The daily witness, 9 mai 1899, mardi 9 mai 1899

[" 899.ee === RIES.IE Dr.nd Fish.nt under does, the Atlantic on the Ways ani that im- supports 108e pro- country, book of and this | Mariue 0 parts.rge fold: neral re- ith a de.nder the l.W.L.de, light the tra- hydro- akes, by ervice in Mm, main- n steam- d mates, weather sorts and 8 of the pigeons, on of the eglons in psent were ut no ar- ng on this is season.or- of the Rares, Was Al rrying on - ions were and im- method of on of the 2d by this investiga- Fundy was 1 stations and from continuous tide levels 1; best avail- eport.; and geo- vo Teviews and sum- were men- ddition to have ap- \u2018De Inge- rto pages, ips, Tepro- Liverpool few of the ment, con- eclation of he import- rcial point .B., which with refer- ark on the ich service y with this C.E., the has ob- 1 ses level, ; purposes.onstruction o been ob- this bench hn has also moment bY 5, Mr.during Sep- ith of the service in ant coaline gcific divt- bject being ding stages ; number of nd unequal makes thie tidal record e of a foo! - the other.n the num ch ft could tide of the ilar to the eliable data s examples this Survey ition to its nterest.Survey dur- $3,081.45.m\u2014 | published at r of Craig sad real, by Jobo bo addremed, ice, Mon be 8 L- Last Edition Vor.XL, No.108.MONTREAL, TUE AY, MAY 9, 1899, A PACIFIC COAST SENATOR: Questions Which Interest His _ Province.THE DANGER OF THE ANTI-JAP- ANESE LEGISLA [10N.\u2018Our contribution to the Pacific cable \u2014patriotism.\u2019 \u2018Deadman\u2019sa Island\u2014politics\u2014a tempest in a teapot.\u2019 \u2018The Hon.\u2018Joe\u201d Martin\u2014able, but pugnacious.\u2019 British Oolumbis\u2014the [finest mining Templeman, proprietor of the \u201cTimes, Victoria, British Columbia, \u2018ticked\u2019 off, during an informal talk.in this city on a number of subjects of current interest in the great western province.The eenator was not prepared to dis cuss in detail the action of the province in regard to the Pacific cable project, but thought 1t was a patriotic act.As for the Deadman\u2019s Island question, he was quite of the opinion that it.was a small affair, enlarged for political purposes.He had no doubt that the discussion would enhance the popularity of Mr.Maxwell.lease woûld be tained, .\u2018The question is Dot ome of scenery, with the working classes, but of the es tablishment of industries I think myself that the terms of the lease, five hundred dollars, are too low, for the island would be worth about fifty thousend dollars; but though a sawmill is not poetic, it has an immediate value which the peo ple appreciate from the industrial point of view.The whole affair was a tempest in a teapot, stirred up by politics.\u2019 A reference to \u2018 Joe\u2019 Martin und his sudden rise in British Columbian politics brought out the characterization that \u2018Joe' wes able, but pugnacious.\u2018The rise of \u2018Joe\u2019 was.undoubtedly sudden, but to account for it you would need to underwtand our affairs at firat hand.\u2018Joo\u2019 came in with the rising tide of Liberaliem in the province.The old government had got to go.Mr.Turner himself was not so much to blame, for Mr.Turner as a citizen, as a man, was admirable.He was, however, unfit for his political position; he was easily led by others who mastered the situation, and he suffered really for the sins of other people.But the government had to go.The people had made up their minds to that.And \u2018Joe\u2019 came into the province at the right moment.The victory, indeed, was assured, but he did much to maintain it.Then he had made a national reputation in connection with the school question, Moreover, he was a lawyer, and the party was rather weak in lawyers.Since his connection with the present government he has carried some measures.which are undoubtedly in the public interest, althongh his anti-Ja- panese legislation has caused him to strike a enag.\u2018Joe\u2019 is certainly able, but he is pugnacious to a degree.I admire his ability in many ways, but he makes trouble.\u2019 With regard to the anti-Japanese legislation Senator Templeman said there vas some misapprenhenaion ns to its character.The new law, which would rrobably be appealed or amended, did Tnt prevent the Japanese from coming into the country.It prohibited them from working upon any public enterprise sibsidized by the province, or from work: ng in mines, In all other regards they FTe to be as free as ever.The Jap- nese did not so much object to the re- rictive legislation as to be classed with he Chinese.This they will not gtand.We must hark back a little.The province passed * law preventing Chinese from working in mines.\u2018The ostensible reason for this Yi \u2018hat they were careless with their lanips, and might cause catastrophe.Thore may have been another reason be- Pol that\u201d said the repator, smilingly.The Dunemuire defied the law and \u201cent nn employing Chinese in their \"nes.With the incoming of the pre Mf covernment the law was amended, Teking it more stringent.Then the Dunsmuirs, to get even, I suppose, die- miesed their Chinese and took on the Japanese.To meet this the government enacted that the Japanese must not be employed in the mines of the province under penalty.It is the putting the Japanese in the same category with the Chinese which has incensed the leaders of the former.The Japanese are clever, and imitative to a degree.\u2018They learn our language, wear our clothes, adopt our habits, drink whiskey like the natives, and spend their money with generosity.As I say, the legislation will probably be amended.1 do not think the Dominion Government will be die posed to commence the business of dis allowing provincial legislation.\u2019 The Kettle Valley Railway business had come to a sudden halt.\u2018It looks like a deal pokes the Grand Trunk and the one e for the Grand Trunk to fight abous.Moreover, the interest of Mr.Corbin in the question suddenly waned when he disposed of his property to the Great Northern.\u2019 As to mining prospects, Senator Tem- pleman said they were admirable.The whole province was a mining country.Development was proceeding in every direction.\u2018Look at the Kootenay\u2014only twelve years old; look at Rossland\u2014about seven; even in Vancouver Island we are proceeding with development work.This development business must necesearily be slow under the most favorable circumstances.It takes between two and three | years to get to the paying point, in vase.you have the ore.The province does not | desire any exploitation.Jt wants solid ; investments.Harm has been done both\u2019 in England and in Canada by reckless- | ness.1 advise caution; let prospective | investors be satisfied that the ore exists.Capital is coming in\u2014both English and Canadian.As the mining industry proceeds others will be created to sus tain the permanent population.We have no homesteads to offer vhe settler; \u2018the area of our arable land is restricted; | we are essentially a mining province; but | we have every kind of mineral, and when the country is thoroughly developed there will be a great industrial organism which: will give varied employment to the popu- Jation.Senator Templeman spoke favorably of th\u201d Boundary Creek district, and Camp McKinney, both of which had been, pro- TEXT OF MR.CHAMBERLAIN\u2019S NOW FAMOUS DESPATCH REGARDING THE PROPOSAL.Ottawa, May 9.\u2014A return was laid on the table of the House of Commons yes-! terday by the Premier for copies of all! correspondence with the Imperial and Celonial government and other parties relative to the proposed Pacific cable, since the return brought down last session.The return, which is quite voluminous, bears upon the several propo- gitions made by the Australians.The report of tlie Imperial committee of 1847 is included.Of this a very full Synopsis has already appeared in the \u2018Witness.The return also includes the despatch of the Colonial Secretary to the Governor- General of a fortnight since embodying the decision of the British authorities.This document, which has caused such regret among those interested in the scheme here in Canada, is as follows: \u2014 London, April 26, 1399.Mr.Chamberlain to Lord Minto: Referring to your telegram of April 24, Her Majesty's Government is anxious to show sympathy wath \u2018the Canadian and Australian governments In assisting :he Pacific cable scheme, but cannot agree to take an active part in laying à working line.We are accordingly willlng to make a contract with these govermments, ty which they assist setting up finuncially in every respect as ff it Weræ an enternrise of a private compary on these conditions:\u2014 That the Canadian and Australian governments undertuke to constract the line, and to provide yvwarly-any further sum necessary for its efficient maintenance and working.That the subsidy runs for twenty years from the opening of the line to trafic as long as it is open, allowinz reasonable time for repairs, when communication is inter- rapted.That in accordance with gpecificatlons and samples, to be approved by the Treasury, and to the satisfaction of the officer appointed by the Treasury for this purrose, the cablq is constructed, submerged in proper order, and equipped with proper stations and officers at places approved by the Treasury, and effectively worked by sufficient staff of efficient officers, being British subjects.Messages from the Imperial government to be transmitted in priority of all others: rates not to exceed half of those payable from general public, That all rates charged to publiz, -whether for messages to or from, or between intermediate stations, or for through messages between this country, Australta and New Zealand, are approved by the Treasury.Annual returns duly certified and audited are to be rendered to the Treasury as 8001 as possible, after anniversary of opening, showing net traffic receipts for messages sent over line, deducting payments