The argus, 4 novembre 1905, samedi 4 novembre 1905

[" PFR A=129 Price 8 Cents @® À Cyl HENRY DALBY EDITED ay PUB:ISHED BY TELEPHONE: © Mein 2973.\u201cThe Argus Publishing Co.Ltd.180 SI.JAMES STREET.MONTREAL _ \u2014_ \u2014 \u2014_\u2014 _ _ =\u2014-=\u2014-=-\u2014-=- - - - Anaual City .-$3.80 Vel II, No.J Subscription | Canada and Elsewhere in \u2014 m\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 -\u2014 Montreal, Saturday, November 4, 1905.\u2014 CITE 00 oo - ® % DN ¢ _ 2% 4 ds ?Ÿ ad) eee 3 - MR.WILLIAM B.POWELL. 2 THE ARGUS.Che Firgus Published Weekly by THE ARGUS PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED, 180 St.James Street, Montreal.Prick Five Cents.Annual Subscription, free of postage, in Montreal .$2 50 Elsewhere in Canada and the United States.eeecaes 2 C0 Editor .cover csco sence catecesavesssanes esses HENRY DaLBY.SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1905.The Rev.Hugh Pedley is reported as saying : \u201cI do not know, but what we should have classes in our schools to receive instruction how to intelligently read the newspapers.Part of the soil in which corruption thrives best 1s that of ignorance.\u201cThe reading of a newspaper should be second only to the reading of the Bible.The press tells us what men arc doing, what wrongs are going on, what issues are before us, what work we have to do to raise the standard of our citizenship.It is because wc arc so ignorant often of what is going on that we are so useless in opposing corruption and immorality.\u201d + » * * There is more in the suggestion than appears on the surface.Some of the daily papers are so wonderfully made that it really requires a special education to read them with any advantage.* + = * I am afraid, however, that neither a Sunday school class nor a \u201cday school\u201d class would be of much use unless taught by a practical journalist.* » + » To separate the truth from the lie; the genuine from the fake; the correct from the incorrect; the moral from the immoral; really requires a spccial training.LA *® * * If Mr.Pedlcy were to carefully examine the advertising columns of somc of our great family journals, I belicve he would tell his class that the only safc way for them to rcad these papers would be with their eyes shut.* * » + Mr.George Washington Stephens, M.P.P, declares himself in favor of the province, having a Minister of Education.There can bc no question about the wisdom of this recommendation.At present it is practically nobody\u2019s business to promote the progress of education in the Province of Quebec.To be more precise, it is the business of a council principally composed of parsons which mcets four times a year for a few hours cach session.Mr.Justice Hall has been making some timely remarks about the jury system.He favors the abolition of the grand jury and the restriction of the right of trial by the petty jury.+ * * + I have long been of the opinion that the jury system as it now works docs infinitely more harm than good.It is the cause of the greatest injustice \u2014es- pecially to the jurymen.: * + * » When we read of the abdication of the Czar being \u201ccomplete\u201d and arc told that \u201cthe old order has changed,\u201d it is well to remember that thc mass of the Russian people must pass through many stages before they can acquire that freedom and self-government which is possessed by the western nations.The Czar is merely the name for a system and by no personal act of his own can he abolish the autocracy of which he has proven a weak figure head.* + * * There have been \u201cImperial Assemblies\u201d and \u201cSobirs\u201d in the past, as we arc reminded by an extract from the biography of Dr.Giles Fletcher, the English ambassador at St.Petersburg, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and as Count Witte himself truly says, no paper constitution can suddenly put 150 millions of people of the miscellaneous character of these who make up the Russian Empire in possession of such a system of parliamentry government as will be an effective check upon the trained aristccratic and official classes.x kk x It is even too carly to say that a strong minister has actually succeeded a weak Emperor in the con- trcl of the national concerns and the continued censorship of the public press is not a good omen for the promotion of that unity among the reforming clement itself which must be a preliminary to any radical change in the methods of administration.+* * * + If Count Witte can control the communistic element, and at the same time enlist the active cooperation of the university and business element in Russian society \u2014plus the sympathy of the army -he will go down to history as a great man, but he needs all that support to enable him to lay thc foundations of constitutional Government.* * » * The power of the Greek Catholic Church is also a factor to be reckoned with, retaining, as it does, the faithful allegiance of the great mass cf that Russian peasantry which has as little in common with the inhabitants of such cities as Moscow, St.Petersburg.and Odessa as had the inhabitants of provincial France with the communists of Paris in 1871. THE ARGUS.3 Such a revolution as the extreme party in Russia desire 1s not likely to be brought about without bloodshed.In England, Magna Charta marked the dawn of liberty, but not until the wars of the Roses had .destroyed the power of the nobles, and Cromwell had limited the prerogative of the sovereign, was thz way paved fer the mere peaceful revolu- tons which fcllewad.It was not until the passing of th> Refcrm Bill of 1381 that the people of the -L'nited Kingdom can be said to have attained real pe litical control.* * x + Fer the moment it will be most interesting to watch the cffect which the new situation will have upon international relations and whether any well- known Russian military leaders are drawn into the political arena.A Napclecn or a Cromwell 1s need- «A to preduc» great practical results in a short time.* + * * The Earl of Aberdeen was one of the pall bearers a: the tuneral of Henry Irving.Both the earl and the countess are becoming more active figures in social and political life, and when the rext ad ninistration 1s formed, our late Gov- erner-Goreral 15 by general consent slated fer high office.* + * * In Torcnto the othr day a newly arrived 1m- migrant was reported to have sad that in most English cities there were 60,000 men walking about idle.Judging by the figures of the \u201cLabor Gazette.\u201d and the Board of Trade rcturns, this was = very wild statement; the shipbuilding and cotton industries have not been so active for vears, and generally speaking it is the unskilled laborer and the agriculturist who are thz principal sufferers at present.* * * * The Germans have lost mere than 1,700 men killed in South West Africa, and, up te date, the campaign has cost them over $60c00,000.More rein- fercements arc going out and altogether German comments upen British incapacity in the Boer war arc now at a considerable discount, even in Germany.* * LJ * The National Liberal Campaign Fund of the party federation which was started two years since has now reached $209.000, out of the $250,c00 aimed at.Considering that the Libe-al party will contest over 500 svats at the coming clection, this sum compares very faverably with the lavish electoral exposes in the United States.* ® * - The fi-m of W.H.Smith & Son, which since 1851 has had the monopoly of the book and newspaper business at all the principal railwav stations in the United Kingdom, has lost its contract with two «f the leading railway companies which will henceforward have a direct interest in the profits.* * * * The present head of the firm is the son of that Mr.W.H.Smith, who succeeded Sir Stafford North- cote, afterwards the Farl of Iddesleigh, as leader «fthe House of Commons, and whose painstaking conscientiousness won for him from the Irish party the sobriquet of \u201cOld Morality.\u201d e e e + When our energetic Minister of Marine 1s in England, 1t is to be hoped he will see the new graving docks at Southampton and Dover; the former is over Soo feet long, with go fect breadth and is the largest «f six in that port alone.Unfortunately when a prominent Colonial Minister visits the United Kingdom, he is rarely shown that attention which policy as well as courtesy should dictate.Considering the recognized supremacy of Britain in maritime matters, there are a score of the latest improvements in dredges, wrecking plants and other mechanical appliances, an examination of which would be of interest to him.1 hope the great shipbiulding and engincering firms on the other side will make up for the notorious slackness of gevernmental and local authorities in their reception of such a guest.+ * * * The presence of a Canadian expert during any visits he contemplates making to the great shipping ports and harbors might also add to the enjoyment and profit which I hope he may derive from his contemplated tour.* * » * Years ago William IL.Seward, one of the most famous forcign ministers of the United States, said : \u201cHenceforth European commerce, European politics, European thought and European activity * * * will relatively sink in importance, while the Pacific Occan, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond will become the chicf theatre of events in the world\u2019s great hcreafte-\u201d * e * * Mr.C.M.Hays ovidently endorses this carly prophecy and anticipates that Canada will, and in x very few years, be as keenly interested in trans- Pacific as she now is in trans-Atlantic trade.* » - * We shall have to build a navy of our own very soon unless we arrive at some clearer understanding with the Admiralty; the expansion of our over-sca 4 THE ARGUS.trade will take Canadian cargoes into onc of the way ports where the naval police protection of à powerful navy will mean a great deal.J * + * The suggestion that the shipbuilding industry of Canada should be again built up by an elaborate system of bounties comes strangely from the mouths of prominent Liberal organs.The experience of the United States in shiphuilding does not give much encouragement to this method of establishing a new industry.* * + + Not since the construction of the St.Louis and St.Paul, ten years since, have United States shipbuilders made any attempt at rivalling British and German shiphuilders.\u2018Fhe material used im their war vessels is largely imported, and both the cost and time occupied in construction are terribly out of proportion to the expenditure cither in public or private vards in the United Kingdom.» » » * lord Grunthorpe has left an estate valued at over $7.500,000 and he is the third English millionaire, whose will has been proved this year.Sir Robert Jardine, the East India merchant, died worth $0,000 000, and Mr.Cook, of the celebrated dry goods firm in S.Paul's Churchyard left over $0,000,000.These, however, are trifles when compared with the testament of the late Baron Rothschild, who bequeathed over $25,000,000 to charity as one of his legacies, » » + * There has been some sneering at Mr.Balfour as holding on to office for the sake of its emoluments by journalists who seem ignorant of the fact that he inherited a property which brings in three times the amount of his official salary.I do not know of one member of his cabinet who can be said to depend upon his income as a minister, and there are few prominent men in the commercial world who work as continuously and laboriously as a cabinet minister docs, either here or in Britain, for so little remuncration.Such critics evidently have no use for men who serve the State for honor; they prefer what they call grafters.Such as a poor man is more apt to become when subject to the temptations which constantly assail the cabinet minister or the officers of a great corporation.» .* * The \u201cLondon Daily News\u201d which has made itself notorious by its attacks on the Chamberlain family, alleging that they have been using their political influence to get Government contracts for the Nettle- folds, has had to publish an abject apology.HD.\u2014\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or profession.Read the display advertisement of the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy.in this issne and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telc- graphy and be assured a position.Twentieth Century Theology.By HENRY DALBY.CIIAPTER IIL (Continued.) JOSHUA AND THE SUN.The narrator of the stupendous miracle in confirmation of his story asks: \u201cIs not this written in the book of Jasher?