The argus, 10 mars 1906, samedi 10 mars 1906

[" PER A=129 Price 8 Cents / ® CL EDITED BY HENRY DALBY PUBIISHED BY @ TELEPHONE; Main 2973.The Argus Publishing Co, Ltd.180 ST.JAMES STREET, MONTREAL \u2014 \u2014_\u2014 = \u2014 T= re _ \u2014 - TLD _ - - cu 82.90 Annual E Tae where is Vol.11.No.23.Subscription | Canada end Montreal, Saturday, March ten 1906.+00 - \u2014 \u2014 = = ].S.A.52.00 2 3% Ÿ 5 at ly, + = 2 a se 74 \u2018 É Z A = % Fi \"eo Z: La \u201c2 53 = Z 7 # Ch 5 \u20ac Pore, ¢ he dé HON.J.C.McCORKILL, K.C, M.P.P.Treasurer of the Province of Quebec. 2 THE ARGUS.Published Weekly by THE ARGUS PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED, 180 St.James Street, Montreal.Prick Five Cents.Aunual Subscription, free of postage, in Montreal .$2 50 Elsewhere in Canada and the United States.240 cess veer saseee HENRY DaALBY.Editor.voceee sesosonsee ses ets 00 SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1906.News-dealers or subscribers who have any difficulty in obtaining supplies of THE ARGUS are requested to apply, giving full information oa the subjeet, to the Publishers, THE ARGUS, 180 St.James Street, Montreal I am sorry to see that the Bishop of London has been joining in the outcry against the conversion of Pricess Ena.e * + .In a letter to the \u201cTimes\u201d His Lordship says: THE IMPORTANCE OF A FAITH.Sir, \u2014 The letter with the above heading which you published on Saturday, is only the spark which sets fire to a resolution which has been smouldering in my mind for some days.However urgently private remonstrances may have been made on the matter which has moved your correspondent to write, they are not known to the public, and your correspondent is, therefore, justified in assuming\u2014how- ever mistakenly \u2014that no protest has been made at all.I, therefore, think it right to state publicly that such protests have been made by those who felt that it was their responsible duty to do so.They have been made not at all against an alliance with a friendly and honorable nation, nor against any genuine and convinced acceptance of the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, but what seemed to be the possibility of a \u201cconversion by order\u201d (if I may usc this phrase) from one faith to another.I have no knowledge whether such \u201cconversion by order\u201d is really contemplated, and we may be quite certain that no such order will come from this side of the Channel ; but it seems to me that, if such \u201cconversion by order\u201d were reallv carried out, and if it were generally supposed that no sort of responsible protest had been made, the public conscience would be considérably mystified ahd\u2019'even lowered in its ideas of right and wrong.Poth ! Yours sincerely, \u2018 he : A.F.LONDON.London-house, 32 St.James's sq, S.W., Feb.12, + + .© I regard the whole hub-bub that has been raised; over this subject as un-Christian, un-manly and unmannerly.* Li * + That royal marriages are arranged for reasons of State is no secret, because Parliament has gone so far as to prohibit the marriage of a member of the royal family, without the consent of the Crown.Marriages so arranged must often involve an element of personal sacrifice for the public good, a fact which some of the critics seem to ignore.* Xx Xx x*x It 1s not at all unlikely that the Princess may fecl some regrets at having to leave the Church of England, but that she is any worse a Christian for doing what appears to be an obvious duty under the existing circumstances I do not for a moment believe.x xX x * Whether the marriage be one of love or of public policy, or what is more probable, of both, her first duty will be to her husband.# 4 +4 St.Paul\u2019s injunction on the subject is: \u201cWives submit yourselves, unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, and he is the Saviour of the body.Therefore, as the Unurch is subject unto Christ, so let their wives be to their own husbands in everything.\u201d * x # x With all due deference to Episcopal authority, I think Princess Ena shews good tas\u2018e and sound Christianity in deciding to be subject to King Alfonso, rather than to the Bishop of London.¢ © à & The Montreal \u201cWitness\u201d in an editorial on \u201cRoyal Creeds\u201d observes that : -to the daughters of royal families \u201call outward ways to heaven are pretty much equal.\u201d « 6 « + My observation of the wayfarers on the various roads to heaven leads me to very much the same conclusion, as that to which the royal ladies have been more or less driven by the force of circumstances, \u2014 A i fort.ter 2 SE OA SU pet a -174 (> THE ARGUS.3 Queen Victoria, \u201cDefender of the Faith and Su- prème: Governour of-therChurch of England\u201d became a good Presbyterian every time.she went into residence at Balmoral, and in my judgment was none the worse a Christian on that account.® e * ® Now that King Edward has gone on a two months\u2019 continental tour there should be an end of the war talk.The Algeciras conference may go dawdling on, but can no longer be considered a menace to peace, had any urgent importance attached to its deliberations there would have been less obvious waste of timex x + + With England, France and Spain co-cperating against him and Italy adopting a doubtful attitude, the Emperor William is far too shrewd a man to imagine he can exercise any direct influence in the affairs of Morocco.There may be another story to tell when the German navy is twice its present size and the disruption of Austria-Hungary gives the Germans an outlet in the Mediterranean.+ e e .The most wonderful evidence of German interest in maritime supremacy is afforded by the fact that they not only operate the fastest steamships crossing thé Atlantic, but are also successfully competing on all other important trade routes in both hemispheres excepting only those from Vancouver and San Fran- CISCO.+ + * + The first bill introduced at Westminster under the auspices of the Labor party empowers local authorities to provide meals for school children and the Government has promised to help the measure through Parliament.If the State is to take the place of the parent towards the children it will soon find itself logically compelled to assume other and more serious responsibilities of a parental nature.® + * + It seems strange that just at the time Canada and the United States are beginning to recognize some of the evils of granting free passes and sessional indeémnities to members of the legislature, the United Kingdom is likely to saddle itself with the handicap of a body of legislators entering Parliament to make a good living out of it.* * * * With the best intentions in the world it is almost impossible for the poor M.P.to resist the various temptations which come in his way to use his position to make money.In one way or another he is almost certain to lose his independence and become more or less the creature of corporations.If Labor Home Rule, Temperance or other particular bodies want special delegates to sit in Parliament, they should provide \"thet with the necessary salary to keep up their position.Mr.Redmond'\u2019s party is mainly so supported and Messrs.Burns, Crooks, and other labor members were looked after by their Unions.* *« * » I am afraid the tendency in the Parliament of the future will be to increasingly concentrate supreme power in the hands of a wealthy ring; even to-day the Senate at Washington is mostly composed of wealthy men or the nominees of weathy corporations which muzzle the President and the House of Representatives to a far greater extent than it is practicable for the House of Lords to do.* * * * The man who reaches the House of Lords has attained independence even if he be a promoted politician; the majority of the members are not politicians at all, but men who have distinguished them- sclves in the warlike or learned professions or in the world of commerce; the hereditary drones are few, as any one who makes a carcful analysis of the composition of the second chamber at Westminster can prove for himself.* * * + We read that : \u201cDuring January and February there were report - cd at Chicago 22 murders, 840 burglaries, 216 rob- berics and 30 violent assaults on women.\u201d + * » » The Labor party has endorsed the demand of the women to possess the parliamentary franchise.Several lady leaders of the movement have adopted a \u201cpassive resistance\u201d policy, allowing their goods to be sold rather than contribute to taxes which they have no hand in imposing.* * * + It is customary to represent the Duke of Devon- shire as an out and out free trader, quite satisfied with the existing fiscal system, and the attitude of the new Government upon the question.That this is an inaccurate view was amply proven in a debate in the House of T.ords last week.+ * » + Lord Lansdowne was able to quote the following passage as rcpresenting the views of the duke: \u201cThere is no free trader who can feel, or profess to fecl, satisfied with the present condition of the question.What the free trader advocates is the free interchange of commodities between all nations.What we have got is something quite different from that.What we have got is frec imports on one side and exports burdened by every barrier fiscal ingenuity can devise.The name of free traders can- 4 THE ARGUS.not with strict accuracy be applied to the supporters of our present fiscal system.We are not free tra ders because we have not got free trade.\u201d .e + +# ' At present the trade of the United Kingdom is exceptionally good.In the dcbate on the address the new president of the Board of Trade announced that out of 588,000 members of Trades\u2019 Unions only 27,614 were returned as unemployed in January.The total of unemployed in the Kingdom was only 90,411 of whom two-thirds were unskilled laborers, 42,000 of whom were registered in the London area.* ss # * The most remarkable feature of the debate upon the address was the speech in which Mr.Winston Churchill said that it was a \u201cterminological inexactitude\u201d to talk of Chinese labor being employed under the conditions of slavery ; \u201call its undesirable features could be removed.\u201d + + © © Mr.Winston Churchill has fully justified his selection as spokesman for the Colonial office; he extricated the Treasury bench from a disagreeable situation in a masterly manner by throwing overboard the arguments of the Rev.Dr.Clifford, and the labor party.* ° * .\u201cWei-hai-wei is to remain under the British flag.though the garrison is to be reduced ; the Government does not consider that the terms of the lease by which it is held from China are at all altered by the fact that Port Arthur is no longer in the hands of the Russians.