Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 4 janvier 1898, mardi 4 janvier 1898

[" -\u2014 > PIPTY-THIRD VBAR CHINA.Are European Nations to Parcel Out the Empire ?New York, Jan, 2\u2014The London eor respondent of the \u2018Sun\u2019 cables: \u2014 The \u2018Sun\u2019 is enabled to say that in the event of trouble in the far East the Cauedian militia will have an opportunity of covering ituelf with glory.The War Department and the Admiralty have between them drawn up a scheme whereby a bet- talion of this militia will be hurried to Hong Kong from Vi acouver the moment that var seems imminent.It would reach China long bifore any force from tained beforehand, and some steps had been taken ¢o find out whether the gallant militiamen would be withing to follow glory to the cannon\u2019s mouth.\u2019 Ottawa, Jen.3\u2014Gen.Gascoigne mys knows nothing of the report of Canadian oops sent to Chins in the event The story is evidently one press trans-Atlantic ales.London, Jan.1.\u2014The Admiralty to-day Amue l an official denial of the report that threes of the Empress steamers had been requisitioned by the Admiralty, and also officially denied the statement that the naval reserves of the Chins station had been called out, London, Jan.1.\u2014It is announced at the .\u2018Centurion,\u2019 the \u2018Daphne,\u2019 and \u2018Algerine,\u201d Chemutpo, and the \u2018Imemortalite.\u2019 and *Ephigeria,\u2019 at Port Arthur.A GERMAN COUP.Berlin, Jan.3.\u2014 It is announced that China bas yielded to the demand of Baron i Ambasmdor at Pekin, the commandant of Chinese Gerrison of Tero Chow, pro- vines of Bhan Tung, because of the use of themtening language to the German mis- slonaries there.The Chiness government bas telegraphed « dimnimml of the commandant.APATHY IN ENGLAND.New York, Jan.2\u2014Mr.Ford, in his abled letter to the \u201cIvibune\u2019 to-day, treats of the situation in a lighter vein.He save: \u2018While the Emperor Francis J has saved the situation in Aus tris-llengary by decrewsing taxes and ich, when political factions refuse to oobody does anything in England, when China i» menac- od with destruct®n end nobody seems to care.The rumor-mongers are fairly out of breath.After landing the French marines at Hat Nen, and buying out the Japanese at Wei-Hai-\\Vei, with Rus- shin money, calling out the navel reserve sad supplanting Lord Ralisbury with Lord Oromer at the Foreign Office, their lustry ie not appreciated.The holi- lay rvs goes on: and there is no ex- coment in England over the situation in the Far East.even when the evidence ints clearly to a French understand- with Russia, Foglish apathy in reality implies a conecsoumess of strength.Ses power be comes more t when maritime Europe ie deeply concerned in the future of remote countries, and it is England's stronghold.With her chain of coaling and naval stations encircling the globe, she can afford to wait until some astion directly challenges her.To this sense of security is added an instinctive recoil againet any palicy which will increase the burden of the empire, when England is already dangerously near the verge of oommerijtion.The perplexities of the situation in the East, moreover, are dense and the English public ie waiting for a sign from Lord Salisbury, remembering his dictum that there is room enough for all in Asia.The only new fact today ir the retention of McLeavy Brown, aa chief commissioner of Corcan customs with à Russian sesociate.This ia set down to the presence of the Frit- ish fleet né Chemuipo, but is no great echievement.With all the foolish talk going on about the prospects of a maritime war, every stock exchange in Europe is tranquil, amd January dividends are the chief concern.\u2019 THE ATTITUDE OF THE UNITED.STATES.New York, Jan.2\u2014Mr.Harold Frederick has this to my in his cwbied letter so the New York \u2018Thnes,\u2019 regarding American sympathy for Great tain in the Eastern crisis:\u2014'One ought not to overlook the appreciative comments of the English upon what they hear of the American attitude and opinion on this far Eastern situation.I have often dwelt upon the English inability to com- préhend why, when à question was be- twem: some eemi-harbarous port having iw commercial powmbilities organised, and developed by tp no eustome but opened the harbor to ps TES MONTREAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1898.! EU THE INDIAN FRONT IER RISING.THE NORTHAMPTONS COMING IN SIGHT OF THE BODIES OF THEIR COMRADES WHO WERE KILLED IN THE SARAN BAR RECONNAISSANCE.\u2014Ilustrated London News.\u2019 In tbe course of the action on the Saran ridge Lieutenant Macintire and twelve men werw cut off from the rest of the force, but their loss was pot realized until the camp was reached.At daybreak the whole regiment, with a force of Goorkhas and two guns, went in search of the missing men, one of the party having arrived wi had been cut off in a mullah and had sent him to summon aid.\u2018The dead bodies of this the report that they ul of heroes, several of whem must bave deliberately chosen death rather than escape by the sbandoning of wounded comrades, were found with gunshot wounds which testified to their gallant end.The dead soldiers were brought into camp and buried with milé tary honore, followed to their grave by the whale of the regiment.tho world, and its being grabbed by the: of its mineral wealth, coal and iron, al- markets of uncivilised or undeveloped French or Germans, or Russians, and though needing s large amount of capi- regions, have at any rate an apparent hermetically semied behind a tariff wall, tal to develop it, is almost inexhaustible.\u2019 Americans should seem to sympathize The Emperor told the bishop that with the latter intend of the former.steps were under way to give thorough This time, happily, even from those ma- German sdministration to the territory iy nuisances in New York, who | and mpidly to develop the natural com- omble only the things calculated to breed mercial advantages of Kiao-Chau.i bad blood betwren the two peoples, we Relative to his audience with the Pope, hear nothing but assurances that Ameri-| Bishop Anser said that His Holiness ca wishes England nothing but well in this dilemma.Words to this effect quoted from the \u2018Tribune\u2019 and the \u2018Jour- ual of Commerce,\u2019 as well as from the New York \u2018Times,\u2019 make extremely pleasant and welcome reading in John Bull's eyes.Il he could sce them oftener he might not be so prone to lapse into moods of gloomy questioning a to whether À will not be beyond his strength to go on for ever fighting the battle of commercial freedom against such wearying odds.\u2018The wiscacres here, and much more those on the Continent, stifl babble about the United States taking an active part in the] comiug dismemberment of China.In.tellige Englishmen never expect this, but it will strengthen them immensely for the work they have to do, and which will be done as much for Americans as for themselves, to get an occasionally friendly word from across the Atlantic.\u2019 THE POPE AND THE GERMANS, Berlin, Jan.1.\u2014Bishop Anzer, of Shan Tung, China, dined with the Emperor and Empress at the New Palace on Tuesday.Haron Von Bulow, the wn ister for foreign affairs, and Count Von Leyder, the new minister of Japan, vers present.The bishop, who has been thirty-four years in Chins, and who is about to return, mud: \u2018There no doubt Germany means to keep Chau and its contiguous territory, and if the right measures are taken it will, prove a most valuable possession, even more valuable thas Hong Kong.Bessuse { \u2018highly approved the energy shown y in the gigantic task of opening China and preparing her for the biess- ing of Christianity and civilisation.\u201d The Pope also expressed the opinion that speedy penalty would be meted out to China for the last mission murders, \u2018which would strike wholesome Lerror into the breast of its heathen government\u2019 His Holiness touched upon the German protectorate over the Catholic missions in Chins, bitherto considered to be in the hands of France, and the Pope further intimated that instructions had recently been sent to the bishops and higher clergy of Germany to shape their conduct in relation to the Chinese expedition and the enlargement of the German navy in consonance with the views of the Vatican on these matters.The Emperor decorsted Bishop Anzer with the Order of the Red Eagle and the Regent of Bavaria.The correspondent of the Amocisted Press loarns that Germany in the spring will commence improving the harbor of Kiao-Chau, and will construct docks and wharves and strengthen the forts materially.THE LONDON PRESS.London, Jan 2\u2014The New Years leaders in the principal dailies refer at length to the situation ia China.¢ \u2018Times\u2019 says : \u201cThe new year open with amhiguous omens.This eountry is confronted by the orgauised and de termined rivalry of other powers, which, in their efforts to cut us out from the 1 by military, advantage in being able to employ aginst us weapons we Lave deliberately re nounced ourselves.Our commereis], se well as our imperial, interests sre deeply involved in the scramble for China and the advance of rival states on the Nile and Niger.To conduet all these diri- eult operations, diplomatic, naval and to a satisfactory conclusion, would be an achievement that would greatly redound to the honor of our ministers and especially to the heads of the oreign Office and the Colonial Office.A failure to maintain firmly, though esutiously, the rights of the British empire and the claims of British trade would involve an equal degree of discredit.\u201d The \u2018Standard\u2019 has this to say on the same subject : \u2018Circumstances have al ready marked out for us the eral lines on which we have to ect.t may be viewed as certain that the recent measures by which Russis and Germany have established themoeives on the Chi nese mainland were taken in pursuance of some more or less defined understanding.Whether Prince Henry is to prosecute his chivalrous mission at Kiao-Chau Bay or transfer himself and his party to nome other region where missionaries bave not been massacred, but where, in other respecte, s harbor is eligible, hangs in some doubt.But whatever flag may finally wave at Kiao-Chau, everything will be done in concert so long as an amicable compact between Berlin and 8t.Petersburg endures, \u2018France, subject to.similar reserve with regard to the Russian alliance, will pa-force remain bound to conform with any policy which the Czar deems proper to pursue.be allowed to secure advantages for it- oll.We may have In hes ve dour certain amount of i sympa\u2018 from France, which «an scarcely view Montreal Weekly Witness.cia) streagth of ite European neighbor, but the understanding of tbe thres powers must be accepted ns a settled factor in the problem.\u201cThere remains the Japanese nation, which bas even more cause than we for concern at the steps taken toward partition of the vast empire of which its people have for yesrs believed themasives to be the natural inheritors.The geographical advantages enjoyed by Japan would co-operate with her finely devel 9 resources and make her a potent be ly in case of war.Need it be added that the guod will of Chins may be reck- cued on to supplement the exertions of those powers whose interest and prlicy is to neutralise the ambitions of which Intely she had so sharp an experience.Barbarous and feeble as the Celestial Kzpire is, there is in the very hulk and solidity of its benighted population a faculty of passive resistance which the most enterprising of military states might well shrink from provoking.\u2019 The Morning Post\u2019 finda the situation analogous to that which preceded the elder Pitt's accession to power, and says: \u2018As the years went on toward 1756 there was a good desl of uneasiness in this country.A vague feeling prevailed that great events, perhaps grest conflicts, were coming on, and that the party machinery of the day bad bandly turned out the sort of man to steer his country\u2019s affairs through the breakers ahead.A man of ideas and force of character was wanted.It was in this period of depression that Pitt, unburdening his soul to one of his friends, mid : \u2018I am sure that I can save the country, and no one else can.\u201d It seemed to be a very presumptuous saying for an untried man, but events gave Pitt a chance, and his belief in himself seemed to have been justified by Lis work.\u201cThe present situation recalls thone years of national hesitation, not only by the rapid movement and c tone of the powers, but by tbe accident that the Great Britain of to-day has not yet found its Pitt.\u2019 A JAPANESE VIEW.San Francisco, Dec.31.\u2014Captain Ba- kuzri, assistant chief naval constructor of the Japanese Government, who is now in this country superintending the building of the cruiser \u2018Chitos\u2019 at the Union Iron Works, has made a statement concerning the feeling of the naval aud military officers of Japan over the late tetions of Germany and Russia with regard to the occupation of the Chinese ports.He said : \u201cWhile of course 1 can say nothing on this subject officially, 1 am very well acquainted with the ideas of my brother officers and of the great mass of tbe middle and upper classes of my country.We believe we are being treated shamefully and that some of the European nations, Russias particularly, are using us as if we were children.When flushed with victory and in « position to carry our arms still farther into the territory of Chins and to demand by reason of our miccess any concessions we desired to ask for, it was Russia that stepped in and on the plea of peace and the welfare of ai! Europe caused us to modify our demands and to be content with almost barren honors, and now Russia, taking advantage of the opening that our own soldiers have made possibile, asks for herself what she begged us not to take.I believe that a coalition between Great Britain and Japan in the present crim is not only possible, but highly probable.Our standing army has lately been increased by two divisions, bringing it to considerably over three hundred thousand men.and we are now building and getting ready for sea with all possible despatch Gfteen warshupa and twenty-four torpedo and gunhoats.These added to our already formidable and seasoned navy, form a fleet that may well be a disturbing element in the present plans of Russia and Germany.It will not take very much more manipulation on the part of these two nations to arouse a sentiment in Japan that will find its voice in something more effective than words.\u2019 WARLIKE TONE OF THE PRESS.Washington, Dec.31.\u2014A high state of | public feeling in Japan over the complications of the Far East, centring in China, is shown by the last prem advices received here from Japan.That the government itself has an eve to the gravity of the question is shown by a statement of the prime minister, made in the course of a reply to a delegation.He said : \u2018With affaire tending to dangerous developments, as is now the case in the East, we shall not hesitate to ask the Diet for thirty millions, or even forty millions, if necessary.\u2019 This was only a short time before the Premier was forced to resign because of the public feeling that the Cabinet was tno weak to deal with the descent of the European powers upon China, and the probable dismemberment of the latter country.The \u2018Jiji Shimpo,\u2019 the most influential paper in Japan, contains a ecathing ur- raignment of Germany's course, declaring that the occupation of Kino-Chau shows that the laws and tenets of international morslity have ceased to be anything mere then specious pretence by Euro- pesn powers, and that the rule by which their conduct is really regulated is \u2018the rong.After declaring that Germany bas thrown off the mask and taken the lead of western in a greedy struggle to devour the paper adds as to flesh of the weak is the food of the the The republic will perhape st , the attitude of Japan : \u201cThe tion is on the other side of the river, but the river is narrow and the sparks may easily fly across, The lesson for Japan is that a country\u2019s security depends sole ly upon its strength to resist aggression, and that aggression has coms aimost te her own gutes.It will not suffice that she should be merely on the defensive.To preserve what ons has already, it is sometimes necesmry to add more.A crisis in the Orient now confronts Ja- pau, and ber undivided strength muss devoted to guarding sguinst the perils that menace her.\u2019 The \u2018Nichi Nichi Shimbun\u2019 takes a similar view, declaring that it is part of the plan of encroachment of European nations upon the Fast.It adde: \u2018Je- pan hss the greatest interest at stake in these things, and the Japanese Foreign Office should lose no time in obtaining from Germany & clear expose of her purposes.\u2019 The \u2018Kokumin Shimbun\u2019 aays that Germany's action is a sequel to the three powers\u2019 (Rusia, Germany and France) interference with Japan's holding of Port Arthur after having taken that fortress, and that as these powers are again in collusion, Japan must diligently prepare herself for emergency.The \u2018Nippon\u2019 says the crisis ealls for a resolute foreign policy by Japan, and avers that nothing tends to impair amity mere than tame submission to insult and wrong.The course of Germany fs er- ruigned as a flagrant violation of inter national law.The \u2018Chou Shimbun\u2019 declares that the time for the partition of the Chiness em pire has arrived.and adds : \u201cWhat sball Japan de ?Shall she join in the scramble for pieces of the doomed state, or shall she oppose its partition * In such « erisis\u2014the like of which has not oe curred since the restoration\u2014the port folio of foreign affairs is in the hands of a man in whom the nation bas ne confidence.\u2019 The Tokio \u2018Shimpo\u2019 takes the radical position that it is Japan's duty to swe cor China at this juncture, on the that the boasted civilisation and Chris tiznity of the western world is slowly trampling down right and justice in its descent upou the Orient.Aside from the excited discussion of the problem in China, the Japenese press is mainly concerned in the country\u2019s na val and military development.The #x- penditures on \u2018armament capansion\u2019 this year will be 80,645,721 yen, and next year 63,250,000 yen.Brilliant field manoeuvres have besa executed by the two army corps of the north and south in the presence of many foreign diplomats and military experts.The battleship \u2018Yashima\u2019 has just arrived from the English shipyards.She is the second of the big battleships added to Japan's new navy, the first being the \u2018Fugi.\u2019 They are sister ships of 12,517 tons displacement each, of twenty knota speed, and in armament and general appearance much like the United States battleship \u2018Indiana.\u2019 The \u201cYashima\u2019 ie the largest warship that ever passed the Suez canal, and it was found necessary to unchip the heavy guns and take off some of the outer armor to got her through the canal.\u2014\u2014 TO FRIGHTEN ONTARIO.AMERICANS DISLIKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE Detroit, Mich., Jen.31.\u2014A Washington despatch eays :-\u2014The situation between Canada and the United States was Dever more strained that it is et present.Business men in Cansds who have for forts on the part vf some of gest men in Canads to keep try from replying to clause in the Dingley Bill, by a severs measure to check the export of logs from Canadas.Senator McMillan ha: been furnished copy of correspondence between one of the biggest umber operators in Michigen and Canada, and one of the foremost bankers of Canada.The banker writes the big operstor the situation as he sees it, and shows conservative business i dangerous to many luge interests the situation ia While it is impossible to get an enticipatory ruling from the Treasury Department it comce from etraigh£ sources that if the Ontario Pane liament ccmpels the sawing of all \u2018oge im the province, the Diazley retelatory clauses will go into operntion.\u2014\u2014\u2014 STERNAMANN APPEAL DISMISSED Toronto, Jan.3-\u2014In considering Mr Sternamenn\u2019s appesl for a new tral, the Divisional Court, composed of Chanosl- lor Boyd, Mr.Justice Rose, dismissed the appeal.Executive c'emen- cy is now the mst hope for Mre Sterne mann.RY and Mr. AN ANGEL UNAWAR (By Florence Mores Kingsley, ja the * Voice.) \u2018You'll got used to it after a while, Marie 1 felt just as you do when | first came to New York\u2014got hume every night with not cnough small change in my pocket for à street-cur ride.Mirandy kuows thet.The way to do is just to pay no kind of attention to the little rascals.Why, blew ny soul, Mara, you just take ons vf thess little gatius vif vise street and attempt to make him confortable, as you my.You couldn't ketp bum twa days.led cut and run | like a streak first chance he got.They.euguy themaclves just as they be more\u2019n | half the rich folks.here \u2018L they do at the.Mus with dtgenty\u2019 me sinpie just now, Mirandy, and 1 suppose 1 be; bus the Forks us ecough tor use, and l'U jest stay re and Le simple Lo the eud of my days after this.\u2018Food land ! was al an vdge to-day.Let's burty and git things doen up and gu oud une aîter- Lou; we can git that Christmas present tor tather today.Jobe won't be home this noon; he gave me tive dollars for his share this moruing.\u2019 The clouds lifted from Miss Maria's face in an instant ; she besnned delighted.y on Mre.Bangs.'Wa'n't thas kind of Jone?! Why, with what I've got, 1 b'lieve we can pt those gold-rimmaed apecs we was Jookin' at today.I'll wash up the dishes if you'll do the rest.\u2019 Miss Maria stopped short * Seems 10 And Mr.Jonas Hangs buttoned up his! me I hear somebody eryin'.comfortable o at snugly, and drew oa his ficece-lined gloves preparatory to setting, forth ie business.Mis Mana Lathrop turned sharply | amund.She had been looking out of | the window during her brotherin-law\u2019s | remarks.\u2018You needn't tell me, Jonas Baugs,\u201d she mil energetically, \u2019 that any child enjoys nmning abut half-naked in\u2019 mich weather as this, pickin\u2019 up any! scrap they can get to eat, and kicked | from pillar to post by every policeman; \u2018tain\u2019t natur ! You jest try it yourself, Try goin\u2019 owt without your overcoat this mornin\u2019.You ain\u2019t lackin\u2019 for a good hot breakfast, and you've got on flannens and a good w» m suit of clothes, and good hull shoes to your feet.Just try it, I my \u201cGo out without my overcoat! Why, Maris, I'd be down with pneumonia in no time.What do you want me to do, anyhow ?riffraff in New York!\u201d { *No, you can't\u2014neither can 1: but; that's no resson why we should harden our hearts I know of, and not do eny- thing.It seys in the bible \u2014\u2019 \u2018 Now, Maris, don\u2019t quote bible to me.You simply don\u2019 understand the case.and I say if you was to stay here a year, you'd know better, that's al! As fur, doing, why there the Associated Chari-! ties and heaven knows what, all doing all the while.I'm forever giving to some one of them.If 1 was to give away every cent I've got in the world to-day, it wouldn't make a grain of difference to-morrow.Now, I'm off.You'd better order the Christmas turkev to-day, Mirandy, and de sure you pick out à good fat one.\u201d And Mr.Jonas DBanes descended the front steps of his modest menage with a comfortable sense of superiority born of | « large and valuable supply of worldly wisdom.\u2018I am thankful | haven't got to stay here a year!\u2019 remarked Mims Lathrop: aloud as she watched his retreating form | f the window.\u2018If ever I see a man for the worse, that man\u2019s Jooas be Seecs \u2018a \u2018o the milk of human : kindness evaporates mighty fast in New York.I'll git back to Chitenango Forks before I git red of all my feedin's; we need \u2018em there once in a while,\u2019 and! { room after dutifuily eceing her hus band off to his daily work.was jest myia\u2019 to myself \u2018t I didn\u2019t \u2018want to git so turrible serene and easy in mind about buman aufferin\u2019 as you, d Jonas he ; I never eve anything like \u2019t see what's come over you, Mirandy Lathrop.You ust to be so ten- der-hearted that you couldn't stan\u2019 even a mention of killin\u2019 time, though you always et well 'nuff when the meat come onto the table\u2019 And Miss Maria wiped her glasses with hands that trembled vis- F thet Jonas is the kind- est-hearted man livin\u2019.He don't went you to be made miserable by all these things 't you see hers and can't help, that\u2019s all.Land know \u2018t I wish every poor fambly in the city was as well off as we be\u2019 And Mrs, settled herself mugly sing-chair and guzed piously at the motto, \u2018 God bless our home,\u2019 in red worsted, which hung over the man- tle-plece.i the early days of her married life, and it always gave her a comfortable feeling whenever she looked ot it, as if it were a kind of fetish which insured the favorable attention of the Almighty.\u201cThere! Who is that ?Look, Mirandy!\u201d exclaimed Miss Maria, suddenl ! I don\u2019t know.How And that ain't 3 buggy, Mas- ria, it\u2019s wha: they call a hndow,\u2019 re marked Mrs.Bangs, rather loftily.\u2018 Well, landow, then.Whet difference does thet make?I know what her name is ; I've sven her come out of her house two or thres when I've been king past, and one day I stopped and the doo! FELL] ikl étais hit Pia f3eci1 2 > gig apart i 8 géisi I can't take care of all the| .stubborn fole\u2014well, l'in The two ladies were returning from their shopping expedition, and Miss Maris with a happy consciousness of the coveted gold-rimmed spectacles, which were reposing safely in her capacious pocket, was discussing with Mm Bangs the details of the approaching Chrisumss feast.is hear somebody cryin\u2019, she re peated.\u2018Never mind, Maria; it'a nothing but that little match boy 1 don\u2019t need any matches, an\u2019 if 1 did, T wouldn®t buy of him; their matches are never so good as the ones at the grucer\u2019s.As I was sayin\u2019, Jone is so partial to plum puddin\u2019 that\u2014 Why, Maria!\u2019 But Miss Maria did not hear, she was stooping over the little match boy.\u201cWhat's the matter, litile boy! * The child did not answer, but ened harder than ever, digging his purple litide fists into his eyes.\u2018Tell me this ninute what you're a- cryin\u2019 about,\u201d and Miss Maria's tones took on a shade of sternness.\u2018F\u2014I\u2014eold a box of matches,\u2019 sobbed the child hoarsely.\u2018And I was just a-goin\u2019 to put the nickel in my pocket, and a hig boy snatabed it, sud ran off with it.\u2019 \u2018Well, I declare, that's smart ! Where'd ho go to * and Miss Maria straightened herself and looked about in a way thst boded no good to the offender.\u2018J-L\u2014don't know\u2014'twes ali | had\u2014 an\u2019 now | can\u2019t buy any supper for mother; she's sick,\u2019 and the chud fimeired with ; a burst of sobs and hoarse couglung.Mrs.Bangs was waiting.lier plump, rosy face was rapidly taking on a pur- plush hue in the cold wind.Now she spoke in the longeuflering tones which generally indicate that the speaker's stock of patience is about used up, and that a burst of \u2018righteous indignation\u2019 is not far off.\u2018Maria Lathrop, will you come?1 a\u2019pose it's nothin\u2019 to you that this wind's à bringn\u2019 on my neuralgy; and it's time dinner was started.Jome always wante bis vittals prompt to the mini, \u2018n\u2019 | never keep him witn \u2018Why, Mirandy, this child's a-comin\u2019 down with the croup sure 's you live, if he ain't got in where it\u2019s werm an\u2019 tend ed to.'F I give you another nickel, will you run along home to your ma and tell her to put flannin on your chest ?She must be crazy to Jet you out sellin\u2019 matches, anyhow; you don't look to be morc\u2019n #x yeara old.And Miss Maria looked attentively at the child, who had stopped crying now and was her with two large, long-lashed, blue eyes, His fair hair, slightly curling, straggied out from under his ltie old cap, and from the tips of his ragged shoes peeped a suggestion of small frost-bitten toes.Altogether he was a very pathetic litte figure as he stood looking alternately at Mies Maria and Mrs.Bangs.\u2018What's the matter with your ma?\u2019 questioned Miss Maria, severely, as the child coughed again.\u2018I don\u2019t know; she's sick,\u2019 eaid the child, looking down at the ground and shivering sbghtly.\u2018Where's your pa?\u2019 \u2018He's dead.\u2019 \u2018Of course,\u201d broke in Mrs.Bangs, whose las shred of patience was exhausted; \u2018if you knew anything, Maria Lathrop, you'd know beforchand thet he'd lost his money, that his ma was sick, an\u2019 his pa was dead; they always say that.Give him a nickel and come along, I ain't a- goin\u2019 to wait an mini.\" \u201cYou c\u2019n go on\u2019s {ast \u2019s you're à min\u2019 to.l'm e-goin\u2019 right straight home with this child and see what's the matter with his me, and all about it.\u2019 \u2018Goin\u2019 heme with that boy! Why, Maria Lathrop, you must be crazy! How'd you git back, I'd lke to know ?Mcat likely he lives in an awful danger ous part of the city.And what on earth , would Jone say *\u2019 \u20181 ain't answerable to Jonas Bangs for .my actions, thank goodness !\u2019 said Miss Maria, firmly; \u2018and as for its bein\u2019 dan.parous, why I guess if a child like that, tain\u2019t much more\u2019n a baby, can live in à place right along, 't I can go there for once without gettin\u2019 hurt.I'm fifty-two 4 ive ey tongue in my A \u2018ou go right along sa\u2019 gif Jone\u2019s dinner; l'H come back wheo 1gt ready.\u2019 And Mim Mara took the child's hand im hers and resolutely turned her back on Mre.Banas.That worthy lady looked after her retreating figure beiplemly.\u2018Maria!\u2019 she called wenkiy ia!\u2019 But there was no anewer.\u2018There ain't a mite of ues in sayin\u2019 anything when she once makes up her mind,\u2019 dhe said to hersell.\u2018She takes her after Grandiather Lathrop; and of all the ad I've got some sense if she ain't.But what où earth will Jone say?Mr.and Mre.Jonse bad finished sating their dinner, and Mis Maria was till missing.wes Do longer any doubt jp the mind of Mrs, Bangs es to what Jone would say.He bad already mid a great deal, and.with grest force and \u2018Maria's à fool,\u2019 he cantinued.regarding | ae Maria, seems \u2018s \u2018o you say.ve to notify the police before we get back.\u2019 \u2018Yes, an\u2019 when she does come she might have typhus or somethin\u2019 ue ia her clothes,\u2019 chimed in Are Bouge lain.tively, \u2018Charity begine at home, always Just exactly in what way she meant to apply this worthy mazim to the present emergency no one will ever kmow, for fom at that moment the bel rang ebarp- Tod Mise Maria beresld appesred oa © scene.\u2018Well, Maria! said Jonas Bangs, with the righteous indignation of a man who had waited for his dinner.\u2018Well.Maria!\u2019 cchoed Mrs.Bangs, in the plantive tons of à woman wbo Leen deeply injured, yot who was endeav- oting to bear up under it with (hristien fortitude.\u2018You don\u2019t know how we have worried about jou! Jonas was jest speakin\u2019 of notifyin\u2019 the police if you didn\u2019t come soon.\u201d \u201cThere wa'n't no call for worry,\u2019 said Maria, placidly, though her eyes were sparkling behind her glasses, and an unwonted color shone in ber faded cheeks.\u2018Your dinner's in the oven, 1 covered it over with a pie tin sos to keep it warm; Ji git it for you\u2019 \u2018Well, 1 b'lieve | am hungry, though 1 hadn't thought of it.\u2019 \u201cWhy don't vou tell what you've been a-doin\u2019, Maria ¥ said Mrs.Bangs, her curicaity getting the better of her dissp- proval.\u2018Did you actually go home with that child t\u2019 : \u2018Yes, 1 did.Mirandy : and I found that the poor little dear had told nothin\u2019 tnt the truth.We went a long way from where we was when we met him, till we come to a big, tall buildin\u2019 in a narrow, dirty street.He went in and 1 follcred him up 's many as ten flights of stairs, 1 do blicve.I was jest about beat out when we finally to the top.\u201cHere's where we live,\u201d sez, openin\u2019 a door.I couldn't see anythin\u2019 for a opell : but a voice frum somewheres in the dark eez, \u201cIn that you, Jamie?\u201d \u201cYes, mamma, snd I've brought a lady.\u201d Then T made out by the dim light that came in through the little window, that there was a bed and a woman lyin\u2019 on it.1 walked right up to the bed and told her who 1 was and where I coms from, and how I met her little boy on the street.She seemed real glad to see me, but her voice was so weak that I mistrusted that mebby I'd better see how she was fixed ; so I hunted round till I found 8 bit of a candle, and the little boy he got a match.Then I sez, kind of cheerful like, that I was a master hand at doin\u2019 for the sick, and that she didn\u2019t mind 1'd like to make her a bit of toast and git her a good hot eup of tes, though I'd uoticed that there wa'n\u2019t a spark of fire in the stove.When 1 said that, she burst right out cryin\u2019.\u201cDon't cry, mamma,\u201d sex little Jamie.\u201cI've got five cents 't the lady gave ine; I'll buy you some supper.\u201d \u2018Well, I could have cried myself ; but I didm's stop for that, 1 can tell yun Instead I jest hustled down those tem flights of stairs as fast as 1 could go to a grocery 't I'd noticed near by, I didn't have but a dollar an\u2019 thirty five cents to my name, but I got a bunch of kindlin\u2019 an\u2019 some groceries, a little tea an\u2019 sugar an\u2019 some bresd an\u2019 butter.\u201cThe grocer's boy carried the things up for me ; and in less\u2019n no time 1 had a good fire, the kettle a-boilin \u2018and » good cup of ten ready.While she «as a havin\u2019 her tes 1 got a big, thick alice of bread an\u2019 butter for that little boy ; thea 1 took off his poor ragged little shoes an\u2019 stockin\u2019s, and put his feet in warm water.\u201d \u2018That's all very well, Maria\u2019 inter rupted Mr.Jonas Bangs culdly ; \u2018but what are they going to do to-morrow when your provisions are all used up ?That's what 1 told you, it don\u2019t do any \u2018I thought of that mveelf.Jonas.\u2019 replied Miss Maria with dignity ; \u2018for all I'm so simple.I've got some common sense and if you'll wait till I git through you'll hear what I done for to-morrow.\u2018When I'd made \u2018em both as comfortable au I could with ny dollar an\u2019 thirty.five cents, I asked her how she come to be tn such a fix, an\u2019 she told me all about it.It ecerns 't her husband was a music teacher.His name was Scott\u2014 James Scott, An\u2019 I should jedge 't he wan't at all forehanded, for he left her with almost nothin\u2019 but a little furni- tur\u2019, Then the dootor bille an\u2019 the funeral expenses ot up what little there was .She tried sewin' for a spall, but she was pindlin\u2019 and delicate, and soon give out an\u2019 got down sick, though I don\u2019t think there's much the matter with her except starvin\u2019 an\u2019 cryin\u2019.\u2018When she\u2019d got through a-tellin\u2019 her story\u2014'twa\u2019n\u2019t a long one, poor soul\u2014I fixed everything as Landy as I could, an\u2019 put the little boy into alongside of is ma; then I told \"em \u2019't I'd be back in the mornin\u2019.\u2018Why, Maria, tomorrow we was & plannin\u2019 to git our puddin\u2019 and mince ies made and the turkey dressed,\u2019 said rs.Bangs.\u2018You seem to have forgot that day after to-morrow is Christmas !\u201d \u2018No, Mirandy, I ain't forgot ; but Christmas ie Christ's birthday.and there ain't no use in rememberin\u2019 the day if we can\u2019t remember some of the things he said \u2019bout the poor.That's what I mid to Mis\u2019 Smith, an\u2019 abe agreed with me perfectly.\u2019 \u201cWhat Mie\u2019 Smith ?\u2019 seid Mrs.Bangs.\u2018Why, Mis\u2019 Ven Rensselaer Smith.\u2019 \u2018For the land's sake, where'd you see \u2018I called on her,\u2019 said Mine Maris composedly, enjoying to the full the seasa- tion which her words erented.\u2018I thought that woman's heart was in the ight place, an\u2019 it seems \u2018t I warn't mis en.I tell you, Mirandy, § did feel a little nonirp when I was a-waitin' in her front room.I'll tall you \"bout that house some day.Pretty won I heard a little restle an\u2019 in she come like 8 queen, her long black dress trailis\u2019 be- bind her.My heart was in my month, A ; E MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, but I thought o poor Mis Scott lyin\u2019 We, nn\u2019 jeet pi up my sour- oe tad ber the hull story, She °4 my anything till I gos threagh, then she Asked me it 1 was a bible woman.1 didn't know what she meant at first ; but when she explained, 1 to'd her how 1 was a-visitin\u2019 you for a 1.Khe said \u2018t she used to vieit near Chiten- ango Forks whem she was a girl.5 met her hushand there.She lost him twe years ago, an\u2019 her litle boy about « year ago.She's been jest a-dreadin\u2019 Christmas, an\u2019 meant te shut herself up till it wus all over ; but nov she's a in\u2019 with me to see Mis\u2019 Scott an° her ittle boy .And de know it's the etrengest thing, but Mis\u2019 Bmith's little boy was named Jamie ton.Rhe says she thinks (lod sent me to help her over the hardest time of her life,\u2019 and Mise Maria wiped her eyes.\u201cWell, that doss beat all !* said Mre.Jonas Hangs.But Mr.Jonas Bange maid nothing.\u2014 A LONDON CABMAN.No one knew exactly how it happened, but the street was very crowded at the time.The occupant of the cab put his hesd out of the window amd ebouted, \u2018 Look alive, cabby ! Half a erown extra ¥ you cœtch it.\u2019 \u201cAll right, sr,\u2019 was the answer, and the cabman whipped up his hores and turned into & side street to avoid a block.At that moment a school was dismissed, and children swarmed into the street.Everybody knows the habits of these children, and how seldom they seem to regard it as any business of theirs to take care that they are net run over.The imminent cab made no difference to them; they ran forward in front of it, and one daring little fellow Nfted his mischievous blue eyes to the driver oniy a moment before the catastrophe ec- curred.A shout and a ecream, s& swaying ~f the cab, and then a crushing fall, and 8 London cabman had finished his work.They carried him away to the nearest hospital, and doctors and nurses, ss skilful as they were pitiful, did their best for him.After a time his wife came and wept of over him, end the cub-owuer called to see for himself what chance he had ot Tecovery.The cabman made no sign.He must have fallen o nhis head, the doctors said, and it was doubtful if he would regaim consciousness.The gentieman who occupied the cab hed walked to the hospital in the ead little procession.Strange to my, he was not seriously burt, only his hands and {ace were badly cut.He cams presently and stood by the unconscious driver, and the owner of the cab appealed to him for information but be was only sble to and g.en she pro tie chook, but be made Bo She gently touched the bi wo.\u201cPoor fellow! He has a kind good face.\u2018Ah, you well say that, puree; and be i's Ling, good mia, too, H ever there was one.He went away this morning with a joke on his lips.\u201cCheer 1p ol * he said, \u201cdont look like a ol , for this ie May, you know, end the oon shines\u201d Amd he gare me a kiss, be did ;\u2019 snd the woman's voice broke as she remembered his tenderness.\u201cHave you any children ?* asked the nurse.Dut the question only brought more tours \u2018We bud one, little Teddy, but he is dead.My man never rightly got over the loss of our only boy.\u201d The night wore away y.The day came, and brought no change to th cab man.But at midnight, about thirty-six hours after the accident, he suddenly opened his eyes.\u2018Was the little one hurt he asked.\u2018No, the children are all safe ; it is you who are burt.\u2019 Thank God! Is that : Thank God ! my wile I\u2019 \u201cYes, Tow; I am here.Do you suf for much ?* oo a era ats you wil § my life, : you w That ahd club all right.and the money will make o tidy bit for you.I sha'n\u2019t drive any of Sore parsons to Exeter Hall shis time, shall 3?! Nut Dever mind: it is ofl right.Ob, how glad am that I never killed a Hetie kid mor run over ous.Thirty yesru end more Tre driven « cab shout London, and 1 never hurt a child in my life,\u2019 \u2018I'm afraid you've killed ycuresif, Tora.\u2019 \u2018Yea, but it was for little Teddy's sake.It wes n ner toucher, A litle boy with Wee oye cl he given to him.Towerd the end ben afraid over a little child, but, baven't\u2014aever I His mind ran on this through the whole o! the half-hour of conse: usness tha: was à friend, who knew a good deal about the œb- man, visited the ward.Ha did not say much.bit he Tepes sed some of the com- é a Racred Book, and ean listened and responded.\u2018Cod so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Ron that whosoever be.lieveth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\u2019 \u2018I believe,\u2019 mid the cabman.\u2018And I have always taken care of the Little ones He hes liked that, T am sure.And it was for Tt 's sake.\u2019 The visitor offered to pray with the man.* Thank \u2019 he said; \u2018and will you tell him that Dave never burt a did in my life?And the cabmen passed away with thanksgiving on his lipe.\u2014Marianne Farn- ingham, in \u2018 London Christian World.\" \u2014\u2014 TRE OUTCASTS OF TRAVANCORE.A most interesting report in \u2018Service for the King\u2019 drawe partionlar attemtion to the splendid service which is being dens for Christ by the \u2018Amociation of Women Workers! At the annual geth- ering, Mra.Neve, from Bouth Iudia $ Ÿ FRYLÈE .The women shop comes out with the goods, in the caps and retires.One pror women would get up ot day #0 off to the rice fieids, and work under a tropical sun, standing waist in water, weeding and cl rice with her tees, while a bh a boat remai NH if { ui gis êsE fers is 1 # Fa {Eee g EF F rifir the society of her children as she bas to leave them at religion eg i 5 Ke H i waiting an opportunity te come out jujure them, and so their lives go on.\u2019 \u2018Evangelical Christendom.\u201d A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU.strength for cach day; New notes of thonkagiving, new chords New praise in the morning, new songs in the night; New wine in thy chalice, new sltars to reise; New fruits for thy Master, new garments smiles from his face; Now atresus from the fountain of ief- nite grace; New stars for thy crown, and new tokens of love; New light of his countenance, full and unpriced-\u2014 AN these be the joy of the new life in Christ.Frances Ridley Havergal \u2014\u2014 The New Yaar bell rings out its solemn call alike to those who are Christisas, and to those who are mot.To this latter class it will be a \u2018happy New Year\u2019 if they will secure Jesus Chriet es their friend st once.If you may, \"I will do this as soon as my business fe in better shape.you are bargaining with Batan, who is sure to chest you.If you say, \u2018I will decide for Christ by- and-by,\u2019 you are deciding against him.Take the first step at once, and put the hand of your faith into that loving band that was pierced for your sins.Do this romptly; and perhaps a bell of joy may ke rung for you in heaven! \u2014Dr.Cayler.In every.morning that dawne lurks the secret we are set to learn and having Jesrned to teach, either in word or life.So in this great present our work may be done, and future left to the Master of life.To pray for this day's bresd is enough.Tomorrow will have its own provis ion and other tomorrows in their turn.Take, then, not only what burden the day may bring, but its wt.most possibility of joy, of helpfainess, of growth, and whether in New Year's dawn .or Old Year's flitting; pesce will abide and be more and more the por tion of the day forever.\u2014 Helen © \u2026 JANUARY 6, 1808, qu CHILDREN'S CURNER.| cattle me 1 [Yor the Children\u2019s Corner.NEW YEAR'S DAY IN JAPAN, New Year's Day has been the test festival in our country since pévren times.This is the moet pleamnt day for us ; end there are many customa inherited from our ancestors on that day.Small pine trees and bambous are plant ed on both sides of every gate, and the national flags, which are exhibited on every house, are blowing in the wind.Woe rise unusually early on that morning, and after praying to God, we par take of \u2018moni,\u2019 a kind of food made by boiling rice, bread, fish and vegetable together.Many visitors in full dress ale wandering all about the street, going to the homes of their relations ond ac quaintances to wish them a happy New Year.Children, dressed in hele host clothes, play delightfully, some with toys and some with kites.On that day, ale, I send congratulatory letters to ny friends in the capital.BH.AIMI.Matsinge, Japan ee WISHES WITHOUT HRBART.\u2018I wish you a Happy New Year, mens ma,\u2019 eried Balle, + she bounded down- aire ® New sar\u2019s morning.\u2018A appy New Your 4 Lom 7 He o you, grandma! ppy New Years to yeu, baby I ahe added, kissing the baby\u2019s seft cheek.\u201c Belle, not long after.so much to put over my cold days\u2019 \u201cWell, yes, I euppose I can,\u2019 ous reply.\u2018The aloak and faded that it looks like a fright, and the shawl is new and pretty.\u2019 And Belle put on ber cloak with so much vim that she tore off two buttons and burst out a buttenhols.Noon time came.\u2018I'm as : bear I\u2019 mid Belle, coming in ool.Please hi off \u2018your things, and eet the table,\u201d her mother.\u2018Dinner a little I've had so much to do, and baby has fretted a good desl.\u2019 \u2018I think it's too hard to have to study all school-time and work the rest of the time,\u2019 mid Bells.\u2018T wish à keep a servant to do the housework ; I don\u2019t Like it.\u201d ight.Bho Tn on po ni \u201cShe a > mamma, \u2018and in at Cand you play with her a little while, Belle to amuse her, and help her forget her J; aches and pains ¥* \u2018I don\u2019t think there's any fun pla with babies,\u201d Delle said, crossly.oy don't know anything.Come then, if you must, you little bother,\u2019 and Belle took her so roughly, and spoke eo crosaly, that baby just made up a lip and cried aloud.Come and have a game of checkers with me, Belle,\u201d mid Will, after tea.\u2018Oh, checkers | You always want to play checkers, and you know I hate em.I'll play Mother Goose with Es \u201cThat's to simple = game,\u2019 mid Will \u2018Come, be & good girl, now.\u2019 \u2018I'd rather read,\u2019 was the selfish re- And eo, before twelve hours from the time Belle wished each of the rest a Happy New Year, she had grieved every one of them by her selfishness.Tiow much heart was thers in her wishes, do you think ?\u2014 Youth's = panion.\u2019 .= Steady Nerves.They Are Needed for Success Everywhere, Weak Nerves a Sign of Impoverished Elood- To Cure Nervous Enrich the Blood with Sarsaparilia.Strong, steady nerves are needed for suc- cose everywhere.Nerves depend simply, solely, solidly upon the blood, Pure, nourishing blood feeds the nervos and ma! them strong.Hood's Sarsaparilia puriées the blood and gives to it the Qualities need.od for nourishing and & eugthening the nerves.As the One True Dood Purifier, it is the best and greatest nerve tonls.It cures nervousness, and is @ wonderful De Bros, mer arold raise eriah , suffer unlol w nervous opells,\u201d and exhausted vitsl- ny.\u2019 H Oo oO d S parilia TE rr Td ar \\Hood's Pills {i Rus Po gq \u201cy Jancanr 4, 1898.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.\u2019 } ; ha LETTERS FROM READERS.BAGSTER'S BIBLE.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Sir,\u2014Wishing success to the \u2018Witness,\u2019 T herewith send my subscription, ome dollar, for 1808, with the grestest ples sure The editorials on passing events show marked ability and feariess \u201cnde.pendence.No ons can charge the \u2018Witness\u2019 with \u2018having men\u2019s persons in admiration because of adventage.\u201d Taken altogether, it is without controversy the 1cet paper in Canads.\u2018The introduction of the Bagster bibles, at such a small charge, is an invalueble hoon to the country, We have Chris tian kndeavors and other religious guills which are all professing to work for Christ as they have opportunity.And à is well that it is so.Every Christian ought to work for Christ, and should also strive to be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.By the generous offer «f Messrs.John Dougall & Sob, a thorough biblical education is placed within the reach of every Christian man and woman from Cape Breton to Vancouver\u2019s Island.There are several that toll us with considerable complacency that they are simple-minded Christiane who feod on the sincere milk of the Word, But although milk is the proper food for habes in Christ, yet they should not remain babes; but after a reasonable time should use strong meat 80 that their senses may be exercised to discern both good and evil.It has pleased the Head of the Church to give pastors and teachers, not to supply defects in the holy ecriptures, but for the perfecting of the saints, and the edifying of the body of Christ.l\u2019astors and teachers speak to us either with the liv- iug voice, or through the medium of their writings: In the \u2018helps\u2019 of the Baget.r bible we have the essence of many large and expensive volumes, by men of ac- Lnowieged ability, condensed into a fow pages.lu Ve present day we often hear of the inefliciency of the pulpit.But the inefficiency of the pulpit in the most of cases may be traced to the inefliciency of the pew.When a minister is placed over a oongregation which is not quali- tied to appreciate his merits, or to hold up his hands, it is no wonder that he becomes discouraged and in danger of neg: lewting his studies.Let ministers have a fair chance.Instead of pestering them with the small talk of what ie taking Place around their own doors, Jet members of churches qualify themselves to converse with their ministers on some of the leading questions of the day.For instance, theories of inspiration\u2014com- parative value of different readings and translations\u2014canous of biblical interpretation, etr.If ministers and congregs.tions were stimulated by conversatica of this kind there would be little danger of deterioration.It would therefore be well for ministers to educate their congregations up to this standard by encouraging them to use Bagster bibles.As the new edition of the Bagster hible is furnished with elementary Greek and Hebrew grammars, it is to be hoped that due attention will be given to these subjects.It is true that a man may le a true Christian who is only acquainted with the English bible.As a transia- tiom, it is, perhaps, unsurpassed; but no translation can give an exact representation of the scriptures in the original tongues.This is not neceesarily the fault of transistors, but because it is impossible to translate a book out of one language into another without losing, more or less, the force or precision of the original.Therefore, the man who can only study the scriptures through a translation labors under many disadvantages.© He can never be sure that he understands the exact meaning of scriptural terme.It is an obvious fact that an exact knowledge of terms, or words, is the foundstion of biblical study.Therefore, if we wish to know tbeir exact meaning we must search through the Greek testament, septuagint and Hebrew hible to find the usage of the Ja .tut & man who only knows the English bible cannot do this; so he has to depend on translators, and allow them to think for him instead of thinking for himmolf.Further, the enemies of the truth often appeal to the original scrip: tures in rapport of their dogmas, but the mere English reader of the bible cannot refute their cavils: and if he at tempts to do so, will likely do harm instead of good.Critical remarks in com- wentavies and other haoks which often thew much light on difficult portians of CGod'« Word are of no value to a person of thin kind, as he cannot tell whether thes are right or wrong.There ie no rcamn why Christian men and women should nt lesrm to think for themacives, instrad of depending on translators fo think for them.Neither in there any reason why they should debar thomeelves from drinking the pure Word of God at the fountain-head.A fair acquaintance with the English lan.auage.and a wufficient amount f proper'y directed determination and pers: ver- ance will put any one in peasession of this invaluable privilege.A) who are desir ua of this privilege should begin to study the Bagster grammars without de- lav If they meet\u2018 with difficulties fn their studies their ministers will, ne doubt, be willing to help them.Let them go forward atep by sep, and hey will find out how litt'e they now of \u2018 + j' the bible when they are able to reud it intelligently fn the Hebrew and Greek originals.GEORGE MILL.Warwick, Ont., Dec.13, 1807.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE LAST PORT OF CALL.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.\" Sir, \u2014Thirty-nine years ago today I bade farewel) to 1ny friends in Montrsal, where I vas assistant pastor in St.James Btreet Methodist Church, and started for British Columbia as one of the first band of Canadian missionaries.After seven and a hall years in British Columbia 1 was compelled to return edst on account of the failure of my wife's health, When her health was sufficiently restored we again volunteered for mission work in British Columbia and were sent to New W'esteuinater.Uu the occasion of my sceond departure | wpent a night in Montreal and the kind friends there, vn the suggestion of the Rev.Dr.Saunders, guve me a second sendoff in the form of « tes and platform meeting in the Jee ture room of the St.James Street Church in which 1 had taken leave of them twenty years before.The late Dr.Geo.presided and we had a good time generally, For the past seventeen yeors 1 have been toiling for the Master in this \u2018glorious province,\u2019 with great delight to myseif, snd I trust some little benefit to the people, My present mis sion is Port Rimpecn, the last Canadian gow of call on the way to the now famous Yukon and Klondike gold fields.From our veranduh we look out upon the islands of Alaska and see the steam: ships of the San Francisco, Seattle, Vie- toria and Vancouver lines pessing up aud down in the distance.Should the Canadian route via Stikeen river prove to be the preferred route (as is altogether likely) we shall bave more cais from those going north than we now have.It is suggested by Mr.Ogilvie, C.E., that this may possibly become the place where the ocean steamships will transfer their rargoen to the river steamers plying on the Stikeen.More than likely, many of our Indians will find profitable employment in canoeing goods up the Stikeen and \u2018packing\u2019 over the mountains from Dyes and Skaguay, especially in the early spring.1 trust some of those coming from the east will arrive before the first of March and they should be prepared for winter travel.I fear that many more than ought to come will do so.Great hardships have to be endured.Thanking you for the space occupied by this greeting to my good friends in Montreal, and wishing the \u2018 Witness\u2019 ever increasing prosperity.E.ROBSON.Port Simpson, B.C., Dec.8, 1807.re ANGLICAN MISSION IN UGANDA.