\u2018So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about : whole day?\u201d The appeal to the book of Jasher 1s suggestive of an historian who 1s dependent upon some previous writer for his sources of information.For all | know the book of Jasher may have been epic.It 1s 1mpossible to tell to what extent the various books of the Old Testament as we know them are compilations from manuscripts of older date or even the collocations of oral traditions.The mere expression by Joshua of a hope that he might complete his victory before night-fall when rendered into poetry might easily assume the form of the injunction to the sun and moon with which we are familiar.From this point to the assumption by succeeding gencrations and later writers that Joshua actually commanded the sun and moon to stand still- is not unnatural; and the further assumption that the command was obeyed, follows almost as a matter of course.The good faith of the writer or writers of the book of Joshua may be taken for granted.The verbal inspiration of the whole work is not so apparent.CHAPTER IV.CHRIST AND THE OL\" TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.The disposition of some of those modern theologians who repudiate the authority of an infallible church, to insist upon the authority of an infallible Bible, 1s casy to understand; although T cannot imagine why there should be anv difficulty in conceiving of a perfect system of religion which should he independent of all human or visible authority in matters of faith.Our teachers scem to fear that if deprived of the bulwark of a visible and infallible authority in some form the whole structure of Christianity must go to pieces. >= op ee THE ARGUS.5 \u201cOh ye of little faith!\u201d My own conviction is that the Christian Church is based upon a much surer foundatren than beliet in the story of Joshua and the sun: in the story ol Jonah and the whale; or in the authority of any Church council.An Anglican clergyman, for whom | have great esteem and affection, says that he believes in the historic accuracy of the story of Jonah and the whale, because Jesus Christ believed it.That 1s a sufficient rcason for me if it 15 correct.But what cvidence 1s there that Christ regarded the whole book of jonah as history ?There are two biblical records of Christ's utterances with reference to Jonah.St.Matthew's version 1s: \u201cI'hen certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees, answered saying, Master, we would sce a sign from thee.But he answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous generation sceketh after a sign: and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.For as Jonas was three days and threc nights in the whalc\u2019s belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the carth.The man of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold à greater than Jonas is here.\u201d St.Luke\u2019s version 1s : \u201cAnd when the pcople were gathered thick together, he began to say, this is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.For as Jonas was a sign unto the Nincvites, so shall also the Son of Man be to this gencration.The Queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she caine from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.The man of Nineveh shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold a greater than Jonas is here.\u201d Surely one may quote from the plays of Shakespeare without cndorsing or assuming their literal historic accuracy.An immense proportion of Christ's teachings consisted of quotations from the national literature of the people he was addressing.Never did teacher make more or better use of fiction to illustrate truths which are cternal.1 do not know that the Master cver quoted from the recognized parables of the Old Testament, but he spoke so constantly to the people in parables that his disciples asked him the question: \u201cWhy speak- est thou to them in parables?\u201d The answer was in part: \u201cBecause it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it 15 not given.\u201d Christ's allusion to \u201cthe sign of the prophet Jonas\u201d in my opinion no more endorses the story of Jonah as an historic record, than the utterance of his own parables stamps them as history.The scriptures formed the written constitution of the Jewish nation and 1t was most natural that in mtroducing to the Jews his new dispensation the Great Teacher should constantly appeal to these scriptures in confirmation of his doctrines.The old truths are constantly presented in a new light.l\u2019or instance, we find Moses recorded in the book of Deuteronomy as saying: \u201cHlear, O Isracl : The lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might\u201d In the book of Leviticus the lord is recorded as commanding Moses to say to the people: \u201cThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children ot thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyselfl Christ joins these two as the first and second commandments of the law, than which there 1s none other that 1s greater.Onc ot the scribes was so impressed by the Saviour's declaration that he said to him: \u201cWell Master, thou hast said the truth: for there 1s one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.\u201d And then we are told: \u201cAnd when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God.\u201d Not far from the Kingdom; but very far, indeed, from much of the modern theology which teaches that except a man believe faithfully a great variety of dogmas, he is so far from the Kingdom that without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.Very much of Christ's exposition of the law and the prophets consisted of urging the Jews to attach less importance to the letter and more to the spirit of the sacred writings.As St.Paul puts it: \u201cthe letter killeth, but the spint giveth life.\u201d The ancient writings were full of minute provisions for the regulation of human conduct in connection with circumstances and conditions which were not always of a permanent or general character.The tendency of Christ's doctrine was to present the underlying principles of these provisions, which principles are of cternal and universal application.For instance Ie is asked the question: \u201cls it lawful to give tribute unto Cwrsar or not?\u201d The political, national and temporary issue is by no means evaded in spite of the fact that the question 0 THE was an obvious trap; but the answer : \u201cRender unto Cassar the things which a-e Caesar's\u201d defines the duty of the Christian atizen towards the state for all time, for all countries and under all forms of government.There 1s an old story ot an English justice of the peace who discharged à bo - accused of stealing apples; not because the thett was not proven, but because This Worship could find nothing in his law books about stealing apples.One could almost imagine à modern theologian of a similarly literal turn of mind Justifying a \u201cgrab\u201d of millions of acres of public lands on the ground that while the Bible bestows a curse upon the man who removeth his neighbors land-mark, it says nothing about land- boodhing by Act of Parliament.(To be continued.) \u2014\u2014>e THE GARDEN OF CANADA.The waters of St.Catharines Well are of the mineral saline order and a great specific for rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, or a splendid tonic for those affected with nervous prostration.The use of the waters is accompanied by massage, clectricity, etc, given by skilled attendants.Situated on the south- crn slope of lake Ontario, the climatic conditions and environment are excellent for recuperating.This region is known as the Garden of Canada, and a happy hunting ground for health or pleasure seekers.Guard against the ills of modern life by visiting these famous springs.The Welland will he found a comfortable, home-like, rest cure cs- tablishment, with sun room, library, music room, roof promenade, and a corps of skilled attendants.For further particulars applv to G.T.Bell, G.P.& 1.A, Grand Trunk Railway System, Montreal._\u2014_ MANNERS In all ages Spectators have taken great interest in manners, for there are few forms of expression quite so frank and full of character.Manners are sometimes taken lightly by people who have not the Spectator instinct for seeing things, and who imagine in their blindness that the way people carry themselves in society is a merc matter of convention.lt 1s true, convention has something to do with it; but character has a great deal more.Thackeray has drawn several inimitable portraits of well-born bullies and blackguards, who had every opportunity of being gentlemen, but whose native traits were too strong for their breeding.À friend of the Spectator's who has had the amplest opportunities of forming an opinion 1s in the habit of saying that the best and the worst manners in the world are to ARGUS.be found in the hightest circles of English society.A woman of great position in London, with the cool insolence which sometimes makes such women the most insufferable bullies, once complimented Mr.l.owell on his good manners, and expressed os- tonishment that an American should have acquired so completely the air of the best society.\u201cYou forget, madam, hew favorably ! have been cx- posed,\u201d was the response, with a satirical bow.An Englishman was recalling, not long ago, the changed feeling in England toward Awcricars.\u201cWhy, I remember,\u201d he said, with delightful unconsciousness, \u201cthe time when the feeling was so strong that iI an Englishman entered a room and found ap American there he immediately went out.\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d rep'ied the American, \u201cthe change has certainly been great.\u2018The fecling in America against the English was so strong a little carlier that we sent them all home.\u201d * + + » It must not be imagined, however, that those who sit in \u201cthe seats of the mighty\u201d in England are alone in their insolence ; the Russians, the Germans, and the French furnish numberless illustrations of underbred people of position.Such things have been known even in our own democratic country.A witty New England woman was once asked about a crriain family of distinguished pedigree.\u201cThey are a tribe of Indians who live in \u2014\u2014, and have interesting customs, but no manners,\u201d was the prompt reply.There are families, indeed, who assert their Colonial descent by uniform and habitual rudeness, as therc are other families who make it a rule to wear old clothes as an expression of an assurance of sccial position so well grounded as to make \u2018appearances à matter of indifference.Among Americans, in many cases, bad manners are due to ignorance rather than to vulgarity or brutality of nature.The men in public life who make spectacles of themselves by their violence of language or indecency of behavior have generally been men who have never had a chance to learn better ways.It has happened more than once that the United States Senate has made a rufian something of a gentleman before it got through with him.For the back-country habit of calling a man a liar and knocking him down because he differs with you is gradually substituted great skill in the use of what is known as \u201cparliamentary language;\u201d which means vilifying a man up to the line of flagrant insult and stopping at the exact point where the Speaker's gavel would fall.Congressmen often put their feet on their desks because that is the attitude in which they take refuge when they are vored at home.\u2018They do not mean to be rude and uncouth; they are simply ignorant.There is a good deal more ex- THE ARGUS.7 cuse for them than for the French gentlemen who tcar one another's coats in the tribune, or the Austrian gentlemen who pull up their scats, hurl inkstands at their adversaries, and wreck the furniture in the Reichsrath chamber by way of expressing their political feelings.® e e e Some striking examples of the insolence of men who have had the opportunity of being gentlemen are furnished by the younger officers of the German army.Many of these officers are men of a charming simplicity, vivacity, and courtesy ; some of them are bullies of the most offensive type.The assumption and assurance of this class are quite beyond belief, while their self-satisfaction 1s a joy to the American with a sensc of humor.Years ago the Spectator was watching a brigade of cavalry cross a bridge at Mayence.The order, bearing, and appearance of the men were superb; for the Germans are not only thoroughly trained soldiers, they carry themselves with a splendid air of soldierly dignity, and they are brilliantly uniformed.As the men swept past, with clanking sabers, a young officer presented such an apparition of self-conscious splendor that the Spectator heard one American, in his near neighborhood, say to another, \u201cIsn't he superb?