The daily witness, 4 décembre 1897, samedi 4 décembre 1897

[" Ni Dow Ww 5 ed Last Edition.Are Ve Town to a A VITAL QUESTION.«-.rdav afternoon application -.Judge de Lorimier in cham- ali où a number of proprietors je l'Eau at Longueuil for a mat, ismus to compel the town of \u201c :) varry the discharge pipe of Longuena tue » so \u2018ralnage out into the river fai ig + nave the matter discharged carrie away by the current.It is al- 16 at low water the whole dis- \u2026 made into stagnant pools, and Li simes, according to the wind, -:e od.rs are very disagreeable.The in- spuitor of th Provincial Board of Health g.me time .zo reported against leaving :1 in that condition.Now several of the propriet-r.have taken the matter up and have placed the matter in the hands of Mesars.R.C.Smith and E.Lafleur, advocc«es, with the result that the proceedings have been begun.Judge de Jarimi - ordered the writ to issue and 7% wil « served today.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 CA.LRY EFFICIENCY.The compar .ve efficiency returns of ha cavalry corps give the Montreal Hus- srs o slight lead over the Sth Hussars, ho have done particularly well on tar- - practice, anu a decided percentage or all others.The Montreal Hussars 1 eived the tot ! possible points for sories, interio.*conomy and records, al answers to -: \u201cions by officers, and twcity-five ou\u2019 rhirty for regimental drili This is a beginning.The results are as follows :\u2014 pet gt ct.\"sé Montreal Hussars, Major Whitley .134.07 8th ~ L.N.B.Hussars, Lieut.-Colonel MV kham .+.25 ++ 2e ++ +.133.97 ard goons, Lt.-Col.Rodgers .118.38 Que Own O.Hussars, Major Hr aerington .109.09 5th sragoons, Lt.-Col.Taylor .108.89 King 3 Canadian Hussars, Major Rya:.4424 0440 4e.106.97 Princess Louise D Guards, Capt.R.Brown .102,00 1st Hussars, Lt.-Col.Gartshore.98.37 2nd Dragoons, Lt.-Col.Buchner .98.13 C.G.Body Guard, Lt.-Col.Dunn .85.55 THE LATE ROSS MACKENZIE.Un Tuesday next the funeral of the lize Mr.Ross Mackenzie will take place v.Toronto.The clerks in the general ices of the C.P.R.there intend to æud a beautiful floral offering, while nose of them who can be spared, espe cally from Mr.Spencer's office, will go up to attend the funeral.Mr.Mackenzie was a prime favorite with young and old All over the building, being noted for large-heartedness, manliness and geniality.\u2014_\u2014 NEW GRAIN ELEVATING CO.Some prominent members of the Corn Exchange met in the Board of Trade bullding yesterday afternoon and formed a new grain-elevating company, with a capital, it is understood, of $250,000.The elevators, which will be on the vneu- matic principle, will cost £12,000, or about $60,000.The directorate chosen yesterday was as follows:\u2014Messrs.Thos.Harling, Elder-Dempster Line ; W.M.Macpherson, of David Torrance & Co.; Wm.Stewart and Alex.McFee, YOUNG BURGLARS.Deputy High Constables Bissonnette end Lambert last evening arrested six boys for breaking into Mr.Foley's dry goods store on Coursol street on Thursday night.The boys made off with about twenty dollars\u2019 worth of goods.They appeared in the Police Court this morning before Judge Dugas, who re manded them for trial.Four pleaded guilty.WILL NOT PREACH TO-MORROW.The Rev.H.R.O'Malley, the new assistant minister of St.Jude\u2019s Church, whose duties were to have commenced with the first of this month, has been cratted an extension of leave by the rec- fer, and will not occupy the pulpit un- +.next Sunday.-\u2014 SUICIDE WHILE DESPONDENT.\u2019 The verdict of the coroner\u2019s jury in the inquest held over the remains of Mrs.Aston at the Royal Victoria Hospital this morning was that the deceased committed 1 mide while in a state of despondency.\u2014_\u2014_\u2026 PERSONAL.Mr.J.W.Leonard, general superin- \u201clent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, \u201crive this morning from the west.M: A, D.MeLachlan has arrived in H tn a visit to his sister, Miss Me- titan, who leaves shortly for Califor- tu Mr.MeLachlan goes to join his \u2018er in Klondike, where they have \u201cie Interests, \u2014p BISHOP EMARD.\\ Ciblegram received at Valleyfield m Mer.Emard, now in Rome, an- \u2018ces that he had an audience with the { :e, and will sail from Havre for New MONTREAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1897.PRICE \u2018ONE CENT.A DISTRESSING CASE.A peculiar case of hardship was brought Yto the attention of the local officials of \u2018tthe C.P, R.at the Windsor station this morning.Two months ago a German woman named Shultze, accompanied by six children, came out to New York to join her husband, who, however, was found, upon arrival, to have gone to Winnipeg.- Word was sent him, and he remitted sufficient money to bring the family on to Montreal.Here they landed this morning, hungry and penniless.The wife had not heard from her husband; she did not know his address, and unless something could be done for her she and the children would simply starve.Of these one was in arme, while the eldest was about ten years of age.The immigration authorities set about telegraphing to find out the husband's address in Winnipeg, while Constable Richards, in that hearty voice of his, brought a smile to mother and children by anthem hot tea and plenty of bread and butter.In the meantime, until word can be heard from Winnipeg, the family will be kept in the immigration quarters at the station.\u2014 ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE.A YOUNG WOMAN MISSING FROM HER HOME SINCE SUNDAY.LAST.Another mysterious disappearance was registered at detective headquarters yesterday.In the preeent instance the missing person is Miss Angelina Lafran- 381 St Lawrence Main street.The girl is only seventeen years of age, and is respectably connected.The mother is distracted over the loss of her daughter, and after vainly searching for her all week, on Friday last determined to give the matter into the hands of the police.The girl is described by her mother gs dark haired, tall for her age.and with black eyes.She was a pupil with the nuns of the Congregation, and is very clever.She was a great reader of such writers as Jules Verne and it is feared is the fourth time that she has mysteriously disappeared,the last occasion being on the night of the Laurier reception 7 On Dec.1, three days after her disappearance, she wrote from Laprairie to an aunt in the city, in which she stated that she had determined to leave Montreal for good, and asked her good offices to defend her action with her father, stating that she would never cease to love him.\u2014_\u2014 WANTS TO ANNUL THE AWARD.The Montreal Park & Island Railway Company has entered an appeal from the award of the commissioners in the case of the expropriation of the property of John Wynnes, at Lachine.WANTS MORB DAMAGES.Miss Cassie McGee, who, some time ago, got judgment for $1,000 in an action of damages taken against the city on account of injuries received by falling on City Hall avenue, has now entered a new action for $10,000 on the ground that the injurics received will incapacitate her for life.ce WILL HAVE A JURY TRIAL.In a case of Hawkins es qual vs.Roberts et al the plaintiff declared his option for a jury trial and accompanied his action with a seizure before judgment.Judge Archibald, yesterday, decided that the seizure did not deprive the plaintiff of his right to a jury trial, it being merely an incidental proceeding concerning the remedy rather than the right of action, and he fixed the facts for the jury.ee ST.BARNABAS CHURCH, ST.LAMBERT.Last night the first pleasant evening under the auspices of St.Barnabas Church, St.Lambert, was held in the Academy Hall.The programme consisted of vocal and instrumental music, interspersed with elocutionary recitations.The performers included: Mrs.Ramsay, the Misses Picaud, Miss Riddington, Miss S.Laviolette, Miss G.Williams, aud Messrs.F.A.Bourne, Lioyd, Roberts, Gauthier, T.Cameron, Geo.Wright, Maclogan, Duffy, Webster, W.J.Johnstone, D.Herron, J.H.Clelland, and F.W.Fox.There was an excellent attendance, the entertainment proving successful in every respect.\u2014_\u2014 ROYAL TEMPLARS.At a very large meeting, held last night, of Metropolis Council, No.5, of this order, the following officers were elected for the term commencing Jan.1 : Select councillor, Bro.A.R.Trussell ; past councillor, Bro.Geo.Barratt ; vice- councillor, Sister Roes ; chaplain, Bro.Frank Smith ; financial secretary, Bro.A.P.Parker ; treasurer, Bro.J.A.Warren ; recording secretary, Bro.Joba S.Archibald; herald, Bro.W.Jeffrey; guard, Bro.H.Rowell ; sentinel, Bro.J.O.Sicard ; organist, Sister Mrs.Cutter; York on Dec.11.4 trustee (three years), Bro, C.R.Dennis.- nouncing that he would see about getting.cois, daughter of Mrs Lafrancois, No.: that these works may have influenced her to attempt a life of adventure.It: OUR FOREIGN TRADE.GratifyIng Increasé Over Last Year, VOLUME SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN ADVANCE OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS.Ottawa, Dec.4\u2014The imports and ex- Ports of the Dominion for the four months of the fiscal year ending Oct.31 show a considerable increase in the volume of trade.There was an increase in the aggregate trade of the country of $16,560,412.This does not include BO amor sos ;none have been received at the depart- i ment since last June.The exports for the four months show an increase of $15,485,220, while the imports are greater by a million and a quarter than they were in 1896.The duty also shows an increase of about twenty-three thousand dollars, but if the Vancouver returns were to hand the increase in duty would be about $142,000 at the very least.; The figures for October show that trade is rapidly going ahead.The expoits showed an increase of $3,600,000, the imports of $770,000, and the duty of $106,- 000 over the same month last year.The figures for the four months are :\u2014 1896.1897.Produce of the mine .$ 3,445,248 $ 5,014,246 | Fisherfes ., .| 5,022,243 4,751,477 (Forest .22.15,650,235 16,315,651 Animals and their pro- \u2019 duce .0 24 16,057,081 21,788,641 Agriculture products .6,670,730 13,985,519 | Manufactures ., .3,414,999 3,779,758 Miscellaneous articles, , 189,568 125,198 Total .$50,250,164 $65,740,384 Increase for 1897, $15,485,220.The imports for the four months were: ; 1896.1897.41,976,130 ,105,322 Increase, $1,125,192.38008, | 1896.1897.Duty .- - $6,788,918 $6,811,961 Increase, $23,043.\u2019 As already explained, the Vancouver returns will bring the increase on duty up to $142,000 at the least.Owing to the Yukon trade the Vancouver returns ought to be large.\u2018 t It will be seen that the exports under ; the head of agricultural products have \"more than doubled during the four months, while there is an i .wver fve-milllon dollars ip .ily and their produce, and a very\u201d ir in the products of the mine.The fisheries alone show a decrease.MELVILLE CHURCH.REV.MR.WINFIELD MAKES A | STATEMENT.Ottawa, Ont, Dec.4.-The Rev.T.W.Winfield, who has been called to Melville Church, Westmount, is not perturbed over the incident that occurred at the meeting of the Presbytery of Montreal early in the week.The facts of the cage, he thinks, were greatly magnified in the newspapers ; a sensation created with very little foundation.The minority do not number forty ; there were four who protested, and they and their families would vot total over twen- ty-five.\u2018It was inevitable,\u2019 said Mr.Winfield to a press representative, \u2018that these gentlemen should state their objections, and Iam in no wise harmed.1 understand that those who protested against the call are extremists on the prohibition question, and as all meh cannot see eye to eye, those who take the narrow stand must be allowed to bave their say- It was worth all the annoyance of the affair, however, to hear the kind and cordial words which the delegation from Melville Church expressed before the Presbytery vesterday.They assured me that no man could wish a more united congregation and that there did not exist one from which I would receive more sympathetic or considerate treatment.Of purpose would be served by attempting to combat the statements made in Montreal.There were some of them not ns accurate as might be.For instance; Mi, Matthew Hutchinson said that I had appeared voluntarily before the Royal Commission and given anti-temperance evidence.Such was not the case.I was summoned before the commission and my evidence was along the lines of atrict- est temperance.A man would be a fool to oppose temperance.I am, however, opposed to prohibition.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 MUST RENDER AN ACCOUNT.In a case of Brunet vs.the Banque Nationals, the plaintiff claims a commission of twenty percent on the sum of $25,000 which he alleges to have been collectd for the bank, through hia assistance, from the eg- tate of Mrs.Lionais, the agreement being that he should receive such commission for his services In the matter, and be asked that the bank should render an account.The defendant demurred on the ground that there was nothing in the declaration entitling the plaintiff to ask for an account.Judge Archibald yesterday dismissed the demurrer and declared that defendant was obliged to render an account, as under the agreement mentioned twenty percent of the money so collected became the property of the plaintiff, THE DREYFUS CASE.Paris, Dec.4.\u2014The military governor of Paris, Gen.Saussier, has ordered the formation of a court-martial to examine into the charges against Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, the retired major of the French army, who is accused of writing the letter which brought about the eentencing of Alfred Dreyfus to \u2018imprisonment for life.The \u2018Journal\u2019 says that the decision of Gen.Saussier is on the report of Gen.Pelleux, who was appointed by the Minister of War to examing into the charges brought against Count Esterhazy and which is as follows: \u2018So far as Dreyfus is concerned the case bas been tried, no new fact has been brought out and no new document has been submitted during the course of the any returns from the port SLY oaeoures,.roasts Sr\" siother ;hook hands with the proprietor aud Ti sedated à course,\u201d continued Mr.Winfield, \u2018no good.enquiry to justify a revision of the trial.In consequence there is no ground for proceeding against Count Esterhazy so far as regards the crime of high treason, or vale.Geptæin- Dreyfus was con- \u2014 TWO SUDDEN DEATHS.Sherbrooke, Que., Dec.4\u2014Mr.E.{.Miles, representing the Granby Rubber Company, dropped dead in a store here last evening, just as he had reached it, sal down.He left his hotel after supper in perfect health, and took the steep -ascent on King street to reach his destination.It is supposed that he overheated himself in this, and his walk having heen preceded by a hearty supper, caused the complications which brought about his sudden death.Sherbrooke, Que., Dec.4\u2014Mrs.P.Guay, while on her way home from mar- \u2018ket last night, dropped dead on the street from heart disease.She was the wife of Mr.P.Guay, who died here on Oct.25.GENERAL WEYLER DINED.Palma, Island of Majorca, Dee.4.\u2014 The military club yesterday gave a lunch- con in honor of General Weyler, the former captain-general of Cuba.The military governor of Majorca was among the gests.When General Weyler entered the banquet hall the band in attendance played the Royal hymn, and the General, stopping the music momentarily, proposed a toast to the \u2018King and the Queen Regent,\u2019 which was enthusiastically received.pt ST.CANUT MURDERER.St.Scholestique, Que., Dec.4.\u2014The pre- Fliminery enquete in the St.'Canut mur- Fer -coæ wes begun yesterday.before \"ReMertigny.* Mr.F.X.Ma- + r.c, MP, for \u2018the deferice, agreed to a jeint trial, and also entered an admission that the evidence was sufficient to warrent the committal of both for trial.The only important witness heard was the\u2018 coroner, who told of the evidence brought out at the inquest.In the course of his description of the condition of the bedroom where Isidore Poirier was killed, he stated that the print of a woman's shoe was found in the blood upon the.floor.He also exhibited the insurance policies taken out by the deceased in favor of his wife.The case is in progress to-day.LORD ABERDEEN HONORED.Toronto, Dec.4\u2014At the conclusion of yesterday\u2019s session of the Benchers Convocation at Osgoode Hall, a luncheon was given in honor of Lord Aberdeen, by the law society in the benchers apartments.Aemilius, Irving, Q.C., presided, the Hon.À.S.Hardy being among the invited guests.His Excellency gave a short address.The only toast proposed was \u2018 His Excellency\u2019s health.\u2019 A large number of judges and benehers who arc attending the convocation were present.MAY SUCCEED SIR OLIVER.Ottawa, Dec.4\u2014It is stated on good authority that the government has agreed to call Mr.James Innes, of Guelph, ex- M.P., to the Senate, to fill the seat vacated by Sir Oliver Mowat.The elevation of Mr.Innes would meet with general approval, : CHEAPER POSTAL RATES.Ottawa, Dec.4.\u2014Official notice of the three-cent postage rate to the United Kingdom and other British possessions is given to-day in the \u2018Oanada Gazette.\u2019 It goes into effect on Jan.! next.BOME EXPLOSIONS IN SPAIN.Barcelona, Dec.4.\u2014Great excitement was caused yesterday evening in the village of Monistroi, Catalonia, twenty- seven miles north-west of this place, by the explosion of four bombs.No dam- cge, however, of any importance was done, and there were no casualties.\u2014_ THE MILITARY INSTITUTE.Captain Carroll Ryan, R.L., will open the winter course of lectures at the Military Institute this evening.The subject of his lecture is \u2018The right wing of the empire.\u2019 -\u2014\u2014 ACTION AGAINST THE CITY.An action for tive hundred dollars damages has been entered by L.J.Pelletier against the city and Constable B.Mungeon on the ground of false arrest, ST.THOMAS\u2019S CHURCH.The Rev.T.H.Bell, missionary and incumbent of Alleyne in the Gatineau district, will preach .in St.Thomas\u2019s Church, Notre Dame street, to-morrow.5, able \u2018Thursday night and is at large.LAND-GRABBING AT DYEA.Victoria, B.C., Dec.4.\u2014 Town site booming is not without its dangers, even with the teraperature at ten below zero.As an illustration, the \u2018Corona,\u2019 arriving from Dyea, yesterday, brings word of a land grabbers\u2019 war culminating in actual hostilities, on Now.23.Messrs.Healy & Wilson, on establishing their post twelve years ago, took up 120 acres, to i however, they have as yet no patent:*When Dyea felt the Klondike boom, attempts were made to take the Healy & Wilson tract.The boomers, headed by Mr.Kinny, of the Chilcoot : Transportation \u2018 Company, attempted to | remove the fences, and fighting ensued, | in which Nelse Peters was killed accidentally by the discharge of his own shotgun, Hundreds of non-combatants awaited a boomers\u2019 victory to procure lots.Armed sentries now guard the fence, while numerous arrests are being made.Ottawa, Dec.4.\u2014 The Arctic Ray Mining Company, of Windsor, Ont., is applying for incorporation to do business in the Yukon, with a capital of five million dollars, The promoters are mostly Americans.EFFECT OF THE ENGINEERS STRIKE.London, Dec.4\u2014Mr.Sinclair, editor of \u2018Locomotive Engineering,\u2019 of New York city, has a long letter in the \u2018Times\u2019 to-day on the engineering strike.He describes the great economy of production in America resulting in the adoption of Whitney's principle of interchangeable parts of machinery.He says that during a single week as a consequence of the.sirike fifty-eight foreign orders were received in the United States for locomotives which under normal conditions would probably have been placed in England.He warns English engineers that, if they attempt to follow the trade they are banishing to America, they will be obliged to work harder and longer hours than they are accustomed to at home.\" THE MANITOBA SCHOOLS.Toronto, Dec.+.\u2014A special to the \u2018Mail and Empire\u2019 from Winnipeg says: \u201cÀ reporter, asked the ministers of the Local Government yesterday if there was any truth in \u2018the reports that Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Patterson\u2019s presence in the east was associated with tonteraplated modifications in the public school law favor- to the Cdtholies and each and.all \u201cYou may just FE Gn Fo Cameron said: 4 neral À as well flatly deny such stories at one.> There is absolutely no truth in them.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GERMANY AND NEW GUINEA.Berlin, Dec.4\u2014The \u2018Hamburgische Correspondenz\u2019 says that the German Government has emphatically refused to entertain the proposal of England that Germany should cede to Great Britain her protectorate over the German portion of New Guinea,which is the northern section of south-east Papua, established in 1884 under the name of the Kaiser Wilhelm\u2019s Land.It is supposed here that Great Britain ie casting envious eyes upon the newly discovered gold fields._\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MURDERER AT LARGE.Ripley, W.Va., Dec.4\u2014John Morgan, who was to have been executed on Dec.| 16 for the murder of Mrs.Green, her son and daughter on Nov.3, escaped on A short time ago he sold a confession for twenty- five dollars.With the money he bought a new suit of clothes to wear on the gallows.MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LONDON London, Dec, 4\u2014There has been another mysterious murder in London.This time the victim 1s an old shoemaker in Longacre, with alleged Nihilistic affiliations, and the crime has added to the genéral dissatisfaction with the Metropolitan police, Witlfin the past two years there have been eight unexplained murders, besides numberless burglaries in which an immense amount of property has been stolen.CANNOT MARRY AN AMERICAN.London, Dec.4.\u2014The \u2018Daily Chronicle\u2019 says this morning it has good reason to believe.that the Khedive of Egypt will refuse to allow his brother, Mehemet Ali Pasha, to marry an American, in view of the fact that the child to which the Khediveh recently gave birth is a girl and Mehemet Ali is still the heir-pre- sumptive.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE LATE MR.GLADU.Sorel, Que., Dec.4.\u2014The funeral of the late Mr.Victor Gladu, M.P.P., for Yamaska Oourty, took place at ten o\u2019clock this morning at St.Francois du Lac.It was attended by a large number of political friends.a MRS.McKINLEY SINKING.Canton, Ohio, Dec.4.\u2014Mrs.McKinley\u2019s death is fast approaching.Soon after six o\u2019clock the family was called around the bedside to witness the end, which then seemed at hand.WILDE TO PUBLISH A POEM\u2019 London, Dec.4.\u2014It is said that Oscar Wilde has arranged to publish here and in New York city a poem entitled \u2018 The THE KHALIFA SUCCUMBS.Wants to Rule Under British Suzerainty.London, Dec, 4.\u2014It is reported that the Khalifa is disposed to conclude peace with Egypt, on condition that he be granted hereditary power over Kordofan rand Darfur, and that all his adherents be pardoned.The Dervish leader is a!- so said to be ready to evacuafe the whole Nile valley, to recognize the suzerainty of Queen Victoria and open his domains to British Commerce.\u2014_\u2014 LONDON SOCIETY SCANDAL.SOME LIGHT ON HOW THE EN- DORSATION OF A NOTE WAS SECURED BY FRAUD.London, Dec.4.\u2014Revelations in & promissory note case, heard before the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Ruseell of Killowen, in the Queen\u2019s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, this week, have created a painful impression and much sympathy for the Marquis of Abergavenny.whose fourth son, Lord William Nevill, has been brought forward in so unenviable a manner, whereag his father is generally respected, The suit, as cabled to the Associated Press, during the week, was brought by \u2018Sam\u2019 Lewis, the well-known London moneylender, against an officer of the Guards, named Clay, to recover the sum of 855,- 565, due on two promissory notes cashed by Lord William Nevill, who, the jury decided, -obtained the young officer's signature by fraud, making him believe that he was signing documents relating to the divorce of the Countess Cowley, Lord Nevill\u2019s sister.It is now said that further suits involving Lord Nevill are imminent.The affair has been the talk of society for a long time past, and many attempts have been made to hush the matter up.Clay is one of the wealthiest of the English gilded youth.His mother married Mr.Beresford Valentine Melv\u201dle, the Conservative member of Parliament ; or Stockport, who is Clay's guardian The latter's father was Mr, RGR ek a RW AVE EA Sté AS dico age sharebolders in the Bass Brewery Company.Mr.Melville became Clay's guardian after the death of the latter's father.The young man, who has just attained his majority, and the contro} of a large fortune, met Lord Nevill at a house party, at Ascott, where he was prevailed upon to endorse the notes.Clay\u2019s sister, who has a fortune of £50,- 000 a year, was recently married to Lord Bingham, the eldest son and heir of the Earl of Lucan.Young Clay owns a racing stable, which includes among the horses the well-known racer \u2018Padishah.\u2019 More will be heard of the affair.The newspapers say that, in the absence of a refutation of Clay\u2019s story, Lord William Nevill must remain an exile and an outcast.Lord Nevill, about a dozen years ago, was on the staff of Sir Henry Loch, at Melbourne, when the latter was governor of Victoria.There Lord Nevill was received into the Roman Catholic Church and in Rome, later, he studied for the priesthood.But he returned to England and married Louisa Maria Carmen De Murrieta, eldest daughter of Jose De Murrieta, Marquise De San- turce, the well-known banker, just before the failure of his firm, in March, 1896, owing to the depression in South American securities.Lord Nevill, who was born in 1860, educated at Eton, and who was formerly a lieutenant in the Third Battalion of the West Kent Regiment, is tall, clean-shaven, and youthful- looking.\u2018Sam\u2019 Lewis, the money-lender, has been a well-known figdre in London for the past thirty years.He had an office on Cork street, and half the peerage has been among his clients.A number of stories are told about Lewis, including one to the effect that every year, when he goes to Monte Carlo, he takes $10,000,000, with which to emuse himself and accommodate his cus tomers.THREW COLD WATER ON THE SCHEME.Toronto, Dec.4.\u2014The \u2018 Evening Telegram\u2019s\u2019 special cable, dated London, Dec.3, says: \u2018 Speaking at the Calonial Club dinner yesterday Sir Saul Samuel ridiculed the idea of the colonies appointi1g commercial agentsgeneral at London.rer UNSETTLED, WITH SNOW.Metebrological Office, Toronto, Ont., Dec.4.\u201411 a.m.\u2014The following are the maximum and minimum temperatures\u2014Hattieford, 30, 24; Qu'Appelle, 22, 14; Winnipeg, 20, 19; Port Arthur, 18, 10: Parry Sound, 40, 6; Toronto, 30, 28; Ottawa, 24, 4 below; Montreal, 24, 6; Quebec, 18, zero: Halifax, 28, 16.Probabilities for the next twenty-four hours \u2014Strong easterly wind; unsettled with light snow; higher temperature.Montreal, Dec.4, 1897.Readings by Hearn & Harrison's Standard Barometer at noon to-day, 30.21; yesterday, 30.57.Temperature, to-day, max.22 ballad of Reading Jail,\u2019 by C.33.min.10; yesterday, max.£9, min, 17.* 3 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notices of births, marriages and deaths must invert.ably be endorsed with the name ard address of the sender, or otherwise no notice can be taken of them Birth nctices are inserted for 25c, marriage notices Jor 50e, death notices for 25c prepaid.The announcement of funeral appended to death notice, #50 extra; other extension to obituary, such as short sketch of life, two cents per word extra, except poetry, which ia three tents per word extra\u2014 prepaid.Annual subscribers may have announcements of births, marriages and deaths (without extended obituary or verses) occurring in their immediate families, free of charge, in which case name and address of sub.ecribers should be given WATSON\u2014At St.Lambert, on Nov.30th, 1807, the wite of the Rev.Murray Wat- scn, of a son.4 MARRIED.BOND\u2014FIELD.\u2014On Dec.1, 1897, at All Saints\u2019 Church, Toronto, by the Rev.A.H.Baldwin, Miss Gertrude E.Field, daughter of J.L.Field, Smithville, to W.L.Bond, M.B., York Mills, son of the late Wu.Bond, of Newmarket.3 EWAN\u2014LEWTHWAITE\u2014On the 25th Nov., 1897, in the East End Methodist Church,by the Rev.G.G.Huxtable, assisted by the Rev.W.H.Emsley, chairman of district, and the Rev.Manly Benson, D.D., the Rev.R.B.Ewan, M.D., to Sarah J., eldest daughter of Alex.Lewthwaite, Esq., all of Montreal.+ FLETCHER\u2014FORBES.\u2014At Chicopee Falls, Mass.on Nov.30, 1897, by the Rev.Newton Black, Eleanor Beatrice, second daugh- sr of Dr.H.Gordon Forbes, to A.G.Ashton Fletcher, M.D., of Toronto, only son of the late Ashton Fletcher, Q.C.3 MeNAUGHTON\u2014SINCLAIR.\u2014On Nov.16, by the Rev.H.D.Leitch, 8t.Elmo, at the residence of John Sinclair, brother of the bride, Donald McNaughton, of Do- minionville, to Margaret Sinclair, of Athol.3 MURDOCH\u2014WILMOT.\u2014By the Rev.G.A.Kuhring, rector Church of Ascension, Toronto, William Murdoch, C.E., io Jane Alexander Wilmot, daughter of the late James Wilmot, Esq., of Bowmanrille, Ont.PERRY\u2014McCLEARY\u2014At the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev.Churchill Moore, Mr.Oliver W.Perry, of Kings- crofft, Que., to Miss Jennette, dauzhter of Mr.John McCleary, of Ayer\u2019s Flat, Que.on Nov.30th, 1897.4 WRIGHT\u2014BEARD\u2014In this city, on the 1st of Deccmber, at the Church of the Advent, Westmount, by the Very Rev.Dean .Carmichael, James Alexander Wright,formerly of Peterboro, now of Montreal, to Maude Baldwin Beard.4 DIED.CAMERON.\u2014At the Montreal General Hospital, on December 2nd inst.Alexander Cameron, M.D., of Huntingdon, P.Q., in his sixty-fourth year.\"The funeral will take place at Hunting- don, on Sunday, December 5th, at 2 Pn.EVANS\u2014On Des.2, 1897, at his late residence, 27 Alexander st., New Edinburgh, Ont., Captain Thomas Evans, aged 57 years.4 FITZSIMMONS\u2014On Dcc.3, 1897, at the residence of her son-in-law, T.Beatty, 17 Hill street, Ottawa, Margaret J., widow of \u2018the late James Fitzsimmons, aged 74 years.: 4 KERR.\u2014At her residence, 59 Market street, Galt, Ont, on Wednesday, Oct.27, Mrs.Mary B.Kerr, relict of the late Thomas Kerr, in her 74th year.She.was a native of Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland.3 PRESTON.\u2014Ou Dec.1, 1897, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr.E.V.John- som, 69 Cartier street, Ottawa, Mary A.widow of the late G.H.Preston, aged 73 years.2 Those sending notices for the above column may send with them a list of names of interested friends.diarked copies of the * Witness containing such notice will be sent free to any address in Canada Montreal excepted.ADVERTISEMENTS.A Good Piano, $100 to $250.\u2014An Upright Piano, but slightly used, is almost as good as buying a new one.We have several from $125 to $250, and Square Pianos which cost new $400 or $500, we are selling from $100 to $200.In periest order; terms, $5 to $10 per month.Call and see our stock of pianos and organs, at 2274 St.Catherine street, J.W.Shaw & Co., sole agents for the new pianos of Gerhard Heintzman and Weber There is apparently a demand all over Canada for the Morris Piano.\u2018Listowell, Ont., Dec.1, 1897.\u2014W.H.Leach, 49 Met- calfe street, Montreal\u2014Dear Sir,\u2014Very bugy.Pushing night and day to try and keep up with orders.Will ship your goods as fast as we can get them ready.Yours truly, Morris Piano Co\u2019 I have in stock eight Morris Pianos, and intending purchasers are recommended to make a selection now and avoid the Holiday rush.W.H.Leach, 49 Metcalfe street, Montreal, representative for Morris Pianos.Great inducements to cash customers.Old pianos received in part payment.AU BON MARCHE ALPHONSE VALIQUETTE.188: & 1885 Notre Dame st Our Stock of Winter Jackets, Capes, Cloaks, Shawls, Fur Goods, etc, are all un view; also our New Winter Dress Goods, Cloakings, Tweeds, Blankets, Carpets, apd all at Ruck Bottom Prices.3 G 5 Wl DIAMOND RINGS! OPAL RINGS! The Largest Diamond in the city for the money.13 karat gold, claw fetting, Si, Genuine Opal Rings, Sotia Gold Claw Settiugs, \u2018 $2.00 10 B15.00.D,-BFHA 1 TX, 13187 PETER ST, 7.Opposite Witness office.- holiday gifts.07 mi S, CARSLEY CO,, taie 9 o 9 Montreal's Greatest Store, Dec.4, 1897.\u201cThe Store that Is Increasing Faster than any ether Stora im Montreal To-day.\u2019 News from Santa Claus.First news from Santa Claus since he loft Montreal last New Year's Day Arotic Circle, December, 1897.My Dear Mr.Carsley,\u2014 i About the time you receive this letter I shall be nearly ready to start for Montreal, and shall require a still larger Grotto than last year.My new travelling machine, which I have christened \u2018Reliance,\u2019 is made specially for this trip, and is different to any sleigh or carriage ever made before, or even thought of.It is not a balloon, and it will travel over snow end ice, up or down mountains, and will go at a great rate.Will kill or outrun Bears or any other animal that gets in its way.1t is the greatest travel ling machine ever invented, and 1 would like you to get it patented for me at Ottawa ae soon as I arrive at the Grotto.Please have this letter put in all the new spapers to Jet the dear children know that I am coming.1 hall send you a leiegram just when starting and from every telegraph station on my journey.The big White Bear and Wairusses that tackled me so often other years won't be able to hurt me this trip, unless some accident happens to my new travelling machine.Tell those candy makers to make double what they made last year.\u2019 Give my love to all the children, and accept the same yourself, I remain, Notre Dame street.Your faithful friend, SANTA CLAUS.Toys Selling Fast.Our Toy Department had a splendid day yesterday; not only has it the langest assortment, but the prices are fully 10 to 15 percent lower.A Few Prices.Dolls\u2019 Trunks, 13c, Toy Swords, 10c.Saddle Horses, 22c.Majolica Tea Sets, 26c.Black Boards, 24c, Dolls\u2019 Tea Sets, 3L6c.\u2018 THE S.CARSLEY CO., LIMITED.STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES FOR XMAS GIFTS.Sterling Silver Articles are in great abundance at Carsley\u2019s.You will see nov- Handsome Lace Collars, from 3lc to elties there that #t is impossible to see $4.00.elsewhere.Marie Antoinette Fichus, from $2.00 to Sterling Silver Manicure Sets, from $7.00 40c each.Boys\u2019 Sleighe, 15c.Toy Trumpets, 3c.Iron Banks, 5c.Iron Buggies, 10c.Toy Books, lc.Building Blocks, 5c.LACE NOVELTIES FOR XMAS GIFTS.This department overflows with thousands of rich lace novelties, beautifully and euitably made up in fancy boxes for Lace Boleros, 65c to $4.00.Sterling Silver Buttonhooks, from 40c.Fancy Lace Jabots in all the dainty Sterling Silver Paper Cutters, from 25c.designs possible, from 63c to $1.85.Sterling Silver Mounted Tooth Brushes, Fancy Lace Collar and Cuffs, in hand- from 62.some box, $1.45.Sterling Silver Mounted Nail Brushes, Novelties in Lace and Chiffon Scarfs, from 75c.from 21e to 82.75.Sterling Silver Thimbles, from 19c.Choice Assortment of Honiton Lace- Sterling Silver Penholders, from 25c.trimmed Scarfs.Sterling Silver Powder Pot, 35c.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., LIMITED.