The daily witness, 24 juillet 1896, vendredi 24 juillet 1896

[" jaro poof cs À 4,x=l ur Lg x oy reseed to now» A ENG & \u201c2 + A XVIL, No.172, - Tr pean ab i Span + 4 cn SM oud + NE Te Cr pri a TE RS ah MH I Aras, TFT 178 d ; MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1898.: DAILY WITNESS Last Edition.Price ONE CENT.A ' \\ yout tb y rela.LATED NILYER, [io Ouantities in Greatly Re- 4-4 Value in Cireulation in Canada.\u2014_\u2014 HOSTLE AMERICAN COIN, c re :->=7T RAILWAY AND BANKS TO ACCEPT IT.« : - ACCEPT AMERICAN SILVER \u201cy ©.X ! MUTILATED\u2014AN IMPORTANT L7CAL SILVER QUESTION.1 -ory in the \u2018Arabian Nights\u2019 \u201cherman who allowed some - ae out of a bottle: the smoke {/ int a genie, which imme- ; - : to Work to kill the uniucky There is an evil in Canada -zan as a smail thing, but soon ; «assume large proportions.It is .- :,limentary to the Intelligences :realers aud Canadians generally that thay will accept at face in which is not worth forty cents ¢ ~~.dollar across the line.This is a ; z-owever, and owing to the ignore\u2026 vrrarelassness of the Canadian pub- \u201cLe Dominion has become flooded with a.:\u2018lated coinage which is valueless as eor-nov and is Intrinsic value is not forty percent of its face value.- people of tho United States recog- -} somc time ago that there was uger in handling mutilated silver coin 1 réfusel to accept it.Then, pre- raoly, because Canadians had been i wiiling to handle their good coin a'sough Canadian coin was refused sh of the line, the valueless American ~on=v began 10 come rapidly over here.Vhen (Canadians demurred about the Lies 1n the coin the holders obligingly , 45-0 them with lead, when they pass- 2.as gond coin.Aside from the na- ~ai drifting in of coin from the United \u201cu'\u20acs there must have been a deliberate -vortation of the mutilated money to is country by persons who have dis- vvered how profitable such a trade is.slowever, Mootrealers are now waking \u2026p and banks and large husiness houscs arc refusing all American silver mutilat- :.or not mutilated.The holders of mutilated silver w.ll some of these days find themselves sers of about sixty percent and in racy cases a hundred percent of the amount of it they hold.The coin which 3 1x good condition may pass for a few conths longer among many tradesmen 2.there will then be a crash and a g-neral loss and annoyance will be the st.A well-known broker and money tzdnger in speaking to a \u2018Witness\u2019 re- ver opened sz:veral ten-dollar rolls of vaariy-ve-cent pieces chosen at random on a large number on his desk.The *r81 contained four United States coins, i: second none and the third eight, 72.2 ano:her roll contained two twenty- (til pieces.Newsboys and girls bring 2 .arge quantities of disreputable coin, \"v handful containing several plug- f=.American coins to say nothing of Es lent counterfeits.2e fact that the foreign and mutilated > has remained so long in circula- © perhaps due not so much to ig- \u201ceof Its valueless condition or to \u201c$sness as it is to the slight S14 ness of refusing to accept money \u201c3 .usiomer when it is offered in good : A merchant is compelled to make \u201cmers pay for their goods or else & ~~ vankruptey himself, but if he -ixing man he makes the opera- - sA5ing as pleasant as possible.61 18 so keen in small markets are so close, reducing the pro- + Cimum, that the only choice res is in the obliging manners Pat Storekeepers and their \u201c\u2026\\S a salesman hates to have ©» coln out of a number be- \u201clens Lo have a little hole in \u201cZ as there is a chance of \u201c >hel, too, Mr.Warren go ; 4° \u2018hat the passenger part of the coin between the finger and thumb allowing only the perfect portion to be seen.It has been suggested that the company provide a box which would oyt being able to get hold of it.constantly out of order as some elevators.Then, too, on a crowded car a conductor has no time to exam'ne all the fares dropped into his box.Under these conditions the company finds its boxes a dumping ground for all the hase coin in the city.Every month the Montreal Street Railway Company sells as bullion, coin whose face value amounts to about $175.The fact that the loss is not larger is of course due to the fact that large Coins will not fit into the slot of the box and are handed to the conductor for change, when, If mutilated, they are refused.Of course, in selling tickets the conductors protect themselves by refusing rau- tilated money of any nationality, znl in a short time, as Mr.Warren says, they may be obliged to refuse all United States coin.The only way to get rid of mutilated and American cilver, according to Mr.Warren, would be for the public to refuse it altogether.Then the large American coin would be driven out of the country; large mutilated coin would have to be sold as bullion, and all the small mutilated coin would eventudly be passed on the company who would convert it into bullion, and the Canadian silver question would be settled.IN QUEBEC TOC.On the question of disreputable currency, the Quebec \u2018 Chronicle \u2019 says:\u2014 \u2018The city is flooded with filthy Dominion one and two dollar bills.These dirty notes, which pass from hand to hand, often contain the germs of diseuse, and they should at once be retired from circulation.The worst of it is the banks, which should remit them to Ottawa for redemption, keep issuing them to their customers again.These promises to pay are so worn that it is not easy to decipher the portraits or the wording on them.Let us, by all means, have a clean bank bill.It is not fair to the notes themselves to make them work se hard, this hot weather.\u2018We have in Quebec a silver nulsance as well as our neighbors across the line, although the standard here is on a gold basis.There never was in circulation such a beap of clipped, and mutilated, and punched silver coin as there is now.You cannot get change for a dollar anywhere, these days, without finding a piece of silver with a big hole in it.Then again, the town is flooded with American coins, mostly ten cent pieces and quarters.The silver dollar seldom comes this way.These smaller coins are also in a mutilated state, but they are not in such a bad condition as our own silver coinage.The law does not compel people to take mutilated coins, but they pass readily all the same, though everybody must know that they are not worth their face value.\u2019 THE TWENTY-CENT PIECE, The Canadian banks finding themselves flooded with Newfoundland twenty-cent pieces, have made efforts to get rid of the nuisance by returning the coin to Newfoundland.The government there, however will not redeem them, and the agents of the banks, after those institu- ticns have borne the expense of shipping the coln so far, have to slowly put the coin into circulation.As previously stated, the only way to get rid of the nuisance is for the public to refuse to accept the coin.ee THOSE Q.C.APPOINTMENTS.Ottawa, July 24.\u2014There is a very vague notion among some as to Hfow the machinery of government runs in this country.The appointment of Queen's Counsel is an instance.Sir Oliver Mowat is credited with the Intention of cancelling the appointments made on July 8 by the Tupper Ministry about two hours before that Ministry resigned.What is there to cancel?The order-in-council is a recommendation that a certain thing be done, and His Excellency approves of the intention of the government to carry out their recommendation.If the thing is not done, there's an end to it.If a gentleman is appointed Queen's Counsel, a commission under the great seal is made out and signed by His Excellency, but if no commission is made out and His Excellency is not asked to sign one, then there is no appointment.The or- der-in-council is not an appointment, and unless Sir Oliver Mowat gives instructions for commissions under the great seal to issue the Queen's Counsel designated will never wear the silk.Action is not required to deprive them of the receipt of the intended honor.Inaction would accomplish that object ef- + «2.3% 10 hold the mutilated fectively.complicated machinery which was as: | THE FULLER\" TRAGEDY.permit a conductor to see the coin with- | This | has been tried, however, in Toronto and | proved a failure, largely because the | TIE CASE TO BE TRANSFERRED TO BOSTON FOR box fulfilling the conditions had too much t BRAM DECLARES THAT HE IS NOT GUILTY OF THE CRIME.HEARING.Halifax, N.S., July 24.\u2014Yesterday's in- | vestigation by the United States Consul- , General was in the nature of a star barque now living being examined.examination brought out no conclusive | chamber, all the men on board the evidence against the suspected first mate of the \u2018Fuller,\u2019 Thomas Bram, but it did make manifest that there is a deal of ability among the crew to tell conflicting stories.The accounts of the awful tragedy and the incidents following it related by Monck and Spencer were mainly corroborative, but the evidence of Brown was entirely different.Brown, the sailor most under suspicion, also had a story to tell ard the remainder of the crew had a tale of their own.Where the truth lies is a quandary which the magistrate's investigation may bring out, but which may rest unsolved until the actual trial takes place in Boston.Monck was the first witness examined by the Consul-General.It took him two hours to make his sworn statement.It was similar In all important respects to his story as already given in these despatches.Bram, the alleged murderer, was examined after Monck had finished.He was taken from his cell under a special He wore a dirty looking woollen His hair was guard.shirt without a collar.closely cut.Bream is a powerful-look- CAPT.NASH, OF The | BARKENTINE the steward looked at the first mate and said: \u2018I don't think that story of yours will do.\u201d Spencer says the mate looked at him in such a ferocious manner that he became frightened and withdrew his comment on Bram's falsehood, promising to accept it and live up to it.Afterwards Spencer and Bram had a conversation, during which the mate gave the steward an old pistol and some cartridges to protect himself with in case of emergency.Spencer later tried to discharge the pistol but it would not work and he threw it, with the cartridges into the sea.The morning of the murder Spencer, according to his deposition, found the bloody axe on deck near the foreward companionway.The handle and blade were completely covered with bloed, Bram saw him pick it up and, FüsttihZ\"ovéf: \u2018grabbed at it and aftef a short tussle gained possession of the weapon and hurled it overboard.The statements of the others of the crew were corroborative of the story of the murders which Bram manufactured and asked them to stick to.After the Consul-General\u2019s examination was concluded Mr, Ingraham allowed Lester Monck, the passenger, to accompany his father and brother to the hotel on the understanding that he would hold himself in readiness to give his evidence when required.Consul Ingraham having secured the consent of the Dominion Government to send the men to the United State without extradition proceed - ings, and the entire crowd having agreed to go, including Bram, they will leave for Boston immediately after the stipendiary\u2019s investigation of the tragedy.Halifax, N.S., July 24.\u2014There was a large crowd at the police court this \u2018HERBERT FULLER,\u201d AND HIS WIFE.ing man, and certainly has a bad looking face.He sald that he had never been asked on shipboard if he committed the murders.There was no conspiracy between him and Brown.He said in answer to another question: \u2018I assure you I did not conimit the murders.\u2019 He left Brown at the wheel to go forward, and while returning saw Monck with a revolver.The reason he threw the piece of wood at Monck was because he thought Monck was going to kill him.Bram further stated that he went to the wheel just before Monck raised an alarm and asked Brown how the ship was Bteering.Fe said the reason he ordered Brown put in irons was because he was suspected of the murders.Under the circumstances, said Bram, Brown was the only one who could have committed the murders.Bram said he did not want any counsel, Besides the statements of Monck and Brown, who declared he saw Bram murder Captain Nash, all the other members of the crew gave their evidence, and that of Spencer, the colored steward, and Frank Loohes, the forward watch, were very damaging to Bram.Loohes stated that Bram was drunk just before the discovery of the murder, and went down to the cabin several times.The last time he came running up the companionway and almost immediately Monck appeared with a drawn revolver.Bram was deathly.pale and trembled like a leaf.INTERESTING EVIDENCE.Spencer swore that after the erew were called on deck they were addressed by Bram in words substantially as follows: \u2014 \u2018The living should not suffer for the dead.We bad all better say that ihe murder occurred in this way: The capiain having come out of the chart room,and, going into his wife's apartment in the cabin, found the second mate cohabiting with her, and he then picked up the axe and immediately slaughtered her.The captain then struck the mate, and wounded him with the axe, but the mate, being a big powerful man, wrenched the axe from the captain's hands and dealt him several blows on the head.The injuries of both were so severe that they died from them.\u2019 On hearing these words std ia dai Rh fin bad ae morning expecting the \u2018Herbert Fuller inquiry to go on.but they were disappointed as the magistrate decided not to take up the case until 2.30 p.m.Monck is still on parole with his father.