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d was the reply; \u201chis mother is probably plowing with a cow this morning.\u201d German officers are rarely of peasant blood, but the strut in the carriage of the young dandy suggested a recent acquaintance with good clothes.* .Americans who have been subjected to this form of military insolence have often met it with cool wit or still cooler courage.À refreshing example of thinking of the right thing at the right moment was furnished by an American who was dining in a hotel in Germany with his wife and sister, who were very attractive women.Two young officers of supercilious bearing entered a little, later, seated themselves at a table not far distant, and immediately began to stare at the American party.À girl with a basket of small bouquets was passing from table to table, and was speedily summoned by these young men, who selected two bouquets with somewhat conspicuous care.The American instinctively divined their purpose, and, when the girl approached his table for the purpose of presenting the bouquets to the two ladies, called her to his side, took out of his purse two marks, sent them to the officers with his thanks in words which could be heard distinctly, and handed the bouquets to his wife and sister.The \u201cinternational incident\u201d ended at that point.* = = * Cool courage is sometimes better than cool wit.Last July three Americans with their wives happened to be thrown with three German officers on a driving trip.The conduct of the officers was characterized from the start by aggressive selfishness and impudence which the Americans wiselv ignored.Onc day the three officers\u2014young, vigorous men\u2014 rushed into the dining-room as soon as the inn was reached where luncheon was to be taken, and laid their cards-at the best places, as was their habit.Titles were on all the cards.Two of the Americans were elderly, and the third was far from athletic.It happened that the wife of this gentlemen entered the room without him, laid her hand on a chair next the German party, and was about to seat herself, when one of the officers came up behind, took her hand from the chair, thrust her rudely aside, and sat down.One of the Americans was on his feet in a moment, when the husband of the insulted woman opencd the door.The incident was rapidly described to him.He scated h's wife in another chair, and, returning to the man who had insulted her, said he would sec him in the smoking-room immediately after luncheon.The older Americans looked forward with some apprehension to the interview, but when the officers entered the room the younger American promptly confronted the offender, told him that he was a bully and a coward who had disgraced his uniform and discredited his profession, and gave him his choice between prompt apology or an old-fashioned thrashing then and there.The officer hesitated a moment and then asked to be allowed to see the lady whom he had insulted, and made a most humble apology.He was, perhaps, thinking of what might be done in Berlin; for, as an Englishman said last summer, with great frankness, \u201cit is de rigueur to be polite to Americans nowadays.\u201d e + ® ® These illustrations of the prevalence of bad manners among the well-born might be paralleled in almost every society; they show what the Spectator had in mind when he set out to put on record these fragmentary impressions : that the study of manners is a serious occupation, that the Spectator has a legitimate place in this busy age, and that whether a man shall be a gentleman or not depends not on his birth but on his character.\u2014The Spectator in the Outlook.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Husband (impatiently): \u201cIf the fool-killer would strike this town he would find plenty of work to do.\u201d Wife: \u201cIs there such a person, dear?\u201d Husband: \u201cOf course there is.\u201d Wife (with anxicty): \u201cWell, I do hope, John, that you will be very careful.\u201d 8 THE ARGUS.The Retirement of Mr.Powell I think the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Department is to be congratulated upon the retirement of Mr.W.B.Powell, from the Montreal management of its competitor, the Great North Western.Personality counts for a great deal in such a position; where there are two companies competing actively for the telegraph business of a city like Montreal.\u201cW.B.\u201d knows cverybody worth knowing in the commercial community ; knows where they are to be found, knows their handwriting and something of their business.What 1s more important they know him, like him, and have a good deal of confidence in his fidelity and discretion.Ile has been for thirty-seven years cultivating this close acquaintance with that class of the people of Montreal, who do not get nervous at the sight of a telegram.When Mr.Dwight resigned the presidency of the Great North Western a year or two ago he wrote Mr.Powell a very cordial letter expressing his appreciation of the value of that gentleman's services to the company.The retirement of Mr.Powell is a matter of general regret among the employes, especially among those who have been long under his command and he is now the owner of a handsome diamond pin presented to him by his old colleagues on the occasion of his leaving.I understand that there 1s a general tendency just now in the Great North Western towards the Americanization of the staff, the Great North Western being absolutely under the domination of the Western Union.The importation of American officials has certainly not worked badly in our great railway companies, but it 1s doubtful if the experiment 1s not a dangerous onc in connection with a telegraph company with a lively Canadian competitor.Ilow- ever, it will not be long before the Dominion Government will find itself under the necessity of nationalizing the whole telegraph service of Canada.Mr.Powell is vice-president of the J.W.Harris Company, I.td.(which built the Angus Shops for the C.P.R.), à director of the Montreal and Southern Counties Railway, and also a director of the British Canadian Supply Company, Limited.He has been for many years a popular member of the Board of Trade.Ile will devote himself for the future to the contracting business.\u2014_\u2014\u2014-\u2014 THE CYNICS DICTIONARY.Altrusm\u2014 Mowing your neigbor\u2019s lawn._Reform\u2014A bricf vacation for practical politicians.The Simple Life\u2014A strenuous effort to live unnaturally.Candor\u2014What a woman thinks about another woman\u2019s gown.Tact\u2014 What she says about it.Civil Service\u2014Something you tip a waiter for and don\u2019t get.Luck\u2014An explanation of the other fellow\u2019s suc- Cess.Life Insurance\u2014Providing for the widows and orphans\u2014of the dircctors.The Water-Wagon\u2014A vehicle from which a man occasionally dismounts to boast of the fine ride he\u2019s having.- \u201cSaturday Evening Post.\u201d The fishermen\u2019s wives in a South Coast town held an indignation meeting directed against the mere men.One buxom lady told the uweting how her man decided whether to go out with his boat or not.\u201cHe puts a lighted candle out in the yard.If it blows out there's too much wind.If it keeps alight there's not enough.\u201d TRUE BUT NOT THE FACTS.The census-taker rapped at the door of the little farmhouse, and opened his long book.A plump girl of about 18 came to the door, and blinked at him stuuidly, says the \u201cYouth's Companion.\u201d \u201cHow many people live here?\u201d he began.\u201cNobody lives here.We are only staying through the hop season.\u201d \u201cHow many of you are there here ?\u201d \u201cI'm here; father\u2019s in the woodshed, and Bill is\u2014\" \u201cSee here, my girl, I want to know how many inmates there are in this house.How many people slept here last night ?\u201d \u201cNobody slept here, sir.I had the toothache dreadful, and my little brother had the stomachache, and the new hand that\u2019s helping us got sunburned so bad on his back that he has blisters the size of eggs; and we all took on so that nobody slept a wink all night long.\u201d An amusing incident occurred in one of our rural churches a short time ago.The minister gave out the hymn, \u201cI Love to Steal Awhile Away,\u201d etc.The regular percentor being absent, the duty devolved upon a good old deacon, who commenced, \u201cI love to steal,\u201d and then broke down.Raising his voice a little higher, he then sang, \u201cI love to steal\u201d At length, after a desperate cough, he made a final demonstration, and roared out, \u201cI love to steal.\u201d The effort was too much.Everyone but the parson was laughing.He rose, and with the utmost coolness said : \u2014 \u201cSeeing our brother\u2019s propensities, let us pray!\u201d \u2014p\u2014 ve Pr _ ee en THE ARGUS.ç THE UNDISCOVERABLE IN CRIME.From \u201cThe Spectator,\u201d London.We wonder whether, if a complete list were published of crimes which have been committed in our time in Great Britain, and not traced to their authors, the general public would be the more surprised or reassured.Would the number of undetected criminals astonish because of its size, or would pcople reflect that in a communitv of forty millions even the smallest percentage works out in good round figures ; and would they for that reason be gratified with their comparative safety?The number of crimes of which the authors remain untraced is, we should say, considerably larger than is generally supposed.The glare of the newspapers dazzles more often than it illuminates, and when every crime is important for an hour few crimes are not in a day or two forgotten.Perhaps the memory of the Lefroy murder will not pass away with this generation, partly because the interest taken in the case at the time was enormous, partly because the facts are at hand in a book which is still widely read.But it was only, as it were, by an effort that most persons could recall the details of the Camp case when the crime committed in the Merstham Tunnel raised once more the question: What is the safety of railway travelling?And even so, much else was forgotten, or almost forgotten.\u201cWhy is it that it is only these railway and tunnel murders that cannot be traced ?\u201d many were asking, forgetting that the author of the hideous series of murders in White- chapel has gone for seventeen years unknown, perhaps unsuspected.We do not prophesy that the Merstham mystery will remain unsolved, though it is not very likely that any fresh clues will come into the possession of the police.Still, if the author 1s discovered, probably by his own failing heart or brain, it will not be another ten years before his name, too, will be remembered with difficulty.Of necessity, sheer lapse of time makes both detected and undetected criminals the more readily forgotten ; and for what it is worth, the lapse of time must always be on the side of the undetected criminal.Are there, then, any better provisions which civilisation could devise for the rapid detection of crimes of this kind,\u2014that is, of brutal assault on the person, either with or without a plain preconceived ?Not, we mean, in especial reference to the railway organisations, and the adoption of this or that system of corridor carriages, or easy communication with the guard of the train, although it would be of interest, as regards that latter point, if a table could be compiled showing on how many occasions the communication-cord, or the electric bell, has been pulled, and for what reason.But we are thinking of wider and more general plans and precautions than corridors and communication-cords; and no doubt some answer is necded to the question: Do the newspapers help or hinder the detectives in difficult cases like the Merstham cas:, in which suicide is practically an impossible theory, and the police arc believed to be hunting for a man?The police, it 1s said, we do not know with what truth, consider that they have been hampered in this affair by the rapacity and interference of the reporters and \u201cspecial representatives,\u201d who have prevented them from tracking their clues quietly, have \u201cgiven away\u201d their closest secrets, and in a clumsy hue-and-crv have sprung the traps carcfully set in out-of-the-way places.We cannot pretend to judge that point, for the evidence has not been given; but, speaking gen- crally, we should doubt whether the newspapers, however distasteful the methods of a certain section may be, could ever help a criminal in the quarter where he needs help most.He may read here or there that the police are doing this or that, are hot on the trail of some person whom he knows to be innocent, arc intending to make a thorough examination of premiscs where he has never been, or arc sctting traps into which all guilty persons must assuredly walk.But all that information does not help him very much, even if he believes it, and he might easily be conceived, in his terror, to believe that the statements of the newspapers were mere \u201cblinds.