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., LIMITED.Mail Orders Carefully Filled.The S.CARSI.EY CO., Limited, 1765 to 1783 Notre Dame st, * 184 to 194 St James st, Montreal.; ; ; Lee.2 Sn Calendars for 1808, | Booklets, Xmas and New Year Cards FOR THE HOLIDAYS, The largest and most complete stock in the city, noticeable for its great variety of new designs and bright attractive colors, is now on view at FOSTER BROWN°S.HISTORIC DAYS OF CANADA.A New and Interesting Calendar, full of local color, with Notes on Canadian History.Price, 75c.HENTY\u2019S NEW BOOKS FOR 1898.With Moore at Corunna.A March on London.With Frederick the Great, Each Finely Hlustrated, $1.23, LONDON, As seen by CHAS, DANA GIBSON, Oblong 4to, $3.00, The Finest Iflustrated Holiday Book of the Season.NEW NOVELS.Quo Oadis, by H ienkiewiez.\u2018 Paper, be enryk Sienkiewicz.Cloth, 81.25.Hugh Wynne, Fr .ir Mi - ve rate .2 Vols, asser by 8.Weir Mitchell, Illus Corleone, 2 Tale of Sicily, F.Marion Crawford.2 Vols, Lorraine, a Romance, Robt.W.Chambers.$1.25.Lochinvar, by 8.R.Crockett.Cloth, 81.50.Wayfaring Men, by Edna Lyall.Cloth, $1.50, The Great Stone of Sardis, by Frank R.Stockton.Cloth NEW BOOKS CONTINUALLY ADDED TO THE STOCK AT FOSTER BROWN'\u2019S, Mansfield and St.Catherine.*~EES & CO., 5.5 E.\u2018UNDERTAKERBs, 8s\u2019 Boo Bt.James Se, MARRIAGE: LICENSES CUSHING, NTITEN & BARROK, ROTABIKS & COMMISSIONERS, 110 St.James Street.MONEY TO LEND E ».ROBB, D.V.S., (McGill), At Lew Rate of Interest and on faverahis Veterinary Surgeo , terms, on first.clasy property.SUN LIFE ASSUBANOE 00 \u2014_\u2014 E verything up-to-date.Always on hand HIGH CLASS SADDLE and PBROPIE & HARVIES CARRIAGE HORSES for sale.GRIDDLECAKE FLOUR as For Griddle cakes, Muffins, &c.(EN TS FOR SALE ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT.3b.and 61b ne J Apply at ** Witness\u201d Office.\u2019 THE MONTREAL DAILY 48,850,552 Drummond st.ok 4 WITNESS.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1897.This cut 1llustrates the style of BEDROOM SUITE which we are selling now.It's made of the best Quartered Oak, highly polished.The Suite in- -cludes à full-sized bed, washstand and dresser.The mirror in the dresser is of British Bevel Plate, 30 by 40 inches; has a serpentine swell front and the fash- fonable twisted standards.The price is $67.50.We have another \u2018set in the same style for $25.20.RENAUD, KIbG & PATTERSON, Artistic Furnitare House, 653 CRAIG ST.Bs NNaNaNINENINIENENENINIÉ 4 CHRISTMAS ; PRESENTS.Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, Silverware, Silver Novelties of every Description.Prices as wsual, the Very Lowest.Open until 9 every evening.JOHN WATSON, 2174 ST.CATHERINE pi 3 doors east of Phillips square.G Art Association Building, RIMLESS EYEGLASSES, Have the Spectacles or Eyeglanses you pre wearing changed into the present pretty and fashionable RIMLESS STYLES ss above.It does not cost much, and looks stylish sud nest.Oculists\u2019 prescriptions » specialty.Charges moderate.Telephone 5043 HENRY GRANT & SON.Opticians, S445 St.Catherine st., near Drummond.À WHAT X TO BUY?The solution of this difficult problem will be found by inspecting our WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF NOVELTIES, specially adapted for CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.YOUNG, OLD, MARRIED, or SINGLE, as well as INFANTS, can be suited with us, We will be glad to show you our Goods.: R.A.DICKSON CO.¥e 2961 ST, CATHERINE AT, OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9.30.$e + 60000008 09000046000000 0 $ yALu ABLE nuggets may be picked $ up at Kiondike, but a good 1 : Porcclain-lined Bath or WOOD MANTEL HE G.R.LOCKER CO, 1749 Notre Dame Sfreet, a 200006040 006000 7 + ©.> Lu 013040600010 380 $ $ $ New Designs.=== GEO.S.KIMBER, House and Sign Fainter, 2486 ST.CATHERINE STREET.Se Bell Tel, 3381, The Daily Witness.SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DEC.4.MET WITH DEFEAT.No Extension of Bonsecours Market.WATER AND POWER COMPANY AGAIN ARRAIGNED-IT YET HAS FRIENDS IN TBE COUNCIL.Despite the refusal of the Charter and Finance committees to apply to the legislature for a quarter or half a million dollars to enlarge Bonsecours market, Ald.Beausoleil and other aldermen made a strenuous fight at the meeting of the City Council yesterday afternoon to get & vote passed favoring the enlargement.Had their efforts succeeded it was pretty well knowh that another civic deputation would soon have been going hot foot to Quebec for permission to borrow for the project.Already one civic deputation has been appointed to go to the legislature and ask borrowing powers for the very handsome amount of $685,000.This market project came up yesterday afternoon for discussion upon a report being read from the Market and Finance committees favoring a plan for enlarging the market by expropriating land and property on Jacques Cartier square, St.Claude, St.Paul, Leroyer and Bonsecours Mreets.The plan is practically Dr.Brodeur\u2019s.Ald.Beausoleil asked the members to give a unanimous vote in favor of the report asking the extension.As he had done so often in the Finance Committee before, he again spoke eloquently upon the pressing need of this extension.The burden of his plea was that farmers who wanted to come to the city and sell their produce could scarcely do so on account of the congested state of this market.The estimated cost of the plan he urged would only be about a quarter of a million dollars\u2014two hundred thousand dollars for the ground and fifty thousand dollars for the opening of Le Royer streets, which would also include the tenants\u2019 claims, amounting to some ten thousand dollars.If the Council decided to acgept any of the other schemes whit had been brought up it would Lave to-pay at least half a millon for this improvement.Ald.Stevenson\u2014And will this scheme of yours do away altogether with farmers using Jacques Cartier square as a mar et ?\u2019 Ald.Besusoleil\u2014Well, no, not quite.Ald.Stevenson\u2014And can you guarantee this council that your plan will not cost more than a quarter of a million ?Ald.Beausoleil, (hesitatingly)\u2014I cannot exactly guarantee that it won\u2019t cost more ; but I believe it will not.Ald.Stevenson\u2014A very good plan to leave alone, like all the others.Amy- way, we have no money for any such schemes.If we begin expropriating again we, shall sink the city still deeper into debt.Aid.Connaughton contended the ten- ents\u2019 claims would more likely run up to forty or fifty thousand dollars than ten thousand, as guessed at by Ald.Beau- soleil.If a little more room was wanted for farmers there were plenty of places in the city where they could stand without the city being forced to buy & big plot for them which would, in all probability, cost a half a million.It was only an open epace that was wanted, after all, and not a covered market.In ~ ADVERTISEMENTS.À There is Danger in Artificial Mineral Waters from fictitious Springs, of which much is sold.CALEDONIA SPRINGS WATERS ARE EVER SAFE.Sold 34 best dealers everywhere, and by GURD & CO., Bottlers and Agents, Montreal.BLANKETS LIKE BOARDS \u2014\u2014 Hard enough to the feel, and sometimes with a disagreeable smell and badly shrunk; this is generally what happens by the old method of Washing or Laundering them.We are the only people in the city who bave a special Blanket Cleaner, Fuller and Napper, and where Blankets are treated the same way they are cleaned and finished by the manufacturer.We guarantee to kcep your Blankets nice ard soft, no shrinkage, and napped like new if handled only by us, at small cost; 300 done last week already.Gold Medallist Dyers and Cleaners.BRITISH AMERICAN DYEING CO., 215 McGlil, cer.Notre Dame.2133 Notre Dame, bet, Gay and Richmend.1588 St.Catherine, Cor.ormcs| \u20achristemher.Te emma amendment to Ald.Beausoleil\u2019s he moved that a portion of the los Market be used by the farmers d ; who ; grain; that would pretty well do ad with the crowding of Jacques Caruer square.Several speeches were made in favor of the enlargement, it being contended that the extension would result man gg.crease of revenue.The Mayor combated this content and said that it was simply nonsense to suppose that by doubling tle Bpace around the Bonsecours market, the pn enue would be increased.lt would Le a good thing to centralize the Markets but by increasing the number the cit, lost a large amount of revenue whirg, © ought to have.In regard to the Ye pre no definite amount was stated, and ii, Legislature would sunply ignore à.Île believed also that if they laid the ren before that body it would alarm 1.4 bankers, who had been @Cconmuedaing the city in the past.He would thie fore, advise them not to 89 to \\ucie with the report.\u201cI move; said Ald.McBride, \u201ctha: we refer the report back to the Finance (gy.mittee again for further information we cannot go into any scheme thai we do not know the exact cost of.\u2019 Ald.Jacques made a motion to get a former plan passed, but it was defestec.Ald.Sadler showed that the revenu which would come in by the extension would not even pay the interest charze on what it would cost.© Upon a vote being taken on Ald.Con.naughton\u2019s amendment to use the Hay market for the purpose of selling grain.etc, it was defeated by twelve to six, Ald.Beausoleil\u2019s motion to adopt the report of the Finance and Market Committee was defeated by a vote of ten The division was as fol ion, Nays\u2014Aldermen Laporte, Sadler, Cor.naughton, Reneault, McBride, Savignac, Penny, Costigan, Stevenson, Martineau\u2014 n.Yeas\u2014Aldermen Wilson, Dupre, Turner, Marsolais, Beausoleil, Charpen:ier Archambault, Jacques\u2014eight.' Thus the council having objected to adapt eny scheme for the extension of the market, it is not likely that the pro.Jeot will receive any more attention from he council this year.ong petition was read from Mr, N.E.Archambault, a resident of St.Denis Ward, complaining that the Water and Power Company was charging more for 1t3 water than it agreed, with the city to do, when this ward was taken over by the corporation of Montreal.The petition concluded by saying that the company had agreed to charge twenty-five percent less for its water than Montreal charged; but instead of doing so 3t was charging almost twenty-five percent more; it was prayed that the City Council of Montreal would take up the matter and have Justice done to the residents of St.Denis Ward.} - There was a pgetty strong feeling ; the council \u201cthdt the matter should be fully investigated.Ald.Stevenson\u2014The best way to investigate this matter is to appoint a sub-committee, I move that one be appointed.The Mayor did not seem to like the idea of a sub-committee and asked that no action be taken on the petition at present as the city wae now fighting the Water and Power Company in the courts, and was trying to get the com pany\u2019s old contract for supplying water to St.Denis Ward cancelled, as well as other privileges it held.Ald.Martineau explained that the city had ben beaten in the courts by the Water and Power Company, which had succeeded in getting a judgment in its favor to only pay the city fifteen cents per thousand gallons for water when # had guaranteed to pay forty-five cents.An appeal had been entered against this judgment and he hoped it would be vigorously pushed.He said it would be unjust to dally with the petition by laying it on the table on the very weak plea that the city was fighting the company in the courts; the city had been fighting the company for years and a lot of good it had done.He moved, seconded by Ald.Stevenson, that the petition be referred to a sub-committee composed of the mover and seconder, Aldermen Pre noveau and Beausoleil to make a report.Ald.Beausoleil contended it would not be fair to practically kill the petition by awaiting the result of the appeal the city had entered against the Water aud Power Company; he hoped the sub-com mittee would be appointed.Ald.McBride, who had formerly al ways fought for the city\u2019s rights against the company, excited no little surprise 0) asking that the petition be handed over to the city attorneys and the Finance Committee to cogitate over.Ald.Stevenson\u2014The course you urge will only reault in shelving the matter.Al.McBride was determined, how ever, and even wept eo far as to call oui \u2018next meeting\u2019\u2014thus \u2018trying to kill any more discussion er action in the matter.Ald.Martineaa was very indignant at the attitude of Ald.McBride and hoped the Mayor would not allow the matter to be disposed of so cursorily.The Mayor said that although Ald.Me.Bride had a perfect right to cali out \u2018next mceting\u2019 he would not stop die cussion on the subject seeing it had been given so much attention.It was finally decided that the sub committee should be appointed, Ald.Me- Bride alone disenting.The report of the Health Commutiee regarding the regisiration of lurths was laid over until next meeting.,Ç A largely signed petition against build: ing the Grand Trunk Railway offices on Victoria square was submitted and re ferred to the special committee appoinied i to consider the matter.It was also decided to use the for repairs to the City Hall The council them adjourned (EA A mmm A \u2014 ee \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 me 11 Taman, | \\ fem AE IR CA ) 0000000600000 .a\u20260.%n a, : ao MER LS Wa TL à re wee IE A TN \u2014-\u2014 pe a So Se Sid ry oy ma 41400 eT TET 3 0 a Sant: md à Se rmXTN am Ta Vo a m=.Tay # Ja I Holiday b Jay things, {rom the We make an unusually lar and in wi Such as LAMPS, CLOCKS, PLATED and LULOID GOODS, Perfumes, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Toilet trellas, Fancy Linens and Stamped (Goods, Nes Tray Cloths, Hem-stitcheda Pill Good Huckabaech Bath Towels, 10¢ Bath Sheets, $1.9 Bath Mats, 75¢ to 83 each.Glass Linens, special, 10c, Roller Linens, = Roller Crashes.7e.Se, fc.Heavy Apron Dowlas, 15¢.White Crochet Quilts, .1 DOMESTIC ile EEE aes JANES A.OGILVY & SONS\u2019 ADV ERTISEMENT, : \u2018imes we are brimrul of 5 added upwards of twenty HE LINENS ONLY.- is nething *: price on Union wo niffarence is VHILVY ZR, Goods.there : 2-+d.x 2 1-2 yd.Table Cloth, dos, 5-$ x 5-8 Table Napkins, Z-yd.x 2 1-2 yd.Table Cloth.dos.5 S x 5-8 Table Napkins, 1 2-44.x B-yd.Table Cloth.1 dos.2-2 x 3-1 Table Naphins, « 12 1-2c to 81.235 each.20c to 83,40 each.ow Shams.75c to Towels, 81.50 t to 81.50 each.0 to 810 per pair.eboard Ncarts.se és widths, 00D VALUES, ap; + good values, we are brimful Sites in Doylies, Sideboara Scarfs, etc.\u201ceo Linens tre av all times temptinæ: the .Rive our custome Customers can always rely on There is noth else good enough for us.on! fracticnal, therefore, special, Elec.12e.k new designs; these, Might be some 12c and L5e se.14e 10\u20ac per yard.TS & selection, the quality of cur goods.ing else good enough for you, If there was a large sav- r2a80n in supplying then, get Pure Linens.and buy ; Sd per set.\u2018$4.60 per set.85.80 per set.810 per pair.0 812 per dozen.per yard.and 18c per yd.18e, 28c and 25c per yard.\u201d1 Goods for sise.£1.30 $2.00 Remnants Bleached and Cream to 4 yards long.and IMPORTED C po \u201c nc.81.35.6 3 Table Linens, from otton Sheetings in all MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY, St.N CANADA, Catherine and Mountain sts.MONTREAL.We Sell Goods Cheaper than a mes A.Ogilvy & Son THE LARGEST EXCLUSIVE DRY GOODS STORE I inthe City, but for CASH only, Ke>Store Open until 9.30 To-night.HAMILTON'S HOLIDAY NEWS uying will begin in earnest MONDAY.and other than holiday lines of merchandis standpoint of large choice and surpassing values.TOYS, GAMES, DOLLS, XMAS CARDS, CALENDARS, TOY BOOKS.olume of selling.IN OTHER HOLIDAY LINES Japanese Silk d this season, in addi- of New Designs In Table Linens and y are speclally so with us.together with our which cannot We =, ny other Store The best of distinctively hold- e, bill for your favor, both se display of, and we inteni to lead all, both in values SILVERWARE, LEATHER GOODS, CEL- Articles, Stationery, Um- Embroidered Tidies and Drapes, Reed Furniture in fancy designs; Flowers for decorative burposes, etc., the varieties and prices will be found wonderfully attractive.DO YOUR HOLIDAY SH Before \u2018hat you Send us a postal with your name a oir \u201cHoliday Price List,\u201d the great rush commences, and shop in the morning, ° the earlier the better.ud address, full of suggestions for we would and we will © HAMILTON°>S, St.Catherine and Peel Streets and D OPPING suggest for your own comfort, mail you a copy of Xmas Presents.ominion Square, BUSINESS MEIN.Get your invoices printed at the « Witness\u2019 Printing House 000000000000 00990900000 ¢ CO63099699000¢009009609 ss \u2014__ : \u201d WIELAT S Why not decide on a CAMERA?possibly be selected for any member of KODAKS PREMO CAMERAS.BROWNIE CAMERAS.GLENCAIRN I.The Latest, \u201c4.SUGGESTION.Those who contemplate making Christmas or New Year's Gifts, sometimes find themselves confronted with the perplexing question, LIL I BUY ?\u201d instructive or useful gift could not or old.BRA.from $5 upwards.seereeee B10 to $144.co.84 upwards.For 4x5 Plates SEND FOR CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE.Headquarters for all Amateur DAVID H.HOGG, A more interesting, the household, young BUY A CAM Photographic Supplies, 662 Craig street.only $s.HOLIDAY ~~ - able for great pianists and In- TRADING STAMPS.A LEADING TRADBSMAN DISCUSSES THEIR USE.\u2014 simply an old friend in new guise,\u2019 said a leading wholesale grocer, this morning.\u201cYears ago, perhaps twenty-five, co-op- erative societies were formed in the villages of England, which sold goods to- members at the game gross .prices as the tradesmen, but gave a rebâte of ten per- \u2018jeent.This rebate was given not in money, but metal discs, which were stamped from 14d.up to £1, and could | cither be redecmed.in goods, or be deposited towards the purchase of another share in the.society.Of course, in this cate, the members were doing their own business and the bonuses went to reward those who showed the greatest cash interest in its success, At first, this scheme attracted many, and, for a time, the societies grew, but soon the novelty wore off, the competing tradesmen cut their rates, most of the societies showed a deficit at the end of the financial year and were gradually wound up at the expense of their shareholders.\u2018Then came the tea \u201cbonusing\u2019\u2019 craze, and the unreflecting rushed to purchase a pound of tea where they could get a cup and saucer, a milk bowl], tin teapot, or such like, thrown in.Here, again, you might save up your coupons until they would bring you a gaudy damp, a pair of tawdry vases, a jerry-built lacquered chair, or some other impossible gimcrackery.To get something for nothing, that was the idea, and the companies did a rushing business for a year or more; but, meanwhile, the people were being educated to the economic and moral fact that, in some way or another, every thing has to be paid for.It was found that the tea was rubbish and dear, that the \u201cpresents\u201d were of the commonest, and, presently, the revulsion Was 80 great, that \u201cgiven away with a pound of tea\u201d applied to anything was a synonym for the deepest contempt.\u2018In taking stamps from either of the trading stamp companies now flourishing in Montreal, the tradesmen doubtless bopes and expects to find his account in it; he expects that the extra custom attracted by this means will more than compensate him for the five percent tol) he pays the company.Without doubt, it will attract a few, perhaps many, for a time; but like all economic fallacies it vill soon be \u201cfound out,\u201d and the tradesman will be the gufferer.Even now, it is doubtful if the announcement \u201cTrading stamps given here\u201d does not repel more than it attracts; certainly, the ordinary level-headed business man of the street would give the man capable of running his own business.the preference.| \u2018However, the agreement between_the hocieties and the tradesmeñ is the concern of these parties; it ip a free country.and there is no resson why the tradesman should take the stamps against his wishes; the goods supplied by the companies in exchange for the stamps, if unsatisfactory, would help to kill the system quickly, and here the tradesman would again suffer, although blameless, in the wrath of his customer, and would probably lobe him.\u2018It certainly appears that the society should give security in some shape or another for the value of the stamps they issue, as a bank or a loan society is required to give reasonable security for the Protection of the public, and if thev last long enough this, doubtless, will be insisted upon.\u2018In conclusion, as you say, the consumer pays for all that he gets in the end.If he pays cash far his groceries or dry goods he can get them at bottom prices, and with his discounts he has the choice of a dozen stores for the purchase of his lamps, furniture, piano, or what not; if he prefers to mix up.the purchase of groceries with an accordion, he must.of course, go to the trading stamp emporium for the latter, and take his chances.a ALLISON SENTENCED TO PAY THE \u2019 DEATH PENALTY.Berlin, Ont., Dec.3\u2014The jury in the Orr murder case, after being out for three hours, returned at eight o'clock last night with a verdict of \u2018guilty,\u2019 with 3 recommendation to mercy on account of Allison\u2019s youth, The prisoner was asked if he had anything to say why the sentence of the Court should not be passed upon him.He replied, \u2018No.His Lordship then told him to make good use of his time and make peace with his God.He sentenced him to be hanged on Feb.4, 1898.The prisoner was apparently unmoved, but hig father and other members of the family present were visibly affected, especially\u201c the father, who went into convulsions, and had to be carried out of the court room.FENIAN RAID MEDALS.\u2018The present trading stamp craze 1s |.f% PHILLIPS SQUARE.\u2014-\u2014 i Underneath we give a List of Articles suitable for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, Arranged under popular price headings, For DEB CENTS any one of the following may be selected : Noalh\u2019s Arks, Stone Bullding Blocks, Horses, Picture Puzzle do.Kaleldoscopes, A B C do.Soldiers, Trains, Drums, Reins, Bugles, Whips, Guns, Banks, Swords, Boats, Jumping Jacks.Fancy Felt and Velvet Pin Cushion.Fancy Silk Doyley.Fancy Felt Penwiper.Horn-handled Jack Knife, Pearl-handled Penknife, 2 blades.One Manicure Scissors.One Match Holder.One Photo Frame.One Purse.BOOKS.Pansy, Elsle and Bessie.Rooks, Picture.\u2018Alice in Wonderland.\u2019 \u2018House Stories.\u2019 \u2018Story after Story.\u2019 \u2018Mother's Darling.\u2019 STATIONERY.Papeteries, Pencil Cases.Sealing Wax in fancy shades.Men's Light and Dark Four-in- Hand Ties.Men's Light and Dark Bows.Men's Light and Dark String Ties.Men's Hemstitched Linen Handkerchiefs.One Embroidery Scissors.Aluminium Thimble in white case.Needle Case.Sterling Silver Hat Pins.Black and Colored Leather Belts.Bonbonniere Baskets.Fancy Hairpins.Bourbonniere Baskets.Lined Work Baskets.Small Chair Baskets.Hair Receiver Baskets.Waste Paper Baskets.Silver-plate Halrpin er and Salt, oil lated Pe an alt, silver- .Candlesticks, silver-plated.Box, satin- R Napkin Rings, silver-plated., Little Night Lamps, pretty blue decoration.Pf Solid Silver Salt Spoon.- Decorated China Box for Playing Cards.\u201d ~ Flemish Stone Mustard Pots.Large Water Jug in Glazed Glass.Austrian China Spoon Holders.Art Pottery Candlestick.; Match Holder In Bisque China.Flower Vases, Ruby, Green, Amber and Opal.Oll Bottle in German Cut Glass.Vaseline Pots in Fancy China.One Embroidered Handkerchief.One Linen Handkerchief.One Papen Weight.Men's A \u2018Wool Malt Hose.Uys\u2019 ing ts Pastimes for Children.Artistic Alphabets for marking and engrossing, \u201cVenetian Iron Work.\" \u2018Social Kvenings.' \u201cRecitations.\u201d \u201cHow fo Recife.\u201d \u201cParlor Plants and Window Gardening.\u201d The following at $1.00 each: Hall marked Scissors, Nail File ama Paper Knife, three pieces, Ebony Darning Balls, with solid silver handle.Solid Silver Back Nall Brushes.Fancy Paper Baskets.Handkerchief Baskets in different colors.Fancy Paper Baskets.Satin Lined Work Baskets Fancy Fire Screen.Men's Heayy Silk and Wool Neck Muffler.Men's White Dress Shirts.Men's Lined Kid Gloves, value (Dcnt\u2019s).Boys\u2019 Shirt Waïsts.Silver Pencils, Jewel Case.Blotter, Plush Work Box.Glove Box, Dressing Case.extra Hand Mirror, Cardbox (leather and Toys, Baby Baskets, celluloid).Nésted Blocks.Olive Wood Inks, Photo Frames.Sleighs.Linen Embroidered Handkerchief.Cutters.Linen Set, ribbon trimmed.Tin Kitchen Utenshs.Pair of Bisque China Figures.China Toilet Sets.Japanese China Sugar, Cream and Tea Seta.Jug.Dinner Sets.Photo Fram: in Austrian China.Cats, Camels, etc.Match Box in Old Blue.Crokinole.Albevule Vaze.Knife Rests in Cut Glass.[rish \u2018\u201cBelleek\u2019\u2019 Vase.Handsome Vases with decorated centre and silver-plated tops.Decorated Lämp Globes.Mowing Machine.One par Faney Canvas Slippers.Fancy Lace Tidies.Tea Cosies.Combiration Nickel-handled Knives, \u2018 5 per cent.Discount for Cash.LOGUE\u2014Our ANNUAL ILLUSTRATED CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE Iso dE UE will be \u2018mailed FREE to any address on application.HENRY MORGAN Co.MONTREAL, ae ayo ay Ses ea @ Toronto, Dec.4\u2014The \u2018Mail and Empire\u2019s\u2019 Ottawa correspondent says: \u2014The Government has decided to recommend to the Imperial authorities, that the medals for service in the Fenian raid be given to all who were called out for service.There has been some doubt as to whether the medals were intended for those who were actually under fire or for all who were mustered throughout the country to repel the invaders.When in England, Dr.Borden, will represent that the medals should be given to all the men on the rolls at the time.WANT A COMMITTEE APPOINTED.| Boston, Mass, Dec.4 \u2014 The Boston Fish Bureau is petitioning Congress asking for the appointment of a joint commission of the United States and Canada to investigate fisheries and trade rela- tinna THIS SHOE MF- HAS A LARCE SALE, Made of Genuine Box-Calf - Solid throughout.2 doors west of McGill College Ave.We keep them in four widths, [8 Also a similar Shos made of Wax Calf or Box Calf, which we sell at $3.00.W.H.STEWART, 2295 St.Catherine St.RI I Ce kc I \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Men's Japanese Silk Handkerchiefs.\u201cCollars in fast wash- RSS rs.AX dE Par Sud 7 TRE, \u20ac Weekly Calendar, Weeki llodar, Montreal\u2019s New Music Hall.MUSICAL TREAT of the SEASON! A FIRST GRAND CONCERT, \u2014IN THE \u2014 NEW KARN HALL, St.Catherine st.Near Peel street.First Part.1.Piano Solo, \u2018Impromptu Fantasia\u2019 .MR.FRED.MORRIS.Chopin 8.Soprano Solo, \u2018Ocean! Thou Mighty Monarch\u2019 (From Oberon).MISS ALICE HERBERT.3.Violin Solo, \u2018Mazurka de Concert\u201d .MR.ROBERT ANDERSON.Musin 4.Contralto Sole, \"Spring Will Come\u2019 .MRS.KELLOND.5.Tenor Solo, \u2018Answer\u2019.A.G.Robyn MR.J.H R.SMITH.6.Trio, \u2018What New Delight\u2019 .Lombardi MISS MABEL BARKER, MESSRS.J.C.LANDRY and E.BURKE.7.Bass Solo, \u2018Now Heavens in Fullest Glory Shone\u2019 .Handel (From the \u2018Creation.\u2019) MR.MULLER.8.Soprano Solo, \u2018Nymphs and Shepherds\u2019 MISS BARKER.Verdi INTERMISSION.General admission, 25 cents.PROGRAMME.Reserved Seats, 35 cents.UNDER THE AUSPICES OF WESTMOUNT LODGE, No.39, A,0.U.WW, On MONDAY EVENING, Dec.6.second Part.9.Plano Solo, \u2018Selected\u2019 .MR.FRED.MORRIS.10.Baritone Solo .MR.J.D OUELLETTE.\u2018Love's Avall' .Cuthbert Clark MISS ALICE HERBERT.12.Tenor Solo, \u2018Dearer Far\u2019 .PROF.J.C.LANDRY.13.Contralto Solo, 'Over thé Mountains\u2019 .MRS.KELLOND.14, Violin Solo, \u2018Rhapsodie Hungrolse' .Hauser MR.ROBERT ANDERSON.15.Duett, \u2018Night in Venice\u2019 .Lacontone MISS MABEL BARKER AND PROF.J.C.LANDRY.Bergin 11.Soprano Solo, .Supelll .MR.WINTER, Accompanist.Tickets at Karn\u2019s Piano Store: Ligget\u2019s Carpet Store, Notre Dame street: Hemeley's, Jeweller, St.James st; Dawson's Drug Store, 189 St.Lawrence street, and at Davidson's Drug Store, Bt.Catherine street, Westmount.COCHRANE'S Prince Arthur AUDITORIUM, Skating Rink NOW OF EN.Splendid Ice.Band Saturday Tickets at reduced prices now between 10 a-m.and | p.m.Sarurpay, Dec.4.afternoon and evening.Season on Sale at the Rink.Beginners, Sunpar.Dzc.5.ST, JAMES METHODIST CHURCH BAZAAR To he held in Beaman\u2019s Hall, corner of Mc- Gill College avenue and St.Catherine st, On DECEMBER 2nd, 3rd and 4th.Fancy Work, Dolls, Home-made Cake and Candy, etc.Tea at half-past six each evening.ADMISSION, 10c.Mr.F.J.WALKER will speak at the YOUNG MEN'S MEETING SATURDAY NIGHT, at 8 o'clock.Topic: \u2018A PLEA FOR DECISION.\u2019 Bible-class Sunday Morning, 9.45.YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE STUDY, SUNDAY, 3 p.m.All Young Men cordially invited to these services.Young Men's Christian Association, Dominion Square.3 ART ASSOCIATION, - Phillips Square.GALLERIES OPEN DAILY 9 a.m, to dusk, ADMISSION, 25c.SATURDAY FREE.Reading Room Open tn Members till 6 p.m.20 5th ROYAL SCOTS OF CANADA.J A certain number of all ¥ ranks in the Battalion F) having intimated their in- PY tention to withdraw from the Battalion, Lt.-Colonel thy commanding, desires in the interes Soy Regiment that all officers, N.C.0.and men at present serving, will remain at their posts and do their duty towards the C.O.whoever may succeed to the command alion.of the Batt A L.STRATHY, Lt.-Colonel, Commanding 5th Royal Scota of Canada.Sunpar.Dæc.5.THE MEN'S OWN, BRIEF, BRIGHT, BROTHERLY.ATTENDANCE Meets avery Sunday at 3 p.m, in RECORD.Calvary Church, Guy Street, .7, 83 mem.ahove Bt.Antoine.YL, a = NExT SUNDAY SPEAKER: «218 J miss ADs MURCUTT, \u201cof Australia.EPEAKS FOR ITSELF.S0LoIST: Mrs.R.G.Brown.READER : Miss Frederica Brown has consented to recite \u2018\u2019 The Swan Song\u2019 of Parson Avery.NT.JAMES METHODIST SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.The 8oth Anniversary «il1 be held on SUNDAY, the 5th December when services appropriate to the occasion will be conducted by 7.» REV.SALEM G.BLAXD, B.D, of Smith\u2019s Falls.MORNING, I1 a.m.EVENING, 7 p.m.A Special Afte*noon Session will be held t: the Lecture Hall at 3 p.m., when ad- \u201cresses will be given by Mr.BLAND and sr.R.H.BUCHANAN.A choice programme of music has been prepared and the children will sing their beautiful hymns.Collections at all services in aid of the Bchool.8 MMANUEL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, (Corner Stanley and St.Catherine streets.) REV.E.C.EVANS, D.D,, Will give the Last ef his Series of SHORT SERMONS ON GREAT SUBJECTS.SUNDAY EVENING, DEC.5th, Subject: \u2018Is Christianity a Fallure.\u2019 Hear Rev.J.B.SILCOX on \"Grip & Grit,\u2019 TUESDAY.DEC.1th.OINT ST.CHARLES CONGREGATIONAL CHUKOE, 185 Congregation street.Pastor, Rev.D.§, HAMILTON, B.A.Servi 1am.snd 7 p.m.Sabbath School and Bible Clases, 3 p.m, Morning Theme: Te ARO, EE i sche ee Br momu al .Ç Pi c vening Service.) = \u201cTHE MODEL CHURCH.\u2019 This will be the theme of the REV.R.HOPKIN'S discourse in Bethlehem Church, Clarke and Western aveuues, on SUNDAY EVENING, Dec.5, at 7 o'clock.A hearty invitation is extended to all ! OINT ST.CHARLES BAPTIST CHURCH, GRAND TRUNK STREET.OF TORONTO, WILL PREACH SINDAY, DEC.5th, Morning at 11 ard Evening at 7 o'clock.Strangers cordially invited.THE YOUNG MAN\u2019SWEALTH FOR SPECIAL SERMON TO THE YOUNG, IN BTANLEY STREET CHUROH.TO-MORROW, 7 p.m, | REV, F.M.DEWEY, nA.(CALVARY CHURCH, Rev.J.L.GEORGE,D.D.The new Principal of the Congregational College, will preach an EDUCATIONAL BERMON TO-MORROW MORNING.Monpar, Dec.6.MECHANICS INSTITUTE Annual Meeting will be held on MONDAY, DEC.™~ st8pm, x, te receive reports of committees and for the election of officers for the ensuing year.Annual fee $3, $3 and $1.Subscriptions now due.CHAS, STEVENS, Sec'y.NORTHERN W.C.T.U.Monthly Meeting of above Union will be \u2018held in extension of Chalmers\u2019 Church.P Members aro requested to attend Monday, Dec.6, at 3.30 p.m.4 Tuzsrar, Dec.7.CHRISTMAS FAIR Under the auspices of the Ladies\u2019 Aid Bo- ciaty, will be held in the basement of THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CRVRCH, 180 St.Deminique street, On Mec.7th, 8th and 9th, 1897, Children's Day, Wednesday Afternoon.Admission\u2014Adults, 10c; Children, bec.Rev.J.R.WEBB, Tt TurespAY, Dec.7.RESERVETUESDAYEVENING Dec.7th, to hear REV.J.B.SILCOX, on \u201cGRIP AND GRIT\u201d IN EMMANUEL CHURCH Admission, 25c.80 THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING wl of the Soclety will be 2! held in the Fraser In- i stitute, on TUESDAY, \u201cAl 8 p.m., for the Reception of the Annyal Re- 0 ports, the Election of, Officers and the trans- .@ action of any other business.W.ORMISTON ROY, Sec'y-Treas.Dec.9.CONCERT \u2014IN THE\u2014 Point 8t.Charles Baptist Ohurch, : {Grand Trunk Street) THURSDAY EVENING, DEC.9th, 1897.Vocal and Inntrumental Musio, Olivet Zobo Brass Band, Readings, Recitations, &oc., &o.CONCERT AT 8 O'CLOCK.TICKETS, 28 Cents, NDEAVORERS ! REMEMBER THE QUARTERLY RALLY THURSDAY EVENING, DECKMEBER 9th, At Erskine Church, \u2018FATHER ENDEAVOR\u2019 CLARKE Will be the Speaker.A SALE OF USEFUL AND FANCY ARTICLES wiil be held by the \u2018What-We-Can\u2019 Circle of King's Danghters, In the Evangelistic Hall, 2424 St, Catherine Street, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th and 10th- HOME MADE CAKES & CANDIES.Prooeeds in aid of Library in Girls Reading Room Admission Free.THURSDAY, 4 USTRALIA! AUSTRALIA! AUSTRALIAR Klondike Geldficlds.Klondike Goldfields.Miss MURCUTT (Australasian Delagate to the World's W.(.T.U.Convention) will deliver her popular Btersopticon Iantem Lecture On \u2018\u2018 Australia and its Klon Goldfields,\u201d im Y.M.C.A.Hall, Metcalfe st., On FRIDAY, Dee.10th, at 8 p.m.Chairman, SAMUEL FINLEY, Esq.Admission Ze.FOTURE MEETINGS.__- NOTICE.\u201c County eo\u2019 Hechelaga Agriculénral fociety : ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.The Annual General Maeting of the above named Society for the election of a Board of Directcrs for the ensuing year, and other Imatters of Importance, will be held at Riendeau's Hotel, Jacques Cartier square, in this city on WEDNESDAY, the !8th inst, at eleven a.m.By order, H.BRODIE, Secretary-Treasurer.Montreal, Dec.1st, 1897.\u2018BUMOR AND SENTIMENT CHARMINGLY BLENDED.\u2019 Asthesy HOPE Anthony novelist of the day.In Humorous and Romantic Readings from his own works, WINDSOR HALL, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7th, Plan opens at Shaw'\u2019s on Tuesday.Dec.14th.Prices, 91.00, 750.50c.OLD WORLD NEWS.London, Dec.4.\u2014 All the members of the family of the Prince of Wales, and several of the friends of the heir-ap- parent, including the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, and the Earl and Countess De Grey, have been at Sanderingham throughout the past week, where the birthday of the Princess of Wales was celebrated on Wednesday last with great heartiness.The Princess, who was born on Dec.1, 1844, received meny presents from all parts of the world.The Czar and Czarine sent jewels, and the Emperor William.of Germany presented the Princess with a large photograph of himself, in an English uniform, enclosed in a costly frame, and accompanied by a cordial birthday greeting, with four lines in original verse.' The Ex-Empress Eugenie is contemplating publishing a life of her husband, the late Emperor Napoleon III.During her visit to Queen Victoria this week the widowed Empress discussed the matter with Her Majesty; but, the latter pronounced herself as being strongly opposed to the project.The English Sewing Cotton Company, a combination of fifteen thread concerns in opposition to the Coats, was brought out on Thursday last, with a capital of £2,750,000, which was twice subscribed in Glasgow.