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019 8ir,\u2014~Very great interest was arowssd in Montreal last spring by the departu = of Mr.Borup for Uganda as the first mis sionary sent to Africa by the Church of England in Canada, and the startling in- tellieence from that country in the last few weeks has brought it prominently before the public since.Many will therefore be glad to know that letters have just arrived from Mr.Borup, dated Mom- bass, saying that he, with the rest of the C.M.8.party for Uganda, whom he joined in London, landed at Mombasa on Friday, Oct.29, in good heaith after a prosperous voyage.They were welcomed warmly by the C.M.S.missionaries there, and also by three Uganda boys, whem be describes as \u2018splendid bright fellows,\u2019 \u2018touchingly devoted to Mr.Kos cos\u2019 (a C.M.NS.missionary, who nos been laboring in Uganda since 1884).His firet Sunday in Africa was, he says, \"a very joyful and blemed oue,\u2019 and he was much struck by the devout and attentive behavior of the black congregation in Mombasa Church, They hoped to leave the coast on Wednesday, Nov.10, and to travel the first hundred and fifty miles irdand by the newly completed railway; marching the rest of the way to Meng», where they expected to arrive about Christmas time.It will be remembered that Mr.Borup is supported by the parish of St.Mathias, Montral, and tbat his training, outfit and passage was provided mainly by the members of tac Montreal branch of the Gleaners\u2019 Union.In this three hundred members have been enrolled ; and it is a small segment of a world-wide circle of over a hundred thousand friends of the Church Missionary Society.Recognizing that lack c: knowledge about missions is almost always the explanation of indifference to them, the Gleaners\u2019 Union aims less at collecting money than imulating prayer and effort, and dit- formation.The Synod Hall was always tilled and sometimes crowded for the course of lectures organised through it last winter.and a similar course is being given this winter.Through the exertions of one oi two members of the Gleaners\u2019 Union a depot was opened a year ago, for the sale of first rate mis sionery publications at cost price.So many have been glad to procure these, that the whole stock was quickly sold out, and this week a large fresh stock, including many beautifully illustrated but inexpensive books for young people, has arrived from London, This is now on eale st Drysdale\u2019s bookstores ou St.Catherine and ft.James streets, and it is hoped that all who care about the work of the Church abroad will maky a point of buying some of their Christnsps gifts at this depot for misslonary iitethture.MARY L.G.CARUS-WILAC™ (Mrs.Ashley Carus-Wilson.| OVERAMI, THE KING OF BENIN.Overami, the King of Benin, is now a prisoner.The accompanying portrait of him was taken on board the Niger Coast Protectorate steamer \u2018Ivy,\u2019 in which be: was conveyed tp Old Calabar.Overams, it will be remembered, escaped when the city cf Benin was taken, and a fruitless search waa made for him.On Aug § he surrendered at Benin City.He and his chiefs were tried for the massacre uf the mirsion sent to Benin last January.Six chiefs were found guilty.One died before the trial, two committed suicide, ¢ two were executed, and one, Ologbo Sheri, the chief next in rank to the king, is still at large.The king at present does not appear to have been implicated in the massacke; but his fate is largely dependeut on the capture of Ologbu, who can, if he will, throw light on the matter.In the meantime the king is a prisoner.On the way to Ol Calabar, Overepi was kept constantly on deck, eo that the natives of the various villages passed en route might mee that he was really in the hande of the white men.\u2014\u2018London Graphic PROHIBITION IN MAINE A SON OF MAINE ANSWERS DR.\u2019 GRANT.The following letter irom Mr.Wilbur F.Crafts, superintendent of the Reform Bureau of Washington, in reply to Prin- «ipal Graut's letters attacking the working of the Maine liquor law, which appears in the Toronto \"Globe, will be read with interent: 1 am as sorry as | am surprised to see my friend, Principal Grant, playing he} part of \u2018devil's advocute\u2019 in the best daily | payer of the world\u2019s best city, whose Len | thousand majority for prohivition is the climax of my frequent boast in her be-| half.I speak as a son of Maine, a twin ! of the \u2018Maine law,\u2019 from the same year, in the same state, and almost of be; same father, for my father wrote one of | Neal Dow\u2019s rallying songs.This I know, \u2018 that in all my buyhood in that state, | travelling much with my father, till we! moved lo Massachusetts when I wael eleven, 1 never saw a drunken persun or\u2019 a rum shop.Drunkards and cannibaia were both unrcal, far-off horrors.Mrs.Crafts, at the Fryburg Chautauqua, | tested the children's clam she taught, | which had been gathered from many towns of Maine many of them tweive years of age, and found not one of them had ever seen a drunken person, There is open liquoræelling in Bangor, which is as much a rebel cily as Charlve- ton, South Carolina, was in 1861.But there is no oper lquor-selling in the remainder of the state.THe government iax reccipts are mostly those of druz- Qists, many of whom are not auflicientiy particular about their sales.This yeur five of the drug stores will remain until scientilic temperance education gives us à supply of doctors who know how to use the safer substitutes for alcohol.Hut the sccret sales of drug st.es, where no crowd can loaf and treat, is a trifle, compared with the ralesof tbe saloons.I have, mywelf, in recent years, carefully investigated Portland, under guidance cf an ex-drinker, who knew all the tricks of the liquor trade.The only hotel bar was a temporary one of unpainted pine, reached only through the water closets in the basement, where our oyift approach startled the hu!f-dozen commercial travellers who were dreartly drinking, in or der to say afterwards that \u2018liquor is sold as freely in Portland as anywhere\u201d We found liquors alro, at a high price, and orly by the bottle, in dismal dens near the depot.George William Curtia, win was not an abutainer, having been guided to one of these cellar sellers in a dim and damp coset, declined the offend glass, saying, significantly: \u2018No, not under these circumstances.\u201d Prohibitory laws, whether they prohibit murder or adultery, or the trafic which prodices both, do not annihilate, but that prohibition reduces liquor selling more than any other form of liquor law is conclu: mvely proved, without statistics, by the unquestioned fact that liquor sellers tight prohibition harder than any license or tax law, and choose to pay the highest license, if necessary, rather than take, without fee, the alleged privilege to \u2018sell more liquor under prohibition.\u2019 As to deceptions, evasionm, violations of law, the best high-license law, that of Pennsylvania, is more violated than the prohibitory law of Maine.There are more places selling liquor illegally in Philadelphia than in all the Pine Tree Statr.We have not to choose between a perfectly enforced ficence law and a pertiy-enforced prchibition.It ie to be remembered also that a British popula-, jlae liberty, the attitude of a Christian 1had placed tn his hands by an East (odly missionary the formula of & simple vegetable remedy for the speedy aod permanent cure of Cot tion, Bronchitis, Catarrb.Asthma, av Throat aod Lung Ar'ec.tions, also a positive and radical cure for Ne s Debtlity, and.all Nervous Com- tion have a law-obeying habit very different from the lawlessness of our \u2018mixed multitude\u201d Probibtion exactly meets Mr.Gladstone's definition of the highest purpose of law, in making it {not impossible, but) \u2018as hard as possible to do wrong, and As easy as possible to do right.\u201d Against the American book which Principal Grant quotes 1 Mave long intended to, warn Cunadians.ft is often quoted as if it was the result of the investigations of the Seth Low Committee of Fifty.In fact this committee of rich and busy men delegated the irvestigation of the liquor laws to a committee of three, of whom President Elliot, of Harvard University, is chairman, who a few years ago defended Mormonism and hae voted against local option repeatedly in his own town, and bes never been known as even an ai- tempted r:former of anything but football.This sub-committee in turn delegated the work of investigating the liquor laws to two hired agents.One of thes.Mr.Koren, was wholly unknown, ad the other, Mr.Wines, was chiefly known through his father, who was eminent in another reform.I pereonally know that in Cincinnati Mr.Wines put himself in the bande of perjured city officers and made a whitewashing rep rt in the press, which I knew to be wholly undeserved from my owh investigations and the in- lormation 1 had direct from law and order detectives who had known the city for years.The book is t» be regarded as simply the opinion of these two agente \u2014only this and nothing more.And about all they claim against prohibition is that it is not better than other laws if not en- foroed, Bécause the liquor traffic is the worst fos of the home, because its wastes cre the most serious foes to business, and ita plots the most serious perils to popu- commonwealth toward it should be one of uncompromising hostility.WILBUR F.CRAFTS.Superintendent of The Reform Bureau, Washington, D.C., Dec.18.\u2014\u2014 AN OLD CANADIAN PAPER.\u2018Wm, Riviere, of Farran\u2019s Point, formerly of the east of Cornwall, has quite « curio in the shape of a copy of the \u2018Canadian Courant,\u2019 printed in Montreal on Saturday, June 16, 1832.Among other advertisements appesrs one, ornamented hy a four-in-hand coach, announcing a new stage line from Montreal to Ogdena- burg, through in two days by daylight, sleeping at Fort Covington, These stages ran six days a week.A great deal ot space is devoted to cholera, which wus then raging, and Montreal alone reported 1,500 cases and 230 deaths.Another interesting item of news was a copy of the bill for incorporating thé city of Mont: real.By the bill it was provided that the common councilmen would elect from among themsolves à mayor whose sslary shall not exceed a hundred pounds, À councilman refusing to act after election shall be fined the mimof £23.~ Printer and Publishee\u2019 for December.CONATRPTION CURED.An oi physician, retired from practice, Flaïnts Hovicg testsd its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases.aud desiring te releve human suffering, I will send free of charge to all who , this ADVERTISEMENTS.Consumption, From Pr.Hunter's Lesiares on the Progress of Medical Science in Lung Diseases.The medical profession of the civilized world now concedes that Consumption is always a disease of the lungs, aud al- we;.caused by the bacillus germ.For hundreds of years it was supposed to be s disease of the blood und generul system, caused by inheritance, and on that false theory was trealed by medicines given through the stomach, and with such inevitable 1atality that it came to be regarded as incurable, The \u2018ticrm Theory\u2019 first announced by Dr.Martin in 1722 was sdopted by Dr.Barron in 1819, by Dr.Carmichael in 1636, by Prof.Lanza in 1819, and by mynelf in 1851, With these exceptions, the whole profession held to the old doctrine and continued to oppose and deny the truth of the \u2018Uerm Theory\u2019 until after 1882, when Dir.Robert Koch, of Berlin, proved ita indisputable truth by showing the actual germs that produce the disease in the lungs and expectorated matter of consumptives.But even then the new doctrine was not publicly accept-d, nor the oll treatment changed.In 1891 it was adopted and publicly acknowledged ly all Medical Schools as the only true theory of consumption.The bacillus germ feeds upon: and destroys the substance of the lergs, as maggots devour raw flesh.I'rom whence do these germs come ?The atmosphere is filled with countless millions of different kinds, each having its appointed mission in the economy of nature.All living things are consumed by them after death.They are harmless to healthy bodies, but assail and prey upon diseased tissues, The germs in the air are the cause of many different diseases, each named according to ite kind\u2014Scald Head, Lepra Vulgans, Ring Worm and the Itch are ccmmon germ diseases.Consumption is caused by the tuberc'e bacillue, à germ found in the air of all climates.In heaith the lungs are effectually protected from the bacilli by the Epithelium, a delicate membrane whi h lines the mucous surfaces of the air pan.sages\u2014tubes and ceils of the lunge, just as the cuticle covers and protects the ex- temnal surface or skin of the body.The Epithelium is the natural safeguard of the lungs.Without ite protec tion every human being would get consumption and the earth be depopulated, Lut while it remains unbroken the lungs are safe and consumption cannot possibly arise.The chief diseases which endanger the Fpithelium and render us liable to consumption are Caturrh, Bronchitis, Asthma and Pnenmonia.You must first get a chronic inflimmation of the lung surfaces, severe enough to break and destroy the Epithelium, before you can get consumption.You may have chronic bronchitis a long time before the Epi thelium is broken.These diseases are the nursery from which consumption springs, and therefore always dangerous.Local inflammations of the air passages and lungs are casily and quickly cured by local treatment applied directly to the lungs by inhalation, but never by stomach medication.After the Epithelium is broken end the germs have formed n lodgment in the lungs, no diet or nur«ing, stomach mediation or charge of air ran arrest the lung disease.Nothing short of the actual destruction of the germs and their expulsion from the lungs will save the patient's life.This is effected only hy specific germicides applied directly to the germs and germ-infected parts by inhalation.Everything else inevitably fails.(To be continued.) {Signed), Roment Huxter, M.D.117 W.45th Street, New York.Dec.19.Note.\u2014A pamphlet explaining Dr.Hunter's treatment of Jung complainte can be obtained free by all readers of the \u2018Witness\u2019 by addressing him as above.\u2018 THE MOST NUTRITIOUS EPPS\u2019S GRATEFUL\u2014COMFORTING.COCOA BREAKFAST AND SUPPER.DEAFSHAY Sap.NEE JURYING, XQ PALY Wagers baad.heed te ff tos Le.688 Broadway 3.1+ tw Sort ve nos FREE.\u2014 TT Instant relief.final cure ina few dass and never returns; no pres no salve; LES #25 \u2018 PILE YER Dr OR Ses Tork on 4 te, N.Y.FITS ALL FIT4 STOPPED FREE -hy- Pr.KLINK'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER Mo Fits after the first day's ves.Marvellous sures.Treatise and trial det.tie Free to Fit cases te DOCTO KLINE.#1 Ared street.Philadelphia, Pa SALE BY J.A.NARTE, Druggie, 1700 Notre Dame Siravt.Mont.-ak recipe, in Gr-men.Frerch or Eag fuii directe for preparicg and Seat dy addresstax, with Same.naming il W.A.NOYES, Powers Biocts Rochester, N.Y.AA sons 1826.pe i Ere.OA READABLE PARAGRAPHS THB SUBLETY OF ART.\u2018I've sold that poem on sutumn at last, be shouted.\u2018J made one slight change, and It was purchesed Immediately.\u2019 \u201cThat shows what a sublie thing srt fe, said the friend.\u2018The slightest touch may wake or mar a masterplece.How did you change your poem?\u2018Fixed up the 1ast line so as te work ta the name of a patent madicine.\u2019 \u2018One \u2018er de troubles \u2018bout dishere life, sald Uncle Eben, \u2018is dat by de time a wae bab x realizin\u2019 sense dat be erter | sumpin\u2019, hs feels like he\u2018s too old ter stabi 1n.\u2014 Washington \u2018Star.\u2018You're late, young man.What's the rea: su?\u2018Had wu toothache.\u2019 has the tcoth stopped aching?\u2018Dusne.\u2019 \u2018What * Don\u2019t kuow ! Why don't you kaew?\u201cCause it's pulled.\u2019\u2014 Life.\u2019 AT VARIANCE.Precoclous\u2014 Mamma, it isu\u2018t good grammar to say \u201cafter I\u2019 1e\u2019 st?His Mether\u2014 \u2018No, Ueorgle,\" Precocious\u2014'Well, the letter J comes atter I.Which is wrong, the gram.Liar or the alphabet?\u2019 \u2014Chicago *Tribuase.\u2019 A WOULD-BE MUSICIAN.\u2018Music,\u2019 sald the eminent planist, as th reporter to vhom he had Xindly accerded an interview, ran bis pencil rapidly over the paper, \u2018Is the moat elevating of sciences.It refines the sensibilities and enlarges the heart.It\u2014what were you about to ak?\u2018I should lke to know, sir, how you regard the distinguished pianist, Professor Ven Bergstein, as a musician?\u2018He is nothing, sir, but a cheap, vite fmitator, a base counterfeit, a tenth-rate key-board bapger, sir!\u2019 exclaimed the eminent musician, scowling.She\u2014'1 don\u2019t see what reason you have for expecting anything but a refusal.3 never gate you any epcoursgement.\u2019 He (just rejacted)\u2014'Oh Mise Coyne\u2014Maud You did\u2014yiu most certalnly Ji encourage me! You told me you had ten thousand a year io your own right.\"\u2014'Tit-Bits.\u2019 PLAIN FIGURES.English Guard (to country looking party who las been inquiring the way out) -\u2018De you know that you have been travelling second class with a third class ticket?Yew will hava to pay excess.\u2019 Country-looking Party\u2014'I paid tuppence for my ticket, and | got lato a carrisge with à 3 on 11\" He was let off, HIS THOUGHT.\u2018What do you think of my dsughter's execution, Professor?\u2019 asked the fond mamma as her daugher pounded away at (be piano keys \"Thiak, madam'® was the reply; \u2018why, tiat I should like to Ye presect at it.\u2019 IDENTIFICATION.Arditl, the musical conductor, had lest his bair In early youth, aud his pate, as he occupied his seat in the orchestrs, was 3 prominest object at every performance, and distinctly visible from all parts of the house.On one occasion bho wasted to carh 8 cheque at a bank in New York, and when the teller demanded proof of bis identity, the waggish conductor asked Lim if he ever went to the opera.Om recclving & reply in the affirmative be turned round and gave the man a back view of his denuded crantum.The cheque was booored.JUST 80.Ethei\u2014Isn\u2019t it nice, belag able to speak French?We can chat in a public cosvey- ance and nobody else wiil know what is being said.Fred\u2014'Yes, not eves a Frenchman!\u2019 STUNG BY AN ADDER.\u2018Henry, you look very pale.Whats the trouble?\u2018I was stung to the quick by an adder this afternocn.\u2019 \u2018How did it Lappen?\u2018Why, I dropped in at the bank, sod the bookkeepar told me my account was ever- drawn.\u2019 AN UMBRELLA STORY.A Gentleman calling at sn hotel left his umbrella in the stand = the hall, with the following iascriptien auached to it: \u201cThis umbrella belongs to a man who can deal & blow of 280-ib.weight.I shall be back te ten minutes.\u2019 Cn returaing to sesk his property be found In its placs a czrd (bus inscribed: \u2018This card bas been left dy à man who cau run twelve miles an hour.1 shail wot come back.\u2019 CAB\" \u2014 . the montèly magasine ons, London, eaye: \u2018Come with me and enter two back rooms, where you will find a family of eight living\u2014father, mother and oix dren.Befors passing through the first small room to an inner one, we must walt and get accustomed to the dull light.| In that inser room a sed sight awaits us: \u2018fes cn tbe bed Na one aix Jeady oid, the val - fering from posumonis.The poor tired mother (who has been up most of the night) in busy at the table by the ULedsde making matchboxes\u2014 and it is the old story: she is paid for these twopence farthing a gross, baving to find her own peste aud vtring for tying them up in packets, and, in wenter, coke of to dry them.Working steadily sbe could only earn one shilling or one shilling and sixpence a day; but with sick children tw look.after, dus she cannot do.Her hus band, « steady man, was laid aside by rheumatic fever a year ago, which threw him out of employment, and the eldest boy is paralyzed.In another room we asked a woman seventy yearw old, \u201cHow do you lve on a ehilling snd sixpence & week ! for, after paying ber rent, this is the exact sum she has to spare for foud and clothes.\u201cIl can just make both ends meet, miss, by having no luxuries, such ae eugar and jam.1 buy s bit of meat for Sunday, and that serves till the next week comes round.\u201d She tells with much joy how she has one excursion in the year, which conte her eixpence, and whe has a great saving up for it.Thouxb thus etraitened in circumstances, her Ife full of pruise to God for his love ard goodness.Another Christian woman, too old to work, lives on ane shilling a week, alter paying rent for her room, a little back London cellar.\u2014_ RELIGIOUS NEWS.Speaking of the beneficial results of the curfew bell, the Mayor of Lincoln, Neb., says: \u2018There has been a decided improvement, socially and morally, of the youth, and a pecuniary saving from the falling off in the number of arrests.This seems to be the strictly proper way of reducing crime among youths, of the cities.Tamil V.David, the Hindu evangelist, who has been spénding some time in Chicago, holding meetings in Trinity Church, crossed the acean, it is said, as a steerage pamenger, lives in the plainest manner, asks no money for himself and uses what a given him for the good of others.He visited the mission connected with Trinity Church and then sent two twenty- dollar bills \u2018to buy shoes for those poor Little children.\u2019 Canadisns, says the \u2018Evangelical Churchman,\u2019 will be interested in the recent career of Mr.Millard, who acoom- panied the Rev, George C.Grubb in his Canadian tour and conducted the children's services.Mr.Millard, some time since, went to Asia Minor to distribute relief among needy Armenians.At Ura (the ancient Edessa) he was detained, and was not released till the British am- basssdor had sent three notes, the lust of which threatened to refer the matter to his government, unless Mr.Millard was aliowed to proceed unhindered and at once.lle goes to Eghin with relief and then to Kharput to establish an Ar monian orphanage.The American Board of Foreign Mis sions bes made public its eighty-seventh annual report.The receipts from the New England States were as follows: \u2014 Maine, 003.27; New Hampshire, 823,- 100.99; Vermont, $15,510.34; Massschu- setts, $231,646.08; Rhode Island, $18,- 067.39; Connecticut, $80,087.07, making à total for New England of $386,484.12.\"The receipts from New York were $54,- 036.03.Tae total receipts from all sources were $842,781.07.The report deals at length with the Turkish massacres, and says that while many Christians were killed, the number of professing Christians exceeds that previous to the outrages.According to a statement received by the American Bible Society from ita Chr- nese agency, the bible nas been put upon the list of classics which the students are to study in order to secure their appointment in the cigil service, Amnng the questions read by ten thousang mw dente in ome of the examination halls was this: \u2018What do you know of the repeopling of the earth by Noah and his family after the flood!\" Hitherto the questions had been almost entirely on literary lines and limited to the litermure of China.This year they are much broader, taking in more general history and the principal books of Christian countries.There is now going on in France à most interesting movement of religious unrest among the younger cleigy in the Catholic Church, a movement which throws wonderful light upon the inuer life of the clergy, and on the various problems of evangelization.The most interesting figure in the movement is Abbé Bourrier, who was solemnly or dsined as a Protestant minister on Sunday, Oct.24, in connection with the Established Presbyterian church in France.M.Bourrier is nearly fifty: he has been for more than twenty years a priest of good standing and unimpeachable morality, and the crowd who attended his ordination were deeply impressed with the earnestness and piety of the man.The Evangelical Alliance of the United States proposes to urculate widely a series of aitravtive leaflets designed Lo promote good citizenship.The scries in- dudes \u2018Ciood Citizenship\u2014What It 16° Ly Bishop Huntington; \u2018The Church and f'rescnt Problema of Citizenship,\u201d by Ir, Washington Gladden; \u2018The New Patriotism,\u2019 by Dr.Josiah Strong; \u2018The Duty of a Public 8mnt,\u2019 by resident Andrews, and \u2018The Co-operstive City,\u2019 by Prof.Jobn R.L'ommous, The plan is to call on pastors in every commutity to establish districts and use the young people of the Christian Kadeavor, the pworth League and other societion as orth messengers for the monthly distribution of tho leaflets.It is hoped in this way to cducate public opinion and quicken the popular conscience.\u2018The literature is to furnished to the churches at very low ates, The cause of missions bas los & ~~ efficient worker by the death of A , LED, of England.He was born in 1815, gredusted from King's College and University im 1688, and four years later was appointed a missionary of the London Missionary £o- ciety to China, arriving the same year st Maîaces.Bhortly after he took charge of the Anglo-Chincse College, foundad st that place by Dr.Morrison, the pionese Chinese minsions.Ie devoted bim- sell throughout his life especially to lit erary work, being connected with the theological seminary at Hong Kong which was the succemor of the college ai Malaces.In 1875 there was a movement to promote the establishment of a chair of the Chinese language and liters.ture at Oxford, ard Dr.Legge\u2019s pre eminent qualifications for the position led to his appointment.Among other things, Dr.Legge has edited an edition of the Chinese classics with the Chinese text.He was a scholar of exceptional ability and good judgment.A letter from a comiuitiee representing the foreign missionary societies of Ameri.oa, sddressod to the secretaries of the Protestant foreign missionary societies of Great Britain and Europe, soliciting an expression of their views as to the desire.bility of convening a foreign missionary conference, similar in aim and character to the World's Missionary Conference of 1898, in New York in the month of April, 1900, has met with a general favorable response.In view of the cordisl feeling expressed, the American societies have authorized the holding of the ron- ference, and, in pursuance of instru tions from the committee and in the name of the American societies, an invitation has been issucd, signed by the Rev.Dr, Judson Smith, of Boston, as chair man, and the Rev.Dr.H.N.Cobb, of New York, representing the Reformed Churches, as secretary.This invitation asks esch society to be represented by two or more delegates in an ecumenical conference on foreign missions, to be held in New York April 20, 1900, and to cos- tinue for ten days from that date.The invitations are to be sent to all Protestant foreign missionary societies of ibe world as far es they are known.Tho preparation of a programme will be begun at once.\u2014_æ_ A HAPPY NEW YEAR (By John D.Gilmore.) Happy art thoy, O Israel : who is like unto thee, a people saved by the Lord ?(Deut.xxxiii., 29).Happy is the people whose God is the Lord (Pes.cxliv., 15).Happy is he that hath the God of Js cob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God (Psa.cxlvi, 5).Happy is the man that findeth wis dom (Prov.iii., 13).Happy is the man that feareth alway (Prov.xxviii., 14).Happy is the man whom God correct.eth (Job v., 17).Happy is be who trusteth in the Lord {Prov.xvi., 20) \u2014 Word and Work Brother Christian, determine to make this the best year of your life\u2014the richest, ripest, strongest, happiest.But you cannot grow in grace \u2018by wholesale.\u2019 Begin the year by putting the knife into some bad habit or besetting sin.Begin by laying stiff hoid on some negiected duty.Consecration means letting Jesus Christ own the whole of you.Holinem means serving Christ in little things ; and remember that in all the year you will ace only one day and that will be called \u2018today\u2019 The Jadder to heaven is climbed, not by a leap, but round by round.\u2014Theodore L.Cuyler.A New Year, not simply another year, Many people may be said to live the same old year over and over again.Each succeeding year is the same unit added once more to the sum of life.There is the same task performed in the same spirit, with the same motive ; the same imperfections of character, the same failures of conduct.The times may changs and progress hasten, but if we stand still, we live over the old year once again.A new year never comes to the contented ox ; he simply grows old It is not the lapse of time, or the progress of civilization, but our progress, which makes possible to us & new year.\u2014Jo siah Strong.ADVERTISEMENTS.To College Without Cost A forty-eight illustrated pom Rie, tells the story of how over two hundred ris and fifty bright won their college course and education in music, without expense, and how others may do the same.It will be mailed FREE to an ri sendi res to ne The Curtis Publishing Company Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES ALL IN ADVANCE.Pally Witheas = = + « = = + + $3.00 Weekly Witneas + = = « « > - 1.00 LA Morthorm Messenger (single copy) » © « ** 10 copies and over te one dreams, 30u por cOPY.AU the adore papers sont Pres of postage Lo the Deminion, Newfoundiand and United Siates For Great Nritsla add $1.04 for postage on \u201cWeekly Witness\" ** Northern Mwmenger\u201d add 0; \u201c Daily Witness\" add $3.60.ADVERTISING RATES.WEEKLY WITNESS.Cacusl advertisenadts 00 pot line per Insertion, toctutug cuts and large type.Oocuatract Hates 1 ear, & 50 per live; & months, $4.00 per sine; 3 wouths, 6233 por lise.\"Farms to Row,\u201d Farms for Sale,\u201d can be Inserted for lo à word par Jussrtion from suh- soribers.The loses: rate for non-subearibers be two cents per word.When replise are Lo be addressed in care of the * Witoess\u201d Ofiice, aa ed- ditional charge of twenty-five cents is made.lo all cases the full price wust sccomipany each order.DAILY WITNESS 100 per fine first fuseetion, amd 50 por line sech subaoqueut insertion va order.Cute oa Lamas Tyra, double rates.Contracie on feverslle terms \u201cEmployment Wanted,\u201d *Bituations Vacant,\u201d ste, 190 por insertion, vp te 9 words, Money must socompauy order, 65 this quotation is reckoned oa 8 cash basis Pirths and Dosthe, Sc por insertion : Marriages, Me.{These must be authenticated by the naue and address of the mender.) Inereted without oharye for subsoribers All cbisesries with postry, Île à line, agate measure.Money te ao company notions.Coutraets payable quarterly in advance.Five is the minimum nusiear of lines for which oa advertisement is charged.NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.-When remitting be particular to give the correct pwstofice address and the Province or Beate, ard either register your letter.which will cost be In addition to the regular postage.er procure m post-officé or express money order which protects ihe sender.Post-ofles orders cau be obtaized at the following rates: $3.60 and under, Je; 83:59 to $5.80, de: 26.00 to $10.00, 6c.Express Money OrCors are issued up to $3.00 for Je; $3.00 te $1.08, da: 96.00 L» $10.08, 6e.Subscribers tn the United tates can remit by Post- Office Créer cn Rousses Polut, N.Y.or Ameritan Express Company, Psyable at Mortreel, When wishing to have your address changed from ons post-office to an- ether, It ta neresaary to give the old address as wel! as the new.If this be not Gens such changes cannot be made.Address a'i lestere containing subseriptions or sévertising: JOHN DOUGALL & BON, © Witaass,\u201d Montreal.When stamps are sent to make up a remttiance, (he o2:y denominations we nestpt are 1 and 3 cents.\u2014\u2014 Any subscriber of the Montreal * Witness whe would like 0 have & specimen copy oi the paper sont to à filend can be accommodated by sending #8 on 6 pestai card the name and sddress #0 which hs wuld like tbe paper sent.The Witness, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1806.THE NEW YEAR.Is the world better or worse for all that has happened during the year that is past ; mot dead, but fixed forever, or, in printers\u2019 phrase, stereotyped and beyond the reach of correction.The answer does not depend upon whether you are pessimistic or optimistic in your view of what the end will be.For thers are temporarily curves backward and curves forward, whatever may be the general direction.There can be no little doubt that another year of peace among the great powers has increased the mate rial wealth of the world, and also spread wider and deeper comfort and well being.The greater part of the energy of the world has been given to produce.tien and not to destruction.And, moreover, success in production, profitable industry, manufacture, commerce and the establishment of thriving colonies and dependencies have come to be more and more the aim not merely of trading communities, or even of nations of traders, but of aristocracies, of the \u2018great pow.ors,\u2019 of kings and empires.Increase their armies and their navies as they may, each and every one of the great powers is anxious to keep out of war, even à successful war, in order that it May maintain ite progress in the path of trade and commerce.The greatest of the great national and international movements of the year have emphasized ti.cos of recent years, which were only Jess determinedly directed toward the same end.The partition of Africa, which bas been about concluded this year, has been followed hard by the partition of Asia, which is now among the proximate possibilities.From the point of view of western eivilization, the only one we are capable of really taking, the Europeanisation of Africa and Asia can.sot but be regarded as a forward movement for the world.That Britons might be able to do their share of the work was the real underlying cause of the great movement which has Leen their glory during the year, the general dlesping of hands of all the nations of qqs passing circle, of which the diamond jubilee was the occstion and demonetration.Canada bes had a singularly leadiug part and large share in this great movement, and it has greatly made for her honor and prosperity.Canadians are there fcre full of just confidence in the future, and are everywhere rejoicing nationally, whatever their joys or sorrows as individuals may have been.Never has a year dawned on Canada under brighter auspices than does the year 1898, Business men Assure us that they have never had so good a business season as the autumn which has closed with the Christmas business of 1807.The harvest has been bounteous and the prices have been good.Expansion of every hind now inspires our people.Fabulous wealth is tempting the restless of mankind to our ultimate marches, and our mining and other stocks will soon supersede kaffirs as the leading footballs of the great exchanges.Of more import, however, than even a good har vest or Golconda treasures is the partial unshackling of our trade, an earnest of a policy which removes a nightmare from the bosom of the country and opens it, to world-wide interests.The gush of imperial sympathies which bas rushed in\u2019 upon us even through the crack which we have already nade in our tariff walt has proved so exhilarating that we shall hardly want to live again in the stifling and belittling atmosphere of protection.Our horizon has enlarged as when a fog lifts and men see the world around them and their close relationship to it.The year that is before us is full of moral promise in the proepret of the great struggle with the dragon whose fiery and poisonous breath has made the past of Christian countries lurid with crime and shame.Be the outcoms of that struggle what it may, the interest it awakes in the great question involved in it, and the earnest consideration citizens will bave to give to their own responsi bility with regard to it, will tend to make men of them.If we succeed in destroying the dragon the very least part of the blessing involved to our country will be the saving of twenty or thirty million dollars a year to invest in wholesome commerce, In the effulgent brightness of such a dawn it requires a steady eye to espy dangers, but prosperity has notoriously more perils than adversity.Wild races will be run after wealth.Some will become the idols of mammon worshippers for a few brief years, and perhaps close their fevered record in tragedy without ever for a moment baving tasted real satisfaction.Our political atmosphere is as full as ever of intrigue for the purpose of exploiting publio funds for private ends.The party which has been the party of moralists and of censors is now being made the den and lair of every corrupting influence, and may not be able altogether to withstand the virus.Dangers which beset a prosperous people are luxury and extravagance, a bewililering and unsatisfactory pursuit of pleasure, and a relaxing of religions attachments and moral restraints.Such being the case, it is perhaps well for us that this year is to witness a struggle over a great moral question.At such a Lime of rushing progress what the country needs | in pulpit and press and in the whirling currents of social life is resolute men- hood that has ite head above water, and that will not be carried away with the rush.In the social sphere still more does it need.brave women who know when and how to say no.Over all the butrying and distracted little world there is a calm power which makes for right eousness and holiness, and he only is sane who ia in touch and harmony with that power.After thus soberly viewing the conditions of the time backwards and forwards and from both sides earnestly Wwe conclude thet it was never with better hope that we wished all our readers, ali Canadians, and our beloved Canada, A HAPPY NEW YEAR.\u2014_\u2014 EXAGGERATED REPORTS FROM YUKON.It is very evident that the reports of the condition of affairs at Dawson City and throughout the Yukon territory generally, circulated by those miners and others who have just returned, ars very greatly exaggerated.The most relisble news is that which comes direct from Major Walsh's most advanced posts on the River Yukon.Bome miners who pawed the Major's camp on the way out in November have spread the most alarming reports now in circulation, Happily, they seem to have carried letters from members of Major Walsh's party, which leo give some secount of the condition of affaire, and & comperi- \"a the British empire in an earth-encom- THE MONTREAL son of the stories brought Ly the miners with the written accounts of Major Walsh's men make the exaggeration of the former very obvious, According to the miners\u2019 acsounts of the condition of things at Dawson City, à famine in that place is a certainty, and relief for those 1eaching Yukon City, further down the river in Alaska, is uncertain, as it is | doubted whether there is food in any quantity at the latter place.Now, se cording to the account which had reached Major Walsh's camp when these miners pensed it, including their own account, a scarcity of provisions was expected at Dawson City, which was accounted for by the fact that the river, being very low, the steamers laden with full eup- | plies had failed to get up, and had been j compelled to unload at Fort Yukon.There were, therefore, ample provisions at the latter place, and letters from Major Walsh's camp say that all those who had not sufficient supplies of food of their own had left or were leaving | for Fort Yukon.It was expected that over three thousand peuple would loave Dawson City for Fort Yukon.Fort Yukon is in Alaska, about two huudred miles from Dawson.! It is not improbable that the stories which reached Major Walsh's post were only, in proportion to the comparative proximity to Dawson City, lees exaggerated than the reports which have reached the coast, and which bave probably grown as they travelled.It is certain that the miners have exaggerated greatly in regard to several matters at : Major Walsh's post below the mouth of the Big Salmon river.They report, for instance, that \u2018the weather about the \u201cStewart and Big Salmon rivers has been \u201cbitterly cold, seventy degrees below \u2018sero being recorded at Major Walsh's \u2018camp\u2019 A member of Major Walsh's party in one of the letters quoted says that the cold \u2018ranges from twenty to forty-five degrees below mero,\u2019 and that the very lowest point reached was fifty two degrees below.le adds: \u2018One \u201c does not feel it to be so cold, but is in \u2018danger of being frozen without knowing \u2018it\u2019 A week or two ago it was report ed that Major Walsh bad lost all his provisions by the upsetting of a boat.There is a reference Lo the lom of two of the boats and some of the eupplies in consequence of the sudden sweeping sway of an, ice jam, but it is evident that the boats contained only « small part of the outfit of the most advanced section of Major Walsh's party.1t is plain that Major Walsh expected this incident would be very greatly exaggerated, es the correspondent in his camp already quoted says that two men | just leaving were likely to carry out | very exaggerated reports of the ice jam.\"The really grave feature of this corre spondence in that it closes the door of hope that supplies could perhaps be for- | warded to Major Walsh's advanced post \u2018at once, and by him forwarded to Dawson City.There are, it appears, no means of sending through or even taking aicng the supplies.Major Walsh was (only to reach Fort Selkirk, at the mouth of the junction of the Macmillan viver with the Yukon river, some time about the beginning of the new year, and be | weuld then be able only by a big push to i get through to Dawson City, about two bundred miles distant foliowing the course of the river, some time in Pebru- ary.It is certain, however, that be has made the way out comparatively easy and rapid to all returning to the const, by the establishment of « line of pcate thirty-five or forty miles apart, all the way from Big Balmon river to Tagish, which is just over the passes from the coast.The correspondent in the Major's camp did not expect his letter to get through in less than a \u2018few months\u2019 It is dated the twenty-second of November, and must therefore have reached Victorias in about three weeks.Dawson City is in no danger of distress from want of food, not to speak of starvation.Gold-seckers who have just reached the Pacific cosst, some of whom left the mining town as Inte as the twenty-fifth of November, bring even more favorable news than that sent forward by Major Walsh's party.There is no shertening of rations at all, and the people have no anxiety at sll about the supply of food, which is sufficient until next spring, and before that newcomers with large amounts of supplies will be arriving daily by scores The health of the psople ia good, and it is easy to see from the secounts of these newly-returned men that the hopes of the gold-seekers of success next year are high.Almost anywhere wp the Yukon river in Canadian territory pay gravel is found, It is quite probable that these reports of the golden riches of the country are exaggerated, though they come from WEEKLY WITNESS.both Vancouver and Seattle simultane ously, as these are points of applies for gold-asekers of the Yukon, snd it i al ways added that every man going to Alaska should take a year's supply with him.From the reporte of the great number who abandoned the attempt to reach the Klondike and returned from the Alaska cosst last autumn, leaving their outfits behind them, ene would imagine that it would be cheaper by this time to purchase supplies at Bkaguay or Dyea or some point on the route over the two pruses.But it seems certain that gold-seekers have returned all the way to Vancouver to secure supplies for next year, whem they intend going back.Perhaps the most reassuring fact in connection with ihe general situation is the speed and ease with which thess returning miners got back.bome of them spent just thirty-three dave on the way from Dawson City to Seattle, This speaks volumes for the work already done by Major Walsh, whose posts at intervals of thirty-five miles all the way from Tagish to Big Salmon river, doubtless rendered much progress possible.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 OMINOUS.Groat Britain's interests in the Far East are not so much those of empire as those nf trade.Her enrpire is perbapa lerge enough without any addition to it in China.But her trade interests, ne- cured in open competition, are greater far than those of all other countries, and these she will not, if she can prevent it, allow to be wrested from ler by violence.If in the per- tition of China therefore her trade interests are not guaranteed, it is not improbable, by any means, that her Pac:fie fleet, which is greatly more powerful than thcee of all other European nations may be used with effect in defence of them.It is easy to see that Japan, which is only less powerful on the Pacifio sas than Great Britain, is quite willing, nay, anxious, to join her in opposition to Russia.That Russia is acting in Corea with a high hand toward British interests and\u2019in contravention of treatics recently concluded with Japan, seems certain.The Japanese are the chief traders in Corea, and it was in defence of her existing interesta there thst she made war upon China and drove the Chinese out of Cores.Thea Russia, without any trade or other interests, stepped in and prevented Japan taking possession of Cores ; the understanding | reached between Rumis and Japan was that Corea\u2019s independence should be re spected and the Japanese interests were to be secure.Great Britain, which does about s third of the foreign carrying trade of Cores, the remainder being done by China and Japan, sad from which Cores importa sixty percent of all the foreign produce she buys, sought security for her commercial interests by the appointment of British agent as the eu- perintendent of Corean finances and cus- tems.According to latest advices, Russia, acting in defiance of all these treaty arrangements, has, in effect, extended a protectorate over Cores, and caused the emperur of Corea to dismim the British agent and appoint & Russian in his place.Great Britain has, according to latest advices, sent a large squadron of her fleet to Chemulpo, the chief seaport of Cores, with the determination, apparently, of opposing Russia\u2019s designs and upholding ber agent.Very conservative authorities in Great Britain ssem confi dent that though the British Govern ment will not go te war for the extension of her empire, it will in defence of British trade.\u2014 PORT HAMILTON.While the report that a portion of the British squadron in Chinese seas has been sent to Port Hamilton is, in the light of history, a quite probable one, it, if true, indicates that the isternational crisis produced by the raids of Germany and Rus- sis upon the Celestia] Empire is neering a critical stage.It has for a century past been a recognized feature of British naval tactics in time of a great wer to patrol the Straits of Cores, and in April, 1885, during the excitement caused in Great Britain by the unprovoked attack by Russian troops upou Afghans at Penjdsh, on the Russo-Afghan frontier, the British admirul in the Orient occupied and partiaily fortified the oceanic anchorage known as Port Hamilton.This harbor, formed by the three largest of & group of islets, lying about thirty.eight miles north-east of Qualpaert, be tween that island and the Corsan cosst, in 34° north latitude and 127° IF east longitude, is in almost every respect an ides] naval and cosling station for » great maritime power.The islands thameelves are insignificant, possessing few inhabitente and incapable of affording any supplies except foh, bot the barbor is à © magnificent one, spaciows enough to an ommodate à firet-clam fleet and well aholsered.Is has only one partial deléct \u2018of chnéequence, fnastauch as while possessing ample depth of water, its bottom affords but imperfect bold for anchorage ,and this must therefore be supplemented by moorings.As, however, desp water extends in most parts up to the shots, in practice this operation offers small difficulty.After the British occupation all entrances to the harbor for large ships, except one, were permanently closed, earthworks wers hastily thrown up, and bar racks and storehouses erected and a submarine telegraph cable to Hong Kong laid down.China, to which power the islands belonged, and Japan also, made a faint but etrietly for mal remonstrance against the British oo- cupation, but it was perfectly uoder- stood that both empires were well satis fied to accept it in preference to one by Rumia, which was feared.In 1887, all immediate danger of war with Russia having apparently passed away, the British Government gave tangible evidence of the good faith with which it had been acting by causing the islands to be for mally surrendered to Chinese occupation.An agreement was soon after reached by which Russia end Great Britain debarred themselves from occupying these islands or any Corean territory.Such a convention, however, can have no legal or mors! weight se far as Britain is concerned, since Russia, with the utter disregard of common honesty, which has been the essential characteristie of her diplomacy since the birth of her empire, has never ceased to rush her interference politically and territorially in Cores up to the present time.The fact that a detachment of the British squadron has been ordered to make a demonstration at Chemulpo, on the west coast of Cores, in support of British interests in that country, emphasises the necessity of being prepared to check such intervention.Destitute, however, as the Russian diplomats may be of any regard for international obligations, comity or national probity, they have never hesitated to exclaim loudly at any pretended hreach of faith on the part of others, and should the intelligence of the British fleet making a rendesvous of Port Ham:lton be confirmed, there will no doubt be & shrill ontery from St.Petersburg on the subject.Fortunately, it is a question which must ultimately be decided by the dictate of maval supremacy, and while Russia and her allies may fret and fure to their hearts\u2019 content, Dritain can af ford to awit the outcome with complete equanimity.It is a matter of supreme importance to the empire that no other power shall be permitted to hold Fort Hamilton, forming as it does the key to the waterway betwsen the seas of Ok- hotek and Japen on the east, aud the Yellow Sen, with its gress inlet, the Gulf of Petchili, the artery of the commerce of northern Chins, on the west.Its possession, supplemented by & powerfnl squadron, minimises the imrortance of the formidable Russian naval arsenal at Vladivostok and of the later acquisition, whether temporary or permanent, of Port Arthur.It would be a significant pledge to Japan of effective aid against the unscrupulous designs of its trio of European fos, and a constant menace to Russian aspirations and operations in Cores.\u2014 A MISTAKEN INTERPRETATION.There seems to be some uncertainty about the scope of the United States Act of Congress which has just become law by the signature of the President, prohibiting the importation of seaisking.A portion of the press alike of the United States, Canada and Great Britain take it for granted that the act prohibits the importation of all sealakins, or manufactures thereof, and that thie will mot only prevent the legal importation of all noslskins taken nt sen, but even those of the animals killed on the Pribyloff Le Jands ender arrangement with the Urfited Btates Government, il thess latter are dressed snd dyed in England.Certain protectionist papers in the United States glory in thie extreme length to which they think the act goes, as certain to kill the profitable dressing and dyeing industry of London snd establish it in the United Btates.The art of dressing snd dyeing with the best results is a trade secret, which has been sppavently carefully gusrded in London, and as all dressing and dyeing elsewhere has been greatly inferior, England bas enjoyed s monopo.y of the industry.The skine of all the animals killed on the Pribyloff Islands have been sent as à matter of course to England to be dyed.though the chisel market for tha finished goods was in the United Staten.The profitableness of this industry te Great Britain hes been Jarvary 4, 1808, persistentiy urged by the United States œuthorities in every negotiation and ar bitration looking to the preservation of the fur seals, »s a reason why the Brit ish Government should consens to the regulation snd eves the prot.bition of pelegic sealing.If these jouruals are right, therefore, and the effect of the set will be to compel the druesing and dyeing of the senlskins taken on the Pribyloff Islands in the United States, than the President and Congress bave destroyed the argument addressed to the merely selfish interests of Great Britain, which they considered to be the strongest, and by this course have by so much weakened their case for the amendment next year of the code of regulations prescribed by the Paris arbitration, to which England's consent must be gained.But this interpretation of the Act of Congrees is, we think, a mistaken ons.The act prohibite the importation only of the skins of seals killed within the seas surrounding the Pribyloff Islands ever which the regulations of the Paria arbitration extend.The point was raised during the discussion of the bill as to how the skina of the animale killed on the Friby.lol Islands were to bo distinguished from the skins of those killed at sea, and it was explained that even after having been dressed and dyed, the marke and numbers put upon the skins taken on the islands were quite legible, And, moreover, an attentive reading of the bill shows that provimon is made to distinguish between the skins of the sens killed within the seas under regulation and those killed at sea elsewhere.The latter will be admitted, if accompanied with a complete record of the taking of the skins showing that they were killed alsewhere than in the seas governed by the arbitration regulations.It seems certain, therefore, that the prohibition only extends practically to the skins of seals killed at ses by the Canadian seul- era, and as the prohibition is a part of a Hill prohibling pelagic sealing by United States citizons, it is merely in tended to prevent Canadians from profiting by an industry which has besn closed to Americans.\u2018 \u2014 POSTAGE WITH BRITAIN.\u2018Where is Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the motto on whose shield is \u2018Buaviter in modo, fortiter in re,\u2019 sunny in ways, force ful in deed, to demand with the furry side of his mailed fist the denunciation of à few more treaties?We are told, at least so we understand the reported words of the Postmaster-General, that jt is against the treaty rights of the countries within the postal union \u2018 that Canada should enjoy lower postal rates with the mother country than she now does.The reduction proposed between Canada and Britain was, so far ss announced, a very small part of what we have enjoyed for a quarter of a century with the United States.It seems a pretty thing in international obliga: tions if we may not have intercourse with our mother country as free as we have with a foreign country because other foreign countries have the right to object.Is there n most favored pation clause in postal agreements ?It is not easy to see how France or Germany would be injured by the creation of a postverein between Canada and Dritain or throughout the British empire.For any of them to object would be carrying jealousy to puerility.But there is pro- belly some error in the report.We | cannot find that there is anything in the international postal union agreement that would stand in the way of an imperial postal union as intimate as that which now exists between Canada and the United States, namely, for each country to deliver witho 4 charge the postal matter which comes from the other without reining any question about differences of local charges.This ie à perfectly fair agreement, as reciprocal mails sre presumably equal, snd this could be done without any conference or negotiation.A general imperial postal union, with aot of rates differing from those of any of the constituent countries, would be à more cumbrous way of reaching the end, but it may be the only way posible ; therefore let us rejoice that it is proposed.Any occasion for an imperial conference is a good thing.CAR-DOORS.Canadians are known in Pritain as the people who never shut doors.Where rooma are heated, as they are thee by grate firos, the opening of a door eets up an immediate draught, and if the person who opens it does not close it again he quickly realises his mistake, il not in hin awn seasations, then in the reproachful glances of others.The first lesson in manners taught to children is to shut the door, snd that quietly, The deer handle, the child is taught, is not only why Noyes \u201c Jlwvaur 4, 1898, for the purpose of opsning a door bub of shutting it.Tha importaat place which the door has in elementary man.nare may be gathered from the sarcestis and naughty nursery rhyme : Bpeak when not spokem to: laugh when Tou're chid: Slam the door after you, good litte kid.The reason why Canadians ds not learn to shut doore is that their doors, for the moet part, stand open.The houses sre heated with a general heat, and before the days of furnaces, unlem the doors of the rooms stood opan the rooms would, for the most part, get cold.Thus has grown the habit of leaving doors open.When s Canadian comes to a shut door he is prone to think that something very private is going on within which he must not disturb, and his first impulse is to retire from it.Where we in Canada have a door which we want kept shut we put a spring on it, and so where there are many offices thers js usually a general and constant s'amming of doors.To one not accustomed to the jarring thus occasioned, the result is torture.in timo kindly nature steps in and mitigates the evil by making the sudi- toey nerve less and ices susceptible to an agcustomed sound, Ask a person who Jves in a cathedral close, or under the shadow of one of our great churches, whether the bells do not disturb him ; his reply is: \u2018Bella?I never hear them.