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE CHESS TOURNAMENT.Nuremberg, July 24\u2014The fifth round of the International Chess Masters\u2019 Tour- pament commenced this morning at nine o'clock in this city, the results up to one o'clock being as follows: Schlechter beat Winawer in a Ruy Lopez, after twenty- nine moves.Tschigorin beat Porges in a Giuocco Piano, after forty-one moves.The games between Marco vs.Schal- lopp, Lasker vs.Schowalter, Schiffers vs.Teichmann, Pillsbury vs.Blackburne, Albin vs.Charousck, Walbrodt vs.Stein- itz, Janowski vs.Tarrasch, were adjourned.Maroczy had a bye.The game which was left unfinished at the afternoon sitting yesterday, between Winawere and Charousck, was drawn after eighty-four moves.« -\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MEETING OF ANGLERS.Kingston, Ont., July 24.\u2014The date has been set for the thirteenth annual meeting of the Anglers\u2019 Association of the St.T.awrence river.It will be held at the Walton House, Clayton, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug.5, at ten in the morning.The meeting this season will undoubtedly be of unusual importance, there being several weighty and important subjects to be considered, among them being the new national park, which was recently established, and the various fishing laws.The members of the New York State Fish and Game Commission have been jnvited to attend the meeting and are expected to be present.THE WEATHER, Meteorological Office, Toronto, Xuly 24, i1 a.m.\u2014The following are the minimum temperatures: Battleford, 48; Qu\u2019'Appelle, 42; Minnedosa, 48; Port Arthur, 50; Toronto, 56; Ottawa, 48; Montreal, 58; Quebec, 52 ; Chatham, 56; Halifax, 66.Probabilities for the next twenty-four hours: Weather growing showery; stationary or a little lower temperature.Montreal, July 24.Readings by Hearn & Harrison's Standard Barometer at noon to-day, 29.85 ; yesterday, 29.74.To-day, temperature, max.73, min.65; yesterday, max.74, min, 62, \u2018 ve ns À pli ce dédie en die pr ta die SER AE EE SEES LEE HERE AND THERE.\u2014 POLITICAL NEWS FOR ALL OVER THE DOMINION.ELEOTION PROTESTS\u2014OTHER NOTES.Ottawa, July 24.\u2014The Premier left this afternoon for Montreal after holding a council for an hour and a half.Sir Richard Cartwright intends to leave tonight for the west.Ottawa, July 24.\u2014The \u2018Citizen\u2019 this morning discussing the proposal for a Federal Conservative convention concludes as follows: \u2014'The Conservative party has been torn by dissensions, and until these have been healed it can have Bo strength.Nothing did so much to discredit the party when in power as the personal squabbles and washing of family linen in public which were so much in evidence during the past two years.It will take time to recover from the evil effects of this unfortunate period and nothing will be gained in unity by trying to prematurely force harmony.\u2019 The Toronto \u2018Star\u2019 asserts that \u2018the Conservative party cannot be re-organ- ized with any Tupper in it.\u2019 There is a general expectation that many changes in the department of public works will be made by Mr, Tarte and there must be some ground for this belief.It is notorious that this department has been filled up with place-seelc- ers and party hacks and relatives and friends of ministers.The other day in making the round of the department Mr.Tarte entered one room ahead of his deputy and found a dozen clerks gathered around one of the latest issues of a Paris illustrated paper looking at \u2018something good.\u2019 Another had his feet cocked up on a table reading the morning paper while of the fifteen clerks in the room only one was at work.Not knowing the new minister, the gentleman who was resting his feet so early in the day returned his salutation coolly, but when the deputy entered and introduced Mr.Tarte the expression on his face may be imagined and the others were equally thunderstruck.It is said that there are a hundred employees in the department who have no permanent positions.It has been the practice there that technical efnployees, such as engineers and draughtsmen, should be engaged by the week and in that way a number of necessary and proficient employees have been there for many years as temporary clerks.But even eliminating these there are still scores of men employed as temporary clerks who have no duties and who toil not neither do they spin.The Conservative press are unanimous in anticipating a sweep in this department, and they doubtless have better knowledge of the condition of things than those who are not familiar with the way Sir Hector Langevin and Mr.Oui- met made appointments.Quebec, July 24\u2014The \u2018 Chronicle\u2019 claims to have heard that the Laurier Government will make very few dismissals from the public service.OTTAWA LIBERALS.Ottawa, July 24.\u2014The first meeting of the new committee of management of the Reform Club was held yesterday afternoon when Mr.H.A.Bate was reelected president, Mr.F.R.Latchford treasurer and Mr.R.Ronan secretary.As Mr.Bate had been the mainstay of the club in opposition it was considered right to honor him with the presidency now that the change of government had come, for which the club, under Mr.Bate\u2019s auspices, had worked so hard.Mr.Bate is at present in England, taking a special military course in the technical schools there.HEARD IN TOROXTO.Toronto, July 24.\u2014The \u2018 World's - Ottawa special says: \u2014\u2018 Mr.Laurier told me this afternoon that he did not propose to address many meetings in Quebec next week, indeed, he will be here for the greater portion of the week, after speaking at one or more places in Mr.Tarte's behalf.Such important questions as the fast Atlantic steamship project and the Pacific Cable will be taken up by the Cabinet as a whole on the report of a sub-committee now considering the matter.Regarding the new Minister of the Interior, Mr.Laurier expressed the belief that nothing will be settled for a couple of weeks.Meanwhile, Senator McInnes is still holding the fort and thinks he should get the portfolio.\u2019 The Hon.Wm.Harty of the Ontario government has been suffering from such a severe attack of general nervous prostration, that he has been obliged to cease all labor and to even absent himself from meetings of the Cabinet.His physicians say that if be wishes to recover his health he must for the next few months avoid all worry and excitement.He will therefore leave in a day or two tor Prince Edward Island, there to take a holiday of some weeks.When he returns, he may be prepared to continue the administration of his important office.His numerous admirers hope that bis ind\u2018sposition will cot prove sufficiently severe to compel his retirement from office.The administration of the Ontarlo Liquor License Department has been transferred from the Hon.R.Harcourt, Provincial Treasurer, to the Hon.D.Balfour, the new Provincial Treasurer.The change causes some anxiety in temperance circles, as the law was better enforced under Mr.Harcourt than under any previous head of the department.Mr.Balfour, however, is regarded as vigilant and conscientious, and it is expected that Mr, J.K.Stewart, the indefatigable Provincial Inspector, formerly Grand Scribe of the Sons of Temperance, will continue in office as chief inspector.A Montreal special Harry Abbott and F.J.Bisaillon, Q.C., were deputed by the Conservatives in this district to look into the matter of contestations, and some sixteen counties now held by Liberals in the district of Montreal will have to run the gauntlet of the election courts, and it will not be surprising to see the Quebec deputation completely changed by the end of the year.\u201d The despatch, however, admits that the Liberals may protest a number of seats too.The \u2018 World \u2019 replies to the \u2018 Mail and Empire\u2019s \u2019 Montreal correspondent's allegation, that its avowed contention is to decapitate Sir Charles Tupper.The \u201c World\u2019 says:\u2014' The poor old \u2018Mall\u2019 smells treason.The \u2018World\u2019 has not made the slizhtest move to dispose of Sir Charles Tupper.It was the \u2018 Mail,\u2019 however, that called him a political cracksman.\u2019 Mr.Uriah Wilson endorses a Conservative convention at Montreal or Toronto next summer.Mr.Henry Macklin of London attacks Sir Charles Tupper and urges an immediate convention.ELKCTION PROTESTS.ITamilton, Ont., July 24.\u2014A meeting of the executive committee of the Hamilton Conservative Association has becn called for to-night for the purpose of deciding as to whether or not the election of Messrs.Wood and Macpherson -shall be protested.It is understood that a great many local Conservatives are opposed to eu election trial, especially in view of the fact that the government is Liberal.Kingston, July 23\u2014It is stated that the election of Mr.U:iah Wilson, Lennox, will be protested, and if successful, a former member, Mr.D.W.Allison, of Adolphustown, will contest the seat in the Liberal interest.St.John, N.B., July 24.\u2014Mr.Ellis, M.P., has come out in direct opposition to the local government and will oppose Mr.Dunn, the new surveyor-general's election unless the latter oppose Mr.Mitchell.Mr.Stockton, Opposition leader, had decided not to oppose Mr.Dunn, but steps are now on to do so.It has been learned that the government official kept open house for Mr.Foster on election day and a protest is possible.All the Liberal seats here are to be protested unless a swap off is arranged today.BEGGARS AND THE INSANE.THE LOT OF THE MAYOR IS NOT A HAPPY ONE.The Mayor complained this morning that the city was being put to a great deal of expense by having to provide for a number of insane persons who were constantly being sent into the city from surrounding places.An application was made to him a few days ago, to pay the railway fare of the insane persons who had been found wandering on the streets, back to the towns they had been sent from.The government was communicated with upon the matter and consented to defray haif the cost of returning such persons.For over a week past the Mayor has been beset with persons with petitions to sign, in order that they might procure employment.In many cases they had been sent to him by wealthy corporations.His Worship had no less than five beg- zars at his house this morning before nine o'clock.If they happen to miss him at his bouse and fall to find him at the City Hall, they do him the honor of waiting upon him at bis office.Yesterday a woman went to his office and refused to leave until she saw him.She wanted charity.The only way he could prevent the interview was by sending out some money to the visitor, em.THE NEW YORK TAILORS\u2019 STRIKE.New York, July 24.\u2014A huge sympathetic strike began on the east side today in support of the coat makers.Eight hundred more garment makers joined the striking tailors this morglng, re a es ae rats té re says.\u2014' Messrs, - ES is RER TEE PE Ps ; » 2 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNES ~_ - _BIRTHS.MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notices af births, marriages and deaths must tnvart- ably be endorsed with the name and address of the sender, or otherwise no notice can be taken of them, Btrth notices are inserted for 26c, marriage notices Jor 506, death notices for 250 prepatd.The an- notmcement of fureral appended to death notice, £5¢ extra ; othe, extension to obituary, such as short sketch Qf life, trro cents per word extra, except poetry, which 18 50 cents per line extra\u2014prepaid.dnnual subscribers may have anouncements of marriages and deaths (~ithout extended vbituary or verses) occurring in their tmmediate families.free f charge, in whick case name and address of subs scribers should be given BIRTHS.CAPON.\u2014At 28 St, Matthews street, Montreal.Canada.on July 19 1%6 a son to Mr.and Mrs.R.B.Capon.Ncrwirh and Nottinghan, pers please copy.CLARK.\u2014On July 21.Rev.Wylle C.Clark, terian Church, Brampton, England, pa- 24 1596, the wife of the pastor of Presby- Ont, of a son.23 DUNLOP\u2014At Nugata Erhlzo, Japan.on June 18, 1556, to the Rev.and Mrs.J.G.Dunlop, a daughter.Zt WISHART.\u2014At Vallevfield.Que.on July 21.a son to Mr.and Mrs.James 3.Wishart.25 \u2014 MARRIED.EMERSON\u2014On Julr 1896, by W.H.Sparling.George F.Ben- to Flora A.Emerson, of BENSON\u2014 22.the Rev.son, of Montreal, eldest daughter of Hugh Emerson, Esg., Hemmingford.Montreal \u2018Star\u2019 and Muntingdon \u2018Gleaner\u2019 please copy.DUFF\u2014LESTER\u2014On July 22.1835, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev.J.Curtis, assisted by the Rev.T.H.Wright, Albert LE.Duff, G.T.Ragent, Beloeil.to Sill W.lester, only daughter of John DB.Lester, Iisq., of South Durham.Ottawa papers please copy.FRASER\u2014GAMBLE.\u2014In this city, on the 21st inst.at the home of the bride's father, 4 Workman street, by the Rev.T.Roy.brother-in-law of the bride, John daughter of David city.23 MACPHERSON\u2014IIAEL.