Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 8 janvier 1901, mardi 8 janvier 1901

[" FIGHT AT NAAUWPOORT British Force Lelarey to Retire With Serious Loss PART OF KNOX'8 COMMAND SUF- WER BEVERELY NEAR LINDLEY.Loudon, Jan.7.\u2014Raporting to the War Office, under date of Jan.6, Lord Kitchener says: \u2018Yesterday Dubington engaged De larey's and Steenkamp'e commandos at Naauwpoort.The enemy was forced to retive to the north-west.Our casualties have not yet been received, but are re perted sliglt.A Boer doctor admitted that d thet Boers were killed or wound: ed.Commandant Dupres was taken prisoner \u2018It appears from reports of the wounded, who bave arrived at Heilbron, that a detachment 120 strong belonging to Gen.Knox's command, came into contact with a superior force near Lindley.regret to say that Lieut.Laing, two other officers, and fifteen men were killed and two cers twenty men wound- d No details have come from General Knox of this action.\u2019 The Nasuwpoort mentioned in Lord Kitchener's despatch must not be confounded with Naauwpoort, Cape Colon y.There are several Nasupoorts.Possibly the soene of the fight is the Nasuwpoort on the railway between Potchesfsiroom and Prederickstad, Transvaal.BOTHA'S PLAIN TALK WARNS THE BURGHERS THAT IT 18 USELESS TO HOPE FOR INTERVENTION.Pretoria, Jan.6.\u2014General Louis Boths, the commander-in-chief of the Boers, has traversed the country with one of his commandos from Ermelo to the Bprings.Reports differ ne to whether be has been advising the burghers to que for peace or to continue the struggle, All reports, however, agree that he has told the Boers frankly that Mr.Kruger's mission to Europe has been a failure, and that it is useless to hope for foreign intervention.LORD DUNRAVEN ALARMED.iondon, Jan.7.\u2014In a letter to the \u2018Times\u2019 thie morning the Earl of Dua- raven, emphasizing the \u2018very grave nitus- tion in South Africa,\u2019 warns the country to distrust the opinions of experts an the «pot and to be ready for the unexpected.He complaine of the \u2018inertia of the authorities,\u2019 and urges the necessity of large reinforcements.LORD LANSDOWNE'S SONS BACK.London, Jan, 7.\u2014Lord Lansdowne's two sone had a hesrty reception at Ho- wood y on their return from South Africs, where they have seen arduous service.BRITISH LOSSES TO DATE TABLE ISSUED BY THE WAR OFFICE.London, Jan, 7.\u2014The War Office has issued a table of the war losses to the end of the year, The total casualties of every kind were 51,087, but owing to the fact that & majority of the men invalided home have recovered and rejoined their commands the total reduction of the forces was 14,830, There are also mies- ing and prisoners seven officers and 968 men, The number of invalids who left the service and are unfit for duty is 1,570.SITUATION IN CAPE COLONY NEWS FROM CAPETOWN LESS SATISFACTORY.London, Jan.7~This w.orning\u2019s rews from Ca is not 80 satisfactory.Martial inw has been proclaimed at Mal- mesbury, and Would have been im- od in other districts, but that Lhe cabinet meeting called on Baturday was unable to agree as to its advisbil vagueness of the infor.ening movements and on cf the invaders has sent a fresh void fit the colonists and Capetown calls k iy Jor strong reinforcements from England on the ground that the greater RS a, Lord Kitchener's available fore employ: in protecting the litres unication, and the Rand mines.latier extending for n distance of fiftz miles.ocording to a native report a hen.dred men, either Boers or local farmers, have just pamed through Clanwilliam dietriot in the direction of Malmesbusy.Capston, oadent of Mall, who calls forty thous or Montreal Weekly Witness.MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1901.The military movements are quite unimportant, though oral i» sending reinforcements to [orvazo Mer Ques.Dr.lLeyds, according to The Hague correspondent of the \u2018Daily Mail,\u2019 ia recruiting in Holland, Belgiain, France any and his recruits will be sent out to Vatoaguatand, prepa y as emigrants, each man receiving £50 on starting.PORTUGUESE REINFORCEMENTS.inbon, Ji MULTIPLICITY OF COMMANDOS.London, Jan.7.\u2014Thes Capetown cor respondent of .the \u2018Times,\u2019 who confirms the reports of the multiplicity of the 3 commandos, says: \u2018Nearly five aixthe of the British troops are employed to guard the lines of communica ton and to garrison towns, leaving a very emall number, y unmounted, to pursue the enemy.Large reinforcements are advisable, and these would be chen J the od ne did t \u201c lamage which the Itoers did to the Kleinfontein mines is officially estimated at £210,000.THE RAND MINES.London, Jan.7.\u2014The Capetown correspondent of tbe \u2018Times\u2019 remarks unon the imposmibility of General Lord Kitoh- ener, with bis present forces, protecting the Rand mines, and says that marauders would be able an an hour or two to do damage amounting to thousands of pounds.He instances the Kleinfontein mine, which was recently damaged to tile extent of £210,000.The mine cannot be etarted up again in two years.INVALIDED CANADIANS FOURTEEN MEN REACH HALIFAX ON BOARD THE SS.\u2018CARTHAGINIAN> Halifax, N.S., Jan, 7.\u2014The Allan liner \u2018Carthaginian,\u2019 which arrived to-day from Liverpool via 8t.John's, NAd., bad un board fourteen invalided Canadians.Their names are : Sergt.Miles, Corp.Stevens, Gunner Clarkson, Troopers Wigle, Doust, McDougall, Doolen, Wright, Dickie, Leu- der, Taylor, Birch, Kenoedy and Yule.WINKLER BRIBERY CASE.Winnipeg, Jan.7.\u2014Hugh McKinnon and Frank Mewsener, citizens of Cart- Wright, were arrested on Saturday, and after a hearing by the magistrate sent to Winnipeg for trial un the charge of bribery on behalf of Mr.Winkler, the Liberal candidate in Rylande.Both men were immediately admitted to bail by the judge when they reached Winnipeg.\u2014_\u2014 WILL GO TO MONCTON.Brantford, Ont., Jan.7.\u2014The Rev.Dr.Hutchinson, pastor of the Park Baptist Church, yesterday announced to his con- trezation that be bad accepted a call to Moncton, N.B.Dr.Hutchinson Las been & most popular minister here for many years, and hig decision will be generally regretted.\u2014 COLD IN EUROPE \u2014 Thermometer Takes a Decided Drop NUMBER OF DBATHS ON THE STREETS OF PARIS.Paris, Jan.4.\u2014Severe cold is reported throughout France and Italy.À frot of Haw fell at Marveilles hat cvening, end t mercury shows legrees frost in Paris today.\u2018There have Ixen à number of deaths in the streets, Trains from a long distance are greatly delayed.Snow bas fallen even in southern Italy, and the city of Rome and surrounding country are anow-clad for the first time in many years.(\u2018rowds .ssonbled on the Pincio tn witness the rare patorame.London, Jan.7.\u2014Severo cold has sud- Émis et in throughout rursge.In Eng 1t is accompanied by a northeasterly , amounting to a gale over the Channel.At Dover a boat was cap- aized, four persona being drowned ard probably other accidents will be report- On the Continent the weather is still more severe.Snow has fallen ws far south as Naples, and in 8t.Petersburg the cold nes intense that the police um e streets bave to uently re- Heved, and the achools to be dosed.At Moscow the temperature is thirty degree below zero, Fahrenheit, Tremendous are blowing.over the Adriatic.Terrible blixsarde are re- portei from Austria and southern Rus mia, extinguishing signal lighte and re- Po AE me Or at Al .The storm caused a collision bai ween passenger trains at Mikolajow, Hu: y six persons being killed.Nine peo] were froten to death on à Trensylvania.CHINA AND THE POWERS FORMER NOW ANXIOUS TO RE VIBE THE RUSBIAN-MAN- CHURIAN AGREEMENT.London, Jan, 7.\u2014The outlines of the Rumo-Chinese agreement regarding Manchuria were cettled with Li Hung Chasé in Decamber, 1809, says the Vienna cot respondent of the \u2018Daily Telegraph,\u201d and prior to that Rusda had concluded trea ties with the Emirs of Hokbara and Khivar and the Shah of Persia, and ar ranged for neutrality or for military as sistance in the event of difficulties ans ing between Kusama and any Asiatic power.ln fact, all the pps towards the practical uisition of Manchuria had n curefully prepared.(Trina is now endeavoring to negotiate at St.Petersburg a revision of the Itumo-Chinese Manchurian sgreement, ¥ ienna correspondent of the \u2018Daily Chronicle\u2019 rts that Rusaia, in her agreement with China, undertakes to defend the latter aganet any attack on her forts, \u2018Chang Club Tung, the Wuchang vire roy, wired the (hisiese envoys strenuous ly urging them to delay the mgning of e not,\u201d says Dr.Morrison, wiring to the \u2018Times\u2019 yesterday from Pekin, \u2018until several clauses had been amended, and that portion of the preamble had bsen expunged which charge» the imperial court with the responsibility for the at tacks upon the legation.Ile further urged the imperial personages not to çe- turn to Pekin on tho ground that che joint note permits the powers to maintain 10,000 troops between Pekin an\u2019 the rea.\u2018An imperial decree was issued to de lay the aflixing of signatures, but the Chinese plenipotentiaries replied that it wad impossible co recall the assent al- given, COUNT VON WALDERSEE.Shanghai, Jan.6\u2014It is rted from Sianfu that the Dowager press has ordered General Feng Tee Tsai, commander of the province of Yunnan, © Ç , with his army, to the Yangtve \u2018alley, and from that section to move northward.His force is said to consist of 15,000 men, armed with modern wea.8.Count von Waldersee, it is asserted has with Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang that the allied troops sre not to operate in the prefectures of Shunteh ing and Timing, in the province of thli, THE JOINT NOTRE MISSIONARIES MEET AND DISCUSS \"ITS PROVISIONS.Pekin, Jan.5.\u2014A meeting of the Pro testant missionaries was held to-day to consider the terms of the joint note of the powers to China.A majority of the missionaries wpoke on the subject Tha concensus of opinion waa that the note is not comprehensive enough.e Rev.Mr.Owens, of the American Board of Foreign Missions, ssid he wan opposed to it for three reasoms\u2014 because it was narrow, welfish and care Jess.He added that it did not mention the slaughter of Christians, but merely referred to the killing of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, and an officer of the Japanese legation, Sugu- mirs Akira.The Rev.Dr.Tewsbue.of the Ameri: can Board of Foreign Missions, said the note was better than could be expected.Still, it was unsatinfzctory.The Rev.Dr.Wherry (1) pointed out that th: note was not ciently .com prehensive.The Rev.Mr.Lowry (Dr.H.H.Low rie?), of the Paotingfu mission, thought it waa only a preliminary note, and wid the missionaries should get together the same as business men, and press their demand upon the ministers when the time came for making up the treaties.The Rev.Mr.Updegraf said the thought that the mention of Christianity in the note would have been a mis take, as it might have prevented ite adoption by Japan, the latter being a lieathen country, and also might have prevented ita adoption by Catholic countries, the latter beng opposed to Pro testantism.The Rev.Mr.Lowry's pi ition that the missionaries should adopt a pro gramme and endeavor to get their re- tive ministers Lo nee it inserted in the treatics, was agreed to.Finally two resentatives of each mimion were appointed à committee to formulate the views of those who took part in the meeting.THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY AMENDMENTS.London, Jan.7.\u2014The press discussion of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty has ended with generalizations like that of today\u2019s \u2018Spectator,\u2019 that the Foreign Office ill not consider the peculier attitude of the Senate, but the text of the amendments, and the sustained argument of the \u2018Economist,\u201d that it is difficult to negotiate with Americas because she wobbles ind does not know her own mind, and ot because she is grasping or because she is tricky.There is much misapprehension here, which might be removed if che duly Journals would print the ful] text of Hay-Pauncefote treaty as amer d- ed.The Foreign Office will pass judgment in due course upon the amendments, but not without deliberation.The most bopeful forecast which I have received from any authoritalive source in that it is unsafe to assume that the amendments will be rejected and the treaty be thrown owt, MAY CAUSE A REVOLUTION.Willemstad, Jas.7.\u2014The United States minister at Usracas, Venexuels, Mr.F.B.Loomis, according to the latest ad- vices received bere, has not yer succonl- ed in obtaining justice for the New Yok and Bermudest Awphait Company in :% dispute with the local authorities, aad the situation is regarded ae critical, Thee] American warships are either al is Guayra or on their way there (the \u2018Buf falo,' the \u2018Hartford\u2019 and the \u2018Beorpion\u2019), and the Americans are complaining at the alleged delay in obtaining protection for their interests.The lool auchori- tien, it wan added, enrouragrd the na: tives to invade the company\u2019s plant, - EUROPEAN BIRTH RATE.New York, Jan, 7.\u2014A well known European statistician contributes an inter esting article to the \u2018Mail\u2019 on the ques tion of European birth rates during the last quarter of a century, says the \u2018Tribune\u2019s\u2019 London cofrespondent.He conclusively paoves that England is steadily falling behind her great trade rival, Germany, in the all important matter of re production of the race, and is gradusily following in the dangerous track of France.\u2014_\u2014 THE POPE AND FRANCE VATICAN IS ADMIRABLY DISPOSED TOWARD HER.Marseilles, Jan.6.\u2014 bishop Favier, the head of the French sion à North China, and vicar apostolic of Pekm, or- rived here to-day from the Ohi «pi tal after a short visit to Home, where be discussed with the Pope the situation In an interview with the Pope, in the course of which His Holiness made a highly important statement of the Vatican\u2019s policy towards the French Repub- lie, apropos of the intention of the Wal- deck-Rot ministry to introdice a bil agains the religious in relation to the letter from the P de destine wi the Arche of ES is, all, Arch.TE \u2018I can affirm e Leo XIIL i admirably wards d Fae ot de ¢ that ues of a diplomatic natare, His, Holi said to me, \u201c1 Jove France with all \u201cLegs.Farier added that the Pope would _ The Archbishop is an optimist tegard- ing the Chinese situation and expresses the conviction that a settlement of the difficulty will shortly be reach~d.He for Paria where he will confer the Mivister of Foreign Affairs.VALUE OF MONASTIC ESTATE.Paris, Jan.7.\u2014In view of the impending debate on the religions associations bill, the government has caused the real estate belonging to the monastic orders to be valued, with the result that much property is shown fo be worth about $220,000,000.\u2014_\u2014 EIGHT MEN SUFFOCATED WERE SLEEPING IN A MINNEAPOLIS HOTEL WHEN IT TOOK FIRE.Minneapolis, Jan.6.\u2014Eight men iost their lives in à fire at 115 Washington avenue south at five o'clock this morning.The fire had its origin in the rear of the S.andard Furniture Company.The men were overtaken by an immense volume of smoke in the liarvard Hotel which occupies the second, third and fourth floors of the building, and death in every instance was due to suffocation.When the men were found in various parts of the house, à man named Erickson was dead, and the seven others, who have mince died, were unconscious.When the fire was discovered the night clerk and two men met about to awaken the Jodzers.One devoted hin attention to the second floor, while another rushed upstairs.The men were all wound asleep, and in several instances it was for O'Connor to break in the door.at took place in the dining rooms and narrow, dark hallways wi never be known.J Tt was n case of every man rushing for his own life.Nineteen of the twen- ty-seven were euccessful, but the others were unable to beat their way through the oil smoke, and fell in the tracks, where they were found e firemen.Many of those who escaped come riage gering out on the sidewatk like drunk-n he deadly mmoke and heat: ang lh e y mmoke and heat, and only partially clad.Several had narrow ca Ape A: lows on the building and content will not exceed $3,000.* \u2014\u2014 MARITIME MAILS ROBBED.Jair, NS.Jan.oon has jum oul uring the past two months the mails have been ayntemati- cally robbed st Moncton.One bag stolen ponte ini, I.C.R.cheques to the value of $12,000, which, however, needed endorsement before the money could be collected.At Shediac a bag containing registered letters was stolen, Police ead gromce authorities are working om \u201cnse i THE LONDON \u2018DAILY NEWS.London, Jan, 7\u2014No ciear account has Yet been received of the changes in ownership of the stock of the Daily News.Under the editorship of Mr.E.T.Cook, that journal has regained, ite old time influence and suthority and become the brigitest and ables of Joodon pspers.He remains at ns post and asserts thet be hua not received notice to quit, ard certainly will not change his preamt ul icy.Rumors point to à group ra vals of the Labouchere type, with a lead: ing Binningham Quaker and Mr.David- Lloyd tieorge among them aa the pur: chasers of à mujority of the stock, and to the roappearance of Mr.Henry William Musainghatin in charge of the reconstructed journal, Lut there in no authon- tative announcement.LORD WOLSELEY COMING.Vancouver, BC., Jan.7.\u2014Lord Wolse ley, late commander-in-chief of the Brit ish army, has notified friends here that he will shortly pay an extended visit to W Vancouver, \u2014_\u2014\u2014 FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE ELDER-DEMPSTER LINE 90 CROSS IN SIX DAYS.I Halifax, N.S., Jan.6.\u2014London advices : nay the 55.\u2018Ema,\u2019 ecquired hy the Elder- Dempater line for the (\u2018anadian Atlantic mail eervice, will be renamed the \u2018Lake 1 Simcoe.\u201d The despatch adds that the same company is negotiating for the \u2018Elks\u2019 and the \u2018Germanic,\u2019 and jt is ex to make the voyage between iverpool and Halifax under six days.EYES TURNED THIS WAY FORTY THOUSAND MOLOKANEN LOOKING LONGINGLY TOWARD CANADA.St.Petersburg, Jan.6\u2014The Moloka- nen, a sect numbering 40,000, whose founders removed in 1540 from various parts of.Husa to the Caucasus and whoue del tes have just brotight glowing reports (rom the Doukbobors, or Russian Quakers, in Canada, contem emigrating to America.The sect secured state lands in the Cancasus and almost reat free, but re cently the Rusman government announe- ed that rente would be increased three fold or fourfold.Now the Moiokanen are petitioning the government to re store the former rentals or to permit emigrytion.THE FRENCH SHORE DISPUTE.London, Jan.5\u2014The reported and denied concession of ber West African col ony, Gambia, to France, in exchange for French fishing rights on the Newtound- land shore, would have been an excellent bargain for France.France has about 500 subjecta interested in the Newfoundland shore.The population of Gambia is 1500, the Gambia annual revenue $230,000, and expenditure $150,- 000.Unlike the other colonies, instead of having a public debt, Gambia has money invested from regular surpluses.The income from the French Newjound.land shore inlury is about $75,000.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 FASHIONABLE LONDON WEDDINGS.London, Jan, 7.\u2014There is a long ser ies of fashionable weddings this uonth, many bridegrooms being military officers.General Polel'arew and the young Duke of Westminster are among them, The marriage of Sir Ernest Cassels's only daughter, one of the richest girls in Eng land.with Wilfrid Aasbley, Sir Henry Uampbell-Bannermian's secretary, has been followed by the wedding of Sir Robert Cunliffe and Mise Cecile Sauk- ville West, in Pimlico.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 LARGEST IN THE WORLD TWO MONSTER BATTLESHIPS 10 BE BUILT FOR THE BRITISH NAVY.London, Jan.&\u2014The British Admi- raity has decided to build two bastle- ships which sball be the largest in the world.The distinction of having the largest warship is now held by Italy, with the 'Lepanto\u2019 and her aister ah:p, the \u2018Italie\u2019 Grest liritain's two pro jected large warships, to he respectively named the \u2018Queen\u2019 and the \u2018Prince of Wales,\u201d will be 2,000 tons beavier than the Italian ships mentioned, reaching the enormous displacement of 18,000 tous, which is 3,500 tons heavier than :he United States\u2019 largest armor-clad ves«l.These tremendous British veswels will oarry nothing larger than 12-inch guns.Their batteries will chiefly be composed of these guns, and of 7.3 nch and 64u~h guns, The determination to increase thy bulk of the battleships was arrived at alter much discussion, for since the days of the \u2018Roya] Sovercign' (of 14,150 tons), the Admiralty has been inclined to favor battleships of smalier displacement, of which the \u2018Canopas\u2019 (12,950 tons) ie the best type.In the meanwhile, Ruma, France, the United Siates and Japan have all becn increwing their displace ments, till Cirent Britain han been almost left behind.Now she Mepe in, taking the lead with the \u2018Queen\u2019 and the \u2018Prince of Wales,\u2019 to my nothing of the \u2018London\u2019 and the \u2018Formidable,\u2019 both of 15,000 toms, mow Dearing completien.ONTARIO ELECTIONS, MR.0.A.HOWLAND, QC, Was ELEOTED MAYOR OF TOKONTU.The news y telegraph tii Torin shows at Z.0.2 Howitad J el Fr te avis, wie He Lamercia, 4 Ar.Shaw VU and Me.Woodley, sociak 1st, 224 votes, ) ry i 443 votes, Mr.tar bad ai a 24 Ye a had \u201cMer TE, 2% addete In London Mayor Humbal ie clocted by u large majority.In Kingeion Mayor 5 % Kent elected mayor by 1,368 votes; Donel), 3 bad J.Sorawli eyor P, K.Angus Lalindd) pbel! by 119 over , Belleville\u2014R, J, Graham >> mayor by 536 majority over Ald.Guelph\u2014Mayor, J.Kennedy, Btratford\u2014James Stamp wag ea mayor here to-day.Woodsiock\u2014Dr.Mearns was closte, mayor J.B.Melnigre, Bt.Catharines-Mayor, Brantford\u2014In municipal elections hase today D.B, Wood was elected mayor.Smith's Falle\u2014J.F.Gould was elected mayor.County commissoners slected were Andereon and Graham.Arnprior\u2014Mayor, Ciaude MeLachlin.Pembroke\u2014Mayer, John P.Miler.Eganville\u2014Reeve, Renfrew\u2014Mayor, W.E.Smalifeld, Oxford Mille\u2014County Grenville electro ral division No.3 elected W.H.Ande jou and Hugh Hugtes as county counal- Township of Oxford elected John Foix ston reeve by acclamation, Lanta Mare G.W.Suimen.Lanark village\u2014Reeve, Dan.McGuire, mt Thomas\u2014Mayor, 8.Chant, majority Merrickville\u2014County councillors elected today were R.W.Watchorn and J.plate B.Arnold.Kemptrille\u2014Reeve, G.H.Ferguson.Village of Cobden\u2014Reeve, James Hum, phries.Almonte\u2014Mayor, Charles Simpson.Deseronto\u2014Mayor, E.W.Rathbun.TO-DAY'S TELEORAMS HALIFAX WAS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE \u2018 RUSLIN QASTLE'\u2019 AND CANADIAN TROOPS.as the \u2018Weekly goes Lo press is that the \u2018Roslin ith the Canadian troops and artillery on board, had not arrived, but was eagerly expected.A Rochester, N.Y., despatch that at one v'alook this morning Rochester Urphan asylum took fire in the hospital section and was destroyed.Nineteen children were believed to have bess lout in the flames, and two numses also perished at their duty.Great Hritain took from Canada i 1900, goods valued at £18,354,674, while Suh exports to Canada were £5,023 The stories from Halifax about miners\u2019 strike seem to vary from day te day.It is mid in the jatest X despatch that the miners of struck work again because one of strikers bad been discharged.1t \u2018s ales stated that no «greement been reach ed between miners and managers.The family of Mr.E, H.Taylor, com prising his wide and three children, were burned to death at Model City, near Lewiston, N.Y., on Monday morning.Hot ashes placed 10 a near house caused the fire.A Shanghai dewpatch of stator tit Sir Ernest Satow, Brits minister 1) China, nes pr: the free dom of all crashing v ; freedom of vemels on inland waters, sspecially om The news from Halifax Witness\u2019 Castle,\u201d th f th investment in foreign concerns; extension of (hina's trade; protection of trade marks, and protection of treaty ports.IS is also stated that the Chinese Rat = gretted the signature of the peace until tro late to have their onder their envoys not to aign.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 VANCOUVER SNOWBOUND.Vancouver, BU, Jan.7\u2014Enow Las been falling almost incessantly $b a week now, and ite depth, combined with air cumstances of evers one being unprepared for such an pinpreceueited occurrence on this conet, resuKed in demoralising trade, Lumber mills are closed down, and shipping generally is suffering.The steamer \u2018Danube\u2019 and \u201cDirigo.on the coast service, have bots: been damaged collisions with icebergs aout of & end extreme weather is meported the north.ISLAND OF CYPRUS alleged an Fast Africa for Cyprus, tbe \u2018Neves Viemys mys: \u2018Under exiting the powers must be about and Russia will consent ssouring vec foub Lion er * ve g S TORN, 4 Ww Bt.Petarsburg, Jan.suce SO ~~ Y no UR + w \u2014 ° *% .Ws BREAKING THE NEWS.(By Zcta, in \u2018The l'resbyterian.\u201d) It wea à distinot accession to our in every good way when youn, re.Feruie settled among us.It nevd- some ded respect for ane\u2019s wy ud ye to refer 10 her at all as Mra.; \u201cireked x girlieh, and bad dimpling smiles and merry grey happy, lisome ways in all 6 did, that the temptatlon was al ways present to call her Miss, with & Lod temptation lurking helind to Pas of her by her Christian name; are people of that sort, biythe, frank, aaturul, for whom titra rec ae rd as Latin uames to meadow pisuts.the guy, light hearted Irish lassie twined her silken wble tor good y al round Licutenaux Fernie, on \u2018Jobn,' as she called the manly Seotch- wan who went down to sea in the Ortent liner, and saw d'a wonder in the deep.Their little house had just been furnished, and the honeymoon end: when the blue Peter wus run up.ani D was off agun on the boandiig n It was natural that the women falk should tske Lindly to ihe girlish de so socom left forlorn, und she was almost all \u201che wax not long in having the run he families in the chur.opted, im fact, daughter, sister or riend to every , «nd bore herself vith such kindly tact and wisdom that t never occu ta anyone to Invoaw salous of her friendly footing with all.