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ee THE FIRE RECORD.Quebec, Dec.4.\u2014Last evening the residence of Sergeant Silifant, of the R.C.A., on St.John street, was the scene of a fire which destroyed all his household effects.The loss is over one thousand dollars, against which there is $500 insurance.\"YANTIC AT PORT DALHOUSIE.Port Dalhousie, Ont., Dec.4, \u2014 The United States gunboat \u2018Yantic\u2019 arrived | here at 7.30 this morning, in tow of the tug \u2018Boscobelle.\u2019 / CE Deh Nod AR Sy es Bef.Tth December next, at | | \u2018te +o DECEMBER $ #31 25 S|M|T/|WI T © LARGE ITALIAN CHESTNUTS, ENGLISH STILTON CHEESE.Ripe and Ready.RE RERERERE SS REPRE RE NR ECTROTYPING DONE IN the very best Btyle and with despatch st itness\u201d Ofice.\u2018HOLD ON\u2014HEED NOT.\u2018Men may misjudge thy aim, men muy not praise thy name, May think they have cause for blame, say thou art wrong ; Hold on thy quiet way, heed not what men may say, Christ is the Judge\u2014not they ; fear not, be strong! Be brave, and dare against the foe ; Thy Saviour stood alone for thee, long, long ago ; Be not a coward in the fight, look up! be strong ! The morn of victory is near\u2014the day of song.\u2019 THE MIDNIGHT WATCH, (Concluded.) Mr.Bridgnorth agreed, and after I took my depatrure.As Shortly through the other room I got a look at the clerks, and in particular at Hart which I was enabled to do without exciting suspicion.Judging from appearances, the fellow looked anything hut , thief, having a frank, open countey ange Aware, however, that there is nothing more deceptive than externals, | wer away little doubting that Hartley ten.my man, } Late that evening I presented mus: at Mr.Bridgnorth\u2019s door, and wus ;.ceived by that gentleman in person.Ti.office was closed, the clerks had all ge home, and Hartley was out, presumabiv love-making.Mr.Bridgnorth found | tle difficulty in securing me a retrea: i.hind a cabinet which stood in one .« ner of the office, and here I enscenc- myself with as much comfort as the c- cumstances permitted.At 10.30 the solicitor retired, Ink - both his desk and the office door ber, ley.to stand alone Gaunt John in the desert knew the difference between the educational and the vicarious theories of the Christian religion, for when Jesus approached him he cried : \u2018Behold the Lamb of God, that teketh away the sin of the world !\u2019 and did not describe Christ, as did Nicodemus later, merely as \u2018a teacher come from God.\u201d Christ is a teacher, but if he is not more than that, we are yet dead in our sins and without hope of spiritual resurrection.\u2014 \u2018Congregation- fA , , alist.going upstairs, and providing me wi \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 8 duplicate key of the latter, as I iu} - \u2018 desired.Hartley would be home.te informed me, about eleven o'clock, ai?would doubtless go straight to his room.The lawyer's estimate proved correct for almost exactly on the stroke of the hour a key turned in the lock of the outer door, and the confidential clerk entered.He had no occasion to come into the office in order to reach his apartment, but on his way past it he paused a moment and tried the handle of the door, and finding it fastened, went on his way.A minute later I heard the closing of his chamber door, and my watch began.\u2019 The time passed slowly away.Twelve o'clock struck, then one and two, and | had begun to think that my vigil would be in vain, when in the stillness of the night 1 heard a door softly opened above, and a cautious footstep slowly descended the stairs.It paused at the foot of them, close to the door of the room in which I lay hid, and I next heard the jingling of a bunch of keys, as if the possessor of them were selecting the Tight gr to Do the lock.A moment ater the po opened and th f entered.pen © pie The place was in darkness, and I had to strain my eyes to watch his movements.The lantern I had with me I did not desire to use until the right moment, for it was my hope to capture the thief in the very act of his larceny.1 had not long to wait.Wrapped in a long gown and without shoes on his feet, the pilferer glided stealthily to the desk, and fitting a key into the lock.lifted the lid.He then opened the cash box, and took out some of the coins Now was my time.Slipping from ms hiding place, I turned on my lantern and confronted the culprit.As I did so I gave a start of surprise.for the man 1 encountered was Mr.Bridgnorth him self, and I could tell by his closed eves that he was fast asleep, and, of course.quite unaware of what he was doing.Seeing that the light from my lantern bothered him somewhat (for he passed his band several times dreamily across his face), I replaced the shade, and the somnambulist at once closed and fas tened the desk.and then walked out of the office, locking the door behind him Noiselessly I reopened it and followed It is true that the nearer men and wo- him.retraced his steps up the stairs men approach the divine ideal the more nd going to à cupboar à Pa the land earthly happiness will they enjoy.In ing, stooped down, rummaging a second order to march steadily onward to the or two among some old rubbish at the great goal set before all, men and WO- bottom, and seeming to deposit his coin men must be physically soun d Purity tliere.\u2019 He then entered a chamber ad- of heart and grand elevation of mind- joining.Peering cautiously into this, will never accomplish the great victory |] saw the sleeper divest himself of tu ii the body be sick and diseased.gcwn, and get unconsciously into the bed Those who aspire to true manhood aud | he had a few minutes before left womanhood are the men and women who + .* a take the precaution to banish the very first symptoms of disease.That tired feeling you experience from day to day ; 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B.E.McGale, 2123 Notre Dame street, and John Lewis, 2208 and 2613 St.Catherine street.THE DIVINE IDEAL, Sound Health an Essential in Reaching the Great Goal \u2014\u2014 PAINES CELERY COMPOUND BESTOWS THAT BLESSING, ls Use Means Vigorous Manhood and Womanhood With Clear and Active Brain.THE GREAT COMPOUND KEEPS THE BODY iN PERFECT CONDITION.The illustrious German philosopher Kant says : \u2018There is within every mind a divine ideal, the type after which he was created, the germs of a perfect person.\u2019 \u201cWell, Sampson,\u201d said Mr.Bridgnorth, when he came down the next morning \u2018what is the result of your watching\u2019 Have you discovered the thief ¥ \u2018I think J have, sir,\u201d was my reply \u2018And is it\u2014is it\u2014Hartley ?inquire* the solicitor, anxiously.\u2018No, sir, it is not Hartley, I said \u2018Thank God for that!\u201d ejaculated th?\u201cLe lawyer fe \u2018 wphoard heh A pained expression came over the man\u2019s face as he watched me \u2018How strange !\u201d he murmured.ha i himself, half to me.\u2018I have heen reat anv at Hove ow { informed him, to his intense 14 England.| ment.of what T had witnessed.S \u2014 vou vy at th shoul are \u20ac nffect velop von \u20ac The and « tom comp recen too I pecul last seem bis chart irto ver \u201cact will von med hiss \u201cIf srrnoay.DEcemser 4, 1897, p\u2014\u2014 \u2014 ion the liberty, sir I said, ! sam of the narration, \u2018I «vou to see a doctor.You Le TAV INVITATION.tune Huntington Nason.) IH i Coon _: ~ stood in the vestibule | Library one Saturday i .v discussing in a state ; ivitement some topic of | I ul A 1 coerest lovely ?\u2019 Carrie Lewis was say- st as Ida Moulton, with her books r her arm, ran up the steps.vhat's lovely, girls she asked - cr.+\" the tea partv\u2014Rose Lombard\u2019s | -~bud tea!\u201d Twill be perfectly ! mnt, I know!\u201d Kore-bud tea echoed Ida.\u2018Why, + heard nothing about it.\u2019 Not heard about it ?Didn't you re- ceve an invitation yesterday\u2014just the dantiest affair imaginable ?Na, I did not !\u2019 said Ida, with some >.a quick flush covering her I [hat 1s very strange,\u2019 replied Annie Frrle:gh.\"It must be an oversight in s°me way, for, of course, Rose would rave included you in her invitations.\u2019 \u2018It is very evident that she hasn\u2019t ! respnnded Ida.\u2018But it is of no consequence.I am not suffering to attend Ler rose-bud tea ! \u2018Oh, Ida\u2014\u2019 began Annie.But Ida scornfully tossed her head and passed nn into the library.\u2018What does it mean\u2014and isn\u2019t it too tad \u201d\u2019 said Annie, as the green baize doers softly closed behind Ida.\u2018There must be some mistake.You know the Lembards have only been here a short time, and living out of town, too, perhaps they sent the card to the wrong person\u201d \"Oh, nonsense!\u2019 exclaimed Prue Pur- rington, who never hesitated to speak her mind.\u2018There's only one Ida Moul- ton in town ; and I don\u2019t know as I'm sorry for it, either! Anyway, I shouldu't think you'd care, Annie.Ida\u2019s been perfectly hateful and disagreeable vou ever since you won the literature ptize which her ladyship expected to | t.xe herself, We girls have been just as indignant as we could be\u2014though vou | v borne it as meekly as a lamb.\u2019 \u2018Hush !\u201d said Annie.\u2018I know just how disappointed Ida was.1 really wish she had won the prize herself.I x ul) much rather she should have had i than to have any hard feeling about it.and I am so sorry about this tea varty, for Ida is so proud and sensitive ! Perhaps we shall some of us see Rose before Tuesday, and find that there has been a mistake somewhere.\u2019 \u2018Annie Burleigh is an angel,\u2019 said Carrie Lewis, as Annie bade them good-bye, and disappeared around the corner.\u2018That\u2019s so,\u201d assented Prue emphatically.\u2018Ida Moulton wouldn\u2019t trouble herself ahout Annie's feelings, if matters were ust the other way.\u2019 * * * * All the next day Annie was haunted by the expression of injured pride which she had seen on Ida\u2019s face.She knew very well that Ida, perhaps more than any other one of her young friends, would suffer at being excluded from the great social event of the season in their little town.At first Annie tried to think that the affair was none of hers.Ida had really been not only disagreeable but unkind since the award of the prize to which Prue had referred ; and why ~liould she trouble herself about Ida\u2019s happiness ?But Annie\u2019s better self never stood long in abeyance.\u2018I know Rose better than the other girls do, because our mothers are old friends,\u2019 she said to herself, \u2018and perhaps it is my duty to find out the true inwardness of this matter; and I'll try for old love\u2019s make.\u2019 | tion.! lope ¥ What a dear you were to come and tell THE SOUL'S INQUIRIES me, Just think how I should have fe with an empty chair at the feast\u2014and .SATURDAY, DEC.4.not to have known the reason.Now 5 will be reserve his anger for ever *\u2014 I hope it is not too late for an explana-.Jer.ii.5.tions Fhe Lord is merciful and gracious, \u2018May I not have the pleasure of walk- slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.ing back to town with you ?asked He will not always chide; neither will he Grant Lombard, Rose's eldest brother, as keep his anger for ever.Weeping may Annie arose to take her departure.\u2018I endure for a night, but joy cometh in was just going to wend my way to the the morning.\u2014Pe.ciii., 8, 9.° Ps.xxx, 5.great metropolis,\u2019 added Grant.Make me to hear joy and gladness; Annie cordially assented ; and the two that the bonea which thou bast broken young friends left the house together.may rejoice.\u2014Ps.li, 8.What's that ?\u201d suddenly exclaimed SUNDAY, DEC.5.Grant ; and running a few steps acruss Wi i > ; : ilt thou break a leaf driven to and the lawn, he picked up a tiny note from fro *\u2014Job xiii, 25.the grass under an old oak tree.h \u2018One\u2019 of Rose's invitations, upon my o bruised reed shall he pot break.\u2014Iea.: rv i ri decipher the ME bord he said, tryiñg to decipher th He healeth the broken in heart, and blurred ti the damp andj_.i\" crampled envelope.on the p bindeth up their wounds.\u2014Ps.cxlvii., 3._\u2014.\u2014\u2014 \u201cMiss Ida \u2014\u2014 something ! read it, Miss Annie ?_.: : 4 ! Why, it's Ida Moulton's lost invita- Jad ask 1 or! How an Totowa \u2018That's another of Peter's careless ex- ng of oy pirit in difficulty ?: ploits !\u201d declared Grant.\u2018Father was eer eue will hot know his lead | threatening last week to discharge that ye ou are not in dffcult en Tn our boy for his stupidity and heedlessness, dail rh and in arse Ly.our bust | but Rose begged for one more trial be- S24 the Lif ee s or youl hour cause the hoy was so poor and friendless, by he In tae .lk ar ore Soit.If and she sent him into town with her in- |?Le en the ri it $ el al pH alk i vitations.He evidently lost one before he Sr ia oy » \"© rar wa dit he left the premises.I wonder that |\u201c pirit.) expects 1 : Le an any of them reached their destinations.\u201d Chet ary handle k ough it ee Turning back to the house, they saw d ondful bn ardly the Christian Cha né Rose watching them from the balcony.readiul neresy In flan \u201cMurch \u201cThe mystery solved ! The lost | this matter, and I don\u2019t think the fcund ' shouted Grant, with a wildly Pulpit is free from guilt.We must dramatic gesture.De out the oly Spirit tll oo Let me take it to Ida,\u2019 pleaded Annie, calls me to unless I am led by the Holy Ghost.Every moment must be.as Rose met them at the door, and gazed - - A invita- in astonishment at the missing invi control by the Spirit.\u2014Tev.And Murray.Can you \u2018Not this old weather-stained enve- religious lore of his times.He was a voluminous author, and it ie generally ad-' mitted that he accomplished greater results in the line of vital godliness by his preaching and writings than any other man during the seventeenth \u2018century.Here is what he wrote about the middle of his active life: \u2018Being in sickness, cast far from home, where I had no book but my bible, I set to study the truth from thence, and so by the blessing of God, discovered more in one week than I had done before in seventeen years\u2019 reading, hearing and wrangling\u2019 \u2014Rev.W, A.\u2018Oh, yes; I\u2019m sure Ida would much prefer it, since it is one of the originals.\u2019 \u2018Perhaps it will at least prove to her that she was not an after-thought,\u2019 az- sented Rose.An hour later the soiled and belated invitation was placed in Ida\u2019s hand.\u2018Annie Burleigh !\u2019 she exclaimed in sudden contrition, \u2018there\u2019s not another girl in town who would have cared whether I went to Rose Lombard's tea or not! I know it, for I heard every word Prue Purrington said \u2014and I have been perfectly hateful to you\u2014and what is worse\u2014I deliberately intended to be Ter ney.so! But, oh! Annie\u2014 And here Ida broke down into tears.What followed between these two ADVERTISEMENTS.young girls is not for us to record ; but we are assured that there was not a va- nN .cant seat at Rose Lombard\u2019s birthday ; There is fete\u2014and not a happier heart than Annie\u2019s, in that charming \u2018rose-bud garden Only One ° Preparation of girls.\u2014\u2018Forward.\u2019 that lives up to the advertised claims ° ) ; Ë Abbey's \u2018Æ Effervescent Salt and that is Abbey's Effervescent Salt, and it surpasses them.It is the most wonderful regulator of health and the greatest preventative of disease known.Early in my Christian life a great trouble fell upon me, and, alas! 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how good of you to come today U7 exclaimed Rose as she greeted Annie in the hall.\u2018I\u2019ve been wishing \u201c uw were here to help me decide about © tabl> decorations.Would you have \u2018he rose-buds alike at each plate, or wruld vou have both the Marechiel Niel \u2018the Catherine Mermet \u201d I would have the Marechiel Niel for * © girls who are dark and the Catherine \u2018amet for those who are fair.How.v will there be ?\u2019 said Annie.! \u201cus sixteen, counting my humble self,\u2019 \u201cvd Rose.\u2018You know it is mv aix- i wt\u2019 barthday ; and so 1 have invited teen girls.I have had a response : © m every one but Ida Moulton.I do! 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Don\u2019t leave the buying of your presents to the last moment.\u2018What shall they be?We have the nicest lot of pictures and framings in the city to select from at bottom prices, and good clean work.Give your friends a nice framed picture.Young or old, rich or poor, all will like 1t, and find room for it.Johnson & Copping are still at the oll stand, 743 Craig street, cne door west of Victoria square.\u2019 THE REAL REASON.\u2018Were you beaten for that office by the use of money, Birdley?\u2018No, sir.The trouble was that we didn't use enough morey.'\u2014Detroit 'Free Press.\u2019 Nursing mothers require tasty and attractive looking nourishment, not the trashy, messes doctored up by insxperienced nurses.Gruel made from Robinson's Patent Groats wi]l be found most palatable and strengthening.Frank Magor & Co, 16 St.John street, Montreal.4 Ethel\u2014\u2018Who was that man you just how- ed to?Penelope\u2014'That wag Dobson, the great composer.\u201d Ethel\u2014'A composer, did you say?Penelope\u2014\u2018He manufactures goothing syrup.\u2019\u2014'Tit Bits.\u2019 \u2018They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick,the Owland the Waverley Pen.Sold by all stationers.Macniven & Cameron, Ltd., Edinburgh.This awful suggestion appears on the book-ledges of a suburban church:\u2014'All kneelers should be hung up at the end of the service!\u2014London \u2018Tit Bits.\u2019 CASTONFMIA.ee smile on ar A 3e CASTOTIA.The fae nil ho san , pps CABTORIA.te fa vials Wo sip Es When judge and jury are agsinst him, a man can\u2019t be blamed for thinking thirteen an unlucky number, : CASTORIA For Infants and Children.an pe e wry sin ZT TIT ERY LL ANE Tee Ny vs: ER Tr 4 T Le rire rue re re pc \u2014 EEE \u2014ecce ADVERTISEMENTS.\u201cSTUMBLING BLOCKS\u201d Strewn in your path, the \u2018\u2018So-called\u201d Just as Good Substitute\u2014all leaving the dealer a larger profit than\u2014 \u2018SALADA\u2019 CEYLON TEA But none leaving the same lasting favorable impression upon the palates of all giving it a trial.SEALED LEAD PACKETS ONLY.25c, 30c, 40c, 50c, 60e, 25 HAVE ARRIVED FOR G.A.HOLLAND & SON\u2019S AD.CASES, CRATES- AND PACKAGES XMAS TRADE, 1897.NEW YORK PARIS BERLIN LONDON Up-to-date stores running same lines are practically seen in ours.Spendid Display and Arrangement ot Stock.agnificent assortment of German, French, American and Canadian Toys, Dolls, Games, Blocks, Novelties No trash in the lace.p Goods Business gives us inside track on nearly ali lines.BRANCHING OUT.Our immense buying and long experience of the Fancy out ie frm is branching PARLOR LAMPS, 57815150 rente aa MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ments.to $15,00 ; Banjos, $7.00; Violins, $3.00 to $15 ; Music Boxes, 50c to $27.50.EASELS and SCREENS, Splendid line just opened to-day, $1.25 to $6.50, \u201cZ| Find A « Mantel Clocks, 87.90, strikes quarter hours.Having a big run in Immense lines at rock bottom figures in STICKS, 10c, 25e each.SKATES, M Stock much increased to meet Montreal require- Guitars, $6.00 to $15.00 ; Mandolins, $8.50 Sold at double the money; runs 8 days, New York; run from $5.50 to 49.50 SLEIGHS.200 dozen HOCKEY OCCASINS.TOBOGGANS,SNOWSHOES.Montrealers cannot afford to miss one of the best Xmas displays ever seen in the city.» G.A.Holland & Son 2411 St, Catherine Street.About Stationery.Are you out of Invoices, Letter Heads, Blank Forms, or the like?We require what time and prices are consistent with the best workmanship, and often require less of both than the most careless printer.The ¢ Witness\u2019 Printing House, Cor.Pete: and Craig Sts.Fe YEAR BOOKS, ANNUAL REPORTS, TREASURER\u2019S STATEMENTS.CONTRIBUTION ENVELOPES, PEW LABELS, CHURCH NOTICE SHEETS, CHURCH PAPERS, LIBRARY CATALOGUES.ETC., ETC.BTC.The \u201cWITNESS\u2019 JOB DEPARTMENT 1» prepares to do the above class of work at veasonable prices in first-class style.JOHN DOUGALE & SO).N.B.\u2014Mal Opders promptly attended to.Hea HAF 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.stamped on every garment, insures you genuine LTH UNDERWEAR the most perfect, most healthful, A most delightfully comfortable BN ¥\\ underwear made.Endo a § by physicians.ODAKS Telephone, 1467.POR SALE.TO RENT AND EXCHANGE.MOSTREAL PHOTOGRAPHIC 8 Cor.Notre Dsine snd St.Francois Xavier Send for catalogue.Devel and Brinting for Amateurs.Lantern Slides, etc.UPPLY, ats.THE LACROSSE CONSPIRACY | THE MONTREAL CASE DISMISSED, Secretary Dunne Acknowledged the Capital Players Were Paid.MR.STODDART\u2019S TEAM SUCCESSFUL IN AUSTRALIA.Ottawsg, Dec.3.\u2014The Capital Lacrosse Club conspiracy case came up in the Assizes Court to-day before Judge MacMahon and a jury.It ended suddenly.Before the Crown and the club got half way through with their witnesses His Lordship abruptly stopped proceedings by taking the case from the jury.But the dismissal of the conspiracy case was not the only sensation of the trial.In evidence, Secretary-Treasurer Dunne, of the Capitals, unwillingly had to admit that the players were all bonused at the end of the season for playing.It was bard to make Mr.Dunne admit this, but he eventually had to.FOOTBALL.\u2018Whether or not there has been an increase of late in football fatalities, and a larger chapter of accidents in football annals than of former years, it is undoubtedly true that the game as played on the North American Continent is far rougher than it has any need to be.To such an extent is this the case that a goodly portion of the public are urging either considerable modification of the terrors of the game or its entire prohibition.The latter would no doubt be an extreme course, yet it would seem as if no means could be too drastic by which the sadly frequent disasters of the tootball field might be abated.There is no question that Rugby football, even in the mildest form It has ever taken has never been a sport of the gentlest; bu it is equally certain that it has at différent times been played in a manner to which no stigma of brutality or want of fair play could attach, and it would be a pity if some means could not be adopted to ensure a clean game in perpetuity.For Rugby football is after all a fine game, and has more uses than the mere development of brawn to commend it.Indeed perhaps some of the worst abuses that have arisen are due to the over-estimatiof of muscle as compared with otLer qualities.Not cnly brute strength and physical endurance, but qualities of mind and character such as quickness of perception and decision together with self-command and the love of fair play go to make up a good player who can also prove himself a gentleman.The preservation of a game of such educational tendencies, with all its powers of educating intact, is desirable.But lt js fmpos- siblo to educate or develop what does vot already exist in embryo, and no game or other process can give exercise to quall- ties as yet unborn, The consequence is that if men play football who have not even the most \u2018elementary instincts of gentlemanliness, the game can hardly be expected to provide these instincts ready-made any more than it can give strength where stamina is lacking, or brains to a fool.The question of necessity follows.What influences can be brought to bear to restrain those who will not restrain themselves of their own volition?The influences generally appealed to are umpires supported by the rules of the game.Although the rules of the game might be modified with advantage, yet no mere rule-tinkering will ever make clean football.It is true that a good umpire may enforce the rules, but offenders.will only feel disgruntled and watch their opportunity to repeat their offences unless at the back of the umpire is the opinion of their feilows.A rough player may brave suspension by the referee, or the hisses of the \"onlookers, if such were ferthtoming, but not the scorn of the team aud the contempt of his captain.But under present conditions is he likely to meet with these?Can it be said that there is that love of fair play and of sporis- manlike conduct which it is supposed have always been distinctive of the Anglo-Saxon character and which in place of the black- guardly \u2018win at any vrice,\u2019 has for its motto \u2018Let the best man win\u2019?If this were the spirit in which Rugby football were always played on this continent clean play would be a matter of course, and \u2018accidents\u2019 fo the field more purely accidental than at present.ANNUAL MEETING TO-NIGHT.The annual meeting of the Quebec Rugby Football Union will be held to-night in the M.A.A.A.rcoms on Mansfield street, when several matters of importance will be dls= cussed.SKATING.THE EAST END RINK.Work is progressing rapidly on the new Montagnard Skating rink, corner of Roy and St.Hubert streets, and the date of opening will be formally announced next week.It is expected that Monday, Dec.13, will be the day selected.A town office has been opened at 66 St.James street, where all information can be obtained by applying to Mr.J.P.LeBert.Hockey clubs looking for ice for practice purposes can get all particulars regarding terms at the above address.Ladies\u2019 tickets are alsc sold by Messrs.Lapres & Lavergne, photographers, 360 St.Denis street.THE MAISONNEUVE SKATING RINK.The above rink will not be open until after the first annual concert, which takes place on Monday next, Dec.6, in the Town Hall, Maisonneuve.THE VICTORIA RINK.The ice Is in excellent condition at the above rink, which will be open for members this afternoon, and as the Victoria Rifies band will be present, there is every likelihood that there will be a crowded attendance.Tickets are selling well, and they can be had of Mr.Smith, the secre- tary-treasurer, 128 St.James street.In former yeats there have been complaints that the hockey club monopolized the rink so much that it interfered with the pleasure of the members, This grievance will po longer exist, as the directors have made arrangements with the members of the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Hockey Clubs to practice either before or after the regular hours set aside for the members.During the present season the hours for skating will be from 9 a.in.to 6.50 p.m.and from 8 to 10 p.m., except Wednesdays, when,on account of the band being present, the hours will be from 8.30 to 11 p.m.THE M.A.A.A.RINK.There will be no skating on the above rink to-day, but providing the cold weather continues it will open some time next week.7 HOCKEY.A PROPOSED NEW LEAGUE.A meeting of delegates from the Park- sides, Rosedales and St.Laurent Hockey clubs will be held in the Richelleu Hotel, on Tuesday, Dec.7, at eight o\u2019clock, ior the purpose of forming a league.Other clubs interested are requested to atterd, Lily and Montreal West preferred.DAILY WITNESS.THE STANDARD CLUB.The Standard Hockey Club have elected\u2019 the following officers for the ensuing season: President, Chas.Price ; vice-president, P.Kennedy; captain, G.Blaxall ; secretary- treasurer, W.Livingston, 16 Emily street.Committee\u2014Messrs.Price, Blaxall, Mc- Guire, Swinburne and Briere.HOCKEY IN EASTERN TOWNSHIPS.Sherbrooke, Dec.3.\u2014At a meeting of the Eastern Townships Amateur Hockey Agso- ciation, held at Lennoxville last night, it was decided that the Senior League should consist of the following teams: Metropolitan (Sherbrooke); Bishop\u2019s College, Lenuoxvill:; Bishop's College School and Coaticook.The officers elected were: President, T.F.Don- nelly; vice-president, C.F.Rothera; secre- tary-treasurer, J.A, Lomas.The following schedule of games for the season was drawn up:\u2014 Jan.4\u2014Lennoxville vs, Coaticook, at Len- noxville, Jan.12\u2014Lennoxville vs.Mets, at Sherbrooke.Jan.15\u2014Mets vs.Coaticook, at Coaticook.Jan.20\u2014Lennoxville vs.Coaticook, at Coatleoak.Jan, 29\u2014Mets vs.Lennoxville, at Lennox- ville.Feb.2\u2014Mets vs.Coaticook, at Sherbrooke.Feb.5\u2014B.C, 8.vs.B.C., at Lennox- ville.: Feb.8\u2014B.C.vs.Coaticook, cook.eb.9\u2014B.C.vs.Lennoxville, at Lennox- ville.Feb.12\u2014B.C.vs.Mets, at Lennoxville.Feb.129\u2014B.C.ve.Coaticook, at Coaticook.Fob.15\u2014B.C.ve.Coaticook, at Lennox- ville, Feb.16\u2014B.C.S.vs.Mets, at Lénnox- ville.« - * Feb.18\u2014Lennoxville vs.B.C.at Lennox- ville.Feb.19\u2014B.C.S.vs.Coaticook,at Lennox- Feb.23\u2014B.C.vs.B.C.S., at Lennox- ville Feb.26\u2014Lennoxville vs.B.C.S., at Len- noxville.Feb.26\u2014Mets vs.B.C.at Sherbrooke.March 5\u2014B.C.vs.Lennoxville, at Len- noxville.March 5\u2014B.C.S.vs.Mets, at Sherbrooke.WINNIPEGGERS WILL COME EAST.A Winnipeg despatch says: The Victoria Hockey Club held a meeting vesterday af- ternoob, and decided that, if possible, they will send a team east to compete for the Stanley cup early in February.CANNOT PLAY OUTSIDERS.The Ottawa \u2018Journal\u2019 says: There has been considerable gossip for some time past in hockey, circles in regard to the Capital team which will be placed on the ice to meet the Victorias of Montreal for the Stanley cup.The statement has been generally made that Alf.Smith, Moxie Smith and Harry Westwick, of last year's Ottawas, might play and the team might also be strengthened at other points.The Capitals will not be able to play these men in the contest with the Victorias.Neither will they be able to draw recruits from any other clubs.A very important fact seems to have been lost sight of in connection with this matter.The deed of gift of the Stanley cup lays down a number of important rules for the government of the contests and wmong these is a very important one in regard to the drafting of special players.The rule prohibits the playing of men by either the challengers or defenders for the cup who have played with other teams during the previous season.This precaution is taken to prevent either of the teams collecting a speclally strong team just for the match, and has generally been considered & very good precaution.It has been enforced in matches in the past.When spoken to on the matter, Mr.Jas.avidson, president of the Capital Hockey Club, stated that as the club had not bpen reorganized for the season, it was not yet inown what players would be on the team.e admitted, however, that he was not aware of the rules governing contesis for the Stanley cup which prevented them playing men who played last season with another club.at Coatl- GOLF.METROPOLITAN GOLF CLUB.The annual meeting of the above club was held in the club house, on Fletcher's Field, last night, when the Rev.Mr.Me- Cuaig, president, occupied the chair, in the presence of a large attendance of members.\u2018he secretary read his report and the trea- gurer submitted his statement, both of which were very satisfactory for the first year of the new club.Considerable discussion took place over the entrance fee, and it was agreed to leave the matter in the hands of the secretary.Every consideration will be given to members in good | standing of any other golf club to join the i Metropolitan Golf Club in the royal and ancient game.A hearty vote of thanks was tendered to the secretary and treasurer, also to Captain Loye for bis untiring energy in the welfare of the club.After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting adjourned until Thursday, Jan.27, 1898, when election of officers for next season will take place.AQUATICS.AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES.Ithaca, N.Y., Dec.3.\u2014Cornell has answered Yale's challenge to a boat race, and, though great secrecy has been exercised in regard to the reply, the exact nature of Cornell's letter has leaked out.The Ithacaps, after acknowledging the re- celpt of the challenge, In substance have said that they would be glad to accept it provided certain conditions, presumably a race with.Columbia and Pennsylvania, should mot arise to prevent Cornell's meeting Yale at New London.Cornell then asks that Yale meet her at an early date in a conference with Harvard in which the situation can be discussed.There were no conditions mamed in Yale's challenge other than that the race should take place at New London, and that it should be a tri-cornered contest, provided Harvard is willing to admit Cornell to the Yale-Harvard race.It is also believed that Harvard has challenged Cornell, or intends to do so fn the near future.As Yale and Harvard have decided to row their dual race on the Thames, it now seems probable that Harvard will admit Yale to this race.The fact that Cornell has asked Yale and Harvard to meet her in a conference seems to indicate that the Ithacans are mot so averse to New London as many believe, and that Yale, Harvard and Cornell may agree to a tri-cornered race On the Thames course.JAKE GAUDAUR CHALLENTED.A despatch from Toronto sfätes that Canadian sporting circles are agitated by the prcposal of James Wray, of Australia, to row Jake Gaudaur, the world\u2019s champion, in England, for the champlonship.Wray having sent $250 to the London \u2018Sportsman\u2019 to make his challenge good.That paper says its cup, for which Wray wishes to row, carries with it the world\u2019s sculling champlonship, and that if Gaudaur does not reply to the Australian\u2019s challenge to row on the Tyne the latter intends to apply for the cup.Canadians say the \u2018Sportsman\u2019 assumes too much when it declares that the world\u2019s championship goes with the cup.The English championship, by common consent, does go with the trophy, but neither Wray nor the \u2018Sportsman\u2019 can lay down any such absurd condition as that a man who challenges Gaudaur can stipulate that the champion must go over to England and row on the Tyne or forfeit his title.Wray was in America for several months this year.He did not ask for a race with SarurnAt, DEcEyBEr 4, 1897 SATURDA Gaudaur, but specifically stated that he would row any other man.His present at- ' titude appears to be founded on the belief that Gaudaur will not go to England, consequently the challenge is a safe one.But it does not give the slightest claim to Wray to the world\u2019s championship.As to the English title, Gaudaur will make known his position when Wray's challenge is forwarded to him.TOWNS, DECLINES THE CHALLENGEA despatch from London, Eng., nays.\u2014 \u2018Oarsman Towns has announced that he will not accept the challenge of Eddie Dur- nan, the Toromto oarsman.AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.ENGLISHMEN VICTORIOUS.The following reports are clipped from the London \u2018Daily News\": Newcastle, N.S.W., Nov.20.\u2014The match between Mr.Stoddart's eleven and a Newcastle eighteen was continued to-day.The Englishmen, who last night had made 139 for five wickets, carried their total to 429, or 24C over the cclonial score.The home team then went in, and played out time, the arrangement being for a two days match only.McGlinchy and Terry played good cricket until the fermer was caught at the wicket off Mason for 30.Rock was afterwards with Terry, and hit woll, being eventually caught in the slips by Hayward off Ranjitsinhji.When stumps were drawn, Waddy was not out 31, the total being 211 for nine wickets.The result was a draw.The weather was hot and windy, but the attendance was very good, excursion trains and steamers bringirg in hundreds of people.The fast scoring of the English captain and Hirst was much appreciated.At lunch time their partnership 4H) put on 170,which had been made in uinety ininutes.Hirst tad hit two 6's and five 3's, his total being 95, while the English captain, whose score was 73, had made one 6 and two 5's.It must be admitted that the bowling was weak, After the resumjtion the hitting went on as before, till Stoddart was caught at mid-on for 116, which he had compiled In 126 minutes.His score included one 6, four 5's, and fourtaen 4's.Hirst, who was afterwards easily caught at square leg, made his runs still faster, his total of 19 having been reached in 137 minutes, and included six 5\u2019s, fifteen 4's, ard two 6's.The whole English innings of 429 occupied 245 minutes.Lindsay took two wickets for 40, and McGlinchey three for &4.In the colonial second innings Hayward got four wickets for 38, Druce two for 43, Mason one for 20, Ranjitsinhji one for 30, and MacLaren one for 42.Subjoined is the English score: J.R.Mason, 1.b.w., b McGlinchey .28 Hayward, b MeGlinchey .22 K.S.Ranjitsinhji, st.Waddy, b Mc- Glinchey .47 N.F.Druce, ¢ Whiting, b Sneesboy .31 Wainwright, ¢ Rock, b Sneesboy .