Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 28 mars 1899, mardi 28 mars 1899

[" BRITAIN'S POSITION.Settlements With Germany, France, and Russia.(Special Correspondence New York Times.) Tondos, March 35.\u2014The Anglo-French African Convention is the European event of the week, Its terms will cer talnly give to France a commercial out let upon the Nile, and such a line of de- markativn in Bahr of Ghasel as will join her West Afriean territories without danger of the British-Egyptian sphere ever pushing in between them.These two points are precisely what the com- ventioa accomplishes.My informant was the French Ambassador himself, who told me that such was the sine qua non of the French claim, and wa the Dritish desire did not conflict with these wo points, it was obvious that the seitl ment would be on these lines.Certain rewults of this convention, not perhaps «vident at a first glance, call for comment, First.\u20141he roavention finally roro nizes the rights of Great Brituin over th: whole Upper Nile Valley.M.Delcesss, however, has succeeded in having the convention so worded that it in howhe alters the international aspect of Middle and Lower Egypt, which, therefore, still remains « European question.; Second.\u2014England gets what sh~ has from the beginning of this dirbute de manded, namely, the whole tamtury tras was subject to Egypt before the Mahdist rebellion.Third.\u2014France has now consolidated an enormous African empire.Facept Morooro, which no power san touch without instantly precipitating war, since any civilized power holding Morocco could open or close the Mediterranean at its will, and except the i'ritish and German colonies in West Africa and Tripoli, France now controls the whole of the Mediterranean hinterland, ax far south as the Congo and as far east the Nile Valley.Here is room for an amount of colonial enterprise, and it will be of the grestest interest to soe what France does with it.Hitherto she has cial prosperity in it.HEAVY BURDEN OF THE FRENCH Fourth.\u2014It is ove thing to draw a line on à map in London or Paris, snd it is another thing to oecupy and subdue \u2018 1 « 417,000 square miles with a population ol ve millions, which are the figures for new French sphere in Wadai and irmi alone.Moreover, this part of is the scene of operations of the so-called Arsb Napoleon, Rabah, « black chieftain of mixed negro and Arab blood, who has marched his forces hackward and forwards, conquering and devastat bn and making only a mouthful of any native ruler who opposed him.During the past year West African experts in London have been chiefly interested in the question as to whether Franes or prises must now be undertakes by France in return for the huge dominion which passes to the protection of the tri-color Rabah lue devastated Raghirmi, Wadai, the principal sphere of red- Arab fanaticism still left in Africa, n unknown country which no mod- fSTEIE try ss being rich in horses and cattle, and capable of raising large quantities of food, with an army including 7,000 cavalry.Fheik Renoussis and his followers, the most fanatical of Mohammelans, bave their headquarters in Wadai.There are twenty millions of them throughout North-west Africs, and many in \\igeria and Tunis.These must necesanly le overawed before any commercial or ci il- izing development can be carried out.Fifth.\u2014Italy, whose colonial «mhitions as has recently even in China, are not measured by \u2018naval, military, or financial powers, has always regarded Tripoli as destined for her.It has long heen an axiom in foreign affairs that Ttaly would fight for Tripoli, just as Frg- Jend or France would fight for Morocco, But by the present convention almcet the whole of the hinterland of Tripoli is given to France, whose next step will be to attempt to secure Tripoli for itaelf.Hence a new Mediterranesn compBea- tion.While on the subject of t F may add that an expedition to finally destroy the Mahdi\u2014who has a considerable force, though but little food and few rifles\u2014 will start from Khartoum in July, when the Nile begins to rise.BALISBURY'S GREATFRT DIPLOMATIC SUCCERS.This convention, which has been received with satisfaction both in England and France, and which will undoubtedly be voted in the French Chamber of Deputies by & large majority.on Monday, is n success for Lord Balisburys\u2019 diplomacy.Bat à greater success, at any rate on the surface, will shortiy be announced.This ie sn agreement with Russia concerning the respective claims of the two coun RUSSIAN ENGINE-DRIVER\u2014No! it ooght to be JOHN CHINAMAN (Station-Mastar)\u2014A Il lites! THE FIGHT FOR THE FOOT-PLATE BRITISH ENGINE -DRIVER\u2014It's my engine, and I'm going to drive it!\" mine!\u2014 and if it weren't for my love of pence, you'd ses what I\u2019d do! fixes as you likee! Me no care cuswee\u2019\u2014 Punch.\u2019 regard to their commercial development.The principal points of this agreement are already tiated, and only details and the formulas of words remain to be put on paper.In it England will recognise the Russian position in Meachuria.Russis, in return, wil) make prormises cony cerning the trade of wther nations in her sphere.There is grouad also to bone that the agreement may pledgs the two countries to common action regarding the commerce in China apart from thelr par ticular spheres, WHY RUSSIA HAD TO MAKE CONCESSIONS.Two reflections wnggest themselves in thie connection.First, it is absolutely neceamity for Rumsis to avoid adding to her Seultios mn the immediate future.every » is pressed by imperative obligations.Financially she is in what the stock brokers cell \u2018Queer Street\u2019 The TransSiberian Railway ie a colossal undertaking, which jt will strain her every resource, both in men and money, to complete.The development of Manchuria is in itself an enormous task.Unless the Peace Conference is to be @ complete fiasco it is impers- tive that Ruseia should show some nigns of a peaceful disposition to countersct the impression produced by her great paval activity and ber treatment of Fin- : |PAMINE IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT.The Ruseian famine is on a scale which Europe is only just beginning to redlise.All the provinces of the Middle Volga district, thousands of square miles in extent and in the centre of the empire, are on the verge of starvation.In four of the provinces seurvy and typhus fever sre rampant.Children, deprived of milk, are dying by wholesale, and every portable object that the peasants own has been sold.The seed corn supplied hy the government has been esten for food.In the provinces of Bamars the people are living upon boiled flour and water, or upon hread consisting of a lit- tle wheat mixed with chopped straw, and upon bran, scorns and weeds.For tea they are boiling raspberry leaves.Families bave worn the mame clathes for aix months, and are without underwear.The Russian Red Cross Bociety admits that at least 23 percent have no prospect of any official assistance, and must either be su) by private charity or die.no the famine of 1882 sixty million dollars were devoted by Russia for relief, but in 1806 the whole expenditure on agriculture, upon which 88 percent of the Russian le depend, was only twenty- two and a million dollars.In the same year the army and navy cost two hundred and sixty million dollars.Ae interesting comparison of Russis and In- dis as regards famine has been made.Ih 18078 in Indis twelve and & half million dollars was meigned to famine relief, and twenty million dollars to irrigation as the best preventive of famines.Nearly thirty-eight million doliacs were spent on relief works, and private charity contributed seven and a half million dollars.BALKAN STATES TROUBLESOME.Moreover, the state of affairs in the Balkan states, particularly in Macedonia, is 80 ticklish that at any moment Russia may be called upon to make a tremendous effort 10 safeguard her interests there.Tt is an open secret that she has addressed to the Balkan ataten notes couched io the most menacing terms to compel them to keep quiet.But Turkey has filled Macedonia with fanatical trrops, and if these should commit out- reges upon the Christian pupulation, tries in northern China, especially with.{ nothing on earth would keep the Bul- tarinns, Servians and Montenegrins from attempting a rescue, Finally, further reports of the Car's ill-health reach me from a source which if I were at liberty to name it, would carry a pecoliar weight with your readers.This authority declures that the Crar z so ill that be i» Firtuslly unable to tal y considerable part in public affairs.Toe all those ressons, therefore, peace is vitally necessary to Russia.sod she must secure it at any price.Henee the agreement with England, of which you will soon Leaf more.BRITAIN'S BEST FRIEND OBDU- ATE.The other reflection suggested by Lord Balisbury\u2019s convention with France and the agreement shortly to he announced with Russia is of a very different charse- ter.Germany is England's most persis tent and dangerous rival in Kurope.Yet Oreat Britain has concluded important | ts with her, both in Africa and ins.With France, Great Britain has & number of dangerous outstanding dis putes.In a discussion on her naval es timates, every French speaker, official or unofficial, emphasised the necemity of being able to destroy British commerce st sea.The principal French magesine anonunces an ela scheme for land: ing an invading force of 170,000 men on the English coast.At Calais and Bou- logue she in still throwing up fortifics- tions in haste.Yet with France Great Britain has signed so important a convention as that now under discussion.Russia is the open enemy of Great Britain, tad thers are few students o oe eign affairs who not regard an Anglo.Rumian war as inevitable, Yet with Russia Great Britain arrives at a far- reaching understanding upon à complicated and most threatening dispute.It is only with the United States, a ne.tion with which Grest Britain has, in common, language, laws, liberty, much blood, and many institutions, and to which Great Britain has given, at a cost of not a little of the comparatively small amount of good will ahe enjoys in Europe, proofs of sympathy and friendship, that the British are still unable, not only to agree upon the problems of cod-fishing.the lumber trade, and trifling territorial adjustments, but even upon a reference of these to arbitration.Not enough has been made publie of the recent negotiations to justify any outside opinion as to where the major pert of the blame lies, bot I venture to think that the above facts, which are accessible to everybody, deserve attention.pre LOST THEIR SPRING HATS.St.Louis, Mo, March 30.\u2014Twenty young women from Bowling Green, Mo., arrived in the city yesterday minus their ring hata, which had been stolen from the ing car on the Burlington Rail way.Chepemoed by Mw.B.W.Ar thur, a well-known matron of Bowling Green, the young women atarted joyfully .and havi for this city, anticipating no end of pleasure ou their arrival.Upon arising this their hats behind.On returning they PROHIBITION DEMANDED, The Sons of Temperance on the Plebisci e Vote.Bt.Catharines, Out., Mgrch 27.\u2014Me.W.B.Burgoyne, Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Nome of Province of Ontario, bas issued « cireu- lar calling upon members of tbe order to take stroag grounds in regard to the duty of parliament to emast prohibtory legislation in view of the vote taken on Sept.29.The circular says, in part :\u2014 \u2018That vote, ss you know, was fuvited by tbe Parliament of Canads snd notwithstanding all the adverse eircum- stances a majority of nearly M,N was obtained in favor of prohibition.\u2018Our opponents would deprive che temperance people of Canada of the fruita of this victory and treat lightiy the demand for prohibition as expressed an Sept.3, .We owe it to our own self-res pect and to the righteousness cf our canse to spare no effort to convince the members of parliament that we have as much right to be granted prohibition of the liquor trafic after the majority vote given ax they to have to noqupy their seats in perliament, for very fw of them received any larger proportisnat majorities than were stitoencies in favor we now submit withon to any interpretation by our law-makers of this vote which would mean nor: and hereafter that majorities shsR not rue wheet applied to efforts to nrobibit the liquor traffic ?\u201cThis is à crisis which affects ret on'y tesaperance legiéletion, but cvery effort to give effect fo the moral sentiment of the people in legislation.sion should place itæelf an record rnd îta voice should have no uncertain som.\u2019 iven in their con.A GIRL MAIMED FOR LIFE.A DISGRACEFUL SHQULD BR INVESTIGATED.STORY, WHICH Kingston, Ont.March 27.\u2014 Mary Emma Quemmadore, of Sharbot Lake, is in the general hospital with Feet that muet be amputated.According to the gitl's story shw has spent many miserable hours in sa adépted home there, Bhe sys that one bitter cold day an Indian named Bharbot became offended at bar, and with nick inflicted such a blow om ber delicate frame that her collar bome t outside with very little clothing on her body or her feet.With the thermometer agreral de grees below sero the frail child hovered about, not daring to return te the house, no place in which to seek me hours afterwards she wan called in.but thea her feet had \u2014 ing the girls went to the drawing: y fromen, and from that condi room car to ove the porter a opparte.| together with her broken collar bone, ahs nity to make up the berths.They left suffered intense agony.This week Me AM.Avery, county coun.THE FILIPINOS.Style of Warfare Proving Puzzling to the Americans.Manills, March 90.\u2014The projected movement of Major-General Otis, which he calculated would end in the crushing of Aguinsldo's army, has been started, but 20 far bas not been quite as success fui as was expected.Twenty-seven killed and a hundred and fifty wounded represents the American ices in the fighting which began arly on Saturday morning, and is since going on.The Filipino loss is ssid to Le much heavier.\u2018Ihe fighting of yesterday and today furnished a specimen of the difficultios with which tbe Americans bave to cou- tend.\u2018The Filipinos never, except opposite Malsbon, permitted their opponents to get within several hundred yards of them.They would tire a few volleys from their cover and them scuttle back to another cover, repesting these tactice for miles.Many of the trenches had gullies and connecting paths through the cane and bush, enabling them to retreat unseen.The problem the Americans have to face is to drive or lure the insurgents to fight in force.The trenches seem thinly manned, except in the vicinity of Malabon.The Americans, fighting « bidden foe, suffered greater loss in proportion than did the enemy.The loes of the Filipinos bad formerly been estimated from the number of bodies found scattered in the swamp and through the brush.A larger percentage of the enemy's wounded died than of the Americans, many of them perishing frum neglect, the Americans naturally attending their own men first.MALINTA HAS FALLEN.7,30 p.e\u2014The United States troops, under Brigadier-General Lloyd Wheatoa, captured the town of Mslints, beyond the Tulishan River, to-day, after a short fight.Colonel Harry C.Egbert, of the 2nd Regular Infantry, was killed.Prince Loweratein, formerly aide-de-camp on the stall of Brigadier-General Miller at lloilo, smuehow got in front of the firing line and was shot in the side, dying almost instantly, A German who accompanied him, was wounded.The American casualties to-day were much lighter than thowe of yesterday, the total losses thus far reported since the engagement commenc- od being forty-five killed and 145 weund- General Wheaton entered Malints, which is a small village of huts, at four o'clock this afternoon.The United States gunboat \u2018Helena,\u2019 and other gunbosts have been shelling Malabon, sbout a mile north-west of Caloocan, for severs] hours.The insurgents made a fierce resistance to the American advance up the railway at Malinte, In addition to the fatal wounding of Col.Egbert, several men of the 22nd Infantry, and several of the Oregon and Kansas regulars were killed.Evidently anticipating a bombardment by the fleet, a thousand rebels vacated Malabon last night, leaving a few to burn the town.General Wheston's brigade, composed of the 2nd Oregon Hegiment, and the 28nd and 23rd Infantry, stretched ont along the railway from Caloocan to the Tulishan River, was powerless to prevent the withdrawal, owing to the natural obatazies, cod to the strong op position.À column of smoke at daybreak was the fit intimation of the enemy\u2019s intestions; but others followed at various points, ali soon blending in a dense balloon-shaped cloud.The flames of the burning rice mills, and large buildings could be plainly seen from C'alocenn, despite the «trong sunlight.By eleven o'clock in the morning, the only building of importance not destroyed in the centre of the town was c large stone church; but even at noon fresh fires were startzd among the native huts :n the outskirts of Malabon, slthough the general exodus took place much earlier.Many of the rebels sought refuge in the suburbs of Nsvotas and Cesag, or were driven inland by the shells of the \u2018Helens.\u2019 In the meantime, General Wheaton's hri- gade held the railway to the river, bat was unable either to repair the bridge which had been destroyed by the enemy or to advance, owing to the opposition and the hills on the other side.A ROUGH COUNTRY.The calculations of both General Halt and General Otis, whose brigades constituted Gen, MacArthur's division were much interfered with by the character of the country in front of both, and the eremy was able (0 take advantage of this, vo that the operations against No- valichies and Polo were delayed, though the right wing of the division swung out, sweeping the enemy in a north-westerly direction.General Wheaton's headquar- tery last night were a half mile south of found that every hat had dissppesred.| cillor for Oso, beard of the case, and at ! the river, on the railway.The opposite Investigation disclosed the fact that » once went to the child's relief.He had woman carvying a pillow alip filed with | her seat to the hospital, and it was sen something had got off at a station tem that mortification À miles out of the city.and she is supposed amputation of a portion of the fset neces to have been the thick had net in, making benk wae protected by a hlock-house a wh entrenchments.Occasionally the artillery and infantey fired across the stream.Fin: ally, the enginetrs moved a construction \u2018train up to the bridge, the irom frame work of which remained, sad began te repisee the floor.While this wes goiug on, the 2ud Uregon Hegiment crossed the river on the left, and the 22nd on tlw right, with four compenies of the 33rd Infantry supporting the latter regiment.A rising clear stretched uway a distance of balf s mile to Malints, siteat- ed on its crest.In front of the village were stroog Filipino entrenchments, but Bo Filipinos were to be seen.Appareatiy they had Hed.The 22nd Regiment approached diagonally with General Whes- tom and his stall close behind, and scouts clowtly observing the ground.When the Amerisans were within about 300 yards of the entrenchmeuts, the Filipinos suddenly volleyed heavily.The 22nd, which was holding the centre, suffered considerably, but with the Ore.gona on the left and the Kavesns on tbe right of the woods, the fighting was kept up for half an hour, the 23nd in fantry advancing up to Polo in the thick grass under the hottest tive.General Wheeton and bis etaff were all the time under a rain of bullets.Colonel Fg: bert, who was in the thickest of the fighting, was shot in the abdomen.He was placed upon a stretcher and an attempt was made to carry him to the cars, but be died on the way.It was à most affecting scene.General Wheaton, ber ing his head, said : \u2018You have done mo- bly! Colonel Egbert in reply : \u2018I must die.I am too old\u2019 No Filipinos were found in the trenches, Though apparently their force was much smaller than the Americans, they had am fms- mense advantage in position, and in opportunity to retreat.PROSTRATED BY HEAT.General MacArthur's advance guard, the Third Artillery and the 20th Kanms regiment, joined General Whestoa\u2019s brigade shortly after Malints was taken, approaching along the Novaliches road westerly.The soldiers were much exhausted, and there were several prostrations from the beat, which was intense.The dead and wounded were collected in the shade of the trees and carried on stretchers by Chinese across the river to the train.After lunch General Mae Arthur's division sdvanced toward Polo.The Second Oregon regiment encountered a thousand Filipinos west of Malinta, who were retreating from Malabon.They bad taken up a position behind four rows of entrenchments, but were driven out alter an hour's beavy firing.One Ores gonian was killed and five were wounded.The Third Artillery, acting ae infantry, with two guns of the Utah Artillery and the Kansas, had a sharp fight east of Ms- linta.The Americans had but slight losses.Five Filipinos were found dead and several were taken prisoners.General MacArthur's division is advancing upon Polo, along the railway.As the bridge is destroyed, and the river cannot be foreed the advance is tempo rarily checked.In the fighting west of Mafinta the Oregonians captured a Spaniard, but he denied that he was taking part in the ttle.The surgeons from the fleet and the British cruiser \u2018Powerful\u2019 volunteered their services at the front.OFFICIAL ADVICES.\u2018 djutant-Genera), Washington, D.C.: Entire casualties yesterday two offcers and 25 enlisted men killed ; eight officers and a hundred and forty-two men wounded.Officers killed : Colonel Egbert, 2nd Infantry, and Captain Stewart, First Colorado.To-day's fighting south and around Polo determined.= MecAr- thr with three brigades united, having artillery and cavalry engaging enemy.Our loss thus far moderate, enémy's heavy.Army gunboats on osast and in estuaries west and north of Polo very efficient ; troops in excellent condition ; and epirits.(Signed) OTIS.Manilla, March 27.\u20142.40 p.m.\u2014A thou- wand Filipinos, composing the rear guant of the rebel army which is retreating vi Malalos, Aguinaldo\u2019s headquarters, made a stand to-day in some strong entrench- wents about Marilao, sctose the Marilau Miver.In the engagewent six Ameri.cons were killed, including three officers, and forty were wounded.The American forces advanced from.Maycanyan, the brigade commanded by General Harrison Gray Otis being on th leit of the railway, sod (ienersi Hale's, on the right.They eventually discerned white roofs and steeples among the green trees beyond the river, looking not uuiks 8 Mamachueetts village.The rebels bud an unfordable river in front of thew and they poured in a Bre so effactive that it sbowed they were veterans, probably members of the vative militia which the Spaniards organired.The American ar tillery put a dramatic end to the battle.Approaching under cover of the busbre to about sixty yards from the tremches, the artillerymen emerged upon an opem space commanding the town.When the Americans appeared they gave a gremt yell and the Filipinos were panic-striken, shout & hundred seeking safety in fight.while a white flag was raised by thime who were in the trenches, who alvo shosied \u2018Amigos\u2019 (friends) Col.Funston, with twenty men of the Kansas Regiment, swam scroes the river to the left of the railway bridge and captured eighty prisoners with all their arme.The Penneyivanisa Regiment captured forty prisoners.Br tois time the right of the Filipinos wes à TA \u201cTHE MERMAID.