[rv merry ways, her Irish warm-heart x, and witly quips made her the fe of the Dorcas: | have heanl : wife say that she had no den that meeting could be till Mrs, wd once or twice hava absent.was great raise, tor my wife held Dvreas to be the grandes institui on the church, us an elder's wite >houid.oe As the Teeky me 4, inte the months we began to cel we n property Fight in the absent mariner, and everyone de veloped an interest in high latitude» au far-off trading ports, sud many a ym pa je response waw quiet'y made vien our good minister prayel ior tho-e at rer.There wus quite a jamily fecling in the \u2018finie apprared one Sunday morning with the lieutenant by her side, a fine, bronzed, strapping fellow, with a soft, jar moustache und rd, and clear Llue, honest eyes; thes made a handsome couple, and it needed Bo town cricr to procluim their affee tion far each other; the very sight of them toek off several years irom the old: est of us.Lut he wus roon outward bound again, rnd, of course, there were toars in the young wife's eyes when the women.folk tried to cheer her up: A change came over her after this, a change not easy for a man to explain; her smile Was na plearant a« ever, aud there waa just as much kindlinces in lew ways but she was less of the girl, pure and simple, and more of the thoughtiul woman mow.So the months went on, crisping towards the Clr na tall cross of the fresem English type, as een at Irton, the sul] more, {mous Ruths ie cross 18 the hard green the neighborhood, supplied fre quasties of Tilberthwaite; not carve, but likely to last, sod net .to, chip or loss ita pleassnt grey-geete A beautiful sachet of Honiton the work of an_old lady named Mar: , re nding at Exmouth, has been torwarded to Queen.Mrs.Mardhall, who is #3 sears oid, has received the following letter im acknowledgment of her gift: \u201cWindsor Castle, Dec.10, 1900.Lady An- trim in desired by the Queen to thank Mrs.Julia Murshali for the besutifally- worked sachet she has sent, and which Her Majesty in graciously pieased to sc- rept.\u2018The Queen is much interested to kuow that Mrs.Julia Marshal] was one of those who worked on the lace worm ty the Queen for marriage, snd is much touched that at her advanced age she whould have made this hi handkerchief case for Her Majesty.The Queen desires Lady Antrim to encloses £1 as a small Christmas gift to Mrs.Julia Marshall.\u2019 Lord Wemyss, who has just surprised hia friends by taking unto bimeelf a wife, has had an experience which it is safe to describe as unique, He bac \u2018given the Prince of Wales à taste of his fist!\u201d It was in the last session of the parliament, and Lord Wemyss was addressing the House of Lords on a mibject which roused him to great enthusiasm\u2014 something, perhaps, to do with the defence of liberty and property, about which lord Wemyss is always grestly conremed.The Prince of Wales sat on the (roms benches in front of the speaker, and in a forgetful and energetic moment ford Wemyss brought down his fist on top of the Prince's hut! It was an awk- win! moment for the noble lord, but as he and the Prince are good friends his Royal (Tignes laughed feartily and for zave him.The telephone excavations have chown two things \u2014 that London is simply standing upon ane vast graverard, and innumerable cella:s, Hherever the trenches have gone human remains have been thrown up.They are, in fact, ss common as the dirt in which they lie.Anticipating public feeling on the matter, the post office authorities have given strict injunctions that the remains shall be buried on the spot from which they are taken, and the work is closely super- vis, in order that these injunctions shall he carried out to the letter.The innumerable cellars which sre co Iv being unearthed prove to be serious diffieultiss \u2018n the way of p .For the moet part these cellars have been dissed for vears.Thev are apcient in the character of their architecture, and most nf them come very near the surface of the rond.\u2014_\u2014 SCOTCH.The foundation of the first new cbureh under the union\u2014the Crown Cuited Free Church, Inverness\u2014was laid by Frinci val Rainy.While excavations were in progress, recently, adjoining the cast promeuade, Dunimr, a stone coffin, containing a skeleton uf large dimeswnons, was discovered.At one of the most important churches m Dundee à strange innovation has been introduced without much udverse comment.Dr.Templeman, medical officer of health for the city, lectured there cn a recent Sunday evening om \u201c tion: Ita causes and prevention;\u2019 ard the lecture waa the first of a series cn health, which are to take the place of srrmms during the winter mionthe.AU the devotional forme of a 3cotch Con- grwzational service were reserved, the discourse only being secular.The church was full.and \u201cThe Dundee Advortiser\u2019 has nothing but approval for this odd departure.At a crowded meeting of Glasgow eiti- zens a resolution was enthusiastically pawed constituting a defensive force to ha known as \u2018The Burghers of the Queen.\u2019 or \u2018The Citizens\u2019 Reserve.The Tord Provost said that the movement was an a feeling and desire to make sure that no possible combination of enemies would succeed in uvermnaster- ing Great Britain.Sir Redvers Buller wrote that such a movement wie one more for the consideration of the gov: ernment and War Office than fnr a private individual like himself.Me fed had the command of & burgher force ; himiself on more than one occasim, ard he was confident that in good lande auch a force as suggested might be of great Imperial value.He did not think that any change in ordinary drill should be introduced.Dr.Conan Doyle wrote: \u201cIf there were no red tape, no uniform, no swagger, they would easily get half a milion men.\u2019 IRISH.| | was the parung remark of a vouth of ossediy anarchical principles recent lv sentenced to ten years at Munster Awsizes for arson.A remarkable birthday was cetelmated the other dav when the Dowager Lady Carew entered her one red and thin] year.¥ in the grandinother of ford Carew, And lives at Wontisiown, County Waterford, leading of late years a very retirmt life, though her health is tolerably good.Ft is notewarthy on Jan.) the lady Carew had lived in three centuries.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 NEWFOUNDLAND ROY PROMOTED The friends of Mr.Jobo GQ, McCowen, Inepertor-General of the Police and Fire Departmenta for Newfomdland, wifl be pleased to learn of the promotion of bis omiying in de opel Naval\u201d Codes studying in the av: \" , Portamonth, haa recently passed vy highly in his examinations, ining à first-class in both gunnery and torpedo work.In consequence of this he will receive special promotion to the rank\u2019 ef fou Meutenant ce attuining the outs.° will make all Europe tremble vet, + 1.te\u201d AU tbe above pagere sent postpaid te the Doninien, Newtoundiand and l'uicod States Fer Grens Britain add $1.04 for postage en * Weekly Witness\u201d \u201cNorthern Messenger\u2019 add Be; \" Dally Witaea\u201d ndd $3.40.ADVERTISING RATES WEEKLY WITNESS.Casal advertisements Os par line per insertivm, including cuts snd terge wpa Contract Dates 1 year, § 80 por line; 4 months, $4.00 par line: 3 months, $3.95 par Hue, \u201cFarms to Reat,\u201d * Furs fur Sale,\u201d ean be inserted for 1o 8 word por losertion frum enbe vorfbere.The lowest rate for noneutecribers 8 two orate per worl When repiles arb Lo be addressed in care of the Witanes\u201d Office, an ad- distonal charges of twenty-dre oruts is made.In all oases the full prios must sccompany\u2019ssch order, DAILY WITNEME \u201410 por line per husertion, Contracts ae favorable terme |\" Employment Wanted.\" \u201cMtmetions Vaosnt,\u201d etv., 100 per luser- tam, wp te 20 wurde Money mus acvompeny order, ss this quotation Is mckoned om & onsh asta.Wirtha and Death, $30 par inesrtion : Marriage, Ss (These must be suthenticsisd by the name tod address of the sender.) 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If not already forwarded, send your renewal without delay, and avoid the loss of a single imue.A new eub- scriber or more remitted at the same time will be gratefully appreciated.the specis! rates for clubs in another column Head hae all \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Send \u2018World Wide\u2019 to a friend for « Tour as & new emtury token, + \" he Witness, TUESDAY, JANUARY & 1001.5 === The astonishing repidity with which i the Clergue syndicate's vast enterprises j at Sault Ste.Marie and Michipicoten | are being developed is one of the in- | dustrial wouders of the year.The Mount 1lden mine, at Midipicoten, for instance, only commencal to be productive in June, and yet, since then, tore Jon ore has heen taken from it each fortnight than from the other seven working mines of enstern Ontario during the previous six months.There is now a quarter of a million dollars of this are lying at the lock of the Midland smelter, having been carried there by the Clergue steumers, Pulp manufacture, new railways, a feet of steamers, iron, ateel, nickel and chemical and wood-working manufactures, seitlement of agricultural lands, and the establishment of a great fishery on 1lud- son's Bay, these are among the great | things done, doing, or projected, and the i sketches of it all on another page reads more like romance than sober fact.| \u2014 Mr.Harmsworth, the successful London journalist, having spoken his views an to the newspaper of the tweaticth century, was aeked by Mr.Pulitzer to illuetrate them by conducting the Nem York \u2018World\u2019 on the first day of the | new century as he pleased.The chief differencos between the new world and the old world in this century issue are a reduction in volume, which has made the paper positively pocketable and the smallness of the page, whick has become a third more than half the aize of the \u2018Witness\u2019 page.In these points Me Harmsworth has, we are convinced, ; shown himself a true prophet.It was not, of course, open to him to illustrate tes other idea of newspaper trusts is«u- ing simultaneous dailies all over the country, but he has managed to show what would be the natural effect of such a development upon the daily newspaper as an organ of public opinion, There is oaly ane brief editorial headed, * Where America beats the world.\u201d Mr.Harms worth has in this and other writings done his best to adopt the American language, but be should have written, | \u201cWhere America whips creation.\u201d { \u2014_\u2014\u2014 | It is not all gold that glitters.That j 8, wealth is not all it is thought to be by those who are straining every nerve Ï One of its disadvantages \"is stated by Dr.Allan McLean Ilamilzon, who appeared in a récent case ma an expert in lunacy, who said that persons of wealth are being \u2018railroaded\u2019 through the New York courts into the insane j asylums.The case was that of Mise | Georgina Wendel, who was confined as a i lunatic at the instance of her relatives.Miss Wendel possessed a fortune : amounting to half a million, and, after Jong litigation, ehe has been released, the jury at the same time deciding that she shall be free from the contro] of her family.A etrong dishke for these mame relatives was the mein ground for her commitment, but if rich peopls who develop etrong entipathies towards claim: ants with whom they decline to share their wealth are to be accounted lunatics the exercis of the ownership of wealth has dangers afl its own.What with having to guerd their treasures against ewindlers and robbers, defend their children against kidnappers, and protect their own persons in liberty mil- Lonnaires seem to be having their own troubles, \u2014 We cannot add a word to the singular- Jy clear and extremely interesting state ment of the position and history of the island of Antiooeti which appears in an- cAdber column of this paper under the sig: nature \u2018W.H.C\u2019 Wa do not think the writer bas attached any false eerioumess to the national avd imperial aspects of the case which be has so ably eet for:h.Amuming Mr.Menier's title to the island 10 fee mmple tv te perfect, though that = disputed by Captain Forwyth, and as suming that the limitations which he has placed upon residence by arbitrarily dis poseessing the English-speaking settlers, anon fishing off We shores and upon tral.fic with the island to be all within the law, # must mill be admitted that there ate pational intererts connected with so vast à domain, in so prominent and strategie à posticn, that are in no wise wined out by the mere fact of private ownership.Nor is the fact that that ownership is foreign, and, under possible circumstances, anu British, entirely without significance.It seems to ve, there: fore, the part oi stutesmanship, both Os.radien and British, to give careful eon- sideration to the facts prevented, and if - the proposal made by our correspondent.fails to meet with approval, to inquire bow otherwise tbe public interests of Canada and the empire may be safeguarded from pomible damage.ee An old and valwed reader of the \u2018Wit.nom\u2019 writes: \u2018lL do not want the \u2018Wit: \u2018 ness\u2019 another year bucause of the crt- \u2018ics.What was good enough for Tyn- * dale, Latuner and Ridley 1s good enongh \u2018for me.\u201d We have no doubt our friend's religion 3 of a very good and stalwart sor, but it as certainly not that of Tyndale, Latimer and Ridley, ® hose ware meu who had too much belief in God's truth to think it could be upset by cny amount of vestigation or inquiry with regerd to it.We apen the encyclopaedia at the name Tyndale, and the first sentence ot which the eyo Lights is : \"His \u2018sympathy with the \u201cnew lexrning,\u201d \"led to his being summoned belore the * Chancellor of Worcester as a suspected \u201cheretic\u201d There is no dunger of our friend ever being a Tyndsle, Indeed, he goes further than the pi.\u2018ecutors of Tyndale, for he desires to punish the \u201cWitness\u201d smp'y because it allowed a man to rate his diffi- eulties about thu Oid Testament Berip- tures, and then showed where his res- THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, \\ » French revolution the royal families of Furope have wisely avoided carrying all their eggs in ome basket.All of them, even the lupe of Rome end the Sultan of Turkey, sre known to have deposited their savings with British bankers in London.Napoleon III, in the height of his prosperity, when no cloud apposr od on hia horizon, made the future for tunes of his family secure by his investments in British securities end Anseri can real estate, and the cvent justified his wisdom.Rut if the facts be se etat ed they show that Furapean royalty has faith in American institutions and financial integrity.They will also feel Jess \u2018nolined to quarrel with a vuntry where their personal interesta are so heavily amcerned.Thus another guarantee of pence in emtablivhed, for the more the ambition of military powers ia curbed by financial considerations the better for oll nations, -\u2014\u2014 Tieut.-Col, Otter is, we are now told, seriously spoken of for the vacant position of commandant of the Royal A'iti- tary College at Kingston.When this idea was mooted some time ago we received a lotter criticising Col.Otter severely.Am the proposal seemed at the time in the highest degree improbable, if only on account of Col.Otter\u2019s age and equinment for the porition, we did not give place to the critivien, but took soning was weak.1n punishing the 'Wit- ( every opportunity to elicit the senti- ; ments of the men of E and I compenics, I which were recruited in Quebec and nes\u2019 he will punish aleo himsqlf, for he will not easily find another newepaper that will bind itself by his views, Lan- mer and Ridley were burned by thor Church, and at the stake Lighted a candle of religious liberty in England which Las never been put out, Those who persecuted them were like I'aul before L'a eyes were opened, acting \u2018in all good conscience towards God.\" what to allow the truth to be discussed was 40 kill it.Instead of that, it is only error that needs the prote:tion of ru They thought | Montreal, If any value is to be attach- od to what would appear to he the al moet unanimous opinion of these men, we rhould fear that such an appointment would be a serious blunder.Col.Otter has Leen roceiving unceasing and unstinted ovations evor since he left the front as commander of a corps which the Empire delights to honor, and the more stars and medals the hotter os fitting memorials of his distinguished service in a momentous campaign, but en- hibited discussion.There ia no condition | Guiry is in order when it is the future so wholesome for truth as to be cxposad to all the blasts of heaven, \u2014 Mr.McKim, whees hopes for the tem: perance cause evidently do not lie in the diretion of prohibition, and who has his own plans for dealing w.th intemperance, is still unwilling to slight in any way any organization or party that is working for the mpprestion of that monstrous evil, the liquor traffie.In like manner, it would ill become us to put any unsecewary stone in the way of a method which commends itself to so earnest à Christian and friend of temperance as Mr.McKim seems to be.Yot we cannot help seeing that the adoption of Mr.MeKim's anti-treating scheme would in large sections of the Dominion, and notably in Mr.McKim's own province of Nova Scotia, distinethy lower the moral standard which at present prevails, while its acceptan-e hy the temperance section of the community would be disastrous.We should be extremely well pleased if the anti-treating movement could be adopted by the non- temperance rectinn of the people, without aid from the temperance men.Many of these keenly realize the evil, and are no doubt prepared tn go thus far in the direction of its cure.And there is this choetful feature in the history of such efforts, that these that have gone zealously into them lave very frequently, perhaps as a rule, found it desirable to take a further step and become the active advocates of total abstinence.Indeed, as its name implies, the whole temperance movement began in this way.People began by attempting to remove the more glaring evils of strong drink, and ended with the concluvion that the only way to deal with aleohol is to cut it off altogether.The impossibility of ministers, Sunday schools and religious or ganizations taking up the anti-treating movement is obvious, as such action would imply that the moderate personal use of intoxicating drinks is derirable.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Conmideralle gratification is expressed in the press of the United States over the fact that European royal perronages bave invested largely in Amerienn se curities.Queen Victoria is represented as holding aix million dollars worilh of mortgages in New York real estate, from which she is mid to derive an annual income of about & quarter of 8 million.It is also said that she is the owner of be tween two and three million dollars\u2019 worth of stocks and bonds of the standard railways.The I'rince of Wales is also eet down for some five million of the same securities.The Emperor Wik liam of Germany is listed as a holder of three million in milway bonds, the (rar of Itussia for six milion and even the royal family of Spain is mid to have two million invested in the mme way.There may be some exaggeration as to the amounts credited to these several royalties, but the fact that they have ir.vested in the manner stated is Ly no means surprising, Ever since the first | well-being of our boys that is in ques tion.Much of the rreentment against Col.Otter is no doubt chargeable to the restiveness of men not used to actual military service being brought pudden- 3 under its galling yoke, The fact, however, that there are effective regimental officers wlio have brought home with them as much of the love of the men as Col.Otter haa of their dislike raises the question whether the latter is the man to he charged with the uphringing of our cadets, The question mark ie accentuated when we are told that one of the complaints against Col.Otter is that of profane abuse of the men.Another is that of depriving them of their Christmas dinner and another of being the cause of their refusal to re-enlist.We want for Kingston nt least a Christian gentleman of the Lord Roberts type.We are prepared to revise all the above statements if reason be shown, but there ix no time to lore in raining the question if such an appointment is in the air.\u2014\u2014\u2014 A STATE-OWNED TELEGRAPH.Sir Sandford Fleming, to whose independence and persictency in urging the application of obvious scientific principles to the things of practical life the world owes more than it has ackanw- Jedged, has, in à letter to the Ion.Wm, Mulock, Postmaster-General, advocnted a state-owned telegraph service, prirdling the globe.lle points out that the joint contract between the home government, the governments of Canada, Australia, and New Zoaland, for the establisiment of the Pacific cable, involves a pew principle in connection with ocean cables, that is to say, joint state-ownership.and he in satisfied that, if this principle is closely followed up, it will prove to be the harbinger of a complete rystem of state-owned telegraphs Ly land and sea, ramifying Viroustiont the whole Britioh Empire.Since the cables were first es tablished a quarter cf a century ago, in some instances, circumstances have altered, new, conditions have arisen, and new needs have been developed, demanding modification and change.The existing lines of telegraph, between distant portions of the Empire, pass in part through foreign countries, or traverse shallow sets in proximity thereto, where, at a critical moment, they are liable to speedy interruption.There is, besides, the fact that these lines have been cs- tablished by private companice, which exset oppressive rates.\u2018ihe companies, Sir Sandford Fleming points out, not content with ling long received heavy government subsidies and baving been rewarded for their enterprise by enor mous profits, have, by force of a combination, created a powerful monopoly detrimental to public interests, In Jet- ters to the \u2018Times\u2019 of Nov.14, 1900, written by such men as Sir Edward Sas soon, M.P., and Lord George Hamilton, Secretary for India, on the telegraph rates between Europe and India, the effect of the combination and high rates of the companies ie referred to as \u2018me diseval thraldom.\u2019 Bir Bandford Fleming says, it may be means by which communications may be sent ai leus sotual cost than by telegraph.The expenditure on other means of communication is continuous for every mile and constant for every hour, but when the telegraph is once established, equipped with instruments and manned by operators, mesenges mey be trans mitted a dundred or a thousand miles, with as much esse and at no greater actual cost than one mile.This remarkable anomaly, he concludes, added to the equally remarkable, although better- known fact, that tranemimions by the eleotrio wire are instantaneous, points to a system of state-owned cables and tele: graphs as the idcal means of communication for an empire under such conditions as ours, With the telegraph sys tem nationalised as he suggests, Kir Sandford asserts that messages will be transmitted to and from the most dis tant British pomessions at one-eighth or one-tentli the rates now levied by the vormpanies.It is very easy to understand how Englishmen, sccustomed as they are at home to a cheap system of telegraphy, very well managed by the post office department, should use such words as \u2018me dineval thraldom\u2019 in connection with the ocean cable system.It is different with un who are accustomed at home as well as in our communications abroad to pay heavy tribute to corporations rolling in wealth and in our case largely foreign at that, corporations which control gov- crnmenta rather than are controlled by them.Over and over again there have been movements in the United States to secure the nationalization of the tele graph system, but no government or congress has ever been able to act in the matter any more than waa Gulliver when he found himself hound with the count.Jers ropes of the Liliputians.Sir Sand- ford Fleming is naturally primarily interested in the emancipation of the ocean systam, which he has done so much to promote, but the people are primarily interested in the land! wires.It is thirty years since the British telegraph service was nationalized by expropriation, and though there have been abuses, experience has vindicated the proceeding not only for Great Britain but also for Canada, should she copy her in this.It is full time that steps should be taken to nationalize our telegraph system, both by land and sea, and it should be done before an inevitable combination between the telegraph and the telephone companies strengthens the opposition.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 HEROES AND GENTLEMEN.Never was ao truer thing said than is so finely mid in the poem we copy today from the London \u2018Referce which tells how Tommy Atkins, the \u2018absentminded beggar,\u201d has departed and how we have in his place a hero and a gentleman.To put it in other words, the eoldier is no longer a nerf, to be treated as made of different clay from his officer, but a man whose health is entitled to equal care in the tent and on the march and whose friends are equally entitled to know how he fares when telegrams are vent home.We wonld Le the very lac: to ask for amy relaxation of discipline or any less exacting respect for superiors than the bBritieh army now demands.Wo have cecaclesaly insisted that subordination to authority was a lesson wli-h Cincdians especially had to Jearn, the officers at least az much as the men.It is because our people need to be taught this lesson that we lave always regarded the proposal, which we regret to ere the present government appar ently muoting anew through its organs, that the commander of the Canadian forces should be a Canadian as n very great mistake.Our relations with the British officers hitherto anpointed have, it is true, Leen the reverse of mtisfac- tory, and most of those who have assumed thin responsibility for a time have retired from it disgusted.Iiut the reason has generally been that while the British + ollicer was entirely outride of our party system and came to Cumada with a single eye to making a name for himselt by bringing our militia system into soldierly shape, as understood in the army, the men under him, some of them members of parliawnent, and most of them potent as political forces, have bsen able to make his position intolerabie the moment they were themselves required by him to conform to military principles.By teansferring this command to a Canadian the party in power would have one position more with which to reward po litical service, or, perhaps, to put it more precisely, to be rrized by whoever had the strongest political pull, and the country would lose the modifying infiu- ence of one man whose eyo was single to Canada's military honor.If, when our young men were going out to war, there was one thing that looked like a blessing over against the gigantio evil which war undoubtedly is to all who par ticipate in it, it was the hope that they would learn thin Jeeson of rubordina- tion.If there is one thing in which it has failed it seems to be this.Our men hava sot great glory for their dah avd ¥ x Janvanr 8, 1901 reckiens dariag, but much disobationss has had to be forgiven them.While therefore in no wise widing lose the advantage to society of having an army drilled to obey, snd to reves ence authority, wo must assert in the strongest terms that a man is a man for all that.The man who is commanded is, according to the divine ideal that is every day asserting itself more and more, the brother of the man who com: mands, That great Christian soldier, Lord Roberts, never so much as ima: gined him anything elve.That is why brother Bobs is so worshiplully obeyed.The common soldier can no longer be the mere refuse of society.As long ss men were marched in masses, with no mind but that of their oflicer, which was not always much of a mind at that, the lees initiative or personality the soldier had the better.As long ss marches were lumbered with camp followers tranworting luxuries for the officers, while the men were suffering untold hardships, the more he was accustomed to misery the better.The Boer war hss proved that a soldier ie valuable in proportion to the alertness of his own faculties, and that the kind of man wanted for military service is the best kind that can be got.Moreover, professional drill is going to count for much less than it has done in the past.