for further transmission by other lines: also expense incurred, including interest of sink- irg fund and maintenan:e of repairs and working.On examination of account, the Treasury will pay to the person chosen by the colonial government 5-18 of the deficit not cx- ceeding £20,000 per annum.The cable is to be worked in accordance with the International Telegraph Consti- Fat ths Mn wes ig on on ot a.ductive and eh would yet, through: pot ; pc, foe front.Roar Aue Tg e others 2: REVENUE DECREASING, \u2014 Statement of the city School Tax For Last Year.FALLING OFF IN PROTESTANT BOARD'S SHARE \u2014 SCHOOL EXTENSION TALKED OF.For some time past the question of extending the accommodation in connection with the Senior school has engaged the attention of the Protestant School Com- musioners, and last night at nine o\u2019clock | \u2014an unusual bour, which, ever, was ried time of the year\u2014a meeting was held for a discussion of the sübject.That is to say, the Board met in private as the committee of school management and afterwards as the board, when it was learned that although the subject of extension had been talked over, nothing had been dcne in the way oi offering a definite proposal to the board.The chief reason for this was the state of the finances.Extension of accommodation means a new building, which would cost sixty thousand dollars\u2014a sum which the commissioners do not feel like spending at present, in the somewhat straitened condition of the exchequer\u2014a condition which is likely to be accentuated by the | constant increase of the neutral panel.The following important statement in regard to the revenue submitted by Mr.Birmore, treasurer, is intimately related the conservative policy of the commissioners in regard to increased school accommodation at present: High School, April 21 To the Chairman and Members.of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners for Montreal: Gentlemen,\u2014] beg to submit herewith the City Treasurer's statement of the city's] BU school tax for 1898, with à comparative statement for that and the preceding years, a copy of which has been placed before each commit ner, It will be observad that fon the first time in many years, the share of the tax acéru- ing to this board shows a decrease as compared with the previous year.Upon the basis of the original valuation for asséus.ment, the Roman Catholo.panel shows a falling off in three wards, Hast, West and St.Ann's, and increases in all the other | nine wards.The Protestant el shows decreases in nine.arte (aclug ing.St.Antoine, than- oné- which.contribisées m 2) he total sthount ecran brrol 54 « The decramse by \u201cibe inconie of die.from the city school tax is, tieretore, to three causes:\u2014 Ist.A sbrfnkage in\u2019 the original aïéation of Protestant.property for 2nd.An increase in the int ot the reductions made.by the city authortties in those valuations, and, 3rd.To a marked increase in the \u2018reductions made in the neutral panel school tax.With regard to the firgt and':second of these, lows: \u2018The cause, broadly speaking, is the fact that excessive demands were made by Protestant proprietors, for.reductions, notably such cases as the McIntyre estate, which obtained through the Courts a reduction from an original agreement with W.Mc- Intyre, for $350,000 to $200,000; that assessments throughout St.4Khtoine ward generally were high, and the assessors were obliged to reduce many of them voluntarily: that many changes in this ward made great inroads ih our revenue, as, for (nstance, the demgralization of Osborne street, de- preciations at Richmond squars, alterations in St.Martin and Selgneurs stroets, and Morland avenue, absorbed, or partly so, by the C.P.R., by which vacant land only remained assessable.\u2019 With regard to the greatly increased rebates made in the neutral panel tax, amounting to $3634.73, as compared with $607.75 in 1897, the (lity Treasurer states that these are due io tha cancellation of the assessments not only for 1898, but also for several previous years, levied by tho properties belonging to the government,but rented to private individuals, and fncluded in that panel.the City Treasurer writes as fol- 5 yy 3 a» yy FEF wf ZF OBEEE oo 828 à 'Eplveweses 8 = esse ZzZzZ 2 EfgacBRz22 3 oss 5 AR: 2 5095 5 > >.gare\u201d oe 8 > .\u2014_ PTT SE REs@ufl1 3 zow 3459 2755 E vx © edo co = SweEEEzy £33 65 ÉSHéf2éE wo : sPp=p\u2026 æ Se ® EEEEREER g »Ee e : Re oan = - Hoe 28 3 A 8 wo Ë : 80 :.: ÉSE 50 8 R : 8 oP _ g Oph.SP ® & 8\u201d EE: \"2 2 :5 2 3: 2a EF = .É ZE.Pac 0°.E « 68 4 .- » 8 .Bg BW R- .2 ZB: BP 2B pp, a = 7:18:08 = 5 8.o.2.2: \u201c ?2 8.5.5.æ Beg mR.5, 8.6: 8: grt; S [oy [oy _py 5 88 on gE.7 £223 085 5 8 533% SSH x Be 509 Nan a Shy CS 60 b 8 sat 5 2 = Ean \"2 9 i\" oof 258 © 8 sBEE § en 0 -3 2 ht SH OO 288\u201d § BF 2 § 8887 \u20ac asg - RSR 898 2 3 \u2014 æe LB + BoE own: 29 La : 32 a SE: 23 8 ; ÿÉg * ss.i FTE gl § (8 x 38 ee, 5 5! #3 ».x +5.#2 © \u201cI æ nu: 8 £8; 2 502 52:58 =.a * k =: \u20ac œ © =.= = The importance of this subject was up- preciated by the Board, which will take it up at a futurc meeting.Dr.kbô increases in à st Misys, St.Jean Baptiste.and For a 11 1 an election possible very shortly.ness transacted, of no particular interest.The Board went on record as desiring to see a reduction in the number of prize books given in the public schools.There were present: The Ven.Archdeacon Evans, in the chair; the Rev.Shaw, Ald.McBride, and Ald.Ekers _\u2014__ TORONTO STRIKERS.BUILDERS OFFER TO ARBITRATE.Toronto, May 9.\u2014Beyond the offer of the builders to arbitrate with the striking bricklayers and the signing of the moulders\u2019 agreement by a number of the emda there is no material change in ny pat to work having géined pes point, but several are out yet.The stone-cutters have nat effected any settlement so far and seventeen of their number left for other places to geek employment.THE SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT STRONGLY CRITICISED FOR ITS ACTION! AT SAN JUAN.New York, May .8.\u2014As the result of the findings and recommendations of the court of inquiry which investigated the conduct of officers and men of the Sev- enty-first Regiment during the Santiago campaign, Adjutant-General Andrews has ordered Major Clinton H.Smith before a board of examination to be examined as to his moral character, capacity | and general fitness for service as a commissioned officer in the National Guard.\" The report of the conrt of inquiry deals | with the conduct of Colonel Downs, .\u2018Faeut.-Colonel Smith; Major Whittle and other officers of the regiment, on July 1, i censures fg t ; Tb states that Major Whittle, on that day disobeyed an order of Col.Downs The Whittle did not \u2018rejoin his\u2019 battalion until after dark on the evening of July 1, after it had taken position on San Juan Hill., The court also reported that the Major, whi!» in the trail, saw at least.two regular regiments of United States infantry pass him on their way to the front, he knew that almost all his battalion had moved onward to San Juan Hill and that a battle was in progress, and that he did not offer to lead or follow the battalion into action or to perform his proper duties as \u2018its commanding officer.The court also.found that Lieut.-Col.Smith, who was second in command of the regiment, made no application to his commanding officer at any time on July 1 to go to the front or participate in the battle then pending, but instead made: applications to go to the rear in search of property and rations.\u2019 In regard to Col.Downs, the court »2- verely criticised that officer for failing to obey the orders of General Kent, the divisions] commander, to go forward to the front, halting the regiment instead and keeping them lying down on the trail.The report, however, showe that the rank and file of the regiment were anxious to be led into action, and that in no way were they responsible for the conduct of their officers.THE WINNIPEG VACANCY.GOVERNMENT TO BRING DOWN A MEASURE TO COVER THE FRANCHISE IN THIS RESPECT.Ottawa, May 9.\u2014The seat for Winnipeg, which is at present vacant, will, in all probability, be filled before long, the government having decided to take action that will have the effect of making The franchise act provides that where the provincial lists are more than a year old a revision shall be made, but with the consent, in-the case of Winnipeg, of the Opposition, it will be possible to hold the: by-election immediately.A measure, which will be introduced by the Hon.Charles Fitzpatrick op Wednesday or Thursday will provide that the old lists shall be used in the case of Winnipeg.ihe administration, by the course decided upon, has made it possible for the.metropolis of the North-West to secure representation in the House much sooner than would/be possible under the terms of the present act, and it will rest entirely with the Opposition whether the People of Witinipeg shall have a representative in his place at Ottawa in the i im: tution of 1875.There was a good deal of routine busi- = ih a _ ORE En CE mediate \u2018future.$ : | ONTARIO IRISH.CAT LORD SALISBURY AND THE, CHURCH.London, May 9.\u2014Lord Salisbury re plying to a correspondent who hed written to him regarding the church ques- ticn, says: \u2018I fully sympathize with you in your anxiety regarding the great dangers and evils before us unless it is found possible to restore the discipline which hae been so seriously impaired.The Archbishop and bishops, upon whom the primary responsibility lies, are doing their utmost to bring the Church back to a sounder condition.In this respect their efforts to restore respect for the law of the Church, which in some quarters has been forgotten, deserve the.hearty support of all Churchmen.\u2019 DISSATISFIED WITH PRESENT - REPRESENTATION IN THE DOMINION CABINET.Toronto, May 9.