* + + * The speedy fall of the Rouvier Cabinet comes as a reminder that since the institution of the Third Republic.Mr.Waldeck Rousseau has been the only Premier to hold office for any length of time.In France, however, a ministerial crisis simply means a cabinet reorganization.There are enough living ex-Premiers to form a cabinet and all have republican procivities and are, nominally, at all cvents, anti-clericals.* ® .Li It is, however, significant of the power of the Roman organization that it has been able to bring about two crises since the introduction of the violent measures suppressing certain orders and confiscating their property.The coming general elections in France will be watched with increased interest.The efforts of German sympathizers to attribute the fall of Messrs.Delcasse and Rouvier, to their influence is somewhat egotistical] [France remains as much anti-German as it is anti-clerical and the Emperor William has not made any recent conspicuous efforts to harmonize Franco-German interests.H.D.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HON.J.C.McCORKILL, K.C., M.P.P.The Hon.J.C.S.McCorkill, provincial treasurer of this province, has been a prominent figure during the current legislative Session; rarely has legislation centred so exclusively upon those matters connected with finance in which Montreal is specially interested.Mr.McCorkill possesses a happy faculty for putting unpopular propositions in a favorable light and even these corporations and individuals who will suffer most by the numerous increases in taxation which are being imposed pay tribute to the ability of the provincial treasurer and the honesty of his efforts to make the necessary increases to the revenue upon as equitable a basis between class and class of the community as is practicable.The position he occupies is as onerous as it is honourable; he is the only English-speaking member of the cabinet who holds a portfolio, and that portfolio is the one which makes the most urgent demands upon personal qualifications in tact, firmness and an open mind towards seriously conflicting financial interests.Mr.McCorkill is favored by his ancestry which combines Scotch shrewdness with Irish wit.He was born at Farnham, P.QQ, on 31th August, 1854, and educated there, at St.Johns, and finally at McGill, whence he graduated and obtained the distinction of B.CL.He practised law as an advocate and barrister at Cowansville, and was its town councillor 1890-1892, and mayor 1892-1895.Still earlier he had taken an active part in politics by unsuccessfully contesting the constituency of Missisquoi, at the general election of 1886, and at a bye election in 1888.In 18090 Mr.McCorkill became president of the County Liberal Association and his earnest efforts for his party were rewarded at the general election of 1897, when he defeated his former opponent.In 1898 he was elected a mem- of the Legislative Council, but in 1904, resigned that position to contest the constituency of Brome, and having been successful.accepted the portfolio offered to him by Premier Gouin, on May 21, 1884.Mr.McCorkill married Miss Apphiah Mary Leonard, of London, Ont.In his 25th year he joined the 5th battalion of the Royal Scots, retiring therefrom in 1887, with the rank of major. .THE ARGUS.ç Twentieth Century By HENRY DALBY.CHAPTER VIIL DOGMATISM.(Continued.) Dogmatism, however, is not only a spirit which is inherent in the individual theologian, it is an accepted principle or policy of all the churches.\u201cOf course, we must have dogma\u201d remarked a highly respected clerical friend, commenting upon and denying my statement that Christ said little about dogma and much about duty.In the strict literal sense of the word obviously he is correct, dogma is essential.I have used the word dogmatism in its popular acceptation, as signifying the tendency to dogmatize unduly.My contention is that the churches attach an importance to dogma, which is not warranted by the teaching of Christ.The wayfaring man attracted by the example and precepts of Christ and willing to become his disciple is stopped by the dogmatists, as the Ephraimites were stopped at the passages of Jordan, by the men of Gilead, with the stern challenge: \u201cArt thou an Ephraimite?\u201d \u201cSay now Shibboleth.\u201d That the Light of the World, ever intended that the people who walk in darkness, should be prevented from coming to him, by any doctrinal test whatever, is precisely what I question.Every age, every sect, has its \u201cShibboleths,\u201d and woe, indeed, to the man, who in this connection, drops his \u201ch, s\u201d ! Some \u201cShibboleths\u201d last so long, that while they are still effective as barriers, their origin and some of their exigencies appear supremely ridiculous.Take, for instance, the thirty-nine \u201cArticles of Religion\u201d of the Church of England.I could conscientiously subscribe to most of them, but if belief in the whole thirty-nine, and belief, that belief in them, is really essential to membership of the Church of England, I am de facto excommunicated.These \u201cArticles\u201d which are still the supreme test of a man\u2019s fitness to administer the sacraments and to preach the Gospel in the Church of England, are described in the Book of Common Prayer as: \u201cArticles agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy in the Convocation holden at London, in the year 1562, for the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for the establishing of Consent touching true religion, reprinted by His Majesty\u2019s Commandment, with his Royal \u2018declaration prefixed thereunto.\u201d His Majesty's Declaration declares that: \u201cBeing by God\u2019s Ordinance, according to Our just Title, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Governour of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold °t most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious Zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace, and not to suffer unnccessary disputations, altercations or questions to be raised which may nourish factions both in the Church and Commonwealth.We have, therefore, upon mature deliberation, and with the advice of so many of our bishops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this declaration following: \u201cThat the Articles of the Church of England (which have been allowed and authorized, heretofore, and which our Clergy generally have subscribed unto) do contain the true Doctrine of the Church of England, agreeable to God's Word: which we do, therefore, ratify and confirm, requiring all our loving subjects to continue in the uniform profession thereof, and prohibiting the least difference from the said Articles, which to that end we command to be now printed, and this Our Declaration to be published therewith.\u201d \u201cThat, therefore, in these both curious and unhappy differences which have for so many hundred years, in different times and places exercised the Church of Christ, We will that all further curious search be laid aside, and these disputes shut up in God's promises, as they be generally set forth to us in the holy Scriptures, and the general meaning of the Articles of the Church of England according to them.\u201d This truly royal declaration finishes by threatening to visit with the Royal displeasure, and the Church\u2019s censure, any of the authorized teachers of theology who shall dare to affix any new sense to any Article.One of the Articles reads: \u201cThe Three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanasius\u2019 Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles\u2019 Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed, for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture.\u201d My objection to these Royal and ecclesiastical mandates, is not that they enforce false doctrine (for I verily believe that most of the doctrines are true), but that they enforce any doctrines at all, that they substitute intellectual tests for the purely spiritual and moral tests ordained by Christ. I imagine my clerical friend saying: \u201cBut we must have dogma.For instance, jou must believe | in the divinity of Christ.\u201d : \u201cI believe in the divinity of Christ, and that is onc of the reasons why | accept his teaching: \u201cNot every onc that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that dueth the will of my Father, which 1s in heaven.\u201d CHAPTER IX.THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.What is \u201cthe Kingdom vf Heaven\u201d to which Christ makes such frequent reference ?I said at the commencement of the last chapter, that there are two great stumbling blocks in the way of the practical acceptance of Christianity, by those who through the accident of birth, training, or environment ought to be Christians; one is the too great demands made upon the credulity of the people by their religious teachers, which 1 have been discussing under the head of \u201cDogmatism,\u201d the other \u201ca radical misconcuption, rather encouraged by cccle- siastical authority, as to the nature of the Messianic mission.\u201d Here I realize, with keen regret, that I may have to part company with many men for whose theological opinions I have great respect, on account of their profound learning, and also because their whole lives show them to be at heart devoted Christ- tians.But I started out in this series of articles to tell the truth, as I sce 1t.The orthodox teaching of ncarly all the churches is partially but fairly cnough, represented by the second of the thirty-nine Articles : \u201cOf the Word or Son of God which was made very Man.\u201d \u201cThe Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from cverlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took man\u2019s nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, of her substance: so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one person, never to be divided, whercof is one Christ, very God, and very Man, who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.\u201d Without entering here into any discussion upon the first part of the article, which refers entirely to the divine Nature, let us examine the latter part which deals with the mission on earth of Christ, \u201cwho truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, THE ARGUS.to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.\u201d + STAR UE TA This part of the article is alike remarkable for what it says and for what it does not say.