-\u2014 On Wednesday, Julv 22, by the Rev, ll.Jekyll.rector of St.Mary's Episcopal Church.at the residence of the Rev.J.H.Dixon, 123 Ful- ford street.Evan Macnherson, to Mary Hael, both of Montreal.23 David Fraser.to Ella.Gamble, all of this DIED.BIRDSALI\u2014At Pninte a Pie, nn the 19th July, 1426, Bennie.infant son of the late Ben.Birdsall.of Three Rivers.McOYTAT\u2014At Burnside turg.Que.on Tuesday.Margaret, beloved wife of James sr.aged 59 years.RUTHEKFORD\u2014At Cottage, Browns- July 21, 1824, MeOuat, Barriogton, Que.on the 23rd instant, William Rutheriord.sr.24 RUTHVEN\u2014At his late residence.246 Rideau street, Ottawa, on July 23, James Ruthven.for many years foremau in the bookbinding establishment of James Hope & Son.aged 20 years.Mr.Ruthven was born in Montreal, and spent his youth and early manhood there.He was a member of the Montreal Fire Department, and did active service as a volunteer during the Rebellion of 1837-8.He will be buried in Beechwood, Ottawa, SUTHERLAND-\u2014In Sault Ste.Marie.Mich.on July 13, 1896, Jessic McLeod, wife of Dr.Jas.G.Sutherland, dentist, Alliston, Ont., aged 35 years.23 TURNER\u2014In this city.on the 23rd instant.Peter J.Turner.aged 40 years, youngest son of the late Peter Turner.Funeral will take place from his residence, 163 St.Hypolito street, on urday afternoon at 2.20.24 WAYLAND\u2014At 43 Erie street, on the 24th instant.aged 79 vears.8 months and 24 days, James Horare Wayland, brother of Mrs.Walter G.Murdoch.Funeral from his late residence on Saturday, 25th instant.at 2.30 p.m., to Mount Royal Cemetery.Friends wlll please a-r-pt this intimation.Norfolk, England, papers please copy.late Sat- Ehose sending notices for the above column may send with them a list of names of interested friends, Marked copies of the \u201c Witress' containing such notice will be sent free to any address in Canada Montreal excepted.Notices received too late for this column are usually placed on the 6th page.ADVERTISEMENTS.EES & CO.THF E UNDERTAKERS, 8 300 St.James St, Montreal GENERAL BAZAAR.White Quilts, 8oc, worth 91.2.Light and Dark Challies, 5c.Remnants White Cotton.Remnants Shaker Flannel.Remnants White Canton Flanne:.Remnants Shectings.Remrants Pillow Cotton.Remnants Table Linen.Remnants Butcher Linen.Remnants Waist Linings.GEORGE 1.ROWELL, 1597 Notre Danic Strect, Between St.Lambert's Hill and Court House DIAMOND RINGS! WEDDING RINGS! The LARGEST DIAMOND in the City FOR THE MONEY.15 karat gold, claw setting, $10.Wedding Rings, 18 krrat gold, 83.50 to 812: 14 karat, $2.50 vo 8S; 10 karat, 81.50 to 8°.D.BEATTY, Watchmaker and Jeweller, 137 St.Peter Street.opposite \u2018Witness\u2019 Office ARMSTRONG, The Undertaker, HAS REMOVED T0 74 VICTORIA SQUARE.[The S.Carsley Co.LIMITED.1765 to 1783 NOTRE DAME STREET MONTREAL.Notice.\u2014Our stores close at one o'clock on Saturdays during July and August.THE S.CARSLEY CO., LTD.Ww CHEAP BOOKS.K wc\u201d \u201c\" &.No.aL Arbo = fer white firm al ; ve à i \u2018à ait CE \u2018 sales at \u2018* prices i.= \" Backw «#7 200 to ST TR\u201d ne REC Lo: the pisle made Macé wells and WEL] gligh In ghots Neill Jon NEILI ing of Risley award bere trothe Sergt.strong DEA Torc ley, p was f street at tha and b Mrs.C did ne that going warra on M4 was à Hal tricke range on tbe 11 0'q a com end Q Up as wards Prent ers.( Macki pleasa The Fhila Hrock hane place el Yren tice.Vida} ] 20 Ine} the sd Vere St ven: Dior: Nova will whie Mes Jour - ©) s farnar, Jury 21, 1896.© BISLEY MUTCHES, : -{\\KING SCORES BY WEL- ve [ER AND NEILL.+.+,- 24 In the contest for Ciel mime.at nod vards at -+\u2026 Canadian marksmen CRICKET TO-MORROW.Weather permitting, the active members of the M.C.C.will turn out in full force to-morrow afternoon to play a club match on the M.A.A.A.grounds.The schedule match was M.C.C.vs.McGill C.C., but it was cancelled at the request of McGill to allow them to go to Ottawa to play the O.C.C.The club will be divided into \u2018 Banks-and Insurance\u2019 Vs.\"Rest of Club.\u2019 On paper the \u2018Rest of THE MONTREAL DEATH OF MR.DAVID FLEMING.DECEASED WAS ONB OF THE OLDEST COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS ON THE ROAD.A PROMINENT TORONTO COMMERCIAL TRAVEL- DAILY WITNESS.CRUBLTY TO HORSES.In the Recorder\u2019s Court this morning Judge De Montigny fined Honore Hamel, a carter, one dollar and costs or eight days in jail for working a horse with a sore back.Inspector Fletcher, of the S.P.C.A., proved the case, and stated that the sore was at least three inches and a half long.Another man named Alderic Beau- leau, a farmer residing on St.Law- TRE A Lr ed BY REA L2UEE (ER AP me \u20ac ess SRE ot dey 78 EL A og Lb TRAE SE RRR A EA TE TEI » ADVERTISEMENTS.® COLONIAL HOUSE, Phillips Square.MANTLES and COSTUMES.Club * appear to have a little the best of LER ; 0 i .Lis \u20ac __0 53.LER ALSO DIES SUDDENLY.sijyw is SCOTES nine 5 lt.but the \u2018Bankers\u2019 will do all they 4î1r.David A.Plemine.traveller rence street, was also fined one dollar Special discounts in these goods for the balance of July.Armstrong, Xing andjcan to pull off the game, and the sides CT.y .eming, traveller and costs or eight days for a similar adies\u2019 i , i Lion, Mitchell, Harp; will be even enough to produce a very Messrs.Gault Bros.of this city, WAS/offence.Inspector Kobold was the Ladies Sh M Lace Capes Half Price.\" cach ae.Spearing was interesting match.found dead in bed at the Hotel Quinte prosecutor.Children\u2019s Reefer Jackets, Half Price.k Th ! ' ; PRN, will \u201cve ob Saint ine in Belleville, Ont.this morning.De- \u2014_\u2014\u2014 Ladies\u2019 Tweed Costumes, Half Price.Burns, J.A.Culverwell, E.P.Heaton, Ceased was fifty-six years of age and THE LACHINE REGATTA Ladies\u2019 Black Lustre Costumes, Half Price.C.M.C.Hughes, K.Mackenzie, S.Mar- Was born in Stanley, Perthshire, Scot- « AU .Ladies\u2019 Linen Suits, Half Price.un, & E.Moberly, H.F.Stow and W.|land.Mr.Fleming came to Canada \u2014 Ladies\u2019 White Pique Suits, Half Price.ard.; sa , re The Club eleven will be selected from while quite young, twenty-five years ago.MANY WILL BE THERE, AND IT Le: White and Cr Moe rime.Half Price.He engaged as commerclal traveller with +8G1e8 Se red Muslin Vyrappers, Ma rice.: STORE IN THEST.GEORGE'S ve a .mensely.The following ladies and gen- late employers speak most highly of him, i Û AT Tr YARDS.tlemen helped towards the success of the and he was recognized as one of the and Dixie i be DE em = © :.olav and remained in bed.excursion: The Rev.James Patterson, the most successful travellers on the road.event y y So \u2018a-aw contest at 900 yards, ten Rev.E.McManus, the Rev.John and! He had many friends, especially among : 1004 a svore:l 35.Lavers 3° and Mrs.Nicholls, Mesdames Murray, Camp-| the dry goods merchants throughout \u2014_\u2014 YC {a-zstrothe each 31.bell, Ohlirg.Sinclair, Miller, Lee, Kyle, Canada,particularly those between Brock-| A WINDOW SMASHED AND CLOTH LT 0 C54 At the annual meet- Wallace, White and Webster, the Misses ville and Toronto.The late Mr.Flem- STOLEN.A AN X°LUS SCORE IN THE ST.GKORGE'S AT 200 YARDS.!-z nf the National Rifle Association at yesterday money prizes were avarledl to the following named mem- tore of the (Canadian rifle team: Langs- whe, Hugging, King, Campbell,.Neill Svrgt.Crowe, Mitchell, Lavers and Arm- song.1 d'ey _\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DEATH OF AN OLD PENSIONER.the following: \u2014F.Arnatt, G.Blackburn, SHOULD PROVE A SUCCESS.Lacies\u2019 Cashmere and Flaunel Wrappers, Half Price.J.J.Boves, W.Duckit, W.R.Gilbert, the firm of Lewis, Kay & Co., of this - A.H .H.A., W.G.Kent, J.; 2 olodgson, I.& 2% Naver TU | city, and in that capacity was one of The best attended regatta of the \u2014ALso Walters and W.Williams.Play will the pioneer commercial travellers of season is always that of the Lachine Blue and White Check Duck Suits (few left) at $2.00.commence at 2.39.Canada.He remained with the firm un- Boating Club, and this year will be Black and White Check Duck Buits (few left) at $2.00.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 FRESH AIR EXCURSION.Under the superintendency of Mr.C.Alexander another French Air Fund excursion to Sherringham Park was successfully held yesterday.The weather was beautiful and the large number of pleasure-seekers enjoved the outing im- McLeod, Reid, McSween, McManus and Blackwell, and Messrs.Simpson and Hop- til it went out of business, after which he went into the firm of Sutherland, Hardy and Fleming, in which he remained for several years.Later he went into partnership in the firm of James Roy & Co., of this city.Twenty years ago he engaged with Messrs.Gault Bros.as commercial traveller in which capacity he continued until his death.His ing belonged to the Royal Albert Masonic Lodge.and also to the Caledonia no exception.The committee has prepared a flne list of events, and valuable prizes have been collected for the winners.Great interest centres upon the scull race between the Grand Trunk and Lachine fours, às this class of race is rare about Montreal.In the evening Lachine About three o'clock this morning Con- kins.Curling Club of this city.He leaves a stéble Dufresne was patrolling St.James \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 wife but no children.The former is at Street when he observed a man smash the THE WINDSOR HOTEL TICKET present sojourning at Peak's Island, Me.¥indow of the store occupled by Messrs.Smith & Co., tailors, at the corner of St.OFFICE.Up till last June deceosed had twO James street and Roy Lane.The officer brothers residing in Chicago, but a| pcunced upon the unknown before he had Judge Delorimier rendered judgment this morning in the action taken by the Windsor Hotel Company to cancel the lease of Mr.J.J.McConniff who keeps a ticket office in the hotel, and for damages resulting from his not having vacated the premises since May 1.The Court ordered the lease to be cancelled and granted plaintiff two hundred dollars damages.-\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A STREET-SPRINKLER'S CLAIM.F.Jarry, a water-cart driver, has entered an action_,claiming two hundred dollars damages from the Street Railway Company on account of a collision with one of the company's electric cars.a \u2014 TAKEN ILL ON THE STREET.Mr.Joseph Lessard, inspector of public buildings, was suddenly taken ill on the street when going down to his office this morning and was helped by a friend who happened to pass to the residence of a neighboring physician who tendered the necessary preliminary help.month ago, one of them, Dr.J.M.Fleming, died in that city.Another brother, the youngest, is at Aldershott with bis regiment, the Scots Greys, of which he is a lieutenant.Deceased was well known as a member of St.Paul's Church.The notice of the funeral will appear later.Kingston, Ont., July 24.\u2014Mr.Fleming only left here on Wednesday \u201cfor the west after being a week here serving his customers.He was very popular and merchants were shocked to hsar of his demise.Ona merchant speaking of the deceased, said, \u2018He hadn't an enemy in the world\u2019 Mrs.L.Williams, of this city.is with Mrs.Fleming at Old Orchard Beach where Mr.Fleming intended joining them shortly.ANOTIIER TRAVELLER GONE.Toronto, July 24.\u2014Will Spence, brother of Ald.Spence, secretary of the Dominion Alliance, died at Brockville yesterday while on a holiday trip.Deceased had a brother killed by falling from a waggon about a year ago, and during the a chance to escape and found a piece of tweed valued at $3.00 in bis possession.The burglar afterward turned out to be Robert Kane, a laborer of McCord street.Kane pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Lafontaine this morning, and was remanded until Monday.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 STORROW AND THE LION'S TAIL.At a time when the British Government has been expressing only the kindliest feelings towards the United States it was hardly fair in Secretary Olney to be making secret and silent preparations to overthrow the British position on the Venezuela question and to cover the government of the amiable Salisbury with shame and confusion.This is what Secretary Olney is reported as having done, and the results of his labors are expected to astonish the world when they are made public this week.The exposure and humiliation of Great Britain are to be accomplished by the argument of Mr.James J.Storrow, of Bosten.Although the name of Mr.Storrow {is not generally known to the American people, there is no questioning the certificate of Ladles\u2019 and Misses\u2019 Jackets, Special, $1.00 and $2.00.I.ess 5 percent eash.Se HENRY MORGAN & Co., MONTREAL.TW.£1) H.- STEWART, 2295 St.T0 EVERY PURCHASE, We can show you points of all kinds in Shoes.They are good points, too, and always appear to the best advantage when on the proper foot, A radical reduction in prices may assist you to see the points.For instance, 20 P.C.DISCOUNT on our entire stock of LADIES\u2019 TAN LACE SHOES, 10 P.C.DISCOUNT on all GENTLEMEN'S TAN BOOTS or SHOES.BOYS\u2019 and YOUTHS TAN LACE BOOTS at Special Prices\u2014$1, $1.25 and $1.50, Catherine St, NEW YORK STOCK LIST.(Furnished by J.R.Meeker.) Opening and Closing Prices\u201410 a.m.and 3 p.m.R.WILSON SUITE, INVESTMENT BROKER.> : Atchison.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u202600essererisnnune 12 117% Toronto, Ont, July 24 \u2014Dennis Crow- PERSONAL past two years deceased broke a limb, his ability which accompanies the an- Can.Paoiñc.