Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 10 juillet 1900, mardi 10 juillet 1900

[" Montreal Weekly 4 \u201d à S.\u2014 FIPTY-PIPTH YEAR PEKIN LEGATIONS.Latest News is More Reassuring.A COUNTER REVOLUTION, Body of Chinese Soldiers Under Prince Ching Opposing the Rebels.A despatch to the news agency in London, dated Tieutsin, July 2, mys: \u2018The Empress Dowager, so far from being dead, is actively striving to prevent the factions fighting.Prines Ching has informed her that he would 1uther lose hie head than be constantly obliged to warn her of the consequences of the prolongs: tion of the present anarchy.Prince Tuan is quite willing that Ching should be decapitated, but the Dowager Empress will not allow this.Prince Tuan has dacided that be will take full responsibility.He purposes to re-take Tien tein and Taku, Outside of Pekin, except in the Pechihli and Shartung country, the people ere supremely indifferent\u201d London, July 7\u2014The Foreign Office has iseued the text of a telegram from Mr.Warren, acting coneul-general at Shanghai, confirming, fram a thoroughly trustworthy nource, the news received hy courier {rom Pekin, on July 8, by way of Shanghai, to the London office of the inspectorate of Chinese maritime cus toms, mying that two legations were, the day the courier left, holding out against the troops and Boxers, and the troops had loet 2,000 men and the Boxers many leaders.Mr.Warren adds that the messenger says the troops were much dis heartened by their losses, and that the Boxers claim their mystic powers Lave teen broken by the foreigners, and that they dare not approach the legations.Ît is further asserted that the foreign- tre at Pekin ought to be able to hold out for a long time, as they have suf dent food and ammunition.London, July 9.\u2014243 a.m\u2014The for eign consuls at Shanghai met on July 7, end officially announced that the legs tions at Pekin were safe on July 4 The foregoing statement, read with Mr.Warren's despatch to the Foreign Office on Saturday, makes it possible to believe that the legations will hold out for & number of days yet.Having fought to a standstill the first outbursts of fanatical fury, it is believed that something may intervene to save them.The news, after the sinister rumors of the Just ten days, is enough upon which to build up hopes.DAILY LIFE AT THE CAPITAL.The courier mentioned in Mr.War ren\u2019s despatch gives a strange picture, mays the \u2018 Daily Mail's} Shanghsi corres pondent, of how life jostle death in Pekin, Business apparently goes on as urial.The shops and theatres are open, and the streets are full of people.No Imperial troops, except those of Genera) Tung Fun Siang, took part in the fighting.The courier even asserts positively that provisions are being supplied to the legations, but by whom he does not say.The Boxers and General Tung Fuh Siang do not get along well.The Boxers as rert that they do all the fighting and the latter all the looting, and nothing else.Gen.Yuan Shi Kai, governor of Bhan- tung, a correspondent of the \u2018Daily Mail.\u2019 avers, predicts that by July 11 the Hox.era will disband, and negotiations will be hegun for peace.Nevertheless, circumstantial rumors of dark things to come are in circulation.WARREN'S DESPATCH.SHANGHAI NEWSPAPER CORRES PONDENT BAYS IT CANNOT BE TRUE.London, July 9.\u2014The Shanghai corres- poudent of the \u2018 Express,\u2019 telegraphing on Ktnday at 5.10 p.m., throws doubt upon Consul Warren's information.He says: *Taotei Sheng now admite that there was an error in his communication to Consul Warren.The date of the oour- ier's arrival at Tainanfu was July 3, which does not apply to his departure from Pekin.The journey from Pekin to Trinanfu occupies five days.The courier, therefore, could not have left Pekin later than June 28.The dats of the massacre there, as given by Chinese roports, was June 30, or July 1\u2019 REABSURING NEWS.Brussels, July 9.\u2014A Shanghai despatoh of date received says a Chinees newspaper asserts t Prince Ching\u2019s ] TSU-HSI, THB EMPRESS DOWAGER.troope have arrived at Pekin to revictual the Europeans and defend them against the rebels.Washington, July 9\u2014The following telegram vas received last night by Min ister Wu from Sheng, director-gen: of the imperial telegrams at Shanghai, dated yesterday : \u2018July 3, two legations in Pe- kin still preserved.All ministers safe.Rebellious troops and rioters make attacks, but suffer many losses.Imperial troops are protecting, but meet with difficulty in doing so; It is feared that food and ammunition are exhausted.\u2019 WORD FROM BRUCE.\u2014 GROUNDS FOR HOPING THAT PRINCE CHING I8 PROTECT: ING THE FOREIGN LEGATIONS.London, July 9\u2014Admiral Bruce has sent à telegram to the Admiralty de- rautt 4-44 ul ec are grounds for hoping that Prince ang protecting is army is at Pekin, van's aemy vi the ions against Prince Sige JAPAN MOVING.GOVERNMENT DESPATCHING MEN AND HORSES TO CHINA.\u2014 Yokohama, July 9.\u2014The government hag finally decided to immediately de mpatoh 23,000 men and 5,000 horses to Ching.The newspapers in endorsing this action point out that should the not be absolved from blame.About five bundred men were wound ed fn the fighting at Tientsin.ANOTHER OUTRAGE.Berlin, July 9.\u2014The German coneul at Chifu cables, under to-day\u2019s date, that the American mission at Tunglu and the FATHER FAVIER, CATHOLIC PRELATB AT PEKIN.! Catbolic mission at Chingchufu have been looted.He adds that the Boxers continued their endeavors to incite the population of Chifu to revoit.Li Ping Hong, the former governor of Shantung, with eight thousand men, has gone northward from Nanking, the governor of which place requested him to withdraw.LATEST FROM TIENTSIN, CHINESE DRIVEN BACK ON FRI DAY AFTER SEVEN HOURS\u2019 FIGHTING.London, July 9.~The latest news from Tientsin is contained in à news agency message dated Friday, July 6, reporting 8 renewed Chinese attack that morning with twelve guns.The allied forces replied with the guns landed from the British first clase cruiser \u2018Terrible,\u2019 and a mixed force of a thousand men made a sortie under cover of the fire of the naval brgeds, sad attacked the Chinese, who after seven hours\u2019 fighting.Wurlier despatches record severs fight.pe = MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, MILY OF CHINA WHO FIGURE IN THE STIRRING THE DAY, PRINCE TUAN, ' Unels of the Dopo.Imiber of Hate Apparent, and leader of the rotten.KWANG-8U, THE EMPEROR.PRINCE KUNG, Unels of the Bmperor.\u2018 ing, notably on July 2 and July 3, when the Chinese developed u strength and did considersble damage with artillery.At the bridge near t he French settlement there was hard fighting at close quarters, the Russians wih a Gatling gun even y compelling the Chinese to retire, though the Rumians weffered heavily.The operations, how- sages showing the Chinese ware still full of fight.OUTRAGE AT MOUKDEN.CATHOLIC BISHOP AND HIS AS- BISTANTS MURDERED AND THE MISSION BURNED.Chifu, July 7.\u2014The Catholic bishop, two priests and two Sisters were murder ed at Moukden last Friday.The mis sion was burned.Nine sisters and a priest have arrived here by stesmer from Niuchwanz.AUSTRALIANS FOR CHINA.VICTORIA'S OFFER ACCEPTED BY THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.Melbourne, Victoria, July 7.\u2014~The Imperial Government hes accepted Vic- toris\u2019s offer of a naval contingent for service in China.A DESERTED TO THE ENEMY.London, July 90.~The \u2018Telegraph's\u2019 Shanghai correspondent reports trouble near the German settlement of Teintau, Lieut.Schoeller was sent out with a com pany of disciplined Chinese troops, who deserted to the enemy with their arme and ammucition.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THB WELLAND DYNAMITERS PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT A RESCUE.Kingston, Ont., July 9.\u2014Dullman, Nolan and Walsh are to be placed in the inolation ward in the penitentiary for safety, and to prevent any relationships.All visitors are prevented from entering the prison; this also applies to rie tives of prisoners or guards.Only those having business in the institution und who are known, will be admitted.A young man from Portsmouth sys he saw four men hanging about the prison walls several nights ago.They were disclosed by a flashlight from a ing steamer.The detectives sent £ the rument are still here.The stony plot wax disclosed by Clan-na men to secret service *men, Canadian government was notified.\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE FIGHTING ABHANTIS.London, July 9.\u2014Tha Colonial Office hee received the following dempatch from Colonel Wilicocks, dated Fumehu, Ashanti: Three companies of troeps joined Col.Burroughs\u2019s regiment st Dompocsei et the exact hour appointed, thas upsetting \u201d ever, were in no way decisive, later mes\u2018 the plans of the enemy, who offered no resistance.Burroughs attacked Kokofu on July 3, but failed to take the town.Lieut.Brown-Lee, of the West Indian Regiment, and five soldier, were killed, snd 82 wounded, including severs] ofic- ers slightly wounded.Proceed to Bek- wai to-morrow.About thirty thoussad Ashuatis are awsiting our appesech ab messi.-Later the Coionial Office issmed the text of » telegram from the governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Frederick Mit- chell- n, dated Axwabosir, July 1, which ssid he croesed the Ofin river with the force that left Kumassi, accompanied by Lady Hodgson and other Eueopeans.A spacial service officer and an assistant inspector died of wounds and hardships.The journey, he adds, was very severe.\u2014\u2014\u2014 SIPIDO ESCAPES.Brussels, July 9.\u2014Despite the close Th; rade; watch kept upon Sipido, the would-be assassin of the Prince of Wales, it ie confirmed that he bas escaped the detec tives and has fled the country.Unfortunately, he cannot be extradited, but it is expected that the Minister of Jus tice will imme orders that he is to be placed in a reformatory in case he again is found on Belgian soil, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 CANADIANS IN A BRUSH.SEVERAL MEMBERS OF B SQUADRON, MOUNTED RIFLES, REPORTED WOUNDED.Ottawa, July 9.\u2014A cablegram was re esived at the Militia Department this morning from Col.Otter, dated Joban- Besburg, July 9, reporting that his bat- telion bas been taken from ths nineteenth brigade and detailed for duty at Springs.He also reports the following officer and men of the first battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, as being wounded in action on July 7 : Mortally\u2014No.408, Pte.H.B.White, Waterville, N.8.Slightly~Captain C.M.Nelles, Royal Canadian Dragoons.No.325, Pte.T.H.Marriott, Manitoba pe 284, Pte.H.Palmer, B Squadron, .C.D.No.330, Pte.8.J.McGregor, Brandon Infantry Company.No.413, Pte.B.R.Armstrong, 3rd Regiment C.A.No.248, Lord, is also included among the cnsualties.© Captain C.M.Nelles vas à member of the Royal Canadien Dragoons.He comes from Toronto.Pte.Thomas H.Marriott, Manitobs Dragoons, enlisted at Winnipeg.His nearest relative is Marriott, of Ashover, Derbyshire, England.Pte.Henry Palmer was of B Squadron, enlisted with the R.C.D.Mm.Paler lives at 44 Greyhound street, Lon- on, Pte.Sam.J.McGregor was a member of the Drandon Iafantry Company.His W (1tnes PRINCE CHUNG, Father of the Emperor.next of kin is P.McGregor, of Brandon.Pte.Armstrong is from Bt.John, N.B., and is a son of Lieut.-Col.while Pte.John William Lord was formerly of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and bails from Winnipeg.BOERS ARE BUSY.Made Several Unsuccessful Attacks During the Past Few Days.London, July 9.\u2014Late news from South Africa reports that the Boers ineffectually attacked Gears] Buller\u2019s escort between Standrrton and Heidelberg on Saturday as ne was returning from a visit to Lord Roberta.The Boers attacked Ficksburg gurri- son at midnight on Tuesday, but were driven off after 45 minutes\u2019 fighting.Geseral Brabent, on Julv 5, occupied Deoenberg, betwen Senekal and Win- burg, which surved asa base for bends awailing convoys.Co}, Mahon, of Gen, Hutton\u2019s mounted troops, dt pe uly 6 and , en 200 rs Bronker- rit, and drove them off.The Brit.ties Commandant Limmer tried to rec ture Rustenb .dires back urg on July 5, but was irty-four of Strath.\u2019 - der Leut.Andemon, vore autour) V2 kopie, u which they su withstood attack of the pe ly Pretoria, July 7.\u2014Cal, Pilcher\u2019s force mmesged the Boers at Bokenpont\u2019s Kloof, om the Middleburg road, on Tuesday.ere were a few casunities.The main body of mounted infantry moved out on sopply trains south on Thursday.Jady Roberta and her daughter are visiting the Pretoria hospital.\u201cTimes's renzo M.Tespondent says under fate \u201cA general movement Boer sett into Gazaland, Portuguese eran, seems to be in contemplation.Already large herds have been driven across the border.The Portuguese welcome the au Four arrived here from y.juex cor July 7: Amsterdam, July 9.\u2014 The German steamship \u2018Bundesrat.has arrived at Flushing with bar gold Talued of $4,200, 000, eonsigned by the Transvas} government to Holland bankers.BULLER VISITS ROBERTE.Lon A July foe War oO ce to- D owing despatch from oberts: KX ris, July 7.\u2014General Buller arrived this morning.He | very well, and is apparently none the worse for the hard work he has gone through during the past eight months.\u2019 PRISONERS RELEASED.Another despatch has been received by the War ce from Lord Roberts as follows: \u2014 : \u2018Pretoria, July 7.\u2014The general commanding at Ladysmith telegraphs that &0 Bntish prisoners belonging to the Yeomanry and shires have been ut over the Natal border from Secre- ry Reits'e advance party and have reached Acton Homes on their way to Ladysmith No officers accompany the men.London, July 9.\u2014The following de- epatch from Lord Roberts, has been received at the War Office: \u2018Pretoria, July 8.\u2014'As the enemy for some days have threatening our line of railway by trying to get round our right flank, I tched Hutton on July 8, with mounted infantry, to reinforce Mahon and with orders to drive the Uoers to can! ronkerspruit.These orders were effectually carried out during Friday and Saturday by Mabon, who was attacked by some three thousand men with six guns and two ms, Our casualtion were: Wound , two croft\u2019s ight of rrow pass.keeping the - De fo 2 me le over the ridge.cife Railway Compény\u2019s crop reports received from all over the province are of a very encouraging character.Many agents say that it will be impossible to | which have thoroughly soaked every with the hot sun a couple of weeks ago, presenting an appearance of brown and.stunted vegetation, have taken on 2 new aspect, and now look delightfully grees rived io the city frow an extended trip states that conditions have improved with the crops, and the farm.ors lance and growth waa backward and retarded until recently, but has taken new life and the plants are now shooting up eurprieingl 3 ; y's Go ment and intended to continue to o cupy it, The enemy then open-d fin with artillery, and tried raie b heights commanding the town: !.t not owing to good arrangeor made Hanbury.Tracy sad his offi Eves y were drives of the Holdsworth and usesrs, made à id march ( 48 miles from the neighborhood of % rust, with the Bushmen under (da Airie, hearing that Rustenburg likely to be The omens fered heavy, and five wen were tured : Our essusiti t g killed and one oficer and thre wounded.CONDUCT.Many.July 9\u2014Hie Excousmy Lord meme Pretoria, J 6, 1900-1 have mwoh pl to Your Exceilen notice the work done by the Fi hon M ve been repeated) spicuous for their galient onde od \u2018 soldierlike instincts.Luring the attack by the Boers 3 Katshosch on June 22, & small prt * Pincher\u2019s Creek men of the 25d Battalion displayed the greatest and devotion to duty, holding in « force of Boers whom they largely outnumbered.\u2018Corporal Morden and Private continued ting till mortal), , Lance Miles and Privat Miles, wounded, continued to fire, a held their ground.of the First oe tain, en ig Fi ion, un it.rating with a force under Bencal on © the nouth-vent of Pretoris- me .© in ca uring o en guns, and bac Plog le aie: on and several prisoners without losing a roan.'s\u2019 special cable Lie \"derpatch from.hk ain, in south-eastern portion the Le tt CE 5 einforcements to the scens, and the Btrathconse brough Maxi ime lay and noc oi Several Boers ner orees as they were retiring.my de camped.\u2019 Londen, July 7.\u2014Lord Re trans mita the following: ~ el \u2018Viakfontein, July 7.\u2014A post ed Greylingsad to-day.re reach- ns sd elem the bills the B os shelled ois a ccapred the illo the hile the infant HA ER ti t .e J ther guns rapis ly, but the howitzers replied with effect and drove shes back con: wfely, and when the foros began to re tire the Boers again advanéed with a un on the ridge.Tlæ.Britinh left, Fela Battery replied, The fires forced the gun to retire.\u201d \u2014 MANITOBA CROPS.È PR7\"-T7CTS OF A FAIR YIELD BK COMING MORE ENCOURAGING.Winnipeg, July 9.\u2014The Canadian Pn- estimate the benefit of the recent rains, of the province.The fields and tures which were burned aad aad vigorous.A gentleman who ar shrough the Territories and the provinae \u2018wonderfully ly are adopting & tons of fubi- thankfulness.The 3 y \u2014\u2014\u2014 ANOTHER MARINE DISA: New York, July 9\u2014The bodies -à number of drowned veamen bodies io their oilskins were passed .day, by the hoe CE.E.Birdeall,\" | é ed.fficern, including Captain Nel ich has arrived here f Canadien Mounted Hifles, signals, eng Raver, ways 8, Dhilaeiphie spell tap left Tethiéhem, th Toe ater, salt ee oh TER JO 8 t t' the wa LANE, Aly sight, cre July for Fourienburg betwemn Bobi! of Che \u201cBirdegll * eh they hem and Ficksbury.accompanied by | alive.All * were Christian De Wett and other Free State seaward.TT vas nothing on commanders with troops pum- clothing te i Re wbkt ship + er rer, ad ding t pec, snd * on he hols\u2019 \u2018 - y, corûmen p, 4 eau.reports Chat « party of 2x EA afl: Southam .\\ { LL snl \\ HAT TWO GIRLS ACCOMPLISHED.{Eleanor Wa, a \u2018Burosss.\u2019) don't see what on earth Unde Jerry farm for, and all bis sdson,\u2019 eacisimed Belle mediately.But oki New ire farm with you.As you say, ib can't be any worse than in a big store every day out the year, and have nothing fog it in the end\u201d consequence was that the first of April mw two young women alighting from à train in the White Mountain re.It had been a Dbeight, sunshiny y and the slanting rays lent a soft tint to the brown landscape.The air was pubs and sweet, and Louise Arming looked very hopeiwl as she stopped the platform to wetch the retreat- she mid to Belle, \u2018we have burned our bhige behind us, and we will now ess whet two girls can do at farm- i = a democrat waggon at E F gs FH pi Ta 7 tif pi jf F IE le { eds i & ¥ i § 1 F Hl ih s Fil is i: it is R5F3 omen ! # and the delays of a cash- , don\u2019t you think old-fashioned house, which 1 a ê [pr # we baven't any are, we bave something a And when Cissy , regular family all dr Par sisi i i dh i Te i : 2 a F LF È i Eu i 7 H \u2018for me, 1 shall certainly respect quite as much for being half o ARy acres of thus great round I did whea I wus a alave in store all day, and steyed in one room all aight.Cou, let's tramp over the hills.1 went to theer fifty acres today.\u2019 \u201d But, as the weeks went on, therÿ ves a great deal to check their enthusiasm.The spring rains set in, end they found that life oa a farm is not one log eun- shiny day.The house was old asd the roof leaked; the plastering wus off in the chambers, and the rain dipped through.Even when it was time to plant esrly vegetables, the rein still descended.But they did not despair.The neighbors bad discussed, in great glee, this project of two girls eserying on a farm, and prophesied all gorts of dire resulta.But the girls went serenc- ly on in the way they had begun.Belle installed Lerself as Nousekeeper, while Lou wes, from the first, the farmer.She planned the farm work;- hired the help; got a trusty neighbor to go with her after fertilizers and seed ; bought a cow and © pig, and swapped the asenusted steed which belonged to the place a younger and stronger animal; she did all she could with her own hands to patch up the leaky places in the roof, and to fix up the house generally How they developed it into a thing of homely beauty would fill a Jong chapter.How they dev-doped the farm is more to the purpose.There wea an old, tumble-down houss on the stage road a mile away, and Lou bought all the windows in it for a mere song, and had them brought to her place.Then, with the help of one man, she constructed some hotbeds, and planted cabbages, tomatoes, peppers and celery, long beforo the snow had meked from the fields.As soon as the frost would permit, several acres were ploughed, and the garden was put into good condition; peas and potatoes were planted, and onion sets transplanted.This, of course, greatly distressed the neighbors, who prophesied that the seed would rot, that Jate frosts would blight, or that worms would devour.Meanwhile Lou forked over Uncle Jerry\u2019s old asparagus bed, and put it into condition.Before the frst of May she had planted her earliest beans and sweet corn, and had set out her aariy cabbeges, and once a week until Ge latter part of May, she planted a few more hills of green corn and another double row of beans.She set out her few peppers, two short rows of celery, and her tommtoes.Dy the first of June she had set out her late cabbages, and bad pumpkins above ground.Every hour of favorable weather was improved.A neighbor wes engaged to come every pleasant day, thus saving - the expense of a hired man in rainy wes ther.When necessary, he put his bores with the Armungton quedruped, thus making a mrong tem.And = the ploughing, harrowing, sowing and planting went on.Lou subscribed for the best agricultural papers, and developed her own com mon sense.Sbe did not believe a woman or à man can accomplish anything without hard work, guided by à grest deal of knowledge; and so she made a practical study of her business.There were evenings and rainy days when she could tite to read.She did not epend hours in reading story-papers or novels.She studied ag- rivulturel papers with as much\u2019 avidity as à college girl studies her Wrench grammar.She soon learned what crops thrive in low lands, and what need warm, sandy Lam.She studied the principles of drainage, and investigated the values of fertilicers.She read sstute essays up on emsilage and fall feed.She mede difficult and laborious comparisons be tween cabbages and turnips, with many learings toward the onion.In fact, she à berseff exclusively to she œub- ject farming, and all the time grew plump, brown, and jolly.Her face lost Ke enreworn expression, and her figuee grew round and pretty.She enjoyed the clear, pure air, the blue sky, the unuttersble sense of peace, as only a lover of nature, who bas been confined for years within city limits, with & mndy soil for her strawberry , and had set out the plants which left straggling in Unde Jerrya peuned the currant and goost- bushes, and during the summer out raspberries and blackberries.time her neighbors\u2019 peas E i i ?% I ; i i Ê # £5 1k ê § : i ripe long before any New Hampshire, and Id be got to the hotel were to be used, and to travel & good a reilway train, she had in getting good prices for But ber greatest ventare had been with oabbages and turnips.Nobody else in the nighborhood raised them, and the conservative farmers evoffed at the idea of à woman succesding with such i ii 283 t i gE ê if i Ie § ip : Ë ty 23 | the ground hed been prepared and the fertiliser applied, hed taken charge of thom except for emltivating and hoeing.She bed transplanted the esbbages, and thinnéd the turnips, and kept np 8 systematic war against cabbage worms, as she had cartier agiiast | \\ THE MONTREAL potato bugs.In fact abe declared that that field was a work of art, and fer more bematifi) 1n her oyen vhan a bed of the choicest hothouse roses could be.In her late harvesting, ae well as ia her summer marketing, lou proved her self as good a busoces manager as vhe predicted.No overreaching desler took advantuge of her becuse she was 8 woman, Ste knew the value of ber crops and got a fair price for them.Menntime Ille bad raised chickene and turkeys: and when Thanskwiviog time came around they invited & party of girls from Blink & Co's establish- mont to come up and spend the holiday.I wea a jolly party that gwthered around the big fireplace m the sitting: ron the night before Thanksgiving.\u201cNow tell us,\u2019 said one of the visitors, \u2018have you really made your farm pay, of have vou just scruped slong and kept from actual want, or are you in debt! Be frank now and tell us honestly juss \u2018how it in.Miss Beale is going to leave after Christmas, and 1 think you cen get your old place back if you want it\u201d Thank you.\u2019 said Lou.\u2018I don\u2019t think I went the place.Yes, I Dave msde the farm pay.I have sold twenty-fire barrels of potatoes at a dollar and & haif a barre.1 have sold thirty-one barrels of apples a: the same price.I got twenty-four dollar for my green peas; ninsbeen for my string beans; fourteen for my early cabbages, snd sold forty dollars\u2019 worth of green corn.My tome- toes cme to fourteen dollars and thirty cents.1 sold three dollars\u2019 worth of pumpkins and seven dollars\u2019 worth of rare ripe onions.1 have ten tons of bay to sell, over and above what the cow and horse will eat; and I have sev eral barrels of cabbages, and bushels on bushels of turnips.\u2018How much «lo you expect to get for them ** asked Miss Arnold.\u2018Not less than a hundred and forty dollars.In fact 1 have been offered that.Aud besides, I have made provision for seed next year, and bave laid in an ample supply of vegetables.Belle haa sold eggs enough to mors than pay all the expenses of our poultry, god the chickens and turkeys come to fully one hundred dollars.The expense of our man, as hired help, has been one hundred and seven dollars, counting in the work of his bores, and we have paid seventy dollars for eeed and fertilizers.Figure it for yourselves.We have paid all expenses and made something the first year, Have you mved as much out of your malary ?The girls did not ansver.\u201cWe have worked hard, but we haven't begun to work es hard as we did et Blank & Co.'s, and we bave been es, ing in à wild hope that by is big enough we shall her through college.girls, would you advises me and take Mis Beale's place ?\u2018No,\u2019 waa the anawer, earnest cere, from every girl present.wish someone would leave me a exclaimed one, \u2018It only shows what two giris can do if they only try,\u2019 said another.TEN ili iif | CHILDREN'S CORNER.GRANDMA GRAY'S WAY OF BOTHERING.(Susan Tesll Perry, in \u201cThe Evangelist\u2019) \u201cThe is too hot to bake your cake now, Polly.You'd better put a basin of cold water in it, or take one of the stove lids, If it too quickly, it will be done on the outside, but raw in middle.\u2019 Grande Gray gave this bit of advice as she passed through the kitchen, inererng.\"mid, \u2018Folly ndgnaa, vai n atly.\u201cJust as if you and I aan know Doug to bake a loaf of cake, Em!\u2019 \u201cYet, it is the strangest thing in the world,\u2019 rejoined Emme.\u2018I can\u2019t se why old folks want to be mized up in CRPL het to te aa oidas grandma; \u201c ive to sa as ims,\u201d said olly, l know I shan't want to be bothering around.I shall sit down in the eany chair in the corpet and read my Bible, and be sweet and pleasant to every one who comes into my room, but I shall not go out of it to trouble myself with housekeeping affaire.\u201d Emma Goodell had come over to help Polly make cake, for Polly had just re- foire word that Kate Hamilton and world, was another.Polly and Emma bad had little experience in cake making but now was Potiy's time to show what she could Yo.Polly's mother was spending a few days at her brother's and Bridget bad been called away that very morning, her sis- fers child having been taken suddenly ill.Grandme Gray heard through the open door what the girls said about the proper behavior of ol folks.But she did not make a grievance of it; she only smiled.Ehe had travelled a good many miles on the road of life from where those girls stood.She did not call it \u2018the down hill of life,\u2019 for Grandma Gray always cong-atulated herself an older that she wan getti uphill towards the Father's house.But she had not forgotten the way back to girlhood.she wes old, she had become aware of the fact by & process of reflec: yoni but not a» te Cagh experience.jose girle live long en , those two dear a, they would be what th termed, \u2018old folks,\u2019 too.nd she grew A ti odd to period of life just she ad, much sooner than they had » a \u2014 .WEEKLY WITNESS, du be content to sit in an easy in the corner and do nothing to help the work of young folks along.Grandma Gray loved to read the Bible, it was ber reatest comfort in life.It had been jer stay through many à shadowy pase on the journey, but she could not bave teen happy without sone interest in the daily round of life, Rhe had always been full of activity in her household and in helping ler friends and neighbors, and she did not want \u2018to 1 long as her faculties were left to her to use, An she moved about dusting the fur niture in the parlor, which Polly so often forgot to do, making it Jrigatable for Polly's guests, she smelled the cake, Tut why sh she itchen sa: Polly burning!\u201d Polly would for the information.Pol.ke à cake, of thought ble.She wonderad if os posi] 1t was scorching.go back to the your cake is not thank her ly knew enough to course, An hour later Polly and ber friend went ous to invite two er guest to meet the Îlamiltons.en (irandma Grey, the kitchen coast bein clear went out to see mhout that cake, \u2018It has fallen.Ft isn't baked in the middle and Polly has- filled the settled plates with frosting and covered up the scorched pisces with it, But when she cuts that cake she will be very much mortified, Polly will.\u2019 Grandma Gay, having come To this conclusion, went right about making another cake.Polly would be gone over an hour, certainly.She Stirred up the batter as quickly a she had ever done in those young days, when she was by common cansent eall- ed, \u2018the best cake-maker in the neighborhood.\u201d It came out of the oven in an good condition ae any she ever made She frosted it and ornamented it as she used to \u2018fix off.\u2019 company cake when whe was in the thick of the fray of housekeeping, in what Polly would call, \u2018the prime of life\u2019 She hid the cake under a milk-pan, and with great curiosity awaited results.The pany came and Polly and Fm- ma received with warm welcome.It could not be imagined that an old ike Grandma Gray could pos- jy care to see young folks, so she was t to sit in her easy chair in her own oom , reading her evening chapter in the able.Strange to my.Polly came rushing in about nine o'clock rig \u201cOh, nd- ma, what shall I do?My eke is not fit to eat.It in all rew in the middle.I don't know what to do.The stores are closed, and I can\u2019t get a thing.Be sides I told them all that Em and I had made à cake.Grandma had felt sure that Polly would come to her in the emergency and she quietly rose from her chair, and followed Polly to the pantry, where Emma stood with \u2018confusion of face.With s look of kindly triumph on ber face, grandma lifted the milk pan and brought out e.\u2018Oh, you dear, sweet grandma!\u2019 exclaimed Polly, an she threw her arme about the good old lady's neck.