The daily witness, 11 mars 1897, jeudi 11 mars 1897

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Institute Trafalgar Square Twe Londen SW ENG Pag.- Vou.XXXVIII., No.59.RAITT Lo ane SA rh, I BR TN: FEE No FS AAT Foi 4 63 mV PE ed oY tN RW BL Ee JAR TA Last Edition.MONTREAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1897.PRICE ONE CENT.\u2014 THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE.HOW THE SCHOOL CHILDREN WIL].CELEBRATE IT.ROME INTERESTING QUESTIONS REFORE THE COMMISSIONERS.Fight thousand Protestant school children are to commemorate the Queen's I:amond Jubilee in a signal manner on June 18.First of all, they will be transported free from all parts of the city to the M.A.A.A.grounds, by special arrangenient with the Street Railway Company.There will be the singing of the National Anthem, and other loyal and patriotic songs ; the waving of flags, and the saiuting of the colors.At the lose of the proceedings, each pupil will receive a commemorative medal, specially struck ior the occasion.These arrangements were outlined this morning at the usual monthly meeting of the Protestant sists in the face of the forbearance of the powers and Turkey on the precipitation of war, Russia, Austria, France and Germany have a distinct understanding that every effort will be made to localize it.And here the feeling is that such can be done, and that hostilities will not yong, as unassisted Greece could not stand against the Turks, while the latter have no great desire to carry on a war with people who form such a large portion of their own population.Great Britain is blamed for not having consented last year, when all the powers except her wanted to blockade Crete, to prevent a@ystematic landing of arms.Now the powers find themselves, as a result of that weakness, face to face with an entirelv armed and reckless Christian population.The idea that the good Mussulmans in Crete would massacre three times their number of armed insurgents, as set forth by Greece, is absurd, like her other exaggerated pretensiors, and is contrary to the opinion given in the reports by the consuls to their governments.GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE.London, March 11.\u2014At the dinner of the Associated Chambers of Commerce here last evening Lord Salisbury delivered an address in which he referred briefly to the crisis which has been reached in the affairs of Greece over the Cretan question.His Lordship said it must be remembered that the British Government could not be guided in their policy by personal sympathies or 1eligions pro- chivities and sentiments.They were the trustees of a great nation\u2019s interests and obligations, which they were bound to maintain above everything else.If they manfully did their duty sunder the cir- cumastances it would promote as no other course of conduct could do freedom and Justice, and above all Iuropean peace upon which all commerce, industry and well-being must depend.The Premier's remarks were received with loud cheers.The speech throughout was devoid of any expression of party feeling.In the House of Commons to-dâv Mr.G.N.Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, said in answer to a question by Sir William Harcourt, the leader of the Opposition, that the Government had not heard that Greece had made or was intending to make a reply supplementary to her answer to the identical note of the powers in regard to Greek occupation of Crete, a cessation of which the powers demanded.Mr.Curzon read a telegram from the British consul at Canea, Sir A.Bilotti, announcing the fact of the relief from a position of grent peril of 523 men, 1.047 women and chiidren, 340 soldiers and 3,000 Mussulman refugees, who had been besieged at Kandamo by Christian insurgents.The despatch added that the rescued persons were embarking on board warships at Selimno, which place, the consul said, was in danger of being attacked by Christians after the departure of the warships for the purpose of landing the refugees and others on hoard at places ni safety.Sir William Harcourt, the leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, has moderated the pessimistic tone of his utterances, and it is supposed that his change of front is due to his having learn:d that negotiations between Eng- which Lord Salisbury declines to discuss them ! ÿ {land and France in regard to Egypt are being continued.The entire staff of employees at the Devonport Dock Yards, numbering five thousand, have been ordered to* work overtime for the purpose of hastening the completion of the fitting out of vessels upon which they are engaged.The order is believed to have been issued in view of the crisis which has arisen over the Cretan question.GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.The Cologne \u2018 Gazette \u2019 says the powers have not yet agreed upon the method of applying coercion to Greece.Ger- \u2018many and Austria are in perfect accord as to the application of drastic measures, but Russia and Great Britain are uncertain.Russia sent instructions of a seri- pus nature yesterday both to the admiral commanding the Russian squadron at Crete and the Russian minister at Ath- ENS.Berlin, March 11.\u2014The \u2018National Zei- tung,\u201d in a presumably .inspired article on the situation in Crete, says il the promised coercion vf Greece is not proceeded with by the powers Germany will not take part in any negotiations which may be entered into for the presentation of another note to Greece.A GREAT AUTHOR DEAD.PROF.HENRY DRUMMOND PASSES AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.: London, March~ 11.\u2014 Prof.Henry Drummond, the celebrated writer on religious subjects, died to-day at Tun- bridge Wells.: Henry Drummond was born at Stirling in 1851, and was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and Tubingen, in Germany.He subsequently passed through the Free Church Divinity hall, and after his ordination was appointed to a mission station at Malta.On his return to Scotland he was appointed a lecturer in Science at the Free Church College, Glasgow, 1877, and professor in 1684.He also took charge of a working- mens\u2019 mission in that city.He subsequently travelled with Prof.Geikie in the Rocky Mountains and South Africa.He was the author of \u2018 Natural Law in Prof.Drummond the Spiritual World.\u2019 THE LATE PROFESSOR DRUMMOND.also wrote some interesting accounts of bis travels, one of the most noticeable of which is \u2018 Tropical Africa,\u201d 1888.In 1890 he travelled in Australia.His most recent works are \u2018 The greatest thing in the world\u2014love.\u201d A sermon based on the text \u2018 The greatest of these is charity.and \u2018Pax Vobiscum, (peace be with you).In 1894 he published * The ascent of man,\u201d a work which insists on the existence of certain al-ruistic factors in the process of natural sccretion.This work was severely eriticised by Mrs Linton, writing from the orthodox scientific point of view.™ > FOURTEEN JINGOES.ALL THAT COULD BE GOT TO OPPOSE ARBITRATION.New York, March 11.\u2014Only fourteen J persons gathered last night in response to a call for an informal conference to prot :st against the ratification of an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain.It was decided to adjourn the conference till Saturday evening.I VICEREGAL \u2018 AT HOME\u201d Ottawa, March 11.\u2014Her Excellency the Countess of Aberdeen gives an \u2018 At Home\u2019 this evening, to which the members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and others, have been invited._\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014- \u2014 \u2018 BERMUDAS\" PAPERS SEIZED, Jacksonville, Tla., March 11.\u2014The steamship \u2018 Bermuda\u201d which put into Fernandinda yesterday, was immediately boarded by the British vice-consul who took the vessel's papers away from her.The \u2018Bermuda\u2019 was under British registry.It was suspected that her mission in Florida waters was to go filibustering t + WATERS OF THE YAMASKA POLLUTED BY SEWAGE AT ST, HYACINTHE \u2014 RESULTS OF DR.JOHNSTON'S ANALYSIS, St.Hyacinthe, three weeks ago Dr.Johnston came to St.Hyacinthe at the request of the council here and secured samples of the water for purposes of analysis.The report, which is a lengthy one, has just been made public.The doctor begins by saying that owing to the excessively cold weather which prevailed when the samples were secured, the analysis is not as satisfactory as it might be.The bacteriological analysis of the water taken from the Yamaska has demonstrated that it contains the usual amount of bacteria found in rivers during the winter sesaon.The water supplied to St.Hyacinthe contains an abnormal amount of bacteriae susceptible of development and capable of producing infection.It- contains four times as many as the Montreal water.The doctor cons tinues:\u2014\u2018 It seems evident from the researches that I have made, that ghe epidemic of typhoid which has prevailed in St.Hyacinthe, is due to the pollution of the water by the sewers, which empty above the present intake of the water.As far as I can ascertain, it 18 due to a fatal case which occurred in quarter five early in January.The city may expect to have these epidemics so long as the intake of the water remains where it is.No typhoid microbes were found in the samples analyzed, but that does not prove that they are not to le found sometimes, as frequent analysis might! demonstrate.Were the aqueduct removed higher up the river and the water taken above the city sewers, all danger of typhoid would be removed.The water furnished to the city is calculated to produce gastric troubles and diarrhoea, and these in turn tend to produce typhoid and other fevers.The doctor also analyzed blood taken from those who were sick, and the analysis has established the nature of the disease as being truly typhoid.\u2019 THE \u2018VANCOUVER\u2019 IS SAFE REACHED HALIFAX AT XNINE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.WAS DELAYED BY HEAD WINDS AND A SLIGHT ACCIDENT\u2014THE LIST OF PASSENGERS.Halifax, N.S,, March 11.-\u2014The overdue mail steamer \u2018 Vancouver,\u201d from Liverpool, arrived at nine o'clock this morning.Heavy weather was the cause of her delay, head seas and wind being met with almost every day.She also had a slight accident to her machinery.Two lifeboats were smashed and other slight damages sustained.During two days she made only a hundred and fifty-five miles, on March ¢ seventy-one miles and on March 5 eighty-four.This morning the cargo shifted and the steamer came into port with a heavy list.The \u2018 Vancouver\u2019 brought the following passengers: Mr.A.5.Crum, Mr.Nicholson, Dr.F.A.Stabb, Mr.J.H.West, Mr.P.G.Owen, Mrs, Owen, Mrs.J.Ogilvie, Mr.8.C.Brims, Mr.W.T.Ware, Mr.L.C.Munroe, Mr.J.W, Berry, Mr.J.Furner, Mr.E.Wilson, Mr.H.Wilson, Mr, E.James; also thir- ty-seven intermediate and eighty-four steerage.\u2018 LAKE WINNIPEGS' ROUGH TRIP.London, March 11.\u2014The British SS, \u2018Lake Winnipeg,\u201d from St.John, N.B,, Feb.14, for Liverpool, arrived safely in the Mersey to-day.Captain Taylor reports having had a terrible voyage, during which the vessel had such a larve quantity of water in her engine-room that the passengers had to be galled upon to assist in clearing her and in righting her cargo, which had shifted during the heavy weather.Iler fires were out for over a fortnight, and three hundred and seven head of cattle, twenty-two horss and seventy-four sheep had to be thrown overboard owing to the scarcity of drinking water on board and the inability of the engineers to work the condensing apparatus.eee SIR DONALD SMITH.Liverpool, March 11.-The White Stur steamer \u2018 Teutonic,\u201d which sailed from here vesterday for New York, had among her passengers Nir Donald Smith, the Canadian High Commissioner ; Mr.R.C.Lelimann, the Oxford Coatch, and Mrs.Annie Besant.PE FAIR AND MILD.Meteorological Office, Toronto, Ont., March 11, 11 a.m.\u2014The following are the minimum temperatures: Calgary.10 below: Prince Albert, 18 below: Qu'Appelle.12 below; Winnipeg, 20 below: Port Arthur, zero; Parry Sound, 20; Toronto, 32: Ottawa, 22; Montreal, 28; Quebec.24: Halifax, 30.ProbabiH- ties for the next twenty-four hours : Fair, little change in temperature.Montreal.March 11, 1897.teadings by Hearn & Harrison's Standard Barometer at noon to-day, 29.83 ; yesterday, 20.47.To-day, temperature, max.49, min, 28; yesterday, max 41, min, 33 March 11.\u2014Two or THE ALLIANCE PROTEST.ENTHUSIASTIC MEETINGS IN ONTARIO TO PROTEST AGAINST THE HARCOURT LIQUOR BILL.Toronte, March 1}.-\u2014-The special convention called by the Dominion Alliance with respect to the Harcourt license hill opened shortly after ten o'clock tins | morning at the Guild Hall, McGill strect, The secretary, Ald.F.&.Spence, presented a mass of letters and resolutions vaic- ing the strongest protests from all parts of the province.The correspondence and reports showed that the Rev.J.M.Campbell.president of the Bay of Quinie Methodist Conference, has asked all the ministers of his conference to call ind'g- nation meetings.Mr.Campbell savs :\u2014 I! regard the bill as a breach of faith.\u2019 The congrezation worshipping in rhe Methodist Church, Roslin, on Marday night unanimously.by a standing vote, passed a resolution to be presented to the legislature against the adoption of the new license bill.The Rev, N.Weilwood of Thornburv preached upon the prohibition question on Sunday night, and said :\u2014I am doing all I can to arouse the community to a realization of the gravity of the posi- tien of the temperance questicn at the present time.\u2019 The Thomasburg congregation in the Methodist Church, with the exception of five persons, rose to their feet in support of a resolution which declared the Harcourt bill to be \u2018a measure which on the whole is conceived in the interests of the licensed trade in strong drink.\u2019 At a public meeting at Bowmanville a resolution was passed declaring the measure to be \u2018contrary to the promises madé by the government.\u2019 Indignation meetings have been held in the Methodist churches in Stockdale, Osterhout\u2019s, and the Murray township tabernacle.at which a resolution declaring the bill to be \u2018entuely at variance with the direct pledges ziven by the government\u2019 were passed unanimously, and ordered to be sent to Mr.W.A.Wil- Joughby, M.I>.P., for presentation.The Rev.Edward J.Stobo, jr.has furnished a protest adopted hy the Baptists of North Bay.Three congregations of the Ba\u2018h circuit have adopted unanimously a streng protest against.the bill.The Wesley Methodist congregation on Sunday night, by a rising vote, adopted a resolution denouncing the bill as \u2018a step backward, and to emphasize this rose and sang \u2018Hold the Fort.\u2019 The Meaford Sons of Temperance unanimously adopted a strong protest, and the Sons of Temperance of the Georgian Bay district also.A bundred members of the Smithtie}d Methodist Church have sent a protest to the legislature signed individually by them.The temperance people of Harts, Haz- zard's Corners.Kingston.Arnprior, Trenton, Rawdon, Bethel {Thomasburg), are also opposed to the bill.At a meeting held vesterdar in the Methodist Church in Frankford and the Methodist Church in Sidney the following resolutions were carried unanimous- Iv :-\u2014~That we denounce the proposed legislation as utterly inadequate, falling far short of our reasonable requests and expectations, and being entirely at variance with the direct pledges given us bv the government, and that a copy of said resolutions Le sent to our representative in the legislature urging him to use his influence to bring about such legislation as shall meet the demands of publie opinion.\u2019 A meeting of citizons of Sault See, Marie.Perth Sons of Temperance and West Flamboro Epworth Leaguss have passed motions censuring the government for the new litense bill.The morning session was chiefly Jes voted to arranging for policy respreting the deputation to the government.which will be received whe: tlie House rises this afternoon.Mayor Fleming was unanimously elected chairman.The convention is most representative from all parts of the province, and influentiai.The joint secre- tarics are: Dr.