The Herald, 19 février 1898, samedi 19 février 1898

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Streer 1 y > Co Pi ment Aging r Thre (I Liverpod Liverpool f Boston Export granted Street \u2014 \u2014 the em, and Les r'ou- ever vol- ron! this ine, of S.deli ren ting has tite % i fitting was having a v 915 (RS TALK OF (LONDIE TRADE \u20ac 3 great Activity in the Country In Anticipation.ar PROMOTES MANUFACTURING Lo ess Will Grow Into Vas Proportions, \u20142\u2014 This Busin no longer be any doubt of the discoveries upon business Montreal particularly there : : at activity in preparing oT a : tive trade and in meeting the ' .a] demands made upon houses engag n : lying outfits.The prevailing sen- ; i reflected in the view taken of de business situation by Montreal bank ws whose opportunities for gauging There can Klondike gold in Canada.In managel - he situation must be regarded as excep qumally good.In response to questions by The Herald, in seeking an expla- pa the very exceptional increases rings that have recently been 1 of these gentlemen spoke in the most confident terms of the present influence of the Klondike upon business, and with still greater confidence of the abilàties ©f the immediate future.nation of in bank clea witnessed, al prob will grow Into Vast Proportions.+4 YEAR Pages 1 to 8.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1898.PRICE ONE CENT a AS Wek FOR SPECULATORS Bulls\" Profits Dwindle Away Quite a Lot.MAINE AFFAIR A FACTOR, \u2014 While the Rate War Has Depressed Canadian Pacific.This was an anxious week for speculators and brokers on the stock market, for things came about in such a way that the bears had comparatively little trouble in forcing the market down.One of the most depressing factors of the week, and One which caused the enormous shrinkage of $25,000,000 in the value of all Street securities, was the disaster to U.S.S.Maine, the decline resulting purely and simply from the belief that the accident might ultimately end in iuternat'onal complications.Local securities acted largely in sympathy with the Wall Street list, not perhaps because there is any direct connection De- tween the two markets, but more on account of the fact that any warlike demonstration on the part of the United States would influence and harden money.A number of local favorites showed quite ju- portant declines on the strength of this, and on the whole \u2018it was not easy sail ug for the bulls by any \u2018means.The bu'i cie- ment has had quite a profitable time o1 it for the past six weeks or more, in fact, they experienced the past week the © tirst Mr, Wolferstan Thomas, oË the Mol- sons\u2019 \u2018Bank, said the heavy business m stock exchanges undoubtedly had a good deal to do with the large increases in bank clearings, and the condition of the stock market undoubtedly showed an improved condition of business in the country.The Klondike trade, while it was only beginning as yet was doing a great deal to pro- | mote manufacturing, moreover there was à very general feeling that this business was about to grow with vast proportions.Montreal merchants and manufacturers had expressed themselves as being umable to keep up with their orders.Preparing for Boom.Mr, George Hague, of the Merchant's Bank, said the Klondike excitement had : not yet well begun, although it was evident from the reports from all over tha country that merchants in western towns were preparing for a \u2018boom.Business was brightening up in all such places.Much of the improvement in clearing house business, Mr.Hague added, was undoubtedly due to the heavy business in stock exchange, nearly all stocks having shown an improvement in response to better business condition all over the country.Having a Good Effect.Mr.E.8.Clouston, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, said the preparation for a large trade in Klondike supplies was undoubtedly having a good effect upon business, Salvation of Woollen Industry, Mr.Penfold, of the Bank of British North America, said that the work of preparing for a great trade in Klondike supplies was a very considerable factor in the business of Montreal and the other manufacturing districts just mow.It had proved to be the salvation of the woollen industry which for years had been more depressed than any other line of manufacturing.For the past few months the woollen mills had been unable to keep up with the demand made upon their productive capacity by those engaged in the Klondike supply business.Very Marked Effect, Mr.John A.Richardson, of the Imperial Bank, said he did not care to express an euthoritative opinion concerning Montreal business affairs such as might be implied IN discussing the Montreal clearing house ttatement, He had no hesitation, however, in saying that preparation for the Klondike trade and actual business in out.eny marked effect th here and in Ontario.MAJOR WALSH HAS REACHED DAWSON.upon business bo \u201c TTR A Special Courier With Official Des- Patches Reaches Vancouver, \u2014 | meouver, B.C, Feb.19.\u2014Sergeant H.Le Joyce, of the Northwest Mounted Po- me ee at Vancouver yesterday, from Ma Imon River, bringing dispatches from Jor Walsh to the Ottawa Government \u20ac says the Yukon administ i : , strat I Te Gn Or is now Tepid travel from Bip Satn- | When Le Ne \\g Fatmon were good ! he Jovee went in fro Way on January 16, 2 and carried the Major Walsh.as the chances of | ; Skag- with ten dog teams oil and provisions to Teaching th \u20ac Made a very fast trip.> e ac strat « \" + on January gy.inistrator at the Salmon Joy j Oyce left Major Walsh on February 2nd êrd arrived at Skagw making even factor agway on February 10, time tha inw fou n on the inwe oy He travelled 75 miles er da VO consecutive days He had one .fam of d \" .travel] 088 and an Indian driver.He the ge od down by the Hootalinqua river, éound He says he te Very good indeed le vicinity of Thirty Ce impeded progress.despatahes to Major g them to Ottawa.again in four days t despatches for Man City, r » save in t} Mile, where rough j e handed over the erry, who ig sendin 0 take | jor Waleh to Dawso , ing sales, it broke away to 8414, real set back since the beginning of ihe year.From the first of January up to last Saturday, stocks had a steady upward course, @nd the advances in some instances, particularly in the Street Railway securities, were almost remarkable.DProfits were enormous in some cases, and the bulls looked on the market As a Klondike.Montrealers too, found the New York market very profitable before the break, end it was estimated that when Metropu'i- tan Traction was in the seventies, local people stood to win fully $1,000,000.The : stock had a sensational advance not long ago, and there were many speculators here who had the full benefit of it, having bought ; around the lowest.The decline, however, demolished the profits a good deal, but there is a lot of the stock still held in anticipation of a recovery after matters settle down a little, which they already give evidence of doing.Another depressing influence in the local market during the week was the rate ws: =, and ithe announcement yesterday that the Canadian Pacific would make a further important cut resulted in quite a break.The stock held on Tuesday as high as 883%, but since then there has been a gradual decline, until yesterday afternoon, on heavy realiz- Montreal Street Railway has also had an important decline from «the highest, although the Friday price is still above the openiuz quotation for the week.It was on Tuesday that the remarkable jump took place, the stock sailing up no less than 8 points.From the highest it has declined just 414.One of ithe strongest stocks on the list was Halifax Tram, and \u2018%t was advanced on the favorable annual report, publishcd in The Herald, and the possibility that there will be a six per cent.dividend, Full Fluctuations.The daily fluctuations of the more active local stocks are shown in the attached table.It will be noticed that in some instances the Friday prices are above the opening, but with one or two exceptions closing figures are away under the wees\u2019s highest: Mon.Tues.Wed.Thurs.Ii.Street Ry.237 265 264 262 261 Street Ry.new.206% 260 239% \u2014 258% Toronto Ry.1013; 10315 10214 102 100% Halifax .129 135 136% 137 138 Pacific .\u2026 «.88 883% 87s ST 8414 Cable .186 1864, \u2014 186 1861 Electric .136% 157% 158 158 157 .Gas .6.0000000 197 198% 19914 197% 196 MASQUERADE BALLA Very Successful Social Function Held at St.Hyacinthe.St.Hyacinthe, Feb.18.\u2014 (Special.)\u2014Tne masquerade bail given last evening under the auspices of the Laurier Club proveu an unqualified success, and wus largely attended.The rink wae brillian ly illuminated with the electric light, and the dec.rution throughout was, indeed, very hardsome.The costumes worn by the young iud'es and gentlemen representing differcut lus torical personage: realy «displayed mvci taste, and were much admired by the spce- tators.The Philharmenic Band wes in at\u2018endance, and disccursed some choice music during the evening.The membeis of the Lauvier Clu» Lave every rcas.n to feel gratified wt the success of the entertainment last evening.The following is a list of those who took part :\u2014Mde.L.F.Monson, shepherdess: Mde.Cecile Cote, folly; Mde.J.Richer, Italian; Mde.XY.Cote, sailor; Mde.A.Boivin, gipsy; Alde.Beique, Circassian; Mde.Caonette, widow; Mde.L.Orsali, Greek; Mile, J.Chänpen tier, nurse; Mde.G.Crsali, red holster- can; Mde.A, Daigneault, Jupanere; Mde.| B.St.Gerinain, Marguerite cf Faust; KR.Marceau, Audelouse; J.Dourgoois, mili- {tary officer; R.Duloon, gipsy: IL Me.erre, knight of Louis XV.; O.Fontaine, French sport; H.Desmais, Fglish sport; J.AIR.Lecourt, negro; J.KE.Boyer, clown; Thos.Orsali, military; C.Orsali, negrn; J.Richer, harlequin; T.P.Senrcal, provost, Spectators\u2014Mr, and Mad.E.H.Richer, Mr.and Mad.La.Bourgeois, Mad.Cote, Mad.Ostigny, Mod.St.German, Mad.Bourgeois, Mad.Burkley.\u2014\u2014 MISS WILLARD'S FUNERAL.New York, Feb.19.\u2014It was decided to hold the New York funeral service in the Broadway Tabernacle.Mrs.Mary 1.Burt, president of the New York S.ate W, C.T.U., issued a notice to members, telling of the death of Miss Willard, and requesting every member of the W.C.T.U.attending the funeral service on Sunday to wear a white carnation, the emblem of authority of this Government.WHAT THE KLONDIKE RAILWAY MEANS TO CANADA.I think it will, if promptly and vigorously carried through, as I have no doubt it will be, have the effect of drawing to Canada, in the next six months, trade to the extent of from twenty to twenty-five million dollars, at the very least.Ithink it will conduce to the honor of Canada by making that country safe to us from a national standpoint ; it will remove the danger of that country six months hence being in the hands, not of our officers, but of an alien population, who will contemn the Let the Opposition understand that if this railway project 1s obstructed, if it is stopped either here or elsewhere, and if ever a day comes when that territory passes from the control of Canada, the people of Canada will hold them to account for their actions.\u2014 HoN, CLIFFORD SIFTON.WILL INVESTIGATE POLICE ACCOUNTS, A Firm Stand by the New Committee, CREDITORS MUST EXPLAIN, Illegally Contracted Debts Will Not Be Recognized.The citizens of Montreal, and more especially the ratepayers, have causs for i congratulation in the splendid start made by the new Pclice Committee yesterday aîternoon.The wunbusinesslike methods which prevailed in the department, under the old regime, resulted in the illegal expenditure of over $30,000 in two years.1f the spirit of yesterday's meeting of the ; new committee does not depart before the term has expired, no department in the civic service will have better administra tion during the next two years.| The committee is under the chairmanship of Aid.Mursolais who has associated with him Ald.Lareau, Clearihue, Ames, Koy, Jacques and Kinsella.The last | named two were imembers of the old ; committee; the other five are new mem- i bers.During the short meeting three principles of administration were enun- cisted.The most important had reference to the outstanding accounts illegally contracted by individual members of the committee by police officers.It was in effect a renurciation of responsibility for these accounts, and a declaration that as each account is presented to the committee a thorough investigation into ite history shall be held.If the enquiry shows that the work was not ordered in a regular manner the committee «hall re- refuse to recommend payment for #.This wns the conclusion acquiesced in by the majority of the members of the Committee after Ald.Larcau, Clearihue and Ames had vainly endeavored to get from Chief Hughes same information as to the nature of the accounts, and the manner in which they were contracted.The chief disclaimed all knowledge of the illegal expenditures and stated that he knew only what he saw in the newspapers.The second principle adopted, and one which other committees would do well to imitate, was that of adhering closely to the tender system in the letting of contracts and requiring a deposit of $100 in the form of cash or accepted cheque, from each person tendering for a contract.This is a wide departure from the practice of the former committee, some of the members of which peddled comtracts among their own friends at their own prices.The third principle was that of giving the men promotion from third to second class or from second to first when they ore entitled to be promoted under the law, ard also of paying them their salaries promptly, Deposits With Tenders.All the members of the committee were present.Badges and other supplies are required, and the committee decided to call for tenders.It was here that Ald.Ames asked that each tenderer be required to make a deposit as an evidence of good faith.He suggested that the deposit be 5 per cent.of the amount of the tender.Ald.Clearithue and Lareau spoke in favor of the innovation, and at the srggertion of Ald.Jacques the amount was | placed at $100.Captains Not Paid.Chief of Police Hughes reported that [none of the sixteen captains had been pail | anything since January Ist.He «xplained {nat e troudle 1c-ulied from the cutting | of the \u2018Police Committee appropriations by (the Finance Committee.The payment ot : only fourte.n captains was provided fur, land thev have sixicen captains on the force.It hal been understood, he sai, Letweon ex-AUL Lefibvre, the former | Chairman of the committee, al Mr.Du- | fresue, that the detcctive force was to be ; reduced by two, so provision was made | for the payment of twenty-two captains anid detectives.Fight detectives were drawing pay, leaving memey for only fourteen captains.Mr.Dufrcsre refused to pay gt the money until Chlef Hughes specified which four- | teen of ile sixteen should be paid.This the Chief was unwilling to do, and nome of | fhe captains had received their pay.In | the same connection, the Chiaf also stated that a number of second and third class constabics who were legally entitled to promotion, and fhigher pay, could not be i promoted owing to a lack of funds.If lthe men were given the promotion they were entitled to under their contract with | the city, there would Le 255 first-class constables: 62 second-class and 15 third-class.The first receive $11.20 per week.the second £10.15 and the third 89.10.The ap- prepriations provided for the payment of \"940 first-class constables instead of 255.The commitize will lay all the facts before the Finance Committee and ask for a further grant of money.They will also ask that the captains of the stations be paid $1,460 paid out of their own pockets for contingencies, such as supplies for the stations, scrubbing and other work.The Outstanding Accounts.The committee was about to adjourn, when Ald.Ames asked if the o'd committee had left any debts.Chief Hughes replied that he knew nothing of anv debts left by the old committee.All.Ames asked if the committee had the New-York State organization, J any outstanding accbunts.He had heard \"THOSE MYSTERIOUS OVERDRAFTS.something to that effect, and he would like to get at the truth of it.Ald.Clearihue expressed a similar desire.Ald, Jacques replied that the committee as \u2018a body had not run up any of these debts, but some of the individual members cf it \u2018had.A'd.Cearihue\u2014\u201cCan the committee be he.d responsib\u2018e for those accounts then?\u201d Ald.Jacques\u2014\u2018\u2018\u2019l'hat is another thing.\u201d (Mief Hughes remarked that the appropriations of former years had \u2018been too small, and that this year nothing Lind been approprinted for repairs or uniforms.tne committee came \u2018back to the outstanding accounts, and Ald.Clearihue said he thougut the new comanittee should get at the bottom of the matter.Ald.Marsolais was cpposed to opening up an investigation of all the transactions of the old committee.He thought it was the duty af this committee to administer this year's appropriation without probing into last year\u2019s affairs.Ald.Ames, (learihue, Lareau and Roy wanted information as to how this indebtedness of $30,000 was made up.Chief Husthes said that all he knew about it he saw in the newspapers.An Explanation cof the Debts.In reply to a question by Ald.Ames | as to the practice of the old committee in { ordering work dome, the chief stated that i when any repairs were thought necessary \u2018the represntative of the ward in which i tire work was to be done, and once or two | other members of the committee, were em- | powered ito investigate and order the work done.Ald.Ames\u2014\u2018\u2018 Without first reporting back to the committee?\u201d Chief Hughes\u2014\u2018\u201c Yes.\u201d Ald.Ames\u2014\u201cThat was a very dangerous practice indeed.\u201d Ald.Lareau insisted upon having an investigation.\u201cWe don\u2019t know where we are,\u201d he said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know where the other committee has left us.I would like to know where that $30,000 went to.Ald.Jacques was of the opinion that the committee eould not always be consulted.He instanced one case where a furnace burst and the chairman of the committee ordered it to be replaced at once without waiting to call the committee together.Ald.Ames\u2014\u201cIn that case the committee would endorse the action of the chairman.But I don\u2019t think this $30,000 all went to replace exploded furnaces.\u201d Everything to be Investigated.Opposition was still shown to the proposition to investigate, \u2018>! + uile not wishing to force the matter, Ald.Ames, La- reau, Roy and Clearihue, all stated that as each account came before the committee a searching enquiry would be made and the responsibility for it placed.If it was shown that the acocunt was illegally contracted the committee would refuse to recommend its payment.Ald.Marsolais remarked that it was not the committee\u2019s place to investigate until the accounts were presented.Ald.Lareau\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t want to work in the dark.I want to know what I am deing and to do business in a business like way.I am not going to pass any account until I know al labout it.\u201d Ald.Ames (to Ald Lareau)\u2014\u2018\u2019That is what you were elected for and what I was elected for.\u201d Ald.Lareau\u2014\u201cThat is so.And while I am a member of the Police Committee I am also an alderman of the City of Montreal and must guard the interests of the citizens.Ald.Ames\u2014\u201cWe will pass nothing without a ful linvestigation.\u201d Ald.Roy said that he wanted to know all about the expenditure of the $30,000, his constituents wanted to know, and he would sign nothing nor vote to pass anything till all the facts were made known.COST OF SNOW REMOVED.Before the request of the Roads De- pertment for more money came before the Finance Committee, the members of the committe figured out how much of the reserve fund they had at their disposal.Ald.Rainville stated that the reserve fund amounted to only $140,000, Of this $305000 must be appropriated to interest account; $5,000 had been spent in clearing of side streets.Mr.St.George\u2014\u201cWe want $10,000 more for that purpose.\u201d Ald.Rainville\u2014Oh, jiold on; we can\u2019t give you all the money we have.\u201d Continuing, Ald.Rainville said that $20,- 600 extra had beer spent for clearing streets where the cars run.This left $85,- 000 of the reserve fund.Mr.St.George had no report before the committee, and pending its preparation, the Roads Committee was authorized to expend $7,000 on the grade streets and 83,000 on the =ide streets.This is intended for one week, tt being understood that another appropriation would be made.\u201c Ald.Beausoleil declared that he had good reason to believe that some of the carters employed by the city carted snow out of the yards of private citizens and were paid for it by the city.Mr.St.George will make an investigation.KLONDIKE ROUTE.Winnipeg Deputation in Town to Confer With Board of Trade, The Canadian Pacific Railway has issued a new edition of its Klovdyke folder, containing much new information regarding the gold fields, and several new charts of different routes.The folder gives detailed description of eight different routes to the gold fields, besides a new and excellent map of Alaska.Unlike the ordinary folder map, this one is clear and well defined.A \u201cWONDERLAND\u201d COT.London, Feb.19.\u2014The memorial to the late Lewis Carroll (the Rev.Charles Dodgson) is to take the form of a cot hospital for sick children, to be called the \u201cAlice in Wonderland Cot.