\u2018How good von are! We never can thank you for making such a beautiful cake ping us out of this horrid mess TEE \"mid Grandma Gre lenge 1 ail , heartily: \u2018m nz T bad Tent tting in my easy ir all the afternoon reading my Bible, what then?GARDEN TALKS.rtment 1s conducted by Mrs.Anuls Chateanguay Basin.Que, to should bs sent.the \u2018Wt.THs L whom all questions questions aosvered ness\u2019 A young man who writes for advice about buying a farm concludes se fol- Jows : \u2018I was brought up by a good father end mother, but they were too striet with me, being en only son, and tried to mould me in their own way, so that I feel a lack of self-confidence in social snd business life Ans \u2014Thers is hope for this young man by the complaint he makes, for self-confidence is the bane of the rising generation, and what better moulding can a man bave ?By his own words he confesses to have been moulded by a good father, and the result should be worth bavieg.There is an immense amount of twaddle talked and written on the subject of training mow- adays, and children are allowed a laxity snd freedom shat would not have been tolerated in the last generation, and it sometimes fathers and mothers erred by being over strict it was from love and care for their children\u2019s welfare.If be is satisfied that his father, and no doubt his grandfather before him, were good men, he may be thankful, and remember that we housekeepers know what hap to the bread if it is not moulded.vou may have good flour, lively yeast, pure water of the right temperature, and mix it with a judicious hand, but if left to itself and allowed to run over, it soon spoils, and becomes witerly worthless.In the early stages of its formation it needs moulding in case of turning sour, then putting into shape and consistency, and it is ready for the cleansing fires, that retain the mould till it is perfected.Youth and age see things so differently.When this young man bas an \u2018only son\u2019 he will want to guide and mould him too, rather than allow it ta be done by evil companions, for there is an old eay- ing that \u2018if ys gang a year wi\u2019 a cripple, yell limp at the end o't,\u2019 and good fathers generally know this.THE FLORAL CLUB.\u2018Rose\u2019 will Gnd in these columns the answers to some of her questions.The La France rose had better be cut back to two eyes, to give it a chance.The blush rose will not be likely to root by the method practiced.Better to take & cutting of this year's growth, remove all but one leaf, and cut off the top, reducing it to six inches.Put in a pot and cover with à tumbler, making the earth chiefly sand.Water abundantly for the first three\u2019 or four days, lessening the \\ Xp supply daily unWl rooted, which will be 4n about t! weeks, is een be potted [f roota are formed.Your out tings may suceesd if the wood is of the right quality and conditions favorsble.Rose bushes are best transplanted in spring if the journey is long for removing, but if only to another part of the garden it can be done any time after blooming.The correct name of Bachelor's Button is Centauria cyapes, and it to the aster family; a sors of poor Relation.It is a hardy annual, and grows about two feet higli.It is better to gather the seed of anoual dianthus, dry it, and sow oq in early spring.The iris will probably start again, but there are so many varie ties that it in not easy to advise without kmowing.Just now the Spanish iria te blooming.and the first flowers of the English variety are opeping.They are navy blue, with white spots, and very attractive.The Japanese iris in later still.Thank you for pleasant words of appreciation, I am always interested in the vard gardens, and they have so many possibilities, Try a Crimson Rambler Rose mext year along wall or fence.They wintered well out of doors here.JUNE ROSFS.The term \u2018June rossy\u2019 refers to those hardy beautien that can resist the effects of winter snow and the thaw and freeaing of spring, and bloom at this see- son.ey are delightful in their fragrance and beauty, and unlike any later roses of the year.How they fit in with the fair month's surroundings, the uneut clover, with its own peculiar scent, and the hum of hees.Other roses may seem as fair.They may have more petals, perbaps, but they are not like the roses of June, full of a beauty and odor all their own.Only once in the year they bloom for us, and we revel in the fra grant wealth.We hasten to pluck them and find the sharp points up end down the stem jag our fingers, and, wandering among the bewildering beauty, pechape we step upon a straying branch, and even our feet are pierced\u2014the glloy that is always there.Once when generous with June roses, and receiving many « finger prick, I made up my mind not to be pricked with other people's thorns.They might be better appreciated if the recipient took them off and realised all that they meant.Dut every year the roses and the thorns come back to entice us to gather them, and our hands are used to them now, so we pluck and share them as before, saving finger pricks when possible to tenderer fingers.We do mot want thornless roses.What does the Rubaiyat tell ?\u2018Rech morn a thousand roses brings, you Yes, but \u2018where leaves the rose of yester- dart DISEASE IN APPLE TREES.\u2018Inquirer\u2019 has an imported apple tree that shows nigns of decay, the bark being cracked and lovsened nearly all sround it.Ans.\u2014Trees are subject to diseases that are -ot very well under stood.Some are produced by external conditions and defective drainage, caus ing the tree to have wet feet, is frequently the cause of decay.Sometimes there are poisonous in the soil, and it must be ascertained which of these has caused the trouble.Loose bark is often ant caused by what is known as sun-scald, caused by the direct rays of the mid-win- ter sun upon the frozen bark.This answers the description gives by \u2018Inquirer,\u2019 and results in serious damage to the tree.There is really no remedy.Grimes\u2019s Golden is a beautiful table apple, and well named.The shape is like a pippin, and the vinous favor .very pleasant.The tree is quite hardy.wit and not so liable to disease as some other varieties.TRANSPLANTING THE PEONY.\u2018M.R.\u2019 wishes to set ou\u2019 some peony roots for next year's flowering and aska the best time.Ana.\u2014Just now the peony ie one of the treasures of the garden and if good selection is made in varieties they will last for a month at this season of the year.First comes the old red flower of all old-fashioned gardens\u2014and this year it opened its big crimson scarlet buds on the fifth of June\u2014and the last buds of the roe- colored will still be unfaded on the fifth of July.Between these we have the white, the cream-colored, pink ting: ed, pink and white, iringed at the edges, and deep maroon, while thers are many other.even finer varieties.It is safe to plant any time in late summer after flowering is over, and the foliage keeps so bright all the season that they are well worth planting in masses where there is plenty of room.Unless the #0il is porous it should be dug deeply and enriched with well rotted manure, ts it is à rank feeder.It endures the coldest winter and is one of the firet plante to appear in spring.Bet vix inches deep, firming the roots well in the ground.It ie not à plant that suffers easily from drought.SPIREA, ANTHONY WATERER.\u2018Minnie\u2019 bought a plant of this spires and does not find it come up to expects tions and asks if it is really superior to the olier sorts.Ans.\u2014It is a hardy plant and combines many good qualities, ns it is dwarf and full Howering, seldom higher than twelve inohes.The flowers are of a rich crimson, and are borne in dense flat clusters from early summer until frort.For this reason it makes a fine edging for shrubbery or tall permanent beds.lt is also a good plant for pot culture, sud you may enjoy it in winter, if well cared for this season and encouraged to grow, as it seems by description to be » small plant.A WEEDY LAWN.\u2018A J.BR.an old subseriber, asks what can bs done in the above case.Pro fessor Bailey, of Cornell University, in writing of lawns, says: \u2018The lawn will generally produce a beary crop of weeds Juiz 10, 1900.the first year, especially if much stable manure hws been wid.The weeds weed not be pulled unless perennial plants gain a fooshold, but the eres should be more frequently mown with a lawn mower.The weeds that are an.nuala will die on the approach of cold, having been kept down by the use of the mower, while the gress is not lojur ed.The proper way to keep the weeds out of a lawn ie to put in more grass.1f a dandelion is pulled up the hole must be filled or some weed will most likely grow up in it.Fall ploughing or di ting ie preferable and the mixture - lewn grass and sod by reliable deal: ers is the best to sow, after the ground bas been mmootily raked.A lawn muss be levelled, ail hollows filled and then after seeding it must be roll- cd.Some good varieties are Festuca dsrusculs, Avena l'on nemorslis, Trifo- lium repens and T minus.For improving an old lswn crested dogstail is of use if sown early in spring.It is well to barrow lightly wo stir the soil after it is well ostablished, then pass the par den roller over Jt.Bo if you keep the weeds cut now they will not germinate seed, and if levelled and reeceded in spring the prospect is for a good lawn in the near future.SWEET BRIAR HEDGE.\u2018Sweet Briar\u2019 asks if this plant will make à hedge.Ans.\u2014It is enough for the purpose, but is not always robust.If a single wire is put through the centre at about a foot and à half from the ground it will help strengthen it.The ross seed can sown in autumn as eoon as ripe ot in month of March if kept all winter box of mand.But it is better to s foot apart.Put them down in au tumn and let them spring afresh into sturdier growth, An old plant in this vicinity must be fifty years old, and the perfume after a shower is easily distin guished from Snihing else.M.J.C.asks if the mint used with lamb is the spearmint.Ans.\u2014It goes by that name, and there are two varie ties, the broad and the narrow-leaved, equally good.The proper name is Men- tha viridis.It is employed in salade and sauces, and should more used as a flavoring.In Eagland it is the custom of greengrocers always to give a piece of mint with the green pecs or new potatoes, and a few sprigs in the salted water greatly improves the flavor of these vegetables.The dried mint is also used as o flavoring for pes soup, and is quite an improvement.~ WORK IN SEASON.Perennials, after blossoming, may be divided, and bave a change of position if necessary.They are better moved now than in sutumn, ss it gives an opportunity for root growth, Hunting for slugs and beetles is not very pleasant work, but it must be attended to and woeds must be attended to, no matber.how hot the weather, or they will take he life from the plants.Dahlias must be tied to stakes, as the stalks are so brittle they will suffer in a high wind.Roses should be pruned when they have done bloo: à the new wood.if stimulated à fertiliser dug into the soil, will send out flowering shoots for late bloom in hybrid perpetuals.When strawberry plants have done blooming it is well to clean up the bed and apply fertiliser.If it has been fruiting well for two years, the old bed ean be sown in turnips or planted in celery.It is well to set out a few plants every year, to keep up the crop and re If blight attacks tomatoes y with Bordeaux mixture.- Cuewmi for pickling may yet be sown, Beans and beets can be sown for succession.Blackberry canes should be beaded back to three feet, and as it hurts the fingers it is better to go over them with prun- ine shears.If your currants and goose berries have been kept free from the cet- erpillar and the fruit is beginning to color, it is a plan to cover one or two bushes with burlap or closs muslin, and it will keep them longer, so that they will be there for use when the others are finished.As the squash bug develops give it plenty of tobacco dust all around the plants, as well as on the leaves.Winter radishes can be sown to fill the place of early salad, and carrots must be thinned and well hoed.Late peas may still be put in\u2014the Champion of Eng land is best.ADVERTISEMENTS.Keep Your Blood in Order Our bodies should be well card for, kept clean, both outwardly and inwardly.snd made strong.The Inward cleansing Is 60 complished by Hood's Sarsaperilla.Îtez- pele sll bad things trom (be blood snd kesps It pure and rich.ft cares al) disor ders of the stomach.nerves.kidnaye snd bowels.which, If left unchecked, would caused grest suflering.Hood's Sarsaperilia 1s the Best Medicine Money Can Buy.6 COCOA, ABSOLUTELY PURE, THEREFORE BEST ! NO CHEMICALS USED i Wisiseals Agente for Oonada, \u2018Frot Magor & Co., 16 84 John 81, Meutreal.EE CADBU RY\u2019S Jury 10, 1900, LITERARY REVIEW.THE GREAT EVANGELIST, Perhaps no other man of the century bas been 00 widely loved and honored \u2014 though this has bern a century of «p- preciation\u2014eas the plain New Englander brought before us in \u201cThe Life of Dwight L.Moody,\u2019 br his son, WW.R.Moody.Bora in 1837, be died in 1508, not an old man but crowned with such achievement as bas hardly fallen to the lot of any other preacher except a few on the for eign flsld.This book tells something of Moody's early life, of his innocent Loy- hood in Northfleld, his conversion at the age of seventeen in Boston, his «n- thusiastic Bunday-echool work while a young business man in Chicago.Then we read how he was led by a remarkable series of conversions in his Bunday- school to fes! that the work of saving souls was of more importance than buni- Dom success, and at the age of twenty: four gave up a lucrative position mn order to devote himself to city mission effort, living at first on the money he bad saved while in business.He was sctive in Y.M.C.A.and Sunday-school convention work, as well as in constant personal dealing with individuals, which won him the nicknames of * Crasy Moody\u2019 and \u2018Brother Moody, It is perhaps not generally known that Mr.Moody abetained, in a marked manner, during his later years, from addressing sny Christian friend ao \u2018Brother\u2019 As a member of the \u2018 Christian Commiselon\u201d during the civil war, Mr.Moody had many opportunities of reaching the hearts of soldiers.His meeting with Ira D.Sankey occurred in 1870 at à Y.M.C.A.Convention.Having heard Mr.Sankey start the hymns at « single meeting, the irrepressible evangelist, with his uevel quick judgment of roem, requested the singer to give up his busi- nose and amist in mission work in Chi- ego.Mr.Bankey did not decide at once, but after careful consideration, agreed to do so.The following year was that of the great Chicago fire, it was also à year of special experiences to Mr.Moody, but it was not till 1873 that the first great \u2018 campaign\u2019 of evangelism began.Mr.Moody had twice before been in England, seeking to learn 1zore of the Bible from English Bible stw dents.But in 1878 he went over wirh Mr.Sankey to hold meetings, and an unexampled series of meetings followed, lasting for over two years.Mr.Mordy returned to the United Slates a celebrated man, but ss modest and unassuming as ever.The fact that fame could not affect him had probably something to do with the continuance of his power.Other extraordinary preaching tours both through the United States and England, followed.The noteworthy achievements of Mr.Moody's later days have been the establishing +f the Northfield schools, the Northfield Conferences, and the Bible Institute at Chicago.The arrangements which Mr.Moody made for special evengalistic efforts in Chicago during the World's Fair were on s mammoth scale; on some Sundays be was responsible for one hundred and twenty-five meetings, many of the prominent evangelists who assisted him were of foreign origin and presched each in his own language to visitors from cther countries.The details ef these great works are given to some extent in this biography, so also are some loge widely known things about Mr.Moody, his jolly ways with children, his Jove for natural scenery, his fine head for business.One chapter is given to the \u2018Moody and Sankey* hymnbook, and tow the royalties were used in building the schools, etc.An eminent lawyer refused on one occasion to take any \u2018ee for advice with regard to some legal matter in this connection, saying that it gave him\u2019a pleassnter view of human nature to ind any men eo disinterested as Mr.Moody and Mr.Sankey.Some of Me.Moody's wise words to other preach ers are given : \u2018Remember, we are living în an Intense age.Msn think quicker than they used to, The time was when If a man wanted to do 8 Uttle business In Boston, be would write half à dosen sheets of foolscap snd send them by mall.Now he puts it al! in a telegram of ten words.What we want in our preaching is to condense.Get a reputation for being short, and people will want to heer you.\u2019 \u2018What would you do If the choir disturbed you?\" \u2018l remember preaching once at Limerick wbes our hymn-books were new.À young came in and joined the choir, Thers w hres or four bundred people on the stage apd be took à front seat.He took up 8 bymn-hook just as I began to preach, sod tu: over the leaves.lleginniog with thy fret hymn be went on ma If he were LE to examine ivery page la the XD with whom they had to deal.I could never tell why this was so, but I \u2018know that I have many times been en- twpated with difficult business matters by the Englishmen in Tientsin because of what was called my influence with the Chinamen.\"All tay jnfluence was destined to be broke Bown, notwithstanding, and that partly through my own carelessness.There are \u2018several important secret OF- ganizations in China.They have lodges scattered \u2018at intervals throughout the country, and tbe most extreme measures are used to keep their doings secret.Many a man has gone to his death on account of accidentally coming too near à lodge-house during a time of meeting.The jodge-houses are in out of the way places for the most part, and the paths leading them carefully cusrded.One s short time ago my uncle asked me to go to Psoting for him.It was a lovely day, eo I ment my servant on ahead, and decided to walk for a few miles.1 told my boy to wait for me nt « spot on the far side of à wood which lies just about five miles from Tientsin.J had been warned against wandering too far into this wood.\u2018 Men had disappeared there before now.But op the outskirts of the wood that morning I saw à bird of most brilliant plumage.It was a curiosity to me, snd 1 tried to follow it.Something was wrong with one wing, and the bird made poor progress.Bit by bit 1 was led yway from the road, and foot by foot \u201cwent nearer a lodge-house of the Ta La Hui (the sect of the Boxers), and nearer death, but J did not think of this.I wanted to get the bird, and I nearly did.The only thing that prevented me was the eight and eound of five fierce-look- ing, sbouting Chinamen, with their bi knives drawn.My blood ran cold.knew there was only one thing in store for me.I tried to be brave.The five men bound me, and, forming a sort of \u201cprocession, led me by a narrow path to the lodge-house gate.When my captors took me in they led me up before the \u2018thrdne\u2019 of the president of the lodge.At a distance from the president sat as- vombled à large meeting bf Chinamen of all ages, made up froy the very scum of the people.i ; The president looked at me clgeely, and then went through a solemn process in which be éd to read my beart.He raid that & og ly my wicked heart he te Ts children Ta la fe, and op «8 à natural uence I must dis by the broad } journey.I was in a position of the greaiewt danger.I ahould likely be pur sued, 20 | told my servant that Iwas in a frightful bury.1 reached Puoting at Jast, mfe so far.The members of the Ta La Hui who were without doubt sent to retake ae, must have gone by he road towards Tientsin.I was to remain with à French gentleman in Paoting for a few says.About two days after my arrival M.Bertaux, my host, came into breakfast with a very grave face.He told us that the Boxérs were risimg on every mand in a campaign against all foreign influence, and that we were in great and instant danger in Paoting.He said it was believed that the government was not taking any serious measures lo put down the rebellion.All gold, there were not very many foreigners in Pao- ting.We all gathered in a meting that morning to consider what we ought to do.The Boxers were becoming more and more dangerous.They bad procured firearms, and were even mid to be encouraged by those in high authority.We waited another day quietly in Pso- ting, and then the situation became ao grave that the thirty of us, including six ladies, decided to make an attempt to reach Tientsin by boata.Hardly bad we got well out into the river when we began to be fired upon from the banks.We returned the fire as best we could, but our ammunition had to be carefully hoarded, asour: supply was limited.Oh! the awful excitement of that day.The Boxers gathered on the banks in everincrewsing numbers.(There seemed to be hundreds of them, all armed with spears or rides.1t we could only reach Tien- tain Our little party was becoming weakened.Many were wounded, M.Ber taux was killed, and one of the women was dying.Hope bed almost left us when away down the road which rons close to the river we caught sight of a cloud of dust.\u201d More Boxers?! I thought so at first, but how overjoved we were to find it ww à squadron of Russian Cossacks.the rebels.We in the boats did what we could, but that wes little.1 could see that the Boxers were drawing off.Sixteen of them were killed already.The Right seemed almost over wben I felt a sharp pain, grew weak, and soon lost slf consciouwness of what was going on sround me.Instead of the fighting Chinamen znd Ressiane, I mw a peassful Canedian y meadow filled with buttercups and daisies.A little boy and girl were picking them, and weaving them into à buge garland for the neck of the dog that romped around.It was a memory of my childhood, and though years had passed since I had seen that mes: dow and its flowers, 1 seemed t> ma them clearly that June day as I lay in the bottom of the (hinese boat on the Chinese river, shot by a Chinese bullet.Perhaps it would make this a better story if [ were to say that when 1 came back to conwioisness in my uncle's house in Tientsin, the hands that were ninisering to my wants were those of the little girl with whom 1 bad been gathering flowers in my dream.But I must stick to the facts.I am an old bachelor.I am getting better of my wound, however, Puzzles.SOME QUAINT ENIGMAS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.By the courtesy of the North American Company we are able to give some very interesting puszles by Henry E.Pudeney in \u2018Everybody's Magazine\u201d We will give one each week, and the solution the week following.The puzzles are all illustrated.It .has been asserted that the braine of schoolboys and girls are apt to get a bit \u2018rusty\u2019 during the long vacation.We guarantee that the boys and girls who succeed in solving these puxzles correctly will go back to school in Bep- tember with their reasoning powers in first tional opirit, he was à widely read and thorough student of philosophy.This gave added strength to his ministry, and to many of his fellow ministers he caine rib a wecial mesmge of strength and elp, His loss is keenly felt throughout England, and expressions of deepest grief are heard oa all sides.\u2014 Record of Christisn Work.\u2019 atl MISSION WORK IN THE DOCKS OF LONDON.(By the Rev.William Hurlin.) The docks in Loodon sre excavations inland on both sides of the river Thames, and they extend from London Bridge te Tilbury\u2014between twenty and thirty miles.\u2018The London City Mis sion has three missionaries who devote their time to the many thoussnds of foreign sailors who come to these docks, and two missionaries who visit the employees in the docks, who number about twenty thousand.About six thousand of these are permanently employed as clerks, warshouse-keepors, wharfingers, markers, samplers, sorters, blacksmiths, carpenters, coopers, etc.But the larz- est portion of these employees are casual laborers, who are employed only one day at s time, as they are needed.Bome of them have their names on the vrel- erence list, and are called first, and after that a election is made, from those standing \u2018st the gates, of the men who appear the most likely to do the work required.These dockers have belonged to vari ous classen.Many of them were born in the lowest class, and have continued there all their lives ; but a large num her of them have drifted down through misfortune, recklessness, intemperance, or crime, and, ae a last resort, they scek work at the docks, where no inguiry is made as to character.A missionary writes :\u2014' You converse with a man at his work, whose appearance bespeaks poverty at its lowest ebb, and you discover him to be a person of superior education.After a short con- verration you open your Bible, and read a passage to clinch the argument you liave been using, when, to your surprise, he informs you that some word in the pamage is wrongly translated, snd mars the sense of the whole, and then proceeds to read it in Greek\u201d A short time ago, a man was killed hy accident, and at the coroner's inquest the widow deposed that her husband was formerly captain of a Cunard liner, but, having heen shiprrecked on several occasions, and meeting with other misfortunes, he had become a dock laborer five yearn before his death.Ome of the officials present was asked if it were not sn unusual thing for the can tain of a chip to be working in the docks, and he replied: \u2018Oh, no, we have mans captaine working for ua ee laborers 4 the docks.We have aleo } Sometimes the mimionaries talk with these men outeids the gates, while they are waiting to be called.A few words may be spoken to others while they sre at work.Then, mes are found at the storehouses, waiting for articles that are being looked up for them, and in cases of accident or sickness they may be visited at their homes.Of course, thes missionaries weet with much ovoosl- tion, and patience and tact are noces sary.One man chall « missions: to give him \u2018a clear and positive -leAni- tion of the term \u201cGed.\u201d \u2019' The missionary replied, \u20181 will, if you will oblige me by positively defining the terms \u201cmatter,\u201d \u201cforce,\u201d \u201cspace,\u201d \u201cmotion,\u201d which you used five minutes ago.\u201d Another man maid, \u2018I go in for Darwin and evolution,\u201d and the missionary re plied, \u2018Then will you point out how, from matter, force, and law, could have been evolved the ideas of justice und benevolence ¥ In many cases the men who are spoken to are never seen again, but in num erous cases they are met with:from time to time, and large numbers have Leen converted by the grace of God, and have been led to \u2018walk in newness of lite.Were there space, 1 could give many instances of this character, but the fol- Jowing must sufilce.A man told à missionary that he had not had a good drunk for a menth, end asked for a half-crown for the purpose.The missionary told him that he would give him à half-crown when he had fes {fourteen nights in succession repested the prayer, \u2018God bs merciful to me a ain ner,\u2019 hefore he went to bed.The man agreed to do it, and, when the mission: ary mw him again, the man said that for à few nights he repeated the prayer flippantly, then he began to feel serious about it, and was obliged to kneel down while he repeated it, and then he became alarmed about his spiritual condition, and was now repeating the prey.er with earnest sincerity.Another man said to a missionary :\u2014 \u2018Do you remember talking to @ lot of dockers some time ago, by the Tobacco Gate?When I shouted defiantly, \u201c1 can do without God !\u201d\u201d yom replied, \u201cCan you ?but don't forget that there is another side to that statement\u2014God can do without you ; and if it comes to that, who will be the lossr\u2014you, or God ¥\u201d 1 backed out cursing you.But I came again to the front, and, in a jeering tone, arked you, \u201cWhat do you get for that job ?De honest, and tell the people.\u201d You replied, \u201c Our friend wants to know what I get for this job.Listen and 1 will tell him.I cometimes get the Devil's benediction\u2014curses ; yes, I get cursen.\u201d I got out of the way at once.Bat your worde remained with me.told my wife sbowt them, and she thet you told me the truth.I them saw how wrong I had been, and, thank God! I have changed my course.My wife and I now go to a place of wor ship, and the children attend Sanday- school, and T have learned that I cannot do without God.'\u2014* 8.8.Times.\u2019 \u2014n.SAYCE'S \u2018MESOPOTAMIA.Prof.Sayce\u2019s volume is a survey of absorbing interest, which details with unfaltering enthusiamn and sure knowledge the past of Assyria and Babylon.The wars and intrigues of Sargon and Seu.nacherib will be described later on by Frits Hommel, than whom no profounder student of their history now lives.\u2018The English scholar has approached his subject from another standpoint, and in a dosen chapters presents to ue a vivid panorama of Mesopotamian life, the development of the family, the position of woman, the method of education, the re- Istionship of the serf to free labor, the changes in the price of corn and meat, the growth of house rent, the vicissitudes of the mouney-lender, the improve ment in the equipment of the army and navy, the progress of law, and the vary ing styles of private correspondence., for the first time perhaps, the Bible student will realize that, long be fore Abraham set out upon his Egyptian tour, there was an ocean ice between Babylon and the Red Sca.Post-offices existed all over western Asia.One might hire a row-boat to cross the Euphrates or lease a house for a term of years, the lardlord to do the repaire.The married woman engaged in trade, and was not above lending her private means for a mere twenty percent interest.Men wrote loveletters to ladies and asked for prompt replies.Widows took care to get their dowries back again from the executors of their hus bands\u2019 wills.Children were taught to read and write with such thoroughness that bad spelling was rarely met with.Ladies who resided on the Mediterranean sent their drapery orders to Meso- tamia to be executed by camel post.Phere were public beer-houses, in which sometipes centlemen of the civil service appeared as sleeping partners.Farma were let on three-year agreements.A man set up in business as an inn-keeper with 200 barrels of beer, tan cups and saucers, and some baskets of dates.Goldsmiths had to give a guarantee that their metal was not pinchbeck.Retired gen: ernls put their money into reed-beds, whoee produce war sold in the potteries.There were regular prices-current fot drysaltery and colonial produce, Men were net above awsating the gold coinage or using faise measures.The quack was in evidenos, with his infallible cures for neurslgia or consumption.invalide with weak eyesight went gown to Faypt to consult an oculist, an difficult to get a job done hy ing man without heer-money Tourists bad to provi wid: J ve 8 te Jour 10, 1900, ?pal in à remote distriot had to « bard earned bolt cron Dow und t to ather af : or pay for a be of fish some other delicacy to mix with the government victuals, which by no means suited his tante.This volume resists the temptation to point out at ew turn the Seriptural esages which each fact illustrates.The ible student can do that for himself, and if he will read this book from end to oud, and then sit down to a fresh perusal of the book of Genesis he will find that the story of Ahrabam and his family troubles, the stirring episode of Am- raphel, King of Bhinar, the little affair in which Abimelech was concerned, and the Laban incident, stand out before him with a more vivid realism than the events of vesterdsy.