The Herald, 12 février 1898, samedi 12 février 1898

[" 2\" Ce SOOO ets, r en d ac o'clock T OF holding | ¢ DIS held in I'Y OF T DAY jock iB OTICE 18it any of the y Dust so give oiponeny 1e sald it, then 11s, In 1 order o then E, Sheriff, bettet of MN ng, em: ly aod rect {ng the yt and y cout well Co pment gai nst Th raê yerpod verpot! posto?Export crante! == - TT EE \"= pp - mm - 16 Pages.Pages 1 to 8.91ST © > %.% T7 _ ==.YEAR.No.36.44, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1808.PRICE ONE CENT.DEAMANE SLATE WAS ALL RIGHT, The Herald Named the Com- mittees Exactly.\u2014 ALL WAS SMOOTH SAILING.a\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Rac Members Well Satisfied, FINANCE.* 4tà.Rainville, chairm: mn.ride Beausoleil M al Archamba alt hers Paquette ROADS.Ald.Brunet, chalrman, Turner Martineau Gallery Dupre Wilson Ouimet POLICE.Ald.Marsolais, chairman, : nsell Jaicques Kinoche Lareau Clearihue Roy FIRE.Ald.Kinsella, chairman.Dufresne J ais Mer Ames Laporte Clearhiue WATER.Ald.Kinsella, chairman.learihue en Prenoveau Laporte,\" Dupre MARKETS.Ald.Jacques, chairman.\u2019 oO Oy Wilson Gagnon Turner HEALTH.\u201c3 Ald.Prenovexu, chairman, Brunet Gallery Roy Ames 3 Dufresne Turner PARK AND FERRIES.Ald.Ames, chairman.Stevenson Gagnon Roy Clearihue Lareau Laporte The above is the arrangement of the avic committees for 1898, as decided upon at the general caucus held in the Council Chamber yesterday afternoon.The forecast of the divisiom of the chairmanships given in yesterday's Herald was correct in every particular.The very best of good feeling prevailed The chairmen were appointed witéut u single division, and the m°mbers of the Finance and Roads Com- nittees were all appointed without a vote being asked, with the exception of Ald.Archambault, who had to contest the seat Only once or twice did \u2018the race question arise, and then need- lossly.Although in a majority of two to one the French members showed a disposition to deal fairly with the English-speak- ing members.Early in the proceedings Ald.Stevenson began to make a speech of potest against injustice to the English- epeaking members.He had fortified him- «f with facts and statistics that were intended to show that the English aad French should have share and share alike But Mayor Prefontaine stopped him im the middle cf Lis oration and informed him that it was the intention to give their English ool- leagues all the Tepresenation on commit- lees they had asked.The Mayor stated that it was the intention to ghws the English aldermen three chairmanships out of the eight and, as far as possible without doing injustice to the French aldermen, three seats on each of the other committees.The arrangement was well adhered to and the English aldermen got the chairmanships of Water, Fire and Parks, and three places on each of the Finance, Po- It was impossible for them to have three seats on the Roads.Three of them were named for Water and Markets.but one on each committee were afterwards asked to make room for aldermen Laporte and Wilson respectively, meither of whom had at that time been placed on more than one com- wittee, Ald.Turner gave way to Ald.Laporte on the Water amd Ald.Clearihue stepped out from the Markets Committee at the cawes.with Ald M.arsolais.of everything that was going.lice, Fire, Health and Parks.in order to do justice to Ald.Wilson.During the mittee, but the Mayor ruled that Council.to as far as possible, The first vote was to decide between Ald.Marsolais and Ald.Arcleyimbault for Sat : Ald.| ainville, dhairman, included Ald.Marso- ais in \u2018his list, but Ald.Archambault took Exception to Fast Ward having two re- Presentatives on Finance.A motion Was pat, and carried, to substitute the name of -d.Archambault for\u201dthat of Ald.Mar- à seat on the Finance Committee.solais.After this the sailing was compara- (ely smooth.At times it was difficult Justi ustice to all, but the discussion was car- Tied on in a good spirit.\u20ac new members of the Conneil were Ald.Paquette and ; Ald.Gallery is à member of the Roads, Mar- Ald.Ames, in addition : of the ar 18 a member of the Police, Fire and Health, Ald.Clearihue ares on the Police, Fire, Water and and Ferries; Ald.Lareau on the and Ferries; AN = snon on the Water and Markets; and À ÿ on the Police, Markets, Health Ald.Dufresne on liberally treated.\u2019kers were placed on the Finance, kets ang Health.0 receiving the chai airmanshi arks and Ferries, i will git AM Markets and Parks arks and Ferries: the Fire and Health.\u2019 QUEBEC CITY NEWS.Tw 0 Indiang Arrive in tho City With Short Tickets, Quebec, Febru ar nister of Crown Land of Hmber limits by ands Departm March neat.he lo chiefly in the Lake ial Ghost Did Not Appear\u2014New ~~ discussion, Ald.Jacques suggested the formation of amother com- the Proposition could not be considered in Ald.Martineau wanted the members of the Roads Committee limited to membership in one other committee, and all aldermen limited to membership in thiee committees.The latter part of the suggestion was adopted and adhered arrange fife committees so as to do y, 11, [Special]\u2014The Mi- S18 announcing a sale quon at the Crown ?n Tuesday, the 22nd The lots to to be uffered are small parcels in the St.wice and Lower Ottawa < put up, regions, Francis, S¢ 2 agencies wil) >.Two Indiatr® ed in the city yesters day, under the ssion that the ticket issued to them b, .neir agent, carried them to Ottawa.After interviewing the local Ministers, they were handed over to the Chief of the Provincial Police, who will attend to their case.Lt.Col.Farley is acting as commandant of the R.C.A during Lt.-Col.Wilsun\u2019s absence attending the Dominion Artillery Association meeting at Ottawa.Captain DuPlessis temporarily replaces Major Rutherford in command of No 1 Company for the same reason, The balance of the cargo of damaged grain, consisting of about 10,000 bushels, on board the SS.Turret Cape, now in the Levis graving dock, has bcen purchased by Mr.Hugh McLennan.It is now in course of being transhipped into cars to be forwarded to Montreal.John Theodore Ross, Esq., was yesterday elected Vice-President of the Quebec Bunk, as the successor of the late W.H.Withall, Esq.Mr.Ross is one of the most energetic and capable of our young business men, and well deserves this high recognition of his abilities.At a meeting of the Quebec Snowshoe Club, it was decided to hold an excursion to Sherbrooke over the Quebec Central on the 25th inst.They have received an invis tation from the Sherbrooke Club to be there on that day, as they are holding their games and races, and our boys will have an opportunity of participating in them.REIS A FIGHTING MACHINE - Fitzsimmot 5s Claims to be the Holder of vix Championships.Corbett Is the Most Scienced Boxer He Bver Met, but Cannot Punch.\u2014_ There must be some wonderful grog served over the bars of some of the De troit saloons.Either that or Fitzsimmons must have been kidding some one.Think or Fitzsimmons, after calling Corbett a cur, a \u2018bluffer, a quitter, a looking-g'ass fighter; in fact everything in the calendar, giving utterance to the following.Charlie Steiger, of the Detroit Tribune, in a recent interview, said that Fitz, while in a confidential mood, expressed himself about Corbett as follows :\u2014 \u201cIn my heart of hearts,\u201d said Fitzsim- mons, \u201cI like the fellow.He is the most sciericed boxer I ever went up against, But fine boxing does mot win fights.If Cor- bett could only punch \u2018he would be a marvel.But he cannot hit.That was conclusively shlown at Carson City.He Janded repeatedly, but did not hurt me.The difference between us is this: Corbett is a boxer; I am a fighting machine, 1 can take ten of this blows in order to get in one of my jabs.Of course, the public expects me to roest and malign him, but, as I remarked before, I cannot help but like the man.He will never be able to whip me.I say this without braggadocio.1 know that I can whip him in jig time whenever we meet again, When will we meet ?That is a stunner, Perhaps never.\u201cThe public in general does not know it, but 1 am the undisputed holder of six world\u2019s championships.First, I am the champion middle-weight pugilist of the world.I am also the champion of champions, and had a clear title to the world's heavyweight championship.Then\u2014now | suppose you will laugh\u2014I am the champion golf player of the world.I am also the champion bag-puncher of the country.Again, I atn the champion horseshoer ot the world, having manufactured 37 shoës in 25 minutes.And last of all, I hold the championship as the best tenpin bowler in any country.I am not bragging about my abilities, I am willing to let my record stand for itself.As for tthe fighting game, [ do not have to put on a glove again.1 may, though, some time, take up Kid Me- Coy, and put him out of the business, as f did Corbett.I think that in my present condition, I can whip any man of my weight in the world, bar none.\u201d WESTMOUNT\u2019S GARBAGE, Mr.James Harrison, chief constable and sanitary inspector of Westmount, has issued the following circular: I beg to inform you, that owing to the impassable condition of most lanes in the town, the sanitary authority has ordered the collection of ashes to be discontinued from now until further notice, But the scavengers will make their regular rounds, twice a week, to collect gor- bage, which should be placed in an accessible position, from seven o\u2019clock on the morning of each day.The northern district is from boulevard to Western evenue, and from Wood to Church Hill avenue, and is worked on Mondays and Thursdays.The eastern district is from Clarke and Hallowell to Atwater avenue, and from Western south to St.Antoine street, and is worked on Wednesdays and Saturdays.The western district is from and inclusive of Metcalfe avenue to Claremont, and from Cote Road to the C.P.R.tracks, and is worked on Tuesdays and Fridays.Complaints should be made to the police office, or by telephone to 3082 THE L.A.W.MEETING.St.Louis, Mo., Feb.11\u2014The National Assembly of the L.A.W.met an hour and a half late to-day.Several amendments relative to admission of professiomals to membership were indefinitely postponed.A number of amendments were passed upon with merely the reading.The first to excite any debate was one inserting a new section to be called No.9 in article 3, as adopted it read: No professional shall be eligible to try in any open race under the rules df the L.A.W., unless he is registered by the National Racing Board.Chairman Mott, of the National Racing Board asked that he be permitted to charge professionals a registration fee of $2.He desired to raise funds to enable him to pay each of the members of his beard a stated salary.A resolution was adopted providing that the registration of professionals shall be entirely under rules to be made by the Racing Board, but that the fee shall not be over $2.Six days\u2019 continuous racing held under L.A.W.auspices, was done away with by the adoption of an amendment to the racing rules, providing that in eny six day race held hereafter the contestants will be compelled to rest at least two hours a day St John and Saguenay or twelve hours during the contest.\\ THE KLONDIKE OF MONTREAL That is What They Call the Stock Market, SOME GREAT ADVANCES, In Which the Bulls Have Made Lots of Money.1 The local 'stock market ds beginning to be called the Montreal Klondike, and in a great many respects it justifies the title.It has \u2018been a Klondike to hundreds, and is yet.There seems to be mo let up to the advances on the market, and the feeling today is just as bullish as it was a month or so ago when the leading stocks were five to fifteen points lower.All sorts and conditions of busivess men have been in the market, and have made money.Men who would probably be thought the last in the wolrd to undertake such a ticklish thing as speculation are now daily visitors to the broxker\u2019s offices, while #t is mot unreasonable to believe that many of the fair sex are taking a greater interest in the market tham ever before.(Over a month ago the buying fever was found to be contagious.Men in all branches of business caught it, and became carried away with the belief that prices were going higher.They bought and have made money.But that does mot mean that \u2018they have dropped out of the market altogether.The interest in stocks today is just as great, perhaps greater than it has been for many a day, and those who have sold out and have taken profits just seem to be hanging around for another opportunity to make their winings still larger.' Many Opportunities, There is no doubt but that the market has offered some handsome opportunities for the fbulls, not in one stock alone, but in at least a half a dozen of them.Take for instance the action of Montreal Street Railway during the past week.It sold on Monday as low as 249.For several days there was no pronounced movement in the stock, but matters began to look interesting Thursday \u2018morning.In the afternoon of that day there was a jump from 254 to 258%, which was a gain of exactly 8 points over the quotation of the day previous.Then the stock went still higher, and Friday it showed a clear gain for the week of 10 points.The main reasons for this advance were the continued good earnings of the company, and the fact that when the demand sprung up the stock was found to Le comparatively scarce.Since the first of the year Street Railway has advanced exactly 24 points.Another gold mine for the bulls has been Toronto railway, but it is probable that there has been quite as much investment buying in the stock as speculative.The opening price this week was 994, and in a few days it jumped over three points, selling on Friday at 1024.That figure is 16 points above the opening sale on the first of January.Vhe Other Securities.These are probably the largest gains so far recorded, but as a matter of fact there is not an active stock on the list ithat 1s mot materially higher now than at the beginning of the year.Canadian Pacific, for instance, shows a gain of about 7 points, but it is lower now than it was a couple of weeks ago, which is due mainky to the feeling of uneasiness created by the rate war affair.Previous to that, however, the stock had a remarkable advance, and some time ago, in the }.ondon market, showed a cléar gain of 45 points over the low price recorded during the dull period just eleven months ago.Grand Trunk securities also scored a handsome advance in London, but were not quoted on this market.Montreal Gas since the first of the year shows a gain of over 7 points, while Halifax Tram has advanced fully 13 points.Another stock to show a good gain since January lst is Commercial Cable, the advance being 10 points.Royal Electric was weak during the past nveek, but took on from 15 to 20 points since the year opened.This only mentions scme of the leading stocks, but it is needless perhaps to say that the wirole list has kept more or less in sympathy wth the favorites, and has gone a good deal (higher.The question with the bulls is whether or not the market is still going to go up.Some think that stocks are too high, and that the improvement in general business has been fully discounted.Others think differently, and continue to buy for a rise.Here ig the way the favorites acted diur- ing the week:\u2014 Mion- Fri- Ad- day.«day.vance.Royal Electrio.159 1568 *23 Halifax Tram.128 1294 14 Toronto St.Rv.993 1024 3 Montreal Street.249 259 10 Pacific.\u2026 .\u2026 .\u2026.883 88 *1 Gas.\u2026.\u2026.1977 1974 *1 Dom.Coal bonds.107 106 * Cable.+ oo os +.188 188 eee { .*Decline.7 BADLY FROZEN- The Experiences of a London Corres pondent in the Klondike.Victoria, Feb.12.\u2014Mr.Hayward, who left here last year for Dawson City in the interest of the London Daily Mail, has met with a disaster.According to the re-| ports \u201cthat have been received he was forced to abandon the trip, and is now in one of the camps along the trail, nursing badly frozen hands and feet.He was ai member of the Harmsworth exploration | party.At the head of Lake Lebarge Hayward\u2019s Indian guide warned him that a storm was brooding, and that it would be dangerous to attempt the trip on the ice.He went out in spite of the warning, and was caught on the ice.HIS SPECIALTY WAS BICYCLE STEALING.\u2018foronto, Feb.12.\u2014Detective Davis yesterday arrested a man the department has been in search of since August.He registered as Charles Findley, but the was af- terwards identified as Charles Lutz, who was released last suminer, after serving a two years\u2019 term in the Central prison.About the time of Lutz\u2019 release, bicycle stealing in the city and suburbs materially increased.Two months later Davis found fourteen of the stolen wheels near Oak- ville.The man who sold the stolen machines also swindled the hotelkeepers in the neighborhood with counterfeit money.The thief and swindler was described as wearing a peculiar waistcoat and having a powder mark on his face.Davis noticed à peculiar mark on Lutz\u2019 face when he wet him on the street the other day, and yesterday \u2018he traced him to his boardinghouse, 69 Richmond street west, where he found Lutz, a peculiar waistcoat, and af - sum of counterfeit money.He brought Lutz before Magistrate Denison, who, in the absence of a specific charge, granted a verbal remand.In the afternoon the trunk owned by Lutz wus taken to police theadquarters and searched.In a shirt front about $4,000 worth of counterfeit $5, $10 and $20 Bank of Commerce bills were round.Coloring crayons and inks for raising bills, and fine mucilage for pasting together cut bills, were also discovered.He will next be charged with passing a counterfeit $10 bili upon the proprietor of the Royal Hotel.CANADN'S BIGGEST BONSPIEL Events at Winnipeg Narrowing Down ! to Finals, Those That Are Left Out of the 103 Rinks Competing.Winnipeg, Feb.12.\u2014Winnipeg\u2019s big curling bonspiel is gradually narrowing down to the finals.The attendance of rinks is so large that the ice provided for play has proved insufficient to accommodate all the games, although five rounds have been played each day.Last night a brief respite was taken for the banquet, when over five hundred curlers sat down at table at the Hotel Manitoba, and spent the evening merrily with speech and song.It was the largest social gathering of curlers ever held in Canada.The grand challenge is reduced to the following rinks :\u2014Sparling, Portage {a Prairie, vs.Peel, Thistles, Winnipeg; Brown, Thistles, Winnipeg, vs.James Mc- Diarmid, Granites, Winnipeg; Rochon, Fort William, vs.Dunbar, Thistles, Winnipeg; Georgeson, Granites, Winnipeg, vs.Patton, Assiniboines, Winnipeg.In the Walkerville tankard competition the eight remaining rinks out of the 103 who competed are :\u2014McDonald, Assim- boines, vs.Verner; Granites, Winnipeg, Pitblado, Granites, Winnipeg, vs.Dunbar, Thistles, Winnipeg; MeDonald, Assini- boines, Winnipeg, vs.Peel, Thistles, Winnipeg; Hope, Carberry, vs.Grant, Winnipeg.T'en rinks remain in the Royal Caledonia competition, and fifteen for the Paterson consolation contest.Play is also piw- gressing in the Dolge, Tuckett and Galt events.\u2014_ SARAH BERNHARDT ILL.She Will Have to Undergo a Serious Operation, Paris, Feb.12.\u2014Mme.Sarah Bernhardt has long suffered from internal pains.Recently these have been much aggravated.It was intended that the late Dostor Peun ghould perform a necessary operation; but, now, having cancelled her engagements, Madame Bernhardt will go into a hospital where Doctor Pozzi, next Wednesday, will perform an operation for the removal of a fibred growth which has been complicated by irregular meals and the strain of constant travel.Madame Bernhardt is :n capital spirits, and Doctor Pozzi is couii- dent of the success of the operation.ST.MAURICE FISH AND GAME CLUB The annual meeting of the St.Maurice Fish and Game Club was held at the Wind sor Hotel.In vne absence of the president, Dr.W.H.Drummond, the chair was taken by the vice-president, Mr.Reid Ttylor.The financial report for the year was presented, and proved to be most gratifying.The election of officers then took place with the following results:\u2014President, Dr.W.H.Drummond, Montreal; vice-presi- dent, Mr.Reid Taylor, Montreal; secretary treasurer, Mr.Richard Wilton, Montreal; directors, W.H.Parker, Lac-la-Pehha; Dr.Chas.McBurnie, New York; Dr.G.S.Huntingdon, Columbia College, New York; \u2018 C.R.G.Johnson, Montreal; B.Me- Lean, Montreal.House Committee-Dr.W.H.Drum- mond, Reid Taylor, W.H.Parker.A proposition that the club should hold an annual dinner was very cordially received, and it was decided that the first annual dinner of the St.Maurice Club should be arranged to take place early in March.$200,000 BLAZE IN CLEVELAND.Cleveland, Ohio, Feb.12\u2014The Hoyt building, a five-story brick structure, at the north-west corner of Bank and St.Clair streets, occupied by stores and various manufacturing concerns, was entirely destroyed by fire at en early hour this morning.Loss estimated at $200,000.New York, Feb, 12.\u2014Opposite Manhattan Field, at 155th street and Eighth avenue, fire, last night, destroyed thegreater part of the frame buliding that covered half a block.The buildings were the Atlanta Casino, the hotel of John J.Troy, fcrmerly baseball player.QUEBEC'S CITY COUNCIL.Quebec, Feb.12.\u2014(Special.)\u2014At night\u2019s meeting of the City Council His Worship the Mayor referred to certain newspaper statements about the Parry | Sound Railway, which he said placed the Council in a wrong light.His Worship went on to show how much the present Council had done, and also spoke of improper attempts which had been made in ; order to have the Council vote a certain subsidy.After further explanations from His Worship, the Council adjourned.OTTAWA SLEEHPING CAR SERVIUE, VIA CANADIAN PACIFIC.Commencing Sunday, 13th inst, tirst- class sleeping cars will run locally between Montreal and Ottawa on trains leaving Montreal, Windsor street, at 9.10 p.m., and leaving Ottawa 4.25 am.Passengers from Montreal will be allowed to remain in car until 9 am.Retuming passengers from Ottawa will be permitted to board car at or after 9 p,m.the evening previous.| last, | 2.30.\\ CHEL DNITTS CAIN HUMOR \u2014\u2014 Told British Commoners He Was Used to Irons.FOREIGN POLICY SESSION.sou The King of Abyssinia Will Visit European Capitals.London, Feb.12.\u2014Parliament opens without anything in the shape of a great sensation, but with a general feeling on both sides of the llouse that matters will take a livelier turn later.Most of the prophets are of the opinion that it will be a foreign policy session, the position of the Government depending very largely upon the extent to which it ean justify its relations with the Powers.The general tone sof the lohby conversation showed that dissatisfaction with the action of the Marquis of Salisbury was widespread among his supporters, particularly in regard to the Chinese loan and West Africa.The Par- linmentary secretary for the F oreign Office.Mr.George Curzon, started session badly by making enemies.All parties resent hie brutal taunt of Mr.Michael Davitt during Thursday\u2019s dissentions over slavery in Zanzibar.Mr.Davitt asked if some of the female prisoners were kept in irons.\u201cPossibly they were,\u201d responded Mr.Curzon, \u201cand perhaps the honorable gentleman knows that there are people in this country who are not unacquainted \u2018with handcuffs.\u201d Mr.Davitt promptly replied:\u2014 \u201cYes, I, myself.\u201d Then there were such cries of \u201cShame,\u201d \u201cWithdraw,\u201d and \u201cApologize,\u201d that even the usual complacency of Mr.Curzon was upset, and \u2018he said: \u201cI have no desire to be offensive and am quite ready to apologize for having tempted the honorable gentleman\u2019s interruption.\u201d At the end of his speech, Mr.Curzon said he wished to repeat his apology, and Mr.Davitt raised his hat and smiled good humoredly.An Explorer's Difficulties.The correspondent of the Associated Press at Alten, Norway, reports that the expedition headed by the Rev.Shelden Jackson and Lieutenant D.B.Devore, military secretary of the United States Secretary of War, has met with great difficulties.Mr.William A.Kellmann, super- | irtendent of the Government reindeer herd in Alaska, who started ahead of Messrs.Jackson and Devore, has scoured the country, with six assistants, sledging 2,000 miles through forests, in Arctic night.Trained reindeer are scarce, and he had to pick up lots of three or four, which were eventually concentrated into ex herds agdregating 500.It was difficult to persuade the Laplanders to leave their homes, but fifty drivers were finally secured.Mr.Jackson said the travel naces- gary to collect the reindeer was more dangerous than travelling in the Chilcout Pass, Spain Looking for Aid.It is understood that Spain recently applied to Great Britain for assistance in raising a loam, a fact to which the Marquis of Salisbury referred at the opening of the House of Lords on Tuesday last, when he said that China was mot the only Government which might want money.According to club gossip, the Spanish legations in London amd elsewhere are suffening from long delay of their remittances, and the dwlomats have been forced to defray the expenses of their establishments.Sensation in Dublin, Quite a sensation has been caused in this city by the extraordinary precautions adepted for the safety of the castle.In addition to the regular police force and soldiers, a large guard, fully armed, and relieved every two hours, is placed on the castle roof, over the chief secretary\u2019s Ti- brary.The only surmise possible is that an attempt to dynamite the building 1s contemplated.King of Abyssinia, King Menclik, of Abyssinia, is prepar ing for a journey to the European capr tals, and is collecting al the objects ot special artistic interests in Abyssinia, the most valuable of which he will take as gifts to the various rulers.His Majesty intends to be absent about eight months, and the government of Abyssinia during that time will be eilrusted to the Queen.Paris Fxhivition.The list of memuer: of the Royal Commission to represent Grest Britain at the Paris exhibition of 1300, as published by the London Gazette, list week, was drawn up by the Prince of ./ales, the Prince having rejected the tovernment list or the ground that it was too cliquey and too Tory-Unionist, and demanding that if he nvas to be president of the commission, he should select this own associates.I'he Government was agrast, but acquiesced.The Riviera Carnival.The Riviera is in complete carnival.The battle of flowers at Cannes on Thursday brought out 25,000 people.There was a large contingent of English, including the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.Ten tons of flowers Sere thrown.The Count and Countess de Castellane participated an the festivities.They will stop ten days at the Villa Laynes, and thence will enjoy a two months\u2019 cruise on board the Val halla, in the Mediterranean, during which they will visit Tunis and Algiers, a JIMMY MAC A SURPRISE.He Developed Great Speed in the Free for-All at Ottawa.Ottawa, Feb.11.\u2014The sport was of a high onder at the Ottawa ice track to-day, when the big free-for-all $500 purse was down for competition.As anticipated, it was the big feature of the week\u2019s pro gramme, and it drew a crowd of 4,200 people.Nellie Sharper was made favorite at evens for the first heat, which she won in 2.26 over a very sloppy track.In the second she was selling at 10 to 5, the particular choices in the field being Dick French and Simmons.To the surprise of the talent, Jimmy Mae, the Montreal pacer, moved down the field a favorite, in hollow style, on the long stretch, and won in The result of the heat was the \u2018most popular of the meeting.In the third Mac broke at the eighths pole and fell back a hundred yards.He finally levelled and paced along at what was con- cidered a hopeless task.He came into the stretch six lengths beliind, and pulled out right up to Simmons, who went under the wire half a length in fromt in 2.30.The nace was then put over until Saturday.The 2.40 was also unfinished, the summaries being as follows: Lottie P., Bryant, Pittsburg.3 2 2 1 Johnnie P., Clark, Toronto.2 2 1 2 John W.B., Burke, Ottawa.1 3 5 4 Clay Lambert, Stevens, Lake Placid.4 2 3 5 Virginia Lee, Latour, Sara- TAC. * * A woman\u2019®s club has been formed in Ponca City, Okla., 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Terpinol \u2014Cleveland Leader.Terebere Of the 250,931 recruits for the -German Guaiacol army examined last year only 285 were unable to read and write.Artesian wells have proved successful in New South Wales, the area within avhidi underground water is found extending 62, 000 square miles.On nearly every block in Japanese cities is a public oven where, for.a small fee, housewives may have their dinners and suppers cooked for them, Sir Isaac Newton\u2019s house in St.Martin street, London, which Macaulay said would forever be an object of veneration js threatened with demolition.ot Gray\u2019s Quinine Elixir, Pharmaceutical Chemist.prescriptions, Eucalyptol, Egg Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, Fresh Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, HENRY R.GRAY, 122 87.LAWRENCE MAIN ST.N.B.\u2014Every attention given to physicians\u2019 THIS Matinees\u2014Tues., Thu BE ; GILMORE The Parts AND Soothing HOGA LEONARD | dans.ALLEY The latest Nonsensicality by W phext n peck Donald Robartuon Ada Mandon Douglas in The Man in the us THEATRE ROYAL _ Every Afternoon ang Evening THE WHITE CROOK BURLESQUE ¢ Next Week\u2014The Great Play, \u2018Cuba\u2019 Voy Direction of N.Vert and CARE, my GUILMANT\u2019S FAREWELL St.James Methodist Chure Wednesday Evening.February ig) AT 8 p.m.tR.10,0600 persons paid to h La Frinito, Paris, in St.Botars pully Montreal, three years ago, el Reserved Seats 50 cent Feb.9th, at Shaw's and Prattes Musto got \u2014\u2014 Dancing and Deportment Queen's Hall Bim Hall, 220 Him Avenue matt, A.ROY MACDONALD, Jr, Classes are forming, and if come and see my school.I guarantee L you.Halls to rent, Low priee, teat \u2014 Canadian Royal Art Union.Free Classes in hi Now Open, PUPILS MAY REGISTER at ONG Daily Art Distributions 4 o'clock each Afternoon, 12.30 on Saturday.238 & 240 St.James St, A!t Associations ! #\u2014\u2014 PHILLIPS SQUARE LECTURE BY .Robert Harris, P, R.C.Al Sule ct\u2014\u2018Some Early Florentine Paint | ers,\u201d with illustrations.Thursday, Feb.17th, 8.15 Pr) STANDARD RINK, Foot of Charron St.| POINT ST.CHARLES\u2018 sm ICE IN FINE CONDITION, | BRILLIANTLY LIGHT) ARdmission 18 cts, ++ GIGI PUO+ + 9+0+0 Cherry Phosphate! | \u2018 Our New Beverage! | | 2 Sparkling, Dolicious Flavor and Invaluable as a Brain and Nerve Tonic.Medical Hall Ginger Ale Factory i KENNETH CAMPBELL & CO.e } 84 ET.UrBarN STRES 4 saan?Table Cutlery, Spoons aud * Forks, Sterling Silver ++ e.#ee Ware, Best Electro Plate, Clocks, Watches, Jewel- ¢ rect Importation, Choice8 election pi P Low Prices.JOHN WATSON, Ÿ A 2174 St.Catherine Street, ; Art Association Building Open until 9 every evening.mene .EVERY MA HIS OWN COBBLER The Home Repsi ee c mpletd $2.75.The Bailey Donaldson C0 e W.J.PALMER, \u2014 Lr mT mmm Practical Watchmaker and Jeweller, dreds of press motices full of in three houms to Jet passengers refresh themselves, the stations being built about | seventy-five miles aparte oo voice and the b ter into all hig 372 ST.ANTOINE STREET.Fine Watch Repairing performances, & The public will rejoice to hear that Mr.Bushnell, of New York, is coming on the 22nd of this month.The excellence of his work as the greatest American basso has won for him laurels all over the continent.It would be but adding to hun- + a 15 tributes to speak of the rides oF eauty of feeling which en- His coming will iy doubt be welcomed avith true K, Frank ioison CDS Surgeon Dentist pe.176 BLRUBY ST,, corner St, Cat Office phone, 3889.Residence P ; rs ces whic The Select Knights of Canada, | 5007 has four legions in this city ent i: amalgamate with the Indepety the four of Forcsters The name Crest | legions here are the Standexd,the the Orient and tbe Inrtots \u2014_\u2014 ary [6 Organist 8 Catheing n and lusie So res tment rine 8t, estmoyy; Jr, \u2018ant to] tee to tea mate, Oyal 1.0h at ONCE tions le es St.\u2014 ee) SQUARE 2.GA ine Paint }.15 pm an] NK t RLES, wel: 8 eleotich N, 3 t, ; uilding | emp y MA COBBLER- e airing Re Jete LAND OF ANY SERVANTS vellers Are Just About Mobbed by Them.tte MUST PAY FOR PROTECTION \u2014\u2014 Graphic Description of a Day\u2019s Woes in Hindoostan Tra ari he Al-Powerful Sahib\u2019s the Hght of the Let ce shine upon his slave ! Kipling.t, Feb.6.\u2014They swarm.Cairo, PE ek as ants You are sur- De ed by them.You trip over them.poe u like wasps after you have They follow yo : bed their nest.distur 4 for many of them You are frightened re dressed in by them 1 nyo ional ghost.You white, like 11 hire them, for they lie 1n do ae you at all pots.You never wat any you have, unless you know how man De af js for 4 ms ; goss by the to do a little shopping money.bed by them.As you en- and you are mobbed | y \u201coem.ou are as vire about goods and prices y 4 od by a native ab your elbow, end you sist tice tbat he is always there, and others trying to get in à word, too.Alter nile you become aware that you have 8 Ww -d of guides and servants.You turn back toward your hotel; now thedfun be, \u2018as: the guides showing their shiel 8 a i and the lower coolies holding out their hands.Ooolie is low caste (from tue feat of Brahma), but, practically, it means overty and dependence.You remon- Fate, protesting that you have not hired anyone, but they rather like that, as you are gathermg a crowd.Now, suppose you pay à few of them %o get out of the scrape.Cyclone ! things are worse dnan ever, for the crowd is doubled emi more hands held out, the noise and gesticulating increasing.You are getting a first lesson, Your only escape is to call a gherry (carriage) and fly dor your life, but as the carriage moves off it is followed by two coolies acting as if they would pull you out nnd tear you to pieces.This means that when you looked toward the carriage stand two of them made a dive and both & it for , ence you owe em both ! Ib is Practically impossible to call a carriage and not have one or two coolies claim that they procured it for you.How can such difficulties be avoided?By hiring a number of servants to protect you from those you do not hire.Travellers in India need, at least, one body servant, or boy, as he is called.Now hire your boy, and we will follow you for a day and see how it works.He must know enough of some language which you speak to enable him to understand your orders in à general way.You are ju starting for the railway station, and he gets your carriage and sees your baggage safely loaded.He orders the driver in has own language, and you arrive at the station.He shoute at the crowd of oootes which surrotnds your carriage fighting for the opportunity of carrying your baggage to the train.You give him some money, and he pays the driver and the coolies.He will account for this money, and you can feel easy, for he has paid the lowest lenal fare for the carriage.To the coolies he has given about one-fifth what you would have given them.You are in a first-class carriage, for you could use even a second- here.Ha goes to a third-class crrriage end you pay dor his ticket, about one- seventh the price of a (first, so you are not much hurt by that.There is a lunch station at Slaughterpore, where the train stops twenty minutes for dinner.He knows all about this, and is at your carriage door promptly when the train etops and looks after your property while you take your burried dinner.You are to run all night.This is almost a necessity in India, as the nights are often quite cool even when the days are hot.Your first- class compartment has two leather covered weats, about seven feet long and two feet wide; also two more, hinged above, which let down to a level position about three feet above the first two, thus making four very good beds in the compartment.Men and women are mot mixed in the same compartment, so this renders 1t unnecessary to have curtains around beds, and the plan is good in this climate, for the compartment is open and well ventilated.It is bed time; where is the bedding ?You camry it with you! It consists usually of something like a padded bed quilt, a blanket (or rug) and pillows.They are rolled up tight, with rug outside, and carried in a shawl-strap, forming an extra piece of hand baggage.If any stops about bed time permit, your boy will come and make your bed by putting padded quilts down on leather-covered seats as a i.Then pillow and aug placed in position, and you have the best railroad ed you ever slept on, Your boy will take first stop in the morning to come and wrap ow your bedding.Presently you approach © station where you stop off for a day or ne ol er platlorm you notice a lot of bare- ed coolies running along and keeping up with your carriage; as it stops you hav omen en window and several trying to : © door and all come in at once.hold a a little experienced now, and e door as one besieged.Presently your boy Mahomed appears and makes pme heard above the noise, and by usa gs and elbows gets to the door At this point it looks as if if you and your boy could mot get out of the attack alive, qe : Notice that three Be ve your three pieces of hand only Ra 3 by it ur fine alligator baz was of tthe bigger Bret strength, for two hold est fellows had equally good.: of it i e : at the same time for quite a o roy nly, any one \u2018of these coolies could lt e whole, but do not trouble your- von vou are in the land of servants be- thre mpare and your boy will give the much less than you would give to \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 EE FOR am VAENTINES, Nothing can be mo 3 i 1 Te appro Le than a dainty Silver Trimet ye J orm of a heart.Here are a 18 ow i shape S8estions, all being heart goorL no Stickpins 18 Biel -18\u20ac Brooches.