\u201d Of one staring fact he must always be horribly certain, that even the most merciful would be turned inflexibly against him.Would he not wonder that the name written on his forehead was not more easily read, and if he once allowed himself to brood over that, how could any printed sentence aid him?The newspapers could not help him against himself.Another point is apt to be forgotten when the amateur detectives are talking about \u201cbaffled police,\u201d \u201cpuzzled officials,\u201d and so forth,\u2014that is, the element of sheer luck which enters into all these difficult cases, The police realize that, if the public do not; and in trying to realize how prodigiously thick the mist diffused by mere luck may be, remember that there is one particular class of crime in which, if the luck is on the side of the police, the capture of the criminal is so casy as to attract no notice from the public; if, on the other hand, the luck is with the criminal, the task of the police is almost heart-break- ing.It is not the class of crime which is planned with devilish care for months.Whenever a murder has been planned beforchand, the homicide has gone about his work unconsciously, but with awful certainty, committing himself at every step.Suspected, the tiniest actions of the past few months of his 10 THE ARGUS.life creep out of the memory-cells of his fellow- creatures into one horrible linc; a reason for each thing done, a purpose in cach thing left undone; all the poor attempts to throw pursuit off the trail glaring naked and unnecessary, except upon the onc supposition that ruins him.Those crimes are not the hardest to trace home.To run any real chance of remaining undiscoverable, crime must belong to a different class.That is the crime which is unthought of, unpremeditated, by its author; which is the outcome of the savagery of five minutes, not the preoccupation of a twelve-month; and it is there that the luck turns cither for or against the criminal with dreadful completeness.He may step speckless away : much more likely he will not.But if he does, his past 1s as bright or as drab as other people\u2019s, neither more nor less; nothing is there to help his pursuers; it is only for the future that he must arm himself, for himself, by himself, even against himself.Of that point, extremely important in itself, the \u201cbaffled\u201d detectives can at least be certain.If they have once come to the decided conclusion that crime has been committed, they have at all events one standard by which, however, confused and crossed the trail may be, thcy can measure its undiscover- ability.Their standard is the brain-power of a fellow-man ; and not that kind of brain-power which tells the fox or the hare to double or dodge, but the brain-power that a man must have who, having seen what no other man has seen, and knowing what no other man knows, carrying about with him portraits and sounds which it must be his perpetual dread that others will stare at and hear, can keep himself from going insane.For imagine the alternatives ; think of the perpetual tilting of the balance which is to decide whether his life, too, is to be put an end to suddenlv and unnaturally, or whether he is to go on day after day, with the recurrent dread that the end will be the same in any case, and with nothing of any happiness dragged from the present.lle can go on, he believes, unless he breaks down, or unless some overmastering impulse, of which he is continually in horror, forces him to speak to others about what he has done, in hope perhaps that the portraits and the sounds mav leave him.It is incredible that a man could so stcel himself as to scem nothing different from yesterday, though so much has happened to change the wnole tissue of his brain?But the thing has been achieved by more murderers than one; and up to a certain point, in other pursuits, under other conditions, do we not all achicve it?Few of us, cither through our own failings, or through some great unhappiness, or possibly by sheer accident, have not seen and heard what we would gladly not have seen and heard ; we desire to put such sights and sounds out of our minds, determine that we will never give another thought to what only pains, what cannot be helped, or altercd, or undone.The question resolves itself into a problem which in the ordinary walks of life has to be answered by most men of action; by all, indeed, who, gifted with a special strenuousness of mind, have carved wide paths through the ranks of lesser men, as soldicrs, or writers, or kings.It is the test of the possiblity of living life in compartments.Just as great soldiers have trained them- sclves to sleep at any moment for an hour or a couple of hours, or as cnormously successful business men have sometimes the power of absolutely shutting their office doors behind them, when lesser, possibly more conscientious, minds are for ever troubling themselves whether their work is progressing or their duty rightly done; so it must be supposed that the criminal who can remain undiscovered has the power of shutting away from his eyes and cars the sights and sounds which would tear him shrieking from his sleep if he were of a weaker, happier mould.His strength of mind must always be marvellous; it is, indeed, owing to the fact that to possess such strength of mind is extremely rare, that cases of undiscovered criminals are comparatively so small in number.The chance of undis- coverability rests always on the turn of mere luck, but more than that on the capability of one man in a world of men to keep his head.If the pressure of the first few weeks could be kept up for ever, he would be certain to lose it; but to ensure that is beyond the power of any police force, which, perhaps, in giving up the chase, does but condemn th: hunted man to the heavier punishment.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HOW TO KEEP WELL.By ELBERT HUBBARD.I am a doctor, and the son of a doctor who has practiced medicine for sixty-five years, and is still practicing.I am fifty years old; my father is eighty-five.We live in the same house, and daily we ride horseback together or tramp the fields.To-day we did our five miles and back cross-country.I have never been 1ll a day\u2014never consulted a physician in a professional way, and in fact, never missed a meal through inability to eat.As for the author of \u201cA Message to Garcia,\u201d he holds, esoterically, to the idea that the hot pedaluvia and small doses of hop-tea will cure most ailments that are \u2014 \u2014_\u2014__ - \u2014e- \u2014_\u2014-_- THE ARGUS.rl curable, and so far all of his own ails have been curable\u2014a point he can prove.The value of the pedaluvia lies in tendency to equalize circulation, not to mention the little matter of sanitation; and the efficacy of the hops lies largely in the fact that they are bitter.Both of these prescriptions give the patient the soothing thought that something is being done for him, and at worst can never harm him.My father and I are not fully agreed on all of life\u2019s themes, so existence for us never resolves itself into a dull, neutral gray.We have daily resorts to logic to prove prejudices, and history is ransacked to bolster the preconceived, but on the following points we stand solid as onc man : 1.\u2014Nincty-nine people out of a hundred who go to a physician have no organic disease, but are merely suffering from some symptom of their own indiscretion.2.\u2014 Individuals who have diseases, nine times out of ten, are suffering from the accumulated evil effects of medication.3.\u2014Hence we get the proposition: Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and remove a beneficent warning symptom on the part of Nature.4.\u2014Most of the work of doctors in the past has been to treat symptoms, the difference between a diseasc and a symptom being something the average man does not even yet know.The people you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors\u2019 offices are, in a vast majority of cascs, suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food.Coupled with this go the bad results of imperfect breathing, improper use of stimulants, lack of ex- crcise, irregular slecp, or holding the thought of fear, jealousy and hate.All of these things, or any one of them, will, in very many persons, cause fever, chills, congestion, cold fect and faulty climination.To administer drugs to a man suffering from malnutrition caused by a desire to \u201cget even,\u201d and a lack of fresh air, is simply to compound his troubles, shuffle his maladies and shift his pain from one place to another, getting him ripe for the ether- cone and scalpel.Nature is always and forever trying hard to keep people well, and most so-called \u201cdisease\u201d \u2014which word means merely the lack of ease\u2014is self-limit- ing, and tends to cure itself.If you have no appetite, do not cat.If vou have appetite, do not eat too much.Be moderate in the use of everything, except fresh air and sunshine.The one theme of Ecclesiastes is moderation.Buddha wrote it down that the greatest word in any language was equanimity.William Morris said the finest blessing of lifc was systematic, useful work.St.Paul declared the greatest thing in the world was love.Moderation, Equanimity, Work and Love\u2014lct these be your physicians, and you will need no other.And in so talking I lay down a proposition agreed to by all physicians, against which no argument can be raised; which was expressed by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and repeated in better phrase by Epictetus, the slave, to his pupil, the Roman cmperor Marcus Aurelius; and which has been known to cvery thinking man and woman since.Moderation, Equanimity, Work and Love! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014m HOIST THE BLACK FLAG.Recent disclosures of low moral standards, cheap deceits, and callous indifference to the rights of others on the part of men of financial and business prominence have sorely hurt those who long for a decent world to live in; for an unclean world is as intolerable to morally sensitive people as is an unclean house to physically sensitive people.No American who loves his country and remembers Emerson's definition of its mission to breed superior men and women can fail to hang his head in shame over the continuous revelation of lack of principle and cheapness of character in men who have becn greatly trusted and have proved grossly untrustworthy.The shame of the United States Scnate, with several members who have been under indictment or known to be unscrupulous corruptionists; of department officers of high station selling information as if it were produce; of men intrusted with vast funds for purposes which ought to make their custody a sacred charge, greedily using the money of other pcople for their own menacing in the last degree.Americans are not morc dishonest than other men; but they sin against a greater light, for in this country all enterprises of a public character are supposed to be carricd on for the public benefit.Our politicians are never weary of talking about the \u201csacred rights of the people,\u201d although there is no country in which those rights arc more flagrantly violated Our offenses arc rank and smell to heaven because we protest so much; our infidelities arc the more damnable because we profess such a lofty faith.The time has come for frankness with ourselves and the world ; if we cannot be dccent, let us at least be truthful.Let us purge ourselves of dishonesty and hypocrisy and be what we pretend to bc; or lct us preach squarely the doctrine of greed and success without scruples and keep on doing what we are 12 THE ARGUS.now doing.Let United States Scnators stop talking about National ideals, or let them cease to disgrace the country by corrupting legislatures, dividing profits with land syndicates, and accepting from corporations salaries which they have not earned; it 1s time for them to make their choice; the country is in no mood to stand further hypocrisy.It demands that the thieves take their hands off the sacred things of the Nation; let them ply their trade if they must, but let them forbear to touch with polluted specch the ideals, the aspirations, and the hopes of the Nation; they have done their best to destroy these things.And 1t is high time for the officers of some life insurance companies to cease talking about the duty of providing for one\u2019s family, the solemn obligation of a man to think of the welfare of his children after he 1s gone, the beauty of present self-denial for the sake of the dear ones dependent on one\u2019s exertions.If the gentlemen whose dealings with the vast funds committed to their care have recently come to light have any scnse of humor, they will put an cnd to the sham philanthropy which they have preached for business purposes, and make their appeals for patronage with manly frankness.If they cannot be honest, let them at least drop the mask of honor and deal squarcly with the public.Let them make an end to all the sentimental nonsense about widows and orphans, and say bluntly : \u201cWe want your money; pay us the largest possible premiums and we will give you the smallest possible returns.We will accept your money as a trust, and administer it for our own advantage; we will pay oursclves cnormous salaries and, in one form or another, pension the different members of our families; we will load the management of the business you commit to us with the heaviest possible expense of administration ; and we will use your money in all kinds of enterprises for our own benefits, employing as much of it as we see fit in buying legislators and contributing to campaign funds.