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0\u2026000000ee 13 jy Government, Municipal and Railway Se- :ry, pensioner, sixty-elght years of age, * : and on recovery fell from a moving | nouncement of his appearance in the Can.Southern eee 8 Gunes TI a uh curities Bought apd Sold.First-class was found dead In bed at 94 Willlam The Rev.H.C.Cronin and wife, of train and bad his right arm cut off.He arena of international discussion.When Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.Bb 05% Securities Suitable for Trust street this morning.He has been living Jersey City, are expected to arrive in was married only two months ago.De- we learn that he has been from the start Com.Cable.IN oo Funds always on hand.a: that address alone for some time past Montreal to-morrow; their visit is ex- Ceased was a brilliant young man and à the legal adviser of the Bell Telephone Bor EHudBOD.oie 121 120, and has been provided with meals by pected to extend over some three weeks.prominent member of the Commercial Company we are ready to believe that he Del.Lack & West.13144 1:14 1724 NOTRE DAME STREET, Mrs.Clare, who lives next door.As he Mr, Cronin will occupy the pulpit of Em- Travellers\u2019 Association.is prepared to get the best of the British ji} Certral parie PTT Montreal.¢:1 not get up for breakfast, she feared manuel Church next Sunday and the two Government In any controversy he may Louis.& Nash.45% 47) x \u2018zat something had happened, and on ing S , -\u2014 undertake with it.The Bell Telephone Lake Shore.42 143 following Sundays.He has attained a .LARIES inl Manhattan Consolidated.v24 NY Bin [nto bis room Lo en ia quest marked distinction on this continent as TWO BURG .Gompany bas certs oy et (oe best of Missouri Pacif.oo.\" ess 17, 174 t \"St a preacher and public speaker.: ; E orth American.voreeienenneennn cee tn Monday next.Crowley at one time P P P THE CLUE WHICH CONNECTED ONE WITHTHE og 01h the somewhat protracted strug- Ror Facitie ee, .A PICKPOCKET ARRESTED.was a regular in the 61st foot.\u2014_\u2014 OTHER.gle it has carried on.the British Gov- Ner.Fac.+mrsceran ten cen ee 35 à ; î nn \u2014\u2014e ; a ; ernment can hold its own against the N°7 Jersey Qentral.-11.0111 eme sé Yesterday, Constables Connors and Vin A GATHERING OF FORESTERS.; b of this morning Nor.West. tr::ket match of the Halifax series ar- of the Canadian Order of Forest Th duties on St.ied New York \u2018World.Reading, Philadelphia.11 10 rence street, the officers arrested a young ranged by the Philadelphia team began meeting was called for the purpose.of elect.two men emerge from the store occupies Richmond Terminal 5 ce = a ee ER named William Higgins for pocket- c.the Wanderers\u2019 grounds shortly after ing a district Deputy High Chief Panger PY Mr.Joseph Leduc, a grocer, a he oh.ro Bock Island Ch ro & Pao 3 5 picking.ligglus is wel x pown y the o'clock the visitors playing against for the western division of Montreal, the Louis street.The men on s 8 yas LOCAL STOCKS, St.Paul Minn.& Man.oo \u2026 Emmartest and cleverest pocket pickers in e ~ombined eleven from the Wanderers term of the present occupant of that office cers at once made away as qu'e Yb Texas Pacific.5, £3; Montreal.The accused was obscrved in a! Garrison.The home team was made Loving expired.prestdi meeting was called their legs could Sy ring he \u2014_\u2014 Union Pacitio.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. As follows:\u2014From the Garrison: Ed- esiding officer, Bro.M.constables succeede IN UIET AND VALUES STEADY Wabesh pd.LI 14% 143 train at Montreal, and on alighting at St.\u201ciris (capt), Austin, Neve, Darlow, |jore prose DOHC R.at 830 pm.and be- of them on St.Ignace street, who, at the BUSINESS Q Western Union Tel.[11100 LUI 78% 79 | Rose Higgins was practically caught with Trentice and French.From the Wander- requested Bre Wo M © appointed bus ness, Police Station described himself as.\u2014 Bugar.\u2026.1000caes sen sen eue 104 104% hand in Mrs.Lawrence's pocket.OB being es \u2018\u2019alahane, Henry.Kaiser, Smith and Court Freedom, to act as secretary.After Michael Smith, a blacksmith, of no place WITNESS OFFICE, Gas Chicago TT 5° 524 pearched ag that ha passed he pares Mainiosh.The weather was clear and some preliminary remarks by the presiding of abode.As the men were TUNER Friday.July 24, 1896, Gen.Electric.111100 sue saaec ess 234 2% on to his unknown companion.The offi- jcasant.officer the election was proceeded with.Bro.away, Smith threw something into the On the local stock exchange this morning Loisds.Ann Arbor & Nor.Mich.15% i5ij cers brought the prisoner to Montreal.and The Halifax men lost the toss and the R- Lynch, P.D.D.H.C.R.; Bro.J.Lawrence, road which Constable Letourneau picked ; tinued firm, Cable closing at UUIOET Lace era e en et eee trente ete eeee , * lodged him in the cells at the Central Po- Tt'alelphians sent in Patterson and P-C-R., and Bros.R, L.Murchison, P.C.R, up, and it was found to be a very valu- values con \u2019 lice station.This morning he appeared be- being appointed scrutineers, proceede dto 13616; Gas at 178%, and Toronto Street at fore Magistrate Lafontaina and pleaded not srockie to oppose the bowling of Cala- \u201cina ard Prentice.Clark took Brockle's \u2018ae aîter the six runs had been count- over part of the Bona- GL two young mel approach- of the two asked +5 as they were so hungry - yw where they would sleep now where they would sleep \u2018rame max-rs but they were reporter was pass- the taller - in the ciuy and although 7 .assed the city thoroughly been able 10 secure work.» Fard, they sald, \u2018that peo- \u201cje their pictures no more\u2014 .ik \u2018em Lare and flat on the ~~ gave them his sympathy ©: had with bim just then\u2014 .7 1,-ahdered into the waiting *® Yn.au old woman, evi- .ie, «.+.ountry, and who was -.-.:- +.wid the seventieth mile - to the ticket office \u2018 ~+norie-looking purse on se, asked for a rallway :g told the price of it : count out the money.- laid out about ten dol- -ryse and smaller coins all \u2018y ntl several square feet Jyttel with coins.She over and over until she aod and thought she was railwav ticket to the ticket u reeled to put her money «irse.The agent was not - looked on and sighed.peed to spread your roo.a.) over the station like that, my man.® he said.e+ \u2018her the impoverished palr of -.-a *ramers lounged up.They caught y vo x # PA) Aly § 5.47 + of the money and thelr eyes goau-! Aldressing the ticket agent the \u2018a; er -?\u2018he two said, \u2018Can you spare us § \u2018++ ents 10 get something to eat.\u2019 No -1 sav, can't this ere old lady spare ut a cents out of all that money,\u2019 er azain the hungry eyes fell on the mit æ coins.No, sha cannot; get out of this; you 0h\" \u2018o be ashamed of yourselves, two tz.a.e-bodled men like you wanting i' woman with one foot in the \u20187 give vou some of her money.and the ticket agent bristled all xe a man of war.In the meantime \u201ca ri?lady had become alarmed and wh wonderful dexterity bad swept her Into her purse which she thrust ian the neck of her dress.The agent -az started to look for a policeman but =» hungry pair did not wait until he * foun one.\u201che city's full of those chaps.\u2019 he sald the reporter.\u2018They are a nuisance and à menace.There iz a little beggar girl who comes into the depot every morning.She is quite an institution but I'll tell == about her later _\u2014 BEGGING PERMITS.The following remarkable begging per- rit is being freely used by a young g.-! on St.James street: \u2018Rose Belanger, committed to beg in the city.Cause, za\" poverty and an orphan.(Signed) v A Hughes.Az the latter is the name of the super- «vient of police, he was asked this ~~ning if he had granted the permit =.if he had the power, according to .1*.tn grant such documents.He re- : 7-1 that as he always signed bis name ~2 A Hughes be was of the opinion \u201cza \u2018Le permit in question was a for- - In reply to the latter question 11! that according to the provincial VFaes, ministers, priests, judges, jus- \u2018x n° the peace and the superinten- f-\"z (c?polire were allowed to grant to Leg.grave Geet myn yver \u201cacay \u2014 \u2014 \u2014\u2014 STAR OF THE EAST T.OF T.«à nrmbers and friends of the Star Fast Temperance Carnival Hall, l'arie atreet, enjoved themselves orm of an lice cream social on night.Mr.E.Evans was \u201cman of the evening.The fol- 2 .ales and gentlemen contributed (rogramme: Miss Feathers, Mr.Mr.W.Emms, Mr.W.Grant, ~ reer.Mr.J.H.L.Dunn, Master The Messrs.McCubbans in zhable sketch, entitled the \u2018 Re- also Mise Nettle Fluke, who Pou \u201che audience with her reciting \u2018 > TESA © s Monument,\" etc.The con- brought to a close by singing the Queen.\u2019 \u2014e #7 © \"LANCE RUN TO LACHINE ral Hospital ambulance had vesterday, being calied out to the sbrewery of Messrs.\u2018'v.for an employee of the Henri Cadieux, on whom a lad accidentally fallen from \u20ac l\u2019adieux sustained a bad \u2018rarure of the right lcg.He \u2019eported as making fair pro- \u2014- \u2014_ LIFE WAS SHORT - Frid an inquest this morn- 'gue upon the body of of a woman living in The child, who was born last.was healthy enough \u2018à \u201clght hours afterwards ~ ances that demanded an «à l'Opsv revealed the fact © due Lo suffocation which Lave been accidental.A \u201c1 effect was accordingly _\u2014 a i THE CAPITAL.'t \u2014 Some of the deputy * object to September \u2018wt others favor them, so i.-° take the responsibility he returns early next \u2018air medals are being e, \"mo mew geigneur of Anti- ia Ottawa shortly.TS HAUNTED HOUSES.{To the Editor of the * Witness.) | Sir,\u2014I think I can suggest a possible explanation for your When I was a prefect at Falstead Gram- : mar School, Essex, in 1858, our matron.haunted house.| | 1 1 1 i the widow of a barrister.an almost fearless woman, One night Ler husband was on circuit and she was sleeping in her big, hand- sone house alone.she distinctly heard footfalls walking over her head in room above her.She lit a lamp and searched the house from garret to base- Ment, even drawing back the curtains of one of those old-fashioned shower-baths.Sbe found nothing., Next morning a livery stable keeper in the mews behind her house, sent over to say that a horse had broken loose in a particular stall, for a short time, and kicked the wall behind it, and that whenever this bappened there was the noise of footsteps in the room above her bedroom.\u2018He hoped she had not Leen alarmed.\u2019 The rectory of Beaconsfield, Bucks, was haunted.The famous Dr.Watson, who lived next door, told me that there was an empty drain running from the much- travelled road through the churchyard right into the house.He judged that whenever anyone walked over the drain in the stiliness of night, there was probably a sound of footsteps in the passages of the house.There was, in fact, in both cases a kind of accidental telephone.The footsteps heard in the gallery fell elsewhere.Similarly, when the man in the room next mine at Verdun cries out, I distinctly hear the cry come from the far end of the long passage.Thick walls muffle the sound.Similarly in a rainbow and a mirage, the things seen are not seen where they are but where they are not.As to the door found \u2018always unlocked in the morning.\u2019 if the man once thought he had turned the key when he had not done so.the story would soon run that the door got unlocked every night.Readers of Renan's will easily believe this.With God's voice ever answering prayer and telling us which way to turn, there is now little need of ghosts, or dreams, or angels, and many would rather sleep with silent ghosts, although perambulators, than with many of their noisy room-mates.F.C.EMBERSON.\u2018Vie de Jesus\u2019 Verdun, 1896._\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014e DOCTOR BORDEN.THE \u2018MILITARY GAZETIE' ON THE LIBERAL MINISTER OF MILITIA.The \u2018Canadian Military Gazette has this to say of the new Minister of Mil- ttia:\u2014' The selection of Dr.Borden, M.P.for King's County, N.S., to be Minister of Militia is a popular ome.The Hon.Mr.Laurier is to be congratulated on securing so good a man for that portfolio.We have always complained that the previous governments appointed gentlemen to this important department who were entirely out of touch with the force.They had neither experience nor sympathy with us.The Hon.Mr.Borden joined the 68th Battalion, a boy of sixteen years.He was big for his age, and paraded with his company as the flank man of the front rank.He worked his way up to a commission.He studied medicine, and when a vacancy occurred he was transferred from the lieutenancy to be surgeon.He has served continu- ousiy for thirty-three years in the 68th, and If we mistake not he has never mias- ed a camp in that time.He is still surgeon in his regiment with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.That he bas remained so long shows what an enthusiastic officer he must be.He is a man of means and abllity, with more than the average amount of the good practical commonsense so necessary in a department where there are so many theorists.Those who know him best say he is likely to go in for a complete reorganization of the force and to establish it on a more modern and progressive gystem.> PECULIAR ACTION AGAINST A PHOTOGRAPHER.The writ was returned in Court this morning in a peculiar action taken by two young ladies of this city against Mr.J.Alfred Dagenais, photographer.The plaintiffs allege that they, together with a third companion, got their picture taken in a group in defendant's establishment, and that subsequently, without authorization or permission, Mr.Da- genals exposed an extra copy of this photograph in his show window.The plaintiffs further allege that the picture being taken in a special costume known as \u2018 Ball Dress, was only intended for intimate friends and its exhibition in public caused them considerable annoyance.It is also alleged that although plaintiffs asked that the picture be removed and were promised that it would be taken away, nothing was done, and for these reasons .they each claim fifty dollars damages from the photographer and asked that he be ordered to take the picture away from his show window.