\u2026.5 Hirst, ¢ Lindsay, b Cunningham .139 A.E.Stoddart, ¢ Maddison, b Lindsay 116 Board, b O'Brien .\u2026.12 A.C.MacLaren, b Gray .SIN 1 Briggs, b Lindsay cee ee ee ae 4 Hearne, not out .+ 04 es es en +.DB Extras .1.++ vr se 20 00 00 40 0 8 Total .Seo dL 4 Glen Innes, N.S.W_ Nov.22\u2014Mr.Stoddort's eleven began a match here to-day against a twenty-two of Glen Innes and district.There was a large attendance of the public, the spectators numbering about 2 500.The weather was threatening, but remained fine.The wicket was of matting stretched over felt and ccnerete.Richardson and Storer stood out of the visiting team.Mr.Travers, captain of the local twenty- two, won the toss and decided to go in.The wickets fell fast, before the English bowling, and none of the Colonials succeeded in making much of a stand.The highest scora was Merryweather's 30.The innings closed for 120 runs.Stoddart had the remarkable bowling analysis of five wickets for ten runs.Briggs took seven wickets for 40; Wainwright, five for 36; and Ranjitsinhji three for 32.Mr.Stoddart's team then went in, the colonials having thirteen men in the field.When stumps were drawn for the day the Englishmen had made 223 runs for the loss of seven wickets.Glen Innes, N.S.W., Nov.23,\u2014The match between Stoddsrt's team and Twenty-two of Glen Innes was continued to-day.The weather was hot.Mr.Druce and Hayward resumed their unfinished innings.The former had added 31 to his overnight score when his wicket fell.Hayward was then joined by Mason, and the score was rapidly carried to 386, when the innings was declared closed.The local team, who required 266 to avert a single innings defeat, made an extremely poor exhibition, and at the tea adjournment had lost nine wickets for §) runs.The Colonials were finally all disposed of for 149, and Mr.Stoddart\u2019s team were thus left victorious by an innings and 117 runs.Broadbent made 26, add Fitzgerald 47.Stoddart took ten wickets for 49 runs, Briggs seven for 68, Ranjitsinhjl two for 26, Hearne one for 6, and Hirst one for 7.Mr.Stoddart\u2019s team\u2019s score: Board, 5; K.S.Ranjitsinhji, 31; Wainwright, 28; J.T.Hearne, 8; A.C.Mac- Laren, 40; Hirst, 32; Briggs, 8; N.F.Druce, 58: Hayward, not out, 108.J.R.Mason, pot out, 53: extras, 15.\u201cTotal (for eight wickets), 386.*Innings declared closed.ROD AND REEL.FISH AND GAME PROTECTION CLUB.The regular monthly meeting of the committee of the Fish and Game Protection Club will be held at the Fish and Game Club rooms, No.107, Board of Trade Building, on Monday afternoon, Dec.6, at 4 o'clock.YACHTING.ABOUT MEASUREMENTS.London, Dee.3.\u2014At yesterday's meeting of the council of the Yacht Racing Association the delegate of the National Amateur Yacht Racing Union of America, Mr.8.Jarvis, explained the proposed plan for a uniform international rule of measurements and system of classification, and the council decided to consider the advisability of appointing a committee to conter further with Mr.Jarvis.At a speclal general meeting, subsequently held, the proposal to alter the rating rule for classes of 36-foot liner rating and below, was rejected by a vote of 21 to 6.elie.TICKETS GOING RAPIDLY.A meeting of the committee of the Antiquarian Society was held at the Chateau de Ramezay yesterday afternoon, when it wag reported that some two hundred tickets for the forthcoming historic reception and ball had already been disposed of.The issue is limited to five hundred.A number of groups have already been formed, and others are in process of organization.All guests must be in historic dress.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SPECIAL NOTICE.Aladdin\u2019s Cave never revealed such wonders as youll see at Carsley\u2019s Toy Bazaar, toys galore, toys by the thousands, and thousands of delighted children to buy them.You can get an armful of good, useful tovs for a few cents at the Big Store.Sateen VICTORIAN NURSES DR.WORCESTER ADDREssps MEETING AT HAMILTON IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SCHEME, Hamilton, Ont, Dec.4\u2014Dr WW - ter, of Waltham, Mass, adi-ex meeting in the interests of the \\ Order of Nurses at the parlor.Y.M.C.A, last evening.Dr.Mang Hae occupied the chair.Dr.Worceste: w : he was surprised that there was « oa opposition to the scheme, especisi., the part of members of the med.eq: fession.He thoroughly explime plan of district nursing, stating 1i,,: trained nurse formed a hnk be: weer doctor and the convalescing y.Lady Aberdeen, he said, had © closely the plan now being carri-j England.\u2019 In answer to the Rev.Dr.Lie jy Worcester said the district nurse ne, went anywhere except a doctor sen: Le: In moving a vote of thanks \u2018he Bi.Dr.Lyle said he believed the op; ; was due Jargely to the fact ta: :+ scheme had not been thoroughly unde: stood.He thought the nursing pre sion would benefit by the scheme Dr Woolverton seconded the vote of thank Subsequently Dr.Worcester addressed a meeting of the medical profesany Speeches were made by Drs.Macdonald Woolverton, Paugh, Russell, O'Reills Malloch, Mullins, Shaw, and Olmsted In the main the doctors approved of the scheme.Dr.Malloch did not think there was much necessity for such an order.\u2014 LIVE STOCK NOTES.We never could enjoy our rest Hetween à pair of good blankets with our horses and cows \u2018resting\u2019 (?) on bare plank or cement.A oN Lne If we were building again we would have nothing but a frame pen for winter quarters.We find a stone hog-pen too damp, and the pigs never thrive as we) as in the frame pens.It would be a good thing for the country, both fram a financial and a hu manitarian standpoint, if there were more veterinary surgeons and fewer \u2018hess doctors.\u201d There really is no more noble profession than that of the skillej \u2018vet.Worthless beasts, as old horses, old cows, old sheep, consume quite as muh food and take up as much room as those of great value.These, when past their prime, deteriorate rapidly in both use and value and should be disposed of, tu: let this be done in the most humane war possible, mindful of past services.The time is now coming to control and supervise the service of the bull.Mid summer and dog days are the best time for the cows to be dry and preparing i+ calve.The winter is the best time \u2018o make milk.The product of four cows fresh in the fall, has been found in ac tual practice to be equal to the product of five cows which calve in the spring.I notice quite a few feeders keepng a pig nine or ten months to get a months\u2019 growth, and then they generals sell at a time when prices have fallen.For instance, this year I know of some feeding March pigs now (in November when they should have been sold lart August or September at one and a hall or two cents more per pound.One of the best devices for securin: the lantern in the barn while the stock is being looked after is an overhead wire securely fastened aud running the entire length of the stable, one end of which can be quickly unhooked, the lantern slipped on and the wire again fastened.It does not pay to take any unnecessary risks with the lantern in the barn.We keep our cows in the stable all the time in winter.We have the water in a trough in front of them where they can drink as they want it.We fied many advantages from it; each co drinks all she needs every day iv À comfortable place with the water at the same temperature as the stable.Ve have no risk of the cows becoming chilled and have an even flow of milk.A few years ago our Canadian packers cured their bacon too hard.It would keep well, but did not command th highest prices.They have since learn to cure a softer bacon, and now the \u2018+ nadian bacon is similar to that of Ene lish and Danish curing.The Eng trade in bacon is a week-to-week \u2018rË never a large supply at once.but ® steady one week ufter week.It 18 «7 ject to quick, sharp changes.I am now milking for the first rest three heifers which are so gentle that I can go up to them any time of day or night, in the dark as well as in the day light, and.sit down to them and Îeel perfectly sure that I shall get away wits my pail of milk and have no trouble it any time during the process of milk: I can do anything with those herers anc they will not kick.I hegan when those heifers were calves to handle them First it was about the head.This they enjoyed ; all cattle do, Now.as tv became older T began to \u2018milh\" them =?ing through the motions, not {rvn£ get any milk of course.and berng eve ful not to pinch or hurt ther (A When those heifers began tp an° 1 the calf was not allowed to remumn them more than one night.Then I : \u2019 * the matter in hand.1 wul me \u201c0 that I have had my feet stepped or , my head thumped by the tails on thes heifers : but a young man can 12 lessons from his father.and a helo not know quite as much as an ode I never have scolded my lie ters © struck them a blow.Why mont 1 They know more about some things 00 Ido.1 have no Way of know EF \"7 how it goes to be pulled about as 5 ee Jot cn | must be while being milked.\u2014\u2014 \u2014-\u2014 THANKSGI\" A PROGRESS 1 DISTRICTS FU] | was raiber much progress in south Indie man, althougli 1 dweilimg house late fae an the Village.Noto more pumerou plocson, but th to a good man (arx-cho 5 are oc upation.V considerable «1 in that vied ol house and how they and and otherwise winter, for\u2014 \u2018Fields are whit Wao will buy p 1 pound out, hi out laters assCildn, fon Luieniselver an contortable 4 crectoug Des maux, adohouph vrs had been vas remerth the vceumty el 10 © heral tarm cas Would r could be reac Monreal, to for prohtable \u20ac ludian 1 made condition oft had not deser rec:cd to à In lived on the ] townships of C Arter dinner, not quite dry road located the townships and a litile d dian J passed t sianding alone lation.The 1} a stone's thr while the sma ted over wit burnt pine sti ings were for dwellings, ha the ncat ntti occupied on t fire.One of by a woman twelve years At the firs fled northwar town line for half, and the line road bet berland, goin half a mile u Louse's home condition.T ed, for when tore off her | away, but hi readily divest they took fir badly burnt the hospital thought for s crippled for 1 Way {o Teco ther farm her two cl On the morn family were 1 day their cha the rule abo their home.deavoring to which is sepa by a strip of attempt.O mained at Li quite safe, | blamed for « such an apps found the St lodged ,in a which is inte perior farmh of which hav They have \u2018Weekly Wit although thei pretty large the loss at | an insurance quite hopefu) nearly all tl met with SOW grass se early next sy grass for pae thistles.Ar there h Brnd acres by the recer \u2018Rrass next : is about all mense amou cured.Dut poor farmers Government with the gr: After dar} home of M Indian, havi successful at \u20ac seems L large busines general trad fires were 1 of any other after dedu from insur: Mates the t« fires at abo lars, withou a 1d len.me er), lant half ring ock vire tire rich ern ned.sary the ater hey fied cow y à the We illed kers ould the rned Ca English one, it a sub- vear at 1 y or day- feel with le at king 3 and Those hem they they 1, 20 go to care eats milk with took den?; an these som* + doe! cnw g, 0! d 1° thar ; just , com + ca-vrnAy, DECEMBER 4, 1897.THE MONTREAL: DAILY, WÉÊTNESS.\u2014\u2014e \u2014 iVING DAY AT SOUTH INDIAN.\u2026 IN THE BURNT OUT - 1liUT~\u2014AN APPEAL FOR FURTHER AID.THANKSG = -urprised to see that so : -n building had been made - | lan compared with Caseel- u: wars three times as many .were consumed by the vier than in the former LE are the new dwellings .and much nearer com- - are decidedly superior i the \u2018shacks\u2019 which at ng hited up for human vent ot Casselman I made _ \u2018ovies atout the farmers « had been burnt out .as I wanted to see rr cattle were housed .repared for passing the white and snow-flakes falling, .il buy poor bossy hay.\u2019 ; .d oui.however, that all the burnt sarmers within tour miles trom v\u2014 \u2018ln, four in number, had removed - |ves and their live stock to more cb fe quarters and no attempt at : new bulidings had yet been 4: hough une or two ot these farm- : been pretiy well insured.I uork here tnat the country in \u201civ ur Casselman 1s not adapted \u201cil turning as the hungry, whitish wd require more manure than : readily obtained this side ot «|, to bring it up to a condition ; \u201cae cultivation.When at South io.| made similar enquiries atout Lie .Len oi the burnt out farmers who .deserted their farms.1 was di a man named Stenhouse, who \u2026 he boundary line between the y 41 Why are the hundreds of industrious : v.ners to lose house and home and srifice the savings of a generation of soler industry?Because it suits the pol- - of strangers who have a legal hold i our mines to close the Cow Bay ones.They cannot make mining at \u2018> place pay.They are losing money tv ir.But, if we remember rightly, the ES 6 ZZ > Saragheri, built of square stone with two bastions at opposite angles, was fatally = defective in design.It had a \u2018dead\u2019 - point underneath each bastion\u2014i.e., a -.point from which an enemy could be neither seen nor hit by the defenders.The result was that while the contending than £30,000, at times.If the gentle men who at present manage most of the {ape Breton mines find it impossible to make the mines at Cow Bay, or the Victoria mines pay, there is surely a very smple remedy.Let them hand back the property to men who can make them pay We do not impeach the motives of the Dominion Coal Company or any one else.They are acting up to their own / 1, ils ER See Zs : an > > ç \u2014 : k previous owners and operators of the DEP ri EU \u2026 Ÿ 7 means of signals to wWarn the defenders ] Cw Bay mines were wont from year to ea i a p 7 - 2, 7 of the Dritish flag of their danger, but 1 y>ir to make a very handsome profit CA WRU iY; / no avail.; ; : frm their coal\u2014$20,000; $25,000; more ToT > A , Although considered impregnable, Fort + i & air : É an\" an > PE A; ï DCE CAC qu 3 A A WB UN 0 we 1 2 \u2018 SV QI ae \u20ac i SN ' Bs 7 KX .MN \u2014 NT a= == .27 | forces were firing against each other\u2014the i = T7 J \u2019 = d to keep them healthy they \u2018Kaisari-Hind,\u2019 carrying the English mail euper tran \u201cMany à sen els fallen the company, if relentlessly pur _ the young trees cut the branches away must have it every day.3.Your Kentia of Sept.17, was nearly lost in a t on silent] nex mysterious] in the Indian sued, means untold loss and suffering to to give the young trees every chance to is not in perfect health, otherwise it - y phos abt y A rs teriously ing stealthily A our people.To-day it is Port Morien, RUBBER PLANTS\u2014HOW TO GROW grow._ ould not De faded at the points ot the off the Paracels on Thursday, ihe 14th in- en dark ay the sentry 1 bat + to-morrow it may be some other port, 7 \u2014 OA _ \u201ceaves.If the damage is caused by too gtant.E rly that morning she encoun- > pac es ; .\u2026.Action, [prudent and cautious, but\u2018 reso- THEM.CHRYSANTHEMUMS ARI A TIONS och rater the points wal turn yellow, tered a strong north-easterly gale, which wards and forwards, nie almost ig ute and just, is certainly demanded.- ; 12 by the want of water dark and after- : i.tionless, : as ke Let the people of Cow Bay, and ail who There is mo plant better suited for |, M-R-S-\u2014-1.Please give treatment for ward crimpled.Find out which and avoid T#Pidly increased to hurricane force, and bound followed.by a dagger thrust ; this À are similarly endangered make their con.ho ulture than the rubber plant, MUM3' when uoue viooming.2.Car any extreme.Card received too late for lasted throughout the best part of twen- di the vor an \u201coribal sor I dition and their desires plainly known The ; t lov warm atmosphere 2361018 are badiy intesied wan \u2018red Bpi- Jagt week\u2019s article.ty-four hours.During that time, steam.| dier, an Secret 01 many a ne 2 by petition to the government of Nova ha most house | Canada afford, Yet\" 1hey have uot yet ploomeu, Luc S.S.BAIN.ing head to wind with her engines at full °TY-\u2014\u2018An officer,\u2019 in London Telegrap! : Scotia.Act promptly.In this country ne ro 1 mos uses de dti on of root plants 1 mean.Every bioom biasts.l'hey \u2014.strain, the shi de only thirty-nine \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 o fhe people rule.Claim your rights, LU also loves ch as careful attention to Pâve plenty of sun, good ib, pu ave 1 FORTY LIVES SAVED BY A PI, aim the ship made only y \u2018 , « firmly and fearlessly.Your case is one \u2018éétment, such as Sars a a a 1d Well sed, kept famly damp, pw give no (miles.She was often in great danger, THE FATHER OF ENDEAVOR.| that demands and shall receive attention, vatering ad potting- f \u20ac a 2 ther satisfacuon.3.Why ao the ups or The coasting steamer \u2018Kameruka,\u2019 515 Huge seas swept \u2018the quarter-deck aft, The Rev.F.E.Clark, D.D., oi Boston, Among the fearful mountain heights BEVEr sulter for wa or water, = ph, | hentia rarinacea\u2019 faae * It is a YOUNE tons, the property of the Illawarra gutting the smoking-room and the after M the found £ th Christian Fn \u2018 of North-Western India the Highlanders should they suffer by by po Be! Plant, in good heatth apparentiy; peut ?hip Com t ashore on the 96ck cabins, and flooding the saloon.ass., the founder of the : - ; of Scotland have of late by their bravery The one state is 2s bad as à » ok te a Up LWO branches tlus year, put many of Pteamship pany, wen The bridge was wrecked, navigation and deavor movement and president of won the applause of the Empire and the | warm room they should be old ws the tips or leaves tura brown.Ang.\u2014 Pedro rocks, near Moruya Heads, on steering having to be done from the hur- the United Society of Christian Endeav- * admiration of the world.The Highland °Yery day with tepid water, not co ve 1.Chrysanthemums when done looming, Sunday morning, the weather then being ricane deck.All the boats, one after an- or, will address the «Montreal C.E.Per continued his inepiring strain to \u2018#7 out the tap.This chills them an > ; If grown in pots, should be cut auwu tv fine and clear.The ship struck with such other, were carried away, many of the Uni t the quarterly rally, to be held se cheer his comrades onward though both Causes trouble with the leaves.Always within six inches of the soul and the pocs _.davits being snapped off like carrots: mon at the q 5 > * 7 Lis feet were shattered by rifle balls of keep this plant in a moist condition and Placed um a cool place, keeping taem Hs hat Te were bared from and, owing to two of the guys breaking, in Erskire Church on Thursday evening | the foe.They stood shoulder to shoul- there is no to ÿ, but 1 oo the Féther dry than otherwise.\u2018hey are ro their berths to the floor, and Cap the funnel at one time threatened to next, Dec, 9.The subject of his ad- # | der, those gallant men and true.But Bive Dioner at hon one od \u2018 v remain in this condition untit sprîng.Hersee, the master, who was upon the fall, swing from side to side some two dress will be \u2018What God can do through ; now a thousand Highland people fin Cape next day h vou bu © sure tha Bare Some time betore requiring the cuiiings bridge, was thrown thence to the deck, feet ouof the perpendicular.At the Christian Endeavor.The coming of \u2018Fa- Breton are to be starved out of their Will punish you ; Now op Sous oo h à give them more water and start them vu sustaining severe injuries.The first mate, very height of the storm a huge spanner, ther Endeavor\u2019 Clark has been the sub- .homes and churches and their little plots Plants Lo turn y à w 5 a the \u20ac a §iow taster, When the suckers from the Mr.Bishop, however, at once took charge weighing three hundredweight, was torn ject of much rejoicing amongst the Eo- .of gardens, where they have carefully in the are and drop 0.= à 2 the » en Fouts, which will be sent up all over the and soon quieted the terrified passen- from its fastenings near the funnel, and deavorsæs \u201c\u20ac the city, with whom he is PS thriven for a generation, \u2014 starved out er and, w en Pepper a cation Ae re.POL, grow about three inchos long cut gars as they scrambled pell-mell from fell crashing down through two stout y the policy or impolicy of a powerful a han me- car plant db hed them off and make them into cuttings.below.Life-belts were served round, and floors of iroñ grating into the forepart corporation.No, it will not do.\u2014\u2018Hali.ward.he leaves ith us ie voter This is done by eimpiy cutting the bot- the people clustered in the sheltered por- of the engine-room.By the greatest fax Pres byterian.>.© once in two wreaks wr a pds nd to of fom leaves off close to the cutting and tion of the deck waiting for daylight.good-fortune it got caught and jammed The \u2018Journal of Commerce, in its cur- and a sponge; t adersids and top of When finished inserting them in pots, or a The engines were put hard astern, but (in the debris of iron bars which it rent issue, has the following: The con- leaves should be ne Clean on sue Pot if few; a six-inch pot, will hold over the ship was hard and fast, and would brought down) just a few feet above, and templated closing down of the Dominion great benefit to the h of tne PAL, à dozen cutiings.The pots to recave not move.As the vessel settled down immediately over, the steam-pipe, where, pe tr Er PRE of this generation.vo Coal Company\u2019s mines at Victoria and enabling the leaves to breathe more free- No .th b to b h laci with splendid promptness on the part ! i.Port Morien, Cape Breton, on the 15th ly and when this is attended to your he cultings should first have à pandhul those on oe % reak Ser er placing of the chief engineer, it was secured with BS inst.has provoked a protest from the | Plant will require nothing more to help cinders are just as good, or smal} stones, danger.When at ladt daylight broke ropes.Had it fallen a few feet further : Lica) ox Nova Sia, and & discussion it in becoming a thing of beauty.anything that will act as drainage.Above | the shore was geen to be only a hundred Son Ji Jel have cut jhe sieam pipe, 5 ! ! - thi; ; t i i il, d fifty yards a d efforts were » urse, Jaa at in- ; With the ihe matter.under its charter QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.then Aen the bot with pare sent.Pk made to got a Te to hes people who had staat death to every sou in the engine- with the government.Very little ig ex- MAKING A NEW ORCHARD.ali .; ; : {room and the certain loes of the ship, à, how Pit h 2 the whole slightly; then with a smali assembled there.Time after time, how red helpless i uly teri pected, however, to come of it, the char- Constant Reader.\u2014I have à large apple round stick plant the Cuttings into the ever, the heaving line broke, Then Cap.fendered help \u20ac88 In a iruly ferific sea.ser Rranted to the company, covering the orchard situated on a gravelly hill, which sand all around the edge of the pots; tain Sutherland, the harbor master, en.With her tottering funnel temporarily ; point, and leaving its hands free to close ; rm ; ; A ; ?> ., secured, and the plunging spanner made iA _ ; : OS I would like to renew by planting with pack firmly; then give a thorough water- deavored :to reach the ship from the 2 down at any time.Since the legislation - ; ; ; ; = .safe, she eventually struggled through, in question w t the statute books YOURE trees, this being the only suitable ing, and when this is settled place the shore, but was carried away by the cur thanks to the ellen f her engi \u2018.Ll ! elai ved that on te ute : * place on the farm forefruit trees.If 1 pois in the window as near the glass as rent and almost drowned, At last the i th Oi ath of her stesuin pray +, SIs dam at private property a would cut out the old trees do you think you possibly can get them.When rooted happy idea struck one of the passengers 3nd the streng © 8 gear.4 (7 ner tte various mines controlled by | 1 wh h ; .f attachi halliard of the big Had either of these given out, nothing te Dominion Ceal Company in Cape the young trees would do as we vaere they must be placed singly in small pots.of attac Ig a lard to one © DE could have saved the \u2018Kaisar-i-Hind,\u201d or pany ave , Bron has fallen off in value from 100 | the old ones have been, or would it be 9, Red spider is a great trouble to any porkers which\" the steamer was taking any soul on board ing that all the heen dollar ta 10 better to plant the young trees between one growing plants, and when they get a to the city, and throwing the animal ov- | oats had l Ww.ash ed away.She reach.) : * the rows of old trees until they get well foothola are very difficult to get clear of.erboard to swim ashore.The device ! X .La - well known both personally and through ; ; ; ed Hong-Kong in a most dilapidated con- 7 .- Phat : started and thea cut out the old ones.There is but one way I know of to keep answered splendidly, as the pig soon cut dition early on Sunday morning, the 17th bis belpful artides in the \u2018Christian Fr- 3 7 .Ans.\u2014If you have no other place suit- clear of this great enemy, and that is his way through the surf to the beacn, | \u2018 tant, thirty-six h ver-du from deavor World.\u201d Dr.Clark has just made SB Io WIPE OUT GREAT BRITAIN.bet- \u2019 here b red.A heavy iDstant, Te sours overdue from i ; senti Re- : able to make a new orchard you had bet Pure water and a good syringe freely here he was at once caprured.À, heavy Singapore.The \u2018Kaisar-i-Hind\u2019 ie an old @ record in attending conventions.e Lo Ii ihe councils of Europe are to be ter make the best of what you have.My used from the time the plante are taken |line was then fastened to the halliard and ship, but a splendid séa-boat.To some recently spoke at cight state conven.* ¢ntinually confounded by this arch-ob- first advice to you is to begin by puttirg into the house.Carnations do not like dragged ashore, A cage was rigged up, extent her seagoing qualities helped to tions in five days, travelling four thous- » ; ER sr tionist\u2014as instanced in the seal con- down tile drains, and if you can do so too much syringing and therefore some and the passengers and crew, forty M ave her, but to a far larger extent sal- and miles.Can any presidential candi- A | \u201crude, in which England refused to you may know a suitable Place other than remedy must be used.A good cure is to all told, were landed without mishap\u2014 ration came from the enginewroom.Her date show a better record ?Dr.(lark Ca | Lowe part without advancing any plausi- the present orchard, and if at all possi- put a small quantity of salt in the water \u2018Australasian,\u2019 Oct.23, case was very similar to that of the returned to America in July last to at- EN bu excuse for her refusal\u2014in Africa, ble I would change the location, for by 30 you are to syringe with, or, better still, \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2018Calliope\u2019.The smallest breakdown in tend the San Francisco convention, after | \u2018Vote she puts forth pretensions to ter.doing you will avoid many evils which a suds of whale oil soap eyringed on well PUBLIC LUNGS the engines would have meant certain de- making a tour of England, Scotland and M TCery to which she has not the slightest you might have to contend with if the under the leaves.Do not use any remedy LIC .struction.A flaw in the shaft, a rotten Ireland, Germany, France, India and \u201cor | \u201cant tin Crete, where she objects with- trees were planted among \u2018the old oues.too strong.Better apply it oftener and Victoria square, one of the most beau- nut, even, the least imperfection due to South Africa, explaining the principles - 7 Zrounds to a governor chosen by the Drainage first; remember this, for I claim weak, than once too atrong and kill.In tifui in all Canada, certainly deserves a dishonest work, and there would have and use of Christian Endeavor, a move- \u201cEN ¢ thinets cf Europe; then it were clearly that most of the disease and trouble regard to the buds of carnations blast- better fate than to have a huge pile of been another disaster to record, a disaster ment which now claims over three mil- Sl | ND.desirable in the interests of Peace and among orchads at the present time is for ing, something must be wrong at the railway offices built in its centre.If aq appalling as the wreck of the \u2018Bok.lion members in nearly every country in ; {7iress to wipe these isolated British want of proper attention to what the roots.Turn one of your plants out and Montreal appreciates the value of those hara,\u2019 a disaster like the loss of the the world.Epsicine Church should be LE Cecil .\u2019 i , ec Isies from off the face of the earth, and [roots of apple trees require.When your examine it.Find out if it is not suffer- public \u2018lungs,\u2019 she will not court muni- \u2018Aden\u2019\u2014unlike these only in that there | filled next Thursday to listen to one whe - ony.their inhabitants along with them,\u2014 drains are down plough deep, and dung ing from want of water, or, on the other cipal phihisis in the Way mentioned.\u2014 would have been no survivor to tell the bas done so much for the young people hd.Moscow Viedimosti.' well, then plant your young trees in the hand, by over-watering, Whatever reat.Victoria \u2018Times,\u2019 Nov, 24.tale. \u201ca.Catarrh in the Head What This Disease is and How it May Be Cured.Originating in Impure Blood, It Can Be Cured Only by Purifying the Blood.Catarrh is an inflammation of the mucous membranes, end may affect the head, throat, bowels or bladder.The best authorities say it is a constitutional disease, having its origin in the blood.When it becomes chronic it 1s often difficult to eradicate from the system the scrofulous taints which cause it.Catarrh in the Head Is the most common form of the disease.Its symptoms are fullness and heat in the forehead, dryness in the nose, and back part of the throat, and a disagreeable discharge from the nose.The only way to cure catarrh is to purify the blood.The one true blood purifier is, Hood's Sarsaparilla, which absolutely cures catarrh.Catarrh Cured.\u201cI have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for some years, and it has done me a great deal of good.In fact, it has saved my life.It bas cured me of an attack catarrh in the head.It is an excellent blood purifier.I would not be without a supply, for it has proved itself worth its weight in gold.\u201d E.LAWSON, 449 Church street, Toronto, Out.N.B.\u2014It you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, do not be induced to buy any substitute.Be sure to get only Sarsa- Hood\u2019s parie The One True Blood Purifier.All druggists.$1; six for $6.C.I.Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.\u2019 3 are purely vegetable, Hood's Pills {Roach se DOWN TOWN, UP.TO.DATE G.C.ARLESS & CO., PHOTOGRAPHERS.261 St.James street.- 15 Are You Going to Dye ?Successful Dyeing Can Only be Done with Diamond Dyes.Thousands dye this month.The vast majority make the work profitable and pleasant, while others are confronted with disappointment, despair and ruin, The happy and successful dyers are those who always use the Diamond Dyes that produce the brightest, fastest and | most lasting colors.The discontented and unhappy omnes are the few that use the common and crude package and soap grease dyes, giving muddy and blotchy colors.If you desire to make your cos tumes, dresses, capes, jackets, blouses, ete., look like new garments, buy some fashionable dark color of the Diamond Dyes, and you will be astonished with the results.Now is the time te look out the men\u2019s and boys\u2019 light colored and faded clothing and make them ready for another season\u2019s wear.Fast Jsiamond Black, Seal Brown, Indigo or Navy Blue will give magnificent shades on all garments.Insist upon your dealer giving you the Diamond Dyes every {ime you buy ; then, and only then, is success assured.ARTSHORN OR AMMONIA \u2014FoB\u2014 FAMILY USE, FOR THE TOILET, KITCHEN, LAUNDRY, Put up in pint bottles, two dozen in a cose.Ask your grocer for it.MANUFACTURED AXD GUARANTEED PURE \u2014BY\u2014 JOHN COWAN, ; minister and tried Christian worker at !'soul at the \u2018Keswick Convention.\u2019 stood by the grave: ' around these magnificent.English lakes.THROUGH ENGLAND ON THE * BIKE.Homes and Haunts of the Great Poets.PECULIAR IDEAS OF THE RUSTICS ABOUT CANADA\u2014THE JUBILEE.(Correspondence of the \u2018 Witness.\u2019) Mounted upon our silent -steeds we crossed the border line, dividing Scotland from England, at Carlisle and found dur- selves in the territory of John Bull.\u2019 I naturally thought of the terrible scenes of bloodshed and carnage which were wont to be enacted around this border country in the olden times.The fields, which are now covered with beautiful green verdure, looking like a veritable paradise below, have oftentimes been! drenched by the best blood of the two | nations and left in desolation and smoking ruins.It is something for which to be profoundly thankful, that no longer the roar of battle is heard in the island, and that now peace and prosperity prevail.About twenty miles from Carlisle we suddenly emerged from among the hiils and saw lying right before us nestling at the foot of the mountain, its feet bathed by the \u2018Derwentwater,\u2019the charming little town of Keswick.Upon all sides the lofty peaks tower \u2018up heavenward, completely surrounding the fine fertile valley.It seems to me to be an ideal home for the poet.To a house cn the border of the lake, that strange unfortunate genius, Shelley, brought his young wife.By the calm, placid waters, according to his own request, Southey was laid to rest.The man must be very commonplace and devoid of sentiment indeed, who docs not feel some poetical stirrings in his soul as he beholds during a Keswick sunset the green-sided, golden- tipped mountains mirrored in the depths of the dark lake of \u2018Derwentwater.\u2019 It is indeed an idcal spot to which the weary the close of a hard year\u2019s labor can go to seek rest of body and refreshing of An enjoyable rile of about twelve miles brought us to the quiet little village of Grasmere, standing by the lake of the same name.In the little churchyard, near the waters he loved so well, and about which he so often sung, lies fhe poet Wordsworth.Very appropriate were the words of Matthew Arnold as be Keep fresh the grass upcn his grave, O Rotha, with thy living wave; Sing him thy best, or few or none Hear thy voice right, now«he is gone.Much of Coleridge\u2019s life was also spent His home was on Rydal Mount, hard by Rydal water.Passing the pretty little villages of Bowness and Ambleside, where were the residences of Harriet Martineau and Dr.Arnold, we suddenly appeared cn the shore of the largest lake in England, \u2018Windermere.