\u201d If this policy of frankness is adopted, the country will respect the courage if it cannot trust the honesty of the men whom it now holds to be not only betrayers of its honor but hypocrites as well.It is high time for plain dealing; the country is weary of scandals in high places; of men of reputation who are suddenly discovered to be without character; ef meral sham and humbug among the eminently respectable.There are too many pious schemers; far too many well-behaved self-scekers.It we cannot be honest, we can at least stop pretending to be what we are not.Let us hoist the black fag and stop sailing as a missionary ship.\u201cThe Outlook.\u201d ON TIE TRAIL.OF THE EXTRACTS.In a r.c.nt dispatch the Washington correspondent of the New York \u201cEvening Post\u201d said: \u201cMr.Yerkes, ccmmissioner of internal revenue, after delivering to makers of patent medicines, with whiskey as their chizf ingredient, a staggering blow, has turred his attention to so-called essences and extracts which have whiskey as their principal stock.[le has written a letter to a druggist, deciding that wherz alccholic compounds called \u2018essences of lemon, vanilla.cinnamon,\u2019 etc, or tinctures or essences of ginger; are made for sale in prohibition districts for usc as heverages, every merchant selling them without holding the requisite special-tax stamp as a l:quer deale- under the internal revenue laws, is subject to criminal prosccution, as well as to assessment cf special tax and penalty.The manufacturers of thesc cempopnds are involved in the same liability, and also in liability as rectifiers.It 1s declared that prohition communities throughout the country consume, as beverages, an encrmous amount of these alleged essences, scld by country merchants and others as \u2018flavoring extracts\u201d Accoruing to the information in th: hands of th* internal revenue bureau, the sales were sufficient in some ccmmunities in one day to have flavored all the pies made in the necighberheod for five years.As there was no internal revenue tax, th: manufacturers of these \u2018essences\u2019 increased the quantitics of whiskey in the stuff, with the result that many of them contained mere than fifty por cent.of purc alcohol.The gocds had small sale outside of prohibition communities.The druggist to whom Commissioner Yerkes wrete the letter admitted that many of the compeundés ce: ntained from twenty-five to eighty p.c.of alcoholic strength, with a mere trifle cf medicament.\u201d HIS HAPPIEST HOUR.Ie: Do yeu remember the night I asked you to Larry me?She: \u201cYes dear.\u201d \u201cFor a whole hour we sat there, and not a word did vou speak.Ah, that was the happiest hour of my life!\u201d \u2014Translated for \u201cTales\u201d from \u201cEcho de Paris.\u201d \u201cDe yeu think it is honest for a man to accept weney fer a campaign fund ?\u201d \u201cWhy, yes.\u201d answered Senator Sorghum, \u201cif he really turns it over to the fund.\u201d -\u201cWashington Star.\u201d THE ARGUS.43 COOKING A PARTRIDGE.(By an Occasional Suburban Correspondent.) When Harry came home from the City last- night - knew from his face that something had happened.\u201cOh! what is it?\u201d I said.\u201cIs anybody dead?\u201d And of course my-thoughts flew .0 poor Auntie.\u201cNo,\u201d he replied, \u201cbut Dixon has had a brace of partridges send to him, and he\u2019s given me half of it.\u201d I breathed again.\u201cHow sweet of him!\u201d I said; \u201cwhen shall we have it?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s ready for cooking now,\u201d said Harry.\u201c Couldn't we have it to-night?\u201d I thought for a moment.\u201cYes,\u201d I said.\u201cThe hash will keep; it\u2019s Sarah\u2019s night out, so I'll put my apron on and cook it at once.\u201d I was a plump young bird, and really looked a picture when I had placed it on the grid of the baking pan, nicely floured, with a lump of dripping on the top of it.,At that moment the kitchen door opened, and Harry came briskly in, with five or six copies of the Daily Mail in his hand.\u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d he said, sitting down on the corner of the table, ** how are you going to cook it?\u201d \u201cIn the oven, darling,\u201d I replied smiling.\u201cYes,\u201d said Harry, after a pause, * but vou know, dear, it oughtn\u2019t to be on the grid; and where's its little overcoat of bacon?\u201d I may be unduly sensitive, but aspersions on my cooking always upset me.\u201cIt isn\u2019t going to have one.\u201d | replied, forcing a smile.\u201cOh! and where's the sausage?\u201d said Harry.\u201cThere ought to he some long sausages, vou know.\u201d \u201cWhy, darling,\u201d 1 said, glancing at the morsel in the baking tin, \u201cyou've mistaken it for a turkey.\u201d \u201cOh, no,\u201d said Harry, resenting my flippant tone, \u201cI know what I'm talking about.And there ought to be a carrot cut in rounds, and white cabbage cut in quarters.The Daily Mail says so.\u201d This was the facer, and 1 was nonplussed, as he deliberately opened the paper at the column headed \u201cHow to Cook a Partridge.\u2019 \u201cLook here Harry,\u201d I said sullenly, \u201cyou'd better .ct me do it my own way.\u201d \u201cThen it will dry,\u201d he said with conviction.my cheeks redden under the insult.\u201cWas it dry last time?\u201d I said quietly.\u201cDryish,\u201d he repled.\"Look here, darling you're no: too old to learn, you know: let me read you one or two extracts from the recipes of experienced cooks.\u201cIt should be roasted with a little overcoat I felt of bacon,\u201d cooked in layers of pickled white cabbage, fried chalots, a little white wine and enough water to cover it,\u201d and you must be very careful not to use the flambeaw until it is saignant.\u201d But just vou read them for yourself, and you'll sce how it ought \u2018o be done.\u201d I'll do it my own sob, \u201cor not at all.\u201d as usual.\u201cBut it's so simple,\u201d he said, cuttingly ; \u2018any idiot could do it.\u201d \u201cThen you can cook it yourself,\u201d I replied,as with trembling fingers T untied mv apron, \u201cand cat it vourself !\u201d \u201cRight smile, way,\u201d | said, choking back a Here Harry lost his temper O!\u201d said Harry, with an unpleasant \u201cAnd vou'll find the anchovy sauce and the candied peel in the cupboard,\u201d I added, \u201cand I haven't ny pickled cabbage, but there are plenty of pickled vaicns, and if I'd known you were going to interfere inthe kitchen I'd never have married you.\" With that I left him, and hurrying up stairs flung myself on the sofa in a passsion of tears.Hali-an-hour later, in spite of my grief, 1 became conscious of a nauseous odour rising from the kitchen, and, drving my eyes, | kant over the banisters and sniffed it gratefully.1 also heard mufiled vjaculations in Harry's voice, and concluded he was talking to the partridge.Presently there came the smash of crockery and more conversation, and then the back-kitchen door was violently opened, and Hariy, apparently, went through into the garden.Next minute I heard him coming up the kitchen stairs, and 1 whisked back into the room and was deep in a book as he entered.He was very pale.\u201cWhere's the partridge?\u201d I said.\u201cIn the dusthole,\u201d he replied fiercely.and then for :he first time I saw his hand wrapped up in a handkerchief.\u201cOh, darling,\u201d \u201c1 caught hold of the oven door,\u201d forgot it was hot.\u201d He smiled wanly, and, as 1 dressed his burns 1 knew he was mine one more; the partridge no longer stood between us; we kissed again, with tears, and had the hash after all\u2014Punch.I cried, \"what have you done?\u201d he said.\u201cI A reporter of \u201cThe London Chronicle,\u201d who was not without the sense of irony, wrote of recent automobile races in England: \u201cMotor cars at racing speed sometimes run out of the course, and to prevent the possibilitv of any loss of valuable lives the ground level of the promenade will be occupied only by representatives of the press.\u201d-\u2014\u201cNew York Tribune.\u201d 14 THE ARGUS.MDOCTORS AND IAYMEN.Westminster Gazette.The various medical congresses which have taken place in the course of the last few months have brought forth an extraordinary crop of articles in the Continental Press on the subject of medical men, their work, their views, their virtues, failings, &c.; also on the \u2018nexhaustible subject of their clients.Some of these articles are, of course, sufficiently technical to make them as inaccessible to the average lay reader as if they were written in Sanscrit, or Arabic, or Esparanto.Others-\u2014and these mostly written by eminent medical men of wide experience\u2014are distinguished for a lucidity and simplicity rather unusual in the literary output of Continental men of science, the majority of whom regard it as infra dig.to write anything so simple and practical that the laymen may profit by its perusal.Professor Dr.Naunym, an cminent German medical man, contributes from his retirement at Baden-Baden a suggestive article to the \u201cDeutsche Revue,\u201d in which he discourses on the popular theory expressed in the almost proverbial phrase \u201cPeople consult a doctor in order to be cured.\u201d This, Professor Naunym holds, is not quite exact.People consult a doctor in order to be helped.In illustration of this statement a number of instances are given, from among which the following will be found interesting : It happened not infrequently in my practice (says the writer) that people came to consult me concerning a \u201cserious illness\u201d; most frequently the patient was a young man about to marry.He had a cough, and thought his lungs were affected.or he imagined that he had diabetes, and so on and so on.On examination | found that he did not suffer from such a di- scase.In such cases there was nothing to cure, but 1 had he/ped the patient effectually.Take another case.A young girl is tortured by her mother to go into Society ; she is to move among people in order to find a husband.But she does not wish to go, feels weak and miscrable, and is brought to me for a tonic.On examination | find a kidney disease of long standing.It is too late to attempt a cure, but the girl is helped, for she is now left in peace and enjoys her life as she chooses.At a time when 1 had practised long enough to be well acquainted with these matters,a medical man who had a large practice in the North, and whom I had known since my student days, asked me to examine him.\u201cBut you must promise me beforehand, Professor, to tell mc the absolute truth.You must give me your word of honour.\u201d \u201cWord of honour?You, as a doctor, ought to know that it is nonsense to give such a promise.