Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 13 juin 1899, mardi 13 juin 1899

[" ) oY \"24 form ea Montreal Weekly Witness.\u2018 \u201c.EESTI = ev = RAS PRTYFORTH YEAR.MONTREAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1899, haar Fees By Sd THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE.\u2014 BRITISH AUTHORITIES PREPARING FOR THE WORST, THOUGH LATE NEWS 18 OF A MORE PACIFIC NATURE.\u2014 Londne, June 12.\u2014Lord Woiseley, com mander-in-chief of the British army, has been busy for several days and evenings at the War Uffice preparing for eventualities in South Afrios.The effective sts of the first-class reserve bave been prepared, and transport for the firel army corpe hes been provisionally arranged.Ihe officers on furlough have been warped to bold themselves in readiness to return to their regiments.The general trend of news, however, is wore pacifie, - (New York \u2018Times\u2019 Cable.) London, June 10.\u2014The crisis with the Transvaal, eo long anucipated in your dispatches, in mow upon us.From t mass of telogrums snd comment, it may be well, since Americans are so largely interested in the land, both by employ: ment an! by investment, to disentangle the essential facts of the situation.\u2018Lbe high commissivner, Sir Alfred Mil- ner, bas always held thet the Isritieh Government shouid \u2018wot exert pressure upon the Boers until a thoroughly gond case arose.\u2018The shooting of an Laglish- man by a Boer policeman in a disreputable row was nov such & owe, But when High Commismoncs Milner accepted and forwarded the petition of 21,00 Uritish subjects to the Queen, it was evident that he cousidered this impressive narra: tion of their grievances and preyer for protection to be a suitable ground for imperial interfzrence.Mr.Cosmberlain and Sir Alfred Mil- ner are both reproached to-day for having entered upon the conference with President Kruger at Bloemfontein with: out assuring themselves in advance that moine agreement could be reached.This reproach shows s misunderstanding of the situation.Upon the receipt of the petition Mr.Chamberlain sent to High Commissioner Milner a dispatch for trensmission to the Transvaal Government which, although kept profoundly fa known to .be so peremptory merit the fitle of an ulti matum.Before presesting it, however, one more effort for peace was to be made, namely, the recent conference.If that failed, the world would have been shown that the British Government had done its best to secure an amiosble sel- tlement.Any arrangement by negotiation baving now proved impossible, Secretary Chamberlain's witimatum will be delivered immediately.This is what he meat by saying that « new situation had grisen, the new situation being the nabetitution of « demand from suzernin to vassal for a friendly discussion, in which the superior power consented for the time to overlook this relationship.GRIEVANCES OF THE UIT- LANDERS.Among all the grievances which might bave been pressed that of the franchise was alone selected.Sir Alfred Milner's proposal was that the right to vote should be given to every foreigner who had resided for five years and bad declared his intention of residing permanently, and who tcok the cath to obey the laws, undertake all the obligations of citinenship, defend the independence of the country, was of good character, and a certain smount of property or income.Moreover, he asked that seats in the Volkarsad for the Uitlander distéicte be increased in number, there being now only two.President Kruger's counter-proposal was that citizenship be grated upon the following conditions: First, registration fourteen days after arrival; second, six months\u2019 notice of intention; third, two yesre\u2019 continuous reg- $stration ; fourth, continuous residence ; fifth, to bave undergone no dishonoring sentence; sirth, proof of obedience to the laws; seventh, full title to the franchise in the country of origin; eighth, the poe- session of property or a yearly income; finally, all these to be conditional upon England consenting to submit the London Convention, upon which the British susereinty over he Transvaal is based, to the arbitrstion of some foreign power; and upon England's consent aim to President Kruger's request for the incor poration of Swaziland into the Trans vai.The whole scheme would also bave to be submitted to the Voiksuad sad tbe Transveel people.Moreover, this franchise would only give votes for tbe socalled Second Raad, which has vir tually no political power whatever.This The franchise offered wae in itself ilue- ory, and to admit a foreign power to an bitrate about ber smserninty is precisely the step England will never, under any ciroumatances, toke.Coleacialy epeaki en a ng, Tngland bas now thin: \"À \u2018Will you Te Tamera! has ray will mot!\u2019 Boglead has now said must!\u2019 sad an answer is yet to come.In comider- ing this grave crisis, let the following facts be reucebered: The Uitlanders in the Trunsvas! are four-fifths of the population and pay nine-tenthe of the taxes.They have converted a bankrupt, pastor al community into one of the richest areas in the world.Yet they have no share in levying or spending the oppressive taxes they pay; they have no control over the payment of officials; they have wo voice in educational grants; their children above the third standard can only be educated in the degrading Loar putois, which is unintelligible even in Mollend; they have, no voice in the municipal government of Johannesburg, which they built; their press in gagged; public meetings are probibited, and they have no right to à trial by their peers, For dynamite, & necessity for mining purposes, they have to pay exactly twicu the market value, the difference going into certain favored pockets, Finally, they are openly insulted and derided by Hoer officials.When one of their number is shot, like Joel by Von Veldtheim or Edgar, by a Boer policeman, the prie- oner is acquitted.The Transvaal is armed to the testh with all the most he modern appliances and munitions of war.Johannesburg itself is dominated by a fort armed with quick-firing guns, all of which the Uitlanders have paid for.It is, of course, out of the question to expect that an cnergetic community, in which the British and Americans pre dominate, will consent to live forever under such conditions.WHAT WAR WOULD MEAN.The situation here is one of peculiar delicacy and complexity.War with the Transvaal would be undertaken with tbe utmost reluctance.The Boers are oo in- tenaely ignorant of the world that\u2014be- cause they defested at Majuba Hill 300 British troupa placed in en impossible position by the impatience of their commander, although Sir Evelyn Wood was only a few miles away with a force so ample that he reported the Boer tronpe were at his mercy and had himself only the night before ridden compietely round them \u2014 they believe themselves more than a match for the British Empire.A Duteh Minister in Cape Colony last week declared publicly that 100 Boers could defeat 1,000 English.The policy of the British Government is good will between the two races in South Airica.War would mean crushing the Dutch at the Cape, with a» legacy of interminable hatred.In apite of the Pesce Confer ence everybody believes that were England at war anywhere Russia would seize the opportunity to advance into Pervia and posnbly to Herat, which latter step under ordinary circumstances England has long decided to regard as a casas belli, as it would fatally threaten the security of India.President Kruger believes tbe division of the political parties in England will tie the government's bands.The \u2018Chronicle, and the Manchester \u2018Guardian\u2019 are two of the influential journals justifying his behef.War, too, would parulyze for a time all the gold-mining industries of the Rand, and would, indeed, possibly inflict irreparable injury, for the Hoers would doubtless wreck the mines before the British forces could croes the frontier.Further more, it would be extremely difficult to get the Uitlander population, with the women and children, out of the country before hostilities began.Their lives would certainly not be safe afterwards.A DANGEROUS GAME OF BLUFF.It will be secn, therefore, that President Kruger holds a band admirably adapted for bluffing.He knows this better than anybody, and he will bluff to the very lest moment.His bluff, however, would probably so excite his ignorant people that when the time came that he desired to yield, he would be un- «ble to do so.I do not think thers is any immediate prospect of war, but Mr.Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is & very strong man, and determined not to be beaten in the end.Sir Alfred Milner is as strong s character, but profoundly csutious, and trusted by the Cabinet.My personal belief is that Bir Alfred will not etay at the Cape unless his action is supported by the Imperial Government.In conclusion, the most momentous fact in the situation is yet to be mentioned.If Great Britain, with every right on her side, and after making every effort short of actual compulsion to redress the grievanoes of this vest body of her citivens, allows hersslf to be bluffed off and humiliated by a man like Kruger and an insignificant state like the Transvaal, the humiliation will be deeply felt throughout the British Empire, and among the dissstrous consequences to be apprehended is the prospect of a move ment in South Africa to take affairs into its own hands, as England will bave shown herself unwilling or incapable.t This last aspect of the situation is at .once the chief ground of anxiety and the supreme davger to peace.\u2014 THE EMPEROR WILLIAM WILL NOT VISIT ENGLAND.June 0\u2014Ip is officially an- thes the Em William wil not Visit England Summer.e Taperor would reach eT ee LOST ON THE TRAIL, 8IX HALIGONIANR PERISH ON THE EDMONTON ROUTE.Victoria, B.C, June 10.\u2014Nows resch- od the dity yesterday morning of auocher disaster on the northern trails, the vic tims in this cess not being foreigners, but a party of Halifax men whe started ont on April 1 last for Dawson vie the Edmonton trail.Nine of the varty started and six are reported mireng.The numes of thows believed to be lost are: L.Dickeon, clerk in the (ity Hall, Halifax, who saw service in the Noh: West rebellion; Dummick, of Halifax, who was also through the rebellion; J.Brown, watchmaker and goldsmith, Halifax; Arthur Ligard, machinist, Halifax; Dunsivard, engraver, Halifax; Tom Gibbons, goldsmith.The accident occurred about the middle of February.They crossed the Beaver River about Dec.1 and after following it for a lundred miles, attempted to crom Hay Mountain.The three who remched their destination kept close to their Indian guides, hut the other six were lem cmutinus and lay in longer in the mornings, trusting to catch up with the guides.A light snow was blown into the track and obliterated the trail, and after searching for two days the three survivors.with the guides, were forced to come through to Glrnora alone, terribly reduced too, by scurvy and frost-bitten.All hope of the six unfortunates is abandoned.\u2014_\u2014 LAKE BENNETT OPEN, Skaguay, Alaska, June 5, vis Seattl:, Wash, June 12.\u2014Wind has broken vp the ice in Lake Bennett and some of the scows and small boats started down the lake.One luge scow was caught in the ice and crushed, but the men were all saved.Lake Summit was frozen solid on Friday night, June 2, so that vaggons cromed it in méety.: The water in Lake Bennett is said to be three feet lower this yesr than \u2018ast, and eight inches too low for launching sleamers now on the bank.Carihoo crossing at the lower end of Lake Bennett has only « few inches of , it, and bouta cannot possibty croës it Jess the water rises several feet.No communicetion has been had with Atlin for several weeks and none can be until navigation opems and permits bosts going around the fakes.\u2014\u2014 SCOTT ACT IN BROME.Brome, Que, June 12.\u2014A magnificent meeting was held bere on Saturday night for the purpose of listening to speakers on both aides of the present Scott act campaign discuss that subject.A large number of electors were present, about a hundred of whom bed to stand throughout the whole proceedings, which lasted from eight o'clock until eleven.No stronger testimony could be given of the great interest that bas at last been aroused sll over the country in the question under discussion.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 GEN.HECTOR MACDONALD.London, June 12.\u2014Among the many whirligigs of fortune none is more re markable than the elevation of General Hector MacDonald to his present rank.When he takes command of the Sirbind district in India he will have under him the Ninety-second Highlanders, in the ranks of which MacDonald began his career as à private soldier.Colonel Cunningham, V.C., who is now in command of the Highlanders, was MacDonalds officer at the time the general was serving in the ranks.\u2014\u2014 THE « SHAMROCK.\u2019 London, June 12.\u2014It ie anid that Amer- jca's\u2019 cup challenger \u2018Shamrock\u2019 will not be launched until the beginning of Juiy.the progress of work on her being retarded by the fact that her designer, Mr.W.Fyfe, jr, is suffering from in- fluenss.: According to estimate, the contest, from first to last, will cost Sir Thomas Lipton about $800,000.\u2019aptain Hogarth and the crew of the \u2018Shamrock\u2019 are preparing the rigging of the yacht.\u2014\u2014\u2014 EARTHQUAKES AT TORONTO.Toronto, June 11.\u2014The selamograph at the Toronto Observatory haa recorded two earthquakes here during the past week.Copies of the tracing are being seat to the Marine Department at Ut- tewe, aud to Prof.Milne, the colelrated authority on earthquakes, st the Isle of Wight.The frst shock occurred on Sunday night last, at 11.38 p.m.It lasted until 7.96 on Mondey moming.For ten minutes the shock was great, but af- Serwards it was slight.The next shock was recorded at 10.07 on Monday morning, snd lasted until 13.18 o'clock.Is wes ot ita height at 10.15 o'clock.MARCHAND STILL IN PARIS.Paris, June 1l.~Msjor Marchand, who was hurried from tbe capital by the government, is now in an amusing dilemma.He started 10 see his parents in bis native town of Thoissey, but the erowds wbo received him expiined that they wanted to give him « heroie on, but had, not expected him yet.The Mayor and corporation were not ready, and would he kindly take the next train somewhere else, pending the prepars- tions.He went to Macon, where he disconsolately waited in a local hotel.He is already tired of this, and means to eruise in a government vessel in the Fng- \u2018sh Channel until June 28, whan Thois- sey hopes to be alle to reosive him.Meanwhile, he ia unhosoming himseif against England.He declares that with secret native allies he could have held Fashoda agaînet the British and would have undertaken to drive them out of the country.He remarks the range similitude in the histories nf the Fash affair and the Su-z canal.\u201cWe were first in both\u2014now nowhere in either\u2019 He con- c'udes eryptically that France must now do something to ssve herself.GUN SHOPS DESTROYED.A HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDR DAMAGE DONE AT KEWCASTLE BY FIRE.London, June 12\u2014A fire in the Fle wick works to-day destroyed the gun shop, the carriage shop and the shell shop, About fifty quick-firing guns are among the ruins.The loss is estimated at a hundred thousand pounds.The fire was the largest that bas owurrel in Newcastle in half à century.The whole district was wrapped in dense smoke clouds while vast sheets of flame secend- ed from the doomed buildings.The ruined shops had a frontage of 1,500 fect.It will require more than three months to rebuild thera.Meanwhile nearly two thousand persons will be deprived of work.The officials my thet the guns and gun carrisges are comparatively little damaged, but it is their opinion tLat the filling of orders will be seriously delayed.The cartridges in the shell shop were completely destroyed.\u2014_\u2014 FATAL CHARIVARL an ae Cow A BRIDE SHOT BY ONE OF THE PARTY.\u2018Wichita, Kan., June 12.\u20143frs.Rey Higgins a bride of 3 few hours, is dead and her husband and young brother badly in jured as the result of a charivari party given them at their home near Watongs, Okla.The charivari party, composed of about tweaty friends of the young married people, were making desfening Doises by beating on pans and firing shotguns.One of the party, Harry Randall, deliberately pointed bie gun et the yo couple and fired.The bride\u2019s face a brecst were filled with buckshot, She fell, shot through the lungs, and died an hour later.After the accident the charivari party fied.No arrests have been made yet.\u2014 ONTARIO LOGS.SENATOR MeMILLAN, OF MICHIGAN WANTS REDRESS FROM THE EXISTING LAW.Detroit, June 10.\u2014A Washington ape- cial to the \u2018 News\u2019 says :\u2014' Benator Me- Millan has taken stepa to force the Ontario log dispute on the attention of the Britwi Goverument without waiting ang longer on the alow progres of pending negotiations with Canada.Io a letter to Secretary of State Hay, he uses strong language in setting forth the grievances of Michigan men who own timber in Canada and cannot secure it uniess they first saw it into lumber in Canads.Me recites the detailn of how Michigan men have bought timber on Crown lands in the open market at the instance of the Ontario Government, how they are now forbidden to export it, and how they are seriously disturbed because eseming- ly no steps are being taken for their behalf.The senator points out that the original charter of the North-West Territory carried the specfic promise of the inviolability of contract, yet, be says the Michigan owners of Canadien timber are not allowed to appeal to Canadian courts to test the validity of their son- tracts for timber, in spite of the fact that American courts are open to everybody.\u2018I cannot doubt,\u2019 says the Sema- tor \u2018that the State Department will, if it has net siready, make the heavy pe cuniary losses sustained by citisens of this country the subject of an effective remonstrance to the Government of Great Britain\u2019 He informs Secretary By that his constituents have to him for redress and says he sider It his duty to press the matter in every proper manner till justios in secured.\u2019 wR con chairman of SEEKING PROHIBITION LEGISLATION.Winripeg, June 12.\u2014The Dominion Al liance has arranged for & deputation of prohibitioniste to meet the Manitoba Government to-dey to ask for legislation prohibiting tbe mle of intoxieating liquors so far as the province has power in this matter, J, LYNCHING IN THE SOUTH, APPEAL FROM COLORED AMERICANS FOR THE PROTECTION TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED.Washington, June 12\u2014The Afro-Amer- Lean Council 4 the United Bates has an ap te governors, legis lators and judicial officers of the Huuth- ern States, \u201clo prevent law.esaness and Lo secure ro all citizens the protection to which they are entitled under the laws\u2019 \u2014Aiter reference to the bvenume of Sam Hose, the lynching of Lige Stricx- land and the political riots in South Caroling and North Carolina, the apuesi says :\u2014 Since the first day of January there have been 28 cases of lynching in the South, and every one of them col ored.This is not only an unwarranted outrage upon them, but demoralizing to the white race.Ît terrorize» and up- mans the former; it familiarizes the latter with lawlessness and crime, creating in them contempt for lawful authority and desire for mob rule; it is hurtful and destructive to the best interests of A NEGRO LYNCHED BY NEGROTS.Sardis Mise, June 12.\u2014Rimon Brooks, colored, was taken from the jail near here on Bunday, some time between midnight and dawn and lynched.The crime, which was thus avenged, was most atrocious.On Saturday night a negress named Armistead, while returning from a shopping tour to her home, was as sulted by Rrooks and another negro.The woman was outraged, her throat was cut and she was severely beaten ahout the head and gagged.Her body was then buried in rubbish, The woman rallied sufficiently to give the alarm and the names of her asmilants.The mob did its work quietly.The white people knew nothing of the affair wntil hours after it bad occurred.EN = \u2014 THE DOUKHOBORS.\u2014 Quebec, June 12.\u2014The following mes sage waa received last evening from Grosse Jale : \u2018Doukhobors getting along very well ; all vaccinated, and all landed.Disinfection of the steamer nearly fin- jthed.Eighteen cases in all, and epidemic under control now ; clothing and baggage nearly disinfected ; about 600 baths given with antiseptic solutions.The rest will be bathed to-morrow.\u201d THE G.T.R, STRIKE.Kingston, Ont., June 12.\u2014There was no demonstration at Gananoque Inst night, wiser counsel prevailing.The residents, however, were armed, and ready to act should circumstances call for action.The detectives and pou-union men are brought to Kingston for food.as none can be secured at the Junction or in the town.; William Mesd, under arrest for parti- eipation in Friday's demonstration, in which firearms were used, but no one hurt, was taken to Gananoque on Saturday and quite a demonstration was made in bis favor.The Kingston police officern had « lively reception until it became known they were not identified with the G.T.R.Mead will be tried to-morrow.Conductor Summerby, of the Kingston suburban train, and Timlyck, of the local from Toronto to Brockville, were dismissed on Baturdsy.Summerby went east without leave and was met by the train master, and dismisesd.Timivek, who carried Fummerby without collecting fare, was also removed.Rummerhy claims he was called east to see & wick friend.Roth will lay their cases before the superintendent.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE YACHT RACE.THE CANADIAN BOAT BEAT THE * YANKEE.The White Bear Yacht Club's yacht, Yankee, one] Pad, Mien.Peed against t.lawrence Yacht Clab\u2019s * Dominion,\u201d yesterday, over the same course upon which the * Dominion\u2019 beat the Seawanahaka's boat \u2018 Challenger.\u2019 last autumn.The race was three times over a course marked two miles straight out to windward and return, making twelve miles in all.The \u2018 Dowsinion\u2019 wos by nive mines and fifty-eight seconds.C.P.Sir William R.CHANGES.Vas Horne has become board of direstors, and the My.Thomas G.Shai ghnessy wes elected president.Mr.1! is mow general manager.MANITOBA CROPS, FIRST BULLETIN OF THE YEAR AN ENCOURAGING ONE.Winnipeg, Man, June 12.\u2014The June crop bulletin, the fires of your, was issued to-day by the Manitobe ment of Agriculture.The inf it contains regarding the arope is of « quite satisfactory nature.The ed ares has increased considerably, pcred with last year's figures, and growing grain is in a well-advanced end heslthy condition.The wheat aves is estimated at 1,020.90 acres; buriey, 575, 136; osts, 192912, and this, with other cetesls and root crops brings the total tres under cultivation up to 2.40078, compared with 2,210,042 last year, and 1,068,025 in 1897.The wheat ares last rear was 1,488,232, making the incresse this yesr 141,002 acres.The subjoined statement, for the co venience of reference, gives a compari son with the acreage of 1807 and 1998: | a .4100 Total .1,964,548 LINE 140.03 There is an incrensed ares under crop this year \u2018u all districts.Individual faem- «re may not have increased acreage sown by each.but the influx of now settlers during the year 1806, as well as during the first four months of this year, hes added at least 2,500 to the number of farmers now in the province as compared with the number of settlers whem the June bulletin in 1808 was issued.In sll perts of the province the time of seeding was later than usual.It was the end of April before any considerable quantity of wheat was sown.Besding- time may be seid to have been about three weeks later than waval, Reports indicate quick germination snd in all cases a remarkable growth mimce eeding.General mtésfaction is expread ed regarding crop prospects.The quan tity of moisture at present in the seil ensures continual growth, and many cor.dents predict thet by July 1 the will be fully as far advanced as in seed was sown bet the deeughts.t £ TELEGRAMS TO-DAY, The supplementary est:mates brought down in perliament yesterday eveming amount to $2,047,038.An Italian polar expedition, under the Duke d\u2019Abbruzi, ssiled from Christiania yesterday.M.Traireux, formerly Minister of Jus tice gave a dinner and reception to Lieut.-Colonel Picquart yesterday, and attending it were the Prince and Prin cess of Monaco, Madame Dreyfus and Mathieu Dreyfus, and others of the same manner of thought as to Dreyfus.General de Boirdeffre and General Mercier sre among the officers declsred by Royalista and some Radicals in Paris meritorious of punishment for their share in the Dreyfus scandal.In the House of Commons, Ottaws, last night, Dr.Sproule moved for a bounty for beet root sugar manufacter- ed in Canada during the next ten years, and for the admission of the nacessary - plant free of duty.The discussion wes postponed.Mr.Bergeron, in Parliament, yesterday, pointed out that the break in the Beav- harnois canal recently had damaged some farms considerably, and the gor- ernment promised to send engineers to look the matter up.\u2014\u2014\u2014 DEATH-DEALING TORNADO, FROM TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY T0 FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS Milwaukee, Wie, June 13.\u2014A message was received at the Wisconsin Central offices bere late last night from Stevess Poiar, fran Mr.Hom, the divimon se- perintendent of the Wisconsin Central st thet place.in which he says: \"At 3.48 to-night we got a from Robert son, of the Omaha, vis Marshall, saying that & cyclone had struck New Richmond shout 7.30, kiling and injuring from 35 to 500 people.e have started « spe- ciel train with surgeons.\u2019 PROF.BLAIKIE DEAD.Edinburgh, June 12\u2014The Rev.Wik flame Garden Blaikie, formerly presidemt of the Pan-Presbyterien Alliance, died yesterday.He was 70 years old.À fev eme was attached with pasalywa, and never resovered.1 3 < THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITN aul Ladislasky, and the presence of THB FOREST OF Spsellite: the heey, three village mn- BOURG-MARIE.aiciare, \u2018who Were giving an impromptu \u2014 entertainment in a corner, Paul singing i tu Gregorians the following in- BY-B.FRANCIS HARRISON (SER.3,611) trsgorians the following in : ANUS.) \u2018is eals un pay-y-san, , Oop-oop-oop-try -_ 00p-00p-00p-tra-i : (Atthor of \u2018The Rose and Fleur de To which seductive strain the bear stood ! Lis\u2019 ete.) on its bind legs, waved its paws about and deucribed a rolling, drunken circle, being a very old end impotent animal, and incapable of harming any one.Gen \u2018eet, Lavallée and Giraud, the three mu clans, fiddled and pied away in high glee, and couds 'tobacco-amoke ob- secured the already Mmurky air.Dame Delorme ran here and there, counting and naming over the guests.There were ine ladies present, and any sumber of children; aud Nicolas Laurière sat by hiniself down by the door.He had not acen Magioiré for two days, having stuck reeolutely to work and resisted all temptations to walk over and waste his time | mt Widow Paran\u2019s.\" ; rot ; ot oan igo Hiv and | Au Laurière eat, with his cap off, his nothing bad occurred to supcrecde the .Wellshaped heed, his broad, high, moody, placards.There they were still, along | but noble brows his desp-set.thought: with St.Jacob's Oil and Mrs.Winslow, fol exes, his stern trouth a ne of sad- profaning with their gaudy colors and new untouched by a softer curve-his vulgar suggestion the primitive aspect |Mrong arte folded on hia chest, of (he pesceful village.On the way an his pteedy, pencrating gaze, sug down Magloire had thought out his lec- : Rested mare the idenl speaker or lecturer ture pretty carefully, having a bundle of | than the flashy nimbleness and n:'roit notes, newspaper extracts and svcret \u2018 medinerity that distinguishel Magloire, communications from the Onder, out of Pacifique Peron was nowhirre to be seen.which it was fairly easy to coustruct{ Since the egcounter with Lauridre, he a sort of running commentary on the! bad, go to speak, Jain low, fearing to Irish question, the Jesuit Lill, the par-| make known hin inmost wishes to ope rowness of existing British Jumitutions, who did not share in them.Upon Mag- the supremacy of his adopted country, | loire's catrance, the fiddling stoppe, and and eral socialistic assertions.| Tadislasky withdrew his bear, He had Such a secluded place as his native vil-] made a few cents, and wna content.lege might not seem the best place to be-| Finally the address commenced.Mag- gin operations in at first aigbt, but he loire, satisiving liimself that his grand- had hie instructions, 3nd whereas such father was absent.and the pariah clergy ideas as he proposed to dissemivate would likewiss, ascended the improvised ros be opealy dangerous to bimeell and his| trum of a couple of wooden benches, n cause in « large centre of hfe, where|chair.and a ewer of oold wuter, and.thought could rapidly turn to action, they bowing ta his assembled fellow-conatry- would not necessarily, while snaking deep- men, opened fire on his audience: ly into the minds of the habitants, cause] \u201cFellow-countrymen.\u201d he said, the any immediate upheaval of either class\u2014 Marc-Antonisn manner of speaking com- priest or peasant.The end to which he! ing naturally to his belp, as, indeed, it addresed himaell was to stir up a dissat- has done to many an uufiedged orator, is fection among the farming and rustic \u2014 \u2018fellow.countrymen, Canadians, you closses first, then gradually to attack the grand million, I salute you.1 am my- larger towns, and so on, till anarchy and wll one of vou.Yes, Here and there lawlessness, undermining the entire Do: I see a face 1 know; 1 recognize an oid .CHAPTER VII.\u20148EDITION, | speak wiokeäly cond him Supt, = speak mil.\u2019 It was not easily possible to procure posters or billstickers fu Bourg Marne, elon Magloire hud orders a hundred.or so of the former, and anmissira+d one | or tyo of the latter {vo peste new bills over \u201cthe circus bills which flared cn all the fences aud burns av uilable.Tha \u2018show\u2019 bad passed through in June, the advance agent, us custo-nary, Laving placurded every village on \u2018lie | | minion, should finally flash out in open| friend.Do not treat me as à stranger; rebellion against organised systems of that 1 beg of vou.Make me as one of Viewed in this light, then, Yourselves.It is true, my comrades.government.Bourg-Marie was not so insignificant and obscure, after all.| Finally, the evening arrived.Del: orme\u2019s was brilliant for the occasion with ecal oil, tallow candies, and a small bon: fire outside the door, built by the boys of the neighborhood, and surrounded by ten or twelve of them all madly excited, rooming to and fro, gesticulating, entreating, exhorting.What was it, then, to be done chez Deloriné that night?\u2018Why, did you not hear?There will be a grad performance of a private actor, tablesux finer than the Christmes Babe in the Manger, with the straw all around Him, and the black men from the Fast ou their kvees in the straw, a cow and her calf at their elbow; or it will be a grand concert, the performers nll \u2018he way from Quebec, with harp and vidlin, and s flute; or beh, it will be only old Ladislasky and his yellow bear.He pase: ed through vesterday.Who cares to see them?Or there is some who say it is a preacher, not a priest, but the man in scarlet flannel, who sings hymns in E: lish, and persists in waylaying this lage, full of good Catholics, to throw his fire and brimstone at our heads.Well, Lere is old Prévost; he will tell us.\u2018Say, Bonhomme Prévost, whet is all this affair?What is to be done to-night?We have made the bonfire\u2014ob, yes, it is a fine one; but we don't know for why.\u2019 \u2018Tt is only that there is à star fallen in Marie\u2019 \u2018A star! Who bas seen the ster?Rut it is not time vet for Noel.What star, Prévost ?* \u2018It is rather, 1 should my, only a fish, very brgiht and shining, swimming on the top of the river.\u2018A fish! All those cendles for a fish, Bonhomme Prévost\u2014a fish and a star?Tt is~Jet me think-\u2014' and Prévost tantalisingly laid his finger to his nose.\u2018It is for to please, and at the game time Veep offi\u2014whom do you think?\u2014Loup Garou!\u2019 The voices ceased instantly; every boy crept close to Boohomme Prévost end felt of his clothes.\u201cTake us to the father\u2014take us to the good father! Let the bonfire stay! We will be quiet, Bonhomme Prévost-\u2019 The cobbler enjoyed.Mis \u2018joke.: Then he mid: DU \u2018But we must not frighten the wood \\ father No, my \u2018thidren.\u2018Msieur L'Etoile, M\u2018sieur Le Poissor-\u2014that will ; be the samt persen.yor my good friends\u2014it is true thet I am much changed.Scarcely had you known me, vb, had you met me on the road, or een me here at Delorme's, Well, that is natural, to be expected, that.And T am glad to see so many of these old friends here to-night.1 speak to all the valley.1 speak to the farmer, the cultivator, the laborer, as well as to the lawyer, the merchant, the doctor, the priest.\u2019 A sensation pervaded the amemhbly, Heads were chucked forward and wagged, shoulders were elevated, pipes lows ed, dull eves flashed, slouched straightened, tongues clattered, hands waved.\u2018Ah-ha, the brave one ! He speaks to the priest.What does he say?The cry was caught up.\u2018What can he say to the priest, this Magloire?Carson was not slow to hear the ques tion.He advanced a step forward, and lifted his right hand.\u201cYes, I speak to the priest.I in there, T end there.All 1 say wen be may listen.I do not fear him.Friende, I have here some , some statistics\u2019~and he consulted his bun dle of papers with a telling air\u2014 which describe you to me, you and your beautiful country.Yes, beantiful, as it might be, not es it is.See, you million of Frenchmen.But, stay; perhaps you do not know that you are a million.A million?Yeu number over a million.In this provisice you are 1,062,787 souls; in Ontarie, you sre 100,000; in Manitoba, 19,000; ig the North IW 2,000, Come that is à für number.ou are all united, to; you are all brothers.You have one language, one faith.That 1e pleasant, charming, ail right.You should be bapyy, then, fortunate, rick prosperous.Lut gre you?\u2018What is \u201ccontent\u201d?«sid Magloire, with a magnificent note of interrogation.\u201cWho in this aesembly can tell me what \u201ccontent\u201d ie?Is it possible thet you, fariners, \u201ctoiling three months of a foug and inclement yesr; you, laborers, burning in the torrid sun, and freezing next moment in the Arctic blasts; you, shane tev-men, diggers, miners, trappers, living the life of mavages\u2014well, yes, a httic better, perhnpe, when the fiddle is scraped nad the visker blanc goes round, but still barbarous, more like animals than men, with coars food and poor lodging and rough clothing; you, gentlemen, the merchants, with -Hétle dark windows, scantily filled: with pipes, , e- ples, cight-cent print, straw hats, and spades?Ah-ba! you lawgh.You find thet amusing.Oh, I can amuse you; I car apoék.\u201d You shall des.I am only beginning.Wall, gentlemen, the merchants, sre you setirfied with this little commerce ?Is this enough for you ?You, M.le médicin, you, M.le notaire, gon ft well also with you?You keep och o little horse, it is true, and a little chariot, and joe have each & littis bouse with a little garden at the back, and \u2018you have a little\u2014a very little this titre, mark-\u2014moncy to your credit fo the bank.Ah, yes, you are frugal.You do not spend much; you are wise there.Rat if yon had it, would you not spend it, es yes, jou would, You woul larger villas, finer foros, te dronves, big tius- i.He is » young man, one of yourselves, sugh 2s yon meg.all be yet, with care and d@igence.He loft hers\u2019 nine years ago, when he is fourtess, small, shy witk -otlssé boys, bus bold | enough with his cigars.He paturnp, tail, .straight, à J'oung finé, srBooth, ailèS hair ed, kesm-eyed, intelligent.Île Tich, gracieus, benerolent, with a gold watch of bis own.Wait ull you see bim./ | the truth.You ahsl ewe.\u2019 room was rapidly filling.Jim Platte brought two American friends, the notary tuned up, po did Palisser and ) Docteur Plignr.The entire family of Lagerd tre Lemaitre, from Fournier, came « at ever, in the cert.Curiosity ran high, and at eight o'dock, when Magloire and the twine, Lous and Jack; walked into the room, the rustling sad tren, Sotels, steamboats, rai cum comin To, vidpn.You weak 18 Dares seat] - lo \\ 4 { | about him.No, but he may hear it all, vead the papers.See, now, here is onpy-of the \"Detroit Free Press.\u2018Those in the front row clsmored fur her to the front to examine the novel thing.Sec, paw, the amount of reading in that! See the poetry, the stories, the title sketches about dress and politique and the palicecourt ! Where I live there are dozens of papers like this.1 vesd them.1 learn a groat deal by thes.Here is another\u201d This vue was the Burlington \u2018Hawk eye\u2019 \u2018Now, all this comes by living in a fine town, by being a citizen of a free coun: tty.That as what 1 am.Ilere nobody ie free.not even the priest.Well, now, you look as if you did not believe that.Well.4 is true.You, the farmers, laborers, snd trappers\u2014you are tu wurst ofl in existence.You live in 6 species ui slavery, Lower Canada and Russia, they are the mame.Both hold rerts-scufs and slaves, wretched depen: dents of a tyrannioal government and a despotic Church.\u201d The sudtence no longer clamored.It war mowing serious.The more educated thanght Magloire was speaking eatiri- cally, the wnorant simply did mot fol- lew him at all Ilah' this lecture was a failure, it was dull.Many present, though conetraip- eal to Inhave politely aud pay enfu a'tention to these enigmatical smertions, had mucls rather bave scen Ladislasky put his bear through his paces on the Platform.Laurière eut and listened at- tentiveiy.The ideas were not positively new to him.\u2018But,\u2019 sid Carson, continuing, \u2018do you know that vou are slaves?Are you aware of ity The outade world, the world of trese States, of the great towns of Chicagn, New York, Minneapolis, Mil wuukee, Jocks at you and wonders.It wonder how you, Frenchmen, you, grand milhon of clever, hanly, resolute people, ean live in this restreint, under this bon- dige, legisintel for, rubbed right and left.hemtred in by emissarics of the Pope, crentures of his slightest wish or lightest whim! Bah! | perceive you do not know your condition! 1 have come here, then, my friends, to cnlighten you! It was marvelious that mich a speech as this had been 30 loug heard in mience.Carson had counted on sume slight dis- turbavee in the beginning, but as he proceeded without being interrupted, he grew bokicr, sod spake his mind even more freely than he he had intended to do.The habitant is patient.Lis avocation and his clin:ate make him so.le is also polite.Mis desceut shown in this.The French Catholic can hesr his Church sbuged in silence.lis revenge will show Iser\u2014in deeds, not words, The Jrish Catholic lashes himself into a frenzy nt once; with him there can be no freedom of speech.Dut as (arson now paused for 8 moment to refer to rome of Lis notes, us slight stir was perceptible among the devout who had graced Delorme\u2019a with their presence.He perceived that he might have gone too far.With a flashing smile he dexterously retrieved his position, \u2018Who talks of bondage,\u201d he cried, \u2018to us Canadiens, owners of our own œil, healthy, hardy, vigorous, à little poor, but ccntented to be thus devout, virtuous, respectable?That is how your hearts speak.Ah! Yes, I follow well your thought, your reasoning.You do not like that I speek against your Church, your perish priest, the Pope Limeelf, and ail the rites so dear to you.You do rot wich your children, your wives, stould be told of these things.Ah, yes, I follow you there too, See, the Church is not everything.There is the govern ment as well.Both can be reformed, buh can be altered to suit you.1, in your place, speaking as your voice, complain of Loth.Now, tell me, do any of you know what kind of things taxes are?Of course you do.Your faces fall.I rejeat, your fases fall, your eyes lower themeches.low many kinds of taxes do yeu kuow?More than you ean count, for their number ja far over ten; and some of you oun only count that far by your fingers.Well, then, taxes\u2014taxes, tithes, firm-fruite, what of all those?! The cercal-tex, the land-tex, the fabrique-tax \u2014ah! ha! we hit everybody alike now, there is no one that escapes.Now, some of these are government taxes, some are church taxes.You pay them blindly, just because you are obliged to.Do you know that there are countries where Such a system would not be allowed for a moment, tolerated for a minute's space?It is true.Those countries are free.Your country is not free.My arguments are strict, logical, can be proved, Why should one-half your honest wealth, decently ac quired, go to the Church?Why should the other hall go to the government?Now, there are my two points.I leave those with you.1 , Is not the Church already rich enough, the govern: ment rich enough, without robbing the habitant and plundering the farmer?A dramatie pause here followed, the audience being etill quiet.\u2018Now, you think I am here sa the eremy of the Roman Cetholic Chureh.em not.That is, [ do not oppose it more than any other church in other countries, only here, among you, where ite Power is so omnipotent, T epesk out perhaps a little louder, that is all.Na.I divide the world into two grest sec tone.One section includes all the courr tries ruined by the Church, mostly Re men Catholic countries; the other includes all those ruined by government, mostly Protestant countrice.Under these heads one groups ail lands.Is is Bpain?The Church, the Jesuit, the monk, the Inquisition, the eel}, the nuw, the convent, have ruined her.In it Russia?Frederick the Grest instituted an infamona system of serfdom and feudal isn from which she baw Dever recovered.But his descendants simll yet suffer on their shrene\u2014the Crear of all the Russius, and his wife, Primes of: hagiaon.[Magtoire's historical information ie limited.] Is it Englend?Look at the mou- opoly of wealth, the vicious aristocracy, the bloatei merchant, the languishing rustic population \u2014 ignorant, dehased, half-starvel! Her day of reckoning is not far off.Already plans have been matured to carry off that surplus wealth, to exile that merchant, to elevate that languishing population.In America alone, at the present time, is there any hope for us, proud leaders of our land to victory.To crush all churches, and to subhert all governments, in the interests of the common good\u2014ia not that a glon- ous purpose?My brothers, I invite you all to question these things, to aid in overthrowing all system of tyrenny, to eetabliah, each man for himeell, his own luw, his own morale, his own rule of conduct.\u2019 The sensation bad eubsided.Carson was certainly a fluent speaker, though his French accent bad suffered from long disuse, and he held his ignorent audience spellbound.His pauses were made purposely, that he might learn by the remarks and gestures of those before him what result had followed these start ling opinions.Bonhomme Prévost wae cautious in bis admiretion, and looked warily at the patrone of the entertain ment, Docteur Dligny, Palisier, the notary, and the family of Lagardère-Le- maitre, who all sat near one another about five rows from the front.The dootor thought Carson's utterances high- Iy tressonable, and yet some of them tcuohed him on his frugal side keenly.\u2018Come, now,\u2019 said Mag'cire, resuming, \u2018this tithe question.Many of you are geiting tired of it, discontented; you are not lend:ng cheerfully any more that one \u2014what 18 it?\u2014twenty-aisth of your produce.Some of you pay out yearly half of what you make for memes, lotterics, fees of all kinds.1 have here a paper which is authentic.1t tells me that these tithes annually paid by you in tois Province of Quebec alone amount tu over three nullion doliers.Three million dot- lars! Well, then, I call that a big sum, a lot of money.\" À voice from the back- \u2018How much is that a head!\" \u2018Twenty dollars, cighteen, filteen tweive,\u201d answered Carson, \u2018according to your pockets.Listen now: The entire income of the Church in the Province of Quebec eleven million dollars and over\u2014 yes, well over, too.The audience began to grow excited.Murmurings and mutterings were heard on every side.Jim Platte and his American friends clapped iuriously aad struck up \u2018For he's a jolly good fellow!\" This ditty being sung in the States, and, indeed, all over the world, to the same tune as the Franco-Canadian snd Frenchman have long put to \u2018Malbrouck,\u2019 came in as a marked diversion, for the gro humored ehanty-men, fiddlers, miners, and laborers caught it up in 4 moment, and nway they went in the wildest hubbub imaginable.Genest and Lavallée tuned their fiddles, and scraped and sang at the same time.Dame Delorme, seeing her chance, rent two of her sone around with drinks, and the noise and confusion became almost unbearable.To add to the uproar, a small party of hetitante\u2014 raftsmen mostly from the Richelieu who knew a different tune to the safuc words, \u201ctruck promptly in with their own version, and Ladislasky, certain thet the lecture was finished, walked in with his bear and commenced his refrain: \u201cJe sals un pay-y-y-san-o-n, Oop-oop-vop-tra- : Ooop-cop-oop-tra-la-ls-in!\" In this scene of uncontrollable tumult there were yet some quit auditors.I'he young doctor and the notary both looked and felt very uneasy.The sentiments they listened to were hisephemous in the extreme, and would cleurly be their duty to report on the morrow to Father Dominique Labelle touching the entire performance, Lonhomine Prévost looked across to Jomeas, Magloire's uncle, and vigorously shook his head in protest.No one knew exactly what to do, when Car son, making his strident voice ring out over the disorder, attempted to Guish, \u2018I have not much more to say,\u201d bo said \u2018Will you be quiet, now, and let we my it?Fmancipation\u2014{reedom\u2014light for darkness\u2014that is what I am trying to tell you about.\u201d \u2018Then tell about it.Leave the Church alone!\u2019 shouted one man.Another caught bim by the arm.\u201cHe is old Mikel's grandsen.His fath- er\u2014he thet wee killed by a falling tree\u2014 ves like this, always speaking against the prisst and religien, It is not the Ial's sult.\u2019 \u2018Look! there ia his uncle.Wd, let bim speak\u2014here, more whiskey, B'ptiste! Respect for old Mikel kept the Lager dère-Lemaitre family and tbe notary and doctor in their cents, end it.muet be owned that they were much impressed by the appesrance of their fellow-villager in his new costume.Besides, à sister of Dame Lagardère-Lemaitre, at present liv ing in Three Rivers and well-to-do, had married a Protestant of the Methodist n, which apparently singularly fll-advised alliance had lent a little breadth to the religious views of the forn- ily.Cervon, beginning with a few more statistics, references to Jesuit ion and Ultramontanism\u2014toples which about three in his audience know the sense of finally grew to a point.He lauded the Franco-Canadian, he landed the resources of the country, be handled the Church Pgain, this time with gloves, with regard to its encronchmeuta on the perponal Hu- erty of the subject, and he ended by a grand peroration in favor of \u2018Equality for all men on earth.\u2019 t day,\u2019 said he, \u2018thers will ve no poor man.Every man will be rish.There will be no orgeaized church, no organise government.The family will rule the state.The state, Napoleon Bonaparte sail, wae himself.{Magloire \u2018is again a litle mized.] Well, in that day, that will be true for each of you.this wealth locked up for years in the coffers of the dhurches\u2014 shall be shared aivong you.Your lives will be made gay, pleasant, charming.No more the forge, the rait, the field, the forest, but the theatre, the concert, the drive, the music.Ah, ab! how you, my country- wen, descendants of merry Frenchmen, will enjoy that! That is how I live when 1 am at home among my friends.I have meny friends.1 lead @ pleneant life; say, brillient-\u2014! am in demand.Well, all that 1 just tell you about myself.1 ore my friends here of the village, and that makes mo talk.1 hope many more will follow where I and Louis and Jack Peron, my distinguished comrades, go.Emigrate, push, move on, up.Bourg Marie, Nicolet, Yamachiohe, all these places\u2014well, they are good for a little while, Not long.One tires always of tree and water and pork and beans What is your destiny?1 proclaim to you your only sensible ine.language, oreed, existing institutions, prejudice, pride, sentimont\u2014all m.st be rooted out.I do not ask you to be Ameriœn.I du not ask you to be Fnglish.I ask you to speak English, but to be\u2014citisens of the worid, freeborn, free-living, independent crmators of yourselves!\u2019 .On the whole, this vague conclusion was not unfavorably received.The notary and the doctor left at once without epeaking to Megloire, but the Lagar- dère-lemaitre contingent stiffly expressed their appreciation of the evenings entertainment to the lecturer.As for the rest of the audience, it dispersed in various stages of disorder\u2014ainging, shouting fiddling, dancing, emoking, chattering, and laughing.Nicolas Lauriére alone took bis silent way through the vast arches of the forest to his meagre home.Many of his companions lived in fear of its dark shades and its savage denisens, and avoided it for those reasons ss Wuch as for a more practical one\u2014the mumerous traps and snares which were set towards its centre.But for Tauriére nothing of thin awe existed, Magloire\u2019s utterances left him with a curlous sense of their impro- riety.He suddenly found and felt a uty in the solemn wood, in the starlit night, in the roar of the distant.fall, that Ne thought he should asdly nies.i glaring streets of the towns Magloi attempted to depict so vividly.spoke very clearly to him as he halted beneath one of the tallest trees.It was an old beech, with a gigantic hollow in its scarred brown trunk, and Laurière.leaning sadly yet conteutedly against it, did not dream of the time when it should reserve, hidden in that leaf-piled hol- ow, a relic of the confusion and tumult which Magloire was vet to cause in the Valley of the Yamachiche.- (To be Continued.) a A WEALTHY BARONESS.In her own way liarouness Ilirech van as remarkable a person as her husband Worth many millions in her own right, she gave freely of her wealth ns well as of that left Ly him.She was che daughter of the late Senator Bischofbeim, of Brussela, head of the great banking bouse of Bischofheim & Goldschmid, that financed the Erie Railway reorganipation in 1871.The Baroness, os a girl, was her father's secretary, and developed the method and accuracy that characterised her whole after life.At twentr-two the married Baron Hirsch, snd was of great help to him in all his financial undertakings as well as in his philanthropic plans.She was highly educated, writing and speaking German, English and French, and several other Languages.The Tlirech establishment in Paris was managed with great care, the Baroness per sonally seeing to every detail.Always ready to dispense charity, she guarded rigidly against waste.After her husband's death her duties increased cnormouely, He left an estate of £28,000,000, much of which was be queathed to charity.Milfons have been spent in colunising large bodies of Rus- tien refugees in the Upited States and the Argentine Mepublie.In 1806 the Barofirss promulgated s plan for bene volent work in the United States car Straws, of Now York, was consul by her as to inethoda, but decldred that she had definite plane regarding what she mettit to do.Finding that the Hirsch Behdal in New York in 4 Junn 18, 1899.« rented building, she gave $120,000 to rear a house of its own.Ble especially wished to help working girls of that eity.A home for working girly wae the result, she giving $200,000 fer ground and buildings and an annual income of $13, 000, aving organised several similar homes in Belgium, she was familiar with the work.The condition of the Russian Jews in New York city especially appealed to her.She investigated the sit.tation thoroughly, and then informed the trustees of the Baron Hirsch Fund that she had placed at their dispose) $1,- 000,000 for the permanent relief of these people.In all, a careful estimate shows that she spent $1,500,000 in New York city in charitable work efter her husband's death, besides the annua} income of the fund of $2,400,000 created by the Baron.Bbe left seven million pounds sterling, chiefly bequesthed to ebarities.\u2014 Woman's Journal.\u2019 CHILDREN'S CORNER.THE SCHOOL IN THE GARDEN.It was a curious pet to have, but grown people choose strange pets sometimes, and why may not children?Aunt Marion thought it wasn't very nice because one night when she slept downstairs alone, it came along the pisr- za and pecked at her window blind, making her suvpeet a burglar.Teddy hed the joke on her that time.\u2018Afraid of a goose, Auntie May,\u2019 and the persistent tesse kept it up, till Miss Marion would have shaken him if he had been her own child.She really did say, \u2018You little plague!\u2019 But that wae under hér breath, aml she wes sorry the next minute.There was another boy besides Teddy \u2014Alfred by name.He was too little to see jokes yet, but he laughed every time Teddy laughed.Only when the goose waddled off into the water as it would sometimes, Alfred cried for fear it might be drowned.Then Aunt Marion caught the boy in her arme, hugged him and said, \u2018You're a goosie yourself Alfred thought that was a compliment.Teddy had x plan.\"We'll tell it bow to read.\u2019 \u201c\u2019Ea\u2019 said Alfred, who didn\u2019t kmow how himeelf.Of course the goose came to school obedicntly, because it followed the boys my bo == TEDDY AND ALFRED TEACH THE BIG GOOSE.anywhere.School kept out on the gar den bench.Now, spell ¢-a.t, cat,\u201d Teddy began.\u2018Pell tat\u2019 echoed Alfred.And the goose said \u2018Quack!\u2019 \u2018Pretty good.Now d-o4, dos: But the goose raid \u2018Quack!\u2019 once more, Aunt diarion listened, and she thought, \u2018The big goose doesn\u2019t imitate Teddy av closeiy as little goose Alfred does.\u2019 Then she prayed silently that Teddy might always be a good boy, snd thus make Alfred «à good boy.Fhe knew what great influence an older brother has over a younger one.\u201cTeddy is old enough to thick.We'll have a confidential talk about it some day pretty soon.'\u2014-Helen A.Hawley, in \u2018Sunbeam.\u2019 ADVERTISEMENTS.\u201cEvery Well Man Hath His Ill Day.\u201d A doctor's examination might show that kidneys, ver and stomach are normal, but the doctor cannot anal: the blood upon which these organs depend, and eniches thr Flood\" ons oe when \u2018\u2018a bit of\" or when seriously afllicted.It never disappoints ref fied has done me more than any other Mas.Farag medicine 1 have taken® Kexser, Brampton, Ont.™- Bad Cough~\" After ry long 1iiness, was Yer acak and had à bad ough.] could est or si Different remedies did not help me but Iood's Sarsaparills bufit me up and T am now able 0 attend te my work.\u201d Miwsrs Jaques, Osbano, Ont.Hoods Sars MAT re Ty 's Pits eure Yiver ils.the nan-lert EURE IEEE ) LITERARY NOTES.\u2018Swallow,\u2019 Mr.Rider Haggard's new novel, is a story of the great Trek of 1838.It purports to be narrated by Vrouw Botmar, an old Hoer woman.Swallow waa her daughter Suzanne, the wife of an Englishman who brought on his head the black hate of Swart Piet.Mr.Haggard here returns to his earlier manner.Jove and treachery, witchcraft and fighting Zulus\u2014these play their part as of old.The Haggard rides again, and excitement is in store for his read- In \u2018he amusing \u2018 Etchingham Letters,\u201d republished in the \u2018Living Age,\u2019 there in s chapter on bicycling.As specimens of gnomic wisdom on the subject, we cite the following :\u2014Three things are plagues to a wheelman\u2014yea, and a fourth is abominable\u2014a boy which leadeth an unruly horse, and a swine which strayeth in the road, and a rash woman among trafic which regardeth not the right hand or the left; but the most grievous is & County Council, which scattercth beapa of stones in the highway, and saith, \u2018It is well mended.\u2019 Of two manner of people thou shalt have a care, and flee from the third as an host of the heathen : A deaf man which walketh in the darkness, and children which run violently out of school at moontide, and 8 constable with girded loins who lurk- eth after sun-setting.«ow Dean Stubbs drops into humorous verse now and then, by way of recreation from his severer labors, as witness this little parody in his recent volume,\u2014 \u201cBryhtnoth\u2019s Prayer :\u2014 And did you once find Browning plain?And did be really seem quite clear?Apd did you read the book again?How strange it seams and queer.And you were livinx before that, And you ars living after, *Red-night-cap Country,\u2019 think of thet: It almost moves my laughter.I read it once, or was 1t\u2014No \u2018Bordello,\u2019 that was it, no doubt: The \u2018Histcry of the Soul,\u201d you know, Six thousand lines, or thersabout.But thoughts I picked up as I read tt, And one, indesd, should be confess'd: If Guelph you put tn Ghtbbdelin's stead, it\u2014 Well, 1 target the reat.\u201cse \u2018David Harum,\u2019 the bestselling book né-the yor, is still the subject of much literary discussion end possip.TR Math alone 29,000 copies were sold, and the demand continues to be enormous.This, for an initial venture in fiction, is a remarkable phenomenon.The circumstances under which the nove! was written and finally published are as noteworthy as the success which the book has met.A recent writer in \u2018 The Rat- urday Evening Post\u2019 gives some interesting facts concerning these matters : \u2014 \u2018 Mr.Westcott was nearly fifty years of age when he began its composition.He had been stricken with mortal illness which unfitted him for his other work, when he took up literature purely sa a diversion.After it was finished he submitted it to two Chicago publishers, to two New York firme, and to ome in Boston and one in Philadelphia, before it was accepted by a third, à New York publisher.© 8 8 In spesking of the \u2018 Mormon Prophet\u2019 the \u2018 Canadian Gazette,\u2019 of London, says: Mise Dougall is fast gaining a prominent place in the small band of Canadian writers who have won their spurs cn this side of the Atlantic.By \u2018The Mormon Prophet\u2019 she has distinctly strengthened this position.She bas ventured upon a bold experiment; and her courage has been amply justified by the measure of success achieved.The motive of the novel is a presentment of the true character of Joseph Smith, the rend founder of Mormoniem, the one prophet whom Mormona revere, \u2018 who never saw Utah, and whose public teachings were for the most part unexcepy J sn impostor, who, ignorant snd saper- stitious Limaall, traded upon the ignorance and superstitions of others.For us, however, the interest of the story lies rather in the skill, the refinement of touch, the paychological insight with which Mise Dougal! depicts her hero, In bends less capable that hers her daring experiment would bave failed woefully.As it ie, the \u2018 prophet\u2019 lives, and for the time stands vividly before the reader as a son of the people, with a large heart, « courage and firmness of purpose that rarely failed\u2014as one who, if half fanatic and half knave, was born to rule, and for his life-work can point to the foundation of a sect which ranks among the moat extraordinarily successful in recent history, .& 0 Personal facta about Prof.Walter A.Wyckoff, whose book, \u2018 The Workers,\" is still making a etir, are few and far between.Mr.Wyckoff has lived the retired life of a student, and the exclusive one of a man of society.No one who knew him would have expected him to forsake the glittering \u2018rout\u2019 and the festive dinner table and turn workman for purposes of research.Ile bad a reputation for refined table talk, and for an English accent.His case wan en instance of the brillianey with which genius sometimes flashes out {rom under an ultra-refined exterior.Mr.Wyckoff was born in India, where his father was PROF.WALTER A.WYCKOFF.a missionary, and was bred in the country which brought forth Kipling.When he was ready for college he came to Princeton, where he studied for several years with view to the ministry, and was predfited In 18.\u201cHe \u2018was, and is,\u2019 says & writer in the \u2018Ssturddy Even- Fost,\u2019 \u2018of a deeply religitus nature.\u2019 He was not a teacher in Princeton before his excursion into trampdom, but has been elected amistant professor of political economy there ever since his book was written.The great success of \u2018 The Workers\u2019 bas made bim doubly a favorite in social ways, and ever since his return from association with the unkempt and: job-less he has been celebrating that return, in truly American fashion, with banquets, and receptions, snd lectures on \u2018how it seemed.\u2019\u2014* Standard\u201d \u2014 LITERARY REVIEW.STORIES OF HABITANT LIFE.The French-Canadian villager is gradually coming in for more than a superficial treatment in English literature.\u2018Bonhomme,\u2019 by Henry Cecil Walsh (WW.Briggs, Toronto,), is a book of French- Cenadian stories and sketches, marked by some originality and a certain cleverness of description that should win the author a place among Canadian writers of the literary class.Yet there are some extrevagances in the arrangement of sentences that exceed the license of a litterateur.For instance: \u2018To first see Ba zile Dupras and his wife was from the steps of the Bonsecours market, on a January afternoon.\u2019 Ia such sentences Mr.Walsh has purposely neglected the requirements of English grammar for the sake of effect, and the effect does not always justify him.The first story in the book, and the most striking, ie \u2018The Home-comiug of Ovide Bouchette.\u201d It i the pathetic \u2018Enoch Arden\u2019 story, in a French-Canadian dress.Ovide returns to his native village after the campaign in Egypt, and finds tbat all his friends have long thought him dead.The trug- edy of his return is brought out in several homely but dramatic scenes, aud then Ovide, with a quick instinct of what is right, disappears sguin, never to come back salive.Another tale is that of \u2018The Btone-bresker of Cote des Neiges,\u2019 of whose duties the following des.eription is given: The wayside weeds contrived for his support Ir.the snmmer time, with astonishing friendly growth and re-growth, that he, by municipal command, might acytha and sichib them without marcy as foes.With the arrival of winter the snow-plough had to be driven, paths kept pessably clear for vedesiria fs, stone te be broken for the ( coming SpriRE and nummior, ait of whiob rinsé dusies were tavbe'pétforiséd accarding as axperlonce dictated; apart from vbich he employed his spare tims principally to rafslng & wood-pile by the steps fn the front >f his bouse.On a tree, near to the spot where Fa- vard wan working one day, a paper had formerly heen peated, announcing some meoting: But the winds came, sn the rains came, And the snows came, and so in due course it also came that nothing was left of the payer and its rough, hand-printed insertp- tions, but & top portion, om which in Franch, stitt plainly visible\u2014that the eyes of those who run might read\u2014was to be roen the preluding word, \u2018To-night.\u2019 Now, so far as reading goes, it wns all one ond the same thing to Favard, whether he ran or stood still: and although he had ones Incidentally reraarked ithe paper, fit vas but paper to him, and uothlng more.And so he went on witi bis work fa his cuntomary meok and bumble-minded way, éiving no thougbt to the morrow, or what became of the day gone, Jcgging {rota one to the other with the same simple, truat- Ing faith, which had ever characterized him.Shocke of & sofamic quality night mar the montel world; eclence discover now ele- menis, new proceases, new combinations: Ecology at last stimbdle on traces of man in the great Micceue pericd, or the theory ef evolution rec tts flual sod crushing blow: but so long as Favard hed a plpaful of strong-smelltag native tobaeco for the amoking; pea-soup, pork snd beans, blond- Savsage, and fish on Friday, for the eating.very little short of this planet in ter- rettrial collision would f bim with the fact thet mpything rutsi1d the pals of bis own existence vas worth & moment's meditation.Favard was mindful of his own affairs, and wanted nothing better than a Whiff of \u2018tabac Quesnel,\u2019 ard the few pian- tres coming to him at the end of each weok \u2014things that quite satisfied him If the march of empires would but Feep out of Ms way.Not that he would put himself forward and call a bait: but simply that as & man of sterling lowliness, his little dally round of life 1a a vale of snug peave- tulness fully fed all the asking of his am- bitin.Aud yet these are tho men that fought at Chstecuguay and St.Eustache.The story (or rather it is a character sketch) goes on to say that a stranger or two passing Favard that day spoke of sione-breaking as hard work, to which he replied that the toil of others looked larder to him.Also, that several read from the paper on the tree the word \u2018tonight,\u2019 but made no explanation to Fu- verd of what they meant by saying \u201cTonight\u2019 in connection with nothing at all.It puzzled the honest man sorely till after his tea, when he suddenly mentioned his solution of the problem to hin wife: Femme,\u2018 criéd he, ésultantly, with a sudden light cn his brown wrinkled face, \u2018I have it\u2014the thing le at last upon me.Why § it that we contemplate the toll of ancther, and nv often exclaim: \u201cYours ts no light task my friend! * The reason is at Tant plaïn\u2014le don Dieu bas given me the tiuth! Tt Is because the labor of another to which we are unused looks hard that we right be content with cur own.{ bave long struggled for an answer that comes to-night.\u201d THE DEPENDENCIFS OF THE UNITED STATES.\u2018The Imperial Republic,\u2019 by James C.Fernald (Funk and Wagnalls Co.), is a thoughtful essay on American * expansion\u2019 The author shows that colonies and dependent peoples bring most wealth to®the ruling nstion when wellgoverned and well-treated.He quotes the Bir dar's dictum that the Soudan must be kept free, if possible, from traders that cheat, and from those that bring liquor, showing that this high ideal of a beneficent paternalism in dependent states is a tendency of the times.Ie says :\u2014 What the American Revofution bad done for colonies of English stock, inheriting the fighting power that could stand face to face against oppression, and exact dedvir- ance or redress, Burke's impeachment of Warren Hastings did for subject perples, powerless to defend themselves.While the Governor-General was acquitted at the bar of the Houze of Lords.Fe was convict.eâ at the bar of history, and of the national conscience of Great Britain.\u2018The pyb- Ne opinion of England, wbich îs really the supreme law of the land, had definitely and fioally rejected the Spanish system of co- Jonial spnlistion.England then entered os the nobler po- icy of attaching tbe colony by protention, and by nié, In the develnpment of its internal resovrees\u2014(fie policy that has male Canadn, Australte, and Cape Colony, agmen- tially as free as tbs United Statue, but proud and happy In their nomfnat subjection as atiying them with ail the power, glory ard prdsperity of Bogland.Here, then, wre the two systems: the system of spoliation, which Spain has held unyleidingiy to the end; and the nobdler system of protection and development which England bus substituted.Between these two colonial systems, we must choose, for thers in DO thisd.The contrast between a high ideal of government for colonies and the notorious example of bad government furnished by American cities is not unnoticed.The writer continues, with true ineight: Nor should ya escape the prodlem by tarrendering all our dependencies.Por what eould be @ greater \u2018non sequitur\u201d than to say: \u2018Because we are unfit to gov- era any other people on earth, therefore we will stay at home, and wisely, uy, and mercifully govern ourselves Within our homeland are two Americas.On our own continent the battle must be zt The better must control and transform ibe worse, or the worse will Cegrade and destroy the better.Because we strong,and misgovernment st bome, is not immediately fatal, good men bave come to view with an easy complacency the wide Gominance of the vicious classes.Tt is well that we should bs roused hy a sharp crisis to (ace a wider responsiblity.The determination to give good government abroad must react upon cufBelves to compel better government at home.A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS.\u2018A Guide to the Wild Flowers,\u2019 by Alice Lounsherry, (Wm, Briggs, Toronto), is an exceptionally beautiful book of botany for beginners.There are sixty: four colored plates and one hundred and fifty-four other drswings and diagrams, the work of Mrs.Ellis Rowan.After the short botanical description of esch plant, a bright paragraph describes ite uses or characteristics, often in a poetical or fanciful way that will make the study an attractive one.The colored plates are particularly artistic.This book would be of permanent value in à household.Every spring it would be brought out for the student or the child, or the lover of Nature, and all summer it would be referred to, from time to time, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE TENT CATERPILLARS.NOT A PLAGUE BUT A PRE VENTABLE NUISANCE.An expert entomologist of this city, in the course of conversation with a \u2018 Witness\u2019 representative, made reference to the plague of caterpillars in the Townships and elsewhere.\u2018It is all a mis take,\u201d he said, \u2018 to call it a plague.That the caterpillars are numerous, 1 do not doubt, but with a little foresight and the exercise of ordinary precaution the nuisance could easily have been avoided.The caterpillars, in this case, comprise two kinds of tent-caterpillars, namely, the \u2018apple tree tent-caterpillar (clis\u2018ocam- pa Americana}, and the \u2018forest tent-omter- THE APPLE TREE TENT-CATERFPILLAR pillar (elisiocamps sylvation).They each resemble the other both in tastes and habits, and also in appearance.In the apple tree kind the white line on the back is even and undivided; the forest tent-caterpiliar has the white line broken up into spots.are laid in ring-like clusters wpon t end of the small branches of fruit trees and during the winter the farmers could easily anticipate and nip in the bud the forays made later on by the caterplilars in May and June by breaking off and destroying the ogg clusters.As each cluster contains from two to three hundred eggs the advantage of this plan is obvious, and ns boys could be set to work to gather the clusters it would not be an expensive Re THE FOREST TENT-CATERPICLAR.work.The present state of things will not continue leng-and in two weeks at the moet hardly a cuterpillar will be found-\u2014they will have become cocoons, The nests of the young caterpillars soon after hatching are very conspiovous\u2014as conspicuous as the egg-clusters, and can easily be destroyed.The moth into which the caterpillar turns is worthy of remark in that it has no tongue and is unable to take sustenance.It lives n life of a few days only, during which it layn a cluster of exe.* Destroying the eggclusters should be done by all farmers, for it would be most unfair for s man's trees to suffer by the negligence of those who have taken no precautions at all.\u20181 would also say this.The cater pillar in question fe of this country and is always likely to be a nuisance, and the only way to deal with it is to pre vent ite existence in the tcanner I have described.