\u2018There will still be use for profes sionals on police duty, but standing armies will never again be able to face armed nations.Given the right faocul ties, well trained on the golf and foot bail field, in the bush and on the river, and a nation can be transformed into an army in three months, Given a pation that ean shoot and ride, or whose boys have been put through their facings at school, and its soil must remain inviolate.On the one hand, the pations will no longer need to contribute the best years of every young man\u2019s life to military service amid the demoralizing social conditions of segregated camps, as has been the caso on the continent of Furope.On the other, nations will not he able to hire their fighting done by an aggregation of the rejectamenta of society, valued at only what their equipment costs,as has been the condition with which Great Britain has so nobly wrestled till she has made out of her enlisted men, according to the trusted testimony of Lord Roberts, heroes and gentlemen.We are happy in the thought that the Colonial troops, made up largely of the very flower of the colonial youth, though but slightly trained, have contributed greatly to the teaching of this revolutionary lesson to the world, by showing the military value of alertness and of those personal qualities that cannot bs ocom- municated by drill.The lesson of the value of manhood thus given to the nations is a service to hwmnanity greater even than the establishment of British instead of Boer dominion in South Africa, \u20ac \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 ASSURANCE MADE SURE.Massachusetts, which is regarded as, in matters of insurance, the most advanced state of the union, has bad the same legislative struggle over lif insurance rates which Canads had a year ago, but the result has been very different.The new Canadian law requires that all the life insurance in the country shall be put on à three and a half percent basis.That is, the premiums are to be sufficiently large that, if invested st no more than three and a half percent, they will atill so- curo the results promised.Insurance investments are beingmade at present in the ; main at from four and a hall to five per- | cent; but a!l inveming business is carried on on the assumption that the tendency of interest is downward, so that 8 less rate of interest is decined satisfac tory when the investment is à long one \"than when it is a short one.This as sumption may possibly prove wrong.Since interest was a factor in busines, its trend has not always been downwards, as it has steadily been during the life of those now living.Times have been, centuries ago, when interest was less than it is now, and times have followed when it was again much higher than it ia now, Still, a continued lowering of the rates of interest is the forecast upon which the financial world bases all its calculations, and in matters of insurance it in therefore the only safe view to take, Thus it is in accordance with a uni.versa] conviction that eaiculations, which of necessity extend on the average over many years to come, should from time te time lower the rate at which they assume that interest will be obtained, and that they should adopt a basis of calculation far below the rates obtainable when they are made.Of course, the lower the rate of interest counted on, the bigher the insurance premiums must be.The result of the Canadian law has therefore been à general increase of the rates of insurance which begen on the first of January 1900.Though 4 de obylously neseamry thas Janvazr 8, 1001, sudki corrections of rate should be made (rom time to time, it is not at all eo clear tit ib ie desirable for legislation to re quire it.Budk à legai requirement involves the declaring of a company issal- veut the moment ite conditions may be found not to comport with the law.lu- stead, therefore, of removing companies farther from the line of insolvency sud ruin, the law, by setting a higher safety mark, brings them by so much nearer in: voiveney and ruin, The whole of tne reserve below that mark, however sufh.cient and mtisfactory it might be, were there no law, becomes inert as à margin of safety if the law declares the com- pasy out of business from the moment that the line is reached.[i follows that companies which were already making their calculations well within that line of safety, and were sbundantly protected by it, had, when such a law was passed, to go to work to build up new margins above that line, and in consequence tv charge premiums higher than would lave been necessary.It is, of course, the policy-holders, and not the com: panies, that this law hits, It creates, in fact, an insurance combine which those companies whioh desire big salaries, big commissions and big stock dividends, will enjoy exceedingly.\u2018The Massachuestte law recently pass od has adopted the same three and a half percent rate which the Canadian Parlisment adopted x year ago, but # has not gone at all to the lengths that the Fiolding law goes.Fur one thing, the new rate is applisd only to new busi.tess, while the Canadian law requires that bv 1010 the Canadian companies shall find themselves on a four perceot basis, and by 1915 on a three anda balf percent basis with regard to their existing business, The Canadian law is retroactive legislation, interfering with existing contracts, righteously and legally entered into.The objection to it in that it demands an undue accumulation of reserves during the yexrs between the pas sage of the law and the above dates.This can only be done, or at all events will be done, by plundering, during that time, the dividends of the profit-aharing pol- icy-holders for the sake of making other policy-hbolders safer.Companies that bad already been working on lin sale as those required by Mr.Fielding's law will, of course, have little of this pluuder- ing to do, while companies that have all this Teserve to make up will have to plunder their profit-sharing policy-holders unmercifully, Bitter are the complaints tat we have heard, but no one has a large enough interest to test at law the question whether the paying of some approach to the profit counted on ie a part of the companies\u2019 legal obligation or mot.Of course, the companies which are doing this plundering blame it all on Mer.Fielding and bie law.Another difference between the Masi chusette law and the Canadian is that while establishing s more rigid rate of interest, the Massachusetts law has, on the other hand, adopted s less rigid set of mortality tables.Just as the rate of interest han in the times of men now living continued to grow lower, the average length of life bas continned to increase, eo that it is only just from time ta time to base calculations on tables developed out of the most recent experience.The table on which most of our Canadian companies have based their calculations is the British Hm.tables, » standard.derived from insurance statis- ties, which has long prevailed in Britain.If explanation is sought of the hieroglyph, Hm.stands for \u2018heaithy males.\u2019 Althouga later British experience is far better than that from which the Hm.table was derived, and although Canadian experience is much better still, the new law requires that calculations should sill be based on the Hm.tables, This should certainly make assurance douhly sure, with premiums sosordingly.The stend- ard table in use in the United States.answering to the British Hm.is what is known as the Bev- enteen Offices table, Thin table, which is older than the Fim., has hitirer- to prevailed as the Massachusetts legal standard.But the new Massachusetts law, which han lowered the rate at which interest may be assumed, las raised the rate at which life may be as sumed br allowing the substitution of à more recent table called the \u2018American\u2019 for the old Seventeen Offices table, thus in à measure relaxing with one hand the restrictions which it had tightened with the other.There iv one thing, ab all cvents.that can now be mid for the Canadien companies, and that is that, » far as law and high standards ean do it.they are far snd away the mfest com- panics en (be continent.THE CURSE OF CITIES.Optisniero | and pessimism are two words which have for generations had a place in the language of philasophevs, but which of late came into newspaper vogue, which is almost like saying that they are becoming tiresome.There never was & time, however, when these words were more sharply applicable than to the estimates placed on the condition of the world at the turn of the century.There are those who see nothing but astonishing prosperity in the present and the brightest and best prospects in the forward look.There are others who soe decadence all around them and cam: olysms impending ; the human race ia rapidly tending to universal lunacy and society to unprecedented eruptive shooks.Theme differences of outlook are due in part to the presence or lack of religious faith, io part to the healthy or dis couraged state of the individual nerves, and there no doubt that the tense conditions of the later years of the world have tended in many cases to nervous exhaustion and discouragement.We must, however, guard against allowing either the unbelieving or tlie discournged to be our prophets.\u2018God's in his heaven, all's right with the world.\u2019 It would seem as though all who believe in God at all muet believe that he did not make the world except to do it good, and all who have watched the ways of God in nature and history will realize that these have not been catastrophic, but gradual processes of growth and decay, ouch as mark all life, and even death.As the human body is continually eliminating effete matter end morbid conditions end roplacing these with healthy ones, so, though there are ebhs and flows in all things in the fulfilment of heaven's great rhythms, we may paturally expect thet changes will come gradually and unconsciously, And, differing in this from the individual bodily life, which in the case of lumen life looks forward to fruition in other conditions, we may surely hope that taking the human race as a whole the changes will be from worse to better until, according to promise, God's kingdom comes and his will is done on earth as 1t is in heaven.One of the most pronounced specimens of pessimiem\u2014tbet is, believing the worst, perhaps we should csil it unbo- dief\u2014is by newspaper report attributed to ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York.We are net attributing the last Lard word to Mr.Hewitt himself, who i a good man and a philsnthropist\u2014and a philanthropist is seldom a real pessimist or un- haliever.He is merely echoing tbe threats of the popular plilosophy which has & bitter, snd, no doubt, a righteous quarrel with the existing order of things.Speaking at an anti-vice meeting, Mr.Hewitt pointed to the wealth which modern industrialiem is producing beyond the visions of the days of magic, and concurrent with it conditions which nake it impossible for some people to live decent lives.The terrible tenements, the overcrowded slums, the dark, foul dwell.ing-places, the untold misery, the seething vice of great cities make, he thinks, a staggering price to pay for all the so-call- ed progress.So deeply did these conditions impress him that he declared that tather than that they should continue he would gladly see every industrial contre destroyed, ss were Sodom and Gomorrah of old, and the people driven back to the fields, where they could at least Lave the breezes, the green grams, the semaine, and look up to the blue of heaven.Mr.Howitt is no idealist, but à bard-heeded practical mon of affaire, vot his worde sre a reminder of Ruskin\u2019s.The conclusion from them ie that ao industrislism which brings in its train the evils that moved hin passion is lid on false foundations and cannot Jest.A curious comment on his speech sp- peared in the seme paper which contained it, in the shape of à list of twentyn cf news vapers or of public meetings; but for restrictions, vigorous and definite, I do lead, and thoroughly beliove they will lave yet to be employed.\u2014\u2014 UNDOING OF THE TRAIN.BOY AN INTERESTING TYPE PABSING AWAY, (New York \u2018Evening Post.) The American train-boy\u2014like the red man and the buffalo and other interes: iog species of a picturesque period in the history of this great continent\u2014is passing away.He can no more withstand mod- era commercial methods than the red man or the buffaio could withstand the civiliring influence of the 1\u20acpeating rifle and the oix-shoutzr.Aud at his pas ing, attention may be called to the fact that another time-trodden avenue to fame and fortune has been closed to the pros ent generation of American boys, Few youths of to-day will be able complacently to lean back in the onulence of old age and tell their grandchildren the story of how they began life as a newa boy on an accommodation train.Within a cou- paratively short time a number of trunk lines have dispensed with the train-boy altogether.In Lis place email stands at different stations along the rond have been substituted.At these stands the passenger may purchase the same wares formerly sold hy the boy on the train.The railway men ray that the new sys: tem\u2014which is similar to that now in uss in Fngland and on the Continent-\u2014's more economical to them and far less au- noying to their patrons.'We were driven to it,\u201d anid the genercl passenger agent of one of the roads which now operates its trains without the assistance of the \u2018butcher \u201cAt first we made certain rules with a view to restricting what seemed tn have become à necessary evil of railway travel ; hut these rules were violated, and we settlad the problem finally by doing away with the service entirely, The fault, I think, lies in the system employed by the companies which control the Lusiness now.All their boys are paid on a commission basis, and when they get to making too much money the amount of their commis sion is cut down.Naturally the boys going to make up the deficiency on their own hook if possible, and they resort to some unworthy means to accomplish it\u2014 the selling of \u201cfake\u201d packages of illegal literature is one of the most common tricks.As a tratter of faot these packages reslly contain nothing but harmless advertisements, but that, of course.does not exonerate the boye.\u2019 Even on roads which have not given up the service entirely rules have been made which greatly restrict the young \u2018butch.et's\u2019 method of doing business.He is no longer permitted to entice buyers by leaving his magazines and boxes of candy in the laps of passengers, nor is he allow: #d to make morc than a certain number of trips through the train in the course of his run.Al the buaines nowadays is controlled by a few big companies.and the train-boys, instezd of being independent merchants, dealing in their own stock, purchased with their own capitai, are merely agents, selling goods on a 20 percent commission basis.The news etands in «ll the large railway stations, which carry precisely the same stocks have cut deeply into the Dutcher's\u2019 profits, and it is admitted that only buys with exceptionally lucrative runs ean average more than ten dollars a week.There are train-boys now, old and gry a dE fi prt Jia fi : ¢ Norvoss OM Gent (buying a Loree foe business purpoees).\u2014'But are and bald, and till in the service, wh can reuall the glad opulent days whea it waa counted as nothing to \u2018knock down\u2019 sixty and caventy dollars a week.Those were the times, twenty- and thirty years ago, when the boys either worked for themselves or were employed by some retired conductor or brakeman, who had gone into the business on the money he had accumulated froin the railway, snd who gave the \u2018butcher\u2019 half of all the rofits.la those days the train-boys old, in s lesser degree, of course, the dazzling porition in the social world which the Misdexippi river gamblers oc- eupied, They made their money easily \u2014and in 8 great many instances as dexterously as thesgamblers\u2014and they were spenders.Many of them were \u2018cappers\u2019 for the three-card-monte men who infest: ed the traing twenty-five yearn ago, aul received ne their reward the \u2018holdhiek\u2019 checks which were given then for vwh fares, Sometimes these checks minount- ed to thirty or forty dollars a week.The little oval fig-box was in the height of ita activity then, and was the \u2018butcher's\u2019 chief source of revenue.The boxes which were more than ordinarily bad were called night figs, and were #old un: der the feeble raya of the oil lamps, There was no etated price at which the newspapers and the magazines were to be sold, and if a boy could get one dollar for a fifty-cent magazine, he merely \u2018kept the change.Frequently the privilege to sell goods on certain trains was qranted to boys as a reward for some service to the railway.Thin was the cage over in Long Isdlund, where two brothers named Carpenter discovered the trestle at Jamaica Buy on fire one bitter winter night, and ran two miles through thes torm and the darkness to the near- cst telegraph office, and arrived there in time to stop the passenger train rushing toward the burning bridge from the op posite direction.For years these bru- thers held the news franchise on all Long Island traine and lived as nen of means thould live.Another similar case wis that of a boy who ran back and flagged & train on au castern road, and averted what must have been a terrible accident.For this act he received the privilege of \u2018butchering\u2019 on the specia] fast express running between Pittsburg and Philadelphia at the time of the Centennial, It is said that the boy averaged more than $30 a day for the entire season, and when he finally retired he had a large capital and invested it well.To foreigners this shrewd, bright-eyed, businesslike little merchant, mo essentially a product of the new world, has always been an chject of great interest.À distinguished Frenchman, in writing his impressions of this country, deemed the \u2018butcher\u2019 worthy of a chapter all to himself, and once, when the writer was sent to \u2018interview\u2019 Robert Louis Stevenson and asked him the old stereotyped question as to his impressions of our customs and institutions, Mr.Stevenson replied: \u2018I think your institutions are splendid, and I think the noblest of them all is your train-boy.\u201d Then he told of an incident he had witnessed when crossing the plains in an emigrant train.One of the emigrants was take ill and had fallen from his seat into the aisle, The train-boy came through, and roughly pushed the man one side, cursing him stoutly, \u2018And within two minutes,\u201d mid Mr.Stevenson, \u2018I saw that youth slip the biggest pear he had in his basket into the sick man\u2019s hand, and yes he never for a moment stopped swearing at him.I have since come to the conclusion that he vas mere ly one of your big, rough, noble-hearted western men in miniature.\u2019 \u2014 COMPELLED TO REGISTER.Neglect to duly register the birtha of children is inexcusable and deserves punishment.For such registration is part of a citizen's duty, nol only to hia own municipality, but to the country generally, It is eminently desirable that the vital etatintics of a state should be per- fectiy kept.In a young country like Canada the regulations should be made especially strict, and in Ontario, where we have of late heard so many complaints as to the low birth-rate, the rigid enforcement of the law is imperatively nec.emary.\u2014Ottawa \u2018Free Press\u2019 Dec.AU.\u2018SEEING 1S BELIEVING.THE MONTREAL |WEEKLY WITNESS.LORD KELVIN.THR FAITH OF A GREAT NOIER- TIST IN HIS OWN FIGURING.Lord Kelvin, otherwise Professor Wil- lism Thomson, in a world famous scientist with fellowships and memberships galore in the learned societies of the civil nations of the worll.He is but a little jess than eighty years of see, but still retains the pusitim, that he has held for over tw.re years, of pro fessor of natural philosophy in the Uni versity of (ilusgow, the institution where he himself wwe educated.As a profes: sor he haw some peculiarities, and one of them is the habit of saying, when a doubting question is put to him as to the abwolute certaiaty of some propon- bon \u2018Didn\u2019t 1 Ggure that out myself * The question is not put irritahly or egotistionlly, aa a rule; ft is merely the nutural remark of a man who has been an acknowledged lender of warld wide Fume for so many vearw.One day, when lecturing on electricity he told his class that, while a voltage three thousand or no would be \u2018ntal to a man, a voltage of, say, three hundred thousand would be perfectly harw- With a current of far more than ordinary voltage he was going to give them a practical illustration of the fact on himnelf, right there before them.The students could hardly believe their ears, but ws lie stepped toward the electrical transformer a cry of dissent and horror went ug.\u201cTry it on a dog! Try it on an animal!\u2019 came from nll parts of the Jeeture-room.Lord Kelvin turned in stiff dignity and east à look of reproach over the class.These were hin own pupils who were doubting him\u2014it was in his beloved University of Glasgow.\"To doult on some minor point would not have hurt Him, but to think that they could question the reliability of his carefully prepared figures on a matter of auch moment was really painful.For a few moments he looked at them in silence, \u2018Didn't I figure it out myself!\u201d \u201ca nsid at length; and then there was only ril- ence as he continued on his way to the apparatus and safely turned the tremendous voltage into himself.\u2014Philadel- phia \u2018Saturday Evening Post es STORY OF A GHOST.In the whole record of so-called \u2018sup:r- natural appearances\u2019 there is not »ne which is more thoroughly authenticated than the following : John (ope Sherbrooke an! Georce Waynyard were two vllicers in the 33rd Regiment, and at the time of the extra ordinary occurrence here related the regiment was on service in Canada.Une evening, as usual, they went into a littie room adjsining Waynyard's bedroom end commenced reading.After a few minutes Capt.Sherbrooke looked up from his book and «aw standing in a doorway of the room a man who was a perfect stranger to him.At a logs to account for the intruainn, Capt, Sherbrouke turned to his comjanion to ask if the stranger was an mequaintance of his, V'ayryard was 23 pale as death, and apparently incapable of specch.Seeing this, Capt.Sher Lrroiie male no effcrt to stop the figure.which slowly crossed the apartment and pamed through a door leading to Wayn- yard's bedroom.As soon as the man was out of might Waynyard recovered his fac- ultice and cried out, \u2018My \u2018brother !\u2019 \u201cYour brother !' repeated Sherbrooke.\u201cWhat can you mean, Waynyard ?There must be some deception, Follow me.\u2019 They then went into the bedroom, a room from which the only possible means of exit was the one door already referred to.\u2018They found the room empty ! This incident produced a profound impression among the officers of the regiment, who knew that both Sherbrooke and Waynyard were sober, cool-headed men of unblemished integrity, Wayn- yard declared that the apparition was th?wpirit of lis brother, end expressed the conviction that hia brother was dead.When time had elapsed sufficient to allow inquiries to be made it was discovered that Waynyard's brother was dead, and that he had died on the very night on which hin spirit had appeared to the astonished officers in Canada, Of the two witnesres of this strange episode one beerme Cen.Sir John Cope Sherbrooke, G.C.B., and the other Lient.-Col.Wayn- yard.of the 24th Light Dragoons \u2014New York \u2018World.sure the animal is ouly five years old ¥ Indignant Desler\u2014'Don\u2019t you tahe m7 word for it, guv'nor.Open \u2018is mouth end look for yourself {\"\u2014 Punch.