The daily witness, 31 juillet 1896, vendredi 31 juillet 1896

[" pe PN por Et ARS RENT er ECE wt ART 8 pt sc.\u2018 | \u2014 .2 25 SE A - ; - + .v Le ç + \u2014 = vo homely dy, in the Hands of the - .4 yankers.ee TED ACTION REQUIRED, TES TO CANADIAN CURRENCY.c'reulation of United States in Canada is a mere money «allo to the United te in amount Grates bills in cirenlation here,\u201d said ttegrge R.Marler, representative dislike gilver Witness vester- IV.\u2018Although we \u201c1ch seeifng American ~:~ in the same manner as our own \"he continued, \u2018the great harm used | - «ir banking instiniions here is \u201cx nlation of American bills, both - certificates and nationai notes.«irculat9 to an enormous | «rt in Canada.T.xushios one sees almost as moray bills as Canadian.We that at last some of the cout banking instiindons in this jre refusing these greenbacks.answer to the question as to «1 hoe banks do not unite in this 0-5 and all refuse to accept the of working on the 7°- «rt basis of shipping all they re- ce wo Tro New York, Mr.Marler said: \u201813 jizt because some of them do not -\\rsrand the situation.They insite that they can by the present rv =zns shin all the money out of the .and that that will settle the «-zion without any disagreeable ac- \u201crican .pe : hear rev Irstead Forme ee Sak * < egainsi fhy bark\u2019s customers who | : the bill But don't you sen) - eimel Mr.Marler forcibly, \u2018the \u201cot of these Lanks accepting the créenbacxs is what keeps them in cir- will receive them small amonnts, and there are more coming into the country \u2018han Every United ; States noe in circulation in this \u201coun- \u201cvv Is just so much loss to Canadian \"inks and the Canadian Government.Thev replace our own notes and those 3 rl Canadian baniis, which would be ) =~ circulation these not hore.\u201c72 banks have within their own sands the power to send the foreign is ont of the country.The very moment they refuse to accept them, : arrept them at a heavy discount, y will go out of circulation and be r= 1 back to the United States.A cannot refuse to take money Porn his customers, while some bants t TC accept it, without appearing to be \u2018izing, so that the action of a ¢ 7 \"anxs can virtually force the tills \u201con the public.\u2018Witness\u2019 They culation.ov in they are sending our.ta wd were agitation against \u201cwl American silver is already °g its effect\u2019 said Mr.Marler.[ \"+ dav passes now but some j'eo- (\u201d \u201cme in here and sell us as bul- .© rriderable quantities of muti- \u2018© coin.Thev find it more and - lifficult to pass it every day, \u20182 prospects are that in a very \u201crime it will be quite impossible - & mutilated United States coin ; © valie in this city.\u2019 \u201c= (roux, assistant manager of ) nk of Hochelaga, said this that Institution had \u2018\u2019onths ago made it a rule not TX mutilated silver, whether \u2018ner Canadian.Packazes 3 \u2018 © are constantly received, \u2019 - +n counted over cn the day reception, are found to notated ecin.The amount \u201civ charged up to the cus- = initials are upon the 001\u20ac Months ago the bank \u2018cet up the silver in :heir \u201crevered that twenty per- 4 Was United States coin.3 | sien prefaced to accept that \u201ccorortirg the question of cs Me.Giroux azreed \u2018\u2019ilons expressed by Mr.4 \u201cue Bank of Hochelaga had * ihe Clearing House to 3 ï \u201cI that y (1 ars Unte in refusing the 4 Trsile nf the loss to the 7 «ount of the American \u201cLZ the place of their bills banker, to very In the Enstern , 12 NE TA AE SE SE +.: Last Edition.MONTREAL, FRIDAY, Ph + en À d th : ir- 5%.COIN AND BILLS.[ation there 10 tanger of a great los tothe public through the circulation of American greenbacks.It was pointed out by Mr.Giroux that the United States Government may in the future make all their bills payable in silver.Then there would be for a while a wild scramble to get rid cf the notes, in which the public and most likely the poorer people would be the losers.Banks and large corporations do not seem to fear this event because during the time necessary for legislation in the matter on the part of the United States Government they would be able to clear themselves of all they held.The pecple who will be caught are the more ignorant ones or those too careless or busy to watch the trend of the money question.THE RAILWAYS.There are a number of business \"concerns, such as railways and large hotels, to which the question of | American silver being current in Can- ,ada has a different aspect than it has to the ordinary business man.These are the railway corporations, large hotels and other concerns doing business with the Americas public.The Canadian Pacific Railway Company takes all the American silver that comes to it, and that is a great deal.They do it for the con- { venience of travellers, and do not see ; how it cculd be avoided.Mr.Taylor, treasurer of the company, said in conversation with a \u2018Witness\u2019 representative yesterday that personally he did not wish to see the coin in Canada, as we have enough coin here of our own.There is a superabundance of silver coin in the country, i much more than is wanted for circulation.The banks are flooded with silver, which they cannot get rid of, even those of them who restrict its receipt to the legal limit.The company, Mr.Taylor says, is obliged to take American coin, but they allow little or none of it to go Into circulation.They shin all they can to ' make payments in the United States.| Since beginning the system of paying their employees\u2019 wages in cheques they have naturally paid out very much less coin, but deposit a consi:d- erable quantity in the Bank of Montreal, Mr.Percy, the treasurer of the Grand Trunk Railway, said that that company refused United States silver wherever it was possible.Naturally, in a town where other railways accept it the Grand Trunk agents are cbliged to do so.A very large sum finds its way into the hands of the \u2018company, but they do rot permit it \u2018to go into circulation here.Their ' banks do not like to accept it, having already a surplus, but occasionally will do so.They, however, hold i the company responsible for it in case they cannot get rid of it through their American connections.\u2018The Grand Trunk ships as much as possible of the coin back to the United States, using large quantities of it to pay freight dues to American companies with whom they do business.Thus both companies act virtually as money exchangers for the convenience of their customers, and are able to handle United States coin without loss to themselves just because of their connections across the border.The C.P.R.does not confine its generosity to holders of American money, but accepts constantly large sums of Japanese and Chinese coin.Every ship which leaves the C.P.R.terminus in British Columbia carries with it a load of coin which is put back into circulation in the country it came from originally.The Windsor Hotel receives a large amount of United States coin.\u2018If we refused that,\u201d said an official, \u2018we should get very little money.\u2019 The Hotel, however, does not put the money into circulation here.They recuire it all, and sometimes purchase it in the city for the convenience of travellers going into the United States.The fact that the United States people refuse Canadian coinage and submit Canadian bills to a heavy discount is regretted by many Canadians who travel, and find it very - - Maud ass à dat ES LE A RE ae CCE ta AFIT Sy SAAT Yt PINE RTE NRE M 1550 SEM RES LP, i] - oe kere Cd iS saci BE le JULY 81, 1896.\u2014_\u2014 Cee lm a Price ONE CENT.CORMORAN.THE LOSS OF THE \u2018ILTIS.The accompanying cut is from a pho-| tograph reproduced in May last in the Liepsic \u2018Illustrated Zeitung.\u2019 The \u2018I'iis\u2019 was lost In a typhoon on July 23 at a point ten miles north of the South-east Promontory, which is a low ree{-girted | island lying about thirty miles south- IT.TIS.cast of the Shantung Promontory.Only ten of those belonging to the warship were saved.The \u2018Itiis\u2019 was a vessel of 490 tons and had a crew of seventy-five men.The \u2018Cormoran,\u2019 the next smallest vessel in the German fleet, is 1,580 tons burden.annoying to have to change their money constantly.Still, it is said that our neighbor, with his sixty or so millions of population, can afford to be independent, where Canada cannot.The public awakening regarding the uselessness of mutilated cecin is becoming general this week.The following is the circular issued by the C.P.R.to all its agents :\u2014 Office of the Treasurer, Montreal, July 23.1896.This company's bankers having notified me that hereafter they will refuse to receive, either for deposit or otherwise, silver coins which have been either mutilated or defaced.or which are light weight or worn smooth.Station agents and others making remittances will please note, and in future refuse from customers and others, all such mutilated and defaced silver coins, 4 whether of Canadian dr United States coln- age.All Newfoundland silver coins must also be refused as our bankers will not accept them on deposit.Agents neglecting these instructions will be held responsible for the loss which will be incurred thereby.W.SCTHERLAND TAYLOR, Treasurer.THE STREET RAILWAY.The Street Railway Company will take no more United States silver coin after to-day.People who carry only a small amount of money in their pockets should now be careful before getting on a street car, to see that their coin is not of United States issue or they may be put off the car.Éadies who spend all their money at the bargain counter, \u2018reserving only a coin for car fares going home, should take warning.If the coin thus reserved happens to be an American one the lady will have to walk home.And that is not the worst part of the story ; there Is the humiliation of being put off the car while all the other passengers appear to wonder what sort of a criminal action one has perpetrated.Mr.Warren, the comptroller of the Montreal Street Railway Company, said this morning that the company\u2019s action had been caused by the fact that it was found impossible to get rid of the United States silver.The Bank of Montreal would no longer accept it from them, and the alternative of shipping it to the United States is too expensive ; therefore the company could do nothing else than refuse the coin.> THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS.THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION UNDER DISCUSSION TO-DAY.London, July 31.\u2014At the International Bacialist Trades Congress to-day ar eso- lution was adopted in favor of free education from kindergarten to university.The resolution further declared that children should not be exempt from attendance at school until they reached the age of sixteen years.Matthew Maguire, delegate of the New Jersey Socialist Union and Socialist candidate for Vice-President of the United States, acted as vice-chairman of the congress to-day.Ng ORDERS-IX-COCNCIL- THEIR MULTIPLICATION A SERIOUS PUBLIC EVIL.Ottawa, July 31 \u2014Public attention has recently been drawn to the enormous number of Orders-in-Council put through at meetings of the Cabinet, and it is very evident that a system has grown up of late years which is as foreign to the science of government as it is detrimental to the interests of the country, a system of having departmental work transacted by the Privy Council.It was never intended that this body should discharge departmental \u2018functions.It is a Joint meeting of all the ministers when matters of policy and affairs of State of first-class importance should be diseussed and decided.It should-confine itself to such business as the joint interests of the country and of the ministry demand.One of the evll effects of the transaction of departmental business in Council is to rid the minister at the head of the department of the individual responsibility which belongs to him.It is true that an order-in-council changing a contract is done on the recommendation of the minister at the head of the department, but if it turns out to be wrong it commits the whole cabinet to a defence of it and allows the minister concerned to take refuge behind the statement that the change was made by an order-in-council, The system is not conducive to strict attention to business on the part of individual ministers and the responsible officers of a department.If there is a doubt about a matter, the reply is \u2018Well, send it to Council and we will see what they think of it.\u201d As a rule each of the other ministers think very little about it and the recommendation of the minister directly concerned goes through pro forma.Take the last issue of the \u2018Canada Gazette\u2019 as an example of the trivial matters wbich have in th® past occupied the attention of the Cabinet in Council.It contained an order-in-council passed upon the recommendation of the Minister of the Interior, setting forth at great length the reasons that induced him to make the recommendation, granting twenty-flve acres of land in the North- West to Mr.Peter Maclaren for the purpose of a saw-mill, said to be of benefit to the settlers.There is no reason why this trifling matter should be made the subject of an order-in-council, but should there be a scandal attached to it the Minister of the Intericr is enabled to cast the responsibility for it upon all of his colleagues, who cannot be expected to know anything about it.If three months\u2019 leave of absence is granted to a judge an order-in-council is passed, although this is a matter which surely appertains to the routine of the Department of Justice.All the thousands of orders passed during the year have to be copied and multiplied and in many cases the work of the Privy Council Department is unnecessarily Increased, as well as the work of other departments.One of the fundamental principles of the modern practice of the British system of the government is to require the cabinet to be a unit on all matters passed upon, but it is quite evident that this rule was intended to apply to matters of policy and of grave public importancs, and to matters affecting the nation as a whole, and to apply it to departmental details, sometimes of a very trivial char- + tx acter, is to reduce the thing to an absurdity.The present system arose from the desire of Sir John Macdonald to make ciphers of his colleagues whom he could When he had able men about him like Sir Alexander Campbell, Sir Charles Tupper, Mr.John Henry Pope and trusted colleagues like Sir Hector Langevin, he did not require all these things to be sent to Council, but when he was reduced to the Fosters, the Cos- tigans, the Haggarts and the Carons he gave orders that\u2019 everything should be brought before Council.Of course he gave a pretext for this but the real reason was undoubtedly his lack of coni- dence in his colleagues.In a Cabinet of self-respecting men like the present it not trust.would be humiliating to require them \u2018to come to Council with the details of departmental administration for wbich they and they only have the records and for which they and they only should be responsible.It is true that statute law requires tbe order of the Governor-in-Council in regard to a great many matters, but tbe practice has been carried to an extreme with the result that the time of the Cabinet Ministers when assembled in Council is frittered away by the hour in passing upon matters which each minister is pald to look after in his own department, and which he has full authority to decide.Each minister may be trusted to confer with the Prime Minister who has a right to supervise all the departments in regard to matters of more than mere departmental scope.Some reform in this practice is urgently needed \u201cif the time of Council is to be devoted to matters of public policy and the general welfare._\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE RAILWAY COMPANY WINS, PRIVY COUNCIL UPHOLDS THEIR CONTENTION AGAINST THE DOMINION GOVERNMENT'S ACTION.London, July 31.\u2014The Privy Council has rendered its decision in the case of the Toronto Street Railway against the Queen, giving judgment for the railway, with \u2018tosis.The action was for a refund of an overcharge of customs duties on steel rails.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 TRIED TO BLOW UP HOUSE.Marseilles, July 31.\u2014An attempt was made last night to blow up the residence of Judge Julien, and for a time great excitement prevailed in the neighborhood of the judge's house.Someones, presumably a man who had a grudge against the judge for a court decision against him, placed a bomb with a time fuse attached close to the front of the house.The explosion made a great noise but the damage done was trifling.- _ THE HALIFAX CARNIVAL.Halifax, N.S., July 31.\u2014This morning the water of the harbor is in grand condition for the last event of the carnival regaita, the great international contest in four-oared boats, which is set down for 4.30 o\u2019clock.There was an exceedingly heavy rainfall early this morring and the sky is still clouded, but the indications are for a fine afternoon.The entries for the four-oared race are as follows :\u2014English crew\u2014 Geo.Bubear, S.J.Haines, Wm.Barry, Joseph Gibson, \u2014 McLeod.Sullivan crew of St.John\u2014E.McLeod, T.McLeod, Geo.Dalton, Geo.Sullivan.St.John crew\u2014Harry Daly, Geo.Clarke, Wm.Patchell, Allen Lambert.Halifax ecrew\u2014Mark Lynch, John Brennan, Luke Shea, John Holland.Bedford crew\u2014Alex.Hefler, J.Van- Buskirk, E.Boutilier, \u2014 Boutilier.Casey crew of Boston\u2014Canadian-Ame- rican crew\u2014K.G.Gaudaur, E.Durnan, J.J.Hackett, E.D.Rogers.: \u2014\u2014 ENTERPRISING CANADIANS.Saginaw, Mich., July 30.\u2014Messrs.Hale & Booth, extensive lumber operators in Canada, propose to bring fifty million feet of Canadian logs to the Saginaw river, which will be put on the market.Canadian logs are bringing from ten to fourteen dollars a thousand on this river when there is any sale for them.\u2014\u2014p\u2014\u2014 THE WEATHER.Meteorological Office, Toronto, Ont., July 21, 11 a.m.\u2014The following are the minimum temperatures\u2014Calgary, 46; Edmonton, 54; Qu\u2019Appelle, 56; Winnipeg, 52; Port Arthur, 44; Parry Sound, 50; Toronto, 54: Ottawa, 54: Montreal, 56; Quebec, 56; Chatham, 60; Halifax, 68.Probabilities for the next 24 hours'\u2014Fresh northerly to westerly winds; fair and cool.A JUDGE'S .Montreal, July 1.Readings by Hearn & Harrison's Standard Barometer at noon to-day 20.94, vesterday 29.70: to-day, temperature, max.7244 min.bs; yesterday, max.85; min.69, DEMONSTRATION.BIG LIBERAL WILL TAKE PLACE IN OTTAWA ON WEDNESDAY.AIR.MACLAREN'S ELECTION IN NORTH l'ERTH PROTESTED.Ottawa, July 31.\u2014The news of the clection of the ministers by acclamation Was received here with satisfac:ion, but not surprise, as it is felt that in the present state of the Opposition forces they can carry no county that is not strongly and impregnably Conservative.The demonstration in honor of Mr.Laurier and the Liberal victory in Ottawa is fixed to take place here on the evening of Aug.5, Wednesday next.A meeting of the reception committee was held last night.Toronto, July 31.\u2014The first of the long anticipated batch of protests came to hand this morning, the constituency being North Perth, where Mr.A.F.Mac- laren, Conservative, defeated Mr.James Grieve, Liberal.The lawyers areMessrs.Blake, Lash & Cassiis, and in addition to charges of corruption and bribery by agents, personal charges are alleged on account of which disqualification is asked.The petiticn was filled with Mr.Holmstead, Registrar of the Ceurt of Chancery.Mr.Jackson, chief of the Central Court, claims that the protest should, under the new provincial judicature act of 1895, have been filed in bis - court.It ls not thought, however, that the uncertainty of this point will invalidate the protest.Only one day remains now for the remainder of the protests.Toronto, July 3l.