zéu; Will.FOREIGN MARKETS.we YW inity of Je per Ib.Some stock bulls #Mirt cut, sluged, at 30s to âge: later only - wy , 901d from 3%c to 3c per ib.Choice bulls for lor Smest lean \\ght weights Milwaukee, Dec.16, 1.16 p.m.\u2014Closing.\u2014 xy ss 2% 2! export ere wanted.lear middles, 36 to 4 Ibe., at 25 to Se: #¥%e Dec.68e May.=» Boi Stockera\u2014Some very choice feeders were Ei, at 27s 64: short clear middles, #8 Ibs., luth, Dec.16.1.18 p.m.\u2014Otoat No.\u201c we % M picked up to-Gay to be sent to n man in I 6d to 2s 6d; shoulders.square cut, Ii DU Take Dec, he Mar.No, i \u2018BUSY WORK.Lox Quebec Province, Thess \u20ac from de to ee M Se Lo Ste; NŸ.cut, 10 to 14 |] Northern.Bic Dec.S7ke Mar: No.1 SY AT : RAT per Ib.- lbs.to 35 per cwt.hard 3 ; B70 BK BT amg Re per ee Ou UN Haine are ain) sealer SHghtly, and hoié-| Toledo.Dec.16, 1.0 p.m\u2014Closing\u2014étige Sate for himaeëf.He called at the boot 00 10 at Tc per Ib.No more are wanted, hum.TS are free sellers.We quois choice long Dec., and §7\\c May.and ghos shop of Mr.John Toull, King $e 7.96 TM ever, a: those prices, the demand \u2018to-duy Cit.19 to 12 Ike, at 438 mm is 64; 14 Lo 1 St Louis, xs 16, 1.90 p.m.\u2014Closiag\u20145äige | Street west, and on entering the building 0 im an betng from only that one man, who is now 100.81 408 to tis; short out, 10 to 12 ibs, at fo.\u201cgies M, | the reporter found \u2018Father Toul\u2019.as be = .628 fully supplied.Ordinary litde tockern were 424) to 46; te 16 be.a DX TUR to Peu York, Tee.16, 22 p.m.\u2014Cloal \"bis familiarly known In town, busily at si vi cs 657 tow o wale and duil Fa paies, ailing 3t \u201cheed: se la no alteration.Market k \u2018Whaat, &%¢ Dec.Gilgc Marek; corn, ie! work on a pair of shoes for one of bie from er to I¥c per A bunch of 13 quiet at about previous quotations.we Dec., 3#%c May.many customers, at the same lime hum- dé wr vs tn Los Leo for 8260 per cwt.and 9 over on {quote extra India mess 62e 6d te 736 per 304 \u2014\u2014 ming over to himself the tune of a cher a heap Though the feeling was perhaps Sor is unchanged.Market continues CHICAGO LiVE STOCK MARKET.lshed hymp.for by tbe wsy.!n bis Mr, coruidered LIVE STOCK MARKET.\u2014Dec.12.| iy armen vet it oamnot De nad that quil, hut no further decline is quoted.Fin- Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Dec.\"x TO aay rer om Method igher.fow head were est prime mess Is offered at 456 to Sis per Hoge \u2014 To-day's estimated receipts, 45.00: & p among There were about 850 head of butchers\u2019 required to AW space.The ruling figures :o receipts according to official re- Iste of this section and frequently filled caitle.15 calves and 200 shoop 204 lamde were from $2.70 to $2.75 per cwt.win pros- Lard | sein lightly slightly east: in of .shipments.i left over, 1.- the pulpits of some of our iocal churches offered for sale at the East Abattoir pects for no higher prices.: Prime Western In © es ta oHorsd nu dés 6: Tight mixed.$5.40 ts 8.57: mised park.in th \u2018s ab d he still do to-day.The butchers were presen.ia i Lambe\u2014Siightly firmer.Some of the best to 28 38 per cwt.en is now a bei.\u2019 lng.8.40 Lo 5.00: heavy shipping.8.5 to 5 Ying.pres ob expat 1 o's ne ces which rerasss foreiga numbers and trade was falr with serv} n lambe for Christmas killing.wold for $3.35 ter feeling.the prewent value being lowest ak.rough to Es The ree | et A a dt \"Tre moines A Monies ere change in prices sings the sary part of owl.ome very fancy banch feuding in history ot the trade.Pails and wen celpia of catile were 16,00; market steady.: TIPO theme or favorite hymn.The Ton one Hal one.American nelivays wear A Pres sinc, Tals sold at Bo rt 00 ery tency bunch feiching aro quoted at 19e to 308 cwt, -_ | Reporter was cordially received.and on ware improved ha tone, but there was no from 3c to a little over Ske per Ib.: protir at 2e per Ib.Cheese \u2014 Hollers of Area hove besa firm making known his business, the old man's marked change in price.mood stock sold at from Nc lo ske we hom.Offerings were again heavy to-day.| this week at our duotations, with a moderate LONDON CONSULS.countenance brightened and nls eves comm ere over 2 nt ns at passin » quote finest tembers, = \u2014 .v/ - to 24e per Ib.The calves offered here to- the opening of the markel.Ali sold.Prices 44s &d to or per eut.for red or white, Doin So Consol qrarkled ey vi ra, WHEAT GEATIY WEAKER, pnd prit 8 w sac, thr we pot ah, and I anything the market: i 100 cholo ibe Summers Fri at 32s to 3m Low , cn volunteered.as he said for the sake of bu- weaker.Dest bacon hogs were sviling ums quiet a to 34.according to manity, to tell what he could of bis case, those à week old sold from Ha to 88 each.at from $3.50 to 8340 per owt, weighed of quality, LvmapooL MARKET PRICES CURRENT A few gheep were bought for shipment to the cars.and ts are for lower prices.Butter\u2014There 1s no change of importance and we will let it be told io bis own Britain at abou Ie per Ib.Good lembe Tek Tad ene it to note this week.The demand has been Dt 1, 10.Spring whest, woods.ie wld For twenty years [ LARGE INCREAER IN THE VISIBLE aille lot from to Je per 10.