\u201d \u201cBut I want it.Give me your word of honour to tell me the entire truth.\u201d \u201cDon't talk to me about a word of honour.But the truth I will tell you.\u201d I examined him, and found that h: was suffering from an incurable valvular disease of the heart.To tell him this would have been to pronounce his sentence of death.Therefore I kept my peac.: as to the result of the diagnosis, but pointed out to him that his heart was \u201cnot quite sound,\u201d \u201cnot quite in working order,\u201d and suggested that with care he would be able to go on working for an indefinite time.What was the result?He lived according to my instructions, and went on for some years, but he complained wherever he went that I had told him he was suffering from a serious heart complaint, and since then he was a broken man, thanks to me! He was a doctor and a man of courage, who had looked death in the fac: in duels and on battlefields.And this is how he failed to face the situation when he knew cven half the truth.As to the dangers to which the medical man is cxposed when he takes his dutics seriously as \u201cthe servant of servants,\u201d Professor Naunym relates the following cxperierce : \u201cI had scarcely entered the Berlin Medizinische Klinik as assistant when a case of spotted typhus was brought in; of the assistant medical men of the ward, three took the infection and two died.In the fourth year of my activity I pricked my skin over a dissection, and for four days my life was despaired of, though finally I got off with a slight mutilation.Later on I was for four weeks busy in a district where an epidemic of typhus had broken out.There were some thirtv-three medical men cccupied with the typhus patients ; of these, thity caught the fever and twenty-seven died.At .Dorpat, where 1 was Professor, it was an understood thing that those practising at the hospital should \u2018get the'r typhus\u2019 Later on, at Konigsberg, gmong my own assistants\u2014that is to say, those who had most to do with the care of patients seriously ill\u2014 no one cxpacted to escape without catching \u2018his typhus.\u2019 Again, at Strasburg I caught inflamation of the lung from one of my hospital patients, and I just managed to live to tell the tale.All this is nothing exceptional.Among all the friends with whom I work- cd as a young doctor there 1s hardly one who has not in the course of his professional life caught some infection or hurt himself permanently in one way or another, and among those who later on became surgeons there is not one who has not lost one or several children through diphtheria brought home by the father.\u201d AA It is true that in learning anything you must begin at the bottom \u2014except in swimming. THE ARGUS.15 THE TRUE ENGLISH SAILOR.By CHARLES DIBDIN.Jack dances and sings, and is always content, In his vows to his lass he'll fail her; His anchor\u2019s a-trip when his money\u2019s all spent \u2014 And this is the life of a sailor.Alert in his duty he readily flies, Where the winds the tired vessel are flinging, Though sunk to the sea-gods, or tossed to the skies.Still Jack is found working and singing.l.ongside of an enemy, boldly and brave, He'll with broadside on broadside regale her; Yet he'll sigh to the soul o\u2019cr that enemy\u2019s grave, So noble\u2019s the mind of a sailor.Let cannons roar loud, burst their sides let the bombs, Let the winds a dread hurricane rattle, The rough and the pleasant he takes as it comes, And laughs at the storm and the battle.In a fostering Power while Jack puts his trust, As Fortune comes, smiling he'll hail her: Resign\u2019d, still, and manly, since what must be must - And this is the mind of a sailor.Though careless and headlong, if dangers should press, And rank\u2019d mongst the free list of rovers, Yet he'll melt into tears at a tale of distress, And prove the most constant of lovers.To rancour unknown, to no passion a slave, Nor unmanly, nor mean, nor a railer, He's gentle as mercy, as fortitude brave\u2014 And this is a true English sailor.A A \u2014 JOURNALISM UP TO DATE.Scene\u2014 Editorial office of a \u201cprogressive\u201d cvening paper.Editor (as Reporter enters) : murder case ?Reporter (gloomily): None whatever.Editor: Didn\u2019t you see Detective Findlater ?Reporter: Yes; while I was trying to get some information out of him a passer-by pointed out casually that his tic had worked up the back of his neck, and the detective made that an excuse to leave me hastily.Editor: Do you mean to tell me that you don't see something sensational in that?Reporter: I don\u2019t sce anything in it.Editor: Then you're no good at reporting, young man.Here, Smith, take this down quickly and see that it gets well displayed.Any news of the THE GREAT MURDER CASE.\u201cMysterious Stranger Gives Information to the Police.Special Correspondent was in conversation with Detective Findlater this afternoon, a stranger came up and volunteered some important information, the nature of which we are not at present at liberty to disclose.The detective ascertained the truth of the man's statement and at once acted upon it.Further developments will be await- cd with interest.\u201d There, young fellow, this 1s a truthful paper and we want facts, but facts must be put before the pubic in an intelligent and attractive manner ! [Exit Young Fellow] Punch.\u201cWhile our THE AGF OF EDUCATION.The scrubbing-brush 1s idle; the pick-axe and the spade i.ie rotten, forgotten\u2014unused of man or maid.The hands that once were horny will no longer bear the stain Of toiling and moiling\u2014this 1s the age of brain; [.C.C.Befriends then and sends them to read for a degree?They're burning for learning, Their culture-craving hearts Are turning with yearning.To pedagogic arts And the golden stores of knowledge In a Correspondence College.Marier Ann's \u201cselected,\u201d though her skirts but each her knees, To figure, when bigger, among the girl P.Ts ;* Before she puts her pigtail up and takes to using \u201cHinde\u2019s,\u201d Marier will try her fair hand on youthful minds.Instead of helping Mother with the babies in the slums She'll hammer at grammar, psychology and sums.She's burning, etc.The policeman\u2019s son\u2019s an ex-P.T., and views, with nose turned up, Pickpocket, lost locket, and law-defying pup; The butcher's boy is reading for \u201cMatric,\u201d and doesn\u2019t care A button for mutton\u2014 his fancies fly elsewhere; *Pupil Teachers.The grocer\u2019s lad is busy with his \u201cInter.Arts,\u201d and he's Forsaken the bacon, the butter and the cheese.They're turning, etc. 16 THE ARGUS.When all the world are graduates at twenty pounds à ycar, When biceps and triceps begin to disappear, There \u2019ll be a boom in muscle, and the navvy\u2019s day will dawn All sunny, when money goes hand in hand with brawn.And so farewell to Trinity, for soon I hope to find Brick-laying more paying than any skill of mind.I'm turning from learning, My money-craving heart Is burning with yearning To ply the hodman\u2019s art, And forget the worthless knowledge Which I gathered up at College.\u2014\u201cPunch.\u201d SORROW OF IT.\u201cMore trouble,\u201d sighed McNutty, putting on his coat.\u201cIf it ain't onc thing it\u2019s another.\u201d \u201cWhat's the matter now ?\u201d queried his good wife.\u201cMore labor troubles,\u201d answered McNuttv.\u201cNot another lock-out, I hope,\u201d said the partner of his sorrows.\u201cNo, it\u2019s worse than that,\u201d answered the alleged head of the house.\u201cThe boss has yielded, and I've got to go to work again.\u201d \u2014\u201cChicago News.\u201d \u201cThey sav she is fast.\u201d \u201cOh, don\u2019t put it that way, dear.It is much more up-to-date to say that she exceeds the speed limit.\u201d \u2014\u201cMotorist.\u201d \u2014 SENSE, NON- AND COMMON- Never leave for to-morrow what your wife can do for you to-day.Any man can make a house, but it takes a woman to make a home.A just man will not speak evil of any onc, ncither will he speak well of all.When you throw your bread on the waters, don\u2019t expect it to return as dough.The widest kind of a difference is between oratory and talking common-sense.It's all right to live according to the laws, but don't live like those who make them.\u201cTHE CALL OF THE WILD.\u201d \u2018Those interested in a place to go hunting this fall should write for a copy of \u201cHaunts of Fish and Game,\u201d a supplication issued by the Grand Trunk Railway System telling where all kinds of game may be found, list of game laws, descriptive matter regarding the several hunting districts, maps, etc.sent free to any address on application to G.T.Bell, general passenger and ticket agent, Montreal, Can.On the occasion of Sarah Bernhardt\u2019s last visit to this country a well-known critic called on her before she had quite finished luncheon.He found her surrounded by a fringe of Frenchmen of various types, who at frequent intervals carefully introduced interjections to remind her of their presence.She took up the menu and looking down it, said : \u201cPumpkin pie\u2014what is that ?\u201d One of the tallest of the Frenchmen rose with statued dignity, and shaking a long index finger in rhythm with an admonitory voice, exclaimed : \u201cFor Heaven\u2019s sake, be careful, madam.I'ts the national cake.\u201d But Sarah took it.H.L.Horton, one of the oldest members of the New York Stock Exchange, was asked one day whether he thought that the promise that a certain stock would go on a dividend basis was made in good faith.\u201cDid you ever hear about Hiram Wilkins who lived over in New Jersey a good many years ago ?Hiram had been so busy getting rich that he had no time to devote himself to ladies and other frivolities until he reached middle age.Then he began paying attention to Sally Perkins, whose father was a prudent man and who waited for what he considered a reasonable time for Hiram to declare himself.But Hiram seemed content with things as they were.So Silas Perkins decided to take matters into his own hands.\u201cHiram, you've been settin\u2019 up with Sally pretty considerable.You've taken her to church and to picnics and buggy-ridin\u2019, and acted as though you had the inside track, and nothin\u2019s come of it.It ain't no way to trifle with a young girl\u2019s affections.Now I want to know your intentions, as man to man.\u201d \u201cSi,\u201d returned Hiram, \u201cI'll tell you as man to man, and there ain\u2019t no cause for you to ruffle your chirt.My intentions is honorable\u2014but remote.\u201d \u2014 \u2014\u2014 ees ee \u2014 2 nes mime mse), WO = \u2014\u2014 ma mim. THE ARGUS.(7 CELEBRITIES AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS.The habit of carrying notebooks has been and is unquestionably a marked characteristic of most successful men, and it 1s quite commen for men of affairs, lawyers, edito-s, statesmen, and men of letters to have a system of this kind.When Sir Walter Scott was driven one day by a friend to look at a ruined castle about which he wished to compose a story or repre duce a legend, his companion observed him to take out a notebook from his pocket and write the separate names of the grasses and wild flewers which grew amd the ruins; and on his friend expressing surprise, Sir Walte- said that it was only by such means a writer could be fresh, otherwise in all his steries he would be mentioning the same kind of flowers.Onc great secret cf the vivid character of the descriptions of Macaulay is the zeal with which he madec copious notes in his book concerning the localities where many of the events took place which he has recorded.l.ocke, Parr, and Gibbon, the historian, always rcad with notcbeoks beside them, and the same method was adopted by Butler, the author of \u201cHudibras.