\u2014Arrangements are being mada to run a monster excursion to Ottawa next month on the occasion of the opening of the first session of the new parliament.The greatest interest in the event is being taken here and many have expressed a desire to visit ihe capital on the occasion.WAITED UPON THE PREMIER.A CIVIC DEPUTATION INTERVIEWS MR.LAURIKRD AND MAKES KNOWN THE CITY'S WANTS.Quebec, July 31.\u2014Mr.Laurier left here this morning for Arthabaska, and will thence go on to Montreal and Ottawa.In his reply to the civic deputation which waited on him yesterday, headed by Mayor Parent, the Premier did not seem disposed to hand over the Esplanade to the city, but declared that his govern- rient would see that it was put and kept in good order as well as improved, as desired, at an early day.Respecting the repairs to the fortifications he dwelt upon the cost, but promised to submit the matter to the cabinet.As for the claims of the Champlain street landslide sufferers, he reminded the deputation that the law courts had decided against their legality, but promised to consider the propriety of extending a measure of relief to them on equitable grounds.He also referred to the questions of the fast line and bridge, making no secret of bis sympathy with both schemes, but permit- tlirg no expression of his intention or policy in regard to them io escape him.Mr.Alex.Brodie, demonstrator of chemistry at McGill University, and son of Mr.Alex.Brodie of this city, has arrived in town with a friend, Mr.J.Me- Combe.The two paddled all the way from St.Johns, Que., and are now possessed of fine bronzed countenances.The trip occupied ten days, including about five of actual paddling.News was received in town from Pont Rouge yesterday afternoon of the finding of the body of the seven-year-old son of Mr.Harvey, who disappeared with his mother on Friday from the family cottage at that piace.The body was found floating in the Jacques Cartier river.\u2014__ THAT TIMBER LIMIT SALE.Ottawa, July 31.\u2014The sale recently ot a valuable timber limit at the head of Lake Temiscamingue, either owned by the Dominion or held in\u2019 trust by the government for the benefit of the Indians, for the sum of $13,000, which is said to be worth fully $100,000, and which would bring under ordinary circumstances $30,000 in stumpage and ques, draws attention to the necessity of the Department of the Interior having a value placed upon all the timber owned by the Dominion or held in trust for the Indians.Scattered all through the Dominion there is a great deal of standing timber of considerable value and at present there is not in the Department a record or valuation of these limits.The new government will, ne doubt, take early steps to have this gross neglect of the interests of the country remedied so that if the Dominion is called upon or sees fit to part with any of its property the revenue will receive full value therefor.s \u2014æ Te ST DST ET or Maga - ae a el JE IPPON WP VCS TI SE & 2 em \u2014 = BIRTHS.MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Wotioes of births, rarrlages and deaths must invart ably be endorsed u-ith the name and address of the sender, or otherwise no notice can be taken of them, Birth notices are inserted for 25c, marriage notices fer 506, death notices fur 25¢ prepaéd.The announcement of furera! appended to death notice, £60 extra ; otnes extension to obituary, such as short sketch af life, two cents per word extra, excel poetry, which 18 50 cents per line extra\u2014prepaid.Annual subscribers may have announcements of birthe, verses) ocourring in their immedicte families.free of charge, tn which case name and address af sube soribers should be given BIRTHS.KNEELAND\u2014At Montreal, on Thursday, July 30, 1x0n the wif: of W.A.Knce- lard, of a daughter.MARRIED.WALKER\u2014On the 20th ns'ant Ly the Rev.James Lawson at the rasd- ence of the bride's farher.Mr.Robert Bowman, of North Augusta to Miss Fran ces Luella, onls daughter of Nathan Wal- BOWMAN ker, Eszq., of Bellamys, Out.ol BYWATER\u2014SPIKE -\u2014-On July 27, 1696, by Elder W.Forrester, at 2#1 Palmerston aveuue, Toronto, Harry Bywater.publisher, Westport, Ont., tn Dora Spike of the town of Meaford, Ont.20 18th instant.by at the residence DAVIS\u2014BERRY-On the the Rev.James Lawson of the bride and sister.Mr.Ralph Davis, of Bellamys.to Miss Eliza B.rry, of Whitehurst, Ont.cl M'DONALD\u2014MAINLAND\u2014On JSuiy 28, 1896, at the residence vi the brides mother, \u2018Rock View.Grimsby.Ont.by the Rev.A.J.Mann, brether-in-law of the bride, ¢.S.MeDonald.of Toronto.to Annie, daughter of the late John Mainland, 30 MULCAIR\u2014FLEMING.\u2014 At St.Patrick's Church, Que.on Juiy 27.1859, by the Rev.Father Tostarh.C.-S.R., Patrick Mulcair, to Miss Mary Fleming.32 PARKER\u2014SALTER-At Chicago.Illinois.on July 21, 1501, by the Rev.White Wilson.rector of Xt.Mark's Church, George Herbert, son 6° the Rev.G.H.Parker, rector of Compton.Que., to Millicent D.voungest daughter of the late B.W.Salter, of Hal:fax.N.5.PATTON\u2014ANDERSON.\u2014At the residence of the mother of the bride, Keinptville, on Tuesday morning.Julv 25, 1896, by the Rev.H.J.McDiarmid, Mr, John Patton.to Miss Etta, datighier of the late James Anderson, elder.Heckston, Ont.30 BMITH\u2014MCINNES\u2014On the 29th instant.by the Rev.D.Winter.W.I.Smith, of 49 Sherwood street.Ottawa.to Saraa Ellen MelInnes, of Lorhaber, Que.DIED.CROMACK\u2014At 311 St, Urbain street.on the 20th instant, after a long and painful {lineas, Jennie, second daughter of Jas.Cremack.Funeral from above day at 830 a.m.Toronto, New York and Chicago papers please copy.si GILLIES\u2014At the Hotel Dieu, on Friday, July 31, 18#5, John Francis Gilis machinist, son of the late Francis Gillles.Funeral on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from his brother-in-law's residence.116 Chatham street.Friends and acquaintances please attend.Funeral service in St.Anthony's Church at eight o'cleck on Monday.Aug.3.Burlington.New York.Boston and Chicago parers please copy.al GOODFELLOW.\u2014At Richmond, Que.on July 22, after a long Illness, borne with patient resignation.Elizabeth Dickson, born in Canonbie, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, wife of John Goodfellow, aged 72 years, 6 months and 25 davs.30 HARTLEY\u2014On July 17, 1806, ar Chute an Blondeau.Lima Hodgson, widow of A'fred Hartley.aged 41 years.3 KNEELAND\u2014-On Thursday, July 9, 1866, Sarah MeXficking Johnston, wife 9! W.A, aldress on Salur- Kneeland, B.C L., Principai of Qver:ile School.Montreal.only daughte.of the late Rev.William A.Johnston, and sister of the Rev.Wm Johnston, of Lodi New Jersey.aged 32 years.: Fureral from her late residence 27¢ Charlevoix street, on Saturday, Aug.1], at 2.30 p.m.Tcrenro, Boston and New York payers please copy.LITTLE.\u2014At Little Rideau, Ont., on Monday.Julv 27, 1896, Jane Elsie (Jennle), aged 3} years, 6 months and 7 days, the only daughter of James Little, of Montreal.\u2018There was an angel band in heaven That was not quite complete, God took our darling Jennie To fill the vacant seat.\u2019 O'SHAUGHNESSY\u2014In this city, on the 30th inst., William O'Shaughnessy.Funeral will leave 45 St.Alexander eton Saturday, Aug.1, at 8 a.m.dû PIPE.\u2014On Thursday morning.in his T5th year, William Pipe, a native of Pirming- ham, England.Funeral from his late residence, 253a Bleury street, on Saturday, at 2 n.m., to St.Martin's Church.20 RODGER.\u2014At Skead's Mills, Ont.on July 21.1896, Isabella MacGregor, beloved wife of Alexander Rodger.aged 49 vears.Interred at Per broke.39 SPENCE.\u2014At 393 Givens street, Toronto, on July 28, 1896, Elizabeth S., w:dow of the late Jacob Spence, in her 70th rear.Funeral from above address, on Thursday.July 30, at 2 o'clock.Interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.30 ADVERTISEMENTS.J, D.ANDERSON & GO, \"Tailors, HAVE REMOVED TO 17 BLEURY STREET, (Notman's old stand), 25 EES & CO., THE E UNDERTAKERS, $ S00 St.James St, Mont: eal WALTHAM WATCHES, P.5.Bartlett Movement, Stem Wind, Solid Silver 3 oz.Case, for $15.00.Our Leader $9.00 Waltham Watch is the best value in the city.Watches, Clocks and Jewellery on the premises.Watches Cleaned.Repaired and Warranted for one year, $31.0v Main Spring and Cleaning, 31.50.ID.BEATTY Watchmal er 100 ard Jeweiler, \u2018ter Street.opposite \u201cWitness' Offica & renpair-d 137 St, The S.Carsley Co.LIMITED.17¢5 to 1783 NOTRE DAME STREET.MONTREAL.HALF HOLIDAY.NOTICE.\u2014Our Stores close at one maryiages and deaths (without eweended obituary or | o'clock on Saturdays during July and : August.ALL REDUCED PRICES hold good until 1 OCLOCK TO-MORROW.LADIES\u2019 GLOVES.| All these lines in Ladies\u2019 Gloves will ! be offered to-morrow morning at Sale Prices.SPECIAL DARGAIN \u2014 IN \u2014 Ladies\u2019 Summer Gloves.At 25C 50 doz.Ladies\u2019 Extra Fine Quality Black Taffeta Silk Gloves, with white and colored stitched eitk poinis and tops, also White Taffeta Silk Gloves, with Black i Silk Points, regular value 38z pair.Every lady needing summer gloves should take advantage of this offer.At 35C Ladies\u2019 4-Button and 4-Clasp Black and Colored Kid Gloves; regular value 75¢c to 90c per pair, 3 pair for $1.00.At 55C Ladies 7-Hook Kid Lacing Gloves, in useful shades, perfect fitting, regular value 90c pair.THE S.CARSLEY CO.LTD.BOYS\u2019 SUITS.The balance of the combined surplus stocks of Messrs.S.H.SHOREY & CO.and \u2014 E.A.SMALL & CO.comnrising numbers of both Men's and Boys\u2019 Tweed Suits In good styles, this season\u2019s goods, will be offered again tomorrow morning at specially low prices.real: 100 Boys\u2019 Fancy Tweed Suits in good styles, all well ans strongly made, suitable for summer wear, for Boys of 4 to 10 years as under: Regular Sale Price.Price 4 vears $2.35 $1.60 D vears 2.40 1.65 6 years 2.45 1.70 T years 2.50 1.73 § years 2.60 1.85 9 vears 2.75 1.95 10 vears .2.85 2.05 Boys\" All-wool Hali- 75 fax Tweed Sults, in good styles, well cut and made for Boys as under: lecular Sa'e Price.Fr e 3 years .$1.95 $1.40 + years 2.00 1.59 5 years 2.05 1.55 10 years .r 2.40 1.95 THE S.CARSLEY CO., LTD.MEN\u2019S SUITS.A Men's Useful Tweed At $2.05 Suits in good styles.well made; regular value $4.75 each.At $ 50 Men's Fancy Tweed 3-99 Sulis, latest cut, strongly sewn, good quality, Italian cloth lining; original price $56.75.At $4.00 109 Men's Stylish Basket Tweed Suits, stylishly cut, good strong serge lining, in three different dark shades ; regular value $8.50.MEN\u2019S SHIRTS.At 20C Men's and Boys\u2019 White Unlaundried Shirts, reinforced fronts: sizes from 12% to 17 Inch neck; regular value, 40c.At 40¢ Men's extra quality White Unlaundried Shirts, reinforced fronts, thoroughly well made; regular value 60c each.At 86C Men's Fine Quality White Dressed Shirts, full linen cuffs and fronts; open fronts; regular value $1.10.At 45¢C 20 dozen Men's Fine Quality Flannelette Negligee Shirts in good colors, lined collars; regular value 69c¢ each.THE S.CARSLEY CO.LTD.MEN'S NECKWEAR.At Sc 50 doz.Ladies\u2019 and Men's Fancy Braid and Fancy Pique Four-in-hand Ties in a variety of good patterns and colorings; regular price 13%c, 3 for 24c.At 12:C 30 dozen Men's Fancy ~ Silk Knots, Bows and Four-in-hands in a variety of good color- ings; regular value 18c.At IA C 20 dozen Men's Light Fancy Knots, Bows and Four-in-hands, good designs; regular value 25c¢ cach.15 dozen Men's Fine At 23\u20acC Quality Silk Ties in all shapes, large assortment of colors and patterns: regular value 30c each.THE S.CARSLEY CO.LTD.GOING FOR A SWIM TOMORROW ?The S.CARSLEY CO.LTD.place to buy vour BATHING SUITS.All Men's Bathing Suits to be cleared at Sale Prices To-morrow morning.Boys\u2019 Bathing Trunks .Men's Bathing Trunks Men's Fancy Striped At 62C Cotton Bathing Suits in good useful colors.At 6C Men's Indigo Blue 7 Bathing Suits Trimmed with white; well made.At 63C Men's two-plece Indigo Blue Bathing Suits is the Tec pr.13¢ pr.trimmed white, perfect fitting.The S.Carsley Co.LIMITED.NOTRE DAME STREET, 1765 to 1783 MONTREAL.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.\u2014 EE \u2014\u2014 ee \u2014 Joux MURPHY & CO.8 ADVERTISEMENT, Summer DEPARTMENT.TABLE No.1.BLOUSES, worn 85e, for 49\u20ac TABLE No.2.BLOUSES, worth 81.35 for 85C TABLE No.3.BLOUS ES, worm 81.75 for SI.60 TABLE No.4.BLOUSES, wort $2.00, $2.25 and 83.50, Choice, $1.50.1 lot Ladies\u2019 Vests to clear, 75c.JOHN MURPHY & CO, 2313 ST.CATHERINE STREET, Corner Metcalfe st Telephone No.3833.TERMS CASH- ARMSTRONG, The Undertaker, HAS REMOVED To {4 VICTORIA SQUARE.GENERAL BAZAAR.White Quilts, 86c, worth 41.25.Light and Dark Challies, &c.Remnants White Cotton.Remnants Shaker Flannel.Remnants White Canton Flannel.Remnants Sheetings.Remnants Pillow Cotton.Remnants Table Linen.Remnants Butcher Linen.Remnants Waist Linings.GEORGE H.ROWELL, 1597 Notre Dame Street, Between St.Lambert's Hill and Court House Che Duily Witness, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31.ATLANTIC FAST MAIL SERVICE.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u201d) Sir \u2014As a constant reader of your valuable paper, may I ask for a little Space to make a few remarks on the subject of a fast mail service between the Dominion and the Old Country.We bave heard so much about the above, and wil! soon be settling down with Mr.Laurier and his well-selected staff of sup- porters\u2014some of our country's best men \u2014who should be able to understand that the proposed fast mail service is a very expensive luxury, and we are looking forward to clean business for the good of our beloved Canada.All business men are, or should be, deeply interested in every scheme that tends towards the commercial interests of the country, and the fast mail service is what a serious thinking man would say 1s hardly necessary, when the Increased outlay could be made {n other improvements of greater need to the country.We are supplied with two well equipped steamship lines\u2014the Dominion and Allan lines\u2014which are giving almost universal satisfaction, and what we do require is to give these two mall.lines further financial assistance in the matter of cold storage, and let us have such vessels as the \u2018Labrador,\u2019 etc., placed on the mall list; divide the salling days so that one line would leave each side the Atlantic, say Tuesday and Saturday, which arrangement would give us two mails a week.This change\u2014a step in the right direction\u2014could be made at a much smaller cost than the subsidizing of a weekly fast mall service, and would furnish us with a better service than a single line could possibly do.It is very ovidedt that a semi-weekly is more ad- vaniageous than a weekly service, even if the latter should be a twenty-knot one.TRAVELLER.Montreal, July 26, 1896.-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE LATE MR.JAMES SCOTT, OF BROCKVILLE.Thiz morning Mr.James Scott, a well known and highly respected resident of Brockville, passed away at his residence, Pearl street west.Mr.Scott had been in poor health for the past four or five years, although up to within a month or six weeks he was able to be around and at times could do a little work.He had om AE GR Ce SEE em re JAS A.OGILVY & SONS\u2019 ADYERTISEMENT, Removal ~_ Sale.Great Snaps For To-morrow From our Gent's Furnishing Department.MEN'S FINE LIGHT WEIGHT SATEEN and OXFORD SHIRTS, in all sizes, good value at Tac.Price To-morrow, 30c.MEN'S LAUNDRIED FRENCH CAMBRIC SHIRTS, two Collars and Cuffs attached, $1.00 Goods, Sizes, 101s, 16, 16!14c, to clear at 49c each.OUR RATTLER White Unlaundried Dress Skirts, best Car- adian cotton, warranted linen fronts and bands, all sizes and lengths in slecves, good value at Toc.Our price, 55c.IN ADDITION TO ALL DISCOUNTS 10 percent for cash ALL DEPARTMENTS.¢ JAS.A.OGILVY & SONS, THE FAMILY LINEN AND DRAPERY HOUSE, TEROLGHOLT 203 to 207 ST.ANTOINE STREET.144 to 150 Mounlnin strecù Telephone, 8225.BZANCH : - ST.CATHERINE STRLET, Cor.Buckingham aven'13.Telephone 3335.several slight strokes of paralysis.which left him weaker after every attack.Three weeks ago he had an attack which completely prostrated him, and from which he never rallied.Mr.Scott was born near Perth, in the township of North Elmsley.county of Lanark, in 1835, and was therefore at the time of his death sixty-one vears of age.He learned carriage making as a trade and for many years carried on business in Smith's Falls.About twenty years ago he came to Brockville, erected the building on Perth street, north of the G.T.R., now used by Peter Mclarne, as a planing mill, and started the manufacture of hubs, which he carried on until a few years since.Mr.Scott was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and wag a member of the First Church.While living in Smith's Falls he was an elder in the church there.In politics he was a warm supporter of the Reform party.He leaves to mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate father, a widow and family of three sons and one daughter, who, it is needless to say, have the sympathy of the whole community in their bereavement.His eldest son, James, who is with G.T.Fulford & Co., left by the midnight train last night on a business trip for the firm.He has been telegraphed for and will arrive home tonight.\u2014Brockville \u2018Recorder,\u2019 July 20.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.Ottawa, July 31.\u2014Returns to the Department of Railways and Canals show that since the opening of navigation 2,811 vessels have been locked through the \u2018Soo\u2019 Canal, with a total tonnage of 2,621,689, carrying 7,735 passengers and 6,684,669 tons of freight.Immigration to Canada this season is reported to the Department of the Interior to be even worse than it was last season, so that a very dull year is expected.The work on the Sheik\u2019s Island Dam at the Cornwall Canal is reported to be finished and ready for use.Mr.E.L.Newcombe, Deputy Minister of Justice, has arrived from England, where he appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to represent the Crown in the appeal of the Toronto Street Railway Company against the Customs Department as to the duty upon rails.Mr.E.B.Stewart of Inverness, Scotland, who is the agent for the Dominion in the north of Scotland, and who is now making a tour of the Dominion, is in the city and will leave for the Maritime Provinces to-day.He brought a party of immigrants to Canada and proposes on his return to give a series of lectures on Canada as a field for emigration.\u2014_\u2014 GUILTY OF FORGERY.WILL SERVE TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR THE OFFENCE.Toronto, July 31.\u2014William S.Campbell, said to belong to Montreal, was found guilty of forgery at the Police Court yesterday and sent to Central Prison for two years less a day.The prisoner was arrested a month ago, but was almost immediately after taken ill and has since been an inmate of the General Hospital: He was acting as agent for a book called \u2018Canada and her commerce,\u2019 and in that capacity called upon and entered into contract with the Standard Silver Plating Company, wherein jt was agreed that an advertisement ghould be inserted in the book and a copy of the work delivered.Tor this Campbell was given a cheque for ten dollars, payable to the order of J.A.Cantlie, of Montreal, the publisher.Campbell forged Cantlie\u2019s name to the back of the cheque and pocketed the proceeds.He was also charged with swindling several other city firms in various amounts.~ RAINY LAKE GOLD FIELDS, EXPERT PRONOUNCES THEM FAR SUPERIOR TO THOSE ov SOUTH AFRICA.AN THE MIKADO MINE PURCHASE! BY ENGLISH SYNDICATE.Toronto, July 31.