The daily witness, 6 janvier 1897, mercredi 6 janvier 1897

[" 97.TELE chair \u2018teven- etency t fire, on.at he OT not 1t the ty or urned \u2018onsid- amiss it he other it was ly ex- ork, iv ex- l'urn- Bul- r.La- raight : the 5 not tinu- ; the {the pread any > the > had - the why .ran vhere [well- e fire been \" sim- 3 in; ke it lding back oxen con- the testi- uild- said nd 3 tting used ng a 1 de- g in sLom such ined by Fr; ated aus- n of rist- )OSt~ ven- hall In day- hich and oint \"om ven .{ost gate we .ob Seau F ; j Pets IW : - Last N \\ .TE Ç | ces: ATL, Y W lIN ESS Edition r= ree me z ee Vor.XXXVIII., No 4» MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 86, 1897.Price ONE CENT.4 FANOUS ARTISHS \u2014\u2014 Éreat Men Whose Features He Mas Made Popular.A PLEASANT INTERVIEW WITH NR.HARRY FURNISS.The art of Harry Furniss is memory He is Prov cht down to the finger tips.à Torentrated from the photographer in \u2018at Mis obiect 15 not conventionalism at n°1, but character.Pv a sudden stroke the great English carica- le makes an of the pencil turist fixes the status.ev.hrow tell a story.A collar may ant \u2018er psvehological force.Du Mau- : was the Thackeray of the pencil: F:ri-s might be called the Dickens of He makes types, not y 7 portraiture.MR.HARRY FURNISS, Sketched by Himself.so much by careful drawing, as by inspiration.And the types he makes are original with him.He has had an army of imitators; but the Gladstone, the Har- court, thf\u2019 Chamberlain, we know, are the creatibns of the stout little Englishman, who sits in the House of Commons, not drawing at all, but absorbing.Less subtle than Du Maurier, he tells his story, with broad laughter.He has endeared the public men of England to the common people.He can put a light into the eye with a stub of a pencil, and that light will stand for humor or satire, in fine, for character.Mr.Harry Furniss arrived in the city last night.He will lecture this evening in the Windsor Hall.ture, please,\u201d as he said this morning, in his room at the Windsor Hotel.\u2018It is not a lecture in the conventional sense.\u2018No, not lec- It is a talk, just as I am talking to you.I give a talk, and show some sketches, MR.FURNISS AND THE G.O.M.including some interiors of the House, which are accurate drawings.\u2019 Mr.Furniss is short and stout.He has penetrating blue eves, large fair moustaches, and a manner at once easy and gractous.\u2018I uever can understanad why people cannot draw as easily as they talk.It came to me as the most natural thinz in the world I do not remember the time when I could not draw.When a boy [ could not be kept from it.What :& 1t/\u2014perhaps a memory, brought to the finger tips.Art\u2014perhaps all art\u2014is that n a sense.It is a something, possibly ern with one.It is the same with painting.with literature, with journal- a, But, though there may be a natural aptitude, there must also he serons stuev, for nothing is done well without ay r heation, I have a regular studio at hieme, and IT work from models, just as carefully as would the pain:er.\u2018Well.I have been drawing, as I sav, all my life.1 early took to journalismn, anil 1t seemed the most natural thing 5 the world that I should illustrate the mistter.That was the beginning.The «rl: hbran-hed out.I had more than I eenld de.There came, in time, con- \u201cection with \u2018Punch.\u2019 At that time.there was nothing but photographs used in \u2018Punch,\u2019 and they were, nf course, stiff and conventional.\u2018Punch\u2019 was then doing the \u2018Essence of Parliament\u2019 by Taylor, and it was thought desirable to illustrate the sketches.I was asked to undertake the work.That was the beginning of those sketches with which you are probably familiar.My object was to make types; to get away from the coldness of correct, lifeless drawing.There was, consequently, the double chin nf Harcourt, the terrible collar of Gladstone, the smallness of Churchill.There was a significance in each type which was at once appreciated.The smallness of Churchill, for instanace, exemplified his position as head of the fourth party.\u2018How was this new departure received by statesmen and politicians?\u2019 \u2018Very cordially, indeed.Most of them laughed at the sketches.Lord Har- tington used to beg me, jokingly, not to make him so thin.As for Mr.Gladstone, when he learned upon a certain occasion that I was to meet him at dinner, he took thé precaution to wear a very small collar.\u2019 \u2018Was it not evident, though, that Mr.Swift MacNeil thought there was more malice than humor in your caricatures, as far as he was concerned?\u2018Oh,\u2019 said Mr.Furniss, laughingly, \u2018the matter was quite misrepresented, and through Burns, the labor leader.let me tell vou.MacNeil came to me in the House, and said, \u201cDid you draw that last sketch of me?\u2019 \u2018Yes, to be sure I did.\u2019 \u2018Well, will you have any objection if I technically assault you?\u2018Oh, not at all; it will be a mark.of affection.\u2019 \u2018And then,\u201d said Mr.Furniss, \u2018Mr.MacNeil touched me ever so lightly on the arm with his finger.Had it been heavier, well, Mr.MacNeil is a slight man, while I'\u2014the artist regarded his stocky little figure with laughing complacency.\u2018Do you take jt, then, that I have technically assaulted you?\u201d \u2018Oh, anything you like.\u2019 \u2018Now, said Mr.Furniss, \u2018Mr.Burns happened to be close at hand.and he mentioned the circumstance, with what additions I know not, to a certain news- Japer correspondent.The result was a spicy story, plentitully interspersed with illustrations, about an assault, which, for the most part, was an effort of the imagination.So you see we have a hint ol modern journalism on the other sule now and then which would do credit to your own up-to-date methods Mr.Furniss does not contine himself to making sketches.He writes and lcetures.\u2018I believe in change of work.That prevents a severe strain.Lenuie!, for instance, painted some splendid ires coes in the House.A man who did that could turn with a light heart to do the cartoons for \u2018Punch There are many people who hear me in various pasts \u2018of the country as an entertainer, who have not the least idea of my other work.That reminds me: | was lecturing in the north once, in a certain town which was just then in the throes of an eiec- tion.1 headed my bills: \u2018\u2019l'o the elee- tors.\u201d In the audience was an old man, who had come a considerable distance.He had a certain hope in his mind, and he waited patiently for its realization.He thought that my object was to introduce (Gladstone and Salisbury in the flesh, and when he found that that was not my mission or intent, he expressed his disapproval of me in the most emphatic terms.\u2019 Mr.Furniss does not whip out a sketch-book when ht sees material.He absorbs the material; \u2018turns it over: gives it form in his mind; then, at five o'clock in the morning, he will sit up in the bed, and make the picture with a stub of pencil.\u2018As 1 say, it is a memory; an impress uron certain brain cells.Oh, about memory: I went up to a man in New Ycrk at the Waldorf Hotel the other day, and called him by name.1 had rot seen him for sixteen years.He wax greatly changed.But he was the first man I worked fcr; and I had him in memory.| was quite right and his surprise was keen at my recollection.lere is a little picture of Du Maurier, with whom Mr.Furniss was intunate: \u2018Du Maurier's work upon \u2018Punch\u2019 was unique.this tall voung ladies with the swan necks and his amiable curates were creations which, now that he 1s gone, can only be poorly imitated.\u2018There was something behind the mere figures.I'here was an idea.The man was subtle.He wus delicate; but his satire burned, too.1 do not know that any one will be found to succeed him in this werk on \u2018Punch\u2019 They ave trying to keep :t up,\u2018but the effort is poor.You can always get men to do what they are told\u2014in art, in journalism, in any: thing.Inspiration 1s another matter.\u2018Do vou knrw it was I who, twelve vears apn, advised Du Maurier to write?\u201d Yes, indeed, and 1 have his letter m which he laughs at the idea.It was, however, when we were in Paris lo- gether that he received the inspiration to write.1 hope some day to tell my impressions of that time.Du Manrier revived his 'nemories of the time when he was a stnlent in the Latin Quarter.[le was an ill man before the success of \u201cTrilby\u2019 reached him.That success overwhelmed him.It was quite unexpected.The hook fell quite flat, you know, in England.Du Maurier was an artist who did unique work, and a thorough Bohemian.\u2019 \u201cThe Americans always sav that they , never can see any humor in the lng- lish ecaricaturists, Mr.Furniss ?\u201cAh, well was the indulgent reply, \u2018that is because they do not understand what we are laughing at.\u2019 \u2018From your experience on this side, what is your opinion of the American ~~ caricaturists, lish 7?\u2018Well, each has an excellence of his own.\u2018They have good draughtsmen, but we would think the drawing too tight, as we call it.The influence of the German school largely prevails, especially mn New York.Nast was the head of that scho® The difference between the two might be described as the dit- ference between an Enghsh comedy with the hair oŸ, and a \u2018trip to Chinatown Mr.Furniss has been doing some work for American papers and magazines since he came over.\u2018Already there has been a hint given me by several papers that I should leave the country,\u2019 said the artist, good-naturedly.\u2018You know, 1 met at dinner the other day, Mr.Roosevelt, the head ot the police commissioners.1 did not know who he was at the time, but I thought him a singular- looking man, and I made a rough note, carrying the man away in my head.At my hotel I finished the sketch, whieh in due course appeared in the \u2018Herald, showing the man in his various attitudes all the way through his speech.Ninety- nine people liked and laughed at the sketchen; the residuum rather thought 1 should \u2018be deported.