\u2014E.G.Harmer, in Christian World.\" \u2014\u2014 SOLDIERS\" NEW TESTA MENTS, Mr.Vernon Harcourt, organizing secretary of the Scripture Gift Mission, has been for some time at the front, distributing copies of the Soldiers\u2019 New Testament, and holding gospel services as he has had opportunity.The success of the Soldiers\u2019 Testaments, with their interesting \u2018imprimatur\u2019 by Lord Wolee- ley, will best be demonstrated by Mr.Harcourt's last letter, in which he says: \u2018Drawing from my pouch one of the \u201cBoldier's New Testaments,\u2019 I asked, \u201cDon't you think you could make room in your khaki for one this size ?* At sight of the pretty aud appropriately.designed little volume, the bronzed face brightened, and the fierce eye gleamed with » softened light, \u201cMy word ; but that's bonnie !\" he exclaimed, taking the little book gingerly between his fingers, and examining it with as much pleasure as a child might evince ac might of his first picture book.The battered and maimed warriors of Graspan, Belmont and Paardeberg hobbled on their crutches or limped by sid of a stick to look at this new thing in the way of British solicitude for Tommy's spiritusl welfare.\u2018Buch was the attention devoted by each one of these poor fellows that my Highland friends forgot to reply to my query.On repeating it, his answer came straight from the heart, and bore in it the ring of absolute truth, \u201cFind room for it, sir ?Rather! I'd stow my tobacco pouch in one boot and my pipe in t'other, to make room for this.ow, if ove of these had been given to each of us when we embarked, we'd have stuck to it like grim death\u2019 All the time be was speaking, this soldier kept turning over t he leaves of the Testament, when, suddenly, his eyes restel on the short but porprul commendstory prefs weitten by Field Marshal Lord \u201cOb, listen to tHis, chums!\u201d he eried ; and then, in a clear and distinet utterance, he read out the nage advice THE si: army, an advice whieh, if accepted and acted upon, would render that army invincible in the field, and a still greater honor to the British empire, The soldiers, both officers and men, are eager to obtain the Testaments, and I am sanguine about the results that, under divine blessing, are bound to be the outcome is great and trul ritual eo- terprise.\u2014\u201cThe Christian.\u2019 7 wi re RELIGIOUS NEWS.The Registrar-General's report om marriages in 1908, recently inswed, affords no evidence in support of the reiterated Statements of some as to the growth of Romanism in Grest Britain.The pro portion of Roman Catholic marriages m that year, 40 per 1,000, is the lowest point recorded of late years, whereas the Proportion of Nonconformist mar- Tiages has risen largely, the proportion being 131 per 1,000.Preaching recently on behalf of a fund for the relief of the clergy, Archdeacon Binclair stated that of the 13,800 ineum- bents in England and Wades, more than thf are in recsipt of an income of less à han and eighty pounds, that unes number of them and their families have not enough to eat and drink to keep them in good health, that in extremely cold weather any have no fucl and that hundreds of them aad their families bave to be clothed with secondhand garments sent by a charitable so- Many, says the London \u2018Christina,\u2019 will hear with sorrow thet the Rev.A.Ben Oliel, for ove: fifty years missionary to the Jews, and some years redi- dent in Jerumlem, has vamed away.After a period of weakness in the Unit ed States, he expired on June 1.He bes left 4 widow and a large family.ome of the children are etill too young to ht the battle of life.The \u2018Jow- sys; \u2018We deeply symps- thizse with Mrs.Ben Otiel and family iu the grat loss they Dave sustained.May the Lord guide.comfort, and sus tain them in their sorrow.May the Lord send help speedily for the widow and orphans is ou: prayer.\u2019 À correspondent of the \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 has just interviewed one of London's ol coroners upon the subject of the epidemie of suicide.The coroner made light of the suggestion thet these sw cides were due to resotion after the late rejoicings.He sid: \u2018I always look for suicides after the Derby.After that event you always find thet a certain number of shop assistants hava abecond- ed and a number of other people have committed suicide.They belong to the lam of people\u2014much too namerows sowedays\u2014who want to money without working for it.They fail, and them they go and jump ito the river, or è me You will al «À by the commandevin chief of the\" Tre fad sorgs vuicides after Derby week .A correspondent of the London \u2018Chris tin,\u2019 writing from Venice, sys: Friends of the Ev.onl Church Italy will be glad to -n that in view of the serious loss it has sustaived by the death of Dr.McDougall, pastors, evangelists, and members have come into closer unity and into a more earnest singleness of aim to labor for the advancement of the Church enfiusted to their cave, \u2018With one heart and: with one mind,\u2019 they are striving together for the faith of the gospel, At the lust general ne- sembly there were present forty-nine pastors, svangelists, and delegates, one of the largest assemblies ever hekl.The president of the ureh is the Rev.Ludovico Conti, the vice-president and secretary for foreign perta, the Rev.\u2018 Cav, Baverio Fera\u2014well-known to friends of the Church in England and Scotland.Mr.Vernon Harcourt, organising sec: retary of the Scripture Gift Mission.has been for some time n£ the front, die- tributing copies of the Boldiers\u2019 New Testament, and holding gospel services as be han had opportunity.He mentions the following in>.dent: \u2018Drawing from my pouch one of the \u201cSoldiers\u2019 New Testaments,\u201d I asked, \u201cDon\u2019t yon think you could make room in your khaki for one this sive!\u201d At the sight of the pretty and appropriately-design- ed little volume the bronzed face brightened, and the fierce 4yu gleam-d with o softened light.\u201cMy word! but that\u2019s bornie'\u201d he exclaimed, taking the little book gingerly between his fingers, and examining it with as much pleasure as a child might evince at the sight of his firet picture-book.The battered and maimed warriors of Grespan, Belmont and Paardel hobbled on their crutches, or limped by aid of à stick, to look at this new thing in the way of British solicitude for Tommy's spiritual welfare.Such waa the attention devoted by each one of these poor fellows, tbat my Highland friend forgot to reply to my query.On repeating it, bis answer came straight from the heart, and bore in it the ring of absolute truth.\u201cFind room for it, sir?Rather! I'd stow my tobacco-pouch in one boot and my pipe in t'other, to make room for this.Now, if one of these had been given to esch of us when we embarked, we'd bave stuck to it like grim death.\u201d \u2014'Chris tian Herald.\u2019 SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.\u2014 July 18, 1900.THE GENTILE WOMAN'S FAITH.Mark vii., 94-30.BY JOHN R.WHITNBY.Golden Text.\u2014Lord, help me \u2014Matt.xv, 25 Jesus let um end \u2018went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon,\u2019 on the shore of the Mediterranean, The journey was one of about fifty miles.A; parently it was a very sudden and unusual movement.One day he was in Capernaum, a day or two afterwards he was ia Tyre, with no stop between.As soon as he reached \u2018the borders of Tyre and Bidon,\u2019 he found in some unknown village, suitable socommodations for himself and \u2018the twelve\u2019 But he did Dot appear in the place as a preacher, or healer, or take any steps to let it be known that he was there.On the contrary, he took special pains to have his arrival kept a secret.\u2018But he could not be hid\u2019 (verse 24).For although he had never visited that region before, yet to many his face was well known.Lo before this his miracles and teaching had attracted a wideapread attention, and we read that at the time when in ordained the twelve apostics there were in the crowd that followed him \u2018a great multitude of people out of all Judes, and Jer usalem, and from the sescoasts of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be besied of their discuses.\u201d (Luke vi, 17.At once the news was spread far and wide that this wonderful healer was in their midet, and no one was quicker to grasp the hope contained in the than this poor woman whose daughter was \u2018grievously vexed with a devil\u201d (Matt.xv., 23.) Heretofore his minis trations had been almost exclusively to the Jews, and in the provinces of Judes and Galilee, and this she probably knew.Although she was \u2018a woman of Canaan,\u2019 \u2018a Syrophenician by nation,\u2019 \u2018a Greek,\u201d an alien \u2018from the commonwealth of Is reel,\u2019 and à stranger \u2018from the covenants of promise,\u2019 yet her anxious concern for her daughter, and ber unbounded faith in him, silenced every argument that would hold her back.Bo, without hesitation or delay, she sought Him out and \u2018fell at His feet\u2019 (v.25), \u2018saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Thou Son of David! My dsughter is grievously vexed with a devil! (Matt.xv., 22.) \u2018And she besought Him that He would cast forth the devil out of her danghter.\u201d (v.20.) But Jesus gave no heed to her prayers.Although.as the sequel shows, He had evidently gone there for the express purpose of helping her, yet now He walked on and \u2018answered her not & word.\u2019 As Clwysostom says, (The Word has no word; the fountain is sealed; the physician withholds His 1emedies.\u201d Buch sn experience is by no means uncommon, Whilst Jesus apparently paid no at- fention to her ory His disciples were by ber i unity, aod they \u2018came and besought Him, my- ing Send her away fur she crieth after us\u2019 (Matt.xv, 33.) Probably fro bed ) #0 idea that He oouid or would hes! the daughter of à Syrophenecwmn.His reply to their sntreaty audoubtediy con- firnied this opinion, tor fie eaid: \u2018I! am oot sent but unto the lust sheep of the house of Israoi\u2019 (Matt.xv, 2.) lu their strong Jewish prejudices this was Purfroly satisfactory, and they made no reply.But how could Jesus Himscll my that He wes sent to noid but \u2018ihe house of Israel,\u2019 when the prophets bad declared over and over again, in one way or another, that He would be given \u2018for a covenant of the people, for à light ol the Gentiles\u2019 (Lm.xlii., 6), and that, ae the promised seed of Abraham, in Him \u2018all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?* (Gon.xviii., 18.) In amer to tie question, Dean Trench mys, \u2018Ulear- ly & must be in lis personal ministry.That ministry, for wise purposes in the counsels of God, should be confined to one nation;\u2014and covery departure frum this, the prevailing rule of His whole earthly activity,\u2014was, and was clearly marked as, an exception.\u201d But who belong truly to.\u2018the house of Israel?\u201d That \u2018house\u2019 was founded when God said to the son of Iwac\u2014Thy maine shall be called no more Jacob, but Leracl\u2014for as a prince hast thou power with God, apd with nen, and hast prevailed.\u2019 (Gen.xxxii, 28.) From that time \u2018Iumael\u2019 became the name of God's \u2018peculiar people\u201d The circum-, stances attending.the giving of it were Very significant.It was when \u2018Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day\u2019 (Gea.xxxii, 34.) loses says that this \u2018man\u2019 was an \u2018angel\u2019 (xii., 4), sad the \u2018man\u2019 himself sald that be was \u2018God.\u2019 (Gem.xxxii., 28.) Now wrestling is a very peculiar form of contest.In it there is no effort made by one to drive off 4he other by hard blows, or to best him into submission.But the two with their arms locked around each otber, draw themselves close together, and all the strength of each is bent simply on throwing the other.And then, when one falls, the other holds him fa his arms and goes down with him.The victor holds the vanquished and the vanquished holds the victor.So Jacob \u2018wrestled\u2019 with God.As \u2018he wept, and made supplication unto Him\u2019 (Hoses xii., 4), his divine antagonist did not repel him, but grappled with him to throw him from his earnest purpose, yet He held him in His Al mighty arma.Then Jacob \u2018wrestled\u2019 with Him and struggled to keep from being thrown.Whea he slipped he pressed up the closer to his adversary, and laying hold of Him with a firmer grip, he braced his feet more securely, and strained every muscle to conquer.And wo the contest continued all the night, until Jacob\u2019s thigh was touched, and then haviug no strength to wrestle, be locked bis arme around Him with whom be wrested and clung to Him until be \u2018prevailed.\u2019 So did this \u2018women of Canaan\u2019 \u2018wrestle\u2019 with Jesus.When she heard him say to his disciples that he was sent only P- to \u2018the lost aheep of the house of Larae),\u2019 her footing was well nigh gone.But the arms of her faith did not relax tieir hold.Like Jacob she only clung closer to him, whilst she braced herself to renew the contest.As she held him, \u201cand worshipped him,\u2019 she breathed out fram the depths of her soul another prayer ful lof pathos and unquewioning trust\u2014\u2018 Lord, help me\u2019 (Matt.xv., 25.) Again he \u2018 wrestled\u2019 with her, but she stood her ground.Her appeal apparently did not at all touch his heart, but it did break his silence toward her.\u2018Let the children first be filled,\u2019 he mid, * for it is NE [not meet to take the children\u2019s bread and to cast it unto the dogs\u2019 (v.77.) The tone was not necessarily cold and repellant ; there may have been in it a ray of hope, for it was almost as mush as to sy that he would like to hen lier, if be could without violence to higher claims.Bo whilst he seemed bent on throwing her down, his arme were #:ili about her.And she did not let go het hold of him.She bad no claim, to be sure, by nature, but she had by need.And he had not said that he would not help, but only that she was not entitled to be helped.That she was willing to admit.She knew that she had no standing or right, as a child, for in the eyes of all Jews, she was only a hesthen \u2018dog.\u2019 But in every household, the dogs were fed on the crumbs which fell from their master\u2019s table, © So the very argument which would have crushed * à weaker faith only strengthened her against being thrown from her purpose, and she mid, \u2018Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children\u2019s crumbs.\u2019 Cr 2.) Recognizing thus her own unworthiness and utter helplessness she still lung to him and would not let him go unless he blessed her.His own eonditions were her strong arguments.They gave her , and strengthened her faith, snd like Jacob she \u2018prevailed.\u2019 When she fell she conquered, and as she fell Jesus held ber in his arms as he enid, \u2018 O, woman, great is thy faith ; for this saying, go thy way ; be it unto thee, even as thou wilt, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.\u2019 She had proved that she did indeed he- long to \u2018 the house of Isrsel\u2019\u2014that great company of God's children who through faith prevail in prayer\u2014that company who know the meaning of bis promise, \u2018If yo abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.(John xv., 7.) At once she received the adoption of a child, and sat down at her Father's table to eat bread to the full.For \u2018when she was come to her house she found the devil gone out, and ber daughter ! THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.- bd .\u20ac laid upon the bed,\u2019 (v.20), \u2018ad Whole from that very hour when Jews Lied said, \u2018be # unto thes, even as thou wilt\u2019 or willest.(Mate.xv., 28.) Hhe bad done \u2018 the work .of God,\u2019 for * this is the work of (od, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.\u2019 (John vi, 90.) HOME READINGS.M.Parallel \u2014Mark viil., 27-38.T.The Cirist.\u2014John vi, 60-00.W.The Cross\u2014I, Cor, i., 17-31, T.The Chureh-Eph.it, 122.F.Foundation \u2014I.Cor.él, 1-13.J 8.Building \u2014Mett.vis, 21-29.A + THE NEEDY AT OUR DOOR.Luke xvi, 1931.\u2018Thou shalt love thy thbor as thy- well.) (Matt.xxii., 80.) hat are dois to give the Gospel to your neigh- Dives wan not asquainted with Lama.rue.He probably saw him st his gate when he passed \u2018in and out, but enon grew accustomed to the sight and paid no more attention to the r than be did to the gate itælf, Dives did not begrug the few scraps from his table which the servants gave to the A perhaps be pitied the poor man for his misernble fate, but it never occurred to him to make a friend of Lazarus, to become acquainted with him, to find out his needs or to treat him in any way as a brother.Dived's sins were those of omission and neglect, he did not beat the beggar, he mmply neglected to bind up his wounds; he did not cause his af- flicti be simply failed to aymps- thise with and relieve them.Yet, he was not guiltless.Neither are we guiltless if we close our and take no pains to relieve the suffering which lies all around us.That we do not see the poverty is no egeuse for no: eÿm- thing with it, it is our business to nd out those who are in trouble and distress, and to do eur utmost to help them out, \u2018If thou forbear to deliver thera that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pardon: the heart consider it?and te that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it?and shall he not render to every man according to bis works?(Prov.xxiv, 11, 12.) If the well-todo had any reslization of the actual sorrows of the \u2018needy at our door,\u2019 they would not be so complacently neglectful.If the men of wealth and power had to live with their families in the \u2018city below the bill\u2019 for a {ew months, seeing the sights and hearing the sounds ich must constantly \u2018offend taste, if their daintily reased children had nowhers to play but, the dusty, busy streets, their eyes id perhaps be opened to the needs of those who are less fortunate than themselves.If they had to live apposite a disreputable saloon they would soon realize the need of closing such places, and of making the most stringent laws of prohibition.; Hut lack of wealth and power is no excuse for inaction.You cannot provide for the wants of the whole city, but your C.E.society might provide for one needy family.See that the children have clothes to wear to school and Sabbath-school, see that the mother has something which ahe is not ashamed to wear to Church, find work for the father and give the family some hooks.If you set one family on their feet and get them to put their trust in the Lord Jesus, may the means of helping others and thus yon will have started an endlesa chain of good influences.Do not be discouraged when your work seems to fail and come to noth no effort put forth in the name of Eoin is a vain effort.When you have to do with à grunk- ard or some apparently incorrigible sinner, remember that Cod 4 npon cach soul as a possible jewel for Lis Town, st from which may be pen a Elorons character in the likeness of the Lord Jesus.God abhors sin; but he loves the soul of every anner, Let us not be guilty of neglect toward the needy at our door for our Saviour counts all such neglect as an offence sguinst himeelt, (péatt.317.5 \u2018 ity on unto the Lord; and That whieh he ath given will he pay him again.\u2019 \u2014 INDIAN FAMINE PROBLEM, A FEW WORDS OF BYMPATHY FOR THE GOVERNMENT.If it were not for the imperviousness of the British to foreign criticism they would bave become discouraged before this over their Indian problem.They are providing work for 8,000,000 of their starving fellow subjects in that famine stricken country at a cost of $400,000 a day, besides what is being done by private charity, and yet they are sailed on all sides as if they are responsible for the famine.They might retort that they are taking the money of the people of England, Ireland and Scotland, and spending it on a thankless race in India, where they are carrying on the most stupendous charitable work in the history of the world ; but they leave the story to be told later by a dry blue book which no poe ia likely to read ex- haps, the historian.They are Pe of taxing the natives to death, and they do not stop to point out that be money raised in Indias is spent in Foie, and spent honestly for the of the [oonle.There bas never a scandal in the civil service of India since Britain took bold of it nearly half à cen- { tion is greater by kt is satimated that over 180,000,000 have been added to the population during the centrel and south provinces are overcrowded, and the People cannot be induced to move to the north-west; where there is still plenty of land.It is the greatest problem thet ever confronted any people, and the are trying to solve it in their own way, peying no attention to what others Bey think of their methods.~ \u2018Detroit ews.\u2019 THE FAMINE FUND INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Undesigaated.Previously sskoow! oe Eugeoia Sabbath ears .The P.W.Club, Car AB Mies Marjorie L.Cool John anû Peter Robinson .Union Sunday schools of Bintai Red Fox and Durbar, per BE.W.Jervis, sscretary treasurer .Fir] and Gladys Tuek .Mra.P.MoCallum M.BE Kane .CARA à ra ys\u2019 le Class Lotdon, Out.ve ae Anonymous, Lennazville Y.P.5.C.F., Sandringham Collection Union Sunday Carroll, Man.Carrie BE sua 888 838835 sk School, at FT § ou: a.ae ee» per .T.A.Oliver .Juntor Christian Endeavor Beciety 4 Windsor Mills .8 ts to.Mrs James McLeod .Joba Hockine ns end, Agassiz, EMC.Martinville Epworth League .A Bick Man ., .Coliested by Mims Uresls Coons, of Heanesviile, Ont.: Hattie Briggs ., Le 0.oo ou 0.William Boyd .Mrs.Bodfield .Barney Larabee .fichara _fnderscn, Mra.T.Hutsheroft Rev.A.Hagar .aussi 4232385 Rabert Fader Wesley Fader George Fader Wesley Hanes Mrs B_ Melo Allred Brigge \u2018Wesley Coons rats voter.22.VUSNUNLURT ESS SSSURU ¥ : Collected by A W.Parsons, Mar- tinville: Wi a+ ne 40 00 vu ve as 00 1.$3.00 BS.Gove.ie A.W.Parsons 1.06 Noble Merrill 5 Alanse Merrill Je C.D.Doffe 8 Waiter Pierce 8 J.8.McLesn 3 B.oudie 2% O.A.Carr 5 Le Further collections by Miss M.A.fus, Compton, Que.: Miss Hughes .= $5.00 Brothers .1.00 Miss Ette Monroe 5 Mrs.W.Monroe, ur.25 And lc net accounted for last week.0 Mr.J.A.Copplog .100 Miss À.BE - + se 00 ser wee 100 37.61 50 LA -% 3 E-1 50 50 RU E Eu) 43 te From the Junior League of Chris.faite .lor tian Endeavor, of Waterloo, Que.: Collected by Henry Bird .\u2026 5 Taul and Ad Jessie Bird _.TB Hilda Kendal 0 Eimer .2 Melvin Lewis .\u2026 55 1da Whitehead 8 Mable Wright 1.9 2.00 96.76 Anonymous, Belmont .».\u2026.800 337679 Less awarded in proportion to desig- Dated amounts, redsived as fol- 6 - 19.28 .64 | INDIAN FAMINE FUND.American Board of Missions.won Part of Wndseignated amounts .16.44 0024.46 INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Canadian Presbyterian Mission.Previously acknowledged .$3,150.10 A Friend, Rapid City \u2026.\u2026 \u2026.300 Sent by Presbyterian Church, Le- neral collection .\u2026 SE éduet .AMIN FUND.INDIAN .Sevthers Indian ne Zund, fe Nod Seretary, Madras, Taétai 0e 1 progiouas y aci ledgeé .\u2026.\u2026.ae Pari cé wadeigaied amen.Bae pond 38 INDIAN PANTIN! .Christian Alasog Mi a Ou t Morcer (Tri \"Sunday fad ochool, Windser roan 7 ra 2 gE.2832883 Be.INDIAN PAMING FUND.Methodist Missions.Previously ack Mrs.Job oman .ol.cat .\u2014 , ss! R.McDougsl GQ.Levine .Milton Hunt .Mrs.Jona Hill .Mrs.Wm.Kinnear .The Helping Hand Suetety The Union Sunday Scheol, H.B.Haskins, \u201ctressuper Mr.and Mrs.oo.Kate E.Macphersen .Tom! .22 2 La 20 00 un Part of uidesigasted seuls 85% sucuhkubhsShishnestk thesabtarann it signated will be duly rod forwarded: Isabella Layfleld .\u2026.\u2026.Rte From Grenville Parish, Glecess ei Collection Tn Trisity Chvred, Car lection In Inmet AAI as ce ve ano.298 Infant cf mn Sunday schegl .LI Frank Whinfeld .0.11 3g Colleclon in St.Matthew's Churek, ° Groville .wo.oe ee KO a Br aoe 2 1% exander ban \u2026 1 22 ue oe oo Rev.5.H.and Mra.Mazlinses .\": 10 | Mra.L.H.Cooks ., .1.9 May Bradshaw .Em le La rie Hilda Miller Edward \u2014%.- Lyn Williamson Harris Dawson Herby Murray chutrninfaticpebvusabuktE Katie Draderaw .o Keys .Ethel Rayson : a Mre.T.Owens Tw Chariotte Owens ve 1e Waltar Owens .be 18 129 \u201c Collected by W.Iles, Bt.ws Mrs.Krans .5 Mrs.Soutiere .3 Miss Lillan Soutiers 2 Mre.H.C.Blina se Major David Westover EJ Mrs.8.E.Westover » Mrs.MH.A.Blinn .8 Mrs.Btote .» .= x = A # = 15 - 206 .7 see ss EAST AFRICAN FAMINE PUND.Already acknow'eigoé .81,408.74 Total of all funds .WALT GEN.MACDONALD ON THE LUCK.OF WAR.Mr.Burleigh, war correspondent of the London \u2018Telegraph,\u2019 writes : \u2014 \u2018One of the incidents that have reached me of the Paardeberg fight ie that Ma- jor-General Macdonald and Mia brigade major, Capt.Wigham, while making re- « of Bot bute fred aro wort renee of ulle at very The General received his wound 3 the ankle and foot sume time after, whin in a relatively safe position, se he dis\" mounted from his herse.- That dad, Capt.Wigham had (bree horses Vhok from 9 and had ho not Lorenare Gall second the wh, \u201cKjlled it vel David Boyoe .rarely bave hip.* .iii sn, acdoi ud rerved \" POMMÉLLANON Le 0e 00 00 00 ee the minute, joel 28d got w ; La ed; rou diemctint d sre saved ; wounding.fog 1 Part of enduigasted amounts.have heen all rifht.pot a you \"37.55 pot off vou'd Rilted.\u201d 4 +\u2018 la lusertsé for 16 à vord por inssetion from seb- welders.The lowest rete for non-subeoribes Five ts the minimums member of Hues for vhich oa aldvertiosmens is charged.NOTICE TO SUBCRIBERS.ADDRESS \u2014~ Give strest and number (if Secassary), post-ofics sud province.REMIT\u2014By Bxpress or Pust-Office Order.or register your letter for your own pre- t Peet Office Orders can da obtained at the feliowing rates.$2.60 or under, Jo; $3.58 Vus, 4o.$5.00 to $10.08, do.Mo Qrders are lssued up te tor Bo.13 te Bh 40: $3 to R10, / U.8 Subscribers should remit by Post- Order Rowse's Point, N.Ÿ., © oF Rots Ce, payable at Montreal.CHANGB OF ADDRESS\u2014When wishing te bave your adffress changed from one pest-efitce te another, it Is necessary te give the old address aa well 83 the pew.Te thie te not dons such change Cas- tot bo meds.Address all busivess communications, JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publishers, \u201cWitaess' Building.Montreal to Cppada, United States and New foundland.For Gress Britain add $1.08 per camush for each copy.ATTRACTIVE CLUBS To Individual Addresses.Combination Club-No.L Canadisns, cloth 50 Ragin?Soe te omg poole 26 a is Steps,\u2019 Sheidon's Masterpless.19 The Ram's Neen,\u2019 for one your.1.80 es All for $2.68.The \"Daily Witness\u2019 to end of 1000 for coe dollar to new subscribers.Here LS opportunity to have the \u2018Daily Witness\u2019 from ten te twenty-four pages these stirring times.The \u2018Witness\u2019 war ; war news, war illustrations, war fondenes and war articles are the y \u2018pabliphed fn Canada and have at.mach attentes __ RD MINTOTOWISIT YUKON.tawe, July ie étated that His ersl pur.ative \u2018Biman ei the tony in Yukon, and that will sat ous from.Pttqwa on July 2.LO] 4 æ @he Witness, TUESDAY, JULY 36, 1800.===> Dr.Ryerson of Totonto's reports te the Red Cross Society from Bloemfontein are very interesting reading ia ve of the charges made of gross mismuan- agement of the hospital werk in the war, The charges referred to Lord Roberts's campaign to Pretoria via Itoemfonsein and Krooustad.Dr.Ryerson\u2019s work was in the midst of the worst of the sickness and where the failure of medical care and supplies for the sick and wounded was greatest, Dr.Ryer- son wus highly esteemed and recom- wended in despatches by Lord Roberts, who made him a general commissioner for his splendid worvices at Kimberley, where, supplied with Canadian funds, he managed within a few hours to sup ply hundreds of beds for the wounded, who were lying on the floors.It will be seem that Dr.Ryeçson was able to imprors even Gencral Kitchener's sy» tem ef transport, at least where the care of the wounded and sick wes con cerned.\u2014ip We ses the Manitoba Government much criticised for admitting to ther prohibition bill a number of destructive amendments which raise questions if not as to their good faith, at least as to the stalwartness of their determination to carry out in reality the intent of the measure.We are sorry at least to née that that government has thought it necessary to submit to legal decision the question as to the right of the Hudson's Bay Company to veto the bill.It will certainly be a good thing il Mr.Hugh John Mae dona'd can evoke from a court™sl justice anything but an ambiguous oracle cn a8 question which does not arise in the Jona of a case at law.It would be a grand thing indeed under a federal system .ike ours if it were possible to have t'ip com stitutionality of laws determined before band.It is a serious drawback to wholesome legislation, both bere and in the United States, that when a law is passed either by the local or the na tional legislature it is never regarded ssa fixed law until it has been ret act=d on, and then impeached before the courte as unconstitutional, and sustained im the court of last rest.We of course have no ides what will be the finding of the court as to the constitutionality of Mr.Macdonald's prohibitory law, but it would be simply monstrous if a trading company should have the power to forbid forever the people of one of our provinces, from passing for their owu internal well-being a Jaw which is other wise constitutional because of some Lor gin made with it before the province was, We have not heard that the company hus itself put forward this elaim.We should think, indeed, that ihe position of being in the exercise of sci tyr anny and of forcing on an unwilling people a traffic which it regarded as a public nuisance would be a very embarrass ing one to the Hon.the Hudson's Bay Company.; \u2014 < The Postmaster-General\u2019s new bill reducing to almost nothing the postage on newspapers within the provisce of publi cation, far from mending the deliberate injustice of his former measure, of plag- 90 |ing 8 distinogive tax upon city publications, while giving preferential privileges to country newspapers, is a serious ag gravation of that tyrannical injwetice.