\u2014It is very probable that the Ontario Governnient wili invite the Board of Trade excursioniris to stop vver at Rat Portage on their return try trom British Coiumbia.Col.Gibsun, Commissioner of Crown Lands, is of the opinion that it would be of great L'nefit to the gold fields of the Lake of the Woods and the Seine river if the party could be induced to view the mining properties there.He thinks the go:d mines there are cuite as valuable as ihuse in the far west.There are many mines in operation within a few miles o1 Portage, and a pleasant boat trip of cuia- paratively short duration would introduce the Board of AN | MOVEMENTS UF | hat Trade capitalists to the Seine river country, where numbers of rich strikes have been made.Gen.Hurley, treasurer of the Ontario Gold Mines Company of New York city, whose properties are near Shoal Lake, on the Seine river, has written Mr.Arch.Blue, of the Bureau of Mines, as follows: \u2018I believe that you have mineral possibilities in the Rainy Lake country equal, if not superior, to anything in the United States, and far superior to South Africa; and if the good people in Canada would take the same interest: in that country that the people on this: side of the line are doing, 1 believe it would be the means of enormous developments, with corresponding results in the next two years.\u2019 Information regarding the exceeding richness of the British Columbia gold mines is reaching the city every day.Hitherto the Grand Prize, near Ross- land, has been looked upon as a very promising property but Its success seems now assured.The following is clipped from a private letter written at Ross- land on July 25: \u2018We have made a wonderful strike on the Grand Prize.lt is the handsomest gold copper rock ever struck on the surface in the cap and assays high.Will send you sample on Monday.You will be delighted with it.The superintendent has put a full crew on to attend to it and within a few days will give you further information.Toronto, July 31.\u2014Mr.John A.Paterson, barrister, of this city, has returned from Rat Portage, where he concluded an important mining deal.Mr.Paterson, on behalf of an English syndicate, has purchased the Mikado Gold Mine, paying for it $26,000 cash.The property is about one hundred acres in extent and is situated on Shoal Lake, in the Rainy Lake District, a little west of the Lake of the Woods._\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 A PROLONGED SESSION UNNECESSARY.The \u2018Cultivateur\u2019 says: \u2018The Laurier Cabinet will come before the House with a ready budget which can be voted in a few days.There is no reason why, at the session of Aug.19, any other question but that of the subsidies should be taken up.At the beginning of the winter parliament will resume its usual qu- ties.\u2019 COMMERCIAL.WITNESS OFFICE, 1 Friday, July 31, 1895.à YHOLESALE PRICES.Cable advices to the Board of Trade this morning are as follows:\u2014London, July 31, 1896.Cargoes off coast, wheat dull; maize quiet.Cargoes on passage, wheat.rather worse; maize quiet and steady.English country markets, wheat partially dearer.Liverpool spot wheat steady.spot maize quiet.Minneapolis first bakers flour, 16s éd.Futures, wheat quiet, 4s 10%d July to Sept., 4s 11d Oct., 4s 114d Nov.; maize is quiet; 2s 9d July to Aug.28 9%4d Sept., 28 9% d Oct., 2s 108 Nov., 28 103d Dec.Paris, wheat, 18.00 July, 18.10 Aug.; flour, 37.60 July, 37.90 Aug.French country markets, firm.In Milwaukee wheat opened at 3S'ic July and b5%c Sept.In Duluth wheat opened at 57%c July and Bi7Ac bid Sept.In Toledo wheat opened at 63l%c July and 64}4c bid Sept.In Detroit wheat opened at \u20ac314c July and 64%c Sept.In St.Louis wheat opened at 53M%c for August.In New York wheat opened at 6373¢ Sept.and 6563%c Dec.Grain\u2014Oats continue steady to firm, and there is no other change.We quote:- Peas, per 60 lbs.bdlYcto Hide No.2 oats, per 34 lbs.26c to 2640 Corn .vr .ve av vn ve ov «» B8C to 38440 Barley, feed .33c to 34c Rye .2.+.24 4e ++ +.406 to 4lc Buckwheat, per 48 Ibs.3744cto 38c Flour\u2014The flour trade continues active, and prices are about steady.We quote: \u2014 Winter patents .$3.70 to $3.90 Spring wheat patents .3.60 to 3.75 Straight roller .3.50 to 3.60 Manitoba strong baker 3.25 to 3.40 Oatmeal \u2014 The market is inactive and prices are nominal.We quote: \u2014 Standard bris .$2.80 to $2.90 Granulated brls .2.90 to 3.00 Rolled oats, brie 2.60 to 2.70 Feed\u2014The market is steady with some activity.We quote:\u2014 Bran .v «vc oe os +.o.$11.00 to $12.00 Shorts.11.60 to 12.50 Provisions\u2014The market continues dull and quiet, and prices are weak.We quote as follows: \u2014 Canadian short cut, clear $10.50 to $11.50 Canadian short cut, mess.11.00 to 12.50 Hams, city cured, per 1b.00.07%%to 00.C9'% Lard, Canadian, in pails.00.071gto 00.00 Bacon, per Ib.00.0814to 00.09% Lard.com.refined, per 1b.00.05 to 00.0534 Chense\u2014Cable Is quoted at sic white and 5c colored.The idea for finest Western geems to he about 7c to Ty4c,and for French goods from 635c¢ to 634.Butter\u2014The market is steady and around 163%c is considered about fair value on spot for finest.Eggs\u2014Prices are about steady at from 9c to 9%c for choice candled stock.Ashes\u2014The market is steady at the late decline, and we quote firsts at $3.35 to $3.40; seconds at $3.00 and pearls at $4.55.RECEIPTS IN MONTREAL.G.T.R.C.P.R.C'n'l.T't'I.Peas, bush 2809 1100 .5970 Oats.bush .14100 2109 17200 Flour, brils .525 2620 3145 Ashes, brls .2 3 A.5 NgEs, cases .4R7 673 33 1179 Butter.pkgs .2132 1591 Cee 153 (Cheese.bxs 5763 3746 92} 10019 Lard.bris .20 ea .250 Hams and hacon 386 565 vee 951 Leather.rolls 78 .\u2026.7 Petroleum, brls .60 \u2026 ees 69 Beef, qrs .1817 .1817 FripAy, Jury 3], qen- - Re GRAIN 4.oo.ty \u2014 At Chicago \u2014 Wheat bush 2 11 21 12 Corn.bush } Ozuts, bush Flour, bris ., Al New dork\u2014 Wheat, bush .Corp.bush Oats, bush Flour, brie oo.Flour, sacks |.A: Milwaukre- Wheat, Lush .At l'utitt: \u2014 Wheat.bush \u2026.At l'eiroit - Wheat, bush .2.21 .At Miineaypoiis\u2014 Wheat bush .At .1 for currency fur crop purposes hei;=:.+.circulation out.Discounts are ux .\u2026 at 6 to tls percent.The demand t a loans on speculative account is Le: \u2026- bulk of the trading on the Stock F- :.ca being confined to investment a.There is a further decline in leadirg Canals, which, owing to the management of the Intercolonial Railway and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was important to him both as a minister of the Maritime Provinces and as a supervisor of the immense expenditures upon the government railways in British Columbia as well as upon the Canadian Pacific Railway itself.Sir Charles Tupper\u2019s career in connection with these expenditures is a matter of history.The Department of Public Works was taken by Sir Hector Langevin, to whom as a Quebec politician the expenditures upon the Quebec graving dock and harbor of Quebec were interesting and important, as were also those upon the Langevin block.The career of Sir Hector Langevin in connection with these expenditures became even more notorious than that of his brother minister, Sir Charles Tupper, and it was brought to a very abrupt close through the public exposures made by Mr.J.Israel Tarte.Neither Sir Charles Tupper nor Sir Hector Langevin broke down In health from anxiety for the pure and economical management of the two departments in defence of which Mr.Mackenzie, single-handed, guarded, but at the cost of his life, possibly his majority in the country.Sir Charles Tupper retired from the department in 1885, fui! of something quite other than honors, and, after a time under Mr.Pope, the Department of Railways and Canals fell to the share of Mr.Haggart.The Tay canal, Wellington bridge and numerous other corrupt and costly expenditures marked his mismanagement of the department.The Public Works Department was placed under the charge of Mr.Ouimet, and later, on the formation of the Tupper Cabil- net, was handed over to Mr.Desjardins.Yesterday we were told of the condition in which the department was found by Mr.Tarte, a condition so bad that even Ottawa Conservative correspondents, rendered hardened to official mismanagement and corruption at Ottawa by long wont and use, could not defend the mismanagement which Mr.Tarte found had continued rampant from the days of Sir Hector Langevin in spite of the terrible exposure of his ™ns and the stern pun- ishmert.A weak man, finding a department in such a state of Augean filth, might have delayed the work of cleansing it until he himself had become, as it were, clogged and bogged in the mire and partially responsible for its continuance, and therefore perhaps unwilling and even unable to make a clean sweep.Mr.Tarte has chosen the courageous course of a strong man who has determined to de the right thing in the very beginning.He has adopted a straight business course suéh as any sound business man would pursue in his own business.He called upon the chiefs of departments for reports as to the number of men in their employ and the number necessary to do the work, and upon theïr reports he has discharged about a hundred and thirty men who were idle or useless, and for whem the outgoing government had provided neither work nor means for their payment.While this reform in the management of the department is obviously necessary, and is grudgingly admitted by even the Conservative organs to be necessary and right, Mr.Tarte is condemned and held up to odium as an executioner and a tyrant for the course rendered necessary by the extravagance and corruption of his predecessors.One independent newspaper, which, though Conservative, tries to be fair and just to Liberals who are honest and straight, declares that Mr.Tarte has made no distinction between Liberal and Conservative employees in making these dismissals, that relatives of Liberal metabers have been sent away as well as Conservatives, and that the only guide Mr.Tarte has employed is the report of the chiefs She dare at AE a TR TS ET a a TY | of his department.In other matters ' Mr.Tarte has had to put an end to | corruption and mismanagement.He | found that after parliament had been | prorogued, and just prior to the time fixed for the elections, his predeces- | sor, Mr.Desjardins, had suddenly referred to arbitration claims by contractors for large amounts of extras which had been previously rejected and disallowed by successive govern- | ments, even such governments as sanctioned the operations of Mec- Greevy and the Connollys.One of these, a claim dating from thirteen years ago for $296,000 by Mr.Charlebois, had been referred to an arbitration committee of which one member was a Conservative organizer in the elections.Just imagine what steps a claimant for extras to the amount of about three hundred thousand dollars would take toward a government arbiter of that claim who was also a government election campaigner in need of election funds, and it is easy to understand the principles.on which this claim was admitted to such arbitration just a month before the elections.Mr.Tarte could do nothrng less in common honesty than to sweep away this obviously corrupt arbitration.The whole thing on its face seems a con- gpiracy between a contractor ana a corrupt government.Mr.Tarte has made a good beginning as an honest, economical administrator, and he ought to be cheered and encouraged.It is to be hoped that every minister of the crown will be as energetic ana determined in cleansing his department, and that he will be just as frank and open with the public.ee THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.It will have been seen in the press despatches that there has been a difficulty in the Toronto Clearing House, resulting for the time being in the withdrawal of the Quebec Bank.The cause of this action was the disappearance of a parcel of circulating notes sent by the Quebec Bank to the Imperial Bank through the Clearing House, and which the Imperial Bank states never was received by it.The passing of the note circulation through the Clearing House is one of the weak points in the system, and has frequently caused trouble in this city as well as elsewhere.In order to avoid errors from this cause, the Montreal Clearing House, or rather the individual banks connected with it, have for some time past had all their packages of such notes checked by a second teller before being sent through the Clearing House for redemption.Even since the adoption of this precaution errors for small amounts have caused trouble, and it only remains for a package for a considerable amount to go astray to lead in this city to results similar to what has taken place in Toronto.Under these circumstances the question is being raised whether the bank clearings of note circulation should not be made two or three times a week at the Clearing House itself, and at such hour as would be much more convenient to the different banks, and lighten the morning\u2019s work cf the various tellers.The New York Clearing House does not handle the note circulation, and although, owing to the national vank system, the New York banks seldom call for the redemption of each other's notes, it would scarcely be possible for them to handle the note circulation through the Clearing House, even were they to adopt the Canadian system of note circulation.While on this subject, it might be well to inquire what has become of the Clearing House certificates which it was proposed two years ago to use in meeting the daily balances of our local Clearing House instead of the present system, which exposes the banks to risk in the carriage from one bank to another of large amounts of legal tender notes payable to bearer.The current month has witnessed the somewhat unusual spectacle of Canada exporting and infporting gold at the same time.This arose from the fact that several Canadian banks which had sold sterling exchange in New York found it impossible to sell their drafts on that city except at a considerable discount, and imported the gold instead.On the other hand, towards the middle of the month, an.while the United States banks were cor er Trek i Ee RE SAF RED © pr ; preparing to assist the treasury, sev- | eral specie brokers were offering a | premium of from three-eighths to one-half percent for gold coin.and a | number of our banks shipped the | metal to New York.In addition to these exchange transactions it is reported that some of the Yoronto banks \u2018have reduced their New York loans, and that from that sourre during the month $450,000 worth of gold coin has been withdrawn from New Yerk.It is not likely, howevor.that the bulk of the loans now hcld in New York by Canadian banks will be disturbed so long as the are willing to make the loans ravable in gold coin.The local stock market during the week has again experienced considerable fluctuation, but closed firmer at yesterday's board.Montreal Gas, which closed on Monday with eight sales at 179, fell on Tuesday to 177 with sales pf 205 shares at that figure, but again advanced yesterday to the opening figure.The temporary weakness in this stock both this and last week is no doubt due to Mr.King's new movement.but the past history of opposition to the Gas Com- borrowers i hale, Lo complete estabii-hni : pany by him and other gentlemen has been +.as to make the public cautious aBlout putting trust in new, proposals.Other Canadian stocks have been pretty steady, and closed firm.On the other hand, Commercial Cable and Postal Telegraph have continued to decline in consequence of the recent indications of a widespread feeling among certain classes in the United States in favor of the free silver fallacy.\u201cUnder ordinary circumstances these stocks would be a splendid purchase at present prices, and even should free silver be adopted the stock would yield a good return upon the purchase.There has been no new feature on the money market during the week.Call loans are quoted for the first time for many months at 4% to 5 percent, but the bulk of these loans are still carrying the higher figure.The Bank of England rate is unchanged at two percent.The local Clearing House returns are as under: Clearings.Balances.Total for week ending July 30, 1596 .$ 9.052,795 $1,345,525 Corresponding week of 1895 9,262,179 1,376,299 Corresponding week of \u2014 1894 9,094,617 1,712,487 Corresponding week of 1893 .12,827,662 1,789,651 R.C.A.GRADUATES.Ottawa, July 31.\u2014The following cadets of the Royal Military College, baving completed their period of instruction.have been granted diplomas :\u2014Sergeant- Major A.S.Evans, who distinguished himself in flve subjects ; Sergeant Guy H.Kirkpatrick, who distinguigshed himself in four subjects ; Sergeant-Major W.H.N.Cantlie, who is distinguished in three subjects ; Sergeant-Major C.H.Stephen, who is dist{nguished in two subjects; Corporal G.E.Hardie ; Cadet F.E.Leach, who is distinguished in three subjects ; Sergeant R.C.F.Alexander; Sergeant-Major J.HH.Parke ; Sergeant C.C.Wood, who distinguished himself in one subject ; Sergeant-Major F.D.Lafferty, Cadet J.C.Holden, Sergeant A.W.R.Wilby, Cadet D'Arcy Weather- be, Corporal A.M.Russel and Cadet GO.Havne.The following bave passed the required examination for admission as cadets to the Military College with the number of marks earned by each :\u2014Military District No.2.\u2014Messrs.A.C.Macdougall, 8557 ; A.D.Strathey, 3990 ; R.D.Harvey, 3986 ; W.A.Baldwin, 3961; J.R.Jago, 3235.District No.3.\u2014A.L.Bingay, 7917.District No, 6.\u2014C.P.Holden, 5298 ; H.M.Daly, 5168 ; W.T.Cameron, 4718.District No.7.\u2014J.Y.H.Ridout, 6377.District No.9.\u2014R.B.Viets, 6962; E.G.Poole, 5348; J.B.Unlacke, 2367; H.A.Kaulbach, university matriculant.Sergt.Guy Kirkpatrick is a son of His Honor the Lieut.-Governor of Ontario.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HAILSTORM IN INVERNESS.Inverness, Que., July 30.\u2014A terrific bail storm accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy thunder has just passed over here.In a few moments the ground was covered with hailstones, many of them over three-quarters of an inch in diameter.Hundreds of panes of glass were broken; grain and corn were badly damaged; apples were knocked off the trecs and those remaining on are badly punctured with the falling ice.The storm is apparently confined to a narrow limit, sweeping from west to east.\u2014\u2014\u2014 A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.Kingston, Ont., July 31.\u2014A harvest home 1estival at Sharbot Lake attracted a large crowd, among the number being a young woman of the neighborhood who heard a brass band\u2014the 14th Batt., Kingston\u2014for the first time in her life.The blare of the bass horns and the clash of the cymbals so startled her that she was overcome, fainted and was taken off FripAy, Jury 31, 180s MILITARY CHANGES Ottawa, July 31.\u2014Militia gener.Issued to-day contain the LL changes in the active force Inq Sixth Battalion (Fusiliers) pv.Second Lieutenant John H.wi.permitted to retire, July oo -.- be second iicutenant provi, -, A.Futvoye, gentieman, vs 4 _ tired, July 22, 1596.Seventeenth (Levis) Company - Lieutenant permitted to resign Bar +, = Luv his Cor a ; 10 retain tbe rank of lieuteicr: ment, July Y, 1894.To 1.Second Lieutenant Jacques +.Vice Legare, re:rred, Fifty-third (Sherbrookes i.be lieutenants, Sccend Liew.Kenneth Fraser and John J Juxy © 1346.Fitty-fourth (Richmond, 3 Company\u2014To be heuten ally, Provisional Lieutcaaus 3 - Hewton, from the Fifty-thir; : vice Thomas, retired.Fifty-eighth (Compton) Jj: 1 Company\u2014Captain Alexa: Melver is permitted to res; | mission and to retain he 1. street branch of the Third avenue ja way.It was the third time Vu had been run from river to river tv the fitness of the hardier compresr- + motor.Two cars were run over the to give the newspaper men a «Ia see how the new motor worked .test was a great success and ih wb will probably be put into Tegal Bes vice on Saturday or Monday.\u2014- \u2014 - -\u2014\u2014 U.S PATENTS TO CANAD:535 The following list of United =:#\"* iN tents, granted to Canadian if, July 7 and 14, 1896.is reported =} James Sangster, patent attorne} pce) N.Y: Reuben C.Eldridge, Niagara.