\u2026.arti gs.60c | Bonbon 80c B .Buckles.g2 50 | Maton gos 7s HENRY BIRKS & SONS: PHILLIPS SQUARE.cne.dou are now in the hotel \u2018bus and your unlee puccaes mate on tue top.Xour LOY Mivlidsus woelu® Luc Uliver, bub sui ently we makes a ft of yeuungd Never QUAL, De bs Jus, WUTRILG Ol several cooues who are making a bee Lne for yuu will LOGil Lands out.ALMVIDG ab due LOUE you find yourself in @ room in ube eusies; manner, as your boy is ordering arcand tue notel boys in the most unperuvus suyle.be « makayg up your bed and auvenumeg to Oller mdilels ull Your ruoun.Jun t be astouuahed, tor you are in Iudua and inust Carry almost everyuaug except toe novel anu lalway.Malters go ploasanidy til tne breaklast gong sounws, but as breuk- fast aud lunch wee very informal let us pave on to dinner.If you dress for dinner ne will asst you and manage to brusu up à little \u2018himself, puttung ou a bug tur- bun of mywierwus couvolutions and folas, about as big as a busuel basket.Lon De atraid, pusu ligurt an; dows 18 LOL à Ma joixmecan cougress, althougn the dining- room appeurs tu be crowded witu turbans, Take you seat, your buy ws wt your lert elbow, swif and uizmihed.He takes your orders and gives them vo the table boys 1u their own gibberisa and bosses them right and left, Certainly, you are supposed to carry your owm waiter in India, if you do not you wii have a hard time of it in the dining-room.This leads to the strange result of having twice as many waiters as guests, for while ube hotel supplies a table voy or waiter for each guest, he is not supposed to serve you.With their white tur , many of them having gflded ribbons across tne front, white coats folded close over the breast and often colored waist bands, thin calve- less legs in tight white trousers, and bare feet, these copper-colored table boys present a picturesque appearance.At first the bare feet attract your attemtion, but you enjoy the noiseless gliding on the tiled floor and vote the arrangement perfect.Your boy sticks to you ike a faithful dog, and when not wanted takes up his position at your bedroom door.When you retire he sleeps across the bottom of your door in the passage just like a faithful mastiff protecting his master.By this time your boy is getting into your ways.He knows your favorite dishes at table, He hes noted your little peculiarities and sometimes he appears to read your thoughts, for things come without orders.You are an American and before coming to India you supposed yourself a complete, independent human being.Quite a mistake as this boy is now becoming a part of you.A rap at your door about 7 o'clock in the morning amd he appears with tea or coffee, which you take in bed.Here he is again and amnounces your bath 88 ready.He knows time, temperature and other details and all goes smoothly.A little later he helps you to dress for 9 o'clock breakfast, serving ns at last night's dinner.Now you gp sightseeing hut you must have a local guide.You are rational sn your expenditures and hire these local guides only at important places, but if you tre a little hightoned you will carry him along in additiion to your boy.Here is the carriage.Your guide mounts the box with your driver and your boy stands on one of the two steps in rear of the carriage.On the other rear step is a fourth servant, who seems to be a hanger- on bo the carriage just for what tips he can get.He jumps down and opems the carriage door and is gemerally useful in looking after articles in the carriage while you are in temples and ctiher places with your giude and your boy.Some general features might be moted.You could get wong in wm indifferent way without your boy, for a room-boy of an hotel would do enough to make your room habitable.dn the dining room you could worry through, as dishes are numbered on the bill of fare and the table boy will understand these numbers but you will not be served.It is a strange arrangement.No hotel accommodation is required for guide or boy, as they sleep anywhere and everywhere and the hotel takes mo notice of them.How tibout their food?You will know nothing about this, as each one gets food according to his caste.So far as you are concerned your servants never eat.But you will see them sleeping and no mistake.Come with me to a large Indian hotel at about bedtime.It is 11 o'clock and the large passages and corridors are noorly lighted with oil, for the electrician has a large field in India yet.Here they are, sleeping across doors, or close to the walls along the passages.In all places, nooks, corners or anywhere a little out of the way of guests passing in and out.This ome has a rug covering thim, but the next one is down in the social scale and has only the poor clothes he wears and is lying on the marble pavement with face, hands and feet bare.They average darker than the mulattoes and are not much lighter than Egyptian mummies.It is a strange, weird scene in the half-lighted passages.They look like dead bodies.You pass dozens of them and unless you keep the centre of the passages you will trip over them.You are reminded of the catacombs at Rome or Paris.I should think a woman even on the arm of her protector would shudder on coming in here after The theatre or some social function, yet this is one of the pretentious hotels of Calcutta.All this is possible on account of the climate, as most of the year is quite warm and at no time is it very cold.Your boy need not cost you more than $3 per month, but your guide is quite some large beer, and he will cost you $12 per month.But this covers all expenses except the merely nominal third class fares, From Calcutta even by the roundabout way of Benares, Agra and Delhi to Bombay, one servant's fare is only about $5.In the matter of domestic servants I depend entirely on testimony, but the following may be depended upon: To ecomduct a moderate sized household about ten servants are necessary, at the very least.In the first place this number is mecessary on account of caste, as each will perform duties which another will look upon with loathing, although the latter is not better educated or higher in any way, so far as you can gee.Still further, it js necessary to employ a good, well-seleceted number of castes and religions to prevent conspiracies under your roof.If you have too many of a kind they will be likely to combine and rule or rob yoy but if you proportion them properly they are suspicious of each other and you are safe.Are these cheap servants really cheap?I think not.J have been looking into this cheap labor in the East question a little and have not found the cheap labor yet.Cheap labor as an element in Gertain kinds of native productions is easily found, but cheap labor hired by the day and judged by results is anofher matter.JAMES ARTHUR.er ey \u2014\u2014\u2014 REPLY TO PROF.McBRIDE.Very Rev.Dean Carmichael will reply to the remarks of Prof.E.W.McBride on \u201cEvolution and Design\u201d at the regular evening service on Sunday evening in St.George\u2019s church.The Dean's well-known eloquence and ability to treat any subject of which he has made a study should attract a large congregation on the present occasion.The Austrian Government has enlarged the boundaries of Vienna to such an extent that the metropolitan area is now half as large as London, twice as lange as Paris, and three times larger than Berlin.Yet Vienna has been declining in prosper ity for years, = THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1808.NEWSPAPER MEN AND THEIR WORK, Expression of Opinion by an American Politician, PERSONAL EFFACEMENT, The Opportunities in the Profession Seem to be Great, There is in Philadelphia an orgamization known as the Midnight Club, which includes among its members many of the workers on the morning press of that city.At the last monthly banquet of the club there was included among the list of guests Congressman Stone, who is looked upon as one of the intellectual giants of the American Republic.During the course of a speech he pointed out some ot the peculiarities of newspaper men and their work in the following words :\u2014 \u201cI have never been employed by a newspaper, but I have employed a great deal of time upon them.I have come to believe that the purpose of newspaper men is to eink their identity into that ot the paper that they serve.A man may serve a newspaper for many years and no one outside of his friends and the craft know of lhis connection with it.I know of na business or trade or profession where this is so much the case.All act ors have their names upon the bills, but the newspaper man ceases to live except through his paper.Silently they work while we sleep, like the frost\u2014to surprise us in the morning.Now and then, a great journalist like Greeley, or Dana, or Me- Clure, project so far in the front that it is not mecessary to identify their writings by signatures.But the great army of newspaper men and women, numbering thousands, we do not know.We read something of unusual merit, and do mot even stop to wonder who wrote it.We do not appreciate the fact that in our daily newspapers are found sounder philosophy, more correct logic, brighter wit and keener sarcasm than is stored in the accumulated literature of the ages.Why Men are Journalists, \u201cI bave often wondered why it is that men are willing to immure themselves in papers.Opportunities seem to me but few; fame is realized by few.But I have learned to know personally some newspaper men, and I have seen how readily they exchange all self for the paper they represent.1 have ween how they are deeply interested in the success of their paper.The zeal reminds me of that which used to exist between volunteer hose companies, and I have wondered whether the ambition of newspaper men was not a little different from that of other people.They seem to be satisfied to have them views promulgated without regard to their public connection with it.The people do not really care.They, when informed and instructed, are satisfied, and do not care to whom they are indebted for it.We pay our subscriptions and feel a title to all that the paper contains; and it is better so, perhaps.Wihat is a man compared to a great \u2018thought ?A great thought may live and will live forever, but the man wiil soon be forgotten.What does the old world to-day care whether Shakespeare or some other man wrote Shakespeare?Someone inspired wrote it, and the world is wiser and happier for it.The identity ot a man who does anything great for the world is mever a matter of serious speculation outside of his friends, and it is better so.We should not give more care and attention to our trade-marks than to the quality of our wares.The people do not care for trade-marks, and the law the news and denounce hypocrisy, fraud and wrongdoing.The people who read newspapers want to know the truth about public men and public measures.I do not think that all journals tell it at ai times; but I do think that no journal can become a great power in the land and tell less aan tne truth.\u201d AT THE THEATRES, Thomas Hardy is in the foremost rank of contemporary Englidh writers of fiction, and \u201cTess of the D'Urbervilles\u201d is gener- elly regarded as his masterpiece, because it deals with the heart problems of persons in every-day life.Hardy sets forth aspiration in contlict with passion, and vic- tures the breaking of the passions against the barniers of circumstances.His \u201cTess\u201d is a woman whose life is a tragedy.She is hopelessly entangled in the mesh that nature, society and unhappy events cota- bine to weave about a woman who can expect on no side a solution or a release.Not that the \u201cTess\u201d that Hardy drew has no happy moments in a life strangely end fatally cast.She has her glimpses of feligity through the great love she feels for \u201cAmgel Clare.\u201d It is said that Mrs.Fiske's drama, made from the story, is one of the most engrossing and satisfying seen in the theatre in years, and her persomation of \u201cTess\u201d at the Academy of Music next week will be watched for with a novel interest.The popular and romantic young actor, Mr.Donald Robertson, Will play a return engagement at the Queen\u2019s Theatre commencing next Monday eveming, appearing - » DONALD ROBERTSON.in his own adaptation of Dumas\u2019 most powerful drama \u201cThe Man dn the Iron Mask.\u201d Mr.Donald Robertson met with success for the last three years in this most popular romantic drama.It is really remarkable to note how in the past few days the interest in Cuban matters has been whetted by the reports of American warships visiting Havana and TERBSE DEAGLE.the Spanish Government returning the compliment by ordering their gunboats to American waters, and right in line with all this comes the play \u2018\u201cCuba\u2019s Vow\u201d to the Theatre Royal next week.The vaudeville bill for the coming week rt the Theatre Francais has evidently been does not protect them.The public ignores the inventor.; chosen with much care; Eckert and Berg are celebrated musicians; Downs, the coin \u201cTo my mind the opportunities of &| maniputator, is eaid to be the greatest of journalist are greater than those of eny, his kind on the continent; Miss Anna other man.We have been accustomed to Ott has sung here before, and is a favorite, attribute statesmanship to men who lave ; and Miss Annie Whitney is a clever song been members of legislative bodies.statesman has been defined as a dead politician.That perhaps comes from the fact that most statesmen are politicians.A man may be a politici@n without being a svatesman, but it is pretty hard to be a statesman without being a politician.WA man capable of foreseeing the legislative needs of the people, a patriot who loves his country and legislates for the country\u2019s good, has certainly the right \u2018to be classed as a statesman.A legislative body is but a great mirror, in which is reflected the will of the people in legislation.Scarcely a legislator ever surprises the public with a new law; he may present the bill, but he does 60 at the instance of his con- gtituency.Therefore I submit that the man who moulds and shapes the will of the public, a journalist who creates public sentiment, a journalist who creates public demand for a law, is a greater statesman than he who enacts the public demand into a law.\u201cThe legislator of to-day is simply the servant and agent of the people.Hor- merly it was different.Education and journalism itself have made this change, Formerly when daily newspapers were limited, and then when they were mostly the organs of parties, it was different, but now there are scarcely any great journals that can strictly be said to be party organs.I cannot conceive it to be the mission of a journal to ba safely and sccure- ly tied up as the organ of amy party, any Al and dance artiste.The stock company is busily engaged in rehenrsing Boucicault\u2019s \u201cLed Astray,\u201d which will be given with much care and attention.Miss Roberts will take a week\u2019s rest, and Marion Kilby, a well known Montrealer, will be in the cast.Little four-year-old Willie was visiting his grandparents in the country.One morning he heard a mule braying for the first time and, running into the house, he exclaimed: \u2014\u201cOh, gran\u2019ma, one off zem horsies has dot ze hoopentough,\u201d \u201cClara,\u201d said the mother of a little five year-old miss, who was entertaining a couple of neighboring girls of her own age, \u201cwhy don\u2019t you play something instead of sitting «till and looking miserable?\u201d \u201cWhy, mamma, we is playin\u2019,\u201d was the reply; \u201cwe\u2019's playin\u2019 that we\u2019s grown-up womens,\u201d Little Harry had a picture book of animals and his father sometimes described the traits and peculiarities of those represented.One day in describing a hare, among other things he said the hare had no tail to speak of.Next day he asked: \u2014 \u201cHarry, what did I tell you about the hare yesterday?\u2019 \u201cOh,\u201d replied Harry, \u201cyou said he had a teil, but it wasn\u2019t to be talked about.\u201d \u201d court, or apy man; but rather to publish BIRTHS, DEATHS and MARRIAGES.BIRTH AULT\u2014At Aultsville, on the 4*h inst., the wife of Chas.8.Ault, of a som.RAMSAY \u2014On tbe Adi February, at 4363 Moutrose Avenue, Weutmount, the wife of W.M.Ramsay, of a son.MARRIAGES HOLDBROOK-McLEOD\u2014On Feb.8 b th Rev.D.S.Hamilton, Henry James old.Brook, of is city, to Alice MoLeod aughter A.W.McLeod, of Gl: ; ! MONSARRAT-FOSTER \u2014 On ES the Sih February, at the residence of the buide\u2019s father, 54 Dmmmond Street, bv the Very Rev.Dean Carantethiwel, Many Alice, youngest daughiter of Rosert PFos- ter, to Charles N., younger son of M.R Monsarrat.CT DEATHS.MOUNT\u2014In this city.on Tuesda - stunt, John Noel, M.D., eldest Tomas 5 .Mount, ag 3 ycam 3 days ped 33 ycars, 1] month and ARCHAMBAULT\u2014On Februa Oth, at Chatham Street, Bernard, aod 9 actes son of J.N, Archambault.eracer.\u2019 CONNORS\u2014On February 10th knst., Rebecca Ross, youngest daughter of the late Ey Jomnore.>AN\u2014At 101 Mance Street.this y Kate Fegan, eldest daughter of The lag: Christopher Bgan.KENNEDY\u2014In this city.on the 10th Imst.at his late residence, 273 William Street, William Kennedy.native of County Tipperary, Ireland, aged 55 yeas.LYNCH\u2014On the 9th imst., Mary Ellis widow of the late John Lynch, native of the County Wicklow, Ireland, aged 92 years.MUNDEN\u2014At Brachead, Harbor Grace Nfld., on February 7th, Julia B.Munden, daughter of the late Capt.A.Mund of Brigus, Nfld., and slster of Mrs.Sten.art Munn, of Montreal.McILDOWIE\u2014In this city, on the 7th Instant, Lewis Molldowte, a native of Penth- shire, S aged years and 7 months McAULEY\u2014At Coatficook, at the restden of her brother, the Very Rev.M.Mer Auley, Vicar-Genersal, Caltherine, eldest daughter af the late Peter MoAuley, of Dunnemoyne, County Louth, Ireland, in TAYLOR on OR\u2014On Thursday morning, at Montreal General Hospital.Samuel Ey Taylor, aged 48 years.CHISHOLM\u2014At Lismore, on the 24th uit, Daniel G.Chisholm, son of the late R.Chisholm, in the 34th year of his age.EGAN\u2014Died, on the morning of the 10th inst, at 101 Mance Street, Kate Egan eldest daughter of the late Christopher \u201cgan.EDWARD\u2014At Outremont, after a Ilngerin illness, of apoplexy, on Thursday, 10th inst., at 4.30 a.m., David Edward, a native of Dundee, Scotlamd, aged 62 years and 10 months.Funeral Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.Friends and acquaintances ere invited to attend.That's the question.If it is at all \u2018\u2018off color;\u201d if it does not cream plentifully, BEST and PUREST MILK, Country milk secured from grain fed cattle; 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he does miot care for your health; but we All they have to do is to take this great do; We Want you to be cured, if you will remedy according to the directions, ana only take the genuine Dr.Coderre\u2019s Red they will see everyone of their symptoms; Pills.Dr.Coderre\u2019s Red Pills are always sold in little round wooden boxes of 50 Pills for 50c.; they are never sold in any other way.Always remember that, and refuse all others.If your druggist does not have them, send us 50c.in stamps for one box, or $2.50 by registered lsbter or money onder for six boxes.You will receive, by return mail, the genuine Dr.Coderre\u2019s Red Pills\u2014thiose that will cure you if you take them faithfully, and give them a chamce to act on your sickness.When you write, always give your full address, to prevent all delays of shipment.Address, \u2018Franico-American Chemical Co., Box 2306, Montreal, Cam\u201d \u2014 6 THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898.ENGLISH ROYALTY UPON THE TURE, Smram\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014) Henry the Eighth Bred and Raced Horses.CHARLES ll A JOCKEY.~ Great Applause Given Prince of Wales When Persimmon Won.\u2018A horse, a horse\u2014my kingdom for a horse! \u2014Richard III.Ever since horse racing was first known in England it has received more or less patronage from royalty.Bluff Harry VIII.both bred and ran race horses, chiefly of the Barbary strain.James I.deigned {to grace race meetings with his presence\u2014most- ly impromptu affairs got up to amuse him on his \u2018\u2018Progresses\u201d through the kingdom\u2014and first gave Newmarket its vogue, though it was for hare hunting, not for horse racing, that he favored the classic heath.The Lord Protector Cromwell loved horses and bred them both for speed and stoutness.Charles II.made Newmarket famous for racing and other sports of a less reputable character, but perhaps it is not generally known that the Merry Monarch was himself a first-rate jockey, as jockeys went then, and won several plates, riding at the welter-weight of twelve stone.James II.was not much of a sportsman, but William III.bred race horses and ran them at Newmarket, not without success, too, one notable triumph \u2018of his being the victory of his horse Stiff Dick over Lord Wharton's hitherto invincible Careless.Moreover, the \u201cgsthmatic skeleton,\u201d as Macaulay describes him, wagered heavily both on horse races and cock fights.In Queen Anne the turf found a sincere and constant supporter.It was she who first started the royal gold cups in the North: and not only did Her Majesty give these handsome prizes, she was also very eager in running her own horses for them.But the Royal stable was not fortunate, and on the very morning on which her brown horse Star won for her her first great victory on turf the Queen was struck down by the apoplectic fit which ended her life.George IV.was passionately devoted to racing.As Prince of Wales he won the Derby with Sir Thomas in 1788.So keen was his love of sport that when he lay on his deathbead he sent his factotum, Jack Ratford, specially over to Ascot, charging him to come back express with the news the instant the horses had passed the post in the race for the Ascot cup, which he fondly hoped Zingance would win for \u2018him\u2014 a hone not destined to be fulfilled.The King's brother, H.R.H.the Duke of York, \u201cjolly, cursing, courageous Frederick,\u201d as Thackeray calls him, was quite as ardent a patron of the tuf as His Majesty, and was even more successful, for, though his stud was a very small one, he carried off the Derby twice, with Prince Leopold in 1816 and with Moses in 1822.The Duke of Clarence, too, afterward William IV.kept race horses, but that he had not much knowlmdge of the sport may be gathered from the following characteristic anecdote of him.When his trainer asked him what he should send down to run at Ascot the Sailor King replied:\u2014 Why, the whole squad, first-raters and gunboats; some of them I suppose, must win.\u201d THE PRINCE OF WALES.His Royal Highness, Albart Edward, Prince of Wales, the most popular sportsman in his august mother\u2019s dominions, began his racing career very modestly, but showed himself from the very first such a keen and intelligent lover of the sport that all who had the interests of the turf at heart longed to see the heir apparent take a more prominent position in the racing world, as an owner and breeder.His Royal Highness won his first victory in 1886, and the event is thus pleasantly commemorated by Sir Geo.Chetwynd in his reminiscences.\u201cA very pleasant meeting took place at Sandown on the Friday and Saturday between Epsom and Ascot, 1886, and the Friday will be remembered by the owners of the Esher course for many a long day as on it the Prince of Wales scored his rfist victory, in flat racing.It was only a maiden plate and His Royal Highness\u2019 prepresen- tative Counterpane, by Hermit had odds of 7 to 4 laid on her, opposition being very weak.When Archer was seen to be winning very easily in the royal colors, a mighty shout was ra#s- ed from stands and rings.\u2019 How keen is the Prince\u2019s interest in racing may be gathered from the following incident which Mr.Byron Webber chronicles in his biography of John Porter, of Kingsclere: \u201cThe Derby trial of St.Blaise was the first visit of the Prince of Wales to XKingsclere.His Royal Highness took the 9 a.m., train from Waterloo, like any ordinary passenger to Over- ton, at which station Porter had a fly waiting and was fortwith driven to the Downs.The Prince was received according to previous arrangement, by Lord Alington, Sir Frederick John- stone, and Porter, who were waiting with the horses and hacks upon which to mount the witnesses of the trial.No time was lost in getting the field of five to the post, the horses being St.Blaise, Incendiary, Shotover, Gehe- imniss and Energy.The foreshadowing race came off with the result that St.Blaise, carrying 8 stone 6 pounds, won by two lengths, four lengths be- iween Incendiary and Shotover, Ge- hcimniss (fourth) being a head in ad- vanue of Energy.A Memorable Derby.! But it was not until 1896 that luck greatly favored the royal colors on the race-course, though the Prince, under John Porter\u2019s guidance, continued stea- diiy and pereseveringly breeding good stock at Sandringham.At last, however, his perseverance was rewarded.In Persimmon, a son of St.Simon, the wrince felt that he had a horse of the very first class, capable of holding his ewn against the stoutest rivals that could be brought against him.Everyone remembers how carefully trained by Rickard Marsh and admirably ridden by John Watts, thesgrandson of St.Simon came out for the Derby of 1896.It is not too much to say that there was not a soul upon Epsom Downs on that memorable third of June that did not hope the Prince\u2019s horse might win.And what a race it was! How intense was the excitement when Mr.Leopold de Roth- scbild's St.Frusquin was seen to be leading, as many thought, with the race at his mercy, till just opposite Tatter- sall\u2019s, Persimmon closed with him, got his head in front, and after a desperate ding-dong race, gained the judge\u2019s fiat by a neck.The scene which followed defies description.No words can convey an adequate idea of the storm of enthusiasm which greeted the Prince\u2019s victory The vast crowd seemed suddenly to have gone mad.Hats were thrown into the air, handkerchiefs, sticks, umbrellas were frantically waved, and three hundred thousand throats shook the air with the vibration of their stentorian cheers.Even the ovation awarded Lord Rosehery on the victory of T.adas, paled before this splendid outburst of loyal enthusiasm, and assurad- ly Epsom Downs have never witnessed a more heait-thrilling scene than they sav that day.For a long time the Prince was kept bowing in response to the frantic cheers that greeted him, and - it was many minutes before Watts couid make his way back.When the Prince appeared on the course and took his colt\u2019s bridle to lead him to the weighing inclosure, the shouts were redoubled, and the number of hats that were lost through being recklessly chucked into the air, will probably never be known.After a slight pause, the welcome \u201call right\u201d was shouted, and the cheering was louder, if possible, than before; indeed, for half-an-hour after the race there was an excited crowd in front of the royal box that kept up a continuous roar.As for the Prince, amid all this deafening roar of congratulations, his cheek flushed with pride and his face beamed\u2014 like Mrs.Fezziwig, he seemed \u201cone vast substantial smile,\u201d for he could not but feel that this extraordinary ebullition of delight on the part of all these hundreds of thousands of people was not only a tribute of loyalty, but of affec- tion\u2014it showed how deep-rooted is, the personal popularity of the Prince, and how keenly his future subjects appreciate his sterling qualities as an English gentleman and sportsman.\u2014Y¥rom Xing of the Turf.ROWING 2nd SAILING.UNCLE SAM WANTS 20-FOOTERS.Announcement is made by the race committee of \u2018he Seawanihaka-Corinthian Yacht Club that the trial racesto select a challenger for the Seawanhaka International challenge coup for smail yachts, now held by the Royal St.Lawrence Yadht Club of Montreal, will be held at Oyster Bay July 11, 12 and 13 of this year.The match for the cup is to be sailed in August on Lake St.Louis, near Montreal.The trial races are open, and every yadht club in the United States is eligible to take part.The course for the first and third trial races will be to windward or lesward and return, a \u2018total distance of twelve nautical miles.The second race will be over a triangular course.Special conditions are attached to the trial races.The yacht selected to represent the club shall be the one which, in the judgment of the race committee, shall be the best therefor, and not necessarily the winner of a majority of the races.The owner of each yacht entering must, on or before July 9, furnish to the secretary of the committee the racing measurment of his yacht, certified by the measurer of the Seawanahaka Club.SKATING.AT THE CRYSTAL RINK, The management of the Crystal Rink wil hold a fancy dress carnival next Tuesday evening, when, with the rink band and the attendance of the many patrons of the rink, it promises to be successful, Manager Robertson has decided to close his rink a half hour later than usual for this occasion amd will in future be open in the morning from 9 am.to 1 p.m., giving the ladies who enjoy early skating one hour longer than formerly, also closing Saturday afternoons at 6 p.m.and Saturday evenings at 10.30.HOCKEY.HOCKEY NOTES.The weather ikas not been sufficiently warm to affect the ice in the closed rinks, and the two senior games scheduled for today will take place to-night.The Quebec team will meet the Shamrocks in the Victoria Rink here in what should be a good game, on account of the evenness of the teams.Thay are the tail-enders in the league, and each will try to see that it is the other that will be at the bottom of the table.The Victorias play at Ottawa, and will endeavor to keep up their record of not having been defeated this season.The Ottaway will be strong, and the game will certainly be one wel worth witnessing.The Vies and their friends leave for Ottawa by a specal train, which departs from the Bonaventure Depot at 2.50.On account of the soft state of the ice both games will be more of a gamble than usual.e The special tabie d\u2019hote served at the new Hotel Carslake, 5.30 to 7.30, is fast becoming popular.No such value (50c) ever given in the city.Meals a la carte from 6.30 to midnight.Suppers after the theatre a special feature.4 NOT GUILTY THE VERDICT.Quebec, Feb.12.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The first case tried during the present term of the Criminal Court terminated in a evrdiet ot \u201cnot guilty.\u201d The defendant, Theophile Lachance, was tried for theft.OXFORD CAFE, University Street.Meals a la carte until midnight SEWERS Ee PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that sewens have been constructed in the undermentioned streets, and proprietors assessed Wiko desire to liave the Special Arsessment rate for the construction of said sewers reduced on Account of previous existing sewers or drain, or other causes in aceord- ance with By-Law No.191, concerning sowers, passed on the 20th of May, 1891, must make thelr claim in writing to the undersigned, on or before the fifteenth (5th) day of April, 1898.Albina\u2014St.Dents Street eastward.St.Andre\u2014Mary Ann and Mount Royal Avenue.Anderson\u2014Jurors Street tiere Street.Chambord\u2014Mount Royal to Gilford Street.Chambord\u2014Gilford Street nonthward.Ernest\u2014St.Denis Street, castward.Lasgauchetiere\u2014St.nique Street.and Lagauche- calm Street, Syrdenham\u2014Mary Ann Street, northward.PHRCIVAL W.ST.GEORGE, City Surveyor.Oity Surveyor\u2019s Office, | City Hall, Montreal, 12th February, 1898.| REAL ESTATE.The following Houses will be sold BY AUCTION AT OUR ROOMS, 181 ST.JAMES ST.Wednesday, Feb.16.At BHleven O'clock A.M.947 DORCHESTER STREET.A Red Stone Front House in fine ordez throughout; can be inspected daily from 2 to 3 p.m.; immediate possession.[fl UNIVERSITY STREET.A Wide Stone Front House with Extension near Sherbrooke street.Possession 1st May, or soouncr if required.370 GREENE AVENUE.A Comfortable Stone Front House\u2014Lot 20 ft.by 135 feet to lane in rear.THESE HOUSES MUST BE SOLD.Easy terms in all cases, J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & CO.Real Bstate Auctioneers, Genevieve to St.Mo- De Montigny\u2014Beaudry Sitreet to Mont- ' BRITONS ALONE WILL ENJOY IT, The Preference in Trade Which Canada Offers, SO SAYS SENATOR SCOTT.Colonies May be Extended the Privilege if They Want It, ttawa, Feb.12.\u2014In the Senate yesterday afternoon Senator Macdonald, of British Columbia, gave notice that on Monday he would move that it is expedient that steps be taken to exclude all persons of the Japanese race from the Yukon country.The debate on the address was resumed by Senator Scott, who summed up the reasons why the Government had entered into the contract for the construction of the Yukon Railway, with Messrs, Mackenzie and Munn, and defended the action of the Government.Turning to the trade question Senator Seott declared that there was not a word of truth in the charge that Sir Wilfrid Laurier had sacrificed the welfare of Canada by his course in England in giving away the last chance this country had of securing preferential trade within the Empire trom the MotherZCountry.He maintained that had the Premier taken any other course than the one he did, he would have failed in securing the denunciation of the German and Beigian treaties.He reviewed the history of pieferrential trade, and quoted the resolutions proposed and passed, and the speech by Mr.Chhamberlain at the Cons gress of the British Chambers of Commerce held in London in 1887, to show that the Imperial Government never Would have adopted the principle of preferential trade.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, he said.had captured the sentiment of the English people by going to them with a tariff which gave English trade a preference in Canas dian markets and asking for no return.It was the embarrassment and gratitude of the English people for this patriotic action of the Canadian Government which resulted in the denunciation of the German and Belgium treaties, and the result, said Senator Scott, will be just as we foresaw, that on 1st August next Great Britain will he the only country that will enjoy the preference in our markets.Sir Mackenzie Bowell\u2014Not unless you change vour law.Senator Scott\u2014We propose, with the approval of Parliament, to bring about that result.The course followed by the Government was the only one by which that could be accomplished.Senator McDonald, B.C.\u2014Will the proposed change in the tariff block out the favored nation clause with regard to China and Japan ?Senator Scott\u2014Yes.The countries which come in under the favored nation clause in the Germain and Belgian treaties secured the same advantages in our markets as we give to the Mother Country.If weremove that privilege from Germany and Belgium by denouncing the treaties then no other countries can come in except those that have rights by our own treaties under act of Parliament.Sir Mackenzie Bowell\u2014In making this change in the tariff you will apply it to the British colonies as well as to Great Britain?Senator Scott\u2014It is intended that they shall come in as New South Wales does, that is in my opinion: Of course I cannot foreshadow what the change will be, but there will be an opening for the British colonies to come in certainly.So the honorable gentleman will see I hope before this Parliament rises that we shall have succeeded in placing Great Britain and the colonies in the position that we all along hoped they would occupy.Senator Boulton\u2014The free trade basis ?Senator Scott\u2014No.It will be under the reduction of twenty-five per cent, on the tarifl for the present.Senator Boulton\u2014Do you call that protection ?Senator Scott\u2014It is a preference over every otheir country.Senator Mills\u2014It is a march toward free trada.Senator Scott\u2014I am just as strong a free trader as any one, but I do not think it would be the act of a prudent stetesman to precipitate this country into absolute destruction.Senator Boulton\u2014That was not your opinion three years ago.ion.I hope some day or other to see the ransition, but it certainly cannot be a rapid one.It woud be monstrous not to consiaer interests which have grown up \u2018under the sanction of the Parliament, Senator Lougheed followed and warned the Government that in removing the Mounted Police from the western parts of the Northwest Territories, about Calgary, in order to send tkem into the Yukon country, they were jeopardizing life and property 1n that country.; Senator Power moved the adjonrnment of the debate and the Senate adjourned.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 MEDALS FOR VETERANS.It looks as if the veterans of the British army who went to the front at the time of the Fenian raid would get the war medal in commemoration thereof for which they applied.ct Arthut Blackmore, Hamilton, whe wrote to the headquarters ab Halif.< concerning the war medal for Lhe veterans :$ ** Will you kindly send me the following additional infortuation with reterence to your application for Canadian war medal for Fenian raid, 1866 : \u2014Regis mental number, rank, name of captain of company, company you served in, length of time you were in the field, places you were serving at while in active service.Captain W.Seemins, Deputy Adjutant-General.\u201d ILLICIT S1LILL CASE.Ottawa, February, 12\u2014An appeal will be taken in the case of Wm.Evoy, of Huat- ley, convicted of having an illicit still on bis premises.The appeal will be taken on the grounds that Magistrate Smith had no jurisdiction to try the case and that the crown did not establish the fact that Evoy had no licence to manufacture whisky.A RICHMOND VACANCY.Richmond, Feb.12\u2014Councillor Alexis Poulin, who has been promoted to the position of conductor on the through pass enger route between Island Pond and Montreal, will remove to the latter place in May.His removal will cause a vacancy in the representation of No.3 ward at the council board.\\ WASHED OVERBOARD.| New York, Feb.12.-\u2014Ensign Joseph C.Breckenridge, executive officer of the torpedo boat Cushing, was washed overboard and drowned during a stormy passage from Key West to Havana.The body will be sent by Cushing to Key West tto-mor- row.: Calcined seed pearls are considered a medicine of great potency by she Chinese, and beautiful art work in mother-of-pearl has long been executed both in China and Japan.In the Philippines windows are made of mother-of-pearl, and im Cashmere it is used for Inlaying inscriptions on tombstones.The most wonderful astronomical photograph in the world is that which has re- centik, been prepared by London, Berl and Parisian astronomers.It shows at least 68,000,000 stars.(ldy Island, at the entrance to Caer- manthen Bay, Wales, containing 530 acres, has just been sold.The owner is free from all county and other I¥nd taxes.\u2018Lhe island \u2018was once the haunt of buccaneers and pirates, and was a hadbor of refuge for John Paul Jones, whose name is attached to its little bay.aldy \u2018has a lighthouse.«ok NOTICE ts hereby given, that application will be made to the Parliament of Oanada, at ity next Session, for am act to incorporate the Yukon Overland Rual- way end Mini Company, for the purpose of conptruciting a miway from a point at or near Pyramid Harbour, near the head of the Lyon Canal, or from a poimt on or near the Intercolonial boundary, between Canada and the United States of America, in the vicinity of Lynn Canal, tlrence through the Chileat Puss, thence along Dajton's Trail, to a point at or near Fort Sélkh-k, and thence by the best feasible route-to a point at or near Dawson City; with power to vany the route as may be necesdary or advisable; also with power to receive from the Gove ernment of Canada, or other corporations or persons, grants of land or money, or other assistance in aid of the construction of the work; to build telegraph and telephone Mnes; to exercise mining rights and Powers; to construct roads, tramways, wharves, mills and other works necessary for the Company; to chanter vessels for the same purpose upon ithe rivers and lakes in or adjacent to the territory served by the swaïd rallway; to erect and manage electrical works for the use and transmission of electrical power, and acquire and make use of natural and other water powers for that purpose; to inaintain stores and trading posts; and to carry on a milling and smelting business, including the ereation of saw-mills and smelters; also to enter into traffic and other arrangements with other railway and transportation companies; to issue preference stock and bonds, and with al such other povwens, rights and privileges as may be necessary for the purpose of the undertaking.Madore, Guerin & Perron, Solicitors for the Appli- @@Senator Scott\u2014That was always my opin- cants.Datea ar Montreal, this 1st day of February, 1898.ANNE EE NNN NA IN NE NEE NENANENSEEN = a » om = Qur Clearing-Out Sale ., A Im a = nu There are a lot of lines which we would like to dlear out before u our store ds finished.We want to make room for New Goods, mn which we are expecting, and sefl a lot of goods which we would M N have to place away on our shelves.It would be cheaper for us to lose money on these gooils, and get rid of them, than to carry un N them in our new store.So we will lose money on them now to get rid of then quick, Here are a few of ithe prices.Do you = nN want any of the goods?y b 8 $ ol = TINWARE .= B Pmbossed Knife Box .teen raann Passe as 000000 worth 35C.for 17e nm u \u2018rush and Comb Case .aeevs ss uses sen 0 0e 00 ass worth 8e.for 3c Dis PaAUS .Le Lecce c tee ee scene es en cena ana 0 a 000000 worth 15C.for Yc = = TUICONS 2.+6 est se se rer ace 000000000000 onu aa nu 000 wonth Te.for 4e DIppers 2.24 re ie teeters worth 8Se.for de a Oval Boilers LR Tree teen DE Worth 60c.for 34e ï mm Gaivanizeld Pails Lecce csesse seau 0e es ace ec es a cac 0000 worth 25c.for 13e | W 00d Chopping Dowls 2.200000 se 0e na 0000 0000000 worth 250.for lle = PE Con! FHOUS LL L.sccacs vecenseu sen e ea ee 0e ae cn ec ac eu ns worth 250.0.for 15e M nu Fin Soup, Ladles .ciiiiiiiiiieeerennentotennnenans worth 10c.for 4e ! 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A Remedy Effected.Another disadvantage is that the Dominion Herd Book Association, which governs in Ontario, i8 now desirous of Book Association, which rules in Qucbec, and steps have been taken to bring this about.But the Quebec men will have none of it as long as the Ontario men register appendix animals.Under these circumstances the Dominion Herd Book Association determined to do away with the appendix animal, and its pedigree.A resolution was proposed and seconded by supported by such veteran breeders as James McCormick and James Yuill.It carried by- a vote of fifteen to two, and Secretary Wade was instructed to notify the breeders that after this date no more entries will be added to the appendix.Yesterday's Meeting.a good showing.\u2018The membership inoreas- ed by 13, the receipts by $192.