The daily witness, 5 mai 1899, vendredi 5 mai 1899

[" y the neral Jury.er of nned, cinet, oduce OSsIer Clam applied called truth y for y tes- that, ginal, e evi- ne of urt of lat he gainst Henry yfuss hand's t the upple- case, sident , will f next BRIT- [RI of the min.pe ondop.; agree- e hope tween mate- ion cf pur in- r East vites.\u201d LEM.is un- 3 quarre con- ; coun- roblem atened those n Eng- thts to would S, NT.Rodi e, who testify Investi- n here, cles of d used ] kinds well as nts, in- y, were LE.BY 27, vis fa, the mistice.to sign È Colonia I Tefalgs Vo.XL., No.105, STREET CAR FENDERS, The Mayor Writes to the Company on the Subject, MR.WANKLYN RFPLIES THAT THE FENDER USED IS THE BEST PROCURABLE.In view of the discussion regarding the eflectiveness of the fenders used on the street cars, in Montreal, Ald.McBride, at the last meeting of the City Council, drew the Mayor's attention to the matter, and His Worship wrote to Mr.Wanklyn, general manager and chief engineer of the company.Mayor it for me purpose for which- are intended.Mr.Wanklyn\u2019s reply was received by the Mayor this morning.The fender in use, he wrote, was considered a very good oné.As a matter of fact, the reports of the superintendent showed that the lives of 225 people had been saved by the fenders from 1894, until the present.The fender used by the company is the same as adopted by the West End Street Railway Company, of Boston, after a long and elaborate trial, which proved it to be the best fender procurable Mr.Wanklyn goes on to say, in his letter:\u2014\u2018The percentage of fatal accidents is far less in Montreal than in other cities of the same population in the United States.It is questioned whether either of the two fatal accidents which have recently occurred could have been prevented by any fender.Certainly, in the case of the poor little child who was fatally injured last Sunday on Amberst street the fender was of no avail, as she fell against the side of the cat rar THE MOTION CONSIDERED, STEPHENS \u2014 PREFONTAINE CASE IN THE COURT.The motion to have the action of the Hon.Geo.W.Stephens against Mayor Prefontaine dismissed, on an exception to the form, was duly presented before Judge Mathieu, in the Practice Ci B area rage cu > Paca Rares rh * him \"deélare his official position.Mr.Stephens said that he was a member of the Quebec Cabinet, withont portfolio.In croes-examination by Mr.H.Stephens, .he declared .that he as \u201calso a lawyer, and although not having pru- tised for ten yeers, was still on the list, and did not renounce the right to again appear before the Court.On this the Judge smilingly remarked that he would welcome.The object of examining Mr.Stephens was to support the defendant\u2019s pretea- sion that his domicile is not properly stated in one of the documents of the action, the contention being that a local minister's domicile is in Quebec.The different grounds of the exception to the form were then fully argued, and after a reply by plaintiff's counsel, the Court took the case en delibéré.\u2014_\u2014-\u2014 IMMIGRANTS.As indicating theinrush of what is cail- ed \u2018foreign\u2019 immigration, it may be stated that there are, all told, between geven and eight thousand Galicians and something like five thousand Doukhobors in the North-West.Several thousands more of both these peoples are expected during the course of the present immigration season.It is said by local immigration officials that in the superior quality which marks the Old Country immigrants who have come out lately, upon their own initiative, and without receiving help from any person or body, the work of Lord Strathcona is seen, as it has been the aim of His Lordship, in his quality as High Commissioner, to obtain the best farmers and agricultural classes.\u2014 VICTORIA BRIDGE.There has been some talk of u formal opening of the new Victoria bridge, but such would depend on the movements of Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, and it is not known at present just when he will arrive in this country.Nothing has yet been done to make the electric franchises which have been obtained to cover the south shore, Chambly and the Yastern Townships, operative, though doubtless in the near future this question nf electric service, connecting with tle city over the Victoria bridge, the rails of which can be used with safety under the block system, will come to the front.\u2014 FIRE IN A DEATH CHAMBER.À small fire occurred under pequliar or \u2018Umstances at 182 Nazareth street, at » 14 this morning.The body of Mrs.y on was laid out for burial in a room (he liouse, when by some means fire was communicated from the lighted can- i = tn the drapery around the corpse.The \u201cre brigade was called, but the fire as put out before they arrived.Mem- hers oi the salvage corps helped to Mruizhiep and clean the place up after Waris, D .PTI a oT __Edition IMAGINATION AT WORK Sensational stories are appearing in the Toronto papers as to alleged important changes in the executive staff of the C.P.R.The local officials laugh and say the correspondents are unusually imaginative.2 BICYCLE LICENSES.According to the officials of the license department at the City Hall, the bicyclists are the promptest in payment of all the classes subject to licenses.No less than 1,300 bicyclists have already obtained their license tags since the first of May.MONTREAL ANNEX, CITIZENS\u2019 ASSOCIATION AND THE A meeting of the Citizens\u2019 Association of the town of St.Louis was held last night.in Belanger Hall, 1489 St.Lawrence street, Mr.Gelinas presiding, and Mr.Blachford acting as secretary.A number of new members were admitted.The report of the committee appointed to confer with the Park & Island Railway was read and adopted.It was recommended that, as the negotiations for an arrangement between the company and the Montreal Street Railway have terminated, the two companies having failed to come to an agreement, the town corporation should open negotiations directly for a settlement with the Park & Island Railway.EASTERN W.C.T.U.RESOLUTION.At a meeting of the Montreal Eastern branch of the W.C.T.U., held on Friday, April 14, 1899, the following resolution was unanimously passed, on motion of Mrs.Piché, seconded by Mrs.Tarlton: That this Union feels thankful to Ged and rejoices greatly over the victory secured at the polls in favor of prohibition.We regard it as a matter of deep sorrow that the premier and.government order to promote the cause of temperance We deplore the fact that the government should have placed itself in direct antagonism to the Christian womanhood of this young nation.We beg to express our earnest desire | that parliament may yet decide to carry ; _ ; g = Fi t Abe will of.res \\ 5 ji ER Signed on behalf of the Eastern W.C.T.U.MRS.T.LUDINGTON, President.MRS.N.MORRISON, Secretary.Resolved, further, that copies of this resolution be sent to the Hon.Mr.Pope, M.P., Mr.Spence, secretary of the Dominion Alliance ; to the Montreal \u2018Witness\u2019 and Montreal \u2018Star.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 PINKERTONS WANT HIM.A Russian named Sborsky was arrested at the corner of Craig and St.Charles Borromee streets last night by Detective D.A.McLaughlin, upon information received from the Pinkerton Detective agency, of Philadelphia, The charge against Sborsky is embezzlement.I.T.Gaylor, superintendent of the Pinkerton agency, states in his communication that Sborsky was sub-agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and that when it was proposed to examine his books he suddenly left town.There is said to have been a shortage amounting to about a thousand dollars.At first the accused gave the name of Maurice Lober, and said he was a confectioner from Toronto, but he finally admitted that he was connected with the case as charged.He was taken before the police magistrate and remanded for eight days.Meanwhile the United States officers are taking steps to have the prisoner extradit ed and an officer is ex®.cted here for him shortly.INTEREST IN THE MILITARY.Many people were disappointed that there was no band practice at the Drill | Hall last evening, but spent a very pleas ant hour or two watching the Roval Scots drill on the Champ de Mars.The Vietoria Rifles were out also, and the Prince of Wales Fusiliers.It is under- stcod that the practice of the massed bands has been postponed until next Thursday, of which notice will be given later.\u2014_ UNEARTHED A SKELETON.A full-sized skeleton was unearthed yesterday near Fortification lane, on the ground where the new \u2018Presse\u2019 huilding is to stand.The remains were under six feet of earth.They are judged to be those of an Indian, and will probably find their way to the rooms of the Antiquarian Society.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 MOUNT ROYAL PARKA meeting of the Park and Ferries Committee is being held this afternoon, to discuss the incline railway question, and also the matter of taking possession of that part of the exhibition grounds belonging to the city, south of Mount Royal avenue.: sions be final ?.peal would not the case be worse than it should have refused to take any steps in : MONTREAL, FRI BOARD OF À RAILWAY CONTROL.Building Companies Opposed to it.PUBLIG IS TOO SMALL AND WEAK TO NEED PROTECTION.> Railway officials do not favor the idea parliament by Dr.Rutherford.It is their opinion that the powers possessed Council are ample for the needs of the Dominion.aap is different « - Dra eg enormous interests involved, the.: caused by opposing claims, and \u2018the flicts as to state rights, it is meces might be committed the oversight and control of certain acts and attitudes of the great railway system in so far aa these affected the public.But even these bodies had degenerated into\" political partisanship.They had become discredited with the general public.They were appointed for political reasons, and not because of fitness.Their judgments commanded no respect.They had been a rank failure.In Canada, on the other hand, railway men say, who were spoken to.on the sub- | ject, we have the guarantee of impartiality in the composition of the .railway committee, which is composed of the ministers of the crown, assisted by competent engineers and lawyers, who have no interest to, serve except that of the public.What powers, it was asked, would be ! conferred upon the commission, supposing you could get a small body of men, with i adequate knowledge, free from all political bias, men whom the government of the day would appoint for their fitness for the position ?Would their deci- If there would be apis at present ?The committee sits at Ottawa.It is accessible at \u2018all times.\u2018The ministers have the -dpinion of the government engineers upon all the points at issue.No complaint has ever been made as to the decisions of this.body, which have not hesitated to go againat!.; the railways when the latter have secre to make too large demand.Ma 3 mem or a tariffs.What f or \u2018would be expected from à commiatitsn) which would\" necessarily be peramibéls- tory which might lack competent\u2019 kpow= ledge, which might reflect the: \u2018opifitons ; and prejudices of the party in -pôwers and which \u201ccould not, in any: cake, act with the promptitude which marked the present railway\u2019 committee.A\" railway commission weuld probably be composed of four members.They would need.to: have a great deal of practical railway experience.They would have to be above and beyond all political bias.Their decisions would have to be such as that they would commend themselves to the railway systems interested as well as the public.Could such men be obtained ?Could politics be eschewed in such a case?The decisions of such an extra judicial body would, in the opinion of local railway men, be subject to appeal, Who would hear the final appeal ?it was asked, would be gained by multi- \u2018plying machinery at great expense, to poorly, if at all, accomplish what the present arrangement is able to realize at the minimum of delay and- expense ?\u2018When we reach a development and a population-as great as that of the United States.\u201d said a well-known railway man, \u2018and the work devolving upon the rail- \u2018way committee grows beyond what we can think of at present (as doubtless it will), then we may talk of a special body perambulatory, with plenary powers, which shall straighten out certain questions as between the railwav corporations and the public, which shall exert a certain supervision over rules and regulations and working.and to which shall be relegated all questions in which the rights or the interests of the public are congerned.For the nreseut and many years to come, we have all the country needs in the way of a railway commission, with the guarantee, which could not be given with a new and extra-judi- cial body, of impartialitv\u2014ameing that the men whom the electorate of the country have placed in power are members of that committee, acting under competent legal and engineering advice.\u2019 rer LONDON SUNDAY PAPERS, \u2018RUSADE AGAINST THEM BEARING FRUIT.London, May 5\u2014Mr.Harris Worth, managing director of the \u2018Daily Mail,\u2019 has offered to stop the Sunday issue of that paper provided the \u2018Daily Telegraph\u2019 will do the same.When the \u2018Daily Telegraph\u2019 first announced its intention to publish a seven-day paper the \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 decided to do the same.Its manager made the announcement yesterday, in consequence of the crusade which is now being conducted against Sunday pa- bers.of a railway commission, as proposed in | by the railway committee of the Privy | AY, MAY 5, 1899.FBRITISH PRESS AND THE BUDGET.(Toronto * Globe\u2019 Cable.) London, May 5\u2014Mr.Fielding's budget apeech created widespread interest here.Comments on its general tenor are universally favorable, attention being principally given to the remarks regarding the failure of the British manufacturers to avail themselves further of the British preference of the Canadian tariff.A widespread discussion on the point \u2018is assured.The present tendency shown by the newspapers is to blame the manufacturers for their lack of enterprise, DEATH OF DR.KELLOGG.NOTED DIVINE FELL OVER A PRE- In tho United States the ( \u201ccover CIPICE | WHILE BICYOLING IN, Allahabad, India, May 5\u2014The Rev.CONITS Dr.Samuel H.Kellogg, the American that there should be such bodies to-which{ Pres] byterian missionary, was killed by falling over a precipice while bicycling in\u2019 the Himalayas a few days ago.Dr.Kellogg, whose death was noted in the \u2018 Witness\u2019 yesterday was born on \u2018Long Island, and had reached his faixtieth year.He graduated from \u2018Pmeeton College with the class of 1861, and \u2018was a tutor in Mathematics: at\u2018 Princeton for: eight years.He was ordained an evangelist in 1864, and went to India in that year.In 1872 he removed to Allahabad and be- \u2018came instructor in a training school there.He returned to the United States in 1876, and was elected pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, Pa.He had held several promirent places in chureh work, and written several books on missionary work.At.the time of his death, Dr.Kellogg was, with two other eminent scholars, en- in translating the Scriptures into the Hindustariee language.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 | ~ FILIPINO REVOLT, YOWN OF SAN FERNANDINO OC | .CUPIED BY UNITED STATES i TROOPS.À sion.renee to le wha Die pee d ee to Mr retveit by train.General | ' MacArthur occupied the burning town | without loss.The rebels sonth of Manilla attempted \u2018to rush through Brigadier-General Over- shine\u2019s line last night.The attempt failed; but-the rebels maintained a fusil- ade of musketry on the 4th Infantry (regulars) for several hours, The: demonstration was ineffectual beyond scaring the inhabitants of Malate.The outposts of the Idaho and California regiments beyond San Pedro Ma- «ati were also attacked during the night.a MADAME RHEA DYING.New York, May 5\u2014A Cleveland despatch says that a private letter received from Paris says that Madame Rhea, the - And hat, 2cotress, is dying.== WEDDING AT CHATEAUGUAY.A very pretty wedding took place at Chateauguay on Thursday last, April 27, the contracting parties being Mr.Bertram W.T.Last, of St.Louis du Mile End, and Miss Maria Muir, of Chateau- guay.The Rev.Mr.Anderson, of Beau- harnois, performed the ceremony.Miss Alice Muir, sister of the bride, acted us bridesmaid, and Mr.Robert F.Candlish, of Montreal, supported the groom.The bride,who was beautifully attired in white satin, was given away by her father, Mr.Ebenezer Muir, of Chateauguay.Mr.and Mrs.Last, escorted by a large number of friends, left by the evening train for Montreal, where they will take up their residence at No.315 Laval avenue.-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 W.C.T.U.COUNTY CONVENTION.The annual meeting of the Hochelaga County W.C.T.U.will be held in St.John\u2019s (French) Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, May 30, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions.Delegates are expected from all the unions in the city, and from St.Lambert, Longueuil, Montreal South and St.Laurent.There are still many plaçes in the city and suburbs where no Union is organized, and the county officers would be glad to receive requests to hold organization meetings in these new districts.EVANGELIST WILL PREACH.The Rev.H.T.Crossley, who comes to Point St.Charles to conduct a series of evangelistic meetings; along with Mr.Hunter, in Centenary Methodist Church, will preach in the Point St.Charles Congregational Church on Sunday morning next at 11 o\u2019clock.ILLUSED HIS SISTER.Thomas Quigley, for assaulting his sis ter, was fined ten dollars or one month, and required to give security to keep the peace for one year.Manilla, May 5, 4.55 p.m.\u2014Major-Gen- à es 2 BROCKVILLE BLACKMAILING CASE.Brockville, Ont., May 5.\u2014The case of Mra.Webster, charged with attempting to levy blackmail upon Antoine Wend- ling, of this town, came before the police magistrate yesterday morning.The only evidence was that of Wendling, who testified to Mrs.Webster coming to him on Wednesday and demanding $500 to keep a man named McIntosh from appearing against him in the ballot case.She said she was sent from Watertown rm \u2014 Pricx OxE CENT, | TRANSVAAL WAR CLOUD, Trouble With Britain Approaching a Crisis, EKRUGER FAST REACHING THE END OF HIS TETHER.London, May 5\u2014The chronic mutual by Mclntosh for the purpose of making | suepicion between Great Britain and the Transvaal has been intensified recently by the dynamite question, the continued re fusal of the Transvaal Government to redress the grievances of the Uitlanders and the reassertion of British suzeraintÿ this arrangement.The case was adjourned until this morning, in order to give the prisoner an opportunity of procuring counsel.When the case was called this morning a further adjournment was obtained until this afternoon.A Yorrent hae: been issued for the arret « ot THE ST, REGIS SHOOTING, HEARING OF THE CASE POSTPON- ID FOR A WEEK.Beauharnçis, Que, May 5\u2014The hearing of the See of the St.Regis Indians, whe were arrested on Monday lest, chgrg- ed with obstructing the Dominion police in the execution of their duty, amd with assaulting Inspector Hogan and Constable Chamberlain on Mareh 27, which was to have taken place hgre to-day, has been postponed until Friday, May 12, pending the arrest of other accused Indians.A SERIOUS PLIGHT.KLONDIKE GOLD-SEEKERS SAID TO BE STARVING ON THE ASHCROFT TRAIL.Victoria, B.C., May 5.\u2014A mail car rier named Brindle, from Telegraph Creek, and Surveyor McGregor, who were passengers on the \u2018Glenora,\u201d which arrived yesterday, say there is \u2018urgent peed for orgnized relief for men\u2019 bound for the Klondike, now stalled on the Asheroft trail.There are said to be between two and three hundred men neat Dease Lake, and Laird River, facing stax- vation, \u2018their money and supplies.\u2018having | 4 a upon\u201d Rene ph as les, mules \u2018and pid The nearest supply post is about a hundred miles distant.\u2014-\u2014 GERMAN INFANTICIDE, EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF BABE-KILLING IN THE RHINE ; VALLEY.Berlin, May 5.\u2014Public attention has been attracted to the extraordinary increase of infanticide here in Germany by an incident which has just taken place at Darmstadt.A young servant git of Frankenthal appeared last week before the courts there charged with having thrown her new-born child in the Rhine.Irasmuch as it was necessary for the purpose of ebtaining the conviction of the prisoner to secure the corpse of the child, the Darmstadt magistrates addressed letters to the magistrates of the vari- cus cities and towns along the river ask- | ing them if the body of a new-born child had been found.To the amazement of the Darmstadt judges they received answers notifying them that no less than t'irty-two bodies of new-born infants had been taken from the Rhine within a few days following the alleged murder for which the servant girl was on trial, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE SOUDAN.COUNTRY TO BE OPENED TO FOREIGN TRADE SHORTLY.Cairo, Egypt, May 5\u2014General Lord Kitchener is expected to arrive here today and it is reported that he will arrange for the opening of the Soudan to fcreign trade.There are some misgivings in regard to the terms, and it is sup- pceed that he will not permit its extension south of Khartoum.His recent absolute control of the trade and expulgion of traders from the southern portion of the Soudan must be in some measure altered, or there is reason to believe merchants will endanger the whole trade, diverting it to the Italian and French territories as far as possible.\u2014_\u2014-\u2014 THE REYNOLDS MURDER.New York, May 5.\u2014Chief of Detectives McClugkey, when asked to-day regarding the: confession of the murder of Dolly Reynolds, made by Richard T.Nichol- gon in Wormwood Scrubs prison, England, declared there was no truth in it.Dr.Samuel Kennedy was recently sentenced to death for killing Miss Reynolds.Captain McCluskey pointed out that the confession states that the woman was shot, while the autopsy showed that the woman was killed by a blow with a bludgeon, and that she was not shot at all.am > tal : tice.One of those, Giamsammntod by the Central News, \u2018on authority,\u2019 is to the effect that the probability of war was seriously regarded on Wednesday by the cabinet.The Central News ascribes to \u2018a very prominent minister, not Mr.Chamberlain,\u2019 & statement that the dis putes between the two countries are trending towards an acute crisis.The Johannesburg correspondent of the \u2018Times\u2019 confirms the reports of extreme unrest among the Uitlanders.He says that when he arnived at Johannesburg some months ago he thought that time wae on the side of the Uitlanders and that there was room for patience, but he now is compelled io abandon this theory.He declares that the virus of Kru- gerism is spreading throughout South Af rica, threatening a regime worse than that of Tammany Hall, in New York.Nine thousand Uitlanders, composed of British, Americans, Germans, French, Duteh and others, have petitioned the government to ignore the petition signed recently by twenty-one thousand British subjects protesting against the injustices to which they were subjected by the Transvaal Government, which was sent to the Queen through Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony and High Com Tiissioner of South Africa.These latest petitioners declare that the petition to the Queen was the work of capitalists, the attainment of whose wishes would be detrimental to the public, who are per fectly satisfied with the existing adminis tration.Landon, May 5.