\u2018Why Mr.Mulock of all people desires to develop provincialisem in the newspapers of Canada, and keep one province from intercourse with another, it is bard to conceive, He has been talked of as sa expectant knight for the breadth of his policy in breaking down the lines of de- .markation between one British country and another, and for that feat be certainly deserves the honor.Yet bare he sete up distinctions between the provinces of Canada such as enormously favor his own province and give him effec tive vengeance on the Montreal papers, which so vigorously condemned bim.How can he and Sir Wilfrid Laurier now face each other\u2014Sir Wilfrid who went into stich rbapsodies of patriotism against the iniquity of giving one province s deliv erance from drink-selling that another did not have, and the prospective Sir William, who deliberately fines news papers for going beyond their own provinces or out of the country.This new bill is little else than a special tax and handicap on certain Montreal news papers, which sre the only ones which bave the bulk of their circulation out side of their provinces.We have always favored newspaper postage, but we are not favorable to ite being ~otlested off à ! / \u201cA THE MONTREAL few papers, and thus making them pay for the carriage of their rivals.A report comes from the Pacific const that sea lions are causing great destruction of salmon at the mouths of rivers.This may help to sccount for the rapid reduction of late years of one of the most valuable sources of sea-food in the world.Last yoar thers was a decreawe the value of the mlmon catoh ind \u2018anadian waters of over two and s hal million dollars, compared with the previous year.Some frer that this {falling off is not merely temporary, but indicative of extinction of the fisherics in a few years and that the mlmon of the Pacific js following the fate of the salmon of the Atlantic.There was à time when all the rivers entering the Atlantic, from the Potomac narth- ward, teemed with these fish, but whether on account of reckless methodfign ostohing them or for some other reason, they are now practically unknown except in certain Canadian streams.A few years ago it was not an uncommon thing for the Fraser and other Liritioh Columbia rivers to be choked with the vast multitudes of salmon at the annual season of their ascent.Canneries were established and enormous quantities were packed and sent to all parts of the world, The fish were literally scooped out of the water in thousands by means of a device called the fish wheel.When the supply began to fail this system was abolished by government, which after wards established mimon hatcheries.The efforts to nurse the fisheries have not restored them, and it deems possible that salmon on the Pacific slope will soon be amenable to line fishing only as on the Atlantic const.It is possible that the rivers have been rendered less fit for their babitation since the adrent of civilization, or the methods of fishing way have proved destructive otherwise than by depletion, It is to be hoped that the destroying agency will be discovered and that it will be found to be ons that can be prevented.Justice is represented by mythology and art as blind and as weighing met- ters committed to her judgment entirely unbiased by any ulterior consideration or prejudice.That is Justice in the-ab- stract.The real Justice is too cites governed, even in her highest seats, by the meanest spites.The Belgian court which tried Sipido, the assassin of the Prince of Wales\u2014we do not may would- be assassin, for the intent makes the as eassin\u2014has evidently been goverped in its sentence either by sympathy with the popular hatred of princes and of Great Britain, the latter much the stronger, or by the terrorism exerted by the anarchists.Let it be granted that Sipido was an irresponsible person, that is to say, insane, it i plain, then, that he is dangerously insane, and should pot have been trested like a naughty boy who has disobeyed his mother, On the other hand, the persons who instigated him to what is, under all systems of law, the mabt enormous of crimes, have been allowed to go free because they regard: ed thé advice they gave to this trrespon- æible cresture as a good joke.The courts would seem to have also thought the Imatter a good joke.It may be all trae enough that these men bad no sms picion that what they were doing would ever have the resuits which followed.It is very often the cave that eriminal acts are done without the slightest expects tion of their naturs! consequences.This fact, while it mitigates the crime, does not obliterate it, and to treat these jokers as having committed no crime against bumanity when they used methods which naturally resulted so criminally, is sn amassination of Justice in ber own palace, snd invokes the bitter indignation which it will arouse against Belgium throughout the whole British empire.PROHIBITION.Mr.Flint's motion with regard to the plebiscite was presented by him in a very balf-bearted way.On Tuesday, as on a previous occasion, he took a good deal of trouble to make plain that he was only godfather to the motion and he added on Tueeday that he wus going to mpport an amendment to it.It was, of course, difficult for any truc prohibitionist not to support Mr.Me Clure\u2019s amendment, which simply de- cared in favor of a prohibitory law.Every out and out probibitionist bad to vote for that or contradict his record, or get himesif into & position bard to explain.No one representing à probé- bition county, ae Mr.Mint does, dared- vole against it.But it was, of eourse, À \u2018 WEEKLY WITNESS, doomed to defesi, and is probably would hare carried with it defest for Mr.Flint's motion, as many mes who wanted to poss before the people as prohibitionists had planned to support this motion and vote against Mr.Flint's on the score that it was à half measure and was practically allowing Quebec to dictate to the Dominion.Tue ground taken by Mr.Flint, however, or rather the ground taken by his resolution, was | the right ground for prohibitionista to \u2018take who really wanted some result frow the taking of the plebiscite.The ple biscite having becu taken bad placed the government in a position that it practically could not impose prohibition on Quebec, which had, by an enormous majority declared against it, and which, in #0 far as the French part of the country was concerned, hed given practical: ly no voice in its favor.The govern: ment could not therefore be reasonably asked to give prohibition to Quebec mot could prohibitionista hope for its success there if it were insisted on after the digfinct veto the people had placed pe it.The government could be asked, however, to carry out the man date of its own plebiscite.That mau date certainly was that all Canada but Quebec wanted prohibition.It was for the government to find out some way te carry out this mandate.Mr.Flint's motion was a dem und that the govern\u2019 ment should do so.Neither Mr.Flint's revolution nor Mr.McClure's, however, was voted on at al} both having been headed off by a party resofition brought in by a party man, Mr.Parmeles, declaring that the man date of the country was against prohjbi- tion.Remd it as you choose, this is what his resolution and what those who voted for it declared.There were ninety-five who so voted whose names we give elsewhere, and prewumably man others who were paired off.These, in so far as they were probibitioniste, rested their position very largely on the view that it would be impossible to pass a law excluding Quebec that could be worked at all.It seems to be alwave easy to find some good reason against real action, end this es- cuse hss no doubt some weight.Sir Wilfrid Laurier took his stand wrongly on tbe ground that Mr.Flint's resolution introduced « new thing into national legislation, nameiy, provisions having sections! force.He maid many of his friends had given their lives to benefiting mankind by means of temperance, but the first object of legislators must be to build up a nation, and it would in this respect be a etep, not for- werd, but backward, to commence making laws which would separate ons province, one race, or one religion, from the rest.There is great force in this.It should be remembered, however, that the Flint resolution was #0 constructed as to make the sectional effect purely voluntary.It only proposed to give provinces power as the Scott Act had previously given counties power to deal with the question severally.It was, in fact, an enlargement of the Scott Act to provincial proportions, with increased powers.Indeed, Dr.Douglas's motion, carried by a majority of one, declaring for amendments to the Scott Act opens the way to do the very thing which par liament voted down by a resolution simply saying no to Mr.Flint.The greatest mistake ever made by the nro- hibitionists of Canadas was when they dropped the Scott Act.They bad hoped for an act that would work iteslf and when the Beott Act did nt, they threw it aside and demanded something that would, which was a vain expectation.Prohibition in whatever form it comes will have to be enforced by organised public opinion or it will fail as the Scott Act did where that was lacking.We do not mean that there should not Lave been provision in the Scott Act looking to its enforcement without the intervention of the temperance people.That is one amendment wanted now.But, whatever the forms] provision, little will he done by political officials unless organized publie upinion creates u force in laver of action equal to those Constant forces which oppose it.\u2014_ BIG SURPLUS THIS YEAR.Canads has an immense surplus of ordinary revenue over extraordinary expen- Lditure as & result of last year's public business, amounting to over $7,500,000.Indeed, there will be a surplus of ordi pary ue over ordinary and extraordinary capital expenditure of over a million dollars, by which amount the public debt will be reduced.Only in two former yecrs has there been an equi- \\ librium of total revenue and total ex: penditure, namely, in 1871 and 1802 The ordinary rqrenue of the last focal year, ending the thirtieth of June, exceeded that of the preceding year by over four and a quarter million dollars.In view of the extraordinary increase of last year over the previous year and of each re cent year over its predecessor, this great augmentation of the revenue is the more wonderful and all the more a matter for national congratulstion, as it indicates extraordinary prosperity and progress.This extruordinary surplus of revenue over ex: penditure means, of course, that the taxation is unneceasirily heavy, and that it should be redyced.In the old pro- tectioniet days the revenue was reduced by incressing the taxation, thus checking importation and trade, but before \u2018the Comservatives resigned power they had adopted the policy of reducing the teriff.The Liberal Government has anticipated a necessity by providing for a reduction of the tariff on July 1, of 12% percent on all importations of British and colonial manufactures.This will result in & more appreciable reduction of the taxation «nd therefore of revenug than the former reduction of twenty-five percent as it has reached a point which must make preference effective.On the other band, it must be remembered that the revenues of last year have been somewhat reduced probably by the action of merchants leaving British and colonial importations in the cue- toms warehouses until after July 1 in order to get the benefit of the reduction in the tariff.It may confidently.be expected that as a result of the increased preference of this year, Canadian importations of British goods will increase ina much greater ratio than those from the.United States, if, indeed, the importations from the United States do not show an actual decrease as a result of the recent British preference.\u2014\u2014 THE BRITISH OOLUMBIA CORRE- S8PONDENCE.8o far as can be judged from the dif- forent summaries of the correspondence betwosn the Secretary of State in the Laurier Government and Mr.Mclnnes, the former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbis, during the protrsoted political crisis in that provinces recently, ended by the dismissal of Mr.Mclnnes and the eppointment of Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere, Mr.Mcinnes was thoroughly well advised and instructed by the Dominion Government, and made all of his mistakes by acting directly in opposition to the advice he received.The Secretary of State in advising and even instructing Lieutensnt-Governor Mcinnes naturelly enough as an old personal and political friend, fell into a friendly rather than an official style, and evidently for thes reason wished when the political crisis bad developed sod become very troublesome, owing to Lieutenant-Governor Mclnnes\u2019s indisposition to accept advice, to have the cor- tevpondence wbich had been marked \u2018confidential\u2019 destroyed so as to prevent its publioation où « demand from par liament.But beyond the unofficial tone and tbe concilatory giving of ressoas end opinions which could have been avoided by the writing of separate offl- cial and private communications, there Waa no reason that we can discover why the Secretary of State should have wished the cocrespondence not to be die closed, and it is very questionable whe ther his request was a right one, seeing thet the correspondence wes essentially officiel.In every instance in which the Lieutenant-Governor soted violently and unwisely, it appears that the did so contrary to the views of the Dominion Government and the Secretary of State.They seem to have advised him against bis rather pronounced methods with the Turner Government and his diemis sal of the Bemlin Government; to have advised bim against too frequent die- solutions ani against the long postpone rent of elections after disedlution of the legislature.But be went doggedly on pursuing his own blundering course.And then when he came to grief, in- med of blaming himself, be became vexed with the Dominion Government for mot \u2018supporting\u2019 hima in bis mad course, and apparently tbrestened to publish the correspondemce because be thought that the Secretary of State having advised him to destroy MW, it must prove demagiog to tbe Dominion Gov ermment somshow to publid it.The Secretary of State thereupon seems to have produd it in the Senate, probably aloo bessuss he was asked to bring it down.Jurr 10, 1800 THE EMPRESS OF CHINA.The Gemnan Goadel-Gesenii of China reports that Prince Tuan, the father of the heir spparent of the Chinese Empire, compelled the Emperor sad the Dowager Empress to poison themselves with opium, and that the Emperor is dead and the Empress almost so from the effects of the poison.Later reports are to the effect that both the Emperor and Dowager Empsess are alive, but that the latter has fled from Pekin.The career of the Empress has been s Mormy cne and a short account of it is interesting light upon the present situation at Pekin.Trehouianyu, the Empress Dowager, was not originally an Empress at all, but merely a slave and concubine of the Emperor IHein Fung, but as the Empress Trean was childless, the concubine was given the honorary rank of Empress as she was the mother of Tung Che, the only son of the Emperor, On the death of the Emperor in 188), the honorary Empress managed to persuade the Empress Tzeen and Prince Kung to seise the reins of power, and the two Empresses reigned as regents during the long minority of Tung Che, and were known as the Eastern and Western Frm- presses.In 1873 Tung Che came of age and the Dowager Emprees, his mother, retired for a time, but in 1875, when he died childless, leaving a widow, Ahlute, she intervened so far as to prevent the selection of the successor of the Fimperor by the Royal Family or Clan, according to the ancient custom.This succesenr is always chosen from another generstica than that of the dead emperor ia ocder that he may be capable of performing tte ancestral rites as the adoptive an.Dut the Dowager Empress had a successor proclaimed of the same generation, though incapable of performing the rites.because he was a child and would afford her an opportunity of again reigning ss Regent during bis minority.Thus Kwang Su, who became the rcformer, was chosen; he was a nephew of the true Empress Tzean.Ahlute, the consort of Tung Che, died suddenly by order of the Empress Dowager, it is said, in order to prevent the birth of a post humous son and heir to Tung Che.Thus the Eastern and Western Empress again became ents.In 1881 Twean died, leaving TreBal (which is thé ehoët- er name of the Dowager Empress) sole Regent and Empress.In 1880 Kwang Su came of age, and the Empress Dowager retired avowedly from the regency.Dowager empresses have always had a great deal of power and influence at Pekin, however, and it was well known that the Empress was.constantly intriguing against the Emper or.When the Emperor, backed by the younger literati and merchants, pushed bis reform policy, the Empress, backed by the reactionaries, opposed him, at first secretly, and them openly, and on the twenty-second of September, 1808, she openly seized the reins of power, compelling the wretched Emperor, who was a weakling, to retire into obscurity, after issuing in his own name an edict in which he represents the Dowager Empress accepting the authority and power at his earnest request.On the twenty- third of January, 1000, the new heir to the Emperor was proclaimed in the Ps kin \u2018Gazette,\u2019 and proved to be Pu Chun, the son of Prince Tuan, also a child.Prince Tuan is a grandson, and the emperor-elect, Pu Chun, therefore, à great-grandson, of the Emperor Tso Kwong, who was the reigning emperor at the time of the treaty of Nanking.All accounts seem to agree that the Dowager Empress has at last met her match in Prince Tuam, who, if be has not snatched the reins of power from ler bands, insiste upon exercising a fair share of authority.CITY MISGOVERNMENT.We cannot-say that we fall in with all that Mr.MacKnight s1ys either about the desirableness of withholding from cities the right of eelf-tazation and self-government, or with regard to the desirable ness of trees in streets.On the first of these points Mr.MacKnight has New York in his mind, and he thinks, with some others, that that great city weuld be better governed from Albany than from the City Hall.We are not sure that history would bear out his view even in that case, although the population of the state is on the average morally superior to that of the city, and is certainly far less alien in its composition.It could be wished, however, that the legislation at Albany with regard to New York hed bees as mush better than the administration at New York felt a *Lese conditions would warrant us to ?! as throwing some | > Ww Jour 10, 1900.not-always prevail.' :Moatreal ow very badly and corruptly governed sity ; yet one could hardly hope:for any higher senas of right and wrong or any higher order of intelligence in the provincial legislature than in the city.sarily esre far less for, the needs end interests of Montreal than even the aldermen do, and they represent constitu- eucies (| a: never would and never could cali \u2018leu to account for what they might do with regard to Montreal.We are generally thankful for any limitation of the taxine power which the legislature puts upon the council and for any checks it may place on the council's jobs, but we do not think anything would be gained by the legislature's assuming either in itself or by deputy the contrel which the city now uses so badly.Administration by commissioner would give us better resu'ts than administration by committee, but tbe council would need to have the responsibility of appointiax the commissioner- \u2018nd of legislating for them.On the other question we do not think it is the rich men of New York who are responsible for the absence of trees on the streets they live in.They could not plant them if they would, and if the trees were there they would soon be Lilled by the various forms of savagery in which all kinds of etreet makers, menders and hackers are adepts.More over, it is a question whether tall forest trees, excluding the sunshine from houses, would improve their sanitary condition.A bouse hunter shrinks unconsciously from a house shadowed by over hanging trees.Such trees shorten the daylirht in the house, and often vender its lower rooms damp and uninhabitable.We believe heartily in the sanitary value of trees otherwise.In little parks and in wide boulevards the tallest trees are in place, but we should find for closely built streets some kind of tree that will shade the sidewalk, but not the house.The neglect in Montreal, as in other cities, of reserving land for breathing spaces and nlay-grounds is, when properly understood, criminal.\u2014 THE CANADIAN \u2018BOXERS.' L Opr correspondent wiis humorously signs himself \u2018Aunty Mongol\u2019 thinks the \u2018Witness,\u2019 if it had been better informed, would bave taken a different view of the Chinese question from what it dees.Yet, though he proceeds to inform us at some length, we fail to find anything that we have not read, lot us my gently, a hundred times before.We quite realise that in differing with the views be bas so capably expressed we are taking a position as unpopular es would be that of a Chinaman who would take views contrary to those of thé Boxers and that in so doing we shall make foes in owr own household.But we are also certain that the Boxers and the Anti-Mongois of Canadas sre alike fighting against those world forces which make for progress and the unity of mankind and which must therefore ultimately conquer.The man who would in China take ground tolerant of the foreigners, while he would Lave the or diary people\u2014the aunty-Britishers and sunty-forsign devils\u2014to \u20ac man against him, would have the convictions of all great-eouled and large-minded men on his side.So it is in Canada, except thal thore are, we hope, more here than in China who recognise the divine thought of buman unity and the duty of man to man The principal arguments against ad- » mitting the Chinese divide themselves into two classes which somewbat wesken each other: First, their heathen degradation and their power to degrade us, and secondly, their superiority in the etruggle for existence and their power to outdo us.We are by every prefer once, tendency and prejudice of our upbringing prepared to believe in the vast superiority of Christians over heathen.Without lengthened argument we should indeed greedily accept soy evidence of the correctness of this view.This conviction is not strengthened, howaver, by Christian communities condemning themeeives as unsble to cope with bea- thens either in industry or in morals or by thelr putting themselves on a par with them in intolerance.If the methods of this intolemave are different it is largely due to the extent of it.Had the\u2019 Chinese intolerante been able to exclude the foreign devils by law they would vot have thought of killing them.I we were unable to do it by law we © probably would skint of killing then.:to live in wretehed conditions.Ou the | other band, the members of the legisla.! ture know far less about, and Meces | dope.Bat the conditions described do At leset we have seen tt done by white ji mes under situilak conditions.The advantage of thoss Mongols over the whites with whom they compets is not alone dus to the fact that they are able It is a rule that evil conditions produce pro- porticpately bad results and we must Account elsewhere for their economie eu- periority.They are as a result of their severe conditions st home temperate, du- cile and untiring.They seem cven to bv in nome ways superior in business ability and mechanical cajucity.Our corre spoadent tells ua that the boat-building busines in fast falling into the hands of the Japanese.We are told aleo that the Jajianese are far more daring then the whiter as navigators of fishing poate and thet ticy venture much further out to sea in rough weather, to their own great profit or that of their employers.Finding that economic considerations give the Orientals if anything the better claim to the country our correspondent has to {all back on pre-emption and divine right, very much as the Transvaal ISoers did in the Transvaal.They were the people placed there by God.They claimed, as our correspondent eloquently puts it, in speaking of the Chinese Uitlanders, \u2018that that rich country was their heri- \u2018tage, won and bequeathed to them by \u2018 their hardy, industrious and brave an.\u2018 cestors, and they proposed to propagate \u2018their virtues in a Dutch and not a \u201cBritish population.\" They therefore resorted to precisely the same methods with regard to them as we use with regard to the Chinese, placing all sorts of legal disabilities upon them with a view to preventing them from multiplying and yossessing the land, even breaking treaty agreements in su doing.Sir.Wiltrid Laurier said there never was a mere righteous war than that in which Canadians engaged to vindicate British sub jects in the Transvaal against the invasion by its government of their natural and treaty rights.Yet he proceeds to deal with the Canadian Outlanders after precisely he same manner and in con- tuavention of very similar treaties.1f Chinese patriots needed any vindication in driving out the foreigners we Canadians of the anti-Mongol stripe are doing our best to furnish them with it.And who are we who make thie pre-emption claim'to Canada ?Are we reilly :he people who, as our correspondent says, have inherited the land from our fore fathers, or are we making these anti- humane claims on behalf, for the most part, of immigrants from the nearer east who are themselves but a few years in the country, and to some of whom many of our correspondent's aspersions as to the ignorance and low moral notions of the Chinese might be measurably trans ferred.The Chinese do not, for instance, publish tavern-reeking newspapers with anti-British cartoons, as certain equally trensient American settlers do.The moet interesting feature of the \u2018et- ter we are publishing is the way in which it aseociates the anti-Mongolian movement with all that is reforming and pure in politics,as represented apparently by Mr.Martin, and tolerance of the Orientals is associated with all that is corrupt.There is no doubt some color for this in the (act that company rule ia strong in British Columbia, as in most places, and that on the face of it cheap lsbor is advantageous to capitalistic companies.To the influence of the compen.jes is, therefore, perhaps rightly mseribed the fact that the legislators of British Columbis have not proceeded to the extremest point in Chinese exclusion.In tkis particular matter, capital, though it never has any moral purpose, may have taken the right side and popular opinion the wrong side.It is essentially an economic question ; the one effectual ar- œument against the Chinese is their economic superiority.Capital has a way of knowing what is economically best, if it knows nothing else.This ray then possibly be a case in which labor shows that it as well as capital can be tyrannous to working classes and regardless of individual right, and 8 case in which capital may be, in the exercise of ite own selfish impulses, counteracting the wrongs that would be done by labor in the exerçiee of ite selfish impulses.It would be well if all capitalists could be lshorers avd learn to sympathise \u2018with labor's privations.It would also be rel, and is on the whole far more feasible, that all isborers should become capitalists and 0 fearn to value and defend the rights of savings.The Anglo-Saxon peo ple are destined to be an employing pes- ple.\u2018This in the only solution for them of the inevitable clash between eastern snd western peoples.COUR CONTI WATERWAN It is to be hoped that the country will derive great benefit from the canals, as their cost has been great, and the expenditures are by no means at an end.Mr, Blair, Minister of Railways and Canals, stated in the House of Commons on Tussday evening that the waterway from lt Bte.Marie to La- chine, about a thousand miles, had cost the country up to April 1 of this year $71,749,588.Excluding the further expenditures upon the Trent canal, which canal when completed will cost more than $6,000,000, Mr.Blair says that the capital expenditures yet to be made between Sault Ste.Marie and Lachine will amount to $6,717,500, making a total expenditure on the St.Lawrence canals alone when completed of $84,467,088.The annusl interest upon this enormous sum, at the rate of four percent per annum, will amount to $3,330,000 in round numbers, or about 07 cents a year each for every man, woman and child in the Dominion.The annual net revenue from these canals at present only amounts to about a tithe of this interest, but it is expected that when the fourteen-foot channel is in operation the amount taken in annual tolls will largely increase, and everybody will be disappointed if this expectation is not abundantly fulfilled.The disproportion between the great outlay and the very small direct return has doubtless been very disappointing, but few deny that the indirect benefits, including the lowering of railway tsrifis, have been many, and few condemn those who started or have continued this great work.Indeed, the mere fact of ite exis tence, and its inadequacy to modern conditions before the recent deepening, justify the latter.It is recognized that although at present less than five percent of the traffic of lakes Superior and Huron passes through the costly Canadian canal at the Soo, \"the building of that canal was a political, as well as commercial, necessity, and the deepening of it equally unavoidable.Whatever other business may arise, the canals must certainly not be depended upon to move a much larger proportion of the North- West wheat crop than at present, as the time is too short, only sbout six weeks, between the threshing of the wheat and the close of navigation.The only way to induce a larger proportion of this crop to find its way to the sea by an all-Cans- dian route would seem to be by the building of large storage elevators at the east of the great lakes.It could then Le moved by rail to St.John and Halifax in the winter time.One of the hopes for the route is that a big west: bound freight trade may be built up.On several occasions during the pest two years the \u2018Witness\u2019 has hid resson to express the opinion that the four teen-foot navigation of the St.Lew- rence canals was not in sight.Last year, in August, observation convinced us that no vemels drawing fourteen feet could make a safe passage, and this year we published à map showing many obstructions that had not been and are not yet removed and we are afraid are not likely to be removed in the very near future.Following the publication of our articles upon this subject, the matter was brought up in parliamenz, whereupon the government assured the House that there wis no cause for apprehension.Mr.Blair now acknowledges that the cunals are so far from being finished that the cost of completing them will exceed six million dollars.The \u2018cut\u2019 at Cardinal alone will hardly be completed for this season of navi gation, although a flourish of trumpets took place when two vessels were taken through there light with ny precautions, early in the seasou, and the statement was published broadcast, \u2018Opening of fourteen-foot navigation.