\u2019 A Love Tale, BY L.DOUGALL, Author of \u2018Beggars All,\u2019 \u2018 What Noces sity Knows,\" \u201cA Dosen Ways of Love,\u2019 ete.BOOK III.CHAPTER 1X.~'00D'S PUPPETS, BEST AND WORST.\u2019 All that long day a hot sun beat down upon\u2019 the sea and upon the ice in the BAY; and the tide, with its gentle motion of flow and ebb, made visibly more atir among the cakes of floating ice, by which it was seen that they were smaller and lighter than before.The sun-rays were doing their work, not so much by direet touch upon the ice iteelf as by raising the temperature of all the flowing sea, and thus, when the sun went down and the night of frost set in, the malting of the ice did not cease, Morning came, and revealed a long blue channel across the bay from its entrance to Harbor Island.The steamer from Souris had made this channel by kaocking aside the light ice with her prow.Khe was built to travel in ice.She lay now, with funnel till smoking, in the harbor, a quarter of « mile from the small quay.The Gaspé schooner still lay without the bay, but there was a Movement of unfurling sails among her masts, by which it was evident that her skipper hoped by the faint but favorable breeas that was blowing to bring her dev the same blue highway.t was upon this scene that Caius, wretched and aleepless, looked at early dawn.He had come out of his house and climbed the nearest knoll from which the bay could be seen, for his house and those near it looked on the open western sos.When he reached thin knoll he found that O'Shea was there before him, examining the movements of the ship with his gluse in the gray cold of the ivering morning.The two men stood together and held no communication.\u201cPretty soon O'Shea went hastily home again.Caius stood still to see the sun rise clear and golden.There were no clouds, no vapors, to catch its reflections and make a wondrous spectacle of its appearing.The blue horizon slowly dipped until the whole yellow disc beamed above it ; ice and water glistened pleasantly ; on the hills of all the sister inles there was sunshine and shade ; and round sbout him, in the hilly field, vach rock and bush cast a long shadow.Between them the sun struck the grass with such level rays that the very blades and clumps of blades cast their shadows also.Caius had remained to watch if the breeze would strengthen with the sun's uprising, and he prayed the forces of heat and cold, and all things that preside over the currents of life, that it might not stremgthen but languish and die.What difference did it make, a few hours more or less ?No difference, he knew, and yet all the fresh energy the pew day brought him went forth in this desire that Josephine might have a few hours longer respite before she hegan the weary course of life that stretched before her.Caius bad packed up all his belongings.There was nothing for him to do but drive along the dane with his luggage, as be had driven four months before, and take the steamer that night to Souris.The cart that took him would no doubt bring back Le Maitre, Cains had not yet hired a eart ; he had not the least idea whether O'Shea intended to drive him and bring back his enemy or not.\u2018That would, mo doubt, be Jose phine\u2019s desire.Caius had not seen Josephine or spoken to O'Shea ; it mattered nothing to him what arrangement they would or would not make for him.As he still steod watching tc see if the Leeess would round and fill the wails which tbe Gaspé schooner had at, Caius turned ; be bore the man no ill will.Josepbine's horse had not been injured by the accident of yesterday and his own fai! was à matter of complete indifference.\u2018Tm thinking as ye packed yer bags, yo\u2019ll be going for the steamer.\u2019 O'Bhes spoke with that indefinable insult in his tone which had always characterized it in the days of their first intercourse, but, apart from that, his manner waa \u2018coring and cool as the morning air ; not s shade of discourngemeut was visible.\u2018I am going for the steamer,\u2019 wid Caius, and waited to hear what offer of conveyance was to be made him.\u2018Well, I'm thinking,\u2019 ssid O'Shea, \u2018that I'l just take the boat across the bay, snd bring bask captain from Harbor Is \u201cbut as hit banor might prefer the curt( TH send the cart round by the dune.There's no saying but, having bees in tropical parts, he may be a bit scargd of the ice.Howsomerver, knowing hat he\u2019s in that haste to meet his de, apd would, no doubt, grudge so moch Ba a day spent between here and there on the.sand, I'll jist give him his chice, being who he in, and a foloe gin- [hoa tieman, be has his right to it.As for you'\u2014the tone instantly slipped into in- volent indifference\u2014\u2018ye can go by one or the other with yer bag.\u2019 ft was not clear to Caiua that O\u2019'Bhes bed any intention of himself escorting Le Muitre if he chose to go by the sand.This inclined him to suppose that be had no fixed plas to injure him.\u201d What right had he to suppose such plan had been formed ?The man before him wore no \u2018ook\u2019 of desperate pasion.In the ples- ere sven the June war not an ace, a -bay was ovgrlonked on all sides.Cains could not .' decide whether hia suspicion of U'Ehoa had been just or a monstrous injustice He felt such suspicion to be morbid, and he mid nothing.The futility of asking a question that would not be answered, the difficulty of interference, and his extreme dislike of incurring from O'Shea {arther insult, were enough to produce his silence.Behind that lay the fact that he would be almost glad if the mur der was done.Josephine\u2019s faith had inspired in him such love for her as had made him save her from doing what she thought wrong at any cost ; but the inspiration did not extend to this.It ap peared to him the leaner evil of the two.\u2018I will go with the boat,\u201d said Caius.\u2018It is the quicker way.\u2019 He felt that for some reason this leased O'Shea, who began at once to urry oft to get the luggage, but as he went he only remarked grimiy : \u2018They aay as it\u2019s the longest way round that is the shortest way home.If you're tipped in the ice, Mr, Doctor, ye'll foind that true, I'm thinking.\u2019 Caius found that O'Shea\u2019s boat, a heavy flat-bottomed thing, was already half lanoched upon the beach, furnished with stout boat-hooks for pushing among the ice, as well as her cars and mailing gear.He was glad to find that such speedy departure was to be his.He had no thought of saying good-bye to Jose phine.CHAPTER X\u2014'DBATH SHRIVER THY SOUL! It was un immense relief to stand in the boat with the hoat-hook, whose use demanded all the skill and nerve which Caius had at command.For the most part they could only propel the boat by pushing or pulling the bits of ice that surrounded it with their poles.It was & very different sort of travel from that which they had experienced together when they had carried their boat over is lands of ice and launched it in the great gaps between them.The ice which they had to do with now would not have borne their weight ; nor was there much clear space for rowing between the frag- meuts.O'Shea pushed the boat boldly on, and they made their journey with comparative ease until, when they came near the channel made by the steamship, they found the ice lying more closely, and the difficulty of their progress increased.Work as they would, they were getting on but slowly.The light wind blew past their faces, and the Gaspé schooner was seen to sail up the path which the steam- or had made across the bay.\u2018The wind\u2019s in the very chink that makes her able to take the channel.l'm thinking she'll be getting in before us.\u2019 O'Shea spoke with the gay indifference of one who had staked nothing on the hope of getting to the barbor first ; but Caius wondered if this short cut would have been undertaken without strong reason.A short period of hard exertion, of pushing and pulling the bits of ice, fol lowed, and then : \u2018I'm thinking wel make the channel, anyway, before she comes by, and we'll just hail her, and the happy bride groom can come off if he\u2019s so moinded, being in the hurry that be is.\u2018Tain't many bridegroome that makes all the haste he has to jine the lady.\u2019 Caius said nothing : the subject was too horrible.\u201cVe and ver bags could jist go on board the ship before the loving husband came off ; ye\u2019d make the harbor that way as eany, and I'm thinking the ice on the other side of the bay is that thick ye'd be scared and want me to sit back in my boat and yelp for help, like a froightened vuppy dog, instead of msking the way through.\u2019 Caius thought that O'Shes might be trying to dare him to nemain in the boat.He inclined to believe that O'Shea could not alone enter into conflict with « strong, unscrupulous man in such a boat, in such 8 sea, with hope of success.At any rate, when O'Shea, presuming on bis friendship with the skipper, had accomplished no less à thing than bringing the sailing vessel {0 a standstill, Caius was prepared to board her at once.The little boat was still among the ice, but upon the verge of clear water.The schoover, already near, was drifting near.ier, O'Shea was shouting to the wen on her deck.The skipper stood there looking over her aide ; he was a short, stout man, of cheery aspect.Several milors and one or two other men who might he passengers, had come to the side also.Beside the skipper stood a big man with a brown beard ; his very way of standing still seemed to suggest habitoal sluggich- ness of mind or manner : yet his appearance at this distance was fine, Caiun discovered that this was Le Maitre ; he was surprised, he had supposed that he \u2018would be thin and dark.\u2018It\u2019s Captain Le Maitre I've come for; it's his wife that's wanting to mee him,\u201d O'Shea shouted.\u201cHe's here !* The skipper gave the information cheerfully, and Le Maitre made a slight sign showing that it was correct.\u2018IN just take him back.then, in the boat with me now, for it's easy en getting this way, but there's holes in ti sand that maken drivin\u2019 wnpleasant.How- somever, | can't say which is the best persage.This city gentleman I've pot with me now thinks he\u2019s Tost hia li eral times already since he got into this t He pointed to Caius as he ended bis invitation to Te Maitre.The men on the schooner all grinned.Tt was O\u2019Shen\u2019s manner.as wel! as his words, that produced their derision.Caius wan wondering what would hav- pen if Le Maitre refuned to rome in t! boat.Rumpicion ssid that O'Shea would cause the bost to be towed ashore, and would then taks the cantsin home by the quicksands.Would O'Shea make him drunk, snd then cast him head first inte the swallowing ennd ?It seemed pre- posterons ta be harboring much thowelnt agtinet (he eheatful and most respectable THE MONTREAL farmer at his aide.had be for it ?None but the hearing of an idle boant that the man had made one day to his wife, and that she in cimplie- ity had taken for earnest.Le Maitre signified thet he would go with O'Shea.Indeed, looked at frem a short distance, the through the ice did not look so difficult as it had proved.O'Shes and Caius parted without word or glance of farewell.Caius slambersd over the side of the schooner ; the une thought in his mind was to get a near er view of Le Maitre.; This men was still ctanding akepils.He did not bear closer inapection vcil.His clothes were dirty, especially about the front of vest and coat: hero was everything to suggest cutire lack of nest.ness in personal habits ; more than that, the face et the time bore unmistakable signs that enough alcohol had Leen drunk to benumb, although not to stu- pify, his facultirs : the eye was bloodshot ; the face, weather-beaten as it wan, was flabby.In spite of all this, Caius had expected n more villainous-looking person, ani eo great was his loathing that he would rather have seen lim in a more obnoxious light.The man had a certain dignity of bearing: his face had that unfurrowed look that means a low taoral sense, for there is no evidence of conflict.lis eyes were too near eacl other : this lent wan, perhaps, he only sign by which Nature from the outret had marred a really excellent piece of manly proportion.Cains made these observations involuntarily, As Je Maitre stepped here and there in a dull way while a chest that belonged to him was being lowered into the boat, Caius could not belp eal.izing that his preconceived notions of the man as a monster liad been exaggerated : he was a common nan, fallen inte low habits, and fixed in them hy middle age.Le Maitre got into the hoat in scaman- like fashion.He was perfectly at home there, and dull as his eye looked, he tacitly assumed command.Île took O'Shea's pole from him, stepped to the prow, and began to turn the boat, without regarding the fact that O'Shea was otill holding hasty conversation with the men on the schooner concerning the public events of the winter months\u2014the Tow they had brought from the main.Everything had been dene in the greatest haste ; it was not twelve minutes after the schooner had been brought to « stand when her sails were again turned to catch the breeze.The reason fe this haste was to prevent more sideways with the wind against the floating ice smor gat which O\u2019Shea\u2019s boat was lying.The wind blew very softly ; her speed when sailing bad not teem great, and the drifting motion was the most gentle possible.Caius had not taken his eves iiom the beat.He was watching the strength then with which Le Maitre was turning her and starting her for Cloud Island, H= was watching O'Shea, who, still giving back chaff and sarcasm to the pwn on the schooner, was forced to turn aud pick up the pral'er pale which Caius Led relinquished ; he wemed to te intrie.ted only jn his talk, and to Lexin to help in the management of the boat :pechani- cally.The skipper was swearing at his wen and shouting to O'Shea with alter nate breath.The mails of the achooner \u2018had hardly yet swelled with the Lreeze when O'Shea, bearing with all hie might against a hit of ice, upc of a elip of his pole, fell heavily on the side of Lis own boat, tipping her suddenly over on a bit of ice that sunk with her weight.Le Maitre ot the prow, in the vioknt upeetting, was seen to fall headlong le tween two bits of ice into the mea, \u2018By\u2014! Did you ever see anything like that?The skipper of the schooner had run to the nearest point, which wan be side Caius, Then followed instantly a volley of ecmmands, some of which related to throwing ropes to the small boat, some concerning the movements of the schooner, for at this moment her whole side premecd agrinmt ait the bits of ice, pushing them closer and closer together.* \u2018The boat had not sunk; she had partially filled with water that bad flowed over the ice on which she had upeet; but when the weight of Le Maitre wan removed, and O'Shea had regained his balance, the ice rose again, righting the boat, and almost instantly tipping her towards the other side, for the schooner had by this time caused a jam.It was not such a jam as must of necessity jure the boat, which was heavily built; but the fact that she was now half-full of water and that there was only one oun to manage her, made his sitaation precarious.The danger of (Shes, bow- ever wos hardly noticed by the men on the schooner, because of the horrible fact that the closing of the bits of ice togetber made it improbable that Le Maitre could rise again.For a moment there was an eager looking at every space of blue water that was left.If the drowning man could rwim, be would surely make for such an aperture.\u2018Put your pole down to him where lie wens in!\u2019 The men on the schooner shouted this to O'Rhea.\u2018Put the rope round your waist!\u2019 This lzet was yelled by the oki , perceiving that O'dhen himself was no merne sole A rope that had been thrown had a noose, through which O'Shea dashed his hve |nrme; then, seizing the pole, he struck the bntt-end hetween the blocks of ice where Le Maitre had fallen, 1t seemed to Caius that the pole swayed in bis haude, as il be were wrenching it from a hand that had gripped it strongly ftom below; but it might herve been only the grinding of the ice.O'fhea thrast the What foundation | drifting, for the schooner was drifting [den WEEKLY WITNESS, vehemence further down, as in à effort to bring it better within reac Le Maitre if he were there: or, as C'aius thought, it might hsve been that, feel ing where the man wes, he stunned him with the blow.Standing in a boat that was tipping and grinding smong the ice, (Shea «emed to be exercising marvellous force and dexterity in thus using the pole at all The wind was now propelling the schooner forward, and her pressure on the ice ceased.O'Shea threw off the noose of the rope wildly, aud looked 10 the men on the vessel, as if quite uncertain what to do mext.It was a difficult matter for any one to decide.To leave him thers was manifestly impossible; but if the schooner again veered round, the jamming of the ice over the head of Ja Maitre would again occur.The men on the schooner, not under good discipline, were all shouting aud talking.\u2018He is dead by now, wherever he is.The skipper made this quiet parenthesis either to himself or to Caius.Then he shouted aloud: \u2018Work your boat through to ua! O'Shea began poling vigorously, The ice was again floating loveely, and it was but the work of a few minutes to push his heavy boat into the open water of h that was in the wake of the schooner, \u2018There was a pause, like a pause in a funeral service, when O'Shea, standing ankle-deep in the water which his beat held, and the men huddled together on the achooner's deck, turned to look at all the places in which it seemed possible that the body of Le Maitre might again be seen.They looked end looked until they were tired with looking.The body had, no doubt, floated up under scme cake of ice, and from thence would speedily sink to a bier of sand at the bottom of the bay.\u2018Ny \u2014\u2014! 1 never saw anything like that!\" ft was the remark which began and ended the episode with the skipper.Then he raised his voice and shouted to O'Shea: \u2018It\u2019s no sort of use your staying here! Make the rope fast to your boat, and come up on deck!\u2019 But this O'Shea would not do.He replied that he would remain and look about among the ice a bit longer, and that, any way, it would be twice as far to take his boat home from Harbor Island as from the place where he now was.The schooner towed his boat until he had baled the water out and got hold of his cars, The ice had floated so far apart that it ecemed easy for the boat to go back through it.During this time excited pithy gossip bad been going on concerning the acci- t \u201cYou did alt a man could do,\u2019 shouted the captain to O'Shea consolingly, and remarked to those about him: \u2018There wesn't no love Jost between them, but O'Shea did all be could.O'Shes might as eany as not have gone over himself, holding the pole under water that time.\u2019 The fussy little captain, as far as Caius could judge, was not acting a part.The sailors were French; and they could talk some English; and they rpoke in both Lrausges a great deal\u201d \u2018His lady won't be much troubled, 1 dare any, from all Y bear.\u201d The captain vas becoming easy and -patured again.He said to Caius: \u2018You are ai- quainted with her?\u2018Fhe will be shocked,\u201d mid Caius.He feit as he spoke that he himseH was suffering from a shock\u2014so much so that he was hardly able to think con- wecutively shout what bad occurred.\u201cThey won't have an inquest without the body,\u2019 shouted the captain to O'Shea.Then to those abont him be remarked: \u2018He was ae decent and good- natured & fellcw ze I'd want to eee.\u201d The pronoun referred to Le Maitre.The remark was perhaps prompted by natural pity, but it \u2018was so instantly agreed to by all on the vessel that the chorus had the air of propitisting the spirit of the dead.CHAUTER XL\u2014THE RIDDLE OF LIFE, The echooner slowly moved along, and lay not far from the steamship, The steamship did not start for Howria until the afternoon.Caiue was put on shore to await the hour of embarking.In his own mind he was questioning whether he would embark with the steamer or teturn to Cloud Island; but he naturally did not make this problem known to these around him.The skipper and several men of the schooner came ashore with Caius.There was a great bustle as s000 #3 they reached the small wharf because of what they had to tell.It was apparent from all that was told, and all the replies that were made, that no shadow of suspicion was to fall upon O'Sbea.Why should it?He bad, as it seemed, no personal grudge against Le Maitre, whose death had been evidently an accident.A man who bore an office akin to that of magistrate for the islands came down from a house wear the harbor, and the story was repeated to him.When Caius had listened to the evidence given before this official personage, hearing the tale ægain that be had already heard many times in n few minutes, and told what be himeelf had seen, be began to wonder how he could still harbor in his mind the belief in O'Shes\u2018s guilt.Ile found, toc, that none of these people knew enoush about Josephine to see any special io- terest attaching to the story, except the fact that ber husband, returning from = long voyage, had been dro almost within sight of Ler howse.\u2018Ab, poor lady!\u2019 they ssid; sod thus mying, and shaking their heads, they dispersed to eal their dinners, Csive procured the bundle of letters which had come for him by this Avst mail of the year.He esuntered along the beach, soon getting out of sight and bearing of the little community, who were not given to walking upon a beech that Fone pot in this case 3 big! a any place.He was on the shingle of the bay, snd he soon found s nook under a high black cliff where the sun beat down right warmly.He had not opened his letters; his mind did not yet admit of oid interests, The days were not long passed in which men who continued to be good hushands and (athers and stasach friends killed their enemies, when necessary, with a good conscience.Had O'Shea a good con: science now! Would Le continue to be in all respects the man he had been, and the staunch friend of Josephine ?In his Leart Caius believed that Le Maitre was murdered; but be had no evidence to prove it\u2014nothing whatever but what O'Shea\u2019s wife had said to him that day she was hanging out her linen, and such talk occurs in many a household, snd nothing cores of it.Now Josephine was free.\u2018What a blessing!