© rycomb; Ovid M.Gould.Mente - Isabella M.Polley.Simcoe, Teil er: William H.Russell, Newcare tric car trolley: William L.Jetted A signor of one-half to W.lures 2 Svdney, thill-coupling.James Hosta asslgnor to M.J.Hustalie Hen Mills; F.H.Silk.R.A.Riky.=a we corn-holder; Chas.Knees, Oshawa.signor cf one-half to IL W.Alesande 0 ronto.tanning hides: Sami J LA 7 lin and J.Hough, Guelph.«raw ÎLE tant Willitm McShane, assignor io and G.McAvity, St.Jobn.flushing aie William L.Urguhart, oitawa.when cal tov; Samuel W.Woodlar, Ass\u201d .one-half to R.C.Patiersull Ronis disk-harrow.as Be + \u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE SAME AS MONTREAL (Queb>:c« \"Morning Chronicle çÇ Nothing seems to be dune ye! a+ those no:sy coal carts.which fort a disturbing element in OUT Fleets keep clattering along.their hideous ue freuiing everybody within earsho Shen depredaticns.Scme public-spirited \u2018 De ought to indict one of the drivers, For see what the law is on the subrec pop pity\u2019's sake let something be done =) curd hey nl the grounds.(the nuisance.IY + eo .{ng to I 35, Cou find Jo slat ihe cop ask\u2018 (bel wer con yet.tive the bett trac the bed Bar) bad once neac pot was mat brin £pes the Geo: of | with man the open 611 Hog: Mr.patic pass thab ripe tion to be dials nifice milli lying the \u20ac empl shre\\ Tal Bee | work doub mone and ; sider sland and the f as wi will | store Capit will expre move Ap mani ment WIL 14 is ng exhil wort} at of 9 ri or 242 > on tin hat Jo.nor jted dit- red Lev of ead the cept as- irs oral dice The 5481 rian {gn alr two the 2510 cars tes\u201d road a \u20180 The ;ars sei ca pa- tors, Mr.Talo, Cur- aires port- elec , as- orth able, ning 1rng, as- , To ugh- able; anks hani- or of ville.a bout such They s din thelr itizen and For ) stop Farnar, JOLY 81, 1896.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.5 p\u2014 = \u201cJELIVITENT CONTRACTORS, sr CIAL MEETING OF THE COUN- C CIL CALLED \u2014 À vo» TNQUIRIES WHY THEY DO NOT RE- 1.3 THE PERMANENT ROADS, -.\u201cfavor on being asked this morn- © ne contraotors were not made Vs © 1.asphalt roads more prompt- | \"1 -aat a special meeting of the ' \u201csui been called for Tuesday to : - ne reason the roads tere al- \" Cet into an unsatisiactory ->,eral days ago he had called °7 _-_-ipn of the City Surveyor to the vf \u2018he asphalted roads and had .1 10 have the contractors put .uroper condition, which they vpelled to do, according to their for a number où years Lo come \u201c.-ally he intended to take an ac- .-est in the matter, and he hoped * of the action would be much - a+pt roads in the future.If con- -.would not keep to their contracts + could spend the guarantees they with it, on making the neces- t È bé ; -pairs.v- Ft.George, City Surveyor, sald he t:.notifled the contractors moro than ei that the asphalt, in many streets -ded attending to, but the work had (> been done.He was glad the Council vas to mect on Tuesday to discuss the patter.and boped it would decide to p::1g the contractors promptly to time.t-aking about the proposal to bave all «+ wires placed underground, Mr.St.-g» sald he was very much in favor c :., and that the work could be done s»ont much more damage to the per- ro roads than is done to them by © when it tears them anent + a8 Company, oan 0 1oy pipes._\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE MONTREAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.{To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u201d) Si- \u2014I was glad to see that Mr.Henry H:ran had a conversation with the Hon.t= Laurier about our proposed Inter- ta':onal exhibition when that gentleman ;assed through the city en route to Ar- tLabaskavilla.If ever a country was r.5e for the holding of such an exposi- non that country is Canada.Luck seems 1 be setting in to our shores.All the ais indicate that Canada offers a mag- r.ivent field for the investment of the L'nions upon miliions of capital that is 123 ile in Great Britain.Look at t24 voiniries where that money has been v2yu;ed deretofore.Do you think the sorewd Britisher will risk it there again?Take the United States as an example.sce the forces that are employed there working for repudiation.There is no lsulbt about where Canada stands on the .zueÿ question.Our standard is gold ind gold it will remain.There is cons.lurable doubt where the United States, Their trouble is our opportunity | should take advantage of it to! How can we do it: rands.aid we the Tuliest extent.KILLED HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.Austin, Tex., July 30.\u2014W.E.Burt, a member of one of the best families of the city, murdered his wife and two children, aged two and four years, last Friday night and placed the dead bodies in a cistern.The crime was discovered this morning.He left the city on Saturday night after committing the deed.The wife was asleep when she was murdered.He bound her in a blanket and dropped her into the cisiern.Both children had their brains knocked out.A reward of $300 has been offered for Burt's apprehension.\u2014_æ THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.Speaking of the proposed International Exhibition.about which there has been so much discussion, the mayor said this morning, he was almost certain that the great fair would not be held till 1898.He was still taking a warm interest in the project and was quite sure that it would come to a successful issue, but, as stated, not before 1898.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DYNAMITERS TO BE FREED.London, July 31.\u2014The \u2018Globe,\u2019 a Conservative organ, says that several of the Irish political dynamiters who are now serving long sentences will shortly be released owing to the bad condition of their health.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 0 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.Buzzard's Bay, Mass., July 31.\u2014The President and his private secretary, Mr.Thurber, left for Mashpee this morning on a bass fishing trip.They do not expect to begin until to-morrow night.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE.WARRING ELEMENTS.x eo STORMS bo MUCH DAMAGE IN THE ; FAR BAST.A HAILSTORM SWEEPS OVER MINNESOTA.Minpeapolis, Minn., July 31.\u2014A stretch of country sixty miles long and several miles wide in the vioinity of Millette, S.D., was completely aevastated by hail on Wednesday night.The losses will aggregate many thousands of dollars.Hong Kong, July 31.\u2014A hurricane prevailed here yesterday and considerable damage was done to shipping in the harbor.The British steamer \u2018Glen Cal- adh\u2019 was totally dismasted.The British steamer \u2018Macduff\u2019 dragged her anchors and collided with the Norwegian steamer \u2018Brand.Both vessels were damaged.Other steamers wore slightly injured.Bombay, July 31.\u2014Except for the telegraph lines this city is isolated at pre sent from the outside world.Very heavy rains have fallen of late and the country In the vicinity of this city is flooded.The railways are so far under water that it is Impossible to run trains over them.It will be some time before traffic can as weil as by holding an exhibition that | what a vast ig ?the world wealth this country will show to storehouse of again be resumed, as the waters have sapped the foundation of bridges and it will be unsafe until repairs are effected to run trains over them.A water main in the city burst yesterday and the lower part of the town is submerged.\u2014_\u2014 Capital {s what Canada needs and capital ; À LUMBER COMPANY REORGANIZES.will expression of Sir William Van Horne\u2014 Love on to a front street.* Apart froin the good it will do in the canner indicated, look at the employ- vent it will give our workingmen this s.Lter.Let us be up and doing.There = ra time to lose if we would hold an «sition worthy of the occasion and xor:ihy of the country.CANADIAN._\u2014_\u2014\u2014 LABOR DAY.Le Labor Day Committee met on Jay night in Ville Marie Hall.The 7 a game of baseball between the fields and one of the local teams referred to a special committee.The will be in good condition for the gr.which will take place during the T1 01 on the exhibition grounds.The v are very valuable and numerous.x from the Carters and I'reight -rs, No.525, K.of L., United Bro- ; »\\ où Carpenters and Joiners, 376, crier: Workers of America, Local Un- «134; Brotherhood où Painters and ors, No.T4, Montreal Assciation Ce Launical Engineers, the Shoe Last- \u201c5 t'on, the Leather Cutters and \u2018\u2019arters\u2019 Union, Local Union No.ronvting Pressman, were fi cz their intention of taking part i nonstration and picnic.It is t= =.| that a number of delegates to ~- .mon Trades Congress cenven- - I! be present as guests of the Cen- -: Trales and Labor Council.LE 2 K DIAMOND ASSEMBLY PICNIC.A 2.nual picnic and games of the :- - \u2018amond Assembly, No.1711, : Labor, wil come off on Satura Ile Gros Bois.\u201c2 syorts has been arranged, the \u2018ing fifteen in number, \\in- = hh running and jumping con- Ti committee in charge of ar- - \" PERSONAL.The \u2018Patrie\u2019 announces that the Rev.Father Lacombe has been transferred from Edmonton to Pincher Creek.The Rev.A.C.Ascah left this morning by the Intercolonial Railway for Gaspé on a visit to his parents.After his return to Montreal he Intends leaving for the diocese of Moosonee with Bishop Newnham, about the middle of September.Rev.E.E.Selwyn, of Roscombe Vicarage, Bournemouth, England, whom Mr.Moody has brought out as a Speaker at the August Conference In Jorthfield, Mass., is a passenger on the 88.\u2018Lau- rentian.\u2019 He will preach at the Cathedral on Sunday morning and evening, and will speak to young men at the Young Men's Christian Association on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.a NOTES AND NOTICES.\u201cThe Inventors\u2019 Guide.\u2014This valuable book tells how fortunes are made in patents, how to obtain a patent 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 malled free to anyone.Address Marion & Laberge, 185 St.James street, Montreal.: __ APVERTISEMENTS.\\ i A coroner's in- | | i | | | | i | | __ ADVERTISEMENTS.CRAZY.THAT'S WHAT YOU'D CALL A MAN WHO WOULD TIE A STONE TO HIS PURBE, AND THROW IT OVERBOARD.IS A IT ANY MORE FOOLISH THAN R GIVING UP THE LAST AVAIL- §¥ ADLE CENT IN AN ENDEAVOR TO PAY SPOT CASH when UNDER OUR EQUITABLE CREDIT SYSTEM YOU CAN PROVIDE YOURSELF WITH ALL THE FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES AND STOVES YOU NEED, and PAY FOR IT LITTLE AT A TIME OUT OF EACH WEEK'S OR MONTH'S INCOME.YOU CAN'T BUY NY CHEAPER EE R ANY BETTER C.6.D.THAN YOU CAN OF US.WHILE GIVING YOU the voue PRICES.WE GIVE HE BEST QUALI WELL.q TY AS THE AMERICAN WRINGER CO.Buceessor to Moetropolitan Mfg.Co., 1678 & 1680 Noire Dame street.T.A.EMMANS, Manager.There are many Chronic invalids FOR WHOM, IN THE .CALEDONIA SPRINGS WATERS AND BATHS, RELIEF IS TO BE HAD.24 pror SAMUEL S.GRANT 1st honors pupil 0\u201d Dr.Backlin, W.A.,M.D.HFEADQTARTERS for OCULIST'S PRESCRIP TIONS, LENSES GROUND EXACT, FRAMES ACCURATELY FITTED.NO EXTRA CHARGES.STORE CLOSES ATS P.M HENRY GRANT & SON, Opftieians.72 Beaver Hall, cor.Dorchester street.ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND, _ BY - JOHN M.M.DUFF, ACCOUNTANT AND COMMISSION®T \" 107 St.James st.And 345 Prince Arthar st IRON CASTINGS TO ORDER.We make small and large Castings of all descriptions of best quality.Our facilities enable us to offer special inducements and guarantee prompt delivery.H.R.IVES & CO.Queen st., Montreal.ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND.CUSHING, DUNTON & BARRON, NOTARIES & COMMISSIONERS, 110 St.James Street.MANY \"> GOOD PEOPLE Avold Temperance Hotels because poorly managed.Did you ever inspeot our house?If not, do so, and compare it with others.That is all we ask, Turkish Bath Hotel, 140 te 144 BT.MONIQUE STREET.INSTANT RELIEF for all afflicted with TORTURING SKIN DISEASES in a Single Application of CUuTIOURA WORKE WONDERS, and its cures of torturing humours aro simply marvellous.Bold throughout the world, Br depot: F, Txw- waur & boxs, 1, King Ed , Ron.B Dave Ar» 2) A ab.Teens.a + Je {i | A WARM we In season.but mer mes te WARMER Ir he finds his ple crust un- catable.Avoid this by using The Cook\u2019s Friend BAKING POWDER.MONEY TO LEND At Low Rate of Interest and on favorable terms, en first-class property.SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.°£ Canade © .ac TET A Struggle on the Nile.(\u2018Mail 2nd Empire.) A Yale sophomeare, an Egyptian and a; sportsman\u2014a curious combination, but it existed in the person of Hassan el Neil.On the deck alter It was the long vacation.of the steamer which bore two years\u2019 absence from his father's rcof- tree, towards his native land.was a boat, which he looked at lonz andl often, and! with a quiet smile ou his clear-cut Con- tic face thought of the surprise that the | modern naphtha launch would cause in the land of \u2018Mummy and the Mosiem.A few weeks later, Mehemet Bey, the Covernor of Asstat, was sitting in the garden that surrounded his adobe palace, when a telegram from Lord Cromer, ithe British ambassador at Cairo, informed him of the defeat of the Italians at Adowa, aud further that this defeat of, the Europeans in .byssinia meant a fresh onslaught of the Arabs on the Egyptian outpos:s, and that Kitchener at Korosko should he immediately formed of it.The telegraph lines were down, and Mehemet Bey thought hard and long as he gazed at tbe slip of pa- Versel in all the in- politics, he well hin, in- per in his hand.tricacies of Soudanese understood the signifñcance of the news.The Arab was at his last ditch, the pow- | er of the iChalifa was trembling in the balance; and he knew better, probably, than Lord Cromer, that the Soudan would: } + t be set aflame.The Governor stroked his beard and 2 thought.The Reis (as the ship captains of the Nile are called) were all affected by the Mahdist fanaticism.He couldn't trust them.He looked at his two sons, who were lazily playing dominoes in the shadow of a palm tree.\u2018Come here,\u2019 said the old man.\u201cI want a message sent to Korosko.One of you must take it.Who will go?It means honor and advancement to me if delivered at once, \u2018It means honor to him who delivers it.\u2019 \u2018I will go,\u201d answered the Yale man; \u20181 have my launch.\u2019 \u2018I will go; I have my dehabeah,\u2019 cried his brother, \u2018the swiftest on the river.\u2019 \u2018But the wind may fail,\u2019 said the Governor.He thought for a moment.\u2018You both may go, and the race is to the swiftest, as the English say.\u2019 He clapped his hands.A Coptic servant appeared.A few words were rapidly dictated.A slip of paper was handed each of his sons, and with characteristic Oriental phlegm he simply said, * Go '\u2014and he turned to his hockah, Far away to the south, the English officers of the Egyptian army little thought, as they sipped their coffee, that the greatest battle of this quarter of the century had bcen fought beyond the Abyssinian hills, and that the heart of the Soudan was in a ferment.At Kor- osko, the terminus of the great desert route, Kitchener, the Sirdar\u2014that is the commander-fin-chief\u2014and his staff never dreamt that the fanatical Dervishes, intoxicated with the news of a European defeat, were then pushing forward towards Egypt's borders.It was the second night out from As- siut.The north wind had proved faith-: ful to Mehemet, and the lateen sails of | his dchabeah had bellied to the warm | wet northerr wind from the Mediterranean, and his heart was glad within him.He was miles ahead of his American brother, as he called Hassan.But | even the north wind of the Nile is: treacerous.It sough=2d, sighed, blew a few fitful gusts, and soon there was ! \u201cof Mahomet for a wind.not a breath to quiver the broad leaves of the palins on the shore.And Xor- osko was only ten miles away.On the high poop of the dahalLeah he sat, and as the crescent moon rose high in the heavens and illumined the mysterious river, he saw approaching in mid stream the strange craft concerning which his brother had said so much, and which he couldn't understand.Ile was being beaten.His whole intense Eastern nature went out in a longing for victory.He thought for a moment that he would run along the shrre\u2014but that was mere Oh, for a wind! He prayed, as he had never prayed gefore, to the God He paced to and fro in feverish restlessncss.He ordered his men who thought him nothing less than mad, to get out their sweeps; but in a moment he saw their uselessness against the strong canvas.They lost ground, and had to tle up again.There was a satirical cry of, \u2018Yale, Yale,\u2019 from the throat of Hassan, as (he launch swept past.But Mch>met's praver was answered.At this seazon the wind of North Africa seldom fails.It came.It came so suddenly and with such force that the dahabeah was nearly dashed aground, and the palm trees bent before the blast.It a sand storm.The men threw themselves flat on the deck.\u2018 Unfurl the sail,\u201d yelled Mehemet.* Alefr,* he cried to the boy, wbose perilous duty it was to go to the extreme end of the slender yardarm.The boy hesitated, as well he might; but there was a folly.was ' look cn his master's face that h2 dare rot d'sobey.a CER BE ea THE GREAT BOAT GLIDED OFF.\u2018Cut loose,\u201d he shouted; and they plunged forward in the night against the current of the Nile.It was the act of a madman\u2014a daha- beah in a sand-storm under full sail\u2014 but that cry of \u2018 Yale, Yale,\u2019 had made Mehemet a madman.Fortunately the Nile takes a straight course for several miles after it sweeps by Korosko; but as Mehemet grasped the tiller he cared not whether it was ten miles of cataract.He saw the launch ahead, and the thought rushed through his mind to run it down.But that couldn't be.The force of the storm on the large lateen sail made every timber in the boat creek and groan.The faces of the crew had a terrified look.With teeth clenched and lips compressed Mehemet stood at the tiller, and the howling of the wind as they sped on through the night seemed to suit the pulsations of his own heart.They were gaining on the launch.If only the storm held out they would heat it\u2014or get wrecked.On and on they rushed.They were neck and neck when the dahabeah ran up nearly amidships on one of the hidden volcanic rocks that fill certain portions of the Nile.\u201cYale, Yale,\u2019 came the sneering cry from the launch.\u2018Swing her broadside,\u201d yelled Hassan.\u2018Let the current catch her.\u2019 The men vere half paralyzed with terror, but the sweeps were got out.The great boat glided off.The launch was now a quarter of a mile ahead, and the lights in the Greek ! wine shops of Korosko could be seen in the distance.The fierceness of the wind scemed redoubled.As the dahabeah swept by the launch into the little natural harbor at Korosko, there again rose a satirical yell of \u2018 Yale, Yale.\u201d But this time it came from the Egyptian craft, and Mehemet, who had rushed his boat half ashore, van madly through the dust- driven street into the quaint old fort, and cried in imperfect English, 'I have got a telegram.\u2019 That is how the Sirdar of Egypt and .CHARLES LEWIS SIIAW.-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE ADVENTURES OF THE PUPPIES.On a coast survey schooner there was once a litter of puppies belonging to the captain, They were only to be allowed to remain on board until old enough to leave their mother, but during their stay on board what scurrying, scampering, trolic- some nuisances they were ! The smartest and most energetic puppy of the lot was a little fluffy black anc white spotted fellow'called \u2018Spot- tycus the Gladiator,\u201d and he led all the others in mischief.The puppies had their, meals immediately after the wardroom officers.