© V.Emery, llamilton, and Mr.Lewis C.Peake, Toronto.FEELING IN KINGSTON.Kingsten, Ont., March 11.\u2014The Hon.William Harty, member for Kingston, is the recipient of scores of resolutions from Kingston temperance and Christian kn- deavor societies protesting against the Harcourt license bill and asking that the full pledges of the Ontario Government to temperance workers be carried out.At the public meeting on Tuesday night this resolution was unanimously adopted: That this meeting hereby expresses its deep dissatisfaction at the meagrencss of the amendments to the license law in the till just introduced into the Legislature; that after~ghe decided expression of publiz Opinion by a majority of 81.7\u20ac% votes against the liquor wrsflic in the nrovinecial plebiscite, in view of the Legislature's unquestioned power to curtail that trafic.aud the government's pledge to restrict it as far and as fast as public opinion would warrant then: in going, and their jurisdiction would allow, friends of temperance cannot accept as satizfactory the propoged leglslation: that we do not constder the provisions of that bill as any adequate respons: to the people's demands, or a fulfdiment of the promises made.That Kingston send delegates to the convention of temperance workers in Toronto, on March 11.ù ?} CINE ar = veg na = - - me gn mn ee + es EE EE Sr gm a ie WT we bd ar en spon 2 .\u2014 TuurspAy, Marc 11, 1897, man BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notices of births, marriages and deaths must farari- ably be endorsed with (As name and address of the sender, er otherwise no notice can be taken of them Birth notices are inserted for 25e, marriage notices for 50c, death notices for 25c prepaid.The announcement of funeral appended to death notice, 25e extra; other extension to obituary, such as shor- sketch af life, two cents per word extra, except poetry, which is 50 cents per line ertra\u2014prepaid.Annual subscribers may have announcements of births, marriages and deaths /without extended obituary or traces) oceurring ên their dmmediare families, Sree af charge, in which cass name and address of sub- seriders shovld be civen BIRTHS.CLOUSTON.\u2014At Huntingdon.Que., March 10, the wife of J.R.Clouston, M.D, of a daughter.11 PLAYFAIR \u2014At Playfair,- Ont.on March 3, 1557, the wife of John E.Playfair, of a daughter.11 WARREN.-In Chicago.on the 1st inst.Mrs, Robt.K.MARRIED.ARGALL\u2014WALLACE.\u2014 In Three Rivers, P.Q.nn the 3rd inst.by the Rev.E.3.Morrison.Frederick J.Argall to Annie.Daughter of William Wallace of Three Rivers.9 MILLS\u2014CAMPBELL.\u2014At the residence of bv the Rev.C.N.Mitchell, Mr.J.Mills of Romney, to Letitia, daughter of Mr.James Campbell of Forest.10 Mao KAY\u2014CARGIELL.-At the residence of | David Noble, ou Feb.24, by the Rev.Geo.Maclennan, Daniel Caskill MacKay of; Mount Forest, to Mfts Maria Ann, Gaugh- ter of the late Charles Elder Curgill.19 UREN\u2014SPENCE.\u2014On the evening of the ath inst., at the home of the bride.nrar Granton.by the Rev.Edw.I.M.Smith, B.A., Grafton Uren of West Missouri.to Clara, daughter of William pence.ll DIED.BARRY.\u2014On Wednesday.> Beaver Hall square, Grace, John and Eliza Barry.Funeral on Friday.12th inst.at 2.80 p.m.to Moutit Royal Cemeters 11 CAMPBELL.\u2014At Port Elgin.Ont.on the sth inst., the Rev.John Campbell, in his 79th year, formerly Congregational pastor of Indian Lands and Melbourn, Quebec.11 CATHRON.\u2014At his late residence, 025 Church street, Toronto.suddenly, from pneumonia, Robert Richard Catiiron, late accountant Freehold l.oan & Savings Co.DAVENPORT.\u2014At the r=sidence of E.D.Sutherland, Ottawa, Ont, on March 6, 1897, Anne Popham Davenport, aged x5, relict ot Henry Davenport, of Sydney, N.S.10 FAIRBANKS.\u2014At his residence, 111 University street, on March 1u, Rufus Falr- banks, aged 63 years.: Funeral on rriday.at 2.30.Friends are respectfully regueste® to attend.GRAHAM.\u2014At 199 Belmont Flace, mount, on Wednesday, March lu, Graham, aged ©5 years.Funeral on Saturday.p.m.from his late residence.kindiy accept this intimation.PENNY.\u2014At 6609 St.André street, March 17, 1897, at daughter of West- Robert the 13th, at 2.30 Friends will 11 on the 10th inst., Frederick Charles, fourth son of William Penny, aged 20 years and LU months.* Funeral from above address, on Saturday, 13th inst.at 2.30 p.m.11 STACKHOUSE\u2014At Peverit, Que., on Thursday evening, March 4.1397, Samantha Munson, aged 82 years, widow of the late Charles G.W.Stackhouse and dearly beloved mother of C.F.Stackhouse of Pev- eril.W.E.Johnson of Kennerdell, Pa.Mrs.M.E.Hemminzway of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs.G.E.Carroll of Sioux City, fowa.SPAULDING.\u2014At 21 University street, on the 10th instant.Hannah W.Hodgdon, beloved wife of Abraham Spaulding, in her 73rd year.Funeral on Friday at 2.30 p.m.Friends pleaze accept this intimation.1y WYNDE.\u2014A* Montreal, on March 9, 1897, Thomas Wynde, aged 37 ycars.Funeral from his late residence, 221 Prince Arthur street, on Friday, the 12th inst., at 2.30 p.m.10 hose sending notices for the above column may send with them a list of names of interested friends Marked copies of the \u2018 Witness\u2019 containing such __Ratiss MOLL be sent free Lo any address in Canada Montreal excepted.~ hd ADVERTISEMENTS.The celebrated Chickernig & Sons Pianos of Boston are on sale at the ware- rooms of C.W.Lindsay, 2366 St.Catherine street.a A New Piano \u2014The new style \u2018R\u2019 Bell piano is a perfect embodiment of the latest productions of pianoforte construction.Intending purchasers are invited to inspect these instruments at our ware- rooms.,, Willis & Co., 1824 Notre Dame street (near McGill street).Liquidation Sale of fFurni- ture until 1st May, Thomas Lizeet.'EES & CO., THR E UNDERTAKERS, § 800 St.James St.Montren) x DOWN TOWN ¥% JEWELLERY SHOP PRESENTS.Now's yourtimeto buy whenevery:hing fg so cheap We have a complete ussort- ment of Sterling Silver Novelties, Foilet \u2018Articles, BB.Trays.etc, etc, lamps, Clocks, Candtebras, Urns, Music Stands, Bra s and Onyx Pedestals, ctc., ete.All our Fine Vienna China to be sold at half price, slong with Limoges, Donlton and Royal Bonn.We have in siock some very fine \u2018© Westminster Chimes* and * Grandfather Clocks.\u2019 R.A.DICKSON & CO., 1791 Notre Dame street.AY LINE ETCHINGS, Warren.of a daughter.11: ! i 1 | the bride's parents, on Thursday, Feb.25, | Happenings at at Carsley\u2019s.Powders.Messrs.frem to-day introducing Hubbard's \u2018famous Mr.Amey will sell the perfumes and spray all desirous with their fa- MUSIC AND PERFUME.E.J.Amey and W.H.Hodgins of New York will be at our store American Perfumes and Sachet vorite odor Free of Charge, while Mr.Hodgins will play all the latest music which will also be on sale along with Hubbard's famous American perfumes and Sachet Powders.being 75c.The perfumes will be EVERYBODY IS IN sold at 29¢ per ounce, the regular price The Sachet Powders will be sold at 10c, regular price 25¢.- VITED TO ATTEND.\u20ac » S.CARSLEY CO,» Notre Dame street.Montreal's Greatest Store.March 11.\u2018The Store that is Tncreasing Faster than auy other Store in Montreal To-day.\u2019 FRIDAY\u2019S SPEC QUALITY AND CARSLEY'SSLEDGEHAMMERS FOR TO-MORROW.ANY QUANTITY SOLD.Regular Friday's Value, Price.Warner's Safe Cure.$1.00 § .75 Warner's Asthma Cure.750 .60 Warner's Pills.+ 250 17 SWilltams' Pink Pills.00 222 Hood's Sarsaparilla.1.00 .09 | Paines Celery Compound .1.00 .63 ¢ gc per square inch.Minimum for ary singla \u2018 Etching.50: : drawing extra.if required, Special rates for large quantities.\u2018WITNESS PRINTING- HOUSE, Coraer Craig and Bleury streets, | Aver's Parsaparilla.1.00 .t8 SKIRT BARGAINS REPEATED To-morrow will be another red letter duy in our skirt department as we Intend repeating last Iriday\u2019s bargains in Ladies\u2019 Black and Colored Dress Skirts.An extra staff.will insure customers prompt attention.READ THE PRICES.Regular Friday's Value.Price.Fancy black dress skirts .#1,55 8 .95 Ladies\u2019 figured black skirts.2.25 1.06 Ladies\u2019 figured mohair skirts 2.75 1.95 Fancy satin cloth skirts.4.25 2.95 Ladies\u2019 colored serge skirts 4.25 2.95 Ladies\u2019 figured mohair skirts 3.50 3.93 Ladies\u2019 fancy tweed skirts.4.00 2.05 THE =.CARSLEY CO, LTD.BLACK DRESS GOODS.Economy in price, excellency in quality and originality of style is what makes our dress goods universally liked.25 Pieces New Black Serge Dress Goods, forty inches wide, and special spring weight, regular value, 31e; to-mor- row, 2lc.18 Pieces Forty-four-inch Black Mohair Dress Goods, regular value, 60e; Our excellent wear in this line, to-morrow, 45e.BLOUSE SILKS.Silks this season excel all pre- ECONOMY IAL OFFERINGS.IN EVERY ITEM.Book x Sereains.+ LESURE HOUR.Only 21.09 ea.En rh a .SUNDAY N Ë AT HOME.yok Us 22 Only 81,09 ea.2 \\ BOYS\u2019 ow ANNUAL Only 81.09 eu.y NN GIRLS\u2019 OWN ARRAN .ANNUAL - Only 81.09 es.During the holidays we sold a gigantic quantity of the favorite annuals, but since we have =o often been asked for them, we have purchased the WHOLE EDITION and offer them for this month at the following astonishing price:\u2014 = BOYS\" CWN ANNUAL GIRL'S OWN sxscar| For $I1.09 SUNDAY AT HOME EACH LEISURE HOUR \u2019 OR LESS THAN HALF THE PUBLISHED PRICE.HALF THE PUBLISHED PRICE.fs Here's a chance for Boys and \u201cwho missed Nanta Claus; fer Carls vious ones and contain the latest concep- Principals, for Families and for Every- tions of artistic minds and the daintiest body.\u201d products of skilled hands.The S.CARSLEY CO., Ltd., 1763 to 1783 N Votre Dame st, By mail, 20e extra.192 to 194 St.James st., Montreal.«_ NEWSY ITEMS \u201c7 FOR MONEY SAVERS We try to make our advertisements as newsy and as bright as we can.offers.These are two reasons E sy to read \u2014-profitable to read.We also fill tig full of actual money-saving why you should ead onr ads, The Menu for to morrow's feast contains ten items which should bring out Montreal\u2019s thrifty women rain or shine.CURTAIN \"bise a ine o ENDS.pies wu represent cur tains worth from $1.00 to $12.00a pair They are 114 to 2 yards in ength.For Friday we sell them at 18e, 25e, 33: and 300 each.A new line SASH of Sash cur- CURTAINS.taining 30 inches wide, worth 17¢ a yard, goes on sule to morrow at 12!;c a yard.+ We have UMBRELLAS.il quite aslot of those sample Umbrellas which sold so well last month.They are needed now more than ever.We have added a lot more from our stock and marked them all less 33! per dent.WHITE Ve are selling a L.an\u2019s White Shirt SHI square inch.Special rates for large quan- T7 tities.Curtains and Draperies, for | \"WITNESS\" PRINTING HOUSE, Corner Craig and Bleury streets.Spring, Thomas Ligget.The Daily Witness, THURSDAY, MARCH 1L COMMERCIAL.WITNESS OFFICP, Thursday, March 11, 1897.WHOLESALE PRICES, Cable advices to the Board of Trade this morning are as follows: \u2014London, Thursday.Maäreh 11, 1897.\u2014Cargoes off coast.wheat nominally unchanged, maize quiet.cargoes on passage, wheat rather easier, partially 3d lower, maize quiet and steady.English country markets, wheat quiet and steady.Liverpool! spot wheat and maize qu'et , Minneapolis first bakers\u2019 flour, lus.Futures, wheat steady, 6s 2'cd March.ns 3%3,d Muy.6s 3'>d July.68 24d Sept.: maize, steady.25 6d March, 23 7d April, 2s T%d May, \u20ac x44d June, 2s 94, July.Paris, wheat, 21.75 March, 21.45 April: flour, 44.49 March, 44.69 April ; French country markets quiet aud steady.In Milwaukee wheat opened at 72\\sc March and 74;gc May.In Toledo wheat opened at 88'%c March and 89izc July.In Detroft wheat opened at &3;c March and 3gc May.In St.Louis wheat opened at T074¢ to Tie July.In Duluth wheat opened at 74',c b.May.In New York wheat opened at \u201cic 19 80%c May, \"8c July and T5%e to Thi, Sept, Grain\u2014There is a good demand for oats, but other lines are dull.We quote \u2014 Peas.per 60 lbs.47c to tre No.2 oats.per 34 Ibe.22imctu 220 Corn, Canadian .326 10 24\u20ac Buckwheat, per 48 Ibs 2.220 16 tue Flour\u2014There was a little more business passing in Manitoba grades but rates are still Irregular and our quotations are only nominal.We quote: Winter patents 10 2.$4.30 to 8445 Spring wheat patents .4.60 tn 450 Straight rollers .\u2026 .890 to 440 Straight rollers, in bags .1.65 to Led Manitoba strong bakers .4.25 to 4.0 Meal\u2014The market is dull and the decline seems not to have encouraged buyers.We quote rolled oats at $2.70 to $2.80 in bags.$2.80 to $2.90 in barrels.Feed\u2014Manitoba bran is quoted at $17, n- cluding bage.Ontario bran 1s now selling at $9.50 in Toronto, which is equivalent to $13 here.Provisions.\u2014There is a better demand ; market is firm, and the tendency is higher following hogs.We quote: : Canadian short cut, mess.$12.00\" to 212.51 Canadian short cut, light.12.50 to 13.60 Hams, city cured, per lb.00.10 to Cu lZ Lard, Canadian, in pails.00.0612t0 (0.00 Bacon, per 1b.00.10 to 00.11 Lard, com.refined, per Ib.00.0512to 00.054 Eggs\u2014Receipts continue large and values are easy.We quote 12c in lots of about 5 boxes and 1214c for single cases; in lots of over 5 boxes [Ie would have been accepted this morning.Montreal limed we quote ot 10e to 12140.Cheese\u2014Cable was quoted this morning at 078.There is no change in the local situation.Hütter\u2014The Market is steady at 18!4c to 19e for finest creamery, and al! of it is being absorbed locally.Roll dairy ranges from lle to 13c, the latter price being for cholce which is scarce.Hay\u2014Market continues quiet.We quote No.1 at $8.60 to $9 for car lots on track, $7.50 to $8 for No.2 Ashes\u2014Values are unchanged and business is very light.We quote as follows today:\u2014First pots at $3.35 to $3.40: seconds at $3 to $3.05; pearls at $4.45 to $1.50.Potatoes\u2014Potatoes are slow at 35c to 4ùc per bag in car lots, and steady at 45c to 50c in smaller quantities.Beans\u2014The market is easier at 60c to 65c in car lots, and 70c to 75c in smaller quantities.Honey \u2014 White honey in comb at 1Cc ; white extracted at 8c to 2c; dark extracted at 5c to 6c; dark in comb at 7L4c to 5c.LIVE STOCK MARKET.\u2014 March 11, There were about 625 head of butchers\u2019 cattle, 500 calves, 60 sheep and 20 spring lambs offered for sale at the East End Abattoir to-day.The butchers were out in large numbers and a fair amount of business was done, but prices of common cattle and calves were considerably lower than on last market.The best butchers\u2019 cattle sold at from 3L6c to a little over 3%c per Ib., but some of these were of better quality than any offered on Monday.Pretty good stock soid at from Mc 0 314c and the common animals at from 2c to 2%c per lb.Small calves were very plentiful and cheap, prices of these ranging from $1 to $3.50 each; good | calves sold at from $4 to $9 each.Old sheep sell at about 3c per 1b.: yearlings at {rom 414c to 5¢ do., and the spring lambs at from $2.75 to $5 each.Some of the spring lambs offered here to-day were rether young and ought to have been kept with thelr dams three or four weeks longer.Fat hogs of light weight sell at from 45;c to 5e per lb.MOVEMENTS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR \\Receipts.Shipments.At Chicago\u2014 ; Wheat, bush .13,000 65,000 Corn, bush .162,000 114.000 Oats, bush .232.000 145.000 Flour, brls .8,758 3.673 At New York\u2014 ; Wheat, bush .nil.63.364 Corn, bush .84825 160,559 Oats, bush .122,400 151.835 Flour, brls .8,768 4,202 Flour, sacks .13,237 9.202 At Milwaukee\u2014 Wheat, bush .11.000 T.000 At Duluth\u2014 Wheat, bush .At Detreit\u2014 74.000 1.000 Wheat, bush 2,000 1,009 At Minneapolis\u2014 Wheat, bush .163.000 14.000 At St.Louis\u2014 Wheat.tush 40,000 52.070 At Toledo\u2014 oo Wheat.bush 7.00 6.000 RECEIPTS IN MONTREAL.G.T.R.C.P.R.TUL Wheat, bush .Ce £30 830 Peas, tush .low Co 1000 Oats, bush .18m 4025 64Z8 Barley, bush .1360 3700 Rye.bush.24m Co conn Flour, bris .113 0.13 Ashes, brls .1 2.] Butter, pkgs .187 .107 Cheese, bxs .Te LL.WY Eggs.cases ce ee LT oo Ti Ham.bacon, bxs .4 Lo 4 Dressed hogs .