\u2019 It is about a mile wide, and ten miles long.For about thirty miles the traveller is perfectly charmed ham, we arrived in Kenilworth, the old town madz famous by Sir Walter Scott.The room still stands, where Scott gat as he sketched the outlines of his famous novel, The ruins of the castle are the centre of attraction to all visitors.The old pile was reared about the year 1120, and has gone through some stiff sieges.It was owned by Queen Begs, and was for a time the dwelling place of Queen Mary.As a ruin, it is quite imposing.In fact it appears to me that many of the old strongholds of Britain look better in ruins than they ever did any other way.When Paddy went to the funeral of his neighbor, not knowing anything good to say about the deceased, be remarked: \u2018Bejabers but he makes a noice quate corpse, annyway,\u201d so many of these old castles make \u2018good quate ruins, annyway.\u2019 STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CANADA.While en route I frequently had some good chats with the rustics by the way, and the ignorance frequently displayed was a revelation to me.Many of ther had the most ridiculous ideas about Canada.One man asked me: \u2018hif we \u2019ad hany roads hout thea # He also enquired \u2018were the people as a general thing becoming pretty well civilized\u201d When I eon- gidered the rather uncivilized, low-shoed, knickerbockerad specimen with a \u2018sweater\u2019 on which stood before him I did not altogether blame the man for his question.While having tea in a restaurant in Kenilworth, I met a couple of rather pretty young linglish girls of perhaps about twenty years of age who appeared disposed to enter into conversation, and of course I had no objection to doing so.They became quite interested in my personal history, one of them asking \u2018from what part of England I had come ?\u201d Upon being told that my home was in Canada she said, \u2018Why, you speak remarkably good English, I could not have told you from an Englishman.Where did you learn to speak it so well.\u201d When told that we speak the English language in\u2019 Canada, she was perfectly astounded.The topic of conversation changed around to the coming jubilee cf the Queen, when one of them rather surprised me by innocently asking the question, \u2018 \u2019Oo is your Queen in Canada?When told that Canada belonged to the same Queen as England did, their astonishment was unbounded.They were quite in earnest, and asked their questions with an innocent simplicity that was delightful.BIRTHPLACE OF THE IMMOKTAL SHAKESPEARE.Our next stop was at Warwick, a fine old English town with a population of about twelve thousend.The imposing oid castle, still inhabited by the Earl of Warwick, is famous principally because of its successful defence by the Paglia- mentarians during the civil war.Aroth- er eight-mile ride, and we found ourselves in \u2018Stratford-on-Avon,\u2019 the birthplace of the immortal Shakespeare.Of course we went through his old house, which is still in a state of tolerably good preservation.We visiid the room where he was born and the museum of Shakespearean an- tiguities.We went to the church and saw the entry of his birth and death in the old parish register, and the place where, this the greatest of all England\u2019s literary sons, was laid to rest, on the banks of the \u2018softly flowing Avon.\u2019 The Red Liou Hotel still shows the room where Wash- with the wonderful view which gradually ington Irving sat as he wrote his famous _ After a twa hours\u2019 spin from Birming- |r - ers., Ie 2 | A 5 7 lf HPAI = \u2018And where has Hanne gone ?\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t know, sir; I think she moved into town.\u2019 \\ \u2018And who was Shakespeare ?\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t know, sir.After this flood of illumination having been cast upon the subject of interest, we departed.Stratford-on-Avon is one of the prettiest little towns I have seen.Of our way to Banbury we passed by the battlefield of Edgehill, where Charles Stuart first discovered of what kind of metal Cromwell and his despised Round- heads were made.HISTORIC TOWN OF OXFORD, © \u2018Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,\u2019 so says the old.nursery rhyme.I rode a \u2018bike\u2019 horse right through under Banbury Cross.Banbury is a nice quiet little country town with a population of about four thousand.A ride of twenty-two miles thro a perfect garden, brought us to the historic old town of Oxford, where we remained for the month of June.Oxford might perhaps be called the academic centre of England.It is a beautiful antiquated city, on the banks of the Thames.There are twenty-four colleges, contain- ing-somewhere about four thousand students, fifty professors and thirty lectur- ch college has its own procurator and\u2019 lecturers; but all have the same ex- amivations: Many of the buildings are very ancient, dating back five and gx hundred\u201d years.We attended theological lectures while there, and were surprised at the scarcity of students in the halls.Prof.Driver usually had five in regular attendance; Prof.Sanday, six; Principal Fairbairn, of Mansfield College, about a dozen; Prof.Sayce, on account of opening his lectures on Assyriology to the publie, generally had a somewhat larger at- tendance; Principal Fairbairn, in my es- unfolds itself to his admiring gaze.The mountains, lakes and valleys, although not so majestic and awe-inspiring, yet bear a striking resemblance to the Alpine scenery of Switzerland.After having seen where Wordsworth lived, I can understand better his intense love for nature.Aîter passing \u2018Kendal\u2019 there is nothing of particular interest to the tourist till he reaches Manchester.Even in this large city of four hundred thousand inhabitants, there is very little to detain the sightseer.The manufacturing -of cotton goods is the great source of revenue.The next large city we visited was Birmingham.The great centre of the iron industry has a population of about four hundred and fifty thobeand, but to the mere | 5 Dalhousie street, Mentreal.visitor it has but very few attractions, ANN HATHAWAY'S .+ 6 Pr rT 4 eur ci JE pe description of Stratford-on-Avon.We went down a couple of miles to see the old thatched house where lived Anne Hathaway, the-cottage to which William ; Used to go to court his future wife, In it are still to be seen an old settle, a bedstead, and a few articles of furniture, said to have been there in Anne's time.When standing outside beholding the antiquated building, a couple of half-grown boys came along and the following dialogue took place:\u2014 \u2018What hous: is this ?I asked.\u2018Hanne \u2019Athaway\u2019s, sir.\u2018And who was Hanne \u2019Athaway ?\u2019 \u2018J think she was Shakespeare\u2019s mother, sir.\u2019 \u2018Docs Hanne live there now ?\u2018Oh, no, sir, it's a Mrs.Bakers as lives thea now.\u2019 - COTTAGE, SHOTTERY.HER AN, THN of TGS) pes a 2 timation, is one of the ablest of living theologians.Judging from the numbers attending \"theological classes the Church does not arpear to be much in favor with young Englishmen at the present time.The students are for the most part of the aristocratic class, and have no dealings with the Samaritans, consequently it is rather difficult for a man from America to get much insight into Oxford student life.The majority of the men live in residence, and are closely watched and looked after by the procurators\u2014 bull dogs\u2019 they are frequently called by the students.Fach college has its dining-room and professors and students dine in the same hall.DERWENTWATER FROM FALC & yp REET A = ! > es _ = = = ah rs room episode that had occurred a few days previous to my arrival.A student had the habit, much to the annoyance of a professor, of nibbling some bread before beginning the regular meal.One day the professor stood up to ask a blessing, and offered the following petition: \u2018For what we are about to receive, and for what Mr.John Smith has received, O Lord make us truly thankful.Amen.There was no more trouble with Mr.Smith, IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY there is a remarkable colection of 460,- 000 books, besides many very ancient manuscripts and autographs.There is to be found the first volume ever printed in the Euglish language, just as it was left by Caxton.In the Ashmolean Museum are the watches once owned and worn by Queen Elizabeth and Oliver Cromwell, and the \u2018jewels of Alfred the Grezt.\u201d In one of the chapels stands the original of that wonderful painting of Holman Hunt\u2019s, \u2018Christ standing before the door and knocking.\u201d Just in front of Balliol College is the spot, marked only by a little cross, where Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer, chained to stakes amidst the crackling of the flames, and the howls of a fiendish mob, sealed their testimony for Christ with their blood.Perhaps that plece had for me more attraction than any other spot in Oxford.art of the \u2018old Oxford\u2019 wall still stands, also the old tower, riddied with holes, made by che bullets fired from Cromwell\u2019s guns when he besieged the city during the civil war.While at Oxford I met several American students, who had been spending the winter in Mansfield College.One of them had been doing a considerable amount of preaching in the rural districts during the winter and related some rather peculiar experiences.In a country church he had preached his best sermon, and had done what he could to edify his bearers, when one of the deacons came up to him, just before the people were dismissed, with a special request frcm the congregation, \u2018that he would sing them a hymn in his native language before they parted.\u2019 After my own experience in England I had not the slightest difficulty in believing the story.AT TBE JUBILEB.*! As \u2018Jubilee\u2019 day came around the two American friends and myself determined we would \u2018go to London to see the Queen.\u201d Accordingly, as daylight was stealing over the surrounding hills on June 22, three figures might have been seen passing along \u2018Old High Street,\u2019 Oxford, waking the echoes of the silent street and steering in the direction of the station.We arrived in London about 7 a.m., and, crossing Hyde Park, took up our position on Constitution Hill, in order that we might see the royal procession before going to \u2018St.Paul's.\u2019 The crowds were dense, but there was no pushing or jamming, and all were in the very height of good humor.We got into a crowd of jolly, good-natured young \u2018bloods,\u2019 who kept their spirits up by pouring spirits down.They sang all sorts of songs, and always ended them with the orthodox Episcopal \u2018 Amen.\u201d It sounded somewhat ludicrous to hear \u2018The wild man of Borneo\u2019 closed with the long-drawn-out \u2018amen.\u2019 Quite a number of the young ladies in the crowd fainted, and theire young men rather appeared to enjoy looking after them.The majority of them recovered just where they were, apd appeared none the worse.One very imoticeable feature in the crowd was that every body was ¢ watchless\u201d No one knew the time.Having taken along my six-shilling ironclad chronometer, it took me most of my spare moments telling the time of day to the crowd.At nine the streets were cleared by the policemen driving the crowd back, leaving just epace emough for the procession to pass.M%h companions and 1 were within about five or six yards from the procession, and had a fine view.At 9.30 the \u2018Royal Horse Guards\u2019 passed along, followed bv a little, thin, grey- faced, white-haired officer.his breast cov- Rather an amusing incident was men shouted as if their throats .related to me while there of a dining ered with medals.As he came closer Roberts, and our enthusiastic English- would burst : i the shout went up, \u2018Why, it\u2019s General \u2018HURRAH FOR LITTLE BOB.\u2019 Roberts appears to be the darling of the British army, Everywhere he wen: the crowd grew frantic over h.m, while they scarcely noticed Wolseley.Every person was comjecturing as to which 0 the colonial premiers would have tle place of honor in the procession.and 1: was no wonder I gave an extra chur when I saw that that place had heen as signed to Sir Wilfrid Laurer.Even- where he was greeted with tremendous cheers.Laurier has made a wonderiul impression on this side of the water, cali ing forth the admiration and respect all.In all meetings and banquets Le has been given the place of highest honor.and by his polished address, and g@raceiu! speeches, seems to have won his way to the very hearts of the British people.Canada has been peculiarly fortunate :n having such a man to represent her :1 the Mother country at such a time.As he passed by many were the remar:s about him, and the country he represen- ed.A jolly old beef-eater beside me remarked to his neighbor, \u2018 W'y, man, Canadar is the finest colony we ave got.\u2019 After Mr.Laurier came the prenuers of New South Wales, Queensland, Cape Colony, ete.Thus the eleven premiers.with their various contingents, passed along.It was a wonderful sight, and one never te be forgotten, to see the Mounted Police and volunteers of Can- ads, the sober-faced zaptiehs of Cyprus.the little yellow-skinned dyaks from Borneo, the gigantic Sikhs from India.the little Chinamen from Hong Kong.the British Guiana negro policemen, the fine West India regiment, the huge Maori, the great, stalwart Hausas from Sierra Leéne, the little Gourkhas, the dark skinned Matabeles, and the Rhodesian horsemen ; men from all parts of the globe\u2014black men, white men, vellow men, brown men of all races and creeds, belonging to one nation, and marching under the folds of the old Union Jack.I must confess it did make a man proud of the fact that he was a Britisher.After the colonials had passed, the mili- tery pageant which led the royal proces sion came in sight, headed by the giant guardsman, Capt.Ames, who is six feet seven inches in height.Then came the blue-jackets and different military companies, followed by representatives from all the kingdoms of the world, and fortv royal Indian princes.\u2019 Royalty then began to make its appearance, and the excitement grew wild ; women who could not see because of their \u2018littleness of stature\u2019 climbed on to their husbands\u2019 shoul: ders, children were crawling up posts and everybody was standing on tiptoe.Several of the Queen's daughters and grand daughters, among whom was the Em press Frederick of Prussia, first passe! along.Lord Wolseley, glittering with decorations, rode immediately in front of Her Majesty\u2019s carriage.The Queci® carriage was drawn by eight beau itl cream-colored horses.In the carraet with her were the Princess of Wales aud the Princess Christian, and on either side.although slightly behind, rode the Pree of Wales and the Duke of Connaught The Queen is a very kind, motherly look ing old lady.There she sat in her open carriage, wearing a grey dress covered with black lace, with a little grey para sol in her hand, smiling and bowing to the people upon all sides, apparently happy.; Although not much of a worshipi royalty, believing that as the acc rol! by it will pass from the stage altogether still T was wonderfully drawn towarse the Queen.Her fine, gentle, stm thetic, vet strong face must have nt tracted all who saw her.When °° thinks of her exemplary lif, hor not of character, her bravery in thus pe through the streets openly.when her CCE has been att>mpted so often.he then Te gins to understand that the Queen something more than an erdinary wu At 11.30 a.m.all was aver and vo tired to Hvde Park to rest cur ve \u2019 Wr of limbs under the trees.We -r around during the afternoon to =e 2% deccrations, and waited till ever gee the magnificent illumination: \\ twelve o'clock we took our return °° arriving in Oxford just as \u2018old «ol again peening nver the hills vw \u2018 tired, but well satisfied who W np nFEP Rothesav.Scotland, July 29, 1807 ] In this | the compo ing, perm! move.sition :\u2014 «White : QKt4; fou Kt\u2014QK18, pieces.White t Solution I Specially by Dr.8.| \u2014 \u2019 4Q1kt1 : 2prpp2: 1 White moves.Solution This fo only from graph in « features c merit of t of Kobe, of Glasgo dan, of N amateur Score an * Herald.\u2019 game.TT predilectic 6 Kt x 7 Kt\u2014K § Kt\u2014K 9 B\u2014Q Of cour with Kt : account © 12 Castle It now file is 8 ¢ 12 P\u2014Q | White, ates an a 21 P\u2014B Black's able.The pot 36 Kt (F Threate is such t consequer TH A spec mount C day even matters derstand and the We hop discuss t revivifie correspo The tou lines, w} tion, an such cor ing rule contest, L Eac every ot conduct 2.Eac! ers.TI &rouping 8.Cen Canadiar ship fee 4.The move on reventr- in case < rT em nT Boer sq 0e w® meee «< «© ww CS am ad th of Ca ul ge 1d EN ce it.En to 1v Al ne begin work there.The Maharaja himself showed great interest, inviting us to his palace to sing our hymns to him, and later to show the magic lantern.When approached about granting us land with à view to our settling in his state, he showed deep intérest, pémsonally visiting several sites, and chose a beautiful piece of garden land of several acres which he granted us, at no small cost to himself, together with another site for a woman's hospital.In the latter he has ever shown great interest, and his son conducted the opening ceremonies of the Dispensary on the 22nd of June last.The Maharaja has shown his interest in our mission work in many other ways, having made a grant of money also to Indore College.His latest gift, made on Jubilee Dey, was a valuable site, worth some $3,000, for an orphanage for famine children.The F.M.Committee of our church have shown their appreciation of this Prince\u2019s generosity.by presenting him with a group photograph of themselves with an illuminated address.\u2014 The Westminster.\u2019 J RELIGIOUS NEWS.The Queen recently received Miss Ter rot at Balmoral, and presented her with the Royal Red Cross for services in nursing the wounded in the Crimea.Miss Tarrot is the daughter of a deceased minister, descended from a Huguenot family.While riding on her bicycle near Glasgow, a young lady was chaffed by some workmen in rather coarse language, upon which, to their surprise, she dismounted and distributed tracts amongst them.They accepted the religious instruction quietly and walked off.Mr.George Muller, of Ashley Down Orphanages, Bristol, owing to weakness of the heart at his advanced age of nine- ty-three yeurs, is prohibited by his medical attendants, for the present at least, from preaching on Sundays, as was his custom until some weeks ago.A commission from the Admiralty has visited Portsmouth for the purpose of enquiring into the working of the Sailors\u2019 Rests conducted by Miss Agnes E.Wes: ton.This is stated to be a preliminary to the initiation by the Admiralty of important reforms in seamen\u2019s rations and the erection of sailors\u2019 homes at naval ports that do not now possess these useful institutions.Nothing yet seems definitely settled, but it is known that the Admirals have proposals of the kind under discussion.At Onitsha, in West Africa, Christianity is gaining a firmer hold of the peo ple.A number of young men have earnestly set themselves to read the bible, and their influence is proving considerable against prevalent heathen ceremonies.The result is that some of those who were prominent in heathen dances and ceremonies cannot now be got by their old companions to take their part.In one case the \u2018band\u2019 has suffered because one of the chief pipe players prefers to \u2018study book\u2019 to blowing the pipes.Losses caused to charities by the special jubilee collections are reported in the \u2018Quiver.\u2019 The diminution of income of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals amounts to £10,000; that of The latest tidings is that the Pope is the London City Missions to over £5,000; thodist Recorder\u2019 there is an array of facts as to the present influence of Chris tianity in the world which are often ig nored.Though numbers still count for heathenism and force, the tendencies, the indications, all count for Christ.T' \" confession of an intelligent Jew, aft hearing a Christian preacher at Baalix on the Lordship of Christ recently, significant of a great truth: \u2018He is er ¢ising a great Londalux- to-day.Tha are now but five atifondmous states th.are not at least nominally Christian\u2014M: rocco, Turkey, China, Persia, and J: pan, and each of them is in the grip « the Christian powers, and is surrounde \u2014indeed, being permeated\u2014by the light of the Cross.\u2014The \u2018Christian.Archdeacon Phair, writing of work amongst the Sioux Indians of Canada, says: \u2018I know of no better object lesson on the value of missions than that to be learned by a-visit to these people.Une is struck; first of all, with the stalwart and manly forms of these primitive per ple, so keen and sensitive in their ways, yet so difficult to arouse or excite.Si ting in the litide hut beside a man of four-score years, one can easily see what missions have accomplished.The sx guinary warrior has exchanged his pat, and feathers, and thirst for blood, for à European costume and a large bible it his own tongue.Listen to his estimate of this newly-found treasure: \u201cIi gave me the light; it has true words, from one side to the other.It has streagh in it, too, for what it says it is able to do.It has changed men that notains else could change; I like it for this.\u201d The late Bishop Walsham How left behind him a memorandum, which bi family have made public: \u2018I have, ever since 1 possessed an income at ull.2 ways dedicated one-tenth annually 10 God in charity.When I became a bishop I resolved thrt my children should never profit by my episcopal income, and 85 soon as I became Bishop of Wakefield I dedicated to God in charity (i.\u20ac Ÿ direct gifts and subscriptions) £003 year, or a full fifth of my gross coms Perhaps I shonld.mention that J ainass gave away the large sum ! received for my books in addition -to the tenth of my income.My chief object in naming these things is to provide an answer !° the charge, sure to be made, that ] have enriched myself and my children out the endowments of the Church.i A mass meeting of the Hebrews of ( h cago was held recently in orgis: at B.Howitz, president of the Zien Asso ciation, an organization formed for the purpose of establishing a colony for lv sccuted Jews in Palestine, presided Speeches were made by Dr.Feat rabbi of the Zion Congregation.re Zolotoff, H.Horowitz, and W.Shur- he day beiug the second of the Feast vl Tabernacle, was a holiday, and ie hy was filled to its utmost japaciy pee a thousand persons being present.5 object of the meeting was to present matter of colonization to the people a1 to urge their co-operation.No defini action will be taken until the associate?learns from Dr.Harzel and Mas - rat who are the originators of the © tion scheme, what\u2019 action was 1!* regard to colonization in the great vention held last month in Ba-le.54722 land.The speakers urged the necessi ; 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LUMBER MERCHANTS, BULMER, JOHN A., & CO., 571 Dorchester strest .MILLINERY AND FANCY DRY GOODS, CAVERHILL & KISSOCK, 91 8t.Peter street.J, 16 NAPHTHA AND GASOLINE.BUSHNELL CO., Ltd.The, Board of Trade Bids.PAINTS, OILS, &e.WALL BROS., 15 Bleury street.K,13 PAPER MAKERS AND WHOLESALE STATIONERS.CANADA PAPER COMPANY, treal and Toronto.L, 14 Eu fo \"= Wholesale WHOLESALE STATIONERS AND PAPER DEALERS, DAWSON, WM.V., 16 DeBrosolos st.L, 16 MoFARLANE, DAVID, & CO., 636 Craiger.1, 14 SALT.VERRET, STEWART & CO, 10 and 12 Port st.STOVES, FURNACES, TINWARE, de McCLARY MFG.CO., 93 St, Peter street.J,16 WALL PAPER.MCARTHUR, COLIN &CO.,1050 Notre Dame.V, 18 THE WAT8IN FOSTER CO., Ltd.Ontario st.Eart, Maisonneuve, Montreal.S, 14 WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELLERY.SCOTT, R.N., & CO., 193 McGill street.15 Miscellaneous.PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS OWENS, JOHN B.: 117 Bleury street.L, 12 RYAN, W.J., 1454 Bleury st.K, 12 PHOTOGRAPHERS, BENNETT, J.C.8., 10% Phiilips square.K.10 NOTMAN, WM., & SONS, Phillips square K, 10 PLUMBING.MEATING, Sanitary Engineers DATE, JOHN, 654 and 656 Craig street.K, 14 ROOFING MATERIAL PATERSON MFG.CO., The, Lid, 47 Murray se STEEL STAMPS AND DIES, DAWSBON, G.W., 716 Craig street, 1,13 WOOLLENS AND TAILOR TRIMMINGS.FISHER MARK, SONS & CO.Victoria square, 1 Miscellaneous.CATERERS, WELSH & ROUGH, Balmoral Cafe, 1798 Notre Dame st.J, 14 COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL PRINTING, DOUGALL & 80N, JOHN, Witness\" Office.K, 14.DINING HALLS.ARCADE CAFE.2336 St.Catherine st.1,9 STILLWELL'S Temperance Dining Room, Breakfast Dioner or Supper, 15¢c.n all night.Cor, Alexander and Craig, J,13 WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION 594 Craig street.L14 POMESTIC ADVERTISING.Daily and Weekly \u2018\u2018 Witness.\" DOUGALL & SUN, JOHN, \u2018Witness\u201d Office.K, 14 DYERS AND CLEANERS.EMPIRE DYE WORKS, 2% Phillips square, L.10 ETCHINGS AND DRAWING.DOUGALL & BON, JOHN, \u201cWitness\u201d Office.K, 14.FLOUR, CFREAL FOODS, ETC, BRODIE & HARVIE, 10and 12 Bleury st.Tel.436 HOTELS BALMORAL HOTEL, Welsh & Rough, Props.Tel.1338.J, 14 ICE DEALERS, MONTREAL ICE EXCHANGE, 26 Victoriasq.J, 13 LAUNDRIES, MONTREAL TOILET SUPPLY CO., Ltd, THE Dorchester st.N, 13 MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONER and ERER.CAT GRIFFIN, JAMES, 153 and 155 St.Lawrence st.O, 13 MANTELS; GRATES AND TILES.MURRAY, A.F, & CO.40 Bleuryst.K,13 OFFICE DESKS AND FIXTURES.CANADIAN OFFICE & SCHOOL DESK AGENCY, 1798 Notre Dame street.K,13 TEFS & CO., 300 9t.James strest, K, 14 THE OFFICE SPECIALTY MFG.CO., Limited, 1744 Notre Dame st.K, 15 WINDOW SHADES AND SIGNS, HUGMAN BROS., 17 Bleury street, K, 14 Insurance.FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.GUARDIAN, F.& L, Assurance Co., 181 St.James SCOTTISH UNION and NATIONAL INSURANCE WALTER KAVANAGH, Chief Agent, - 117 8t.Francois Xavier, street.K, 14 UNION ASSURANCE BOCIETY, LONDON, St.James and McGill.J, 14 FIRE INSURANCE BROKERS, TAYLOR, EDWARD T.& SON, 43 St.Francois Xavierstreet.K, 15 GUARANTEE & ACCIDENT.MANUFACTURERS GUARANTEE & ACCIDENT CO WILSON, E.W., General Arent.260 St.Jamesst.J,14 INSURANCE AND INVESTMENTS, LYNN T.LEET & CO., Room F, Temple Building.The Montreal Loan & Investment Co.The Metropolitan Plate Glass Insuranos Co.London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co.LIFE INSURANCE CO.CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSN.OF CANADA 7 8t.James street.J, 14 MARINE INSURANCE CO.°8, BOND, EL, 30 St.Francois Xavier street.K, 16 MINING BROKERS, LYNN T.LEET & CO., Room F., Temple Building, Machinery.ENGINEERS AND FOUNDERS.LAURIE ENGINE CO., 1012 8t.Catherine street ENGINES, ROILERS AND MACHINERY.LEONARD, E., & SONS, Common and Nazareth ais MACHINEEY AND SUPPLIES CANADA MACHINERY AGENCY, 298 St.James WIND MILLS & PUMPING MACHINERY, BUCHANAN, R.1, & CO., 692 Craig at.K,13 Police and Fire FIRE ALARM DEPARTMENT, City Hall PORX PACKERS and CURERS, CRAWFORD & MCGARRY, 26 St.Peter st.1, 16 fr Bell Tel.18.O, 16 CENTRAL POLICE STATION, Cit~ Ha\", Bell Tel, 30).©, 18 Professional, &c.ADVOCATES, BUTLER & CARMICHAEL, m 21.T le ing.T.P.Butler, GG, U8, in Le K, BURROUGHS \u20ac PHEROUGHS, \" JOHNSON, HALL DONA HUE, No.23 and 5 Temple Building.K.14 8.W.JACOBS, New York Life Building LS LIGHTHALL & HARWOOD, 1 W.D.LIGHTHAT yh C.A.HARWOOD, B.C.L\" MORRIS& HOLT, Temple Building, SMITHS MARKEY, Temple Building, 185 K, 15 K, 14 t.James street.BR, 14 STEPHENS & HUTCHINS, 2nd floor Temple Bidg Bt.Jamesst.K, 1§ WEIR & HIBBARD, 180 St.J ames street, R, Stanley Weir.F.W.Hibbard K,15 ANALYSTS AND ASSAYERS, DONALD, J.T., 112 St.Francois Xavier at.K,15 HERSFY, MILTON L.B.A, Bc, (McGill) .16 Bt.Sacrament street.3,15 MANN ARCHITECTE & VALUATOR, Bell Tale np dard Building, James street \u2014_\u2014 ARCHITECTS.COOKE, ARTHUR J., Fraser Building, Bell Tel, 637.43 Bt.Bacrament street.J 11 .NOTARIES, HUTCHESON, R.B,, 204 St.James street.Jat LYMAN, A.C, Standard Building, 157 St.James æ K,1 PATENT KOLICITORS.CUTTER & SANDAHL, 154 Bleury st.X13 SHORTHAND, TYPEWR'TING, £TC, METROPOLITAN SHORTHAND BCHOOL, first floor Temple BuilJing.K.14 TEACHER of BANJO and MANDOLIN, J.J.LEVEBT, 2108St.Catherine st.M, 10 Financial ACCOUNTANT AND COMMIRSIONER.ROSS, H.J., 180 St.James street, Ku BANKS, BANQUE VILLE MARIE.K.156 BROKERS (STOCK AND INVESTMENT), HANSON BROS, Canada Life Chambers.K.14 CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.DUFF, J.M.M., Imperial Building L, 15 DURNFORD, GEORGE, 196 St.James straat.K, 14 MACINTOSH & HYDE, 157 St.James straet.K.15 McDONALD, JOHN, Imperial Building.L, 18 RADFORD, F.W., Rsom 37 Imperial Bld'g L,15 RIDDELL & COMMON, 22 St John street.K,15 FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE, INVESTMENT BROKERS, CUVILLIER, G.5., Room §7, Temple Bldg, K.14 MORLEY, J.H:, Room 83, Temple Bulld'n:.K.if STOCK BROKERS.WEIR, W.H., 113 8t.Francois Xavier st.L 15 ps ?% D it Ed me Nn + Le FRR 3 A A SL SIX BEAUTIFUL PRIZES.Christmas Candy Making.HE CHILDREN AT THE CONVENTION.THE YOUNG QUEEN OF HOLLAND\u2014PEOPLE WHO LIFT AND PEOPLE WHO LEAN\u2014EMERSON AS A FATHER\u2014CHRISTMAS CAKES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM\u2014THE OLD SINNER\u2014WINTER STREET DRESSES.SUNDAY AFTERNOON.How May We Make Children Enjoy It ?SIX HANDSOME PRIZES FOR THE BEST ; ANSWERS.Don't forget our offer of prizes for the above subjects.In case some should have overlooked it, we repeat it, reminding all that sketches must be in by the fifteenth of this month.SIX HANDSOME PRIZES.The prizes are six, larg: beautiful bibles, with limp morocco covers, references, maps, end all the latest modern helps.Three of these will be given for articles dealing with children of twelve and under, and three for articles dealing with young people over twelve.THE CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION.In serding these articles please observe strictly the following rules: 1.No article must contain more than one thousand words.2.Each article should be writen op paper the size of note, be written on one side of the sheet only, and the broad way of the paper, with margin left at the top and left hand side, and pages carefully numbered at the right hand upper corner.3.Pin the sheets together at the left hand upper corner, and pin in on top of them a sealed envelope coniaining your full name and full post-office address.A fictitious name by which the MS.may be distinguished should be written on the upper right hand corner of the first sheet, and also on the outside of the sealed envelope containing name and address.4 Manuscripts \u2018should be neither.rolled nor folded, but mailed flat.Mark them \u2018MS.only.\u2019 and in most cases a\u2019 one-cent stamp will be sufficient.5.All manuscripts must be In by fifteenth of the month.6.The manuscripts will be considered the property of the \u2018Witness\u2019 and as many as possible of the best will be published, with extracts frym many of the others.7.All manuscripts should be addressed \u2018Home Department, \u2018Witness, John Dougall & Son, Montreal.\u2019 WHO MAY COMPETE.Fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers aunts and uncles, big brothers and sisters, this competition is open to you all.This is a matter in which every member of the family is Interested, and in which we \u2018ook for and expect help from each one.CHRISTMAS CANDY.HOW TO MAKE IT AT HOME.\u2018Most of the r~cipes are of no use at all; your own experience 18 worth all the recipes in creation,\u201d was the enccuraging remark of a well known confectioner in this city, when the writer asked him for a rellable book on eandy making.\u2018Is it best, as some recipes tell you, to boil only one pound of sugar at once?\u2018Dear me, no, How would one ever get through.Our candy would soon cost two dollars a pound.Why, we often boil a hundred pounds at a time.\u2019 \u2018The great trouble which our home candy makers have is in keeping the sugar from graining in the boiling, especially white sugar.Is it not well to use vineger to prevent this?\u2018Yes, vinegar or tartaric acid.Acid of any kind, you know, cuts the crystals, and prevents it graining.On the other band, if you use too much acid, your sugar will not cream, but will get like molasses.Another thing, a cook-stovs is not the best thing to broil candy upon.A gas-jet is better, for candy needs to be boiled just as fast as pcssible.And, of course, the sugar should never be stirred after it begins to boil.\u2019 With this preamble, let me venture to give the experience of one home-candy- meker.not that any one is advised to follow it closely, but only close enough to enable her to gain experience for herself.THE EASIEST OF ALL TO MAKE.The easiest of all candy to make is plain taffy.Put into a granite or bright tin saucepan two pounds of brown sugar, two cups of water, a dessert-spnonful of butter, and a dessert-rpoonful of good vinegar.In this you have the foundatlon for a varfety of candy that will surprise you.Boil this, always without stirring, till it fs brittle when dropped into a cup of cold water: flavor and pour on to buttered plates in thin layers, and you have plain taffy.Pour it over a plateful of nuts and you have nut taffy.Pull it as soon as it is cool enough to handle, and you have the popular \u2018chewing\u2019 candy.This last is to eat it.It is a wholesome candy.tno, for you never dream of swallowing it without chewing.All these may be flavored with as many different @avors\u2014vanliila, wintergreen, pepermint, or lemon\u2014as your fancy dictates.ALL IN THE PULLING.Or take the same ingredients, and boil only until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water, flavor and pour out in! thin sheets on buttered plates, and you have a delicious butter-scotch.Pull this when it is cool and flavor with vanilla, or wintergreen, and you have a \u2018cream bar\u2019 which if it be pulled just right, your most intimate friend will have hard work to imitate.For in this, after the right boiling, it is \u2018all in the pulling.\u201d Give half a dozen persons a piece of candy from the same boiling to pull, and when they are done, no two will be alike.One of the hardest things in life is to persuade most people that candy can be pulled without putting butter or oll, or flour, or any other mess on the fingers, and that it should be handled with the tips of the fingers only.Pull it over a big spike, driven into the door or window frame, and touch it only with the tips of your fingers, and you will have light, porous, spongy bars, that fairly make you hungry to get at them.But pull it with both hands only, squeezing it well when you fold it up as though you were wringing a dish cloth, and you will have a slippery, sticky, disagreeable- looking mass that you are secretly ashamed and will pass it over to \u2018the children\u2019 with a generosity that 18 suspicious.Better make this kind a day or so before you wish to use it, as it sometimes (especially it you have not time to pull it well) takes from twelve to twenty-four hours to set.