\u2019 Yet in spite of this statement, men now are working night and day at this ent, st present removing \u2018Hunter's Point,\u2019 at the rate of from twenty to twenty.five train loads à day, and when all of \u2018Hunter's Point\u2019 has been removed, \u2018Barber's Point\u2019 is waiting to be served in & similar manner.As we have ssid there atill remains & good deal of work before the fouricen-foot channel will be permanently available.THE FILIPINOS AND THE FRIARS.One day lest week two hundred representative riapitos assembled in Manilla, with the consent of the United States officer commanding, to consider and propose terms of peace.Commual- cation was hsd with Agvinaldo and, with hie consent apparently, the following seven articles wesw agreed to for anbmiesion to the government of the United Btates es the conditions on which tbe Filipinos would lay down ~ THE MONTREAL WEEKLY VITNESE.7 = ® their arm by the Amerieans to the Vilipinos of confiscated property.3.Employment for the revolutionary generale in the navy aud militia when established.4, \u2018The application of the Filipino revenues to succor nesdy Filipino soldiers.5 À guarantee to the Filipinos of the exercise of personal rights accorded to Americans by their cometitution.Establishtent of civil governments at Manilla and in the provinces.7.Expul sion of the friars.There seems to be little trouble sbout granting all thess terms, with otight modification possibly in some details, with the exception of number seven.Unfortunatelg, that is the one on which the Filipinos lay most vtress as abeo- lutely essential to tbe conclusion of peace.To people unacquainted with the Philippine situation this would appear as if the natives had renounced their religion.Such, bowever, is by no means the case, for they are and desire to remain Roman Catholics.The grievance against the friars is purely secular.The friars, like similar monastic orders in Italy, Spain, France, Mexico and other Roman Catholic countries have ae quired immense estates and become possessed of great boards of wealth.As individuals thgse friars are poor sad make their liwing principally by begging.At the;same time the orders to which they belong are posssmed of boundless wealth, aequired mostly from rich men and women who sought to make peace with heaven when they came to die by willing their possessions to the good fathers for religious purposes.This has been going on for over three hundred years, so that the friars have really more wealth and power than were pomessed by the Government of Spain before the advent of the Americans.Naturel heirs who have been disappoint ed of their expectations are therefore numerous, implacable and fierce in their demand that the estates of the friars be secularized and all transfers of property to the Church by deed of mort.vain made forever illegal.They point out that even such devoted sons of the Church as Charles V.and Philip II.had to adopt.this policy to prevent the of the wligious orders beyand all bounds, to the injury of the natissi and the impoverishment of the ptople.The mare modern examples of France, Imly sud Mexico, where church property has been confiscated to publie uses and sold, sre cited by the Filipinos, who dedare that free institutions and civil government on the American system are impossible if the friars are to retain possession of the vast arses of land they now hold.The United States is debarred by her constitution from interfering with matters p«rtaining to religion and therefore might be debarred from carrying out an arrangement for the expulsion of the friars ir the confiscation of religions property once the annexation of the islands was proclaimed.If the expulsion or confiscation were made a condition prior to annexation under which the Mlipinos should become Americans and the islands United States territory the constitution of the United States might remain in abeyance, as it has te do in other Filipino matters.The dif- fieulty about this is that the United States has made countless promises to the Roman Catholic Church that the civil rights and religious freedom of all in the islands would be protected, and the Church having exacted these under takings, which representatives of the United States naturally regarded as matters of course, has shown the United States muob favor as the incoming pow er.The Americans were too modern a people to recognize the fact that every Roman Catholic country bas had to go through the phase of sloughing of an intolerable bondage by the confiscation of the properties of the monks.Their right course, had it been possible, would have been simply to have guaranteed to the Filipinos freedom to govern them selves.This they would not long have been abld to do, but they could at least bave solved, after the most righteous and historically warranted method, a problem which the United Btates has really no way of solving.\u2014 THE WAR SITUATION.The campaign in South Africa ie making satisfactory progress spperently without anf scrious reverses in eny quarter.General Buller arrived at Pretoria on Baturday last probably, thus marking the fact that the Natal railway is open and running between Durben snd Pretoria, apd that Lord Roberts has sow two 1.Amnesty.2.The retura ines of transportation sod commusics- on open to the coast, while of coures a third ie open to Madeking, and from thence to Buluvayo.The British columns are warily clos ing in around Generel De Wett and Mr.Steyn\u2019s Free Btate forces, which, to the number of 3,000, it Le said, with artillery, have loft Bethlehem, which is in the middle of & plain, and is therefore indefensible, and have gone south-east to the mounteinous district just north of Ficksbury, where Genera! Rundie\u2019s division is posted.It is probable they will try to defest Genera! Rundle and estab lish themasives firmly in the Ficksburg district before the other British columns have time to get so far south.The nearest Britiah force is that of General Brabant at Benekal and probably Geu- era) Paget'e brigade ie to-day in Pethle- bem, and General Clemente\u2019s bebind it.General Hunter hes probadly occupied Vrede, and is marching ssuth from there upon Harrimnith.Generel Macdonald aod the Highlanders may be marching down {rom Frankfort upon Rietz, which is about 20 miles north of Bathichem.Vrede is 45 miles east of Frankfort and Harrismith 56 miles south of Vrede, while Dethishem is 80 miles west of Har- rismith.The garrison left in Rustenburg, west of Pretoria, by General Baden-Powell has heen attacked by s foros of Boers under Commandant Limmer.The ques tion which arises ie whare is General Baden-Powell ?Probably gone north to Pietersburg, north of Pretoria, to co operate with General Carrington.Lerd Roberts's own forces at Pretoria have driven the Boers under Boths back esas of Bromkhorst Spruit.It is mid that the force there numbered 3,000 with artillery.The Canadians are again distinguishing themselves, earning the praise, in special despatches, of Lord Roberts.The Mounted Rifles, both battalions, are mentioned, and yesterday's despatches tell of their work, and losses, too, alas! at the action at Bronkhorst Spruit on Saturday.And Stretheona\u2019s Horse have also done some clever fighting.Canada may well be proud of hae troops.\u2014\u2014\u2014 IN CHDIA.The latest reports regending\u2019 we fate of the foreigners in Pekin sre decidedly more reassuring.The foreign consuls at Shanghai were on Saturday informed by Sheng, the administrator of telegraphs and railways in China, that the legations were mie op Tuesday, July 3, and that they were able to hold out for some days, at least.This report, probably with official business instructions, was communicated to the London office of the Foreign Marifime Customs of China, of which Sir Robert Hart is the inspector- genera], with despotic powers.It seems that this message was sent by a courier out of Pekin and reached Sheng at Shanghai by telegraph from Tsinan, the fu, or capital, of the province of Shantung.Tainen ie on the south bank of tbe Wihango, or Yellow River, about two hundred and twenty miles south- eat of Pekin.The Bhanghai eor- respondent of the London \u2018Mail\u2019 mys that thermessage probably left Pekin on June 28, and that July 3 was the date on which it reached Toinan.The \u2018Mail\u2019 eris an enterprising paper, but it is nothing if not sensational, and probably it is anxious to make & scoop in connes tion with this undoubtedly authentic tessage.As the report reached Bheng at mn Shanghai apparently on Joly 7, last Saturday, it seems most probable that was the day on which it was sent from Tainan, in which case it would have been on the way from Pekin to Tsinen four days, which is sufficient time for a courier to traverse 220 miles.If Sbeng, who, though à Chinaman, is a wealthy partner with foreigners in steamship companies, cotten factories and other enterprises, had made « mistake he would probably heave communicated the fact to the con- suis, and the consuls would have notified their government, which they have not done so fer.It is worth noting also that the American Board of Foreign Missions bas received a telegram from Chifu dated Joly 5, which states that the Pekin and Tungchau mision- aries sre besieged at the British legs: tion; showing that on Thureday last the experienced agents of the Board at Chify believed that the British legation nec enfe at that time, and this was the general belief at Chifé from whieh place no wusstional reports have come.\u2018 The Pekin courier\u2019s account.of the position of the foreigners ot the British logations and cf tbe condition of the capital is reassuring alter the stories of members which have come frum Shang: bai.He reporte that the forvigners have not suffered suvers lomeu, that they have sufficient food snd sermundtion, sad, moreover, that some one is sup plying them with food.This is signif cant in connection with bis repers that the Imperial troops are not takisig much part with the Boxers in their smeslte upon the foreign legations, and that the Fozere, having Jost heavily, ere sou what discowrsged, end ere convinesd thet their \u2018magico dos not pretest thes against death from bullete\u2019\u201d It ta said that the Mobammedsa weeps under General Tung Fuh Sieg Mx mere intent upon pillage and plunder then upce exterminating she foresgners.It is aleo significant that there are ro- ports of the rapid development of a cvunter revolution against Princes Tusa end his party.It seems to be believed that the Dowager Jn- press and the Emperor Kwang Ba are still alive end that Prince Ch'og has headed a militery movement in their favor agninet Prince Tuan as an weurper.It sofas certain that Pricce Tuan te meeting With strong opposition in Pekin, not improbmbly because of the influence ol the grest Viceroys of Sonth and Cem.trel China, who have refused to obey him or permit his troops to cress the Yol- low river and enter their provinces, and have apparently checked the efforts even of the Boxers to arouse the paoples of the Yangiee and Wegt (Cantom) river valleys aguinst the fercigmers.Who Prince Ching is, whose hes 0 sd.denly become prominent satisfactory way to Europeans, is mot emplyi - the despatches; and recent writers in China say nothing of him Cung ¥i, the Director of Mines for the Province of Chibli, is & rieb and great railway promoter, and, though progressive, a friend of the Dowager Empress, may be the man but he ie self- made and not a prince at least of the royal clan.His name is, however, as different from that of Ching except to foreign ears and eyes ss possible.It may be he, however, ia ad of Li Hung Chang's » rs whee.whereabouts evesybady des been wondering, who is reported, ta be driv ing Prince Tuan owt wf Pekin and revictualling the besieged Ecropeans Japan is sending a fine army to.Tientsin and there is till hope by its means Pekin may yet be relieyedjin time to save the ministers, Prince Ching be finally defented.The report of the advance of a force sian and Japanese troops to is probably a Sbanghai fake.wt LOST ON LAKE LRIE, & PLEASURE YACHT GOES Dows _ WITH SIX QF HER PASSENGERS.5 \u20ac Cleveland, July 8.\u2014The rods = \u2019 \u2018Idler\u2019 was lost 1m a Torii six teen miles off this port on Seturdey of.ternoon, with aix passengatt, ail members of the family of James Corrigan, a \u2018wealthy vessel owner of this city, aboard.The dead are :\u2014 Mrs.James Corrigan, wife of the own: Mrs.Charles Reilly, aged 33 yours, daughter of Mr.and Mes.James Corri san.Miss Jane Corrigan, sged 20 yoèrs, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.James Queri- Miss Ids May Corrigan, aged 15 yeuss.Miss Emma , aged 13 years Baby Reilly, grand dsughtes of Mr.and Mrs.Corrigan.Mrs.John Corrigan wee the caly pen venger aboard who was mved.C.P.Holmes, the captain ; Sanmel mens the mate ; four sailors, two cooks and ; the ship's carpenter, were also saved.The yacht left Port Huron yesterday with the family of Mrs.Corrigatt aboard ; and started for Cleveland.* Mr.Corti Ÿ gan was ill and left by train.The -.yacht was in tow until she reached Bar Point, when the captain left his tow end turned the yacht for Cleveland.At two o'clock the storm came and inside of five minutes the yacht mank.All the women, excepting Mrs.John Oorvigas and Miss Emma Corrigan were in the.cabin when the gale came up.They be\" came panic stricken and refused to leave - the place.The mate implored them tv À come to the deck, but they refused.Mrs.John Corrigan clung to the cork voie.when the gale came up and was saved.at The survivors of the ey up by tugs a few minutes dent and brought into wy ron | w parer CaxtiË Duke of i let As Leweon oon: da ae pf now of Kingswood, bas ail\" \u2018Canedisn en Leg \u2018 ; aa TE mn - 07 ¥ pe \u2018 N Fe * Since l gtertéé using Milburn's Heart GLORIOUS RECOLLECTIONS.| THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER'S STORY.(By the Burcmess Ven Sabimer, in the Now York \u2018Evening Post.') We were discussing the question as to whether ware would ever cease.A young Meutenant of the resorve wee arguing in faver of war.\u2018Ot courses we all bnew,\u2019 he mid, \u2018that you counct make war with ross-water.It js mean and disheartening and even dangerous to dwell so much on ita suf foriugs instead of ite glory, and endear wr to darken is resplendent picture.Those mut be glorious recollections whidh\u2014' \u2018Gloriows recollecsions! Oh!\u2019 These words came, scarcely audible, from the lips of à gentieman present who was sitting next to me.Btartled by the intense pain revealed in bis tone, Y insisted om knowing to what he re ferred, and he thereupon told us tho told me, by this Prussian officer, then reti from the service.Of course I caufiot be answerable for the exact now.The picture may bave had few t here and there, but the \u201c groundwork; the facte, are true, as too the genctel color; that is, the feeling that pertaded his narrative, the tone \u2018that thrilled us, as he unfolded the story of his beautiful and glorious recol- Jactions.I was after the battle of Orleans.FoF days we bad struggled for the final victory.Now we were sent as out posta to a small village, a few hours be- Fond Orleans, We rode on exhausted, wet through\u2014 je bad been ruining for the previous forty-sight hours\u2014and hungry.Thom are three conditions, believe me, which when they happen to co-exist have a tendenoy to damp one's enthusisem for war, ob that the wicked thought, \u201cWhy, why, in + is often uppermost in ; coës mind, We had to move on very cautiously, for the neighborhood was in a condition cf ill ed excitement.We knew the regular army to be retreating, but we had to beware of those confounded murderers, the [(ranc-tirears.Ou them we concentrated all the virtuous indig- mation with which we usually surround the te go or ve 4 NATIONAL CALL é le vonder werking in its effects.Xo other preparation in tbe worid cas equsi tt À 6e the eniy epooty and sure-eure Sor Gali, Sore Back and Shoulders, Our Spootnl Offer: Ou cessipt of SE cop Wo will eend à Oui sise box of National Gall Ours and s yelr of handsome Crystal Resettte, lie ENGLISH EMBROCATION CO, each one drachm, made imo a with linseed meal and molarses.oad à broken winded Morse, wben , RB thould be well shaken to remove and sprinkled with water.Clover onid NETTLE RASK., P.M.A., C.B.\u2014I have à glare wes four years old last week.| « 1k- J tle swelling under the bely, and nest morning she was swelled all over, ia patoh.«s.Now, the swelling has gons down, ex- \u201cept under the belly, but har shoulders are very sore, and tha bind tege are suf: 1 did no driving with her, asd caly farm work.What is the disease, and what is thé remedy® Ans\u2014The condition li due to checked perspiration or ont of the kidneys.Keep her ln & large, loose box: feed har on cut grass and give her a pint of raw loseed oil as à laxative.After it has operated, give her daily, for 8 week, three &rachme of nitrate of potash, in a mash of bran.clothing and gentle exercise.If the - {ng remains, you can hasten ts removal by hot fomentations.§ EFFECTS OF INFLUENZA.D.8.8, Dominfon City, Main.\u2014! have a horse.fifteen years oid, which bad an attack of last fall.He has never quite recovered; te thin in flesh, snd is troubled with itch ing skin, which is rough and rather pim- \" ply about the withers, and sboulders.Fes a cough, more noticeable while dri or after ating dry or dusty feed.Eats fairly well.always been in good condl- tion until! this trowdle.Does pot whinny clearly, as formerly.Is mill willing, but canpot stand work.Flease prescribe.Ans.\u2014The horse should have two months rest at pasture.Before turning him po feed bim on bran mashes two days, wash him with à ten percent solution of Do this In the forencon, wben warm; rub bis throat with the following: Olive oll, spirits of turpentine, and aqua smmenis, twice daily, till bdiistered.taking hime up from give him a seven drachm aloes ball as a pu after which feed him up gradually asd es- ercise regularly.SEA LIONS DECIMATE THE SAL MON THE The seals ang ses lions which infest the mouth of the Columbia river have crested such havoc among the salmom Baers = that PecTiade with dynamite soon ma net Le animals are both whrewd and Pola it ie mid that a seal will police a est + net with t regularity and take a bite out of the throst every maimam \u2019% it contains.Frequently when a fisher mans taking ia pet Tuto he t and is about to gaff & fish awhich iy dhtangt- ed in the meshes, will rise and bite its throat.* Merde con gate on & certai LL.iar the mouth of the river, anddit ie proposed that dynamite mines be the sand and connected with afland by wired When the Shin ual ashose x minds, wi exp .es laid for the i id Jor, So ary o the seu ; wi Lecden (Ont); Ware\u201d June 18.ol * n° 7 14 LETTERS FROM READERS THE MONGOLIAN QUESTION.(To the Editor of the * Witnem.') Stir,\u2014] am going to beg for a little PROS in your paper to express some opin- ious on the question of Oriental immigration, knowing the wide influence of the \u2018 Witoem,\u201d an a thoroughly independent, the fact that certsin editorials of your papet have besn quoted far and wide throughout this province, by the party of clams legislation and monopolistic fav- (who well know the great weight views of the \u2018Witneæ\u2019 would have a paper of Liberal inclinations and intentions) againet the party who are most active in endeavoring to lave legislation passed to check this influx of Mongols I believe, too, sir, that if the \u2018Witness\u2019 had been better informed it would take a very different view than it does of the completion of politics in this province.In the recent politcal contest here, the À party of reform snd good government was aligned with Joe Martin (albeic per bapa not the most infallible of politicians), against the party of corrupzieon and land-grabbing, who were using all the powers of money and intimidation, and the slander of a bought-up press.The Oriental immigration question is the great question of the day in this country.It ie np.question of national importance, and threatens to crush the life out of this section of the Dominion.To the di bystander in the east, who fs not brought into active com- tact wit tbe grave consequences of this Oriental competition, it may seem thu: our jem to the Mongolians is a very, and ungenerous one.\u2018 probably tawe a very Imperialistio view, think it: amreasonable and unjust, y Chat ve should endeavor to exclude these peoples from our vast and resourceful country, which is à part of the Intish -Fxepife, which has always been iree to every pation, and the asylum of the oppressed.But I maintain that however tanevolent we may wish to be as a country to the outside heathen world, we are net justified in introducing them iato out midst, thereby depriving our own countrymen by their competition, of an ample means of subsistence, and corrupting dur national Efe.What man.no matter how well-wishing and philanthropic ha may be towards a criminal will instal him in his gwn family on an equal standing with big sons and daughters ?What family \u2018would not be corrupted Thereby, and Low little sympathy wouid father have, when his family turned evil ways, when it was remembered he \u2018himmelf had endangered théir by ing them in association, on an equal footing, and in competition with à criminel.On these grounds, therefore, 1 earnest- W-contend that the introduction of a people who bare not attained pur moral standard and mode of Hving in our country ie bound to be disastrous and will eavrvate our national mora! life.Chief , other nations for their nar- zow, bound, unsympethetic con- imp, and attechment to heathenism, ove the Orientals.One would think the Chinaman especially coming te he does from a country which.is oppressed by the most heathenish bondage, and antagonistic to all improvement, would, when introduced into the very noontime of civilization, as he is in tais country, endeavor to throw off the bonds of his mervétude, and adopt our advanced ideas and improved mode of life, We would think that when he first leads in this great, , enlightened country his mina Id be over whelmed with astonishment and admiration as he becomes acquainted with our great inventions, free institutions and eniightened government.Here he has ireedom to which tre was previously « etranger.Here he is protected by wise sad benevolent Jaws ; in his own Jountry be was at the mercy of an arbitrary and unprincipied government Here he can worship God as his conscience dictates, there he must remain in superstition and ignorance.But does be sppreciate these adwvautages, or profit by them?No, he does not.He introdtoss à miniature Chine into our midst, aad keeps up his caste and mu- perstition.His home is & hovel, where many are crowded together in a squalid condition, and of such a nature that it would disguet a hog of respectable \u2018n- clinstions.His food is still the meagre and insufficient ration that it always vas He still lives in slavery to the , Chinese labor-contraotor.He bends to 1.the will of Chinese secret societies.He atill keeps up his obnoxious superstitions, and bows down to gods of wood & tnd stone.His wage is such thet no white man conld exist on it, and after he has accumulated enough of capital in his meen and unprincipled way, he returns to spend the remainder of his days, in à land of bondage and oppres- \u201csion.+The Japanese in but little better.He as more application, but ss little as lation.Being more mechanical he ite more deeply into trades and profes- Id , and is really the more dangerous a the two people And yet these are w ja peopie that are in open and diss he ood competition with the industrious, anced, and enterprising white population in this country.The working: man who wishei @ live in comfort, who wishes to give children & liberal lanation and té lish a prosperous * enlightened al th on the w THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.THE \u2018BREMEN.BURNING OF THE \u2018BREMEN\u2019 AND THE \u2018SAALE\u2019 AT HOBOKEN.shores of the Pacific, has every day and every hour to compete with Asiatic races.whoee natures are foreign to improvement and whose minds are en slaved in superstitious bondage.Dur ing the past six months over ten thous and Orientals have arrived on our shores.The transportation companies try to console us by telling us that some are going to the United States.Rut this is poor consolation.Nearly all who go to the United States remain on the Pacific siope in the neighboring states.There is no forty-ninth parallel in the labor market.As soon sa they get too crowded over there, they at once flock here.They do nearly all the unakilled labor that sa done here.They control the fishing and do most of the work in the canneries, mwmills and factories.They cut all the wood, and mine most of the coal.The Canadian Pacific Railway, in ite benevolent way, gives employment to thousnds.They do most of the boat building, and are fast cutting into building trades generally.Their merchants are even competing with white merchants, They trade mostly with their own people, and thereby cause a great and constant drainage of cepi- tal from this country to the Orient.After this momentary glance into the true condition of affairs in this country, who will wonder that we are raising a hue and cry about it.In fact, air, it ie a question of self-preservation with the white races in this province.What, then, is the guilt of govern- menta that have allowed this state of things to come about ?There are two great causes that have prevented some restrictive legislation being passed.is that for years we have had in British Columbia governments whose members were either the officials or tools of great corporations.As might have been expected in a new country, where people have been more engaged in their business pursuits than concerned with political questions, where the population has been more or less transient, and where we have no party feeling to whip up the people to an active interest, men of crafty and selfish dispositions have attained power.Taking advantage of the good-natured indifference of the people, they have neglected their true intecests, and for seifish ends have played into the hands of the corporations.They have never endeavored, with one exception, to enact laws to preserve the country from Oriental ocoupation.Even now a ministry hes regained power whose previous legislation has bevu the most shameless and corrupt ever perpetrated in any province in Caneda under responsible government, which is saying a great deal.The result, therefore, of this failure of our legislators to pass eome active legislation has caused the people in the east to look askance at our agitation, and think it merely an election cry.The present Federal Government alleges that it is contrary to Imperial interests to pass restrictive legislation against the Japanese, especially.But, sir, T ask you where does the true Imperial interest Jie?! Who will say that it is more in the interests of the Empire to make Britidh Columbia merely an out- lyiag province of Jepan than it is to preserve it for the home of an honest, libertydoving and patriotic people ! We maintain that this rich country is our Meritage, won and bequeathed to us.by our hardy, industrious, and brave antestors, and we propose to propagate their virtues in a British, not sn Oriental population.Another great inflgence against ue ie the corporations, chiofly the Canadien Pacific Railway.Not only does that great monopoly re- osive great benefits by getting this cheap labor on their railway, but they resp a rich profit from the transportation to and fro of these Mongolian hordes, on their steamships and railway.I need not stop to elaborate upon the extent of! the influence of this great company.No one can estimate it.Does it not control governments, and dictate terms to the whoie nation ?It will be a happy day for this province when that corporation is either sstisted or controlled.Now, sir, the way we propose to over come the great wrongs we suffer under by this immigration and competition is simply by resirictive legislation.1 mean to say there is no sentiment in favor of brute force.Is it not a great illus tration of the law-abiding and lil loving nature of our people thet although these low and alavish people are daily, by their competition, depriving them of their natural rights and means of living, and at the very moment when our own countrymen, who are endeavor ixg to improve the business and re ligious conditions of Chine, are being murdered by the Obinese, there has never been a movement toward mob violence, and we quietly allow the het- then Chinee to pursue the even tenor of bis way ?There is really nothing \u2018wild snd woolly\u2019 about the people of the west after all.But, as our Jete finance minister, Mr.J.C.Brown, one of the most able, advanced and high principled politicians in this province, has seid, this invasion of Orientals \u2018must stop.\u2019 And the people say \u2018Amen.\u2019 (Some \u2018Ah-men\u2019\u2019) This country is ours.We are sprung fiom the loins of the Imperial rwces of One mankind, and we don\u2019t propose to be overwhelmed by sn army of heathen: The people in the east must be brought to realize the great importance of this Question.And I trust, Mr.Editor, that you will give it your earnest considers.tion (as the politicians say), and bring the grest influence of your respected paper to our aid.I approach your col umna with some trepidation, being « ren of limited education, but T am sincere in regard to this question and hope that it may be more generally brought to the attention of eastern opinion.Thanking you for your space.AUNTY MONGOL.New Wev'ntinster, B.C.Tune, 1900.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HEALTH CONDITIONS IN CITIES.(To the Editor of the Witness.\u201d) Sir, \u2014Mr.Louis Windmuller, writing in the \u2018Forum, calls aiteption to the great want of trees, open spaces and other health requisites in the city of New York.\u2018When the heat is greatest,\u2019 he says, \u2018and especially when the periods of high temperature extend over many consecutive days, the mortality is simply appalling among the destitute, living in the packed tenement districts.On the streets the conditions are not much better, for here the heat is greatly intensified by reflection from brick walls and asphalt pavements, and in some quarters the air is vitiated by decaying garbage and other foci of infection\u201d He contraste the unprogressiveness of New York in\u2018the matter of open spaces with the progresiveness of London, Paris, Hamburg and other European cities.The total park ares of New York is very considerable, but, heing away from the area of congested population, it is practically useless to the mass of the people.plorable encroachments have been made upon park areas formerly existent.Al with this bas gone the destruction trees.Mr.Windmuller remarks, \u2018The conspicuous absence of trees from the residential streets of modern New York is hard to explein.Rich men who live bere only during the winter appesr to 4 i THE 'SAALR.\u2019 take very little interest in their fellow citizens who are compelled to remain in town all summer.in some instances, indeed.the absence of trees in front of houses situated upon our park and river fronts seems to suggest a fear on the part of the owner that folisge might obscure architecture, apparently oblivious to the fact that the beauty of a dwelling is frequently enhanced thereby.\u2019 ; The value of trees as agents of sanitation has ever been recognized.Here I need refer only to the example of the Romans, who reared olive trees to absorb the malaria] effluvia of the Cam- pagna.Nor has this fact been overlooked now, for in many cities of the world rows of trees have been planted in the streets to serve as arteries for the circulation of purified air.Unfortunately New York is a glaring exception to the rule, although no city ever presented finer opportunities for the cultivation of arboreta.To-day the numer ous stumps in the sidewalks of downtown streets bear silent witness to that ruthless process of extermination which has despoiled eur city of its fairest ornaments.