\u2018Spottycus\u2019 evidently considered it an infringement of his dignity to be relegated to the second table, and so one day he led a crusade.! It was a warm summer evening, and the wardroom officers were just being helped to their soup when there was a rush overhead, followed by a most fearsome succession of tiny barks.The officers looked up, and beheld every one of the open skylights overhead occupied by a little dog reaching over as far as he cculd get, his mouth open and his little red tongue hanging out.The First Lieutenant rose from his seat in horror, but, as if that had been the signal agreed upon, \u2018Spot- tycug\u2019 slipped from his hold and plunged headlong into the tureen of hot soup.As in duty bound, ihe others followed his example, and for a while, in the midst of sounds of breaking glassware, the thud and splash of failing bodies, and a prolonged and horrible yelping; squeal- irg, and whining, it rained puppies.The next exploit was to fall over- beard all together, being led as usual by the indomitable * Spottycus,\u2019whose cheerful disregard of consequences was something appalling.They were rescued from a watery grave and wrapped up in hot towels, whence they eseaped to eat a lot of poisoned flypaper.They became deathly sick, of course, and all that night had to be attended by two of the officers and most of the crew.After this they were sent ashore and the ship adopted a menagerie of kittens, having found the puppies beyond control.Remembering the effect of poisoned flypaper on the digestive organs of small animals, the officers threw away what they had of this, and laid in a stock of the sticky kind.This, however, was hardly an'improvement, for the kittens would go to sleep on it, and, waking to lind their movements hampered in some mysterious manner that savored of witchraft, would give a wild yell and plunge up the companion ladder, a frightened, scrambling, sticky mass of furry brown paper.\u2014The late Admiral Stevens in the \u2018Youth's Companion.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 A SHEEP'S SAGACITY.Two years ago a lamb owned by a gentleman whose farm lies close to Lough Foyle was left motherless.A yardman in charge ot the flock nursed and fed the little orphan.She became very tame, and was petted by her master\u2019s children.Last year she had grown into a young sheep, with a lamb ot her own.One day some dogs ran through the pasture ground, and the frightened flock scattered and fled through the field, which was a very large one, sloping toward the shore.The yardman, Aleck, banished the intruders and collected the sheep, as he supposed into safety.An hour or two aftérward the pet sheep rushed past the dwelling-house apparently in great distress.\u201d With piteous bleatings she went to the lodge gate, where Aleck was sitting at his noonday meal, and, coming close to him, seemed to seek his help.As he rose from the table she ran out of the house and straight through the pasture to the shore.He followed her, and soon saw the cause of her alarm.Her lamb, terrified by the dogs, had fled to a little penin-, sula among the rocks, which the incoming tide had transformed into an island.Of course, it could not cross the strait, and the mother could not save it, therefore she appealed to the pcwer and sympathy of her human fricnd.Her trust in his help was not disappointed, and she and her rescued offspring were soon salely reunited.\u2014London \u2018Spectator,\u2019 -> \u2014 FATE OF A FEATHERED TOUGH.A feathered tough met his death curiously the other day at Kings- tcignton, South Devon, England, according to Gerald Waller.The English cuckoo lays its eggs in the nests of other birds after the fashion of the American cowbird, so that the birds imposed upon bring up the cuckoo\u2019s young along with its own.One cuckoo discovered the nest of a pair of pied wagtails, or \u2018dishwashers, in a clay pit near Kingsteignton, and, as it seemed in every way a fuvorabl» place to deposit one of her eggs, she started to enter the nest for that purpose.The nest was peculiarly situated betwéen a Scotcn fir pole, which had the bark still on, and the wall.There was plenty of space for the pied wagtails, but it was a tight à she found herself in trouble.She couldn't back out because her feathers pointed the wrong way, anc she couldn't go forward.She was still alive when one of the workmen found her, but died after being extricated.\u2014London \u2018Field.\u2019 ee THE FIGHT OF THE HORSE AND THE HEN.A Dexter gentleman claims to have seen a battle between a horse and a hen recently.More oddly matched contestants can scarcely be thought of.Into a neighbor\u2019s orchard, where a horse was feeding, an old hen led her flock of chicks.Just what began the fuss the gentleman did not see, but probably the chicks made themselves too familiar with the horse's feet.The horse began kicking at the old hen with all his might, and with the prospect that if he could only hit her once, poultry would take a sudden rise in her vicinity.The pluck of the hen was something wonderful.The chicks scudded out of the way, but their mother fluffed out her feathers and ran her neck out straight before her, and darted for the horse's heels whenever they struck the ground.She pecked viciously at them, but the odds were against her, as the heels were pretty sure to be missing by the time she got a blow well aimed.The horse labored under the same difficulty.He would look back for the hen, and take aim at her, and she would change base before the cyclone struck.For much fuss and effort and little effect the battle furnished a unique spectacle.Both sides quieted down after a time, and the old hen marched off with her chicks clucking vociferously, which was doubtless her way of impressing them with the fact that she \u2018was not afraid of the biggest horse in Trotter- dem.\u2014Lewiston (Me.) \u2018Journal.\u2019 ce CAPTURING ELEPHANTS.The enterprise is organized for the amusement of the Maharajah, and takes place only once in about four years, else the forest would be denuded of the big game.A small army, consisting of about 5,000 men and perhaps three elephants and a few horses, take part in the hunt, and they carry tents and provisions just as if a campaign against a powerful enemy were in progress.When the pad marks of an elephant are found he is steadily tracked down, and as scon as he is found, a trained fighter of his own species is urged against him.As a rule, he steadily retreats upon sight of his pursuers, and their object is to press him so as to tire him out.He then stands at bay, and the tug-of-war commences.\u2018I'he opposing animals butt at one another with the heads\u201ddown, and should one show his flank he is quiekly brought to earth.When finally conquered, the wild elephant is pressed by his pursuers toward water, of which he is so much in need after his exertions, that his hind legs can be shackled as he drinks.He is then kept attached by ropes to other elephants until he gradually gets accustomed to bondage, and in a few months he is completely under control.The sport is a bloodless one, and the elephants when captured are most kindly treated.\u2014'Chambers\u2019's Journal.\u2019 \u201c Fame comes only when inevitable as Destiny, HAS ACHIEVED\u2019SUCCESS LEAD PACKETS ONLY, Beartiful eyes grow dull and dim As the swift years steal away.Beautiful, willowy forms so slim Lose fairness with every day.But she still is quecn and hath charms te spare > Who wears youth\u2019s coronal \u2014 beautiful hair.Preserve Your Hair and you preserve your youth.\u201cA Woman is as old as she looks,\u201d says the world.No woman looks as old as she is if her hair has preserved its normal beauty.You can keep hair from falling out, restoring its normal color, or restore the normal color to gray or faded.hair, by the use of Ayer\u2019s Hair Vigor.\u2018CEYLON TEA BLACK OI MIVED, Be on the alert ; substitutes will be offered vou ; > 6 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.Fripay, Jury 31, 1818 \u2014\u2014\u2014 na \u2014 \u2014\u2014_ re mm PSS Tr eaten \u2014\u2014\u2014 the Anglo-Egyptian army first heard of gquceze for the cuckoo.She got in- ADVERTISEMENTS the late outbreak.to the nest easily enough, but there : \u2014 deserved, and then ve, IS as for it is Destiny.\u201d as SOLELY ON ITS MERj7g ALL GROC pn, steadfastly retin.ROLLING STOCK, CHEAP.5 Scotch Carts, 1 Truck, I Double Express Waggon, 2 Single Express Waggons, 1 Stone Float Waggon, 1 Double Float Waggon, I Double Heavy Spri ng Wags vi, - 4 SUITABLE FOR FARM, LUMBER, COAL, CEMEN].Pre Tbe above were only a short time in use and are ax geoul re they were purchased w:th a bankrupt 4s stock we cin sell at ow .- Also, several Sets of Single and Double Harn se, WM.RODDEN & CGY 110 to 120 Ann Street, near Haymarke-.\u201cTHOUGHTLESS FOLKS HAVE THE BUT QUICK WITTE ace WORK, HARDEST D PEOPLE USE = \u2014\u2014 eee me g DUOUOUAUAUOU SeeReBeRTeT Ie neR RR Be RT ity ê last any amount of wear and tear burden of weight, ; d imitations by looking for the Fibre 2 92085 ES SECM 202005 LBL00EEEEL PEE .And all this without aic.~g a= It will pay ycu to be sure of avoiding dizapze.nt- not affected by crushing, damr-ec: 4 or long wear\u2014about a ccsure = terlined with Fibre Chamois.The stylish graceful stiffness : ç'ves :- d skirts, sleeves and wraps ci 4 ¢ equalled ; it adapts itself t: ever a rippling curve and fold of your cos- - tume giving such a sure surr:7 2: the bouffant and flaring effects ou A} 1 1 me Chamois label on each var, -\u2014 ieee 0 W.I.FENWICK, 11 St.Sacrament st.STOCK BROKER.Buy New York Stocks on gcod margins, the worst features of the situation have all been discounted.The MONETARY TRUST CO., of New York, will carry any line of Stocks on margin at 4 percent per aonum.24 ATERLOO PASTE.TRE WONDERFUL FLY CATCI, New, Cheap and Rgliable Paste for destroying Caterpillars and Flies.Directions on every tin.Diploma awarded Provincial Exposition, Montreal, 1895.Ask your Grocer for it.Trade supplied by WATERLOO PASTE COMPANY.52 Craig street.17 HARRISON & CO./ Expert Opticians, REMOYED TO 146 ST.PETER STREET, * Witness' Building.Newest Goods.Repairs dono promptly.Prescription Orders filled.Housefurnishings, &c.E.TOWNSHEND, ° EST % YEARS.PURE REDDING PATENTED, Call or ring np 1900 and get prices for Remaking Mattresses, Pillows, &c., before removing.Also every description of Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Cota, &c., Hair, Moss and Wool Mattresses.1 LEITLE ST.ANTOINE STREET, Cor.St.James street, only.NO BRANCH STORES ARPETS, CURTAINS, Etc.J NEW LACE CURTAINS.A Good Assortment, in NOTTINGHAM and SCOTCH MAN GFACTURES.all going at lowest prices._ WINDO SHADES, With Lace or Plain, A full lineat all prices.W.& J.M.FARQUHAR, 354 St.James st .5 OUSEKEEPERS NOTICE BARGAINS iN CARPETS.+ NEW PATTERNS.monte a 30d aabholstering work in all its branch 2s Gp y executeu.Carpets beaten.HENRYHAMHOND 3294 224 St.Urboiln st TELEPHONE 1749, 1 Professional.SETH P.LEET, B.CL ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, «&-, BRITISH EMPIRE BUILDING.1724 Notre Danic Street, TELEPHONE Cl6.ee MITH & MARKEY, ADVOCATES, BARRIrTLRS, do TEMPLE BUILDING, 183 ST.JAMES ATIFEIT.ROBERT C.SMITIL FRLD.H.MAREET.N.W.Trenholme, 2.6 Has Resumed Prac.tce, ROOY SS MECHANICS* ENSTITUT 204 ST.JAMES STREES _\u2014_ + PROF.O.BRUNEAL» Veterinary Surgeon: Assisted by DR.W.A.PICHE late Vuterinary Surgeon of Lie United Army for the past 8 years.Oc :.nd inbrmss Nos, 7 and © MHermine street Includes every modern 8,774.F-8 Educational.WOODSTOCK COLLEGE Thoroughly equipped residential s \u201c00° «7 boys and vourg non.MATRICULATION, | MANUAL TRAINING.Ar pBl TEACHERS col pees.Re-opens September 1st.1830.\u2014J.I.BATES, L.A.hoot Principal\u2014J.I.B NE dnt.MOULTON LADIES COLLEGE 4 tera.Prepares for University Courses Ho WE ture, Music, Art, Elocution atv 2p foo Culture.Careful and sympaihe! © line.\u201cacipal ADELA'DE L.DICKSON.M.A.Principal, Toronto: TTR LEADING CANA LMA, THE LEAI (a WOMES DIAN COLLEGE FOR You Ne si Best Buildings and Equipriuent, Faculty soho.an passe Record, and Metho ls of Instruction, ut | | (e a 2 1 © v wr oo ' - = eu + IC ZCI FACE BANYAN FJ TAY VACANT JAK JON Sol (eo | i rarnay, Jury 31, 1696.MIE ST, ROSE REGATTA, STE List oF THE ENTRIES.FACROSSE MATCH\u2014THE CHESS «À ~ AJ NUREMBUR.\u2014OTHER ITEMS Bi 1 @ is 4 romplete ligt of the | +, Moser regatta>*which will yarrow afternoon:\u2014 sull 13 years and under, laslor and Evott Barlow, Ern- © Russell Lyle Watson and C.i.an! Freel Robinson.st scalf club, one nile with Tait and C.FE, Grave.A.Rob- Kennedy.J.J.Carmody and 1 $.Louson art TM.Rosinson.ad F.Boon.UC.MeLean and H.\u2018sable scull club half mile with sv» kK.McLean and G.Boon.LS K-onedy and Daisy Grace.Misseg coo ant Besse Kennedy.Misses \u201c' Laren (CC 11shop and L.Payne, Grand \u201cex DCR Laing Johnson, Hanna and a°shuit fard Trunk B.C FL Tately, J.x M au 1%.Cornei) St Rose B.C.© Kennedy (.MeLean, -H.and R.Boon, = Pose BC Tah race P.Robertson, A.Brosseau, E.Tavor, F.Stavonann, E.Gilmour, G.Kear- lv, E.Rassell R.Boon, C.N.~.shall.I.Payne F.Fraser.M.Corneil.T.Hodge T Kennedy C.MeLean, J.McLean and À Russell, Turtem cance senior open\u2014C.W.McLea =' 7 Mi Laren.Grand Trunk B.C.; C.N Marshail andl L.Payne, Grand Trunk R.C.: 1 Lailng and Harna.Grand Trunk B.C.; F Tatlev æ and G.Corneil, St Rose B.C.: T.Kennedy and C.MeLean.St.Rose B.C.; J NM.Lear and HH.Boon, Sr.Rese B.C.Sxonming rare open\u2014P.Robertson, A.Trossean, T.Hodge E.Stevenson.E.Tay- = II.Russell R.Boon.J.MrLean, F.Fraser, ©.Melean H.Boon.A.Russell.\u2018oirmittee race.double seull\u2014B.Tait and I\" Robinson TT F.Rierert and Dr.A.Prossrau, C.MeLean sr.and Henry Brossai W.A VW.Purnett and W.Boon, G.I.Kearler and F.Lawrence.LACROSSE, TO-MORROW'S MATCH.There i3 an unjustifiable vein of ronfid- er + atmur desvatehes recelved from Corn- wat oduriag the past week regarding to- Lie mow 3s biz lucvosss match on the MA, | A.A grounds ber \u2018ren the Sham-vcks and the team from the Fartory Tuwn.True.Corr.wall played the Shamrucks a very close match on Dominion Day, aud subsequently wide the best show.ng «f the season against the Capitals in Ortawa.aud there is no disputing the fact that their ream has Im- jroved wonderfully, and is to-day a hard axgregation to defeat.but the eo thusias:ic to nwailites should not forge: that the ~hamrocks have lost none of their old-time i-vre ar the game, and wiil z0 on the field to-morrow confident of victory.Tha matcn t-.g played on neutral grounls puts both \u201cams ON an equal footing, aud assures a f:\u2014_ THE CANADIAN COLLEGE IN ROME.The Rev.Ahbé W.Leclerc has been appointed Superior of the Canadian College in Rome, in the place of the Rev, Abbé Palin d'Abouville, -who kad to return to Canada on account of ill-health.The Rev.Abbé Labrosse, Doctor in Canon Law, of this city, has been oppointed assistant professor in the same college, and will leave Board and Rooms Wanted.UNFURNISHED ROOM WANTED, BY A Lady, engaged during the day.Front room.Centrally situated; neighborhood of Bleury and St.Catherine streets preferred.State terms, which must be moderate, as the lady is not fond of moving.Address PROMPT, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.23 LOARD WANTED, IN PRIVATE FAMily latier end of August; gentleman and : : d board in good of our subscribers at reasonable prices ety Ee room Ee walk Mon post- and easy conditiors.The Co-operative office.Address X.Y.Z., 16, \u2018Witness' Of- Funeral Expense Society.fice.,.29 ; rd - A PR EE EE EE ES RE Ts A Ra PES A dod pd Ell HOHE Aa, 7 mily; comfortable home for one of quiet habits, central.21 St.Edward street 31 NICELY FURNISHED DOU OR Single room to Jet at No.6 Th.sile Terrace, Very central.LL 31 TWO FLEAS'NT FRONT ROOMS, double 25 ply at 80a Bleury street.TWO YOUNG MEN CAN BE ACCOMMOdated with room and board.beautiful rlave on the St Lrwrence; good boat.ng, bathing and six acres rine shaded gruu: ds.Apply to T.BARNES.\u2018Edgewater,\u2019 Longue Pcinte, nine minutes walk trom Notre bame street terminus, Montreal Streat Railway.TWO LADIES, OR TWO GENTLEMEN.or a inarried couple, can be accomunodated with nicely furnished bedrcoms, usv of sii\u2018ing room, aad full or purtial board; all modern conveniences: terms moderate; fainily cousists of two adults.Apply at 107 Mansfield street before 11 a.m.or after 6 p.m.Tmnlovment Wanted.WANTED.BY GOOD LAUNDR™SS work by the day.14 Hermine street.31 > WANTED, BY GOOD STEADY HANDY Man, situation In geod firm: th.o.zh knowledge of boiler work; has too:.fur steamfittirg.\u2018job plumbing and other work.Addruss L.54, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.30 WANTED.BY A CERTIFIED TEACHER with ex;-erience, a position as Teacher of Shorthand and Bookkeering,; excellent rc- fevencei.Address TEACHER 18, 'Wit- .ness\u2019 Office.30 GOVERNESS \u2014 ENGLISH LADY, EXP, Grad.Oxford l'niversity, desires position.R.447, Waterloo st, London.Ont.21 \u2018To Lex.MORLAND STRE\"T, \u201cto e cottage.9 rooms, low rent; wil, bz put in good order.J-.CRAMOCK SIMP-ON & CO., 181 St.James s reet.3 TO LET, No.5 TO LET.33214 ST.ANTOINE STREET, stone front upper tenement.go.d order: very comfortable house.low rent.J.CRADDOCK SIMPSON & CO., 181 St.James street.31 HOUSES TO LET FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED, Choice Location.Moderate Rents, J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & CO, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, 181 ST.JAMES STREET.24 Property.FOR SALE, A BRICK COTTAGE,IN REAR of 239 St.Dominique street, pear Prince Arthur, containing 8 rooms, with extension kitchen.The use of a stable can be had if required.Apply to F.MeMANN, 175 St.James street.a0 FOR SALE, OR TO LET, BLOCK OF Land on Papineau road, about 600 feet front by 157 feet deep.Two Lime Kilns, ten stall Stable, four ton Scale and Offrce on the property ; splendid factory site ; exemption from taxation offered.Would sell or rent a part if the whole is too much: low price and terms liberal.J.M.M.DUFF.23 Groceries, Provisions, &c.MvHE FINEST AND MOST EXtensive stock of California and Canadian fruits are to be seen this week at BAKER\u2019S New Grocery, 78 UNIVERSITY STREET, Nothing can surpass it.Please call in for examination, as we do not expose any more fancy fruits outside nor in the windows on account of the dust and the flies.Our groceries are also all new and fresh, and all our customers know that we always sell at Bottom Prices.Still selling 31 lbs best Granulated Sugar for $1.00.Telephone 5C19.28 CASSELMAN BROS., GROCERS, : 54 AYLMER STREET, Is the place to buy Fresh Fruit and Vegetables.RECEIVED DAILY.BLUEBERRIES, RASPRERRBRIESN, BLACK and RED TURRA NTS, CHERRIES, GRAPES, CALIFORNIA PEACHES, PEARS, PLUMS, ete., nt Lowest Prices, EGGS, 10c, and 12¢ doz.Best CREAMERY BUTTER, 20¢, 5 Ibs for abc.Orders packed and shipped {o any address free of charge.TRY US.Tel.3610.PEARS, PEACHES, California PLUMS, APRICOTS, GRAPESetc.ARRIVING FRESH DAILY, Country Orders carefully attended to, At Walter Paul\u2019s, .Corner St.Catherine and Mefcalfe sts, 20 LL BUSINESS PRINTING And ART WORK.WITNESS PRINTING HOUSE, i Ng SPECIFIC ARTICLES (sscond-hand) and single; fam'!* private; rent muder- | ale.24 Mance treat.29 TO LET, 1, 2 or 8 WELL FURNIS!u ND rooms.with all modern conveniences.Ap- | = Se \u2014 mn + Rooms and Board.\"JARIFF ; - _ FOR TWO NICELY FURNISHFD ROIMS, on | bath and parlor flats.wih or without CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS, board, suitable for married couple or two gentlemen; no children.242 Mountain (Prepald.) street.31 ; SITUATIONS WANTED \u2014 1C cents for 20 ROOM AND BOARD WITH FENGL'SH Fa- Words or less, three insertions, «5 cents: over 20 words, l cent per extra word - ber lreertion.SITUATIONS VACANT \u2014 10 cents for 20 Words each insertion; additignal words, JE cent per extra word per insértinn.UPILS WANTED\u201410 cents for 20 words; Insertions, 25 cents; 6 insertions, 40c: over 20 words, La cent per extra worf Per Insertion.