\u201d A strong committee has been formed to forward the idea, and it is meeling with an enthusiastic response, \u2018 CIVIC ACCOUNTS WILL BE PROBED Full Enquiry into all lllegal Contracts.FINANCE TAKES ACTION, All Outstanding Accounts Ordered tg be Produced at Once, The Finance its first meeting, held yesterday afternoon, had thrust upon it the question of the outstanding accounts contracted in an illegal manner by the Police, Health and Fire Committees of the preceding Council.1% will be remembered that the Finance Committee last year refused to make any appropriation to meet these accounts, and City Attorney Robb gave an opinion to Mayor Wilson-Smith in which he stated that the Council could not legally pay them without first having obtained special legislation.The men who fhold the accounts against the city did mot press their claims at that time, but yesterday there were laid before the Finance Committee unpaid ae- counts totalling over $60,000.Payment was again refused, and the City Comptroller was requested to lay before the committee at à special meeting a detailed statement of all outstanding accounts.\u201cHere,\u201d said Ald.Rainville at the opening of the meeting, \u201care two committees (Fire and Police) who have incurred an indebtedness of over $60,000 in two years, showing that some contracts and agreements must have been entered into.\u201d \u201cIf these committees are going to do business in this way without consulting the Finance, it is time we should know it.\u201d Ald.Sadler\u2014\u201cYes, we might as well abolish the office of Comptroller and permit the committees to order what they please.\u201d : Previous to the above remarks, Ald.Sadler argued that the time was ripe to fake up the question of establishing some system in the conduct of their business.If there was some programme of the order of business, the committee would have something to stand by.Again, if money was voted for a specific purpose, and contracts were given out, it should ve devoted to that purpose alome.If something in this direction was not done by the Finance, the latter should af once impress upon the Council the necessity of passing a resolution to that effect.In regard to the resolution of the Finance Committee that all warrants shoud be first submitted to the Comptroller, both Ald.Rainville and Beausoleil pointed out Committee, at that the committee had before them war- | rants amounting to $65,000.Ald.Sadler said that the whole difficulty arose in committees giving out contracts for which there was no money set apart and of which the Comptroller was ignorant.He would not, therefore, be in favor of paying any unauthorized accounts until the original vouchers were placed on the table, On account of the large amounts incurred by certain committees, he believed that they should table the whole question at once, and insist upon the several committees laying all their accounts before the Finance Committee.The one man power system, in this opinion, had to be stopped.It was decided to instruct the City Comptroller to make a detailed statement of outstanding accounts for consideration at a special meeting to be called for the purpose.Ex-Ald.Savignac presented an account of $400 for paint from the Police Department, endorsed by the superintendent and signed by three-fourths of the members ot the Police Committee, but as Ald.Sadler objected, the account was referred to the Comptroller for a report.Immediate Increase Refused.The question of increasing the salaries of the city assessors provoked some little discussion.The lowness of the finances was urged by some of the members as a reason for not doing so at the present time.It was explamed that there were eight gentlemen holding office, who were if receipt of $1,600 as the maximum salary, with the exception of the chairman of the board, who drew a couple of hundred dollars extra per annum.As it was pointed out that the duties of the assessors were of a very responsible nature, it was decided to recommend that the salaries of the assessors commence at $1,400, with $100 increase until they reach the maximum of $2,000, the change not to take effect until January, 1899.Other Business.The Montreal memibers of the House of Commons will be requested to oppose the request of the Bell Telephone Company for power to increase their rates.City Treasurer Robb reported that Maisonneuve was indebted to the city to the extent of $28,000 for water rates, and the indebtedness was constantly becoming larger.The committee passed a resolution instructing the proper authorities to take steps to secure prompt payment.Mr.Robb introduced the question of the non-payment of some of the members of the police force, which is fully explained in the report of the Police Committee meeting.The Finance Committee will straighten out the tangle when they receive the report of the-Police Committee.\u2019 To CANADA'S TRADE IS GROWING FAST, Increase in Seven Months Over $31,000,000 THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS Cases Before the Supreme Court\u2014 Notes From the Capital.Ottawa, Feb.18.\u2014(Special)\u2014Tomorrow\u2019s Official Gazette will contain trade returns for the seven months ending January 31st last.Total volume of trade is $183,863,431, crmpared with $152,170,710, an increase of £31,692,721 for the current year.For seven months imports were $72,588,599, compared with $65,568,611, an increase of $7,- (19,988 over 1897.The exports were $111,274,832, for the seven months, as against $86,602,099, an increase for the current year of $24,672,- 000.The duty collected for seven months was $11,932,839, compared with $11,131,- 409, and increase of $801.000.For the month of January alone the imports shows an increase of $2,400,000, and exports of over $4,000,000, the duty increas- ad for the past month by $340,000 over the same month in 1897.Want a Charter.E.V.Bodwell, Victoria; D.C.Corlein, Spokane; Duncan Ross, Boundary Creek; and Richard Armstrong are in the city in connection with the bill which is now before Parliament, for a charter for a branch railway from Spokane Falls and the Northern Railway Company\u2019s district.The company are mot applicants for a subsidy, all that they want is a charter.Sir William in Ottawa.Sir William Van Homme was in the city last evening.He had an interview with the Minister of the Interior.The Supreme Court.In the Supreme Court today, the arguments were continued in the appeal by the National Assurance Company, of Ireland against Bernard.The respondents eued for loss by fire of property in a sporting resort near Montreal, well known as \u201cMille Fleurs Cottwoge,\u201d and recovered a verdict of $4,500 in the trial court which was affirmed by the full court sitting in review.The appellant resists payment on the grounds of fraudulent over valuation in proving losses, and false representations as to the quantity of furniture and goods destroyed, and alleges suspicious cireum- stances in connection with the fire (which occurred about three months after the issue of the insurance policy), contended to be sufficient to vitiate the contract.Hon.Chas.Fitzpatrick, Q.C., and Frances Mec- Lennan for appellants, Geoffrion, Q.C., and Dorion for respondents.INSPECTION OF CATTLE.Hon, Sydney Fisher Replies to Dairy men\u2019s Request.Cowansville, Feb.18.\u2014(Special)\u2014The following reply \u2018has been addressed by Hon.Mr.Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, to the secretary of the district of Bedford Dairy- mien\u2019s Association in regard to resolution passed at the annual meeting of the as- scciation, asking him to provide competent inspectors of cattle infected with tuberculosis, and also provide a system of remuneration to farmers\u2019 who, in consequence of their cows being infected with the dis ease are compelled to have them killed.Ottawa, Feb.12, 1898.Stevens Baker, Esq., Secretary District of Bedford Dairymen\u2019s Association, Cowans- ville.Deur Sir,\u2014I beg to acknowledge the petition moved by Mr.Jos.MacKinnon, seconded by Mr.Matthew Ruiter, and forwarded by you on behalf of the Dictrict of Bedford Dairymen\u2019s Association.I need hardly say that the question of tuberculosis is one which has already received my most careful consideration and attention, and that I am now taking steps to try and reduce and restrict the spread of the disease.I will, however, take into my very careful consideration the representations made in this resolution and thoroughly discuss the possibility of carrying them out.8.G.Fisher.NEWFOUNDLAND DEAL, A Contractor Will Operate the Railways of the Island.St.John\u2019s Nfid., Feb.19.\u2014The Cabinet of Sir James Winter has concluded an arrangement with Mr.Reid, the contractor who built the Trans-Insular Railway, regarding an extensive employment of internal resources at an early date.Mr.Reid has been prospecting in the colony for years.He knows its immense mineral and timber wealth and will undertake immediate industrial operations involving the outlay of several millions of dollars.Mr.Reid contracts ot operate the entire railway system of the colony of 600 miles for fifty years in return for a land subsidy of 2,500 acres per mile.Mr.Reid will pay over to the Government $1,000,000 cash as a guarantee of the faithful perfor mance of the contract on his part.This money, with the interest accumulations for fifty years, will belong to the colony at the expiration of that period, the railway then reverting to the representatives of Mr.Reid.A failure on his part to perform the contract will mean the forfeiture of the railway and the guarantee to the colony.PATENTS REPORTS.Below will be found a complete report of patents granted this week to Canadian Inventors by the United States Government.This report has been prepared specially for this paper by Messrs.Marion & Marien, Solicitors of Patents and Experts, Head Office : Temple Building, Montreal, Hugh L, Callender, Montreal, Apparatus for electrically measuring temperatures.Felix L.Decarie, Montreal, Hose pipe connection.George M.Elliott, Winnipeg, Can, Attachment for Squares.Elisha Moore, Meductic, Can.Bottle, Charles Sherman, Yarmouth, Can.Flower Pot.Ro~ bert Smallwood & al.,, Truro.Can.Steam boiler.Robert L.F.Strathy, Yarmouth, Can, Wire fence.THE DEAL MAY REACH $500,000 Joseph Mercier Happy Over His Dredging Leases, .oy LIST OF RIVERS CHOSEN, English Capital is Slow and Americans Are Red Hot, 1 Mr.Joseph A.Mercier has arrived fiome from Ottawa well satisfied with his success in securing the lease of 280 miles of Yukon rivers tor gold-dredging purposes.The scheme is of immense importance, and its manipulation means the.turning over of probably between $500,000 and $600,000.Just when the dredging will take place does not appear, but already there are evidences of much interest being taken in the scheme by American and English capitalists, Nor is this to be wondered at when the following list of grants is glanced over: \u2014 Hootalinqua River, 30 miles; Indian River, 30 miles; Thorn Dinck River, 30 miles; Sixty-Mile Creek, 30 miles; Stewart Hiver, 30 miles; Lewcs River, 30 miles; Little Salmon River, 10 miles; Big Salmon River, 30 miles; Pelley River, 20 miles; MacMillan River, 30 miles; Ifunker, or Gold Bottom Creek, 5 miles; Gold Creek, 5 mfés.Total, 230 miles.These waters havd mot been chosen haphazard; the choice is tlw result of four months careful enquiries on the part of Mr.Mercier and the capitalists who are at his back.It is known thatpthe waters in the neighborhood of any land where gold is found have a more or less quantity of the precious metal washed into them by the natural drainage, and the mud, rock or sandy bottom therefore becomes the bed from which it can be taken by latter-day dredging discoveries.The particular rivers selected by Mr.Mercier are in the heart of the much- talked-of Klondike district, some of them being within a few miles of Dawson City.That Mr.Mercier has a small fortune in his grasp is admitted.He has no thought of doing any dredging himself\u2014that goes without saying.But already capitalists are bidding for slices of his big catch, and, judging by telegrams which arrived this morning, American moneyed men will get the lion\u2019s share of the \u201cdredging privileges.\u201d A cable comes from London saying that the scheme is looked upon with great favor, but more particulars are required before money will be put up.One offer was received this morning of $40,000 for a \u201cslice.\u201d It will be considered.Mr.Mercier is receiving the congratulations of many friends.a THREE RIVERS NEWS.Several Properties Change Hands- A New Granite Quarry Found.The elections of Th.Bournival for Notre Dame Ward and of Dr.Pau- niton for St.Louis Ward are being contested.Much pressure is being brought to bear on Mr.Houliston, the defeated candidate, for Notre Dame Ward, to have him give up the contestation, but his friends hope he will not give iu, The house formerly owned and occupied by the late Geo.B.Houliston, and lately owned by Mrs.F.Volentine has been sold to E.Panniton, who will transport his hardware store to that building on the 1st of May.The Trenaman block has been purchased Py Henry Lajoie, who will turn it into two storeys ready for May oceupation.The Smardon House, owned by Mr.P.E.Panniton, is sold to Thomas Melone, and it is rumored that several other properties will change hands before the 1st March.The new postoffice caretaker attends to his duties and the public has less to con:- plain of about loafers and smokers in the lobby of that public office.And the apartments and a much cleaner appearance.It is rumored that the tool factory will 4 soon pasg into the hands of an American firm, with a large capital, who will attend to that business.A quarry of granite has lately been found on the St.Maurice river, which takes a very mice polish.MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL.The daily average number of in-patients for the past fortnight has been 172 ; there have been 1,345 consultations in the outdoor department which involved prescriptions and minor surgical operatlons, besides the transfer of suitable cases to the public wards.There have been more than the usual ' number of major surgical operations, they have been of daily occurrence, and some of.them were of an interesting character.The ambulance runs numbered thirty-six.There are abt present only two cases of typhoid fever in the hospital, as compared with ten cages in February, 1897.The gentlemen who so kindly volunteered to canvass for: annual subscriptions have been at work for about a month and some of them have met .with considerable success, notably Messrs.L.Sutherland and D.Watson in the Centre Ward ; Messrs F.Robertson and John T.McBride, in the West Ward, and Mr J.E.Kirkpatrick in St.Ann\u2019s Ward.The friends of the hospital are urged to facilitate the onerous and self-denying labor of these and the other collectors.The visiting governors to the Montreal General Hospital for the week commencing Monday are Messrs Henry Morton, H.Bio- die, W.J.Buchanan and John Crawford.WAS NOT \u201cINTERDICTED \u201d AT THE TIME.Mr.Justice Loranger has maintained the action taken by the Manufacturers\u2019 Life Insurance Company against Mr.Macdonald\" represented by his curator, for the amount of a promissory note for $216.50.The defence was that the maker\u2019s signature had been obtained while he had been under the influence of liquor that this was not established.Mr, Macdonald had not been \u201c\u2018interdicted\u201d until long after he had signed the note, : NB Bi PERSONAL.The visiting Governors to the Montreal Gencral Hospital for next week are Messrs Henry Morton, Hugh Brodie (Brodie &, \u2018Harvie), W.J«Buchanan, Jno, Crawford, The Court held TER ES CS RE OS EEE THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1808.Mrs.Reeves, Sherbrooke Street, gave® a small, informal and very smart little te on Monday last.Mrs.Reeves was charm: ingly gowned in black satin, trimmed with chiffon and cut jet.Among those present were Mrs.Alexander Allan, Brockville; Mrs.Andrew Allan, Mrs.Morton-Paton, New York; Mrs.Hector MacKenzie, M'Es Evelyn MacKenzie, Mrs.Thomas Tait, Miss Angus, Mrs.11.Holt.* * + Mrs.Routledge, of Owl's Head, Mieim- phramagog, s at present in town on a visit to Mrs.Forbes Angus.* * * Mrs.R.B.Angus, Drummond street, has fesued cards of invitation to a dance to take place on Friday evening next, * » * Miss Gault, Rockby, Sherbrooke street, has invited a number of young friends to a tea to take place on Friday next.* * * Mrs.David Morrice, jr., who has been confined to the house for some days, is much improved and hopes to be soon about once more, » * * Mr.and Mrs.Weir, Drummond street, left Montreal on Wednesday for New York, en route for Europe.Mr.and Mrs.Weir were accompanied by their daughters, the Misses Weir.* * * The ladies of the Antiquarian Socikty gave an afternoon tea on Wednesday.In spite of the driving snowstorm, there was a good turn-out of the members of the society.A delightful and instructive paper was read by Miss Sadlier, upon \u201cOld Montreal,\u201d at the close of which some vocal selections were given with taste and finish by Miss Langlois, Quebec, and Miss Amos.Tex was served in the library where the lurge open fire looked particularly cheering.Mrs.Fergusson, Mrs.Spragge and Miss MoCallum presided at tea.Mrs.Fergusscn wore a smart tailor gown of sage green, braided in black, with vest of pink brocade; hat of green velvet trimmed with green wings.Mrs.Hector Mackenzie, Sherbrooke street, gave a small informal and very pretty little tea on Thursday afternoon last.Mrs.Mackenzie\u2019s lovely drawing rcom was tastefully decorated with spring fowers and pink roses.Mrs.Mackenzie was assisted in receiving and entertaining her guests by her daughter, Miss Evelyn Mackenzie.Among those present were :\u2014 Mrs.Alexander Allan (Brockville), Mrs.H.Montagu Allan, Mrs.Andrew A.Allan, Mrs.Herbert Holt, Mrs.Morton Pa- ton, Mrs.Reeves, the Misses Scott, Mrs.Peterson, Mrs.Thomas Tait, Mrs.Allan Mackenzie, Mrs.Meredith, Mrs.F.Lyman, Miss Lyman.* Miss Lillian Gault, \u201cRokeby,\u201d Sherbrooke street, entertained a number of young friends at tea on l\u2018riday afiernoon.Tea was served in the dining room, and the tasteful floral decorations of deep crimson harmonized with the handsome mural ;decoration of this stately apartment.Among those present were :\u2014Miss Estelle O\u2019Brien, Miss Monk, Miss E.hel Gauit, Miss Caro Brainard, the Misses Blackader, Miss Edythe Gault, Miss Henderson, M.ss Lilian Smith, Miss Brown, Mrs.Ernest Gault, the Misses Rawlings, Miss G.Hampson, Miss Maltby, Miss A.O\u2019Brien, Miss À.Morftice.\u2019 + * * Mrs.Hosmer, Metcalfe street, entertained a number of friends at lunch on Friday last.The table was exquisitely decorated with Parma violets and yel ow roses arranged on a centre-piece of white lawn, embroidered in violets.Among those pre:ent were Lady Van Horne, Mrs, Reeves, Mrs.Thomas Tait, Mrs.Heany, Mrs.Pillow, Mrs.W.Hope.\u2018 a a + Mrs.Hogan, of New York, is at present cn a visit to Mrs.Bond, Bishop's Oourt, Union avenue.* » * Mrs.Alexander Allan left town to-day for her home in Brockville.While in town Mrs.Allan has been The guest of Mrs.A.A.Allan, Stamley street.* * * Westmount, gave a delightful old-time and very enjoyalble tobogganing party on Wednesday eveming last.IT 1s too bad that these deservedly popular entertainments have of late years gone out of fashion, and we are delighted to think that this beautiful exercise is being once more revived.In spite of the inclement weather, a large contingent of guests went out from.town, and Westmount was, of course, well repre sented.- * * * Mr.H.Montagu Allan, Mr.Henry Jo- caph and Mr.Allan Mackenzie, have invited a number of friends to skating party to take place on Tuesday evening next, in the Victoria Skating Rink.DON\u2019T TAKE DOGS TO THE KLONDIKE.Archdeacon Phair Gives Some Good Advice to Gold-Seckers.Archdeacon Phair, who has spent many years in the remo:e North-West, as a missionary for the Church of England, and 18 at present in Montreal, states that intending Klondikers who think of taking dogs with them are making a very serious mistake.Mr.Phair says that the \u201chuskies,\u201d or Esquimaux dogs, are well proteci- ed with a growth of hair between their toes, which prevents their feet from being frozen.Imported degs have not this necessary pedal-extremity protection, and every dog taken into the Klondike duiing this winter is sure to suffer, and be ren- When a baby siiles in its sleep it is the mother\u2019s fond belief that sm angel is kiss- DANSE ; AA git.No woman SN attains the su- .Mead, the Mayor of Cork, is coming here to lecture.The \u2018four hundred\u201d have decided that the time-honored assembly balls sha!l be discontinued.The coming of the Mayor of Cork is not believed to have any direct bearing upon \u2018this change in New York's social life.The official celebration of the existence of Greater New York to be held on May 4th and 5th, and to be known as Charter Day, will be made an occasion ot pected to bring here a million visitors, who will in turn bring $5,000,000 worth of trade to this city.The latter calculation 1g on the authority of the chairmam of the celebration committee, : A lively theatrical season is in progress.Mme.Modjeska is drawing great crowds in \u201cCamille,\u201d \u201cMacbeth,\u201d and \u201cMary Stuart\u201d; John Drew\u2019s new comedy, \u201cOne Summer\u2019s Day,\u201d came into contact with rather a frosty night as regards audience and criticism.\u201cOh, Susannah,\u201d an English farce; \u201cWay Down East,\u201d a melodrama; \u2018The French Maid,\u201d and \u201cThe Telephone Cirl,\u201d comedies, continue to play to full houses.Melba and Nordica, in grand opera, under the direction ot Damrosch and Ellis, are, as usual, atoning for much of the trash which is simultaneously appearing at some theatres in this cultured city.W.A.M.Goode.CHURCHES.Congregational.POINT ST.CHARLES - 185 Congregation welcome.Sabbath school and Bible classes at 3 p.m.C.E.meeting, Monday, at 8 p.m.CALVARY CHURCH\u2014302 Guy Street\u2014Rev, E.M.Hill, pastor.Services at 11 a.m.and 7 p.m.The pastor will preach.EMMANUEL CONGREGATIONAL Church\u2014Corner Stanley and St.Catherine \u201cAtreets\u2014Rev.E.C.Evans, D.D., pastor.Morning service, 11 a.m., \u201cWhen Christ came to town.