\u2014The \u2018 Morning Pos,\u2019 refer tothe Pretoria dogpatoh giving CRITE re aust) i a * Wm STON, B-SHAS i cu \u2019 reached the ond of his tether and that he must disavow and.withdraw the Transvaal\u2019s reply to Mr.Chamberlain\u2019s.protest or the suzerain ot state must dictate to the vassal state \u2018 the rights that suzerainty confers.London, May 5.\u2014The \u2018Outlook,\u2019 in this | week\u2019s issue, publishes a special des patch from its Ca n correspondent, in which it is stated that the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr, Joseph Chamberlain, has despatched a firmly worded demand upon the Trams vaal Republic that it must observe its ob- | ligations to the Queen as the paramount power, by securing peace and order within the Republic.This demand, the despatch says, is supplementary to\u2019 the \u2018demand for the cancellation of the dynamite concession, and is taken to mean that the British Government deems the time has come to invite President Kruger to observe the letter as well as the spirit of the London convention.It is rot stated how far the demand takes the form of an ultimatum or if a period to be fixed within whieh redress of the grievances of the Uitlanders shall be made.THE DYNAMITE CONCESSION.Cape Town, May 5\u2014The reply of President Kruger, of the Trapsvaal Republic, to the demand from the British Secertary of State for the Colonies, Mr.Joseph Chamberlaip for the conertistion of the dynamite concession, is\u2019 published here to-day.Preeident Kruger contends that the concession \u201cis \u2018bona \"fide, and constitutes no breach of the London convention.The Transvaal, President Kruger insists, is entitled to its opinion as to what is for the best interests of the Republic.The amendment - of - the concession as asked by the British.Government, the President adds; would be a breach of faith with regard to other parties.\u2014_\u2014 PUBLIC TRIAL FOR DREYFUS \u2014 WILL BEGIN IN PARIS ON MAY 20.\u201c© \u2014 Paris, May 5\u2014The \u2018Matin\u2019 to-day states that a public hearing of the Dreyfus case has been ordered for May 2: a am WARMER WEATHER, Toronto, May 5, \u20181 w.n.-Tha fr \"lowing are the maximum and minimym teprpera- tures:\u2014Kamloops, 64, 42: Calgrry, 64, 28 : Qu\u2019Appelle, 34, 20; Winnipeg; 46, 34; Port Arthur, 58, 32; Parry Sound, 70, 46; Toronto, 59, 40: Montreal, 60, 38; Quebec, 52, 34 Halifax, 42, 34.Fine and a little warmor to-day and on Saturday.Montreal, May 6, 1899, Readings by Hearn & Harrison's Standard Barometer at noon to-day, 320; yesterday, 30.22.Temperature, to-day, max.3, min, 42; yesterday, max.58, min.48.a+ ol PUY hat # 3 oem - BIRTHS, MARRIABEY\u2019 AND DEATHS.Notices of births, marriagss aid deaths must inrari- ably be endorsed with the name and addresé of the sender, or otherwise no notice oan Bes taken of them Birth notices ars (naerted for Lhe, marriage notiocs Jor 50¢, death wnoticre for -25¢ prepaid.The an- nOURCEMERS of funeral appended: to death notice, 2he extra ;, other extension to odituary, such as short hetek\" of Life, two cently gr \u201cword cord, except poetry, which is 50 cents per Tine extra\u2014prepatd.Annual sédecriders may Aare announcements of births, marrigges and deaths [without extended cbitwany or verses) occurring in their tmmediate families, free of charge, in whic ogee nzme and address of seh seribers shocldde siren \u2019 BIRTHS., BATES.\u2014At 39 Rozel street, on May 1, 1899, the wife of T.A.Bates, of a daughter.4 SANDREUTYR-At Montrose avenue, West- .mount, on April 28, 1899, the wife of Ed- / ward Sandrenter, of a Bon, 3 \u2018 / MARRIED.BURGESS\u2014ARMSTRONG.\u2014In the Methodist Church, Shawville, P.Q., oh April 28, by the Rev.W.Knox, Mr.J.W.Burgess, of Mérrickvile; Ont.to \u2018Miss Annie L.Arm: g.diughter of Mr.Noble H.Armstrong, of Clarendon, Co.Pontiac.4 EBERTS\u2014H il 25, 1899, in Holy 4 rime le hinipes.by the Rav.on Matheson, D.D., warden of St.J@hn\u2019s College, H ; Joseph vou Ebe of Winnipeg, to Jsabel Richmond Hoopdr, B.A., eldest daughter of William H.per, Esq., formerly of Brandon, now gf Winnipeg.: 4 HALLIDAY\u2014JONES-\u2014At Ottawa, on May 3, 1899, by the Rev.J.W.H.Milne,B.A., Samuel Walter Halliday, to Miss Dhraxy Lena \u2018Jones, both.of Ottawa.5 HENDRIE\u2014HUTCHESON.\u2014At the manse, Nortin Westminater.5an March 22, 1999, by the Kèv.K.H.SaWers, James Hendrie, of Leedé, North Dakota, to Lizzie W.,youngest dfughter of the latw John Hutcheson, Pond .Mills, Ont.4 LANGPON\u2014STREET.\u2014 At St.Thomas's Church, Toronto, on \u201cMay 2, 1899, by the Rev.'C.H.Short, assisted .by the Rev.F.Hy Hartley, and the Rev.F.G.Plummer, Hugh Hornby Largton, Librartan of the University of Toronto, to Ethel Beatrice, Seldest* dhughter of the Hon.Mr.Justice Street.+ 4 VEAR\u2014BEATTIE.\u2014At_ the home of the father of the bride, Bustis, Que., on Wed- nesdsy, April 28, 1899, by the Rev.Galen H.Craik,-BzAs James Henry Vear to Marggret Eliza.Jane, eldest daughter of Mr.illiami Beattle.4 - DIED.ANGLIN\u2014At San Angelo; Texas, on May 3, 1899, tn his 17th- year, \u2018Alexander Eäward, youngest son of the late T.W.Anglin, Toronto.5 BUSSELL\u2014On May 5, 1899, Harold, Manning,: son of Thea.W.Bussell, aged 19 years.Funeral from Royal Victoria Hoznital on Monday next, at 2.30 p.m.BURWABH-\u2018At' the residence of Miss J.MacMartin, St.Andrews, \u2018@Que., on April 30, ~Fllen Catherine, second daughier of the late Matthew Burwash, Bay, St.Andrews.BOOTH \u2014At Ottawa, on May 3, 1899, in his |.66th year, Robert Rowley, fourth son of the late John R.Booth, of Waterloo, Que.: EROPHY\u2014At 344 Gilmour street, Ottawu, on May 3, 1899, Sidney Joteph, infant son of Jobn B.Brophy, C.E., aged 7 weeks.CUNNINGHE: Bertttg BH\" eldest.daughtér of -Joh:1 Cunningham, eê 25 Murray street, city.Notice of funeral later.5 Please omit flowers.GIBSON.\u2014On May 2, 1899, at his residence, No.203 Gerrard stre east, Toronto, Donald Gibson, city electrician, in hib 74th year.4 McCURDY\u2014At Rawdon, Que., on Mey 3, 1899, -John McCurdy, ater a long illness (very suddenly}, aged 5 years.Funeral on \u2018Saturday.; 5 MURPHY.\u2014At Sitlery.Quebec, on April 30, 1899, Catherine O'Rourke, a native of the County Fermanagh, Ireland, beloved wife of Pierce Murphy, Esq., aged 80 years.#4 STIRLING\u2014At Crieff, Scotland, on May 3, 1899, Margaret Stirling, aged 73 yèars, eldest sister of John Stirling, Esq., of Montreal.nr 5 SAUNDERS.\u2014On_ April 28, 1899, of pneumonia, Mrs.Mary Saunders, aged 54, wife of Mr.M, Saunders, Kildonan, Man., and sister of Messrs, N,, W.J.and D.Bawlit, and Mrs.Chisholm, of \u201cWinnipeg.4 SUTHERLAND\u2014At his residence, \u2018Bellevue House,\u201d Kildonan, Man.,-on April 27, 1899, the Hon: John Sutherland, in his 78th te Ney mbar 4 year.y TODD\u2014On May 3, 1899, at his late resi- dencad, 12 Avenue place, Toronto, Philip Todd, aged 49 years, eldest son of the late Alpheus Todd, LL.D., O.M.G., librarian ot par!lament.5 Notices recejve& .too late for this page may poésibly ba:in time for page 6.Live sending nobices for the abov: column may send with Lien a list of names of interested friends.Marked copice \"ef Ns; \"TV étages containing such notice;roill Le felt free to ary kddress in Canada Montreal popped.a Customers _ intending piano pur- chasery_are rénfindéd of the fact that W.H.Leach, piano dealer, has removed to 2440 St.Catherine street, a few doors cast of Drummond street.Telephone Up 888.7 pes 2.Lu Tres co ; UNDERTAKBRS.[90 Ft, James st.vBelophanea Main, 321.Uptown, 1501, 6160.BANK OF MONTREAL.OTICE Is hereby given that a DIVIN OX FIVE PERCENT, for the current-half.seat (MARIE à total distribution for fhe year of Ten percent) upon the paid-up Gapitäf Stôck- of this Institution, has beet: declared, -and that the same wi be payable at ita Banking House in this | City, and at 1iz)B hes, on, and.after THURSD.rat DAY, the.firsh day, of Jupe pext, The TRANSFER BOOKS will be closed from the ¥7twto the -3let-of May next, both days toelusive.: - .The Antuat' General Meeting of the Shareholders will be beld at the Banking House \u2018of the \u2018lsiitutign on MONDAY, the Firth day: of June \"seit \u2018The chair to be œ'tsok.: : taken dt .By order: of .the Beard.:.LIST RR, CHOUSTON, : + \u201cGemers] Manager, 1899.19 ».Montres], 1H\" Apñtt, To Notre Dame street.Montreal\u2019s Greatest Store.THE May 5, 1899.Standard $40.\u201cThe Star\u201d HIGH GRADE Bicycles, Regular, $40.Special $22.95 The STAR BICYCLE has fairly cap Its standard is high.It must necessaril position it holds among the best cyclist cles now in use; they carry our reputati from the maker for perfection of materia Bicycles, for $22.95.cycle stores, and prices are considerably SPORTING GGODS.Regular.Special.Good Baseballs, .3.07 $ 041 Strong Baseball Bats .07 05 Hard Rubber Balls.12 08 (Good Lacrosses.15 10 Splendid Fishing Rods.20 12 New Barbells.40 .23 New Dumbells, pair.50 .36 Indian Clubs, pair.50 36 Infielders\u2019 Gloves.40 .31 Baseball Maeks.40 25 Baseball Mitts, each .25 .18 BOYS SCHOOL SUITS.The Boys\u2019 School Suits at The Big Store are marvels of Beauty and Giants in strength, priced to show the company\u2019s masterful grip of the clothing trade.BOYS\u2019 NAVY SERGE SUITS, made, special, from $1.65.BOYS\u2019 SAILOR JERSEY SUITS, strong, special, from $1.70.BOYS\u2019 SAILOR SERGE SUITS, cut, special, from 32.85.BOYS' TWEED SAILOR SUITS, styles, special, from $3.40.BOYS\u2019 NORFOLK SERGE SUITS, special make, from $1.65.BOYS NORFOLK HALIFAX TWEED Suits, splendid quality, from $2.95.THE 8.CARSLEY CO., LIMITED.well very new new 1765 10 178% Notte Dame st.IN BLACK OR MAROON FINISH.184 to 194 St.James st.Montreal.RIDE.THE \"STAR\" BIGYGLE For $22.95 The Best 77% inthe market At Carsley\u2019s For $32.95.tivated the cycle affection of both sexes.y be so to maintain the distinguished s.There are hundreds of \u2018Star\u2019 Bicy- on and your weight\u2014also a full guarantee 1 and finish.Standard $40.00 \u2018 Star\u2019 Our Boys\u2019 Sporting Tit-Bits AND\u2019 BICYCLE SUNDRIES.| BICYCLE SUNDRIES are having a BIG RUN at The Big Store.ent cyclists say there's a larger and better assortment here thanMat exclusive bi- Promin- lower.These hints for proof.BICYCLE SUNDRIES.Regular.Special.Pant Clips.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 \u2026 .5 .05 § .02% Handle Grips.,.05 02%.Rubber Cement.\u2026 .\u2026 .07 04 Graphite.ce ee 0e 0 10/05 Toe Clips, pair.15 .08 Bicycle Bells.25 .18 Bicyele Oil, tin.,.25 15 Carbide.«.«0 ov ovo.25 14 Coasters.25 14 Continuous Ringing Bells.1.25 .85 Bicycle Lamp Oil, tin.25 15 BIG BOOK SALES.Given a remarkable line of titles in books, a remarkable value in paper and binding, and an extensive sale is assured.Here are good sel:ere tor Saturday and { week-end reading.BOOKS IN PAPER COVERS.2,000 Franklin Series, 200 titles, 3c each.2,000 Victor Series, 300 titles, 4£c each 500 Manhattan Series, 100 titles, 10c ea.500 David \u2018Harum, the great book of 4 the day, 65c.BOOKS -BOUND IN NEAT CLOTH.1,000 Books, 50 titles, 12¢ each.1,000 Bocks, 100 titles, 14e each.1,000 Books, 50 titles, 150 each.2,000 Books, 250 titles, 18c.- ALL NEW BOOKS OF THE DAY in Cloth and Paper, \u2018all reduced.= Write for the New Summer Catalogue just published: The S.CARSLEY CO., Limited.: \"kways than one, and poverty of many rékmorte.Arbor Day, as must be ghown Hmigre fully, is a vitally important insti- Black or Maroon.Dunlop Tires.LAST FOR THE SEASON! 17 Cavalier Bicycles #55.$30 24.25 and 26 inches, Choice of Saddles.Every Wheel Guaranteed Perfecl.CAVERHILL, LEARMONT & CO.Ip \u2019 8 Wedding Rings.QUALITY THE BEST.; PRICES THE LOWEST.18 Kar.Gold Warranted, $3.50 to $12.00 34 Kar.Gold Warranted, 32.50 to B16.60 10 Kar.Gold Warranted, $1.50 to 8 7.00 D, BEATTY, 137 St.Peter st.Oppesite * Witness* Office.The Baily Witness.FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 5.ARBOR , DAY IN.THE UNITED \u201cSTATES.(\u2018The Standard,\u201d Chicago.) Arbor Day is a valuable day.The average American admits as much, and desires, in his vague, hurried way, that .it be properly celebrated.But he needs to have the deeper meanirg of the occasion interpreted for him.And after that, after he is convinced that Arbor Day is not a merely sentimental affair, but is concerned with a great practical need of this.country, and rests on pa- \u2018triotiem, he will certainly cherish a new feeling toward the gentle holiday, and be anxious to ensure its most adequate okservance.It appears anomalous, but is in fact far other, that an annual tree-planting li should bave been instituted not in a for- .est-vestured state, but in a state where \u2018the sun scorghes the whole \u2018countryside roll for mila without a band\u2019s breadth of shade\u2014Nebraska.It is the treeless land that has glorified the forest idea.Of course it is all perfectly natural, after all.All that was needed was a man with foresight enough to see in the blank, _defenceless prairie a.danger, and with \u201cenergy enough to devise a plan of defence.-It may be that Governor Morton had never encountered a cyclone.But be knew the disadvantages of cy- \u201cwith impunity.and the prairies-roll and- clones, especially when no trees stand in the way, and he determined that a barrier should be set in Nebraska to keep the boisterous western elements from pouring over into the peaceful east\u2014a wind-dyke, as it were.So \u2018he pro claimed a day when Nebraskan should plant trees, with oratorical accessories.And this day was first celebrated on April 22, 1872.Every year thereafter a good many trees were into the Nebraskan soil, and thus the nucleus of great forests was established.1t was ten years before another state heeded the plan ; then.Iowa, Nebraska's neighbor, and Ohio, progressive always, set apart an Arbor Day.One by one the other.states dropped into line\u2014Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Illinois in 1887, and Wisconsin in 1889, Florida, Louisiana and many others.And now there are forty- four stales and territories which oele- brate this day ; twenty-orre of them having approved the custom by act of legislature.The day falls on various dates in the different states.Of course they plant trees in Florida long before they do in Illinois, and in California before they do in New York.And so Arbor Day is observed all the year round, and all the country through.It has attained the universality of both time and place.Now we know not what Governor Morton may bave meant the occasion to be, in a ceremonial way.But by common consent, almost, Arbor Day has come to achools ; and there is talk of bringing the Sunday-schools into line in its ob- gervance.Every one knows the manner of it.On the specified day in each state the children are led out\u201dinto the sunéhine, rejoicing in their one day\u2019s freedom.And then while some praoti- cal woodman fashions a resting-place\u2014or \u201ca grave, it may be\u2014for the dainty plant, the children march their marches, and sing their songs, and speak their pieces; \u2018and chief of all, the teacher or invited guest instructs them as to the value and care of trees, and seeks to stimylate their love for nature.No need to recite the programme\u2019 in detail.There is something beautifully fitting in.this \u2018children\u2019s day.\u201d Who should impart tLe beginning of life but they who stand at the thres- MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.$40 Bicycle.2 as early.as possible, a sense of the worth, {likely to lose his head, and do slipshod be/a feast day for children in the public | PS JOHN and the colorings are exquisite.SPECIAL FOR TO-M worth 95¢, for 59c.MURPHY +O OP +O +O +0 +S +O + PIO ++ The leading styles this season are particularly pleasing, 50 dozen Stylish Shirt Waists, $1.00 quality for 49¢.( 250 Ladies\u2019 Print Wrappers, new and stylish patterns, Shi - Waists.Our assortment of Sbirt Waists for '99 were never prettier and never cheaper ; each year seems, to add improvement to the manufacture of these ready-to-wear garments.ORROW\u2019'S BUYING : of the parations of the celebrated Shredded Wheat Foods in our basement daily by Miss A.Chadwick, of the Hamilton School of Domestic Science and Cookery.Hour of demoustration, 3 to 4 pm.properties and various pre- Gold Medallist and.Graduate Terms Cash.JOHN MURPHY & CO.2343 St.Catherine Street, corner of Metcalfe.: © A communication from the: Heasy © Fripay, May 5, 1899.up his mind.He hastily wrote a note to his chief, took it to headquarters, and left it.A minute later he was lost in the crowded street.The note read :\u2014\u2018Please put me back on patrol duty.Several years ago 1 made a serious blunder that makes me unfit for detective work.1 married.'\u2014 \u2018Tit-Bite.WORKMEN MEET, CENTRAL TRADES COUNCIL ENDORSES THE MAYOR'S ACTION.The Central Trades and labor Council held a largely attended meeting, last evening, at 6024 Craig street, Mr, S.Fitzpatrick presiding.Credentials were received, and the following delegates admitted to represent their respective unions : \u2014 Core-makers\u2019 International Union, Mr.Jas.Carey; Lasters Union, Edward Gannard; Brick-layers\u2019 Union, Philias Nadeau; Granite-cutters\u2019 Union, Fhilip Stock, Frapk O'Connor, and R.Hurtubise.: i \u2019 : Carter's union in connection with nonresidents of the city getting a large portion of the work during the summer which the taxpoyers should get, Was read and the matter referred to the legislative committee.The payment of wages to the laborers who cleared the snow off the streets, and the Mayor's action in promptly having them paid for same, was endorsed by a unenimous vote.Other important mat- | ters were discussed before adjourning.The weekly meeting of the Iron Moulders, held on Wednesday evening, was the largest yet held by.the members of the union here.The question of adopting a schedule of wages, which has been urder consideration for some time past, has not yet been satisfactorily arranged.In connection therewith Mr.M.J.Ke- ough, second national vice-president, has returned to this city.It is expected that an amicable settlement will be arrived at during the present week.At Wednesday evening's meeting fully three hundred members were present.Some important business was transacted.\u2014\u2014\u2014 MINING NOTES.\u2018tends the process than the songs of children ?But, beauty aside, there is a practical value in giving young America, \u2018almost.sacredness, of forest-life.What the present generation is getting in this line may save our continent from a ruin-« cus poverty in \u2018silva\u2019 ; ruinous in more \u2018tution.There is an unfortunate tendency in- many Arbor Day exercises to run to over-elaborateness and sentimentality ; unfortunate, because the real object of \u2018the day ig often slighted.The main thing is to get trees planted well, and to ensure their growth to massive maturity.Now, in the overabundance of songs and speeches glorifying the general idea \u2018tree,\u2019 the man who does the planting is work; for it takes truly esoteric Nearn- ing to dig the right sort of hole; and i the roots deftly, and heap earth to just the right height.Thus the tree- child gets a poor grip upon the world.And further, when the aesthetic side of the subject is abnormally emphasized, the matter of instruction is neglected; and this is the fundamental matter of the whole.It is probable that not much move than half of the trees planted live out the year.They die from ignorant handling, as well as from neglect.It s just as bad for the children to Teceive vague and muddled directions, as none at all.In either case, Arbor Day is nearly useless.\u2019 But not quite.If young America gets merely an intensified feeling of the price- lessness of trunk and foliage, he gets what will, supposedly, keep our land from a shameful and disastrous barrenness.During recent years millions of acres of American forest land has been wasted\u2014abeolutely wasted.Some four hundred million acres remained, at the last reckoning.But this resource is de- ¢resaing almost twenty-five million acres \u2018innually; eighteen years, at this rate, will end all.In onch an incredibly short time our great, boasted wealth of forest will have totally disappeared into our hungry furnaces.Can any one fail to see how this Mississippi Valley has already been swept almost clean ?And what is the result in this valley ?The tributarics of the Mississippi and other- rivers have lost a full half of their wa- \u2018ters.Every year inundations-\u2014Shaw- neetown floods, sometimes \u2014become more frequent.And besides that, we are com- Jled to send abroad for a large share of our building material.We are rich in some ways, but in forests we are as poor as the most pitiable of church mice, Now it is only just to say that this tremendous loss is largely the result of criminal wastefulness.The pioneers \u201cwasted, and their sons wasted, and we \u2018weste, Arbor Day embodies the correc- \u2018tion of this tendency.If the great bodies of school children are every year taught, rigorously mnd conscientiously taught, that forests are as precious as gold, not as cheap as grass, there will \"be a mighty change in this respect, and fuel and building material will be intel ligently drawn upon, not childishly thrown away.But though many of the trees sown at Arbor Day die a piteous death, enough hold of life 2 What more filtingly at- prey mr = ne ee \u2018grow to health and strength to better the situation in a vast degree.Thousands upon thousands of acres of forests have been planted by the gentle hands of the children, and have sprung up to It is estimated that since that first day in Nebraska four hundred million trees have been placed in the earth; and though with some it bas been interment, with many it has been the beginning of a noble life.What: this country owes to Arbor Day for \u2018its practical enrichment, cannot be \u2018reckoned.And what does it owe in beauty, beth present and to come ?Vast oceans of rich-hued woodland; the unmatched 3 814; Northern\u2019 Belle, 5,000 at 213; 1.000 at enrich the land.charm of myriad interlaced branches \u2018lavish hills, vine-hung dwellings\u2014 Witch-elms that countercnange the floor Of this dark lawn with dusk and bright; And thou with all thy breadth and height Of foliage, tow-ring sycamore.The planting of trees is the furtherance of God\u2019s noblest handiwork in na- Arbor Day nfeans this and noth- ture.ing less.rte HIS GREAT MISTAKE.He was considered one of the best in The case that required the most intelligent, persistent, and careful work was the one that was usually as- He had been at work on one for three or four weeks, and at last had secured what he considered his line.signed to him.