«1 Toh 7 Leather.rolls .as nes I juckwheat.bush .Tum oe T 0 CONSOLES.London, March 11, 12.34 p.m.\u2014Corsois\u2014 | Money, 112 5-16; account, 112 7-lv. Txvrspay, MArcu 11, 189 a 7, THE MONTREAL MR.JONES, J.P.( ITAS MORE APPLICATIONS CERTIFIED BY HIM CAST OUT.WORK OF THE BOARD OF REVISERS.The Poard of Revisers, after sitting till a lite hour last night, succeeded in completing the voters\u2019 Jists.To post Important business of the cv vw owas the reconsideration of the 1 arplications sent in by Mr, Jones, JP.and whieh were supposed, when te recisers passed them some days ago, hove heen sworn out \u2018personally be- Me.Jénes.Wath the exception of tomes, ail the applications were 1 5, Antome Ward.+ vesuit or the reconsideration was pel disastrous to Mr.Jones, J.P., as : yovisers cast out about 100 of the 15 ars-hications.Only four or five persons appeared berore the revisers and + divisions the erasure returns were as: follows: Sr.Mary's, 402 mizsed.25% granted.St.Louis, 1.353 applications; sd; 885 granted.St.James, 3.317 applications: missed; 2,481 granted, Sr.Antoine, A15 applications; 154 dismissed: 441 grantei.= St.Anns, 302 applications; 112 dismissed; ISR granted.Si.Lawr-nce.250 applications: 231 dismissed; 10 granted.Hochelaga division.dismissed.312 granted.PR IMMIGRANTS FROM THE TU.S.THEY WILL SETTLE IN CANADA.Mr.C.O.Swanson, who is employed as Scandinavian immigration agent by the Dorunion Government, has just returned from a trip through IMlinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, where he visited the Scandinavian settlers.He tound them very much dissatisfied with their surroundings.Their ground was poor and they received very low prices for their produce.It was almist impossible for them to make a living.They were anxious to leave the country but many of them had no means of doing sn, as they had no money and could not dispose of their land.Some, however, were in a little better position and de- cued to come to Canada.On April 7 Mr.Swanson will leave Montreal for Alberta witn a party of them and will rettie them there before he returns to Montreal.applications; 144 dis- 475 dismis® S38 dis- 454 applications; 142 -_\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE PHILIPPINE REVOLT.Madrid, March 11.\u2014The Spanish government has decided to send 15,000 men as reinforcements to the Philippines.London, Mareh 11.\u2014A despatch to the \u2018Central News\u2019 from Madrid says it is reported there that General Primo De Rivera, Captain-General of Madrid, will be appointed to succeed (reneral Palavie- jà.a Gavernor of the Philippine Is- linds, and that \u2018General Ramon Blanco, formerly governor of the Philippines, will he appointed Captain-General of Madrid.> DIED AGED A HUNDRED AND FOUR.Rochester, NY , March H1.\u2014Dari= An- the nv died at Darien (ity, Genesee county, vesterdayv, aged 104.Mr.Ant'honv was anarried in 1512, and Ins wife died an 1876.Fifteen children were born to then, ten of whom are now living, aud among the number were two pairs of twins.The oldest in the familv now 1- à son, Joshua, who 1s eighiv-rour vears nf age \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014p ENGLAND CONVENTION.Brantford, Ont., March 11.\u2014The Fos Fnuland are proceeding with the¥elee von of officers this mormng.Mr.Bar- Low Cumberland of Toronto has leen ceced Supreme Grand President, and a Liilot :s now being taken for the position of vice-president.Fe.NS OF erasure of names from the lists were re- [es + erasures ordered.! DEATH OF MR.FAIRBANKS.ADVERTISEMENTS.?DAILY WITNESS.ADVERTISEMENTS.His many friends will regret to learn of the death, in his sixty-fourth year, after a lingering illness, of Mr.Rufus Fairbanks, who for forty-five years has carried on a most successful business in Montreal.The deceased was a native of Halifax, but came to this city when He early conneet- George's Church, eighteen years of age.ed himself with St.$ RRR RRR : JOHN AITKEN & oh that can compete with our shirt of a RIRES SE was our first year in business\u2014our first 3 8 year at Shirt making By the end of that year we had learned some things about Shirt making which we did not know when we x started.And so on, year after year, we accumulated facts which & bettered the fit and wear of our shirts , until now there is not a shirt made 89 2 .- x ( ° LT Notre Dame St.IMINES THE LATE MR.RUFUS FAIRBANKS.a \u201cwhich he attended regularly since.He was well known on the Board of Trade, | 3 | he of which he was a member, and also among the Masonic fraternity, being a Past Master of St.Paul's Lodge.Pre-if vious to the withdrawal of the regulars ¥ fiom Canada Mr.Fairbanks held a lieutenancy in the 6th Fusiliers.He leaves i two sons, Messrs.F.C.and G.W.Faur- banks, and a daughter, Mrs.C.E.Gault, and is also survived by three brothers, Messrs.Edwin F.Fairbanks of Halifax, Witham Fairbanks of Lowell, Meass., and FF.P.Fairbanks of Passaic, N.J.The funeral will take place at half-past two | to-morrow afterndon from the deceased's § late residence, 111 University street, to | | St.(reorge\u2019s Church, thence to Mount K \u201cRoyal Cemetery.EAE ES BE Has 20 veins already discovered.per dav with present plant.Has 300,000 tons of ore, estimated alone.> A SHIPPING.IN THE OVERDUE VANCOUVER ARRIVES.|§ The Dominion line R.M.S.Vancouver from Liverpool, Feb.25 arrived at Halifax Yat 9 a.m.to-day (Thursday), being five days overdue.In addition to a general cargo she has on board 15 cabin, 36 intermediate and - 81 steerage passengers.i The Cunard mail liner Aurania, four days B | overdue, arrived at New York yesterday | { afternocn.& | The 8S.Empress of India arrived at Van- |i | couver,\u201d B.C, from the Orient yesterday, ki having been detained at quarantine nearly B a day.The steamer has a cargo of 9C0 tons weight.k gers, amongst whom were the Right Rev.BM Bishop Aubray of Japan, who is en route = to England.» and Prince Michael] Miersky.Bi officer in the Russian fleet, who is going to KR Russia.The steamer has also brought 343 .8 month met profit.Chinese, 40 of whom are going to Havana.The Miowera sailed from Vancouver.B.C.yesterday for Australia, taking the largest cargo that ever left here.It consisted of | [§ 2.400 tons; 1,700 tons of which is Canadian \u2018 flour.The balanre consisted of agricultural | machinery, bicycles, beer, lumber etc, 1B Kingston, March 10.\u2014It has been reported \u2018 at the local office of the M.T.Company that the tender of the Kingston Locomotive B Works v wiil pay 22.009 per dar.Has a 20 Stamp Mill with Vanners, order.Has 4.00) feet of steel tram ways.Pas Hoisting Piants.C rushers and have started for the Mine, New York, March 1l.\u2014Arrived, Fulda, from Genoa.LARGEST STEAMSHIP EVER BUILT.| The new steamship Oceanic, of the White \u2018 Star line, now being built, is said to be the biggest steamship ever built, and will dwarf even the famous Great*Eastern.Mr.B.J.Coghlin, the agent for the line here, is ln A receipt of some interesting Information re- 1 garding it.It is expected that this steainer S will be launched in January next.She is M to be called the Oceanlc after the pioneer vessel of the compi.ny.This vessel.which has had a most successful career of more : than a quarter of a century in the service JH ° of the White Star line, has only recently B Le Roi beet: withdrawn.Sor idea of-the magni- BR tude of the new Oceanic may.be gathered J when it is stated that she will be 704 feet in length, or 25 feet longer than thesa reat Eastern, and 65 feet longer than any vessel now afloat or in process of construction.It has been determined by the Company to aim as far as possible at a regular Wednesday morning arrival both in New York and in Liverpool.DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE.London, March 10.\u2014The Allan line SS.Peruvian, which arrived at Glasgow, from Portland, Me., sustained some damage about steamer | [PE _- sage.One of her quartermasters was lost overboard.The British steamer Robert Adamson, fr@m Galveston on Feb.17, for Copenhagen, which arrived at Portland to-day.landed .for the construction of two steel | |i barges for the M.T.Company, has been ac- | a cepted.: | We can quote lowest current prices.WE ADVISE PURCHASE: A small lot at $7.25 § Montreal Red Mountain (oxey) Shares {2 Cents\u2014fully paid and non-assessable.CLARENCE J.McCUAIG & CO.her decks and Inst AT head of cattle on pas.| ; 1759 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.Telephone 923.Agents Wanted.IN ONE.MINE REMARKABLE FEATURES.8 Has $300,000 of ore blocked out ready for milling in the Bonanza vein.Experts estimate that the Bonanza vein will yield net profit of $750 to be in sight in the Jumbo vein Assays run from $11.00 to $60.00 per ton.Experts estimate that the Lucky Joe vein when completely developed Concentrators, ste., in full working all latest modern appliances, Has its own Town site, advantageously situated on Shoal Lake.The Mill Has Just Started.Tbe last rest run of 120 tous yielded $1,800.or $15 to the ton, or $1,000 ÿ net profiton 3 days\u2019 run\u2014without cleaning up dies and without concentrates, In the saloons were thirty passen- ' # which wii! probably vield one-third more.À full s'aff nf engine-rs, assayers, amalgamators have been engaged and On their arrival the mill will be run Tegularly.By May or June it is expected that the mill will be tarning out $20,000 per Price of Shares Now $3.75.4 Subject to Advance without Notice.RIE PE Re the crew of the British schooner Mabel.from Oporto, Jan.15.for St.John's, Nfid., which was abandoned in a sinking condition on Carpets, Spring Openings, March 3 Thomas Lig Queenstown, March 11.\u2014 The Belgian steamer Pennland, from Liverpool, for Philadelphia, has arrived here.She reports having spoken the British steamer West Indian, from New Orleans for Liverpool, off Tuscar Rock, on the south coast of Ireland.The West Indian was firing rockets.Her engines were stopped and her fires were out, and she was lying very low in| Government, tha water.The Pennland offered assistance, but it was refused.Two steamers : Were standing by the West Indian.one of which was probably the British steamer Ottoman, which sailed vesterday from Liverpool for Boston.Several small boats had bean launched, and were standing by the ship.R.WILSON SMITH, INVESTMENT BROKER.Municipal and Railway Securities Bought and Sold.First-class Securities Suitable for Trust Funds always on hand.1724 NOTRE DAME STREET, Montreal.\u2014\u2014 OBITUARY.Kingston, Ont., Ma=ch 11.\u2014Mr.John Gratton.Wellington street, died on Tuesday pith, ie ras barn Jo KE ane i800 ens of the Taberal paper the oc 1 .QUEBEC REVISERS FLOUTED.Quebec, March 11.\u2014The publishers and | \u2018 .: , - } = i | oldest members of St.Patrick's Soclety.Clairon, showed the full measure of | Mr.Willam Dun-an.ex-councillor of; their contempt for the local government ! Portsmouth.died on Wednesday, aged forty- | i board of revisers here vesterday, by re-; { tant three years illness.He wus an | fusing to obey a summons to appear he- \u2018 Sister St.James, aged 22 years, died in, | fore and answer to its charge of con- | L'Hotel Dieu, on Tuesday, from consump- | tempt, and the board, even backed by tlon.She was known to the world as Miss Attorney-General Pelletier, found itself, Marv Ann Murphy of Cornwall.She en- .tered the convent in 1891.powerless to enforce its authority.| competent artists, | moderate rates, by SHAMROCKS ! SHAMROCKS! St.Patrick\u2019s.- St.Patrick\u2019s Day.Shamrocks, Splendid, Long and Cheap.They are my own growing.Wholesale and Retail.sv.8.BAIN.Florist, 66 BEAVER HALL HILL.TELEPHONE 4020.11 JLLUSTRATIONS FOR BOOKS CATALOGUES, ETC.Supplied from drawings or photographs by and etched on zinc at JOHN DOUGALL & SON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal.| EN En COLONIAL HOUSE, Phillips Square.PNP A 000 TA Fes Pa ry =r ea a BOOTS AND SHOE DEPT.NI NSN POND NP ANN Fn?it et SPECIAL SALE Ladies\u2019 Kid Button Boots, Heavy Soles, Square Toes, Ladies\u2019 Kid Button Boots, Heavy Soles, Wankenfast Last .Ladies\u2019 Fine Kid Button Boots, Heavy Soles, Round and Pointed Toes, .Hand .$4.50 for $3.60 END Fa EY Rg?fes 7 Sh) ï Fi .$4.00 for $3.20 .$4.50 for $3.60 .84.50 for 23.60 Ladies\u2019 Fancy Button Boots, Turns, Pointed Toes, .Ladies\u2019 Fancy Button and Lace Boots, Medium Soles, Pointed Toes, .: 85,50 for $4.40 Ladies\u2019 English Enamel Lace Boots, Heavy Soles, Medium Toes, Ladies\u2019 Cloth Top Patent Leather Yamp Button Boots, Pointed Toes, .$7.00for $4.67 Ladies\u2019 Kid Shoes, Hand Turns in three different lasts, , .+ - $2.75 for $1.84 Ladies\u2019 Fine Kid Shoes, Hand Turns, ° Pointed Toes, .- \u2026 \u2026 $4.00 for $2.67 Ladies\u2019 Patent Leather Cloth Top Shoes, Light Soles, Pointed Toes, .$5.00 for $3.34 HENRY MORGAN & CO.MONTREAL.\u2019 $5.50 for $3.67 R.W.FOWLER, 2639 ST.CATHERINE STREET, cor.Buckingham ave.er Bargains! > Bargains! \u2014IN\u2014 NEW PRINTS s, very neat.LINING REMNANTS, only 6c.GREY COTTON, Extra Heavy.only 4c, For your wants ring up TELEPHONE 3011, REA AE AE RAA ERREUR DE RACE SRE 0DD CHAMBER SET SALE Our Chamber Set Department is too crowded, and invoices of more sets are coming to hand every day.Now, we've a lot of seis with perhaps one piece short, a mug or brush vase, br a cover of the soap dish is cracked, or perhaps only a flaw in the ware.a cover may not fit exactly, and so on.We've derided to place all such sets as.de and offer them at prices to sell them, for instance: A set marked $12.00 will be sold now for $5.75.A * « 817.50 « \u201c$8.00, A * \u2018 $11.00 \u201c 6 ¢\u201c 87.50, $13.50 « \u201c $6.75, $35.00 \u201c $22.75, and so on, all sets reduced in proportion.This is an exceptional opportunity to get a good set at a very moderate price.\\ 3 \u201cox * x x %, Sale commences FRIDAY MORNING at both stores.: A.T.WILEY & CO.2341 St.Catherine Street.> 1803 Notre Dame Street.iz * LECTROTYPING DONE IN the very best Style and wits despatoh af l \u201cWits ess\u201d Office.ENTS FOR SALE Apply at tbe * WIINESS\" OFFICE.Br ET CEA NCR oe.aim pry LORIE wre rv ariel par speed AC ir 11 oT a Te Le ge RR Lm ; Se aA gin SR nT 3 Er rr 4 Weekly Calendar, THURSDAY, MARCH 11.° x ASSOCIATION HALL, PROF.ALEXANDER.É TO-NIGHT, TO MEN ONLY, ÿ On \u2018 Vital Force and How to Retain it.\u201d Friday night, \u201d How to Read Chaiacter.\u201d_ Blindfold test examinations; 10c and 13c.Saturday night, by request, will repeat \u2018Love, Courtship and Marriage,\u201d 102 and 15c.11 Montreal Bicycle Club 2 19th ANNUAL MEETING The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the above (Club will be held in the C.ub House, Mansfield street, on THURSDAY, 11th March, At 8 p.m.sharp.Business: \u2014~ Reception of Committee s Report, Treasurer\u2019s Statement, and Election of Uflicers for ensuing year.i DAVID J, WATSON, Hon.Secy.3 1897, Joxira LECTURE, NOMERVILLE COURSE.A SPECIAL LECTURE, ENTITLED \u201cEXTINCT FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE.\u201d {including some of the largest and most {n- teresting ones, will be delivered by.Dr.HENRY M.AMI of the (Geological! Survey, Ottawa, on THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, the ith inst., at & o'clock sharp.This Lecture will be illustrated by Lime Light Views specially prepared for the cc- casion.You are earnestly invited to come and bring your friends.CHAS.8, J.PHILLIPS, Rec.Secretary.Museum open from 7 to S.10 » Fripay, Marc 12.STANLEY LODGE, No.5.A.O.U,W.The members are request- » ed to attend the funeral of 3 our late Bro.T.Wynde.from his late residence, 221 Prince Arthur street, on Friday.the 12th inst., ate Members of Sister Lodges invited 2.30 p.m.to attend.A.S.ROSS, Rec.J.B.GOUGH LODGE, No.122 Independent Order of Good Templars, GRAND TEMPERANCE ENTERTAINMENT, Musical and Dramatical, Under the patronage of the Graud Chief Templar, Bro.W.H.Lambly, Drummond Hail, 81 Drummond street, on FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12th, 1597, at 8 o'clock.PROGRAMME.Selection.\u2018Evening Slumber' .Mercadante Orchest-a\u2014Mr.