\u201d Sunday school, Bible and Chinese classes at 3 p.m.Evening service, 7 p.m., \u2018Look up.\u201d C.E.meeting at close of evening service.Strangers cordially welcomed.ZION CHURCH\u2014Corner Mance and Milton Streets\u2014Rev.W.H.Warriner, pastor.11 a.m., Mr.W.W.Buchannan, Dat plars of Temperance, will give an address 7 p.m., Rev.W.H.Warriner.Theme, \u201cA rich living, but a mean life.\u201d BETHLEHEM «CHURCH \u2014 Corner Clarke and Western Avenues\u2014Rev.R.Hopkin, Western Aveuues\u2014Rev.W.T.Graham, pastor.Services at 11 a.m.and 7 p.m.3 p.m., Sunday school and Bible class.B.Y.P.U., Monday, & p.m.Regular prayer meeting, Wednesday, at 8 p.m.FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH \u2014 Corner St.Catherine and City Councillor \u2014 Rev.Donald Grant, B.A., pastor.The pastor at 11 a.m.and at 7 p.m.Sunday school at three o'clock.Regular church prayer FAST END BAPTIST TABERNACLE \u2014 1006 and 1008 St.Catherine Street \u2014 Frank L.Horsfall, student in charge.Prayer service, 9.30 a.m.Sunday school, 3 p.m.Preaching service, 7 p.m.Thursday evening, prayer service at 8 POINT ST.CHARLES BAPTIST CHURCH \u2014Grand Trunk Street, Point St.Charles \u2014Services, Sunday, 11 a.m.and 7 p.m.Sunday school and Bible classes, 3 p.m.Monday, 8 p.n., Y.P.S.C.E.Wednesday, 8 p.m., general prayer meeting.Church of Oew Jerasulem, CHUROH OF THE NEW JBRUSALEMZ.Qorner Dorchester and Hanover Streets \u2014Rev.Edwin Gould, pastor.The pastor will preach at 11 a.m.No evening Beaver Hall Hill and Lagauchetiere week service on Wednesday evening, at 8 p.m., in the lecture room.Adaen* Christian.THE ADVENT CHRISTIAN CONGIREG-A- tion\u2014Conservatory Hall, 2269 St.Catherine Street\u2014Public service at 7 p.m, Elder Wm.W.Robertson officiating.Subject, by request, \u2018Jesus, the Christ, who and what was He?\u201d German Lutheran, THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH\u2014 129 St.Dominiuqe Street+Rev.Fr.R'e- del, pastor.Service at 11 o'clock, Unitarian.URCH OF THE MESSIAH\u2014Services at ca, a.m.and 7 p.m.Rev.W.5.Baines, rocks are better skaters than our boys.| pastor, will preach at both services, Ten players will represent cach | marvellous pageant, and, incidentally, is ex- | Dominion Councillor of the Royal Tem- \u2018 CHURCHES, Church of England, Quinquagesima Sunday.CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDIAL \u2014 Rev.Canen Norton, D.D., rector of Montreal.Rev.Prof.Steen, M.A.Special Preacher.8 a.m., Holy Communion.11 a.m., Cathedral service.Preacher, the rector.4.15 p.m., Litany.7 p.m., Cathedral service.Preacier, Rev.Frof£.Steen.3 p.m., Suaday schools and Bible classes.Ash Wedneuday services, 1t a.m.and 3 p.n.Thursday, St.Matthew\u2019s Day, Holy Ccunnunion, 10 a.m.Lent daily services, with addresses by city clergy, at à Pp.1n.CHURCH OF S, JOHN THB EVANGE- LIST-Correr Ontario and St.Urbain Streets\u2014ClCanon Edmund Wood, M.A.rector.Holy Communion, 8 and 11 a.m.Matins at 10.15.Evensong ut 7 p.m.TRINITY CHUROH\u2014St.Dents Street, opposite Viger Square \u2014 Rev.Fred.H.Graham, rector.11 a.m., morning Prencher.the rector.3 p.m.Sunday school and Bible chss.7 p.m., evening prayer and Holy Communion.Preacher, Rev.G.O.Troop, M.A.All are cordially invited.Strangers welcomed and shown to seats, ST.STEPHEN'S CHURUH\u2014Inspector st, cerner St l'aul\u2014Ven.Archdeacon Evans, MA.DL, rector.Service «ut 1] a.m.Preacher, the Tector, Sunday school and rector\u2019s Bible class for men and women at 3 p.m.Service at 7 p.m.Administration of Holy 8 nm.ST.JUDE'S CHURCH\u2014 Corner Coursol and Vinet Streets\u2014Rev.Canon Dixon, rector.Sceviece at 11 a.m.and 7 p.u.Sunday school and Bible clustses for men and women, every Sunday, at 3 pm.uirls\u201d Brigade, every Mouday, at 7.30 p.u.Boys I5rigwle, every Tuesday, at 7.45 p.in.Singing class, Tuesday, at 7.30.Divine service amd teachers\u2019 meeting, Wednesday, at 8 p.m.Band of Ilope on Friday, at 8 p.m.Choir practice, Saturday, 8 p.m.Savinizs Bank, Saturday, 7.30 to 8.30 p.m.Ministering Children\u2019s League, Saturday, 8 p.m.Free reuding room, every week day evening, from 8.00 to 9.45, ST.THOMAS\u2019 Dame and I'.Renaud.rector.8.1n.- Sunday school, 3 p.m.service, 8 p.m.CHURCH \u2014 Corner Notre Voltigeurs Sirects\u2014Rev.J.Morning service, 11 Evening ST.LUKE'S OHURCH- Corner of Chan- plain and Dorchester Strects\u2014Rev, I.E.Cunningham, M.A.rector.Morning service at 11 o\u2019ulock.The pastor will o'clock.preach, preach.Evening service at 7 Rev.W.H.Garth, B A.will Service Wednesday evening at 3 p.m.Strangers always welcome.at 8 p.m.ST.MARTIN'S CHURCH-\u2014Rev.G.Osborne Troop, M.A., rector; Rev.WW.W.Coimig, B.À., assistant, 8 a.m.Holy Com- muition, Uwswal services at 11 a.m.and 7 p.m.Strangers welcomed.ALI, SAINTS\u2019 CHURCH\u2014Coruer of St Denis and Marie Anme Streets \u2014 Rev.\u2018Ganon Evans, M.A., rector.Seals frec.Y a.m., Holy Communion.10.15 a.mn.; Baptism.11 a.m., morning service.Preacher, the rector.Evening service, 7 p.m.P\u2019'reacber, Rev.J.Ercaux.7 p.m.Preacher, Rev.KE.McManus.7 p.m., St.Georges Y.M.C.A; Park and Boulevard Mission.Holy Communion on first Sunday in month, after morning Baptism on third Sunday, at 10.15 a.m.Montreal Anhex\u2014300 Park Avenue\u2014Sun- day school at 10 a.m.Divine service at 11 a.m.The rector will officiuwte.Amherst Park Mission\u2014Sunday school at 3 p.m.Divine service at 7 p.m.Mr, Carruthers.corer of Wood amd Western Avenues \u2014- Rev.Hedry Kittson, M.A., rector.Holy Communion, 8 a.m.Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a.m.Evensong and sermon, p.m.MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH \u2014 Hocheluga- Rev.H.Jeckill, B.A., rec- ST.tor.Services at 11 a.m.and 7 p.m.3 p.m.Sunday school and Bible class.Band of Hope, Friday, ut 8 p.m.Strangers welcomed.ST.GEORGE'S CHURCH\u2014Corner Osborne and Windsor\u2014Very Rev.Dean Carmichael, D.D., L.L.D., rector; Rev, C.J.Jdumes, M.A., assistant minister.Holy Conmnurion after menting service.Morn- ng prayer, 11.05 a.m.Preacher, Dean Cuarnriclrael.3 p.m., Sunday school and Bille classes.Dean Curmichaels Class for men and young men in the chunch, 3.05, en'tramce by front door.Evening prayor, 7 p.m, DPreadaer, Rev.C.James.All strangers and class.Wednesday, being Ash Wednex- at 11 a.m.and 8 p.in.Services will be held from 5 to 5.30 p.m.on Friday's during Lent.Maisonneuve Mi-.trace of dress like the Indiang and à them, and' are, with era contented, jolly, lazy Jot So Dpaniony ; the life was one of the Es > Enamoreg % had lived at the station for feat that he refused to return a een Jean, for a legacy awaiting him, \u2018evil aation From Oumberland Sound the D; turned to the Atlantic agai \u20ac Diam à the Straits, and traverse join Ton throy) to Fort Churchill, a terminus sony By projected railways, situated a) Do of th, 99.This point is historic in iy latituis of North America, for here it ac history ust 17, 178, the French fleet Was on A.by La Perouse, demolished F, phan Wales (Churchill), and, sail nu 1e à tured Fort York, on the prome south, mouth of Nelson River and ontary at thy There is no longer a fort at Rires, but it is still one of the etre, Company\u2019s posts.Capt.Hawes \"he Bar factor of the post for a quarter © chief tury commander of the compan a ce | the bay; Mr.Preston, his assista, 0} \" a-dozen thalfbreed families: nt; hej.traders and trappers, compose \u2018 sion tion.Fifty years ago Churchill vas great entrepot of the north.Everythi.required for the North-West ky i sent in and sent out, passed through ing | Churchill.Now it is à mere relic.Bor .ic of fo.; mer amportance, The Diana left Fort eraber 2, and on her i Dr.Bell rejoined the party.; the stralt, a run was re ore lari ; Bay, a large opening off Hudson's rar just west of Cape Chudleigh.was thirty miles up the river an e Diana was piloted | on through a blinding monster im Chimo at the south of Ungava.On Sur .m- day, September 18, the steamer loft Unga à and reached St.John\u2019s, Newfoundland m Septemiber 25.She re-fitted, end, oh ing to the Strait, remained till October 1 when ice was forming in the harbon «ough there was open passage tarough the Strait.The geological officers left on the northern and southern shores of Hudson's St; acquired new facts and gathered valuable information regarding the remote Tegion where they labored for the summer.À; the Diana\u2019s party was composed enti) of Government officers, the official repor will not be made public till presented » Ottawa ;but it was informally learned th Dr.Bell found the north coast of th strait studded with islands and marked ir umerous indentations.During the who summer a vast field of ice drifted fm Fox Channel! and, forced eastward by i pressure behlnd, was driven and wedg against the north shore.An excursion va made to the interior of Baffin\u2019s Lan, where, fifty miles inland, a large lake ws : discovered, called by the Indians Amak djnak.Mr.Lowe surveyed the south ghore for three hundred miles to Georg: River, in Ungava Bay, and pronounce existing charts of the strait inaccurate From observations taken, it is considered that there is continuous navigation for at least sixteen weeks, and possibly longe, although Captain Hawes, of Fort Churehil, placed the period of navigation for steam ers at three months.Besides an open passage through the ie \"drift, the weather is an \u2018mportant fact in the navigation of Hudson\u2019s Bay ar * Strait, and à comparison of meteorc'oginl i tables shows that during a period of twer \u2018ty-six months, there were in the Straits ci , Belle Isle, 3,602 hours of fog; in Hudson Strait at the eastern entrance, 1,026, ad | at the western terminus, 1,168, 60 that 1 * vigation in the northern passage would su fer two-thirds less delay than iw the mu traversed Straits of Belle Isle.The san tables show that gales are less frequent! half, in Hudson\u2019s Strait than #n Belle se On the whole, the weather during the for months of open water would not preve navigation of the great inland sea of tit vorth.These are practical methods \u2018of demo?strating the posstbility of Hudson\u2019s Bar navigation, but they scarcely establish the feasibility of the northern route for cov meraial purposes.To ship cargoes fre London to York Factory, or from Fit Churchill to London, when it did not wt ter in the least whether they reached the\u2019 destination in one year or two years, ™ an altogether different thing From the np transportation of fifty or sixty mV ° bushels of grain from the West to ue pool, before the close of navigation 1° ember.Financiers rather than explo must mow solve the problem of & northern route from western grato-gri, areas to Europe.There is not pro: such immediate solution that Montre New York and other Atlantic ports » feel apprehensive of their presties.CL ChurchiH on y way past Ashe Inlet , Mr.Lows from the by, a To-night A.Roy Macdonald, ir.nN tender a smoking concert to \u2018the offic : Il and members of the lodges meeting at Eis Hall.Le Cottage For Sat NO, 74 MANCE STREET, NE SOLID STONE and BRICK For Particulars Apply to- Thos.Fraser, 8 Young Street Care Union Cold Storage Coi first-cla Excursions by Tos EUROPE.ir Ape Lines Mareh | an, leat May 14, June 4, etc.0 | \\ d Tour and # San Francisco, March 13 Holy ace fr t party March 5.Bayptp THOS, C Programmes , 00K x Se York 961 and 1225 Broadwa sp, James © NCY, 137 st.Or W.H.CLA Montreal.! trech | Soldiers\u2019 Uniforms Made up in th Also ali kinds © ; ed altering sam \u2018al, an Give me 8 trial e correct 55 le i J.-A LEVY: st 353 St.Lawrer 1 vil i p P.S.-By dropping me a | for and deliver your clothes sed rar { | to For, On Bun.Ungara, land, on Tetum.ober 3) harbon, ough the e north.'s Strat, valuable | Tegion ner, À; entirely report ented a ned that of the arked br je who ed fra 1 by th wedged SION Wai s Lang, lake was s Amal outh-east George: unced al accurate, nsidered on for a 7 longer, Thurehill, or steam: y the jee nt factor Bay an oro\"ogiesl of twer- Straits of Hudson 026, ed that ne rould sut he much [he same quent by elle Tsk.the four ; prevent a of tht f demon ons Bar blish the for com pes fron om Fort | not mat hed ther oars, Wi the rapt milion to Liver , in Nor explore à shot growl romvise of Montret rts ned > CL jr.om e office\" g at Lis amr\u201d ae ET, RICK EE ee \u2019 rnment Municipal and other First- Class Bonds.INVESTMENT = Financial Agent, gp HAMBERS, go st.James St, MONTREAL» §TAN ass Investments always on band pimt-e! ne BUSINES 13 STILL IMPROVING And the Future Prospects | Are Decidedly Bright.\u2014\u2014 KLONDIKE TRADE AUTLOOK eview of the Past Week in Many Lines, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AR The snow is again responsible for a slight suspension of business operations, but the effect is not nearly so great as was fel after the previous big storm.Some of the ountry roads, however, are still pretty heavy and it may take a couple of dass tt they get dawn to their norma set, befor?the \"same time business the past o k was generally quite satisfactory and ie à significant fact that many merchants ho some time ago failed to see any mater- al improvement are now coming around with decidedly more favorable reports.In fact it is really remarkable the wide- read confidence which now exists, not only among the merchants but the bankers Bel sibilities of the Klondike trade are being estimated and the utmost confi- dene» is expsse\u2019s Merchants gener ly are highly pieased at the efforts being made by the Canadian Boards of Trade and the Government to bring the business to Canada and the belief that the efforts will Meet with Success.Mayor Andrews, of Winnipeg, who is here in the interests of the Edmonton route states that the Klondike business in Seattle is worth $1,000.000 a week.Canada should get a slice of that, and a good large slice.Even as it is, the houses here who are bidding for Yukon business feel a constantly increasing demand, and reports from travellers who are now on the coast are highly encouraging.One traveller representing a leading house here writes from Vancouver that his sales so far are the largest he ever had and are away beyond his most sanguine expectations.And others tell the same story.From Ontario the reports are equally Hourishing, and one gentleman who took a business trip through the province said he did not know when general conditions were so favorable.In every city he visited he found manufacturers working their factor- jes to their -fullest capacity, and in almost every case more hands had to be employed.In many instances factories were Working Overtime.This did not refer to one line alone but a lot of them.The Montreal Trade Bulletin has the following on the situation: \u201cAlthough a few disquieting rumors were afloat regarding financial dfficulties in the wholesale grocery and manufacturing business, which turned out to be true, business on the whole has been fully up to expectations.Of course, the time is approaching when business difficulties as a rule are more conspicuous, and therefore should create no surprise or uneasiness.The severe snowstorm which set in on Tuesday evening and continued ell day Wednesday will no doubt cause inconven- tence to trade in the interior, owing to hte heavy snowdrifts.On the whole, however, the signs of good times during the coming spring have not been belied, and confidence in the future has not been in the least disturbed.Money is ample for all requirements, and we quote call loans 3 1-2 per cent, and discount rates on good commercial paper range from 6 to 7 per cent.\u201d Trade in Toronto.Business in Toronto this week was more active.A report says: \u201cThe wholesale houses here are filled with orders, and travellers are sending in so may more that it 18 found difficult to get the goods shipped fast enough to suit customers.The cotton factories and the woollen mills are Very busy, and are unable in some cases to deliver the goods when wanted.Values ate very firm, with an upward tendency IN some lines, There is à good demand for leather, and values are firm.Hardware and metals are in good demand.Hides are weaker, and a decline is expected.Wools ere gelling well, and prices are steady.Hog products are in good demand and steady to firm.There is a goood movement In groceries, with prices well maintained.The grain markets are all active, with advances in the past week of 2¢ to 4¢ in Wheat, 10¢ to 15¢c in flour, $1 in mill-feed, Zc in rolled oats, 2c in oats, lec in rye, Be in Puekwheat, le in corn and le to 2c arlev ; : sation gry remittances are fairly Hides.i anything, the feeling in the hides is ronger than it was , and in some lines the past week has witnessed quite a material = vance.Lambskine are up something like cents each to $1.00, while calfsking are quoted at 9c for No.1, and 7e for No.2, hy advance of about le a pound.In beef bug yp ere has been no material change, ba e feeling is pretty firm.American ers are still operating quite freely at prick country points, and shipments are ne 8 eadily made across the line as the ut of their purchases.The receipts rom local butchers have only been fair.NO.1 are quoted at Se to 94c, No.2 at 8c to 8c, and No, 3 Tc to Tic, Fish, been only.a limited demand n the fish market during the id nd altogether the situation has or rom pleasing.Stocks are said ton i IN proportion to the consump- canes + ere Is cosnequently a somewhat or eeidng.Haddock and cod in case ae selling at 2fc to 3c per .; steak oo i She, ots, 4c to 6c; Manitoba dore trons OAc; pike, 3c to 3ke; white fish and Be re fresh frozen salmon, 12¢; fresh 100, 22% ree, $1.40; medium, $1.20 per rel my cods, $1 to $1.10 per bar- In pickled figh there is no new feautre Yo note, except that th : e stock ; o cent, and prices are omy hey Gr once noted last week.We quote: \u2014 ty > No.1 large, $4 to $4.25: No $2.40, 10 83 to 62.50; No.9, 8225 © > Aerrings, No.1 N.S, 84.95 per bar- Per half barre} ; C 715 per barrel; B.C, sol.There has \u20acXperienced j bast week, a.rel, and $3 10 to _ 2.25 reton, $450 ; mon, $11.75 per barrel; No.1 trout, $4 to $4.25 per barrei.Trade in smoked fish is quiet, and values show no change.Haddies are selling at 5% to Gc per 1b.; new Yarmouth bloaters at $1.25 per box of 75 fishy, and smoked herrings at 10c per box.The movement of preserved fish is exceedingly small.Dressed codfish are seH- ing at $4.25 per case of 100 Ibs.; dried coc at $3.50 per 100 Îbs.; boneless codfish at dic to 5c per Ib, and boneless fish, 3c per lb.Paints and Oils, There has been quite an appreciable improvement im the market during the past week and almost all branches are beginning to exhibit more life.-Orders are said to be coming forward mere freely for immediate and future delivery and collections are said to ba very satisfactory.In linseed oil the demand is on the mend and as it increases stocks are dwindling down.Steam refined oil is in firm hands and the same can be said of cod ail which is quite liberally enquired for.Following is a fair idea of vaiues:\u2014White lead, best brands, Government standard, $5.373; Nc.1, 85.00; No.2, $4.62}; No.3, 34.25; white zinc paint, pure, 7¢; No.1, 6ic; No.2, 5ic; dry white lead, casks, 4ic; keg, 4%; red lead, pure, in casks, 4}c; in keg, dic; No.1, an casks, d}e; in kegs, 44c; mixed paints, $1 to $1.20 per gallon; putty, in bulk, barrels, $1.65; bladder, in barrels, $1.80; bladders in boxes, $195; tins, $2.05 to $2.30.Paris green, pure, in barrels, 143c; 250 1b kegs, 143c; 100 1b drums, 15c; 1 ib.packets, 16c.Linseed oil, raw, 45c io 46c; bailed, 48c to 49c; Newfoundland cod, 33c to 35c; Gaspe cod, 29e to 30c; castor oil, 9c to 93c; glass, $1.30 first break; $1.45 second break, per 50 ft.; $2.90 for third break, per 100 ft.Petroleum.There has been no material change in the market\u2019 during the past week, the de- : mand being very fair while values hold just about the same.We quote:\u2014Canadian , refined, 113c in car lots, and at 12e to 13c , in smaller quantities; American prime : white, 3c in car lots, 15c in small lots; water white, 15k4e in car lots, 16e in a jobbing way.Pratt\u2019s astral oil, 17c in car lots, and 18e ir small lots.Groceries.One of the features of the week was the announcement that one of the leading THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1898.Greasy Cape 144c to 164c, B.A.acoured 25e to 35c, Canadian wool 206 to 23c.Iron and Hardware.There was not a great deal of activity in the iron market the past week, but there were a few sales of Summerlee at $18.00 to $18.50, as to quality.Prices on bar iron are firm, and the general range is as follows: Summerlee pig, $18.00 to $18.50; Carron, $18.00 to $18.50; Ayrsome, No, 1, 817; Eglinton, $17; Carnbro, $16.50; No.1 .camilton, $16.50; No.2 do., $15.50; Fer- ropa, $16; Siemens, No.1, $16; wrought scrap, No.1, $14 to $13; bar iron, $1.40 to $1.50; tin plates, cokes, $2.75 to $2.90; I.C.charcoal, $3.25 to $3.75; Canada plates, $2.10 to $2.15; terne plates, 3.95 to $6.25; galvanized iron, 4}c to 43c as to brand; Qrford copper, lide to 12¢; ingot tin, 15ic to 16¢c; lead, $3.75 to $4, and spelter at $4.50 to $4.70.Iron pipe, $3.90 to $4.00.Fruits.There was just a moderate trade transacted in the fruit market during the past week, and on the whole values fail to show very much change.Apples sold rather slowly, but there was a fair trade in onions and California oranges.Following is a fair range: Apples, No.1, $3 to $4.50 per bbl.; No.2, $2 to $3 per bbl.; dried, 5c to 5ic per Ib.Oranges, Jamaica, $4 to $5 per bbl.; California navels, $3.25 to $3.50 per box; California seedlings, $2.50 to $3; Valencia, 420s, $5.50 to $.80; Valencia, 714s, $5.75 to $6 per case; Florida\u2014$4.25 to $4.50 box.Lemons\u2014300s, $2.25 to $3.Pineapples, 25¢ to 35c each.Cranberries, Cape Cod, $7.00 to $8 per barrel.Nova Scotia, $8.50 to $9 per large barrel.