\u2014 EXPANSION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.If some recently published statistics are to be trusted the Englind language is developing more than any other, past or present.While the German contains 80,000 words, the Italian 45.000, the French 20,000, and the Spanish only 29, 000, Dr.Murray's English dictionary i expected to cétain no fewer than 230, 000 words, more than half of which have come into vee during the last half century.A great part of these additions are, of course, technical or scientifie terms, which the wiser German trans lates.\u2014London \u2018Pall Mall Gazette.\u201d A = uy Ro AFTER THÉ Mrs.Snif\u2014I could bave married six of Boif\u2014Why, didn't you?Grosses.Puck.\u2019 FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.A SUGGESTION TO HAVE PLEDGE CARDS PROVIDED.\u2018A Believer in Prohibition\u2019 writes that as in a short time the volunteers will meet at different places to engage in their annual drill, it would be an opportune time to introduce pledge cards among them, as was done in Simcoe in 1880.In 1878 the 30th Battalion V.M., met there to drill.Nothing was done by the people to show that they were appreciated.and considerable drinking was done among them, which brought discredit upon the whole battalion.When word came that they were going again in 1880, fearing that there would be à recurrence of the acts of 1878, words of regret were expressed by many.When a few friends suggested that if the volunteers in some way were shown that they were appreciated they would do differently, and when it was proposed to furnish them & reading room (with mottoes, pictures, organ, oatmeal-water, etc.), present them: with an address and introduce a pledge card among them, they were told that the volunteers would not sign the cards, and that they would destroy or take away everything that was put in the reading room.In face of these discouraging predictions the programme was carried out.The results were that 264 pledge cards were signed the first day and others from day to day afterwards.Only two per- #008 went into camp partially intoxicated during the twelve days\u2019 drill, and not a thing was lost.damaged or taken away from the reading room.in which there was about four hundred dollars\u2019 worth of borrowed pictures, looking glasses, ete.The writer urges that the matter be taken up and committees formed in townships, counties, ste.Much good eonld thus be accomplished in a short time.Por hesdarhe frhather «ok de nervous) rhoumatism, jumbage, pains end veskneus la en ine or kidneys, pains around the liver, iy, swelling of the joints and patna of al) ki application of Ridway's Realy Retief will atic ven iste sane, an.1 ita contin nee for à few dage offscus à pertnanest cars.A CURE FOR ALL Summer Complaints DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBUS.A hati to 8 teaspoonful of Ready Relief ln à half tumbler of water, repeated as often aa the dlsch: continue.and à fannel satarated with Ready Rall ose tbe siomach ar bowels will aford te rolisf and sooû effect a cure.INTERNALLY.\u2014A half to 8 teaspoonful fu ifs tutubler of water will In à few minutes cure Crampe, 8 four h, Nauses, Vomiting, Hears: barn Re Hl Bick Various ¥ Mslaris in Ita a crue Cured remet teponts Joa thet ours fever ar * aad her br SE re ted or LA DIE IS ILE SENS A BWA REA bY REND Sold by 1899 4: A.NATHEWSON à CO.93 MoGiit strove, Montres, IMPORTERS & WHOLIMALE GROCERS.Suyers have 18 this eotabiishment the L] W ened FRESHURSE of focus aos Arson) MAINTAINED.@réore Carefully Attondod Te READABLE PARAGRAPHES The whole six might have nai QUARREL.the wealthiest men In the city.Leek able to buy pour RELIEVED TO HEAR IT.resolved to perpetrate one om a friend re- sidiog in America.Bo secordingly be sent bim a jarge chest, which on being opened was lound to contain s Iarge parcel wrapped up in strong paper, which on being tors eft revealed still another wrapper.and so on until the parcel had dwindled down to one little sbeet of note paper, oo Which was written: \u2014 I am very well.\u2014Yours J.Time roiled by, and he had forgotten all large box was delivered st bis house, marked \u2018Fragile,\u2019 \u201cWith care,\u2019 eto.Thinking that somie of his friends were sending him a substantial present, he had the box carried into the house and paid the carriage.When the box was opened it was found to contain n large stone with & ten:\u2014 \u2018Dear J.\u2014On hearing that you were weil, the accompanying load rolled off my besrt.\u2014Yours, T° A POET'S SLCCESS.The following shows how it is posed! to make mordey by publishing even à first book of poems.A buéding post took this step\u2014st bis own cost, ii js perhaps nesdiess tured friends told him he would be Balt ruined.At last, in fear and trembling.he wrote to tbe publisher to know the worst\u2014 which he calculated at £70.\u2018Let me know how many of ths edition what Is the Dalance I owe you.\u2019 The pub- edition has gone off, Jeaving a balance of £25 In ycur favcr; cheque enclosed.\u2019 The Poet was delighted at his great good fortune, jmiagining bis fame as an author already established.He rushed to the pub- lisber's to o¥tatn particulars of the unexpected sale.ask.\u2018Not ask?Why not?You wrote to say the edition had ell bepn sold; it must have been sold to somebody.\u2019 I wrote that it hed \u201cpons off.\u2019 80 ft bad.\u2014The whole of it! There was a fire In the warehouss and the com- tents were insured.\u2019 WOULD UNDRCHIVE MIM.\u201cMy nerve Is completely gone,\u201d sald the sufferer, as he dropped into the dentist's chair, \u201cNo, it 1s0't,\u2019 was the cheerful reply.\"Wait till 1 get a firm hold, asd you'll realize your mistake.\u2019 Teddy (who has just begun to go te school)\u2014'Papa.80 you kpow what six bays and five girls make?\u2018Yes,' answered his father, \u2018a racket'\u2014 \u2018Harper's Basar.\u2019 Children Cry for CASTORIA.Children Cry for CASTORIA.Children Cry for CASTORIA.AN ARGUMENT.Mamwe\u2014'Buy you a Mily-gostt I couldn think of suck & thing.\u201d Jobnay\u2014'Oh, mama! It would be vo usaful te eat wp oM papers pod thiogs!\"\u2014 Peck.\u2019 CASTORIA Tee Tuinste and Children.rr 3.\u2018Dear T.\u20141 am pleased to inform you that } piece of paper attached, on which was writs to say\u2014and was agonized when good-na- | An Englishman fond o£ practical joking \u2018 about fis little joke, when one morning 8 § bave gone off,\" raû the humble epistie, \u2018and - lisker wrote back: \u2018Dear sir, \u2014Your whole | \u2018My dear str, I think you had better not | \u201cThe Boys\u2019 Page.; A Brave Little Coward.BY J.NORRIS.f \u2014 * (Winner of u diver watch.) bY \u2014 ~ After lunch had been partaken of, they amused themselves by explorig the is land upon which they had landed.Thus engaged in the work of exploration, they failed to notice the change: that had tak- wn place in the weather, until the whistling of the wind through the trees and the pounding of the waves upon the shore warned them that they had lin.fered too long.Quickly they mads their way to the hoat, and, casting off, headed for the mainland.The wind had risen to a gale, and already the lake was ttecked with foam, The sun had suddenly become darkened by massive clouds rolling up from the west.The water, blue and sparkling but a few moments ago, seemed Dlack ag jnk, save where here and there across ite surface the breakers gleamed white, ike the froth of new milk.Away to je west.growing more and more vivid, the forked tongues ~f lightning darted from cloud to cloud, while the low in- eessant rumbling of the thunder heralded the approach of the king of storms.Brighter and fiercer danhed the lightning.louder and more awful grew the voice of the thunder.The great lake tosved end tumbled in wild unrest.and bellow: ed defiance to the acowling heavens.Guided by mmskilled hande, the little boat was soon at the mercy of the storm.One sail was torn away, and the rudder that followed shook the old building te ite foundations, and disminy's face grew Suter than the froth of the waves out sue.lle ventured to look out again.Rome: thing caught his eye.1lis head swam, and he grew nick with fear.He rubbed his eves and looked more closely, Surely it could not pe; no boat would trust it sell to such a storm.lial ves; out across the Jake, sometimes ainking alto gether from right, soivetimes coming into view upon the crest of a wave, a little Tat waa drifting in the storm.She wea bromiside to the wind and one sail was flapping wildly fram the mast.Jinvny Knew enough about lake wtorma to know that the occupants of that beat were surely drifting to their death if so help were near.Who vould they Le?lake a flash the conviction came Lo him- it was I.Hoyle and his party.The keen anguish following Dr.Hoyle's insulting remarks mill rankled in Jim niy's heart, and for a moment a light of triumph shone in his eves, It was for « moment only, and thon the great blue eves grow moist with tears as the tender little lieart looked out upon that siesu- Iate scene\u2014the awful wante of waier, anl the helples, duifting bout, He felt ashamed of that passing thought of tris umph, and a great longing took posses: sion of him to send help to his perisiog enemies.What could he do?He could run and inform the villigers, but it was a good half mile to the nearest house, and it was doubtful if the beat could live in such a storm untd help should arrive.SC What coull he dat He knocked a loose board from the end of the old mill and ; but ont his hend.No other boat was in sight.mul no help was near.\\ thonght + flashed through his mind\u2014the \u2018Lily May\u2019 \"THE \u2018LILY MAY\u2019 FLYING TO THE RESCUE.lost.Every moment the waves broke, in over her side, threatening to sink her and her occupants in the deep.It was only by the untiring efforts of the men, who endeavored to dip the water out as quickly as it came in, that she was kept afloat.In spite of all their efforts they were dowly sinking, and death seemed In the meantime Jimmy wis sleeping peacefully in the old mill, all unconacious of the storm gathering about him.The sun disappeared behind the clouds, and the wind to moan about the eaves of the old mill.The lightning flashed nearer, the thuadet grew louder and louder, and the waves crept higher and higher along the shore, but still the lit tle sleeper siept on.His eurly head Was piliowed on ont arm; bis bat had fallen to the floor.There were traces of tests on bis face, but he waa sll unmindful of the grief that had brought them there At length a biindisy flash of lightning, inatgntly followed by o deafening crash of thus s torrent of min, snaounc- ed the fact that the storm had broken over the old «ill.- Jimmy et and stared wildly sbeut:bim.-Purknets, as of twilight, had set in, snd he wondered if he were awake or dreaming.Thea he remembered the eircumstances under which be had fallen asleep, and bis terror of the storm diminished se his re ventment agains Dr.Hoyle returned.got up hurriedly and walked over to end of the old mill, from which he could get a good view of the lake.He red ont through « ernck between two rde.The fury of the storm almost took away his breath.Away to the west, sa (ar se the eye oeuld reach, nothing waa to be seen but a mad warts of water, with here snd there an island rising dim aod lonely above the turbulence and foam.A flash of lightning almost blinded him and he terned his eyes away.For an instant the walls and floor and celling of the old wlll seemed alive with rd, Lacs 16 shapes, like rriesing, fry ; then all was as .The noise US \u2014could lie manage her?Would he dere fly to the réscue?Those in the hoat , Were his bitterest enemies, so Lie thought, but what of that ?Could he stand idly : by and watch them going down to death?j Lie would be a coward if he could do that.Snatching his hat from the floor he rushed from the friendly shelter of the old mill vat into the storm.His mind was made up, and never for a moment afterwards did he swerve from his Jur pose; never for a moment did presence of mind forsake him.He never thought of death; he only knew that out upon that heaving deep, tossed at the mercy of wind end wave, men and women were going down to death and hc must save them, | Quickly he hoisted the little red sail and set it at the proper angle.A gust of wind caught it and the \u2018Lily May\u2019 tugged bard at her moorings.After Tnonening the hesd.line he sat down in the stern and gramcd the tiller in one \u2018hand.With his jack-knife held in bis other hand he severed the «tern-live, end the \u2018Lily May\" wne free.Tnstantly the little bout shot shead, trembling ase il eager for the fray.In a moment she had reached the river's mouth.In less than a minute she bad crossed the shallow sand-bar and was beating bravely out, where the hungry wuves seemed waiting to devour ber.It was only now that Jimmy began to realize the magnitude of the task he had undertaken.Young as he was, he was by no means inexperienced as & sailor ; but what could he, hoy of ten, do in the face of such storm ?During the excitement of getting the boat off he had no time to think of the danger into which he was rushing.Now that the shore was {ast receding behind him, and he saw nothing but the black sky overhead and the mad water benesth, an awful sense of loneliness fell upon him, What « mali epeck he was in that wilderness of foam ; how utterly helpless, how ter Tibly alone \u2018Many a time he had scen the lake lashed into fury by just such » I Po THE MONTREAL storm, but never gid it sean so awful to hint as now, Soon the little boat began to feel the full force of the storm.The waves bivke white against her prow, and heked her widva with an angry swirl.Poor Jimmy's heart sank within him.le thought of his mother, of his comfortable home and of all the dear ones there.He won dered if they were thinking of him now.A gust of wind caught his hat fron hin tiead and whirled it high above the mast.then flung it downward, where in a mo- went the huugry waves lad swallowed it.He lonked at the waves and shud dered as they dashed mally against the side of his little craft.le turned his eyes to the big, black cloud overhead, and his face shone white in the semidarkness, Instantly, while he looked, the black cloud wan rent by a lurid line of five, and a crash as of a hundred cannon reverberated across the rolling water.He dropped hin eyes aml trembled.He struggled to be brave, but it was hard.The wind whistled through the tattered sail, and the little boat rolled and tumbled fear fully as she ploughed her way along.Janmy thought of his mother again, snd somehow that thought seemed to com: fort him.She had often told him of One without whose knowledge not even a spartuw could fall to the ground.Per.hape that Une was watching him now ; perhaps he was not alone after all, Once more he lifted his eyes to the Hack cloud, and this time T think he saw beyond it.The big blue eves looked teustfully upward, the white lips parted, and the prayer of a brave little coward wae heard in heaven.Then he turned his exes toward the recthing water, and tixed them unfalteringly on a white sail that was wildly flapping from n mast out somewhere ahead of him.The rain dashed against his face and beat upon his curly head.The lightning (lashed, the thunder rolled.and the waves drove hand against the side of his little craft.but the white lips were firmly pressed together, and the small hands were clenched about the tiller like a vice.The big blue eyes looked straight alicad, with a look of steel, out to where those helpless souls were drifting in the storm.Helpless they were indeed, and hopeless.too, until they sighted the \u2018Lily May\u2019 flying to the rescue.Then dull despair gave place to joyous hope.On came the \"Lily May.propelled hy her tattered red sail, end held on her course by the resolute hand of her young commander.As Jimmy drew near he raw that he could not attempt to take the shipwrecked party sboard without great danger, so he shouted for a rope.Luckily a rope Jay coiled in the Low of the doctor's boat, and Mr.Neilson flung it to Jimmy as the \u2018Lily May\u2019 passed by.Jimmy caught it and secured it to the stern of his hoat, then changing his tack lie rode almost at right angles to his former course.This course would take him past the Dig bluff and land him at Gardner's boat-house.Now that the waves were coming on straight astern, the baata rode more cnai- Iv and shipped scarcely any water.Soon they had passed the big bluff and were approaching Garduer\u2019s dock, upon which by this time a considerable crowd had collected.As the boats approached tbe dock the people cheered voriferonsly, snd the cheering was renewed when Dr.Horle stood wp snd told, in a trembling voice of how Jimmy had rescued his party from certain death.Our little hero was placed on the shoulders of two stalwart men and borne right through the village streets towards Lis own home, while the cheering crowd \u2018ol- lowed close behind.Dob Green was in the midst of them, having just returned from, his errand to the fishermen.\u2018Bravo, Jimmy, bravo !' he shouted, every time Be caught sight of the Tittle rain-soaked figure above the people's heads, and of all the sweet words Jimmy heard that af- ternnon these words of Bob's were the sweeteat, There wan a look of pardonable pride in our little hero's eyes when the men put him down at the threshold of his own door, tired and wet, but very happy.And later, when he stood before the kitchen fire to dry his curls, while hin mother praised him for his bravery, there was not in all Grimeville a more joyful little heart than his.The popularity of the Gordon & Green Co.in steadily increasing, and they are still carrving on a profitable business at the old stand.Should you visit Grims.ville during the summer season vou will doubtless hear many interesting things concerning the old mill, amohg them the story of how Jimmy Paterson and the \u2018Lily May\u2019 rescued Dr.Hoyle and his party from certain death.THE END.\u2014\u2014 MOUND-BUILDERS.{Reply to P.W, R.) John Maclean, in his \u2018Canadian Ravage Folk, says: \u2018Mounds are found io grest abundance in Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alsbams, Georgia, Arizona, New Mexico and Floride.There are nene found \u2018n New England, but went.ward toward the Rocky Mountains, in the Yellowstone country and Manitoba, there have been sonie discovered.Groupe of mounds have been opened at various places in Manitoba, including the perish of Bt.Andrew's, near Winnipeg, the Bourie River, Riding Mountaln and Rainy River.Over twenty mounds have been discovered ot the last-mentioned place.\u2019 * Mounds have aleo been found about the rhores of Leke Superior, but, so for as we know, there js no record of any having been discovered in the Fastern Townships.The subject is a mow io teresting one Tor you to take up.| WEFKLY WITNESS How to Make and Rig A 'ROUGH AND READY' BOAT.\u2018American Doy's Book of Boort.\u2019) (From.the (food straight-grained pine wood is, without doubt, the best \u2018all-around\u2019 wood for a boy's use.It is easily whittled with a pocket-knife : it works smoothly under a plane ; can be sawed without fatiguing the young carpenter ; it is elastic, pliable and cheap ; therefore use pine lumber to build your boat.Rxamive the lumber pile carefully and select your boards nearly alike.Deo not allow the dealer or his men ta talk vou into taking lumber with blemishes, The side-pieces should be of straight-grain-d wood, with no large knots and no #64 eerie commence ened to render it easy to draw them out, Now adjust the bow-piece, and use the great- eat of care in making the sides exactly alike, otherwise you will wonder how your boat happened to have such an unaccountable twist in it.When the stem is properly adjusted fasten on the side boards with screws.Do not try to hammer the screws in place, hut bore holes first and use a screwdriver.Take your stern-piece and measure the exact width of the stern end of the bot tom boards and mark it at the bottom of the stern-piece ; or, better still, since the atern-board will set at an angle, put it temporarily in place, bind it fast with the ropes, and mark with a pencil just where the side boards cross the ends of the stern-board, Remove the stern board and saw out a piece one inch wide.the thickness of the bottom board, from the place marked to the bottom of the sbern-board.Pecause the top side board overlaps the bottom one at the stern, there must be either a large crack left there or the stern-board notched to fit the side boards (figure 9).Replace the LOWER SIDE BUARD Bip a \u2018checka\u2019 (cracks) in thems, and must not be \u2018wind shaken.Measure the wood and see that it is over twenty-two feet long Ly one foot four or five foches wide and one inch thick, Trim two of the side-pieces until they are exact duplicates {figure 1).The stem-piere (or how-piece) should be made from a triangular piece of onk (figure 7).4 and it is wise to make it a few inches longer than will he necessary, eo that there may be no danger of finding, after all your labor.that the stick is too short; much better too long, for it is a simple matter to saw it off.Make a secoad stem-piece (figure §) of oak about one inch thick and the same length as the firet, and two op three inches wide, cr twice as wide as the thickness of the side boards.THE STERN-PIFCE.The stern-piece can be fashioned out of two-inch pine boards, and may made ss wide or narrow as you ch A narrow stern makes a trim-looking craft.With your saw cut off the corner of the tail-piece, so that it will be in the form of a biunted triangle (figure 9), measuring three feet ten and-a half inches across the base, three fee: four inches on each side, and nine and a half inches at the apex.The base of the triangle will be the top and the apex will he the bottom of the stern-board of your boat.Now make a brace on which to model your hoat.Let it he of two-inch pine wood, two and a half feet wide and seven and a half feet long (figure 2), Measure twelve inches on one edge of this board from each end toward the centre and mark the points ; then rule lines from these points diagonally across the width of the board (figure 2), and saw off the corners, as shown by the dotted line in figure 2.Lay the boarde selected for the lower side boards ou a level floor and measure THE ROUGH off one and & half foot on the bottom edge, then in à line with the end of the board mark & point ou the floor that would be on the top edge of the board if the board were two and a half feet wide; rule à line from the point on the floor to the point marked on the bosrd and saw off the corner as marked ; make the other side-piece correspond exactly with the fret (figure 1).USE ROPE FOR BINDING.Set the nide-piecex upon their bottom or shorter edges and place the brace between the Now bind the stern ends with s rope and bring the bow-pieses together until they touch ; rope them in this position, and when all is fast push the brees up until it rests at a point nine fost from ths bow ; fasten it here with « couple of nails driven in, but leaving their heads far enough from the wood FIGS DIAGRAMS SHOWING THE CONSTRUCT.ON OF THE ROUGH AND READY.stern-board and nail side boards fast to it; now loosen the ropes which have: held your boat in shape, and fit on the upper side boards so that at the stern they will overlap the lower side boards an inch.Hold in place with your rope, then bring the bow end up against the stern-piece over the top of the lower side board and fasten it in place with a Juxe 18, 1899.no two boards can be the aarne »hap and tbe casivst way 1 do tre the bo bottom as if it \u2018wee a sjueresided wow.Fit the planks closely together, nail them on sccurdy, and then neatly saw off the projecting enda (Fig.8.) THE DECK.The brace may now he removed by carefully deawing the nals, ao that a botttom plank trimmed to fit (he bow and the stern can be vecurely nailed in place (Fig.10) Cut & notch in your brace to fit tightly over the bottom plank just laid.Plane off the top of the brace so that when in the boat the top of the brace will be four inches below the top of the side boards, Replace the brace end securely nail it.Next cut two small cross-pieces (FG, Fig.6) and place them near the bow, four inches below the top of the sides of the boat.Drive the nails from the outside through the mde hoanls into the end of F and (3, the ror-brace.Cut out à bow-piece to fit from the middle of G to the bow snd nul it fn place, driving the nails from the outside into the e of the bow-piece.Featen a small cleat along the boat from the molid board brace to ¥¥ on each side and deck the space over with light lumber, Uf the same material make a trapdoor to fit in between the braces F and G.This door should be big enough for a boy to creep through, for this compartment ie intended as a safe place to store cooking utensils, foods, etc, as well as a water-tight compartment.At a point five feet from the stern put another cross-brace, mimilar to the oues in the bow, four inches below the top of the sides.At the same level nail a cient on the stern-piece and make a stern seat by boarding over between the vrons-piece and the cleat.When your boat is resting securely on the floor or level ground rig a temporury seat, then take an oar and by experiment find just where the rowlock will be most convenient and mark the spot.Also mark the spot best suited for the seat.Un each side of the spot marked for the rowlock cut two notches in the gide-hoards two inches deep, one and a half inches wide, and three inches apart.Saw two more notches exactly like these l upon the opposite side of your boat.These will make the rowlocks when the side strips are nailed on (Fig.10.) The side strips should each be made of oneinch plank three inches wide and a few inches longer than the side boards.Nail the strips on the outaide TOP VIEW OF ROUGH AND READY WITH TILLER STICK.rope.With your carpenters pencil mark the overlap, and with a plane made for that purpose, called a rabbet, trim down your board so that it will have à shoulder and an overlap to rest on the bottom board, running out to nothing at the bow.When the boards fit all right over the lower ones bind them in place snd then nail them there (figure 3), 1f you can obtain two good boards of the requisite size, you need have but one board for each side of your boat ; this will obviate the necessity of using the rahbet, and be rery much easier ; but with single boards of the required dimen: sions there is great danger cf nplitting or cracking while bending the boards, PLANING THE BOTTOM.Turn the boat upside down and you will see that there is a decided arch extending from stem to stern.This would cause the boat to mink too deep amid- AND READY.ships, and must be remedied to some extent by cutting away the middie of the arch, so that the sides in the exact centre will messure at least four inches less jn width then at the bow and stem.and reducing the convex or curved form to a straight line in the middle, which will give a sheer to the bow and stern.A good plane is the best tool to use for this purpose, as with it there is no danger of cutting too deep or of splitting the wide boards.Raw off ihe project ing ends of the side boards at the stern, Make the bottom of threequarierinch boards.Lay the boards crrsswiee, neil them in place, leaving the irrog ta: enns ting on esch \u2018side.The reamn or fa obvious.When you lrok st the bottom of the boat von will at once ses that on account of the foam / reg peer.of the boat flush with the top of the side boards.Make your thole pins of some hard wood, and make two sets of them, while you are about it, \u2018 oue set to use and one set to lose.\u201d Screw a hardwood cleat on the inside of your boat grer each pair of rowlocks, as shown in Fig.10.RFADY FOR THE WATER Fasten the remaining bow-piece over the ends of your aide boards, and the nose of your craft is finished.Put & good, heavy ked on your bout by screwing it tightly in the stern to the hardwood rudder-post that is festen- od to the centre of the stern; bolt your keel with four iron bolts to the bottom of the boat, and the ship is ready to launch, after which she can be equipped with sails and oars.Of courre, you understand that ail nail- holea and crevices should be puttied up, and if paint is used, it must be applied before wetting the boat.But if you bave done your work well, there will be litéle need of paint or putty to maxe it tight after the wood bas swelled in the water.Fasten your rudder on with hooks and mcrew-eyes, and make it ss shown in the diagram (Fig.6).Step your mainmast in the bow ha round hole in the deck, and a square hole in the step, which must, cf course, be acrewed tightly to the bottom before the bow is decked over.Step your jigger or dendy-tmast in the stern after the same manner.These maste should neither of them be very Iarge, and are intended to be removed nt pleasure by unatepping them, that is, EE TISEMENTS. à | Joxs 13, 1899.simply pulling them out of their sockets.An ply Pulling th be found necessary fer pe dandy eet and sinos the deck aft of wood will have to be nailed to the deck to the starbosed or right-hand side .If the builder chooses, be can make the decks flush with the sides of the boat, and thus avoid blocks.A couple of staples for the outrigger to slip through are noxt in order.They must be (astened firmly in the block or stick of wood just nailed to the deck.A similar arrangement can be made for the bowsprit, but as it is a movable boweprit, and the mem of the boat is in tho way, put it to the port or left-hand mide of stem of the craft {Fig.10).HOW TO MAKE THE BATL.Secure for ¢ sil material as strong as -\u2014 ten RUDDER, WITH TILLER LINES.you can find, but it need not be heavy.Unbleached muslin is cheap and will make good sails.Turn aver the edges and sew or hem them, as in the dingr.m.Make eyelets like buttonholes in the luff of the mail\u2014that is the edge of the mil nearest the mast, Sew a small loop of rope in each corner of the mil.Through the eyelets luce the luff of the mil to the mast.From apruce or pine make a sprit two inches in diameter.For a 'sheet\u2019\u2014that is, the rope or line that you manage the mil with\u2014tie a good, atout line about a dosen feet long to the loop in the loose coroer of the sail.Trim the upper end of tha sprit to fit the loop iu the top of the sail and make a simple notch in the other end to hold the line called the \u2018spotter.Now, as 7ou can readily see by refer rirg to Fig.8, when the sprit ia pushed into the loop at the top of tho sail the sail is spread.To hold it in place make a cleat like the one in the disgram, and bind it Armly with a cord to the aprit; pass the snott: or line fastened to the mast through the notoh in the sprit up to the cleat and make fast, and the wail is set.The jigger or dandy is exactly like the mainsail except in size, and the sheet rope is run through à block or pulley at the end of the out-rigger and then made fast to 2 cleat near the man at the rudder or helm.The Jib is a simple affair hooked où a ecrew-eye in the end of the bowsprit.The jib ha\u2019yerd, or live for hoisting the jib, runa from the top of the jib through a screw-cye in the top of the mast, down the port side of the wast to a cleat, where it is made fast.When the jib is set the jib-sheets sre fastened to a loop sewed in the jib at the lower or loose end.There are two jibaheets, one for each side of the bint, 29.that one may be made fast and the otber loosened, according to the wind.The remaining details you must study out from the diagram: or learm by ex t.HOW TO REEF BER.When the wind is high reef your sails by letting go the sdotter and pulling out the sprit.This will drop your pesk and Jeave you with a simple lez-of-mutton oall.Only ues the jib in light weather.In thie boat, with a little knowledge of sailing, you may cruine for weeks, lowering your sails at night and making à tent over the cockpit for eleaping.room.3 the young boat-builders redues the dimensions of the Rough and Ready and legve off the decks they will have & ver, viteable rowboat.« {These injtructions will give an ane\u2019 wer to 'H.flamilion\u2019 and also to \u201cJAP.who esked to make a sail for an \"r- {For the \u2018 Witnege.\" \u2018THE PUSH INTO HEAVEN.3 Tu the town of Vienna « mansion there stands, To which à strange neme has been given, For above on the door, on a tablet of stone, Is written, \u2018The push into Heaven.\u2019 Once there dwelt in this house, so the story relates, A woman most wondrously fair, In her beauty a Venus\u2014a Juno in form, With whom no one eles could compare, iL But, alas! for ber pride and ber vanity, too, Her days she would fritter away, In adorning herself with ber jewels and dress, .Her friends to outdo in display.Well, one midnight a knocking was beard at the door, Sha opened, when what did she see, Put a erone with & crutch and a basket in hand, Who celled out in tones haughtily: i IL \u2018Fa! what are your gowns and your finery to this?See, here, sll in crimson and gold!\u2019 And she held out à robe and a girdle most rare, \u2018That dazaled the eyes to behold.\u2018Oh, but give thess to me,\u2019 the fair wo man implored, \u2018And name any price that you please,\u2019 \u2018Very well, sid the hag, \u2018I a bargain will make, Though money shall not be the fess.\u2019 Iv.T will lend you these garments for three days and nights If on the third midnight you pay, For their use just whatever is covered by them, She replied, \u2018I will do as you say.\u2019 Ro for three days and nights thu proud Woman wis seen Arrayed in her splendor of drem, She was envied by court-ladies, princesses, tou, .Not whence came sf clothes could __ er see Vv.But at last it was over, the hour drew near, The bargain so strange must be made, Dark forebodings and fears now porsess- ed our proud dame, Some horrible plot had been laid.So she hastened to throw off the borrowed red robe, Alas! it clung to her; in vain Did she clutca as and tear at the brilliant tight folds A The dress would upon her remain.YL All her past life of folly and pride now retarned, Too late she repented her sin, For the cleck bad struck twelve and the door opened wide, The hag, loughing wildly, walked in.\u2018It is yon whom my dress covers, girl, you are mine,\u2019 The hag inte Satan then grew, While a flame rose and turmed the ved garb into fire, : The poor stricken dame burning, too.VIL In despair to Saint Barbara loudly she called, And vowed to repent of her pride, To become a pure Magdalen, simple snd good, \u2018Oh! save me, Saint Barbara,\u201d she eried.And behold, the Saint heard her, for Ea- tan in gles, Was coisifg.the.vlotim hé craved, When Seint Barbara pusbed ber with might into Heaven, The cock cmowed\u2014ilie woman wae saved.A.0.0.Montreal.VICTORIA, BEATRICE, AND EMMA.A lady, evidently wanting the mayor esses to have a share in the snecdntes now being sent to us, writes: 'A certain royal function having taken place, the d verasion to inseribe her pame in eommemorstion of the event.ler Majeriy, who was accompanies by the Princess Beatrice \u2014 having written \u2018Vie.teria,\u2019 was followed by tbe Princess, who, of courve, inscribed her name \u2018Beatrice, i je amusement of those present Mayoress, on being asked for ber ure, wrote \u2018Emma\u2019 1'\u2014~London inary rong okiff about eightesn feet long.) \u201cDaily Nqws.! ~ THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, TALL SOLDIERS OF TO-DAY.HY ART i Hold JLITARY OFFICERS OF NOTABLE SIZE.The first Napoleon valued tall soldiers, but his main efforts were spent 1n sscur- ing first-class generals, and these he is said to have selected not according to their stature, Lut according to the length and shape of their noses, Physi: cal endurance in à soldier was what he prized, and if he could stand the stress and strain of a long campaign he cared little as to his sinture.True, among his guards there were some notably tall men, and, indeed, it is sale to say that the stature of the men in the French army at that time compared favorably with that of the men in any other srmy.England bas long been famous for her stately fighting men, and it is said that CAPTAIN OSWALD AMES, \u20ac FER § INCHES, IND LIFE GUAKLE THE TALLEST OFFICER IN THE Bhr Queen Victoria has slways been unwes- ally complaisant to any tall soldier who wears her uniform.ose who have seen the Lifo Guards in Loudon know what an English soldier of this type is ike.Hote are too apt to look on these colossal officers and men ss mere ornaments and appendages of an effets monarchy, which is absurd, since there is aiuple evidence that, when real fighting is to be done, there are no more dauntless warriors on the face of the earth.Such & man was the late Captain Fred Burnsby, who achieved so much distinction some years ago hy his admirable work describing his travels through Asin.When trouble broke out in Fgypt he went with his men to the front, and when the moment of battle came be swept forward at once to that point where the fighting wns fiercest.Round him his dusky opponents swarmed, and his strong right arm was making havoc in their ranks, but not until he wae wounded to death did he ccase to fight for England, and England had the ratis- faction of knowing that he had cut down hall-ndozen of her foemen before be himself went to join them.There are probably no taller soldiers living now than those whose portraits are here produced.As à tout ensemble the picture will surely prove interesting to many readers, and especially of those students of history who at might of it will be sure to remember bow pietur- esque à part tall soldiers have played in past ages.Whether the tall soldiers of our day will ever have aa \u2018opportunity SA AE MPRRIAL GUARD, \u20ac INCHES, TALLEST OFFICER IN THÉ RUSSIAN ARMY.COL.VON PHISKOW, 18T OUARD REQI- ment, § PEST 6 INCHES, THE TALI.E37 OFFICER IN THE PRUSSIAN te play a similar role remains to be seen.The likelihood, however, is that, ae long as there are hand-to-hand fights, men oi t stature will be found in the midet them.Probably the tallest officer in service to-day is the English guardsman Captein Uswald Ames, of the 2nd Life Ciuards, who heeded the Queen's Jubilee procession, and who measures six feet eight inches, It was at the personal requet of the Prince of Wales that Captain Ames rode alone, the first in all that Urilliant gathering.A giant Muscovite is the Grand Luke Dmitri Konstantino- vitch, cousin of the Czar, and Colonel commanding the regiment of Grenadiers of the Imperinl Guard.The Grand Duke is aix feet seven inches, which is © immenrely tall that no hotel bed has heen found long enough to accommodate him comfcrtably, Ile is obliged to have one built ip sections, which travels vith him, and ie put up hy a special me- chañie, told off for the purpose, under the superintendence of the royal valet.Another gigantic Furopean officer is Colonel Von Phiskow, of the First Regiment of Prussian Guards.He is over six fret six iuches, and he headed the delegation of officers, all of them over \u201c{dewn-fest.We'll give sash one 0° them the name 0\u201d one of we're \"| debatin\u2019, an\u2019 TT aps that way! di persons of Tom Crern and Rill R; purlin\u2019, came forward and went at it.who masqueraded as Browning, threw Green four times, after which the president announced Browning as a greater poet than Tennyson, and the secretary was instructed to secure Mr.Browning's address and tell him how he bad come out.\u2014Atlanta \u2018Constitution.\u2019 (Comatunicatéons ahould de addrrosrd ta ths Chess Editar, ' Witnogs.' Montreal, Tuesday.June 12 1396 PROBLEM NO.13.Contributed by Dr.8.Gold, New York.Black\u2014$ pieces.White4 pieces.White to play and mate in two moves.PROBLEM NO.11.By J.Crowiber.Bleck\u20148 pleces.COL.JOHN JACOB ASTOR.à INCHBS, FEET UNITED STATES vou six feat, sent hy the Emperor William to the fuverni of the late President Frure, Von Phiskow is the tallest officer in Germany, end his regiment, stationed at Potedam, is the same that won the plaything of that old soldier Frederick.Tic! \u2018The United States volunteers have also some tall and distinguished officers.John Jacob Astor, whose portrait is also given, who was among the earliest to answer the President's first appeal for men and moner, for the recent war with Bpain, is over six feet three aud a half inches.The Rough Riders, celebrated in many other ways, had also 8 very tall man among them, in the person of William Taylor de Zychlinski, who is a trifie over six feet three inches.\u2014\u2014 NOVEL LITERARY DECISION.The citizens of a small settlement, in which there were no school facilities, decided om a literary club, or debating so- clety, for the improvement of the mind.À drummer came along and gave them the frat subject for debate\u2014Who wes the greatest post, Teunseon or Browning?As a majerity of (be members knew nothing of either, an old inbabi- tent rome in meeting and said : \u2018Seein\u2019 Ls We ain't got no books here to by, ] move that Tom Green an\u2019 Bill urdin' git out In the middle of the meetin\u2019 an\u2019 see which th'ows the other White\u20148 pieces.White or Black to mate fu Us Sons.QUARTERLY SOLUTION TOURNEY.colt 2-5 à % 13 n 3 Portamouth .- 14 Rhode Island \u201c J.Buchan, Drayton 2 ©, B.H.Freeman, Ham! 9 H.Harrison, Otterville .: JS.\u20ac, Neslands, Stroud 1 \u2018View,\u2019 Ottawa .7 M.Archibald, Brandon, Man.° Thon.Heaumaris .À 4 .+ \u2018Kola,\u2019 Reston, Man., .= 2 1 B\u2014Q 8 in the key to Problem No.9.and tt ts There are some clever trape, nothing to thelr discredit that sore of our over-trusting solvers tumbl Thus, 1Q-K 7.and 1 Q x PB, are detonated by 1 Kt x R.ms if, thes, 2 R x Q.@ x Kt, B rs Kt\u2014B 3, or Kt\u2014B 6, ch, K sscapes to 3 The sclvers leading with clean scores now number only two, two fewer than last week.Were all equal there would be little fun, and we trust those who have got a couple of points or more behind will still continue to do (heir best.The present leaders may yet be caught nappt: so that none can be aure yet awblile having mined n place with the frst alz.The above prodle are the last in the First Teurnament.ja announcements ef re- suits will, therefore, be made la July.An unpublished game played In the winter trurpameat af tbe Ladies\u2019 Chose Club, Len- Game 17\u20148coteh Gambit.White.Black.Wes Reid.Miss Prethoro, 1 PK 4 1 PK ¢ 2 R-kB3 t K\u2014aB3 3 Pas 3PzP i Kap 19-83 8 B Rs t BK 3 eK 4 ENE = 9 Kt zs ht 9 x Kt 1 que Bax 12 ER 4 bh n on plex R x B-K 3 ~K sq RQ = 3B HrB gry i Kt xP KR2Q 17 Kt 5 Kt ch 15 Ps Kt BREQCh PER 1B BxR # KB 2 »ExRP 2 AQ sq ü p-K3 a à £ P-X Kt 3 2 PR R4 3 Ré 21255 2 Ktd » R3 = RS % KK # rQu = PEà Ar Been 7 KK» 5 ra?gay t NR:P ER nRQR?$l Resigon EXPERTS AT LONDON.The retirement from the Loternatieral Chesa Tournament of Amos Burn, the Lancashire expert, after the entire pairing had been completed, had caused some \u2018t*tfe an- neyance.The cause of the withdrawal wea & misunderatandiag with the managers.fieore at close of Afth rouné.Med .2e 1 Pillsbury .4 Blackhèwrmes .Jw mu.\u2026 Jatowaki .24 tanker .+ 3 Lee.| Mezucer Ce.oil \u201cEa a bye.Then.Browning and Teonyson\u2014fa the a n'\u2014 Positively curcd by these Little Pills.They suo relicve Distress from Dyspopelny fladigestion aad Too Hearty Eating, A pase fact remedy for Dirciness, Nausea, Drowsy pese, Bad Taste ix the Mouth, Coated Tongue Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER.Teg Regulate the Bowels, Purely Vegotsbia, gaat Pill.email Doses \u2018 Small Price.ZL v MOTHER and CHILOREN Cannot find a better or more plrasant roap for bath or toilet than \u201cBABY\u2019'S OWN SOAP PIRE -FRAGRANT-CLRANSIXG The Albert Toilet Soap Co.Mealreal.Mapufactur>re, SALE RATUS EY THE BEST EWGIHLETT.Curcaco, lit Lowoon, Enc.Torowro,Owr: WINDMILLS.Dry Wenther Will be soon dore ve Steel Airmotor.Give = rat SE Bars : wees.: Write to he ONTARIO WiND ENGINE apd PUNP CO., Limited.19 Atlantic Ave.Teremle.ad Foraeliing two dozen packages of Tolodo Pons at cents a pac wo give thie «made by tho Yale usch & Tomb lens, a shutter that can need for snapshot of timoexposures.With it we send full in- Rructions, ro that & child of ten years wake, after a little experienocs, pic- Men priced sera Many camersa A se] ely, al Br SET CO amor outfit of: Fake\" re {Eb Wo roruiro vo nope novus Bung name tho f'ons, which you soil for ns.pn return to us, r en 0 Page you! Camera paid Telads Fax Co.Dan Torante, Cos.: { ad Adaras THE CARE OF BEES.A Serial Story\u2014Quebec\u2019s Hill Country.CORNMEAL DAINTIES \u2014 GOOD MANNERS.(For the \u2018Witness.\u2019 THE MINISTER OF NARROW GULCH.(By Graham Pitblado.) (Continued from last week.) CHAPTER 11 The sun bad gone down and the shadows of night wero gathering around the base of the bills and in the narrow valley.Andrew had beep through the town and away out on the hill sides alone with God, and vow be was returning.He thought Le had beem unseen fn his retreat, but lig Joe bad followed him aud the eyes of Hz Joo had seen the wrestling, acd the holy calm that came afterwards to the uptiraed face, and the demon of jealousy apd hate entered © his breast because his soul recognized a man superior to himself.Lut Andrew kicw nathing of this and was wonderiug it be should go back to the hotel, or try for \u2018lodgings elsawhere, when he hoard a woman's volce\u2014hard and rcugh, and loud\u2014but sull a woman's voice.lie turncd aside to the house from which the voice proceeded.aud found four men saated at a tadle plsy- ing cards.A pair of scales and a littie plie of goid on the tadle told its own tale.A vcman wæ frying fish and scolding.\u2018A place to board!\u2019 exciaimed one oi the men, in answer to the ycung man's question \u201cWhy don\u2019t you go to Nod Law's?lic keeps Lotel.1 reckon you won't git nowherc's cise.\u201d \u201cHe told me be was filed up.\u201c This seemed to amuse the men vastly, for they a!l laughed.\u2018You git ou the right side of Ned an 1 guess he'll find a bunk for you.\u2018 \u2018See bere,\u201d sald the woman who had stood with & fork in ber band and starivg, \u2018Why don\u2019t you go up and take cars of Uid Scot: Je?1 thort that's what you mipisters was fur, to take care of the sufferin\u2019.an that's what ! was acoldin' about when you came in.I've been a doin\u2019 for him all 1 could do, ap\u2019 he's that cranky an\u2019 cross tbat d'il not go near him again.He's lyin\u2019 up there in bis ahanty with a broken leg.\"Thank you,\" said Aadrew, \u2018for letting me know this.Wil you kindly teit we where he lives?\u2018Gowducss xnows J'il enough.Come along.\u2019 * d ask you tv have a game with us.said one of the men, ocly I'm afraid you'd be too green to gain much of that boodiu.\u2018No doubt 1 wouid, but ti you come up to 8cottie\u2019s on Sunday, I'll show you buw 10 gain in another transaction.\u2019 \u201cWe'll come,\u2019 said snotber maa wilh a show you fast leer, \u2018if you get Qid Scottie to let you * gresch at his house.\u2018 \u2018I'll bold you to your promise,\u2019 said An- drew us he followed the woman.\u201cThere,\u201d she said, after they bad gone a few rods.\u2018You follow that path a:ound the mil an\u2019 the frst shanty 1s bis.I hope ve'li let you in.\u2019 .\u2018For guid sake come iz, an\u2019 Do stan\u2019 there thumpin\u2019,\u2019 was the unswer tu the young may's kuock.\u2018Come awa an\u2019 tak {hese cioots aff ma leg.That daft gowk has tied me that tight that the biuid will soon be spurt- in\u2019 through mia taes.Fulls tha weeien arc, nae sense tas them.\u2019 \u2018lL am only too glad to be of service to you,\u2019 sald Andrew, crossiug the room to à low bed on which lay a man with ius face to the wall.At the sound of tho strange voic the man grasped a pistoi and stared savagely at the uew comer.\u2018jut down your pistol,\u201d said Andrew, 1 intend ne harm.I was seat here Ly a wo- wan in the first house over tle bill.Hhe said you were suffering fromm a broken leg.\u2019 \u2018Who are yr?asked Hcottie, with the weapon still to his shoulder, 1 have been eemt to preach the guspel to the minsrs ia this town.\u2019 \u201cTour vame?\u2018Andrew Dods* Scottie stared nt him for & moment tbeu _ 1md the pistol down.\u2018I've learned no to beiteve a\u2019 [ bear,\" he said, \u2018but if ye ken Onythiné aboot broken banes, git me some relief, for a'm sa par- fect agony.That auld wife was na content wi\u2019 rowin\u2019 me up that tight that ma taes feel like black puddine, Lut she's tied ma leg doon tae the bed 20's 1 canna budge ne \u2018Ye sets te ken what yo'er aboot,\u201d he said.as Andrew removed the bandages from the wounded lind.\u2018Are ye atudylug surs Gory the?\u2018Yes.er .South Sea Islanders just miseed having a fine disk o° broth la the futare, them, for I was near blowin\u2019 the tap @' ye'r head oot 0\u2019 the door.You'd bas been ilke 1 intend being a medical wivaion- the Grand Mester o' the Tempiare in ane o° Waiter Beott\u2019's mavele, standin\u2019 thers with- \u201cThink so! w'y Salidau Ye'r Scotch?\u2018My parents were.\u2019 \u2018There's nv need tae ask what's yer creed.1 kes it flze.1 was brought un masel on the Shorter Catechism an\u2019 oat cake, no to speak 0° the Praimn 0° David.' \u201cThen T hope you've been le:ting your Ught ebine in the Rockles.\u2018 \u201cYe've heard, | auppose.0° the children 0° Israel, when they were carried !niae cap- Uvity by some henthen rascal o° à king: boo they cudna sing the sanzs o° Zien in & strange land.1 ha even mentioned lease brose sin\u2019 | cam\u2019 hers.I wonder if you cud get me something tao eat.A'm desperit hungry.\" \u2018With pleasure.What shall I get.anû where shall | get it* \u2018Yeo had better light the lamp, an\u2019 pit cn aire Ye'll Ard a couple o' fish in a pan oatside, an\u2019 th: bread's In yon box, as or Ither things ye'll Jit hae to hunt roun\u2019 and flud them for yirsel'.\u201d As Andrew prepared the evening meal, be was conscious that Scottie was watching Have you never admired the ave the sweep © his sword âne Rcottie's no° \u2018at hame\u2019 certain ore.\u2019 \u201cHow dit you manage it?\u2018Ob! they took tae keekin' at first, an\u2019 a couple © (hem weul arcon wi\" malr een for a week or twa.Ye'll vos à Quid wheen shota in the dow If ye care tae examine ft.They respect the turned jug noo.\u2019 \u2018That must be the reason,\u2019 sald Andrew, with a laugh.\u2018that the men responded so readily to my tavitation.\u201d \u2018What men?What invitation?asked Beottte.\u201cThe men in the first house over the ridge.1 auked them to come bers on Sunday.and l'A show them how to win fo another transaction.They wore gambling.\u201d \u2018What said they\" \u201cThey sald they would come if you let me preach.\u2019 \u2018Ay! Hoo 41d ye ken that I'd let ye?\" \u2018T did not know.The words left my lipa almost before ! was aware of it, but the Lord knew and he directed me hers.\u2019 \u20181 thought it was yon auld wife.But, man, think ye, I'm goin' tas tak ye in, an\u2019 let yo preach here.Fegs.na! a pretty pickle l\u2018@ get masel intil.I've no tad the mind of the community, yet a ran mun gang cautious amang à set 0° lawless men.\u2019 \u2018You a Brotchman.' sald Andrew, rising.\u2018vou in whose veins runs the blood of the Covenanters.Have you so far degonerat- ed that you have to find the mind of the remmunity on a cause that they gave their best blood to maintain?Are Scotland's MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.cun be taken care of by @ man, but for what she can do the remuneration to fully ang I know of.Should a woman have a liking for this ontupation, and aot the capl- Av great aa that wich could be ebrured by [\u2018tal, she oan begin with » few swarms, and the same strength put ihto some other tu.duetry.There Is one branch of the Industry tbat la particularly adspted to women shat fe.the rearing and sale of queen bees.This requires mimost constant attention to « great many details, but none of the work se laborlous.Quite a number of women have been wonderfully successful in this line of bee keeping.\u2018Fear of stings probably keeps a great many women out of bee-keeping: but this tear is almost wholly groundless, as & thorough knowledge of the disposition of becs, and of methods of protecting the person, will almost wholly prevent the getting of atings.If sufficient care fa exercised the operator need never be stung.In the first place, bess sting only in defence of their lives.There may be an occasions) axcep- tion to this, but It {a the rule.Tess out io the flold gathering honey are as harm- lens ns oc many bluebirds.It Is only near the hive that an attack is ever volunteered, and need act be expected there if the bees are pure Italians of a peaceadls strain.\u2018The first step Ia to procure some literature upon the subject and \u2018read up.\u201d 1 will give the addresses of the leading periodicals In the United States devoted to bes culture.\u2018Gleanings in Bee Cul ture,\u201d Medina, Ohio; America Res Journal.Chicago,Tll.; \u2018American Bee Keeper,\" Jamestown, N.Y.: \u2018Bes Keeper's Review,\u2019 Fiint., Mich.: and \u2018The Progressive Hee Keeper,\u2019 Higginsville, Mo.The editors of any of these publications will gladly send-~ssufple copies, and in the columns of thess journals will be found the advertisements of text books upon bee-keoping.After having read one or two books devoted to hees and their care, it is an excellent thing to visit the apiary of some successful bee keeper, and to subscribe to one or more of the magazines devoted to bes culture.It is As soon as the school year closes many families of children will be taken by their parents to the seaside.There, if they are allowed to run about freely in simple clath- ing, they will probably iay In a stosk of health that will be a benefit to them not only during the next winter but through SEASIDE CHILDREN.years to come.A child's happy outdoor lite is one_ of the best preparations for future success gud people are beginning to replize how much ones power to get on sud do good service In the world depends on good health and a sound nervous system.Even children who are naturally delicate \u2014From \u2018 Toilers of the Deep.\u2019 can often be fitted for the struggle of life by judicious treatment, including living out of doors in the Dlessant summer months, while for strong children it is the best way to preserve their strength and increase it year by year.tie movements through his shaggy eyebrows, and a prayer went up from bia heart that he might win the min on the ted.He would prove a pewerfui ally In his work smong the miners.\u2018Here's 1 dish for an «pieure,\u2019 he ssid, as he placed the fish on A rude stand by the bedside.\u201cCan ye no find anither piste! They're tin, but yo may bappin on a clean sne, soméwbere, arm alene.\u2019 Preparing the meal had sharpened Andrew\u2019s appetite, and he was quite ready to do full justice to his share of the fish.- \u2018Dae yo see that jug in the window?\" You.\u2019 \u2018Weel, ye Jot turn it upside doom, before ye sit doon.Ye needns sniff it tt, for no a drap.has been intil't this twal menth.When yo sit doan a'it tell ye why 1 turn the jug\u2019 When they wgre gested.the young man bowed hix hesd, and returned thanks for the food before t A \u2018It ye lavna had a bite since ye loft the Téllway a'm tbinkin' tha was à genuilne Stace, an\u2019 that's mair than can be said o* the maist 0\u2019 them.\u2018 \u201cYes, 1 am genuinely thaokfui and quite ready to begis on the fab.Is that not some one coming?I hear stepe approech- ing.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yo nesdns fash ye'er thonm.' salé Bcottie, noochalantty.\u2018Nasbody will da pass the threshold o' that door while the Jug's turned.\u201d \u2018Is that the significance of the tummed ses?\u201cYe\u2018ve Beard tell, | Gaur my of Genera Gordon?Weel, yo wa he veed tae pit « pocket napkin Gest biter bis tent tof when Ne wañte@ to Ve alate.\u2018If no ray an\u2019 no goin\u2019 tae eat a° turn Me fug for the same parpisé, bot « Beh Gun bee sémie privaty.They hea 0 sons no better men than thiuf' \u2018Bit ye doon an\u2019 eat yir fish.Ye've glen Tay leg anither twist wi' yir oratory.\u2019 Andrew finished the meal in silence, put Away the dishes that had been used, then came te the bed and asked if there was anything raere be could do before saying goodnight fée beec thinkio\u2019,\u2019 sald Scottie, \u2018that Yo were too dangerous & chap to let out o ma sight.VI keep y6 Wl' me, an\u2019 ye'il prebch bere.1'1l kewp an se on ye, an\u2019 If ye divua hold them ower the seethin' pof, I'l) tak\u2019 (t cot 0 ye when we'er alane.I've aes yir cause an\u2019 I'll mee 1t carrit through.(To ue continued.) WOMEN AND BEES.(Lids Ag Churchill in N.Y.\u2018Observer.\u2019) W.L.Hiétehinson, ln an article pubilehed !n tbe Washington, D.C., \u2018Home Magazine, says: \u2018Ot \u2018the minor rural Industries none appeal more strongly to women than that of bee-keaping.In one pense bess may be made pets in something the same way as may be done with fowls; Ia fact, they need the constant care and attention that as wo- mau on give with euck deftness to any ob- Ject in whose weifare abe je interveted, be it a house plant, a chicken, a baby or a colony of bees.Then, too, bee-kerping bas its nesthetical side.It bas very appropriately been called the poetry of agriculture.\u2018 \u2018The busy litle workers leaving their hives to guther nectar from the beautiful Suwere, the dainty whith comb that they dutld, the exhilaration of swarming.ull appeal to woman's Poetics nature.Ned omly tre, dul docs take Whale Owner out iste the sussbine white beaveus vu Dresses put eslor 1s 10864 \"thesks.Of cotres, n Wemen osnnet tafe Tor so larke a n'usber ec coienies as + Just how many le difficult to say.Probably difficult for a beginner to understand much that Is in tbe magazines until be has read some of the text-books.After getting a fair theoretical knowledge of Dee-keeping from reading and visiting bee-kéepers, a few colonies of bees sbould ba purshased: « dozen of colonies would be as large a number as a beginner ought to commence with, and (t is possible to begin with only je colony: the point is fust hers; it Is likely that some mistake will be made at first, and It is better that the mistake be made with only @ tew colonies, letting bees and the knowledge increase hand tn hand.\u2018Buy Itailas bees In movable comb hives of the nearest reliable bee-keeper, unless the boss would.bave to be sent a long distance by express, when If bees in box hives can be bought near at home and at low prices, It may be Detter to get them and to transfer them than to pay énormous express charges All ln all.Italian bess are the most desirable, at least for a begiuner.They are the most gentle, the best of work- ars, 20d a besulful golden color, while with the modern methods and fixtures most ex- eellent results can be obtained from them.\u2019 A woman in Santa Anns, Cal, who sells thousands of jars of honey every season, gave the following statement to the author of \u2018Women lu the Dusiness World.\u2019 \u2018Nestness and order are essential, and ecergy le necsasary.There should be no human drones about an aplary.Any of the standard works on bees should be relied upon.Mueh can be learned from the bee soursais.\u2018Pive hundred dollars will start.anyone with Sy colonies of Bees, and all aoces- very appurtenanées to operate (he business.An inoome een be expectéé within à or fess time.IN is à business whieh quicker returns for the capital invested year, sives than soon bull4 up and increase her colentes, and in a few years bave a large aplary, As the becs would onty require a amalt portion of ber time, she would \u2018he cooupled in some other employment besides.The average yield of a colony in California in one hundred pounds of honey, besides the increase\u201d A Maine wolnan declares that when the price of honer ix good she averegos fly dollars from each swarm of bees.STE.AGATHE DES MONTS.The lovely hill country around Ste.Agathe is becoming well-known both to holiday seekers and to invalids.Miss Eilsa- beth Wand's sanitarium ls one of its (m- portant Institutions, a Isrge house havieg been bulit for the present season.There convalescants find every arrangement made for their comfort aa Miss Wand is a trained nurse and understands how such a home should be managed.An cutdoo- lite tn the pure mountain air is encouraxed, and boat- fog is one of the attragtions ot the place.A Tule which commends the house to nervous sufferers is that of silence after nine o'clock in the evening, lights being put out at that early hour.The scenery and the of Ste.Agathe make it an ideal place for such a sanitarium.No coneumptives are taken at Miss Wand's establishment but there is a consuniptives\u2019 home fo Ste.Agathe, and well people can find boarding houses to suit different purses and tastes.The Young Men's Christian Association has found Ste.Agathe a good place for boliday outings.Last year several pariles of boys and young man went into camp on the adge of one of the lakes and bad a de- Mabtful time roughing it.The railway tickets are cheaper when a number go In the same party, and in this \u2018way the Y.M.C.A.can offer à cheap and very pleasant holiday to maoy who could not otherwise get it MORE CORN MEAL RECIPES.(Christine Terhune Herrick in \u2018Harper's Bazar.\u2019) Raised Corn Bread.\u2014One pint of milk, made very bot: 1% cup of Indian meal: half cup of wheat flour; 2 eggs, well beaten; 1 tablespoonfut each of butter and whit car: :salt-speonfu} of mit; hall yesst cake dissolved in warm water.Put the meal ln a bowl, pour the scalding milk upon it, and let it stand.When cool, stir in the melted yeast cake, the sugar, and the flour, and set aside to rise.At the end of five or aix hours stir in the melted butter, the salt, and the beaten eggs.Beat thoroughly, turn intq mufin-pans or a large shallow tin, and let the bread rise in a warm place for fic- teen or twenty minutes before putting lato the oven.Bake about twenty minutes, and eat hot.I do mot think hot bread of any kind raised with yeast Is ever as wholesome as that raised with baking-powder, but\u2019 the above is much more digestible than raised wheat rolls would be If eaten hot.Boiled Corn Bread.\u2014Two cups of eorn weal; 1 cup of flour; 3 cups of sour milk; 1 cup of warm water; 1 tablespoonful of cottolene or butter; 1 tablespoonful of molasses ; 1 teaspoonful eschk of soda and sait.Mix all well together, turn into a mould with a tight-Atting top, put io a pot of boiling water, and cook two hours.Turn out.let it dry in the oven for 4 few minutes and sorve.Corn Meal Griddle Cakes.\u2014Two cups of botling milk; 1 cup of corn meal; haïif-eup of flour; 3 eggs; 1 tabiespoopful each of butter aud molasses; 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking-powder: ssit-spoonful of puit.Pour the boiling milk over the mestite 4- Tected in recipe for raised cofn bread.When cool, S24 the butter, melted; the molasses, salt, and flour; and lastly the eg, beaten very light.If the batter is too stiff, thin with cold milk to the right consi ency.Southern Batter Bread.\u2014Two cups of Southern corn weal, sifted; 4 cups of milk; 1 tablespoontul of butter; 1 teaspoonful of salt; 2 eggs.Whip the eggs light; stir them foto the milk; add the meal, salt and butter.Beat hard for two minutes, and bake very quickly in a shallow pan or in muin-tios.Indian Pudding (bdolled).\u2014Two cups of milk; 3 cups of corn meal: £ eggs; 2 table- apoonfuls of sugar; 2 tablespoonfuls of beef suet, rubbed fine: half-teaspoonfui each ot sugar and ground cinnamon: pineh of soda fu the mlik.Hest the wilk with the sods, and when bolling stir In the meal, salt, and suet, and set It sside to cool.When oold, beat In the spice, sugar, and whipped egy, snd stir vigorously.Boil io a brown breed mould for four hours, Leave room in the mould for the pudding to swell.Kat with hard sauce, or with cream sweetened pro- tusely with scraped maple sugar.lodlan Fruit Pudding.\u2014Make by the preceding recipe, but stir in 8 cupful of seeded ralsins and cleaned currants well dreéged with four just before putting the pudding fn the mould.Baked Indian Pudding~This may be xed lke the dolled Indisa padding, but wii require four or Sve hours\u2019 sloy bekis, in an eartden-ware pudding dish, * od Meal Pudding.\u2014 - root ave tor one oy at tote the quantity of sugar, and adds of ati sleansed, aud érecres hy When éont, eat with hard sauce, of with butter and euser.or with maple myrup.t \\ Juxs 18, 1899, The two answers published to-day in the \u2018Manners\u2019 competition are Interesting, but not the best received.They both leave out of sight the fact that the boy said \u2018What?when he did not hear what was said.Perhaps the writers would say the boy ought to have heard the fret time.Careleas people often ask others to repeat their words, merely through imattention.THE CRITIC.GOOD MANNERS.Editor Home Department.\u2014In answer to the question ns to what the boy should say in the anecdote entitled \u2018Without Manners,\u2019 I submit the following, hoplog for a favorable consideration: \u2018The boy upon entering, removes bis cap, and politely acknowledging any persons present Ly a slight bow, respectfully ad- dressés the gentleman in the office in this manner: \u2018Are you the gentleman who advertised for a clerk?If answered in the afirmative, he proceeds: \u2018It you should em- sage me tq B11 this position, 1 shall do my best Lo please yuu, sir.\u2019 On being informed tdat be Is too young, be again alightly bows and replies, \u2018Very well, sir.\u201d Respectfully yours, GRACE D.CAMPBELL.POLITE DEMEANOR.«To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\") Sir, \u20141 beg to give the following answer to the question you have proposed in your issue of May 37, in your Correspondent's Column.The question fs: \u2018What should the boy who had the wish to obtain a situation bave weid to the business man who advertised for a boy?Answer: \u2014Ha sheuld have gone up to the business man\u2019s desk in à natural and respectful manner, with bis bat in his hand.\u2018Then he should bave sald: \u2018I understand, sir, tbat you have advertised for a boy, and I wish to apply for the situation.\u2019 Or, Instead of'sir,\u2019 he might bave used the gentleman's name: \"Mr.A To the gentleman's remark, \u2018I want an older boy than you,\u2019 the answer might have been: \u2018I am sorry, sir, that 1 will not suit you, it your decision on that point is final; but if not so, it may be that you would find me able and willing to do your work, if you give me a trial\u2019 If the gentleman should have persisted in his determination te have ho olde-téy, > the boy should have mow somewhat\u2019 in this manper: \u2018In that case, I cannot urge you further, sir, so 1 will bld you good-day.\u2019 K.DEAN.NO.2%.The owner of a flock of sheep ia bible times usually had them tended by a member of bis own family.Thus David tended bis father\u2019s sheep, and even in ike manner God.whose sheep we are, sent his Son to be our Shepherd.If the children hav) learned the Old Testament words which liken the Creator's cars for His own people to that of a sheep-owner for bis flock, they will be interested to hear how Jesus said that his Father had given him tbe sheep to take care of.This simple way of putting it may pave some enquiring little mind from pussling over an apparent contrsdic- tion or mystery.Before singing the bymo teach the verse: \"My sheep hear my voice, and | know them aud they fellow me.\u2019 Jo x.2.: Jeaus {is our Bhepheré, \u2018Wiping every tear, Folded in His bosom \u2018What have we to fear?Only let us follow Whither He doth lead, To the thirsty desert Or the dewy mead, Jesus is our Shepherd, Well we know His voice: How its gentlest whisper Makes our hearts rejoice ! ven when He obldeth Tender is His tone, None but He should guide us, We are His alone.\u2014_\u2014 ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.At the Queen's Birthday services at Simla, \u2018India, the National Anthem wee sung with the addition of the following pretty verse, which, with an alteration of the first line, might well be made 9 part of the anthem during tbe rest of the Queen's life: Then ube tor we ore n sunshine.and Queen oth Toe \u201cher 14s and Throw Mio wneertal ~ f | v - - Joxz 18, 1899.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, T » ; ble, It was the beginuing cf the nd are born into the kingdom, that we are|knelt dows et the altar, some with theif dens.of Baby! Mast them have departure ueval order SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.of Mis great work fer man's redemp- [the true ehildrem of = Heavenly Faih-|facce on the onu à the vory dust.nerse a rp pres dune Bay took la ths roe The fd WiC 100.tion.On Him\u2014wbo ail his liée had been (er, (Rows.ith, 3647).LÀ -@pavene Young men 42 nearly ati the wovks?quite the opinidd that before long they ond school semion was suspended in or Ÿ JTIANO.\u2018without sin\u2019 (Heb.fv, 14), \u2018holy, baru: child nerds mus nourishment.We are marching through Chinatown with ket- will be able to sit oder the shade of an {der that all might loud a land in some \u2014 lens, undefiled, and separite from sin careful Lo feed our Lodies regularly, gen- tledmme and comets stepping ht the arhor of tarnip-vines, sud perbape\u2014de: eoclis work which nesded doing.The ay ner\u2019 (Heb.vil, 26'\u2014the Lord \u2018laid the [erally three or four times s dey.ve street corners to testify La the saving Hefous hope !\u2014elimb their own radish |Searhers ware tuned into overseers for = iniquity of us all\u2019 (lus.lili, G), and the |are carsfui of the quality and quantity [power of God.Them song sll the jand'lettuce trees.The backward wring, {the monce and in aloat two hours @ \u2014 * conscious mnse of that burden wiung [of our food, knowing that the best work Way back to the mission, brimging à grêst and other Saute: will waquestionabiy dis- large quantéty of siope had bess com- BY JOHN R, WHITNEY.great drops of blood from His Suman [can be done on the best nourishment.|crewd every night, appoint theas dreams, rat other joys will veysd from sosdeide to the well to \" ; frame.Our bodies live but a short time at best A Roman Catbolie priest in New York ©om# in their sfead, and the sixty little hs used in making the new bathing Golden Tust.\u2014This ie à faidifal eaying [Jo who wee to be man's Redeemer, \u2014eighty years soems short when one |hsving expremed doubt shout any Cath- gardeners will soon be envied above all |houss.Some of the girle seemed Lo 4m sud worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save siunere\u2014l.Tim.i, 18.Coatinuy ourselves in tius * Review\u2019 to the eveuta of (he last week of Jesus's uiinietry, we find that \u2018six days before the Passover, whem he was crucitied, Jesus e to Bethany,\u2019 aud \u2018on the neat day\u2019 when he entered in Jerusiem, he was received by \u2018a very grest multitude,\u201d who * spread their garments in the way,\u2019 and \u2018cut down branches off the trees\u2019 and strewing them in the way, welcomed him with shouts of \u2018 Hosanua \u2014Blessod is the King of Israel that com- eth in the name ot the Lord\u2019 The deeply-sested expectation of the disciples that he woudl now \u2018restore again the kingdom to lsrael' (Acts i., 6.) seemed about to be fully realized.But St was not as a temporal king that be was to do his great work either for them or for us, Among the strangers in the city were \u2018certain Ureeks\u201d As the \u2018Wise men of the Fast\u2019 came to Jern- salem st the beginning of Jesus's ministry, so these \u2018 Greeks\u2019 came to him at ita close.In both cases they were the representatives of the great Gentile world.They came to do homage to the world's Redeemer, and the appel of these \u2018Greeks\u2019 to Philip\u2014' Sir, we would see Jesus'\u2014expresses the great need of all mankind, Doubtless they expected to be presented to one, who, if not already established upon an earthly throne, acon would be.He told them, however, that §f they and all whom they represented \u2018 would see\u2019 him, it must be as one dying for them rather than as one reigning over them, for by dying, the great work which he came into the world to do for sin.= would bo coneummated.