\u2019 He used the common idiom to himself, and then wondered at it, Could one man's crime be another man's blessing ?He found himself, out of Jove for Josephine, wondering concerning the matter from the point of view of the religious theory of life.Perhaps this was Heaven's way of answering Jusephine's appesl, and saving her; or perhaps human souls are so knit \u2018together that O'Shea, by the sin, had not blessed, but hindered her from blessing.It was a weary round of questions, which Ceius was tot wise enough to answer.Another more practical question pressed, Did he dare to return now to Cloud Island, and watch over Josephine in the shock which she must sustain, and find out if she would discover the truth concerning O'Shea ?After a good while he answered the question: No; he did not dare to return, knowing what he did and his own cowardly share in it.He could not face Josephine, and, lonely as she wasn, she did not need him: she had her prayers, her angels, her heaven.Perhaps Time, the proverbial healer of all wounds, would wash the sense of guilt from his soul, and then he could come back and speak to Josephine concerning this new freedom of hers.Then he remembered that rome say that for the wound of guilt Time has no healing art.Could he find, then, other shrift?He did net know.He longed for it sorely, because he longed to feel fit to return to Josephine.But, after all, what had he done of which he was ashamed ?What was his guilt * Had he felt any emotion that it wes not natural to feel ?Had he done anything wrong?Again he did not know.He sat with head bowed, and felt in dull misery that O'Bhes was a better man than he\u2014more useful and brave, and not more guilty.le opened his letters, and found that in his absence no worse mishap had occurred at home than that bie father had heen laid up some time with a bad leg, and that both father and mother had allowed themselves to worry and fret lest ill should have befallen their son.Caiva embarked on the little steamship that afternoon, and the next noon found him at home.The person who met Lim on tbe threshold of his father's house was Jim Ho- san.Jim grinned.\u2018Since you've taken to charities abroad,\u2019 he said, \u2018I thought I'd begin at home.\u2019 Jim's method of beginning at heme was not in the literal sense of the proverb.It turned out that be had been neigbbor- ing to some purpose.Old Bimpeos could not move himself about indoors or st tend to his work without, and Jim, who had not before this attached himeslf by regular employment, had by some freak ['of good-nafure given his services day by day until Caius ahonld return, and bad hecome an indispensable member of the household.\u2018He's mot a very respectable young man,\u2019 said the mother a ically to her eon, while she was still wiping her tears of joy; \u2018but it's just wonderful what patience he's had in his own larky way with your fatber, when, though 1 say it who shouldn't, your father's been as difficult to manage as a crying baby, and Jim, he just makes his jokes when any one else would have been affronted, and there's father laughing in spite of bimeelf sometimes.So I don\u2019t know how it is, but we've just had him to stop on, for he's took to the farm wonderful.\u2019 An hour after, when alone with his {ather, Simpson said to him: \u201cYour mother, you know, was timorous at night whem | couldn't help myself; and then she'd begin crying, as women will, saying as she knew you were dead, and that, any way, it was lonesome without you.Bo when ! saw that it comforted her « bit to have someone to cook for, 1 encouraged the fellow.I told him he'd nothing to look for from me, for his father is richer than | am rowadays; but he's just the sort to like vagary.\u2019 Jim went home, and Caius began a simple round of home duties.[lis father needed much attendance ; the farm servants needed direction.aius soon found out, without being to'd, rhat pei- ther in one capacity nor the r\u2018her did he fulfil the old man's pleasure ncarly so well as the rough-and-ready lim.Even his mother hardly let a day pass without innocently alluding to some of Jim's ke that had amused her.She would ve been very angry if anyone bad told ber that she did not find her ron as good & compenion.Caius did wot tell her oo, but he wes perfectly awaie of it, Ceius had not been long at home when his cousin Mabel came to visit them.This time his mother made no sy remarks concerning Mabel's 1cascn fer (im.ing ber visit, because it seemed Mahal bad wid p long and comforiing visit while he bad been at the Magd.stands.Mabel did not treat Caiue row - Mazon 38, 1809, - EEE ve + Tih tee.unsnaciong.pti of hl admiration, neither did she talk to or about Jim; but her silence whenever fn's name was mentioned was elo- queat.Caius summed ati this up in hiv own mind.He and Jim had commenced life as lads together.The one had trod- jden the path of virtue and laudable ame bition ; the other had just amused himself, and that in many reprèhunaible ways; and now, when the ripe age of manhood was attained in that state of life to which\u2014as the Catechism would have it\u2014it had pleased tod to call thom, it was Jim who was the useful and honored man, not Caius + It was clear that all the months and.years of his absence had enabled his parents to do very well without thr son.They did not know it, but in all the smaller things that make up the most of life, his interests had ceaved to be their interests.Caius had the cow age to realize that even at home be was not much wanted, If, when Jim married Mabel, he would settle down with the old folks, they would be pariectly happy.(To be Continued.) CHILDREN'S CORNER.THE SILENT PARTNER.° They had been hurrying across (be snowy fields as fast as their legs would.carry them, and had brought up breath- lens against the iron gates that formed the entrance to large and well-kept private grounds.\u2018Robbie, ! dassent.\u201d \u2018\u201cDessent what?\u2018Ask for a job here.You're all right, but it's too fine for fellers like me,\u2019 and.Jimmie gased down ruefully at his ragged trousers and disconsolately lowered the broken shovel from bis shoulder.\u2018Pooh!\u2019 ejaculated Rob, in disdain.\u2018I'm.not afraid to ask Mrs.Wells.Why, mamma and I've been bere to dinner and lunch and perties, and I'd juat as scon ask her to let us shove! thoes paths as not.\u2019 .\u2018All right, then, you can do the talking.You do talk fine, Robbie, but I'll bet I shovel better'n you.' \u2018Well, Jimmie Maloney, I like that !.] don\u2019t believe you did any better first time you tried.This is a dollar business here.Hurry up.\u2019 Rob had his hand on the door bell and Jimmie had stepped into the shadow.The tidy housemaid ssid, \u2018Good-moming, Master Robbie,\u2019 sie.though she looked a little surprised at the broom on his shoulder.Yes, he could see Mrs.Wells if be would go upstairs to the sitting-room.Bidding Jimmie put bis ahovel beside the broom in the vestibule, Robbie canghs.off his little senlskin cep and started.vx; stairs, Jimmie following timidiy ee: Vge, toe.\"ou, Mre.Wells turned from ber desk je greet her visitor and har look of welcome, had a gleam of astonishment in it as she caught sight of the other lad, awkward and ill at ease in the fine house, and ew-.barrasesd by her glance.But Rob bad plunged into his i I shor-, \u2018Please, Mrs, Wells, may Jim and A el off your walk?We're partnsre;, bep, the silent partner, \"cause L'have to de Ai the talking, but he's a good abovgller.5 \u201cNo Eye Like the .is Salle Master's Eye\u201d You are master of your health, and if you do noë, - attend to daty, the blame is.easily located.If blood.is out of order, Hood's Sare saparilla will purify it.it is the specific remedy for troubles of the blood, kidneys, bowels or liver.» Heart ~*1 had beart trouble for 8 number of yeare and different med! cines {alied to benetit me, | tried Hood Sarsaparills and three bottles pompletel a perfectly cured me.\u201d N28.C.A.we \u2018sliace Bridge, NX.8.A Sat ** As 1 had lost five chil dren with dip a I gave my remaining two children Hood's Harsaparilia as they were subject to throat trouble and were not very strong.They are now healthier and géronger and have not aince had s celd.\u201d Muse.W.H.Furoxen.Pembroke, Ont.Never Disappoints HER SE \u2018 Witness\u2019 Workers Attention is called to à very much admired phete- gravare of His Excellency The Earl of Minto, two copies of which we will be plessed te send to every one ending ue & three cont stamp to pay for tubing and mailing only.The only condition ie that the picture be hung up is some conspicuous place in the home, abop or offices, Pa low the portrait of Lord Minto iss \u201cWit.tess\u2019 announcement which will help twr subscribers introdoce the \u2018 Witaem' to their friends.Pry Manon 28, 1899, 5 am I-pretty\u2019 geod well de 14 \u20ac \u2018How much?Mrs.Wells's face was grave, \u2018Oh, « doller, I guess, if you don\u2019t think that's oo much.\u2019 \u2018And then de you divide the money?\u2018No'm.\u2019 Robbie looked at the carpet.\u201cWe've made other \u2019 te.\u2018Well, never mind,\u2019 ssid the lady kindly; \u2018go and do the work and I will tell Jemes to pay you.Ones fairly outside, Jimmis drew a long breath.Why didn't you tell her what we're going to do about the money?You t\u201d \u2018No, I oughtn't, Mother says I! muse\u2019t always tell ail I know, and I don't have to tell this il I don\u2019t want to.\u2019 \u2018You're a brick, Robbis Maaning,\u2019 was the sols response, The work went on briskly for an hour, and flushed and tired, the young part- news went to the stable to find James.Robbie flushed scarlet as he ssw the look of amused contempt on the coachman's face, and all in a moment he flung out, \u20181 don\u2019t want your old dollar.I wouldn't have it now for anything.We aven\u2019t beggars.\u2019 Down by the gates again they stopped to talk it over.\u2018It was an awful lot, Robbie, and we really earned it.That man hadm't any- shing to do with it; it wasn't his money.\u2019 Rab looked at Jim's wistful face, snd => his hands, ali blue and chapped with \u201cThat wasn\u2019t all your money, anyway,\u2019 wid his conscience.In a moment be bad takem his resolve.Back to the stable he hurried, and met James half way.\u2018Say'\u2014and it wes such hard work to grt it out\u2014'we earned that dollar, snd I suees I'll take it.\u2019 James gave it & contemptuous flip into a anow bank.\u2018It's thers, and you can come for it in the spring if you can\u2019t find it now.\u2019 Robbie, felt another rush of anger coming on, and then he remembered Jim, and the \u2018business arrangement,\u2019 and doggedly began digging in the snow for the n.\u2018Robbie, dear,\u2019 called Mrs.Mills, from the piazss, \u2018I want you to come into lunch with me.We have just tbe nice things you like, and James will take you beme in the sleigh afterward.\u201d With the reovered dollar in his pocket, Rob went up the steps.Here was another difficulty.He and Jim were partaers, and poor little Rob had another fight with himself.He could easily run back to Jim with the money and tell him be couldn\u2019t go with him sny more to-day.But how could the silent partner slong without him?He would never have the courage to ask for work at the big houses, where Rob knew all the people, and where they paid so well, aod Jim did need the money dreadfully.His mother was sick, and the rent was due to-marrow.No, Rob decided, he couldn't leave Jim when he had promised to \u2018go partners\u2019 with him.And there would be fried chicken, or chocolate cake for lunch, \u2018I can\u2019t, Mra.Wells, thank you,\u2019 he said in & moment; \u201c\u2019œuse you see I'm partaers with Jim and do the talking\u2014 and the rent bas to be peid, and oh, dear! I do want to come awful\u2019 Ars.Wells looked pussied.\u2018Why, Bobbie, Jim can go around and have his luneh with James, if that will make you willing to stay.\u2019 .\u2018Mrs.Wells,\u2019 Robbie blurted out, desperately, \u2018I can\u2019t.Partners ought to share alike, snd I don\u2019t want Jisu ia eat.inthe kitchen when I'm having a good time with you.\u2018My little Don Quixote, said Mrs.Wells, laying a gentle hand on the uncovered curly bead, \u2018you and Jimmie shell both come in and sit at my table today.Go and get him.\u2019 Late that afternoon, when Jimmie had gone home iw a suit of warm clothes and an overcoat that belonged once to a lit- tie boy who used to call Mra.Wells \u2018inamma,\u2019 she snd Robbie sat talking before the fire.\u2018I'l toll you about that business ar rangement,\u2019 he mid, \u2018if you won't tell a single soul.\u2019 \u2018I won't tell,\u2019 she promised.\u2018Well, we played we were partners, end he was the silent partner, and 1 pretended that silent partners took all the money.I don\u2019t know whether that\u2019s the really way or not, but we played it was; Jim dide't went to, but I made Him, because you see there was the medi- cire and the rent, and we earned five dollars.To-morrow we're going to earn some more.\u201d Theve was à momant's pause.Then Mrs, Wells spoke.\u2018May I be in the partnership\u201d she asked, \u2018You?How?\u2018May I! be another kind of a silent partner, end may I put in the capital for the firm, so that we can pay rent right along until summer?\u201cThat would be splendid,\u2019 assented Rob.\u2018TN ask Jimmie.\u2014 The Churchmen.\u2019 \u201cIf the stage does nothing worse,\u201d says the \u2018Christian Register\u2019 (Unitarian), of Boston, \u2018it vulgarizes the mind that is subjected to its influence by many of ite exhibitions.For \u2018debasing the moral \u2018© currency,\u201d the burlesque of many operas and plays is as effective as things miserably suggestive or .And in this business it has a powerful ally in the \u201cyellow journalism\u201d of the time.Much of this is thoroughly immors!.With its lies and misrepresentations, it cultivates the basest passions in the pub- His res and moval dal he t and ve: , it du - noble purity, And where it mot make directly for immorality, makes for sch vulgarity as is allied immorality, : se DE RE THE MONTREAL FIELD BATTERY.\u2018 Always on band,\u2019 is the motto of the Montreal Feld Battery of Artillery, and its boast is that no inspecting officer bas ever criticised R ae inefficient.Home interesting anecdotes of its former days are toid by Captain Ernest J.\u2018\u2018hambers (of the Third Prince of Wales Kegisnent Fusiliers) in & handsomely printed book called \u2018The Origin and Services of the Third (Montreal) Field Battery of Ar tillery.The publisher is E.L.Ruddy, Montreal, and the volume ja exogl.cntly got up.It eontaius many ill.uatistions and portraits, including those of the present officers :\u2014Major Richard Uosti- gan, Burgeon Major C.W.Wilson, Captain Donald A.Bmith (a grandson of Lord Strathcona), Veterinary Captain Chas.McEachran, Lieutenant F.A.Crathern and Lieutenant G.W.Steph- ons, jr.An amusing story is told of one of the visits pai | to the neighboring republic : The iytercoionial trip of 188 having proved such a complete sucosss, the Battery projected another In 1389, and conceived the ides of reeking s trip to Bostos and Portland and back by the Grand Trunk.The government intervened to some extent after the arrangements had been partially made.The provious year the men had taken their side arms to New York.Upon this occasion the Canedian government refused to allow the Battery to take the arms foto the United States.But where there ls a will there is a way and the oficors Jetermined to 80, swerds or no swords.Be Colonel (then Captain) Stevenson, quietiy mads arraoge- ments to borrow the required number of ewerds from Captain Nim's Light Battery, of Boston, The Battery crosssé to St.Lambert with Jus own swords and belts, and before embarking on the train Captain Pleven.oon bad the belts and swords paked up In boxes and shipped to Longueuil awaiting their return.At Lowell, Mass, there were two great boxes awaiting them.and in the boxes the belts and swords of Captain Nim's Mattery.They were at once served out to the men, and when they arrived at Boston the Battery looked quite ship.shaps.There wes just one drawdack, Oo the brass buckles of the belts were the letters 'UB.° and pecple Degan asking what they stood for.Captain Stevenson had Instructed the men to reply to questions that the letters meant simply what they speit, \u2018Tf.\u2019 and the explanation appeared to be quite satisfactory.Fortunately there were Do spread eagles ou the accoutrements, or ibe exact state of affairs might have basa givon away.During the Fenian roids, rart of the Montreal militia was called to the front.The Battery reached Hemmingford late one night, and found nothing provided for either horses or men to ent.The commissariat service had been hastily or ganized and \u2018the experience of armies everywhere and in every age,\u2019 says Captain Chambers, \u2018 has shown conclusively that such makeshift services, organized in the excitement and bustle of the initial proceedings of a campaign are both wasbefal and inefficient* However, Mc- Phes, the Scotch hotel-k , offered to supply hay for the horses at a low price, Major Stevenson had more difficulty in procuring » meal for his tired and hunyey men.He, however, chanced to look into the dinfog-room of the hotel and saw that they were setting a table, and found it was in preperation for tome tesmsters who were coming to Hemmingford to transport the Victoria Rifies to Huntingdon the following day.Ia the meantime Major Stsvensoc\u2019s suxie.ty was to provide & mes! for bis men.Me.Phos said that the meal being prepared for the teamsters had been ordered by Colonel £mith and be dared not disobey orders.The Major, however, remarking that that might be a very good rule for the military, ex- piained that be would take tbe responsibility of ordering his men to sat that mea).They had not bad enythiox since early morning, while the tenmaters had already had thelr three meaie.McPhee still resisted, but the Major ordered the Battery trumpeter to sound the sesembly, sod marched his men into the Otajog.room and ordersd them to remain there until they had had ail they wanted.He then investigated the kitchen and found that the cooks were prepering all the bread and butter the men would requirs, az well astea ard coffee.Rummeging among the cupboards ho found a plentiful supply of «ass, and got tbe wcmen in the kitchen to boll them for the men.The result was that the men got 3 good meal, which, of courwe, the Majer was only toe giad to pay for.Major Stevenson, afterwards Lisutes- ant-Colomel, and now Ald.A, A.| MOUNTAIN TRAVEL IN AMERICA.The primitive means of transport on the high table-lands and mountainous districts of Central Ameries will exist till a railway running north and south, midway between the two oceans, will introduce modern and morv convenient contrivances.When the Spanish conquerors took possession, they found no hesat of burden as they had found the Llama in Peru.It was the tall, muscular Indian of these mountsinous regions who was the beast of burden then.And so he is GUATEMALA, CENTRAL \u2014Tlustrated London News.\u2019 to-day.A leather thong, with a pad over his forehead, keeps the load of from eighty-four to sa hundred and twenty-six pounds in ita place.A callous growth on the forehead and the disappearance of the hair are the result.For passenger- travel 8 kind of sentry-box, mvmetimes made of wickerwork, sometimes of rough boards, with a seat inside and a sort of thatch overhead, is used.Water and provisions are carried by another Indian in the \u2018lacaste,\u201d a sort of creel, the bread is reported to have been unfit for food.Major Btevenson seems to have laken good care that the stuff should not be folst.od on ble men.He had been made to provide his own rations tn the first piece, end he determined to continue to do it.Be found that everything needed ceuld be supplied cheaper, and in first class condition by the local baker.butcher and grocer He was ordered to receive the government rations, but declined, anid was allowed to have bis way.As a result, his men and borses were well fod, and when the Battery returned to Montreal, thers was not « mas 0 borse that was not ecusidersbly heavier than wben tbe corps marebed out.And theugh the men of the Battery were so well fed, they reveivad after the service Was over, twenty.five ce3ts a day.ln cash, the savings from their rition mowsx, Ia.aédition to their pay of ffty cents à day.The batierymen were ihe savy of the rest of the force at Hontingéon où account of their geod feed.WITH NANSEN IN THE NORTH.\u2018With Nanseh in the North (Mor ang), is by Lieutenant Hjalmar Johan- en, who was Nansen's only compenion when be left the \u2018Fram\u2019 and traversed snow and ice with dogs and sledges.He says in enumerating the crew of the \u2018Fram\u2019 :\u2014 The thirteenth member of the expedition was myself.I sugiged to go as stoker, as no other post could be found for me when I applied.My duties as stoker lasted only two inonthe\u2014 until we entered the ice.After that I acted as meteorological assistant\u201d A couple of quotations will show emactiring of the everyday experiences of the twe men alone in Arctic regions : Truriag our march we geoerally halted i midway, to bave some food.We ued te et Into Lhe sleeping bag with some bread, butter and pemmican between us.At rat hen the cold was Sevens, these halts were anything but plshmie\u2019 a we lay \u2018shtvering with cold and gaawing at the frosen lumps of butter, Which Almost vanihed fa our {nimense woltskip \u2018Floves, Later on things improved, but |i sometimes happened that we Tell saléep whifs'we lay muirdhing our food, \u2018and \u2018thus lost valable tune.The apporticoment of our cowliats once a day was, of course, & bright spot In our axistence, To Bad been broken foto.bits, #0 thet it Was mot easy to por- ape Squslly, Bit we hanagéd ft tn this way: Ome of us arranged lwo por.Uons on the kayak, while (he other turned his back upon him, sad chess his lot by calling out \u2018fight\u2019 or \u2018loft.We were quite fair to ome another.Nauses, who was a bigger man tham I, made any difference in the rations.« rule, ve THE IBEX OF THE HIMALAYAS, \u2014Iltestreted London News.