\u2019 THE Y.M.C.A AND MGR.BRUCHESI.The Association Admits Any One of Good Moral Character.\u2014 In the absence of Mr.D.A.Budge, Mr.C.K.Calhoun, secretary of the Young Men's Chrigtian Association, made the following statement regarding Archbishop Bruchesi\u2019s declaration that a Roman Catholic cannot consistently be a member of the association:\u2014 \u201cThe Y.M.C.A.is a Christian institution, and is perfectly undenominational, New York slumped $25,035,577 in value.decline: \u2014 mogt remarkae declines on record, an d yet it was mere:y on It The question is, what would happe n if war did come?if these atocks decline $23,000,000 on rumors, what would they decline if a gun was fired.The loss would be enormous.On the recent break Montreal speculators figured quite largely, and they dropped amgreat deal of money, particularly C Traction, which declined 6 points.The following shows the full extent of the IT COST $25,000,000.On the Strength of the War Scare, Stocks in Wall Street Slumped Badly, On the strengthi of the war scare resulting from the Maine disaster, stocks in For a single day this is ome of the remote Lwnors.in Metropolitan Capital stock, Decline.Loss of stock, American SUZAT.cees ++ 60 ssosscce once $35,000,000 13 $656,250 American Tobacco.feces tres sass 18,000,000 14 90,000 Canada Southern.tease seesescecnne 15,000,000 2 300,000 Chesapeake & Obi0.ascsee vvc0sccu 18,751,000 14 234,387 Chicago & Northwest.ons cersocscte 40,000,000 23 850,000 Burlington.eoeeeee oo sens avcuue secsessn 82,000,000 13 1,230,000 St.Paul.sorvon sacsse srsesarcen 46,000,000 13 705,000 Rock Island.eee sesesel sesese sesdrn 46,000,000 1 460,000 Consdlidated Gas.tee aacnom eesseseren 35,000,000 12 656,250 Delaware & Hudson.Jreves covenen 35,000,000 13 525,000 Erie first preferred.co.eee ceverees 00.- 30,000,000 2 600,004 General Electrie.es sens secccvcu eam 40,000,000 23 850,000 Illinois Central.eo esses sosocos .52,500,000 23 1,181,200 Louisville & Nashville.ceeceecee veel canna 55,000,000 14 962,500 Manhattan.covennnes vee cones .30,000,000 2% 750,000 Metropolitan Street Railway.eceenss - 30,000,000 6 1,800,000 Michigan Central.o evens o v\u2026.19,000,000 2% 475,000 Missouri Pacific.s swcccu vasses 6 cess 47,000,000 14 - 703,000 New Jersey Central.200 es fs0s0n0000 22,000,000 2 440,000 New York Central.\u2026 aavsssce aucou0 os 100,000,000 2 2,000,000 National Lead.cease viesenes qe 15,000,000 4 75,000 National Lead preferred.eo veccuness é 15,000,000 3 112,500 Norfolk & Western preferred.eeceoeex 23,000,000 23 632,000) Northern Pacific.vou.vu sosceuse « 80,000,000 13 1,100,000 Northern Pacific preferred.eeeee coven.75,000,000 2% 1,687,500 Pullman Palace Car.ST TE 36,000,000 4 1,440,000 People\u2019s Gas.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.+ coccocueccce 25,000,000 2% 531,250 Pennsylvania.venu caves ssersers 000 21,000,000 13 288.750 Reading \"+1.s00000 aucc00 es or.\u201coocouhoi 70,000,000 1 700,000 Reading first preferred.veee cove .\u2026.\u2026.28,000,000 15 455,000 Reading second preferred.ococevee eves 42,000,000 14 630,000 St.Paul & Omaha.ssee sos | seed 21,400,000 1% 401,250 Southern Railway preferred.ceeees 60,000,000 14 900,000 \u2018Western Union.eee secsre sesesasecs 95,000,000 13 1,543,750 Third Avenue.cc.eaters sose sesnes cere 9,000,000 1 90,000 1 \u2014_\u2014 Total capital stock.ceee ened 0.\u2026 $1,376,651,000 $25,085,577 wholesale houses is in difficulties, amd it is said that one of the refineries ia in for a large amount.There was a very fair business done and the tone of the sugar market is firm.Good gized lots of granulated have been placed at 4 5-16c and low grade yellows at 3 9-16c.Refined sugar in New York occupies a very firm position and in Europe best sugar is steady.Stocks of molasses on the market are still dwindling down to a pretty low ebb, and with a very fair demand the tone is firm.Car lots of Barbadoes are quoted at 27c and in jobbing quantities sales have been made at 28c to 29c.In teas there has not been a great deal of new business, but the feling during the week was firm.There seems to be some tain about a possibility of the Government putting a duty on teas and it has led to quite a little speculative buying.There has been a call for low grades, with sales involving about 1,000 packages taking place at 8}c to 10c.Good Japans sold at 153c to 16c and about 150 cases Congous at 9c to 100.Some are talking higher prices for Japams in the near future.The demand for coffee is slow and the market is quiet and easy, but prices show no change.The crop movement of Brazil coffee to date, with comparisons, is as follows: Receipts at Rio July 1, 1897, to February 12, 1898, 3,155,000 bags; same time in 1896-97, 2,551,600 bags; same time in 1895-96, 1,818,000 bags; receipts at Sam- tos, July 1, 1897 to February 12, 1898, 4,992,000 bags; same time im 1896-97, 4,024, 000 bags; same time in 1895-96, 2,599,000 bags.We quote: Maracatbo, 10c to 12c; Rio, 9¢ to 10e; Santos, 10e to 1lc; Java, 17c to 20c; and Mocha, 18c to 20c.The dried fruit market has assumed a very quiet tone, especially in raisins, but there is a small continual demand for California prunes, peaches, pears, apricots, etc., for Klondike supplies.Prices show no change, and we quote: Standard brands of California, 2 Crown, Ge to 6kc; 3 Crown loose muscatels 7c to 7ic; 4 Crown do., 8}¢ to 83c, duty paid.Valen- \"cia raisins off-atalk 4jc to 5c; selected Ge | to 61e.Layers, 6}c, Currants, Provinctals, ; 5ke bb's.; 51e half-bbils.; 52 cases; half- cases, Sic; Filiatras 53c bbls.; 53c half-bbls, bic cases; half-cases 5ic; Patras, 6ic cases; Vostizza, 6lc cases; evaporated peaches, lle to 12e; pears, 94e to 12e; apricots, 14e 17e; prunes 8c to 12e, according to brand and quality.Wool, There are still any number of Klondike orders coming in, and the woolen mills are being cpt busy supplying the demand.Naturally enough, there is quite a little call upon the wool market, and things on the whole are active.We quote: except for the fact that the management and voting powers are all members of Protestant evangelical churches.Amch- bishop Bruchesi\u2019d decision is merely a declaration of his attitude, and will have no effect \u2018whatever on the attitude of the association.Our attitude is always the same.Our association is always open to young men of moral character, whether they are Roman Catholics or members of the Greek Church, or of no church at all.\u201d \u201cDo you mean you would admit a young man who was an agnostic or atheist?\u201d \u201cYes, we would.After ascertaining that he had a moral character, our inquiries would end.But, of course, there remains the obvious fact that sucl{ 4 young man would not feel at hong amongst us, as we are a Christian association But our doors are open to all moral and respectable men, no matter \\ what their religion may be.\u201cThe Y.M.C.A.will make no move as a result of the Archbishop\u2019s declaration.Our attitude will be the same.In fact, there is no move for us to make,\u201d MPERIAL BANK OF CANADA CAPITAL (Paid up) 2017 $2,900,000 HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO.D.R.WILKIE - - - - General Manager E.HAY - - .Inspector.5 The MONTRHAL Branch of this Bank\u2014157 St.James Street\u2014is now open and pre ared to transact general banking business, Special attention pald to collections.J.A.RICHARDSON, Managey, SPECIAL NOTIOE, Additional Improvements in Accommodation for Steerage Passengers, Jt is now four years since the White Star Line inaugurated the practice of supplying steerage passengers with bedding and mess utensils, then a new departure, which has materially added to the comfort of that large and important class of trans- Atlantic passengers.With the object of for some time past considerably improved the catering, the tables have been laid with tablecloths and the usual requisites, the passengers being waited upon at meals by stewards, who wash up and take charge of the eating utensils during the passage.Some men who cast their bread upon the waters expect it to come back in the guise of a sardine sandwich.further adding to their comfort, they have \"GC \u2014\u2014\u2014 ' RSA The London Advertiser points to the rise during the past year, of twelve per cent.in our bank stocks, as a very gratifying proof of increased confidence.It is eo, Lo doubt, and there can be no swish to detract from the force of the remark.But a great rise in the price of stocks, while it is a proof of confidence, is also a proof of the difficulty experienced by capital in obtaining profitable investment.There are those among us who in their transports of what they imagine to be patriotic sentiment, would stop not only interchange of products with our neighbors, but mutual investment, and by so doing, would doubly impoverish this country, which depends on the application of capital to the development of its great natural resources.While there has been an improvement of late in the commercial outlook, there have, on the other hand, been incidents to warn us that no commercial millenium has suddenly dawned, and to bid us be on our guard egainst the tilusions and ultimate disasters of a \u201cboom.\u201d Spiritualism as well as telepathy still haunts us.In apite of countless exposures, it lives by the craving ior proofs of an unseen world, and for communion with the spirits of those who have been loved and lost.By those influences, impressionable and emotional minds are open to the coarsest imposture.An English court of law once compo-led a celebrated medium to refund a large sum of money out of which he had swindled an old lady by personating the spirit of her dead husband.À disbeliever in spinitualism happened at the time to find himself in company with spiritual ists, one of them a very shrewd and successful man of business.On expressing his satisfaction at the decision of the court, he was taken aback by the avowal of his friends that they were themselves disciples of the medium.He could only protest that he was not secptical by nature, and that he was ready to believe anything, however alien to his own experience, whidh was attested by credible witnesses.\u201cWell, then,\u201d said one of the company, \u201cwill you believe what we now tell you?Mr.A\u2014\u2014 (the medium) held a seance in this room last evening, and we saw yonder heavy arm-dhair advance at bAs bidding from the place against the wall, where it .| now stands, to the centre of the room?\u201d \u201cCertainly,\u201d was the reply, \u201cI will believe that fact, on your evidence, knowing you as I do to be perfectly credible witnesses.But, accepting the fact, I am entitled to my own explanation.1 must ask whether the chair moved away from him as well as towards him, land whether there was anybody between him and \u2018the chaïr when it moved.\u201d Both questions being answered ir the negative, \u201cThen,\u201d said he, \u201cmy cx- planation is that your medium drew the chair to him with a horsehair line.\u201d Had the performer of the pretended miracle been a common conjurer, the obvious test would have been applied she would have been desired to make the chair move away from him as well as towards him, and to let some ond stand between him and it when it moved.As he was not a common conjuror, but a solemn impostor, his devotees looked on in awe, while he performed what was really less than a common conjuring trick.What cam be less spiritual than the idea that the Almighty plays conjuring tricks with chairs and tables; that he turns hats, as the spiritualists originally pretended to do; and dictates, or allows the departed to dictate, the nonsense which m scribbled on planchettes, as a communicar tion from the unseen world.Not the least effective part of the Liberal ammunition in this Provincial campaign, is a reproduction of the brutal attacks of Mr.Whitney in the Local House, and Mr.Bennett in the Dominion House on the Patrons.The natural resentment which Mr.Bennett\u2019s hostility excited, was Mr.Rogers\u2019 excuse, if not his justification, for refusing to vote with Mr.Bennett against the Liberal Government when his principles as a Patron would rather have pointed to that course.To call Mr.Whitney's attack on Mr.Haycock brutal, is to use an inadequate term.His language was such as could only have been addressed by one conscious of his infinite superiority to those who were as the dirt beneath his feet.\u201cWho ere these farmers, that they should dare to claim for themselves an interest in politics and a voice in the administration of the State?Who are these political vagabonds that they should dare to exercise their franchise according to their own consciences and not according to the dictates of the authorized organizations?\u2019 Mr, Whitney, if not Mr.Bennett, now probably wishes his words unsabu.It turns out that, after all, Jingoism might have spared its invectives upon the Marquis of Salisbury for \u201cBacking down\u201d to Russia.There has been no such dispute as was alleged about the opening of a Chinese port, and consequently no baci- \u2018down.The relations ebtween the two powers appear to be less unfriendly than was balieved.On the whole, the aspect of the situation is more peaceful.It was impossible that the German Emperor, if he had a lucid interval, should fail to see the danger of taking part with Russia and France ngainst England, to whom alone he cen look for support when the day of French vengeance shall arrive.It is officially stated that the American Govern- raent is acting cordially with thet of Great Britain in endeavoring to secure the freedom of the Chinese trade to all natioms, and the announcement may serve, if anything can, to temper the violence of anti- American Jingoism here.The most menacing feature of the present situation is the jealous restlessness of France in Africa.But France is looking forward to the greatest of great Exhibitions, and the commercial cldss in Paris will want war postponed.These international exhibitions, if they have borne no other very substantial fruit, have certainly had some effect in putting off war.It is edifying, by the way, to see how our protectionists of the United States and Canada become free traders at Ta- Lien-Wan, and want the ports open to the commerce of the world in China, while they want them closed by protective tariffs here.Your protectionist is a man who would himself buy of nobody, but expects to make everybody buy of him.The paragon of the school in America was Henry Carey, of blessed memory, who was eald to have wished that the Atlantic was fire instead of water, so that no European goods might be imported into the United States.He would at least have wanted water enough left to carry American cotton to British porte.He was, of course, like the Protectionists in general, violently anti-British, and was always blowing the trumpet of international enmity.He used to glory în having no English blood in his veins, and once boasted of this to an Eng- I'shmam, who promptly accepted the compliment on behalf of the English nation.At Westminster they have come to a | turning; point in the history of parties.COMMENTS ON CURRENT EVENTS oldwin \u2014\u2014\u2014 Smith.«A BYSTANDER.In the Weekly Snn, Toronto.À | Home Rule apparently is deed, if it is not buried.Mr.John Morley, who, there is reason to belleve, had a great hand in the conversion of Mr.Gladstone to Home Rule, vainly tries to persuade the Libera! party to nail disunionist colors to its mast.Sir William Harcourt, ae Liberal leader im the House of Commons votes against the resolution of the Parnellites nominally because their proposal differs from that of Mr.Gladstone, but, really, it is very easy to perceive, because he wants to wash his hands of the whole affalr.A leading nonconformist Liberal member, Mr.Perks, says in plain words that unless the Home Rule plank can be taken out of the Liberal.platform, the party has mo chance of recovering its ascendancy at Westminster.What the Irish people wanted was the land; this they have got, and the bottom 1s now out of Home Rule.As a consequence there appears to be the beg'nning of a split between the straight Conservative and Liberal-Unionist sections of the Com- servative party, which, having coalesced to save the nation from dismemberment, now, that danger being over, ane beginning 0 fall asunder, and have quarrelled wver the representation of Birmingham.Any renewal of the danger of dismemberment would be sure to revive the coalition.But the danger is not likely to be renewed.Not that the storm will be at once followed by a dead calm.There are eighty [rssh memibers of Parliament who subsist politically, end some of them financially, by Home Rule, and who will struggle, in conjunction with Mr.Morley, and such other British allies as they may retain, to keep the Nationalist agltation on foot.There may still be scenes of turbulence and obstruction im the House of Commons.It is evident that the mative Americans have lost all interest, if they ever ready had any, in the question; but the Clan-Na-Gael still lives, and is very likely, in its desperation, to take to dynamite.There appears to have been an alarm of something of the kind at Dublin Castle.Still, # the people in general and the priesthood are satisfied, as apparently they are, even Ireland will in time be at peace.By the grant of full municipal self-government by the measure which the Government is bringing in, the last political grievance will be removed.The British market, by paying wel for Irish cattle, hogs, and daivy produce, will do the rest.There have been wild alarme about insurrections in India.England has been threatened with an uprising which would cast the great mutiny into the shade.There is no appearance or probability of anything of thie kind.What may be going on in the dark depths of Hindoo sentiment those who are the best informed are the least ready to gay.It is not likely that love of a foreign conqueror cangever be the uling passion of the conquered.But a population, long disarmed, devoid of organization, divided im itself by race, religion and caste, is practically incapable of rebelling.At the time of the mutiny the people stirred except in Oudh, which had only just been taken from the native dynasty and annexed to the Empire.Not armed rebellion, but (he misery atiendant on the multiplication of a Lelpless peasantry beyond the means of subsistence is the real danger with which the Government of Eritidh India has to contend.It is ever and anon enhanced oy plague and famine Toe Anglo-Indian Goverment is admirable, both in the beneficence of ite intentions and in its administrative sk\".But \u20184 2-nears that nothing eun :inake up t» aor people for the absence of native leadevshsn.The Englishman in india now is a mere sojourner, separated by an impawsabie gulf, not only of race, but of habit and sentiment from the native, whom he may rule but can never lead.To so artificial a [state of things there must be a limit; and that limit, though vet diztant, may be in view.; di lade) ed il) There has been ai dirty case of diplomatic letter-stealing.The Spanish Ambassador, De Lome, writes to a private correspondent giving his opinion plainly \u201cas a patriotic Spaniard about the conduct and character of the American President.The letter is stolen and used at Washington.It would be better that an Ambassador should not write any but official letters about the special subjects of his embassy, and we may be pretty sure that Sir Julian Paurccfote would never have fallen into such an iuliseretion aa has been committed by Senor de Lome.Still, the letter was private; it was stolen, and the American Government, had it desired worthily to represent the dignity of the nation, would have refused to take notice of a private and stolen letter.President Cleveland made a similar mistake in th case of the answer imprudently written to a decoy letter by Sack- ville West.He ought to have refused to take any notice of a letter obtained by a curvy electioneering trick.He ought to have said:\u2014This letter was ill-judged, and election.But there is something more important than my election\u2014the honor of the American Republic, which I refuse to compromise for any object &f my own.Such a sacrifice of his own interest to the character of a nation would have been appreciated by the people, and he would have gained more votes than he lost.Politicians on occasions of this kind do not throw themselves eo much as they safely might on the generosity of the popular heart.h American intervention im Cuba is no more a breach of international law than British, French or Russian intervention in Crete, or in the quarrel between Turkey and Greece.This may be admitted, but does not prove that it would be wise in the Americans to carry intervention in Cuba to the length of war with Spain.An casy victory is not assured to them.Spain has shown desperate tenacity in her struggle with Cuban revolt.The heart of her people would be thoroughly stirred by a war with the United States.Her finances are fearfully embarassed, it is true; she may be on the verge of bankruptcy; but the example of the French Revolutioniets is not the only one which shows that a nation reduced to extremity may find resources in despair.The seamen of Barece- lona are probably mot inferior to those of the United States.At Trafalgar the Spaniards fought bravely, and better than their French allies.Spanish resistance is likely at all events to be stubborn enough to saddle the United States with another pension list.President MoKinley, it seems, on his pipnacle of personal responsibility, would gladly decline the leap; but he is forced onwards by an increasing pressure of bellicose ambition Captain Mahan, with his sea-power, being here again on hand, to show that outlying maritime possessions gre sources of compactness, economy and strength.Once more, friends of the American lmonweelth might cry: itg appearance may jeopardize my TE S.CARS 7 LEY CO.wm Notre Dame St, Montreal's 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J.B.Walkem, Barrister, etc., Kingston, or F, P.Betts, Barrister, etc, London.A HOUSEBREAKER SENTENCED.Cornwall, Feb., 18\u2014Yesterday before Judge Pringle, John Belthiaume was found guilty of house! r aking and was sentenced to 12 months in Central Prison \u2018Toronto.The crime for which he will suffer was committed last fall when two men, one of whom was identified as the prisoner, broke into a house occupied by an old man named Runions near Mille Roches.They beat the old man and carried off his watch and gun besides $16 in cash which they forced him to disgorge.It is usually the alimony he has to pay that causes a man to figure in a divorce sut.It is better for the girl who is in love to sit in the parlor alone than to hang over the profligate.MANACLHED.By Acute Indigestion, Wealth Would Not Buy Freedom\u2014South American Nervine Broke the Shackles.Reuben E.Truax, M.P., millowner and manufacturer, of Walkerfon, Ont., writes of the great South American Nervine:\u2014 \u201cI had 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fyle tneir claims at our office, under fifteen days «f this present notice for collocation, BILODBAU & RENAUD, 15 St.James Street, Montreal, Montreal, February 18th, 1898.Luck may be a good servant, but as master his paydays are uncertain.The man who is full of wind is uscally a successful builder of air castles, early enough before the dance broke up.