\u2019 He will nevertheless be a bens.factor who will make s cheap spring that will shut à door surely but softly.We are sware that such things are made, but we are not just now writing an advertisement.We would, however, commend all inventions of this kind to the careful study of those who build railway care.There are often British people travelling on our railway lines who are not callous, as we are, to door-slamming.One of these expressed in the \u2018Witness\u2019 a few days ago thd agony he suffered by the banging of the esr-doors.Apart from fastidious strangers, a\u2018car is, at night especially, a place to sleep in, and dcorslumming Is not conducive to sleep.There are almost sure to be passengers on every car suffering from headache.Bome never travel without getting into « highly nervous state through the motion of the train\u2014something akin to sea sickness ; to these the banging is torture.Brakemen are not by their or- cumstances likely to be specially sensitive to the annoyance of noise, and such s little Boise, too, as the slamming of \u20ac door must appear from the brakeman\u2019s aide of the door.It would seem al most vain for raflway companies to attempt the education of brakemen in this matter.And if they should be success ful with their own hands, even down to the prise-candy bore, there would still be the aimless train-wanderer to keep up the hubbub.\u2014\u2014\u2014 GOLD STANDARD IN INDIA.\u2018Ball by degrees and beautifully less\u2019 become the prospects of obtaining for silver recognition as a monetary stand- sr Russia has authoritatively pronounced against the proposition and adheres to a gold etandard.Now the Bengal Chamber of Commerce appeals to the Indian Government to take decided steps in the same direction.For many years Russia and India have been the great silver markets of the eastern hemisphere, and even now the latter country requires for the pur pose of manufacturing ornaments not less than one-sixth of the world's production of the metal.From 1835 until 1803, moreover, nilver was the recognised standard of currency value, and, iu Pree.tice, free coinage obtained during thal period.Since the last-named date the Indian mints have not been absolutely closed, bus only a limited issue of coin, strictly on government aceount, bas been permitted.The immediate result has been a great falling off in the supply of silver, the import in 1896, being just » little more than one-balf as la.ge as before the mint-closing enactment of 1863.By that bill a fictitious value was attached to gold and silver slike, the silver rupes being valued at one shilling and fourpence, and the value of gold coins and bullion at the mints established at fifteen rupees psr English eov- ereign.Gold is coined only in email quantity, for the use of the Indian Government abroad, but it is not eurrent as money nor is it legal tender.The standard of value existing since 1808, has, therefore, been à compromise one, which appears to have served its purpose of producing a degree of equilibrium between the value of the citen- lating medium and thet of the gold nes sary in foreign exchange and to meet government obligations.The action of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce denotes that in the opinion of this impor- tant body the time has arrived when apother sien.formas, max.be.token.with s view probably to the coinage and is sue of gold as a eirculsting and standard currency medium.From what has been said it will be seen that such a proposition involves no revolutionary change, but merely requires that tha present mintage of gold shall be increased, that it shall be a legal tender, and it follows that the value of the rupee will then adapt itself to the market value of sliver, as compared with that of gold measured by the rate of foreign exchange.It would also follow that the amount of silver which might be legally tendered in payment would be subject to limitation, and since the Indian Government pays ite domestie obligations in rupees, the adoption of the gold standard might impose serious financial responsibility upon it.This perhaps is the only considers- tion which may retard goticn which will bring the monetary system of the Indian empire into unison with that of the United Kingdom and of the world generslily.Russis has been tending towards the adoption of the gold standard during the last two years, and the present Minister of Finance has done much to reduce a chaotic currency to some degree of commercial efficiency.Whilst the legal manetary unit is the silver ruble, the actual cireulating medium has beem 8 pape currency, and this, until quite re cently, was lisble to ruinous fluctuations in value, not only in relation to gold but also to the silver ruble it immediately represented.Under the present policy much paper has been withdrawn from circulation and is being gradually ce placed by a silver coinage minted in France, and also by a copper coinage minted at Birmingham.The publie debt, to the amount of over 2,138,000,000 rubles, is & gold obligation, while there is a further amount of 2,820,000,000 of silver obligation.It is understood, however, that the Finance Minister contemplates the conversion of the latter sum into a gold obligation, thus placing the Russian financial system upon a sound basis and avoiding much of the heavy pecuniary loss hitherto imposed upon the treasury on the occasion of each new losn obtaibed from foreign sources.\u2014_\u2014 THE PERSIAN GULF.The news that British and Persian authorities are coïperating to prevent & tribal outbresk on the coast of the Persian Gulf draws attention to the fact that this important arm of the Arabian Sen is, with the consent of the powers, policad solely by the ships of the British East Indian squadron.This condition of things is the more peculiar by reason of the eastern const line of the gulf being within Persian territory, while the western shore is Turkish.The only territorial possessions of Great Britain north of the Straits of Ormus sre those of Bahrein and Babr-el- Benat, groups of small islands situated in & wide indentation at the southern extremity of the gulf, just north of the independent Arsbian state of Mus- cst or Oman.These islands, the principal of which are Babrein and Mobanek, are inhabited by « mixed race of Arab, Persic and Omanite origin, noted for its intelligenos end its commercial and industrial activity.Four hundred years ago they were in the hands of the Portuguese, who were, however, expelled in 1623 by the famous Shah Abbas.They are now nominally under British protee.tion, but as a matter of fact are under Uritish control and indirect administra.tien.They have long been headquarters of the pearl fishery, snd specimens of these gems here obtained are the finest it the world.Much of the coasting trade of the gulf is carried on by the islanders, whose prosperity under the British flag has been so marked as to exercise no email influence in extending and maintaining friendiy relations between the turbulent Arab coast tribes of the mainland, as also their kinsmen on the opposite Persian shore of Laris- tan and the British representatives and rrerchante at Bushire and Bahrein.It is an extraordinary circumstance and highly creditable to British administrative ability and honesty that these tribes on both sides of the gulf, who are, to all intents and purposes, independent, and who treat overtures or commands from Constantinople and Teheran respec: tively wish utter contempt, bave besn induced to enter into treaties with the Indian Government for the prevention of piracy and the slave trade, and for the cessation of hostilities at sea.Their rulers sre hence frequently referred te in state documents as the \u2018trueis)\u2019 chiefs.Moreover, the British Political Resident for the gulf, who resides at Bushire, the principal Persian port, is the recognised arbiter in the quarrels of thess tribes on both sides of the gulf, among Whotk offiéfals of Seltan or Shab would not deze to penetrate.The mainland of Arabia south of the Bah: rein [slands as far as the Bhebleli const, on the Indian Ocean, is occupied by the powerful and progressive native mate of Muscat, or Oman, the sultan of which bas tresty relations with the government of India, and has an Indian politieal agent at his court.This state, while maintaining its independence, is practically under British protection, and has in recent times made remarkable progress is commerce and industries.Bushire situated towards the head of the gulf, in the l\u2019ersien provinee of Far- sistan, is the headquarters of the Hrt- ish naval force in these waters.It ie à town with perhaps twenty thoussnd of a population, and, aithough the chief esaport of Persia, possesses a very indifferent harbor, ships of over three bun- dred tous having to unload at a distance of nearly dix miles from the port.It has, however, & very considerable trade, principally with Calcutta, Bombay and Java.It is also the land terminus of the Indo-Furopesn line of telegraph ; it is the chief station of the British In- diam Steam Navigation Company, which runs weekly vessels between Bombay and THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, | orders which have been issued for the forwarding of s couple of British regiments to Berber to take part in the attack upon Metemmeh, the capture of Omdurman and the advance upon Khartoum.There is nothing more in these movements than was planned long ago, and thers is no reason why the plan should not be carried out, as everything must now be in resdines.General Kitchener, who was at Mamowsh arranging for the taking over of Kassals, which has been carried out successfully, reeent- ly passed through Cairo om his way to Berber, probably made all his arrangements while at the ¥gyptian capita) with the British represontative, Lord Cromer.General Grenfell\u2019s appointment as com- mander-inchief of the whole expedition was announced weeks ago, and was the subject of considerable criticism on the part of the friends of General Kitchener, | who thought the Egyptian Sirdar should be allowed to reap the glory of the operations which he has worked so long and so hard to render successful.General Grenfell's taking command of the expe dition is not therefore in any way due to any new and greater difficulties or dangers which are now reported to have arisen, and cannot be regarded as an in.dieation that the British Government bas + Bussorah, and the operations of this line of ateamers are much facilitated by the establishment of the Euphrates snd Tigris Navigation Company, siso having ita chief station at Bushire.From this it will be seen that, without actual possession of territory on either aide of the Gulf of Persia, Great Britain dominates it, secures the unmolested navigation of its waters, and virtually monopolizes its foreign and much of its coasting trade, Turkish and Persian alike.\u2018That in doing so it has euccéeded so well in guin- ing the good will of, and generally avoiding friction with the warlike tribes possessing the coast, notorious for their predatory end pirstical instincts, is the best evidence of the equitable and beneficent methods employed.And the result is the more remarkable since it has been attained in the face of only balf-con- cealed hostility on the part of the Turkish and Persian governments to British interests in these regions.The time when such opposition could be harmful is mow, however, past.For all essential purposes the guif is as much under British control as is the Gulf of Bt.Tawrence, and this fact is an ample explanation of the present seizure of arms ostenaibly destined for the use of coast tribes, probably in Laristan.It is not to be overlooked, however, that arms consigned to a Persian port are believed to have found their way into the hands of rebellious tribes in Baluchistan, or even farther east on the north-western frontier of Hindostan.\u2014 THE MYSTERY OF KHARTOUM.It is months since the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition up the Nile wus planned to take place in January.It was always a part of these plans that British troops should be employed in the final struggle against the Khalifa bo- fore Khartoum.With strongly forts- fied positions at Metemmseh and Omdurman, the dervish leaders might be expected to make à determined stand, and even the Egyptian Sirdar, wbo has great confidence in the Egyptian army, bas always declared that it would be taking too great a risk to trust for success in the final operstions, so fer from the reach of reinforcements, to the Esyp- tien army, good ss it hee proved iteslf to be.It bas not been found necessary to \u2018stiffen\u2019 or \u2018steady\u2019 every Egyptian force with n British detachment, but in sli serious operations where the derviches were anywhere neerly equal in numbers to the Egyptians, it wes deemed neces sary to have a British regiment or two in reserve.This seems to be all that ie contemplated at premnt, at least in the ( \\ just taken cognizance of them.of course, possible that the French expeditionary forces which have made their way all acroes Africa slong its most torrid belt rosy, us was averred by a Rus sian writer in the New\u2019 York \u2018Christian It is, Herald,\u2019 whose letter we printed few days ago, have an understanding with the Khalifs, and that, secure in it, they are desce ding the river to float the French flag at Khartoum.If that is the case, and they are within four hundred miles of Khartoum, they will certainly be able to get thers long before the Egyptian expedition can take the fortified posts of the dervishes at Metemmeh, at Shendy, at Shabluka and at Omdurman.The only way by which the British could arrive first would be by despatching the four or five gunboats laden with forces under instructions to run past all the fortified posts, land their forces in Khartoum, and hold it until the main column arrived, & possible but an extremely dangerous and risky opers.tion.It may be that the reports of French and Abyssinian activity have prevented 8 postponement of the plans of the expedition, which might have been arranged to admit of the completion of the railway to Berber before the forwarding of the necessary troops snd sup- lies.If French expeditions in alliance with tha Khalifa are sbout to take pos session of Khartoum.the matter is one for settlement by diplomacy rather than by force.The British Government would in all probability in such a case notify the French Government that the Anglo-Reyptisn expedition would regard ali forces at Khartoum ss those of the Kbalifa or in alliance with him, and therefore at war with Egypt, and would eject them by force.Bo fer from their base, they would count for little against the solid battalions of Egypt and Britain.It is long since the Imperial Cuvernment notified the French Government that the upper Nilo was regarded as necessarily within the poltioal sphere of Egypt, and that no interfersnce would be tolerated.It is probable, however, that all the rumors of the French approach to Khartoum are greatly exag: gerated.Probably most of them are inventions to account for the renewed activity of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition, which, as we bave said, wes long since planned.There can be no doubt, however, that those who understand the condition of affaire on the Nile far above Khartoum, near the Equatorial Irv.vinces, regard the situation as very serious.If the Salisbury Government has not à distinct understanding with the French Government on the whole subjest it will be grestly blamed.A WEEK.OF PRAYER.We are for the most part too buy just now with a dassling whirl of gaiety to realise that the present week is known far end wide among Christiane as the week of prayer, \u2018Inr the outpouring of the Spirit of God on all flesh.\u2019 To sotne minds such e proceeding is transcendental nonsense, while others who do not condemn it find that it makes too heavy demands upon their time, already more than occupied by festivities which break up at four in the morning.This custom is not an ancient one, as are the festivals of Easter and Christmas, which are in some respects older even than Chris tisnity.The persons with whom it originated probably did not even remem: ber that the church of oid had à time set apart for that very purpose, namely, Pentecost.Certain missionaries in the very heart of India, feeling keenly the need of new spiritual life not only in the heathen world but among the churches which sent them out, agreed to ask for 4 week of universal prayer at the beginning of the then incoming year, and so general was the response that the venerable Dr.Duff, in a mission conference at Calcutta, moved thet it be a recommendation of the conference that the appointment should be perpetual.Jad the historic Church taken the same interest in its feast of the Holy Spirit as it did in the festivals above referred to it is not to be supposed that the ancient usage would have been ignored in the choice of time for this purpose, but it had been practically forgotten uth by the Church and the world.Whether it would have been better at first or wheth- « it would be better now to transfer the appointment to the day recognized by very large sections of Christendom is not bere under discumion.What is interesting is that the first whole week of the year is made à week of prayer by very many under the annual call of the Evangelical Alliance.For a good while it was the custom to eall Christiaus of all denominations together throughout the week, but that service, through the very largenens of its scope, grew cum.brows and perfunctory.A programme of subjects for prayer, with a variety of topics for each evening, was set forth, and & number of ministers offered prayers covering the ground.Of late years the people have met for the most part in their usual meeting places, and with those whom they are accustomed to meet join in spirit with others ia preying for the great central object as set forth when the first call was sent out.This is to be the procedure for this year.But the principle of Christian unity will be acknowledged on one evening in the week, for which purpose the city has beer divided into districts, and a central meeting place appointed in each.\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.The \u2018Witness\u2019 is, we think, as cheap as any paper anywhere.We have, however, ceased to plume ourselves upon cheapness.Tha paper is too good for the money.It is not a good thing that newspapers should be too much dependent on advertisements.If the amount of advertising income is to be the gauge then the paper which discriminates leust «s to what advertising it will take will always have the lead in the race.What with the general chespening of news papers, what with the general increase of comfort, the time is past when an advantage of a few cents or a chromo will determine what paper à man will read for à year.A man gets the news paper which he prefers, and you cen judge him fairly by the newspaper be takes.Indeed, if we are to know a man by the company he keeps, there is no test like his newspaper.A man is not entirely free to choose his friends, but his newspaper is his choice, and it is a companion that is more with him than any dosen of his friends if he has so many.There are no doubt still people to be found who would let some petty advantage counted in cents settle the infinitely important question what paper he and his family will read for a whole year.It is hard to understand the measure of such men.We remember « wealthy man, the founder and endower of public institutions, who took great credit to himself when renewing his subscription to his newspaper for not annu.wily changing his paper so as to get each year whatever premiums might be offered on new subscribers.It was perhaps by such savings, scrapings and pilferings, for it was nothing else that he proposed to himeelf, that be gathered the large means that he could neither use nor cn- joy.The price of a newspaper is oo in finitely small as compared with its value that the men of today simply take the one they waat.A difference of two or throe dollars may prove prohibitery tos poor man, but à difference of ten cents gne way or another in renily-net à pres- tieal ground for cousiderstion.The real question is what paper ons ie getting.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 In order to get money Al.Medline, + first minister of France, is makiog war upon the American hog.He is laying an increased duty upon pork, with the purpose, as he explains, of remedying the decline in price which is doiug much harm to the furmers.The Premiec's proposal was supplemented by a deputy, who alleged that in three years France had imported pork products valued at twenty-four million dollars, while the exports did not exceed five million doliare.One would think that the first dedue tion that the sation would make from this would be that, taking France as à whole, her intereet in having pork chesp was greater than her interest in having pork dear, but the Premier seems to have estimated his gudgeons in the choice of his bait.You have only to make out that some foreign peoy:e are making something out of you to recou- cile the whole people to any exters tax- stion that it may cost to prevent them from doing wo.And so M.Méline gets « round little addition to bis revenue out of a willing people.Is France going to export more pork after the price has been raised by this protective duty ?\u2014 Many qualities are required to make s perfect missionary, and not the least important of these in the power te write up bis work.His support has to come frem the home churches, and it is of great importance thst their sympethy should be sustained by details such as they can understand.Mr.Adams, of ilem- yang, China, evidently thoroughly understands this, and his account of a mest- ing to deal with the home society's lia bilities, held among people whe only three years ago were heathen, cannot fail to bring his readers into touch with bis work, Perhaps not every missionary has the literary ability required for this, but in every mission station there ought to be some one who would not grudge the time necessary to give vivid touches to the regular reports, which are often unread because of their lack of popular interest.\u2014-\u2014 The farmers about Hawkesbury, fied- ing their cattle attacked by an epi- demie of tuberculous disease, commenced killing them in harmony with the spirit of our sanitary laws, feeling cogtain thet the government would pay tiem for the lom, as the government does where it itself orders the slaughter.This indemnity the government inspector ssys he has no power to give them ; and it ie easy to see that any arrangement to pay farmers for cattle they have themesives chosen to kill wouid need to be guarded with very onreful restrictions.On the other hand, the result of refusal will be that farmers everywhere will not kill tuberculous cuttle until the government makes them.\u2014_\u2014 ts mm The reported seizure hy France of the large island of Hai-Nan, in the Guif of Tonquin, was exactly what the \u2018Witness\u2019 anticipated when the seizure of the port of Kion-Chau by Germany was announced.1liai-Nan is an important possession, but it is rather moderate of France to take it, without any port or province ou the mainland which might be extended greatly if the partition of China is carried through.1f Great Britain seizes the Canton archipe:age and establishes a {oothold ou the Conti nent at the mouth of the Yang tse river, the preliminary overture to the grand opera of the \u2018Partition of China\u2019 have been executed in unison by the chief performers.\u2014 - Subscriptions during the past day ce two lave been coming in with a rush, The renewal of subscriptions naturally tends more and more to the new year, People who begin at other times oitem change, so that the new year may re mind them of their subscription, There are some, and we sympathize much with them, who are always going to do à thing.but never do it till neceeity im- sists.Most newspaper subscribers have bad experience of such delays in the earlier part of their career as such as to cause them some annoyames from whieh they have profited later.There are always beginners who have not yet got es- customad to the routine of mnding im their subscriptions, and to these we would easy immediate action fs the ensiest.rere WiLL LABOR IN OHINA.Toronto, Dee.31.\u2014A party of nine mis sionaries connected wah the China In land Mission, left Toromes oe Chine, vis Chicago, &t.Paul and me.They will leave by steamer \u2018 Vie- \u2018J. A ¥ 10 | THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.i ¥ Jaxvarr &, 1898, ADVERTISEMENTS.THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE.Lung Troubles and Consumption can be Cured A CONVINCING FREE OFFER, The dlocum Cheuucal Company, Lime ited, will send three frees sample botties {Paychine, Uxygenized Emuision and Ooltsfvot Expecioraut) of the great discoveries and specitive of that distinguish: od scientist and chemist, Dr, I.A, Blo- cum.\u2018They are uot a cure-all, but a cer- tan specific for cousumption, luug aud throat troubles and all forma of tuber culosis, li the reader is a suiferer, don't hesitate to take advantage of this free offer, but send at ouce name of your post-office and express offite to the T.A, Slocum Chemical Company, Limited, 188 Adelaide street west, Toronto, and the three (res bottles will be promptly sent to you by express, They bave on tile in their laboratory hundreds of letters from those benefited and cared in all parts of the world, and they take this means of making known to suffering humanity their great specifics.Don't delay until it is too late, and when writing to them may vou saw this free offer in the * Witness.\u2019 Versons in Canada seeing Rlocum\u2019s free offer in American papers will pleasc send for samples to Toronto.If the reader is not a sufferer, but has a friend who is, send friend's name.express and post address and the samples will he sent.grow paying crops because they're fresh and always the best.For vale everywhere.Refuse subetitutes Btick to Perry\"e Seeds and proaper.1008 Beed Annual free.Write for it.D.M.FERRY & COC., Windser, Ont.AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL [Wa incite communications from farmers giving chair emperience on matters in ies coins Le LArm me à class; and aies enqueries, Lo which, if sv canned aaswer them our.aulves/ some of our renders may be abis to furnish ratio Jastory replies.Questions sus alxape du accompanied » = and address, though net neciscnridg for publi FRESH LAID EGGS IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.On Friday, Dec.3, when guing my usual rounds at the Bonsecours mmrket, I chanced to meet a merchant who does à large grocery business in Montreal.Addressing me in his usual frank manner, he said, \u2018Lock, here, you newspaper men are deceiving the public and damaging my reputation for fair dealing.You publish in your paper thet fresh laid eggs arc selling at twenty and twen- ty-two cents the dozen, while I am chargirg my customers fifty cents per dozen for them, and I have just bought all the fresh-laid eggs timt were brought to the market this morning, and have paid from forty to forty-five cents the dozen for them; I would have bought many more at the same rates if 1 could bave got them.I could sell one hundred dozen fresh-laid egg» per day from now until Christmas, at fifty cents per dozen, yet you newspaper mea quote fresh.laid eggs at less than half of the price I charge my customers, some of whom are ready to call me an extortioner.After Christmas, when fresh-iaid eggs become more plentiful, I will sell them cheaper, but at present, although I am getting eggs from us far west as Guelph, I! cannot supply my customers with all they went.\u2019 I told my good friend the grocer that on my last market report I had quoted fresh laid egge at from forty-five to fifty cents per dozen, and that our folks bad been getting these prices for some time past, although a considerable proportion were pullete\u2019 eggs, and not nearly so large as the eggs of older hens.He replied, \u2018You newspaper men ought to give the true facts about the so-called freshdaid eggs of commerce, as many of them are from two to three months old.\u2019 As the grocer strode off, I began to muse over some of the reasons why fresh-leid eggs are much à luxury during the two last months in the year, aml why sich high prices do not command a more liberal supply.If farmers knew how easy it is to get lots of eggs in the fall, many more of them would go into the business with greater vigor than they do at present.Of couree it requires good judgment and some experience, and aloo a liking for the work, or else fail tre will be sure to follow.At my home we keep about forty hens, chiefly white and brown Leghorns, with a few cross-breeds and common fowls.One of our white Leghorn pullets batched about the middle of May last, laid nine eggs in the following October, and, excepting ons short interval, she has continued to lay a fresh egg svery alternate day mince.Our hen-house is merely ona end of the stable partitioned off with siete so that the heat from the horwes keeps the tem: perature above freezing point at all times; in the day time when the horees are owt, the hens get the run of the whole sable.All of the food is bought, ! end the only provender we get for less than any farmer could raise it at Lome, is beef livers, which we obtain at the, city sbattoirs for less than s ceat per pound, RUSTICUS, \u2014- THE LILY OF TIE VALLEY.That excellent floral monthly, 'Vick's Magazine,\u2019 for November, contained a beautifui cut of this graceful and fragram flower, wluvh, 1 think, Would look well on a page of the \u2018Wines,\u2019 and help to call attention to a charming plant whose, merits are but little known by the ma- jurity even of thos who are fond où à @ardeu.1 think very few lovers of flowers are aware that the lily of the i valley 1s one of the easicst-grown in-door | flowers, and preserves its green and white colors much boier than many house plauts , during & term of winter imprisonment.| By selecting extra fine specimens and renewing them every season much finer plants aud towers may be got than are usually seea in the outdoor garden dur ing the summer-time.| It may be thought by some that this engraving is exaggerated, as are many of the flowers and fruite exhibited by agente in their highly-colored pictorial repre sentacions of the specimens they have for sale.Such, however, im not the case.There are here only the two colors to be found in a common engraving, and what there is of size and lusuriance of flower and leaf-growth is attributable only to good cultivation.Generally speaking this lovely flower grows under difficul- | ties.1e is left in a partly wild atate on the outskirts of the garden, and in the ahade of trees whose roots rob them of nourishmeat, while hardly a ray of sua.shine resches them frum morning (ill night.À weW-grown specimen of this flower is seldom to be seen, but it may be readily had in a window-garden by growing # in accordance with its nature and habits Its preference is for a rich, sandy loam, but it rarcly refuses to thrive in any soil, although the \u2018Gardeuer\u2019s Dictionary\" says: \u2018We know a garden where no one can flower the lily of the valley well, and we also know places where it flowers in the greatest abundance without any care whatever.We have seen it growing naturally by the acre, in a shady wood, the j soil being à mere sand, enriched by the [allen lewves; we have dug it out in that wood, and feund all the roote within three inches of the surface.We have | also seen it flower abundantly on a south border in a rich kitchen garden soil.Where it refuses to succeed we would make a bed for it on the north mde of a well; dig owt the natural soil a foot deep, and drain the bottom; thea fill vp | the bed with a compost of light sandy earth and rotten lemves, half of each; | pres it down gently when within two j inches of the top; then lay the roots j regularly four inches apart, all over this | surface, and \u2018hen cover them two inches deep and give them a good watering with a Tose-pot; and after that w done we would cover the whole with an inch of quite rotten leaves, and water them | once a week the following summer.\u201d The | substance of the foregoing directions will j apply to the making of a bed of thewe flowers under any circumstances.Directions to professional gardeners how to force lilies of the valley are given as follows in the \u2018American Journal of Hor.ticutture\u2019: \u2018The best way is to take up those roots that have large plump crowns, and euch only, potting them in a compost of rich turfy loam, and placing them in a house with a temperature of forty to forty-five degrees for a fortnight, and afterwards, until they bloom in a temperature of fifty to fifty-five degrees, snd not exceeding sixty degrees at night, affording them a position near the glass and plenty of water.They never fail to have a plentiful supply of bloom; but none other than the flowering roots should be potted, whidh ia different from taking up patches from the borders, more than half of which are too small and weak to flower, and indeed have no flower bud formed.Pot none but the large crowns\u2019 and put them in pots or pans at about an inch apart.This may be done in the sutumn; indeed as late se the ground remains open; snd by introducing the plants to neat at differemt times the flowers may de had from Christmas to May Day.\u2019 \u2018Vick's Monthly\u2019 has the following remarks in connection with the cut, copied from its columns: This plant, with its Jusuniant and graceful foliage and frag- rent flowers, is one that can be easily | and satisfactorily raised in the house during winter.Hy keeping the little bulbs, or \u2018pipe\u2019 as they are called, in soil or woes in avery cool, or cold place, they may be taken, a quantity at à time, and potted and Lrought into bloom success- | ively as desired.They can be potted in soil or in common packing moss, or in Jadoo fibre.As indicating the modes | of procedure with them we here give the method of an amateur in nearly lus own \u2018 words: \u201cThe pips were roiled in damp | sphagnum or packing moss and laid out of doors for a night to freeze soil.They were then taken iu and showed to thaw, after which the roots were cut off to a length of about three inches.A litle moss was placed at the bultam of à aix- inch pot; tham a pip was ect in the centre and others placed arvund it about an inch apart, the spacce between filled with mess, then more pipe until the pot was full, except an inch mn thickness of mow around the insde of the pot.All spaces were filicd up with 'moss.Soil may be used the sani: as moss.The tops of the pips stood cven wrth the top of the pos.A layer of moss was placed over them to keep them in the dark; a piece of dark woollen cloth will do as well.Topid wa- | ter was poured on until it ran through at the bottom.The pot wus set on the restrvair at the back of the cook stove, | and water supplied once a day; at night it was removed to the sitting room, | where there was à constant heat.In two weeks the shouts apyeared, an Înree weeks THE LILY OF they were two or three inches high, with à flower-stem to nearly every ome; they | were then removed to a cooler room, | with a good light.Ia thirty days 1 had: a pot of plants cuvered with bloom, and handsome foliage.\u201d * This \u2018amateur\u2019 speaks of getting a pot of plants covered with bloom and handsome foliage in thirty days, according to | the method he describes.Any reader of the \u2018Witness\u2019 who desires a stock of Easter likes of the valley can doubtless get it by following this meth:d.The crowns can be got of any reputable seeds.man LINDENBANK.\u2014_\u2014 FARM GLEANINGS.An Amsterdam paper sates that the dituinution in commercial value of agricultural lands ip the Netherlands in the last twenty yemrs amounts to 694,000,000 florins.In o:me casen the supply of straw is larger than can poesbly be ubilized on the farm and it is good policy to sell the surplus for a very low price, rather than burn it or let the stacks rot down.If, however, the straw can be neither wold or used.& is much better to let it rot down and return the reaidue to the land than to burn it.In fect, there are few localities in which the burning of stinw is justifiable unless infested with insect pests.The beet sugar boom is taking on big proportions, empecially in western New York, Ofrio, the western states and on the Pausfic coset.Many new factories are projected, end if imteMigence and good management he used those that arc built should be e mrcemful ne to en- athers, until the United States produces all the sugnr # conmumes.Hut ignorance and miamanagement will cause discouraging failure that no amount of misguided enthusiesm can correct.1 have been an earnest advocate of quality in fruits, but 1 must my to the men who is fruits for mmrket : Grow what market demande, which is large, fruit.Quality has given lace to lookm 1 cite you the Keifer pear and the Ben Davis apple, which have been sold the vast fall for J wmeal abort $21 to 822, New York and more money than mmay choice varieties.Theretove, the canmecvinl grower muet be governed in his choice of varieties by the demands of the market and the adaptation of ihe fruit to his own soll.Experionce is a gol teacher ; it pays to profit from the experience of hers.But it does not pay to follow too aus iy in the fo tsteps of others, no matter how successful they may have been.In farming, as in every other business, ori- gnality payee The successful farmer a the farmer who thinks for himwell, who can ree ahead, who trices to meet do.manda that a'l his neightuire are not at: tempting to supply at the same time.1 believe-yes, I will my 1 know\u2014 that «ne is behind the times when he dow uk take one or more good farm papers, yt ane occusonally runs across | an \u2018autahluvian® who hes no use for db-ok \u2018artnug ue \u2018bouk Iaroin\u2019\u201d In solic: étang « wbsaription, a few duys ago, I! was unt with the answer \u2018that he had, no time to read; #t kept him busy alld thie time to make a diving.\u2019 1 told him he should take a paper to keep posted as to mize, and value of crane and he very v told me thet he could nearly al- chen he had a g crop with in a paper.1 gave it up.The advance in the price of linseed meal this fall and carly winter is the occasion of cousidersife comment.Prices pra & to $8 per ton higher than a year ago.and anything hitherto reached since 184.Linzeed meal is quotable in Lhe tern wh deenle markets on the basis £26 to $27 per ton, with cottanserd Boston points.\u2018The difference in price in attrecting considerable stiention, and dealers veport an incresred all for cot- tnsend meal.The undertone in tle article last named ia one of considecable strength, and an curly advance is pre.THE VALLEY.dicted in trade circles, due bota to the liberal home demand and the increasing movement abroad.Enough does uot represent very much property in a farm- Ib is amazing that a farmer is built in such a way as not tu know ufien he has enough, then let well alone.Several yearw ugu | contemied with « man who owned a farm clear of det, that he had enough.He weomed amgpy with me because | could not see that he needed mrore Jand for tis growing hoya.1 told him to look out for himeelf and let the boys do the mme.He mortgaged and bought a whole section to parcel out to the boys.He moved on to his big farm Lately he moved away ; the motgnge took it.Encugh may not be much, but it is something.Dryden mys that \u2018bome is the smered refuge of our life.\u201d A man can never have such a home oo long as be has it mortgaged, or wants to enlenge it, or sell it.A Dome that we wish to ccumber or enlarge or get rid of is mo home at ofl in ite truest seme.A man and his wife must be contented before they can sing \u2018Sweet home.\u201d The world is not capable of providing a sweeter home than can be made on à seul! farm without a mortgage or debts of any kind.A farm of twenty acres anywhere free from debt will yield more comfort than à half section that in mortgaged.What fools we mortals be,\u201d sometimes.The mrecufative fever is still strong among farmers as well as other people.We were surprised to be imformed Ly one of our farmer friende\u2014the laët man that one wiwki think wouxi be a specu.letor-that he tad just lost $1,800 in oar.ging an wheat speculation.Yet we fancy that man's place is mortgaged for off à is worth and suspect that at least part of the money lost was borrowed.We have frequently exposed the methods of bucket shops and brokers who try to rope the countrymen into buying on margins.This is nothing lat straight out gambling, but it seens uselew to preach against it.1 would not speculate eny more than I would burp good money.We know of several \u2018calamity sbouters\u2019 among farmers whose non-suc- cess in their business is due to speculs- tion af one form or another.Above all, save the mother of your in every other respect, but assem to think all the work they can got out of wife and mother W #0 much dear ghin, think of it! She may stand it for à while, but when she wears out and (fie second wiie steps in you will see % difference.Any farmer's wife who is bearing and reaviug chikdren needs 8 good strung hired girl, even then che is well burdened if she trices to keep « rehned, well ordered home, À man is strunger than a woman physically and the caves of the growing family fall renmrkably light on his ahoul- ders, it is the mother who bears ail of the pain and sickness, whose nerves are irrtated by their noise all day long, who ie up nights with the testlung baby, and despite this 1 have known men who thou their wives did nothing Lecause they had u hirel girl, men who never came into the house without some scathing remark about lazy people, and this, tou, when there were two or three children scarcely beyond babyhood, when the mother had not had an unbroken night's rest in a year or two, while the \u2018lord of creation,\u2019 forsooth, worked so imrd that he must have a room away from the children that his rest might he secured.Again there are earnest, true-hearted men who cherish and take care of their wives, | who do their part, aye more than their \u2018part, cheerfully, Practice economy in all other fhinge, but let your love and care for wife and children be unstinted.14 hes bocuime quite the fashion in these latter days to sneer at the small college; and the young men and women think that they must go a thoumnd miles sway trom home for their education.Secretary Wileon dues not agree with the people who cry down the small institution.in a recent interview, ho said: \u20181 don\u2019t Le- lieve in big institutions.I don't believe in the centralisation of educational fn- cilities.I think that they do more good if they are scattered.\u2018The fewer the pupils a professor has, the more attention he can give them, and while, of cotiree, hie ought to have enough to provide him a decent compensation he ought not to have more than he can handle.\u2018There are forty colleges in Iowa already, and hey are multiplying all the time.1 hope to see the day wheu there is a college iu every county and five hundred nudents in evecy cullege.These local colleges my not afford tie same privileges for & acientitic education, that a young man can obtain at Yale or Har vard or Princeton, but you must remember that comparatively few families are able to sen their sons to such inatitu- tions, or any considerable distance from home.The most useful college for the Western States is one which lets the students go to their homes every Friday night and stay over until Monday morn ing.Some uf the institutions out west are very poor, but they are not too poor to give a boy an education, and they can teach him lemons in economy in addition to the other sciences.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN ICE-HOUSE.In my vicinity an ice house 20x24 w°*h fourteen-foot posts, holding a hundred and fifty tons, furnishes all the ice for a town of five hundred with twenty-five patrons, including a meat market, two hotes and a rvataurant.A building 8x12 with ten-foot posts will hold from twenty to twenty-tive tons of ice.The cheapest kind of material will answer.The building need not be shingled, although it 15 better for it to be.\u2018I'wo by sixes shuuld be used for studding, and sided up inside, and the intervening space should be filled with sawdust tamped down tightly.If you have a building spot on u slight elevation or a sidehill, so much the better, as the drainage should be good in order to carry off the waler trom the melting ice.Otherwise, the water will settle under it and the lower layers will be in a honeyconbed condition, when you come to use them, if you happen to tind them there at all.Put in a foot or eighteen inches of flax straw on the bottom, and tram it down evenly.Put your first layer of ice on top of this; no sawdust is necessary in the bottom.Be carcéul to have your cakes of ice cut with straight edges, to save waste in packing, and as large as you can l.andle easily.The ice should be pret inches thick before you commence to fill the house, { the weather makes it possible to obtain that depth.If not, «mn- ner ice witl do but there 3 more waste by melting.After the layer fs in, take an adse and go over it carefully, Alling in the crevices between the cakes with broken ice, and smoothing off the layer until the surface is level, when you are ready for the next layer, which should be treated in the same manner, Leave a apace of cight or ten inches around the .outside of the ice and pack this tightly with sawdust \u2014 don't try straw or cimfl or any so-called substitute for sawdust; if you do, you will find your you need it.Cover the last layer with a foot of sawdust and you need have no fear that it will not keep.The house sheuld have a ventilator in the roof to carry off the warm air, thus keeping the dust ae cool as possible.\u2014\u2014œ LIVE STOCK NOTES.1 once fed a lot of pigs five monthe old and they made a gain of two and thtee- quarter pounds each on finely ground bariey, fed as u v thick slop with a liberal quantity of skimmilk, For very young pigs, | prefer to tecd oqual parte of shorts and ground barley and then gre- dually change it to one-half each of corn and barley the last six weeks, when fin- | ishing for market.Some horses will not drink if water is offered them, before their morning feed.This is generally the result of having been given water icy cold or none at ail.But if a horse is allowed to drink his 411 home; many men are models of ecomomy soon after eating the food is od, un.digeated, into the i A bores 1 } J ice will keep until just xbout the time |® that will not drink before eating should rade do wail at tenu an hour aîter.; ve believed for many years that i should be made à crune with a hoary\u2019 penalty, not to pruvide good comfortable quarters for sock.When one passes a farm of a cold, stormy winter evening and sees stock seeking shelter in a fence corner ur crowding agams the barn for protection, ome is forved to doubd the owner's Christianity, There is no farmer who cannot fix some kind of a shelter {ur beasts.A calf (rom x scrub bull will always be a scrub, and no one can be expected te take much pride in it or to take any pains in feeding and caring for it.No, if iL be a steer, it gues to market at the lowest price, aud if a heifer, it not being of sufficient metit to warrant the cest of wervice of a guod Lull, it is bred to the ever handy scrub, and so continues to reproduce its miserable species, Christmas beeves have sold at this year as high as $5.60, According to the \u2018Drovers\u2019 Journal\u2019 the following were top prices on this class of cattle the pant nineteen years: December, 1806, $3.00 ; 1895, $5.50; 1894, $68.60; 1903, 06.75; 1602, $7.00; 1891, $7.15; 1490, 98.40; 1839, 96.10; 1888, $7.00; 1887, $8.50; 1886, 96.80; 1883, $6.80; 1884, $8.00; 1883, $8.25; 1882, $7.00; 1881, $7.75; 1880, 87.00; 1879, $5.50; 1878, 45.50.In June, 1882, fancy beeves sold at $0.30, the highest in over a quarter of a century.With good bay as fodder, young stock, catdle, sheep or horses may be kept growing with very little grain, provided, of course, that they are comfortably shel tered.Generally the amount of grain necemary to keep stock in good condition during the winter when fed liberally with good roughuess depends upon the warmth and comfort of the shelter pro vided.Stock exposed to ail kinds of weather during the winter will require considerably more grein than those comfortably sheltered.I em a thorough belicver in eh or the animal with the * goiden bool, whiter Mr, Lovejoy, in \u2018American Wood Journal,\u201d and I think that there is not a farm in our state but would be the better aad the owned would make good money by carrying a le number of sheep.Ehow me ue eats I has continually carried a Huck of sheep, and 1 will show you a clean, tidy farm, free from weeds and in the highest state of fertility, where there is but little use for the hoe and scythe to down weeds.Those who feed cute for the market or cows for butter and milk, should learn once for al, that animals which they feed are only machines to manufacture what they eat into the products which are brought to the market.If the best is to be produced, the material furnished the animals must be of the best quality, es pecially anmediately before they produce what is intended for the market.It docs make a difference what they eat.In a pigfecding test made in Now York to determine the comparative cost of raising pigs of various breeda, it was found that the growth of pigs during the first month was produced at the least cost with Yorkshires, while the gain of the Tamworths cost most.After removing the pigs from the sow, Poland.Chinas made the cheapest gaiu.In another test between the Tamworths and Yorkshires, the Yorkshire pigs cost the least and the Tamworths most while with the sow but after removal the Tamworthe made growth at the same cout but more rapidly.As a rule the mb is used too much and the brush too little, When a horse, covered with sweat and mud, \u2018« brought into the viable, he zhoëld be rubbed dry with etraw, and then the next morning, with a curry comb in one hand and & good brush in the other, he can be thoroughly ociesned.The currycomb should be used ocly to straighten the hair ahead of the brush, The difficulty about getting a good currycomb arises from negieot to rub the horse clean with straw before leaving him for the night.Much care should be used in cleaning à horse's leg with a currycomb, s0 as not to injure the joints.me persons in usiog the currycomb bear on «0 hard that it makes the horse nervous, and if he kicks he is not to blame.\u2014 SHREDDED STOVER.So far ss mechanical condition is concerned, the best results will naturally be obtained with the shredded stover.A properly balanced ration for mileh cows, should consist of one-third grain mixture and two-thirds coarse fodder.The winter's experience has indicated that not over one-half of the coarse fodder or one-third of the total daily retion should consist of stover.Fed in such qugntities, animals will, as & rule, con- it for a long tame, and it will give nearly, not quite as good resuits ne an equal quantity of good hay.In addi: tion to the stover, coarse fodder should generally consist of some kind of lay or silage.The writer prefers to feed animals but twice daily, giving shout one.half of the grain and cosrve fodder at cach feeding.[ the stover in fed et the same time an the silage, the flavor of the latter will te imparted to the stover, causing it to be eaten clean.Rome good feederw moisten the cut etover with water, snd sprinkle the grain over ft, making what is termed \u2018 choyrped feed.\u2019 This al imparta flavor to the etover, and will frequently induce animals to eat more of it with correspondingly satisfactory results.Another method for those who are able to practice it is to put (he cut stover into a large coversl wooden box, moisten with water, and mix about one pound of bran to four ar five pormds of stover, and then turn in ston.The ateatn aoûtens the vtover and imparts the flavor of the bras to the entire mass.Thus pi , 3 will keep dor pavers] dogs, if convenient a / THE MONTREAL WEFKLY WITNESS.little steam can be turned in euch day.A ight fermantation increases ite paletabi.fea y.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LUMPY JAW.In 1885 MN.Thomassen, of Utrecht, made the discovery thal iodide of potes sium would cure actinomycosie (mmpy jew) in the tongue of cattle.Since then the remedy has been tried by numerous experimenens will: equal success, nol only in cases affecting the tongue only, but when the bones of the face and jaw were hadly discssrd.The most widdy knswn of these experunents were those made by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Umtal Staten.Ome hundred and righty-five enttle affscted with lumpy jaw in all ite stages were sulanitted to the iodide of polassivm treatment, and of thowe one hundred and thirty-one were cured, and the carcasses passed an sound by the inspectors wio made the post morten examination.This is about seventy-one percent of cures, Dr, Salmon in his Tepoit mays :\u2014' This result is extremely gratifying, and proves that a large proportion of the advanced cases of alinomviasis are curafre by the imter- ral ninirtration of iodide of pctassium.If ta in the early stages «{ the disease there is no dndn taal cighty-live per cent or ninety poreent would yield to this treatment.\u2019 The cases which have rosistdd treatment were generally those baring marked enlargement of the boneel- though seme even of such cases were cured.Where the \u2018lump\u2019 was confined to the 8 ft Umues of the throat and cheek, trestment was almost uniforady success ful, Since the mrhlication of thewe resulte, thin system of treatment has been tried Ly many individuals both in Chnade and the United States, and their experience cocrotiorntes the statement made by Dr.Salmon, that the larger proportion of caste are curable, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.In an egg of a thousand grains, six hundred belong to the white, three bun- dred to the yolk and one hundred to the shell.For good results in egg production the hen house during the winter should not he allowed to become colder than forty degrees.The very satisfactory incresse in egg production from liberal feeding of cottonseed and gluten meals to hens, is explained by the fact that these foods supply à large proportion of albuminoids (also called protein) or nitrogenous matter, which the ben requires to furnish albumen in the egg.Provide a dust-box in the poultry house near & window, so the sua will shire on it part of the day at least, or, better, fill in the floor of the house with fine road dust ; A the fouls will push the litter away from a place | en.for them to take » bath in.Bs good for them.The poultry industry is an industry where the little t::ngs count, and mo one who apprecistes fresh eggs should be without & home flock of a dostn hens to lay egga for the home table.Any one with a fair-sized back yard should have at least a few hens.The scrape from the table will feed them, and the zg they lay will be just so much net gain tu their keeper.It must not be forgotten that plenty of fresh air is necessary for the life and health of a chicken, that it may perform all its proper functions and be prepared to be a good egg-producer from a good liealthy body.On the mild days in the winter it should have a free run and al- waya plenty of fresh air, and it will not take cold when a breeze a little cooler than ususl happens to blow upon it.