\u2019 TK perseverance of the n sportaman, and the deadly preeision of the Europea! \u2018 weapous aré fast reducing the numbers of this suble goat, in the Kashmir territory, in spite of its wary nature and the fastness to which it retreats when pur- rucd teinted whea !t arrived et the (ront.ane | WHkaly to share the fate that has befallen and unless prompt measures are taken for its protection, it is only too its European relative.suficiont, but there were days wheu we thought \u2018eur allowance rather shect.We lay down to sleep aL sigh\u2019 o'clock în the evening, and whes we woke up we touné it was six o'clock.We thought of course, that it was six o'clock ia the morn.Ing, hut just them the sun suddenly durst forth, sud appearing.ns lt did.ln the northern sky.we begas refecting, aad sosn discovered that It was six o'clock in the ¢vealng.This you may call sound sheep.Jog If you Ilka, eopecially whon it Is ro.tèst our bed was upon the lee.The Gogs were now given as much food 88 they could eat, and they sevmed te thrive well co the nourishing bear's flesh; we also ste a great quantity of it our.solves, both mourning and evesing, Any housewife would pray heaven to preserve bee from baving guests like ourselves, tt she could but see the meals which we man.sgeé to got though; but then, of onurse, there was & considerable Interval between each meal, generally twelve to fourteen hours, \u2014 HON.J.a, ROBERTSON DEAD, WAS PROVINCIAL TREASURER FOR ELEVEN YFRARS.The Hon.J.G.Hobertaon, postmaster of Sherbrooke.Que., died in that city on the cvening of March 13.Me bad been in failing health for some cime past but was able to attend to his duties up to within a few days of his death, which was owing to beart failure.The Hon.Joseph Gibb Roberteon was the son of the late Rev.James Robert son, who came to Canada in 1832, and was subsequently for 25 years pastor of the Sherbrooke Congregational Church.He waa born in Stuartfield, Aberdeen- shire, Scotland, on Jan.1, 1820, and completed his education in Sherbrooke, He was for many years a merchant of that city.He was Mayor of Sherbrooke for THE LATE HON.J.G.RORBRTSON, eighteen years; president of the Stan- stead and Sherbrooke Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; secretary-treasurer of the county of Bherbrooke ; president of the Temperance League ; president of the Sherbrooke Agricultural Bociety, and president of the Quebec Central Railway Company, of which he was the originator.A Conservative in politic-, he was returned in that interest to the Quebec Assembly, for Fherbrooke, at the Union of the provinces, 1887, and continued to hoid the same seat up to (he general elections of 1892, when he was defeated in a triangular contest.In December of the same year he was ep- nointed postmaster of Sherbrooke.Mr.Robertson entered Mr.Chauvenu's Cahi- net sa provincial treasurer, on Oct.25, 1969, succeeding the late Judge Dunkin.He held the same office in the De Pouch.erville, Chapleau, Ross, and Taillon administrations, covering a period of eleven years, and finally retired from office, Jan.27, 1887.Ta 1874 he was nt to England to negotiate a loan for the province of $4,000,000.He married in 1870, Mary, daughter of A.G.Woodward, Sherbrooke.ADVERTISEMENTS, THE DANGER OF PILES Too Prequently Overlooked-Dr.Chase\u2019s Ointment a Prompt and Positive Cure.The suffering crused by the fotense ich.Ing and burning sensations of piles ta only one of the horrors of this disease.for there great o jevetop- ary Fie mit étagesti to fistula, one BE Bane imaginable.er and expense of an risk dis- Sven the great tion sre preferable to running the x contrectiag this most loathsome of euses.Bot there 2 ce necessity for a surgical operation fer pllea.Dr.90's Ointment Je guaranteed lo Sure er case of piles, ne mai standing, tor 20e ous a or baw ag.ravated case my be, ve long ne plies ve pet become fatula.Ît 16 enly by Fare chance that internal treatesent will cure piles.But [t matters oot from what cause they arite, Dr.Chase's Ointment will at stop the itching and burning.and soon effect a perfect cur You cas vs Dr.Chauc'e Olntment with fullest sesurance.that what das cured scores of thousands of cases of piles will cure you.For vale by sil dealers, or Bd.manson, Bates & Co, Toreato.STE i suffered omfiture.READABLE PARAGRAPHS cAPABILITINS OF ART.The king was glosmy.\u2018What 8 Slums] waste!\u2019 be exclaimed.\u2018But art\u2019 protested ber majesty, \u2018le abée to make even such a desert to laugh!\u2019 The morarch shook his head.\u2018Our deserta have De sense of bumer,' he sighed.All this, however, was before the peste Detroit \u2018Journal.\u2019 \u2018No, I can\u2019t give you « job, i've an many bauds as 1 cam find work fer,\u2019 \u2018Well, that seedn\u2019't stand is pour way, gpov'ser.The Hida I'd do wouldn't make 30 difference.\u201d DISCRIMINATING MAN.\u201cWoman will kiss men, wemen ad da.bles, while man, with ner sags of éta.crimination bars the men and the Sadie\u2019 \u2014Chicage \u2018Post.\u2019 A BERRY STORY.A talkative American ence wea Berry, the celebrated English Cong alist minister, whe died lately while De praying at a funeral.\u2018What are you ing about\u201d said the Goetor on the alisded to, and, raising bimsel up te full etature, he grandiioquentiy added: belong to an enspire on which (be sus sets.\u2018 This expostulation bad the effect ellexcing the boastfel American for a time and proved so effective that Dr.Beery tried the samo tactics 01 another American whe was much fuclined to draw the log Dew.Ia (he latter Inmtance, however, the doctor \u2018Don\u2019t yeu knew,\u2019 the American retortad upon the deetor, \u2018why the sun nover sets upon your empire?The Gcetor said be could pot tell.\u201cThen.\u201d seid the American, \u2018I guess it is because the Almighty cannot trust the people of your em.Fire ia the dark\u2019 IRISH MAR\u2019 TNESS, Dr.SLHHE \u2018Bed luck to them Afrayless.\u2019 said a Dub.ln carmen the ether day when au efi landed him a shilling after driving Richmené Barracks to the Kildare Club.\u2018Why?! asked the officer.they've killed all the gentiomen 15 the army.\u201d The officer was with the veiled lnsult that be fare.An olé gentleman was begged Dephew to give up \u2018vhiskey, as the tion would undeubtediy Jeugthon \u2018The uncle wrote back: \u2018My dear bey [ your advice for ete day, and upon my you're right: It waa the longest day I put fo.\u2019 \u201cWhy are Irishmen always laying dere wrongs of their con ntry?asiod seme ese tn the House.\u2018Becanse they wast them re.F@resord.\u2019 thundered Major O'Gormas.An Irish ravvy oo the Helrhead beat was ti i i i doub!: ë * Tir F F WANTED TO SET HIMSELF RIGIST.\u2018Pray 4¢ pot misiudge mé\u2019 he asi.se Ip entered the office.\u2018I am u peor Wan aad I cannot afford to be put in a false HEM bafore tbe public.I destre courteous treat- Meat at your hands and ssk thal you be mot deceived by appearances.My hair is lead.but it is because of a Anancial Sisag emment with my barber.| am ne post\u201d Then he cuccesded in selling the efitar & book that be didn\u2019t want.OETTING USED TO IT.She\u2014'8e you have crossed the cssan sixty.four times.You must be getting weed te (L.* Heo\u2014'Yes, considerably; I have lately get 29 that I can recognise half ths wavros we mort.\u2019 A Belfast (Me.) citizen reports himself ab the champion abesat.minded men.Hy pet the fire in the kitchen stove rwaning nloety the other morning; thes weat lo the wail drew a pail of water, brought hs water ia and poured it on the steve.EXPECTED TOO MUCK.Mr.Slowpar\u20141 &em't like to complain: about trifies.Mrs.Snapper, but my hash appears to consist larglly of C(ragmieata of deal bears\u2019 4 Mre.Sseprer (the lendindy)\u2014\"Woil, what kind of board de wa expect fer three dl.lars a week?Potished mahogany?! Frances\u2014'Harry mys be just wants te fat) cma and worship me oll the time.\u201d Her.Mamma\u2014'0b, well; don\u2019t mind that, dom, After you're married be won't let 8 interfere with bis business.\u2019 Children Cry for CASTORIA.Ohlidren Cry for CASTORIAg Children Ory f CASTORIA.During an examinelion à moftral stedept was asked: \u2018When dees mortiantion set fa?\u201cWhen you prepose acd are amswersd \u201cNo.he replied.CASTORIA Pre Intaate and Ohiidren.EZ pgs \u2018The Boys\u2019 Page.How to Build a Boat.TRE FLATTIE.(The following is reprinted by request from an article in the \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 for May 5, 1806.) The best and simplest of square-sided miling boats is the \u2018fattie,\u2019 and the fol lowing description of a l4-fcot \u2018flattie,\u2019 wach as are extensively used arunod New A PLATTIE.York, which was published in the \u2018Rud- .der,\u2019 is à very good one, and the scheme of building is not too elaborate for a clever boy to successfully carry out.To build a good flattie you must first make up your mind to have everything ito give room for the inch by inch oak high built of three-quarter or seven eighth ineh stuff.Here is a chance to improve our boat.Get tor your side boards one inch and s quarter white pine plank, 18 inches wide, 18 feet long.Have this ripped into two boards and dressed down to one-half inch and cut to the shape shown VE: in fig.©.This alone would warp and twist all out of shape, but if a rib of oak, one inch square, be riveted across it 1 every 18 inches it will stand and be bet- | ter than a three-quarter inch plank for! the purpose.Make two moulds, figs.D and EK, as shown.Insert mould D, 6 feet forward of the transom, and be sure to eet it !square across the boat.Mould E 110 feet forward of the transom.{ corners of these moulds are shown clipped the smallest, lightest and best that can be got.Every nail that is put in the boat must have its weight to certy, OF else you do not want it in the boat, and make neat.racing flatties on the t limit length on tisa ¥ Ë PLAN =, ribband that is to be halved over the ends of the ribs snd riveted along both top and bottom edges of the planks.The top one takes the deck beams and the bottom one the inch by inch and a half oak doors to which the bottom boards are fastened.As the sides have à flare to them, the inner edges of the top ribband and the outer edges of the lower one will have to be levelled off as in fig.F, so the bot tom and deck will fit flat on them.The foors are halved over the lower | ribband and riveted to them, as in Sg.good | G.£ » 1 .¢ thick, while the reat tun be the same c= the sides, % inch pine.\u2018Then comwe the allimportaut ques tion, \u2018Where should the board be Nine boats out of ten have it too far forward.If the frames are spacd 18 inches apart from the tramsowm forward, cut the slot between the third and sixth frames, 3-4 of an inch wide; fit the wp: right posts into this at cach cad, eut- ting the after one as shown in fig.H, with & 8 fest, 10 inches radius ; nuke them both about 8 inches wide.Cut trunk logs (or lower pieces of the casing) out of 11-4 by 3 inch pine, to the required sweep of the bottom, and rivet them fast to the third and vixth frame.Dovetail the fourth and Rith irames into these trunk logs and draw \u2018he bottom boards tight up to it with the brass screws, To ensure a tight fit it is advisable to lay a strip of Canton flannel painted with white lead between the bottom of the trunk loge before fusten- ing.Complete the care with 34 inch boards, and put a little rounded cap cn te on.Before decking, rivet a thwart across close up under the deck beams, no it steadien the after end of the centre board case.The forward end is held by the deck, which comes partly over it.Lay the deck in str.ps of white pine one inch wide by half an inch thick, CUT NO.L with the sweep of the side, and ire the w rd around the cockpit a geod flare forward.not it too at the after end, about thres inches FLATTIE.is enough, because the crew have to sit on deck, and a high wash-board nearly cuts a fellow's legs off.Lay a flooring of epruce strips in the cockpit to walk on, to sve the thin bottom, but do not put in an ounce of wood that is not needed.Make ber a centre-board of yellow [fog pine and à rudder of white pine, as in tans.In the sail plan you wee 1 small n fustened to the \u201cforward.This is & great stesdier for boats, and I would advies putting it on.: Her rig is large, 298 square feet, \u2018but * you can\u2019t fly unless you hive the wings; length for such a class of boats, Jet us take that as our length, and eee if we cannot turn out & fast boat.\u2018The design, fig.A, will be the shape { should propose\u2014lé feet 9 inches over ; 16 feet on the water ; 5 feet greatest beam ap deck ; 4 feet § inches greatest \u2018beam on bottom ; draught of hull, 8 inches.I believe in giving these boats a little flare to the bows, and though the stern or transom does mot look quite so pretty square, as I have it drawn, yet 1 think the run is 4go valuable » part of the design to th sway by raking the transom.Have all you are measured \u2018Sor.Make the stem of oak, also the \u2018transom, fig.B- Most flat boats are we.Tv Cat No.1 shows the bost before the deck beams or floors are put acrom, ard shows how the sides are backed Ly the oak framework.Tn a cruising flattie the bottom Loards side, ait over The , 58 inch run In boat middie that sh of Ê i BAIL PLAN OF FLATTIE.% and they are about as large wings es you can handle on such a boat, and than sou want three or four fellowe to bang out to windward for you, and you can always reef.The dimensions of spars and mil are given on the plan.Make all the span as emall and light as possible; pick your wood and make them well.You can tell if the owner of a boat is à suilor by the way his boat is rigged.For shrouds get % inch galvanized tteel or iron wire, such as is used for clothes lines; splice a loop large enough to go over the head of the mast in one end and serve it, cut the shroud so aa to allow room to set up the lanyards.Splice the other end of the shroud sround a small desd-eye, or thimble, to take the chafe off the lanyard.Serve all splices, rivet the chain-plates on a frame a little way aft of the mast.The bobstay also should be wire.No jibstay is needed, a8 the jib is set flying, but it is well to have a light line there, to hold the mast, when the jib is lowered.Have the mails made of good brown cotton.Sail-makers will make them hecvy unless you insist on very light stuff.The question of blocks is a hard ome to deride.There are really no good small blocks to be bad unless vou pav a fortune for them.About the best thing .} buggy on their way from meting, fod THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, [Fee bé\" Boys\u201d Page: Mr.Willett's Fenians BY 8.C.THOMAS.\u2014 L It was late afternoon of à brignt May Rabbath, in the year 1808.The country road, bordered on one side by a row cf poplars, and on the other by rising inee- dows and freshly ploughed fields, was deserted, save for the figure of a young girl, who trudged slowly toward the vetting sun.Though moving at a saail's pace,fi{tecn- year-old Molly did not once stoop ve vas her wont when walking here in May.time to gather the trilliums and spring beauties growing so tnickly by the road- sidé, nor did she glance toward tre dis tant house on the mountain side\u2014the house which she had called home since her babyhood, though she was but the orpban niece of its owmer\u2014e spot to her the most beautiful in this secluded mook of Southern Canada.Her thoughts were back in the little log schoolhouse at the four corners, where an \u2019 experience meeting\u2019 was bring held, from which she hed ignominiously fied, mot half an hour since.*l ain\u2019t good enough to speak in meet- in\", she said to hervelf far the twentieth time since her wild rush for the the patierd of the wall paper, until Jim arked somewhat ansiowdy: \u2018Did you keep the papers, Mr.Willstt?' \u2018No, 1 didn't, answered his neighbor in « tome of disgust.\u2018My wife got to tarin\u2019 round, tryin\u2019 to build à fre, by Jiminy! before 1 could atop her, she'd shoved the hull lot into the stove!\u2019 \u2018That was too bad, Mr.Willett,\u2019 said Uncle Jake, sympathetically.put are you sure they waa Fenian papers?\u2018Ks sure es you're standin thar,\u2019 declared the old man with emphasis.\u2018I couldn't see much for 1 hadn't my specs, but my old woman made out something about this ere lot an\u2019 range, an\u2019 thero was a lerrible grinnin\u2019 death's head drawed onto one of \u2018em!\u2019 \u2018Well, if the worst comes to worst, snd the rascals get here, don't forget you and Mre.Willett have got some neighbors, ssid Uncle Jake, heartily, \u2018We'll nee that you're taken care of\u2019 \u2018I ain't afeared of \u2018em!\u2019 returned Mr.Willett, straightening himself proudly as he rose to go.\u201cI've got a muakit, and if the robbing rascals come Lil let daylight into \"em, ue auré es my name is Cramp Willett!\u2019 .The Monday evening following this memorable conversation Polly, standing on the front porch to watch the moon rise over Round Top'a shoulder, was startled by the sudden appesrance of her cousin Jim from the ow of the schoolhouse door had scandalised the hedge worshippers within\u2014but if it tadn't been for thos papers, praps 1 might; I most wish Jim hadn't\u2014-' Here Polly's troubled meditations were cut short by the appearance of a little bent-over oid man, who at this moment emerged from a small frame house by the roadside, and, with the help cf « stick, walked briskly in the direction of Polly's home.* There's Old Willett, now !\" exclaimed Polly to herself, \u2018snd I believe he's going up to Uncle Jake's with more news, I'll hurry and ask him.\u2019 Try as she might, however, it was not until he peused to take breath hefore ascending the final steep leading to Uncle Jake's gate, that Polly overtook her neighbor.Naturaily shy, even of \u2018 Old Willett,\u201d whom she had known for years, her late nelf-abasement in the meeting house rendered Polly bolder now.\u201cHave you heard anything new ahout the Fenians lately, Mr.Willett ?she inquired breathiesaly as she reached him.Mr.Willett, to give him his more dignified but seldom used title, believed in teaching all young people, especially \u2018little gals\u2019 to know their places.Partly from this reason, but more because he was naturally boastful, cowardly, and superstitious, Mr.Willett obtained little respect from the boys and girls of the neighborhood.The boys mimicked his boastful hes and favorite exclame- tion of % Jiminy {* and coddled and encouraged his superstitious fears ; while the girls, rave Polly alone, who bad been taught respect for age, and whose senei- tive heart could not bear to hurt «nother by word or look, laughed at him openly.On the present occasion, without deign- to ankwer Polly's question, he frat wiped his hested face on a large red hendkerehief, took & long look at the landscape, and finally, glancing at her, asked abruptly : \u2018+I your folks to home, Sissy ¥ Much sbashed, Polly muttered cunfus- edly, \u2018Yes\u2014no\u20141 don\u2019t know,\u2019 and hurried on with crimson face, until the sound of Uncle Jake's hearty laugh ae he and Aunt Maria nesred home in the a loud call from Uncle Jake\u2014' W ly, got ecairt out in meetin\u2019, hey ¥\u2019 completed her discomfiture.The chaffing she expected at be house was happily omitted, however, as her cousins, Harry and Jim Stebhina, had from the veranda seen Mr.Williett approach, and now eagerly invited bim in, knowing by his manner that important revelations were to be nade.Aunt Maris, who \u2018didn't believe in Old Willett's nonsense,\u2019 went upstairs to lay away her Sunday bonnet, but Polly followed her uncle into the kitchen, where Mr.Willett and the boys had seated themnelves.\u201cWhat's the latest news from Fenian headquarters, Mr.Willett?enquired Uncle Jake, jocosely, as he entered the room.\u201cBy Jiminy, I don\u2019t want to scare the wimmen folks,\u2019 the old man in « low excited tone, \u2018but there's goin\u2019 to be trouble mighty soon now.Them ar bees o mine won't fy south no furder'n the O'Brien lot; 'n last night that ar fence o mine was moved es much es two or three feet, an\u2019 ther wa'n\u2019l 20 marks to show who dene it!\u2019 Here Polly glanced at Jim, à harum scarum Jad of Afteen, her chosen com- penion, and caught a look which at once enlightened her ss to the identity of the mysterious fence-mover.\u201cBat 1 thowght you'd beerd something important lately,\u201d obeerved Uncle Jake, with a spice of mild contempt in hiv to do ie to use small iron pulleys, aud tune.they only cost five or ten cents each Tur! sre hard to get, and sre generally useless when got, so eet up your rigging with lanyards.pce The Suss Canal ie 08 miles long, and reduced the distance from England Lo India pearly four thoussnd miles for ships.The airtight compartment theory of building ships was copied from « provision of nature shown in the case of the nautilus.The shell of this animal has forty or Bity compartments, into which air or water may be sdwitted, to aliow Tm a gitten\u2019 to it!\u2019 cried Mr.Willett.\u201cWhat'd you s'ynee I found this morn- in, side 0° that ar fence o' mine?'Bout five o'clock I looked out 'o the winder, \u2018a 1 see & man kinder rumnin\u2019 slong, stoopin\u2019 down.Bime-by my old woman an\u2019 me went and found 8 bundle o' pe- pers he'd left, and by Jiminy, them sr was Fenian papers!\u2019 - Here Mr.Willett half rose from his chair in his excitement, and looked around upon the auditors, evidently expecting an outburst of horror.Dead silence followed, however, seven: toem-year-old Harry regarding the spesk- er with grave bine eyes, in which bardl the occupant to mink or font ae it lenses.- a y a shadow of amusement vas visible, and Uneie Jake and Polly carefully examining \u2018Hi, Polly\" he whispered, \u2018I'm just waitin\u2019 for the other boys, and I want to know if you're goin\u2019 to help us thia time.We're goin\u2019 to lay the plans to-night for the biggest fun this neighberhood's over seen! You just do the drawing and we'll\u2014* \u2018Oh Jim,\u2019 interrupted Polly, lifting an earnest face in the moonlight, \u2018don\u2019t you think it's kind of mean te try and soars folks?An old man like Mr.Willett, too, And T wouldn't have Mrs.Willett scared for anything 1° \u2018Darn it all, Polly, you ain't going to back out now, with all that fun in sight!\u2019 said her cousin, impatiently.\u2018Old Willett brags se much, it would fun to scare him au little.We wom't hurt anybody, and nobody\u2019ll suspect us, for I'm goin\u2019 to be away all next week, workin\u2019 for Mr.Barnes.There's just Jack Narnes and Fred Hanks and me in it.Harry is stuck in the books he is always at, and don't know a thing about it, and we dares\u2019t tell him, for he's such a deacon he'd give us a sermon with ten heads to it, and go and tell, and poil all onr fun besides.Now remember, we're going to have'\u2014here followed a catalogue of various articles, to which Polly listened with a face whose expres sion rapidly changed from earnestness to mischief.\u201cThere's ma calling, and you'll have to gn.But promise before you de to belp me = the papers end things, and met tell Harry.\u2019 And Polly langhed and promised.(To be Contianed.) Schoolboy Language.COUNTING-OUT RHYMES.The editor of the Boys\u2019 Page hes to thank a large number of readers for their contributions to the discussion on school boy language.With the publication of the following letters, addressed to the editor of the Boys' Page, the subject of \"| counting-out rhymes will, for the present, be laid aside.It is to be hoped that the older readers, as well as the boyr, will continue giving us pleasure by joining in our other weekly discussions.The subject of old fashioned schoolbooks, which we are shortly to take up, ought to prove an interesting one.Bir,\u20141 bave been much interested in the counting-out rhymes which you have lately been publishing.Just listen Je this that I got from my mother: Master good teneber, Taugh® his scholars now and Lhas: When be Zot up he made them dance Out of Beet) into France.O-U-T spells \u2018out.