\u2014The following state ment regarding the forthcoming convention of Liberal Roman Catholics has been transmitted for publication: During the recent visit of the Right Hon.Sir Wilfrid Laurier to attend the installation of Ris Grace the Archbishop of Toronto a deputation, representing the executive committee having in charge the coming Catholic Liberal convention, waited upon the honorable gentleman for the purpose of explaining to him the reasons for calliig the convention and to ask for his co-operation in making the gathering a success.They pointed out to him that since the Conservative party in Ontario had abandoned their anti-Ca- tholic attitude and were endeavoring to undo the mischief that attitude had caused them there was danger that many of the Catholic electors who formerly voted with the Conservative party, but ! who for some years past have supported the Liberal Government in Ontario, might return to their former allegiance if scmething was not done to retain their confidence.The deputation also pointed out the desirability of having for the representative of the Ontario Catholics at Ottews, a member of the House of Ocaamons and if pose an\u2019 eloquent and Do du honor ar = gerview cannot fail to enhance the suc- f 1'cess of the convention.He gave some valuable and kindly advice and hoped that the convention would be a success and that its resuMe would be in the interests of both the Liberal party and the Catholic people.The committee are now in a position to state as a result of information received from prominent Roman Catholic Liberals in all parts of the province, that the con vention will be an unqualified success.1 THE PONTON TRIAL.Toronto, May 9.\u2014Mr.E.Gus Porter, ccunsel for W.H.Ponton, arrived in the city.from Belleville last night, He says he is here to demand of the courts the carrying out of the decision of Mr.Jus tice Roberteon at the time the venue was|, changed.In that decision it, was agreed that the Crown should provide all of the defendant's expenses in bringing wit- resses, etc, from Napanee to Toronto.He is here to demand the funds needed to forthwith subpoena his witnesses and proceed with the trial when the Assizes open on May 15.He contends that the Crown is not justified in poetponing the trial on account of the escape of two of the Crown's witnesses, who were under their charge, and for whom they were re- 1 ongible.A LARGE BEQUEST.Toronto, May 9.\u2014The Anglican Synod of Toronto will benefit to the extent of $8,000 by the will of Mary Ann Kennedy, of Stouffville,, which was entered for probate yesterday.The Church Missionary Society, the Pastoral Aid Scciety, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Colonial and \u2018Continental Society, and the Society for Promoting Christian- itv.Among the Jews will also receive $500 each.-\u2014 DESTROYED BALLOTS.St.Thomas, Ont, May 8.\u2014Duncan Bole, who acted as deputy returning officer at Shedden, in the West Elgin by- election, was arrested at Sault Ste.Marie on Saturday.It ie alleged that on Jan.12,.1899, Bole, while in charge of the polling \u2018booth, destroyed ballots, interfered with the ballot boxes, etc.Wes- ! Jey Graham, of this city, special constable, made the arrest, and he arrived in this city last night with his prisoner.QUIET IN SAMOA.Apia, Samoa, May 4., via Auckland, N.Z., May 8 \u2014Éverything i is quiet on the Island.Operations have been suspended pending the arrival of the joint commissioners from San Francisco.COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.London, May 9.\u2014The Anglican Bishop of West Africa, who was sued by Europeans for stating that a large percentage of them died from drink, has been com- \u2018mitted for trial.Price Ovz CENT.THE ANTICOSTI SETTLERS.A Quebec Organ\u2019s Statement Regarding Their Coming Expulsion.BITTER REMARKS REGARDING THEIR DEFENDERS.Quebec, May 9.\u2014The \u2018Evenement\u2019 published the following yesterday aftermoon: \u2018The governor of the Island of Anticosti, Mr.Commettant, accompanied by Mr.evening.Ottaws relative to the troubles occasion: ed on the island by a certain number of families at Fox Bay, who will not sub the eleven families remaining at Fox Bay and who, instead of submitting to ths rules, have committed numerous degre dations during the winter, that Mr.Coto: island until this question is definitely\u2019 settled.Thus, if an agreement canned be come to, the merchants of Quebeo will lose a hundred thousand dollars to a hundred and forty thousand dollaxe.an- able exponent of theix interests, one who that My.Menier has laid ait.for supplies e|in the cabinet on the floor of for, the i car pe building of the gai.- | the Hones dof pals snsorms would! pasty gill, 2 credit Ce To tad Bonn?dollars, oe well 78 era ae \u201c| refuge, indefinitely ve these Works, BoWever, wilt Def summer i.thorities cen put an end to the afice given to Mr.Menier, the proprietor | of the island.Mr.Commettant had a long interview at noon to-day at the Provincial Premier's office with the Hon.Mewars.Marchand and Duffy relative to the above difficulties.We hope to see thie question amicably settled before long and that means will be taken to assure respect for Mr.Monier\u2019s property.Mr.Commetitant claims to be well satisfied with the result of his visit to Ottawa.\u2019 MWANGA IN THE TOILS.Te ais TAKEN PRISONER \u201cWITH ONE OF HIS CHIEFS BY COL.EVATT.\u2014 London, May 8\u2014The .Foreign Office has received news from Usnyoro-that \u2018 Evatt attacked Chief Kabatega, on t esst bank of the Nile, on Aprd 9, and completely defeated him.Three lyk dred of the Snemy were killed and 'Kn > was severely the ap IS MARCHAND DEAD?SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED NEAR RAS JIBOUTIL.Paris, May 9.\u2014It is persistently rumer- ed here that Major.Marchand, leader of the famous Marchand expedition, which was returning from TFashoda, on the Nile, to the Red Ses, to France, has been killed by a band of marauders near Ras Jiboutil, the French post on the coast, and that Captain Baratier was wounded in the same encounter.\u2014\u2014pre\u2014\u2014\u2014 TWO MEN DROWNED.Quebec, May 9.\u2014 Two men named Page and Gauthier were drowned at 8t Basile, Portneuf, yesterday.nC es, FINE WEATHER.Meteorological Office, Toronto, May &.10 a.m.\u2014The following are the maxims and minimum temperatures:\u2014 Us Calgary, 74\u201436; Qu'Appelle, 0846; Vrtant- peg, 68\u201454 ; Port Arthur, 58-22 ; Perry Sound, 68\u201444; Toronto, 67\u201450; Ottams.-7 \u201446; Montreal, 70\u201448; Quebec, 79-46; 2ait- fax, 56-38.Fine to-day and ou Wednieley: not much change in temperature.Montreal May.M, 1806.\u201d Readings by Hearn & Harrisen's- Barometer at noom to-Gty, \u201820.28; JURE: day, 29.85.Temperature, \u2018to-Bky,.me: $8} min.40; yesterday, max.@ mix.&.azcived today Sn evdee- to re Mr.Commettant has been to annoy- + EIT 4 | J orapiliadl BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notices of dirthe, marriages and deaths must invert.ably be endorsed with the name and address of the sender, or otherivise no notice cam be taken of them Bitth notices are inserted for 23c, marriage notioes \u201d fot 50s, death notices for fhe prepaid.The announcement of fumera! appended to death notice, tho extrs ; other extension to obituary, such as short sketch of life, two cents per word extra, éxcept poetry, schich ie 50 cents per line extra\u2014prepaid.Annual subseriders may Adve announcements of dirths, of charge, in which case name and address of awh scribers should be grea.BIRTHS.THOMPSON\u2014At Nutt\u2019s Corners, Que., oD April 28, 1899, a sin to Mr.and Mrs.T.N.Thompson.8 WIGHTMAN.\u2014At St.Mary's, on Saturday, May 6, 1899, the wife vf R.Wightman, of a son.1 9 WOODWARK.\u2014At Butternut Grove, Ste.- Rose, Que., on May 3, - a-dà to Mr.and Mrs.George T.Wogdwark.a ~ MARRIED.2 © BURTON\u2014ÉTEVENSON\u2014On : May - 6, \u201c1803, | | at Bmmanuel Congregational Church, tn this city, by the Rev.T.8.McWilliams, 8.Burton, of Toronto, to.Winifred Maud, daughter of the late Rev.Dr.J.¥.Stevenson.formerly pastor oc Emmanuel Church.of this city.8 EDGERTON\u2014MCMILLAN \u2014 On April 28, 1809, by the Rev.J.W.McLean, of Kirk Hill, assisted by the Rev.A.McCallum, of Ste.Anne de Prescott, Bella, youngest daughter of Duncan H.B.McMillan, of Brodie, to William T.Edgerton, of Lancaster, Ont.\u2019 8 OWEN\u2014BROCK.\u2014On April .18, 1209, at Christ Chyrch, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England, by the Rev.G.N.H.Treden-' nick, M.A., the Rev.Wm.Owen, curate in gharge of Ystradfellte, Breconshire, eldest of -the.later Rov.John Owen, Cardigandhire; and Letitid Louisa, yoarg- est daughter ofthe late T.R.Bfotk,\u2019 Gudph, Ont.9 WALBY\u2014McMILLAN\u2014On May 4, 1889, by the \u2018Rev.Dean.Lauder, at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, ' Will T.Walby, to Lilian Millan, third daughter of Hugh Mcilliligd, of Butte City, Montana.WOODLAND\u2014POLLARD\u2014On April 26, 1599 at the residence of the bride's father, 11 Afton avenue, Toronto, by the Rev.8.D.Chown, Mr.Fred G.T.Woodland, to Irene Péllard, both of Toronto.700 ; DIED.CRAIG\u2014At Rowland, N.C., on May 4, 1899, Robert Bowers, infant son of the Rev.Hugh and Mrs.Craig, aged one ycar, 7 months and 21 days.8 EZARD.\u2014At the General Hospital, on Monday, May 8, 1899, Edwin R.Ezard, aged 33 years.Ftneral private.9 GILMOUR\u2014At his late residence, on Saturday, May 6, 1899, J.Y.Gilmour, aged 72 years.Funeral private.8 GORDON.\u2014Suddenly, at Franklin Centre, Que., oo April 24, 1899, Merritt Gordon, aged 73 years, 6 months and 26 days.9 GRAY.\u2014In this city; on May 9, 1899, Jeannie Paterson, eldest daughter.of the late Geo.L Heron abd dearly beloved wife of Geo.Funeral notice léter 7 GUNN\u2014#\" Li 27 ; 9 ' gat, os.May 4, 1069, Walter William: .Gunn, - son of the.Alexander Gunn, Esq.\u2019 \u20ac Jute HOPE.