(xii\u2026 31- The same important truth was repeated a few davs later.when they made a wup- ver for him in Bethany.Then Mary came in as he sat at meat, and anointed his hend and his feet with precious ointment of spikenard.A few months before she had received her brother back from the grave through hia wonderful power and love.No offering was too costly to express her gratitude.Lut when her act was criticised, it was not to her gratitude or her love that Le called attention.The fragrance of her act would indeed fill the earth with its perfume, but it was beeau: aps all unwittinglr\u2014she had anointed his body for its burying.It was not as a temporal benefactor that she and they were to \u2018see\u2019 him, but as a dying.Raviowr.And from that supper Judas went out to con.owe bargain for his betrayal, p- .condemnation and death.The next day the feast of the Passover was to be celebrated.Ju the morning Jesus sent Peter and John into the city to make preparations for its observance.In the evening he and his disciples came together to eat it for the last time.What was done and eid that evening inust have impressed John very deeply, for one fourth part of his whole goapel narra tive is taken up with an account of it, and in that account he tells us of many things to which nome of the other evan- feliste make the elightest allusion.But dwells on them with peculiar fulness d teuderness.; i Filled with thoughts of thefr owh im- nee in the coming ki of gheir aster, when they came thiv-none of the disciples were willing to refresh the others.or even him, by stooping to wash their soiled and tired feet.But what they were not willing to do for each oth er or for him, John sys, he did for ail.Spiritually it was an office which none but be could perform, for he used the incident to impress upon them the great fact that each one needed a spiritual washing, und lie said to them, sud to us, \u201cif 1 wash thee not, thou hast no part with me\u2019 (xiii, 8).It is not enough, therefore, that \u2018we see\u2019 that be died for ws, if his blood does not cleanse us from al bin.(I.John i, 7.) Having declared this important fact, Jesus went on, that evening to reveal to them more cleneiy than ever before features of hic gracwus work for them and for us.Ue himself, he said, o was \u2018the way, the truth, and the life, and he added, \u2018No man cometh unto the Father but by me\u2019 (xiv.6).By his life and by his death, \u2018The Way\u2019 was by which every penitent and believing sinner could be delivered, both from the penalty and the power of sin.And more than thet, he said, '[ will pray the Fa ther, and be shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever\u2019 (xiv.10).He\u2014the Holy Ghost\u2014 should stand \u2018alongside of each one, to plead with and for him as an \u2018sdvocate.\u201d and to strengthen him, as the \u2018Comforter.\u2019 Thus, through him, the triune God \u2014Pather, Son and Holy Ghost\u2014would become one with them, and through that oneness each one would not only bring forth much fruit, but be filled with the jov of his Lord (xv.1-11).Then that evening of blessed fellowship and instruction, was closed by the singing of a hymn.and by praver.the intercession of Jesus himself, not only for them, \u2018but for them also.he mid, \u2018which shall believe on me through their word\u2019 (xvii, 20).Passing theough the city, down into the valley of Jehoshapha® and wp the slepe of Olivet, derus and Wis dinciples © watered into an olive garden, nnd sat Then taking moreover, must not only be couscous of the burden of sin which every penitent sinner feels when he awakos to know his condition before God, lat, like Lim, lle must also pass under the condemnation of the law.So we find Jems entering voluntarily into this very position, for no law ever compels one Lo lv: nurety for another against bia will.The time was nearly midnight.Then Judas with au arined band entered the garden.Jesus went forth to.mest them aud asked, \u2018Whom seek\" yet \u201cJesus of Nazareth.\u2019 they said.\u201cTam he\u2019 be replied.Put they did not take him.\u2018They went backward and fell on the ground.\u2019 Then he delivered himself into their hands, and when he delivered himnelf up all of his disciples went free.From the garden he vas taken before the highest roclesiantical court, and the highest civil court in the world to be tried.Before the one he waa condemned as guilty of veli- tion, or rebellion against his king.But when he wus condemned on the first charge, one actually guilty of blasphemy in its most aggravated form, waa allowed to go free to repent and believe.When he was condemned on the second charge, another actually under sentence for sedli- tion made in the city, and for murder\u2019 {Luke xxiii, 19), wan set at liberty.Ko it ever been for these scenes in earthly courts were but the shadows of far more gmcious scenes in the high court of heaven.He who came \u2018to redeem them that were under the law\u2019 {Gal.iv., 8), was condemned of men that men might not be condemned of God, Weighed down hy the load of imputed sin, and condemned by the law, Jesus was led out to be crucified \u2018with the tranngronacrs.\u201d When He died the penitent and believing sinner at Ulis side entered with Him into Paradise.But the impeniteht and upbelieving\u2014 with all of bis sine resting \u2018upon bim \u2014 died without hope or promise.And when Jeses died, John alone of all the Evangelists records thet He maid, \u2018It is finished.His work was done.The luw was satisfied.Ry His holy life, its every demand for obedience had heen kept.By His death, the full penalty of all transgressions was fully paid.Rut how should it be \u2018known with certainty, by men and by angels, that every requirement of God\u2019s law, had thus been satisfactorily met when Jesus of Nazareth died on Calvary?It was certified bv the Resurrection.His body being \u2018without sin,\u2019 could not see corruption, for the penalty of ain was not \u2018corruption\u2019 but \u2018death.\u2019 That penalty had been fully paid when He died upon the Cross.So on the third day He rose from the dead, and it was \u2018declared with power by the resarreetion,\u2019 that Jesns of Nazareth was none other than the very \u2018Son of God! (Rom.i, 4.) \"The Res urrection\u2019 was the signing and sealing by God of the Redemption written in the blood of Jesus of Nazareth.Then it wan certified bevond all question, that He had vatisfied His own law, by the life and death of His own Som.HOME READINGS.M.John xi., 3843.\u2014The raising of Lazarus.T.Joha xlif., 1-17.\u2014Jeoun Teaching Humility.W.John xiv., 1-16.\u2014Jemus the Way.the Truth and the Life.T.Jobn xv, l-11\u2014The Vine and the Branches.F.John xviti, 1-16.\u2014Christ betrayed and arrested.S.John xix, 17-30.\u2014Christ crucified.8.John xx, 11-20.\u2014Christ risen.DEPARTMENT.e Topie-Sume 35.» 609 SPIRITUAL GRUVWTIL Max iv, 232) \u2018Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord\u2019 (Deut.viii, 3) In the garden stands a rose bush, and ness the rose bush stands a rockery.The vile of stones stands on the mme ground as the bush, the same rain and sunshine best upon them both, but as the summer daye advance the little rose bush is growing and bearing beautiful flowers.But the rockery does not grow, # cannot bring forth fruit, it bse no life.The rockery belongs to s different kingdom.The stone cannot grow into a rose bush.The little bird that sings outside your door is very beautiful, perhaps you have made a pet of it and care a great deal for it, perhaps it, in turn, recognizes you us ite friend.But you cannot make it a member of your family, it cannot understand your thoughts nor answer your questions.Tt may be perfect and lovely us à bird, but it does not belong to the family of mankind.Bo the children of this world may be outwsrdly very bean- tifui and fascineting, but unless a man is God, he cannot belong signed, - tion te follow reaches the other end of life\u2014but our souls live on and on forever, those who have chosen God in this lifs going to live with bim through eternity, and thoss who have chosen their own way going to live apart from God forever.(ois.xxv, 41, 46; Rev.ali, 70; xx, The mind must be fed.Careless per sons let their minds feed on gossip, silly stories or exciting novels.The food which some minds receive may be compared to chips and dust, ashes and mud, useless and actually harmful matter.Others feed their minds with good wholeaome study and elevating books.Properly fed minds grow strong and se- tive, able and ready to do good work.The body must be fed.The mind muat be fed.But, most important of all, the soul must be fed.Yet many consider that two or three times a week is sufficient for the soul to be fed.Those who are true to their Christian Endeavor pledge must ged food for their souls once & day, but how often it is like snatching a morvel as one passes a well filled table, and so quickly hurrying off to work that the food has mot time to be digested or to benefit the partaker ! God's word says, \u2018Them that honor me, I will honor, snd they that despise me shail be lightly esteemed.\u2019 The man who considers bis bodily welfare of more importance than his soul's welfare is making the mistake of his lifetime, and a mistake whose effects must follow him through eternity.Regular, prayerful study of God's word and the constant communion and fellow- «hip of the Holy Epirit, are necessary to the soul's growth in holiness and t we call our apiritnal growth.And the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will bring forth the fruits pleasing to God\u2014'love, joy, peace, loëg- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekners, temperance.\u2019 RELIGIOUS NEWS.The Rev.Theodore Cuyler, D.D., siga- ed the total abstinence pledge when ten years old, and has kept it ever since, Two hundred women at Chattanooga, Tenn., went to the City Councu chamber and defeated a movement started by saloon keepers to extend the clowing hour at night from ten to twelve o'clock.Lowell, Massachusetts, has voled no- license and on May 1 all the liquor stores went out of business.The near et place where rinks: may be bought at retail, is Lawrence, ter away, - nz \u201c J Bishop Hurst says that the tendency in Europe at present fs to abandon the + higher eriticism and return to the long prevalent belief of the Church.\u2018There has been à marked increases in the num ber of able and scholarly crities in favor of the conservative position.\u2019 \u2018The Rev.F.B.Meyer is going once more to the Northfield convention, thus acceding to an earnest invitation from Mr.Moody.He hopes to leave Lgver- pool on! July 20, after attimding the Kewwick convention.Ths will Mr.States at the requedt \u201cof Mr.Moody.Local unions of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in many of the States are celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversaries, ns a great number have already reached their quartercentory milepost.The next national convention, to be held at Sesttle, Wash., will be on Oct.2025, the commemoration also of twenty-five years as a national organization.The English Zionists have set on foot & movement to acquire the site of the Maccabean tomba, at Modin, togather with tbe surrounding land.For this pur poses £1,000 will be required, and it is to secure this sum from Eng: lish Zionists.Then those from other countries will be invited to provide a fund for the [fowndation of a colony.agricultural college or some similar establishment.Professor L.J.Bertrand, of the Oeuvre des Pretres Convertis, is in England once more.He has of late suffered from ill: health, induced by overwork conseqwent upon the incressing anxieties attending mission Operations among ex-priests in France.He bas now recovered, however, and hopes to find many old friends at home during his travels in England and Scotland.Letters to him may he addressed 3M Wobarn Pisce, Rumel Square, London, W.C.A revised version of the gospels i he- ing issued in New York, under the imprimatur of the Roman archbishop.The remarkable thing aboat it is, thas while the Vulgate ie the authorised and eanon- ical version of the Church, these revised gospels are based on a consensus of such editions as Westcott and lort, Tischen- dorf, Lachmann snd the translators of our own Revised Version.The tranala- tion is remarkably well done in 8 somewhat modernised style, and the Vulgte reading is frequently transferred from [the text to the margin.Put where its difference from the consensus is serious, it still retains sapremacy.Chinatown in San Francisco has been moved to its centre by à glorious revival.Nearly ome bundred cards have been the signer\u2019 determine and socept him de their Saviour.On om: night t - * {58th seal for Chritt,- Degair\" Untitad Christian chuzehes five and thirtyfour oa soother + olics ever becoming Baptiste, an investi- tion was set on font to discover the acts.Twenty-nine Haptist churches in various sities, east and west, reported a totel of 213 members who had come out of Roman Catholic churches.In many cases thees converts were among the lead: ing people.Forty-seven New York pss tors, of five different denominations, re port ex-Catholics in their membership, in numbers varying from one to seventy.Fully one-fourth of the 25,000 German Baptists are stated as converts frem Ro manism.Other denominations eould probably present similar figures.\u2018The death is announced of Mrs.Exons Marshall, the author of a long series of historical and other books and sketches always characterised by eoundoess of work and loftiness of tone.Some of her works were conspicuously popular in Germany as well as in this country.The central figure in many of them is a his toric person, and men eo different na Tyndale, Nicholas Ferrar and Sir Ohris- topher Wren were utilized always to enforce a moral.Mrs.Marshall was a daughter of Mr.Simon Martin, a partner in Giurney\u2019s Norwich Bank.She was mer- ried in 185$.Fifty-two Presbyterian ministers and elders have promised definitely to spend August at Northfield in attendance vpon the Moody meetings.Weston Hall hes been rented for their exclusive use, and a fund approximating two thonsand dollars haa been raised in order that ministers may have free entertainment for themselves and reduced rates for their wives.It iv due to some of them to say, however, that they have subscribed to the guarantee fund.The undertaking was suggested at one of several prayer meetings beld this spring by the New York Presbytery, the purpose being à special effort to deepen the spiritual life.As 3 means of further deepening it the attendance at Northfield was proposed.In tbe Sbansi province of China a copy of the Gospel of Mark feit into the hands of a learned man and a priest.\u2018The one read the strange book aloud to the other.There was a great deal in it which neither reader nor hearer understood.But they were so impressed that they came to the conviction that the book must come from heaven, and they paid'divisie-honors to it for many years.later on they re ceived à New Testament, and began to worship Jesus and the apostles.When their fellows, The plan is a decidedly happy thought on the part of the At, Ber- tholomew people \u2014\u2018Harper\u2019s Basar.\u2019 One of the most successful agencies in the evangelisation of France is the canel- boat in connection with the MoAN Mie mon, \u2018Le Bon Messager\u2019 In France, owing to the multiplicity of canals, it fu possible to travel twenty thomsand mils in the heart of the country by this means, A writer in the New York Evan: gelist\u201d says: \u2018Tt is impossible to give with any sobriety of deseription an se- count of what this bost work is to the people of France.The floating chapel, seating a hundred snd fifty, moves slowly along its wey, stopping at hamlet after hamlet, and wherever it stops, for two weeks or three, the room is crowded, the river banks ara thronged, if there ia à bridge overhead it is crowded too, and thie for meeting after meeting.When it moves along the pecple follow it, walking three miles, five miles, even fifteen miles after their long day's work in the field, {or the privilege of à service, and not giv ing it up until it is simply impossible to reach it.Maynes and other city officials have welcomed it, as making for popular enlightenment and for public order, and in not a few instances have done their part to provide a loealitr for a continue- tion nf evangelistic work after the boat has gone on its way\u2019 The Americans are now building another bot, the FEmi- lie,\u201d which is tn be placed at the service of the McAl Mission.PROGRESS AT MUKTI, PUNDITA RAMABAI'S CHRISTIAN SETTLEMENT.When Pundita Remabsi was making her garden st the Sharada Badan, some Fvers ago, abe quusaged a fernery around a fountsing but tbe ferns she brought from Lanonli and Khandals, in the rains, soon died They re-ished because they had no depth of esrth, and Ramabai\u2019s experience in trying \\c preserve them was like that of many others.But Ramabai meant 10 bave a fernery, aud, nothiug daunted by failure, ahe hired two [bullock carts, and Went off one day to a river ride some twenty miles distant, where she knew she would find what at last a Chinese evangelist came to their ahs wanted.She brought back quan- country, theag wo mes etre of beautiful maiden hair, rote, soil joined themselves 7 him.and ail, and planted ber fernery, which te instructed and Daptisad, and, filled ce little churches around them.One of them, we are informed, has led about fifty persons to Chriet\u2014\u2018Die Bibel in China,\u2019 from the \u2018Evangelisches Missions Magasin.\u2019 7 In the north of Japan the mouths of the rivers are someti choked by send blown on land from the see.Then come disastrous floods, One such eslam- ity occurred recently nt Hakodate.The sou some help for, the eul- the fo » round pestors parme: sant errs ; so did about ; and.the street collection.went round the town with thirteen carts and a bell, accompanied by the town band, who had volunteered their services.\u2018Service for the King\u2019 desoribes the collection, The people came running out with clothing.Shop-keepers came out with pieces of cotton and other articles; some brought money.The carts were piled up, and they took the things into the Methodist Church.and made them up into bundles.The priests tried to divert the stream, saying they would re ceive the things and distribute them, but the people said, \u2018No ; we have confidence in the Christians.Our gifts will reach those they sre meant for!\u2019 So Christian character commends itsei and.commends Christ.\u2014 Presbyterian.\u2019 The two Conferences of the Methodiat Episcopal Church in India have decided to unite in helping to raise the #20,000,- 000, on which the mother church in America has set ber gase, and to which she is bending her energies.As the donor is free to designate the object to which the gift shall be devoted, the North India and the North-west Indis Conferences have specified seven educational institutions which are in special need of aid, and these commend to the attention of friends of the work in India.The institutions ified are the following: The Bareilly Theological Seminary, the Reid Christian College, Lucknow ; ow Woman's College, Oak Openings Boys\u2019 High School, Philen.der Smith Institute.Girls\u2019 High School, Cawnpore, aud Wellesley Girls High Bchool, Naini Tal.These institutions sre selected by the executive committee of the fund as the important educational centres in the field.The endowment of schools in mission fields ie work that must be done outside the Missionary fo- ciety ; the soclety\u2019s funds are all needed for current expenses.\u2014'Guardian.\u2019 Sixty little gardens are being made for the kindergarten children of the St.Ber- tholomew parish bouse.Furthermore, they are to be rool Not the aerial summernight baunts which ere generally understood by that term, but really truly gurdens, where seeds\u2019 can be paris houss roof but children are al were about to duplicate the hanging .three sacre jrhes to this day.\u201c3 hte characteristic tion and ce that has been a large factor in the human side of the work here at Mukti.It is due to Bema- bai to rc but the workers lire in- cudirs vesribe all the glory to We had not seen the place sinee Jon.8, 1808.In one year great progrew ls been made, the square of buildings, then wg the foundation above the around, has completed and used for months, and another long row backing on the roadside as well.These buildings ae still not sufficient fer the require ments.cf fhe iapaaten, and others are planned out and commenced which will be completed as the Lord sends the means.These include sleeping and living rooms for twenty-five girls, a shed for the milk cattle in such position ae to enable the girls to care for them, storerooms, ete.A place for bathing in now being constructed by the nearest Put Remabai's heart is not satistied with the work or the 225 famine widows now here; she had brought to her « few poor women who have been ruled by vice, some terribly diseassd, These are temporarily housed in \u2018chupper\u2019 Luts, entirely separate from the rest, sud Kama- bai contemplates building à bouse for such cases, where they can be as for se possible bealed and brought to the Lord.An axperienced worker has already as sumed the care of these poor women, believing that the Lord will send means for the needed premises, in which to house and train them.The Leartsa of some seem already tender, and \u2018ruit ie expected from this also.Nobody need suppose that Mukti is a ce hey these 25, fumioe yidows ve set down to wpported in idleness.A HIVE OF INDUSTRY.The settlement is all astir by four a.m.At five school begins; from 8.30 ome and a balf hours are allowed for cooking and eating the morning meal.Sshool again holds till one p.m.The women then bathe, and wepaiste for other work till evening.Some go on the fartn\u2014jumt now they are reaping the jowari harvest.Of this grain they have grown enough to feed them all for two months.Some wash and sweep, others grind.A weaving industry for both carpets and arras bas been started, with eight looms.An oil mill is tended by some, of which a very intelligent woman is in eharxe.The n kardai, grown on the farm, ie prepared, and oil for use with their food is produced in queatities suffiviont \u2018Ghareds Sedan\u2019 a well as been planted and are making respectable progress.More might be maid of the temporal progress of Mukti, but it is a a MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT that Ramsbai is most amxious it should make ite mark.Misa Abrams, who superintended the whole while Remabai was in Americe, remains in charge of the spiritual aspect of the work, and gives her time entirely to it, giving bible lessons daily in the school, and superintending the cutaide village work.Before speaking partieu- larly of the latter, I must mention s new departure which dates from Christmas last.Miss Abrame had given seve ral addresses on the spiritual needs of India in the endeavor to incite a mis slonsey wpirit in the members of thie infant church of Muktl, scarcely a yaar out from hesthendom themselves, Bhe then told them of the Btudent Volumteer Movement in the American and English colleges, and of the numbers of students who have pledged their lives to mission work, as God should open the way.When Miss Abrams suggested the formation of such a mission band at Mukti, thirty-five of these women volunteered to be ready for training for evangelistic They meet daily at noon for an bour\u2019s extra bible teaching, and Miss Abrams is encouraged with their earnestness and sustained interest, Fifteen villages in the neighborhood are accessible to Gospel work.Two bible women go out from Mukti daily in a bullock tongs ; occasionally Mies Abrams accompanies them.I had the privilege of going with them on one afternoon to a village two miles away, [| was impressed with the miserable, poverty-stricken aspect of the place.Jt had the appearance of having bren at some time wrecked, and then patched up with any and every kind cf material that could be got, mud \u201cnd s:raw by choice.Rome of the walls were high and massive, and doorways vortentows.Bore of the \u2018cosiest homes,\u2019 if such words could be used in mach a eomnee- tien, were mud walle with timtelsed roofs.These were.at least, in reping.I was told that this village wus in a fair aver age condition.Seven times during the sfternoon we mt om doorsteps or cut- side of houses, at the invitation of the inmates, while a little erowd around to bear the Gospel hymms and messages from Mime Abramw and the bible women.All costes were visited, high and low.When she first visited some of the villages in this district she found thet they had never sces & white womsa before, some were afraid, and afterwards told her that they took her for a soldier in disguise.At one bouse where the neighbor women had gathered to hear, one excused herwelf from remaining by saying that she had grain to sift at home; (the hostess spoke up and ssid : \u2018Don't go; you can clean grain any day, but it is not every day that you can nee sueh an image as this.\u2019 Ona of the Mukti bible women Reamabails very first widow eli child-widow that she saved f in Poona and shared her i aie leré.ï Ë i for some years ; and ber eyesight so defecti dificult to plae ber till she became truly converted veloped into a valuable worl panion is an older woman, wi a Christian about twelve vious to her conversion, sh resource of Hinduism to obtain She traversed India, visiting various shrines of pilgrimage.walked from the source of the to the southernmost point of I i Ë : ei fl #4 ¥ ih fi i7 i i of ir gite Fes q HH the people that her knowledge on is superior to theirs.studies her bible with pet diligence, recently parted with her goats in order to have the time they consumed for fur of She eid The bazasr, or ture at Mukti.chased sixteen acres of land an the op- poète side of He oa ee Hr uilding, in order to prevest a Hinds colony planting iteelf there.She then invited the people in the surrounding country to establish a weekly bazaar om this roadside.They were thankfn! for i Weekly Witness = + 2 2 + = = 2.00 Northern Messenger (singin cons) oo.se * 18 copies md ever to one 200 per copy.All the above papers seat free of postage ta the Dossiaion, Newfoundland and United States For Creat Britain add $1.04 for prstage où \u201cWeekly Witheas.\" \u201cNorthern Messenger\u201d add 80; * Daily Witness\" add $3.60 ADVERTISING RATES.WEEKLY 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changes ean- Bot be made.Address oll letteps ron.taining subs-riptioxs or advertialug: JOHN DOUGALL & EON, \u2018Witness,\u2019 Montreal.\u2018When stamps are sent to make wpa remittance, the only demominations ve accept are £ and 3 cents.-\u2014\u2014 Any sabeeriber of the Montreal ** Witness\u201d who would Like to have a sproimen copy of the pager sent to 8 friend can be nocommodated by sending \u2018us on & postal cent the name and addreæ to which he would like the paper sept.The Wlitruss, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 18%.À povd exhibition is to be hell at Philadelphia neat (ail with a view to educating producers of American merchandise for export to foreign countries.The sort of goods and articles required by every country in the world, the proper wuy of packing them, and the best means of transportation and establishment of agencies, will be shown, it is said, and great practical resuits are anticipated.\u2018The ides is a good one, as Coansdian producers and exporters, who haut to learn how to prepare, pack and forward their goods to Great Britain and elsewhere hy hard experience, ean te; tify.This study of the world's markets must prove broadening, and the cultivation of them will by degrees sap the whole protection system.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The sucecas of the Pacifie cable project seems to be assured.(ur government ,bas apparently succeeded in its task of persuading the Imperial Government to do something more than undertake to bear a share of the loss which will be incurred during the early years of the operation of the cable.It is not cer tain from the \u2018Times's\u2019 announcement that the Imperial Government will share in the proprietorship of the cable, but it will in some way secure the project the benefit of its credit, so that the original cost of the cable will be less by over $1,200,000 than it would be if the money were borrowed upon the credit of the colonies only.The Imperial guarantee is therefore an econemy which will save the United Kingdom taxpayer from bav- ing to pay a share of a larger annual loss upon the operation of the cable than he would otherwise have to do.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 À curione theory is attributed to a New York detective concerning the recent kidnapping of the Clarke child.It ie aothing less than that the little girl was stolen iy an agent nf one of (ba yellow journals in order to get up a sense- tion.There was Bo conceivable motive for the crime, the parents being neither wealthy nor prominent.The persons who teck tbe child had no object that asp - can find out in keeping it, yet they conceuled it for ten days while the papers made a big festare of the agony % of ibe distracted perents and the inei- Bally Witarss + = = a » o « = $3.00, dents of the search for the missing child.| The kidnappers have been caught, but it lis sid that thioss Whb ought to Javesti: | cate the affair are afraid to go too far bevond the scenes through dread of \u2018a great engine of sensation and defame- tion\u201d When the genius of sensational Journalism finds it necessary to manufacture ita own sensations by committing the necessary crimes ite end cannot be far off.\u2014\u2014 Kxtreordinary trade conditions hav been revealed by à table of the exports snd imports of the United States, just insued by the Bureau of Statistics at, Washington.Commencing with April of the year 1806, and ending with the same month in 1899, the figures show a truly astonishing increase of exports, lot imports steadily declined.Thus for | the twelve months ending April.1994, the exports totalled $00R,034,419, but for the corresponding period ending April last the figures soared to $1,202,628,062.It should also be noted that during these six years the population of the country large- Iy increased, which means a much great.et demand for home consumption.Yet it appears that this increase was supplied while foreign trade cxpanded and, at the same time, importa fell off.For the twelve months cnding with April, 1894, the imports were MO2,047,951.In 89 these figures fell to $670.100,317, or [twenty-two miliions less than they wera in 1894.The excess in value of exportations over importations for the last year thus reaches the enormous sum of 8572,- 316,343.The chief va.ue of these figures lies in the glimpse Lhey give of the vast resources of the United States as a competitor for the commerce of the world.What extent thie commerce would reach were the protectionist incubus removed almost exceeds the powers of imagination.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 That something should be done to improve the quality of the milk supplied to Momtreal is now evident.Of course, there are honest milk-vendors, and no reflection is sought to be cast on them, but recent discoveries of the stuff supplied by some show the necessity for more strictly regulating the business.Fow people are aware of how much the bealth of the community depends upon the milk used in bouseholds.An instance in point may be cited.About a year ago Mr.Nathan Straus, a merchant philanthropist of New York, presented the city with a Pasteurized milk plant for the use of the infants\u2019 hospital on Randall's Island.He was led to do this by the sight of the many littie coffins he saw on the island boat, which, on inquiry, he found were for the bodies of infants whose deaths had occurred in the hos: pital.After a ycar's use of the plant the lady superintendent reported that in the year previous to its adoption 5M chil dren had died out of 1,181, a death rate of 44.36 but during the lost year sterilized milk was used, and the deaths were 255 out of 1,284 children, a death rate of only 19.80, The remarkable point about these figures is that the death rate in the infants\u2019 hospital is now below that of children of the same age in city homes Yet these hospital children are waifs of the streets, found on doorsteps and other places, abandoned and often nearly dead when found.The plan of dairy inspec: tion of Dr.Laberge, the health inspector of Montreal, is a good one, and would certainly become a paying investment if properly mameged.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 \u2018Publicola\u2019 certainly puts a stout heart .to stiff hill in his attempt to construct 8 constitution for the Dominion of Canada which would enable it to include Ja maica and British Honduras.He es sumes that those countries, inhabited chiefly by negroes, not yet altogether emancipated from the infantile stage of existence.could not be admitted to equal relations with the rest of the Dominion.He would therefore make them a part of Nova Scotia, as he would also make N°w Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, calling the whole Acedia.with its capi tal at Halifax, but would give them no representation in the House of Commons.He would give them e1ch à resident gor- ernor under the legislature at Halifax, or would the governor be appointed at Ottawa?Great increase of trade in promised to follow from the extension of our customs system over those territories and from the subsidizing of ines of steamships.This great trade development is pleasant to contemplate, whatever we may think of ite likelihood.We do not feel fully assured that these colonies, one of which has hitherto possessed, if 1t has nat enjoyed, self-govegument, woald take to en inferior position in the Dominion, or that New Brunswick and Prinee Edward Island would consent to have thrir eutepomy blotted out te reund out the while during the same period the volume THE MONTREAL oshems.Desirable as this change may stem to persons outside of those provinces, they have resisted it heretofore.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Tast year there wore killed in railway accidents in the United Kingdom about one in a million of the population.This | continuous slaughter bas greatly roused the wrath of the people, and though it does not appear that more than a few of these deaths was capsed by the absence of ' autoraatie couplera\u2014thire were only sixteen railway hands killed altogether\u2014 yet parliament has been adjured by publie clamor to force the railway companies (at no matter what expense, or whether they can beer that expanse or not, to adopt so obvious a device for the protection of life.A nobleman, largely interested in railways, and a responsible { director of some leading companies, who was daring enough to object to th» proposed legislation, was treated hy the | whole press and people as a sort of Dick Dead-eye, to be shunned and shrunk from.This was entirely right.What are millions of money to a single human life?During the past five years the number of deaths annually credited to strong drink by public registration was about seventy to every million.Tt is not only morally certain that every one of these deaths was rightly ascribed to drink, but it may be assumed that ten or Lwenly times as many.otherwise rig- istered, were hastened to their end by the same cause, Yet whenever there is a proposition to do anvthing by legislation to put a stop to this man killer, shouts of derision and anger are heard on every hand.Such epithets as fanatic, doc trinaire, Puritan, simpleton, or their equivalents, are the most civil that even the most respectable Dritish press has for the poor fool who is so crazed as to think not only that he himself should give up some indulgence that other men may be delivered\u2014that would be bad enough\u2014 but that whole communities and whole nations should do so.\u2014\u2014 Our neighbors are beginning to get an idea cf the cost of keeping up an army in the field, something they have not known for a generation, althougb the piethoric pension list has increased instead of diminished wince the close of the civil war.Before the war with Spain the army consisted of 25,000 men, and cost $4.500,000 monthly.For the year ending on the first of July, 1800, the fignres are not es- actly stated as regards the number of men, owing to the return and disbandment of volunteers.but the cost is estimated at $240,000,000, or twenty million dollars monthly.Add to this the cost of maintaining the navy, $75,000,000, not teking into account the proposed in- cresse, and it will be seen what an expensive luxury empire is.It in fair to note, however.that the creation of an ermy sud navy to police the world's ill- ordered communities and to reduce thriftless strife to order and peace is not to be judged by the same standerd as the maintenance of great sanding armies for home Protection against turbulent neighbors.At first sight the latter might seem the nobler purpose of the two, but its working is worse.A military machine, maintained on the highest scale which strenuous competition may dictate to a bur dened nation, is physically and industrial ly exhaustive, and 1s, through idieness, lisble to be socially corrupting and politically mischievous.Quite different is the sending abroad on essentially beneficent errands of the surplus cnergy and of the more adventurous spirits.of a nation.These are never maintainad for this pur pose in greater numbers than there is enough serious work for to keep them in fighting trim and at least out of the mischief whick Satan finds for idle hands to do.el The \u2018Broad Arrow.\u2019 commenting on an article which appeared in the \u2018Witnens\u2019 a few weeks ago concerning the regiment raised in Canade for service in the Crimes, admits the truth of the correction we made of its previous statements.As this is a question of historical fact relating to the service of Canadians in the British army, it is well to set the matter right now, inasmuch as the \u2018Toad Ar row\u2019 adds to its admission of the correctness of what the \u2018Witness\u2019 stated other statements rt in accordance with the facts.There were no \u2018English lads who had lately emigrated to Canada\u2019 in the 3rd Jagers.There were several soldiers, however, who bad deserted from British regiments when stationed in Canada who enlisted in the Jagers, and gave them selves up.° These men were returned to their regiments when the Jagers arrived at Portsmouth.When the corps was disbanded at the close of the war many of them resnlisted in the 100th, in 1858-0, The \u2018Broad Arrow\u2019 says some of them went to the Cape.Thie is à mietake, of the men returned to Canade, and some WEEKLY WITNESS.ansing, no doubt, from the fact that there wore throe battalions of Jagere.The tat wae stationed at Mitta Suritg the Crimean war, the 3nd at the Cape of Good Hope.All were disbanded at the same time, and many of the ud remained at the Cape, where.indeed, many had enlisted, although the depot of the corps as originally formed was on the island of Heligoland.A gentleman now doing business in St.John, N.B., je the only representative of the 2nd Jagers in Canada.Although there were à number of young men belonging to Montreal and Toronto in the 3rd Jagers.the great majority were tiermans, Poles and Hunga- vians, who had taken part in the revolutionary movement of 1848, end had afterwards emigrated to the United States.Quite a number had seen service in the American war with Mexico, and all, with the exception of about one hundred and twenty Canadians, were grissted veterans, whose chief reason for joining the Brit: ish service was hatred for Russia.\u2014m THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.We print elsewhore à voluminous letter signed \u2018One who voted for Laurier.It will be found interesting as a record of the government's dealings with the prohibition question, It has, moreover, a certain fascinating luminosity of style which makes one read on and on with sure.following ever the will-o\"-the- wisp that promises light on what prohibitionists ought to do.On the history of the whole proceeding our writer is lucid to a charm ; we should like if we could gather with equal clearness what he would have had us do or what be would have us do now.The first half of the letter may be rummed up as a denunciation of the prohibitionists for having allowed themselves to be duped into the plebiscite trap.Had the prohibitionists been in any way responsible for the ple- biacite, this accusation might have had at least some relevancy, even if it had little cogney.The plebiscite was determined on without consulting them, and in fact in spite of many protests from prohibitionist gatherings and bodies.The only question that was left to them was whether they would secure as good « showing for prohibition as they could get or let the liquor men bave it ali their own way.Any balf-way course between the two methods would of course have been worse thau either, So far as we know those who protested most vigorously against the holding of a plebiscite were the most hearty in the fight when it was on.If there was any half-way work it was not they who were responsible for it.There were no doubt exceptors to this, and our correspondent may have been ons.Temperance workers, any more than other sorts of men, are not all cast in the ram> mculd or pulled through the sam: hole.Indeed, we presume, take the world over, it would be hard to find a lot of men less liable to run in herds, and consequently less responsible for each other.We sheuld surmise, for instances, fiom our correspondents letter that he had been one who had protested as loudly as his eloquent pen was capable of against the plebiscite.At least, if he did not do so then he should, to use.if we may in pleasantry, the forceful phrase with which be closes his letter, \u2018cease his prating now.\u2019 We should gather further \u2014though in this we should prefer to think he had been inconsistent\u2014that he did not allow himself to be hoodwinked and so did not make any effort whatever to secure votes for prohibition, and did not even vote himself, and 20 contributed to the fatal balf-and-halfuess of the result.The fact ie, the plebiecite ides was adopted by the Liberal party, as Sie Wil- trid Laurier explained, as a compromise | between the prohibitionists and the nos- prohibitionisists in its own ranks.For our own part, when we heard it announced, we regarded it as a good thing.The only reason why we did not urge it long ago, was that it introduced a question with which probibitionists hed nothing to do, and which crested two oppositions instead of one, namely, the opponents of prohibitory law and the opponents of the introduetion of a foreign process into our parliamentary system.As a matter of fact, the thing was urged on Mr.Mac kenrie a quarter of a century ago and rejected by him as taking from parliament « responsibility that properly belonged to it.When it was found that Mr.Mackenzie.hims:If 8 pr h bitienit, woul | on principle oppose this method, it was assumed that a great many others, either, as in his case, from conscientious convie- tion of its wrongness, or, using the objec- tien as an excuse, would vote ia parlis- ment against the plebissite whem they would not dare to vote against prohibition ; and so that method wes abandoned.In spite of Mr.Mackenzie snd his par ,lismentary theories, however, the plebi.| scite is à good thing.Whatever odu- cates the people into an interest ia, and 4 sence of Perdonal responsibility for, the decision of public questions is a good | And Interests that wealth entbles him tof \u201c* What is of far more iraportanoe ; \u201cXercise control.thing.\"y Juxe 18, 1809.! whose wealth is eridentis à great, in dealing with poor people to whom cvery dob Jar is a great deal.and over whose lives We have never heard to Canada than av-u getting à prohibi« anything of Mr.Menicr that'did not lesd tion law in to have a prohibition people.Us to Took to him for just such conduct Ruch an opportunity an the plebiscite af- : 88 this.forded to educate the people on the question of prohibition could not have been otherwise obtained, and those who did not take every advantage of it have something to answer for.In what way the prohibitionists allowed themselves to be hoodwinked, or what else they could or should have done shan what they did do, we fail to see.The next point that does not seem to be made plain by our eorrespondent\u2019s letter is The answer comes no doubt in round evough words: \u2018Hurl the government from power.\u2019 Our correspondent tells us that the Conservative prohibitionists see their way in this matter a great deal more plainly than the Liberals do.We presume that their echeme is simply to vote for the Conservative party.If any of them have been so patriotic as to vote for \u2018Laurier\u2019 for the sake ~f prohibition they need do it no more.That they cer tainly will oot, and it will count for something.Dut that will not be the prohibitionists organizing to \u2018hurl the government from power.\u2019 It will only be dropping hack into party lines.Qur correspondent acorns the \u2018Witness\u2019 for wanting for the prohibitionists some tangible excuse for the Liberals to do what pos sibly he did and vote against their party predilections for the sake of prohibition.But how much of a host does he think these prating prohibitioniste could lead out into the wilderness to vote for a party that has never done anything for them but spurn them, and that utterly spurns them today.Some will do so no doubt for punitive reasons, and these will also count for something in the issue of the next election.Still more will stay away from the polls and not vote at all, and these will count for more.The (emperance vote cannot be herded.Every temperance voter has a mind of his own, a thing which some wTiters scem to forget.To make the temperance vote effective at th: next election we must do what we can to keep the matter before the country till then.Of course.the government will do its best to have some other question less em- bacrassing to it absorbing the mind of the electorate at that time.What we have to vee to, if possible, i» that our Question is not downed.We have also to get our forces united if possible.Strange as it may seem to \u2018One who voted for Laurier,\u2019 there are prohibitionists in the country, not Liberal party men at all, Dr.Potts for instance, who is a strong Conservative, who think that it would be impossible for the government to carry a prohibition measure on the showing of the plebiscite vote, and wrong for it to do ao if it could.We ourselves acknowledge that the complete and pre- nounced opposition of one religion and of one whole people introduces an almost insuperable hindrance to a national measure.What is wanted, now that the government has taken the responsibility of refusing national prohibition, is to ask for what every one must acknowledge to be reasonable, namely, some measure for carrying out the mandate of the plebiscite, such as it ie.It is a maxim of law that there is no wrong without a remedy.It is for the government to discover some way of giving effective probibition to those provinces that have demanded it.We are only preparing to be fooled again, says \u2018One who voted for Laurier ; the government wiil not grant it.Be it ; the government will then have all the more serious reckoning to make with the temperance people.and they will be all the more united in their condemnation of its course, retry ANTICOSTI.Somebody seems to be telegraphing a of lot of nonsense to Great Britain about Mn Menier\u2019s doings and intrntione as pro.pristor of Anticosti.The author of these canards is either an imaginative alarmist or & mischief-maker.No one here ao- cuses Mr, Menier of anything worse than attaching privileges to his rights of ownership of a more despotic nature than a knowledge of the law of this, or indeed of ahy modern, country would have led him into, and as to whether this judgment is well founded or not is for courts to decide.No one would have found much fault with him if in clearing his property of undesired tnants he gone about it according to law, would seem be faited to do.We a about it in this way, end to be n° just but generous to those whom driving off ; ss, fadeed, becomes! ose ! what they should do now.| Indeed, the best of men, sur rounded by such abject eycophancy as Mr.Monier has had about him, might easily have innocently come to believe that the handful of fishermen whom he sought to drive out were indeed the fiendish outlaws that they have been represented to be by tbe French press of this country, which seems to have as sumed that every flsherman was necessarily a wrecker and a poacher at heart, or else that to be a Methodist, at issue with a rich Frenchman, was criminal in itself.The letter in the explanation most readily deducible from the rabid utterances of the group of newspapers in quxstion of the motive which induced them to intervene so ardently in the defence of their idol as apparently to bave compromised him very unnecessarily in publie opinion.We have throughout done our best to make it clear that the importation of religious and race differences inte this matter has, from the first, so far as the public has any knowledge of the facts, been exclusively the work of the presumably gretuitows partisanship of the French press, and we regret to add of certain responsible statesmen.In de nouncing this well-sustained campaign of slander and insult against these poor fishermen, who are not necessarily bad because they follow the calling of many of the holy apostles, and against thoes who spoke a word on their behalf, not neces sarily liars because they were missionaries of the Methodist Church.we have not been attempting to settle law points between Mr.Menior and those who were in Anticosti before him.The repetition of these libele and insulte in their most ag- - gravated and aggravating form by the or gan of the Liberal Government in this city, as translated in this paper, ia evi dently meant to Le a proclamation of war to the knife and a challenge to the Methodists to do what they can against those who cannot adduce even an intelligent reason or occasion for their gratuitous campaign of insult.The Minister of Public Works was asked to state the facts upon which he based the charges made under the privileges of parliament against the Fox Bay settlers of having lured vessels to destruction on\u2019 the rocks, and be has never been able to state one fact or to addace one tittle of evidence.Instead of this, his personal organ rep ats the charges and gives way to rage in a scties of wild and impotent thrests of the terrible things the Minister of Public Works is going to do if the Methodists do not bow in silence to his libels.This is the old Chinese method of war fare by wearing hideous faces and beating tom-toms, which is said to have had quite an effect in scaring enemies of their own sort.The \u2018Patrie,\u2019 which apparently worships wealth and regards à rich nian as incapable of mistakes, seems to think no other argument needed to prove the utter badness of the Methodists than to shout \u2018Menier\u2019s millions! Menier's millions !\u2019 ss though thess had anything to do with the effort of Methodist missionaries to protect a few of their scat tered sheep (rom elanders which they do not deserve.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE WORLD'S VOICES.We are desirous that the \u2018Witness should be a medium wherein any who have a word to say for the uplifting of mankind may have a means of saying it to an audience of earnest resders.Teachers of the most diverse views, many of them in our opinion misleading and even dangerous, get their say ; for only by knowledge can a man, growing up amid the bebel of doctrines that increasingly assaile us all, iearn how to meet the dit ficulties of the unstable souls by which he may be surrounded.One advantage having these many noises set free in that they do a great deal mutually to neutralize each other.It is curious, indeed, bow, in the midst of them all, one sober and earnest maa will run away with, say, theosopby, and associating exclusively with a group who have taken up with that, think that he has msde discovery of the way of truth, and that all the rest of the world is walking in derkness.Another finds himself lifted above mankind by what he calls Christisn Science, sod walks in bliss among the illeminati who wear that badge.Again, another finds in some theory that the whole structure of society is a mistake, and that he and those with whews hs holds intellectuel - converse have at least & vision of how \u2018* it abould bo eat tight, a for de- splaing almost everybody for seeing the same way.and espacially the tench: art of religion, whose temchings Wi hub \\ i { \\ Jonz 18, 1899.dimly knows, sud whom he considers to be In outer darkness because they set their hopes for mankind in something else than reconstruction of the owtwsrd machinery of society, to wit fg a spiritual change in the hearts of men.For esch of these to read each other's philosophy would at least reveal what they may have in com- mos and might thus to some extent precipitate from the solution what is true.It would indeed be the part of conceit for any of us to sup pose that we know everything, and that d there is no side of tquth whose neglect by the ordinary teachers of truth, may bave bred esror in those who, having a glimpse of some unaccepted light, forthwith forsake all for that.It is probable that at the bottom of esch of the wild teach: ings of the present day\u2014most of them themselves by no means new\u2014there lies some neglected truth which it is the part of wisdom to discover and acknowledge, thus robbing error of its standing-ground.There is, in short, no teacher, no matter how short-sighted, no matter how distorted his views of the good that is about Lim, no matter how conceited, who cannot teach the wise man something.In this task of choosing what should and should not be printed, the editor is met by practical difficulties which make him seem arbitrary, or perhaps, to speak more correctly, which force him to act in ap arbitrary manner.One of these is the limitation of epace.There is & limit to the amount of paper that can be printed on and given for a cent.One still more imperative is the limit to what people in general will read.There are slways some interested enough in each high theme to induce them to read even long disquisitions upon rt.But these are few ; the reading of what is printed in newspapers is almost in- the inverse ratio to its importance.And as newspapers are read not as a toil and a duty, but as & recreation, everything that looks long is skipped before it is far enough scanned to find out whether it is interesting or not.Indeed, the most of what is written has necessarily, for these and other ressons, to be left nut.The only ques tion is which.There are always on every theme men of Buent pen who only need to be set agoing, and who can go on at indefinite length.Each letter is a volume and each response gives them new momentum.It is plain that the editor in choesing what shall occupy the Timbted space which his resdera are willing to bave occupied by abstract themes has simply to use his best judgment, and to give what he can of his space to what is freshest, most carmest, most courteous, most important, best written\u2014particular- ly what is least diffuse, or, rather, to what possesses in bis mind the best combination of these desirable qualities.Those who find their good matter not used have only to blame the editor's bad judgment, exercised umder considerable pressure and uoder many difficulties.\u2014\u2014 THE TRANSVAAL AFFAIR.Mr.Chamberlain has announced in per- lisment the failure of the negotiations between Bir Alfied Milner and President ) Kruger for a settlement of the Transvaal troubles.These arose from two sources: one, over-taxation and oppression of the | Uitlanders, who were refused any share in the government of the republic, and the other the repudiation of British su- serainty.President Kruger more than once declared publicly after the announcement of the meeting that he was prepared to discuss in a friendly way all troubles eo long as it was understood that the discussion was without prejudics to the Transvasls independence.Now the only standing , Air.Alfred Milner could have in such a meeting was as the representative of a government to which the Transvaal felt some sort of reistion necessitating an agreement as to the policy of that state.By the convention of Loudon of 1884 the Transvaal Government agreed to submit all its foreign relations and relations with the natives of South Africa to the approval of the British Government.The Transvaal has tried to get awey from this agreement, has attempted to estab lish independent relations with Ger many, Holland, France and other ns- tions, end has denied the suzersinty or parumountey in any way of the British Government.Great Britain, after a pretty sharp passage-st-arms with Germany over the Emperor's telegrams, con- vinoed European nations that the suzer ainty was something they were bound to ) respret, and since then France and Ger many both have respected British as: thority, and in the interests of their own investors (in the Transvaal urged the Transvasl Goverument of \u2018be wisdom of being guided by it in eertain matters, notably, its treatment of subjects of for sign govarnments residing within ite ter ritory.j The Transvaal iteslf alone re N # : maine unconrineed of, great Refs A sersin power.At the meeting with the British com.misaioner, therefore, President Kew ger demanded an acknowledgment of tha complete independence of the Trans vasl, and Bir Alfred Milner refused, of course.to admit it.Probably Sir Alfred tried to induce President Kruger to confer in regard to the grievances of the Uitlanders, which are only indirectly connected with the question of suser- sinty, as it was agreed in the convention of 1884 that in regard to internal affaire the Transvaal was to be independent.It in chietly because Great Britain's own subjects are among the aggrieved that she interferes.though probably she, as a suzerain, standing between direct relations between the Transvaal and other nations, is responsible for the grievances of the subjects of foreign nations also aginst the Transveal state.It must be con fessed, however.that the chief grievance of British subjects, as well se those of other nations, that they are not allowed by the Transvaal Government to transfer their allegiance to it, is a rather peculiar grievance for foreign nations to urge.But the real grievance is, of course, in this connection that while oppressed with heavy taxation end monopoly extortions, their business industries greatly injured, and subjected to general maladministration, they are not allowed any political or municipal franchises by which they could secure reform.The mining iidus- try and general business, which are in the hands almost altogether of the Ut.landers, have suffered seriously, and es French and German investors sre greaily interested, the British Government is supported in its intervention by the French and German governments.The situstion created by the failure of \u2018the negotiations is very serious, but we cannot belileve that it is immediately critical, as stated by some British papers.The Boers, with some justice, confidence in their own military strength and powers, defended by strong fortifications and provided with gll the modern machinery of war and a plentiful supply of ammunition, consider themselves prepared for war, and are defiant.That they are likely to be as successful in regular war fare after modern methods, hastily adopted.as they were under their old conditions, is perhaps doubtful.\u2018They could, however, offer resistance which it would be very costly to overcome.Hut Great Britain is not likely to go to war with the Transvaal, nor is Sir Alfred Milner, who is a statesman, not a soldier, likely to demand of the British Government an appeal to force, backed by s threat of his resignation, as hinted in the newspapers.The resources of diplomacy are by no means exhausted.Sir Alfred Milner himself was one of the parties to the negotiations with Ports by which the terms of the cession Delagon Bay to Grest Britain was arranged, and these arrangements were made only a few months ago in view of the probability of the Transvaal Goverment proving ob atinately opposed to a settlement which Great Britain would be willing to accept.The Imperial Government will probably try to re-open negotiations on another baeis, and in the meantime will enter upon possession of Delagos Bay, which is practically hers already.The Transvaal will then be an enclave, ineapable of securing supplies from the outside world, and completely within the power of Great Britain.It is just possible that the fleet may be sent to Delagoe Bay at once, but that move would only be made in case the Transvaal showed some disposition to attempt to take possession of] that port.Within a period messured by months Great Britain will otherwise be peaceably placed in possession dy Portugal, which will not hold it very long after the Delagos Bay railway arbitration gives its long-deferred decision, which will probably be next fall.\u2014\u2014 INSOLVENCY LEGISLATION.The Laurier Government is being charged with indifference and apathy in regard to the pasage of insolvency legis- |.lation by perlisment.It is complained that the government has not assumed the responsibility for some | measure and pushed it through perliament by force of ita majority.That the goverpment is either indifferent or apathetic is obvious.1y untrue.Its members have given & great deal of time and consideration to the subject, have discussed the difficulties and cbetacles to *-çislation with all dele- from the business bodies whisk proached them on the.subject ; have ebtertained and weighed the sages tions gnd propositions as to the provisions such ¢ bil; have addressed parli t apd the country upon the question.Put with all the agitation of the subject it must be plain te all who taken an interest in it thet \\ : oy ow THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, Heist in pb ivet thambek out; that up to à few days ago even tbe most interested and largest and most influential sections of business men were in open disagreement as to vital principles of such legislation ; that one great mass of the community\u2014tbe agricultural interest\u2014 is not yet altogether reconciled to it, and that, in fact, however general may be the demand for some legislation, the mind of the country is far from matured as to what that legislation should be.Moreover.added to much righteous opposition, there is some that is not altogether free from a selfish element.The government and Opposition leaders both probably find behind them bodice of representatives of the prople who are silently but none the less effectively opposed to insolvency legislation.It is well known, too.that any Dominion insolvency legislation that can be passed will change for the worse the position of some of the provinces.It is needed most in two or three provinces whose legislation in regard to the distribution of the assets of bankrupt traders is poor, or even bad.In view of the opposition in parliament and in the country, the government would probably be unwise in trying to force legislation.The risk would ceftainly be very great.The country io in a state of high prosperity ; there is no particular urgency\u2014we mean in the commercial situation\u2014at the present time for such legislation.The bankruptey statistics are unprecedentedly low when the number of traders and manufacturers engaged in business, as well as the activity in ll departments, in considered.The proverb, \u2018In time of prosperity provide for adversity,\u2019 is all very woll, and nothinff Is more certain than that the present heyday of money-meking will not last.Rut, equally, nothing is more certain than that the government would be charged with the responsibility for any change for the worse which might follow the passage of legislation at this time, no matter how just the demand of some classes of business interests in favor of it might bave been.The goverament should certainly influence and lead in matters where the necessity of reform seems plain to it, but it cannot force matters when the situation is not only not intolerable but is actually very pros perovs.The government bas bad legislation under consideration, and it has postponed it, but only aftet*having been succesalul in inducing the legislatures of the provinces in which reform is most demand- od to amend their legislation in the directions considered most necessary.It must be remembered that the commercial and financial condition of Canada became not only disgracefu! but calamitous under the working of a former insolvency law.During the years prior to 1880, when the insolvency law was repealed.the total liabilities in business failures reached $30,000,000, and during the five previous years under the act were never lower than $22,000,000.Since the repeal of the act they have nevér risen to $22,000,000, and were last year under $10,000,000.The situation before, during and since the Bankruptcy Act repealed in 1880 is set forth in the following diagram prepared by the government :\u2014 rather ridiculous, however, for the or-| otitis when he declared that it wee nok gans of & party which was in power for seventeen years without pastiug insolvency legislation.to charge à government which has been in power duving a period of only three very busy years, with apathy and delsy.\u2014\u2014 A CRITIC OF CHRISTENDOM.A learned Mohammedan of India who had travelled in Europe and Americs, spending some time in England, has published his impressions for the information of his co-religionists.We who are accustomed to reading accounts of Esst- ern peoples, writien by men of our own race, religion and language.bave still to learn how an intelligent, educated Oriental may regard us, our religion and our civilization.We are now offered the gift desired by Robert Burns\u2014of seeing ourselves as others see us.As might be expected, the view is not altogether a flattering one.Leaving out the retlec- tions made on our intense selfishness in competition for the amassing of wealth, our lack of calmness, out drinking habits, our insincerity, and substitution of ceremonial observances for true devotion, | which draw many wondering and caustic observations from our Mohammedan eritie, let us glance at his comparison between the faith of Islam and that of Christianity.A great proof of the insincerity of our religious professions he finda in the fact that while in all Mohammedan countries the whole system of laws and government is founded on the Koran, in no Christian land are the laws or institutions founded on the teachings of Christ.Herein he holds Christianity has failed either in its adaptation to human needs or in its power over the minds and hearts of its professed sdherents.Assuming this latter view to be correct, be advises Mohammedans to accept the scientific.mechanical and other material acquirements of the Christians, but by no means to adopt their faith, which they make no serious effort to put into prac tice as the rule of their lives in every day affairs, That there is force in this argument wll be admitted by all candid winds.But acute as our critic undoubtedly is, and just as his observations may be op the failure of Christian peoples to put into practice the tenets of & faith which he admits are ineomperably lefty, he las.missed the true deduetion from the comparison he has made.He has not stadied | the lines on which Christian civilisation hes been developed, nor considered that the rules of life laid down in the Koran are easy to follow, as compared with the teachings of Christ.The ideals of the one are infinitely below the ideals of the.other, and it is this loftiness which makes the failure of Christions to reslize them #o glaring in his eyes.There is à vast difference between the religion which re wards with a paradise or houris the man who dies fighting unbelievers and the faith which commands love for ene mies and the return of love for hate.Thus the professor of Christianity may fall wolully below the more! standard of his religion and yet be vastly superior to that of Mahomet, The argument that the Christian nations have obtained the mastery of the world by acting contrary DOMINION OF CANADA BUSINESS FAILURES IN CANADA (NewrounbLaND IncLuorD TO 1891 inclusive) tars + Gouna whe , de, in Millions § 3 iH; Is will be remembered that one of the principal counts against the Mackenzie Government was set forth in the failure statistics under thet bankruptey act.There can be no doubt that the net encouraged bankruptey.And it will be difficult to frame an act that does not eù- courage it.The government ie Justified in going slow, but not too show.Rh Bvneos Games es m0.5.8.FLIED, Herrven or Fans, Gammes ov (0 F Dec, 3181, 16- i Ë # o to their professed faith ls a fatal error.Whatever be the merite of their meth ods in dealing with other peoples, it ia after all, the moral force inberent in Christianity which underlies their sue cas.Kesbub Chunder Sen, the leader of the Brahm Bomej.in Calcutta, who knew all the history of British rapine in the Bat, saw more cleriy than this later ob \u2018| wise of Lord Kitchener to have his tomb, { unknown spot, which could not be made = British prowess, but Jesus Christ, that had conquered Indias, aad, still more, thet now held it subject.ANOTITER INVENTION.Sir Wilfrid Laurier denied in the House of Commons last week the report which came from Washington to the effect that a modus vivendi in regard to the Alaskan boundary was being arranged.The re port was rather an alarming one to Ca nadisns, inssmueh us it set forth arrenge- ments which could hardly, result other wise than in tending to establish or cone firm certain extrsordinary claims which the Americans have been trying to establish in regard to the northern slope of the mountains through which the passes to the Yukon district run.There can Le no shadow of « doubt that, under any possible interpretation of the treaty de fining the Alaska boun lary, tbe north- etn nope of these mountains is British territory.It has always been represented s0 even on American maps, which claimed the uttermost for the American case.\u2018 Yet the Americans tried to estab lish themselves at Lake Bennett in order apparently to facilitate the emuggling of American merchandise into the Yukon district.The Canadian police and customs posts have been established at the summit of the parses, where a provisions] boundary bas been established.It was reported from Washington a few deys ago that an agreement had been reached between the British and American governments, according to which the Cans- dian military and customs posts were to be withdrawn from the summits of the passes and a sort of neutral territory open to both nationalities shouid be established extending apparently to Lake Bennett.The report had it that this was necessary in order to prevent blood: shed between the borderers of both nations.It was provided that military parties from either nation might enter into the neutral territory when necessary to preserve order.The effect of this arrangement would therefore be to make it possible for American troops to go as far as Lake Bennett to preserve order.Once there.of course, it might be necessary to stay there, and thus the Americans would establish a claim to a port on Lake Ben- pett, and would be tn possession of ter ritory between Skaguay, on the Pacific, and the navigable waters of the Yukon, which would be a fine thing for American commerce.In possession of so mach, the United States would have still fur ther reason to postpone arbitration and settlement of the boundary question.Sir Wilfrid Lauvier denied that there was any negotiation of such a modus vivendi, which was equivalent probably to a reminder to Washington that there must be two parties to all negotiations, and Canada did not intend to consent to any such arrangement.All that was under consideration, Sir Wilfrid explained, was the establishment of a provisions] boundary at the height of land on the Dalton trail, which runs overland feom the Chilkat and Dyes passes direct to the Yykon river, below Fort Selkirk.À modus vivendi would almost certainly delay the arbitration and settlement of the Alaska boundary question.