\u2019 Mr.Windmuller\u2019s article gives rise to several questions in the mind, all of which are hard to answer.Here we have an enormously populous city subject to the ost intense summer heat, and with hardly any attempt to utilise trees and open spaces as à means of sanitation and comfort.Humanity is piled in tiers to the sky regardless of the fact that there is a \u201cwhole globe to walk upon.These hundreds of thousands of people who are penned here, and who cannot get away, may roest, sew, stifie and swelter\u2014orthodox plati- tudinarianiem thinks it is all right, and calls any other view a \u2018crude revolutionary idea\u2019 Is there no Moses to lead out this overcrowded people from this Egypt of brick end mortar\u2014from this terrestrial pandemonium ?! A large city Kke New York absolutely requires a strong and enlightened government.In a small town good government is not #0 essential; yet New York in the very place where it is lacking.Is this cal amitous fact raused by the want of public spirit among the rich, or by the ignorance of the masses, or by the baneful introduction of party politics into civic affairs, or by some defect in the constitution of the city ?It is probeble that every one of these factors is operative in the result.Let me say a few words with regard to the last of these factors.The government of « great city is & matter quite as much of national as of local responsibility.This is particu- lady the case where the population is racially mixed, and as io large part an- der the domination of s religion which is not very humanitarian or progressive.The constitutional powers of American city governments are severely criticised by the late David A.Wells in his monumental work on taxation.The point specially criticised is the power to ush taxation to furnish the means for corrupt expenditure.Mr.Wells's words are partly his own, and partly quoted from Mr.D.M.Means.He says, \u2018That the state governments should have be stowed the unlimited and imperial power of texation upon city governwmeuts, and given up to their use and control the entire property of the citizens, is an extraordinary abuse of trust and re- punciation of the true functions of government.The legislature holds the pub- De.lic purse, and is false to ite trust ae iis custodian when it authorises oorpor.- tions to put their hands, unwatohed, into this puree and take from Ît, uncounted, all that their extravagance and cu- pidlity desire.\u201d This censure may assem to weigh rather against than for, expenditure for public improvements in cf- ties, Lut it contains and expresses ths A principle that the national government has the right to control over city governments.The nation ibas the same right of control over localities where population is dense\u2014that is, cities\u2014as it has where population is sparse.The supreme power of a city government over the vitally important interests centred in a large city is as absurd as it would be to give the small municipalities containing mines the right to make the mining laws of the country, or the dwellers on the ehore the right to make narine laws.The city of Washington, D.C., is governed by a commission appointed by the President, and this sy» tem has proved fairly satisfactory.Tt ie safe to say that New York would be in all respects a better place to live in H it were under a despotism than as ;t is at present.Anglo-Saxon liberty is suited only to Anglo-Saxon populations, and the pedantic carrying out of the principle of self government without regard to particular circumstances, resulie only in the intense misery of the gow ened.8.Y.MACENIGHT.Toronto, June 25, 1900.FOX FEEDING ON THE ALASKAN ISLANDS.{\u2018Bcientific American.\u2019) The Alaskan and Aleutian chain of is lands stretch westward across the Pacific, almost to the mainland of Asia.Al though they bave been American territory for a long time, they are seldom heard of, with the exception of the Pri- byloff group, which are important on account of the fur seals and the international complications which have arisen in connection therewith.Now, bowever, we learn from an interesti report by Howard M.Kutchin, pect agent for the protection of the n salmon fishery, that a new industry is ing on in these islands.Fox breeding for their pelts is assuming proportions of considerable magnitude on she Alaskan Islands, many of which have been leascd for this pul , and others have been appropris without the ment of a government yearly rental of $100 for each island.There are now no less than thirty-five islands occupied by proprietors of fox ranches.A consideruhle portion of the time oc- eupied by the cruise of the \u2018Perry\u2019 last season was devoted to the work of as certaining the situation of the islande in use for purpose mentioned, tad in enforcing the regulations of the Tres.aury Department in relation thereto.The industry is still in an experimental stage and in many cases it is a question whether the labor and expenditure may not prove a bad investment; but there are other instances in which proper bud- ness methods have been u: where the returns will son be adequate and promise immense profits in the future.The foxes with which the breeding is begun cost from $150 to $200 à pair, and the work has been going on for fifteen years or more, and ap to date there have been practically no returns, but as three of the islands have now over 3 thousand foxes it will be seen that it must only be 8 question of a short time when the venture will turn out satisfastorily from à financial point of view.The original project was ty propagate the silver grey fox, the fur being more valuable than that of the blue fox, the common rate for a pelt bein $50 for the silver grey and $16 for the blue fox.The silver grey is a comparatively ferocious beast, considering the cowardly nature of the species in general, and is also much given to killing fte young.It has been aimost impossible to domesticate this animal.wolf than a fox in natineta, and the breeding of them practically abandoned, there being but a Single ie land where they are now tn be found in any number.The blue fox je practically the only , and It is readil It is, pers s, more of a has soon be- which ia ily tem D Sd with gentle handling + Jour 10, 1900.comes 80 domcetic in its habite te ae the hand of Me .the blue fox being developed from white fox, while the silver en black comes from the red.A7 food is fish, either raw or cooked, and corn meal mixed with tallow.Except for a couple of months in midsummer the feeding is done Sa out e year at the average cost 00 per fox.Each of the islands haa from two to three keepers for the fox ranch, se- cording to the number of foxes cared for, and they spend their entire time, the year round, in the work.The skins are taken from Nov.20 to Jan.20, the method being to catch foxes in traps.All females are .after marking them.For each six fe males one male fox is turned loose, finest animale being selected for breeding purposgé.The killing age is about eighteen months, although fox skins be had oe young a.sight mont! pd it especi well grown the animals sometimes killed at this age.The sel donsatication of the fur-bearing animals affords the only \u2018possible escape from the early extermination of a lai part of those species which now provide the most costly and luxurious of wearing apparel.It seems reasonable io mppost that the Alaskan fox industry, in which $100,000 ie row invested, ma; (0%, the ber ginn of a great and pro e ness, the islands of Alaska being par ticularly fitted for the e: iment, yor few of them are of he rast Talus or any other purpose.It is thou experienced fue men that it ight be entirely feasible to introduce the Rus sian sable and other of the more valu able martin jes into Alesks for pro pagation on rame lines as the fox experiment, and whatever the government can do in the direction do saçour i evelopment ur reining, wii\" be à well and wisely taken.Dre propristor of the bear ange Ka proprietor tr range has a dosen or more animals.A STRANGE EFFE(T OF FREEING THE UPPER NILE WATERS.The cutting of the sudd on the Upper Nile and the consequent release of large volumes of stagnant water has bad, mays the London \u2018 Times,\u2019 an unanticipated influence on the condition of the river at Awuan.From reports received by tir Benjamin Baker from the engineering staff it would appear that the absence of free oxygen in the water has caused wholesale destruction of the fish.Witn- in a hundred yards of the remaent engineer\u2019s office at least a million dead fish, renzing in size from minnows to mix feet in length, are to be founi, snd although the season is relatively cool (the shade temperature not.exceeding 112 degrees) the odor is unpleasant and adherent to those who cannot dispense with \u2018their customary bath.There is, cf course, no other drinking water available, and fortunately no evils have resulied from its use.This is consistent with London experience when it was usual to pour crude sewage into the stream.The filtered water, though clear and odorless, was drunk with impunity, but, having no free oxygen, eels plunged into it would struggle violently and finally die of saf- fooation, as, no doubt, has been the case with the fish in the Nile under the spe cial circumstances resulting from the long-deferved cutting of the sudd this Fear.The sudd was cut on the Bahr el Jebel, or Western Nile, south of Fashoda, during the winter and spring months, by an Egyptian force under Major Peak, à British officer.The purpose of cutting a channel through the floating vegetation which blocked both effluents ot eo Nile above Fashoda was to free the waters and increase the floods on the Lower Nile upon which the productivenwms of Egypt depends, and also to clear a channel for steamer and mil communication between the Soudan, the Equatorial Provinces and Uganda.This work was finished in April.Assuan, where the great dam and reservoir is being constructed, is about two thousand miles south of the place where the sudd in the Bahr el Jebel was cut.And between Assuañ and that place the Nils flows down five different cataracta, the four between Abu Hamed and Wady Jlaïfs being very violent and long ones It would have been supposed that the Nile waters after flowing such a distance na 2,000 miles and tumbling over five cater actes would have been thoroughly oxygen- \u2014\u2014 PRESIDENT KRUGER'S PAS SEUL.Many years ago, when President Kruger was in England, he was approached concerning some concession, railway or otherwise, by a business man in London.The negotiations lasted for some time.One evening the Londoner, who was staying at the sams hotel, having spent many hours with Mr.Kruger and his compean- ion, went to bed much exhausted, and feeling he bad not got quite all he wanted.Next morning he aros at nine o'clock and went along the corridor to Mr.Kruger\u2019s bedroom.To his aston ishment it was empty, snd all the lug gage was gone.\u2018Oh, sir,\u2019 said the chambermaid, \u2018Mr.Kruger and his friends left at six this morning\u2019 Then, with a gig gle of amused reminiscence, the girl Added: \u2018They was a queer couple, sir, and no mistake.When \u2018e passed your door, sir, Mr.Kruger, \u2018e started dancin\u2019 right outside your door, sir, 'e and his friend.They didn't know ae any one saw them, tir, but Bessie and I nee them, unbeknown, from the top of the stairs.Then they went down stairs, sir, fairly éplittin® their aides with le: *, though ther \u2019 didn\u2019t say og T4 sed, and \u201c \u201c send you an account Jory 10, 1900.A CHEERFUL REPORT, Large Accession of Supplies at Bloemfontein, PR.RYERSON ON THE GOOD WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY CANADIAN RED CROSS AGENTS.The council of the Red Cross Society recently remitted to Dr.Ryerson, at Bloemfontein, by cable, £1,000 for Red Cross work, \u2018The following letters from Dr.Ryer- son were submitted : LORD KITCHENER'S JEST.Bloemfontein, May 8, 1900.The past week has been marked by one or two incidents worthy of notice.Col.Otter was dangerously wounded in so far as the locality of the wound is concerned.The bullet went within a half inch of the jugular vein, and had he not been in 8 constrained position, so thst the mueclos were tense, 1 fear the wound would have been fatal.I am very glad to be able to report that he is making mowt satisfactory progress, and will soon be able to rejoin the reginent.We have had a large accession to our stores, owing to the happy ides which occurred to me as to transport.1 no- Giced that the ambulance trains came north quite empty, so that when, at the request of Bir John Furley, I went to the chief of staff, Lord Kitchener, I proposed that the traine should bring up our supplies.He immediately acceded to the request, and issued orders to give effect to it, saying laughingly he hoped he would see no more of me, for I had haunted headquarters with demands for transport.The effect is to give us an ample supply of everything needed.ing the eggs.No more impor tant contribution could be made for the welfare of the enterics.The eggs are dear, but most important, and are prac tically unobtainable here in any quan: tity.1 feel disposed to contribute en- other £100 for this purpose.I make it a condition that every Canadian who is permitted it by his doctor, shall bave an egg daily.I am sorry to report that there are 4,000 sick and wounded now here.That is because this is the base, and all sick and wounded are sent here until able to be sent to Wynberg.The demands upon us are large, and I shall not hesitate to call upon you for further contributions whea I think it necessary.1 think you are aware that I have been British eub-commissioner with headquarters.This does not interfere with my Canadian work.The health of our Canadian wick is grestly improved, generally speaking.Some of the cases in hospital are still in a critical condition, A great deal of my time is taken up with an immense correspondence, which erises out of the gifts from Canada and England.I sm not able to thank all donors, but do eo far as I am able.1 have made very few purchases lately\u2014 our boxes supplying wants.CANADIANS AID LADY ROBERTS'S WARD.Bloemfontein, May 12, 1900.This last week there has been estal lished here a rest camp for officers and men who are a little seedy or worn out.There are in it already over 700 men.We have at the present time two wounded officers and eight sick officers in Bloemfontein, and 125 men, of all contingents.I made special arrangements for the comfort of the sick of D and E Batteries, R.C.A, at De Aar, end am making great efforts to meet the requirements of the rest camp.Extra food is the great requirement.They get only the official rations.I have made strong representations to our chief commisisoner at Capetown regarding this important subject.T have given another £100 to the chief commissioner for the purchsee of further supplies of egge.There is no more important article of diet for the convalescents .This contribution brings our direct outlay for eggs and genera) purposes at Capetown to £300, exclusive of the suma I have spent st Kimberley and at this place, of which I shall shortly.The hundred blanket rugs for the off- cers of the different contingents have now all been distributed\u2014each corps getting its proportion, except C Battery, which is at the base, and is not in want of them.The reporta I have received regarding the blankets are most satis factory.They cost £00 13s.Canadians will see that the money so generously subscribed is thus spplied directly to the relief and comforts of the sick and wounded, List of articles contributed by Cana- disn branch for Lady Roberts\u2019s ward in Government House : 20 basins, 6 feeding cups, 6 sponges, 2 doten towels, 3 dozen shirts, 8 boxes toilet soap, 3 bottles toilet vinegar, 30% yards mosquito netting, 2 dozen cups, % dosen fans, ¢ dosen handkerchiefs, 100 paira of sheets, iow slips 36 pillows, 3 suits py- \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GOOD NEWS FROM MISS MAR GARRET KING.It afford the {riends of Mise Mar garet King, in Montreal and elsewhere, much blessure to know that a cable m Jan just been Te on ber anghai, indicating not on! er safety but her intention to return for Pt Lyd during this at oe k missionary fleld, in which she has been so earnestly and successfully ppd for « number of years, on behalf of Fre kine Presbyterian Church, at Yangchan, up the Vangie river, and near Chin iang.It is Mies King's intcation to ail Lome on July 2.\u2014_\u2014_ BISHOP McEVAY'S ULTIMATUM.Chatham, Ont, July 5.\u2014Bishop Mo Evay has issued an ultimatum concerning the school question at Tecumseh.Me informs the parishioners that the Roman Catholics of Ontario are entitled to have separste schools, and that it is bis intention to enforce this right throughout bis diocese.The change will take place at Tecumseh the first of the school year, and Catholic children must attend separ ate schools.The parishioners have little to say concerning this order, but the majority are understood to be verse to the change.If the present public school building is used for a separate schol, three qualified teachers will lose their positions and their places will be taken by Bisters from the Ursuline Convent at Chatham.\u2014_\u2014 SIEGE OF KUMASSI.COL.WILLOOCKS EXPECTS TO RELIEVE THE CITY SHORTLY.London, July 5.\u2014The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Shelborne, announced in the House of Lords to-day, that the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, Sir Frederick Mitch- oll Hodgson, with six hundred native soldiers, commanded by Major Morris, left Kumessi on June 23.He added that Captain Bishop and a hundred native soldiers remained there, with rations sufficient to last until July 15.Col.Willcocks promises to personally relieve Kumass by that date, under any circumstances.The news of the Governor leaving Ku- massi was contained in a despatch from Col.Willcocks dated Fumasu, July 4, which adds: \u2018Burroughs with four hundred native soldiers arrived at Dompos- ai July 1.The enemy was completely surprised and evacuated the stockades.Burroughs captured forty guns and ammunition and killed thirty of the enemy.\u2019 Kingston, Jam., July 7\u2014The government to-day received a telegram from Mr.Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, suggesting terms on which a West Indian contingent of military should proceed to Africa to fight the Ashantis.It is believed the terms will be accepted.\u2014_\u2014 TO BECOME GREATER.Canadian Bank of Commerce to Purchase Bank of British Columbia.WILL TREN HAVE A CAPITAL OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS AND BE THE SBCOND LARGEST CANADIAN BANK.The Canadian Benk of Commerce is about to purchase the assets and business of the Bank of British Columbia, and the shareholders of the Canadian Bank of Commerce will be asked to ra \u2018tify the purchase at a meeting to be called on Aug.20.This will be a most important happening in the Canadian world of finance as it will bring up the capital of tho Canadian Bank of Commerce to two-thirde of that of the Bank of Montreal and constitute it by far the second largest bank in Canada.The capital of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Merchants Bank of Can- ads is now the same, $6,000,000, but when the contemplated purchase is effected, the capital of the Canadian Bank of Commerce will be $8,000,000, and it will then bave seventy branches, including an office in London.The Bank of British Columbis, with headquarters at Victoria, bas ten branches, and an office in London, England, and is the only bank having ite head office in the province.It has an authorized capital of $9,733,332, and à paid-up capital of $2,919,906.With ite already profitable, large, and rapidly expanding business increased so notably as by the purchase of the Bank of British Columbia, the Canadian Bank of Commerce makes a decided advance towards becoming one of the notable \u2018banks of the world.\u2019 \u2014 A REVOLT IN THE CAMP.FRENCH MEMBERS WANT MORE PAY.The \u2018 Temps,\u2019 of Ottawa, publishes the following :\u2014The Liberals held a caucus this morning, which is without doubt the most important of the session.Rir Wilfrid Laurier and most of the Ministers were present.The Premier advised the greatest secrecy regarding the de- liberationa of this caucus, or, if not, the Liberal caucuses would rarely take place in the future.One of the French mem.bets raised the question of supplementary indemnity.There were several protests among the English section.The French element then submitted a resolution calling for an indemnity of $800, without which the members would not wit in the House.What gives this an appearance of truth was the fact that there wis not a single French member in the House this morning except Mr.Belcourt.The other proceedings of the caucus were sec: ret, but it ie ieved dealt with the Question of the general election.\u2019 J \u2019 MONTREAL NEWS, The advance in whest has sent bread up about one to one and a half cents per louf, and it may go up another cent.H.MS, \u2018Tribune,\u2019 which arrived in Montreal harbor last Tuesday, was vis ited by quite a large number of citisens, who rejoice at the presence of \u2018Britain's buivache The Montreal Terminal Railway Company is pressing its claim for a right to enter Montreal, and will give opposition to the Montreal Street Railway Company if it is allowed to come into the city's streete.Steve Pratt, A.C.White aud John Saunders, the three gold brick operators, who tried in vain to swindle Mesers.L.and W.T.Gordon, of Danville, Que., sre still prisoners, and the evidence against them accumulates, Laprairie camp of instruction, which \u2018was sttended by about 4,000 of the Canadian militia\u2014horse, foot and artillery\u2014 was closed on Saturday.The usual military drill was put in by the troops with more or Jess success.Philibert Chagnon, a child of four years, of 483 Lamlle avenue, was rus over on July 2 by a car of the Terminal Railway, his left leg being terribly crushed.He died last Tuesday, and an inquiry was beld by the coroner on Wednesday morning.Verdict, accidental death.Grand Trunk Railway bollermakers went out on strike on Saturday after noon, baving asked an increase of ten percent, which the company declined to give them.The men belong to the Boilermakers\u2019 Union.Mr, Morse, miperin- tendent of motive power, says the company can do without the men for an indefinite period.The old Gosford strest church building, which is now used as the Canada Liquor Company\u2019s premises, was damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000 on Wednesday evening.I¢ wes built in 1844, and its first pastor was the Rev.Dr.Carruthers, who resided in Montreal for three years, and who spent the remainder of his life in Portland, Me.Louis Eumene, who robbed the Roman Catholic Church of St.Lambert of a silver ornament on June 11, and fifty ecnsecrated wafers, was sent to peniten- tary for eix years.Peter James Car clay, alias Robert M.Nadier, was sent to do three years in the penitentiary for forgery of a cheque for $127.Count de Toulouse Lautrec, charged with forgery, waa yesterday committed for trial in the Court of Queen's Bench.He will, though.be brought before the Cowrt of Special Bessions this morning, when he will have option of a summary trial or by a jury in the Court of Queen's Bench.Every year carelessness of municipal authorities in leaving open quarries long unused just north of St.Denis Ward causes the drowning of children and adults.The last case was on July 1, when a seven-year-old child of W.Lebel, 508 Marie Anne street, while playing with others, slipped into the water with which the quarry holes are now filled, and was drowned.Mr.Somerville Weir, of the firm of William Weir & Sons, bankers, born in Montreal forty-seven years ago, son ot Mr.William Weir, the well-known banker, president of the Ville Marie Bank, died at his home at Back River on July 2.His business was overwhelmed by the failure of the Ville Marie Bank, and be was severely stricken physically as well as mentally by it.- Ship laborers do mox know how to avoid the holds of vessels in harbor as does the regular milor, and these holds being carelessly left unprotected, many & man comes to his death in that way.John Bard, laboring on the \u2018Frisia.\u2019 was sleeping on the vessel, and he arvee during the night, stumbled and went head firet into the open hold.He was killed\u2014another victim to carelessness.The Montreal Chinamen, in jail because of an uujust tax of $60, have pe titioned the City Council in the best English they could muster to let them out of jaily Their petition is backed by Montreal Presbyterians, who ask for the removal ot reduction of the obnoxious tax.It was referred to the Finance Committee and there is a prospect that they may be released.William O'Connor, 22 years old, who worked in the Imperial Waterproof Company\u2019s factory, 275 Bt.Martin street, drank enethylated spirits on Thureday afternoon, and on Saturday drank other liquors.On Saturday the doctor found him unconscious at his home, 300 St.Antoine street, and had him removed to the Montreal General Hospital, but he lingered only until about three o'clock on Sunday morning.Mr.Henry Elliott, well known as a confectioner, residing and doing buainess in Ste.Cunegonde, disappeared on Tuesday last.Hina friends, after some days of great anxiety, learned that his body had been found in the canal, his pockets turned inside out, this evidence pointing either to wuicide or to murder, though no marks of violence were found upon the body.Mr.Elliott did quite a business as à confectioner, and probebly trouble of a business nature weighed beavily upon him.Henri Germain, aged ten, living at 430 Lagauchetiere street, was killed by a train on the wharf, at eight p.m.on Satardey.He was playing with two others on a freight car, and was climbing up the Indder at the end, when « movement of the cars kmooked twe of THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.them off.Ope escaped unhurt, but young Germain fell under the wheels and had his head and one arm almost cut off.Norbert Fafard, M.D., profemor of chemistry at Laval University, died on Sunday at his residence, 208 Sher brooke street.He waa sitting in his office before breakfast, as was his cuetem, about seven o'clock, when his son, who was in the next room, heard a moaning and went in.Finding his father unconscious, he immediately w for Dr.Antoine Lefebvre, who a what Le could, but to no purpose.It was evident, from Ur.Lefebvre'a examination, that Professor Fafard had died of heart discans.Antoine Lebrun, a street railway conductor, fell off his car at the corner of St.Catherine and Parthenais streets, at 8.3) a.m.yesterday.He was taken to the No Deme Hospital, where it was found that, besides receiving a four-inch out in the top of his head, he had fractured his Jeft clavicle.His hurts, however, are not serious.An Italian wes brought go the General Hospital from the corner of William and Colborne streets, at 0.15 yesterday with a bullet through his back.-As he is unable to speak English, an interpre ter was obtained, and it was found that his name is Nicola Zampolloin, of the Cascades, now living at 88% St.George street.He had a quarrel with another man, and the other shot him in the lower part of the back.The extent of the injury has mot yet been ascertained.Two cases of smalipox were taken to the civic hospital last week, one a Syrian among a party of immigrants, and « second from the same house, which has been under surveillance for some weeks.A third case was also reported, a child six years old, from a house on Cathedral street, between St.James and Notre Dame strests.The child died soon after its removal to the hospital.All the cases were imported, and the health suthorities are trying to trace where they came from.One case was taken from the London House to the Royal Victoria Hospital, supposed to be a case of kidney disease.It turned out to be smallpox, and the London House and the Royal Victoria Hospital were both quarantined for sixteen days es a pre cautionary measure.The man, who was Soally taken to the civic hopaital, is The Jaw requires that there ehall be for instance, stood upon them as they were ascending, and could not escepe as thd hoist came up, opening the doors, he would be thrown off and pinned by the action of the uprising hoist against the wall between it and the gradually i ing half of the door.If no help be at band to check the hoist platform he would death as surely as though in a trap.particular fate befel Mr.W.junior partner in the firm Samuel & Son, manufacturers\u2019 8 8t.Helen street, 35 yearw old, of Cote Bt.Antoine Road.He had gone holst, and got caught in the manner de scribed above, as his body was found be tween the opened-up hoist door and the wall, almost flattened, even the bones of the face having been smashed and crushed in, The deceased was unmarried.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE HON.JUDGE ARMOUR SUCCEEDS SIR WILLIAM BURTON.Ottawa.July 7.\u2014The following ap- vointments are noted in the \u2018Canada Gasette\u2019:\u2014 THE HON.J.D.ARMOUR, Chilet Justios of Ontarle.chief justice of the court of Queen's Bench\u201d for Ontario, to be chief justice of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, with the title of chief justice of Ontario, in the room and stead of the Honorable Sir George William Burton, Knight, resigned.y Honorable Wiliam Glenhoime Hum ridge, one ices of the a sy division of the High Court of Justice for Ontario, to be Dresident the Queen's Bench division of the Court of Justice for Ontario, with title of chief justice of the Queen's Peet the room and stesd of the porable John Iloug'as Armour, Narcisse Omer Coté, of Orta and bert, x ous Tere ve boss ap- ot ie T ADVERTISEMENTS.SENT FOR A CENT, The Spramoter Os., of Londes, Ont, wist AUS ER card, à vaiua diseases FE that the book is givem sway.Writs mew, and kindly name the \u2018Witness.\u2019 Address: SPRAMOTOR CO, 68-70 King Street.LEADING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, YOUR Where will you educate DAUGHTER?ALMA COLLROR AND GROUNDS.Rievator, Steam pointed commimioners te investigate and report upon any daims to bounty for services rendered as scouts or otherwise, in connection with the sappres- THE HON.W.G.FALCONBRIDGE, Chiet Justice of the Court of Quesn's Beach for Ontario.don of she d North West Rebellion of prefe ore them by persons resident in the district of Saskatchewan, James Andrew Joseph McKenna, of Ottawa, and James Walker, of v, sre named for a like purpose in Assini- boia and Alberta.SIPIDO FOUND GUILTY THE INSTIGATORS OF THE CRIME, HOWEVER, ESCAPE.Brussels, July 6.\u2014The Amise Court y returned a verdict of gr of attempt to kill the Prince of Wales against Jean Baptiste Sipido, who fired st the Prince on April 4, ss the train bearing His Royal Highness was Jeav- ing the northern station in this city for .The court considered that Sipido acted without discernment and JEAN BAPTISTE SIPIDO, Whe attempted to stoot the Primes Wales at Bressels on April à tenced him to a reformatory until be shall have attained his Ditfority.ro un ce ! 4 Shorthand, ete, 5.Teachers are experienced specialists end are more than inetrartors.Alma oliery p refinlag and socialising Ife.Mxcetient board.Highest health record.3 Right acre campus {a centre of attractive city of 12,000 inhabitawis.Bast equipped Démastie Science department.Five railroads and trolley.Finest buildings, superior Ast Studie, 6 Patroniseé by all the Churches and by the best families.Student Hot most esnchilly guested TWENTIETH YEAR OPENS SEPTEMBER 10th, \\ Bratt REV.R.I.WARNER, M.A; Principal.er SUMMER.TERM Prem Jui; a each uly ar department CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE, } for W.H.SHAW, Prinstpal St.Margaret's College, > TORONTO.A Residential and Day School for Girle Full Academical, Musics) asd Art Courseg,_ \u2014\u2014 For prospectus, apply to MRS.GEORGE DICKSON, Lady Principal.ARD Fert ED; COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.Joa.K.King.Pros.Fort Bdward, EX.For Toung Women and Girls.Six Courses with Preparatory.Forty-third year, Sept 25.Hlustrated catalogne.ALBERT COLLEGE.BELLEVILLE, Ont.Open te both sexes, 258 Students entered last year.Highest facilities provided in Juntor and Senter Matriculation.era\u2019 Courses, ness Courses, Music, Fin+ Arte and Klocu- tion.Model Class Rooms.Splendié Gym nastum.Rates moderate.WILL RE-OPEN REPT, § 1900, For calendar or room, address PRINCIPAL DYER, BD, ASHBURY COLLEGE, {Pounded 1091.Incerporated 1908.ARGYLE AVESIE, OTTAWA, ONT.Boarding and Day School for Bern, Very healthy situation, handsome asd commodieus bullding.very comfortably and thoroughly equipped.