\u2018clinching evidence.\u2019 It was a bribery case, and his work had been to entrap the would-be briber.He He had secured a single bribe money, but that he envelope containing the money had been opened in the presence of three persons, and each had put his mark on the note, Bo that it could be had done it.£10 note of th was enough.identifiede Naturally he was jubilant, at that.caught, and he went home exulting.Now, mark\u2019 what can heppen to a man who has vietory practically woh, but is He thought of going to headquarters and depositing his evidence in a vault, but it was a long distance, and then it would be better anyway to go to the chief in the morning and announce o he eareless.that he had bagged thé game.took it home.; Once or twice he thought he was followed, but when he reached home he scouted the idea, turned in, and slept Robbery did not occur to him, soundly.even in his dreams.In the money was gone- robbed ! I've been robbed !\u2019 \u2018Nonsense,\u2019 replied his wife.miesing ?\u2018A ten-pound note.\u201d .7 took it\u2019 she said calmly.\u2018I wanted to pay some bills, and I didn\u2019t want.to But I didn\u2019t touch the money I just took the loose ten- pound note that was in your inside T'll get you another if you need I thought that was oné you had wake you.in your purse.pocket.it, but put aside for me.He didn't try to explain.He didn\u2019 even answer ; but he hunted up a broad, smooth sheet of water, and for an hour stood looking out over it, muttering to himself.At last he seemed to have mad People will be when they think they have won a great victory, and he had all the evidence he wanted in his pocket\u2014an inside pocket The bird was practically the morning\u2014well, in\u2019 the morning He almost fainted when he discovered the loss, and rushed into the dining-room, crying, T\u2019ve been \u2018What is VANCOUVER AND ROSSLAND MINING EXCHANGES-~-NEW COMPANIES FORMED.Vancouver, B.C., May 4.\u2014 First call toard -of the Vancouver Mining Brokers\u2019 Association was held this morning, and was attended by most of the prominent brokers a the city.The bidding was spirited from centred chiefly \u201crn Dardanéiles, Van Ard, Northern Belle, Rambler, Cariboo, and Noble Five.These were in good demand.Sales took place as follows: Van Anda, 5,000 at 8%; 5,600.at 8; 1,000 at 84; 5,000 at 28%; Van Anda, 600 ai 8%; Monte Cristo, 600 at 12; Noble Five, 1,000 at 39.Rossland, B.C., May 4\u2014In the Iron-Mask- Centre Star case the evidence of Dr.Raymond was concluded to-day, and the Court adjourned sine die.The detalls of ihe court order directing.the adjournment,aud directing the question of costs incurred by same, will be settled by Justice Walken later.Many.of the expert witnesses and the counsel engaged In the case left town to-day.| Sales on the Rossland Stock Exchange: \u2014 1,000 Morrison at 16%, 2,000 at 17, 2,000 at 17, 4,600 at 17%, 500 at 17%; 1,600 Fairmount at 10, 500 at 10; 500 Winnipeg at 50%, 1,000 at 30%; 2,000 Tamarac at 17; 5,000 White Bear at 4; 1,000 Evening Star at 10%; 1,000 Deer Park at 4; 1,000 Iron Mesk at 73.Halifax, N.8., May 4\u2014Word was recelv- ed to-day that the workmen in the Lake Lode mine at Caribou had struck it rich\u2019 The shaft is about 5) fest deep, and it is said the lead found is an extraordinarily rich ome, i being calculated that.there is now about $10,000 worth of.gold jn sight.The mine is operated by the Guffey, Jennings Company, a Pittsburg concern.Another company has been successfully formed in connection with the Ymir properties, called the Rossland-Ymir Mining and Milling Company, Limited, with a capital of $500,000 in two million shares of 25 cents eech.\u201d The property is the Bruce group, situated on Jubilee mountain, and consists \u2018of the Bruce, Colville, Canadian, Simcoe and Hope mineral claims.The first meeting afte?registration of the Granby Consolidated \u2018Mining & Smelting Company, took place yesterday in the office of A.L.White & Co, Mr.A.F.Gault- occupying tbe chair.Amongst others pres- -ent were Messrs.Leslié H.Cault, W.A.Matley, 8.H.C.Miner, A.L.White, C.E.Gault, and others.The election of officers took place, with the following result: S.H.(3.Miner, president; J.-P.Graves, vice- president; C.Æ.Gault, -secretary; George W.Wooster, treasurer, and H.F.Hemen- way, agent of the company at Phoenix, B.C., with J.P.Graves, as manager.Reports were presented, showing a very sat- {gfactory state of affairs.Later in th» day, Mr.A.F.Gault presided over a meeting of the Majesti« Gold Mining Company, Li éd, when the following gentlemen were chosen directors: §.H.C.Miner, presideat; J.P.Graves, vice-president end , manager; and A.L.White, secretary-treasurer.Jt was shown that work had bee1 started on the Majestic groperties, and that the machinery hal been Installed in conjunction with the City of Paris mine, the expenses being equally divided according to the power ured, It may also be added that work has been started ou the Victoria, ome of the Granby Consolidated claims, by working into the Vietoria ground from the 200 1cet level of the Old ironsiées, thereby going 200 \u2018eet Aeép without the expenae of sinking 8 shaft.The intention is to cross-cut tin they strike the ledge, and then drift on the ore.\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.Store Your Piano with us for the summer.We have the best steraxe quarters for pianes in the city.All pianosare insured.Piane Taning and Repairing a specialty.The D.W.Karn Co., Ltd., Karn Hall Building.st.e Catherluest.Telephone Up 1174 ee Ti Rie Beal CP > ® = sold at Fripar, Mar 5, 1899.rer annee at ne \u2014 a \u2014 \u2014 \u2018 SHELLENE 0 What is it?It is the best thing Dressing, and it means no mor e hal forenoon and afternoon.NEW HOMESPUNS.We have just reonived another consignment of those \u2018Pretty Homespuns, so much in demand tor Bicycle Costumes, in Crey, Fawn, Brown, Blue and Green.FANCY RIBBONS.Wide widths, for Crush Collars ard Belts, in Dresden, Stripes and Plalds; a varied assortment to select from.RÉ RE RE RE D MERE ROIS + SRÉSRÉSRÉ/SNE RÉ os ROM AMSTERDAM.F \u2014We have just received the first shipment of this season\u2019s Diamonds.These stones have all been personally selected by our Messrs.H.& G.W.Birks, in Amsterdam, and are off securities wete frm, especially iron shares.exceptionally good value.They are fully up to our usual high standard of quality.HENRY BIRKS & SONS, Phillips Square, Montreal.rer LOCAL STOCKS.MARKET QUIETER.Wrrrass OYTTOR, May 5 190% Canadian Pacific ia still the leading feature of the market and at this morning's session some 2,200 shares changed Lands at prices ranging from 87% to 98%, both the opening and closing, however, were at 98 Twin City was the only other stock which showed any life.Of this 1,200 shares were prices.MORNING SALES.Can.Pao.\u201435 at 98, 35 at 98%, 25 at 98%, 100 at 9814, 700 at 98%, 50 at 9814, 100 at 98%, 50 at 9814, 250 at 98%, 325 at 98%, 20 at 97%, 100 at 9814, ST5 at 98.Rich.& Ont.\u2014100 at 114%, 25 at 114, 150 at 113%; 50 at 114.New M.S.R.\u2014100 at 333.; Toronto Ry.\u201420 at 118%, 25 at 119.Dom.Coal Com.\u2014150 at 57%.1 Twin City\u201450 at 72%, 50 at 721, 300 at 72%, 100 at 72%, 100 at 72%, 250 at 72%, 25 at 72%, 260 at 78, 50 at 73%, 25 at 73.M.S.R.\u201425 at 336.Duluth pfd.\u201425 at 1314.Dom.Cotton\u2014100 at 115%, 25 at 11544.Republic x-d.\u2014500 at 138%.i Duluth Com.\u201425 at 53, 175 at b%.Twin City pfd.\u201450 at 138.\u2018 Montreal Telegraph\u201450 at 175.Can.Col.Cot.Bonds\u2014$500 at 101 Bell Tel.\u201425 at 179.Merchants Bank\u20141 at 170.Reported by Messrs.Nichols & Marler, Stock Brokers 173 Notre Dame St.MORNING BOARD.Stocks.Bellers Buyers Stocks.Sellers Buyers per r T BE 3100 09 100 Can.Pacifio.98 vs Com.Cable.189 187 DLuluth Com.s Richelieu, ., 114} 1 8 Do.Prd.14 13 BTREET RAILWAYS Montreal St.336% 335 Toroato.119% 119 Mont\u2019) New.333% St.Jobn.150 La.Halifax.115 13 TwinCigy.73 13% pd.cern MISCELLANEOUS Monti Gas.205 203 Halifax HXL .Heys! Fiec.189 185 Bell Teleph.180 1784 Mul, Telegr.174 Dom.Coal.57 Windsor Htl.110 108 *opfd.14 COTIONS Montl.\u2026 163 Merchanta.Mont ice 185 à Dominion.115% \u2018ils MINES, War Eagle SL 83.73% Mont.Lond.680 Fayne Mine*$4.04 $3.83 Repub.Cons*§1.39 1.Merchants.Mreb of Hlfx Nova Scotia Hix Ht& Lt.Rifx.Tram.Land Grant MW.Land Halitax Ry, \u201crd.Beported for the \u2018Witness\u2019 by Mr.G.Bo Marler, Banker and Broker, 1731 Notre Dams 82 Buyers.Beller.Counter.New York Punds.1-64 dis.1464 prem.% to i prem Sterling, 60 day.316 94 to #3 Sterling, domand.9 9-16 3 sk to 9% Sterling Cables.\u2018 Fa Fans Cheques,\u2026 FINANCIAL CABLES.New York, May 4\u2014The \u2018Commercial Ad- \u2018ertiser's\u2019 financial cable froni London, & Ys: The markets here were duil and un- \u2018sy to-day.The Transvaal apprehension Yas revived on vague talk of an ultima- im.I do not credit the reports.Amori- U6 Were heavy all day.Liverpool liqui- a heavily early.The close was heavy Tintos were 45%; Ana- oltom prices.EERE - monstrated in Ladies\u2019 Parlor by an expert lady .demons Free Art Embroidery Class.Ladies\u2019 Class will resume on MONDAY, the 8th May, 2.30 til] 5.30 p.m.Children\u2019s Special Class to-morrow, at 9.30 \u2018till 12 a.m.in Ladies\u2019 Parlor.illvy ST.CATHERINE and MOUNTAIN STS, & A op RECEIVED bo.Q63 > , x 3 prices ranging \u201cfrom 73% at the| re ER hy Moraes THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.invented for Ladies\u2019 Self-Hair- s no more bindings; its use de- trator to-morrow FRENCH DOTTED CREPON Ané Dotted Poplins, Embroidered Dress Patterns, New Fancy Bengalines, In ail new colors.SUMMER COSTUMES, A new line of Pique, Denim, Duck and Linen Costunies, placed into stock.Ss, - à à yo *- condas, 12%; Boston - ee 1% stons, 2 9-16.Money was Paris, May 4.\u2014Prices opened irrcgul ar the bourse to-day, but subsequently arp felines in South Africans, owing to appre- cnsions of Anglo-Tranvaal - complications, «aused an adverse tendency all round.Bra- zillan securities were firm.Rio Tintos,un- ae large realizations, sharply reacted.crlin, May 4\u2014On the Bourse to- - allan securities were frm.rican se curities were quiet.Canadian Pacifics fluctuated much, closing weaker.Local MINING EXCHANGE, (Reported by A.W.Morris, Mining Broker, Room 62, Canada Life Building.) MORNING BOARD.Stocks.2} Sellers.Buyers.TRE .ti th ee se 0.00 $4.00 $3.52 War Eagle .3.80 ee.Republic ., .1.40 1.364 Virtue 2 2 ee \u2026.Montreal and London .7 sS Eig Three ., .2 2542 Brandon and G.Crown .30 % California ., .10 7 Can.Gold Fields .\u2026.8 5 Caribod Hydraulle .1.46 1,35 City of Paris ., .TL 64 Evening Star .10% 9% Fern .45 25 Sois Hila Dev.1 5 ron Colt.:, 12 Iron Mask .i 7 Keob Hill .Monte Cristo .Mont.Gold Fields .Noble Five Novelty ., .Old TIronsides .Virginia ., .Rambler Cariboo .Bullion .| cee Le, D MORNING BALES.Rambler Cariboo\u20141,000 at 30%.California\u20141,000 at 73.Noble Five\u20141,000 at 3014.Big \u2018Three-500 at 2514, 500 at 2514.Morrison\u201412,500 at 1914, 1,000 at 1914.Monte Cristo\u2014500 at 12%.Virtue\u2014500 -at 66.TORONTO MINING EXCHANGE.Toronto, Ont, May 5.\u2014Morning sales: Golden Star\u2014500 at 5934.J.0.41-500, 500 at 8%.Smuggler\u2014500, 500 at 4; 1,000, 500, GOO at 3%.Morrison\u2014500, 500 at 18%, 500 at 1814, 500 at 18%.Superior\u2014500 at 6.Minnehaha\u2014500, 500 at 25, 500 at 2514.Van Anda\u2014£00 at 8.Northern Bell\u2014500, 600, F00, 500, 500 at 3.Gold Hills\u2014500 at ?.MONTREAL CLEARING HCWSE.The Montreal Clearing House statement for the week shows: *Clearings.Dalances.$18,980,546 $2,308,253 12,471,605 1,783,055 10,624,611 1,585,480 8,461,629 1,300,792 Total for week end! May 4, 189% .Corresponding week of 1898 .Le +2 Le LL Corresponding week of Corresponding week of 1896 .BANK OF ENGLAND WEEKLY STATEMENT.London, May 4.\u2014The weekly statement of the Bank of England shows the following changes: Total reserve, decreased .:£1,309,000 Circulation, increased .455,000 Bullion, decreased .S53,515 Other securities, increas» .327, Other .deposits, increased .182,009 Public derosits, decreased .1,185,000 Notes reserve, decreased .1,339,600 Gov't securities, decreased .15,000] The proportion of the Bank of England's r«zæerve to Hability is 38.80 percent, com- rered with 40.60 percent last week.Bank rate of discount unchanged at three per- * COMMERCIAL Montrea! Wholesale Markets.GRAIN.Though there is not a large business Le.ing done, values are strong.The receipts by rail were 2,450 bushels of wueat, 15,509 bushels of corn, 3,400 bushels of peas and 20,808 bushels of oats.We quote: No.2 oats, 3614c to 363c afloat, and 32e in the West.Peas are worth Tac afloat and 6ic to 65c in the West.- FLOUR.There is a quiet business being done.We quote Manitoba patents at $3.90 to $4.05; strong bakers at $3.70 to $3.80, winter patents at $3.75 to $4 ; atraïght rollers, $3.50 to $3.60 ; straight rollers.bags, at $1.65 to $1.75: extras at $1.40 to $1.50.The receipts to-day wore 300 barrels.PROVISIONS.There is a quiet business being done.Liverpool quotations show a decline of 24 fn tallow to 23s 84.The Chicago hog market is reported active snd geuerally 5c bigher.sn « CHEESE.Liverpool cable is steady at 51s for both white and colored.The receipts to-day Were 814 boxes.BROCKVILLE CHEESE MARKET.Brockville, Ont., May +4\u2014The first meet- ear was held Here to-day at which 1,748 xes were boarded, of which 1,227 were colored, balance white; $%¢ was bid \u2018but no sales were made.J.H.Singleton was elected president.\u2018 BUTTER.Creamery Is in fair demand, and worth 4c to 16%c.Choice Bastern Townships dairy is worth 14e to 152, while fresh rolls are slow at 12¢c.The receipts to-day ware 1,516 packages.EGGS, The receipts are large and are heing well taken up at prices ranging from ile te 114c.The receipts by rail aad boat to-day were 911 cases.; LH LL FARMERS\u2019 MARKET PRICES-May 5.Although spring's work is genernl in the surrounding couiitfy, quité & iarge number of farmery found time to bring their produce to the city markets, and the market gardeners were out in full force, with increasing supplies vt green truck, which is sold at declining rates.There was a rather small supply of oats, and prices are\u2019 from 86c to 90c the bag.There was but one bag of buckwheat to be seen, but the owner had gone off to look after soms other business.Potatoes were plentiful at from 60c to 76c the bag; turnips and beets at 70c\u2019 to $1 the barrel; carrots at $1.75 to $2 do.: parsnips at $2 to $2.25 do.Enormous quantities of shalots were offered at from lic to 20c the dozen bunches; radishes at 2% to 40c- do.; lettuce at 15¢ to 3c do.; rhubarb at 30c to 70c do.; American asparagus.ls retailed at from 40c to 50c the bunch, but Canadian asparagus from pear SC Câtha- rines, Ont., sells at $1.50 the basket.A few dressed hogs sold at 6l4c to 6lac per 1b.: dead turkeys at 10c to 13c do.; gaeso at 9c to 10c do.; fowls at 8c to 10c do.; live fowls at Thc to $1.10 the pair; tub butter at 16c to 18c per 1b.; prict butter ai 18¢ to 2Fe do.; fresh lald eggs in baskots sell at about 15¢ the dozen; other eggs at 12¢ to 12¢ do.; good apples bring from $4 to $5 per barrel, and fancy Sples occasionally sell up to $7 per barrel.Messina oranges at | $2.25 to $2.75 the box; lemons at $1 to $3.50 do.; bananas, $1 to $2 the bunch.Hay is being offered in small qugntitiss by the farmers, and sells at from $6 to $3 per 1M bundles of 15 1bs.; straw Is from $3 to $5 per 100 bundles of 12 lbs.>, SUGAR MARKETS.New York, May 4.\u2014Sugar, raw strong : fair refining at 4 5-16; centrifugal,\u201d 93 test, at 4%c; molasses sugar at 4 3-16c; refined, firm.Lendon, May 4.\u2014Sugar\u2014The market was quiet but steady for cane, with Java at 12s 9d, and fair refining at 11s 6d.Beet weak, with business at lower prices; present month, 1344 lower, quoted at lls 414d, and next month 1%4d lower at 11 54d.Visible.3 Ksupply, 2,240,000 tons against 2,469,658 tons\u2019 Messrs.8.Munn & Son, of New York, wire \"John E.Fairchild, 11 St.Sacrament street: \u2018The market opened steady, I to 2 petcent advance on higher cables.New York and Southern spots ruled quiet at unchanged prices.While the weather con- diticns are favorable, the growers will be unable to catch up to loss occasioned by lateness in planting, and reports fom 521 cottcn centres, estimate a decrease in acre- «ge of from 25 to 75 percont.This, with the poor financial conditions of a large percentage of the planters, sarigly decrease the new crop considerably, and we look for higher prices.We advise buying January around 5.90c, and October 5.80c.; Newe York, May 4.\u2014Cotton, spot closed quiet; middling upland, 4e; do, gulf, at 6%c; sales, 548 bales.Futures closed steady.May at 5.80c; June at 5.83¢; July at 5.88c; August at 5,89c; September at 5.- f5c; October at 5.89c; November at 5.80; December at 5.93e; January at 5.97c: February at 6.01c; Marek at 6.04c.Liverpool, May 4, 4 p.m\u2014Cotton, spot, fair demand; prices steadier; American middling at 3 11-32d.The sales of the day were 10,000 bales, of which F00 were for speculation and export, apd included 9,300 Am- crican.Receipts.1, bales, including 200 American.Futures opened quiet hut steady with a moderate demand,ard closed steady.LONDON COPPER MARKET._ London, May 4\u2014Conper close-\u2014Spot, £76 78 6d; futures, £76 178 6d Market quiet; sales, spot, 200; futures, G50 tons.SHIPPING NEWS.PROMINENT SHIPPERS AND CITIZENS INSPECT THE SS.RUAPEHU.The R.M.S.Dominion, of the Dominion line, the first mail steamship of the season to leave this port, took her mails on board yesterday morning at Rimouski and sailed at 8.46 a.m.for Liverpool.She had on board 95 first cabin, 70 second class, and 105 steerage passengers.The.Allan line §8.Norwegian from Portland for Liverpool, arrived out on Wednesday afternoon and landed all her live stock without loss.The Allan Hne SS.Monte Videan sailed for London at 2.30 p.m.yesterday.The Allan line SS.Greclan sailed for Glasgow at 1 p.m.yesterday.Brisbane, April 23.\u2014The Caradian-Austra- lan SS.Miowera left here for Vancouver to-day, April- 26.ENTERTAINMENT ON SS.RUAPEHU.Messrs.McLean, Kennedy & Co.entertained at luncheon on board their splendid new steamer Ruapobu, the Mayor, several members of the Board of Trade, Corn Exchange and other business men connected with the shipping interests of this port.The tables were tastefully 117id and decorated with palms, ferns, etc., which, with the edibles, were some of the guests.Before lunch the gueats made a thorough Inspection.of this fine steamer, which is now on her first trip to Montreal, and each expressed his great surprise at the splendid \u2018and luxurious first and second cabin passenger accommodation,\u2019 which is on a par with any other passenger line running to this port.After lunch, the chairman, Mr.Charles McLean, proposed the toast of the Queen, in appropriate terms, after which Mr.Chas.F.Smith, president of the Board of Trade, proposed the owners of the Beaver line Associated steamships, Messrs.D.C.Mac- Iver.of Liverpool.The Hon.James Mc- ing of the cheese board for the ensuing Shane proposed the health of the agents, EE IMPORTED WORSYED TROUSERS Made to Measure, $5.00 Fit nus $5.00 ROBERT SEATH & SONS, \u2014\u20141817 Notre Dame Street.will neces- |.-tliere being thifty- flatteringly dlluded to by |\u201d Messrs.McLean, Kennedy & Co., which was responded to by the chairman.-< : \u201c Mr, McFee; president of the Corn Ex-] change, in proposing the health of Captain Potter, officers and crew, took occasion to congratulate the commander upon having in his charge what is undoubtedly an acquisition to the present fleet of passenger steamers running to the port of Montreal.This splendid steamer sailed this morning for Liverpool, Messrs.McLean, Kennedy Æ Co.having loaded her with a full general cargo.A NEW LAKE LINE.Toronto, May 4.\u2014A new line of passenger steamers will make its appearance on the lakes this summer, and Toronto will be made a port of call.The Ogdensburg Tran- -si}\u2019 Company have decided to go into the sn D Dusiness = patting to their : g usiness, and are fit up cabin ackommodations on their boats, besides building new steel steamers.The plan is to run as now from Ogdensburg to Chicago, calling at Toronto on the way.Eighteen mhiles an hour will be the speed of the boats, and the time of the trip from Chicago to Montreal will be cut down nine hours.MIDLAND HARBOR.* Midland, Ont.,, May 4.\u2014The Government Burvey steamer Bayfield, with the chief engineer of the Marine Department, was engaged to-day in examining the approaches iq Midland Harbor, with a view to improving the aids to navigation.It 1s suggested that a range of lights on Beausoleil Island to lead clear of the dreaded shoal off Saw- log Point, and another range on Sucker Oreek Point would enable the largest freighters to enter the harbor in perfect -safety.Col.Anderson was accompanied by Tiffin, district superintendent of * the Grand Trunk; the harbormaster, representatives of the town council, and Board of Trade, and others.The Government has \u2018promised to place largem and better buoys on the principal shoals.PORT ARTHUR NAVIGATION.Port Arthur, Ont., May 4.\u2014The easterly Find still continues and the bay is full \u2018of \u2018drift ice, the first change of wind will carry it all out into the lake.THE SS.MAYFLOWER DAMAGED.Quebec, May 4.~The steamer Mayflower Had her propeller badly damaged yesterday ning while coming in to discharge cargo | at.the Crosswan.A strong nerth-east brecze 48 blowing, and the steamer, while being towed in, used her propeller to save herself from being thrown against the bridge between the outer and inner basins.As she veered around the propeller came in contact with one of the: piers, which the Harbor Commissioners are building for .the purpose of fitting up docks in front of the Custom House.All the blades of the propeller were \u2018oye or leag damaged, about five.feet being knocked off ope of them.These piers, in theïr Mason poison are certataiy a danger for any large stedmer which attempts to turn, around iri the badin.The Mayflower will \u2018leave at 7 to-morrow agsisted by the est year.) Lord Stamiëy.