\" During the intermission a young lad, Wal- TTT \u2018THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1808.THE PARIS POLICE WERE POWERLESS Crowd Goes Wild After the Lola Trial.\u201cSPIT UPON ZOLA,\" THE CRY \u2014\u2014_ Murderous But Unsuccessful Rush Made at Author's Carriage, \u2014 Paris, Feb.19.\u2014The proceedings yesterday in the trial of Zola were of a very |- exciting nature.Both General Boisdeffre and Count Esterhazy were on the stand.Laborie was not alolwed to examine the former and Esterhazy refused to say.any-* thing.» When the Court adjourned the police were powerless to manage the immense crowds and several Jews were the abjects of insults and menaces, ending in a general fight.The mob threw itself upon the Israelites, yeling: \u201cDeath to the Jews,\u201d \u201cThrow the Jews in the Seine.\u201d Finally, the Republic Guards were obliged to charge the rioters and eventually the troops succeeded in clearing the square.The crowd fell back, cheering for the army and singing the \u2018\u201cMarseillais,\u201d and shouting \u201cSpit upon Zola.\u201d ; M.Zola left the Palace of Justice at 5.40 p.m.and immediately after he had emerged from the building he was greeted with a storm of hisses and the authorities were obliged to protect his carriage with a double cordon of police.On reaching the St.Michael Bridge, the mob made a deter mined and murderous rush for the carriage, but the police threw themselves between the vehicl and the mob and a series of miniature battles ensued.Ultimately the police drove the mob back and M.Zola was enabled to proceed without any further molestation.A number of arrests were made; but, all those who were taken into custody were released later in the day.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 }GMETY THE PONT Argyle Snowshoe Club Has a Successful Dance.jan hl ) For Two Other Dances Last Night\u2014Getting Ready for the Minstrel Show.Argyle Snowshoe Club gave itssôn- Sous di night in P.A.AA.Hall last night, and, in spite of the many other attractions, it was well attended and proved a great success.The dancing was in the gymnasium, and reireshments were served in the reading room.The following officers deserve praise for the success of this ladies\u2019 night :\u2014Presi- dent, J.G.Ogilvie; vice-president, R.J.Kell; secretary, A.H.Hannah; treasurer, F.Labrish; committee, M.O\u2019Brien, D.J.Fraser, W.Burry, W.Archer, Wm.D.Mason.The following is a list of those present: \u2014 Ladies.Mrs.W.Burry, Mrs.H.White, Mrs.W.Hostler, Mrs.W.C.Jenkin, Mrs.J.Rolland, Mrs.H.Earwacker, Mrs.Smith (La- chine), Mrs.R.J.Hunt, Mrs.R.J.Kel; Misses 8.Robertson, M.May, N.Valters, Laterge, E.Towdie, M.Hostier, E.Rewett, I.Hough (Belleville, Ont.), ¥.Brain, L.Daniels, Veary, Smith (Ottawa), M.Percival (Cornwall), L.La- porte (Aultsville), M.Rollo, A.Genaud, A.Hall (Boston), L.Donohue, ¥.Corner, E.Corner, L.Blore, M.Blackham, R.McLean, ¥.McLean, S.Mason, A.Farrar, E.O.Wright (Perth), M.Hannah, G.Casey (St.Alban\u2019s), May Mitchell, N.Sheppherd, L.Cookina, J.Mason, L.Marks, Ault (Wellington, Ont.), M.Price, Johnstone (Lachine), M.Burry, S.Clevely.Gentlemen.A.E.Bennett, (Sacramento); M.J.O'Brien, W.S.Mason, W Hostler, G.McNiicholl, ¥.Morgan, Frank Corner, Geo.Mason, Geo.McMillan, W, C.Jen- kin; J.Malaren, A.Hannah, F.La brish, W.Burry, Geo.Ewart, Wallace Burry, Mr.White, W.Donohoe, Thos.P.Hunt, Jr, Alex.Hannah, W.Young, H.Farwacker, W.Maik\u2019s, P.J.Donohoe, \u2018A.Veary, J.Ellis, H.White, R.J.Hunt, C.McLean, A.Lomas, P.Smith, Mr.Hardisty, Pres.Holly S.S.Club; À.T.Clibbon, J.Rolland, R.McLean, L.Bras- so, Pres.St.Henri 8.8.Club; C.A.Smith, (Lachine); E.W.Johnston, (La- chine); R.Byrne, W.Culin, D.Byrne, J.Walker Anderson, J.Townsend, J.J.Herbert, C.F.Osler, F.C.Laberge, (Pres.Montgnard S.S.Club); RT J.Kell, Mr.Gallagher, J.McLaren, W.Bloss.The fourth annual dance of the Mount Royal Lodge, International Order of Machinists, took place last night in Unity Hall The members of the lodge and their lady friends were out in full force, and a number from Victoria Lodge helped to swell the erowd.All had a good time, and was lace Holdeness, who is serving his apprenticeship as a machinist gave a piano solo which was much enjoyed by all.Mr.John Savoy acted as master of ceremonies, and the others on the committee were E.Kirkup, C.Cribbins, H.Pepler.The music was rendered by the Grand Trunk orchestra.There was a concert and dance under th auspiecs of St.George\u2019s Lodge, No.29.Daughter and Maids of England B.S.in Fraternity Hal last evening and it was well attended, especially when the dancing be- gai.Rev.Dr.Ker, of Grace Church presided at the concert.Those who took part in the programme were the Misses Will, Maynard, L.Buckley, Kingston, A.Sayers and Messrs.Botcherby, G.Geary, P.Murphy, J.Farrow, C.Anderson, ECECHCROBCECHCORCECHCOEON® = G°° Clothes don\u2019t make the man, but they have a lot to M do with what others think of him.& um We make the kind of clothes © that give a good impression.SM.J.ADLER, 2320 St.Catherine St, LHORCECHOEO HC ICHCECHOR® ge NESEOROREOBOECR Agreable to Taste.29 Quick to Acta: Sure to Cura, \"show and are bound to make it a success.Borrie, T.Greenwood.Whitworth, N.Ford and the Masters Platt.After the concert the chairs were taken aside and a long dance programme was gone through with.The officers of the lodge are president Mrs.Tricker; vice-president, Mrs.Nose- worthy; secretary, Miss Goodal; treasurer, Mrs.Corner; comittee, Mrs.Brighton, Mrs.Tarling, Mrs.Sayers, Mrs.Barley, Mrs.Cooke, Miss Griffiths.The two lodges of the International Order of Machinsts contemplate holding a combined smoking concert in a fortnight\u2019s time.It will be held in the centre of the city.The P.A.A.A.boys have been practising steadily for their minstrel show on March 7th and 8th and are getting things down fine.They are all enthusiastic about the The secretary announces that the sale of tickets has been brisk and but few reserved seats are now left.VIZCAYA REACHES NEW YORK HARBOR, Extraordinary Precautions Taken for Her Protection, \\ i 1 Tha Vessel Will be Kept Illuminate at Night.New York, Feb.18.\u2014The Spanish ironclad Vizcaya, which was sighted off the Jersey coast about four o'clock this afternoon, anchored off the bar at sundown.It was stated to-night that she would come up the bay early to-morrow morning.In passing up she will be saluted by Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth, and will return the formality.Then she will steam to a point off Tomkinsville, where she will drop anchor.This, it is said, was considered the best place for the boat to anchor, as she will be freer from the encroachment of small boats there than elsewhere.Lieut.Doherty will have entire charge of the patrol, which will consist, besides -the two navy tugs, of the tugs of the supervisor of the harbor and two police patrol boats.The watches will be divided between the six boats, two to be on duty on each turn.Each boat is to have an \u2018board, while on watch, four marines and one non-commis- sioned officer of marines, a roundsman and four policemen of the Metropolitan police.\u2018While on duty, the boats are to patrol carefully the waters in the vicinity of the visit ing Spaniard, and no boat or person will be allowed to approach her without the sanction of the commander of that vessel.The Nina will be within call of the Viz- caya.At night it is intended to keep the Spaniard illwminated with electric lights, and the watch boats will also be well lighted, so that there can be no possible means of approaching the vessel without detection.THE FRENCH ADVANCE IN AFRICA They Have Established a Post at Wae.~ News Causes Considerable Excitemen In the Imperial House, tort rm London, Feb.T9.\u2014In the House of Commons last evening the Right Hon.Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question by Sir Charles Dilke, Radical member for the Forest of Dean, \"with reference to the grave news from West Africa, said he would read the telegrams received, leaving the House to judge of their importance.He said :\u2014 \u201cI received to-night this telegram from T0 THE YUKON BY 1 A Winnipeg Delegation Before the Board of Trade, - Montreal Will Urge That the Plans of the Speakers be Adopted.Mayor A.J.Andrews, D.1V.Bole, president, and C.N.bell, secretary, of the Board of Trade of Winnipeg, and Mr.Frank Oliver, M.P., of Alberta, formed a deputation which weited on the Montieal Board of Trade Council yesterday alter- noon.President Crathern introduced the wisit- ors, and explained that their mis-ion was to instruct those present on the through route to the Yukon district.Mr.Bell ,was-the first speaker.He said that the object of their mission was to secure the co-operation of the Montreal Council in asking the Government to favor their route to the Yukon.They were not politicians, and he hoped the Government would see that the matter was of vital interest to Canada.They advocated an interior route, not a route that is not known, and all they wished the Government to do was to improve that route, because it would help the poor man.The latter could exist for 1,000 miles past the Yukon.The Canadian Government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in emigration, and if they would only give a portion of that money in opening up the route they were enterprising enough Yo do the advertising, and thus get the people who wished to go to the Yukon to settle down in their part of the Yukon.If there was an all-Canadian route the people of the Dominion would enjoy the profit.All the speaker wanted was the co-opera- tion of the Montreal Board of Trade to aid them in their undertaking, and he fell certain that their patriotism as Canadians would prompt them to further the project.Mr.C.N.Bell pointed out the progress of the question before the Winnipeg Board of Trade.\u201cAre we as Canadians to sit by and let the Annericans step in and get all the good to be derived from the Klondike traffic?The deputation wanted to secure for the Dominion, not Winnipeg, the great benefits to be derived from the traffic to the goldfields.Let the Government secure all the routes it wants.They did not wish to oppose any scheme of the Government, but they wanted a route opened from Edmonton, through the placer mining country, to the Yukon.They did not ask for a railway; they wanted a moderate sum of money to expend in opening that valuable country.Agriculturists would follow the miners, and the whole country will be opened up.The Saskatchewan country is really a fine one, and its opening up will be of immense value to the whole country.It is estimated that $70,000,000 will be spent in transportation and supplies for the mining country this season, and Vancouver and Victoria count on having only ten per cent.of it.This is not as it should be.The Government had to be urged strongly to give aid, and only the co-operation of all the Boards of Trade in Canada would secure the end.Mr.Bale wished to mention something that he had meglected in speaking, and proceeded to point out that only a waggon road was requested, and not a railway, as immediate communication is required.= Mayor Andrews supported thestwo previous speakers.The hour of Canada\u2019s destiny is at hand.The benefit of the great find of gold will be lost if it is not taken advantage of at once.Seattle has doubled its population, and the trade in that city reaches $1,000,000 a week.The railway projected now by the Government will be of equal benefit to the States and Canada.It \u2018did not fill the bill aq another and all-Canadian route is required.Mayor Andrews\u2019 remarks were short but to the point and most convincing.Mr.Oliver, M.P., then spoke.He indorsed everything the previous speakers the Governor of Borrea (or Boria), a place in the Lagos Hinterland, occupied by the Boussa Guard on February 6th.\u201cOn February 9th, thirty Senegalese, probably from Niki, arrived at Borrea under orders to occupy it.They ordered the non-commissioned officers to haul down the British flag.The demand was refused, as made by foreign power, whereupon the Senegalese retired and pitched their camp about three miles from the town.\u201cI have also received this evening through the acting Governor of the Gold Coast, a telegram from Major Northcote, who is in the Gold Coast Hinterland.It runs thus :\u2014 \u201c \u2018I regret to inform you that the French have established a post at Wae consisting of subaltemn officers and about thirty native soldiers, M.Codrenier, whom I believe to be a lieutenant, though I have not yet ascertained his rank, accompanied by Captain Minot, two lieutenants and sixty- four mative soldiers, arrived at Vassa on February 1st and tried to establish a post.I despatched Major Fortescue to protest against passing by this point, and suggested a conference at Wae.Despite my protest he advanced.After protests in the usual form between both parties, M.Cord- renier left for Leo to-day, leaving behind the above-mentioned post unmolested.\u201d \u201d Dr.Tanner, anti-Parnellite member for Middle Cork, exclaimed: \u201cVive la France.\u201d Speaker Gully called him to order.The address in reply to the speech was then.agreed to, and the House adjourned amid considerable excitement.AMERICAN RALLY IN LONDON.New York, Feb.18.\u2014(Special.)\u20141Ihe Evening Post's financial cable says :\u2014 London, Feb.18.\u2014The stock market here remains dull to flat to-day.Americans, however, rallied at mid-day, and this being followed by New York support, prices closed firm at the best.morning was by weak bulls in the Kafiir crowd, and altogether the market now las had a thoroughly healthy shaking out.Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk were flat.The former was steadily sold by New York.Argentines were weak on heavy sales from Paris.Kaffirs were down on the London Times\u2019 political leader.Copper shares were easier.The decline in the German bank rate had no effect here, it having been anticipated.\u2019 SAVOYHOTEL.Nos.10, 12, 14 and 16 Victoria Street Conducted entirely on the European plan, The best furnished bedrooms in the city, $1 to $2 per \u2018day.All meals a la carte, Dining rooms open nightly until one o'clock for theatre pariies.Private rooms reserved for parties of four or more on order by telephone 4276.A special rate will be given for permanent guests.THE SOCIETY OF ARTS OF CANADA.1666 Notre Dame street, Montreal.Distributions every Wednesday.Value 27° +: Ho Cure, No Pay.Ch pre - of prizes ranging from $2 to $2,000.Tic.The selling in the | 0008090900080 9090000909 o \u2018had said.Any expansion of Canadian.trade increased the trade of the Montreal merchants and manufacturers, and the Eastern: business men should lend their assistance to the project under consideration.While it is estimated that $125,- 000,000 will be spent on the country this season, and, as not one-tenth of that amount would be taken out in gold, the Profit to the country will be immense.tle admitted, for argument, that the railway projected by the Government is calculated to develope the country, but it Is not calculated to secure the Yukon trade for the business and commercial classes of Canada.The food trade is the biggest one in connection with the Yukon.Canada could never secure the food trade if the only communication with the country is from the Pacific ccast.Con- mection must be made on this side of the mountains if the business of Canadd is to improve by the as-istance of the gold excitement.He.agreed with everything the previous &peakers had 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PA | onder; Rm le à EXCEL Passez, DE nep de deck, nd Win gig Be cs 2RVICE, From Tom Portiani +1 Me, +15 Ma, - Ma Fron St.Jur | Or abr- «1 Fe, 18 Fel, 18 Fg, ILADEL | -e[IY A LUOLT re = 9=ss as = r, AN, Lontreal, I 1 Portlani, 2.1m om Bostn, dh &50 en h 2 Xe verpui it 500.00 22e nd Gain, co; 7, Londn.ow, $22) ished fre t, spachu ly to uw} * co.Montreal, \u2014 \u20141858 [NE SHIPS.ohn, N.B o, Irelant Prom n, Halifat Thurs 2, Jul 9 Mar.16 Mari .23 Mari r, 30 Mar: o $60.b steamer & 0] or L® Glas fast, His ndon, 6# $22.30.freight ¢ MPBEL | Manage 1 Streth oh.1.¢ Standard re OSE AFRIDI MOUNTAINEER, ighting + Methods of Fig el the Rocky Defiles, eee 15 SEEN ON THE SPOT.ee An American War Correspondent on the Frontier Trouble, mre - (Philadelphia Press.) \u201cIN Bombay in the early RRIVINE ot November, I found that it would be possible or a isi through the \u20ac 10 obtailx per Em friends in India, nuence ° * english forces then operating ee Tet che Pathan tribes on the north- again\u201d nier.\u2018 .we of several mouths in Eastern Mongoliæ had prevented my or) 8.no \u201d ai + its inception, but os.campaign a di in India in availing time Ler lane\u2019 ity to become at- elf of the opportunity h war a ed to the forces in Tirah as a tach ndent I have now had an op- Co of seeing many phases of the po! uh à, having gone out regularly for CD reeks past with those sections of She troops which were most likely to come : fore, give a few ne action, ne Le omditions under which the two opposing forces are labor- We ili ! ted in *.pivilized' army has ever opera No ci antry than this stern border- fend of India and Afghanistan.For several months past work \u2018has been confined to a little area only sixty.miles square, which is divided by the Khyber Pass \u2018al- .in the centre.me although the valleys are shown to be near one another on the maps the distance between them, when measured hy hours, is very great.To the unconcerned mind the bold.jagged mountains of Tirah, with their severe outlines, appear like a grand abutment to the stately yanges of the Himalayas, whosq lofty white peaks look down upon the eccentricities of man with silent contempt.But to those who have entered the home of the Afridis with fire and sword, the barren heights seem only to resemble im- rregnable fortresses, while the broken, in- fospitable valleys present death traps at every turn.None but the strongesi and bravest should invade these regions.The English have splendidly withstood all the hardships they have been obliged to undergo, but I must also add that, although the sterling qualities which they have dis- rlayed in this campaign must be a matter of pride to all Anglo&Saxons, it is hardly just to rank in second order many of the native soldiers, notably the Gurk- has and the Sikhs.If for nothing else the war has been of great value in showing up the metal of these native troops.