- ground and field; very superior .Within jet twe years seven boys trous the neheol inte Tere Utttary College, Kingaion.\u2018Thorough preparation for Universt R.M.C.snd Busiaass Life.Boys recet: from age of eight.Next term commences Sept.11th, 1902.For prospectus, apply te GBS.P.WOOLLCOMBL, B.A.(Oxen,) Er the ground that they considered the plot a joke.London, Jut .\u2014The morning papers 6.generally publish, editorials commenting | on the verdict in the case of Sipido.of the trial is \u2018monstrous.Daily Chronicle,\u2019 declares that it is an \u2018outrage on humanity,\u2019 sud the \u2018Daily characterises 1t 88 \u20183 reproach on | gium.anaes PAYS THE PBNALTY, The \u2018Daily Telegraph\u2019 says the Tra \u2019 Quebec, July 6\u2014Darid Dubé, the mur.dorer ot Thomas Neon, an this morning st 8.91 o\u2019 3 The eme for whieh Dubé suffered the wilful murder, o!* Thomas Mooney at Lake Bragpect last 2 \u201d . 18 \"SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.Lord Roberts Busy Pacitying the Conquered Territory and Cornering the Fighting Boers.THE STRATHCONA HORSE The Canadians Faced the Foe and Beat Them Off Finally\u2014 Their Loss Was Heavy.UDR War naws from South Africa last Tuesday aftermeon wae not of great battle; but it told of the effect of Lord Roberts\u2019s army.General Hunter had joincd fcrees with General Macdonald's Hig + at Frankfort, wheee two m:n of the forth Highlanders and eighteen of the Derbyshire Regiment of Militia were found in hospital.General Lord Methueu had captured the commanier of De Wett's scout, A.Wessels, the Lead of the Afrikander Bond, aud two other prisoners at Paardekraal, cn :he Ifeilbron- Krvonsted road.General Clery had co cupied Greylingstad on July 3, wud mere were four or five casualties to report.A report was sent from Zecrust that the whole Marice commando nad been cap: tured at Lichtenburg, soûth-ezst of Maïe- king, along.with tiemeral Snsman, the besiager of Mafeking, and Commandant Botha.l'eople had almost forgotten ail ubout Sayman, the Boer who fired on the women's lsayer in beeteçing Mafe- king.This rumor's confirmation would be gladly welcomed.The most marked item of news ia that which declares that General Jord Roberts is giving seed to farmers actually in need of it; that he is feeding in Johannesburg familics of the men rho have ven fighting Britain's roldiers.The same course ia pursned at leiluren.where food supplies ran out.Neder comm.ttees dis tributed the food.General Hotha and General Ie Wet, whose forces have been cut asunder by the operations of General Buller'\u2019s forces, are mid to be making an effort \u2018to restore communication.The weather at present works mote serous havoe amoung th British troops thas the Boer bullets.Meantime the isritioh troops are slowly but surely bringing their eutposts closer around General De Wett; and when be lg found in an awh- ward pesition\u2014for Task will net always be!p him out\u2014the etd of his career as 8 guerilla leader will probably be writicn \u201cdown ense and for all tune.The Strath cona Horse are in his mection of the country, and their canny ways and goed well as scouting are ex cod to help i the dewnfall of te famous Beer lender.Casualties of the Kirath- cons Horse thus far have been from few er and exhaustion.In other sections of South Africa the (anadians have suffered severely from this cause.Lord Roberts 19 reported to bave said that Mr.Bur éptt-Loutta's representations as to treat- mnt of the sick and wounded have been based @robably upon one hospital and the situation hestily generalised irom it as relating to all others.The South African wer news of Wed- aesday showed littie of that activi:y which there must be in British camps, especially in Orange River Uolony, where Uemeral De Wett's mischievous Hoer colwma otill exists, with former presi: dent Steyn probebly as ite evil genius.The scouts of Strathoona\u2019s Horwe are \u2018.emy oo the advance from Standerton to probably hile leading Clery\u2019s columm.Captain Cooper and Trooper Hobson are down as miss ing end Trooper Jenkins was killed.À thoussad Boers are said to be hanging Mr.{ i The casualty list issued by the \u2018ar Office shows nearly sixty thous, and, comprising netives and others :n \u201caid the commismanat, transport, railway, ; Land medical departments of service.There were of thees killed in action 254 - and 2,408 non-commissioned of- and men, while 70 officers and non-commissioned officers and men of wounds; R44 officers and 18,483 ~sommismioned officers and men were velided home.There died of disease officers and 4,203 non-commissioned .Some eleven thous ick in the bowpitels at the The American hospital ship regebed Routhampton with men from South Africa.on Thursday wae compris.very little opposition.The effect of this junstioh \u2018of tae forces is that 1t ill give she British control of the Na.IN A STIFF BRUSH.tal railway to Pretorda.The route of the generals was in Transvaal territory.Heavy firing near Ficksburg on July 3 was reported, but no results were given.President Kruger has gone to Neilspruit, which is nearer the Portuguese border.It was reported that Kecretary Reits had gone to Hamburg with part of the Boer treasure.A Pretoria despatch of July 4 recounts that there was some firing beyond Pamiireproort, some miles north of Pretoria, on the previous day, but neither army sought a general en- gegement.General Roberts .is dealing with another part of the country just now and will not, of course, bs drawn avay fron his main object.Eleven waggonloads of food suppiles, doubtiess intended for Botha's burghers, were! seized at the front, and fifty burghers who had surrendered bat who acted rusicioudy, were ordered to the const sud given pamses to go.Another item mentioned as part of the pacification programme of Lord Roberta is the ap pointment of Mr.Wessels, a leading bar mister, as his legal advieer.Liste of Canadian camralties keep Incrensing\u2014the Strathconss having lost a few.News on Friday and Saturday from the forefront of the South African war gave but a faint indication of the activity that must pervade the British army of 200,000 men.Pacification probably takes most of the energies of the soldiers, except those who immediately confront the Boers.What French is doing and Car- rington's work have not been mentioned for some weeks, while Brabant is not much spoken of and Natal is quiet.Genc- ral De Wett had not been cornered, the Strathconas were praised for their good work in the van of General Buller's forces.The Boers had captured Lieutenant Rundle, of the Carhineers, and his patrol, wot far from Pretoria on July 4; but they had been repulsed at Ficksburg in the Orange River Colony on the same day.General Paget, on July 3, had engaged the enemy at Pleisirfontein and drove them across Teeuwkop to Dron- eriefontein, chasing them out of that to Bisauwkopje, fifteen miles north-west of Bethlehem, where all of Bteyn\u2019s government officials are, except the treasurer- general, who went to Vrede, while Steyn is reported to have gone to the mountains.Lorenso-Marques advices state that a British force was within forty miles of Koomsati Poort.This is somewhat doubtful.OUR OWN CANADIANS.STRATHCONA'S HORSE.ACQUITTED THEMSELVES CRED ITABLY IN THEIR FIRST ENGAGEMENT.London, July 6-\u2014A special cable te the \u2018Globe\u2019 from Greylingstad refers to the work of Struthcons\u2019s Horse in their first engagement.He says: \u2018The Cant- dians were engaged for the first time, and acquitted themselves creditably, though new to this kind of fighting.They killed four Boers and beat off the attack.\u2019 \u2018Killed, 509, Privata Angus Jenkins (Red Deer, N.W.T.).\u201cMissing, Captain Donald McLean Howard (N.W.M.P.) 457, Private Jobn Hobaon (Montreal!) Private Hobeon is a son of Mr.Joseph Hobeon, chief engineer of the Grand Trunk Railway, and was in the North- West prior to going to South Africa.He was a member of B Squadron, RETURNING TO CANADA.Ottaws, July 3\u2014A cable was received this morning by Sir Richard Cartwright from bis son, Lieut.-Col.Cartwright, as sistant adjutant-general of Canada, who has been on special service in South Africa.announcing that he sailed to-day from Capetown by steamship \u2018Britannic,\u2019 and he is presumably on his way home.Lieut.-Col.Herchmer, who went out in command of the second battalion of Canadian Mounted Rifies, and who was invalided to England, is sailing for Can- sda probably this week.Invalided to England, No.18, Pte.W.Woodward No.200, Fe P.R.Hare, About to sent to land, No.238, Pte.B.8.Niblock.PRIVATE LUTES DANGEROUSLY T.ondon, July 4\u2014The War Office publishes a list of thirty-three deaths from dinesse and oix from wounds in South Africa.B.Lutes, of the Canadian contingent, in dsogerously ill at Capetown.It also publishes the names of three soldiers killed and twenty-three wounded in various engagements.Private D.Lates i a member of the v THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, MAP SHOWING THE SCENE OF LORD ROBERTS'S OPERATIONS.companie] the second special service bat- takion.His mother resides at Hintou- \u2018bung, Ont.CAPT.PELLETIER INVALIDED.Ottawa, July 6.\u2014In reply to a query from the Militia Department, the War Office bas cabled that Captain Pelletier has been in for six months and Lieut.Wilkie for three months.CAPTAIN STUART HEARD FROM.London, Ont.July 5\u2014Alexander Stuart, Q.C., has received from his ther, Captai Duncan Stuart, first nadian Satingent, the following tele- emumed command at the Vaal Fought at Klipriversburg.Fever better.land Canadian commission.\u2019 This is believed to imal that Cart Stuart had been attacked by fever after the battle mentioned; but had re- cove , and was returning to England on some duty connected with the regiment.Hamilton, Ont., Ji 5\u2014Fi en Chapter, Daughters ne pren ter pire, has appointed à committee to ar range for the planting of maple seeds on the graves of the fallen heroes in the Transvaal.OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL CANADIANS.Ottawa, July 5.\u2014The list of com officers of the first contingent, oon.ing to last mail advi is as follows: \u2014 \\ Company\u2014Lieut.Bianchard, Lieut.Swift, Lieut Bord.B Companr\u2014Oaptain Burstall, Lis.C Company \u2014Lieut.Marshall, Lieut.Temple.; D Company\u2014Captain Rogers, Lieut.Lawless.E C Fraser, Lieut.AE Company \u2014Captain rong.; F.Company\u2014Lieut.Leduc.Lieut.Winter.G Company \u2014Lieut.Jones.; Company -Captain Stairs, Lieut.À cable despatch subsequent to the compilation of this list, says Lieut.Amutrong has been attached to the re oer t has been advised governmen' 8 n wi that Dr.Sterling Rrerson.who represented the Red Croes, is smiling to-day from South Africa, on his return.STANLEY MKLIIROWN RETURN- New York, Julv 4\u2014Stanley_ M-K.Brown, the correspondent for a Toronto wewspener.retnrned on the \u2018Oceanic,\u2019 from Routh Afrier.He was ehot threeeh the right thigh st Sand River, on May 10.He ie on his way to Canada from Bloemfontein.D BATTERY GOFR TO BLOEMFONTEIN (Toronto \u2018Globe\u2019 cable.) Capetown, July 4.-D Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, commanded by Major W.G.Hurdman, has gone to Bloemfontein to take part in the operations against Genern! be Wett.whose com- man have caused considerable trouble in the north-eastern section of the Orange River Colony.Lieut.-Col.Ryerson, Canadian Red Cross Soc.y commissioner, sailed for home via England to-day on the \u2018Dunnot- tar Castle.\u201d Col.Higgar takes his place.Major J.L.Biggar belongs to Belle ville, and was sent out for special service at the time the Strathcona\u2019s Horse sailed.On his arrival at Capetown he was attached to the Army Service Corps, later made an A.A.C.under Col.Clayton, who was in charge there, and given the loca) rank of lieutenant-colonel.COLONEL OTTER'S WOUND.Toronto, July 5.\u2014The couneil of the Red Cross Society bas received a letter from Dr.Ryerson, dated Bloemfontein, May 5, in which the commissioner tells of the wounding of Col.Otter.The bullet went within half an inch of the jugular vein, and had he not been in a constrained position, so that the mue clea were tense, the wound might have been fatal.WOUNDED CANADIANS COMING HOME.London, July 5.\u2014A number of members of the first Canadian sontingent sent to South Afriea aniled for home today on the Allan line steamer \u2018Parisian.\u2019 They comvlained greatly of the treat ment they were subjected to in the field hospitals, Captain Donald McLean Howard, of the North-West Mounted Police, the of Governor-General\u2019s Foot Guards, snd ae à ficer of Stratheona\u2019s Horve reported mining by General Buller after the fight on Dominion day, is a son of Mr.McLean Howard, clerk of the Toronto Division Court.Captain Howard bad been an inspector of the police, and had served for ten years in the force.Private A.Jenkina, who waa killed in the same engagement, was in B Bquad- ren, and came from Red Deer, N.W.T,, where his father, Mr.W.Jenkins, lives.COMING HOME, THRITY SET SAIL ON THURSDAY ON BOARD THE \u2018PARISIAN.(Toronto \u2018Evening Telegram\u2019 Cable.) London, July 6.\u2014Thirty canadians invalided from South Africa, who have been in English hospitals under treatment for wounds and diseases, mailed yesterday by the steamship \u2018Parisian,\u2019 for Canada.\u201d They were all glad to set sail for their native land., HOSPITAL SCANDAL.Private A.H.Taylor, of the 43nd Ottawa and Carieton Rifles, one of the party, in an interview, speaking for his comrades, declared that wh exaggeration had been made in referenc to the mupposed hospital scandal in South Africa, Private Taylor then referred the interviewer to his comrades for confirmation of his statement, and in conversation with several of t confirmatory replies were given.Another one of the party, however, when interviewed, declared that the patients were robbed by dirty, unp ed orderlies, acting as nurses.a other said that he had been robbed of curios, money and khiki nniform.He also saw enteric fever patients flung from stretchers on to the floor of the field howital in which they were confined, and left for hours absolutely unattended.Of 1,10 Canadians who arrived at Capetown with zhe first contingent only 350 remain on active service.The ma- jo-ity of the remaining eight hundred fad been stricken with enteric fever.This was _due to drinking the puted water at Prardeberg where they fought so brilliantly.THE DEATH LIST.The despatches this week include in the death list Corporal Irvine, of B Company, Royal Canadians, who formerly was à member of the 19th Kt.Catharines Battalion: Private E.M.Banks, Strath.cona\u2019a Horse ; Artificer John T.Cooper, of the second contingent, is reported to have died at Bloemfontein on June À.He was a resident of Quebec.CANADIANS CRITICISED.THE MEN OF THE SECOND CONTINGENT DESCRIBED.Captain William McKay, of the 88.\u2018Ashanti\u2019 of Elder, Dempster & Co, writes from New Orleans, under date of June 17, to a friend in Montreal, that be took out to Capetown, Bouth Africa, a cargo of horses, and as an ia of their discipline he relates that whenever he blew his whistle for the quartermaster every horse thought he was on the cabstand and made a move.He was eleven days at Capetown, and what impressed him was \u2018the immense superiority of the Canadians over the other supernam- erary arme of the forces.\u2018T was much etruek with it,\u201d com tinues Captain McKay, \u2018and when 1 read what Canada had done in the field, in action and victory, [ am not surprised, but gratified.Good old Canadas! A chip of the good eld block.The Imperial Yeomanry who took my horses are a fine body of men, ready to fight and dis, but only amateurs as yet.Well, when I was on shore 1 saw the boys from Canada there with their army weg- gons, well horsed, men bronzed by the sun, in perfect order and discipline, coming down and carting off their own stores, causing great relief to the base transport officers.\u2018 Several of the regular staff officers, at my suggestion, came aboard and had à peg of soda.I sid :\u2014 These Capa.dians neem to be quite used to 6 cam- psign ?\" One of the officers, a major, replied, \u201cBy George, if all the auxiliary forces were like them, we could manage to clear four ships a day.They are splendid fellows, officers and men ; well up to their work, and no flies on thm either.When they get all of them to the front old Kruger will have to hustle.\u201d I was very proud, knowing and loving Canada ax I do, to ses the impressing these brothers of curs had made upon old military regulars, who often (as we sailors do on fresh water sailors) ave fond of expressing themecives otherwise as to emateur soldiers.Of course 1 hav» not seen our kinsuien of Australia, who have done so well.I only speak of what 1 saw, and 1 felt very proud as | passed along the crowded road \u2018ron the dock and saw nearly a quarter of 3 mile of Canadian men and waggons ; the men weather-beaten, well vet up, but with the discipline of Royal Artillerymen.I said to myself, \u2018Good old Canada !\"\u2019 Captain McKay relates some stirring incidents of the wag such as on the sr rival of Boer pringiiers at Capetown, a dash for liberty made by one of them.and the shot by the sentry which laid him low, and kindred incidents which brought the horreurs of war very near im.The Canadian trodbps alluded to by Cap tain McKay were the men of the Second Centingent, who put in a good deal of the work decribed by him before they were sent to the front.GERMAN PRAISE OF LORD RO- BERTR, he occupati { J'retoria atrategi- cally ended\u201d the.\"Boer var, and one the German military lustorian, declas \u201cThis military performance of England in the prenant n her history.\u201d The suo cess of Lord Roberts, in taking with him all the heavy guns necessary for a siege of Pretoria, is the subject of Hoe: nigs a ing comment: \u2018How much heavy artillery Roberts has with him.\u2019 he says, \u2018he passes over in silence; but he has heavy guns with the Eleventh Division.en one knows what difficulties the conveyance of this material caused .in the countries of Central , we see that Roberts must have united t cantion, with excellent preparations during his rest in Rloem.ontein, for the heavy artillery arrived before Johannesburg at the same time as the above-named division.Had the Boers offered resistance he would have been able immediately to begin to bard them.\u2019 \u2014 WAR NOTES FIELD HOSPITAL SERVICE.London, July 5.\u2014The government leader, Mr.A.J.Balfour, announoed in the House of Commons to-day the names of the members of the royal committee appointed to investigate the South African hospital scandal, as follows ; Prof.D.J.Cunningham, Lord Justice Romer and Dr.Church, president of the Royal College of Physicians.Dr.Conan Doyle, writing to the \u2018British Medical Journal,\u201d says he thinks that there were 10,000 to 12,000 cases of en- terie fever at ome time.Six hundred patients died at Bloemfontein in one month.Dr.Doyle declares that the physicians did all they could.HON.MR.DICKEY DROWNED WHILE BATHING.The Hou.A.R.Dickey, former Minis ter of Justice, was drowned last Tuesday afternoon while bathing near his home at Amherst.During the alter noon he started for Amherst shore, rey- ing he was going for a bath, and remarking that he seemed unable to swim as well as he used to.He did not return, and at seven o'clodk friends went to look for him.His lifeless body was found in two feet of water, his clothes lying near by.He had evidently been taken with cramps.[Arthur Rupert Dickey was the second son of Senator Dickey, and was born at / THE LATE HON.A.R.DICKEY.Amherst, N.B, on Aug.18, 1834.Me was educated at the Collegiate School, Windsor, and graduated B.A.at the University of Toronto, 1876.Ilv was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 178, and appointed a Q.C.in 1800.}ls wae interested in several local industrial enterprises.He was elected to parlinment for Cumberland in 1888, and again in 1801.In 1804 he was called to\u2019 the Privy Council, and appointed Becretary of State.He was later Minister of Militia, and afterwards Minister of Justice.In his latter capucity he in\u2018roduced the Remedial Bill of 1806, and went to Manitoba with the conciliation committee that sought to get the Greenway Government's consent to à compromise on the school question.He was defeated in the elections of 1806 by Mr.Logan.Amherst, N.8., Ji 6\u2014Funerul vices over\"the rémains of the late Hon.A.R.Dickey, were conducted the Rev.V.4 Harrie, in the Church of England.bis afternoon, and thon rends, turned out to pay their last tribute to the of the dead statesman.After the caremony the interment took place in Highland Ceme- Jour 10, 1900.THE EMEROENGÇY RATIONS, HOUSE DISCUSSING THR REPORTS OF THE COMMITTES OF INVESTIGATION, Ottawa, July 6\u2014The report of the Committe of the House of Commons on the charges preferred by Mr.Monk, of Jacques L'artier, in ecanection with the emergency rations supplied to our troops in South Africa, which came before the lioues yesterday, as was expect- od, gave res Lo & potracied debate which brought out the etrongest partisan elements of opinion on both sides.Mr.liclcourt, chairman of the committee of enquiry, introduced the matter yestreday forenoon, in moving the adoption of the report, and went wee the case pretty fully.Dr.Russell, of Halifax, went over the same matter at conviderable length in the evening and both produced arguments to show that the charges ru4de by Mr.Monk had fallen through in every particular.The gravamen of the charge.thev neserted, I'ad been that the food ordered by the Militia Department was not the same as had stood the test at Kingston, but this they said, was cleared up entirely by analyses which show :d that Devlin\u2019s food was even better than what wae given by Dr.Neilson as a ssmple of the Kingston food.On the othr hand the Opposition held that the sample referred to by Ur.Neilwn was not at all a sample of the food tested at Kingston and that she committee had refused to allow what Mr.Hatch said was a genuine sarm- ple Lo be submitted to an analysis.They held that :he chairman of the committee had blocked a full enquiry.Mr.Monk Jil not make any extended reference to the responsibility of the Minister of Militia.He merely eaid that the people would judge of the min- bom- ister\u2019s action for themselves.He did, however, say that the Houst could not possibly whitewash the contractor, Dr.Devlin, whom be termed an insolvent and irresponsible contractor.Mr.Monk, end those with him strongly argued that Dr.Devlin had run away from the enquiry on the pretence of going to New York to get a witness and that he had Ind plenty of opportunity to give a statement if he had chosen.Dr.Russell's reply to this was that the charge was unfair, that Dr.Devlin bad written that he was anxious to make hin statement and had asked an t for « few days.Reference was also made by several of the apeakers on both aldee to the connection of Mr.Robert 8.White with but him and attempted to scapegont.Dr.Russell replied that Mr.White's action was indefensible; that he have been excused under the represents tions made by Dr.Devlin for allowing delivery of the first consignment the duty was paid, but that to rest to go out when Dr.Devlin failed in his promise showed à discretion.He would not like Mr.Winte get into trouble uver the thing, but if he did not it was worthy of note that under the late administre- tion other collectors of customs bad got into serious trouble over the same kind After several other speakers had aired their views the House divided on Mr.Monk's motion to adopt the minority report, which was negatived by 7% to 50.The following Liberals, Messrr Richardson, Oliver, Rogers, Puttee, EL lis, Graham, voted against the government.Memrs.Stubbs and McCarthy, sithough in the city, shirked the vote.Meusre.Corby and MeCortaiak were present in the House, but being paired, did not vote Mr.Bourassa then offered another amendment, which set forth tbat under the terms of the arrangement by which tbe troops were sent to South Africa, it was the duty of the British Government to provide for the troops, and \u2018Therefore, this House considers that the Minister of Militia should not have involy- ed the credit of Canada ja this con tract, and expended Canadian money to buy food or rations for troops in the 1d.\" This was promptly disposed of by the Speaker, who ruled that it was out of order, as having no connection with the subject of the committee's report.A vote was then taken on the majority report of the committee.It was can ried by 68 to 52.This time there were ten Liberal members who voted against the government.Messrs.Ellis, Riobard- oon, Oliver, Monet, Bourams, Ethier, Puttes, Pettet, Rogers and The House adjourned «t I sam.\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.In another column may be found the advertisement of \u2018National Gall Cure.\u2019 This valuable remedy and sure cure for ells, sore back and corns, wratches, mud .ecalds, etc, should be in the hands of every horse It in a paying investment.Send Be.and you will gat à peir of utiful crystal rosettes as well.Address ish Fmbrecation Co., 337¢ Bt.Poul street, Montreal, mentioning the \u2018Weekly Wit- \u2019 tery.ness.; m \\ 4 + œ - , Jour 10, 1900.SR RE Buspense in Europe as to the » Christians in Pekin and Elsewhere.ARB THE FOREIGN MINISTERS AND OTHERS SAFE?Reperts That All Have Been Massacred are Followed by Stories that they Were Alive up to July 1, The awwe from China on Tuesday in: eldentaly noted Admiral Kempfl's res son for opposing the attack on the Taku forts to have been that Rt would throw the Chinese into the arnæ of the Boxers and endanger the already imprisoned members of the foreign legations at Pekin.The United Biates sdmiral is Tocsiving ectne credit in London, rather then blame, for hie pœstion and his refusal to oo-optrate in the bombardment of Teku.The confirmation of Von Ket- tolor\u2019s death has aroused Germany's desire for vengeance.A Shanghai des patch reports two other ministers as baving shared a similar fate to that of Von Ketteler, and reports also the des truction of Moukden and the massacre of native Christiens there.The chief Sem of news wea by Bir Robert Hart's oourier from Pekin on June 25, who brought corroboration of Von Ketteler's death end told that all the consulates except the British, Germen and Italian had been destroyed.The diplomats and missionaries were in the British legation er rifie fire.Cannon command: legation buildings, but these were The river route from Taku emteln was open and a despatch dmiret Bruce of June %0, in not is fact, sleo states that the reil- head is now nine miles from Tien fort thirteen miles above Taku found desertwd, and it was up by Lieutenant Commander who also reporte the capture of Ë Ê sya Bf % F FIER ih at Tientsin on June 9 by vai brigede, five of whom were Lieutenant Colomb nlightly f Ë and SIR ROBERT HART, Imagector General of Customs at Pekin.wounded and a gunner and twenty-one men wounded.A special des patch of July 3 states thet Li Hung Cheng had asked an American gunboat to take him to Tientein.While from Chinese sources it le asserted that the foreign troops were at the gates of Pe- kin days ago, the tneh told by Mr.Brodrick, on Tuesday laut, that the al- Ked forces were unable to advance to the rescue of the legations and refugees in Pekin was kstened oo with dismay in the House of Commons.The post tion of the little colony in Pekin fighting for their lives, with food and am sLunition running ehort, expectng every hour to hear the booming of the guns of the advance forces to ectd- Sept fn L Light For it is the only T competition for the best house for varying perfods, while the im- Ferd Dave a ys near Shon.Corn E0Y AND SURE ove HIGHER.© to : was froaty paid.ere have bien walling for an oppar- easly at 500 Rr ok July 4% \u201c4 for held at $44 to 9% on tunity of taking sévantage of the change olen fori otosie, stirke beiag le Bopt 4% \u201c GALLS, BORE BAOK \u2014_\u2014 spot The Liverpool cable is unchanged at e tarif.Canallan houses bought more Laker, BUmbir of milk cows hee met Outs \" ° \u201cand SHOULDERS, Business oa the steck exchange Was very y than ever ore All deliveries at: uly 23% a a Tn ae Peer EE re nd Pa pr Ep ER | corms, momaTouss.brokers vue email aud the only feature was anes, dull: pearls, 86 15.Arsts, $4.5; Week aradualiy 9 TR on July 1, It eT] 14 per stone: mutton from july 12.60 nm MUD SOALDS, Ac.® slight éecilne in Pacific, and an advance seconds.M 0.u.Beans quiet: hand picked, Ws oxcessively crowded with shipments.Loudon, June 35.\u20148horter supply of fat Lg.116 - 13.07] Wendertu) in its good nothing of 4 points 1a Reyal Blectric.; prime, oney dull; combs 74 \" » can agual it.There's no + : e Toronto wholesale merchants are of beasts.Trade for both prime and second Jul \u201c7 Can.FaciBo\u201416 at S34.or Tie ra be acted, Me padi the eninion that the locreased p quality slow, but rates sieady, with every Bept 6.88 Te REEL STL MAR at 30.mand Ne 1, be to He eo.3, MW; sod will fivert n good deal of the ay Eroûs [rosseet of clearance.Fat cows and bulls Bhart ribe\u2014 It givos immadisto relief an: am a | SF GRIT TER RR Sen thn EI A pee ER TE va du va ul] SEER Payne Co.\u20141,000 at %.suéar, tek Wyld, of the Wyld, Orassett and Du ! Te LETTS Republic \u2014L000 nt 89, 1,500 at #0.LIVE STOCK MARKET, July 6 ee ae roue sit foie is tv ag = 3 .me oi enunciation ored the policy uffolk an x, 1diand, home Haïtes Stress Ry.\u2014i0 at 0.There were about $00 head of butchers\u2019 OF the government.The effect oi it urs wertern \u2018counties 30° Devon ae suniy [BRYAN RE.NOMINATED, a of gr .cattie, M0 caives and 500 sheep and lambe be to largely Increase the buying of Hrit- keep m-rhet rather larger, including handeome Montreal Telegrapb\u2014T4 at 10.offered for sale at the East Knd Abattoir 18h goods, with a corresponding benefit to first arrivals (rom Ireland.Trade slow \u2014 ual Te .Bank of Montreal\u2014t at 31%.to-day.Besides these, there were about Fritieh manufacturers.The Canadian con-| for both wedders and ewes, with slight tale at conte Ontario Bank\u20148 at 1%.MO cattle aud a number of calves and Sumer was saved through the tariff the; downward tondency in val ambs In ra- Democratic Candidate for the refunded ¥ pon lsmbs bought by the butchers yesterday Keneral advance \u2018nu the leading staples.and ther better uost at oii, advance.Cait found entiafae- 3 Roparted for te \u2018Whuess' by G.RNase, Mternoss.The butchers were preset in Tholesalers ware naw sie to largely mate | and pif quotations not worth goting.Best, Presidency of the United OF tonal Gott \u2019 Dame rge bumbers, bu D cattie was previous prices for s.Bu .mu to : nr Dae | Tory dull, and prizes of aii Kinds deciiasd for the refuction thers would be s con: amb, ba 64 to 8 4d Dor b ibe.Total wip: States Qors lo for uke Fee Yu Pat.Pl 1p.Yio pum FO ES ae lo BIC 6, cont gor\u2019 1b.Find roulé rental these Pricemand seme pl.esate, pe sheer 5d eanbe, 100; : Fay Sa ot cattle on ao importe calves, h: , 6.fering, Wdays.06 9 9% 09g day, 71 hand, were bought by Mr George ail.but for (he reduction In the tartft.1 ples When order Te % 5 100% Nivhotson, at 4e per Ib, less ton do rot believe,\u2019 said Mr.Wyld, \u2018that the Liverpool, June 5.