\u201d\u201d Pepe always carried a notebook and never hesitated to jot down anything which struck him in conversation.Emerson's habits in this direction are well known.Ile was accustomed to joi down his thoughts at all hours and places.The suggestions which came to him from his readings, conversations, and meditations were transferred to the notebook he always carried with him, and when he desired to write an essay he would transcribe all his paragraphs on the proposed subject, drawing a perpendicular line through whatever he had thus copied.The well-nigh photographie delineations of natural scenery and surroundings in the works of William Black are undoubtedly attributable to the fact that they are painstaking and actual transcriptions penned in his notebook at the moment under all sorts of circumstances.To be possessed of a notebook was a cenfirmed habit of Beethoven.who never went anywhor- without his sketch-books.In these books every strain that occurred to him was written down at the moment.He cven kept a book by his bedside, so that he might record anything that suggested itself.Abroad or at home it was just the same.When out of doors he made his notes in pencil and traced them in ink on his return to the house.In the sale catalogue of his effects more than fifty such books were included ; every one of them covered from beginning to end, often margin as well, closcly-written matter.Odd visiting-cards, the backs of old letters, the pages of his notebook, in fact, anything which came to his hand, served as a means for Verdi to jot down idcas as they occurred to him.The great painters adopted the same practice, leonardo da Vinci always carried a sketch-book in his girdle.When he encountered faces of extra- « rdinary character, or heads, or beards, or hair of unusual appearance, he would follow such throughout the whole day, and in his book he would note down the features, the eyes and mouths, noses and chins, necks and shoulders, and when at home he would combine them to make up such portraits as he wanted.For the sake of his studies he even accompanied criminals to the place of execution, and there he would transfer their facial expressions to his notebook.Hogarth invariably carried a notebook with him, but when without one he would sketch on his finger-nail the face of anyone who particularly impressed him in the street.This method of taking notes largely accounts for the astonishing variety of the countenances in his drawings.Gainsborough in his morning walks made collections of broken stones, herbs, and fragments of glass.These, together with his detailed written notes, served for his memoranda.Then in his studio he formed a landscape upon the table, expanding these objects into rocks, trees, and water.Amongst statesmen it is asserted that President Garfield brought the habit of using notebooks to greater perfection than any other eminent politician.In his large memorandum-books there were many hundreds of pages filled with scraps, annotations, picked sentences, incidents, and witticisms from a collection of authors and newspapers representing the best thought in ancient and modern literature.Besides these quotations there were numerous thoughts of his own upon the innumerable things he had read during the course of his prolonged studies.It was this that made him such a formidable antagonist in debate, for by running over his memoranda on any subject he was almost sure to find just the thing he wanted ; some ugly fact, perhaps, which his opponents had forgotten, because they had not taken the trouble to preserve it in the cold exactness of black and white.Mr.Gladstonc contributed to his notebooks almost everything which was likely to be of service, and the exactitude of their kecping, in addition to the wealth of personal information contained in them, was of great value to Mr.John Morley when he wrote the biography of the illustrious statesman.On the other land, the late Lord Salisbury kept very few notes of his doings and sayings, and this is, undoubtedly, partly the reason wh- such a diff- culty is being experienced in producing a really authentic account of his life, which 1s eagerly awaited by a large section of the community. 18 THE ARGUS.QUEEN VICTORIA'S FRIEND.THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SECOND EARL GRANVILLE.L.ord Edmend Fitzmaurice's \u201cLife of Lord Gran- ville,\u201d published to-day by Messrs.Longmans, is a highly interesting story of the inner history of the Victorian Era.lord Granville, who was secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1851, in 1870, and in 1880, and Colonial Secretary in 1868 and 1885, was a member of one of those great aristocratic families that have had so large a part in the government of this country.In one of his speeches in the House of Lords he said: \u2014 \u201cMy lords, I had better make a clean breast of it at once; and I am obliged to admit that some of those who went before me had such quivers full of daughters who did not die old maids that I have relations upon this side of the House, relations upon the cross benches, relations upon the opposite side \u2018of the House, and I actually had the unparalleled misfortune to have no fewer than three cousins in the Protectionist Administration of my noble friend opposite.\u201d Lord Granville was born in 1815.His grandfather was a friend of Pitt, his father a well-known Ambassador.He himself lived a good deal of his youth abroad, and acquired a cosmopolitanism that is not usually associated with Eton and Oxford.He entered Parliament when he was twenty-two; he held office before he was twenty-five.He was behind the scenes of high politics for over half a century.He was the colleague of Melbourne, Clarendon, John Russell, Palmerston, Gladstone, Bright, and Chamberlain.He was the intimate friend of Lord Canning, and the confidant of Queen Victoria.He was, moreover, a diplomatist, a wit, always a peacemaker, not perhaps an Imperialist in the modern sense, but at all times a cultured English gentleman, happy in his family, happy in his work, happy in his friends.It 1s obviously impossible to attempt to even enumerate the great events in which Lord Granville was concerned.All one can do is to refer to one or two of the personalities with whom he was connected during his long career of governing England, and holding the Liberal party together.\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 INFORMATION REQUIRED.We remember hearing a story of a fellow who roused a venerable doctor about twelve o'clock one winter's night, and who, on his coming to the door, coolly inquired : \u2014 \u201cHave you lost a knife, Mr.Brown ?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d growled the victim.\u201cWell, never mind,\u201d said the wag; \u201cI thought I'd just call and inquire, for I found one yesterday.\u201d We thought that rather cool; but the following story of Neil M\u2019Kinnon, a New York wag, surpasses in impudence anything within recollection.When the celebrated \u201cCopenhagen Jackson\u201d was British Minister in America, he resided in New York and occupied a house in Broadway.Neil one night at a late hour, in company with a bevy of rough- riders, while passing the house, noticed that it was brilliantly illuminated, and that several carriages were wating at the door.\u201cHallea !\u201d said cur wag, \u201cwhat's going on at Jackson's ?\u201d : , One of the number remarked that Jackson had a party that evening.\u201cWhat !\u201d exclaimed Neil; \u201cJackson have a party and | not invited > I must see to that!\u201d So, stepping up to the door, he gave a ring.which soon brought the servant to the door.\u201cl want to see the British Minister,\u201d said Neil.\u201cYou must call some other time,\u201d said the servant, \u201cfor he 1s now engaged at a game of whist and must not be disturbed.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t talk to me that way,\u201d said M\u2019Kinnon, \u201cbut go directly and tell the British Minister that I must see him immediately on special business.\u201d The servant obeyed, and delivered his message in so impressive a style as to bring Mr.Jackson to the door forthwith.\u201cWell,\u201d said Mr.Jackson, \u201cwhat can be your business at this time of night which is so verv urgent ?\u201d \u201cAre you Mr.Jackson ?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, I am Mr.Jackson.\u201d \u201cThe British Minister ?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cYou have a party here to-night, I perceive, Mr.Jackson ?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, I have a party.\u201d \u201cA large party, I presume?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, a large party.\u201d \u201cPlaying cards, I understand?\u201d \u201cYes, sir, playing cards.\u201d \u201cOh, well,\u201d said Neil, \u201cas I was passing, I merely called to inquire what\u2019s trumps!\u201d Geo.BR.Prowse 208 McGill St, MONTREAL.Manufacturers of high class a .ring Family and Hotel EE 1 STEEL RANGES cn and Cooking Equipment.= i! fer phil TT IJ = Cata logues on Application.-_\u2014 = -_\u2014 = THE ARGUS.19 SOME OF JEROMES IDLE IDEAS.Among other good things in Jerome K.Jerome's \u201cIdle Ideas of 1905\u201d 1s the following story of the late Corney Grain: Ile had been engaged to give his entertainment at a country house.The lady was a nouvelle riche of snobbish instinets.She left instructions that Cerney Grain when he a-rived was to dine with the servants.The butler, who knew better, apologized; but Corney was à man not casily disconcerted.He dined well, and after dinner rose and addressed the assembled company.\u201cWell, now, my good friends,\u201d said Corney, \u201cif we have all finished, and 1f you arc all agrecable, 1 shall be pleased to present to you my little show.\u201d The servants cheered.The piano was dispensed with.Corney contrived to amuse his audience very well for half an hour without it.At ten o'clock came down a message: Would Mr.Corncy Grain come up into the draw- ing-room.Corney went.The company in the drawing-room werc waiting, scated.\u201cWe are ready, Mr.Grain,\u201d remarked the hostess.\u201cReady for what?\u201d demanded Corncy.\u201cFor your entertainment,\u201d answered the hostess.\u201cBut I have given it already,\u201d explained Corney; \u201cand my cngagement was for one p2rformance only.\u201d \u201cGiven it! Where?When?\u201d \u201cAn hour ago, downstairs.\u201d \u201cBut this is nonsense,\u201d exclaimed the hostess.\u201cIt seemed to me somewhat unusual,\u201d Corney replied; \u201cbut it has always been my privilege to dinc with the company Iam asked to entertain.1 took it you had arranged a little treat for the servants\u201d And Corney left to catch his train.The story of the golfing parson who could not keep from swearing when the balls went wrong is another good one : \u201cGolf and the ministry don\u2019t seem to go together,\u201d his friend told him.\u201cTake my advice before it\u2019s too late, and give it up, Tammas,\u201d A few months later Tammas met his friend again.\u201cYou were right, Jamie,\u201d cried the parson cheerily.\u201cThey didna run well in harness, golf and the meenistry.[ ha'c followed your advice; | ha'e gi'en it oop.\u201d \u201cThen what arc ye doing with that sack of clubs \u201d inquired Jamie.\u201cWhat am 1 doing with them?\u201d repzated the puzzled Tammas.\u201cWhy, | am going to play golf with them.\u201d A light broke upon him.\u201cGreat Heavens, man!\u201d he continued, \u201cve didna\u2019 think \"twas the golf I'd gi'en oop?\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014>#> TWO MORE ON \u201cTHE CLOTH.\u201d An English divine tells how (apropos to the threatened revival of the crinoline) when he was a small boy, in the sixties, and the crinoline was at its biggest, a friendly vicar who had looked in for tea and croquet with his big sisters\u2019 remarked to him, \u201cI saw you at church on Sunday, Bobbie, sitting between your sisters, and you looked like a ratafia in a soufflée !\u201d OGUL CORK TIPS Eovptian Cigarettes.ARE MADE FROM THE CHOICEST SELECTIONS OF TURKISH TOBACCO.15c.Per Package. 