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE DUTCH.The Hague, July 24.\u2014Advices from Sumatra are to the effect that the Dutch have won a brilliant victory over the Achineese rebels at Lamrada, killing the insurgent chief, Niamakain, and capturing a number of his followers.FOR THE FIREMEN.J.L.Cassidy & Co.sent a cheque this morning for fifty dollars to the Firemen\u2019s Fund, for the excellent services rendered by the brigade at the fire in their premises on June 7.\u2014\u2014e THE REV.E.M.HILL'S RETURN.The Rev.E.M.Hill of Calvary Church has returned to the city after spending his vacation very pleasantly at his mo- ther's home in Beloit, Wis.He will preach at both services in Calvary Church on Sunday.\u2014\u2014\u2014 PERSONAL.Mr.R.S.Weir has returned to town after a brief holiday.Mrs.and Miss Pearle Thurston, Ste.Famille street, have gone to Old Orchard for the season.the .told me the following fact.: A DUMPING GROUND.TOUTHFUL CKIMINALS AND MENTALLY DEFORMED CHILDREN SENT TO CANADA._ Kingston, July 24 \u2014Dr.Clarke, super- Intendent or Rockwood Hospital for the Insane, delivered a lecture on Wedneslay 1 \u2018Heredity and Insanity.\u2019 er things he said: \u20181 cannot see how it is possible for a teacher to reach the highest rank in his profession without paying the deepest attention to the laws of heredity.Too frequently it is taken for granted that all individuals are alike, and the tendency of our public school system is to perpetuate this mistake.It may be very fine theoretically to have a system so perfect that all children can be treated as equally to endure the strain of a smooth running grinding machine, in fact, can be forced to conform to standards which do not recognize difference in mental qualities, and which tend to dwar: individuality, but 1 think we are making a mistake in this particular, admirable as much of the public school system is.The training which a person undergoes must have a marked influence on the formation of his character.What his success in life shall be will be determined in a great measure by what has been done to bring into activity the capabilities of nature.While it is true that education is a great power, it is also a limited one, dependent on the natural capacity of the individual.It will ever be impossible to raise a stable superstructure of intellect and character on bad natural foundations.\u2018A pretty strong proof that the general public has not awakened to Its responsibilities in regrrd 10 the problems of heredity, is the fact that in Canada we are deliberately adding to our population hundreds of children bearing all the stigmata of physical and mental degeneracy.And this is being done openly and apparently with the consent of many who are really anxious to prove themselves philanthropists.I refer to the children who are brought to Canada in order to benefit themselves and the country.It is asserted that these children pass a medical examination and are invariably of healthy type.Could anything be more misleading, more untrue.Not long ago I travelled in a railway carriage fllled with these imported boys, and for days afterwards was depressed, feeling that the future history of those little fellows boded nothing but {ll for Canada.The ear marks of degeneracy were everywhere, unsymmetrical heads, stunted forms\u2014the whole type bad.Take this car from one of our public schools, and it would not require the medical eye to discover the defects.It is almost criminal neglect on the part of the authorities to allow this sort of immigration to be permitted, and while some may assert that asylum and jail populations have not been materially increased by such importations, they should remember that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.The next generation must be considered, but the harvest has already commenced\u2014a juvenile criminal here, an insane person there.Come to the wards of Rockwood hospital and I will show you specimens of the old world degenerate, not in ones or twos, but in numbers sufficiently large to prove that he is not a chimera.He is unique, because the conditions in Canada have so far been unfavorable for his development.But, if we are not careful, he will soon become as persistent and difficult to eradicate as some of the old world weeds which cumber our fields and waysides.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN UNAVAILING PROTEST, \u2014_\u2014 The British Government Will Not Erect Cattle Sheds at Belfast.London, July 24.\u2014In the House of Conimons Mr.Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said in reply to a question by Mr.G.W.Wolff, Conservative member for East Belfast, that the Canadian Government had protested against the refusal of the home government to permit the establishment of a wharf in Belfast to be devoted to the landing of animals from foreign ports, thereby entirely forbidding the importation of Canadian cattle into Ireland.The government, Mr.Chamberlain added, had given careful couslderation to the protest, but he regretted that they could not alter their decision to prohibit the establishment of such facilities for landing cattle.\u2014_\u2014 etl \u2014\u2014 AN INTERESTING FLAG CASE.Lawrence, Mass., July 24.\u2014Judge Stone decided the \u2018Irish flag \u2019 case in the Police Court this morning.On the eve of July 4, Patrick O'Brien, a contractor, placed a green flag on the chimney of the unfinished Sixth Ward School Building.City Marshal Bailey removed the flag, subsequently restoring it to O\u2019Brien, who replaced it on the building.Marshal Bailey secured a warrant against O'Brien, alleging violation of a law which makes unlawful the placing of a fiag or emblem of a foreign country upon the outside of public buildings.O\u2019Brien\u2018s counsel raised the point that the green flag was not an emblem of any foreign country, because Ireland was not an independent soveringnty, and the judge took this point into consideration.To-day, O'Brien was adjudged guilty and a fine of ten dollars was imposed.O\u2019Brien took an appeal to the Superior Court.> OBITUARY.London, July 23.\u2014Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, sixth Earl of Mae- clesfield, died to-day, aged eighty-five years.London, July 23.\u2014A despatch from Cologne announces the death of Adelph Ebeling, the writer.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 + NOTES AND NOTICES.\u2018The Inventors\u2019 Guide.\u2019\u2014This valuable book tells how fortunes are made in patents, how to obtain a \u2018patent at small cost, how a rough sketch of your invention is all that is necessary, how a poor inventor made a million dollars, suggests new ideas that bring fortunes.Book mailed free to anyone.Address Marion & Laberge, 185 St.James street, Montreal.Among oth-.load and put them beside a! similar number of boys taken at hazard: | conducted the service.\u201cme.BIBLE SOCIETY'S COLUMN, The active members of the general committee of the Bible Society are scattered for the holidays\u2014some of them are in Britain and others among the | summer resorts of Canada.Fo- this : reason there bas been no meeting, but | the colporteurs, the district secretary | and the Bible House put in a full month's work during June.From their reports we cull the following facts:\u2014 During the month there were issued from the Bible House 610 bibles, 439 testaments and 27y portions of the word.The value of these issues was about $419.The reports of the five colporteurs ghow, in the aggregate, 129 days\u2019 work, 2,371 families visited, 167 bibles and 301 testaments sold, at the value of $116, and grants made of 44 copies and portions, valued at $8.The Rev.H.Gomery's journal is of the usual interest, with the prefatory remark that these reports in the \u2018Witness\u2019 are much appreciated and talked about in the country.Lachute, June 1.\u2014Although in the tur- meil of politics, in view of the approaching elections, our meeting was bright and the interest was well maintained.The Rev.Messrs.Givan, Mac- kle and Waddell gave us help.Our secretary, Mr.McOuat, will send in a good report.Brownsburg, June 2.\u2014This is one of our new ventures.Qur friends have organized a branch here with officers who are highly spoken of, and from whom we expect much good work.Dalesville, June 3.\u2014This is the third visit to this place and now comes financial work.The lady collectors have found their way round the district and hava made a fair start.Old Harrington and Avoca, June 4 and 5.\u2014Do not show enough interest to warrant further visits in the near future.Grenville, Sunday, June 7.\u2014Preached in English church in the morning and in the afternoon in the Presbyterian church.This was a union service, for our friends from all the churches gathered and even tested the capacity of the house.A capital report from Mr.T.Williamson, of the year\u2019s work, was presented at our business meeting on Satarday.Went to Cushing in the evening; good congregation in St.Mun- go's Church.The Rev.James Fraser, as always, our good friend and helper, had been with us in the afternoon and Mr.Weir, the treasurer, had a good list of contributions from our collectors.St.Andrew's, June 8.\u2014A very happy gathering here.Our friends agreeing that I should take this on my journey at this time, instead of the winter, this, therefore, is the second visit this year.The Revs.Dr.Paterson and J.Dennis ably addressed the meeting.Mr.1.Lamb presided.Grande Frentère, June 9.\u2014The Rev.A.Morrison had driven about fifteen miles \u2018Over vile roads to meet and welcome me to his charge here.I had driven a longer distance myself, through rain and mud, but that has become usual with Our friends came in good numbers and we had a good report from our president.St.Eustache, June 10.\u2014The Protestant community came together, evidenty enjoying the meeting.Funds on the increase.(Good music.St.Thérese de Blainville, June 11.\u2014 Was offered the hospitality of the manse but after a successful gathering of our friends, a capital report, and an able speech from the Kev.A.Morrison, I determined to drive home by the light of the stars.June 15.\u2014Crossed to Laprairie by boat and drove to Napierville, where the friends we looked for came together.Good work showed consequent good results.Many larger constltuencies might well take pattern from our generous, kindly members here.Lacolle, June 16.\u2014An important gathering of Sunday-school teachers of Iber- ville deanery was in session this day.By kindly concession, our meeting was held in an interval of their work, so I was enabled to address a far larger.number than I ever had before in La- colla.The report was not yet ready.Moyan., June 17.\u2014A good attendance in St.Thomas's Church, the Rev.W.Robinson presiding.The collectors had completed their work and proved that, \u2018Many a mickle maks a muckle,\u2019 for : the total results were very favorable.Clarenceville, June 18.\u2014A pleasant meeting in the parish hall, the rector in the chair, the Rev.J.Ferguson (Methodist) taking an active part, and fully endorsing the object and work of the society.We appointed a new secretary, Miss F.Johnson, as Miss Derrick had removed from the locality.The subsgcrip- tions were a pleasant surprise to mego thorough had been the canvass.Great credit is due to the young lady collectors.June 19.\u2014Called at Pike River and received subscription from Mrs.Blakeley; thep journeyed on to Mystic.Not a large meeting, but the usual amount of work had been done.Mr.Merrill Bock- us presided.Sunday morning, June 21.\u2014Preached to our Anglican friends at Phillipsburg.Subscriptions behind last year.Drove between storms to Mapledale.Rain entirely prevented our meeting; but successful work in collecting had been accomplished.At Bedford, in the evening, a good congregation In St.James Church.On Monday morning I learned that this branch is considerably in advance of last year.Stanbridge East, June 22.\u2014Total paralysis had befallen this branch; the excitement of politics has proved too much for it.No meeting; no funds.Dunham, June 23.\u2014This was election day, as the politician will remember; yet to the credit of our friends the meeting went on.The numbers were small, but Rouge and Bleu were side by side in brotherly and Christian fashion.: Mr.R.P.Small presided and the Rev.N.A.F.Bourne took part.A goodly sum was paid in, as the result of one : book; another still to come in.Frelighsburg, June 24.\u2014The echoes of , the political fray have not yet dled away so our meeting was small.The Rev.Canon Davidson, the Rev.N.P.Yates were on hand with hearty speeches, breathing good will to men of every race and tongue.Sales and subscriptions are good.Abbott's Corners, 4 June 25.\u2014Most of ï : WOrk : enjoyed Mr.He reporus:\u2014 \\ our old friends gathered to listen to the story of the triumphs of the word of God.Subscriptions had been taken up but sales had fallen off.Abercorn, June 26.\u2014We had without musle.None of our terial friends could be with us.The had been done, however, so we Anderson's report and trust his successor may prosper in her turn.Fulton.June 27.\u2014Had been engaged in politics, yet our friends, of both parties came together in the intereets of the gospel of peace and good will.Rev.Messrs.H.Fowles, W.Capel and J.Garvin, the pastor of the Advent Church, in which we met, all united in making our gathering a happy one.The audience was large and there: appears to be good warranty for a prosperous vear's work.Brome, Sunday, June 28.