-After the osrgo has been I ec ord Bea STR BE COTTON MARKETS.; ation put To | that hold, and a new \u2018The Harbor Commissioners met last evening and decided Yo strengthen the range of lights on the ramparts, and breakwater.They also resglved to recommend that the government place a gas buoy on Beauport | Flats, instead of the ordinary buoy now there, and a -foyblying .light \u2018at the west point of the Iglañd ot?Orleans, to facilitato the entragce \u2018tte port._ The SS.Mayffower feft for Montreal this morning accosiipanied by the power tug, Lord Stanley.Looe A SUCCESSFUL ICE BREAKER.The Westminster \u2018Gazette\u2019 says:\u2014The ice-breaker built in England, of which the Russians have beén speaking so enthusiastically, seems to deserve the high praise conveyed in the words a \u2018masterpiece of British naval construction.\u201d It has forced its way into! the pert: of Reval, released | three ice-baund steamers with their crews in danger, given freedom to an ice-bound fce-breaker belonging to Reval, and has triumphantly towed five steamers through thick ice safely into port.* It appesrs to be no exaggeration to say this ice-breaker is going to open up .avenues of trad: hitherto closed with walls of ice during the winter months.SS.BULGARIA OFFICERS REWARDED.London, May 4.\u2014Lloyd's Agency has conferred medals for meritorious services upon Captain Schmidt and the first officer and first engineer of the Hamburg-American line str.Bulgaria, and upon the second ofhuer and six members of the crew of the British tank str.Weehawken.These honors were bestowed in consideration of the skill and bravery shown by the Bulgaria's officers at the time, in February last, when the steain- er became disabled eight hundred miles off the Asore islands, and in recognition of the assistance given in rescuing the Bulgaria's passengers by the people on board the Wee- hawken.LLOYD'S SHIPBUILDING RETURNS.Lloyd's shipbuilding returns for the past quarter show that seventeen vesseis, displacing 152,870 tons, are being constructed at the Royal-dockyards, and sixty-nine vessels,\u201d with & total displacement ef 281,195 tops at private yards.In all, fifteen firut- class battleships are now building, thrée each at Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth; one each at Barrow,Birkenhead and Jarrow.; whilst Blackwall bas obtained the order for three.Five first-class armored cruisers, each\u2019 of 12,000 tons displacement, are also being bullt.Of thése, Barrow has secured one and \u2018Clydebank and Govan two each.The other warships being built on Admiralty Account are one first-class, three second-class, and four third-class protected cruisers, a8 well as four gunhpats and six sloops.Sixteen destroyers are aiso in hand, Clydebank baving five a?these, and Chis- wick and Hepburn three each.For foreign account large grders are also in progress, e of these in all, with a total displacement of 103,375 tons.Els- wick bas on the stocks six armored vessels, three protected cruisers, and two torpedo boat destroyers.At.Blackwalf, in addition to the heavy Admiralty orders already mentioned, there i also a 14,350\" ton armorclad being built for \u201cJapan.The Poplar yard is building four deptrovers apd five torpedo boats for foreign governments.The total warship tonnage now building in the United Kingdom amounts to 434, tons.IMPORTANT NOTICE 10 MARINERS.The British Board of Trade has Issued the following important notice to mariners: Cape Pine,\u2014(Shoals between Cape Pine and Cape Race)\u2014With reference to Admiralty notice to mariners, No.758 of 1897, relating to a shoal reported by the steamship Barnwood, in 46.13.N., \u201852.4614 W., information has been received from the Newfoundland survey, that this shoal has been unsuccessfully sedrched dor, the average depths In the vicinity being 70 to 90 fms., and the words *shoa! reported 1897° have been erased from the Admiralty Chart.Indian Bay.\u2014The rk.(46.15% N., 60.2% | [ Kingston, with Lales - Ontario and Chom- COLONIAL HOUSE, PHILLIPS SQUARE and UNION AVE.HIGH-OL.ASS NOVELTY DRESS GOODS.A limited quantity of the Finest Goods of this sesson will be offered THIS WEEK at a REDUCTION which must sell them quickly.The prices range from 40c to $2.25 per yard, and rare values will be offered.The reduction made is ONE-THIRD off the marked price.Inspection invited.Carpet Department, NEW JAPANESE RUGS placed in stock.Turkish effects.JAPANESE MATTINGS, in new effects and colorings.HODGE'S FIBRE CARPETS, sole agents in Montreal for Fibre Carpets, all Art Shades.JUTE SQUARES for the country, all sizes, from $1.25 up.KENSINGTON ART SQUARES, in all wool.CRUMB CLOTHS.in new designs.: OILCLOTHS, LINOLEUMS, CORK CARPETS And INLAID LEUMS, in floral and tile designs.PLAIN LINOLEUM always on hand for public buildings, ete.Samples and prices on application.Stationery Department.-\"IBEATEER GSOODS.+ ; Chatelaine Bags for Bicyclists, English Shopping Bags, Ooze Calf Shop- ¢ : $ All sizes ; Persian end LINO- ping Bags, Purses, Card Cases, Car Ticket Cases, Letter Cuses.A few specially nice Letter Cases, in Genuine Seal and English Morocco at 20 percent off.BUTTERICK\u2019S METROPOLITAN FASHION BOOK for Spring and Summer 1899.Price over the Counter is now 15e.By mail, 25c.BUTTERICK\u2019S PATTERNS and PUBLICATIONS.\u2014A complete assortment of these reliable patterns always on hand.OPTICAL DEPARTMENT .\u2014Sight scientifically tested free of charge.The most approved aids for hearing.Artificial eyes matched and inserted.MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY F SAMPLES SENT AND EVERY LLLED.INFORMATION GIVEN.HENRY MORGAN & CO.MONTREAL.ee Ee tete Dép Ce cé CLOTHIER + tés Qe Ka $ : ANY Oe Xo ter re ee rt Ce % .But the making of GOOD CLOTHING Is a matter of CARE and CONSCIENCE.It is a matter of PRIDE in one\u2019s production.It is a matter of putting THOUGHT, SKILL, and constant CAREFULNESS into the making.+ These points are all ë considered and incorpor- & ated in the FIT-REFORM.* .The makers guarantee your money back if not satisfied, removes all doubts, and answers all questions.> + des tent 0/06 era 00300, 2 + - 2 * FIT-REFORM WARDROBE 2344 St.Catherine St.#nd Store East of Manafield st.ie +, - 0 - bool * - « et ee * > * > Todds at, er rales] * .do; Oe * SUIS, $10, 512,515, 518,820 TROUSERS, $3,$4, 85, 6\" Roeser PL Prd a So Led *, > * .> * LO NOTES AND NOTICES.To Cure a Cold in One Day.\u2014Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.AM druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.25e.- (he CHICK Asan ART prodwetfhe CK ERING Plano of to-day is un- uestionably superior to amy, thing that hws ever been achieved\u2019 in the art of Plano bailding.ft has ms individuality of tone whieh ne other approaches ecenliarly itn.own.© have this beantifai Finse in to be charmed with its wonderful singing quality and which the steamship\u2019 Atlsa Craig struck in 1897, Hes 8 cables N.% W.from Coal pt.This rk.is of small extent, with 12 ft.least water on it; there is deeper water between the rk.and the shore.As far as the exam.showed, this ls the outside danger, but vessels should give Coal pt., as well as the other pts.in this locality, a berth of one mile in passing.The Admiraity Charts that bave received rrections are as follows:\u2014 ES ST.Lawrence river, Quebec to Per 296 Newfoundland, E.Cape Dona- Bulls.\"Ne.Tees-New chart, Newfoundland, E., rm.1 White Bay, Sops chart, Newfoundland.E., No.3009\u2014New ; character.; White Bay, anchorages, Frenchman's Cove.We have n fail aagorément et Purbeck Cove, Jackson's Arm, The Nar-| Chiekering Pianos both Grands rows.\u2018 and rights.in ® variety ot No.678\u2014N.America, Lakes Erie and beauti woods.Secoud-Rand Huron.innes er Organs of any make No.1895\u2014Nex chart, N.America, Lake taken in part payment.The Erle, Br Bow chart, N.America, Lake! DD.\" ARN C td., Kara ERE pape EARP) \"W.) locally known as Davis Head shoal, on Ens rp es pee tré aan a °.oe Erfe, Long Pt.bay and adjacent coast.Hall Bldg., St.Catherine St.+.+a st ma\u201d rrect 13 we e on y 1, iven y is oken reral lord view sion the 4 or icles i re.ssion suf- s an not- ages, h a col- lost and \"the dam- next bove of a there was lass.girl, this vhich ease, maga avoid most t the ually ining à this estate, ix ecu boiler eznan tors.MENT aries, party dress, 5 FUR- mmo- arried ; wod- 5 FRAL 17 La- Rem- 5 pre- Fran- single uired.[t eets.Fripay, May 5, 1899, THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.ems Ae Ar, SRST ene EA QUESTIONS & ANSWERS .[We darite questions on all possible subjects of genera\u2019 énterest, ta which we shall do our best to obtain correct anncers, and shall insert such queries and replies as we can make room for.This must aot be used, however, zo an advertising column or as an enquiry bureau for matiers not af public interest.Evry query must be a-rompanied with the name and postal,address of the sender, and no notice will be taken of GRORYMOUS COB wunications.} \u2014 GENERAL.GB.\u2014WIill you kindly answer through your valuable columns the following ques- tons: (1) How is syrup or molasses made from beets?2.What would be the cost of vrensils or machinery necessary to manu- fo-ture on a small scale ?Of what value is the refuse for fodder ?Ans.1 and 2.No syrup or molasses fit for family use can be made from t/ ts excepting in large manufactories with costly machinery.3.The pulp from beet sugar factories is said to be better for cattle food than an equal weight of the beets, THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY\u2014ITS DISCOVERY AND ORIGIN.A.C.S., St.John's, Nfld.\u2014l.Give an account of the Bayeux Tapestry.2.When was it made; and by whom?3.What writers give accounts of it?Ans.\u20141 and 2.The best historical authorities maintain that the Bayeux tapestry was made for \u2019 Bishop of Bayeux, and that it was designed by him as an ornament for bis newly re- bullt cathedral in that place.For some time it was believed that this work was executed for Matilda, the wife of William the Conqueror.Some writers even attributed it tc Queen Maud or Matilda of the Twelfth Century.The great Freeman, in his third volume of \u201cChe Norman Conquest\u2019 gums up the argument gained from various authorities, and pronounces conclusively in favor of the tapestry having been contemn- porary with the events which it commemorates, and therefore not later tban the eleventh century, and reign of William I.The earliest notice of the tapestry is found in a communication made by M.Lancelot in 1724, to the French Academy and printed in the sixth volume of their memoirs, page 739 (Paris 1729.) Lancelot found among the papers of M.Foucault, who had been Intendant in Normandy, what he called \u2018Un Monument de Guillaume le Conquerant.\u2019 This was a copy of some of the scenes of the tapestry.Lancelot, who may claim to be the discoverer of the tapestry, although he did not state definitely that the drawings he had found represented tapestry, conjectured that the original was to be found in Caen.Another writer, Mantfaucon, thought that the drawings represented portions of a roll of tapestry which he knew had been exhibited from time to time in the Cathedral of Bayeux, on the occurrence of feast days.Montfaucon also believed that the tapestry had been designed by Queen Matilda and that its {mperfect state was to be attributed to her death in 1083.Montfaucon expressed these opinions in 1729-30.In the latter year Lancelot had ascertained that the tapestry known locally as \u2018La Toilette du Duc Guil Jaume\u2019 was thus designated in an inventory of goods owned by the Church of Bayeux in 1476.The inventory reads \u2018Item.Une tente tres longue et etroite de telle à broderie de ymages (images) et eserpteaulx (es.cripteaulx) faisons representation du Conquest d\u2019Angleterre, laquelle est tendue environ la nef de l'Eglise, le jour et par les octaves dea Reliques.\u201d There is also a short notice of the tapestry in Bezier\u2019s History of Bayeux (Caen, 1773), wholly founded on Lancelot and Montfaucon.The first English writers who dealt at length with _the tapestry were Lord Lyttelton and David Hume, thé histériah.Neîther of these writers, however, had very clear notions as to the origin of this great piece of needlework, Until the present century there was no critical or painstaking enquiry into the history of the tapestry.Napoleon Buonaparte when First Consul of France exhibited it at the Louvre in order to stir up the French to attempt a second conquest in England.At one time it parrowly escaped being cut up into fragments to adorn a civic car.For some time controversy was rife upon its origin, Some attributed the work to the Queen, others to the Empress Matilda.Many of those who wrote on the subject did not take the trouble to view the tapestry Itself.At length an accurate representation was made for the Society of Antiquaries by Stothard.In 1816 Mr.Hudson Gumery wrote for the Archaeological papers in which he stated that the tapestry had been made for Willlam\u2019s wife, the Queen Matilda, by English workingmer of the Eleventh Century.Stothard seems to have been the first to gee that even though undoubtedly contemporary with tbe events it delineates, the tapestry was not necessarily the work of Queen Matilda.Mr.Amyot subsequently showed that the names mentioned of comn- paratively obscure personages represented men who actually existed.This is a strong argument in favor at once of the antiquity of the work, and of its having been made for \u2018Bayeux.The names mentioned are those of Wadard, Turold, and Vital all three of whom have been proved to have heen tenants of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.It was but natural that In the minds of their fellow citizens these men, of little note outside of their native town, should occupy prominent places in the battle of Hastings, as they are represented as doing upon the tapestry.At length Mr, Pluquet stated (1828) distinctly that the work had nothing to do with either Matilda, but had been made by order of Odo.Dr.Lingard in his History of England holds that the tapestry was made as a decoration for the Church of Bayeux, and in commemoration of the doings of the men of Bayeux during the Norman Conquest.The tapestry is of considerable historical value as it constitutes a pictorial Tepresentation of the main facts in the progress of the Conquest.Writers of the succeeding, and of the thirteenth century describe the dress and weapons of the soldiers of Willlam and Harold's armies according to the fashion of the times in which they lived.They make much the same mistake as would a writer of to-day who should represent Wellington\u2019s army at Waterloo as being armed with Lee-Metford or even Snider-Enfleld rifles.From not consulting the tapestry, anc the accounts of contemporary writers, wculd-be historians even of our days have credited Harold with the possession of companies of archers, and squadrons of cavalry, both at Stamford Bridge, and at Hastings.Now the facts are that cavalry was an element of warfare unknown jn Saxon tactics.Archers were few and far between, and acted individually.Horses were used to carry the chiefs to battle, and to convey them rapidly from point to point during the fighting; but they never used them in charging upon the «ney and always fougit on foot.Phe Normans, on the other hand, used both cavalry and archery extensively.In succeeding centuries English armies became noted for théir superior archery and well-equipped cavalry, but both arms were introduced by the Normans.Nor did the Normans them.s]ves possess at the time of the Conquest tie heavier armor for men, and horses, in use during the wars of the Edwards and the Henrys, The Bayeux tapestry represents the Saxons armed with spears, heavy axes, abs and mallets, all their men fighting on Trot, with the assistance of an occasional ar her, here and there.The Normans are to possess cavalry and bodies of Both cavalry and {infantry using s and swords.The original tapestry ners, mile js on exhibition in the South gton Museum, London.Pictures of zreat embroidery may be seen in t's, Cassel\u2019s, and in almost every 1l- ated history of England, Many disput- ¢ facts in the bistory of the period may \u201c7 to be seen in France; a very good: i In our Cloth FINE FELT HATS, FEF PEPE 4 404 444 REP 44044400000 tg 1967 Notre + be solved hy reference to the Bayeux Tapestry.Ans.\u20143.Besides the above quoted writers see Thierry\u2019s History of the Norman Conquest.NUMISMATIC.T.B., South Boston, Virginia.\u2014What is a rubbing?It was found on an old camping ground occupied by western soldiers during the civil war.Ans.\u2014A coln of Adolphus Prince Arohbishop of Fulda.From the eleventh century the biehops of Fulda held temporal power and coined money until 1802, when the territory so long held by them was secularized and handed over to the Landgrave of Hesse.Cossel.The coln was probably brought by one of the Hessian soldiers and lost during the War of Independence of the United State.It is probably worth 20 to 30 percent more than gold value.An Old Subscriber, \u2014What 1s the value of the following New Zealand stamps: (1) Twopence, blue, Queen\u2019s head in the centre; (2) sixpence, brown, both are perforated and been in use about thirty years ago?Ans.\u2014The retail price of these stamps is about eight cents, but there are rare varieties of perforation worth much more.A.J., Ontario\u2014What is the value of a Spanish coin, size larger than a twenty-five cent piece, inscribed on one side Carolus III., 1786, and on the other Hispian et India, R,F.M.Ans.\u2014Spanish coins are so common that except in case of some very rare varieties they do not sell for more than old silver, R.Em.\u2014 What is the value of the foliow- ing coins: (1) A Nova Scotian penny of 1856.(2) A Nova Scotian halfpenuy of 1832.(3) Obv., 'Prince Edward Island, 1857.\u2019; rev., \u2018Self-government and free trade.\u201d 4.Copper, size of a cent; obv., \u2018Cinco gronue 1870,\" a female seated; rev.\u2018Doscientas piezas en Kiiog ctineo centimos,\u2019 à lion and shield.(5) A Victor Emanuel 5 centesimi piece of Ttaly, 1861.\u2018Ans \u2014(1) Two to three cents: (2) one cent; (3) one cent; (4) a Spanish coin used during the Republican admimis.tration, worth three to five cents; (5) worth one or two cents.THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD.W.B., Springmount, Ont.\u2014Would vou publish in your next issue of the \u2018Weekly Witness,\u201d \u2018Driftwood,\u2019 a short poem by J.G.Whittier,\u2019 as I cannot find it In any editions of Whittier's poems, to be found here, By so doing you will oblige.Ans.\u2014There 18 no poem called \u2018Driftwood' written by Whittier, but there is a poem by Longtellow, with the title glven gbove, and which is probably the one you are looking for.It is as follows: We sat within the farmhouse old.Whose windows looking o\u2019er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day.Not far away we saw the port, \u2014 The strange, old-fashioned, sllent town, The lighthouse, the dismantled fort,\u2014 The wooden houses, quaint and brown.We sat and talked until the nit, Descending, filled the little room; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom.We spake of many s vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and sald, Of what haû been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was a And all that fills the hearts of frlends, When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have septrate ends, And never can be one again.The first light swerving of the heart, That words are powerless to express, And leave it still unsald in part, Or say It in too great excess.The very tones in which we spake, Had something strange, I could but mark; The leaves of Memory seemed to make A mournful rusting io the dark.Oft died the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the fire, Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames wculd leap and then expire.And, as their splendor flashed and failed We thought of wrecks upon the maln,\u2014 Of ships dismasted that were hailed And sent no answer back again.The windows, rattling in theoir frames,\u2014 The ocean, roaring up the beach,\u2014 The gusty blast\u2014the bickering flames,\u2014 All mingled vaguely in our speech; Until they made themselves a part, Of fancies floating through the braim,\u2014 The long lcst ventures of the Leart, That send no answer back again.O flames tbat O hearts that yearned! They were indeed too much akin, The driftwood fire without that burved, The {nought that burned and glowed within, glowed! 1900 OR 1901.J.W., Pugwash, N.8.\u2014Will the nineteenth century, end on Jan, 1, 199), or Jan.1, 1901?Ans.\u2014It will end on Dec.31, 1899, on the last hour of the last day of this year.AS the year 1800 began this century 50 the year 1900 will begin the next.The same question and accompaying confusion occurs with regard to the ending of the century before the beginning of the Christian Era.Astropomers reckon the year immediately preceding the alleged time of the birth of Christ by 0.Chronologists call it the year 1 B.C.Thus a discrepancy of a year exists boy fo ARAL 2 en EL CHEE HRP EP rE tr eee HATS = CAPS Form an Important Item SPECIAL.\u2014# WM.CURRIE, (Clothier, the value of a gold colin of which I enclose \u2019 a i Pr SSUES SE Sd Ty a ss cet 22 Qu 7 ing Business.Latest Styles, $2.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dame Street.+ + +444 ene a es YVR REY \u2014 \u2014\u2014 \u2014 between astronomical and chronological records.TYPWRITER RIBBONS.J.H.M.\u2014Can you give a recipe for renewing typewriter ribbons which are dried up, but are otherwise in good condition?Ans.\u2014Travelling agents from time to time sell recipes for this purpose, But it hardly pays to renew typewriter ribbons as they last from six to nine months and if bought by the dozen, cost but 75c each.Single ribbons, $1.00.Order from Messrs, Morton, Phillips & Co., 1755 Notre Dame street, Montreal; or from Mesars.E.Gunning & Co., corner Barrington and Jacob streets, Halifax, N.S.Property.Semi-Detached House On Crescent Street For Sale or to Let House 25 feet wide ; hot water heating; modern plumbing; side light; lot 40 feet by 114 feet.For Owner leaving the city.J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & CO., 181 ST.JAMES STREET.having decided to remove their \u2018retail business from 35 Bleury street, to their branch store, 2325 St.Catherine street, corner Mansfield street, offer for sale the toi safe, three show cases, with counters, one wall show care, one very fine old English Regulator, and one ship\u2019s chronometer Œuitable for watchmaker\u2019's window); the whole will be sold cheap for cash.Apply to MILLER & BREMNER, 43% Bleury street, Montreal.5 Peel Street Lots FOR SALE.a prompt buyer ore or two lots on this desirable\u2019 street, west side, above Burnside street.Apply to, MACINTOSH & HYDE, 157 St.James street.5 FOR SALE, SHERBROOKE ST., WESTMOUNT, A nice up-to-date semi-detached House, with 8 rooms and extension kitchen,electric lights and all conveniences ; beautifully situated near the park, well rented, and will prove a good paying investment Apply L.WILCOCKS, 267 St.James Street, or 4228St.Catherine Street, Westmount WANT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE \u2018Witness\u2019 may be left at the Wm.Drys- dale Company's Uptown Store, 2365 St Catherine street, or with R.Turner, Gro- 1, cer,-Puint St.Charles, 601 Wellington st, west of Subway, pt the sams rates as if taken at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.FOR ELEVA Has a water power of about 200 h.p., at very little expense.The property Lachine Canal, as also on the Harbor of the Grand Trunk Railway on the loaded or unloaded \u2018immediately in Elevator (partially finished), for putt truly desirable property, whose value by the St.Lawrence River, Its canals further particulars apply or address.