\u2019 It pic- turcs the Deity as the angry God, of Israelitish history, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the'children not simply to the third and fourth generation, but to hundreds of generations, to all generations, a God whose anger has bcen appeased in past times, by the blood of bullocks and of rams, and now is appeased for all time, conditionally, by the sublime sacrifice, the vicarious suffering, of his own Son.(To be continued.) \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Reporter of the \u201cKansas Weekly Shocker\u201d \u2014\u201cI've come to get some particulars regarding the death of a prominent citizen of this town, the late Mr.Washington Judkins.\u201d The Mayor of Tintackville (blandly)\u2014\u201cWell, sir, what do you want to know about old Judd?\u201d The reporter \u2014\u201cHe met his death by accident, I understand.\u201d The Mayor\u2014 \u201cThere you air wrong in two respects.\u2019Twarn\u2019t no accident, and old Judd didn\u2019t meet it.On the contrary, the \u2018boys\u2019 had to chase him for ten miles before they got the rope round his neck.\u201d Mrs.Kicker: \u201cI thought you were going abroad.\u201d Mrs.Knocker: \u201cSo I was but my doctor offered me a bargain in appendecitis\u2014if I would have it in summer\u2014only $400.\u201cCANADA\u201d No portion of His Majesty's doma'ns over seas is so much in evidence to-day in the Mother Land as Canada.The new illustrated weekly, \u201cCanada,\u201d is replete with interesting matter, descriptive of the conditions as they stand in both countries.Published in England and edited in Canada by Henry Dauer, 180 St.James St.TERMS OF SUBSCRIPION : Three months Six months Twelve months $2 post free.$4 post free.$7 post free.15 ceats a copy.J [PR IUEU TR TE TN \u2014 THE ARGUS.7 RACE SUICIDE.» ANNE 412\" Co.By THE SAGEBRUSH PHILOSOPHER.rn Tr ai > .With Mr, President, Grover Cleveland and myself all on record, it would scem as though there could be nothing more said on the subject of race suicide \u2014but a woman will have her way, and the last word.Mr.Roosevelt and I merely protested in gencral terms against the tendency of modern times to confine to the few those opportunities which we belicved as a matter of sociological equity should be open to all, and commended those mothers who had shown a willingness to help anyway a L.ttle and do the right thing by posterity \u2014Mr.Cleveland laid the entire blame for the shortage of babies upon the women\u2019s clubs\u2014and the women tanned his hide to a burnt\u2014sienna brown in turn\u2014and here ended the first lesson.Doubtless this would have closed the controversy only that still another woman got into the game in the person of Olga Louise Cadijah, the author, who in her book \u201cTurn on the Lights,\u201d says \u201cThe modern club woman commits race suicide, and encourages and teaches other women to do likewise\u201d \u2014and it was Sisters\u2019 attention! and every body get busy! Mrs.Sarah Platt Decker, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sent out a list of questions to every branch organization of that body in the country asking for statistics so that once and for all the average size of the club\u2014woman\u2019s family may be determined\u2014pending which official figures the dear girls are rising all over the hall to speak their little piece.Most states are sure they have discharged their full duty in the premises, and insist that the club woman can convince even the man from Missouri.A Jewish speaker in a Chicago synagogue, however, said: \u201cThe American club woman reminds me of a diamond in the shirt bosom of a corpse attired for the grave.It stands out glaringly against the dead matter it adorns, \u2018whereas Mrs.James Frake, president of the Illinois federation, replied that \u2018if women didn\u2019t want to have babies it was nobody\u2019s business\u2014so there!\u201d This is also the position, taken by the club women of Des Moines, who by resolution characterized race suicide as something to command rather than condemn, and admitting that Mr.Cleveland in his comments on women\u2019s clubs was nearer right than wrong.These ladies, it appears, are inclined to be a little resentful of the urgent appeals made by the national administration and others as to a necessity for replenishing the earth\u2014claiming that its population has doubled in the last quarter of a century under present conditions, which ought to be sufficient for present needs\u2014and have adopted as their official slogan the haberdashion legend of \u2018quality rather than quantity\u201d meaning, I take it, fewer but better baBics.As to just how the texture and finish of the output is to be improved, however, does not appear.\u201d It should now be up to our Montreal women's clubs to show the average size of their families.We fancy they could go the Americans at least one better.The American club woman's family is said to average 2.05\u2014the decimals being supp.sed to represent the husband.Poor man, he must be a \u201cbargain-countcr remnant\u201d marked down below par for cash.\u201cFor cash\u201d that\u2019s all he is good for.ree THE MODERN MANLESS MANSIONS OF MONTREAL.What is the modern would-be society woman of Montreal coming to?(Never mind the split in- finitive\u2014she would not know what a split infinitive means.) Everywhere onc meets the middle-aged, middle-class woman, who boasts that she plavs cards every afternoon and almost cvery evening \u2014 Yes, even on Sunday ; but she whispers that sub rosa.She brags that she scldom has luncheon at home, except when she is entertaining one of her card- clubs.The erstwhile fashionable, though always somewhat vulgar, overcrowded \u201cfive-o\u2019clock-tea\u201d has lost its flavor.The would-be society woman now boasts that she has \u201cno use\u201d for afternoon teas.\u201cNo use\u201d Could any words sound more vulgar from a woman's lips?For the business or sporting man the slang may be expressive, and excusable, but there should be \u201cno use\u201d for it in a refined woman's vocabulary.But to return to our muttons\u2014the fair sheep who are always rcady to play \u201cFollow the leader :\u201d This winter they have gone us one better in the matter of manless merry-makings.Even the evening functions, whereat we were formerly deemed indispensible, arc now often made up of women only.Verily, how the tables have been turned! No more does lovely, lonely woman sit weeping at home while her haughty hubby enjoys life hilariously at his club.\u201cNous avons changer tout cela\u201d Now the wearied worried husband returns after a hard day\u2019s work secking rest, comfort, sympathy.He turns his latch-key with pleasant anticipations of a good dinner with a pretty little wife facing him, full of merry chatter and rcady sympathy.As he had barely had time to bolt a sandwich and a glass of beer\u2014No perhaps you don't \u201cbolt\u201d beer. 8 THE ARGUS.What would you call it?\u201cgulp\u201d\u2014all nght.He enters, one light gleams in the deserted hall; and the deadly silence strikes to his saddened soul (Slow'music).Not a sniff of the savory odors of the delicious dinner he had expected; Not a swish of weeping skirt.Not a sound of the sweet thrill greeting that used to await him.On the hall table he sees a square envelope, such as has offered him cold welcome several times lately.He tears it open muttering a small word with a big \u201cD\u201d he reads: \u201cDcarest Dick\u201d\u2019\u2014everyone is \u201cdearest\u201d to the selfish, wily woman.From her husband to her most hated rival in society it is \u201cdearest.\u201d \u201cDearest Hubby,\u201d as though she had half-a-dozen dear Ilubbies.\u201cDearest Dick\u201d which implies at least three \u201cdear Dicks,\u201d else she could not reach the superlative; still it rcads: \u201cDearest Dick,\u201d Im of (no not two fs; she is not effusive in fs) to dinner and Bridge with Mrs.Goldox (Dick groans over the bad English and big B).\u201cShe, evidently, just asked me to fill in over the phone at three o'clock,\u201d Dick rubs his eyes and reads over again \u201casked her to fill in over the phone at three o'clock, what the devil does she mean?\u201cOh, I see! He reads on;\u201d She made a lot of silly apologies about not asking me earlier\u2014as though I cared how Im asked so long as Im asked.\u201cYou see my skill at Bridge is helping me along in the Social Swim (She spells every society word with a big S) \u201cI know youll be glad that Im getting in with Mrs.G\u201d (Tommy-rot\u201d growls Dick, \u201cI wish Nellie had taken a few lessons in grammar instead of that expensive course in bridge\u201d) Reads on: \u201cI knew youd rather dine at your club so I let Cook out and its Mamies afternoon of.Ta-ta, dearie, enjoy yourself and so\u2019ll I, Your Darling Wifie.\u201d Dick smiled contemptuously at his wife's absurd signature muttering words indicative of his desire to dam her flow of eloquence; while he viciously tears up her sloppy scrawl.Then he debated with himself whether he should go to his club and come home in the wee sma\u2019 hoors with-a glorious jag on and give Nellie a picce of his mind, but he decides that he is too tired to go out again.(To be continued in our next.) \u2014># Mrs.Klubbs, severely: \u201cI've been lying awake thesc three hours waiting for you to come home.\u201d Mr.Klubbs, rucfully: \u201cGee! And I've been staying away thre hours waiting for you to ge tc sleep.\u201d \u2014\u201cCleveland Leader.\u201d THE WRONG PLACE FOR A HOSPITAL.To the Editor of the ARGUS : Don Sir:\u2014It is said.that some phélanthropie à titizens have bought a fine house with the adjoinitig ground on Dorchester street which is to be turned into a hospital.Naturally the residents in the vicinity are up in arms and a petition is being circulated against the project.As one of the largest landed proprietors in the neighborhood is a member of the Legislative Assembly we must hope that legal restrictions may shortly be placed on this form of depreciation of valuable private property.We have referred to this subject before in our articles on \u201cThe Waste of Wealth in Charity.\u201d There seems to be a mania in Montreal for placing hospitals and charitab'e institutions wherever they can do most harm to the surrounding property.Two of the finest old family residences in Montreal are in the immediate vicinity of this site as also several fashionable clubs and three of our most beautiful churches.Is it not an act of wanton vandalism to attempt to place a hospital in such a position?Even in the interest of prospective patients some appeal should be made, as Dorchester street at this point is extremely noisy; with its enormous traffic, over asphalt pavements the monotonous thud of the horses feet should prove unbearable to weak and nervous patients.Surely something can be done to prevent this wholesale destruction of valuable property, when for no good end, since morc suitable sites can be had for much less money.DORCHESTER STREET.