\u2014 LORD KITCHENER'S GUERDON, We have a good deal of sympathy with Mr.Morley\u2019s dislike and distrust of the jingo spirit of militarism in which Great Britains policy of expansion and impe- rialam is being carried out.There is no doubt that confidence in force rather then faith in righteousness has been uppermost in European nations for many years, and that it is again taking posses sion of Great Britain.Me, Kipling's imperialism encourages this.Though he himnelf never loses sight of the fact that Pritain's power is based upon her moral force, many of his admirers do not beed that part of his teaching.And no ons | disagrees with Mr.Morley in his dieap- probation of the irreverent treatment of the Makdi's remains.It was probably s most picturesque building though it waa, destroyed and hls body buried in an a \"holy place\u2019 of pilgrimage and an inspiration of rebeilion.But there should have been no distribution of his bones among the soldiers and no attempt to make tgophies of them.Eventually the skull was buried.But though this was a manifestation of disgusting barbarism, we cannot see what ju mesnt by the talk about the cruelty of the xet, The bones of the greatest prince that ever sat upon the throne of England were treated, three hundred years ago, with similar ig noble vengeance.But such acts are hardly cruel to the friends and relatives of such men, for they are ¢asentially tributes to thelr greatness, And the Mahdi who was & merciful and religions man, ji © was aloo n grodt tank; th Mhalifs was the tyrant and oppressor.We have me sympathy, however, with Mr.Morley's opposition to Lord Kitchener so far as it is based upon opposition te the policy of expansion and re-conquering the Soudan.The responsibility for that poliey rested upon the British Government snd Lord.Cromer.Lord Kitchener's military sue- cess in carrying out the policy was à matter quite apart from the wisdom of the policy in general, and, grating that Lord Kitchener was bound to carry out his or ders, it must be admitted that he should be rewarded for carrying them out te the best of his ability, not rebuked because the policy of his government was not à wise one in the view of its opponents.If military commanders sre to be, in effect, influenced in their military operations by considerations of the political wisdom of what will follow the success of their eam- paigns, they will seldom be sucossslnl, and to meke politicians of soldiers on ao tive service is a dangerous policy, es France bas discovered.ALASKAN MODUS VIVENDI, Apprehension as to a Settie- ment of the Dispute Fast Disappearing.London, Juss 10\u2014It in believed now that there is little cause for appreben- sion as to the settlement of à modue v;- vendi in the Alaskan boundary matter.The subject of ¥Fyramid Harbor was settled some time ago, snd after the arrangement arrived at on Tuesday in re gird to the Dalton Trail only a few minor pointa remained to be cleared up.\u2018Lhe location of the Indian village of Klukwan was the principal difficulty, and Jr.Choate and Lord Nalisbury have since conferred in regard to it.They met at the drawing-room yesterday afternoon, and the matter was settled.The delimitation is not expected to be difi- cult.TECHNICAL STATE OF THE CASE.Washington, June 19.\u2014Up to the close of business hours yesterday no word come from London to indicate that the modus vivendi relative to the Alaskan boundary had been signed.The techni cal state of the case is that the British and American sides had agreed upon the principles, as it was supposed that whould govern in the arrangement of the modus.This was.oh a proposition emanating from British side in its last message.on some points it was so vague as to warrant the appre bension that it might contain germs of disagreement.Therefore, in accepting the British pre position ir principle, the United States specifically defined these points in à manner to remove any possibility of double construction.If the British Government sccepts this precise statement, the modus will be an accomplished fact, and upon this scceptance the American Government waits.It may come at any time and it is subject to delay if there is a further reference to Canads.The settlement, if it proves to be that, is received with much satisfaction by officials, although they eay it is short of what was most hoped for\u2014a complete and fins} settlement of the boundary eon troversy.The prescnt plan merely seeks to avert a possible clash between the dangerous border elements, but it is stated also will help along the final delimitations, and .perhaps may be accepted later by the two governments ae the basis of the treaty making the boundary, or the modus might be allowed to run along indefinite 1y, though it is preferred to meet the question of a permanent bettlement - squarely and fully at once by direct ne- gotistions between the two governments and remove this stumbling block from the joint commission, which, with the boundary dispute eliminated, probably can agree on the many other important subjects before it, including alien insmi- gration, reciprocity, lake fisheries, warships on the lakes, North Atlantie fiat eties, bonding privileges, ete.The cohmistion\u2019s reassembling is likely to postponed until next swtumn or ty winter.pr\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GRAIN STANDARD, Hamilton, June 10.\u2014The council of the \u2019 Board of Trade held & meeting yesterday afternoon to consider the question of the grading of the Manitoba wheat ceming east.The council considered that the regulations proposed by the government in its circular of May 1 would be detrimental to the trade emst of Port Arthus and that there should be some reasonable method of sppeal from the grading.council considered that it would be injurious to the Canadian shipping inte ests to allow Americen vessels to earry Manitobs wheat for export from one Cer padian port to anotiarr.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 RIOTING IN INDIA.Bombay, June 0.\u2014Serious riots have.broken out in the Tianeveli distriet of.the Madrus Presidency, between the Maravars and Kullas on the one hand, and the Shanaris on the other.Move ral villages have beem attacked and plus- of houses burned and æ Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regula - ting the Stomachs and Bowels af Promotes DigestionCheetful- ness and Rest.Contains neither | Oyu Morphine nor Mineral.|| NOT NARCOTIC.Aperfect Remedy for Consli tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhaea.dess and 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Sir,\u2014The wqrds of tbe Minister of Agricultuce, the Hom.Sydney Fisher, on the plebiscitgy recently delivered au Par liament, must be accepted by all, as per haps the most important contribution to the discussion of that great matter yet given to the public.He has, to a certain extent, broken the foree of the charges of ballot-box stutling, so freely made agrinst Jeputy-returning officers in the province of Quebec; and has given an air oi veasonableness tu the govern: ment\u2019s position that the vote in favor of prohibition is too small to warrant the enactment of the legilation at which i aimed.It may, however, be remarked, \\ that he differs from his leader in entertaining the conviction that it would have been too much to ask the prohibi- tioniata to prove the country\u2019s readiness for the complete outlawry of the liquor traffic by bringing to the ballot-box a majority of all the names on the voters\u2019 liste, and that be would have regarded the country as ready for the measure had a majority of sixty-six percent of these lists, that is to say, a majority of the pollable vate, been cast in ite favor, It would be interesting to know how the Cabinet would have divided on this issue, between Premier and Minister, had it become a live question.Tn the meantime, one thing ruues not be lost sight SOMEBUDY RESPONSIBLE.Some one, somewhere, is responsible for the fact that the prohibition leaders proceeded with their work in ~onnection with the plebiscite, on the assumption that the majority they had to roll up to attain success, was a different one from that of either Premier or Minister, namely, a majority of the vote actually cast, provided only that that vote should be, all the circumstances considered, a le one; and were struck with something like blank satonishment when the Premier found time on March 4, te say to a deputation, which had waited on him in Noveinber, that large as the prohibition vote seemed to them, it ape peared very small indeed to him, since it war not half as big sa 8 majority of the names on the voters\u2019 lists, which, in hie opinion, was the proper standard to be referred to in the case.The someone upon whom this responsibility rests je either the many-hended probihition leadership.to he convicted now, possibly, | of à etupicity a gros as it wae deplorable, or Sir Wilfrid Laurier himself, representing hin goverument.If the po.| hibitionists were wholly to Mame in the i matier, they should complain of no one a but themselves, and should mevkly accept the decision Rir Wilfrid has given; but, if Sr Wilfrid is responsible, they must either renounce their manhood or take their choice between forcing the government out of its present attitude, and, organizing, to hurl it from power.Who, then, ia responsible for the fact that the prohibitionists went into and through the pieblacite struggle under the impression that a majority of the vote aetually cast was to determine results?It is plain enemgh now té a great meny pervons, probably, thet had the neohibi- tionists not beew lacking in politics! se- OÙ \u2014\"\" gn.gacity they would have utterly refused to proceed with the work contempintesl unless Sir Wilfrid had consented to make the terms of his contract with them more definite.With each of three interprets tions of his words equally possille, and with the information placed before them by himself, that his habits and sympathies were against they should bave insisted upon Knowing brecmely what he meant by \u2018majority of the peo pie\u2019 and \u2018the wilt of the people! which \u2018would he carried out even were it to cost power for ever to the Liberal party.\u2019 The things which kept them from lving this cannot all he pamed, perhape, but if Tolstoy is guilty of no misrepresentation when, in his latest article on \u2018The Camar\u2019s Peace Conference,\u2019 he writes: \u2018No doubt diplomatists, who devote their lives to Iying, are so accustomed to that vice, and live and act in no dense an atmosphere of lies.that they do not themselves see all the alwurdity and men- decity of their proposais;\u2019 then prominent among these hindrances was a faith in human nature as it exiats in politicians diplomatically engaged, that wes sheer credulity.THE CONSEQUENCES.And what were the consequences sf this credulity ae it affected the results of the plebiscite?It Jossened the vote by a percentage which no man ean mes.sure.When the probibitionists waited ujon the Archbishop of Montreal eseking his co-operation, he told them as politely as he could thet he did not care to be duped as they had allowed themseives to bay and would therefore stand aloof from the struggle; and when he wid this he spoke for the whole great body of the Roman Catholic hierarchy throughout the Dominion, What prohibition woker was not continually met during the campaign, on the one hand, with the query, which no man could solve, whether the givern- ment was really in earnest or not, and on the other, with the expression of \u2018car from Liberal lips thet a Lig vote might put Laurier in a hole, The liquor men themselves, too, took in the situation very thoroughly, to the surprise of no one who in at all acquainted with certain inside facts; and the statement they at one time gave to the public, that they were not going to spend the money they bad provided means for raising at the start, was not wholly false by any means In short, the battle was never fairly joined.On the contrary, it was perceiv- od in many quarters that the prohibition- ints had allowed theweeives to be hood: winked into playing a game with Sir Wilfrid, in which they were fore-doomed to be the losers.Had they forced the Pre nier's hand and compelled him either to oy what he meant by his high-sounding promises of fair-play to the prohibition majority, if it could be secured, or to quit his talk of a plebiscite altogether, two or three things would have happen.od.Tn the first place it is more than doubtful whether the country would ever have been told that the only vote sufi.cient to warrant prohibition was a ma.Jerity of the sum total of the names on the voters\u2019 lists, which, if Mr.Fisher's estimate is relisble, amounts to aver 75 percent of the whole poflable cote.In the weoond place, with the necemsity of securing a majority of the whole le vite (for that would almost undoulstedly have been the situation) charly heture the mind of the tonnére, tresther with THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.the Premier's pledge to be strictly by the result, neither prokib- [ti b \u201cu tionisty nor liquor-men anywhere would pity, for him) his fellow ministers; aud have fel like lying on their oars: the had he then been (ollowed by; the Do- Rowan Catholic hierarchy throughout the [muon Alliance, and prohibitioniste Domini would have been drawn into |Senerdly, some wonders would have the conflict, and such a political battle been wrought in the political arena at vould huve been fought in thin Canula Ottawa.fnatcad of ali this, Me.Fisher af oure as it has never witnessed; aud [18 \u201cith Nir Willi Laurier, decrying the berides all this, every one would \u201cgnow Prohibition vote, while the Alliance procisely how the country stands on the fd repreventaties of some of the seat Question, and whether the goverment wus bodies are making an attanp should now enact prohibitory legielation to persuade the whole Cabinet to aban- joul« > y ata y ar not.Inst of thin, rover, we don a purpose which was formed befure he ot: upon, i- have nothing but uncertainty in what.he ge oan entered pr ever direction we lok, and all beaver.cp, vw complete success.an ws have seen, the prohibitionists al- WHAT THE CHANCES ARE lowed themselves to be duped.one eat judge fran two or *hree faats.In DUPES MANUFACTURED.the first place, the government did suo- But w this all there is to say?By ceed in keeping the vote down, so that no means.The dupe is a manufactured it 13 comparatively indecisive, In the article and always Lestities to the exist arcond place, the prohibition forces are euce of a maker.in some disorder through divided coun- There never was a dupe until sels.The Liberal-Uonservative section simple, trustful persona met a kuave, a of them, including the membership both .| in parliament and out, cau sec à g trickster, or a cheat.To be duped uw to deal more of duty before the government, fall in with some one who persuades you in view of the vote, than the Libera) that be is doing immensely more for yau section can.Finally.th than he actually dues, or is FIANUNE YOU unorganized mob ac distinquished from « a favor when he is really doing sou an detinéte political force.They are with: fay.Both detinitions fit the facts be out solidarity.They cannet he handled ore us.eve never was à time wi ° a ei disti Nir Wilfrid did not know that the pro- se ane body and made à distinct danger hititioniats of tius Dominion would have ar a distinct support to any political sperned his plebiscite had he not with- party.They can be even overreached and insult ith i ity, and they are pro- held the detinition of majority ~vhich he inauited with impunity.and they now apples in connection with its re bably in n worse position to-day than \u20ac ever before.They never had a chance sulta, Only by resisting all appeals utterly to discredit themselves politically for it did he get hin scheme foisted on until Sir Wilfrid furnished it in his plebi- the country.There never was a time, either, when He was not aware of the scite.At the beginning they healed po.litwal sagacity enough to keep themselves fact that by taking the uncertain course oa Sagacity * op he did ,he was preventing the country frown beng led into n trap, and the ote thing above all others which their situa: from giving a full expression of its mind on the question at maue Dispute thin tion has demanded since March 4 has ' been politiesl spirit encugh to see and second position who will, the firat re present in à practical fashion the indig- mains simply incontrovertible, and equal- [ny which has been put upon them, and Iy incontrovertible, therefore, stands the they have shown themsclves to be pos further amertion that there has never eed of neither to a saving degree.been à moment since Sir Wilfrid refused When they should be in arme and mar:h- to be frank and open in his dealings with the prohibitionists, in which he has not, ng against the Ottawa citadel in a host large enough and resolute enough to in- at least in that poor dim way, suggested wire any government with a wholesome by Tolstoy, been conscious that he wan sense of their power, they are approach.playing towards them the part described ing it in the old, weak way.above.Nor is Sir Wilfrid likely, should these words come under his eye, to regard them otherwise than as complimentary to his diplomatic ability: for no other conclusion can be arrived at in view of the information received, and the attitude taken by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, for instance, than that he looked upon the question of prohibition, as a political problem to be disposed of, for the present at least, by heing cleverly sheived; otherwise he would have made it a real, and not merely an appar ent éasue at the polls.In his defence of Sir Wilfrid, Mr.Russell seems to have forgotten the fact that the chief virtue of the diplomatist is cleverness, straight forwardness being scarcely considered at all in connection with his performance of his tasks.Flow many members of his Cabinet were in full possession of his secret may never be known, but we must assume thet Mr.Fisher is either still unaware of the fact that it existed and wrought much havoc upon the interests which he has at heart, or has nade up his mind, like a good Liberal, as men my, to condone Sir Wilfrid's offences, If, with your editorial of March 28, Me.Editor, we hold that Sir Wilfrid wan honest at the start, what are we to think of his letter of March 4, and how are we to account for the fact that the Roman Catholio hierarchy knew from the first \u2018there will be no law.Sir Wilfrid certainly departed from straight forwardness at some point, and his gov- emment, taken as a whole, spared no Pains to make the plebiscite, to use no stronger word.a huge disappointment for the prohibitionists.From this conclu sion there is absolutely no escape.l'ROHIBITIONISTS DECEIVED.So, whatever else is not clear in the case, two things are beyond dispute\u2014 Sir Wilfrid deccived the prohibitionists, and he did it in euch a way as to make the total vote polled on Sept.2 last smaller, as has been already said, by a percencage which no man can 1nesaure.And now, as if to remove all doubt {rom our minds that to make the vote small and indecisive was his object from the beginning, he bases his whole argument against granting the prohibitionists anything in view af it, upon the assertion that it is small, whereas, they où their part contend that, all the circum.staces considered, it was large; and, with & consistency which no one need ques tion, Bir Wilfrid has told them he agrees with them there! Nor, when, during the important closing days of the campaign, four members of the Cabinet, assis by many Liberal politicians, plunged into the fray in the province of Quebec, making use of sophism and misrepresentation, and appealing to party and race prejudices, was their action opposed to their ruling policy, excepting in its outward appearance.The vote waa promising to prove emall, and yet decisive.It looked then as if Quebes, too, with three-fourths of ite municipalities under local option, might give a prohibition majority, and show the whole country eolid for the change.This hed to be averted.Hence the activity in spite of the fact that it would enlarge consider ably the vote of the country taken as \u20ac whole.And it paid them, for did they not this solitary province their way 122,614 to 28,583, and reduce the net prohibition majority to 18,910?Nothing elas could have done it.Fach is the aitustion since Mr.Ficher spoke.It was very different before he announced bis position.Had the Min.inter of Agriculture really gone sbout the Parliament buildings gloomy and die presses as some of the nid did, and then resigned hia portfolio, importation and sale of intoxicating li- vince, adopting or bringing into force such an act by the duty qualitied elec tors.\u2019 senators, has been appointed to draft and introduce the necessary bill.ists, and not party slaves, this machinery they once afoot to defend their rights and extend them, they would command the cer of every political leader, and veither Liberal nor Liberal-Conservative would choose to deny them what they ask.Rut if they will not so bestir themselves they may count on maintaining for many rears to come that painful attitude of vain listening to Foster for an offer, however small, that would give them an excuse for voting against the party that bas dissppointed them, des cribed by yourself, Mr.£ditor, in that same leader of March 285, Fie on all such wretched childishness! As if Fos ter or any other leading politician could be beld responsible for tbe shortcomings of the whole prohibition horde! Le: the horde convert itself into warlike panies, regiments and bettalicos.Show the political leaders even a hundred Liberal voters in each of the hundred and twenty prohibition constituencies outenle of Quebec, who will certainly ast tneir ballots against their party if Laurier persists in denying the plebiscite 1majority the thing it voted for, and the whole political landscape will speedily take on new fentures.This country never needed a plebincite to show whether it was ripe for probitn- tion or not, and its results, so far as figures go could well be dropped out of memory now, if but & percentage of those who voted as prohibitionists in connec tion with it, would pat prohibition before party, through thick and thin, till they accomplished their purpose.And the history of the present government ha left them without =xcuse for not taking this step, for it has proved jure no practical difference in any direst: fiscal or other, between the ruling win: ciples of the two parties, and tha: the country is not likely to suffer, however often the ins may be turned out, and the outa brought in.The liquor men put their trade first and party second.\u2018But the race after wealth must always awaken greater enthusiasm than the pursuit of my more) reform.\u2019 prohibitionists go où worshipping the party fetish.But let them at the some time stop their prating.ONE WHO VOTED FOR LAURIKR.\u2014 PRORIBITION.(To the Editor of the Witness.\") Sir,\u2014It in very encouraging to see in jour cc:umne so many reporte irom vari ous churches and other organixatione throughout the country, all earnestly calling upon parliament to carry out the pledges given, by enecting a national prohibitory liquor lew.This is what we have been aiming at, and working for ail along, and certainly nothing less will mtialy any real prohibitionist.The duty of the government at the present crisie hus been clearly pointed oat; the lame apologies offered for not fulfilling the pledges given have also been well and challenged the prohibitioniste of the coun! to follow him im en effort to hurl government frm power, if it persisted in ite chosen course, he would f; raipod himoell in the ostim Pr of those pn) a motey whe The thing they are pressing for is \u2018An act totally prohibititng the manufacture, quer for beverage purposes in any pro- A comnuttee of ten, five of them members où parliament, and two of them If prohibitionists will rise now in such a way that those who represent them in parliament cen see that they are prohibition.may not have been set up in vain.Were \u2018did him no injustice.-| thing else?Noes the honorable The highest quality axle grease made.Mica Axle Grease contains ground mica, which forms a coating on the axle, and makes a perfectly smooth surface.sizes.Made by After the surface is formed you Mica Axle Grease as any other grease, need use only one-half as much Sold everywhere in convenient IMPERIAL OIL CO., Limited There's Always SOMEONE.a Among a social gathering who can play the piano; but it\u2019s seldom that an orchestra can be heard without previous and practice.WITH A \u201cBELL\u201d PIAN however, the player can play orchestra! music tune.Perfect imitations of \u201cBELL\u201d « mandoli; ither, banj other stringed instruments may be had at the wii d'u prose is the most perfect piano made, arrangements, Containing the Orchestral Attachment \u201cin perfect time and, and of the player.The and is FULLY WARRANTED BY Tee BELL ORGAN & PANG C0., Limite, GUELPH, ONTARID, | THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN CANADA, Catalogue Neo.50 Free om Request.ppm en, Many of us heard the Premier's statements also in the House a year ago in answer to the pointed questions of the Mon.George E.Foster, and if he had never committed himself to prohibition, before in case of a vote of the people! favoring it, he certainly did so then, it, his words meant anything at all.Then aguin, the very fact of a plebiscite being FR E E Sander iitaire uistte re 5 cans for seliing | dor.Heliotropa taken on the subject should be sufficient m=: warrant for the conclusion that the vete would be followed with corresponding leginlation.Flee why put the country to all that trouble and expense?It is said \u2018actions speak louder than words.The government spoke both by actions and words and now the people have a right to demand further action.The government put the responsibility on the people; they accepted the challenge; the people spoke in most decisive tones, and now the responsibility rests wholly with the government.As, however, the leader of the present administration flatly refuses to obey the mandate of the people and thus maintain the honor of his word, I hope the demand for provincial prohibition wili Le pressed, not as a final settlement of the question by any means, but only as another step in the direction of national prohibition.And although thousands have been most bitterly disappointed, 1 sincerely trust that the great army of temperance workers will not grow weary in well-doing, but continue the fight until victory is won.Some of us have not been nearly so muh dimppoirted as disgusted.When we waited on the government last November, and reference was made to the large majority in favor of prohibition, in sll the provinces save Quebec, the Premier in reply gave us the strongest assurance that the Province of Quebec, being a part of the Dominion would have to submit to be governed by the laws of the Dominion, etc.Bome were very much pleased and thought the Premier's words very generous and noble, while some of Ws thought they presaged no good to our cause, but that he could well afford to put Quebec in with alt the rest of the provinces, as he intended to do precious little for any of them in the matter of prohibition.Later developments have shown that our fears were not groundless; that our estimate Wilfrid and his utterances was resentiy stated thet he was still of prohibition, but that he beli \u2018effeetive prohibition.\u201d without mying® Who PE) t \u2018goss in eny- he Min: ister of Agriculture meen to fnsinuate believe in effective prohibition?That would not be very complimentary to either the intelligence or honesty of those who firmly believe, as I do, that it ia the solemn duty of the present government to enact a prohibitory liquor law for the whole Dominion of Canada, and sur rourd that Jaw with all the helos neces sary for its enforcement.If this were done, with the authority of the government behind it and a majority of the pople in sympathy with it, why abould it not be just as \u2018effective\u2019 as amy other law now in force, but each and all, more oc less violated every day?The argument that the Province of Quebec would not submit is, I think, utterly fallacious, Why would it not?Is it a province of rebels and law-break- ers?Surely not! Does not the present , Prime Minister owe his position largely 3, to electors of this province?! Then sure ly were he to enact such & law there would be the greatest respect shown it; he is just the very one to do it.Then again, he himself extols the people of his own province and speaks loudly in their praise, as I have heard him on various occasions; ss for example, in the Domin- fon Methodist Church, Ottawa, Feb.8, 1008, when the W.C.T.U, polyglot petition was presented; and «gnin, on Nov.3, 1808, when waited on by the prohibé- tion representatives in regard to the re cent plebiscite.Especialiy did Sir Wil trid emphasize the fact that the greator part of the province is already under local prohibition.This being true, it ie the veriest nonamee imaginahle to talk of any special difBeulty arising from that quarter.National prohibition would make comparatively fice change there.bly nn one believes the actual vote against prohibition in the Province ef Quebec was anything near as large es reported, nor thes it was really an expres - sion of feeling on the simple question of prohibition.Any way, those who are sb averse to Mo what they eall coercion should not allow thelr prejudice to override all inteilt- gence and honor, bud should remem that it is seven times as for ove province to cosrce seven se for' seven to / | \u20ac + { Jung 18, 1899.EE coerce ome.The opposers of prop tion are not the oaes to compiaia 3 ercion.- Provincial prolibition-en enlargement of the Scott aet\u2014will be a very long way short of national prohibition; nevertheless, 8s it will be a long step in that direction and a very great improvement on the present state of affairs, I-maet sincerely trust it will be steadily pressed for and speedily secured.JAMES LAWRON.Billings\u2019s Bridge, Ottaws, May 77, 188.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Wituess.\") Sir,\u2014You have hitherto claimed to he a defender of truth and good morals, and you claim to be sa still.In my hutable opinion the claim is just.end right.Mr.John Arthur, however, lias taken the trouble tp find fault with you and prohibition and probibi e Al low me to tind fauls- with Yim.Doubtless he will think the fraction of Chris tianity in this letter is very low indeed, but there were parte of his pomewhat lengthy epistle that were wanting in this respect.Mr.Arthur thinks that the greater tt of the advocacy of prohibition is ut a plain declaration that they do not deem Christ's work as sufficient to save the drunkurd.E faw on the statute books implies proffibition.We have prohibition in eve one of the ten commandments.Chedst did not come to destroy the law, but fulfil it, and to add to it.Re- cauf we have à law againet stealing do we re that we do pot think Christ's won} ss ruflicient to prevent this?& Christian men and women, should we got say, \u2018 What would Jeaus do ?\" in r-ference to the prohibition question.It in a pity that a few, a very few temperance people use tobacco.It in apt to bring a reproach on the cause, because scoffers are always ready to bring it up.1 am sorry to bare to may that Mr, Ar thur has not thought it beneath him to do this himseif.; 1 iike to hear of prohibitioniste coming eut of the polling booth \u2018puffing like steam bosts* The trouble is, with tço many \u201cthem but em, that they do not e enough in coming out dés a prohibitionist walks af much tance to record his vote bl the polly, that he is \u2018puffing\u2019 even Whin he is doming out of the booth, 1 think he demrves more than usual credit.Your correspondent from Hopwell seems to have a very high opinion of the government.Surely it should not be neces sary to tell him to put not hie trust in such uncertain things as governments.Some people are, party first and prohibition next, but your cotrespondent stems to be, Christianity first, perty next, and prohibition last.L think, sir, that the existing government is no extrsordinary affair what.veg.It is ni t .Ses Fo it Win do eo, bite br ES Rae sent themeeïves it seeks its own plea- rure, let yours be what it may.The Hon.Mr.Blake, on the floor of parliament, years ago, said that \u2018there was no (use enacting a law that the people were not prepared to uphold.\u201d This was said years ago.Could that be said to-day?Xo.The large majority for prohibition in the recent plebiscite shows plainly that the people of Canada are prepared to uohold it.7 I am glad to say thet 1 am wee of the vast multitude who think youe eof respondent from Hopwell isa little ux- treme.He says: \u2018Divine law has à renovating power.\u201d All human lew is powerless in thin respect.IL js then as good as powerless in all other respects.Mr.Arthur professes to have great faith in our government.Our government passes our laws.If the law is veeless the government is much more so.The saloons are the greatest stronghold of Fatan in the world, and how can the world be conquered for Christ withont the destruction of these?I think it cannot, and Mr.Arthur thinks it can, be done.Mr.Arthur is in favor of oing out into the hailing sea with the life boat for those who have been wrecked on the rocks, instead of erecting (te lighthouse to guide the ahipn past the rocks in safety.J believe in both.snd mn does the \u2018Witness\u2019 as far as I can tell.Tt is too bad that your worthy côr- respondent is not estisfled, but, then.therr are getting to be so many people in the world now that it ie extremely diftélt to entisfv evervbodr.FRED.B.EDMUNDS.Monkton, Ont.\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE ST.REGIS INDIANS.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.8ir,\u2014The press of Canada for some jest.time past has been publishing agrounts of tha events occurring at St.Regis.These accounts all present the matter in such 8 way that anyone reading them would naturally conclude that the In- diané are a dangerous and quarrelsome people.To many who knew nothing about them, the talk of war-whoops, braces, etc, brings up ideas very farre-|} moved from the actual condition of affaire, and suggests yainted svages armed with tomahawk and rifle, ready to go on the war path.The actus) facts are vety different.The 8t.Regia Indian is in most cases a {srmer who works his Innd and is tey- ing to improve his ocomditicn\u2014e quiet, poscoable citisen, with no ideas of éght- ng ov breaking laws, who minds his own business very strietly and leaves a Deighbory to do the same.The Indians heave sertsin b \\ rights T by treaty which they + THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS think were not observed in the recent regulations as to the election of chiefs, ete.They have ventured to expres their dissatisfaction and the reply is the death of ope of their pumber.That the unfortunate oscurrence was unavoidable no one here who knows the Indians tiflieves; mor that the police were in any serious déinger It seems a pity that| 4.The Halifex Legielsture would have the depart, md no other solution control over alt local government mat- of the trouble but to send a squad of ters, and the Dominion government police lo force these people into harmony would control customs, excise, and the with their ideas.They naturally re.preservation of law, order snd justice.sented such treatment as unjust, and in-| 8.No doubt a governor would have to tend to continue asking until their griev.be sppoënted for each colony, Lut he ances are settled.would only set as the incumbent of Dub- The death of John Ice brings the whole lin Castle acts, to nee that the officials matter before the public and from being if the colony act rightly, and tofbe the a petty trouble in the Indian Depart visible representative of the sovereign, ment it Leeomes one of natienal inter- the lialifax government really govern est\u2014one in which every citizen is Inter ing, Ilondurna or .Jamaics, as it now ested.We have justly prided ourselvea |Koverns Cape Breton.on our methods of dealing with the In-| It seems to me that the above solu- lans in tbe past and surely a.oountry tion would settle this important roblem that bas euceassféli> mansged the Indian (In & practical way, without causlog any as a savage, ought to be able to da na YérT great expense to Cansda.The well by him now after two centuries of|l°c#l revenue from the two colonies civilising, and settle hin little disturb- would be small, if avy, but there would ances without Killing him.I was pres |be an important aaving in abolishing the ent at a megting of the Indians at Bt, Charlottetown and Fredericton Legidu- Regis on Mdy 23, at which about fifty tures and governments, while the enor- men, young and old, assembled.The OU intercolonial trade to he acquired object waa to receive a report from Mr.by annexation, would more thin Cond .Copeland, their lawyer, which he hed o ts art of the defrayed Mr.The Dough! from Ot ration presides\u2019 Mr.revenue from customs snd excise should .» PI * {pay the sala of the officials, any way.Copeland'e statement ws ©.| The gov.|\u201d The abmorytion, of.British Honduras agaist the Indians provided they ond should lead to a greatly increased trade : between Canada and Mexico, which drop theirs against Col.Sherwood, & hint + wae foe that provision might be de would then be our neighbor, a trade that or the wife and child of the dead In [aPoMd be very Incendie reo ot dian, Also, there would be an inveati-linto the confederntion as dependencies, gation into all their grievances.\u2019 In re-| Bermuda and the Bahamas would clamor ply, an old chief spoke in Indian.The lfor the same end to their troubles; but other Indiana listened intently and [if we annex these small islande, we shall quietly, The substance of his address|pave lots of tronble, without any sde- : quate remuneration.Let them and the others to the east and south remain as should mot be considered to bave any voice in the government Cangla, They, oid 5 it indies \u201cfo\u201d thé Ottawa Parliament, only to the Halifax Legialature; but each colony could be represented in the Benate by three Renn.tors for Jamsice and two for Britiah Honduras, waa \u2018The Indians had not expected any such offer and bad no reply to make just they are.now, a council would be called, the mat- PUBLICOLA.ter discussed and an answer given that| May 25 100, would represent the opinion of che bend.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ia reply was non-committal.e only part they took much notice of was THAT SERMON.the offer of en investigation.During the eonferetice, which lasted about six hours the strictest decorum was obeerved.The few who discussed the matter spoke with great earnestness, but with no evidence of enger or ill will.\u201d They spoke as men who felt they were in the right and hed nothing to {To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.) P Sir \u2014I must thank vou for the space \u2018given in your vslusbla paper to com- \u2018munieations received re a sermon preached by me recently in Taylor Church.I must also thank you for your very able, clear-headed editorial of lsat Seturday.fear from any investigation.In the informal talk afterward, I found they were very munch annoyed about the statements published, that they were arming\u2014wers going to burn the agent's house, ete, al lof which the vaid was false.They had no intention of doing any harm to anyone.I could not heip feeling that these men believed they had good cause for complaint and rested on its justice.Ih ited fi to wokit oh EetP of the TodiLel Det\u2019 as no one seems d to Ifelt I There are one or two statements I wish to make about the production that has given rise to so much discussion.When written, the sermon was not intended for publication, hence many crudities in the literary structure of the discourse.After the manusoript left my hands, it passed through the crucible sad was \u2018 boiled down\u2019 considerably before reach- 8g thie * Wittens.\u2019 Many phrases, sen- teaces and paragraphs were struck out; hut!\" T \u2018have \"known And practiced JMB several cases obecuring lhe meaning among them over tweuty years.My wife and children have spent ane or two months every year during that titbe on an island near them.1 feel I would be doing an injustice if T did not say something in favor of the Indians, squavws, and papooses who during that time have been our quiet, friendly snd unobetrusive neighbors, I would ask your readers to consider the reply of the squaw to us as revre- sented by thone in authority when told she could take her husband's body away: \u201cThe government kill my mam, lot them come and take him.- .O.ALGUIRE, M.D.Cornwall, Ont, May 24, 1800.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ANNEXATION OF WEST INDIES.(To the Editor of the \"Witness.\u201d) Sir,\u2014In 1583, the writer, as your readers will remember, pointed out that the C.P.R.authorities had determined to make « great city of St.John, N.B.In « few more years this city will be the greatest emporiinn of commerce east of Boston.It is that now in the winter time, though its development bas anly juss n.The Bpanish war has given us another Question to settle.It seems that our nuritime provinces sre to lose their rich trade with the Spanish West Indien, while the Dritish West Indies are to Loge their trade with the United Btates.The British West Indies are looking to Canada for relief, by proposing annexation to Canada, as a solution of the trade problems arising out of the Kpanish war.This annexstion has been warmly commended in the maritime pro vinees, which have much to gain and little to lose were it carried out; but tho people who support the Dominion, and who live in the progressive Western provinces, nre not likely to endoree the pro- To enter into the matters sod ques tious fully, covered by the above caption, would move than exhauet the space you could allow me to discuss this > but haviog often cerefully consid.it, it seems to me the only practical solution of the problem will be found in the following suggestions.1.Annex only Jamsios and British Honduras.Annesation of the small is islets only complicates the while the larger colonies to b as Harbadees, Trinidad are too far distant to become portion of Canada.jes and British Honduras anmexed to Nova Scotia, as Cape ton now is; and to prevent the mt being swamped by the rovince Being styled Acedia, with Hale capital, West Indian dependencies somewhat.There were also several quotations from modern sociological writers, which were carefully marked in the original manvecript, but when the dis course had come through \u2018the will\u2019 and appeared in print, were almost entirely obliterated, thus giving me credit for that which did not really belong to me.Even the verbes of poetry did not co» cape, but lost their quotation marks in the refining process.1 do not complain of this, but think it just to myself and others to make thess statements.However, the sermon, ss a whole, conveys the meaning intended, and expresses the deep oenrictions of one who has studied, to some limited extent, the business relationships of te-day ae \u2018they affect the working classes.It is my earnest hope that the discimeion thus aroused, may give an impetus to the trend of thought, that seems to be set ting in, in favor of more equitable conditions between the capitalist and the working man.It was only after I had been told that it did pot mich eour- age to preach the sermon to Taylor Church le, (as the majority of them am working men snd women), but that it would take more grit then the aver age minister passeses te let the sertuon go before the public sad stir up disous- sion that might be for the beuufit of all only then did I censent to its being orinted.Ju the controversy thus fer there has béen little said requiring ain answer from me.The only man who has criticised tho sermon severdy is ¢ ional.\u201d On the whale, I am rather pleased with the tone of hin letter, although in some parts it is rather amusing, yet I cannot aocept many of his conclusions.Je says, \u2018 want, misery, humiliation, degrs- da\u2018ion, the voice of the pulpit hes eried: These things ere God's will,\u2019 ete, eto.I have sat under, or stood in the nulpit at reguiar intervals during my whole life, and I have never heard such stuff uttered by eny minister.In fact, I em very soptical as to such sentiments having ever been given from any pulpit, in this of any other Christian land; and sceptical I shall remain until \u2018Rational\u2019 gives me the name of some man that preaches auch doctrine.1 am afraid that my good friend is breeking his own dictum, Don't speak (in publio at all events) in condemnation any scheme or cuit until you have studied it\u2019 One cannot but he amused nt (he stretch of imagination, in the picture drawn by \u2018 Rational\u2019 of the writer of the sermon.\u2018Emerging, not emerged from the darkness\u2019 in whioh he has wn lung dwelt, \u2018and with the cobwébs of the pest clinging to him he is confused with the ing light of socialism.It all the exponents of socialiem were a \u2018ra tions), little wonder if he were daææled somewhat.One cannot bep thivking that the \u2018 cobwebs\u2019 are somewhere «ise than clinging to the preacher.Of courve the cartoon je harmless, but ap à peyeho- LA \u201c| slander which poi study may Drove valaatle, .abewing to what exte: i i may run, when once éivorced Ae en son.My reviewer deals somewhat hadi; almost flippantly, with the \u2018chi heart\u2019 idea.J do not think that any one who has passed chrough that solemn experience can speak of it as he does.He says, ' What is known as a changed or regenerate heart hse \u201cinvariably\u201d lifted its possessor above the world he lives in .with the result that he despises, or profersss to despine, thin eartldy sphere tao much to put forward any cffort for ite social reformation.\u2019 this so ?[oes the chang ed heart always have thin effect ?Jet us see.Porhaps there haa never been 8 minister in all the roll of Heotland's worthy divines, who preaçhed with ench power and success \u2018the necessity of 6 \u201cchanged heart\u2019 as did Thomas Chal mers.Did this aky-gaging mania which \u2018invariably\u2019 takea hold of the man of \u2018changed heart\u2019 take possession of lim ?He went down to the worst parte of Glasgow, \u2018the Kt.John\u2019s parish,\u2019 which Le described as being \u2018aboot the nearest place 10 hell on this earth,\u2019 he established day-achools, Runday schonls, ete, by his unremitting toil he was the means of revolutionizing and uplifting, morally, socially, and religiously the whole dis trict committed to his care by the Town Council of Glasgow.T wonder how many euch feats have been accomplished by our friends of the unchanged heart.Perhaps there is no cult or sect of today that preaches with more earnestness and persistency the necessity of a \u2018changed heart\u2019 than does the Balvation Army.Has the maudlin sentiment spoken of by \u2018Rational\u2019 which \u2018invariably\u2019 takes possession of such people acted so with them and their leader ?1 am sure he must agree with me when I say there is no body of people of the same size that has worked so esrnestly, snd bas done so much, as they for the amelioration of the poor, and_unlifting of the submerged masses.I believe there is no living wan, who has dose ro much to help the poor during the Inst twenty-five years as bas General Booth; and he bas done it despite his \u2018changed heart! But what is the use of multiplying examples.Take what lines of hilanthropy you wish and you find the leaders, the moving spirits in the majority of cases, are gwen of the \u2018changed heart! Space forhids my speaking of Shaftesbury, and Howard, and Wilber force, and Florence Nightingale, etc., etc, Blot out of existence all philanthropic work that is being done in the world to-day by men and women who believe in profess Yo have experienced the \u2018changed heart\u2019 and how much will you have left ?l'leave it to every righs- thinking man to answer the question for himself, My critic very magosnimously says: \u2018 Recognizing that Mr.Reid in but new so the light, 1 will pass lightly, albeit warningly, over bis\u201d crudities and inst curacies on communiam, aad jm.\u2019 I am sure that 1 am ingly obliged to him for his goodness in thus handling my frailties so tenderly, and sparing my \u2018verdancy,\u2019 and perhaps 1 will \u2018be more careful next time (1), but this I wish to say, that by the time that \u2018Rational\u2019 studies social conditions in as many of the largest cities in Britain, and Europe and America, by the time he bas listened to as many anarchists \u2018spout\u2019 in different parts of the world, when he has taken as many on sociology from some of the ablest specialists on the subject in America, when he has written as many theses, and passed as many examinations ou the subject as I have done .wall, be will know a good 1 more about the eub- ject than he does at present.My re marks on the subjects mentioned were my conclusions after careful aud deliberate study.\u2018Rational has come to other conclusions.| have as mweh right to my opinions as he has to his, \u2018That anarchism declares against a'l buman cooperation, is another misconception of Mr.Reid's\u2019; so\u2019 says the critis.The \u2018Standard Dictionary,\u2019 the latest and most reliable published, gives the following defnitions, \u2018 Anarch, one onposed to all government, à leader- of revelt.\" \u2018Anarchy, absence or utter disregard of government; sa unregulated snd chaotie dition of \u2018society, social and po- ficieal confusion and disorder.\u201d Of course .* Rational\u2019 may, if be sees.fit, call these definitions \u2018a grotesque shows that the authors of the Btendard Dictionary \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014gpememmey ADVERTISEMENTS.BAS A CURE FOR CANCER RECN POUND ?The Successful Treatment Without Knife, Pain or Plaster, The following letter Ig conclusive proot as to ite m : Drs.A.M.& C.H.Mason, Chatham N.Y: Dear Bir, desire to piaés before ai who are suffering from cancer my word and testimony in favor of your Vegetabls Cancer Cure.I was for years & sufferer from etysipelas and severe beudache, and could ad po relief.As trouble never comes sin- y.1 was bedly frightened when 1 discor- ered a tumor under my arm, which had those pains and strange feelings vo hard to describe.All who have had any expert- ence witb cancer know what thin meant, and through tho advice of à fricad | pro- sured your rempedy (or cancer, and began ita use with the following results: I son noticed «0 improvement in the erysipeies, and as | continued ita vie noticed t the cancer was diminishing In size, ea softent very perceptibif.1 have used five hotties, and Where in Het a trace of tbe tumor Lo be fouad, and I consider my cure rfact.1 would that afl who are suffer.ag from cancerous troubles knew of your paintess trestgpent.With satis Room 3, Atcad pringdelt, 0.For Canadian testimouisle, write à JURY, Drawer W., Bowmanville, Ont have rot studied the matter even mod- truth in the slightest.In conclusion I may jy that in some respects | rather like the tone of the writer of the criticism.I like bis earnestness and candor and I have no doubt but if \u2018 Rational\u2019 discarded some of his irrations! and offensive bumptiovaness, and would come down fi imaginary pedestal, he and 1 t agree on quite a number of subjects.W.D.REID.\u2014 WHAT I$ ANARCHISM ?(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019 Bir,\u2014In the May Mat number À tide \u2018Witness,\u2019 the Rev.W.1).Reid quotes from the Fiandard Dictionary to prove that \u2018snarchism declares against all human co-operation.\u2019 In the May issue of \u2018Liberty,\u2019 the organ of philosophic indi- viuslistic anarchimn, there is au article headed \u2018What is Anarchism?This arti- ele, written hy Btephen T.Byingion, who, by the wey, is a divinity atudent, begins 2s [ollows: \u2014 - Auarrchiem be the Gortrins that govern- ould de abolished.Everybody axrees né, a8 everybody thinks he knows rament Is, everybody thinks he koows what anarchism Is.Yel very (ew people cam define government such a wny that\u201d they would pot take bark thelr definitions after being asked a few ques- ons.Anarchism le à theory of political eclanre, asd is op] to government in the poli- tleai sense.Government, in the potitical sense, le & human powar, which asswiies and exercises a yenersl control over the scliona of all persons within certain ree- ognized limite of territory, or of rac lorcing this control by violence wh nec The \u2018government\u2019 of a el chureh, or any othrr voluntary organization, is not a political government, because it does not sttempt to compel the obedience of al) persons within any Umit, but simply directs tbe actions of such as ars willing to be directed: hence !t is pot opposed to anarchistic principles.J.J.D.Montreal, June 2, 1897.\u2014_\u2014 FROZEN BEARS FOR THE LONDON MARKET.A consignment of frozen Russiap bears arrived at Leadenhall Market s day or two ago.Bix came in their sking\u2014a black, a.brown, two half-grown bears, and twe cubs\u2014and jo addition thers were sixty pounds of ursine \u2018joints, steaks, and cutlets.tely'; bot his saying so wil mgrgligm; 1 EE \u2014\u2014\u2014 speculation in bear's ment had been justi- - \u201d results.\u2018Gone, all gone, said Ergo Lona that joint banging there, which you may have home wit you if so minded\u2019 Jt needed more ; courage Lo accept than to decline with \u2018 thanks.\u2018See this,\u2019 pressed Mr.Tabor, encouragingly, at the same tims produc ing 8 bulging mat-besket, containi about s baron of bear.\u2018A gentleman vis and leading in the Fourth Ketate ; will cali for it shortly\u201d And be did Mr.Tabor straightway introducing the epicure and the skeptic.The valiant trencherman then pronoaneed s glowing eulogium on the succulence of ursine Hush, which may posribly blowsom into a \u2018Dissertation on Ronst Meer\u2019 in ose of the new Sunday papers, should rigive.ous indignation spare thems Jong enough, In his view bear tasted ns sweet as a Southdown sbeep, and the British palate was ridiculously squeasnish.He strode away ue jauntily as a man goes to 8 fasst.The salesman, resuming, ssid the six bears had all gone to restaurs- tours up West.He sqpposed they ware eaben sow, though \u2018digested be \u2018could not say.They brought two shil fi per pound in Jondon.While hanging the markets the bears attracted lig ger crowds of curious spectators than ever gathered round a bear pit at the Zée.\u2014~London \u2018Daily News.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LORD \u2018ROSEBERY AS THE DOUGAL CRATUR.There is a story going the rounds about Lord Rosebery as an amateur actor.On one occasion, se it is eaid, his lordship 3000 after succeeding to the title figured as the Dougal Cratur in an amateur per formance of \u2018Rob Roy\u2019 in Dumfermline, appearing in the bill as \u2018Mr, Archibald,\u2019 while the Iighland Chieftain was impersonated by Whyte-Melville, the well- known author.In order to éarry out the ides of the \u2018red-heided Heñan\u2019 deevil\u201d as Bailie Nicoll Jarvie terms the Celtio waif, the Farl of Rosebery wore a wig of a very fiery bue.In the course of the play this conspicuous adornment accidentally fell off, and of course this caused rants of laughter among the audience.The noble Dougal grinned too, but when he picked up the wig and atuck it on his head the wrong way the hilarity was re doubled.Sitting near the chronicler were a grim old farmer and his wife.The latter growled, in reference to + = mishap ;: \u2018That Deugal is gowk, wha- ever be is! 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May 17.favored by veal Queen's weather, Her Majesty proceeded to South Kensington and laid the foundation-store of the new Victoria and Albert Museum buildings.At a quarter past four the Queen left Buckingham in a semi-state landau drawn by four bay horses, and escorted by the 2nd Life Guards.Fifteen minutes later she arrived at the pavilion erected on the A SAN AT THE PAVILION, \u201c .site of the new museum.Her Majesty [in the pavilion where the stone was tobe was accompanied hy the Duke of Con- laid, and whers the Prince of Wales and naught, Princess Christian and Princess Henry of Battenberg, and was received at Kensington, amidet the hlure of trum- i pats, by the Lord President of the Council, the First Commissioner of Works, {and the authorities of the South Ken- \u2018sington Museum.The royal carriage waa driven alongride the platform with- | Queen returned a written reply, where other meribers of the royal family were assembled.After the singing of the national anthem.the Lond President read te the Queen an addrems describing the origin and objeets of the building, and requesting her authority to name it the Victoria and Albert Museum.The dpon the Lord President presented a camket which, by the assistance of the Prince of Wales.was placed in a cavity under the atone.The Lord President \u201cthen handed a trowel to Her Majesty, who, with the assistance of Mr.Aston Webb, the architect of the building, laid the \u2018stone \u2018well ad truly.\u2019 A madrigal, written by the poet laureate and composed by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, was Lee COLA CP , .sung by the students of the Royal College of Musié, and the ings closed with the benediction, pronounced by the Archbishop of Canterbury.The carriage procession was then re-formed, and the Queen drove at once to Paddington, en route for Windsor.The casket which was placed beneath the stone was prepared by Sir George Chubb, and presented by bim for Her / \u2014Tilustrated London News.= ot Majesty's use.It is made i with gold enrichments, in shape, and has a domed lid surmouni- ed by the Imperial crown ob a cushion.The interior, in which the records and coins were placed by the Queen, is lined with royal blue velvet.The casket was finally closed by a small gold key of very elegant design bearing the initials V.R.I.with a crown above.oblong GARDEN TALKS.This department is conducted by Mrs.Annie L.Tacx, Chateauguay Basin, Que, to whom all questions shculd be sent.All questions answered through the \"Wit.Dess © 1 do not suppose any garden enthusiast lives who has not at some time discovered that mistakes bave been made in planting, and so it is with me to day.: The lovely iris group of many shades aod markings are blooming on the top of & dry knoll when their real home should be in a moist position.The sweetbriar died for want of sunshine and sir, and because it was subject to strong winds in its unmpitable corner; and the Lily of the valley fades soonest in a very sunny corner.It is the same with human powers.We think we could have blossomed to greater perfectness with different environment, and that we were thwarted of our birthright by being lanted in the wrong place.1 know a Soar old farmer who always tiiought he should have been a lawyer, but gircum- stances pointed to rural life, and I do not think he was misplanted, for he has lived to make \u2018the wilderness and the solitary place\u2019 gisd, and always encouraged and helped those who, like himself, were planting for pesterity.And God apd man shall own his worth, \u2018Who tolls 10 leave, as bis bequest, An added beauty tu the earth.\u2019 All this train of thought is aroused by the opening of the May, the fair, sweet, English hawthorn that is now in full If, in planting, one had only that the branches might interlock, and touch ench other, as they do when growing wild.But they are beautiful to-day, and I have a feeling of satisfaction that they have lived and brightened my garden as well here an in England and Bectland.Beloved of poeta and of lov- ove, there is a sentiment about it that charms, as well ag is beauty.It fe indeed \u2018Quesn of \u2018the: May.\u2019 THY.FLORAT, CLUB.It is one of the vearly murprises to after a day's vain hes kept-ene indesrs, and between ae oat the wet der is myriads, to aay F, weatly have 1\u201d Por ne we make cur wey into - den we see an army of enemies have sprung suddenly into the rows where we planted with such anticipation only a short time ago They overwhelm the small onion, and the miniature carrot: they crowd the little ribs of the ruddy beet, and the radishes are almost hidden from view.All useful plants in their proper place, but in general belief any growing plant that is common to the eonntry,or not noticeable far floral beauty or entitled to respect as a herh, is called lied 10 all unwelcome creations of plant life that persist in growing where they are not wanted In the garden one must be on the alert for already the white weed is going to seed June grass, in advance of the month, has been in flower.and must not be encouraged to stow in the tulip bed where it has planted itself We are not allowed, as in some European countries, to sue a neigh- hor whe neglects to destroy the weeds on hin land, so the thintle and field dairy, the purdaine and other enemies to clean culture, live and thrive when not aub- jected to eonstant warfare.The preen- est, toughest grams to he found is the twitch gross and it in troublesome enough.Tf a root geta info the flower borders you may pull and pull, but it has a ioin\u2018ed st-m an | goes further down and across.I asked a wine agriculturint how to exterminate it.and he shook hit head while a merry twinkle came inte hin eyes, \u2018Throw the roote up on the ton of the shed,\u201d he said.\u201cleave jt till it in ae dry aan chin, then put it on the honfire : acabter the ashes.and twitch grass will start again ae ne ever\u201d T hear the haer ringing out in the rows as Ÿ write: it's a fine day to kill weeds, and we may hope that the plante we do want will get their chance to grow CAULIFLOWER C.C.planted seed of caulifiower, but when it came up, after attaining the third leaf they wilted over, only a few at the outer edge of the box surviving.were planted, and grew, but never turned white.Khe waited for the dirty.looking brown heads to bleach, but they failed to do ro.Conaeqnently there was not any cauliflower in her garden las - tamn.Ans.\u2014C.C.evidently has made cauliflower a vature study.or el would have known that the flower first white, and only reaches the brown stage when unfit for the table.The only thing now is to ase a few plante from seme grower and set them out tn rieh, pastis (A - + a weed But, properly, it should be ap-! @ well atarted, me: not any more difficult to grow :han a cabbage and much more desirable.CYPRIPEDIUM PUBRSCENS.Minnie J.\u2014A yellow flower that had once been inflated like a balloon came in your letter asking its name.Above you will find its botanical term, but it is known as a yellow lady shipper, one of the native orchids that thrive in a sha led Place in the garden, and it stands trans planting well frum the woods.If vou found it in the garden of your new home, some one has doubtless planted it there.These queer, pouch-like flowers gros in swamp woods, and yet are sometimes found, though much emaller, on dry, sandy lands, but it adapts itaelf eamiy to garden culture if planted in a moist, shady place.Do not disturb it, and the sheath-like Jeaves and flowers will appear year after year.WEIGELA AND TWINING PLANTS.An amateur arks if this shrub is hardy, as she dues not see anything about it in \u2018Garden Talks\u2019 Ans.\u2014It is and it not, for it depends upon the season.\u2019| spring in our garden the deed stalks fi feet high have to be pruned out, and only sprouts ftom the rvot are coming up.Uther summers it has blossomed freely.Tt id very handsome shrub of the begn- nia family, and was introduced from Chine, and the large, trumpet-shaped flowers ure very attractive.The cause of their destruction is generally unripe wood, which grows too quickly in autumn, sod is easily injured by frost, There in a variegated variety that has also variegated towers, but it has not proved hardy.They luxuriate in rich, moist soil and a protected situation.The other question an to good twining plants can recommend the Ipomes«-Cypress vine, Maurandia, Dutchman's Pipe, Thumber- gia, German Ivy, Variegated Hop, Madeira Vine, Adlumia Cirrhosa, and the different Jaxmines.Any of these will twine and climb enongh to cover the trellis you mention.Being late 10 sow reed, better get well-started plants that will grow quickly, ELONS.\u2018Fred\u2019 has some musk-melons in a box.They have come up well, but he does not know about setting them in the ground.Ans.\u2014There is nothing gained this year by too early planting, and sometimes much is lost.The plants in the box, Hf be set out now with better chances of success the if planted two weeks earlier.The mail thing is to bave good, well-drained soil\u2014a rich, sandy loezs\u2014and the growth so rapid that the plante do not get stunted.One important fenture is to have secured an early variety and to have the land where they are planted so situated ns to get the full munie.Liquid manure a little later in the sennon is of value, and frequent hoeing to keep the plants growing.Also.when sufficient fruit is set, pinch off the ends of the vine, no that the strength will go into the set fruit.PALMS.\"A lady not long ago mid to me, \u2018I do not enjoy my palm, for fear J shall lose it.The plant is too handeowe to live long in my dry rooms\u201d I remarked that I should like to see them growing on their native heath, and quoted Kingsley, who wrote, \u2018Like a Greek statue in a Juxurious drawing-room, sharp-cut and cold, shaming by the grandeur of mere form, the richness of mere color, however rich and harmonious, so stands the palm in the forest, to be worshipped rather them loved.\u2019 But as we can only see the miniature planta in our rooms it is : \u201cvell to real izé that we must give th the esscatial \u2018|elements of their Dative climate if we would have them succeed and expand, The room must have moisture supplied to the air by evaporating water.It can be done at the register of à fnrnace- heated room, or by means of steam in some form.A temperature of 60 degrees in winter in enough heat, though they endure and enjoy 70 degrees, if given plenty of moisture.Once in two or three years is often the plan for re- potting, and other years a little fresh sod) can be put on the top of the pot.The insect most in evidence is the scale.it breeds mpidly when the temperature of the room is high, and the air dry.The insects attach themselves to the stem and Surface of the leaves, and are eanily seen and can be removed by taking them off.A plant may become badly infested, and nat show the for a while, if neglected, One of t eanizst methods of cleansing is to dilul some alcohol, and with a small brush go over the leaves and stems, then with a bit of sponge and some soap wash away all the scales, The most popular palm in cnltivation is the Latanie Bor- boniea, & Chinese Fan Palm.It is alle to resist eold to some extent, and ie one of the handsomest of its kind.The palm thrives best in partial ahade when small, and even old plants do not enjoy hot sunshine.The leaves need frequent sponging to k them in health; but they repay, hy graceful beauty, all care given.GLADIOLUS.If the garden is completed and yet seems to ack something to brighten it in the later season when rosea ang lilies ceast to bloom, then get a few bulbe of gladioli, for they are the most satisfaetory of sum- mer-blooming bulbe, and only take wa copper suiphaté egn be dissolved if sus- very little room, while gt us their |pended in the water in a coarse sack.showy spikes of bloom.July, August The lime should always be strained af.and September are their blessaming time, secured by successive plantings.They can be stored in a paper bag im a dry cupboard alt winter, and do vot need any extra care.Thé colors range from sear let to white, with the petals differently marked, and some of them are so beautiful a» to resemble orchids.They are best grown in masses, setting a dozen or more in a up, so as to make a clump.The ground where they are planted must be rich and porous, not freshly manured, and they do well in parti! shade, which is rather helpful to their development.In loose, porous soil they should be set four inches deep.but in heavy clay soil two inches is enough.The roots of the bulb enjoy best cool, moist soil, and this is obtained by deep planting.As soon as the blades appear they must be hoed, and if the summer is dry a mulch of lawn grass will help to retain moisture.Their period of bloom is short, so that s bed of them should be planted for succession, otherwise they are better among early flowering perenui The tall spikes need to be tied to a stout stick if showing a tendency to fall over.They suc.well along a fence, and seldom need support there unless planted 20 as to be reached By high winds CLEMATIS.\u2018Clematis\u2019 sends leaves of clematis for name, It looks very much like :he Jackmané, but there are so many hybridg thet might resemble this shrivelled leaf that one cannot be certain.However, as it ie the most populer variety, it is more than likely to be the one you have.The clematis has no rival for ite ele gance as a climber, and the jackmani is a good type, being free flowering, and blowoming long and late.Ite rich vio- let-purple flowers are certainly eptitled to being called heavtifi.They grow eight or ten feet in a season, if managed, but need protection with ps, unless in a place where snow gives & wure blanket until late the ing.BORDEAUX MIX CURE.A constant reader, who is certaihly not scanning carefully the poires , apks for the formule for x fixture, which\u2019 has been given over add over sgaiti in this paper in different polumns.We repeat now that the compodnd most in use is four pounds eulphgte, four [ \u20ac / | pounds unalacked lime, 40 gallons of water.Care must be taken that the lime is of good quality and well burned, and that it is not airslacked.The teg thoroughly dissolving in the water in cané it eloge the pump.The lime in pec- essary to prevent meorching the foliage, and to aid the mixture in adhering to the leaves of the trees.\u2014_\u2014 THE TITLES THEY ALL WANTED.(Hon.J.Lawley, in the London \u2018Daily Telegraph.) I chanced to meet Mr.Disraeli one afternoon in Whitehall, opposite the Home Office, and after shaking bands he invited me to come and have a chat with him in his private room at 10 Downing street.In his room red official boxes by the dozens wers piled up on dumb waiters, and on the top was perched a smuali box of fawn-colored leather.to which he pointed.It is well known that as prifis minister Mr, Disraeli before and pr he became Lord Beaconsfield, wes Ÿi- tremely chary of tKe honors that be conferred, and that his keen powers of satire were never more happily exercised in private than at the expense of aspir- gate for titles by whom he was plentifully t.\u201cThat little brown box,\u2019 he said, \u2018gives me more trouble than all ite red néigh- bors, It contains letters from marquises who want to be dukes, from earls who want to be marquises, from viscounts who want to be earls, from barons who want to be viecounts or earls, and from swarms of people, most of whom I never heard of, who want to be made baronets or knights.Behind most of them stand thelr wives or their wives\u2019 sisters, who, in their own language, \u201cwill take no de nial.\u201d ments.\u2019 rer ADVERTISEMENTS.Hood\u2019s Pills Do not er! nor reitate the slime tary canal.They ac pont d premptiy, cleanse effectually and ~ Give Comfort There will be many disappoint- Sold by ali druggists.25 cents . Joxn 13, 1898 CHINESE ANTI-CHRISTIAN be \u201cGAUTRONS E:5 > That Caused Massacres.(New York \u2018Herald.) The extremely evergetic measures which have constantly been employed by the anti-foreiga party in China to keep alien feet from her shores bave ever excited the wonder and borror of the rest of the wotld, who cannot ubderstand an inhos- pitality which will go to all lengths rether them accept any modification.who have followed the strenuous efforts © which have been made for years by the United States and other nations to establish & better vodoratanding with the Chinese Government realise the unnatu- .ral conservatisfo of the empire, but cannot understand why it is not move amen ble to reason.' It is true that lately something hes beey accomplished, but that the mind of the masses is as diseased as ever aguinet ; the foreign element is proven by the re- + ports of riots and massacres which come costinually from central China, where authority is much more willingly blind and conservatives are more daring.