+ THE HERALD, Indian was best dealt with by employing j one point of honor seems to be that they his own methods against him.If there were more Gurkha scouts in Tirah, or a picked fonce of English gharpshooters, trained especially for mountain work, there would be fewer casualties on the English side, and the Afridis would suffer far more than has been their lot up to the present time.The war could mot be otherwise than very bloody under any circumstances, however, for the Pathan \u201cdevils\u201d are a hard lot to deal with, and, considering the large scale on which the operations Lave been conducted, praise is due to those in command.The difficulties of transport have been great, and although the ex- cellént management oË the transport and commissariat departments have been in a great measure the secret of English successes in the East, a little too much has been attempted in this line on several oc- Casions.The string of transpout animals connected with each brigade extended a distance of five or six miles, and it is easy to see how difficult it was to auird this, and at the same time to fight a way through a mountainous country, every yard of which afforded cover to a cunning and experienced foe.In the early part of the campaign one or two of the Pathan tribes attacked the English forces openly and in large numbers, but their losses were so great that these tactics were mever more adopted.Since many of the enemy were deserters from the Indian army they know bow to harass their former masters at their weakest points.Pathan\u2019s Mode of Warfare.They watched their opportunities to attack rear guards, transport lines, retiring pickets, to make sudden rushes when troops had mot camped until late in the evening and the baggage was mot all in.They have also been quick in occupying sheltered mountain recesses, whence they coutd deal death und destruction to their enemies, at a distance of from 700 to 1,500 yards.There are no better marksmen in the world than the Pathans as 7 class, and since they knew every range from long experience of fighting among themselves, their bullets have told heavily on the English forces by might and by day.Nothing could be more trying to soldiers than this style of warfare.Greater cour- &ge could not have been displayed than I have seen exhibited by the English officers and privates in Tirah, but I speak from experience when I say that it is most exasperating to see men whom you have learned to admire felled to the ground by some distant and unseen hand, and when revenge, for the time being at any mate, is out of the question.The English are methodical and persistent, so that I have little doubt but that they will eventually reduce to submission two, at least, of the three tribes which are still out, the Afridis, Bonerwalls and the Zaker Kehls.The latter are robbers by birth, and have always gloried in the fact that they could tyrannize over their neighbors, who, in turn, are daring and murderous as one could wish for.To the Zaker Kehls there is but one life \u2014that of a brigand, and thev would rather give up their lives than their rifles.Probably they will be forced by starvation to seek refuge in Afghanistan for two or three years, after which their rifies may again cause trouble in Tirsh, or the other ; {ribes may combine against them to keep the peace.Here again comes the question whether or not \u2018the other tribes will renew hostili- Gurkhas for attack and Sighs for defence\u2014 | ties at some future time.My humble I could not wish for better fighting ma- \u2019 opinion is that the English were too eager terial against any soldiers in the world.The Mountain Fighters, The agile little Gurkha is a very fiend in getting up a hill quickly, and in rush- mg his enemy in caves or around cor- vers.lle can scarce run down a moun- .tain as fast as an Afridi if he is unaccustomed to mountain work, but he is tar beiter in this respect than the heavily- accoutered English soldier.One of the most astonishing exhibitions I have ever seen was the spectacle of Afridis rushing down a precipitous mountain side under fire.I have recollections of seeing two legs stretched at right angles to each cther, as though the owner was trying to do a \u201csplit\u201d for a ballet, the only difference being that while one of \u2018his lower appendages was projected straight downward, the other still tipped a rock above end behind him.He came on, or almost fell, about seven feet at each bound, scarcely bendnig his knees, apparently, Wis grass shoes not allowing him to slip an inch, and his light- flowing cloak, skull cap, and loose pyjamas offering no impediment to his progress.That the Gurkhas can, after practice, how ever, become as good, mountaineers in £very way as the Pathans, is instanced by the brilliant performance of the little body of mnety men from N epal, who were especially trained for hill work by Lieuts.-ùcas and Bruce.These Gurkha \u201cscouts\u201d were frequently sent out at night to stalk Snipers, to drive the enemy from commanding positions on hilltops, and to execute various maneuvers that would have proved fatal to the average \u201cTommy,\u201d and yet the \u201cscouts\u201d have bagged ninety of the enemy, while their own casualties voue fs to only one killed and two Disadvantage of Sikhs, The Sikhs labor under almost the \u2018same advantage as the English soldier, for hey do not understand how to keep cover iiciently, and at the same time to get oo ou quickly.They are splendidly-built o y seing \u2018over five feet ten inches wil eight, and if ordered to do so they 1k snd an attack to the last man.\u201c= DIED enjoys fighting as well as a ha, and is as good as the latter in fon Paine, but in the hills he is no match bave leary ine Pathan.The Tinglish Taign, and the by siudying the redskins, shots, ang y might learn a little more our methods in dealing with ar regulars were excellent thor\u201d ndergtocd wall the game ay had Lo play, and there were En about ny scouts who knew as mych and en Cine as the Indians themselves, almost.vere furthermore shanpshooters, peut ae à man.We did not mobilize a knglis a of over 60,000 men, as the ave done, because the American 1900000000000000000000000 SY © © $ $ > $ & S $ S e Rogers\u2019 Plate If your Silverware has commenced to show signs of wear, now would be à good time to have it replated at à nominal price, makino it a8 good as new, and capable of standing continuous use or fifteen or twenty years, Tea Spoons, re-plated., re by Para Spoons and Forks .2.50 able Spoons and Forks ; 3.50 STANDARD ROGER8s\u2019 PLATE, Simpson, Hall, Miler & Ça, 1794 Notre Dame Street.O06 00000006000 00000000000 9656660 SOCOOHSCHHHP à © SSHHSSÈ + GOCHHOS GOHOIS HOOOHO © © © SSHOHHHHH% \u2014\u2014\u2014 in the beginning to accept terms, and there are consequently too many so-called \u201cfriendlies\u201d wbout; tribesmen, who have given up ome of their poorest rifles to save their towers from destruction or because they were out of cartridges.It is not unlikely that they help their warring neighbors in many ways, since the tribes united against the English in an unprecedented manner.The bloodthirsty ruf- flans should be forced to acknowledze themselves crushed, and the terms could be dictated to them afterward.Will Carry War to am End.The English have begun to realize this.They are now thoroughly aroused and will nwost likely see the affair to the bitter end even if it takes years to do so.\u2018The villages of all the tribes who did mot comply with the terms offered them have been burned, and the spring crops of those that remain out will be destroyed.Some sixty .of the Zaker Kehl compounds were destroyed near Landi Kotal a few days ago, and.the proceedings were not without a considerable loss to the English.Four officers were seriously wounded and one killed in five days, in addition to some twenty casualties among privates.The state in which the Pathans live is not much inferior to that which existed among our own ancestors in the old baronial days.Each compound consists of a large rectangular courtyard, inclosed by massive clay walls, fifteen feet high, with loop holes ranged along the top.In the yard there are usually a half dozen dwelling : houses, and as mamy sheds for cattle, while at one end rises a tower to the height of thirty feet, of such strength that only the heaviest artillery is effective against it.The owner of a tower is usually at deadly enmity with his neighbors whether they belong to his own tribe or not.He amuses himself by taking every opportunity to shoot any man who exposes his person in the adjacent compounds, and he, therefore, dare not leave his own abode, except by stealth.He \u2018is sometimes shut up for months at a time, and only the women can leave their abodes to nttend to outside work, but in the seasons for sowing ard reaping the crops, a truce is proclaim- \u201ced, and then alone may the men work in uch already from this cam- + the fields.Very many of the men leave their homes by night and go down to the plains where they enlsb as soldiers in the Indian army, or get work on the roads for u few omnths.There are many Afridis at present in the Indian army who have remained loyal, and who have been exempted by the English from being enrolled among the forces operating against their kinsmen.One regiment, however, the Khyber Rifles, com- pesed of matives of the Khyber, are employed at present in their own country, and these seem to have mo compunction in belping in the destruction of their relr- tives\u2019 property.Every Pathan lives for himself alone, and thinks no more of kili- ing his father or his brother tham of murdering a man of another tribe.An officer of one of the Pathan regiments told me that one of his men asked for leave for a few days, as he wished to settle a dispute with this uncle.Upon arriving in Peshawar the man endeavored to exchange a sword he carried for a rifle, but not being able to obtain what he wanted, he managed to secure a shotgun, and with this he proceeded to his uncle\u2019s tower.Knowing the habits of his relative, he waited by a certain door, throudh which the intended victim was likely to pass at about 10 o'clock at night.At the hour mentioned the uncle appeared, and was quickly disposed of, whereupon the assassin \u2018hurried back to Peshawar, took the next train to the place where he was stationed, and soon afterward gleefully reported himself to the officer in command, feeling proud of having settled his feud so successfully.This is only one of many similar cases, The hillsmen are continually working 1p ® | blood feuds with one another, and their shall settle these promptly.When in Poshawar or in the plains they get along quite amicably together.Formerly, when the Pathans possessed only matchlocks and tiintlocks they could not do a great deal of | damage from their towers, but since thoy have obtained long range rifles their numbers have been diminishing rapidly.After the war against the English is over they will immediately commence anew ! tLeir fights among themselves, and those who have managed to retain their rifles may probably commit so many _murders that few inhabitants will be left in Tirah.Power of he Mullahs.It is strange that the \u201cmullahs\u201d or Ma- homedan priests could have persuaded the different tribes to unite against the Indian Government.The former were thie aggressors, and the English were obliged to undertake a punitive war in order to uphold their prestige, The terms offered them were such as each tribe could well afford to submit to, a small fine in rupees and the delivery of a certain number of rifles which were known to be in their possession.The inhabitants of the Khyber were heavily subsidized by the English, to keep the pass open, and yet they wantonly attacked and wrecked the different forts along the road.When: the fort at Landi Kotal was attacked there was a man inside it belonging to the Khyber Rifles, who together with one of his sons, was fighting on the English side, while two more of his sons were with the attacking party.One of the latter called aloud to his father, saying that he had important information to give him, whereupon the old man exposed \u2018himself above the wall, only to be shot dead the mext instant by one of his own flesh and blood.White I watched the blowing up of the Zaker Kehl villages in the Khyber, close to the borders of Afghanistan, I could not help wishing that the snow-clad mountains would divulge their secret.What a tale they might unfold\u2014of the battles fought by the invading hordes of Tartars, of the introduction of Buddhism, and the subsequent overthrow of that religion by the disciples of Mahommed, and of the wars between the people of the south and the ancient inhabitants of Afghanistan! The wars between the English and the Afghans are very interesting, but a know ledge of them only serves to increase one\u2019s eagerness to look back into the centuries preceding, about which the pages of his tory are so dark.We.are aware that Alexander the Great marched down the Khyber Pas, but history tells us little about his exploits in adjacent countries, except that he found the natives more warlike than any he had met with before.Before retiring towards Europe he left some of his people in the country a little to the left of the pass, and the descendants of this remnant of Alexander\u2019s host are as white as any Europeans of to-day.It is very probable that there 2, was at the same time a considerable infusion of white blood among the Pathan tribes, for many of the latter are very fair.Some of the Afridis women are quite white and very pretty.The women and children have suffered severely during the present campaign, through the recklessness of their lords and masters, although many of them have probably been taken care of by the Pa- than \u201cfriendlies\u201d living in Peshawar, and others, who are mot living in caves, have fled to Afghanistan.It is mecessary for England to keep the Khyber Pass open, since it is not unlikely that a war may arise with Afghanistan after the death of the present Ameer.But an invasion by Russia in this direction need scarcely be feared by the Indian Government, as the natural defences of the Khyber are so perfect that it could easily be held by civilized troops against any army in the world.I have now left the cold and desolate mountains of Tirah and am about to take the train at Peshawar for the plains, where a little warmth and nights free from the disturbance of snipers will be a pleasant change for me.oe \u2014Doctor Donaldson.A rt rer \u2014 WHERE DREYFUS IS IMPRISONED.The Devil\u2019s Island, or Ile du Diable, where Captain Dreyfus is imprisoned, is one of a small group of three islets, the Iles du Salut, situated at a short distance from the north-east colust of French Guiana.The other two islands are named respec- favely the lle Royale and the Ile Saint Joseph.All thret have been, and are still, used for the internment of convicts.The Ile Royale and the Ile Saint Joseph are reserved for the most dangerous convicts, and for criminal lunatics and idiots.The Ile du Diable used to be reserved for convict lepers.When, however, it was determined to send Captain Dreyfus thither, the lepers were removed to the Upper Maroni, where a new leproserie was organized.All the buildings on the island were destroyed, and the whole was disinfected.At the most south-westerly point of the island, in full view of the coast of the Ile Royale, a special house was constructed for the new prisoner, together with accommodation for \u2018his jailers.From the coast of the 1le Royale it is easy to supervise everything that occurs on the south-wester!y point of the Devil\u2019s Island.ments of \u2018the prisoner and of his guardians can be watched with the naked eye, and are, in fact, thus controlled.The Devil's Island itself is very difficult of access, owing to the reefs by which it is surrounded.At the point, however, where Captain Dreyfus is interned, a small and practicable channel has been cut, by which small boats may reach the landing-place.This landing.place is strongly armed.It is by this channel that all communications with the island are made.In order further to guard against escape or rescue, strange vessels are prohibited from approaching the island, amd dhe direat postal service has been abolished.All letters are now sent to Guiana, whence they are delivered at the Iles de Salut after a delay of several days.An answer by return of post is impossible.These precautions have nat satis fied the French Government, and lately it has been determined to remove the prisoner to the cemtre of the island, where a new house anid other construetions for the Jjail- ers and guard, torather with a strong iron cage, are being (built on the solid rock.These new works will cost 60.000 francs.It is estimated that the expense of keeping and guanding Captain Dreyfus, and of the incessant telesmaphic correspondence at ten franos, fo whith his fmopriconment gives rise, does not fall short «2 60,000 francs, or £2,400 a year.A humorous writer in a French journal suggests thot the disappearance of Andree's balloon in the Polar regions has caused The ridministiators ot the Iles du Salut considerable nnxietyv.and that they are hourly looking forwand to its appearance above the Devil's Island.as it ts met at all impossible that the explor- ars alleged desire to solve Tl.o secret of the Pole is onlv a blind for a plat to rescue Dreyfus.Nothing is sacred to the humor ist of the boulevards.The first printersused toprint only onone side of the nage.and then pasted together the two blank nages to give the im preasion of one leaf.dea aa When Queen Victoria goes abroad she always has a couple of fire extinguishers sent out in advance and fitted up in the house she is to reside in.The move- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1898._/ AT THE THEATRES.ON \u2014- in A marine animal.ai w An American State of fou À citizen of the Tniteq St letters ppcoumtry in the North of En $.st , A rst three letters of a 9.\" A Biblical nam .an short sleep.¢ for Father.e Empress of | 12.À little fairy, © CODY in gy, My initials and finals w oo a fuss in a China store | * + + No.4.\u2014Charade w [Contributed by Wilfrid Sudb bar en sending in puzzles tq Th a \u20ac sure and write carefully, = nl ution may be whole \"and ha ! sitor will be \u2018see to fire © | Qifhoulty Cond to first PNPHAE e.lag ~~ t= ~~ \u2014 ) oN make gy, êra'3 Fons Con t wityn No.5,\u2014M M mat NO.5.\u2014Matthemat (Contributed by C, When first the vriage nor ro) Between my love and me VAS tloz My age did then her age exce a As three times three does thre y But when for ten anq half te ns We man and wife had been n Years, Her age came up as 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Anne, I * mee.of the peop \" phe house the boys, wm It was \u201cwho should was DEVE beautiful and rich he vin Oe bat % a Tine played and made iuh them all, if she smiled on it was for the purpose .all the young men 0 of gather ol attracting compliments me op the other girls; for, you see, and DO cad setifled her affections me -oung man, a neighbor, who had en most brought up along with her.Pe hine was the mosit beautiful I te Anne, Hippolite Lamonde, : ears of age, was the girl in »# ; > then pwenty-eiglt years a vas brave and vigorous.pandsomest boy, but as gentle bearing he ' e had long been ihe young sin, end tance which Core revent Lamonde from suffering aid nor Pan her making merry with ald a who spoke to ther;but he bore fr i without a murmur.He was too ge to oo have asked Josephine\u2019s hve for her hand before thie, but his parents evented him, for he had heard be har say once that he would only be his daughter to a young man w'ho Es in easy circumstanoes, and that the did not intend to give her to a beggar.That had affected Hippouite like a 1 5 ' 3 t nO il , dose of fine mustard in he OSU 8 or, without being a beggar he had hard- lon VE \u2018 \u2019 His father, .\u2018anvuihing of his own.A with a numerous family, was not vich, and, as for himself, he was on y commencing to make a living at his ve he was adroit as a monkey, a good \u2018builder r joiner._ ame ee chine were in this position, he received a letter from his \u201cuncles who lived in Upper Canada, inviting him to go thither.The letter stated that there was abundance of work in that part of the country, amd not many wor kmen, end that he would give him a share in à Government building contract, by means of which he would be able to make a large sum of money in the space of ree years.vues bold this good news to his sweetheart.She cried a great deal at first; but he gave her such good reasons that she consented to let him go, promising to be him.ine was very sad for some time after the departure of her sweetheart; but the sex is pretty flighty, as you know, and soon after she returned to her usual mode of conduct, just the same as ibe- fore.One night, about twelve o'clock, she was returning from a party, with a run ber of other young people, laughing, jumping, dancing, pushing this one, giving a poke to that, and making alone more noise than all the others together.As they were passing the church they perceived, standing on the steps at the great door, a man wearing a surplice and a beretta.His head was bowed and his two hands stretched toward them.Everybody was startled, but Josephine recovered very quickly and said to them:\u2014 \u201cIt is Ambrege, the beadle\u2019s son who has dressed himself up like that to give us a fright; I shall catch him well, I shall carry off his beretta, and he will have to come for it before mass.\u201d No sooner said than done.She ran up the church steps, took possession of the beretta and commenced to jump and dance in the midst of the others, playing all kinds of pranks.The old people were asleep when she got home.She went in noiselessly, put the beretta in a half empty box in her bed room, locked it up carefully, and put the key in her pocket, saying to herself, \u201cWhen Ambrose comes to-morrow morning, I shall have lots of fun with him, telling him I lost the beretta in the great Ste Anne\u2019s Creek, and to go and look for it.\u201d She was going to sleep when she heard a sound at the window at the northern end of her room.She opened her eyes and saw the same person whom she had seen on the church steps, still leaning his bedy forward, with his lips pressed against a window pane, and she heard distinctly the words, \u201cGive me back my beretta.\u201d A moise which she heard at the same time in the box where she had Placed the hat, made her shiver.The moon thad then risen, and she saw that, instead of Ambrose, it was a tall young Tan who cried continually: \u201cGive me buck my beretta,\u201d And each time he spoke she heard knocking inside the box as if a little imprisoned animal wanted to get out.Fear seized her and she covered ber head in the blankets so as to see and hear nothing.She passed a miserable night, sometimes dozing and sometimes waking with a start.When she wanted to get up the next morning, she still heard knocking in the box.She made one jump, caught up her clothes and went dressed in the next room.When her parents saw how changed she \u201cas, (she was changed indeed, she was in high fever) they scolded her for getting up late; but, seeing that she had tears in to ie they kissed her and told her not her pain at they were sorry for causing Josehine passed the day somehow.\u20ac shivered at the smallest noise and kept told oily beside her mother and aunt.She sleep aon at night that she was afraid to one and she begged them to make êr a Bed near her aunt in the attic.Her Tequest was granted.Her aunt hag scarcely lain down that evening before she went asleep: b Josephine, who p; but poor ( ho could not sleep, imme- arly Saw, In front of the window, a sha OW, which caused her to raise her pes and there was the same phantom that na peared the night before, and which, calig ed in air, and in the same attitude beret, out her, \u201cGive me back my .She uttered hriek fof heonso.