\u2014In the morning I had the pleasure (by courtesy of the Rev.I.Lackey) of preaching to a large congregation in his church.collectors have done very well West Brome, in the afternoon, preached in the English Church, gregation.Our secretary, Mr.F.Pettes.handed me a good subscription list afterwards.Drove through a violent thunder storm to Knowlton, for the evening.St.Paul's Church was unusually quiet.The storm had evidently kept the congregation away, for only a few were present.But He was there.\u2014-\u2014\u2014>\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014_ SHIPPING AND HARBOR NOTES.The Beaver Line SS.Lake Ontario from Montreal, July 15, passed Malin Head at 5 o'clock this morning, and is due in Liverpool this evening.The Aberdeen Atlantic Shipping Company's SS.State of Georgia passed Father Point inward on Wednesday, the 22nd instant (midnight).The Allan Mail 8S.Assyrian from Philadelphia for Glasgow, via St.John's.Nfld., arrived at St.John's at 4.30 p.m.and sailed at 6.30 p.m.yesterday (Wednesday).The Allan Line Mail 88.Carthaginian arrived at Halifax yesterday (Wednesday) evening.The \u2018Thomson Line 3S.Avlona salled this morning for Newcastle and Dundee, with a full general cargo, including 245 head of cattle and 330 sheep.The Dominion Line R.M.S.Labrador, Captain McAuley, sails to-morrow morning with a large list of passengers for the Old Country.Following is a partial list of the saloon passengers: \u2014Mrs.Berington Atkinson, Mr.Wallace Anderson, Mr.T.Asken, Mr.A.J.Behan, Mr.Charles H.Brown, Dr.Martin Besemer, Mr.H.Barber, Mr.A.G.Bristow, Miss Cundall, Ar.Charles R.Compston, Mrs.Compston, Mr.W.Duck- worth, Mrs.Duckworth, Dr.W, A.Dewey, Mr.E.J.Ford, Mrs.Ford, Mr.Gorham, Mrs.8.Greenman, Mr.Garland, Dr.Ga- boury, Mr.L.A.Gaboury.Dr.H.T.Ga- boury, Major A.E.Hay, Mr.G.H.Hors- fall, Mrs.Hinks, Miss ilinks, Master Hinks, Mr.F.H.Illingworth, Mr.T.E.Jones, Mrs.Jones, Mrs.E.Jones, the Rev.James to do minis- Little, Mrs.Little, Mr.L.B.Lewis, Mr.Linnell, Mrs.Clark-Murray.Miss Murray, Nisgs Bessie Clark-Mavray, Miss rracie Clark-Murray, Mr.F.W.Moore.Lieutenant Macrae, Mrs.Macrae, Miss Katie Mac- rae, Master Willie Macrae, Master Arthur Macrae, Master James Macrae, Mrs.D.P.McPherson, Mr.McLaren, Mr.McLeod, Mr.M.McIntosh, Mr.H.H.McCurdy, Mr.Mc- Cormick, Miss F.B.Pudicombe, Miss A.B.Pudicombe, Mr.A.Peel, Mr.John R.F.Rowley, Mr.W.Ridchalgh, Mr.Stanley, the Rev.J.C.Sycamore, Miss G.Spring- Rice, Dr.Cornelia 8.Stettler, Mr.A.F.Stewart, Mr.J.Herbert Tee, Mr.A.Telfer, Mrs.Telfer, Mr.Vowels, Mr.Wm.Ware, Miss Wright, Miss \u2014 Wright, Dr.Nancy Williams, Mr.W.C.Watson, the Rev.J.C.Watson, Mr.Young.The Allan Line R.M.S.Numidian, sails to-morrow morning with passengers and a genera! cargo.Following is a partial list of her saloon passengers: \u2014The Rev.Mr.Armstrong.Mr.Bushley, Mrs.Buller, Mrs.H.R.Brown, Miss Cayford.Miss Croucher, Miss Adela P.Flewelling, Mr.Bradley Gil- man, Mrs.Gilman and child, Mr.Gale, Mrs Harding Miss F.P.Jones, Mrs.Graham.J.S.Cronshaw, Mr.Lewis, Mr.John x \u201cMiddlemore, Miss Mannsell, the Rev.J.L.May, Mr.C.V.Morriss, Miss R.Morris.Mr.A.A.Scott.Mrs.Thickett, Mr.Usher- wood, Mrs.Usherwood.Miss Wallace, Mr.John Wilson, Mr.F.P.Croshaw, Mr.G.Scott.The SS.Marion arrived in port yesterday from West Hartlepool, consigned to Elder, Dempster & Co.Captain Martin repor.s that the Marion sailed from West Hartle- pool on July 9.and had a seasonable trip across, Several icebergs were seen to the east of Belle Isle.although very few bergs 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IE | | ee a mens Coa ig RASA mr a pre Ce 6 - -\u2014 gy - ww LJ THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.} JE EN PR I EEE Arcs qe PE ave FripAy, Jory 24, 10g The Boys\u2019 Page.A Story of Mazarun Gold.\u2014 IN TWO PART (\u2018Chambers\u2019s Jourzal.\u2019) PART II.Some months glided by.ists say, and I had half forgo:*>n Belk and his story, when 1 received a letter from him, dated the Herrengracht, Am- gterdam.It was a hospitable invitation to come and visit him for as long as I liked.A week later we were seated one evening after dinner in bis quaint, cosy little smoking-room.* Now, about that treasure,\u201d said Balk, * which I promised at dinner to tell you about.\u2019 * Did you get it?' said I.\u2018 Every doubloon, my dear fellow,\u201d he answered, \u2018 except a few which fell from the rotten chest, and on which the bo- vianders duly got drunk at Bartica for some days.\u2018 * Well, how did you manage it?\u201d \u2018Very simply.I took a cottage at Bartica Grove, and people seemed to think me a German naturalist.Naturalists collecting for American museums go there sometimes.I got a boat, and was pulled to the mainland some two miles below the penal settlement.I examined everything\u2014had & path cut, looked at the trees, the creepers, the ground, yes, especially the ground; oh, it was quite plain I was a naturalist.An old chart which I had taken the precaution to consult at the royal archives at the Hague bad informed me as to the exact position of the old estate of Schepruoed.Ot course, the place was quite over- grown\u2014not even a small terrier could have penetrated some parts of it.I bad my compass with me, but did not consult it.I did not wish to raise Bus- picions, Naturalists do not require com- pesses.What was my joy, however, at some thirty feet above the river, in a spot where no brushwood was, to stumble over a brick, half-buried in the soil.There were mounds all round\u2014no doubt 2ll house brickwork covered with soil.\u2018The men with me were not surprised; they merely sald:\u2014'\u2018 Plenty estate on dis river in old time\u2014bricks everywhere.\u201d \u2018 Here, then, my ancestor David Balk bad perished so many generations since.\u2018\u2018 Any old greenheart trees?\u2019 I asked tarelessly of the boatmen.\u2018They laughed.\u2018\u2018 You no find any dis side.Settlement people cut down trees of any size\u2014too many years ago.\u201d \u2018The old tree mentioned in the letter bad disappeared, then.But I had been almost sure of that beforehand.In the course of nature it must have perished long pgo, even if the woodcutters had spared jt.\u2018For one reconnoître I had done very well.After this, I borrowed a canoe, & good Englizh-built one, and paddled in and out of the shallows and backwaters.One thing 1 felt convinced of\u2014] must ascertain the exact spot where this treasure was buried.I could only make one attempt.If that falled, the whole thing would get wind, and all the treasure, if ever found, would not come to me, its rightful owner.\u201cWell, after carefully examining the chart, and taking and retaking the most minute bearings, I hit upon one certain spot.I cleared away the brushwood my- gelf with a cutlass, and what was my joy to find a huge cavity where trees had evidently once stood.But now one of the most difficult parts of my plan remained.I must let five men at least into my secret, for I should require fully that number to pull the boat and dig up the treasure.And such men to confide in! Bovianders, woodcutters, men living from hand to mouth, whose highest ideal of human \u201cfelicity was rum and tobacco.I should never have managed these fellows myself; but I went to one who had had much experience with woodcutters and river-men.For a good round sum, when I had confided everything to him, he promised to procure me five trustworthy men\u2014that is, trustworthy as long as they could be kept from drink.Fine big fellows they were, with broad chests and sinewy arms.My temporary friend, from whom I also hired an expensive boat, kept these fellows till the evening in a state of semi- imprisonment.\u201c\u201c Now,\u201d said I, producing a rell of notes, to show I had plenty of money, \u2018each man, five minutes after we have started to-night, will receive a twenty- dollar note.If I succeed in what I am attempting, then each man will have twenty dollars more; but you won't know what we are going for until after we start.\u201d \u2018It was a dark moonless night as we pushed off silently about eleven o'clock from Carabisce Place, Bartica Grove.as the novel- I| after that night.gave each of the men the promised twenty-dollar note.I could see by the feeble lantern light that this inspired them with new confidence.Our boat was well ballasted with shovels end plck- axes; boxes, or what Creoles call \u2018\u2018 canisters,\u2019 to hold the expected treasure.They all knew about it now.I had told them all.\u2018 Arriving at our landing-place, and tethering our boat to the trunk of a tree, we commenced our midnight journey.Two men held me up on either side, or I should have fallen again and again as the vines entangled my feat, for the lantern\u2019s light was well-nigh useless.As for the men, they seemed to have cats\u2019 The darkness and the light to them were both altke.I am sure I could never have found the spot I wanted alone, in the dark, often as I had been there; but I had painted lines of white paint as a precaution on two trees near the place, and my friends with the feline eyes soon discovered these, \u2018* Now that the search I had come all these thousands of miles to make was about to begin, 1 felt at once a strange disbelief in It.All the tales I had ever read of vain searchings for treasure which perhaps bad never been hidden, flashed through my mind.Perhaps David Balk's letter had been all a hoax, intended to mislead Spaniards and others.Even if true, some one else might have found the gold generations ago.At that moment, but for making myself ridiculous, I would have gone back to the boat and steamed away for Holland by first ship.eves.\u2018\u201c Eh, sir\u2014wha\u2019 yow g'win to do?\u201c \u2018These words roused me from my dream.The men had put the lantern on the ground, and now looked to me for directions.I pointed out what I thought must be the exact spot, and to work they went like\u2014well, like men who are working for twenty dollars apiece.Shovelfuls of black mould were turned up, representing years upon years of forest leaves; then two or three feet of sand, and at last we got through two feet of clay, and finally reached water.The depth of the hole was now more than six feet, and my beart began to sink, for when the labor had set in, my hopes had risen again.The men were getting dispirited.Their extra twenty dollars seemed fading away before their eyes.They all jumped out of the trench.sah; de water rise; mo Better go home.\u201d \u201c\u201c No good, treasure der.\u2018I began to think so too; but just then, as a man held the lantern over the excavatton, I noticed a hard substance amongst the clay at the side, some five feet down.To the amazement of the man, I jumped into the hole, splashing the water high in the alr.I felt the side of the hole, scraped away the clay.Yes, this was the end of a stone coffer of large dimensions, and the end of our search too.\u2018*\u201c Hurrah!\u201d 1 shouted, as the men helped me out of the pit; \u201cwe have come on the end of the box Instead of the top.A little more digging, my men, just here, and twenty-five dollars apiece for you, instead of twenty, as this is extra work.\u201d \u2018In the course of half-an-hour the whole of the stone coffer was lald bare.It was too heavy to lift from the earth, and must be emptied.A few blows from a pickaxe, and the lid was broken in pieces.Throwing these pieces away, a much-decayed linen cloth was visible.\u201c\u201c You better raise dis,\u201d sald the men, getting out of the hole.\u2018] sprang in, and then there came forth, as I raised the cloth, in the lantern\u2019s light the soft gleam of gold\u2014im- perishable gold\u2014gold, not to be tarnished like silver, or grow green like baser metals, but ever preserving its yellow radiance from age to age.Yes, there was gold in all its shapes\u2014crude nuggets, and gold-dust from Nature's hand.Moldores, pleces-of-eight, doubloons, and a dozen other shapes into which man's hand had twisted it.\u2018I, who was moderately rich before, for Holland, was now rich as you Eng- I1sh count riches.I stood dumfounded.I was neither glad nor happy.I felt dazed, and fancied myself an avaricious wretch.But this I did in the few moments when I first beheld my treasures by the feeble light of the lantern, beneath the Mazaruni forest trees; I vowed I would make a good use of it in the service of God and man; and I humbly hope I have done so.\u201cWell, It took some time to fill our tin and wooden boxes and transport the treasure to the boat.When we reached Bartica, 1 gave the men fifty dollars apiece, and I sald if I could ever help them in any way I would, on their applying to me.I am afraid the money did them no good.I heard afterwards that Bartica Grove was a& swamp of drunkenness for some two or three weeks Some of the men had picked up gold moidores and other coins, and many worthy persons were much surprised at ancient coins coming suddenly to light in such a remote place.As for myself, I left for Southampton by next mall.* There, you have my story,\u2019 said Balk.\u2018 But,\u201d said I, \u2018did nothing of this strange treasure-trove adventure get wind in Demerara?\u2019 \u2018Ah yes, laughed Balk.