\u2019 \u2018How does American journalism strike you ?\u201d \u2018It is tremendous.In some respects it is simply degrading.1 need only mention * * * of New York.You have probably seen it ¥ Or perhaps, mercifully, it does not come into Canada.Of course there are decent Sunday papers, but the amount of matter and the strain of it all are enormous.\u2019 \u2018An Englishman would most naturally come to Canada, for we have heard so much on the other side about its picturesqueness.\u2019 Mr.Furniss was sorry he could not gee us in our winter garb.He would have liked to see tobogganing, and the ice palace, and the whole round of winter sports.When told that we had abandoncd much of this, in order to give the country a better character, in the interest of immigration, he said of course utilitarl- anism must prevail, but he was sorry, all the same, tor the picturesque.\u2018My son writes me, telling me he envies me my Canadian experience, but, looking out of the window with mock melancholy, \u2018you are milder here than New York\u201d \u201cA sketch of myself ! Well, here you are\u2019\u2014and, taking pen and paper, he drew, with almost magical swiftness, the picture we reproduce, adding the head of Mr.Gladstone in the corner.compared with the l£ng- \u2018Do you know that 1 was the firat | to discover that Mr.Gladstone had only three fingers on the right hand ?Men sat for over twenty years with him m parliament, and never noticed the fact.\u2018There was a great talk always about Mr.Gladstone being a great, a skilful, a subtle parhamentary hand.By which was meant that he bad the art of keeping the party and especially the voung men of the party together.At a press dinner given by the Midlands jour- palists, I first drew a sketch of Mr.(Madstone, with the piece of black cloth disclosing the missing finger.\u201cIt was like a revelation to the meeting.As I say, men told me in the House that they had sat for twenty years with him and never noticed this circumstaucc.But after that, he was always represented minus one finger.Only, Mr.Gladstone, in anv of the pictures for which he has sat, has always kent this hand from the view.AEAVY 6.T.R.ROBBERY.BRA TES STOLEN FROM FREIGHT CARS IN THE YARD.NO CLUE TO TRE THIEVES AND BUT LITTLE OF THE PROPERTY RECOVERED.One of the boldest robberies on rec ord, and one involving serious loss to the Grand Trunk Railway Company, has just been discovered, but so far the guilty patties have esc ped arrest, and but a very small portion of the stolen property has been recovered.There are miles and miles of track in the Grand Trunk vards at Point St.Charles filled with empty freight cars ready to be put on the road as occasion might require.Within the past two weeks the shunters in running out several of these box cars {ound them minus une and sometimes two of the brass bearings in the journal boxes.Of course, this meant the disablement of the var until new bearings could be put in and properly fitted, which 1s always not less than a half day's job.When this had occurred several times an investigation was made and it was found that no less than a hundred and thirteen Drusses had been stolen from the freight cars, thereby rendering useless for the time being eighty freight ears.Both the city and Grand Trunk police have been at work on the case since Monday last, but so far with little re- «ult.Two of the stolen brasses were found in a junk store in St.Henri yesterday, and that 18 all the progress made.The Lrasses themselves when fitted and ready for Use represent a value of at leust two dollars each.Taking into con- .J Tu a ae chuter Pr el LT ER CO Pa wb = or A EEN EEE Sc > T2 5 ee mere Lee TR ace os pete THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.Weekly Calendar, MONTREAL ADMISSION, 25¢c.MEMBERS FREE, VICTORIA SKATING CLUB.TO-NIGHT.INTERMEDIATE HOCKEY MATCH at 7.30, Band Afterwards.SATURDAY, JAN.9.at 830 pm.CHAMPIONSHIP HOCKEY MATCH.ve.QUEBEC.RESERVED SEATS, 25¢c and 50c Extra.NOTE - Bale of Reserved Seats opens to MEMBERS Thursday, Jan.7, at 9 oclock am.and \u2018to NON-MEMBERS, twenty-four hours later chasiny Reserved.Sens =e gedson ticket, and two on any vther seasou ticket, Members pocitively must present Heason Tickets when pur- loir Reserved Sear Tickets will be sold on presentation of one gentleman's F.PERCY SMITH, Secretary-Treasurer.Tel.1731, \u2014 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6.128 St.James st., opp.P.O.THURSDAY, JANUARY 7.THE HUMORS OF PARLIAMENT, An Illustrated Entertainment by HARRY FURNISS THE WORLDS GREATEST CARICATURIST.WINDSOR HALL, Wednesday Evening.Jan.6, nud Saturday A\\ Matinee, Jan.3.Saturday Evening, Jan.9, only time of AMERICA IN A AURRY.Reserved Seats Selling Rapidly at Shaw's Musio Warehouse.Nights, 30¢.250.and $1.00.i5¢., 50e.and 25 Week of Prayer.FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.WEDNESDAY, 8 P.M.OLIVET BAPTIST UHURCH.THURSDAY.Matinee, These meetings are held for prayer and the deepening of spiritual life.All are invited.- D 6TH BATT.FUSILIERS.A meeting of the Non-Com- missioned Officers will be held in the Armory at 8 p.m.on WEDNESDAY, the 6th instant.Every N.C.0.must be present.All rifles must be returned to the Armory at once.By order, + T.ATKINSON, Bt.Major and Adjutant.Y OUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.WEEK OF PRAYER.During the \u2018Week of Prayer,\u201d Jan.4-9, meetings will be held in the Lecture Room 0° he american Presbyterian Church, corner of Dorchester and Drummond streets, EVERY MORNING at 11 o'clock.All ladies ara very cordially invited to attend.TOPICS.Wednesday\u2014Christian Work and Chris- ttan Workers.Thursday\u2014Missions.Fricay\u2014The Home and the Young.Saturday\u2014Renewed Consecration.31 MONTREAL TOBOGGAN AND SKATING OLUB.SKATING This Afternoon and Evening.GOOD ICE.Fancy Dress Carnival nannounced for 8th.has been POSTPONED to FRIDAY, 15th inst.8.A.FINLEY, Hon,-Bec.6 ART ASSOCIATION, Phillips Square.GALLERIES OPEN DAILY, y A.M.TO DUSK.ADMISSION - .° 25c.Saturday Free.Reading Room open to members till 6 p.m.THURSDAY, JANUARY 7.QUARTERLY MEETING - OF THE - HOJHELAGA COUNTY W.C.T.U.will be held in 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or even rest upon their oars.Uncertainty as to the conditions they are to work under in the spring of the year is especially hard upon importers and traders, as the summer supplies of the people must be imported, dis tributed among the retailers, and even in considerable part sold by them and in the consumers\u2019 hands in the latest spring months or, at latest, earliest summer months.As the fiscal June 30, and the supplies for the succeed- year ends on ing year are voted before that time, the session 18 generally called in time to admit of parliament g=tting through all the legislation and discussing thie budget before midsummer.Thus it comes that parliament usually sits during the spring season, and that tariff changes are made at the very time which is most inconvenient for the business of the country.Importers who buy early, in ignorance of what the tariff will be, may find that the changes in the tariff have been such as to upset their calculations and make their importations less profitable.Manufacturers may find, if they have gone ahead mm the making of goods, that they have wprked ou lines which a reduction ed to take part:\u2014Miss Marie Holllnehons fin the tariff might expose to competition for which they were not prepared.As, however, manufacturers work, us a rule, on goods which are not put on ; the retail market for half or three-quar- soprano : Mr.Tetford, tenor : Mr.John Wilkes.basso : Mr.Arthur Hugman, baritone : Mr.Catheart Wallace.violinist .Mr.Will Purgess, vencriloquist | ond elceutionist, Mrs.Finlayson.Miss Eva \u2018 Finlavson.qyianistes, and others.Come ~arty and avoid crush.Admission FREE.Coilectior.BOYNE LODGE, L.O.L.No.401, The Regular Degree meeting will be held on THURSDAY EVENING next, Jan.7th, at S o'clock, at the Hall, > 246 St.James street.member is requested to be present.By order of the W.M.6 Every \u2018| 1 ' | ters of à year, in most cases they can better afford to mark time than the importers, who have only from three to six months to come and go upon.How soon a well-considered tariff measure ican be framed and placed before parha- | ment 1s the question for the government.It 18 a far easier and less critical task to advance the rates of duties than to reduce, for the simple reason that prices of goods in stock are raised by the advance, and the importer shares the advantage at the outset with the manufacturer of the enhanced vaiues.The consumer suffers, but he suffers without realizing that his injuries are directly owing to the advance in the tariff, and while his injuries are real enough, they are borne without complaint as a matter of course.Losses to importers or manufacturers who mark down the prices of goods are not thus borne; complaints are apt to be loud.The consumers who benefit are as inarticulate when benefited as when injured.It is obvious that m making general reductions the government must be very careful to hold the balance fairly between all the differ- lt will be remembered that Mr.Foster's tariff, which was in the direction of reduction, ent and antagonistic interests.simplification and reform, raised a tremendous amount of opposition from all quarters, from importers as well as from manufacturers, and though he had taken counsel for months with business men throughout the Dominion before preparing it, had, greatly to the disturbance of trad, to be pulled to pieces and radical chafiges made even after it had come into force.It is far better that any necessary delay should occur before the tariff is actually before the country than afterward, when it is being discussed in parliament, and that thus should be avoided the temptation