\u2019 Here is another: Tuty, minty, cutty, cern, Apple seed and brise thora; Friar, briar, limber lock, Twetty-throe geese ln 8 flock; One flew cost and one flow One few over the ouckoo\u2019s One, two out gees you, Hamilton, Ont.Sir \u2014As I noticed in the Boys\u2019 Page of the \u2018Witness\u2019 several \u2018counting-out rhymes.I send you the following which was used in the school I attended forty years ago: Intry, Mintiy, culty, corn, Apple med, and apple (Dors, Five goes \u2018vue ln a flock, serti 1 ET He who je et home?mother, ead ay Jos.Long-leather, dish clout, O T, out.This may not be just right, but it je as pear as | can remember.DAVID ARBING.Upper Freetown, PEI F.A.C.Sir, \u2014I esnd you s counting-out rhyme 1 know of :\u2014 Hurly, burly, limber look, Three squires i a clock: Sit sad sing, turn aad spring.Tes, tie, tog.tip It ont and wink.TON HITCHON.Sir, \u2014Having taken very great interest in your countingout rhymes, es they Manca 28, 1899.bring up reminisoences of games played in the sweet long-ago, I enclose twe :\u2014 Ilickory, pickory, my black hes, She inys egus for tienen, Sometimea uine, ory sometimes ton, Hickory, pickoey, my black bem.This verse was followed later on in the by this one :\u2014 charge m hildren, every To keep fi House tng come home; Bopacially you, my daughter Sue, Or eive I'll beet you black and blue.The second rhyme is : Helter, shelter, ball-storm-flure; Thunder store, figbiaing-storm.urry.boys burry, Rolickeome, frolinome, cyclone or Bliss Blow put the ore that's a wiich of 8 a ard, Hurricane, furricans, shout, boys, sheut! Stout while the witeh or the wisard goes eut, DAISY SELK'RK.Forest, Ont.The second of the two rhymes rent by F.A.C.has also reached us from \u2018An old stager from Barrie.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014 ATTENTION, BOYS.We are always glad to give, when pos sible, instructions for the making of various articles.But when a request reaches ug the full name and address of the writer must accompany; otherwise np notios will be taken of the request.This precaution is necessary, for often « request comes in such baxy language that without some preliminary coeres- pendence on the subject.it would be ir ble to give the information te quired.Further, the Editor likes to forward the article, when published, to the ad- diese of him for w it has been pre pared.The name sud address need mot be for publication.\u2014 [For the Boys\u2019 Page.POLLY.(By J.C.M.Duncan.) \u2018Hyah, now, quit yer congh an\u2019 ercakin\u201d, An\u2019 yer whoopin\u2019, fur a chik, You ain't, doh you seem ter think so, De on'y parrot dat sn spik.\u2018I've bin wond'ring, purty Polly\u2014 Guess, too, T ain't wide de mark, Jedging by yer physiog'y\u2014 Ef you wus bohn en Noah's ark?\u2018Seems ter me ye're wun ob dose tings, Dat ain't nebber hab bin yung, \"Kase you've sech a wrinkled fo\u2019 Sech a golly glibby tung.\u2018Stuck-up?Bbub, a mi'ty stuck-up- You've a dea! ob pride mo doubt, 1 can tell ao by de mannab, Dat you bob yer heed about.+ \u2018Guess you think ye're purty wise, ton, An\u2019 de lor\u2019 ob all you ses, Seems as of you sort a frowne om, Leetle niggab lad lik\u2019 me.\u2018Doh T am à leetie sinnah, 1 mus\u2019 say dat toire no maint Ef I kahs a sugah-crewkah, Ye're a cusser, an\u2019 1 ain't.\u201cNow, nebber be à tattletale, Doan\u2019 tell all you hesh an\u2019 sem Moal especially ef de case hap Anyting ter do wid me.\u2018An\u2019 doen call me in de mornin\u2019, Hours befo\u2019 hits time ter rise, Let a follah hab his succes out, *Tain\u2019t no joke ter ope wun\u2019s eyes \u2018An\u2019 remem\u2019er\u2014dere\u2019s no quesshun, \"Bout dis fac, you will agree\u2014 Wen you whnt an extrah crawksh, You've got ter depen\u2019 on me.\u2019 \u2014 EVERYDAY BORT OF A BOY.A boy once applied for a situation, says the Cincinnati \u2018Enquirer.\u2019 \"We don\u2019t like lazy boys here,\u201d sid the manager.\u2018Are you fond of work?\u2018No, sir, responded the boy, looking the other straight in the face.\u2018Oh, you're not, sre you! Well, we want 8 boy that is.\u2019 \u201cThere ain\u2019t any,\u2019 said the boy, dog gedly.\u201cOh, yes, there are.We have had over half a dogen of that kind here this morning to take the place we have.\u2019 How do you know they are?asked the Loy.*They told me so.\u2019 \u2018Bo could 1, but I'm not a liar\u2019 Aad the lad said it with such an air of convincing energy that he was engaged at once.ADVERTISEMENTS.Boys&Giris Weare giri wa'c! solid on os.pes and many aaa poe.Ram incl} Wk bdr th ner Jick makm Mo wort) Yee and wa wil on Ta Fon UE ke hk Foner mod Hana oder.$e Io Bom ee thi pre Racker 1834 1899 2 A HATREWEON & C6, ses Moutli vtreet, Mentresi, IMPORTERS à WHOLBSALE GROCERS.ET F- Frans of asû ABRORTE MAINTAINED.Orders Corefully Attended Yo, -e adit.x Eee = 20 E sud PEO A Definite Demand For Prohibitory Legislation.THE VOICE OF TH PLE.\u201c THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.the expressed will of the Dominoin as a GREAT DISTRESS IN CHINA.whole.\u2018d\u2019azlement has po right to make the Quebee vote a reason for withholding (rom other provinces advantages There is more or less suffering every which those provinces earnestly desire Year on account of the Yellow River and to which they sre fairly entitkd.floods, but this year the floods have been Toronto, March 21.\u2014A manifesto to the prohilitionists of the Dominion, in which the pleblacite, Kir Wilfrid lau ricr\u2019s letter, and the ressons for the reso- lutoms adopted at the executive meeting last week aro set forth at considerable length has been prepared by the presi: deat, Dr.Maclaren, and the secretary, Al.¥.B.Bpenoe.It says: The executive committee of the Domin jou Alliance respectfully calls attention te the present position of the prohibition movement, and the werious character of the considerations which, in their opin- jon, impose upon parliament the duty of enacting prohibitory legislation in view of the vote taken on Sept.29 last.AN APPEAL TU PARLIAMENT.The issue is not sow a partisan isene.The bill providing for the taking of the prohibition plebiscite, although introdue- ed as & government ineasure, was accept: ed by parliament.It passed without any party division, The verdict given by the electorate was invited by parliament, and to parliament now an appesi is made for legislation that will fairly embody the will of ths people as expressed at the polls.It is to be regretted that the govern: rent has refused to introduce wuch leg: islation.In @ letter to the secretary of the Alliance, tho Premier cally attention to the fact that the number of votes polled in the plebiscite was \u2018less than twenty-three percent\u2019 of the number cf names on the voters\u2019 list, and states the decision of the cabinet in the follow: ing terms: \u2018In our judgment, \u2018he expres siow of publie opinion recorded at toe hells in favor of prohibition, did not rep: resent such a proportion of the electorate as would justify the introduction by the government, of a prohibitory measure.\u2019 THE FIGURES.The official returns show the vote polled in the plebiscite on the question of prohibition to have been as Yollows : Majo Maj.por, Amt 884.Total .4 4,088 It will be seen that after deducting the majority of tive answers given in the Province of Quebec, the total majority of affirmative answers to the question in the whole Dominion was 13,916, The total number of votes on the elee- Se) lists, us reported by the returning officers, was 1,233840.The number of votes polled in favor of prohibition was nearly twenty-three percent of the names on the list.A LARGE VOTE.The vote polled was not small.The Premier stated to a deputation on Nov.2 that he agreed with them \u2018that the vote is, under the circumstances, a large one.\u2019 The whole vote led amounted to forty-four percent the names on the voters\u2019 lists: This is a large percentage when compared with the percentage of voter usually polled on questions or bylaws submitted to the electors when no other election is being held.Under such circumstances the vote is generally much smaller than that polled in ordi- nafÿ élections.There are many electors who will not take the trouble to vote in « contest from which the personal element is eliminated.Public interest is NX always stimulated by a struggle between persons or parties.In the plebiscite there were no such inducements as the spoils of office or political patronage offer to successful parties and workers in a general election.There was not the force of partisan feeling or party organization to bring out the vote.Leading political workers of different parties gave preetically no assistance to the temperance workers, whose work had therefore to be done simost entirely by persons unskilled and inexperienced in political methods.Under the circumstances, the magnitude of the vote is exceedingly encouraging.A PURE VOTE.The vote for prohibition was a pure, voluntary, unselfish vote.No doubt many electors marked their ballots against prohibition, honestly believing that they were acting for the public good.On the anti aide, however, there were also ar- raved selfish inlereste, desire for opportunities of personal indulgence and personal gain.It is also true that in many places the vote against prohibition was by personation and other improper practices.Ample proof has been given of this fact, the fraude in many canes being so extensive that it wonkl be safe to claim the actual prohibition ma- fry as being much greater then the of- 1 figures show.A GOOD MAJORITY.The officialiy-stated majority, 13,916, ie, however, decisive and substantial.An important feature of the victory is that A great majority of the constituencies have voted for prohibition.There are 213 members of parliament, sud if ve classify these according to the votes of their constituencies, we find that 198 of them represent constituencies favorable to prohibition, and that 88 represent constituencies opposed to prohibition.There is thus a clear majority of 43 parliamentary erate favorable to prohibition, It will be seen that the majority ee- curad by the prohibitionists ia equal to the majority that would anpport a gov- ent that had a majority of 43 in the of Commons after sa election is Average majority which the average majarity secured at the polls by the elected members was A COMPARISON.In the Dominion election of 1806 the Libevn) party carried a majority of the constituencies of the Dominion.Their success was considered sufficient warrant for a change of administration, snd & change of policy materially affecting many interests.\u2018They had not as large » majority of constituencies as the prohibitionists had in the plebiscite.either had they what the prohibitionists have, à large majority of the votes polled.In ng comparisons in the votes polled in a Parlismentary and those polled in the prohibition plebistice, it must bo remembered that there are seven constituencies, each of which returns two membors of Parliament, and in which ench elactor han ordinarily two votes, whereas in the plebiscite he had but one.A fair comparison of the votes polled and the votes on the bat, hn the cer ent cases, van only made hy doubling the number for thess constituencies io the list ured at the general election, 1f this is donc, and we take, for the constituencies in which elections were by acelamation, the votes polled at the pre- ceeding election we shall find that in the 1806 election the total number of votes polled for Liberal candidates was less t twenty-eight percent of the names on the voters\u2019 lists.In 1896 the Libernls had less than forty-five nt of the vote actually polled.Ê 188 the prohibitionists had move than fifty percent of the vote actually polled.The percentage polled for prohibition of possible votes throughout the Do minion is of course largely affected by the rmaliness of the prohibition vote in Quebec.In the North-West Ternizories and in each of the Provinces of Ontario, Nova Beotia, New Brunswick, Prince Ed- word Island and Manitoba, the prohibi- tiopiste polled a much larger percentaye of the voters\u2019 liste than did the Liberals in 1806.Outside of Quebec the total Liberal vote in 1300 was only twenty- five percent of the names on de roters lists.\u201cOutside Quebec, in 1998 the )i0- hibition vote was twenty-eight parcunt of all the names on the voters\u2019 lists.\u201c| These comparisons ere used simply to \u201c| make clear the fact that the prohibition vote was a very one.OUTSIDE QUEBEC, The majority agrinet prohibition in the .province of Quebec was very large, Init not large enough to counter-balance the great prohibition majority of the rest of the Dominion.In ali the other jiro- vinces the vote polled for prinilition was remarkably large, and the majority for prohibition was simply overwhelm ing.It would be cxtremely mnjus to accept ttib adverse vatà of one province as & reason for refusing prohibition to the many provinces in ich it is so esmestiy desired, and specially so when a large majority of the whole Dominion vote is in harmony with the desire of the majority of the provinces and constituencies.Am examination of the votes polled outside the province of Quebec fives the {ollowing striking resul Totul parys on voters\u2019 fists .Total number of votes polind Voltas polled for problbi .Votes polled sguinst prolkil Betreatags petted, of james où ist Percentage of lat viling for probidt.DB OL.2222 22 16 0 er 25 er ae Percentage of let voiing against pre- bition.Loo ae ee ell.1 «\u201c votes polled Lee de a a rene WB Number of members of Parliament.Number hone vatituenoies voted constituencies voted against prohibition.Average majority for prohibition agalast prob TIE QUEBEC VOTE.The vote that went against prohibition was mainly a French-Canadian vote.Al the Quebec constituencies that votud against prohibition bave a very large French-speaking population.Even outside of Quebec a majority of the few constituencies that voted against probi- bition have large French or German élemente.Outside the few Engliah- speaking counties the Queixe vote is ractically all agninst prohibition.This act must be considered along with the other fact no forcibly presented by Kir Wilfrid Laurier, that a large part of the Province of Queber is practically under prohibition.Out of 933 rural municipalities there were licenses issued last year in only 3%0.It is manifest that the French electorate was actuated by some other motive than favor for the liquor traffic, In many places the friends of the Lihe val party very y urged a vote against prohibition on the d that : favorable vote pouls em Th the Liberal Government and party.iquor- favoring Liberals made a vigorous can vase on this line.Their pleading cost the prohibition canse thousands of votes.Ja the province of Quebec a number of Cabinet Ministers and other leading Liberal politicians came out in opposition to the proposed reform.The French peo ple, whose admiration sud affection for Sir Wilfrid Laurier are great, were told that a majority for hibition would injure his position and influence.It is certain that the Quebec vote was largely influenced by this political consideration, In view of the revelations that hare been made, there can be little doubt thst in some parts of Quebec the anti-prohi- bition majority was largely augmented by ballot-stuffing, and made to sppesr uch larger than it really was.Whether, however the officially-eported vote riprerented the honest opinions of the Quebec electorate, or failed 10 0, it must be admitted that it wrong to allow ons provines à PROHIBITION EXPRCTED.The people of Canads accepted ths ple biscite proposal in good faith, having res.son to believe that the government and | parliarment intended to Le governed by a Fruita.hen it was first proposed in the Do minion Liberal Convention of 1438, the Hon, Mr.Fisher, in moving it 8 a plank in the Liberal platform, said: \u20181 pro.to read resolution which will ng about this result, and which pledges the Librral party if returned to power, to give the people of Canada an opportunity to express their views upon | this question, and the government it | power must necewsarily carry out the ez- vremed will of the people.There is no doubt that this is what the Jiberal | pariy would do, for we know their ; pledges can be trusted.\u2019 To a deputation of Winnipeg prohibitionists Sir Wilfrid Laurier made a slate ment, in 1906, which was reported + follows :\u2014 He would pledge his Honor that «a soon as the Liberals came into owr at Ottawa they would take a plebiscite of the Dominion by which the party would stand, and the will of the people would be carried out even were it to cost power forever to the Liberal party.\u2019 To a deputation representing the Gene rai Conference of the Methodist Church, on March 34, 1606, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in Aference to the proposed plebiscite, said, \u2018If the pkbiscite meets with the support of a majority of the peap\u2019e, thse who find themselves in the minority will have to concur in the verdigt of the ma.Jority.\u2019 During the discussion cf the Plebiscite bill in the House of Commons, she Pre mier also stated at different times that when the will of the peop'e was rscer- taincd the government would have to take such sep as would give vifect to that will.other occasions similar statements were made by different eus bers of the government.The \u2018expressed will\u2019 of the people could only refer 10 the will of the people which was #xpressed.The statements made could not be {sir- ly construed to wan anything shart of & promise of probibitary legislation in cao?of a favorable majority in a reasonable vote.MEANING OF THE PLEBISCITE.Apart, er, from anv specific statements at all, the taking of « vlebls- #ite could only be justified by ccnsil wing it a means of deciding what poliey )ar- lament should adopt.The t ex.peaditure of money and effort lw the government, and hy the advorazes rnd opponents of probibition, which the contest involved, was undertaken only be cane the public believed that \u2018her wore deaiding the question at imme, and tht the derision of the ballot-boxes would be accepted and carried owt by the government and parliament.This was strongly impressed wpon the (the depths of misery.The people them.so appalling and the distress oo srest that the have (elt juntifiod for the frat time in ten years in making an appeal for help.The Nhautung Mie sionary Conferenes, composed of fifty- two missionaries, represcnting the missionary societies from six different coun tries, have united in sending out (he fol- Jowing appeal which they bope will meat with as warm a response as did the sue sent out tem years ago :\u2014 THE AVPEAL We pris te the pitiful in every place te which these words may ge om behalf of the sufferers (rom ihe appalliug YeHow River floods of this year.In Au last the Yellow River (Hwang Hew) burmt ite tanks in four places trres on Lhe snuth and one on tha n side.and poared its waters aver many counties\u2014the cles saye (hirty.ace are afreted.The great occurred on the acuth side whirs an ning about seven miles wide was made.Ti ose this gap practically the whole body of Tirer is now pouring, tog.and In many pinres, devastating nine counties.The de.pesite of the wnter bave so ralse4 the bed of the river lu Îte recent eonrse that ft will be well nigh impossible to forca the water off the country and back luto Its proper course, The members of thla committee in journeylog cver this district bave sera hun.drids of villages submcrgod and many dts.trict cities entirely surrounded by water.ourands of homes are in rulos, furniture, winter clothing.bedding ere bu beasath, while thet which bee beem rescu.ls only useful te people whn have fallea :nte velves are elther living In mat sheés on the wrecked ruln of their homes or have found temporary shelter with relatives or ars beg.ing in more prosperous regions.THE DISTRESS ACUTE.Thc distress Is revdere] more scutes since, on sceount of drought, the spring wheat crop way a general failure.The Bc roming before the autums crop was matured, a meagre jos of tall millet has been gth.EE dh et eS Se »! sul We am Inclined to buvlaiim \"Happy are Kk TA PREaRd, Tiokd cornet, Prepares flats .When can the Uitlander vete President or the First Volks \u2018He can do that after twelve years.\u2019 \u2018Excuses me again, President, but do you not mesn that it takes twelve years to obtain a vote for the First Volkarned after a man has qualified for voting for the Second Volksraad, which brings tbe twelve up to fourteen?\u2018No, no.It is twelve.Here an animated discussion in the taal took place between the President and the interpreters, the President gesticulating and speaking with much rapidity.As the result he turned to me and asid\u2014\u2018Yes.11 is fourteen.1 did not know.He can vete after fonrten years.\u201d Then he edded, \u2018It Lakes me some years to know avery ons, whether people are good or bad men, and whether they will stand Ly the Republie or not.I must have time to find them out.\u2018They cannot serve the Republic and other countries at the same time.What does the scripture say?You esa- not serve God and mammon.\u2019 \"What you say is very ruasomable, air, but doss that oblige you to make it ce herd for a Uitlander that it js practically impossible for him ever to become pos- esssed of fui! burgher rights at all?\u2018What do you mean?It is not imposei- bie.He can vote after fourteen years.\u2019 \u2018But I am informed, and I only ask for information, that even after that, after getting naturalised, and taking the oath, and qualifying for the Becond Volkeraad, and then staying twelve move years in the country, making fourteen in ell, he etill does not get hie vote for President and First Volksraad unless he gete his nomination signed by three-fourths of the burghers in his district, which seems to me à task à man might well shrink from in the present state of strained relations FLOODED recple by the speeches and hisrature of both parties in the contest.Men voted; in this belief.No intimation had been given that the votes or views of electors\u2019 Who failed to vote would be taken isto; | account.The taking of u plebiscite was a practical promise that the goverment | and parliament intended to be guided by | the expressed will of the cleutors.All those who wess opposed to prohibitica were asked to declare themmives at the \"polls, snd it ja manifeestiy unfair so reckon those who could not ar did not vote, as cppesed to the measure.The } utmost that ean be claimed ie that they | \u2018were content to abide by the verdiet of the majority of those actually voting upon the question.LEGISLATION ASKED FOR.For many years thousands of the best men and women in Canada have been striving earnestly and unselfishly to stem the terrible torrent of misery and sin that flows from the traffic in strong drink.They believe that in a Christian, civilised community, law should Le on their wide in the struggle, For thirty yearu they have Leen appealing to parliament for legislation, From time to time they have been put off on varicus pretexts.They relied upon the present Parliament and government to deal seri.wely with this important question.They accepted the challenge of parllament to show that a majority of the voting electorate favored the proposed reform.Notwithstanding all that the wealthy and influsutial liquor trafle could do, in spite of misrepresentation and fraud, in the face of strong opposition from thoes whose aid they bad a right to expeet, they have demonstrated that of the voting electorate\u2014those whose voice alone has a right to determine legisiation\u2014they have a large majority.In all the Dominion except one province, they have polled a remarkably large vote and ee cured an unparalleled majority in favor of prohibitory legislation.This vote de mands some action.To do abgolutely ; nothing, under the circwmstances, would be a breach of faith which, it is con fidently expected, parliament will be too bouorable and too wise to commit.who suffer most from intemperance, but have no voice in politics, and on behalf of seven provinoes, 128 constitusncies and 278,487 voting electors, the executive committee of the Alliance respectfully appeals to the Dominion Perlisment to eract ouch legislation as will fairly embody the will of the people as expressed at the polls.On bebalf of the executive committee, J.3.MACLAREN, Chairman.F.8.FPEXCE, {therefore we sppenl to In the intervets of thousands of those sides, the hristisns have prieur y started subscription lists and missionaries rise are do.fog their best.The offivials sre collecting wealthy natives and aid the relief fund hea been made.Large sums will alto be get aside from govern.fisnds for thid purnose snd we gre is.f 3 able Chinese ln sou likely to be given are i nad women to assist by gewerous hold ourselves teedy to 6e n nartow or widely extonded work sccordiag to funds swt us.RELIEF WORKS.If we have tho means we have te de something In the form of relic! works which appear to us Lo be far more éseful and aatis- fpctory than the more #iviag of dele.