* One of the most potent forces in opera- tlon to incite the Chinese public against \u20ac ign: devils\u2019 te the publication and de but discret.circulation of handbille, placards.posters, \u2018pamphlets, avd evea ks of various sizes.They are not the work of either ignorant or illiterate mes.* apd have been gotten out in all forms to appeal to sil classes.Some of dhe publications, indeed, are scholarly and in the mandarin colloquial ; others in poetry and prose, with illustrations and without.\u2018But, no matter how faultiess the a] mea or classical the production, thé idea desired to be conveyed is invariably, fom a Christian standpoint, eitoer brutally indelicate or frightfully blas- | phemous.The factor which hes been found to have the greatest effect of late is the cartoon.The uncultured Chinaman has no natural delicacy, and to appeal to him | an illustration muet je in the naiss | possible war.L ti educa Chinaman has found \u2018thal where a coolie would read the most malighant text ever f'writtèn with inactive anger his wrath would bubble ovee were the text accom- creating disturbances.They have plesd- ed that the Tartar generals, governors general and governors of every province be instructed by the throne to advise the people to Jo little attention to such things as the reports referred to.The throne even went so far as to recognize this and act upon it, ordering that all those connected with the exhibition of such literature should be apprehended snd severely punished.This was the extent of their zeal, however.as there is no case of any importance on where offenders have not been released immediately upon apprehension, Oeea- sionally foreigners hyve themeelves hunt- ad down malefectors x this description sad caused their seizure, but, without exception, no case has been found by the Chinese authorities.At this time practically nothing of this panied by & frankly explanatory picture.\u2018Acting u this, the publishers began to reduce their long-winded tirades and to elaborate the pictures so that they might speak for themselves.The result is a dissemination of a weries of the most wrath-provoking illustrations ever publicly placed before the gaze of man.The publishers of the cartoons have no thought of making money out of their circulation.The trade does not keep them on sale.They cannot be excused even on the score of filling & popular demand.Certain individuals or political associs- tions bave them printed, and themselves socomplish their circulation by means of agents, who distribute them directly among the people, or, when practicable, post them on walls, Naturally, this oc- + 6asions an iture of funds by no .means small, which js met by officials snd gentry interested, In order to make their effect more sweeping, the hlocks from which the pictures are printed are duplicated and sent to ferent provinces.A glance at the cartoons shows why Chinese hatred of foreigners does pot more quickly subside.he minds of the heathen in China are intensely oredulous, and accept as absolutely true these hideous things thrust before them.It has been proven that when left to themselves this clam of people are harm- Joss, but with minds so poisoned it is ésarcely to be wondered that they are fons aod te bape! prés rare Le A It would be making 4 wide statement to say that the Chinese anthorities are unaware of the tmaroidable effeet of such ices, Reports 40 the throne \u201cvhich ve been made fn more than ose case by Chines ministers beve defined the cause of riots a» being the anonymous ted with the sole view of class of picture is seen at the open ports, but in all provinces not open to foreigners there is scarcely a pretence of putting this literature under & ben.In some localities contempt for the imperial edict goes to the length of posting the offending cartoons directly beside it, which act the authorities seem to regard with unseeing vimon.While such is the case China can scareely be expected to be à healthful resort for foreigners.\u2018The originels of the piotures accompanying this article are very probably the onl copes outside of China.They were collected at great pains by a number of missionaries to the country and re-published in a moderste way for their own use.The plans of the anti-foreign party certainly do not contemplate the passing of the pictures out of their country, and wher ever possible strong efforts have been made to keep them altogether from for Fa those not at ail but uperfiial 0 not & or ly acquainted with the Chinese charscter it is not easy of comprehension why edn.cated men of rank and position will per mit themselves to be identified with such outrageous pi ings.It must be borne in mind, however, that China is a non-Christian country, and things which must be regarded with horror by a Chris tian nation are looked upon in the for- mee with the smile born of immemorial] tradition and precedent.The Chines literati bave long accepted the insulting sad reviling of foreigners and their religions es a pleasurshle duty, and are not to forego it until forced to.Tt ja with dsep interest that the ont- come of the present royal dispute in the Chinese empire is awaited.It is possible that sn entire] snd more whole fa EEL a THE MONTREAL SHOOTING A CHRISTIAN HOG BY foreigners cannot air his sentiments pub- licdy for fear of ruining bis political career.He knows that to acquire the roputation of fealing kindly toward the outer barbarian would certainly not pay.Nothing could be more fatal to bis future advancement, and when he recog nises that in posing as a conservative he is patriotic, and is adopting & cheap and easy method of attracting favorable notice from his superiors, it is easy to see why he loses no time in abandoning his radical ideas.In addition to setting their cwn people against aliens, the Chinese aristocracy.evidently bearing in mind the old saw concerning the falling out of thieves, han endeavored by various means to set one clans of foreigners against another\u2014the secular against the missionary.This, of course, has met with little success.But the anti-foreign party is in grim earnest, and has by no means given up the fight.Its constituents realize that the eyes of the whole civilized world are turned toward them, but know that their radius .WEEKLY WITNESS, O which is partially lost in the reproduction in black.The continual reference to the divinity as the lowest order of beast is not made at random.The term used for God by the Roman Catholics is Tien Chu.In the Hunan publications Chu for Lord is changed to Chu for pig.Thus \u201cTien Chu,\u2019 the Lord of hesven becomes \u2018Tien Chu,\u2019 the Celestial hog.The only distinction is a slight difference in intonation.\u2018Green hat\u2019 is a name used in China for| one who forgets all the eight virtues.1 the originale.all foreigners wear green) hats, and all words referring to them printed with green ink in the text.Ti cell 2 man\u2019s \u2018wang-pah\u2019 (green het) i the greatest insult you can offer him i China.Foreigners are also called \u2018yang: jen\u2018 (ocean men).\u2018Yang,\u2019 for ocean.cha to \u2018yang,\u2019 for goat ; thus men es goat mam.Native converts are termed \u2018des devils,\u201d because they are regarded as d to all virtue and to be worthy of deaŸ \u2018The reason which the publications assi ~ ESN VENTES ARS \u2018 3 x Z .ra) Ty ë ASF ë ci Ÿ J, \\ 8.EN) = 3 0 Fa x A ?) 5 a 4 .\\ = = a = \\W = \u20ac AD BE TREATED of vision is @ limited one, and absorbe but a fraction of the daily horrors being committed.The piotures with this article are self- explanatory.Only a portion of the collection could be used, as most of it is quite unprintable.One set of the car toons is supposed to illustrate the treatment by missionaries of their Chinese disciples.Another suggests to China- men various methods of revenge.Both comprise the mutilation of the vietim in manners which civilized men cannot contemplate.Compared with them, the nauseating Whitechapel murders of à few years ago seem petty misdemeanors.Any long somment on the pictures is un 0 lew explanatory notes will help the reader more fully to under: stand them.As the originals sre in color, they possess a weirdness of effect for the gouging out of the eyes by i! missionaries would be absurd wers i too horrible.They say : \u2018From one hu dred pounds of Chinese lead, eigi pounds of silver can be extracted, an| the remaining ninety4wo pounds of le: sold at the original cost.But the onl] way to obtain the silver is by compoun: ing the lead with the eyes of Chin The eyes of foreigners are vf no use fi this purpose ; hence they do not take the eyes of their own people, but onl: those of Chinese.\u2019 The Chinese have an idea that no man Catholic Christian dare tread on crossiike figure, and that ail they n to do to keep the priest and his em! waries out of a house is to cut the figu in front of a door, 20 as to make it i possible for any one to enter withou treading on it.= locks rapidly, aud uttering shrieks of - ieuely raged the duel that fe combatunts reieed quite a cloud of «thers round them.Suddenly one lel over, and tho other, uttering a «tovious \u2018frank, the beron's peculiar 1.und gathering up its long lege, soar | to the trees, where it began preen- Kk its disordered plumes.An exam.ition proved that the other bird had en killed outright, A strange romance in humble life is ported from the Royni borough of whinond, where it hia been the sub.\u2018tof prolonged investigation on the crt of the locul magistrates, Nearly \u201cvents years ago \u2014so the story runs\u2014Mr.wi Mrs.Joseph Roxall, à man and wo- un of middle age, parted outside the ates of Richwoud Workhoose \u2018to go Lar own ways\u2019 After a good many ears, not hearing from her husband, ud believing him to be dead, Mrs.Box- Ii was married to a man named Gibson, gon whom she lately obtained a main.\u201ctance order, and some time since the Id lady \u2014she is nearly sixty years of we took out a semmons for the recov- 1x of arrrare.At the first bearing of he mimmons a hrother-in-law of the wa ase wis adicurned, and when it waa re \u201cmed à man came forward who claim- «1 to be (he missing firet hueband, Jos.Soxull.On his being confronted with {r.Gibson the latter declared tid he vas not Joseph, Lut his brother, Tom toxall, between whom and her first who expressed heir belief that the man was really Jos.all, and in face of the conflicting vidence the Bench decided to mske no crder against Mr, Gibeon.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 SCOTCH.Gourock Parish Church lady collectors 1m to be superior beggars.They have got over a thousand pounds for the ex- ension of the church.Mr.John Borland went to Greenock s missionary in June, 1840, and has con- inved in the Se.Lawrence Street Mis ion till now- a period of nearly sixty Cars.The late Mr.Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith Palace (lardens, was & prominent figura h Britain in forestry and horticaltural fairs.He was long à member of Dal- gith West Church.The late Mes.Agnes Mason, Fingal «ce, has left the residue of her estate r relief of poor and infirm masons, Berwickshire is peculiar in that the way stations do not run into towns villages.When they were built the ple were afraid of railways, and they sisted on the stations being kept some stance off.Whilst William Brookes was digging a ave in St, Jamer's Churchyard, Lower ornal, he was heard ringing.Subwe- jientdy a men who was watching him tw him temble over, and upon geting to the grave found the sexton was ad.The opening ceremony of the new irk in Plantation district of the burgh tiovan, was performed on May 20 last, the presence of a large gathering.The ew park, which covers seven acres, and wt (ground inclusive) about £20,000, js tmted to the mouth of Paisley Road \u2018ent, and is entered from Havelock Terce, Uecil street, and Cornwall street.Lietween four and five o'clock on Satur- y marning, May 20 last, the water pb the mill pond to the west of the l'age of Falkland burst the embank- ent, rushed with tremendonm fury along almblae, where the inhabitants were wakened to find their houses filled with ater.The rush of water for a time na terrible, but with the help of many iling hands its course was changed to e Maspie Burn.At a meeting of representative citizens, Id in Dandee, Mr.Alexander Hay foncur, a jute manufacturer, and an chief magistrate of the city, offered gift of £10,000 to establish and equip small mnatorium for ornenmptives, and in anonymous donor offered £300 for five ears if the acheme wos proceeded with mediately.The gifts were cordially ccepted, and an influential committee hppointed to initiate a scheme.Dumfries bakers had given notice to strike, unless the masters conceded a .Four firme agreed to the Union's terms, and the others made substantial concessions in respect: both of pay and time, the increase of wages heing as a rule ahout 3a.per week and in some cases as much as Ba.The men remoived to accept the terms arranged with individual employers Bailie James Watson, Greenock, died recently at hia residence, Riverien, Green.ock.Mr, Watson was & native of Dan- .For shout thirty years, until his re.irement, à few years ago, he was in usineas in (ireenock ss a sugar broker, n 1801 he wan elected to Greenock Town ouncil an a representative of the Eighth Nard, and after serving & year as Dean Guild, he was appointed to the magis- ty in 1008.He was a Liberai in polies, and a member of Gouroek United byterian Church.He wns sixty years of age.The general officer commanding Seot- 1 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, .| donagh and Runcrana, which will open - special train, reached the palace shortly tish District has riuch pleasure in vub- lislving for informution à report of the gallant conduct of No.27,001, Lauve- Corporal GQ.Johnstone, Royal Engineers, Forth Section, Coast Hattalion, who, on the night of April 19 Isat, jumped from a height of twenty feet into the harbor at the Commercial Wharf, Leith, and kept afloat for twenty minutes Mr.J.Itreeze, who had accidentally fallen into the water.Lamce-Corporal Johnstone, hearing criea for help, immediately rushed to the spot, threw oft his coat, jumped in and kept the man afloat till they were both rescued by a beat.This pon-commis- sioned officer was awanled & medal by the Royal llumane Society for a similar act of gallantry in May, 1905.\u2014 IRISH.At the County Court Judge Kisbey, Q.(., commenced the busipesa of Quarter Semsions for eda Division of the County Louth.There being no criminal businees Hie Honor was presented by the sheriff with white gloves.ugh O'Connor, of Killeentierna, was killed by lightning on May 34, while en- @@el with other men in cutting turf.Death wes instantaneous.Immediately afterwards there was a terrific hailstorm, which caused considerable damage to orobards and friut gardens.Mr.Gerald Balfour, accompanied by Lady Betty Balfour, recently ted Carndonagh, county Donegal, for the purpose of cutting the first sod of a new railway to he constructed between Carn.up the populous peninsula of Innis- howen.Lady Conyngham, whonre romantie marriage to the Inspector of Constabulary at Slane took place à few days ago, in the eldest daughter of Load and Tady Ven- try, and sister to Lady Hopetoun, wife of the Lord Chambertain.She married in 1882 Lord Mount Charles, afterwarde fourth Lord Conyngham, hy whom rhe had seven children, her eldest son, the present Marquis being born in 1883.The | elder ninter of the Duchesa of St.Albans made à very similar marriage, but her husband is now Rir Henry Blake, and has been governor of various places.On May 22 last Mrs.Chadwick, wife of the Bishop of Derry, died from heart affection.The deceased lady had been more or less an invalid for vears.On Sunday night she had a sudden seizure, and Sir William Miller and Dr, Bernard were in attendance all day, but their skill | was unavailing.The bishop was in ay distant part of the diocese, but was re-! called by telegraph, and, arriving by before his wife's death.The deccescd'e family name was Browning.Her brother waa formerly Commissioner of Inland Revenue, and another brother was Private\u2019 Secretary to Mr.Arthur Balfour when Chief Secretary for Ireland.A meeting was held in Belfast the other day to promote the causes of the proposed cathedral in that city.The Deen | of Connor (the Rev.Canon Reaver) pre- | side:l, and briefly introduced the subject.Crnon O'Îlara, rector of St.Ann's Church, Belfast, on the site of which edifice it has been proposed to erect the | Cathedral, made a statement announcing thst £16,000 had been already subwcribed | for the first section of the cathedral, the | foundation sone of which they intended te lay in September next.In the meantime £6.000 was wanted, and they were : there that evening to organize for its collection.This was being prosceded with, when several persons present hegan to inquire « to the kind of cathedra! it was going to be.Reference was made to the introduction of rituslism, One speaker mid there was plenty of ritual isn in England, and they were deter: mined to keep it out of Belfast, Another inauired if it was to be n Roman Catholic or Protestant cathedral.Matters soon became disorderly.and amid a scene .of great confusion the meeting broke up.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 GENIUS AND ROTUNDITY.(From the \u2018Humanitarian.\u2019) Theophile Gautter remarked that Vie tor Hugo, in his quality of Lhe sovereign prince of French romantic poetry, should be (if the ordinary opmion as to poets were correct) angular, with light or dark hair, and pick complexion.The world snd apn overcoat could hardly contain the glory of Victor Hugo's stomach.He burst his button band every day, and as for buttons in front they were snapped off continually.Victor Hugo's embonpoint was most richly deserved, for his plate was a mixtum compositum of veal! cutlets, lima beans and oil, roast beef and tomato sauce, omelettes, milk and ; vinegar, mustard snd cbeese, which he swallowed rapidly and in immense amounts while drinking coffee, Rossini had not been able to wee his feet over his ablomen {or six years ere his desth.He wwe a Lippopotamus in trousers.Jules Janin weuld break down any eighteenth century sofa on which he might bappen to sit.The Africenism of Alexandre Dumas\u2019s passions did not prevent the auther of \u201cThe Three Guards men\u2019 from being very plump.He ate three beefsterks where any other fat man ste one.Sainte-Beuve saw his abdomen bulge out under his goatee.The most fertile of ull French remancers, Balzac, looked more like 8 hogshead than « man.Three ordinary persons stretching bande could not reach around his waist.Dr.Bugens Swe, author of the \u2018Mysteries of Paris,\u2019 was greatly grieved when he could no longer see over his stomach.Theo phile Gautier aloo merited a place among obese literary gode; Renan, Maupassant, Ï !March, 1988.\u2018This letter is the first this young man took the ususl burden SOME TERRIBLE TALES \\ Of the Hardships of the Edmonton Route; + In a recent imus of the \u2018Witness,\u2019 (May 20), there was published an article referring to the experiences of two Mont.reslers, at present mining on the Stewart River, in the Yukon district, The contents of mid article are apparently more authentic than the various elaborate telegraphic statements which are feequently printed, describing the riches of the Klondike country, and the millions of dollars which it haa yielded during the past year.The contrast between these statemants is very serious.Many prospective miners are being, snd have been, lured by visions of wealth, held up by uuscrupulous persons, into a country where, judging from accounts from reliable sources, nothing awaited them but hardships, privations, disappointment, disease, snd in numerous cases even death itself.The article referred to speaks of the utter lack of \u2018Ande,\u2019 during the past two years, especially in the Stewart River district, which was supposed to be one of the richest sections of the gold region.Previously to 1807 there were undoubtedly a number of good finds made, but the present lack of surface color, despite extensive prospecting operations, paints to the fact that placer wining in the Klondike is on & rapid decline, and that clanging machinery used in quarts mining must soon hesrd in this isolated northern country; hence the uselésmness of inexperienced individuals rushing off to a place where in ninety-nine cares out of the hundred, they experience nothing but bitter disappointment, But perhaps the mddest and most cnl- pable circumstance in connection with the stupendous efforts put forth to popu- Inrize the Yukon gold Belds, was the booming of the \u2018all Canadian Edmonton route to the Klondike.\u2019 The authori: ties who urged this \u2018route\u2019 upon the publie cannot be too strongly censured, judging from the impamsable and tortuous character of the country, and the vast amount of euffering and privation that have been endured by the victims.A private letter was received in this city last week from a party of four Montrealers, who left Edmonton in news that has leen received from them for almost seven months, and the sue pense and anxiety of their relatives may be imagined, After à joruney from Fd- monton to Peace River landing the party struck across country towards Fort Graham, on the Finley River, up which they mavigatod forty miles, to the bare of the Kockies, The journey te this point was an.extremely' torturns one, \u2018tracking\u2019 their boats up the river hy wading to their waists in ive-coid water, The party pitched their tents on the banks of the Indian River, [some distance further on), and have just heen released after a severe winter from their isolated and perilous position.Two of the party are sick, and they expect to} make their way back to Edmonton with ; all despatch, it being next to impossible to get over the Rockies by this route to Yukon.sheltered who had both his feet almost frozen off.Others traveiling in thode \u2018 regions who have managed to gurvive the winter are in absolutely destitute\u2019 \u2018eit- cumstances.[Hundreds have staked everything on this ventore, and the open- i of spring finds them hundreds of miles from civilization, broken in health, without provisions, and without the means of getting home again.The Indians in those northern regions are not as a rule given to hospitality; on the contrary, their tendency is rather to appropriate the goods of others, especially so during the last couple of years, ns they have beceme much embittered againat the whites, on account of their influx into their country, which they claim has driven away all big game, their principal source of sustenance.Hence, the situation of the gold-weekers has become ail the more perilous, and immediate should \u2018be taken for their re lief.n speaking, the other day, with a returned min-r who has been over the ro-called Edmonton route, he related a few of the tragical instances that came under his notice while on the trail.One of cases was that of a young Englishman who was making his way alone through the country.Severs! different companies were carrying their outfits over à pass near the Rwan Mountains; of 130 pounds in sach load.He had almost finished his task when he was suddenly seen to roll over, and was a corpes in an instant.The body waa buried hy strangers where it lay, and his outfit lefa to the Indians or wild beasts.Another party of seven Ameriokns was eromsi Great Slave Lake whem a tarrific storm broke; lashing the water into foam.Hud- denly the mast was seen to sink beneath the waves, and not one of the party was ever heard of again.Another case was that of an elderly French-Canadian who, with several others, were struggling in fee-cold water to \u2018track\u2019 their boat np the Rat River, which is a rushing tor \u2018tent fluwing (rom the Rocky Mountains, They speak of one traveller whom they | ii rs Workers Juwe 18, 1699, they ave sufficient to show that those [rho urged this voute-evidently dig ot now what, - iyg about.\u2018They are SRR the jour ney in leas than a year.Some time age the government authorities contemplat: sendiig a relief espedition; but no thing definite has been beard of this proposition.In view vf this seriom condition of affaire the government should take immediate action, by notify ing officials at their outposts in the North-West to furnish gratis all assistance possible to thess umfortunate minerw, as the government officials are certainly to some extent sible for miners easaying to reach Klondike vis the Fämonton route, which en American miner travelling through the country last summer, characterised as \u2018the back-door route to Hades.It is estimated that there are about 1,500 miners who, unable to get over the Rocky Moumtaïine last fall, were forced to winter at Fort McPherson, on the Peel River, which is situated within the Arctic circle On en average, these miners had barely sufficient provisions to sustain them during the winter, conse quently, conddering tbe existing state of affairs in Dawson City, and the immense distance between Fort McPherson and Edmonton, they are indeed in a pretty serious \u2018fiz\u2019 It in apparently useless to attempt to bring the guilty parties to justice for criminally adverts ing such à desth- route (enteiling the lives of thoumads), for the pi of popularizing the country or ing money; but let the evil done be remedied as fur as possible, and that without delay.R.A.TARLTON.Montreal, May 31, 1809.; \u2014 DR.JOHN CLIFFORD.THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THN DAP- TIST UNION.At the annual meeting of the Baptist Union Dr.Clifford was elected ie dent in the place of the late Dr.~ geon, who was to have held tha post.Dr.John Clifford, who has been minister of Westhourne Park Chapel ænce 1858, ig & popular preacher and a prominent member of the Baptist body.He ig spoken of by the * British Weekly\u2019 as DR.JOHN CLIFFORD.the leader of Non-conformity in England.lle is in his sixty-third year, bu: Tetaina the vigor of youth, taking part in every movement which has for its object the benctiting of society.He is an honnre graduats of London University, and as a student won special distinetion i is pen is always active in ional apd secular press, while his published works are numerous, - Two years ago he mide a tour round the world.: ADVERTISEMENTS.Sond ice lilustrated Cataloous of Wind Mitts, ¢ Maple Leal\u201d Grinders, lron and Wood Pumps, Bee Supplies, ete.(Mosiion the Faper.) BRANTFORD CAN.\u2018Witness\u2019 Attention ; is called to à very much admired phote- gravure of His Excellency The Earl of Minto, two zopies of which we will be pleased te sup in thé Arclic cirele.He was his comrades buried mun was found on the trail in & ing condition, his body terribly , weighing less than fifty po Flaubert and Rarcey were also to be there classed, | to make the remark that he wouldn't stand this work long, ind the neut day his .Another .He was taken to a Hudeon Bay Com- B post, where, to the surprise of ail, Leta to recover.Thess are merely « few of the many instances related.but send te every one mending ue à three cent stamp té pay for tubing snd mailing only.The only eondition le that the pietare be ing wp in rome eonspieuous place (8 the bama.abop or olles.De low tRe portrait of Lord Minto uw & \u201cWit ness\u2019 announcement which will belp cur subscribers {strodees the \u2018WI to their friends.ee an 20e al Juxs 18, 1899.A JOSS HOUSE A Curious Chinese Place of Worship in Montreal, SCENES WHICH INTERESTED A | VISITOR.The Chinaman rarely courts publicity.He is intensely reserved, but it is not the reserve of timidity.While he walks the strest or industriously pursues his calling, he is really removed to an inconceivable distance from western thought or feeling He is not touched at sll by the strenuous life of & modern city.He is not even made citizen by acquiring à new tongue.Something of the vast silence and reserve of the Kast colors his thought and attitude to the last.We seldom get & glimpse of the inner life of the Chinese in Montreal, except in the case of those who have been Christisnised.Moatresl bas its Chinatown in miniature, but the public bear little about it.Once in à while the eavic authorilies insist upon a cleaning xp, and then one puts his handkerchief to his noes, while the police, for the sake of diversion or morality, make a raid, when it is discovered that with respect to the iutricacies of the alluring game of fan-tan, John Chinaman pos sessen a subtlety eminently Oriental in ita fineness and profundity.John likes his pipe; he likes his little game; but be would fain withdraw bim- sell from the public gaze On the other hand, John is, in his native state, intensely religious, and the exercise of his religion demands a tremendous uproar, which, as it were, brings him into view in spite of himself.The \u2018joss house\u2019 or heathen temple.is familiar to those who have been in any large American city, or in British Columbia, but Montrealers are probably not aware that there is one in their midst.It is not as elaborate as it ought to be, and, indeed, it is a cause of much sorrow that,owing to a comparative poverty, the habitation of the \u2018joss\u2019 is mot as resplendent as religious zeal would fain make it.The structure is compars- tively new and represents the loving labor of a number of the Chinese colony pursued unremittingly for many months.Jt may be said, indeed, that the joss house is the work of local artiste.except that some of the exquisite silks used in the draperies, and which, in their fineness and the minute patterns wrought upon them proclaim an almost infinite patience, have been imported from China.The joss bones iv: wont the Chiw- ese quarters on \u2018éfécet, at the head of Cote street.One eaters through an outer room, in which are ecated three Chinamen beating tom-toms and cymbals, which produce the most diabolical noises\u2014incessant, ear-splitting noises, which reduces the most robust voice to the dimensions of a whisper.This is the orchestra getting up the pre per music for the religious service.he men are not affected by the intrusion of strangers.The brass cymbels clash the tomtom is thwacked with stoical calmness, the large circular disc is tapped lightly, emitting a qualifying sound which gives à sort of rhythm to what otherwise would seem a succession of meaningless noises.Upon the face of the man who beats the tomtom with concentrated fury, there is & rapt expression ; the young man who clashes the brazen cymbals smiles as he closes his eyes, while the third person who taps the large disc suspended from the floor with a string, hengs his head, apparently unconscious of his surroundings.FEontering the joss house, amid the din, which renders it impossible to make the least verbal communication, the altar in found on the north side of the room, the walls of which are draped with red \u201d~ THE ORCHESTRA AT PRACTICE./ THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNE>.< > = r RCE DP) I 0) TD) Fe ==) Sol os 4 4 f, 72 2 INTERIOR OF JOSS HOUSE.cloths upon which long prayers are printed in Chinese characters.The altar iteelf has been fashioned by local Chinese workmen.It is elaborately carved, as the picture of our artist indicates, and covered with gold leaf.Properly, it should be solid gold, but gold is the measure, not of love, but of ability.When one peers into the penetralia of the sanctuary, he finds the joss himself, carved in wood, with gold leaf covering.The god sits upon a throne.There is a red drapery about the head.In the left band is a wand.The notion of immobility given to the countenance ie all the Orient, although it might not be! hard to fancy, all vnsentient as the creature is, that a leer played about the corner of the almond-eye, a leer of saturnine enjoyment, as the worshippers approach to render him homage and propitiate his anger, The feet of the joss rest upon « footstool, and: the idol is manifestly upon a throne, demanding the obeisance of the children of men.The covering of red over the heed, depending a little as it does, over the right eye, gives a diabolical cast to the features, which might provoke the grimly humorous, were not one conscious of being keenly watched by the little grou Chintmen who have offered to do the ors.On each side of the altar are multi- eolored ornaments made of wool and paper, with a fringe around each of pes.cock\u2019s feathers, These, it was lamented in bad English, were not so large as they should have been, for pride and love would make every feather a yard long.The short ones come cheaper, and in Montreal the Chinamen are not rich.In front of the altar are a number of highly colored vases, while exactly in the centre, facing the idol is a larger vase, holding & bundle of joss sticks.These are made of light dry wood, and each { precis RI contains a prayer addressed to the joss.Across the whole length of the altar runs a table covered with exquisite silk cloths, wrought by hand, on which stands a large bronze vessel, shaped like a bowl.Into this are cast a number of pieces of sandal-wood, which, being set on fire, exhale a delicious, though enervating odor.To the accompaniment of the infernal noises of the orchestra, the worshippers, spreading out the prayer carpets, approach the aitar on their knees.As they reach the centre vase, containing the joss sticks, each worshipper seizes one of the lat ter, lights it at the fire, and holds it aloft in front of the idol.When partly consumed, it is extinguished and piaced along with scores of others in a large earthen vessel, where it remains.In the centre of the joss house are two Jampe fed with a sacred oil and always dimly lighted, suggesting the sense of awe.The prayers set forth on the red cloth which depend from the walls ore ail of à supplicatory character.The joss is not to be trifled with.He ia all powerful.He can bring good or bad luck.He loves noise.If you want to delight the joss beat the tom-tom with fury.As the sandal wood learns, as the worshippers prostrate themselves, make the cymbals clash.The heart of the god melts at the sound of music, and he graciously vouchsafes to anawer the prayers addressed to him; or, rather, those who have burned the aromatic fires, When the visit was made the orchestra was attenuated, but at least ten other instruments were shown\u2014some like banjos, others like a fiddle with two atrings.The act of worship was missed, too, for although in New York, there is worship in the joss house every week, that is not the case in Montreal partly owing to the fewness of the numbers, end their comparative poverty.Wor ship is held upon half a dosen great occasions in the year, of which New Year is the chief.During a momentary lull in the noise in the outer room, the guides stated that the Chinese were sorry they bad not been able to get up a better joes house, but they had not a great deal of money.The men who wrought the altar, received two dollars and a half a day.The carving was all done by hand, and everything wan made in Montreal except the ilk table covern and scarfs and altar cloths, which were hrought from China.They intended to add more elaboration in the course of time.As the visitors passed out, the instruments were attacked with redonhled fury, and when the street was reached the common sounds of the latter were, for the moment, impercentible to the er, which had heen stunned by the awful din which is the expresmon of heathen ter ror in the presance of a power which can blight or bless, IMPORTANT MRETING OF CHINFSE SUNDAY-SCHOOI, TÉACHERS.A largely attended meeting of the teachers in the various Chinese Bunday- schools of the city and friends of the cause of missionary work among the Chinese, was held in Knox Church lecture.room on Thursday, June 1.The meeting had been called at the earliest opportunity to cowsider the establishment of a place of idolatrons worship, in the form of a \u2018Joss House,\u201d on Lagauchetiers street The Rev.Mr.McWillinms said that goapel work was move hopeful amongst idolaters, or those of them with religious inclinations, than among the atheistic and indifferent.He advocated the greatest - À Lin their lot among us; and this meeting ! Se ~~ Berd BARS HG A LES £ a persible measure of liberty rather than compulsion in any way.The question as to whether Thom Sin Sz came in bond, duty paid, or how, was left to the powerw thet be.It was known, it was said, that those who officiated at the uncovering of his eyes to tbe light of Canada were of the gambling element.\u2018The Chivese Christians and the better clement among them bad no use for him.It was urged that no occasion be afforded the scholars for visiting that locality but rather that they be dissuaded agminst it, since inducement are offered.Along with the faithful working of their din tricts by the various schools, the pastors were urged to secure the prayers and sympathy of their congregations towards the work among the Chinese, and to enlist those who would consecrate nne hour in a hundred snd sixty-eight to foreign Mission work under home advantages.The Rev.Dr.Campbell, Mesars ©.T.Williame, Walter Paul and Dr.Thomson were appointed a committee to consider what further steps should be taken.On motion of Mr.Walter Paul, seconded by the Rev.A.J.Mowatt, the fol: lowing resolition was then unaninous)y adopted: \u201cThat the Christian public, and more particularly the workers in the Chinese schools have learned with great regret that a heathen place of worship has been established in this city, and wonld most earnestly impress upor those Chinese who have brought this about, how objectionable this movement ol theirs is to those who desire to hefriend tlem on their coming to this country, and hope for the sake of their own hest interests that the effort will not he jer- eirted in.Thin fact, instead of dincour- aging the workers in our Chinese Rab- bath-schools should be made rather *he occasion of awakening fresh enthusiasm and zeal on behalf of their pupils, and of redoubling the efforts hitherto put ferth to give tbe gospel of Jesus Christ to these Oriental strangers who have rast pledges itself to afford all the enconrixe- meat and assistance in its power to thee | engaged in this important though diff cult work.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014 A GAELIC POETESS DEAD.(From a Correspondent.) At Caledonia, P.E.I, on April 25 last, there passed away Are.Alexander Gillis, widow of the late Alexander Gillis, at the | age of eighty-three.Her maiden name was Mary McPherson.The last years of her life were spent with her daughter, Mary, widow of the lata John McDonald.Sie was à poetess, and composed songs and poems in Gaelie.They were all of a religious character, some of them | composed in memory of departed friends | and relatives.Though an invalid for some Joan before her death, she retainel her faculties, and now and then composed verses.None of her productions, vo far an known to the writer.have been published, but they are known and sung in the neighborhood in whieh she lived.She was distinguished for her piety.The theme of her thoughts and conversation was her Saviour and his word.When in health she wae attentive upon the services and ordinances of the Lord's house, and @ consistent member of the Presbyterian Church.Next to her Saviour, she loved his ministering servants, and would teavel long distances to hear them preach the gospel.Though not possessed of the wealth of this world, she was contented with her portion Bere She wan of a metk and quiel spins.and it can be truly maid of her that she was 1{loving and sincere believer ban omans i Nerves.saleslady succumbs to exhausted nerves and is prostrated.But think of the headaches, backaches, and weak, languid feelings of the thousands of women in all walks of life, whose nerves are shattered and exhausted, and to whom life is one round of misery.It isin the spring, when the blood is thin, watery and diseased, that the nerves are starved and exhausted for want of proper nourishment.Everyspring the majority of women struggle against the wesk- ness of exhausted nerves, gradually growing more ; vous snd irritable, grate getting paler, thin- Ÿ ner and weaker as the 7 days go by.Energy, appetite and } vigor disappear.One is too nervous to sleep.The § nerves of the delicate à female organism are pow- à erless to control the na- X tural functions.and men- ¢ struation is either profuse L or suppreseed and painful, 3 causing a further loss of vital force and weaknees of the system.¢ Is it any wonder that women become irritable?In it any wonder that they worry over trifles and become pale, thin and weak! 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Them,\u2018 on EDMANSON, BATES & CO., TORONTO, cherish the memory of whom t pansed loved.\u2018Blessed are the dead who die away, leaving three dacghtfes, mamy a mother in Israel.In ber co humble, = friends, relatives and acqusintances to the Jom * f \\ / displayed his interest in ICHARD CADBURY'S PHILANTHROPIES, (The \u2018Chuistian.\u2019) Very early in life Richard Cadbury that Adult School Movement which was destined to become his peculiar work and pride, Among the original teachers at Severn street, where this grat movement bad its unpretentious beginning, his zealone personal exertion for the improvement of the mental capacity and sovial cobdi- tion of the industrial claes ra the city of Birmingham increased with the passing years.He celebrated the li-centenary school by the erection of an institute in the Moseley road, to which the dewerip- tion \u2018splendid\u2019 is not misapplied.When efforts hind been still further extended to other parts of what was then ¢he work: shop of the world, the llighgate shoal became Richard Cadbury's special charge.Le was never half-hearted in anything that he undertook, and this wis a work which irresutibly appealed to all his highest instincts.It mniisfied fiv dexure for the practical, the really useful.The good effect of adult school work wa no mere matter of theory.Excellent results were observable by the most au perficial spectator.Real, tangible good was being Jone by this wise movement, which went on ita quiet way, secking no Ay MR.RICHARD CADBURY.public advertisement and rarely receiving Weck in, week ou, the superintendent of the llighgate Early Morning Adult of the highest interests of his nen, Six o'clock on Sunday morning\u2014whether ig rained or whether it snownl\u2014eaw Rich: ard Cadbury on his way from the pleas ant Moseley (subsequently Moor tireen) residence to the crowded working-clas< held.Ie invariably walked on Sundays, of the starting of the Ssvern street.quarter in which the adult school was for the coschman's day of rest must be respected, though the Quaker capitalist found himself rather tired ere the evening chimes rang out on the Sabbath day.One bienk morning, when the snow was thick on the ground, and there wan still a suggestion of a blizzard in the whirling snowflakes, the men had gither- ed at the school door, wondering whether \u2018Mister Richard\u2019 would \u2018turn up.\u2019 As the clock struck the hour bis foot was on the doorstep, and Ms genial \u2018Good morning\u2019 was addressed cheerily to the waiting and expectant group.How great a part this adult school played in his life and thought had re markable illustration in the way he planned and built for ite future.But a little distance from the Mission Hall, Upper Highgate, is the Friends\u2019 Hall and Ineti- tnte in the main Momeley road.A large hall to seat two thoussnd persons, a wraller ball to accommodate tour hun: dédi, forty clam-rooms, in which from ons hundred down to twenty-five adults \u201ctn be comfortaldy seated; a basement titted up ae 8 gymnasinm on a scale which has no parailel in the city: a children\u2019s firet-day afternoon schoolroom; assembly and retiring rooms; baths, lavatories, and washing-roome; a coffeehouse and a flower garden these are the main features of an exceedingly well-planned cen: tre of educational, social and spiritual work.Mr.Cadbury interested himself in every detail, securing that nothing mort of the best possible materiel ani the most modern arrangements should characterize the whole structure.Linked with thie truly noble seheme of a farseeing and intelligent philanthropy was Richard Cadbury's characteristically practien] and princely contribution to the solution of the problem of providing for old age.Fven in the midst of that for ign tonvel, which had such an ebeorbing attraction for him he had counted upon the great pleasure that awnited his re turn to Bournville\u2014the completion of the new alme-houses in which some sixty of the demsrving pror may pass An otd ure serene and bright, And lovely aa a Lapland night.Free residence in pleasant, well-built rooms, with fire and light provided, and free medical attendance snd medicine en required, are the material advan.ages which will be conferred on those fortunate inmates whose friends can guer- antee them an income af (single persons) s.or (couples) 7s.6d.per week.They mr be of any religious permesion, for ichard Cadbury's liberalities bed of their grace acceptability by the lightest manifestation of the seo | i a: atl kindness of efficient tuned nurses, | much attention irom the world at large.! thy mught.\" Ile bevetne à mascistrate, and Bebool was intent upon the advancement of the peacé.There can be to donbt Aarisn spirit.They must be sixty years ré ae.The hovie, thirty in ail, ere built about a pleasant open space, in the midst of which are sheltered seals, in: suriug sunslune, and a tempered, kindly aitug to the inmates.And hetw again we have the considerate kindness of che benefactor displayiug itself in manitold wuys, Fach bourse is self-contained, and has but ane floor.The inmate is completely protecial from draughts, both fiving-rovw and bedroom being snughess iteelf, A superintendent will be charg: ed with the gentie enfonvment of the sound amt sensible regulations drawn up by the trustees; but the burden vf thew will nut te ouervus.There iw a ball for, meeting and social intercouree.They will be just beyond the busy world, and yet within hearing of the pleasant hum And vo, 1m justcefui duys, lies tale will be told, and the toiler have sweet rest at last.Richard Cadbury Joniged to see tie actual entrance upon this bicsasd mission in winds the dread of old age would at once be removed from sixty worthy hives, Vain though the regret may be, how much we could have wished that he shoud sce the fnntion of his generous thoughts amd weliless ambition to be satistied! \u2018The children had lus constant cave.To them he gave up Jus picturesque old howe at Moseley Hall when he removed to Moor Green.In the Moseley all Convalescent Home to-day there are a number of children enjoying the care of honest labor, the advantages of agreeable surronndings, amb the comforts of Tue tht make such strong appeal 1 the mvalid.And but A short tune since his great concern for the spirituel weliare of the children of Hirmungham led him to present to every child acove the third standard in the boan! ahools of the city and suburb (about 23,00) a neatly bound, wilte lu ed bible.In a short dedivitory state ment, he avked the childivn to read a portion of the scriptures every doy.Mr.Cadbury waa the repent of a large number of interesting letters from the scholars, an which, wih expressions as «incere as they were viten quaint and even amusing, they thauked Lim for the gift with which he had indicuted Ina great personal interest in their individual weitare, 1t in stated that Le wus wn pleased with the result (hat he arranged for two future presentations, al inteivals of three years each: It tu ratimated that the Matitute and almshouse schemes con- Jorntly vast eighty thousand pounds.The Presentation of the bibles claimed some thirteen hundred pounds, These figures are given only to show that the counsel of Ecelesiustes the Premeher Lad been taken and applied hterally with that earnestness which was 8 marked trait of the simple Quaker'a character; \u201c\\Whatsoever thy hand tindeth ta do, do it with haplayed the keenest regard for \u201che offi dient performance of his duties as justice that the more intimate knowiedge of the darker side of our social life which he mined while sitting cn the hench, was specially sought by him as a necessary education for any one anxious to arrive at the heat menna of helping the Inpeed manees te rise \u2018on stepping-stonew of their dead selves to higher things.\u201d And hie interest in the police was manifested by a gift of a thousand pounds to the new Police Institute, in course of erection.\u2014 HE WAS AN EYEWITNESS.| Browmg,\u201d asked Mr.Gladstone, \u201cwhat } possible object could Lord Beaconsfield fact and fiction.\u201d And then, quite seriously, he told a story to prove that Lord Beaconsfield sometimes said what wna not true, when, so far from gaining by it.he damaged himself.While Mr.iladstone was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Aberdeen\u2019s government, Mr, Divreeli made à violent attack upon kim in à set apeech for having made a currupt lewe of Montague House to the: Duke of Buccleuch, the fact being that! the lease was made out by Diarneli himself just before leaving office.\u201cNow, Mr, have in making a statement which with in twenty-four hours lie retracted as uo- founded?\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, AGRICULTURAL & HORTIOULTURAL LW¢ (arite sommeninations from farmeve giving their Sprricnce on meters inlervating bo them as o c'ase; and «00 enquriee, to WAS), {f uy cannot answer farm ours aetves, sme of our readers may de able to furnish satis.Martory replies.Questions must always be accompanied by name and achires, though not Mcrasrily for pubit tion, BARN BUILDING.During the early part of the present century, when the Ottawa Valley was first settled by white men, the erection of farm buildings was not a very els borate or costly undertahing.The walls were tuade of round logs, with their enda PICTURES TELEGRAPHED.SATISFACTORY TEST OF A NEW INVENTION, Mick! click,\u201d went St.Louis.Chicago's \u201cClick! click!\" was followed by Philadeiphia and 1loaton, and telegraphic communication had been estaldished between six large newspaper offices in «if- fervat parts of the United States, This was at 6 p.m.last Wednesday when it hid been prearranged that a test should be made of & new machine for transmit ting pictures by telegraph.The connec ticne being complete, Mr, F.Crane, the artist, produced the pictures to be sent.Tley were plainly sketched on rheeta of (Telegraphed from Chicago to New York), tinfoil wx by eight inches square.Une of these wus placed upon the machine of which we give à picture.tle larger than an Edison phonograph.In storm and sunshine, over rivers and mountaine, across lig states and wide continents, your portrait or a wopy of your ten thousand dollar oil painting\u2014 Evangeline\u2014 may your lost Then it is a lit shot Al preceding versions of the Gladstone Browning: Disraeli story are now brushed: aside by Canon MacColl, who profesecs,, as an eve-witness at Gladstone's break-! fast-table, to tell us the whole truth as follows: Disraeli did in his speech fced the Academicians with compliments on their, imaginations; he did almost immedinte-| ly afterwards say to Browning, to whom he had just introduced himself with very little ceremony, that what most struck him in the year's pictures was \u2018how woe: fully lacking they were in the imaginative faculty\u2019 ; Browning did tell the sto\u201cy at Gladstone's breakfast-table one day in 1878, adding that at the Academy dinner of the following year, Disraeli had actually tried to father upon him, Browning, the story which his own eon.duct of the year before had raised against himself.\u2018He is the greatest liar living,\u201d was the final remark of Browning, which, however, according to, À.Hummell, of St.Paul, is the inventor, | He set up his first machine in the \u2018Her { ald\u2019 office in Jansen, 1888, when a .Mr 6 ; picture of Mayor Van Wyck waa sent Tehemence.Mr.jrdntone disputed the ! over a six-mile circuit without difficulty.liar, on- the evidence; and, in a vein of | later, pictures were sent to New York amusing irony, ascribed what Browning! from Camden, N.J., and Key Weat, Fla.succens of the machine long ago pase traordinary development of the imagina-| od beyond experiment.Nothing is ua.certain shout the process.Whatever is drawn on the tinfoil here is absolutely reproduced at the othér end of the wire, regardless of the distance.Canon MacColl, \u2018Gladstone disputed with a merry twinkle in his eye, and, joining in our laughter at Browning's serio-comie justice of calling Lord had denounced as unveracity to \u201can ex- tive faculty,\u201d in Lord leaconsfield him.| self.\u2018His mind,\u201d he mid, \u201cseems to me sometimes to be in a state of baptismal innocence as to the difference between THE TRANSMITTER.thiough space in a lightning's flash.The drawing is made on a sheet of tin foil wrapped around a cylinder in the machine similar to the wax cylinder of a phonograph, In Clucago there is a twin machine regulated to work in perfect harmony with the New York machine.In Chi «go, inetead of tinfoil, a sheet of carbon or manifold copying paper in placed between two blank sheets of paper.The New York current is turned on and the little needle of plaiiuum point above the revolving cylinder in New York breaks the circuit when it touches the ink outlines of the picture, The needle in the Chicago machine, which reproduces every pulsation made in New York, prints the rame kind of a record on the carbon paper beoause the wee] point beats bard on the cylinder, and thus the picture in New York is faithfully copied by electricity in Chicago.The simplicity of the system is its wender.+ Yet the experts have been years \u2018in perfecting à machice mat would be of practical commercial value, Air.Ernest long rifle and the plates required to be spliced.lumber, shingles, nalls, door-hinges, ete., were all furnished by the farmer ard he supplied board for myself and my hired boy, while we were doug the work.He aleo supplied the help for erecting the joined together at the corners by the process called \u2018notch and saddle,\u2019 while the roofing was done with basswood \u201c troughs.\u201d When larger and better buildings became a necessity, the troughs were clin- carded, and when rawed lumber was uot available excopt when it was whipsawed, the rool waa made with split ash ribm, nailed across the rafters a little more than a foot apart, the nailing being done with wrought iron nails which cost nearly a shilling per pound.Tong singles made of split cedar were then nailed to these esh ribs and the job was complete, without either ridge boards or eaves.troughs, Of euch sort was the roof of the house wherein I was born, and of the barn where 1 first learned to thresh grain with a flail Afterwards, when small sawmills were built and the settlers could take first-class pine logs to the mill and get them sawed om shares,\u2019 few \u2018frame barns\u2019 were put up but etill the \u2018block tmildings\u2019® were the rule until suitable timber became too scarce, or too valuable to be need up in that fashion.Where good, large, sound cedar was plentiful, good barns were easily constructed by \u2018siding\u2019 the ends of the logs and * dove-tailing® the corners of the building.Harns built in this way, when properly underpinned with stone, only required to be re- shingled every twenty or twenty-five years, to make them available for nearly a century.The great fires of Aug.17, 1870, consumed a large number of such oil substantial cedarlog barns avd all of them had to be replaced with framed structures.While there was plenty of timber suitable for framing purposes available, and rough pine boards could be got at the sawmills for from six to right dollars per thousand feet, a good frame barn was not an expensive article, amounting in all to between two and three hundred dollars.Over thirty years ago 1 put up a frame barn for a neighbor in Hull, the dimensions being forty by fifty feet, with fifteen-foot posts.The The framing timber, sawed TWO BENTS8 COMBINED, SHOWING HAYBAY OVER BASEMENT.frame.He paid me fifty dollars for the job which took fifteen days to complete.The hired boy operated the boring machine, and did nearly all the morticing, while I did the lining and seratch- ing,\u2019 cutting the tenone and \u2018facing\u2019 the mortices.When the frame was up, my helper handed up the boards and did a part of the nailing, and he carried up the shingles and laid them in position while I nailed them on.We worked pretty long hours, but as I was paying him only ten dollars per month, I made nearly three dollars per day and my board, while at the job.Framing timber is now hard to get in many parts of the country and long- sawed lumber conte & good penny at the mills, and the hauling adds a considerable additional sum, so that bern building is getting to be rather expen: sive.A correspondent of the \u2018Michigan Farmer\u2019 gives à lengthy description of à large barn which he hed erected, the frame being constructed with two-inch planks of various sises.Iie calculates that in a barn erected by him in 1804, he saved $300 in the cost of the framing timber, and nearly $100 more in the vost of doing the framing.This barn as sixty feet square and if it bad been NY framed in the old way, it would have required 40,000 feet, board measures of lumber; but by veing two-inch planks he did with less than 20,000 feet, and as the lumber cost fifteen dollars per M, he saved 8300.\u201cIt touk us four days to get our barn ready to raise.Counting wages at two dollars per day, and board at 50 cents, the cost was 820.Had it been framed of solid timber it would have required about four weeks.\u2019 Further on he says \u2018Rince planka are used in constructing all the timbers and these are filled in with blocke and tenons a post is made, say, eight by ten; yet it only contains material enough for a solid stick, eight by six, securing a saving of forty percent.Then by the method of supporting the roof and inserting the braces in and through the beams and ties another big saving of timber is secured; ro that in a structure of any conxiderable size fully one-half of the timber in saved.\u2019 In another place he mays: \u201cThe timbers are so placed in thin system as to resist the weight or strain endwise rather than crosswise.They also form triangles rather than squares of rectangles, the triangle being the strongest of all geometrical figures because it is absolutely impossible to change any of the angles without at the same time chanz- ing one of the sides.\u2019 Reveral drawings are given the belter to explain the mode of construction, one of which showing the hay-bay over the basement is given here, and anyone who is accustomed to framing barns wiil have no difficulty in understanding the whole plan.RUSTICUS.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 FARM GLEANINGS.The soy bean may be grown for pasture, green forage (soiling), for hay or silage, or for seed.It will yield nine to twelve tons of green fodder, one and a haif to two and a half tons of hay.and ten to forty bushels of weed, according to variety, condition of soil, ete.If seed is desired, the earlier vardeties only should be grown in northern Indiana.The medium early varieties will doubt: less mature in most parts of the state, and are to be preferred owing to their greater yield, The later varieties might be grown for soil renewal or soiling, but they would hardly mature seed.Mr.John Jackson, of Abingdon.Ont., one of Canad breeders, writes R reply to yours regarding the growing of rape with spring grein, ovr practice is as follows : When the ground is prepared ready for the drill, we wow broadcast from one or two pounds of rape seed per acre.The drill covers it sufficiently, We have had good results from this practice.I do not know what we would have done in some of the recent dry sessons for fall feed for our sheep if we had not followed this practice.With us it has given good results when sown on sod prepared and sown with oats.\u2019 I prepare my ground the same as corn ground ; mark one way, marks about three feet apart ; then plant the potatoes with the com plenter the same time as I plant my com.I have to drive the planter with the slowest team 1 have, and two (one on each side) to drop ; they sit on corn bores, facing out, with half-bushel or an old dish-pan of potatoes on lop, and drop behind the shoe in checks, where the planter covers them and the work is all done.Three persons, planting that way, can plant about five acres per day.Then I harrow three or four times before they come up ; and as soon as they are up enough so F can ace the rows I cultivate them good and deep.and after that cultivate the same as corn, both ways.Te Prepare Bordes rity Mixture.\u2014Dis- solve six pounds of sulphate of qopper in four or more gallons of water.Slack four pounds of quicklime or six pounds of airslacked lime in water in another vessel.When the latter mixture has cooled, pour it carefully into the copper solution, being careful to thoroughly etir the two mixtures together.Before applying add water to make about forty gallons of compound.Thoroughly stir before appl ing.This is the best fungicide that can be made.For potato dis- esses, spray the tops of the plants on the first indication of the trouble, and continue to make applications every ten days.The cost is nominal, and such ap plications will save the crop.\u2014\u2014\u2014 LIVE STOCK NUTES.When the breed gots dowa the cattle trade is ruined.Poorly-bred cattle cannot be nicely finished.It ie all-impor- tant to use thoroughbred sires and the commoner the dams the greater is this need.The specilist in beef-raising, as a 1ule, either raises good cattle or none at all.He realises that there is no money in raising any other kind, and be makes it his particular business to fit and prepare his osttle properly for market, a quality that is very much lacking in the general farmer.The only reasonable way to break a horse of shying is to require it to stop whenever it pe and lot it see that there is nothing to be afraid of.Man hinwelf is not much afraid of maything he clearly sets and undervtands.It ie the unknown, mysterious, that which comes suddenly takes us unawares Jows 13, 1800 of which wy stand fo Ner.\u2014Rurst World.While the pigs are lying around their pens in cold, damp, wea their taila are apt to become sore.The cause of this is damp, cold nests.Let an much sunshine in on the pigs as you can.If the tulin feel rough and hard bathe them with lard and carbolio acid, about one drop of acid to one ounce of lard.This should be repeated every day until the æcnb begina to peel off.This is also \u20ac good remedy for scurvy.The acknowledged scareity of well-bred and well-formed beef cattle in the country at the present time doubtlem accounts in a large mere for the ini: Troved prices being paid by dealers and slippers for the class of cattle suitable for the export trade.This fect also ac counta in a great measure for the active demand for pure-bred bulls of the beef breeds and the higher prices which are being obtained for such animale * The heifer calf intended for use in the duiry must not be fed for fat ; in fact, must not he allowed to get fat.The habit of putting the fat on the ribs is fatal to good dairy performance.The farmer can control this very easily il sets about it in the right way and at the right time.!t is entirely rafe to feed the steers and the heifer valves of the poorest milkers all the corn they will eat in connection with separator milk.This, however, will prove very detrimental to calves that are intended for dsiry purposes.The danger can be very easily avoided if the farmer will take the time, by giving these ealves oats instead of corn.Given separator milk, oats and a pasture of clover, timothy or blue grass the dairy heifer will develop on right ines.\u2014_\u2014 THE RAPE CROP, For sheep and young cattle there is probably uo green crop that will furnish us much good feeding pasturage or promote growth and put on flesh as rapidly as will rape.Jt has the property of epringing up again after being eaten off and can thus be fed over several times in & season.It is not, as a rule, con: sidered advisable to sow it early as it is more suitable for the late full months and early-mown rape is liable to turn yellow and to become infested with plant lice during the hot months in summer, unless it je pastured off before it reaches that condition and allowed to grow up again for liter pasturage.Rape may be sown any tine from May to August, but 8e à rule the best time to sow is about the end of June, or any time after the fifteenth of that month.This is a time when farm work is generally not pressing and there is ample time to prepare the land well for the crop.Ou land that.is clean, rich and mellow a 4 goud crop may be grown by sowing the seed broadcast at the rate of four or five pounds per acre.It is well to sow a small proportion of turnip seed with the rape seed, as the stock will enjoy scooping these.The value of rape ss fail food for sheep and young cattle is only fully appreciated by those who have had experience with it.There is no other pasture crop which will put on flceh so rapidly and keep the animals in better health.On good, friable, fertile noils it will produce twenty to thirty and even forty tous of green feed per secre, mccording to soil and sesson.If every frrmer could appreciate the value thas he could easily secure in a rape 3 for a comparatively small investment, especially those who have not a conside erable pasture land to depend on te .supply the sheep, there would be but a very few men who would not avw some the coming year, especially for the flock to feed down.\u2014 SHEEP SHEARING.\u2019 It is not necessary, whether sheared fn March or May, that both sheep and shepherd should have the discomfort of a plank floor to rest on.If the light is good, one of the pens is a good place, as it generally contains a cushion of six or eight inches of waste fodder, which is likewise dry.Over this a piece of care vas or old carpet, about twelve fest square, should be spread, and fastèned at the sides and corners.Eh are more eaxily handled on the grornd thin on a bench, and the bench je not much of a saving on the back.It is much more encouraging for two to shear together than for one to work alone.Twe pairs of shears are necemary; an inferior pair, not too large, for trimming off waste and dirt, and a larger pair for shearing.The shears shoul be kept in good shape by using an otistone.There are three stages in the clipping of a sheep.In the first the operstdr sete the sheep on ite rump, and after clearing the fleece and hoofs of dirt, straw, ete, clips the wool from ynder the throat, and down the ueck té the breast.It is generally ne easy to eli all around the neck down to the shoulders in this position as to do it with the sides.The hreast is then cleared down to the belly, after which the shearer passes his left arm over the fore- logs and lets the sheep down to a more sloping position over his left knes, while he shears acres the whole of the belly, over the scrobim or udder, inside of the thighs, and down to the tail, on both sides.The breast and belly penecslly\u201d have to be done with short clips, wi the point of the shears.The left x should ki the akin of the belly fairiÿ tight, as it Le apt to wrinkle.Care, should be taken net to injure the teste cf the ewes, Young ewes geversiiy have heavy wool and mnali teats, and it is easy to injure them.tm second stage consimta of clearing the left site of the hich in done by clipping from the bey the backbone, folle \"the di i | , BE | \\ Ny Juxx 13, 1899.rection of the easier than clipping broadside, as the wopl oresses in this disection, m that it i easy to reise the wool aa it is cut in order to see where next to cut.The first half of the Jeft side\u2019 is clipped with the shoulder of the sheep vomir on the knase of the shearer, and the last half by having the sheep laid out Hat on ita right side.The third inthe shear ing of the ht mide, which is n con- tinustion of the circular clip begun on the other side, and proceeds from the backbone to the belly with one change of position, as in the case of the other «ide.-\u2014 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS [We duwite questions on ail possills subjects of genera terest, Io which vv shall de our best tu obtain correct answers, and shall insert such queries and replies as wv oan mabe room for, This must net De vod, Rowrrer, ce an advertising cstume cy an an enqriry burrau for Waiters sot af publie interest.Fry query must be with ho name and postal, address of the sander, and no notios will bs tahen of aRIRYmONS CO munésations.) GENERAL.BIBLE TRIPLETS.W.B., Sherbrooke.\u20141.Have the selections appearing in the \u2018Witness\u2019 under the haad- ioe \u2018Bible Triplets\u2019 been publishad in book rm?2, Are they likely to be published it they have not I bee: fssusd?Ans.\u2014 1 and 3.They not been published, but are sent to the \u2018Witness\u2019 in manuscript.The compiler states, however, that a.fe bas received several suggestions to that offset.be contemplates issuing them tu book form at some future date.As yet Bibte Triplets bave bad but five months coupleted.They began at the end of De- comber, 16 The compiler was for many years a member of the editorial staff of the \u2018Witndes,\u2019 and was among its oarller wri- tors.THE KYRLE SOCIETY.C.M.T., Pictou.\u20141.Describe the work of the Kyrle Philanthropic Society, 2.When was it (cunded, and by whom?Ane.\u20141 and 2.The Kyrie Society was founded by Mise Mirands Hill in 1877.Its objet Is to relieve the poor, and put as much brightness nto the lives of the workers in shops and factories, as possible.It haa four bran:h- es, each of which is managed by & separate committee, \u2018end bas a distinct ebject la view.One branch decorstes workmen's clube and hospitals: a second preserves of spaces of the oity for fresh alr; a thira provides music for the poor; the the poor with literatire.bon.vecretarien are Miss Lilden James, and C.W.Empecn, Esq.Office.4$ Manchester rtrest, London, W., England.There are branch socisties In Birmingham, Cheltenham, Dublin, Edinhurgh, Glasgow, Leicester, Liverpool and Nottingham .BOOKS ON FRUIT CANNING AND PARM BUILDINGS.S.W.8., Perth.\u20141.Give the name of & good fruit canning, stating price and be had.2 HF.R, Fraokiin\u2014 title and price of 3 book dealing erection of farm bufldings.Ans.Order, \u2018Canning and Preserving.\u2019 by , price 40 cents.This directions for canning fruits, bles, malbing preserves, marma- Jelllen.piokies, etc.ste.Order from Dryeaats & Co., 222 Bt.James , Que., from Messrs.Oraf- & Co, 280 Bt.James street, or osers.W.Foster Brown & Co., cor- Catherine and Mansfield strests, ue.3.Order \u2018Barn Plans and tion $10.Ore ih ew York: price #1.or wit: stamps frdm one of the firms, mentioning name of ADVERTISEMENTS OF BANKRUPT STOCKS FOR SALE.Gubeerfder, Woodstock.Canadian publication giving notice respect- 1ag bankrupt stocks: the date of the failure, aod the time and pluce of the malet Ans.\u2014No journal is devoted exclusively to the giving of this information.Notices of failures appear incidentally In the dally and weekly Dewapepers.apd in the finan- ofal and commercial journals.Sales are announced In the advertising columns of the same publications.The mercantils age issue daily shests giving potices of fa the Unic@d States and Canada.of eubacriptiou for these sheets ten dollars per annum The sheets how- ive no notices of sales, and they may independently of the annual biications of the agencies.Address either superintendent of te cy, 1TH i atthewn, re Mereantile Agenoy, I St.James street, Mon MALAY NEW TESTAMENT AND BIBLE.D, GO Mec., Copleston, Ont.\u2014Whare may ow Testaments and bibles printed in the y s used in Sumatra, be obtained, und at whal price?Ans.