(be par wih Bore are hata ules ui #14 steady at las week's quotations.We quote 50.3005 da, red Winer Sa 244 to was subject to heart trouble and could A are Ast wanted at soy Sa No.1 Cola.En 44 to be 34; orl.Faust 94: pork.fee: u: o SUPPLY.others bring from to Ie do.A few Sores other rongh ho duit 10-day finest American and Canadian crea.I i 1 choice lambs sold up to TC per Ib.Fat por To \u201cGomes breeding wy are dio Mery at 92 to 1056 per cut, and grades un.Bu: bea boas i, ere, fa get no reliet.althount | had triod almost - ops sell at about 3c Lo) b., weighed se ne to Pa Per Ib.Only best bacon hogs are 57 this description at 60 to 8s.Finest Thier a ore i lel family physt 4 the cars.Dressed hogs bdriag from 4%0 to wanted.Danésh Is offered at 1128 to 117s.and choice je cheese, white, : eolored, 45e.ed tome.My family physician woul 1a Chicago this morning wheat opened 3% ef a cent lower and further declined upon large inoresse is the visible.The visible inereass of wheat was 3.048,00C; corm 29,000, 204 oats 133,000.The North-Western re- coipts of wheat to-day were 1,238 cars, 4c per 1b.LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014Dec.16.There were about 600 head of butchers\u2019 cattle, 20 calves and 360 sheep and lambde offered for sale at the East End Abaltolr te- AMERICAN CATTLE MARKETS.corey York, Dec.12.\u2014Catile\u2014Totai re- pts to-day, including alt local points.were sa cars.or 3,786 head; 108 care to be exported to Great Britain adive end in dreate Australian at 102s to 10a We quote Irish batter, Cork firsts.at 107s per cwi.seconds at 87s; thirds at 3s.and fourths at $is.A fair trade has been done in whes* at an advance of 14 per cental Flour has also brought 6d to lu per sack mors moi Indian corn has advanced id TORONTO PRODUCE MARKETS.Toronts, Ont, Dec.16.\u2014 The market | dot.heat dull; cars of red sold wes Sic; some holders ask! rihern quoted at ofc.teady ; a 2 \u20ac ot 84c; white on, anitoba wheat orthern Toronto and sometimes give me some medicine that would help me for a short time, but without permanent benef.He told me 1 might drop dead at any moment, and I tell you | expected to do so on many oo- casions.| bad heard of Lr.Willlams' Plok Pills when they first came out but a Lt against 1.300 last week.and 516 last yesr.ttle Quarters.53 cars consigned direct to home per cental @ quote to-day Canadian wheat, West freigh 1 hard votes = had ha December wheay closed me Gaturday's | 307: & considerable qumber of the caille be LUI, py hon, Can TL 0 Tor Bho maar.Boar Anrenean od \u2018iia SHTaan wheat He, grind fing in transit nd No.1 Noritorn 1,180 uted so many remedies tha I Just > aDd May closed ing superior beeves Intended for Christie Let making, wifh'4 cars Peceived seurerder, 108 Îbe.: Boring.none: Bombay white sat | me: Bard Toromia nd wast at Tho.about dont faith in everything of that fgures; January 7e M 01 M market, The buichers were present in a total of 58 cars to be sold-all aù Jersey M to be Si, Guliforniaa af de 40 te 6a) Flor tel; car of straight roller quoted at and had become rosigned Lo Te However, | came in contact vi cent lower.Oats were stoady end corn ree, trade was brisk, with decided.City.The offerings averaged Inferior in Oregon at fo 60 to 1a 70, Tiour, extra mates 3.Toronto frelmaia; Manitoba Nour steady: | stronger.Provisions were higher.fu ner sacs beicz + for anything Quality, consisting chiefly of the usual com- \u2018and Canadian st 15e to ie 64 per 295 iby.San of shorts west quoted at.so many that had used Pink Pils, and _- ood In the beef line.few of the fancy plement of rough butchers\u2019 stork t at 226 to 26: Indian sr) mixed t 8 vo Baie, steady; No.who assured me that they had Eteves ware bald at be per Ib.but without of inferior lo good quaiky.Very 44 to 3s 54 per 100 Ita.east unchanged.dic 0.extra #1 benetited by their use.that at last | de- GRAIN MARKETS.being sold.rotors an eter fit Tor the parte opened.mong the ; ®t lod to! 1d per 100% adie D 2 at fers Quoted out cided to give them a trial also, aod sev.t le were sol a rom c to ra ule under a ; + Grain\u2014The market for oats le reakor: oo por large fat cows sold at fro 4 apres wit! teers of aH grades Seli- with 32: bid.Bye steady at ¢Tal years ago | commenced taking them.other grain is steady, and trade Is dull.We & Ps pretty good stock sold at from i NW doen.closing prices: closed MANITOBA WHEAT.rst sad and west.Corn In fair de- | 1 continued their use until 1 had taken quots as fellows:\u2014 dull où not over favorable advices from \" steady with sales of mixed and eight boxes, and 1 am now happy to say per 0 Ibe.oat For rier Pe Tne per 4 ibe Sle #0 0c to 20 Ta and common dry cows at from 2c Reber per 1b.There ssema to de little demand for the inferior beeves, but as they ere not so numerous as on former markets were held at higher prices.Mr, Geo.Ne olson fo per Joa eu, the West with two cars of good sold.Ozem and ary cows were ip fair demand and steady throughout, but dulls, on rather liberal receipts, declined 106 to 15\u20ac per 100 lbs.There was Do inquiry what- Steers un- The principal feature of foterest in the local situation !s the final closing of navigation at our lake ports.The last boat\u2014the Centurion\u2019 ~cleared from Fort Wititam with wheat for Buffalo on December 5.ellow west at Outs offering quite free.jy and market easier; cars of white sold on quoted sms mixed Oatmeal dull Michigan Ceamtral at 22! price on C.P.R.and TR.west; west quoted at Tliar to 22c.that | have never had a