\u2018Of course those drunken bovianders maundered about treasures in the earth, but few be- licved them.One or two men went and dug\u2014found nothing except the empty stone coffer, which they took to the Grove; but what did that prove as to their tale being true\u2014en empty stone box?The Superintendent at the Bettle- ment, an energetic little man, heard the story too.He sent a warder and convicts into the forest.They found a hole.They dug others, and at last they came on a grave.He must have been a swell the Balk who was buried there, for the diggers turned up no end of coffin handles, some of which bave been preserved as mementos.The only thing of the slightest value they found, was a silver button such as used to be worn 2n cloaks, with a chain, to fasten the collar.This the Superintendent gave to his life.Oh yes, there was something more Pini few hones.* This,\u201d sald Balk, showing me a small bone inserted in gomething like a mon- strant, * was sent to me as the relic of an ancestor, and these'\u2014opening a drawer of nuggets\u2014' are, I take it, some of the earliest samples of Mazaruni Gold.\u2019 WHERE IS THE SPANISH MAIN?Buccanecring romances teem with references to the Spanish Main, yet how many people nowadays know what or where the Spanish Main was?Main is a contraction for Mainland, and was applied to the part of the north coast of South America washed by the Carribean Sea.The name is a relic of the time when that part of, the continent belonged to Spain, and was used in opposition to the West India Islands, which also then belonged to that country.\u2014\u2018 Chambers's Jourral.\u2018 Questions and Answers.\u2014 TRAINING FOR THE ROYAL, NAVY.4° Reader of Boys\u2019 Page \u20141.What training and education must a boy have who wishes to become a sailor on a British man-of-war, and has had no previous experience?2.How old must he be when making application as a recruit 7?3.What would be his first duties ?4.What are the various grades of progress ?5.When would his pay commence, and what would be its amount ?6.To whom may application be made for further information ?Ans.\u20141.He need not have had any previous experience, and reading and writing are sufficient educational qualifications.2.He must be between the ages of 16 and 16% years.He must produce a certificate of birth or declaration made by parents or guardian to the effect that he Is of full age.He must be of sound constitution and free from any physical defect or malformation.He must also have good hearing and eyesight.He should also have certificate as to character and ability.The boy then upon being accepted signs an agreement to serve for twelve years after he has attained the age of eighteen.Upon signing the necessary papers he becomes what is called a second-class boy.3 and 4.During his first year instruction is given him in the making of knots and splices.He is given full information as to the rigging and masts.At the conclusion of this course of training the candidate for naval promotion becomes a first-class boy, and undergoes a courge df training in the making of clothes and sails and the fitting of rigging.He is also given instrue- tion in rifle and musketry exercises, field gun, big gun, and cutlass drill.The complete course extends over some twenty months, from whatevar period the boy enters, and ends with a six weeks\u2019 cruise on a training brig.He then passes to the depot ship, to be drafted to the training squadron.From thence at the age of eighteen he enters the fleet as an ordinary seaman.During the course of instruction every opportunity is given the boys to exercise themselves in gymnasiums and in outdoor games.This is the course pursued by those who train to be ordinary seamen.\"The course and regulations for naval cadets who are entered for the purpose of subsequently becoming officers differs from the above.The naval cadet enters between the ages of thirteen and fourteen.He must be nominated by some influential person, and must pass a competitive examination.After a course of two years he becomes a midshipman.5.The pay begins when the candidate for ordinary seaman has attained the standing of second class boy.It is as follows :\u2014About $45 per annum for sec- ond-class boy ; 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Pron Roc Alb: Ruf?Syrt Spri Scra Win Mon Aye: race In 1 one- with and follo heat.\u2014t tf PY VRP ee Slide om sod 8.TriDAY, JULY 24, 1856.Ps r= SPORTS AND PASTIME TE ONTO, coy moo Sat iv rng nrermiseé «rx in a leazu and save chances s1j5 SPASOT.feno fhoir LE ot spre the wil ve pre th The tie! a, 0 Brien Vurrar, Farirdars sain CC.HULL J.\"RA, ghtrod.W.W.Waik [.Leman, G. 0?their boys to water «, nOW .\u201cion far off to do that.doing: 7 \u201c \u2018© my posies.\u2019 other vas gone, Maggie went some To and looked at the combé les and © 1277 she thought, \u2018that athers allowed to die! » And NE.\u2018inbéred that after the mother ro had tea and the mat- n eves \u201csleep she never had jous of .J\" tnat she conld run of tf ; \u201cne \u2018came and water which \u2019 \u201cere was a well and a \u201c© vad srpod handy.It wos of her father and , She had nothing to; Say to each other; OF SIE PTI SES ~., \\ mp - socmed to Maggie that it would be very pleasant work, but when the\u2019 next evening she really set herself at s it, she found it very tiresome.There were a great many beds, and a great : deal of water was needed.Ilowever, she did not give up her plan for that.Every evening found har at the place, end after a while she found that the task seemed easier.porch | evidently it was hungry.she \"had nothing to give it, however, but ron for some crusts, which she soaked in water and put into a little tin can.Puss was glad to get it, and every night Maggie took something for the cat to eat.This went on for a month, until one \u2018morning a lady walked up to the poor- i house door and asked if there was a litle giri there named Maggie.Maggie was sent for.The lady was Miss Billings.Miss Billings gave her a kind smile, and said : \u2018My dear child, Mr.Brown, my milkman, tells me that all the while 1 have been gone you have watered my flowers.Is that so 7 | \u2018Yes, ma'am, said Maggie.\u20181 heard vou say they would die for ! want of it.and that seemed a shame; so I did it evenings.\u2019 \u2018And my cat!\u201d said Miss Billings.\u2018Scme one has fed my cat.I carried her to a friend, but she ran away heme again, as cats will, and she'd ' have starved but for you.1 am so much obliged to you, and I want to give you something for it.\u2019 \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t want anything, ma'am,\u2019 Maggle said.i But Miss Billings made her go with her to the store, and gave her a nice pink frock.a nice siraw hat, and other useful and pretty things.A few days later she came back and had a talk with the matron.She said she needed a little gir! to help abcut the house, and wouid take Maggie if she liked to come.\u2018I have had some money left to me, \u201cand can afford to do well by her,\u201d she said.Maggie has been well educated, and is as healthy and happy as a girl can be.and not a week passes but she comes to the poorhouse with some nice things that Miss Billings has sent to the old ladies.In fact, they have made it so much the fashion to be kind to the poorhouse folk that the authorities have resoived to put up a porch for them to sit under in stuny weather, and to lay out grass- plets before the house, and a contribution has been taken up in the village for rocking-chairs, and the poor oli souls never had so much comfort before.\u2018And our Maggie started it all with the blackberry picking,\u201d the old ladies which is quite true, for if Maggie had just gone about selfishly picking as many ber- i ries as she could eat, and forgetting that the poor old ladies might like | some toc.the good grocer would not have thought about them and sent the sugar and dried fruit If the grocer had not been generous the | dry goods people might not have remembered what they could give away, and so on.She certainly set the ball rolling.As for Maggie's own self, if she had not b2en good-natured encugh to water the flowers and feed the poor little cat, Miss Billings wculd never have known that there was a little girl at the poorhouse to whom she could be a friend.When one person does a good deed it generally puts it into another's heart to do another.Ana even a kind thought has brought about great benefits to mankind.if some one uttered it who could do nothing else.\u2014 New York \u2018Ledger.\u2019 DAILY FOOD.FRIDAY, JULY 24.If a man sin against the Lord, wno shall intreat for him ?\u2014Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.\u2014Lord, let it alone this year also : and if it bear fruit, well \u2014! Sam.ii, ee > i itt iy i er .In RE es x 10 ETES THE ST.LOUIS CONVENTIONS, POPULISTS AND SILVERITES EACH AGREE UPON A PLATFORM.A PRELIMINARY VICTORY FOR BRYAN 8 FRIENDS AMONG THE FIKST-NAMED.St.Louis, July 23.\u2014It was not until late in the evening that any substantial progress was made bv the People's Party Convention.Al! the morning and afier- Doon were frittered away in disputes over contested seats and similar trivial mar- ters.The business of the convention was further much hampered by the lack of famlliarity with parliamentary law, with which both the temporary presid- n eeme- ually afflicted.It.Ing officers seemed equally d t that the government of the fathers may be restored and the welfare of the coun-' was nearly eight o'rlock when a decisive tect of strength between the lirvan and anti-Bryan torces was brought about.It.came up on the report of the committee The Bryan.en permanent organizations.men named Senatur Allen of Nebraska, for permanent chairman.The \u2018Middle of the road\u2019 and anti-Bryan men united upon Mr.James E.Camplon of Maine stated to be one of the ablest of parlia- mentarfans.On a call of states the Bryan men carried the day by a declsive vote of 758 to 564.The \u2018middle of the road\u2019 men yielded gracefully and \u2018Cyclone\u2019 Davis, the most active opponent of Mr.Bryan, introduced Senator Allan to the convention.The permanent chairman restored order to the proceedings! and pushed them along, previously making a characteristic speech of an hour or more's duration.The committee on rules reported in favor of limiting the nominating speeches to ten minutes for proposers and five minutes for seconders.After some little opposition a committee of conference was authorized to meet similar committees appointed by the Silver Party's Convention, and at 10.05 p.m.the Populists adjourned.The Silver Convention did little but listen to oratory and music and wait the action of the Populists, The committee on resolutions appointed by the Populist Convention, agsem- bled at half-past twelve at the Lindell Hotel, and was called to order by Gen.James B.Weaver of Iowa.Gen.Weaver and Mr.Jerome S.Kearby of Texas were placed in nomination for chairman, and a good-natured rivalry between the friends of the two candidates was inaugurated.Gen.Weaver won the chairmanship by a majority of one vote, the total cast being twenty-two to twenty- one.Robert Schilling of Wisconsin was made secretary of the convention.After some discussion relative to methods of proccdure, it was decided to authorize: the chairman to appoint a sub-committee of twenty-five members to construct a platform and report.The chair was al- zc authorized to divide this convention into sub-conventions of three each, on preamble, finance, transportation, land, and one on direct legislation.THE FINANCIAL PLANK.The various sub-committees got together at nine o'clock to-night for the purpose of putting their planks into a harmonious whole.affirm the declarations of the Omaha platform.The financial plank, as reported to the full committee and as it will be reported to the convention to- rrorrow, is as follows:\u2014 First\u2014 We demand a national currency, safe and sound, issued by the general government only, a full, legal tender for all debfs, public and private, and receivable for all debts due the government and that without the use of banking corporations, a Just equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people through the lawful disbursements of the government.Second\u2014We demand the free and unrestrained colnage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one by the United States and that without consent of foreign nations.Third\u2014We demand that the volume of eirculating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficient to meet the demands of the business and population of this country and restore prices of labor and production and thereby establish the prosperity and happiness of the people.Fourth\u2014We denounce the Democratic and Republican policies that seek to enslave our people by the {issuance of interest bearing United States bonds to be sold oa foreign markets, and steadfastly adhere to the American policy that will produce revenues sufficient to maintain the legitimate and economic expenses.Fifth\u2014We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of lawful money of the United States by private contract.Bixth \u2014 We demand that the government, in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to the kind of lawful money in which it shall pay them, and we denounce the present and preceding administration for surrendering this option to the holders of the government obligations.Seventh\u2014We demand a proper income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation.Eighth\u2014We demand that postal savings banks be established by the govern- ; The Cy adie ms Le No LE ek he dater TOY ols 8 The preamble will re-.CA Ts ETES RTA A 5 Ky 5 FR i ka LEE Erna Ré, THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.a ES ment for the safe deposit of the savings The direct legislation plank is as follows: We hold that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governcd, and.in order that the | | of the people and to facilitate exchange.