20 THE ARGUS.JAMES C, STEWART, l\u2019resident.MAJ.GEO.B.BURBANK, 1st Vice-President.THOS.BROMLEY, Jr., 2nd Vice-President, C.M.SIMPSON, Secretary.HON.D.N, MORGAN, Treasurer.DIRECTORS: HON.LUIS F, COREA, Minister from Nicaragua.HON.IGNACIO MARISCAL Sec'y of State, Republic of Mexico.HON, J.0, GONZ ALLEZ, Governor State of Gnanajua'o, DWIGHT FURNESS, JAMES C, STEWART.Dwight Furness & Co., Guanajuat«.James Stewart & Co, New York, Pittsburgh, 8.HON.D, N.MORGAN, Louis, Ba timore, Lolo, Former Treasurer U.S, Bridgeport, Conn La Luz Mining and Tunnel Company GEO.W, JENNINGS, Vice-l'res.U.S, Banking Co., Mexico City.BENJAMIN C.COLLINS, Mexican Central R.R , Mexico City.MAJOR GEORGE B, BURBANK, Former Civil and Hydraulic ¢ngineer-in-Chief Niagara Tunnel.HON.T L CHISHOLM, Pres.Bk.of Sanford, N.C., Mayor of Sand- ford, N.C.HENRY WATSON, Vice-Pres, of Alton National Bk., Alton, 111, CHARLES A DUSIIN, 82 Broadway.New York.HON, JUHN I'' MORGAN, U.8.Senator from Alabama, LEANDER W.FORBES, \u2018 Pres, \u2018lraders\u2019 National Bk., Portland, Me GENERAL @FFICEN: OPERATINC THE FAMOUS CROUP OF COLD AND SILVER MINES IN THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO, MEXICO PHILADELPHIA, PA.THOMAS BROMLEY, Jr.; Carpet Manufacturer, Philadelphia, Pa.HON.J.J, GOSPER, Ex-Governor Arizona, Los Angeles, Cal.BENJAMIN F.MIL ER, J.8, Miller & Sons, Reading, Pa.PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING ARR EN pa, HON.W.D.GUILBERT, State Auditor, Columbus, Olio, GUANAJUATO Mines were the principal sonrce of wealth of the aucient monarchs of Mexico.They supplied the gold and silver tha made Spain the greatest Empire in the world.This District, which produced over $1,500,000,000, included the world famous LA LUZ MINES Operations ceased on these properties because the great tlow of water could not be handled by the primitive methods of the Mexicans.La Luz Tunnel is being driven to make them the greatest producers of precious metals in the world.La Luz Mines produced over $300,000,000 in 23 Years.LA LUZ in Mexico, and Calumet & Hecla in Michigan, both have been mints.Calumet & ilecla still is ; La Luz is being restored asa mint.Calumet & Heela distributed $91,350,000 in the last 34 years, and has ore blocked out to continue the production for 20 vears.The stock of this Company started at $1.00 per share, has been as high as $800 and is now about $659 a share.LA LUZ Mining and Tunnel Company has combined under its ownership most of the great mines of La Luz District, which produced so enormously above an average depth of less than 700 feet.Humboldt says these mines should pay profits to a depth of more than 6,400 feet.\u201d The Company holds 69 properties and is opening up the rich veins at depth by the tunnel which will make them produce more than in the past.La Luz-Guanajuato Mines supplied the mints for centuries and will soon be doing it again, ; .5 REMEMBER ! the value of many mines is based on their proximity to rich mines, but La Luz Mines are among the richest mines in the world, and the value of all other mining properties in La Luz District is based on their nearness to La Luz.When you invest in La Luz vou put your money in the best property in the world.La Luz Mining and Tunnel Company is driving a double track tunnel, not merely to open up and drain one mine, but its operations will cover an entire district.La Luz-Guanajuato District is historical and famous throughout the world, and the following statements are matters of record : \u2014 LA LUZ-GUANAJUATO DISTRICT Produced $1,500,000,000 in cash.Is the greatest mineral zone in the world.Aided in making Spain the ruling World power.Riches have barely been scratched.Produced its millions in most prita- tive fashion, Was drained with raw-hide buckets.Ore was carried on backs of men.Was worked to depth of 700 feet.Can be worked to depth of 6,400 feet.With modern methods will produce more millions than it did in the past.One mine of LA LUZ produced $140,000,900 during the last twenty- three years of its operations.This is about $45,000 a Day (24 Hours) This is about $2.000 an Hour This is about $34.00 a Minute REFLECT! That if one mine can do this year after year, with men carrying the ore to the surface on their backs and draining the mines with rawhide buckets, what should La Luz Mines do when worked by modern methods.It should mean a modest fortune with every tick of the watch.RECORD OF THE GREAT MINING TINTS LA LUZ-CUANAJUATO DISTRICT, $1,600,000,000 La Luz Tunnel will cut lient a works three veira to eet wide.Lu Luz ores run from $20 to $200 per ton.\u2014 Calumet and Hecla ores run from §6 to $8 per ton.La Luz ores are brought out in cars through the tunnel.La Luz mines are drained li Hecla mines ave drained by putnps roduced $140,000,000 in 23 years.1stributed 9 alumet an One La Luz mine Calumet and Hee gravity at no cost for operation.»390,000 in 34 years.la Imz mines are only worked to a depth of 700 feet.Œalumet and Hecla 18 worked to & depth of 5,500 feet.LA LUZ SHARES\u2014-PAR VALUE $5.00, ARE OFFERED FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY AT $3.50 PER SHARA For further particulars address, J.H.MOONEY, 1731 Notre Dame Street, - -three known veins, 10 to 100 feet wide.CALUMET & HECLA, $91,350,000 at enormous cost for operation.- Montreal.\u2014 \u2014 \u2014 es mme TEE.erm TEE _\u2014-\u2014\u2014.- en \u2014 THE ARGUS.21 The Canadian Oliver Typewriler The Standard Visible Writer Its Record has Never been Equalled Manufactured for Canada aud South America by Canadian Oliver Typewriter Co, MONTREAL GENERAL OFFICE :\u2014183a St.James Street FACTORY - 275 St.Martin Street (Je Print « « EVERY FHING\u2014from the largest Book to the smallest Business Card.We Bind Account Books for Merchants, Banks and Railway Companies, and Law Books and Part Books, in the most Expensive and the Cheapest Styles.No order is too large or too small .JOHN LOVELL & SON: Limiteo 23 TO 34 ST.NICHOLAS ST- MONTREAL London & Lancashire Life Assurance (Cov.CANADIAN HEAD OFF CE COMPANY'S BUILDING, MON'TREKAIL.Policies issued on all desirable plans at moderate rates of premium B HAL BROWN, General Manager for Canada RADNOR \u201cTHE WATER OF THE EMPIRE\u201d ENDORSED BY ROYALTY.THE RADNOR WATER COMPANY Have been appointed \u2014_\u2014 BY \u2014 Special Warrant PURVEYORS TO His Royal Highness The Prince of Wal.s.MONTREAL ARK & ISLAND RAILWAY CO.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 LACHINE.\u2014From Post Office.20 nnn.service.5.40 am.to 8 p.m.From & pm.30 min.service Last car midnight.From [Lachine 20 min.service, 5.50 a.m.to 8.45 p.m.30 min.service from 8.45 pm.Last car 12.45 am.SAUI.T AU RECOI.LET- From St.Denis Station to Henderson Station every half-hour, 6 am.to 830 pm.every hour 8.30 p.m.to 12.30 a.m.Extra car daily Henderson Station to Chenneville street, at 7.45 a.m.and from Chennevil'z street to Henderson Station at 6.10 p.m.MOUNTAIN\u2014From Mi.Royal ave.20 min.service, 5.40 a.m.to 11.40 pm.From Victoria ave, Westmount, 20 min.service.5.50 am.to 12.10 am.CARTIERVILILE\u2014From Snowdon\u2019s Junction, 40 min, service, 6 am.to midnight.From Cartierville, 40 min.service.5.40 am.to 11.40 p.m.Extra car: will be run on all lines as required.For Sault au Recollet, take ©t.Denis cars to connect at St.Denis Station.par 22 THE ARGUS.The Great 20th Century STANDARD DICTIONARY AND CONDENSED ENCYCLOPADIA AND ATLAS OF THE WoRLD\u2014Now READY Conceded the World over to be the Best ; because it contains all the latest Commercial and Scientific Terms.92,000 TERMS, MORE THAN ANY OTHER DICTIONARY.OVER 5,000 ILLUSTRATIONS A beautifully illustrated descriptive booklet will be 'sent\u2019 free of cost, on request to FUNK & WAGNALLS Co., 239 TEMPLE BUILDING - - MONTREAL \u2018SPORTS PLAYING CARDS BRIDGE, AND ALL CARD GAMES.Ask Your Dealer For Them.MANUFACTURED BY The Union Card & Paper Co.MONTREAL.HORRY Leave Bonaventure Station.\u201cINTERNATIONAL LIMITED\u201d Daily at ¥ con, ar Toronto, 430 po.Hamme ilten 250 pon, Niagara Falls, Ont, 10.15 p.,, Buffalo 11,15 pom, London 743 pm, Detroit 9.45 pan, Chicago 742 am, Elegant Cafe Service on\u2018above train.MONTREAL AND NEW YORK.ShortestiLine.Quickest Service.2 Day Tiains daily, except Sunday, each way, I Night Train daily, each way, LVE MONTREAL \u2018Saone (11080 ARR, NEW YORK tit hac 000 eme \u201cDaily.{Daily except Sunday.FAST OTTAWA SERVICE.Lv.5.40 à mm, We k days, 410 pain.daily.Ar.Ottawa 11.40 a1.Week days, 710 p.m.daily.10: CITY TICKET OFFICES.137 St, Jumes Street, Telephone Malan 460 and 461, or Bonaventure Station THE SOVEREIGN BANK OF CANADA \u2014\u2014\u2014 ACCEPTS sums of $1.00 and upwards on deposit in Savings Department.RUYS and Sells Exchange on all parts of the world COLLECTS Drafts, Coupons, Dividends) etc., on the most favorable terms.DOES a General Banking Business.go === ~~ HEAD OFFICE i=\": 232 to 236 ST.JAMES STREET © \u2014_ = {BRANCH OFFICE sms 2603 St.Catherine St.(Cor.Guy St.) mre re ei = ee THE ARGUSTis published weekly by the Argus Publishing Company, Limited.at 1So7St.James Street,* Montreal, President and responsible Editor, HuNRVEDAUSY.Le = i gl THE ARGUS.PROFESSIONAL CARDS.23 TELEGRAPHERS] JU NEEDED Annually.to ill the new positions created by Railroad ana Telegraph Companies.We want YOUNG MEN and LADIES ut good habits, to LEARN TELEGRAPHY AND R.R.ACCOUNTINC.We furnish 75 per cent, of the Operators and Staton Agents 1h Americas.Our six schools are the largest exclusive Telegraph Schools HON.WwW.A.WEIR, K.C.fin the World Kstablished Zu years and | endorsed by all leading Kallway Officials.We execute a $250 Bond to every student to furnish him or hera position paying from 240 to $0604 month in States east of the Rocky Moun- : tains,or from 875 to $100 à month in States west ufthe Rockies, immediately upon graduation.Students can enter at anv time.No vacations For full particulars regarding any of our schools write «direct to our executive office au Cincinnati, O.Catalogue free.ATWATER, DUCLOS & CHAUVIN Guardian Building, 160 St.ADVOCATES James Street, Montreal ALBERT W.ATWATER, K.C.Consulting Counsel for Citv of Montreal, CHARLES E.DUCLOS, K.C.Cable Address HENRY N.CHAUVIN.\u201c1,EGES Merchants Bank Chambers MONTRE AI, REENSHIELDS GREEN Stay-on HORSE BLANKETS Positively will not work off the horse, We will be glad to demon strate this fact, to all those interesed.Call at our show rooms.SHIELDS & MACATIsTER The Norse Schzol of Telegraphy \u2014 Advocates, Barristers, Contmissioners, ete.Cincinnati.Ohio.Buffalo, N.Y, Everything for the 171 NOTRE DAME STREET MONTREAL Atlanta, Ga.LaCrosse, Wis.Texarkana, Tex Ban Francisco, Cal.\u2019Phone Main jsyh.Cable Address \u201cSHIELDS © JI.N,GREENSHIELDS KC.R.A F.GRHENSHTELDS, K.C - Horse and Stable.EL LANGUEDOC GRAY'S pe SAPONAGEQUS DENTIFRIGE 7 G.CRUICKSHANK, For the teeth | E.N.HENEY &Co, Ltd.Cleansing and Antiseptic, 25c.HENRY R.GRAY, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 122 St.Lawrence Main St., (Established, 1859.) : K.C.Room 26, Alliance Building, 107 St.James Street, MONTREAL | 333-338 St.Paul Street Est.1575.\u2018Phone Main 377 DES IK SS 3 Æ = ES = TEES & CO., 300 st.James Street | .Einchors .TEES Te MADE BY ° R.Sullivan David Manufacturers\u2019 Agent 210 St.James St.MONTREAL, P.Q.CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.NEW YORK CENTRAL And HUDSON RIVER R.R.\u2018Trains leave Windsor Station an follows : daily ex- For all Adirondack 750 AWM.cept Sunday } Mountain points, a , Utica, Sy- 7 30 P M daily racuse.Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, New York, and ail points south, 7.830 a.m.except Sunday Local train for ALWAYS GIVE Tue BUYER SATISFACTION TRUST FUNDS AND INVESTMENTS held by the Corporation are kept separate and apar i ation i 1.20 a.m.t Sund Chat , from the property belonging to the Corporation itself.10.20 a.m.except Sunday Chateauguny The books of account relating to Estates and Trusts 2.00 p.m, except Sunday St.Timot ee .8.10 p.m.except Sunday and Valley- are always open for inspection by those who are 6:10 p.m.except Sunday field ° p.m, daily directly interested For tickets, time tables Pullman car accom THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY 352 50's: dames Sara re?H.J.HEBRRT, F.FE.BARBOUR 183 ST.JAMES STREET.MONTREAL.Ji Ticket Agent.General A} ent. 24 THE ARGUS.TRAVELLERS FOR EUROPE SHOULD GO VIA THE ALLAN LINE TURBINE-ENGINE, TRIPLE-SCREW Royal Mail Steamers GOOD CLOTHES Every Precaution has been taken lo secure Are very necessary, !f one would have a well- NO IBRATION PERFEGT SAFETY irngs .nrane NO SHIP-SMELLS PERFECT REST dressed appearance.NO SEA SICKNESS PEREECT roub Our clothes are thoroughly and honestly y 4, Siu 4 Goo .) > » ai \u2018 1 ar $ \u201c \u2018 .s, \u201c ~ NO INCREASE IN RATES ) d in every detail, and are sold at a moderate price.They are well cut, finely fitted and perfectly tailored, and they carry with them A voyage in an ALLAN LINE TURBINE STEAMER is, in itself, a luxurious holiday excursion, in an atmosphere of health giving ozone, and surrounded by all the comforts of a first-class hotel.Music, LIBRARIES, an air of elegance and distinction, PROMENADES, OUT-Dookr SPORTS, IN-DooR GAMES, Ete.aw rune Etc.Agreeable social intercourse or absolute privacy | SUI oon / 0 $9300 ATS at the passenger's own discretion, | .vo 0 Boo | Write for our style book on \u201cHow to Dress,\u201d \"for Fall, 1905.SUMMER SAILINGS FROM MONTREAL TUNISIAN - - 20th Oct.VIRGINIAN (Turbine) 10th Nov, | 99 PARISIAN - - 27th < TUNISIAN - - 17th BAVARIAN - - 3rd Nov.QQ II | 0] 7 CHRISTMAS SAILINGS.| A LIE If From St.John From Halifax BAVARIAN - - Oth Dec, - 11th Dec.TUNISIAN - - 16th Dec.- 15th Dec.| ÏJailored G lorhes EE ; HER INFORMATION Appl | Corner Craig &'St.Peter Sts.FOR RATES and FURTHE Pp'y to | 3 Stores :| 2238 St.Catherine Street.REC LLAN, Montreal.1878 St.Catherine Street.y 5 ner 1978 BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DU QUÉBEC "]