symptom of the disease since, and I am convinced that by the blessing of God Pink Pills cured me.I might also say that last fall I was a t from Flour\u2014A fais looal trade ls reported at or ee he demand ai ora | : ae to 4 week he bad & gver for shipmen: abroad, aH of the nalca the laut bost cleared om er er ra and easy; nd alow and buyers looking tacked with rheumaiiom, which became ro vase quote mio to a ETON pring amb meal A Dal de RE EEE Ces chalet ments from Fors WIA Sue maek agers: | 107 decline, in avmpathy with oat markel:|eo bad that | could scarcely walk from es on heat, pates rR] from the storm arpeltre, for, which he poMed Angus cattle.averaging 1.180 |b., Ole 300.000 bushels tn round numbers.as on bors amoted at at 40e.qu! CATS my work to the bouse.and for à | Nott ans bakers $6 © i» paid $7.ATs © iy eat ont Le topped the market lor nalive steers at $4.5) compared with 70.000 busi~in for the corres.time 1 could not get out to church Buraight rollers $6 10 20 Pournt at about Se Der bo, for shipment 10 per 100 lb: gvoë 1.383 ibe.Kentucky stock ponding week lee.yeer.This will bring enip: GUELPH MARKETS.er a his vaca nded x wi 2 moderate Pe le the others sold at from ent at $4.42%.from which point selling meats by the Jekra f'om Host William for the] Guelph.Ont.Dac.11 -Flour, 31.65.to me, but received no good, from Lheir Foed\u2014The market is steady and moderate.| e per .values ranged down to $3.80 for rough Vir- .season mince Sent 1 up to Te 000 bua to $1.90: fall one tic Hc to Ge: J y o ly sctive in & Jobbing way.\u201d We quote as ic to Iho do.J Hom $e = peser 00 gine cattle.fllinols steers averaging tro ix, an compared with shipments of 9,1% ring wheat.@c : bran, $13] Use.mo 1 said 10 myself one day.Pink retours lower ka price, per db.7185 10 1,551 Tbe.sold from 34.124 to l'bustele up to the close of navigation shores.#14; sade pT; Loerie, te to Pills 84 me so much good before fer my Bras Ohio do.1,215 to 1,403 its, at $4.20 to Len | Year, Allowing 1,600,000 bushels of \u201c oats, 2bc to 2éc: r, po o déc: pew heart trouble, ll try them again, wo I Shorts, w FARMERS MARKET PRICES\u2014Dec.13.150 to 1.364 Ther at E40 13 Loba wheat chipped ont by Duhith, fac a3 har wih 186 fo 30¢, EAve them another fair trial, with the re- With @ fresh north-east wind and the Sus A oF, ranged from 50 to | 009.000 bustiele ne at ae dr.Sond hi nur 18e to Me: Em usw do sult thai the rbeumat\u2019'sm hi 11 gone out rom o y cows pi T per J irnips, of bones, ard I have no ou PRODUCE MARKETS.thermometer below serv, bringing farm pro- from $1.3% to $3.00, Dressed beef sleady at | ASETegwis nearly 12,000.000 buahels, which Is [Se to Be: chickens.406 to 0: duckn, pr bed à Wit with wr Mince ° Etre, ele Provistane\u2014Looally, the market ls fairly [duce to market was scarcely In order, yot to Sléc par Ib.for Door te prime city sbont the same as Iam year to the clown of to Nc; gesse, bc to $c: turkeys, 7e to fo, the oid man, as he waxed warm over the scuve a Iate \u2018decline.We quoie a8 ]at haif-past nine this forencom there were deem af des.bien trom London | D A ny destine de low ad = HAMILTON MARKATS.| {nought To Bin Rapny experience.whe fatto about 140 farmers seighs on Jacques Cartier we a Neth Noe par ib drones weight: now on the old parity aa to grades.There Hamilton, Ont.Dec.14.-White wheat, | kncws 1d Fathi r Toull, knows that whet Beet Censdise short square and 100 more on @t, Paul street op- tle; American sheep Ari at Sc to i1c bas iso been a wider range of prices In Per bushel 68¢ to The.ne wheal, do.8c 10 he telle in the truth © After thanking MP.posite Bonsecours Market, while about two = lb.dreened welghi; American rofrigera- ferent country markets, prices having e4- : Joring so.gow oa: ores do se te Toull for his kindness and rourtesy.\u2018be dozen market gardenors occupied a part of tor Dest bi ASE 7c to ce, tb.Commissioner atreet on th other of Old Tho buyers were er slow d those who rane found It Sheet ad, were 41 cars or 4,671 head\u201411 oars dire and 30 cars to de pold-21 at Jersey \u201cRy and 0 at Sixtieth street, Supplies were rather ct to sinughterers : wheat ia gnoted st about 72 to Te .1 hard at North Bay.Prices to eto aie: dover seed.do.reporter loft the shop with the same opla- $3.15 to, fon as 10 the truth of ha statements, and impressed with the belief that from hie rugged.hearty sipearance and cheerful mcre comfol to do their purchasing 4p jor)\" ang the marke: was not generally Manitoba country markets have ran ee disposition, the nid gentiemun In sitll , fr the ares Bai mate ie Dee Eee gatlafaciorz to the selling fnterret, À few; (o die for No.1 hard at mont patate, | grr bag of bushel and helt.Ke te, Mac: god fr many years of n bealibfal.com- rrr a Goda \u201cpadiiry.pork pleces, frozen milk and arly transactions were at former Mgures.V northern and No 2 hard ie to dre Be aoe te dae Dutiect ort Jr tented lite Rolled oats.bris Sreara and prinl pavser.Fe auvoir of areln Qui tbe balk of the fredine was Man EE ee re Ni eue ES ro p 8.1e pa ise vue in Arkin pari | DT Willie, Din Pie are the erent: Cl Cable Jeqiations this morning los An was not be and prices aa\" Oss decline on beth ehesp and lambs af Ye to 22e, No.