À.L.TOWLE, Leader.Short Address .42 42e BRO.WW.H.LAMBLY, G.C.T.Song (selected) .MASTER ERNEST FENWICK.Recitation, \u2018A Big Encugh Family,\" .MISS ANNIE BENNETT.Selection .22 24 24 4e 14 La ee The Victorian Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar.Club.Also, the Great Temperance Drama: \u2018RUINED BY DRINK,\u2019 (In four Acts.) Erdorsed by puipit and press as being one of the best Temperance Plays ever written.An effective living sermon against strong ; drink.Orchestral Music between acts.Admission, 25 cents.À few reserved seats at 35 cents.\u20ac GRAND CONCERT In Chalmers Church Lecture Hall, On FRIDAY Evening, 12tliinst,at 8 o'clock Under the auspices of caf Junior C.E.ABJISTED BY Miss Annie Bennett and the Bell Quartetie.: ADMISSION, 10c.The Piano to be used has loaned by Mr.C.W.Lindsay.kindly been 5 IONIC LODGE, No.54, A.F, & A.M.! i | The Mcmbers are requested to attend the ' funeral of our late Bro.P.M.Thos.Wynde, | from hig late residence, 221 Prince Arthur street, on Friday.the 12th inst., at 2.39 p.m.Members of Sister Lodges invited to attend.\u2019 H.ANSELL, W.M.OMANS BOARD, (CONGREGATIONAL).Th- Seventh Semi-Annual Meeting of the Quebec Branch of the C.C.W.B.M.will be held on FRIDAY, in Emmanuel Church Parlors.Sessions 9.30 a.m., 2 p.m.\u2026.8 p.m.Children's hour.4 o'clock.Basket lunch at noon.All sessions will be open to the publie.Mrs.TYTLER will speak In the evening on \u2018India and Its Orphans\u2019 and an offering will be taken up for her work.\u2018 9 BENGOUGH, WINDSOR HALL, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, Plans of seats at Shaw's and Nord.heimer\u2019s.RESERVED, 50c.Admission, 25e.The Piano used on this occasion is kindly loaned by C.W.Lindsay 2366 St.Catherine : 11 street.AM Phillips Square, LECTURE 7 By PROFESSOR 5.H.CAPPER, M.4, Of McGiil University.Subject -*\u2018 Fgypt of the Pharaohs,\u201d With Illustrations.FRIDAY, March 12th, i897, ai 8,13 p.m, ADMISSION, 250.ASSOCIATION, Weekly Calendar, SO.E.BS.Lodge Victoria's Jubllee, \u2019 No.41.All members are requested to send to the secratary their present address, ar per resolution of lodge.JOHN P.HARTLEY, Sec.11 8 Fortune strcet.SUBSCRIPTION RATES.Daily Witness, $3.00, Weekly Witness, $1.00; with reductions to cluba; Northern Messenger, 30c ; 10 copies to one address, $2.25 ; 20, $4.40; 50, $10.50 ; 100, Qu.For Great Britain add $1.04 per annum for postage on Weckly Witness ; 280 on Northern Messen- gor ; $3.60 on Daily Witness.The last edition of the DAILY WITNESS la delivered in the city every evening of publication at $4.00 per annum.ADVERTISING RATES.DAILY WITNESS.Five lines and upwards, 10c per line.Contract on favorable terms.WEEKLY WITNESS.With large tÿ 2e or cuts, 20c per line.One-thir reduction if ge: in our usual small advertising types.Special contract rates.\u2014_\u2014 All business communications should be addressed * John Dougall & Son,\u2019 * Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal, and all letters to the Editor should be addressed *Editor of the ' Witness,\u201d Montreal.\u2019 F.M.18 L.Q.25 MARCH sre sm T|W[T|F|S .| 1] 2| 3] 4] 5| 6 7: 8 9 10 11/12/13 14:15 16 17/18 19/20 21122123 25 26 127 28 29/30 31 EET EE = meer = 03 2, = = = bE 3d ay were 32.75 to 35.50.Ladies\u2019 Spring Tweed Ulsters, $3.80.were $14.50 to $19.50.BOT.A MANUFACTURER'S STOCK OF LADIES\u2019 RUBBER WATERPROOF GARMENTS AT A BIG DISCOUNT, WHICH ENABLES US TO OFFER THE SAME AT AWAY DOWN PRICES.Ladies\u201d Rubber Waterproof Garments only $2.75.worth $£.50 to 85.59, and newest styles.DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE.NOTICE WELL THE PRICE, ONLY 82.75.Latest Novelties in Spring Mantles and Jackets at and b:low WHOLESALE PRICES.SILK DEPARTMENT.10 Colorings Drab Satin Merveilleux, all 24 in.wide.in all new shades; usual price.35c; choice on Bargain Day, 35c per yard.5 Shades Shot Diagonal Satin in the newest colors, 24 in.wide; worth 56c; Bargain Day.cnly 3Qc¢ per yard.2M) vards Black Droche Silk, this line guaranteed Pure Silk.and the price on Bargain Day only 59c per yard.Black Silk Bengaltne: Sperial Line for Bargain Dav.worth $1.00; note the price only 8%c per yard.Black Silk Moire Antique Mantle Plush, just the thing for Spring Capes, cheap at $3.00; Bargain Day price only $1.39 per, yard.LINEN DEPARTMENT.200 dozen Bleached Table Napkins, Manufacturer's Samples, all sizes and patterns, worth from $1.25 to $2.00; all put up in lots of 1 doz.each; cholce on Bargain Day, 69c per dozen.100 yards Colored Border Roller Towelling, fast color; price on Bargain Day, 2%c per yard.PE Wonderful Bargains in this depariment JOHN MURPHY & CO., DRESS GOODS DEPT.A large assortment of Tailor-maile Tweed! Bargains in New Dress Goods.20 yards New Fancy Dress Goods, in all the Latest Shot Colorings, 42 inches wide, and only 28c per yard.lv Colorings New Fancy Shot Soleil Cloth.Speclal attention ts called to this line.Choice colors and new designs.Our Bargain Day price of this line 33%c per yard.Black All-Wool Serge, guaranteed all Wool; price only 19c per yard.Black Mohair Lustre, double width, 42 inches wide; on Bargain Day, 23c per yard.Black All-Wool Crepon.43 inches wide; this line worth 60c; Bargain Day only 33c per yard.PRINT DEPARTMENT.40 Patterns Finest French Shirting Cambric, all colors in this lot; this quality never sold less than 25¢ and 30c; choice on Bargain Day, only 19c per yard.1,000 yards Finest Fancy Ginghams ; thie quality worth 25c; a good assortment to select from: choice on Bargain Day.12%c per yard.25 Patterns Fancy Cashmere Flannel- ettes, new and handsome pattern; good value at 18c; choice on Bargain Day, only 12c¢ per yard.JEWELLERY DEPARTMENT WATCH FOBS.Black Silk ones, with good rolled plate trimmings, etc., only a few left; just ncte the price: Watch Fobs, f5c, for.@Bc each; $2.50 and 32.75 cnes for 9&c each.Heart Stick Pins, 10e each; To-morrow Ic each.589 Blouse Sets: 8 pteces; sold 311 last Friday: the balance to-morrow, at TOc regular price 25c set.Men's Links, look like 18-kt.gold, 50c; To-morrow, 25c pair.PERFUME DEPARTMENT.FLORIDA WATER BOTTLES, 7% inches long; To-morrow, 1Qc.i FROG IN YOUR THROAT; To-mor- row only Tc box; sold everywhere at 10c.Carlton's Cherry Tooth Paste, To-morrow, 1Bc pot.4) different odors of Bulk Perfume.at wholesale prices, viz.: 39c per oz.; werth 75¢; bottles gratis.MEN'S FURNISHINGS.double ,width, Bargtin Day 250; 100 doz.Men's and Boys' Colored Border Handkerchiefs, worth 10c cach: To-morrow, 6 for 2Hc.for Men, at half- Riding Leggings, price, $2.00, for 81.00 per pair.Men's Windsor Scarfs, Corded Silk, color.bronze, green.length 42 inches, width, 6 inches; price 60c; Friday Sc each.200 Farcy Silk Knot Ties, in light and dark colors; regular value, 15c to 25¢; Friday, 7%c each.Dressed.White Shirts.with reinforced fronts; worth $1.00 each; for 7Sc.Trimmed Cotton Night-Shirts.at 75c each; worth $1.25.Fez Caps.navy or cardinal, for children; To-morrow, 19c each.MURPHEY In turn, we hand them on.t Never a dny passes but some MARVEL OF CHEAPNESS falls in our way.2343 ST, CATHERINE STRIET, follows : 60c for 20c, 66c for 22c, 75c for 25c, 90c tor 30c, 81.00 tor 33e per yard.GLOVE DEPARTMENT.New Gluves.New Gloves.2 Cases just put in stock.They are direct from the world's best makers.Prices wholesale TO-MORROW.Men's 2-clasp Derby Gloves, tan shades; regular price, $1.50 pair; Friday, C.Ladies\u2019 4-button Suede Gloves, tan colors; sizes, 6% to 74; 96c pair; Friday, 49c pair.HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.Big Plums are to be found here as usual, EXAMPLES; 15 doz.Ladies\u2019 Black Cashmere Hose, regular value, 30c; To-morrow, 23c.10 doz.Ladies\u2019 Ribbed Wool Vests and Drawers; regular value, 35c; Tomorrow, 21c.Men's Fine Wool Shirts and Drawers, regular value, 75c; To-morrow, 49c.Men's Black and Colored Merino Sox, worth 25¢; To-morrow, 2 pairs for 25c.NOTION DEPARTMENT.1,000 dozen Buttons, assorted sizes and colors: worth 10c to 50c per dozen; To-morrow, lc per dozen.COME EARLY FOR THIS LINE.Adl-silk Crochet Dalls, color; Bc each.in every new 300 Horn and Vulcanite Combs; assorted;, your choice for Hc each.100 pairs Side Combs, with glit and silver mounts; 30c pair.for 15c.10 pieces Fancy Colored Elastic; for garters.etc.; 25c, for 10Qc.1,000 Hat Pins, e each: assorted and worth from 2c to 10c each.500 dozen packets Hair Pins; 3 packets for only 4'4c each.Another Case of Nail Brushes put to stock, and will be offered to-morrow at 2%c each; cheap at 7c.TOILET SOAPS.We carry the largest assortment of toilet soaps: and, as it is well known all over the city that our values are the best, don\u2019t lose time going elsewhere.75 CASES TO BE SOLD AT A FAR- GAIN TO-MORROW.FANCY ¢OODS DEPT.500 Purses to be sold a Bargain Tomorrow; the prices are 4c¢, 9c, 14c and 1 Oc.Children\u2019s School Bags, made from strong canvas, bound with leather, leather straps.etc.only 10Qec.100 Children's Schoo! Bags, same as above, only much larger size; To-mor- row, 19c.\u2018 DON'T MISS THESE TWO BARGAINS FOR THE CHILDREN.- The balance of our Feather Fans tb clear at 1Qc; regulars value, 50c.Fancy striped Chiffon; worth $1.50; Tomorrow, 98c.COLORS: SKY, HELIO, SALMON, NILE.= Fancy Tinsel Stripe Gauze de Paris worth 80c: To-morrow, 49c.: Chenille Plush Tasscls; assorted colors, 10c per dozen: worth double.1,000 yards fine Embroidery, worth 13gc.and 17c¢; To-morrow, fc.Terms Cash.ry EA pu ET ES DAILY WITNESS.FEES & CO.Vegetable Skimmers, Black Enamelled Handle, worth 10c.for Se.Wooden Rolling Pins, worth 10c, for He.A large assortment of Fancy Leatherette Placques, Card Receivers, Hair Receivers, Match Holders, Spill Holders, Paper Racks, etc., etc., to be cleared at about 40 percent below cost.Come and see them.i We have just received 19 Crates of Rockingham Ware, consisting of Tea- J pots, Jugs, Basins, Bakers, Plates, Dishes, Jars, etc., ete.which we will sell at Speclal Low Prices To-morrow.Rockingham Teapots, 13c, for 10c.Rockingham Bowls, fic, for Jc.Rockingham Plates.10c, for He.Rockingham Bakers, 15c, for 1Q0ec.~~ bd k BARGAIN.$1.00.AS CUT.With Shade, Chimney aud Burner complete.A REAL SO GLAS=> LAMFP | ® 3 Tel.3833.a a TE Te nr THE REVISERS' CASE.ARGUMENT OX THE OBJECTIONS TO TUE WRIT OF PROHIBITION.The argument on the objections to the issue of a writ ol prohibition and a subsequent rule nisi against the revisers took up the whole of yesterday afternoon.Messrs.Bisaillon, Macmaster, Lamothe and Mignault appeared on behalf of the revisers and their argument was based on the following grounds: That the wnt of prohibition could not be issued by a judge in chambers, except during vacation; that the revisers constituted a regu- lar body or board and the proceedings sliould have been taken against them as such, and not against each individual men.ber; that when the rule nisi wus taken out, no retürn où the writ of prohibition had yet been made before the court, which, consequently, had nothing before it upon which to act; that the order to the revisers did not mention where or before whom they were to appear; that even assuming, for argument\u2019s sake, that a judge in chambers could order the writ of prohibition it remained to be seen whether the revisers had really violated and disregarded such writ.That writ was nut peremptory, as required by law, but simply called upon the revisers to stop their proceedings, unless they could show cause to the contrary on the 18th instant, and consequently they \u2018could not be held in contempt until they had an opportunity to show cause.There was no doubt that, on the day fixed, they would effectually show that the wnt was illegallv issued: that, moreover,they were acting within their jurisdietton, and even if they erred, they could not le prohibited, for the remedy provided in such case 1s the right of appeal, and not the writ of prohibition, which can only apply when the inferior tribunal exceeds its jurisdiction.Messrs.C.A.Geoffrion and Gouin, who appear:d for the petitioner Beaupré, argued that the revisers had no discretion to question the merits of the writ upon its face.It was issued in the Queen's name and they should obev it, and their refusal constituted a real ron- tempt.It was useless to speak of a right of appeal, as there are four or five 1 i et al.{that the deed of sale by which T.S.| ! | thousand names to be dealt with, and it would be impossible to dispose of all the appeals before the elections.If the revisers were proceeding irregularly or illegally, any complaint was entitled to obtain a writ of prohibition, and such writ must be implicitly obeyed, like a writ of injunction.Authorities were then cited to show that the order issued by a judge in chambers was sufficient.Mr.Macmaster replied, calling special attention to the fact that the revisers should be called in as a board and not individually.Judge Gill then took the case en delibere._\u2014 THE PALLISER-VIPOND DIFFICUI- ° TIES.JUDGMENT BY MR.JUSTICE BELANGER.Judge Belanger rendered judgment yesterday in the case of Palliser vs.Vipond By this action the plaintiff asked Vipond sold to Simpson and Boyd certain dynamos, batteries, etc., at Lachute, be set aside.The ground of action was that the sale was effected in fraud of plaintiff with whom Vipond had pre- The Court held that Palliser never had any right viously formed a partnership.of property in the plant in question, and that Vipond was entitled to dispose of the property as he pleased, saving any recourse which the plaintiff might have against him for the execution of the contract of partnership.The Court tur ther held that the sale made by Vipond to Simpson and Boyd was made in good faith and without any fraud on the part of the latter, and the deed was held to be legal and binding.Under those circumstances the action must be dismissed.Ir another action between the same parties, Mr.Palliser claimed $20,000 damages on the ground that the three defendants, Vipond, Simpson and Boyd, had conspired against him, and after the sale by Vipond to Simpson and Boyd of the plant of the partnership, they had entered the electric light station in the absence of plaintiff and the partnership property had been handed over to Simpson and Boyd; that plaintiff, being in the station the next day while the removal of the property was Bejing effected, had resisted such removal #nd had been assaulted by defendants who had taken forcible possession of the property.In .rendering judgment, Judge Belanger held that it was true that plaintiff by his * efforts contributed to a large extent to the introduction by the Royal Electric Company of its system of lighting into the town of Lachute, but.it was also established that the plaintiff had not any right or title to the electric plant, inasmuch as he had never been able to carry out the agreement between him and the company.As to the assault on the plaintiff, the defendants, Simpson and Boyd, as bona fide purchasers of the plant, had a right to enter the station.The assault of which the plaintiff complained seemed to have been commenced and accepted by himself voluntarily, and even eagerly.It did not appear that even Boyd or Simpson struck the plaintiff ; no violence was used by them ; they merely endeavored to effect the removal of the property purchased, which plaintiff resisted.Under the circumstances the defendants were not responsible for the injury sustained by the plaintiff, and plaintiff was not entitled to any damages for the assault.The Court, however, considered that plaintiff had suffered damage by the forcible removal of the property, the effect of which was to deprive him against his will of the right which he had to the possession and enjoyment of the property as a member of the partnership, the acts of the defendants having virtually put an end to the partnership.The Court assessed \u2018that damage at the sum of $300 and rendered judgment for that amount in favor of plaintiff against the defendants, joifitly and severally, and the action was dismissed at to the surplus.\u2014 al \u2014\u2014\u2014 IS WEST HULL ¥OR LIQUOR?(To the Editor of the Ottawa \u2018 Free Press.