\u2019 c The Ner A.The Brain: Equina: F.or fosanity.epilepsy, attack any part of the human body.headaches, dyspepsia and loss of vital powers.trouble ig most likely to show itself in connection with the derange- ments and {rregularfties of the peculiarly feminine organs.nis bh ve.The movements, the functions as very lite of the heart, the lungs, the : ach, the liver, the kidneys, and the bones.are under the direct control of that great \u2018 orkanism\u2014the nervous system, and would, with the rest of the body, be a mere dead mass were it not for this harmonizing and controlling power, With the brain, where the nerve force is developed, as fitres as the means of transmitting thls force, the nervous system extends in myriad ramifications to the utmost extremttiss of the human body, carrying everywhere new energy and vitality to withstand the waste of work and disease, and to rebuild and reconstruct the wasted cells.Immediately the blood becomes thin and watery, or the digestive system fails to supply proper sustaining nourishment, the nerves are starved, and tell by means of headaches, neuralgle pains and bodily de- rangements of their exhausted condition.Under such conditions, or when depleted by RB.The Cerebelr overwork or disease, the nerve cells are \u20ac.Tue Bplual Chord: D.destroyed by millions dally, and the wast- The ing process leads quickly on to nervous prostration, paralysis, locomotor ataxia, Unlike rther ailments, nervous diseases may its centre, and the nerve In men the tendency is towards In women the nervous Dr.Chase\u2019s Nerve Food Until recent times the usual treatment for nervous disorders was the deadening of the nerves by polsonous narcotics or stimulation to new and exhausting exertion by use of harmful stimulants.Both these methods were bad, since they only afforded temporary relief and were decidedly Injurious The discovery of Dr.in after effects.Chase's Nerve Food by Dr.A.W.Chase, the author of the world-famous Recipe Book, revolutionized these old me- thcds of treatment and supplanted them by the new idea of building up the system, revitallzing the wasted nerve cells, creating new red corpuscles in the blood, and permanently curing discases of the blood and nerves.Dr, Chase's Nerve Food !s prepared in condensed pill form, and is composed of the elements Nature has provided for enriching the blood, restoring the nerves and f!ling the body with new vigor and vitality.Through the circulation of the blood and the nervous system Dr.Chase's Nerve Food reaches every organ of the body, and positively cures the most serfous nervous diseases.The best people use it and the most eminent physiclans endorse it as a blood builder and nerve restorative of unusual merit.son, Pates & Co, Toronto.50 cents a box, at all dealers, or at Edman- HELEN GOULD'S VIEWS ON THE RIGHT USE OF WEALTH, Mim Helen Miller Gould, as one of the richest American heiresses, has been ask- vd by the proprietor of the \u2018Christian Herald\u2019 for her views on the proper uses of weak.She has teplied in au autograph Jetter, of which the following is a copy : \u2018Lyndhurst, Irvington-on-the-Hudson.\u2018Lr, Louis Klopsch : \u2018Dear Sir,\u2014Your luiter of recent date is at hand, asking my opinion on the rub- ject, \"How to make Lis moet of wealth.\u201d t is a topic on whieh 1 am not well qualified to speak, and I would suggest tnat you make this samc inquiry of some of our leading clergymen, whose views en the subject would be a great inspiration to us all.The Christian idea that wealth is a stewardship or trust, and not to be used for one's personal plewure alone, but for the welfare of others, certainly seetns the noblest, and those wha have more money or broader culture owe a debt to those who have had fewer opportunities.And there are so many ways one can help ! \u2018Children, the sick and the aged especially, have claims on our attention, and the forms of work for them are numerous : from kindergartena, day rwvearios and industrial echools, to \u201chomes\u201d and haspitais.Our institutions for higher education require gifts in order to do their best work, for the tuition fees do nat cover the expense of the advantages offered ; and certainly such societies as those in our churches, and the Young Woman's Christian Association and the Young Men'e Christian Association, deserve our hearty co-ojeration.\u2018The earnest workers who so nobly and lovingly give their hives to promote the welfare of others giva gifts far more than though they had simply made gifts of innney ; 60 tho«e who cannot afford to give largely need nat feel discouraged on that account.After all, sympathy and good will may be a greater force than wealth, and we can al! extend to others { a kindly feeling and courteous consideration {hat wil! make life aweoter and better.\u2018Sometimes it seeme to me we do not rafliciertly realize the good that is done be money that is used in the different in- dustrics in givine employment to great numbers of peonle under the direction of clever men and Women ; and surely it takes more ability, perseverance and time to successfully manage such an enterprise than to merely make gifts.\u2018You will, I am sure, be sorry you have made the inquiry oi me, since I have given you so little information, but 1 think you can easily obtain opinions that will probably be fer more helpful than mine.Believe me very truly, \u2018HELEN MILLER GOULD.SHORT WILLS POPULAR.Several legal authorities in this country and in England note that there has heen a tendency on the part of recent great lawyers to simplify the drawing of wills.In former geners- tions prolixity and verbiage often characterized wills, some of which were drawn seemingly on the theory that \u2018the larger the estate the longer must be the will! So also testators used to indulge in long-drawn-out manifestations of the personal regard for relatives and others, as witness the will of the Earl of Dorset, an English judge of note, in the seventeenth century.In making a very simple gift to his \u2018most virtuous, faithful and dearly beloved wife,\u2019 he said that Le did not intend it to be re garded as \u2018any recompense of her rare and reverent virtues of charity, modesty, fidelity, humility, secrecy and wisdom, which he \u2018honored, loved and esteemed above all the transitory wealth and treasure of this world, and which, therefore, by no price of earthly riches could be valued, recompensed, or requited,\u2019 but he desired it to be accepted as \u2018a true token and testimony of his unspeakable love, affection, estimation and reverence.\u201d In contrast to this, is the follow: ing concise declaration of the late Lord Chief Justice Ruseell\u2019s will: \u2018I now vixe and bequeath to my good wife, ab- soluteiy, etc Even more concise was the langage of Sir James Stephen, who said, \u2018I give all my property to my wife, whom I appoint sole executrix.\u2019 ently judges have set an example of con- cisenese, for it is stated that the wills of most judges have been noteworthy for their hrevity.Lord Mansfield, for instance, wrote his will, disposing of aloud E2.5604000, on half a sheet of note paper.Though some eminent lawyers in drawing their own wills have made legal mistakes which have caused Sig tion, it is said that in England the jinlze whoss will hax been the subject of féviention was lord St.nards, will led to a famous probate suit, not Pecaune o ohecurity in ia wording, but because the will itself di ared mys terioualy from a box in witieh he was known to have placed it.Lord Russell, it appeate, made a elip in his will, though of how much im noe in not hnown.Mis will recited that he du posed of \u2018propert ec in - ule hereto and itialen by me\u2019 As a matter of fact, though, it is now stated that he omitted to sgn or initial the schedule.Possibly as cxampers ing a wilt An was ever drawn was Sergt.Maynard, a famous lawyer in the Jape of William III.Tt is seit that he del erately wo his will in ambiguous terme, wa that several fine questions which had disturbed him io his lifetime might be decided in be we dead.\u2014Boston \u201c \u201c+ HT CONSUMPTION, frmined Effort to be Made the New Century, RTANT CONFERENCE OF MK OAL MEN TO BE HELD IN OTTAWA.With the opening of the new century Canada will witness the inauguration of & most active campaign aginst tuber oudosis, particularly that phase of the disease commonly called consumption Preparations are now being tnade fora conference between representaiives of the medical profession and other prominent citirens throughout the Domimon, to be held at Uttawu, under the joint patronage of \u2018the Governar-General and Lady Minto, during the thind or fourth week of January next, to decide upon certain measures to siay the ravages of the dreaded disease and to cffectively combat and prevent its spread in the Dotninion of Canada.Tuberoulosis is no longer considered incurable.The acientitic investigations and experiments which have foliowed the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Professor Koch in 1882 have amply and exclusively proved that consumption is preventable, and that when contracted it is ocuruble.These facts have been ae cepted by the iwedical profession the world over and many spocialists have devoted their zeal and enency im thie particular field of activity.Statistics of leaths from consumption, Where no sys tematic attempt has been made to stop its progress are appalling, and were they fully made known they would in truth aa has been said, \u2018stagger Lbumanity ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED.At the meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Ottawa in September last an association was orgunized for the prevention of tuberculoms, and it 1s fdr the wpecitic purpose of establishing tha &xsociation on a strong and lastimg buss that the pro conference is called through His Excellency by those who are interested in the work.Iready some efforts have been made in Canada to combat the disease through the establishment of wanatoria.The Laur entian Sanatorium at Ste.Agathe des Monts, Que, and the Muskoka L'otlage Sanatorium near Gravenhurst, Unt., have already produced excellent and most sut- isfactory results.It is in part thesw gel results that suggested to Dir.A.J.icher, director of the sanitorium at tte.e, Sir James A.Grant, of Ot: taws, Dr.P.H.Bryce, of Toronto, and others, who are the moving spirits 1m the conference, the advimbility of bringing together medical gentlemen and other prominent citizens that they nught de vise means of building sanatoria in var: ous parts of the Dominion for the treatment of consumptives.\u2018HOMES\u2019 FOR CONSUMPTIVES.That is, in fact, the ultimate chjest ht from the conference, the building and operation of sanatoria or \u2018homes\u2019 for consumptives, where eupervised treatment upon same principle as adopted and followed in already established institutions could be given.This treat ment was recogniz at the inter national congress held at Berlin last May as the only feasible means of dealing successfully with and eradicating the disease.For thm purpose pecuniary help will be asked from governments and municipalities.Objections which might be per when the question is viewed in thet light will rapidly disappear when the economic of tie results obtained through the treatment of tuber culosis in sanatoria is considered.Statis tes have established that over one-fifth of the total oumber of deaths in Canada are cœused by pi y tuberculoma.In it is roughly estimated that the carries off 9,000 n year.A LOSS OF $.000,000 A YEAR.It has been generally accepted for the purpose of computation that a person's ife in of value to the extent of $1,000 to the state.This has not been disputed and it may, therefore, be said that the government or the state actually auffere throes of news! 127-000 000 a jen eaths resulting from tuberculosis.Like all startling revelations, this truth may appear incredible.Facts and Heures, however, are the undeniable evi- ence.The experience of sanatorium treatment in e has demonstrated that during a given period of five years a reduction at least one-half was made in the number of deaths from consumption.It in claimed that similar results could be obtained in Canada, where our climate is adapted to the nature of the treatment required.Such a reduction in the mortality statistics in Canada would mean an increase of revenue of $4,500,000 to the country per year.And this is even = a conservative estimate.It could well suffer reduction, and vet show amazing results of ec at the end of the five years taken as hasis of computation.It would mean the snug sum of \u2018$20,000,000.Nor in that all.There is yet to consider the loss of labor during a long period of illness before death, the coat ADVERTISEMENTS, | The Non-Irritating Cathartic Easy to take, essy to opcrate= Hood\u2019s Pills |CADBURY\u2019S COCOA, | ABSOLUTELY PURE, THEREFORE BEST ! NO CHEMICALS USED.| Whoiansie À proie fr Canada, Hint Mager 4 Co.4 M.John O1, Montreal.} ; » À .of medical attendance, the loss of time by friends and relatives.THE OUTLAY NEFDED, On the other hand, what outlay would be required to erect and operate ssna- toria during the given period of five years?It is believed the cost of com.structing and operating these institutions in the various sections of Canada during the five years would not exceed five hundred thoumnd dollars.It in now acked, could capital ever be more wisely or more judiciously invested ?In view of these facta, there will be ne hesitation on the part of the conference in saying that it is the duty of every guvernment, municipality and individual ditizen to adopt organized methods for lessening the spread of the discase, It is recognized 1 drastic casio are imperative, and every effort will be put forth with the greatest energy raul the fullest confidence of success.The attic tude of the medical profomcon regarding tuberculous haa been completely chang: al since it has been shown that the dis case 1a contagious mther than hereditary.Ana logical consequence, the nevosaty of sanatoria has asserted itself as a means of cancentrating the area af infection.With tlie precautions enforced at these institutions the danger of infection 3+ at « minimum.The posxibilitice of contagion engendemsl by the long duration of the discane, when à patient may infect not only one house, but every other vlace in which he or she has a temporary or permanent abode, will he one reason whch will probably move the conference to ask the Federal Govermment ta ental- Tah ranatotia where, under special meds cal supervision, the curative effects of the dry or moist, high or low, or other, climates may be sienzitically studied and the resulta published for the information of the general publie.In ths connection it is wand the conference will alsa suggest that the government arrange for special railway facilities to tubercular patients for transportation to a sana.turium.PRACTICABLE SUGGESTIONS.Practivable suggestions will ev:dently prove of greater benefit Lhan ahatract statements repanting infection rnd cure, The British North America act details to the Provincial G-wernments the duty of and in view of this it m expected the conference will ask the Provincial Guvern- ments, municipal counals and boar is of health tor laaalition that will encourage the notification of all cases of tuberculosis, endvavor to stop eapectaration an public buidinge and conveyiuces, improve ventilation, Lighting und general sanitation m institutions where work: people gather, aid in stopping the .pread of the discase through nnlk and meat of animals, and prevent the cuming into Canada of tuberculized immigrants or tubervulized cattle, These are .aid to be the rough outlines of a far-reachm programme which the conference wil Lacuss, Invitations will be issued in large rum- bers to resentative atizens in al parts of Canada, and the wurk, it is hoped, will be taken up and carned out with energy and perseverance.Among those who will take part in the dix=insion ere: Kir William Hingetom, Montreal; Sir James (Grant, Ottawa; Sir John Boyd, Toronto; the Han.T.R.Stratton, Pro- vincal Secretary of Ontario; Dr.A.J.Richer, Montreal, diteetor of the Laur entian Sanatorium: Dr.E.P.Tacha pelle, Montreal: Dr.P.H.Bryce, Toronto; the Rev.Dr.C.S.Eby, \u2018Teronto; the Hon.Senator (i.A.Cox.Toronto ; Dr.©.Sewell, Quebec; Dr.McEachran, Montreal: Prof.J.(i, Adami.Montreal; Dr.E.Montizambert, Ottawa; M.Me- Nicoll, general manager of the U.I R., Montreal; Dr.A.Mel'herson, Toronto; Dr.T.G.Roddick, M.P., Montreal: Dr.Chan.Sheard, Toronto: Dr.J, A.Grant, (itawa; the Rev.Prof.Clark, Toronto; Dr.E.J.Barnek, Toronto: Dr.Wm.Bayard, St.John, N.B.; Dr.H.I.Chown.Winmpez: Dr.Lafferty, Calgary; Dr.Fd.Farreil, Halifax Dr, Thorburn, Toronto: .am Ri say, Montreal; Dr.R.W.Powell, Otta- va À DR.GRENFELL AMOXG THE ESQUIMAUX.[Extract from a letter in \u2018Toilers of the Deep,\u2019 dated NS.\u2018Strathcona,\u2019 Nak- vak, Sept.0.] At Ramah two Newloundlanders, pros pecting for iron and sulphur, joined us, a find of which one had made some years ago, and which proves on further investigation to be apparently a valuable property.No one will rejoice more than myself if any valuabie industry can ned in Labrador.Two cases of typhoid fever here had to be attended; oddly enough, afecting the two best hunters.Their gratitude for the viats and help given is really toucluug.Po miuk'a mother also gave me a most hearty salute, and paid a ial visit to thank me for kindness-to Pomiuk.| did he« wrong, 1 fear, for I always thought she didn\u2019t care one whit tor the lad.A little lad here had a broken \u2018arm set at right angles almost to the normal direstion.1 made a skiagraph of the bones.There wae non-union one bone.The old Eakimo, his guardian, however, would not let him come with ec and have it put straight, The boy's her and mother were dead, and there vas some selhi.\" at exhibitions and ploughing matches have often been demanded.The last time he off eluted In thal capacity was in the county of Hochelaga à few year: In his young days he was a keen curler, and he thought Do game equal to It.He often related bis part In à bonspiel in Scotland where six hundred competed, the win- pers to pay 64 each and tho losers lu 6d each for thé poor of the parish.He was puss\u201d on he losing aide and always felt respon.i I loning the match au his rink lost fine points that being the number of points the winners had to thelr credit.Many Umes * has he enjoyed seeing: the game played In thin city, and as & last token of respect for a keen curler, the Montraal Caledonia Curling Club ser a beautiful wreath to be placed upon his offin.Mr.Currle was greatly respected for his sterling honesty of purpose, bis word at alt times being considered As good oe his bond.75 had been a resder of the \u2018Witness® from its commencement.He was n Presbyterian, well posted In ali that a Christian man should know, and praciierd it.He was a Libera) fn politics, but not so much of a! Tty man as to vote for any one that be; oe pat consider an honor to the constitu- oncy he represented.When he considered the party candidate not representative of Bla own sound views he would vn occasions vate for the other mén\u2014fiven that he considered Mm better.Few were better posted then he in Scottish lore, both prose and poetry.Kindly, considerate, & splendid eonversationalist and nelghbor hs was.Qienmrtians regarded him with siocere af- nn THE LATE MR.À \u201c SEDITIOUS BOOTS.The Germanizing of Eastern Prussia space.It is announced that at ijewo a schoolmaster and his pupils | have received notice that they must cense to wear boots high in the leg, mich | footgesr considered oa a of y mationaliet ideas.\u2014 Hartungeohe Zei 8, Kopigsbere.3 ; CANADA AND BRITAIN.{Ottawa \u2018Journal,\u2019 Independent.) \u201cThe Hon.A.B.Morine, of New- foundiand, says that it 1s generally uu- : derstood 3n St.John's that Sir Wind Laurier's Government will not renew tie protes; cntered hy whe governments ol Sir Jubn A.Macdonald and Sir John Thompson, and that the public men of the colony are of the opinion that ia can be reached between the l'mied States and Newfoundiand, Even in Newfoundland they «ze Laurier up as being the friend el Uncle Sam '\u2014Hannlton \u2018Npectatur.\u201d The closing words of the foregoing deserve notice.As previowsly inquired on various dates, may we ask which policy is most friendly and most advantageous to Uncle Sam and most injurious to Bratish in- terests-the Laurier policy of a tari preference to Britain, or the Conse: tive policy, practiced for nearly twe } voars, of the same high tanfl against Britain and our sister colonies as agaiust the United Niates, thereby driving our trade into United States hands by virlue of proximity and ennvenience not offset by taniff differentiation * 1s it impossible to get Conservative panera té explain the alleged superior Uritishiem of that party ?The \u2018Journal\u2019 has repeatedly invited j some Conservative protectionist paper to offer some fact in support of the claim that the Conservatives are the British party par excellence.The invitation has not been accepied.Yet, like the Hamilten \u2018Spectator,\u2019 , some Lonservative papers keep shooting off remarks about Laurier not being British enough.We hereby invite the \u2018Spectatoc\u2019 epesi- fically to state anv proposition made or action taken by the Conservative party during its twenty-four years of power tince Confederation, friendly in a greater degree to Great Britain than to the United States or any other foreign sountry.We concede that the Conservatives at a time now far back\u2014prior to 1891-\u2014made a vigorous campaign againet the then Liberal propositions of commercial union or unrestricted reciproci with the United States, and that &r John Maedonald utilized the British cry to discredit those ideas.But this was one for Pritain and two hundred for Sir John and the N.P.And the \u2018Journal\u2019 euxpecta that if the N.P.had not been set up in as full force hy Sir John again® Britain aa against the United Stat, there would never have been much cry for closer trade with the United Ftates \u2014we would have had ro good à businces © with the rest of the British empire.The N.P.hurt our business with Britain much worse than our business with the United States.In 1878, the last year before the N.P.we bought from Ifritain $37,431,180 worh of goods: we bought from the United States $48,631,739 worth.Twenty years of the N.I.followed, and in 1898 what was the showing! We bought from Great Britain $32,500917, and from the United States $78,705,500.Purchases from Britain had declined five millions under the N.P., despite Canada\u2019s growth, but purchases from Uncle Sam incresred by thirty millions.For a time, however, all outside trade was hurt by the N.P., and «0 came a demand for freer trade relations, which the Liberal Jeaders misguided temporariiy into a ery fer commercial union or unreatricted re- ciprocity\u2014and in meeting that cry with the slogan, \u2018A British subject I was born, a British subject 1 will die, Sir John Macdonald hit a httle blow for Britain and a big one for himrelf and the Con.scrvative panty, who were doing nothing for British interests except keeping themselves in office.While no direct action to promote British interests stande to the Conservatives\u2019 credit since Confederation, friendly in a greater degree to Great Britsin than to the United States or any other foreim couniey, à number of sich actions stand «to tbe credit of the Liberal party during its recent mere four years of office: fur instance, tarif preference, ocean peany postage, despatch of Canadian troops to aid in British war, vigorous promoticn of ocean trade by cold storage and other | means, } Let those people in Canada who are {friendly to Jimush connection bear in ! mind that unless a political party which * by its acts Shows friendliness to British | connection gets credit for the favs, no l the absence of any such protest frum the | political party will care long to bother | Canadian Government an arrangement about Britain.The halut, equally per- | sistent and absurd, ou the part of some Ontario Conservative papers of decrying the Liberals as nos so truly British yet as the Conservatives is a habit that we { think ought to be prodded whenever it manifests itaelf.\u2014\u2014 BEGAN ANEW AT SIXTY-SIX AND SUWEEDED.An American came to this country at 86 with a wife and four children and #14 in his pocket, having lost a fortune in another country by speculation.This man Was\" e.\" He stared in doing «dd job of surveyiog down in the hot country, raving vegelables on a emall tract of land he hired, gradually acquired some upland country\u201d whore chods else said c-ffee could not be grown, and mad: more success of his plantation.Ile i added more land as time went on, and * now takes in $30,000 a vear gold from hi< oid place.He is 88 now, and rays that were he io again luse his property, he has the grit to begin life over again.\u2014 - Mexican \u2018llerald.\u2019 , \u2014\u2014_ [For the \u2018Witness.BABTISTE.No longer up and down.The by-paths of the tewn, Shunning the streets that brimmed with life and light, Shall Dabtiste\u2019s steps incline, Fhro\u2019 snow, and rain, and shine, | For he has ta'en another road to-nigit.Lover of Innely lance, And of the quiet that reigns In the great throbibng town's spars wclitudes; It was ensugh for him, ; To gaze from the town\u2019s rim, i Upon the world of hiils, and fields and woods.He bad no tie t+ bird.His heart to humankind; Friendship he did not know or loss of love; \u2018 He cast his joyleas hearth, | In some lone nook of earth, \u201cVhence he ight look into the hewen above.Yet found he food for thought, For solitude aad taught lis heart to love what only loath we find \u2014 The kindred of the ground, In su:h meck life he found, | Bociets, and solace for the mind.His soul knew not the stress, Or weight of loneliness, \u2014 The present hour held much that could assuage; And the unburied past, Head still sdme power to cant À epell of childhood round the heart of age.The flowers that grew astray From their accustomed way; ! The birds that dropped their carols from the blue; The breete that rose, and broke, Wers tongues that clearly spoke, Of other worlds than the one world he knew.No longer up and down, The lanes of his loved town, Shunning the streets that brimmed with life and light, Rhall old Babtiste again Be seen.for he hath ta'en path that leads to other worlds t t.ouieht.LC.M.DUNCAN.) The / ) \u2014\" WEEKLY WITNESS LORD STRATHCONA HAS OROSSED THE ATLANTIC OVER A HUNDRED TIMES.(London \u2018Times.\u2019) Among the pusseugers in the Cunard steaipalup \u2018laucania,\u2019 which arrived ju \"the Mersey at midday on Neturday, hev- {ing Leen delayed by fog, was Lond Strath: vona, High Comnusswuer for the Domine son, who appeared to be iu robust heaiti, t and said he had much enjoyed the trop from New York.ln converstion be mention that he had made over à Jun- dred voyages acrues the Atlantic, the first one having been in 1838, just before the first steamer went across, le well ve.member] the \u2018Assyria\u2019 and the \u2018lireat Western,\u2019 with the fears which were conjured up in connection with the early steam navigation, and he was one of the first to cross the Atlantic in a steamer.But now thugs had greatly altered and he was pleased to have so many opporiu- nities of crossing the ocean under modern conditions.In his opinion the Jong: | expected grand Canadian service would le established within two years.In re gard to the war in South Africa, Lord Strathcona said that the feeling in Can: ada was preciscly the same as it wae when the first offers of assistance were made to the Mother Country, and all the Canadian troops who had returned home spake in the highest poreible terme of their treatment from the beginning to the end of their experience, Their most | eminent surgeon with the troops was en: logistic on the subject of tue base and field hoepitals.The men generally were) highly gratified by ther rec country.With respect to Eiratheoma's Tiorse, His Lordship said the men had done their duty well.Canade was proud of her soldiers\u2019 record, ut Canadians, would be the last to make ton much of them.Where all had done mo well, it would be invidious to mention any na ex eoptionallr praiseworthy.Tord Strath.