to give way to such scandalous courses as the making of wholesale concessions to special interests under the excuse of When the tariff country clerical errors.government places its before reform the hoped, be a parliament and it will, it is to De well-considered measure by which it will be prepared to stand, not a measure like Mr.Foster\u2019s, which had to be all worked over before it suited the manufacturers and the government both.The government must therefore have all the time nec-ssary to frame their measure, and there is reason to believe that the time thus taken before the measure reaches parliament will not be lost, as it was in Mr.Foster\u2019s case, as the interests of the country as a whole will weigh more with the present government than the interests of any one class.Whether anything is to be gained by holding a.session of parliament very early or not depends partly upon whether the tarift measure will be ready to submit to it early, and partly upon the question whether much other difficult legislation will be introduced.The sessions of the last parliament opened respectively on April 29, February 25, January 26, March 15, April 18 and January 2.The first session of the fourth parliament, in which was passed Sir Leonard Tilley\u2019s protective tariff, opened on February 13, and! it was prorogued on May 15, having got ! through its business with much despatch.MONEY A FARMER OUGHT TO HAVE MADE.Mr.A.G.Gilbert, poultry manager at the Pttawa Experimental Farm, calls at- tertion in the \u2018Illustrated Journal of Agriculture,\u2019 for the month of December, to the fact that the season has arrived when new-laid eggs are in demand and paying prices are being given for them.He speaks of having visited a popular hostelry in Ottawa at which he found that they were receiving fresh eggs in quantities suflicient to supply the wants of the establishment.to find that all the new-laid eggs required by the hotel were obtained without difficulty, but disappointed on enquiring He was gratified what was the source of supply, to learn that it was a breeder of Leghorns who lived at or near the.city limits.* This peultry fancier was an enterprising, pushing young man who had a position as clerk in the city, but added a snug little stm to his income every year by his skilful management of a Hock of white Leghorns.Mr.Gilbert proceeds to contend that the money made by this young man ought to have beeen made hy some farmer in the neighborhood of the city.He does not, of course, take the ground that the clerk had no right to make money out of poultry in his spare time, nor dnes he disparage the young man\u2019s praisewor- But it would have pleased him better to have learned that a farmer was getting the money for ncw-laid eggs from his poultry.The fact that it would have pleased Mr.Gilbert better to have this money made by some farmer does not prove that it ought to have been made by a farmer, because beth might have thy and successful energy.been making money from the same source at one and the same time.But it certainly does prove that farmers ought to understand the the vear round.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897.business of poultry management better than the generality of them do.Mr.Gilbert states that new-laid eggs readily bring forty to forty-five cents per dozen from December to March in the Montreal market, and are not easy to get at that price.Even here in Guelph they are good for twenty-five and thirty cents a dozen during the winter months.All over the country fresh eggs are scarce and dear during the cold weather.I suppose it 1s quite safe to say that from twenty-five to fifty cents per dozen can easily be got for fresh eggs during the winter time, in any part of the Dominion of Canada.The demand for them is keen.The market is never glutted.At the present time farm produce generally is so low in price as to be hardly worth bringing to market, but here is a specialty for which highly remunerative prices can be got and yet the supply does not begin to equal the demand for it.There has recently been held a success ful fat stock show here in Guelph which attracted much interest, but it is questionable if any of the stock, except the fat poultry brought a profit over first cost.One of the best beef cattle farmers in Western Ontario, Mr.Mungo McNabb, of Cowal, Elgin County, figures up the cost of producing a steer \u2018till two and a half years\u2019 old at $55.70.That is, for a steer of 1,400 pounds weight the cost would be four cents a pound.It must be an extra good steer that will bring anything over cost in the ordinary far mers\u2019 market at the present time, and according to experiments made at the Ortario Agricultural College when prices were better than they are now, a liberal estimate of the value of the manure had to be made to show any profit at all.On the contrary, poultry properly managed, yields an excellent margin of profit, not on the ordinary method of allowing them to lay at hap-hazard when prices are lowest, but on the plan of throwing all their best energies into winter laying.This article cannot be expected to do much good, except on the principle laid dewn in scripture in the words: \u2018Cast thy bread on the waters and it shall be seen after many days.\u2019 \u2018Winter-laying fowls must be trained for their business.It is the early hatched pullets that begin to lay late in the fall, which can be 80 housed and cared for as to lay all winter.Fowls cannot produce eggs all They must have a period of rest.Usually, thev take this during the winter, and are compelled to do s0 at that season because they are not comfortably housed and liberally fed.Hut early-hatched chicks will develop into winter layers, and beginning to lay in Nevember will continue laying regularly until March when they should be allowed to sit and provide the pullets, which will furnish the early layers for the next winter\u2019s campaign of egg-production.Winter layng requires, in this climate.warm quarters.Artificial heat is not necessary.Fowls do not appear to thrive with that, at least observation and experience.such has been my The poul- try-house should be located on a well- drained and thoroughly dry site, for fowls are very sensitive to dampness.A sort of half cellar should be dug to secure the fowls against all under draughts.The upper part of the building should be double:boarded and lined with dry sawdust, leaves, or tan-bark.A spacious window on the south side is necessary to secure ample light and also to take advantage of the sun\u2019s rays thoroughly to warm the building whenever there is bright and mild weather.Suitable quar: ters having been provided, it is only necessary to attend to the wants of the hens in the way ot food, water, cleanli- r.ess, ventilation, provision of dust bath, lime in some form to make egg shells, a due proportion of vegetables and flesh Those farmers who have not proper quarters, meat to secure regular laying.nor early spring pullets, can do nothing in the way of producing newly laid eggs the present winter, but they can plan fer a winter egg factory, and get it in full operatibn by the time another winter comes round.vise them to do this, and so secure at 1 most earnestly ad- lcast their due share of the money that may he made by selling eggs at from twenty-five to fifty cents a dozen.LINDENBANK.UNITED STATES NEWS, Michigan bean jobbers want the old McKinley duty restored instead of 1he present duty of twenty percent.Christian Schauer, jr., cashier and treasurer of the Nation\u2019s Bank for Savings, Alleghany, TPa., committed suicide ves terday morning by hanging himself in a ~closet at the Alleghany (iymnasium.The counsel for Bram.convicted of the murder of Captain Nash and his wife, of the barkentine \u2018Herbert Fuller,\u201d has filed an application for a new trial.THE NEW ST.LAMBERT SCHOOL.\u2014_\u2014 FORMAL OPENING LAST EVENING The formal opening of the new school building in St.Lambert, last evening, was a very successful affair.The principal, Mr.Jackson, and his staff of teachers, did themselves honor by the preparations nade in decorating the new building with flags and flowers, and supplying the talent from the pupils of the school for the entertainment, which was erhanced if pleasure and profit by the addresses of Dr.Harper of Quebec, Mr.H.B.Ames, the new member of the Provincial Council of Public Instruction; the Rev.W.J.Dart, the Rev.Murray Watson, the Rev.W.H.Stevens, Commissioners James Wright, Henry Wil liams, Wm.H.Rosevear, Wm.B.Powell and Mr.John Beatty were also present.The large audience spent a most delightful evening.The chairman, Mr.James Wright, introduced Dr.Harper with a few ureli- minary remarks, but Dr.Harper preferred to let Mr.Ames address the audience first, which he did as follows: \u2014 Mr.Ames's remarks were brief.He opened by reminding the children that they were celebrating that night not only a new year but a birthday.The speaker then described the four school build: ings that had preceded the present academy, and added that there were now only two further steps possible for St.Lambert in educational evolution, and these were the college and, finally, the university.The children might live to see even this apparently extravagant prophecy fulfilled, and he hoped they would.Mr.Ames described, for the entertainment of the children, a Japanese school he had visited a few months since.Then, turning to the parents and speaking as a member of the Council of Public Instruction, the speaker congratulated the town and its citizens upon their public spirit and the magnificent results here apparent from their efforts and self-sacrifice.He predicted that with the added advantages of fresh air and healthy exercise which their children possessed over their brothers across the river, the students of St.Lambert academy would grow up fully able to win for themselves the choicest positions in professional and business life, not only in the great city across the way, but also in other placeg/ perhaps many miles distant.