\u201cThe membership fee was lowered to $2, and a still further increase is expected in the members.In 1897, 565 animals were registered, as against 445 during 1896.A committee was appointed to discuss the question of amalgamating the Dominion Herd Book Association of Quebec with representatives from the latter Province.The committee are Messrs.Hod- son, Ballantyne, Yuill, Smith and Wade.The death of ex-President Thomas Guy was referred to, and a resolution of condolence passed, which will be forwarded to Mrs.Guy.The financial statement showed receipts and expenditures of $1,184.Officers and Judges.The election of officers resulted as follows: President, W.M.Smith; lst vice president, Alfred Kans; 2nd vice-presi- dent, J.C.Smith.Vicepresidents for the Provinces \u2014Wm.Miller, P.E.l.; H.Pertle, 1 is in the appendix.Cases have happened | i to the States and found that his animal is W.W.Ballantyne and Robert Davies, and | Secretary Wade's report for 1896 made | \u2014 NENNUNNEREEREER EHHEHEEHEEENE NT), R : Remember = mi = We are allowing 20 per cent.discount , - on all Umbrellas and Sticks this month, .: a = The Dominion Umbrella Store, + = UP TOWN :\u2014 DOWN TOWN :\u2014 : = 2313 ST.CATHERINE STREET.714 CRAIG STREET, 1 EE NE NEE NE NNN AE ERENEEEEEEERD, amalgamating with the Canadian Herd | = HE NE HE HHEHENHENSEPENENNE EH NEENIy | M | : Learn French, |= = One Cent Per Lesson.ul Learn French\u2014the right French\u2014the usual correet M language at one cent per daily Bm best and newsiest French daily of America.ASK YOUR NEWSDEALERS FOR IT.Largest Daily Circulation = P L La Presse, N.B.; George Steele, Manitoba; cen | H.Manners, Assiniboi; J.C.Wells, B.C.; | J.C.Smith, Ontario; W.E.Edwards.Quebec.Directorh\u2014Messrs.Ballantyne, Stacy, Stewart, Yuill, Brooks Hume, Hodson, 3Mec- Cormick, Davies.Delegates to Western Fair, Alex Kain, R.S.Brooks.Delegates to Ottawa Fair, James Yuill, J.C.Smith; Industrial Exhibition, Toronto, W.W.Ialalntyne, Alex.Stewart.The following list of judges were selected for the various exhibitions:\u2014John Douglas, David Benning, Wm.Stewart, Alex.Hume, James Yuill, James Boden, J.C.Smith, D.Drummond, A.John Crossley, Robert Hunter, Robert Ness, Robert Robertson was appointed special judge for the Maritime Provinces.Prizes Offered.It was decided to register in the Domin- | \\ ains, \\ | WANTED\u2014Smart boy for lesson.Read La Presse, the in Canada.ion Association herd book without fec al the Ayrshire cattle registered in the Mar: time Provinces, and to give a $15 prize t each provincial fair in the Maritime Pro vinces and Manitoba.À sum of $50 was voted to the winter dairy show, to be won by Ayreshire cattle and sums of $10 to Toronto, London, ud Ottawa Fairs, for bull calves under si mcnuns.Eu TO LET- Nice houses from $6 to $15 pe month, with balcony and yard, 56 $ Andre St., between 2 and 5 o'clock, 1 \u2014_\u2014 WANTED\u2014Bill Posting, Distribution © 8 amples, Circulars, Dodgers, etc, ele F RH.Leech, P.O.Box 418, Sherbrooke, Que.oe LT TERA 177700 the office of wholesale howe, Apply in own but writing, to P.O.Box 38.3 \u2014 af Bargains za Remnants of Cottons Grey Cotton, 36 inch, at .2c Grey Cotton, 36 inch, at.«ue oo 24C White Cotton, 36 inch at.3e White Cotton, 36 inch, at., 5c White Sheeting, 8-4, worth 20c, for.124c Checked Gingham, worth 9c, for.5c Roller Towelling, worth 7e, for.4c Roller Tawelling, worth 8¢, for.,.5c Roller Towelling, worth 10c, for.6c Roller Towelling, worth 13¢, for.8c Linen Towels, worth 7e, for.4e Linen Towels, worth 10c, for.Tic Linen Towels, worth 18¢, for.124c Table Linen, worth 35¢, for.20c Table Linen, worth 40ec, for.\u2026.22c Table Linen, worth 45¢c, for.25¢ Fringe Napkins, worth 8c, for.5 Flannellettes, good value, for.3ic Flannelettes, extra good.5c Flanneletves, Remnants, worth 8e, fOr.cove ve ere ee eee et enn.4c Frendh Pelisse, cream, worth 7c, for 4c Print, fast colors, worth 8c, for.be Print, very good, worth 10c, for.6e Fancy Muslins, for dresses, worth 20c, for.420 cin vel wena.ue 9c Fancy Linen Muslin, for dresses, worth '35¢c, for.124c se ses oss .Th e Profitable Gorner, 4 St.Lawrence Ÿ; 7 CLEARING SALE Arthur Gagnon & Go.s Bankrupt EEE a Remnants of Prints, worth 10c to 15¢, reduced to.5e Remnants of Silicia, worth 10¢ to 15¢, reduced: to.voue» 5e Remnants of Dress Goods, worth 25¢ to $1.00, reduced to.10c, 15c, and 25c Remnants of Cloakings, worth $1.00 to $2.50, reduced to.50c and 75e Linen Fronts, worth 45c, reduced to 9c Print Blouses, worth 60c to $1.00, reduced t0.eiiiiiiiiiinieiennnn.Print Blouses, worth 43¢ to 60c, reduced to.a.see Double Width Cretonne, worth 25c, reduced to.secs scuuues .18 Curtain Net, worth 8c, reduced to.5c Curtain Net, worth 10c, reduced to.Te Curtain Net, worth 20c, reduced to.124ce Quilts, white, 11-4, worth $1.45, reduced to 40c 25e A ess LS 88c Wihite Wool Blankets, worth $1.40, reduced to.,.Cerrranieens 88c Navy Blue Serge; for Men\u2019s Suits, worth 30¢, for.18c Tweeds, for Suits, worth 45¢, for.25c Pantings, worth $2.00 and $2.25, ve- | Formerly Arthnr Gagnon & Q° duced to.ARR 99c Cor.St.Catherine St.ER .ns White Dress Shirts, worth 60c, 1¢ 2 | Men\u2019s Shirts and Drawers, ce M lined, worth 65c, for.\" TL Men\u2019s Shirts and Drawers, figece-lin \" ed, worth $1.50, for.ce Men\u2019s Shirts and Drawers, 1ibb ' worth 30c, for.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.eet | 3-ply Linen Collars, worth 124c, for.» Neck Ties, great dhoice, only.\" ) Beaver, for Ladies\u2019 Jackets, worth » $1.00, ÉOT.0000000 .\u2026.eens ; for Ladies\u2019 Jackets, wort \" Beaver, ! $1.50, for.= Plush, fn dark colors, worth 40e, for Fancy Velvet, worth 450, for.\" Brocaded Silk, fine designs, worth 2 50e, fOr.\u2026.\u2026.\u20260\u2026.\u2026.J-Prie Dress Goods\u2014Great Variety ab Ho Ladies\u2019 Trimmed Felt Hats, a $2.00 to $4.50, reduced to.; Ladies\u2019 Felt Hats, worth 40e to $l.i; \" reduced to.\" Ladies\u2019 Straw Hats, worth 25c to 736 n reduced to.\" AND MANY OTHER BARGAINS DESJARDINS & VIENS 247 St.Lawrence St, 1913 and 1915 St.Catherine Ste a of oO 6 cP AW -.a vw» re 14 4 es s.r 8, Mn a PVT sv MM.ul PA Pe gr PD ee sp pas EE. ice, ! mM ; -~ / 1 \u2014 e+ i | | 1.ech the RE -.= = = = \u2014\u2014 | ub fee a the Mari 5 prize to time Pro he winter tire cattle idon, and under sir rar ution ql ,, ole.P ke.Que.DARE office of ywn hand 3 \u2014\u2014 0 8 St.0.- , gn advices \u2014 INVESTMENT Government \u2014\u2014 Municipal and SECURITIES.Glico.ae Rr.WILSON SMITH, Financial Agent, ARD HAMBERS, STAND gt.Jnmes St, MONTREAL.First-class Investments always On hand.(LONOKE ORDERS HELP BUSINESS, ihey Have Proved to ve a Big Factor.REVIEW OF THE WEEK.Authorities Speak Cheerfully of the Outlook.There has been a fairly satisfactory im- ement in the volume of wholesale trade prov ç the past woek, and things generally are coming round 1m Very encouraging shape.mtry roads are still poor in many The te but in spite of this even, the amount of business accomplished during the week was a good deal larger than generally expected.Travellers who are out on the road are sending in very éncourag- ing reports, and from all accounts the country is well supplied with money.This js evident from tha fact that there is comparatively little hresitation in mails ing purchases, while collections too show à material improvement irom what they were some time ago.| | In some lines of trade there is still some inactivity but generally speaking the out- took for all lines is about as cheerful as it has been for years past.Montreal houses are now getting a larger \u2018laste of the Kiondike Trade and there is no saying to what point this business will expand.As already noted in The Herald, representatives of large concerns have been the city making extensive purchases, and the resuits are felt inn almost every branch.There is no doubt but that Montrealers have made a splendid effort to capture the Klondike trade and no pains have been spared to cater to the tastes of the biggest purchasers.All kinds of Klondike specialties whether in a provision or clothing way, have been greeted with a well drserved sale.In fact one dealer in the city, a provision man, stated that he bas actually been obliged to decline offers for goods as he has contracted for all the etui! he can possibly eupply for the next month or more.Grocers, clothing and woollen men have repoited quite liberal Klondike orders in the past two weeks, while the leading druggists are also beginning to feel a bigger demand than some time ago.Undoubtudly the Klondike trade is a big hing.de weeks past one of the leading trade \u201cauthorities the Trade Bulletin his taken & very cheerful view of the situation and it has not been altered any.The Bulletin this week says.\u201cIn wholesale departments, the volume of trade has come fully up to expectations during the past week es it is found: that traders order more freely mow that the prospects for the gpring trade are so encouraging.As am-il- lustation of this confidence in the future we may publish the foulowing extract from à letter received by ons of our wholesale dry goods houses this week from a customer in the West.\u201cI might have deferred the emclosed order, but owing to the liberal manner in which my stocks have already been broken into, and the unexpect ed prothpiness manifested by my customers in meeting their payments, I have decided to - Anticipate Wants which I feel confident will bave to be filled earlier than I had at one time thought would be necessary.\u201d \u2018This was received from a well-to-do country merchant, and was not written with a view to induce the house here to fill the order, as one of the principals of the firm here said: \u2014\u201cHe is one of our best customers, and if the order had been for thre¢ or four times the amount it would have been filled just as promptly.\u201d Under the circumstances, tnerq.ore, the above instance may be taken ag fairly indicative of the return of that business contidence which for a number of years past has in a great degree been conspicuous by its absence.Future Prosperity.\u201cThe future prosperity of our country can only be miéasured by its commercial resources, which are too vast to admit of any limit being placed upon them at pesent, and there can be no doubt that We have arrived upon the threshold of en epod in Canadian \u2018history that will eclips all previous records of its progress; this will be brought about mainly through the instrumentality of the ploughshares of Trade and Commerce in utilizing the Mumense areas of untilled virgin soil, which stretch through the lumgth and breadth, of Manitoba and the Northwest erritories, for the cultivation of wheat, weet the increasing require- fonts of Europe, and eventually Yaose of the Uuited States besides.Groceries, One of the chief features of th cery market during the past week \u2018as oe the decidedly strong feeling that fas prevailed! in sugars.Advices from ed ou New York and Cuba are bullish, % e local market keeps more or less Sympathy with them.The demand pue is Improving somawhat, and the re- ie 8 are getting full prices, Granulated ed on the basis of 45-16c, Cana- ot Sper at dc, and yellows at 3 9-16¢ ven as to quality.Low grade syrups rt been In very fair demand during the ry eek, and dealers, in view of the culty i, A have had considerable diffi- von supplying wants.Bright grades | and.are firmly held at 2c per Ib.ren alasses market continues to ex- gi old-time strength, and holders - os ed to look for higher prices just rg as the demand begins to pick up.of 50 puncheons of common Bar- our vas placed at about 26c, and recent on js éay that the market in Bar- ey has opened at about 13c f.o.b.abo\" Plies very light.This figure % Teor under the opening price last fr trade for the season ig reported D » amd Drees are finmly held.For- tinue very strong in tome il \u2018mg FroSpects are thet higher figures #5: atom We quote: \u2014Crystal, Japan 5 po oor B, 63.50 to 83.75, Patna, $9.50; Carolina, $6.75 to 87.75; choice Burmeail kind, 84.25 to x.0 $B, and Java mand is slow and business quiet.The | Brazil crop of coffee to date:\u2014Recerpts at Rio, July 1, 1897, to Feb.4, 1898, 3,047,- 000 bags; same time 1897, 2,481,000 bags; do., 1896, 1,796,000 bags.Receipts at Santos, July 1, 1897, to February 4, 1888, 4,835,000 bags; same time 1807, 3,919,000 bags; do., 1396, 2,570,000 bags.We quate: Marecaibo, 10e to 12\u20ac; Ri,o 9c to 10c; Sen | tos, l0c to llc; Java, 17¢ to 20c, end Mocha, 186 to Be.' There were some large lines of low grade Comgos rejected by the Government inspector during the past week, which is about the only feature in the market \u2018to .There has been just a moderate demand, and low grade Congos have sold at 9c to lle, according to quality.: Canned goods have been in pretty good demand during the sveek, with a good deal | of attention paid to canned apples.Some | small sales on local account are reported at $2.75 per dozen for one gallon tins, and holders are now asking $3.Sales of peas at Western pointe have been made at $1 per dozen f.o.b., which is equal to $1.10 here.Corn has sold at 95c to $1 per dozen.Advices froin New York say:\u2014 Tt was reported that a considerable busi- mess had been done in 1898 packing Co- lwmbia River salmon ei prices to be made later, the buyers reserving the right to reject in tihe event that the prices named were at a centain percentage above last year's opening prices.This, it is seid, means moithing if it does mot mean that sellers will meet buyers\u2019 views on ithe new pack.Petroleum.There has been mo great amount of activity in the market during the past week, and prices remain just about the same.There is a new grade of oil on the market, which is said to be equal in quality to the American prime white.It ig selling at 13c to 14c.Canadian refined is quoted in car lote at llic, and at 12¢ to 13¢ in smaller quantities.Amencan prime white, 14e in car lots, 13c in small lots; water mylhite, 154c in car lots, 164\u20ac in a jobbing way.Pratt\u2019s astral oil.17e in car lots, and 18¢ in emall quantitfies.Fish.The Lenten eeason is pretty close at hand, but so far there has been no great activity in the fish market.Supplies just at present are large, and, on the whole, the outlook does mot appear particularly promising.A# a rule, low prices are in order, although during the week pickled salmon hes scored an edvance of about 25c.In fresh fish all lines of Manitoba are easier, and prices are off probably #c a pound.Haddocks and cod in case lots are selling at Z£c to 3c per Ib.; steak cod 4c; smelts, 4e to 6c; Manitoba dore, 5c to 5tc; pike, 3e to 34c; white fish and trout, \u20acic; fresh frozem salmom, 120; fresh herrings, large, $1.40; medium, $1.20 per 100; and tommy cods, $1 to $1.10 per barrel.The stock of pickled fish is large, and, although mo actual decline in values has taken place, holders of such show a disposition to shade present figures.\"We quote :\u2014Green cod, No.1 large, $4 to $4.25; No.1, ordinary, $3 to $3.50; No.2, $2.25 to $2.40; herrings, No.1 N.S., $4.25 per barrel, and $2.10 to $2.25 per half barrel; Cape Breton, $4.50 to $4.75 per barrel; B.C.salmon, $11.75 per barrel; No.1 trout, $4 to $4.25 per half barrel.Smoked fish are in good eupply, for which the demand is fair and prices rule steady.Haddies are selling at 5ic to 6c per ïb.; new Yarmouth bloaters at $1.2 per box of 75 fish, and smoked herrings at 10c per \u2018box.In preserved fish trade is slowgand prices show no dhange.Dressed codfish are sell- ping at $4.25 mer gage of 100 lbs.; dried coa at 3.50 per 100 lbs.; boneless codfish at the to 5¢ per 1b.; and boneless fish, 3c per Paints and Oils.= © There has been a firmer tone to the market lately, and one of the features has been the advance in linseed oil.\u2018lhere has been a pretty fair demand right along and one of the most active lines thas been turpentine.In white lead there is a moderate trade doing, also in paints general ly.Values are as follows :\u2014White lead, best brands, Government standard, $5.37% No.1, $5; No.2, $1.623; No.3, $4.20; white zine paint, pure, 7e; No.1, 64e; No.2, 5e; dry white lead, casks, 4kc; kegs, 4c; No 1, in casks, 4}, in kegs, 4}c; putty, in \u2018bulk, bbls.$1.65; bladder, in bbls., $1.80; do., in boxes, $1.95; tins, $2.05 to $2.30; linseed odl, raw, 46e, boiled 49c, five bbl.lots one cent less net cash 30 days.Delivered Omtario east of Whitby at lc per gallon advance, freight allowed.'Turpentine, one to five barrels, 5lc; same terms as linseed oil.Paris green, pure, in bbls., 143c; 250 lb.kegs, 14ic; 50-100 lb.drums, 15¢c; 1 Ib.packets, 16c.Mixed paints, $l to $1.20 per gallon.Varnishes, japaus and stains, former lists.; Dry Goods.The majority of merchants say that up to the present time business has been a geod deal better than it was thie time a year ago, while all are speaking very cheerfuily of the future.Orders are IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA CAPITAL (Paid up) - - $2,000,000 REST - - - - - « = HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO.D.R.WILKIE - - - - General Manager E.HAY - - - lnspector.The MONTRHAL Branch of this bank\u2014167 St.James Street\u2014is now open and prepared to transact general wanking business, Special attention paid to collections.J.A, RICHARDSON, Manager, coming in from travellers in good style, while remittances are very fair.The wool market is active and firm.The mills are running overtime in their efforts to supply Klondike orders, and there is any amount of business still in sight.There is a lot of poor wool being used, but there is likewise a good demand for the better stock.(Greasy cape is quoted at 144c to 163; B.A.scoured 25 to Shc, and Canadian wool, 20c to 23c.Boots and Shoes, Speaking of the market mn authority gaid: \u201cManufacturers are still running fall swing on their spring goods, which are being shipped out in considerable quantities to all parts of the interior.lt is understood that some of our large manufacturing concerns are so full or orders that they have been obliged to refuse new business.Remittances are fair for the season, and mow that country roads \u201cre in better condition, a resumption or normal trading is expected, and with it im- preved remittances.\u201d Leather.The tone of the market is very firm, and during the week the demand was found to be very fair.It cannot be said, however, that manufacturers are buying liberally as yet, but it is believed that they will have to get in the market in eaimest sooner or later.There is a good export demand and some large sales of sole have resulted, Values are: No.2 manufacturers\u2019 sole, 22c to 24c; jobbers\u2019 sole, 22c to 23c; slaughter sole, 25¢ to 27c; waxed up- buff, 1lc to 12e; splits, 22c to 24c for Ontario, and 16c to 19c for Quebec; pebble, © ia no diange in coffee, The de- | 13e to 13c; glove, 1lc to 123c; Dongola, 120 following shows the movement of the foot; calfskins, 18c to 20c per foot, THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1808.to 18¢ per foot; sheepskins, 5c to Te pur Iron end Hardware.There is a fairly firm tome to pig iron, but the market fails to show a great deal ; of life.The sale is reported of a lot of | | No.2 American pig iron laid down here at a shade under $15.Bar iron is firm.We quote: Summerlee pig, $18 to $18.50; Carron, $18 to $18.50; Ayrsome, No.1, $17; Eglinton, $16.50; No.2, $15.50; Ferrona, $1C; Siemens, No.1, $16; wrought scrap, No.1, $14 to $15; bar iron, $1.40 to $1.50; tin plates, cokes, $2.75 to 82.90; I.C.charcoal, $3.25 to $3.75; Canada plates, $2.10 to $2.15; terne plates, $5.95 to $6.25; galvanized iron, 44c to 4jc as to bramd; Orford copper, 1l4c to 12c; ingot tin, 154c to 16e; lead, $3.75 to $4, and spelter at $4.50 to $4.70.Iron pipe, $3.90 to $4.CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE'S PROGRAMME For the Year Discussed hy the New President.CLEARING SALE \u20140F\u2014 Handsome Household Furniture.Lrass Beadsteads, Handsome Upright Piano, House Furnishings, etc.At our rooms, 241 and 243 St.James Street.TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FHB 15th.\u2014In Part\u2014 Very Handsome Piano, large assortment of Parlor Furniture, Odd and Basy Chairs, Cabinets, Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture, Wire Spuings, Hair and Wool Mattresses, Chamber Ware, Crockery, Cut- tery, Glassware, etc., Belfast Table Linen, Towels, Swiss and Nottingham Lace Curtains, Poatieres, Sheetings, etc, etc.Particular attention ls directed to à large consignment of Brussels and Tapestry Carpets, Oiloloth and Limoleum, etc.Those wanting furniture, ote., should attend this sale, as we will sell every lot offered without the slightest reserve, Storage free until 1st of May next.Sale at 2 o\u2019Glock.RAE & DONNELLY, Auctioneers.N.B.\u2014Our list for sales at private residences is now open.We would request an early application from those desir our services.Personal attention.Moderate charges and prompt returns.Canada Atlantic's Entry to Montreal and the Ship Services.tnt tp mpi.Mr.Jos.Contant, the retiring president of the Chambre de Commerce, occupied meeting of that body.Among those pre- D.Rolland, D.Parizeau, J.X.Perrault, J.Haynes, H.A.A.Brault, O.Mar- tineau, D.Masson, 8.Robitaille, H.de la Barthe, J.OQ.Joseph, L.E.Geofirion, N.T.Gagnon, Geo.Leclerc, L.J.A.Surveyer, \u2014 Beaubien and others, Mr.S.Cote acting as secretary.The annual report Leing alid on the table, Mr.J.X.Lerrault moved its adoption.He laid particular stress upon the importance of the Chambre de Commerce and the work it had to do in the commercial world., He suggested that steps be taken to have a universal exhibition in Montreal on.the lines of that of Paris.Before leaving tbe chair, Mr.Contant made a very practical speech, thanking the members for the:r attendance and hearty co-operation during the two years he had been their president.He made à strong appeal to the French-Canad'an the Chambre de Commerce in order that !t may be a success as well as an influentias body in the community.Mr.Contant compiained that on several cvecasions when Ministers desired information, they asked for duvlegations from the Toronto and Montreal Boards of \u2018Trade, and appeared to forget that the Uhansbre de Commerce existed.This was wrong, and the speaker hoped that members would make it impossible for such a tung to occur again.The new president, the Hon.Alph.Desjardins, then addreszed the members present.He discussed briefly the several questions of more or less interest to the commercial metropolis of Canada.He referred to the Canada Atlantic\u2019s proposed entry into the city, and made several wise deductions iherefrora.The fast Atlantic service, which he hoped to see gn accomplished fact during 1899, a direct steamship service with France and other continental ports; these were also questions of the highest importance to the Chambre de Commerce and to the city.The speaker also strongly supported the idea of an exposition for Canada, and said it was time that the matter was being attended to.He also made a very strong point regarding Canada\u2019s market.It was evident, he said, that the United States would have nothing to do with us in trade matters, but happiuy the English market was open wide to our cheese, butter and other products.The new officers and council are as follows :\u2014 : Hon.Alphonse Desjardins, president.Mr.L.E.Geoffrion, first vice president.Mr.D.Masson, second vice-president.Mr.Ubaide Garand, treasurer.Mr.S.Oote; secretary.Council\u2014Alphonse Racine, H.Laporte, Hon.J.D.Rolland, G.Boivin, D.Pari- zeau, 0.Faucher, J.X.Perrault, Robt.Bickerdike, M.L.A., L.J.Surveyer, Arthur Gagnon, Hon.L.J.Forget, H.A.A.Brault, L.E.Morin, sr., C.P.Chag- non, Joseph Haymes, C.H.Catelli, L.E.Beauchamp, P.E.Paquette, J.E.Sa- vignac and Armand Lalonde.GOING AND COMING.City of Topeka Arrives at Vicioria Wita Several Dawsonites, Viotoria, Feh.12.\u2014The City of Topeka arrived yesterday afternoon from Wran- gel, having been delayed by bad weather.Thera were several arrivals from Dawson.The latest, W.Kenney, loft on Jaa.12.Dawson is now deserted, all the miners being at work on their claims.The re- pout reached Juneau just before the Topeka left, that five men had been frozen to death on the Chilkoot Summit, but no names were obtainable.Another report had it that O.Sylvestre, a pioneer merchant of Alaska, had been accidentally of MoGrath and Rowan dis lodged in Sitka Jail.Two more Klondike steamers left for the North last night.They were the City of Seattle amd the Cleveland.absolutely to decline to take up 240 dogs for time Pierre-Humbert party.EPPS'S COCOA, GRATEFUL\u2014COM- FORTING.\u201cBy a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-select- ed Cocoa, Mr.Epps has provided for our breakfast and supper a delicately flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors\u2019 bills.It is by the judicious ase of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease, Ilundreds of subtle maladies are floating oround us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point.We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly noup- ished frame.\u201d\u2014Civil Service Gazette, Made simply with boiling water or milk, Sold only in 3-1b.tins by grocers and storekeepers, labelled thus: James Epps & Co, Ltd., Homoeopathic PASSED THEIR EXAMS.Quebec, Feb.11.\u2014(Special.)\u2014Mr.Bd.Courriveau, of this city, has passed his per, 23e to 3lc; grained do., 28c to 33¢; | examination as a sea-going captain, and Mr, Lac Pelletier, of L\u2019'Islet, as a mate.The examinations were held by Captain \u2018Smith, R.N.R., of Halifax.Both can.| didutes were pupile of the School of Navi- | gation here, conducted by Captain W.C, | Seaton.TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.Take Laxative Bromo All Druggists refund the money to cure, Zùc ; | BOECKH'S PATENT the chair for the last time at yesterday's: sent were :\u2014Hon.A.Desjardins, Hon.J.° business men, asking them to rally arouna'! # «hot in the leg.Ed.Pay, the murderer ° The Seattle had 6585 passengers.She had | Quinine Tablets, * i it falls > BRIDLED BRUSHES Save time and money and temper for progressive painters.They spread the paint evenly and wear out slowly.mn M u 5 M Go 190 Wall & Walsh, THE PRACTICAL PLUMBERS We have had a large experietice In all kinds of Plumbing, suck as Gas Fittings, Iron, Tin or Brass Wor* putting up Gas Stoves, Electric iit- ings, etc.We guarantee our work to be satisfactory and charges moderate.WALL & WALSH, 562 CRAIG STRETET \u2014_\u2014 Rh Canada Wall Paper King Sample books of Choice Wall Paper for Residences, Churches, Offices, Lodge Rooms, Public Halls, Hotels.Stores and our hooklet, \u201cHow to Paper,\u201d gent frec to any address.Write a postal to THE WALL PAPER KING OF CANADA.B \u20ac B.SCANTLEBURY, à P.0.Box 910.Belleville, Ont.# Mention what prices you expect to [i M pay, the rooms you wish to paper amd where you saw this advertisement.4F We pay express charges, à Th RECU RENE Soldiers\u2019 Uniforms Made up in the correct atyle.Also all kinds of repairing and altering same.__ Give me a trial.JA LEVY, 353 St.Lawrence St: P.S.\u2014By dropping me à postal I will send for and deliver your clothes.er Warehouse and Business Properties FOR SALE.In the lower part of tha city.We have several excellent properties which 'we can offer at very low pices and in some cases can exchange for other properties.J.CRADOCK SIMPSON, & C0.181 St.James Street.Can\u2019t TEMPERANCE HOUSE.Breakfast, ROOMS BY DAY, WEEK Dinner, or MONTH, EVERYTHING Supper, NEW AND CLEAN, 15c Give Us a Trial.© CORNER ss Cralg & Alexander, MBALS ALWAYS Old Hope Coffes House.READY, MONTREAL.C.H.STILLWELL, OPEN ALL NIGHT.Manager.STEAKS, CHOPS AND OYSTERS ALL NIGHT.KLONDIKE MAPS AND GUIDE LINES Are to be seen on linen washed by the or- 4Y» IS dinary common soaps with big names which mark out queer lines in the fabrics, but do not The housekeepers\u2019 safety is to use Proper Soap, Pure take away the dirty appearance.and Efficacious.Use only STRACHANS ILT E SOAP.GE ¢ ¢ ¢ J.SLOAN & SONS.Xe FINE FOOT WEAR.CLEARING SALE.Choice Goods at Low Prices.Odd Lines at Cost and Under.Bargains while they last, CORNER ST.ANTOINE AND MOUNTAIN STREETS.TTT V DYDD DVR VT RVD \u201caN 2 ¢ - Ye VUS VOA VU DO à JOHN MURPHY & Co.Wo y Fr peoti® om.Us, Tr SOGOOOODODOD © 6S SOIIBIOPIIO'OOPOOD © © 6 66006166 Afford to waste fuel in heating your factory, competition is too keen to allow of it, We think we can show you some improvements on your present system, and enquiry will cost you nothing.Geo.W, Reed & Co, ¥83, 785 Craig Street, Æ MONTREAL.= = 34 a.= ® a - æ IN: THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE In the matter of the Winding Up Act, R.S.Canada, 1886, Chapter 129, and amendments thereto, and of the Syndicate Company, of Ottawa, Limited.Pursuant to the Winding Up Order, and Order of Reference herein, dated the 29th day of January, A.D., 1898, the Credtors of the Mercantile Syndicate Company, of Ottawa, Limited, are, on or before the 23rd day of February, A.D., 1808, to send by post prepaid to the undersigned, the Privisional Liquidator appointed by the Court, the full particulans of their claims, a statement of their securities, and the nature of the securities (if any) held by them; or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded froin tre benefit of the said orders.A meeting of the creditors and ghare- holders of the sald Company will be held of Ottawa, at the hour of two o'clock In ruary, 1808, for \u2018the purpose of receiving a and of ascertaining the wishes of the creditors and shareholders with regard to the appointment of a permanent liquidator and the winding up of the sald estate.On the said 23rd day of February, 1898, at the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, the Master will, at bis Chambers, at tne Court House, in the sald City of Ottawa, proceed to the appointment of a permanent Hquidator or liquidators of the estate and effects of the sald Company, 1D2ted this 4th day of February, A.D.By direction of W.L.Scott, Esquire, Master of this Count, at Ottawa.JOHN SWEETLAND, Provigional Liguidetor.A LABOR#R KILLED.Petrolia, Ont., Feb.12.\u2014George Arm- bly, a Swede laborer, was run down by :a Midhigan Central Railway train last | night between Oil City and Petrolia Junc- Mercantile \u2019 at my office, in the Court House, in the City the afternoon, of the said 28rd day of Feb- statement of the affairs of the Company, | TOCK- TAKING \u201cSPECIALS 9694005056 SO 9 999096000000 609000090090 9H 9 SHPO $ make the Most of their Money 2 MAIDS\u2019 and LADIES\u2019 JACKETS, Heavy Cheviot Serge, latest style and tailor made.Worth $5.50, for $3.95.1 lot LADIES\u2019 JACKETS, Colored and Black Boucle Cloth.from $7.60 to $8.60.Your choice $5.HEAVY BEAVER CLOTH, New Blue and Drab, $8,560 to $10.For $6.50.SEALETTE JACKETS, $33 for $24.50, 835 for $27.50.HEAVY CLOTH CAPES.Worth $4, For $2.75 GOLF CAPES, assorted colors, Worth from $7.50 to $10.Your choice, $5, Tweeds and Cloths HEAVY DOUBLE WIDTH TWEED, Worth $1.50, For $1.10 per yd.HEAVY CHEVIOT SERGE.in Navy and Brown, Worth 81,75.For $1.25 per yard.HEAVY BEAVER CLOTH.Worth $1.65.For $1.25 per yd, HEAVY SERGE, in Beal Brown, $2.For $1,65 per yd, HEAVY FRIEZE CLOTH.Worth $1.75.For $1.25 per yd.All REMNANTS of TWEED and CLOTH, at Less than Half Price.Worth o : o bs : o o o ê : o remis VALENTINES\u2014A CHOICE ASSORTMENT.JOHAN MURPHY & CO.2343 St Catherine Street, Terms Cash, : è SOON SOA VOA A OO VOOR D Corner of Metcalfe Street, Tel.3833 ca = + ss - LL.ae 2 - ne STRIFE AND BLOODSHED.San Francisco, Cal., Feb.12.\u2014A ape- cial from Sen Jose de Guebemalw says civil etrife and blecodshed Have followed the killing of Barrios.- Before the body | of the late ruler had found sepulture, the Factions were flying at eadh other's throats, and as a result Generel Marre- cuin, the chief supporter of Prospero CANDIDATE WITHDRAWS.Teeswater, Ont., Feb.12.\u2014At the ad- | journed independent convention heid at Formosa yesterday, W.R.Thompson, of Teeswater, the nominee for South Bruce, withdrew on account of business engagements, and Robert Long, farmer, County Councillor for Puani;, wus nominated in iis Morales, one of the uspirants to the etead.Mr.Long will take a few days to presidency, is dead, and his fovces consider before deciding whether or not ! seeking safety in Hight._- \u2018he will rua.7 STILLWELL'S | | HERALDS.| Legal Directory + A.E.HARVEY, B.C.L,, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER AND & v SOLICITOR, TEMPLE BUILDING, ST, JAMES ST, Montreal.: Room 38.*Phone 1868.ed S.W.JACOBS, ADVOOCATH, BARRISTER AND © SOLICITOR, Commissioner for New Brunswick and: Nova Scotia, NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING, Montreal.\u2018 \u2014 + CHRYSLER & BETHUNE, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, Parliamentary, Supreme Court and Departmental Agents.Solicitors In Exchequer Court, 19 AND 20 CENTRAL CHAMBERS, Ottawa, Canada.Francis H.Chrayler, Q.C, C.J, R., Bethun _\u2014 LEITCH & PRINGLE, BARRI STEERS, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Solicitors in Chancery, Notaries Public, Etc, ; CORNWALL, ONT.! Jas.Leitch, Q.C.R.A.Pringle.GIBBONS, MULKERN & HARPER BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETO.fice\u2014Cor.Richmond and Carling Streetey LONDON, ONT.Geo.C.Gibbons, Q.C.P, Mulkerm Fred.F, Harper, A, Finlayson.A FINLAYSON & GRANT CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERS, Forwarders and Warchousemen, 413 to 417 ST.PAUL STREET, Montreal.\u2019 Bell Tel, 1303, P.O.Box 434.R a I { FINER GRADES: \u201cIndia Bright.\u201d \u201cRoyal.\u201d \u201cImperial Seeta.\u2019 \u201cCarolina.\u201d .POLISHED GRADES \\ To which particular attention is invited.; \u201cPolished.\u201d | \u201cJapan Glace.\u201d \u201cImperial Glace.\u201d MOUNT ROYAL MILLING CO, LTD D.W.Ross Coy.Agents, Montreal.INSOLVENT NOTICE: In the matter of PIERRE MAIRISAN, Boot \"and Shoe Dealer, No.2199 Notre Dame: Street, Montreal, Insolvent.i The undersigned will sell by Public Auation, en bloc, at No.69 ST.JAMBS STREET, Montreal, WEDNESDAY, the 16th FEBRUARY, 1898, At 11 O'Clock A.M., the miovable assets to wit : Stock of Boots and Shoes.$4,168.77 FIXtUI'eS ee so veonsscsscee soc.186.20 $4,304.97 Terms cash.The store will be open on the 15th Ine stant.For fuather dnformationr, apply to ALEX.DESMARTBAU, Curator, No.1598 Notre Dame St, Montreal, MARCOTTE BROS., Auctioneers.INSOLVENT NOTICE In the matter of JOHN CROWE, of Montreal, Insolvent.The undersigned will sell by public auction, at Rooms, No, 453 ST.JAMES STREET, on Monday.[4th February, 1898.the following assets, in two lots : Lot No, 1\u2014Brick boiler house, wooden frame building, in their present condition, t the land on which they are built.Lot No, 2\u2014Pressed hay elevator, loose hay elevator, small elevator for boards, small fan, electric fittings, etc, etc.Information can be obtained at office of Curator.Terms cash, Sale at 11 O'Clock A.MA.W.STEVENSON, Curator.FRASER BROS., Auctioneers, Bank of Toronto Chambers, INSOLVENT NOTICE In the matter of KBPARNEY & FAULKNER, Papineauville, Insolvents.The undersigned will sell by Publie Auction, at No.86 St.Peter Street, Montreal, .FRIDAY, the 18th FEBRUARY, 1898, | Ait 11 O'Olock A.M5, the foltowing movable assets: Dry Goods .+.snvu00 .$1,889.93 Stationery and Fancy Goods .280.88 Boots and Shoes .teeracseressns 413.09 Hardware .coeescscsscscssene 470.65 Gmoceries and Patent Medicines.496.20 Crockeny ov a secssésses ses 000 00 144.57 Store Fixtures and Rolling Stock.105.34 \u2018 $3,800.68 Book Debts, ag per Wet .\u2026.273.80 Terms Cash.The store will be open for inspecilon on the 17th instant.For other particulary, apply to LAMARCHB & BENOIT, 1700 Notre Dame Street, Monbreal, BENNING & BARSALOU, Auctioneers, MONTREAL STREET RAILWAY TENDERS FOR ADVERTISING IN CARS, Sectled tenders, marked \u201cTender for Advertising Privilege,\u201d addressed to the Montreal Street Raflway Company, will be ra \u2019 ceived up to the 1st April next for the ptiivilege of adventising in the Company\u2019s Cars.The conditions under which the said privilege would be granted, may be had upon application to the undersigned at the Head Office of the Company, in Montrea., The Company does not bind itself to ac cept the highest or amy tender.MARTIN H.WATTS Secretary.Montreal, 4th Mebruary, 1898.FIRE INSURANCE.Montreal City Agent, The Imperlal Insurance Company, Limited, Lon don, Eng., Britlsh American Assur, ance Company, Toronto, Alllance, Assurance Company, London, Eng.GEORGE C.HIAM, Impertal Busldin - St.James sto pr enn I \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 J sts SS SE EE pr re stu Us OR Pe 8 THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898 DVISIONBELLS DID AOT ANG The Address in Reply Adopted in the House, mp gn SCHOOL ISSUE MENTIONED But it Evoked No Enthusiasm From - the Members, Ottawa, \u2018Feb, 11.\u2014(Special.)\u2014The address wae carried last night dn a slim house, after three speeches had been made, two from the left of the chair, and one from the Government benches.For the first time in months the words \u2018School ques tion\u201d were heard in the House.Mr.Ber- geron, of Beauharnois, referred to that dead issue in a temporate speech, which evoked absolutely no sign of interest on the part of the French opposition members.Joven Mr.Laurier was silent.Mr.Bergeron also spoke on prohibition and the plebiscite at greater length than any previous speaker, and frankly stated his belief in the uselessness of \u2018the latter and the impracticability of the former.Mr.MdMullen made an excellent defence of \u2018the Government against the charges so freely made of broken pledges, and proved Whitney in the Ontario elections.The Reform party had kept its pledges as far es it could last session, and was going on to carry out the balance of them.(Hear, hear.) Statements were hurled acrosg the floor that the new tariff was the oldeone over again, that no concessions had been made to consumers, that no reductions had been made in expenditure.All these statements Mr.McMullen disproved by facts and figures.\u2018The Opposition, he said, were looking for faults and scandals, but were unable to find anything, Dealing humorously with Mr.Davin\u2019s efforts to find classical or scriptural prototypes for all the leaders in the House, Mr.McMullen described his search for a name for the western bard.He had hit upon Samson, remembering that, on one occasion, that worthy was said to have slain a thousand men with the jawbone ot an ass.(Laughter.) The only difference was that in the modern case the deadly instrument was in the House for the last ten years, and had never burt anyone, let alone slay a thousand.Mr.Foster\u2014Before the hon.member sits down I would like to ask him if this 18 his farewell speech.Mr.McMullen\u2014I am afraid there would be a sea of regrets in my friend's mind if I were to leave here.I beg to assure him he will have the pleasure of seeing my face in this House for \u2018many years, I hope, for 1 trust to see him in his present hon.pcsition for years to come, Mr, Bergeron\u2019s Speech.Mr.Bergeron (Beauharnois) made an excellent speech from the Opposition benches.Like every one else on that side, fhe devoted a deal of time to preferential trade, which led to a lively tilt between himself and Mr.Wood (Hamilton).Having stated that a resolution adopted by the Toronto Board of Trade in favor of a revenue tariff had been proposed by Mr.E.B.Osler at the Congress of Chambers beyond question that so far as parliament | of Cammerce in London and accepted by has permlited they have kept their promises, and are now preparing to fulfil the rest.' Introduction of Bills.; Two hills \u2018were introduced, one by Mr.McMullen, to amend the Civil Service Act, and the other by Mr, Campbell (Kent), to provide for the crossing of railway lines by drains, and to protect farmers from the fires which frequently occur along railways, Mr.Campbell stated that he would later on ask that the bil be referred to the same committee to which Mr.Casey\u2019s bill on drainage across railways will be sent, in order\u2018that the two may be incorporated.Customs in Yukon.Sir Hibbert Tupper drew attention to a despatch érom Washington, in \u2018the morning papers, referring to a bill reported in the U.S.Senate, by which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pre- gcribe coasting regulations that foreign vessels shall not transfer, ship or unlcal cargoes between ome American port and another, \u2018except under a certificate of the cclieagbor of customs.It is provided that this shall also apply to the trade to and through Alaska.Sir Hibbert suggested that for the better discussion of the railway bill it would be well to have maps 'showing approximately the boundary line understood pro tem., and the stations oc cup\u2018ed by the American Government.Mr.Sifton explained that it would, be difficuït to show a boundary lhe.On the Stickeen River there was a Canadian port 22 miles from the mouth, by the winding of the stream, but mearer the coast ny a straight line.There was a difficulty also im the White Pass, back of Skagway, and the Chilcoot Pass, back of Dyea.Both Skagway and Dyea were by the Canadian claim in Canadian territory, but were occupied by the United States.The Canadian customs officers had been instructed vo post themselves just inside the summit in both passes, where they were about fifteen miles from the water line.The report of Mr.Jennings, Government engineer, on the proposed route of the Telegraph Creek\u2014Teslin railway, was laid on the table by Mr.Sifton.Maps are in course \u2018of preparation.Mr.Davin read an advertisement of a Yukon Company from the Chicago Record, which etated that the company had a leasa of fifty miles for dredging purposes on the Yukon, Klondike, Indian, Stewart, and Preston rivers {from the Canadian Foverment.