\u2019 Or take the above ingredients and boil only till it forms a very, very azoft ball in water, so soft that you can just hold it between your finger and thumb, let it get al- mest cold, and then stir it with a spoon or your hands, as you prefer, putting in your flavoring before you begin to stir, and you will have \u2018maple cream\u2019 that you can cut in bars and pass off on almost every one as the genuine article, quite as wholesome and only half the price.Add nuts or not as you choose, GENUINE FRENCH CREAMS.But no matter how much you experiment with brown sugar, you will never be satisfied until you try white.Now your troubles and trials will begin in earnest.You will find it something like jelly cake\u2014tha wilful thing will never turn out the same twice running.And your family will criticise you, and protest against the awful mess you make, and against your cranky and finical notfons about second and third parties interfering, and will criticize the finished products\u2014and all with good reason, too.But they will eat them all the same, the candies, I mean, whether they are up to the highest \u2018French\u2019 standard or not\u2014and ask for more.One more point.Don\u2019t be stingy with your candy when you are making it.Let every one \u2018sample\u2019 to his heart\u2019s «content.Begin on this principle like any other high- souled reformer, from the purest altruistic motives, and you will soon find that as \u2018honesty is the best policy\u2019 so.is free-hand- ed generosity, in the long run, the truest economy.But we must stop moralising and get to our French creams.The base of all these is just one thing, \u2018fondant\u2019 made from the best granulated sugar.The \u2018fondant\u2019 is made of sugar and water in about the following proportions.I say \u2018about\u2019 because I have used both more and less of each in proportion and got good results.\u2018It all depends.\u2019 Take, say 2 lbs.granulated sugar, two and a half cups water (boiling is best) and a dessert-spoon- ful of vinegar.Stir until the sugar is melted so as to be in no danger of sticking to the bottom of the pan, then put it over à quick fire and let it boil as fast as possible till it forms a very, very soft ball when dropped in water, so soft that you can just hold it (or if you have a thermometer boil it to 240 deg.Fahrenheit, pour it out carefully on to a platter that has been lightly buttered and let it get cold.You may even boll it one day and leave it till the next to stir.Then wash your hands very clean, wipe them on a fresh towel and go to work as if you were making bread.At first your hands will be in the most helpless state imaginable, you will look at them in despair and wonder if you will ever work them clear, and your arms will ache and maybe your back too.And then suddenly the stuff will change.It will lose its stickiness and drop off your fingers of itself, and there you will have a delightful lump of purest white cream that you can work just ae you an economical candy, for it takes so long would putty or well made bread dough.This is your \u2018fondant\u2019 If you are in a hurry you may make it up at once.If not, pack it in a bowl, cover closely with buttered paper, and let it stand a day or a week or two just as your convenience requires.: Nbw for the making of your \u2018genuine French creams.\u2019 Get ready a supply of shelled nuts, fresh dates with the stone removed, two or three bottles of your favorite flavoring extracts, five cents worth of cochineal, or a little cranberry or other fruit juice, a half pound or so of Baker's unsweetened chocolate, a few sheets of buttered paper to lay the finished candy upon, and set to work.Take a lump of the fondant and work in a few drops of, say, vanilla, till you bave it just the right flavor.Then pull off little bits, roll them up lightly into balls, put a nut on the top of each and lay them on the buttered paper.Then make little rolls of fondant and tuck them into the dates where the stones were.For variety color some pink with a drop or two of cochineal or a tew drops of fruit juice.Use only about half the quantity of wintergreen or peppermint that you & of vanilla as they are 80 much stronger.CHOCOLATE CREAMS.For chocolate creams make your little rolls and balls of fondant first.Then cut up your chocolate in, say, inch cubes (grating it ts pure waste of time), melt it over boiling water in a covered bowl or saucepan, but do not let the water touch it.In another bowl, In the same way, meit some -appears quite simple.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 1807 decorating candy and other dishes, put a drop or two of red coloring on a few spoonfuls of granulated sugar and rub it thoroughly between the hands until it is all the desired shade of pink.CREAM FLAKE.This is made of white sugar boiled till it forms a moderately soft ball, as described above for the brown sugar (or 240 degrees Fahrenheit), cooled, flavored and pulled in the same fashion.Or you may boil it to 268 deg., or till it is brittle when dropped into water, only then you must pull it warm.Always lay your candies when first made on brown paper, buttered or oiled.If they stick you can strip or soak the paper off, while if they stick to a hard surface you break them in taking them off.If you should chance to let your candy get too hard before you pull it, do not imagine that it is spoiled or think you must break it up and boil it over.Just set it in the oven till it is warmed through and soft enough to handle and it will be just as good.CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.Here is a recipe for chocolate caramels which the .writer has not tried, but which Halt the quantities here given or one-third will be enough for most: Six pounds sugar, one quart of milk, one- fourth pound Baker's chocolate; boil all together slowly until a teaspoonful held in cold water and rolled between the fingers will form a ball of medium firmness, or 256 degrees.Pour in a sheet one-half inch thick, and when hard cut into squares and wrap in waxed paper.To prevent sticking to the teeth add before boiling two ounces of paraffine.SALTED ALMONDS.Take one pound of almonds, Jordan pre- | ferred, and scald until the skins can be re- | moved easily.Remove the skins and dry.! Fry in a mixture of lard and butter until & PE) \\ gL a 05, QU ze Des, + az wy =, x 4 J Wi NEW STREET DRESSES.; Ni of your fondant, more or less according as you desire, then mix chocolate and fondant together, dip the balls in this and set them carefully on buttered paper to harden.You may vary your chocolates by making the creams of the above chocolate mixture, but softening it with a few drops of water well worked in; and topping them with a blanched nut, rolling them in cocoanut, or dipping them in the pure melted fondant as you dipped the white ones In the chocolate.It is at this point that you will be likely to break away from all previous instruction.Here is the widest field for originality.Nuts dipped in this chocolate mixture are delicious.Then you might try nuts or grapes or sections of orange dipped fn the same syrup as that of which you made your creams, only boiled until it drops brittle in water.USE THE SCRAPS.When you are all through and have only a lot of unpromising scraps left, crumbs of broken nuts, bits of hardened fondant, a thick coat of your chocolate mixture in the little saucepan, will you waste this?Not a crumb of it.Hold the chocolate saucepan a moment or two upside down over the steam of the tea kettle to soften the contents, scrape out, mix it with all the other scraps, moistening your hands carefully with water if need be, make the whole into a long roll, roll it in your desiccated cocoanut, and cut it up in little slices and you will have a brand new variety of candy for wbich all who taste it will want the rectpe.PINK SUGAR SAND.Te make the pink sugar, so desirabte for A ! a rich brown color, then roll in fine table salt.After standing a few hours they have a delicions taste.PQOR LITTLE QUEEN.So the littfe Queen of Holland is forbidden to ride a wherl.She has been riding for some time past, and cnjoyed it as any other healthy out-of-door-loving girl of seventeen does.But it ruddenly occurs to her wise councillors that it is incompatible with the dignity of a throne.That dignity in the eyes of these wise men, it ap-; pears, is only rcbust enough to be bumped up and dcwn on the back of a waddling Shetland pony.They have, apparently, not yet even dared to allow her the consolation of a full sized horse.What a terrible responsibility queenly dignity must be.But the world does move.When Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria was about the same age she had to spend a good deal of her queenly energy in persuading the public that it Was not an unqueenly thing to take care of her own children.And the beautiful Princess of Wales started the fashion of driving in public with her own little ones, and soon other titled ladies were moved to drop their poodles and follow her example.The little Queen of Holland has shown strong evidence in the past of having a mind of her own, and in the years to come may exercise it still more.SAILORS\u2019 COMFORT BAGS AND WRIS- TERS.Miss Ritchie wishes to thank the follow- ing friends for donations during October children, Toronto, per Mrs.Bulman, seventeen bags; Band of Hope boys, St.Laurent, twelve bags; W.C.T.U., Ladies, Ormstown, Que., nineteen bags; W.C.T.U.Ladies, ot Thornhill, Ont., twenty-six bags; also seven pairs of wristers from Mrs.John McIntosh, Montreal, and a pair from Miss Parker, of Danville, Que.Will every reader of the Home Department think kindly of the sailors durirg the long winter evenings, and prepare for them at least one bag, furnished with buttons.needles, thread, a testament, and o.her articles necessary to Jack afloat.Wristers and mufflers, too, prove Will the dear old ladies take the hint.THE CHILDREN AT THE CONVENTION, Dear Editor Home,\u2014I just received my Saturday\u2019s \u2018Witness\u2019 this morning, and my have just written out the children's meeting, but woe is me, come to read the editor's note, I find I've transgressed beyond all bounds.However, as Saturday night was likewise assigned me, I forbear touching that theme.You will have to cut this down, or consign it to the waste basket; nobody\u2019s feelings will be hurt by either process, Ycurs in W.C.T.U.Fellowship, ISABEL M.CLEVELAND.Johnville, Que.THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.What was the bést thing at the Big Convention?The best thing?that's easy.It is always easy to decide what is the best thing if you set a lot of mothers and aunties to decide.Of course, it is the thing the boys and girls do.So | I'm glad the indulgent editor has assigned to me the place of honor, and let me tell the \u2018Witness\u2019 boys and girls about the great big rally, the very top-notch of convention good times, which was the Children\u2019s Demonstration in Massey Hall one famous Monday night.I only wish I could lend the eyes of my memory to every boy and girl in Canada long enough for them to have a glimpse of that bright scene as it lives in my mind.The mothers of Toronto, knowing how many a mother would be longing for a glimpse of the \u2018bairnies at hame,\u2019 lent us a thousand of their bonny boys and girls for an evening just to make us feel at home.And such a good time as we did have that evening.They have some splendid men up there in Toronto; they told us the names of some of them, and the two that had so much to do with this best of all the good times were Mr, A.T.Cringan and Mr.James L.Hughes.You know Mr.Hughes is inspector of schools, and just the kind of man the Arabs would call \u2018a brother of girls,\u201d which means about the right kind of a man.They planned with, and helped the boys and girls get ready for a success and had it: and if they didn\u2019t enjoy it just as much as the other boys, I am mistaken.Imagine, if you can, beautiful Massey Hall, festooned all about with the great Petition bearing miles of names in all sorts of languages, signed by people who have asked, or will ask, the governments of the world, for a great blessing\u2014Prohibition.The room was fairly resplendent with the glow of hundreds of electric lights, and the brighter glow of the hundreds of bappy faces of boys and girls ranged tier above tier at the back of the platform.Some bright brain had thought of a pretty device.A certain number of girls wearing scarlet caps were 50 seated that the caps formed the letters \u2018W.C.T.U.\u2019 in scarlet against the white background of the girls\u2019 dresses.On the front of the platform sat the Grenadiers\u2019 band in all the glory of their brilliant, gold laced uniforms, playing beautiful airs to the great audience waiting in happy expectation.The band ceased, Mr.Cringan raised his baton, the children rose as one and the great edifice was filled with the strains of \u2018God Save the Queen.\u2019 Then the fresh, young voices swelled out in \u2018My country, \u2018tis of thee.\u2019 in recognition of the American mothers and aunties.Then they sang a welcome song to the W.C.T.U., and the way they sang it showed beyond doubt that Mr.Cringan, and the folks at home, were all glad the W.C.T.U.had come to town.The \u2018Maple Leaf Forever\u2019 brought down the house, for bless me if each of these patriotic boys and girls didn\u2019t have a maple branch, and they waved them till the stage looked like an animated young maple forest.A similar waving of the Un- jon Jack in another spirited song stirred the Canadian loyalty in the audience.One of the best of these pretty songs was the one in which they declared that \u2018Saloons must go\u2019 Miss Willard wroto the words, Mr.Cringan set them to music, and the boys and\u2019 girls sang them into our hearts.Miss Willard talked beautifully to the hopeful happy children, and told them about the pledge she pasted into the old family real comforts to Jack in the fall and winter.; Well, now, : | bags; Mra, Bigelow, Montreal, four bags; | tc fall on motherly cars.Ww.Scotstown, Que., ten bags; Band of Hope, sister read \u2018Anthracite\u2019s\u2019 request to me.T' i | \u2014 meme \"SE Uke to hear every young voie ; 5 Canada saying those worés ar : ; grandly in the chorus \u2018Saloni- + Madame Layab Barakat.a Sy told them of the time when 1 Wales came to visit the edie of and of the great work dene in :- road for him to pass over.children in Syria had to ce t: showed them how the work - ance reform was preparing à coming of the Prince of Poa appealed to the children to 1.Miss Vincent, from Austroliu, : the fathers and mothers, 1.vent of strong drink out of ti, ! J Mrs.Lake also pleaded for « ; the children out of the fulur.Irish mother\u2019s heart.After ih.spoken, and some gentlemen -; beautiful songs about Canada .young girls gave a beautiful ft: British coloris; then came a sw > A with the Stars and Stripes, a: ; twenty-four dear little girls rep nations of the earth, and as round a beautiful world, and }h tifully straight with bands of 1 .somehow, we all felt giad and ! .dear boys and girls, it was ju.that pretty thing real that w- Big Convention, and let the boys «- have the very biggest time In of our wide-awake American aun: menting on the meeting, said.\u2018I à : always thought we had the smart.« + dren there was in Yank¢ednm, but 1 toon Toronto youngsters beat them.We à ! 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Sm .LITE DISCO It is etran the earliest ing pushed that eastern now their \u20ac ing of histo ward, every for we have secutive kin ascertaining of other kin casily deter older.So Exploration phrates\u2019 (P Punnett Pe sity of Pens lonia,\u2019 in 4 volume of the success many diffic temple of whs En-Hl part of the lows: \u2014 A zigurat dry excavat criptions of apgular pyr: ing series of each toward of the one | pose of thes ther; and in with temple certained.means notb place, a te) the Old Te Hebrew pri Babylonian mind a mo place, affor God.Prec Babylonia t Ziggurats w of mountal tive, religic temple of F ple itself w artificial = tound there temple wal House, whil sag, Mount Axe-heads ly placed ings, show of very e and orner depths in ty-séven 1 > \"8 Wad (an tice to rai of another these find often to | Writings served wi clay table protecting We four { the Fa ts lay o jar.One account | \u2018within anc placed in Hammura King of | of Chedo in counec Lot.Sa king of w to have fl establishe ed with a ed to fur the matt his way great wa cluded ti à .customs described The stor addition (W.Fos VASARI The © tion \u2018 Li inent P: tects,\u201d In notated by E.H Hopkins.painter : gentler \\ about ti tury a | ing the flourishi mos: 11, dents of in 1850 translati of the I pleasing fects in well as tness \u2019 ni, tly Dead.VERSED another, plate-lt- we learn from \u2018'Nippur; or Ë | «,0ns and Adventures on the Eu- Putnam's) an account by John \u2014 Prrers, Ph.D., of the \u2018Univer- : P-unsvlvania expedition to Baby- ¢ vears 1888-1890.The second \u2018Nippur, now on hand, tells of oi Tae expedition when, after juneuines, the explorers found a remple +2 Bel, whose local appellation «as Endil or the storm-god.À curious the temple is described as fol- par: + «1125 î nur JWS A zizurat we knew from the work of sun- Irv excavators, as well as from the des- _riptions of Herodotus, to be a sort of rect- sogular pyramid, consisting of a diminish- :2g series of terraces set one upon the other cach toward the edge and not in the centre ¢ \u201che one below.But what was the pur- -9s2 of these singular structures, and whether, and in what way, they were connected with temples had never been definitely ass>rtained.Now the word ziggurat :9eans nothing more than a peak or high slace, a term familiar to every reader of the Old Testament in connection with the Hebrew practices of worship before the Babylonian exile.To the early Hebrew mind a mountaln top, or an artificial high place, afforded a means of closer access to God.Precisely the saline idea attached Babylonia to a high place or ziggurat.Ziggurals were conventional representations of mountains, à survival of anclent, primitive, rellgious ideas.The ziggurat of the temple of Bel at Nippur, or rather the temple itself with the zlggurat as apex, was an artificial mountain, and the inscriptions found there inform us that the name of this temple was in fact E-kur, or Mountain House,while the ziggurat was called Imgar- sag, Mountain of Heaven.u Axe-heads of opaque blue glass, apparently placed in the temple as votive offer- ngs, show that glass-making was an art of very early discovery.Many utensils and ornaments were found at different depths in Nippur, some as much as thir- seven feet ow the surface.As 4 was (and'is seit The Babylfnian pric- \u201cice to raise one building over the ruins sf another, without clearing the ground nese finds belonged to different eras, siten to be known by some inscription.Writings intended to be specially preserved were written twice, once on à lay tablet and again on a clay cover orotecting the tablet.We found a jar containing three tablets of the Hammurabi period while more tablets lay on the ground by the side of the jar.One could not but be reminded of the account in the thirty-second chapter of Jeremiah of the purchase by the prophet of the land of his cousin, Hanameel, at Anathoth, on which occasion the contract written on a case-tablet, that is, a tablet within and an envelope of clay without, was placed in a jar and buried in the earth.Hammurabi is supposed to be \u2018Amraphel, Kizg of Shiner,\u201d .one of the confederates of Chedonlamoer mentioned in Genesis In connection with Abraham\u2019s rescue of Lot.Sargon, or Sargina, the earliest sing of whom anything is known, is said \u201cà have flourished about 3800 B.C., and he ¢siablished a system of records connect- \u2018d with astronomical phenomena, intend- \u201c1 to furnish guidance for the future in ie matter of omens.He was thus in kis way a literary character as well as a great warrior.He is said to have in- \u2018Fided the island of Cyprus among his domains.The curious coffins and burial \u201cusioms of the ancient Babylonians are lescribed bv Dr.Peters at some length.The story of his discoveries is a notable Mision to the literature of Assyriology.W.Frster Brown, $2.50.) \u201cASARI'S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS.\u2019 The Seribners publish in a neat edi- \u201cn° Lives of Seventy of the Most Em- Punters, Sculptors, and Archi- \u201cis Giorgio Vasari, edited and an- \" sed m the light of recent discoveries 2 FH and FE.W.Blashfield and A.A.My cas Giorgio Vasari, an industrious \"and student, an exponent of \u2018the virtues of the Renaissance, wrote nen JR - middle eof the sixteenth cen- © ong series où biographies cover- | hestery où art during its most finit period in Italy.This, the \u201cortant work of the kind for stu- dr and history, was translated on Mrs.Jonathan Foster.Yer \u201cvu = the standard, her rendering ue Pahan\u2019s style being very ant and 2 But there are occasional de- 208 in the translation, and these, as * \u201cue author's mistakes in historical data, are corrected in footnotes to the present edition.Much other information is supplied in the notes; for instance, Vasari gives a critical description of the chief works of each artist, and the editors tell us where each is now to be found, if in any well-known collection.An entertaining book for the general reader and invaluable to students.(W.Foster Brown, four volumes in box, $8.00.) STATE CCNTROL, OR FREEDOM.\u2018Industrial Freedom,\u201d by David Me- Gregor eMans, (D.Appleton & Co.), is a study of economic conditions in which the author shows that the burdens imposed by government do not tend as much as is often supposed to equalize the position of the rich and the poor.Taxes which have to be paid by large businesses may quickly lower the wages of ite employees.Legacy duties fall heaviest on those families that have but little to spare.The works which are carried on by the government for the public good are not carried on economically.(On this count the author instances the post-office department of the United States Government and says that even in that distinguished branch of the public service the great express companies could excel the government's efficiency and economy.) Therefore, the socialistic remedy for poverty, by which the government would superintend all industries, is not a remedy from which any permanent good can be expected.By a careful setting forth of this position Mr.Means hopes to recall from a futile quest some of those whose interest has been drawn into the current of socialistic thought.In an introduction to this book the Hon.D.A.Wells says :\u2014 The expense of government is a charge that the public must bear, but its limits are defined by experience, and the modern tendency to exceed them results in corruption and extravagance, which may in the first place be injurious to the rich, but which eventually causes suffering to the poor.To turn aside after the ideals of socialism is thus directly productive of injury to the general welfare.It is also Indirectly prejudicial, because the very best element in our society, that which is both conscientious and cultivated, is led to waste strength needed for important reforms.($1.50.) A CANADIAN POET ON THE TREASURY.\u2019 Mr.Roberts, the Canadian poet, has rather a severe review of the \u2018Second \u2018GOLDEN Series! \u201cof Palgrave\u2019 \"Golderi Treashiry\u2019 in the \u2018Criterion,\u2019 of* November twentieth.Of the first volume, in which Mr.Palgrave had the aid of the counsel of his friend Tennyson, Mr.Roberts declares that \u2018taken as a whole, it is so nearly perfect and in all ways so companionable, that it is never likely to be bettered or superseded.Familiarity with it means an effective equipment in English poetry.Indeed, Prof.Charles Eliot Norton is said to have declared that to educate a class in the right apprehension of beauty he needed no other text-book than Palgrave\u2019s \u2018 Golden Treasury.\u201d Regarding the second series, he says: \u2018It is partial, unbalanced, hopelessly out of proportion and perspective, ever marked everywhere by personal bias.\u2019 A collection containing twenty-three poems by Tennyson, fourteen by Browning, thirteen by Matthew Arnold and twelve by Rossetti cannot lack attractiveness; and obviously, when it fails, it does so by omission rather than by commission.Still, Mr.Palgrave has doue some things for which sack-cloth and ashes were light penance.He has put In seventeen poems by Arthur O'Shaughnessy\u2014a true poet, but by no means the master singer to claim such prominence\u2014and only one by Walter Savage Landor.- He bas put in fit- teen by Christina Rossetti and only one by Jean Ingelow, one by Thackeray, one by Sidney Dobell.Sir Lewis Morris Is represented, while Wilillam Morris, one of the indisputable masters of Victorian song, perhaps the peer ef the greatest, is utterly fgnored.Coventry Patmore, with his teacups and his curates and bis platitudes, has ten poems to keep his name from oblivion; but Stevenson, Fitzgerald, Dobson bave never a line.William Barnes has twelve pieces of rather difficult dialect.Neither Macauley nor Robert Bridges, nor Philip Marston is allowed to appear.Ferguson, Wilton, Whitehead, Romanes, Kendall and the Duke of Argyll find here an Immortality which 1 should be the last to refuse them.But there is nothing to suggest that the following, all at least as true poets as those just mentioned, and many of them possessed of a far more authentic gi{*t, ever made musle of the English speech: Proctor, Praed, Frederick Locker, Meredith, Biddoes, James Thomson, Horne, Mumby, Edwin Arnold, Emily Bronte, Walter Thornby, Jobn Lelcester Warren, Buchanan, Blunt, Gosse and Lang.These names glare through their absence.Of course, in the case of Kipling, Watson, Sharp and others of the younger set, the omission js explicable on the score of youth.Not genius, but age, is essential fn a poet.Ripeness is all.Only the venial blindness of personal friendship can explain, in the face of such omiseions as have been enumerated, the inclusion of four pcems, of no superlative merit, by Frederick Tennyson, and xot fewer than twelve by Charles Tennyson- Turner.The latter is a poet of genuine but extremely slender talent, and quite deserved \u2018to be reprezented by a sonnet or two.He does not well bear the distinction here thrust upon him.\u2018What can be said of the critical discernment of a professor of poetry at Oxford who could omit such a poem as this of Stevenson's: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lle.Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.\u2018This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.\u2019 MORE CANADIAN VERSE.\u2018Songs of the Pines,\u2019 by James Ernest Caldwell, (Wm.Briggs, Toronto) is a book of poems on many subjects.They are not all about the pine woods, by any means, there are lyrics of the Christmas family gathering; of the sorrows of the sensitive heart of youth; of farm life, and of temperance sentiment; but the name, \u2018Songs of the Pines,\u2019 is justified in a musical little preface which describes the effect of the wind singing through the boughs, and continues.\u2019 Such be the influence benign Of these por murmurings of mine, Borne from a long past summer day When all the skies were gloomed and gray.The quality of the poem, as is apt to be the case in a volume containing all of one author\u2019s efforts is very uneven.Many of the shorter pieces would be good for readings or recitations.The most ambitious thing in the book, and one of the most poetic, is \u2018Cecilia,\u2019 a tale of the Ottawa valley.Its flow of verse moves on with a certain degree of stateliness and contains many of the simple reflections that appeal to the mind of man everywhere, such as the following: How dull lags time when anguish wears Deep in the heart that lives and bears, As though to watch with gloating eye Its writhing in its agony ! And all creation\u2019s face appears Unmoved by all its griefs and fears ! The shining sun hides not his face, No cloud stops in aerial race.The wind hath no new gentleness To waft its comfort or caress, The notes of gladness fro meach bird Are by no depths of feeling stirred; Though he the round of nature scan, Man hath no friend so true as\u2014man GIFT BOOKS.nl \u201cThe Exploits of Miles Standish,\u2019 by Henry Johnson (D.Appleton, & Co.) is a suitable gift-book for young people.It has the two merits of being well worked up from historical material and being an extremely readable romance.The early life of the soldier, his \u2018battles im Flanders,\u2019 and other experiences, are portrayed by the aid of \u2018historical imagination,\u201d and the account of his life in the New World, is based on the records of the Plymouth Colony.The former leader of mercenaries had offered his services to the little band of Separatists who sailed from England in 1620.He had expressed no special sympathy with their religious convictions, but only with their wrongs.Some of the party were dubious about taking him, thinkimg he might be a Roman Catholic seeking to betray their interests.These doubts were, however, overcome, and as the only man of war among the peaceful saints of the Plymouth settlement he had a useful career, and one doubtless most agreeable to his adventurous spirit and active disposition.(Cloth binding, with colored picture on cover, $1.50.) \u2018Prisoners of the Sea,\u201d by Florence Morse Kingsley, author of \u2018Titus,\u2019 (Copp, Clarke Co., Toronto), is a romance of the seventgenth century, and concerns French Huguenots, American Puritans and pirates.The mystery of the desert island turns out to be connected with \u2018the man with the iron mask,\u2019 whose identity is said to have been established by recent discoveries.It makes an exciting story and is good reading, though hardly a Sunday-school book, as the pirates and others sometimes express their sentiments with more freedom than would be desired in a Sunday- school.FROM RAPHAEL TUCK.We have received from the Raphael Tuck and Sons Company, a number of beautiful specimens of their publishing art.Prominent among the gift-books is an extremely handsome edition of \u2018Ham- THE MONTREAL DAILY Wilssies.let,\u2019 illustrated with a number of colored plates, by Harold Copping, as well as smaller black and white pictures by the same artist.The effect is new and striking.The only introduction is the facsimile of an autograph letter by Sir Henry Irving, accepting the dedication.Mr.Copping\u2019s interpretation of the melancholy prince is in iteelf of interest, as he gives Hamlet a younger and weaker face than the usual conception of his character would admit.Pretty children\u2019s books, containing art lithographs are \u2018Just One More,\u201d and \u2018The Children\u2019s Hour,\u201d both edited by Edric Vreden- burg, Among the toy books in stiff paper are \u2018The Life of a Pony,\u2019 as told by Father Tuck, the \u2018Cock-a-Doodle-Do A B C\u2019 \u2018The Six Swans,\u2019 and \u2018Pets\u2019 The calendars this year show several novelties.In one called \u2018Friendly Greetings,\u201d a cat and dog can be made to nod There is a little boat that can be rigged, and fa pink cockatoo with the days of the month covering its There is the usual variety.of calendars with floral designs and literary quotations.James Ruseell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes have to each other.extensive plumage.each their calendar as well as the standbys, Tennyson, Browning and the bible.Some of the smaller calendars have a specially dainty appearance.Thg Christmas cards have a good deal of gilt about them and old-fashioned bells, flowers and lace, are their chief adornments.We notice a few in which artistic taste is more evident than in others.A favor ite with humorists will be the design of sleek and comfortable pigs in charge of bags of gold.PERIODICALS.\u201cThe National Review\u2019 (Edwin Arnold Lendon), edited by L.J.Maxe, has in its October and November numbers, ten papers, by specialists, on the \u201cSilver Question,\u2019 the editor being a bimetallist.Mr.Arthur Steadwell treats of the \u2018Canadian Enigma,\u2019 in the October number, with the conclusion that Canada is likely to cause some disappointment to the Cobden Club.Mr.Jessop, has a cricket article, and Capt.May treats of \u2018Future Naval Warfare.\u2019 With its issue of Nov.11, the \u2018Evangelical Churchman the oldest and best of Anglican weeklies in Canada, takes another step in advance and comes to its readers in a new suit of paper and typography.It contains a portrait and sketch of the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with an article from his pen on \u2018The necessity of study for the clergy.\u201d The Rev.Dyson Hague, M.A., writes of a visit to Canterbury; Rev.H.J.Cody, M.A., continues hie valuable notes on \u201cThe Church in the Motherland.\u201d A missionary to the North-West Indians writes about \u2018The kind of missionary wanted.\u2019 There are a score or so of bright editorial notes and comments.Book and Magazine reviews and a batch of the latest church (Bryant Press, news from all quarters.Toronto, $1.50.) LITERARY ITEMS.Spurgeon\u2019s life is about to be issued in four, volumes at forty-two shillings, and in shilling monthly parts.\u2018Tennyson's memoirs by bis son is likely to be the most interesting of modern biographies.Its readers will become familiar with the leading notables of the past fifty years, including Her Majesty Queen Victoria, whose letters show her to have been a sincere friend of the poet.Proof sheets of the correspondence between the Queen and Lord Tennyson were submitted to Her Majesty.\u201cThe Silence of God,\u2019 by Robert Anderson, (.B., LL.D., assistant commissioner of the Loadon police, is said to be worthy of the deepest attention of ministers of churches.The Rev.Dyson Hague\u2019s \u2018Church of England Before the Reformation\u2019 is highly spoken of by those competent to give an opinion upon the subject in England.Mr.Hague\u2014a son of Mr.George Hague, of this city\u2014is now a professor in Wycliffe College, Torouts, Mr.Hague is also the author of a little work, \u2018Ways to Win,\u2019 admirably fitted to be helpful to Christian workers.\u2018Twenty-six Years of Missionary Work in China,\u201d by Mrs.Stott, will be read with great interest by all who recently met that lady as she passed through Canada.\u2018The Private Papers of William Wilberforce\u2019 have bezn many years in coming 7 a hy ki ; inten ES ot THE FUTURE KING Little Prince Carol of Roumania, grandnephew of King Charles of that country, will, in the ordinary course of things, some day ascend the throne of that country.He is the only son of the present heir-presumptive of Roumania, Prince Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, a Ht NÉ ¢ y eye ES GS FAN 5 Le OF ROUMANIA AND HIS SISTER.\u2018 Black and White nephew of King Charles, who is a young man in his thirty-third year, and who married Princess Marie of Iidinburgh.Prince Carol was porn Oct.15, 1893, s0 is just four years of age.His little siater, Elizabeth, is but three years old, having been born in 1894.before the public yet they will be welcomed as throwing light upon the men and the history of a past century, and give a botter insight into the inner life of one of the noblest men that ever sat in the House of Commons.The National Temperance League (kng- land) has issued a pamphlet on the questions \u2018Did Jesus Christ make and drink intoxicating drink ?\u2019 and \u2018Does God's word sanction the use of intoxicating drink ?\u2019 \u2019 The editors of the \u2018Magazine of Art\u2019 and the \u2018British Medical Journal\u2019 are Jews.