\u2014 Dr.Harper, on being called upon by the chairman to address the gathering, jocularly remarked that he had left his speech behind him in Quebec, a speech he would have willingly delivered at the inauguration ceremonies had an unfor- DR.J.M.HARPER.tunate telegram been able to find him while he was on ome of his inspection tours mm the Townships: but since his arrival from Quebec in the morning he had been able to discover that speech by telephone in the city and he would Leg, if the chairman would permit, to call upon Mr.Ames, one of \u2018he members ot the Council of Public Instruc- ticn, to deliver it for him.After that gentleman had made one of his pleasant addresses, the Doctor, however, was not allowed to escape so easily, and on being called upon the second time by the chairman and the importunity of the audience, he made one of his short pithy speeches suitable for the pleasant occasion.By m2ans of one or two humorous anecdotes that pleased the audience better than any staid remarks on education, he was able to give point and emphasis to the history of the movement which had brought the people ot St.Lambert so happily together to celebrate, by means of the excellent programme provided by the pupils of the school, the opening of such \"a spacious educational abode for their children.He was prepared to take the gathering as a memorial of two things, among many others, these being the educational progress that had been going on for years in St.Lambert, which might be called one of the most enterprising suburbs ot Montreal, and the desire of the people themselves to rally with the greatest ot good will, the one towards the other, rovnd their school interests.Taking for his definition of education the pre: paration of boys and girls to take charge of themselves when they come to enter upon the higher responsibilities of lite, he pointed out that the exercises which had dehghted the hearts of so many parents and citizens present, were nol to be ret aside as a trifling with education, but declared that the training of pupils to come forward and subject themselves to open criticism was an excellent meang towards enabling them to get rid of the natural awkwardness of children and to put forth an effort to take charge of themselves for the moment.In connee.ticn with his second point he reterred to his own difficulties in introducing school reforms and improved methods.very movement for the good of a con munity had to contend with the prelnn- inary laugh and with opposition.lint that was no reason why such a movement should be set aside; and the commissioners and the people of St.Lan.Lert deserved the greatest credit for persevering in their efforts until succes had come to them as a reward.lle bad just left the presence of one ot ti first teachers who had taught in tho Model School of St.Lambert, and fr 1a him had learned many points of interest which he would have gladly reicrred to in detail had the time at his disposal permitted.They had with them st several of the educational workers af the past, the zealous secretarv of the school board for instance, aud one or two of the commissioners, and under the present cireumstances, with a jrin- cipal like Mr.Jackson, it was not likely that Mr.Ames\u2019s prophecy would remam for long unfulfilled, and hence in congratulating all connected with the school and its interests he closed amidst rine- ing applause, by wishing all success to St.Lambert Academy that was to be in the near future.The ladies of St.Lambert, as usual, supplied the children present with cakes and candies.At the close of the programme the National Anthem was sung by &ll present in a very hearty manner.rs THE BOARD OF TRADE ELECTION.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014\u2018Merchant\u2019 in to-day\u2019s issue ot your paper is evidently vexed because the deservedly popular president of the Board of Trade has been again nominated for the office.Even some Conservative members, according to \u2018Merchant,\u201d are, to use his phraseology, hawk- Ing about a paper asking him to again accept nomination.What hus Conservatism or Libgralism to do with the position, anyhow ?It is a lie man who 18 wanted there, and 1t Ar.Dicher- dike has filled the bill so satisfactorily that he 18 again nominated without Lis own seeking, why this snarhug at a gentleman whose pluck and energy have so pushed him to the front that the Dominion Government has recognized his worth by placing him on the Harbor Commission ¥ Is not the Board of 1rade, with its many interests at stake, the better for being represented by one who stands well with the powers that be 7 \u2018Merchant\u2019 says that Mr.Bickerdike promised that he would retire at the end of the year and even named his successor.Your correspondent should be cautious in such matters; 1f memory serves me the president, in thanking the board for his election, said he would be quite satisfied with one year ot otlce and that he would be pleased to see ls good friend the vice-president assume the gavel after hun.1 fail to see any promise in such words, and 1 believe Mr.Bickerdike is not the man to assume to name any gentleman to an ot- fice which was not in his gift.Should members of the Board of Trade deem that the present incumbent has donc good service and it may be has made the representations of the board ot some effect in quarters where formerly, yea, not long since, they were quietly shelved, why should it be considered anomalous in his accepting nomination for an office, wearisome, vet withal hon- crable, if his confreres fix on him as one in every way worthy and suitable to represent the 4mportant matters which naturally lie within the purview of the Montreal Board of Trade.J.BEAMISH BAUL Montreal, Jan.5, 1897.\u2014 GOLD NEAR RAT PORTAGE.Winnipeg, Jan.6.\u2014A new discovery of gold has been made at Hawk Lake, six miles south of Cross Lake Station, on the Canadian Pacific and thirty-three miles west vf Rat Portage.\u201che vem is a good one and can be traced a hundred and fifty feet over the Lop of a bare mound betore it disappears under tle snow.The claim 18 just on the boundary line between Manitoba and Ontario and, as the boundary line has never been fixed, the authorities hardly know whether it comes into the jurisdiction of Manitoba or Ontario.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WILL LABOR IN NEW S0UTH WALES.London, Jan.6.\u2014The Rev.W.H.Salmon, B.A., of this city.has been appointed travelling secretary ot the Aus tralian Students\u201d Christian Union, and expects to sail in June for Austrahan headquarters at Sydney, New South Wales, where Lie will remain two years.He will go by way of Atrica, intending to hold a students\u2019 conference mn South Africa in July.\u2018The society of wiih Mr.Salmon will be secretary corre sponds to the Y.M.OC.A.mm colleges of this country, and it was desired to have the society orgamzed on the Ame erican plan, but by a British subject.He will return for his final degree at Yale University.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 MOWAT, THE SOLDIER.Toronto, Jan.5.\u2014%r Ohver Mowat's name is posted up for membersiap am tn Canadian Military Institute.ns proposer ! being Lieut -Colone! Mason, Kb.and his seconder Captain H.M.Mowat RO.Sir Oliver was lientenant mn the 1st Fron tepac Militia in 1838.The regiment was pcepularly known as the \u2018Bloody First.\u201d et fc Le H.ms I wy he th Ch, vit.11 pig ven You hea i} den 1 mu the and Ma mie and Ik Inc Was me his her gran twn \u201c3 fine the Hen TT # SRL.rer En TOF + WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897.REMINISCENCES OF INDIAN HEROES.4 WOMAN ON THE HINDU CHARACTER.\u201cDit vus herame well acquainted with M vaste India?\u2019 a reporter asked Mrs.Tytler high women of \u201c \\Vitnes the comitertabiy well ott Uni- It was Saturday evening, and Graham had just returned from town, where he dran- had heard little else than the \u2018boom\u2019 leven talked or, and be was, IN consequence, suinesvhiat enthusiastic about 1t hinselr., nea \u2018I den\u2019t hike to think of your having how's more land,\u201d answered Mrs.Graham.\"You n, of know that you have as much now us villi vou ad tue boys cau work, and you t thèà sav 1t doesn't pay to Inre hands at the Rev.prices thinzs are selling at now!\u201d call - Wee raigat put that farm down in dred Jtess and run à daurv.They will want ons.us oi milk in Spriogwater pretty soon, dal- ave\u2019 that won't take as much work as if | wc rued corn\u201d Put how would vou pay for it 7 We ve pretty near à thousand dollars on this ver, and at as hard enough work trying to pav that off?Coan mn boul thought of all these things R are nev Letorehiand just what objec tons des vie would urge.So he had prerorel hunselrt to meet them.PreFrcad vouid only want three troissiel cash down, and that 1 could the get en ttes farm.The balance he would let Le us bong as we wanted \u2014until we phat und seit a Little of the land at a good ved proce und so pay it all off\u201d pber \u2018And that woul give us nine thousand or délit to carry: at seven percent ua the interest would be -1x hundred aud [Fer thirty dollars a vear.With the taxes pak ; and insurance it would nuike pretty near off a thousand, and then vou Lave prom- ,Û ized Rov that he should go to the agr- win cultural collage next winter.| am afraid it would be too much to under- pren t.ke./ bois Mrs.Gratfm dif not like to oppose or nea dizcourage- her husband, but she had a [ ha- trie woman's faculty for looking at hoth of sices of things.dud she knew the hard- act.ships ot berræ \u201cland poor.\u201d has \u2018It might make it a little hard tor a get - vear or two, but if it would pay in the Pie end: we could stand that, couldn't we, ro Jhon 7° 363.£Tt isn't just that!