\u2019) Sir,\u2014Feeling sure that you are interested in the contest which took place in our municipality yesterday, I ask space for a short repgrt of the result.The by-law prohibiting the sale of in- toxieating liquors in West Hull, submitted to the electors upon that day, was defeated by a majority of thirty- seven The struggle was short and sharp, but is not to be taken as an unbiased expression of opinion of our people on the question of prohibition.During the fore part of the day the temperance party led with a handsome majority, but soon the emissaries of the Ottawa liquor interest, knowing that their craft was in danger, put in an appearance, when free lunch, free drinks votes, and free passage was offered to all who would vote against the bill.Their vile decoctions goon began to work, and electors who a short time before declared themselves in favor of the by-law, marched in aud voted good and strong against it.It was, however, not a \u2018fight tc the finish\u2019 for as the day began to wear away, it became quite evident that the cause was lest, and we considered it better to allow the poll to close at once than to continue the contest another day, which would necessitate the bringing out \u2018of many of our friends who would only come in case that their votes would give us the victory, some being quite ill, and others fearing that their opposing the enemies of the bill might affect their business these hard times.Had it been a Dominion prohibition law there is no doubt that the result would have been quite different, as many who voted nay were known to be strongly in favor of a Dominion prohibitory law.The real cause of the defeat, however, appeared to be sympathy for one en- zazed in the traffic who had been left with a hotel property on hand, and to afford an opportunity of having it disposed of without the danger of loss which might ensue in the event of the passage of the by-law.We may say, however, that ou?loss is not so great ax that of those who voted against the bill, for we still retain our self-respect and a good conscience.The clergy, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, deserve very great credit for their firm and enthusiastic defence of the cause.Yours most respectfully, S.A.DEWAR.Chelsea, March 5, 1897.: \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 RAILWAY NEWS.Port Huron, Mich., March 10.\u2014An important change in the Grand Trunk work has been arranged by General Manager Hayes for Port Huron and Sarnia.At present all west bound trains are made up ON this side, and east bound on the Canadian side, and all repairing is done before trains go through the tunnel.It is stated that alt the work will now be done here.This will necessitate the remodelling ol the tracks on this side of the tunnel, and plans of a new yard with fifty more tracks have been drawn.The change will reduce the number of men employed about half, and leave only two or three at Sarnia.Indianapolis, March 10.\u2014The Monon Railway Was sold here under an order of the court to-day, by Commissioner Van Buren for $3.001,000 .New York, March 10\u2014The Board of managers of the Joint Traffic Association have decided to reduce the rates on meats until June 30, by placing them on the basis of third-class: freight.| THURSDAY, Marcu 11, 1897.ER CHILDREN'S CORNER.HOW LITTLE EVERETT RRAJDED STRAW.(By Elizabeth Robinson.) A little fine dry snow sifted in through the cracks in the roof of the \u2018unfinished chamber\u2019 where littie Everett and his brother Josiah slept ; a little snow even fell upon the bed ; but the hardy boys did not care for that, deep in a big feather bed, between rough but very warm homespun flannel sheets.\u2018Everett ! Josiah !\u2019 their mother called at the foot of the stairs ; but there was no reply, and the boys only snuggled deeper into their warm nest.\u2018Boys! boys!\u201d their mother called again ; \u2018if you don\u2019t get up at once, I shall come up there.\u2019 Knowing by experience what a dire threat this was, the bovs made haste to jump up and dress.It did not take them long to dress ; there was nothing to be taken off, their thick cotton shirts serving for night as well as day\u2014no flannels had they on, or to put on.Thick blue yarn stockings, heavy cowhide shoes, and heavy woollen trousers, with thick woollen jackets buttoned to them, were soon in place, and the boys, with merry shouts, ran down to the big kitchen, where at the sink warm water was found to wash their faces and hands, and near by was a tiny mirror, with comb and brush on the shelf below, wherewith to complete their toilets.Warm water sounds rather luxurious for the times; but the water, if not warmed, would have been pretty icy, even if just brought in from the well that formed the only water supply of the house.The boys found a nice warm breakfast steaming on the table.1t was too cold to snow very much, and their sis ter came running in from outdoors, where she had, as was her wont, heen racing around the house in the dark.She greatly enjoyed this racing about in the cold when it was just beginning to grow light ; she ævould run back and forth many times, now and then stopping to look in at the lighted windows of the kitchen, and she never failed to be on time for breakfast.Oh, how good the fried pork or sausages, the hot boiled potato s, the warm corn, or brown bread, ov buttermilk biscuits tasted.There were also great twisted doughnuts, homemade cheese and warm drink for all-coffee or tea for the elders, and milk and water for the children.What fine appetites they had, these rugged New England children ; what mattered it to then: that they could see their breaths plainiv in the big room, where the tallow candles ilick- ered and flared as now and then a gust of wind came in from around the not over-tight windows.After breakfast Josiah went out with his father to help on the farm : Susan washed the dishes, and Everett, after bringing in a good supply of wood and making the big open fire blaze up brightly, sat down to his daily \u2018stent\u2019 of braiding straw, In those far-away days many women all over the country braided straw winters, and in many cases sewed it into bonnets.The rye straw was cut in June, dried, and bleached with sulphur, cut at the joints and laid away in neat bundles for winter's use.When needed for use, the straws were split with a sharp knife, dampened and flattened ; \u201cthen each straw was \u2018ma- chired,\u2019 being cut into several strands by being drawn over a small instrument or \u2018machine,\u2019 with sharp little iron teeth set into a flat wooden hangle.The strands were held together at the top by a narrow uncut margin.In braiding.these little strands were pulled off, one by one, and added as required to the braid.Everett's mother had the straw split and machined for him ; so when he started to braid he took a bunch of strands, and after moistening it in a bowl of warm water pulled off a strand, then put the uncut end of the bunch in his mouth, as was the usual custom, to have it bandy when he needed another strand ; his braid was one of seven strands, so very soon he needed another bit of straw, and what was his surprise to find the end of the bunch of strands furthest from his mouth was frozen stiff! As the straw was not over eight inches long, it shows that it must have heen a very cold day when anything would freeze as close to a little boy's mouth as that.Does it not ?Little Everett was not close up to the fire, but still not so very far away ; and he was so intent upon getting his two vards and a half of straw braided, for which he was to get half a cent a yard.that until he found the straw frozen he had not thought that it was a colder day thin usual.This incident.however, did impress him ; and though over seventy years have now gone by, he has never fergotten it and often wonders what the little boys of to dav would think of such cold weather as that.\u2014 \u2018The Independent.\u2019 all THE SOUL'S INQUIRIES.THURSDAY, MARCH 11.Now in whom dost thou trust ?\u20142 Kings, xviii., 20.My soul trusteth in Thee: he merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me.\u2014Ps.lIvii., 1.Je that trusteth in The Lord.mercy shall compass him abont \u2014 Ps.xxxii, 10._ -\u2014 1 God keep us through the common days; The level stretches white with dust, When thought is tired and hands upraise Their burdens feebly, since they must.In days of slowly fretting care, Then most we need the strength of prayer Mrs.Sangster.y THE LESSON OF THE LEAVES.Standing in the sunlit spaces Of some woodland green and fair, Smiling while the sunshine traces \" Radiant patterns here and there, How the heart sighs with contentment, listening to the murmurous tone.Of the forest's myriad voices, faint und far, then nearer grown.How we note, with glad heart swelling, Tropic bloom and clambering vine! Bird-notes, far too sweet for telling, Make a joy thet seems divine, Ard we whisper in our gladness: * God 1s good and earth is sweet! Not one gift has He withholden; lo ! hfe 1s full, complete.\u2019 this * * * * Chill, autumnal winds come sighing, Bearing frost upon their breath, And the summer blooms lie dying: Life seems swallowed up in death.How we watch, while tear-drops gather, as the last leaf flutters down.Shrinking back, with sad foreboding, from the winter's icy frown.Then, perchance, in weary longing, We will lift our eyes and lo! Far off hills and vales come thronging On our vision, and wa know That the outlook, broad, inspiring.1s more grand than when we stood In the leafy bower of summer, sheltered by the whispering wood.Oft the jovs we hold the dearest Weave their sweetness round the heart Till we think the brightest, clearest Glimpse of God's love they impart: And we shrink when sorrows touch us, when our sunshine fades to gloom, Ard we cry from out the darkness for life\u2019s beauty and its bloom.Then we raise our eyes in longing For some ray of light, and lo! Heavenly forms are all around us, Fair and radiant, and we know Christ Himself stands close heside and the rapture, full and sweet, Of His presence holds and thnlls us; Love Divine mak:s life complete.\u2014May M.Anderson in N.XY.server.\u2019 us, \u2018Ob- as Many will be surprised in that day to find that they have no treasures laid up in heaven.God 1s calling very loudly these days for His people to open their bank accounts on the other side.The very cream of the Christian young people of America are even now offerine themselves by the thousands to carry the Gospel te the heathen.This world 1s gcing to be evangelized.Everything is ready but the money.It those who have it will not respond to His call for it le will be compelled to turn from them and adopt other means, to ther eternal shame and sorrow.Breaking barks and collapsed institutions containing the hoarded savings of Christian pe.- ple who are intent on laving up treasures upon the earth are but God's call to His people to surrender to lim 1s own, now that He has need of it.Many a man has been beggared these Jas: vears because he was deaf to God's call, Many others must be brought to penurv before they will learn the lesson.and then it will be too late to enter into His joy.God help us to measure up to the greatest opportunities set before anv generation.Finally, I conclude by urz- ing, that a thousand men and women, whose eyes fall upon this appeal, shall each stand behind a missionary in 19897.Many can take two or three, or more.Many others cannot do so much.Shall not each, in love, faith and sacrifice, do the utmost ?Who will respond in His Name \u201cDean Peck.He who lives near God and keeps there, catches (God's own spirit, which os simply love; and love 1s an unselfish and self-imparting life\u2014a principle of law of life even more than an emotion or an affection.It gives\u2014gives all it has, and gives \u2018to all that need.\u2019 Foreign missions simply represent the farthest oft and most needy, and a man who loves us God loves cannot limit his own Jove, and sav, ' I will love the souls near hy, but not afar off,\u201d any more than the stream flowing dewn the mountain can determine only to go so far.If there be little water, it will not flow far: but the more the stream, the broader the channel and the farther the reach.The sun might as well try to limit its own shining, and sav to his rays, \u2018Bless onlv the nearest planets, and let Uranus and Neptune remain in bonds of eternal night and ice\u2019 Such a soul will as Hudson Taylor well says, be s0 anxious to be successor of the apostles who went to buy food but brought not an enquiring soul back with them, as to be successor of the Samaritan woman who forgot her water-pot in her zeal to carry the water of life to thirsty men in Svchar, and brought a whole city to Jesus's feet '\u2014 Epworth Herald.\u2019 not, Every sin has this horrible fact about it-\u2014its special curse is that it destrovs the very faculties by which it can be known.Sin is the deterioration of our powers, it is the dislocation of our judgment, it is the corruption of our nature, it coarsens our sensitiveness, it perverts our conscience, it poisons our reason, it defiles our imagination\u2014here are all the faculties by which we estimate what sin is To know sin as it really is, to know its horror, requires a judgment pure and unsullied by sin.To see sin as it is, 1s to see it with the eves of Gnd, and only the pure can see what impurity is, only the righteous can know the harror of unrighteousness.\u2014 Canon Scott-Hol- land.be Har ] tien {OU \u2018- T of trvi 108K « \u2018Te Like min ver ar AUT er inst Tuvrapay.MaArcH 11, 189 fe) # i 3 7.rey a Li = THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.FIR KEEFS.Cervus in * lyn- opal Recorder\u2019) or LL lite who i tu Lacie cie Btatbik Vel in node Tore, 0 Va ah elas la duvs vi Lu il st.c:viohit, SVUOP- Als Ltd svarning upon te Hitih 1 the city ag tury and Vil Deli, eat \u20ac A1 SLD OL Wel, | apron wr.VS and (be- nov a jawyer, ~~! at the bur ERE ar Lu 0 hand himseit he reit property he had satviv JIuvested; but + tt Irivtou, Harry, tor their cus- «x.ue vou*d noi furbear noting and abstracted sis 2H as vis = 2 JAll UK jMCss ON star.xalxol on in silence, and at the Haut >rcet were juined by a whem beih knew well.things getting on With vou, dir.Sntchei in a jocuiar as real anxiety.4 1 dei t =ivux of at, answered the wi à shudder.\u2018It 18 dread- | aux sure | de not know how the di end dE does not come ; trçte Win Lot Le a conceru 1u \u201cLe cis > veut beivre might, do vou meant as he snoke, turn- as marie.Ie listened to all said.never answering, but terrible anxiety ravening pol wn breuer Talon dle RER Dr Ur y ée>1T155 refed SN.Vhy, what Mr Moatrheïls Lace, cul Jens tome lis nim.vost marmng Mr olden spent in Su- su Court enuners.Me had a diffi- case vn, attention fo which absorb Lou It owas after two o'clock when te returted to bis oflice to find hu \u201cevil Harry there pacing restlessiy up nd down, * fhans God !' Marry exclaimed, ear- \u201cestiv.\"TE von had not come scon 1 -v-uld have gone to the court house; y: \u2014eome into vour private office.I \u2018AUSt see vou alone for a moment.\u2019 The dear of the private room closed.ae sat Ao n, trambling violently, and Th Ku fiicuity commanding his voice to Soe At last he said, \u2018Clyde, old vend, IT am in great troubie.I de- are J do not know which way to turn He pausel an instant, passed his hand arross his forehead with a vesture «017 despairing, then added abruptly, \u201cCan vou lend me five thousand dollars?\u2019 Mr.Colden started.\u201cThen, aîter all, vou are I was afrard s0 this morning, Iarry \"Yes, I ara in the greatest trouble.I\u201c 1 do not get that amount before three in trouble.ne glanced rervotely at his watch), I sul te soul out, I shall be ruined.\u2019 FU me exact! how you are situated, | Pi nt this, which was, indeed, evidence of more anxiety than wrath.lle felt strongly that not only was his friend's risk great, but that his own would be greater\u2014one that he had no right to take, for his wife's sake, and lis children\u2019s, He recalled a saying that one shoul'l he just before being generous; and replying, ms one, if a little grieved and more than sorrowful, was also determined.