\"consent of the governed be axrertained, lin favor of direct legislation under proper constitutinnal safrgnarls, so that the | citizens shall have \u2018he right of initiating, | framing and proposing laws.and of com- .pelling the submission thereof, and of\u2019 \u2018a direct vote of the people for their approval & rejection.The preamble was discussed in committee for upwards of an hour.Tt concludes try and posterity may be secured.THE SILVER PLATFORM all important laws, whether preposed by.ua: ire\u2019 : ; Mail and Empire's\u2019 spectal c National, Staie or Local Legislature, to ?: apré from ing in the mn:atches was followed with The Committee on Resolutions of the | | Silver Convention completed its work by adopting the platform and address to the ; people which had been prepared by the i sub-committee.The platform and address are as foilows:\u2014 vention assembled, hereby following declaration of principles: First\u2014The paramount issue at this The silver party of America, in con- adnpts the | time in the United States is indisputably.| the money question.It is between the British gold standard, gold bonds and \u201cbi-metallic standard, no bonds.eurrency and an American policy on the other.| On this issue we declare ourselves to be in favor of a distinctly American financial system.We are unalterably opposed to the present gold standard and demand the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver.by the restoration of this government Independently of any foreign power, of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver \"into standard money at the ratio of 16 to 1, and upon terms of exact equality as ' they existed prior to 1873, the silver coin ! to be of the full tender, equally with gold, for all debts and dues, public and private.ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.Chicago, Ills., July 23.\u2014The Sound- Money Democratic Conference has decided to issue a call for a new convention.a COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.PETITION PRESENTED IN THE ENGLISH COURTS ASKING FOR ITS WINDING UP.London, July 22.\u2014A petition bas been presented to the English courts asking for the winding-up of the Commercial Bank of Australia on the ground that it is unable to pay its debts.The bank's report for the half vear ending June 30, shows a debit balance of £24,000.The \u2018Times\u2019 in its issue to-day deprecates the position, which, it says.may possibly excite another panic in Australia.Anyhow, it adds, it would have been fairer to have awaited the approaching meeting of the deposit holders in Melbourne.> AN ENGLISH DIVORCE CASE.London, July 23.\u2014The trial of the action for divorce brought by the Hon.Walter Yarde-Buller against hJs wife, formerly Miss Kirkham daughter of General R.W.Kirkham, of San Francisco, began to-day.The plaintiff alleges cruelty and infidelity, naming Valentine Gadesden, of San Francisco, as co-res- pondent.The defendant denies the allegations and makes counter-charges.Mr.Buller sets forth that he was married to Miss Kirkham in 1896.Shortly after his marriage he found that his wife was addicted to drink and after their return to England she repeatedly threatened to stab him to death, and frequently struck him.The infidelity charged, the plaintiff alleges, was committed at his home in Devonshire while Gadesden was his guest.The plaintiff, on the witness stand, denied that (his domestic troubles were due to his own drinking habits or that he had ever struck his wife, as she accused bim of having done.etl UNITED STATES GOLD RESERVE.Washington, D.C., July 23.\u2014The Treasury gold reserve, through the action of the New York national banks, became intact again to-day, the reserve standing at the close of business at $101,881,770.This result was attained by the banks depositing $15,250,000 in gold and receiving therefor a like sum in legal tender notes, which are redeemable in gold on presentation to the Treasury.The day\u2019s withdrawals were $239,400, all of which were taken for hoarding purposes.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOVA SCOTIA ELECTIONS.Halifax, N.S., July 23.\u2014The writs for the elections to fill vacancies in the House of Assembly will be issued to-morrow.Nomination day wili be Aug.8, polling on Aug.15.One seat is to be filled from each of six counties, Annapolis, Queen's, Lunenburg, Halifax, Colchester and Victoria.The Hon.G.H.Murray is the Liberal candidate in Victoria, Attorney- General Longley in Annapolis, and Mr.W.B.Wallace in Halifax.PE a ad ny NE ge ed A bank currency on the one side, and the, : Ing was not general, and many E with a recommendation for the adoption, marksman wh ts j ve ee :sm vhose prospects in sor 0 of the platform submited to the end | d be 2 the big matches had been rendered good .aggregate of 196.His scores in the sec- sixth, Sergt.Mitchell fifty-ninth, and THE BISLEY MATCHES.SERIOUS COMPLAINT ABOUT THE AMMUNITION TO BE INVESTIGATED.HAYHURST AND MITCHELL TWELVE POINTS LBENIIND- THE LEADER IN THE QUEENS\u2019 PRIZE COMPETITION -OTHRR SCORES.Toronto, July 24.\u2014The following is the Bisley dated yesterday: Strong gales which prevailed throughout the day and flving clouds made the light very uncertain.Under these conditions fine scor- by their scores In earlier stages \u2018fell off\u2019 wofully.The attendance of spectators to-day was a record one, and the shoot- great attention.Interest centred around the second stage of the Queen's, in which seven Canadians competed.As a result three of these are qualified to shoot among the competitors in the final stage of the great match which will be decided on Saturday.The three are Havhurst, Munro and Sergt.Mitchell.While no exceptional scores were made, that of Munro must be counted as first-class.As mentioned in previous despatches he was one of the seventy-five competitors who tied for the remaining one place among the 300 entitled to shoot in the second stage.Ie won his tie but real- zed to-day that he had to put on a good score to carry him through to the final.And he did it, his total over the second stage being the highest made by the Canadians.This stage was shot at the L90 and 6M yard ranges, ten shots at the first and fifteen at the last named.The Canadians ecored as follows at the 500 range: Hayhurst, 46 ; Munro, 42 : Campbell, 41: Sergt.Mitchell,40; Lavers, 39; Crowe, 38; Neill, 36.At the 600 yard range thelr scores were: Munro, 68; Mitchell, 57; Neill, 56: Crowe, 51; Lavers, 51; Campbell, 48; Hayhurst, 45.It will be noticed that Hayhurst, while making a good score at the first range, fell off sadly at the second.The aggregates of the Canadians at the second stage, therefore, were: Munro, 100; Mitchell, 97; Neill, 92; Hayhurst, 91; Lavers, 90; Campbell, 89; Crowe, 89.Over the two stages the Canadians scores and aggregates are: \u2014 First Becond Stage.Stage.Total, Hayhurst .93 91 184 Sergt.Mitchell .87 37 184 Munro .82 100 182 Campbell ., .90 89 179 Crowe .+.8.22 2e .89 29 17S Neill .2e .83 92 175 Lavers .ve en 82 40 172 Scores below 182 were counted out.Captain Foster of the Surrey Volunteer Brigade won the N.R.A.silver medal and badge, presented for the highest aggregate sccre in the first and second stages.His score was 196.It will thus be seen that Hayhurst and Mitchell are each twelve points behind the leader ; and Munro is fourteen points behind.Foster has a big lead but the Canadians are quietly confldent and will make a strong fight in the final.The ranges in the last stage are the 800 and 900 yards, ten shots at each.At the close of the second stage last year Hayhurst had an ond range on that occasion were: 500 yards, 46; 600 yards, 55; a total of 101.The scores of Campbell, Crowe, Neill and Lavers in the Queen's entitles them to prizes of £4 each.The \u2018Graphic\u2019 match was shot off today.The scores made in this match count in the All-comers and grand aggregate competitions.The range is E00 yards and seven shots are fired.Ser- geant-Instructor Davison, of the Imperial Army, won first prize, a magnificent silver cup, which cost £562 with the possible score of 85.Only one Canadian, Campbell, got a prize in this match.His score wis 31 and the prize was £2.Haybhurst's and Runion's scores of 31 were counted out.The scores of the Canadians in this match were: Campbell, 31; Hayhurst, 31; Runions, 31; Ogg, 30; Lavers, 30; Harp, 29; Sergt.Mitchell, 29; Neill, 29; Langstroth, 29; Spearing.28: King, 28; Armstrong, 28; Crowe, 28; Huggins, 27; Weller, 27; Bent, 27; Ross, 26; Macdonald, 26; Munro, 25; Lieut.Mitchell, 24.A number of possibles were made in this competition by Old Country shots.The \u2018Daily Telegraph\u2019 match was also decided to-day.The range in this match is 600 yards, number of shois seven.The Canadians scored as follows: Armstrong, 31; Huggins, 30; Sergt.Mitchell, 30; Harp, 29; King, 29: Langstrothe, 29 : Runions, 29; Lieut.Mitchell, 28; Ogg, 26; Bent, 26; Weller, 26; Hayhurst, 24; Spearing, 24; Ross, 24; Munro, 24; Camnp- bell, 24; Lavers, 22: Crowe, 23; Macdonald, 22; Neili, 21.When the prize list for this main was posted up it was found that Armstrong had won the forty- Huggins seventy-eighth prizes of £2 each.Ogg fired at the 600 yard range in the Association Cup to-day, scoring 30 out of a possible 35.This match closes to- Morrow.At the 200 and 500 yard ranges in the \u20ac J Railway Tyro, Runions aggregated 65 out of a possible 70.This match closes on Saturdav.Lieutenant Mitchell scored 28 in the Armories, range 900 yards, number of shots seven.In the Thorburn, Lieut.Mitchell scored a fine 33.On Monday last Weller made a possible in this match, which closes on Saturday.The range is eight hundred vards.During the last few days there have heen many individual complaints as to the ammunition.To-day the complaint is general.The officials are attending to the matter.The members of the Canadian team gave an \u2018at home\u2019 at the close of the shooting to-day.Their camp, by far the prettiest on the grounds, was beautifully decorated for the occasion with bunting, flags and flowers.The three hundred guests present included a number of distinguished British and Canadian visitors and all spent a pleasant time.Amongst those present were Lord, and Lady Waldegrave, Lord Wantage, Generals Middleton, Herbert, Hewett and Strange, Colonels North, Cotton, Howe and Campbell.Amongst the Canadian visitors were Messrs.George Gibbon, Q.C., Donald Macmaster, Q.C., Frank Arnoldi, Q.C., Thomas Hodgins, Q.C., Fred.Wyld, Percival F.Ridout and Mrs.Ridout, Ald.Scott, Mr.and Mrs.Scott, Mr.and Mrs.Colmer, Mrs.Bruce, Captain Forrester, Col.Gordon, Major Roy and Mr.L.J.Sergeant.On behalf of the Canada Club Mr.T.G.Gillespie presented to the team a fine silver cup.Brief addresses were dellvered by General Middleton and Messrs.L.J.Sergeant and Donald Macmaster.The Canadians are all well.\u2014_\u2014 AN UNFORTUNATE CAREER.THE LATE CHAR!B: DICKENS, Charles Dickens, known generally eas young Charles Dickens, whose death was announced on Wednesday.was the eldest son of the great Dickens, and lived throughout his years and died with the great burden of his father's fame upon him.He was fifty-nine years old when he died, and his career had never been a successful one.For many years he was a partner in the London printing office of Dickens & Evans, which had eventually to go into bankruptcy.When his father died in 1870, Charles was a clerk in the employ of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, THE LATE CHARLES DICKENS.and had just got back to England from China, where he had been on business for that firm.He was a quiet, plodding fellow, who, in the unfortunate estrangement between his parents, remained with his mother, and yet never lost his father\u2019s regard.The elder Dickens tried hard to interest the son in literature, but he only partially succeeded, for the young man's tastes for many years continued to be commercial, and it was only after his father\u2019s death that he took charge of the magazine \u2018All the Year Round\u2019 and turned his attenticn to its management, and succeeded remarkably well with it.But he had eventually to dispose of the magazine.The Dickens family were always poor, and their poverty clung even to this generation of its descendants.Charles Dickens, jr., visited the United States as a lecturer in October, 1887, and gave readings from hls father\u2019s works.\u2018He was heartily welcomed eh account of his father's fame.His first appearance was at Chickering Hall, New York, when he read selections from \u2018Dr.Marigold,\u2019 the trial scene from the \u2018Pickwick Papers.\u2019 \u2018The Story of Little Dombey,' and \u2018Mr.Bob Sawyer'\u2019s Party.\u201d A few days previous to his last public appearance in America, a banquet was tendered to him at Delmonico's, over two hundred gentlemen connected with the press being present, and speeches were made by G.W.Curtis, W.H.Hurlbert, J.R.Young and others.Upon this occasion he referred to the changes of twenty-five years, and promised his entertainers that no copies of his father\u2019s \u2018American Notes\u2019 or \u2018Martin Chuzzlewit' should from that time be used without mention of the changes to which he bad referred.\u201cMy object in visiting your country, said Mr.Dickens at that time, \u2018is to read some selections from my father's books which he read himself.So far as the American people are concerned, my only claim to their attention at present is FripAY, JULY 94, ]