\u201d replied his wife, tha \u2018but 1 'elicre there is a better way to la vu ke :* jav.I am not so sure as vou Lr erm ta be that the Springwater \u201choom,\u201d ace i thev call at, will rerch way out here pian ct yet.There is » gnod deal of land | ~ lowe to town as ths)\u201d rn \u2018Ves, but it's all bound to go up.The ax narkets will he so much better,\u201d insisted art her hnv-, That was just beginning its fight of fame With its cures cf 50 ycars age.Ayers Sarsaparilla is the original sarsaparilla.It has behind it a record fer cures unequalled by any blood purifying compound.It is the oniy sarsaparilla honored by a medal at the World's Fair of 1892.Others imitate the worth.Who has not heard surprise expressed because there are so many attractive unmarried women, and so many wives whose husbands are unworthy of them ?It takes only kalf an eye to mee the reason.1f mien are scarce in social circles where good womèën resort it is not because the male sex is in the minority.Walk along the city streets at night where bar-rooms are numerous, and look into the windows.Stand be- fcre the doors of theatres which respectable women avoid, about the time when the performance closes, and watch the crowds of men pour out.There are men enough\u2014but icok at their faces.What true, refined woman would want to live with one of these as his wife ?Such men drag down with them their wives, if they have them.Wine- bibbers make drunkards; riotous flesh eaters make gluttens.Drunkenness and gluttony make poverty and rags.Of all base things the most repulsive is that poverty of soul of which rags are the appropriate sign.When fleshly appetite rules a man he is dead to all that makes manhood, and one of the stgongest appetites, which easily grows beyond contrcl, is the appetite for intoxicating drink.Drinking as a habit is dangerous.It may easily become vicious.If your manhood is precicus to you, let liquor alone.\u2018There is no noble living without an appetite for\\God.\u2014Dr.Dunning.EXTRACTS oy Then she opened a parlor door and Bella went in in a very | heip upon One that is FROM GENERAL DBOOTH'S WRITINGS.Be determined never more to be satisfied with a service that is a mere outward performance.| A soul on fire will make the peo- i ple listen wherever you may be, or | whatever you may have to say.How important it is that we should individually seek to discharge our responsibilities as in the sight of God.share cf your responsibility for the kingdom on your own shoulders, and stand up, if you stand alone, and God will make a Stephen of you.| Watch the enemy.It is in un- | guardea moments that nearly all | people go astray.Depend on God, | rot only to keep clear of sin, but to | be always strong for Him, showing \"a brilliant example to all around.Unbelief cf the most diabolical character often clothes itself in the garb of humility.Measure vour- selves, not by one another, nur by the achievements of others, but by the promises of God, the merits of the atoming blood, and the power of tite Holy Ghost.te ADVERTISEMENTS.- 0020008780880 OBLACECSOBOROIOECICROOTE S008 > | Take hold of God, and take full 18cts 9 + $ 20cts ky 25cts Bs 3Scts $1.00 Causes OU LECT, { no COB Keeps The Gomplexlon Glear.X X TRIAL BY JURY.The People VS.LAMBLY\"S HEADACHE CURE We the undersigned jurors have tried the above cure, and find it as stated, viz, a CURE.Mr.R.Fielder, cashier Eguitable Life.Mr.P.La 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ELEVATORS, Belt Power ELEVATORS, Hand Power ELEVATORS, PUMBWAITERS.Prices and Specifications on application, Darling Bros., RELIANCE YORKS, 112 QUEEN S8T., Montreal, 9 RICE\u2019S STUDIO, \u201c PLATINUMS.\"\u201d Every size and style, from $2,50 up.141 ST.PETER ST.Tel.331.6 Tel.2114.ODAKS.FOR SALE, TO RENT AND EXCHANGE, MONTREAL PHOTOGRAPHIC BUPPLY, Cor.Notre Dame and 8t.Francois Xavier sts.Telephone, 1467.Send for catalogue.Developing and Printing for Amateurs.Lantern Slides, etc.Furs, &c.HIRAM JOHNSON Importer and Exporter, WHOLESALE MANUFAC TURER OF ALL KINDS OF Rs for Gentlemen, Ladies and Children.OVERCOATS,CAPES, CLOAKS, ROBES.3A Makes a specialty of ex porting Furs.\u201cThe best JOHN BULL AND UNCLE SAM; CURRIE AND TERRELL.On March 25 last the Rev.George P.Knapp, an American missionary at it- lis, was arrested hy the Turkish authorities, and the next day they startod with him under a strong guard for Alex- andretta, treating him throughout as a criminal.The winter snows had not vet left, and travel was very difficult; hut they would not even provide a horse for him; and he was obliged to meet every expense connected with his journey.Every effort was made to prevent his holding any intercourse with the Britis) Consuls at Diarbekir and Severek: and he was made to sleep, not in comfortable rooms, but in alleyways and llthy halls, and subjected to insulting remarks and treatment of the most galling kind.At Aleppo lre was permitted an interview with the American Consul, hut not to enter the Consul\u2019s house.and he was allowed to hold no communication with any one else.He arrived at Alexan- dretta April 3.There the United Stairs consular agent demanded him: but the Turkish Governor refused, saving that his instructions were to keep him und:r arrest and place him on the first vessel bound direct for Europe.He was not even allowed to go to his meals without a guard.Then followed various t-le- grams to the American Legation at Constantinople and to the captain of the United States ship \u2018 Marblehead.\u201d then at Mersine.After several days, instrue- tions came from Aleppo to the Turkish Governor to give Mr.Knapp up to the United States Consul, which was done, with a view to his going to Constanü- nople for trial on charges of aiding insurrection.On Monday the * Marihle- head\u2019 came into the harbor, and on Tuesday the Chief of Police handed nim his passport marked \u2018 Expelled from the country.\u201d He then went on board theg French ship and in due time reached Constantinople, where he awaited trial on the charges presented against hm, but which have never been pressed.No apology of any kind has been made by the Turkish Government.Here is another case: \u2014The Rev.Frod.W.Macallum, another missionary of the American Board at Marash.while making one of his usual tours in process of his tnissionary work, was suddenly recalled to Marash by an urgent message from the Governor of the city.desiring to confer with him on most important business.Mr.Macallum at once retarn- ed and called on the Governor, who informed him that explicit and urgent orders had been received from Constantinople direct, requiring that he be sent out of the country without delay.The Governor politely said he desired to cause him as little inconvenience as possible; that he would not put him under formal arrest, but would simply furnish him an escort and send him by way of Aintab and Aleppo.This was on Saturday, Nov.14.On Monday he was taken by his escort by crossroads, not being allowed to visit Aintab or Kilis, to Aleppo.There he was regularlv turned over to the authorities, and the papers relating to his arrest were examined and found to he indeed an imperative order on the highest authority for his expulsion from tle Turkish Empire.He was designated as \u2018an American\u2019 \u2018with a long white beard.\u2019 But Macallum is not an American, although a missionary of the Ameri-an Board.Tt happens that he is a Canadian.His friends at Marash telegraphed to the British Consul at Aleppo and to Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador.Such measures were immediately taken as resulted in procuring an urgent order by the Vali, sent out to all places where it was supposed- Mr.Macallum might pass, commanding his immediate release from all restraint, and requiring that he be permitted to go when ard where he pleased.This order did not reach him on the crossroads, and he was taken to Aleppo.Of course he was in- stantlv released and taken to the British consulate.A guard of honor was furnished him, and he immediately returned to his home in tiie for his Thanksgiving dinner.In his care, no more than in Mr.Knapp\u2019s.had there been anv crime against the government.He had simply been forwarding relief to certain parties in Zeitun, after full consideration with consular and Turkish authorities.The the impression that he was a citizen cf the United States, and it was doubtless supposed that this case might be m»naze- in the same way as that of Mr.Knanp.But there was an unsuspected difference in the two cases; one man was an Englishman.and the other only an American.Mr.Macallum goes back in honor to Marash: Mr.Knapp receives no effective vindication.This is the diffe:- ence between Uncle Sam and John Bull abroad; between Terrell and Currie.\u2014 New York \u2018Independent?_\u2014\u2014\u2014 DEDICATING A LIQUOR SHOP.The Vancouver \u2018News-Advertiser\u2019 comments pleasantly upon a Christmas display made by a liquor dealer who ar- renged at the door of his place of business a \u2018triumphal arch,\u201d which consisted ol kegs festooned with the Union Jack.A Christmas display by a\u2019wine merchant seems a slur upon Christianity and the deccration of barrels of whiskey with the Union Jack is an insult to the grand old flag.The same paper announces the surcide of a young Japanese named \u2018lo- taugh, who was found hanging in his room shortly after his release from jal where he had been imprisoned ten days remedy ; they can\u2019t imitate the We have the finest coliection of Framod »=4 market Pre ge paid for drunkenness.Totauglh is not the - .\u2014 h - 5 aw - ; record : and Untramed v'evures SON city.RET SN Fam NI The best first to have passed through the liquor .h L3H price pail for Beeswax \u2018 > .i , yea .59 Yea re of C Manufacturerof Mouldings and Frames, 68S CRAIG and for Ginseng.dealer's tr tumphal arch to poy erty, Ou ures.| trect, next dcor to the \u2018Witnoss\u2019 Office.10 494 ST.PAUL STREET, MONTREAL.shame and death.\\ a TR a A à A AO TO V7 SPA A 2 2 £7 AM ATT nied 55 Sars (R Anne io rte rai A prince pes 4 order for his expulsion was given undor + Seu.