\u2014At Holton, P.Q., on Monday, M 8, 1899, suddenly of heart taijure, Chrie.tena, beloved wife of Wm.Hope, postmaster, aged 58 years.Funeral on Wednesday, at 10.30 a.m.9 KELSO\u2014At Inverness, Que., on Saturdiy, April 29, 1899, James Kelso, a native of Arran, Scctland, aged 78 years.8 McDONALD\u2014In Goderich Tp., on March 21, 1899, Janet Walker, relict of the late John McDonald, aged 73 years, a native of Lan- arkshire, Scotland., : McINTOSH\u2014On May 5, 1£99, at 42 Brewery street, Hull, Bella McIntosh, of St.Mertin\u2019s Junction.MUNROE\u2014In the sixth concession of Kenyon, near Maxville, Ont., Margaret Fisher, beloved wite of Hugh Munroe, aged 70 years and\u2019 8 months.PATTERSON\u2014At Ormstown, Que., on May 7, 1889, Samuel, son of the late Samuel Patterson.Funeral from his mother\u2019s residence,to the Ormstown Union Cemetery, on Tuesday afternron, 9th instant.at two o\u2019clock.Will friends and acquaiutances please accept this indmation?8 ROSE.\u2014At 940a St.Denis street, on Monday, May 8, 1899, Marguerite (Rita), eldest daughter of W.-A.Rose, train despatcher C.P.R., aged 7 years and 9 months.Funeral private.Ottawa, Smith's Falls and Carletou Place papers please copy.9 ROBB\u2014At Huntingdon, Que., on May 4, 1889, of pneumonia, Robert, youngest son of the late James Robb Funeral on Saturday, at 2 o'clock pm.8 THOMPSON\u2014At her late residence, 81 Park avenue, on May 8, 1899, Jane Haldane, in her 74th year, widow of the late James Thompson, formerly of Ottawa, and mother of Mrs.James Paton, of this eity.Funeral from the above address on Wednesday, at 2.30 p.m.9 UNWIN\u2014At the residence of her cousin, Charles Unwin, O.L.S., 126 Seaton street, Toronto, on May 5, 1889, Henrletta,youngest daughter of the late Charles Unwin.Notices received too late for this page may possibly be in time for page 6.Those sending notices for the above column may send with tem a list of names of interested friends, Meorked copies of the \u2018Witnees\u2019 containing such notice will be sent free to any address in Canada Montreal excepted, ADVERTISEMENTS.EES & CO,, \u2014TRE\u2014 E UNDEKTAKERS.E 300 St.James st.Telephones, Main, 327.Uptown, 1501, 8160.Wedding Bins.QUALITY THE BEST.PRICES THE LOWEST.18 Kar.Gold Warranted, $3.50 to $12.00 14 Kar.Gold Warranted, $3.50 to $10.00 10 Kan Gold Warranted, $1.30 to 3 7,00 D, BEATTY, 137 St.Peter st.opperlic * Wituess ' Ofiice.t À Tremendous It is perfectly safe to say that The Big Store \u201cis doing the CARPET TRADE of the city.There's abundant proof of the statement in crowds that daily throng the four immense Carpet rn THE MONTREAL DAILY.WITNESS.= S, CARSLEY T rer CT acr-e-d Notre Dame street.Montreal's C op Limited Greatest Store, May 9, 1899.BANKS, cessfully cope with it.© the \u2018better, we're specially prepared to treat witn \u201corddrs from PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, -RAIL- WAY COMPANIES, STEAMSHIP COMPANIES, Carpet Trade.the vast Stores, but no matter how extensive the Carpet Trade may be, the Company have facilities to suc- The larger the orders are PUBLIC OFFICES, CHURCHES, ete.To give perfect satisfaction is the ruling principle .of the management, besides saving you from 10 to 15 percent on tha outlay.Thé Big Store has caught the inspiration of bigger business and prepared for it on a larger scale than ever before.New improvements, new stocks, new enthusiasm, give larger ideas of usefulness.NEW CARPETS.New Brussels Carpets.\u2014Special reliable qualitice, 89¢ to $1.10.; Royal Axminster Carpets, with handsome borders to match,-8k46.: oo \u201cOriental Axminater Carpets, very rich quality, borders to match, $1.65.+ Axminster Hal! and Stair Carpets.\u2014 Best quality, widths, 3-4, 1 yard.81.45 22.23 yard.: English Oil Cloths\u2014In best, well-sea- soned \u2018makes, 2lc to 95c yard.Scoteh Linoleums.\u2014Extra quality, newest patterns, 30c to $1.10 yard.Cork 'Carpets\u2014Everlasting wear; plain kinds, 75¢ to $1.15 yard.\" Figured Kinds, 85c te $1.10.NEW CARPETS.New Jute Carpets\u2014Reliable quality.Special make, 10%c to 20c yard.New Scotch Carpets\u2014Pretty Floral Designs, 1 yard wide, 15¢ to 25¢ yard.New Union Carpets\u2014Serviceable, good, hard wearing, 33¢c to 55¢ yard.New All Wool Carpets.\u2014Fine grades, newest pattern, 65c to 80c.New Tapestry Carpets.\u2014 Splendid makes, latest styles, 35c to 48¢c yard.New Tapestry Carpets.\u2014Specially made for The S.Carsley Co.55e to 75c yard.New Tapestry Stair Carpets, to match body patterns; width, 22, 27, 38 inches, prices from 35c, 40c, 80e, yard.\u2019 Oriental Rugs and Carpets.NEW ORIENTAL RUGS.Oriental Rugs, 1% by 6 feet .$ 45 Oriental Rugs, 2% by 5 feet .1.25 Oriental Rugs, 3 by 6 feet.1.80 Oriental Rugs, 4 by 7 feet.2.80 Oriental Rugs, 6 by 6 feet.3.60 Oriental Rugs, 6 by 7% feet.4.50 Oriental Rugs, 6 by 9 feet 5.40 NEW ORIENTAL RUGS.Oriental Rugs, Oriental Rugs, 9 by 9 feet .8.10 Oriental Rugs, 9 by \u201810% feet.9,45 Oriental 'Rugs, 10% by 12 feet .10.50 Oriental Rugs, 12 by 12 feet .14.40 Oriental Rugs, 10% by '16 feet .15.76 Oriental Rugs, 12 by 15 feet .18.0 Write for the New Summer Catalogue just published] The: S.CARSLEY CO., Limited.\" 1765 to 1783 Notre Dame st.HE SAYS.The Acting Superintendent of the Water Department reports: \u201cThis is the mast dangerous period of the year as far as ths water is concerned.\u201d \u2018Why not get one of our Charcoal Miterers and be safe.They ara not expensive.THE G.R.LOCKER CO, 1769 Notre Dame SL What You Want.Your Light Suits, Jackets, etc., can be kept in perfect order by our Perfect Patent Process of French Cleaning.No Shrinking or Displacing of Stiffening.Stains removed; all kinds of Dyelng and Cleaning the very best.BRITISH AMERICAN DYEING 00, .915 MeGlll st.,2433 Notre Dame st.omces: {IIS MES Ame Sten Christophe.\u2014\u2014 OF ABRAHAM.RETURN RESPECTING THEIR LEASE TO THE CROWN BROUGHT DOWN IN PARLIAMENT.\u2014 PLAINS Ottawa, May 9.\u2014A return was laid on the table of the House of Commons yesterday afternoon by the Minister of Militia in response to a motion by Mr.Cas- grain, bearing upon the lease of the Plains of Abraham to the crown, and correspondence in connection with acquiring or renewing the lease for the same.The first paper in the return is a copy of the lease of the property from the Ursulines to the crown in 1803 for a period of ninety-nine years, to terminate on May 1, 1802.Next appears in 1875, a petition from the Ursulines for permission to cancel the lease.In this petition it was stated that the rental -of twenty-five louis did not at all represent the value of the land.They represented that a remission of the balance of the lease would be, under the circumstances, no more than a just indemnity for the sacrifice which the community had made in making this concession to the public interest.The report of the Major-General commanding was that it would be improper for the government to give up ite right over any land adjacent to the first-class fortress of Quebec.This report was sub-._ \"184 to 194 St.James.st.41795 BA me 7 mme sequently confirmed by a report of Ma.jor-General Luard in 1881, who \u2018réported against permission to erect certain build: ings on the property.- The last paper in the return is a copy of the resolution passed by the Nova Sootia Historical Society in January of this year, asking that the grounds be preserved intact.\u2014\u2014 SHERBROOKE ITEMS.Sherbrooke, Que., May 9.\u2014At a meet: ing of the members of Bishop's College University and friends, held the other day, it was decided to start a fund to be\u2019 known as the \u2018Robert Hamilton memorial fund,\u201d which will be used for the enlargement of the Arts.Building, which are altogether too inadequate for the students now attending college.The Gas and Water Company has begun erecting \u2018thé additional poles and wire that will be necessary to light the city in accordance with the new contract.\u2018 Six additional poles will be required for this and over four miles of copper wire.| Since the company\u2019s tender was accept- ei ihe price of copper wire has just dou- led The store of W.H.Griffith, druggist, Wellington street, was broken into on Sunday night and the till rifled.An | entrance.was effected through the door at the rear of the building by bursting the lock.The thief or thieves then apparently went direct to the till and abstracted a portion of the contents.When Mr.Griffith left the store yesterday there was some $2.40 in the till, and the thieves took only part of this.Nothing else was found to have been disturbed, and it is thought that whoever it was they were amateurs at the business.ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX.Toronto, Ont, May 8.\u2014Another crse of smallpox was reported to Dr.Bryce, secretary of the Provincial Board of Ifealth, from the county of Prescott, today.The vietim is a young man, Joseph Beaudry, a mill hand at Hawkes- bury village.He has been boarding at the house of a widow named Mrs.Martin, with five others.All precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease.It is supposed that he caught the disease from infected clothing, belonging to former smallpox pat: ents\u2019 in the vicinity.\u2014_ NOTES AND NOTICES.A Wise Advice to Piano Owners.\u2014The ten thousand owners of our pianos will find it to their advantage in price and character of tuning to see that \u2018their pianos are attended to only by our own authorized tuners and regulators and repairers.Our rates are moderate and we! have the best and most careful mm in Canada.Telephone, Main 1643.villi & Co., 1821 Notre Dame street, near Mc Gill street, Montreal \\ 7% by 110% feet.$ 7.80.| Montreal: 'T Mien JOHN MURPHY & CO.