\u201d As conference of Sfty.tws missionaries feting ten societies, and from Americs, the British Isles, Germany, Sweden, Canads and New Yealsnd has sugmested that this » 1% prepared The Hoog Kong and Shanghal Bank bis kindly opened an ge- count for tha Yellow River Flood fend.All funds given in response to this sppas! may de sent to them.> RENE S pre ATORR Chatrman.& 4 NaDWORST, rit TACKLED MR KRUGER.THE OLD MAN IGNORANT OF THE LAWS.The \u2018Caps Times\u2019 publishes an interesting report of & recent conversation br- tween Mr.Davies, sn British journelisi, and President Kruger, with the assist ance of Mossra.Tjsart Kruger and Bre- dell, as interpreters: When Mr.Davies asked a question as to the exclusion of the Uitlanders from the franchise, the President exclaimed warmly, \u2018What do they ezpect?Do they think to get all the privileges of a full burgher when they will not take up any of the burdens of burghervhip, such os fighting the enemies of the Republic: Be- they have the (ranchise.\u201c1 beg your pardon, l'resident.In vrhet mnse bave they the franchise?\u2018After two years\u2019 residence in the country they can vote if they are matural- ised and take the onth of allegiance.\u2019 \u2018Excuse me, President, but that is ouly ihe qualification for voting for the Second Volkernad, which to me seems to be no greater exercise of power than Toting for an English county counell, aad think it is oniy natarei-\u2014\" The Presideut (interrupting)\u2014' They oan vote for the Necond Volksrsed, aud also for the Field-nornet.\" Toronto, Marek, 1900.\u2018Yes; bub that ie only like voting fer - [between Beers and Uitianders.Is wot this | correction, but truth eoostantiy stirring up bad feeling between and .colonies under the British flag.! am a} ways trying for peace and good will.\u2019 all time.\u2019 REGIONS.correct f* Again there was No, no\u201d And again there was o skirmish with the interpreters.Ultimately the President turned où me rather sharply with, \u2018Who told you ail this Where did you get all this\u201d \u2018I got it from your own sident, and .Do 1 understand wy that the three-fourths business necessary ?The President admi forgotten it at the momen ii was meceassary.that the Uitlander was known the Republic good man and faithful to but if so, then be could vote.1 was realy almost ashamed to Lave to return to the charge again with a fresh me to say: \u2018No, President, have you not forgot teu another matter\u2014vis., that sfter all the rest it is still necessary that the First Volksraad itself should have submitted to it the name of any man so aspiring, and should approve of him as a fit and proper person to be enrolled as burgher?This, too, had to be admitted.\u2018President, T urged, emboldened by so much progress on the subject, \u2018surely thers must be thousands of Uitlanders to whom it would be quite safe and very good policy to give the full burghership.\u2019 The old gentleman ruminated « mo- r ment, then said deliberately, between Brock long puffs of smoke, \u2018Yeu; there are hundreds of Uitlandere who took up arms in defence of the Republic at the time of the Jameson raid, and they got all the privileges of the full burgher.J am al-|bosrds ways willing that good men should be burghere.It is only the bad ones 1 want to keep out; only the bad ones.\u2019 Questionsd about the foreign relations of the Republic, the President answered with energy, almost with violenos\u2014T am doing everything I! can te do away wit race hatred.What | want iv pence for myself and my people.But what can I Ft CARO Dicounes.boa (From the \u2018Geographies! Review.) As a rule the Careline Julander ig fair ly honest.Once Jay his suspisions te rest and win his confidence, and be will prove himaeil a faithful friend snd so sxeslient host, sourteous and just in all his desi ings, 8s I have very good cause to kuow.On the other hand, when desling with his enemies, he culls into play a talent for im trigue, lying, and chionsery that would delight a Machiavelli.In his private lite he is unselfish, frugsl, and economiosl\u2014 s.man of careful, small habits.Like olf folk of Melanesian admixture, he is lid ble to fits oi dangerous sulienness whom conniders himself slighted in any way.He ia inclined to be revengsful, snd will bide his time patiently uotil his opportunity comes.Yet he in not implacable, and counts reconciliation a noble and princely thing.There is a form of etiquette to be observed om these com- cepted by the cafr®@ed party, honor is satisfied, and ose datter ends.The Ponapean is à stout warrior, a hardy snd skilful navigator, fisherman, earpenter, and boatbuilder, somewhat of an astrone- mer and herbalist, but a very second-class planter and gardener.Their manner of life la simple snd hardy.They go about in all westhers, rain or sunshine.The men's dross coe- sists of a long thick native kilt or girdle of eplit cocoanut Alsments (kel), the wiper part of tbe body gewersily bare.The women used to wear a sort of desp petticsat (likau), woven of the fibres of à tree called nin.peril of their health, they have adopted European clothes.Thess they keep oa their backs, whether wet or dry.which \u201cnoes all manner of pulmentry of | ut HE from the time of receiving papers wifi be alowed for finding and mailing we the eer.rect solution, receipt for which will be de kpowiedged In the column.Ia the wwe of April 11.the date and talk \u20184 wp among your friends\u2014we iotend te etart ouf first Quarterly Solution Teurney, rules fer which will be givem fn due time.Com- meme 0 Sete ae ania fur & smooth course By Kenneth Composed ui ue KE #-5H Né White to pley sd mate lu The New York \u2018Sun\u2019 Mes tbe failewieg: Pleasant a lis friendly faticiecr then \u2018he sasant chess match finished erdey between the rame \u2018was carried on as fasily ané revponsively 28 a talk pe.weon mes looking «sa other in the face.We may well tm- usine that tèe players os one feit the same peculiar thrill of rivalry and the Seve distinot interest in the Individuals at the other end of three thousand miles of wire td re ronteuts between man and sean in the old-fashioned way.T3e mateh bolag Tras acre the.water, a Th friends ., te and good wishes suilable te ih do (with rising energy) when Rhodes je eccasi t \u201cThere could not be a Republic under the British flag.\u2019 \u2018Well, a federation of South African In further conversation Mr.Davies: mentioned Mr.Gladstone snd Sescribed his funernl.Tho President, with grest feeling: \u2018Gladstone deserved all honor.| He was owe of the greatest men who ever lived.He belisved that right was might,\u2019 and acted accordingly, not like some of | these politicians of later days, who think.that might is right.That le why I honor | Gladstone se one of the greatest mea of.ware on.the OriMia \u2018Packet\u2019: bhi the chres | £38 ip by Ii Hi i sûr Hi i (ad of course tt tn the se anadiaa chess player to do mais the tournament worthy inguin tronage); we have given in the splendid rine diet and bave epitranined the Teles; we have prophesied that the moment will ba the largest ever Del Canada.and a to know that ner avery prospect eur \u201c-ephesies best Ted, Wa might 68 chat Montrvai 8 4 light] place to spend a holiday with Interesting sights to be ween, And that Montreal CluD i making five the brethren a pi it tlme- dwt goes without eaying.'s can «very chess pla who oa to tournament.follow whi unk ve À g of i eis ET sf pt serge you er + ur vo mrentiif STORY OF AN OLD DRESS.Drinking From a Water Jar in the East\u2014A Good Polish For Furniture\u2014Dainty Ways of Cooking Eggs.WHO SHALL CULTIVATE THAT BIG GARDEN ?\u2014MAKE THE INVALID COMFORTABLE, [For the \"Witness.\" {rape\u2014\" But she got no further, for car hicg FE ; SN {sight of the widow's stern countenance, abe AFR EASTER GOWN.laid her head on the table and wept as if BY FLORENCE DELL.\"her heart would break.Author of \u2018Bouhomme Noel,\u2019 \u2018Two Little Mrs Drown did not xo up to her tn soothe White Sculs.\" etc.) or comfort ber.for she was thoroughly taken Wiow Brown had been much alone, and Up with her own Inward struggle, her brow Dad got into the habit of speaking to her.Was clouded and her lips st.\u201che dtd rot pelt: many an animnsted conversation she oven seem to sie Kllza Jans slipping out.Dad thus kept up whiling away lonaly hours.She only awakened to the tact an hour after.Just now she was scated in hep Lright wards, when the sun had -ntirely sunk to tle kitchen counting over her savings, and rest, the fire burnt low and pusay pushed schiioquizing in her vsual fashion ne fol.| her frettully In reminder of her eseniog Toews: meal, \u2018Deary me.cary me.\u2019 she murmured wie | The sad and happy :tonæht« of the after.& sigh, \u2018it\u2019s fifteen years come this Easter.HOON seerond far off, she hatad the cra-kod that ! had à now best gown, and wei] | (teapot and its contents, Sat ahbe hat:4 her- mid me, how proud John was, coming #C1f mcet of nil.bome with ft tied in paper under his arm, | The next morning dawned pir, the day and andin\u2019 in the doorway with Jiohble #4 apart for the shopping expedition.holdin\u2019 by my skirts, watchin\u2019 his smitin\u2019 Widow Brown, always an early riser, hed free.\u2019 soon her little abode to rights.and eat She ross and opened the wardrobe In the Mending and bardeaing lier heart the rest of inner room, and brought forth the black sil the mornirg.Cress, the gift of the departed Jobin, and = After dinner she put on her Sonnet, as oid.stroked ~ach fold lovingly as tender mem- fashioned aa the biack sity, an] weaded her orica flooded her, and fillad her eyes with \u201cay to Thomas Blakestone's genral store.tears.I'm Jum goin\u2019 10,\u201d she said to herself, \"Af.\u2018Here 1 be.\u2019 she coatinued in a low mono.\u2018+N Yva™s between gowns! I've never saked tone, \"ull slone in my old age, John gone, 30Y one for a cent all my }its, and even If and Robbis run away to ses: but with al] I 91d give it, there's some foike ud take the that, old fool that I be, thinkin\u2019 of a new dress kin off your back.and besidre \u2018ts reat this time.52 \u2018ud be somohing else next.\u2019 will make finger marks, doudly dificult.There Is a simple mixture of kerosene.and linesed oil, two parts of the kerosene to ons of the linseed oll, which makes the best polish that hes come to my nottve.This should cnly b> mixed & little at a time, Some ume turpentine, but this 19 fot nearly me trustworthy, as It will dull instend of brighteaing the polish in time, After the piece of furniture to be tresicd bas been well dusted, take & soft plecs of fiaorel and dip lt in tbe preparstion, rud B small surface of the woodwork.and then take another 1.8] surface, allowing the Arst to stand whil: Lis Is being done then take n clean Saunsl, tub until the polish the task secme THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, shines 10 sult you.This will leave a polish brifliant and beautiful.If this polish.Ing takes place occasionally, the furniture may be Xept lovking like new for nb aimost Indefinite time: indeed, | might say, inde- fnfiely, If 1¢ Is all of wood.Ne sure (lie rugs are etsolutely clean and free [from dust, \u2014the same ones may be used and washed | to ure agnin as long as they last.\u2014Ameri.can Paper.AND SHE SAID: \u201cDRINK MY LORD.(iy G.Howle} While itineratirg In the hill country, § *ngaged a woman to open ber house for a mecting on a certaln evening, but I after- wands Ilcarned that she clandestinely contrived to prevent the people from attending.This strange conduct was explained later hy her well founded fears, that If the meet.Ing wore large, both ber pitchers would be exhausted.Seelvæ what the woman le, no one should \u201cmon it ne One of the Necemsaty nuivances.when we have to employ a JWw.to dé cotne upholstery work about the house, for we have to provide his meals, and yet he raises ue end of objections, bo'h to our cooking.snd to the vessels in which It is done, Te le fortunate, however, that when race or religious considerations do not obtrude themselves, It {a the cwse in (Mis rountry to this day that woman kindly, and even graciously stops and lets cuwn her blicher upon her band.and gives crink to s thirety stranger, and infeed it ts a mercy that matters are so, for water, In thege countries of ralaices ummers is a necesisity which fs stern, Indeed, and thus the words \u2018thirst,\u2019 \u2018water,\u2019 \u2018spring,\u2019 \u2018stream.\u2019 and \u2018river are largely used pa profoundly expressive Ag.ures lo both Arabic and Hebrew pottery, \u2018Like as the bart for waler brooks, In thirst doth pant and bra: Bo pants my loaging sowl, O God, That come to Thee I may.Ho, yo, that thirst, approach the spring, Where living waters flow; Pree to that sacred fountain-\u2014all Without a price may ga.\u2019 a.nowie.Palestine.BE PUNCTUAL AT MEAL TIMES.The very trying habit of not being putes tual at n:cal.times ia commented on by a writer in \u2018Harper's Bazar\u2019 fo this veln: \u201cThere are few habite that are more common and at the same time more destructive to the genrral comfort of the family than that of being unpunctual at meal.-times, Every housekeeper krows how (ryinx in the experience of \u2018\u2019keaping things hou\u201d for the tardy member of the household.If the de.Huquent happen to be the father and husband, the rest nf the family do not repalr lo the diritg-room until his arrival.Often business bas detained him at his offers or place of business; and then he is the object of cur sympathy.As much can not be sald of the thoughtless young person who lingers over book or needlework for ten minutes titer the other members of Lh- hous=hold are amsembled around the board, while the St be used to like to see me nice, and | She forced a happy cheerful look when she | 1 mind weli, how he larfed when he saw '\u20achtered the store and stated her requive.Petty Smith and Susan Burks.grecn with | Ments, She priced this, and she priced that, jezlously, that Easter Sunday 1 first wore | Yet nothing exactly sulted her.my mew black silk.\u2019 + \"My, Mrs.Brown, you do bs hard to A soft pitk color Aushed the widow's fad.i Please.\u201d said the master of the store good ed cheeks, and ths diromed eyes lit up al.Daturedly, mest with their old radiance.\u2018Perhaps I be, Mr.Hiacketone, but | says, \u2018And now,\u2019 she sobbed.coming back to the 28 My poor husband used to say, \u2018Whatever present, \u2018ail I've left {x you\u2019, hugging to You Ket.Mary.get it good.\u2019 * her breast the encient gown, \u201cRight enovgh, mistress, and you look now \u2018First.my John, then Robbie run away, at this elegant piece of lustre: if that don't end I've never heard tell whether be be | Dieuse you, I don't know what will!\u2019 alive or dend; then I left the cid hom-.and, The light from the window shoue on the moved to this vHlage, as 1 could get more Klorsy surface of the gouds, showing It to sewin\u2019 and odd things to do.\u2019 he best advantage, tnd Mary Brown's hast Nrs.Brown wiped her syes slowly, and beat a trifie quicker, yet she Ji4 not pur.shook bowsel?together as it wer, for she | chase.w3s energetic by nature, and kn>w too well \u2018It's Boe.\u2019 she raid gaspingiy; \u2018I'l see, 1'll the uselessncas of her tears: nothing, noth.cme back tomorrow\u2019: and she walked eg could bring back the happy past.She) Quickly away, never sopping till she found resumad the counting of her money.\u2018Five, With surpriec that she was opposite Eliza eix.eight, nine, ten, Iii not buy a silk.Jane's house, and the mound of crying little dot makin\u2019 it myself, itl} get me a good .oucs reached hes eer.lustre and a boonet too.\u2019 \u2018l may as woll go in,\" she said, \u2018now I'm The woman put her treasure bak fo its ' bere.\u2019 waontéé hiding piace, bung up the gown and | &8 the Kea struck her, what Eliza Jane, her five others squabbied in a corner, and near niece, would ssy about ber aunt's routem- | the move sat the unfortunate Tom, amok.Lisa Jane, untidy and grief stricken, took up her kaltting.smiling to hers:if, \u201cwalked the ficor with a teething babe, hile ; plated purchase.\u201cWell, poor thiug.' sho went en, rocking softly to and fro, \u2018she do begrudge me spending most auy thing ; bein\u2019 she\u2019s the only relative I've got, \u201che; kinder calkeriates on the little l've saved goin\u2019 to her and the children.\u2019 \u2018Sakes, If che only knew I was goin\u2019 to buy a lustre and à bonnet with bunches of violets, 1 declare she'd take convulsions, after cryin\u2019 fire! for half an hour.\u2019 Smiles rippled over the widow's round face, as she pictured Eliza Jane's horror at the coming deed, \u2018She's had troudle, too, poor soul ; aix cbildren, lesn purse, and a man that never seems to get on with anything: no wonder she\u2019s anired, for she used to be u nice, good-hearted girl before she was married.\u2019 The setting sun filed the tiny kitchen with crimacn lights, which were reflected back by tbe bright tins bung round tho walls, with glistening brighiness, the kettle om the bod sang cheerfully and the cat purred loudly 1n rlecdy enjoyment of it all, Suddenly there was a knock, anol Mrs.Brown rose bastily to answer it.Etita Jane entered and flung hers:it in a crugipied heap on one of tha chairs.Mer eyes were swollen and red, and her face pale and drawn.\u2018My gracious, Elise Jane! What's the wat.ter towT' exclaimed her aunt in consternation.The young Woman gripped her bands tightly and strove to choke back her tears, and tell her errand composetty.\u2018OB, Aunt Mary,\u2019 she cried, \u2018I'm the most unfortutate creature alive, here's Tom lost bis last job, and the rent's dne these two months and not a cat to pay it with: If oniy we had the rent paid, perhaps Tom might get somcthiog else soon to do, and weo'd Eut along somebow.\u201d \u2018I'm awtul sorry for you, Elisa Jane, you are unfortunate, as you sey; how di: Tom come to lese bls place?Her steve bung ber hend somewhat sheep.sehiy, and the sobe rose in her (brost, \u2018Well, Tom.be de ba that hasiy, he up end spoke back at dis boss for something, and Mr, Hardy just told bim to go.\u2019 \"Tom might bave thought om which side his bread\u2019s butterad, snd remombrvd you sad the baubles.\u2019 sald Aunt Mary anguily.\u2018But why,\u2019 she went on, bending ber eyes keenly on ber oufy relative, \u2018why GK you «om6 te We, you know my small means?Wize Jase crachod ber kauckios, one after anther, and souftied her fost unessily.\u2018Wa thought.\u2018 she begin; \u2018I thought per.\u2018ing a short clay pipe.It was not a scene jet domestic felicity, yet a true pleture of poverty and consequent unhappiness.\u201cJust dropped in, io pasein\u2019,\u2019 Mrs.Brown sald, trying to speak lightly to her aston- | 1sbed niece.Never to this day can she tell ; what induced her to do the following action: \u2018Sea here,\u2019 she exclatmed abruptly, at the | 3eme time placing a rolled-up lump on the table.\u2018do you know what's this?It's your two months\u2019 rent, and it's the last I'll ever do for you, and,\u2019 turning to Tom, \u201cif ever | hear of you losing your place through your own fault, you need never darkon my door again! Her voire sounded harsh an! unnatural, and she bounced out of the house in spite of Eliza Jane's gratitude, aud Tom's prom- eses, reaching her house fairly panting.The bells praled merrily on Eastsr Sunday as Widow Brown gravely brushed her old silk and black chip headgear.i think of other things,\u201d she whispered, determined to make the best of things, She was just rounding Use corner of Gran street, into Church aveque, when the sound of bur:ying feet made her turn quickly, to see à great brown bearded mian stop short before her and gage at her with searching looks.A mist crossed her vision.Where ha] she seen those grey eyes defore?Her tem.Dles throbbed, and she staggered agalost the fence.Then as If from a very jung distance, came s hearty voice, \u201cMother, It 1» you! 1 thought I kird of knew that gowv, but couldn't believe my seos.s; surely you baven't worn It all this time?\u201cRobbie, my Robbie,\u201d she cried,\u2018come home at last, and found his old mother ail along of this dream, 1 had almost set asidr.\u2019 \u2018There were pot many noticel what Widow Brown had on that Easter Sunday, as she literally swept up the side, gripping, as if sbe fearcd to again lose bim, \u2018he arm of hep stalwart sor, .She often teils the tale to ber grandebil.dren clustered round ber knes, and shows the old black silk as a relic of the past, to wonderiug litte eyes.for Robhie bas changes ali thinge In the golden autuma of her life, TO REEP FURNITURE LOOKING NEW.It seems nearly Impossible to keep furni- ture looking fresh, when étre, like (Le poor, Is always with ve When there are steam and dust and, in ment homes, children whe i | AND SHE SAID: \u2019 blame her for grudging the water, but cae ~annot belp bearing ber a grudge for not: being open In stating her difficulty.for.then a reasonable money compensation would have been allowed her for the pre- clous liquid.The summer here practically extends from May till October, and is ralaless, and while in many villages we should not expericrra great lnconvenien\u201de on account of water supplies, in otbers, to an Ameri:an house.bold, matters would be quite serious.The only waterworks In this country be fore my day, were those of Damascus.The second city to »njoy such a boon ig Ney- tout, but theses were lotroduced only 25 years ago.In some villages, 13 the securing of twe or three pitchers of water.including the journeys to and waiting at tbe fountain for her turn, the wowas may bave to spend halt a day, and dié her domestic arrangements call upon her to prepare three stated meals, and wash dishes.three (imes à day, the thing would be next to impossible, but in view of the comparative simplicity of life hes the women appar not to feel it much.any kind.the Samaritan woman would have Alled it for him out of her pitsher, abe raised; Dut as 1t was, he, being a Jew and she a Samaritan, she would bave bad to tome the whole oruteits of the plteber, and possibly the pitcher as well, were be to drink tn the way Kleaser drank out of Re- bekiah's pitcher, which ls lustrated hy the necompanylng photograph, for them both water and vessel Dy Bama-iias laws (super.otitions, If you like), would have become TC our Lord had had @ \u201cup or a vessal of | witbout the difBcuitiss and objections which cseemocioHy unclean, for even cow we look DRINK MY LORD.entrance of the tardy son or daughter necessitates a check in the smoothly running ma. herself the truths heard that night for the first time, that she might never forget them.Miss Guinness heard her say distinetly: \u2018Jesus can forgive mins.Jesus tenderly cares for us.Jesus can keep us in peace and after death take us to heaven.