| fried.2c to Me.No, 2 frosted wn Les Vie to tae Lest diocd builder and nerve rentorer te (nr white and Hs far colored.Local were The the bag: buckwheat, as, Mc per id, the pane closing quiet at the Me to 2c.Bueines In round Jota waa done | 13e \u2018 .kid te leal actence.end cnrs vhon la about For finest fall chensé soc the bueh-I, potatoes are nu he ri reduction.With 3 cars of sheep uneoid -all \u2018at a dests of about Siiur per buthel for Na.: has me - | medio a range Is abou toh for late makes, oo, uen el.Due and pente, 406 to Mic 8t Jersey Cliy.A few rarly sales of shesp | bard.afiwt Fore Willem There wera NOTRE AND NOTICES.[aN other remedies fat not em dy nrh, and around for Ontario.FLE do: cabbages, béc in 8c the barrel; colery, Were ne high an SLA) par 1 | but prime abot 300 more car loa ls sold to go forward | your dealer they will be sent post.aid og summer makes around Rigo In the baste for yo to 20e par onan\" eet quartiers and Western slork averaging 110 IbS., went at | before the clone n° nicistion.If charters A Good Aévice.- For Coughs, Colds and recelp: of 50 rants 4 box or aix boxes transactions.The latter claws of rk caresses a ver: pleattul; hee sel).$3.35, which was the top quctable figurs at could be made.Shioments from Mauïtobe 1) the diseanes of the thromt and lungs, for $2.50.hy addressing the Dr.Willams however, rid diMeutt to obtain.& at from d'gc to 5 rb, for hind.the close.Really commog sheep roid as low nta te Fort WillMam principally, have ask for the best syrup and you will get Medicne (o.Brooky lle.Ont.or Behenee.Shan add en Hc te | fig le dns carences.Li tor 1b.The on 8 * on rive for Gime Tay | Tey Socmeam ere = ven Menthol Cough Syrup.If you ask fer tady, NY.Get the gonulte: Imitations °J - \"Coma Menthol Cough Syrup surely you will have and substitutes are anrthioss hope 1\" tn 130.It was hot quite so a ar 10 oe, rae core of Ki (te to torase Is Mind up.\u2014~ Winnipeg eu en ae ih ee ét PU, 4 =a Candas and Wesieres (mixed), vont cb the best, dangerous.Buiter\u2014Thy butter market continues on the! re a8 sal and prices are Ann; turkeys 20 MR.WALLACE'S RESIGNATION.Its Probable Effect Upon the Political Situation.Special Correspondence dt the \u201cWitness.Toronto, Dea.14.\u2014The event of the week has been the resignation of the Hou.N.Clarke Wallace, Comptroller of Customs.Mr.Wallace bas in Toronto been regarded as a very eiicient and not too inflexible head of his troublesome department, and on this account general regret in felt ai his untimely retirement.But this is of little moment just now, compared with the interest taken in it from a purely polilical point of view.Of course there are varied ferences drawn from what has happensd, and equally varied predictions as to the ef- foot it fn likely to have on the future of the differen: political parties.Many Ldbesals persist in regarding the resignation sa & \u2018put-up job.The retirement of Mr.Wallace, they say, will now enable the Boweil Ministry to present a solid front to parllament on the Manitoba schol question, and to force through remedial legislation.When that bas been accomplished Mr.Wallace will be taken back, probably into the cabinet.and all will be serene as befors, with the \u2018Grits dished.\u2019 Such, in thelr opin- ton, is the scheme of which this resignation 1g a part.The straight party Conservatives cre Inclined to condemn the resignation as uncalled for, as likely to cause needless and injurious embarrassment, and cutting Mr.Waliace of from future political prefermént.The admir- ors of Mr.McCarthy claim that the resignation of (the Comptroller is a\u2019 de claration of the soundness of their position on the school question, and predict thai.in spite of past potitioal and personal feuds Mr.McQurthy and Mr.Wallace wili soon be found working together.The prevalent opinion of prom- {nent Orangemen, irrespective of political party leanings, seems to be that Mr.Wallace has done right fn resigning be fote parilament meets, when he must have resigned In any case.To have stuck to office when that meant forcing separate schools ou Manitoba, would either have spilt up tbe Orange body or have forced Mr.Wallace juto permanent retirement from it.The general publie, who are disposed to accept the motives assigned by men when they take new departures.appear to acquiesce ia the opinion that as Mr.Wallace made s pecuniary sacrifice in reaigaing he must be assumed to have acted honestly in doing so.There can be little doubt that the strong tendency of public opinion.not merely tn Toronto, but all over western Outarfo, ls against the enforced restoration of separate schools in Mani- tuba, sn long as there ia any hope of an amicable settlement nf the question by the people of Manitoba themselves.With this tendency the resignation of Mr.Wallace fits in, and he will get the bene- ft of its moral support.The political result of his retlrement cannot be precisely foretold.1: came Loo late to have much effect on the North Ontario contest, but It may be very much otherwise in Cardwell, to which the eyes of the party managers arte now anxiously directed.It has despened the Impression, which was rapidly becoming a convie tion, that no remedial legislation can by any poesibility be forced through paria- ment during the coming session.Scarcely jess exciting than the actual resignation of Mr.Clarke Wallace wus, for a day or two, the rumored resignation of SIR WILLIAM VaN BORNE, with his forceful