++++++++++\u2014 PEPE rr err rete ++ SHEEP WR gh rv DIR Ia ba a ed a aoe Ro A Py 4444444444 4 0006 ++ UOTINN sale at a very low price this month.| \u2018Towing articles: One large burgï&r\u2019 proot ;\" We are authorized to sell at a sacrifice ia A RARE CHANGE FOR CAPITALISTS.GENERAL MANUFACTURING, For Sale that Valuable Much Improved Property, COMPRISING ABOUT 49,000 FEET ON MILL ST.With seven buildings, strongly built, well finished, thereon, suitable for an elevator site, cold storage, a chute to connect with seagoing vessels, some of the largest arriving last season bad a carrying capacity of 8,000 to 10,000 tons burthen, which could be the bulidings very easily.\u2019 \u2018These ocean vessels every summer crowd the wharves, only & few feet distant, wheré the river averages.\u20ac deep.The unsurpassable facililesalsc offered by the immed] ately adjacent Lachine Canal in the rear, its unlimited water power, and the facilities of an be completed at a small cost,gives the rear of this splendid property as great sbinping advantages as the front on tbe river.' The Grand Truak Railway, sna the constantly increasing steamship service at the front, in addition to other mdvantages mentioned, makes this a Harbor and other improvements being made adjacent to this favored site.a whole it comprises a centrs for direct shipment to any part of the world, The JAMES ROBERTSON CO,, Ltd., William St, Montreal a ETON ar vd IAS \u20ac To Let.te To Let.TO LET, FURNISHED,A COMFORTABLY furnished House on Dorchester street, Westmount, for three.or four months; 5 bedrooms, library, etc.; rent about $55 a month, J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & CO., 281 St.James street.5 HOUSE TO LET.BEAVTIFUL to $13 u month, corner Somerville and Claremont strest, Wesunount.Apply to 424 Victoria avenue, or (21 St.Antoine st., Westmount.TO LET, AT STE.ANNE DE BELLEVUE, nice house near the river; furnished, $20 a month, and unfurnished, $15.For information &pply to DAVID MADORE, 233 St.Paul street, Montreal.4 TO LET, AT HUDSON HEIGHTS, FOR summer months, completely furnished house; ten rooms; beautifully situated on .the river bank.Apply, COTTAGE, Aud- son Heights.3 STORES TO LET, 646 CRAIG STREET.4 © sturles and cement floorad basement; depth 125 feet to Fortification lane.650 Cralg street, consisting only of street flat and basement, of similar store.18 Lemoine ptieet, 4 stories, power hoist, heating apparatus, and fine office 269 St.Paul st, corner of Vaudreuil street, suitable for mercantile or manufacturing firm, having storage warehouse in rear; terms, moderate.Estate Tia, H.H.AUSTIN, 318 St.Paul street.Tel.Main > HUDSON HEIGHTS\u2014TO RENT, A FURnished Cottage for summer months.Address SUMMER COTTAGE, \u201cWitness\u2019 Ufilce.TO LET, AT MONTREAL WEST, COTtage, with an acre aud a balf of land, known last season as the \u2018Tea Garden\u2019: good opportunity for one who knows how to cater for cyclists.D.S.LEACH, Temple Building.LONGUEUIL, WEST END\u2014TO RENT OR sell on easy monthly paynients, nice new Winter Cottages, on Gardenville ave.Apply to A, HARDIE, on the ground, or box 45, Lorgueuil.17 \u2018HOUSE TO LET\" PLACARDS IN MANY styles, also lease forms, elc., for sale at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.4 TO LET, COMFORTABLY FURNISHED house, two minutes from corner of Sherbrooke street til Greeae avenue, West.mount, four bedrooms, modern heating, and plumbing, as house is almost new; \u2018telephone in the house; books and pictures left in care of tenants.To let for five months from middle of April; reat moderate.Apply to J.CRADOCK SIMP- FON & CO., 181 St, James street.30 FLATS TO LET.\u2014TWO FLATS, 40 x 40 éach, adjoining \u2018Witness\u2019 Office; good iight; \u2018 heated by steam; suitable for offices, iignt manufacturing or warehouse; goods eu- trance; central location.Apply JOHN \u201c DOUGALL & SON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.24 FACTORY OR STOREHOUSE, L WITH EVAPORATING ROOM, TO LET.\u201cNos.92, 94 and 96 Prince street, corner of Wellington, either with or without boller and engine; reat low.I +, ALSO oXard, corner of Wellington st.and Spiers |-_ FOR SALE.|v 7 waa sees, mae 0.3 ; } onald.ce hours, to a.m.,an MILLER & BREMNER |i 6 pm.: \u201cTO LET, Reduced Rent, The vcry central, self-contained houses, .Nes.17 and 24 Overdale avenue.All riod- erp conveniences.,Also shop and dwelling, No.16 Little St.Antoine street.C, CUSHING, 110 St.James street.5 TO LET.FORT STREET, No.85.Cottages, with extension kitchens, fiva bedrooms; in good order ; will be retirted and painted ; rent, $24 per month; no taxes, Apply, W.L.MALTBY.309 St.James street.» Property.FOR SALE, 67 MANCE STREET, FIRST- class self-contained house, near Ontario street; Daisy futnace, eight rooms and extengion kitchen; unfinished basement.JOHN WATSON, 4135 St.Catherine st.JOHN BURRELL, REAL ESTATE AGENT, - understands all the requirements of property, gives personal attention to the management of Estates; best of references.Temple, 185 St.James strant, 29 FOR SALE, TWO LOTS OF LAND, Well situated at Montreal West, next to cor- .ner of Sherbrooke street and Herald ave,, 50 x 88 each; streets, drains and electric light in municipality; would take good mining or other stocks in exchange.Ad- ôrees A.B., P.O., Box 159.3 FLATS |.{new house), six or seven rooms from $12 | NICE, LIGHT CORNER FLAT, 6 ROOMS, modern conveniences, $9.00; lower flat, à rooms, $7.60.167 Roy street, near St.Denis atreet._ 4 TO LET, SELF-CONTAINED HOUSE, No.131 Durochet street, and upper flat No.44.St.Denis street, both very desirable dwellings.Apply to A.H.SIMS & CO., 54 Latour street.4 TO LET, COTTAGE, 32 Lincoln avenue; will put in perfect order; rent low.Apply to Telephone Up 1933, or 111 St.Matthew street.STE.AGATHE\u2014TO LET, A NICE Moderate sized Cottage, furnished, occupied one season only; situation convenient and desirable.Apply 1875 Notre Dame st.TO LET, A COTTAGE, FURNISHED FOR the summer months, iu Lakefield, Que.; a fine lake pear house.Apply to Mrs, MARGARET ROGERS, Lakefield, Que.SUMMER HOUSE TO LET AT HUDSON, Que., furnished.Addresa E.A.HODG- son, Hudson, Que.1 COTTAGES\u2019 TO LET (FURNISHED), AT Dorval and Metls, JOHN G.SAVAGE, 29 COTTAGE AT LAKESIDE ON the Avenue To Let, furnished, with water in house, Apply to T.L.PATON, 30 St.Francois street, or Telephone Main 2903.3 TO LET, 6% 8ST.PAUL.STREET, SUITable for small family, 28 Balmoral street, Lower flat, 5 rooms, central in nice order, 796 and 800 Notre Dame street, with gmali garden, river view.JOHN BURRELL, 185 St.James street.2 _ Employment Wanted.WELL EDUCATED MAN, SFECIAL Encw- ledge of drugs and horses, wants poriticn, or as checker, tims&53per or storemsn references.Pleas: address C L., 4, \u2018Witness\u2019 Cfilce.5 WANTED, SITUATION, BY AN [xreri- enced Engligh governess.Lolding Cambridge certificates; can teach Euxlish in all itd brapches; maiheinatics, French, German.drawing, freehand und model, music and Larmony; refarences vron application.Address, MISS RUSSELL, Charlottetown, P.E.I.5 WANTED, BY A STEADY, RELIABLE married man, with family, 39 years of age, good education, quick at figures: a position in grocery or provision store : has had several years\u2019 experience in provision and butcher store; best of city.references as to character and ability.Address H.F., Witness\u2019 Office, 5 WANTED, A SITUATION AS Watchman, Timekeeper or Storeman, by married man, 39 years of age; has had 11 years\u2019 experience in heavy hardware; total ab- stalner; not afrald of work; best of city references.Address H., \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.5 A SUPERIOR YOUNG PROTESTANT WOman desires position as Nursemaid to child of five in family going to ide ; best of city references.Address T.S.12, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.4 OIL PAINTINGS CLFANED AND RENOvated by an experienced artist.Address E.EATON, 1267 Dorchester streef., 4 WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE WOMAN work of any kind by the day.Apply at 54 Chenneville street.4 .Situations Vacant.\u2014 Always be sure to mention \u2018he \u2018Witness® when answering advertiserients.Advertisers appreciate it.ROY WANTED, WAGES, TWO ($2.00).dol- lurs per week; must live in west end.WM.YOUNG, Painter, etc., 278% St.Catherine street.¢ TEACHER WANTED\u2014PRINCIPAL FOR Shawvllle Academy, male or female, with some experience in teaching; first dip- Jom a; will require testimonials; also state nationality, religion, and lowest salary expected.Apply to undersigned.H.LANG, Secretary-Treasurer.5 TEACHER WANTED\u2014Applications will be received by the undersigned on or before the 15th fnstant, for the position of teacher for Grade Two, Elementary, Lachute Academy.Applicants must state experience; aiso proficiency in oral, French,and grade of diploma; salary, $200.JAMES W.RAITT, secretary-treasurer, Box 20, Lachute.5 WANTED, DRESSMAKER TO SEW BY the day; must be first class.Apply at 983 St.Urbain.street.5 WANTED, A YOUNG GIRL AS NURSE.Apply ave.5 WANTED, SMART YOUTH, AGED 15, as junior in office; must write a good hand.Apply to GIBB & CO., 148 St.James.street, after.10 a.m.5 FUR CUTTER WANTED, ACCUSTOMED to all kinds of work; also dratfing and\u2019 fitting ladies\u2019 garments, and capable ot taking a first position; steady work.Apply,giving references, stating salary.Box 232, Winnipes, Man.5 WANTED, IMMEDIATELY, a thoroughly = == experi 4 Nurse for ycung children ; 2a a xe also good cook to go to country.for sum- HEE mer months.Apply Mrs.ROSWELL | TOR SITE OR in the best of order, factory, or warehouse.which can be easily increassd to 1,000, has a frontage of about 250 feet on the front, abutting directly on the track wharf.Buildings could be erected with front, and handled.either to or from irty-five feet ing in or taking out grein, whizh could is constantly increasing, owing to the An and the lakes, or rallway routes.For HEE EEE EEE HEE gi A om AN a 9e a Dg Praia aa AE FISHER, 1018 Sherbiocke street.4 WANTED, AN ENERGETIC YOUNG MAN for a farm; must be a capable Ploughman and a good Milker.Apply at No.64 St.Francis Xavier street,or to GEORGE MILNE, Pointe Claire.4 WANTED, A GIRL ABOUT 14 YEARS OF age.Apply at \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.4 WANTED, RESPECTABLE AND_RELIable person to take charge of male child one year 61d.Terms muet be moderate; Apply to Mrs.HERBERT, The Andrews Home, 46 Belmont Park.4 WANTED, BY 10TH MAY, COOK AND Tablemaid.Apply between the hours of 10 a.m.\u2018o 1 p.m., and 2 to 5 p.m, 41 Simpson street.' 4 WANTED, AT ONCE, A GOOD GENERAL + Blacksmith ~ FH.J.KENNEDY, Martin- town, Ont.: © 3 \u2014 WANTED, A COMPETENT BICYCLE Me.chanfc, baving à thorough knowledge of bicycles.Apply by letter.giving references.CAVERHILL, LEARMONT & CO.\u201889 St.Peter street.8 WANTED,A GOOD GENERAL SERVANT.No.$.Seymour avenue.; ; WANTED, A GIKL TO ASSIST IN STORE and make herself geénersily useful; Pro- testaut preferred.Address IMMEDIATE \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.1 PRE Classified Advertisements.CASH TARIFF.Situstion Vacant.) Situation Wanted.20 FOR 10 Pupils Wanted.WORDS CENTS.Rooms To Let.Ve for each addi.Articles Found.( tional word.Six Secondhand Arti- insertions \u2018for the cles Wanted or| price of four For Sale.\\ 28 28 F Toperty WORDS FOR CENTS or Sale or To Let.| 1 cent for each oùer aride Homie For Sale } the price of four.Personals l 25 50 Agonts Wanted.ÿ wonos FÜR cents \u2014\u2014 .NOTICE PARTICULARLY.Postage Stamps will bo acespted.The above rates are CASH with order, When not prepaid numerous entries have to be made, and the rate is, in consequence, much higher, No charge made in our books for any advertisement of Jess that five agate WANT ADS Re VIEN ESS THE WM.DRYSDALE COMPANY, UP-TOWN STORE: 2365 St.Catherine street, Between Peel and Mansfield 33s ER.TURNER.Grocer, OR WITH Point8t Chariss, 60 Wallington Street, West of Bubway.Bargains.PIANO, LEYTER & co., N.Y., TO RENT, at three dollars a month to responsible party.Apply Box 139, P.O., Montreal.5 CATALPA Trees, Shrubs, Apple, Plim and Cherry, Asparagus, Strawberry and Xasp- berry Plants.R.JACK & SONS, Cha- teaugtüay Basin.LL 5 FOR SALE, UPRIGHT PIANO ; SEVEN Octaves.Address M.189%, \u2018Witness\u2019 once.FOR SALE, SPLENDID OAK\u2019 PARLOR Set, Brussels Carpets, Box Lounges.High Chair, Curtains,\u201d Pttures, Kitchen Utensils, ete., at 26 Laurier ave., after § © FOR SALE, BABY'S BAMBOO Carriage, almost new; aleo, lawn mower and twen- ty-five feet-rubber hose, all in good cod.dition.Apply 983 St.Urbaln street \u2018 FOR SALE\u2014THE WINDSOR HOTEL CO., te make rovm for improvements, offer at private sale,\u201d two oarom .billiard tebles, size 9 x 41%, in complete Order and full outfit; also, one pool talile,same size,complete with all furnishings in good order.Apply to manager or in charge ot billiardroom \u2019 3 FOR' SALE, BICYCLE, \u201997 SPALDING.In first - class condition; price $35.Apply, 430 Bourgeois street.Point St.Charles, KINDLING\u2014FOR THE MILLION,Kiodling, $2; Cut Maple, $2.50; Tamarac Blocks, $1,75 ; Min Blccks, $1.50 ; cut any length; delivered anywhere in the city.JO.MACDIARMID, Richmond square Bell Telephone 8358.| Ed Board and Rooms Wanted.REFINED LADY WANTS UNFURNISHED room; bath flat; Park -avenue or.Pine avenue, west; three dollars paid in advance, and permapent.Address MRS.EDMUND, 163% St.Elizabeth street.A Houses Wanted.; = WANTED, COTTAGE, IN SUBURBS.FOR July and August; must Le near boat or cars; state particulars, to @., 7, \u201cWithess\u2019 Office.eT 5 .Rooms and Board!,.ROOM TO LET, SUITABLE FOR TWO young men, vith good .board., Apply 9% Anderson street.: : pr Lost, Strayed and Found LOST, YESTERDAY FORENOON, MAY 4, between, Craig and Notre Dame \u2018streets, via St.Micheel\u2019s jane, purée of dôner and Dominion Express obeque.Tho finder will be rewgrded by returning to C.T.CHRISTIE & CO., 188% Notre Dame street.Le 6 \u2014 \u2014\u2014e\u2014 Wanted.WANTED, TO PURCHASE, A SECONDhand Awning, In good capditien,- about 16 feet in iength, and.6, feet in depth.Address, rtating \u2018lbwest tërms, td 'AWNING 82, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.= : : \"4 Flats to Let FLATS TO LET.- TWO FLATS, #0 x 49 each; adjoilning \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.i a Na page de ma yA pre par amb gre reo Seg ta Good Light.2 Heated by Steam.\u2018 .Buitable for Offices.Light Mangfacsuring or Warehouse.- - Ce An Goods Entrance, ; i Cebtral Loeatib | SELS Apply, JOUN LOUGALY 205 ?- a a ae as sl Br 1 veut 0 4 3 TES BL lero = = as ten See mation wlll = PUS Lae PS APY SRY?RE The B oys\u2019 Page.Puzzles.Friday is our puzzle day.Answers should be sent in to the Editor of the Boys\u2019 Fage not later than next Wed- resday.These answers, together with the names of those who find them, will be published on the following Friday.THE CIRCLE PUZZLE.Twenty lines upon paper place, On every line five circles trace; These eircles should just in amount, Or number, thirty-seven count; And every circle, orb, or round, Upon an angle should be found\u2014 At an equal distance, too, should be Upon each line\u2014solve this for me.THE FLOCK OF GEESE.Two friends, passing a woman with a flock of geese made a wager as to who should guess nearest at their number, without actually counting, one maintaining that there were not more than thirty, the other that there were over | forty of them.On asking the market.woman which was right, she rephed: \u2018If I had as many more, and one-half as many more, and one-fourth as many more, I should have one short of a hundred.Now puzzle it out for yourselves.\u2019 What was the number of the flock ?(Should several possible answers be found, observe that the guessés made by the two friends hint which ig the one wanted in this instance.) DISGUISED VERSE.(Sent by Frank Calcutt.) U o ao.No o u c Then o no o.But O o me.DIAMOND PUZZLE.(By Wm.H.Tannahill.) 1.A consonant.2.A fermented liquor.3.A structure.4.Weak.5.°A musical instrument.6.To explain.7.A beautiful lady.8.To permit.8.A consonant.The central letters down and across spell the name of a musical instrument.SQUARE WORD.(Sent by Claire Bingham.) 1 shaggy animal.2.river in Spain.3.Dry, not fertile.4.Part of a verb of movement.: A RHYTHMIQ.PUZZLE.(By B.W.) I am a word of letters four, And if you add one letter more You increase my numbers, not my power.My power is vast, as all may see, I show in great variety, And wondrous is my brilliancy.My power demands the widest range, And I am found in places strange ; In musical and graphic art.I play a very useful part : The writer uses me at will, By me the singer tests his skill.Sometimes I'm floating in mid-air, And oft I'm heard in tones most rare.From hand to hand\u2014from pursc to purse\u2014 .With confidence am I dispersed.I bear great value on my face; Again, l\u2019m blotched, and in disgrace.But strangest freak of all is this, (You need not one small point dismiss), But each of my four letters take, And with them four straight words may make, \u2014 \u2018Which, carefully arranged and paired.Will form a sentence so prepared As to decline me to employ For either money, love or joy.What words do these four letters spell ?you to me this sentence tell ?LA A to Last Puzzles, Answers Week\u2019s ANSWERED ALL PUZZLES.; (Honor (Last) ¥B¥; Tésaie ; \u20ac.AF Hig swäc Club,\u201d Naomi Sai Alice Anderson, L.H.F., Hilda Baker, Perry Mac- kay, Katie Campbell, Breden Galbraith, Ellie Bogan, Faith Haines.CAN SUCH THINGS BZ?The schoolboy wrote: \u2018Every lady of this land Hath twenty nails upon each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet All this is true without deceit.\u2019 IT he had punctuated his lines properly no ome would have questioned his statement: \u201cEvery lady of this land Hath twenty nails, upon each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet; All this is true without deceit, Answered by: \u2018Ottilia,\u2019 Aggie Barclay, A.J.McTeer, Alex.Hall, E.L.M., Helen Dean, Irene Miller.THE THREE ARABS.The first Arab was entitled to seven, and the second to one only of the eight coins.For, the consumption being equal, each person ate 83=2 2-3 loaves.Of the portion eaten by the stranger the first Arab contributed 2 1-3 loaves, while the second contributed 1-3 loaf.The former, therefore, contributed seven ç \u2018 $target oer URE TE parte, while the second contributed one only, and the-\u2018proper- division of the money was seven coins to the first, and one to the second.Apewered by: Charles Cree, Gertic Woodley.Jennie Brodie says: \u2018J think as the third Arab was a guest the other twe should give him back his money and let him have his meal for nothing.\u2019 MATCH PUZZLE.Having arranged the 22 matches in 8 squares, as indicated last week, the four successive changes can be made as shown in the diagrams: (1) Six matches taken away and four squares left.(Fig.1.) Fig 1 (2) One more match taken away and five squares constructed with the remainder.(Fig.2.) A Fig 2 (3) Three more matches taken away and three squares left.(Fig.3.) Fig.3.er (4) Four squares made with the matches of the three squares.(Fig.4.) ® FIG.4 Anewered by: Charles Cree, Chas.Anderson, \u2018Isabelle,\u2019 Jennie Brodie, A.1.McTeer, Lulu Reichling, Percy Church, Gertie Woodley, Alex.Hall, F.C.A.M., Helen Dean, Irene Miller.DIAMOND PUZZLE.1, V; 2, van; 3, bench; 4, catches; 5, Vancouver; 6, figures; 7, vivid; 8, few; , T.Place these letters and words in the form of a diamond, and the central letters down and across will spell the name \u2018Vancouver.\u2019 Answered by: Lorne Potter, \u2018Ottilia,\u2019 \u2018Isabelle,\u2019 Jennie Brodie, A.J.McTeer L.Reichling, Percy Church, Gertie Woodley, Alex.Hall, E.L.M, Helen Dean, R.Hoerner, Irene Miller.SQUARE WORD.Answered by: Lorne Potter, \u2018Isabelle,\u2019 == \u201cThe New Story.A BRAVE LITTLE COWARD.: Thiw-is the title of an interesting story which will begin in the Boys\u2019 Page on Saturday.It tells of the adventures of some boys who first tried to run away from home, and afterwards carried out a scheme by which they could eam money.It was while engaged in this latter project that the bravery of \u2018 Jimmy\u2019 averted a terrible calamity.ADVERTISEMENTS, r.A.W.CHASE Triumphs over -the Worst Forms of KIDNEY DISEASE \u201cThe wonderful success of Dr.Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills adds to the fame of the great doctor whose name is famillar in almost every home as the author of the world famous Recipe Book.Scores and thousands of grateful men rod women have been rescued irom the miserfes and dangers of kldney disease ly this greatest of all kidney cures.Mr.V.Clement, agent, *\u20ac5 rue St.Laurent, Montreal, says: \u2018I suffered for.ore than six menths with kidney discase.After seeking in valn for a remedy, I decided to try Dr.1 bave used two boxes, ard am now entirely freed from the terrible backaches:pnd pains in the sides.\u201d ' Dr.Chase\u2019s Kidney-Liver Pills are invalü- able as tlood purifiers.kidneys active in their work of filtering poisons from the blcod, and so ensure healthy kidneys and pure blood.Que pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all dealers, or, Fa- manson, Bdtes & Ca., Torofita.RnR.S.AULD, PLAIN AND FANCY RREAD BAKER AND CONFECTIONER.Whole she: Health Bread, a specially.Once tried, c is pes Ples, Funs and Eolls, in great variety.Always fresh and of the.Dost Materials el.ount 1 Cor.Atwater Ave.and st, Antoine st, \u2014 Builders and Carpenters.CH AS.FYFE, Established 18 Years : .CARPENTER and BUILDER, .| STORE AND OFFICE ITT FITTINGS ASPECUÉTY Chase\u2019s Kidney-Liver Pills.They make the, \u2014 Bakers and Confectioners.| onas Uniyersityst.Phone Up 2407, + oh THE- MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.NTERCOTONIAL \u2014RAIEWAY Cn end after MONDAY, MAY 1st, the trains will depart from and arrive at the Union Station (Bonaventure), Montreal, as follons:\u2014 MARITIME EXPRESS.Depart.\u201c7.05 p.m.Montreal.