| cona arrived in London on Saturday evening.Srl HOW SUDDEN FRIGHTS OR STOCKS AFFECT DIFFER- LNT NATURES.Sudden frights, shocks or the pres ence of physical danger, said a close observer, \u2018have curiously divergent effects on different natures, The presence of danger will render some men as cool as ice, others\u2014and equally brave\u2014wiil tremble violently and break into a per: spiration.\u2018T remember once hearing of a chip who, coming uninjured out uf a railway wreek, worked hike a demon to nasist | his less fortunate fellow-passengers.All the time he was at work, however, he ; held ome hand to his collar, and when it was nver one of his companions discovered that he was helding tight to his necktie, which he had been in the act of tying when the collision occurred.\u2018At the time of the Chicago fire the wife of one of the great millionnaires of that day owned the mos: valuæble laces in America, possibly in the world.She had a box made for them of juet ! sufficient depth for the handie to prevent its going under the wardrobe, This was done to insure her maid or hersaf seeing and not forgetting it in case of fire.She saved her jewels, but her laces went up in\u2019 the flames, as neither maid nor mistress remembered in their fright the laces of wlieh they had taken such precautions to insure the safety.to swim quite well, and one day she es bathing pool on a wager.There were ! plenty of people about, and the distance was not great, Imt when she was half way across some one called out, \u201cHow deep is it find no friendly resting place beneath.Tostantly she lost her nerve and manic, She came up once, tried to scream.but the water choked her, and down she went again.A man who was lounging in the gallery surrounding the pool, raalizing that something was wrong, jumped in, clothes and all, and drag ged her out, lle was none too soon, for she was unconscious when he pulled her up.It was the sheer fright of was not the slightest deager./\u2014New York \u2018Tribune.\u2019 \u2014 FAVORING RECIPROCITY.(Toronto \u2018Globe.\u2019) Rome of the Detroit journals, commenting on the Canadian enterprises at Sault Ste.Marie, linve been talking of (\u2018anada and the Ubited States.The lenson perhaps is that the more we help ourselves, the more others will be, inclined to help us.The New York \u201cTimes\u2019 pointe out that the trade of Pennsylvania with Canada exceeds the entire trade of the United Biates with South America: ; , \u201cThe one feature that distinguinhes our relations swith Canada from those with any other country is that they have grown up natural y in obedience to the forces of mutual necessity and advan! , without the slightest factitious aid, and, indeed, in spite of arbitrary obetacles imposed from one side and\u2019 from, the other.It has been the inevitaMte trade only that has heen devel , and this is of immense promise in regard to future development, if, instead of opporine trade, we invite it, The forces that have been abie to produce mich results under such adverse conditions must be very etrong.They are, in fact, the strongest known in commercial intercourse.e penple on the other aide of our northern bor der are of (the same race as.ourselyes | ents, \u201cle ni | * introduetion of the virus, \u2018I know a young girl who had learned , saved the feat of swimming across a ?* She let her foot down to ! knowing that she was out of her depth | that caused it all, as otherwise there | the advantages of freer trade between They sre working out the same sort of civilisation by t mme gonarsl means, Their ideals are substantially the same as our own.their modes of individual and social life are similar.The comforts cesential to them, the thinge they seek to provide for them- selren and their families, their habite of clothing, [vod aud dwellings do not differ LA from our own.\u2018Their standards of business intercourse, their conception of commercial credit, the lawn by which they are guided, (he fi- natcial and commervial institutions that grow up among (nem, are practically ours.\u2018There is no more friction or di tieulty in doing business with them than there 18 in doing business between tle States\u201d The \u201cFimes\u2019 is strongly in favor of opening up negotiations for reciprocity with Canada, Our olject, however, is not to hold ont any hope that the Unit od States will give us fiver access to their markets at present, but to show thut our ueighbors are beginning to look ab the mutter in the true light.So far as Canada is concerned, we think that American tarifl legislation has bern framed in a somewhat narrow Hn In rome cueen mere local or «inva interests have prevailed; in others there seems to have been a desire to \u2018freeze out\u2019 Canada, and show her that her true interest was to enter the Union.The \u2018Times\u2019 article shows Canada as a neighbor, friendly, determined to go her vwn way, but willing to do business on fair forms.If thin ices takes hold of ithe American people, it not unlikely that sooner or later a utully prositable arrangement may be Tule.ALCOHOI, AND INSANITY.\u2018The inffuvave vf alcohol in the causa tion of insiaisy is not as fully appreciat {ed by physicians generally, and especial: Jy not by the luty, as by alienists, vpon | whose notice the unplensant yet import: ant truth has foreed itself with the con- clusivences of demonstration.The evidence is both cluiical and pathologic.1t has been repentediy shown that aleviiol causes degenerative changes in the tir sles of the nervous system, In a dis cussion of the duty x the state in \u2018the care of Ue inrane Kruepelin (\u2018American Journal of Insamity,\u201d ii, No.2) «tates thut of the pat 1 hoapitals for the insane in the German Empire ten percent have been committed on ace count of mental diseases due to alcohol.In sone institutions the percentage is ns Ligh as thirty, not including numerous canes in which alcohol Las been an exciting but not the primary cuse of the troulie\u2014in eases of mania, epilepsy, and paresis.Experience has shown that ah ut one-third of the living children of alcoholic parenta are epileptic, and that more than one half of the ts in the world are the offspring of alcoholic par Kraepelin goes ao far us to con- suler intoxication a mental disturbance taught with great danger to society.Joints out also the frequency with which alcoholism is responsible for crime of various kinds and degrees.\u2018There is to estape from the fact that alcohol is u poison, especially to the nervous sys teur, whose cffects neturally will vary i with the amounts in and the frequency with which it is used, and the stability of the structures upon which its influence iv exerted.is, thus, hut one attitude for the conscientious physician to assume in this connection, namely, to look upon alcohol as he does upon other for herapeutic agents, ether, chloroform, opium, as having a dis tinct and definite field of uscfulness, but nat to be emploved indiscriminately and habitually and in the absence of physio- lie indications \u2014Philadelphia \u2018Medical Journal\u201d as, instance, \u2014 A HINT TO VACCINATORS.The recent outhreak of smallpox in New York city, with its consequent centring of publie attention in vaccinstian, has revealed i i praatice.Phy v, following the abrasion à little perforated cup of stiff ened paper, or in some caves of celu- loid.This protects the place from all irritation of garments, and insures, too, ut munity from the introduction of any foreign matter, which is more often the cause of trouble followmg vaccination than the virus itself.In particular je this protection valuable to use upon children, who, at the first feeling of irritation, are to attack the itching and burning with their flngers.\u2014 New York \u2018Evening Post.\u2014\u2014pr\u2014 CHURCH UPENING.INTERESTING SERVICES AT ST.LOUIS DE GONZAGUE.The new Presbyterian Church In St.Louis de Gonzague was formally opened on Sunday Ist.bec.JW.The paster, the ev, 8.F.McCusker, was assisied by the Kev.J.D.Anderson, of Deauharnois, who preached very able sermons at both êvr- vices.The auditortum and the echool- room extenston were filled at both services, many visitors from Vatleyfield and elsewhere being present.À very successful soc:al was held on Monday cvening, when the building was packed ta tbe doors.On tbis occasion.Mr.G.oy, M1, ably Alled the chair.Addrrases were dellvercd by the Rev.1.W.Morison, the Rev.J.KE.Duclos aud tho It J.D.Anderson.Te Rev.Dr.A.B.kay, of Crescent Street Chyrek.Mont Sprang & very pleasant surprise upun (he large Audieuce y walking in at the right moment, and treating them to & practical and entertaining address.The choir and organist discharged th Autics very creditably at sil the meetin Musical setrctioom by De.Begin, Miss B ain and Mra.Morison, alto enlivened (he social.ltecitations were given by Mies Patterson and Miss F2.B.Goodall, former teachers, and friends.Miss Lois McCus.ker mang \u2018Dritish to the Core\u2019 with fag accompaniment, and à number of sacred songs from the Rutherford family were greatly enjoyed.The refreshment committee deserve great eredit for the manner in which they discharged thelr responsibill- tics, The waiting portion of the audience wan entertained with organ sud plano- forte music, and cheir gclections, while the others partook of refreshments in the old Minrch., Three amsaulis were made on the tables, but they always met ail demands.Fveryona seemed much pleased with the work of the building committee.The collections at all services amounted to $117.19.There remains only a halapee Aue on the heating and light accounts.chutch in modern in all its appointments, and a credit to the Presbyterian cause in St.Louis de Gonzague.AGRICULTURAL à BORTICULTURAL Wo tauiie comumavinniives furgure ghdng (hole aemperience ou matiere (nieresling 10 them es 6 olass; and also enquiries, (0 whisk, / we cannot answer thom sure salves, some &/ our readsrs may bs able te furnish satis ostory replies.Questions must wivays be asssmpeniod dy name and address, though nol wecesmarily for publé- sation.) BAG-HOLDERS.'N, T.&t, Catharines, Ont.\u2014How can 1 make a handy bag-holder ?Aus\u2014In many ways, some of which I subjoin herewith, A bag-holder is such a help ful thing that there ought to be one on every farm.The following are from back volumes of the \u2018American Agricultu: rist\u2019 : A CHEAP HOMT-MADE HOLDER.A board, say 14 by 34 inches, is fitted with legs of any desired length.These BAG- may be fastened like an ordinary table, or be merely rough sticka, fitted into auger holes, to be tzken out at plessure for ) packing away.In the centre of the board a round hole is cut, say 10 inches in diameter.A tin or sheet-iron funnel fits into this doscly.To use it, the mouth of the bag ie slipped over the funnel spout.and the bag let through the hole The funnel, on being promed down.holds the bag so firmly that it will not slip out, even when fiBed, without the bottom coming down to the floor.The funnel neck should be much less flaring than shown in the engraving, or it will not wedge in the bag so strongly.This would seem to be a good apparatus, costing but very little, and requiring no cash outlay, except for the funnel, ANOTHER.To make it, take a two-inch plank I block.12 x 18 inches; bevel the ides half an inch, and with strong screws fas ten to it two fexible uprights of hall- inch board.each aix to eight inches wide, as shown in the engraving.To use it, the top of the bag is folded over about three inches, and placed over one upright, the two are sprung together so that the fold may be piaced over the other one, and it is thuy held distended.The up- rights are Jong enough to allow the bot tom of the bag to rest upon the block.Where the bags are of uniform length, this will answer every purpose.We would suggest that to accommodate bags of different lengths, two short uprights might both be fastened to the block, and then iwo flexible strips be fized to slide un and down in staples fastened to the outside of the stationary uprights.YET ANOTHER BAG-HOLDER.The simplest yet, and one of the very best, as well as most easily obtained.This one is ready-made ; a barrel with both heads out and a few nails driven in 1 7 J fi 4 7 naile in the top of a barrel, and stil be between the staves and hoops at one end.A common grain bag is usually longer than a barrel.and may be hung over four a \\ Rous 8, 1900, x \\ THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.% 16 dadk, ending the çroui.The bag is aprond and bumg over the valle, as chown, The messwe may be vested upon the chine of the burrd, if desirable, asd whan the bag is full, the barrel may be lifted off.PORTABLE FENCE.\u2018N.T.\u2019 88.Catharines, Ont \u2014Wil) yon oblige by answering the question, \u201cWhat is the most convenient kind of portable {fence for enclosing pige ¥ Ane\u2014À very convenient and durable portable fence is made and used on the Experimental Farm at the Ontario Agricultural College.Mr.Rennie gives the following cut and description of it in his book sntitled \u2018Successful farming.\u2019 This fence is built in sections, twelve feet long and nearly four feet high.Fach rection contains about twenty feet of lumber, and four pounds of wire, and consists of two head pieces one and a half hy three inches, and twelve fest long.The wire used throughout, including the cross sections and braces, is common No, 12 twisted fence wire, The side pieces are nailed to the head pieces, and project beyond them four inches to form the connection.The two bottom pieces are eight inches from the lower end of the heads, and on opposite try Gemtlemsa,\u2019 whi) I herewith sub- bois : - \u2018We have à piece of sod ground on which we wish to plant potatoes, Is wes manured late laut (ail and early fn winter.Will the manure make the potatoes eoabby Ÿ Our putatoes last year were very scabby.We wish to plant some of the best for seed this season.Is there any solution we can put them in to kill the scab?! If mo, pleas give formula.Have heard of corrosive sublimate.but do not know formula, or \u2018whether it is best.\u2019 Ane-\u2014Manure will not make potato sab.Potato scab is due to a specific disease, and is propagated by a spore.M the spores are present in the soil, or if tbe spores are present on the seed tubers which are planted, the manuns may eg- gravate the difficulty, and the heat caused by the fermentation of the manure may increase the percentage of scab, But on a clean eoil, and with clean seed, manure will oot make scab.The spores which produce scab will remain in the soil for several vears, and i potatoes are planted oo the soil, and the season is favor able, the crop produced will be scabby.The conditions which favor the growth of the potato scab are dampness and an PORTABLE FENCE- sides! These form the framework of each section.The wires are then stretoh- «d, being secured by passing the wire through a three-eighth inch hole in the heads and driving a wooden peg in bevide the wire.This holds everything secure, while the ends are turned down snd fam ened with a staple, The first wire is four inches from the bottom end of the beads.the second is twelve inchey above the first, the third is aix inches above the second.the fourth seven inches above the third, and the fifth or top wire is eight inches above the upper wooden bar of the frame.The top wire is barbed.The cross sections are then put on the ends, being twisted around the wires with a hook made for the purpose.The side pieces of the frame are then nailed together in the centre to hoid them tightly, The hurdles ace held in place by wire braces, and pegs driven into the ground us illustrated in the cut.These wire braces are four feat eight inches long, and are fastened to the upper end of esch lead by a staple on the inside edge of the head.The pegs are made of irom, and ure sixteen inches long, and a quarter by one and a quarter inches wide.* The wire is secured to them by drilling a quarter inch bole through near the top of the pe, passing the wire through and twist: ing it round a short piece of wire, thus forming a cross which holds it secure.In one end of each hurdle is an extension of seven inches and sharpened.This enters the hole made io the ground by a crowbar, and holds the bottom of the fence secure, while the top is held by the braces which cross each other on the opposite side of the heads, making the connection secure and anchoring the fence firmiv.In order to combine and hold the hurdles still more securely, a wire may be drawn tightly the whole length of the fence and secured in cach section with a steple.The hurdles cost about eighty cents per rod, namely, lumber, thirty-five cents ; wire and pegs, twenty | cents, and labor twenty-five cents.This fence is both sheep and pig tight.POTATO SCAB.Some time ago queries were sent to me bv a correspondent in regard to the cauee and cure of the potato scab, After prolonged reading on the subject, I wae obliged to answer the queries very vague ly, and have been on the lookout ever since for more light.It bas come at last in an illustrated article in the \u2018Coun alkaline woil.An application of stable manure adds humus to the soil, and enables it to hold moisture.It alao makes the poil loose, and permite the air to enter, both of which conditions are favor- sble to the development of scab.Lime and wood ashes, which contain about 35 percent lime, should not be applied to potato land where it is suspected the spores of scab are present, as they pro duce an alkaline soil, favorable for the development of the disease, \u2018The figure shows several potatoes affected with the scab.Ie is sometimes difficult, bv a casual observation, to determine whether the rough spots on the tubers are caused by the scab or by worms.The wireworm and the millipede frequently eat into the surface of the potatoes and cause roughness, which resembles scab.The white grub of the May beetle also feeds on potatoes.As these grubs thrive best in & moist, cool soil, well filled with organic matter, it should be expected that potatoes growing in the low, damp places of a field, or where stable manure has been liberal- Jy supplied, would be more seriously affected by a trouble resembling scab, which is really not scab.\u2018When the potatoes to be used for seed have the roughened surface resembling scab, they should be trested, The most antisfactory treatment at the present time ie that which has been recommended by Prof.J.C.Arthur, of the Indiana Experiment Station.It is as follows : Soak the seed for two hours in a solution of eight ounces of formalin to fifteen gal- tons of water ; then cut and plant, The older treatment ie to dissolve one pound of corrosive sublimate in 50 gallons of water, and soak the seed tubers for one hour : then cut and plant.Either of these methods of treatment will kill the æpores of scab which may infest the tubers.The formalin treatment is recommended because formalin does not pos sev the poisonous properties of corrovive œublimate.BEE-KEEPING.X.\u2014Kindly advise what book or paper on bee-keapinx would be most useful to a beginner, Any hints on wintering would be acceptable.A Ane\u2014I shall reply to the above very briefly as follows: 1.By altering the terms of the questions thus : \u2018What book and paver would be moet useful,\u2019 ete.2.By saving Root\u2019s \u2018A.B.C of Bee-keop- POTATOES AFFECTED WITH THE SCAR ing.\u2019 end.far above all competitowrfor à Dexinner, the \u2018American Bee Journal\u2019 \u2018Write for specimen oopy to George W.York & Oo.118 Michigan street, Chicago.IU, LINDENBANK.\u2014\u2014 FARM GLEANINGS.Out of the 0,435 cars shipped from California during the past year, 2,115 cars were Dears, 1,301 peaches, 1,138 plume and prunes.The bunting season in Maine for 1900 lus à record of 3,113 deer killed, 138 moose and seven men.As ome paper puta it, there are still left some deer, a few moose and plenty of men.\u2018The rest of the world owes the United States $500,000,000 for the stuff exported the past eleven months over and above oe importe, but what are we gotting for One may work hard and skilfully snd produce abundantly, and yet remsin poor in a rich country.Economic science teaches why this is true and bow to improve upon such conditions, Boys should be mo treated that they come to believe the farm cannot get along without them ; then tbe transition se étay to the opinion that they cannot get without the farm.Farm life Las in it the material for making the happiest homes in the country, and if st falls short of this it is the fault of the management.\u2014'Southern Farmer.\u2019 Farmine is a business thet I consider requires more careful and thorough attention than any other business because # is the foundation of every other busi- nes .A farmer who owns his farm should know exactly what crop to pat on everv acre of land he has under cukiva- tion, He should also know at least three vears ahead what crops will follow up certain cropa, Gardening, dairying, poultry msaanage- ment.borticulture and various other branches are of enough importance to warrast a young man in choosing one cf them as a profession ; it will require a great deal of thought and study, but winter evenings spent in this way will be \u2018casting bread upon the water,\u201d which, as P.T.Barnum used to say, \u2018will after many dave come back buttered.\u2019 There has been a decided change of sentiment among our practical New Enz- land farmers of late years toward the ro- called \u2018fancy farmers\u2019 We all realize now that tie money these rich men thus mend is doing lots of good in our rural districts.while the experiments and failures of the so-called fancy farmer are useful 40 the intelligent man who secks the utmost profit at the least risk, Success on the farm, as in any line of business.depends almost entirely upon the personal industry and attention of the one most interested, The average hired man cannot be expected to do as thor ough work, having no interest in it other than getting hia pay, as the land owner himself, As success depends upon the owner.it should be remembered that the farm will not run itself.The close of an exceptionally favorable fall finde farmers in many parts of New England behind in their work, and rot fully prepared for winter.The cause appears the same from Maine to Rhode Island\u2014inability to secure help.The scarcity of farm help, despite good wages, bas been noticeable ail through the year.The mills and factories run at the cx pense of the farms.The solution of the difficulty les in the solution of the oid problem.how to keep the boys on the farm.\u2014 New England Homestead.\u2019 To aedure effective ventilation in any building, two sets of openings are neces- mry, namely, inlets for the admission of pure sir and outlets for the removal of impure air.When the artificial system ja employed, especially where hested 1ir is the motive force, the inlets should be placed in the walls near the ceilings, tie outlets in the floor on the same side of the room as the inlet.In natural ventilation, where cold air is brought in, the inlets should be in the walla near the floor line, the outlets in the ceilings, roofs or walls above, The farms of the future wil} be moxtly verv large farms and very amall ones ; the number of medium size decreasing, as they are purchased by men of wealth and coneolidated.On these farms there in a growing demand for men, and preferably young men, to take charge of \u2018he various departments; men who have made a specialty of one line of farm work: to such men are paid good wages, that will compare favorably with the gross earnings of the majority of young men in the city.The boy on the farm ban à very good opportunity to take some one line of work and make a specialty of it.\u2014\u2014\u2014 LIVE STOCK NOTFS.The heart of an adult horse heats 30 to 40 times A minute, of an ox 45 to 50, of a pig 70 to 80, and of a shecp 70 to times.Every animal loves a change of food.It in possible for any animal to live on # single food, but it will never improve on it, Wild animals in a state of nature never improve.They are the same always, The lecturer of the National Grange said last week that he thought the state of Vermont suffered from having too many Jerseys.Not that he does not admire & cow, but tiiere a.e too many r Jerseys.are families and Fomitien and families, and good and poor cows in every breed.In the matter of growi nd feeding cattle, sheep, hogs and chic] me there in à point where profit ccases and loss be- flan, While an animal or fowl is grow- ng fast there is profit in feeding it the best on the LES SA pe rp ry rounded out and looks stirsctive to the buyer, then ia the time to sell.The Chicago \u2018Live Bock World re centl: orted 1, to pound es De om the market that failed to receive .For a long time, the heaviest cattle have not been of the mar ket.It is not quantity but quality that counts in the cattle market, as well ns everywhere else, where merit colors the estimate put upon things.fo far as my own observation goes, sloppy feed for everything of the pig Kinds the best, berause Tt always prod ame uniform resulta.uces Grain and vegetables, with the exception of ni beets, should always be fed warm.\"The digestive system in then less lisble to suffer from irritation caused by uncooked food, or a chill, tha result of taking cold feed into the system.Now thin may be called fussy and unœulled for, but fussy or not, the wystem is always productive of good results.There is a certain degree of rapidity of action peculiar to each horse, and, i he be pressed beyoud the limit, Iatigue follows quickly, while within this lint great endurance is possible.To illustrate the point, let a wan attempt to niove hia arma as rapidly as a bind doen ite wings, or his legs in walking as rapidly as a Tittle boy, and we how qe he will become exhausted.This will convince hin of the folly of attempung to make his heavy dranght horses step with the rapidity of a8 pony ur faut trotier.The law of nature is that heavy bodics move slowly.At the experimental station with out herd we have found that as we increased the feed we have decreased the quality of the milk, although the quantity has gone up.As a rule food increases the quantity and not quality.People are now beginning to believe that feeding affects the quantity, and breeding affecu quality.In proportion as you starve your cows, down 0 the quan- iy t goes the quality.Starving the cow betters the milk, but does not better the quantity or the pocketbook.Formerly we fod six pounds of bran al with other grain feed to our cows, but in making the change we substituled three pounds of gluten meal for the aix pounds of bran, as one pound of gluten meal contains as much protein as two pounds of bran.Since feeding the giu- ten meal our cows bave not only held their own, as we hoped they would du, but bave increased in their How of milk from one to three pounds r cow.Thus we consider ourselves justified in making the statement that gluten meal is a very much cheaper source from which to tain protein than bran at the present prices of both feedstuffs.J.L.Duckworth, of Ohio, finds that some animals will do well on cooked food, while others will not.He tested it for hogs, cows, chickens and horses, and found that unless the hogs are kept in a warm place they do not thrive as well ot a cooked food as on raw, The animals are more apt to take cold if given a warm feed, and then expossd to the weather.This condition of ai- fairs will not exist if they are kept 1u a wamn house.For milch cows he tound cooking feed waa quite profitable.By cooking à mixture of oats, bran, oil meal, shorts and corn, was able to increase the flow of nuk thirty percent.Then also, old cows, which could not be far tened on ruw feed, did very well on cooked.