personality has become so completely identified in the pub- le mind with the Canadian Pacific Railway that it is difftcult to think of its got- ting on without him.Of course no man 4e ever ahaolutely necessary to Any great ænterprise.and be bas been long enough at the helm of this one to be abis to set 1t well on its way, There are many able men connected with the organization, some of them in this city, but their names are not very famlilar to the pub- Me, The rumor would have had less effet if Sir William had beea more explicit in bis denial of its truth.As itis, rightly or wrongly, there har been left on the public mind a fecling that a few months will see the Canadian Pacific under a Dew president.If this conviction results in @ depression of the stock 19 one can be blamed for aurb à regrettable occurrence except the Indiscreet friend of fir William who gave to the public an intimation that was never intended far any but private ears.The management \u2018of the provincial university has provided this year a programme of SATURDAY LECIUNRES, the first of which was delivered by Dr.Parkin, the new principal of Upper Ca: ada Callege.Having some twenly year ago spent two years at Oxford he gave the audience an account of the impressions formed on his mind by 4bat areat veat of learning, and a most interesting account it was, Oxford's great men of that day.her yonng men who have since become prominent.her collection of heau- tiful and historical academic bulldings, her religious life, and her educational work, were all dealt whh by ons why saw them sll through (he spectacles of a young Canadian.Dr.Parkin.if he sreceedrd in doing Nnibing mere.did something toward convincing the public that he in now the right msm in the right place.and all accourss that reach one from trustworthy sources of what he (a 4 ing In his heed tisutership sre caleu- fated to confirm this opinion In his favor, Ty à rorlea « À fonctions of one sort of another the subject ot ONSVMEAUTT ATRLRTION has thin term been kept more than usual- fy prominent ln the publie view.The great Atneby Union triumph and the less fraporiant Association victory have been dwelt on with great insistence snd verinug means have hesn ras.rad to for the pur.of gtoritsing those who gained them, eh ui nhservers of coliege Hfe in American tniverstiles sre tempted lo wonder where this will They read emounts of athlefic oof ts Deiween some of (ts great universities of the United States that woutd disgre-r bood- tyes and them ask, quite nsturaiiy, what Edith, rei Rradford, Oot.18 te prevent our own university from be- comipg equally degraded.The avawer must be, nothing except the spirk of the men themselves.There are pleaty of opportunitiss for the exercises of brutality in football.The men of Toronto Unl- versity have ahown themselves to be singularly free from any tendency in that direction.There is NO reason 10 Suppose they are on (he down grads, but if those who are in a position to exercise an tn- fluonce on athletic sport in that institut'on ars wise they will steadily frown down all practices that would jeasen the | totes tn which university athletics are row held by the general public.It 1s resdless (0 ssy that in the opinion of nany warm friends of the university rather more has been made of the ath- letle achlevements than they deserved: bud as such a triumph cannot reasonably be expected every year very little Is heard in the way of deprecation.\u2014 SLAUGHTER OF FORBIGN CATTLE.London, Dec.11.\u2014A large deputation composed of members of the leading Eng- lsh and Ecotch egricultural societies waited upon the Right Hon.Waiter Loos, President of the Beard of Agriculture, today and appealed to him to cause ail imported cattle, sheep and swine to be slaughtered al thelr ports of departure.Mr.Loug sald, without pledging himself Lo measures which the government migbt introduce In Parliament, that he recog nited tbe importance of the subject and failed to see how hardship to any one could result from the adoption of the pre made by the deputation.He further sald he did not believe that the compulsory sisughter of imported stock would \u2018wither diminsh the supply or increase the cost of food.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.Bubscribers whose subscriptions termin- ats December 31st will find a circular In this week's issue accompanied by a addressed envelope for the convenience of the remitter.It is important tbat our subscribers should have their renewhls mailed io good time.We shall be very glad to have the names of as many new subscribers as each friend can send us.\u2014\u2014 RENEW! RENEW! Subscribers whose subscriptions end on Dec.31 are reminded not to walt for the crush of letters at the close of the year.Please mall your renewal et once for 1896, so an to bave 1: duly entered, and thus secure a copy of \u2018Pansy Blossoms.\u201d If you can Induce a friend or neighbor to remit with you at tho same time the two copies will be supplied for $1.30 up to Christmas day, including a copy of \u2018Pansy Blossoms\u2019 to each.Im this week's issue will be found a renewal form and addressed envelope for the convenience of subscribers.EEE Hotton of Virths, merriages and donthe inuet tnnart ably be endorsed with the name and address of the sender, or ofhericisc mo notice san be taken of them, Birth ustioss are inserted for Pic, marriage notices Jor $e, doath notices for Phe prepaid.When en- nouncement of funeral, extended obiuary or vers aecompany such netics further charge will be made.Notices rectierd from ernusl subseribers inmrted sro, BIRTHS.BEAVER \u2014On Dee.11, at Stoneleigh Vila, Westmount, Mrs.Alfred Eaves, of = daughter.3 GRIFFIN.