\u2018la green bone profitable food with which to fred poultry ¥ This is the yueation we want answered, We think it is, and our reasons are that hens fed oh green bones will lay a larger percent of eggs than they would if not fed the bone.À larger number of the eu will be fertile ; the chicke hatched wi:l Le hardier than chicks hatched from eggs layed by hens that were uot fed green bore, capecially if theses are winter eggs, or if your fuwls mre confined in verds.The composition of bone contains nearly al the elements of an egg.What the farmer wants is not purebred poultry but purebred males to cross on common stock, He is after best returns, not beauty.The best market in the future for pure-bred stock will be for purebred males to cross on common stock.The breeder who could appreciate the situation could, sell all he could raise.The male is half the Rock, By using pure-bred cocks and the best and most thrifty of the common heus, the flocks may be graded up and the grades have the special qualities of the sales ancestry and the hardiness of scrub females.But the mixed males should not be used for breeding.Al wnys breed the grade bens back to pure bred males.Are the pullets laying ?If not, what in the trouble ?If early batched and row five months old they should be shell ing out ha worth two cents each iu the market.If they fail of their duty some thing is wrong, and to find what that is and remove it is the first duty of the farmer.Ins it an over-fat condition or a tendency to fat forming ?Ie it that the birds are lousy or the nests filthy ?Is it because of lack either of food or rxercise ?Assuming thal the birds are from four and a ball to five months old one of these questions will probably touch the seat of the difficulty.Attend to the pullets and they will attend to rou.To be a successful poultry man one must be constantly studying the ebarac- terintics and needs of the fowls mder his management just as much as the sucoses- ful stock raiser must study each individ- ual in bie flock or herd, ein ro flock, à fhe je pombe pi merit as to the production of the largest r.umber of eggs during the winter months.One dosen eggs in winter is worth thres or four in summer.1 would be very glad if some reader would suggest some plan so that we could tell socurately the number of eggs each hen Jaid, so that we could get some idea of our flock as to individual merit, as does the dairyman, who will my such s cow gave so many pounds of milk testing such a percentage cf fat.Now, what we want to be able to aay {a that such « ben laid such a number of oggs, each weighing so many ounces, Then, and only then, will une be in a position to reach the top.To get the best results in there should be n dey partor, or , where poultry may feed and exercise, sheltered securely from storm and biting winds, For this any old pieces of board may Le utilised ; cover with tar paper, and bave all the glass front possible.The regular houre, on the contrary, should have very little glass, only one o rtwo half-sashes.Glass collects moisture, and cold st night.Keep straw spread on the floor of the shed, in which acatter all grain.It is absolutely essential for healthy, laying stock that poultry houses be kept free ftom vermin.This may be done ly kerosening and ashing every two weeks.Keroscne may be run along the root ; Lut a better way is to make u kerosene emulsion.For this, melt one half bar of laundry ecap, and one quart of kerosene and four of hot water.Churn well together ; then fill & garden syringe and squirt the mixture over the Inside \u2018of peultry buildings.are great ab.scrbentes of odors.erefore be sure to put fresh straw Ip nests after each kerosening.Take coal sthes\u2014the limy cinders are also good for the fowls to pick at\u2014and thmw wildly around the house, to make as much dost as possible.It is sure death to the tiny blood-sucking mites.Air-slaked lime, or land plaster, should also be scattered around occasionally to purify the atmosphere.QUESTIONS & ANSWERS.{Ve tovils questions en 611 passible suldects of penaral tntereut, to which we shall de our best te orain correct answers, and shall insert sesh queries and replies aa we can make room for.This must net bs used, Aowoner, 02 an adurrtising column or as an enquirg bureau for matiere not ef publie interet.Reery quiry must ba asosmpanicl with the mest end postal addresr ¥f the smder, and no noties will be taken af anonymous com memécntions.} GENERAL.ORIGINAL BREEDS OF BHEEP, Subscriber, Guelph, Ont.\u2014Please state which ae, variety {y represen ts the original breed of sheep.\u2018our varieties have been mentioned - entitled to this distinction.1.\"The Musimon,\u2019 which is found in the mountainous parts of Greece and Spain, in Corsion, Sardinis and other islands of the Meditorranean.They are also found fa other districts bordering upon this sea They have been frequenitly domesticated, and mixed with the cultivated breeds, though numbers of them are iid, and wandering in their habits, 3.\u2018The Argall,\u2019 Thich are larger and bardler than the \u201cMusimen,' and not se easily tamed.They wander over the Inland pining or \u2018steppes\u2019 of Central Asis, extending northward and eastward towards the ocean.3.\u2018The Rocky Mountain Bbeep' or \u2018Big Horn,\u201d o they are called In the - a Tu feund on the prairies west inate: sippl, and roam throughout the Via mountainous regions in California and Orogon, extending ae far west as the Pacific.They are larger than the \u2018Argall\u2019 and are thought by some authorilies to have descended from them.Their long curving horus.tbelr nuter covering of hair, and their climblog propensities have often caus.thetu to be mistaken for goats.ot summer they are ganerally found In winter they march Ia flocks, under he usléance of Io summer they occupy the heights; in winter they descend to the plains.Like the \u2018Argall,\u2019 when caught young, they are easily tralucd.They are said never to have been bred with the domestic ebeep.4.\u2018The Bearded Sheep of Africa,\u2019 whose hair Is of a soft, red-tish color.They have manes hangiog below thelr necks, and e large locks of hale «bout their ankles.This breed inbabite Darbary and Egypt.belog 4 nd chilelly among the mountains aad bills.Sheep, when in 8 wild state, often reseinble oats io their spreusence and habits any varieties of the domesticated sheep seem to differ lees from their wild namesakes than from each other, The fat-rumped, and bread-tailed sheep are much mors extensively diffused than any others, Frous many passases nf the Pentateurh ( first five books of the bible), in which \u201cfat and the rump\u2019 are spoken of in connection with (be offerings, this tresd 1s supposed to have ocmpomed the different varlsties Jrovagnied by the Patriaichs, and thelr ewish descendants.Their lons, pendent, drowsy cars and highly eitificisl posterior davelopments seem to indicate remote, and continued subjaction.as no wild ar recently domastisated variely posseses those dla- tnguishing ma This breed consists o several varicties, which differ ms muc slae, flerre and color, sic, as * the mode ern European varieties.Doth rams tnd ewes, semetunes possess horns, and some- Limes ara without them; and thsy exhibit reat diversity of color.Some varisties rig but forty 1bs.: others over two hun- , Tbe tail or rump varies greatly sc- cording Le, the purity and style of breeding.Some re less than one-eighth; others more thap one-third of the entire weight of the Arens+d carcass.The fat of the rump, or tail, te considered a great Geilcacr; in bot countries (t resmbleA oil.In cold eaun- tries, suet.In the uen of Madagascar, the varieties of this breed are covers with 8 costing of hair over the wool, as ore the Rocky Mountala sheep.In the south of Africa they have coarse wool, but no hair.The well known Cashiers ebâwis are mm nfnotured from the fine wool of the rumped sheep of Thibet.In the varletis Inhaditing the Levant asd the shores of the Mediterranean also, tbe woot Is found * comparatively fine.It 1s doubtful whether sheep are Indigenous to Great Britain; but periods in histery.above mentioned Rocky Moun- | i nb 19 aps tbe Oldest batir ier i wot the only one.The principi | existiog breeds in the United States are th vo calivd \u2018Natives,\u2019 the \u2018Spanish\u2019 ani \u2018Sax on Merinos which were introducad from the countries whose names they bear.The Terr ar.\u201cNew Leicester\u2019 or 'Baksweil' tbe \u2018South Down,\u2019 the \u2018CetawcM.\u2019 the \u2018Cheviot\u2019 and the \u2018Linealn,\u2019 of oan the 1 ies oome.from Bn = eed the French Jesuit, who ag the ast century.are ugh been varieties of the he Rocky ê hae ee He found them wi which now sonsthtutes the Yeas of ita.ols, Wisconsin, and a part of Minnasesn.NUMISMATIC.H.C.W.\u2014(1) Can you give any descriptive of the coat of arms of Huguenot family Molyneux?Major Molyneux ç ., of Zulu war fame is & member of ity.(2) What is tbe following coin, apparentiy re- Sued brass or some similar metal hot oop per, bearing on one aide à man's head, with A wreath of bay leaves and inliitary vorsiet, no Inscription.Feverse: Something like an Irish harp and the date 1830.(3) Is it of any value?Ans.\u2014{1) The Moiyoeux family ls not of Huguenot pri The fouader settled in the town of when it belonged to England.When under Mary It waa captured by the French.Some of bia descendants moved te Flanders and from there to England.One dranch afterwardn settled In Ireland.There are several brunches of the family, but their arms sre very much alike.[t Is thus described in \u2018Burke\u2019s Genera) Armoury\u2019; Asure, a cross meline quarter pressed or: crest on R : proper matto, \u2018riviere This means a gold 1uoline cross, ne with fancy ends) on a blur ground.The crest is a plume of peacock\u2019n feathers on a red cab with the ermine turned up.\u2018The Ulster Molyneux family bave & fleur de lys in the upper right band corner, Another branch has a heraldic lsopard for creat.(2) This In a rude limitation of an Irish coln from which the inscription bad been removed by wear.When the new coinage was Issucd in 1308 the old worn colina were exported as good enough for Canads where many rode imitations were struck and for n time were neceptrd ns good coin.There are about twenty varietles, most of them very pientiful.(2.) No.M.E.S8., Wheatiand, Mas.\u2014What are the values of the following coins: 1.A United States dime, 1835.2.A United States cont, 1835.3.A copper coin with & shi) on one side and Shugs, Colonlea and Commerca\u2019 on the other.A halfpenny of Georgo III.ef 1806.5 A\" Penny of Lhe same r=ign, se oid Hat the date is obliterated.Ans.\u20141.Worth face value, 2.A comparatively com.mon date, worth litte more than face va- y except when in uocirculated condition.of this coln, 3.These ten or twelve varietic one or two are rare, th worth onlv one cent.4.cepts.6.Worth nothing to cotiectors lu condition described.LEGAL.(QUEBEC.) A LAWYERS\" CHARGED.B.\u2014Got goods from C in May amount ing to eight dollars, on the understanding that J was to get time to pay.On Oct 38, got summons to appear at small dedt court for same.Went to the lawyer and paid him two dollars, and In two weeks paid him balance of six dollars.Now he sends me bill for five dollars lawyer's sxfenses.Am 1 compelled to pay so much having no fur- oiture seizable, Can he go to my buss and seize my wages?What is the law?I was taking goods ail summer from C and pay- lug for them.He gave me no waning be was to put it in à lawyer's bands.Tho lawyer refused twenty-five cents per week as payment.Ans.\u2014You must pay the law casts, otherwise judgment will be rundered against you, and your creditor may seize your wages.\u2019 (ONTARIO) | A VACANT SEAT IN COUNCIL Subacrider, Unt,\u2014A village in Ontario has a municipal council consistiog of the reeve and four counciliors, one of tbe councillors removes to another municipality, After some months ha sends in his resignation, but the remainder of the council take no action to Gl) his place.1s the business done by them legal?or must another member be elected before the council can do its work?Ans \u2014 Although the matter is not free from doubt we incline to tho view that such business done is not illegal.At the game lime we must say that upon the councillor fn ques- ; lon having absented himself from the mees- i lng of the council for thres months without being authorised so to do by a resolution of the council, entered in its minutes, his seat tu the coudell became vacant, and ft was the duty of the councll to declare it so and to order a new election.AX UNCLAIMED ESTATE.Enquirer, Ont\u20141.Where could one get information regarding an estate la Scotland lu which be has reason to belleve be has an |, iotersst?2.What time, 1f any, has to elapse after an estate has passed to the : crown before it would be impossible for tha beirs to recover it?3.What department of the British Government bas charge of auch unclaimed estates, and who weuid be the proper party to communicate with regarding the matter?4 What course of procedure ; would be best adupted to establish oue's claim and secure the property?An: A | Scottish lawyer (s \u2018writer to the signet\u2019) should be consulted.We can give you the | address of one in Edinburgh, and that of another in Glasgow, with either of whom you might correspond, vis.: George Huttun, Kalaburgh ; fl Gibson, 107 West He.gent street, Glasgow.FREE GRANT OF LAND\u2014REMIS- SION OF SCHOOL TAXE.K., Sauit Ste.Marie \u2014l.I bought a man\u2019s claim of a free grant lot of 80 acres, 1 signed over fort: my acres to B.| bave paid taxes.B has paid neither taxes nor statuta labor.Can B claim the forty acres as ft is Unpatented land?2 Can a municipality pel me to pa; 7 school tax outside of the threo mile limit?Ans.\u2014We bave not suff- cient of the facts before us to enable us to determine what B's legal interest (It any) in the forty acres really is.A solicitor should be personally consulted.L Yes, un- lesa your children are attending echec) in a neighboring section, in which case it in the duty of the trustess to remit as much of the taxes chargeable upon you for school urposes As would be at least equal to the to such neighboring secuon.MEDICAL.(Kattors por hs department should be adds eed Medical Bbbior 1Titness,\u2019 Montreal\u201d Showd \u20ac enbeer acb any euretion which ls not suitable for preblleation, a reply «ill be sen by mall {f à stamped addressed raovtops and $1, Phyeician\u2019s Jie, be enclos with euch question.] BLADDER TROUBLE.J.N.~Twenty-seven years old.No food seems to disagree especially.| am strong foes paid paid bad taste, dry lips, fuited tongue: ro they are mentioned 8s episting ther at sight aperient relieves constipatio or oar excess of the mucus In the water, and able te work: eat plenty of meat and vegetables with other plain fool.Symp.tome-Welght at pit of stomach, flatulen: tires nausea and seur taste.no fo at times 3ome- hour, accom- slight pain.Urine Ig thick some- deposits a red or brown sediment.Nervous fears about my health trouble me.bave pains tn loins abd right side, times the bisdder acts every panied 7 mes An Ans.\u2014Bend a four ounce bottle of the first g urine to n medical man, competent ® it chemically and microscopical.ty so « nample of the urine when K looks thickest; oy doing this you will know certajoly wheiher there is elbumon, blood, not, your acute mer de Ilthisois, à condition which Is thought le cover a great PT whe acid habit of body, some- A \\ À ; stonce descend the tube called a ureter * times called geuty habit, is an oxcesy of gris mot acid ia Lhe rian ora dr 18 firltatlng to Mssues, Uric should uearly sil becom rea and be excreted chiefly by the kidneys.Urates normally found in urine sre salts formed by tha union of alkalies, um, sodium, etc, with fus by jolting.Other conditions may cause tbe me symptoms.Descent of à stons proves je cas.-aisturition, fmqeend mgatusition, à cod Jo the urins eymptoms increased : A VEGETABLE DIGESTIVE.urie seu.ben this uric le an = Carfea-papays or melon tres grows i cess thise alkuiies are useful in aiding the 5 - removal of the uric acid in form less srri- tropice \"he.Jules of Me fruit cales rc tating thay et the acid aluna.Uric acid cry- slals are deep red, while urates Are eand- colored, but sligbtly reddiab: on beating a portion of urine, uric arid and \u201crates are Te-dinscoived.À deposit of urates is normal in urine not excesding à \u2018guart in volume in twenty-four bours.{flood from the kidney may sisc cause » brown deposit.) In gout the uria acid is wo much In ex.cass that it ia not removed.The kidneys beroine obstructed and the urate of sodium le depusited In the joints.The gouty babii does not usually beeeme gout.Indigestion hypochondria, pajns of various scris, jnactivity of the bowels, absence of bile, catarrh of the digestive tubs, due to decomposition of food with slek Lradache, fever and nausea, are often found associated In percous who are gouty.This whale sat of symptoms is also called torpid liver, although the liver is pot particularly to feu Lithissis may be an foberited tendeney, and as such can seldom bs wholly counteracted.While a cause of (1 basith, thero is nothing to cause anxiety about it.\u2018Deficiency of oxidation is at work.\u2019 This may be due Lo debility and anaemie.or to over-freding end want of exercise.Meat should be taken (no Kreat moderation with fresh vegetables and juicy fruits, or swelled dried fruits, ceresls, milk and fish, All these must be proveriy digested.Fresh air must be supplied at all hours, and cxercis- ing of the y precede sach meal.Wherd there ls debiity.ot what lo may be needed * pa in tithianie, said of caleulus.CALCULUS .an Enquirer \u2014Wben pain in the si~all of the back in accompanied with pain down one wide and there iz « high colored urine loaded with urstes, also at tines containing blood whirh may make a brown deposit it is possthie that there May be w concretion of uric acid In dhe membraneous recoptarle of the kidney.When this in the cas patients often have severe attacks of renal ! colic whey smaller or larger gravel or as tw is del 1° Be thi ca en th; Fui in which Is sixteen joches Jong and lesds from the kidney to thr.biadder.Stones siso may form in the bladder where they can be crushed into sand by a surgeon or otherwise removed.Blood trom the bladder 1a more readily recognized being less altered than blood coming from the kidney.The symptoms of stone In the bladder are pala \u2018 What is known and Sold Ready-Made Clothing Is clothing cut out by machinery, put together by machinery, and with the 3 aid it.TWO KiRDS * Roady Mads\u201d and \"Ready-to-Wear, Made by tailors, designed by best linen and silk, cut to fit tall, short, stout, or thin, Clothing.By fitted we mean dressed leman, and possesses that feeling of comfort and air of ease that always marks the well dressed man.Ses that Shorey's Guarantees Card is in the pocket of every ressssessssesesssssrsscd 0000060 660500066000606600000008 good over 7% 1 have \u201d 10 10 ni si 17 \" » a u No Cook delle hand fer from the juice of the papaw.upon meat, cheese, egEN, in an alkalias or acid fluid, but does mot digest living tsaues.Papain can digest one thousand times its welght or sven twice : prepared to be taken at mes] time.our of these might be lines by simply aseisting pro; blood, and leaving no decomposing food to materiale.paps leat wrapped round mest for two quantity of meat If stirred up with scribed with papain whers they For advertising lu this éepartme reduced prices will be sent oo applica Such a garment stamps the wearer on sight as dressed in slops.it but as a consequence feels they cannot afford to be ill- dressed.S/ops have had their day.Shorey\u2019s Ready-to-Wear expresses exactly what the name would imply QUITE READY-TO-WEAR.Any man not a positive saalformation can be fitted by Shorey's Ready-to-wear STANDARD COOK BOOK.This cook book is the product of many keepers from all parts of the country, in & prize contest.Over 1,000 of the cholcest of these were selected by com, 254 have been printsé io a A bandsome book of BO recipes from men cooks.In (he Standard Known to be excellent for plain, wholesom: splendié variety, which je one of the secrets of good paper, and valu \u2018Te secu Deller tale we vegetable ferment which arts like the sas- | trie juice upon nitrogenous food, Papain the name of this ferment precipiuated 'apain acts : sh, or mtik either * mad much.This fa leas than one grain to 0 ounces of food by weight.Eight grains sn outside dose.Half grain troches are One to taken in cases of bites with marked indigestion.Papain said tc tons up the stomseb, to rell in, and to act as en Antiseptic.It ?bly produces good effects on nil t mproving the us strengibening the body, usa palo, creats gas, and set free toxic It has been sisted that the ure will soften ita fibre, also that plaoe je Juice contains the same power so at at 108 deg.¥.it will digest an sual t.pain 1s particularly useful In dedility and gastric catarrh, also in chronic cares of |g dyspepsia with seur risings and pal.Seven Sk digest a pint of warm milk la oue ur end à balf.Dr.Herschell, of London, Bis work on fudigestion speaks in the jghest termes of papain as a remedy, con- HY ike fts advantages at longth as su.rior to pepain In many ways.An alkalt d ap Aromatir or antiseptic can be pre- needed, LIVE STOCK.y lon.LUMP JAW NOW CURABLE.J.H.FLEMING, Chemist, & sarge, Ont.has a Rez at quickly ont oaimats Brice $3.sent By mail.Ne cure, \u2018aluable informa- M9) Lion aud fuil particulars fres.Mention thés paper.of starving female labor.He not only looks Men are learning thet Clothing an artist, sewn with the the form of man be he so that he looks a Gent- 1000 FAVORITE RECIPES.being selected from by experienced bouse- cooks, the rec; 20,000 subm tte: nt judges, , each Gé inches wide b oa Tong Already Over 100,000 copies been sold.The Recipes are Classified about as Follows : for Roups.for Fish and Oysters.for Peuitry and Game, for Breakfast Dishes, ach for Ples and Puddings.for Custards, Sauces, ete, for Meats.for Bal for Cakes, Cookies, etc.for Beverages.for Prescrves, Pickles, ets for Candies.for Invalid Cookery.For Miscellaneous Cookery.French \u2018stuffs,\u2019 no fan Catsups, eto.\u201cSxia\u2019s.* Book.They are sil tested recipes, lous home cooking.With this book Im it ia an easy matter to arrange a cookin, IL iz printed on good housekeeper, le te every k send One y Witness ome year.iE ap Sugar Sugar-Bush\" by Prof.À.J.Ceox.It tells how the le bush can be made the most profitable department of \"the farm.We will send a of this book and one of ous new asses.catalogues on s or the cata logue nd alone free Pad THE G.H.GRIMM MFG.CO, M'f't're The Chempion Evaporator, ONTREAL._ ADVERTISEMENTS.THE PEOPLE'S HORSE.CATTLE SHEEP AND SWINE DOCTOR.Containing In four parts clear asd concise gescr! tions of diseases uf the Horse, Cat- orp and Bwine, with the exact doses o \"medrerne for each.A book of 324 pares on dissases of domestic animals, which should present a des- scription of each disease, and nams the proper medicines for treatment in such condensed form as to bs within the means of everybody, has long been recognised gs a drvideratum.Thin work Sppesrs to cover the ground completely.The k embodies the beat practice of the ableat veterinarians in this country and Europe, and the Information fe arranged 20 as to be easily ae- ceasible\u2014an linportant consideration.Bach Ginenre ls 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absolutely Free tor Forty-five subseri- bers to the * Weekly Witness® atone Jar ench,eor Twenty- tive gabgeribers at ono deol.lar, and 310 cash, The Rocelver io pay Freight Charge In each case {rem Montreal.This Mactive lo manufactured for us by oue of the rery best sewiag me hire manu- facturere on thia continent, is fully ovaren- teed, and must be a good article or we would not name it after the \u2018Witneus.° It is equal to the high-priced wachines in finish and workmanship, will do equally as æocd work, snd last just as 100g as the 900 machine.chine i \", 5 ai Bra a] arrangement we are ena o the i bove very low offers to \u2018Witness erie Remember this Machine is as advertised, thers is ne risk as each purchaser is guaranteed If the Machine is bot as tepresunted when seen, it can be returned, and the mony will be refunded.The machine embodies all the good points fruud on other machines.The arta, as far as possible, are mads of steel and hardened at points liable to 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on attach, ft will be founé à grest Senvenience in country subscriber's homes, The beok of Instructions Hives pict & o- rections and an llustration above en opera Besides the above are supplied, 11 asserted nerdies, 5 bobbins, 1 screw driver, and 1 oil Lt extension po Sirens price extension with a \" rere.\u201cth fact, à lady hela the en avers that a 2 simsilar te n 950 machine in use ie her any desiring A Sowing Mme hiss this is ¢ gesuies bars $ ; - À ht eelf- easy te \u201d 1 , oe 13 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.* JANUARY 4, 1898, TN NO, 3 |] F4 LP Te CORBETT = oe ) | TIGHT __S Pe » ) 3, === \u2014Y/GLENCAIRNIL \\s MONO - (Puazce , fino, Moto) .Jon BuLL GES Tu£ PREMIER ZT GLAD HAND, _ > ET ee > y, =.Ce OUDAN THE ADVANCE INTHE S 2: \u2014 = = Cd < a\u201d 9 I 3 Wnt Proritetn fr ERMANY STEALS 2 \u2014 2 oo NT © KIAO-CHAU BAY \\ THE mais SN Et | © \u2014 | Ri Jaxvary 6, 1898.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS ts: i oont te en sou ( a % \" NAL A ; - Ca fffouier ç: / 16 ee A 2) CORNE KI EN p RLS ri on St ARETE Nt Te gb\" SU | LS .A vs ron \\ res oa Re, ch Pf = / BRITISH 3 MEDICAL ASS/N MEET IN [MONTREAL , = A AES SIAN 3 ASR pepe perf\u201d, =, J , ÿ LY « \\ \\ N y 4 C | ; 5 7, NN) 2, C ATS = \\ + {ol ASIA 9 RS rm = - , AT.ais YOR À 17 {48 od « = 7 ! ç EN HO y + gver appointed.14 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNES& Janvarr 4, 1808, LITERARY REVIEW.REBELLION TIMES IN THR CANADAS.Robina and Kathleen M.Lisars, the authors of that admirable work \u2018In the days of the Canada Company,\u2019 have written much such another fascinating book about the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada.The title given it, * Humors of '37, grave, gay, and grim,\u2019 will, we fear, create the impression that it is a mere collectisn of anecdotes, which it is not, but rather a carefully composed cartoon m which men and events are pictured in something of the same wpirit of humor in which Hogarth and Carlyle worked.There is certainly much to laugh over and at, a+ grotesque seem at this distance some of the most horrible of the events, and some of the moet ter- riblv earnest of the leading figures of the rebellion, but the feeling one lays down the book with is one of burning indignation mingled with deep sadness, that men struggling for right should be driven into wrong, in which they were lost, while their cause triumphed in spite of and yet, too, in consequonce of their fight for it.How hot and cruel were the passions aroused on both sides will probably be for the firet tiré realized hy the present genefation on reading some of the chapters of ty book; for to them the rebellion, with Ws sequel of the burning of the \u201cpyrliament buildings have come to 2 regarded we more or less a mere farce.The atrocities, 80 horrible as to be grotesque, which were committed at St.Charles, St.Eustache, and at Windsor, are a stiln such as there ace baprily few of in the recorde of the Auglo-Saxon race, and it is not wonderful we hide it from sight.When we are next inclined to amign to Anglo-Gatons the role of avenging angels, against the Unspeakable Turke, we might be less confident of the fitness of our race for the mimion if we reminded ourselves of the fete of Chenier and of Hume.But not all the humors of the rebellion were grave or even grim, many there were of the broadest and gayest, and if there are shadows in the picture of the gloomiest and darkest there are correspondingly high lights.The rime, uniforming and training of the militia furnish much fit matter for mirth and laughter, of which the most has been made, and though the scope \u2018of the book assumes à knowledge of the ordinary history of the rebellion, yet even the causes, direct \u2018and indirect, leading up to it, and the circumstances ss well as the chief events are concisely and wittily sketched.The race question is thus deseribed : \u2014 The English and the French tempera.army and manned by buccaneers of the law, knew how to seize occasion and circumstance ; and the governors, fascinated by theas official anacondas, fell into their folds and became their prey, were the puppets and servants, and made ministers of them instead of ministering to them.\u2019 That this description cannot be ealled prejudiced seeins certain, as the authors have copied it for the most part from the despatches of Governor Murray.The authors themselves, though obviously recognizing the justice of the cause of the rebels, as every one is compelled to do now by the schooling of that great teacher, Time, are not without the sympathy which comes of a thorough knowledge and understanding of the charac ters, views and feelings of the men of the Family Compact who ruled in Upper Cozada : It Is easy at this time of day to cast ve- fiections upon the ruling cluss of that per- 10d, a class chiefly composed of sons of of- fcers In the army and nay, for the most part gentienien lu the conventional sense of the term\u2014a crime laid to thelr charge by rome who could uot forgive it They naturally came to centre In themeelves all offices of honor and emolument: aud the governors, ol gentle, sf some foolish looked to them for counsel and aupport: before time was allowed for reflection, the governors were so cleverly governad that they knew it not.Gifts of the Crown natur- alty followed, and ¢' @ great Faut g1ew Ticher, alcngside of (bat older Compact of the sister previnca.Still, the authors declare that this oligarch proved to the letter \u2018the axiom that unlimited power is more than mortal is framed to bear.\u201d \u2018The tyrannical government of palace pets\u2019 furnishes pages of wisgovernment.It took a clear head, a steady will, and & true hesrt to cling to Dritleh connection and the Union Jack, when desperation made tome determined to be tid of Toronta rule, which waa to them odtous, unjust and ia- tolerable.It is probable that the majority of those who joined the loyalist militia, though loyal to the British crown, bated or despised the Family Compact and all its works, and they did not even at that tyme hide their feelings and sentiments.When the rebellion in Upper Canadas, which was at first merely against the Compact, developed into rebellion against the British crown and sought and obtained assistance from United States filibusterers and scallywags, the reformers joined the militia, and even old Scotch radicals like Gourlay condemned Macken- sie.\u2018Blame Von Egmond\u2019 (the rebel \u2018generul\u2019), exclaimed one loyalist; \u2018I blame the Family Compact a great sight more than I blame him\u2019 ; but the loyal patriote fought for the crown all the sme.In Lower Canada the French- Canadians were not heartily attached, of ments, each the antipodes of the othor.call- od for mutual patience and forbearanco.tut historic truth compels many edmissions.| First, that British rule with Britiah freedom | eft cut made s dark period from the Cou- Quest to the Rebellion: second, that nation.} al, religicus and intrileztual ideas of the, French-Csnadians, their whole mental attl- tude, were dominated by the Quebes Act; and the motto given oy Etlonne Parent.\u2018Nos institutions.notre langue, et nos lois.\u201d Bad become à kind of fetish.\u2018The question of British or French rule which grew steadily for half a century in Lower Canada was, no doubt, the apparent form the issue took, but that was merely because in Lower Canads the oligarchy were for the most part English officials; the real question, as in Upper Canada, was whether an oligarchy appointed by the Imperial Government should maladminister Canadian affairs in opposition to the will cf the majority of the people as expressed by their representatives in parliement.Heads werc to come off, and necks to be broken, and every step in that bicod-stain- od vis doloross, which ied to the union, to the righting of Englishinen\u2019s and Prench- men's wrongs, to estadlishing Canadian rights to be French or R-itish, was to cost bitterly\u2014cost how bitterly only one can know who reads the story in its human aspect, not politically alone.It vs strange thing that privileges so purely Brit- Ish an those asked for, the abolition of tue death sentence, except in case of murder, that chimers called \u2018Responsible Government,\u2019 the unquestionef une of à nationa) language In public affaire, freedom ot the press, jabould bave been asked for by the Preachinen, denied by Enslishmen.and fought for te the deaib by men of esch ua- Ucnalltys Fur more exasperating to the French.Canadians, probably, than the absence of British privileges snd rights, to which they had never been sccustomed, though taught perhaps to expect them, were the, overbearing manners snd arrogance contemptugeæly displayed toward them and their demands by a set of the worst officials wbich a tyrannioal government In à word, & more worthless set of offi- eials could not be gathered together than that which carried out the beginning of British rule in Lower Canada.The oli garehy made up \u2018of the driftwood of the ! course, to the British crown.As a people they were attached to the mother country, France.For many years after the British flag bad first waved on the citadel, the habitant on tbe plain lifted his eyes to where he Rad seen the lilies of France, and with a heavy heart said to himself, that which bas become an historic saying: \u2018Btfil we shall see the old folks back agaln,\u2019 words pathetic in their hopes as the Highlander's despairing, \u2018We return no more, RO more.\" The habitants knew little about the French revolution and understood less ; they heard but did not grasp the distine- tion between the monarchy, the republic, the empire, but the Roman Catholic Church understood the difference 20 far as its own interests were concerned, and &s orders subscribed funds for the carrying on of the war against the Republic and the Empire, its priesta told tho people how happy they were to be under the British rule, aud in 1837 the higher ecclesiastics and many of the priests used all their influence against the agitation.Bishop Dartigue, a relative of Papineau, addressing à hundred and forty priests, instructed them to resist rebellion, and even spake of \u2018the government under which we had the happiness to live.In the back country, away from the St.Lawrence front, toe agitation bad not been carried on.Aloag the river front from Quebes to Two Mountains, the people had been pretty thoroughly aroused by Papineau, Nelson, Brown, Morin, Chenier, and other lead- ent, and ia sore communities it was quickly found that they had got beyond the control of the clergy.For some years there had beem in existence a Canadian alliance in Upper Canada pledged to unite imo close alliance with any similar aseo- ciation in Lower Canada for agitation purposes; and delegations were, in 18/7, dispatched by the rebels of the colony to arrange for mutual aid.Papineau\u2019s name became quite popular in Upper Canada, and in svite of the fears and prejudices of the people of Upper Canada in regard to the Roman Catholie religion of the Lower Canadian rebels lhe {ruternisation was close and hearty.Throughout this agitation and before SETI 1.RAMESES IL FATHER AND SON.Rameses II, or the Great, whose wummified remains are viewed by every visitor to the famous Ghieeh Museum, in which they ure exhibited, wes that famous king of Egypt whom some biblical echojers identify with the l'hernoh of the time of the exodus.He was a man of geniug, the fit ruler of his time, and at ten years of age sat in the State Councils of his father, King Seu I, at Thebes.He commenced to reign st twelve years of age, and at seventeen 1d conquering armées against the warlike Liyans- He filled the throne for sixty-seven yoars, passing 8s ap old man any resort wis made to foree, or even seriously thought of, the agitators, both French-Canadian and Upper-Canadian, appealed directly to the British Imperial Government and parlisment, who, it must be confessed, gave comsiderable attention to the matter.Papineau seat over the famous \u2018ninety-two resolutions\u2019 and Mac: kensie wen! across to England and waited upon the Colonial Secretary and haunted pariiament then busy passing the Reform bill; he talkal by the hour and wrote day and night straight ahead at times, sctting forth and explaining the grieve ances of the people of Upper Canada.\u201cThere were a host of influential statesmen who in parliament and eisewhere declaimed about the Canadian grievances and urgéd remedies., There were Brougham, Sir James McIntosh, Hume Roebuck, Cobbett, O'Connell ; even the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel thought something ought to be done in the way of pacifying the Canadas, The only thing done was to dismiss two of the most offensive members of the Family Compact, one of whom was reappointed.* Hooked-nose old Glorious Billy,\u2019 who, by the way, seems to have bequeathed a portion of his nickname to the Stars and Stripes, called the \u2018Peopic\u2019s Friend,\u2019 and who, ss a sailor, bad visited Quebec, whose people feit kindly toward him, had strong opinions in regard to the Canadian question \u2018Mind what you sre about in Canada, By \u2014, I will never consent to slienste the Crown lands, nor to make the cowacil elective.\u2019 But he was dead and the young Queen had come to the throne snd in her first deliverance to parliament had declared her determination \u2018to maintain bor eu- prematy throughout the whole of the North American colonies.\u201d The authors have managed to hit off the peculiar cher.acterigtics of the chief figures in England and Canada connented with the Canad.an affair as far as those characteristics were displayed in this connection, by means of a line of description often quoted from a friend or enemy, an epigram of their own, or à mekname.The young Queen jum come to tho threne je the \u2018Stella Matntina, \u2018a little Napoleon in netti- costs,\u2019 88 an American editor said of her after reading her speech to paniament.Melbourne, the Prime Minister, quaim, fitful, sbrupt, full of iromy, tender, al- most to femininity, with no extreme faith \u2014'Black and White.\" of about cighty from the seme of his 1emarkabile life.His worke were man- fold.The Egypt of his day won à thou- sond imlusteial advantages from his energy and foresight.He built great treasure cities, developed the canal system, improved agriculture, advanced his nation\u2019s welfare, extended her borders, and loomed a colossal power through vecrly three generations of mankind.Nineteen hundred years before the Christian era the name of Rameses was certauniy the grestest on earth.iis father Seti I., though no mean ruler was Ww no mesns 60 distivguished aa bis son.in religion, polities or love, but easy, comfortably and good-bumored, who told bis Peers plainly that ° the tume bad gone by when any set of men could put themaclves up as a check against nation! opinion, and that antique usages could not prevail against reason and argument\u2019 Sir Robert Peel, \u2018 who played upon the House as upon à fiddle,\u2019 and could mot \u2018too deeply sympathize with the sufferings of their brave and loyal fellow-subjecta in the colonies,\u201d nor \u2018too much admire the brave loyalty asd de- votedness of Canadians.\u2019 Sir James Mcln- tosh, who \u2018drew a parallel between what Ireland was sad whet Canada might be come and in the name of High Heaven (his eloquence sided by a large pair of grey melancholy eyes) adjured parliament solemnly that such a ecourge fall not a second time upon any land under Britain's swuy.\u2018Above all, let not the French-Canadians mpp:se for a moment that their rights or aspirations are less cpred for by us than those of their fel- low-coloniats of our own blood.\u2019 Roebuck, an out and out Canadian sympathizer, whose \u2018remarques ordinaries\u2019 were c stent philippics against adminietrative abuses there; whose effect was weakened however, by his appearance, which was that of à boy of eighteen ! Lord Brough- au, whose eyes flush, browa gatber, dark iron-grey bair stands up rigid, as with arm raised and high pitched voice, with sarcasm ou hie tongue, and bile in lds heart, he talks puro vitriol, every word leaving a scar where it falls, while denouncing the Cansdisn polity of the govern ment.\u2018But there 1s a grave ia the Bench- ets\u2019 plot at Lincoln, where he leid his only remaining child, a girl of seventeen, his appliestion to have her Tutied there listened to by the Benchers because he wishod to be laid in the same grave with her, which tells of the wound which would not heal in this extraordinary audacious man.Lord Glenelg, who, \u2018with the best intention in the world, had a positive genius for \u2018doing the wrong thing,\u2019 and labored to mitigate toil, taxes, tears and blood, and only beightencd them.The travesty upon bis fn.etractions to Sir Francis Bond Head en the departure of the latter for Can- ads, quoted by the authors, if full of wit and bumor, which go far to explain how it was that with many of the greatest British statmmen intererted in their de- ball tbe Cacsdas were atill allowed to drift into.zabollion.~The Duke\u2019 or took interest enough in the Nertl American colonies to deplore that wo effort corresponding with the need tor their pacification had been made.Vapineau's ninety-two resolutions and Maekehn \"a representations to the gor- ernment, which took him seventy-iwo hours writing, day and night, almost without sleep, to prepare, caused much discussion, called forth much action in the way of appointiments of able Govern- ors-GUeneral to invostigate and settle, but no real reniedy or reform.\u2018The dismisaal of the two members of the Family Com- paët did not a) pease the reformers, let alon® the radicals, and it did render the \u2018 Loyalists,\u201d aa the members of the cow- pact and their friends called themselves, if anything more violent in their \u2018tres- sonable assaults\u2019 upon the Imperial Gor- erament than the so-called rebels had ever been.\u2018The affections of these \u201ctried Loyalists\u201d were said to have been \u2018estranged (by the dismissal); they were casting about in their mind's eye for some new alate of political exietence, which would put them and their colony beyond the reach of injury and insult from any and every ignoramus whom the political lottery of the day may choose to elevate to the chair of the colonial office\u201d Mackenzie and Papincau could not have uttered more rebellious words.While parliaments, Imperial and Colon- inl, were talking, the petriots, otherwise rebels, were forming themwelves into \u2018orders\u2019 and * societies\u2019 and were drilling openly in Lower Canada, and holding \u2018 shooting matches\u2019 for practice in Upper Canada.The trouhle begen in Montreal by the fasuing of warrants against the malcontents, Papineau, Morin, O'Callu- ghan, Nelson and others, on account of % \u2018souffle\u2019 between the Doric Club, and \u2018Sons of Liberty,\u2019 regarded as s stroke of policy which compelled the \u2018rebels\u2019 to show their hands.Outside of 1he cities the arrests were resisted to the death.The leaders were men to inspire devotion, Papineau, & lawyer of some replute, was then a man of about forty-eight years of age, of good average height, Inclined to corpulency, certainly not the figure to tmagine under small haystacks, or in full length in ditches.His face was strongly marked with those features that proclaim a Jewish ancestor somewhere: dark, very arched eyebrows: khair nearly black; the eye dark, quick and penetrating; an exterior of datermiuation and force in keeping with the well stored mind, conversational power, cultivation, and gentlemanly address, which marked the man.His slocuencs had pess- od irto a proverb; an unusually precocious Canadian child always bad said of it \"C'est un Papineau.Robert and Wolfred Nelson, the latter married to a granddaughter of the * Marquis de Fleurimont, & French officer wounded in the repulse of Montgomery before Quebec,\u2019 are called \u2018Frenchified Englishmen,\u2019 born for something better than \u2018 iremson, stratagem, and spoils, they took none of the last and found the first two meant prison and expatriation.\u2018 Wolfred Nelson was by far the best looking of the leaders, toll, with handsome features, and had, more over, a brave and manly disposition.Morin, who aided Papineau to draw up the famous Ninety-two Resolutions, wass gentle, polite man of letters, with the suave manners of a divine, who neither looked nor acted the conepirstor, despite him many flery words.Girod was a \u2018Swiss, who taught agriculture in a Quebec school for boys, got by that true patriot Per- rault\u2014destined shortly for a tragic fate\u2019 First blood was shed when Lieut enant Ermatinger's detachment of cevalry returning from St.John to Montreal in charge of two prisoners, Davignon and Deamarsis, carrying them round by \u20ac round-about route in order to impress the rebels, was attacked near \u2018Longueuil, his prisoners escaping.The Patriote were exhilarated by their little victory and the Loyalist forces at Montreal greatly irritated.Expeditions against St.Denis and Bt.Charles, the rebel strongholds, were sent out from Mont: real, to the latter under Col.Hughes, to the former under Col.Wetherell, and both under Colonel Gore.Storrow Brown, the patriot general at St.Char les, had peised the substantial chatean and #s environs, loopholed the walls, erected barricades between the river and the hill, at the foot of which the house stood.Col.Wetherell posted his men on the hill and got his guns into play.\u201cThe firing (by the rebels) was kept up for an hour but ever grew fainter\u201d Then came the cruel advance with fized bayonets.All who did not sek for quarter received none and many \u2018leeped into the lake who were no thirty.\u2019 \u2018The slaughter on the side of the rebels was great,\u2019 wrote Wetherell.\u2018MX counted fifty-six bodies, and many re wers killed in the buildings and the bodies burnt\u2019 The rebel pecord uot at all like this, and ends :\u2014 \u2018 Ops hundred qf thems brave mes shelter in a barn filled with hay straw.The Royal butchers est fire to # and burned them alive.One hundred were drowned in crossing the Richelieu.The village of Bt.Charles was entirely looted by the soldiers during the attack; aud those of the inhabitants who escaped the flames perished in the woods from the effeet of fright and cold.The prisoners that fell into their hands were inhumanly treated and many of the wounded murdered in cold blood.\u2019 The second expedition against St, Denis, where were Nelson and Papi- fmeau, after marching through the rain, over muddy roads, were met by a large force of rebels, many of whom were expert shots, and after a brave struggle, Colonel Huglies and his force were dnven Lack and compelled to retreat, leaving some of the wounded, and embarrassed with many more, yet nt daring to rest until dawn next day.A young officer pamed Weir was ment ahead by Gore, and was driven to Nelson's head: quarters by 8 French calache driver, where he was tied hand and foot, placed in a cart and sent away by Nelson under an escort of four men, who brutaliy murdered lim and sunk his body in the Richelieu.\u2018Remember Jack Weir\u2019 became a sort of war-cry to excite s spirit of revenge in the loyalist troops.8, Charles was peacefully captured later, after the curé of St.Denis had been went for and had from the pulpit warned the people \u2018that if they did not succumb they would he tortured in a worse place than Lower Canada,\u2019 and moreover, \u2018that if they persisted he would refuse them burial\u2019 The curé\u2019s menace \u2018succeeded a merveille,\u2019 says Wethereil.Nelson and Papineau had escaped.The troops returned to Montreal, which, we are told, was \u2018then put in « atate of defence, and its specie sent to Quebec for safe keeping.The future Sir George was one of the rebels at St.Charles, and \u2018to make sure of a quiet resting-place in his native village of St.Antoine, wrote and had published in a Montreal newspaper :\u2014 \u201cGeorge E.Cartier, advocate, a young man of great ability and talent, was found frozen in the woods by his father.He might bave served his Queen in the highest councils of his country had he not been brought up in a line of pol.ics which led to his untimely end.\u201d\u2019 Excited by the events of the expeditions to the Richelieu, Montreal sent cut Bir John Colborne with detachments from their regular regiments and » vol unteer rifle corps, a squadron of horse, six pieces of artillery, \u2018a field battery,\u2019 \u2018a rocket troop\u2019 and apparently some ir regular bodies of volunteers, against St.Eustache, where Chenier and Girod \u2018were in command of the rebels, who had seized the curé'a house and the church and prepared them for a defence.\u2018The doore were barticaded, the windows removed to convert the openings into loopholes.\u201d Thus did they awsit coming annihilation, \u2018nor,\u2019 said a British officer afterward, \u2018did they quail as our overwhelming force approached ; they raised one loud and shrill, terrific cheer and then all was still as death till the cannonading and musketry began\u2019 The story of the massacre which followsd, as told in this book, is horrible in the extreme.The church, filled with rebels, was cannonaded and set on fire, the village was surrounded with cavalry and also set on fire, and those who attempted to escape were bayoneted.The simultaneous fire pouring on the French from all sides was like boiling water on an ant bill.Then balf-roasted, with bullets already in th.ir miserable bodies, women creeping from crypts found that what flame and bullet kad spared the bayonet could finish.Chenler 80d the few remaluiug, med with deapalr, Jeaped from the windows into the graveyard aud fought there anew with all the desperation of a forlorn hope, ., 1o the meles a few managed to sscape, but for a moment only: those who made fof the ice were picked off, and thase who foil on their knoes and begged for quarigr hesrd Jock Weir, remember Jook Weir.\" The vii lage swine added yot another horror, \u2018Vshaw,\u2019 sald a Bcotch volunteer to a squeamish comrade, \u2018it's nothing but French bog esting French bog.\u2019 \u2018The artiliery opened fire at baif-past one Everything was over except the sudoting of w few fugitives by half-past three,\u2019 writes a Montreal correspondent.Chenier\u2019s body was quartered and bis hesrt was paraded upon a bayonet.Though the people of St.Benoit, St.Scholastique and Carilion submitted without a blow, displaying white fags and lighted tapers, and turning out to meet Colborne, \u2018arrests were made and the torch applied.\u201d we are told.Besubar- nois, deserted by all but old men, women and children, was also fired, sacked and looted.In Upper Canada, where the rebellion did not break out until the fcllowing year, there wna not so much grim humor, but still enough.The grimmest, perhaps, ot Windeor and Sandwich, where the 4 f JANUARY 4, 1898, \u2018pajriots\u2019 were for the most part American sympathizers or looters who came across the straits from the neighborhood of Detroit.Though the Canadians were naturally enough exasperated at the raiding of the Americans, under the guise of Canadian patriot rebels, yet the fighting in the Battle of the Orchard, near Wind: sor, was not wantonly cruel or vengeful, was rather open and sunny and betweea forces not badly matched either in arms or training or generalship.The rebels or raiders were badly whipped though, aud were for the most part driven acrues the river again, where the United States authorities, who had failed to prevent thom from setting out, received and placed them under nominal arrest whea they got back.A boatload of thom was captured and the grimmest humor of the Upper Cauada campaign was \u2018n the man- mer of their punishment.A band of the raiders had captured a loyalist doctor, a surgeon, whom they murdered almost in cold blood, and whose body they mutilated and cut up, and with the piecre adorned the pickets of the roadside fences.Colonel Prince was in command of the Loyalists and though unable, by reason of the sickness of three of the members of his family, to gencrul his forces in the Battie of the Orchard, he was not prevented from presiding at the execution of the prisoners who, without trial by court-martial or otherwise, were ordered by bin to be summarily shot, and as he wrote in bis despatch, \u2018were shot accord: ingly.\u201d The details of the shooting are av shocking,\u201d say the authors, \u2018that it is better to omit them here\u201d The Indians (always loyalists) shortly afterwards brought in seven more prisoners, but refused to deliver them up to the whites, who cried, \u2018bayonet them.\u201d \u2018No,\u2019 said Martin, the Indian leader, \u2018we are Christians, we will not murder then, we wiil deliver them to our officers to be treated as they think proper.\u2019 (oi.I\u2019rince ordered \u2019 that the prisoners be shot,\u201d but better counsals, suggested by the behavior of the In- dicos, prevailed.Col.Prince's course raised n great storm in the colonies, in the United States and in Great Britain.The patriots across the river offered eight hundred dollars for Wm, dead, and a thousand dollars for him alive.The Duke of Wellington, Brougham, Melbourne and labouchere fought over the subject at Westminster and the Duke afterwards presented Col.Princes son with a commission in the army.Col.Prince was challenged to twelve ducls and defied the right of the Executive Council, the Lieu- tecant-Governor, or the Queen herself to deal with the case, which was onc for the \u2018grand inquest\u2019 of the nation, he declared.For the rest the humors of the rebellion in Upper Canada are gay rather than grim.Whether Sir Francis Bond Head, the Governor, was a born fool, or hero may reasonably be debated to this day, but the authors incline strongly to the former opinion and Sir Francis, his person, his manuers, his conduct, bis cause, hi journals are held up to ridicule by them, after a perfectly good-na- tured manner, however.That the rebels night easily have captured Toronto at any time during the first day or two after their gatheting at Montgomery Hotel, secms certain, and that the Licutenant.Governor was in great fear of the event until the arrival of reinforcements also scems probable in spite of the confidence which is expressed in his journals, wnit- ten up later.The story of Gallows Hill, the burning of the * Caroline\u2019; of the great pirate King of the Thousand Islands, Bill Johnston, of the sad death of Cul.Muody and the still sadder death of Jount, of the Canadian Deborahs vf \u201887, is told in this volume in a somewhat be- \u2018vilderingly hap-liazard order, or disor- dN, but Leilliantly snd vividly, Jt is not liistoey perhaps, but it is a vivid facture of à ytar or twa of life in the Canadas in the rebéllion of 1837.(Wm.riggs & Co, Toronto.) BOOKY FOR THE HOLIDAYS.