\u2014Separ- abe books of tbe Old and New Testaments are printed by the British and Foreign Bl.tn High and Low Malay, and sold at twelve cents each.Other lan- Page than Malay are spoken In Sumatra, or {astance, Battak and Achinese.Malay in its various dialects entends, however, over Bumatra, especially on the sea coast, and is the general medium of communication from this island to the Philippines, and throtighout the srobipelago, where it has prevailed since the advent of the Portu- guess some three hundred and sixty years wi High Malay is the purer form; Low lalay being little better than a corruption of it, and a mere jargon.Yet as both are spoken In Bumatra it would perhaps ba advisable to order versions of the different forms.The books may be obtained dirent- ly from the British and Foreign Bidls So.ety at Queen Victoria sireet, London, or from the Montreal Auxillary Bible Society, 2176 Mt.Catherine street, Montreal.If or.gered from London by money order, the buyer would receive the books in about & month.If ordered through any Canadian anol: considerable delay would be ocra- unless & large dumber of copies THE REV.DR.WHITSITT AND THF.BAPTISTS.A.B., Ont.\u2014Please givo an account of Dr, te \u2018independent où Kon otek SAS.\u2018Indepen , ow oYr! .pate that four great Baptist Bbtorins ttinn, namaly,?aisdenbus-h in Oer- bas been the only one attacked.Avs.\u2014The following information bus baen supplied by a leading Bertiat divine: The Rev.De.Wbitaitt, the president of the Louisville Semioary, ane of the principst Baptist seats of learning, and a distingulabe reuti of his historical re- buted several articles to the i ribs.Thia direction is; New York \u201cInde L' Thess articles | wore written (of rpose o! preving that the Baptists of ent Heitaln at the thine of the Reforimatioh 4i\u20ac not insist upon Immerden an a \u2018sloe qua aon\u2019 for chureh membersbip.Theme articles wers written under au sssumo3 name, and were ahly refuted by compatoat men.Their eu- thorship having besn discovered, ic was hold that Dr.hitaitt lad attacked une of the funéainental prtu-ipice of the Da Uist organisation, and that, too, in a jou nal recognized as being In opposition to the body to which he belonged, and of whose principles he was rupposed to be an exponent.Great indigantion was caurrd by Dr.Whitsitt's course, and after some two years of dobate, his resignation (rom the professoriste of the colleges was sent in a lew woekn ago.PENSIONS FOR VETERANS OF THE REBELLION OF 1897-38.1.8., Port Lock.\u2014Are \u2018he men who serv: «4 ln the rebellion of 1917 and 143$ catitied to peusions?Ane.\u2014Neither pensions uor miodaly were granted to (bore who served ut this time; except, of course, that those who served as regulars would, whem retired, receive the ordinary allowance due acvord- ing to their rank, and term of service.Pensions were granted to the sufvivors of the war of 1812.medais also wuro struch for them.The members of the militia or- ganirations who tonk part in the suppression or the North-West Rebellion, received tnedals and scrip to the value of 150 acres of land each.tdly, the volunteers who served against the Fenians in 196 and In 1470, were granted medals.Décorations, granted to soldiers who served ageinst thelr ellow citizens, are often provocative of write, and tend to perpetuate painful memories.Rebels often bave a measure of right on tbeir wide.The same political theories which amount to treason ut one period often become established by law and suntomm & few years later on.What 1s (reason in one age is froquently patriotism in the next.One of the leading journals of the United States, the \u2018Youths\u2019 Compan- fon, will not publish snything tending to revive memories of the Civil War of 1961- 8.In the case of those who serve against foreign invaders, or who may engage io aggressive warfare in \u2018oreign lands, the granting of awards does I.ot promote partisan strife.As It 1a with political doc- tribus, no It 18 with their promoters in many cases.Lyon Mackentie, who was the leader of the rebels in Upper Canada during the rebellion you refer to, and for whose capture the government offered a toward, was afterwards ciected & member of parliament.Many of the leaders of the Southern Confederacy held important positions urder the Federal Government of the United States.MONTE CARLO AND MONACO.R.T.W., Montreal \u2014i.To what country does Monte Carlo, the great gamiug resort, belong?£ Give some information con- cerniog ît.Ans.\u20141 and 2.The Casino of Monte Carlo is situated In the little prinei- pality of Monaco, which Is under the government of France.Monaco.which is pine miles east of Nice, 1s situated or Lhe shores of the Mediterranean, in the southeastern part of France.It is bounded by the sea, and by the French department of the Maritime Alps.Jaunaco Is tha small- eat principality of Europe, sor- erelgn goyoroment.It is but elgbt nad one- third square miles in extent, and bas a population of little over eight thousand residents.It has a small standing army of lees than @ bundred men.The town Is bulit upon the smmmit of a rocky headland, 196 feet above the shore, ond surrounded by ramparts.Near Monaco is Turble, at which place Caesar Augus.us marked out the boundaries\u2019 between Italy and Sal.perbout = pile east of Monaco, and near centre the principality, rise the rocky slopes of the Sp=lurges pal: unean) These rocks which previous to 1838, were barren, Count Rey had éovered with soll, by Itallan convict labor.From that time to the present, and especially since 1858, when tas canine \u2018was established, this process of artifftlal embellishment has been earried on, until Monte Ourlo bas become « very beautiful place.In the old town of Monaco are to be seen @ palase and a esthodrai, bullt in the style of the Re- naissencé.A temple of Hercules was er- scted at 8 Very early date.From the tenth century up to modern tines the oste- brated Grimaldl family have held power in this district.It has, however, changed its suserainty or over-lordship several times, generally, however, being under the protection of nes, In 1584 Augustin Grimaldi repudiated Wrench claims, ahd commended bimeeif to Chartes V.In 1841 the French overlordship was restored.In 173 the Natioasl Convention of Frogs, formally annexed the territory; but in 1814 Ît was restored to the Goyon Grimaldls by the Treaty of Paris, passing at the same time under the protection of the King of Sardinie.In 1860, Monseo again became French, bavicg, however, been annexed to Sardinia in 186.Since 1860 the French Plotectorate hes continued.The gaming establishment te owned by a joint slbek company which has a capital of thirty mil.lon francs, about £1,400,000.None of the rendent of Monaco are allowed to play at the eg.¢ compan res their 8008 wil, however, by Pari a the ex- perres of administration, thus relieving the pattves of taxation.It also practicalty ports the religious organizations of the pl In 1884 the Prince of Mona® re- nowe his lease with the Casino for fifty years, and granted it new concessions In return for an increass of £20,000 to the an- nutty whieh it paid him, which now amounts to £90,000, nearly $400,000.The capital of the Casino fs divided into sixty thousand shares.The name of the concern Is the So.ciete Anonyme des Bains de Mer, et du Carole des Etrangers de Monaco.\u2019 It has other sources of rewsnue beyond what it derives from the gaming tables.FLOODS IN MONTREAL 1885-86.Montreal Bubscriber.\u20141.In which year did the great ficod take place in Montreal, in 1885 or in 1886?3.How Aid it com- pars iz magnitude to previous Jooda?Ans.=-1 and 2.The flood of 18M, Imating from ursday, April 18, to Wednesday, April il, was the greater of the tws.'t was Also probably more disastrous than the flood of 1861, and of other previnus years.The population ot the flooded districts was riuch larger in the latter year (1536), so that a flood of even smaller proportions, would bave caured equil, If not greater, damage.\u2018The flood of 1236 also seems to have made preater, bavoc on the south shore, especially at 8t.Lambert.where two lives were lost, and much property dea- troyed.Vet the flood of 1988, which last- od from April 8 to April 39, covered à large portion of the southern part of :he city, oa the adjoining districts.Hua dreds houses could only be reached by boats, and some families were In danger of starvation through tnability to procure suppl During the cootinusnce of this frod a man was drowned cn Centre street, The cause of the ihe breaking up of the fer towards the west, and Its pre-~ipifition upon the still solid ice bridge some miles further east.Ths flood of 1886 caused \u2018he loss of several lives and caused damage variously estimated at from three to eight millions of dollars.The several m- fines at tbe pumping stations did good service for some time in keeping down the water in the drains, and preventing the fiod frem rising In the streets, length tha rush of water Decame for the pumpity stations to keep under control, and the streets of & large portion of the city for sete time resembled the cansls of Venice.There were siso floods what fs\" known as the revetoment wall was built by the Heyal Engineers then estab tiehed the city.This revetemeat wall banked up the natural shore, snd was sup- 10604 lo be sbove the fond Ife by at east one foot, allbough even with the river saine Qutsnce buiew the tog uf the wall, ihe low lying levels of the city coulé still be flooded by menns of the Araina The summer level of the water tn tis bare bor ia at present 77 feet @ inches, and ca t 3) of the canal lock, 13 feet.tho water rosc Ÿ feet abcve the summer level of the harbor, making nal depth of some 54 fect at that Um This was well over the top of the emant wall, and 4 feet 6 Inches wa: deptb registered on the canal sill, the usual depth of Thich ia 13 fet.During the greatest depth of the flood of 18% the water was fore than five feet above the ravetement wail, and some twelve miles of streets were flood: The following are the depths cn registered for severni yours at the lock aill where the usual! depth 16 1% fcet, pamely.in the flood of 1861 on April 1, 41 feet 7 inches; In April.1866, 40 feet § inches; on April 22, 1860, 40 feet 6 1uches; on April 24, 1885, 28 feet 10 luches; In April, 1696, 64 ft, 6 inches.Of dike, and the rity from flouds.rd The g 80 stopped the arcumulatios of {ee upon wharves.the In previous years the 1 me piled vp Lo a height of 60 feet.In earlier years still, before the existence of the revete- ment wall, the jos rose %0 a height of soms- times thirty fest upon the river bank in front of the city.The occupants of the houses sometimes got out of windows on the third story, snd escaped by run slorg the ice.Stone bo tees upon tho were crushed In, and in the year 1435 a tamtly of five lost thelr lives through ihe fee crushing in the shanty in which they lived.From the completion of the revets- tment wall up to 1584, the river ross above It no less than eight times, notwighstand- lug that it was supposed to be ome foot above flood level.Luring the flood of 1888 the fires in the \u2018Witness\u2019 office were put out, and could not be jighted again for the space of two days.THE ORDER OF BEPOLTEVIVE THE BURIED ALIVE.K., Brantford, Ont\u2014I.Give an account of the order of nuns known as Sepoite Vive.3 lo what part of Rome was the mother house situated?I.Has the order been suppressed?Jf so, at what date?Ans.\u2014L, 2 and 3.The order is, we understand, still fourishing at Anglet, ln the south-western part of France, near Spain, and close to the Pyrenees.It was estad- lished bere tn 188 by Abbé Cestss, of Bayonne.At Anglet the sisters are known as Berpardines, or Blisters of Saint Bernard.The term, Sepolts-Vive, or Buried Alive, 13 applied to the members of the order whe reside In Italy.We bave no information as to whether or not thers Is mother house at Rome, or whether the or- Ganisation bas been suppressed in Italy; but It hed (ts origin, We believe, at Anglet.A great many orders founded in different countries have representatives in Italy, but they are not obliged to have thelr mother house at Rome.The Beroardines are not allowed to speak at all except during their religi: services, Or r diug in chapel.Nelther are they allowed to look at #Dy ons, ner are they to allow thelr (aces to be seen.They wear long black woollen hoods over their heads; on the back of the hoods crosses are worked in white.The rest of their attire consists of iocbe white robes and wooden ssbots for the feet.So strict is the discipline that two nuns who had formerly been on most Intimate terms of friendship occupled cells adjoining eash other for fiva years, esting at the same table, and praying in the same chapel.One of the two then dled, and Le the rules of the order, the remains were laid in state in the chapel with the uncovered.The sisters filed past sprinkfing holy water upon the body, when at length the survivor recognized the features of her friend.THe Emperor Napoleon, together with the Em- frome Bugenie, visited the convent at Ang- et in 1864.They asked to see one of the cells.A door was opened and à mn was seen seated with her back to It, and busily engaged at needlework.The Em them upon told the nun that the Emperor and Empress were at the door of her cefl, watt- Le to ses her.The nun turned round, and threw back her hood,showing the dean- titut face of a girl of eighteen.She did not, however, raise her eyes to behold her royal visitors.The Berpardines produce excellent needlework, and work much In the fields, and ju their gardens.hour they ceasé Pom labor at the sound of the payent bell, and wpend n few me- ments In prayer.At first, the nuns labored under great difBculties, lving in low huts, which they bulit themssives.They have aléo erected their t mors com- odious dwellings with the ecception of the .The nuns fast constantiy, and even when they do eat, their meals consist only ot v Tes, dry dtead, water, and three times & week a small quantity of meat.The Ietectory, fe a long, narrow whitewashed room, with a eand floor.On every Friday the nuns est their mesls kneeling upon this send.During what 1s called thelr hour of recreation, the Ber- vardines sit with thefr needlework at the doors of their cells, while a nun of snnth- er order reads aloud to the for they must not read aloud themsalves.The nuns spehid much tima in thelr cemetery ying for the souls of departed sisters, je urviv- lag members of the order have no fear of death, but on the contrary sre said to welcome the thought of it.Their rule is so severe that they seldom live past middle age, or even up to it; and while stilt comparatively young.have the appearance of sged women, n inscription on the door of their chanel states that, ueen Victorts visited It snd prayed in lor some time during her residence at Biarrits in 188.The nuns believe that many miraculous answers bave been received to made in thoir chapel.It is sald that the Empress Kugenie\u2018s rer that a son de torn to ber was granted, the Emoress bh.gone to Anglet for the purdose of mak- jor petition there.\u2014\u2014\u2014 LEGAL.(ONTARIO) CELIBATE AND INTESTATE.Enquirer, C.B.\u2014A son died unmarried and intestate, is his mother, as widow, his sole beir?He left money and jand; had broth- evs and sisters, Ans\u2014No.The estate goes to the mother and brother and sinters, SON OF INSURED PAYING PREMIUMS.Ont\u2014If à father insures his life and & son keeps up yments with the understanding that the policy is made payable to naid son, and after paying premiums Yor eighteen years, tbe father changes the f aoû makes It pey- able to another son: can the first son compe! the father to make tbe full je of the pottey payable to bim?If eo, w ings should he take! Ame.\u2014We think that the son who has pald the pre- mines le in a position to obtain appropei- ate relief by action ia the High Court.A WIFE'S DOWER.Reader, Out.\u2014A man agrees to seit his farm property ts s mining couxpany.Me Ing ng THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.during the years 1488, 1810-41, at which thing | signs an {to prowpert.1 | vi tus opte Al at 1 t time they agres to pny him the sum of #80, and st the end of five months (ha Salance agreed upc for the sale of the whole property.where: upon he agrees to givo a clear deed uf all Tight and title.The wife signy bo agree: ment though well aware of the bargain, 1.Can the wifs hold ber third of said property, or under sald agreement 1a sho \u201con- relied to sign the daed?4.Can she compet them to pay her sumething for her claim rdlese of the agreement between them d her husband?3.Can a husvand veil aud eed away Bin wife's claim or bas she any right to & thiri\u2014said property being deeded under the Old Fiomestrad Art of 1882?Ans.\u2014).fhe may retain her inchonte Hight of dower.She Is not oblixed to join In the deed.3.It is opru to har to make torm with the intaront fo the land: and se far as we can tell from your statement that inter- ost in right to ope-third of the lands for the wrent of ber surviving ber bus.MEDICAL.(Zasiars for this department should be adéreeud \u201cNodical Editor * Witaew,' Moucreal\u201d Shouid « oubocriber ask any queiticn which {net suiiadle for publisation, & reply will be arnt by mail {f a stamped addressed envelope and $1, phyoisian\u2019s for, De enclos wilh push question | ENLARGED JOINTS, F.G.M.\u2014Would you kindly advise in the following.The firet joints of my Angers\u2014 one ou right hand, two on left\u2014ha-e become « Very little, it any, palo, but the ement is quite notimmadie.It 18 aot a swelliag apparently, but a bony enlargement, Il you suggost what is the cause, snd if anything Can be done?rr employment, but take consider- lking exercise.Ans.\u2014This is call- od rheumatic gout, although it Is neither gout nor rheumatism; also.arthritie de- OYA , nd ot It ic & disease dependent on a deo- bilitated condition of the body.Treatment exerts little Influence over it.A nourishing dist, change of alr, or more fresh slr, nd an occasions! bottle of soda water.may lo cod, but any \u2018other treatment would tequire more knowledge of the individual case.Painting with tincture of lodine is often done, but the deformity once Induced, does not change.WARTS ON FINGERS.Constant Reader.\u2014 am troubled with a growth of & wi aature, which makes its appearance on fngors where \u2018hang- alls\u2019 usually grow.have tried glacial acetic acld other remedies, but have taken no effect.Tho owth |s getting iargef and more; unsightly, and fs leo appearing on other fingers of the same hand.Kindly advise what course to pursue in order to get rid of this trouble.Ans.~\u2014Commop warts of ths hands can easily be removed, burnt off with a caustic, as acetic cr nitric, or salicylic acid, applied strong enough, or they can be snipped off, or tied off, as seems best.CONSTIPATION, ETC.G.\u2014Tweuty years old, costive, no pain, but bas to rise often at night.2.Would you advise the following dupilatory applied to the ds?An English rectpe: Crystallized hydro sulphates sods, one part, and three parts each of powdered starch and powdersd quicklime.3.Will pulling out hairs cause them to grow quicker?Ans) Too symptoms to preseribe upen.No: this ls simply a caustic to destrey the skin, and may scar your hands.3.Pulil- Ing out hair makes them coarse.Carrots, onions, ns, peas, caulifiowers, squash, prunes, raising, dried cwrrants, bolled tender, are good for constipation; avoid boiled milk, tes \u2018and suger.RED BPOT ON FACE.J.C.\u2014 About twenty months ago there came & small red spot on my cheek about haif the sise of n five cent piece.Bixteen months ago I consulted my family physi- clan, who gave me & yeilowish olntment to apply.For a time, it helped, but dié not curs.The \\growth was checked and the soreness at times simost disappeared, only to return.There is po cxcrescence: the akin is smooth, and the rpot is sensitive, when scratched; otherwise painless.For four months J have deen applying mereur- fal ointment, not strong.At times I have thought it was completely cured, but it returned this week.It is scarcely noticeadle but 1 would like to get rid of it.[ am 0 care old, and hava livad a good fe, and ave good general health.I have never used either tobaeco or liquor.Ans.-Red spots on the face In those past middle lite may be enlerged blood vessels showing through the skin and not anything to worry about.If It were ringworm it would increase In slze at the edges, If the eltrine, or whatever sort of yellow ointment, were not eontinuously applied.It is not well to irritate the skin in the case of no longer young lest a malignant growth should coms.Epituilloma ns ss a creek, or slightly raised spot, with notles- able hardness.but scon shows that it in not an ordinars spot.It would be best to sbow it to the eame docter again.TROUBLE IN HIP JOINT.Mra.C.P.\u2014Boy, twenty-one years olf,24- customed to work hard, strained his Nip Joint two years ago.The first pain off, but it never got quite well.but grown worse each spring.It trouotes after any work: weakness and dnil pofn.After heavy work extreme tenderness comas on, and extends nearly to the knee, so that he can hardly eit up.We are ont of reach of s doctor.Ans.\u2014Rxtreme tenderness after work, with pain down the leg, may be from {oflammation in the nerve of the log, or from trouble in the bip joint itself.Young persons, If not very strong, sometimes develop tuberculous disease in the hip.A doctor can recognize this diseases by signs which have besa carefully studied, It seems a pity not to get advice for him, even it he bas to leave Lome to got It.He ahould not overtire himself, or get chilled, should be well fod, comfortably clothed, ail to do only what he can without pain.noeûs \u2018resh air, but not to be exposed ting wet or tired linimeat of iodine may be applied.A GOOD BLOOD PRODUCER.Constant Reader wants to bear of n goed blood producer.Ans.\u2014To your first ques tion, not published here, the answer is no.3.\u2018Compound mixture of iron.\u2019 Grifith's mixture, 18 a rapid blood maker.Dose a tadlespoonful three limes a day.Take It through à glass tube, aoû use à salvine ap- orient with iL Lo prevemat constipation, if necessary.TOOTHACHE.B.C.\u2014~Toothache since May 14.A Jump formed at the rost of Lhe teoth, after the gb allhougs nat sleep.| ny he swelling went dows.to make me sleep.Last n took them stronger, | cou) am very nervous, but to-day, half of Hp, chin and cheek.Is numb.Wit # dangerous to extract the tooth, whils lump lu there?How con [ remove lem Why has the BuMdness come owt the tosth?1 enclese ?wil the neuralgia Be cured removing powder.Ans.\u2014-Lat © dentist modieate your gum, which be i Rat et IITA a el de may be able to save the too The bumbnées may have been ca by the powder, and hax prebably passed 24 by this time.Neuralgia may, or nay not be cur- of, by removing à dinessed tooth.That depends upon whether the nerve la healthy, anf whether the tooth wae (he cause of the pain.if your tooth cam be saved and Blled you had better not get it out They hare à proraez of destroying the serve in à rebellious tooth mow, in sch & way as te leave the tooih white and uselul, as iong aa it Insts.It je uot safe (0 take double | the quantity of a sleeping powder without advice from the person who prescribed ft.In cases of neuritis or inflammation of à berve, pain may precede paralyss, but if paralyzed, the part affected.would be help- ess.WHITE SPOTS ON BKIN.Grandma.\u2014in the spring of 188, some white irragular spots appeared of my wrists, the lower thumb joluts and at the top of the legs.They disappesr in the autumn and return somewhat \u2018arger every spring.\u2018They are now, some of them, about the size of a five dollar piece, but irregular in sdaps.They do uot pain me, or rause any inconvenience.[ am sixty.four years old, dark complexion, billous, sometimes: have had vongestion of ihe liver.Ans.\u2014Leucoderma is \u2018tropho-neu- rotie pigmentary change.\u2019 That means that white places on the akin are caused by » difference in the quantity of coloring matter, which Is supplied to those parts of the akin, and that this want of regular distri bution is eaused by the nerves, which preside over the putrition of the skin not doing their work &s well as they should do it.The affected skin ls smooth and eup- ple, no gcallness.The glands set well, snd the sense of feeling Is perfect, In leprous patients the white spots have lost their sensibiility, the nerves of feeling be- Ing paralyzed.in snothss complaint causing white spots called sclerodermia, thers is a noticeable stiffness of the skin, which bas grown thicker.No treatment is known to prevent leweo- derma.or struple whiteness of skin, but as lt comes on in d conditions of the nerves, it seems reasonable to feed these tp with oily substances and preparations ot phosphates with Iron.Dillous putients are lable to weakness of the nerves from the objection they often have to ofls and fats, and because of the use of laxatives, which often rob the body of nourishment, by carrying it too quickly past the place of digestion.Twenty grains of phosphate of soda, with & ptuch of ginger or cinnamon in a large cup of bot water be\u2018wees meals, will per.bape enable a bilicus patient to digest fresh cream and 200d butter.If not, maltine may agree.as mailed milk, which should sup- piy the carhgnacesus material to the body, and enable the nerves to fatten.Meat al- #0 may supply pervs if it agrees pertectly.\u2014_\u2014 VETERINARY.Conducted by D.McEadwen, J.R.C.V.8} INJURY TO TONGUE\u2014RHEUMA- TISM OR NAVIOULAR DISEASE.Constant Reader.\u2014I have & 3nare that took sick five weeks age.1 policed ber tting her tongue out through the side of Fer mouth.Looked at ber tongue and found there were little sores on {t.She ests her feed with her tongue outside of her mouth ever since.Bhe appears ns ff her throat was sore, for when she drinks the water seems as !f it all comes out of her nose; the cords of her neck are swollen and stiff and she keeps her neck to one side.When you turn her she gives @ great groan.Please tell me through the \u2018Witness what is wrong with her and what Is the remedy and what the cause of it?1.I also have « colt two years old that is lame in fore leg or shoulder.He appoars to be pretty well some days and others he Is quite lame.He has been so all winter.Please tell me « 1f you can what ls the matter bit, and also the remedy.Ans.\u2014l.Examine tbe tougue carefully for injury at the buse; it is possible some foreign body may be stuck In it, such as & thorn or pie~~ of wood.Of course 1f any such thing fe founi in the tongue or between the teeth, remove it.It will be necessary to examine quite tu the back of the mouth.If you cannot get a speculum or balling iron to keep the wouth open whilst making the examination you may use an ron ring or stirrup iron from a riding saddle.II potbing is found you had better bathe under tbe jaws and upper part of the neck with hot water twu or three times a day and rinee or gargie the mouth with tbe followisg lotion: Carbolle acid, ball « érachbm; chiorate of potash, two drachms; water, one quart, after bathing.2 The colt has either rheumatism or navicular disease.Ezamive him carefully, «apecially in the boliow of the pastern of the Inme lex and the first joint above the hoot.1 would advise you to give him oue- halt a drachm of salicylic acid ir a small dren mash night and mornin à it you 20d soreness in the holiow of orn pasts apply à good sharp blister to that pert.INJURED BACK.A Subseriber.-1 bave u colt a year old.Whea I let him out about ten days agn, be commenced running, and must hate full.ea violentiy.Ever since wheu he is down or fall down, he cannot get up without help.is lege wobble when walking.He keeps his head straight out hike a bdorse racing, and It swiags from side to aide.His bind parts aexm to bs the weakest What treatment would you recommend ?Ans.\u2014He bas evidently injured his back: Frobadiy only the muscles.Possibly the spinal cord may have boen slightly lajured.Itt possible to do It 1 would advise you to put him io slings, but unless you oan Lave this done by some one who bas hud some experionce În such matters you may do more barm than good.You should also appiy à blister along the back and give him night and morning one quarter où à drechm of iodide of potash and powdered pux vomi- en for à week or ten days.HORSES ARE THIN.H.P.B.\u2014I bave thres horses and all last winter they were fed with half a gallon of oats three times a day each.oats beiug sometimes crethed sod sometimes whole; hay, carrots (occasionally), and a dose of pf weekly in the oats, with the result that ene bores, fourteen years (heavy) fa tat and fit; the other of the heavy team, twelve years, ls thin; the third le an al- mest pure-bred driver, five years, and al- of sdis and willing keeps tely thin.[ will de very mueb obll; M zou will tell me how to fatten them.especially the driver.Ars.\u2014You are bot giving onte enough to expect horess that .much work to keep in very good condition.To get tho horses Into conditinn feed main- iy en soft, easily digested food, boiled or crushed oats or batley, with a little bran mixed.Bes that they get oniy of very best quality and \u2018well cured.The driv- tng bates to ast not over fifteen povnds a day, the haavy horses mighi got a little more, Whilet In soft 1 do ant exgect the horere to do much work, only a little Quiet cxerrise éaily.See that the water is pure and fresh.and thal the bores ste we- tered befor fooling.As (he horses \u2018apreve in condities.ually substitute dry one fer tbe Tred ant eareens the work.A horse Jp work needs three gallons of ssts a Say, | POULTRY AND P (The department 8 wrdsr the charge of Mr.Andres, whe Wil aneer ang questions voué the * Ware] POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.If at this time, or later, you me any your chicks trailing their wings on .around, trying te stand où theic Bonds, \" twisting thelr bradu bank, or looking treased and uncomfortable, it 1s ssfe to sums they are troubled with lice.g Turkey lico are a great pest.The whole braod should be weil dusted with inset fonder and examined at lrast once w ook on the wings wbere tBe gnille and put plenty of powder ca them.De not use ase.Ducks are voracious feeders, and they shouid have ail they oœa cat, from the time they are hatched till they are largs o to sell, though they should not have feed to lle by them aud sour.or they will soel be dead ducks.Give acces to crusted oFs- ter shells and grit, amd keep pleaty of water for them, though It is not necessery te have water to awim In.Clean and whitewash the hes house and ke up the rubbish, It suck work was not done last month, Usually the men on the farm attend to everything ¢ise om the before they do the least thing for Lhe comfort and well being of the poultry.Zu work not only improves the Appearsnce the premises but greatly lessens the ohan- ces of death and sickness (u the flock inter in_the season.The times of feeding may be briefly an follows: When the chicks are less thas & fortnight old they should be ted every two hou for the next fortnight every thres Lomrs- and after that tae until they sre fully grown, say, when fovr or Sve months old, four times « day.There are those breeders who Riways keep food before the birds, and this plan saves a great deal of troubie,but we have never adopted it.Only £78In can be fed in this way, as soft fend would go sour if left to stand.The sweet juices of young grasses or of vegetables have à wonderful effect on the economy of the birds, aud though we de mnt say that chickens cannot be rearsd without ons or the otber, we do not think they can be so reared with (he same amount of success, Wherever A good grass run rap be given it fa desirable that the birds shall have the benefit thereof, but it ean- not be regarded as essential where tendar vagetatues, especially jettuces, can be pre- vided.Where fowis have bees kept om ground for severai years without its being renewsq, the mi be positively tn- Juriaus instend of bevefictal, dat with tet- tuces this will not be mo.A SUCCESSPUL POULTRY SCHOOL.The poultry school et Kingston, R.I, did efficient work at its winter sessions of four weeks, Last year there were eight students; this year tweaty-one, and the permanent success of the exper'ment seems assured.The members are mostly young mes between twenty amd thirty yous ane.At least one-half of the atu have kept poulty and come here tn pick up new ideas.Others expect to learn the A.2 Cont the hen business Some win Took lor tions on large poultry pl : musey wil) work out thelr theories on the heme farm.The whole course may be summarised as an adaptation of general agri- eultural sciamce, such as fceding, brooding.drainage, building, ete.# 1 needs eof poultry keepers, with the poultry discussion meetings presided over by experts from all parts of the couffry, and supplemented by weekly cxcursions to large poultry plants.dozens of which exist within ona.hundred mils of the school.Considerable practical experience is ales Alned by work fn the college poui'ry bull.ngs.Among the students there was constant fecusalon and sharpeming of wits by cx- change of experience.Each bad a favorite or cross breed to exploit, and each had a bit of practice or 1ecory to defand.Merits of various incubators or brooders were compared, and the open questions of the poultry world held up to the light The trend of optplon seemed to favor the general purpose and small breeds rather than the large ones.The new R.I.Rods seemad to have made several converts is the clam, Incubators of simple construction wers pres ferred aud need of supplyirg motsture considered vary doubtful.Long poultry Bouves of rheap std simple make were the tes.ADVERTISEMENTS.rer STOPPED FREE S Permanently Cured IMBANITF FENYENTAD BY DR.KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORXR Positive cure for all Merswws Diemess.Kpitepey.spasme end % Vius Denes.NS Fite Nytvousnew sfler first .Troathe ast $317 sete out trou \u2018nua di emey (rem to patients, they por Sipe chr only The reared: Sond te Dy.TAd Delorse passe of Medicine, IH iD CHANCE Ï Serer 3 r d FYFRFFFPEFÿF RÉREEEESUES æ FFFRFEEPFESF r= E oi CONE PELLETS.ol Rime IA wees rrLLETS.CON : i ene} FA 5 ¥ VF 4 in.f in.tn.3 eonaber shaft hangure, Le in.drop.FOR NEWSPAPER PRAPBISEORS.= Dram Cylinder Press, 46 in.2 37 ith sn Brim Sister Press.50 fa.x 8 mm.One Yolding Machine., One Chambers Folding Machine.One Btonemets Thess be sa I Folding Machine.machines will out and fold, sed for THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, E \u2018PATRIE'S®\u2019 PLEA IN BETIALF OF MR.MENIER.| Referring to the attitude taken hy the Methodist Conference on the Fox Bay troubles, the \u2018 Patrie\u2019 mays, editofialls: \u2018Here are pastors gathered together to deliberate and promote the cauæ of their church and who set themeclves up as the champions of a handful of people who refuse to rovognize any authotity or law.The Methodist Conference takes under its protection highwaymen who rob wrecks; banditti, must of whom come irom Newfoundland, asd some of whom claim to ba Methodists; adventurers, who settled at Fox Bay without ever paying one tent for the land winch they occupy, and who persist in wishing to hunt in Mrs Mehier's domain and commit depredations.\u2018Mr.Menier paid for the island of An- ticosti in good, hard (ah, and he is spending millions there in building up public roads, moles, harbors of refuge; he is about to establish there important industries and profusely spreads progress end civilization.Now, lus he not the right to enjoy his property, the mune as the Amercane at Grande Mere and alse where; the same @ the Enplish in different parts of Canada?Uapital has no odor, and if it so happens that the capi presently developing Anticosti is rench eapital it has the right to be treated like other cepital.\u2018Neisher directly nor indirectly is there nor should there be any question of creed or nationality in this matter.Tt would xcem as though certain fanatics are afraid.lest French gold should cou- tribute to the general development of our country.If Mr.Menier were to trausgress our laws oë diaregarded Canadian authority, we would be the first to call him to a sense of duty and to draw the attention of parliament upon him; but he respects the established order of things, he spreads wealth and causes progress to flourish in the great island of the Gulf, and the marauders of Fox Bay are those who are unwilling to submit to the lsw.Were those banditti of Fox Bay Catholic French-Canadians we would use the same language.\u2018Believe us, (he facta which will shortly be brought to light concerning the scts of the mid colony of Fox Bay will cause the Brockville Conference to hit.terly regret having meddled with that business, and will condemn those who undertake to defend people whom they do not know; those who expose bad cases without knowing them?REPUDIATED.\u2014 MR.TARTE AND THE \u201cPATRIF'S ARTICLE.With reference to the article published in thé \u2018Patrie on the incident at the Methodist Conference concerning the Fox Bay troubles, the full text of which was published in yesterday's \u2018Witness,\u201d the Hon.Mr.Tarte has address ed the following communication to the \u2018Gazette\u2019: , Iroquois, Ont.June 7.\u2014 To the Editor of the \u2018Gazette\u2019 \u2014Please oblige me by stating that I had nothing to do with the article of the \u2018Patrie,\u2019 on the Methodist Conference.I read it after its publication.I never had any objections to being held responsible for what [ write er say.The article in the \u2018Patrie\u2019 is not mine, and 1 do not wish to be called to account for it.J.1.TARTE.THE \u2018PATRIE'S\u2019 VIRULENT ATTACK UPON MR.STOBO.The \u2018Patrie\u2019 has again referred to the Fox Bay troubles, and published the foi- lowing article: \"We trust that the members of the Methodist Conference, who adopted a motion of censure of Mr.arte, will follow the latter's advice and fuake an \u2018mpartial investigation into the circumstances of the Fox Bay aflair, and also of those who bave brouglx on all the noise that we know.\u2018It stands to reason that there must Le, that there are, at Fox Day respectable people, and when in our article of Monday last we spoke of highwaymen who rob wrecks and of banditti our intention was to reach only those to whom such severe expressions may apply.: \u201cThe ministers of the Methodist religion, no more than those of other de nominations, would, we are convinced, take under their protection bad citisens, and still less criminals.: \u201cMessrs.Williams, Griffith and others {have simply been led into error and car- Fe! rway hy a religious zeal carried to excem.\u2018It is a deplorable thing that in this country religion should be mixed up With so many civil and profane matters.\u201cThere are real banditti at Fox Bay, there is no doubt about it.That those banditti are the persons who made the most noise and the greatest agitation concerning the possession of the island of Anticonti by Mr.Menier, is equally un- bred.\u201cWho among the members of the Meth.odiat Conference wént to the bottom of things snd inquired into the antessdents of all those who live at Pox Ray ?\u201cFor example, do those gentlemen know that several of their proterees at different times three with death Mr, Menier.his employees, ote.?ems!i colony of Frs Bay than there are in Afty of our parishes.\u201cThe Petrie,\u2019 whish ardently wishes for ne \u2014_ mr \u2014 FOX BAY TROUBLE.| pobmtampag the members of the Cate + attitude _\u2014 bots.wl x i, sean Methods \u201cThere are more guns and orme in the od.re Pp Conference, that persiste in mi [gious question of a matter of o pure and simple.\u2018We invite the citizens of Fox Bay who are respectable not to take part in the work of prejudice and illegal resistance organized by some of those who survoudd them.The real guilty person in all this matter in the Rev.Mr, Stobo.\u2018We know Mr.Stobo very well.We beliere him to be an honorable man, but he is one of those of whom.ove can say, -wighout \u201cexaggeration, that they have a bee in their bonnet, He is an exogger- ater, a violent roam, mind without any weight.He started for England some time ago with a view, no doubt, to abk the Imperial Government to Eexpropriate the island of Antlosstimad to expel Mr.Menier therefrom.All religique slepomi- nations have in their midst extravagant people of that kind.\u201d : A TIMELY LETTER.Curiously enough, the following letter appears in the Quechee \u2018Chronicle\u2019 from Mr.Stobo, which completely gngvers the attack made upon him by.the \u2018Patrie\u2019 No one, it may be remarked.han a clearer knowledge of the facts connoeted with the Fux Ray trouble nor has discussed them in ealiuer manner than Mr.Stobo : \u201cDear Sir.During my absence from the city in connection with my work proper, | the \u2018Evenement\u2019 has made several attacks upon me, and laid itself open also to legal proceedings, in the charges made against me in re Anticosti atfairm, at home and here in Britain, Permit me to aay that all its vaporinge about Stobo and Anticosti are absolutely false, my oniÿ action in aid of the defenceless is to have Mr.Menier praceed legally, and if any group of French-Canadians had been treated as the Fox Bay settlers have heen, my action would have been the same.I trust I am above race narrowness and religious bigotry, and ahle to | distinguish between sentiment and principle.My only offence in re Mr.Menier and the settlers ja to obtain for them legal advice.Anything 1 have written han been over my awn signature, and em: bodies the rettiers\u2019 own statements.\u2018Sincerely vours, \u2018EDWARD J.STOBO.\" London, May 24, 1800.\u2014\u2014\u2014_ DEATH OF MR.R.M.HAY.A prominent and much-respected citizen of Paisley, Bruce county, (nt.and à gentleman well known to many \u2018Wit- nese\u2019 readers, died on May 22, in the person of Mr.KR.M.Hay.Born sixty.eight years ago in Dalbousie Township, Lonard County, and living as a child in Fulierton township, d'erth county, he commenced his business life in Stratford, and was married there to Charlotte Ewart, of Edinburgh, Scotland.lu 1859, he entered into partnership with \u2018his brother-in-law, Mr.Robert Partecus, and\u2019 commenced doing a general trade in Paisley.His wife died in 1867.after which he carried on business alone for even yearn and then retired.Since that time, he has confined his attention to his own private business.He was married in 1880 to Mrs.Mary McAr- thur, of Montreal.He was a vromin- ent Presbyterian, and was an elder in.Knox Church, and superintendent nf the funday-school for twenty-nine years.Al ways a staunch Reformer, he war clected first president of the Centre Bruce Re form Amociation.He had been a justice of the peace fourteen years, and war for a time a member of the Stratford \u2018 Beacon\u2019 staff.lle is survived by his widow and xix children The Rev.Dr.Hay, peator of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, New York ; Mrs.W.H.McFarlane, Paisley; Mr.Robert I.Hay, Elderslie; Mra .MeDonald, and Mr.Geo.K.of North Hay; and Mr, Edward Hay, in attendance at Walk.¥ erton High Rchool.His only brother, Mr.William Hay, and only sister, Mrs.Porteous, died within a week of each other two years ago.\u2014_\u2014 .THE LATE NUN OF KENMARE.Maragaret Anna Cusack, better known as \u2018Sister Mary Frances Clare, the Nun of Kenmare,\u2019 who died at Leamington, near Warwick, on Wednesday, was one of the most widely known women in Ire land of the last thirty years: She was a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, Joining the convent of the Poor Clares, at Kenmare, county Kerry, shé made it famous by her voluminous historical and political writings.A difference with her superiors led her to leave the Kenmare inatitution.She came to this eity in 1988, and tried to start a codimunity in Jerney City, to be called thé \"Sisters of Peace, with the special object of looking after working girls.Meeting no en- courdgement the project failed Bnd she | returned to England.She fhen return | ed to Protestantism in 1869, and said: sharp things in prirt and on the lecture platform about her former Catholic as | sociates.Since then she has lived in | comparative obeturity.Her Brother was! Sir Ralph Cusack, oF the British Board | of Trade.RICHMOND AND DRUMMOND W.C.T.U.MEETING.The anmual comsty.convention -of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Richmond and Drummond ovunties will be held in Kingsbury on July § and & Delegate must reach Richmond by 1030 am.on July 5.Fraternal dele sates will be welcome.A good attend.anos and interesting sessions are = 4 MONTREAL CONFERENCE.Lively Debate Precipitated O ver the Report of the Committee on Temperance.At Brockville, when the conference resumed on Monday, June 8, much busi- nees of à routine nature wan transacied.REPORT OF THE TEMPERANCE COMMITTEE.The Rev.James Lawson presented the Teport of the committee on Temperance.It reported that it had learned with much satisfaction of the victory of the people of Urmetown, Yue, by which all licenses were abolished in the village.The property of ome of the hotels was subsequently purchased and arrange ments ade for conducting the hotel on temperance principles, and thus removing one of the stroogest objections raised against the no-license agitation.It urged the friends of temperghce everywhere to take advantage of the provisions of exist ing Inwe to secure prohibition over as large a territory as possible, 2.\"That we recognize it to be the imperative duty of every Christian elector to give earnest attention so all matters affeeting the moral welfare of our country, und we would urge our people generally to attend the political caucusse lof their respective parties and force the issue of prohibition in every coatest, provincial or federal, and to demand that prohibition candidates be selected.That when such is not selected, then to withdraw their vote and support from such party candidates.SCOTT ACT IN BROME 3.\u2018That in view of the important Scott act conteat which is to take place on June 20 in the county of Brome, this conference herewith cxpresses its intense interest in the deternined effort of the friends of prohibition to maintain the Beott act, which for so many years has been the Jaw of the country.4.\u2018That the conference confidently ex- pecte that every minister of our Church, and layman of the county of Brome will do the utmost in his power by vote and effort to secure a grand victory for pro- \u2018hibition in this important crisis.BROCKVILLE BY-ELECTION.5.\"That this conference regrets that the members and adberents of the Methodist Church in Brockville, in the recent by-election for the Dominion Parliament, allowed that contest to be car ried on without any reference to the pro hibition imue being raised.In view of the repeated decinration of the Meth: odist Church of the importan-e of the issue, we deem such neglect a serious dereliction of duty.6.* That we commend the artion of the Orange Grand Ledge in its recent decision to prohibit from membership in that body all persons engaged in the liquor grafic.Wa recognise in this qn indication of the growing sentiment of the country against this destructive traf- ac, \u201c7.\u2018Whereas, there is difficulty in sep- frating between personal and official ut- terzntes, we therefore\u2019 strongly deprecate and entirely repudiate such utterances as have been made on the part of any officials or representative men in the Methodist (hurch, as may tend to compromise the recognized position of our Church on the question of temperance and kindred moral reforms.THE PLEBISCITE.8.\u2018We cheerfully express our satisfac tion with the manner in which the gow ernment acceded to our request in re gard to the recent plebiscite, that when submitted it should be the single issue of prolubition.\u2018We rejoice in the fact that a large and decided majority of the voting elee tors of Canada recorded their votes in favor of the total prohibition of the trafic in intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes.\u2018It is, however, a matter of intense dismtistaction and most profound regret that the Government of Canada hes failed to keep faith with the probibi- ticnists of the country, and has positive ly refused to give effect to the will of the people clearly and authoritatively expressed in the plebiscite vote given last September on the question of national prohibition.\u2018Further, it is the jod, t of this conference that it is the imperative duty of the government to promptly enact a law for the entire suppression of the trafic in intoxicating liquor for beverage purpores throughout the whole Dominion of Canada.\u2018We are pleased to learn that steps ate being taken to introduce the ques tion of\u2019 prohibition in the present wes sion of parlinment; and inasmuch as no less than 128 constituencies out of 213 in the Pominion\u2014being the large majority of 44\u2014having given very decisive majorities in favor of prohibitory legisla: tion, we would make a most earnest appeal to the representatives of those con- «tiluencies to work for and support prohibitory Jegislation,, 9.We recommend that the following members of this conference, vis.: W.H.Yambly, J.H.Carson, the, Bev.G.Q.Huxtable, the Rev.James Lawson be appointed to act as members of the Dominion Alliance.Tu A WARM DIRCUSSION.e first clause of the rt vas ed without discussion.pit por When the second clause came up, it was suggested that tbe words \u2018press\u2019 and \u2018urge\u2019 be used intead of \u2018force\u2019 and \u2018de mand,\u2019 and a rèolution to that effect was carried, iverything went along emoothly until the \u201cfifth \u2018paragraph waa reached, that comsuring the Methodists of Brookville \u20181for pot making prohibition an issue in the Dominion fhe récent by-dfestion te ( Partiament; and then there followed sucka sane as tia Vortunately seldop witnessed in public gatherings of this character.When the paragraph bad been read, tho Rev.Mr.Winter, of Montreal, were facts.\u2018The Rev.Mr.Philp characterized the paragraph in the report as a most intemperate one.AN AMENDMENT.A resolution was then made and seconded to strike out the paragraph alto- gethet, The Rev.Mr.Winter said he knew for a fact that in some parts of the riding prohibition was an issue.\u2018The Rev, Mr.Thomas, of Maitland, gave a flat contradiction to the state wero not facts.Mr.Wm, Coates, of Brockville, maid he knew a good many who had made prohibition an isue in the campaign, and had fought hard for it, end be thought the man who had been elected would be as strong « supporter of temperance as his oppunent.\u2018The Rev.W.Phily considered it beneath the dignity.of conference to make any reference to the matter in the report.MR.CARSON'S VIEWS.Mr.J.ll.Carson, secretary of the Dominion Alliance, said he had tried to make prohibition an iemue in the campaign, and bad wnitten to Brockville re garding it, but had not even been favo- ed with a reply.He had never noticed anything in the papers about prohibition being sn issue.The \u2018Christian Guardian\u2019 had also demanded that it ne made an issue and no attention had been paid to it.This brought the Rev.Mr.Thomas again to his feet, He declared with en hasis that what had been stated about prohibition not being made an is mie was not a fact, and he would not be given the lie by any man.Mr.George M.Webster, Westmount, demanded that Mr.Thomas withdraw the statement.The chairman said he considered the language out of place.Mr.Quayle, of Ottews, considered it presumption on the part of the confer erce to take the matter up.If it was determined to do so, let it be stated specifically what Methodists are responsible for prohibition not being made an issue in the campaign, A vote was then taken on the motion to omit the paragraph and was defeated by a vote of 55 to 30.A COMPROMISE.The Rev.\u2018Kalem G.Bland then moved that the following take the place in the paragraph in the report: \u2018That this committee regrets that the prohibition question was not made distinctly and unmistakably an issue of the recent election in Brockville, Several other members spoke, after which Mr.Bland's resolution carried.ANOTHER STORM.Clause 6 carried, but when clause 7 was reached the storm broke out stronger than ever.The Rev.J.T.Pitoher moved that the clause be struck out.Utterances of that kind are so broad that they do not mean anything.It was a personal matter and intended only for a few.The Rev.Mr.Williamson seconded the motion.The Rev.Mr.Philp had no doubt the peragraph in the report was directed At certain men.It was beneath the dignity of conference to make such personal insinuations.Mr.W.H.Lambly mid the state ments regarding representative Methodists were garbled in reports of the House of Commons.The Rev.Mr.Huxtable repudiated the ides that Methodist ministers were going round the country speaking against prohibition and in favor of drinking, (Cries of \u2018Vote, vote.) The clause in the report was again read by Mr.Lawson.The Chairman\u2014Who proves that to be true?I know some of the men aimed at and they aye as strong temperance men es I am, A motion to adjourn was declared lost.Some one suggested that those who preferred the charges should substantiate them, which led the Rev.Mr.Philp to reply that they were not manly enough.The Rev.Mr.Stevens deprecated the idea of passing s report based on news paper rutnors.By the time things were getting badly mixed up, a motion to adjourn was car ried amid considerable confusion.Un Tuesday when the conference opened, and before the order of the day had been called Dr.Rose expressed a desire tO be heard on the temperance report in refereice to his public utterance.A resolution was adopted thanking Mr.John Charlton, M.P., for his address.Dr.T.G.Williame spoke on the St.James Church relief fund.He appreciated the greatness of his task and the jérous support of the Montreal press.je conference will probably raise its fifty thousand dollars, nearly half being aiready subscribed, Of the one hundred thou: sand dollsrs promised by the trustees, eighty-five thousand is secured.Beventy thousand dollars has beer paid off, re ducing interest to the extent of $4.200 per sonum.The outside conferences have sent in eight thousand dollars, but most of their money is withheld till assurance is given of complete final success.The Temple Building had now a rental of a, with vacant offiers valued at 8, A improvements now being made 000, will inersase rental value.The tpuk- or closed a tribute to his predecessors and the trustess.wished to know if the statements made menta contained in the paragraph.They poi A vote of thanks was given to the Rev, Dr.Griffith for his ordination sermon.The tompersnce report wes takow up, and an ites qensuring gris utterances as to the acteppel Jor was discussed Tie] clared himself a prohibitionist, Lut he asked, \u2018Does the recent vote justify ue im asking for national prohibition at this stage I He did not think that such was the cnse.Hut the temperance people have a right to ask for probibition for such provinces as are favorable to it.But he personally advocated governmental control, He referred to the action of the Methodist Church through her high- ost court as to the licensing of the liquor trade, and denounced the reported action as a cowardly attack, snd demanded that it be voted down.Mr.W.H.Lambly defended the re- rt.The Rev.Mr.Chisholm spoke in defence of the Rev.1)r.Rose, and against the report.and was stili speaking when the hour for adjournment for lunch came After the conference had reassembled the discussion was resumed and it lasted most of the afternoon.Tt was quite vigorous, opinion being largely divided, not on the question of prohibition, for on that all were united, but on the beat mans to adopt for the accomplishment of the resuk.Not a few were of the opinion that the plebiscite vote did not warrant the introdudtion of a pro hibitory measure; some thought the Pre.wier promised prohibition if a majority voted for it, while others contended that po such promise had heen made.À few expressed the conviction thet probi- bition could not be cnforced if mlopte! as a law.Finally, the clause censuring certain officials of the Church for their utterances on the question of prohibition was withdrawn by the committee.The clause censuring the government was modified by striking out the words \u2018had not kept faith,\u201d and the other worda signifying that the plebiscite vote was a constitutional one.Among those who most strongly opposed the clause censuring the govern- went was His Honor Judge Deacon, of Pembroke, who, & prolbitionist, saw no good to be attained for the cause by such action.The report was received and confer- erce adjourned till the evening.THE EPWORTH LEAGUE.The Rev.A.B.Sanderson presented the report of the Epworth League committee, There had been an increase of nine leagues and 500 in membership and a decrease of 22 Societies of Christian Endeavor, with about 1,000 members.A decrease in junior socivties was reported with regret, and there had been an increase of $230 in the missionary fund.Greater efforts to get strangers to join the young peoples\u2019 societics was urged.The Epworth League membership in Canada is now 82,000, of which 6,000 are in the Montreal Conference.Dr.C.W.Service addressed the con: ference on the forward missionary mows.ment in the Epworth Leagues, and appealed for more liberal contributions towards it.The Rev.Mr.Timberlake presented the final report of the property committee, which was ndopted.Mr.Timberlake also moved a resolution thanking the choirs of the Wall Street and George Street churches for their excellent music during the session of conference.A pleasant occurrence was the recital by the Rev.Dr.Kilborn in Chinese of the Lord's prayer; in Jopanese by the Rev.Mr.Crummy, and a song in French by Mr.DeGruchy.who also reeited the Lord's prayer in the same lan A .\"CHAIRMEN OF DIF 5 On Wednesday the chairmen and fi- nantéal mecretaries of districts Were elected as follows :\u2014 Montreal\u2014T, G.Wililams, chairmen.Kingston\u2014Jae.Elliott, chairman ; E.B.Lanceley, secretary.Brockville\u2014E.B.Ryckman, chairman.Matilda\u2014Hugh Coirns, chairmen.Perth\u2014F.Chisholm, chairman, Pembroke\u2014John Webster, chairman; A.M.Delong, secretary.Ottawa, R.P.Rose, D.D., chairman ; W.Timbetlake, secretary.Queber\u2014Dr.Griffith, chbairman ; P.A.Read, secretary.Stanetcad\u2014W.J.Hunter, chairman ; C.W.Finch, secretary.Waterlog\u2014J.E.Mavety, chairman ; A.E.Sandérson, secretary.Huntingdon\u2014Wm.Pearson, chairmas ; W.N.Chantler, secretary.When the financial secretaries sre not given, the chairman wue not there to name them.The report of the state of the work was prased.and then the conference adjourned, to meet at Gananoque next year, METHODISTS AND MR.TARTE Strong Resolution Adopted By the Bay of Quinte Conference : At the semion of the Bay of Quinte Methodist Church Conference, in Belle- ville, on Tuesday last, the following resolution was adopted with reference to the Fox Bay trouble :\u2014- \u2018That, whercas, it ban come to our knowledge that statements durogatory and insulting to the whole Methodist Church were made by the Hon.Israel Tarte, a prominent member of tbe Lv- minion Cabinet, on the floor of the House of Commone, in certwin false and malicious charges which he pref against a small und fecble company members of that church living on the Iddand of Anticosti, and which charge oppear on -he pages of \u2018Haneard\u2019 as ut tered by bien, we as a font: répré senting more shan a hundred and twenty thousand members and adherents of on ofthe ap Juns 13, 1899.that church, desire in tbe strongest and most emphatic terms to rest those an.just charges aguiuet eus brethren, and the slur ond oe our whole detigmination throtgritotl it jnign, and demand a i veering Whim fo ide place where they were made and an ample apology f0p~he grievous insult offered to us, and \u2018we.nel}: our brethren of the Methodist ire in pariament to insist un\u201d gomplisnde with our demands on the floor of the House of Commons, and we would further suggest thet the attention of the general superintendent be called to this matter and he be requested to take it up and press the case till full satisfaction be given.\u2018Copies of this resolution to be sent to the Premier and the seversd members of parliament who are ministers or adherents éf the Methodist Church within the bounds of this conference.\u2019 LONDON METHODIRTS CRITYCIZED MR.TARTE.\u2018Windsor, Ont,, June 8.-The final draft of the stationing committee of the London Methodist Conference was brought down at a late hour on Tuesday night.The following resolution was passed, endorsing the stand taken by the Montreal Conference snent the Tarte utterances: \u2018That having received from the Montreal Conference a resolution relating to certain statements made by a minister of the Crown in regard to our brother Methodists on the Island of An- ticosti and having considered the whole question and believing that these charges are without foundation, we are of the opinion that united action should be taken by our church, and we hereby endorse the action and resolution of the Montreal Conference.\u2019 OF COURSE NOT.Mr.Tarte Says He Did Not Mean to Insult Methodists- Toronto, June 10.\u2014The Hon.J.Israel Tarte, Minister of Public Works, spent au bour in the aity yesterday, \u2018The Minister arnved on the government tug \u2018Johm Pratt\u2019 which is making ons of the regular tips through the lnkes, During the run down tbe bay Mr.Tarte gronted an interview to a newspaper representative and was asked to state Lis views in connection with the resolutions recently adopted by conferences of min- interes of the Methodist Church condemn ing him for utterauces ascribed to him retlecting on the settlers at Fox Bay.In response to questions Mr.Tarte seid: \u20181 am very much surprised that gentlemen from the conference are trying to turn mto a religious question a matter which is nothing else than a question of property.Of course 1 did not mean to insult either the Methodist Church or the Reman Catholic Church.Why should.1 have done so?But I am not going to abstain from making statements which 1 believe to be true because they might apply to the Methodist, Roman Catholic, Anglican or any other denomination.Suppose that among the settlers at Fox Bay there are Methodists and Roman Catholics who are wreckers.I want to know how it will be an insult to the Methodist or Roman Catholic Church if 1 do say wo.A PARALLEL CASE.\u2018Commander Wakebam, of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, who has been for over twenty-five years the com- manger of government steamers in the Bt.nce Gulf, made the very sme staf t thet di The reverend gentlemen from vofference did not auk his dismissal and it is a great pity indeed that a religious body like the Methodist Conference haz been led astray in such à way as to assail a mivister of the Crown without even Laving the fairness to quote his words.Look at \u2018Hansard\u2019 snd you will not find any speech of mine dealing with the wubject except the one delivered on, March 20.1 was thon censured by the Belleville Conference for a speech 1 never made.WILL NOT APOLOGIZE.\u2018I shall not apologize to the Methodist Church use I lave not proffered an insult to it.It id fr me to expect from those gentlemen an apology, becaume they bave asssiled, me without any reason or pretext.Of .-course I regret the incident having taken place, because we do not want religious 'strife in Canada.But I am faitly convinced that had I not been a French-Canadian and a Roman Catholic I would not be sessiled as I have been.There is, however, no doubt in my mind but that a good many of the Methodist ministers are acting in good faith.But I am not going to be coerced or bulldozed by any threats of the kind that have been used against me.If I thought 1 had committed any wrong I weuld repair it witheut a moment's hesitation.If I hav¥ been wrongly informed as to the people of Fox Bay I will meke apology to them, but not to the - Methodist Church, hoowuse the Fox Bay sett'ers are one thing and the Methodist Church is another.\u2019 The minister in #till suffering from his illness and was unable to receive any deputations while here.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 MANITOBA METHODISTS.Winnipeg, June 10.\u2014The Rev.Leonard Gaeta, formerly of Montreal, was elected vresidént dé the Manitoba Meshédist conteste, A opening session yes ge 7, a 7 AN: ee LEGATION FOR = NADA.romans, vis Cardisal Vondinas the t it « \u2019 Pope will shortly publish a brief ineti- tuting on apostolie legation in Canada. ADVERTISEMENTS.ba, The above is a name of my own.There is no such term in the Medical Text Books ss Catarrh of the Nerves, but it ie the best I can think of under which to claseify the following train of symptoms.During the seventeen vears I have been studving and treating Catarrh in its manv and various forms.I have found many whose avatem was much run down.No organ of the body was working properly.the blood was poor in quality and deficient in quantity, so much so that it did not nourish and tone up the nervous system properly.Such nersons are usually debilitated.despondent.always ready to look on the dark side of things.In shart.life has lost its charm.Very often such people are misunderstood by their friends, who tell them they are not sick, that they only imagine they are unwell, and that if they just brace up they will be all right.All this is very wrong, it only makes \u2018he r sufferer worse.Instead of this, they should receive the utmost considers- tiun, and all gentleness, kindness and sympathy.+ I¢ has been my privilege to treat very forge numbers of such persons.My heart always seems to go out to them in their sufferings, and when I have ones move restored them to health, I feel high- Ir gratified, and that my life is nat being spent in vain, that it is being given for the good of my fellow human beings, and what a number of friends I have thus mined who were formerly my patients.You would be astonished at the numbers of letters 1 am sll the Lime receiving, thanking me for the good 1 have done them, for once more bringing brightness back into their lives, There is one which I will reprodnce as it may be of interest to some of my renders.It is a piece of poetry.CATARRH = NERVES.And are these years of weery pain Forever passed away ?These seven long years of weary night Turned into endless day ?1 sometimes think \u2018tis sll a dream, And I shal] on the morrow, Wake up to ail my aches and pains, The old, old grief and sorrow, Oh, no! \"tis true 1 walk ahroad, With peace snd heavenly joy.The sweet songs of the summer birds No more my nerves apnoy.\"Tia by thy aid, my gracious friend, That 1 have found relief ; Tor God has blessed your skilful work, And sent this heavenly peace.Oh, msy thy future life be crowned With blessings from above, And may you long be spared on earth For the great work of love.How many sickly homes you've cheered, How many hearts made light ; For sickness reigns no longer there, And all is calm and bright.God bless your life, God bless your home, That home across the ses ; A thousand, thousand thanks I send For what you've done for me.\u2019 Ruch communications as the above are highly gratifying to me, and are kept among my most valued possessions.The most common symptoms of Catarth of the Nerves are as follows :\u2014 Deo you get giddy ?Ja your mind dull ?Is your memory poor ?Are you easily dazed ?Do you have headache ?Are you easily excited ?Do your temples throb ?Do your hands tremble ?Does your heart flutter ?Are you easily irritated ?Are you always anxious ?Do your muscles twitch ?Is your temper irritable ?Is your brain fagged out Suffer from sleeplessness ?Are you easily frightened ?Does not sleep refresh you ?Do you forget what you read ?Do you have horrible dreams ?Does the least thing annoy you ?If you have some of the above symptoms mark yew or no to each question, cut ont and send to me, when I will take leasurs in answering your letter to the t of my ability.Dr.Sproule, B.A, English Catarrh Spreisliat, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Deane street, Boston.| A New \u2018 Witness Premium.GENTLEMEN'S SETS.gx @ZO Free the \u2018Dally\u2019 Comprising 1 Pair Cuff Links, 3 Front Studs, and 2 Pointer Buttons.The Links and Studs are rolled gold plate, warranted 10 years, and are made in the celebrated one piece unbreakable style.- Dull or polished finish as desired.Will be sent postpaid and registered.ts \u2018Witness\u2019 Subscribers only who.vend us one strictly new subscription to at $1.00; or two strictly new subscriptions to the \u201cWeek) Witness\u2019 at $1.00 each; or, if preterred, a ast will be sold tc any one for $1.50.Cash with order.Our premiums are described bonestiy.if they be not considered to correspond with the descriptions they may be promptly returned snd money will be refunded It Pays to Care for Your Horse! 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On receipt of M cents, We Will fend \u20ac full size box Nationa] Gall Cure and a pair of handsome Crystal Rosettes, like illustration above, which are retailed At 50 cents à pair, Money refunded If aot found satisfactory.National Gall Cure le for sale by all deal: ers, price 15 cents.When ordering from us, please write name and address plainly aod enclose his advt.ENGLISH EMBROCATION CO'Y,, \"le Bt.Paul street.Montreal.= BLES do of our Pastel nes R Jhoytien at Ufo.each : Lady # Ailver Watoh for sell- tng} iid blatant and | ivan amer em Shove.retarn ow Sea Werk ! i \u2018 - CAPE BRETON SPEAKS.On May 23.at the regular meeting of Ocean View Lodge, No.48.1.0.G.T., Englishtown, C.B., the following resolution, moved by Bro.Allan Morrison and seconded by Bro.Collie MacLeod, was adopted :\u2014 \u2018Whereas, the liquor trafic is demoralising the civillsed world, degrading society, blighting the happiness of homss, destroying che prosperity, usafulness, character, soul snd body of individuals, and, Whereas, it appears from the criminal statistics of Canada, that nearly ninety percent ot all the persons convicted for indictable offences ln this Dominion, wes intoxicating liquor, ¢ither moderately or immoderately; and, Whereas, any species of svil 90 consplon- ous in the criminal statistics of a nation, calls for the strong arm of the law to suppress It, snd, .: \u2018Whereas, the prohibition plebiscite held on Sept.29, 1998, gave a large majority in favor of prohibition thronghout the Domin- lon, with the exception of the Province of Quebec: be it therefore, Resolved, that thin lodge, In mesting assembled, doeply regrets the faliure of the fovernment to introduce such probidition egislation as would satisfy the temperance peogle.and carry out the mandate of the electors; upd further, Resolved, that thie lodge heartlly em- dorses the action of the Dominion Alliance in urging parliament to enact such | lation at this session as will fairly embody the expressed will ot the people, \u2014\u2014\u2014 THE SAN JOSE SCALE.Toronto, June 8.\u2014A deputation of Niagara peninsula fruit-growers waited on the ha, Mr.Dryden to-day to protest against the San Jose scale regulations recently passed by the legislature.They say the doubtful if the remedies pre- trees are being killed, and it is ex- tremel: scribed are stamping out the vest.à THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, CANADIAN PATRIOTIC ve NATIONAL SONG \u2014 BY A.McKILLOP.{Alr.\u2014* God Save the Queen.\u2019) Hail | bright Colonial Star, Free from alarm of war, Be thy blest shore, Most peaceful land on esrth, Great realm of wealth and worth, Light up the Golden North For evermore.Hark! Hark! the Nation's cal, \u2014 One song\u2014e song for all, One sweet refrain.Loud, loud, the anthem raise, Great Canads we praise ; How bright her golden rays From main to main.The British Iion\u2019s tones Resound through all the sones, To guide the world, Till tyranny shall cease.When knowledge shall increase The great white flag of peace Shall be unfurled.Join join, ye loyal, join, Ye patriots all combine, i Both near and far\u2014 By mansion, cot and grove, Sing in the land we love All other lands above, God bless our Star.Long, ong, this Northern Light, Bo brilliant and so bright, Has loyal been.And still the Land of Fame, To which our fathers came, Rings forth the giad acclaim : \u2018God save the Queen.\u2019 Maxville, Ont, May, 1808.\u2014 THE DUTY ON LUMBER PACIFIC COAST OPERATORS WILL ING TO MAKE A CONCESSION Tacoms, Wash.,, June 9.