* Harry) him said he, \u2018vou ought to know me better.If any personal sacritice of mine could serve you, I would give it gladly.Dut to advance, without security, so large a sum as vou require, I cannot do.My small property cannot bear it.I hold it, rot as my own, but as trustee for those \u2018lependent on me.+I cannot do what you ask, even for so dear a friend.\u2018Oh, hang such friendship !\u2019 Mr.Mitchel started to his feet.\u2018lI know,\u201d continued Clyde, *that in such trouble as vou are in, its help you want, and not advice; but I am sure that the very best help 1 can give is to advise vou as I do.\u2019 \u2018That 1s only vour preaching,\u2019 exclaimed Harry in great anger.What vou sav is very true\u2014what I want is help, and you refuse it.Well, I shall sav no more.(Good day.\u2019 As hour later, as Clyde sat at his desk, striving to collect his thoughts, there was a hurried rap at the door, and Harry came in, his face flushed, his eyes wild, his whole expression most peculiar.\u2018 Forgive me, Clyde, old friend,\u201d he faltered.sinking into a chair.\u2018 Here, read this\" He drew forth a crumpled paper, Folding it out with a shaking hand.Civde took the paper.1Te read as follows: \u2014 EXTRA.\u2014 GREAT EXCITEMENT ON WALL STREET.FAILURE OF THE WESTERN LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, The Stock falls forty percent in as Many Minutes.A Bapkrupt Concern.Immense Losses.\u2018 And you, Harry, said Clyde, \u2018how do you stand 7\u2019 * Clyde,\u201d he answered, solemnly, \u2018when I went out of this office I hated you, I was furious, I was almost insane.1 felt that your refusal to help me was an outrage.1 went down the street hardly knowing what I did.1 knew of no une else to whom to apply, till at last I grew desperate.Whether it was what said, or some unconscious influence, \u2014_ CAS H_\u2014 CHEAP SALE, 16th FEBRUARY to.17th Graniteware, Carpet Sweepers; Wringers.Kitchen Utensils of all Descriptions, Ranges, Gas Stoves, Refrigerators, GOOD STORED UNTIL WANTED.\u2014 P00 e\u2014\u2014 2303-05 St.Catherine Street, near Peel.IRELAND.COOKED MEATS.Cooked.No | Trouble.Ready For Table.Delicious | And Sweet.| Rounds of SPICED BEEF, sliced.White Sugar-cured HAMS, sliced.JELLIED TONGUE, sliced.HEAD CHEESE, Sliced.coveviierrennenn ENGLISH BRAWN, sliced.20c per lb.206 per Ib.20e per 1b, 10c per 1b, 10c per 1b.COMPRESSED BEEF, sliced.,.10c per lb.AT ANY OF THE S RETAIL STORES OF me] AING PACKING and PROVISION CO.Every one of the E B.Eddy Co's Matches reaches the degree 4 perfection.Look! 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Huckaback rattled his treasures toge- thier and looked at Regy with an impressive nod, as if he wanted him to realize more rully what an honor he had conferred upon him.* You \u2018peared to me more sensible and cuier-ike than them lads o° the school, and I kind o° took to you.But o course l\u2019m there for to see as yer does it all ¢'rect.There's not a soul as I'd let do it for me, whiles I'm the night- watchman\u2014no, not the Dean hisself, I van tell ve.It'll be forty-one year, (nme to-morrow, as l\u2019ve locked and un- lacked them doors, without ever missing one single blessed night.And so long as it pleases the Lord to spare me [il gn vn doing it.Nobody shan\u2019t say as Job Fuckaback failed to do his duty by the Abhey\u2014bless her heart! D'ye n.ark me, voung gentleman \u201d \"Ye\u2014es, most likely,\u201d anawered Regy, rather vaguely.Job had lost nearly all he teeth, ro that his remarks came ont with more vigor than distinctness, and Regy could not alwayva understand what he was saving.Also, it was a bit confusing, when vou weren't used to it, to having a building personified and spoken of as \u2018she\u2019 But he loved to liar the old man talk.\u2018But why do you live up sixty-one stairs when vour legs are so stiff, Mr.Huckaback ¥ he ventured presently, in order to set him off again.His companion had left that unexplained, and was busy alternately nodding and shaking his head, while he rattled his keys softiv between his knees.* Fort-ty-one vear ! Fort-ty-one year!\u2019 ho was muttering, over and over again.\u201cWhy, don't ver sce.master, \u2019tis along o' the winder.I can see her out où ot, night and day\u2014her two lovely towers! Them's the last thing I looks at o'mornin\u2019s, when I gets into bed ar- ter I've unlocked her doors, and the fust thing when | opens my eves again arter [ve had my sleep.My! but them two towers 1s the apple 0° my eye, and thew 1s beautiful and no mistake.Folks as have wives and little \u2019uns o\u2019 their own, love their faces, same as my mother she loved my face when I were a little \u2018un seventy years ago.But [ll be bound as they don't love \u2019em one bit better nor 1 love them two towers of my Abbey!\" Job stopped and wiped his eves with the cuff of his coat.\"My papa liked to see my face,\u201d remarked Regy, mournfully.\u2018He said I vas just like mamma, and when she died, he made me sit in her chair, right on; nsite, so that he might have some- Lady Hke her to lok at.But Uncle Tairfax doesn\u2019t love my face.He keeps an looking at me through that dreadful coid thing that he wears round his neck; and one dav he says: \u2018\u201c\u2018Reginald, vour face hasn't been washed this morning.\u201d ard another day : ** Reginald, when did veu last comb your hair \u201d\u201d and another day : \u201cMrs.Blades need not have giudged vou a clean frill.\u201d Oh, no, he doesn't love to ree me.And Mrs Blades doesn't either ; she thinks I'm a dreadful nuisance.I think Jemima hikes me pretty well when she hasn\u2019t had many holes to mend in my stockings : and 1 know Simpkinson loves me always, \u2018cos he savs if 1 want somebody to worrit T'm to come and worrit him.(And I do ') But it isn't many people to have cnly Simpkinson to love to see you.I wish\u2014I wish God hadn\u2019t taken my papa away.I do want him so badly.\u2019 A tide of loneliness and longing had welled up in poor little Regv's heart.He leaned his head against the rusty green coat beside him and sobbed pitifully.Old Huckaback cried, too, for vmpathv, and his tears trickled down on the fair locks.\u2018It be the Lord's will, Master Fair-| fax,\u201d he said.with a ring of real tenderness in his queer, cracky voice.And his will is the best, though it\u2019s hard to | But I'm main sorry for : see it.whiles.you.poor lamb, I'm main vou.Regy's sobs grew quieter after a while and he lifted up his head and hegan to wipe his tears away, with a not over clean pocket-handkerchief.The watchman looked at him with wise old twinkling eves.\u2018My lord, he do speak his mind and no mistake.\" he said slowlv.© And he's mighty pertie'ler in his ways.3nt look vou, Master Parrfax.he ve gnt à kind heart under his waistcoat, for all as he's his lordship and a Canon of our Abhev into the har- gain.| don\u2019t believe but what he loves vou dearly, only he don\u2019t know how to show it like, ens he hasn't never had no children of his own.He don\u2019t lke folks no better for heing afeared of him: and TI reckon he thinks as von're not easy-like in hig companv.atd that kinds o\u2019 puts him off.Just vou speak up sorry for pretty and don\u2019t be afeard no\u2019 him.and ! i sugar-coated, and so perfectly yon and he'll get on together like one o'clock! You mind what I sav.young master, and don't be afeard o' the old gentleman ; that's old .Job's advice to yon !\u201d Just the same counsel as Simpkinson had given him.and just as difficult ta carry out ! Regv shook his head, and gazed at his companion with mourrtul eyes.\u2018Ah, Huckaback,\u201d he said, \u2018T'm sure you never had a great-uncle.nor Simpkinson either.or yon'd both know better what itss\u2019 like.You'd know it wasn\u2019t a bit of good telling people not to be afraid of them, if you'd ever had one of your very own.\u2019 \u2018\u2019Deed, young master,\u2019 returned Huek- aback, with much impressiveness, \u2018I'd seven great-uncles, no less, when I were a youngster ; so I did ought to know the ways o\u2019 \u2019em, don't yer think so ?\u2019 Regy's eves grew round at this state ment and he was much taken aback, He felt convinced that old Huckaback's great-uncles\u2014 whether they were one or manv\u2014couldn\u2019t have been ®of the same flesh and blood as Uncle Fairfax, but it hardly semed polite to say so.Ilo was considering what to say in reply when the chimes began\u2014the thin, old- world Abbey chimes, with their pathetic calence\u2014announcing that seven war about to strike.There was no Big Ben at that day to take up the tale\u2014or rather.to lead off with the all-importance of Greenwich mean time\u2014for the new Houses of Parliament were scarcely vet rising from the ground.But the chimes of St.Margaret's Church gave out their tour quarters; and then the two clocks struck, almost together, in a rare confusion of sound.How the notes clanged and echoed in the cloister quadrangle, | sounding so sharp and insistent within those arched and vaulted walks ! With the last stroke .Job Huckabgck rose and went limping about his business, with all the stateliness of office upon him: and his little companion, with the tears hardly dry on his cheeks, went jumping and frolicking after, eager to have a share in handling the keys.(To be continued.) \u2014p\u2014 A FUN-LOVING DOVE.The following account was recently told to my father, by an acquaintance, of a tame dove once owned by him:\u2014 \u201cIt was afraid of the chickens, and did not dare to eat with them.In order to get the food, he would fly a little way off, and then dart down among them like a hawk.Of course this so frightened the fowls that he was allowed to eat in peace.(On one occasion, an elderly couple were driving past.The good old | lady wore a peculiar covering over her bonnet ¢hat the dove seemed to think very much out of place, and took upon himself the duty of removing.which he did so suddenly that he nearly frightened the old lady out of her wits.\u2018He was the household pet: and, notwithstanding he was quite at home in the house, and was generally welcome, there were times when_he grew troublesome.On one such tme his mistress tried to drive him out, and succeeded.When she again entered the reom.her suspicions were aroused by a rustling in the paper-rack.On going nearer, she found the dove snugly nestled among the papers, his bright eyes just peering over the top of them.It seems that he had gone round the house, flown in through an open window, and then thought the paper-rack was the best hid- ing-place.Thé thing he most enjoyed was coasting with the children.no matter how dark it was or how long they stayed\u2014\u2018 Christian Work.\u2019 ess = fe HOW TO MAKE AN AFOLIAN HARP Of very thin cedar, pine or other soft wood, make a box five or six inches deep, seven or eight inches wide, and of a length just equal to the width of the windaw in which it is to be_ placed.Across the top, near each end, glue a strip of wood half-an-inch high and a quarter-of-an-ineh thick, for Bridges.Into the ends of the box, insert wooden pins ~ ADVERTISEMENTS.\u20ac Retiring.take Ayer\u2019s Pills, and you will | sleep better and wake in better | condition for the day\u2019s work.; Ayer\u2019s Cathartic Pills have no | equal as a pleasant and effect- | ! ual remedy for constipation, + biliousness, sick headache, and all liver troubles.\u2018They are ; prepared, that they cure without the annoyances experienced in the use of so many of the pills on the market.Ask your druggist for ers Cathartic Pills.When other pills won\u2019t help you, Ayer\u2019s is like those of a violin, to wind the strings around\u2014two pins in each end.Make a round hole in the middle of the ton, and string the box with small catgut or blue first fiddle strings.Fastening one end of each string to a metallic pin in one end of the box, and carrying it over the bridges, wind it round the turning pin in the opposite end of the box.The ends of the box should be increased in thickness where the wooden pins enter, by a piece of wood glued upon the inside.Tune the strings in unison, and place the box in the window.It is het- ter to have four strings, as described; but a harp with a single string produces exceedingly sweet notes, which vary with the force of the wind.\u2014 Popular Science News.\u2019 ADVERTISEMENTS.Scott\u2019s - Emulsion makes \u2018he blood richer and im- roves the circulation.It ncreases the digestion and rourishes the body.It cor- \u2018ects diseased action and trengthens the nervous sys- em.In a word, it places :he body in the best possible condition for preventing the rerms of Consumption from eginning or continuing their vork.In that one sentence.3 the whole secret.Book :overing the subject very heroughly sent free for the sking.SLOTT & BOWNR.Rallewilie.Ont House Letting Placards, &c.The following announcements, printed on good paper, are For Sale at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.Many ot them are in both the French and English languages:\u2014 CELLAR TO LET.COTTAGE FOR SALE, DREBSMAK!NG DONE HBRE., DWELLING TO LET.DRESSMAKING.FLAT TO LET.FURNISHED COTTAGE TO LET.- FOR SALE OR TO LET.FURNISHED HOUSES TO LET.FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET.FACTORY TO LET.HOUSE TO LET.HOUSE TO LET OR FOR SALE.HOUSE FOR SALE.LOT TO LET.LOT FOR SALE.LOWER DWELLING TO LET.LOWER PART OF HOUSE TO LET.LEASE FORMS.MEALS AT ALL HOURS, NO SMOKING.OFFICE TO LET.OFFICES T® LET.PRIVATE BOARDING HOUSE, ROOM TO LET.ROOMS TO LET.STORE TO LET.SHOP TO LET.STABLE, TO LET.SHOP AND DWELLING TO LET.STORE AND DWELLING TO LET.CLOSES AT ONE O'CLOCK.TO LET.THIS PROPERTY FOR SALE.TABLE BOARD.UPPER DWELLING TO LET.UPPER PART OF HOUSE TO LET.YARD TO LET.* JOHN DOUGALL & SON, THE PILL THAT WILL.PUBLISHERS.Cor, Craig and St.Peter st., Montreal.HALF TONE ETCHINGS Equal to the best produced,at 15c per square inch.Special rates for large quantities.\u2018WITNESS\u2019 PRINTING HOUSE, Corner Craig and Bleury streets.JAMES THOMSON & CO, Cabinet Makers, Designers and Upholsterers, Fine Work to Order a Specialty.REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.194 Peel st., Opposite High Schoo).Bell Tel, 3413.UG.H.RANDALL, Manager.9 Horse-shoeing and Blacksmithing.LEXANDER LINDSAY, HORSESHOER AND BLACKSMITH, 23 and 25 8t.Maurlee street, (Cor.St.Henry st.) Good Work, and Low Prices.J.K.MACDONALD, Locksmith, Belihanger, General Machinest and Blacksmith, Carpenters\u2019 and Builders\u2019 Work toOrder.Quick Service, ADVERTISEMENTS.TUMORS TUMOR For 8 cents in stamps we will send full particulars of Dr.Mason's Painless Home Treatment for Cancer and Tumors, with testimonials from those cured.NO KNIFE.NO PLASTER.STOTT & JURY, Bowmanville, Ont, Mention 'Witness.\u201d Kg i El Soil LO BRT Aa Rn KIN MEsars.C.C.RICHARDS & Co., YARMOUTH, N.S.GENTLEMEN.\u2014In January last, Francis Lenlair, one of the men employed by me, woking in the himber woods, had a tree fall on him, crushing him fearfully.He was, when found, place on a sled and taken home, where grave fears weve entertained for his recovery, his hips being badly bruised and nis body turned black from his ribs to his feet.We used MINARD'8 LINIMINT on him freely to deaden the pain, and with the ure of three bottles he was completely cured and able to return to his work.SAUVEUR DuvVAL.Elgin Road, L'Islet Co., Que, May 2\u20acth, 1893.\\ Le A x Les 3 Bn ou > Groceries, Provisions, &c.Fresh \u2014 Strawberries In Fine Condition, only 40c per Box.\u2014 ALSO \u2014 HOT HOUSE TOMATOES, HOT HOUSE CUCUMBERS, HOT HOUSE MUSHROOMS, GREEN BEANS, SPINACH, RADISHES, RHUBSRR, Etc.\u2014 AT -\u2014- WALTER PAUL'S, Corner Metcalfe and St.Catherine Sts.a gree ERE eEEeRE a) | GOOD COOKS | 5 cn Must bave the best.This explains the popularity of the Crown Flavoring Extracts.: Get a bottle\u2014any flavor\u2014 NEN EE EEREEE e from your grocer ROBERT GREIG & Co., 456 St.Paul st.\u2026.Montreal.En amener 2) .TNE EEE ë .8 If You Only Try YOU WILL FIND THAT The CHEAPEST and BEST PLACE to Buy FINE TEAS AND COFFEES, BITTER AND EGGS, HAMS AND BACON, and General High-class Groceries, Fruits and Provisions, \u2014IS AT- BAKER\u2019S New Grocery, 78 UNIVERSITX S8T., Telephone, 5019.