*4.20 p.m.Arrive Arrive.815 \u201c Bt Hyacinthe.310 \" \u201c * $08 '* .Drummondrille 3.15 * \" \" 12.15a.m.Lovis.wee 10.33D.m \" \" 4.05 \u201c .RiviereduLoup \"7.15 \u201c \u201c * 10.15\" .Campbeliton.1.10 \u201c \u201c ¢* xid0p.m.Moncton.7.85pm \" \" 3.5 \" .Bt.John.4.39 \u201c Depart \u2026 1.50 \" \u2026Truro.\u2026 3.20 \" Arrive \u201c x855 \u2026 Halifax x1X * Depart LOCAL EXPRESS.Depart.17.40 a.m.Montreal .x10.20 p.m.Arrive Arrive.£55 * St.Hysolnthe.9.07 *\u201c \u201c 10.5\u201c Drummondville 8.05 \" \u201c 1.45 p.m., Levis.+20 \u201c \" 6.30 \u2018* Riviere du Loup 11.30 a.m.Depars *Daily.xWeek days.H, A.PRICE, District Passenger Agents \u2014_\u2014\u2014 CITY TICKET OFFICE, 143 St.James Street, Montreal, Shippers can obtain freight rates snd other infor mation byapplying to JAS, HARDWELL, Division Freight Agent, Room 113, Board of Trade, Montreal.CANADIAN.i PACIFIC Mountain Climbing.Swiss Guides have been stationed at Banff, Lakos i in 88.LORD IVEAGH above lines to or from any Point in Canada or & Co.(Limited), St.John, N.B., 23 and Æ St.Sacrament Btreet, REFORD AGENCIES.IONALDSON LINE.SS.Alcides.4,500 tons SS.Kcemun.4.500 to 88.Amsrynihia.5 , 500 ss.Lakonia(B1'1)7,500 2,560 6,209 \u2018 85.Conco; \u201c88 Orthia.BS.Hestia.* £8.Saladia.88.Indran , 8s.Tritonia.\u201c 8S.Kastalia(cold stora;e).New Stenmer Building.veer New Steemer Building.GLASGOW and AT.JOHN ( March 25.88.ALCIDES.From HONT 55 AMARYNTHIA nana asc asc 0000000 May 3 s A (cotd siorage).Muy 10 88.TRITONIA vores May 17 ss.LAKONIA { Msy24 8S.BALACIA, ay 31 Agents \u2014Glasgow- .Donaldson Bros.THOMSON LINE.Weekly Londen Service.From PORTLAND, 2 FILDONA.April 4 .April 21 April 23 LE ET 8 RVICE.88.8T.MARNOCR.\u2026.0000000000 May 10 {Or other steamer.) ABERDEEN SERVICE.88.EBCALONA .coevinncennnninsennes May 20 AGENTS\u2014Cairns, Young & Noble, Newcastle-on- Tyne: A.Low, Son & Ge, 7 Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.C.: Thomson & Co.Leith; W.Thomsoa & Song, Dundee, Scotland.i COLD STORAGE fitted in special steamers of both inetf, LORD LINE-To Cardiff.Regular Sailings during the coming Season rom MONTREAI, £8.LORD CHARLEMONT .88.LONDONDERRY .0.Through Bills of Lading granted b estern States.For further rticulars apply to Henderson Bros, Chicago, Il; Fr ph D.Riddell, Stratford, Ont., Schofield or THE ROBERT REFORD CO,, Limited MONTREAL the Ciouds, and Glacier, for the con of tourists wishing to explore, tle rnountaina in those vicini- \u2018| ties.Ask for copy of \u2018 Swiss Guide \u201d foider.SATURDAY SERVICE TO KNOWLTON, M:GOG AND SHERBROOKE.Commencing Saturday, May 27th, leave Windsor St.2.00 p.m.for Bherbrooke via \u2018Sutton Junction, Knowston and Foster, arriving Sherbrooke, 6,50 p.m.This train will return Mondags, leaving Bherbrooke 5.00 a.m., arriving Montreal 9.30 a.m., via Foster, Knowlton and Sutton Junction, \u2014_\u2014 OTTAWA SHORT LINE.{ MONTREAL 2: HOUR \u2018to OTTAWA.*Lv.Montreal,9.45a.m.Ar Ottawa, 12,15 p.m.Ln Montreal.40) p.m.Ar.Otsawa, 4 3D pm Montreal, 4.15 m.Ar.Otts 7:45 p.m, *Weelr days.> tam, wr AATY TICKET AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE.\"199 St.James Street * Next Post Office.) = ce Groceries Provisions, &e Enlargement of Premises.FOR SOME TIME PAST WALTER PAUL Has found his store far too small for kis constantly increasing business; arrangements have been made whereby the floor recom and cellar accommodation will be nearly doubled.\u201d These improvements have now been commenced, and when completed, will prove a great boon to his numerous patrons.Professional.F.R.F.BROWN, ML Mech.BE, Telephone, Moin 2635 SNSULTING ENGINEER, Machipers.Boiling Stock, Engines and Boilsrs of every description Rigid ARBITRATIONS, ALUATIONS.23 street Railway Chambers, Montreal.ALFRED WALFORD, ACCOUNTANT AND AUDITOR, 14 Place Armes Square.Telephones Main dil.SETH P.LEET, BCL, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, &r, - MECHANIUS INSTITUTE BUILDING, 934 Bt, James street, TELEPHONE if.Jennie Brodie, L.Reichling, Gertie Woodley, Alex.Hall, ELI, Helen Dean, R.Hoerner, Irene Miller.RIDDLE.A Kettle.Answered by: Lorne Potter, Harold Gray, \u2018Ottilia,\u2019 Chas.Anderson, \u2018Isabelle,\u2019 Aggie Barclay, Jennie Brodie, A.J.Mc Teer, L.Reichling, Perey Church, Gertie! Irene Miller.ENIGMA.Kitchener.Answered by: Harold Gray, \u2018Ottilia,\u2019 \u2018Isabelle,\u2019 Aggie Barclay, Jennie Brodie, L.Reichling, Percy Church, Gertie Wood- ley, Alex.Hall, E.L.M,, Helen Dean, R.Hoerner, Irene Miller.Woodley, Alex.Hall, E.L.M., H.Dean, | ATWATER&DUCLOS Advocates, etc, 151 St.James st- A.W.ATWATER, Q.C., MP.P, CHARLES A DUCLOS, JOHN F.\u2018MACKIE, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, «te Bell Telephone Building.1760 Notre Dame st, MONTREAL Telephone Main 3123.Bvozas, LAMOTHE & ELLIOTT, ADVOCATES, dc.ADVERTISEMENTS, _ THE ROOTS OF CANCER.This is where the knife fails.Plas- although ir inflicting agonizing permanent cure.\u2018The only perfect a is our less pleasant home treatment.oulars free.W.M.STOTT & JURY, Bowmanrille, Ont, arti C da Life Building.189 St, James st; J.8.BUCHAN, J.C.LAMOTHE.H.J.ELLIOTT.Tele.Main 603 ATENTS SECURED.FETHERSTONNAUCH & CO, Canada Lifes Building, 189 St.James Strect, Montreal.SMITH MARKEY & MONTGOMERY, ADVOCATES, RARHBISTERS, &c.TEMPLE BUILDING, 185 ST.JAMES STRELT.; ROBT.0.SMITH.FRED.II.MARKEY, GEO, H.A.MONTGOMERY.Fe sa; JRL Improved Train Service 2} Hours Each Way.BETWEEN MONTREAL and OTTAWA.Leave Montreal 17.3) am.Arrive Ottawe mn a.m.19.a.m.1) p.m.\u201c 14.05 p.m.\u201c = 16.35 p.m.\u201c * *5.50 p.m, \" *9.0) p.m.\u201cOttawa is 25 a.m.\u201c Montreal 9.50 a.m.\" 3.45 a.m.\" = *1).15 a.m.\u201c fx \u201c0 ni o.\u201c \u201c 6.50 p.m.\u2018 \u201c \u201c \u201c 9.45 p.m.*Daily.{Daily op Sunday.Societies, Sundny Schools.&c., desiring to secure chnice dates for excursions to \u2018Otterburn Park, uwichelien Fork, Bixbante Springs, st, Lawrence Park, Clark's &c.should make immediate application, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 City Ticket: Offices, 137 St.James Btreet and Bonaventure tation.Summer Resorts.Ottawa House, CUSHING'S ISLAND, PORTLAND HARBOR, ME.The Finest Lccation on the New England Coast.RB, ¢.GIBSON, AMP POCAHONTAS ON PERN LAKE, N.Y, Hunting, Boating, Bathing, Fishing.Steam Launch and Boat Livery In connection.Send for Circular.FRED.L.HINDS, Prop'r, Ausable Forks, N.Y.UNNYSIDE FARM, \u2019 PERU, N.Y.Delightfully licated near Lake Ausable Chasm.Catholic Summer School; guod fehing and hunting.For particulars, write, F.DAVARN.(GASCADE HOUSE, Little Metis.Geod bathing hot salt baths at reasonable .ratea; golf links; bowling alley free to guests, ER, Proprietor.BOARDERS WANTED FOR JUNE Ist, in private farm house on bank of Chateau- guay river, within one mile of P.Church, post-cffice and Howick station: shady grounds, good boating and fishing: $4.00 per week.Address FARM HOUSE, North Georgetown, Que.5 BEACONSFIELD\u2014A COUPLE OF FURnished Cottzges To Let, containing nine rooms, with water connections in kitchen.Apply to MACINTOSH & HYDE, 157 St.James street.5 tennis court and J.MACNID- 19 M4, QUEBEC LINE Quebec, single $3,00.Return, $5.00.$1.50.Second Class, $1.50 Stedmers leave week days at 7 p.m.+ HAMILTON LINE.Steamer leaves every Thursday at 4 p.m.for Prescott, Brockville, Kingston, Bay of Quinte, Toronto, and Hamilton and intermediate ports LOW RATES West and East on this Line.SAGUENAY LINE.Leaves Quebec every Tuesday and Saturday at 8 a.m.For further information apply to H.FOSTER CHAFFEE, 128 St.James street, opposite Post-Office.Telephone Main 1731, 4 Ottawa River Navigation Co.MARKET BOAT LINES.To CARILLON and way ports.Btr, * Duthess of York\u2019 every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 6 a.m.from Canal Basin, foot of Nazareth street.HAWKESBURY, PAPINEAUYILLE and OTTAWA, &e., Str.\u2018 Princess,\u2019 every TUESDAY and FRIDAY 6.3) p.m.from Canal Basin, foot of Nazareth street.Passengers and Freight carried at the lowest rates.Apply Office and Stores, 161, 163, 165 Common street, Canal Basin.T gp, W.SHEPHERD, Mgr.Dir.Telephone, Main 1029.Railroad and Steamship Tourist Ticket Office.TOURS TQ EUROPE, BERMUDA, FLORIDA, WEST INDIES, MEXICO CALIFOENIA, COLORADO, &c.Allan, Dominion & Heavor Lines Quebec Steamship Co.Azencr NO COOK é50% VW.H.CLANCY.Agent.Grand Trunk Ticket Office, 127 St James Bires Cement, Drain Pipes, &c.Fripay, May 5, 1899.DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, LIVERPOOL SERVICE, Via Londonderry.Steamer, From Montreal.From Quete- SCOTSMAN.May 13, 9 am .May 13, 6 p.m.VANCOUVER.May 20,9 a.m.May 20.¢ pom LOMINION.L'June 3 9 nm.June 3.6pm SCOTSMAN.June 17, 9 a.m.June !;.6 p.m.BOSTON SERVICE.From Liverpool Steamer, From Bnaton, Thur., May 4.CANADA.\u2026 May 17, 400p.m, Thur.May 18.NEW ENGLAND.May 3).%.30 p.m.miutes\u2014hirst Cabin, $v and upwards,siungie; $100 return, according to 5leamer and be Second Cabin, $35 and $37.50 single; $66.50 and $71.25 return, according to steamer.Steerage\u2014To Liverpool, Derry, London, Queeustown, Belfast and Glasgow, $22.50 to $25.50, accoréipg to steamer, Steerage outfits furnished free, Midship saloons, electrio light, spacious promenade decks.For further information apply to egent of the company, or to DAVID TORRANCE & CO.17 8%.Sacrament General Agents.Montreal, Bt JUROPE, EUX EUROPE, EUROPE ETS BY ALL LINES, ALLAN, DOMINION nod BEAVER LINES, my TH- ATLAN.ES HANSPORT and RED Also OUTH AFRICA.FLORID (ras r INDIES, SPBERMUDA NASSAU, JAMAICA £5 Callor write for lowest quotations before a ing elsowhy ere, abin rates, $40 upwards: steerage at lowes: ratas.A Rend for monthly pamphlet of rates and sail- 255 os call at my new address.My speclsl winter rates MONTR.to LONDON and back, weekly via New York, 1st Saloon and rail, only $115.D.BATTERSBY, Agent, 128 St, James St.RP ous Temple Bidr.Office Telephone, Main 1507.House Telephone, Up3l FURNESS, wry \u20ac: CO., LIMITED, MANCHESTER LINERS, LIMITED.The only direct and regular steamship line between CANADA AND MANCHESTER.It is p d to despatch the steamers of this line on the undermentioned dates: om From Manchester.Montreal.April MANCHESTER CITY pew).Mer 18 y 13.MANCHE STERENTE RISE, {June 1 May 24.\"MAN HESTER PER ever June 13 June 1 °MANGHESTER CITY (new).June 2 MANCHESTER PORT (uew.June $9 *Fitted with cold storage.HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE and FURNESS LINE.Montreal, Antwe proposed ss.and Hamburg gs are: Montreal May 10 20 May 5.SYLVIANA., s21000e4e 30 May 15.*SOPHIE RICKMERS.0ogegouc0 JUDO M And at regular intervals of ten.thereafter.*The above sail for Hamburg direct.Steamers sail from Hamburg 10th, 20th and 0th each month.A sto, » : apply t Toronto Agency: BR.DAWSON ELDER, DEMPSTER & Co.\u2019s Steamers BEAVER LINE.Regular Weekly Sallings Between MONTREAL and LIVERPOOL From From Liverpool Hteamers Montreal \u2026JLAKE ONTARIO.Tues,, May 3 LAKE SU.UPERIOË.Wed, \u201c un Wed, May 17.LAKE ONTARIO.\u2018Thar, Junel L''LAKE HURON.\u2026\u2026 Wed.1 Steamers sail from Montreal, at day! gers embark the evening previous after 8 0\u2019 RATES OF PASSAGE: First Gabin, single, $42.50 to $50.Return, en 2 Second 50.Stcerage\u2014Onutward, $22.50.Prepaid, $34.DOMINION LINE Regular Lines of First-class Steamships.MONTREAL to BRISTOL (Avonmouth).*8S.MERRIMAC .pessen- * Cold storage.MONTREAL to LONDON.ss.MONTENEGRO.saosvavare 58.MOUNT ROY.Chicago Agency\u2014 JNO.E.EARLE & CO,, 6 Sherman street.A limited number of cabin passengers carried by above steamers at moderate rates, For rates of freight and all cther particulars apply to terete.ELDER, DEMPSTER & CO., 219 Commissioners St, Montreal DRAIN PIPES, PORTLAND CEMENTS, AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES im.wW.& F.P.CHRRIE & Co, .8314 McGill 8 trees Notices.THE \u2018AVENUE HOUSE, LAKESIDE, IS now open.under mew management.For particulars and terms, apply to MRS.MAFFRE, Lakeside.8 WANTED, BOARDERS, FOR SUMMER Resort; cpen from 24th May: first class board and rooms; good flsaing and boating, driving, ete.For particulers, apply, to \"JAMES ARMSTRONG, Peachyille Cottage, Lakefield, Que._\u2014 OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN T N that application will be made at the next ensuing session of the Parliament of Cana- éa, by the lJamilton Powder Company, for an amending act authorizing the Increase of the present capital stock of the said Company.Montreal, Tth March, 199.ROBERTSON, FLEET & FALCONER, Attorneys for Petitioner.FoR THE JINTER BERMUDA From New York, #8 hours nt Bteamships weekly.Frost unknown.a Impossible.Toray core WEST INDIES TOURS GO TO fropie Tiel Tickets for 0 day's tain., fifteen és in the sale incipal Tic] £ SiTRR RATE © » 39 Broadway, of tlenlars, apply to A.CO.Agents for Siete J.G.BROCK £00, 711 ito Montresl ARTHUR AHERK, Secretary, Queben.STEAMSHIP Reservations & Tickets Lines from Montreal, Boston and New York to Great Britain and Conti nent Direct.Saili lists, eté\u2026 on application.Steamers arc rapidly filling up for months of May aui June Tel.Main 2045, © 116 St.Peter st, are AE TERR ve +.\"Tem - = BEL-BT ssse ess - 2 el a est, TS ate icu- ~ Fripay, Mar 5, 1899, THE FORESTOF _____ \u2014\u2014\u201c*\" BUOURG-MARIE.BY S.FRANCIS HARRISON (SER- ANUS.) (Author of \u2018The Rose and Fleur de Lis,\u2019 etc.) CHAPTER 111.\u2014(Continued.) Ile still bad the grand coup left.Were a sight or a share ot the furs denied im as an American trader, as a government emissary, as an interested individual, all je bad to do was to stand up, proclaim Lis origin, extend his arms, and clasp his loving grandfather in them, and the furs were his, \u2018I do not intend to buy alone for mny- self\u2019 he went on.\u2018I have a partner, who will be equally anxious that 1 should procure some of these rich skins in which your country abounds.Without doubt I must write to my friends at Quebec, who are in the government offices, for an order to see your furs.I do not wish to leave the country without a chance of seeing and perhaps buying some.1 have several friends who are of the government.That will be easy.\u2019 \u2018At least, it will not be difficult,\u2019 said Mikel.; \u2018When I hear from these friends then I shall come again, pay you another visit, and you will show me the furs, eh?\u201cI have not said #0.\u201d \u2018But you are of that intention ?\u2019 \u2018Of a certainty, no.I have already told you, Messire Murray Carson, that it is not my custom to sell or show my furs to anyone.\u2019 \u2018 Unless of the government \u2018Have 1 said so ?A moment's silence, then Magloire chose to make his grand coup.He rose, and turned his really handsome and engaging countenance towards the old man, and said in his sweetest tones, and with all the oratory naturel to the French, which it takes \u2018a very long domestication abroad to radicate : \u2018Mon père\u2019 (my father), \u2018look at me.Regard well thou thy son, le p'tit Mag- loire.It will have been better, perhaps, that I spoke at first.But I thought\u2014 the trouble, the misery of the heart, the sorrow\u2014and caused by me! Mon père, forgive me! In truth, \u2018tis I, le p\u2019tit Mag- loire, your grandson.\u2019 There was every symptom of joy, every sign of genuineness, every indication of filial love and reverence in the glowing countenance, the smiling mouth, the glistening eyes, the outstretched arms.These French are the finest natural comedians in the world, and can play more than two parts at once.But where was the trembling, grateful, appalled, and overjoyed recipient of these oratorical favors ?JR, Mikel simply.east up the whites of his eyes to the smoke-blackened ceiling, and brought his pipe out of his pocket.\u2018You were a foolish child always,\u2019 he said, \u2018and you are no wiser now.Did vou carry away with you nothing more of my character than to suppose for a moment that I could be deluded into thinking Messire Murray Carson a different person from Magloire Caron, coachman?If so, you should have known ADVERTISEMENTS, Bright's Disease On the Decrease.Doan's Kidney Pills Curing it Right and Left, as well as other Serious Kidney Troubles, which eventually lead to Bright's, Every serious disease starts in some little disorder or ailment.Bright's Disease, diabetes and dropsy are simply the result of kidney diseases, perhaps slight at the outset, being neglected.When you have weak back, backache, dizzy spells, sediment in the urine, ete, get Doan\u2019s Kidney Pills at once.They cure \"all kidney diseases from the simplest to the severest.And to prove this we give the statement of Mr.Charles Sullivan, the well- known cooper, Chatham, Ont.: \u2018I-have kad serious kidney troubles for a long time.I have suffered a great deal with pain in the small of the back and left side, and had a dull feeling in my head, with a great deal of pain through my eves, very often experiencing a sensation as if there was a mist in front of me, and everything seemed to be going around.\u201cI was at times very dizzy indeed and suffered greatly also from urinary trouble.I was unable to obtain sufficient sleep, and what sleep I did get did not rest me.It seemed to be more of a stupor than sleep.\u201cWhen I commenced taking Doan\u2019s Kidney Pills I thought myself almost past relief, but began to improve rapid- Iv, and have been getting better ever since, until at the present time I am able to say that all my distressing trou- Lies have disappeared.\u2018Doan\u2019s Kidney Pills are a splendid kidney medicine, and have proved such 1 my case.I have recommended them to à zreat many of my friends 8s a cure ior various forms of kidney trouble.\u201d Doan\u2019s Kidney Pills are 50¢ a box, or 3 for 21.25, at all druggists.Ask for better.ran away.boy.little\u2014well, of those with-whom he häs Dons and refuse all others.Roo JP \u2018That is a good age for a He ought to be able to judge a lived, those who fed, and housed, and educated him\u2014well, it \u2018was not a school, but it was better than a school, per- haps\u2014who would have educated him.\u2019 Magloire, surprised, defeated, though not in the least humiliated, succumbed to defeat as gracefully as he.had thought to conquer, and simply shrugging his shoulders, sat down again, having rot folded his aged relative in his long and sinewy arms as he had expected to do.\u2018 Well,\u2019 he said, \u2018I was away so long\u2014 it will be nine years that I have been in those States\u2014and I thought\u2014Mikel, he will not know me again, and that will be funny.I can talk to him as if I were another man, about myself\u2014funny, too\u2014and there will b2 no trouble.And I thought, it will be the more easy and pleasant way for both after so long an absence.Well, all that, there was nothing wrong in that.\u2019 \u2018No,\u2019 said his grandfather, who was by this time placidly smoking, though still furtively engaged in noting the ex- traordinarv attire and apvearance of the prodigal.\u2018I have not said that there was anything wrong.One is quite free at your age\u2014you should be no longer a child\u2014to do as he wishes.Vor example your business, your affairs.You have prospered, Lauridre has said.I am glad of that; that cannot fail to give me joy, as it renders me no longer responsible for you.For instance, when I thought of your coming home at all, I thought sometimes of you as coming home poor.\u2019 \u2018In that case?\u201d said Magloire.\u2018In that case I could do nothing for you.I am not a rich man\u201d \u2018These furs, skins, these forests, \u2014they are all yours\u201d \u2018They do not make me rich.They do not constitute wealth.\u2019 \u2018Thev should.\u2019 \u2018They might in the hands of another man: not in mine.And if I were a rich man, I should do nothing for you if you were poor.\u201d \u2018Because I ran away?; \u2018Of a truth, because you ran away.It is true that I care little for companions.My companions are the stars, the streams, the trees in the forest, the boulders in the valley.Under these 1 sometimes sleep; against them I leap.I look un at them as.at old and trusted friends.I wade through them, loving their cleur and cold sparkling depths.When I have these, I want no\u2019 man.And should I want a man, I have him.There is your uncle, Joncas; there are one or two others.Yes, I have companions.Therefore, I do not want you; nor did I ever want you.But you did wrong, all the same, to run away, for you were my heir.\u2019 , \u201cYour what?said Magloire, in astonishment, and he added, in English, \u2018This is too much! Well, 1 bet you I make him tell me what I get when he die, There will be, it is likely, more than furs and skins.\u2019 The old man caught the sense of this remark.\u2018Yes,\u2019 he said; \u2018without a single akin you wouid still inherit something; the forest itself, the valley, the banks of the Yamachiche\u2014well, the village, the old Manoir, the cleared acre and a half, and all that lives and roams in and throughout this district.Think well; that is what you have lost, and with it the titie oË seigneur (To be Continued.) CHILDREN'S CORNER.GOING CALLING.\u2018Dear me, it\u2019s a dreadful lonesome day,\u2019 said Ted.\u2018Dreadful,\u2019 echoed little Bess.\u2018Do you #\u2019pose mamma\u2019ll ever come home, Cousin Mary?asked Ted.Cousin Mary laughed as she looked up from her sewing, \u2018You poor little midgets,\u2019 she said, \u2018I'm afraid I have ne glected you.: \u2018I'm \u2019fraid you have,\u2019 replied Ted, soberly, \u2018though I don\u2019t \u2019zactly know what negleck means.\u2019 Cousin Mary laughed again.\u2018How would you like to make some calla?she asked.\u2018H'm,\u201d said Ted scornfully, 'there isn\u2019t anybody to call on\u2019 \u2018We might find someone,\u201d suggested Cousin Mary.\u2018Folks has to dress up when they make rivers calls,\u2019 declared Bess, \u2018mamma always does.\u2019 \u2018Well,\u2019 maid Cousin Mary, \u2018I know where there are some very nice clothes waiting to be worn.\u2019 \u2018Where?cried both children at once.\u2018In the attic,\u201d wae the reply.\u2018My, that\u2019s a funny place to keep nice things,\u201d exclaimed Bese.\u2018Suppose we go and see about it,\u2019 replied Cousin Mary.So the little folks followed their big cousin upstairs into the queer low room under the roof.And when Cousin Mary opened a big trunk that was filled with old-fashioned coats and dresses, hate tnd bonnets, the little folks danced with de: light.\u2018Now,\u2019 said Cousin Mary, \u2018when you are ready you can go and call on Mise Rrowning.Be sure and go to the fronts door.\u2019 \u2018Oh, Miss Browning is you,\u201d cried Ted \u2018We'll sure and call.As soon as Cousin Mary had gone, Ted made haste to array himself in a long tailed coat and a shining bell-crowned hat.He found a cane to carry, too, and he thought himself quite a dandy.To be sure the hat was so big that it slipped down over his ears, and rested on his shoulders; and the coat-tails dragged on the floor, .\u2018Seem\u2019s though they were most too biz,\u2019 said Bess, doubtfully.