À party of some forty peopie are to go out in the spring, including clergymen, U.8.senators, pension commissioners and Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn.Mr.Davin was anxious to know if the statement in the advertisemmnt was true.: ber.Sifton replied that regulations had been framed for the issue of leases for dredging, under which amyone was entitled to apply for a lease.The principle #h granting leases would be first come, first served.A large number of applications had been filled, but if his instructions had been carried out none were yet issued.Preferential Trade.Mr.Alex.McNeill (orth Bruce) is noted for his preferential trade ideas, and has frequently divided the House on a motion declaring in favor of that policy, but even when he was on the right of the Speaker he could never get a majority for this motion.In resuming the debate on the address he spoke on this subject and no other.He accused Sir Wilfrid Laurir of having committed the most outrageously unpatriotic action ever heard ot in killing preferential trade by his speeches in England.Mr.McNeill asserted that at the time of the jubilee the feeling in Britain in favor of his favorite policy was Co ernment Against pr \u2018Fire } (CE Liverpod Liverpo { Bosto?Export , granted ) t.Street + mses e Hera t.Jame Briere \u2014 @ *\u2014%© 2m VV VR VV VS SSSR VOS *: + ® > C 16 Pages.eval, Pages 9 to 16.eit \u2014 orsr YEAR.No.36.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898.\u2014 CONCERNING OUR OWN BIE CITY A Glimpse at the History of Montreal.mere TAXES AND EXPENDITURES, Facts Which Will be of Interest to Every Citizen,\u2018 ACK in the early days of British rule in Canada, Montreal was the great commercial centre for the small and intrepid band of settlers.yur er back, when the King of France hel owas the principal expeditions undertaken \u2019 the purpose of improving the cat oe De ttlement at Ville Marie ge Montreal, Still back into the days de en the corridors of history are lighted 5 ly by the uncertain gleam of Indian tra- or ¥ OY Hochelaga, as it was then called, diti the great town in which the primitive trading of those days was done, and in which royalty, as it was then known, had its home.When Jacques Cartier landed at Stadacona (now Quebec), in 1535, he learned of a town, the greatest among thoss of the aborigines, situated further up the river, and at the foot of 2 mountain.To this place he pushed on.Coming near it, he arrayed himself in his finest habit, and with a company of his very best men, fololwed his Indian guides to the town.Before reaching the walls he was received wy one of the chicfs, and afterwards by the great chief or King Agouhanna, by whorl, a well as by 1 le, he was hospitably treated.Lhe the peor the place was indicated by the fact that even at that time when the Indian generally were engaged mainly in predatory wars and in the chase, the French discoverers was able to say: \u201cThe people are given to no other xercise but only to husbandry and fishing for their existence.\u201d What it was in those days it has remained ever since, the centre of trade and of wealth for the vast territory which afterwards bicame known as Canada.As Canada has extended its borders and increased its wealth, so Montreal has grown.When the settlement of Canada was first undertaken, the main poms to pe ceive attention was necessarily Quebec, that being the great fort and vantage ground, the hoïding of which meant the holding of Canada.But as soon as attention was given to trading, or industry of any kind, Montreal was, by common consent, held to be the great point of vantage.But it was unfortunately thw case that in the great struggle beéfween the English and the French for the control of the New World, Montreal, perhaps more than any other point, was made the scene of aec- tion and the centre of the operations of beth armies.Worse than this, if possible, the two great Indian tribes, the Iroquois and the Algonquins, took sides with the English and rench respectively.and the barbarities of theg: savages, influenced as they were by the hatreds of the in the interval caused hardly less fearful alarm by thé knowledge that the war hatchet was still unburied, But, notwithstanding aul difficulties, the deep religious spirit of some of the pioneers and the reckless intrepidity of others, kept the colony from dying out, and caused it to assume eviry year a higher and higher posi tion as a trading centre.This record of trouble was broken for a time by the treaty of 1713.Peace lasted until 1749.Then commenced the great war which led to the Treaty of Paris, and the final ces- gon of the country to Britain.But this peace, secured after so great shughter, lasted but for a few years, and then the troubles attending the American revolution began to make itself felt in the Canadian metropolis.In 1775 the city was captured by General Montgomery, and, though no act of spoliation was committed, yet the excitement attending the war, and the paralysis of business incident to it, checked the material prosperity ox the place and minimised its progress.But when the Treaty of Varsailles again established peace, the city was left free to push forward in the path of progress, and the citinens took advantage of the opportu- nts thus offered.The growth of Montreal was but little checked by the war of 1812, for that affeced Western Can- ala more particularly.But, unfortu- ately peace was too good to last, and the growing internal troubles of the country, politcal and social, culminated in tha erllion of 1837, from which Montreal suffered severely in paralysis of trade and Stcppage of development.Since that time, however, there have been no hin- dances to the progress of the city other CON sal as many citics similarly cireum- stanced have had to suffer\u2014flood and fire, Plague and riot.But the recurrence of (ven these minor troubles has been well breviced against, and at the same time the forces which tend to make the city great ave becoming stronger and stronger \"cry day.In the early days the principal trade Was in furs, for though the French King was disappointed at not receiving from artier a store of gold and precious stones as the result of his first voyage, it was not ong before the immense riches to be had Witading for peltries with the Indians became known, This trade developed rap- uly and, of all the settlements established, Montreal was the Tecognized centre of Commerce almost from the first.After the British regime began (and more par- teularly after the recognition of th T gnit he Independence of the American colonies, re- o din pony Loyalists coming to Canada Montre their homes here) the trade of ter.Th Poumed a more general charac- all the ê D was the natural depot for est ds sts of the settlements in the point.for fe as qe pratural distributing lon Europe and \u201cthe Vong gmported Supply of the settlers\u2019 needs = nwnber of the.- needs.As the a Je people in the country grew and settlementg spread, the obs trade caused by noi 7 The o stacles to lack of ÿ natural barriers and by the ascending ne these were overcome.found that eee Jacques Cartier shoal water, he Pes Peter, owing to take to fhe be ad to 1 cave his vessel and ats.This difficulty did not TOW \u20acrow less, as the number of ships desiring were for also established the Trinity Hcuse Board to manage the affairs of the harbor of Montreal.By this time there were 12,- 000 inhabitants in the city, and the number was growing with great rapidity.The currency question was a difficult one because of the lack of proper coinage, and many were the expedients.from simple barter to the issue of private coins or bills of credit which were resorted to in order to facilitate exchanges, This: trouble was overcome, so far as the city was cerned, by the opening of the Bank ot Montreal, though it was some years before the influence of this and other banks extended 'so as to give the country generally similar advantages to those whicn now exist.The western trade twas much hampered by the rapids, and an agitation for a canal commenced.This resulted in the digging of the Lachine Canal, which was begun in 1821.From this time dates Montreal\u2019s most rapid progress.Tae building of the Grand Trunk Railway was the next great commercial event.Montreal was \u201calike the starting point of construction and the objective point of traffic.The company was chartered in 1851, ana two years later the fine from Montreal to Portland was opened.In this year also the Victoria bridge, then an almost unparalleled feat in engineering, was begun under the direction of Robert Stephenson, son of the eat George Stevenson, inventor of the modern locomotive.In 1834 the line from Richmond to Quebec was opened, and tha¥ to Toronto in 1856, Ix- tensions westward and northward went rapidly on, but always Montreal was regarded as the centre of the system.\u2018lhe opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway is too recent an event to require that it should be more than mentioned as an important factor in the.city\u2019s growth.The necessities of the trade increased, so the canals were deepened and improved, nd the channel to the ocean made to allow the passage of larger and larger vessels.\u2018l'Hie harbor was constantly improved, and became the resort of an increasing number of ships.Better organization in every department of local administration came with increasing population, and all that modern science and progress presented was used to make it pleasant for the citizens and attractive to outsiders.Some facts and figures regarding the city as a municipality will be interesting.The city of Montreal was incorporated in 1832.It is divided into thirteen wards, each returning three members to the City Council.The assessed value of its real estate is in the vicinity of $140,000,000, of which about $36,260,000 is exempted from taxation under the following heads : \u2014 Government property .$ 4,945,000 Corporation preperty.11,075,000 Benevolent institutions (R.C.).9,280,000 \u201c sé (others).4,680,000 Churches and parsonages (R.C.) 3,385,000 \u201c \u201c (others).2,510,C09 Exempt by by-law.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0.385,000 Total.¢ ee se ne es os +.$356,260,0600 The exempt property has more than doubled during the past nine years, having been assessed at $18,000,000 in 1888.\u2018Lhe actual valuation of the real estate of the city, under the assessment of 1896, was $144,000,000.The rate of annual assessment is one per cent.on value, There is an additional fifth of one per cent.for echool tax, whidh is levied by the city, but handed over for administration to dhe School Commissioners, a body appointed by the Provincial Government and the city jointly.In addition to this one and one-fifth per cent.on realty, there is a water rate based on a sliding scale, which amounts to about seven and one-half per cent.on actual rent values, and an assessment of seven and a half per cent.on the rental of all business premises which is known as the \u201cbusiness tax\u201d; and also \u2018specific\u2019 licenses on certain businesses and the usual taxes on horses, carriage, dogs, etc., which come under the thead of personal taxes.The city also derives a considerable revenue from the markets, and from penalties imposed by the Recorder\u2019s Court.Drains and street improvements are made by special assessments borne in whole or in part Dy the persons benefitted.The present revenue from all sources is about $2,866,000, and as an illustration ot the more recent progress of the city the following comparative statement is given: Gross revenue.1850.se ses 0.0 ++.+.$ 150,000 1860.\u2026.see een eee 450,000 1870.00 vee vee teenie wens 800,000 1880.«uv +++ seers seeeee 1,500,000 1887.+.+.+.++.1,948,000 1888.cee ssa sess 2,0\u20ac5,000 1890.2.ere a ee.225,000,000 1893.2.20 s+s4+ ++ ».265,009,000 1895.+ aassen 465 000 0.275,000,030 1896.00000 500 .\u2026.286,000,000 The annual appropriations for the administration of the city\u2019s affairs are based on the actual receipts of the preceding year, five per cent.being reserved for unforeseen expenditures.Provision for the immterest and for a sinking fund on its funded debt is made by law a first charge on the revenue.The funded debt on the city is $24,436,426, and the floating debt $1,208,163, making a total of $25,644,614.REV.C.E.SMITH TO PREACH.Rev.Charles Ernest Smith, B.A.D.D., whose eloquence will be remembered by all wilio heard him on his previous visits to Montreal, will preach at the Church of St.Johm, the Evangelist, on Sunday morning next ,and at the Church of St James the Apostle in the evening.Dr.Smith is a B.A., of University College, Durham; D.D., of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; DD.D., of St.James College, Maryland ,and rector of the Church of St.Michael and \u2018All Angels, Baltimore, the langest Episcopal church in that town, having eleven hundred communicants.He is also Examining Chaplain of the Bishop of Maryland, and last year was Special Chaplain of the Bishop at the Lambeth Conference, London, Fng.Dr.Chas.E.Smith is the author of several works.\u201cThe Old Church in the New Land,\u201d \u201cIn thd Household of Faith,\u201d \u201cCall to Confirmation,\u201d \u201cReadings and Prayers for Communicants\u2019 Class,\u201d and is writing a work on \u201cMaryland Church History.\u201d When Dr.Smith went to h'ks present charge, less than six yeans ago, there were but four hundred amd seventy-ong communicants.Dr.Smith has spent this week in Montreal.THE DE LOME INCIDENT.New York, Feb.11.\u2014A epecial to the World from Madrid, Spain, savs :\u2014Pre- mier Sagasta, commenting upon Dupuy De Lome\u2019s letter, said to the World corre- epondent : \u201cThere is no possible reason why the incident should alter the relations between Spain and the United States, i whidh are and we hope will remain cordial and friendly, nothing having occurred re- cently to mar them.\u201d AUCTION FIENDS AND THEIR WAYS Always Eager to Buy Things They Do Not Need.\u2026 THEY HAVE \u201cSALE INSANITY\u201d The Woman Who Was Afflicted With \u20ac Mirror Mania.\u201d We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled, \u2014Montaigne.A HERE is in Montreal an army of people who are not Anarchists, albeit appearances are very much against them.With fiw exceptions they are wild-eyed and worried-looking.A red flag works them into a frenzy of delight.The news tliat the home of a money magnate is to be stripped of its furnishings, or that the Sheriff 1s going to seize the effects of some bankrupt millionaire, throws them into spasms of ecstasy, and although some of Mr.Micawber, is always waiting for something to turn up.These curicus individuals see nothing huwmorous in their performance.But those who do, call them \u201cauction-fiends,\u201d and the special malady from which they suffer is known as \u201csale insanity.\u201d A man of large experience in sling people things they don\u2019t want said to an inquisitive reporter: \u201cWhim?Well, I should say I ought to know something about whims.I owe a great deal to whims.Why, one woman used to attend my sales fur ycars, and she invariably bought a mirror.She was young and pretty, and I used to think that perhaps she was very vain.Then I noticed that she never bid on anything else, und unless she kept a mirror chop I don\u2019t know how she could have used so many looking glasses.liven a two-headed girl couldn\u2019t find use for more than two tri-glasses at once, could she?Whenever I had a sale of books, or pictures, or rugs, my mirror customer did not come; but an advertise ment that housthold effects were to be sold would bring her as surely as the morning brings the dawn.For about five years she attended every sale of household goods I held.Then she came only occassion- ally, and the last time I saw her she did not buy anything.I \u2018have never heard of her, nor known any one who knew her, and I have never solved the reason of her inordinate fondness for looking-glas- ses.I've sometimes thought that she must have had her house ceiled, floored and walled with looking-glasses.Maybe she lived in a crystal maze.\u201cOf course, many persons of sense and dollars attended auction sales syetematical- Iv.Collectors of prints, china, art fur- nilure and rugs are shrewd bidders and constant attendants at sales The auction fiend is of an altogether differemt type.he doesn\u2019t buy because he wants things ~he bids only because he can\u2019t help himself.I have been at Monte Carlo and have seen: the white-faced, feverish, dishevelled players at the tables, but I can show you some bidders at big sales whose nerves are put to just sudh a strain while a sale is in progress One man who haunts the private sales as well as the public auctions makes a point of never spending more than $5 at a time.He doesn\u2019t seem to care particularly what he gets for his 85, but he always spends \u2018that amount and no more, I've seen him get a brass bedstead for that paltry sum, and the day before he probably paid the same price for some trifle that wuss not worth any more ¢ven when brand new.Women are the chief sufferers from \u2018sale insanity.\u201d It is a special sort of hysteria\u2014isn\u2019t that what you call it, when a woman gets ome idta and loses interest in everything else?\u201d A house in the West End was \u201csold out\u201d the other day.It was filed from cellar to garret with all the modern \u201cfixings\u201d which make glad the heart of the householder.The kitchen utensils were of porcelain and copper, the dining-room was a poem in carving and tapestry; the \u2018salons were decorated in the style of the differ:mt Louis periods, and the library writing-room, boudoirs and bed chambers were each exquisite in its way.Booklets of Irish linen, with the family crest on the cover, impressed the prospective bidder even before he examined the inventory.It was just the sort of a sale to attract the auction fiend, and he mustered out in gallant fashion.The sale began in the afternoon, but all morning the house was thrown cpen to prospective buyers to examine its contents.Upstairs and down stairs thay roamed, the systematic ones jotting down in their catalogues the articles which they wished especially to keep in mind; others merely gazing and admiring running their fingers over the curves of the furniture, with sensuous delight in the mere form and beauty of things.The sale was held in the principal salon, and here from his \u201cpulpit\u201d the auctioneer ponited out the beauties of the different articles brought to him by his assistant.\u201cNo.715, a Louis XV.armoire, ladies and gentlemen, and an armoire in which the silken robes of the Pompadour may have hung.What am I offered for this gem?It has a mirror framed in a wreath of roses and supported by golden cupids.Think of the beauteous forms that have stood before tha mirror! Sentiment is the only\u2014$30 did you say madam?Perhaps the king himself once adjusted his powdered wig before this sheet of rose-wraath- ed crystal! Thirty-five dollars?One hundred and thirtyfive is more like its worth, good people.\u201d \u201cArt furnitures and antiques always open the flood gates of eloquence and emotion for the auctioneer, and although the bidders smile, they pay seriously for the nonsensical exhibition.At a sale of millinery the other day the audtionesr, to better display the good points of a bonnet, put it on his own hetd.As he is fat and bald-headed, the effect was edifying.But the hat was sold for $23.At a sale uptown several typical auction fiends sat in the \u201caudience\u201d with bated breath.A sharp-faced woman with a busy pencil and a keen eve, grew impatient at the airy persiflage with which the speaker decked his remarks.\u201cI wish he\u2019d koep to business.My time is valuable and I want to bid on certain things.\u201d she snapped.\u201cI have a house in Street, and a set of cranks staying with me, who say they can\u2019t invita their friendg to see \u2018em till 1 get a carved \u2014\u2014\u2014 a them ave well-to-do, the whole flock, like | sidebotrd for the dining room.I want to bid on that clumsy thing with the brass handles.Goodness knows it\u2019s ugly enough, but being in this house I suppose it\u2019s stylish, and when one keeps \u2018paying guests\u2019 \u201cstead of boarders one has to sp and are Intended to be despatched from PORTLAND as follows: TO BRISTOL (Avonmouth).ca a: *S.8.MEMNON.Less s ana nau ess Feb.19 S.S.LOAN O.LLLeLce nes 2000 Mar.5 S.S QUEENSMORE .Mer.19 SoS.MEMNON.ea Apr.2 And Fortnightly Thereafter.*Steamers marked thus arc fitted with cold storage, For rates of freight and other particulars apply to Grand Trunk Rallway agents at all statiens, or to ELDER, DEMPSTER & CO, 219 Commissioners St, Montreal.Toronto Agency:\u2014 R.DAWSON HARLING, 23 Scott St.Chicago Agency:\u2014 EARLE & MASSEY, 6 Sherman St.Newfoundland By the Royal Mail Steamer \"BRUCE\" (Highest Olass at Lloyd's) CAPTAIN P.DELANEY.Sailing from NORTH SYDNEY every TUESDAY and FRIDAY evening on arrival of Express train from the West, connecting at Placentia with the Nfld.railway system.Returning, leaves PLACENTIA MONDAY and THURSDAY, ou arrival of Express train from St.John\u2019s.SHORTEST SEA VOYAGE Quickest and Safest Route to any par of Newfoundland.For all information apply to R.G.REID, St.John's, Nfid.Or ARCHIBALD & CO.Agents, North Sydnev, OC.B.Newfoundland Coastal Steamship Co LIMITED.HALIFAX AND NEWFOUNDLAND.The First - Ciags Composite St » GRAND LAKE, Captain Drake, will sail as follows, weather, etc, permitting: FROM HALIFAX TO ST.JOHN'S.TUESDAY.ebruary 15th, a TUBSDAY.Nar Tat ant dD FROM ST.JOHN'S TO HALIFAX.MONDAY.February 21st, at 4 p.m.MONDAY.March 7th, at 4 pm.And fortnightly thereafter from each end.The GRAND LAKE Is specially fitted to \u2018 contend with ice, and regula can be depended on, sulerity of sailings FARBES\u2014Saloon, $18.00; Steerage, $6.00 For freight rates a 1 atieulaz apply t5 nd all particulars, JOSEPH WOOD, Agent, Central Wharf, Halifax, N.S International Navigation Co\u2019s- Lines Shortest and most convent IFTON, EE and Faris by special fast twin Bore Choa TL I.cabin, $75 and wards; IL.cabin, 845 and St.Paul, Feb.16.10 a.m | Paris New York,Feb,23.10am | St.Paule Mar, 10 am RED STAR LINE FOR ANTWERP \u2019 I.cabin, $60 and upwards; II, cabin, 838 and Western! upwards.erternland.Wednesday.Feb.16 Berlin ednesday, Feb, 23, noon.INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, 6 Bowling Green, New Y W.H.Henry, 116 St.Petor Streor Mechanics\u2019 Institute Bldg.W.F.Egg, 129 St, James Streot, D.Battersby, 178 St.James Street, opposite Tem Union Ticket Office, Plo Building, Windsor Hotel.Montreal, PORTLAND CEMENT, DRAIN PIPES, Mortar Stains Burning and Oils, Fire Brick, Clay.na orioating vilding Paper, Whiteni Ladders, Shovel ning, Barrows builder at closest pricge?SHINE for the ALEX, BREMNER, 50 BLEURY.1 ; Rotterdam, SHIPPING, ALLAN Royal Mail Stea mshy LIVERPOOL AND p ps PO From iverpool, o Steamship, Pr srescers Sardinian |, 1 Porno ve \u2026.,Laurenttan Le 8 Fey, 4 + lumidian cen\u201d 9 ion 580, ; aginian, = Mar, 2 Feb.Californian $a, Steamers 10511 ! westbound, to red thus wil i land DAssengers, 8 Ray, Steamers sai of Grand Tromk from Portland yy Montreal the pr -P.R.traing £u ; \" previou- ; DS lea.¢ The Saloons and.St Srening 8.39 ob he central par rooms 0% felt.ë least no roughout, the Heh thy Room ght.Musie Rooms a pl hou \u2018 and Stat.the promenade deck Tho mk; SIALero0ms are heateq by re Sig : om, > Gi a Plentiful Supply of erry, inelygy and served, ¥ of brovisigng, gg voyage.\u2018and every Ledtisite fours Cape Town, South Afin 22.50 and Ji Be Seas GLASGOW, LONDONDE YORK SERVICE (from a.208 Np of W.21st Street, New yo Pier, ty TT Glasgow Stea i fu .mships, New va a Jen Ceres Buenos Fm ees ov in d.Jan., ate of Nebr 15Fob.Peruvian.\u2026.as ka.À a Rates\u20141st Cabin, $45; toc th Second Cabin, to Glas iar Hckers K C s 0 vg $35; return tickets, $64.13, Ste Noe Steamships Mongolian ang de : el ask ore not surpassed for exceter acco) on for all classes of py The Saloons are forward: the centre of the ship's omens io the entire width of the vessel, thirds of the length Eleotrs Qu throughout, and ep Clg stateroom.electric bells jn \u2014\u2014 GLASGOW AND PORTLAND SERVICE, \u2014 TE SERYICE, From Pen Glasgow.Steamship.vor 28 Jan, .Sarmatian.1 11 Feb.Norwegian.,.| ! wo 25 Feb.Hibernian.,,.ron LONDON AND ST.JOHN N.B, Sent From dE London.Steamship am 13 Jan,.Mantinea .pe oran a Platea.CIE 26 Jan, |] Cheronea\u2026.0e TE LIVERPOOL, HALIFAX AND Pp ; PHIA SLRVIGE © HTLADE) ee > 7 = 3i ss si 2 ; = Sr STEAMSHIPS 5s = x 2 wa £2 6 CARS Eh 15 Jan.18 Jan.Siberian.7 Feb.26 Jan.29 Jan.Roumanian.18 Feb, 9 Feb.12 Feb.Assyrian.4 March And Regularly Thereafter.H A.ALLAN, 25 Commox Street, Montreal 0 ° 1 Dominion Li STEAMSHIPS, LIVERPOOL SERVICE | From Liverpool.Steamer, From Porn Jan, 27.se ce .Vancouver ee a Feb, 12, Î ph Feb.10.rcotsimman.Feb.26, 1 pn Feb.2¢.Labrador .Mech, 12,1 pn March 3.Vancouver.Maroh 19, 1 pn March 17.Scotsman .April 2d, | na From Liverpool.Steamer.From Bost} Feb.2.Canada.Feb.19, 3.50 am March9.Canada.March 2.no RATES OF PASSAGE-To Liverpool y Londonderry\u2014Cabin, $350.00 to $30.00 sir gle; $100 to $180 return, Second: Cabiy Sats $i asin le: \u201cbn 510 $7S4 ven, Steerage\u2014To Liverpool, Derry, Lown Quecnstown, Belfast ana Glasgow, $2 to $25.50.Steerage outfits furnished fm, Midship saloons, electrie light, spachs promenade decks.For further information apply to ty agent of the company, or to DAVID TORRANCE «& CO.General Agents, Montreal 17 St.Sacrament Street.\u2014 1897\u2014-WINTER SAILING-18% BEAVER LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP Sailing Weekly Between St.John, N.3 and Liverpool.Calling at Halifax and Moville, Irelan each Way.From From Fu \u2019 t.John, Halli Liverpool.Steamers BL: john ail Sat.Jan.29 Gallia Feb, 16, Feb! Sat, Feb, 5, Lake Winnipeg, Feb.&.Jud Sat, Fob.12, Lake Ontario Ma 2 J! Sat.Feb, 19.Lake Huron Mar.9 qui Sat, Feb 26 Lake Superior Mar.Bes FIRST OABIN\u2014Single, $50 to Su.turn, $100 to $114, according to steamer# lected.SECOND CABIN\u2014To Liverpool or Le don, $34.Return, $66.75.To Glasph 837.65.Hotura, $74.05.To Belfast, $0 Return, $69.25.SE Ba GB\u2014To Liverpool, Louder, 6 gow, Londonderry, and Belfast, $2 he For further particulars es to frei: passage, apply to D.& O.MACIVER, D, W.CAMPBEL ings, General Manat Liverpoc! Montres y ° And st, John.N T.A.S.DeWOLF & SON, Halifax.eee JOHNSTON LINE Regular Sailings.BOSTON TO LONDON.4 8.8.Br, Empire .vere nou al SIN Otol oo 11 III about I S.S.Baltimore .+ +\" about fout S,S.Barrowmore .+.+.\" a à pills © | } For rates of freight, througd 20, lading, and full information, apr, railway agents; Wm.Johnston & ee Chamber of Commerce Bldg.La Salle Street, Chicago; 208 Re change Building, St, Louis, or td.WM.JOHNSTON & 00.Sports Board of Trade Building, .HANBURG-AMERICH PACKET CO.HANSA LINE municsti® ning Regular Commu Maintaining Between AND PO RTLAND, if.7 prsint HAMBURG 9 WINTER SAILINGS.on From act Hamburg Por 8 Jan.\" yat MENIA (Magn) .8 2007 33 AROADIA (Pletsch) oD Pa a ARMENIA (Magln) .mer advan Importers will find it to vla Bi, by having thelr Eh ST ES 5, ffording i GUICKBST DESPATCH.I Through Blils of Lading To lways 0 i 4 the Canadian the tom Nat points in Canada and A pre oro tates, also to Hambure, nV, \" and principd ceden and Denmarlx.0 \"For further particulars, apply ger JAMES THOM, | Stree 13 St, John Stree: Dry Kindling, $1.50 Cut Hardwood, $2.00.Geo.S.Bolton, « si\u201d Tel, 7174.170 Cadiet veel Rk HAH Sa 528 - ERVIR, css From Yorting = ha Ine.15 Mar ce SERVI, mere Frog St Jas À or aho; +.\"Fa we 30 9 Fey TILADE, | @[IUS MUOLA | oo os eb, arch TAN, Jdoutrea, mr [If s, VICE a Portiani om Bosto, À 4, 8.30 an § h 26.non verpool à L, Space y to ty co, Montres), \u201cim INE HIPS.ohn, N.} 9, Ireland, From , Hallt Thun 16, fa a.a Ma! 9 Mal 16 Mal ) $60.gteamt # 22.50.yet \u2018 MPBELL Managth | Streth ntred), hn, N.3 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NE, Municipal Toronto BY Ww, D.RES f x nto is the capital of >rovince of Ontario, and tie T the tual centre of English- i Canada.It is the seat of the al law courts, of ihe Prov inca} rove and of numerous affiliated an Univer Se ucational imstitutions.In To- pandred rinoiël administration 18 central rons Pa extent not known at the capatal in the Union.total population of one hund- out eighty-one thousand, according red sd minion census of 1891, less than housand of the citizens of Toronto born in Continental Europe.Of the were: pout forty thousand were born in ', \u201c3 itain, sixteen thousand in Lye- Great à the remainder in Canada and the bund, States.There ds provably no other United Jish-speaking city where the pro- Jorge HO residents of European, as dis: Fo guished from HE city of Toro of any to the ghree t British or Irish birth, js This resident European popilia- : identified with no particular section ; city, ts votes are controlled by wo of the n | sts influence in municipal poli- bosses, A perceptible.Any student of tos 18 » municipal history would do w21l ; in mind.n hee to bear in mind that mn Lt P ovince of Ontario the municival the ise is Limited.Until a compara- y recent date a slight property or ir- tively ualification was required of each come ni a Parliamentary oF municipa.voter Inresponse toan agitation, car- election, ely by young men, the Farha.wed on franchise was extended until now.pet vincia elections, manhood fran- m7 revails.No attempt, however, wis chier Fo remove the property qualification ma ed of the municipal voter, a distine- red ving been made between the two ton | pt, electors.The municipality has classes ded more as a sort of joint stock been i only those who furn\u2019sh the capi- being permitted to participate in tte a ice of officers.In Toronto, in order La orcs the municipal franchise, one must Le sessed as owner or tenant of real De te having a selling value of not Jess © an $400, or pay taxes on at least $400 of Hp An elector may vote for aider en and School Trustees in each war where he is assessed, but may vote \u2018or Mayor but \u2018once.Unmarried women pos- gessing the required qualification have the game right to vote as men, and exerors that right freely.Married women, thous debarred from voting for Mayor or ald=\"- men, may vote for School Trustees.To qualify for the office of Mayor or alderman, a man must be assessed as owner or tenant of property valued at $1,000 above ull encumbrance.; _, Unlike many American cities, Toront» jas no charter.In common with all the (ities of the Province of Ontario, its gnv- ernment is in conformity with the provisions of the General Municipality Act.At each session of the Legislature it is usu] to introduce a bill containing amendments to the municipal act proposed by the Tc- romto City Council.If it is made clear that the amendments requested are {neces- gary, the legislation is not withheld on p\u201d- litical grounds.Although Toronto elects Conservatives, while the Legislature nas Leen Liberal for a quarter of a century, no attempt has ever been made by the majority to rr measures throwing the municipal patronage into the hands of ther political friends, or to exploit the city tor political purposes.The municipal government of Toronto is in the hands of a Mayor and twenty- four aldermen\u2014four from each of the «ix wards into which the city is divided.Both Mayor and aldermen are elected annuaily cn the first Monday tn January for one year.y The Mayor, the County Judge, and the Police Magistrate, the latter two berng permanent officials, form the Board of Police Commissioners.The issuing of liqour licenses is in the bands of Three commissioners appointed by the Provincial Government.The number cf licenses, which is limited by the City Council, is now one hundred and fifty, cr one to about every twelve hundred of the population.This is about one-fifth the - usual number in the cities of New York State where the families of Continental int migrants form the bulk of the population.Municipal elections in Toronto are not conducted on political lines.Neither Liberals nor Conservatives hold nominating conventions or name a ticket.There is a strong feeling agninst introducing National end Provincial politics into matters of purely municipal concern, and to come forward as the regular nominee of either poli- cal party for the mayoralty would be to come forward seriously handicapped.As an example of mon-partisanship may be mentioned the case of Mr.R.J.Fleming, à proounced Liberal, who was elected Mayor in January, 1897.Mr.Fleming recently resigned the office of Mayor, and was appointed by the Council, in wheh the Conservatives form a considerable major.Æ, to the important position of Assess- ent Commissioner.Although the result of his resignation was to place a Conservative in the Mayor\u2019s chair, his party friends made no objection to his action on this ground, and the municipal administration Was continued without the dismissal of a single official.There are, no doubt, many who usually vote for the candidate who belongs to their party.But when a vital municipal question is at issue, party lines are almost entirely obliterated, and men Who stump against each other in national Campaigns meet on a common platform in Support of the same candidate.In the aldermanic contests national politics are Bill less in evidence.A division in the City Council on party lines has been an nown for many years.Although polifical \u201cpin£on preponderntes Jargely on one side mn several of the wards, there is not n ward in the city that does not return Aberals as well as Conservatives to the ouneil.0 1 se .reo gal the municipal achievements of great years, none perhaps has been of so oe of city government brought inte passed Yan Act of the Onthrio Legÿslature epee) April, 1896.This change is of meth, interest from the fact that it is Ibe the first attempt to introduce the em \u2018amentary system into municipal gov- to ment.The object of this change was trative aire the legislative and adminis- 1 ° unctions, Previous to this time Kive over, both legislative and administra.ver mp orcised by the City Council, work = a the Mayor presided.The y commits Council was done principality il Ytees, which numbered eleven 1m > And to which the vari niepal work Were ; great Committees dealt with matfèrs of portance.The Committee of Pale ang Weak Cure Won Women, é 0 a LLS $ ow\u2019s Ills, : importance as the change in the « GREGORY.Works, for example, decided what new roadways should be lhid down, and awarded all tenders, subject to the approval of the council.The committees were chosen by a vote of the Council, and, by a litt'c judicious log-rolling, a few men could readily get themselves elected as members of certain committees, und by working together carry out their own schemes.Not only was the most undesirable class of Aldermen frequently placed on the most important committees, but, owing to thz large amount of work which had.to be done, business men found it impossible to give the time which membership of the Council required, and consequemtly either remained out or dropped out after a short experience.The influence acquired by contractors for city works over some of these small committees wis almest supreme.A scandal connected with the letting of a contract by one of the committees impressed upon the Council the importance of making a change, particularly in the method of lett'mg contracts, and placing this power in more responsible hands.The question was taken up by a special committee appointed to consider municipal reform, and in October, 1895, a committee of citizens acting in conjunction wilh the committee of the Council, and presided over by Professor Goldwin Smith, took the matter in hand.The following month the committee reported; the scheme substantially as proposed by the committee was adopted by the Council, and at the next session of the Legislature, after some changes and modifications, was placed upon the statute book.The important feature of this legislation was the creation of what is called the Board of Control, This Board is composed of the Mayor, who presides at its meetings, and three aldermen, who are elected by the Council at the first meeting in each yar.To the.Board of Control is intrusted the administrative work of the municipality.Tt is required to prepare and submit to the Council an estimate of the proposed expenditure of the year.The Council may by a majority vote reduce any proposed expenditure, but may mot, except by a two-thirds majority, appropriate any sum not Included in the estimates, or increase any sum the expenditure of which is recommended.The preparation of specif cations and the letting of all contracts for works or supplies, the nomination of all heads of departments and sub-departments, and the suspension of any head of a department, rests entirely with the Board of Jomtrol, subject only to the right of the Council by a two-thirds majority to take other action, or by a majority vote to refer back for further consideration.The heads of departments, who in Toronto are not appointed for a fixed term, but hold cifice permanently, may be required to attend the meetings of the Board.Any head of a department may discuss at a meeting of the Board any matter connected with his department, but is not entitled to vote.It will be noticed that the members of the Board of Control, other than the Mayor, arc chosen from within, not without, the Council.They have seats on the floor of the Council, and participate in its deliberations.They are thus kept in touch with the other aldermen, and are in a position to explain or defend any recommendation the Board may have made.The fact that they have the right to vote in the Council on all recommendations renders it almost iinpossible to secure on any occasion a two-thirds majority to override their action.Questions have sometimes been referred back to the Board; but a two-thirds majority aginst any of its recommendations has mot yet been recorded.The number of committees of the Council has been reduced to five.One feature of the Roard of Control which forms am exception to its Parliamentary character is the conferring of an additional vote upon the Mayor.who may vote on any motion before the Board, and dn the event of a tie ray vote a second time.Thus, if the Mayor cam seecure the support of one member of the Board in addition to himself, he is practically supreme.He would be a weak Mayor indeed who could not rally to his ad in promoting any desirable object one of his colleagues.This feuture of the act was probably a concession to those who desired to see greater powers conferred on the Mayor and responsibility for municipal action thus more completely centralized.The application of the Par- Famentary system to municipal government has given very great satisfaction, and îts institution marks a new erw in municipal government in Toronto.During the real estate \u201cboom\u201d which collapsed about 1890, the city incurred many unwise obligations in the extension of streets, and in undertakings which were entered upon with a light heart during the period of inflation.This, combined with previous outlays on water-works and v.ri- cus municipal enterprises, raised the city debt to nearly twenty million dollars, or about $100 per capita of the total popuia- tion, and was followed by a severe commercial depression, from which Toronto is only just beginning to recover.With the collapse of the \u201cboom\u201d came a strong desire to reform and economize In every possible direction.In 1891 an opportunity came.The charter of a company which for many years had operated the Toronto Street Railway expired.Prior to this the city made arrangements to exercise its right to take over the plant \u2018and equin- ment at a valuation.Upon the expiry of the charter this was done, and the city, not having concluded arrangements with any parties for the operation of the road, took possession, and for the next four months the street railway was operated under the direction of a committee of the City Council.