\u2014_\u2014 DAIRYING DOTS.White duck suits may be considered s luxury, bus clean hands are a necessity while milking, Ose need not have tiled flocrs to liis sable, but milking a cow whose flanks and udder are covered wiih excrement is by no means clean ; in fast, it is filthy in the extreme.It is coming to be recognized that aeration is the most important resuk of tile- drainiog.that aeration is the best safe guard against the ill effects of prolongsd droughte in localities where draining cn account of excess of moisture would never be thought of.Many soils not at al} wet are grestly benefited by tiling.1 have seen extensive tracts of notably Jry oils rendered doubly productive by sy» tematic tiling.Jersey cream is the thinnest of a) cream when raised by the deep setting system.Rich milk makes a larger bulk of cream than poorer inilk.The nearer the avoaratus is handled according to directions, the more and thinner cream .» obtained.The more the apparatus i» mishandled the less will be the cream, but of beiter quality, When the temperature of the water goes above 45 degrees there will be lets cream, but of better quality.The items of good have some influence on the gravity system.Suppose that the cream is over-ripened, \u2018wheyed off.\u201d as it is called, and is in a condition where the casein separates in the form of a layer with the whey he- low.Here we have a condition in which is frequently impossible to churn.Tha action of the ferments has first precipitated the casein, and then by further ac: tion has re-diesolved part of #, forming a soapy.viscous fluid, from which the bu:- ter will not separate, This condition °s found when the weather is hot and lhe supply of milk has fallen off, with ronse- quent small batches of cream and unfre- quent churning.In hot weather, cream should be churned when it ia ripe and ready for the churn, if the yield and quality of the butter is any object to the dairvman.When will the dairymaa learn that cleanliness is a salesble commodity and has a cash value ?More people will nay for the absence of dirt in their food than wili pay for ite delivery.A few men have found this fact to be true, and \u2018ne result is an appearance of prosperity that cannot he all show.One of the notables - in this line is Mr, Francisco, of New Jer sey.He started twelve years ago with an output of 38 quarts of milk, but it was clean milk, and since then, by constamly impressing on his customers the fact that lis mik was always clean, he bus made o ment cee of his business.The b00 animals on hie farm are always on exhi- bition, os are sleo his man servast, hie maid servant, his ox and his other stile.The congequence is that the consumer, {following the ancient advice of \u2018go, look, ace,\u2018 comes away impressed with the {act that here he cso at last find clean, pure milk, and he giadly adds to the stream of shekele that pour into Me.Francesco # pockets, Maay cream: atrons with the return o aiitamn 2 cool nights cease to give their milk the attention to it sweet in hot weather, wi the result that often « nor tainted and bad milk comes iu at this time than during the summer months.Others are permitted to Lop nulk two days und with this milk arriving at the lower tomperature required to keep it, taint.and\u201d off flavors wo us easly dc .The man at the intabe whould be more critical now than during the Lot season when there may have been more excuse for bad milk.According to a statement inede by Professor Léljhagen at a meeting of the Svwedith Agricultural Academy there nee now fifteen hundred and titix dusries es tablished by owoperative association and jointetock coujenies in Sweden.Phe number of cuecnerative dairies 14 450, of which three huu:lred manufacture butter only, une hundred .cheese only, eux the retin - duce both Lutter and cher Of \u201cre eleven hundred dairies run by joint-stock cœuparies, eght hundred are engaged solely in the production of butter.In addition to the foregoing establidhiments thereqare about 200 estate dwries, and LIVE STOOK.For sdvertising is this depsrimen _Feused prices All be sent on av ae ach Favugmst, Ou, Fil 30, 98, 0 Asa Tinlmont for fami; Sain for Kendairy \u2018resiies où à Jarge number cf emaller private dairies.| § We do not believe there is another! business on earth where there is such «| wile difference in the percentage of profit per cow, and per acre, as will be found among dairy farmers, No matter in what state or where we investigate these farmers, iv is the same.Our | creamery patron investigations show thin difference up in vivid light, and every creamery in the land will show men living side by side, where one man makes double the profit his neighbors do.Why | is it that ome dairy farmer will make | £2.30 for every dollar he inves iu feed, | for his cows, and a neighbor will make; only $1.and another neighbor will 15% | 50 conta?Why is it?The same axy | in above them, the enme roii beneath them.the same market ahead of them.| and the mame creamery or cheese factory ; ob- behind them.The difference is in the | men and the cows, And the difference | in the cows is because of the difference | in the men.The Guestion is: Why is it?There is only one anewer, Lack; of knowledge and no dicposition to get! knowledge.There cannot be any other ; reasan, for men who have knowledge sus- ceed \u2014\u2014 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS [Fe éouile questions on all possible evdjects genera nterest, to which we shall do our best phot) snewere, and shall (naert rach querics and replies as wr can make room for.This must not be naed, however, zo eu advertising 0o'uiim or as an raquiry bursew for matters not of publis futerest.Feervy query mut be cocompanted with (ke nam- end postal address of the Sender, and wo notice will be taken of Gachymeus com waniasiions.] GENERAL.WHEN THE SABBATH BEGINS.Novies.\u2014Does the Christian Sabbath be- gla at 12 o'clock or 1 o'clock in the night?Aus.\u2014Amorg most moders uations ¢ \u2018day\u2019 ; 1s reckoned as beginning at mean midnight.Thus Sunday, or the Sabbath, will beg'n mt 12 o'clock on Baturday ulght.and by one o'clock, ops hour of that pew day will bave been completed.HER MAJESTY AT THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW, Toquirer.\u20141.Did the Queen ever attend the Lord Mayor's show In London, part- cularly in the parade on Lord Mayor's day in 1860?2.Please give mo the correct apeliizg ard pronunciation of the French words meaning \u2018the Queen.\u2019 Ans.\u2014 The Queen attended the Lord Mayor's show in London in the year of her coronation, 1827.An account of this ceremony is given In the \u2018Annual Register\u2019 for 188.Mr.Henry Sort, assistant ilbrarian of MeGit} University, well remembers being prosent on that vccasion.The Queen did not attend in 1860.2.La reine, prooounced raya.MEDICAL.sbetiers for Va department ahold be agdi ed \u201cMedical Blltor *iVitvem,\u201d Montreal\u201d Should embr-rider cal any quretion which (a act suliadis for publication, 8 peply wil be sent by mail if & stomrrd addressed earelope and $1, shpwician\u2019s fee, be encioand wich such question.) BOILS, H.M.C.de much troubled with bolls, Leads à reguiar l!fe and ia tn good health.Appetite is good.Uses plain food.Ans.\u2014Bolls are à very obstinate and distressing affection.The state of health does not seem to have much to do with It as hoils may affect those in robust health and In fact generally do.It Is almost [Impossible to account for the condition, but In some cases it seems to Indlente A mild farm of blaod-poisonine: es a rule ne cars of the diet makes any diffe» ence.The only thing that ta at all effective ls an nld-fashioncd remedy used In the country places in France, It Is hesr.yeant, Take à tonaponnini cf this in a vine-glass- tn! of water ane hour after each meal Thin eertainly tends to prevent the bolix form- Ing.The treatment should be continued atradily for at Jrnst aix weeks.If the veast upsets the ntemsch, you should take it, more diluted or occasionally omit a one, | The treatment also sometimes Aberte a boll | in process of development.When the boil | in well formed, however, It must gn on.It should ba well paniticed with dread and Nin.seed and either npened with a clean knife of nilowed to burst, To relleve the pain & few drops of lend and aplum lotion may be sprinkled on the poultice, An fmport- | ant point Is to prevent lerltation of the | akin ns this makes the condition much! worse.À soft neckeloth should be worn tnatend nf a collar.The bowels should be kept open.It ln said that when a boll Is atiil very small painting it over with col- fodion will prevent it golag further.This may be tried.COLD FEET.T.McB.writes aeking for à remedy for tor deatn aise dentnoss sauve pt in the hend.Ane\u2014Cold test o | tube, { mot do better than take your doctor's ito stop him?* 3 + y to poor circulation.Cold feet daytime are often dus to impro- If your boots are too light are not slastic emough this tends to hamper the circulation.The feet, too, may be cold at night from & rather sluggishly scting heart.In the treatment an important point is to bave the body as & whols thoroughly warm before golog owt or going to bed.You can do som to restore the local circulation by basting the feet In very hot water alternately with cold every two or three minutes.Then the fest should be rubbed vigorously with & coarse bath towel and the friction kept up for some time.Persistence in this treatment nightly will do good.A bot drink at bedtime is also a good thing.As for the desf- ness, without koowlog the exact cause of the deafness it Is mpousible to adviss you.From vutarrb of the throat the eustachian a tube which passes from the throat to the middle ear, often becomes plugged up.Thin tends to absorption of the air in the middle ear snd consequent tension upon the drum-membrave, thus interfering with the proper transmission of the waves of sound.Denfarss thus results.Some relief can be afforded Ip many of these cases by icilating the ear.This enn be done readily by closing both nostriis with the thumb snd Arges and attempting to expire the air forcibly through the nose.If air enters the ear you can feel a fulness in the head which can be dissipated by swallowing.Tbe tube can thus be opened up and free communication with the ear restored.If you do this once or twice daily you may derive some benebt.1f there ls, however, infam- mation in the middle ear the condition wili probably go ou.BLOOD POISONING.A W.J.writes: Two months ago was blood poisoned through a tiny cut om the little finger of the right hand: was much better after treatment but the swelling and inflammation did not subside.Consulted her physician again and was informed that rheumatism of the small joints and muscles bad set in, There Is swelling sad heat in the little finger kil the time, but not much pain.The muscles, especially in the palm of the hand and wrist, often swell up spd the band becomes so stiff that she cannot open or close It.The treatment adopted was to rub we!l with strong ltuiment aod to keep it warm.The hand becomes painful as soon as exposed to cold.ls forty-five years of age and hraltby.Aux \u2014You ean- vice.You should not be impatient for a cure.Cases such as yours are often very tedious, but galierally get well in time.We could not suggest anytifing r than you are doing.Keep up your eral health and go on as you are doing.CATARRH.M.bas suffe; for 10 or 12 years from what be was told was catarrh of tbe, Lupeat At one time employed loca! remed suck as Inhalations, catarrh tablets, but without effect.Throat becomes dry aod sore, and there Is a tired feeling on talking much.There is also a partial suppression of the voice, duiness over the eyes, and the back of the head is sensitive to cold.The air- passages of the nose are freeno dropping and no discharge.Hearing and eyesight are good.Is considerably improved in recent years even without trestment.Always has found immediate relief from sea-bath- ing.Wishes to know if the trouble is real- Jy eatarrh: If it is local or constitutional; and If it I8 ever a aymptom of some other difficulty.Ans.\u2014From your description the disease would seem to be à dry or graauler catarrh of the throat and upper air pass ages.IL is certainly not constitutional.You do not say whether you suffer from headache or not.If you do, together with the oppression over the eyes you speak of, there may be something wrong In the way of inflammation of the air cavities or the sg-ralled ethmoidal celle at the upper part of the nose.Only n specialist on the throat and nose will be able to tell that for you, and Jf you have not yet seen one you had better do so.If thin is the case an operation would benefit you.If not, and it is n cage of almple dry catareh, it is not likely that treatment will have much benefciel «fect.LEGAL.(ONTARIO) A TRESPASSER.Constant Reader, Ont\u2014l, Can you hinder a man from taking stone off your farm at the water's edge?2.What Is the legal way Ane.\u20141 Yes.1 The man ought first to be warmed In writing againgt further trespassing, and tben, H he « sists in removiug stone as complained of, fi would be in order to take legal proceed- jugs sgalnst bim as for trespass.FATHER AND 8ON\u2014A DEED WANTED.QU, Ont.\u20148even years ago, A farm for his ron, B, but gave him po deed of it.Since six years ia running the turm as If he war the proprietor; that is, paying no rent, but paying the taxes and improving the place.Now B would Ike to xrt a deed, but A is nmiiting.L Can B compel A to give him a deed of the said farm?3.If not, tap be driw wages from his (esther, A, and for how mauy yours, B's axe being 307 3.Would B be entitled to on if be continues to oc sup the farm In the way be Je actual doirg?! Aos.\u20141.Ne.2.No.& We thin pot.But it might possibly de a case for scmpensation In respect of Improvements.A bought a wt + à RY / ther needed, 5 FAUM READERS.ISLAND OF ANTICOSTI.the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u201d) ir.X-The establishment by Lloyds of a nal service at Belle Isle, to rupernede the pressat rigual station at the east end of Anticosti island.462 miles below Quebec, at this juccture, renders the\u2018 question of the cwnership of the icland | of Anticosti a subject for the home as\u2018 well ad the colonial government for two i reasons.In tue first place, the trans ierence of this island, which has aver %0 | niles of ses coast, is about 140 wiles long | and about 35 miles broad in the widest\u2019 part.with an average breadth of 77% wiles, and compr:mhg à territor.al ares vf | 2,460,000 acres, \u2018a private Frencn owa- ership, therebv divesting Britidi subjects ol their rightful property ; and, in tue second, deprived the River St.Lawrence avd its Gulf of the most valuable natural harbors for naval defence exuting | at the front door of the great water high: | wave of the Dom 'nion of Canada, for the, land possesses tiree harbors, one at Ellis Bay, a second at Fox Bay, and the other at South-West l'uint, The has bor at Ellis Bay, at the upper end, and | that at Fox Bay, a\u201c the lower end of \u2018le | idand, are capable «af accommodat- 1g a large fleet cf the largest sised scs- ! going ships and steamers, with safety in all kinds of winde, having an excellent holding bottom of gravel and mud, ani the other, South-\\Vest Point, could eau I» be made sate by the construction ©\", Yreakwaters.Thuse harbors offer peculiar advantages fcr purposes of naval defence.because all vessels houml up er down the St.Lantence munt pass else to the island.When it is mentioned turt unwards of 2,000 vensels arrive from, Europe in the season, embraving several; ©.the finest lines of steamers afloat, he sides a large ice: of coasting and fishing craft.all of which must necewarily pass within view of the island, the national \u2018mportance afachable to the position and capabilities of these harbors fur commercial and paval stations becomes ai pirent ; and tiiey are in the most con; venient and central epot for commanding ; vith a féw steam vessels or gunboats the\u2019 two entrances «: the river, and for the desvateh of crusers either up the strewn | or down to anv of the G ports, \u2018he whole isla 1: was fie-t gtanted by the crown of France in 1630 10 Louis Joliet, & Frenchman, in consideration of his discovery of Uiinais, now the State of Ilincis, and for other ser ter the conques: of Canada hy ain it paesed into the hands Foglia families, and for upwards of « handred vears ihe Eoglish leirs of Lan- Riu, Dunn and Stewart owned the is land\u2014the Langans one-balf share and tho'kern a quarter each\u2014and in 1973 Captain Forsyth, late of the 7th Ilussars, aug of the heirs of Langan, made an rr- prized attempt \u2018to settle the island, and during the next tro years over LU ime migrant= made th home there, a hariy race of Newfoundland fishermen settling ar Fox lav vad he seignrurdiip of Captain Forevth, whose policy was that ali who applied tor particular lota of lant were told they could occupy the land.anid 24 wnon 24 a +i vee had been made they wild be ctanted he land at a reasonable rte, In addition to the settlers, there wis likewise à ficating population whieh visited the \u2018sland Curing the fishing ena: ron of some 3.00 cr 4.000 peaple, These prable er their Moreiathers had vinial the island for over a hundred years.Dur- ins the season they accupial themsclv >= in fehing and drying the fish they had aught, Thev were given the privilage rt cutting what timber they required for the'r own ure, and of shooting what gaine Stores and supplies of 8'l I nds were established on the island, and the settlers and foating population were aticwed the highest market price for fish, turs or anvthing they had to ll.Un: fortunatelv for Captain Foreyth and the \u201celfare of the setllers, his enterprise was akead of the times, and, having to beir al! the expense, »r.d the island being un divided, it was Cenided to bring it to licitation sale.Four vears ago Mr.Henri Menier, of Fronch chocolat» fame, purchased this is lana of Anticosti, which, as any one who wi'l take the troubia to look at the map will see.commands the entrance to the Juver St.Lawrence.Hin object.as star- «ii then.and meny times since, was to nroride for himsel! and his friends a geome and fishing preserve where they might spead their summers with profit »fter the exacting operations of chocolate.making in France.Mr.Menier acquir:d the inland \u2018row an English company, which had purchased it from a Mr.F, W.Steckwell, who in turn had bought it at the licitation sole, and Captain Foraych claire that the l'citation sale was illezdl on the ground nf conspiracy between the purchaser and the party who instituted the proceedings in licitation, and that iu- dicial proceedings are not barred by the orlinary ten year:' proscription.but come under the thirty yews\u2019 statutory pro reription, Hovever, Mr Menier han got poses mor of this island, which, in the evant of war between Great Britain and France, would be a valuable point for an enemy of Britain and Canada.\\Vhile Anticr.i was in the hands of good British anbjecte il was one thinr>, now it in in foreizn herds it is high time that the Home Gov.crument steppe-l in and demanded thet the colonia! davghter shall not forget her duty to the mother country by \u2018he al:enation of any of her territory from Br'tish relationship.And this has been amply emphasised by Mr.Menier's ao siens, His fire: act, what was it?To warn ¢he Engleh-speaking people on the island that they muet move ; that they no longer had any righta there ; that all lreir veara of labor in making à home for themselves and their families muet go for nothmg : and wo he avpointed Mr.Commettant \u2018governor,\u2019 who cruelly evicted from their peaceful homes the English- speaki.g settles of Fox Bay, It was hré made their homes out of the wild-.- ares oË tin ouce barren islaud : that their children had been born and ther parents sepultured there! [bt ia true or courte decile] in Mr.Menier's favor as againat the settlers, and so the prY- village an vincial police were requisitioned to ex- pl these people from the island and tear us down their houses, not because they were pirates or invaders, but because they: could not be rubject ta Mr, Meunier a absolute wveregn of the idand and itn waters, He demanded not only the sen ners foe of right of occupation, but they | act forhulden to trap or shoot, or take any fieh excepting cod fish, We forbade any one to leave the island or to Tad upon its shores without hie permission.He forbade them to trade with the out side world.cr the outside world to trade, with them, They must self all to him and buv all from him, or forfeit their residence on the island.After twenty.seven years\u2019 freedom on Canadas ree soil they refused to sacrifice their man- Hood to be made serfs to a forclgner com.| ing in and claiming what uo citizen of Canada ever claimed in any part of this Paminion\u2014an extensive right of owner ship, as if he were the irresponsible king or the autocratic sovereign of that pos- semon The Imperial Government has already recognized that there is something of rational imnortance tn this Dominion, in this celehrated Frenchman, getting pos recon of the entrance to the S-, Lawrence.The whole case is one of hard- ! hip and ~f interference with the rights of Canadian citizens and British eubjents settle upon Nritish rail, as was amp'y proved by the testimony of Fdward O04 berne and Hovles Whiting, of Fox Bay, wha were delegated by their brother set tle vrge that merely because Mr.Meuier has paid a mere baritelle for and taken possession of the sland of Anticosti he cannot be disturbed.Under the Milita Act of Canada the island can be expropriated by the Dominion Governmens for military purposes, and with modern guns mounted on suitable sites no vessel could enter the St.Lawrence, for they could knock out anvthing attempting to go up or dewn thie waterway, This is a burning question to-dw im Canada, N» one here desires to dispos- Mr.Menier without compensation : rovincial Government :< impotent t> move in the master ; the Federal Government would like 10 do so :f certain of na*:onal approval; therefore the Home Government should lose no time in bidding the Dominion Parliament to expropriate the island, place it in a condition for the \u2018Witness\u2019 by J.J.Jax, Jacksonville, Florida.Criticism invited.Black\u20147 pieces.White to play and mate in TWO moves.White\u2014K on K Bsq, Qon Q R B's on Q?snd KR kts on À 3 and K 5, Ps on Q Kt ?, K ?and K R 8.Black\u2014K on K B 6, Rs on K B sod Q Kt £, Ps on Q B 3, Q 4, KK té and K 6.PROBLEM NO.102.By Herr Bankowits, in the \u2018Schachmatal Journal.Black\u20143 pieces.Winite\u20146 pieces.White to play, and mate in TWO moves, White\u2014K on K RE.Qon Q R \u20ac, Bs on K3snd QBS Pron K2 Dlack\u2014K on K 4, Poon K 8 os a .\u2014\u2014 Game 8§7\u2014Queen\u2019's Fianchetto, Many players bre tres of Morphy'e bril- Nancies, but there are still some whe will welcome the following.It is going the Oculustro,\u2019 offered | 17 æ\" JANUARY 8, 180% à preriqui blished was, and wa prob Tant.or 80, to which his genlus gave birth, White, Black.P.Mo hy.C.Maurien.1P- t3 1P-K ¢ 1g RK 39459 3 P\u2014 3 \u201434 4 P\u2014K Kt 23 4P-XB¢ SEB Ks SK BOY $Y 7Q-K2 SUR \u20ac 5 patte w 9 = 0K Bx Kt w0K PxB UP-04\" HEELS Bids gap ch b) 14 K\u2014Ke 2 WR B-K2 BKR-K1 15 Kt\u2014K¢ 8 (9) 16 BB home 18 Be B-Q 2 171QgxQP 18KKxB(d) 18QxBP 190-K 2 1 8 20 P-Q Kt ¢ a 4, ch 21 6 (e) 2K R-B 2 23 23 R covers 4 20 Q-K B32 23 89x Q 5 2 ER 24 ak Bk 2 DRPxP 3200Q8Bx2Kt 30KtPxB 31 Rtx RP 31KR\u2014K3 RQRxP 2QB-R3 BJ R-Q7 sE-BS5 UPOR4 34 P x P en pes White forces mate In a few moves.Notes by G.Relchelm.(a) With this move the game enters an extraordinary phase.Maurian is.of course.bent on simplifying the game, acd bad analyzed It, or thought he ha of security.Morphy, howev calculating on his own accoun sult is a comblustion nine mo desp.tb} His method of escape, at least so he (magiued, (c) Another move adding to the prettiuses of the complication.4d) At last got the ptece ha was after (e) Overlooki: the preity reply; for If 22.P takes Q, White forces mate In four moves.(f) Morphy now makes a remarkable move, and winds the game up in a blase of glory.\u2014-New York \u2018Clipper.\u2019 GOLD HOARDED BY MNISERS MILLIONS IN YELLOW COIN DIS APPEAR ANNUALLY FROM CIRCULATION.The world is full of millions snd mil- licag of long-lost sovereigns.A competent authority has just completed some investigations which, he dec show that in three years the Bank of England lias lost trace of no fewer than twemty million golden coins of the realm.Tius wholesale Bsappearance of the elusive sovereign has been going on for years.A river of gold has flowed angly from Threadneedle street to all parts of the world, but it hes come back only as a tiny yellow streamiet.What has be oome of the surplus in its wanderings ?\u2018Misers\u2019 is the unpoctical explanation for a great part of this disappearance.There still exist in this and other countries people who a unieinen like mough ow up g and k it lying i them for the sole pleseure \u201cpowine it is there and oconsionally counting it.The people of India appear to be particularly addicted to a habit that is more remimscent of medieval times than of sn age when money is generally saved so that more can be made with it.In the regency of Hombay it is estimated that twelve million golden sovereigns are hoarded.If that is the record of Bom- Lay elone, what is the full tale for the whole country ?China, too, absorbs a vast amount of gold that never sees the light again.As a matter of fact, while the whole world ar ing for and trying to acquire ,a y part i 5 to Le, in the lcas 1 4 pretime of hading it away, Great Britain is not guiltless of this commercial sin.Dotted all over the kingdom are graveyards of gold, which, if discovered and opened, might remture to circulation a vast amount of wealth at present absolutely useless.At a spot about two miles from Herefordshire Beacon a treasure chest is in the local history as having buried by a great family once resident in the district.But money cannot found.There is a similar record in connection with Iulme cawtle, formerly a «eat of a branch of the Prostwich family.Somewhere near Stokesey castle, Shropshire, there in beiieved to be hidden a t oaken chest filled with gold coins, t up to the present all efforts Lo find it bave ended in failure.