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Clear the Track: \u2014If you can\u2019t do anything else, get out of the way of those who can.Mistress: \u201cBridget, why didn\u2019t you finish winding the clock?You only gave it a couple of turns.\u201d Maid: \u201cYez must remember that I'll be lavin\u2019 yez to-morry, mum, and I'd not be afther doin\u2019 anny of th\u2019 new gyurl\u2019s wor-rk!\u201d Hardy: \u201cShe may be well educated, as you say, but she uses very singular expressions.\u201d Tardy: \u201cShe does?\u201d \u201cYes.Yesterday, for instance, she spoke of a musical concert.\u201d \u201cWasn't that correct ?\u201d \u201cCertainly not.It wasn\u2019t necessary to say \u2018musical\u2019 in speaking of a concert.A concert must be musical.\u201d \u201cMust, eh?Well, I\u2019ve been to some that were not.\u201d ; THE ARGUS.9 A CANADA CLUB DINNER.PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF \u201cCANADA One of the features of the London social season is undoubtedly the excellent dinners given periodically by the Canada Club, which, now more than a hundred years old, continues to maintain its high reputation for hospitality and the promotion of Anglo-Canadian cordiality.The Canadian Club must indeed have been one ot the first, if not the first club, to recognize \u201cthe advantages of commercial reciprocity,\u201d which are to be got from a good dinner.It will be remembered that the \u201cunanswerable instance\u201d of this, mentioned by the greatest of all practitioners of the science of political gastronomy, Disraeli, was the hypothetical dinner at which French wines were, by virtue of a treaty of commerce, to be found side by side with hot English plates We have moved apace since then, and hot plates and light wines arc the merest commonplaces of the En lish dinner- table.The good diner is calling for other treaties and other necessaries, too numerous to detail, but among which, even at the most non-political tables, the \u201cbig loaf\u201d and the \u201clittle loaf\u201d come in for unavoidable mention.It was, as several of the speakers appeared to be compelled to interpolate, a non-political dinner with which the Canada Club started the first of this year\u2019s functions at Prince's Restaurant on Wednesday last, but it was impossible that several unanswerable instances of the advantages of Anglo-Canadian reciprocity should not come in for mention.A TRIBUTE TO \u201cCANADA.\u201d But first let us note what even our modesty cannot withhold us from primarily acknowledging with many thanks, viz, the unusual honor of a public reference and welcome to a new publication\u2014to ourselves, in fact.\u201cI cannot resume my seat,\u201d said General Lord William Seymour, at the conclusion of his reply to the toast of the Imperial Forces, \u201cwithout congratulating the editor and proprietors of the new newspaper, \u2018Canada.\u2019 All I can say is, I wish the heartiest success to the \u2018Canada\u2019 newspaper which is now published in England for the benefit and the knowledge of the English-speaking people.\u201d Mr.Donald Macmaster, who presided, very kindly added that the compliment was a \u201cperfectly just one.\u201d Lord William Seymour's remarks were, we may add, received with a generous applause.Proposing the toast of the \u201cImperial Forces\u201d Mr.C.A.Duff-Miller referred to the suggestion that a tax should be placed on all merchandise which came into the ports of the Empire in other than British ships and that the tax should be devoted to the British Navy.He thought that was a measure which might be entertained ,and he hoped that it would come before the Colonial Conference next year.Responding to the toast, General Lord William Seymour said that Canada, from the very first of his service, was to him, in the words of Sir George Cartaret, ma chére patrie.He began in Canada his naval service as a naval cadet.He went there six or seven years afterwards to assist the Volunteer Militia of \u201961, and finally ended his service five or six years ago as the General Officer Commanding in Canada.(Cheers.) If that did not constitute a horse marine (laughter)\u2014for he was also in the Yeomanry during the middle of his term (laughter) \u2014well, he thought he could respond for the \u201cImperial Forces\u201d (Chcers.) Lord William Seymour went on to say that he had received, during the past month or two, letters from General Lake and the General at Halifax, saying that he considered that the organization of the military forces in Canada at the present time had never been better.Of course, there were perhaps some regrets on both sides that the Imperial Forces had been withdrawn from the naval stations of Halifax and Esquimault, but he thought, judging from experience, that it was hardly possible to keep this very small force four thousand miles apart without leading the world to suppose that we intended to garrison the whole of Canada.That was perfectly impossible.He went further, and said that unless Canada was left to its own re- sources\u2014and they were of the highest degree, both as regards volunteer and militia forces\u2014it would always be supposed that 2,000 men were intended to maintain 4,000 miles of territory.The speaker welcomed the invitation of the National Rifle Association to Canada to send over a team to Bisley.Nothing could be better.The new turbine steamers facilitated the voyage.The turbine, indeed, promised to lcad to associations between the two countries which could no nothing but good.There were several things which England could learn from Canada.One of them was in the importance which was attached in Canadian schools, without reference to denomination, of physical training.His Lordship concluded with the reference to \u201cCanada\u201d which we have quoted.General Benson, C.B, who followed, labored under the disadvantage\u2014from the point of view of an after-dinner speaker\u2014of being still on the active list, but he referred with cordial loyalty to the new War Secretary.The War Office, he said, wanted a man, and they had got one.The Imperial Forces had in Mr.Haldane a prospect such as they had not had before lu THE ARGUS.THE PROMISE OF THE WHEATFIELDS.\u201cNo one could take too great a draft on the future,\u201d said Mr.Macmaster, proposing the toast of the Governor-General of Canada.\u201cIf he estimated that within the lives of many of those at dinner that night that, having regard to the increases of recent years, Canada would rcalize a population of twenty million souls, a country with twenty millions of people had to be reckoned with.Yesterday it was I.ord Strathcona who assigned the surplus population of this country to the Land of Plenty.To-day it was lady Strathcona.Alberta had a larger agricultural area than the whole German Empire.So had Saskatchewan.And when they looked abroad from Alberta and Saskatchewan, what did they sec?Take the old Province of Quebec, the lineal descendent of old France.It was one and a half times the size of France.Ontario was twice the size of the United States and four times the size of England.British Columbia was thirteen times the size of Scotland.The wheat production of Canada would, according to American experts, in the next ten years produce 250 million bushels of wheat, which was more than was required for the whole wheat consumption of this country.It was further estimated by these same experts that the Northwest Provinces alone had the capacity to produce a thousand million bushels of wheat.The glowing, and we may add the growing, picture was at this point smothered in applause, and everything else that Mr.Macmaster said was almost in the nature of anti-climax.Senator Domville was the next speaker to reply to the toast.and following that the toast of \u201cOur Guests\u2019 was proposed by Mr.Granville Cunningham, and responded to by the Earl of Denbigh and Mr.J.E.Armstrong, M.P.(Canada).The noble Earl ventured, and with great success, to say that no one could have followed the recent elections in this country without realizing that it would have been of immense advantage if the voters of this country could be taken in batches to Canada and given a month\u2019s course of instruction in her re- souces.Another wise remark fell from Mr.Armstrong.when he said that when British investors began to realize the value of Canadian investments, they would not be content with the small returns which they now so frequently got.Mr.Macmas- ter's reply to the toast of his health as chairman brought the dinner to a finish.\u2014 Canada.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Pity may be akin to Love, but she\u2019s certainly a poor relation.A LABOR MEMBER.MR.G.J.WARDLE, M.P.Some remarkable men are numbered among the new Labor members at Westminister; men who have practiced self-denial to educate themselves.Mr.Wardle, one of the newly elected, thus tells his story : \u2014\u201cI was born at Newhall, Leicestershire, in 1865, but from eight to thirty-three years of age my life was spent at Keighley, Yorkshire.\u201cThere were eight of us children, and, as my father rarely earned more than 23s.a week, it will readily be understood that times were often hard with us.\u201cWhen I was about six years old my father, who followed many callings in his time, took service with the Midland Railway Company as horsekeeper, and, after six months at Derby, we removed to Wisbech, where I went to a school kept by a hunchback.He was a fine teacher, who for 2d.a week gave a really good all-round education, including languages, and he developed and encouraged my inborn love of study and books of every kind.\u201cAfter about eighteen months we removed to Keighley, and I started my working career as a \u2018half-timer\u2019 in a woollen factory.This meant that one week I worked at the factory from 6 a.m.to 12.30 p.m., and went to school from 2 p.m.to 4.30 p-m.,, whilst the next week my school hours were from 9 am, to 12 noon, the factory claiming me from 1.30 p.m.to 5.30 p.m.and so on alternately \u2014 a pretty hard life for a boy.