% the meantime tenders were called for, subiect to published conditions.The Council had two objects.In the first place, it required more liberal terme as regards fares, and, in the second place, a direct cash contribution by the purchaser to the city treasury.It must be borne in mind that there were two circumstances that enabled the Couneil to offer exceptional adventazes to a successful tenderer.It was in a position to give an absolute monopoly of the street railway business in Toronto for thirty years; and the topography of the city, particulnrly the absence of steep grades.was an assur ance that the railway could be operated \u2018at a minimum cost.Among other things, the conditions provided that the purchaser should pay the city the sum of $800 per annum per mile of single track during the term of the contract; that the ordinary fare should be five cents; that a class of tickets to be used at any time except on night cars should be sold at the rate of six for a quarter or twenty-five for one dollar; that a class of tickets to be used between 5.30 and 8 a.m.and 5 and 6.30 p.m.should be sold at the rate of eight for a quarter; that children under nine years of age and mot im arms should be carried for half fare; that school children\u2019s wickets, to be used between 8 a.m.and 5 p.m, should be sold at the rate of tem Zor a quarter, and that any passenger should be entitled to a continuous ride, by transfer, if necessary, from any point on | the main mailwey to any other point on & | No adulteration.Never cakes 4} THE HERALD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1808.main line or branch.The purchasers were within a year to convert the line, which was then a horse-car line, to an electric system approved by the City Council.It wae further provided that at the expiration of thirty years the city should have the righ: to take over all the property used in connecion with the working of the railway at a valuation.The tenderers were required to state what percentage of the receipts they would pay whe city in return for the right to operate the railway for thirty years on these conditions.For some time it appeared dculr.ful if any bona-fide tenders would be received; capitalists from New York who came to investigate the offer laughed at the thought that they should pay any part of the earnings to the city.They had been accustomed, so they informcd one of the committee, to pay something to the aldermen, but no.ling to the municipality.Tenders, however, three in number, were received; the most favorable being that of G.W.Kiely, William Mackenzie, ami HA.Everett, the latter of whom has suce been identified with street railway con- siruction in the city of Detroit.(hese parties offered to comply with the conditions, and also pay.to the city eight per cent.on all gross receipts up to $1,000,000 per annum, ten per cent.on all be:ween $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, and so on an ascending scale umtil $3,000,000 was reached, when twenty per cent.on the gross receipts over that amount would become payable to the city.Meaniime ther railway was being cperated \u2018by the city with a fair degree of success, and many who had foimerly opposed municipal ownership now urged that the Council should decline all tenders and operate the railway itzelf through a permanent commission.Some years previously, however, the water works then acquired by the city had been operated in thismwvay.The experiment had not proved satisfactory, and the prejudice against operation by a commission was stronger than the supporters of municipal ownership were able to overcome, and the City Council, by a majority of one, accepted the Kiely-Ever- ett tender.The tenderers then formed the Toronto Railway Company, which was accepted by the city in their (place.Tne amount paid by \u2018lhe company to the city for the tracks, plant, and equipment was $1,453,788, being practically the amount paid by the city to the old company at the time of the expiration of its charter.The capital stock of the company is $6,000,000, and bonds to the amount of $2,999,953.33 have been issued to date.The stock is quoted at eighty cents on the dollar.Computing the stock at this price and the \u201cbonds as selling ai par, the total amount received from the sale of stock and issue of bonds aggregates $7,799,953.33, as against the total of $1,453,788 paid the city.The amount paid the city does not, of course, include the cost of changing the road from a horse to an electric railway, which was doubtless large What il Correspondence is invited, Where requested, character will be delineated from the handwriting of correspondents, Address letters\u2014Madge Merton, The Herald, Montreal.Will my correspondents hareafter enclose only one study in each envelope, and 1f a full and correct delineation be desired, will each write more than three or four lines in the usual hand, with the accustomed style of pen.In so far as the wuait- ing is out of the ordinary, just so far will the delineation be incorrect.Photographs will be delineated, and if they are accompanied by address and returh postage, carefully remailed to the owners, Correspondence ds Invited upon any subject.The women who are puzzling over questions relating to women will tind they will be much helped by the opinions of the readers of this column, who may, I hope, be induced to enter upon a discussion of some of the most important questions, Nyleve\u2014Read \u201cDo you like,\u201d instead of \u201cSo you like,\u201d in last week\u2019s amswer.Polly Wolly Doodle.\u2014~Oh, you're a mischief.Your dear littla head is all one-sided with fun and frolics, and offering of flowers on the grave of the old | ye the snake flowed through the veins ofanl- most all.Ella Wheeler Wilcox says in that lovely, long verse-story, of which I bave forgotten the name, that a woman must be afraid of reptiles to be thoroughly good-womanly; that the one who is not in her nature the treachery and the venom of the accursed thing itself.And in the face of that a woman I know makes bold to say that the slimiest of snakes only startle ther, as any other rustling among leaves would; that she feels no loathing of the gaily-spotted and striped thing with its brainless head, its sharp eyes, its hiss and its thrust-out tongue ; that she fondles caterpillars, picks up toads, has fed mice (in other people\u2019s houses), and lets spiders, like lady-bugs, hurry off home if they will, and that she has no aversion to fish-worms.Then, in case you might think the was boasting, she will confess that a mild-mannered cow, with the most kindly and patient eyes, strikes a chill of horror to her very heart; that she has given the whole road to many a harmless cow, and let herself into people\u2019s gardens or into shops, while bovines passed by, and that in her spryer days she has been known to do elaborate gymnastics on fences upon seeing good old family cows wandering home to be milked.Another thing this same woman dreads ig the sight of any dead thing.A dead hen is blood-curdling; a dead dog worries her for days, a dead pussy-cat makes her feel ill, and the unwilling glimpse of a dead borse, with its poor matted tail and hanging head, nauseates her for hours.A live snake is something to be studied and marvelled at.A dead one is only the soiled, contorted case of that wonderful thing we call life, It\u2019s all vevy silly, isn\u2019t it, but are some of our fears and whims mot born in us, and are we always to blame because we have not been able to conquer them?200666000000 © 5 9 0006060000 x > 2 Should Engagements ; Be Long or Short ?50000 960600000005 0 06 656066 ; Should Engagements Be Long or Short?\u201cMarion\u201d writes me to ask the above question, and I do wish my readers would write me their opinions on the subject.It seems to me there is abundant field] for discussion, hecause, while ft is frequently argued tivat people should marry © : many kinds of pride.I'm very much afraid that especial young man is kept in hot water most ; dis time.| can\u2019t advise you dear child\u2014I'm too far away from you woman.We were speaking of money one and I don\u2019t in the least know whether he is good enough or you are wise enough.I do believe in early marriages but not in heedless ones, and your writing hag all the quirks and slap dishes that phow me heedlessness and «carelessness and impetuousity.2.You cannot have glossy and pretty halr if you use heated irons to curl it, and woolly, crispy locks are not nice to look at, even if they are fuzzed up.It is better to wear it plain and neat, especially since it is abundant and you are young.You may be obliged by-and-by to friz it to hide the spots of scalp that show through your scattered wisps of hair, for life is not always May, and we all grow old.Rag.\u2014This writing shows candor, \u2018great firmness, artistic impulse, loquacity, intuitive judgment and ambition.Dicky Bird.\u2014I'm afraid you have too many of the good things of life and you are simply wearied with them.I think good honest work is the best thing for the blues\u2014not skimped work or work just for the pay, but work for the sake of its effect upon the world and the sweet consciousness it brings you that you are at least paying for your board to Dame Nature.Some one sent me a dainty Byron calendar this year and since February began this quotation has been swinging before my eyes: \u201cAll who joy would win, must share Happiness was born a twin.\u201d So the writing was corectly read, except that you are sure you are not proud.Maybe not but there are so Pride of what you have, what you are and what your family is or was.Some of my readers are proud of their physical beauty, some of their intellectual strength, and some who think they are quite humble, are, after all, proud of not being proud.Alice.\u2014You are mistaken.I may be unfortunate, but I am not so unfortunate, as to be a man, though some of them are nice, bless \u2019em.The Tramp.\u2014Earlaps.Punch.\u2014You are obstinate, orderly, fond of company, somewhat self-es- teeming, not altogether generous, and very decisive, Christy.\u2014Order, some selfishness, strong self-will, condor, vanity and vigor of body are shown in this writing.2.Some musical taste is shown.Bronte\u2014I'm rather sorry for the young woman, for, while you are sincere, your heart is not on your sleeve, and I have my doubts as to whether she has really been able to stab it with those fine eyes of hers.You are wonderfully independent, self-reliant, observing, original and candid.Your mental qualities are of that order termed \u201cfine,\u201d and I think your whole being swerves towards pure mentality rather than towards spirituality or the physical.Will you do me the kindness to let me know if you consider this reading a correct one.Your kind words about The Herald are fully appreciated.Her\u2014Affection, candor, ambition, lack of order, a passionate love for flowers and outdoor exercise and scenery.You are ambitious, but your judgment is good and your power of concentration and adroitness of mind, excellent, Judy\u2014Some vanity, an elfish delight in mischief, generosity, candor and impetuosity.M.E.T.\u2014You are firm, sensitive, vay ambitious, unassuming, of good executive ability, candid, fidgetty about little things, and strongly attached to life and its pleasures and luxuries.Constance\u2014Green will doubtless suit you well.It is a restful color (if you dion\u2019t select the shade of the slime on stagnant pools) and, though still fashionable, it is now passe.Red is the color of passion, blue of intellectuality, and yellow, the soul-color.So the theorists say, but take it with a grain of salt, iny dear.Judas I.\u2014Are you related to the gentleman who was in the silver business long ago?Down in my heart I believe you are wrong, and down in yours you know you are, The woman has a perfect right to change her mind, and it\u2019s one of the rights that are our very own.I don\u2019t think much of a Man who would .wish to marry a woman who has confessed she does not love him.What would you have\u2014nothing but a white slave, and her soul would never be yours.Such marriages are an abomination, and must fling their stench up to the very heavens.Another Gloria\u2014I know just how lovely everything is, how the woods are half-buried and the fields are iced and how the clear sunsets gleam in yellow and grey over acres of the land, how the sky flushes at dawn and lights the after a short engagement in case they grow windows of the neighbor's house, how cosy the cattle and horses are in their stabies, how contentedly the sheep nibble at their \u201cricks\u201d and how cunning the dear, dumpy, baby lambs are.And if you leave the country and come to live in crowded streets, your heart will al- wavs turn back very lovingly to the real life, and some days when the clover is in bloom, or the apple-trees are white and pink, you will feel stifled, and a we* bit discontented, as you sit and dream} h like a caged bird.Fill your heart wit all the beauty while you are there, ior even the memories are very precious.Cornflower\u2014No, I do not think your writing shows pride, and it is a good, honest candid hand, but pretty well set, showing persistence and determination in full strength.I'm afraid you are meither very musical nor very ar tistic, and that your practical qualities outweigh those of your imagination.You are very just, and perhaps a little too much so, to be generous, but you are diligent, and genius, you know, has been defined as a capacity for work.I hope you may have a happy visit, and you must not forget us and our \u201cThreads and Thrums while you are away.Marian\u2014Your writing shows a little vanity, an impetuous nature, a hasty temper, gaiety, sprightliness of mind and scarcely enough of self-forgetful- ness.Marie Ann M.\u2014Some self-esteem, merniment, impulse, generosity and mirth.Robert\u2014Why in the world should you ask me such questions?Yes, I do ride a bicycle, and I am just longing fur good ronds and fine weather.2.I do not want to vote, because I have all I can possibly do now without having to consider phlitics seriously.Of course I am a Liberal (for three generations), and yet I do not believe Conservatives are on the broad road to destruction because they do not see and believe, or think, and were born and bred as I was, politically.3, Down in my heart I do not like divorces, and yet I like even less the thought of men and women tied together by the law, and being, at the same time, repugnant one to the other.4.Violets are my favorite flowers, und I do like cats.And now I feel as if I had filled out a page in one of these albums which used to beseech us to lay bare our hearts on paper.C.C.C.\u2014Any letter, paper, pamphlet, or- parcel will reach me if addressed to \u201cMadge Merton,\u201d Herald Office.1 am not Miss Madge, Mrs.Madge nor Mr.Madge.The name itself is all you need write, and there is no fear of anything going astray.Paul Emile\u2014Some selfishness, some pride, great power of endurance, order, simplicity of taste and detestation of vulgarity, pretence and laziness.Francesca\u2014I hope you will be successful.The enclosed shows great determination, strongly impulsive nature, simplicity of ideal, lack of order, some vanity and selfishness, and not much candor.You have my best wishes.Sarah Jane\u2014So you are going home to Scotland perhaps.What a joyful time you will have at home, and I hope it won\u2019t be necessary td kiil the fatted calf, for of course you are not a prodigal.Did you want me to analyze your writing?You did not ask me to, but write again if you do.[t was very good of you to write me just because you were lonely, and I am glad you like the \u201cl'hreads and Thrums\u2019\u201d page, and write me again and tell me about Scotland, and what part you lived in and what you did, where you went to market and to church, and what a Scotch mist looks like, and anything else you care to.Tell me, too, what I can write about to help girls who, like you, feel \u201cjust lonely.\u201d A.L\u2014I wish I could tell you all these things you want to know, but how could I?I do hope you will bave your money paid back.If you earned it, you ought to get it Most people do get married, you know, and if you are nice and neat and a good housekeeper, with a good temper, some nice man will probably find it out.However, don\u2019t worry about that\u2014many married folks wish they were single again.Your writing shows some obstinacy, ambition, quickness, candor and unselfishness.Shorty\u2014Generosity, mirth and a contented mind are the chief points of this writing.You are affectionate but reserved, of good reasoning faculties, ambitious, industrious, suave and\u2014well\u2014 just a little vain, you know, and fond of \u201cShorty\u201d and his comforts and pleasures, May your \u2018\u2018caste\u201d hold its place with the cousins! Hope\u2014Pride, conscientiousness, affection, a little Jealousy, some lack of the charity that \u2018is not puffed up,\u201d and a moody, rather than a.merry heart.You are original, persistent and fond of study and reflection.Drury Lane\u2014Read the paragraph taken from Prof.McBride's inaugural address.It sets the matter much better than I can, and it is just what you need.2.No, don\u2019t\u2014it is not respectful, and there is much to beware of in those who talk lightly of \u201cGod, woman and the ten commandments.\u2019 Duenna\u2014You are very courageous, very generous, affectionate, candid, merry, deft-fingered, with strong imaginative powers.Clef\u2014Originality, independence, some intuitive perception, artistic perception and a little selfishness are shown here.Gray Eyes\u2014Yes, I read \u201cThe School for Saints, \u201cThe Beth Book,\u201d \u201cWhen Val- mond Came to Pontiac,\u201d and \u201cThe Great Stone of Sardis.\u201d You can buy \u201cThe Choir Invisible,\u201d by James Lane Allen, here, and it is published by Morang & Co., Toronto.The \u2018\u2018Morte d\u2019Arthur\u201d is published in four volumes\u2014such cunning ones, and you may have them in cloth, or leather.Dont you think we shculd read for profit as well as pleasure, and don\u2019t you think \u2018hese things are rather light for real mind-meat?I would read history if I were you, and essays.Spanish Castite\u2014Winai a sensitive wee mortal you must be.Really, I would not bother over it if I were you.Do you know that verse of Frances Havergal's:\u201d How can we guess the whole When we cannot gauge a part, How can we read the soul When we cannot spell the heart, How can we measure anolher, We who never can know , From the jutitings above {be surface, The depth of the vein below Take heart and do your best.The angels can do no more, and it is truly wonder ful how much we muke of things which to the ome who says and does them mean so little.I am glad the writing was correotly delineated.J.C.\u2014Impetuosity, strength of will, patrence, a strong sense of duty and charity are shown here.Ignoramus\u2014Send her the flowers, of course.They ave the best of gifts, and it is so much better that our friends should have their blossoms while they can caress and love them.It i a bitter fact that hands which have yearned to hold flowers, are covered with them when their holding power is forever gone.There is nothing purer or lovelier under the skies than flowers, and I would have faith in the lover who sends his love-messages with even the tiniest sprays of even the commonest flowers, Julia Randy.\u2014Impenious, gomewhat sus- piciows, of good executive ability, and rather coarse in ideals and speech.B.\u2014You are etrongly material, fond of display, courageous, blustering, impeñient, and very kind hearted.January Bird:\u2014 \u201cBrave and just, good and merry, The child who comes in January.\u201d This is the couplet referred to, and the stone for the month is garnet.Doubtful.\u2014Now, my dear, you are wrong, fro while it is sweet and good to be very icareful of others and their rights, no one is required to make a dor-mat of herself for those with less generosity and less politeness to stamp upon.Tennyson told us: He loses half the meed of martyrdom, Who will be martyr when he might escape.\u201d In a perfectly respectful, perfectly gentle, but quite firm way, insist upon being treated properly.I am so glad to have your letter, It seems to open a door before me and show very plainly several things I had not understood in that pecu- bar relationship.9+ G++ 9+90 i HASTY PUDDING.++ QI 0+ They say that \u201cPoverty is the mother of health;\u201d perhaps she is, but she sometimes squeezes our diet so tightly that she becomes \u201cthe mother of wrinkles.\u201d Let our stock of wisdom be ever so scanty, there is no better place to spread what we have of it than over the table.\u201cOh!\u201d you say, \u201cI pay my cook to spread his own there.Doubtless you do; but, if your cook\u2019s wisdom be of the average cook\u2019s quality, you pay and look for something which you do mot get.A wise cook is one of the blessings that Heaven is chary in sending us.Those we get, and get dn abundance, come from the other Waldorf salad is made by using equal parts of celery and dice cut from erusp spicy apples, covered with a very heavy mayonnaise dressing that will thoroughly mask the celery and apples.It shoudl be served with crackers and oheese.Life is the queerest of conundrums.We spend onehalf of dit in guessing what it is, and the other half in regretting that we didn\u2019t guess it sooner.A clover woman declares that age may not be garrulous, but it certainly does tell on a woman in time.\u201cTt may be necessary to wash the saint\u2019s feet, but we need not do it with scalding water.\u201d Al epices are air purifiers and air coolers.It is a fact that very few epidemics visit places filled with perfumes of spices -\u2014cloves, mace, cinnamon, etc.À room perfumed with sprees and eucalyptus remains cool on the hottest summer day, and defies disease resulting from impure air.Here is a suggestion for the woman who always sighe over the expense of lining in her skirts with silk.A silk lining undoubtedly gives body and buoyancy and sense of ladylikeness to a skirt that no other dress foundation can, but it has lately been found that it is really only necessary to line a skirt with silk up to the kmees im front and sides and up to the waist only immediately in the back.The remainder of a skirt can be dome on the foundation of thin alpaca, and thereby expense is reduced, while hte set of the petticoat and all the important rustle is just as impressive a8 ever.Have you heard of the exaggeration of the American?He was explaining how prolific the soil of his farm was, and he averred that the vima he had just sowed, grew up and tangled around dis feet and tripped him before he could get over the fence, but an English author tells the story.Love ts hurt with \u20ac jar and fret, Love is made a vague regret.We have collapsed in every direction.Our inflated arm covers have gone the way of all mods, the sleeve we now profess to be in love with, hugging skinny as well ag plump arms, to the distraction of their owners.Our ekirts hang around ue as limp as the feathers of a main-soaked fowl, while bobbing plumes bob fow\u2014eo low that many of them trail ehoulderward.Queen Victoria was married fiËty-ertzht years ago on Thureday last, and this is a verse with which my Tennyson calender marks the day: \u201cTill Death us part\u2014those are the only words, The true ones\u2014may, and those not 'true enough, For they that Jove do mot believe that Death will part them.The Promise of May.A renovating room is a new departure in New York.Some charitable ladies have decided that the poor are often shabby because they do not take care of their clothes.They have furnished a room with tables, a gas stove and irons, and they teach those who come to renovate nibbons and brush and steam velvet, to press dress goods and otherwise make the old look new and fresh and clean.Good luck to them! \u2018Melt not In an acld sect The Christian pear] of charlty.\u201d Ruskin says: You might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain utterly illiterate and uneducated, but if you read the pages of a good book letter by letter\u2014 that is to say, with real acouracy\u2014you are forever in some measure an educated person.\u201d f The chignon is making a bid for favor that \u2018looks omimous, mainly because at it is now arranged it ie really becoming to the majority of faces.The hair is waved, coiled lowly and held on the nape of the neck by a met co fine that it is ilavisible.It is the sort of knot that Burne-Jones places on tthe heads of his beautiful women.THRE DOLLARS NOT THE WHOLE END CF MAN.The followirg paragraph is an excerpt from the inaugural address of Professor McBride, who has been newly appointed to the chair of zoology at McGill.It il lustrates clearly the true dignity of culture for the sake of the interest, and approves of any study which calls its de- votecs into the fields and woods :\u2014 \u201cBut before such an assembly as I now address, it is euperfluous to state that making the dollar is not the whole end ot man.Never was a truer word spoken than the doctrine that \u201cMan does not live by bread alone.\u201d If there were nothing else to distinguish him from the other animals, this would suffice.The squirrel waking to life, seeks its food and its mate.and collects its store of nuts for the winter, and gives no evidence of amy interest beyond.On the other hand, man wearies of such pursuits and finds life in the end duil and sapless, unless some of the fire of that endeavor to Pierce beneath wihat scems to what is, to wmich we owe th the ultimate analysis science, art and religion, Durng in his breast, \u201c«0olegy then offers t othe stud: Permanent ideal interest, and one me remark, especially suited to Canada \u2018he complaint has been made that literary studies tend to vender a man dissatisfied with country life, and to produce in consequence an unhealthy aggregation in the cities and overcrowding of city pursuits, The crowning-e] Womanis Her apt Amon Moy CURA \u2019 Dept.Y, Sn \\nCinnat; OT mn RETAIL: Stalls 24 & 25, \u2014 St.Lawrence Market, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WHOLESALE: 8 St.Phillip Street, NINTH = Thistpy, HAMS Bin Are Standarg \"Xcel, MADAME IRELay; Canada\u2019s Hair Specialigy Baldness Positively Cured, Herp) See a ert en Saving, siz etc.nd s 5 for the scalp, dothing D'epart 2440 ST.CATHERINE STREET Mont Agencies in Toronto reg), md London.» Hamilton, Otay Whether in the case of literary studies of physical science this complaint be ; tified or mo, i certainly is mot fy, Is with zoology.The call of this seer out into the field; it is impossible 4, le the subject Tnly from booke; one oo come into personal contact with the fa before one can even profitably g, à books.Therefore, whether the gratui of McGill finds lhis future occupation Re mining camp in Kootenay, or on à rte in Manitoba, he need never leave ty zoology; all around him are à problems waiting solution.\u201d A CHILD WORLD, If everyone in all the world, Were only five years old, We wouldn\u2019t have to go to school, Nor do what we were told ! For my mamma, and my papa, And, yes, my teacher, too, We'd all be little children then\u2014 I wonder what we'd do! But who would mend my stocking hele And who would tie my shoe ?And who would set me on her lap, And tell me stories, too ?And who would take me on his knee, \u2018When I was tired of play ?I'm glad we're not all children, I like it best this way! \u2014From Little Folks, IS THIS YOUR WAY?In all cases of embroidery on linen ty work should be carefully pressed why finighed, and it is important for every en broiderer to know how this may be due in the simplest and safest manner.Ty proper way to press the finished work i to lay the embroidery face down on : clean cloth, epread over an ironing black or two or three thickneeses of flan, place a thin dampened cloth on the bi of the artidle to be pressed, and then :s: a hot iron deftly on the wet surface uiti it is perfectly dry.A steaming process i thus emgendered.\u2014 eames \u2014 THAT MEMORANDUM BOOK.If names and places from you fly, No better plan than this, it Is certain, can be found\u2014to buy The book that\u2019s called \u201cWhere Is It\" Whate\u2019er you want, therein you'll ud Precisely tabulated, To suit a too forgetful mind, As I have just now stated.You want to know Miss Smith's addre Where Jane is on a visit ¥ Oh! very well, I turn to S\u2014 But where is my \u201cWhere Is It?\u201d THE AUER LIGHT AGAIN.The Auer Light Company has again 5 sued a very nove form of advertisement which has been delivered throughout te city within the last few days, consistlj of a very inoffensive-looking envelry with, printed upon it, certain directo how to obtain a \u201cgreat light.\u201d Dy lowing these instructions a photo of & Auer Light could be obtained in a ff seconds, and many people were go df ious to get the full benefit of \u201cehtrg jous to get the full benefit of the \u201cgr light\u201d that they carefully turmed down it gas, and the result caused them consider able merriment.This form of advert# ment has never been seen in this city # fore, and is equally as novel as the #7 pretty calendars which the Auer Light à issued last year.BROKE THE RECORD The time record of the famous Li express between New York and Buf hae been broken, The smash was md on Sunday last, when a special train I ning over the tracks of the Erie Raïrosl left New York City at 3,15 in the mor ing, and arrived in Buffalo at 11.27, ™* ing the run in the phenominal time eight hours and twelve minutes.This performance is Jikely to have & important bearing in the solution of fhe pending controversy regarding exoess fore | on speed qualifications, between Né .York and Chicago.Prevents Pneumonia- Colds may be trifled with ab other we ot year, but not in Februrarÿ, when Pi monia lurks in the air and ever you apprehensive of danger.; With a vial of *77\u201d in your pock 0 i are proof against the wors weather 808°, anil Not alone saved from the o0 ; p and Catar™ posure.ance of Coughs, Colds, Gri but the more serious Pulmonary that \u2018hang on.\u201d 2a A 25c, vial leads toa $1 flask ipt of rice.fd at druggists or sent on rec clic Mantes : rg\u2019 Spec di all Disons pr Eu Du jets or Malled pars our Dru 0 Humyhreys\u2019 oimpanr, N edicine ng hole! 1D, knee, > Folks, ?limen te ed when BVEry ex 7 be dou er, Tu d work is Wa On 3 g bank: flance the back then 18; face unti ' process | DOK.fly, Ts 1tT\" rll fad g addres t?\u201d AIN, ; again # rtisement, 1ghout tie consists envelop direction By fo to of ht in a ler e so AI! ehtr'g he \u201cgrea down tit consider advertist is city bé the ve Light Gu! } 3 soute | d Buffs vas made rain Toi : Railroad the mor ] time o have 8 my of the ess fares, peen Ne L.er timé en Foe yon y eket 70° : and &¥ > ant)\" Catarrh proublés ask.\u2014-æ ATA IMNAANANANANAN av WILL SHAKE xe SPEARE, THE ACTOR | A Glimpse of the Elizabethan Era.?(For THE HERALD.) eavy, disheartening af- T was e damp, November.The rain en sed, and now a drizzling, foggy d hung like 8 blanket over all London.clou William Kempt, or Kempe, as he As wally called, hurried through the was US on etreets on his way to the he noticed that neither the Garden nor the familiar \u201clobe Theatre could be seen of she os yellow mist that hung Bankside.Already Gravile Lane w with mud and er, and a oe Id Paris Garden, e Tham: foot of an impenetrable fog.a \"When at last, he saw the gendal light limmering from the little square windows { the Falcon, he shook the rain from his sodden cap, and pushed through tlhe mud d np with a feeling of petulant satis- fein He tad rad ee Arh ay noust, : the Roe ree, to the Bankside, and he was ntly cursing to himself as he felt the ness even through his thick doublet.He had been greatly tempted to drop in at the Mermaid, not then.altogether fallen in popular favor; \u2018but he kmew we où ai all the old spirits were to be found, nowadays, at he Falcon.Tor Wi.: Kemp®e, actor and je , Was as Loi Le ré dellowship as he was of good sack.He knew he could have found just as good ale elsewhere, and enjoyed Gt in a dry jer kin, but in some way the thought of the Falson, and the old faces seemed to draw him, as a magnet, through the mucdy Lom: don lanes and the darkening little streets.As he stepped, moist and dripping, into the low-ceilinged, fire Jit room, he bum, of vices and the odor of e ale, an e biensant warmth, all seemed like a sudden vague reminiscences of him, a picture that he had seen, long ago, time and time again.For there, some clustered about the big fireplace, and some in the dusk corners of the room, sat almost every man of note in the London theatrical world.There was good old Ben, sulky and silent for the moment, with his mug in his fat hand, and heside him, John Heminge and Will Sly were \u2018tilted back in their seats.On the hig vak settle, with the firelight on their faces, lounged Drayton and Henry Condell and Pthilips, and baick in the uncertain shadows sat Lawrence Fletcher, and Dick Bur- bage, and Will Sihakespeare and Bob Ar- n.Fut as Kempe entered the room, Will Shakespeare, warm with wine, was dhout- ing across the table, \u2018Aye, aye, Jchn Hem- inge and Henry Condell, of a truth shall I remember you both in my will!\u201d \u201c Ben Jonson looked ait him over his sack- t.\u201cThe young sot,\u201d he muttered to Heminge, cp wondrous pile will he leave in his will, what with his goings-on and his drinking, and his toadying after that cock- ffhting Southampton, and that roistering young Sir William Herbert\u2014tbhe rustic sot!\u201d As Kempe stood drying himself by the fire, he saw that Will Shakespeare had overheard the speech.Shakespeare seemed to hear everything.For a moment Kempe caught his eye, and both smiled appreciatively.Then Will Sly leaned over from the settle and whispered to Kempe, \u201cHe's out of sorts, is Ben.They've been at it, Shakespeare and Ben, you know, and our dapper Will worsted him.\u201d And now poor Ben was drowning his chagrin in good sack.While Kempe stood there, Will Shakes: peare came over to the fire with his unsteady steps, and in a sudden sober moment stood gazing wistfully into the ruddy glow.Then with a half-boyish, whimsical smile, he mischieviously slipped Ben Jonson\u2019s cloak from the settle, where it lay, spread it out on the ash-sprinkled hearth, and curled up in front of the fire.Ben noticea the theft, and growled, \u201cGo to, you light- fingered rhymester!\u201d Without turning his face from the fire, Shaskespeare said, gleepily, \u201cStick to your sack, old Galleon, and call no player in the Lord Chamberlain\u2019s Company @ rthymester.\u201d \u201cA pox on your thieving players,\u201d growled Ben, with good-natured disgust; \u201cyou steal your lines, and you steal your plots, and now, forsooth, you've taken to stealing your clothes.\u201d .\u201cAye, ave,\u201d said Shakespeare, yawning wearily, \u201cI am indifferent honest myself.\u201d The phrase seemed to stick in his memory.As he lay there, he said to himself, over and over again, \u201cI am indifferent honest myeelf\u2014indifferent honest mywelf.\u201d Before Jonson had drained his second mug the young Will Shakespeare\u2019 was fast asleep, snoring gently.Jonson looked down at the slight figure with gruff affection written on his blowzy face.\u201cHe's a wondrous worker, is our ardent Will,\u201d said Henry Condell, gazing half- womanishly at the sleeping figure with the firelight glancing on the scant brown hair re he full pale brow, already slightly - In the hair one could see just a streak or two of gray.\u2018\u201cMany\u2019s the hour, these last four months, I've seen him fquatting about behind some stage scene, writing at his precious leaves, writing, writing, forever writing.\u201d \u20ac cannot come into a tavern,\u201d said corti, \u201cbut what he must start in hi die away as if the very itch was two : ty paper.At the Mermaid, some Win pe a ago, I said to him, \u2018Now, sonmets, forsnoth.oe mens OTe sugared and villat » OT more vile Old Adams ous?\u2019 said hs new comedies?\u201d \u2018Villain Jur asd be, ah, wel, my hearty, their poor ba Pink and white flesh over then rn bare old bones some day, and he\u201d el see, we'll see, my hearty,\u2019 said wl Falcon Taverm well known Bear walls through over the rf Of a truth,\u201d broke in Dick Burbage, lieve our ardent Wil i .ill thinks he can te plays, now, like a true university and He's a gallant balladmonger, is Will, Si 2 wondrous rhymester, and somewhat 0 a actor, and a good fellow withal, but or rie !\u2014not a bit of it, not a bit or nd and Burbage drowmed his laugh- big alors goodnatured contempt in his It seems to me,\u201d said Condell, glancing at the sleeping figure, \u201cthat of late For of a his anting heart seems no longer in the oo that\u2019s what comes of nosing about hos with, his fine Sir William and Jon con, on Southampton,\u201d said Ben Sve hen a knowing mod of his mas- \u201cYet think not\u201d ea: ; ,_ AOL, said Burbage, reflect- Des , looking up, \u201cthat this same Shakes- con 11 such a careless fellow.Have I not his hte great wooden chest of papers in lock an om up at the Globe, and under key night \u20acÿ, Mind you, under lock and s and day?But a fortnight ago OWN on that same great I Play, pulling off his pink nd his arm knocked the ed the hot tallow on hi 8 fingers, and his pink hose, and his chest, and left yg both laughing ; ly ughimg in the \u201cLUE Up the candle and L a again.\u2018Win Shakespeare,\u2019 said eptod = \u2014 for I had noted how fondly his eye was wont to dwell on his box of blessed quiil- scratdhings, \u201cWill Shakespeare, is it your precious chest you are trying to burn to ashes?\u201d How he laughed ! \u2018My precious chest,\u201d said the, \u2018ha, ha, ha, ha, my precious dhest ! My precious pile of patob- ings amd pen-scratchings !\u201d Then he changed, of a sudden, and caught my arm, and said, \u2018It is ill-written stuff, I grant you, Richard Burbage,\u201d said he, \u2018but it is my very heart and soul.And some day, Richard, some day\u2014well\u2014well.But, think you,\u201d and here his face grew white all ot a moment, \u2018think you there is any danger of fire in this tinderbox of a building?\u201d At this point the sleeping figure moved uneasily.The next moment he yawned, turned his face from the glow of the fire, and slowly apened this eyes.The red-faced tapster was going with his huge tray of overflowing pots and glasses.The grave-faceed young barrister\u2019s clerk who sat under the three candles across the room, in the corner, declined another measure.This brought forth a volley of derisive comments from his light- tongued companions.None of their gibes could disturb his quiet gravity.He shculd have left them long since, but that he was waiting for Will Shakespeare.He felt out of place among their playing and junket ing.He sat there, however, with his Plow- den\u2019s Reports on his knee, an unfinished pot of alle beside him, end a great open book in his hand.\u201cHo, ho, Littleton,\u201d cried Drayton, swaying a little unsteadily on the big oak settle, \u201cHo, ho, Littleton, reading, reading, reading, always reading, my lad.You're as bad as Shakespeare here, with his blessed quill-scratching.And what can it be in that musty-looking old book of law, that so charms you to it, my lad?\u201d The grave Littfeton lookied up \u2018and smiled.He took a light draught from his pot and said, \u201cOh, \u2019tis the wondrous and astounding case of one Sir James Hale.The good Sir James, it seems, some fifty years ago, ceased to be the son of the Baron of the Exchequer and a Justice of the Common Pleas, by becoming, in short, a suicide.Therefore,\u201d said The grave young man, with his quiet smile, \u201cas it is writ in law, sires, he became a felon.As the book says, while walking through divers streets and highways of Cambridge, he did wantonly enter a ditch flowing there-through and himself therein felon- jously and voluntarily drowned.