[EE a Ta Sing or Tg, Tm De sae ER HAT PART, mm a gr PE ES MAT ERAS LT PV HN pee & gs LT ads BEST ES pa PTE rtm em omer wp name = Loess E get a At a Te dt A Lr \u201d * 4-3 yoo as ld ne y 73 _ mare + EE PRE EIRE bai LE = 4 rire mer ne = > a ; - Ara, nk EE ; ; = _ / EE oH ; SAS wd 2 1 2 « - mms WANTS RECIPROCITY.NEWFOUNDLAND DEPUTATION TO VISIT WASHINGTON.TO ENDEAVOR TO SECURE THE ENTRY OF CODFIBH FREE.St.John's, NA1, Jan.6\u2014The Newfoundland Legislature will open on Feb.L The government will introduce a re- golntion the favoring reciprocity with the United States, and will despateh Mr.Bond, Colomal Secretary.or Mr.Morris, Rolicitor-General, early on session to arrange a convention it possible with the McKinley Administration to secure + the iree entry «f Newfoundland codfish the The fishing interests of the island are greatly interested in the scheme.into Am rican markets._\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNITED STATES CATTLEMEN BEFORE THE UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSIONERS.\u2014_\u2014 Washington, Jan.5\u2014The seventh day's session of the Ways and Means .Committee found the room well fillad with those interested in the agricultural schedule, including dairy products, fruits, fish, meats, etc.Cattlemen having interests in grazing in Mexico and Kansas were opposed to high duties on cattle as injurious to the farmers Mr.Sherman, live animals, as well as the cattlemen.representing, he said, two-thirds of the cattle imported from Mexico, also opposed high duties as inimical to the intar- ests of farmers, feeders and dealers.Mr.Sherman thought that the high duties on cattle had been decided upon by Congress to keep out Canadian competition, without thought of the Mexican business.Congressman Curtis of Kansas asked to have restored the duty of ten dollars a head on all cattle a year old or over, and two dollars a head on calves less than a year old.Mr.Curtis would have a duty absolutely prohibitory on every agricultural product that can be raised in this country.Kansas would like duties on hay, oats and flaxseed.Representative Bowers of California declared that the Wilson law had killed the cattle business in California.ile then turned his attention to the fruit trade, for which he demanded a high protective tariff.Such a tariff would not increase prices.If given protection, California would flood the country with certain grades of fruit, and $16,000,000 now sent abroad for fruit would be kept at home.Then representatives of the National Grange urged for a bounty on exports of agricultural products, others asked for specific duties.The representative of the National Hay Association wanted a duty of four dollars a ton on that pro: duct.He did not refer to the competition from pauper hay, but he told the committee the eastern farmers suffered from Canadian competition.He also asked for a restoration of the McKinley duty on hobs, which was fifteen cents per pound (it is now eight cents), and he said that if the American hop grower did not soon receive aid through tariff legislation by having the duty on foreign hops placed at not less than fifteen centa per pound, they would be driven out of business.Representatives asked for protective duties on rice and maccaroni.Then pro and con speakers were heard on the salt duty, and Mr.C.C.McCue of Boston took up the rights of the United States fishermen.He asked for an increase of three-quarters of a cent per pound on the duty on mackerel, one- quarter of a cent on cod, and a new clause giving one and a-half cents on skinned an« honeless and all other fish.The Dominion authorities, he said.hampered American fishermen in every way possible, denvinz them all commercial rights and treating then in the most brutal manner.Mr.B.F.DeButts of Boston, representing some sixty firms, claimed that Mr.McCue did not speak for all the fishermen.Tn fact.he did nnt represent more than fifteen percent of them.He thought the present rate nf duty on fish was sufficient.American fishermen would not he protected kw the increase, he said, as the statistics showed that over eighty- five percent of the men engaged on our fishinz vessela were foreigners, coming here during the season and at its end returning to their homes.Mr.SS Smith of Poston said Mr.DeButts represented only importers, and did not speak for the fishermen.Mr.Moody of Massachusetts was given permission to file a written reply to Mr.DeButts ns far as his statement referred to the fishiermen of Massachusetts.Mr, F, W, Keleey, representing the Flarists* (Tub nf New York Cite.adve- cate] a dutv of ten poreent ad valorem on al! trees.shrubs, vines and bulbs, THE PRAIRIE PROVINCE.AND ABOUT WINNIPEG.Winnipeg, Man, Jan.6\u2014Mr.Theo.Bertrand is spoken of as a probable candidate for St.If he secures the nomination he will run in op- Joniface.position to the government, To-day, before Chief Justice Taylor, G.B.Anderson, charged with two offences against the election law in the recent Winnipeg election, elected to be tried before a jury, and the case was remanded to the Spring Assizes.The Macdonald election trial opens on Thursday at Portage la Prairie.The judges to hear the petition are Killam and Dubue.Mr.W.H.Rae, local manager of the INTERESTING ITEMS OV NEWS GATHERED IN THE MONTREAL THE FAILURE RECORD.MESSRS.McMASTER & COMPANY OF TORONTO FORCED TO THE WALL.Toronto, Jan.5.\u2014Messrs.McMaster & Company, a large woollen firm here, and the oldest firm of the kind in Ontario, assigned to-day to Mr, Clarkson.The failure will be a rather bad one, it is feared, and some Montreal concerns are large creditors.When it was stated some time since that the firm would liquidate, it was thought they would be able to pay a hundred cents on the dol- Great West Life Association Company, : lar.It is now almost certain that thev died here to-day.He came from London, Ont., ten years ago.seventy-six.Pierre St.Pierre, a voung Frenchman from Papineauville, Que., committed suicide at Rat Porcage early this morning by taking strychnine.He was in love with a young lady and proposed to her at a dance last night.She refused, and in a fit of despondency he took his life.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 NEW BRUNSWICK DEAL TRADE.St.John, N.B., Jan.5.\u2014The shipments of deals from all ports in New Bruns wick for the past three years have been as follows: \u2014 Square Vessels, Tons.Feet.1894 .399 358,043 322,170,039 1896 .402 345.173 302,126,536 1898 .453 442,305 367,433,149 Tn 1888 more than the usual activity was noted in the deal trade.and the shipments to transatlantic ports were considerably in excess of those during the preceding three years.Prices have been also well sustained, and there is a belief that the season was a profitavle one to exporters.\u2014 AMERICAN DESIGNS ON CANADA.SIR CHARLES TUPPER REFERS TO THEM AT THE ST.GEORGE'S CLUB BANQUET IX LONDON.London, Jan.5.\u2014Sir Charles Tupper, formerly Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain, and Prime Minister of Canada, which office he resigned cn July 8 last ; Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, who was permanent Under Secietary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1892, and who 1x now Agent-General for Tasmania, and the Hon.Duncan \u201cfilles, Agent-General for Victoria, were the guests of honor this evening at a banquet given by the St.George's Club.of this city.Major- Ceneral Sir Owen Burne presided, in the absence of Lord Loch, formerly Governor of Cape Colony and Mer Majesty's High Among more recentiy (Commissioner to South Africa.those present were Sir Donald Smith, Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain ; the Hon.A.G.Jones, Mr.Sanford Fleming, Major-Genzral Laurie, M.P., and | | into the lap of the United States.Mr.Rufus Pope, a Mem'er of the Canu- dian Parliament.General Burne, in toasting Sir Charles Tupper, made a lengthy reference to his distinguished career.In replying to the toast Sir Charles said tliat he did not go from London to Canada for the purpose of succeding Sir Mackenzie Bowell in the premiership, but that Le was summoned by the latter to confer with the government on important public business connected with Canada and the empire.He had been reluctantly drawn into politics when he theught he had retired from an active political life.The Liveral-Conservative party in Canada had asked him to reenter the arena.teferring to the Washington treaty of 1888, respecting the fisheries, which the American Senate retused to ratify, Sir Charles paid a high tribute to the tact and ability of Mr.Joseph Chamberlain.Sir Charles declared that the governing principles of his career had been to preserve British institutions and to promote unity between the different parts of the empire.Referring to the situation in Canada, Sir Charles said that if the Dominion were isolated it must fall Con- | solidated, it would remain firmly attached to Great Britain.Ife greatly admired the United States, but was profoundly convinced that union with Great Britain was the only true security for real liberty to all parties.The United States, he added, desired to absorb Canada .(Cries of \u2018Thev will never get it.) The Canadian fisheries were the chief attraction for the United States, and the minerals of the Dominion was another, Canada could give the United States the finest harbors in the world, besides bringing that country six hundred miles nearer to Great Britain.He contended that Canada's deep-seated lovalty to Great Iritain would always constitute an impassable barrier to absorption.Sir Charles spoke in praise of Sir Donald Smith.ns successor in the Canadian commissionership, who.he said, was ot Agriculture, and later President of (highly esteemed by all the present parties \u2014 a ACCIDENT TO MR.CHAPLIN.London, Jan.5.