- JC cents for 20 words, 3 insartions, 25c; ( Insertions, 40 cents.Second-hand denler: come under \u2018Business Cards.\u2019 : BARGAINS\u2014I0c for 20 words; 3 insertions, be: 6 Insertions, 4vc.LOST ARTICLES\u201410 cents for 20 words: 3 .'usertions, 2c; 6 insertions.40c.- FOUND ARTICLES\u201423 cants for 15 words.nach lrsertion.When found articles can Le left at office as security for charges compensation will be jooked for ta nar- son claiming property.BOANT AND ROOMS TO LET or WANTED \u201410 cents for 20 words; 3 insertions, 250.HCUSL 5 AND REAL ESTATE\u201420 cents for «0 Words; 6 Insertions, $1.SWAPS\u2014I0 cents for 20 words: 3 insertions, 26c; 6 irsertions, dnc.FINANCIAL\u201425 cents for 25 words: sertions, $1.25.BUSINESS (HANCES\u201425 cts.for 25 words; 6 in- 6 insertions, 21.25.DUSINFSS (°° 11825 cents for 25 words, 6 Insertions.21.25.MEMIMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS-69 cents for 20 wrids: 6 insertions, $3.50.ALL OTHER \u2018WANTED\u2019 ANVERTISE- MENTS.25 cents for 25 words, each ib- sertion.NOT'CE PARTICULARLY.The above rates are Nl 1 CASH with order.When advertisements are sent in without being prepaid numerous entries have to be made.and the rate Is, in consequence, much higher.\"7 J!le above mentioned charge is always the minimum.even though the ad: ertite- ment does not contain the number of words allowed.Additlonal words may be had pro rata.Situations Vacant.\u2014\u2014-\u2014-\u2014 WANTED, A SMART YOUNG MAN, ne- customed to house work.Apply to W.LUCAS.High School.Peel street.31 WANTED, AT 754 DORCHESTER ST.good General Servant.80 WANTED, A GOOD PLAIN COOK OR General Servant: must have good references.Apply at 2656 Peel street, WANTED, A CENERAL SERVANT; must be well recommended.Apply 957 Dor- chester street.29 Miscellaneous.\u2014 = \u2014_\u2014 PlincuNAL\u2014DBOSTON DENTAL PAnRLURS 1856 Notre Dame.Beautiful Sets of Testh for Ten Dollars.Fit and quality guarane teed.Painless extrecting a specialty.All charges moderate.» \u2014 os = LC - \u2014 Business Chances.FOR SALE, NICE LITTLE GROCERY; small stock; just the thing for a new beginner; low rent.For intormation apply after 6 p.m.716 St.Urbain street.30 Pupils Wanted.7 WANTED.PUPILS TO COACH, Classics, etc.Certificated Tutor.39 Emily st.1 Houses Wanted.A MARRIED COUPLE WOULD LIKE to meet with a gentleman with a small house; would furnish it neatly, and give attendance in exchange for rent, etc.Address W., 364 \u2018Witness' Oilice, 31 HCUSE WANTED.OF 4 ROOMS, within or outside city limits; with or without convenlences; rent low, give particulars.Address HOUSE 20, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.1 3 Lost, Strayed and Found.T LOST, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, a Canary Bird from £4 Park avenue.Any information regarding came wili be tha; ktule ly received at 211 St.James street.31 ERSONAL.A REWARD of $25 will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the party who stole the Brantford Bicycle, No.41,598, from the premises of Mr.Anson McKim.\u2019 at Dorval, on the night of the 29th of July.Bicycle dealers will please be on the look out for this wheel.Send information to the Dominion Burglary Guarantee Company, Limited.31 PERSONAL \u2014A Reward of $25 Will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the party who stole the Crescent Bicycle, 152,826, from the premises of Mr.K.8.Sharpe, at Dixie, either on the night ot the 26th, or the morning of the 27th {n- stant.Bicycle dealers will please be on the look-cut for this Wheel.Send information to the Dominion Burglary Guarantee Company, limited, 151 St.James street.29 Bargains.FOR SALE, BICYCLE, English Scorcher; used only for ten short rides; for sale or exchange for household article.* Address J.W, ROBERTS, 336 St.James st.22 FOR SALE, A PAIR OF ROLLER CANaries.Address GOOD SINGER, \u2018Witneas\u2019 Off ce.27 FOR SALE, SMALL OFFICE AND FOUR ton Scale for Hay, Coal, Lime, eto., etc., in good order; c ep.J.M.M.DUFF, Imperial Building, Montreal.mÊ23 FOR SALE, A BABY CARRIAGE, Cheap, Apply No.43 Alexander street.9 FOR SALE, FOR THE MILLION, KINDling, $2; Cut Maple, $2.6U; lamarac siocka, $1.75; Hardwood Blocks, $1.60; cut any ength ; delivered anywhere in the city.J.C.McDIARMID, Richmond square.Bell Telephone u (Lp NEWSPAPERS Suitable for wrapping pyrposes, for sale at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, in 10-1b.packages, at $1 per 100 Iba Vv IIE PPS.= cw eae.FEL Simo re pa THE MONTKEAL DAILY WITNESS.OO St.Lawrence Resorts.Other Canadian Resorts.\u201cGANANOQUE, ONT, Thousand Islands.GANANOQUE INN, On the St.Lawrence.heat.This New Brick Hotes; with steam hea electric lights and bells, baths and all modern Improvements.accommudate Jou guests.Fishing snd boating upexcelled.; Speclal excursions to the GANANOQUE INN, via Grand Trunk Railway.every Bat- urday returning Monday.One fare round Trip.° JOHN ¢.HOLLAND, Prop.VICTORIA HALL, NIAGARA FALLS CENTRE, ONT.furnished throughout; all modern Electric Lights, large Croquet and Lawn Tennis Grounds.Special \u201cinducements to families for the season.Rates on application to GEO.H.young, Proprietor.F\" RST- CLASS ACCOMMODA.- Newly conveniences, © TION FOR SUMMER BOARDERS on tank of the At.Lawrence River, below the Thousand Islands.Conventent to (¢ T R station and steamboat landing.House ptied up with all modern fy rovemen?s.Good boating and fishin; First-clasa Boat.Livery oon- venient.Terme mo lerate.City references ou a cli lation For particulars address F AIRVIEW, croquois, Ont.18 \u2014_\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 For Gaspe and Bale des Chaleurs Ports The North American Transportation Co's Steamer \u2018 ADMIRAL.L.POULIOT, Master.COMMENCING ON THE 2sth APRIL, the first-class Passenger Steamer \u2018ADMIRAL' leaves DALHOUSIE for GASPE, (weather and Ice permitting), on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, calling at Carlton, Newport, Maria, Pabos.New Richmond, Grand River, Bonaventure, save Cove, ew arlisle, erce, Net oar, Point St.Peter, Port Dgniel.Douglastown.Returning from Gaspe for Dalhousle on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, calling at the Intermediate Ports.Meals and Rooms Rawes lu Passages, J moderate.Connections East and West with the Intercolonial Rallway.Passengers leaving Bonaventure Lepot by 11.15 p.m.Express on Mondays Or Thursdays or at 8.00 a.m.on Tuesdays and Fridays run through to Dalhousie without change, connecting with SS.Admiral\u2019 and arriving at Gaspe following evening at 7 o'clock.Tickets for sale at all C.P.R.and G.T.R.agencies.For tickets and all information fn regard to passenger fares and rates of treight apply to M, P.CONNOLLY, or G& W.ROBINSON, Sec.-Treasurer, Ger.Siastern au ¢0 Dalhcusie street.opp.St.Lawrence Hal Quebec.Montreal.DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, LIVERPOOL DERKVICE.Bteamer.From Montreal.From Quebec Vancouver.Aug, 8, daylight.Aug.9 9 a.m.Scotsman .Aug.17, daylight.Aug.14, 9 a.m.\"Ottoman .Aug.2.daylight.Aug.22, 2 pm.l.ahrador.Au,.29, daylight.Aug.3, 9 a.m.Arkioman .Sept.5 daynghe Swpt.5.2 pm.NS, CANADA will Sail from Liverpool Sep .17.RATES OF PASSAGE.FIRST CABIN\u2014Montreal ur Quebec to Liverpool or Londonderry, $52.50 to 38); return, $1) to $150, according to steamer and berth.SECOND CABIN\u2014$34 and $36.25; return, $60.76 and $69.STEERAGE\u2014To Liverpool.London.Lon- denderry, Queenstown.Belfast or Glasgow, including outfit, $24.60, 325.50.Midahip saloon, electric light, promenade decks.For further tion apply to any agent of the or to sparious informa- Company, DAVID TORRANCE & ro,, 17 St.Sacrament st., General Agents, Montreal.REAVER LINE STEAMERS.SUMMER SERVICE, Direet Sailings Between MONTREAL AND LIVERPOOL, From From LIVERPOOL.STEAMER.MONTREAL Sat.June 27.Lake Ontario .Wed., July 18.Sat, July 4.Lake Huron.Wed., July 22.Sat., July 18.Lake Superior.Wed, Aux.3.sat, July 25.Lake Winnipeg.Wed., Aug.12.sat., Aug.1.Lake Ontario .Wed, Aug.19.Sat.Aug.8.lLake Huron.Wed.Aux.26.Sat, Aug.22.Lake Superior.\u2026.Wed, Sept.9.Sat, Aug.29.Lake Winnipeg.Wed.Kept.16.And Weekly Thereafter.BATES Uo d'AsSSAtue FIRST CABLIN\u2014$4u, qUU auU uu.trip, $40 and §lli, according aud accommodation.SELUND CABIN\u2014To Liverpool or Lon- Round 0 Slealner don.$34; return, $36.76.Glasgow, $37.65; return, $74.U5.STEERAGE\u2014To Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Belfast, at lowest rates.NOTE\u2014Steerage passengers by the Beaver Line are provided with the use of bedding, and eating and drinking utensils, free of charge.Freight carried at lowest rates and to all important points both in Canada and Great Britain on through bills lading.Special farilities provided for the carriage of bute ter.chese and perishable freight.For further particulars as to freight or raasage, apply to D, & C.MACIVER, D.W.CAMPRELL, Tower Buildings, Manager, 1s Fiospital st, Liverpool.Montreal.JUROPE, EUROPE, EUROPE.À TICKETS BY ALL LINES.ALLAN DOMINION ard BEAVER LINES Co via Montreal.NETHERLANDS, GUION, HAMBURG- - CAN, WHITE STAR, CUNARD, AMERICAN, NORTH-GERMAN LLOYD.GENERAL, TRANSATLANTIC, STATE, ANCHOR.TRANSPORT and RID STAR Lines.vin NEW YORK.Alsgl to SOUTH AFRICA, FLORIDA, WEST IN 8, &c £45 Call or write forlowest quotations before looking elsewhere.Saloon rates, 840 upwards; steerage at lowest rates.Send for new pamphlet of rates and sailings or call at my new address, 154 St.James street opposite Temple Building.My spcoial winter rates MONTREAL to LONDON and back, weekiy, via NEW YORK, lst Baloon and rail, only $239.D.BATTERSRY, Agent.Offce Telephone,No.1507.House Telephone, 3081.(Lp NEWSPAPERS Suitable for wrapping purposes, for sale ft the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, in 10-1b, \u2026 bpackeges, at $1 per 100 lbs.28 .pu RE Ty I dem pr at aia ABENAKIS HOUSE, ABENAKIS SPRINGS, QUE.Opened June Ist.The Most Delightful Summer Resort in Canada.Capital fishing and bowting on St.Fran- cls and St.Lawrence Rivers and Lake Bt.Peter.Beach Bathing.The use of boats, bath houses, tennis courts and pcol tables free tn guests.AFENAKIS MINERAL SPRING WATER certain Cure for Rheumatism, Indigestion, Kidney and Liver Complaints, Balt Rheuwn, Gercra\u2019 Debilfty, ete.MINERAL YATER BATHS, The Richelieu apd Ontario Navigation Compsny's Bteamer \u2018BERTHIER' leaves Bc rsecours Market Wharf every TURSDAY and FRIDAY at 1 p.m.for Abenakis Springs, Send for Circnlars.Retes Reasonable.RIFIN 6, KIMPTON.Proprietor.For circulars and information call L.HARRIS, 118 St.James st., Montreal.MOUNTAIN VIEW.This Summer Resort.situated on the shores of Brome Lake will be open to re- cefve guests on May 15th.Good Bathing.Boating and Fishing.Boats free to guests.Laundrying done in the house.À.KIL- BURN, Foster, Que.A FEW SUMMER BNOARDERS CAN BE accommodated at Mystic.situated on the Canadian Pacific Railway, short distance from Montreal; the house is pleasantly situtated.Terms reasonable.Apply to JAMES M.HALL, Mystic, Que.22 HOTEL ABERDEEN, ST.JOHN, N.B.\u2014 Large First class New Hotel.Accommodation, 200.Cwntral Location.Fishing, Boating and Sca Bathing near by.Wide, and large, pleasant rooms.Therapeutic Baths in the city.modern improvements.Excellent cuisine.Jersey Dairy products, Germ-Proof Filters.Ratas, $2.50 and 33.60 per day.Special weekly rates on appli- cutionn.EE.M.TREE, Matager.G.R.I'UGSLEY, Proprietor.TO LET.FOR THE SUMMER, A COTtage at Lachute; sitting, dining and three bedrooms and kitchen furnished, and three unfurnished bedrooms.garden with vegetables, fruit and shade trees: rent moderate.Lechute.Que.airy halls \u2018I'he only Elevator and all WANTED.BOARD FOR A FAMILY OF six persons (three children), during August, In pleasant locality.with boating and bathing facilities.Address S., Box 77.Montreal.30 QFE STEAMSHIP co\u2019Y LTD./ - ST.LAWRENCE LINE.SS.\u201cCAMPANA\u201d 1,700 TANS, Is intended to leave Montreal on MONDAY, August 3, at 2 p.in., and Quebec (he following day at 1 p.m.And aiterwards on every aiterDule MONDAY during the season For FATHER POINT, GASPE, MAL BAY PERCE, SUMMERSIDE, CHARLOTTETOWN AND PICTOU.Has excellent accommodation for passengers.Electric lights and all modern comforts.No cargo received after noon of satling day.Tickets for sale at all the principal ticket offi ces.For Freight, Passage and Stuterooms, apply to J, G.BROCK, Agent.211 Commissioners street.Or to W.D.O'BRIEN, 143 St.dames st.REFORD AGENCIES.ONALDSON LINE WEEKLY GLASGOW BERVICE Sailing from MONTREAL every From WEDNESDAY Morning.From (Hasgow.Bteamships.Montreal.July 17.00e BB, Alcides .Aug.6 July 24.88 Warwiok eee Aug.13 July 3 Ceara 0e B.Concordia.Aug.20 Aug.1.88.Tritonia.2.Aug.27 Aug.4.38.Amarynthia .Bept.3 Agents - Glasgow, Donaldson Bros, HOMSON LINE LONDON AND NEWCASTLE SERVICE Bailing from Montreal on or about From Newcastle Bteam- From Montreal : on-Tyne.ships to London.July t7.00.88, Hurona oo.Aus.7 July 3.88 Framona.Ane, 18 All the London steamers will take cargo for New- castle-on-Tyne.EAST COAST SERVICE.Aberdeen.Leith and Dundee at Intervals.85.Beilona for Leith .cual Aug.17 88.Avlona for Dumdee.0.000 00000000 Sept.1 Agents\u2014 Cairns, Young & Noble, Newcastle-on-Tyne, .Low, Sou & Carter, Leadenhall street, London; .C.: G.V Turnbull & Co.Leith; W.Thomson & Sons, Dundee, Bcotland.Special atcommodation for Butter, Cheese and Provisions ; also Cattle, Horses and Sheep.THROUGH BILLS OF LADING Granted by any of the above Lines Lo or from any point IN GA: ADA OR WESTERN STATES.For further particulars apply to HENDERSON BROS., Chicago, I11., J.D.RIDDELL.Stratford,Ont., er ROBERT REFORD & CO, 23 and 25 8t.Sacrament street, Montreal.AMERICAN LINE.NEW YORK TO SOUTHAMPTON.From Piers 14 and 15, North River, New York - sFoot of Fulton sti®at.) - Paris.\u2026.Wed.Aug, 5.10a.m.Ne.Louis .Wed.Aug.12, 10 a.m.8t.Paul.Wed., Aug.19, 10a.m.Paris.coven Wed., Aug 26, 10 a.m.Shortest and most convenient route to London.No transfer by tender.Nc tidal delay.Close connection at Southampton for Havre and Paris by special fast twin-screw Channel steamers.Rates of passage to Southampton, London or Havre, 360 and upwards.Second cabin passage, 840 to KGO, BPECIAL ROUND TRIP TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES.Steerage at Yery Low Rates, For Freight or passage apply to INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CO, No, 6 Bowling Green, New York.W.H.HENRY, 143 5¢.James street, W.F.EGG.129 St.James st.Montreal.J.¥.GILMOUR .t CO, 854 8t.Paul street, Montreal = CT FOR SALE Apply at :he * WITNESS\"* OFFIOR / - .DE y durer ae me de PE Eu Address MRS.MASSIAH, Box 121, ae A Ff EON IRIE 7 SU Rng Saratoga Resorts.GRAND UNION HOTEL, Saratoga Springs, N.Y, OPENS JUNE 15 1896, Accommodation for over one thousand guests.WOOLLEY & GERRANS, Proprietors, Special for week, month and season.Send for illustrated booklet.28 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.United States Hotel, SEABON OF 18986.Open from June 15 to October 1.Special rates for June, July and September.For rates and other particulars apply to TOMPKINS, GAGE & PERRY.THE FINEST PASSENGER TRAIN Pe IN THE WORLD.THE SEASIDE AND WHITE MOUNTAINS ° SPECIAL\u2019 Eastbound\u2014 Leaves Bonaventure Station, Montreal, every Friday at midnight for the White Mountains, Portland, Old Orchard Beach, etc.Westbound\u2014Leaves Montreal every Monday at 8.20 a.m.for Thousand Islands and Kingston, reaching Toronto at 6.25 p.m.same evening, and Chicago following morning at 10.45.A limited amount of accommodation on this train may be secured on application to W.D.O\u2019Brien, City Ticket Agent, 143 St.James street.Passengers engaging accommodation eastbound on this train can got aboard at any hour of the evening.City Ticket OMces, 143 St.James Street.And Bonaventur® Station.14 Portland & Old Orchard THROUGH SERVICE, Parlor Cars leave Montreal (Windsor Btreet), at 9 a.m.dally.except Sundays, arriving Portland 7.41 p.m., and Old Orchard 8.30 p.m.Sleeping Cars will leave Windsor Street.8.2) p.m., daily, arriving Portland 6.50 a.in.and Old Orchard 7.38 a.m., connecting at Portland for Rockland, Me., etc.ST.ANDREWS, N.R, Through Slecping Car Service.Every Friday, until] September 4th inclusive, a first-class sleeping car will leave Montreal, Windsor Street Station, for St.Andrews, N.B.on St.John and Halifax express train at 7.50 p.m.Returning will leave St.Andrews following Monday, arriving Montreal, Tuesday, 8.20 a.m.Halifax Express leaving at 7.50 p.m.daily (except Sundays) connects at McAdam Junc.for St.Andrews, arriving at 11 a.m.ACITY TICKET and TELEGRAPH OFFICE, 129 St.Jarhes street (nexte P.O.) TTAWA RIVER NAVIGATION COMPANY MODERN STEEL STEAMERS, Sovereign and Empress FORMING DAILY MAIL LINE between Montreal and Ottawa.Fare to Ottawa, single, $2.50; return, $4, do., round trip, rail and boats, $5.Most pleasant and direct route to the CALEDONIA SPRINGS, DAILY EXCURSIONS to Carillon, Como, Oka, etc., $1.Take § a.m.train to Lg.chine, to connect with steamer.Shoot the rapids, Bûc.Take 5.00 p.m.train for Lachine.All boat round trip via Ottawa, Rideau River, to Kingston.thence Ont.steamer down St.Lawrence.Tickets at 138.148 and 178 St.James st., Windsor and Balmoral Hotels, and Grand Trunk Station, .Magnificent new steel steamer DUCHESS OF YORK for excursion charter.Company's Office.165 Common street, RB.WW, SHEPHERD, Managing Director, Telephone 1029.10 Cement, Drain Pipes, &c.DRAIN PIPES.Portland, Roman and Canada Cements, Fire Bricks, Clay.ete.ALEX.BREMNER, 50 Bleury street, SCOTCH DRAIN PIPES, PORTLAND CEMENT, IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE At Lowest Market Prices.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 We & F.P.CURRIE & CO 100 GREY NUN STREET.B°°$-WO RK executed with neatness and despaich at the \u2018WITNESS PRINTING & PUBLISHING HOUSE : : 4 \u2018 \u2018 Adirondack Resorts.THE ALGONQUIN AND COTTAGES, 3 ON LOWER SARANAC LAKE, Open from June Ist to October 1st, Located in the heart of the Adirondacks, commanding une of the flnest views of the mountains.Attractions, Boating, Fishing, Tennis, Music, etc.Modern improvements including electric lighting.Four hours from Montreal.Tsllv-ho coach meets trains.Illustrated pamphlet on application.JONN HARDING, Proprictor, P.O.Address, Algonquin, N.Y, 23 ADIRONDACKS.The BERKELEY, SARANAC LAKE, \u2019 N.YA modern Hotel.Complete in all appointments.Under the management of the owner.Send for circular.WILLTAY A.DENISON, 2 RIVERSIDE INN.BARANAC LAKE, N.Y.ADIRONDACKS, Write for descriptive circular, WALLACE MURRAY.23 A PTRONDACK MOUNTAINS.HOTEL DEL MONTE AND COTTAGE, On Lower Saranac lake.Accommodates 125.Opens Play 15.Good Fishing and Huntinr, Boating and Bathing.Yivst class house and at moderate prices.Special rates to July 15.For terms, ciroular and particulars, address HUMPHREYS & WILLARD, P.O.Address, 8aranac Lake N.Y.Other American Resorts.A VENUE HOUSE, > PEAKS ISLAND, This popular Seaside House is open June 20th for Summer Travel.Special rates to families.M.C.STERLING, Proprietor.RAND VIEW FARM High elevation; dry and healthy climate; good Montreal references furnished.Write for circular.H.I.ARNOLD, P.O., Box 280, Keeseville.N.Y.8 SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.WHERE AND WHEN TO GO, BY RAIL AND RIVER.The following time table shows at a glance the various places where Montreal- ers can spend their Saturday half-holidav, with the time of leaving and returning by train or by steamboat: \u2014 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.Leave Leave Bonaventure Places.for Depot.Montreal.| 12.05 1.20 {Lachine 4.26 5.17 155 3.45 Ct 6.50 1.47 5.00 | \u201ca eet 9311052 1.20 1.45 {Doral 6.08 7.43 3.45 SAT ee 9981045 Valois, .\u2026\u2026.' 7.3810.41 1.20 1.45 |.| Pointe Claire,.} .6% 35 120 145 |.{St Anne.pee ta nas 9.41 10.23 1.20 1.45 \u2026 { Vaudreuil LL.}.4.20 5.41 - .549 7.15 12.10 1.25 {Bt Lambert.| 986 10.15 1.45 a ) \" 545 5.56 4.00 430 |.} \u2018>, 6.30 7.90 445 5.15 # IUT | 7.40 9°05 5.00 Lachine and | 9.30 9.55 : down Rapids.(> | St.Ann's and ' 1.20 1.45 A own Rapide } 1.45 4.00 5.15/.St.Hilafre.6.00 8.39 4.45 .Rouaes Point.8.10 125 445 |.