ê G+ + + ++ S| Just put into stock a large assortment of LACE PARASOL COVERS Very handsome goods, all prices, from 65¢c each 100 pairs new fine ready for use.The greatest snap $1.25 per pair.only 60¢ each.Linen Carriage Dusters.: Our new Carriage Dusters are worthy of special notice.Prices from 45c each.Fine Summer Blankets.Summer Blankets, with assorted borders\u2014just what is wanted for the country.All prices from 75c per pair.Fine White Summer Quilts: See our new Summer Quilts, all laundered, Only 87c.Our Great Bath Towel Sale, Cheap at $1.25.in Bath Towels.Cheap at See this lot, only 75¢ per pair.Embroidered Linen Tea Cloths.Colors\u2014 Pink, Blue, Cardinal and White.Price Terms Cash.JOHN MURPHY & CO.2343 St.Catherine Street, corner of Metcalfe.Tel.Up 933.The Baily Wituess.(TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 9.per \u2026 \u2014 COMMERCIAL.= Montreal Wholesale Markets.A WITXESS NFPICE, } May 9, 1 GRAIN.Thovgh there is not a large business he- iug done, values are strong.The receipts by rail were 1,900 busbels of wheat, 7,956 bushels of peas, 37,700 bushels of corn, and 17,160 bushels of oats.The receipts by water were 96,134 bushels of oats and 102,535 busheis of çorn.We quate.No.2 oats at 36%c to 363c, afloat, and 32c in the West.Peas ure worth 75c afloat, and 64c to \u20ac5¢ in the West.FLOUR.There is a quiet business being done.We | quote Manitoba patents at $3.90 to $1.05; \u2018strong bakers at .$3.70 to $2.80; winter pa- | tents at $3.76 to $4; straight rollers a\u2018 $3.50 to $3.60; straight rollers, bags, at 3.65 to $1.75; extras at $1.40 to $1.50.The receipts to-day were 2,075 barrels.PROVISIONS.There is a quiet business being done.Liverpool quotations show a decline of 3d in tullow to 24s.The Chicago hog market is reported weak to 5c lower.Tho receipts to-day were 1,000 c:ses of lard and 15 barrels of tallow.BUTTER.Creamsry is in fair demand, and worth 16c to 16%c.Cholce Eastern Townships dairy is worth 14e to 13c, while fresh rolls ere slow at 12c.The receipts to-day were 791 packages.RGGS.The receipts are large and are being well taken up at prices ranging from lc to Mike.The \u2018Campana\u2019 is expected up next week with a cargo which may naturally weaken the market.; CHEESE.Liverpool cable remains steady at Sls for both white and colored.The receipts today were 1,371 boxes.at Little Falls were 182 boxes Targe colored at 9%c; 3,214 baxes small white and eolor- ed at 9c; 20 packages of dairy butler at 16e té 17c.Utica, N.Y., May 8.\u2014The sales of cheese at the Utica Board of Trade to-day were ms follows: Large white, 40 boxes.at 9e; large colored, 873 at 9c, and 60 at 9%c; small colcred, 254, at 8l4c: 25 at 8%c, and 284 at 8%c; small white, 186, at S8%e; and 165 at gc.There were 893 boxes sold on commission.WHEAT IN SIGHT.The wheat in sight, with comparisons, is as follows:\u2014 May 8, May 1, May), .1899.1899.1898.Visibly supply ods, & Can, 21.466,000 n passage ; IR 26,664,000 On passage Continent 28,144,000 25,680,000 to + 13,880,600 12,840,000 Total in sight 67,786,000 66,464,000 22,528,000 21,520,000 18,080,000 62,128,000 , FRUIT BALE.Yesterday there was a sale of pine apples, bananas and onions at the Montreal Fruit Auction Company's warehouse.Potter & Morin, auctioneers.About 200 barrels of pine apples were sold, bringing as bigh as i6¢, but the general average was & litle ; lower, A car of bananas (seconds) brought about 774c.A LONDON COPPER MARKET.\u2018London, May 8.\u2014Copper closing : Spot, £76 125 64; futures, -£75 15.Market quiet; sales, spot, 150; futures, 650 tons.LONDON WOOL WOOL SALES.London, May 8.\u2014The wool auction sales were continued to-day, with a large num- ver of buyers present.Competition was very active with the continental buyers operating freely in superfine merino greasy wools, which realized 20 to 25 percent above the March series, These goods also met with a strong demand from all directions.The German representatives were more pro- niinent \u2018to-day, their operations showing a \u2018| marked increase, Cross-breds.were.hardening and received a stron home trade support.The offerings numbered 14,217 bales and included a fine show of superfine merino greasy.The daily withdrawals have averaged only about 125 bales.The following are the sales in detail: \u2014 New South Wales\u20146,600 bales; scoured, 914d to 1s 11%d; greasy, 5%d to 1s 214d.Queensland\u20142,600 bales; scoured, 1s 3d to 1g 1014d; greasy, 84d to 1s.Victoria\u20141,300 bales; scoured, 9d to 28 14; greasy, 6d to 1s 1d.fouth Australla\u2014800 bales; greasy, 7d to 1s.West Australla\u2014300 bales; greasy, 6%d to ls.Tasmania\u2014500 bales; greasy, 9d to 18 1%d.New Zealand\u20142,000 bales; scoured, 74d to 9d; greasy, 6d to 10%d.Cape of Good Hope and Natal\u201452 bales; scoured, 10%d to 18 9%d; greasy, 8%d to 9d.COTTON MARKETS.New York, May 8.\u2014Cotton\u2014Spot closed quiet, 1-16¢c higher.Middling uplands; 6%; middling Gulf, 6%.Sales, 600 bales.Futures.closed quiet and steady; May, b5.84c ; June, 5.876; July 5.91c; August, 5.92c; Sept, 5.92c; Oct, 5.92c; Nev., 5.98c; Dec, 5.97e; Jan., 6.01c; Feb, 6.04c; March, 6.05c.Liverpool, May 8.\u2014Whiteuntide holidays.The cotton exehange will be closed May 20, 22, 26 apd 27.Liverpool, May 8, 4 p.m.\u2014Cotton, spot, active demand and a large business done ; Utfca, N.Y., May 8.\u2014The sales of cheese prices full; American middling, 3 13-324, | The sales of the day were 15,000 bales, of ' which 1,000 were for speculation and export, and included 13,000 American.Receipts, 1,000 balés, all American.Futures opened steady, with a moderate demand, and closed easy at the decline.SUGAR MARKETS.New York, May.8\u2014Sugar\u2014Raw, firm ; fair refining, 4%c; J iy 96 test, 4%¢; molasses sugar, 4 3-16c.Refined, firm ; mould \u2018A,\u2019 5 Sc; standard \u2018A,\u2019 Sle; con- tectioners\u2019 \u2018A, BYc; cut léaf, 6%c; crushed, $%c; powdered, 5%¢; granulated, 5%c; cubes 5ige.May \u20188\u2014Sugar\u2014Cane, quiet and unchanged, Java, 13s and fair refining, ils 9d.Beet, firmer in tone, but not quotably higher; present month unchanged at 11s 214d, and next month, 11s 3d.\u2014 London, VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.New York, May 8\u2014The statement of the visible supply of grain in store and afloat on Saturday, May 6, as compared by the New York Produce Exchange, is as follows: Wheat, 27,466,000; decrease, 678,000, Corn, 22,065,000; decrease, 3,821,000, Oats, 7,950,000; decrease, 1,627,000, Rye, 968,000; decrease, 231,000.Barley, 1,604,000; decrease, 65,000.* LOCAL STOCKS.MARKET SOFTER.Values were generally a little lower on the local stock exchange this morning,failing off ip nearly all lines from the opening.The ont ymarked d:op, however, was in Montreal Street, which closed at 228% for old and 325 for new.Electric dropped yn point, as did Dominion Cotton, while ! Toronto Railway closed % down.Republic was the only stock to make u marked advance, selling up to $1.33.; MORNING SALES.| C.P.R.\u2014925 at 98, 200 at 9814, 100 at 98, 100 : at 98%; 75 at.98, 100 at 97%.M.8.R.\u201450 at 329, 25 at 228%, 5 at 220, 25 at 329, 50 at 328, 75 at320, 25 at 328%.New M.S.R.\u2014250 at 326, 100 at 32514, 100 lat 235.Turspar, Mar 9, 1899, Aen ; _ Torotito\u201d Rattway=228 at 118, 25 at 117%, BORLA TA, 0m ol 1, ZENE 1173 R.& 0.\u2014% at 12%.~ Twin City\u20142 at 70%, 100 at 70, 25 at 69%, 100 at 69%, 15 at 70%.War Eagle \u2014 1,600 at 367.Bank of Toronto\u201410 at 246.Payne xd\u2014500 at 393.Dom.Cotton\u2014125 at 114, 20 at 118.Royal Electric\u201425 at 155%, 25 at 188, 25 at 187.Republic xd\u2014750 at 130, 5,700 at 132%, 2,500 at 13215, 100 at 133.Reported by Messra.Nichols & Marler, Stock Brokers 174 Notre Dame St MORNING BOARD.Stocks.Sellers Buyers Bis io Stocks.Sellers Buyers fie fi 88 #T% Can.Pacifio.Com.Cable.1874 150 Duluth Com.5% - 5 Richelieu.Huth Gora.Se 5 ichelieu 11 110 BTREET RAILWAYS Montreal Bt.3283; 3264 Toronto.Mont New.325 322% St.John Halifax.114 10 Trin Oty vee MISCELLANEOUS Montl.Gas.206 203 Halifax H&L 30 .Royal Elec.188) 188% BeliTelsph.180 178 .Telegr.180 .Coal.58 & HW 10 L,Y pid.181 : corroxs' \u2019 Montl, Cot.163 150 Merchaata.Gan.Col.Oot.70 Dominion.iid if MINES \u2019 War Eagle\u201d $368 $367 Mont.Lond.6 6 Poets $3.90 Repub.Cons*§l.38 152% Hifx.Ht&Lt.80 .N.W.Land .Halifax By.*xd Reported for the \u2018Witness\u2019 by Mr.G.BR.Marler, Banker and Broker, 1721 Notre Dame St.Buyers, Ballers.Counter.New York Funds.1-64 dis, 144 prem.34 to i prem Sterling, 60 days.9 1-16 M4 to 9% Sterling, demand.9 9-16 4 911-18t0 9% Sterling Cables.% 9% Faris Uheques\u2026.i FINANCIAL CABLES.New York, May 8.\u2014The \u2018Commercial Advertiser's\u2019 financial cable from London says.The markets here were quiet and irregular to-day on the eve of a settlement, beginning to-morrow.Americans opened fat, hardened slightly and then relapsed into dulness, New York refrained from supporting them and the close was heavy at the worst, particularly for Central Pacific and Union Pacific.Silver was hard on Indian buying and bear covering.Money was easy.Paris, May 8\u2014Prices on the Bourse today were firm, but inactive.International securities were irregular.Rentes and Italians were dull, and Spanish fours and Brazilians improved.Rio Tintos declined on heavy realizations, but finjshed steadier.Kaffirs recovered, purchases being made in the belief of a satisfactory settlement of the Anglo-Transvaal differences.Berlin, May 8.\u2014On the Boerse to-day in- tergational seeurition \u2018 were fries on ad- vi Irom western bourses.as je: anticipation of a réduction 1a or i Americans were \u2018dull, but Canadian Patifics were maintained.Bank shares were good and mine shares were steady.MINING.EXCHANGE.(Reported by A.W.Morris, Mining Brokor, Rooms 62 and 64, Canada Life Butiding)- MORNING BOARD.Stocks.Sellers.Buyers.Payne .+o os os oo +00 $4.00 $3.93 War Eagle .o +c +o +0 «0 3.72 8.87 Republic .+.+.«+ 1.34 1.33 Virtue .vv ++ + ve 0 T1 10 Moutreal and London .67 64 Big Three .25% 25 Brandon and G.Crown .30 25 California .+.+2 0e + .8 63 Can.Gold Fields .6 5 Cariboo Hydraulic .1.43 1.40 City of Parts .70 64 Evening Ster .10% 8% Fern .\u2026.++ os senor 46 \u2026 Gold Hills Dev.«.8 ô Iron Colt .14 12% Iron Mask .75 69 Knob Hill .+ ++ .95 82 Monte Cristo .-.1 11% Mont.Gold Fields .22 20% Noble Five 1e ae es as 481 28 Novelty .