\u2018The Great Stone of Sardis,\u2019 by Frank R.Stockton (Copp, Clark ('o., Toronto), is a first-rate holiday book in the style of Jules Verne.The time is supposed to be the middle of the twentieth cen tury, but the inventions are not areat\u2019y ahead of those of our own day, for, the author explains, tie beginning of the twentieth century ws a time of rest and aren retrogression in sone respects, and pecple found the stagecoach better than the railway ttain.The hero ia & poor young man who has his fortufie to make, Lut seems to have every facility for making machines and sending out expeditions, Hm great work is the perfecting of an \u2018Artesian ray\u2019 which will pass through any substance, but at the same time he sends a veasel 10 the North Pole snd builds à tremnendous machine for making tunnels.This machine, or shell, accidentally falls from its scaffolding and THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.practiced and experienced hand at war-artist work, having in the cours: of the last twenty years and upwards.THE SOUDAN ADVANCE.ESCORTING THE CROSSES FOR THE GRAVES OF THE TWO OFFICERS.SIDNEY AND FITZCLARENCE, WHO FBLL FIGHTING AT ABU HAMED\u2014'IHustrated London News\u201d The accompanying illustration shows the special artist of the \u2018Illustrated London News\u2019 Mr, Frederick Villiers, in command of the escort wbich took two crosses to Abu Hamed for erection above the graves of the two gallant officers who lost their ives there while fighting for Queen and country.Mr.Frederick Villiers, who is well known in Montreal, is a beea present in nearly every war that bas been going forward burrows fourteen miles down into the earth.Nothing will setisfy the inventor but to go down after it in an elevator.Je tinds the shell resting on a solid but perfectly transparent substance to whi h he can see no boundaries : \u2014 He now cautiously got out of the car, and let himself down upon the shell.It wis uot s pleasant surface to stand upon, dciug uneven, with great spiral ribs, snd Clews sat down upon it, cilngiag to it with bis hands.Then he leaucd over to ove side, and Juokad beneath lim.The stadows of that shell went down, down, down, until it made him sick to look at it.He drew back quickly, clutched tbe shell with his arms, and shut his eyes.Fle felt ms 1f he were about to drop with le into a measureless depth of atmosphere.This trip underground and the discovery made as to the centre of the earth is the principal excitement of the tale, but the voyage to the Pole furnishes many humors in Mr.Stockton's well- known vein, such as the following : \u2014 \u201cTake him below and put him In Irons,\u2019 cricd Sammy.\u2018Mr.Black,\u2019 said Captain Hubbell, \u2018I want you to understand that I am skipper of this vesac), and that I am to give orders.1 don't know anything about this mau, but do you want bim put In irons?\u2018I do,\" sald Sammy; \u2018for the present.\u2019 \u201cTake that man below and put tim in irons roared Captain Hubbell.\u2018And give him scme dry clothes,\u2019 added Sarsh Black \u2018Lawrence Temple,\u201d by W.H.With.rew, D.D.(William Briggs, Toronto), is a story of backwoods life illustrating the strugglea of a young man who became a Metliodist preacher.The incidents ave all founded on occurrences in actual life and give a picture of the varying types to be met with in the lumber camp and country villages of Canada, not long since.This popular Sunday-school book is in ite seventh edition.\u2018 Between Earth and Sky,\u2019 and other strange stories of deliverance,\u201d by Edward William Thomaon, (Wm, Briggs, Toronto), is a boys\u2019 book containing twenty-one short stories, reprintsd from the \u2018 Youth's Companion.\u201d The first ie about a balloon, one is ab: ut the World's Feir, several are about advemtures by water.There is a strong Canadian favor about many of them and as they are true to the facts of life many of them convey a lessou in temperance.Though not, perhaps, as striking as Mr.Thomaon's other books, * Old Man Savarin\u2019 and \u2018Walter Gibbs,\u2019 this will be a plensing addition to a boy's bookshelf.*To London for the Jubilee,\u201d by Kit, (G.N.Morang, Toronto), is a small book containing the letters on the Jubilee celebrations written from London to the Toronto * Mail and Empire.\u201d These are bright little descriptions and bear the _stamp of having been written in the enthusiasm of the moment.One of the occasions written of is the fancy dress ball given by the Duchess of Devonshire, The Queen cf Sheba In gold and purple sauxe, her bodice encrusted with turquoises sud diamonds; her girdle (ringed with Jewels, s bird of Paradise nodding atop her superb crown, paused a moment to salute à Louls Seize courtier in a marvellous sult of rose-colored velvet, whom we would never bave recognized us the Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain were he not betrayed by an orchid, (75 cents.) .RELIGIOUS.The Rev.Andrew Murray's little book entitled \u2018The lord's Table,\u2019 is sûre to wo | receive a hearty welcome not only on account of the popularity of the writer but because so many feel the need of special help \u2018to the right observance of the holy supper.\u201d No writer of the prevent day is better titted to afford this help than Mr.Murray, but none can be more anxious than he that such manuels au this should in no way take the place of direct meditation on the Scriptures.He says :\u2014 Christians, there is in the Word of God #8 invredibla power.The blessing which Îles hid in It Is inconceivables See to 1t that when you ave read a partion you always return to that passage of the scrip tures of which an explanation Is given.Receive that not as the word of man, but as It le tn truth the Word of God, which works mightily in those that belleve.Hold fellowship with God through the Word.Take time to speak with Him about it, te give an answer to bim concerning it.Then shall you understard what tbe Lord Jesus says: \u2018The words tbat I speak unto you, they aro spirit and life.\u201d Then shall Word and sacrament gloriously work together to make you increase in prayer and in the lite of God.The book consists of twenty-four meditations with prayers and hypms.It is published in pretty style te the Revell's.(Toronto, 50 cents.) The Revell Compæüy publish adso \u2018Forc- tokens of Immortality,\u2019 which the author, Newell Dwight Hillis, calls \u2018studies \u201cfor the hour when the immortal hope burns low in the heart.\u201d' From an ex: tensive study of the writings of all ages he gathers the thoughts of philosophers and the meditations of Christian writer to show the incompleteness of this lifc and the expectation of a future ane.He quotes Cicero, for instance, as saying :\u2014 \u2018There ia, ! know not how, tn the minds of men a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence, and this takes the deepest roet, and is moat discoverable fn the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.(Revell, Toronto, 50 cents.) KINGSFORD'S \u2018HISTORY OF CANADA\u2019 NOW IN THE STORES.The ninth volume of Dr.Kingsford's meat \u2018History of Canada\u2019 has just made its appearance in time for the Christ: mas holidays.No more really valu- alle gift to a man of literary tasies or to one possessed of à library could be hit upon than a copy of this the most oumprehensive histery of Canada ever published.Literature whose subject natter is Canadian, and which is wortby of being called hterature at ali, showd be encouraged by Cana otherwise the market for it, especially if it deals adequately with grave themes, is limited.It is a duty which Canadians owe .to themselves, as well as to their country, to cultivate an especial taste for all that is Canadian.À really wide, exact and intimate knowledge of one\u2019s own country creates an interest greater far than the enchantment which distance lends to foreign lands.Dr.Kingsford's latest vol ume deals with the period from the close of the war iu 1815 to the prorogstion of the House of Amembly by Lord Gos ford in 1838, the last act in the political life of the legislature of flower Canada.Thess most interesting and important years in the history of the Canadas have been treated at length in this fine volume of six hundred and thirty-four pages.VOLUME IX.BOOK of 1337 and 1838, the manuscript of which is mow in the printer's hands, will ap- peer in April of next year, and will contain an index to the events which bap- pened under British rule, as the fourth volume contained one in regard to French rule.(Roswell & Hutchison, To- rento ; E.Picken, Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal.) THB CHRISTMAS \u2018WAR CRY.\u2019 The Christmas number of the \u2018War Cry,\" Toronto, gontains, among other attractive fapifiom, a message from General ottare chiefly in the character of two of | the services.One, in the ajternocn, | when many Christiane took part and showed a wonderful knowledge of, and familierity with, their bébles, 16 the way they turned to text atter text bearing ou the topic, the otber, in the evening, when an opportunity was given to testily of blessing recsived during the conference, or previoudy, \u2018This last was the best meeting of all.Many glad and joyful testimonies were iven and many resolves expressed to live orth more wholly for God.The faces of the Chinoss Christians glow and beam in a truly wonderful way in marked contrast to uhe hi , eIpressioniess , faces of the heathen about them.| have seen faces at home transformed by the power uf the gospel but the change : in the appearance of a Chinese Christian is moet striking in almost every instance, They look like \u2018mew creatures\u2019 in very truth, At the clos of the testimonies, and after a guitable hymn, it was asked if any in the meeting who were not Christians, but from that night determined to follow ' Jesus Christ, would intimate that dewire by raising the hand.Though the conference was solely for Christiane and not a word of exbortation bad been given to the unsaved, the pressnce of the Al- powerful Spirit to convict and convert was thereupon manifested by eight uplifted banda The first was our water-carrier who bse long known the gospel well.The next, u carpenter, who does much work for us.He is a very quiet, honest, fei- low, using no unnecessary words, and when he, standing up, not only raised his hand but declared aloud that as for him, he determined to follow the Lord Jesus, my hesrt gave a great leap for joy, for 1 felt a soul had truly passed from death into life.The third was a teacher, who had come in from the country near by.Then followed a litle boy of about fourteen, who bud to push his way through the crowd from the side round to the ifront of the platform, before his uplifted | Land and shioiug face could catch \u20ac leader's eye.His example wae efickly followed by another boy of -o0ut the same age.While my heart 748 rejatcin, over these with a joy up sweetest an purest known to mortajs and known only to those who have yn others born ints the Kingdom of =hich they themselves are children amd heirs, I was praying most curnest) ail the time for my tescn- er.Whap \u201cas my joy.therefore, when the next to declare with hand and voice bis py Hudson's Strait.On June 23 à greut ice drift cane into view.It acomed, as the \u2018Diana\u2019 approached, to extend across the entire width of the strait.A day was spent searching along the face of the ice wall for a weak spot in what appeared to be an impamabie barrier.On the after.noou of the twenty-fifth a rift was dis covered, and the stout ship steamed in, headed for the bay, She had only gone six miles when the gap closed behind her, and the open passage came to a sudden stop in an impenetrable wall of ice.For four days the \u2018Diana\u2019 drifted west and south, with fields of glittering ice on all sides, on which the long lines of light, slanting across the icefields from the south; shone as clearly st midnight es at widday, * On June 29 the little ship waa releascd, and had procecded almost fifty miles when she found herself in a region of vast ice drifts.The Aonting masses Lecame more bumerous, and on June 30 they were closing tightly ou all sides of the ship.On July 1 she was again a prisoner.This tue the situation was perilous in tho extreme, for a violent gale sprang up and agunst tho whaler.The grinding and pressure of the ice-pack damaged the deck; the rudder was broken, and the starboard quarter gave way.\u2018The ex plorers made every preparation to quit the ship at a moment's notice; but the gale abated, the ice loosened, and the actual danger passed as quickly as it nad j come.On July 9 the \u2018Diana\u2019 had cleared iutermarry with them, and are, THE MONTREAL THE \u2018DIANA\u2019 student came among the Eskimos as a miesionary.The entire populution of both places, invinding bunds of natives from a descrted American whaing sation added to the danger, throwing the great |on Frobisher Buy, did not exceed three masses of ice in piles, and wedguig it hard huadevd.The whale fisheries were reported to be declining; so the whole region was svarcely worth the cost of the Hagpole on which the Union Jack was hoisted, or of the printer's ink wusted over the incident.Whites who bave gone among the Eskimos have lost every trace of their origin except their speech.They live and dress like the Indians, and with from the pack, and by July 12 had reach.their companions, a contented, jolly, lazy led the western extremity of Hudson's lot Strait.4 heavy run of ice prevented the ex- [through thi grit.Dr.Bell and five surveying work.Reachiog (he Atlantic, the \u2018Diana\u2019 then turned abou gud made a record run clear to the westem terminus of Hudson's Strait in two ana» half days, the passage being entirely free tom from west to east, but no ice was seen, except a long, tight strip close to the northern coast, which was visible along that shore all summer.entrance to the strait.trip that Commander Wakeham, accord ing to instructions, hosted the Rritish flag on Baffin\u2019s Land.The \u2018Diana\u2019 called at two remote stations, one on each mde of Camberiand Sound, Kilkkerton the former station.Mr.Mutch, had spent twenty-seven years in this bleak, remote region superintending the fishery for an Aberdeen firn.Fskimos are emploved in it who cat-h and harpoon the whales.At Placklesd, the agent, Mr.Sheridan.had led a solitary existence for thirty years, until last summer, when a theological | | So enamored of the life waa one of the Eskimo whites, who had lived at the station for fiftcen years, that he refused plore- proceeding north to Salisbury ls: to return to civilization for a legacy laud, ant 4; easy trip wae made back | awaiting lin.Fron Cumberland Sound the \u2018Diana\u2019 re- men were lami i ut Ashe Inlet, on the turned to the Atlantic, again ran through \"north coast of Fa strait.and Mr, Lowe the Straits, and traversed Hudson's Bay jand his company mv King George's Sound, \u2018to Fort Churdlill, a terminus of one uf on the south, both having comfortably fit- the projected railways, situsicd about ted decked boats with \u2018hich to do their | latitude 38.This point is historic in the history of North America, for here 1 was vn Aug.17, 1782, the French fleet commanded by La l\u2019erouse demolished Fort Prince of Wales (Churchill), and.sailing south, captured Fort York, on the A third zigzag trip was then male promontory st the mouth of Nelson Riv- se and Iluyes River.rere is no longer a fort at Churdhili, but 1 ig still one of the lludson's Hay! Compary « s, Capt.Ilawes, the chief oc- Fifty vears am Chureh- | everything sent in and sent out, passed and Blacklead.The man in charge of} Bell rejoinod the party.through Fort Churchill.Now it ie a mere relic of former importance.The \u2018Diane\u2019 left Fort Churchill on Sept.2, and on ber way past Ashe Inlet Dr, Before leaving the strait a run was wade into Ungava Hay, a large opening off Hudson's Strait, just west of Cape Chudleigh.Mr.Lowe was thirty miles up the river from the bay, and the \u2018Diana\u2019 was piloted by an Fskimo through a blinding smowstorm to Fort Chimo at the south of Ungava.On Sunday, Sept.10, the steamer left WEEKLY WITNESS Unguva, and reached St.John's, New- foundand, on Sept.25.She refitted, aud, returning to the Strait, remamed till Oct, 3, when ice was forming in the hartors, though there was open passage through the strait.The geological officers left on the northern and soutbern shores of Hud- sous Strat acquired new facts and gathered valuable intomuation regarding the remote regions where they lsbored tor the summer, composed entirely of government officers, the official report wiil not be made pub- Le till presented st Ottawa; but it was informally learned that Dr.Bell found the north coust of the strait studded with islands and marked by numerous indentations.During the whole summer a vaet field of ice driited from Fox Chau- nel and, forced eastward by the pressure bebind, was driven sud wedged against the north shore.An excursion was made to the interior of Batlin'a Land, where, fifty miles inland, a large lake was dis covered, auled by the Jadians Amak- djnak.Mr, Lowe surveyed the south-cast gliore for three hundred miles to George s River in Ungava Bay, and pronounced all \u2018existing charts of the strait inaccurate.Frou obeervativns taken it is comudered {that there is continuous navigation for | at least wixte?n weeks and possibly longer, although Captain Hawes, of Fost Churchill, placed the period of navigation for stesiets at three wonths, Besides an open passage through the A trip was then made to Nachvak, à factor of the post, for « yuarter of à icc-drift, the wuather is an important Meraviun settlement on the inhospitable \u2018century commaider of the company\u2019s fautor in the navigation of Hudson's Bay coast of the North Atlantic, south of the shipa in the bay; Mi.Preston, his ol » Here coal from ant; half n dozen half-burgd families: Sydney was awiiting the \u2018Diana,\u2019 and on 'casional traders and trap), , venty-six lus th ve in th AE.15 she set out for Cumberland the population.\u201cty, compose\u2019 of twenty-six months there were in the | Sound.within the Arctic Circle, to inves-! fll wus the great entrepot of the th.ir Hudson's Strait at the eastern en- tigate the whale fisheries.It was om this | Everything required for the North reat, ! trac o \"On, an \u2018 and Strat, snd a comparison of meteorn- logical tables shows that during a period 1 Straits of lille Isle 3.602 hours of fog; 1.026, and at the western | terminus 1,168, so that navigation in the anrthern pass1ge would suffer two-thirds les delay than in the much-traversed ; Strate of Belle Isle.The same tables j stow tha.gales are loos frequent by half in ludeon\u2019s Strait than in Belle Isle.On the whole the weather during the four montha of open water would not prevent navigation of the great inland sea of the north.These are practical methods of demon- stating the possibility of Hudson's Bay navigation, but they scarcely cstablish the feasibility of the northern route for As the \u2018Diana's\u2019 party was commareial purposes.To ship sargoes from London to York Factory, et from Fort Churchill to London, when it did not matter in the least whether they reached their des:ination in one year of two years, was an altogather different thing from the rapid traneportation et filly or sixty million bushels of grain from the west to Liverpool before the dose of navigation in November.Finan- ciere rather than explorers must now wolve the problem of à short northern route from western grain growing areas to Europe.There ie not promise of such Immediste solution that Montreal, New York, and other Atlantic ports need feel apprenensive of thelr prestige.cL \u2014\u2014 LONGEVITY AND THE BRAIN.Epeaking at Relldrk, on Nov.8, Sir James Crichton Browne dwelt on the dangers to health, involved in indo'ence and diswe of the brain.The medical profemion, he said, adapting itaclf to the needs of the times, had felt it incumbent upon it during the last decade to insist mainly on the evils of misuse of the brain, on the excessive strain not seklom imposed on it in these «lays in the fierce struggle of the race to be rich, and more espucially on the over-pressure im on it in the name of education when in an immature state, but they were not lew keealy alive to the correlative evils of the disuse of the brain, Flderly persons who give up business and profcssional mea who had laid aside their avocations without having other interests of pur suite to which to tum, were in many canes plunged into despondency or hur- red into premature dotage.Ie did not know of any surer way of inducing pre mature mental decay than for a man of \u2018active habits to retire and do nothing when just past the senith of life; and, on the other hand, be did not know any surer way of enjoying a green old age than to keep on working at something till the close.It had been said thet one of the rewanls of philosophy was length of days, and a striking list might be pre sented of men distinguished for their intellectual labors, which they had never laid aside, who had far exceeded the al- Jotted span of life.Cialileo lived to be seventy-cight, Newton to eighty five, Franklin to eighty-five, Buffon to eighty.Farady to scventy-six, and Îirewster to eighty-four years.Sir James Crichton.Browne drew special attention to the great age genemlly attained by our judges.\u2014London \u2018Lancet.\u2019 BRITISH POSTAL REFORM.What will be the next reform in pos tages ?We thought we had touched high water mark wien we reached a Limit of a penny an ounce for letters; and that satistied most of us.Now, however, in a liberality of postal soul, the authorities have raised the standard of weight to four ounces! What wll be the next sep, we wonder ?With a postal sur plus of nearly three million pounds, we may expect almost anything in the way of concession.A time there was, and within the memory of living men, when it com a shilling to send a letter across the Atlantic, either way, and at an av- erago of time, by sailing ship, of about thirty days.Now the postage [or the same service is twopence halfpenny, and the average of time ubout six and a half days._ Still the New York merchants are not sstisfied, and are complaining be- cavee a lapee of more than three days in the arrival of mails takes place sometimes.And this, too, with telegraphic facilities! Verily we are living in a fast age !\u2014Barnet \u2018Press\u2019 Nov.27.\u201cimi NN mr xi, \u2014 THE CREW OF THE \u2018DIANA\u2019 y Janvary 4, 1898.A ROYAL OCULIST.DUKE CARI THEODORE OF BAVARIA, WHO LATELY ATTENDED TUE GERMAN, EMI'ERUR.The fact of Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria, the * royal oculist,\u201d bung called upon to attend the Kaiser for the injury done his mujesiy\u2019s eye during his recent cruise on the \u2018 Hohenzullern.\" testifies to the high fume and position which his royal highuess has attained in his profes sion.From his university days Duke Carl has devoted himeelf to the study of DUKE CARL THEODORE OF BAVARIA.ocular surgery, and be bas attained such skill that he has aiready performed over a thousand operations for cataract of the eye.The royal oculist has two principal establishments, viz.: in Munich and at Meran, the famous mountain * curort,\u2019 in the Tyrol, and be also does an immense deal of good among the poor Bavarian peasant folk round Tegerensee, in the Bavarian Alps, where he sojourns at this time of the year.Duke Carl became the head of the ducal line of Bavaria in 1857, when his elder brother, Louis, renounced his rights on marrying an artist, who was afterwards ennobled with the title of Raroness von \\Vallersee, The Duke has been twice married, his present wife Leing à l\u2019orluguese infanta and sister of the hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxemburg.By his first marriage there is one daughter, married to Duke Urach of \\Wurtemberg; and by Lis second, three daughters, Princesses No- phie, Elizabeth and Gabrille, and five soma, the hereditary Prince Louis and Prince Francis Joseph, the youngest being only nine years of age.The Duke's youngest sister, Princess Sophie, was the Duchess d\u2019Alencon, who was burned ta death in the bazaar fire, in Paris.This lady had been betrothed to the Hl-fated King Louis II.of Ti: .FORTY LIVES SAVED BY A PIG.\u2018The coasting steamer \u2018Kameruka,\u201d 515 tous, the property oi the lllawarra Steatuship Company, weat ashore on the Pedro rocks, near Moruya Heads, ou Sunday morning, the weather then being fine and clear.The ship struck with such violence that passengers were hurled from their berths to the floor, and Captain Hersee, the master, who was upon the bridge, was thrown thence to the deck, sustaining severe injuries.The first mate, Mr.Bishop, however, at vie (ook charge and soon quieted the terrified paseen- gers as they scrambled pell-mell fro below.Life-belts were served round, au the people clustered in the sheltered por- ticn of the deck waiting for daylight.The engines were put hard astern, but the ship was hard and fast, and would not move.As the vessel settled down the sca began to break over her, placing those on deck in a position of extreme danger.When at last daylight broke the shore wus acen to be only a hundred and fifty yards away, and cfforta werc made to get a line to the people who had assembled there.Time after time, however, the heaving line broke.Then Captain Sutherland, the harbor master, en: deavored to reach the slup from the shore, but was carried away by the current and almost drowned.At last th: happy ides struck one of the passengers of attaching a halliard to one of the big porkers which the steamer was taking to the city, and throwing the animal ov erboard Ln mwim ashore.The device answered splendidly, as the pig sogx cut hia way through the surf to the beacn, where be was at once caprared.A heavy line was then fastened to the hakiard and dragged ashore.A cage was ti up, and the passengers and crev, forty in all told, were landed without mishap.\u2014 \u2018Avetralasian, Oct.23.\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.Safety in Buying Seedn\u2014There is no other way to measure the value of seed than by the value of the crop.A good erop simply cannot come from poor Becond-rate seeds will Wante good land, good fertilizer, and good labor, and the crop won't pay expenres, Now, as the practical farmer casnot afford to waste timo testing seeds to find out whether they are true to name, sound and clean, it stands to reason that the only safe way to buy seeds in to seek the protection of & name that has stood for reliability in the past.The great reud boure of D.M.Ferry & Co, Windeor, Ont., has sold needn all over Canada and the United States for the last forty-two years, and the steady growth of the buei- nem in à sure indication that Ferry seeds have given matisfaction.\u2018Ferry'e Seed Annual for 1998.a standard guide for farmers and gardeners, containing much valuable information, is sent to persons writing for it, or ere JANUARY 4, 1808.A BOUNDARY DISPUTE [se Newfoundland Wants Labrador Interior.VALUABLE FOR ITS SPRUCE TIMBER FOR PULPWOOD.Canada is likely to have a bounda dispute of more or less warmth wi Newfoundland.The coast of Labrador, where there are some wretched fshing colonies established which are always on the verge of stervation, has been for judicial purposes attached to Newfound: land.Foe use of spruce for pulpwood is likely to make the forest-covered por tion of Labrador valuable, and conse quently the Newfoundland Government is about to claim not only tbe coast but the interior of Labrador included within a line drawn from Cape Chudleigh to the coast at a point about twenty-five miles samt of the mouth of the Eskimo river.This would give Newfoundland a large olice of Labrador.That the Newfound land Government is about to make the claim seems certain from the letter of the Rev.Mr.Harvey to the \u2018Gazette,\u2019 which thus deals with the question: A very important question between Newfoundland and Canada will shortly coma up for discussion.It relates to Lhe boundary line between Canadian and Newfoundland Labrador.Strange to say, that boundary line has never been formally determined or laid down by actual survey; and has only been defined in terms that are obscure and admit of various constructions.No one can sy positively how much of Labrador is uo- der the jurisdiction of each country, and # is high time that this point were set at rest.| understand that several at- terapte have been formerly made to set tle the question, but without result.The matter has been brought up bere afresh in connection with certain applications for timber limits on Labrador, with a view to pulp manufacture.Now that Labrador is proved to be rich in timber suited to that industry, the question must be solved a8 to which government has the oer of making grante of timber lands.bave strong reasons for believing that our government will ere long open com: munications with the Canadian Government on the subject.The current belief is that Newfoundland has jurisdiction only over the sea- cout of Labrador from Blanc Sabion to Cape Chudleigh.According to this view it would fuliow that this country can claim nothing but the sea-margin, and perhaps half a mile inland; and all the rest belongs to Canada.This theory in my humble opinion\u2014and I have studied carefully the whole question\u2014is not sustained by facts.The boundaries between Newfoundland and Canadian Labrador are thus defined in \u2018the letters patent con ntituting the office of Governor and Com- mauder-in-Chief of the Island of Newfoundland.\u2019 \u2018We have thought fit to constitute, order and declare thet there shall be a Governor and Commander-in- Chief (hereinafter calied our said Governor) in and over our Island of Newfoundland.and the islands adjacent ard all the cosst of Labrador, from the entrance of Hudson's Strait to a line to be drawn due north and south from Anse Sablon on the said coast to the fifty-sec- ond degree north latitude, and all the islands adjacent to thas part of the said coast of Labrador, as also all forts and garrisons erected and established within or on the islands and coests aforesaid,\u2019 otc.These Letters Patent have been the commission given to successive governors oo their assuming office, snd as far a» I know, they have not been changed or modified.In the appendix to the \u2018Journal of the House of Amembly\u2019 for 1864, page 613, I found the boundaries of the Newfound: 51 deg.25 min, N.; long.57 deg.9 min, lane Sablon and the boundary of the jurisdiction of Newfoundland, at Iat.51 deg.25 min.N.This is very important.Then a line drawn due north and south from Cspe Chudleigh to lat, 81 deg.28 min.N.constitutes the beundary ach n the two jurisdictions, live from Cape Chudleigh.This would complete the boundary and make all clear and in accordance with the documents already quoted, Any other defindtion a pears to me to be open to insuperable objections.Any one who will take a good map of Labrador and draw the lines described will see that they give a very considerable portion of the interior to Newfound land, and that those who assert that oul, the eastern coast belongs to Newfound: land are greatly in error.In fact, the boundary I have described gives thous ands of square miles of the interior to Nowfoundland, instead of a scanty sea margin.It is time that the two countries came to an understanding about, this matter, otherwise disputes shout timber limite and water power may soon arise.It is a matter for the two governments to settle and i» not an Imperial question.This portion of Labrador was not al ways attached to Newfoundland.The firm annexation took place after the treaty of Paris, 1768.While the flag of France waved over Canada the French carried on extenaire flaheries on the Labrador cout, near the Otraits of Delle Isls, to which sttachod the greatest im .After the conquest of Canada Great Britain a company established in Que bec obtmined & monopoly of those Hoh- evies which lasted for sixty years, but was brought to an end m 1820.Until 1763 the fisheries of the whole southern and eastern shores of labrador were laced under the Government of Quebec, creased importance wae given to the governorship of Newfoundland in 1763, when the coast of Labrador was to it.Ten years later, in 1773, it ww considered advisable to restore Labredor to Canada, owing to difficulties arising out of grants wade to a number of persons under the French rule.In 1800, however, it was again transferred to the jurisdiotion of Newfoundland, under which i has remained ever since.A court of aivil jurisdiction, on the comat of Labrador, was instituted in 1824.À pe cial court of civil and criminal jurisdiction, called \u2018The Court of Labrador,\u201d and presided over by one judge, appointed by the Governor-in-Council, secures now the administration of justice.The customs duties levied on goods landed on Labrador are the same as in Newfoundland.1 may add that the late Frederick Gis borne, head of the Canadian Telegraph Department.held the view above defined, in regard to this boundary line.\u2014 THE REVISED VERSION.THE BOOKSELLERS STILL OVER STOCKED WITH COPIES OF THE NEWEST ENGLISH BIBLE (New York Times.\" Those who remember the enormous sales which attended the introduction of the Revised Version of the Holy Scriptures will bc not a little surprised at the general colapes of the market.Over sixteen years ago the firet edition of the Revised New Testament was published at The Oxford Press, and at that time so strenuous were the efforts made to ob tain advance sheets of it that one house alone offered five thoumnd pounds for a single copy without success.When the Revised Version of the entire Bible was published four years later the run on The Oxford University Prem warehouse was unprecedented, upward of a million copies being issued between one midnight and the next midday.At the New York branch of The Oxford Press, in Bleecker street, the office was besieged the night before publication, and special detectives were placed arcund the building to prevent overeager purchasers from obtaining copies, even by depositing their money.ONE MILLION COPIES IN THREE WEEKS.It is estimated that « million copies were sold in thig country during the first three weeks after publication.Such a sale had never before been known, and several American firms, including Harper Brothers, D.Appleton & Co, Dodd, Mead & Co, and Porter & Coates, of Philadelphia , issued American editions in large quantities to meet the demand.The collapse was experienced less than two months after the first appearance of the new version.The total loms to the American firms interested has been variously estimated to be between $500,000 and $000,000.From that date until now the sales have been extremely small, loss than eight copies being sold to one hundred of the King James version.That the revised version will ever supplant the King James version seems extremely doubtfu! from the present outlook.As is well known, the new version is never used in either the Roman Ostho- lic or Protestant Episcopal Church in public worship, and can never be, ual authorized by those in power, which extremely unlikely to oceur, owing to the origin of the revised version.The Douay Bible te at present used almost exclusively among English-speaking people of the Roman Catholic Church, and the King James Bible in the Protestant Episcopal Church.Ino churches of other thoy denominations the revised version has made little or no headway, and the regular scripture reading for the day is rare ly takem from it.SOME REANONS FOR ITS UNPOPULARITT.As à textbook, however, it is considered almost invalusble, and is used exten- sitely by clergymen of all denominations and in many Bunday-achools.Its superiority in technical accuracy is everywhere «ecognized.Its lack of popularity in public worship seams to grow out of a loss of sentiment, which is found to so large à degree in the authorised version.One of the passages which has evoked the most unfavorable comment iv the teans- lation of the Lord\u2019s Prayer, which in Matthew vi, 9-14, ia made to read as fol- ows: \u2018Our Father which art in heaven, Ho lowed by Thy name.Thy Kingdom come.Thy will be done, as in heaven as on earth.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.The substitution of \u2018the evil one\u2019 for \u2018evil\u2019 brought forth a flood of criticism.Another psmage which bas attreeted attention is the translation of the \u2018Gloria io Excelsis.\u2019 Instead of \u2018Glory be to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men,\u2019 the revised version has it: \u2018Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace among men in whom He is well pleased.\u2019 These two passages, perbaps, alone have decided the fate of the new version churches.\u201d We Jingo, (angrily).\u2014Look here ! European WEEKLY WITNESS, THE JINGO BULLY.ain't chucking any stones.Jingo, (furiously) \u2014Well, why don\u2019t you chuck \u2018em ?\u2014 Puck* \u2018What are you chucking stones at our flag for ?TO THE MAHDI'S CAPITAL.Rival European Armies rressing Forward Through Central Africa.- FRANCE'S DREAM OF A GREAT EQUATORIAL EMPIRE.(From \u2018Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times\u2018) In a recent letter to \u2018The Christian Herald,\" I called attention to ibe re- marksble career and achievsmoncs cf Count Nicholas de Lecce, whom Menelek, Negus ot Abyuminis, appointed last summer to the high position of Gov- ernor-General of the equatorial provinces oi Coral Atrios, 1 took occasion tu my | is incumbency of this post was destined to carve out for him a preponderant role in the future bistory of north.carter Africa.The situation there is) like & smouldering tire, and, judging hy the recent developments, a general blaze | may be looked for at any moment.Being in touch with several high offixais connected with the Ministry of the Colonies, I am enabled to give a fairiy actions.i My information desls principally with | the possible interference of France and Rusia with England's designs on Kbar- foum.After Sirdar Kitchener's occupation of Berber, the English military operations came to a sudden stmndmill.It was thea that the Moscow \u2018Gazette,\u2019 & semi-official Ruesian organ, announced that if the redeosts continued their march they would find themselves confronted at Kbartoum not with the Mahdi alone, but with the soldiers of the French Marchand expedition.It is the general be- lef in Continental diplomatic circles that this announcement decided the British Government to hurry up the preparations for the capture of the Mahdi's capi- he Moscow \u2018Gazette\u2019 told the truth.At this very moment not only the Marchand mission, but thet of the Bon- champs as well, the two baving operated their juncture nesr Pachoda, on the north of the province of Bahrel-Gazal, sre advancing by forced marches to Khartoum and Omdurman.They have been supplied with all the necessary provisions and equipments by another French party visiting the Onbarghi region, and will probably experience little difficulty in reaching their goad.Simul taneously with this, an Abyminimn force under the orders of à Frenchman is pushing forwerd to the same destination by way of the blue Nile, while numerous English exploring parties under Major Macdonald bave left Ugands, a British possession further south, on s trip to the Somali country, which borders Abyminia.Finally, the Mabdi himself has just occupied a strongly entrenched camp at Me- temmeh-Chendy in advance of his capl- tal, and is calmly aweiting events with the stoic recignation of o Mohammedan fatadiot ! If tbe reader will glance st the map of Eastern Africa, he will obtain some conception of the critical mature of the situstion and of the danger of « general conflagration.We are all more or lem fami'iar with the causes that led Great Britain to impose her tutelage upon Egypt and to, undertakes her war against the Mahdi.| The bloody tragedy of Khartoum, with the figure of that great Christian soldier, General Gordon, as à centre-piece, 16 vivid to the minds of many at present as # wea on the day when the news of his fearful murder reached civilisation.Subsequent attempts lo avenge him and plant the British flag upon the tattle.ments of the Dark City were long fol.Da peock appointed 0 be rad in, lowed by us with warmest symnathy, of genered conquest.The remembrance of the brave tchman's fate has had little weight in determining England'e present action in Lower Fgypt.As re- gerds France's interference at the pres ent moment light is thrown on this nhase of the affair by the statements which I have just read hy the Mahdi's special envoy to Constantinople, the Emir Roliman- Inger.Some of his remarks would tend to strengthen one's belief that it is always well to hear two sides of a story.We have listened to the white man's version for over fifteen years.Tlere is whet à swarthy Arab has to say on be- ha of the redoubtable Khalifa el Mahdi Abdullsh-Ali and bis warlike followers : \u2018That a solution of the Soudan question is only possible through a general European intervention, has always been to impress the Khalif+ with the fact that \u201cEurope in its entirety is not an enemy cf the Soudan\u201d 1 succeeded in my endeavors, proving to my master, firatiy, that the Sultan had never authorised the Soudan expeditions, under British control, and, secondly, thet the Egvp- tiene themeelves only attacked him because forced to do mo by the Enslish.I point.The Khalifa once \u2018urned on me with the words : \u201c Well.if you say that the Suan is our friend.why does he was ip thie ddemma thet I thoueht of an = appeal to Frence, which is more power.| ful than Turkey.The French unites \\frice, and St, Louis on the west.every reason for the French to enter the field in opposition to them.1 forth- wikh commenced Legotistions with the agents of the French Government on the following basis: France to help us secure our independence, to maintain which is all we bave ever fought for, and in return to receive as a gift from the Kba- to the right and wrong of the question, I can only add this : It is true that in the grest war against the predecessor of tbe present Khalifa, a very good and ous man, General Gordon, Jost his life.t was a mistake for us to bave killed him, even though be was an intruder.But why should we still be threstened with English attacks ?The pretest un- they desire to protect Egyptian territory aguinet our incursions.Yet we bave made no incursions, bave made no incursions for meny years; and we have In ettacking us, England is justifying ber occupation of Egypt.i of conquest.\u2019 s in the Soudan are the two historic dition to the Mahdists, will probably have the Abyminian army to draw upon.ing party was on its way to the Somali country.These regions lie south-east of Abyssinia and west of the equatorial provinces of Ethiopia, governed bv Count Leontieff.Their wild inhabitants will probably he gained over to the cause by Greet Britain, erpecially if Abyseinia sides with France, for the Somal:- have Negus.They are outright savages with june fetichism in ks most Jegrading fear.Let ue hope that they will con- \u201cmune tn enioy their pursuit bras without beine called upon by any \u2018white Velerian Grivayedofl, Paris, Dec.1, 1807.lms ee her hiavcle, says the London \u2018Christian World,\u201d in declared untrue, but of later years the whole question seemed to have degenerated from one of petributecy justice to thet of à scheme ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE.European Combination Against Them.SHOULD BE ANSWERED BY COMMERCIAL UNION.Edward Atkinson, the American pub licist and economist, bas addressed an interesting letter to the New York \u2018Evening Post\u2019 in regard to Count Goluchov- my conviction, consequentiy, T bave tried yki's declaration regarding tbe necessity of a combination of the European nations against the United States of America.Mr.Atkinson would apparentiy answer auch à combination Ly the commercial union of the Briush Empire and the United States.He writes: ister of roragn Aflaire, Count Goluchor- bad some difficulty, though carrying my \"KI, bas startled many persons.In it be proposes a union of Luropean states to meet the aileged destrucuve etlect of trans-Atlantic covering, not help us against the English * It therefore, Canada, as weil as the Unsed States, aud the Argentine Kepublic aso.'be iispending darger 0 kurope, while bave Not expressed, is, in fact, the domination every resson to oppose the British ad- of the Kngiuh-apeaking peopie in Loe nace in tbe Sondes, Deus of the Commerce or tbe werd fa my iter ia coveted Kngiend, which course wit economists an curate account of the present complice- « ET0 PT Eel with the Malisticans of Europe, at the recent Cape of Good Hope, cuts through the Meeting in St.Petersourg, [ could nee French trading route between the French ®mong them all the conviction that the port of Ljibouti on the Emst Coast of burden of militarism aid impenausm in It Germany and Lean of vureaucracy bein; : tion of the .in other countries could not be sustained ey 8 dearly he mention there Eve ! much Jouger, and that even the privileged must give way to the necessities of the people, or cise ther eflok to compete with Englaad and the Unsted States in the commerce of the world must fail.Eoglund of German competition in manufactures The whole case rests upon the : j Gazal t the adoption of an Engush 1n.lila the province of Bahr-el As vention, the Gilchrist-Thomas process of making iron aud sicel from previously worthless phosphoric ores, has for the time increased the power of Germany to build ships, manufacture à , develop arts which without the foundation of iron and steel at low cost would be impossible.That competition, affect ing Great Britian where the supply of A à i + steel ores is limited, has little influence der which the English advances, is tha: upon the United States.Grest Britain and the United States combined will continue to hold for all time the dominating and controlling position in iron and steel, never taken arms and in the construction of the mechanism u but in self-defence.lying at the foundation of all otger arts : campaign ich rest upon these metals.Te isa is well anderstood by ail continental econ- As on the Niger, on the West Coast, omits.rivals, England aod France, again con- téin which are recovered from the asie of froting rench, i .her manufactures are higher by far than each other.The F » in ad those of any other European country, and that the wages in this country are 1 have stated that an English explor- higher than those of Great Britain, while À \u201cahi tions is in their great armies and navies.often been at odds with the -ubisos of Had we a standing army and navy corre out the semblance of any civilizing influ- ; fh 1 _ of France and Germany, it weuld number nee.aod thelr religion is pure heathen 500.000 men or thersbort, \"Tha ia about form.They are hardy fighters and re- pd number of mea oocupied in our rail ; :way service.Our power of production markable elephant hunters, knowing no and our pomer of \"competition ray be .eu y this comparison, plus 900, {wild beasts 000 men gopied in distribution in thus \u2014~ réermi rotber \u2014 Country; minus , men among ne inate bis white b g7 samo number of people in Europe taken from the arts of production with all their euergy turned to the art of mutuel des The story about Queen Wilbe!mina and truction.It le enid [tinental nations to parcel out Asia and that she has not learned to ride ome, Africa, and to prevent Engh snd dos not appreve of cyclirg for holding what che has stained.What ladies.does that mean ?A recent speech of the Austrian Min- competition, by whom mufitarism is beid up Much has been said of alieged fear in and \u2018auat fact The fact that the wages in Great Bri- nding in ratio to our number to that Again, witness the urgency of the con- end from ternational people numbered twenty-one 17 many and of Frunce are dike te obtuin dominion over hess parts of the earth in order to hold the sole control of eom- marce\u2014ths old mediaeval idea which so tusted Edgland in her early bistory, bet does not actuate her now.Wherever the English fag is carried, equal oppor tunities are given.Bhe strives to benefit those whom she protects, and she dose not exclude other nations from a share in their commerce on even terms with herself.That is another cause of the bitterness and spite with which England fs regarded throughout the Continent.The jealousy and spite are now being turned toward ourselves.It behooves every man who studies the hidden causes of these movements to bear these fects in mind snd to besr himself in his publie and private actions so as to devote all bin energy to maintaining peace and com- THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE.(From the \u2018Westminster Review.\u2019) Theres is now no room for doubt thas the great international language of the future will be Laghsh.Tum this mag- pificent destiny awaited à bas been sus pected by many; but, as long se the prophets were themselves of that nation, the statement attracled little attention.Within the last few years, however, eign critice have comu to the same cos- clusion.'A hundred years ago,\u2019 says Mi chael Bernays, \u2018 Schiller wrote, \u201cOur ha guage shall the world command | \u201d but has the century which is now dra te a close verified this proud prediction Is it not rather the language of Shakespeare that is ever conquering fresh ground ?\u2019 Prof.Schroer is more emphatic still.His article has been already much quoted, but, as no one has laid down the case so judicially and systematically, it will be well to give some extracts.In advoeat- ing the compulsory teaching of Eaglish throughout Germany, he points out that the need of a universal language is very great.Artificial tongues, such as Vois- puk, are never likely to meet with gen eral acceptance\u2014for one reason, because they have no literature.\u2018Nor are they necessary, for a world language already exists; that is to my, a language which, by its extension over the whole globe.and by the ease with which it an be learned, has obiained such a footboid that nothing can prevent it becoming ia the near future the great means of in- communication.This language is English.\u2019 An evidence of ite ¥ growth .be points out timt in the begia- of this century English ning speaking while they n-w exceed s hundred and twenty five million.THE OLDEST RAILWAY GUARD IN GREAT BRITAIN.Mr.Benjamin Jeans was, until recently, a guard in the service of the Éd ris saa be bas © » is capacity he served over £ity-five years, having beer ap- poated a guard in April.1842.As he has, during that period journeyed seme two hundred miles, or ¢o, each day.Mr.MR.BENJAMIN JEANS.Jeans'a total amount of travelling reaches the enormous of some $0,000,000 miles.Thin would amount to about 100 times the distance round the earth.It would also be sboul seventeen times the distance from the earth to the moon, For a man to walk the sume distance at the rate of four miles an hour for twelve hours a day, he would require to keep it up for 230 years.Before being a guard Mr.Jeans was in the service of the Eari of Carlisle, as a valet, und it waa through the influence of this peer that he was appointed a railway-guard, thea considered a very exsited position.\u2014'St, the cost of all our staple products is less % 5 by the unit of product, in fully under James's Budewt, stood by all the astute rulers on Continent.They bave the aid and assistan-e ADVERTISEMENTS.of economists and etatisticians of highest = Pa 12 puming ail the face before À Beautiful Seiid Gold Ring, Set The weakness of these continental na- with Gen uine Barnet FREE! 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When we reached Bierra Madre, sfter | #0 long a railway journey that the time table had come to he regarded as a piece of sarcasm, Diogenes met us at the ata.tion.Diogenes is a Canadian, and that is not his name, but as he sets up to be a philosopher and came to meet us with | a lantern that glorious sunny morning\u2014 | @ tribute to my honesty\u2014he wus 80 dubbed instanter, and the name bas stuck to him.A short drive throngh | avenues shaded with peppertrees, euca- | lypti, palme and live oaks, brought us to the cottage that was to be our California home, « ewoet little place sun- smitten ail day long, ite verandub : gloomed with momingglories and climb- : ing roses and its carriage drive lined with | broad-leaved palmettos drawn up eol-: dierly ou either side, as though to keep ! in check the mob of orange and lemon ; trees that crowded the ranch.Here: in the golden sfternoon wus gathered « i party of reunited Canadians, and while ' the children romped in the gardea, pelting one anothor with roses and carns- tions or playing hide-and-seek behind banks of chrysacthemums, Diogenes and 1 talked of the long ago, and offered such incense of tobacco (brought from Canada) to the Manitou as would have made Barrie write a second volume in honor of \u2018My lady Nicotine,\u201d and have shamed the tribute of the Algonquine who guided Champlain beyond the Chau- diere Falla.After that October day we hunted bealth and killed time in Aresdis.Phyllis was not there, nor Strephon.except under less euphonious nemes and in more unromantic guise, nor did we ever spy a woodland nymph or hear the hoof of a satyr among the live oaks\u2019 gospelling glooms, Otherwise, it was Arcadis.The sun sauntered lazily through the sky, day after day, and let the seasons take care of themselves.The century.plant thought itself very energetic be cause it had bloomed cnce since the Declaration of Indepecdence, while the fluwern forgot time altogether, and blos- As @ health resort it la fast coming to the front, and ecems to merit its reputa- ion.Ita little cemetery does its best to prosper with the rest, but is not a success.It is a pathetic little God's Acre under the kindly shadow of the eternal hills.\u2018There are a few well kept graves and several costiy headstones, but these are the exception.Tomate cans usually do service as mortuary urns and flower pote, but as the weeds conceal them and the flowers as well, they are quite ss good as Carreras.The whole place is usually a blase of wild sunflowers, and honeycombed with gopher holes, while often the jack rabbit ur the cotton-tail sits, lost in reflection beneath its stupendous ears amid the | lonely graves .The epitaphs, when deciphered, are not cheerful.The young may die, but the old must, says Long fellow, and in any properly regulated cemetery youth finds comfort in reading that so-and-so died at eighty or ninety, and in finding that he stands a gould chance under the system of sverages of being able to revisit that cemetery many times yet before he forgets to return to the bustiing world.But our cemetery deals pot easily with this simple faith of the young.Here le, in the majority, those of our own age, stricken down before their prime, their ideals unsullied.their hopes unrealized.ere lie some whose history we learn, lonely strangers whom a broad buman sympathy has laid in the bosom of the eternal mother, far froin home and friends, some whose deserted and neglected graves bear mute testimony to the haste with which the nursing relative packed his or her trunk with one hand and closed the dead eves with the other, grief long since discounted in the early stages of the wearying malady and thoughts of home and relief and rest making welcome the close of the tragedy.When I was in Southern California ! wrote an article in which I stated that the country could not progress any faster without pulling the earth out of ite orhit, and that a man going hunting over waste lands in the morning, wes apt te lose his way on his return home at night among the orchards that had been planted on the same ground during the day.A California paper printed the article, but on second thought, and at this distance, 1 would qualify the statement, by admit.tig that the bustle of trade in and around Sierras Madre was not sufficiendy loud tc prevent my sleeping at night.Not that Sierra Madre was unenterprising.The place had a \u2018bus driver, in- somed the whole year round.There a\u2019 oo agent, : press correspondent, pri- thousand years were as a day, and a day | vate banker, real estate broker, news #3 a thousand years.The inhabitants | ygent, and so on.The only trouble was seldom knew the month and hardly ever that when this man went to town, busi- the date.Calendars are handy when pees languished until his return.He issory notes have to be renewed.