{se John's.} ; 19 853 The Coteau, Cedar, Split Rock, Cascade, and Lachine Rapids.Take 4.10 a.m.train from Bonaventure depot.Steamer \u2018Hoohelaga\u2019 for Boucherville, leaves foot of the current noon, 3; Jacques Cartier Square, 5.15 and 7.30 p.m.Leaves Boucherville, 1, 3.46 and 6.20 p.m.Commencing Sunday, 18th, St.Helen's Island Ferry.1 p.m.Last Boat from Island, 8 p.m.Fifteen minute trips during afternoon.Ottawa Navigation Company's steamboats dcwn the rapids.See (Grand Trunk, Ste.Anne's.Canadian Pacific.Hudson.Steamer \u2018Terrebonne\u2019 leaves Jacques Cartier Wharf 2.30 n.m., calling at Boucherville, Varennes, Vercheres, returning to the city at 8.30 p.m.; Steamer \u2018Laprairie,\u2019 2 p.m., returning from Laprairie.3.30 p.m.CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.| = = © S43 o 2 |e 8 >@ 2e =.E > = 825% Places.js L * ®% \u2014 Wg ~ 2 |< o > | = = 1.30 4.05 | 4.07,5 48 4.15 6.15 Montreal Junction.7.43 | 8.17 9.39 4.05 | St.Johns.\u2026\u2026.3.20 7.26 8.30 1.30 4.15, (Dorval, St.Anne's) 615 1 and Vaudreuil.& = vB od § 2% Plares.qe ë 53 35 ÊTR = + 2 $ 1.45 | Bault-aux-Recollects.10.07pm E332 145 (St Rose.50 |< 9 145 \u2018Ht.Jerome.5.25 = Bakers and Confectioners.R.S.AULD, BAKER & CONPECTIONER Cor.Atwater ave.& St.Antoine st.Try our Home Made Electrit- Bread made by electric machinery.Our Confectionery is made of tho best materials and choicest butter.Cannot be excelled.Boston Brown Bread and Baked Beans, Rat- urdays.Call or telephone your orders.Bell Tel 3030 \u2018 rer Fripay.Jury 5], leve ADVERTISEMENTS.MUNYON'S GREAT TEST BEGINS.9270 Sufferers Call for a Free Sample of Munyon's Guaranteed Cures.THOUSANDS IN LINE The Montreal Star Office Crowded \u2014 All Anxious to Test These Wonderful Little Sugar Pellets.WATOH FOR RESULTS Professor Munyon Oaims That His Remedies Will Cure Ninety Out of Every Hundred Oases.The Free Distribution Closes Positively To-day at Five o\u2019Clock p.m.(romn the Montreal Star Oflico\u2014' Let All Interested Be On Hand.Druggists are Having an Enormous Demand for These Remedies.Yesterday the \u2018Star\u2019 Office was crowded with citizens of Montreal, who wished to obtain a free sample of Munyon's Rheumatism Cure.The throng was composed of people from all walks of life.The banker, minister, mechanic and farmer, one just as anxious as the other to obtain relief from this dread disease.During the day could be seen on the streets, in the stores, cars aud offices, men and women carefully oounting out their dose of the wonderful little pellets, fearful that they should lose one hour in the forty-eight, in which time Munyon's Reniedy is guaranteed to cure.Prof.Munyon's representative was seen at the Balmoral Hotel.and.in answer to enquiries, said:\u2014'We have no doubt whatever as to the result of the test.having passed through the most searching investigations in Boston, Baltimore, Phifadelph:a.New York, Washington.Pittsburg.Cleveland, St.Louis.Rochester, Buftaio.Toledo.Chicago, St.Paul, Minneapolis.Du- buque, Davenport, Burlington, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Kingston and Ottawa.made by the leadirg papers in those cities, and in no case have we failed to curc less than 50 out of every 100 who used the remedies as directed.\u2019 \u2018Oh, yes,\u2019 he remarked, \u2018this company puts up a cure for every disease just as efficacious as this one.and by the time this tnvestigation is finished, we expect to have at least 100,000 people in Montreal converted to this school of medicine.\u2019 Munyon's Remedles are radically different from those used by the regular school of homoeopathy.There is no experimenting, no guesswork, no danger, no loss of time.1f you have a disease, Munyon has a cure.His remedies are sold by all druggists.RHEUMATISM CURED.Munyon's Rheumatism Cure is guaranteed to cure rheumatism in any part of the body.Acute or muscular rheumatism can be cured in from one to five days.It speedily cures shooting pains, sciatica, lumbago.aud loins.It seldom fails to give relief after one or two doses, and almost invariably cures before one bottle has been used.STOMACH AND DYSPEPSIA CURE.Munyon\u2019's Stomach and Dyspepsia Cure cures all forms of indigestion and stomach trouble, such as riging of food, distress after eating, shortness of breath, and all affections of the heart caused by Indigestion, wind on the stomach.bad taste, offensive breath, loss of appetite, faintness or weakness of stomach, headache from indigestion, soreness of the stomach, coated tongue.heartbury, shooting pains in the stomach, constipation, dizziness, faintness, and lack of energy.NERVE CURE.Munyon's Nerve Cure cures all the svmp- toms of nervous exhaustion, such as depressed spirits, failure of memory, restless and sleepless nights, pains in the head and dizziness.It cures general debility.stinni.lates and sirengthens the nerves, and tones np the whole body.Price 25 cents.KIDNEY CURE, Munyon\u2019s Kidney Cure cures pains in the back.loin or groins, from kidney disease, dropsy of th: feet and limbs, frequent desire to pass water dark colored and turhid urine, sediment in the urine, and diabetes.Price, 25 cents.CATARRH CURE.Catarrh positively cured.Are vou willing to spend 50 cents for a cure that positively cures catarrh by removing the cause of the disease?If so, ask your druggist for a 25 cent bcttle of Mugyon's Catarrh Cure, and a 25 cent bottle of Catarrh Tablets.The catarrh cure will eradicate the P disease frem the system, and the tablets will cleanse and heal the afflicted parts.and restore them to a natural and healthful condition.Munyon's Liver Cure corrects headache.biliousness, jaundice, constipation and all liver diseases.Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumonia, end breaks up a eold in a few hours.Munyon's Cough Cure stops cough.night gweats, allays soreness, and speedily heals the lungs.Munyon\u2019s Female Remedies are a bon to all women.Munyon's Tleadache Cure stops headache in three minutes.Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures all forms of piles.Munyon\u2019's Asthma Cure and Herbs are guaranteed to relieve asthma in three minutes and cure in five days.Price, 3 cents each.Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all impurities from the blood.Munyon\u2019s Vitalizer imparts new life to weak and debilitated men.Price, $1.00.A full line of the Munyon Homocopathic Remedies are kept in stock by John T.Lyons, corner of Craig and Bleury etreets.Montreal.Sent by mai! to any part of Canada.SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.2 all rheumatic pains in the back.hips and @ \u2014 PEA SOP OR Wisp) \u2014 Nancy Rankin, an old wv « \u2014 known and liked in thr 5 Carrickhue, had opinions + .Jects.and was free in impure.She and Miss Mackenzt \u2014.lord's daughter, were grins Both were grieved thnr tu.houses flourished in Civ ing supported by the la! irgs; and Nancy sail with, miss, dear, yon shut up anc o' thae she.\u2018I wish we could.Ni think of a plan I'll help +.\u20181'd like to shut up Wye for his whiskey is thar bluestone an\u2019 other | things that the men's ing: .: up.It's a poison.and ;: so wi\u2019 things to make ju.Quickly.that it fairly ser.- It willna keep for mor | Weeks, My brother's sn, oo , to get married last mo: 8 beught the whiskey for party; but his sister ' wedding was put off.KO miss, yesterday they vw oo but the spirits had gone to be throwed out.1 cause 0\u2019 them bad burnt.was put in it\u2014vitriol a It was a big loss.\u2019 \u2018Not much of a lose.Ni.\u2018My brother had 10 buy.+ the company.Hes 1.oo thank God.But there's +1.neighbors drinks too mu.Harkin got drunk last nig: .r mday which was to usher in | \u201cLew order of things dawned clear, | \u2014 Lalf-past six Bessie, a white- : 1 frire, crossed the upper hail L el softlyv to Frank and Rob, \u201c70 nel insisted that they should ~ fires, was a muffled scramble, an \u201cæit-we'rre up\u2019 and Bessie \u201cx to her own room.she and Nan reached the \"Teen minutes later the fires ! \"æ beautifully, and the four e © = indulged in a smile all Co .asked what next ?captain, Bessie,\u201d said - «©.Was sixteen, \u2018and we'll \"1 znd you needn't mind oa VR :, 8 CÙ *.- hoy's work or girl's work ' laing\u2014we're ready to do d _ 15 vit is J.sented Rob, \u2018cooking or 5 oo \"IT do?asked Nan, the 8 family, though she was 3.17 \u201cNan ean put the sitting- a 11 \u201crad water the plants) ; rromptly, \u2018and Rob can 1 ~~ and help me set the , .© reakfast a \u2018quiet .as possible, but |r _.qe unavoidable neise d CL ¢ ited laughter.9 _ et and mother came 007 seven, four beaming 1t 08, breakfast was all a + \u2019 \u201citing room was in ooh like a thick soup.tho flour ard water was \u201csx, What il yon do wi\" the \"ns divide the sonp Into eight | eight pupils: t' renrered the other : + day with a tired headache, as she | ; Over, \u2018won't you please take mother linto the sitting room and keep her there ?\u2018With the greatest pleasure,\u201d an- \"swered his father, laughing, and Rob followed them and shut the door, \u2018to prevent thelr escape,\u2019 as he said.Then Bessie cleared away the food, Nan packed up the dishes and \"brought the dishpan, after which one \u2018washed and the other wiped and put \"away, while Frank swept the kitchen, \u201cpantry and sink room, and Rob pared \u201cthe potatoes for dinner and put them \"to soak in a dish of cold water.Next they went upstairs and attended to their rooms.Nothing remained to do then but i to prepare for church, and Mrs.Davenport was much surprised to see \u2018them enter the sitting room all nicely ! dressed, for there had been no scurrying about, and no cries of \u2018Mother, ; please hook this,\u2019 \u2018Mother, I can\u2019t find my best tie,\u201d \u2018Mother, won\u2019t you held my jacket 27 \u2018Mother, where's my collar 2° or \u2018Mother.IT wish you'd see {I my hat is on straight.\u2019 \u2018Hadn't you better go right to \u2018studying vour lessons ?' she asked a little anxiously.\u2018There is half an ; hour vet.\u2019 \u2018We learned them last Sunday,\u2019 sald : Rob triumphantly.\u2018Oh.did you !\u2019 said his mother with evident relief and pleasure.\u2018Perhaps we had better go over \u2018them again while you and father are ji getting ready, though, and refresh \u2018our memories,\u2019 added Frank.The whole family left the house to- \u2018gether, and it was so early that they | could walk slowly and note the new birds that had come from the south, the swelling buds of the trees, the first dandelion, and other.tokens of advancing spring.From church they all went to Sun- day-school, for Mr.Davennort was superintendent and Mrs.Davenport had a class After Sunday-school their mother lingered to speak with a friend, and Bessie and Nan, followed by the two boys, hastened home to get dinner.Bessie had planned it the day before, so that everything was already cooked except the potatoes, which would take but half an hour.Some of the things required to be warmed up, but that would taken even less time than the potatoes, so that dinner was nearly ready by the time fa her and mother arrived.\u2018You children have done your part, jand I will clear away the dinner, said Mrs.Davenport.as the family rose from the table.\u2018No, no, no, no, no '\u2019 came in chorus frem the \u2018children,\u2019 and they | seized her laughingly and almost car- | ried her into the other room, where they made her sit down in the most eomfortable easy chair.Tour pairs of hands made quick \u201ce don't get up in the morning HM fork of clearing the table and washing the dishes, and then the owners of the hands had a good long afternoon before them in which to enjoy their Sunday-school books and papers.When the light began to fade, Bessie and Frank left the room, and returned sbortly, each carrving a tray on which were lunch and hot cocoa.When they had eaten.Nan and Rob carried away the cups and saucers and plates.Then the large lamp was lighted, and Mr.Davenport sat down at the organ and began to play.The four | younger members of the family gathered around him and sang, while Ns.Davenport, who was very fond sic but could not sing, sat and pd.your head ache, mother ?asked Bessie, when it came time to say good-night.\u2018No, dear, it hasn't ached at all today.\u2019 \u2018Have you had a happy Sunday 7 asked Frank.\u2018One of the happiest and most restful I ever spent,\u2019 answered his mother with a smile.\u2018I am very thankful I have such loving, thoughtful sons and daughters.\u2019 \u2018We have had a hapoy Sunday, too.said Rob, while Nan threw her arms about her mother\u2019s neck, gave her an affectionate hug, and said impulsively : \u2018We mean to do this way every single Sunday, just as long-as we live.\u2019\u2014L.Robbins.ADVERTISEMENTS.Are Yon Nervous?Horsford\u2019s Acid Phosphate Quiets the nerves and ir.duces sleep.Richelieu ! Richelieu ! PURE, SPARKLING, REFRESHING.THE PRINCE OF TABLE WATERS.For sale at the Hotels, Clubs, Restaurants, and all First Class Grocers.J.A.HARTE, Proprietor, 1780 Notre Dame st.Tclephone 1190.© peaceful, pleasant Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devcur.\u2014Resist the devil, and he will flee | from you.\u20141 Pet.v., 8; James v.7.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Amongst the many signs of the times, says a correspondent of the | London \u2018Christian,\u2019 none can b2 clearer and more striking, none indicate more distinctly an unseen hand, than the circulation of the Scriptures.Where a hundred years ago it was local and stationary, it is now expansive and expanding.For a few lands it has domiciled itself in hundreds.Its less than forty versions then have grown into nearly four hundred\u2014ten times more almost in the present century than in the previous twenty.For an annual clicu- lation of thousands it has now an annual circulation of millions.From those who loved it it has passed to those who loved {t not.It is astir among Protestant, Papal, Greek, Geor- glan, Coptic and Armenian Christians, and alike among Mchammedan, Brahman, Buddhist and Confucianist.It is active with pagan and heathen, and records some of its greatest triumphs amongst the most sunken and abandoned.Is there no obvious meaning, no premonition, no intimation in all this ?Without parallel in the world's history, can it have but one explanation ?How, then, does it happen that Christians are so largely unconscious of these modern movements of the Word of God\u201d Why this great sight ahd.so many that do not even look at it ?With a world so degraded and ignorant of God, with twelve hundred millions who have never seen one page or passage of that Book which is alone able to make them wise unto salvation, It is the solemn duty of every Christian 80 to labor and to give, as swell as to pray, that the Word of the Lord may have free course znd be glorified.Every moderate drinker, savs E.P.Brown, of the \u2018Ram's Horn,\u2019 is leading an army of boys toward the pit.\u2014The easiest time to lel drink alone Bridget starts her fire with coal oil.The devil uses alcohol.\u20141If there is Joy in heaven when a sinner repents, what happens when a boy goes into a saloon ?7\u2014The first glass has the mcst poison in it.ADVERTISEMENTS.AEO0CI0N0E 808080826 OROKORON0E0ESIEIRIETRCO0SOTL Laat 0 pac U inolinf Causes eres OO blotches Keeps the Compiexion Clear.à ecece: > 30606080 206C6C6C0C : SUMMER COMPILAINTS,.3c & 5üc bottles, At all druggists.WALLACE DAWSON, 159 St.Lawrence St.(A Hot Day Suggestion.) Offer your neighbor a glass of cool, delicious HIRES Rootbeer of your own make.Mare onle hv The Charles R.Hires Co., Philadelphia, A 6c.package makes ô gallons.Sold everywhare.© ey SUMMER WASHING HINTS.Just now the summer linens and summer laces demand frequent cleansing and starcbing.The pure white gloss will result, the iron will not stick or scorch, the time and labor will be less, if you © MACK'S DOUBLE STARCH Bole Agents for Canada.ROBERT GREIG & CO.MONTREAL.is before the first drink is taken.\u2014 t for Infants and Children.without labeling them poisons ?I gents, or one cent a dose ?n OTH ERS, Do You Know ua racer, NE Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, and wost remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ?Do You Know that opium end morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons ?Do Yon Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics Do Yon Kuow that you should not permit any fedicine to be given your child unless you or your physician know of what it is composed ?Do You Know that Castorla is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of its ingredients is published with every bottle ?Do You Know that Cartoria is the prescription of the famous Dr.Samuel Pitcher.That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined ?Do You Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr.Pitcher and his assigns to use the word \u201c Castoria\u201d and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense Î \u201cDo You Know that ono of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless?: Do You Know that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 85 Do You Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ?Well, these things are worth knowing.They are facte.every wrapper, The Art of Printing Printing House.1s well understood at the \u2018Witness\u2019 pends on the newness of the types and the taste with which they are selected, as well as upon the quality of ink and paper used.JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Corner Craig and St.Peter Streets x 7 Beautiful Printing de- het 8 SULPHUR, RHR ; Sn |.Ir i A TD II! 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Mr.C.H.Parmalee, 10 ES TARTE'S PROMISED REVELATIONS.\u2014 The First Instalment Made Public Yesterday at Knowlton.A BIG STEAL PREVENTED BY THE TIMELY ASCENSION OF THE LIBERALS TO POWER.Knowlton, Que., July 30.\u2014The Hon.Sydney A.Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, was yesterday re-elected by acclamation as member for Brome County.The event was made the occasion of a gathering to congratulate the new minister, a gathering which afforded the Hon.Mr.Tarte, Minister of Public Works, an opportuntty to still further lift the veil of mystery which has enveloped the administration of public affairs at Ottawa.The revelatious made by Mr.Tarte prove that the late government made a deliberate attempt, both during the election campalgn and subsequent to their ffefeat at the polls to vote away public money by orders-in-council in favor of coutractors, who had no legal claim upon the public purse.MR.FISHER NOMINATED, The nomination proceedings were of the most formal character.At noon, Sheriff Cotton, the returning officer, was handed the Hon.Mr.Fisher's nomination peper and the legal deposit.The nominators were: Messrs, R.J.Ladd, Sydney O.Fuller, G.Miltimore, Hy.C.Knowlton, Hy.E.Fuller, M.S.Pettes, J.W.Johnson, E.E.Gleeson, G.W.Wilson, C.Wilson, A.C.Jones, C.M.Jones, H.A.Brock, J.C.Pettes, L.BS.Soles, F.Jones, L.Hastings, H.G.Shufelt, R.Allen, W.Allen, J.R.Bent- son, A.Longeway, F.F.Soles, W.R.Oliver, T.Vaughn.A.N.Smith, W.H.Miltimore, J.E.Ruiter, E.Brault, W.H.Bullard, S.Sargent, F.N.Corri- veau, L.Whitehead, F.White, A.Larve, M.T.Eldridge, A.W.Pettes, H.L.Messier, A.Morson, H.H.Barnes, W.O'Brien and H.E.Williams.For two hours the sheriff and his officers waited patiently for an opponent to appear, but the Conservative leaders had for once chosen a wise policy and decided that the Hon.Mr.Fisher should be allowed to be re-elected without factious opposition.And so, when two o'clock came the returning officer turned to the reporters and said: \u2018It is no use waiting any longer; the Hon.Mr.Fisher is elected.