\u2014The Hom.Charles W.Fairbanks, chairman of the United States High Commission.and bis party arrived in Tacoma yesterday, and will remain several days- In the after noon Senator Fairbanks addressed repre sentatives of the great fir lumber mills of the Pacific north-west.The con! mine owners were also present, and joined in the discussion of the tariff and the proposed treaty with Canada, and the effect of these matters upon the Alaskan boundary.At this ing Senator Addison C.Foster presided, and favored a reduction of 20 percent in the tariff on lumber, provided the tariff on that article was made a part of the treaty with Canada.Mr.E.G.Ames, who was present at several of the meetings of the Joint High Commission in Washington, made au official statement on behalf of the lumder- men.Like a half dozen other leading mill operators who spoke, Mr.Ames insisted on protection for American lumber, but agreed with Senator Foster, provided the tariff on lumber was fized permanently as a tresty obligation, that à reduction of 20 percent would be acceptable and preferable to the uncertainty of political influences and tariff tinkering by those unacquainted with the necessities and conditions of the trade.Mr.Ames, in conclusion, said : \u2018I think I voice the sentiment of the lumbermen of Washington, Oregon and Californis by suggesting the reduction of 20 per cent on rough lumber be considered the ultimatum of the American members of the Joint High Commission to their Canadian associates.and that no concession be made on dressed lumber or on small lumber, such as Isths, staves, clap-board pickets, shingles, etc.I am inform that the United States sells to Canada annually about $80,000,000 worth of goods, wares and merchandise, simply because conditions favor our markets, and that we buy of them about $45,000,000 worth annuslly for the same reason, leaving balance of trade in our favor of $35.000.- 000.On account of this balance of trade and a desire to offset it with lumber, ete., instead of eash, the Canadian lum bermen ask the American people to re move ita protection from its greatest industry and open our great market to Canadian competition.Ins not this a great bardship on a single industry, with 85 percent of the cost of its product labor, particularly when the Canadians have everything to gain and we all to lose ?1 have heard it strongly intimated that the Canadian ition is \u201cfree lumber or no treaty.\u201d If that is no, let it be \u201cno treaty.\u201d\u2019 THE PACIFIC CABLE, BRITISH GOVERNMENT CONSENTS TO RECONSIDER ITS AT- TITUDR London, June 10\u2014The \u2018Times\u2019 announces this morning that the British Government has consented to reconsider ite attitude toward the Pacific cable project, se the result of urgent represents- tion from Canada snd the colonies, and is pow inclined to utilise British credit in Yooviding the mecsamry espitel.LIEUT.-OOL.C.G.MARTYR, DA.0, Lieut.-Col C.G.Martyr, D.8.0., for although only a regimental major in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, he has the loos! rank of liswtenant-col- onel in Af.iea-ie at the head of that little band that is now pushing forward through Ugands to touch hands with those forces that have recently restored LIRUT.-COL.MARTYR, D.8.0.to civilization the Boudan and the upper reaches of the Nile.His war service is an exceptionally fine record and entirely Egyptian.He was in the 1882 campaign with his regiment, and present at all the work from F} Magfar to Tel-el- Kebir.In the Nile expedition of 1884- 88 he served with the Mounted Infantry, and was present at Abu Klea and Fl Gubat, in the reconnaissance to Metem- meh, and in the engagement st Abu Klea Wells, on Feb.16 and 17.In 1888 he was at Gemairah, earning the 4th Class of the Medjidie, and in 1850 at Toski.In 1801 he served at Tokar and received the 4th Class of the Osman- ich.In the campaign just concluded he saw the first phases, having been A.A.G.to the Dongola expeditionary force.He was present at Firket snd Hafir, was mentioned in despatches, received the D.8.0., and was nominated to the 3rd Class of the Medjidie.Since then he has been adding to his laurels in Uganda.A SHOCKING FATALITY.A LADY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HERSELF.The friends of Mre.Travers, the mother of Mr.R.W.Travers, late of Mont real, who is at present manager of the Benk of Montreal, at Almonte, will regret to learn of the fatal accident which has occurred to that lady at ber home in Almonte.On Monday week last, while Mra Travers was examining « Joaded revolver, the weapon was accidentally discharged, the ball entering her stomach.Burgical aid was at once procured, and three surgeons from Ottawa were also called in; but despite their | deavors the unfortunate lady succumbed to ber injuries not long after the accident.\u2014_\u2014 MRS.ARCH.CAMERON'S DEATH.(From sa Correspendent.} Mrs.Cameron, widow of the late Mr.Archibald Cameron, died at her heme, L'Ange Gardien West, near Ottawa, on May 23, aged 70 years and five months.Bhe bad been confined te her bed for six weeks by paralysis, but had been in failing Lealth for some time.Her late bushand died on Ang.26, 1806.Mrs.Cameron was a true Christian, a faithful wife, a kind and loving mother, snd will be very much missed by her family.The deceased was never known during her long life to speak ill about any person.She never turned any from her door who came seeking help, but always assisted them as far as it was in her power to do ao.She bas left three sons and six daughters, The eldest son, Mr.D.R.Cameron, is Mayor of Derry, Que.Mr.Duncan Cameron resides in Montreal, and Mr.Archibald Douglas Cameron is on the old bomestesd.Five of her daughters reside in the United States, two in Duutb, Minn.; two in Munesing, Mich.; one in Hinckley, N.Y.; and one near Buckingham, Que.Mrs.Cameron was a daughter of the late John McMillan, was born in Lochiel, Glengarry county, on Dec.21, 1819, Her maiden name was Nancy McMillan.Her grandfather on her mother\u2019s side, whose name was Gra- hem, was a United Empire Loyalist, and at the time of the Revolutionary war, like thousands of other loyal subjets who would pot desert the old flag.lost all they had in this world, and came to Cansds, the land of the free, to live and die under the grand old flag that braved the battle -d od breeze fora thousand years.rs.eron\u2019s fat removed to Cumberland, Ont., when she was quite young, and wes a respected der of the Church of Scotland until the day of bis death.The remainn of the deceased lady were interred in the cemetery on the old Me Millan homestead beside the remains of her husband, on May 25.Five generations of the family are buried in that cemetery.The funeral service was conducted at the house by Mr.Albert Dunning snd the Rev.Mr.Siacennes, Pres byterian minister.\u2014 THE SPARLING POISONING.In the Sperting murder trial lest week, a Bryson, the ry, disagreed, consider t evidence strong enough, an were di .The prisonee, Mrs.Sparling, was held meantime to answer, .ADVERTISEMENTS.au NOXON Noe Light Steel Bindes \u2018The 1889 pattern No.8 is fitted «very up-to-date improvement f ou aby other binder, and also many festares uliar to itself not found un uthers, which goto 1t an eminently wacosssful maching, Roller ané Bali Ben rings, Positive Gear Brive, High Drive Wheel.\u2018 Brass Bearings for Canvas Roliers- Boal Reo! Made, Sure Knetter.Ail loreen comtes ient; red drivers ight hand.We solleit « a THE NOXON LINE OF MOWERS.\u2018We have sec out this yer to please the Mas on ma he re Ah = | offer the y nl «pos, an Roller and Ball Bearings.Serrated Ledger Plates, Gears of broad face, giving large wearing surface.All front cul patlerns have handy foot lite.Examine critically variety end will make your cholos with ua.you OUR RAKES.MONTREAL NEWS, The striking mouiders have come to en agreement with their employers, and the strike is therefore over.The little son of Mr.Isaac Lewis, contractor, of Westmount, was fatally burned st bin father\u2019s residence last week, and was buried on Tuesday last.The Montreal Street Railway Company has agreed with the city surveyor to adopt the best fender possible for the prevention of accidents in future.The wages of the Montreal Street Railway men were increased on Wednesday last five percent.This made twelve hundred men bappier then they bad been previously.They appreciated the in- crense y.The slayer of Mrs.Hebert, who was found with her head crushed in by a bot te.in her store, on St.Timothée street, noted last week, has not yet bees found by the police, who seem utterly at fauit as to any clue.The Recorder is fining carters for having no rest-poles for their horses, as required by luw.Five of them paid one dollar and costs on Wednesday, and the example may help to make them and oth- ets more humane in future.Mr.Alb.Tierney, 35 years old, was krocked senseiess in the Grand Trunk Railway yards on Tuesday last, and remained unconscious for some Bours afterwards, but no bones were broken.The announcement of the serious illness of Mr.J.H.Graham, past senior master of the Grand of Quebec, was announced on Thursday by a de spatch from Richmond, Que., where Mr.Graham's home is.A grocer in St.Jean Baptiste Ward was ordered last week to destroy some 200 boxes of canned tomatoes, found to be unfit for food.Severs! families had had their health injured.Hence the discovery by the sanitary inspectors.A child ten years old, son of Mr.Joseph Letourneau, of 10 Grey Nun street, was drowned at the tail-rece leading from Messrs.Peck, Benny & Co.'s mills to the river.on Wednesday.The body was swept away by the current.Mr.Frank Lamb, chief bookkeeper for Mr.John Allan, the dry goods merchant, was arrested on Friday, charged with des frauding his employer of à large sum of money.He submitted to the officers without a word.Joseph Denis, who, in a drunken quarrel with his friend, « widow, Mrs.Du- rccher, of 1760 Bt.Denis street, threw a kettle of boiling water at ber, and scalil- ed her child fatally, on March 12, pleaded guilty to tbe charge of mansie on, ednesday.He had been held on & charge of murder.The body of Mr.Albert E.Caney, a member of Wellington Lodge, 1.0.O.F,, killed in the Grand Trunk yards, Point Bt.Charles, was taken possession of by the irepector of anatomy, Dr.Hudon, and À was with some difficulty the Odd- teilc ws were sbie to secure the body for burial.This they did, however, on Friday, and the body was buried in Mount Royal cemetery.Mr.Isidore Boileau.of Ste.Genevieve, was etruck while ' driving across the C.P.R.track st Beaconsfield station, just west of Montreal, on Wednesday, at six p.m.He was hurled thirty feet away.His waggon was demoiished, but he found his horse near by when he recovered from the shock.He had bis wounds dressed at Notre Dame howpital.On Thursday evening, Mr.W.E.Lilly, of Pointe Claire, wes enjoying a bleyele ride at about nine o'clock in the evening, when he struck the pole of a team coming in an direetion.It was thought the yousg wan hud essapod ibe broken and a shaking.He died on Friday evening, and was buried yesterday in Mount Royal cemetery.Mr.Lilly was in his twentieth year, and was much beloved by a large circle of friends.Word comes from Admiral Bedford that he and the vessels of his feet will visit Montreal about the end of next month.Admiral Bedford is the successor of Sir John Fisher, who, when he was leaving here after his last very en- josable visit, promised to be back at sunrise of June 6.His appointment as ne- val attaché to the British legation at the Pence Conference made this impossible, but Admiral Bedford is coming instead.Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson, president of the Grand Trunk Railway, arrived in Montreal yesterday.He would not dis cuas the positien of the striking track- men.These men, who thought everything had been settled last week for their return to work, found out that some would not be taken buck.The strike was then ordered on again.and the men seem determined to continue it.Alice McNeil, charged with infanticide, was discharged from custody on Saturday afternoon, after having been on trial for two days.The jury pronounced the verdict \u2018not guilty,\u201d evidently full of eym- pathy for the young woman, who appears to have scted while under mental disturbance, and was irresponsible st the time for her actions.THB TEXAS FLOODS, Austin, Texas, June 10.\u2014Latest infer mation from the flood-stricken distriet along the Colorado River, to the norte west of this city, fully confirms former reports of loss of life and property.AR telegraph and telephone wires are prow trated, while great tracts of whest aad - corn have been devastated by the waters.Several people are known 0 have perished, and many more are w= sccounted for at present.The vives, roee so rapidly st San Saba Chat \u20ac and people living in the lowlands unable to make their escape.Mr.M.Wells, a prominent farmer, living a miles north of the city, in attempting % rescue bis family by boat, lost tig daughters, and barely succeeded m ing his own life and that of his wife one small child.The body of one of daughters was recovered hanging from the top of a tree, During the day « bundred people, bad been swept away in the first fi of the flood, were rescued by bosts their perilous positions in tree-tops, number, unaccounted for, may have drowned.The wheat crop was swept away | the flood, entailing a loss of of dollars.Cattle, sad were drowned by the hu From all reports received from below San Baba, the entire country has been laid waste, and the low from the feel in that district is thought to be $100,000.The water is receeding rapidly, and it is believed the worst over.\u2014 HOISTED THE SARAWAK London, June 10.\u2014A despetow Victoria, Island of Labuan, says that i! ibabitante of Brunei, and the mediate coast of Borneo, bare the Sarawak flag.Brunei and Nerawsk are both stes on ibe north-west coast of ; and sre both wader British pret 3 It was over Farawak that whe I \\ Sir James Brooks ruled as Rajeh 1041 to 1008 a a Hi kt i \\ Ti æ In the House of Commons, on Monday, June 3, after the Premier bad made hin explanations concerning the protocols on the Alaskan boundary question, al Inded.10 in lt wedk's \u201cWitness, the House Lstened to the speech of Mr, W.1.Poupore, the member for Pontiac.He had upon the onter paper à resolution drawirg attention to the subject of the Montreal, Ottawa & Georgina, Bay ship ca nal towards which he would have the gov.arament afford a guarantee on the bond issue of the company which Mr.MelLent Stewart, the chief promoter, is reported In opening, Mr.Poupore referred to the debate on the same question last session, and expremscd his pleasure at the concluding words of the Prime Miuister on that occasion, in which he admitted that the scheme had merit in it and called © for consideration, and referred to the, de- *, sirability of having the proposition plac- * od upon the soundest financial fooling.Since that day meetings have been held throughout the Ottawa Valley, from Hawkesbury to Mattawa.In these it was apparent that the general sentiment favored the government's lending its assistance to earry the scheme to success.This was the opinivn tk af very eminent American and Dri authorities.When this was so was it other than reasonable that the promoters of the enterprise rhould look for the government favor uvon the undertaking ?nother Storm Concerning the Drummond Counties Railway Bill.THE GEORGIAN BAY CANAL AND ITS COSTA Stupendous Undertaking Which the Government is Asked to Guarantee Bonds For.to have organized in the Oid Country.| similar to the cnlarged St.Lawrenes canals\u2014fourteen feet depth.The shal lowa will be dredged ont, snd a \u2018report prepared in 1888 by Me, Francis Smith nhowa that sixteen feet of water can be {lucl at normul high water mark in the the Ottawa.THE GUARANTEE DEMANDED.The reason the syndicate asked for a guarantee od twenty million dollars in- steal of seventeen millions is that the syndicate fevls that the nnvigation should be made uniform betweeu Ottawa and Montreal, and that elevators should be «tected at different points, for instance at Hawkesbury, at Pembroke, at the Mattawa river, at the mouth of the French river and anoiher at Arnprior.\u2018The olrtacles that may be met with at different rapide along the river will be overcome by à mrivs of stone locks, The deepening of the river will be proceeded with in ths usual way by dredging and by sub aqueous excavations either of rock or of earth.The estimated cont of the work is twenty-five million dol i lars, and that is to include the enlargement of the canal from Ottawa to Montreal, There are somewhat over ten miles of canal between Ottawa amd : Mentreal of enty nine feet, that would be enlarged to fourteen feet and pro vided with all the docks and wharves and accommodation necessary at Montreal, and with elevators at the different places that 1 have mentioned.The syn- The Minister of Public Worka, speaking at the Monument Nutional, a puh- Yie hall in Montreal, recognized the paramount importance of the trans i portation question and added that if he had his way he would build the tieorgian Bay canal ox à part.of the plan to make Montreal the Buffalo of Canada.In connection with his stand on the transportation queaticn, Mr, Tarte had | in his opinion shown limeelf a statesman of the first onder.On another occasion Mr.Tarte had observed that the question of the Ottawa, Montreal and Georgian Bav ship canal was a scheme worthy of all consideration.I\u2019rocecding, Mr.Poupore quoted the opinions of the New York \u2018Sun\u2019 \u2018Tribune\u2019 and other leading American journals, which ahowed that dicate proposes that this should be done vin order tu make the system complete and therefore it asks for a guarantee of twenty million dollars, instead of seventeen million dollars, at two sod a half percent.One of the reasons why it asks a guarantee at two and a half, itstead of :wo percent is that a guaraa- tee of two and a half percent makes the bonds gilt-edged, while a guarantee at only two percent the bonds will hardly bring more than 80.In conclusion, Mr.Poupore apologized for having spoken at such length, but gave as his excuse the importance of the subject with which he dealt.MR.BELCOURT.Mr.N.A.Belcourt, junior member for Ottawa, felt that valuable as the evi: dence of last session was as to the prac © they were fully alive fo the important Dearing of this canal project on the great carrying trade of the continent.EXISTING CONDITIONS, But what are the conditions to-day?Last year Montreal exported only thirty-| eight million bushels of grain against two hundred and sixty-four milHon bushels sent forward frome Buffalo to the American seaports.Mr.Tarte had truly seen, therefore, the necessity for urgent action to save our own carrying trade.\u2018Trade will follow the shortest and the nesrest route, and that route with the expenditure of money for improvement to navigation wouid Le the Ottawa River route from the Great lakes to the sea.Mr.Poupore had, last session, referred to the valuable natural wealth of the valley, and could only repeat what he had then said.On Calumet Island, in his own constituency, there is found valuable deposits of galens, cobalt, lead and nickel.Elsewhere is to be found gold and marble.The great pulp industry is another industry in which the Ottawa valley would flourish.Mr.Pou.pore had last year calculated that between Montreal and French River there was to be found not less than two mil lion hors-power, which could be made of great value in the production of elec tricity.He was now confirmed in that belief, and at the rate of $2 per horee- power per aunum, this would mean à rev-nue of four million dollars from elcc- tricity alone.COST OF CONSTRUCTION.The canal nay cost Canada for the present from eight to ten million dollars, But from the commercial standpoint alone he could not but feel that this money given as a bonus would be well spent.From a strategical aud military point of view the underaking is of equal moment.Within à year tbe government will be free from ite large undertaking in the enlsrgement of the St.Xawrence canals and could therefore well taïe up this other.He himself was preyared to support any government that would take pp the work.If the canel wus pat bad the government | would bave to reckon with twenty five counties.By the arrangement entered into with the syndicate the Governmeat of Cen ada is now neked to guarantee bonds to the extent of twenty million dollars at lwo and à half percent, instead of sev- teen niillion dollars at two percent, nw be proposition last year.i Figufes given by Mr.Wickstesd, C.E., before the Canadien Beciety of Engineers Ju Montreal, show that by the St.Law- Fence route you have 1,145 miles of na- Figation, 132 of river and 71 miles of nal, making @ total of 1,348.By the tawn we have 575 wiles of lake naviga- tiom, 373 of river navigation and 33 miles of canal.\u2018The Ottawa route is therefore 1 ticability of the nohieme, à great deal mcre convincing evidence has come to light since.The House of Commons was favored at Tuesday's sitting with what the government looked upon as a determined effort on the part of the Opposition to block the business of the House.The result was a sitting which did not bresk up until three o'clock on Wednesdty morning, and during which practically no progress wes made.The government bill for the lease of the G.T.R.line from Ste.Rosalie to Montreal for the purposes of the I.C.R.extension was under consideration, in cou- mittee of the whole House, but the Opposition made the order an occasion te base an unusually acrimonious attack upon the Minister of Railways.There was absolutely nothing new in the smb ject matter of the discussion of import ance.Early in the morning the Opposition demanded thmt Mr.Blair produce the report of an engineer which he had quoted in his speech.This the minister refused to do, and Mr.Brodeur, who sot as chairman of committee, was called on for a ruling, which was given in favor of the minister's contention.Sir Hibbert Tupper at once asked that the Speaker be called upon for his view in appesl.Thereupon a rather amusing scene ensued.Mr.Brodeur received the report of the comittiee from Mr.Flint and then he took the chair, in his official and legal position as Deputy Kreaker.This oid not st all meet the view of the Opposition, who demanded that the regular spesker, Sir James Kd- ger, should Le summoued.\u2018The appeal was finally made to the House itscif, when Mr.Brodeur's ruling was maintained by \u20ac5 to 20.THE ELECTIONS ACT.At the opening of the House on Tues day afternoon, Mr.Ingram (East Elgin) introduced s Lill to amend the Election net, which was designed to meet, he suggested, the advanced methods of conducting elections, more particularly in Ontario.Among ite main features are provisions to prevent the importation of expert deputy returning officers from outside constituencies by ruling that deputy returning officers shall be residents of the county in which the election is being beld; to strike out the cause that cells for n 6200 deposit by parties nominated as candidates .n Dominion elections; to increase the pen.sities for personstion, ballot stuffing, stealing ballots, etc.; to require returning officers to furnish to the candidates the names of deputies snd the polls at which they are to act; to require deputy returning officers to show ballota to agente when counting up the poll; io stipulate that where polls are distant not more than tweive wiles ballot boxes ehall be in the bands of the returning officer within five hours after the close h miles shorter than the St.Lawrence.character of the werk is to be of the poll and to sperify that where haliots Save been spoiled the deputy te- A wan devoted to privite biils.THE MONTREAL turing officers shall furnish new papers.3 \u201cEXCLUSION DISAL- LUWANCE, Un the anlers of the day the Firet Minister, in reply to a question hy Mr, McInnes (Vanconver Island), confirmed the statement appearing in the press as to the disallowance of the legislation passed by the Inte government of Hrit- ish Columbia in 1806, concerning the exclusion of Japunoæ Jabor.The pa pers will shortly be laid on the table.COMMITTEES TOO J.ARGE.Tu the course of a discussion concern: ing the committees of the Ionse Sir Richard Cartwright expressed the opun- ion that parlinment had made the mis take of having too many members où the connnitt PARCEL POST TO YUKON.Mr.George Taylor, Conesrvative whip, rend 8 let'er seeking information as to the parcel post to the Yukon.The writer hud went three registered parvels to his son in Dawson a few weeks since but had thew returned from Victoria, The Vostinacter-Cieneral explained that there had been no acevice for this class of matter during the winter owing to the difficulty of getting in and out.The vervice would begin when it is posible to get in and out freely hy water.He did not think it would begin before June 1.Me.MeDougal] (Cape Treton thought the public should be given due notice ne to the ustire and conditions of the mail service, THE GRAND TRUNK STRIKE.On Wednealay last the Grand Trunk Railway strike was up in the Howe, and discussion upen it waa prolonged for a time longer than most labor troubles ummally occupy the members.Sie Wilfrid Laurier explained in reply to Mr.W.F.Maclcan (East York) that he had entered into negutiations with Mr.W.Wainwright, of the Geand Trunk Railway, but that having heard that the seme committee nf trackmen that called upon him had enlisted other members of parliament in their case, and that these had gone to Montreal, he Sir Wilfrid, had sent forward by mail the statement of the trackmen, witu the desire that he would place it in the hands of Mr.Hays giving such recommendation as he (Sir Wilfrid} could on his own part, and be ing desirous that any influence he had should be ex+rted to bave the trouble ceare.Hin eympithies personally were very strongly with the men.Mr.Casey hoped the government would taken som= means to settle the strike.The Hon.Mr.Blair, Minister of Railways, mated that he had notified the Grand Trunk Railway of complaints nade, and that he had taken means to investigate them by employing engineers.Rome of them had even started from their homes on Monday to investigate when the notice came to him that the difficulty was over and that men had returned to work.He then recalled the engineers, , \\ A MISUNDERSTANDING SOME WHERE.Mr.Powell (Westmoreland) detailed Lis part in the negotiations, and his interviews with the trackmen in Montreal and with Mr.Haye, who utterly declined to treat with the men as strikers, nnd would make no promise to them until they returned to work.Mr.Powell having seen the men sent a note to Mr, Hays to state that telegrams were being sent to all the men to go back to work, Mr.Powell wae positive the agreement was to take back all the men who had sone on strike, and was surprised to learn on his return to Ottawa that Mr.Hays's propoation had been accepted without communication with men or officers of the subordinate unions.He also learn:d that trackmen were being refused work, except under conditions, ard telegraphed Mr.Haye, who in a telegram reminded him that he had made no promises whatever in connection with the trackmen returning to work, and also stated that they were re-employing such of the old men as they wanted whose conduct hud not been objectionable.Mr.Powell replied to Mr.Uaya as follows: \u2014 \u2018Your telegram received.You made ne promise other than to enter into ne- getiations concerning grievances if « ets returned to work.This applied to all of them, and not a part of them, as you know.Your course, if persisted in, will render the situation again critieu.\u2019 Mr.Powell also wrote to Mr.Hays more fully, and siowed the correspondence to Mr.George Taylor, who had been with him when Mr.Hay» made the promise.Mr.Taylor telegraphed to Mr.Hays advising him io take on all the men save those who had violated criminal law, Mr.Hays replied to both Mr, Taylor's telegram and his own letter stating that except at Kingston and Actonvale, they were taking Lark the men \u2018ce rapidly as their anplicetions can be considered.\u2019 Me.Taylor's story of the agreement with Mr.Haye was practically similar to Mr.Powell's.Me.Henderson, of Halton; Mr, Ives, Mr.Robertson, Mr.McMullen, Mr.Clarke, Mr.Davin, Mr.Bell (PEL), colonel Hughes, br.Rad, Mr.Kendyr, Tr.Ingram and Mr.MoHugh, all spoke before the subject wae dropped.OTHER BUSINESS.At the evening sitting the first hour Menara.Richardson (Lisgar) end Davis (Sas- Katehewan) continued the discussion on the motion for the third reading of the Lill to extend the time for the completion of the Great North-West Railway rnd the debate wea in progress when the order of business was changed.In reply 6e « question by Rir Hibbert Tupper as to the outbresk of mmalipox among the Toukhobor im board the nte on \u2026 \u2018Lake Huron.now at A WEEKLY WITNESS.Grome Isle, the Prime Misister confirm: el the report gruerally, but was not able to give auy further details.In reply to a question by Mr.Clarke Wallace as to the newspiper report of a delegation fron: the British West In.diew being now in Washington with a Proposition for a reciprocity treaty which would discriminate against Canada, the Prive Minister stated that he had no infermation an the rubject, but the gos: emment was watching the interests of the Dominion in the matter, AN ALL NIGHT SESSION.| The House then went into the comimit- tee vf the whole upon the agreement between the government aud the Grand Trunk Railway Company in connection with the extension of the Intercolonial Railway.Mr.Foster asked Mr.Blair to explin the $140,000 rental for Grand Trunk approaches to Montreal, Mr.Barden, of Halifax, bad asked for the information some days previously, but it had not been given as fully aa Le desired, The tom.Mr.lilsir refused to give the juformation, and it was a acene of Noisy and obstructive talk that followed.Mr.Foster declared that the Opposition would insist upon getting the information.Mr.Hair refused to give it and the wrangle continued all that even: ing, pest midnight, and into Thursday foreuven.The Opposition considered ore eatitled to get the informa- tien, and proved their odes by getting it finally.ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING.At ome o'ckek on Thursday afternoon, Mr.Hair rose to communicate to the House on what he found to le the first available opportunity certain information which bad been furnished him by the Grand Trunk, which had been asked for some days siuce by Mr, Borden, of Halifax.In se doing the Minister of Railways explained that he would be very loth to treat that gentleman with anything like discourtesy.The cane was one of pure misunderstanding.The papers which he now furniched the Honse had only that moment been placed in Lis hands and he gladly furnished them to the Houge, he- lieving that it would not in the least tend to weaken the goverument'e pusi- tion in the matter.The stetement which Mr.Blair laid on the table on Thursday covered the six menths from November to April.It showed that the Intercolonial's proposition of the use of the different sections of the Grand \u2018runk, included in the lcrse, amounted to over twenty-seven percent.This showed the absurdity of the Opposition pretensions that the government would not use more than two oF three percent and proved that the government will have good value for its investment.On account of maintenance and repairs for the same period the In- tereplonisl paid 23.41 percent or operuting Birt and salute i, à 31.91 percent of the cost.Taking the two accounts together the I.C.R.prope sition wns over twenty-five percent.Mr.Blair hoped he would be able to give to the House, in addition to what ke hid already produced, the figures desired by the Opposition in connection with the proportionate use of the Montreal terminuls by the Intercolonial and the Grand Trunk.The resuit was an understanding at baif-past one o'clock by wich the louse took recess Lill three and the Ouoosi- tion agreed to finish the dis.ussion m commitice inside of one hour.After some discussion the bill was put through coaunit*ez and in the hour aod aud a half which intervened between this and when the House rose at six o'clock the fisheries estimates were put through.YUKON RAILWAY CHARTERS.Ottawa, June 10.\u2014The House of Commons yesterday received a statement of the government's reasons for declining to sanction the granting this session of any charters to Yukon transportation companies.In committee of supply in the evening the estimates for the inland Rev.eniie Department, amounting to about half a million dollars, were put through.Sir Charles Tupper expressed himself as at a loss to understand the propriety of the government's announeement of policy in refusing to sanction this session the chartering of any Yukon railway companies, in view of the position which the gov.roment bad asaumed lnat year as to the importance of having the road constructed without delay.The Prime Minister replied that the government considered this matter one of prime importance.He would say frank.Iy that the government would raise no objection to the chartering of a Canadian road from waters that are beyond ques tion Canadien to the Yukon country.At the same time, it did object to granting a charter to « line from the territory in dispute between Canada and the United Rtates.At the present time most of the charters which are asked for are to luild a rdilway on the Dalton trail fiom Pyramid Harbor to Dawson.Pyramid Harbor in the meantime is in Amtrican possession, aud to grant these would be to complicate the question of dxtermin- ing the boundary.To grant this charter would be to build up an American city st Pyramid Harbor, and make it all the more difficult to get back what belongs to us and establish the boundary as it should be, The Canadian contention, continued the I\u2019remior, wan that the whole Lynn Canal belongs to Canada, while the Americans claim that they sbould have all the shores around it and that they should b- confirmed in the poasersion of Dyea, Ekeguey and Pyramid Harbor.It seem od dear to him that parliament acted vith questionable wisdom whes in 1807 it granted a oharter to the British Yu- kon Company, which bas comtributad Lo buill up Bkigusy, an American city be: tween whieh and Seattle thers is a gat and .inchearing.tule, | conaequently meet the antagonian 0 powerful American interests, which have been built up at Nkaguay in the contention for a settiement of the houndary.When the boundary question is settled, ax he hoped it would, giving the Lynn Crual to un, then only could Canada af- tord to grant this charter From Pyramid Jlarbor and there would be no need, as there in now, for an American charter over the const strip.Better wait for one or two yesrs and have the certainty of n Canadian city at Pyramid arbor rather than build now and have it made an American city.Under such circumstances, he phiced him- soll in the judgment of the House whether it was not advisable and in the best intercets of Cxnnda not to allow Ameri- «an cities to be built on the Lynn canal, but to wait till the question of the boundary las been settled.Should it be decided in the future that the Lynn canal dees not belong to Canada, the policy of Canada will be to gain access to the Yukon, not by the lynn canal, but by building railways down to what are indisputably Canadiun waters, to Observatory Inlet, through the Cassinr, Atlin and Yukon districts.The government in this matter preferred a waiting policy.The Premier ackna Jedged that it might seem a somewhat invidioun task to prevent access to Yukon by the building of railways, but the rea sons neemied to be ro strong and over whelming in favor of staying owr hand and waiting till we know whether the harbors of the Lynn canal are Canadian or American.Parliament could not well afford to grant charters over the Chil- coot ronte.After the boundary in determined, aud if it in determined against the Canadian contentions, it will be time for the government to take up the whole question of railway legislation based upon a line entirely through Canadian territory (checrs) instead of granting charters now which might prejudice or not be in the pubile interest.No injustice would be done to the peaple of the Yukon at present, secing that they have the White Paca Railway and the waterway, which will answer all purposes for the present.INTERCOLONTAL FXTFNStUN The order for the third reading of the bill providing for the lease of the Grand Trunk line from Montreal to St, Rosalie was called, when Mr.Foster asked for a postponement of the debate till Tuesday next on the ground that important returns vet remain to be brought down, more particularly that concerning the reports of engineers on the condition of the road.Rir Wilfrid Laurier expressed himself ready to mect the wishes of the Opposition, but remarked thai if this postpone ment wan consented to, the third resd- ing must be put through on Tuesday.Mr.Blair did not know what information wan asked that had not been already provided.Mr.Foster wanted to he antisfied that the road was brought up to the atandant of the Intercolonial.Mr.Blair remarked that the Auditor General had to be convinced in this re spect before subsidy was paid, and the engineer who made the inspection had already given his evidence before committee.The #100.000 which the company war required to spend in bringing the road up to the necessary requirement bad been expended under the direction of government engineers.The Premier's proposal was then assented to, WINDING-UP ACT.Ottawa, Ont., June 10.\u2014In the Senate yesterday, on the motion for the third reading of the act to amend the Winding.up Act; Senator Allan stated that he bad received several petitions from Ontario representing that several suits pending in the winding-up of the bustness of the Farmers\u2019 Loan Company would be prejudiced by the legislation, and asking that representations on that point be beard.Sir Mackenzie Bowell had received similar petitions, and moved that the bill be referred back to the Banking snd Commerce Committee tor further consideration.The Hon.David Mills concurred, and the motion passed.\u2014_\u2014 A MAD HORSE.Galt, Ont., June 9.\u2014A shocking acei- dent occurred yesterday afternoon, on the farm of Mr.Campbell Scott, about] three miles from here.\u2018Walpole Boy,\u2019 « Clydesdale staliion, owned by Andrew Harvie, Beverley, became vicious and attacked his groom, Alex.Harvie, nephew of the owner, knocking him down, biting and otherwise injuring him.Mr.Harvie, sr, went out to catch him, snd the horse made for him, knocking him down, but jumped over him without injuring him.A ware coming into the barnyard next attracted the mad animal's attention, and he made off towards her; but was caught at the gate.Mr, Harvie took charge of the horse while the other men took the injured young man up to the house and sent for a doctor.Though only a few minutes elapsed before their return they were horrified at seeing the stallion running around the barnyard with the old*man in his mouth, perfectly naked, his clothes being strewn about the yard.Mr.Beott picked up a stone and hit the horse on the head, which caused him to drop his now lifeless owner.A decoy was used to entice the horee towards the barn, where be immediately begun to batter down the door, and would 8008 have bees in among the ciher had mot Mr.Scott obtained a rifie and killed him.Mr.Harvie was terribly mutilated, his neck, ribs, arm and legs being broken, and shoulder bit.ten, sad bruised from head to foot.Canada would |.| t wr CONGREGATIONALISTS MERT Cn STE desr ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ONTARIO AND QUEBRO UNION AT BRANTFORD.j Juxx 18, 1800 For the first time in the post ten years the Congregational Union of Untario and Quebec held its annual meeting in Brantford, commencing on Wednesday.The Rev.Mr, Ped: ley, of London, Ont., presided, and the meetings were held in the First Oongow.gational Church.The first question discussed was the \u2018amalgamation scheme,\u2019 which, sioos 189%, has been beiore the union in one form or another.Mr.8.P, Leet, of Montreal, opened the discussion by moving the following motion: \u2014 \u2018 Resolved, that it is desirable that the operations now carried on hy the Congregational College of Canada, the Canada Congregational Missionary Society, the Canada Congregational Foreign Misaionary Society, and the Con- gregationat l\u2019ublishing Company, be pinc- ed amder the direut control of the churches represented by delegates to be chosen annusilv.\u2019 Mr.Leet, m an able and eloquent speech, supported his motion, contendi: that the churches should be the controlling force behind all these societies, A great saving would be effected in labor and expense.Under present conditions these societies have enci their own staff \u201cof officers, although the annual meetings of all are held during the union meetings.Mr, Leet pointed out that a similar amalgamation was in force in the Baptist Church, while the Scottish Congregational Union had also sdopted a similar system.Mr.C.Cushing, Montreal, seconded the motion.Mr.O'Hars, Toronto, in opposing the motion, pointed out that as far back as 1880, and prior to that, a similar scheme was in force in the union, but was changed to the present system, which he contended was more advantageous.Dr.Beavis, Hamilton ; the Rev.W.8.Pritchard, Granby; the Rev.Dr.War- riner, Montreal; the Rev.J.McKillican, Montreal; Mr, C.R.Black, Montreal; the Rev.1).S.Hamilton, Point St.Charles, and Mr, White also spoke on the subject, after which Mr.Leet waa given an opportunity of answering objections which had been raised.The vote on Mr.Leet'a motion was then put, the result being 33 to 18 in fe- vor of the scheme.On Thursday morning the Rev.Messre.R.G.Watt and C.R.Ashdown were admitted to membership in the union.The application of the Rev.H.F.Thomas was laid over, as per by-law, until next annual meeting.In the meantime he will sit ana nding member.On motion of DF\" Massey, Mr.and Mrs, R.C.Moffatt and Mrs.Currie were asked to sit as corresponding members.The Rev.A.McKenzie, Stratford.and the Rev.William Baker, Woodstock, made applica tion for.membership.The election of chairman for 1900 came next in the list.On the \u2018second ballot Mr.Edmund Yeigh, of Toronto, was found to have been elected.Mr.Yeigh suitably acknowledged the honor done him by the union.Mr.R.B.Blyth then addressed the union on behalf of the Students\u2019 Home Mimionary Boeiety.HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.The annual meeting of the Congregs- tional Home Missionary Society, opened at eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, with Mr.F.Moodie, of Motreal, in the chai1.The treasurer's report was read by Mr.C.R.Black.The cash statement showed receipts of $39,216.46, and expenditure, $36,026.24.The receipts for the General Mission Fund, were 9,148.00, and the balance at credit on June 1, 1809, was 9920.15.The Shurtleff Mission Fund showed receipts of $2,518.34; and disbursements, $2,317.86.Th church extension and building fund, showed re ceipts of 91,722.44, and a balance on band of 791.37.The George Robertson Evangelistic Fund reccipte were $757.03, and the balance on hand $654.3., The reports were adopted, and the following officers elected : \u2014 President, Mr.C.Cushing, B.C.L.; re-elected secre tary and superintendent, the Rev, A.P.McGregor; treasurer, Mr.C.R.Bland; honorary sezretary, the Rev, Thos.Hall.Executive committee \u2014 The Rev.C.E.Bolton, Western Association; Mr.H.C'Harn, Toronto Association; the Rev.W.Melntosh, Eastern Association; the Rev.F.J.Day, Quebec Association; the Rev.J.W.Cox and E.E.Braithwaite, Nova Ecotia; the Rer.Dr.George, New Brunswick.General committee\u2014The Rev.W.8.Pritchard the Rev.A.W.Main, Mr.8.P.Leet, the Rev.Dr.{ Wariner, the Rev.D.C.Mcintosh, Robt, McKelvey, Morgan Wood, \u2014 Copping, T.B.Hyde, Messrs.J.C.Copp, Geo.Pim, Dr.Beavis, W.J.Hindle;, H.Cluris.FOREIGN MISSIONS.The annual meeting of the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society opened at two o'clock on Thurs day with the Rev.T.B.Hyde, Toronto, presiding.The Rev.E.M, Hill, M.A, Montreal, toad the cighteenth annuel report as read the report of treaburer.This £46.57, which, with » balance on band of 153,00, mule $1,000.36.The expeadic turn amounted to 93,100.38, leaving & N 1 the Rev.FE.M.Hill, M.A, Montreal; - J.W.Pedley, John Wood, J.T.Daley, R., Y.Blyth, H.Cox, F.Evans, the Rev.W., secretary.year had been a buy and progressive one.The Rev.W.T.showed receipts during the yer of 8,\" \u2014 a * 4 Gunn, Exbro, Ont, \u2018 the 7 Juxs 18, 1899, balance on hand of $1,510.08.Of this balance, however, all except $644.32 was specified to be used for special objects.The expenses for next year will be very heavy and additional financial help is needed.These reports were adopted.The following motion was then adopt.\u201cThat the contributors are gratified with the advance work planned by tha executive, with the .ew mimionaries chosen, and accept cheerfully the added responsibility for contributions.\u2019 THE NEW OFFICERS.The following offi-ere were then elected for the ensuing year: President, the Rev.T.B.Hyde, Toronto; vice-preai- dent, Mrs.Thomas Moodie, Montreal; secretary, the Rev.EF.M.Jill, M.A, Montreal; treasurer, the Rev.W.Gunn, Embro, Ont.Executive commit.tee-The Rev.Dr.Warriner, the Rev.D.B.Hamilton, the Rev.G.E.Reid, Messrs, C.T.Williams and B.P.Lect, and Miss Dougall.(ieneral committee\u2014 Mr.T.C.Jonea, the Rev.Hugh led- ley, the Rev.W.H.Watson, Memrs.H.Barker, BR.W.Roherteon, Charles Duff, H.Yeigh, Brantford; Mr.J.White, Woodstock; Mm.McQullum, Mrs.A.Jenkins, Mr.J.D.Nasmith, Miss Watson, Miss Florence Rawlings, Miss Stowell, Mr.Il.E.Munn and the Rev.W.8.Pritchard.THE PROVIDENT FUND BOCIETY.At the annual meeting of the Congre- gavional Provident Fund Roclety, on Thursday, Mr.Charles Gurd presided, Mr.Thomas Moodie, of Montresl, read the treasurer's statement.In the widows\u2019 and orphans\u2019 branch the receipts for \u2018the year had been $2,107.23, end the expenditure $806.91 leaving a balance on hand of $1,300.32.The assets of this branch are now $20,081.91, an increase of $906.06; ss compared with last year's.In the retiring minister's branch the receipts had been 811,929.28, paid to annuitants, $500; balance on hand, $1,420.28.The asmeta of this branch are now $8,633.57, an increase of $225.12 over last year.The following directors were then elected for the enauing year: \u2014 Mensa.Charles Alexander, Charles R.Black, R.C.Jamieson, R.8.Weir, D.C.L.; Charles Cushing, B.C.Charles Gurd, T.B.Macaulay, P.W.Wood, H.J.Ross and Thomas Moodie.The meeting then adjourned.THE NEW CHATRMAN.Mr.Edmund Yeigh, the newly elected chairman of the union, is an employee on the business staff of the Toronto \u2018Globe.\u2019 He was born in Burford, Brant County, sixty years ago, and was the MR.BE.YEIOH, Newly elected Chalrman.son of Jacob Yeigh, who was one of the earliest pioneers in Brantford county; in fact, he was the first white man to take up his residence in the county.The subject of this sketch received his business training in Brantford, carrying on business there aa well as taking care of the home farm, which is still in possession of the family.Ie has been active in church wark all his life, and for forty years has taken an active part in the work of the Congregational Union.During the Fenian raid of 1886 he was called out as chaplain of the Burford Company of the Oxford Rifles.His election as chairman of the union is deservedly popular.Friday's session of the Congregations! Union was opened by a prayer and praise service conducted by the chair man-elect, Mr.Edmund Yeigh, Toronto, Resolutions appreciative of the object of the peace conference, now sitting at The Hague, were also read and referred back to the business committee after acme discussion.The nominsting committee recommended Mr, Edmund Yeigh as delegate to the International Council in place of Mr.Bt.Croix.The following were recommended as alternates: The Rev.A.I.McGregor, the Rev.T.B.Hyde, the Rev.W.Molntosh, the Rev.Hugh Pedley, Mr.C.R.Black and Mr.H.Yeigh.The Rev.T.Leggatt Edgar applied for nembership.The application was referred to the membership committee.\u2018The Dominion Alliance wrote sending treetings to the unjon and enclosing a sireular referring to the work of the Al- fance, the qualifications of members, ste, and defining the present condition of affairs with reference to prohibition.{t wes referred to the temperance and sominating committges.The Ontario W.C.T.U.wrote reier- ing to the csnteen question and sale of sgarettes, Referred to the temperance rommittee.The Home Missionary Boclety report xd recommending the opening of an of- ice in Tdronto ae beadquarters for the liferent | orgeisations connected with \\ thé union, THY was\u2019 i¥ptéd.THe\u2019 fol: lowing committee was appointed to ar range details: Messrs, H, 0'Han, J.C.Copp, H.Yeigh, the Rev.J.Wood and the Rev.A.F.McGregor.Mr.C.R.Black, of Montreal, invited the union to hold ita meetings in June, 1000, in Emmanuel Church, Montreal.On motion of Mr.H, O'Ilers the invitation wus unanimously accepted, THE COLEGE WORK.Brantford, Ont, June 10.\u2014The annual meeting of the Congregational College of Canada was opened at two o'clock vester- day afternoon.with Mr.J.R.Dougall, of Montreal, in the chair.After devotional exercises led by the Rev.Mr.McIntosh, Mr.Dougall gave a brief resumé of the progress made by the college, to which T.{he extended congrntulstions, The Rev.Dr.Warriner read the report of the secretary, which was exhaustive, and told in an interesting manner of the progress made by the college.In all, last ænsion there were 18 students, including three special students.Valuable service had been rendered by different eminent ministers in the way of Ictures, ete.Mr.I.Moodie, Montreal, read the annual report of the treasurer, which WES very encouraging.last year there had been a heavy deficit, whereas this year all accounts had been paid, and there was a halance in the benk.In the cask account receipts were $8,230.66, and expenditure $7,320.00 leaving a bal ance on hand of 8010.57.The revenue occount showed receipts of $5,040.95, and expenses of $6,838, leaving a halance of cash on hand, of 61,188.05.The endowment fund had grown by over $6,900.These reports were, on motion of the Rev.Dr.Warriner, adopted.The Rev.W.T.Gunn reported on behalf of the C.FE.College movement.It was proposed that Christian Endea- vorers raise 85,000, to endow a lectureship on \u2018The English Bible\u201d The res ponse to an appeal made to the societies for thin purpose was very encouraging, The report was adopted, and the action taken was strongly commended.The following board of governors for the college was then elected for the ensuing year: Mesure.B.W.Robertson, 8, M.C.Miner, J.R.Dougall, C.R.Rack, C.Cushing, T.Moodie, W.D.Lighthall, J.C.Copp, Geo.Copping, C.Gurd, T.B.Macaulay, J.H.Burland, the Rev.WV.McIntosh, the Rev.E.M.Hil, the Rev.J.T, Daley.Mr.Cushing desired Dr.I.8.Weir's pame to be substituted for his own, but after some discussion, during which the fact of Dr.Weir's having walked in the Corpus Christi procession, was referred to, Mr.Cushing's request was not acceded to.A resolution of thanks for financial aid rendered, was then passed to Mr.ond Mrs.8.H.C.Miner.The meeting then adojurned.,, io - CONGREGATIONAT, PUBLISHING BOCIETY.Alter the college meeting yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the Congregational Publishing Society was held, Mr.J.C.Copp, Toronto, presiding.The secretary, the Rev.W.Wye Smith, of St.Catharines, read the directors\u2019 and financiAl reports, which were generally of a mtisfactory character.The reports were adopted and the [following direc tors elected for the ensuing year: Mesars.J.C.Copp, James Smith, the Rev.John Martin, H.O'Hara, George Pim, Ed.Yeigh, H.W.Barker, George R.Copping and C.McD.Hay.The meeting then adjourned.FOREIGN MISSIONARY WORK.In the evening a public foreign mis sionary mesting was held, presided over by the Rev.T.B.Hyde, of Toronto.The large church was crowded and a feature was the presence of missionaries who soon leave for Africs, Mrs.Currie, Miss Melville, Dr.A.Y.Massey and Mr.Robert Moffatt.by the Rev.Merers.T.B.Hyde, D.C.McIntosh and F.J.Day Brantford, Ont, June 10.\u2014This morning the Congregational Union nominating committee made the following' nominations; which were adopted:\u2014 Secretary-treaswrel; the Rev.J.P.Gerrie, Toronto.Statistical secretary, the Rev.H.E.Mason, Georgetown, Preacher next year, the Rev.G.E.Read, Fitch Bay, Que; alternate, the Rev.J.Scholfield.Delegates to the Maritime Union, the Rev.A.F.McGregor, Dr.George, Dr.Waurriner, F.J.Day, A.W.Main.Temperance committes, Messrs.HO'Hara, C.J.Atkinson, J.D.Nasmith, J.R.Dougall, A.A, Jarvis, the Rev.J.McKillican, the Rev.John Wood, the Rev.H.Horsey.Delegates to thm Dominion Alliance, Mesers.J.C.Copp, , Rev.J, Wood, the Rev.H.C.Thomas.Union committes, the Rev.J.P.Gen rie, the Rev.A.F.McGregor, C.Gurd, J.R.Dougall, W.D.Lighthall, 8.P.Leet, Dr, Warriner, the Rev.E.M.Hill, the Rev.Morgan Wood, J.Schol- field, T.Hall, D.C.MeIntosh, J.W.Pedley, Dr.Beavis J.K.Unsworth.Delegate to the Union of England and Wales, the Rev.J.Bcholfield.Bunday-school committee, S.P.Leet, the Rev.W.8.Pritchard, Mr, H.L.Thomson, Mr, C.J.Atkinson, Christian Fndeavor committee, the Rev, W.J.Hindley, the Rev.J, K, Uns worth, Mr.R.B Blyth.\u2014\u2014\u2014 PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT.Cobourg, June W.~The Goths Diet agreed to-dmy to the resolution ad by the Lower House oo May 31, which declares in favor of Prince Arthur of Connaught teking \u201d bis principal residence in the Duchy Baxe-Coburg-Goths, and receiving a German education, vo | THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.JUSTICE TRIUMPHANT.THE GENERALS- -Par bleu! Sbe\u2019s free! FRANCE AND DREYFUS.Events of the Week in Paris\u2014 The People Support the Republic.Since the attack upon President Lou- bet was noticed last week, events in France bave been lively.On Wednesday Dreyfus was waiting on the shore at Isle du Diable, and his subsequent actions are described minutely in every Parisian and London newspaper.The attack on President Loubet at the Auteuil races, was bitterly resented by the Chamber of Deputies.Twenty persons were arrested on Thursday night while attempting to move against M.Zola's residence.The Countess Esterbazy secured the divorce she sued for on Thursday.London, June 8.\u2014A despatch from Cayenne, French Guiana, to a local news agency, states that the second clase inch cruiser \u2018Sfax\u2019 has left the Tsle Du Salut with Captain Dreyfus on board.Captain Dreyfus said in en interview : \u2018I knew that Gen.De Boisdeffre would obtain reparation for me for the attack upon my honor.I knew also that the perseverance and firmness of my friends would succeed in obtaining the revision that is finally granted of my trial.\u2019 Captain Dreyfus is ignorant of the part that Col.Picquart has played in his de fence.He knows nothing of the work that Emile Zola has done.His conversation is vague, and rambles among various subjects without connection.He knows tbat Esterbasy was the author of thé bordereau.He asked : \u2018Who is the officer that is to take me back to France ¥ Cayenne, French Guiana, June 10.\u2014Tha French cruiser \u2018Sfax,\u2019 left the island at 6.90 a.m., to-day, with Dreyfus on board.The latter embarked on the warship at seven o'clock yesterday morning.This led to \u2018the report that Dreyfus had sailed yesterday.But his departure did not take place untill this morning.Paris, June 10.\u2014The government is doing its utmost to keep the exact date and circumstances of the srrival of Captain Dreyfus à secret.It is said he will be disembarked a few miles {rom Brest.Brussels, June 10\u2014M.Perreu, managing editor of the \u2018Aurore,\u2019 who was sentenced with M.Emile Zola by the Versailles Court in the proceedings for libel brought against them by the officers of the Eaterhazy court-martial, has left Liege for Paris to enable the court to serve its verdict upon bim.PRESIDENT LOUBET'S TRIUMPH.Paris, Juve 11\u2014President Loubet has had his revenge for last Sunday's outrage at Auteuil.When he drove to Longchamps to-day to attend the Grand Prix he was the hero of a great popular demonstration, expressing itself in one form or another along the whole route from the Elysée palace to the race course.Ile remained only a quarter of an hour, just long enough to witness the race, and having congratulated the owner of the winner, returned to the palace, where he arrived at four o'clock, with: out wpecial incident.The Revisionist and Socialist organs summoned their leaders to assemble along the thoroughfare to be traversed by the ident and his party, and from the hour of noon thousands of demonstrators set out from several working class quarters, in organized bands, all wearing a small, artificial red flower in the button-hole, and marched across Paris, taking up ie tions along the Avenue du Bois de Bow logne.: They gave M.Loubet a tremendous ovation, confining their cries almost entirely to \"Vive Loubet,\u2019 and \u2018Vive le Republique.\u2019 The President did not hear a discordant cry, although there were one or two scuffies before and after he passed between the police and an occasional hot-beaded anti-Deeyfusard, who tried to shout \u2018A bas Loubet,\u2019 and was immediately pounced upon bye swarm of policemen.Although the visit passed off quietly, the government was prepared for anything, the whole district between the Elysée and Longchamps literally teemed with troops and police.À policeman was stationed every dosen yards along the entire route, and there were squadrons of dragoons armed with lances snd mounted Republican Guards, at ali important pointe, while through the green foliage of the Bois, on each side of the avenue, could be seen beavy inasses of red and blue, denoting the presence of detachments of soldiers, awaiting orders.Longchamps resembled s military camp, Battalions of infantry, squadrons of drs- goons and Republican Guards were dis tically drove through a double hedge of steel.A line of infantry even sf reround the race courss between the publie and the course, on which no one was allowed to walk between the races, while several Republican Guards patrolled the course itself.THE OXLY GRAVE INCIDENT.The only grave incident of the day oc- eurred after the President had returned to.the Elysée, at one of the garden res taurants, the Pavilion D\u2019Armodille, about a quarter past five, when the establishment was full of customers, somebody made an objectionable remark concerning the President.The people took sides, and a regular fight ensued.Bottles, glasses, decanters, tables and chairs were hurled about.At the same time a crowd of Socialist demonstratois \u2018arrived \u201cin the vicinity, and hearing that a row was in progress, laid niege to the restaurant, shouting, \u2018Vive la Republique\u2019 The throng quickly swelled to several thousands.The windots of the café were smashed, sad the struggle was continued within.Finally the mounted police arrived, clear ed the neighborhood, and closed the café.Several persons were injured, including à number of policemen.One of the features of the dar was an unusually large Gathering of deputies and municipal functionaries at Long: champs, less to witness the races than to testify their adherence to the existing regime.All the ministers were loudly cheered when going and returning.Inquiry at the Prefecture of I'olico at a late hour elicited the information that about thirty srrests were made during the day, and ten policemen more or less seriously inj DUPUY'S CABINET RESIGNED.Paris, June 12.\u2014The Chamber of Deputies was crowded to-day and there was considerable suppressed excitement when M.Vaillant, Socialist, intcrpellated the government on yesterday's \u2018police outrages\u2019 at the pavilion D'Armenonville and demanded to know the instructions the government gave the police in re to the Socialist, who, be said, de ended the Republic aginst the rene tionaries\u2019 applause.The Premtiez, M.Dupuy, replied, soying be realised yesterday was a fete day for ail Hepublicans.He sdded there had been few imeicients and that the only da.structions $6 the police were to maintain tributed all around the course.It is estimated that there were 18,000 soldiers | and police under arms.M.Loubet prac- order.The government, be continued, had ordered an enquiry into the responsibility for the affaire at the Pavilion | D'Armenonville and tbe Rue martre.At the same time, the mier pointed out, the government knowledged the services of the adding that the maintenance of the ernment was impossible without order.(Appl-use from the Centre protests from the Laftiste.) Paris, June 12.\u2014The Chamber adopted, | by a vote of 32] to 172, the order of the dey proposed by M.Fuau, Radical, wét:h the Premier refused to accept.The Ministers forthwith lelt the House amié immense excitement.; Paris, June 12\u2014The cabinet has re signed.\u2014 ORANGEMEN AROUSED.AN ATTEMPT TO PROSELYTIZE 4 DYING MEMBER\u2014THE CAUSE.(From a Correspondent.) Kinaear's Mills, Megantie, Que, June 8.\u2014Considerable ill feeling Las been aroused in this usually quiet neighbor hood in consequence of the anxiety of à Roman Catholic priest to proselytisze » dying man.These are the circumstances: An old resident named William Harvey, 75 years old, was on his death-bed, and had been visited almost daily by the Rev.Mr.Whitelaw, Presbyterian minister.Having arranged his affairs.and given instructions regsrding his funeral, where he was to be buried, naming the Protestant cemetery, he becume unconscious, His wife, to whom he had been married some forty years, and who always posed as & Protestant\u2014but it now transpires was a Roman Catholic until a little while previous to their marriage\u2014sent for the priest.The latter, in his anxiety to administer the last rites and send Mr, Harvey out of the world a full-fledged Roman Catholic, rushed the ceremony through before any of Harvey's Protes tant friends were aware of it.Harvey had been at one time a member of the Orange Association.The Rev, Mr.Whitelaw protested against the fares of trying to convert an unconscious mao Ly extreme unetion.On the day of the funeral two graves were dug, one in the Roman Catbolie cemetery snd one in the Protestant ceme- terr.The priest, backed pv his ep porters, was there with a héirse, but the news flew like wildfire, and the ten Orange lodges turned out and carried the body to the Protestant cemetery, and the grave in the Roman Catholic cemetery still awaits a tenant.BLOOD POISONING, \u2014 A CURIOUS CASE AT TORONTO.Toronto, June 8\u2014Alex.Carlton, 205 Ok street, died at the General Hospital at two o'clock this morning from blood poisoning.His case was a remarkable one, for although, as siready stated, blood poisoning caused death, bis sudden end em be directly traced to a alight cut from a blade of grass.Mr.Carlton went fishing early last week in Usbridge\u2019s Bey.During the afternoon, as he was bothered with toothache, he picked a blade of enarse marsh grass and began to pick his inflamed gums with it.While he was doing this the end of the grom got down his throat and inflicted a slight scratch.Mr, Carlton dil not notice the pain at the time, and when he went home in the evening he had forgotten the little incident.In a day or so, however, bs was conscious of a pain in his throat This increased alarmingly in s few hours, and a doctor was summoned.The trow ble was diagnosed as erysipelas, and the patient was later on removed to the General Hospital.It was then found thas bl: poisoning bad set in, and for two days the doctors struggled to save his life, but their efforts were brought to a close by the death of the patient early - this morning.\u201c BENATOR DANDURAND'S BILL.Ottawa, June 8.\u2014A Senate sub-com mittee convened last might to examine Senator Dandurand\u2019s bill on usury.Thres important changes were made in the original draft, The most important pre- bably is that the maximum rate of in terest after judgment will be six percent instead of ten, as proposed by Mr.Dan: durand.The second is the introduction of the discretionary power of judges im settiing the amount of interest to be paid.Though the maximum rate is mais- > tained at 20 percent, when the rate cou puted from commissions and interest ep, ceeds ten percent the judge will ha the discretionary power to allow the ime: terest between ten and twenty, not ex ceeding, however, the latter limit.There will be a new clause added trary to provisions of the law will be lieble te one year's imprisonment or a fine not ea ceeding $1,000.The bill will be reported as amended to the Committes Banking and Commerce.\u2014\u2014\u2014 CATERPILLARS STOP A TRAIN.\u2018Walkerton, Ont, June 9 \u2014 When à Grand Trunk train, which was on fte way down from Paisley, resched a point mess Dunkeld, it socountered so meng caterpillars that it had to come te dead halt.Station Agent \u2014\u2014_ r de ire mt.\u201cdn THE TRANSVAAL.London Press Speculating on the Probability of War.In the House of Commons, London, on Thursday, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr.Joseph Chamberlain, replying to various questions on the subject.confirmed the reports of the failure of the Bloemfontein conferene: telegraphed from Bloemfontein, Urange Free State, on Tuesday, and he also admitted the accuracy of the statements made in the despatch from Matjes Fon- tein, explaining that the British igh Commissioner informed President Kruger that Great Britain would not conseat to the intervention of a foreign power in Anglo-Tranevaal disputes.With reference to the Jameson raid, Mr.Chamberlain added, the commission er informed the President that thy Beit ish Chartered South Africa Confeny, while protesting against the unreasonably amount of the claim, would consent to submit to arbitration the question of tke amount of damages to be pul.A The morning papers are h Rinning 4» talk quite semously of the presibility of war in South Africa.Mr.Uhamberlain, in in-his speech in the House «i Commons yesterday, announced that his reply to thé petition of the Uitlanders which had been held back pending the result of the conference at Flienlnntein, would now be presented to the Trans: vaal.This reply is semi offen Ce scribed as \u201cexplicit but conciliatory,\u201d but it is believed to be in the nature of a practical ultimatum.The resources of diplomacy are regarded as exhausted with the failure of the conference.Nothing is left, it is felt, but a recourse to force.The \"Daily Mail\u2019 says it learns that it was President Kruger himself who +ug- gested the conference.and it claizns to have reliable authority for declaring that Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner, has his back to the wall.and ia supported to he utmost by the Cali net.Commenting editorially on the situation, the \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 says : \u2018If we know our Kruger aright, he will back down, and if not, why\u2014 Capetown, June 9.\u2014Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner, for South .Africa, returned to-day from Bloemfontein, and was received with great popular enthusiasm.The Voiksrand of the Orange Free State, in secret session has endorsed all that President Kruger did at the conference with Sir Alfred Mil- ner.New York, June 8.\u2014 A London de spatch to the \u2018Evening Journal,\u2019 says: \u2014 \u2018Lord Kitchener is daily at the War Office, where the staff is planning for the contemplated operations in the Trans vaal.It is proposed to raise the British effective force in South Africa from 9,000 to 32,000.Of these 2,000 will be British troops, and 10,000 will certainly be , drawn from India and Australia.In addition, Canada will ber of regiments, Pretoria, June 9.\u2014The triai of the eight liege former British officers, arrested at Johannesburg on May 16 \u201clast, on the charge of high treason.in having attempted to enroll men with a view to an outbreak of rebellion, hegan here to-day.The charge against Lieut.F.J.Tremlett, Lieut, C.A.Ella and Lieut.John Allen Mitchell was withdrawn, and they were called an witnesses for the state.Lieut.Ellis testified that overtures were made to him to hold Jo- haunesburg and the forts until the British troops came.He was given to under- *tand that the co-operation of the mili- tery authorities had been secured and that capitalists were financing the movement; but he deposed that he did not know the names of the leaders of the movement.Captain Patterson.former.Ir of the Lancers, and Colonel R.F.Nicholls, on account of their alleged con- , bection with the military authorities, are being defended at the instance of the Linperial Government, with a view of eliciting proof that no British official has any knowledge of the matter\u201d UNITED STATES MAY MEDIATE.London, June 9\u2014The Westminater \u2018 Gazette\u2019 this afternoon, says a rumor is current, from a well-informed source, that it has been proposed in a responsible quarter that the United Mates mediate between Great Britain and the Trans vaal.It is edded that the suggestion is being considered and \u2018It is even not improbable that swch mediation 1aay be undertaken.\u2019 \u201cJohannesburg, June ll\u2014At = mass meeting of Uitlaaders held here yesterday for the purpose of confirmi snd rupporting the proposals of Bir Alfred Milner, the Britwh High Commissioner, .@ resolution was adopted.declaring bat y ne settlement will be satisfactory which , tunes not provide for the recognition of equal political rights for ali.Kruger propassie.were considered wiolly inadequale to satisfy the just demand of the unenfranchised; while Sir Francis Milner's were endorsed as the irreducible minireum seceptable.The meeting was orderly, and was attended , by five thousand Uitlanders.The gor- erument imued a notice advising the enfranchised burghers to allow the meeting + procecd without disturbance.; outein, Orange Free State, June M \u2014I4 is saserted in offnial circles here Shane ident Kruger will propose to the Transvaal Raad the abolition of the yuamite mosopoly.While the Orange ree Sate is wing (tu influence et Pre.ris to obtain reforms for the Uitland- in the Transvaal, the railway company sent all ite available rolling stock to MORAL Sir Alfrd M-In-r sings :\u2014 There was a \u2018High Comm.\u201d who said, \u2018How Shall I tackle this wily old cow, | an CE SUASION.I will sit on this stile And continue to emile, Which may soften the heart of thic cow *\u2014Puncb.Johannesburg to be in readiness for a possible excdus of the population.London, June 12.-The Capetown cor rospondent of the \u2018Daily Mau\u2019 saye that [the expected exodus from Johannesburg { has begun, and that business there is at a standstill.THE SITUATION REVIEWED.New York, June 12.-(abling to the \u2018Tribune\u2019 on the same subject, Mr.Ford {says: \u2018Mr.Chamberlain aseeris that a new situation has been created in the | Transvaal by the failure of the confer ; ence, and the English press is eager to take his word tor it; but neither he nor they can explain intelligivly bow this im- buse alters the conditions and obliga- J tions of trcety law.The truth is that ithe old situation created by the treaty imade with the Transvaal fiiteen years !ago remains unaltered.That convention probably send 8 num- | was clumsily drawn, but Lord Derby | officially interpreted it at the time as a { piedge that who were would not impose upon the \u2018Transvaal tht British Go ment by liability to intervention in internal affairs.England under Glulstone's in itiative, bound herself hand and foot in a transport of magnanimity and eeif-de- nial, and her pledges now remain to hamper her when many thousands on her | citizens ave deprived of their just rights.; The old situation is maintained by the requirements où national honor and an explicit pledge agmnst interterence in the domestic affairs of the Dutch Re vublic, \u2018A new situation will arise when the British Government decides that the grievances of the Uitlanders exceed the moral obligation imposed by the treaty, and that coercion is necessary to bring the Doers to their sensce.Prot ably Mr.Chamberlain would like to take this stand at once, but Lord Salisbury in Prime Minister, and prefers to make Laste slowly.