\u2018Creed and Conduct\u2019 will be found of gpecial value for ministers and dhought- ful Christians.Tt is an epitome of Chris tian doctrine and conduct from Dr.Me- Laren\u2019s (of Manchester) published sermons.The chapters are not sermons, but a gathering from many sermons of the Doctor\u2019: teaching on the subjects treated of.TL would be a useful book for young men.The selections and arrangement have been made by the Rev.George Coats, by Dr.MeLaren\u2019s permission.S\u2014 FEARFUL CHINESE LAW.The statement that a lad of eleven vears of age had been arrested at Kin- kuei for accidentally causing the death of his mother, and that this child had \u201cbeen sent under custody to Soochow to be there imprisoned until sentence to death according to Chinese law, has unfortunately been fully corroborated by a trustworthy foreign resident of Soo- chow.Under the Draconic law of China, when a parent has been killed no cireumn- stances of intention or of age ar: permitted to interfere with the iniliction cf tne penalty, which is that of lingeh\u2019i, or shc- ing by the ox-eared kmi\u2018e, followed hy decapitation by the exesuticner\u2019s heavv two-handed sword.Any mitigation of this cruel custom would be considered by the Chinese as aiming a blow at the fundamental prinepal of filial duty which is supposed to be the groundwork of their code.No doubt even an appeal to the Emperor would be in vain, | for any atempt to change the law in the case of this unfortunate vouthful matricide: might endanger the dynasty itself.ADVERTISEMENTS.HISKEY AND MORPHINE HABITS.- Those Interested in obtaining a private home treatment, and one which produces a permanent cure of the above habits, without the knowledge cf one's nearest friend, should corespond with the Dixon Cure Co., 40 Park evenue, Montreal.Their new treatment is a simple vegetable medicine, and is guaranteed to destroy quor or drugs forever, ani tone the system up to the condition it was before the habit began.It is also an absolute cure for nervous exhausticn.indisputable references and full particulars on application.(reat Reduction .IN TRE CUST OF Running Electric Elevators Our new E'ectric Elevator lifts ose thousand pounds 85 feet per minute, wi > electrical horze-power, actual test, It will pay you to ge iuour Electric, Hydrau'ic bieam and Hand.Power lilevator+ ior passenger and freight service.Darling Bros, RELIANCE WORKS, - - MONTREAL, ever made in Are ready for your inspection, per Weights, Glcbeg, and a thousand other all at prices much lower than elsewhere.OFFICE AND POCKET DIARIES FOR 232 St.James Street.\u201cGreat Opening Sale of | HOLIDAY BOOKS ! 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Tt also turned out that the total of 515,728 Dissenting scholars was made up of figures relating to a different year for almost\u2019 every sect.Allow me to advise your correspondent to beware of the statistics furnished by political dissenters like Dr.Clifford.Mr.Stephen also states that the ten leading Protestant denominations provide 7,610,003 sittings (how scrupulous about that odd three), as against 6,778,- 288 provided by the Church, so that I suppose he virtually claims about a million more sittings 1Ÿ we allow for the smaller sects.I must remind your correspondent that religious bodies are not ccmposed of sittings, and if Dissent has one million more sittings than the Church it is very dikely Dissent has two millions of empty sittings.I shall give my reasons for thinking s> presently.I must remind Mr.Stephens that the religious census of 1851 gave the Church forty-two percent of the total population, of +hich total population only seventy- five perent were reckoned as being worshippers, and to all the other religious bodies it gave thirty-three percent.The Church claimed the estimate was made on principles which were unfair to her, and has repeatedly asked for a fair enumeration, but the factious opposition of political dissent has hitherto prevented her request being complied with.The census of 1851 succeeded a period of apathy on the part of the Church and one of unexampled growth on the part of the sects.But the forty- six years which have elapsed since then have been noted for the zeal and activity of the Church in every direction, as well as for her rapid increase in numbers, all of which have never been paralleled in her history.According to a parliamentary return published in 1893 the Church spent in the twenty years just then ended £20,- 531,402 in church building and restoration, to say nothing of what was spent during the twenty years previous, for which I have no figures.And this only took notice of sums over £500.(\u2018 Church Times,\u2019 Jan.27, 1893.) The Church spent this money in providing churches because she had the worshippers to fill them and in planting churches in neglected districts unprovided with church accommodation.which churches she has succeeded in filling.And yet she halts not, but continues to press on to provide for the spiritual wants of the people in places yet ill-supplied with churches.Her services are frequent and her churches crowded.She does not complain of surplus room but rather that she has to strain every nerve to meet the demands made upon her for accommoda- oN.; ' The Churer im-Wales and Cornwalt ts supposed to be weakest.and Dissent all A THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS fr y ÿ (0 ! ! Sr I ! 1 11 Ar I All A GUILDHALL NIGHTMARE.\u2018Africa was created to be the plague of the Foreign Office.\u2019\u2014Vide Lord Salisbury\u2019s speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, Nov.9.\u2014 Punch.\u2019 powerful.A glance at Dissent in Wales will therefore afford a fair index of what it must be in many places else- \"where.The following words are frem a speech made at Shrewsbury on April 13, 1890 or 1891, (I am not quite sure as to which date), at a conference of Welsh Dissenters :\u2014° [t was nothing less than \u2018a scandal to their common faith to see \u2018in a seaside place, in a street only about | thirty yards long, four chapels, any one | of which would accommodate all the congregations.\u201d The same speaker stated i that he saw the congregation coming laway from the opening service of a new | chapel, and it numbered thirteen per- : sons.(\u2018Church Times\u2019 March 24, 1893.) The parliamentary committee of the Welsh Calvinistic Assembly, in 1895, gave the Church sittings in Wales as i less than 450,000, and Dissenting sittings i ag more than 1,100,000, in all 1,550,000 i sittings, which, 1 presume, did not include Roman Catholic accommodation.As.the population of the four Welsh dioceses | was only 1,776,405 in 1891, of which à | considerable number must have been children in arms, (actually 90,791 under two years old), and children too young to | attend service, to say nothing of the: non-worshipping population, 1 think your readers will see at a glance how absurdly over-seated Wales is.(\u2018Witness June 25, 1895.) The \u2018 Golewad,\u201d the organ of the Calvinistic Methodists, for Dec.27, 1884, gives statistics showing \u201cthat there are chapels with accrmmoda- tion varying from three hundred to five hundred sittings, where the members are but from twenty to forty.\u2019 (\u2018Story of the Church in Wales,\u2019 page 68.) 1 have before me a list of seventeen chapels, the seating accommodation in _ which | totals 5,099, but whose membership only | totals, for the whole seventeen, eight \u2018hundred and seventy-two.In the ma- | jority of these cases the debt is nearly equal to the cost of building, but as long as the interest is paid the investor is generally satisfied.The multiplication of Welsh chapels is not due 80 much to religious activity as to an inability on the part of the worshippers to live at peace with each other, which finally ends in the formation of new congregations.If your correspondents wish to learn of the acquirement of Dissenting -chapels, in the poor districts of the large cities, bv the Church when Dissent can no longer maintain them: if they wish to hear a few of the candid admissioms of Dissenters as to failure: if thev wish to learn of the increase of the Church in Cornwall, where the population is actually decreasing, or of sixty-one places in Monmouthshire alone where there are no Dissenting chapels; or if they wish for the.records of some confirmations at which a goodly proportion of the candidates had just left Dissent, T can give them enough particulars to satisfy them.Possibly, if I had time, and the \u201c Witness\u2019 space, to devote to an examination of the other figures given they might not appear so éonelysive as your COTTespon- dent imagines them to be.L.STONE.Montreal, Nov.28, 1897.\u2014 ae \u2014\u2014 IS METHODISM DECLINING IN ENGLAND.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u201d) fact is, he made statements with regard | kind.If his assertion be true that Meth- | odism is declining, let him give us the, figures.Are its missions, its finances, its | to English Methodism which were very | inaccurate.They had no foundation | whatever in fact.Then he finds it dis | agreeable to have his inaccura- | cies exposed.He says that my let-| ter was a \u2018peculiar specimen of special | pleading,\u201d Now, sir, 1 simply set down: the statistics of the British Conference, | from the official minutes.carefully and correctly.The needed no special pleading.The statistics given were sufficient to set forth the | utter fallacy of Mr.Taylor's contention | as to the decline of Methodism.A church which has increased its member © Wegley himself.ship at the rate of 4,230 per annum, | for over forty years; and its Sunday- | school scholars by 11,000 a year; which is : building 130 new churches, and spending over a million and a half of dollars annually upon those buildings is not de-! clining.Why Mr.Taylor persists in his contention with such facts before him it is kard to understand.\u2018The wish must be father to the thought.\u2019 The rev.gentleman tells us that he did not see the reports of the Methodist Conference.Sir, he ought to have seen them.A | man who sets up to enlighten the Canadian public as to the condition of | Methodism in England; and who does not : deign to look into one of its official records, must be regarded as somewhat presumptuous.As a rule, it is very helpful to a man to acquire some definite knowledge of a subject before writing on it.I observe Mr.Taylor states that, \u2018every word he quoted was from official sources.\u201d I propose to examine that statement.He gives a quotation from the \u2018Methodist Times\u2019 That paper was for many vears a bitter enemy to the Wesleyan Conference.It was started as such.Of late it has discontinued its opposition; and is edited in part by a Methodist; minister.But, let me assure Mr.Taylor, it is no more an official organ of the Methodist Church, than the London \u201cTimes,\u201d or the \u2018Daily Telegraph.\u2019 Surely Mr.Taylor must be a man of sufficient intelligence to know that a newspaper paragraph is not to be taken as official testimony.Then w_ have a quotation from a Rev.Dr.Barrett, said to be \u2018an eminent Methodist minister\u2019 I have the official list of Methodist ministers\u2019 names, in the minutes of the British Conference.1 cannot find any Dr.Barrett in that list.1 will not contradict Mr.T.; but, would ask him respectfully on what circuit Dr.Barrett is laboring and of what he is Doctor?There is something very remarkable about the quotation from Dr.Barrett.It is this.It does not refer to Methodism at all.He simply says \u2018The Nonconformists are falling behind?with- cut mentioning Methodism; and this statement about Nonconformists is set forth as being an official declaration of the decline of Methodism.Tt is a long time since I ever read in any public journal such a piece of slipshod argument.The truth is, Mr.T has collected a few miscellaneous and somewhat irrelevant scraps of newspaper paragraphs written adversely to Methodism.He has put them together\u2014made a letter out of them; and labels them as being official Sir,\u2014I am sure you will kindly allow me space to reply to the Rev.Mr.Taylor's last letter on the above subject.He~complains of being \u2018dragged into a disagreeable correspondence.\u2019 ete.The documents to prove that Methodism is i dechning.| There is another point in his com munications to which [ invite special attention.\u201d He.does not attempt to sup- nort his statements bv statistics of any \u2019 .membership, its schools, decreasing n numbers?What is the amount or percentage of the decrease?I contend, Mr.Editor, that the rev.gentleman should be prepared to give defigite answers to such questions as 1 did that they; when he asserts that Methodism is subject ; declining.But he knows full well that he gm do nothing of the kind.T takes exception to my statement] that™he Wesleyan Mekhodist Chureh ins.England was the one organized by John 4 If John Wesley did not organize it; can Mr.Taylor tell us whe did?The gentleman informs us in closing that he \u2018longs and prays that Methodism and the Church of England may be one organically.\u201d As a brother minister, and kowing a good deal more of Methodiem than he does, I will take the liberty in closing to give him a word of counsel.It is this.That he abetain henceforth from these misrepresentations of Methodism.His statements as to its decline are not in harmony with truth and fact: and, therefore, they are offensive to Method: ist people.It would be well for him to learn to \u2018speak the truth in love,\u2019 with regard to Methodism; and then go to prayers for organic union.G.G.HUXTABLE, Montreal, Dec.2, 1897.METHODIST MISSIONS.(To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\u2019) Sir \u2014Some little time ago a correspondence appeared in the \u2018Witness\u2019 over a resolution moved by myself and carried in the Montreal Methodist Conference.The burdan of said resolution was \u2018that we earnestly recommend to the Missionary Board a more encouraging policy towards our home missions.\u201d That action was not taken to lessen the interest in foreign work but to call attention to the urgent and pressing needs of our home work and the straitened circumstances of our missionaries upon our home fields, I was much pleased to observe that at the meeting of the General Board in Halifax, and as reported in the \u2018Christian Guardian\u2019 of Oct.20, Dr.Suther Jand moved, and Dr.Williams seconded, \u201cThat to meet the absolute necessities of the work, be it resolved that such additional amouat be added to the appropriations already made to home missions as will bring up the average to seventy- two percent of the basis of salary, etc.So that a more encouraging policy is being inaugurated already.I trust the annual conferences and our people will support this movement heartily.1 have been interested in the discus gion of the foreign and home work by the great Methodist Missionary Society of the United States at its board meeting just held in Philadelphia.They disbursed last year $1,130,169.11.There was no wish to reduce the amount given to foreign but a strong purpose to take better care of the home work and the home missionary.Another element also entered into the able discussion, viz., \u2018Women\u2019s Societies.\u2019 Bishop McCabe said \u2018he liked the women\u2019s societies but believed there was a steady division going on dividing the church, etc, but we should tench that the first allegiance of our members is to the parent missionary society.\u201d When discussing the home and lieved in foreign missions, but he believed in the United States.The only cure for the government of our great cities was the gospel.He did not believe we were doing enough for our own great cities.\u201d Dr.King agreed with Bishop Fowler.Dr.Chaffee said \u2018he knew many in the home work supporting their families on three hundred dollars a year.\u2019 Bishop Goodsell at this point claimed that the work abroad was more prosperous than the home work.\u2018Then,\u2019 said Dr.Hodgetts in reply, \u2018we should do more_for the home field; for helping the home mission is helping the foreign, for they soon contribute toward the foreign.Bishop Fowler in speaking to his resolution to advance the appropriations of the home work, without cutting down the appropriations of the foreign work, said: I am convinced we are not doing our duty to the home work.We are to save the foreign nations by foreign workers.If every Christian in this land were to go to China, that would not be much more than a supply.We pay $1,100 a year to some of our missionaries who could not get more than $500 at home.We must pot distinguish between them.In foreign lands we want to have a few great centres, and from them send out men of the country to evangelize the land.Now let us turn and look after these multitudes at home.We have a great host of baptized pagans in this country.A part of our work should be by all kindness and in every sort of gospel magnetism to convert and save them.Dr.Chaffee in continuing the discussion upon the appropriations, said: There is no more reason why you should call home the foreign workers because of a cut, than for calling back the home workers on the frontier under similar circumstances.We don't call them home, but take the blood right out of their hearts, and they stay on the work with their wives and families.Dr.King thought: It was possible to economize abroad as well as at home.The salaries of foreign missionaries are luxurious as compared with the home missionaries.And so the discussion went on and resulted in a more careful and liberal oversight of the home work.Canada is attracting more attention to-day than any other country on this globe.Thousands upon thousands will flock to these shores this coming spring.Smile if you will, but the Dominion of Canada is destined to become the moulding power on this North American Continent.We cannot do too much in upholding the hands and work of our home missionaries in newly formed centres of trade and industry and out on the front among the sparsely settled distriats of this new land.I am strongly of the opinion (I do not claim infallibility) that we must from certain centres in China and Japan push our foreign work with native talent and with all our might as a church seek more earnestly to keen up with the growth of our great Dominion by a still more liberal policy towarde our bome missions and missionaries.MANLY BENSON.Montreal, Nov.22, 1897.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.\u201d) Sir \u2014I am loth to ask you for a little space in answer to \u2018Farmer's Sou\u2019s\u2019 letter of last Saturday.His first paragraph perfectly agrees with every point I made in regard to a minimum salary for teachers.I said that \u2018ability, supply and demand should control the salaries of teachers,\u2019 as in every other kind of labor.He says he cordially supports \u2018Farmer\u2019 in his Sarurb\u2018y Däirirr 1, EE esse.1807 ere just that minimum salures should |.fixed by law.\u201d However, i His secunu i third paragraphs he \u2018Ulvseiss m.- Le orously agalust hv iator ol a.servant beg compared wiih i, ; teacher.In doing ~o, L wok up 01 arguinent used tliose wi thut \u2018teachers ought 10 retenus à salary;\u2019 that \u2018even deunxei Sale ceive us much as teacners co, Ly cording to the showing ui J J sometimes worth muen moe | shall not object to ther getup, | _- are worth, upou the same prie that 1 wish applied lv Lie ten namely, that ability, supp.y op._ ve shall control; observing, Laat ue ur necessary always obtains tue oo.regardless of the cost o1 pru-luc CLS \u2018FSC will take note, 15 à tun oa, bis second paragraph.ii.c ent the quack are also aside tion; but even her: the .- ple controls, for the pun + ploy a quack until be show.than the \u2018skilled ductor.anu ly the supply vi quachs « demand, and their labor .value, I begin to doubt whether 5 stands much about cleni, he speaks of the cost, «i, ur eachers spending two, three or tour vears at the academy, one Or two \u2026 4 Lam school, and four at colle, ua know that is not necess« of an elementary school.gests to \u2018make laws mak no \u2026.to employ an untrained ea oo find that law in Sec.1959, I: ~ 1 sons, etc, shall employ as (uv persons only as are provided mas, on pain of losing their grants, ete,\u2019 but for may allude to another section .which blunders as fur in one does in the other.In Sec.Lx, R.S.C., he will also find tne exit education requisite to secure « \u2018For teachers of elememtary sch wis sug qualifications as will enable them 1.) tesch with success, reading, wnumny, he ee ments of grammar, geography and aril, metic as far as the rule of three me sive.\u2019 1f \u2018the high officials of the educa tional world of this province\u2019 wou.! apply themselves to having that section and half a dozen others just as absurd.¢iim- inated from the school law they will ad vance the interests of the province, I: they will put the law into force \u2018that ne teacher shall be employed who has not obtained a diploma\u2019 and that the stand ard of education required from teachers in the parishes be much higher, they wi.be doing a good work, but not by \u2018udve cating legislation by which the nunimux salaries of teachers shall be fixed by law His remarks anent the teachers aul school-houses are misleading.He 18 «- tainly not correct with regard to chur in the Eastern Townships (in my las | gave an illustration which very general; prevails), and as certainly not as regard: school-houses in the French parishes, a they are there built in the same ets» \u201che voter.I wish that you would, or ~w'd, see your way to explain to your readers that it was not Sir Charles Tup- rer's scheme which Sir Wilfrid rejected, : the statesmanlike policy of Mr.fhamberlain.And although it may not *e your ideal system it is head and shoulders beyond any policy that has been élmnted.The revival in business which \u2018he advance in the price of wheat has used is an ercellent pointer to show what an imperial zollverein would do for \u2018he British Empire, pa .J.K.GILMAN.November, 1897.\u2014_\u2014 THE SPARROW.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir \u2014I now regret, after reading your elitorial strictures on my humble lines addressed to the sparrow, which had the kozor of appearing in a recent issue of the \u2018Witness,\u201d that I should have made such a general and sweeping statement with regard to the treatment accorded \u2018à our brave little bird.I was actu- ited by a desire to describe faithfully what appeared to me to be the truth, withered from observations made more directly in the locality in which I reside, but extending, as well, over other por- Hluns of the city and outlying districts.! must admit that I have unwittingly as- séried in general what should have been isserted only in particular.This is a \u2018auit which a person is very liable to (mmit when one side of a question or ling 18 brought so very much more Viominently before ore\u2019s personal sphere ?vision than the other side.Of course, ! inow that such an argument as this just as little foundation in fact as ! person who had never seen any but \u201cak men in his life were to assert that \u201cwre were no white men (himself excepted), _ lt 1vr-clad walls of St.Luke\u2019s Church, \u201car which I reside, forms a paradisnical \u201creat for a great number of these brave ie birds, but not even the sanctity of ve élifire ia sufficient to protect them {in aimost daily molestation during the Tinie, especially, by boye, big and ft [he wanton cruelty of these boys ible in a certain sense, but the ice with which men pass by huvs while engaged in this cruel \u2018 x not excusable, and bespeaks any- Loue hut a sympathetic friendship for - ts And, of course, the same \"vice is noticeable while they (the tre being stoned of otherwise moon the streets.I have not yet vrtunate enough to observe any \u201crove himself a friend of the spar- Interfering and putting a stop » conduet.\u201c l have seen not a few men take torent delight in doing the same A thing, but by the more destruc- on À scarcely less cruel means of the Sin J have seen them shot in the city \u201c\u201cmmons and out in the fields, every- sted Lee \u20ac 1 La] So ! oO except for gross proved offences,\u201d they must be \u201cselected absolutely without regard to their political opinion and must be paid the market price for their services.\u201d \u2019 , He did not probably know that we in Canada suffer from the same cause as much as the Americans do, and far less ability to endure it.Until the last Dominion election I constantly exposed the expensive and inefficient officials of the Tory government, and protested to my friends that they had only to vote independently for orfce end we would have à cleaner administration ; but now I am confounded by observing the very opposite results, and am taunted by my political opponents for my credulity.We have seen not only the old unnecessary offi- ciala got rid of, but most efficient and trustworthy men of long service dismissed also ; and, to make matters more shameful, they are replaced by men who have passed no kind of examination and who are mostly quite ignorant of their duties.It will be found that there are quite as many feeders at the public crib ss ever there were, and while the expenses will be at least equal to what they formerly were, the service will be much less efficient.\u201cFor instance, at Brandon the customs collector was summarily dismissed to make room for the former provincial member of parliament, a farmer with nothing but his partyism to recommend him ; postmasters have been changed in spite of the petitions of residents that they should be retained ; but the most iniquitous of all changes are to be found in the offices controlled by the Minister >f the Interior.A well-known pugilist and pawn-broker of Winnipeg has lately been appointed to an impor- stable keeper has been constituted inspector of mines! The business of the immigration office is in the hands of a Winnipeg lawyer, although he is quite ignorant of foreign populations or their languages.WILLIAM G.KING.Wawanesa, Man., Nov.22, 1897.THE CARE OF SPECTACLES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u201d) \u2014 Sir \u2014An experienced oculist often remarks that a great many people injure their sight by not keeping their glasses bright and polished.They allow dust and perspiration to accumulate upon them; then they are dim and semi- opaque, and the eyes are strained with trying to look through them.It is not an easy matter to keep glasses well polished.One man has put himself on record ae saying that the only cleaner he found satisfactory was a bank note of large denomination.Whether the size of the note or the quality bad anything to do with its efficacy he did not state, and we do not know; but, certain it is that a piece of tissue paper is the finest and smoothest article eagily obtainable with which to polish a spectacle ens.T.W.HENNAH, M.B.O.A.Montreal, Dec.2, 1897.HULLO, OT NOT! (To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) \u2018aughtical\u2019 question.Montreal,, Dec.1, 1897.hands?tity, or smash the theory to pieces, aught is and naught is nothing.-done for.Central repeats snubbed by hearing naught, from it, for the trouble is widespread.THE MONTREAL rt this ecore, for teachers and taught say paught, or aught, for naught every hour of the day, and pass on, with none to condemn.- Now, Central, you can do an-import- ant work in the direction indicated, and do it quietly and effectually, and it only remains for you to decide which of the | two forms is correct, and ¥npress upon every one who walls for numbers with a cypher or more in them the fact that \u2018naught is nothing and aught is something.Yours with best wishes, OISO.ADVERTISEMENTS._ OLD: Checked Circulation of the blood (a sudden chill) is the first sign of taking Cold, \u2018* Seventy-Seven \u201d starts the blood coursing through the veins and \u201c breaks up \u201d the Cold.Dr.Humphreys\u2019 Manual of all Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed Free.Sold by druggists, or sent on receist of 25 cts, 50 cts or $1.Humphreys\u2019 Med.Co., ocrner of Willlam and John streets, New York.KOACH F00D ENR pe Ane = \u2018tant position at Skaguay, and a fivéry- Many such undesirable appointments ! have been made, and the expensive chaos that will result will astonish the world.Sir \u2014 Will you kindly publieh the open letter below, and assist the solution of an Dear Central,\u2014As one of a great host of people who depend upon your grace and gkill every day for communication with our friends, permit me to address a few words to you on a question of importance, viz.: \u2014 Shall we say aught, or naught, when we seek a cypher at your Unless we can invent a new word to indicate that mysterious quan- dictionary makers\u2019 something, Tt would save you and me a good deal of tirée if we had the matter settled and Thie has often happened in my experience.When I have called for one, naught, naught, seven, for example, interrogatively \u2018One, aught, aught, seven!\u201d In the next case I try the aught, aught, and am badly naught! perhaps with enough of emphasis to mark my digression from the line of propriety.This letter is not written to point you out as the sinner in this particular, far In fact, even in our high schools and colleges, one could easily find fault on 3 '\"JPPETERMAN\u2019S ROACH FOOD , ¥ATAL TO COCKROACHES and WATER BUGS | \u2018NOT A POISON.\u2019 It attracts Cockroaches and Water Bugs, as a food ; they devour it and are destroyea, dried up to shell | leaving no offensive smell.Kept in stock by all leading druggista.8.H.EWING & SONS, Sole Manufacturing Agents for the Dominion ROOFING\u2014 HOT BLAST HEATING, PNEUMATIC STOCK CONVEYING.For forty years we have catered to the wants of the public, with a record 0 NEVER ww DISAPPOINTING them.Every statement we make is borne out by the faets.This record is the foundation om which our business grew and is growing.This is why our \u2018* Work Survives.\u201d GEO.W.REED & C0,, 783 and 785 Craig St.Notices.Province of Quebec, District of Montreal.IF THE SUPERIOR COURT.No.373.Delphis alias Adolphe O\u2019Borme, of St.Vincent de Paul, district of Montreal, instructor of masonry.Plaintiff.vs.Stanislas Pepin, of St.Joseph of the River of Prairies, said district, farmer, Detendant.The Defendant ordered to appear within one month.Montreal, 3rd December, 1887.WILL BRUCE, Deputy Prothonotary.3 Board of Revisors.PUBLIC NOTICE.The City of Montreal, by their undersigned Attorneys and Counsel, hereby give notice that on TUESDAY, the fourteenth Day of December inst., at the Court House of this city, at half-past ten o\u2019clock in the forenoon, or so soon as, Counsel can be heard, they will, by and through their said Attorneys and Counsel, present to the Superior Court, practice division, in and for the District of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, a petition calling upon the said Court to choose and nominate, in virtue of the Act of the Legislature, 57 Victoria, chap.56, 8.7, three persons, who shall compose the Board of Revisors of the said City of Montreal, to perform such duties as are imposed by the law upon the said Revisors.ROVER ROY, LEANDRE J.ETHIER, Attorreys for said City.Ctty Hall, Montreal, December 3rd, 1897.ASPRALTH, We will occupy Chickering & Sons, of Boston, Karn\u2019s Hall will occupy the Second Flat, The Dominion College of Music > DW.KARN & C0.st cone reer A §.+ hE 3 , 4 Nai TE F | ; 174 JAN ; ( x A LL J i RS.7 4 + [| 17 NASAZ TAA 7 RRATAANTAAA AA | 1 + \u2014\u2014 NEA RES Ba GER CSTD SERARRED USER NRE 700478 aUurJAYIDI IS GIEE Re 3 ke For several months past the contractors have been busy putting into shape our new home at 2362 St.Catherine street, which has been expressly built to suit our large and growing business, these premises on MONDAY next, when the public is cordially invited to be present and inspect the magnificent equipment of Musical 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ed : dt at SCRAPS.VALIANT MUSICIANS.The heroie perforniance of the piper of the Gordon Highlenders at the storming of Dargai a few days ago, maintained in splendid fashion the noble traditions of the Highland pipers if battle.As the Gordons stormed the heights, one of the pipers who was playing at the bead of the battalion, fell, shot through both ankles.But in spite of his wounds he sat up, continued his pibroch, and played bis comrades on to a moet splendid victory.It is said that he is to receive the Victoria Cross for what he did.If he does get that coveted distinction it will seldom have been better won.The piper of the Gordons, in doing what he did, was following the example of pipers in battle before him.Music on many occasions helped the troops of Britain at a critical time to win a vie- tory.Witness the achievement, a century ago, of the old 14th Foot\u2014now the West Yorkshire Regiment\u2014at the storming of Famars.The defending Frenchmen were driving back the stormers, to the strains of the \u2018 Ca Ira,\u2019 the air of the Revolution.The officer commanding the 14th, ees- ing that his men were being worsted, rushed to the front, ordéred his own bend to strike up the \u2018Ca Ira,\u201d and shouted, \u2018Come om, lads, and we\u2019ll beat \u2019em to their own tune !\u201d The French tune was played by the English bandsmen, the 14th dashed forward, and Famars was captured.1t was a piper of the old 79th, now the Cameron Highlanders, who performed such a prodigy of valor at Quatre Bras.In the thick of that fiercely-contested fight, Piper Kenneth Mackay, while his regiment was forming square, stepped outgide the bayonets, and continued to play the popular tune, \u2018 Cogadh na Sith.More than three hundred of the officers and men of the Camerons went down, killed our wounded, in the battle, but Mackay, although he marched round and round the forming square, escaped uninjured, went through Waterloo, and tub- sequently, with other chosen Highlanders, appeared in Paris during the Occupation by the Allied Forces, before the Emperor of Russia, to give His Majesty an opportunity of exainining the H'gh'and dress and equipment.When, in the old days of war in Scotland, theré was to be a clan raid, the piper, \u2018on the eve of it, played the tribe\u2019s battletune, to arouse his clansmen to vengeance.The spirit of this custom \u201cvas kept up at Waterloo.\u2018Our two distinguished Highland corps,\u2019 says Sir Walter Scott, \u2018the 42nd and 92rd, were the first to muster.They assembled with the utmost alacrity to the sound of the well-known pibroch, \u2018\u2019Oome to me and I will give you flesh,\u201d an invitation to the wolf and the raven for which the next day did, in fact, srread an ample banquet at the expense of our brave countrymen, as well as of their enemies.\u201d The 92nd is now the 2nd Battehon of the Gordons; the 42nd, it is almost needless to explain, Le- ing the Black Watch.A piper of the 7lst (now the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry) was as brave at Vittoria as was Kenneth Mac- kay at Quatre Bras.He, too, inspired his comrades with the music of his pipes, on which he played \u2018 Up, an\u2019 waur them a,\u201d Willie\u201d The 71st did \u2018up,\u2019 and largely owing to the encouragement of the pibroch, the regiment added \u2018 Vittoris\u2019 to its already long list of battle-honors.Whet the battle-pipes did at the relief of Lucknow all the world knows.It was then that Pipe-Major John Mac- Leod, of the 93rd\u2014now the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders \u2014played amid the strife with as much coolness as if he had been walking round the officers\u2019 mess-tent at a regimental festival.But the case which most closely resembles that of the piper at Dargai, was George Clark.He was a piper of the 71st, and at Vimiera was so badly wounded that he could not join his comrades in the pursuit of the enemy.But, like his successor of the Gordons, he \u2018continued to tune his pipe to the sound of victory.