| wu.ales agent for a firm of undertakers, rom Diogenes had one, and s> had I, but we | were never able to induce any banker to | allow us to put them to their proper and was in consequence interested in the progress of every invalid.He dis played great anxiety about my health use, and the only interes.we had in from the first, aud aithough we are fast keeping track of the date was connected friends, I feel that I dissppointed him with our remittances.No one «(ould by the rapidity of my recuperation.keep track of the days of the week in: Touting for trade, while the subject is this Arcadia, and Diogenes, who has & till alive, in not uncommon among deep reverence for the fourth command: Soutbern California undertakers.Cue ment, made it a rule not to work at ail.day a man came up our avenue while I Jest he should inadvertently break the yas up the verandah.Sabbath.\u2018How do you do?he mid, bowing.Physicians the world over send coñ-! Every one hows to us in the country \u2018sumptives to southern California, but! parte of California, whether they know they never scem to get there, At least.| us or not, just as they do in French there are none in Sierra Madre although | Canadian districts lt saves trouble of & good deal is heard about lung trouble.j No invalid dies there ; he does not even slip awa, like Drumtochty folk.Îis friends only say that he ix gone, and\u2019 shake their heads, fesring that, having gone farther, he may be faring worse.In the various sanitoriums time is plea santly spent swapping symptoms, and the man who has most in looked upon | with exceeding respect.Diogenes and | 1 secured nu fairly good reputation in this i direction hy the liberal use of a medical ; dictionary.It is truly wonderful how many symptoms can he got from an un- | abridged medical dictionary, assisted by a vivid imagination.There was, however, ono man in the place before whom we sank into irritating inaignif- eance.He had more diseases than a\u2019 civie hospital, and had a way of diaznos- ing rome fatal and insidious malady froma what his companions had mistaken for mans of robust health.If he slept well, | varçais was coming on ; if he slept ill, in days were numbered ; if he had a good appetite, there way a waste; if he ata but little, he was in the last stagra of momething awful.Diogenes and 1 could not hoast of a single symp- fom in his presence without being swamped \u2018with a list of his maladies.He wos dying more variously than any person we knew-and he is not dead yet.The mystery wna subsequently solved when we found that he religiously read through all the potent medicine advertisements of the Tos Angeles \u2018Times\u2019 | and we got to hating him ro for his symptoms that ver reed to wish he wonld take some of the remedics prescribed, and die a natural death\u2014that is, & natural death for such an idiot.Sierra Madre in an extensive hamlet on the slope of the Rierra Madr mountains, overlooking the fertile valley of Ren Gabriel.and about six miles from Pasadens and sixteen from Los Angeles, on the Kite-shaped Track, its station be- fox Santa Anita.It ie devoted to the cultivation of oranges, lemons, apricots, figs, grapes and the tuberculous bacillus.\u2018is flat, stale snd unprofitable, ! the kind of man I like to meet.one leaves his hat at home.I gave him good day and he came up the wteps, expatiating upon the view of the valley and mountains.Culifornians have the idea that the rest of the earth and it does not do to -try to undeceive them, unless one is the bigger man.After he hed heard my opinion, he said.\u2018Out here for your health, 1 suppose.\u2019 \u2018Yes 1 replied, \u2018ordered to a warm place, to escepe a warmer.\u2019 He laughed so hesrtily that I at once knew he was an agent of some kind.Agents can always see the point of a joke.But he quickly grew serious once more, and said, \u201cYou're cautious, you're shrewd, you're Now I'm eure you would like to bave some positive assurance as to your future comfort.I can give you that, at least, no far as your mortal remains are \u201concern- ed.I represent Messrs.Coffin & Graves, of Pasadena.Give me the date of your birth, and l\u2019il get the other details from your wife later.She can telephone when you die, and we'll have you in cold storage within forty minutes.And sey,\u2019 here he leaned confidentially towards me\u2014'If your wife gets her message in ahead of our regular agent here, we'll allow her the usual commission, of courme\u201d I told the man I would be deeply grieved to give my custom to any one cles ; to arrange for a first-class funeral, and to come back, in which event t would cheerfully supply the corpse.He did not seem at all pleased when he went away, and he never came back.Perhaps 1 looked too hemlthy.® When the twn or three livery hormes of whieh Sierra Madre could boast were engaged by luckier people, we walked, but that was seldom.The grades are too steep.There is not a level hundred yards within the town limits, and in many places one could step from one's sttie into @ neyghbor's parlor.Le wes THE MONTREAL the casieut thing in the \u2018world to drop a hint into a neighbor's ear, if one started is right, and as for scandal, & never stop- etween the highest house in the ierra and the lowest in the valley.But it climbed up just as easy, too, Everybody helped it along, they were 20 wool.able in Sierre Madre.and so kindly.Not being so active as scandal, we drove, and the drives were delightful.There was the Haldwin ranch to visit, where a fine racing stable rv kept, there was pretty Monrovia\u2014whoss lights glittercd fic turesquely through the night, thers was the San Gabriel Mission, with ile quant Mexican village, and last, but by no means least, there was Dasadens.the Crown of the Valley, home of millionnaires and one of the show towns of the state.If one cored for horseback riding, ® was to be had, and what could be ntore delightful than a cantar through shady avenues in early morning, while the birds were straiming their harmonious thruats to greet the sun, and the mists were bathing the towering bills or billowing in iri masses in valley beneath, for Sicern Madre, like Mohammed's coffia, hangs between heaven and earth, between snowy pesk and far-stretching plain.WEEKLY WITNESS.some; snd it is impossible to estimate the quantity of flowers that on thet dey were used to grace the tournament.We had never seen suything kke it, and Dover expect to again.Qur Arcadia wes not without the charms of sport.In the immediate vicinity and within sound of the dinner bell we had quail among the copees, jeck rahibits in the vineyards and washes, squirrels in the Live oaks, gophers in the wheat flekln, wild pigeons, blue jays, domestic cats that made night hideou an occasions] coyote skulking round t dhicken corrals and the infrequent tramp disposed to take of our valuables, Among the mountains, the wild cat crouched slong the branch, the mountain lion stole through the underbrush, the sheep clambered upon almost inaccessible crags and the grizsly lumbered along, covering the miles with an easy re.dity that was astonishing in ove of his wild.I did not hunt for him, having gone to Crlifornia for my health, and 1 was careful where 1 went to sleep.A man from Ventura, who went to sleep in the Sierra, woke to find that à grizzly bear had actually stepped across his body.He has alwaye boasted what he would have done had be awakened at of the driver and the sencessant creckling of hiv long whip.When all else failed we derével' vont siderable entertainment from the climate.California bas more weather in a day than Canada hes in a year, and Old Probe slwaye explains a failure in his predictions by the statement that his forecasts got mixed in the mails.It is to be understood that Californias extends through about ten degress of latitude to begin with, then it extends up and down about three miles, and altitude gives au great a variety as latitude.Further, the state in washed hy the Daciic on the west and dried by the American desert on the east.A man can select his own climate, and where we were he hse a variety of choice almost every day with: in walking reach.This is very embar ressing to à stranger.He gets up in the morning and perhaps happens to look into the valley which is overcast and full of fog, so he reaches for his waterproof and umbrella.By the time he has thus equipped himeelf, he looks at the moun- taina, and when he sees them covered with new fallen snow he rubs lis eyes and decides to wear an ulster and fur cap.When he gots to the front door in this guise, he sees the calla lilies and This magnificent peak, 10,120 feet in in the Southern California landsrape.utique manner.been many carnivals in various paris of the world, but to Pasadens alone be-: longs the honor of holding a nudswnmer carnival in midwinter, a tournament of roses on New Yesr's Duy, and we, with thoughts of Uanadian carnivals, sparkling with ice and sow, still treasured in our hearts went to see the Pasadena pageant.The drive of six miles to the town was entrancing.The birds twittered and rcse and settled in our path, the gophers scurried out of the way and an infrequent tare sat up palpitmmg behind the sage \u2018 brush, petrified by the thunder of in; numerable lioofs all trending towards; the one point.| The little town of ten thousand people: was a fairyland that day.Ite broad avenues, wheded with palms, eucalypti and peppers, overflowed with a riotous | terrent of flowers, in whose odorous and tinted billows the vehicles they adorned seemed swept along ws though overwhelmed by a mountainous wall cf; waters.The horses waded breast, and | even shoulder high in roses, the carrisge The double team is decorated with wheels were clogged with calla lilies.Mermaids, hesutiful as a dremm, rose, wreathed with smilax, and blossoins, from the som of flowers, their limome forms gleaming through the bitlows of) greenery crested with nunhow-tinted | foam.Mermen not inharmomiously blew horns dripping the universal sea.Here floated along some vest ark, ponderously magnificent, splashed to the eaves with! living color, there all Japan spoke from mymic chrysnthemums.Six-in-hands, tally-hos, fourinbands, spans, tandems and le vehicles abounded.and sll were à of flowers, There were bi eycles also, some à mass of moying blos- MOUNT SAN ANTONIO.of the year is one of the dominant figures and from Loe Angeles in winter is one of sititude, snow-capped three-fourths It is visible from almost everywhere; the moet exquisite sights in North America.\u2014 Land of Sunshine.\u2019 We celebrated New Year's day in an that interesting moment, but we noticed the » IY : There are and have [that he could now never sleep within the orange, and leon trees round «bout sight of a mountain.1 would have added blackbirds and tur- back to put on a linen, duster and sombrero, and by-and-by he comes home key buzzards to my hat, only that these with a cold in his head, having acciden- are sacred hirde in Californie.The tally wandered into a climate that takes blackbirds throng the busy streets of not kindly to linen dusters.In time the towns as numerous and as impec- he learns to wear heavy woollen under- tinent as the sparrows in Oamads.I do; wear all the year round.tent, there, would burs been or If a man stays at home he can enjoy t of eculiar we of shootin | the same climate for six months at a NE my he nel S- time, and the next six months is the the game in the neighborhood s00D twin brother of the first.When a San got to know me as a mild mannered gentleman of pacific intentions.Even: the Jack rabbits entered into the true; spirit of the sport, and one in particular would often sit on his haunches among the orange trees and hoist his ears for a! target.When a bullet passed near enough to suggers that I might be growing dangerous, he would shift his ground a few yards and 1 would have to try for: the range again by sighting a few shots on the barns or dintant mountains.The tenfant terrille,\u201d with fine sarcasm, always characterized my rifle practice as \u2018 banging the mountains.\u2019 - PASADENA\u2019'S FLOWER FESTI YEAR'S DAY, 1896.aT VAL, NEW pampas gram.\u2014 Land of Sunshine.\u2019 Not the least pleasing of our occupations, and one which, strange to say, never tired Diogenes or myself, consisted in lying beneath a spreading live oak vn some ranch and watching the orange gatherers ut work, swart Mexicans and yellow Chinese, under huge sombreros or washbowl hats of straw, who, pouch on shoulder and ugly knife in hand, reaped the juicy harvest that clustered oo thickly upon the trees that there seemed no; shadow under the boughs but only a blase | of sunshine.At hand huge waggons were drawn up with their teams of natient mules, or went lumbering down the slopes, laden with full boxes, to the cry Franciscan sees the sun he thinks he has discovered a comet, and the Los Angel- enian will write a column editorial and half a dozen sonnets on & shower of rain one could carry in a bucket.And the biggest newspaper in the southern counties will publish his efforts But 1 am not surprised at this.After one has lived some months in southern California, a vague dissatisfaction permeates his soul, and it finally dawns upon him that a continuity of fine days is monotonous.When, day after day, week in and week out, the sun shines, the flowers hicom and the birds sing, the stranger finds himeell praying for rain.Then he prays for snow, and as the Land of Sunshine continues to verify ita name, he gradually increases his demands until Ye in importuning heaven for hail, wind, cyclones, blizzards, tornados, waterspouts, cloudhursts, anything in fact which will afford a change of weather even at the expense of all his wife's relations.But, if he in wise, he will not confess this weakness to a Californian, During our sojourn a man was arrested in Los Angeles for beating his wife, nnd it came out at hin trial that he knocked her down with the family thermometer because she had complained that the temperature did not fall low enough in a California winter.Once, and once only, we had snow on the level, and it scarcely remained long.enough to permit » snowball to be made.That was on March 2 and 3, 1896, and the whole country turned out, including the governor of the state, to investigate the phenomenon.When we arose that morning the ground was dusted over with snow, and through the cool, snow.scented air every wind walt brought the heavy perfume of orange blossoms, The sky was overcast.(ireat clouds rolled down the mountain slopes, comity and going and changing shape every few min- uten, while through the otherwise quiet air, from some height above the clouds, wild geese were screaming discontentedly on their way seaward, Whenever the clouds lifted, there, on the bold summits of the Sierra, the snow lay piled, and in the canons back among the mountains \u2018 we heard the millen reverberation of thunder peals rolling like the sound of | some titanic drum calling to battle the | rowers of evil.The power of prose ia inadequate to do justice to the weirdness and beauty of tiie scene, and even the following attempt to describe it in verse falls far short of conveying the proper irapression : Jawcaar 4, 1898, A WINTER DAY IN TH ERRA.O'er the Sierre scarce the mnos yestre'sd Was sles, 10 Sod seal.sot Soak WIth we a Bre \u201ca cloud host through Lhe guety rorming 1 cra.Shesr canon walls be.They awepl, and hid bare lsdge and living Hoarse thunder peated frem unseen height to height, As though the vast hills boasted of thelr might, Though, Chaos\u2019 sell upon them meet! to ean, Dawn drew aside niglt's vell of mist, and came Acrces the hills.The clouds retired, ang lo! On oem wind awept crag, as Nay look- as 3 Bright Ir Lhe southern s'.nshiae gleamed thé snow, A vision uf the unforgotten North \u201cTwixt golden skies and poppy fields aflame.IN THR VALLEY, Snow om the hilis, but In the valley, Sow.ors, Popples aflame snd orange blooms whoss scent With the fatnt odor of the smow Is blent.Smow on the peaks, but in the canous, showers, And torrent drinkiug strength from stormy ours, geene wheal seaward through the clouds bail spent, Fleelug the snow and screamisg discom- tent But 1a the vale birds trill in odorsus bew- ors.Summer is In the vals, though is the heights \u2018The bandit Winter turka to seize hin prey, Sull springs the grain, vices grow and fruit deligb's Bun and Sone winds through many & gold- on day 1n many an Eden vslloy, nestling warm Below the stern Sierra, wrapped in storm.The enummer of southern California correaponds in ite effect with our winter.It is the fallow season, during which the 20il bakes aud brings nothing forth.The trees do uot sit in mckeloth, but they certainly don ashes enough to eat- isfy the greatest mourner at the wailing place of the Jews, till the whole country looks like a trump badly in need of soap.Even in winter there is an occasional Sant'Anna which aweeps up tha dust till it shrouds the hills and obecures the very sun, and that dust will remain floating in the atmosphere for several days, vithout, however, affecting the lunge.her north, in Utah, we heard of a similar storm which so coated the telegraph wires and poles with salt tha hose reel had to be called into requisition .A common error concerning the California summer is that it is unendur- ably hot .The story is often told of the bad Californian who died, and aiter a day or two in the place mudern theology does not believe in, sent back for his blankets .Californians tell that story, but they tell it is a man from Yuma, Arizona, where, it 1s ssid, the hens lay hard-boiled eggs in winter.From what I couki gather about the California summer, the thermometsr in entirely to blame.It persists in trying to make ple believe it is overworked.In this climate, even in winter, I have known it go up to a hundred and twenty, when the licat was really no more appressive than it would be at Montreal with the thermometer at eighty, Heat out there is not oppressive, but pleasant, if somewhat encr- vating.One just wante to lie out aud scak in it.| do not mean perspire, for that is & rare phenomenon .And if one feels too hot he has only to go around the house into the shade, and put on an overcast.(Mten one might ee a man go down the sunny side of a airest in Los Angeles with his coat over his arm, while on the opposite side hin friends were wearing overcosts.At sundown the man who has no overcoat is lie to perish with cold, These pe.culinritien of climate explain why ladies are to be seen dressed in mualins and with gay sunshades, while around their necks are twined huge furs It vaine about à fortn off and on, during the winter or rainy season.Then from the middle of May to the end of October there is never a cloud in the sky.Once in a dozen years a ection of the Pacific Ocean that has lost its way runs up against a Sierra peak.and there in à rloudburst.One such visited Sierra Madre in 188, It dropped in for five minutes, and hy that time the main stret was a foaming torrent flowing breast high.One man told me that he had not meen much an active movement in real estate since the boom.Mountain property that even the boom could not sell was carried down and turned into town lots.He himself had everything clean washed off his land except the mortgage, and that, he said.he had to liquidate himself.The canons were roaring siuices, filled to the brim with whitling whitecaps that bore down everything lefore them, even vast trees and huge boulders, and plaughed across the country rorde, cutting deep trenches, And to make matters worse, the poet of tha Los Angeles \u2018Times\u2019 came out simultaneously with & poem in blank verse, beginning\u2014 Drop, rente dews, from heaven til the mirth- Ful earth is moved with an ecstatic thrill.He who imegince that bemuse two nations speak lic mame language, they must of necéaity go hand in hand, like loving children, through the worid has never read the history of Greece, and kirows nothing of the real feeling which the United Staten entertains towards England end Canads.We were in California during the Venezuelan trouble, and the Lest I can eay for the wpirit of the United Statesians is that those who do not hate us, bave no more love for we than they have for Germans, Turks or Fiji Islanders.Our one terror was that the editor of the Los Angeles \u2018Times,\u2019 a mild mannered, kindly gentleman in private life, would leave his sub-editor to atrend to the ferociom editoriale against all things British, and girding on his sword again, make a descent upon Sierrs Madre, and butcher ue cue snd all.He ve would have bad some diffoulty, bow- aver, for the Canadiane were in pretty strong force there, while the entire Sete could, and would, have afforded s thousand years hes braved the end the breeze.There is not, in Californian in California, or, st they are very scarce.Hess gather there ia honey, and tho state is dwewd down-essters, canny Scotchmen, stalwart (hinese, quaint Jepaness, Eng- lisbmen and Cansdisna.If the flood were repeated, and California spared, the races of man would not lack represents tion.Une cannot thvow a stone anywhere in Culifornia without hitting a Canadian.À Canadian bas been mayor of los Angeles, a Canadian has been nt of the Chamber of Commerce the sume city, a Canadian is at the bead of several ruilwaye, and he has Canadian brakemen and conductors under him.There are Canalian phyei- cans, cugineers and ranchers.1 have met Canadian cowboys.The Brith vice-consul is a Torontonian.Ontario, the model colony of the sate, was founded by Canadians, they throng Hedinde and Riveemido, and in one town they elected a Canadian mayor and board of aldermen, as a protest agmnst the tail- twisters.The only place I did not find a Canadian was in guol, bat I think Diogenes will rectify that if he keeps on.They do not really speak English in California.\\Vhen people go there first, they cull a burro a donkey, but when they have resided thera a while they call à donkey a burro, realising the value of foreign words in cultured speech.Bince we have returned I am always, quite inadvertently, calling a heres a broucho; 1 have ceased to canter, and now lope; every back yard is a cor ra), and garden a ranch.We no longer water our flowers, we irrigate them, and 1 never borrow a quarter, though 1 sometimes strike @ friend for two bits.In this way my friends know I have travelled.A few days before we loft, Di- ogencs came to me and said, that as J was going, he had no longer an incentive to be idle.and eo had gone to work.I srkod him what kind of work he was doing, and he esid he \u2018was à solicitor.\u2018A what!\" T ead.\u2018A solicitor.\u2019 \u2018How much did you pay for your de 7 \u2018Nothing.I just made up my mind I would like the work.\u2019 \u2018Your usual modesty.Because you manage to keep out of gaol, you fancy you know something of law.\u2019 \u2018Who said anything about law,\u2019 he eried, indignaatiy, \u2018I'm going to oeil bicycles.And then I learned that in California a canvamser is a solicitor.Our Arwdia was not without ita myths and legends, 1s oracles and seers.One can beet arrive at the vices and vir tues of a people by reading the advertisements in Lhe daily press.The people may indignantiy repudinte a charge of superstition or gullibility, but if the papers are filled with fortunetellers\u2019 cards and patent medicine and specialist advertisements, il is not because the ad- vertiners are eager to add to the revenue of the pres.The columns of the southern California press are filled with such tlings.Then there is alwaye à column devoted to business chances, some of the largaine offered being truly generous.Ome 1 remember was an offer of a half dollars per month.had braved #t out a fortwight, he might have been his own partner.BRITISH WARS.SIR HENRY HAVELOCK KILLED.Calcutta, Dec.30.-Colonel Sawyer, commanding the British forces at Fort Ali-Mesjid, telegraphs :\u2014'On learning that Sir Menry Havelock-Allan bad left his escort and had not been seen since, a search was organized.He rode a reatless horse, and might have been thrown near the camp.The search, however, resulted in finding the horse stripped and shot, amd next day the mutilated body of General Sir Henry Have Jock-Allan was found snd conveyed to Peshawar.Sir Henry Havelock-Allan is the commander of the Royal Irish Regiment, und left England recently to investigate charges of cowardice and insubordination duri the campaign that have been brought against tiie regiment.He was born in Bengal in 1830, His father was the celebrated gencral, Sir Henry Have Teck, the hero of Cawnpore and Lucknow, during the Indian mutiny.He is the first baronet, though the baronetcy was conferred on his father, who died before receiving it.He served in the Persian expedition, 1856.7, and was with his father in the campaign against the rebels in Oude.In 1880 he assumed by reyal license the additional surname of Allan.From 1874 to 1891 he sat as member of parliament for Sunderland, Lut resigned hin seat to assume the com- nund of a brigude at Aldershot, In 18% he was elected member for Durham (South-enstern division).He married Lady Alice Moreton, dsughter of the Earl of Ducie.*THE BODY FOUND.Calcutta, Dec.31.\u2014The mutilated body of General Sir Henry Havelock-Allen, it pli is announced from Fort Ali-Mesjid, bas been found and is being conveyed to Peshawar.London, Mec.28.\u2014-A despatch from war says: \u2018The British columns heve returned from Khyber Pass, punishing with slight opposition the Za Khels in the Valley.Military operations oa the frontier ére now con- a hatte ++ BXTRENB NERVOUSNESS.The Usual Outcome of Too Little Blood\u2014Sufferers Often Brought to the Verge of Insanity.(From ¢he Bmith\u2019s Palle \u2018 News\u2019) Many cases bave been reported of bow invelgs who had eutfered for yours, and whoss cases bad been given up by the attending physician, have Laven cestored to health and vigor through the now wurid{atned medicine, Dr, Wiliams\u2019 Pink Pils, but we doubt if there is one more startling or couvineme than that of Miss Elizabeth Minshull, who resides with ber brother, Mr.Thos.Minshull, of thie town, sn employee in Frost & Wood's Agricultural Works.The \u2018News\u2019 heard of this remarkable case, and mestine Mr.Min- shull, asked him if the story was correct.He replied :\u2014* All I know is that my sister had been given av incurable by two physiciaus.Khe is now well enough to do any kind of housework, and can go and come es she poases, and this change has, it is my honest convie- tion, been brought about by the use of Dr.Williums' Pink Pills\u2019 0dr.Mio- shull then related the following story Lo the \u2018 Nows\u2019 :\u2014\u2019 My sister ia twenty years of aga.Bhe came to Canada from England about ten years ago, and resided with a Baptist minister, Rev.Mr.Cody,\u2018 at Sorel, Que.In April of 1806, she took ill and gradually grew vorse.She was under a local physician's care for over five months.The doctor said that she | slate and a local physician was called in to see her.He attended her for some! time, but with poor results, and finally acknowledged that the case was one which he could do very little for.My sister bad by this time become s pRiable object : the slightest mise would disturb her, and the slightest exertion would almost make her insane.It required some one to be with her at all times, and often after a fit of extreme nervousness she become unconscious and remain in that state for hours.When T went home ! had to fake my boots off at the doorstep 60 as not to dis turb her.When the doctor told me he could do nothing for her, I conmulted with my wife, who had great faith in Dr.Wil- liama\u2019 Pink Pills, as she knew of several cases where they had worked wonderful cures, and I concluded à would do no harm to try them anvway, end mentioned the fact to the doctor.The doe- tor did not oppose their use, but mid he thought thev might do her good, as they were certainly a mood medicine, In Reptember of last vear she began to use the Pille, and before two boxes had been used.she began to show viens of improvement.She han continved their use since, and is todwy @ living teati.mony of the curative power of Dr.Williams' Pink Pills.BLOOD THIN AND POOR, Mrs.John O'Connor, Broed Cove, N.8., makes the following statement :\u2014' I had been œuffering from what the doctors call general debility.My blood was thin and poor.I had constant, end et times violent, pains in my hips and knees, and frequently passed sleepless nights.had tried several remedies said to he sure cures, but without success Then \u20ac lady friend, who wes very enthusiastic concerning Dr.Williams\u2019 Pills, urged me to try that medicine.1 used several boxes before I found much benefit, then the change came amd I epeedily recovered.The pains left me.I could sleep and cat well, and am quite strong and hearty.It in now more than six monthe since I used the pills, and have not been sick a day since I stopped taking them.T am now quite ss enthusiastic over this medicine as my friend was, and will always recommend it.\u2019 INSOMNIA CURED.Mr.Wm.Thomas, à teacher of vocal music, well known throughout Eastern Ontario, says :\u2014'1 was greatly troubled with insomnia, and for over two vears 1 believe I existed with less slvep than any other individual ever did.The strain on my nervous system was something terrible, and each day found me less able to perform my duties.My digestion was impaired, my complexion was sallow, appetite very fickle, and ty whole condition one of the most unenwiable.I had tried many remedies without evail, sad finally, 2s \u20ac result of ing so much about them I decided to try Dr.Wil cluded.Every Afridi and Orakzal val: ley has been visited.\u2018It now appears that the enemy's lose has been more severe than was at first believed, and out of all proportion to its possible fighting strength.Their trade with our centres for the necessaries of life has been closed and their autumn tillage prevented.The complete submission of the Orakzais is now accom- ished.\u2018Many hitherto unknown strategic! frontier routes have been surveyed and map| out.The vaunted prestige of the Afridis has been lowered, and their punishment has paved the way for the nent settlement of the country.It THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS ¥ ADVERTISEMENTS an Pink Pills, put up LIKE TH or it is of no use.by return mail \u2014postage paid.liam\u2019 Pink Pilla.In the course of a few wosks it was plainly manifest that they were belpitg me.IR took some months to restore my old time health, but Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills did it.and I am now feeling like a new man.When night's rest.I have a good appetite, I good digestion, and a general feeling of renewed heakh, for sll of which I am deeply grateful to Dr.Willams\u2019 Pink Pille ST.VITUS\u2019 DANCE.Me.Jacob Suy \u2018er, jr., of Bloomingdale, Ont.aays :-About three years ago, Adeline Webber, aged eleven years, an of St.Vitus\u2019 Dance.At first we did not reslise what the trouble was, but as she was growing worse we consulted « ter, but did nit seem to help her.In then consulted another doctor under whose care she remained for about a year, and although he was very attentive, she was steadily growing worse.Her limbs became mo unsteady that she could not walk, and she had wasted away to s skeleton, and we had no hope of her recovery.One day while in conversation with Mr.Martin Simpeon, of Ber.kn, he told me that a daughter of hin who had suffered in the rame way had been cured by Dr.Willams\u2019 Pink Pills, and advised that they be tried.After she had used two boxes there was con- sideruble improvement, and after the use of four boxes more, all the symptoms of «he dimense had left ber, and from that time she steadily regained her for international friction resulting from the operations will prove almost as severe « punishment as the operations themselves.\u201d DERVISH POST CAPTURED.London, Dec.30.\u2014A despatch to the \u2018Times\u2019 from Kaseals mays :\u2014After six days of siege and heroic defence, the dervish post of Osobri has fallen.Many of the dervishes were killed and the remainder of the garrison fled, leaving all their property behind.\u2014\u2014 SUMMARY.Brmly believed that, cut off from India and threatened with a reinvasion of .their conntry in the spring, they will now submit.It is also expected that \u2018the J ; À British Columbia's Legislature #6 summoned to meet on Feb.10.Baron Charette, Baron Lambert, Comte than by any other means.The wrapper is always printed in red ink on white pager.If your dealer does not keep them, so cents a box or $2.50 for six boxes to I retire to my bed I am sure of a good orphan adapted by us, showed symptome ! doctor, who told us what was the mat-| fact, she was growing worse and her; limbs twitched and jerked terribly.We.2.2 f° Too Little Blood.Too little blood! That is what makes men and women look pale, sallow and languid.That is what makes them drag along, always tired, never hungry, unable to digest their food, breathless and palpitating at the heart after slight exertion, so that it is a trouble to go up stairs.They are \u201cAnzemic,\u201d doctors tell them ; and that is Greek for having \u201ctoo little blood.\u201d Are you like that ?Are your gums pale instead of being scarlet ?Pull down your eyelid\u2014is the lining of it bloodshot and pale?That is where \u201ctoo little blood\u201d shows.More anemic people have been made d women by in packages IS gE mer strength.Her case seemed to us « desperate one, and we believe thet had it not been for Dr.Williume' Pink Pills, she would not hmve recovered.\u2019 Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills CURE em.Rheumatism, Sciatica.Locomotor Ataxia, Anaemia, Heart Troubles.Indigestion and Dyspepsia.St.Vitus\u2019 Dance.\u2018gq Paralysis, Incipient Consumption.Ali Female Weakness.Dizziness and Headache.And all Troubles arising From Poor and Watery Blood.PALE TIRED AND LISTLESS.Miss Eva Hodgson, a daughter of Mr.Wm.Hodgeon, a well-known farmer lv- 'ing near Proton Station, Ont., is another de Lupe and other prominent Royaliste have issued a manifesto protesting agnine: the Duke of Orleans's abdication, A tidal wave from the southerly gale, swept up the river Bheboygan, Wis, Dec.31, and closed out the yesr by smashing several schooners tied up at the docks.The belief prevails at Madrid, Spain, that the departure of United States cor- i respondents from Ouba means that pesce is about to return to the much harmed island and wertired people.Manitoba teschers have probably received some satisfaction over the an- mouncement that hereafter no teachers rs i / strong, energetic, hungry, cheerful men Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills for Pale People They are the finest Tonic in the world ; they have cured more people than any other medicine, but you must get the REAL Dr.Williams\u2019 or tries to persuade you to take something else, send the price, the Dr.Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, and get the genuine of the many young girls who owe health and strength to the use of Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills.She mys: \u2014 \u2018My illness came on very gradually, shortness of bresth after the smallest exertion, being the frst symptom 1 noticed.Then 1 became very pale, was attacked with a pain in the side and a hacking cough.At; i first only home remedies were used, but ss they did me no good a doctor was consulted, and I was taking bis medicine i I did not derive any getting weaker all the time.in in my side grew more severe, end I wasted away almost to a skeleton.this stage a friend strongly advised to try Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pilla.By time 1 had used three boxes I could an improvement, and then I began Min steadily in health and strength.took the Pink Pille for a couple of months longer and at the ead of that time was complately cured.1 consider Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills à blessing to suffering humanity and will always strongly recommend them.\u2019 Dr.Williams' Pink Pills MAKE RICH, RED BLOOD Rich, Red Blood Makes Strong, Healthy, Energetic, Men, Women and Children.ET \u201cs will be engaged in that province whe have not secured à certificate in Manitoba, after smamination.Sir Adolphe Chapleau.Lieut.-Governor of Quebec, hes given his state dinner at Spencerwood, Quebec, and leaves the chair of state and political life for the present, at the same time.He disclaime resentment to any person, snd hints that the activity cé his rature might again car- ty him into political life.Princeton students are ordered by the board of trustees of the faculty aot to bring or cause to be brought into collage or into their rooms any spiritwous or farnented hiquore; and they are not : Among those who bave bess its victims ow Bave suffered more than Mr.G.W.n, now proprielor of a flourishing bakery in Hampton, but for à number of yoars a resident of Pontypool, where his severe illness oceurred.To a report.»r who interviewed him Mr.Coos gave the following particulars of bis great suffering and ultimate cure: \u2014 Some seven or eight years ago,\u2019 said Mr.Coom, felt @ touch of rheumatiam, At first did not pay much attention to it, but it was steadily growing wores I began to doctor for it, but to no effect.The trou ble went from bed to worse, until three Even from my sides, and my wife was obliged to cut my food and feed me when I felt like eating, which was not often considering the torture I was urdergoing.My hands were swollen out tight! legs and feet were also swollen, and I could not lift my foot two inches from the floor.I could not change my clothes and my wife had to dress and wash me.I so thin I looked more ke a leton than anything else.The patn I suffered was met past endurance, and I got no rest either day or night.I doctored with many doctors, but they did me no good, and some of them told me it was not - eeper ab .gave me a box of Dr.Wil.liame\u2019 Pink Pills, and urged me to try them.T did so somewhat reluctantly as I did mot think any medicine could a third box was finithed there was longer any doubt of the im they were making in my condition, before I had uaed three boxes more began to feel, In view of my former condition, that | wan growing quite strong, and the pain was rapidly subsiding.From that out there was à steady improvement, and for the first time in lcnæ weary years, T was free from pain, snd once more able to take my place among the world\u2019s workers.1 have not now the slightest pain, and T feel LE Mrs.W.Goodwin, Argyle sayw:\u2014\u2018After the birth of my T was in poor bealth.attended me for a long time, but I got no better.Then a friend advised me to try Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink pills.Acting on this advice, T bouabit a supply and continued their use uutill my health waa fully restored.I am sincere in eaying that T believe that Dr.Willams\u2019 Pink Pills saved my life.\u201d CONSUMPTION OF THE BLOOD.Mme.J.N.Gordon, Cataraqui, Ont., mye: \u2014'If J could not bave got Dr.Wil- Jiams\u2019 Pink Pills, I do believe 1 would not be in the land of the living.J had wat one of my physicians-for T tried à number\u2014c:lled consumption of the blood.I win wasted away to a shadow, and my \u2018hands were literally transparent, Thad a hacking cough, could not sleep and could scarcely eat.Doctors having fafled to help me.] determined to try Dr.Williamns® Pink Pille, end was soon gratified to find that they were heiping re.1 continmed their use for several months, and am thenkful to say that they have fully re stored my health.I consider Dr.Wil- Mises\u2019 Pink Pills » blessing to humanity.\u2019 to frequent any place where intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage.The Hon.Dr.Borden, Minister of Mill- tin, is to leave for Canada on Jan.12.Is in not certain that the Canadian Milit's will be included in the gift of the long- service medal for volunteers, open to the British volunteers, but Dr.Bordes fe seeking that thie should be granted.Floods have caused damage im the Northern Pacific Ruilway Company's tere tory near Seattle, and severm! persons have been drowmed and etook destroyed in the Upper Cowlits and Tilton River Valleys Traffic between Tacoma and Portland, Oregon, bas besa swmpended because of the washewts and landalides i Major Walsh's Position at the Klondike and the Food Supply.LATEST FROM MAJOR WALSH.Ottawa, Dec, 20.\u2014A letter from Inspec tor Wood at S8kaguay, dated Dec.18, was received by the Comptroller of Mounted Polios to-day.The hotel mea there, be says, are hard put to find accommodation for the people crowding into Ska- guay.The weather there is described as \u2018awful.\u2019 Words will not describe the state of the White Pas trail.Heavy frosts and thaws alternating have made à one glare of ice, which the snow covers to tus depth of a foot or more.Bix constables started to take over some forty-pound toboggans to Bennett.They would, with great labor, reach the top of one of the numerous hills on this trail only to slide back at a breakneck pace to the bottom again.Finally the inspector loft the trail and took to the ice on the Skaguay river, but found it very dangerous, open water in some places and thin ice in others, and very rough where the ice was sale.Constable MacNair went through into the icy water.Creepers were procured next day and the toboggans taken to the summit.Un Dec.18 it was raining in torrents at Skaguay.Speaking of the dithiculties of travel, Inspector \\Voods says, \u2018Every day men frem Dawson are arriving here on foot, having abandoned their aleighs because they could not get through with them.\u2019 \u2018They all report to the same effect, namely, that from eight to ten miles of the lower end of Lake ljennett is still open, though tbe upper end is frozen sold The lower end of Lake Labarge is open and also of Marsh lake.Thirty Mile river is quite open but the ice in the Hootalinqua was commencing to jam and it will soon freeze over.This report is from a man who left the Hootalinque ou Dec.8.Mr.Piche was aul at White Horse and could not proceed, sithough he bas only two dog teams with him, and bas two indians to help him.Mr.J.D.McGregor, government inspector of mines, às still at Bennett, although i He writes où 3 the open water on rafts, but, as he says, even that will not belp him much as oth.ar lakes and rivers are opan, and if be to build rafts very often he would be too late to be of much amsiswmnce to Major Walsh, whom he is following with bores \u2018Major Walsh writes me that he has enough retions with him to last his party six montha In a letter dated Dec.à, received to-day from Oaptain Harwood, \u201cThe work done by the government expedition so far is bearing good fruit.Jo- spector Wood says: \u2018Since I last wrote about fifteen men have arrived here from Dawson over the Bkaguay trail (White Pass).A good many say that had it not been for assistance received from the po- Keo detachments they could not have reached here as their food supplies ran short on the road.\u2019 Mr.A.McNab, secretary of the Prince Albert Board of Trude, is sending out a map, and full desariptive letters from ishop Pascal and others, setting forth the advantages of the route to the Yukon from Prince Albert.Bishop Puacal'e letter is as follows :\u2014 Bishop's Palace, Prince Albert, Dec.3, 1807.\u2018To Mr.F.C.Beker, for the Prince Atbert Board of Trade : * Dear Sir,\u2014You have expressed a wish to know my opinion as to the best route to follow in order to resch the celebrated gold mines on the Klondike.Here nt While waiting until the milway companies, with the assistance of government, open a direct line across the ile valley of the Saskatchewan to Peel river {let us say, for exemple, le Prairie, Yorkton, Prince River, Jackfish Lake, Vic- Athabasca Landing, Little Slave River, Liard River and Peel ile awaiting this railway, which impending, 1 do not hesitate to that in my opinion\u2014end I be to be the true one, the most com- le, the direct, and the most is thet which the hand of vidence has traced, and which owed for a century by the HIER Li i JE if ils 3 tilt t ES xF cK enzie.Taking Regina for e starting point we may go to McMurray by two routes, one via Prince Abert, Creen Lake, Porlage la Losche, Clearwater River, ad, Me- Murray; the other vin Calgary, Fdmon- ton, Athabeeon Tanding and McMurray.On leaving MdMurray the trevetier is lerne down stream as far as Peel river, without effort, without danger, and without difficulty.Everywhere on his rond he will meet with Hudson's Pay Company posts, and missionaries willing te render service and who inculcate char ity ; balf-breeds and Indiana realy to serve ae guides and facilitate his voyage without being too exorbitant.Besid-s Lake Athshescs snd the Gres Slave, - guay on Jan.15, but the minister has , there is the portage of Fort Bmith, hundred and forty miles below Lake Athobaecs.This portage is eighteen CANADA'S GOLD.miles in Jength, and Wm be by weg ons of carriages drawn by horses or oxen.Starting from Regina you will ask 100 which is the best route to reach Me- Murray! In it via Edmonton er vis Prince Albert and Green Jake?I confess, dear ar, that 1 should pier Prince Albert and Green Lake.-e are my reasons: This route is direct everywhere, and is shorter by about three hundred miles; it presents not the least danger, and is exceedingly cheap, It te by thie rosd that the Hudson's Pay Company has tranmmitted £a goods for seventy-five years to provision its trading posts on the Athabasca and Me Kenste.The company would still continue to do so bad not 4he develonment of its commerce compaNed it to utilize the Calgary & Edmonton Railway end to construct a steamer on Athabasca river.AH those who have sacended or des cended the River Athabasca have Te tained a souvenir of the difficulties and dangers to which they were exposed in descending the impetuous torrent.When the waters from the mountains swell the river, as happens two or three times each Spring.Live waves are enormous, aad one blunder might cost you your life, Tt iy better to avoid the repids The guides, who at such times hold the fate of the traveller in their hands, occasionaÏly show themaslves exorbitant and dishonest.In autumn, when the water is low, the bed of the rapide is strewn with rocks and shoals.necessitating, in such cases, the portaging of goods, end ecca- sioning much lou of time.Hesides Grand Rapid.which resembles the key of the country to the north, the travel ler has yet to pass nine more rapide, some of them several lee in \u2018math, in which there is great = of Joss of life and property.These reasons alone, to may nothing of economy and mving of time, decides my opinion in favor of the route via Regina, Prince Albert, Green Lake, Isle a Ja Crosse, Portage ln Losche, Clearwater River and McMurray.As I have already mid, this route presents no danger, is direct, very pleamnt, and fs like a pleasure trip.The essential point is to have a boat at Green Lake prepared beforehand so as to gain time.Such, my dear sir, is my bumble opin- jon, based up~n my numerous voyages by each of these routes during the twenty.four years I have resided in the North- West, sixteen of which were passed fn the missions on the Athabesce and Mc- Kenzie.Accept, dear sir, my best ealutatins (Signed) ALBERT PASCAL.OMI, Vie.Apost.de Saskatchewan.Capt.J.M.Smith, ope of the other correspondents with the Prince Albert Board of Trade, who is an old Hudeon Bay Company's servant, describes the two routes very graphically, from diaries kept at the times of his journeys, and he concludes his letter by stating: \u2014 \u2018This is by al means the poor man's route to the Klondike, aXbough I am will of the opinica that gold in equal if not greater quantities will be found east of the Rockies and along the entire line of this route.\u2019 Washington, Dec.20.\u2014Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn to-day presented the Hon.Clifford Sifton, the Canadian Minister of the Interior, to the President.Mr.McKinley greeted Mr.Sifton with cordiality but did not discum with him in any manner the object of his visit.Later Mr.Siftoa took lunch at the British embassy.He had an engagement to meet Secretary tiage at thres o'clock on business concerning Canadian relations, after which Mr.Meiklejohn will present him to Secretary Bliss, if the latter should return in time from New York.Later in the day he will see Secretary Alger and at this conference it is expected some conclusion may be reached regarding the facilities Canada will extend the expedition for the relief of the miners in the Kiondike country.RELIEY MEASURES TAKEN.Washington, D.C., Dec.30\u2014The ar rangement effected by Mr.Sifion, on behaif of Canada, and the War Depart ment, coniemmplates that the relief expedition shall be executed joinily by the United States army and a force of Mounted Police of Canads, which constitutes the military arrangements of the Dominion.The United States force will proceed with th: stores to Bkaguey, where they will be joined by the Mounted Police, about forty in number, and the two forces will then proceed to the points where the relief is to be distribut ed.The determination as to Skaguay, however, is still open.The Canadian officials concede much latitude to the American authorities in the actual distribution, recognizing that the expedition is fitted out on this side, although a considerable portion of its work will be dcne on the Canadian side of the border.No duties will be unposed on the stores carried by the relief expedition.Mr.Sifton says that the only prectic- able route to Dawson City ie what is known as the White Pass, or commonly called the Lake routs, commencing et Skaguay, on Lynn Canal.He stated that Canada has eighty-five men in the territory, and expects to have fifty more at Skaguay on or before Jan.5.They have twenty tons of supplies now stored at Skaguay for transportation over the puss, to which will be added ten tons more.The Canadian suthorities have a post at Lake Bennett, another at Tagish, nt which latter place twenty men are wtationed; another post at White Horse Repids, and two posts intervening between the latter point sud Fort Selkirk.Lt ie the intention of the Canadian Goverment to have » detachment of two hundred and fifty men in the terri: tery within the next thirty days.This detachment will be ready to Jeave Ska- kindly consented to hold the expeditica that & mar socompany the expedition of the War Department, which will (h// 7 A 4 ij A ihe The ena Gan THE ADVANCE IN THE SOUDAN.A FEAT OF FORSEMANSHIP BY À SHEIKH OF THE AMARA TRIBE AT SUAKIN.The special artist of the London \u2018Graphic\u2019 writes from Buakin: \u2018I bave just had an opportunity of witnessing some remarkable fests of horsemanship by a splendidly built Sheikh of the Amara tribe.ing chain mail and mounted on a flue Dongola horse.He sent the animal at full He was clad in a coat of glitter- towards a knot of spectators, and when within a yard or so of them.suddenly checked it.The horse reared into the air amid a doud of dust, while the rider whirled his sword like lightning round his head.leave Skaguay on or before Feb.1.The Curadian Government has kindly consented to grant escorts to the Ameriean expedition, provided that co-operation canrot be consummated.STRAP OIL JUSTICE.Revival of the Whipping Rod for Bad Boys in Indiana.Evansville, Ind, Dec.28.-The old whipping post has been resurrected in Evansville, and the wail of the youthful offender is heard in the Indians town.Unlike the system of punishment still in vogue in the State of Delaware, however, Fransville\u2019s whipping post is re served solely for the eastigation of incorrigible boys.And, instead of the sheriff or his deputy administering the flogging, that duty devolves upon the sire of the youthful culprit.Judge Winfrey, of the Police Court, is responsible for again bringing into active use an a)- most forgotten custom.The judge is ap ardent advocate of the woodshed and the pattering shingle reminiscent of his own youth, and he is chuckling to himself over the success of bis recent innovation.For some time he has been puxsled what to do With the youngsters brought before him, bad boys, indifferent to parental control\u2014who were under arrest for malicious trespassings and other offences cf like nature.Usually the parents of tlie defendants were poor, and compe!ling the father to pay à fine because of the misdeeds of mn unruly boy struck the judge as a hardship.ly, it oe curced to him that an old law permitting law-breakers to be flogged st the whipping post had never been repealed.\u2018The very thing,\u201d be thought.So at his sug gestion s cell in the rear of the city prison was fitted up as & modern chamber of inquisition.A post was erected, supplied with manacles for the hands of the victim, and s stout strap completed the outfit.The cat-o\u2019ninetails was deemed too severe by Judgs Winfrey.The wis- dem of Solomon, \u2018Spare the rod and spoil the child, appealed strongly to him, but he also believes, with a certain female lawyer of Venice, that justice should be tempered with mercy.Bo « single strap was deemed sli that was necessary.After a boy is found guilty of misdemeanor he is confined in a cell until paterfamilies can ba found.In due time the father presents himself at the bar of justice, and ls given his choice of three courses.[Either he must pay a fine and costs, eee his heir go to prison ot administer 8 sound fogging to the boy in the presence of an officer of the court, whose duty it is to see that there is no sham about the punishment.[on but few instances is there eny doubt in the mind of the parent as to the proper course to pursue.The whipping post is almost invariably chosen.As a rule he is just in the proper frame of mind for it, and the court mentor seldom has cause to complain that the strap is not applied with sufficient vigor.Au a result of this state of affairs there are weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth frequently heard in the resr of the Evansville city prison.But there are fewer boys being arrested.and Judge Winfrey sits on bis judicial bench with a look which plainly means, \u2018What a wise man am I! The Humane Rociety has felt impelled to interfere, thinking that the whipping post was inhuman and the punishment not fitting the crime.The learned mutt, however, hns seen fit to adhere to its policy, asserting that it was less inhuman to give s bad boy a well-deserved cudgelling than it was to compel a bard.working father to spend one or two weeks\u2019 wages in getting him out of trouble, not counting the deprivation to his family such expenditure called for.Se far as the experiment has proceeded it has worked like a charm.eon THE PIGGERY CASE.EXPERT TESTIMONY HEARD BE FORE ONTARIO'S PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE.Toronto, Dec.31.\u2014The meeting of the Publie Accounta Committee at the Legis lative Buildings yesterday was the most exciting of the many interesting gether.ings thie committee bas held in man years.There was a very Large attendance of members, some twenty-three or twenty-four out of twenty seven being on band, and the thisty or forty members of the Houss who were not on the com- ruittes, with as many more witneses and interested listeners, orowded in the small room, made the atmosphere rather vrpleamntly dense et times.Mr.W.D.Harris, the wholessle pork dealer, who purchased the ninetyseven dead hog which were sent to Che Centrpd Prison stora room from the piggery, gave his evidence readily, and stated that he did not know at the time he bought them that there had been cholers among the bogs at the piggery.He personally ex amined every hog, however, as they were i there had bem weighed, and was positive that | carcasses for the purpose of removing diseased portions, neither was there the indi of there having hogs.THE GRAND OLD MAN.BIRTHDAY AT CANNES.THS HON.W.B.GLADSTONE.stone is improving though he is etill neursigia suffering from on Dec.20, 1800.Replying to « Christmas greeting to him by the National Liberal Club, stoves health has adso improved.CELEBRATED HIS FIGHTY-EICHTH London, Dec.20.