\u2014On Dec.3rd, 388 Hibernia street, Point Bt.Charles, & aon to Mr.208 | Mrs.James Griffin.\u2019 HENRY\u2014At 79 Park avenue, St.Hear, ol Thursday, the 5th instant a daughter 10 Mr.and Mrs.Hugh Ienry.Manl.EAN\u2014At 8 Revers street.Truro, N.8., on Dec.1, 18%, the wife of the Rev.D.MacLasn, of a won.7 McEWAN\u2014On Dec.3, 18%, at Maple Grave Ferm, Maxville, to Mr.and Mre 5.J.McEwan, a son.MASSE\u2014At Grande Ligne, Que, on Dec.9.ims.a son to the Rev.G.N.Massé spé wite.MoLENNAN\u2014At Tuitle Lake, Wiscenain.on Dec.3, & daughter to Mr.and Mra, W.R.Molennan.14 PARKER\u2014At Leeds Village, Q on the Sth instant, a son to Mr.anû Mrs J.Parker.10 PATTERSON\u2014At 80 Britanala street, on Dec.4 a caughter to Mr.and Mrs.E.M.Patterson.10 ROBBRTON\u2014At 41 McGill College avenue, on Dec.4, 1895.à mon to Mr.ang Mis.George E.Robetton.TAYLOR.\u2014At Lachine, Que.on Monday, the Sth inst.a won to Mr.and Mrs, Arthur Taylor, in WILEON-At Bast Settlement, St.-Jeruma- lem d'Argenteuil.on the 61b > the wile of Wm.Wilson, of a son.10 WILTON\u2014A: No.20 Coursol street.city.on Dec.8, 186, Mra Richard Wilton, of.MARRIED.COOPFR-HOLSTOCK.\u2014At the Methodist arsonage, Sution West, on Dec.4, by the ev.A.Martin, Mr.Robert Cooper to Mise Sophronie Holstock, both of North Gwlllmbury, York Co, Ontario.7 COWIE-GRERNOUGH.\u2014On Dee.4, 196, at St.John the Evangelist\u2019s Church, Port.neuf, Que, dy the Rev.H.8.Fuller, F.W.Cowie, C.K.of Ottawa, to Kstherl pruneret Aaughter of W.P.Greeno +q., Portneuf.UNITAN-COOKM.\u2014At the residence of the bride's motber, Kincardine, Ont, on Dee.4, 1896.by the Rov, James Thomp- , B.A.tecior of the Church of tbr Messiah, Edward Langmead fmnetan, of the firm of Dunstan & Elsworth, Chicago.1H, to Anna Kennedy, younger daughter of the late Joseph Cooke, \u2019 RVANS-GRANAM.\u2014-At the rraidence of Lhe bride's father, by ihe Rev.John kon ac.2, 1805, TH W.Evans, bar- * Toronto.bp GILMOUR KIMPTON, \u2014 On Wednesday evening, lie 11, 1906.at the res-dence of the bride's father, .Therese, Que.by the ov, W = Morrison, Jo vue mour to 3 ges wrbter of John ¥F.Kimpton, poh 13 LANDER\u2014DUNCAN.\u2014At Craven.N.W.Ton Nov.14, at the residence of the groom, Kslon Vale, by the Rav.J.0.McKechnle, B.A.James Lander, to Janet Fillo; Dun.ous, iate of Androssen, Seolland, » THR MONTREAL LATIMER-McNEILLAN.\u2014Os Wednesday, Dec.11.1868, dy the Rev.H.J.McDier- mid.Kemperille, at the residence of John, Davidson, Keq.Mr.Hugh Latimer, to Miss Martha McNeillan, ali of Maribero\u2019, County Carleton, Ont.18 MeDOUGALL-DOWSE.\u2014At Milton.4.at the residence of the bride's bro! in-law Mr.T.Foster, by the Rev.I McKechnle, B.A.Archie McDougall Longinketon, Ama.to Katie Dowse.daughter af the late Wm, Dowwe, Exq, of Croft, England.PATTON \u2014 COUFIER.\u2014At New York, on Tec.1, by the Rer.8.P.Cadman, Richard Patton of this city, ts Jeanne Marie Therese Coupler, of Valance, France, No cards.At home after .1, 1008 ROBBRTS\u2014SHARPE\u2014In this 11th {natant by the Rev.W.P.assistant of Christ Church hedral, Geo.Roberts.mon of the .George Roberts.of Montreal, to Margaret C., second dawghter of Capt.Q.Sharpe, of Raw- don, Que.13 ROWELL\u2014BROWN.\u2014At the residence of the bride's father, Brown's Hill.Qus., on Dee.11, by the Rev.Churchill Moore, Con- grematjons! minister at Ayer's.Flate, Que.r N.L .farmer, living near ot elt.the POR Tevta, Aver's Flat.to Mire Anna A Brown, daughter of Mr.Wilder Brown.13 DIED.ALLAN \u2014 In this city en Dee.1086, Samuel Allan, aout son of de late Samuel Allan and Sarak Nell.1 BROWN\u2014At Mount Pleasant ebee, oR Beers, 186.Wotan Drove, \u2018Quebec Bast, in his ééth your.COOPER.\u2014At ths Western Houpital, ou the 81h fast.Albert Willis Cooper, second sea of the inte Alfred Cooper, aged 3 years and 3 months.Quebec papers pleass copy.» CREIOHTON.\u2014At the residence of Johm Harvie, Eeq., No.9 Bedford road, Toronto, .on Dec.9, 1886, in her Ith year.ennedy Creighton.CONROY.\u2014At Quebec, on Dec.9, 1986, Fiward, wife of Jobn Conroy, aged , à native of the County Tipperary, reland, and 3 years a mt of qu CHIDLOW\u2014At the Montreal General Mos- pital.on the evering of Dec.11, 1 to Me 1 Louise Ch.dlow, vod daughter of the late Samuel Chidiow, aged Ry Sr Glen giiah.American ant garty papers please copy.n CRATHERN.\u2014At his father's reatdsnce, Macgregor street, on (he morning of 11, 186.after a prolonged {llness, J: Caverhill Crathern, in his 25th year.beloved eon of Mi.James Crathern.DAVIS.\u2014At her late residence, No.20 Durocher street.on Dec.7, 1896 Lilly Boss, wite of Melvin H.Davis, aged years end § months.\u2019 DE GRASSI\u2014On Dec.6 1886.at Li .Ont.A.W.J.De Grassl, M.D.aged years.\"w GREBNSHIELD \u2014At bis late residence, Ne.21 Lanadowne avenue, Toronto, on Dec, $, 1896.Alexander Greenahields, of the Cana- élan Express Company, in bis 63rû year.JOHNSON-At Barrington.sa Dec.11, 1885, after a brie! illness, Major W.B.Joh Mayor of the Township of Temmingtord, paymaster of the Sls: Battalion, Hemming.ord Rangers, aged 8 years.KOEHN-Ou Thu: LAVIOLETTE-\u2014At No.