\u201cThe full details of the negotiations published to-day show that S:r Alfred Milner, who is a most capable man, tok up strong ground in asking for the full franchise for every foreigner of five years residence, and also for a moderate increase in the representation of ide Litlander districts.President Kruger met this reasonable demand with a counter proposal for a clumay, dilatory am! vexations system of naturalization by which Uitlanders, after two years\u2019 notice, would remain five additional years without citizenship in any country.Pre sident Kruger also offered an increase of representation in the gold fields dis trict.No compromise being poasitle, the two negotistors parted with polite bowa on each side, but with the main points in favor of Kruger.It is sey for him to outplay Milner, Chamberlain and Rhodes year after year, when the British Government, by its action in 1684, put all the trumps in bia hand; and there has not been a new deal.\u2018In this way he manages to maintain the reputation of being the only man in the world who succeeds in thwarting the Imperial policy and in out-manoeuvring great Englishmen like Mr.Chamberlain and Mr.Rhodes.His chief resource is inertia, and when the British Government is enmeshed with its own moral obligations, thin mffices to enable him to hold his ground.\u201cThere is much strong writing in journals like the \u2018Timea\u2019 and the \u2018Standard,\u2019 and the only plea for the requirements of plighted national faith is made by she Manchester \u2018Guardian,\u2019 but it in not act boldly.and areste s new situation \\ in South Africa.He is evidently afraid of Laberal criticism, as is shown by the faot that Sir Alfred Milner's proposals for reform are wlentical with Lord Ripons programme in 1884.The Imperial Government will answer the petition of British subjects in the Transvaal and held the government responsible for disorders caused by legitimate grievances, but it is not yet ready to apply coercive measures.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 DOMINION OF CANADA, The Rev.John M.Munro, Presbyterian minister at Kintore for a quarter of a century, died in London last week.leaves a widow and a family of three.Thieves entered St.Stephen's Church, Toronto, Unt., on Sunday, June 3, and robbed the poor boxes.They also tried to drill the :afe but failed.James Ma lough gardener, at Dixie.near Caokville, Ont, while in an inmne fit nearly sucreeded in killing his wife on June 5.He was locked up pending inquiry as to his sanity.The drygoods section of the Toronto Board of Trade accuses local agents of foreign drygoods merchants of defrauding the curtoms by undervaluation of their imported goods in which they are alleged to be assisted by a system of false invoicen DParticular cases are cited and the attention of other Canadian boards is directed to the alleged fraud, which is held to place honest merchants at a dis advantage in competition.The shoe factories of \\W.P.Polley and Amos Campbell, St.Valier atreet Quebec city, were destroyed by fire last Tuesday morning early.William Ciark and Wililam Must got away from their schooner, the \u2018Patriot,\u2019 during a fog.After two days\u2019 work nt the carn they reached Sable Island, landed, were refreshed, and started for White with food and compass.They reached that place and were taken to Halifax by steamer, on Thirraday Inst.Willaim Hall, for robbing the mails, was sentenced to penitentiary for three years by Judge Reynolds, at Brockville, Oun:., last week.The Minister of Militia, the Hon.Dr.Borden, in a letter to the secretary of the Church of England Temperance Ko- ciety, last week, stated that be was taking measnres to secure the better ob servance of the lave prohibiting the nale of intoxie ting liquer at mili'ia camps ang regimental incanes.Thomas Crowe, who in suspected of having foully done his non to death at Dummer, near Peterborough, Ont, in a drunken fury, was arrerted by High Constable Cochrane and taken to Peterhor- ough.No trace can be found of the young lad helieved to have been killed.On June 3, Cherlen W.James, a Methodist local preacher, formerly of Osk- wood, Ont., was struck Ly lightning and killed in front of his house at Killarney, Man, British soldiers in Jialifax who had natty hair and wore it in curls in front, were very much moved hy an order to out their hair short, wear gloves and walk only two abreast in the public thoroughfares.There was open grumbling at the order.The london, Ont.strike of the street railway service had a huge demon.riratinn against their employers on Tuesday evening lash, in which cit'ens joined.clear that Lord Salisbury is prepared to The He | Head on the Nova Scot'a const, provided | week reached 88, which almost breaks the record for June.The heat was intense in New York and in Montreal lant Tuesday, the thermometer indicating 86 degrees.The Dominion Government, on Tues: day, formally disallowed the British Columbia law excluding Japanese from entering that province.The most recently arrived colony\" of Moukhobors, who came from Batoum in the Beaver Line stemmner \u2018Lake Huron,\u2019 number 2,300, and they arrived at the quarantine station, Grosse Isle, below Quebec, on Tuesday afternoon last.As they had a number of cases of smallpox on board, they will remain in quarantine for some time, There were five deaths on the vorage out, and two births.Smallpox had increased so that there were 18 cases ou Saturday.The Manitoba crop outlook, according ever reaped in Manitobs, unless something happens to mar the prospect.Four burglars tried the branch of the Bank of Commerce, Barrie, Ont., on Thursday morning, just after the midnight hour, and the police tried to capture them, but failed.The Woollen mills at North Augusta, Ont, owned by Mr.Lester Baldwin, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night.Loss, about two thousand five hundred dollars.Mr.Baldwin's insurance was only $800; but he will rebuild at once.Woollen mills in Coaticook, owned by Mr.Trenholme, and Mr.Philip Armitage, were destroyed by fire on Friday.Insured for $4,300.Olivier, who killed bis wife in Sorel, Que., on May 18, i» awaiting trial for the act, the coroner's jury on the affair having concluded ite work on Friday.A mischievous story, sent broadcast, that soldiers in Halifax, N.S., garrison had been confined to barracks because of an order to cut their hair short, wear gloves, and walk not more than two abresst in public places, turns out to have been an ordinary barrack row because of violation of an old rule aa to dress and deportment, wbich had previously ben relaxed.There was one district court-martial, three men were rent to the cells for three days each.and there the matter ended.The corporal on duty at the gate was mauled somewhat by a powerful gunner, whom he otdered not to go out.A.V.Neville, a C.P, R.brakeman, wus drowned at Kootenay Landing, B.C., recently.The Synod of the Diocese of Ontario will meet on June 26, instead of June 10, as previously announced, n change of date having been found necessary.Lightning played havoc last week in the West.At Doon, Ont., on Tuesday night the barn of Messrs.M.E.Perrine & Co, was struck and bummed to the ground.Newioundland has declined to re-en- act French shore legislation, in the hope of forcing a final setttement of the whole question between Great Britain and France.The Glengarry Fee Keepers\u2019 Amocis- tion's annual meeting in Martintown, recently, was well attended.Mr.Dickson's paper on \u2018How I handle my bees,\u201d caused much discussion, and in course of rocession wae nearly n mile long.The teat in London Eng'and, lest 4 it Mr.Dickson mid a shipment of honey had been made to Britain as a trial.! to the Northern Pacific Railway report, ! covering ten days to Wednesday, pro ! mises the crop to be one of the largest BRITISH AND FOREIGN.The Neilson Brothers, Glasgow, Scot land, whose failure in the iron trade was aunounced cu May 26, show liab.lites of £750,000; assets, £110,000, The plague at Alexandria, last Tues day, showed 14 patients, as far as the authorities could learn, and four deaths, with four new cases, while four were reported cured.Troops called out in Belfast, Ireland, because of Mr.Willism O'Brien's nationalist demonstration on June 5, charged the mob with fixed bayonets.Seve ral persons were hart.Several rows took place in the evening and numbers were arrested.Westby Richards, arrested at the Bank of England on April 29, while trying to cash three stolen from Paris Bank in January, was allowed to go after examination.stated that Le received the notes at the Newmarket races.The nugistrate would make no order as to the notes.cue-huruired-pound notes, He A despatch from Aberdeen, Beotland, of Wednesday, states that investigation\u2019 of the Nellfield Cemetery shows that gross fraud upon the public bas been committed as to the disposal of the dead.In one place were found 400 plates, presumably taken from coffins where bodies had been ouried in graves without cof- fine, ro as to take tense indignation is the result of the investigations.up less spase.In- The Rev.William Garden Blaikie, D.D., professor of theology at Edinburgh University, Tuesday.died from paralysis last A despatch from-Cuiro on Wednesday, stating that tbe notorious gypay husband of the Princess from the bubonic plague, after his wife had given birth to twins, was contradicted on the following day.Vhimay had died there One of the buoys of Andree, the ex- Moret, was found by some boys at Man.dal, Norway, Message had hours and fifty plerer started its value is donbtfut.The mesange was dated \u2018July 7, 1807, 10.36 p.m., Greenwich time, 82 north, 25 east.We are at an altitude of six hundred metres.All well\u2019 on May 14 last, but as [te been writen only seven minutes after the ex- Friday's London despatches state that Mr.Justin McCarthy, the historian, was Saccesafelly trented for cataract on that ay.The Viceroy of Sze-Chuen has granted Irining concessions to the French, an d the British minister at Pekin protested that it waa a breach of the Chinese agree ment with the British.The steamer \u2018Paris,\u2019 on the Manacles Rocks is ssid to have been shifted to me extent on Friday.veme! were then in progress, but had to be afterwurds stopped.Efforta to flost The funsml of Johan Strauss, in Vienna, Jest week, was imposing, and the floral part of the pageant was lavish.The coffin is to be placed between those of Bchubert and Brahms, the graat composers.Strauss wan known best by the waltses he composed.The explanation made in the German Reichetag on Wednesday of the agreement between Rpain and Germany is that Epein gets twenty-five million pese- tan for eeding to Germany the Crrolines, Pelew and Tadrone falands, except the Inland of Guam.Spain is to have equal ermmencial, religious and social rights in the islands with Germany.Couling sta.- \u2018 Juns 18, 1899, Spanish is terms shortly, and they will afterwards become a fixed bargain.UNITED STATES, The State Board of Health and State Board of Live Stock issioners, last week, in presence of Governor Tanner, at the Chicago stock yards, slaughtered twenty-seven cows.All but two were found in advanced stages of consumption, and the others were well marked causes.These cows had been on the farm that supplied the Governor's houte- hold with milk, The Governor declared this test one that demonstrated a peculiar danger.The Boston Chamber of Commerce has given a pronouncement in favor of a reasonable settlement of the Alaskan boundary question before the joint high commission concludes ita work, Ruth Jepeon, of Lebanon; Florence Spies, of St.Jacob; and Hallene Jack, of Beaucoup, Ill, young women students of McKendree College, were drowned while bathing in Silver Creek, near Lebanon, Ills, on Tuceday last.Harper & iron, and the McClure\u2019 publishing houses have formed as alliance, A floor caved in at Moffat'e brewery, Buffalo, N.Ÿ., on Tuesday last, and Gus Zube and Andrew Louden were dropped into a huge vat of somiding beer which almost boiled them ere they were rescued.The chief of police of Hamilton, Ohio, while driving with his wife and deugh- ter, was struck last Tuesdsy night Ly a locomotive of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway.le waa killed, his daughter died shortly after and his wife was fatally hurt, The lion.E.S.Payne, of Aubum, N.Y., pamed through Toronto with his wife and a large party of friends, bound for Alaska, to see something of the poun- try, discuss the boundary question, and generally inform himself, so that the High Joint Commiexion shall have the benefit of his experience when he meets it in August, An explosion in the Paine Fireworks Company's Works, at Greenfield, L.I, on Thursday, resulted in the destruction of the sheds and tons of fireworks material.One man only wae hurt.Between forty and fifty-five passengers were hurt in an accident on the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway, three miles south of Grandview, Mo., at 9.30 on Tfureday night.The train ran off the track which heavy reins had undermined.Floods in Texas last Friday were reported to have swept away part of town of Hingsléy, and to bave some twenty counties.No loss of life had been heard of as a result, but telegraphic communication with the district had been ed.Mr.Kipling has been steadily gaining in health, and he will leave for England with his family on June 14.Last weck he was at Morristo wn, N.J., the guest of Mr.Deforest.The Filipinos continued to harrass the United Statee forces in the vicinity of Manille, and eppeared to have several Krupp guns, which they shelled General Macdrthar's headquarters with\u2019! Just week.Admiral Dewey's flagahip, the \u2018Olym- pis,\u2019 eailed for Singapore, from Hong Kong on her return to the United States on June 8.\u2014\u2014 MORE FIGITING IN THE PHILIPPINES.Manilla, June 10.\u20144.30 p.m.\u2014At daybreak to-day a force of 450 men under Generals Lawton, Wheaton and Oven- shine, advanced from San Pedro Macati, sweeping the country between the Bay of Manilla and Bay Lake, south of Manila.By noon the country had been cleared almost to Paranaque.The Americans lost two officers killed, and twenty-one soldiers wounded.The rebels resisted desperately at the stronger of their positions, and left fifty dead in the trenches, Many more wounded were left behind by the rebels in their retreat.DEATH OF NAVAL OFFICERS.New York, June 10.\u2014The \u2018Auguste Victoria,\u2019 which arrived here last evening from Hamburg, Southampton and Cherbourg, reported the death at sea of Lieutenant-Commander Wainwright Kel- log, who was returning from Carlsbad, where he hsd been undergoing medical treatment.He was ill when he came on board, and on the evening of June 3 died of heart disease.His last re quest wes that he be buried at sea, and accordingly, on the morning of June 4, his body was consigned to the deep with naval honors due to his rank.The Epis copal burial service was read by one of the passengers.Washington, D.C., June 10.\u2014~A cable gran was received at the Navy Depart ment to-day announcing the sulden desth of Captain Ilenry Nichols at Manilla from sunstroke.Captain Nichols wae the commander of the monitor \u2018Monadnock.\u2019 \u2014 nts SOUTH ONTARIO CONTEST.Whitby, Ont., June 10.\u2014A meeting of Soutb Untario Conservatives in Music Hall, nominated Mr.Charles Calder this afternoon for the by slection soon = : e place in this ing, through unseating of the Hon.Mr.Deyden, Mis- inter of Agriculture of Ontario.Mr.Calder spoke briefly, thanking the meeting for the honor of being nominated for the third time to contest the ridiog with Mr.Dryden.J 4 \u2014 \\ ¥ CAN » TR Teagan \u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_ Juws 18, 1806, r COMMERGIAL \"7 \u2014 à LOCAL STOCKS, MONTREAL srnaET AT MT.At thie morsing's_serion ot the exchange the market was generally steady to strong, four securities advanciog (res- tlc y.Quits apart from the gencral ait- ustion, Street Hallway soared up from the opening at 330 to 337 at the oloss, 8 gain of ten pointe over Saturday's closing 1'g- ures.The securities to show fractional advances were: Pacific, Btecirlo, Dominion Cotton and Torento Railway.MORNING BALBS.Canadian Pacific\u2014150 at 98, 100 at 87%, 110 at 00, 76 at 04, 200 at STM, TS at 97%.Montreal Street Railway\u2014+8 at 380, 375 at $20, 150 at 234, 25 at 334, 236 at 235, 150 at M6, 109 nt 23614, 60 at MT.New M.S.It.\u201450 at 3174, 26 at 228, 50 at 1313, 35 at 33, 129 at 334, 50 at 234 R.& O.\u201450 at 112%, 50 at 112%.Royal Electric\u201428 at 188, 26 st 187%, 275 at 108.Republie x6\u20143,600 at 130.Toronto Ay.\u20145 at 118%, 160 at 119, at 19%.Twin City \u2014 35 at 89, 25 at 00%, 2% at \u201cus DMemtnion Cotton\u201450 at 113%, 10 at 113, BO at 113, 78 at 118.Quebec Bank\u20146 at 174.Merchants Bauk\u20141 at 166 Duluth preferred\u20143 at 11.AFTERNOON BALES.Canadian Pacific-150 at 97%, 25 at 97%, 100 at 97%.Twin City\u2014126 et 694.Toronto Raiiway\u2014100 at 118%, 118%.M.8.R.\u2014100 at 337, 30 at 35, 40 at 334%, 850 at 335, BO at 334%, 100 at 335, 35 at 329%, 125 at 334.Republic x4\u20141,000 at 129%, 1.300 at 139%, 500 at 199, New M.8.R.\u2014100 at 331, Royal Electric\u2014100 at 188, 10 at 188, 25 at 188.ni R.& O\u20140 at 113%.Mont.Tel\u201410 at 175.War Hagle\u20141,000 at 2381 Dom.Cotton\u2014108 at 115%.Bank of Toronto\u20142 at 43.Reported for the * Witsssr' by Mr.D.R.Msrier, Decker and Droker, 1321 Notre Dame M4, DBugers, Bollors.Couster.14die % wprem Le so at Sterling, 80 days.8% 34 te 9% Steriing, demand 21116 Mw ¥ Suerling Cables.ss ww Yours Usegeen.18% MONTREAL STOCK REFORT.(Furnished by Macdew all Bron.Neakers) .Montreal\u2019 Jame 8 - Asked.M4 « sk 1% MINING EXCHANGE, by A.W.Morris, Mining Broker, ed Pls 62 and 64, Canada Life Building.MORNING SALES.Virtue-2,000 at 48, 3,000 at 48, 1,500 at 4 Black Tail\u20145,000 at 2% Iron Colt~807 at 11.Golden Star\u2014500 at 73%, 1,500 at 73.AFTERNOON BALES.Virtue\u20142,000 at 48, 1,000 at 48 1500 at 48, 500 at 48, 500 at 48, 1.600 at #6, 1,000 at 4744, 800 at 4744.+ Princess Maud\u20146,000 at #44.Payne\u2014200 at 8.00.Big Three\u20142,000 at 22.Black Tall\u2014$,00\" at 23.Golden Star-1,500 at 74, 1,000 at 4%.Repudlio\u2014100 at $1.20, Rambler Cariboo\u2014-i00 at 33%.TORONTO MINING RXCHANGR.Toronto, June 18.\u2014Morning sales: \u2014 Golden Star\u201410* at y ne Pad at» , 008, 809, Iren Horse-t00, 0 Deer Trail\u20143,000, 900 at 1, iden Star\u2014400 at dos A-\u2014600 at M5.anénén-b66 at 74, Dartanel! Lgr\u20141,000, 1,008, | 1 LONDON CLOSING PRICRS., London, June 13, 4 p.m.\u2014Closing\u2014~Console for money, 108 : do., for the account, 108 11-16.Canadian P , 16144; Grand Trunk, 8 13%: Erle, first prelorred, 38%: El- \u2018entrel, 11 Northern Pactfio, 78%: Mt.Paul, common, 188%; New 134%: Pennsylvanis, \u20ac 8 nion Pac., pid., Tn At Ille, 694; Ausconda, 10%.pi money, 1 to 13 percent.The t discount in the sn market for short bille, 2 3-16 percent: do, for three months\u2019 blile, 2 3-10 to 2% percent.CHICAGO MARKETS The following table shows the range of prices in Chicago to-day, and the cloning quotations as compa with those of Bat.urday = sturday\u2019s oder 8 Close.Open.igh.Lou.Close va en ROB 5 i Des.\"ww By wW Ld Oy uM uo a4 ul ,o Ro \u201c EL F6 LÀ a Jui Es n ca rk\u2014 July 1.08 2.8 ee ts s.07 Sept: 9 \u201ce 4% .» .La July 498 4.92 on 49 4.85 Sept.5.06 5.06 5.16 6.08 su Short ribe\u2014 July 4.08 [1°] +0 138 +08 Sept.4.33 +70 «1 4.70 4% GRAIN.Oats are dull, as there is little demand from the other side; prices, however, remain frm at Me to 344c.Fess are quite strong at 76¢ to Tage.\u2018The receipts to-day were: Dy rail.By cansl.Total.Wheat .13300 IME 201,753 Corn.11,206 ZAMS 2055 Peas , , + + + » § .4,60 Oats .À, 11,500 Barley +.40 « ee 4.954 FLOUR.\u2018The market han dropped off ronsidersbly, and strong bakers are now selling at 33.to #4, while Magitoha patents are $4 to $4.- The receipts to-day were 7,100 barrels.Liverpool quotations remain unchanged.The Chicago market Is reportod active, and 24e to Sc higher.We quote choice refined lard.compound, in tubs, at Sec: In wooden palls at 5Ke : extra pure lard In tuba at Te ; In woodes palle at 71e: heavy Canada short cut mess perk at $16: heavy Canada mess pork, long eut, at $15: finest quality, extra mld, cur- = large size hams, at 10c; small size, at «.je recelpts to-day were 5 bozes of hams and 15 boxes of tinned meats.xacs.The market remains rather dull, at lle to ilsge.The receipts to-day were 1,035 BUTTER.The price is now firmer at 1Tc for finest.\u2018The receipts to-day were 736 packages.CHEESE.The market ls dull at 84e to .Liverpool quotations to-day were 4% for white, 48s ¢4 for colored at 435 ¢4 for new ordin- a The receipts here to-day were 14,517 xen.LIVE STOCK MARKET-\u2014June 8.There were about 300 head of butchers\u2019 onttle, 650 calves, 40 sheep and lambs and 50 Store Boge\u2019 hnd small pigs oxftred for dle at the East End Abattoir to-day.The butchers wero present in large numbers, but trade in cattle was rather dull sad the prices remaln without taterial change.The best cattle wold at about bc per 1b., and some were held at higher rates ; pretty good muimals sold at from 3Xc to 4hc.and the common animals, including a considerable number of milkmen\u2019s strippers.at from Wc to 3c per Ib.Calves wers more numerous than they bave been for several weeks past and sold at from $1.50 t> $9 each.Shippers are paying 4c per Ib.for good large sheep, and the butchers pay from se to 4%c per lb.Lambs sell at from $2.50 to $4 each, with an occasional extra \u2018amb ho hw Fat kit are piendifal am hil) of sale at about él4c per ib.for straight tots, just off the cars.v LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014June 11 There were atout 360 head of butchers\u2019 cattle, 150 calves, 400 sheep and lambe, 13 store hogs.and 100 small pigs, offered for sale at the East End Abattolr to-day.The butchers ware present in large numbers, but trade was rather slow, as much higher prices wers baing asked for all kinds of cattle, and the sales made were at about one-quarter of a cent per lb.higher ail round than the prices on last Thursday's market.Prime beeves eold at from &c to Elfe per Îb.: pretty good stock at from de 10 4%c do.; and the common beasts at from fée to Ie por 1b.Calves solid ot from #2 to 88 each, snd Mr.Joseph Levesque paid $22 for two extra ealves.Shippers pay de per Ib, for large eterp, the others bring from to dic per Ib.Fat hoge sell at from 4ige to de per Ib.for straight Ints, just off the rare.Store hogs sold at from $8 to a een; «né the small pigs at from Tic to each.FARMERS\u2019 MARKET PRICRS-\u2014June $.All ths a ble space in and around ip Bonsecours market and Jacques Cartier square, including LeRoyer and ät.Claude streets, was fully occupled to-day by pro- Guce laden vehicles, and as tho buyers were out ia large numbers, a good business was done at pretty low fgures in many cross, there being very few articles which bad not a tendency to lower prices.The market sardeners aad truck farmers continue to crowd the market with green staff; radish- os are offered at from to 5e the dozen Bunches, or about Sc the bushel; young perk is very plentiful, dresoad pige sclling st from 7c to $1.35 each; the prices of dead Itry continue pretty high, ang {fresh ald eggs In baskets are a litte dearer, while butter is declining In price; strawberries bring bitter prices to-day, the pris ces realized at the auotiot sale this morning ranged from 10e to 16c the quart box: Mrentreal\u2019 berries wiil be on hand In less (ban a week.There has been more liberal supplies of hay offered by the farmer, and prices bave declined more or less.Oats are to ê0e che bag: bu .qd beans, $1 the bu ; Quebec tur oe 11.68 the dozen bunches: te 8 do.: and rhubarb, - ree onions, at Re to bunch; cabbages, to te ed 16e elarge ec the dosen; Montreal srutiéowers.$1 © ga cucum- bars, be do.; spinach, the basket: dressed hogs, to Sie per 1b.; tur î0e to 18e de.: fowls, Sc to llc do.; ng ebickens, §0c to §1 tbe pair: tub dutter, 14e its 16: inary print butter, to to periér prints, 290 te Me do.agse in baskets, 144 to 200 the ges, 03 the box; leuons, $1.44 bananas, $1 te 61.70 the Dench; et, American tomatoes, e to ie tbe weighing from five to seven ay, #10 87,00 per 190 bundles of 18 fhe.sad straw, $5 to $6 por 100 bundles of 13 1d.e %.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 EE.00.QABBIBL-SOM-AARUT-tvne-Sr\u2014Ta0d of 5.11 \u2018There were 44 milch cows offered for sale on this market to-day.There seem.e4 to he & god demahd for anythlog moderately gond.AN were sold, excepting two, st prices ranging Irom $28 to $41 cach.A number mare good cows wers sold at the ards yesterday aflermoon and this :uorn- og.MONTREAL TRADE.Nun's Bullettn of Raturday, Juae 10, will say of Montres! trade: \u2014 No unfavorable features have developed In the trade uit ia- tion at Montreal since a week ago.Fallures in the distriet have been only two.und they of unimportant character, whlle general collections aro favornbly spoken of.A fair proportion of retail dry qoods paper came due on the fourth, and was well pro-|.one leading house reporting #4 à.vided tor, percent of thelr customers\u2019 tills as met.A considerable amount of wholesale paper for dom goods fell due on the me for.sud was pl ty met.Travellsrs fr rhiy, Hoe are now Renerally cartying Mull lines of fall samples, and report gon! orders, while sorting business 1p lighter sensona- | ble ct fo well custalied.City sfagali- £004 sales last week, ag fx Tipu.e case the week Befobe Troçesaion Some lines of domestis uwottons es boing 3dvinend half and foulard: nre atse slightly dearer, mestic made ing are put 4p.ten percent.In groceries the muer question le unaltered, anmn two or three tnporiant houses stifl decifoine to stan4 {pn with the refiners and the general trade.\u2018The New York market Is reported advan- «od am eighth, and American granutstod 16 now figured tu cost $4.68 laid down.while dorpestic standard Is quoted At $4.50, less the thres percent rebate to (hose houses parties to the agreement.The frat car.se of new Trbrdoes Tuslarsss Is now in port.The market at the laland fs again fepotied rather firmer, with offers oqual to Inid down cast of 3% cents refused, and it is claimed only 4.000 puncheaps of tho new crop remain unsold.flaw pa; tablish Western canners at 7 for tomat and 6 cents for corn and peas.The lpeal demand for lesther continues quiet, ns active rutting bdelug yet begun shoe manufentarers, leather men report having Dritish orders several months ahead, and ars steady rhip- pers.The movement in metals, olis, paints, ete, in woll maintainod (nr the season, and values are firmly held.Metal pluica gen- erail ytend to advance, and some dealers have already put up prices of coke tins.It In thousht the turning point in the pre- nounced tightness in the money market in passed, and some of the banks are less pronounced In their disinclination to make call lsans to first class merks, but the rank and flle of would-be bororwers sill} find great difcuity lo getting advances.MINING NOTES.Rossland.11.0, June 10.\u2014The followin; are the shipments in detall for the ook ending June 10, and the year to date; \u2018Week tons, Year tons.2,40 1,106 Evening Star = vening oo Deer Park.oe Centre Sitar .23 Total tons .3,683 .Vancouver, B.C.June 10, 189.\u2014Sales Vancouver Mining Exchange: Van Anda\u20141,560, 1,000, 1,000, 1,000, 2,000, 1,000 at 9.Athabasce\u2014500 at 49%, 1,000 at 41.St.Kimo\u20141,31 at 5%.Dardaneiles\u20141,000, 1,000 at 13, CHERSE MARKETS.Ingersoll, Ont., June 6.\u2014No duniness was transacted at the Ingersoll cheese markei to-day, only three fsctories, rapresenting 758 boxes rd xd; TXc offered; May cheesy about sit sold in this section; gnod attendance.Picton, Opt.June T.\u2014At our cheeses board to-day 16 factories offered 290 white and 1,201 colored: total, 1,491: highest blu, 7 15-16c, 336 sold; Bioomfeld, 178; Unlonvals, 8; Cloverdale, 100; Bengail, 50; Polnt Le- verse, 85; Cherry ey, 173; Allisonviile, 100; Bethel, 40 : Black Creek, 80 ; Royal Street, 150: Waupoose, 100 : Northport, Roys) Crescent, 100; Kimwood, #0 ; Creacy, 50; Wellers Bay.100.Napanee.Ont., June 7.\u2014Offerings wt the chense board to-day were 1,558 boxes, 1.921 white, 333 colored, i white and 710 colored sold at 8 cents.Brockville, Ont, June 8.\u2014At the cheess board day 6! boxes were boarded, of which 3,672 were white, balance colored.Webster bid § 1-Mc for colored, which the salesmen refused.They regreited thefr refusal, but he afterwards refused to pay more than Sc.Lovell & Christmas bought # white at Bc, but no further businens was done.The salesmzn are holding for tbe other sixteenth.Balleville, Ont., Juns 10.\u2014At a meeting of the chesse board held bere this afternoon, 1,870 boxes were boarded.The following were the sales: McGrath, 330 white at 83-160; Alexander, 490.white at 5 3-16c.London, Ont, June 10.\u2014At to-day\u2019n market sixteen factories offered 1,377 botes of May cheese.Sales\u2018 3 at 7 9-1%e; 110 at T%c; 816 at 7 13-16c; 116 at 7%; and 120 at 716-100.Market fairly active.BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.Edioburgh, May 20.-Messrs.John Swan & Bons\u2019 weekly report cn the live stock trade says: Fat cattle have been forward ln gocd numbers, and the quality being of the best description, they met a very dear trade at the highest prices of the season.Heifers and buils of a good class selling ments.The general quality was improv ed.and all classes met a better demand at sévance in price.Ewes continue to a satisfpctory rates, while fat lambs, I( of good quality, miske previous prices.Cnives and plga in fair supply, and selling at very remunerative prices to the \u2019ecder.In the store market, cattle wire n very amail supply, although quite sufficient for the demand, (he contin.ted cold weather, nd the scarcity of kesp causing busers neglect stirks and calves, orly bullocks in forward condition beln The best classes #0ld freeiy recent rates, while sthers were stiff to quit.Mileh cows were a small show.snd ths best viame sold well, while secondary cows made less money.T.ondon, May 29.\u2014Fair average supply of both prime and second quality ~f beasts; trade slow, but firmer; nixber rates by 14 to 24 par À iba, being asked and obtained.Fat butchering cows sbort In numbers,and dearer.Top value-Best Scotch at is per § Iba.British srrivale\u201437 Scotch, h, M0 Buffolk, Norfo'k, and Kasex, 215 id, home and western counties, 0 De .ipDly In the sheep market: trade for both wedder and ewes stew on account of higher rates asked and obtained: Jambes rather better demand, best quality selling readily at su advance of 3d fo 44 A fos.Beef, 104 to 4 34; mutton, kw tg fo 1d; lamb, de to Tu Der 8 be.\u2018otal aupply\u2014DBaas 19; sheep, sad lambs, ts calves, & Liverpool, May M.\u2014Bessts, IM; sh snd jambe, 10,306; best beast, $34; seenn.Mia to 94d; third, Mea Beotoh hoop, Bd: other sorts, to Bud: and lambs, to 3344.An lovrease of boasta enquire for.shempmnd for all classes at about late rates.BUTTER.Manchester, May 31.\u2014The quality of the fresh butter le much improved, end at the reduced prices thers was a goed trade passing In all qualitios ynet y.\u201che supply of Danleh, Swedish aod Finnish, w; larger, and there nlnw marked.Quality was frre and generally nn satisfactory, and quetatjons muac be reduo- ed from 26 to da from lane week.Quotations- Choicest Danish and Bwediah, ; fine at Géa to Ke; finest Plonish rish creamery at te to rie.20.\u2014Firsts at 74) seconds at ds at @e; mild cured, superfine at chinicest boxes at Me; fresh butter at 798 to 70s; In market, Z12 Srkins, 1 keg.157 mig, 1 bes.TORONTO .CATTLIS MARKET.Torqnto, June 10.~The roceipis of live stock for the einsing dsy thle week at the Western catt jet, wore lght.~The arrivals vere carlegds, or 730 cattle, 200 sheep and yearlong 5 calves, 8% miiyl cown, and 1,450 hogy.Trade at the was rather siuguisi, but st noon business showed a litshe moro lle, and everything of desirable quality found a: outlet.Eaport Catilp\u2014-The offerings were very light, and there were practically no hravy esporters to hand, but :he tow thers were found ready sslo at fem prices.ord.ing to cabie reports fram the O11 Country | niorkets, the quotailous were a little oos- jer.\u201d This, dealers say, is wwiig to the heavy shipments made during the last cou- fe of weeks.~Cholce sclections breusbt 4.30 to $6 per cwt.and sn ocrastonal bunch of extra chelce fetched $3.14 per ewt.Light were in ample supply nt $4.00 to $6.55 p=r owt.Dutchars\u2019 Catt he mcvemeut) In 1his ine wae not very bMak, atd the imal sup- nly required chosideratiy peddling ta flaé an outlet, Howorer, the chiolce grades were ireity well cleaned out at the close.Prices wers a little aasier.anf choice selectins were quoted at $4.35 to $4.58 per cwt À ht supply of medium and common srades also met with 8 very feeble demand at prl- ces ranging (rom $3.20 to $4.70 per cwi and Inferior were slow shle at $2 por cwt.The Quality of the latter wefo jjttle \u201cetter than us A few eholee heavy export bulls were steady at $3.50 to 34 per cwt, snd about 125 Hight stock bulls were in fair demand at FE.to 88.75 per ewt.Stockers and Ferdors\u2014The market was Ready; although the offerings of Cana- dlar storkera for Buffalo weré not heavy.there was no urgent demand, and prices remained unchanged from yesterday.{[ravy stockers were quotable at $1.3 to # per est, and light wera steady at firm prices.A few bunches of heavy distillers und feed- ors were firm.the top price belng quotable at 34.40 to 34.68 per cwt.Sheep an Lambs- Annther heavy run today met with an active demand, and quotations wera a little steadler.Tae bulk of the offerings were made up of axport ahecp.Sheep, cllpped, for export and butchers\u2019 use were steady at 33.50 to $8.75 per cwt.and sheep with wonl were quated at $2.7R to 14 per rwt Light sheep, lipped, were firm at 32.75 to $3 per cwt., and a light supply of ducks were lin fairly brisk demand at FETE to $2 per cwt.A few lots nf spring lambs were a little firmer at £3 Lo $4.15 each.The offerings of calves were small, but the demand was good at steady prices, ranging fom $2.50 to $10 each.A few lots of chcics veals are wanted, nnd also some good heavy export sheep sre wanted.Hogs\u2014The offeriags were In atch heav- fer volume thar anticipated, bit trade was active, and prices remained-snchanged from yesterday.Choice selsctd were quoted at $5 per cwt:, and light were in smple supply at $4.37 ewt, wblis thick fat remained firm at is per cwt.flows were quiet at $3 per cwt\u2026 and a few stags brought $2 per cyt ., .irorpein AMERICAN CATTLE MARKETS.New York, Juae 9.\u2014Beeves\u2014Receipts, 2.- 042; 26 cars on sale; slow; steers steady to a shad» lower; common bulls st 10c to 15\u20ac off; cows almost nominal; one cas of steers unsald: ccmmon to choice steers at $4.70 to $5.50; buile at $2.75 to $3.30: chofce heavy do.ot $4.33; inferior cows at $1.80.Cables slow.Exports to-day none: to-mor- row, G23 rattle, 115 sheep and 2,00) quarters of beef.Calves\u2014Receipta, 1.380; 1.426 on sale; Qull; veals, Le to %c lower: butter- milks, $c lower; 200 calves unsold: veals, 4 to $5.35; tops at 36.50; buttermitks, nt 33.12 to SLR Sheep god lambs\u2014Re- ceipts, 6.028; 20 eare on raie: sheep slow: Fond stock steady: common and medium in engier; yearlings firm, Jamgbs, Zi¢ higher: one car of sheep unsold: poor tn choice sheep, \u2018$Y to $4.98; Heavy export wethers, at $5.35; yearlings, at 96.5 to 36: southern lamba at $3.70 te : cne cor eztra, at $8.50; culls at 34.75; lambs at $7 to - Hoga\u2014Rereipts, 2,842: two cars on steady at $4.20 to $4.30.Buffalo, June 9.\u2014Cattie-There was coe load of cattie, with & fair damand and steady prices.chnice to extra were que mood to choice at $5.5 to $6; good at 34.50 to $5.60; an occ mos 10 onal small bunch sold at $8.50, 8hesp ond lambe-The market showed no Improvement in che demand, but the supply was made gond Friday, 18 loads: only à few ca were eold, and at lower prices: the choice dry fed order wer: a little stronger; cholce to extra were quatable at $6 to $8.35; good to cholee at 65.75 ; common to fair at $4.28 to 35.95; sheap, choice to extra $4.75 to $5; good to choles at 34.50 to 94.75: common to fair at 83.5 to £4.80.Hogs\u2014The total offerings were about $7 loads.ard the market opened active cn the basis of $4.10 for heavy: mixed York.ors and pigs: roughs at $3.40 to ¥1.6); and stage at $3.7 to $3: towurde tae clous the trade slowed up and closed bc lower.GUELPH MARKET.Guelph.Ont, June 10.\u2014Flour, $1.75 to $2: red wheat, 68c to 70c:' white whent, 68e to 0c; bran, $14; sborts, 315; mtddiinge, $16; Lariey, 4ûc to &3c; rye, 4bc to 47e; onta, 20e to Tic; peus, &c to 68c: bay, $6 Lo $7; potatoes, bag, 0c to Toe: hides, $0.5) to $2.00; sheepakins, S0c to Mic; wool, 1c to j5c: live hoge, 94.50 tô 84.78; butter, 13c to 14c; eggs, 1lc to 12c .HAMILTON MARKET.Hamilton, Juae 16.\u2014White wheat, per bushel, at 70c to 72c; red whast, Be dush., at 00 to 3c; spring wheat, per bushel, @¢ to 0c; .per bushel, at Bic to 60: ariey, per busbal, at 35c to ¢0c; oats, per bushel, at 33e to Jc; corm, per bushel, et 40c to dtc: cloversesd, per bushel, at $1.80 to 48.76: timotby seed, per bushel.at $1.00 to $1.00; white wheat flour, per barrel, at = to $3.78\" strong Jakers four, per bris, af to $1.00; per owt, at to $5.38; dried a .per Ib.at de; potatoes, per bag, of at Mc to Me; but- t 100 to 12c; butter, Île to 1c; eggs, per ter.In roi per 1b.827 #55 # per ; pous to 3c f : 1 in firkine, per ib., at dosen, at lic to 1%.INGERSOLL MARKET.13.\u2014 White wheat at red fall wheat at Es ol; spring wheat at Tc shel; barley at de to ic per st Tle te per bushel; oats r bushel; carn at 42c to 60 ren et filé té $16 per ton: ton; toes at 956 per bag: onions at to $L76 per ; live Bogs at $4.40 to $4.60 owt: per : four at 81.75 to 33 BY ow oatmeal at $3 ta #60 per owt: meal at $2 to $1.50 ; butter et { 3 2 ¥ 8 Eos London, Ont,.June 10.\u2014Dutter, very little ebange in prices; Jéc to Île per Ib, for beat roits, snd ibo to £0c for creamery; eggs, llc to 114c By the basket, and 12° 13¢ for fresh laid, Wheat, T2e tn 74 oats, Ric to Me: peas, Mike to Gc, ne, Me: corn, Me; barley, lo f0r: hay sold #8 to $8.50 per ton.Poultry\u2014:mail 8c to 15e per pair for ordinary 4 70c to 0c for spring chil kond.meat was fairly well supplied.Sows sold at from 85 to $5.60, and steers and heifers at $8 to 96.5).Muttua was a drug at $8.Venl sold at $6 to 87; lambe at to $4.25 each, or 31.13% to $1.35 per Live bogs, $4.50 to $4.40.Stags de to 2%o per Ib.; saws at 3c per _Ib.; = por pair, $2 to $5; (at beeves, $4.75 to Wool sold at 14%c for unwashed, and 8c to 3c for shespskine.OT AWA MARKBT.Ottawa, June 9.\u2014As far as the number of sellers wes concermed the attendance at the market this morning was probably the largest of any Quy mo far (this summer.Unfortunately, the sttemdance of house- halders was not nesriy as large In proportion and on that aécount sales were sk as they have been of late on Saturdays.The demand for poultry, both dressed and alive, showed a considerable Improvement.There was a steady call for vegetables, which in consequence, had A fair sale, Bpinnach and asparagus seem- od to be in particular demand.se former seliing for sbout 106 per gallon, and tbe latter for Sc bunch.0 $c per bag: rarrots at 2fe tn Sté per tag: parsnips at @0c to Te per der: anbone at $2 to $8.50 per bag; petatoss at 80c to Toe Br bag: cabbage at #1 to re por dosen; butter, pail, at 12c to 16c ner ib.; butter, print, 17c to isc per Ib.+g.fresh, retail, at ile to 12 per dosen: and snoring lamb, at 73> to »i.25 per quarter; veal at Be tu 76 per Ib.mutton at be Lo fe per Ib; turkeys at 10c to 13c pet 1b.Reeve at to 0c each; spring chleksns at 45e to per pair: cblekons, Kve, ut We to Sc por pair.hay at to $10 par ton: oats at 32¢ 16 Bc per bushel; Barley at 50: per bushel: buckwheat at 4c to 45c per oush.; straw at $4 to $1.7 per ton.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE CANADIAN \u201cPATENT OFFICE.The following is a list of patents recently granted to clients of Messrs.Marion & Marion, solicitors of patents and exprris, New York Life Building, Montreal: \u2014 No.\u20ac3,000, Jullus Otto Zwarg, Freibers, Germany, microphones ; 43, Jobn Ollgny, Montreal, P.Q.ar lal fuel 62.097, Joseph Arthur Valllarcourt, } = Montreal, Q.butter presses: 62,106, Paul R.Trethewey, Muskoka Palis, Ont, boat pro- velling mechanism: 63,110, Delphis Desorcy.St.Malo d'Auckland, P.Q., boats: 2,144 Elias Jones, Winnipeg, Man., straw stacker; 62,140, Joseph A.Plante, Quebec, Q., acety- lens gas generating apparatus: 83.139, Odi- fon Archambault, Ste.Hyacinthe, Q.ncety- lene gas generators; 63,138.Louis M.Des- troismeisons, Ste.Q., acetylene gas generator; 63,135.John Robert Stroud, Miiford Day, Out., wrenches.\u2014 RITUALISM IN ENGLAND, ORTHODOXY OF THE CANDLE IN PUBLIC WORSHIP PUZZLING CHURCH OFFICIALS, A despatch from London, England, dated Wednesday, ry The ue 4 a cenge .yas the.imue before the.Arch Tabor Court tlast week.Now it a a question of the candle.The Archbishops of Canterbury and York listened to much learned testimony and argument on the subject in the of Lambeth Palace yesterday.One of the counsel for the Rev.Henry Westall, vicar of Nt.Cuthbert's, Phil- beach Gardens, produced in triumph conclusive historical authority for the statement that processional candles in church were used in the presence of that bulwark of Protestantism, Queen Elizabeth.This seemed to the unlearned among the su- dience to settle the matter for good and all, But the counsel for the \u2018Low Church\u2019 side was soon on his feet with proof that on the very occasion cited by his opponent good Queen Bess had cried out impatiently, \u2018Away with those torches.We see very well\u2019 This seemed to leave the question very much where the archbishops bad found it, except in 80 far as it had been shown that Elizabeth, defender of the faith.thought daylight a sufficient iliumination at divine service, ; Although their decision cannot possibly be binding upon anybody, and although London has begun to swelter and to empty itself of fashion, their Graces of Canterbury and York betray no signs of the irksomeness of their task, whieh they undertook in the hope of keeping the squabbles in the Established Church away from the secular courts, Popularly spoken of as the \u2018Archbishops\u2019 Court,\u2019 the proceedings in the guard-room form no court at all, and are officiaHy desig nated the \u2018Archbishops\u2019 hearing\u2019 The authority for the hearing is contained in the Prayer Book, and reads: \u2018Parties who have any doubt or diversely take anything, shall slways resort to the | bishop of the diocese, who shall take or- « der for quieting and appensing the same, and if the bishop be in doubt then he may send for the resolution thereof to the archbishop.\u201d One feature of the proceedings in that they are bringing to light many quaint bistorical facts.Ancient records are being rummeged by both jes to the dis pute.Counsel for the Rev.Edward Ram, the Norwich clergyman who \u2018is ne cused hy bis bishop of using incense in his church, has discovered in the archives of Bt.Michael's, Cornhill, this rule te be observed by the vestry: \u201cThey shall pro vide for fire at all such feasts as incense is accustomed to be offered unto Al mighty God.with other things necessary to the office, according to the solemnity of the feast.\u2019 Mr.Dibdin, who appears for the bishops, tried to offset this by maintaining that the incense wan used merely to fumigate the church.He quoted an instance of ancient church bookkeoping, when there was an item \u2018for dressing the church after the soldiers and for frankincense to sweeten it\u2019 ; also a record of St.Peter's, Barnstaple, \u2018for tobacco and frankincense burned in the church.\u2019 But some of the authorities cited are centuries older than Protestantism.Pie: clua, whose \u2018History of the Pops\u2019 was Anne de In Pocatiere.© IRON rritten În the fftesntb sémtury, bas boss a tower of strength to the ritualists.He ascribed the érigin of mcense to abeut 705815.Prom a panegyric by Eusebise, delivered at Tyre in the year 312, to the latest edition of the \u2018Encyclopaedia Beit annica,\u2019 no source of enlightenment is neglected, slthough the opponente of incense try to confine the inquiry to the post-Reformation period.meer BRITISH IN CHINA, CRITICISM BY LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ANSWERED BY MR.BRODERICK.London, June 9.\u2014 While the liouse of Commons was in committer of sip » the Fureign (Miior vote to-day, Rear-Ad- miral Lord Charles Beresford, Conservative member for York oity, delivered 8 scathing criticism of the government's poliey of \u2018drifting\u2019 in China, during which he said the government had deceived the people and alluwed the open door policy te be finaily killed, by permitiiog Rusaa to interfere in a purely commercial enterprise Jike the Shanghat-Kwan Railway.The Admiral then proposed that the four countries most interested, {reat Britain, the United Stats, Japan and Germany, go to China and offer to take over and or- gunise her army, adding that il Gr.at Britain touk the lead he was sure the United States would follow, and sswert: | he aleo had a distinet intimation that Jopan would join in auch a movement.The parliamentary secretary of the Foreign Ollice, Mr.Wilkam Bt.John Brod- rick, replied, pointing out the difficulties in meeting Lord Bercsford's desire, adil- ing that he thought His Lordship was «ver-manguine in believing the United States would follow the lead of Ureat Britain.Germany, he continued, had great interests in Chins, but she bad & thousan® tious greater interests in Europe.As to treating the Yang tse kisng | valley like the Shan-tung peninsula, Her Majesty's Government was not prepared to undertake the immense reaponsibility of governing such a territery, Continuing, Mr.Brodrick said : \u2018Up to the present the treaty of Tien-tsin has been observed.No door has been shut, As regards the Yangtse, we can send gunboats drawing six feet a thousand miles from its mouth.Although we are not prepared to undertake poiicing this province, constituting one-third of China, we are prepared to control the Yang-tse in order to protect our trade.and ÎL ie an essential part of the government's policy that in changes occurring in China the protection of our trade wis assured.Although it cannot undertake to relieve the Trung-Li-Yamien of the r=-pon- sibility of governing China.the government is not prepared to let British *ade suffer nor pass into other hands.Therefore, it is proposed to take the following stope : With \u2018regard te the Vang-tez, ve shall hold the Chinese Governm ut responsible for its undertaking not to alienate to any other power the provinces bordering thefeon, and that n connection should be made with thé Bormah railway.The government will also sce, whenever it in desired.that the force an the Yang-tae is sufficient!v rtrong to pro: tect cur merchants and their trade.\u2019 Mr.Brodrick also referred to the An- glo-Russian agreement as being a happy augury, and a fair compromise, and be doubted if the demand for a Russian railway connection to Pekin was ever male, but in effect the government, in no spirit of jealousy, but simply in the interest of China, must declare, if the demand is preseed, that it will be forced to advice the Chinese (Government against a con- ceasion calenlated to transfer the government of Pekin to another power.In conclusion.Mr.Brodick expremed the hope that there will he concord \u201c= tween the powers in rarrving out their great work in China.eee me A MAMMOTH CAVE.Victoria, B.C., June 10\u2014The mammoth cave of Kentucky, which has held\u201d the record heretofore as the world's greatest cave, must hereafter, it is be lieved, give precedence to a cave in New Zealand, discovered on April 27, by Hor ace Johnston, near Pert Waikato, and but tem or twelve miles distant from the city of Wellington.Johnston explored the cave for miles, but found no end.1f you want a binding that will outwear all the others twice over, is three times as rich and handsome as A other, and will positively fit because has the only \u201cNatural Curve,\" thon you will buy, and at a few cents more ihan the cheapest, short-lived binding price.$ E à M Eire = 28 Yack of avery yard.eri Frome RW Soren x { d | \u2018 scribers should ter.son.the bride in this cit James Fleck, assieted by dacghter of Church, June 6, 1289, all of Toronto.DUNTON\u2014CLA the bride's father.263 Lisga Knowles, B.A, Galt, Ont, of a daughter.PURCELL\u2014At 146 Plymouth Grove, on May M, 1888, the wife of T.IL.Purcell, uh be given.ably be indorerd with the mame and addrvas uf the onder, or otherwise wo notice ean be taken of (hem Birth notlers are inserted for 2c, warviays motices for Se, death notices for Blo prepaid.The an.wouncemant of funeral appended to death motte, fo extra; wither extension fo obituary, such as short aketeh of Ivf, Cuve cents per vont extra, except portry, which (3 30 cents per line extra\u2014prepatd.Aunval rabecribers may Mare announcements .if dirtha, wrriages aul dela « without extended wbitwary or terore/ eceurring in (Air immedione families, free of charge, in which suse name avd address of sub DIRTHA.HARRIE! ther, No.«on June 7, of Knox Norman Abern, to Janet Kennedy daughter of Mr.John Kennedy.ANDERSON\u2014ROTHWFELL \u2014 At the residence of the bride's father, Listowel.Ont., on June 1.1893.hy the Rev Dr, Wikitams, the Rev.Benjamin Principal of the Public Scheal, CALDECOTT-McHBRINE Dinor street, eact.Toronto, on by the sg.RKE\u2014At ronto, by the Rer.1 mard Duntos.of Britann ty.Ont.to Minnie Elyde Godfrey « cnly dsughter of leary Clarke, Eez.FORDE.\u20140On May 26, 1899, at 40 Crescent street, wife of Thos.Forde, of a daugh- 12 JAMIESON.\u2014On June 6, 1599, at 194 Cres- ent sireet \u2018De wife of Frid.C.Jamieson ot u daughter.KNOWLER At Knox Church Manse, on June 8, 1899, the wife of the Rev.R.E.minister of Knox Chur 1.0 | » EMITM\u2014At 68 Grand Trunk street, on Monday, June 3, 1883, the w'fe of Edwin Smith, of a daughter.8 EPROULE\u2014On May 2, 15%, at Corndale ! Farm, near Custer, Michigan, the wite of Oliver Spioule, of a sou.D.AHERN\u2014KENNEDY- At the residence of R23 St, Denis rt, by the Rev hurch, Win 10 TN Cul lough, of Marriston, the Kev.P.W - deraon, minister of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church.to Clara E.eldest \u20ac Listo Roth At St.Paul's; Nev.TC Nes Parres, assisted by the Hey.Pafilessor H J.Cody, Margaret Euphemi P.MeBrine, Es \u2018laukhre< of to Fraderick Caldecott, 10 the residence ot | r utrest, To.A.Rankin, John Peel \"| | EADIE\u2014MOCHRIE-On June 6, 154, nt the | residence of the bride's parents, York city.by the Rev.John Kale, New of | Point Edward, Ont, ansisted by the Rev.| Wilton Merle Smith, D.D.of New York | Clty.and the Rev.John ¥haw.of Kansas | City, Mo.Jan ce P.ter of Jchn Morbri clty.brother., \u20ac.law garet Rose.daugh.où the brile, E., of New Yok ENGLIRH\u2014HAKRINGTON \u2014 On June \u20ac 1899, by the Rev.Mr.\\Wilkinsnn, at the Methodist Church, Unlouville, Ont, Nel- Me, youngest daughter of Rahert Harrington, to Mr.J.Engl! ish, of Toronto.GAULT-HERCHMER \u2014 At St.George's Church.on Tuvaday.June \u20ac, 159 Very Rev.the Dean of Montrra val Ridout Gault.won of the Esq.M.P.Gault, way.GOODERHAM\u2014PHILLIPS.\u2014At ay the Peorve- .P.to Frances liflda Herchmer, daughter of Mrs.William Stan- the residence of the bride's father, Queen's Park, Toronto, on June 7.1888, by the Rev Septimus Jones, Lille, ldest daughter of F.Phlilips, EK eldest pon of V of Toronto.to William Hargratt - G.Gooderham, Æsq., ali \\ HENDERSON \u2014 SISSONS \u2014 At Trinity Church, Quebec.on Jun~ 2, 18%, by the Rev.E.J.Etherington, D.A., A.Hender- + son, af Ottawa, to Janle, daughter of R.| Siesons, Esq., of Batiscan, Que.¢ HILBORN-O'CONNOR\u2014On June 1.1899, at | the residence of Edgar O'Connor, Esq., Lacolle village, father of the bride, Alice : Wilhelmina, to Ross Emerson Hilborn, by | tbe Rev.Seth A.Mills, Saviour'r Church, Lacolle.cKEE-At the residence of the brother, Mr.JW.McKee, Sher brooke, Que, on June 7, 18, by the Rev.W.H.Emsicy, Mr Morley W.Hogle, to Miss Nettie BE.McKee, both of Montreal.LAWSON \u2014 DURKHOLDER\u2014At the residence of the bride's friher, Stouffville, Ont., on June 3, 1899, by the Rev.\u20ac.JI.Lawson, Lillie May, daughter of 8.Hurkholdsr, Esq.?HOGLE\u2014M tride\u2019 Hainer.A.H.LUMMIS\u2014-BURN June 7, 1899, by the Rev.W.Ward Willa, Willlam George Lummis to Ada Burns.8.\u2014 At both of Montreal.LUTTRELL\u2014MOESER\u2014At the residence of the bride'e mother, 18 Kinkora avenue, on June $, 1898.by the Rev.E.Hill, M A.James Cameron Luttrell, to Caroline Wiibelmine, daughter of the inte Frederic Moeser, both of Montreal.MACFARLANE-MORRISON-At Chevenne, Wyo., on June the bride's mother, Peter Macfarlane, son of tbe late W.8.Macfarlane, to Annie Jean, youngest daughter of the late \u2018ohn Morrison.8 MACINTORH\u2014CLAY\u2014On June 8, 1099, at 8t George's Church, by the Very Rev.the Dean of Montreal, assisted by the Rev.O.W.Howard, B.A.Grant Macintosh, oùn Macintosh, Esq., to Tlertha dest daughter of Captain J.Bonham Clay, late 13th Hussars, former.son ot Ji Florence, el iy of Norwood, MrCOLLUM\u2014USSHER\u2014 At the Cathedral of Tatonte, on Juns Plehop of Toroi detrar of On tom, ter of the Inte St Alban the M: 8.1808, by the England.artyr, Right nto, Charles Meg.ot Chicago.ansinted by the Rov.H.MrCollum, father of the groom, Florence Virtoria, dauxbter of John PF C_ Ussher, Esq., Deputy Provincial Reg- tario, to H.Keighly McCol- sll of Toronto.MeLEOD\u2014GREENLEY\u2014On Mond, 8, 1M.at Grace Church, Chicago, Rev.Ernest M, Stires, only son of the iate Rev.Jamey formerly rector of St, Thoman's C Montreal, to Florence.youngest daugn.rector of ot of Trronta, ta Philadelphia, on Munson he residence of Rev.the Lord June ty the Robert, Mot and, hurch, ay, rector, Carrol Greenicy.3.wel | POOLE\u2014AUETIN-\u2014At the residence of the | bride's father, 678 Ontasto atrest, Toro to, 02 June 1, 1999, by the Itev.Wm.Patterson, Joh.M.Pools, Presideut of the Pools Printing Cewpany, Limited, to Jvente.danghter of Adam Austin, Ea, RODERTSON \u2014 WHILLENS-On June 1, 1599.at £t.Paul's Church, Daly avenue, Ottaws, by the Rev.Nr, Armstrong, ©.R.Robertson, of the boat Offre Depart.| ment, Ottawa, to Jean, daughter of the late J ubert Whilleus, of Ilurdman\u2019s Bridge, w» ROWE.WAV \u201cFIELD.At the home of the bride's father.on June 7, 18%, by the Rev.Galen IT.Craik, BA, Wiis \u20ac Rowe, of Waterville, Que., Fliza- beth, recond daughter of Willing W Wakefield Waterville, Que.Wo \"AVAUR CUNNINGHAM-On Juns he residence of tho rides fa- ; Wellington street, Otuswa, by BD.M.Ramsay, Lieut Wiiltan Savage, to Ethel Agnæe, youngest daugrh ter of C.R.Couniughmm, Key $ SCOTT- STUART.- At the residence of the bride's father, 81 Esplanade ave, on i.138, by the Rov.Colborne Heine, fieat J.Reatt to Julia Alice.daughe E.3.Stuart.\u2019 FIMONS \u2014 SANGRTER \u2014 At Rt James Church, Lake .Que, on Nine K, 14, by the K F.Mibbard.+ dein Simons, of Quebe to Jane, inh.for of John Rangater, Fag.+ of Luke Ivan port.10 EMITH-CURRAN At Avenue Road Neth.valst Church, nto, on Jue 7, iv by the Mer \u201cler Mursash, HD, Maud Curran, adopted daushter of Ur.and Men 18.A.Haney.of Car tor.vie, to the Rev, W.It smith, Cains.ville.10 1 SNEYD-SHELNON -At Hanae Gait, one, Juve \u20ac 1 HY thing, England, to Leonora (Noras, eldest daughter of Mrs.J.M.Sheldun 16 SPRINGETT-EMERSON -On June 7, 1997, at the home of the driles .Mes Catherine Emerson, 6 0° Toronto, by the Rev.J.W.Cahurn, » ther-in-law of the bride, Mian Ca n Emerson, to Mr.J.It, Springett, bath of Terento.10 TUENAULL\u2014MURRAY-At \"The Rowans* Kingston.Ont, the reaidence of John Mu Esq.by the Ker M Maciilt- MA, the Rev Jumes M Turn: ull, MA, of Bowmanville, Ont, and Eliza beth Clark Museay, youngest daughter of the late Wm.Murray, Hs.Kingst in for.6 > mirly of Paisley, Seattand.WATSON- NATTRESE On June the Presbyterian Church, Ont, by the Hv Thomas Nattr brother of the bride, axsisted by (he How.4 Walter Meld, H 1, pastor of the church, and the Rev Thomas Watson.0 A bra.ther of the groom, Iaabetls A Nattrees, daukhter of Mr.und Mrs John Nattre .Woodbridge, to James Renwick Watson, of Vaughan.0 PAMAN -GALLOWAY-At Chambly Canton.Que, en June 2, 1x9, by the Rev s won, Mr Robert Veaman, to Miss Maragaret 1599, at Wondbridge, sua, y s IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ! High Class Tailoring at Popular Prices.H.M dentlen style, to this purcusee, WEST OF ENGLAND COATINGS.A fine assortment of the Intest styles, while the value is COAT and VEST complete for $18.00.Regular exceptional.at $6.00 the paie, Usually wold at £0.00 10 $10.00 14 pate.and inspection respeetfnily jovited, { HENRY MOR Colonial Hous ITO _ \u20ac, are now .& Co.price 825.00, For Seaside and Country or Business Wear HA All Wool, good quality, made to measure, $18 the suit Fit and finish guaranteed, Note\u2014 There is 5 percent cash discount off the above prices.\u2019 .Men's Walki Just received à large consignment of Men's Walking Sticks, In natural woud, with crooked handtes which will be sold at the WHOLESALE PRICE, 150.These goods are finished fn the bust syle, highly polished and varoislicd.Mail Orders Receive Careful Attention, LIFAX HENRY MORG ONTARIO BUSINESS Gallowsy, beth of Stird, \u2018 terre Muret widely atteni- Seatinnd.¢ COLLEGE.*: meries ; Sint DIED.\u2014 Jour years tuader BACON.\u2014On Sune 10, 198, En her Mth vear, Present Irincipale, Send for ( alalogue, at her residence 61 Oshorne etreet, Montres h fane Wadieigh, widow af the is Hacon.nad cider daughter of | the ate John Wadleigh, of Kingrey, P.Q.BENSON.On June 6 1, Porrival K.Manson, aged 3 years and 19 Asye young- rat sen of A.J.Henson.111 Perey street, Toronto.8 NROANFOOT \u2014In Arran.Nrure Co.Ont, | on June 1, 1899.Thos.Rroadfoat.aged 60 Years and 17 days, former.brooke, near Rockburn.P.Q.please copy.BROWN\u2014On June 9, 1298, Loutss Catherine, axed years.beloved wite of William lirown, and duugbter of the Iate Alexander Stewart, | CHAPMAN ~At the Royal Victoria Jospi- | y of Hinchin- | née i Central +! 80 per month ai rthand He and several others lia \u2019 } Three Months will de 11.1h octo yat Enter any time Le w, WANTED, COUND VOLUMES | Address ROBINSON & JOHNSON, F.C A., Belleville, Untarie, UNIVERSITY Beulents theoughme tae J Bollday months ro NEORTHAND ¢ Mr.J A Mewar o may improse thele ne RAE, 4 Renfrew, $d 5 ar Queen's, Jost tuauises this year for want of just entered.Xo Varations Business College, ronto, MN.SHAW, Principal.| tai, in this city, on Monday morning, WAN 2 THE Tie 13 Jee Willem Francis Chapman, WHALE of aay period.Address JOHN eldest son of W.Chipebaui his 26th year Toronto sid Hrantford papers please pr.12 Mrs.J.la; COUCH\u2014In Bowmanrilte, Ont, on June 3, 1999, Mabel Anna.eldest daaghter of w.B.Couch.aged 27 years.DAINTRY\u2014At his residence, \u2018The Poplars,\u2019 | HOSTLER\u2014At Chicago, III.on Juve 149, Bertha Marguerite wife of Arthur W.§ LILLY-Willlam Edwa on June $, Cobourg, Unt.on June \u20ac 189, John Daintry, sged 61 years : MARRON DORAN.\u2014On June %.1x9, at the residence.on June 1.98, of his mother-in-law, Mrs.J.W.Now-: man, Lower Lachine Road.after a short ' (tn J.Fred.horan, non of the Inte H.| n J.Doran, and grandson of the lete James Doran, In the 3th vear of his age.ELLIOT\u20148uddenly, at the residence of Mr.obert Logan, \u2018merchant.Allan's Corners, on June 9, 199, Miss Agnes Eilat, | eldest daughter of the lute Gavin Elliat, ot Denholm.Roxburgbebire.Scotland, aged years.Hawick papers pleass copy.10 : \u2018My hone la in Heaven, My home ln not here; Oh.why should we murmur, When trouble Is near.\u2019 GAMRLE\u2014On May 2 199.David Oamnble, Thom \u20ac x, in the Tith llam Greer,and beloved wite \u201cWitness.\u201c Mont | + (née Echmido, Hostier.ré.died pencetully 1499, 2e reeult of accident, nt the age of 19 years, 2 months and 13 days.t 2% Lincoln avenue, Montreal, of the late WI of Walter 8.Marson.FCANG\u2014At Howlck, on May 24, 1899, Mary pson, brloved wife of Alexander Mc- Sarah.second daughter year of ber age, a Fal of Argyle, Scotland.MeNONELL\u2014At the residence of his son- in-law, Alaxrn, der Mefjoneil.fn the Sth crniceasion Township of Cornwall, County of Stormont, Ont., on May 31, MeDianell, Jats alide-ma de: Que.aged 61 yearn.McKEEVER\u2014At 382 Waverley street, To.fonts, on June (Vlirlen, beloved wife of Archibald Me Keever, agod 20 years.: 1889, John r, Hull stacion, 8 1498, Mary Teresa die a otoucester, Out.in the étth TOT MEREDITH At his late residence, No =i of his age.Hicocker street, Tarunto, on June à, i$, HEROXAt Billing Bridge.Ont.Charles Meredith, In his Hib year 4 27 aMay 19.12, Eltzabeth Adels MURRAY.\u2014At bor brother's residence, 00 est daughter of John Heron, aged nine > nk 1- ; Ave months, « St Antoine strect, after Hogering 111 HIGOINS \u2014 At Quebec, en June % 1099, Theresa Ryan.widow of the Higgins, of If M.Customs.ness on June 11 daughter of Ale: BHOTTON.\u2014In this rity, on Bund, 11, 199, John W.Shot WALKER\u2014Ia this chy, dence, mcrning.June 8, 1899, John Henry wa), er.wood en hie age.Born Oct.County Antrim.Ireland, and son of the late Dr.Joba Walk: 131 Lava, Krave 899, Christian, youngest der Murray.! MYNOTT.-On May 33.199, at 101 West : 10nd street, New York, Mary, daughter of the late Edward M: Geneva, Canada.youngest * yuott, of | 1 O'HARA.\u2014In this city, on June 12, 1998, at : the age of 15 years, James Garnet O\u2018)a yorngest aud dearly beloved son of Jas.O'Hara, OSWALD\u2014At Lon short Illness, Witllam Fngland, after » i.Oswald, aged 3 .June » agod years.at his late rest.| nue, on Thursday | k- r, in the AAth year of 2.1%, at Ballim ney, or._ _ WATKIRS\u2014Jane Crawford, wife of X.H.Ne LIAN Res Mon on June ks Atte Watkise, died June 10, 10, tn Len Wb Henderson, daugbier nf ue year.Wm.Hosni Ait\u201d cv, Outiours Outioura beup conor to and Limerick papers Please { MOORE\u2014BROOKE\u2014At At.John's Chured, Face Humors vien ani Wi, wr oma! Laws.Oot.on dine, 7, -.vy the Rev.Pimples, blackheads, simple rashes, 24 patnfut {ices ! de due.to Lillian, third daugtter of red, rough hands, falling hair, and wiLsON.\u20140n June 11, 199, of pal mon- Le Lanoox Brooks, of Farrellios, Gus.baby blemishes prevented by Cums.!neitis.\u201d Minnie eed rear.NICKLE DICKSON\u2014AL the residence of p Sou, onthe, deugbter of J.©.Wil: \\ se e ue then me Ont.on QURA SoAP, a sure preventive of in.vos.1x MEMoR \\ , 1100, v.M.ltvray, .MEMORIAM, TLR RT | amas cop oi Por, |, mn en ve ain Benin mare 0e SG EEE Remarques \u201cSim Wher HSI HLM ¢ CENTLEMEN.West of } Dinde to measure and finished in the best + the home of the school.\u2018THR SABBATH AND ITS Gil NOES\u2019 sent WITN GAN & C0, Phillips Square.ESS \u2014\u2014lpge.effering & choice collection of the beat #isnd Wurstel Trouserings for Special attention a called TWEEDS, ng Canes.AN & CO.+600.; Business and Shorthand College.Corner of Yonge and Coliege sts.Toronto.Thorough, practical.and up-to-date courses.Commercial Shorthand and T, ing, English and Civil Service.Open »ntire year; day and evening.Write for free prospectus and information.St.Andrew's Collage, \u201cChestnut Park,\u2019 TORONTO.A High Clans Residential School for boys, under Presbyterian auspices, will be opetied in Toronto in September + Chestnut Park.\u201d the residence of the iate Str David Macpherson, has been secured as n The highest standard of excellence both as to class-room work and home intuehice will be aimed at; only masters of recognized acudemic and professiol standing will be employed.For Prospectus apply to Rev.George Bruce, D.D.Principal.1000000000000000G0POTEBGEE \u2018WaLTHAM Goo WATCH 3 50 1118 lam regular Waltham Watch Co Hiem wind, Bem vet, ruby jeweled movement, compensation balance, high finished, oral re: gulstor polinhe andgiided.This wove: ment will keep time ton second sud last hifouime, LTHAM kt genuine Gold.0 filled Case, richly and delicately engraved.We warrant this watch, with ordinary usés, to lest for twenty yearn, nit with reasnuable Simply write, mentioning your nearest express office, and we will send yru the watch for syamins- tion.You cull at the ex office, a writing, be careful tn state elearly whether you radar eu à cor forth gu Rap Eaton omen JOHNSTON & MCPARLANE, c VO mia a1 Joba.La) C Dept W NTO, CAN.TM LPORD CO.Limited, ctorta TORONTO, CAN, M and B He Racrament Street, MONTREAL Turament Sureet, MONTREAL JFEVROPE EUROPE.EUROPR STEN TICKETS NY ALL LINES.ALLAN, DOMINION aud BEAVER LINES.UUION, ANCHOR, MAM AMERICAN, INMAK, , HITE #TAK, CUNAKD, NETHERLANDS 3 STATE K 0.LLOYD, FRENCH STEM \u20ac wy Asoo FLORIS.WAST INDIES, AUSTRALIA, ; ory CAPETOWN, and all parts of the world WIND 4 of rite 9 beter looking slarw here an ngs sand free on application.To Introd Dr.Wraton's proved Pink 1, Ketablished 1084.Toe Pile for waking prod BP\" Tan progin te D BAITERSEY, wonkneenee, llvri Hephone 1407.18484.James où, general debaiity, ete, give al biaird watrh, Ladies or Genta, RE vod, relia hie tine keeper, warrant Vitis ase vents per tus, $300 for § boxes.Bend hoses and the Weteh, EEC ye BT Ta es ppm ce BLUE Wintel Tue kidmey dissase, nervousness, a SOK aid F postpaid to any address om feceipt of ten cents, by the author, Johm Mokie, 314 Juchson avenue, Vancouver, BC.\u2018 New Cistern Force High Grade rom 88.LORD ANTRIM SA LORD OARS.88 LORD IVEAGH hore lines 2a or from any point la been of in the 4 between Lake and Georgian Bay.North- Climate and soil are most excellent.In- settiers should ern Ontario.tending look into this.L strong, Colonizat Canadian Pacific Montreal.\u2014IN PUMPS.Anti-Freezing Well Pump We furnish this Wrought iron set\u2014length connect- cd to the cylinder as shown in cut, Suitable fo feet deep.though to excellent adv.from 40 to MA feet docp, by lower- Ing the cylinder to withtu 30 fret or less of the wa 3-inch ron cylind forcing to has the tion, long and nleel froeatng.or lead pl; 9 Cplinder fitted tor PRICE WITNOLT AIR 7 tm Brass Cylinder Mted or re pre æ PITCHER SPOUT polished prevents Hy ratal tripping market, \u201c Quotations cheerfully given for Pumps, Fittings, and * Iron Pipe, lengths, ready tn be connected.our Pump Catalegue.For Steel Windmills, Pum ts, etc, address The BAILEY-DONALDSON CO., ww P.0.Box 289.No.18t.Peter si.Mentreal REFORD AGENCIES.DONALDHON LINE carp tls Cor fifty.We know that if you ses A.Low, TAR watch rs Tat Ky a paceprional don, EC Thommon à Ca, Laks W largain we offer.We ask not vom cent In ndrance.à couand, ETES Btied in special steamers of both Cardin, lines LORD LINE - Hatlings during the Bille of Lading sree Ob JUnit i, Neatmal YOUR NAME nesuy printed ve 2 (Rloh.Goid Bdge.Funes Hnage, ie ring ve.) Verse, Flogah.&- told By, n°85 1amant GOOD LANDS, FREE InNorthernOntario A splendid township has ned for settlement rench River Valley, BARCAINS Pump, with Brass Cylinder For elevating water to throoms or bouse, or for fire protection, it has no equal.barrel, brass hose connoc- stuffing box and plunger rod, Is well put trgcther raising the extreme height and trip- ving the valves, prevents This Pump ts heavy and well finished, patent closed top, which flying up when pumping.its extreme height and vents freezing: fitted for either lead or Iron Do not class these the cheaper grade of pumps that are on the Sewing Machines, Boot and Shoe Repairing Outfits, Blacksmith's Out- Calme, Yousz & Nebis, Newotstleon.Bom & œ bi Fonchnrch Avenue, Lon.ted ty ang of the Ounade or Wéstors Toe Ra ate Levan roms SEARO Knomitre PQ role funl sare laa for dapy TARR RES Nipissing -O.Arm- ion agent, Railway, Pump with r wells up to 30 it may be used antage ln wolls ter.Price, with er, $5.00, tanks, or ony part of the 1t polished brass fulcrum, brass painted.Ry lever to its Fitted for iron pe.1 In .30 hop 3088 CHAMBE( PUMP.extra cylinders, and the water from ng the lever to the valves, pre- ipe.ith 1 ls.pipe 81.55 i \u201c 1.80 p.03 1e - 80 cut to proper Send for pu of all kinda, a { { June 18, 1609, FARMERS\" EXCHANGE, For Sale and Want Advertising, ONE CENT A WORD, or the benefit of the subscribers of tas ttness,\u2019 many of whom bave during the ar, something to vil or anchnags.or want ta he flied, we hava decided to advertisements of this class, to nad this page, and under this hoading, Cif ox tremely low rate of one cent n \u2018word each fnrertion.This tu just one-third the regulap price.The \u2018Weekly Witness' reachss about 25.000 FAMILIES whose wants are many and whe have the wherewithal to satinty\u2019 them dti they only know where to find the things they want.The address must be counted as part of the advertisement, and each initial, er n number, counts as one word, Cash must Accompany each order, and advertisements Tuust have address on, aa we cannot for ward replies sent to this office.Copy must be received not later than Priser for the paper published on the following Nn mers\u2019 Exchar.ge* advertisements will be condensed.no large disniay 1 being used, thus making a amait Adv.notireshle as à large one.Subscribers to the \"Witness will find thay an advertisement In this department wilt Trove a paying avant and only En Jar Mubscribers may avait themrelves of this Address, JOHN DOrCALL à sev, FOR BALD, sn OHIO IMPROVED Chester White and Temworth Bpring Pixs of true bacon type; largest prize winning 4 In Cauads; wo1 grand «weepatakes at To- rento, Montreal and Ottawa, sight years in succession for best herd: furnish paire nor akin: we pay express charges to your statfor.and guarantee safe arrival.Stork for exhibition purposes a specialty.Write for prires.H.GEORGE à& BONS, Cram, ton, Ont.Ww BARKED PLYMOUTH ROCKS (Exclusive.1): Exgs for hatching at $1.00 per 15: 9 settings, $2.00; per 100 $400.From choice breeding pen af hixh scoring Imported birds, 82.00 per 15; 2 settipgs $2.00.AN birds have free range and fertile ess guaranteed.Two fine yearling cocks and some breeding hens for sale.(Mise) P.J.CALDWELL, Cor ns Huron, Ont.\u20ac TO RE SOLD CHEAP, A GOOD FARM OF 100 acres, 35 acres cleared, balance good hardwood bus! 00d frame houss, good outbuildings, water, young bearing orchard, Be quantity of well : school.churches, 11 near: 244 miles ory reasons for selling: good locality for tourists.Address RODERT HAYWARD, _P.O.East Parry Sound, Ontario, FOR SALE, SIXTEEN H.P.MILL, CIRcular, Board, Shingle, Butting Saws, and Drag Saw: gro: wing settlement: ao other mill in region.Because of family changes must be sold: nearly new.Address C.A.EGAN ENTATE, Ont.14 \u2014 CALIFORNIA \u2014 A RETIRED BRITISH army officer, former resident of Torout) now residing in the most healthy and profitable fruit growing ceunty in Cnit- - lornia, has several fully |mpraved orang: snd peach orchards for eale.Ben stamped envelope to CAPTAIN, Box 126, \u2018whurn, Placer County, California, for toformation.rer CHILD FOR ADOPTION \u2014A HEALTHY LITTLE Sr re rare amt four months urs\u2019 given Mac Ba Be Urbain Lee A GOOM FARM WANTED, ON SHARES, with stock in Western Ontario, this fall\u2019 references given.Address DAIRYMA throy, Ont.1 FOR BALE, A PARTNERSHIP IN A GOON City Milk and Cream Business, First-class opening for the right man.Address BUEI- ESS 10, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, 13 WANTED, GENERAL AND LOCAL A, ons ln udrepresentsd counties to handle a quick selling family medicine; exclusive territory; no competition with druggists.ad at once.Herbarcot Medical Co, ontreal.\u2014_\u2014 WANTED, AGENTS TO SELL OUR BSuper- lor quality of Silverware.Profits to agents guaranired to exceed those of any rellable competitor.Write for partiey.lars.Kclipse Silverware Co., Box 1, Toronto, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS\u2014WANTED, in every school district throughout Caps.ds, to get up clubs for the \u2018Lally Wit- Bess, \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 and \u2018Northers Messenger.\u201d Send for sample cuples and ress JOMN DOUGALL SON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal.GOLD PLATED, Ov: aie end it Lous with your neme ani ur 5 After careful exam- find this wstoh resente-l.pay xpress spout $1 usd obarges, and it 1x yours, Terry Wateh Co.Toromss, Ont.HOMEOPATHY.But ot Mets sat, Ret; bes.A Taree stock always oa hand, SHEET WAX ination For Making Fruit and Flo .A large assortment ia stock includpig Moulds, Cutters, Colors, &e.MINERAL WATERS.Bethesda, Poland, Vichy, Lithte, Hua.yaëi Janos, Apenia and all the ng waters always In A Country orders promptiy Alloë.J.A.HARTY, Dry, 1780 Notre Dame street, Mon \\ FARMS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE \u2018 | "]