\u2014This being the birthday of the Right Hon.William E.Gladstone, the usul congratulations wees sent to Hawarden and Cannes.Mr.Giad- .The Right Hon.William Ewart Gladstone was bors - fr.Gladetone says that his health bes been greatly benefited by his etay st Canues and that he hopes to be back at worx penis at Hawarden by the middie of obi He adde that Mme.Glad- FRENCH SS.LINE TO CANADA Quebec, Dec.20.\u2014A letter has been received here from Paris stating that the French Governments has riven a subsidy of five hundred thousand france towards a steamship line between France and Canad and that Mr.Verbekmoes, one of the most powerful of the French ship pers, bas offered to undertake the ser vice, beginning immediately with three steamships, pending the construction af JAWUARY 4, 1898, 5 SOUDANESE WAR.rsitiiticn\u201d 941d to de Rapidiy Growing Worse.Cairo, Jan.1.\u2014The Warvickebire and Lincolnshire regiments of the British army have besn ordered to start rom Wady Haifa for the frontier.The ordering of the traops to the frous was occasioned by reliable news from Omdurmen (the Khalife's grest camp aear Khartoum), to the effect that Dervishos ore preparing a Dorthward movement.Though the movement has not yet been actually begun (he grest- ent excitement prevails here, À batialion of the Cameron Highbland- ers has been ordered to be in readiness to ascend the Nile in a fortnight hence.London, Jan.2\u2014A despatch from Malta mys that a battalion of the tes- forth lighlanders bas been ordered to dent of the \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 sayy, a» past explanation of the British advance up the Nile, that it is believed French expeditions bawe arrived quite cless to Khartoum.According to the same authority, the British force will be commanded by Major-General Sir Francis Grenfell.The Rome correspandent of the \u2018 Daily Mail\u2019 saye:\u2014'1 learn from private sources that the Italian Foreign Office bas received information that King Mene lik hes summoned the Abyeminiane to arms in support of French enterprises in equatorial Africa and especially the plens of the Russian Count Leontieff, governor of the equatorial provinces of Abyssinia.Menelik himecké ie setting out at the hoad of an army, and it is believed the movement mmks an expedition against the Anglophile Res Mangascia, whose province, Tigre, the Negus wishes to ane 1 also bear that Menelik, calcu- The \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 commenting edi- toriadly on the foregoing despatches from Rome snd Csiro, suggests thet the Mar chand expedition has gone beyond Fu shoda and reached Khartoum.\u2018IV ie imposible,\u2019 says the \u2018Duly Mai,\u2019 \u201cfor the expedition to bave fought its way there and it can only arvive in alliance with the Khalifa, thus cresting « very serions situation.\u2019 A despatch from Cairo, via Paris, où Friday, announced that s French expedition bad occupied Fashads on the Nile, about four hundred miles south of Khar toum, and thet it was reported amoog dhe natives thot the French were descending the river.; In responre to the request of Sir Herbert Kitchener, it has been arranged to send four battalions to Csiro to replace those destined to take part in the British advance toward Khartoum, one each from Maks and Gibraltar and two_others to be stopped while on the way home from Indie.The morning editoria'e comment upon the gravity of the situs- tion that compels an sdvance before the railway has been completed.The \u2018 Times\u2019 suggests thet it would be safer to send à larger force.; Tbe \u2018 Morning Post\u2019 calis the force insufficient and points ta the * suspicions attitude of the Marchand expeditirn, which, it in reported, has occupied Frah- oda\u201d Tt mys: \u2018If the expedition has advanced in defiance of the authority of the French Government, its m are filibusters and must pay the penalty.(A however, thev have any eort of sanction, it is time for Creat Britain to make her views clearly understood.\u2019 ; A despetch from Cairo evs :\u2014' While it is hoped the Dervishes wil make their projected attack, it is corsiderrd likely that, co learning our preparations to meet them.they will prefer to remain in their strongho'da at Metemmeh.\u2019 BRITISH GUNBOATS ATTACKED.Cairo, Jan.3\u2014The British gunboats made a reconnaissance past Shendy and Metemmeh, the Dervish posts Berber and Khartcum, on Saturday last.The Dervishes kept up s smart fire from both basks of the Nile.The gunboats proceeded twenty miles south.and captured a number of boats laden with grain.London, Jan.3.\u2014It is semi-officiaily sonounced in this city that the movement of the British troope in Egypt 10 entirely due to the news of the threnten- od northerly advance of the Dervishes, and thot they do not imply an immedi ate advance im the direction of Khartoum.\u2014\u2014\u2014_\u2014_m LEITER'S GREAT DEAL SAID TO BE PURCHASING GRAIN FOR THE BRITISH MARKET.Chicago, Dec.31.\u2014Tbe \u2018Star\u2019 is au thority for a rumor curremt in Chicago to-day that young Joseph Lester, the Chioago wheat king, is cornering wheat for the Deitish Market.He is not holding this big corver ea former corners bove been beld.He is shipping the whest out of the country.It is on its way to the seaboard as fast as steam can carry =.DBefote Leiter abowed his hand at all he bad chartered all the avaiable carrying capacity every port on the Atlantic seaboard, and wven now millions of busbels are oo the ocean on the way to Britiah storehouses.And it is said thet millions of bushois more lie stored in Canadian elevators.Young jaker is neariy related to \u20ac member of the British Government; Lei- tar\u2019s sister is married to Mr.George Ourson, the British U of War.J Py wT mm - January 4, 1808, «THE EASTERN CRISES.the fleck boss bigh «nd the shoulders -_\u2014 nearly seven feet in height, and LI Hung Chang Discusses the Situation.New York, Jan.3.\u2014The \u2018 Herald\u2019 this morning, says :\u2014' This interview is protected by a copyright, and all rights of reproduction until twelve hours after ita publication in the \u2018Herald\u2019 are reserved.\u2019 Pekin, Jan.l.\u2014According to insruc- tions received from the \u2018 Herald\u2019 T requested an interview with li Mung (tang, informing bim that the Mew York \u2018Herald\u2019 offered the publicity of is columns for any statement tyst China desired to make to the W world ADMIRAL SIR E.H.SEYMOUR, K.C.B.+ Appointed Commander in Chief of the China station in glace of Admiral Buller.He is & cousin of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, and eetered tho navy io 1963, Commander in 1586, and Vice- Admiral to 1895.He bas seen much active service.He was present st the bombaré- ment of Odessa and Hotastopol, and he took part in the war with China, 1967-55 He also served in tbe Exyption war of 2562 in respect to the actual crisis in the Fast The great statesman replicd that Chins was anxious that the western people should understand thoroughly metters as they were.llis Excellency\u2019s views are given 'crewith in the following iu- terview, which he has approved :\u2014 \u201cThe forcible occupstion of Kiso Chan by Germany 1s a direct violation of existing trestssa and of mternationsl law.The pretext made for this act of war was the murder of two missionaries by robbers in the intertor of the province of Shang Tung.The Chinese Government offered immediate and full redress for this out.ishment of the criminals, diemimel the local officials apd large compensstion for all losses.Anxious to avoid hostile acts, the Chinese troops were withdrawn from Kiao Chau.when the Gerraans landed sud in spite of ot: public feeling prevailing through: out country for the defence of Chinese territory against aggression, my goveroment has not sent reinforcements to Kiso Chau.* Outlaws exist in China, as in all coun.| tries.Neither treaties, law nor religion shortest more than foar.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE Parliament House, Toronto, Dec.29.\u2014 The twe government measures setting apart certain portiops of the public domain for forest reserve purposes, in accordance with the report of the Reforesting Commission, which was explained by the Lommusioner of Crown Lands, the Hon.Mr.Gibson, and the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon.Mr.Dryden's Lill preventing gambling practices av country fairs, were eubjecta of interesting discussion, at the opening of tho legislature after the holiday vacation yesterday afternoon, A notice of motion by the Hon.Mr.Dryden is that in order to carry out the compensation clause of the San Jose ecale bill funds be drawn from the consolidated funds account of the province to the amount of a fourth of the value of the plant destroyed in stamping out the scale.The louse adjourned at 3.45 p.m., aiter passing several tems of the estimates.\u2014 OUR NORTHERN LANDS.A SILLY SCHEME TO DISPOSE OF THEM.Quebec, Dec.30.\u2014The \u2018Soleil\u2019 broaches a great scheme which, it says, has been propounded by a prominent politician, and which it characterised as an extremely boid ove that may, perkaps, seriously claim the attention of oer rulers some day.This scheme is nothing more or less than for the Provincial Governmeat to sell the land, minerals and forests of the whole of the unoccupied sorthern portion of this province to Hudson's Bay and the East Main river.It says that competent parties, who have explored this région, estimate its value at $50,000,000, and the | idea ie to dispose of this for ths sum, use THE MONTREAL \u201cTHE POPE'S VIEW.Manitoba School Law and Opinions Expressed.SUMMARY OF THE POPE'S ENCY- CLICAL\u2014WHAT IT ADVISFS.Ottawa, Dee.27.\u2014The encyclical of His Holiness the Pope in reference to edu- ! cation in Manitoba was not published in Rome until Saturday, so that the sum: mary cabled by the Associated Press on Friday wus a forecast rather than « condensation of what was actusily known.It bears out fully the view that the Pope advises the acceptance by the Catholies of Manitoba of the concessions embodied in what is known as the Mani.tobæ achool settlement, while claiming at the same time that these concessions are inadequate, and expressing the hope that full satisfaction may be, obtained from the Manitoba Legislature.Atthe same time His Holinesd reminds the Catholics of Manitoba that they hed been deficient in providing for the education of Catholic children.The following 4s a reliable and intelligent eabled simmary of the document : After ing in praise of Canada and of the bishops, it treats of the law of 1600, and condemns what wes then done.It \u2018lays down principles of Catholic education and speaks of the rights of parents.The bishops are praised for resisting the law of 1800.\u2018The Pope re- ognizes the fact that something waa done to remedy the law of 1890, und says that the Manitoba Government was iespired with a love of justice and praiseworthy intention in the decisions it arrived at.He says that the law made to remedy the evil in defective, imperfect and insufficient.The Catholics demand, and have the right to demand, much more, as the arrangements made may fail of cf- fect owing to local circumstances.Enough had not been done in Manitoba $25,000,000 of the money to pay off the funded and floating debts of the province and to bank the other $25,000,000, which i would give ua à fresh start with a clean | sheet and supply an enormous impetus to | the national and commercial development.| The region in question is sup, tn} comprise seveqty millions of acres.\u2018Uf couree,\u2019 adds she Liberal organ, \u2018we understand perfectly well that the question is not one the hour, but there can be no harm in broaching it.One thirg is certain\u2014thg we have at our doors an enormous capital, which is unproductive, while we have to pay every year a mil lion of dillars for the interest alone on our dehy and it is therefore the duty of men to cast about for means to remedyf this abnormal situation.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014 MASONIC HALL OPENED , Dee.30.\u2014The opening of the beld last evening under the aus- } pigs of the Hall trust, was an event that will not soon be forgotten by those con entirely suppress crime anywhere in the world, thongh they condemn and punish the criminals.There are places in every eouniry where lawlessness, abounds, and to such a place in Sha Tung the German missionaries determin to go.knowing that the inhabitan themustres were often the victimes of these bandits.\u2018Unfortunately, China has not yet re covered from the effects of the late war, and our country requires a period of pence to carry out the work of reform lately begun.Of late years, from instruction and observation, the Chinese have coms to regard the cr-untries of the western world as models, and even grest- er in justice than in arme, \u2018Is it just to oppress us while we are struggling to emerge from the metraints of our ancient civilisation, while improvement and progress stealily continue ?Bhould China be distressed hy having her shores invaded and her territory occupied Lecause of an occurrence which western countries would desl with by law and not by war\u2014an unexpected incident deplored by my government and followed by full redress * \u201cOur desire is to preserve our territory intact and to steadily improve it as a field open to all countries equally for the development of commerce.\u201d Pekin, Jan.2.\u2014The Chinese authorities spent three hours at the Cerman legation to-day, discussing the recall of the commandant of Tiso-Chau.province of Shan Tung, who is charged with having used threatening language to a Cer- man missionary, and finally consented to summon him to Pokin for examination, also promising that he should not return to Tino-Ctau.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BURIED IN SANDSTONE.Sandstone, Mino., Dec.30.\u2014Human beings turned to stone and now forming a rt of the rock have been found in the ig sandstone quarmes here, as well as copper utensils of a l'vgone age, showing that this section was unce inhabited by « people antedating the Indians.The top layer of white sandstone was blasted away, and a big bed of softer stone wus exposed.Embedded in this was à form which had once bean human.It was almost the sme color as the ssndstone, perhaps à tre darker, but was not a Fetrified body in the genera) acceptance of the term.Cautiously the men dug into the soft stone, and in an hour they bad found three more bodies.- In each case the figure was streiched at foll length, with the hands crossed on the breast.The beads were well formed, | | fathering was composed entirely of past nd masters, who were present to the | number of about a hundred and fifty.The rooms, which are situated on the ninth floor, will be occupied by ten of the city Masonic lodges, and are held in trust for them by the board of trustees, of which Mr.John Roms Robertson, Ml\u2019, is the president.The assembly rocm, which is one of the largest and most beautiful of ita kind on the continent, is richly carpeted and furnished, and on the walls are hung twentv-eight life-aized oil paintings of past grand officers.Eight paintings were last evening presented to the hall trustees by Mr.John Ross Robertson.The following members of the board of trustees were present :-\u2014-Messrs.John Ross Robertson, M.P., president ; Thomas Surgent, tres- surer ; Harry Leeson, secretary, and William J.Graham, William Alderson, N.I.Steiner, Frank Gallow.8.Brown, Richard Dinnis, Harry Vinemon, W.A.Lyon, W.P.Gundy, J.H.Horewell, À.: L.8.Arndah and John Watson.The opening ceremony, which was con- | ducted by Worshipful Brother John Ross Robertson, lasted from eight o'clock until shortly after ten.At its conclusion the brethren adjourned to the banqueting hall, where a magnificent din- | ner had been prepered.Mr.J.Roms Robertson acted as toast-master, snd a lengthy toast list was commenced ! shout 11.48 o'clock.The toast to the | \u2018City Masters\u2019 was responded to by all the past grand masters of the city lodges.Others who spoke during the | evening were Worshipful Bros.Wilson, Smith, Pitrie, Flitt, A Charlton, ! Main, Duncan, Warring Kennedy, Dr.; Oronahyatekha and Dr.O'Mears, t grand master and present grand chaplain of Manitoba.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEWFOUNDLAND BANKS.St.John's, Nfd., Dec.28.\u2014When the case against the directors of the defunct Union Hank of Newfoundland, charged with conspiracy to defraud wae called | yesterday before Justice Sir David Chal- mers, former.Chief Justice of British Guiana, the Crown Prosecutor withdrew the indictment because the jury bad ai- ready acquitted the directors of the Commercial Bank, who were arraigned on the same charge.Paris, Deo.20.\u2014The \u2018Figaro\u2019 this morn mg says the Minester for Foreign Affairs, | M.Hanotaux, will convene an international conference, without delay, for the during the fishing season.ithe age and enjoins sn observance of for Catholic education.The bishope must sim st having justice done, and must purse the object with zeal and prudence.There must not be discord, yet, as the object does not impose a line of conduct determinate and conclusive, but, on the contrary, admits of several, an is usual in such matters.it follows that there may be, on the lines to be followed, ü certain number of opinions equally good and acceptable.Let none then lose sight of this rule of moderation, gentleness and brotherly love, Let none forget the respect due to his neighbor, but let all weigh the circumstances, determine what is best to be done, and do it in agreement and not without consultation with the bishops.As regards particularly the Catholics of Manitoba the Pope expresses his confidence that, : God helping, they will win and obtain full satisfaction.This confidence is founded, above all, on the gocdness of their cause, next on the justice and wisdom of those who govern, and lastly on the good-will of all Canadians.In the meantime, and until they succeed in their claims, let them not refuse partial satisfaction.Especially wherever the law, or circumstances, or good disposition of the people offer some means of lessening the evil and warding off more danger, it is absolutely expedient and advantageous that they should make use of them and derive from them all possible benefit, Wherever, on the contrary, there is no other remedy, Catholics are exhorted to liberality.The Pope speaks of the necessity of highly.trained teach.ere for Catholic schools, and finally warns the press to be decorous, and not personal.It ia to be noticed that in this document Leo XII.breathes the spirit of constitutional usage which is characteris tie of his enlightened policy.He practically condemns the dictatorial attitude of the majority of the bishops in Quebec, and takes the more liberal view that Catholics are free to chooss and to act.There does not appear to be a single word in the encyclical against the public schools of Canada, and in proof that His Holiness considers federal intervention at an end there is nol a word from which to infer that the Catholics are to look to Ottawa to obtain that full messure of justice which no ome contended was accomplished by the concessions of the settlement, A WARNING FROM QUEBEC.Quebec, Dec.27.\u2014The Irish Catholic Liberal organ here, the \u2018Daily Telegraph,\u2019 commenting this afternoon on the papal decision on the itoba school matter, significantly adds \u2014The bishops atv called to meet at Montreal on Jan.4, probably to receive the full text of the encyclical from Mgr.Bruchesi, and to discuss the new situation which it creates as regards the Manitoba question.Bo far so .Pt we may say that we hope there is no truth in the eur.rent report that two prominent Bleu politicians, the Hon.J.J.Ross and ihe Hon.Mr.Desjarding, have bee.aloo invited to attend this meeting.The presence of party politicians at such a gathering would oertainly appear very strange, especially in view of the fact that the Toly Father appeals, not merely to WEEKLY WITNESS., the effect of opening the eyes of the Catholics, who believed in the good faith and the promises of the Liberal lasders, and who contributed by their votes to carry Mr.Laurier into power, convinced that be would render entire justice to hin compatriote of Manitoba.The \u2018Courrier du Canada\u2019 says that the encyclical bears out what it has slways maintained, that the compromise has not settled the Manitoba difficulty, and that it cannot be as an equitable solution of it.The \u2018Chronicle\u2019 (Conservative) plainly tells the Bleus that they need not look for help from the English Conservatives to drag the Manitobs question into political arena, if they hop: to do so under the color of the papal ruling.MR.TARTE\u2019S ORGAN.Referring to the Pope's evcyclical let ter, the \u2018Patrie\u2019 says that it is marked by the prudence and moderation which have charactesized every act of his administration, the predominating idea vf his whole reign having been to reconcile the Ubureh With moder.societies and re-establish peace amung all the members of the great Christian family.Further on the article says that the Pope's calm any to the Manitoba ms- jority to give minority more justice cannot offend those who profess another creed, and it adds: \u2018People may rest as: sured that Leo XIII.did not concqive any idea ol intervention ia the politital struggles of Canada.He is loo wise to udvise (as some of our English confreres fear) a grouping of Catholiæ to impose upon the Protestants around them their ews, or those of the Court of Rome, or of the bishops, on such or wuch a mutter, and especially on the pata to follow m the school question.The writer then points out that the Pope is acting within his jurisdiction when, ae leader of the Catholics in religious matters, he asserts the doctrine of the Church on questions of education, and after stating that insead of abolishing the separate schools system, the | Manitoba Government should have re.i formed it, he calls attention to the Pope's recogaition of the go« dispos tion ahown by the same government w.thin the past year, and then adds :\u2014' lf the concessions made by the Legislature of our sister province had been accepted and re- \u2018ceived with the mpirit of conciliation which characterizes the encyclical, the Manitoba Catholics would have to-day \u2014 and we now speak with a full knowledge of whet we say\u2014full and peaceful pos sesrion of a system of schools where their children would receive from Catholic teachers the teaching whieh Cathol cs have the right to expect in a free, toler , ant country like ours.\u2019 | The article winds up as follows :\u2014* The \"advice of prudence and moderation given by the Sovereign Pontiff will help, we have no doubt, to definitely re buey abaking hands that they came near miming the (train.The latter started on time and pulled out of the depot, leaving the gov- .platform, but being hastily rigralel the train backed up and the vice-regal party | stepped into the private car * Victoria) and were whirled away.i TO REWARD GENIUS.A MILLION DOLLARS LEFT BY THE LATE ALFRED NOBEL FOR THE PURPOSE.Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and expert in high explosives, who died at Ssa llemo, Jtaiy, on Dec.9, 1806, has been proved.The perwonailty is valued at $2,170,465.vided into five esch.chemistry, phymiology l\u2018rize four is to be given to the person making the best literary contribution upon the subject of physiology or med: cue, and prize five is to be given to the person who has achieved the most or done the best things .ooking towards the promotion of peace throughout the world.These prizes which are all open to anyone anywhere in the world will he awarded by the various Swedish academies, except the prize for the propa: gation of peace, which is left in the hands of a committee, which is to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament.\u2014\u2014\u2014 M.FAURE\u2019S NARROW ESCAPE Paris, Jan.1.\u2014President Faure accompanied by Mr.Meline, Premier, while on his way to the Rue du Luxembourg, to pay a New Year's visit to Senator Lou- bet, yesterday, met with an accident which for the moment caused considerable alarm.In the Place de la Concorde a landau moving at.high speed came into collision with the President's carriage and threw it on its side.Bystanders rusted to the assistance of the President and the Premier, but, fortunately, peither of them was injured.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 PRINCE BISMARCK'S HEALTH.Merlin, Dec.28.\u2014The \u2018Hamburger Nachrichten\u2019 denies that Prince Bis marck\u2019s gout is better, and says he caun- not walk or sleep, and is unable to read or answer his friends\u2019 letters.The former Chancellor is described as being very irate at the statement that his health is satisfactory, and is quoted as saying : \u2018If the gentleman who wrote that were in my place he would be able to get an idea of what a \u201csatisfactory condition\u201d is \u2014 STORM IN THE BAY OF BISCAY.Paris, Jan.3.\u2014Violent weather pre vsile in the south of Fremce and Spain.A cloudburst near Toulon has done much damage.Severa] persons were injured.A number of vessels bave gone ashore and the promenade of San Sebastian has been washed away in several places.\u2014\u2014\u2014 EMPRESS OF GERMANY'S ILLNE® 3, Bertin, Jan.3.\u2014The Empress of Ger many, who has been suffering from in.fluenss, has suffered @ relapes.Dr, Zuncker, her physician, is staying at the New Palece Paul liruneau, who were convicted of: | | and condemmed to death, their een-| the Justice intimated that they should be; | ! * GERONA* : WRECKED.STRUCK ON SEAL MLAND-THE CREW SAVED.SS.Halifax, N.8., Jen.!\u2014A epocis) des patch received here to-night from Har rington says :\u2014The steamship \u2018 Gerona,\u2019 from Portland for London, with 5 gane- ral cargo, struck Seal Island at four o'clock this morning.After sinking she came off with about fifleen fest of water in her hold.The captain and bout.The soécad ofa wo tee 3 e offices and t - four of the crew arrived at Forbes Point, Wood Harbor, at n.om to-8ay.The captain and thirty-six more of the crew, steered for Seal Inland.\u2018The * Gerona\u2019 was a fine steel steamer of 2,028 toms register, and wie built at Dundee in 1888.Her managing owner was Willism Thompson, jr., of Dundee.The; (eroma's crew could have emer- tai no hope of getting the ship to land, as they took to the brats while a heavy gale was blowing, end their ves must have been in danger for rome hours, of, indeed, sll are mfe now.Stormy weather prevailed on the coast since yesterday.The steamer waa command: ed by Captain Baxter, \u2014 CUBAN AUTONOMY.MARSHAL BLANCO SWEARS IN THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION.Havana, Jan.1.\u2014Many people amem- bled at the Palace to-day at nine am.in order to witness the swearing in of Senor Rafael Montoro, Marquis of Mon- toro, Senor Francisco Zayas and Senor Lauresno Rodriguez, as secretaries of the provisional government.Marshal Blanco the Captain-Gieneral, escorted by 8 number of high Spaiush officials, the consular corps, army and navy officers, etc., reached the throne room at tie hour | mentioned.A new bible was open on | Prizes one, two and three are to | tia! and just motives.y be awarded to the persons making the study the necessities of the island, espe- most important discoveriea in phyeics, | ciaily economic questions, and the means and medicine, | to restore the property destroyed.Peace | | do.\u201d the table, and upon it the secretaries took Use oath of tidedity to the Queen, the monarchy and the Spanish Govern.meul, placing their right hands on the bible aud Lnceling down us they repeated the words required.Berur Galvez, the president of the Cabinet, was first wworn in and them the oath was administered to the others.To Marshal 3lanco's enquiry: \u2018Do you swear fidelity to Spain, the Queen and Spanish institutions ** AR replied, * We Marshal Blanco then addressed the officials, saying :\u2014* C nseciated by London, Jan.3\u2014The will of the late [the oath just taken, the antonomous de partment of Cuba is now ertabdished in Cuba, in accordance with the royal decree of Nov.27, 1807.Your names and the pisces you occupy in the poistical parties to which yon belong, are ample About half the estate guarantees of the liberal policy which goes to relatives and the remainder ia | the government expects the new regime Invested, the interest annually to be di- | to adopt.prizes of ahout $10,000 be inspired by high, conciliatory, imper The new government should it is your duty to and the weliare of Cuba form the best propaganda wc can make in behalf of swt nomy and against the revolutica, which, although it axas never justified.will heresiter have no pretext whatever to exist.\u201d After the conclusion of this ceremony, all attended the celebration of mess in the Palace.AR present knelt down, excepting the British and German consuls.At the conclusion of these ceremonies, the Captain-General remitted the death penalty imposed on persone who had been convicted of common crimes.Cable messages of congratulstion were exchanged during the day between Senor Sagasta, the Premier of Spain, and Marsha! Blanco.\u2014_\u2014 THE LATE SIR HAVELOCK-ALLAN.New York, Jan.3.\u2014The London correspondent of the \u2018Tribune,\u2019 referring to the death of Sir Havelock-Allan in India says: \u2018The death of that gallant soldier, who was not a combatant, is another mystory added to the inscrutable secrets of the frontier campaign.There was no official errand or mission to draw lim &o- ward Khyber, but as a soldier with a gen- unine ing etraip, with a dare-devil love of adventure, be seems to Imve bern lured to his fate.\u2019 It appears that after visiting Lundi-Kotal, Sir Henry Havelook- Allan, commg from Ali-Meajd with an adequote essort, left the latter in order to hurry to Jamrud.Sir Henry was always prone to take chances.It is not clear hether his body wae or wes mot mu ilated.\u2014\u2014 A CLERGYMAN DROPS DEAD.Galt, Ont, Jan.2\u2014The Rev.Dr.William Burns, business man of Knox College, Toronto, who preached in Knox Church bere this morning, died very sud- deoly this afternoon, about three o\u2019elock.Decesssd was officiating at s funeral, and had just opened his bible to read a chapter when he dropped desd.Heart failure is given as the cause of death.RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN.Osborne, Ide of Wight, Dec.28\u2014The Quesa ressived the Venesuelan minister in sudience to-day.NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT CROP.Sydney, NAW, Jan.2\u2014The oficial estimate of the Wheat yield is 8,745,000 bushels.There will be & small surplus available for export.n % You can have your own \u201c Daily Witness \u201d and another sent to any new subscriber in Canada or the United States (except Montreal), for $5.00.You can have vour own \u201cWeekly Witness\u201d and another sent to any nev: subscriber in Canada or the United States (except Montreal), for $1.50.You can have your own \u201cNorthern Messenger\u201d and another sent to any new subscriber in Canada or the United States (except in Montreal), for soc.Or vou can have\u2014 One \u201c Daily Witness \u201d and one \u201c Weekly Witness for $3.50 One \u201c Daily Witness \u201d and one \u2018\u2019 Northern Messenger \u201d 3.20 One \u201cWeekly Witness\u201d and one \u201cNorthern Messenger\u201d 1.20 ! entecn muilow in a biting irost, but warmly protected in furs, by the swift horse of i _ {Mr Willam Waikmsham, ami reached AROUSING INTEREST IN TUE | Sherbrooke in good tune for Lhe evens Ç STRICTS service, Introduced by the Rev.Wm JEWS IN RURAL DI = Shearer at St.Andrew's Church, he a dressed 2, ree and attentive congrega- Lei A tion, speaking of the needs of the Mon:- Sevaral visita have been recently ade real Jewish mission, ita methods of work- by the missionary to places outside OR | ing and its prospects.This meeting was real, chiefly with a view to spread -ur | favorably noticed in the Sherbiooke \u2018Ex.formation, and foster general inierest on laminer\u201d of Dee.20.At these several behalf of Israel i public services, at Bearbrooke, Vare, Na- Ottawa\u2014The Jews here are smd tol *™ Windsor and Sherbrooke, the inter- number sixty families.Some Christians lections in aid of the Montreal mission.of several churches manifest, à warm prac- ; Also in the last numed place, ss well as tical interest im toca cukgbleument.[iu Ottawa, sep were amtialed which Evangelisuc work has been commencud.jay lead to permanens and organized though not yet in urganzed form There help being raised for Jewish cvangeliza- are also a number of Uhristians who prac- : tion.These occasional trips inlo the tically befriend and aid the work in Mont.country do not interiere with she work real.ln the evening of Monday, Dec.U, in the city, u8 the mission possesses an Mr.McCarter attended a meeling at the efficient aassstant who holds the meetings house of Mr.W.Bell Dawson, where à in the missionary\u2019s absence, number were assembled ivr prayer and | We have it on the authority of the bible study.The question bmug raised | Rev, .laa.Gireen, who, as agent of the of the part of lsrael in the future Chns- | Bible Society, moved for well nigh balf tianizing of the world, a lively discussion | a century in intimate personal acqusin- took place, Many scripture passages weve tance with the rural diætricts of Quebce read, and important thought elicited.Un {and Eastern Ontario, that religious in- the following evening, Dec.7, be address- | terest in the Jews was more general thir- ed a drawing-room meeting specially con- {ty years ago than to-day.The same vened in the house of the Hon, O.H.[probably applies also to the cities.Per- Lambart, and spoke on Jewish evan- haps the reason may be that Canada's gelization in general, and specially on tbe | population was then in closer touch with work in Montreal, On the evening of the memories of the British churches Thursday, Dec.9, he was invited to ad- from which many had recently come.In dress the Gleaners\u2019 Union of St.George's | any case it will be found that to try to Church, under the leadership of the Kev.awaken pr I interest in the conver J.M.Snowdon.Aiter two excellent pa- | sion of Israel is in many places to touch pers on Palestine and on Mobammedan- virgin soil.The people read about the iem respectively had been read by two\u2019 Jews in the bible, but the stray trader cr lady members, Mr.McCarter was asked pedler at their door they do not associate to speak, and found a mow interested and very closcly with the Israel of old.The appreciative audience.In private visits, ; weil-being of the Jews as a matter of also, he met many who are interested iD personal responsilility, and the Jewish the cause of lsrael, and proceeded on à question as a factor of primary practical visit to his former congregation of Bear- | importance to the world's destinies, in brooke, Russell County, feeling much en- gat in their thoughts at all.It can couraged by the warm affection and price {safely he commended to the pastors of our tical sympathy of many friends in Otta- several churches as a subject for study wa.This has been his second visit i0 and pulpit instruction, which they will connection with his work.; find fresh, instructive and interesting.Beazbrooko ani Navan.\u2014Finding that \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Bis visit fell on the day of the periodical TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.sacrament of the Supper, Mr.leaner The cattie tn Hawkesbury aod Point For- had the privilege of assisting the pastor, \u2018tune referred to a few days ago as suffering MONTREAL JEWISH MISSION the Rev.A.N.Hoss, in dmpensing the from tuberculosis are receiving the atten- Holy Communion in both churches, and ton ot the Government Jaspector, About of enjoying the undiminished uifection of © cattle were sloughte: - many among Whom he had for several Gone 16 prevent Car disease from spreading, years been minister.Un the saine esen- ; the owners beli.g under the impression, that jag be addressed a crowded and most a\u201c the Sovernment vould make Sood Soe loss.tentive gathering in à union gospel! hal o A Vas on the Saject of Jewish evan frere \u201cave ou WL TL] golization, and was able to state many cattle trom these not Affected fo the hope things as new ss they were interesting to that by isolation and with proper attention his hearers On the Monday cveming 17 0% LES EN DUT 0 flit following he addressed & swilar meeting | but he Is uot authorized to do so.He fs the Presbyterian church at Navan.[now inspecting the cattle belonging to the in y Mr, | Yarioun farmers in section of country wi Te abat bec.> or and will decide what cattle are affected, \u2019 La e owne of « jo wi noi low the Rev.C.Tanner, touk bia forenoon ito tend el milk te the cheese tigiories service ndsor - next spring unieen LJ can sbow LI riviivy oo in M oon re Governmant Inspectors permit that Tuer or Windeor.At both places he explain- cattle wire not affected by the disease.Se Tee ae Jaures lee THE \u2018WITNESS WANTS to the parable of the prodigal son to il- Every subscriber to renew promptly, lustrade the mutual relationship of the no that there shall be no disappointment Jew and the Gentile.At both services in losing any number of the \u2018Weckly the people gave proof of their attentive ' Witness! Please send us « new name fnterest.After being refreabed with à : or more while sending your cwn renewal.comfortable tes at the hospiteble home The life of tho newopaper is in its force of Mra McOulloch, be was drives sev- of resders.* H | n cet was manifested in liberal special col THE MONTREAL THE FLOOR GAVE WAY.Twenty-Nine People Killed and Many Injured at a Public Meeting in London.London, Ont., Jan.4.\u2014A terrible accident occurred here last night, a few minutes after nine o'clock, while the successful candidates in yesterday's municipal elections were addressing a crowd of about twenty-five bundred people, who had wedged themselves into the City Hall, by which twenty-nine people were killed, apd, so far as can be asertained at this hour, fully a hundred and Gfty serivusly injured.While the immense crawd was applauding à speaker, the north end floor imme- Jdistely over the city engineer's office suddenly caved in, precipitating over two hundred persons into the fuunel-shaped death trap, with an immense safe and a heavy steam coil falling on top like « pile-driver.An indescribable scene of borror followed.The cry of fire was raised, aad the strugghng mass of humanity made a wild rush to escape.The window casings withstood the awful strain.The crowd on the street yelled themselves hoarse in an alinost vain attempt to restrain those who were squeezed through the windows by the pressure behind from leaping to the sidewalk below.A general alarm was sent out.and the fire and police departments were soon on the scene.Those who were first to the rescue were sickened by the awiul sight that met their gaze.Under the ponderous safe was a lifeless mass of men, and under the beams everywhere were pinned the unfortunates who went down in the crash.AFTER THE ACCIDENT.On the streets an immense crowd had gathered and the excitcment was at fever heat.Never mince the fateful nighy of such sights seen on the streots of London as were enacted las: might.Every available hack in the city was requisitioncd, together with the fire howe waggons and ! ambulances, and as quickly as powsible the injured were conveyed to the hospi- tais of the city, and when it became impossible to accommodate more at these inetitutions, the sufferers were taken to their hoiges.Two hours were occupied in the removal of the injured.By this time the news of the terrible accident was known ; throughout the «ty, and many affecting scence were witneswd when the namew of the killed and injured became known.A few years ago the City Hall was re i modelled and the supports strengthened j and it was considered to be quite safe, al- i though dancing has not been allowed où : the main floor.Tt is supposed that the stamping of the immense crowd started the beams.THE DEATH LIST.Following is a list of the killed so far as can be learned: L.W.Burke, losurance agent.W.H.Dell, baker.Stephen Williams.J.W.Borland.Bepjamin Nash, carriage manufacturer.F.Heman.Crawford Beckett, contractor.J.Turner, carriage maker.E.Luston.Noble Carruthers.\u2014~\u2014 Jacques.R.Lee.J.Harris.Qeorge Smith.\u2014 Smith, An ex-street car driver, ©.Bruce.Frank Robertson, plasterer.\u2014\u2014 MrKeon.A.Phillips.R.8.Leigh, plumber.Jack Peliows.W.Burridge.w.c.bot.Allan Love.\u2014\u2014McRoberts.Moses Lyons.Toy named McLean.James Haynes.THE INJURED.Nothing whatever of a definite charac: ter could be learned last night as to the condition of the wounded.Estimates of the number run from one hund and fifty to two hundred.The injuries include fractured limbs and bones, and bruises of all kinds, The hospitals are ton busily engaged in attending to the wounded to answer questions, and no ides can he had of the number who were taken to their homes.Dr.Wilson, the mayor-elect, narrowly emaped.He was thrown off the plat.farm on to the floor, and e«caped with soine bruises and cuts.Ald.Neil Cooper, a member of the Bouattl of Works, was removed from under a heavy beam, and is thought to be serioualy injured.In the excitement attending the re moval of the lmried men, no one stop- I ped to see whether the wniortunsica i were dead or alive, byt willing hands lifted them tenderly aod conveyed them to the nearest atore, where physicians | were doing what they could to a'leviate their sufferings.Two reporters, Mr.tico.Yates, of the \u2018 Newn.' and Mr.H.Passmore, of the \u2018Advertiser,\u2019 were among the injured.For a time immediately niter the crash | mon seemed to be crazed by the :ealiza- tion of the avfuiness of the dismster.| \u2018The sight of the mess of humanity tihet was pinned to the floor beneath the massive safe will never be forgotten by those who amwieted in ita remove].This | me where nearly oll of thoee killed were found.Diood was everywhere, and ss the \u2018Victoria\u2019 accident has there been; red -sld.St.Jean.who did not run.WEEKLY WITNESS.the wounded who were able to move about began to chvulate among the wow of onlokers, the sight was such ss one might expect to ses in time of war.\u2014 EIGHT HUNDRED HOUSES BURNED Port au Prince, Hayti, Dec.29.\u2014At eleven o'clock last night a fire, which assumed considerable proportions un se- | count of lack of water to supp'y the pumps, broke out and destroyed eight | hundred houses, including a number of warehoures, à hotel, the Church of Kt.Joseph and ite parsonage.About three thousand people were rendered homeless.This morning at 6.40 o'clock there wi an earthquake, the disturbances : running from north to south, lasting haf ! a minute, and causing alight cracks in the earth.There were no accidents, but the population was greatly alarmed.ONTARIO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.Mayors and Councillors Elected Yesterday.MAYOR SHAW SUCCESSFUL IN TO- RONTO\u2014 INSIDE\u2019 ELEMENT TURNED DOWN IN OTTAWA, Toronto, Jan.X-The municipal elee- tions this year were probably quitter than for ten years past.Not a single meeting had been held in connection with the mayuralty, and until à day or two before the election the candidature of Mr.FE.A.Macdonald had not been considered as of sufficient importance se- viously to endanger Mayor Shaw's clances of re-election.Since about Fii- day, however, there had been à growing teeling that Mr.Macdonald would poll à lig vote, while there were not a few who held that he had a winning chance.All the newspapers of the city supported Mayor Shaw for re-election with the exception of the \u2018Evening Telegram,\u2019 which from beginning to end maintained absolute silence on the guestion of the wayoralty.Ontario Ward\u2014Ald.Toys, Ald.Dr.C.L.Curtis 6e, Lawrence Ward\u2014Ald, McK Johns, Mr.J.T.White, Catamqui Ward\u2014Ald Ball, Ald.Ry J.Cooke.Frontense Ward\u2014Ald.Carson, AM.Wright, Mr.J.J, Behan.Rideau Ward-\u2014Ald.Elliott, Ald.Rabin- son, Mr.W.McCatnoy, Victoria Ward\u2014Ald.Donnelly, Al.Muocrs, Me.©.R Webeter.CORNWALL Cormvail, Ont.Jan.3\u2014The only mu- nuipal coutest here today was for first deputy recve, botween Mess P.E.Campbell and John R.Chishoim.Mr.Campbell won by a majority of 64.Only « small vote was polled.IN UTHER TOWNS.Cobourg\u2014S.DD.Hayden elected mayor by 222 wajority.Carleton Place\u2014Thos.Beagley elected heute mayor.Vankleek Hill \u2014 D.McLeod elected mayor.Thovold\u2014Mayor, Jas.Battle, Renfrew\u2014A.C.Mackay elected as mayor.Rracohridge\u2014A.Brown, mayor.Hawkesbury\u2014Mayor, J.W.Hoggiæin.Brantford\u2014 W.Raymond, nmyor hy about two hundred majority.Gansanque \u2014 W.B.\u2018\u2019arroll elected mayor by twenty majority.Picton\u2014Mayor, Jas, A.Clapp.Napanee\u2014Mayor, T.Jamieson.Beheville\u2014Mayor, J.W.Johnston.Terlin\u2014Mayor, Geo, Rwnpd.Peterboro\u2014A.L.Davis, mayor.Whithy\u2014Mayor, Jas.Rutledge Lindeay\u2014Mayor, F.C.Taylor (acclamation).Orillta\u2014Mayor, T.H Sheppart.Frescott\u2014Mayor, Joseph Stecle, by 61 reajoriy.Stratford\u2014Mayor, J.O\u2019'Donough, by acclamation.Chatham\u2014Mayor, H.A.Patterson.erm HOME AGAIN.THE ARCHBISHOP SPEAKS.INTRRESTING INTERVIEW GRANTED TO MEMBERS OF THE PRESS.AN Mgr.Bruchesi, ou his r£urn to Montres] from Rome, gave à fuither instance of his friendly feeung towatis the press, Politics can hardly be said to have entered very prominently into the fight, Mayor Shaw 2 well-known Conservative, but received the support of the \u2018Globe\u2019 and the \u2018Star, as well as of the! Conservative papers, though the \u2018Globe\u2019 displuyed no enthusiasm for his candidature.Mr.Macdonald has no politics in particular, but ran as the promoter of the Georgian Bay aqueduct scheme and also as 8 protest, he declared, against the deal by which ex-Mayor Fleming was made assistant commissioner and Ald.Shaw succeeded him in the mayor's chair.The to:al vote cast was 21,065, of which : 12.602 were for Mr.Shaw and 8,463 for Mr.Macdonald.Mr.Macdonald obtained a majority in Ward No.1, and Mayor Shaw in all the other five wards.The aldermen were elected as follows : Ward |.- Frame, Frankland, Leslie, Richardson, i Ward il.\u2014 Bryre, Davies.Hallam, Lamb.Ward HI.-\u2014 McMurrich, Reore, Shepherd.Ward IV.\u2014 Burne, Crane, lanlan, Saunders, Woods, Wand VI.\u2014lowman, Gowaalock, Gra.bam, Lynt.CHANGE IN OTTAWA.Ottawa, Jan.3.\u2014The municipal clee- tions here to-day were the most exciting and most keenly contested that have taken place for vcare \u2018The rewult bas been a complete overturn of what were known es the \u2018inside\u2019 aldermen.only nx of them being reelected.These nix were Payment, Garesu, White, Durachsr, Enright, and Hoyer.Stuart, Wallace and Mctiuire, who were very prominent in the LaFrance engine desl, are all besten.The new council is composed as follow By-ward.\u2014Alds.Payment and Gareau, ve-clected, and R.S.Poulin replaciag Wellingion Ward.\u2014 Alds.Black and Camphell, re-elected, and Mr.Davalson replacing Ald.Stewart, feated.St, Georges Want.\u2014 Alde.llastey and tirant, reclected, and ex-Aid Stroud, replacing Ald, Tobin, defeated.Ottawa Wani\u2014Aldemen White and Durochier, re-elected, and E.Lapowte, who replaced Ald, Gauthier, defeated.Dalhousie Ward\u2014Aldermen Foster and Davideon, re-clected, ex-Ald.Hewlett replacing AIL Mctiuire, defeated.Viet nis Ward\u2014Aldermen Maron, But ler and Enright.re-elected.Central Ward\u2014Ex-Aldermen Cluff, Morris and Davis, replacing Powell and Cook, who did rot run.Rideau Ward\u2014AMdermen D naldeon and Roger.re-clecced, and B.Mian replacing Al Framer, who did not wn.Tha by-law gmnting à honue of #7 000 to the (Htaws & New York Railway was carried by a good magority.IN KINUSTON, Kingston, Jan.3\u2014Ald.LivingRone was elected mayor to-day by a majorisy of 790 over All.Wulkem.\u2018The vote stood: Livingstone, 1723; Walker, 095.The council i composed of thirteen Lib.erale and nine Conservatives.The re turns are: R[ydenhan Ward\u2014Ald.Stewart, Ald.Minnre, Mr.J.M.Shaw.when, notwithstanding the large number of visitors calling uma him, he granted an interview of nesly an hour to several reporters.THE ENCYCLICAL.Janvarr 4, 1808 \u2018Herald,\u2019 whd asked bine whothor there was not fear of retallalion on the part of the Quebec majority against the Fr testant minority, on account of the action of the Manitobs majority.Mgr.Bru- chosi rupeated what he told ns New York \u2018Herald\u2019 man, namely, that these is not the least danger of anything of the kind taking place and even supjoe ing the possililily of such an occurrence, sil the bishops would rise to a man to orwh down such à movement.The position taken by the tishops was simply this\u2014the principles of the Church are the came everywhere, and it cannot admit the principle of neutral schools.Hee ailes this fundamental principle, the Maniteba Cstholim have the exprem ternu of the constitution guaranteeing ir own schools, and relying vn le ground they agitate for their t different state of things ex- ints in th United States and othér coun- Catholics have to do Lhe n under the special circum.C th they are placed.Concluding on Vi point.the Archbishop added: \u2018The Mea in Rome is that while Catholics in general must support their own schools, here they must insist upon securing all their rignts.\u201d WHY HE RETURNED.return, ges arcifashop explained fes urn, are op explei thet while he did not intend to © to the Holy Land when ho left Canada, having been inf rmed while in Rome thet a French pile was to go thers he decided to Nin thet, expecting that the encyolical id not be issued before bis return frora'Jerusdem.However, he secured his fasssge conditionally only.and happily bo, for while in Spain, a letter from R inbrmed him that the papal document was sbout to be issued, and he then cnsidered it his duty to come home at ice and be here to re ceive and promulgate such an important document.Having just been ju Rome and having eeen the Pope and cardinals, he might be in a praition to furnish bis colleagues with valuable information concerning the matter.NO NEWS OP A NUNCIO.Being ehown a number of the \u2018Univers\u2019 in which mention is made of the probable appointment of a Papel Nuncio for Canada, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s request, tbe archbishop sid that he had heard nothing whatever about the matter, and he did not seem to give much credit to the report.PARLIAMBNT CAN STILL INTER FERE.The archbishop\u2019s attention was then called to the \u201cGilobe's\u2019 statesnent that the time for any disallowance has now lapsed, 1 Mgr.Bruchesi said that, akbough this | was trus, he understood that the mimori- Naturally enough, the first s\\bject in: ; ty could always move parliament in the troduced was tie l'opc'a encyclitai letter on the Manitoba school questiog.His Grace said that he bad not yct himeeif seen the text of the document, but he knew it was seut from Rome on ofaboit Dee.14, and be had no doubt at * the sea the sance time he was, probably not on board the saine vi usual in such cases, the encyclicaliwas addremed to the head of the Ner- archy in the land, in this stance to Cardinal Taschereau.doubt the document was in Quebec this time, and a copy thereot was c- peuted bere iu a day or two, A simil copy would be sent to all the bishop of Canada, but His Grace was not yet i à position to say in what manner it would be promulgated to the public, Perhaps a cuilective pastoral from all the bishops of the Dominion would accompany it, or perbaps, owing to the difficulty of moeting at thw season, and Lhe importance ot publishing the escyclical as soon as possible, the bishops of the province alone would issue a circular for this ection of the country.At all events the proclamation could not be expected for Sunday next.When asked his opinion on the tenor of the encyclical, the Archbishop mid that Le would not consider it wise to expres any opinion before sceing the text iwelf, as a mere word omitted or differently m- terpreted, according to the context, nay entirely change the meaning and bearing of à dbcument.\u2018For irstance,\u2019 he said, \u2018while some pepers have already proclaimed that the encyclical is entirely in favor of the bishops, the New York \u2018Evening Sun\u2019 stated last night that it practically conderans them.It is better to wait until the document is offically proclaimed through its natural and authorized channel before expressing any opinion or aking any comments.Holy Father would certainly be much dis- plessed at any premature expression of opinion on the part of the press.Me expects that all politicians and journal- jets will unite to carry oul the terms of the encyclival, and if that is done nothing but benelicial results can follow.Tne great desire of the Pope is that peace should reiga among Canadiana of all classes, Protestants and Catholics.\u2019 His Grace then expressed the wish that the local press should point out to their readers that #8 is the duty of all woll disposed citizens not to give any interpre.tation of the papst docuinent before it ia given out to the public by the bishops, and he added that the different versions already given naturally led ope lo suppose that such versions were given with biased views.THE JOURNALISTS ADDRESS, Mgr.Bruchesi next referred to the satisfaction expressod by the Pope upon Jearming of the addrem presented by the Montresl journaliste to the new aret- bishop, and said that tis Holiness considered the movement as one of good omen for the wwy in which his sacyelical would bé received.QUEBEC'S ATSITUDE.The Archhishop then pus of his intes- view with a reporter the New York matter and seek redress by means of new legidation, : \u2014 WORLD'S GOLD OUTPUT.YIELD FOR THE PAST YEAR SAID TO BE TWENTY PERCENT IN ADVANCE OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR.Washington, D.C., Dec.31.-The director of the mint, from information now at band, smys that there is substantial evidetxe that the worid'a product of gold for the calendar year 187 will approximate, if Dot exceed, $240,000,000 an iu- vrease of nearly twenty percent over Ms.The gold product of the United Sates for 1908 wus $53,100,000; for 1897 it will approximate $61,500,000, an in- crense of ¥8,400,000.The produt of Africa for 1896 was $44,400,000; returns received up to Dec.1, 197, indicate thes the gold product of that country for the yeur will be $38,- 000,000, an incrense of $13,000,000.Australasia for 1906 was $45,200,000 : for 1897 the indications are that i will not be lem than $51,000,000, an increase of 96,800,000; Mexico, for 1806, $8,3%0.- 000; for 1807 it is estimated chat it will be $10,800,000, an increase of $1,000,000.The Dominoin of Canada for 1896, &- 800,000; R is estimated for 1897 at 87,- 500.000, or an incresse of $4,700,000.India\u2019s product for 1897 ia estimated at #7.500,000, an increase of $1,400,000 over 1808.Rumia's gold product for 1806 was $21,550,000; for 1897 catimated to approximate $45,000,000, an increase of 83, 500,000.\u2014\u2014 NEW YEAR'S HONORS.CHIEF JUSTICE OF ONTARIO TR¥ ONLY CANADIAN ON THE LIST.London, Dec.31.~The New Year hon ore are an earldom for Baron Halebury, ithe lord chancellor ; pecrages for Sir ) William Wallace Hotier, the well-known * Lanarkshire baronet, and Bir Horace Brand \u2018Fuwnsend-Farquhar, member of parliament for West Marylebone ; bar onelcies for Sir Saul Samuel, the agent general of New South Wales in London, and sir Frederick Wigan, senior part ner of the firm of Wigan & Co, and Mr.John William Maclure, member of per.{iamient for Kouth-ecat Lancashire ; and knighthood for the Hon, C.WW.Burton, ' Chief Justice of Ontario.The persone bonored with the Urder of Companion of the Bath include Prof.D'Arey Thompson, Lhe seal expert of the British Por- ; ci Oftice.Mr.J.Mcleavy Brown, the Dr consular agent at Seoul, is made Mu.Mr.The J.Lipton, the million.ressives & : naive provision merchant, knighthood. MCU 3 oo = Nag\u2014\u2014 TT 5 | | 2 2° \u2019 JANUARY 4, 1898, COMMERCIAL wre due à LOCAL STOCKS.MARKET DULL AND MIXED.On (he local stock exchange this morning the market was not es active as on Fridar, some securities were strong while others rulcd weak and the sdvances were abeut balanced by the declines.Royal Kleotrie, which advanced 1% points on Friday te 143% sol high an 144% to-day, Canadian Facile was 3 higher, at 8i%: T.B.R.