\u201d And the law saith that by such an act he denied \u2018himself the right of Christian burial, and also escheated his goods and chattels to the Crown, But.later, our good Lady Hale causes an action of trespass to be brought against one Petit, who is among the company herein named as a lessee, holding under.the Crown, claiming that the dead can do no wrong, and, ergo, that Sir James's aforementioned crimd¢ was mot consummate until after his decease.\u2018The death precedes the forfeiture,\u201d it is written here, \u2018for until the death is fully consummate he is mot a felon, for if he had killed another he should mot have been a felon until the other had been dead, and for the same reason he cannot be a felon until the death of himself be fully had and consummate.\u201d And it seems,\u201d continued the grave young student, putting down his book, \u201cthat the sergeants for the Crown held that the crime lay in the act done in the lifetime, which was the cause of death.For the act consists of three parts, they say; the imagination, the resolution, and the perfection.Ergo, The death is a sequel, withal, to the act.But Sir Anthony Brown, rest his bones, delivered himself of the judgment of the court in these words, as written here: \u2018Sir James Hale is dead, and how came he to his death?It may be answered, By drowning.And who drowned him?Sir Jomes Hale.And when did he drown himself?In his lifetime .So that Sir James Hale, being alive, caused Sir James Hale to die, and the act of the living man was the death of the dead man.Oh, but \u2019tis rare reading,\u201d said the student, with his grave smile playing about this mouth, .\u201cLook at our Will,\u201d said John Heminge, nudging the drowsy Ben Johnson, \u201cLook at our Shakespeare there\u2014all ears.\u201d \u201cHa, ha,\u201d laughed Burbage, \u2018There is something for you, Will Shakespeare, to put in that dolorous Hamlet, of yours, that Kempe, there, talks so much about, up and down the Bankside.\u201d Kempe looked at Will Shakespeare with a knowing smile.They understood.\u201cThanks, Richard Burbage,\u201d answered Shakespeare lightly, \u201cthanks, and of a truth it shall go in, for stock-still have I been stuck in the mire with it, this last three-weeks.\u201d Shakespeare laughed gently to himself as he eat up and gazed into the low fire.His thoughts seemed so occupied that he did not catch Burbage\u2019s next remark.\u201cGo to, go to,\u201d said the great actor with mild contempt, \u201cyou may be somewhat of an actor, mylad, but you're no scholar and you will never write a play, forsooth, a real play, like our Ben here!\u201d \u201cCertes, Dick, certes,\u201d said Jonson, draining his eleventh glass.And while The red-faced tapster brought around a fresh supply, the young Will Shakespeare sat gazing thoughtfully into the sinking firefight.ARTHUR J.STRINGER.| ago press | La Semaine Religieuse de Quebec\u2014The people demand the creation of a ministry of public instruction,\u201d clamours the Liberal press.This song is as old as the parliamentary system.It was in the pame of the people that the rebellion of 1837 broke out.Yet nine-tenths of that same people remaind with folded arms and even condemned the outbreak.There is perhaps mo revolution which has not been made in the name of th: people, although the masses have always remained strangers to these orgies.That is what Taine points out, with reference to the French Revolution.No, our people do not want either the replacing of the superintendent by a minister or the suppression of the Council of Public Instruction, or the diminution of its powers.Those who \u2018have practical experience\u2014like the parochial clergy\u2014ought to know something about the question, Well, consult the twelve hundred parish priests of the Province of Quebec, and all will probably be nnanimous in declaring that their parish- oners have never shown themselves dissatisfied with the school system.All they wish and desire is to be allowed.to live in peace.The clergy still less desires the revolution which certain heads have devised; although one newspaper had the impudence to say \u201cwe know that this mea- surd is approved by a great number of THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898.priests.\u201d Yet the challenge of the editor cf Le Convent, that the paper name one bishop, one priest or one member of a religious order favorable to the project, has mot yet been accepted.No, the people do not demand it, and the clergy do mot approve the school bill which the Legislative Council has done well to wip in the bud.La Patrie\u2014The secret of the Opposition to the Yukon contract is this.An important fraction of the Tory party wants no more of Sir Charles Tupper\u2019s leadership.Foster, who would rather be first at Three Rivers than second in New York, is at the bottom of the movement and wishes nothing but to decapitate Sir Charles summarily and take his place.He is supported by \u2018the fanatics of Ontario, who hope to win power by appeals to prejudice.It is not the Klondike railway that they attack, but Sir Charles Tupper and this great national enterprise only serves as a protest to deprive Sir Charles of his leadership.La Patrie\u2014Many members think it would be better to suppress the Hansard, There is no doubt that the existence of the Hansard is responsible for the inter- r.inable discourses which come one after another.There ds perhaps not a Parliament in the world where speakers deliver such long tharangues as those which resound in the House of Commons.We had yesterday, for instance, a three hour speech from Mr.Nicholas Davin, the éntermin- able member for Assiniboia.It is out- regeous to see the time of the House thus wasted by buffoonery.\u2014 Le Progres de Valleyfield.\u2014The Manitoba which has offered such disloyal and such odious opposition to Sir Wikfrid Laurier since the seftlement of the school question, tacitly recognizes its errors by pubkiching in its last number a moderate article, in which it admits that our leader is inspired by a sentiment of justice, and that he desires that the rights of conscience be respected.This is how the Mani- tobi» concludes: \u201cMr.Laurier wants all that; we shall wait confidently, for his werd is a word of hope.\u201d\u201d Le Soleil\u2014We learn that an English eyndicate is making \u201cefforts to purchase from the corporation a portion of the Jardin du Fort in order to build private residences thereon.It would be a revoit- ing dnjustice to Cape property owners, and it is not the Parent administration that will commit it.On the contrary that administration, instead of reducing the dimensions of the garden, has taken steps to enlarge them.If we are not mistaken there is a resolution of the council authorizing negotiations for the acquisition from Lord Mount Stephen of the land adjoining the garden, the corporation undertaking to transform it into a park, ac a continuation of the Jardin du Fort.The Cape property owners have never protested against the opening of Victoria Park.On the contrary, they have comtri- kuted to it.To take away the only little perk that there is in the upper portion of the town would be, as we have said, a real injustice.La Presse of Saturday, in an article headed \u201cThe Yukon deal and Sir Charles Tupper,\u201d quotes the Opposition leader\u2019s statement in the House on Friday night, and adds : \u201cSir Charles Tupper declares from his seat in Parliament that he is not corruptly interested in the Yukon deal.We loyally register his declaration, regretting, at the same time, the accusations that we made against Sir Charles.We regret still more that the opinion hastily given by Sir Charles may have permitted, justified, authorized the position taken by La Presse.\u201d La Patrie\u2014What we predicted has come to pass.Mr.Foster, Mr.Clarke Wallace, Mr.Bennett and Mr.Maclean, leaders of the Orange faction, have decided to decapi~ tate Sir Charles Tupper.Mr.Foster is not an Orangeman himself ; but he has made with Mr.Clarke Wallace an alliance, the first act of which is the political assassination of Sir Charles Tupper.Look out for a stirring time, for neither Sir Charles Tupper, nor his son, nor his friends will allow themselves to be strangled without a struggle.The Klondike policy of the Government is entirely approved by the Ministerial party, and will also receive the sanction of many Conservatives, It is only opposed by the Foster«-Wallace-McLean faction.Sir Charles Tupper\u2019s reproach to Sir Wilfrid Laurier at his having accepted a French decoration was a deplorable appeal to prejudice.A man of the position of Sir Charles Tupper should never make such appeals.We would understand this intellectual abasement if we had only to accuse of it once more such inferior minds as Mr.Foster, Mr.Wallace, etc.Sir Charles has no right to descend to their level.Le Soleil\u2014Has Father Ruhlman ut tered the words attributed to him?We are disindined to believe it.If he did, he represented as innovations provisions in the new wsdhool law whidh were identical with provisions already in force.Le Soleïl\u2014On Saturday the Star made a charge against Mr.Laurier, whidh may have some effect in a community such as that in whidh we live.The Liberal leader returned from Europe last tutumn, loaded with honors end decorations conferred amulteneow:ly by LFTance and Enghand.After England had attadhed to his breast the Grand Cross of St.Michael and St.George, France added, a few days later, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.Now, \u2018tb appears that at the ceremony of the opening of Parliament, it wag remarked by many that it was the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, which Mr, President Faure had semt him, that Sir Wilfrid wore.The Sthr Ïs very much scandalized.It is, in our opiniom, preof of deplorable mnarrowmess of view, The Conservative organ perhaps « Ste 3k ala TWO VALENTINES.\u201cTI tell you, Dick, this is a good ome and just hits the mark exactly, verses and all.Listen :\u201d Dick was stirring ne fire and throwing in a stick of wood.\u201cWait a minute, Joe,\u201d he said.Then shutting the stove door and pulling the draught open, \u201cNow.\u201d | He threw himself into a rocking chair by the table, and the boy on the other side, holding up a flaming picture, began to read.\u201cYou think yourself a gay coquette; To win each heart you try; A crooked stick wt least you'll get, Or clse a maid youll dfe.For though youll muke your silly boasts And show the hearts you-ve caught, They'll ull belong to shallow dudes, Whose bralng were reckoned naught.\u201cThat's good.That's first ratte, Let's gee it again,\u201d exclaimed Dick, reaching eoross the table.this !\u201d She blushed like fire and drew out one of the wratahed yellow envelopes and handed it to Dick, who took 11.as pale as death, trying to say something, he knew mot what, while at the same moment Bess brought forth another of the saffron hued weapons and thrust it into Joes trembling hands.As she did so she burst into tears.\u201cThat is what they sent us,\u201d she sobbed.\u201cI suppose they thought it smart and that we didn\u2019t know any better.They talked about us getting valentines, and that is what they sent !\u201d The boys shot a lightning glance at each other.Bess had eaid \u201cthey.\u201d It was not etiquette to use the ithird person except on paper.Like a flash tire truth dawned upon them.\u201cIt was a mean trick,\u201d blurted out Joe, \u201cand a shame !\u201d\u2019 \u201cIt nvag that!\u201d chimed in Dick, and both boys spoke from the bottom of their Pa HSURRIAE TRUE ASUS UE CEAR UE URSS ARS de OUR A bik \u201cme BOYS Le ae 008 AND GIRLS_onLy RUSTCUS 06 DRE USE US AS 0506 26 06 UP made it that way, and\u2014and just look at} THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898.dd Heth dl sued 30s 2027, Sasse old, and son of Police Officer Brennan, of Seattle.Here follows the story :\u2014 1 With several companions, Jimmy was standing on Yesler Way, when a stranger came along.Ie looked like a man who had just returned from a logging camp.\u201cBoys,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere is the Butler Hotel ?\u201d \u201cI'll Tell you for a quarter,\u201d said one of Jimmy's companions, \u201cPI! show you where it is for ten cents,\u201d chimed in another.: \u201cSay, I'll do it for five cents,\u201d remarked a third.; \u201cMister,\u201d said Jimmy, \u201cI will point out the Butler to you for nothing.\u201d \u201cYou're my mam,\u201d said the roush-look- ing stranger, and the two went down Yes- ler Way together, while Jimmy\u2019s companions stayed behind to call him a chump.Jimmy led the stranger to the Butler.\u201cCome in here,\u201d said the man, and he led tlre boy into a clothing store.\u201cGive r Thealtre Francais.1.Nectar.2.Fair.3.Tea.4.Hats.* * No.8., 1.Balmoral Hotel.2.St.Lawrence Hall.3.Academy of Music.4.Windsor Station.+ No.9.be Here stop and spend a social hour, In harmless mirth aod fur, Let friendahip refgm, be just and kind, And evil speak of noue.No.10.ProsalC 4 IdahO \u2018 § CoN T BmU SugaiR TontinkE i Pioture Contest.1 MARKS AWARDED.1\u2014 Wilfrid Sudbury.«+ = =o oo os © 372 2\u2014James Lockwood: cee +\u201c au 0.6600.348 3\u20140.B.McCallum ese e .es°?® oe as .344 4 \u2014Harold Armstrong.+ +.+< +.+» .à36 .336 .332 .308 es se *° eo .308 eo oo Pas 0e 5A.M.Mcintyre .6\u2014C.M.Mclntyre.«cos oo ve oo 00e 7\u2014Mabel Brittain.- 8\u2014Eddie Colborne.- 9\u2014 (George Fraser.300 10\u2014C.Lester Patrick.+ ++ + .300 11\u2014George Treniholme.+ ++ °° -.284 12\u2014Jennie Casselman.«+ oo ++ +» ++.272 13\u2014Frances Glover.+.++.++».+o .268 14\u2014A.Baird .+.oo 00 +0 00002245 15\u2014Mauide MeKennass.\u2026 sess ce ov os 240 16\u2014C.Bermingham.«+ os ++ cover.236 17\u2014C.G.Brown .sees oo oo os oo +2228 18\u2014C.H.Mott-.+ + seve oo oo oo 216 My sixth is in dark, but not in fog.My seventh is in color, ibut not in brown.My eighith is in king, but not in crown.If you can guess the niddle-me-ree, A town in America you will see.» * NO.10\u2014 NUMERICAL PUZZLE.(Contributed by H.Armstrong.) I am composed of 35 letters.My 22, 8, 4, 14, 28, 6, is the name of à great admiral.My 16, 24, 12, 13, 28, 18, 35, is the name of the great admiral\u2019's ship.; My 23, 1, 26, 25, 30, 6, 3, 34, 28, 22, is a greal general.Sh 2, 5, 10, 28, 4, 11, 28, 22, is a great emperor.My 2, 21, 16, 19, firet founded by Henry VIII.My 15, 31, 14, 17, 9, first petted, then beheaded by Elizabeth.My 20, 28, 3, 29, 33, 26, the title of the former emperors of Hindostan.My 7, 5, 16, 24, 27 a king of Scotland.My 32, 1, 5, 13, 29, our last visitor.My whole was a celebrated naval signal.0600000900 9 6 © HOHSH0HHHHO 2 © OOOO +09009009069 90 0 96050 COMMENT AND CRITICISM.Harold Armstrong.\u2014All the nine answers you send, Harold, are right, and BOVR L.LiMITg; Manufacturers of the Most Compact and Complete ondyke Food Supplies Our object is to supply the maximum amount of nourishment in the minimum of bulk OUR LIST COMPRISES: Dried Vegetables.Ration Cartridges, Lime Juice Nodules, ETC., Johnston\u2019s Fluid Beef in tins.ETC.Bovril in Tins, Bovril Beef Tablet Soup Nodules, Compressed Beg, ETC.ga Descriptive Lists Sent on Application, ! ; ia ] For C hearts.If they were tempted t £ is ] e ; ; ; 19\u2014Amy Matthowis .+ + + + + »204 your originals are both very good.The valentine was handed Across.It further they restrained at comes this Dov tow fe dattes In the 20-\u2014Henry Alexander .+ ++ ++ + «200 this week, therefore, you have gained ity.V Ï | | IMITED ac ; \u2018 a 1 *, ; A oo .4 3 , o 4 Ca \u20ac 3 - 1 .& xr .7 \u2018 OÙ ; ; was an absurd picture of of nner ed \u201cDo you think we ought to tell the ly opened ihis mouth.Soon he had on a 21\u2014M.C.Quillen + ec ++ ee me 5e two marks.Your papers oo You Ed 9 9 maiden on oe finger, nd wearing one\u2014 Barlows, where they visited?\u201d asked Bess.fine suit.22\u2014Tena, Green seem emote tn tee \u201cloo credit, Aarold.They are both nea carts ; ; : \u201cNi or or, 12?sai ce \u2018 I 4H: , : 2 frank Baker.ee oo oo oo co 0021192 Well-written.; .* the latest conquest, of course\u2014at her mone.von sar bord thing like that The A Now give lim an grercont,\u201d sid the ar O'Flaherty.ve ee ee ee 06 188 Melbourne McKee.\u2014 Keep onmin.the Food Specialists, Hospital Pur veyors, and Army .Lo: 2 - \u2019 * ' è I \u2019 Ti J ÿ q Te .\u201c .+ 2 \u2019 \u2018 f _ throat.Dick looked at it enviously.worse it is 1\u201d out pe ï their sockets 5 The eth bo bop 295\u2014Channing Westover .++ +» .172 spirit you have begun, Melbourne, and and Navy Contractors.\u201cMine isn't as good os that, oe Said.\u201cThat\u2019s so,\u201d assented Dick ed Jimmy with an overcoat \u2019 26\u2014T.B.Palliser .+.++ 0 eo ee you will be astonished at what great fe \u201cYr., th erse.on\u2019 » .: .' .: ab.\u2014 Lay te +8 os ve +6 00 s0.190 ines vou ca: \u2026 À wha at ve got to out oi ev And perhaps that is the reason they did \u201cNow a hat,\u201d said the stranger.Jimmy 27 J.A.pt : \u2026.190 things y a can do None of us Kron o five London Engl and and Montre al ; .\u201c on?not confess fully to Bess and Nell until wanted to cry.He thought it was Christ- 28\u2014Tivan \u2018lurner.ee.we can do until we try.eof - 9 I ° \u201cNo,\u201d said Joe, \u201cyou couldn't send that, the id: f thei ; Yt y = 99\u2014R.W.Touthood.«+ ov +. & The second valentine in quest: k suit, new overcoat.The stranger paid for 33\u2014D.À.Grondin.Pace tS oc\" Tay SOU have succeeded in solving all the puz- .te other absurd girl in street costume Fa - PLUCKY BEN.all.?Jimmy started out of the a He 34\u2014Frances Seriver ie ve ve as mass es 5 zles correctly, and your originals are very The Montreal Mining and Trading Company, Limited, u ing eyes ab an over{barbered and large- was so bewildered that if several oblins 35\u2014 Melbourne MeKee.++ ++ +++ +.% good.Your marks for this week are the Capital $50,000 in 5,000 Shares of $10.00 each.t plaided gentleman in the distance, and Th AIG ,; , 2d \u20ac gol 26\u2014Marv Barton .+.+ + 32 hicihest obtainable, viz., fifty-six.No, Les- BOARD OF DIRECTORS.of jo .: 4 e Big Mottled Rooster and How Ben had put in their appearance, he would - 28 \" ; i was labelled \u201cThe Giddy Girl and e L.; mt \\ .- \u20ac C 97 Qladys Parsons.+ ++ ++ ++ oo ous ter, we canmot on any account deviate Mr Robert Blckerdike, M.P P., Montreal (Vice-President Hochela B Masher.\u201d Got the Better of Him.have joined them in their fairy!W®d festi- 98\u2014T.C.Stephens .+o «+ sees senses À from the rule that the original answer only President: Mr.w.J.Turpin, Stock Broker, Montreal ; Lt.-Col.J.A.Strat) ct \u201cWon't Nell be wild.when she.sees 0, \u2014 vies, .mre , accent h ze, (Managing Director, Montreal Trust an eno 0., Montreal); Aldermgy ir the a Dick, with evil trumph im M le think th hicl Just wait a minute,\u201d said the stranger.NEW PUZZLES.can be accep ed for Sh pu I must ad- Richard Costigan, Montreal; Mr, F.A Hibbard, Barrister, Montrea]; Mr sé tha ?a > ' any people \u20ac ink that oe ons have Jimmy waited.If the stranger had said, NO 1 \u2014DOUBTI 7, ACROSTIC va T \u201cUn.'\u20ac ; - \u20ac 2 eed for 1 John A.Ogilvy, Merchant, Montreal; r.i, Le Ttlett, ccountant, Mont- : his eyes.o sense; that our feathered friends are cv 71 : .© Sus 1.BLIS AC aie mi am genuinely sup real, ,Ç \u201cBess, too,\u201d asserted Joe.\u201cDo you but animated dinners enriching themselves Go roll in the dust of the street,\u201d Jimmy (Contributed by James Lockwood.) thought you were a boy.Your papers be- Six men carefully selected from Tne Eon Gold Fields \"om, ts C s\u2019pose they know who sent {hem 27 3 until cooked and eaten.would ha ve done it.down in his pockets Initials represent a soldier physician.ing typewritten, I had not the opportunity De vont.for the ER of prospecting, locating and develop w \u201cThey'll have a pretty good idea, an If this be true, why is it that one hen LUE went : .: Part of a door.of judging from your writing.The lines Mining Claims.A member of the party is a man who has had experience fn 1 don\u2019t cave if they do!\u201d will assert her rights over an entire lot and closed his dealings with Jimmy by giv- A province in France.you enclose are really so clever that I have that section of the country.5 \u201cI Jon\u2019 either,\u201d edhoed Joe.But both of barnyard fowls?Why do the roosters ing him a fve-dollar gold-piece and a gold A well-known Canadian politician.reproduced them, so that all of our circle $2 a few shares ivy ation.sold, payable as follows: c boue + aa print the names rudel dv seratek ,Ç ; | nugget worth about five dollars.knowlede o 4 ; + .00 per share w ., st boy a Pelle envelopes, for their ey a es Pent Then omy thanked the stranger, and png en een - \u2018 a L PS ou ee au $1.00 shars 100 nie pot Soventy days\u2019 notice, Tr handwriting was too well known.her clucks with respectful attention?went 2 to tell bis companions about fhe A desert.: {or inals accepted, malkirg your total marks The balauce to, form a reserve fund, subject to call upon thirty days\u2019 tc .: : : J, v nat: UN sax m ; Det he \" e 1lote utler a1 | A .a + .v fred.- Dick Travis, Joe King, Nell Cassidy Observation tempts one to believe that \u201cfor nothing.\u201d A small chapel.17 for this week forty-eight.4 notice only LR band apply to the office of BE, T.BARTLETT, 31 Ij.v - ç ; hoolmait: ave th: ; | ; g - .and Bessie Brown had been se oolmates chickens bave their grade of intelligence, The stranger was Klondik sed A Roman emperor., 4 These are the lines :\u2014 PERIAL BUILDING, MONTREAL.5 and good friends a long time.\"They er their sense of right, methods of offering 1) be Patrick Galvin, who returned on the FAL Tepresen a town in Africa.To the Bditor : : _ ar £ all about the same age, mot far on either complaint, and, as we all know, of set- ner ue ; \u2018 You are puzzled, I notice, concerning my side of sixteen, and they lived in a coun- tling disputes.I have known of but one Rosalie Saturday night with a fortune es- NO.2.\u2014GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.\u2014 sa\" : name, = ,[ Ww weekly prayer meet- heroic instance among the and that timated at about twenty thousand dol- .a ri ; \u201d ; ve rks ia week.I must ) ntl tous ere nine GT are faith- was of à character which bordered on lofty lars.It pays to be polite.If you don\u2019t (Contributed by G.A.Trenholme.) So I write you this letter to tell you the forts Eu Charlie fie Jhard-and-fast M U R DER IN M ICH IG AN 5° * ey.i : i .Nart ic Cy .?.ÿ fully attended by the *\u2018girls,\u201d and where sentiment.à think so, ask Jimmy Brenman, .À river of North America.It begins with an M; if you had been newspaper rule that one side of the paper à Dissolute Fronch-Canadian Eil the \u201cboys\u201d are always at hand, for the In the back yard of a city home was a \u2014_ - .À river of Europe.the rest.only must be written upon.ai benediction, at least, and, to \u2018see the girls varied lot of chickens.They had been RUN IN.\" .À river from which we get a saying.for His Money, Lansing, Mich., Feb.11.\u2014Roderique Lauzun, a Frenchman.about 25 years à .8 Tom Palliser.\u2014I enjoyed reading your letter very much, Tom, and am glad you enjoy the Puzzle Corner so much.Yes, You would, no doubt, when guessing, correctly have guessed.\"Tis mot Mary or Maud; if disposed to home.\u201d It had become such a regular thing for Dick and Joe to be ir waiting at the door for Nell and Bess that the gifts from country friends, and through a tender hearted owner were allowed to carry their necks on their shapely bodies 1 2 3 4.A river of Africa.It is little wonder that foreigners are 5.A river of Europe.6 7 8 9 in despair in learning to speak the English .À river of South America.i i i i ; : find blame, we will have a second competitionkimme- ; 780 regular formula of \u201cCan I see you home to rather than adorn a pot pie.Among the language.One of the greatest difficulties .A river of North America.You might easily find it, transposing my diately following the close of this one.Ri oity brutally murdered th his Toon n night?\u2019 had long since been dropped en- number were two ill assorted roosters.A |i the way in which the same syllable .A river of.Indja name: id All the nine answers you send are right, 3 OI) Evening, y was coli, tively, and each (boy merely stepped out of huge Plymouth Rock named Dick had sounds have often very different mean- .A river of \u2018North America.> = the indications being the crime had bey committed during the later hours of ii night.The scene in the room where the ings.\u201cYou'll get run in,\u201d maid the pedestrian been cock o the walk until the day Ban- and your originals are accepted.Dhis tam Ben entered his sanctum and contest- gives you a total of fifty-two marks for In at\u2018ributing any to me, I suspect I should hava to admit you were nearly the line that always formed and stocd 10.A niver §f Asia.| waiting in {he outer dark and offered his 11.A river of South America.456 4 | mapa MD mA NA A OTD L | ed lis riohts to the wheelm: \u201citihos a ; ; _ correct.this week.body was found was frightful, and 4 arm, which was to be accepted as a mat ed his rights.x - io tled \u201cYo il ge ma \" without a light.] 12.A river of North America.Having thus made it perfectly clear, as gw(::A%.w(SEko?yk( h +.body presented a sickening sight.The ter of course.Before Dans advent the 08 motte est tur into, savagely respond 13.A river of Europe used os a boun- \"ou see Lena Greeïre.\u2014You \u2018send seven answers glLyll had been crushed and the } 5 There was a shock in readiness for them, rooster had been ruler of all.He had ed the cyclist, as he knocked the pedestrian dary.I 5 \u2019 A bserib self in.Len br t \u2019 one being your own, does be aten almost to er Th head wy therefore, when on the Wednesday evening the best from corn basket and meal plate.down and ran up his spine.The central leiteps of the above will now \u2018beg to subscribe Imyset Youre nob ont The remainin g six however, with \"ich the bloods Da wen before Valentine's day the two boys, who Woe rite the hen ho Jared help her You'll Bot run in to,\u201d id the police- give a noted river igs country we all love, M A B ar e correct Your originals are accepted, could not be found and the und raited in 4 li tside, saw Nell and sel til LAS yrant had his all, an re- mam, as he stepped from behind a tree x = * A.B.e \u20ac ct.he 1 , ; i pass step te and take the arms of two signed the pleasures of eating from sheer and grabbed the wheel.NO.3\u2014DECAPITATION.P.S.\u2014 gg on total of marks for this week à dissolute fife follouine dE, Laan le mootlilv dress - stra a who surfeit.And just then another scorcher came : Hat Chan estov In case you should find this a puzzle too ui ew x \\ ni .Yon © lars and tie | Snooty dressed i a the Po church the Ben was a kind-hearted little creature.along without a lignt, so the policeman (Contributed by Channing Westoy er) hard Wilfrid Sudbury\u2014All of your nine @n- cuses ae à faker.He had quarrelled wi} had ae aecompane : be nN re He thought females had their rights.He ran in two.\u2014Youth\u2019s Companion q{ am a, county in the Province of Quebec.I beg leave in addition, to send you my swers are right, ; Ww ilfrid, and your ori- hie father and seldom.visited his home, & ; previous Suoday evening.\"Lhe Dove ere obécted dem om vet dvs, sod aid || Ou ot my first and Las eters and 1am £03 ur ginal accepted.his kes gout sore for pt in tho old mani shames You | Ce hay 0 let them have first ual share of something worn - * ves 4 ris week fifty-two.You w tainly Lauzon wa ied about a year ago, hi ¢ tine\u2019s Day was close at \u2018hand, and the shop fo tet er have ed himself a friend.® \u2019 FOOTCCOOOPOOOOSOV | ott the two first, letters, and I am some- Frances Gloves.Tou are working well credited with the full total of marks that his wife had left him.Robbery is ap À windows were filled with vgs and cruel The lens who had been disposed to ridi- x thing that means to question.Frances All : Cay pA rs decepted were due you last week.So as to avoid posed to [have been the motive for the ictures rom\u2019 w : i \u2018hey se- : î ; , are right, and y \"eo ç + .DO ot seers to wire out heir cule Dis size, to gossip over his dandified \u20ac * + + rig your ocig nrhtakes I now have all the puzzles and d ] roll bill i Your total marks for this week are forty- murder, a large roll of bills which Loum strutgand his absurdly white feathers, were | NO.4\u2014HIDDEN FLOWERS.bitter wrong.Meanwhile Nell and Bess were perhaps not altogether to blame.The city boys, who were quite amused by country ways and attracted by the bright-faced girls, had accompanied them to church on Sunday, and ithe same evening had engaged their company home from Wednesday night prayer meeting.On \u2018the way home, however, as their escorts spoke merrily of the two boysdwho had been \u201cturned down,\u201d as they called jt, the girls did feel rather guilty, but \u201cMr.\u201d Gregg and \u201cMr.\u201d Canly were s0 entertaining that they forgot to be very sorry for Joe and Dick just then, and perhaps did not yet realize the full measure of their cruelty.Then the subject of.valentines came up, and their \u201ccompany\u201d assured them, banteringl$, that they certainly would ge§ valentines, and from their manner \u2018both Nell and Bess believed thas \u201cpresent company\u201d would be the senders and that they were to expect something very mice.It is possible that \u201cNessie.\u201d Canly and Gregg really meant to do something of fhe sort at the time, but when mext day they got word from home that they were to be there without fail for a Saint Valentine's party on the following evening, they started by the first train and thought no more of Nell and Bess until several days after.Then it was too late.Somehow, Dick and Joe, after they had mailed their valentines, dit not feel as happy as they bad hoped to, either.They had had se many nice times with the girls, and niow, of course, it was all over.When they met them at school next day they were surprised to notice that the girls did not seem offended or indignant, but rather timid and anxious.Then the boys felt pretty mean, though they did not confess it even to each other.They learned, too, that the city chaps had gone home, and when they met the girls face to face at the second recess they did not look mp.The two boys were seat mates, as were also Bess and Nell.When they returned to their desk they found a note folded in Dick\u2019s reader.1t was addressed to them both, and im the stiff little formality of fhe third person which was considered highly proper as being authorized by the goon cackling his praises.This was highly distasteful to Dick and he resolved to thrash the habit of chivalry out of him.He attacked Ben fiercely.The little bantam stocd his ground, and the poor frightened hens huddled in onc corner, not daring to move.They were sure that Ben could not live long against this great fighter.After a few moments of ecufiling ail was silent.They ventured to open their eves and look around.Did they see correctly?Yes! There was Ben, out in the sunlight carefully preening his feathers, while Dick lay, panting and bloody, a mass of ragged gray feathers.He was a sorry sight, but before long the cook wrung \u201chig neck, and the only good told of him was that he made excellent soup.Cold days came.The screen house was boarded and made suug.The hens were cold at times and cross.Ben had hard work to keep his home cheerful\u2014his family content.For two days terrible wind and snow blew and beat about them They thought it a continuous night.They grew hungry and fretful.Ben went in the door and found it was pressed against a great mound of snow.The ground was frozen.Some of the hens fussed and scolded.Their clucks annoyed Ben.Others were sad and willing to die\u2014these disgusted him.Only a few were \u2018hopping about clucking gayly; these gave him courage, and the brave hungry creature struggled to the top of that gray snowmound.He pushed his way out into the light of day, and went off hopping and flying through a great wild blizzard to the house.It took a long while, but ¥en finally reached the kitchen window, perched on the sill and pecked away at the glass with all his might.3ridget was getting her breakfast The unexpected tapping startled her.She gave a scream which brought in the family, and, dropping her coffee cup, stood uy, crying out: \u2018Saints presarve us! It\u2019s Ben\u2019s ghost.\u201d Willing hands picked up the exhausted rooster.All were eager to warm and feed him.Each member of the family felt a pang of self reproach that the poor chisk- ens had been forgotten.Ben stolidly refused food and kept flying © PUZZLE CORNER 3 DBODODVDDDDDDDIDDORODODON Our juvenile readers are invited to try their skill in guessing the following puzzles, Answers should Le sent in by Wednesday noon, addressed to Editor, Boys\u2019 and GIrls\u2019 Department, The Herald.EDITOR'S CHAT.Dear Boys and Girls,\u2014I think you will be pleased with me when I tell you that we have had a greater proportion of the answers correct this week than ever be- fcre, which goes to prove the truth of the, wsrertion that \u201cPractice Makes Perfect.\u201d Some of the members of our circle have rot been heard from for two and in other cases three weeks.We miss mot hearing from Michael O'Flaherty and R.W.Lout- hood this week.One of our circle, Charlie Mott, has told us all he knows in answer to Wilfrid Sud- bury\u2019s question.Can any of our other boy \"and girl readers volunteer further information on the subjeet?Charlie also contributes a well-written little story which will appear next week.I would be+pleased if some of the other boys and girls would follow Charlie's example in this respect, and send short stories, verses, or anecdotes for this department.These contributions need mot necessarily be original, although such would be preferred.So many of my young friends have written hoping that I would comply with freorge Trenholme\u2019s request, that the idea occurred to me that I would answer it by asking all those who are interested to send in their opinions as to what they think the editor of the Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Department is like.A member of our circle in writing me raid, \u201cIs it mot strange how you get to know people from reading their letters?When reading over the \u2018Comment and Criticism\u201d I always think whether each person is small or big.\u201d Write your opinion as to what vou think the editor is like, and we will see what kind of a portrait it will make.EDITOR.THE CORRE®T ANSWERS For Last Weck Were: (Contributed by Frances Scriver.) 1.Do mot slop ink all over the floor.2.The sight was not as terrible as I thought it would he.3.I heard the sweet peal of a bell.4.Do you know where Ida is yet?5.The hero seized this sword and withdrew.6.Under the scorching sun, flowers withered and died.* + * NO.5\u2014ENIGMA.(Contributed by M.C.Quillen.) I went into the woods and got it; I sat down to look for it; Ard the more TI looked for it, The less I liked it; And not being able to find it, Came away with it.* * * NO.6.-\u2014A PROBLEM.(Contributed by M.O\u2019Flaherty.) John has nine cents.Will has as many as John, and half as many as Tom.Tom has as many as John and Will.How many cents have Tom and Wiil ?* * * NO.7\u2014COMPOUND OR DEPENDENT SQUARES.Contribuied by G.B.MeCallum.) * * » % * % x #+* #* * * +# = * * * * * » * * * + »* # #* * *® +* * +#* * * * * Upper let-hand square\u2014 A letter in the word snare, A mineral.Means fragrance.À bird.A letter in snare.# Lower left-hand square\u2014 ! A letter in snare.\u2018 An animal.3 A fruit.A tree.A letter in snare.Upper right-hand square\u2014 eight.In answer to your query, Frances, our Puzzle Corner mas started: last December.A.Baid.\u2014You are dping very good work, A-\u2014, and you would no douot Lave been much higher on the list if yom had entered the contest sooner.ten answers, nine of wbich are correct, and your criginals are accepted.therefore, duly awarded fifty-two marks.Claude Westover.\u2014Five out of your six answers are right, Claude, for which you get twenty marks.I am pleased to see what a persevering little fellow you are, Claude.James Lockwood.\u2014\u2014Of the nine answers you send in, James, eight are correct.Your originals are very clever, and your total marks for this week forty-eight, Fred.Sutcliffe.\u2014You also send nine solutions, Fred, eight of which are correct.Your manuscript is an exact copy of James Lockwood\u2019s, with the exception of the original puzzles, of course, and you both make the same error in Puzzle No.4.Your marks for this week total forty.Jennie Casselman \u2014Your letter of this week, Jennie, was lacking in a most es-! sential point.It had no signature, but, fortunately, I recognized your handwriting, and was able to compare it with a previous letter cf yours, so as tu be quite sure.All of the eight answers are right, and the originals accepted, for avhich yom receive forty-eight marks, George A.Trenholme.\u2014All of your nine solutions arg correct, George, and your originals are very clever; in fact, the geographical puzzle is about the best I have read.Tor this weock you are entitled to fifty-two marks.C M.Macintyre\u2014You bave done remarkably well this week, May.All of your nine answers are right, and your originals very good.This gives you fifty- two marks, which is the best you have done yet.Jas.A.Tait.\u2014Seven of your eight answers are right, James, and your origina's are very good.You are therefore credit ed with forty-four marks foe this week.Maude McKenna.\u2014You have done well again this week, Maude.All of your nine answers are right, and your originals are worthy of acceptance.You send \u2019 You are, i warks checked over by a competent assistant after they have passed through my hands.Amy Mathews\u2014You send eight answers Amy, six of which are correct, and your originals are all right.This brings yciur marks for this week up to forty.Charlie Mott.\u2014Four of the {five answes you send are right, Charlie, and your two original puzzles are accepted.Your marks for this week, therefore, total thinty-tivo.Your letter is a very \u2018interesting one, Charlie, and I think all the boys and girls wili be glad if I give it to them to read, too.This is Charlie\u2019s letter: Dear Editor: \u2014 I don\u2019t know how it makes the bantams more valuable, but they \u2018have to have their cambs cut for prize exhibition.I should not like to have it done to mine, if I kept any for I think it is cruel.I have sent a short tale.I don\u2019t know whether it | Will be of any use, but I like it, and I thought perhaps the other boys and girls would like to read it.Yours truly, _ CHARLES MOTT.Your short story is very funny, Charlie, and I shall \u2018be pleased to publish it next | week, George Fraser\u2014AI lof your eight solutions are correct, George, and your originals accepted.This gives you forty eight marks for this week.You deserve great credit, George, your manuscript is al- Ways =o neat and carefully written.Mary Barton (Longueuil) \u2014We pleased to welcome yo Mary.You are rather I \u2018Petition, but a little practice will be the ; best preparation for the next.Your | work is exceedingly good, all of the eight answers you send being correct.For this ; SOU are entitled to thirtyitwo marks | Why not try and see what you can do in ina puzzles, Mary?; Pddie Colborne\u2014 Your s are ni rand meat this week.Eddie nd on ave 15 al , and vou have one very good work.All of your nine answers are right, and your originals accepted, so thut this week you have goed fifty-two marks.i Henry Alexander\u2014Your lotter i \u2018neat and creditable one, Henry.Sal re I 1 are u to our circle, ate for this com- Your marks for S°YEM ANSWers yon send are correct, and had been seen to exhibit on several oc sions being missing.HIS London, Ont., Feb.11.\u2014A man nam{ J.W.C.Linn arrived in the city kt night about 11.30 from Walsingham Cen tre, and registered at the Dominion How: This morning he was found dead in bs bed.It is not unlikely that an inqus will be \u2018held, as the indications point to: natural death.PRINCE FIGHTS A DUEL London, I'eb.11.\u2014A special desph from Berlin save a duel has taken phe between Prince Frederic Hohenlohe Wi denburg and Lieutenant Sdheitz, tot | officers of the Hussars.Both men wet wounded.INDIAN CROP OUTLOOK.Calcutta, Feb.11.