+.+.+.+ 6 4 Old Ironside +.1,15 1.08 Virginia .«0 eee.oo.128 .20 Rambler Cariboo .30% 27 Bullion ee re ee eae .Summit 5 3 St.Elmo 8 3 Burley .19 15% Decca .28 2644 Morrison .\u2026 20 A4 Golden Star .ôl 59 Slocan Sovereign .29% 28% MORNING SALES.Montreal Gold Fields\u20141,000 at 21, 2,000 at 21, 500 at 21.Goiden Star\u2014500 at 59%.Cariboo Hydraullc\u2014500 at 1.42%.Iron Colt\u20142,000 at 11, 3,0000 at 11.Evening Star\u20141,000 at 9, 1,000 at 9, 2,000 at 9.Big Three\u2014500 at 25%, 100 at 25%, 250 at 2534.Burley\u20142,000 at 171%, 500 at 174.TORONTO MINING EXCHANGE.Morning Sales.Golden Star\u2014500 at 5944.Minnehaha\u2014500 at 27%, 500 at 27, 1,000, 560, 500 at 27%.Falrview\u2014500 at 10.Smuggler\u2014500, 1,000, 1,000, 1,000, 500 at 3 3.Dardanelles\u2014500 at 10%.Rambler Cariboo\u2014500 at 29.Ven Anda\u20145,000 at 8.Golden Star\u2014500, 500 at 59%.Blg Three\u2014500 at 244.Deer Park\u2014500 at 6, 509, 2,000, 500 at 6%.N.Belle\u20141,000, 1,000 at 4.S.Bette\u2014500, 500 at 2%, 1,000 at 3%.Victory Triumph\u2014600, 1,000, 1,000 at 1%.W.Bear\u2014500, 500 at 4%.Gold Hills\u2014500, 500, 500 at 7%.ert: LOYOLA COLLEGE.The first: grammar class of Loyola College held - their class specimen fn Karn Hall last night, a large number of students of the collego, with their friends, being pres ent.The pupils delivered a number ot translations from the classics and extracts from French and English authors, and al- 50 solved some algebraical and gsometrical problems.During the evening also a nwn- ber of vocal and instrumental selectins were rendered at intervals.ON THE CONTINENT.Clerks in Vienna stores are agitating for a Sunday holiday. 2,500 kor 8 ayers T 110 17 = 134\u201d \u2018its ® LIN 1.32% \u201cie , L000, 300 at at 6%.214.at 1%.Colloge n Hall, lents of 1@ pres- nber of extracts and al- metrical a num- lections gitating TUESDAY, May 9, 1899.\u2014 ag 3 cr === Baby Goods, Baby Bibs, from 10c to $1.50 each.Powder Boxes and Puffs, 50c to $1.75.Shawls for Baby in Flannel, Floss Embroidered, $1.25 each.Bands for Baby, 50c.Baby Jackets, made with fine Wool, $1.15 to $1.25.Short Dresses, in Cambric, 30c up.Corsets, P.D.Corsets, all sizes, from $1.00 re C3363 Ln TE EE, \u2014 WE i up.Ferris Good Sense Walsts: Misses\u2019 75¢, and $1.15; Ladies\u2019 $1.50 to $1.75.Summer Corsets, E.T., 50c, T5c, $1.00 pair.a OUR SUMMER Will be Ready Next Week.Write for a copy.Scotch Goods.Tartans\u2014A large range of Clan Tartans\u2014Boys\u2019 Highland Suits.Brooches and Sporans in .endless variety.We bave an exceedfngly handsome line of Brooches for Men's Plaids.Ladies\u2019 Jackets.Special reductions have been made on our stock of High-class Stylish Jackets.Come and see the wonderful offerings in our Mantle Department.WELDON'S PATTERNS | For the month of May now in stock.Art Needle Work Class in Ladies\u2019 Parlor each afternoon, 2.30 till 5.30.Ogilv- LETTERS FROM READERS.KEEP THE CANADIANS, OUR NEW POPULATION - BRITISH INSTITUTIONS IN DANGER (To the Editor of the \u201cWitness.\u2019) Sir, \u2014The above three sentences headed articles in your own and other papers last week.regarding migration and emigration of Canadians and others.The main gist of the whole was the wisdom or otherwise, of importing whole hordes of foreigners to this country, whose standard of living is so different and so much below the acknowledged standard of Canadians.There are many questioning the wisdom of allowing, and actually paying for this great influx of a people who apparently will be very hard to absorb or make accustomed to our methods of living or government.Particularly is this emphasized when so early after their arrival in the country the Doukhobors commence working for wages #0 ridiculously small that the average Canadian would starve if he work ed for them.Certainly this is a free country and now being allowed to settle Bere, partly at the expense 3 ihe people Canada, it js presumed tl they ny works fon what they di lung #6 they Are, petits.be the result?\u2018Why, the sturdy farm laborers, and others, desiring to settle in the North-West out of the proceeds of what they earn after arriving there, will cry a halt, with such people to compete against, because it will be a hopeless task to earn enough to settle, with the wages they would receive.The above is objection number one to encouraging, with the money of the people of Canada, most of these foreigners to coma here.Perhaps the objection is weak.You, sir, object to these people living in communities, I presume because they are less easy to assimilate.Then you tell us that the Mennonites, who got land in communities, have not only set an example to the country of individual thrift and diligence, of great value to many of their neighbors, but by the prosperity of their villages have demonstrated the advantage of such thrift on a large and striking scale.You also class the Doukhobors with the Mennonites, degiring to live in communities, which in my opinidn proves their far-seeing wisdom.It has long beeg demonstrated in the various comununistic societies ih the United States, that while self-de- nial and economy on a small scale, or in mall things, may have helped these peo ple, it wes the application of science, and the power to extract scientifically from the land that which it would produce most of, with the least amount of tmergy\u2014which co-operation enabled these teople to do\u2014that has made them so successful.I have read many articles bearing upon this question of settling Canadians upon the land, but have not seen one with any auggestion as to how to put it into Hractice.Some years ago I had the te nerity to suggest something and received very scant support.The principal thing % do to get Canadians on to the land, \u2018ad keep them there, is to remove the objestionable features at present attached tn farming.To talk about how your ther worked, and your grandfather *rght Indians to keep his farm, and Motect the home is only waste of paper.teuple want to know how to live on a \u201cfn, with a reasonable amount of labor, tl have some of the benefits of advanc- * civilization.Then we must first abol- h the isolation attached to farming.It # loneliness that drives so many young \"0 ard young women from the farms nity the cities.It also keeps many in Mt ties, who would otherwise go on 9 farms.Secondly, we must remove 7 of the drudgery.It seems as ri- \"lous for x farmer to grow all the (etes of vegetables, grain, grasses, Tuts an} raise cattle, pigs, sheep afd Proltry as it would to abolish the shoe Jory 1nl go back to the old shoemak- A The experimental farm in Ottewa oy hes us that various lands are requir : ler the variety of things we wish to .mhivate, and not one farm in a thous 6 has that necessary variety.Hence, Lara successfully, it must be done gf ally, and the only way to do .5 to have large blocks of land with \u2018êrmers working co-operatively.They A \u2018 | good newspapers, like The 05 ge a Sod ls Tut what Gall make men \u2019 woman, any\u2019 1 muet can then choose what land will give the greatest results with the least amount of energy.They would also live close together, and be able to get the most im proved implements for doing their work, As proof of this the cheese and butter factories are a demonstration, the principle of which would be applied to all agriculture.Once in vogue, the cities would soon be depleted of their unemployed.Tt is as easy in farming in these lines to make a living as in banking, and it would be a far more pleasurable occupation.To establish co-operative farms all over the country by settlers from the cities would require government aid in\u2019 the shape of loans, which would probebly in the end:be a far more satisfactory wey of settling our lands than any im- DÂgration scheme yet tried by this or any previous government.W.D.Montreal, May 6, 1899.\u2014 AND NEWSPAPERS.(To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.) Sir,\u2014I see that one of your contemporaries has the following very true thing.to say concerning some books it desires to sell.It is worth) repeating : Good books tend to make good men and women.Many a successful life can be traced directly to the influence of good books.A wise parent should be as careful of the books his children read as of the company they keep.If the.inference is unfair they will perhaps forgive it, but it seems 0 me that a sucé life can be traced directly to the influence of good newspapers.À wise parent should be as careful of the newspapers his children read as of the company they keep.LOGIC.\u2014\u2014 FIRE! FIRE! INCREASED TELEPHONE USEFULNESS.(To the Editor of the \u2018\u201cWitness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014I have often thought that one of the functions of tho telephone service should be to advise its patrons of fire in the vicinity of any of their property.Tonight I have just heard the bells ring out some alarm, but lost the count hopelessly because two beHs were ringing at the same time, or trying to.I am interested in buildings in several parts of the city, and would like to have the assurance that if any of them were threatened by fire \u2018Central\u2019 would notify me.It seems to me that it would be easy to jot down the telephone numbers of interested parties upon the cadastral plan, and when a fire occured in or near a factory at night the proprietor and manager of such a factory could be immediately notified\u2014supposing, of course, they had telephones in their houses.I believe it would add to the popularity of the telephones, this added usefulness making the price seem more reasonable.Indeed, 1 would be glad to pay extra for such notifications.DREAD FIRE.Montreal, May 8.