\u201cMine was a Wesleyan school, and being, as already said, fond of study, I did well at it, on three cccasicns winning a Scholarship.But, to my great and lasting disappointment, I was not allowed to take it up, as my father, owing to his large family, could not afford to let me leave the factory, much as he would have liked to have done so.\u201cI was a \u2018half-timer\u2019 for five years and a full- blown hand for about two, and then, thanks, no doubt.to my father being in their employ, the Midland Railway Company offered me a clerkship if I could pass the necessary examination which I fortunately did.\u201cClerking was not very much to my taste, but, still, it was better than the factory, and gave me a fair amount of leisure for the reading and scribbling to which I was devoted.Books have always had a great influence over me, and among the authors who shaped my youthful mind, I would especially mention George Dawson, Charles Kingsley, and George Macdonald.Later on, when I began to take THE ARGUS.in an interest in social and labour questions, Carlyle and Ruskin were my guiding stars.\u201cGrown up, I was for a time a Sunday School teacher, and later a lay preacher; but I gave the work up, partly on account of trouble with my throat, mainly because I was assailed by religious doubts, into which I need not enter.\u201cThen I started and edited a small Labor journal, work which was thoroughly congenial to me, for I loved writing.\u201cIn 1897 came the great engineers\u2019 strike, and the turning point in my career.I was on the committee of a Co-operative Society, which had 7,000 members and a turn-over of a quarter of a million a year\u2014rather an eye-opener this to working people in the south\u2014and when it was proposed at a meeting that we should vote £1,000 to the strikers, I made a speech seconding the resolution.It happened that a son of one of the masters was amongst the audience, and he reported me to the railway company for aiding and abetting the strikers.The company sent a representative from headquarters to interview me, and I had to keep quiet for a time, although I continued to carry on my Labor journal, of my connection with which the company knew nothing.My more or less forced inaction, however, chafed me, and when Mr.Maddison, editor of the \u201cRailway Review,\u201d died, I competed for the post, got it, and there you have an outline of my career from \u201chalf- timer\u201d to editor of, I think I may say, an important and influential Labor paper.I think I have got on in the first place because I have been content to plod, and, in the second place, because I have never, as the Yankees say, \u201cbitten off more than I could chew.\u201d That is, I have never undertaken to do a thing unless I felt capable of doing it\u2014I have known my limitations.Then I have tried throughout life to follow grand old Carlyle\u2019s advice of \u201cDo the duty nearest to you.\u201d But I would mainly ascribe such success as I have achieved to books, and the best advice I can give to those who are starting life in humble or adverse circumstances is to read, read, read\u2014not trash, of course, but the great authors and thinkers.Books are the best friends a man can have, for they never change or \u201cgo back\u201d on you.i SECURE.Larkin: I'm on the right side of the market at last.Gilroy : Bull or bear side?\u201cOutside.\u201d A NOVEL WITH A PURPOSE.\u201cGeneral readers\u201d have, as a rule, clear views of their own about the novel with a purpose.It is for them that contemptible thing, a pill administered in jam\u2014suitable enough for children who have to be bribed to take their medicine, but an insult to the adult intelligence.For themselves, though they may sometimes put up with the pill for the sake of the flavor of the jam, they resent its presence there, ignoring it, or sniffing at it, and maintaining that they are old enough and wise enough to be trusted with the jam-pot.The function of the novel, they argue, is not to instruct but to entertain; and they consider novels good or bad according to their success or failure in entertaining them.\u201cArt!\u201d I once heard an eminent divine exclaim, \u201csurely the art of fiction consists in hitting the public taste!\u201d He, like the most commonplace of the subscribers to the circulating libraries, believed in keeping the jam and the pill separate.The reviewers of novels are continually echoing his opinion.THE SEEKER AFTER POPULARITY.Do the novelists agree?No doubt some of them do\u2014perhaps even some of the greatest.The great Dumas never regarded himself in any other light than that of a popular entertainer.If he incidentally taught his readers French history, he usually taught it wrong, and the hour of his greatest triumph was when the editor of the leading Parisian newspaper woke his wife up in the middle of the night to tell her that Monte Cristo had escaped from the Chateau d\u2019If.Equally restricted were the ambitions of Emile Richebourg who, for a long period.made £20,000 a year by writing serials for the French halfpenny Press.His habit was to visit the market-place at the dinner hour and listen to the comments of the market women on the plot of his current story.If the comments were favorable, he went home happy; if they-were unfavorable, he considered how he could alter his plots so as to give greater satisfaction.He wished to give the market- women what they wanted, and he had no higher aim.It never even occurred to him that a novel could have any other purpose than to amuse.One could easily find other instances of the same attitude.Even Dickens adopted it in early days though he dropped it in later life.He continually wrote to Forster in the tone of a tradesman whose one anxiety was to find out what sort of goods the customers preferred, and to supply it.James Payn was never tired of ridiculing the idea that novelists should try to teach or preach.Perhaps, he said, they might teach young people the art of light con- 12 THE ARGUS.versation; but that was the utmost that he would allow.Among modern novelists, however, this tone is the exception rather than the rule.Most of them either take themselves seriously, or at least wish to do so.1 have before me as I write a letter which I recently reccived from one of the most popular humorists of the day.He was sick, he said, of cternally grinning through a horse-collar.He had things to say which werc worth saying.Why would not the stupid public let him say them ?As I write, too, there comes to me the recollection of a conversation with one of the most eminent of our English novelists.He was speaking not of what he wrote, but of what he read, and why he read it.\u201cIt appears,\u201d he said, \u201cthat some people read novels for distraction.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t you?\u201d 1 asked.\u201cNever,\u201d he replied.\u201cHow\u2019s that?\u201d \u201cI find it so much more interesting to think.\u201d \u201cBut you do read novels, I suppose?\u201d \u201cOh, yes, sometimes.\u201d \u201cFor what purpose, then?\u201d \u201cFor instruction.\u201d \u201cInstruction about what?\u201d \u201cAbout life.To get fresh observations, fresh views, fresh criticisms of life.\u201d \u201cYou are in favor, then, of the novel with a purpose?\u201d \u201cI cannot understand why any other sort of novel is written or is wanted.\u201d That is an extreme view; the opposite extreme being furnished by the case of the Frenchman who understood the art of fiction as the art of brightening the dinner-hours of the saleswomen at the Paris market.The average novelist, living in a world of compromises, definitely adopts neither point of view, but fluctuates between them.He wants to preach, but he also wants to be applauded.He wants to be applauded, but he also wants to preach.Both desires alike are natural.To which should he give way?To put it otherwise: Are his novels likely to be better or worse for having a purpose behind them?The question can only be answered by an examination of the masterpieces; but when that examination is made, the answer seems to be clear.The purposeless novel and the novel with an avowed and obvious purpose are equally bad; but in really great work a purpose can always be discovered by those who look for it.CHARLES READE'S METHOD.It 1s objected, and rightly, to the ordinary novel with a purpose that it is at once inartistic and inconclusive.The novelist starts with the purpose, and invents a story to drive it home.That was Charles Reade's way when he wrote novels to show up the abuses of the convict system, of private lunatic asylums, and the like.He did it uncommonly well, and good presumably resulted from the doing vf it; but he wrote not as'an artist but as a journalist.One could smell the Blue Book while one read; and one could always object that the stories proved nothing.The conclusions might follow from the premises; but the premises themselves were assumed\u2014were, in fact, invented.One could say the same of Dickens\u2019 attack on the delays of the Court of Chancery in Bleak House, or of Mrs.Beecher Stowe\u2019s denunciation of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin.In all these cases\u2014 as in scores of others that could be cited\u2014the author did not discover the purpose in the story, but fabricated the story to enforce the purpose.That was at once bad art and bad logic, though it was sometimes popular.Whatever might be true concerning the particular abusc under discussion, this particular story admittedly was not true.No conclusions, therefore, could legitimately be drawn from it, and the novelist was open to the reproach of having distorted facts to gain some private end.Moreover, his characters were, as a rule, wooden puppets, and he made matters worse by introducing hortatory dissertations.THE DETECTIVE STORY.It was not to works of this sort, however, that my eminent novelist referred when he said that the novel with a purpose was the only kind of novel for which he had any use.He was merely protesting against the novel which consists of a string of incidents, more or less sensational, more or less ingeniously combined, but never piercing beneath the surface of things, and conveying no personal impression of life as a whole.The public prefers it so, and there 1s an end of the matter.One sees the thing at its\u2019 best in the detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.It distracts those who read for distraction, and its utility must be, to that extent, admitted.The aim of the great novelists, however, is not merely to distract, but also, while distracting, to interpret.They do not indeed, like Charles Reade, devise dramatic situations to illustrate their opinions on topics of the day; but they also do not, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, regard as an end in itself the anecdote ending with a trick surprise.The only stories which they care to tell are the stories which mean something; their aim is to tell them in such a way as to bring out their meaning\u2014to give food for reflection, to suggest generalization, to leave the impress of their own minds upon the minds of those who read them.In this way Victor Hugo preached the Gospel of Humanitarianism; in this way Gorgi is now preaching the Gospel of Energy; in this way Mr.Thomas Hardy puts forward his sense of the cruelty and irony of life.Similarly with all the great novelists\u2014at all events in recent THE ARGUS.13 times.They are none of them novelists with a purpose in the narrower sense; but in the wider sense they are all entitled to the name.Their object, that is to say, is not merely to relate but to expla\u2018n\u2014 to make their readers see life as they see it, and feel about it as they feel.The best of them, of course, do it unobtrusively, with the art which conceals art.But the purpose, in that sense, is always there; and no fiction of permanent interest and value can be written without it.