\u2019 Then an adjournment was made to the old Fair Grounds.There the Knowl- ton brass band was making things lively and a goodly crowd was gathering to listen to the Minister of Agriculture and his friends.Just before the meeting proper began, an accident happened, which might have been accompanied by very serious consequences.The platform broke down.Lucklly, it slid away gradually, and not being very high above the ground, no one was injured.When a temporary platform had been hastily contrived, Mr.H.T.Duffy, Q.C., of Sweetsburg., mounted it, and read the formal declaration of the returning officer, to the effect that the Hon.Sydney A.Fisher had been elected by acclamation, and that, ccnsequently, the Minister of Agriculture was once again the representative of Brome in the Federal Parliament.His announcement was greeted with a storm of cheers, which proved\" how highly popular the farmers\u2019 representative in the cabinet is amongst the farmers.Mr.A.Z.Chandler was then, upon Mr.Duffy's motion, unanimously elected chairman of the meeting.Amongst those noticed present were: The Hou.Sydney A.Fisher, Minister of Agriculture; the Hon.J.Israel Tarte, Minister M.P.for Waterloo; Mr.D.*B.Meigs, ALP.for Missisquoi: Mr.L.P.Brodeu:, M.F.for Rouville; Mr.Stenson, M.P.for Iticbmond and Wolfe: Mr.E.Goff Penny, MM.P.for St.Lawrence Division, Montreal, and Messrs.G.England, Dr.Fisher, Roswell C.Fisher, Montreal; J.C.McCorkill, WW.Stevenscn, J.E.O'Hal- loran, Cowansville; BE.Catudel, M.Messier, Jewett Buck, J.C.Curtis, East Farnham; Dr.MacMillan, Mansonville; Dr.I.Cuddle, D.Wyatt, A.Smith, J.Drepcr, W.Allen, Sutton; M.Lebeault, G.Sweet, J.Lafleur, J.Wyatt, E.P.- sievens, M.R.Goddard, Dollffe, Magog; ; N.Call, Waterloo; Dr.Pelletier, Sher- | brooke; VW.J.Brown, Sweetsburg; 11.s.| Bright, Sweetshurg;, M.J.Daigleish, Cowansville; J.H.Boyle, Farnham; A.F.Lareway, Sweetsburg; E.T.Catudel, F.Halburt, East Farnham; M.A.Gil- man, Mansonville; W.J.Melrose, E.J.Tuck, Georgeville; J.S.Burnett, Brigham; ©.H.Corriveau, Mansonville; C.H.Mansfield, East Farnham; E.G.Cur- ley, Sutton; O.J.Willey, Abercorn; G.N.Hodge, N.N.Walley, Sherbrooke; T.Keville Doherty, private secretary to Mr.Fisher, and many others.THE SPEECHES.After a few introductory remarks by f mS TTY LT TL SW pe re oe fr me the chairman, Mr.H.T.Duffy was called upon.He dwelt upon the important events which had transpired during the past month.The old government had disappeared, their policy hal been declared not to have the peodle\u2019's approval, and a new government had been inaugurated.which would govern the country for the next five years.As Canadians, they could not but admire the workings of their constitution, which enabled a people to so peacefully turn out cne government and put in another.To-day Mr.Laurier was Prime Minister, surrounded by a most able cabinet.They had not vet had time to see their policy.but they had their promises, and they could rely upon them.The cabinet which Mr.Laurier had surrounded himself with was the best government that was ever at the head of affairs in this Dominion.{Loud applause.) They owed their great victory firstly to the great policy advocated by the Liberal leaders; secondly, to the great ability, the great intellect, and the great wisdom of their leader; and, thirdly, to the action of the free-minded and honest Conservetives, who had joined hands with the Liberals in order to put an end to the reign of corruption in Canada.MR.FISHER SPEAKS.The Hon.Sydney Fisher was the next speaker.His appearance was the signal for loud and Ilong-continued applause, which was renewed when the Minister of Agriculture was presented with a handsome bouquet by little Miss Brenda Knowlton.Mr.Fisher said he came before the electors of Brome as their unanimous cholce.endorsing his acceptance of the high and honorable office which his honored leader and friend had conferred upon him.\u2018In coming before you as Minister of Agriculture, I believe that I have only carried out your desires and obeyed the mandate which you gave me on June 23.By the en- dorsation of the party principles on that occasion you endorsed them by electing me, and in doing so authorized me to vote for the appointment of a Liberal administration, and that Mr.Laurier should have an opportunity of forming a new government.\u2018For the position of Minister of Agriculture, which deals with the greatest business industry of our land.I, a representative and practical farmer, have been chosen.To-day our business, the farming industry, upon which the prosperity of all Canada depends, is recognized as worthy of a position in the cabinet of the country\u2014fapplause)\u2014that industry to which I have devoted my knowledge, my skill and my time for twenty-three years.\u2018Politicians always say nice things about the farmers at election times; but unfortunately, it has been too true.certainly for the past fifteen or eighteen years, that when the government of the country has been formed, when its councils have been held, and the country's policy shaped and framed, and when legislation has been brought forward, the farmers have not been consulted and their interests have been neglected by their not having a practical representative at council board.The Liberal leader has done honor to the agricul; tural industry by choosing me to rep- regent that interest, and I claim it as a good start for the new government.I hope that you and all the farmers of fhe country will share in the good results which must follow.I can tell you that already I have received hündreds of letters from the length and breadth of this Dominion,, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, approving Mr.Laurier\u2019s choice, and congratulating me on my being chosen as Minister of Agriculture.(Applause.) \u2018The Liberal government is on trial.We have been in power only a week or two, and consequently we have not been able to lock into the departments nor to formulate the exact details of what we are going to do.But one thing I can say on behalf of the government is this, that the pledges which we gave the people when in Opposition will be fulfilled up to tke last letter.(Applause.) The Liberals of Canada should be proud that in the cabinet there is no man on whose public or private character any one can find a single smirch; there is not amongst them a single man, who, having once given his pledge, has not always done his utmost to carry out his word.\u2018I have not had any consultation with my colleagues upon the point; but there is no necessity for consultation for any of us to tell that the pledges which we gave you in Opposition will be literally amply and fully fulfilled.Amongst those pledges was one to the farmers.You farmers of Brome know that this agricultural industry of ours is not in that flourishing condition in which it shoula be, and that something must be done in your behalf.I now tell you that what is necessary will be done as quick- lv as possible to Improve the condition of the farming community.This is no \"idle talk, no political catchword.It is the absolute duty of the government to so act as to ameliorate the condition of the farmers.\u2018Much reference has been made to the boodling and improper conduct of the late government.The pledge we gave was that we would purify the public service, that we would prove that tie gov- Fripay, Jour 81, 1804 THE HON.SYDNEY FISHER.Minister of Agriculture.ernment of Canada could be carried on without scandal-\u2014-we pledged you that, and we will do it.When we have to give contracts for the public service, there will be none of that scandal which has been the case during the past few years.\u2019 \u2018IÎ have with me to-day, and I consider it a great honor, the Hon.Mr, Tarte, the Minister of Public Works.1 am proud to call him my intimate friend and I want you to make his acquaintance.He 18 the man who was instrumental In bringing to the knowledge of the public, the scandals and corruption which prevailed in this country.It has been the fashion among some people to say that Mr.Tarte, when in the Conservative ranks, was no better than he should be, and that he was driven out of the Conservative party.Those who know the facts know that this is a cruel, scandalous slander, and that is one reason why I wish you to know him betfer.Then you will appreciate the absolute falsity of these accusations, which our opponents have dared to make against a man who is ds far above them as light is above darkness.\u2019 Mr.Fisher thanked the electors of THE HON.J.Minister of Public Works.Brome for their support in the past and their confidence in him in the present, and then cordially acknowledged hif indebtedness to those new recruits who had joined hand in hand with the Liberals to secure a change of affairs.He trusted and believed that the cabinet would hold their allegiance and support.\u2018We can only do that,\u201d he continued, \u2018by doing that which is right.We have not only the support of our own principles behind us but the desire to prove that we are worthy of your confidence.You all know we have had hard times in Canada.There are many difficult problems to be solved, but with the great mass of the people, with the great heart of Canada at our back, we will buckle to our work with courage and confidence, trusting that you will give us time to carry out our work to its proper conclusion.Mr.Fisher then pald his acknowledgments to the French: electors, by address- \u201c \u2018 \u2018plause.) ing them in their own language, and, afterwards resuming in Englisb said that it was a happy augury for the future of Canada that political lines were no longer based upon religious and racial differences.To-day he had the satisfaction of knowing that be had the great majority of the English-speaking and the French Catholics of this district at his® back.(oud and long-continued ap- OVATION TO MR.TARTE, The Hon.Mr.Tarte received an ovation on rising.He too was presented with a handsome bouquet.Mr.Tarte spoke first in French; afterwards in English.He said: \u2018My friend, Mr.Fisher, who has hitherto been very kind to me, has been a little rough on me to-day, when he asked me to address you in Erglish.I was twenty- seven years old before I could even say a few words in the English language, but I have tried to improve since.It is a pleasure and a duty to thank you and congratulate you upon having given to the Laurier Ministry one of its most important members, a man of sterling integrity, of great ability, without any pre- * ISRAEL TARTE.judice, in a word a true Canadian.(Applause.) The County of Brome made a mistake in 1891.Now it bas repudiated that mistake and redeemed its repfita- tion.- We are now seated in seats at Ottawa, which you may be sure we did not find very clean.There we are, and there we are to stay (loud applause), after one of the hottest campaigns in twenty- flve years of political strife.You know the means which were employed against ug\u2014religious prejudice, racial feeling, and all the forces of monopoly.But the people of Canada stood up like men and gave us power.In the Province of Quebec, during the last campaign, Mr.Laurier and his Roman Catholic friends were denounced as renegades, as traitors to their faith; while in Ontario and the other English-speaking provinces, Mr.Laurier was held up to scorn as a French-Canadian and a Catholic.* before any altar he likes; that makes public.We are bound to build up a nation ATER here in Canada, and a nation cannot ve | built up on passions and prejudices.We | are going to do away with them.Our! opponents have not realized that.Sir | Adolphe Caron has gone to his County of | Three Rivers, for which he will not sit very long, I hope, and made a speech.! He said that Mr.Laurier was a traitor | to his race and his religion, because | he took into his cabinet that bad man, | Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere.Sir Adophe | Caron, who has secured the Fredeh- | Canadian Conservative leadership?and | who has been endorsed by Sir Charles! Tupper, is going from county to county ! decrying Mr.Laurier, because he has! taken in such a man as Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere.I am a Roman Catholic, born in the Roman Catholic Church, and I am proud of it; but I am not so narrow-minded as to be ashamed of Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere.He is not a Roman Catholic but he is a French-Canadian, and I am proud of it.In 1893, at the great convention held in Montreal, the question was raised whether French-Canadian Protestants should be allowed to form part of our organization.I at once protested at the introduction of such a question.A man may kneel to God no difference.Sir Henri Joly de Lot- biniere is a man of our race, a son of our dear country, and I am proud that my French Catholic friends supported me in my protest.Are we going to allow Sir Adolphe Caron to sow the seeds of prejudice amongst us ?(No, no.\" You are English and Protestant; I am a French Catholic.I do not ask your religion.Let us walk together the great way of life.Much has been said about the formation of the new government.I think it is generally admitted to be a strong government.May be there are some of us who are not so supremely virtuous as Sir Adolphe Caron, but look around the council board and you wlll find a powerful collection of men, a collection of fighting and honest men.At the head is Mr.Laurier.He is & great leader.I want to thank you on behalf of my race for the generous support you have given him.To his right is that grand old man, Sir Oliver Mowat.I am a French-Canadian, but I am proud of him.Then there is Mr.Fielding, who was for twelve years Prime Minister of his province, and Mr.Blair, who for fourteen years has been the head of the government of his province.There is also Sir Richard Cartwright, a much abured, but strictly honest man.Let us Jiow come to the French part.Mr.Geof- frion is a great lawyer.Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere, is an honest man, a thoroughly honest man.Mr.Dobell was a Tory like myself, but he has repented of his ways and we were glad to open the doors to him.In fact, we will let in all honest men.THOSE SCANDALS.About myself, I am the much abused J.1.Tarte, of whom you have heard so much.When I look in the glass and see that I am just like other men, I ask myself what crime I have committed to be abused so much, I was a Conservative until 1891.My Conservative friends never denounced me until after that date.Before then I was a capital speaker, a great writer, and a first-class organizer.I was all that.To-day I am very bad, very wicked.What did I do?In 1891 papers came into my hands which proved that for twelve years a system of highway robbery had gone on in the public works.I was a loyal Conservative and I liked my party.What did 1 do ?1 did not go to Mr.Laurier.I went to Sir John Macdonald.That was the act of an honest man.I said to Sir John: \u2018You must put an end to this robbery of the public.\u2019 Sir John was not then the man he was in the past.He was feeble and sick, and did not take any step.I warned him that if he did not put a stop to that kind of business, the plundering of Canada by Messrs.Langevin and McGreevy and the Connollys, I would appeal to that great tribunal, the When I could get no redress I published the charges over my own signature.Was that a crime ?(\u2018No.\u2019) They say that I left the party because I could not share the boodle.If that could have been proven, why was it not proven ?I got up in my seat in par- liament\u2014I did not go behind their backs \u2014-and said \u2018you have stolen a million,\u2019 I exposed and Axpelled them, and to-day I sit in Sir Hector Langevin\u2019s chair\u2014after having cleaned it.(Cheers.) I plead guilty to having exposed the thieves.Was that a crime, (\u2018No, no.\" Perhaps it is not all over yet.There may be very much more thieving to come to light.When I tcok charge of the department of Public Works I found that great reforms were needed, and 1 determined to make them.(Cries of \u2018Do it\u2019) After I was sworn in I called my chief officers around me, and asked how.many men they had under their control.One said twent-five, another a hundred, and so on.I said: \u2018How many | $160,000, wkich he pv: mea ny have to step out.It js mn: Le ) me to dismiss these men 1 sorry.It 18 no pleasure [aw to sign an order to send au- number of men.Bu: whi + 4 do yourselves?If vou hive a >.and need fifty.Are yau couv 1 hundred?(Cries of no.) ; +- ' missed one man for his ions, although I will nao not to do so later on.a: j>à to get reports, and 1 tev.over a hundred and thiriv - needed.I have found many ce.» - department.For the bey + pl cf Canada 1 will ic! Mr.Charlebois construe: : Langevin block, one of ings at Ottawa.He was ;.claim, as all Tory cont: claim was denied until when tliat respectable go.Charles Tupper, that o- Catholic Government ci Desjardins and Angers, : up.The claim had been ©.but Mr.Desjardins repo ernor-in-Council that the contract between Mr.Clo: Crown, but that it had : - oo and that it would be wil = 14 right of the Crown.TL.chief of my department {a of difference between cour, government, but the niinis .that Mr.Fuller, the chier?5\", not competent to Judge i.Me then admitted that Nov had a right to submit his «ining y\u2019 257.And they passed an over cil recommending that it te « Mr.Raza, that well-known 7 - 2734 to Mr.Laforest, with Mr.=.; ç referee, if necessary.I called in the chie?avchie Cuve him if he was competent to je ~ ; duties, and I looked hin rbar eyes, He said \u2018Tes, and 1 + furnish me with a report to th.- a Then 1 made a report to His Es en recommending that this Order.+: be cancelled at once.Of Course \u2018y 0 be accused of committing a «re | plead guilty.It was on July 6, when they uo lope had the right to transact busin-s 4 this shameful Order-in-Coz:-.4 signed by the late governmer: :: : st to His Dxcellency two day: juier.Lo em r MORE CROOKKI)NESs, Then I found that Mr.Ti.='1-1\u2014e hea made a report to the e*- a: 19 rights of the Crown in +5 2x Messrs Murray and Cleves.of Toronto, for over $S0,000 be wa.7 \u201crg contractors are bound to have \"ne ne ten order of the architect.i= 7.dins and the whole goverarer: +: : that right of the Crown, znd tue: the claim to Judge Burbidge to i= ¢- Judicated upon.I unmade thar \\- in-Council and saved you that §& I found another Order-\u2018n-veirs which it was proved that :be (1 05 were once more the masters of \u2018Le F- ernment.They were put in ini.sd remember.The Iiouse of Commies wat only ordered theimcriminal priser.but also ordered proceclings to ie - stituted for the recovery of the mn taken from the public excoeguer 70 years ago the government rerileï v them for $29.000.the rights of the Crown were wa 2 their favor, and that ther cen stead of being advised upon te io hel officers of my departmen:, was res 7 to Judge Burbidge, The waived its right and gave them \u201cbe nig to claim $50,000.Judge Durlucge sal 7 three days, on June 15, Ju an: 7 #5 the result that judgment >.8\" against the Crown for Este A the judgment in ray hand.| What am 1 going to do\u201d Am.silent and say that some of 25 \u2018 In May ve 2:11 lal goverpieut : en Lorik nh are right?It was clear s'eif #° we will not allow it to go cu «°F, We are securely seated: we hu\u201d Lo eS time to do the work we are © \"f° * We have made up our mini ie in economy, in peace and in \u201cne You have heard a good des: «9e Manitoba school question ne Car been denounced to you as bad 7\u20ac FT record is there against that RY ed the only patriotic poacy Ue Carbo be adopted by the Libere! ; lics and Protestants allke \u201cvv to divide Canada into reuz.05 Ce We adopted the platform :°s« ©\" a brothers, all friends, ani 03 we fall or stand.; vu.I repeat the prophecy mati 37, tinguished leader that befor?many bave gone tbe Manltoha # SU ; will be settled to the satisaT Sea As a mater of fact.it is HT because behind té we have TT TT of the people.We ask rh = nt and our friends in Mar nto 7516 decent men ebould be tres ™ first to halp us.Thai © doubts are done away Vv