\u2014\u2014 THE CARE OF IMBECILES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014As a loyal Canadian, and one not without interest in the old town of L\u2019Orignal, Ontario, and its -outlying districts, I beg that you aid me through the columns of your widely-read paper, to put forth an appeal for the amelioration of the condition of the insane.In a recent issue of the L\u2019Orignal \u2018Advertiser,\u2019 I note that Dr.Chamberlain, inspector of prisons and asylums for Ontario, recently visited the jail; and that you may the more readily grasp the gist of my cause, I quote verbatim, to wit: In conversation with the doctor upon the subject of the Insane class of inmates, which has burdened our jail for so many years past, he remarked that it was to be regretted that our county jail should be ro long occupied by a few idiotic creatures, and that an institution for such a claas, should be provided whers they could be properly cared for ,and employed till (hey die off.The county Jail should not be made an asylum for hopsless imbeciles.I endorse some of his suggestions, but regret his failure to clothe such in more feeling language, for, as it is, one must infer that he deemed the common jail as altogether too superior a lodgment for the \u2018few idiotic creatures.\u2019 Beyond a doubt, the insane should be given a more hospitable asylum than a me | { fleet how many of the younger genera: THE MONTREAL prison for criminals; and those able to wôrk \u2018fhould\" bé\" givéi something to: do.Employment, in the majority of crimes, would prove a panacea for their ills.But.above everything, they should be bur and such, to be genuine, should ba prefaced by tender and sympathetically expressed thought.No one should have anything to do same root that takes the teasen prisoner.\u2019 Of all human unfortunates,\u201d there are none who are entitled to such \u2018a degrée of sympathy as those whose reason has fled, or whose intellect is clouded.Yet how often positive proof comes to our ly, not to say brutally, treated.Dr.Chamberlain may have been misquoted; yet that would seem to still further aggravate the matter, as it hints that local sentiment is far from lavish in weighing the mis:ry of the unfortunate.I know of no better way whereby one may so accurately gauge the status of & community than by glancing over the columns of the local newspaper.the voice of the people; and when I re.tion, who are as yet, in a formative stage, undoubtedly read this unfeeling note, I am made anxious as to the weight such expressions as \u2018die off, \u2018 burdened our jail \u2018idiotic creatures,\u2019 ete, must have.The trend of moral thought grasped by the upcoming race shall influence and guide the welfare of the new century whose dawn is now on the threshold, sd that it surely behooves us of to-day, to good.books, fend.| EE \u2018leads to tender justice, ms well as harmony with human progress.; On every side, we meet with the expression, \u2018 God's poor,\u2019 and \u2018The poor | ye have elways with you,\u2019 but they are} not intelligently interpreted when they include only.those without bread; and it matters not how rich a man may be, if he is dispossessed of his reason, he becomes, in a sense, the poorest of \u2018God\u2019s poor\u2019; then how much more urgent his\" case if he has no estate.Enlightened as is this age, there is still a tendency to look upon brain disease as a disgrace.This is especially noticeable in rural districts, where little or no weight is given to the fact that the brain is the most intrieate;| most delicately constructed part of the whole human anatomy; yet.it is .frequently taxed to a greater extent, proportionately, than any one of thé stronger, and its giving out is no more to \u201cbe: thought a disgrace than consumption.That disease of the brain is sometimes the result of vice, is not to be disputed; but the same can be said of consumption; and, further, it is, in the rent majority of cases\u2014whether parental or otherwise\u2014traceable to; ignorance and lack of sanitary precaution.Yet, outside of some parts of Europe, where-superstition is still rife, and where the house in which the spirit of a consumptive has paseed away, is ever after looked upon ae doomed, we seldom find people ashamed of members of their family or community who are victims of this dire disease.Statistics amply prove that insanity as frequently enters the precincts of intelligence and culture, as it does th= boundary of the wretched, and it is es often the result of inflicted wrongs, or undue concentration on some line of thought or work, as that of participation in vice.If the cause of this great calamity were as earnestly sought lor as its effects are dissected, the hearts or the more ior- tunate would overflow with pity, and our most urgent poor would not be grudgingly consighed to the common jail \u2018till they die off!\" Some of the greatest lights of the world have met this misfortuné in one form or another, from simply hallucination, to greatest madness.Dr.Johnson had spells of a mild form of insanity; so had Beethoven, who poured dippersful of water over his head when his brain seemed on fire; and it is no secret in the world that John Ruskin, whom few will dispute as the most refined, aesthetic of the age, was forced to seek betterment of brain health in a sanatarium.Through the liberality of the Montreal \u2018 Witness\u2019 there are but few of its readers who do not possess a very good copy of Muncaksy\u2019s \u2018Christ Before Pilate\u2019 Let those of them who conclude that because a fellow-being has forfeited his reason, he has also forfeited his right to fraternity, look upon this picture, contemplate the benign, god-like dignity, the pathetic attitude of the Christ, and then refleet that the creator of this work, so brought the wonderful resources of hig imagination to bear on the subject, as to stamp the canvas with his soul, rather than his hand.And where is this man to-day ?What his fate ?Briefly, he is on the fatal incline; and as no one can feel a true reverence for art, and not revere its creator, I would eug- gest to those who feel to deplore Mun- caksy\u2019s\u2019 fate, to share their pity with his brothers in misfortune\u2014\u2018the imbecile creatures\u2019 in L\u2019Orignal jail.If the study of Muncaksy\u2019s work could, even in \u201cthe least, awaken the dormant feelings of merey that I know are in the hearts of the L\u2019Orignal people, it will have fulfilled, conjointly with the \u2018Witness,\u2019 a laudable mission.MARTHA JOHNSTONE MORTIMER Boston, Mass.CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL.Washington, D.C., May 8.\u2014The formal order for the opening of the drainage canal at Chicago was issued by the Secretary of War to-day.This, however, is subject to any action Congress may manely dealt with, and kindly treated; with the care of the insane who.is over- | ready to measure their offences or unwill-{, ing to give a broad margin to \u2018the in-| knowledge, that many of them are harsh.| It ist point out and to pave the way which} DAILY WITNESS.LL x = - .Ah a a mem \u2014 It is Finally Passed By the City Council.UNDERWRITERS WANT THE UPPER LEVEL PUMPING PLANT IMPROVED, ALD.EKERS APPOINTED ACTING- MAYOR \u2014 ALD.AMES'S DENIAL.The City Council met yesterday, and, with a few amendments, passed \"the taxation by-law.There was a quantity of routine business disposed of at the opening of the meeting including the forwarding of a number of committee reports a stage.Ald.Ames, speaking to a question of yrdvilege, explained that he was in re way responsible for Mr.G.W.Stephens\u2019s action against \u2018the Mayor.He had had no communication with Mr, Steph- ene on the subject, either verbally or in writing before or after the institution of the action, Ald.Ames said he did not want to be considered as connectol m any way with the case, and wished tbat the alderman who had stated that \u2018he (Ald.Ames) had instigated the action would now deny it.Ald.Lareau stated that he had made :the statement on the strength of current report in his ward.He was glad to hear Ald.Ames\u2019s denial, and accepted it \u2018cheerfully.The ladies\u2019 petition about cleaning the streets was referred to the Board of Health.: A letter was read from Mr.J.P.Hebert, secretary of the Ste.Cunegonde rCity Council, stating that the Street Railway Company intended running its line on Atwater avenue in Ste.Cune- gonde, for the connection of St.Antoine with St.James street.The report of the Parks and Ferries Committee that a three months\u2019 delay had been granted the Quebec Govern- gent for the removal of the buildings from the expositién ground, was postponed to the next meeting.~The Road Committee's report granting the Belt Line Railway Company leave to {run ite track and transport passengers froni Duquette street as far as the Do- minién\u2019 Cotton Mille, was continted Lo the next meeting, in epite of the objec- tiond, of Alf.Sadler, who \u2018claimed that, this \u2018postponement was unfair.The matter; paid he, had already been.before council, ad lief was no reasqn for.delaying a\" séttlement any longer.The pllowing létter from the secre taryrof the Canadian Fire Underwriter's | Association was submitted: \u2014 \u2018L.O.David, -City Clerk:- \u2018Dear Sir,\u2014~I beg to append a copy of a resolution adopted at a recent meeting of this association, which will you please \u2018place before the City Council at its first meeting, and advise me of action taken thereon?.\u2018ALF.W.HADRILL.\u2018Wheceas recent inspections disclose \u2018the fact that the city\u2019s high level pumps are deficient in capacity for the requirements, and are in consequence being driven beyond their capacity, which is liable to result in a break-down, thus leaving a portion of the city without ade: quate fire-protection.\u2018Resolved\u2014That the secretary be instructed to communicate with the City Council with a view to ascertain what has been done, or is being done, a~ninst such a contingency arising.