£7 Charron at Point St.Charles.on Sunday.Dec.Jennies Minogue, beloved wife of Josep! Laviolette.aged 19 years, & moaths.LOGAN\u2014In this city on the 10th Dec.1986, Donald Logan.aged 82 years.McGIBBON\u2014.At Lachete.on Wednesday, Nov.\u2018 20, 186, Finiey McGibbon, à native of Gleniyon, Scotland, aged #8 years.7 MACCULLOCH.\u2014At 201 Mañce street, on the 12th inst.Whitman, only child of Henry Maccaïloch, in his third year.MacKENZIE.\u2014At Halifax, N.8., os Dec.12, 18%, paire youngest daughter of the Rev.K.MacKenale, and sister of Mrs.G.Whillans.N.Georgetown, Que.13 MCGUIRE\u2014Ia this city, on the Sth Instan Mary Ellen (May), eldest daughier of John McGuire, picture framer.MOHR\u2014At Lashute, on the 7th Dec, 1886, Luzanne Marguerite Vernier, widow of the late = T.Mohr, aged 65 yeara and four mon 3 McPHERSON.\u2014In Prescott, Ont.on Friday, Dec.8, nt the residence of his father, M.McPherson.N.A., head master of Prescott High Bohool, U.A.A.McPherson, M.D.C.M., aged 35 years and 4 months, PICHE\u2014In tha city, on Dec.7.1896, Leon Piché, retired merchant, and father of Dr, Alphonse Plche, aged 76 years.RAMBAY.\u2014On the morning of Dec.7.residence of her son, Argyle Westmount, Mrs.A.Ramsay, the late Alexander Rammy, aged 37.ROY.\u2014At Three Rivers, Que.on the ILih instant.Francis Roy, native of Jersey Islands, aged years and 10 months.STANWAY-\u2014At the residence of her brother.Doctor Roberts, Manchioneal, Ja- 1, on Nov, Zi, Margaret Elisabeth, eldest daughter of ihe late George Stanway.of (his city.TOWNSHEND\u2014At Attwerp, on the 12th tu- stant.after à siort flues, Captain Wm.H.Townahend.fcurth son of the lats Rev.Canon Townshend, of Amherst.N.S.and brother of Mrs.Percival W.St Georre, of this city.1\u201c Theos sending notices for the abow solumn way send with hrm @ list of names af iniervoted friends.Marked copies of the ™ Witnem™ contaiaing sua motior will be arnt fres to any address in Canada, Montres! ansepted.at the venue, w of ADVERTISEMENTS, THE THINCS LEFT UNSAID cum that can\u2019t be put inte words\u2014the uch, he look.the feel, the air certainty about our Carpets.Ruge and Curtains make the mod- mst prices doubly Interesting and clearly indicate whet and where to buy these Christmas days.AMES]DAYLIS & (YON conlp DR LVE- QUITE PLANETARY ALMANAC + Fer 1898 NOW READY.PRICE, 196, (Post Paid.) Address Mra W.M.SMITH, TIA Pine Avenws, Montreal.TOUNG WOMEN SEEKING A CHRISTIAN home in the city, can be accommogat: with board and lodging at ressonsbie rates at the Young Women's Christie Associa- tou, 307 Derskgmter sireet., in WEEKLY WILNESS.THE DAYS OF AULD LANG 8YNE.A sequel to the \u2018Bonnie Brier Bush.\u2019 By 1an Maclaren.$1.00.A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL, being the last five chapters of the \u2018Bonnie JSrier Bush,\u2019 with over 60 illustrations By Fred.C.Gordon.With a special introduction by the author.Crown 8vo., with gilt side and full gilt edges.$1.75.GIFTS FOR THE DAY.By Ross Porter.A set containing \u2018A GIft of Love\u2019 (Morning Hour), and \u2018A Gift of Peace\u2019 (Evening Hour).3 vols, long 18mo.Decorated Polianed buckram, gikt top, boxed.THE CHRISTIAN BBCRET OF A HAPPY LIFE By Hannah \u2018Whitall Smith, A very beautiful holiday edition has been specially prepared ; white cloth, with an elaborate cover design in ink and gold.1émo., $1.00.ANNUAL YOLUMES 1896 \u2014 Boys\u2019 Own Annual, $1.78.Girls\u2019 Own Annual, $1.78.Sunday At Home, $1.78.Leisure Howe, $1.78.The Quiver, $2.00.Band of Hope Review, 35c.British Woriuman, 500.Chatierbox, 75e.Children's Friend, 50e.Chlid's Companion, 500.Child's Own Magazine, 38¢.Coltager and Artisan, G0c.Family Friend, 80s.Friendly Visiter, 50c.Infants\u2019 Magazine, 806.Oue Little Dots, 500.The Prize, 500.; sud, 81.00.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Postpaid to aay part of the Dominion.ADVERTISEMENTS.DRYSDALES For the Newest and Most Desirable HOLIDAY \u2014= BOOKS.FROM FAR FORMOSA.The Island, its People and Missions.With many illustrations froma photographs by the author, and sev- oral maps.Well Indexed.8 vo, Cloth, By Rev.G.L.Mac- Kay, D.D.$3.00.THB SHEPHERD PSALM.A new holiday edition of the Rev.F.B.Meyer's famous work.With ti- lustrations on every page, 12mo.Richly ornamentad Cloth covers, boxed.31.25.THE BLESSING OF CHEERFULNESS.By J.R.Miller, D.D.In dainty binding of white leatherette.26c.DAVID, Shepherd, Psalmist, King.By Rev.F.B.Meyer.Old Testia- Fyre Heroes Seiiea.13mo., Cloth, SUCCRSSWARD.A young man's book for his feliows.By Kd- ward W.Bok.16mo., Cloth, $1.00.BESIDE THE BONNIER BRIER $1.00.Bush.By Ian Maclaren.T0 SABBATH SCHOOLS.\u2014\u2014 Now is the time to eend in our orders for Presbyterian rd Sabbath Bohool Supplies.If you have not already received samples by mail drop us à card and & samplo seb will be forwarded.\u2014>\u2014 W.DRYSDALE [0.Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers, 242 St.James street, MONTREAL, em-FrDTUCO FO9TO® IlWUWU>® A WELL-DRESSED MANS MAY HOB-NOB WITH KINGS.How to dress well on a small amount of moa If a man wiil be careful always ¢)» buy SHORE CLOTHING he may be well dressed at a \u2018very moderate.cost.SHOREY'S CLOTHING has & grest reputation for style, fit and © durability.Every yard of cloth is thoroughly aj and shrunk and the workmanship fully Haran .Bold everywhere, y ie the question.READY-MADE Special Non-Puartisas, Montreal, the price will be $4.25.Only price will be $2.00.The * Northern Messengar\u2019 and © aggregate of Only the price will be 86m Address all communications to re A Current Library.Reading Matter of Interest to Every Member of Your Family.NO PREMIUM OFFERED ON THESE SPÉCIAL CLUBS.Club No.L Non Sectarian.The Daily Witness,\u2019 the \u2018Sabbath Reading,\u2019 and the \u2018Northern Messenger,\u2019 averaging an sggregate of 09 Pages Every Woek, One Yoor, Only $3.25.When these papers are to be delivered to addresses in the city of Special Club No II, Nou-Partisan.Non-Sectarisn.The Woekly \u2018 Witness,\u201d the *Babbath Reading\u2019 and the \u2018 Northorn Messenger,\u2019 averaging ao aggregate of 8 Pages Evory Week, One Yoar, .$1.35.When these papers are to be delivered to addresses in this city, the Special Club No.III.Nun-Political.Non-fectarian.\u2018Sabbath Reading,\u2019 avcraging an #0 Pages Every Week.One Year, 60c.When these papers are to be delivered to addresses in Montreal, JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publishers, Montreal.Ducexexr 17, \u201cING, OFFERS TO \u201cWITNESS SUBSCRIBERS.Any \u2018Witness\u2019 subscriber who would like to make a present to a friend who might become a subsciber can have the \u2018 Weekly Witness\u2019 sent to his friend's address from now till the end of 1896 For One Dollar.If any subscriber has an acquaintance who might take the \u2018Witness if asked we shall accept the same terms it the money is forwarded by one of cur subscribers, each subscriber having the right of present ing one candidate for it.If the riber sends the new subdecrip- tion along with bis own we shall give both to the end of next year For $1.50.id subscribers whose subscriptions expire during the next three months will under this offer have their renewal rubscription credited for one year from the date at which ft happens to expire.It will be worth while paying one's own subscription a little in advance in order to get the advantage of this fine offer for selt and friend.Trial.Subscriptions.Any subscriber to the \u2018 Witness who deairse to introduce the \u201cWitness foto new families can accept fifteen cents for a subscription for three months, of which he need only remit to us ten cents, keeping the remainder for expenses.tario NONE rm Ontario COLLEGE, Year Most widely stiomded Is America.AfNated with Insti i the itute of Chartered Acscust- ROBINSON & JOHNSON.BELLEVILLE, OXT.THE NOTED MAPLE LEAF GRAIN GRINDER por isi] Bearing Plates.10 juch Reversible sud Flexible Piates Relief Bprioga Adjustable Bhake, Adapted for amy Powear\u20149 to horse.Has large hopper, Cc.INK : 771008 Fer WII] grind up to 85 bosliels per hour, sc cording to speed and kind of work betng dore BRANTFORD CAN.nnd or hd shia us car diol Wand POSTAGE STAMPS, Ou.on J.B.LEWIN, STAGE STAM San Rial de men, 4 ut aoe furnish Write fur tioniars.or send the LINDSAY, Soz 3 amps for It Joux pa for.Inspection.NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS CAN HAVE s first-claxs Foldlag Machi will te and fold to a suitable ni {ng about quarter the cost of & new ona Address or apply 10 J.BEATTY, 'Witness' Office.a PERSONAJI~\u2014~BOSTON DENTAL PARLO! 1856 Notre Dame.Beautiful Bets of Tee for Ten Dolla Fit and quality guaranteed.Painless oxtracting a specialty.Office open cvenings.zn TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.-WANTED.in every School! District throughout Cane ada, to get up clubs for the \u2018Daily \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 and \u2018Northern Messsno ger.\u2019 Bend for SP ronley and ctr.enlar.Address JOHN DOUGALIL & SON.\u2018Witness\u2019 Office.Montreal.» MEN WANTED AT ONCE TO SELL CANA.élan and Northern Grown Nursery Stock: Chotre Seed Potatoes, etc.Outfit free Pay: as weekly.J.H, WISMER., Nur.sesryman, Port Elgin, Ort 5 WAXNTRD \u2014 THROUGHOUT THE PROvinces of Quebec and Ontario.resident sell Crawford's Ceylon Tean, Address H.M.DINNING & CO., 10 St John street.Montreal, 9 WANTED TO PURCHASE THIS FALL, À good Farm, weli Improved, near Word.Sock.Box 773, Strathroy.17 WANTED AGENTA AT ONCF TO HANDLE our new patent rajvn Handler.feds a pound of raisins In lens thay ten minuire Yan can make big agra ach day saline thia Bender from now util after Christies.Everyhody will he sire to ng well.Rample Mibente.O.Cor wart ome.Agente now oud are do\u2019 and Cirniar by mail on receipt of green Mig.Co.Poronte.5.00% BOOKA FREE R SEAX QUIDE #0 pes pract cal commen #née, information où tinea Over one million geanid 5,000 onpied y rending names 0\u20ac \"reser Mvesgert*.Write immesiat-Ie.NICHOLS & Cn., pahiishers, Wesley Buittings Toronte.FARMS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE LORIDA LANDS Of extrnonlinary fertility ; healthy location: rote Cr rT er dnd.Le ares Saat brn.ws RTON.20% Church 64, Toronta mi te THE WEEKLY WITNESS is printed nad pub lished ot tie * YTi.zcan\u2019 Duilding, re 150 carnet of Orig and BA streets, In the city of Mon:renk, by Jobn atneih Dougallof Moauvel Ai business communisntions shou:d be nicremed *Jebe Douga:l & Aux, or all let:ers te the Raiser should be ndcresseé \u2018Ediies of the * Whines\" "]