\u2019 In a letter from Madagamur, dated Dee.16, M.Escande announces that, in an interview with General Gallieni, he obtained the surrender of the last church in the Beteileo, which was still in the hands of the Catholics.If the rein did not prevent him, he intended to go in person to take possession of it.\u201cThen all the churches in the Hetsileo will have been restored to us.\u2019 There are still some to be restored in Imerina, but the number has been much reduced.The French missionaries have organized a union for prayer, with regular meetings, between the missionaries of the English and Nor wegian societies and themselves \u2014'Journal des Missions Evangeliques.\u2019 Bishop Hartsell, (Methodist Episcopal}, writing from the Canaries on his return trip to Africa, says: \u2018Mr, Ponson- by, a grandson of Lord Cornwallia, gives me à fine piece of wood-working ms- chinery, for my St.Paul's River indus trial school in Liberia, It ronsiets of à rotary eaw, à band saw, and an auger machine, A descendant of Cornwallis of Yorktown fame, belping an American to give education to Africa is not so bad! Miss Mary Fowler, of Liv |, gave me the morning I mailed $230 for my Af- Tlesn work, as à thank-offerine for the growing friendship between Eagland and merite.\" ba wn eq = Natisfactory have been received from the Rev.J.I.Rogers, who safaly srrived at Arthington station, Btanley Pool, Africs, on Jan.3.Referring to the journey on the new Congo Railway, which a at hall-past siz the previ ous day, writes: x thers were soins twenty-four passengers we had two carriages, and punctually to the time, off we steamed.Oh, what à difference! We could not really believe we were in Con.80.Fancy creeping round snd round those great ra of hills comfortably seated in & train wbich, th it did not © along very fast, moved along surely.It is imponsible for any one to Lho- roughly appreciate the train who has not done the walking as we used to do in the old days.\u2019 The Mormons, says the Michigan \u2018Advocate,\u2019 boast that in the next geners- tion they, will conteol every state west of the Mississippi, Will they?The \u2018League for Social Bervice\u2019 has published the fallowing, which, it ie believed, will make Mormon success impossible wher ever they are read: \u2018Methods of Mormon Missionaries,\u2019 \u2018Articles of Faith of the \u201cLatter-Day Raints,\u201d with Mormon Explanations,\u201d Political Aspects \u2018of Mor monism,\u201d \u2018Reasons why Christians can: not Fellowship the Mormon Church.\u2019 These leaflets can be furnished at $3.50 per thousand.Samples, together with a practical plan for easily putting them nto every house in a community, will be sent free on application.Address 108 cast Twenty-second street, New York y.F bave heen asked, \u2018What is the most beautiful thing von have seen in Japan?The grandest vision is the scenery, but the prettiest thing to be seen is a Japanese Iady ridiog in a jinrikisha and shaded by a paper umbrelle.The whole effect of such a picture is bewitchingly artistic.But if I were asked, \u2018What is the most impressive thing I have seen?I reply without besitition, it is the faces of the Christian women of Japan, especially those who have been trained in Chris tian echools.There is an expression in their faces revesling a character and a purpose in life which one misses so much in the majority of faces, and one can tell, with n fair degree of certainty, from the face alone, what Christianity has done for women through ita schools, plecing its seal of nobility on what is otherwise but a Vanity Fair.\u2014Rev.F.8.£eudder.ee A SPANISH EVANGELIST IN TRE PHILIPPINES.(By Miss Esther Alonzo, Sen Sebastian, Spain.) [The writer of thie article in à graduate of the International Institute for Girls in Spain.In 1807 she passed the examinations in the \u2018School of Philosophy,\u2019 of the Madrid University, receiving the degree of \u2018Licentiate in Philosophy and Letters\u2019 Since that time she.has been « teacher in the International Institute.She is consecrated to the work of uplifting her country-women, but if circumstances would permit, would gladly go to the Philippine Islands, to carry on the work begun by her father, of whow she tells the following story.] Frfty-nine years agp a boy was born in Fuente de San Esteban, province of Sela- manca, Bpain, and baptised with the aame of Manrique Alonzo.His mother\u2019s Miss ESTHER ALONS).name, which he commonly bore with his father's, was Lallave.boy's family was very religious, and although «lt the members were doctors or pharmacists, they were great friends and sus tainers of the Roman Catholic Church of the town.As the boy grew up he was so studious and manifested such talent that the friars of the Dominican convent took Him with them and made of him, instead of a great man of his country, a friar of their Order.Jt was a happy day when the bells of the convent rang at the reception of a new member; for he ssid that he should not be contented if he did not serve God more actively.There bis name was changed, and be became the Friar Nicolas.After a little time the Order sent him to the Philippines as « minsionary.His journey was full of sdventures, for es the Isthmus of Sues was not yet opened, they bad to sail down the cosst of Al- rica, and it took them six months to reach Manilla.There begins the most interesting part of his life.From the Pengisian, a ince of the Island of Luson, came the cry that s missionary bri needed, and the Order ment my father.When I vas a little girl, father used to tell me how he had apent forty dayn eating the fruits of the trees sleeping under their shade without any protection from the savages, except what a horse and à vital could offer; a after t forty ven: enter into à village, if it could be @led that, where the inbabitants bad killed every missionary that had slept there for vo much as à night THE MONTREAL The fret intention of the garage posple was to kill Friar Nicolas, but kne that if he fired a pistol they would run away at the noise.It happened as he thought; they were frightened; and the chief came and kneeled dowa in front of him, asking the friar what he would like most.He answered: \u2018A house,\u201d and very soon, under his directions, a monastery was raised.Some of the houses were msde after the European fashion, and in a little time he baptized the people snd nasued the village Urdaneta.As soon as the superiors ef the Order heard that Friar Nicolas was tin vety popular and of the riches h.from the offerings of the le that almost worshipped him, they called him back to Manilla, where he was so much loved that even the archbishop of Man.ills, afterwards of Beville, osiled him always, \u2018This is my, beloved son, in whom 1 am well pl A ; \u2018There, at the city called \u2018the beautiful daughter of the Pasig\u2019 took place the conversion of this young and deeply studious friar, One day he wes walking slong the docks, dressed in the white and black robes, when an English captain handed him & book and went away.He took it to his cell, and, as he knew a little of the Kaglish language, be he- san to study it at late hours of the night, comparing the English with the Greek and Hebrew; and there the scales fell from bis eyes, and he saw the multitude vf errors which he had committed.\u2018The light of the Spirit of Truth illumined his heart, and one midnight be prayed to God and said, \u2018I am a Protestant.\u2019 You may imagine the horror of the other friars when they knew that Bru- ther Nicolas was 8 Protestant, avd had declared himself as such in à council of the Order.Immediately the punisif- ment arrived.He was put in prison, all hia goods were onnfiscated, and be was left without communication with the outside world, He remained there for a few months until the superior decided to send him to Spain to be tried and condemned; so he was expelled forever from the island be loved so much.What was taking place in Spain in the meantime ?The expulsion of Queen Isabella II.and establishment of the re public.One day a ship arrived at Gib- ruiter fron Manilla, and there on deck was 8 gentleman reading with great anxiety the Spanish papers that y brought to the boat.Why was be so happy and so agitated that tears almost came to his eyes?Because he was a free man; for just then the proclamation of liberty of thought was à fact.He could enter into his country, not as Brother Nicolas, but as Manrique Alonzo.in his friends offered him very positions as chaplain in prisons or regiments, but he refused.\u2018What I have done is done; I cannot turn back sgain to my old beliefs\u201d He studied the evangelical doctrines, and was train- od us a pastor, He wrote a book entitled, \u2018The Friars in the Philippines,\u2019 and when it was printed word came to the pripters that they would be punish.od for having published à book like that.The printer was so much frightened that he gathered all the volumes that were yet in his hands and burned them, but my father the dey before had taken a quantity with him, and had sent them to the ministers of the nation, to the museum and to Manilla.The prohibition of the publishing of the was proclaimed, and to this day the ish Government has not allowed it to be After be had been for several the pestor of an evangelical cb in Ms drid, he married a young gi gregation.A year after was born be went to Seville as a pastor.For ff Long wes happy 1a Be morts ju De tl was py in wo to retarn again to Manilla and there., WHE that re he trans Iated into Pangasinan almost all the New \u2018Testament, and offered himself to the Bible Society of London to go as a missionary there.When he maw that the dreams of the later part of his life were to be fulfilled, he cried with joy, 2 one day he left us three girls and four boys, with my mother, at Reville, snd went away from us to open the work, planning to send for us later.We do not know yet how it happened, but before my father reached the bay at Manilla, the papers of the city announced the arrival of the ex-friar, Immediately he was watched by spies, our letters were kept from him till three or four days before he passed away, and in every way they tried to make life very hard for him.Two months afterwards we received at Beville the news by cable that my father was dead.It was impossible for us to believe it, and even a month after we received letters from him saying that he was well.His last letter was dated two days before his death, and be wrote as follows: \u2018I am well and happy, and very soon 1 will write to you all, saying that I have had great success in all the plane that 1 am carrying out.At last they have given me all your letters, and when I mw the policeman bring them in (for they bave put a guard at my door to ses who are the who come to call upon me), I jumped from my chair and kissed them, and sang and cried all at the same time.\u2019 And he was dead! What kind of illness did he have that lasted such « short time?doctor sent us a few lines! \u2018Don Manrique Alonzo bas died of a bad fever; his last words were for the work he had begun here, and for yon.\u2019 The years and some gentlemen who came from ills told us it was not fever that had killed our beloved father; no, it was poison.Again we tried not to think about that.but word came from Manilla, saying: \u2018on Manrique Alonso was poisoned.\u2019 But he lives in a better world, he: with a happiness that no one can take sway from him, and erowned with the beantifsl motto of his life: \u2018It in love that moves me in my life.\u2019 \u2014 WMimionary Herald | SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.WEEKLY WITNESS, April 9, 1000.THE ANOINTING IN BETHANY.John xii, 1-13.BY JOHN R.WHITNRY.Golden Text.\u20148he hath douse what she could.\u2014~Mark xiv, 8, In this lesson we find Lasares sitting at a feast, at the side of his Restorer, in the midst of those he loves, and of those who love him.It is a beautiful sugges tion and forecasting of what may be, in wany respects, the resurrection body of sll those who shall sit down ia the Heavenly Kingdom to feast with their Lord end Redeemer, and with those whom He bas redemed.The effect of the resurrection of Les- arus upon \u2018the Pharisees\u2019 waa at once marked and signifiesnt.It furnished full proof that they would not \u2018be though one rose from the dead (Luke avi, 31.) At once the Banhedrin was convened, and a warm debate ensued as to what should be done to check the growing popularity of Jesus, and which would undoubtedly be greatly increased by the spraading of the news concerning thin wonderful miracle.Finally, Caia- phase, the high priest, cut the debate short by declaring, \u2018It is expedient for us that one man should die for the pec ple, and that the whole pation perish not.\u2019 When the \u2018lecision of the Sanhedrin, based on the resurrection of Lasarue, as sucred aggrossive form, it was still at least two or three months before the Passover lamb would be offered up.Jesus's \u2018hour\u2019 therefore, had not yet come.So He calmly withdrew from Jerusalem.But when the time of the Passover drew nigh, and it was within \u2018six days\u2019 of its celebration, then John begine to unite with the other Evangelists in recording the current events \u2018Among them that came up to worship at the fesat, were certain Greeks.\u2019 {v.20.) They represented the great outlying Gentile world.They said to Philip, \u2018tir, we would see Jesus.\u2019 (v.21.) When Jesus began to teach them He said, \u2018The hour is come that the Son uf Man should be glorified.\u2019 Then He weut on to speak of His death.(vv.2-77.) Two or three days later this supper \u2018in the house of Simon, the Leper\u2019 (Matt.xxvi., 6), was made for Him.Whe Ri- mon was is not known, but it is more than probable that he was one of those whom Jesus had hesled.Now he had gathered his friends and Jesus's friends together to do Him all the honor in his power.It was a remarkable gathering.\u2018The centre of all attention was Jesus Himself.On one side sat the man who also, some by invitation and some from As they thus feasted together.and bung upon the words of their blemed Master, whem they verily believed to be Hs who wosld soon \u2018restore again the kingdom to Inrael\u2019 (Acts i, 6), Mary, the sister of Martha, came quietly into the room.With a gratitude which could nob, be ex- prtesed.by any party gift, che\u2018 apeted \u2018an alabaster box of very precious ointment.\u2019 (Matt.xxvi, 7.) It contained no less than \u2018a pound of ointment of spike- nard, very costly,\u2019 (v.3.) It was worth in the market \u2018more than three hundred pence\u2019 (Mark xiv, 5), or as much as \u2018would be nearly equal to a year's wages of a day-laborer in those times.\u2019 (Rice.) With this precious ointment she \u2018anointed the feet of Jesus\u2019 (v.3) \u2018and poured it on His bead as He sat at meat.\u2019 (Matt.xxvi, 7.) At once \u2018the house was filled with the odor of the ointment\u2019 (v.3), end ever since \u2018the whole world\u2019 has Leen filled with the fragrance of her deed of love.(Mark xiv, 9.) The meaning of this act was given by our Lord Himself.Whether Mary was conscious of all that is expressed or not is of no manner of consequence.\u2018She is come,\u2019 He mid, \u2018aforehand to anoint My body to the burying.\u2019 (Mark xiv., 9.) Thue again the great thought of His desth was impressed upon all minds snd hearts.Jt was the thought also which was filling many other minds not of that bappy company.The fears and bate of the members of the Sanhedrin had been grentiy intensified by the popular out burst of enthusissm when Jesus entered the city a few days before.They had grown in fierceness and determination by all that they had heard Him say as He taught in the Temple.It was now within \u2018two days\u2019 of the feast of the Puss over.If nothing was done before fosst-day to put Him out of the nothing could be done then, and bably nothing would restrain the from proclsiming Him aa their pected Messiah, Bo \u2018consulted that they might take Jesma eubtilty and kill Him.But they said, not om the feast day Jest thers be an uproar among the people * (Matt.xxvi., 4, 8), \u2018for they feared the people.\u2019 (Lule xxii, 2.) Ruch were the feelings and the plot tings among Jesus's enemies in the Holy City whilst the supper was being enjoy ed and the anointing performed by His time there was \u20ac bond of union between 3s Is curiot, \u2018being of the number of the twelve \u2018(luke xxii, 3), watched his op Lortunity to leave the house, or immk- diately on the bresking up pany he did so, to carry out the tion of Satan.What followed is very graphically pietured by eombining the several sccounts of the gospel writers, leaving Bethany, Judas \u2018went his way, and communed with the chisl priests and ce} tains how he might betray Him unto them (Luke xxii., 4), \u2018and said unto them, What will ye give me, snd | will deliver Him unto you (Matt.xxvi., 18.) \u2018And when they beard it they were glad, and promised,\u2019 (Mark xiv, 11) \u2018and covenanted to give him money.\u2019 (Luke|f xxii., 8) \u2018And they covenanted with bim 4 thirty pieces of silver.) (Matt.xxvi, \u2018And be promised \u2018(Luke xxii.8) \u2018and from that time he sought ity to betray Him\u2019 (Matt.xxvi., 16.) \u2018And he sought how he might conveniently be tray Him\u2019 (Mark xiv., 11) \u2018upto them, in yt absence of the multitude.\u2019 (Luke xxii., Thus ignorantly, but for their own selfish purposes, and with \u2018wicked hands,\u2019 men were the instruments for carrying out \u2018the determinate counsel and fore knowledge of God\u2019 (Acts ii, 23) in the death of His own Bon for the sin of the world.For that death would complete the work for which \u2018the Word was mads flesh and dwelt among us° (i, 14) Bo, we must \u2018ses Jesus,\u2019 if we would have Him \u2018precious\u2019 to our souls.(I.Pater ily 7) \u2019 HOME READINGS.M.Joba xii., 1-11\u2014Tte Anointing at Bethany.nt Mark xiv., 10.\u2014Christ's commenda W.Luke vii, 36-30.\u2014Grateful love.T.Luke x., 3-42.\u2014The good part.F.Phil, iii, 1-12.\u2014All for Christ 8.Mark vil, 2844 \u2014AN she bad.8.I.John iv., 10-19.\u2014He first loved ue.DEPARTMENT.Topic-Aprti 9, 1099, THE HOLY GARMENTS.Eph.iv, 20-26: Rom.vi., 6.\u2018We should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.(Rom.vi, 6.) \u2018I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for be hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.\u2019 Las.xi, 10.) \u2018He overcometh, the seme shell be clothed in white raiment.\u2019 .\u2018fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints\u2019 \"The King\u2019s daughter is all glorious within, ber clothing is of wrought gold.She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework.\u201d It has been besutifully eaid that the fine linen, the raiment of the mints, is wrought daily by the deeds of love and -{ service of the lowly followers of Jesus.company Here a little stitch of self-denial, there a stitch of kindness, to-day a thresd of patience, to-morrow a thread of saerifice, We can not see the pattern as we only do one stitch at a time, but some day, when this life's service is over and the time comes for us to appear before God, after we have been presented to him fault- lessy clad in the robe of Christ's righteousness, perhaps we will be given a beautiful garment to wear, and know that it is the garment upon which we had been working with such care for so long down here on earth.Or, perhaps, the holy garments are those we wear on earth, the mantle of charity iu which we should envelope ourselves.We sre kings and priests unto God Rev.i 6 1 Pet ii, 9.).and the priests were clad in special holy garments, (Exod.xxviii.), the girdle and breast plate are familiar to us as part of the Christian armor (Eph.vi, 14).The bells and pomegranates on the bem of the priest's robe are significant of praise and fruitfulness.One of the most beautiful of the priest's garments was the ephod upon the shoulderw of which were two onyx stones, bearing the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, in constant re membrance before the Lord forever.Fo the Christian should have graven on his heart the needs of the world and benr them constantly before (lod in prayer and supplication.The ministry of inter cession is à service to which we are all appointed.Finally over all the Christian\u2019s thoughts and deeds should be de- geribed by the motto, Holiness unto the Those who are daily working over the garments of their own righteousness, thinking that these will be a sufficient dress to stend before (od in, will find when the eye of the Judge rests on them hat all their righteousnesses are as Althy rags (Isa.Ixiv., 6: Matt.xxii, 11-14}.Those who have done their good deeds to be seen of men will find at the end that their frments are all worn out, end ther will have nothing in which to appesr before God.(Rev.ili, 17, 18.) THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CRISIS.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witwess.') Sir, \u2014Those who heard the Rev.Dr.Rose's able and were concerned, and doubtless at the ur-|tion, or tacit inference, is too uncertain nner Corr and CE : æent request of Mr.Maxwell, the mem-|a foundation for 30 grave a matter as the vey of the peninsula, and he not Ver of Burrard, and he having assured pardon of sins, aud they are bound to apart as a military reserve.