\u2014London \u2018Mail.\u2014\u2014\u2014 EXTRAORDINARY MISHAP TO AN ENGLISH BATTLESHIP.While the second-class battleship \u2018Thunderer\u201d was on her way from Pembroke Dock to an accident occurred to her .When the vessel was off Milford Haven, a target was put out for Hiring practice, te ten-inch doading turret gun being used.À projectile had been placed in one of the .few fragments of the rofsesie.which were thrown some distance from the ship.The base plate of the projectile was left in the gun, as well as a portion of the frame, and when the plate was afterwards removed the pressure of the portion of projectile to force from the breech el When the second gun was fired, a two inch and three diameter was blown through the pro- ile, the outer part, v bane plate, being left in the gun.this case the base plate waa from the rent of the projectile.Buch thing i believed never lo have occurred in env ship before.y explane tion so far in either that the powder in the projectile wan damp, or that there was a quantity of weter in the guns.A cast will be made of the inside of each gun to ascertain wheth either has been damaged.An enqui into the mishap has been held, bu: cause has not born determined.4 Arrow a COLONEL OTTER, LETTER FROM A MEMUER OF THE FIRST CONTINGENT, (To the Fditor of the 'Witneas) B\u2018r,\u2014In your issue of Nov.It 1 noticed an item stating that the name of Lieut.- Colonel (iter lad been mentioned as à possible syrrescor to Licut.{ol, Kitson as conmanidunt of the Moval Military Collece at Kingston, und in the inicress of Lie ring acnera,uu of saidiers, whore oflicers and teadure will graduate from that institution, | desire iv put on record w-st earnest and unqualified dixap- proval to the appaintment My obinvitony ate based on my experi- euce of the pum y during wiuich 1 served with the Koval Canudan Regiment 1n the Bunth Alricaa vampa gu puder Col, Otter, and while I am fully aware of the fset that frum a military standpoint it is highiy improper (to use a mild expression) for a private soldier to thus discuss and criticise the actions and abilitivs of an oflicer of such high rank, 1 regard the circumstances #e being so exceptional lat I lave not only the right, but would be lacking in my duty if I neglected to do and before pro recding further will sav that while writing this entirely on mv owu responsibility, and without any consultation with any of my late comrades, | am quite sat istied that 95 percent of them will sup.pore me in everything I state.The people of Canada generally are well aware of what material the first contin- Rent was composed.lt embraced all classes of trades and professions.All were intelligent men, and there were few but bad given up good positions aud homes to answer the call of their country.But very few but had served a suflicient term in the militia to teach them at lesat the rudiments of military service, aud ail had sufficient intelligence to know that thev had now as \u2018regulars\u2019 to conform w a more rigid form of discipline than they had been accustomed to, and were quite prepared to conform thereto.The first dissatisfaction arose over the appointment of non-commissioned offi: cers.Take E (Montrea)) Company, for example.In the ranks were competent men, who had attained the rank of sergeant and color-sergeant in the Montreal corps.some of whom held Bt.Johns Bchool certificates as well.These were entirely overlooked, and Ontario men who were known to Col, Otter were made non-come.in tbe Montreal company.I have nothing to say against the capabilities af these men for the position, but equally æood men could be found in our own ranks, and it is easy ¢o understand that these appointments of outsiders caused much dissatisfaction.Then when drills and parades were commenced on board the \u2018Sardinian,\u2019 Col.Otter often deeply incensed the men by personal and inraltine remarke over small errors which only needed a civil reminder to prevent their recurrence, and also used blaxphe- mous and abusive language to them on numerous occasions.These incidents could be quoted by dorens, if necessary, but one will suffice, The morning after we reached Capetown, while the regiment was standing at \u2018Attention,\u2019 and in the presence of a large crowd of civilians, Col.Otter naticed a thirsty man in the ranks raise his water-bottle to his Jips.Hiding up, he shouted : \u2018Drop that Lottie.God damn your soul, don\u2019t you know better than that While we lay at Belmont for the first two months doing duty on the line, he impored uselese work and parades appar ently for the sake of epectacular effect, aking us the laughing-stock of the im- periai troops around us.Route marches were instituted, no doubt a gond thing for the hardening of the men.Twice these were started in the cool of the mornings.and were thoroughly sppreciated by the men.Then a change was made snd these marches started at 4.30 p.m., while the blazing eun was still high, finishing at eight p.m., just as the keen cold might breezes were coming on, and the men came in with every stitch of the only clcthing they possessed wet with perspiration, producing much discomfort and 1 have no doubt a large proportion of mickness.Representations of this had no effect in producing a change.We were kept busy for weeks digging a trench about the camp, and building & strong stone wall.This work wea not only condemned by General Sir Charles Warren as useless, but pronounced an actual death trap for the men inside it in case of an attack.Later, when forming part of the 19th Brigade, and doing hard work at the front.we afforded much amusement to the other regiments near us by the tedious barrack-room parading and routine we were put through, such being altogether eliminated by them while on se tive service.In fact, in all weye possible Co!, Otter thought it necessary to prevent his men getting any rest or comfort, even whan the always laborious and exacting duties of active service gave the opportunity.Dr.Barrie, the Y.M.C.À.representative.set up a large pavilion tent in which he provided writing conveniences for the men, This was promptly put out of bounds by Col.Otter, and punishments inflicted for going there, and J understand that Dr.Barrie had to apply to Lord Roberts for special authority *o continue his work with the reximent.A water cart accompanied the regiment on the march, which 1 can only remember being allowed to be of use on two occasions, although when halted for a rest we could daily ese the other regi: m « ir carts, and indesd on more than cocasion Ï have been allowed to fill bottle at another regiment'e cart aft near us refilling their water-bottles cha: ter being refused at our own.Thea a word as to anutber phase of Col, Otter's unique procedure.A good deal of mention h: made in reference to the dinner we \u2018enjoyed\u2019 last Christmas, and on which Col.Otter states he expended the sum of £130 sterling.About sixty chickens were given to the cooks fur the whole regiment of about 050 men.In our company, E, we had seven among lid.Certainly not more than 50 men 0.a minute fragment, with two spoon- fuin of p'um pudding, the latter, as we understard, beng a donation from Sir | minlug mar \u2018Thomas Jipton.Chickens could be bought at from 2¢ 40 24 64 each, and, allowing the widsat margin, it is bard to wc how this \u2018feast\u2019 could covt more than £0 Again, when on board the \u2018Sardinian,\u2019 suy one who had 24 to $5 to give up for it, could get a bottle of whiskey from ote of several of the ahrép'a company.A rin of Canadian distillers sent a present ol a quantity of bottled whiskey to the contingent, and it was this whiskey which was being sold.Any evening a number of intoxicated men could be seen about the ship, and yet, although much smaller oitences were rely punished, none of these men were ever called to account nor the apparently mysterious source from whence the liquor came traced up.Quite possibly Col.Otter could explain why lie made no effort to stop the sale, Now 1 think these incidents should suffice to show that Col.Otter was not the right man in the right place, t he®was not only tyrannical and unjust, but incompetent as a military commander.He did not show up any too well in the North- Wert campaign, and it is hard to see why he was selected in this instance.Before we reached Capetown he was as unpopular ss he could possibly be.He continued wo all through the campaign.When, after an engagement, the division general would ask him to thank his men for their services, he would do #0, but invariably added mome bitter comments of his own, which spoiled the of- fect on the men.He never seemed cape.ble of saying & kind and encouraging word to us, and entirely lacked that personal magnetism and nobility of charae- ter so essential to n military comm-nder in securing the respect and confidence of those under him.And he put the climax on the whole business when we were ordered home by the War Office, and he, without consulting the officers or men, wired to Lord Roberts that the regiment would willing: ly stay till the end of the war.A few weeks previously he addressed the regiment to the effest that our time was nearly up, and he had written to the authorities drawing their attention to the fact.and we could depend on his doing everything in his power to secure our release, as he knew most of the men liad business, ete., which required their presence home.Imagine our surprise and indignation, then, when his action became known, Had we been asked to do 00.1 am sure all would have willingly volunteered, but his tyrannical and inconsistent conduct wes resented by s direct refusal to stay, A and B companies, who were with him at Ersteo Fab- rieken, were induced to sign an agree ment to stay by the representation that all the rest had volunteered, and we very indignent when they found out ho they had been tricked.Ife alludes to General Smith-Dorrien\u2019s remarks about the good work performed by the 2nd R.R.and claims credit for his good administration, making a regiment equal to anythiog in the British army out of a lot of raw recruits.They were not quite so raw as he tries to make out, and if they have accomplished amything it i due more to the intelligence, seal and enthusiasm possesmed by the wen them: selves than to his good management.Thev would bave been so much better à had they had a proper commander, ote who knew how to make the most of the men\u2019s willingnean and looked after their comfort and welfare, Dy his methods he provoked a great deal more \u2018crime\u2019 than he prevented.In mv humble opinion what is wanted as commandant of the Royal Military College is n gentleman of proved ability and honorable character, who will ineul- cate principles of kindnem and consideration in his pupils towards those beneath them in rank, coupled with a strict ad.berence to duly.Such methode will produce better soldiers, and if Canada is to keep up her own army or send men to take commissions in the imperial army, they ehould have the most modern ideas of their profession, and these old ideas that the private soldier is nec: emmrilv, so far as mental power is concerned, only a little better than the dog, and must be treated worse in order to teach him his place, relegated, wiih the people who hold them, to the realma of oblivion.E COMPANY.\u2014\u2014\u2014 PUBLIC HEALTH IN ONTARIO.Toronto, Jan, 3.\u2014The figures nf deaths from coningious disease in Ontario for 1900, which have just been completed by the secretary of Provincia! Hoard of liealth, sce to amply justify the vig: orous precutions taken to safeguard the public health from smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid and other contegious and infec: tious diseases.The de in the death rate from chest disense since 1882, when the board went to work, is over sixty percent, and in 1800 there were tly 1,488 deaths from contagious diseases in Urtario.The most remarkable decrease is in diphtheria, This terrible scourge of childhood killed 1,788 children so late ae 1887, and the total number of dentha from it was but 500 last year.Tv isolation and the discover uf the enti- toxin remedy bave brought shout the nge.inet care bring taken in the treatment of comsumptives is \u20ac at carre | ! de THE MONTREAL MINING COMPANY PAILS London & Globe Finance Corporation Suspends Payment ROSSLAND AND B.A.COMPANY MAY NOT BE SEHIOUSLY AFFECTED.London, Dec.31.\u2014 The a sypieat by the London and (foi Corporation nsion oi Flaance &vnerally regarded (n tte as being the Liurkest day since the Haring smash, Friday's crisis, however, did nol extend to other markets, though ost of them were closvly depresasa.Americans were incidentally affected, owing tp suive of the fri which I Interested lu Awerican secur London and Globe, Is said to be terested lu the Maker Steeet-Waterioo El- ectrie Raliway, and the troublo ls partlat ly attributed to the money !t has tad uj ln that road.It has also Interests is Uritish Uolumbla couceri:a, and \u2018Le Ite: No, ¢ dropped from 23 to belsg unsalabi- at 4.The failed firm had mazy untowar-! circumstaores agaluet thew.They hat Uunexpectediy to imoet heavy calls from the banks at a time when to make fresh loau wus practically lwposaible.y of the Shares of the West Australian aad other Kroups were absolutely unsalable vi Saturday.Sluce Thursday Lake View: bavo lost five and & quarter.Uritish An.erican Corporation res were quoted un Thursday at 138 34: un Saturday they wer 10s, after being 6e.Loudon snd Globe shares fell frous 148 to Gs 6d; they are now 9s td.Although thers ls some ber vouspess in regard to speculative shares generally, lest the public should becu: alarmed, It ts thought that probably ti worst is known.LOK) DUFFERIN 13 CHAIRMAN, \u2018The chairman of the London snd Globe Fivance Corporation 18 the Marquis of Dufferin aud Ava, the former Govaruor- General of Canada and British Ambassador at Paris.He was preparing to start for South Africa on Saturday last, In company with Lady Dufferis, In consequence oi serious ilineas of his son.Lord Lufferin's feilow-direvtors are Mr.Whitaker Wright, who ls well kma&n In coanectlon with many compantes: Lleutenant-General the Hou.Somerset J.Uough-Calthorae, +ho has been colcneldn-chief of the KNfth Dragoon Guards eince 189% znd Lord Pelham Clinton, master of the Queen's household, and à son of the former Luke nf \\Yewcas tie.Lord Dufferin holds 5,000 whares of the London aad Globe and 20,000 J3ritish Americas.There Is great indignation against Mr.Whitaker.Wright, who is tue heat of tha concern, and others of the Lohdon and Globe group, and rumors that arrangement will be made to help the coarern out «?its difficulties are nut generally believed.\u2018The London and Globe Is a highly apecula- tive concern, which has mot with much adverse criticlam.The immediate trouble began in Lake Views, ona of the subsidiary corporations, WILL NOT INJURE ROSSLAND CAMP.«Rossiand, BC, Dec.29.\u2014The suspension of the London and Globe in London Jesterday caused considerable cacitement ere, but from the beat sources of fnfor- mation available !t 1x evident that it will pot affect the camp unfavorably.The London and Globe was formed as the par cnt company for Westralian companies, of which Whitaker-Wright was the leading epirit.It fa the parent company of the Dritish-Amerlean Corporation, which wez organized cn March 1, 1994, for tbe purposu of orerating ln Jirltiah Columbia miner with a capital stock of $1,500.00.It is the parent eorporation of the Columbla- Kootenay Mining Company, Rossland, the Great Western Mining Company.the North- pret Mining and Smelting Company, La Rol fo 1 Mining Company, and Le Rot 0.3.The sharcholders In the London and Ciobe bad the preference in the purchase of the shares of the No.2, aud the other past fotations made by the DB.A.C.In this way considerable stock In these com- poles is held by the stockholders in the ndon anil Globe.Defore the severat companies wera placed on the market, however, the B.A.C.financeered them.thst is to aay, it found the money to purchase and to put thera on & shipping basta.Tho B.A.C.received what money it advances ln this way, and & profit when the com- prnies were organized and their shares Élaposed at.Thess enmpanies are now all on their own bottoms, and are independent.They are being operated by the companies formed to run them, and are In no way affected by the fact that the London and Globe has suspended.Ever since the Wbitaker-Wrizht coup Is Le Rol No.2, in which the brokers who bought short were preity badly squeezed, a number of London brokers have been endeavoring to make a counter coup in or- er to get even.The London and Globe spent & considerable sum In the Baker Street and Waterloo Electric Ratiway.On Friday the annual meeting of the Le Rol Corapuny was held In London, and at this the aoncuncement was made that owing to the large sum required for development work, aad for the business plants put in.no dividend would be declared.This, it is thought, led to an onslaught on the London and Globe, which caused the suspension.MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN WITHDRAWS RESIGNATION.London, Jan.2.\u2014The Marquis of Duffer- in and Ava has withdrawn his resignstion of the chairmanship of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, limited, and tponed bis departure for South Afrira, n erder to meet the shareholders ad consider the position of the company.HAROLD FREDERIC DESCIIBED WHITAKER WRIGHT.It will be generally remembered that the late Harold Frederic's novel of \u2018The Market I'iace,\u2019 was understood at the time.of its appearance to vell under a guise of fiction tbe main events in the early career of Whitaker Wright and his connection with Lord Dufferin.\u2018The former Is called In the novel \u2018Stor.mont Thorpe.\u2019 He had started out In life as \u2018Joel 8.Thorpe.\u2019 but had dropped the \u2018Joel\u2019 and spelied out his middle name In full.Lord Dufferin masquerades as the \u2018Marquis of Cbaidon.\u201d This is how the financier 1s described: \u201cThorpe was tail, but of a burly and slouchiug figure.His face, shrouded In a igh growing, dust-colored beard, \u2018nvited © attention.Une seemed always to have known this face\u2014thick featured, Immobile, undistinguished.Its accessories for the time being were even more thay ordinar.arily unimpressive.Both balr and beard w re ragged with neglect.His common- piace, dark clothes looked as If he bad slept in them.The hands resting on his big knees were coarse in shaps, and roughened and fli-kept.\u2019 The first chapter opens with Thorpe fa conversation with Lord Plowden, a middie- aged nobleman, whose social connections be wished to utilise.He explaina that he as made hie coup, that he ls sure of being s wuitl-milllonnairs, that he offers to take Lord Plowden tn on the ground floor: \u2018You need money.\u2019 be says, \u2018and here it Is for ou.1 need\u2014whnt shall 1 say?\u2014a kind of Friendly lead in the matter of establishing myself on the right footing among 13 right people\u2014and that's what you can do for me.Mind\u2014I'd Faster to put it ali In quite another way: I'd like to say It wan ail niceness on your part, all gratitude on mine.But if you want to eonsider it on business basie\u2014why, there you bave it ectly plain and * s of Chalden\u2014's tremendous = WEEKLY WITNESS, ] .\u2014\u2014 DOS WRI RS Tired and Depresse Hundreds of young girls and women have to depend upon their own efforts to gain a livelihood, and there is no class more widely admired for their independence and pluck.whether it be behind the counter, in the office, the factory, or in the home, = = work means close confinement-often in badly ventil- There is a strain on the nerves; the blood becomes impoverished; the cheeks pale or sallow; frequent headaches; a constant tiredness; a rapid palpitation of the heart on slight exertion; perhaps wrinkles and a prematurely aged appearance.first symptoms are neglected it may lead to a complete breakdown and perhaps that most dreaded of all diseases-Consumption.Ir alias ated rooms.for this purpose are without an drop where I stood.erable.| \u2018 my appetite was so poor that I scarcely ate at ail did not help me, and then I decided to send for some of Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills.I got six boxes, and before I used them all T was as well as I had ever been, with a good healthy color, a good appetite and an entire freedom from the ailments that had made me so mis- You may be sure I will always have a warm regard for your invaluable medicine.\u201d But you must get the genuine, and only the genuine have the full name \u201cDr.Williams Pink Pills for Pale People\u2019 on the wrapper around every box.Sold by all dealers or sent by mail post But D! Williams Pink Pills for Pale People Their wonderful record of cures place them at the head of all medicines throughout the world.The use of these pills has made thousands of weak, ailing, despondent women and girls bright, happy and strong.equal.PROOF OF CURE.\u2019 Miss Emma Chaput, Lake Talon, Ont., writes :\u2014* I cannot thank you enough the good I have derived through the use of Dr.Williams\u2019 Pink Pills.that but for them I would now be in my grave.My face was as white as chalk, and if I made the least eflort to do any housework I would almost faint from the exertion, and my heart would beat violently so that I feared I would I was a great sufferer from headaches, and dizziness as well, and I tried several medicines, but A tonic is needed and My health was completely broken down.If the for 1 honestly believe paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing the Dr.Williams Medicine Co., Brockyille, Ont.diplotnatic swell, Ambasasdor at Vienna In his time, and Lord Lieutenant and ail sorts f things, but wiiling to gather in his Gve hundred a year just the esme'\u2014had agreed beard of directors.of this gentleman: and hair, and extremely courteous of man- nor\u2014a amail, carefully clad, graclous old gentleman, whuse mild, plak countenance had, with years ef suxisty about waya and means, deposed its) In lines which produced a chronle expression of solicitudes.A nervous affection of the erclida lent to this look, at Intervals, a beseschiog quality, which embarrassed the beholder.All men liked him, and bad spoken well of him throughout bis long and bard worked ca- rose There is not much of the Marquis In the story, which concerns Itaell mainly with how Thorpe fonts the Rubber Consols, through the aid of bia guiness pigs: bow his enemni attempt to bear the stock, and how he corners the market by buying in sll the shares offered, so that he owns nil the one hundred thousand, save only five thousand which had been subscribed for by bona fide parties.\u2018We've got what'a called à corner on the tears.\u2019 This Is how Thorpe describes a coup to his mister: They're caught short, and we can ajueers them to aur h-arta\u2019 content, What\u2014you don't underatend now?Why, ses here! These fellows who've sold twenty-six thousand of our shares\u2014they haven't got them to sell, and they can\u2019t get them.That ta the point\u2014they t get them for love nor money-they m ay me my own price for tbem.or be rulued men.e mo.they will bber ment they realize the situation ne The price of a £1 share will be #3; un offering a premium for Ru \u201cThe noble chairman was wits of beard | ten £4, £8, £10, £0, £30\u2014whatever | ; want to drive ft to.\" In point of fact, everything happens as he says.Thorpe\u2019s enemies are ruined, hie to accept de position of chairman of the friends enriched, he himself marries a rich Hare is a description and aristocratic wife, and the novelist leaven him planning sew schemes by which he may utilize the noble friends under Bons tables Lie is now privileged to spread » less \u2014\u2014\u2014 DECEMBER RENEWALS.Remember to have the renewal subscription to the \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 mailed in time.None better for the home, office, factory.See the special inducements for clubbing offers in another column.GRANDCHILD OF JOHN D.ROCKEFELLER DEAD.At the country home of Mr.John D.Rockefeller, at \" , John Rocke feller McCormick, the two-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs.Herald AM ick, and favarite no of the mi died on Wednesday in the mansion on Pocantico Hilla of scarlet fever.Mr, and Mrs, Rockefeller have watched the illuemn of their children with the greatest solicitude.No expenses was mared to save the child's hie.Mm.MeCormick's other child is dangerously ill, but it is believed that the crisis .To keep the disesse from ne emong the m \u2014 0 SEWING MACHINES 4e Factory Prices.Full set of steel attnde ments, ball bearts Diacutnee medio regard ofuntmeer price.Buy us and save agents\u2019, Gans = vassers' and < - profits, Prices frem $11.09 0 838.56.Call or for catalsgne, HOHERT DONALDSON & 2@N 2e Fonndilug Lt.mens Fish inclosed piazss below, so the trained burses could travel back and forth without going through the house.\u2014_\u2014 THE FOUNTAIN PEN.Everyones who hes seen the Post Four tain Pen Premium is delighted with One gentleman \u2018No sooner did t Se pen to pa thas, ] exclaimed Vhat a treat!\u2019 The Pet is a self-filler and eeif-cicaner, « 2 advan over inary fountain pos.This valuable pen can be had absolutely free by ending a list of only three new J subscribers to the \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 \u20182 one dollar each, or for fire renewal d scriptions to the \u2018Wi Witness\u2019 at ons dollar each.A subscriber sending ; à club of ten for the \u2018Weekly itm,\u2019 5 with 68, seouree the Post Founteia The pen is made in three styles, Fine, Medium and = \u2018World Wide\u2019 in liked eruyeus that sees rt, + = 7 18 BRITAIN WELCOMES \u2018BOBS.\u2019 An Earldom Qranted to the Popular General of the People and the Army.