\u2014 STILL SELLING \u2014 23 1bs Best Granulated Sugar for $1.00.EPPS'S COCOA.ENGLISH BREAKFAST COCOA Possesses the following Distinctive Merits DELICACY OF FLAVOR SUPERIORITY in QUALITY GRATEFUL and COMFORTING to the NERVOUS or DYSPEPTIC.NUTRITIVE QUALITIES \u2014UNRIVALLED, In Quarter-Pound Tins only.Prepared by JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd.\u2018 Homœæopathic Chermists, London, England.Cement, Drain Pipes, &c.QCOTCH DRAIN PIPES, PORTLAND CEMENT, IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE At Lowest Market Prices, \u2014\u2014\u2014 We & F.P.CURZIE & Oy Bell Telephone 2391.762 CHAIGST.3 300 GREEY NUN STREEL \u201c \u2018PACIFIC.F 3\u2014TRAINS EACH WAY -3 \u2014 BETWEEN \u2014 MONTREAL and QUEBEC.Leave Montreai, Dalhousie Square, 9.00 a.m.(Week Days) arr.Quebec 2.15 p.m.3.30 p.m.(Daily) .** 10.00 p.m.1E.00 pon.(Week Days) *¢ 8 6.30 a.m WESTMOUNT SERVICE.A ticket otlice has been opened and all local trains now stop at Westinount, and through express trains will etop to take on and let off passen cers from and to Sherbrooke, Newport, Ottawa, Toronto and point: beyond, ° City Ticket: and Telegraph OfMce, 129 ST.JAMES St.(Next to Post Office.) Intercolonial EA har.rs Lh | | Ze MEME a RE REFRIGERATOR ROOMS.CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL COLD STORAGE BUILDING DESCRIBED.INVALUABLE TO FARMERS, FRUIT (ROWERS, MAKERS AND HANDLERS OF PRODUCE.A litile six-paged pamphlet has just been issued from the Department of Agriculture.the work of Mr.Jas.W.Robertson.Dairy Commissioner, which \"gives detailed instructions for the erection of à smail-sized cold storage building.and will be found invaluable to farmers and others.Theg pamphlet is accomvanied bu drawings for \u2018 cold stor- stall size, cold storage room to Lae constriction be coated by ice stored in one end of the excellent drawings have age ldins, OL à building.These been supplied by Mr.T.W.Fuller, of the cet architect's office of the De- pottucent of Public Works, and the whole will he found a complete \u2018 vade meena 10 this important subject.The InstrUs tions as follows:\u2014 The mmsulition of a cold storage build- it as nearly air-tight A cold storage room larger than 1s actually are mye str-uld make as practicable.should not Net cssirs.An insulating material any sub- gtance which prevents or almost wholly prevents the passage through itself of the form of energy known as heat.Dit- ferent substinces conduct less rapidly and are spoken Le 18 of as being good conductors or poor conductors of heat.Whatever is a good conductor of heat would be a very poor insulating material; and a substance is a good insulating material in proportion as it is a por conductor, or nou-conductor, of heat.' For the insulation of a cold storage building the requirements are that the interior of the room or rooms where: the products are to be stored shall be separated from the ground and from the ordinary atmosphere by efficient insulating substances.Among these are wood, paper, and still air, such as air confined in hollow spaces formed by lumber and paper, or by some other insulating materials, such as mineral wool, dry sawdust, or dri wood shavings.If the sawdust or other material becomes saturated | with water it loses its insulating quali- | ties and becomes practically a heat-con- ducting material, like a body of water.Air in circulation 1s practically always : conveving heat or cold, and is one of, the best distributors or carriers of heat or cold.But it except bv its own motion, and thus it becomes an insulator which offers the | greatest obstruction to the transference of heat through itself, when it has not freedom to circulate.The insulating efficiency of hollow spaces in the walls depends upon the closeness of their censtruction.If the air in them can I to that extent their insulating quality ™is lessened.To prevent the circulation of air every precaution should be taken in putting on: the building paper to make the places where 1t laps thoroughly close; and two layers of building paper should be put on the outside of the rough boards on the studs.Building paper is an excellent insulating material.It is practically air- proof, i and thus prevents circulation of air through itself; but if the places where it laps over, .in being put on are not made perfectly close, that air-proof quality lost.Particular pains should be taken in putting the building paper | on to see that it is not torn at any place, and that there are no holes in it.Wherever a hole appears a patch should be tacked on, making that part close.Two layers of building paper should be used between the two boards which make the insfe lining of the refrigerator room.« It necessary that the paper used \u201cshould be tree from all offensive odor.Tr per is not suitable.Ib should be \u201ctrong, \u2018and it is preferable that it should naterproof and vermin-proof.Dif- Foren alities paper cost different prices Paper suitable for use may be pur hdxed, costing from two to four dollars per thousand square feet.The hollow spaces between the rough! bowrds on hoth sides of the studs should: 15 15 of be filled at the bottom tu a depth of six | If put in | .mineral! wool will hoid the air | PROTESTANT HOSPITAL FOR THE inches with mineral wool.carefully, in confinement and prevent it from getting in or getting out.Ii the spaces in the wall could be filled | fre Liotiom to top with mineral wool, the insulation would be all the more thorough; but that would add unneves- garilv to the cost of the building.Mineral wool vermin-proof.If sawdust should be used in its stead, the insulating quality of the sawdust would be sat- isfactorv: hut sawdust is apt, after a few vers, to become musty, and to give off smelis which would taint butter.It also becomes a harbor and nesting place for mice ani rats.Mineral wool ean be bought for about fifteen dollars per ton in large quantities: it may cost more when bought in small quantities.A hundred ponnds of it will pack from for- 15 | lumber.showing the \u201cducts which may ra receiving room | before the \u201cto both sides of the wall.heat more or | 13 slow to convey heat, | .galleries of the association on ; square.and will remain open till Satur- Intending exhibitors are: tv to rortv-five lineal feet ni wall, six inches drep in the hollow space, six inches wide between the studs, The cheap quality of mineral wool is suitable for this purpose, and wherever practis- able it is of advantage to have six inches of it at the bottom of every hollow space to prevent aly air from getting in or out.The layers of paper and the hollow MIE LE RAT SL DIE aude As 45 22 spaces in the sides of the wall should in every case be continued around in the ceiling without interruption.lt the walls be finished up past the ceiling and then the ceiling be brought against them, touching only the inside of them, the air may find admission inwards and outwards through slight cracks or openings between the ceiling and the walls.Where the layers of building paper and the hollow spaces in the wall are continued around without interruption in the ceil ing, the insulation is thorough and air cannot get out or in at the corners.The layers of paper in the walls should | also, where practicable, be brought down ; under the top thickness of the tlooring If an opening occurs m the floor, or between the tloor and the walls, then the cold air of the refrigerator will flow out through that, as water flow out of a vessel if a hole existed m the side or bottom of il.The lumber for insulation should be: spruce, basswood, hemlock or other wood | free from objectionable odor.No pine or other wood of strong odor should be | used.All rooms should be whitewashed inside before being used for storage purposes.When the door of a refrigerator room 1s opened \u2018into a chamber or place where , the air 18 warm, the cold air of the re- irigerator flows out quickly, and the warm air of the other place flows in.To preveut injury from that cause to probe held in a refrigera- it is recommended in every case that or ante-room be con- The door of it mav be closed door of the refrigerator is opened.The doors shall be of double thickness, and one door should be hinged Attention to these small matters will permit the refrigerator to be kept at a unif@rmly low tor, structed.\u201ctemperature for the preservation of its contents.If butter be cooled to a temperature of even thirty-five degrees Fahr.during twenty-two hours of the day, and left to warm up to forty-five degrees Fahr.during the other two hours, the injury to the butter lessens its keeping qualities and its commercial value.The same is true of other perishable food products.PLATFORM TEMPERANCE MEETING.The oft-repeated assertion that Temperance Lodges have degenerated into mere amusement bureaus received a practical contradiction in the platform necting held under the auspices of i Terra Nova Lodge, I.O.G.T., in their ; hall, 66219 Craig street, last evening.Bro.W.H.Fenn, District Deputy, pre- | sided and there was a good attendance both of members of the order and of strengers.Vigorous addresses were delivered on the question by Mr.Cleary, Dr.H.Walton Jones, and W.I>.Walk er, B.C.L., District Chief Templar, in which the license system was roundly denounced, and the platform of the order, \u201cTotal abstinence for the individual : prohibition for the state,\u2019 as the true remedy for the existing state of affairs.A temperance reading and recitation were given by Bros.R.M.Adams and J.Hutchinson respectively.Several choruses were pleasingly rendered by the ladies of the lodge and the programme was further varied by a mandolin and banjo duet.by Bros.Nor- wcod and Lauder.-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SI'RING ART EXHIBITION.The seventeentW annual spring exhib: tion of original paintings, drawings, sculptnres, architectural designs, etchings, and designs in stained glass and china painting, held under the auspices.of the Art Association of Montreal, will be opened on Thursday, April 1, in the Phillips day, May 1.requested to note that all works must be delivered unpacked at the gallery not later than Tuesday, March 23.Wednesday, March 31, has been appointed : for varnishing dav.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE TATE NMI W.G.MURRAY.At the monthly mecting of the Board of Management of the Protestant House of Industry, which was held yesterday, a resolution of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mr.Wm.Geo.Murray.Mr.James Moore moved and Mr.James Wilson seconded the resolution, a copy of which was ordered to : be sent to the late Mr.Murray's relatives, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 INSANE.superintendent's report or the week ending March 10 gives the The medical Î ; admissions as two and discharged on trial, one.The visiting governors for the week commencing March 13 are Messrs.1.Wilson-Smith, B.Tooke, Hector Mackenzie and A.T.Paterson.-\u2014 A LECTURE BY PROF.CAPPER.would put forward ; THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.TRADE WITH AFRICA.Canadians Might do a Large Business in Many Articles.MONTREAL DRY DOCK AGAIN\u2014 COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS OBJECT TO BEING TAXED.EXTENSION OF SUMMER FREIGHT RATES\u2014 BERTHING OF BRISTOL STEAMERS, ! At the regular weekly meeting of the Ccuncil of the Board of Trade yesterday | afternoon the chairman, Mr.James Cra- tiiern, reported that as agreed at last | meeting a conference had taken place | i between members of the council and cer- | tain others of the board named, with the ; general traffic managers of the Grand Trunk snd Canadian Pacific Railways with respect to the desired extension of The reply from the companies, it was stated, Was now | the term of summer freight rates.being awaited.Action with regard to the projected railway through Crow's Nest Pass was further deferred.A member of the council communicated the following extract from a private letter that he had received from a friend in South Africa, and which will prove interesting to Canadian merchants: \u20181 am daily impressed with the possibilities of à good trade being done with Canada IN many lines of goods now coming from the United States in large quanti ties, but the Canad'an Government should appoint à commissioner or something of the kind and open up a sort of permanent exhibition or sample room.For ir stance, there are thousands of tons of American flour and corn coming here, and 1 do not see why Canadian millers could not compete equally as well for the trade.Then, again, there is furniture, boots and shoes, cheese, butter, hams, bacon, agricultural implements and scores of other things.I hope you will talk up the matter when you have an opportuai- ty with those that an export trade would benefit.A good winter apple should arrive here in good condition and wili sell well; a miserable thing here sells | four for a shilling.Nome apples were | sent from Tasmania a short time ago and arrived in good condition.\u2019 | The question of the need of a dry dock | + at this port received further attention from the council, and the matter was re- | ferred for immediate consideration to the ; Harbor Committee, which was augment- | ed by the addition of a few names.\"Fhe personnel of the committee, as it now stands is as follows:\u2014Messrs.Jas.Cra- thern (chairman), Chas.F.Smith, A.Ii Brice, Chas.McLean, D.G.Thomson, KE.I.Bond, Chas.Chaput and Robt.Mac- i kav, the last three gentlemen being the | special members.| At the suggestion of the Dominion | commercial Travellers\u2019 Association of Montreal the Council adopted the follow- \u201cing resolution with regard to the propos- | ed introduction in the New Brunswick i Legislature of a bill imposing a tax on all commercial travellers entering that province: \u2018 Resolved, that the Council | of the Montreal Board of Trade, having | learned that the Provincial Legislature lof the Province of New Brunswick contemplates imposing a special tax on all commercial* travellers entering that province, hereby urges the St.John Board of Trade to use its utmost endeavor to \u201csecure the withdrawal of such an obnoxious measure.\u2019 The recommendation of the Tort Warden Board of Examiners, that the Port Warden be authorized at his disc.etion to permit the omission in the case of modern vessels of certain lining requirements, which had been laid over since December last at the request of the Montreal Marine Underwriters\u2019 Association, was now opposed by that as sociation.It considered that there was little or no reason for changing the present rules.The question was referred for further consideration to the Port Warden Board of Examiners and to Messrs.Adam G.Thomson, E.L.Bond, J.Youth and J.E.Riley.The Butter and Cheese Association renewed last vear's request, that the council urge upon the arbor Commissioners \u2018he imperative necessity of providing berthing accommodation for the Bristol steamers nearer to the cold storage centres.The council ordered that its representative on the Harbor Board, Mr.Hugh McLennan, be informed of the facts and requested to use his influence towards securing compliance with the + Association's request.After Messrs.C.P- Heaton, of the Guardian Insurance ; Company, and Mr.W.A.Penfield, of \"the New York firm of Otto E.Lohrke *& Co, had been elected to membershin lin the assaciation, the council adjourned.TT Under the auspices of the Art.Asso- COURT SEAFORTH, CO.F.aation of Montreal, Professor S.H- Capper, M.A, of McGill University, An enjoyable evening was spent by will, on Friday ctening nevi, March \"2, | the members and friends of Court Sea- deliver a lecture vpon * Egypt of the foith, No.232, C.O.F,, in Fraternity Hall, Pharaohs,\u201d with illustrations.The lec.Point st.Charles, on Tuesday evening.in the gallery of the and will ture will be held association on Phillips square, commerce at 8.15.\u2014\u2014\u2014_7- WARDENS ELECTED.The election of the following wardens by their respective county councils is reported :\u2014 Soulanges\u2014Mr.F.Stevens.Huntingdon\u2014Mr.Arch.Muir, Mayor of Hinchinbrook.