\u2018You mustn\u2019t be too partic\u2019lar,\u2019 replied You weve foumdpen when you ; wer M A er,\u2019 he added eeverely, \u2018for Kinley,\u201d - Lo \u2018Oh, replied Bess, \u2018then I must benMrs.McKinley, Won't you please put on my shawl for me?Gentlemen always help ladies put en- their wraps.\u201d ; Bo Ted Trapped in \u2018an oa mere shawl, \u201ctied \u201cthe wtrings &f Shaker bonnet that re À girl's face.LT a ce CT cy \u2018Don\u2019t we look nice?said Beas, as she caught sight of herself in a big craked mirror that stood on the floor.\u2018Fine,\u2019 replied Ted.\u2018But you must have an umbrella, Mrs.McKinley, for the weather is very threat\u2019ning.\u2019 : Bess grasped the cotton umbrella that Ted found for her, and the children went downstairs and out on the front porch.Ted had to stand on tip-toe to reach the I.\u2018Guess I must spesk to Miss Browning \"bout having that bell fixed, be mid, \u2018it\u2019s altogether too high.\u2019 Just then Cousin Mary\u2014Miss Itrown- ing, rather, came to the door.\u2018Why come right in, children.I'm real glad to see you,\u2019 she said.\u2018We ain\u2019t children,\u2019 replied Ted.\u2018We're Mr.and Mry.McKinley,\u2019 \u2018Well, come in, anyway, said the lady.\u20181 don\u2019t think we can stop long,\u2019 re: plied Bess, \u2018for we left our children alone, an\u2019 we've got lots of calls to make.\u2018I suppose your children are well?\" ssid Miss Browning, after her visitors were seated.Bess shook her head.\u2018No, indeed, they\u2019ve got some measles, an\u2019 whoopin\u2019 cough\u2014 \u2018An\u2019 plumbago,\u2019 struck in Ted, \u2018the doctor says \u2018they\u2019re dangerous.\u201d \u2018Dear me,\u2019 said Miss Browning.\u2018I hope you have a good nurse.\u2019 Bees looked very sober.Ym Mr Me \u2018I have a said.\u2018It\u2019a very discouragin\u2019.\u2018Mrs.McKinley, I think we must be going,\u2019 said Ted, getting up and putting on his hat, .Just then there wae a sound of wheels coming up the driveway.- [+ \u2018Oh, goody, there\u2019s mamma,\u2019 cried the callers.And away they mcampered; Mr.McKinley's coat-tails and Mrs.\"MeKin- ley\u2019's shawl trailing behind them as they ran.And pretty soon Mr.and Mrs.Me- ¢wn home with.their mamma \u2014E.Louise Liddell, in New York \u2018Observer.\u2019 BIBLE TRIPLETS.FRIDAY.MAY 5, ANCE OF GOD.1.Ignorance of God.\u2014Some have not the knowledge (are agnostics, ignorant), dt God.\u2018I.Cor.xv., 34.Following the desires and devices of his\u2019 own mind, \u2018the fool says in his heart, there is ro God\u2019 Ps.xiv., 1.Men became \u2018vain in their reasonings and their senseless heart was darkened.Professing themselvés to \u2018be wish they became fools (Rem.i., 2}, 22).and made to themselves gods out of their own conceptions, and as corrupt 28 themselves.2.Resisting the Truth.\u2014The wrath of God is revealed against all tungodliness snd unrighteousness of men who hold down (resist) the truth (about the being and nature and claims of God.) Rom.i., 18.The truth so evident in His works.\u2018Mis everlasting power and divinity.\u201d For the heavens declare His glory and the firmament showeth His handiwork.Ps.xix., I.Few men consider that the non: the truth of God.3.Inexcusable.\u2014The invisible things of God are to be clearly seen through .the things He has made, that men may be vrithout excuse.want of proof of God\u2019s existence and claims, but because \u2018thuy refuse to acknowledge Him as God, and knowing God, glorify Him not, exchanging the truth about the Godhead for a lie.(Rom.i, 20 to 28.) Thank God that while there is wrath revealed against such, there is also a righteousness of God revealed on the principle of faith unto all that believe the gospel.\u2014 The majority of church members give nothing to missions, in money, prayer or thought.Many give in small sums, as they can.There are also large givers,who first give themselves to the Lord, and then consecrate all theirs to Him.On a wealthy man\u2019s desk was seen over one drawer the letters \u2018M.P.,\u2019 which he said was never lacking.\u2014Bishop Ninde.The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is like dust from flowers in bloom.It insinuates and instils.The meek man is not without opinion or a stranger to enterprise.He does not live in an untroubled sphere, but he has no desire to see his opinion impressed on any.Children find out the meek, for meekness is the childhood of the soul.Haughty men are never young, the meek never grow old.Moet \"of us have known some, The young are warmed by them, and tke old supported.Meek souls live for ever.They are the stock of an immortal tree.They inherit lives that live after them, they are spiritual children.David says: \u2018God is meek.\u2019 Christ says, \u2018I am meek\u2019 The Holy Spirit's emblem is a dove.The dove comes when you do not stir it.Ask gently in silent prayer.He comes there to Christ, and will to you when kneeling and broken down.Thou who art thyself meek and lowly, take pity, and create in us tky meekness\u2014The late Rev.R.W.R.Barbour.A class of persons who profess to nee PO ES pd he Anh 0 love the bible excuse their neglect of it ai = hy Le A kh SAE CA Por great deal of trouble with my help,\u201d she, Kinley were just plain Ted and Bess| again, and were on their way to their |\" THREE THOUGHTS ABOUT IGNOR- recognition of God\u2019s claims is resisting) Men do not perish for \u201d stood for \u2018My Partner;\u2019 and God\u2019s portion | AVegetable Preparation For Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowe of STATION Promotes Digestion, Cheerful || ness and Rest Contains neither m, Morphine nor Mineral.Nor NARcoOTIC.\u2018 Aperfect Remedy for Consti | ApetectRemedy or Corals | | Worms Convulsions, Feverish- {1 ness and LOSS OF SLEEP.|| Tac Simile Signature of I RTE tha old M | 3D Cie A DRE due A grarsotoe is worth only what is behind it ROO! G CO.Og es S Yo: = THE ŸT W.L.MALTBY, Man.Director.Apply 30 41.Our Motto.(OWAN\u2019S In tins only.TOWAN\u2019S Chocolate, QUEEN\u2019S DESSERT, ROYAL NAVY, &c., Are goods that ought to be in every household.SHEP rt CRESCENT STEEL AGATE WARE Will not chip or burn.All genuine \u2018 ORESCENT\u201d bears our label.The THOS.DAVIDSON Mig.Co., Ltd.- MONTREAL.by-saying that they have no time for bible-reading.But is there any person in this land who cannot command the time to read a chapter from the serip- tures every day ?It may be doubted whether there is such a person.There are many who cannot do tkis, and at the sume time do all they desire to do in other directions.But that is not a reason for neglecting the bible.Our bible- reading should be one of the first duties every day.A good rule is to read nothing else until we have read a portion of the scriptures.If we adopt this rule and rigidly adhere to it, we shall never lack the time to read at least a few verses from the bible.This can be done at home, and it can be done abroad; it can be done on a journey.The man of tke world can read his newspaper on ihe -cars; if we are as much interested in the bible as he is in the daily news, we shall be able to read a chanter on a railway train.And if it is always in mind we shall find no day too short to read a lesson from the scrip- 4ures,\u2014 National Presbyterian.\u2019 {Bowell dy Le Vy 3 ANY, capital $60,000, gives writte: Value, not Cheapness, Hygienic Cocoa, Hess AE PT TE Nn sEE THAT THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE \u2014OF + ° 18 oN THE WRAPPER OF EVERY BOTTLE OF Oastoria le put up in oze-sise bottles only.It is not sold ia bulk, Don't allow anyone to sell 20 you anything else ca the ploa oz promise that it 1s \u201cJust as good\" and \"will answer every purpose\u2019! 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Dealers In Paintings and Water Colors.743 Craig Street.One door West Victoris Squars Richelieu Renal Mineral Water Nature's Remedy for the Cure of BRIGHT'S DISEASE, DIABETES, STONE IN THE BLADDER, COUR.PULENCY, sud all Affections of the Kidneys and Bladder.Recom ended by the leading physicians of Montreal.J.A HARTE.Druggist, BED FEATHERS and BEDDING Repaired and Disinfected by Steam and Hot Dry Air AT SHORTEST NOTICE, If necessary, Bedding can be Renovated and Returned the Same Day.GIVE YOUR ORDEES EARLY.MONTREAL FEATHER CO, 476 ST.LAWRENCE STREET.Telephone East 200.NOW THAT WINTER IS OVER \u2014IS THB TIME TO\u2014 PAINT YOUR HOUSE.Don\u2019t leave lt dingy and commonplace; king all spring and summer.Brighten, Po rich a cont of ERE Tel.2740.\u201cISLAND CITY\u201d PAINTS.Besides their great durability they are ec teal and unchangeable in color\u2014just the right mixture of lead and sine with ab- | solutely pure linseed 211.One gallon covers 200 square test with two coats, and only costs $1.50, Dealers soll them.P.D.DODS & CO.Manufacturers, MONTREAL, \u2014AND\u2014 100 BAY ST, Toronto a Lawn Mowers, (Garden Shears, &c Accurately Sharpemed by Patent.Machinery.Will be called for and retarned promptly.Telephone Main 431.JOHN DATE, Le 654-656 Craig st ow NEWSPAPERS, = nr Oc: à TA.paie ages at $1.00 per 100 Ibs.- oo page ane Le sa ES Pres ee ge EDUCATION IN QUEBEC.Interesting Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT NOTED.For several years past the antiquated educational system in vogue throughout the greater part of the Province of Quebec has Been undergoing a very marked renovation, and educational progress now seems to be the order of th: day in all but a few of the more backward sections of this the oldest province in the Dominion.The report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec for the year 1807-98 has just been issued, and contains more than the usual amount of interesting information con- cernidg the workings of the educational problem in this province», \u2018While! gratifying progress is recorded in various departments, there is still room for much more if Quebec is to take her place in the front ranks of scholastic development.The government bas within the past two or three years inaugurated several important reforms.the beneficent effects of which are already apparent.The payment \u2018of cash prizés to the more deserving teachers has acted as a stimulus to many of them to render better service.The organization of one central board for the examination of persons seeking to become teachers in- the Roman Catholic schools .will- ensure a high standard of educational qualification ir the new teachers.\"> The \u201cpedagogical lectures given by the school inspectors for the benefit of the teachers in their inspection districts has been & \u2018theans of indueing very many teachers:$b' adopt a\u2018 better system of teachiisgfy nd in somie \u201ccases the school commissioners have, by means of these lectures, been stirred up to attend more faithfully to the duties required of them.Within the past year the government has undertaken to furnish each one of the French-ypeaking elementary school teachers with a free copy of a journal of education called \u2018L\u2019Enseignement Primaire.\u201d which some of the echool inspectors declare to be the best teacher's paper published in the Dominion.The reports of the variots s¢hool inspectors show that a decided improvement has been effected lately in many parts of the province, and a few of the more outspoken among them give some.very.interesting informatio ut : The various hindrances 1hey meet, Which Help their best schemes to defeat.And \u2018in nearly all cases the lack of funds is at the root of the evil.For if the cash were forthcoming, the old, dil apidated, small, unhealthy school buildings could at once be replaced by something more in accord with modern ideas, and the school furniture could be changed so as to become helpful and not de- trimentai to the pupile\u2019 comfért and advancement, mental and physical.Good and capable teachers could be secured, were there only the wherewith to compensate them for the faithful performance of their duties.In some sectivus, especially in the north-eastern part of the province, the people are so poor that they have great difficulty \u2018in keeping the wolf from the door,\u2019 and in meeting the more pressing calls from \u2018church and state,\u201d \u2018so that education has to suffer.But in the majority of cases the lack of the will is really more at fault than the lack of means.- \u2019 Inspector T.Beaulieu, who has the oversight of 169 chools in the counties of Temiscouata, Kamouraska and Rimouski, says: \u2018When a new municipality (of which we have so many), poor and already loaded with taxes for the building of a church, presbytery and dependencies, Lridges, etc.\u201cis \u201cobliged to support, six, | seven, eight achools, and which receives but a hundred dollars per annum from the government, it is hardly possible for it to pay good salaries to its female teachers.The threat to refuse them the grant has no effect upon the municipalities, nor on those who are richer, because the pant is too small\u2019 Some \u201cfaygny things are maid bythe scheol ihepectors about the ignorance or pigheadednéss of some of the school com- missionerx: Inapector C.Bouchard, of Montmagny, writes: \u2018But unfortunately it must be said that the local school authorities do but seek to render of non- effect the constant efforts that the Council of Public Instruetion and the govern- nent are continually making to raise the standard of primary instruction and edu- eztion in our Province of Quebec, by their old-fashioned ideas, spirit of discord, insubordination and disobedience tn their; superiors.I have more then once had prcof of it?Inspector J.A.Cleroux, whose district compriséé the counties of Argenteuil and Labelle, writes as follows: \u2018A large number of \u2018tommissioners and trustees visit their schools regularly, examfne the pupils, assist the teachers with their advice and general administration.These schools do well.I regret to have to add that thirty-eight schools had no visita from their commissioners this year.Some of them give for reason that they can neither read nor.write; consequently they are 11 Comm .- Nearly.the school inspectors report small, defective, insanitary school-houses, lacking in the right kinds of furniture and modern appliances, and while this condition of things prevails chiefly in the 3 poorer districts, many of the more wealthy localities are considerably behind the times in the accommodation they give to the \u2018school marm\u2019 when on duty- Inspector M.~J.Curot, who has the oversight of 162 schools in the counties of Compton, Beauce and Stanstead.says that 111 of the school-houses do not give each of the pupils 150 cubic feet of air, as required by law.He also says that 106 of the teachers are not paid regularly.In answering the question \u2018How long has the teacher been engaged as such ?he says that 101 have been for one year, 40 for two years, 12 for three years, five for four years, two for five years.and one for eight years, and one for twelve years.\u2019 Inspector J.C.Dupnis, who attends to 126 schools in L\u2019Assothption and northwards, says : \u2018You will find that the attendance has dwindled, although the number of pupils has increased.The growing of tobacco is the cause.Begin: ning in the month of May, most of the children are in the fields\u201d Further on he says : \u2018In far too many schools health is altogether ignored.The class-rooms are too small, badly lighted and without ventilation.\u2019 .Inspector R.Lippens, who looks after the schools in the counties of Chambly and Vercheres, says : \u2018All the schools in my district, except twenty, are provided with poor furniture ; I mean to say of a style opposed to the requirements of health and good discipline ;-and unfortunately the school commissioners consider the purchase of a piece of furniture made in accordance with the rules as foolish and extravagant expenditure, and tables and forms proportionate to the height of the pupils as \u2018matters of useless.luxury.\u2019 schools is sixty-five, of which twelve are without certificates, The female lay teachers with certificates number 3,955, and 272 lay lady teachers are without certificates.The average salary of the male lay teachers holding certificates is $222, and the duly qualified lay \u2018school marm\u2019 gets an average salary of $102; being an average incremge of four dollars since the previous year.There were 27, 578 pupils attending Protestant elementary schools, being a decrease of 599 since the previous year.The average attendance at these schools was 20,071, being an increase of 119 over the previous year.These schools were taught by 53 male lay teachers and 1,035 female lay teachers.The average salary of the male lay teachers with certificates was $570, and the duly qualified female teachers received an av erage salary of $183.There were in all 304,197 pupils in attendance at the elementary schools, model schools and aca demies in the provingge Of these there were 236,660 whose mother tongue is French, and 47,523 English.Of these 59,- 702 French-spesking pupils were learning English, and 22,200 English-speaking pu- rils were learning French.The total amount of general school con: tributions was $2,808,121, given direct by the people, and $443,260 contributed by the government.In the year 1867-68 the similar contributions by the people were 21,313,149, and by the government $256, 762.The number of pupils attending the various educational institutions in the year 1897-08 was 314,732, while the nunr bers in attendance thirty years previous ly were 212,837.The number of instruc tors employed in 1867-78 was 4,538, of whom 959 were religious teachers.Tn 1897-08 there were 10,403 teachers em- vloyed, and of these 3,847 were religious teachers.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2026 A PLEASANT SOCIAL.SOREL WILLING CIRCLE SALE À DECIDED SUCCESS.\u2014 Sorel, Que., May 5.\u2014The \u2018 Willing Cir- Further on he says : \u2018Contrary to Article 118 of the school regulations, in some municipalities the mainténance and washing of the class-rooms is laid upon the female teachers.\u201d = ; Inspector J.C.Nantel, of St.Jerome, says that hardly any of the schools in his district give each of the children 150 cubic feet of air to breathe, \u2018 Inapector J.O.Thibault, speaking of the schools in Champlain and vicinity, says : \u2018The furniture in a great number of schools is very defective.It often consists of long tables, twelve feet long, very often double.To conclude from this that the furniture is altogether dis- proportioned to the height of the pupils.is an easy matter.\u2018In most cases thé tables are too sloping, and consequently the pupil can only take a bad position, especially for writing, a.position which 1s very tiring and very prejudical to health.In short, with these tables of enormous length, it is very difficult to obtain good order.If a pupil has to leave hie sent he deranges a dozen.\u2019 Inspector P.A.Roy, whose district lies northward of Quebec city, says: \u2018Without speaking of the furniture, which is almost always defective, the smallness of the classrooms is altogether deplorable from a sanitary point of view for the pu- pile; it is on this point that, in my dig trict, one-third of the school-houses can give only a hundred cubic feet of air to each pupil ; wome of them giving only forty and fifty cubic feet.This may appear exaggerated, but it is the truth, and I can say that it is often the richest municipalities which show the greatest apathy in this reepect.\u2019- - The very small salaries of the female Roman Catholic lay teachers, in elementary schools, the inexperience of a large proportion of these teachers in their calling, and the frequent changes of teachers from one locality to another are all tending to retard educational .progress; In many schools the small salaries are often behind time in being paid.Inspector L.U.Bellerose, writing from Stanfold, says: \u2018The average salary was two hundred dollars; for the \u201creligious\u201d who taught in the schools under control, $138.57 for the nuns; $85.42 for the fe- wale lay teachers with diplomas, and $54.62 for those without diploma.\u2019 In answering the question, \u2018Are the teachers paid regularly?\u2019 Mr.J.Curot sags of i {ehching sta Catholic \"schools in Compton, - Stanstead and part of Beauce, that fifty-six are paid regularly and a hundred and six are not.Inspector G.8.Vien, writing from Louzon, says: \u2018It will be necessary, 1 believe, to have other penalties to inflict besides the refusal of the grant, to re calcitrant municipalities.With barely an exception, there has been no improve ment in the school furniture; and for twenty years I have made it .my duty to say so.Further on, in speaking of the awards letely given by the government to the best teachers, he says: \u2018I regret to say that some school commissioners are so very bright that they have been playing see-saw, i.e., that they have reduced the galery in proportion to the probable amcunt the award would come too.This state of things is not very encouraging, for the certain is withdrawn while anticipating the uncertain.This fact is the without a remedy; and under such circumstances the awards are worth no more than an honorable mention.\u2019 There are 4,274 Roman- Catholic elementary schools in the provinge; the pn- pils attending them number 176,681; the average attendance is 123.594, or seven'y percent of the pupils.* The number of male lay teachers employed in these more unfortunate, as it appears to be \u2018ele\u2019 of The King\u2019s Daughters and Sons \u2018held their social and sale last Friday i evening, April 28, in the English schoo.- house.The quaint old room was brilliant with numerous lights and looked \u2018picturesque decorated and draped with the colors of the order.The Rev.L.a short but very interesting programme, the young ladies took their places at the\u2019 different tables of which they had charge.The \u2018Remembrance table,\u201d which was furnished by gifts from former residents of Sorel, being the feature of the evening, was to be presided over by the oldest Mrs.Wright and Mrs.DeeBrisay ; \u201cthe A.W.Shepherd, gecretary, and Miiæ Johnson, treasurer, taking the active part.\u2018The table was prettily draped in white and purple and well laden witlr handsome gifts; and from a white baclr: ground prominently stood the word, designed in purple flowers, * Remembrance.\u2019 The fanty table was taken charge of by: Miss Lily Wright; the candy table by Clarenceville; and the children\u2019s table Ww Miss Mabel Sheppard and Miss Nelson, all of which were well patronized.After the sale refreshments were served by the members, and the singing of the National Anthem brought the very pleasant evening to a close.The fal kindly contributed to the * Remembrance\u2019 -table :\u2014Money donations from the Rev.Canon Anderson, Mrs.Lylling, Mra.Net: tleton, Mr.H.Tucker, Mrs.John For- graves, Mr.Jordan, Montreal; Mrs.C; H.McKenzie, St.Lambert; Mre.\u2018A.