\u201d There was no Victoria Cross in those days, but the deed was not forgotten, and in 1809 Clark was presented with a Highland pipe for his conduct in the battle mentioned.Tel-el-Keber furnishes us with a recent instance of what the pipes can do in battle.The terrible strain of the night march over the desert and the waiting order for the march to assault was almost too much for many of the officers and men to bear.But when at last the command was given the British troops carried everything before them.The Camerons took a leading part in charging the trenches.Lieutenant.Colonel Leith, commanding the regiment, waved his sword, shouted, \u2018Come om, 79th I\u2019 and to the scream of the pipes the men broke into a double line and charged, cheering as thev ran.It was while daylight was breaking and the clash of steel and the crack of rifle rang out over the silent desert that Pipe- Major Grant cheered his comrades on to victory by playing enthusiastically on his pipes, \u201cThe march of the Cameron men.\u2019 TUNNY FINES, Some very extraordinary fines have from time to time been imposed upon offenders of all ranks and degrees of offence, but perbaps the following are the more congpicuous.For instance, in Italy there is a law which inflicts a fine of £100 on any circus proprietor whose performance does not include every item mentioned on his programme, as it is considered that the public is misled by omission of items announced for presentation, and that the penalty is therefore déserved.In Scotland there are various temper- \\ { LI NT he \u2014_\u2014 7) 4 z = 8 ; v + * - Ga Nl Il fil : \\ TS | | ol i INT UN Ÿ : Ni \u2014\\\" HR Je: 2 \\ ÿ os fo] \u2014_\u2014 AT A ; / 4 | Bf Hy Bit LA, in | ~~ d ~ A Tt Tu \u201ceu 4 Syd mt 5 = > re CE Klondike still continues to be the most discussed spot upon the whole face of the globe, and it is likely to develop into one of the best known, for the enterprise of the modern press is quite without limits, and already there are hundreds after copy no less resolute and energetic than the men who seek after gold.Showing Mrs.Garner, the first woman to undertake the land journey to It seems quite likely that the all-Cana- dian route to the Klondike by way of Edmonton is to become the most popular.Already there are six or seven projects for railways to the Klondike, but time will yet show whether one starting from dmozton will become an accomplished fact or not.Already men skilled in mining and used to travelling in difficult ON THE ROAD TO KLONDIKE-PACKING SCENE AT EDMONTON.the Yu kon \u2014\u2018Black and White.\u2019 country are en route from Edmonton, preferring to leave the White and Chil- coot passes, with all the disagreements of the United States customs thrown in, to the tenderfeet and impulsive who, to judge from the published accounts, have been having far from an easy and pleasant time of it in endeavoring to reach their Ultima Thule.HT a, J + 0 = ean \u2014\u2014 PR « = ON THE ROAD TO KLONDIKE.LEA VING ATHABASCA LANDING FOR THE GOLD FIELDS.\u2014\u2018Black and White.\u2019 - \u2014 ance hotels where any visitor returning home after midnight is subjected to a fine of 1s, and the same custom exists in several small hostelries in Wales.In a certain well-known detective agency in the West end of London, the management have instituted the very praiseworthy practice of fining any member of the staff who indulges in strong language.For each offence a certain penalty is exacted, and at the end of the year the total amount collected goes to a charitable institution.In a very large drapery establishment in one of the northern towns, any young lady who is discovered wearing what is called a \u2018fringe,\u2019 is at once mulcted in a small fine, and should the offence be repeated, the amount of the fine is doubled.This seems rather an arbitrary penalty, but as the young ladies know the rule on the subject, there is small excuse for those who disobey.In Paris there is a club composed almost exclusively of Frenchmen, who pos sess so great a detestation of Germany and Germans, that any member who ever makes the slightest reference to anything Teuton is liable to a considerable fine.It seems rather hard, perhaps, on the unwary ones, for few men can speak for any considerable time about art, literature, or science without at some time or other making a reference to German authorities, but all the same the rule exists, and as far as the writer knows, it will remain as long as the club endures.FROGS FOR COOLING.I was called to visit a boy, six years old, suffering from typhoid fever.The child\u2019s head was completely wrapped over with a large white sheet, and as I looked at it this enormous white enve- lope seemed to be on the move.Whilst I was surveying this covering there crept ' from under it a small frog which quietly sat over the child\u2019s left eye.It seemed quite content.I immediately called the mother\u2019s attention to it, and requested her to take the beast away, thinking | \u2018Oh, no!\u201d eaid the old lady, \u2018a doctor recommended that a Jot of them sh uld be kept to the head to keep it cool.\u2019 See- ing the head covering still on the move T raisad 34 far cuviasitv.and im a second ae that it had crept there as an intruder.!reec: de Lis out jumped about twenty other frogs, and away they hopped in all directions.\u2014 A doctor's letter to \u2018 The Lancet.\u2019 PASSING AN EXAMINATION.A charming anectode is told of Prof.D\u2019Arcy Thompson, the expert sent by England to investigate the seal question.While conducting examinatiors at an English university, he learned that one of the siudents to be examined, a young woman who was a candidate for a degree, Was s0 timid and so nervous that it was likely she would not do herself justice, and he was asked to make allowance for this.Prof.Thompson asked to be presented to her before the hour for the examinations, and after meeting he suggested that, as they had a few moments at their digposal, he would be pleased to have ber show him about the museum.She gladly assented to this, and they spent a delightful half-hour; when the dreaded tin.e approached the nervousness of the young woman became apparent.Finally she summoned courage to ask when the ordeal would take place.The conclusion of the story is obvious\u2014Prof.Thompson told her the dreaded hour was over.While they sauntered about the museum he had put her through a rigid examination, she had answered his questions brilliantly, and she received her degree.\u2014Boston Transcript.\u2019 A SERF\u2019S FORETHOUGHT.Count Scheremetef, an immensely wealthy and powerful Russian noble, who lived in the early part of this century, had among his serfs a man named Schalou- chine, who bad amassed an enormous fortune.He had offered as much as $250, 000 for his freedom, but in vain.One day Scheremetef gave a dinner-party, and to his disgust there were no oysters to begin the banquet with.\u2018They were not to be had at any price,\u201d replied the steward.At that moment Schalouchine was ushered in among the gueets, and Scheremetef bullied him as usual \u201cYour | » «dd, \u2018you cannot have it if you offered a million of roubles.A million, pshaw! a few dozen oysters wouid be worth more than that to me my freedom if I procured them for you \u2018Yes,\u2019 was the answer.Schalouchine had brought a barrel of oysters, having heard of the dinner.The deed of free dom was immediately signed, Schalou- chine took his place among the gues's, and his descendants are not only the wealthiest bankers in Russia, but were ennobled about a quarter of a century ago.\u2014\u2018 London Illustrated News.\u2019 PAWNSHOP ROMANCES.It is not often that a person takes Bank of England notes to a pawnshop and requests a loan on the same ; but this is what a woman virtually did at one of those establishments not very long ago.It came about in this way : A man and his wife, in needy circumstances, rented three rooms in a dingy court of a crowded city, and let one of them to an old fellow of stingy habits, who was reported to have at one time seen better days.After a while the old fellow sickened and died, and the man end his wife, in virtue of a little rent outstanding, took possession of his goods and chattels, consisting of a few rickety chairs, one or two bed things, and a coat that appeared to have a little wear left in it.The chairs and bed-furniture were sold to extinguish the rent-arrears amd pay funeral dues, but the coat the man elected to keep, ostensibly in memory of the departed one, but really because he happened just then to be sadly in want of a change of apparel to wear on Sundays as other men did.The man\u2019s wife had little money to manage with, and that little, received on Saturday night, was most gone by Tuesday or Wednesday morning.In order to eke out the rest of the week, she (following the plan adopted by many people similarly situated) had recourse to the pawnshop, and, unknown to her husband, \u2018ran in\u2019 his Sunday coat at the beginning of every week, redeeming it when she received her pittance on Saturday night in time to smooth out the creases ready for use the following day.Through constant handling, the pavwn- broker got to know this coat ; and one day, observing that it was beginning to at this moment\u201d \u2018Do I understand, se.pv lord, that you would grant me; ER RE Eres forge EE EI show signs of decay, he hesitated about making the usual advance.It\u2019s about _ SATURDAY, DE\u2019 ExpER ee, 1, 1897, - done for, you know,\" Le women, with a shrug of \u2018and I really can\u2019t lend any longer.Look here ! coming into holes already \u2018 © prove his words he turned t r ment about and began to pull he fo lining in a shaky spot.Ag he did a th material gave way, and from the mont that was made a five-round rote drop out, and then another.ang ane) : his and the woman's a dozen of them lay on the counter Le fore their astonished eves.Thus neon.sciously had the woman been taking hank notes to the pawnshop week hy week and getting a few shillings a-dvir ia \u2026.A pawnbroker Was once the means 0: getting a nice little Property restaral its rightful owner.A kind Tue eccentric old lady was the on large number of houses, hieh In a respectable yearly rentn) -, 5 without a known relative me and there lived with her whom she had adopted as à hig whom she was remarkably fat \u2018When 1 die I shall Joue said to the His shoviders, money on The insides we Mher, te great surprise, unt, ares iy ue, \u201coy aon leave - 5 have to you,\u2019 she had m ne cel a said in her simple way 1, this oe the young woman was :énerally looked upon as her certgin heir.One day the old lady walked into à panne 0.to where she lived, .4 producing .small locked ebony cashier, asked fa, advance of ten shillings una ++ EN pawnbroker, surprised a: wp | | la Pre réequiring a loen, but aware ui : .ve eccentric ways, took the hoy a ; over the desired amount o The statutory time passe] out any application being mate + +.deem the article, and the rownir or concluding that the old lady «2 na vaine on the box, put it on one side.th the intention of including it in his nev of unredeemed pledges.A lave later the old lady died from of the contraction of a chill.Everybody at once expected to find the voung lady succeed to her property, tat to the general surprise no will could be found, though eearch was made high an: low for it.That one had been execute: in the girl's favor was a known fact.hu whether the old lady,in a moment of pious or eccentricity, had destroved it.was 2 point none could settle.No will conf be found, and it daily became more ani more apparent that, lacking relatives, the property would revert to the Crown and the young lady be left penniless.In this state of affairs it occurred to the pawnbroker to force the casket in his charge, which he did, and at the bottom among some valueless papers, discovered \u2018he lost will, duly signed and attested.An erring young mun was once restored to friends and fortune through the instrumentality of a pawanbroker, wu whom he had pawned almost evervihiu «1's me hin offen be possessed.It was in the pockets of one of hig garments that the pawr broker happened to discover a pape: which revealed the truant\u2019s identity, and enabled him to communicate with his re latives, who had been advertising for hin in all quarters, but in vain.The owner of a pawnshop once brough off a happy marriage between a custome: and a lady admirer.The customer was a musician in reduced circumstances, an\u2019 the lady admirer the owner of a prosper ous drapery business opposite the pawn broker\u2019s door.The pensive air and pr\u2019 lid cheeks of the man as he stole cau tiously into the entrance beneath the three brass balls touched the sympathee heart of the woman as she gazed at h.\u2026: from her shop opposite, and the ngick eye of the pawnbroker took in the stua:» at a glance.With a dexterity chat cons only of business resource, he arranged an accidental meeting of the parties, «i the accidental meeting led to another that was not accidental, ard the cad © it was that one day the two people went into a church and came out again ran and wife.WORTHY OF AN IRISHMAN In the old duelling days no man cris live in Ireland long without \u2018hurang powder.\u201d A Frenchman located in tra\u2019 lively country had been out until =?was getting tired of the \u2018divarsion.Th never would shoot at his antagonst however, and had luckily cscaped heirs seriously hit himself.[Finally he we called out by a lame man, and went.course.The duelling ground lay becnie the publie road, where a large mile jst told the distance to Dublin.The mai with the game leg drew the std nett to the post, and asked as a favor thal IN be allowed to lean against it when x shot.This was granted by fis pote antagonist, and the principa\u2019s were oF dered to take their positions.when th other one said : \u2018Gentlemen, I have granted the pi quest of my antagonist to Jean against he mile-post while he shot.and now I have a favor to ask.Would the gent em:n obiect to my leaning acunst the next post ?\u2019 0 This put all the lively Inshmen nt such a burst of merriment that the ft was immediately postponed.and the hwy man hopped over to shake hands the first Frenchman who hud over sa arything funny.A VOLUNTEERS DISCHARGE \u2018One of the greatest aud most 507 grievances that volunteers +1\" an English paper.\u2018is the experienced Ly the mu) ri their discharges made out and ~o leaving the fcree.It i= dot down in the volunteer recat: .a certificate of dischazve.cone either the commanding «tie?tant, should be given.on motes votuntar ls voluuteer wi cots.\u2019 Cae It is reported that 0 +0 = exists among Cuntduu Vosutoleess wi 1 MW Un Lu A Ww TX h lace 1 of me, It Ted } 18 CasIOr from tha bire son t ds 1 Ay Lngh The are = Teo fur E i Lojes | Lulicq plan us KL i Beier) they Liot her Lier ha Beery.ulliep 1 Co (2307 Lowe I ell adm tur: ther or - tn tery, eu Bo et \u201c| « iy 7.to the viders, om it nside\u2019s »e gar.at the 80 the e rent ropped er, to >, until ter be- uncon- g bank week, ced on ans of red te Tathet r of a rought he wad world, ng gir and of that J n once rl, and looked lay the p close cing a for an The person > lady\u2019s handed ley.y with.to Te- broker, o value ith the ext sale le time > effects find the rty, but ould be igh and act, but of piaus , was a ill could ore and ives, the own and In this e pawns charge, n among red the d.restored the in- er, with rerything ockets of e pawr- a paper tity.and 'h hiss re z for him > brought customer mer wat nces, and , prosper- he pawn- - and pal tole cau- eath the mpathetic ad at him quick eye situation 1at comes ranged an ties, and » another he end of ople went gain man MAN.nan could \u2018burning qd in that until he ion.\u201d He ntagonist, ped being y he was | went.OI lay beside mile-post The man tand next or that he when he his poiite were OT- when the he request ainst that ow I have gent\u2019eman the next hmen into ¢ the fight d the lam?ands with ever said ARGE.st amazins (fer, says t difficulty in getting signed 07 inctiy laid tions that signed by r or A Ju- est, to any quits his r grievance teers.SATCRDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1897.; now the hunting winds are loose\u2014 \u2014 er ps vs ct = THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN.(Rudyard Kipling.) wv.he Four-way Lodge is opened ove smokes of Spring go up to clear the Tow coe young men's hearts are troubled for the whisper of the Trues\u2014 370.Red Gods make their medicine again! ; a ih seen the beaver busied?Who hath wateched the black-tail mating?\u2014 lain alone to hear the wild- goose cry?L worked the chosen water where tba ouananiche is waiting, , Len \u201crout's jumping, crazy for the fi; y - \u2014ao\u2014go away from here.Bb vher side of the world he\u2019s overdue.wd is clear before you when the old Spring-fret comes o\u2019er you | 111 Gods call for you! Ç: - > wet sail arching through the rain-bow round the bow, \u2018 - \u201cv the creak tof snowshoes on the crust; = \\ « the lake-side vigil, where the bull-moose leads the cow, : » he mule-train coughing in the dust.~aetled the wood-smoke at twilight?Who hath heard the birche © ™ to read the noises of the night?po .with the others, for the young men\u2019s feet are turning 3 \u2026;= of proved desire and known delight! De vom he blackened timber\u2014do you know that racing stream, I aoe right-angled log-jam at the end; À - / un-warmed shingle where a man may bask and dream \u2019 .k .ghod canoe-poles round the bend?Ji » \u201cWere \u2018hit we are going with our rods and reels and traces, 7 - ut, smokey Indian that we know\u2014 .a of new-pulled hemlock, with the starlight on our faces, y - e Red Gods call us out, and we must go! .know the shallow Baltic, where the seas are quick and shom vue the bluff, lee-boarded fishing luggers ride?: know the joys L (I of threshing leagues to leeward of your port im a coast you've lost the chart of overside?here that I am going, with an exira hand to hale her\u2014 I.one single \u2019long-shore loafer that I know.Fe mn take hig chance of drowning, while I sail and sail and sail her, 7+ \"Le Red Gods call me out and I muat go?Do vou know the pile-built village where the sago-dealers trade\u2014 D- vou know the reek of fish and wet bamboo?Ih vou know the dripping silence of the orchid-scented glade When the blazoned, bird-winged butterflies flap through?bo here that I am going with my camphor, net and boxes, To 1 zentle.vellow pirate that I \u2014 T my Üttle wailing lemurs, to the palms and flying foxes, For the Red Gods call me out, and I must go! Ds you know the world's white roof-tree\u2014do you know that windy ri .Where the baffling mountain eddies chop and change?Dn vou know tne long day\u2019s patience, belly-down on frozen drift, While the head of heads js feeding out of range?I+ is there that 1 am going, where the boulders and the snow lie, With a trusty nimble tracker that I know.1 have sworn an oath to keep it on the horne of Ovis Poli, And the Red Gods call me out and I must go! Now the Four-way Lodge is opened\u2014 now the amokes of Council rise- Pleasant smokes, ere yet \u2019twixt trail and trail they choose\u2014 Now the girths and ropes are tested; now they pack their last supplies, Now our young men go to dance before the Trues! Who shall meet them at those altars\u2014 who shall light them to the shrine, Velvet-fnoted, who shall guide them to their goal?Unto each tie voice and vision: unto each his spoor and si Lone'v mountain in the north-land, misty sweat-bath \u2019neath the Line\u2014 And for each a man that knows his naked soul! White or yellow.black or copper, he is waiting as a lover, Smoke of funnel, dust of hooves, or beat of train\u2014 Where the steamer hails the landing, or the miff-boat brings the Where the rails run out in sand-drift .Quick, ah heave the camp-kit over!* For the Red Gods make their medi- cine again! Where the high grass hides the horse- man, or the glaring flats djpprer bo And we go\u2014g6\u201450 away from here! On the other side of the world we're overdue! Send the road is clear before you when the old Spring-fret comes o\u2019er you, And the Red Gods call for you.THY BIRDS\u2019 EGGS VARY IN COLOR | I have often wondered why Mr.Wal-| lace never adduced birds\u2019 eggs as examples | of recognition colors, where, it seems to me, he might have made a better case.Ls a well-known fact tbat birds oc- w@sonally lay in one another\u2019s nests, and from what I know I am inclined to think W wht be excusable \u2018 as between friends.\u2019 Lie supposition that the varied colorings ar: serviceable in enabling the owners to : their property would account whiteness of eggs laid in dark we, where no markings could easily be wiced.and would give a reasonable ex- vandil 1oof the individual variety, with tor tribal likeness, which char- times all eggs.However near alike \u201cRY lay seem to our eyes, doubtless a Boiner-bird would be capable of selecting \u201cown out of a hundred jumbled toge- | er, 20 that, cn the whole, this theory | x \u201c+ me much more tenable than the Vaxr one.: «3 NOt believe, however, that the fe: \u2018on of the egge of birds is truly bite by either of these hypotheses, \u201cSever much nature may utilize the ex- \u201c4s in the apparent direction of | \"Xe, and even though 1 am willing to | \u2018reely that the influences of na- © section may have been, here and 7.\\srumental in bringing out this \u201c1 (or or patrern.I believe, on trary, that these colors and pat- :p « by-result of peculiarities of ran as intimate as is the micro- Future où the shell, and that if - réirétion is to get credit for it ,,.= PNly 90 far ag protective col- \u201c muy sometimes have follow- \u201condary.or accidentally corre- iruduct,\u2019\u201d the tendency to pro- \u201cively colored plumage.In Le ls, there is a constant relation fh.17 pigments that paint the fea- Lo | chose that paint the egg; some- 7\" are suppressed altogether (but rds often lay highly colored ; +), ometimes they produce \u201c+.giving the eggs the gene- tiie mother's plumage, as in \u2018wills, shore-birds,and others; \u201cmes they produce upon eggs a yo 7 (ntirely different from that Lm, *= plumage.It must not be y 2 © \u201c1 the tint of a pigment ap- © rug-shell might be widely re- 9 chat of the same pigment dyeing a feather ; and it is also necessary to remember that many plumage colors are not pigmentary at all, but purely optical effects of interference of the light reflected.Such is the case with th» burnished back of the turkey, the jewel like brilliance of the humming-bird's throat, the glittering green of trogons, and so on, and it is noteworthy that perhaps all the birds thus gorgeously apparelled lay white eggs.It is justly believed, infeed, that in the begining all birds produced white, unspotted, soft-ahelled eges, following the rule of the reptilian class, from which birds have no doubt arisen.How the change toward a hard and differently shaped shell and the addition of colors came about, we may never know.It is the great obstacle to this line of investigation that almost no historical evidence 1s in existence, or is ever likely to be; and yet in the past is hidden, no doubt, the key to the problem cology now presents when approached by the evolutionist.\u2014Ernest Ingersoll, in \u2018 Harper\u2019s.A WOMAN'S FIGHT WITH A LYNX, To catch a lynx by the hind leg and beat out its brains with a potato masher is a feat which few would care to attempt.Miss Chloe Doan, of Santa Barbara County, Cal., has accomplished the hazardous feat.One morning she was called from the kitchen of her fathers house on his ranch near Santo Marco by her younger sister, who had gone out to see what was causing an unusual disturbance among the chickens.Taking a gun from the wall she went into the chicken coop, and to her astonishment sew a lynx walking leisurely away with a plump pullet in his mouth.The young woman took a hasty shot at the animal, wound: ing it, bit not seriously.The dogs appeared upon the scene at the sound of the gun, but soon got «enough of Mr.Lynx.After a desperate struggle the dogs gave up, and Miss Doan took another shot, further crippling the intruder.Another fight occurred, during which Miss Doan conceived the idea of killing the lynx all by herself, and, accordingly, beat off the dogs, grabbed the lynx by one hind leg, and dragged it imto the house, where it soon revived, and again showed fight.She looked around for a weapon, but seeing nothing in sight except the potato masher she grasped it and scon put an end to the struggles of the wounded animal.She is being praised all over the country for her brave act.\u2014 Victoria (B.C.) \u2018Times,\u2019 Nov.26 a 4 , NA : ZA but the use of true life which Jesus Christ has given to all of us ; it is be cause for myself, and for whom else, I feel I must love my native land more than any other country.Because I am Ccrean, how can I love her?I can really love her nothing but training the people of hers into the true religion of Jesus Christ as much as possibly can, it is because my own duty.; We had come back to Harley College last Saturday, and attended many meetings began from lest Monday till Tuesday, which spoken by Dr.Guinness and some other gentlenren, for the prayers of beginning to open this college.And we have begun our studies from this morning.I suppose all of us must stay here till next Christmas, as Mrs.Macknight had made an arrangement with Dr.H.Guinness befor: she wen\u2019 shall come to see you and Mrs.Greene as soon as 1 can.Please remember me to Mrs.Greene with my kind regards.1 am always praying to God for you and Mrs.Gireene, with all my heart.I send yon two texts which I heard from Dr.Guinness last night.IT.Corinthians ix., 8, and Luke xxii., 20 \u2014Hoping you are very well always, believe me, your faithful pupil ever.HINN B.YER.The opportunity thus afforded of training four members of leading Corean families in Christian truth, is one of which every friend of missions will be quick to perceive the value.One of these young men is a blood relation of the present royal family, and all four of them are likely to occupy positions of great importance in their native land on their return.It will be obvious at once how great will be the gain to missionary work amongst the fifty millions in that country, who are now in great spiritual darkness, if these young men can be sent out there prepared in all simplicity to use their high social position for the furtherance of the gospel of Christ.eter.THE MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE, The author of the series of letters giving \u2018The Inner Experiences of a Cabinet Minister's Wife,\u201d the first of which appears in the December \u2018Ladies\u2019 Home Journal,\u201d gives some frunk glimpses of Washington official life.She says of a President's wife: \u2014 \u2018The worst of living in the White House is the lack of privacy and room.The first lady in the land is about the hardest worked woman in America in many ways.The present lovely incumbent has more leisure than most of those who have occupied the place, because she knows no more about the domestic arrangements than if she lived in a hotel.Everything is turned over to a housekeeper, who does not even report to Mrs.President.The President\u2019s wife has not the luxuries or conveniences of ordinary rich people living in large cities.Her quarters are circumscribel, and she is hesieged by reporters, especially during the first year, while the mere reading of her letters received everv day is u heavy tack, although she has a secretary to help Her out.This Mrs.President does not Prorgtr nan encre mat rend rte ct Prat re tree da tre tn en de even receive the reports of the head steward, the chief official servant of the household.It is said that he went to her not long ago to ask her advice about getting rat poison to kill the numerous rat and mice occupants, of the White House (be it said in shame to the nation) and she told him his province was to keep everything unpleasant hidden from her\u2014from rats to ghosts.That settled Mr.Steward.\u2018The President\u2019s wife cannot for one moment relax the vigilant eye she is compelled to keep on her every word, look and action,-except when she is asleep, Rhe is the central figure for \u2018gossips not only of one city, but of the whole United States.If a woman were not circumspect in this position, social conditions would soon become more topsy-turvy than they are at present at the capital, it seems to me.She must throw her youth behind her, or lock it up in her heart, while she inhabits the White House, Of course, they do entertain one or two guests at a time at dinner or luncheon very often, but the great dinners are state affairs at which the precedence of individuals seems to be the chief considergtion, and the occasions are formal almost to the extent of being stiff and uncomfortable to an easygoing person like me.\u2018Mrs.President suffers from some of the same trammels of etiquette and conventionality endured by the crowned beads of Europe.For that matter, all prominent state officials and their families lose their \u2018personal freedom somewhat as soon as they take office.Imagine Mrs.President walking down town for a morning's shopping, or dropping in on a friend to visit, to \u2018set a spell,\u201d as Aunt Jin used to say ! I miss my friends more than anything else in Washington.There is not a single place in the city where I can go informally.\u2019 INKERMAN MEN IN BOSTON.The spirited and gallant manner in which some ex-British soldiers observed the anniversary of the battle of® Inker- man in Boston this present year (Nov.5) may fairly awaken two feelings : one of regret that these English soldiers are living under a foreign flag, one of delight that the flag under which they choose to live is that of a country in which their own language is spoken and which the vast majority of the people sympathetically glory in the events of that great day in 1854.Men of the 62nd Regiment, of the 17th Lancers, of the Scots Guards and of other British regiments were there to recall memories of that great contest, and United States soldiers, volunteers and veterans shared with their English vomrades in the delights of the day.It was natural at such a gathering that \u2018The charge of the Light Brigade\u2019 should be read and that \u2018Annie Laurie\u2019 should be sung; and it was gratifying, too, that the poetry of at least one American writer should not be forgotten, for one of the prime pieces of the evening was Bayard Taylors \u2018In the trenches before Sebastopol.\u2019 \u2014 St.John (N.B.) \u2018Globe.\u2019 Dec.1.NOTES AND NOTICES.P.E.Layton & Bro.wish to call the attention of the public to the fact that the Evans Bros\u2019.pianos now contain the wonderful orchestral attachment by the use of which the harp, mandolin, zither, etc., can be imitated, and many other beautiful effects produced.The attachment also saves the hammers from wear, and these instruments cost no more than other high grade Canadian pianos.As we intend moving into new premises the beginning of the new year we are desirous of clearing out our present stock: therefore large discounts will be given on all instruments purchased from us during the next two or three months.Special attention is called to some good second hand piancs by Behr Bros., Steinway, Knabe, Evans Bros, Emerson, Nordheimer, etc- Prices as low as $50.Terms to suit all.P.E.Layton & Bro, warerooms 148 Peel street.N.B.\u2014For the Christmas trade, three magnificent Behr Bros.Pianos, in fancy woods, direct from New York.SON'S NEGLECTED \u201cMONUMENT.NEL | | A Love Story.(\u2018Leslie\u2019s Weekly.) On Jacques Cartier Square, in old Montreal, stands a monument erected to Britain\u2019s greatest naval hero, Lord Nelson, who annihilated the combined navies of France and Spain at Trafalgar, Oct.21, 1805, and died amid the thunders of his mightiest victory.This monument lias been an offensive reminder to the French Canedians for many years, and consequently hae been allowed to fall into very bad repair.An attempt was made to blow it up at one time, and the gaping crevices and shattered stones have never been restored, as the English had no desire to fan to life the slumbering French-Canadian prejudice.No tribute of respect, nor attempt to protect it from vandalism, has been made by the Montreal authorities for years, and not until the last anmiver- sary, the past month, has Nelson\u2019s memory been recognized by decorating the Jacques Cartier Square monument.The Army and Navy Veteran Association this year imitated the custom prevalent at the Trafalgar Square monument in London, and decorated the Nelson monument at Montreal with four flags, one of a royal standard entwined with the tri-color of France, the two others being Union Jacks, above which was hung a wreath of white immortelles; while at the base was a huge bouquet of carnations, chrysanthemums, asters, and ferns.The change of sentiment in respect to the Nelson monument is.due to the premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who is a French-Canadian, and who was Canada\u2019s representative at the Queen\u2019s Jubilee, a marked feeling of liberality and cor diality having sprung up between the two nationalities since his return from England.A pretty little romance gives Nelson's memory a sentimental interest in Canada, During his service at Quebec, in 1782, when he wns but twenty-four years of no J Eve ERATE [a X Mc ~~ Ne] 2 Ne oA TA = / 7, 7, WE \u2014 A 7 = rr WN sx THE LONG NEGLECTED NELSON MONUMENT AT MONTREAL.age, he became infatuated with a beautiful Canadian girl, Mary Simpson, daughter of a great Canadimn merchant of the period.At the \u2018time of Nelson\u2019s visit she was but sixteen years old, marvellously beautiful and witty.On Oct.14, 1782, Lord Nelson\u2019s ship, the \u2018 Albe- marle,\u2019 was ready to sail, end he had a very sad and tender parting with Mary Simpson, and went down the St.Lawrence to board the man-of-war.The pext morning arrived and the \u2018 Albe- marle\u2019 did not heave anchor, and Captain Nelson was seen coming back to Quebec in a boat.À friend of Nelson\u2019s, a man prominent in Quebec at the cime,- espied him and asked him what had \u2018happened: Nelson is quoted as having said : \u2018I find it absolutely impossible to leave this place without again waiting upon her whose society has so much added to its charms, and laying myself and my fortune at her feet.\u201d Nelson's friend protested against such a rash act, and told him that, \u2018situated as you are at present, your utter ruin will inevitably follow.\u201d \u2018Then let it follow,\u201d replied Nelson, earnestly, \u2018 for I am resolved to do it\u2019 But despite his intentions the stronger will of his friend prevailed, and* he was fairly carried back to his ship and forced to leave behind the girl he loved ; and it was many years before he gave up the hope of possessing her, for Nelson never returned to Canade, and Mary Simpson died in spinsterhood.\u2014Ed- win Wildman.PPT RE Rg SE \u2014 x Ma A | Ye eu NY oni 23 Ap) RS CARRYING DOWN KILLED AND WOUNDED GURKHAS FROM THE SCENE OF ACTION.7 7 0 \u2014London \u2018Graphic.\u2019 rr Colonia ] = b \u201cBD Vor.XX] \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LICENSE I LICENSE LERS\u2019 Go of Messrs.Henn A.Lapointe, sccr L.Ethier, Vict Arthur Jones, T! ls and L.Wilso counsel, Messrs.led, M.P., waite Marchand, the F Quebec, praying present liguor la The petition « lers\u2019 Association be presented by government to-d.document coverin umble sets forth.That they arc holders for the s within the Prov, tection of the P the exercise of 1! The friendship between the Highlanders of the British army and those hard-fighting, smart little men, the Gurkhas, has existed for a long time.- .- .: i th M tu + i hland Gurkha met together and fought side by side for the first time.Certain it is that the friendship betwe