% higher, at 87%.The noticeable decilues were: Dominion Cos) 1%, to 106; Richelieu 1, to 107%.The Montreal Street Railway {saved Its comparative ststoment of earnings for the last three months 189$ and 1407.This shows un increase in favor of the lat- tor of $i1.306.The lucrease of the same thres months of 15%¢ over the corresponding ones of 136 was $21,685.This makes the increase of the earnlogs of the last three months of 1897 $60,000 more than that for he vame period of (896.\u2018The sales at the morning board were:\u2014 150 C.P.R.nt 81%, 100 Gas at 190%, 250 at 190%, 238 Toronto Slrest at §7.16 at MK, 136 at 86%.2 Richelieu at 108%, 195 at 107% 100 Electric at 144%.35 at 144%: 35 at 14; § Merchants\u2019 Bank at 179, 7 Dominion Cotton at id The afterncon sales were as follows\u2014300 C.P.R.at 11%, 150 Cable at 178, 50 Oas at 190%, 135 at 190, 50 Montreal Street aL 234, Be at 3864, 96 Toronte Street at 97, 3) at $70, 5,000 Heat snd Light bonds at 85, 26 Electrio at 144, 85 at 143% New York, Jag.3.-The stock market opened firm.8 % i L : Berlin er Te Paul, ring Louisville, 58%; Western Union, 31%; Msn- hatéas, 11%.iF WU SUSIE.RE By apse wt gre YEAR IN STOCKS.MANY NOTABLE ADVANCES.The year on the local stock exchange just closed has been generally a good one, sme of the stocks having made notable advan- ees, Thus, Halifax Btreet Railway 1 recorded a gain of 41 poiats, from 75 to 116; Canadian Pacific Railway, 3% points, from $3 to 81; Toronts Btreet Railway, 19 points, from 69 to 88; Montreal Street Railway, 16 Qa; points, from 221 to 237; Royal Electric, il points, from 120 to 141; Ball Telephone, 39 point from 158 to 174; Montreal Tel e points, from 166 to 178: Commercial ble, L4 pointe, from 166 to 178: Richelleu & Ontario Navigation Company, #1 points,from a ta an hich Das been about steady arou! , has advanced over ts dur- 1ng the last days.$ potats dur The todvætri: quickly recovered popularity aud pric: after the tariff was settied, and Colored Cotton gained about 20; Ment- real Colton, 13, and Lominion Cotton, 11 polous.Among the bank stocks which made nots- ble rises were Moisons Berk with 21 pointe Ontario 22 polate: Merchants Bank - Merchants Bask of Conan pointe.WHEAT LOWER.JANUARY DECLINED île MAY te AND JULY %e.In Chicago this morning wheat opened at a considorable decline from yesterday's close and on the day's transactions a still further faliing off occurred.The mors immediate futures as usual exhibited the greatest fluctuations.January closed 1%c lower than yesterday, May le lower and July lower.Mess closed We higher, and lard bc Lo $e higher for both active months white shurt riba were about steady.GRAIN.Prices are unchanged and ths market ia We quete: dull.8s to e Glo to 81 gil » Bblgcto 36e Rye.Buckwheat .Trade was a little duller to-day, but prices remain unchanged as fol Manitoba strong bakers .$4.90 to 95.00 8prin, Kiraight roll oe Wirter patents .CHEESE.The Liverpool public cable $4 to 62e on 7 w those.BUTTER.of roll butter are oa the Inerease expected that prices will be theber ths ods Brmer Loc \\ jr woall.Stes of sreamery are Hat We ay dairy nt Lo Alry Rell butter .\u2018oe DRESSED POULTRY.The market la extremely dull this mern- ing, but prices as yot show no decline.We qui Turk: to 2%e Duok £ te 3: eto de Chicken, $ Partridges 7% to 8 Partridges Me to 600 Btocks of limed eggs are reduced.Prices remain w ther iss S004 demand.In Ne A nes eggs are bringing fc per dos, while fresh gathered eaterh ator re worth No.| dled .No.2 capdled .Hay\u2014Low grades are plentiful, Un Mt.tte demar4.On the other hand high grades are in gooû demand, and the pes Jeatt- od.No.81s worth from 8 4, and No.1 from 316 to 10 %0 with an occasions! car of fancy st a dollar higher.Provisions\u2014Demand Is goed, apd prices firm as follo Mess pork, best brands, short cut, $16; hams, 10c to ile per 15.; bacon, 12c; pure lard in palls, To.som.pound lard, 8%o to Be.MOVEX ENTS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR.Receipts, Ship's At Chizage \u2014 heat, bush =.108,006 15,000 Cora, \u2026 860,000 103,060 Oats, bush .+» 308.000 000 Flour, bris .\u2026 \u2026 11,8% 16741 At Duluth\u2014 Wheat, bush ., .100,000 21.000 At St.Loufs\u2014 Wheat, bush .» \u2026 5.00 17,000 CHICAGO MARKETS.The following table shows the ran, priote iu Chicage to-day, and the Hoe compare with of osing quotations as those of y terday:\u2014 Friday's To-day's Chess.a Heh.Low.Close.Tew nk uw s0% Mey nw ne Me US LA July 8 sx ex a s Chm mw mx wx aw aw an.nN BN 0» 2% su ge 8 us su 2 2.07 200 407 sé a: sai 4 ss 4m 1 i um .« us 40 450 May CT 4 8 4% \u2014 LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014Des.2.There were about 708 head of butchors® cattle, 26 calves and 600 sheep amd lambe ofercd fo sale at the Eest End Abattoir to-tey.is probable that there never were so R any common and lean stock offered on this market on one day during the last week ln December, as was the case to-day, and the prices of such cattle were exceedingly low, but good cattle wers bcid at êros rates.Prime beeves sold at about #c per Ib.: pretty good atock at from 3c te nearly de à beasts at (rom 1%¢c to 3c do.A largs number of the cattle will not be sold today.Calves sold to-day at from 32 to 310 each; anything mode y good in the veal line brings high prices.Bbippers are paying from 3%c to 3c per 1b.(or good Inrge sheep.Lambe were considerably lower in fries to-day than they have been for à num- r of weeks past, selling at from 3e to déc par 1b.A mixed lot of 139 shesp and jambs in about equal numbers, which were brought from the French shes, were sold here to day at 3ko per it.Fat bogs sell at atout per ib.for fed hogs; a binch sut off tte cars were sold at 38.10 per 100 1! LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014Jan.3.\u2018There were about 300 head of butchers\u2019 eaitle and 89 sheep and lambs offered for sale at the East End Abattoir to-day.The butchers did not attend In large numbers, the weather was ra'bhér cold, and the à mow made things rather disagreeable.\u2018rads was very slow, and prises con- tioue about the same as on Thursday, excepting that commen and Inferior stock brought rather better prices than on that y Some head of common cattle, that could not be sold on Thursday, were afterwards slaughtered at the Abattoir, and the bee! will bs sold oo the farmers\u2019 tmar- Ret and eisewbers.A few choice beeves were sold at 4léc per Ib.; pretty good stock sold at from 3%c to nearly 4 per 1b.; x lot of 13 tbinnish dry cows weighing 10.960 ibs, were scld at 3%e per Ib, aud s buil, weighing 1,00 was sold at 4c do.There were no calves on this market to-day Sheep solé et from 3%C to 334c per 1b, and lambs at from éc to 4 do.There were no fat hogs et tue Point St.Charles stockyards to-day.The last sales reported were at per tb.tor ted bogs.FARMERS\u2019 MARKET PRICES-Dec.81.The weather this morniig was delightful, snd the sleighing all that could be desired yot thers were leas than half the number of produce-laden alcighe at tbe market than was case last Fridsy.The price of nearly sll kinds of sessonable produce were about the same as on lest Friday, Keese being lower, and fresh killed turkeys rather higher then om that day; tha prices of bay has a downward tendency.Osts sold t Be to 8c the bag: toes, Bic to Cie & .; turrips, carrots and beets, 190 the bar- vel; eabbages, 6c to 880 do.; celery, 15c to ; dressed Bags, $4 to ic per ib.; bee! hindquarters, $c to fige per Ib.forpquarters, 3c to Ec do.; multe da ; lamb, To do.; turkeys, 10c to 136 per gins, Te ta 80 do.; ducks and chick- to 130 do.: tub butter, 170 to 20e per \u20181b.; prints, $c to ¥c do.; oid eggs, 18¢ to 280 the dosen: fresh laid , 40¢ to We do, Aoples.3.64 to 8 (h rela; eran- berries, 37,50 do.; Valevcla or nye.420g, and trom #6 to 28.50 for 3 en the box.Hay, 86.50 to $8 per 100 buu- les of 15 Iba.straw, 8 W $L80 per 100 bundies of 18 ide.WHOLESALE GROCERY MARKET.ANOTHER ADVANCE IN SUGAR.Sugar\u2014The warkel 1s very strong.and another advance of 4c per Ib, s to be recorded.1a refiners\u2019 hands are very light, and ss the factories are now slvtting down, the chances sre fat other advances may be monde.We quote granu- tated at 40, and yellow at 3%c to de at the factory.\u2018he foreign market for beet is strong, wad prices have advanced 4444 due- ing the past few days.December od In London estarder a set » Y .0 Se Circulation, aw THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNRSS.FUR TRADE NOTEZ.innipes \u2018Commercial\u2018 says that furs will require to exeruiae 4 thelr collections to d retiable houses.There are a many sharks Ja the fur trade.High prices are quoted Acmetimes simply to luduce uneus- picting perties tu send on heir con ments, and as vd cannot follow up th shipments, they will be forced Lo take what- svar the receiver may decide Lo pay.Several Canadien papers have contained advertisements for Lhe Providence Fur Co.Providence, K.1., soliciting consignmen's of tyre.Ble advertisement way vent to (he \u2018Commercial,\u2019 but when it wrote for cash in advance, no reply came ad.From what the \u2018Commercial\u2019 learns, it seems deubtful If this company In in existenc naw, though It fa reported that the projee- tor of it ia starting up under another rame at & new point.\u201cWeatorn Prairie, the sprightly newspaper published at Cypress Hiver, Man, suggouts that sn effort should be made to raise some which would provide anlmal or animals sing suitable for clothing.\u2018The \u2018Commercial\u2019 has suggestad somthing sitar to this In times past.Bince the leappearanco of thy buffalo.we have no native fur suitable for staple fur coats and rugs.Our furs are all too costly for common wear.Furs are largeiy used in this country, and we are obliged to impgrt furs for the commoner clasa of clothing.Some of the Imported skins are of domestic animale, which could no doubt be raised in Manitoba, just a3 well as in the countrios whence they are brought.A very servicehble coat for common wear, which has a large sale In this ocuntry, Is made from the Russian calf.Why no: Teles these at home?Sheep- nkins of a particulsr variety are also large- iy used for comnts mnd Jackets.We could no doubt raise these sheep to good advan tage here.The following table shows the quantities of furs which will bo offer 'd at tha Hudscn's Bay Company's Jiouary sale in London:- Badger, 1,230; bear, 3 beaver, 42,492; faber, 6,88.fox, silver, 1,310; fox, cross, &.- 85; fox, red, 28.623; fox, white.fox, Kitt, 69: lynx, 41,660: marten, 82.495; mink, 08,416: muequash.566,204: otter, 9,540: skUDk, 16.426; wolf, +: rabhit aking, 94.530 dry bair ses The Hudson's Bay Company will also offer about 15,000 salted North-West coest fur sesliskins and 2.500 dressed North-West const fur sealskins op Jan.IT, 1595.LBITER REFUSED TO TAKE POOR WHEAT.Chicago, Dec.38.\u2014-Joseph Leiter bas apparently won a victory io his fight with George A.Seaverus, the grain elevator own- or, a8 to the quality of whest to be delivered on Leiter's contracts.Leiter's commission men, Alexander Geddes & Co., Bent \" last reek se re winter wheat.By th , the stesme cargo of 75,000 been spouted into ite bold Leiter's private inspectors turned the wheat down.They declared that it was not up to the contreet Mr.Beavers now offers to take the wheat out of the vessel and to give h'm a different grade.Lelter and his commission men say the big fight of the great wheat deal is pow on; that they intend to gel just the kind of wheat they bought spd no poorer.There are about 8,000,000 bushels of contract wheat in Chicago elevators.Leiter owns it all, though } still in the possession of the elevator people.Certain cargoes were taken from Armour and found very satisfactory.It 1s, however, only as Leiter be- ns to load wheat out of the elevators that je can tell what kind of grain he is to get on bis tontract.MANITOBA WHEAT.The local situation is quiet There is no disposition to speculate by buylog wheat to hold.\u2018The fact that cash wheat is held above futures, makes the situation verse to buying wheat to carry over, storage end other charges would have to be added to the cost of wheat bought now to hold for spring shipment, and as May wheat Is lower than cash stuff in leading American markets, it can be easily seen tbat to buy wheat to hold does not look sale on th present basis.The situation, bowever, relieved by the fact that the millers buying fairly freely, and they are taking most of the wheat that Is moving these days.No.1 hard has rauged about fic to 0c afloat, Fort William, this wezk; $0¢ was said to have been made où Monday,dut 8e was tbe quotation yesterday, and for car lota at country poluts on the 19c freight rate to Fort William, 78c was quoted yesterday.No.2 hard 2%c under No.t.A feature of local interest is the speculation regarding the grain pool.It is alleged that the pool is likely Lo go to pieces, but on the other hand, some regard these statements as bavigg been purposely circuisted to shut off any tendenry to agitation fu the country against the grain trade conditions.\u2014Winnl- peg \u2018Commercial.\u2019 BANK OF ENGLAND'S WREKLY STATEMENT.London, Dee.30.\u2014~The weshly statement of the Bank of England shows the follow.Ing changes as compared with tho preview account: Total rescrve, decreased .i decreased .Bt Dion, dec: Other securities, increassd .Other deposits, Increased .000 Publle deposits, increasel.+ 34,000 Notes romerve, decreased .198,90 Government securities .Unchanged.The proportion of the Bapk of England's reserve to Mabllity, which last week was 42.97 percent, is now 40.01 percent.\u2018The bank's rate ef discovnt remalts unchanged at 3 percent.FOREIGN MARKETS.Detroit, Jan.3.\u2014Closing\u2014ê1c b.Jao., 91%c May.Duluth, Jan.8.\u2014Closing\u2014No.1 bard, 88% cash, cash; No.1 Northern, 8% b.sage Jan.Se Mas.Milwaukee, Jan.2\u2014Closiug\u2014B0c cash.080 May.: st Louis, Jan.8\u2014#3kc bd.Jen.Mhc May, Ke July.(Lolede.Jan.3.\u2014Closing\u2014#20 Jan., #3%¢ May, Jan.8.\u2014Closing\u2014#1%c Jan New York, 97e Feb, 90 May, $7%c July.CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.Unlon Stock Yards.Chleago, Jen, 3.Hogs.~To-day\u2019's estimated receipts, 34,000 yeaterdpy's receipts, accordine to off-ial réturns,9, 208; shipments, [40] I ft (ver 1000; ve and fe to îve hixher ; fight 88.46 to $3.00: mixed packing, $1.80 eavy shipping, 83.40 to 88.72; roush .40 to né The receipts of cattle VERPOOL MARKET PRICKS LIVE CURRENT.\\ 1, Jan.$.\u20148pring wheat.7a 34 Le 4: No.1 Cala, 88 34 to 86 4d; carn, do 104d; pork.Io Sad cheese, white, 630.CONSOLES.13.4 TRADE REVIEWED.A GOOD YEAR PAST, À BETTER YEAR COMING.Ia reviewing the trade of tbe year in the United States Bradatrest's says that white | It has Bot fully reslised the mest sanguine \u2018 expectations, Recertalnly contaied much that was gratifying, and more than that is full of promise for the year 1308 Following à series of years of alternate panie, stagnation and slow 30d eves palsful revival, 1907 presented a large volume of busiases docs as à whole at prices which, while pet sltegether larger (Lan (0 any previous year since 1692.\u2018Tarif changes restricted demand, but encouraged speculation sod besvy imports In the first part of 1497, while the enlarged foreign demand for American bresdstufts and for some varieties of masufactured articles bettered the condition ef the American farmer and, therefore, business zoën Quits materially, in the latter part of the year.Price conditions have not favored the southern producer of cotton ner the northern manufacturer of cotton goeds.The best reports come from the West, North-West and from the Pacific Coast.Prices at the close of the ysur are as à whole on & higher range thas at the opening, advances belug most numercus la food products, raw slik and wool, while decreases are to be reported in raw eotton and cotton goods, nearly all tnetalu, adibracits coal aod petroleum.Rallway loterests share iu ee, revival pd prosperity, with gross and ne nioge larger than any year since 1863, and the year 1894 o ï Bess commublty, with the few exception noted, in a very cheertui frame of mind.Tho New York loan market during tbe Kreater part of 1697 witnessid ap accumuln.tlon of bank reserves and exceptionally easy Tate of interest.Call loans bave ranged 14 percent, though acme hardesing of rates was noticed about the cuiminailon of tho advance In the stock market last summer.The payments of the Union Pacitie syndicate at the close of the year also caused a siigbtly firmer tous and reduced the New York Bank reserves.Money on call was in plentiful supply at 2 percent, and the market for imorcantile paper was an easy one throughout, with the Fmited offerings as the chief feature.IN CANADA.The past year bas been exceptionally fav.erable to the agricultural community In Ontario and Manitoba.Both of thesa provinces raised large crops of wheat.Tes prices were recelred by the farmers\u201475 to M9 cents at country markets in Onterio, and 75 to 85 centa fer bard wheat at Interior points in Manlioba.Dairying in Ontario bas been unusually profitabie.The output of cheeso was twunty percent larger than the average of the past threes years, snd dur- Ing the active selling months from 3 to \u201c4% cents per pound was received for it.Butter production shows an jucresse of about 320 perceut, sas compared with the average of the past three years.Canads now furmishes 58 percent of the cheess imported by Great Britain.In addition to tho output nf wheat and dairy goods thers has bsen a heavy Yield In Ontario of oats, buckwheat and rye.Manufacturing, financial and mercantile Institutions now feeling the effect of the prosperous year in agriculture.Demand for all kids of goods shows an ep- preciable increase.Bank circulation was Rover so large in the Dominion's bistory.Loan companies, which have been carrying lands for years, are now selling nut at a proft.Jobbers bave had an active avtumn's trade, and bave placed large orders for spring goods with domestic and foreign manufacturers.Among the notable fen tures In manufacturing bare is the jacreased export business done in farm fivplements and bicycles, sad the heavy demand for wool clothing for the Klondike trade.In Montreal the business siluation at the close of 1897 is decidedly more encouraglig than one year before.At that time it was hoped that a revival ju trade would take place, but this has been the chronic state of affaire for several years previously.Eighteen hundred snd pitety-seven was an improvement on its predecessor, while thers Is still much room for improvement.Stock-takings have shown a more healthy state of th'ngs.Prices generally Rave been firmer, and In meny lines distinet advances bave been recorded.The losses by bad debta have not been es heavy as It ls felt, however, that the ex- of jobbers and mapufacturers Io Canada are too heavy for the volume of In 8 tendency to cut prices too e estate In the city has kept steady Perhaps a litte declines in sales may be no- tired.Mnnufacturers bave not much to bosat of te the year's result, owing to the disturbances fa the tariff In the earller montbs of the year.Money bas been on the stock market, owing to tha general upward tendency of solid dividend earning securities.In almost every industry a few points have been galoed, with a fairly good utiook In Halifax, whils there are complaints in 0 many quartars that during the last year trade has been unusually dull and very tiuch cut up, still it seems to bs the gen- cral opinion that in most branches there has been a gradual improvement during the last menths of the year, and prospects for 188 are regarded as fair.Farmers have had crops.Fishermen have done tairty gold mining fn becoming increasingly profitable.and the coal mines sre profucing largely.On the whole, thers {a believed to bo a slight Improvement over this time last year.In the Mominion generally the properity of the agricultural community waa at the bane of the Improvement in trade for 187.The Increased prices of nearly all Canadian agricuiturs] products, and the enlarged demand for export, partl- evlarly 1n the lsat half of 187.helped distributive trade throughout Cmods.TNusiness faitures for the Memiolon of Canada and Newfoundland for (he calandar rar 1887 amourted to 10ST.with total Ya- llities of $18,219,000.à failinx off of 13 percent in number, and of 19 percent in lisbili- ties from à year ago, well, Canadien bank clearings for the yest, ons week eatimated, were the largest on assrepatine 31,148,000,000, à gain of 11 pe aver TORONTO CATTLE MARKET.satisfactory, resulted in a totsi of trade |§ business, and as competition Is keen there| toes, jose Real\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014ah a} AMERICAN CATTLE MARKETS.New York, .81.-Beoven\u2014Ieceipte, head; 15 cary on sale; ao- tive and generally steady: mative ateurs.16 to 35; and oxen, 83.75 to 44.60; Ulis, M to 8.4: dry sows.81.50 à M0 Culves\u2014Receipts, 287 nd To pous 63.60; city Gresso4 voais, per pound.Bhesp and merkets, 1,688 bead firm; lambs atendy $6.76 9.graseers, B 0 at 1c to 13%e Hi colyts, 3,250 head; market firm at FM te 86.10.Kast Buffals, Dec.31.\u2014Cattis-Hecelpts, all consigned througb.The general outiook is considered atendy to fairly favorable tor good bandy stock and butchers\u2019 grades for immediate future.Hogs\u2014-Receipts, 8 rly active demand snd prices for Ye » and light grates were stroagIr, while mized mediums and heavy grades were Ready to strong Good to choice Yor- kers, $3.60 to $3.62: mised packers 9.00 to 2.8, medium sights, 40 to $2.00 to $1.8; rouxhs, © $2.65; heavy hogs, to $3.90; wags, $2.90 to $3; pigs $1.2 to $3.00 Sheep and lambe\u2014Receipts, 35 cars 24 fresh arrivals and 10 loads of hald overs.eo market ruled with s fairly good demand for lambe of all kinds, and for the dest lots prices wore 8 shade higher.Shesp continu- od to rule steady with a light supply, aoû ter earlings, the market remains rteady and firm.lambs, yearlings, choles to prime $4.90 to $5.10.fair to goed, $4.60 to $4.80; culls to common Jeariiugs, Hi to $4.50.native lambs, choice to ex *® to $0.10; fair to good, $5.08 to $5.96.culls to common, $4.50 to $5.50; native sheep, choles to selected wethers, $4.90 to 34.35; good to choice mixed sheep, 1 to M.b0; common te fair, $3.8 to 18; culls to common sheep, Lov to 01.75.BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.Edinburgh, Dec.20.\u2014Messrs.John Swan & Sons\u2019 weekly rt says: \u2014The number of fat cattle on offer this week bay bean silghtiy under the average.A fair trade bas been experieaced, and prices ss nearly az possiblh equal to last week, Any occa- lonal change being in favor of buyers.Sheep bave been 8 fair supply, but ewing to the bad state of the London and meat markets (rade throughout has been just the turn Quister, and prices in some cages 15 under last week.Calves bave been making lens money, while pigs met n fair trade.There has been à very email supply of store cattle on offer, hut there were few custom- dd early half left unsold.A moderate pumber of store shesp oa offer.Anything of a good class met & fair Inquiry, but inferior sorta difficult to sell.Milk cows were a short supply, trade for thees being falrly good.Best beef (0 35 per stone.Mutton to 84 per ib.London, Dec.20.\u2014FPor Monday following great market there was a large supply of bessts, e nutnber of which consisted of rough cattle apd fat bulls, both dering dificult to cash at low and irregular prices.Most of the fat breeds offered consisted of those left unsold last week, and trade was extremely dull.Rates ruling lower.Top velue\u2014Primest Scotch, 4s 4d; Norfolks, 48 to 48 3d per § lbs.British arrivale\u201490 Bceotch, 40 Norfolk, Suffelk, and Essey, 330 midland, home 2nd western counties, 40 De- ven.Full supply of sheep, trade though rather slow for wetders was steady In value, Ewes lower and very dificult to sell.Pigs very dull.Beef, 25 4d to és 44; mutton, 35 6d to 5s 10d; pork, 268 to de 44 per 3 Ibs.Total super deurts, 500: sheep, 4,100; calves, 5.pigs, 20.Liverpool, Dec.20.\u2014Beasts, 1,200; sheep and lambs, 4.305; best beast.bé to 6Xd; second, Bd to 5%: third, 4d to 4Md:; best Sceteh sheep.744; other sorts, 634d; Jambes, eMd.A decreass of 1,107 beasts, snd 161$ sheep avd lambs.Slow demand for all classes, at about Jate rates.Ji BUTTER.Manchester, Det.22\u2014There was rather more Irish batter on the markat yesterday, but business was only email.\u2018The suppiy of Danish, Bwedish, and Finnish was lerger.\u2018Trade was, however, dull.snd ast week's prices were dificult to obtain.The supply at the close was not cleared.Colonial butter is not giving satisfaction.and there was very little selling.Canadian met with a ready sale.Quotations: \u2014Tipperary, 92s to 94a; 40.Listowels, 86s to 80s: Ennis, 8s to 82s; Irinh factory, 86 to 90s: Finnish, extra fine, 1048 to 106s; fine 95s to 103.Danisd guet 100s to 113s; Hamburg, extra fine,106e GUELPH MARKET.Guelph, Ont., Jan.1\u2014Flour, $2.2 to $2.40; fall wheat, 83c to Sbc; spring wheat, Tbc to 80e; bran, $9; sharts, §11; middiings, 913; barfey, 20: to Mc: onts, \u201c2e to ic; rye, 40 to 45¢; pess.460 tn 480; bay, $ to §7: Butter, 156 tr Iïc; eggu, 20e to Me; peta- .per bag, 60c to 68c; dressed hogs, 96 to $8.26; hides, 9 to $7; sheepkins, 50e to 750: chickens, per pair, 60 to (0c: ducks, per pair, Büe to 65e; geese, por Ib., 5e to Oc; turkeys, per Ib.8e ta Se.HAMILTON MARKETS.Hamilton, Ont, Jeu.1\u2014White wheat bushel at Bc 10 84c; red wheat at 3 pri wheat at 30c to Mc; peas at ic to ; barley at Zc to 5c; oaln at de to Pc; corn at Me to 3c; clover seed a: $390 to $.timothy seed, $1.50 to 81.26; white wheat four, per barrel, at 887 1 $1.2; strong bakers, $3°50 to $4.75; dressed bugs, Be ewt., te 36.15; apples, per bag of ushel anad a bait, $1 to $1.36; dried apples, per 1b.4c to 4%c: potatoes, per bag of $0 Ibs., \"Sc to 80e; butter Ie rolls, per Torct ta, Dec.31.\u2014-Ofterings at the West.orn cattle Ya -day were about à dosen carloads of stuff, lacluding neariy 29 bogs à about 100 sheep and lambs.Buyers were not anxious to operate, and tbe mar- changed prices.Should the weather ve- main colé it is Nkely that there will bs an improved market next week IN nearly every line Export cattls rule at Yr to {c.Bulle tetching 3%o to 344c Butchers cattle are quiet at 30 to 3%r, the latter figare being seldom palé.tockerm and feeders are unchanged with fuck of trads, ruling from $2.90 to 58.60 per cwt., the Ipfter for choles half fat steors.hosp and Jamba are hold- (ng their own.but there ts no telling what they may do when offerings increase.\u201cley are quotrd from 35 to Be per ib.for et- butchers\u2019, Mt rach.aod, tombs at do to eo A noke fetch! me ome lambe are being tak+n for Suf- te fogs of the best bacon kind are Srm $4.73 por cwt, weighed off the core.& ket was à quiet one, with practically up.© Ib., 1îfe to 15e; dutter, in fitkins, per Ib, 12s to ldo; eggs.per dozen, 17c to Pc.In It, Ont.Jan.3.\u2014White wheat, 790 to Bic per dusb: red fall, Toe to Sic per ley.3c to 38c per bushel: peas.390 to 40c Yor bushel; corn, é5c to Wc per bushel: oats.ton: shorts, $13 to $18 per ton; to 8$c per bushel : onfons, to 78e per oF caimed 8 ia our, to 4.26 per cwt.: ontrmeal, = > ewt: cornmeal, nn w mc to Île per 1b.eggs.7c to Me hay, $8 to §7 per ton; hides, $8 to TORONTO MARKET.Toronte, Out., Jan.3.\u2014Market quiet : qtialght rollers quoted at $5.55 to $1.25 middle freights Wheat quiet, with the feeling high freigbte: spring Is_quoted at 8c on » land, ond goose at Tic to Tec Midland; 1 herd at $1.02 grinding In_transit, Toronto freight, and Q tions at Fort William are ctanged; No.2 quoted at 33¢ west; No.3 % quoted at 1 feed nold at 25 Oats west.and at ge Midland: mized steady at 24c west Peas firm, sales at 46c to 46L4c Brckwheat, steady, with wales ae lc wast, and at Bya unchanged, sales INGERSOLL MARKET.bushel: spring, *% to Sic per bushel: ba Me bushel: bran, $10 to $12 eto per ser bushel; live bogs, $.3 to 84.50 ti 8 .; butter, 1Ac to Ne per .50 per ewt.flour quiet, with no chan in prices; and firmer; sales of red winter at 83 to Sige Manitoba wheat steady, with sales of No.Me to Mc.Barley, moderate, prices un- x steady with sales of white at 24l4¢ to 2c sorth and weet and at {ic on Midland.onal at dic high freighis and at 4S¢ on Midland Corn, quiet and prices unchanged, with sales west at flo Bran, demand fair.saine at to $2.50.middis freighte: morts rule at $10 to $12, middle freights.Oatmeal quiet ané priers une! at 38.16 tn bâge, end 98.39 (n barreis on track.OTTAWA MARKET.Juans, De.Tere eh ite .tres market moreing.uch larger a was seen on the Friday precedisg Christ- sl famba\u2014Receipts, two : hoof 20 28 There was gsod buniosss poustry and prices were somewhet Érmer > ur have beam since Thursday of jast week.The offaring of potatoes lately has not been large sithough quits equal to the demand, Potatoss sell at #4 cents per bag been steady at this price for There was s censideratle this morning at steady prices.oggs remain about the same time.Prices were about as [i 312 ons ton; straw, acarce, ten, $6 to to Me; Ë à to ééc; onts, Me to Mc: to Mio; butter, pal, 16,166 to 1e; Du : print, Ib, to fic: e , fresh To ec: ougs, freably laid, Me te Mr; boot.hindquarters, id, to Bye; Deed, wa.1b, 3c tg 4 er 25: polatoes, bag, 60e; appies, bai, $1.to 43.5; chicken pair, 40e Lo Ge; goss, (0c to S0c; ducks, 0s to We turkeys, 0c to 81.40: turkeys, Sc to 94e ; Sc to 6c per Ib.turnips, Mc to cabbage, 206 to 280 doen; celery, Me to 35¢ dozen: onlons, êée to T0c : esr- rows, îte to 30c bag: parssips, 15e to ses.\u2014_\u2014 THE RANKIN MURDER.YOUNG FRANKUM WAS URGE) BY HIS MOTHER TO COMMIT THE CRIME.Huntaville, Ont, Dec.30.\u2014The jury in the inquest on the body of James Rankin, who was shot by his nephew on Dee.21, brought in « verdict last night that decessed came to his death from a gunshot wound by W.A.Franium, with intent, being influenced by his mother, Margaret Stevens, sister of the deceased.The aged father, David Rankin, swore that he and his son, James Rankin, were loadi bemlock bark when his daughter, Btevens, and W.A.Fraokum, her sos by a former husband, drove up in a single sleigh, and wanted to get by.Being the old man\u2019s private rosd, he told them they could not get past, and that they had better go back on their own road.They still drove on, and James Rankin and the others began quarreling.Mrs.Btevens told her son to go home and get the gun and riddle his heart, He went for the gun and when he came back pointed it at his uncle, who told him to put it down.Frankum lowered the gun, and then after his mother spoke to bim he raised it and put the charge into the leg, between the knee and sukie The wound proved fatal.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN HONORED OARFER.Toronte, Dec.30.\u2014The noble band of pioneer preachers, with each year growing less in number, who, in the early days of settiement m this province, carried the gospel message into the forest clearings, receive and are well entitled to the respect and esteem of those whose lot has fallen upon later and easier times.Of these pioneers, particularly in the foundation-laying of Methodism in Ontario, one of the most devoted in his days of active service, and mow most bonored in his declining years, is the Rev.James Caswell of Grimsby, whe on Tuesday last attained his sightieth year.The occasion was celebrated by a pleasant gathering of the family, at the residence of one of the sans, Mr.N.Caswoll, 117 Portland street, this city.sponding to the words tof congratulation from his family, the recipient feslingly reviewed the busy and eventful years which had paseed since, more than half « century before, he bad landed in Toronto a stranger in « strange a missionary sent out by the English ference of the Mathodist New Connexion Church.These years had ther labars, their burdens and cares, their rewards, and se he reviewed happy in the affection of bis chil A his heart was filled with gratitude for the past, and bright hope for the future.\u2014\u2014\u2014 EARTHQUAKE AT TORONTO.KILLED BY HIS SON'S TRAIN.St.Hyacinthe, Dec.28.\u2014Anteine Goy- atte, aged fifty-five, was run over and instantly killed at Richmond last Sunday.Goyette, who was employed ix the GTR yard, was engaged in sprinkling the track with salt when a locomotive struck him.A strange coincidence in connection with the esd affair is that the engineer of tbe train that ran over the usfortunate man was Goyette\u2019s own eon.ADVERTISEMENTS.2e Re ei Fées die REE gE TEL.$34\" JAMES HUTCHISON, sTeck RBORER Member Mertreal Mock Nechangs.18 ST.JONN STREET.[842 oy i eid - 2 SPECIAL OFFER \u201cWITNESS\u201d SUBSCRIBERS.Every subscriber sending ONE DOLLAR renewal or new sub- soription to the Weekly Witness, for 1898, can have choice of ANY ONE of the following offers.PICTURES.Offee No.1.\u2014'Day\u2019s Work Done,\u2019 10x 18, à rural exquuxte sunset scene.No 2\u2014'Roses, 2043x1313, a cluster of ink and white of this favorite flower, by eorge UC.lLambden.No.$\u2014l'm a Daisy\" (a prize baby), 1634x13, by Miss lda Waugh, a picture of & beautiful blue-cyed babe.Na #\u2014'achool In,\u2019 15x18, by J.H.Dolph, representing pusay instructing her family of five\u2014a pretty and amusing picture.No.5.\u2014A pair, \u2018Cluck, Qluck\u2019 and \u2018Take Care\u2018 each 1338, both by A.F.Tait.Two handsome pictures illustrat ing the care and anxiety of \u2018 Biddy * and her brood of chickens.MOODY BOOKS\u2014PAPER COVER.No.6.\u2014The way to God and how to Sind it,\u2019 So piain that * He who runs may read.\u2019 No.7.\u2014 \u2018Pleasure and profit in bible study.\u2019 Fresh, bright, deeply devotional and bel pful.No.8.\u2014'Heaven\u2019 Where it is; its in- hatitants; how to get there.No, 9\u2014\u2018Prevailing Prayer\u201d What hinders it.Nine essential elements to true prayer.No.10.\u2014'Secret Power.\u2019 The secret of suecews in Christian life and work.No.11.\u2014To the work.\u2019 A trumpet call to Christians.Will prove helpful and iring % all Ch-istian workers.lo.12\u2014\u201cBible characters\u2019 Studies of the characters of Daniel, Enoch, Lot, Jacob and John the Baptist.He makes the bible a living book.No.13.\u2014 Sovereign grace.\u2019 lis source, its nature and ita effects.No.14.\u2014'Select Bermons.\u2019\u2014 \"Where art thou ?\u2019 There is no difference,\u2019 \u2018Good news,\u2019 \u2018Christ sceking sinners,\u2019 \u2018Sinners seeking Christ,\u2019 \u2018What think ye of Christ ?\u2019 \u2018Excuses,\u2019 and \u2018The hlood.\u2019 COOK BOOK.No.15.\u2014The Standard Cook Book (pe- per cover), embracing more than one thousand recipes and practical sugges tions to housekepers, fully illustrated.Compiled by Mra.T.J.Kirkpatrick.A useful book for the kitchen.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE PLEBISCITE.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\u2019) Bir,\u2014As the time for the Dominion Parliament to assemble ia approaching, 1 think it my duty to lay before your numerous readers a few facts in relation to the liquor traffic.It is expected thes a bill will be passed to provide for a ple biscite or popular vote on the subject.If a plebiscite means anything it means the voice of the common people.Everyone who is competent to give evidence in a magistrate\u2019s court, dhould have an op- portumty of voting yes or Do, on pro hibition.We all know that the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is a dreadful evil, which I think could easily be prevented by proper legislation.IU the liquor trafic adds sever million dol- lors to our revenne, and takes nine mil: lions out of it, 1 should eay it wes \u20ac poor speculation.I am quite sure that if the matter was properly explained nine-tenths of the common people in Canadas would vote for prohibition.But the liquor dealers want compensation for the loss of their business.they make compensation to the widows and orphans of the victims of their business, it will then be their turn to ask for compensation.The use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage never does any geod to any one but often ruine ite victims, morally, mentally, socially, phyei- cally and financially.It may be stated without fear of contradiction that the ume of intoxicating liquors ss a beverage bas utterly destroyed more Christians in America then all the ruthless Turks have done in Armenia.Yours, for truth amd right.8.F.C.MONTREAL NEWS, The holiday season closed with excel lent wintry weather, and New Year's day was stormy and cold, with good sleighing.Anastasie Belanger was arrested in the Notre Dame ospital on Tuesday, charged with killing her illegitimate newborn child a few days previously.The child's body was discovered in the closet of the house where she resided.Messrs.George Reed & Co.roofers, sustained a loss of eight thousand dol- Jars by fire on \u2018thursday evening, and the Turkish Bath had a «light fire on fundey morning early.There was lit- tie damage done at the latter.Thomas Kelly, ot St.Agathe, who re sided for some time with bis nister, at 60 Young street, has been miering since Wednesday, Dec.22.His trunk is at the Gread Trunk station.His friends are rery anxious as to his whereabouts.Kelly is sixty years of age.The intenso cold of the early part of fast week caused s lumberman named Henri, of Montfort, to lose ais way and suffer severe frost bite in the woods north of Bt, Hyacinthe.He wandered all night, and when brought to the Notre Dame Hospital was very faint.He will probably loss some fingers off each hand.Mre Lebrun, of 444 Montcalm street, separated from her husband for more à year, took nitrie acid to end her last week.Ghe mourir vuccoeded, se her sey betrayed she was te the Notre Deme Hospital, and THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.ber life was saved, though she suffered torture that was painful in the extreme.Signs of Klondike spring-flitting are noted here in vivits of gentlemen from Prince Albert, N.W.T, and Vancouver, | B.C., booming these places es starting | points on the routes to the Klondike, | The Fdmonton route is also strongly backed by those who desire travel by | land-locked waters, which are said to: contain no perils that are not easily sur mountable.Gideon Deguire and Joseph Lalonde, at whose hands Alexis Greco, an Italian, is alleged to have met hus death at Coteau du Lac, on the St.Lawrence, a few miles above the inland of Montreal, have both been orderel to stand ther trinl for murder.The parties attacked the Italian entside the post-office, and drink added one more to the hideous catalogue of crime it sums up each year.St.Vincent de Paul penitentiary was stirred up on Wednesday evening by an attack made upon the keepers.Guard Fatt was providing a convict named Du.buc with his supper, when Dubuc felled him with a brick that he had dug from the wall, and he then rushed into the corridor aud defied the other guards, quick rush upon him.lle secured after a desperate fight.was Fatt was not fatally hurt.Mr.Plante, of Berthier, farmer, while trying to cross the river one day last week to Sorel, in a double horse sleigh, went through the ice, and was in peril at once.His wife and two children were up to their necks in icy water, and it was with great difficulty the four were rescued by Sorel people who had seen them in danger.The horses and sleigh were swept away under the ice and Dever seen again.Joseph Vincent, à Longueuil fisherman and waterman, w trying to make a road route on the ice for farmers to cross, and by thus doing to make some coin for himself, nearly lost his life on Thursday.He found that there wus still an open space in mid-channei, where he was furthest from help and was into the blue, cold water before he could wink.It took all his nerve and skill to save his life ; but he crossed to the Hochelaga shore.Mr, 8.C.Stevenson, secretary of the Board of Arts, and manager of the Montreal Exhibition Company, died on Sunday evening in his own house from heart failure, while listening to his daughter reading.He has been a figure in exhibition circles, Laving commenced as com- Misrioner for Quebec province to tha Certennial.Since that time he has been most closely connected with exhi- Litions, and was an authority on their management.He served with the Prince of Wales Rifles in 1870, and was lieutenant of No.1 company at Eccles Hill.Mr.Rivet's sore, comer of Fullum, and Notre Dame streets, was visited by two men about eleven o'clock on New Year's Eve, Mr.Rivet and his assistant were counting the financial proceeds oi the duy, when the two masked men entered.One of them whipped out two revolvers, demanding money.The second mau was armed with a heavy \u2018skull- cracker,\u201d and evidently meant busines.Mr.Rivet was rather startled, but un- wean he seized a crowbar which happened to be handy, and struck the \u2018skul-crack- er\u2019 a blow, which broke the weapon and scattersd the lead on the floor.The highwayman with the revolvers fired a shot at Mr.Rivet, which fortunately crashed harmlessly into che opposite wall.During the excitoment the men decamped and two policemen chesed, but did not capture them.Mr.Narcisse Duval, editor and publisher of the \u2018Aurore,\u2019 well-known in the foremost ranks of the French Protestants, died on Thursday forenoon ahout eleven o'clock after a brief illness.He had been ailing for a few days in the previous week, but this only kept him at his home at the Rack River for a few hours each day.He was born in Grande Ligne, and was educated there, when he followed the footsteps of his father and became a Protestant.Though frequent.Iv disciplined by bis mother, who was a Roman Catholic, young Duval persisted in his Protestantism, a-1 finished his education at Rochester College.He then became a missionary, and held suc cessful controversial meetings with Father Chiniquy, then a szealous Roman Catholic priest.He afterwards ht French in Protestant schools, and became publisher of the \u2018Aurore.The Geological Society of America held à convention in the Windsor Hotel, commencing last Tuesday morning.The officers for 1908 are :\u2014President, John J.Stevenson, New York city ; first vice: president, Benjamin K.Emerson.Amherst, Masse.; second vice-president, George M.Dawson, Ottawa, Ont.; secretary, H.L.Fairchild, Rochester, N.Y.: treasurer, I.C.White, Morgantown, W.Va.; editor, J.Stanley Brown, Washington, D.C.; librarian, H.P.Cushing, Cleveland, O.Councillors\u2014W.M.Davis (unexpired term of B.K.Emerson) ; Robert Bell, Ottawa, Ont.; M.E.Wads- worth, Houghton, Mich.Fellows\u2014John Mason Clarke, Amherst (Albany), George L.Collie, professor of geology in Beloit College ; Arthur M.Miller, professor of geology in State College of len.tueky : James Edward Talmage, Deseret Professor of geology in University of Utah.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE FAST LINE.Ottawa, Dec.28.\u2014It is announced by the government nrgan here that Messrs.Petersen, Tate & Uo, have made a sec: ond deposit of ten thousand pounds se curity in connection with their contract for à feet Atlantic mail service, bringing the total deposit up to twenty thousand pounds, the amount required by their t It would seem, ore, that the firm is complying with the terme EVE of the contract and intends to carry it out.MR.WHITNEY NOMINATED.Winchester Rprings, Oat.Mr.J.I Whitney, M.P, the Ontario Opposition in was yesterday nomineted as the standard bearer of the Doudss Conservatives in the approaching eections, Dr.Hickey, of Morrisburg, was also nominated, but retired in favor of Mr.Whitney.Mount Brrdges, Unt, Dec, 29.\u2014 The Liberal convention of Woat Midilesex, met to-day and unantmoualy eclecal the Hon.G, W.Ross t> represent the riding.Mr.Roes in sddroming the meeting defended the general political paliey of the government.The meeting broke up at five p.m.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN UNRULY TONGUE.Louisville, Ky., Dec.28.\u2014 Patrick Kelly, a hardwood finisher, who for over « year has been dumb, suddenly recovered the use of speech yesterday during a fit of auger.He was greatly surpnised to find himself talking, and changed his words from curses to a fervent \u2018Thank tied.\u201d He was formerly employed by Mahlesen & Co.at Wilmington, Del, and it was while he was about to curse one of the bosses there that lus voice was palsied.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.A Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat requires immediate attention, as neglect oftentimes results in some incurable Lung Disease.Brown's Bronchial Troches are a simple remedy, containing nothing injurious, and will give immed:- ate relief.25 cents a box.Fetes af Mirch, marriages ond deaths must favert.whip de cndoraed wiih the name and address of the onder, or otherwise ne notice can be taken qf them Birih notices ars inserted for Phe, marriage notices Sor 8c, death wotiors for 850 prepaid.Whew an.nouncrmes: af funcral, extended obituary or verses accompany rock notées frertker charge will be made.Notices received from annual sudacriders (nsertod frs BIRTHS.BEATTIE\u2014On Dec.35.at 85 Crescent street, the wife of John Beattie of a dsugbter.2% BROWN\u2014At Brandon, on Dee.24, 1897, the wife of the Rev.J.L.Brown, of & duugh- ter.FRY.\u2014At 59 Fort street, on Dec.23, 1397, we wife of Henry Fry, of a son.28 LOVE.\u2014At the manse, Quebec, on Dee.31, 1897, the wife of the Rev, Andrew T.Love, of a son.3 MATHESON\u2014At 530 St.Antoine street, on Dec.30, 1897, the wife of John Matheson, of à daughter.Li} McDONELL.\u2014At Lancaster, on the Sth inst, the wife of A.R.McDonell, asst.P.M.of à son.0 MeINTYRE.\u2014At \u2018The Pines,\u2019 1st com.of Finch, on Monday, Dec.27, Mrs.Alex.C.Mcintyre, of 8 daughter.% SCIIWITZER\u2014On Dec.24, 1897, at Rat Por- taxe, the wife of J.E.Schwitzer, C.E., and O.L.8., of à son.a WHEELER.\u2014On Dec.21, 1897, at Hillside Ranch, Lordsburg.Calif., & son te Mr.and Mrs.Fraok ler.3 MARRIED.ALEXANDER\u2014STURGEON.\u2014By the Rev.W.Knox, in Zion Methodist Church, on Dec.22, Mr.Joseph Alexander, of Ottaws to Miss Mary Louisa Sturgeon, daughter of the Iate John Sturgeon, of Clarendon.28 BULL\u2014BRENNEN.\u2014At the residence of Mrs.M.Brennen, 418 Main street east, Hamilton, Ont, Maria Scott Brennen to Willtam P.Buli, B.A., barrister, Toronte.CODE\u2014VIRTUE\u2014At the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs.Riddell ith aver Hintonburgh, on Dec, 24.1891, by the Rev, D.Winters, Miss Eva R.Virtue, to Mr.E.B.Code, both of Ottawa.» COPLAND \u2014 CRAIK\u2014At Malone, N.Y., on Nov.26, 1807, by the Rev.Mr.Mcintosh, J.R.Copland, of Hiochinbrooke, Que., to Elien A.eldest daughter of Mr.Thos.Craik, of Tullochgerum.3L DORBIE-POOLE.\u2014On Wednesday, Dec.22, 1897, by the Rev.B.J.Hughes, M.A., at Perth, Ont, Mr.David G.Dobble, of Mid- dievilie, Co.Lanark, to Miss Hetty A.Poole, of Perth, daughter of Mr.John Poole, of the same town.0 DOBIE\u2014WILLIAMSON.\u2014On Dec.at the residence of the brid parents, Brantford, Ont.by the Re .Hawmll- ton, William Dobie, of Toronto.Ont, to Annie, cldest daughter of Captain Andrew 22, 1897, Williamson.FOX\u2014-COULTER\u2014On the 1th of Dec., 1897, at the residence of Mr.Hugh Coulter, Derby, Ont, Mr.Allan Fox, to Miss nie Coulter.FRORT\u2014COLE.-At the residence of the bride's uncle, Mr.A.Hillman, Rockliffe, on Dec.23.1897, by the Rev.A.A.Cameron, Miss Mattie Cols to Mr.8.L.T.Frost, of the Customs Department, on ve.Jon- GILLESPIE\u2014MORRIBON\u2014At the manse, Cedarville, Proton, Ont., on the lst Dec, 1897, by the Rev.John Morrison, Alex.Gillesple, farmer, Walsh County, North Dakota.to Emily (Emeline) daughter of the Rev.\" Mr.a rison, Proton, Ont.GRAHAM-McINTOSH.\u2014At the realdence of the bride's father, Glenburnie, Out, on the 22nd of Dec., 1897, by the Rev.\u20ac.J.Curtis, John J.Graham, of Spafñortou, Ont.to Miss Etta Mcintosh, of Glen- burale.zs JOHNSTON\u2014-CUYNE-On Dec.29, 1897, at the residence of the brife's mother, Bramnp- ton, Ont, by the Rev.Wm.Walsh, rector of Christ Church, Geo.Wesley Johnston, Th.D.lecturer In University of Toronto, to Mary Alexandra, only daughter of the lete John Coyne, kaq., M.P.P.1 LAMBLY-MrKELVIE\u2014At Inverness, on Dec.23.1857, by the Rev.C.8.Ueeprose, cnsisted by the Rev.James Butheriend, Willlam Davidson Lambly,M.D., and Miss Jennte Isabella MeKelsie, daughter of Willlem McKeivie, all of Inverness.No cards.2 MeBRIDE\u2014YOUNG.\u2014At the residence of the bride's parents, on .20, 1887, by the Rev, John McNair, B.D., pastor, Waterloo Presbyterian Church, William Albert McBride of Glenallsn, Ont, to Julie, daughter of Wm.Young, Esq.Waterleo, Ont.McFARLANE\u2014BRIMS.\u2014 At the residence of the bride's parents, on tha 39th inst.the Hev.A.Rowat Mr.David A.Mc- Farlane to Margaret M, eldest daughter of Daniel Brims, Keg., all of Elgin.3 MELVILLE-SCOTT.\u2014On Saturday, Dec.#, 1857 by the Rev.W.R.Cruikehank, B.A.Wiliam Melville te Eivins Maud, oldest daughter of Mr.Jehan Scott, both of , the rest on Dee 28, 187, by the Laren, D.D, assisted > Rer, H.M.Pareons, D D., and the Rev.Mr.Waliace, Arthur Carson McMaster, of Osgoode Hall.barrister-at-law, te leabel, youngest dnvæhter of Jobn Wanless, Ksq., J.P,, all of Toronto.an MOFFAT\u2014REID\u2014At the manse, Weston, Out, on lec.29, 1887, by the Rov.Waiter Reid, H.1)., father of t he bride, John King Molat, vice-president of the Moftat Stov+ Couipany, daughter of the Her.W.Reid.3 HEL?GARRISON-On Dec.25, 107, at the Teuidonce of the bride's father, 458 Church street, Toroutu, by the Rev.Q.i.Turk.Hertha May Garrison, to Wm.Harcourt Reid, of the Mellance Losa & Savings Company, Toronto, 2 SHANKLAND\u2014BERRYMAN\u2014Oa Des.1.1587, at Bt.John's Wond Presbyterian Church, London, Knglard, by (he Rev.Pr.Monro Gibson, Dugald Cowan Bhank.land, shipowner, of Grecnock, Serly, daughter of K.W, Herryman, ot Caldecott, West Hampatead » BIMMONB\u2014COLLINS.\u2014By the Rev.J.C.wilson, at the Methodist Tweed, Ont, Dec.13, 1897, A Simmona to Miss Jrunie Collins, both of Tweed, Ont.» SMITH-SERPELL.\u2014On Nov.3, 1097, at Bt.Paul's Church, Quine, Chile, by the Rev.R.Tyerman, George Thomas Smith, est son of Philip T.Smith, Victoria, Chile, formerly of Darlington, Ontario, to Edith, eldest daughter of the late John Berpell.Quino, Chile, formerly of Cornwall Eagiand.4 TANNER\u2014WILSON\u2014At Toronte, on Dec.15, 1897, at Bt.James's Square Presbyter- fan Church, or Rev.L.H.Jordan, R.D., Fred.\u201cTanner, to Isobel, only daughter of Mr.James Wilson, both of Toronto.a WILLIAMS\u2014SEARS.\u2014On Chrietmas Day,by the Rey.C.J.Curtis, at the residence of \u201ca father, Btorrington, Bower of Bedford Mills, gccountant, to .daughter of Mr.John Bears.WOODARD\u2014HAYES\u2014On Dec.31, 1897, at the residence of Heman J.Allen, es Weat Bolton, Que, by tbe Rev.Seth À.Mille, Mason Woodard, of Fulford.tu Della Hayes, youngest daughter of Gilbert Hayes, Esq, of Fulford.an DIED.BRIIGGB\u2014At his late residence, 333 Somerset street, Ottawa, on Dec.28, 1897, Kd- ward Briggs, aged 65 years.» BROWN.\u2014At 846 Clark ave, Westmount, on Monday, Dec.27, Marjorie Jessie, eldest daughter of Mr.and Mrs.E.Herbert Brows, aged 3 years, 2 months and 2% ays.CUTLER\u2014At Granby, Que., on Dec.13.1897 of pocumonia, R.W.Cutler, aged 9 years.{a COULTER.\u2014At Rawdon, Que., on Dec.3, 1897, Wm.Coulter, son of the late James Coulter.After 8 long lliness and much suffering be passed away peacefully at the age of 68 years.His faith was {n Christ and his end peace.DAWES.\u2014On Jap.3, 186, Sarah Harriman, dearly beloved wife of W.KE.Dawes.Kingston, Ont., and Rochester, N.Y., papers pleases copy.3 DAY.\u2014Suddenly, on Dec.7, at 121 Cambridge strest, Ottawa, Bamuel Day, In bis 73rd year.\u201cHe giveth His beloved sleep.\u2019 2 DEANE\u2014On Dec.29, 1037, at her late rest.deace, 21 Goyeau strest, Windsor, Ont., Elizabeth A Northgraves, widow of the late Michael Deane, D.L.8, formerly of Lindsay, Ont.3 DUVAL\u2014On_ the 30th instant, at Sault au Recolle:, Narcisss Duval, FINCH\u2014At his late residence, 24 Wilbrod street, Ottawa, on Dec.28, 18%, J.J.Finch, furniture dealer.aged 33 years.GILLESPIE.\u2014At sea, on board the \u2018Germanic,\u2019 off New York, on Dec.1, 1887, Jessie Anne M: ret, daughter of the late Alexander Gillespie, Esq.of Subny- side Lodge.Lavark, Scotland, deeply mourned by a large circle of relations in Scotland, England, Alsace and Canada 3 GORMAN.\u2014In this city, on the tb inst, \u2018Thomas Gorman, aged 78 years, father of P.Gorman, United States Vice-Consul- General in this city.Victoria (B.C.) papers pleass copy.30 GRAHAM.\u2014In loving memory of James | Graham, who fell maleep in Josue st Allan's Corners, on Dec.31, 1896.w HALE \u2014 At Waterloo, Quebec, on Dec.' 23, 1887, Jane E.Wells, wife of the late Alonso Hale, aged 67 years.n HAYDEN.\u2014At Quebec, on Dec.25, 1897 Elles Hayden.3 HILLIARD\u2014In the Montreal General pital, on the 29th December, J.W.| ard, aged 40 years.HOLDEN\u2014At Gravenhurst, Out., on Dec.20, 107, aged 19 years, Thomas Frederick, roungest son of the Iste Thomas Hoi ten, Tarrister.Belleville, Ont.3 HOWDEN.\u2014In Vancouver, B.C., on Dec.30, James Qearge Howden, aged 33, eldest son of the late James G.Howden, of this city.KORTRIGHT.-\u2014Ov Dec.13, 1897, at Darrie, Out.Sir Cornellua Kortrigut, K.C.M.G., am age: .English papers pleass copy.n LANG.\u2014At Quebec, on Dec.M, John Lang, aged 78 years and 7 months, & resident of Quebec for the nat 56 years.LEISHMAN-\u2014IG this city, on the morning of Jan.2rd, 1884.Jane Mary Henderson, beloved wife of the late James Leishman, in her 66th year.LOTHIAN.\u2014At Bryson.P.Q.on Tuesday, Dec.31, 1897, Jean Hill, daughter of Wm, ian, aged one year 8 was 30 Hos- tn and Maggie months, 28 days.LUTTRELL.\u2014On the 28th inst.at ¢ York street, Westmount, William Luttrell, aged 0 years.MACLEAR.\u2014At his faughters residence, 212 Peel street, on the Ind inst., Thomas Maclear, aged £3 years.1 McPHADEN.\u2014At Point Fortune, on Dec.3, 1897, Helen Pitcalrn, widow of the late Robert McPhaden, aged 78 years.2 MORRILL.\u2014On Dec.27, 1897, at Verdun, Juils A.Morrill, relict of the lats Aaron Morrill, aged 84 years.MORRIS.\u2014At the Montreal General Hoepi- tel, of appendicitis, on the 30th inst.James W.Morris, aged yoars, 10 months, eldest son of J.W.Morris.MUNRO.\u2014On the 308 Inst.aged fourteen years, Anvie Lilly isabelle, daugbter of Robert Munro.3 PARKE-A Quebec, ou Dec.27, 187, Mr.Parke.Beifast and New York papers please copy.» PLACE.\u2014At Magog, on Dec.18, Mary Blla Place.aged two years, \u20ac 10d 16 days, youngest daughter of nce.Ssrah he 8.8 ROACH \u2014Buédeuly, on the let inat, at 196 Durocher street, Charies T.Reach, to Anule Loulss, eldest; to Emma} Lend 17, Henry Ward Pi > = SBALE.\u2014At Moria Flats, on Dec.36, Arqbi- baid le, in kis 37th year, second of Charles Seals.SHAW.AL the residence of her sea-in-law, Alexander Fraser, Toronto, on Dec.%, 1697, Matilda Berford, widew of the Iate Richard Bhaw, Perth, and mother of J.F.Shaw, Inland Revenus Department, and R.F.Bhaw, Electric Ry.Oo, Ottawa.28 SLOAN.\u2014~In this city on the 3rd inst.Ms- tilda Stoddert, second daughter of the late Archibald Stoddert, snd doarly beloved wile of George Sloan, aged 61 years.GTEWART\u2014On Dec.?7, 1897, at 15 Sword street, Toronts, James Blewart, late of Montreal, aged 77 years.» STEVENSON.\u20148uddenly, a field street, on Sunday Samuel ©.ftevenson, secretary Col of Arts and Manufactures, agod 49 y end brother of J.Alex.and A.W.Ste son, Quebec and Toronto papers pleass copy.SULLIVAN \u2014 Entered into rest, on the morning of Wednesd: th of De- u comber, at 38 (er Toronto, Kathlern Frances Morison, serond duughter of the Hight ile: ud Edward Sulllvan, rector of Cathedral, \u2018Taranto, axed I3 years.\u2018For so He giveth His beloved sleep, Until the day break and the shadows flee away.\u2019 WILSON=At Harvey, Ill, U.S, on Dec.1 1891, Margaret Wiison, beloved daughter of Mr.J.B.Wilson, formerly of Quebec, aged 34 years.» WOOD.\u2014In this city, on Dec.20, Robert ed 33 years und 4 months, à na- \u2018orfar, Bcotiand.Forfar (Scotiand) papers please copy.3 WOOD\u2014At his residence, 71 Bt.Famille at, on the 30tb instant, William Key Wood, aged 33 years, mecond son of the late John vy Wood, R.N., nephew of the Rev, Edmund Wood, and brothur of the ilev, Arthur French.Floor aruding matiere Ar the aboss column muy amd with them @ list