\u201ca loud shriek and e whole family came to her aid; but t .hey were some time bringing her back to and hoïdng h \u2019 : : g ner father nd her aunts hands tightly To er by TO _ As she had grown quiet- fetor du ing, 1t Was proposed to go and hat \u20ac most skilful surgeon in the parish t she insisted up paris Priest.On sending for the parish When the pries lated go ihe priest came ghe secretly re Im the entire adventure, He EEE MONS ES HONOHO HONORONS MS ce DERE CHOUINARD'S STORY.From the de Gaspe Memo [Rendez-moi mon bonnet carre.] mi moncmONSESE MOMONONONOHONONSMORON MON so we lie.| did all he could to reassure her, he gave and the evil spirit made his appearance.| dred times to save you a scratch.What B:ECEONCEON +R yECEORORM her good advice and told her that he could do nothing else, for the time, than send her some holy relics, but that the next morning he hoped to free her from this apparition which had caused her so much suffering.The good people made her a bed in their room, shutting the shutters at her request, and again spent the night with her, se that she slept fairly well, and was much better next day, when the priest came to see her as he had promised.Now, you know, all priests have the means of making the devil come to them when they have need of him.The night before, this priest had taken out the little book which he always kept carefully locked up, and had read the passage neecssary in such cases.A loud noise was heard in the air, like the howling of the wind, , It was the first time he had met him, and the priest did not like this looks, and he crossed his stole before his stomach in case of danger.The devil for his part, had paid particular attention to his toilette for the interview.Coat, vest and breeches of black velvet, a general\u2019s cocked hat with feathers, handsome boots and silk gloves\u2014nothing was wanting, and, if it had been darker, and his feet and hands had not been so long, he could have passed muster very well in soci- | ety.The priest bitterly reproached him with what had happened to the young girl, and accused him of having appeared to her in order to frighten her to death.\u201cYour reverence,\u201d said the devil, \u201csaving i the respect I owe your cloth, you must sensible priest.1 i i learnt what to do.think that I am a great simpleton to have employed such means, while I was already sure of my prey by flattering her vanity and her coquetry, and that, sooner or latter, I should have put my claw on her soul; whereas, now, there she is cured for the rest of her days, and going to devote her- sell to religion.Away with you for a I should have thought that you had known the human heart better.\u201d You see the devil spoke politely and gave \u2018 good reasons.Ah! I would not have advised him to kick against a priest; he would soon have found whom he was talking to.The priest would have lathered him with his stole until he cried like a wild dog.It appears that the priest saw the force of his arguments, for he cut the shape of a cross in the air.The earth shook and the evil spirit disappeared.When the priest saw that the devil had nothing to do with the affair he took out of his library the biggest book in Latin that he could find, and commenced to read; and he read so long that he went to sleep, his head upon the book.He dreamt while he was asleep\u2014I cannot tell what this dream was, but it appears that he had He said mass to the ! intention of poor Josephine and then went toe where she lived.a little better.\u201cMy dear child,\u201d said he, \u201cYou have committed a great fault; but you have sinned through ignorance, and I do not reproach you.The phantom you have seen is a poor soul in purgatory who was finishing a long penance which you have interrupted, and which he cannot now finish without his beretta.You must then make up your mind to put it back on his head to-night.\u201d 7 \u201cI would never dare to do it,\u201d said the unhappy girl, weeping, \u201cI would drop dead at his fect.\u2019 He found her just \u201cYou must do it, nevertheless,\u201d said the ' priest, \u2018for otherwise you will have no more peace in this world or in the next.The spectre will dog your footsteps continually.Besides, you will have nothing to fear.You will be in a state of grace, I shall be there with your father and mo- ther\u2014to whom we are going to tell every- thing\u2014to support and protect you when necessary.\u201d Poor Josephine consented after a great deal of hesitation.The grief of the old people was great when they learned the truth; but they did all they could to console their unbappy child.They all passed the evening at the priest\u2019s house and prayed fervently up to the stroke of midnight, when they betook themselves to the door of the church, where they found the spectre upon the steps and in the same attitude.La Fine trembled like a leaf, in spite of the stole which the priest had tlirown about her and the exhortations which he uttered.Nevertheless she made a desperate effort and went up the steps; but at the moment when she was about to place the beretta on the phantom\u2019s head, it made a motion as if it wished to throw its arms around her, and she fell fainting into those of her father.The priest, taking advantage of the opportunity, wanted to take the ber- efta and restore it to dts owner; but she held it so tightly that it would have been necessary ito cut off her fingers to take it from her.La Fine was very soon reduced to a pitiable condition.She trembled at the least sound and could not remain alone a single instant.During this time of suffering, her pretty cheeks, ruddy as ripe apples, became as pale as a withered white rose.Her fair and eurly hair, of which she was so proud, hung straight down like wet hemp, aleng her cheeks and over her Fhoulders: her beautiful blue eyes became glassy, and ker whole body became so emaciated that to look at her, alone, brought tears to the eyes.She had all the symptoms of death in \u2018her face.The cleverest surgeons said that her lungs were affected, and that she would not live long.What was Hippolite Lamonde doing all this time?Three years ago he had left, and nobody had had a word from him since.Yet he returned home at last, glad at heart, for he had done well, and he could now present himself before the father of Jcsephine without fear of a rebuff.He arrived at night-time and the first thing he did, after having embraced his parents, was to ask for word of Josephine.They told him all that had taken place, and he tore his hair in despair.\u201cWhat,\u201d he said, \u201cof all those braggarts who appeared to love her so much, was there not one to be found brave enough te help her?Cowards! Cowards!\u201d Alter a sleepless night, spent walking about alone, like a man who had lost everything he valued, he was at seven o'clock in the morning in the presence of his be- trethed.She was seated on an arm-chair, surrounded with pillows, her feet on a little stool covered with a bear skin, a thick blanket around her, and yet her teeth chattered with the cold.She seemed to revive atthe sight of Hippolite.che stret:h- ed out her arms to him and said in a weak and tremibling voice: \u201cMy dear Polithe, we must not think of the friendships of this world below.When one is dying one should only think of Heaven.It is a great consolation for me to see you before I die.You will weep over my coffin with my father and mother, and afterwards you will do your best to console them.Promise it to her whom you have loved so long.I have only one regret in dying.It is to have treated you so badly, and not to be able to repair the injuries I have done you by making you happy.\u201d Tears blinded poor Lamonde, and he said, \u201cBanish, banish, my dear Fifine, these miserable presentiments.Hippolite is be- \u201cbut tell me at least if really poor Joseph- fore you and you will live.\u201d \u201cHow can I hope to live,\u201d said she, \u201cwhen I am in continual fear?When I tremble at the least sound ?When the light of day frightens me just as much as the darkness of night?When I hear forever in my ear the whisper of a soul in suffering, reproaching me with my cruelty?I dare not ask death to end my sufferings, for the spectre is always there, saying \u2018You will have no rest in this world nor in the next.\u2019 i Oh it is pitiable, pitiable,\u201d and the un- | happy girl wrung her hands in despair.Josephine! my dear Fifine! take courage for the love of your parents.For my sake too, take courage.I shall go myself this ! evening and restore to the phantom the thing you took from him, and then you will ! be freed.\u201d | \u201cYou shall not go,\u201d cried Josephine, \u201clet me die alone.I am already unhappy enough without having to reproach myself with your death.\u201d \u201cWhat have I to fear?\u2019 asked Lamonde.\u201cI have never harmed anyone, dead or alive, that this phantom should wish me ill.Do you think that.if you had fallen over ; a precipice, I should have hesitated an instant to flv to your aid, even if certain of dying with you?For, you see, Fifine, I | would let them chop me to pieces a hun- \u201cremains for me to do is childs play, and I shall be as cool about it as I am now.\u201d i In vain Josephine begged and implored | him not to run any risk for her, her so unworthy of so much love.He was none \"the less fixed in the determination he had | formed.At eleven 0\u2019clock he asked for the key of the box where the beretta was locked up, and he had scarcely opened it before the beretta tumbled into his hand.The night was very dark when he reached \u2018the door of the church.The lamp which burns in the sanctuary alone threw a little light at a distance from the building.He walked about, praying to himself, until the spectre appepared.At the stroke of midnight, it made its appearance on the usual spot.He went up the steps steadily to where it was standing in its usual attitude and he fearlessly replaced the beretta on its head.The phantom signed to him to follow, and Lamonde obeyed.The door of the cemetery opened, and closed when they had gone inside.The phantom sat down on a grass-cov- ered ridge and motioned to Hippolite to ; sit down beside him.It then spoke for the first time, and said: \u201cExcuse me, good young man, if I cannot offer you a more suitable seat.There is no style in the place where all are equal.Whether a seigneur, a notary or a doctor arrives, nothing more is put in the stew- pan.\u201d You see it was a polite phantom and one which could explain itself clearly.You might have thought otherwise after the fuss he had made about his beretta; but when a man is doing a severe penance he is not always in the best of tempers; but when he has finished it, he brightens up a bit.\u201cGood young man.\u201d said the spirit, \u201cfour feet beneath us, where we are seated, I have resided for thirty years.Such a dwelling seems sad to you.Well, I never left it at night without a sigh, when my soul went to find my poor body, to make it do penance well deserved.\u201clI was gay in my youth, and fond of pleasure.I was the merry-maker of the parish, and not a wedding, a feast or a dar ce was given, without my being invited.If T spent the evening in one house or another all the neighbors hastened to listen to my jokes.\u201cAs T passed our church one day I saw the children gathered for catechism, and the priest gong off to a sick call.I told the children to follow me into the chureli; that the priest had commissioned me to conduct the class until he came back.I put on a surplice, took a Dberetta and went down into the pulpit and did so many funny things that the children were, wild with laughter.In a word I committed all kinds of profanations in the sanctuary itself.\u201cEight days afterwards, sailing out on i the river alone in my skiff, a sudden gust oi wind struck my sails, tore them to ribbons and overturned my vessel.I sue- ceeded in climbing on the keel, where I had time to make many reflections, and to recommend myself to God\u2019s mercy Then my strength gave out, and the tide bore my dead body to the shore.\u201cI was condemned to purgatory for thirty years, in the very places which I had profaned.At the stroke of midnight my soul reentered my body and dragged it to the church steps.\u201d Lamonde drew back to the other end of the ridge.He had thought he had only a spirit to deal with, and he found himself in the presence of a body into the bargain.He began to motice that the phantom had a strong breath.The ghost paid no attention and went on.\u201cYou will never understand, good young man, how many affronts \u2018and torments one suffers when one leaves one\u2019s place of rest.The darkest nights seem to us as bright as if the morn was in the sky.As nothing is heard four feet below the surface of the earth, the slightest noise makes us tremble.The lights in the houses of people whe are giving parties, dazzle us and burn our eyes.The noise of carriages passing, the laughter of their oe- cupants, affect us like peals of thunder.\u201cBut that was the least of my sufferings.What I went though in the autumn, in the rainy spring and through the great frosts of winter is enough to make the hairs stiffen on the head of a man with a heart of stone.For, you see, I was a man of no means, and I had been buried dressed as lightly as possible.A sheet that a charitable person had given to serve as a shroud, was all that I had on my body when my coffin: lid was nailed down.It seems hard to believe; but during the severe cold of January my poor bones often rattled like glass.\u201cI was then, quite happy.I was finishing my last night of penance when a young fool of a girl\u2014 i \u201cWithout desiring to interrupt you too much, Mr.Skeleton,\u201d said Lamonde, \u201clet us go softly if you please.I have followed you into this cemetery without having had you press me hard, and yet it has moth- ing fnviting about it daytime, and still less at night.TI shall admit that I took a little interest in the matter.I was curious to find out if dead people told as many lies | as living people.I also wanted to know something which I have very much at heart.I do not regret coming here.You have received me politely hitherto; but stop there.I must hear no ill of Fifine, You are glad, as a ghost who has finished you have no better things to tell me, let us break off there; let us separate without quarrelling.Good night.\u201d \u201cGood young man,\u201d said the ghost, \u201cI am under too great an obligation to you to want to hurt your feelings.I shall conclude then by telling you that I was finishing my Jast might of penance, when Mademoiselle Lalonde interrupted it.It is now over, thanks to your courage, and I thank you for it.I should like not to have tn confine myself to words, but to be able to prove my gratitude in a more substantial manner.I would like to know of some ! his penance.That is quite natured; but if ine's lungs are affected, and if the doctors are right when they say she cannot recover.\u201d \u201cGood young man,\u201d said the phantom, \u201cif Josephine regained her health, would you be still inclined to marry her?Yet you deserve a better fate than to marry a girl who will render you unhappy for the rest of your days.\u201d \u201cMr.Phantom,\u201d retorted Lamonde, \u201cevery man to his taste.I had rather be urhappy with her than happy with another.I am not fond, do you know, of pcopie sticking their noses into my affairs.If you have no other consolations to offer me, good night then.\u201d He got up to go but the phantom motioned to him to sit down again, and he did so.After a pause, the spectre resumed: \u201cThe surgeons have said that Josephine was affected in the lungs, and they were not mistaken.They have said that it was a fatal illness, and they have not told the truth.For, if, with all the science they boast of possessing, they have never been able to discover a cure for the malady, there is one all the same.And often death serves life.Take a handiul of that weed upon which you are sitting, so that you will krow it tomorrow; make her drink infusions of it, and in a month she will be getting well.Farewell, the dawn is breaking.J have only time to tell you that your betrothed is at ease now.I have whispered to her that you have set me Tee.\u2019 And the phantom disappeared.Lamonde, delighted, put a handful of the weed in his pocket, vaulted the cemetery wall, and a quarter of an hour later, was with Fifine.She stretched out her arms to him when she saw him, and they wept long without being able to say a word.People from the other world do not make any mistakes, and all happened as the ghost had predicted.Three months after, Lamonde led to the altar the prettiest girl in the parish.That\u2019s all very well; but how did they get on afterwards?Oh, as well as could be, Woman, as you know, are flighty.La Fine wanted at first to recommence her old pranks, She had not quite forgotten, notwithstanding her sufferings, her old business of coquette, although she loved her husband as much as the two eyes in her head.But Lamonde soon put things in order.He declared one day, at the church door, that he was not jealous, that he even liked to see his wife surrounded by admirers; 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As our explorers proceeded the timber became more scanty, scattered, and stunted in growth, till at last the whole country was a vast rolling, treeless wilderness.Speaking of the physical aspect of this hitherto unkuown region, Mr, Tyrell says : CL \u201cI may liken it to the prairie in a measure.It is a rugged, roliing, tract of lanit, spectled over with swamps, and occasionally rocky bills.Tu the whole Barren Lands there isu't wood enough to make a Loot peg of, so that, though we were often wet, the luxury of a fire was impossible; and such game as we shot had to be devoured raw, \u201cThe lakes abound with fish, mostly trout and white fish ; but here, except for the reindeer, appearances of animal life stop short.\u201cNo birds, no wild fowl, save one or two solitary white patridges\u2014brown at that season, no musk-oxen, although their presence might be expected ; a few scattered white woives, that is ull if you exvept the reindeer.Aud tlie big antlered feliows rcam Supreme in the Barren Lands.Once we saw A Herd That Fairly Hid the Earth for the whole three miles ; and at the smallest possible calculation there could not have been less than several hundred thousand feeding there on the damp grass.Oniy for the deer the party\u2019s larder would have failed entirely, and the dried meat constituted the principal diet.\u201cOf one deer hunt Mr.Tyrrell writes thus; \u2018* \u2018Our canoes were headed to leeward of the band, that they might not scent us as we approached the shore.The valley and hillsides for 1iles appeared to be woving masses of reindeer.To estimate their nambers would be impossible.They could only be reckoned in ucres or square miles.At the first shut the whole bsnd \u2014a solid mass of several thousands of deer \u2014was thruwn into confusion, and they rushed to and tro, not knowing which way to flee.Afver the slaughter of the first dus we carried no rifles with us, but armea with ouly a cutiera walked to and fro through the Lerd, cavsing little more alarm thaa one would by walking through a herd of cattie ina Jeld.\u201d\u201d The :raveilers\u2019 experience in Hudson\u2019s Bay duriug a storm are thus described : At length we neared the rocky shore, toward which for several hours we had been struggling, Lut, to our disappointment, only to tind it skirted by a long lice of rocks and shoals, upon which the full fury of the wild sca was breaking.What were we to do?Without a harbor, we would Le Dashed to Pieces Upon the Rocks, and it was impossible to retreat against the storm.On we were borne by the force of the gale, but thanks to a kind Providence, just as the crisis appeared to have come, & way of escape was discerned.One rock could be seen standing out in advance of the others, and behind this we managed, with a supreme effort, to guide the canoes.Then, in shallow water, with the force of the seas broken, we all sprang out and with great exertion succeeded in landing the boats in safety.\u2019 \u2018This storm continued for two days, All the foud they could procure was a small duck and two gulls.© Two days later they were again storm-bound by heavy gale, which lasted four days, \u2018We were already much reduced and weakened from the effects of cold and, hunger, and the condition of the weather had of late been most disheartening.Churchill, the nearest habitation of man, was still fully 300 miles dis tant.We had not one bite of food.The country was covered with snow, the climate piercingly cold.No fuel was to be had, and worst of all, the weather was such, the greater part of the time, that we were unable to travel.It was difficult to be cheerful under such circumstances, but we kept up courage, and pushed on.I confess,\u201d says Mr.Tyrrell, \u2018my heart grew sick.\u2019 \u201cProvidentially, a Polar bear was shot, which was speedily Devoured to Bones and Skin.But another terrific storm, accompanied by sleet and snow, lasted five long days, during which they were nearly bonumbed with cold and badly poisoned with eating the liver of the Polar bear.It was now a question of life or death.Winter had over- tken them, and ice was forming along the shore.