\u2014FRANCIS GRIBBLE, in \u201cBlack and White.\u201d ' £40,000 FOR A\u201d CHAIR.FORTUNES THAT ARE SAT ON.It is an interesting coincidence that, while the Prince of Wales is making his regal progress through one great British dependency, in another, Canada, the City of Ontario is wildly excited at the prospect of securing a certain chair on which King Edward sat during his American tour a generation and more ago.Nowhere has the King been received with more enthusiastic loyalty than in Canada, and that this loyalty is as lasting as intense is proved by the fact that enormous sums have been offered for this old-time momento.It is interesting to compare the £1,000 which is said to have been offered for this chair, intrinsically worth a few shillings, with the prices realized by other chairs which have had Royal or distinguished occupants.It is not long since two £5 notes purchased a chair in which the \u201cMerry Monarch\u201d used to sit; while another which one held a Pope went for £5 10s.Even a chair in which the great Shakespeare himself took his ease could command no higher bid than £126; Lord Byron's chair changed hands for 50s.; and £2 was the price paid for one of Sir Walter Raleigh's.A chair which at one time was used by the beautiful and ill-fated Ann Boleyn brought ten guineas, which was 50s.less than was paid for one of Bulwer- Lytton\u2019s; Gay's favorite chair was knocked down for £30, Theodore Hook's for £19, Mrs.Siddon\u2019s for £7, and Mrs.Browning's for a £5 note; while £3 10s.purchased a chair of Thackeray's and the same price was realized for one of Walter Savage Landor\u2019s.Such prices are trivial indeed compared with the £40,000 paid for a wonderful chair presented more than three centuries ago to the Emporer Rudolph IL, of Germany.The material of which it is made is steel, and it is covered with Biblical scenes executed with the most wonderful delicacy and skill.On its back is a representation of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s dream ; while on another compartment is an exquisite engraving of Daniel explaining his dream to the King.For thirty long years one of the greatest of sixteenth-century artists labored on this chair\u2014a fact which goes far to explain the enormous sum paid for it.In later years it was sold to Gustavus Brander for 1,800 guineas, and for a third of this sum it came into the hands of the Earl of Radnor.Enormous prices have been paid for chairs in recent years, notably £20,000 for a set of half-a-dozen Louis XIV.chairs, upholstered in Gobelin tapestry, which were originally made for Marie Antoinette.Even this price, by the way, was exceeded by the sums paid for three of the Hamilton Palace tables, one of which fetched £6,000: another, a Louis Quinze, £5,500; and a third, of ebony with wreaths of ormolu, £3,200.One secretaire went for 9,000 guineas, and another was knocked down for £4,620.From such prices as these there is a great drop to the £320 paid to a Birmingham firm by an Indian rajah for a gorgeous chair of cut crystal with a crystal dome fitted with electric lights.A most valuable and historically interesing suite of furniture is that which, more than a century ago, was presented by Warren Hastings to Tippoo Sahib, and which was purchased at the Londesborough sale for 1,000 guineas.The suite consists of a card- table, a sofa, two small cabinets, and four armchairs, all of solid ivory most exquisitely carved.But probably the most costly chair in the world is one of the many treasures of the Shah of Persia.It is of solid gold\u2014thickly encrusted with diamonds, rubbies, pearls, and sapphires; and its value is estimated at half a million pounds.In the House of Commons at Westminster, we must not forget, are two arm-chairs which once belonged to the late Mr.Gladstone, and one of which was his favorite seat when at Downing Street.A short time ago a romantic story was told in the French papers of two dilapidated arm-chairs which were sold among the effects of a Mme.Borg, a widow who died at Dellys, an Algerian seaport town.The widow was reputed to be rich, but a thorough search of her rooms failed to disclose any of her hoardings; and it was assumed by her relatives that she had died practicall penniless.Not long, however, after the sale of her furniture it was observed that the purchaser of the chairs, a Spanish stevedore named Perez, ceased to work, began to walk about in fine clothes, to purchase land and houses, and generally gave evidence of having come into a fortune.Suspicion being aroused, Perez was arrested, and now stands accused of having appropriated to his own use the old lady's fortune, of at least 100,000 fr., whici had been concealed by her in the dilapidated arm-chairs.\u20147'iz Bits. 14 THE ARGUS.TWO AT THE PLAY.By JOHN O'KEEFE, in the Smart Set.She sat beside me in the row of A's, And as I viewed her poise her dainty head \u2014so\u2014 I knew the ticket coupon told her praise.(\u201cA 1\u201d; it read so.) Naive her joy to sec the curtain\u2019s rise Reveal a group of villagers lymphatic.The play that evening was, you may surmise, Melodramatic.I think twas called \u201cThe Missing Prince.\u201d If not, \u201cThe Banished King\u201d proclaimed its purport vital, Or else \u201cThe Persecuted Peer\u201d was what It had for title.But what of names?The haunted house was there, Constructed solely for the midnight killing, And, as the villain\u2019s poniard fleshed in air, She gasped, \u201cHow thrilling !\u201d And \u2019mid the second act, in which the count (Or baron, or some other from the peerage) Kicked out his son, who hadn\u2019t the amount Of fare by steerage, She said, \u201cHow mean!\u201d But when the banished heir, Retaliating, pumped his sire of lead full, I heard a groan from my companion\u2019s chair : \u201cOh! ain't it dreadful!\u201d She trembled when the duke (who seemed to live For purposes of intermittent slaughter) Bowstrung his saintly wife and tried to viv- Isect his daughter.And then the mortgage! As the lawyer stiff Cried, \u201cOut ye go!\u201d as harsh evictors say it, She whispered, \u201cDo they owe him much ?\"\u2014as if She'd gladly pay it.The snowstorm came; the paper flackelets flew \u201cAbout the outcast, pale as any lily; And she her coat about her shoulders drew, She felt so chilly.I glowed with joy to think that \u2019neath the sun One girl's emotions were not wholly sated.[ loved her for the fact that she was un- Sophisticated.The curtain fell upon the plotters foiled (I think the duke committed hari-kari) And on the youth and maiden, still unspoiled, About to marry.And as I led Aer to the outer light \u2018She raised her eyes, now rid of woes alarming, And sajd, \u201cOh, thanks for suck a pleasant night! \u2018Twas really charming!\u201d Heigho! that\u2019s twenty years ago, and plays Have changed from the old-fashioned drama melo.What's that, my dear?You wish the olden days Still moved a fellow?Come, then! I should be working at my desk, But since you seek theatric melancholy We'll have it.Let me see: what's that burlesque Up at the Folly?AN AVOWAL.By FELIX CARMEN, in The Smart Set.When I first dared say, \u201cI love you,\u201d Blushing sweetly, she replied : \u201cSwear it by the stars above you, Then I shall be satisfied.\u201d So I kneeled down, and before it \u2018Was too late for growing wise, I looked up to her and swore 1t By the only stars\u2014her eyes.OUT AND BEYOND.By ALFRED KNIGHT.The weary clerk, worn out with work, Yearns for the farm\u2014its peaceful shade, The rest and quiet, where flowers run riot, And he is free from thoughts of trade.The farmer tired, has long aspired To see the town with its turmoil ; The streets ablaze, the dizzy maze, For he\u2019s a-weary of the soil.And it is best! Men should not rest Content with one horizon\u2019s brim; Beyond that goal, the aspiring soul Will find there\u2019s much in store for him.\u2014From Four-Track News for March.\u201cYour daughter! Is it possible?Why, you look more like twin sisters.\u201d \u201cNo: I assure you she is my only daughter,\u201d replied the pleased mother.And the polite old gentleman spoiled it all by remarking, \u201cWell, she certainly looks old crough to be your sister.