- Ji Parsons, Rat Portage ; Mrs.Whiteaves, Ottawa; Mrs.H.P.Mill, Port Hope; Mr.Albert Lunan, Lowell; Mrs.Swan, East Sherbrooke; Mrs.George Foster, Toronto.Fancy gifts were from Miss Anderson, Miss Mavies, Mrs.Fortier, Miss Fortier, Mrs.T.M.Ross, Mts.| Laurie, Mrs.Pollock, Mise Annie Find- lay, Mrs.W.J.Lunan, Miss Hunter, Miss Rorison, Mrs.W., Dixon, Mrs.J: Hill, Mrs.Penton, Mrs.Penton Bury, Mrs.M.Taylor, Miss Alice Taylor, Misa Jessie Taylor, Mr.Lorne Wright, Mrs.Rolston, Miss Mountain, Mrs.H.Tucker, Mrs, C.N.Armstrong, Miss Mabel Armstrong, Mrs: G.W.Saur, Mrs.Abraham, staff of-the Roman: Miss Nettleton, Miss Gesty Sheppard, | Mrs.A.Lefebvre, Miss Cockburn, \u2018Mes.Burry, Miss Burry.Miss Leman, Montreal ; Mrs.Aylen, North Dakota; Mis, Hill, St, Henri; the Rev.and Mrs.L.N.Tucker, © Vancouver; Mrs.W.Swan, Whitefield, N.H.; Mrs.F.Allen, Lowell: Mrs.Dr.Vernet Jack, New Brunswick; Mrs, Havelock T.unan, Ste.Agathe des Monts; Mr.and Mrs.John J.Proctor; Mrs.M.A.Hall, Omaha, Neb.; Mrs.J.M.Hall, Fort Covington.Many kind friends assisted also in furnishing the other tables Over a hundred \u2018dollars was realized and the King\u2019s daughters and Sons have decided to place the proceeds to the repairing and painting of the ex terior of Christ Church, which shall te a remembrance for years to come of the many kind friends of \u2018Auld Lang Syne.\u2019 _ -BRIEF MENTION.It is now practically settled the annual meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge of British North America will be held in Toronto, beginning oh May 30.Notices to that effect will be issued within & day or two.The by-election in.North Waterloo, ture caused by thé unseating of Dr.Lackner, the late Conservative member, THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.DeaBrisay acted as chairman, and after members of the Circle, Mrs.Findlaÿ}} officers; Miss-Grace Wright, leader; Mr&% Miss McKenzie, of St.Lambert, and] Miss Bramley and Miss Beerwort, of | lowing are the names of those who =o\u2019 Quebec; Mrs.H.Hopkins, Nova Scotia; |.Ont, to fill the vacancy in the Legisla-| A WARNING TO THE \u2018BAR\u2019 At the opening of the regular May term of the Superior Court, this morning, Judge Loranger, before distributing the cass, remarked that this being tne last term but one before the summer vacation, it was important that no extra work should be thrown upon the next June term.Consequently, except for specially valid reasons, no case on the present roll would be allowed to be carried over to next term, and the cases not now ready would either be struck out or placed at the bottom of the roll.A FINE IMPOSED, JUDGMENT IN WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE CASES.Judgment was rendered by Mr.Justice Choquet upon one of the informations Inid by Messrs.J.N.Douglas & Co., for the false application of the trade mark (Lea & Perrins).The accused, Austin Morrell, carries on the manufacture of preserves and sauces on St.Lawrence street.The evidence, which was taken some time ago, disclosed that he was in the habit of purchasing bottles from second-han dealers stamped with the trade mark, Lea & Perrins, as well as with the words \u2018Worcestérshire Sauce.\u2019 Having filled these bottles with sauce of his own manufacture, Le partially covered them with a stock label, designating the contents as Worcestershire sauce, manufactured by Messrs Rose Bros., London, England.An information was laid by the Grose Secret Service Agency, charging him with \u2018the false application of a trade mark and with using a false trade description, and a search-warrant was issued with the result that several of these bottles were found upon the premises of the accused and were produced in court.The defence was that the bottles were bought indiscriminately with others, and that there was no intention of using the trade mark of Messrs.Lea & Perrins, The accused was, however, found guilty upon both the charges laid, and a fine was imposed of $10 and costs or.one month.Mr.R.C.Smith, appeared for the prosecution and Mr.E.Guerin for the defence.Judgment is also to be rendered to-day im a similar case against Messrs.M.G.Edson & Co.pram.NEW YORK POLITICS.\"PROTEST FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AGAINST PREVAILING PRACTICES.|, New York, May 5.\u2014The one hundred and thirty-first annual meeting of the New York Chamber.of Commerce was held yesterday.Mr.Morris K.Jessup was chosen president to succeed Mr.Alexander E.Oir, who declined re-nomi- nation.Messrs.J.Edward Simmons, William E.Dodge and Levi P.Morton, former governor, were elected vice-presi- dents for.four years.More than four bundred members were present at the meeting, and upon its close the annual Juncheon was served by Delmonico.The following resolutions, after the preamble that it appeared from testimony produced before the Mazet Committee that candidates nominated for judicial offices had paid large sums of money to their political party and that appointments of referees and other court officers had been fnade upon the dictation or at the suggestion of party leaders as a reward for political service, was passed : \u201cThat in the opinion of the Chamber of Commerce a law should be enacted by the\u2019 state prohibiting, under heavy penalties, the payment of any sum of money directly or indirectly to a political party on the part of candidates for judicial offices ; also prohibiting the bestowal of court patronage for personal or political reasons ; also that the soliciting of contributions from candidates for judicial offices, for the purposes herein specified, shall be in like manner.punished.\u2019 VICEROYALTY OF IRELAND.LORD CADOGAN TO RETIRE.New York, May 5.\u2014A London despatch to the \u2018Evening Journal\u2019 says that Lord Cadogan will retire from the vice- royalty of Ireland after the visit of the Prince of Wales, in August next, and that the Duke of Connaught will replace Lord Roberts as commander of the forces in Ireland.RECOVERED A ROBE.Last February Mr.S.Brown, of St.Catherine street west, lost a robe which \u2018he had made of the skins of two bears which he had raised himself.Advertisement and inquiry failed to secure news of the robe, which he valued very highly.Last week Detective Gladu heard of some one at $t.Laurent who had found a bear- were scarce, he thought it might be Mr.Brown\u2019s- In company with Detective Gladu and a friénd, Mr.Brown went to the place yesterday and identified and recovered the robe.THE NEW DEPUTY PORT WARDEN.Captdin Bales, the newly appointed deputy port warden, is expected in the city early next week.The captain is no stranger to this port, having sailed here for many years on the steamer \u2018Memnon,\u2019 and later on larger boats of the Elder- skin robe.Knowing that such Ey will be held on May 23.{Dempster Co.LL oO Ee Be PES pj ñ - == = 1 ATSTRE Y.-M, C.A Closing Gymnastic Exhibition Last Night Was a Success.GRAND PROSPECTS FOR THE MONTREAL LACROSSE CLUB\u2014CRICKET PRACTICES TO-MORROW.Last night was the closing night of the Young Men's Christian Association gymnas- lum, and to celebrate the event, a most en- Jcyable entertainment was given.By a quarter after eight every available chair on the floor and gallery was taken, and but little standing room left.The association orchestra opened the evening by playing Schlepperguell's Reception.The orchestra which has been doing good work this sea- sun, contributed much to the enjoyment of the occasion by filling in the intervals between exhibits.Each of the many gyu- nastic classes, which have been working steadily through the winter, took some part in the programme, so that their friends and relations might see just what they had been doing.First came the chest weight drill - by the students\u2019 swinging by the boys.extremely well done.The Glee Club gave a couple of songs ay of variation, which were heartily applau d.class divided into three sections, went through the apparatus work on the paral- leis, horse and vaulting bars, under the leadership of Messrs.Dawson, Reed and Smaill.The intermediate class then gave an exhibition in dumb-bell work.One of the most interesting features of this work, as Mr.Ball, the physical instructor,pointed out, was that none of it was especially prepared; it was not a succession of showy tricks, got up for the occasion, but just the everyday work of the classes.In a short address, Mr.Ball spoke of the season just \u2018tlosed, and drew attention to the fact, that though the indoor work would now stop- a great deal of outdoor work was just sbout to begin.The bicycle club, which had decorated the gymnasium for the evening, was one of the best in the city, and was anticipating an enjoyable season of social runs through the surrounding country.The tennis club had Just secured three new courts, which with the present ash court, will give the members ample grounds for a good season\u2019s play.Besides these two clubs, a baseball club is to be formed, and the Montreal baseball grounds have already been aecur- ed for two afternoons a week,and arrangements are being made for some Saturdays.Then the opening of the camp at Ste.Agathe is another part of the summer work of the Association for the physical well being of its mrmbers.The latter part of the evening was taken up with a different class of work of a more showy nature.The white elephant, who browsed around with his trunk, and wagged his tail with enjoyment, while the leaders were playing tricks on his back, was not a bad imitation, while some of the feats performed were quite astonishing.Especlally was this so of the last two in which the men one after another Jumped clean over his back despite his almost life-size proportions,and then proceeded to one after another dive hesd first right over his broad back Into the arms of Mr.G.A.McBean.The exercises being over, the participants and spectators were served to light refreshments in the lower hall.CRICKET.THE MONTREAL TEAM.The members of the Montreal Cricket Club are requested to turn out for practice on the M.A.A.A.grounds to-morrow afternoon.class, then club- This latter was THE POINT CLUB.All members and intending members of the Point Cricket Club are invited to put in an appearance on Hampden Park to-mor- row afternoon for practice.LACROSSE.MONTREAL CLUB'S PROSPECTS, On Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week the lacrosse players of the Montreal Club have turned out for practice on the M.A.A.A, grounds, and from all appearances they will give a good account of themselves during the coming season.The boys are in excellent trim and practicing hard for an opening game with the Senior Shamrocks on May 20, if such can be arranged.However, so far everything is satisfactory.The usual weekly meeting was held on Wednesday night when there was considerable discussion regarding the proposed trip to New York.Arrangements have been completed for a match with the Crescent City Athletic \u201cLacrosse Club on June 10 and Mr.Pettigrew, the energetic secretary of the Montreal Club, is endeavoring to complete fixtures with the Staten Island Lacrosse team and John Hopkins Lacrosse Club of Baltimore.If these games are brought to an issue the tour will be a very interesting one, and iu the event of the Montrealers carrying off honors it will be even more imteresting.The boys will have to be home\u2019 by June 17 as the Caps.are scheduled to meet the team on the M.A.A.A.grounds, Mr.Harry Shaw is a very enthusiastic president and apparently intends to spare no effort to encourage the team as he has offered a prize to the man who attends most practices.The senior team will probably be selected from the following players: \u2014Dr.Irvine, Dr.Craig, Messrs.E.and W.Christmas, Haynes, Robertson, Porteous, Williams, Donnelly, A.Hamilton, Taylor, R.Murphy, Reed and C.McKerrow.Mr.B.Andrews is captain.GOLF.LADIES\u2019 COMPETITION.Ladies R.M.G.Club has decided to have monthly club competitions for prizes and bas fixed Thursday, May 11, for the first of these.i On May 18 there will be another competition for two prizes presented by Mrs.Turnbull the president.Train leaves 1.30 p.m.CHESS.CORNWALL DEFEATS LANCASTER.At Lancaster, on Thursday afternoon, a match was played between representatives of the local chess club and tbat of Cornwall, resulting as follows: \u2014 Cornwall.Lancaster.J.G.Harkness .1 W.Stewart .1 R.Corrigan .T.Bolster .% \u2014 Stiles .1 D.E.Robson .1 T.G.Copeland .0 Rev.A.Graham.2 M.O.Sheets .2 J.R.Fraser .0 \u2014 Abbott .1% Alex.Falkner .% \u2014 Simmons .0 _ T.J.Wilkinson .2 54 En YACHTING.PROPOSED CRUISING RACE._ Hamilton, May 65.\u2014George W.Gooderham and Frank M.Gray, of the R.C.Y.C., hud an interview with representatives of the R.H.C.and V.Y.C.yesterday afternoon, about a proposed cruising race during \u201che week of the L.Y.R.A.rendezvous; it is proposed to hold a cruising race from Toronto to Hamijton on Aug.18, and races for the 35 footers and skiffs on Aug.19.The skiffs will sail for the Walker cup.The \u201cproposition will be referred to the committees of the clubs.The elementary | > ?A Fripay, Mar 5, 1899, me NOTED WIVES OF NOTED MEN.If it\u201dDe true that clever men rarely marry intellectual women, it is at least a rule that has many notable exceptions, in which the wife not only works in the same field as her husband, but also wins more laurels.Two of the busiest journalists in London are Mr.and Mrs.Meynell, and it is difficult to say whether wife or husband does more or better work.Mrs.Alice Meynell has been a clever writer since the days of her early girlhood ; she has written many charming poems and half a dozen books, and contributes largely to some of our leading journals, to several of which her husband, Mr.Wilfrid Mey- nell, also contributes.Mrs.Alma-Tadema, wife of the well known Royal Academician, wields almost as skilful a brush as her husband.She is a painter of rare gifts, both natural and acquired, and carried off the gold medal at Berlin three years ago.Mrs Alma-Tadema\u2019s daughters also hove a large share of the family talents ; for one is a clever artist and medallist of the Paris Exhibition ,and the other is a writer of fiction.In Miss Dorothy Tennant, Mr.H.M.Stanley, the explorer, married a woman of acknowledged gifts.Her clever book- illustrations are still remembered as full of rare promise.The name of Tennant suggests other clever wives ; for Mrs.Asquith, who was Miss Margaret Tennant, is recognized as one of the most gifted women in society ; another sister-in-law, Mrs.Harold Tennant, wife of the member for Berwickshire, made a great reputation as Miss Margaret Abraham, superintending inspector of factories, a leading authority on labor questions, and an eloquent platform speaker.Mrs.Mandell Creighton, wife of the Bishop of London, is one of the ablest of our historical writers, and her bright pen has illumined many pages of our history.It is scarcely remembered now that, in the early days of her married life, the Marchioness of Salisbury, then Lady Robert Cecil, was a regular contributor to the \u2018Saturday Review\u2019 and other journals.Lady Jeune, the wife of the president of the Probate and Divorce Court, takes very high rank among gifted society women, and is by many considered one of the ablest women in England.She contributes largely to the principal magazines and reviews, is a great authority on all social questions, an excellent speaker, and a past-mistress of all social arts.Mrs.Henry Norman, wife of Henry Norman, the well-known traveller and journalist, plies a clever pen, and as \u2018Ménie Muriel Dowie\u201d won fame with her very first book, \u2018A Girl in the Carpathians.\u2019 Lady Jersey rivals Lady Jeune in social and literary gifts.She is indefatigable with her pen, and has written hymns, plays and stories for children, as well as countless articles for the reviews and mhgazines.on Mrs.Pennell must also rank among the clever wives of clever husbands.She is the literary partner of her husband, Mr.Joseph Pennell, the brilliant artist in \u2018Black and White,\u201d and has written many books of travel and adventure for his illustration.Mrs.Humphrey Ward, whose pen is 8 veritable mine of gold, is the wife of an Oxford Fellow, who writes for, the \u2018Times\u2019 and who is responsible for several bulky volumes on art, poetry and biography.; The Marchioness of Dufferin is not el- together eclipsed by her husband\u2019s supreme.talents.She is not only a re markably clever-society woman, but she is also-a gifted writer, who, under other conditions, might have won laurels with her pen, as the records of her Canadian and Indian life demonstrate.Lady Aberdeen also ranks among the intellectual wives, and, like Lady Duf- ferin, bas written charmingly about Canada.The Marchioness of Granby is one of the cleverest of our amateur artists and sculptors, her tastes and gifts being singularly like those of Princess Louise, the Marchioness of Lorne.The list of clever wives might be very largely extended without exhausting those whose work is public property.Beyond \u2018these are the thousands of able women whose gifts find their best exercise within the bounds of home.\u2014\u2018Tit-Bits.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 VERY POLITE, INDEED.The people of Dresden are very polite, so over-polite that they not infrequently | bring down ridicule upon themselves.It used to be told in that city that a stranger was one day crossing the great bridge that spans the Elbe, and asked a nafive to direct him to a certain church which he wished to find.\u2018Really, my dear sir, said the Dresden- er, bowing low, \u2018I grieve greatly to say it, but I cannot tell you The stranger passed on, a little eur- prised at this voluble answer te a simple question.He had proceeded but a short distance when he heard hurried footsteps behind him, and, turning round, saw the same man running to catch up with him.In a moment his pursuer was by his side, his breath nearly gone, but enough left to say, hurriedly : \u2018My dear sir, {you asked me how you could find the church, and it pained me to have to say that I did not know.Just now I met my brother, but I grieve to say that he did not know either.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.The Karn Piano does not need to be jealous of its competitors.It can easily hold its own with the best of them.Do not purchase or exchange your piano without first havingseen and ex- aminod our magnificent stock of Chickering and Karn Pianos.The D.W.Karn Co.Ltd.Karn Hall Building, St.Catherine st.= 9990000 000000000000 AAAAnAnAnn A oo ooo 7 De AS OOOO Or Ao deo rs MP Poets Sopot | teats * 0, Po [Tate treteSraten 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St.Catherine street e street.dense esse 1 sé re ae mA ee été, 2 $ * % | 3 | ert Ÿ 5 $ Ë I Se + .+ & PA 3 3 3 ë z .i + 3 Hand-Finished, \u20ac $ Hand-Made $ Button-Holes $| $ * Custoin Tailored; \"$ 3 : $10.00 | = * \u2014T0- $ 3 $ + > ®Y > $15.00.WM.CURRIE, CLOTHIER, 1967 Notre Dame St.2% tt et CPOOOR AGUINALDO AN IRISHMAN, NAME IS O'GORMELEY, AND HIS FATHER HAILS FROM COUNTY KERRY.PaePe ot 2e euote ete + = ot Seeger! 2, ox 2 24e Py leads 202 ratvet eee New York, May 4.\u2014Peter Scanlan, of Newark avenue, Jersey City, whose reputation for veracity is excellent, declares that Aguinaldo, who is giving the Ameri- wns so much trouble in the Philippines, 1s the son of an Irishman.Mr.Scanlan says the Filipino leader\u2019s right name is O'Gormeley.His father, he says, was | a native of Tralee, county Kerry, who went to Hong Kong, where he married a wealthy Japanese Waren.He then moved to Manilla.7 aere he engaged in the grocery businss and made a fortune.Aguinaldo was born in Manilla, and in youth was sent by his father to Madrid to be educated for the priesthood, but the lad objected to that calling and told his father he wished to be a second Gecrge Washington, and free his peopl.His father then disowned him, and Tule a will cutting him off from -any tare in his property.Mr.-Seanlan thinks it js the Irish blood in Aguinaldo that makes him such a fighter.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 FRANCE AND THE SPANISH DEBY.Madrid, May 4\u2014The French Govern- Ment has intimated to the Cabinet here that it would regret to see the exterior debt of Spain taxed, and the rate of interest reduced.Inasmuch as Spanish locks are mostly held by Frenchmen uth a measure would be calculated to Irjure Spain\u2019s negotiations in the finan- | ance.The foregoing communication a ue to repeated reports that Spain had à mo emplation such a step, wbich has rego much anxiety to Spain's foreign THE BUFFALO.STRMCET A *\\ Trouble Over the Grain Shovel.fers Wages Assuming Men- ster Proportions, LARGE NUMBER OF VESSELS TIED- UP\u2014MAY PROVE A GOOD THING FOR THE ST.LAWRENCE ROUTE.Buffalo, N.Y., May %\u2014Unless the trouble that has existed for the past ten days between the contractors and grain shovellers of this port is settled by noon to-day it is said that the port will be tied up.Already there are between fifty and sixty Great Lake veseels lying in the harbor here loaded with grain and men cannot be had to unload them.By to-day noon it is expected that fully 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be in the harbor and this amount will be added to hourly.Ocean vessels are being held at New York and other -Atlantic coast points for cargoes and claims for demur- rage are being made on all sides.The trouble began when the contractors for unloading grain at this port abnounced that instead of paying the men 91.85 per 1,000 bushels, as in the past, they would be paid 25 cents an hour.This, the men claimed, was equivalent to a 25 percent reduction, and they refused to go to work.It requres from 2,500 to.3,000 men to unload the boats arriving here, and as the contractors have not been able to secure more than 200 men to work for them, matters on the docks are about at a standstill.Yesterday the package freight handlers to the number of 750 refused to go to work until the shovellers\u2019 grievances had been remedied, and several large freight boats are lying at the docks waiting to be unloaded.A meeting of all the strikers was held and it was announced that unless a settlement was reached by noon to-day all of the grain and freight handlers at Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago and Duluth would quit work.The strikers say that now that the movement has fairly started.they will not return to work until the contractor or middleman has been elimipat- ed, and they are allowed to deal direct with the Lake Carriers\u2019 Association or the owners of vessels.It is believed that the grain blockade here will have the effect of diverting a large amount of traffic to the Canadian canal route.Owners of boats now lying in the harbor say that they are losing $200 a day each as a result of the tie-up.JAKE CARRIERS DETERMINED. \\ Fosiness eommunlostions should be addressed John D mgall & Son, \u2018Witcess Office, Montreal and a\u201d letters to the Editor abould be Edit.r of the * Witness,\u201d Montreal Ta A] à g ce "]