\u2014Excellent rains I Northern and Central India have emu successful epring crops.Led Free Trial To Any Honest Ha The Foremost Medical Compatf in the World in the Cured Weak Men Makes this Offer.HEALTH AND ENERGY ASSURED: HAPPY MARRIAGE, GOOD TEMPER, LONG LIFE.Ta all the world to-day\u2014in all the history of world\u2014no doctor nor institution has great Tall restored so many men as has the fam MEDICAL CO.of Buffalo, N.Y.contr This is due to the fact that the company LiL, » some inventions and discoveries whic ne equal in the whole realm of medical science.ENCE TRIMMING THE LAMPOF LIFE va gh of MN ol ed ol eh A rN = em 1 14 6 98 PAR cn FOR ad tr aa DEA is ki i : puzzles ?in not being te his kind and prove that there is good in puzzies ! ng f: im'fiar with Montreal N 4 1 I i itt + tissue and new life., No.4.Joel, Love a T sitt.sidy door that night, and were admitted, 0.el, Love anc i 1e À systesn ha | on the sY! i CIR C5 DD 44 en stolidly u | _ A letter in snare.this week, therefore, total fifty-two, jyour two original puzzles acce ted, \u201cComplete Letter Writer.\u201d ps toward his suffering Far His cager- Breaker.beaker No.L rake, ark A number.Orick B.McCallum.\u2014All the nine an- ; ave thenfore enitled to forty.four ma \u201cMiss Nellie Cassidy and Miss Bessie brio 50 fee eh et he Loon to : Cw x x > are A part of the body.\"| swers you send ave night, Orick, and your lor this week, Brown present compliments to Mr.J.King + HE ne © WT tre , 1 ol and No.2.An animal, originals, as usual, are very god.Your | Evan Turner\u2014You send eight answers and Mr.Richard Travis, and request their en elit fr his im peop © ome\u2019 P u e K A letter in snare.score for this week is fifty-two.Yes, Evan, but one being your own, it does mm company at Miss Nellie\u2019s house this even- TL en PA reviv é 4 eave à by his fon RimouskI Lower right-hand square\u2014 we were indeed fortunate in not having | not count.Of the remainder, six ape | ing to talk about something that must be less Torn ho was overio ed a bar ee ' £ nd a! a = A letter in snare.our Puzzle Corner burnt out last week.; correct, which gives you twenty-four acticed in of | exulained.vue an à cronwe d as To tily as his tired C ame 0 A girl's name.Mareilla Macintyre.\u2014~All your eight an- | marks, Were you too busy for any orig- So much deception Las boos any vow fo i \u201cHewfield, Feb.14, 18\u2014.\u201d condition would aHow Another curious E 1 F Means to escape.swers are right, Marcilla, and veur orig- | inal work this week?Te a tn ih s startling offer i= ally ef | The boys looked at each other and turn- feature was that he refused food until the Os < a - a ë n Means to increase.inal puzzles very interesting.You are, : Charles G.Brown\u2014Five of the seven \u2018They will send their costly am mA se dr | ed pale.They «were invited down there hens were all cared for, showing that he w \u201ca a A letter in snare.therefore, entitled te forty-eight marks Answers you send are right, Charlie tive appliance and a whole oon r 1 wht?to explain and apologize.Perhaps Mr.| à bility f \u2019 b imal - A 1 L * * * this week.1 was pleased with vour note: Your two original puzzles are very cle .storati ve moe ones, and reliable man fe.Brown and Mr.Cassidy would be on hand P°ÉSéPSEC @ MODIIIY far above anumal na- Le A No.8\u2014ANAGRAMS ON NOTED CANA- | it showed what a deep interest but you have omitted to send the anova | NOt à dollar need be advanced nn 3 1 an y nd ture.EF too N : MS ON ET 1 _ deep interest you take Send bl 0 send {he answers, \u2018till resul known to and ackn y to assist in the matter.They stole glances Te lived to be old enjoying the re- s a D DIAN HISTORICAL PERSON- in the Toys and Girls Department.iN on the answers next week and T will rom a are piance pi | across at the girls, but both of them were spect he had earned so deservedly.When- Prince of Wales, King of England.AGES.Channing Westover.\u2014Tive out of \u2018your wold the puzzles over for you.Your \"The Frie Medical Company's SPY d wilt) ! | buried in their books.They must go, @Ë cver people condemn others as being \u201cCow rr (Contributed hy Maude Mei£enna.) sIX answers are right, Channing, which en- cr f or this week ave twenty.T have ! remedies have been talked every man bss | course.It was a long, miserable after- ardly and chicken-lrearted\u2019\u201d\u201d up springs the OI\u2014VI\u2014I oo 3.Givil-ist .Fmma shail C à pin duel.tit les you to twenty marks.When are | o = Four letter so that the other bovs | of thom.th, vigor des | | When they kmocked timidly at the C image of the feathered Bayard to defend 5 a SL .We learn golfe, \u2019 you going to send in some more original girls may understand your difficulty They restore or create StTen&\u201d \u2018hen they i ly at the Cas- rn .\" A v y stop drains | {| all creatures\u2014Elvira Floyd Froemcke, in| 1.Ble.2.Orleans.3 Cuba.4.Vert \"Cor, tun, Ted cannot.May C.Quilien.\u2014T am ghd to know you | The letter reads: \u2014 | poor uiekly p qespondenes ui | fics were immensely relieved to find the Aperiins Coser.15h Ble .4.Verte.Ion am Lo like the Puzzle Corner so much, Mav, Of | _ Sherbrooke, Feb, 10h, 1898 ; They cure nervousness, Ces over¥Ort nt | girls there alone.There was a chilling \u2014\u2014 * % x .Ice q -3 Ts, er, the efght answers you send: seven are\u2018 Dear Bditor:\u20141 am always el 4 4.1, | theeffects of evil habits, evelopment aud | doers 4 nc PROFITABLE POLITENESS Ny 5 5 sever: are {ceive The ¥ 1d avs glad to re- They give full strength, of the body {| cloud of embarrassment over all of them, 4 HN LSS.No.5.era ; | NO.9 RIDDLEAIF-REB.correct, and your originals are accepted, making your total marks for this forty four.and when Nell at last undertook to say » And I like to read | something it was with great effort.One of the best Klondike stories thus very much.1 have found : Sea\u2014s on.Sesion, = + far received comcs from Seattle by way © ortion and orgal grrier ra Bag\u201d aire ia impossible and age is no be jte ; vs | This \u201c Tria: without Expense : (Contributed by Frances Glover.) answers to seven { y m of them.T nh | port Pme ¢ .N 3 AT a ia | a ; > .° by .n.have not : bythe company Le * | \u201cI\u2014Bees, that is, Bess and me,\u201d she be- of the Post-Intelligencer.It is interesting No.6 My first is m \u2018bad, but not n good.Charlie Bermingham\u2014T was pleased to | much time this Week, and T do not know | Must be made at once.bogus nian gan, \u201cwanted to tell vom that\u2014that our not to say exciting, and has the further Jubilee.My second ds in dish, but not in food.get your cheery little note, Charlie.an 1 HF about, Montreal, and it is hard \u2018or ao C.- D.seche clean ith pt : « 1 { SIA alk ¥ \u20ac ! .* - 4hird te 3 : any a+ 5 y J nn ep - ; CEE * T1 those ! y » \" Ek | company was\u2014was engaged for Wednesday merit of conveying an excellent lesson.The | Lo.Aly third is in slipper, and also in shoe.hope you will keep on trying.Seven of xe \u201cho have never been thern ta find tony Semana TL night, and that\u2019s what made\u2014that\u2019s what ying an e: esson.The No.T.My four:l: is in million, but not in two.hen me | hero of it is Jimmy Brennan, ten years .1234567 8 9101112131413 your eight answers ave right, and originals ave accepted.and hecan them do not blame gional standing.Write to the ERIE BUFFALO, N.Y ,, and refer of their offer in this paper.Lit L your This gives you ea COMPAS MEDICAL g tho ao se T do not know (Now to seein | My éifth is in cat, but not in dog.Charles G.Brown, lets, Army AN Kill] Oderique years di room ny vas coli, Mad ben S OË tha here th and ht.Ths ead wi weapn as dow, erer le uzun lof and cir led wi ome, & Young ago, but is apg for the » Lauzu ral oc | 1 named | city lit } am Cet n Hous, } d in hs inques int toi L.| despañi m phe he Wah 2, hh en wet K.rains 1 ensured mpany ure do )ffer | SURED.| 0D ory of the pated ned EBL contro y have ancô.MMiNO por AANSFIELD ON ART OF ACTING \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 de Lectures at the University of, Chicago.rt.CRITICISES THE PAPERS, \u2014\u2014 \u2014 Jon't Go on the Stage, But, If You Dos Study For It, mses speak im publie on the stage.7 To sp \u2014Everett Mansfield laid aside stage Richard spoke his natural self, an tist giving confidences to students, esterday at Kent Theatre as the guest of the Graduate Club of the University i 0.of Ch ok often that Mr.Mansfield as- umes the role of his own individuality before an audience\u2014he is sald indaed to have done so only two or three times in his life\u2014and because the college theatre was built to hold 700 people, only $00 were assembled from the quadrangle colony to see and hear him.No better presentation of Mansfield, the man, ever was made.The actor hugged close to the reading desk throughout his talk, spread his elbows languidly across its cushion and leaned forward to his task as if schooling stage recruits in thelr parts.Was Never Dramatic.as never dramatic, and only ng HS arms and gestured when he sought to emphasize a point concerning stage action.His voice was as it always is.His speaking was desultory and without set form, which gave the actor the chance to say some of the things that off the stage and between acts have helped to make him icuous.CP Manstield's make-up for this oc- casion\u2014or any afternoon when no matinee is scheduled\u2014was a dark gray serge Prince Albert and tamely striped trousers, turned up one fold.His black satin four-in-hand tie was done carelessly.His clothes sat upon him with close fidelity to his striking figure.Broadly considered, Mr.Mansfield spoke on four topics.He gave advice first upon actor-making, advancing a curriculum by which the student of stage work, by diligent application, might reach success.This included the fine arts and a liberal education, not to speak of the technical training of voice and action.He hoped there were students in that great church school \u2018who were preparing to take up the profession of the stage.\u201cDon\u2019t Go on the Stage.\u201d \u201c1 hope that some of you intend to adopt the stage as your profession,\u201d said he, \u201cbut if you should ask me my advice in the matter I should say, much as Mr.Punch did.Mr.Punch was asked to give advice to those about to marry, and his advice was \u2018Don\u2019t.So would I advise, unless you are willing to undergo hardships unceasing for your art.Some of vou may think the stage offers an easy way to earn a living, but I think thatof all ways of earning a livelihoad\u2014and I have tried many of them, the hardest is the profession of the actor.Yau may not believe it, but for seven years I starved \u2014absolutely and literally starved.You may look at me now and not believe it, but it is true.\u2018Even after one has studied, or thinks he has studied long in the art, it is not easy to obtain a position in the profession of the actor.When I say actor I am not sure that you know what I mean.Everything is mixed up in this country in regard to definition of an actor\u2014some include under this name the one who dances in a vaudeville or who amuses an audience throughout an evening with gags and jokes, some- .times of vulgar type.Advice to the Real Student.\u201cIf you intend to study the real art of the actor I should recommend that the first thing is the cultivation of the voice.I trust that you will not think that I preach what I think I have attained.I have an ideal, but do not say that I have reached it.The man or woman who strives to reach that chandelier will get up higher than the cne who only tries to touch the edge of this table, Behold in me a horrible example, \u201cWe hear all kinds of voices on the stage\u2014and I have heard all kinds on the platform, also.If all those on the boards would practice cultivation of the voice there would certainly be a great difference, and it would be an improvement certainly if those off the stage had this cultivation.You can see that on the stage\u2014the men especial- ly\u2014those that take the character parts need voice culture.For instance, if I Were to assume a great role of Shake- Speare I would require a great volume of voice.If I were to take the part of Richard III., in which the man is developed from youth to a maturity of sin, I would need to have the same strength and passion of voice in the last act as in the first.Do you know that when Edmund Kean and others of the great men of the earlier stage would get down into the last act and cry, \u2018A horse, a hore; my kingdom for a horse, they were always very hoarse indeed.Now, through voice culture, I have learned to be as fresh and voiceful at the end of a play as at the beginning.What an Actor Should Know.\u201cAn actor should be able to produce ANy quality of voice, for there are few limits to what may be required in this line in a variety of character parts.An actor should be able to sing a stanza, also.No actor who does not know mu- Sic can be a good one.An actor should Study painting that he may be able to eee himself as others see him.He should study coler that he may make no mistakes in his costuming and bis make-up.He must remember that his \u2018duty is to please first, to please second, and to please all the time.must have The ce above all things.I The actor should study deportment.N these days we are accustomed to thong our so-called actors making thelr movements from their elbows and heir knees, when they should make pion from their shoulders and their n DS.It has become so that when they \u20ac à man moving freely from these hone that they, say he struts.One y a is life t of handling Fimenns e the proper way he Me Mansfield plluetrates what wi ew \u2018 - tures of both Kinds.\" sample ges anguage is an important part of the actor's education.This is shown was striking manner nowadays by the and you hear \u2018moonshoo\u2019 and \u2018mushoo\u2019 : renarer barbarisms for the common - sake of penonsieur.Hot alone for - sa .Pronouncits oreign words Correctly should the Actor study lan- He sympathetic quality Buage; Hardships of Stage Life.\u201cThere is reall i 3 y little truth in the popular idea that after the play we re- princely grandeur, ere Wwe feast on pate de foie gras and bagne until an early hour in the play DE.For years and years after the Tw went to my little garret-room, and (ère fortunate enough to have cne, od 00K my crust, if I had one, and ed it over the fire, if I had one.Stee ot y times I have wandered the would E London for hours at a time.ner Yuya hot potato from the cor- my pockecs* amd after carrying it in eat it warm my fingers, would \u201cTra trout, MS IS not the least of our elle ays and days have I - traîne % dirty car behind trian loft a com early hours we would he wait : UNcomfortable statio for another freight train whl - was to carry us to our destination.And even when we had reached that destination we had troubles.Do you know that there are places in Europe where they will ask: \u2018Be you a play- actor?And if you confess that you are, they will deny you a place in the house.\u201d Mr.Mansfield took occasion to defend the claims of the stage for possessing average Virtue.He thought there was about the same grade of morality on the stage as in a college community\u2014no more, no less\u2014and he thought it averaged about the same as other vocations in life.Clement Scott, the London dramatic critic, was scored for his recent utterance.\u201cThere have been criticisms of the morality of the stage,\u201d he said, \u201cand perhaps some of the criticism comes from the fact of our private lives being laid out so thoroughly by the papers.I can say in regard to this criticism that there is no more and no less immorality on the stage than in society.The actor is too busy, too full of the important duties of his art, to be immoral.An eminent critic in London has declared that the stage is immoral.He has posed as a friend of actors for many years.He has partaken of their hospitality and shared their pleasures with them, and now he has the effrontery to say that the stage is immortal.I do not say that it is more moral than the rest of the world, but it is quite as moral.There is no more and no less temptation for you, ladies and gentlemen of the University of Chicago, than there is for us.You live and travel together here as we do.I have still to find the immorality which the dramatic critic of the London Daily Telegraph has stated there is.\u201d After heating up to his argument, Mr.Mansfield could not go by the press without giving his ideas about editing papers.He did not like papers to tell when actors put on mustard plasters, and he did not think people cared to know anything about actors apart from their art.\u201cEveryone does not know what actors have to contend with in the way of personal criticism,\u201d he declared.\u201cIt would be good if newspapers would limit their mention of players to thelr public performances.It is not necessary that the public should be of our private lives.An actor's business before the world is to act on the stage.There is nothing in the fact that I put on a mustard plaster on Thursday, or that I wore a hat to breakfast in the cafe of the annex.When I was playing in New York I! was surprised to find a paper the headline, \u2018Mansfield Breakfasts in His Hat.\u2019 The story told of how I had gone to the cafe for breakfast and kept my hat on, which I did because of a draught.These criticisms are guilty of lifting persons to places before the world which they do not deserve to occupy.It is very distressing to one to be hounded all the time by those who would know your personal life.\u201d Plea For the American.with Am- pay who Am- themes friends them beture Americanism\u2014the patronage of erican players, the refusal to double prices to the foreigners come here, the encouragement of erican play-writers, are old with Mr.Mansfield, and his are accustomed to hear the curtain.It was not to be expected that in an cducational center the actor would forget to speak of these things.CI have noticed in my travels in Vienna, in Paris and Berlin, that each swears by its own city.The Viennese sees all good in his own town, and the Berliner thinks his city has reached the highest type.We know well that the Englishman thinks that all the good things are contained in the confines of England.Don\u2019t you think it is about time that we began to believe in America?\u201d The audience applauded.\u201cCan\u2019t we find good things in our own country and among our own people?Why not say to an American: \u201cThat which you bring us is as good as what we get from abroad.\u201d I have seen the actors of many countries, and am sure that your actors are as good as those of any other.Don\u2019t pay twice as much for acting just because the artist comes from Paris, or Vienna or London.What if I had the audacity to go to London and say: \u2018I am from America and a city three thousand miles from here.You must pav me two guineas for a seat.\u201d I should probably be taken by the collar and 1 ejected from their little island.\u201cThanking you for the honor you have done me, I can only hope that when you have nothing better to do that you will remember me,\u201d was the concluding sentence of Mr.Mansfield\u2019s address.Ce CLERK OF RAMSAY, Mr.James Caskey Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills.\u2014 vy Kidney Diseases Being Driven Out of Lanark County by Dodd's Kidney Pills\u2014Mr.Caskey's Case Illustrates the Hundreds of Cures Made by This Grand Remedy.Almonte, Feb, 11.\u2014Our township clerk, Mr.James Caskey, is one of the strongest and most enthusiastic endorsers-of Dodd's Kidney Pills in this district, and there are hundreds of firm friends of that wonderful medicine in Lanark.Lanark County is one of the strongholds of Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills.That medicine has been used in many hundreds of cases here, and in every case has worked a permanent cure.Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Stone in the Bladder, Gravel, all Urinary 2rd Bladder Diseases, Blood Impurities, Diseases of Women, and alk other Kidney Diseases yield to the influence of Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills, speedily, surely, and easily.This has been proved so often, so clearly, and so conclusively, in Lanark County, that the fact is admitted by all, and ro other medicine is used for any form of Kidney Disease.As a result these diseases are by mo means 50 common in this county as they were before Dodd's Kidney Pills were introduced.Mr.Caskey\u2019s case is an illustration of the universal success of Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills in all Kidney Diseases.He suffered severely for years with pains across the back, caused by Kidney Disease.He could never tell when an attack would disable bim.Very often he would fall down with the severity of the pain.His sufferings may be imagined.No relief could be got till he began the use of Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills.Then relief came at.once.His cure was thorough and lasting, and Mr.Caskey uses Dodd's Kidney Pills as a general tonic now.Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills are sold by all druggists at fifty cents a box, six boxes $2.50, or will be sent, on receipt of price, by The Dodds Medicine Co., Limited, Toronto.PASSENGER STEAMER SUNK.Hull, Eng., Feb.11.\u2014The passenger steamer Marbella, bound from here for Hamburg, was sunk by collision with the bow of the British warship Galatea, in Hull Roads, last evening.All the passengers and crew were saved.The Galatea was run aground near the entrance to Alexandra dock, at this place, shortly after high water this morning.The Mar- bella was a steel screw steamer, built at Port Glasgow in 1894, and registered 933 tons.Forty valuable race horses were lost on the Marbella.The Dominion Line steamship Labrador, from Portland, 10 p.m., the 2nd inst., passed Holyhead at 4 p.m.Friday.told ! THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898./ eme a rg a rs rt There has been a great deal of talk these last few weeks aoout the pertor- mances at ble Theatre Royal; it has beun urged by many tnac the burlesgues whuon have been presented there are unfit for the stage, and as a result the theaire bras been crowded at every performance\u2014 by men.Presently it may become necessary to declare quarantine against New York in order to protect our respectability from the infection of the wisque and undoubtedly hurmful performances tilt are be- Coming so pupuar every season in Gotham.The variety men and women, who fairly unsettle the hearthwvones of many American cities, New York in particular, if we may believe the stories in New York jour- nats- are entirely harmless in Monreal, far here their stupidity is found to be a sovereign antidote for any seductive influence their presence might set afloat.We have contemplated ali these creatures without the slightest interest, though lost in wonder sometimes over the reflection that there are cities where they can bold @p their heads.But although these ephemera of the variety stage only creates a sense of disgust, we may not regard swith so mudi unconcern the class of plays that find unceasing favor in this country.l speak in general terms wf Canada and the United States.Still retaining the old-fashioned notion that \u201cwant of decenoy is want of sense,\u201d we find it quite impossible, in our poor, (provincial philosophy, to understand how | vile and vulgar themes can be appro- [priately treated in theatres that appeal to general patronage.It may be pitiful, but nevertheless it is true, that Montreal has preferred the belief that intelligent and respectabie people are inclined to decency, even in the theatre.There has been am impression here that ladies and gentlemen of the self-respecting class would mot laugh at a dramatized story, whidh, in its bold form, could not be told in the drawing-room.No doubt this is all extremely provincial and narrow-minded, but, save in ceutain degenerate circles, not commonly discussed in polite society, there is happily a disposition to beljeve that a subject unfit for the drawing-room has no proper place on the stage.+ * * The past week has enjoyed two extra- theatrical events\u2014addresses in Washington and Chicago by two well-known actors.One of these actors dwelt upon his own early hardships, which must have made his present great success the sweetor.Karly hardship and genius are histonical companions.\u2018Ihe other actor expressed an original proposition, viz., that if Shakespeare shall survive in the theatre the must be \u201cbrought up to date.\u201d Aside from the pregnant suggestion in this to aspiring persons who assume to improve upon dramatic magter-preces, there is in it a pathetic confession of the limitations of present-day players.And yet Shake- gpeare, unlike eggs marketed in the city, will continue to be accepted without assurance of his modernity when actors unequal to him dias been forgotten.x * » The stock company has not only come to stay, but to propagate New companies are steadïly organizing, and many of those thut begam the season are still prosperous.The stock company is one of the remedies that will assist in curing the disease that afiliats the American theatre, - * * You have, of course, heard that we had e fire in The Herald Office 7 The theatrical folks inn New York also heard of it, and on Tuesday I received the following wire :\u2014 \u201cTo Paul Pry, \u201cHerald, Montrear.\u201cSorry the fire caught you so soon, but it will take a good deal more than fire and water to down The Herald.Personally, you better look out.\u201cFRED.WHITNEY, \u201cJEAN WILLIAMS, \u201cSIDNEY ELLIS, \u201cCHARLES FROHMAN.\u201d I wonder what they mean.* * * Mr.Lecatsas, the Greek tragedian, wiho is now in London, is the Sir Henry Irving of modern Athens; and it was in lingland \u2018 thirty years ago that he made his debut \u2018on the stage.After acquiring the foundation of his art, he went back to his own country and established there for himselt a fame unequalled by any other Greek actor.The recent misfortunes of his own country compelled him to leave Athens.* a * hate Henry Irving is in dire straits for a play.The utter failure of hig son's \u201cPeter the Great\u201d thas left him high and dry on the shoals of theatrical discomfiture.His revivals will not pay, for London has grown tired of the Matthias ana Shylock\u2014it wants, novelty, and if Irving cannot give it, why, then London will go elsewhere, Irving has arrived at a critical point in his career, and he has realized that he ust do something, and do at soon.So he has decided to purchase the English rights of that wonderful play, \u201cCyrano de Bergerac,\u201d over which alt Paris is raging just now.» * » Beerbohm Tree's elaborate revival of \u201cJulius Caesar\u201d in London has turned out to ibe a failure.It is not now thought that the piece can be carried on for more than six weeks all told, and as the production cost a lot of momey there cannot possibly be a profit in an engagement so short.The whole thing is heavy, cumbersome and dull.For the first five nights there wasn\u2019t a smile in the auditorium.But on the sixth evening the actor playing the leader of the soldiers tripped over a door-sill and fell sprawling, presenting as undignified a Roman picture as it is easy to imagine.The audience, which had been aching for an opportunity to laugh, roared for fifteen minutes, and pretty nearly stopped the progress of the performance, Mr.Tree\u2019s lines have not fallen in pleasant places of late, and it is very much of a question how long he can last against adverse fortune.* *+ Different opinions come from Chicago as to the artistic value of Clyde Fitch\u2019s new play, Nathan Hale, produced there by Mr, Goodwin last wesk; but there is no dis centing voice as to its popular success.Mr.Glover of the Times-Herald, notes in the first act a close resemblance to the principal scene in Robertson\u2019s School, The second act is marred, he says, by exceedingly cheap comedy, followed, however, by an effective scene.The third act is melo- dramaltic, an dthe last act has some realistic toudhes and ends with a dangling noose.It would seem from all accounts that Mr.Goodwin comes nearer to realizing the ambition to be accepted as a player of serious parts in this drama than in any of his previous attempts in that direction.Mr.Wilson Barrett, who arrived at Sydney just before the last mail left, has been giving his opinions on the drama at home.Tn an interview in the Sydney Telegraph he said that a great change had come over the tastes of English playgoers\u2014a change away from the psychological or problem \u2014##BY PAUL PRY.R-\u2014 play.The desire now is for something more generally and broadly human and romantic.And the more of heart and the more of sympathy for that which is good und noble that you can infuse into a drama the more chance it has of success.\u201cThe delving into the worst part of human nature, which has been the foundation of the problem play, has,\u201d in Mr.Barrett's bpinion, \u2018turned a lot of people entirely out of the theatre.\u201d \u201cI \u2018have heard heads of families say,\u201d Mr.Barrett went on to explain, \u201cthat they wouldn\u2019t go to the theatre wilh their ! families until they had sampled the plays for themselves.That is a condemnation, is it not?Heads of families are busy men, When they have been to the theatre to sample a play, they haven\u2019t time to En again, even if they think it is unobjectionable.Tle trend, I think, is in the direction of good, healthy plays.Not necessarily duil, or sombre, or heavy, or didactic, but wholssome.The people want and will have more \u2018wholesome fun.They will mot put up with so much that borders on what is not decent.\u201d Mr.Barrett was to open in Melbourne with \u201cClau dian.\u201d and will play altogether in Australia for a season of twenty weeks.* One of the features of the Era Annual (Era office) are a number of sketches of hands cif actors and actresses, with descriptions by the Editor of the Palmist.One of these descriptions deals with the hands of William Terriss, and was written before his violent death.It contains this sentence: \u201cThere is no fear of fire or water, great preservations standing in the way of danger, but much of falls and blows.\u201d Also this: \u201cThe life line is good.There is no illness foreshadowed at the end of the line, it ends very abruptly in the right.\u201d .* * * LA thd NOTES.VE NT Madame Adelaide Herrmann, will soon appear in London under engagement with Imre Kiralfy.She will sail about March 1 Robert Taber will not replace Charles Richman next season in Augustin Daly\u2019s company, as was rumored last week.Madame Alexandra Viarda, the Polish actress, is considering an early reappearance im America in a modern German success, probably at subscription perfor- mandés ab the Astoria, New York.Miss Florence Roberts, the leading lady of the Theatre Francais, has been ailing for some days.She will take a much needed rest mext week.I notice that Will S.Harkins, who was known so well in connection with the \u201cStill Alarm,\u201d is to be the leading man of the Queen\u2019s stock company.| There is some talk of the Monument National being turned into a vaudeville theatre.Nothing is decided, With the close of the performance of the \u201cPacific Mail\u201d at the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, on Saturday evening, the stage career of \u201cKid\u201d McCoy came to a close.He thas tried to act, and he can't.He says he is a fighter} and that is what he intends to stick at.We have much to be thankful for.The advent of Camille D\u2019Arville in \u201cThe Highwayman,\u201d at the Broadway Theatre, New York, thas proven highly interesting to the patrons of that house.Miss D\u2019Ar- ville has been givén a new song in the second act, entitled \u201cFor This,\u201d which is received with favor, Mr.W.E.Phillips has left for New York, where he will engage some of the best specialty artists in America.He will also select some of the most able and expensive plays for his stock company.Mr.Francis Byrne rejoins the company on the 21st.Ramsay Morris recently left for South, where he will remain several weeks in the hope of benefiting his health.Fanny Rice will sail in May for London, vhere she will present \u201cAt the French Ball\u201d for two weeks in June.Maurice Barrymore will play his original role in the London production of \u201cThe Heart of Maryland.\u201d Delia Fox has denied her rumored engagement to marry.Robert Mantell rejoined his company at Boston last Wednesday.Charlotte Behr- ens (Mrs, Mantell), his leading lady, who was taken ill at Port Huron, Mich., is convalescent.Mr.W.H.Wright, who is to manage the Queen's Stock Company, is expected here early next week.The New York Dramatic Mirror, realizing the importance of the growing feeling in favor of stock companies, has sent out a, circular asking for all the mews possible.Stock company paragraphs will have a special place in the paper.TO CORRESPONDENTS.Old Theatre-Goer\u2014Mr.Chas.B.Han- ford played Iago to Mr.Keene\u2019s Othel!'o.F.S.P.\u2014I think the Will West you re- Rog is now playing in \u201cMiss Philadel- ia.\u201d Marie.\u2014There is no record of the lady\u2019s appearance in Montreal.X.Y.Z\u2014You centainly lose.The Fran- cais was originally called the Lyceum.1t was managed Sy Mr.Wm.Moore.Angelica.\u2014\u201cBleak House\u201d was dramatized.I do not know the date.PAUL PRY.PAINT ON GLASS.It sometimes happens that a careless painter daubs the glass of the window at which he is working.It is quite difficuli to remove these spots, and ordinary soan and water makes no impression.While the paint is still fresh turpentine will take it off readily, or boiling vinegar if applied hot enough.When everything else fails, the spots sometimes yield to oxalic acid in strong solution, or to an application of almost pure lye.The last two remedies need caution.Oxalic acid is a violent poison, and can be taken in through cracks mn the fingers.em PAIN-WRACK, No Station in Life is Proof Against Rheumatism\u2014All Come Under the Ban-South American Rheumatic Cure Cures All, \u201cChas.Cotton, of Gananoque, has been employed by the Rathbun Company for nearly twenty years as engineer, and from the nature of the employment was subjected to severe attacks of rheumatsim.He tried many remedies with scarcely any benefit.South American Rheumatic Cure was recommended to him.He found almost instant relief, and the first bottle et- fected a cure.Sold by B.E.MoGale,2123 Notre Dame.A WAIL FROM UPPER ST.URBAIN.Bditor of The Herald: \u2014 Sir,\u2014I wish to call your atentaion to a matter which is troubling the residents of the northern part of the city\u2014opposite the Exhibition grounds.Last year I wus coaxed into renting a flat up here by a very glib landlord who, before my taking out the lease, was prepared to promise me anything I asked.Among the other the | a flattering inducements he hld out, was the regularity with which aur garbage would be colected.Well, yes; the collector did condescend to favor wus with a few calls, but at very distant periods.Lately it is astonishing to see how he avoids our neighborhood.Night after night have I watened for that scavenger wagon that never came.I am of a very hopeful disposition, yet I confess my patience has ben sorely tried.Cannot the city afford to collect the garbage: and what is the matter with the Health Department?Let us hope that this complaint echoed trough your valuable paper will awaken the sympathy of the new Council.\"Thanking you for the space, I am, UPPER ST.URBAIN STREET.STILL ANOTHER COLD STRIKE.Seattle, Wash, Feb.11.\u2014Early in December, James \"I.O\u2019Brien, who recntly arrived here irom Dawson City, discovered cropplugs of a quartz lead while crossing the ridge between the head of Kidorado Creek and Quartz Creek, a Lianch of the Indian river.He brought cv samples, aud to-day received a letuer, wich svated that the report of the assayers gave the value of the ore at $3,800 in gold and ninety ounous dn silver.The ledge from wich this remarkably rich ore was taken is three feet wide and gives every evidence of being a true lead.NEWSPAPER WAIRES.\u201cNow, Charles, let us make a list of your debts.\u201d \u201cOne moment, dear uncle, wl I have filled up your inkstand.\u2019\u2019\u2014T'it- its, Visitor\u2014\u201cPat says he\u2019s descinded from some of thd greatest houses in Ireland.\u201d Mike\u2014\u201cMusha! So he did, many a toime on the ladder.\u201d\u2014Tit-Bits.Julia\u2014\u201cDid you say Jeanette is trying to get into business?\u201d Jennie\u2014\u201cY es.\u201d \u201cWhat kind of business does she want to get into?\u201d \u201cEvenybody\u2019s.\u201d\u2019\u2014Yonker's Sttesman.Not Unreasonable Supposition.\u2014Yeast\u2014 Where do they get the gold leaf from?Crimsonbeak\u2014Oh, I believe they gather them from the trees out at thae Klondike.\u2014Yonkers Statesman.\u201cI WILL BE HERALD.\u201d In Letting the World Know What a Boon Catarrh Sufferers Have in Dr.Agnew's Catarrhal Powder.John E.Dell, of Paulding, O., says ot Dr.Agnew\u2019s Catarrhal Powder : \u201cI was 2 sufferer from chronic catarrh.I was advised to try Dr.Agnew\u2019s Catarnhal Powder.It worked a great cure in me.1 had almost instant relief, It is the best remedy I ever tried for this disease.I will do all I cam to make its excellent quatres known to those suffering as 1 hid.Sold V7 B.E.McGale,2123 Notre Dame, 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D.D., rector of St.John\u2019s Protestant Episcopal Church, of Jersey City Heights, is a man who believes in beating the devil at his own game: If the members of his church want to dance, or play cards, or do any of those other frivolous things which are generally frowned upon from the pulpit, they are at perfect liberty to indulge their taste in that direc tion, and the church edifice is at their diss posal.Last Thursday evening they had a dance there, and they will have one next Thursday evening, and every Thursday evening during the winter.| It was a bold innovation and one which will doubtless bring about Dr.Stoddard\u2019s ears the indignant protests of the religious press, and the old-fashioned, straight-laced churchmen.Dancing began at eight o\u2019clock last Thursday evening, and lasted until about cleven.Dr.Stoddard was not there in person, but he was represented by his wife, and the reverend gentleman was in entire sympathy with the movement.As a matter of fact, it was the outgrowth of his own suggestion, It was very exclusive, indeed.Thirty couples participated in the merry gathering, and they were all members of the rector\u2019s Bible class.No Desire for Notoriety.If you are not familiar with St.John\u2019s Church or with Dr.Stoddard\u2019s work you may at once jump to the conclusion that sensationalism, that bugbear of true Christianity, is at the bottom of it all.There ou are wrong.I am firmly convinced that De Stoddard is most sincere in following the course which he has adopted, and really aims to make his church attractive to the young person without seeking for that notoriety which seems so essential to the happiness for a certain class of preachers.He is a man of culture and of broad mind.He argues that the young men and women of to-day are not content to sit and twirl their thumbs.He wouldn\u2019t like them if they did.He realizes that conditions thange\u2014a fact which escapes the notice of 00 many clergymen.The boys and girls of his Sunday school dance and they play cards.A Fashionable Church.St.John\u2019s Church is located on Summit avenue, in the most fashionable part of Jersey City, and its congregations embraces the best families of the Heights.As in every church, however, there is a certain element whose social life is restricted, and 1t is this element which Dr.Stoddard is aiming to reach.Although the dancing class is brand new, and last Thursday\u2019s dance was the first of the series, there are other features of this unique house of worship which tend to demoustrate the line of Dr.Stoddard\u2019s labors.: St.John\u2019s Institute, which is run in con~ nection with the church, has for its objects, instruction and entertainment.It embraces courses in music, physical culture, stenog: raphy, and a prescribed course of lectures on general topics of interest.I merely mention this to illustrate that the dancing class might be regarded as coming in the natural course of events.A dramatic department is now being talked of, and private theatricals will undoubtedly be the next move.I went over to Jersey City last Thursday evening, with the preconceived determination of attending the dance, if such a thing were possible ; or failing in that, to pursue my investigations under whatever conditions might present themselves.My reception was not as cordial as I might have hoped, but that only served to convince me that newspaper notoriety is not the object of Dr.Stoddard.Cold Cash in Demand.St.Pauls Church edifice is a large, rambling structure, and, following in the wake of several young men who were evidently bound for the dance, I found myself in the Sunday school room, which was also doing duty as a coat room.The young women repaired to another room, where a colored maid was in waiting to relieve them of their wraps.A rosy cheeked youth was seated at a small table, taking in money and issuing tickets in return.For the sum of $1 he gave cards entitling the bearers thereof to eight dances\u2014that is, for eight different evenings.He was a uery determined yonng man, and I saw at once that it was quite impossible to \u2018\u2018stand him off\u201d This was impressod upon me by a little conversation which I chanced to overhear.Waiting in line was a lad who were a red necktie and a troubled look.When it came his turn, he announced that he had received his invitation, but was unfortunately not in a position to pay in advance.Couldn\u2019t he be credited with SI, which would be forthcoming next week.The rosy cheeked custodian of the finan ces was sorry, but he couldn\u2019t do it, Cash in advance was the positive order, So the lad with the red necktie, crushed in spirit, faded away into the night.No Open Sesame.Without any attempt at subterfuge, 1 stated my mission to the young man at the table, and humbly asked his permission to view the scene of revelry.He laughed me to scorn.He said it was quite out of the question.He was adamant\u2014the most adamant young man to have such rosy cheeks I ever saw.I asked him if I couldn\u2019t pay for eight dances in advance and join the class, He replied that the number was all made up, and that at any rate I wasn\u2019t a member of the Bible class.Dr Stoddart was not present, he told me, but added that he lived ** somewhere in Summit avenue.