\u201d pur rer \u2014\u2014 \u2014- 2 = lip pa ur = - \u2014 THE ARGUS.18 FAST RAILWAY TRAVEL.During the last ten years there has been a considerable acceleration in the speed of trains on Canadian railways, and there is a prospect of another considerable forward step being taken by both the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific roads in the coming season.The fastest train in Canada now is that known as the International Limited which covers the distance of 333 miles on the G.T.R.tracks between Montreal and Toronto, in 450 minutes with almost unfailing regularity.In making comparisons with the speeds on European railways especially, British, several points have to be borne in mind.There upon the one hand the tracks are rarely as straight owing to the fact that railways were opposed by the great land owners in the early days and many curves and gradients had to be constructed to avoid passing through inimical territory.Upon the other hand forty-five millions of people are concentrated in the small area of the United Kingdom; single tracks are unknown; all the leading lines have separate double tracks for their freight and passenger track\u2014sometimes more.On some railways half a dozen express trains which travel 80 miles or more without a stop.leave London within an hour; the block system is in universal and compulsory use with the result that in proportion to the number of trains run and passengers carried the number of accidents is ridiculously small.Here and in the States with our long distances and wide scattered large centres of population, absence of general double tracking and the block system, it is at yet neither profitable or safe to run such fast and frequent trains as traverse the United Kingdom.48 The New York \u201cSun\u201d says that England comes first, France second, and the United States third in the matter of speed in regular passenger railway service.THE FASTEST TRAIN.The fastest regular long distance run without stop in the world is on the Great, Western, from London to Bristol, 11814 miles in 120 minutes, or practically sixty miles an hour.In order to drop passengers at Bath a car is dropped from the train without stop, a time saving device in operation on a number of European roads, thought still unknown here.The longest run without stop made in any country is Londen to Liverpool on the London and North-Western, 201 miles, made at the rate of fifty- four miles an hour.The next longest is on the Midland, from London to Leeds, 196 miles, at the rate of fifty-two miles an hour.The train coming ncarest to these long runs without stop is the Empire State Express on the New York Central, from New York to Albany, 143 miles, at the rate of 53 64-100 miles an hour ; and the time of the same train to Buffalo, 440 miles in 500 minutes, is just a trifle faster than that of the Midland express from I.ondon to Glasgow, 447 miles, in 500 minutes.Each makes four regular stops.The North-Western runs a train from London to Glasgow, 40115 miles, in eight hours, making only two stops.The Great Northern runs a train from London to Doncaster, 156 miles, without stop, in 169 minutes, at the rate of 5554 miles an hour, and the Great Central train runs over England\u2019s new road, from London to Sheffield, 165 miles, in 170 minutes, better than 58 miles an hour, slipping a car at Leicester without stop.The fast and long runs are common to all the trunk lines in England, while in the United States the fast runs are all confined to two roads, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania.Compared to many English fast runs the time between New York and Washington and Boston is slow.The distance to the two cities from New York is about the same, and in both cases the fastest trains make it in five hours (or a little over, now, to Boston), or at the rate of 46 miles an hour, three stops being made in each case.THOUSAND MILES\u2019 RUNS.For runs of nearly 1,000 miles no country can show trains to compare with the New York and Chicago trains on the New York Central, the best trains making the 980 miles in 1,080 minutes, or at 54 miles an hour.While this is not quite so fast as the time made by the fast trains from Paris to Lyons and Marseilles, the distance is twice as great as across France.Coming to short runs and special summer trains, undoubtedly the fastest are from Camden to Atlantic City.Here some very fast time has been made over an ideal country for fast time; by both the Reading and the Pennsylvania.The Reading has set the pace, and the Pennsylvania followed.The best Reading time is 56%4 miles in 50 minutes, or 66 miles an hour, while the best Pennsylvania time is 50 miles at the rate of 64 miles an hour.These constitute all the fast regular trains in the United States.The fastest run in New England outside the Boston-New York run, is from\u2019 Boston to Portland at the rate of 44 miles an hour, and \u2018the 16 THE ARGUS.showing is still poorer in the West and South Chicago, in many respects the greatest railroad center in the world, has no fast trains outside the New York Central and the Pennsylvania trains referred to.THE EMPRESS EXPRESSES.The distance from Montreal to Vancouver is 2,006 miles and a special through train run by the Canadian Pacific railway when it inaugurated its Trans- Pacific steamship service with the Empress of Japan in 1891, made a record long distance run.The regular C.P.R.schedule last year allowed 132 hours for the through journey in the winter months and 97 hours by the Imperial Limited in the tourist season.We may see a great change in the schedule in the coming summer and a passenger landing from the \u201cEmpress of Britain\u201d at Quebec, being put on board the \u201cEmpress of China\u201d at Vancouver in little more than 80 hours; if such a speed is not attained regularly in 1906, we may be sure the time is not far distant when this great continent will be crossed in three days according to the regular schedule.The distance from Quebec to Vancouver is five times the length of Great Britain from John O\u2019Groats to the Land\u2019s End.\u2014_\u2014 DRAWBACKS TO CANADIAN ART.Art apparently is now going solid for tariff reform, says a writer in \u201cArts and Crafts\u201d Anyhow, this appears to be the case in Canada, where, in spite of the prosperity in all other spheres there is a deplorable slump in art.The Ontario Society ot Artists, of which Mr.Bell-Smith is president, recently asked the Tariff Commission for the imposition of a tax of $10 on every oil, water-color, or pastel painting, or piece of sculpture brought into Canada.It was suggested, however, that the works of the Canadian artists residing abroad should be admitted free.Canadian artists have to pay a duty of 30 pc.on brushes, colors, and other requisites.\u201cThat in itself is bad enough,\u201d they say, \u201cseeing that we are trying to create a sound and good Canadian school of painting\u201d But they go further; they also blame the existing law, declaring that it is responsible for the advent into Canada of all the \u201csweepings\u201d from the studios of England, France, Germany, and other European countries.\u201cSpurious pictures, passed off as the work of famous artists, are dumped down here,\u201d said Mr.Bell-Smiith, \u201cand thcy are palmed off upon an unsuspecting public.We have no wish to prevent the reception of really meritorious works.\u201d The Ontario Society of Artists also complains that false standards of art are set up as a result of the trade in these trashy pictures.\u2014 Canada.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HER TREASURE.\u201cAngelina, dost thou love me?\u201d His accents were sweet and soft.It was not surprising that they were soft.He was built that way on general principles.\u201cOf course, Henry, with all my heart.\u201d \u201cThen fly with me to-night.Let us leave this house at once and seek some blessed spot where we two will have a well-defined monopoly of all earth\u2019s joys and sorrows.Hasten! Do not lose a moment.\u201d As he delivered this impassioned speech her face grew bright with an intense light of joy.Then a thought seemed to strike her.She had them often.Her smile was overclouded with a look of deepest pain.\u201cNo, no,\u201d she sobbed; \u201cI cannot, I cannot.\u201d .\u201cDearest,\u201d he murmured, \u201cthat is three times you said you cannot, and I only want you to fly once.Why cannot you?\u201d \u201c]\u2014I\u20141\u201d she stammered, incoherently.\u201cThe I's have it,\u201d said he, resignedly.\u201cYet I fail to understand your suddenly-conceived prejudice against flying.I thought that you were partial to that mode of matrimony.However, no fly if you say so.\u201d \u201cForgive me.1 would leave wealth, parents, friends for your sake, but securely locked in yonder room is a treasure from which I could never part.I know not whether it is a device of my father\u2019s to stay my flight, but I cannot leave without my treasure.\u201d \u201c A dark look of suspicion mantled his face, and in three strides he had crossed the room and burst open the door of the mysterious chamber.\u201cNow,\u201d said he, \u201csecure your treasure.\u201d She entered, and when she came out with a tan- colored, full-eyed, snub-nosed pug dog, Henry picked up his hat and went out and flew all by himself.\u2014 Tit Bits.tees cll HOPE DEFERRED.Madge: Don\u2019t worry about a husband, dear.A pretty girl is certain to marry.Marjorie: It would be all right if there wasn\u2019t such an uncertainty about the certain things of this world.522 20e 2 20 2 = = \u2014 ee \u2014 2\u20ac 2 2 == 20 \u2014 22000 THE ARGUS.{7 HOW TO DO IT.\u201cTo make a modern rhagazine, \u2019 Take, say, three hundred pages, ËFill three of these with photographs , Of grafters, statesmen, sages, .Of sonnets, here and there, use one To finish up a page, And devote full twenty pages To the people of the stage.Three very short stories\u2014 Motor car in every one\u2014 Fill the rest with advertising, And your magazine is done.\u201d \u2014 Exchange.A TOAST FOR ST.PARICK'S DAY.\u201cSt.Patrick was a gentleman, who, Through strategy and stealth; Drove all the snakes from Ireland \u2014 Here's a bumper to his health But not too many bumpers, lest we lose Ourselves and then Forget the good St.Patrick, and see The snakes again.\u201d \u2014T he Franciscan Review.THE DUTCHMAN TO HIS DOG.{ \u201cYou vas only a dog, but I vish I vas you; when you go mit your bed in, yoy shust turn dree dime- sand lay down: ven I go mit my bed in I haf to lock up the blace and wind up the clock, and put the cat out, and ondress mit myself; and mine vraw vakes and scolds; den de baby vakes up and cries and I haf to valk him mit de house round; den maybe ven I gets myself to bed it is time to det up again.Now mine dog ven you gets up you shust stretch yourself, dig your neck a leeddle, and you vas up.I haf to light de fire put on de keddle, scrap some mit my vife already and get myself breakfust.You play arount all day and have blenty of fun.I haf to vork all day and haf blenty of drubble.Ven you die you vas dead; ven I die I haf to go to hell yet.\u201d To a gentleman who has married the daughter of a rich biscuit-baker, a friend said: \u2014 \u201cSo you have taken, not the cake, but the biscuit this time?\u201d \u201cYes, and the tin with it,\u201d was the witty, if un- gallant, reply.ATTIC PHILOSOPHIES.Follow nobody's advice till you're sure where it went to.There's no fear of anybody accusing you of being a monopolist for minding your own business.Never refuse to fight when a man calls you a fool.It\u2019s always worth while to stick up for the truth.READY TO HELP.She weighed close upon twenty stone, but she insisted on entering the crowded tramcar.and as sle stood and swayed with the movement of the car she waxed sarcastic.