\u201cWe quote from an interview reported in the Supplement to the Scientific American : *¢ \u2018Equinoctial gales and head winds prolonged our trip to one of 40 days\u2019 length.At first continued cold, driving rains brought us misery, and until the frost grew intense we had to sleep every night in our suits of reindeer fur and rabbit-skin blankets, both wet.Although we landed at night time for a camp, it brought no relief, for within 400 miles there was not one stick of wood, and over everything lay 18 inches of snow.Our provisions had long since given out, and there were days when we lacked one bite to eat; on several others we managed to shoot two or three ptarmigan or a like number of ground squirrels, but divided among eight, to be devoured raw, that could not be called fare any too ample \u201c \u201cAt one time we were too days on the Indigestion CP GELERY KING Strengthens the stomach; aids digestion; acts leasantly on the bowels.Large package, 25 Cts., old by all druggists, or WOODWARD MEDICINE CO, TORQNTO, CANADA.=> sea at a time.To tell how it happened, I must explain that the tides were a source of perpetual annoyance and danger, rising from 14 to 18 feet.When the tide is out it leaves along tne bleak and slightly elevated snore a belt of from four to five miles of shallows, dotted closelv with massive boulders.To land in safety you thus have to pick your time when the tide is at the highest point ; and on the occasion mentioned it was midnight and snowing into the bargain,\u2019 \u201c \u2018Eight more dreary days passed,\u2019 con= tinues Mr.Tyrvell\u2019s narrative, \u2018six of which were spent in battling with the elements and two in lying stormstayed in our tents.During this interval our party suffered much from cold and lack of food, and, to muke matters worse, dysentery attacked us, and it appeared as if one of our men would die.\u2019 \u2018¢ Again, for the last time, they took to their buats.With hollow cheeks and greatly enfeebled frames, they struggled on.\u2018Soon the shades of night began to fall about us, our canoes were leaking badly, and the weather was bitterly cold.\u2018The hours of that night were the longest I have ever experienced, and the odds seemed to be against us surviving; until morning ; but at last the day returned, and found us still alive.My Brother Wss Nearly Frozen, having been obliged to sit or lie in the water all night, Poor little Mitchell had both of his feet frozen, and the rest of us were badly used up.We must gain the shore or perish.By great exertion we succeeded about 1 o'clock in reaching solid ice, upon which we were able to land, and for the last time, haul ouc our noble little crafts.We had been in them just 30 hours, battling with the ice, exposed to a chilling winter blast, our clothing saturated and frozen, and our bodies faint and uumb with starvation and cold.« \u2018By October 16th we were still 30 miles from Churchill Fectory\u2019s pretentious array of seven or eight bouses, but the ice was forming so fast that progress by canoe was impossible.Every one in the party was weak from hunger and exposure, but I sent the two strongest Indians on foot south for dog teams.They succeeded in hiring four, and also brought back much needed supplies, so that at length we got our canoes to Churchill in safety, the people being greatly surprised at seeing white men come from higher latitudes than even they inhabit.Here, because the river was not frozen, we had to delay two weeks, although part of this time we were glad of it.My strength gave way a short distance from the factory, I having to be carried in, and the condition of the rest was almost as deplorable from the trials of that trip down the bay.The legs and arms of every one in the -party, shortly after getting there, swelled to over twice the natural size ; but the kind attenttion received soon put us right again.\u201d POINTED PARAGRAPHS.A selfsmade man never ceases to praise his maker.Many a fnll-dress suit stomach.When actors quarrel they can resort to the make-up box.Revenge is always sweet when compared to the bitterness of hate.The wise woman marries for protection as well as for revenue.Matrimony often turns love\u2019s sweet dream into a horrid mightaare, covers an empty It is seldoin difficult to appear natural if you have no object in view, You can easily convince the man who has lost that it is wrong to gamble.When a man\u2019s sins find him out thev\u2019re apt to hang around until he comes in again.American politics consist of the rolling of logs, the pulling of wires and the laying of pipes.WOMEN MD EAK NERVES eee, Lives of Misery and Affliction, MARVELLOUS CASE IN MANITOBA, Paine\u2019s Celery Compound Proves a Wondrous Blessing, Miss Parr Says: ¢ After the First Dose I Felt New Hope and New Life Coming.\u2019 Nervous Prostration, Mental Depression, and Excruciating Sufferings are Banished.Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.the Great Life Builder and Vitalizer.\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014 Wells & Richardson Co., ' Dear Sirs:\u2014For several years I have had weak nerves, and wag gradually running down, and last March I was prostrated with nervous debility, Oly sufferings were excruciating in the extreme; I really thought there never was another who suffered quite as much with mental dey pression and weak nerves.\u2018This lasted about three months, and I was taking doetors\u2019 medicine continually, but was getting worse instead of better.One day, while feeiing quite discouraged and wondering if I was ever to get out of my dreadful sfate, a dear friend said to me:\u2014\u201cI wish you would try Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.\u201d As I had intendea to try it, I äcted upon her advice, and started using it the very same day, and from the first dose I felt new hope and new life coming.I continued using it, and am still taking it once in a while, always asking God\u2019s blessing on each bottle.1 am very much improved, and cannot say too much in favor of the medicine, and would recommend it to all suffering from nervous prostration and mental depression.Yours faithfully, L.E.PARR, Crystal City, Man, HIS EXPLANATION.Miss Hazel\u2014\u2018\u2018Papa, why do they call that little side room at the club a \u2018grill room ?Do they ever grill things there?\u2019 Papa\u2014*\u2018I have known men to be roasted for things they accumulated in that room, but I guess the real reason for calling it a \u2018grillroom\u2019 is that that sounds better than barroom.He never made a mistake, He hadn\u2019t a foe on earth; He never went wrong, but the pitch of my song Is that he died at his birth.\u2014Cleveland Leader.A remarkable eel has been discovered in the Fiji islands.It has a peculiar formation in its throat which causes it to whistle when in an excited state.] MCHOROROUCE SNS MIROMOHSMSE has brought before us so admirably the suppressed letters of Napoleon\u2014\u2018\u2018New Letters of Napoleon\u201d\u2019\u2014is a lesson against despotisms and its devices.It is known that during the reign of the Third Napoleon a commission was appointed for the publication of the letters of the great ruler to whom the house of Bonaparte owed its rise.At that epoch the character of Napoleon was not a dead historical problem, but a living political issue.Henri Rochefort was supposed to be wielding a dreadful and most effective weapon against the reigning dynasty when he cast doubts on the virtue of Letitia Bonaparte, the mother of the great emperor, and Lanfrey, a stern republican, devoted years of his life to proving that the dead ruler was one of the greatest monsters.It is not surprising under these circumstances that a certain censorship was exercised over the letters by the imperialist commissionèrs to whom their publication was intrusted.People, however, who undertake the duty of historical suppression ought to do their work thoroughly or not at all.It must have occurred to the gentlemen who refused to give these letters to the public that they would some day be found, and that when they were found they would certainly © published.It shows a great deal of respec.for the dead, or for the muse of history, and some self-restraint that acoordingly the letters were allowed still to exist.IL As it is, here they are, and in a shape much more damaging to the memory of Napoleon than if they had been published at the proper dute and in the proper sequence.The editors of the classics, which were presented to us in our youth, were in the habit of suppressing those passages which were supposed to be a danger to the youthful mind ; but in revanche, they collected these passages all together and put them at the end of the volume.The effect need not be describea.This is just what has happened to the correspondence of Napoleon.The worst letters are first suppressed, and now they are collected altogether, and so presented to the public.The effect, of course, is much more damaging to the credit of Napoleon than if these letters had taken their place in the series ; that is to say, if they were presented as integral parts of a great whole, and not as things standing apart.Whatever of brutality, whatever of cynicism, whatever of savage tyranny, Napoleon could be charged with\u2014for all these things the materials are placed here, and at the hand of the first aud the clumsiest accuser.I do not think that the result is fair to history any more than to Napoleon.The emperor was a man of very complex character ; lis interests and duties were even more complex, and therefore to present us with the side which represented his system of police espionage, of brutality to individuals, of bartruess to suspects, is to present a very partial picture both of the man and of the policy which he represented.\u2018There were, after all, other ministries in the France of Napoleon as well as the ministry of police, and at the same desk, and within the sume hour as Napoleon was telling Fouche\u2019 to arrest, so to dog, ar even to torture some obnoxiour individual, ha was writing to another minister a dispatch which was calculated to add to the material and moral prosperity of the nation he governed.IT.For let it always be remembered of Napoleon that, whatever his faults and his vices\u2014and they vere both gigantic\u2014he was never a roi fuineant.He did not want to govern for any of the lowest objects of men.He was not indifferent to wealth nor to splendor, any more than he was to any other of the great dishes which lie spread on the banquet of life to those who have the strength and the self-assertion to possess them, Nor, as has been proved by re~ cent memoirs, was he wholly indifferent to the charms of woman; nor wholly free from the weaknesses or vices in their regard that have distingnished most rulers.But these were non~essentinls of lis character, Above and before all things he was a great man of affairs.Whoever wus idle in his kingdom or amoung his officials, Napoleon was always at work.It was remarked as the strongest proof of the intensity cf his emotion that lie did not see his ministers for two or three days after his separation from Josephine; it was the first time in all his life that he had allowed anything to stand between him and the discharge of his public duties.As Emerson said of him, he wasted his generals, he wasted France, finally he wasted himself in work.It would be absurd to say that all his views were enlightened.Indeed, even this volume proves that in some things he was \u2014especialiy in matters of trade\u2014as child ishly narrow as most of the economists of his day and as some of the protectionists of ours.Indeed, I sometimes venture to think that, intellectually, Napoleon will be found by and by to be much less great than he was supposed to be, either in his own time or even in ours.It was his narrowness of mind and his narrowness of knowledge which brought him into his two most disastrous quarrels, his war wi:h England and his war with Russia.He had undoubtedly a marvelous power of acs quiring information and of retaining it ; but I fancy it was a power that had enormous limitation.For instance, what could show greater ignorance of all the spitit and the practice of English institutions than his suggestion to Lord Russell\u2014who, it may be remembered, visited him in Elba- that Wellington was becoming dangerous to the monarchy by reason of his victorious career as a general?Napoleon had won a throne by the sword himself, and he could not understand why Wellington should not try to do the same.A man who had mastered the very first elements of English history and of the English character would have been incapable of uttering such an absurdity.III.But Napoleon was, I repeat, a great man of business, If he insisted on being omnipotent it was that he might fulfill to the letter and the spirit all the duties of rule as he understood them.Night and day he was at his desk when his country was at peace, and in war he was as laborioys ag the ¢n- monest soldier in his army.It is necess « y to dwell on this feature in his character in presence of such letters as these now before us.For that is Napoleon\u2019s point of view as to his duty, and if you accept that you begin to nnderstand and to extenuate a great deal which would be otherwise unintelligible.It follows as a necessary consequence from this standpoint that every man who interferes with Napoleon interferes with the good and the government of the country, and is to be put down.It follows also that as Napoleon has the sole responsibility for the government of the country, there is nothing in public affairs which is not of interest to him and with which he has not a right to interfere.And finally, it follows, on the principle that he who wishes for the end also wishes for the means, that Napoleon must adopt.the steps which are necessary to make him omnipotent.IV.All these things are necessary as\u2014so to speak\u2014postulates before one takes up this volume ; and then you are in a proper frame of mind to consider its contents in an impartial spirit.But even ther you are often filled with some wonder, some awe\u2014tremendous res pulsion.What a strange being this is that he can be so possessed by himself as never | to have any doubt as to his rights over the The volume in which Lady Mary Lloyd | lives, the liberties, the consciences of every CREE ROR BTR ENRON N EES HORC BORO NO RONORTNON 2 ne N ne ; Suppressed _etters of Napoleon Be @® \u201c© » © mn NEW LIGHT ON THE FRENCH TITAN.= = mn BERRIES ECEICECRCECE ON man in the world! Never for a moment\u2014 never even in his darkest hour\u2014is there any hesitation, any selfrdoubtings, any compunctious visitings of what in the ordinary man is called conscience, as to his acts.He and the state are to himself so absolutely the same that any offense against the one is an offense against the other.Not merely that, for every autocrat may more or less be inclined to have that idea, but any hatred, any prejudice, any mood of the man becomes immediately the affair of the state.This general is not friendly in his disposition to Napolcon ; at once he is guilty of high treason against the nation ; let him be hurried off to prison, and, if need be, even to the scaffold.This is on the theatre 8f war, and there, after all, military discipline must prevail.But it is just the same in the forum of civil\" strife.The politiciau or the journalist Who makes an attack or even a criticism on Napoleon is again an enemy of the state; let him be annihilated.But even in civil strife this attitude is more intelligible than on that great domain of the human heart which is called the spiritual.Tyrants as ruthless as Napoleon have respected the religious opinions of men, believing that, after all, between man and the Creator there is a sphere into which the highest and most despotic earthly ruler has no right or business to enter.Napoleon knows no such distinctions.The Pope\u2014the head of the Church to which the majority of the French nation Lelonged\u2014 of the Church in full connection with which Napoleon himself died\u2014the Pope differs in policy from Napoleon.He is clapped into prison just as if he were a mutinous soldier or a cheating subprefect.Cardinals ave treated in the same way, or even worse.The Pope\u2019s servants are removed from him; his letters are opened.To the world at large\u2014to almost anybody, whether inside or outside his Church, this venerable old man 1s worthy of respect ; to Napoleon he is nothing but an obstinate and cumberx some being who stands in the way of the imperial will.Similarly the bishops in their pastorals to their congregations ven ture to express theological opinions which are opposed to the interests or views of Napoleon.At once they are pounced upon, and if they attempt to argue, the answer of Napoleon is that he is as good a theologian as they, if not better.Here, then, you have one of the very first secrets of the greatness and the power of Napoleon.It was his tremendous egotism.To inspire such gigantic faith in the world toward him he had to begin by having tnat same unquestioning gigantic faith iv himself.Perhaps you may think that this unquestioning taith in oneself is a rare thing in humanity.It .s rare in such titanic proportions as in Napolcon, and allied to such other mighty powers, But it is not so uncommon.Is there any of us who does not know some people whose self conceit is just as instinctive, as unquestioning, as irremovable as that of Napoleon?I have known members of the House of Commons whose rige was as the announcement of the plague, ard yet who delivered their speeches with undiminished vigor and self- confidence, who saw before them not the empty benches, hut crowds of admiring PSS SOS spectators, and whose ears were tilled not | with the dread silence of affrighted and banished colleagues, but with the plaudits | of delighted listeners.You may think that self-conceit cannot get over the evi- | dences of the senses, but you are quite mistuken.Have you met many musicians?If you have, then again you can find self- conceit capable of peopling the desert_of making clamorous the empty air.Believe me, gigantic seli-conceit is a much more commagn thing than most of us imagine; amd, believe me, that when it exists it is one of the most potent factors in the human temperament-above reason, above remoustrance, above defeat.But! t us distinguish : self conceit of the weak and the self-confidence of the strong are not the same thing.It may besa d with truth that there never was w great man of action who did not have tremendous self-contidence.And one of the reasons, therefore, of Napoleon\u2019s supremacy as a man of action is the supremacy of his self-confidence.In these letters the second of the secrets of his power is also given.That is the promptitude and the definiteness of his mind.No bullet goes straighter to the target than Napoleon to his purpose.There is an enemy, let him be clapped into jail at once\u2014no misgiving, no delay, no compunction\u2014to use words I have already employed.And thus it is that he is so successful, that everywhere his will is law, and his designs are carried out.One gets the impression of almost superhuman vigilance and extensiveness of view in these letters as well as of superhuman activity and clearness of mind in practical affairs.That tremendous eye of Napoleon sweeps the whole horizon of the vast domains over which he holds his sway, and includes, in penetrating and almost ominiscient vision, not merely the greatest, but the smallest and pettiest things as well.You read in one dispatch of some tremendous treaty with another nation; in the next of some obscure creature, an unsuccessful actor, a scribbler, a pothouse politician; Napoleon is just as much in earnest about the one thing as the other.And this makes one realize how strange and dreadful a thing it must have been to have lived vnder such a regime, and to have had ever the sense in the mind that that terrible eye was upon you, impossible to evade-\u2014searching, cruel, relentless, inevitable.Finally the book brings out the extraordinary courage of Napoleon.There is something weird in the letters that close the volume.You see the clouds of destruction gathering round Napoleon; you know where it will all end; you see\u2014 what he could not see, of course\u2014the dreadful day at Waterloo and the long agony of St.Helena, and yet there is Napoleon just the same as ever, giving his orders for the suppression of this article, the arrest of this man, the execution of that, as if nothing had occurred, and as if the world were stil! all before instead of all behind him, Ard, therefore, it is that I sey this book is calculated to increase the estimate of Napoleon in all respects; of his tremendous range of vision, of activity.of governing p wer, of strength of will.He is more the l'itan than ever.PS LOOKED UPON AS STANDARD.In the October issue of the Dominion Medical Monthly and Ontario Medical Journal, the following item appears under the heading of \u201cIffervescent Saits\u201d:i\u2014 \u201cThere are a number of these preparations on the market, and there is no doust about the advantages possessed by these saline purgatives for general use; but, as in everything else, the physician must be perfectly satisfied not only that the material shall be of the best, but the standard of the preparation shall be kept up.This being the case, we have no hes:ta- tion in recommending the profession that when they want a reliable, pleasant and effective preparation, to prescribe Abbey\u2019s Effervescent Salt.\u201d The absolute purity of Abbey's Effervescent Salt is proven by chemical analysis.Its daily use keeps the system clear, the blood pure and ensures good health.All druggists sell this standard Ergi-h preparation at 60 cents =a large bottle.Trial size, 25 cents.Son .Judging from the picture that goes with each package the cigarette habit is rather light for winter wear.\u20ac AAA SAMU Maypole Soap Dye si Dye Brighter Colors Dye Quicker.Made in England.For sale everywhere.application, Address CANADIAN 30 St.Francois Xavier Street, LIAVVBAIRITINARARN NNN, | Dye Any Shade.Won't wash out or fade.Samples of work and booklet free upon DEPOT : e+e