\u201d I located Dr Stoddard\u2019s house and was there told that he had gone to the church.Returning to the church, I was informed that he was somewhere else\u2014I have forgotten where.The ubiquitous Dr Stoddard did not materialize, but I was presented to Mrs Stoddard, who gave a little gasp and told me that *\u2018 no outsiders would be admitted.\u201d But there are other ways of going to Jersey City than by balloon, and Iam in a position to give a very fair idea of the first of the church dances.In the rear of the church is.a one story building used by the physical culture class of the institute as a gymnasium, and it was here that the innovation was inaugurated.There were just thirty couples, exclusive of Frederick Ans n dancing, and his sister, who furnished lhe music on the piano.A Picturesque Scene.Mrs.Stoddard gave the affair her personal supervision, There were round dances and square dances, there were waltzes and twossteps, and there was a gond old-fashioned Virginia reel.There was the young man with the long neck and hich collar, which had wilted very early in the game, and there was the girl who would shudder at the sight of a dust brush, hut who proudly boasted after it was all over that she had danced every dance, and had halved and even quartered some.Then there was the wall flower, a few of her, who said she didu\u2019t care to dauce, anyhow.Taking it altogether, if one could elimin~ ate the memory of those who were being initiated into the mysteries of the light fantastic toe, and who insisted upon stepping on their partners\u2019 feet, it was for all the world like any club dance.The surroundings were picturesque in the extreme.The gymnasium floor lent itself readily to dancing, and the walls and ceiling of polished wood, with the bare rafters glistening in the gaslight, formed a delightful setting to the seene.The flying trapeze, rings suspended from the ceiling, horizontal and vertical bars, and all the other paraphernalia of the gymnasium, were there to add a picturesque element, There were some few who had taken advantage of the opportunity and were receiving their first instruction in the graceful art, These were under the direction of Mr.Andersen.But the majority of those present were quite proficient.Innocent Amusement.Tor three hours ripples of innocent, merry laughter, mingled with the patter of dancing feet.Everybody was happy, The Fall of the church did not rest heavily upon these graceful young Christians.The idea of the weekly dances had its inception at the last reception of the rector\u2019s Bible class.This class in itself is rather unique.At the age of eighteen each scholar in the Sunday school passes into the Bible class, where the rector gives lectures on the Bible, the prayer book and the history of the Church, and from which, at the end of a three years\u2019 course, members are graduated and given a diploma.To still further interest them in the Church there is a Bible Class Alumini Association, which has yearly meetings, and its special work is raising an endowment fund for the church of $100,000.Dancing Class Reception, But to return to the dancing class.Until last year the annual receptions had been held at the rector\u2019s house, where a pro~ gressive-euehre party usually preceded an informal dance, followed by suvper.The last reception, however, was held in the church.Those who wanted to dance re~ paired to the gymnasium, while those who had conscientious scruples against dancing, either because they didn\u2019t think it proper or because they didn\u2019t know how, confined themselves to the Sunday school room, where they played such alluring games as *\u2018Copenhagen.\u201d \u201cPost Office\u201d and other boisterous trivialities Dr.Stoddard divided his time between the two rooms.On one of his visits to the gymnasium he confided to one of his favorite young women pupils that he didn\u2019t think proper decorum was being observed in the Sunday school reom.\u2018\u2018It is a relief,\u201d he said \u201cto come in here, listen to the music and witness so pretty a sight as is presented by the young ladies and gentlemen dancing together.The scene is not nearly so refining in the other room.There is no vulgarity here.There is yonder.They are not acting as ladies and gentlemen should.\u201d At the conclusion of the dance a Virginia reel was suggested, and Dr.Stoddard headed the line, dancing with the vigor which characterizes everything he does.And that was the origin of the dancing class, Dr.Stoddard thought it all over in his own mind, and the following Sunday he put the question to the class.It met with enthusiastic approval.A week ago last Thursday the dancing class met and or: ganized, On this occasion he said that he considered dancing not only a harmless amusement but a necessary diversion.Better to Dance Than to Gossip.*¢ When a party of young people get to gether,\u201d he said \u2018\u2018 there seems, unfortunately, nothing for them Po do but dance, play cards or engage in idle gossip.In my opinion it is far better that they should dance than gossip.\u201d It must not he imagined that the intrepid rector of St John\u2019s has altogether the approval of his congregation in the matter of dancing lessons.There are those who openly decry the innovation, and some of them are his most wealthy and influential parishioners.But he is determined to go ahead, and hopes to convince all the objectors of the wisdom of his course.St John\u2019s is really an institutional church in the broadest sense of the term.I have already spoken of the Institute, and it seems to me that more than a mere passing comment might be pertinent.The instrue- tion fee in each of the departments of music, physical culture and stenography is only twenty~five cents a month, and there are weekly classes.The department of music is under the direction of Professor M, E.Schwartz, and it began as a class in vocal instruction and sight reading.It will be continued in the higher branches of musical culture.All Sorts of Societies.W.H.Mattocks is in charge of the phys sical culture class, and the class in stenography is under the direction of Edward Dole and Miss A.Cooper.Then there are the guilds, and all members of the guilds are by virtue of that membership also members of the Institute, and are not required to pay the annual dues.Only those who are not members of the guilds are obliged to pay the yearly membership fee of $1.There are all sorts of clubs and societies represented in this church, from the Brotherhood of St Andrew to the \u201cI Ain't Afraid Society.\u201d 1 have already mentioned the dramatic department as a probability, and I have been informed that very shortly piano instruction and lessons in bookkeeping, type= writing and cooking will be added, to say nothing of a debating society, where the youthful mind will grapple with all the great problems of the day.But the princis pal interest, by reason of its novelty, centres in the weekly dancing class.The next will be held next Thursday evening, and it will be interesting to watch developments in church circles.But Dr Stod« dard is determined to pursue the even tenor of his way, firm in the belief that he is accomylishing a good work in demonstrating to the young person that the church is not a place of irksome restraint.MAY STEAL A MILL.Waterloo, Feb.12.\u2014There is a rumor, which appears to be well-founded, to the effect that Yarnham is dickering to secure the removal of the Waterloo Knitting Mills to that place.The inducement held out is a bonus, but how large or how small \u2018has not transpired.A Farnham deputation met the proprietors of the mills here ome day last wek and talked matters over.Just how far the megotia- tions went hae not leaked out.The mill proprietors are leading citizens of Waterloo, who have always taken a deep interest in the growth and prosperity of the town.If they are of the same mind still they will scarcely entertain an offer, no matter how tempting, to pull up stakes and move away.In Ontario there is a taw, growing out of the evils of the bonus- ing system, which prevents one town from, stealing an established industry from another.A similar law would not be a bad derson, who had been engaged as instructor thing in this, Province.J capacity, a model Englsih nc ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES How the Civil War Affected the Former.NATIONS IN CLOSE TOUCH.What the English Correspondent of New York Post Thinks.London, Feb.8.\u2014The course of events in America has for more than tiirty years exercised an influence which has \u2018een little noticed, but has been for all that important, on English public opinion, and therefore\u2019 indirecily on English polities.Forty or flfty years ago, it is true, 14 was far otherwise.In 1855 Lord Shaïtes- bury made this note in his déary : \u201cJust | heard that Palmerston des'g:s to make some lawyers \u2018Peers for life\u2019\u2014a step as pernicious as it is specious.lt must eventually, and not remotely, destroy the, hereditary House of Lords.It will Legin by making us the \u2018French Chamber\u2019 and end by making us the \u2018American Senate.\u201d \u2018These worûs have in 1898 a touch- of pa- the$e stupidity.Palmerstom was tire most Conservative Premier who has held | cffice since 1832; his scheme for life peerages was as statesmanlike as it was Conservative.Lord Shaftesbury was, as regards high public spirit and intellectual bleman, yet Lord Shaftesbury oppossd a salutary reform for ihe most inappropriate of reasons.He feared that the House of Loids might be transformed into an American Senate, and did mot know that the Senate ! of 1855 exercised in the United States greater authority than has been wiclded in England by the House of Lords since the revolution of 1688.If Palmerston\u2019s reform could have endowed their londships with anything like the weight-of the Senate, English Conservatism would have ob- ! tained a new lease of power.The point, | however, which for my present purpose is important is mot Lotfd Shaftesbury's political blunder, but his ignorance about the United States.It was mot till the outbreak of the Civil War that it became apparent how close might be the connection between the fortunes of the United States and the course of politics in England.On such a matter | as this every man must epeak from his ! «wn, nnd, therefore, from a very limited, | experience.But to the presemt writer it is as certain as any event known to him by recollection can De, that in England the | war of secession produced a greater division of feeling and a far greater amount | of political bitterness than any occurrence, | foreign or domestic, which has happened during the last fifty years.Some of the reasons for this excitement wers trivial: there never was a political conflict which supplied partisans on either side with such an infinity of weapons with which to irritate opponents.The Ccmservative mfho rejoiced in the victories of Tee was called the defender of slavery.The Liberal who was cheered by any northern success was asked what had become of his love for nationalities, and how he reconciled the subjugation of the Southern States with his respect for tlhe voice of the people.But though accidental circumetances enhanced the bitterness due to a fundamental difference of convictions and sentiments, there was, as any one can now see, nothing unnatural and little that was blame- wonthy in the intensity of the party spirit aroused in England by the civil war in America.Men saw in it a life-and-death struggle beTween Conservativism and Democracy.The early triumph?of the south were held by thousands cf Englis'- men to be the breakdown of popular government.The dictum attributed to Car- vie, \u201cIt is the dirtiest chimney whidh ever got set on fire,\u201d might have been taken as the watchword of English Conservatism.While the contest lasted the spirit of reform or of dhange was practically suspended in England.Nor is it a hazardous conjecture that had\u2019 the seceding States made good their independence, the Democratic movement in England and perhaps in Bu- rope might have been arrested for a generation.The sympathy with the Northern States, whidh to the present writer appears now, as it appeared them, to be a sympathy with the cause of justice and of progress, was among English democrats the effect rather of instinct than of reflection.Bright, Mill, the artisans of Lancashire, the whole body of sympathisers with the north, backed the cause of the democracy.Just hatred for slavery gave a touch of religious fervor to their political enthusiasm; but at the basis of their sentiment and their action lay the conviction that on the issue of the war was staked the possibility of demacratic progress, and their pre- vielons were justified by the event.The surrender of Richmond was the victory of democracy in England.In 1859 Bright had in vain pressed upon the mation a reform of Parliament based upon the extension of the right of voting to householders.His oratory had kindled mo popular emotion.Lord Palmerston jeered at him for \u201cstarring # in the provinces.\u201d He himself, it is believed, confessed that he found he was \u201cflogging a dead horse.\u201d Some years later he was able to tell the working mens of England that the negroes would get the suffrage before the English operar tive.As an argument in favor of Pparlia- mentary reform this statement \u201cleft something,\u201d as the French say, \u201cto be desired,\u201d but as rhetoric it was conclusive.In 1867 the reform bill was passed which introduced the system of household suffrage into the boroughs, and made certain that it would within a few years be introduced into the counties of England.Between 1859 and 1867 the war of secession had made patent the power of democracy.By a change of opinion which appears at first sight paradoxical if not ridiculous, Conservatives who in the middle of this century, and indeed after the middle of the century was well passed, dreaded nothing.so much as the Americanization of English institutions, began some tem or twelve years ago to see much that was admirable in the Constitution of the United States.The writer who represented this alteration of view was Sir Henry Maine.His \u2018Popular Government\u2019 exactly represents a phase of Conservative sentiment.Nor is there anything really absurd in the altered attitude of English Conservatism.While Democracy could be held, so to speak, at arm\u2019s length, it was natural that every man who wished to keep the social and political state of England in the main unchanged, should object to all measures of which the object was to imitate the democratic institutions of America.Now that the re'gn of democracy has begun, it is equally natural that Conservative thinkers ghould commend anything in American istitutions, such, for example.as the rigid character of the Constitution of the United States, the limited power of every American Legislature, or the authority | ; present | opinions as to the solution to be found ; of one of the most difficult problems pre- vested in the hands of the judges, which hampers, or is supposed to hamper, the rash action of the people.This, at any rate is exactly what has taken place; the Conservatism of America recommends itself to English Conservatives.Nor is it the institutions alone oË the United men whose fathers for fifty years held up States which are now admired by Engl'sh- the example of the transatlantic Republic as a warning against the perils of Demo- BOOK REVIEWS.BOOKS.O books, my books, ye glve me naught for all my AsKILE.king Vnin is the spirit's taskir CL ; To valse up honor from the printed Nine.ed Or =cent Thpe clusters in 'the long-ar of antique banquets spilled upon the page.O books are but the cage ! Where ochoos of the spirit sing, cratic Repuolicanism.In Europe Democracy makes its appearance at least, for Sochlism, but the spius, not only of the late American | Constitution, but of American society, has, so far as outsiders can judge hitherto been the spirit of individualism.individuals; > rights of property are in peril reasonably feel that they have much to learn from a country which has prospered under a constitution designed by men who had no tendency towards any form of Socialism, and who firmly believed in the right of each individual to use lis own powers for the attainment of his own happiness.That, again, the success of the Federal system im America reconciled many Englishmen to the proposal for the establishment of Home Rule in Ireland, is so patent to any cne who has followed the stream oË English politics that the subject does not require more than an allusion.What is better worth notice, because it has excited less attention, is the way in which the failure or success in the United States of the attempts to retain or establish good local government in great cities, 1s certain to react\u2014I might almost say is at the moment reacting\u2014upon English scnted to modern statesmanship.This problem is, shortly, how to keep up good government in towns, and especially in | large towus, such as London, at a time when, it is generally felt by the mass of the electors that the proper source of authority js the will of the people expressed by a popular vote.It is easy enough to say: \u2018\u2018Establish a system of local government.\u201d The fatal objection to this solution is that real loeal government cannot exist in any place where the persons who are supposed to govern not, aud, to spe-k plainly, cannot, human ature being what dt is, take a real part in the management of matters which are suppesed to be their own affairs.Local government in the sense 4n which it may have existed, or, for all that is known to me, it may still exist in a New England township or in a small Swiss canton, never will exist in Westminster or London.It is simply idle to suppose that the majority of the lLusy inhabitants of Westminster will under any circumstances whatever take a vigorous part in the conduct of the business of Westminster.They will not do it, for the best of all reasons, namely, that each individual, supposing that he is a respectable man engaged in any serious profession, will lose far more than he can possibly gain by spending his time, which is his strength and his money, one might almost say his life, In ceeing that Westminster is well governed.With many men the attempt to do this would mean nothing short of ruin; but supposing thnt for a time a few citizens of exceptioral public spirit, were, if Westminster were made a municipality, to treat the affairs of {heir city as their own, there would be mothing whatever to en- cpuragy them im this course.There would, on the contrary, be everything to discourage their action.The larger the numter of peisons entitled to manage the affairs of Wetsminster, i.e., the more democratic the constituency which elected the Town Council, the less would be the influence of any ome individual who was not able to make the municipal business the main occupation of his life.Plenty of persons no doubt would be found to do this, but these are exactly the persons who, because they had no reputable business of their own, would be certain in one way or mnother to manage or mismanage the affairs of Westminster for their own i behoof.i But ot is little beter than folly to arque this matter with any citizen of New York.It were the stupidest form of Eng- ligh vanity for me to suppose that, either in public spirit or im capacity for business, the citizens of New York, or of any other large American city, are on the average a whit inferior to the citizens of London, Birmingham, or Liverpool.It would argue, on the other hand, the dullest ignorance in any one who professed to know anything about the condition of the United States, if he pretended to deny that New York suffered from a kind of misgovernment of which a parallel is not as yet to be found in any of the leading cities of England.These facts are certain.The point to be insisted upon is that Englishmen see that the progress of democracy, combined wiih the conditions of life in great modern towns, has already produced in the United States, nnd tends to produce in England, certain definite and gross evils.The natural result is that thoughtful persons are looking to see how the problems of municipal government are dealt with in the United States.What is cerfain is, that a great many more people than might at first s'ght Le supposed are watching the struggle for good government, which is being carried on in New York, with the keenest interest.One need be mo optimist to believe that a temporary defeat is in the history of a great town a very smail matter.If the many excellent citizens of New York earnestly wish to put down roguery and oppression, they will no doubt succeed.The matter of supreme importance for Englishmen is to observe the steps by which successds achieved.If, for example, it ultimately turns out that the right course is to elect some honest man, give him extraordinary powers and a long tenure of office, there is no doubt whatever that such an example will tell upon the whole development of local government in England.But, for my present purpose, enough, and more than enough, has been written; my whole aim in this letter has been to insist upon the singular though unrecognized influence of the events in the United States on political speculation and action in England.AN OBSERVER.CURED AT THE SHRINE, Almost Hopeless Cases of Kidney Trouble Daily Being Cured by That Most Wonderful Remedy, the Great South American Kidney Cure.D.J.Locke, cf Sherbrooke, P.Q., spent $100 in treatments for a complicated case of kidney disease and received no permanent benefit He says : \u201cI began the use of South American Kidney Cure, and when four bottles were used I was completely cured.\u201d This is but one testimony of thousands mre who have gone almost discouraged to this great cure shrine, and have returned with joyful hearts ana lasting cure.Sold by B.E.MoGale,2123 Notre Dame, BLEW OUT THE GAS.Alphonse Dupont, of Mamville, Rhode Island, went to bed at the Richelieu Hotel on Thursday night, yesterday morning he was found uncomscious as a result of having blown out the gas.He recovered at the Notre Dame Hospital.themselves will | Nor ever truly ring .The clarion ery, the tabor and the pipe, .Whereto, ere yet the year is ripe, The rights of property are the righlts of : men who believe that the! The happy rivers rum, with ehy'thmic glancing, \" ing! nw nd satyrs fail a-dancing - And al! the fawns & y Th, -\u2014 Books Received.\u201cThe People of the Long House,\u201d by Edward M Chadwick, (The Church of Enz'and Publishing House, Toronto; Ww.Drysdale & Co., Montreal, price $2.00.) \u201cRacing and Chasing,\u201d by Alfred E.Watson.Lougmans, Green & Co, London; Copp, Clark & Co., Toronto).\u201cThe Fall of the Sparrow,\u201d by M.C.Balfour, (Methuen & Co, London; Copp, Clark & Co., Toronto.) \u201cByeways,\u201d by Robert lichens, (Meth- wen & Co., London; Copp, Clark & Co, Toronto).\u201cThe Singer of Marly,\u201d by J.Hooper, Methuen & Co.London; Copp, Clark & Co, Toronto).\u201cThe Discovery of America,\u201d 2 vols.by John Fiske, (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.Boston).\u201cThe Critical Period of American History.\u201d 2 vols., by John Fiske, (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.) \u201cQir Walter Ralegh,\u201d \u2019by Martin 8B.Hume, (Longmans, Green & Co, New York).This book is one of the \u201cBuilders of ; Greater Britain,\u201d series and is an exhaustive, if somewhat partial study of the life où ltalegh, witk welcome side-lights on many of his contemporaries.While sufficient attention is paid to the man himself, his ancestry, his early life and his successes as a courtier, it is chiefly as the instrument of the extension of British dominions that he is upheld and dissected.The Ralegh who read and studied and gave himself but five hours for sleep is not the Ralegh of superficial history, that curled darling who flung his cloak for Elizabeth to walk upon.The author treats the cloak episode as a probable happening.It was a trick of Spanish and French gal lants, and, as Ralegh had a wide-open eye for the main chance and Elizabeth was very vain, the pretty little story may have been quite true.The thanks of the confiding public are due to Mr.Hume, for giving the anecdotes a fair chance to live and not delivering himself up to iconoclas- ticism.The sunshine that gilded life for Ralegh, while Elizabeth lived was suddenly darkened, when James, truculent, jealous and vacillating, came to the throne.Ralegh\u2019s good advice was disregarded, his friendship with the young Prince Henry was frowned at and his knowledge belittled.Dispossession of estate, curtailment of liberty, trial and death followed in rapid succession, and the truly great man was only a memory\u2014a courtier, a builder of Greater Britain, and the author of \u201cThe History of The World,\u201d which, only a fragment of a stupendous project, is yet alive with interest and a monwment te Ralegh\u2019s learning, ambition and industry.Plots and counter-plots are revealed, and by their showing Ralegh, though indiscreet and often blameworthy had yet done nothing to merit death.One of the great delights of the book is that, while being argumentative and, to a degree, philosophical, it is yet a simple narrative brightened, with incisive sentences and much illustrative comment.The maps give able assistance to the student and the quaint, quoted sentences and phrases gain additional picturesqueness from the artistic type of old English extraction, in which the book is printed.Ideals For Girls,\u201d by H.R.Hawes, MA.James Bowden, London), is a dainty little book with eight chapters, devoted to girls as they sometimes are, and girls as they always should be.The author addresses respectively, untidy girls, musical girls, more musical girls, parochial girls, learned girls, mannish: girls, engaged girls, and Brides.The style is bright, erisp and colloquial.The advice is excellent, the raillery very delicate but quite effective.The writer surely must have in him much of the spirit of his mother, to understand girls, their petty vices, their little ehort-comings and their grand opportunities so well.\u201cThe Great Stone of Sardis,\u201d by Frank P.Stockton, (The Copp, Clark Co., Toronto,) is one of the author\u2019s inimitable wonders in the way of story-telling.There is always a funny woman in a Stockton story, and this one has an intensely grotesque character in Mrs.Sammy Block, The scene is laid in New Jersey, and the time is 1947 when the story opens.The reader is at once introduced to newfangled ocean steamers, bridges which take passengers across water if they stand still, scientific discoveries for looking miles upon miles into the solid earth, automatic ghells for tunnelling mountains and digging shafts, motor sledges for polar traffic, and a wonderfully-builded and marvellously equipped vessel which dives under the ice and sails off to the North Pole which is located on the deck as the vessel stands over the \u2018longitude everything\u201d place.The wizard of the story is Roland Clewe, who devotes himself to science and the wealthy widow who furnishes liim with money to pursue his researches.The lovemaking of this scientifically-inclined pair is very absurd, but as anything not absurd would be strangely out of place in this book, it must be taken as a detail of the sbsurdity and enjoyed forthwith.The work is well illustrated by Peter Newell.Polar seas, scientific wonders and portraits of all the characters are given.The women are garbed in monde- script styles of gowns with odd hair-dress- ing, and the men all wear turn-down collars.As a whole, this story is less plaus- itle but more interesting and more inten- gely humorous than \u201cRudder Grange\u2019 of side-splitting memory.The interest felt in this absurd little company of next century folk is indeed deep, but the reader becomes more and more enamored of Mz.Stockton\u2019s original brain.What a privilege it would be if he would only introduce some scientific apparatus by means of whidh we could watch the wheels in his head go round, and see how such interesting humor first lives and moves and has its being.The reader\u2019s wonder is excited by the plan of the story and continual amusement follows the working-out of the details, A piece of brilliant imagination grows a little tiresome if it be only a travesty on reality, but there are spatters cf the ridiculous in this, and quirks and quibbles of an ever-joyous fancy.For actual merriment read \u201cThe Great Stone of Sard's,\u201d and do not insist that all the magnificent theories propounded shall be founded on fact.a\u2014\u2014 \u201cAnd Shall Trelawney Die?\u201d by Joseph Hocking (James Bowde & Co., London Eng).Cornishmen, manners and romances are dealt with in each of these two stovies, the first of which gives its name to the book.Since Mr.Hockings «The Birthright,\u201d won for itself and for him so much warm praise and appreciation, readers have been more than wiling 10 welcome its successors.The stories are quaint with the Cornish dialect, alive wilu interest, and well set among the moors and farmhouses of the Cornishmen\u2019s land.The plot is, perhaps, hackneyed, but there 1s little new under the sun, and the simple, earnest style of narrative wins the reader's attention.It is, in fact, one ot those books which will be read at a sitting with strained eyes and sympathetic spinal chills.Of its kind, the story is in the first ranks.\u201cWork-a-Day Sermoms,\u201d by Rev.F.B.Meyer (James Rowden, London, Eng.).This chaste little volume in green and gold presents a similar appearance to \u2018Ideals for Girls\u201d mentioned above.Either ot them is « gay little gift-book with a deal of wholesome truth attractively set forth.The author explains what to do with tempers and the curse of exaggeration, how to act upon falling in love, and how to do a good day\u2019s work, and deals also with many other perplexities of the work-a-day world.The sermons are free from all cant and ranting, and present very simply the cardinal truths of the perfect life.There is a gleam of humor and a strong note of human sympathy in the mractical talks.\"The morbid religionist will find no pleasure in the little work.If the portrait of the author is not read wrongly, his great, wise, patient cyes and his gentle mouth belong to that type of spiritualists callea \u201chappy Christians.\u201d He would probably shun gloom and morbidity as he would germ-laden air and the pestilence that walketh at noonday.For everyday aids to better things, for a sweet and pure breath of real spirituality, this unostentatious little work may be heartily commended.NOTES.The \u201cGospel of Freedom,\u201d by Prof.Robert Herrick, of Chicago University, is a book \u201cabout women and their restless, cager egotism in the new civilization.'l'he Maomillans are issuing it._ Students of Kant will find in the translation of Dr.Kronenberg's \u201cKant, Sem Leben und Seine Lehre,\u201d the best book on the Kantian philosophy for beginners.{Macmillan & Co., New York.) Mr.J.W.Tyrrells \u201cAcross the Sub- Arctics of Canada,\u201d is having a splendid sale.The second edition will supply those who were unable to purchase copies from the first (Wm.Briggs, publisher.) The \u201cNew Gibson Girl\u201d is the facetious term applied to C.D.Gibson's baby | daughter, who, drawn by her father, smiles from the cover of the February Ladies\u2019 Ilome Journal.G.P.Putnam's Sons promise us, amongst other publications, the ninth vol.gon,\u201d edited by Paul Leicester Ford; \u201cThe Story of Moderns France,\u201d 1789-1895, bv Andre Le Bon; \u201cBoston Neighbors; In Town and Out,\u201d by Agnes Blake Poor A neat little pamphlet issued by Trinity College, Washington, D.C., to explain the aims, needs and special advantages of that seat of learning for women, \u2018has been sent me by Sister Julia, superioress of the Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States.J.W.Bengough\u2019s \u201cGinMill Primer\u201d will soon be on the market.It is to be issued by Wm.Briggs & Co., Toronto.I'he same house will also publish Rev.J.S.Cook\u2019s reply to Dr.Workman\u2019s \u201cOld Tes tament Vindicated,\u201d under the title, \u2018The Old Testament Its Own Defence.\u201d Collier's Weekly is more than ever char acterized by \u201cstrong\u201d writing, not of that particular kind of strength which like bad butter, smells and leaves a rancid taste in the mouth, but the power that comes from well-worked brains in conjunction with real hearts.Julian Hawthorne's recent plea for virility in literature is an artistic bit of pleading for what literature aoes most truly meed\u2014strength.The Midwinter Uentury has a departure in the way of covers, but its old standard excellenca is maintained between the fan- covers, Ruskin im middle life is the rontispiece, and Jacob A.Riss\u2019 Who Fight Fire,\u201d an pi Heroes hiorier.Another realistic bit of writing is \u201cThe Steerage of To-day,\u201d by H.Phelps Whitmarsh, plentifully illustrated, as is the fire article, and writen; with pathos and humor taking turns at the pen.\u201cRuskin as an Oxford Lecturer\u201d is by James Manning Bruce.\u201cGallops\u201d comprises two stories by David Gray of fine touch and spirit, and the balance of the matter is varied and plentiful, calculated tto serve all tastes and do homor to the realms of romantic history, verse, biography, sociology, adventure and travel.The Arena for February makes out a very strong case against \u201cfaking\u201d ir news papers.\u201cThe Mission of Machinery\u201d is set forth by Henry M.Williams, and to those who believe that machinery has devitalized men\u2019s work and brutalized the men themselves, the terse paper offers a | variety of arguments and philosophy, but declares for Government ownership and public management of machinery.\u201cThe Corporaions Against the People\u201d is B.O.Flower\u2019s contribution, and Fanmmw D.Berger contributes \u201cNates on the Theological Development of a Child.\u201d There is much more of interest, \u201cThe Editor's Evening\u201d being particularly good.A HOT RACE FOR OLD KHARTOUM, (Cotinued from page 9.) Khartoum, a French newspaper correspondent reached the Dervish headquarter on a semi-diplomatic mission and tried to effect an alliance between France and the Mahdist power.The Mahdi and the Khalifa, however, regarded all Europeans as natural enemies, and kept the man prisoner until he died of fever brought on by the hardships he had endured.Soon after the present Anglo-F i expedition started up the Nile the Soren de Mores, a Frenchman, started from Tunis to cross the Great Desert and reach the Khalifa, with whom he hoped to arrange an alliance for France.He wag killed by the natives before he reached Khartoum Though the Negus Menelik may help the French against the English in the scramble for power in the Soudan, the Abyssinians are sworn enemies of the Khalifa, and Menelik 8 predecessor, John, fell in battle against the Dervishes.It is said that the Menelik on behalf of tbe French has cooled recently because of an agreement which has been made with him by the British that in case of success of the expedition to Khartoum there shall be \u201crectification\u201d of the Abyssinian frontier, which is diplomatic language for an extension of Abyssinian territory.Lord Delamere, whose expedition hag apparently won the race to Fashoda, is not yet 28 years old.He owns the fine Country estate of Vale Royal, in Cheshire, and has a town house in \u201cAmerican row,\u201d Carlton House terrace, London, | EkFasher, in Darfur, is where Slatin, ume of \u201cThe Writings of Thomas Jeffer- | is given the place of then governor Darter surrendered to the Devas Wider G was for twelve years a prisons IN 18,4% of the Mahdists before he © 19 the } now With the Anglo Egy a aped, 1 Warring against his old Mate \u20acXpegi.of El Pusher is El Obeid, ho, 1e southeast of this 48 Hicks Pasha was anu a about half way betwee ed.rv Fashoda, Emin, who Was.U andy with his forces from the vinces to the relief of Kha o Gordon\u2019s death and turned ou, h on the Abyssinian frontier a possession of the English, the Ton ip ing handed it over to the taliagg * be the bait which the Brit; h &ssala y before Menelik to induce his are day! with his French und Russian to \u201c Khartoum of Gordon ig à élliane habited.Most of its buildin and it ispractically in the same tate; it was left after the Mahdi hee it with fire and sword ad \u2018building in the town which à i the old government palace Khalifa now keeps a haren, capital is built just across th called Omdurman.8 there.Miraculous egy; A Sufferer for 35 Year Cured by Paine's Celery Compound, W Blog tu ES are | in Dy hr Sackeq ; The Mahal pu \u20ac A Terrible Case of Dyspepsia is Over come by the Great Gompound, | \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Had Failure After Failur With Other Medicines, \u201cMr, Budd Says: \u201cFrom à Condition of Helplessnes | Am Now Well and Strong,\u201d New Life and Health Await All wy, Use Paine\u2019s Celery Compoung, Wells & Richardson Co., Gentlemen,\u2014For the benefit of suffery I gladly give my experience with Paine, Celery Compound.After suffering from dyspepsia for thirty-five years, and mo, ing with many failures with other med, cines, I decided to use Paine\u2019s Celery Com pound, having hcard of so many eu cffected by it.The Compound, afte | i I used it for a time, produced miraculoy i results and banished my troubles, From a condition of helplessness\u2014beirg urable to sleep or eat\u2014I now feel wel] and strong.I am astonished at the results, % my trouble was an old and chronic gy 'T have recontiicniced Paine\u2019s Celery Con.pound to some of my neighbors, ang, every case it (has given satisfaction | will always strongly recommend its yg when I have opportunity.Yours respectfully, AMBROSE BUDD, Shanty, Bay, On; Dr, J Calls Browne GHLORODYNE Vice-Chancellor Sir W.Page Wood stat, publicly in Court that Dr.J.Coliis Brown was undoubtedly the inventor of Chlo dyne, and the whole story of the defendas, Freeinan, was literally untrue, and he = retted to say that it had been sworn to,~ imes, July 10 .Dr.J.Collis Browne's Chlorodyne Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Consumpiio, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, ete.The Illustrated London News of Septem ber 28th, 1895, says: \u2018I were asked which single medicine I, should prefer take abroad with me, as\u2019likely to be mos | generally useful, I should say CHLOR- DYNE.I never travel without It, and it eneral applicability to the rellef of : arge number of simple ailments for iu best recommendations.\u201d Dr.J.Collis Browne's Chlorodyne.The Right Hon.Earl! 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