\u201cTHE STUBBORN BOER BURGHER FIOHTS ON.Progress of the Invasion of Cape Colony Loyalists Rise to the Occasion and Volunteer in Thousands, The opening century contained no.The British had evacuated Jagersfontein dawn of peace in South Africa, tivnera!! wid Faure Ll in Crange River Loluny, .mn 1ristimias uy, ad 19 rs enter Kitobensr was not in a pos:tion to hand ed sud took Porsension.The British over De Wett to the Briteb publie où | jutched their camp at Fudenburg, which New Year's day.lt is in some sense ; Le on the milan, and wil vot cat i the satue trouble as to supplies carmel donbiiud drew \u2014 really move! arrows the veldt.The habitants all been gress i rica ae to the Dutch rising.Martial | left with the Birtish.Lond Methuen it ve, said was acer br a re law procieimed an many Cape Colony at Veyburg, in the Transvaal je thou ab : sand troops had been went to hun from distriote, Boer ruders extending their\u2019 \\imberier, in onler to enable lim to raids further inte Cape Colony, War oui a blow at a Hoer laager that bu welcome given them by Dutch Cape resi-| been racing around Kuruman.The indents, and stories that the railway has| Yalug Boers of Unpe Coluny bad bre and tol h wi ; \u2018ken through the cordon at Zuurburg\u2014 telegraph wires tampered | whatever that may mean\u2014and wees the enemy sre all disquioting arching om Richmond, burning and fact appears to have been looting Le wey went 4 ; is ° ° M Cip- 0 town , cople.In summui of = ours of General Rie up the situation a Capetown despatch of down to De Aar Junction Jui.2 states that the advance of the in à few days in onder Jvers were at Marashurg, about thirty- {tive miles from Cradock.us snd eee | TC .Wey wi hs South African war news on Friday this ve es ne coul Wd not have conta one announcement of {mport- hundred miles in I ow days unicws the sace\u2014that there had been a pence com- district between Pretoria po De Aar | wittes of burghers formed in the middle -\u201d Jenction bad been vory well in hand ; 9 December, when it had a conference LL re er red it were | With Lont Kitchener, and resolved 10 for would e are Pat astent| do what ite members could to bring the ed J ting burghers to see that it was to fesns great den eme mit seattered their interest to lay down their arms.despa b .Land Kitchener promuæd that noue Jan.teh from Credock, Cape Lolony, of should be went out of the country, that maice that a detachment of entered Roudhugte, not far.of Middelburg, were bound Jor Graaf Reinet, a| r « and a popu- | of 8,000.yy reinforcements reached Midde'burg, and the tale: wires had been cu: between uit who had fought fairly ahould be treated conaderately.No more houses are to be burned unless the inhabitants are ieund to have lwen actively engaged against the British.The commmaion, of which Cronje\u2019s brother is a member, contially thanked Loni Kitchener, am sud to print the speech of the gen- southwest Tvon and Eomerset Wost and| ra Strin+ 2 (eral in Dutch and cwculate it.Bince\u2018 a né the M er we, ne A or the conference there has been more Boer telegram he nineteenth century from | ooo tian ever, it wouid appear.Generni K tchener.dated Pretoria, Dee.SI.9.36 pm.states that the eustern | body of the Hoors had crossed the railway at a point between Bangor and Bherborne, where they damaged the railway to some extent, General Kitchener expected troops under L'uionel \\WVilhama to get in touch w.th the Buers on Now EARLDOM FOR + BOBS.\u2019 HOW THE FIELD MARSHAL WAS RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN AND ROYAL FAMILY.Year's day.The western body were sean on the Carnarvon road, evidently TS .bound for Victoria West.They were] A despaich from Cowen, Isle of Wigh being followed by Colonele Thorneycroët says: \u201cLie «teamer \u2018Canada,\u2019 with Fiel and Delisle, and pribubly woud be t up and fouxht about Jan.3 The town corremondent of the Lon- den \u2018Duily Mail\u2019 under date of Jan.2.states that the invading force num: 8.000, and that it was the western that had most apprehension.had split into two columns, and was southwarda\u2014one party to Beau West, sad the other toward Mur.mybarg, a farming and lorse-breeding osntre, lying between Graal Reinet and ro ufort is the largest town that district of the Karroo, end is sonneeted by train with Capetown.The government has calied upon farm.| Marchal Lord Roberta on board, anchor- od off Usborne at 11.46 a.m.on Wednesday.; The sbips in the Roads were gaily dressed, the sea front was elaborately decorated with bunting and Venetian mass while festouns armed the route to Usborne House, at the entrance of which was erected a unique tnbute of | the Queen's appreciation of the Field | Maredku's work, in the shape of an arch ! of laurel.This was the first time much an arch had eer speared there in honor of any sub; er Majesty.A large Podicoures of ie awaited Lord Roberta's arrival at force It Tiny pies | ma to omgenise to Tepel the invasion and landing.The Fed Marahal = à Jolouial foros, net ee from she royal launch at 3.% p.my There were deajening shouts of welcome.invasion.They are to be paid five shil- Princess Beatrice.in her capacity as Mage per day and rations.Horses, exc, Ç.Ted Wight and the ave found for th idee.ye.Governor of the Lee ight, and t pi of the colony representing the @pouse in the eastern per: ! Duke of Connaught Queen, awaited Lord Roberts, whose arm proeuses ! ; in the 1 À rent.Hence e re = concehtrat.was still in a sing as a resuit of being # ing im that , says the correspon.thrown from his horse in South Africa.dant.One = success in 8 small He wae warmly greeted and the party started in royal carriages for Osborne House.The route was lined with troops and thronged with cheenng mghtacers.lanu Roberts stopped at the town hail of Euet Cowes, where eulogistic addresses of welvone were presented to hun.Replying, he said he regretted that hie return was not accumpumied by _immediate peace, But, while he feared hostilities would continue for some time, he had implicit confidence in Lord Kst- chener, and had no fear regarding \u2018ne micome.He concluded with a eulogy 0! the magnificent army of Great lin.tan, all the components of which pull was the espuare of fourteen men heditrs lorse, sig miles south-west .They had been drivin stock, at Weltervreden, an smmbered about 800 men.eral Knox was reported by Lord Kitchener to have bad some success in daling with De Wots force, having cantur five Jaz with supplies, some horses, and sx rounds of ammunition.He had rolessed also and permitted to go to their {arma \u2014_\u2014\u2014 A ; firmer at $2.00 to 83.f-coiors and heif- tia toolate AJB ELC I, Louden, Onl, Pai A 4% Soran \u2018alu.he common LIVE STOCK MARKET, JAN.7.rma subies PRE Vrac PS Roi property of Ino acres \u201cdiotaies | aie ae k to Seating In the mar- stock opened up 2%, snd immediately Pe- \u2018There were about 400 head of butchers\u2019 Mcuntain Railway, at 8 point ahout a mile WOODSTOCK EXPECTS IT.| ket continues and prices paid, even for the \u2018 d 160 nheep aoû Inmbe or so south of Sheep Creek Station.This 7 ly fuir, Oae ow sold at $48, the Kast Rnd Abattolr will send the ore direct of that section to [IRADQUARTERS OF BIG FURNITURE pnd this vas [he finit Sales were made a ! were present In con- Northport.AYNDICATE MAY DE ESTAB.an low as $29.Offerings were up to be 9 0 Aver ud the best animals went quick- LISHED THERE.Iy.Th rest weee very slow of sain, \u2014 Woodstock, Ont.Jan.7.\u2014Mr, D.H.Mel- Blheep and Laimbs\u2014Tbe market {ar sheep while the opening Pire in cattle, 1$ calv suddenly wiped out.offered for anle ai Northern Pacilic dropped by successive The bute! stages 3%.fod Atchizon pid.feu 3 ther ne Atle Bymbers, and there was à rs of the Pacific group, vanie demand an: tm prices paid for anythi Fu number of = caves at repped ocd, but the common stock were wot in orne ee uma EXCHANOE.a fraction to - , LT.: wire.Bugar ran also off over On 1 ee of kind oF beet nat ween\u201d whon Crow's Nest\u2014i0 at 6.drum, of Montreal, who is engaged In un- bas lnproved sud trade \"Expo sed con Dr, Percy's Anti-Cancer \u2018Tenn.Coal dropped suddenly nearly five (he prices were unusus'ly low.Prires at Fairview\u20143,000 at 3%.derwriting the kK for the hig furniture dition, Prices firm Export er a its.On the other hand, Dumber of common stock were decidedly higher to-day White Bear\u20144,500 st 414, 1,600 at 4%.syndicate recently formed, arrived In tows worth $3.35, and buck 6 Hr i dE ue Fovortant stocke opened with an upward than on Inst Thursday, but cales were very Rambler\u20143,000 at 37%.as 38, 10,000 at ON Saturday.and was joined by Mr.W, R.and bulchers bring 3300 to fau e done Cancer, Tamors Push !n the price.Deiaware and Hudeon slow.The best cattle sold at about 44e 17%- Hnbbn, of London.The two men are en- Lambs are higher at $350 to 64.20 per rwt Dltrares of the Brin.Buftersre are 18vited wm 4 He Plate, 34; an number por h.; pretty good beasts at from 3Ye to Big Three\u20141,000 at 1%.fred In Inapreting the Anderson furnitufa and v.(0 to 3 each Salen of fancy lets to pied It a trial.Yor sale vr , af Induatrisis n poînt or over.The opening early (ie.apd the common siock at from Faireien-1000 at 2% 1800 at 2X.factory.\" Hath wentiemen are large work: | wore Tine tofar wt $40 an $000 peo yy .ids .A.In St.Pasl was & higher.but it suddenly 240 10 3c per lb.Small bulle we He Th 1 2000 at 3.Acratood that they are in favor of the head 18e standart Thess pride bd éd Is very highly recemmended for the Reït Seroluis a in the new syndicate, and ft ie un- \"eut, hut the nedi nt norelg appreus relapsed 3.Îlenvy t taking was in «vi- bought by (hs cannara at about De per [LR .hy dence all throu the optni: Foi ore 00d the mart .D., Whits Hear\u2014400 at 4 office of the big syndicate being eetabilebed wo cinage 18 eslv They are active nu.i .sise \" to-day, ond \u201crte rand from 0 ; 000.* hare, etvaty ut to 810 sack.Country erfers prompity flied. THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.Jawoary 8, 1901 Basten of Wrens, montage and deaths mui incart ly bo onaerend wih (As name and address of he smder, o- stharadu so netics san be lobes of them Birth nimes are wnacrivd for Sie, marviags setises Aor Bs, death matiows for Ma prepebl Ths an nounesent af funerai appondré to dusk uoiicr, Sie autre; other amtanalon to vDituery, sash as short etd of 1A, two tenis por sword saura, aecept Povirp, whieh de 40 ornés per sine ectra\u2014propatl danual eubeerSders moty have announcrsints 9f Mirtha, mariages and deai\\e : withunt extended cbituary or wre} vosurting ta their tmmediais familiss, fre of eharge, in vwhich case mame ami otdv-es a7 eue eoribers should be givn.BIRTHS.DAVIDSON.\u2014On Dec, ?6, 1900, nt 088 Street, the wife of Wm.Ht.David- Antoin son.of a daughter.Quebec and Hroronto papers please ory - MERR.\u2014A: 60 Reaver Mall Hill, on Jan.1 WL, a daughter to W.J.awd Mrs.Kerr METCALFE \u2014 At 32 Arlington avenus Westmount, on Nec.31, 1900.daughter to Mr and M°s.H.D».Metcalfe.: YOUNG \u2014 At \u2018The Cedars.\u2019 County laval, on New Years Day, Mr, and Mra, J.À.Young, à sou.MARRIED.ANGLIN\u2014BAKER \u2014Uu Dec.31, 1900, at the E.Church, Ann Arbor, Mich, by bir, E 8.Nirrde, Francis Robert Anglin to Minnie Agnes, du er of Mrs.Mary Baker.buth of Kingston, Unt.ARMBTRONG\u2014SCUTT\u2014AL the residence of the bride's parents, Lacbute, Que., by the Rev, N.Waddell, BI%, on Dee.28, 1900, Mr.James Armstrong Scout.BURNETT \u2014 LENNIE \u2014 At th of the brid purents, New Westminster, B.C., on lec.i9, 190, by the Rev.Robt Le: U.D., assisted by the Rev.J.M.A, and the Rev.Thos.corge Jennings Burnett, of Victoria, B.C.musiclan, und Îtosubella Jaue Lennie, second daugbier of the of- Sclating minister.3 BUTLER\u2014BARNES.\u2014On Dec.31, 1900, at the parsonage of the M.E.Church, Rome, to 1 rentden: Hcoutar, N.Y, by the Kev.4.Dowson, Harry Butler, of Detroit, Mich, to nice 1B.Uarnes, of Home, N.3 CAMPUELL\u2014PLAYFAIR.\u2014On Jan.1, 1901, at Playfair's Mills, the dvuve of the bride's father, W.A.Playfair, q.Lavant, ont, by the Rev.John Fowken Mr.Tohu D.Campbell, of Wood lay, Manitoba, to Misa Maggle L.Playfair, of Lavant, Ont.3 CAMPDELL \u2014 COCKADE \u2014 In Kingston, Ont, on Jan.2, 1901, at the resud ot Mrs.Will Cockade, corner Ann and Vine streets.by the Rev.J.K.Mac.morine, W.J.Campbell to Miss Ellza- beth Cockade, both of Kiugston.4 COUSANE\u2014BAWLEN-\u2014On Dec.V1, 1960,by the Rey, J \u20ac.Wilson,ut the residence of the bride's father, Mr.l\u2019arker H.Cou- wae, of Frankford, Ont, to Nellle, the reangest daughter of Mr.Wm.ilawden, of Brighton, Ont.CUNNINGHAM\u2014HARMER\u2014On Jan.1,18], at 18 Catherine street, Toronto, by the Rev.J.A.Turnbull, A.LL AH, Mr Edward Cunningham, of the Dominion Ronk, to Miss Jeune Harmer, buth of Toronto.3 EWING \u2014 WEIR \u2014 At Walkerton, Ont.,on Jan.1, 1900, Harry Eldon Ewtog.of Wark- worth, Ont, sou of the late Chas.EE.Ewing, collector of Her Majesty's Customs, Cobourg, to Margaret Jeau, daugh- ter of Andrew Weir, Esq.Walkerton, Ont.Gonvi MOXLEY.\u2014On Jan.1, wo at the residence of the bride's father, York strect, Kingston, Ont, by the b Lennox, W.11 Godwin, ar, to M g.08 M.Moxley.GREY- JAMIESON.\u2014AL the residence of the bride's father, 382 Coucesaion street, Otwews.on Jan.1, 1901, by the Rev.AN.Frith, Alfred Grey, ef Metcalte, Ont.to Eva Isabella, Jarateson.Esq.HANNA \u2014 MrLATCHIE \u2014 At the residence of the bride's parcnts, West Tem- pleton on Jan.1, 1901, by tac Rev.Henry Young.of Chelsea, assisted by the Itcv.W.A.Hania, of Manotick, Hanna, dentisi of Kemptville, Margaret.youngest Mrs.Richmond McLatchie.4 HART \u2014 MEEHAN \u2014 On New Year's Day, 180, at the restience of the father of the bridegroom.Mountain Villa, Outremont, by the Rev.AL.Therrien, pastor, of .L'Eglise L'Oratoire, Frederick itohert \\.Hart, fourth son of Wm.T Ifart, Exq., and grandson af the late John Hart.of \u20ac.Prangioy & 5 manutasturing ehemints and druggists, Salisbury, Wilts, Ecgland, to Ethel Laura Mechan, of Montreal.Nu cards.Londen.Salisbury, Dublin, Chicago and New York papers please copy.VENDERSON WHITESIDE \u2014 On Der.27, 1900, bi Rev.W.Major, at the residence of the bridc\u2019s parcuts, St.John street, Caanington, Ont., Helena Harriet\u2019, eldest daughter of W.1.Hoyle, Esq, M.P.P., to Walter Henderson, N.U., Qu'Anpella Station, N.W.T.MOCHBEHG \u2014 NEWMAN \u2014 At M0 Me- Leod sireet, Ottawa, on Dec.29, 190, .by ths Rev.W.Tmberluke.Hermon Edmond Hochberg, to Mina Matilda Ney- man, bath of Ottawa.JARDINE\u2014RAMSAY.\u2014On New Years eve, 1900, at the residence of the bride's broth- e-in-law, J.H.Wood, 101 Dorden stre.t, Toronto, by the Rev.J.W.Pediey, Mr.Geo.Jardine, son vf J.G.Jardins, Le Ontarto Worid'a Fair Commissioner, Parle Exposition, to Miss Helen Louise Ramsay.youngest daughter of John J.Ramsay, all of Toronto.3 Gien ont, to gré ADVERTISEMENTS.Torturing Disfisuring Humours ftching, Burning, and Scaly Eruptions of ths Skin and Scalp with loss of Hair Complete External and Inter nal Treatment by Cuticura THE SET Consisting of CUTICDRA SUP, to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales aud soften the thickeped cuticle, CUTICURA Olntment to Instantly sliay lichipg, irritation, and inam- mation, snd soothe and heel, and CUTICURA RESOLYENT to coul and cleanse the blood.À Grmous BE?19 oftan aufficient to cure the most torturing, Mafiguring skin, scalp, and Wood humonrs, mabies, itchibgs, and irrita.tone, with jos: of balr, when the best phys.= and all other remedies fal), EL SPIE STD i Ste.Rose, to Miss Emma LI daughter of Wm.A | daughter of Mr.and MACKINNON \u2014 BRICK \u2014 On New Year's Day, 1301, at the residence ot the bride's Street Methodist Church, Jahn M Kinnon, o° Troy, Ghiv, eldést son ot I.J.Mackiunon, of Grimsby, to Alice Maud.youngest daughter of B.Brick, of To- route, 4 MclOUGALL\u2014MeDONALD.\u2014AL Bt.Aune de Prescott, by the Rev.A.McCallum, P.A.Molougall, of Brudie to Miss Surah Jane, daughter of Me.Thomas Mebouatd.MeLEOD-McURIMMON.~At the manse, Alvxandria, Ont, by Rev, David Mac Larcn, Murdoch Melewd, of Alexandria, to Margaret McCrimmon, of Vankleek Hu, Ont.6 NESIITT \u2014 MELDRUM \u2014 At the rest- dence of the bride parents, Cimon t, Gaz, où lier 25, 1900, Joseph Ward N Litt, uf Chesvtville, to Carre ® Mot.drum, daughter of Alex.J.Metdram, Es.Ree of Winchester, by he Kev.CoB.Macleod, wf Ormond.- NICHIOL MeCOLL - On Dee.XI, 140, at St Andrew's Church, South Westnun.| ster, by the Rev.Ir.Meltse, asststist by the Rev.FF.O hol, brother ut the © groom, ileden Blanche, «eldest daughter of Duncan Metall, Esq, of nwarth, Ont, to I'r.Wm H.Nichol, of the same pisser !REA \u2014 IRELAND \u2014 On Jan.2, 1901, at St.Simon's Church, by the Hev.E.J Wuoë, Harry 3, sevoud son of the late Wm N.Rea, of Lludnay.to Liban Nello, i fifth daughter of James 11.Ireland, Toroato.RENTON\u2014-SKENE -On New Year's Day, 1h, a0 \u201cThe Muples.\u2019 ghe resldonce of the tride\u2019s father, by the Rev Jus Skene, of Vhitsdale, brother cf the brule, asssted by the Tov.T.Ruth, LEA, of Johnson, at Rev W.Graham, of lternoch, Anute Fra- ot ser, liegt daughter of Mr Gvorge Skebe, Latonia, to Mr Jiuma Ellots Reaton, of | Egremant.Ont 5 Lane PRETTIE \u2014 On Tec, 31, 1800, at | \u201cihe restiterce of the heeles father, by } the Rev.A.11.MeGHlllveay, Mr 1 W, Rid.of Newhaven, Conn, tn Misa LL, Winnifred, daughter of Me M.Prettie, Newmarket, Unt 4 SHAW \u2014 slaw On Dae.26, 1900, at rhe residence of the bride's father, Merton Out, ty the Rev, Dr.Nirongmun, asaisted by th.Rev.M A.=t brother of the bride, of Thomas Shaw, Wallaceburg, Ont.WIIITEHEAD POPE \u2014 On Dee 23, 1900, at the Church of St.Mary Mand.Toronto, by the Rev Chartes à Hung, M.A llirhard Wilioie< Whitehead, te Gertrude Ethel, younost duughier of 1 ut sbnw, the late Alexander d'o] Esa, of Que- | tee CILSON \u2014 CAMERON ~ Ar \u2018he restlence | of the bride's father, cn 14 , lue, by the Res.Whillans, Willan tucland Wilson, te Sarab Sophta, ater of Loik of Geargetows, Archibald Cameroa, Que.DIED.BAKER \u2014 At the old home.Sawyerville Que , on Jan.191, of pusumonia, Li.MN Gillies, æ of the li c.fa OU M l'ertneuf, Que, on k lishop, sun, in his Tith At Durham, South Grey, Oat LIM, after forty-five rears\u2019 res Charles Cam: , Muose Cri ou Jan.dence in Canada, the H eron, formerly of Pricevil and Armow.CAMPHELL \u2014 At Cornwall, Ont, ou Jan I, ul, Erscst, infant sou of Mr.an! Mrs.I.E.Campbell 4 COCKHURN.- In this city, on Jan.2, 1941, f a short iliness of pneumonia, Cll t Scott, eldest and deariy bel of John Willams Cockburn, ag 1 years.Gttnwa.New York and Valparaiso (Ind papers please copy.3 | DE GROSHOIS \u2014At 163 St.Andrew etre: Ottawa, on Jan 1, 1801, after a leng 1.fm.de Grosbois, bis 4th yen \u2014 At Toronto, on Jan.2, 1901, | Joshua Denovan.LL.D, tn\u2018the 7ist year of his age, for many years puis- 4 tor of immasuel Baptist Church, At the remdence of her sinter, .712 hament street, To- tonto, on Jan.3, 181, Mrs.Mary (lion, late of Port erry.5 EDEY \u2014 At her late residence, Eardly Read, Aylmer, : on e 31, 1d, Margaret Taylor, widow of the late Nelson Kidry, aged 67 years and 6 months.FENWICK \u2014 At his late residence, 120 Kink iret east, Kingston, Ont, où Jai 3, 1961, T, M, Fenwick, M.0., nged years.cidest aon of the late George v Feuwiek.| FOSTER \u2014 At his late residence, 994 Dor- cheater treet, on Jan.©, 14H, F.Stuart Foster, lu bis 4nd year.FOX \u2014 On Jan.5, 181, at 3% St, Urbain street, Edyth~ Gladys, dearly beloved bild of Mr.Charles J.Fox, aged 2 years and one month.FULLER \u2014 At 483 MacLaren street, Ot.tawn, on lic.19, Caroline Anne, widuw «f Thouwu Fuller, late govern- ment architect, to her Tith year.GRANT.\u2014At Kingston, on Jan.1, 190, Jessie Lawson, wife of Principal Grant.3 HALBERT \u2014 At the Civic 1Tospital, on Doc, 31, 19m, John, eldest son of Thos.Hulbert, aged 4 years and & months.HARVIE ~ At Dalry, Ayrshire, on Jan.3, 1941, in her Mth yeag, Jaret Semple, re- ltet of the lute Robert Harvie, mother of Mr.Nobert Harvie, of Lrodie & liarvie.INGILS \u2014In thin city, on Jao.4.191, Martha Waugh, beloved wife of George W.luglls, nged 28 rs.Indianapolis ( + papers please copy.TRONSIDE Suddenly, Christmas Eve, 1900, at the Bee live, Sault Hte.Marle, Ont.Mary.third daughter of the Inte Captain George Ironside.JAMIERON \u2014 On Oct.11, 1900, at the re- aidenre of his san-in-law, Dr.F.J.Gor- ton, Portage, Wis, the Rev.Edgar Ja- mieson, a native of London, England.aged 73 years and 6 months.1 JARDINE \u2014 Suddenl me bis residence, lavenport road, lr; 20, 1800, Alexander Jardine, bre The Pure Goid Manufacturing Company, in Lis 63rd year.2 LANCTOT-In this city, on Jan.7, 1301, at 12 o'clock, Therotrine Lanctot, proprietor of St.James Hotel.LEMON \u2014 & Morden, Manitoba, on Dec.23, 190, ne, beloved wife of H.Lamon, AL lnw, In her 43rd year.MACMARTIN.\u2014At Bt.Andrew's, Que, on Jen.3, 1801, Mary Martin, widow of the lata John MacMartin, aged 84.MARSTON.\u2014At bis late residence, i\" Alexander atreet, Toronto, on New Year's Any, Wtilara Pbillp Moreton, aged A ycatn.Me KELL \u2014 Al Belvedere, Neb., on Nov 0, 1 Bertha Condle, wile of the late Nostra MeKell, formerly of Eugil River, Howick.= COLONIAL HOUSE .Montreal.& : GREAT AHUAL : CLEARING BIG DISCOUNTS ON MANTLES.discounts : LADIES\u2019 LADIES LADIES\" CLOTH JACKRETS., CLOTHE CAPES |.VELV JACKETS GOLF CAPES | \u201c ULSTEUR \u201ceen VELY CAPER Chill ERERERE ER During the month of January we offer the stock in this department at the following ÊRS and LONG CLOA Ks .LADIER AND MISSES\" CLOTH SUITS, \u201c tan .Le LAE LADIES .| LADLE ING JAC KETS .LADIES Tl.DRESSING JACKETS.ONE LINE HEIMTONETTES i355 RUBBER WATERPROOFS .5, And 5 percent Sail Mail Orders Receive Careful Attention.& PERE RING SALE.BE ERE OFF .OFF UFF LC.OFF .UFP .OFF OFF OFF .OFF * OFF ns.FN 3 A) = [a] & rl) HENRY MORGAN & C &CO.a MONTREAL.= AEE ro dl rE Te Tr bans vards u pine to FREE wiivervid cane, vera pures 5 Ind vursers \u20ac MeHAE.\u2014At \\Woile Island, near Kingston, on Dec.31, 1900, James H.McRae, aged #5 years.3 ; MORETON Pr On Dec.10, 1900, at No.8 Upper Clapton, Lon- in bia 6th year.the Rev.n du n, formerly 8.P.G.ML slouary in Newfoundland, Tolonial Chap- Jaiu at Labuan, and at Venang, Stral's Sertl , afwrwurds vicar of Saltash.MORISON-\u2014Cn Jan.1, 1901, suddo eniy beloved child of and Anale CU.Morison.\u2014 On Dec.29, 2900, Dr.David lee, Thornbill, Ont, xianidsun of The late Lr.lucombe, Waterford, Ont \u2014 At his [ate residence, Walnut wo, Griusby, Ont.1901, iy Kobipson Ne 2 years PERRY \u2014At Leonoxville, Que., on Jan.§.frabeh, wife of 8.W.\" Perry, ated PHILLIP: At New York, on Jan.4, suddenly, 13enry Stanley Phillips, necond san of the late William Edmond Phillips, of Montreal RONERTEON.\u2014At Locust Grove, Morris.burg.Ont, Guy Robertson, aged 72 years, father of Mrs.Wm.Armstrong, of this ty.3 ROSS \u2014 At Hopetown, Que.1800, John Wesley.only and son of Johu I).and Brrtle year, 6 mouths and 13 SADLER.\u2014At (ho residence of her son, William Sadler, on Dec.39, 130, Rhoda Radler, ged 75 years and \u20ac months, 3 SANDERSON -\u2014 On Jan.1, 390t, at the residence of Mr.Itobt Stanley, Howman- ville, Ont.Margaret Jane 8huter, belov- «d wite of John Sanderson, jr., Toroato, aged 46 years BEL In Kingston, Ont.on Jan.1, 1901, Mannahb Snow, relict of the late Samuel Sell, aged 64 years.1 SMITH \u2014 At 248 Bishop street, on Tuesday morning, Jan.1901, from pneumonia, after a short land patnfut Iliness, borne with great patience, Jessic, beloved wife of Lr.A.Lapthorn Smith, In the 3sth year of her age.on Dec.à Ty beloved aged 1 BMITH \u2014 On New Year's Day.1901, tn bis 7415 year, Miles D.Smit of the firm of W, lHowe Brolth & Co.nd formerly of St.Jon.N.B.Ll thin city, suddenly, on Jan, 4.01, Lirutenant Leouard Fleming Smith, of Laprairic.BTEVENSON \u2014 Que.on At Wakefield, Dre.9, 1300, Abigal, beloved wife of Mr Jamen Stevenson, and eldest duughter of Mr.Luther KEdey, of Aylmer, Que.4 TINK \u2014 on De\u201c.31, 1900, at her son'a re- ton street, N.F., Ot sty Jane Bray, relict of t Tink, aged $82 yo WALTON.\u2014On Jao.1, 1901, at 31 Sim avenue, Toronto, Gertrude Lavinia Wai- tn, aged 9 ycars and 7 months, beloved and ony child of David and Lavina wa ton WINDSOR.\u2014Of typhois fever, on Der, n at Deaconess ore Ta: Grand Forks, Da: a Albert Windsor.of burs, one 9 full size, warranted a correct time k sn.FRE flue gold chain BR, ra.Unsold PIX John Bmith, aged 63.son of the late\u2019 WATCH AND CHAIN, for selling + ot our rolled gold Beauty plus.«ix # card.They sell cnslly.Open face Ol'HER PRESENTS FOR SEK NE RING OR LADIES 1; 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Port Dover, on Lake Erle, 4 miles.avoir t» THOS.R.NELLES, Simcoe, na 19 VIRGINIA FARMS FOR SALE eighhors, schiols and churches, goare- \\ healthy \u201cmate Low prices and easy terms.Write for free RH CHAFFIN à \u201c0 08 rae, Richmond, Va.Live Stock.FOR SALE, SHORTHORNS AND AYR- shires; choleo young stock of both sexes; also barred Plymouth Rock Fons.WHITE 6! BROS., O8., Perth, Ont GUERNSEYS.This 1s the Suiry breed for ordinary farmers.Large, vigorous, and hardy, giving plenty vf rich milk.Several fine young ulls for sale at very reasonable prices.A few helfers can be spared.Address SYONEY FISHER, Eggs and Poultry FOR SALE, TEN BARRED ROCK COCKerels, at $1 each; four pullets und one cockerel, not related, 35; four Black Miu- orcas Single Comb Cockerols at $1 each: a fow hena; sstisfaction guarsoteed.J.ARTHUR, Auburn, \u20ac Ont FOR SALE.CHEAP, A TRIO OF WHITE Wyandottes, porc Stock; have no room; also 8, C.White Leghorns.C.A.BEAL, Jr., Perth, Ont.2 BROWN LEGHORN AND WHITE ROCK Cockerels: none better; clear at $t each.J.C.TEMPLIN, Fergus, Ont.ANATHAN POULTR EVIE ron.te, Ont.Hest pouitry paper published.Departments for \u2018Turkeys, Ducks and Goese,\u2019 Artificial Incubation,\u201d (ronducted by a \u2018Practical Poultry, QILNERT.manager Ottawa), \"Poultry Ail- ete, cte.b6c year, 3 years, a 00.Sample tree.ê mere Entertainments \u201cGiven.R.McGLAUGQHLIN, ELOCUTIONIST AND Humorist, open for conrert engagements.Lesanns giveu in ad'anced elocutlon, à44 Lagauchetiere street.Wanted.mm TBACHERS AND ÉTUDENTS\u2014WANTED, In nur school district throughout Cau- at up clubs ly Wit.ph sekly Witn 4 \u2018Northern Messenger 8end for e coplès and eireular.Address JOHN DOUGALL & .BON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal.WANTED, BOUND VOLUMES OF THR \u2018Witness\u2019 of any period.Address.JOIN DOUGALL & SON, \u2018Witn Montre: Situations Vacant.BOY WANTED, TO ASSIST WITH fenoral farm work.Address ox 143, Huntingdon, Que, Employment Wanted.WANTED, BY STItONG, EHGETIO yourg Sentehtnan, situsilon as conchman of groom; thor ughly understands horses; sendy and ili: Rood references.Ade dress, mating dut and salary, IN- VERNESE, \u2018Witness\u201d Offre, Montreal.aan 1 Instant taller foal curein 8 fev apy ver Tota h 80 PILES I rr on free.Addr C, Kew Yori NV.\u201d © THE \u2018WEEKLY \u2018WITNESS\u2019 published at the \u2018Witneas tho corner ¢t Craig and Bt.Peter atw., tn che city \u2018of Montreal.by John Red = Dougall and Frelerick Eugene 8.0, beth of Montres! 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