-Mr.Henry Chaplin, M.P., formerly President ot the Board the Local Government Board, was seri-|in Canada.ously hurt hy being thrown from his horse while fox hunting to-dav.Mr Chaplin is the guest of the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham Tlall, Stafford- ghire.Among the Duke's other guests are the Prince and Princess of Waies.His reference to Nir Pon- ald was greeted with cheers.The St.George's Club, which tendere-l the banquet, is a social, congenial and cosmopolitan elub, and has a membership of 3,000.The club-house is at No.4 Hanover square.Ile was aged! ) i ago the firm claimed a surplus of $350,- will not he able to do this.A few yedrs 000, but in the past four years no less than %180,000 to $200,000 has been written off in bad debts.English creditors are said to have only $32,000 due them, and in that case the Canadian cotton and woollen mills will doubtless De heavily interested.The Bank of Montreal and the Merchants Bank are interested indirectly.OTHER FAILURES, Brockville, Ont., Jan.5.\u2014Mr.O.Bush, M.IP., a prominent cheese manufacturer, with headquarters at Kemptville, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, to Sheriff Smart.His liabilities are said to be in the neighborhood of $10,000 or $11,000, with approximate assets of $7,000.Mr.Bush was the owner of several large cheese factories.His reverses are said to have sheen brought about by speculations on last season\u2019s output, all of which he has gold out, so that there are no available assets from that quarter.The principal creditors are the farmers who were patrons of Mr.Bush\u2019s factories.They will he heavy losers, as Mr.Bush has expressed himself that he cannot pay more than fifty cents on the dollar.A meeting of the creditors is called for at the Sheriff's office on Friday, Jan.13.Toronto, Jan.5.\u2014The assignee has decided to wind up the estate of A.Cohen, general merchant, Chatham.The statement of affairs showed a considerable deficit.Cohen is still in Chatham.The stock will be sold by auction.William Penny, general store, Matta- wa, has assigned to R.Small.John II.Dateman, baker.North Bay, has assigned to A.FE.Landreau.Ernest Seeber, general store, of Carls- ruhe, has assigned to A.Gortz.The creditors will meet on Jan.12.B.McDonald, general storekeever.Flesherton.has assigned to A.S.Yan Dusen.The creditors meet on Jan.13.J.ewis McConnell, lumber dealer.Sun- nidale, has assigned ta W.G.Fisher.The creditors meet on Jan.15.AN ANTIPODEAN MONSTER.HE IS WANTED FOR MANY MURDERS.Victoria, B.C, Jan.5.\u2014Detectives MeHattie and Conroy arrived here from Sydney last night and left at once for San Franciscoa where they expect to accomplish the arrest of Frank Butler, alias Harwood, who is wanted in New South Wales for a long series of coldblooded murders.His plan was to lure to the gold fields prospectors who had a little money, shoot them and bury their bodies, then return to the city to again advertize for a \u2018mate\u2019 with a littie rcady money to go prospecting.The murders of Capt.l.ee Weller and A.O.T.Preston have been traced to Butler, and he is more \u2018han suspected of twelve other similar crimes in the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., and in Western Australia.It has been ascertained that under the name of Weller he sailed from Newcastle for San Francisco on Nov.25, as the guest of the captain on board the ship \u2018Swan Hilda.\u201d She has not yet arrived and the officers are tolerably sure of their maa.tlre THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.THE LAURIER MEETING.\u2019 Quebec, Jan.6\u2014A great demonstration in honor of the Liberal Prime Minister of the Dominion is preparing for his appearance here on Thursday evening.He will be escorted to the Drill Hall from the Chateau Frontenac by a torchlight precession composed of all the local snowshoe clubs.A FATAL QUARREL.A quarrel, attended with fatal resulta, is reported to have occurred at Ste.Claire, in the County of Dorchester, on New Year's Day.According to the report, a young French-Canadian, residing in the parish of Ste.Marguerite, went to pay a visit to a relative in Ste.Claire, and passed the evening there.On his leaving the relative told his son to harness up and drive the visitor home, which he prepared to do with some reluctance, and on reaching Ste.Marguerite refused to go any further.A quarrel arose, in the course of which the vietim struck his driver two or three blows, and the latter, becoming exasperated, felled hi: assailant, who was found to be unconscious when picked up, and died in about half an hour.Crt [] 0) hy Qu Ta 2 S070 FIX DAILY WITNESS.FIRE AT RIVER DU LOUP.River du Loup Station, Que., Jan.5.\u2014 About 7.30 p.m.on New Year\u2019s evening the premises occupied by the People\u2019s Bank of Halifax, and by Messrs.Pouliot & Pouliot, advocates, \u2018as offices, was discovered to be on fire.Mr.Benoit, manager of the bank, who at that time was working in his office, gave the alarm.After considerable delay on account of the bad condition of the road, the fire engine arrived on the scene and did good work, but in spite of the efforts of the brigade and of the citizens, the bui'dings were completely destroyed.l\u2018'ertunately it was a very calm night.Had it been blowing any there would probably have been a loss of several other buildings.At one time the houses occupied by Messrs.F.A.Sirois, sheritt, and by À.J.Boulett, manager of the G.N.W.Telegraph Company, adjoining the bank, were much exjiosed to the fire.It is supposed to have originated in Messrs.Pouliot & Pouliot\u2019s office through a defective pipe in the heating apparatus.The building was fully insured, but Messrs.Pouliot & Pouliot lost a quantity of valuable docuinents.\u2014\u2014 THE PLOT FAILED, TRAIN WRECKERS PLAN TO SEND A PASSENGER TRAIN DOWN A NINETY-FOOT RAVINE.BUT THE ENGINEER DISCOVERED HIS DANGER IN TIME, Birmingham, Ala., Jan.6.\u2014Tom Parker, colored, was arrested to-day by special officers of the Southern Railway on suspicion of having been in a plot lo wreck a through passenger train on Mec- Comb\u2019s trestle, fourteen miles east of here.The train carried two hundred passengers, and was to be thrown by the wreckers into the ravine ninety feet deep, on Dec.19.The plot failed.Andrew Fagan, Tom Ingram, Emanuel Billings, Rome Scales and Tom Parker are held for complicity in the plot, and to-day Parker made a startling conies- sion, which was corroborated more or less by all the suspects except Fagan.Parker stated that Fagan formed the plot to wreck the passenger train by removing a rail and, after the train went down, to rob the dead and wounded in order that Christmas money might be secured.Parker stated that all the negroes named were in the plot, but that Fagan and he removed the spikes and fish plates.While the two were working on the track, a freight train came along and interrupted them.The freight passed over all right, the two got back to work and in a short while had the bolts out and the rail removed.They then went below the bridge, built a fire, and awaited the arrival of the passenger train.It came arcund the curve, going at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour.but the engineer, Jim Hawes, saw the rail gone and reversed his lever.The train ran off the track on the bridge, and was ist about to topple over when it came to a stop.The negroes made off.Thev were caught, one hy one, after Sheriff (O\u2019Brien.a deputy and three railway special agents had worked hard for two weeks on the case.Fagan listened to the confession without a movement, and when questioned.made a general denial.though he said it looked as if the officers had enough evidence to hang him.which he would allow them to do before he would say anything.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 DEFEATED MR.WANAMAKER.Harrisburg, Pa., Jan.5.\u2014The great fight for Senator Cameron\u2019s seat is over.Senator Boise Penrose, of Philadelphia, has won.The joint Republican caucus was held in the hall of the House of Representatives, and a great crowd filled the galleries and all the space in the rear of desks.The names of Mr.Pen- rose and ex-Portmaster-General John \\WVanamaker were presented and then the vote was taken.The vote resulted: \u2014 For Senator Penrose, 113; for Mr.Wanamaker, 75; for Senator Cameron, 1; for ex-Congressman John B.Robinson, 1, and for President Judge Rice, of the Superior Court, 1, mr BREACH OF PROMISE CASL.Edinburgh, Jan.5\u2014The action for breach of promise of marriage against Mr.James M.W.White, formerly member of parliament for Forfarshire, and a member of the mercantile house of J.¥.White & Co., of New York, by Miss Grant, daughter of the Rev.Mr.Grant, pastor of St.John's Church, Dundee, was called in the Edinburgh sessions to-day, and adjourned for a month, counsel for Miss Grant informing the Court that he was not ready to go on with the case.= U.S.HOUSE OF REPRESENT A- TIVES.Washington, Jan.5.\u2014The House of Representatives reassembled to-day after the holiday recess, with an attendance of onlv about half its members.The galleries were well filled and the occupants for a time remained in their seats listening to the debate unon the Lond bill to amend the postal laws with respect to the transmission of second- class matter, which had been made the special order for the day.McGILL GRADUATES ABROAD.Vancouver, B.C., Jan.6.\u2014The McGill Graduates Society of British Columbia held their first annual meeting vesterday.A banquet was held by the society last night.13 co AY -~t RA PACIFIC CABLE SCHEME.REPORT TO BE SIGNED TN A FEW DAYS.London, Jan.5.