\u2014Beasts, 3il.sheep - .a \u201c ing from oa, please write Dame sud eddress % % lars on the lot.Prater | Sood cattle sola Canadian manufacturers are being injured.308 lambs, 8506.Best beats.q STEVENSON FOR VICE PRESIDENT.p'alaiy and Socios this er.101s Cheewen.uw Lu at From 3lge to 44hc per 1b.and the grass, I recollect the day when they had oly 14; second KNCLIRE ENBROCATION 00.+ : fod beasts at from 2c to Sic par Ib.Some 20 percent In thelr favor, and with thelr Best Seo _\u2014 83e Se.Paul ot, Montreal.of tbe leane: animals would cet bring Wc Improved machinery and many othér ad- 2 Kons Cit, J ly 5.\u2014 William Jen- thay 0220: of 82 beasts A if uly illiam Jen.; MONTREAL STOOK REPORT.Battle sil not be vay, hero ea: compile Lou Ta bore Te \u201crow eRcsed.{Ale demand for all classes ot about iais Dings Bryan, 0 ta {Nebraska wan to-night L , rates.us in nomination as son when tbe pasturags is generally so iDBlY dificult to cbtain delivery of the BUTTER.\u2018the Democrat candidate for President 18 position on them,but the burning issue of.heater, J M \u2014Denish, & , of the United t Imperialism growing out of the Spanish A arr awed sn in Crease ot posing aperialoe on fiatform and rer ene Kg rancor ot free Ing, nearly se casks y yo crues aa ue vated Yoo trusts, oy event sy ympathy for the fnetitutions.We regard !t as the part-' lay sold at from $1.60 to 96.50 each.a.cot, Cope ee ol or v ically declaring for the mount fesue of the ce mole.Suippers paid te per Ib, for good, large HARD TIMES FAR AWAY 9, ark re EE apse ped = ox- oer.coinage of silver at the ratio of 14 THE MONROE RINE.OT Pa hoes eld at from Be to Hes : : Gest.Quotations Finest Danish and Awe.© 1 The nomination came as the cul.The declaration in (be Republicss pet: RAINE IN MANITOBA MAKE CROP dah, 1108 to 1180; finest Finnish, 1016 to mination of a frenzied demonstration iu form, adopiad et 1800.Chat a Republicas good, it le bad lley to send » lean \"tapies of Canadian manufactured goods.enttle to the market.The best calves were The tarif will also ln Dorght up yasterday, sommes of them bring- times +f deproasion \u201cbe a ing tp to $10.The calves on the market Ib, weighe: ve ised of PECTS BETTER.1068; irish ereamory, is to 1022; Cana.NOROT of the party leader, lasting 27 Sitiy\" \u201catenûtestiy sdberea Lo tbe pol LIVE STOCK MARKST\u2014June 9.winstpe, uy T\u2014There le not @ part| dian.100 to 10%.minutes and, giving utterance to all the announced !a the Monros doctrine\u201d te \u2018hers\u2019 Of (he provinte that has not been well| Cork, June 26.\u2014First, 73e: second, 12s; pent \u201cup emotion of the multitude.It fesiiy insineere and deceptive.This pro- Tchelien Sona There were about 130 Lead of butchers\u2019 gosked with rain during tbe past twenty- third, \u2018sts.MIA cured\u2014Superfine, 92s ; followed also a fierce struggle through.fession is contradicted ihe avowed Ee ar ee Bot paint four Bours, snd although there has been fine, \u2018878; choicest boxes Ma: Iresh butt tion tbe \u2019 er, [eut the last 38 hours concerning the Policy of that party ia oppost 0 ; ; in market, 206 firkins, 194 mild, platform declaration on silva: ed es spirit of the Moaroe doctrine to ua Mortreal Telegrapd.offered for sale st the East End Abattoir o generous fail In most sections before, no Roi Telephone Co.to-day.The butchers were present in con.rin lke the present bas previously faiion me the relative potion which th and bold sovereignty over lurge areas ! Rogel Electrie Ce demand with bigher prices being pald for (Dix vear.and pever befors iu the histo question maint to the ther var terttary ana her nsist \" the best cattle.but grass-fed stock cop.of, (be ie Tas uch alr needed.TORONTO CATTLE MARKET.issues of the day aa of nas nu free ï wheat that had van: e tn R à - \u2019 ; ox Meats Ligh Unue rather dull of sale with but tile tm.\"wary 11 la not too far advanced, will THE NOMINATION, and in all its lategrity.both In letter Montreal Critoy prov t on the very iow prices paid for Torento, July 6.\u2014We had over peventy rit, as not t event the extension of à probabty besr very heavily.Until} a few The vast auditorium was filled te N spirit.not to pr ua te on last Toureds \u201d fra Mr.days pass it will bs impossible to estimate loads (nm et this ordi Jas left gd de de its utmost capacity when the moment European, Juthority wo this coptizent, sad ( at pe per Ib, and a few head Porought sige the crop prospects under the new condl-| \u2018eguine market day trade appeared better, A1Tived for the nomination to be made.affairs.At the same time we declare that pretty good stock sold at from 3% tons, but it Is certain that the situation but prices were practically unchanged, and When the call of states began for the no American peosie shall over be baid by Le ame, nd Be Brass fed beasts brought is wo greatly improved that tbe bard times bu really good cattle sold briskly and: at purpose of placing candidates in nomina.| force in unwilling submission to Europes .from 3c to Ile per Ib.Calves sold at looked for Aro probadly far away.fr fgures.Bons Alabama yielded to Nebraska, and authority.We oppose militarism.It \u2019 from Bale to 410 each.Mr.Qicerd pie 4 Drier Manes TR ThE, rade Ie gavpre see Mr\u201d Obdham, of that \u2018state, meds his Hans, tongues thread and inymidets and offerings sol out early al rom -| .easlon a\u2018 3 way to the platform for the initial Jaong arm wbich bas ever been fatal to spotss spring lambs.Shippers paid 4 per te 85.25 per cwt.There was a better feel- tor good large sheep and the butchers _JoRersoll, Ont., July 3.\u2014Offerings \u2018o-day en existed yesterday, and the quali- 5Peech, placing Mr.Brysn in nomins- free institutions.It is what millions ot LH |, paid frais le todo per Ib.for the oibere vero 1.880 boxes: balance June make.Noi ot offeringe wes better.tion for the presidency.The orator citisens have fled from in Europe.It ) be sold at from §2.50 to $4.50 each, very sales: Idec dishes bid; fair attendance; RO butcher cattle was firm at from $¢ was strong-voiced and entertaini Jet impose upon our peace-loving pecple & | Bolt at about De per 1b.\u2018andthe: Nght New York, July 3-Ch fem: ree Fir Tie.Beoond Tate an.coramon therst wee of delegates aad de or sation aa & commons merece 1a 3 .; a ready sale.ud rate and common tazation and 8 c mensee ones at about 5%c per 10.and small white and coiorbd, m6 But- cattle told rather slowly at eakening there was but Te point, ing bis speech their iberdes.\u2014_\u2014 r steady; creamery, 176 to she: \u2026, Drices.\u2018era of poor rattie soid pévora VOLUNTÉER SOLDIBR, FARMERS' MARKET PRICES, Juiy 6 fctory, Ie to 18%; Imitation creamery, argund 3c per pound.which closed with the name of William , THE VOLUNTEER SOLDURR.15e to 18c: state dairy, 16e to 18146.port bulla are quoted at from $é to Jennings Brvan.This was the signal ined stato militia aro amply suficient in The wet, muggy weatber this morning Brockville, Ont.July 5.\u2014The offerings $4-29 Der _cwt.light bulls wre worth from for the demonstration of the day, and time of peace.This repubHc hes no piace aié not vent a large gathering of far: were 1,323 white and 2,638 colored.Dusi- $2 to $3.80 par cwt.Only a few here to- in a common purpose the great con.for a vast military service and censeri Bor are an and around ness started at Otic.but eventually Shc! \u201cYess were tn Matt supply, a4 nomi- course joined in a tribute of enthus- tion.When the nation is 1m danger square, and the basket brigade, who comme vas bid, and the bulk of the sles took nally wnchanged, but satic devotion to the party leader.A Toa a ona, Gan a7 the eee to the city by boat amd ral), wait larger P12°Y Bt this figure.The calves here were monty poor quality.huge oil portrait of Bryan, measuring States should ever be cherished in the ps- than it has been for @ couple of months Vênkieek Hill, Ont, July E.\u2014There were Good veal calves are wanted, but do not 15 feet across, wis brought down the triotie hearts of n free 2uch es Raven as pese past.New pa\u2018atoes were offered In eun- LOT boxes aprem boarded here to-day; appear on Ro slong.Prices for any but main sise befae the delegates.At the ganizations are ever an Far = ot'strengi \u2018ble Coup Be Setting to be quite an flo ie the wiaetn: Barrie, Ont., Sur 8.\u2014At the chesse board 2 Pond 4 Bere prices range from so delegations were \"tom down = trom Theis tory end\" coeral vite Ce Pipes ee | Hit.Ja, Fe ble department; cuitivated strawberries arc to-day 1,050 boxes of colored cheess were rices range from $2 to aockete and waved while um.Quest, bas there been a w depar- Eee neariy à done fer the sesson, but wild ber.boarded.Good prires were obtained.tte Hoey ss paid a tros se to 4 brellas of red.white, on high.milk ban.ture from our time-honored and approved Lou.Conti Bends.ries are still offered fn considerable quaz- lot bereg ail sold, except 70 boxes, at pri- per'twt.Rather too many eame ners of the several states, and many ae of volunteer organisation, Ne titles; roi (errant EEE western Ontario ces rarging from 9 3-16 to 9 7-i6c.Bucks are worth from $3.50 to ¥ per cwt.handsome and unique transparencies, and uprepublican, and as à subv: of LONDON CLOSING PRICES.rr 11 at shout Toe and green Tweed, Ont, July 5.\u2014Seven hundred snd| The run of hogs was heavy, as early were borne about the building amid tte ancient and fixed principles af a free le.Foose! me at ne Se the pail; & geventy cheeses boarded, BO sold at 9 9-i6c.three thousand, all told, were here.deafening clamor of 20,000 Yelling tes- AGAINST MONOPOLIES.London, Se, 9, 4 p.m.\u2014 Console for ey on hi offered wt from 200 Madoë, Out, July 5.\u2014 At the cheese Prospects are for lower prices, ly Ti ticulatiox men and w , Private monopolies are indetenuble- ans meney, 9% tor the account, 9%, the box, aud blueberries at 31.25 for board to-day 115$ box.were he\u2019 Quality does not improve.to- ol dhe intolerable.They destroy competiti = 91%: Bt.Paul 11a à box holding & little over two gallons.Rull Ti sie to $ 9-1 re unchsnged.All of the intensity of former de- eroi the price of all uasial as Louisville, 74%: Un.Oats sold about 70e the bag: bu.ulinx price, or prime h (scaling trom monstration, and much more, was added Anished product, thus 74%; New York Cen- Wheat, $1 do.; old potatoes, 35c to 4ôe do Kingston, Ont, July L.\u2014At the cheess 1be.), the top price ls 6Kc; thick at Bors, to this Yinal tribute Lo the leader.ducer and consumer.Th Abo em- ] ; Penna.: Reading, Dew potatoes, 58: to 68c the basket, or beard to-day 59 white, 1,156 colored wore Blye: and light hogs, vc per Ii THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.ployment of labor, and arbitra Bx the first preferred.sy; P.oF tittle aver $1 per bushel; turnips, £e to 10e boarded.Sales, white and colored at 3 eee ses terms and conditions thereof and deprive Ausconds, 7%: Hand the bunch; radishes, & to Se the dozon 1i-16c; Jrue make.Following are the chief parts of inter jzaividoal energy and small capital of thats mines, 404; bar sliver steady at 28 9-164 bunches: Jutoce, Be 12 = iy bubarn, New York, July 5\u2014Butter steady: cream- COUNTRY MARKATS.national interest in the Democratic plat.opportunity for betterment Der ounce: money at 1% to pe.0 .;, carrots, Deets, erten, 170 to 9%4c; factory, Me to 16Ke:| London, Ont.July 7.\u2014Grain, offerings form which was adopted by acclamation: THE CHICAGO logo o The rute of discount In tbe open markot 75¢_to $1.3 do.een peas and beans, §1 $milation creamsry, 15c to 15¢; state dalry, We, th for shat bille je 294 percent: Go, for 3 8136 the busi cabbage, oc to 600 ithe 16e to Ihc.Chosss rm: all kinds, 94 Soi! or vo Meet corn.die te Ter rom.tic cratic.party\u2019 the Lied Biaten, sperms: Boopational Democratic platform adopted months\u2019 bille, 9% p.2e do: cueumberé, 20c to 46e the Soren: Ccwansville, Que.July 7.\u20146ixty-cight to ééc: barley, 40e to bc: beans, 81.58 to bled in convention oa the anniversary of mand of that platform for an American fio- ad » à factories offered 0,001 boxes of cheese and $1.40.Hay, offerings, smali; old a #8; the.adoption of the Declaration of Inds- gpcial system made by the American people ) NEW YORK BTOCKS.hogs, 7e a ne: pork places, reed creameries, 9% boxes of butter.\u2018There pew, $6.80 to $7.fresh laid, Îdc to Déndence, do reafirm our faith in that im- themselves which shall restore and mais- New Jorn.au July 9\u2014The stock market Ilo do: turkeys, 100 fo 12 do.: oid ducks, ¥83 A large attendance of buyers, and an 15c:'besket lots, 13 to i3%c.Butter, beet Hortal proclamatios of the inalienable tala a bi-metallic price level, and as part bad à at general fractional $1.10 the pair: young ducks, \u201810e to foc Active market.Checse sold at 9%e to 9| rclis, 18c to \"0c; best crocks, 1fe to Te rights of man, and our allegiance to tbe of such Eystem the immeQiate resteration meet e spite ove of some points of weak- d0.; fowls, 0c to 80 do.; spring chickens, * 195: bulk at $c.Butter sold at 18e.store lots, lke tu l6c.creamery, 3le te 24e.constitution framed in harmony therewith of the free and uniimited cotnage of ues eus ln tbr international itst in London.Mec to ®c de.: tub butter, ic to 20e per Cornwall, Ont, July T.\u2014At the Cornwall Cheese, pound, whoiesale, 3s \u2018to 10c; re- by the Fathers of the Republic.We hold and gold at the present legal ratio of M \u2018 Tee only stack whose gain approached a Ib: print butter, 20c to 25¢ do.; fresh laid cheese board here to-day, 1.972 boxes were tail, 130 to 1l4c.Honey, per pound, 10c with the United States Supreme Court that to 1 without waiting for the comsent of polut was Missouri Pactéc.After the etes in baskets, Se to 2c the dosen: old- boarded, 1,407 Canadian \u2018white, 178 Cann- to Me.Lard, per pound.wholesale, Sc to the Declaration of Independence Is tle any other nation.eng thers wus & disposition er exgs down to Téc do.: Wild strawperrice, dian colorcd sad 399 American.All sold She: retail, 10e to 1te Hides, No.1, Tige: spirit of our government, of which tl We condemn the Hay-Pauncefote ay he quart; red currants éc to le the OD the board, dut two smaii lots of white.No.£, élec; No.3, 5%.Sheepakins, 31.00 Constitution is the form and letter.We as a surrender of American pra aad [Te \u2014-\u2014\u2014 Taney tomatoes, $1.2 the erate Ca- Colored nold at 9Me; white, 9 9-16c: Ameri- a Ma: jembakins, each.Me to ei gai declare Red that ail goternments insti- terests, sat to be tolerated by the Awert- white, § 7-16c; American colored, § skins, ool, unwashed, to ou ng men derive r Just powers can people.AMERICAN SECURITIES, .lifornfh plume.$1.25 to $1.60 the box con He.10e; washed, 15e to 18%ec; Tallow, remder.from the comsent of the governed; that any We favor tho continuance and strtet n- antl, Toc to §2 the bunch; oranges, \u2018$3.58 Beltiille, Ont.July 7.\u2014Twenty-thres ei of | hart denen, Bde\u2019 BE 0 | ori, Shel ul bee es | SUEY Shane onl Sol Hts TY SPR IIRL LURAY 3 , per à y.all white, lance of June je., = and : Asiatic business vus not active owing to the set- per 100 bundise of 13 Ibs.Bales, 325 boxes at $%c: 70 at # 11-16.ser te ges roe aoe.TE: A | aa osé methods of ÉYMPATET YOR THE BOERS.Spanish fours closed at 70%.London, July 7.\u2014At to-day's market, 23 turkeys, per Ib.lic to 13; dressed bogs, imperialism for thoes of a iepublie.We Jefferson sald \u2018Peace, commerce and MONTREAL TRADE fectories offered 3,679 boxes of June cheese stendy, at 97 per cwt.: ive hog.from bold that the constitution follows tbe flag.Donest à (riendenty ith a) etioos ; ea: of bullion withdrawn from the \u2014 1 .Bales, 1,088, foil : 3 = past England \u2018on balance to-day was Dun'u Bulletin, of Saturday, July 7.will Joma) Cre at re es at Ho ee a ind potatos, per bag, 4c; new, wd pape doting their existence We Pore this wholesale ie dosing and ] pounds.say of Montreal trade: earnestiy protest against Hepublican \u2014_\u2014 Shelburne, Ont.July T.\u2014At the cheere Guelph, July 7.\u2014Flour, $1.16 and thelr powsra from the constitutiin, of somewhat - p uly sr, to $2.30 ; à ruse which bas avoirs us ta so- PARIS THERE FEncEiTs, [TREK MAN rares mme parie bord ie acer Dour | ro het, Ré te iC hd whens, Bh 2, ania att Bory Serene | SACI Jo ISS Be di Paria.July ©\u2014Three percent rentes, 100 features have developed in the trade situa.M5 PX™ oes of rom Sc to 7-16.Koons wheat, die Lo Te: Brad.$14: ten can long endare half republic and Ack of Eureps and the intrigue and iand- tre.for tbe account.Exchange on Lon- ticn since last report.The variable wea- Canton, N.Y., July 8-\u2014Cheese, large vod Dial en $17; barley, 40 42c; oats, Me OF empire.And wo warn the Ameriens $\"DPinE of Asis, and we especially ese- don, 35 fre.10% centimes for cheques.ther has been unfavorable to retail dry twine, 9%c: butier, 19%e.to Be; rye, dc lo dc: peas, le to Ge: oo (hat imperiaiiem abroad will lead S*ma the illcoucesled Repubiican alli- Bpaahb fours closed at 71.7.good esales, but wholsalers In this line re-{ Ogdensburg, N.Y., July 7.\u2014Flifteen lots, PAY.57.50 fo $9.80; potatces.por bag.Mc quickly and inevitably to despotism at S'en ith England.which Foust meas mean disport fair business, with June collections 1,754 boxes, offered: Sic bid; no sales.La- 19 Me: Tive hogs, $5.60 10 95.90; abeepakine, Jor, ready Tun ay moe GRAIN.well up to last year: fall orders for do- ter, sold st 9%ec.to $1; biden ¥1 FT DE: weol, ie to INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA.Toles.while iitarty a bed mestio stuffs are not as large as & year NY.July 7.\u2014Sales cheese 156, 58% 13¢ fo ddc: butter, 16 to ite: va demand the prompt and bonest ful: a id BE strass The market ls quiet (ble morning, but ago, but dress fabrice and general Îlnee of on board of trade io-day, 8000 boges at oe Loictls DoT, pair.We to TG; ducks.Lf pment of our pledgs ta the Cuban people, Baïioving in the principles of seit- er imported goods sre in good demand.A pair, ond the world, that the United States, bins ment and rejecting.as did our fo roro latente, the .5 to .About 2,700 at We for Montreal tair demand for ail active tie Manito good movement countrywards pre Phe 2,700 a ontreal.Hamtiton, Qot.July 7\u2014White whnat, Lo disposition nor intention to exercise tha elaim of monarchy we view with fndig- a Te of land over- wheat at afloat, Port mos New York, July 7.\u2014Butter, steady: and .v! groceries, and t values in thls ; ; Cena] ver bushel, 0c i red whest.Tic: povereignty, jurisdiction or control over nation the purpose to ia GE a stifiy held.Sugar has seored another a creamery, 176 to Joue: factors, 140 to 18e spring wh ee tv ®c., peus, 60 to 700; tne TT rot for Ta pacino | whaim with Foros the Bon shina read: ie * : vance this week, and a revision of moias.mitatirn creamery, Co 16c; state dairy, barley, 40c; oats, 3Ic to Sic; eorn, 8c to tion.The war ended resrly two years ago, lies.Speaking as wo for the entire A: £08 quotations ta \u2018deemed not Improbable, as 16a to 18%c.~Cheess, firm: large white, boc: cioverseed, # to 8.05: timothy weed.profound peace reigns over all the island éricar nation.exosmt Ita Republican first cost In Barbadoes is notably higher, 94\u20ac; large colored.94éc; email white, Sc; .35 to 51.50; white wheet four, per bri.and still the géminisration keepa Aho Bolders, and for ail freamen everyw Rice | sthe only article showing easiness, casi red, $e.10 310 to 15; strong bakers, $3.10 to Te sa 16 government of the falsnd from its people, We extend our sympathise te \u201cthe heros » u slightly reduced price list having been of er cwl.$7 to 87,50: apples.while Republican carpet-bag officials plun.burghers In their unequal struggle to Le en le Mél BUTTER AND CHEESE EXPORTS.bere of a ol and x halt, of rose: + Sortie arene aa apie the colpaiai (in (bots liberty aoû (adepandenee, * au r, and metals, es, leather an .apples, per 1b., le: potatoes, the à -e of the Ai ~ shows, remain dull.* Daley\u2019 products show From Montreal wesk ending July 1: of i 0 ibs.foc to dhe: butuer, 2 ons, Sr.© tsgre merican \u2014_\u2014 .a little daclive, but prices » net eatis utter.12080.tter, Jn firkios, per ¢ condemn and denounce the Phill ine : to farmers, and export 14,287 16 œ 160; ee, per doses.134e to se.Il present administration.> DEMO OR VICE PRESIDENT NEON Only three fallures are Hed Ottawa, July 7.\u2014This morning, although | poe, ot the the Republic fn accccasanr ENT.3 ; 300 reports a ene Simic LOT 52 hore wan u large market Jo afl other war sucrificed the lives \u2018of many\" of oar ad FLOUR AND FEED.of them that of ; lines, there was a Teall on 17 of hay.The Nobiest sons and pinced the United States : hum are ynchan, but the market 1g 277%, Whose troubles have Lee rice, however, remained.Tow as it sold previously knows and applauded through- \u201c Brin with & good demand for all tines PUDUC for some months.361 for © to $10 ton.Butter und eggs were cut the world as the champion of freedom, wit short stocke.Quotations are as fo].Mérket fe without chauge, 19,279 firm at Rete same prices as have been ruling in thy false and un-American position of son, of lilinois, for vice-president.The for some time.As usual there was a heavy crushing with military force the efforts of nomination wes made on the first ballot, , tows: \u2014 Manitoba patents, $8.strong : e270 offering of green vegetables.New potatoes sur former smilies to mcbieve liberty acd deu\" ec pen ue MINING EXCHANGE, nm Sande their Arat Appen ane.Dutton, print, self-government.state after state joining in the wild\u201d 1.ne to 81.86 ta bags ; \"den brn! at \u2014 76,608 20e to 2ic per Ib.: Dutter, pall, 17 to 1%¢ TERRITORIAL EXPANSION.scramble to record their support of the \u20ac Veh Sp ef hl eons 4, Mali Man Broke rm foals eh Vl wit BB we sis oped Arie pe | ie candidate Tue nu som ie fr sie pui; shorts.$16.50 NI Le ES 592,500 PT Fronts.te to Tc SE de binds; which cam be erected into states In the panied by any such frantic demonstes- and whose people are wiliing and tion of approval as had marked the pro- % or to 617, and moullie, $18 to #28 In bags.MORNING ALES.Rocéipte to-day were 2.0% bes.Sour.California-\u20144,600 at 8%.Same time last year .96,000 584,202 potatoes, \u2018es bag: goose , to Unie: e PROVISIONS.Ee pebtie500 pri) * to \"at 90.Balle hd rote, ne Seven Dunches: prose fe favor iri by avery peacetul ings at previous se dthough.Mie\": \u2019 The market 1s generally steady With o Montreal aod Lon Bor ios = ts.BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.onions, dos.28e: h dos; 8s- -nd legitimate means, but we are noal- result followed a spirited \u2018and \u2018et tired #004 demand for ail lines.Dreesed hogs Gregon\u2014s00 at 18%, 5,000 at 18 800 at 16%, parague, $c to Tic dor; Rhubarb, 20e terably oppnsed to the seising or purebaz- highly dramatic contest between, padi : are quoted at $0.00 to 38.35.Lard st fo 6 gop at 16%.Bdisburgh, June 35.\u2014Messrs.John Swan dos.: ee a: eaulifiowsrs, Tho distant islands to be governed out- yocates of Stevenson, To wae nk.ae for A Ae Tone for wad?name 2508 bei on ne live stork to 31.66 dos.; on We to Me dos.sl the senstitution and = people the lesser candidates.À \u2018 ., 0 for comes me says: ~\u2014There Bas ne juite suo _ cau mever na cilisens.> Soi acta at 1046 te The per | TORONTO MINING SALES.at namber of fat cetile fered this oo MIT IL ee ra To onuring (We're in Bovor of extending the Repub A number of favorite were.short cut mess pork is at $17.00 te Ty \u2018week, but the quality has been genersily whest, S50 Ps oe, bartey, 48e to Be: He's influencé among the nations.but be- placed in nomination, Mary \u2018bringin: The rerpool able is lower on lard, .C.0.Tr x3 at 3%.good.There bas been an exceedingly anl- 700 to Me: oats, $00 to 3le: corn, te, die Meve that influence should be extended,nnt 4 ri Q Joh w ringing but ste giber lines Mom pork IE vo\u2014808 of mated demand.and he trade for ail the| bran.$14 fo 16: shorts.$16 to gli; live togs, 67 force and violence, but {hroued the orward Governor John Walter Smith, gotod at Ca rd, Bs , Sa to 43e $3; vasa at 6%.cleanses bas been very daar indeed.the 85.25 te 96.76 per cwt.; flour, i ih: persuasive fomers of à bigh and honorable Washington naming James Hamilton ; tallow, te Bear\u2014508 at 3%, 1,000 at 1%, 1,700 best bullocks snd heifers making quite the Be; earumen .importance of other aus Lewis, North Carolina nominating Ool.4 xaos.at x Nighes* prices obtained for some years., b.; recor tions now peadi: before the Juli ; Carr, and Ohio + The market in ut quiet.Beat *.C0.F 5,00 at 8.Pat cory have aloo been dear.Fat sheep 12e per dose ; le is ir no diminished Ave alien presen log the egg in large lois are qutoé at 11%0 to 12c; 1ciden Etar\u2014000 at D, and lacie Nave Dem sent forward io larg- ton; a 8, fe to be.Bumceratic party takes Bo back stop troce name of A.W.Patrick.| « k è é + \u201c » & 20 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, Jury 10, 1000.TES FARRELL \u2014 MAOGILLIVRAY \u2014 Oa Juss ++++0+0+0+0+4+0+ 01010401 040140101041 SHC MANITORA PROHIRITION BILL Winnipeg, July 6.\u2014In the Legislature Pretronder evening the Premier, the H.J.Macdonald, in response to an fuquiry by Mr.Myers, wid that the diquor act would be submitted to the courts in order Wo ascertain whether ite visions were intra vires of the legis wader chapter 28 of she revised ota- tutes.The portion of the act to be submitted is the question of the righte of the Hudson's Bay Company under their deed of surrender, but he could give no further answer as the povern- ment has pot yet decided what further portions of the act they will submit.tiers of Vira, meagre end deaths must incart oy be endorerd wash (hs name and addres of the wonder, or otherwise ma: neifos con be talon of them Birth notises are 1anried for Bie, Marriage notiess Av 83, dmath mocices fer tie prepaid.The on nouncnnent 4f/unerel appended to death netioe, So astra; other antencion fo obituary, such eo short sbeded of IR, two ernie per word outre, emecpt M.Farrell, Esq.barrister-at- law, Kinge- ton, to Leouora Ellrs, eldest daughter of the Rev, M.MacOillivray.roucan \u2014 WICKINS \u2014 On June 3, 190.pon ln 8t.James's Church, Crown Mill, by the Rev.Canon Kelner, Barri - sisted by the Rov.Mr.Tesney, .K Foucar, HA.of the Colleginte Institute staff, Barrie, and Miss Hura August Wickens, of Harrie, Ont., niece of J.3! sons, and randdaughier of the late Jas.Wickens, M At home, Sept.1, 18 Barrie.FRASER \u2014 MesINTOSH \u2014 At the reel dence of the bride's other, on Wednesday, June 27, 1900, by the Rev.A.D.Macintosh.Donald H.Fraser, of Pug- wash River, Cumberiend, to Liztlo, daughter of the Inte John Meintosh, uel HAWLEY \u2014 JOHNSON \u2014 On June I, 1900, at St Seormeey Church, Clarence- Rev, W.Robinson, vil ue., assisted by toe Rove.W.Beruard and F.8.Eastman, Charles E.Hae Aznettis Q., youn daughter of Hu .ail of Clarenceville.DINNER SETS.China Department, DINNER SETS.of DINNER SETS, in good SHAPES.DESIGNS COLONIAL HOUSE BANDED DINNER SETS, with GILT EDGE, 116 pieces.Price.and DECORATIONS, and in a variety of COMBINATIONS, at the followingsprices :\u2014$6.00, Bos $to 00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00, > $25.00, and at prices niod Attention is directed to a FINE CROWN DERBY DECORATION DINNER SET, at 45.a@, at which price it is of special value.ATTERNS in YELLOW or BLUE Montreal.REFORD AGENCIES GLANGOW ARRYVICE.sa : AMARYNTHLA FARMERS\u2019 EXCHANGE, For Sale and Want Advertising, ONB CENT A WORD, Advertisements of this oeture will be fa- serted In co:densed form in the \u2018Weekly Witnem' at tbe sstramely low rate of ous cotit a word esch Insertion.\u2018The address must be rounted as part of tbe advertisement, and each initial, or \u20ac uumber, orunts as one word, Cash nocompany each order, and advertisements must have address on.aa we cannot forward replies seat to this office, Copy must be recolved not later than Friday for the paper published oa the fob lowing Tueaduy.All \u2018Farmer\u2019 Exchange\u201d advertisements, will be condensed, arge di type deing used, thus making à adv.a» noticeable As a large one.The Weekly * Witness\u2019 reaches over puotr, which is 3 erate per line extre-prepaid.ry ~ARMETRONG Charles Wiliam COUNTRY OR SEASIDE | Complete Dinner Sets.25.000 FAMILIES of ndon, an «on of e e , LEITH vue! rabserfècre may hove announeements of births, late Mr.Richard Hills, London, England, 7 Pieces, $5.50 »s& Koxa MARRON: whose verte are many, and who bave su \u2018 marriages and deuthal\u2018lhout cotraded cbtmacger to Miss Jane Armsiong.of Sayner Ont.In STOCK PATTERNS, a large assortment can be seen in :\u2014 ABBEBEEY SERVICE, lo purchasing power,\u2019 Try and adv.ia serosa, scourring (a their immediate femtion free S08 Woot SSUERIST Ont.at Chrlet Church DOULTON, WEDGWOOD, AVILAND, DELINIERES, ete \u201c88, XNDEAVOR .SE he Witney \"The resus you will ad charge, (8 which ser nase and addres mb Cathedral.Victoria, B.C., ou Thursday, oerttere should be géova.San th Note.\u2014~These goods being > STOCK PATTERNS can always be \u201cChart Noble, M eatisfactory.Young à mer, Yop romanes Aol er had.Prices : $8.00, $10.00, 00, $15.00, $20.00 and upwards.The above prices are subject to a Discount of 5 pefcent for Cash.; \u20ac iu Fhomeon à Ge, Loith We 28, 1900, at Chalmers' manse, Kingata Ont.by the father of the bride.assisted HOUS Br RA : COLONIAL HOUSE, BIRTHS.HOBBS \u2014 DALE \u2014 At the residence ut .ARDOTT-SMITH.the bride's parents, Cumberland, Ont, Eon, ra Front ' Live Stock.SR Won.Tair 1.190, the ris ot tp | {BJume I.Mo by the Rev AD.Mae SE pére * ronan, na Rt FARM.i ol nt: ames \u2018ellington Là = 3 + Rev.G.Abbott-Smith, of à son.Tre Dale.LORD LINE, Holetein-Friestans, For Sale, after oa tawn East.to Kate Letitia BLLAN.\u2014AL up drs ont ie HOLLAND-\u2014QUEST-\u2014On Monday, July & Le pere 1900, at Holy Trinity rectory, the olland Ki Goorge .reful 3 Te Cardiff.selection from my famous berd, J * MEN 83 LORD CHARLEMONT ss very fine thoroughbrea and grade bull | » ETN calves, ages from 1 to 15 months old,from Qu: &Co., Agent! Guthrie, Maywood 40 Cardiff, cows averaging 10,000 te AL be.ailk, John Pearson, Frederick W.arr on Sy 3 Irens Quest, eldest daughter of at 189 Gilmour per year, ani testin to 4 p.c.; girost.Ottawa, a's00 to Mr.and Mra.J.Guest, Both of Toronto.' e sFeroueh Bile cd ating gracted by say toe Dire by the rand.Bull.\u2018Coinath Anti, HOSEY \u2014 LETCH At St Matthew's Men's Hats, from the best London Makers, rE BL aie Te Waa Borer Boa Crane of dt prise at Tor A in all the newest shapes, on Raion ronto, Ottawa pee ptr ren Rt So thinhadi, at.Joka, MB, or Church, Ottawa, on \u201cJune 1, 1900, by the Rev.J.A.yancock, John Sandfield Ho- eldest amughter of CHAMBERS SM No.3a Purk a Yh 0%, the wife of Mr.Hoi J.3 bars « som.sey, to Harry QG.ud London, as E.D.sg Prices reasons prietcr, Tilsonburg, Ont.F in Black, Fawns - oe CLARK.\u2014Oun \u2014June $4, at pare S O ft e It S \u2019 THE ROBERT REFORD CO, Limtted, BCOTCH BHORTHORNS FOR SALE; 109 Cottage, Rickmansworth, land, HUGHES \u2014 HEWS \u2014 At the home of me 5 .head lect {; 1mp.): \u2018Dla id Ju- Vite of David Clark.of 0 son, we brides father, Fapinsturille, Que.on and Greys Baad be Becrmest Breet, MONTREAL Dire.ro beads he herd: ton \"gras 3 vv.Brown, : sariing bu FORD Ou Saturday.June 1900 s1188 Novel F.Mae ot Fresdeeil, Out l in Black, Brown, DOUGLAS & BONS, Srethroy, Ont Moses street, & son to , avé Mrs.to Lucie J.Hows, daughter of Irs Hews, a Y e S 5 Fawns &c y Ir.4 Eeg.Papiueauvilie, Que.FARMS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE Bork \u2014 At Bachiohem KIPPEN \u2014 WIGHTMAN \u2014 At the resi- - ART BE LT Silk Hats, nr PROPRN on, caster, on uly FOR SALE, meas mse so wr th hel Si 5 shapes.pute re Se er une e e hy .0 .teen i 7 Kitts, of a son.daughter of James Wightman.A full range of Straw Hats, and Tweed Caps, ete, eto.boron Fredericton, teatiors