\u201cIf there were any gentlemen in the car,\u201d she said, \u201cthey would not allow a lady to stand!\u201d And then little Dobbins got up from his seat with a sigh.\u201cDon\u2019t be cross, ma'am,\u201d he said; \u201cI'll make one towards it!\u201d It is expected that the new Molsons Bank to be built on Bay Street, Toronto, almost opposite the present building at the corner of King street, will be ready for business by May 1, 1907.Work on it will begin just as soon as the plans have been completed.The plans are now being worked on in Montreal.The structure will be one hundred feet long by fifty feet wide, and will have the appearance in front of a two storey building.Light will be obtained by means of a skylight.The building will be used only for the purpose of a bank.It is not intended to have a building of an elaborate character.but the idea is to have everything in keeping with the requirements of a first-class banking establishment.\u201cOh.I say !\u201d exclaimed the young mother, \u201cbaby\u2019s got your watch in her mouth.\u201d \u201cI know,\u201d replied the fond uncle, \u201cbut I've got hold of the chain, and I won't let it go down too far\u201d \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 \u2014 Doctor: \u201cDo you talk in you sleep ?\u201d Patient: \u201cNo; I talk in other peoples.I'm a clergyman.\u201d The Merchants Bank has opened a branch at Orillia, under the management of Mr.F.I.Mac- Gachen. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.Sealed tenders, addressed to the undersigned, marked on the envelope.\u2018\u2019Tenders for Construction,\u201d will Le received at the oflice of the Commissiuners of the Transcontinental Railway at Ottawa, until 12 o'clock noon on Monday, the 12th day of March, 16, for the work required for the construction, in accordance with the plans, profiles and specifications of said commissioners, for the following sections of the Transcontinental Railway, the sald work to be completed on or before the first day of September, 1907, viz.: (1) District \"\u201cF.\u2019\u2014From a point designated on the plans of the said Commissioners, at or near the City of Winnipeg, to à point known as Peninsula Crossing, near the junction point of the Fort William branch or the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, a distance of about 215 miles.(2) District \u201cB\u2019\u2019\u2014From a point designated on the plans of the said Commissioners, at the north end of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company's bridge in the vicinity of the City of Quebec, to a point near La Tuque, a distance of about 150 miles.(3) A steel viaduct about 3,000 feet long across the Cap Mouge Valley, in said District \u201cB,\u201d in the vicinity of the City of Quebec, the work to be performed in accordance with the General Specifica- tlons of the Commissioners of the Transcontinental Railway, and the General Specifications for steel bridges and viaducts of the Department of Railways and Canals of Canada, 1906.Plans, profiles and specifications may be seen in the office of the Chlef Engineer of the Commissioners at Ottawa, also in the office of the District Engineer at Kenora, Ontario, for the section of District \u201cF, and for the section of District \u201cB\u2019 in the office of the District Iingineer at Quebec.Persons tendering are notified that tenders wili not be considered unless made in duplicate, and on the printed forms supplied by the Commissioners.Seperate tenders must be submitted for the work in each District.Tenderers shall not be in any way entitled to rely upon the classification af any other information given by any person on behalf of the Cummissioners, and before submitting any tender bidders should make a careful examination of the plans, profiles, drawings and specifications, and read the forms to be executed, and fully inform themselves as to the quantity and quality of materials and character of workmanship required, and are understood to accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions contained in the form of contract, specifications, etc., annexed to the form of tender, Each tender must be signed and sealed by all the parties to the tender and witnessed, and be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank of the Dominion of Canada, payable to the Commissioners of the Transcontinental Railway.for the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), for District \u201cFF.\u201d and two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,0000 for District \u201cB,\u2019* and thirty-five thousand dollars (835,000) for steel viaduct in said District \u201cRB.\u201d Any person whose tender ls accepted shall, within ten days after the acceptance thereof, furnish the securitv required by the Commissioners for the due and faithful performance of the contract according to its terms, sign the contract, specifications and other documents required to be signed by said Commissioners; and in any case of refusal or failure on the part of the party whose tender is accepted to complete and execute a contract with the sald Commissioners and to furnish the approved security within ten days after the acceptance of the tender, the said cheque shall \u201c\\n fawfeited to the Commissioners as liquilated damages for such refusal or THE ARGUS.failure, and all contract rights acquired by the acceptance of the tender ahall be forfeited.Cheques deposited by parties whose tenders are rejected will be returned within ten days after the sign - of the contract.Attention is called to the following clauses in the form of contract: ~All mechanics laborers or other persons who perform labor for the purpose of the construction of the works hereby contracted for shall be pald such wages as are generally accepted as current for competent workmen in the District in which the work is being performed, and, if there is no current rate in such District, then a fair and reasonable rate; and, in the event of a dispute arising as to what is the current or a fair and reasonable rate, it shall be determined by the Commissioners, whose decision shail be final.\u201d \u2018This agreement is subject to the regulations now in force, or which may at any -time hereafter be in force during the construction of the work hereby contracted for, made under the authority of the Department of Labor, and which are or shall be applicable to such works.\u201d \u201cThe contractor shall in connection with the whole of the said work, as far us practicable, use only material, machinery, plant, supplies and rolling stock manufactured or produced in Canada, provided the same can be obtained as cheaply and upon as good terms in Canada as elsewhere, Wving regard to quality and price.\u201d The contractor shall conform to the Fire Regulations adopted by the Commissioners, and also to the Laws and Regulations respecting fires in the different Provinces wherein the work is being performed.The right is reserved to reject any or all tenders, By order, P.E.RYAN, Secretary.The Commissioners of the Transcontinental Rallway.Ottawa, Feb.8, 1906.Newspapers inserting this advertisement without authority from the Commissioners will not be paid for it.A WOMAN'S FRUIT FARM.The history of Mrs.Minerva Greenice\u2019s fruit farm, west of Atchison, is a story of how a woman, who didn\u2019t know a jimson weed from a tomato vine, made a venture in the dark, and made it pay.When Mrs.Greenlee bought the 30 acres of land 21 years ago there were 10 acres in corn and the rest in brush: there were only two trees on the place and not a plant: she was a widow with three small children, and had to learn by experience, but by hard work and perseverance she has as well a stocked fruit farm as you will find anvwhere, and has made it a success.There arc 23 acres in fruit: 10 in apples, five in grapes and cight in other fruit.In a good vear her peaches have netted her as much as $1.500: she raises 10 tons of grapes in a good vear, and gets as high as 8 cents a SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN: NORTHWEST.: HOMESTEAD REGULATIONS, ANY even numbered section of Domi- A nion Lands \\u Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, excepting § and 26.not reserved, may be homesteaded by any person who is the sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years of age, to the extent of one-quarter section of 160 acres, more or less.Entry may be made porsonally at the local land office for the district in which the land Is situate, or if the homesteader desires, he may, on application to the Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, the Commissioner of Immigration, Winnipeg, or the local agent receive authority for some one to make entry for him.The homesteader is required to perform the conditions connected therewith under one of the following plans: (1) At least six meonthsl residence upon and cultivation of the land in each year for three years.(2) If the father (or mother, if the father is deceased) of the homesteader resides upon a farm in the vicinity of the land entered for the requirements as to residence may be satisfied by such person residing with the father or mother.(3) If the settler has his permanent residence upon farming land owned by him In the vicinity of his homestead, the requirements as to residence may he satisfied by residence upon the said land.Six months\u2019 notice in writing should be given to the cC\u2018ommissioner of Dominion Lands at Ottawa of intention to apply for patent.W.W.CORY.Deputy of the Minister of the Interior.N.B.\u2014Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for.- aed Tee pound for the first on the market, down to 1 cent for the latest.She raises strawberries.gooseberries, raspberries, plums, peaches, pears, apples and cherries, and is placing great hopes in an olive tree.You have all heard of strange fads: It is Mrs.Greenlee's fad to buy every kind of tree she ever hears of, and she has from 6,000 to 8,000 trees on the place.A remarkable experience Mrs.Greenlee has had is that it pavs bevond expectation to raise asparagus.She has an acre in it, and clears from $150 to $175 from it every spring, and while the work is hard, the season for working in the bed is short.The acre of asparagus furnishes lces invited to all the weddings:ip, the county.oo THE ARGUS.© MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE , BANKS\u2014 \u2014\u2014_ | , Montreal.\u2026.\u2026.vous 258 257 \u2018GLO SING PRICES | © Omt@rid so.o,20c0cccse us vos cocusa sous eue Lee yey British North America ceee as tees escs sousess Sa cee ; .OINONS sovcoy c0sace 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