\u2018 SE A ca ae le tA programme of instrumental and vocal , Music was rendered in a pleasing manner P1y Messrs, Wilson, Firth (concertina), | Donohue,\u201d Wells, Anderson, May, Jen- \"mings, Clibben and Donaldson.An interesting address on forestry, its aims and objcets, was delivered by Bro.W.&.Walker, District Deputy High Chief |; Ranger.The chair was occupied by |W W.Clark, Chief Ranger of Court i Seaforth.Refreshments were served during inte»mission.> THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND For the benefit of those who have contributed, or may yet contribute, to the India Relief Fund, through the Rev.Dr.Warden, treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the following extracts from a letter just received from Miss Sinclair, will be of interest.Miss Sinclair has been for many years a missionary of the Presbyteriun Church in Canada, in Indore, Central India.She spent the greater part of last summer in Canada, on furlough, and only returned to her field of labor in the fall.as follows : She writes We are exercised just now about the famine and plague.The latter still rages in Bombay, and no precautionary measupges adopted by government seem to make much impression on it.Business is at a standstill, and two-thirds of the population have left the city, and have gone to other parts of India, carrying the plague with them in some instances.It was carried to Karachi, and broke out there with even greater virulence than in Bombay.\"To-day's \u2018Pioneer\u2019 (the government organ) contalned an article saying that the death rato is one person every five and a half minutes, at least, it was that in December, when the maximum of deaths was attained.In ail there have been, the paper says, ten thousand deaths from plague.It is, however, difficult to know the true figures.For a long time they were under-estimated.and it is jusi possible that with public feeling so excited.the balance may swing the other way.The famine is very sore in districts to the S.E.and N.E.of us.e government has done, and is doing, a very great deal, but people continue to dle.Little girls are sold for evil purposes, for eight and twelve ceuts per head.Now and again we hear of mis- slonaries taking up twenty.thirty, fifty or more of these boys and girls, and without any other arm to lean upon than His, to whom belong the silver and the gold.My own experience with these neglected ones, ig a most encouraging one.You know that when in India the first time, 1 rescued several in one way or another, ard now these girls are our brightest and best and mast helpful Christian girls in the school.Gazari Is now a pupll teacher.a faithful, earnest, beautiful character.Rahil, Awanti, Sumati, and several others of the same sort, are my Joy and crown of rejoicing.We had a meeting of our station council last evening, to consider whether we could take in some famine children.I expressed my willingness to take twenty little girls, under eight or nine years of age, feeling sure that the tender mother hearts at home would approve and support, and endeavor to save these children from actual death from starvation, or the worse death of an evil life.We have been paying famine prices for food for a long time.most things fifty percent In advance of regular prices.It costs now between three and a half and four rupees a month to kezp a child (everything included).Within a day or two after this letter was written by Miss Sinclair, the first portion of the money received by Dr.Warden was cabled to India, thus providing, without delay, the means for 1liss Sinelair, and other missionaries, undertaking the care of these children.The following additional contributions are acknowledged by the Rev.Dr.Warden : Stanley Street Presbyterian Church, .$28.60 Stanley Street \"Presbyterian Church, Montreal C.E.Society .43.00 Paris Presbyterian Church .41.05 Parts Presbyterian Church CC.E.Society .«.T.50 Avonmore Presbyterian \u2018Church 9.00 Cookstown Presbyterian Church 6.25 Hillsburg Presbyterian Church Cc.E.Society A 5.0 St.Andrew's Presbyterian \u2018Church, Lindsay .10,00 Melville Presbyterian\u2019 Church, \u201cBrussels .14 14 1e 11 12 12 48.00 \u2018A Friend,\u2019 Lucan .Lo Moore Line Presbyterian Church.34.00 Bristol Presbyterian Church .16.31 Victoria Harbor Presbyterian Church C.E.Soclety .5.00 T.G.Wroxeter .2,00 St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Comber .25.15 Knox Presby terian \u2018Church, West TH- bury 11.46 Dresden \u2018Presbyterian Church \u2018Auxiliary .52.54 Dresden Presbyterian \u2018Church \u20ac E.Society .5.00 First Presbyterian \u2018Church, London, a o on 56 A Family Collection .Cee.Melville Presbyterian Church, Caledon 1 The Presbyterians of St.Gonzague, comprising in twenty-cicht families.have subserihol 850.75 towards the Indian Famine Relief, to be forwarded through the Rev.Dr.Warden to the Canadian Mission, Central India.pe cut Louis de all some KINDNESS NOT FORGOTTEN On Feb.23 a number of Liverpool papers printed the following :\u2014 Ax a souvenir of their visit to this country in June last to attend the International Fire Brigade Tournament, held in the Agricultural Hall, London, our townsman, Mr.B.Richard Isaac.of South John street, honorary member of the National Fire Brigade Tnion, has heen the recipient of a silver har and medal.Accompanying the souvenir was a letter from Alderman Lieutenant-Colonel Stevenson, J.P., chairman of the Fire Committee, Montreal, thanking Mr.Isaac for the attention they had received during their visit, and asking his acceptance of the medal in his and the names of Chief Benoit and the Canadian team.The medal is of handsome design, being banner shape, with the maple leaf (Canadian emblem), two hose coupling kevs, and an American fireman's helmet in relief.On the bar is inscribed : \u2018 Souvenir N.F.B.Tournament, June, 1896; and on the medal: \u2018To B.Richard Isaac, from the members of the Canadian Team, Montreal Fire Department.\u2019 me DEATHS OF A WEEK.The interments in the cemeteries for the past week were 125,\u2014103 in the Catholic, 10 in the Protestant and three in the Jewis burial ground.The causes of death were as under :\u2014Diphtheria, 3 : diphtheritic croup, 2; measles, 1; whooping cough, 2; consumption 16; hron- chitis, 8 ; broncho pneumonia, 6 ; pleuro- pneumonia, 1; congestion of the lurigs, 1; pneumonia, 13; la grippe, 6; infantile debility, 25.U Trorspay, Marcu 11, 1897.MORTGAGE COMPANY IN TROUBLE.Toronto, March 10.\u2014The Bristol and West of England Land Mortgage Company of this city, will ask its bond-hold- The Enz- lish end of the business is in the hands ers for an extension of tume.of Messrs.William Smith & Company, Bristol.president here, and Mr.W.voluntary H.Mulkins, manager.A temporary It- auidation is possible, and unless financial cenditions change materially it not probable that the company will make any more loans.It cannot be described as about to go out of business, for it is quite possible that it may go on for the next five years.The company was formed on March 25, 1878, with a subscribed capital of £139,750, and has heen carrying on a mortgage business in Canada ever since.At one time mortgages were held by it in Ontario for about 8:.200,000, but this amount has been materially reduced by the company in the course of the past few years.For a while a dividend of eight percent was paid each year.In 1892 and 1893, however, the dividends fell to six percent, and since then no dividends have been paid.Interest on the bonds, however.has been paid up.A general meeting of shareholders will be held in Bristol shortly, and it is possible that a temporary liquidation will be brought ahout and an extension of time obtained from the bondholders.It is said the follow- 18 nr significant resolution will be submitted at the meeting : \u201cThat it has been proven to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue in buasi- ness.and that jt is advisible to wind up the same, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily, and that a liquidator be appointed for the purpose of such winding up.\u2019 If the bondholders insist on the realization of the Canadian securities the whole business will be a very serious one for the Ontario farmers and merchants concerned.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEWS FROM WINNIPEG.Winnipeg, March 10.\u2014The Hon.Mr.Tarte has written the Winnipeg Board of Trade intimating that the government will at an early date enter upon the work of making the Red river navigable between this city and Lake Winuipeg.In the case of Clarke, tried at the Portage assizes, charged with ballot box stuif- ing, the jury disagreed and was discharged.The Manitoba Legislature is dow con- riddering an important mining act, providing regulations for prospecting and purchase of mineral lands.The govern: ment anticipates that all the unoccupied lands in the eastern portion of the province which are not considered accessible to settlers for agricultural purposes, will be transferred to Manitoba in the near future, and as several mineral deposits have already been discovered in the district, the new legislation is introduced to meet the mecessities that are expected to arise, and have already arisen.along the western shore of Lake Winni-' | fight.on Montcalm street.peg and to the east of the Lake of the Woods.The Winnipeg Board of Trade will send a delegate\u201dto Ottawa to interview the government in regard to the desired amendments to the Bankruptey Act._\u2014 ae FRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT.Washington, March 10 \u2014The diplomatic corps was received by Secretary Sherman in the dfplomatie parlor of the State Department at eleven o'clock this morning and shortly afterwards presented to the President.The members of the corps assembled in the diplomatic reception room shortiv before eleven o'clock, by appointment.the Chinese, Korean and Turkish Ministers alone having other attire than the customary morning dress.Frock eoats and high silk hats were generally worn, and all decorations were conspicuous by their absence.At eleven o'clock the corps in a body, headed by Sir Julian Pauncefote, were ushered by Assistant Secretaries Rockhill and Adee into the diplomatic parlor, where they were ranged abomt the four sides of the room in their pro- rer order of precedence, each head of embassy and legation being supported br his secretaries and attaches.NITED STATES SUGAR SCHEDULE Washington, March 10-The sugar schedule of the new tariff hill was finished to-day by the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee.The cenclusions reached were foreshadowed in the United Associated Press despatch of last night.The differential duty wus placed at one-eighth of a cent a pound.A countervailing duty against hountr- paying countries wus fixed so as to equalize the net amount of bountv\u2014that is to say, the exact amount of the honntv less any internal revenue tax levied.The afternoon and evening session and severn] tentative rates adopted.but another session will be necessary before the schedule 1s completed.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.Ottawa, March 11.\u2014A son of the Hon.W.Macdougall has been appointe.l a temporary clerk in the Library or l'aria- ment.The Liberal headquarters in the House of Commons, room No.16, has been covered with a new and very handsome Brussels carpet purchased in Montreal.The Ottawa Prespytery has recom mended that the basis of representation at the General Assenhly he a sixth in- sten ad of a fourth of the members of the presbyteries.Mr.Sutherland Stayner is the \u2014 | THE LINTEAU CASE.THE DAGGER BELONGED TD - FIORITO.IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE CASE.Some important evidence was adduced yesterday in the Court of Queen's Bench before Mr.Justice Wurtele, the murder of Frederic Linteau on the Day.Pasquele Ciarlo, the accused, was called tu the bar, and Dr.W surgeon at the Notre Dame Hospital, was examined.He testified that about a quarter to one o'clock on the morning regarding evening of New Year's \".J.Derome, house of Jan.2 he accompanied the ambulance to the house of the deceased Iinteau on where he found the After temporarily dressing the wounds the in- Montcalm street, father and son seriously wounded.jured men were conveyed to the hospital.On the way to that institution the deceased lost a considerable quantity of The father said he was mortally wounded and Jan.3 he died.wound was in his abdomen.blood and vomited at the hospital.The most serious The blow had been struck in a slanting direction cn and had cut away part of the intestine.Cn being shown the dagger the doctor said that such a weapon could produce wounds similar to those of the deceased, but he did not think they were made Young Linteau had told him, during the tune he was lying in the that he cculd recognize one of his assailants and afterwards he pointed by the razor.hospital, out the prisoner as being one of them.As a medical man he had no hesitation In saying that the elder Linteau died from the wounds he received during the fight.In his cross-examination the witness said he was not present when Linteau died.Dr.Wyatt Johnson, government medical expert, testified having held an autopsy on Jan.3 in company with Drs.Villeneuve and Derome, and that the direct cause of death was through a large wound in the left side of the deceased.Dr.Villeneuve coroborated the testi- ony of the previous witness.l'his closed the case for the prosecution.Antoinette Sauro, who was one of the witnesses for the prosecution at the preliminary enquete, was not needed by the Crown, and after considerable argument.it was decided to allow Mr.H.C.St.Pierre, Q.C., to examine her in the interests of the defence, notwithstanding the many objections raised by the Crown counsel.The witness was well acquainted with Ciarlo, having known him for three vears.She knew Dominico Fiorito, who visited the house of her mother on Jan.1 and also on the morning following the Witness rec- ogmzed the dagger produced as being the property of Fiorito and she had seen it in his possession on Jan.1.He carried 1t in one of the inside pockets of hig coat.On the evening of Jan.1, when he visited their house about five o'clock, Fiomto drank a glass or two of lager.The next morning he appeared about half-past eight o'clock for his breakfast and that was the last time she saw him.Cross-examined by Mr.Archambault, the witness said she and her mother kept a loarding-house at that time on Jacques Cartier street and on .Jan: 1 thev retired early.Iler age war sixteen and she had been married twenty-one days.James Gildone, a laborer, who resided at Jacques Cartier street, the board- mg-honse kept by the previous witness and her mother, was the next witness.Je knew the prisoner and on the evening in question he opened the door of the hearding-house for Domimico Fiorito at five minutes to twelve o'clock.Fiori to appeared excited: asked witness if there weve anv spots of blood on Ins clothing, Lut he conld not discover any.The dagger produc ed was the praperty of Fiorito and he had seen 1t in lis possession before.When Iionto arnved home he was minus his hat.He exclaimed, \u2018T am going to commend myself to the Lord as ! have stabbed two men, ag BEY] \"he mention the woollen schedule was taken up at the! land T am sure that one of them will die | Gildone done with his d asked him what he had wzger and he said he had thrown it away in the vicimtv of the scene of the fight.Fionto also asked him to take his clothes and hide them and also informed witness that he was leaving the country early in the morning, as he was certain he had committed a murder if not a double one.He never mentioned whether he had anv eom- panions at the time of the fight nor did street where the affair then took place, Sardo Capuricei, a resident of the same house.overheard the conversation between the previous witness and Fiorito on the evening of Jan.1.but he had never seen the dagger before.He knew the priconer for four vears ond lie was alway: quiet ard attended to lis own business, About six o'clock the conrt 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