\u2014The Pacific Cable Commission will meet within a fortnight in order to sign its report, which is already agreed upon.The draft of this report will soon be signed by the Canadian and Australian delegates, who will\" furward copies to their respective governments anl a report of the same will be presented to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr.Joseph Chamberlain.In regard to carrying out its recommendations, it is semi-officially stated that the report is unanimous in recommending that the cable be built, as it is practically feasible and commercially and politically There is difference of opinion in regard to tne necessary.some relative share of the expense to be borne : by Great Britain and the colonies concerned, but the, delegates agreed finally | to recommend that less be paid by Great | | Britain and more by the colonies than was originally considered necessary.The sum asked for from Great Britain is understood to be considered fiscally feasible by Mr.Chamberlain.ge TORONTO STREET RAILWAY \u201ca EARNINGRK, Toronto, Jah.5\u2014The city treasurer has received a cheque from the Street Railway Company for $6,744, being the city\u2019s percentage of their total earnings for December.The treasurer also received a cheque for 815,000 on account of mileage.\u2018I'he total earnings of the Street Railway Company for 1896 were $486,501, the city's share being $78,921.lhe mileage account for the year amounts to $60,000, of which there is still due the city some $23,000.\u2018The gross car earnings last month were #92,- 660, against $87,746 for 1895, making the total increase for 1896 $4,913, an average increase per week of $1,481.\u2014 DOUBLE HANGING IN VIRGINIA.Norfolk, Va, Jan.5\u2014Wm.Downing and Charles Williams, both colored, were hanged here this morning.Downing killed a woman named Emma Lane in this city last May.He went to her house, prepared to meet another man.He was in one room and she in another, and when the door opened he shot, thinking it was the man.Williams killed Geo.Bess, another colored man, on board a schooner lying in the harbor, on April 18._\u2014\u2014 MR.MACALLUM'S EXPERIENCES THE PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE IN TURKEY.The Rev.Fred Macallum of Marash, Turkey, writes to the \u2018Witness\u2019 under date Dec.8, telling of his arrest and re- lcase.He says :\u2014 On Friday, Nov.13, IT was called home | from a relief tour I had just begun, and was told by the Mutisarrif that the Sultan had ordered my immediate expulsion from Turkev.No reasons were given.So Monday morning, Nov.16, I bade farewell to my family and associates, for how long I did not know, and accompanied by two zabticks, was off for Aleppo.I was well treated, but not allowed to visit Aintab or Killis, the two telegraph stations on my road.I managed to send word to the friends in Aintab as I was passing.I reached Aleppo on Friday morning, Nov.20, and was delivered up to the government, whence I was roon rescued by the dragoman of my Consul, and set out from the Serai or Government House in a fine carriage with the dragoman and a cavass galloping beside me, and the Governor-General's! Aide in his brilliant uniform galloping in ; front.From the Consul I learned that I was to have been expelled in accordance with a resolution passed by the Sublime Porte a year ago, but not submitted to the Powers nor accepted by them, thaf any foreigner found assisting the Arménian revolutionists should be summarily sent out of the country.1 was accused of having sent £100 to Zei- toun for the Hunchagists; hence my expulsion.As a matter of fact I had re- fi.sed to send this money to Zeitoun because it was said to have come from the Hunchagists, although it was sent to me by the English Consuls Barnham and Catoni.I gave it to the highest Turkish official here (the Mushir), and he forwarded it to Zeitoun.Apparently the facts as explained by the British Ambas- cador were sufficient to make the Sultan change his imperial mind, for by Wed- resday, Nov.18, telegrams had licen sent all over the region announcing that I was free to go wherever I pleased.My release was due to the prompt measures! taken by our Ambassador.I returned to Marash on Nov.26, and am waiting for compensation.ne CARMICHAEL\u2014COLE.À pretty wedding took place last \\\\ ed- nesday afternoon at the Methodist Church, Mascouche Rapids, when Mr, H.J Carmichael of this city was umted WEDNESDAY.JANUARY 6.1897.| DEXOUNCED BY THE DEAD, STAMBULOFF AWARE OF A PLO] AGAINST HIS LIFE, LEAVFS A LETTER TO BE OPENED AFTER HIS DEATH.At the trial of the murderers of M Stambuloff, the Bulgarian statesman a Sofia, the following letter written !- him a few days before his death was Ju in as evidence.It shows that he kne of the detin)s of the plot for his murde and was quite certain (hat, leit npr tected as he was by the State, the 1d would be successtully curried out.The letter is as follows: \u2014 This letter is to be oj ened after my death, It contains some secrets of my political op- which the people aud the courts should know.ponents, .S.STAMBULIFF.Scfia, March 16, 1s85, THE PLAN FOR MY ASSASSINATION.On March 15, 1595, there came to the house of M.Slavkoff.Ch.Zacharieff.from Sama- koff, and (nformed him that Natchevitch and Tufektchieff had formed a band of from ten to fifteen men who would in any circumstances try to murder me.These robbers are sheltered in the hotel of the brothers Ivanoff and in the establishment of Robtcheto.Natcheviteh has promised the murderers that, in the event of their cajp- ture, they will not be condemned to death.and that, after they have been under arrest for a year in prison, he will procure of the Prince their pardon.Natcheviteh gives N Tufektchieff money for the maintenance «f the robbers.Natcheviteh and Tufekichier meet almost every evening and discuss ihe murder.Ch.Zachariceff declares tha! letie & have already been sent to confidants in the provinces inform'ng them of the proiec\u2018el murder of M.Stamboloff.and instrucune them, as soon as it has taken plare to send to Sofla.to the Prince, and to the newspapers, telcgrams expressing their gratitude that the country had been freed of the tyrant.The object of these telegrans is to lessen the horror inspired by the v:io murder and the effect it might have.The ahettors of Naum in the murders are 1H- brothers Minko and Tasho Ivanoff.Ag both these criminals are very cunning, and as they know that they will be seized by the judicial authorities.and as they also do not trust to Natchevitch's promiees, they are now taking steps to reconcile themselves with me.As intermediaries they are employing Gateff, Gariboff, and Kalpakt- chieff.The brothers T.and M.Ivanoff urge that this reconciliation shall take place as soon as possible, because apparently the time for the execution of the conspiracy has come.Ch.Zacharieff further communicated to Slavkoff that a conspiracy is also on foot against the Prince.in which many officers of the Sofia garriscn are implicated.Av- ram Stanisheff has informed M.Il.Lukanoff that one of the secret police agents of the capital are helping the band by communicating to them when Stamboloff goes out and where he is going.Old Stanisheff, who is the friend of a Macedonian of Debra, a companion of Bone Georgieff from the Debra jail, told Lukan- off that he, too.was aware that the band had been formed to murder Stamboloff.and he begged that the fact might be made known to Stamboloff, so that the latter might take precautions.Naum Tufektchieff, the murderer of Belt- cheff and Vulkovitch, has been specially appointed to the departmental section for the study of the Central Railway, so that he may be in Sofla with nothing to do, and may thus be able to occupy himself with the direction of the band.As soon as the affair is well arranged he will leave Sofla in order not to be here on the day of the murder.The projected murder is also known to Ratcho Petroff.These statements I have written in order that it may be known that the plan of the murderers was known to me, and that, sooner or later.my friends and my children may demand their punishment.S.STAMBULOFF.Sofia, March 16, 1895.\u2014\u2014\u2014p>- AUSTRALIAN MINING DISASTERS.Vancouver, B.C., Jan.5.\u2014The steamer \u2018Mioweéra,\u201d which arrived from Australia this morning, brings word of a terrible disaster at Stockton Mine, Newcastle, N.S.W., at the beginning of December.Two men were suffocated by 101] air, and, on the very day oa which their funeral was to take place, the tore- man of the mine and eight men entered the same shaft.As they did not reappear, a rescie party was sent down and cight bodies soon recovered, though not before one of the rescue party nearly succumbed.ee THE POPE'S HEALTH.Rome, Jan.5\u2014The Pope, who was slightly indisposed yesterday through fatigue consequent upon the recent New Year's reception.has recovered lis nur- mal) health.His Holiness received Lar- dinal Rampolla.the Papal Secretary of State, to-day, and will celebrate a pontifical mass to-morrow, to which ceremony sixty persons have been invited.\u2014\u2014-\u2014 RECEIVED A SHOCK.Andrew Calder tampered with the etectric plant at the Wilham street power house of the Street Railway Company vesterday afternoon.He induced a short circuit, which hurmng out singed ins evelashes and hair.Although not need- cd, the General Hospital ambulance was called.and, being on the spot.was uti\u2019: ized to coavey the mjured workman te his home.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A COWARD PUNISHED.In the Police Court yesterday Magistrate Lafontaine fined Arthur Cooke of St.Antoine street twenty dollars and cofts in marmage with Miss E.M.Cole.1he bride looked charming.She was attired in a brown travelling suit and was attended by her cousin, Miss May Alexander.The church, whieh was beautifully decoratzd with evergreens and | flowers, was full.The ceremony was performed by the Rev.W.(.Lennan, after which the bride and groom with the eighty or more guests.repaired tn the residence of Mr.John Cole, brother of the bride, where a sumptuous repast was served.Mr.and Mrs.Carmichael left for their honeymoon on the midnight train.or one month in jail for giving his wif a black eve.(ooxe has figured in the Pol.a i Court before on the same charge.conse- | quently the fine was laid on his shoulders | rather heavily and not heing able to pay i the money he went to jail.i THE DAILY WITNE=S 15 printed and published ! 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