\\Vh.n Itrit.the member that granting a lesse of the furnish us with clear, pomtive texts that \u2018{ish Columbia joined Confederation, in stand would be the most popular move.those whom Jesus sent to proclaim the July, 1871, the Imperial Government | Ment the government ould possibly grace ol God to all inners a confess transferred to the Dominion, likewise, for Make! The people \u2018ancouver were privately and through the ordeal e mili urposes, interest in thin re kept in profound ignorance of what war| confessional, \u2014\u2014 Revend a us of val ints, transpiring in Ottawa and not until the| 1 have stated in my article that espe- fer a Zoo, flower gardens and recreation otsler-in-vouncil was passed and the lense cially at the time of the great persecu- grounils, the original surveys hive net {actually signed (it is dated Feb.16) did [tions many of the members of the primi.heen interfered with, nor have new oneal the people know how their interests were [tive Church had lapsed in their old been made.being dealt with.ways, and as they had thus scandalized At the request of the City Council,{ The assurance was given the minister |the Church they were required, when early in 197, shortly after incorpamtion, that Mr.Ludgate\u2019s company would ex- repenting, to make a public confession the Department of Militis and Defence pend in buildings on the island the sum of Theatance.But in very grave cases, \u2014then provided aver by 81 Adotahie Car.of two hundred and Afty thousand dol- tho oie en ity, rete Instance, t fo mr order in counell, sented the use lcra, ani give employm>nt to a thousand nd for er fhe case oe of the reservation to the citizens « 0 men, but this stipulation is not made n » ; couver, for mark pumoses sublet, hew- [art of or a condition te the granting ot tra enihed à fact hich tu not only ever, ta these stipulations :-First - The the lease.confension to all The avons = ex oficio city was to mnintain the grounle, by the ile { contains seven and one-| rong rs, Re looking carefully after them.ar ! cu arter ac of high, dry lande and not [the writte was not practiced.Hi i structing roads, trails, bri lges, ruverts, acres, as was stated to the minister! thers abound, and aies port ter de, Second Pomscenion van te hii by Messrs, Maxwell and Tudgate, and 8 \u2018saw the danger creeping through that when required for lita rane foreshare of as much land, making in all; half-opened door.Meliton of Sardis imposes.Nevand the order-in-cauneil, Aout fourteen acres, for a period of (170), Justin Martyr (138), Origen, Ter althaugh urged to give & lease of the re.t¥EnIV-Eve tears, with the privilege to tulian, «p:ak at great length of baptism, serve, the government would nt de any.Térew the same for another twenty-five: of the Lord's supper, but not a word of thing.- vers at the swoue rental: which ix stipu- sonfenmion.Later on.after Lhe fut! a Rel ü ir » quy.(late «hall be five hundre .\u2018æ\\ding of this upas tree, and especially Relying prou the intesrity of he Bor [abe lalf-yearly, wil to iosty-two After the great acandal of 388 at Constan- hin vo far a eee aus nh 1 per month.To-day it in worth tinople, the great bishops of the Church anything over a hundred thousand dal.2% frightened at the evilx resulting from nr which investors would be wiking to 155 tha Chrywestome (99) writes : ) ; - i necessary n a ea Re., ; : , only natural park not only in Cenada (ew years, and the business of the har.0 Augustive.Prior In.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.') 0 but on the contiment, containing close bor expanding so rapidly as it is, ths y Sir, \u2014 ; =, - 1 has it been repealed.It was also shown | upon L000 acres\u2014upon which « st of property will be worth at least half a Kd men the wounds of my son?Are if,~The Premier of Canada has given by th } bi Th 1 or .| they able to heal them, they wha are as his ly on bebalf of his government 10 y the vote on the plebiscite.The total {$10,000 has been expended ap to the [million dollars, If wanted by the city negligent in curing themselves of their reply oi Lo : vote then cast in favor of prohibition was present time.This year a fucther «x-{for harbor extension or improvements it! wenkneses as they are anxious to pry the people of Canada, stating ais rea- [only a few thousand less than the total penditure of about 5.000 ia contemp.uted connot be had.1t in an ideal spot for 3 into others\" faibles,\u2018 ete, ete.son why no further action shall Le taken vote cast in favor of candidates support- by the city, and is embraced .u the civie military ramping ground and should be| Now, your other correspondent thinks in the forties, is, and has long been, in favor of prohibition.This is proven by the stand the province has taken in velo : A ; > ving this niarvellousiy beautiful natural garding the Scott act.Ten of the fourteen oo \u2018ai ; : 4 CALL TO BATTLE.counties are now under that act and in\u2019 park proclaimed by many to be the no county where it has been once carried ership, ro far as the crderan-coun il w concerned, the city bexan expending money, raised by by-law, upon Jmprov.by his government to submit an act 10 ing the Emmerson Government in the estimates.Proportivnately to its aren, |, pore, ved The erecting of a sawmill {that my statement of tai t \u2014\u2014\u2014 parliament for the prohibition of the lite provincial election.The majority more money has been expended in im |an the ite proposed wll rove to he an allowing the young.\u2018women in their charge manufacture and sale of strong Ly, Mee te one jn favor of prohibition | proving the Deadman's Island port on of eyesore, à nuisance and a serious detri [to go to confess, is far-fetched.1 ac THE \u2018 SARAH §ANDS.drink in Canadas.1 for one was look- | The majority of the members of the Lib- Lhe park than any other sectum of it, ment to shipping and anchorage ground [knowledge that it applies more largely (To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.\") ing for such a reply.1 told the electors, : eral party in favor of prohibition is pro- barring the Jirockton l\u2019oint Eecreation when the Question wae discussed Lelore | baby the same.These voters are espc- Grounds, the Zoo, and the \u2018lower par- the vote was taken that more than one! cially disappointed.They had Loped that dens.(It was named Stanley l'ark in erent would ifr Cavada, 10 their party would belong the credit, October, 1888, by Lord Stanley, when 1 have been always @ staunch Returmer, of taking another forward step on the 9UF Gavernor-Geueral.) inv brought up trom the time 1 was ven temp cé question.| bly few look.ood Aberdeen, hen 1 tow hii ears of age in the good old Reform ied for national prohibition, but none ex- }ast August, on his larewe i \" Vorshi count of Tambton and a loyal supporter | ected that the plebiscite would be si vor Ce the bark ih ie \u2018obcorre of tla late Hon, Alexander Mackonsie, | SWantic a humbug uw the Royal Cony | Mayor Garden was abine, shacks, beats Now, I believe I voice the sentiment of Timon.Legislation along any of the te oan of fogs, ten on the foreshore of thousands of fellow Liberals n Can- |lires suggested by you would bave been ÿ > , ada when 1 -y oe will be our sol.satisfactory.But no action at all will Dendman's an = vl mor emn duty to vote squarely and urhesi- /Eot be tolerated.formed that (he city, under the terms tingly against che present government se Juestion now is What next?IE ai the onderinounell, did not sue on first opportunity, Evident.not seem t to organise à ; ; Iy the Tending merabers of the bresent prohibition party.It may be taken for parle Crete Tie canes Liberal Government are at heart ojpos- | granted the temperan-e vote in New at once said that he would urge he gov- pt bio, therefore ve need ri at next clection wil be solid ernment to grant a Tease to the corpora: Measul li government.course there tion, covering a term ears, snd em- worth a straw from them.Neither are office-holders with their friends and bracing the stipulations 4 the order-in- need we look for any better treatment relatives and men seeking office from both council.Correspondence was opened in the west end of the harbor.The har-!to France than to the Province of Que- bormuster has prononnced againet it.The bee, because it is in a larger field, and debris from the establishment would also because France knows the evil bet.speedily fill up the western portion and |ter than Quebec, and still there are many foreshore of the harbor.Her Majesty's theme Peu onde here hag deplore cruisers and men-of-war would be com- the ion > al Fo.to confesa an it ie pelled to find other berths while visitine | ating bn » rot only ne ; Ca à ng, but delasing.We Protee- the city and riding in the harbor.There tants regret to nee the great Roman Cathare innumerable sites for sawmill or oth-| clic Church, where there are so many er manufacturing establishments in the pio \"nihil and devoted people, still city timits and ite vicinity, on the south] logged by that incubus, and groaning aa well as on \u2018he north side of the inlet.! under the weight of that un-Christian snd and which are to be obtained on reason: childish institution of the dark ages of abie terms.\u2026 (Christianity.I have mentioned Miche- 1 have given the readers of the \u2018 Wit-[let, who has à terrible page on the more ress\u2019 a fair, unbiased, truthful statement intimate knowledge hetween the married of the whole case.Refore | close I have [woman and her confessor than between to state that no provision was made in her hushand and herself.1 could cite the desl for recouping the taxpayers or|Montlosier, a good Catholic, Thiers, P.Lathe city the sums they had expended n Courier, and many others.improvements on the island section of Sir,\u2014Will you kindly allow me to add an item on the \u2018Sarah Banda\u2019 to the many bits of information you have printed about the ship?1 never read any account of the burning of the ° Narah Sands, tri that by Rudyard Kip ing which recetly appeared in the \u2018 Witness, but 1 often heard the ory irom the ips of the origimal proprietor ve sel.This was Mr.Thomas Sands, and the ship waa sumed after his wife.Me Sands had been Mayor of Liverpool, Kng- land, but when I knew him he lived or had an office at St.Vincent Place or Square, Glasgow.I was apprenticed to his half-brother, Mr.John Labron, of Leeds, and the two of them used 10 ship woollen cloths to another brother, Mr, Joseph Sands, of New York, until the secession war obliged them to suspend It was during Mr.Thomas Nir.H.surely cannot ignore that quite from the leaders of the Conservative What we need to do is to .This movement must be begun now, ard when the gemeral election comes let candidate be asked to vledge him- be he Liberal or Conservative, to for such an act.Should any govt refuse to submit such an act, let the candidate be pledged to vote t of confidence in it.Let this be made the main question at the next general election; let us agitate and educate, and give the men in high places rest.: 2e In the wilderness journey the old generation that came out of Egypt had be wiped out and a new generation had to arise and be prepared to enter upon the conquest of the promised land.Caleb and Joshua were alone permitted to enter, and that as leaders of the new 4 ip g i This is the nly real salution of this difficult problem.Let the watchword be, \u2018To your tents, O Terael\u2019 Down with any government that will not take up this great moral reform in earnest and carry it out.It be done and it will be done, was a distinct majority of the votes polled on Bept.2 last, in favor of prohibition in six provinces of this Dominion, yet in the face of all hin the Premier of this Liberal Government tells ue it cannot or will not do anvthing for us.If it is counting on the support of the Hquor vote let it do eo.It in weleome to it.but let it take varning.Thowsende of ite most loyal Liberal supporters will show that they are wot to he trampled under foot as mere political vamaie.That day is vast in Canada.I hope, sir, that the \u2018Witness\u2019 wil| in the future as in the past, stand strong in is place in contending for the overthrow of the accursed traffic in strong drink.The mothers of our noble Cara.dian boys ere with you, sir, in this sree wie.Their prayers are going np daily for the overthrow of this trafic, A REFORMFR.Martintown, Ont., March 13, 1909, \u2014\u2014 NEW BRUNEWICK DISAPPOINTED.(Te the Editor of the \u2018 Witness\u2019) Sir,.\u2014 Your calm and excellent article in the \u2018Witmems\u2019 of March 10 exactly ex- Frommes vhe fall of the great mass of boral olestors New Brunswick.This Eines, dus Je the efforts of the lata ir Locasré Tilley and mou of his stamp | ?the Local and Dom'nion Government who can be depended on to vote the ticket whatever the government may do.Lut the mam of Liberals ate free and these are chiefly prohibitionists.These voters will certainly be strong enough to defeat the government in all the Scott act counties, and they claim that they hold the balance of power in Kent and Victoria, also.If the government adheres to their purpose there will not be a single county in the province which the government can count on carrying.In this constituency (Sunbury and Queen's) Mr.Blair or any other man that supporta the government that gives prohibition a slap in the face will not get more than a thousand votes.These voters are not the camp followers of the party.They did not join the party on the eve of victory, but fought for the party in the days of adversity, because they were fighting for principle.The principles of the party on the tarif question and the Administration of the government are dear to them.But prohibition transcends all other questions and the party that dees not carry out the desire of the vot.ors as expressed in the plebiscite is dcomed to defeat in New Brunswick.A LIBERAL SINCE \u201845.Washademoah, N.B., March 13, 1980.\u2014\u2014 HISTORY OF THE CASE.VANCOUVER DRADMAN'S ISLAND DIFFICULTY.(To the Editor of the Witness.\" Sir,\u2014In your issue of this evecing there appears an article, telegrazibed from Toronto, hesded \u2018 British Columbia,\u2019 being part of an interview with a gentle man named T.W.Holland, said to be a resident of Vancouver.Amongst other topics dealt with by Mr.Holland ccn- cerning that far-off country is the Dead: men\u2019s Island embroglio.which for the last month has occupied 10 large a share of the attention of the people, not only in Vancouver, but elsewhere.Like many others whose familiarity concerning the subject is very mesgre, Mr.Hoilsad fs wide of the mark as rds the actual facts of this now excesdingly important matter.Ac there are hundreds in Montreal whe are interested nisrily and otherwise in the city of Vancouver, and with the Hon.Dr.Borden through Mr.George BR.Maxwell, M.P., the cutcowe of in which was that the Minister >f Militia and Defence assured Mr.Maxwell that the lease would he granted.\u201chie wee on Sept.3 last.The Mayor and cs rpors- tion were so notified, and general ratis- faction waa expressed by the vitizens at the decision reached by the Minister of Militia.Steps were then taken to have & lease drawn up and forwarded to the Minister for execution._ Early in Jauvary a gentleman, named + Theodore Ludgate, a native of l\u2019eterboro\u2019, but for some years back a resident in the Saginaw district of Michigan, end who had been in the province for some months prior to this date, with one cf the aldermen, waited upon the Mayor and intimated that be was bound either tp lease or purchase the Deadman's Island portion of the park: He was informed by His Worship that neither could be done and that he would do cverything in his power to prevent the inland be ing interfered with and especially so by the locating there of a saw .aill and lumber manufacturing establishment.Next Mr.Ludgate waited upon a legal firm and requested them to write to Ottawa, stating that a client of theira was anxious to purchase the island.The letter was sent to the Interior Desart- ment, which at once replied that as the island was a portion of the reserve, and of Stanley Park, it could not be alienated for any other than military purposes, A copy of this letter was sent to the city authorities by the Interior Depart ment.This was the first official intima.If tion the city had of Mr.Ludeaies in tentions as regarded the island.Tele grams were then sent to Ottawa remonstrating with the Minister ageinst the proposal to lease the island.Hy arrangement Messrs.Maxwell and Ludgate, on Jan.27, left for Ottawa, the former going from Vancouver and the - to foi of erch other at New Westminster June.tion, travelled together to Ottawa, and while en route sent several despatches intimating to the minister that they were ceming and requesting him not to issue the lease to the city of Vancouver or m any way interfer with tbe park lands until they arrived.Upon reaching Ottawa they speedily made their business known, The minister at first stoutly refused interfering in the matter, © of or to listen to the representations made by the two gentlemen I have named.At first no trace of such n spot as Deadmar\u2019s Idand could be found on any map ia bis department, of even & report thereon.Upon further J i the park.The original survey, tracings, field notes.traverses, etc.with a plan of tho park hope that the lease will he revoked.One of the Vancouver delegates to confer with the government on the subject.issue of Jast Naturday that he has read my communication with some interest.I wish he had also read it with some care, tions which 1 have to inflict on your readers.He says that I have avoided the chief point of the matter, when my article is there to slow that I began it by stating the words of Christ that the Son sins\u2014and moreover, that he conferred to other men the power of \u2018emitting sins.would show by quotations from the sac red pages, what I only hinted at in a pregrant phrase, that a special power over sin and diseases, of healing, bad been imparted for a time, the extraor- dinsry time of the birth and foundation \" of the Christian church, to the apostles, latter from New Westminster, joining! who used it in the name of Jesus, and that this power decreased more and more as the Church increased and became it- otf a great power.Lut in what manner sine implies confession and the confessional.1 have shown by several passages Christ's own words in Luke xxiv.47 \u2018 that repentance and remission of sine should he preached in his name to ull nations.\u201d and 1 heve shown that the apostles have preschet and proclaimed and taught the remission of sina to re- peatant sinners: Peter and others ou the teach that confession without repentance |» recently, in 1879, a former minister public instruction, 2 savant, Paul Bert, delivered a series of discourses before the legislative assembly of France, having for subject, \u2018La morale des Jesuits,\u2019 when A confiscation of this nature a serions matter for all concerned.contained in the memorial submitted | Protestants.The revelations were of the government that there is a strong! such a mature that the galleries had several times to be cleared of the presence of ladies.Hut even then some of the Jatin' phrases were not translatable for the ears of those emancipated men.If my opponent ever reads the book containing those discourses I do mot think he will feel like defending the confessional any more.One of my remarks, he says, savors of an unclean publication of a defunct light of the Calvinistic body.I beg leave to say that I have not the slightest inclination to treat of prurient subjects.But then, one should not speak or write on confession or the confessional at all, because the thing itself in unclean, and deals especially with unclean things ; a religious and spiritual wi intercourse in the confessional is, in the nature of things, an exception, because the function deals with sin, especially J.C.McLAGAN, Montreal, March 13, 159.\u2014\u2014 AURICULAR CONFESSION.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\u2019) 8ir,~Mr.Charles Hardesty says in your r it would have prevented the repeti- mortal sins.priest may bave in the course of the year hundreds of persons who will come to pour into hin ear the confession of all the moral faults of that perish csanot bave a cleansing, spiritual tendency, but M rather one to soil, to degrade and to die courage, The confcsior recs bumanity too near\u2014in its worst aspect, and this may account for his disdain at the efforts of others to Xform or regenerate human kind.Ft certaigly explaine\u2014allowing for noble exceptions, especially of recent years\u2014why much of the language, writing and style of priests is vulgar, coarse and and not infrequently lascivious.That the \u2018defunct light\u2019 may have had some dimness there, he was the first to acknowledge, that he been soiled by the confessional \u2014being a very popular priest Man has the power on earth to forgive it were the place and time for it, I confessed many people, among whom prayer, the Pater Noster, in which they ask (lod the Father, who knows all about them, to forgive their sins ; if they be lieve that the great Father hears them, ie ready to .and even to deliver from evil, why should they after that so and confess the same thing to men they have not offended and sometimes they do not know ?Morrover.na the tenets of the Catholic Church itself the New Testament that secording to ¥ i of operations.Randa's periodical visits to Leeds to buy the cloths that the old gentleman woul arouse my youthful curiosity by describing the burning of the ship that had once been his.for prohibition, it.rider the vote large enough to warrant The fact that a parish [the farther than th justitied in do ven, wl never, while \u2018the ruin of rum\u2019 is seen on 7 and io this dear land of ours.as laid out, and as it standa to-day and ; 2 th featenal \u201cther deve have all been filed with the De ne pacte body of represen- WM.TRANT.government for reference purposes only.|tative meu, who are not particularly Regina, N.W.T., March 8, 1000.So strong is the came of the delegation.prudish, and among whom are but few \u2014\u2014 THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness\u2019) Bir,\u2014~The reply of the government te the demand for the prohibition of the liquor traffic, brought bitter disappoint- went to thousands all over the land.Many of us feel that our confidence has been misplaced, and that we have been deceived.The temperance party did not ask for the plebiscite, but when the leader of the Liberal party, then out of power, said \u2018put us 1n power, and we will bring in a plebiscite measure, und if the vote ill warrant it, we will bring in a bill we ti t they meant 1t is true they say do not con- uch of the party side; but by what principle of right do they feel justified in proceeding on this principle?little as though for some reason they preferred to play into the hands of the minority, which included the liquor sellers and those interested in the trafite, rather than into the hands of the majority composed exclusively $ it not seem a of prohibitionists Reven of the provinces gave majorities, sll of them good, sev of them very large, in favor of prohibition while only one of the pruvinces neainet it.rar pr he was much ecught as a confessor, and th ttle strange that in \u20ac ve à majorly is being the case, it seewd je government this one provinee aboutd receive all the consideration, while the did the apostles use that power is thejecores of priests, so that be knew even snubbed.We may well ask real question at issue, My critic repeats, [of what he aepoke and wrote.Now, where es British fair play come in after (\u2018ure Troie, that the remission of|Catholies often repeat the wonderful here?question now what next?is, The Bhnll we humbly accept the decision, aa tittle children who do not always know what is out a Never, as long as there is à God in but- for them, or as men with nciple?1 for ome my, never.ho ie alwaya on the side of right: that we are brought face to face ith « most merioes erisis, and we date - Manon 28, 1809.on sd \u2014 \\2 Jaraxæoe Monxixo QLonr.When ordert: Li hi FREE Jer ond wo wil sen s packss oF Glant 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