\u2019 The letter.was referred to the Water Committee.Ald.Ekers was unanimously chosen as acting-mayor, for the next three months, vice Ald.Archambault, whose term has expired.The by-law .concerning assessments, taxes and licenses which has already been published, was then considered.Section 1referred to the one percent tax on real estate, or immovables, including machinery, so fixed to any building as to form part thereof.Ald.Ames moved to amend that section, by adding to it the following explanatory provision: \u2018In making the valuation of any mill or manufactory or building erected or used for any such purpose, the assessors shall not take into account the.value of agy machinery.therein, save only such as shall be erected and used for the production and transmission of motive power\u201d Aldermen Beausoleil and Martineau objected to this amendment on the ground that the City Council had no right to state what should be considered as immovables.In other words, the aldermen could not make law, and they were overstepping their power by making exceptions to the Civil Code.All they could do was to levy a tax on real estate, and whatever the latter might be had to be accepted.The amendment was illegal, and should be ruled out of order.His Worship said that the proposed tax on machinery wae.the mere repro duction of the Ontario law, which bad successfully been in existence for the last fifteen years, and defined by scores of judgments.Any attempt at an interpretation of the law would only create confusion, which would be a very serious matter.It was better to let the courts interpret the.law.Ald.Sadler read from the statutes to - | show.that in Toronto, the very law referred to by the Mayor was defined by à clause similar to that suggested bv Ald.Ames.Ald.Jacques held the article of the Civil Code relating to realty should be take when the matter shall be submitted to it by the Secretary.specified in the by-law.Ald.Beausoleil replied L \u201cthat this TAXATION BY-LAW.| terre Soper odode ete ES A A A A < ÇoLoN IAL HOUSE, .> od - = 3 * LADIES\u2019 COTTON GOWNS.+ & LADIEN\u2019 COTTON SKIRTS, de LADIES*COTTON DRAWERS.+ LADIES\u2019 COTTON CHEMISES, * & LADIEN\u2019 CORSET COVERS.+ = LADIES\u2019 DRESSING JACKETS, % 3 From the plainest to the most elaborately trimmed.$ \u20ac - 3 «or 3 x $ 4 : 3 + 3 3 ne Lis ere tre, 2.bool 0 re 2 - - Incomplete Dinner dod 2, - 0 Sees tee oe + cr - - pede *, * Doel 2, \" o! * ° bee! 2 - off for cash.Lee across biers, ete., etc.Mail Orders Receive Prompt and > Special Sale all This Week Of a collection of useful lines and odds and ends specially suitable for country furnishing.terns, such as Cups and Saucers, Plates, all sizes, Covered Dishes, Jugs, etc., etc.The above, with a variety of other China Articles, will bz displayed on SPECIALCHEAPTABLES In the China Department, and offered at Tempting Prices, DINNER SETS, slightly damaged, to be sold cheap, 97 pieces for $5.50, less 5 percent Rare value.Japanese Waterdrop Teapots, 1oc each.Articles on the cheap tables range from 6e.10c, 15\u20ac, 25e, 35c and 50c each, up to of all sizes, Cups and Saucers, Glassware, Engraved Tum- * Joo} 0 - ae Sets and Stock Pat- ir LC AA A $1.00, and include Plates Careful Attention in Every Dept boo otre, - + EPNRY MORGAN 8 OO.St.Catherine and Union Ave.est ° PA IC AE QC AO pos ASS AE a dE could not be done, as the by-law was deduced from the charter and not the Civil Code.The assessors would be instructed by the city attorneys as to the mode of collecting this tax._ The Mayor ruled Ald.Ames\u2019s amendment out of order, and the section on the, real estate assessments was adopted: as fri Con- the following divisidh:\u2014 Ayes \u2014 Marsolais, Laporte, Jacques, Prenoveau, Ames, Beausoleil, McBride, Dupre, Archambault, Sadler, Ouiniet, Martineau, Clearihue, Ekers, Paquette, Gagnon, Dufresne\u201417.Naya \u2014 Stevenson, Turner, Lareau, Gallery, Roy, Wilson\u20146 The tax on milkmen was reduced to #5, and the tax on bakers was also reduced from $10 to $5.Ald.Laporte gave an notice of motion that he would propose that the law officers be instructed to prepare a by-law prohibiting peddling and hawking on the streets.In the meantime no peddling licenses are to be granted.The other taxes were adopted as pass ed by the Finance Committee.As for the tax of $25 levied on billiard tables, it was specified that it would also apply to pool tables.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 TOWN OF ST.LOUIS.THE CIVIC HOSPITAL\u2014 BORROWING AT A HIGH RATE OF INTEREST.A meeting of the St.Louis Council was held last night, Mayor Villeneuve presiding and all the councillors being present.: 22 The secretary-treasurer read the minutes of a committee meeting at which it was resolved to rent a house from the Deaf and Dumb Institution, to Le used as a civic hospital.for contagious diseases.The Mayor stated that he had arranged with Mr.Senecal to pay his claim of $3,800 for property to widen St.Lawrence street, by a promissory note signed by himself and the secretary-treasurer, bearing five percent interest.The money could not.be got from the Jacques Cartier Bank at less than six percent.Adopted.Councillor Chaussé said he had been offered money at four and a quarter percent.He suggested that application be made to the Bank of Nova Scotia; or to the insurance companies.Councillor Lajeunesse thought that a corporate body, with a certain revenue, should ba able to borrow at as low a rate of interest \u2018as private individuals.It was resolved that the Mayor be authorized to borrow six thousand dollars, at not more than five percent interest, from a Montreal bank, on a promissory note at four months.The secretary-treasurer read a letter from Mr.Bisaillon informing the council that, in the case of Brunet vs tle town of St.Louis, the Court of Review had confirmed the judgment given by the Superior Court in favor of the town.The suit Was concerning @ property.in San- guinet street.A long discussion followed on the subject of annulling Seguin\u2019s contract for sidewalks, the inspector having rejected the wood as inferior.: The Mayor thought the contract was not binding on any party as there was neither time nor quantity of work men- IN AMSTERDAM 85 percent of the Diamonds of the world are cut and polished.We go to the fountain head, use expert knowledge.in selection, buyfromthe meén who cut the stones, pay cash before they leave their hands, lay them down in Montreal duty free, and sell them on the closest margin of profit.HENRY BIRKS & SONS, Phillips Square, Moutreal.tioned.It was decided to call for new tenders.Conncillor Chaussé suggested that now that navigation is opened no more cement be taken from Mr.Paquette at $2.40, as the same cement can be had et $2.30.Councillor Martel said that although there was no contract with Mr.Paquette for the whole supply required for the work in hand yet he considered that they were bound to take the cement from him at $2.40.The Mayor took the same view, as did also Councillor Dubois.Some further discussion ensued, but no action was taken.Mr.Moreau, the contractor for the new watering cart, in answer to & question, seid it would be ready in six weeks.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 A LABOR PARTY CONVENTION.An open-air meeting of the Workingmen\u2019s perty will take place in Ste.Cune- gonde this week.It is the first of a series of open-air meetings to be held in the different suburbs of the city during the summer months: Next July the intention of the organizers of the party is to have a convention of delegates from the different parts of the province, to meet in Montreal, at which general officers for the new organization will be elected and a permanent platform adopted.NOTES AND NOTICES.Layton Bros.have made arrangements with Mr.Barr, of the Bagg Estate, to stay on at their present warerooms, 148 Peel street, until \u2018their new store, 144 Peel street, is ready for occupation,which will be the beginning of June.Big discounts will continue to be given on all.pianos and organs purchased up to time of removal.Open evenings.; Notice to Ladiesa\u2014The new Bedding Store in Soroggie\u2019s Block was compelled to keep ite doors open until ten o'clock at night on account of the dontinuous streams of visitors.Handsome Brass Beds at comparatively low prices.The Waldorf Upholstered Spring (same as the Chateau Frontenac supplies for its 250 guests), price $15.00, full double size.Mattresses, from $3.00 upward.Open to-night and to-morrow night.2243 8t.Catherine street (Scroggie\u2019s Block).The Lockhart Bedding Company, Montreal.k int AR See roi -< car Er TI fe Tr pA oT IE SE rt RT Chat Cae oe tent wv + = PE eo EE SPI ra = SRT M pété) titi TRIS da - Vel Cider, Tunénar, Mar 9._1st PRINCEof WALES RNGIMANT, FUSEMIERS Bans ANNUAL DRILL.1.The Regiment will parade nt the Ar mors tie, week in drill order at Lu pe *\u2019Mosdaye=D and F Com Tuesday-\u2014Pattallon e.Wednesday \u2014N.> ot class.0 Companies ompanies.di à réay-\u2014Bu rs * W.L BOND, Captain, Adjutant.Art Association, PHILLIPS SQUARE, .GALLERIES CLOSED.Reading Room open to Members 9a m.to 6 p.m.SUBSCRIPTION RATER.\u2018Witness, B20: regle Pit 8100: ons = Sos nacre GAS: 20, AID à pritai in Orne tain famous per anoum for post- ser?§3.80 on Da 4 The last edition of fo x Wrrmnss is de- to thevity arezy'erening 02 publication ab Per Annum.ADVERTISING RATES.DAILY WITNESS » Fire in pwarda, 100 1ine, Contracs noel Pr - wr : \u2026 WEEKLY WITNESS.reduction a D advertising types.Spedial contract rates : WEDNESDAY, Mar 10.Her Majesty's Theatre, WHDNESDAY EVENING.May loth, 1899, + \u201cGIBSON'S PIOTURES .FROM \u201cLIFE.\u201d \" UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF the Governor-General and te\u2018 teas of Minto, IN.AID OF THE DAY NURSERY, 174 Mountain Street.= Rduarved \u2018Seats, 500 to $1, now on sale at + the Uptows: \u2018Star\u2019 Qffice.General admis- Es Mano Fndiy;-loaned by Wills & Co.\u201c> TaUrsDAY, MAY 11.RECITAL, ELOCUTION, STATUE POSING, AESTHETIC CULTURE, BY PUPILS OF Mrs.Belle Rose Emslie, THURSDAY, 11th May, 1899, 8 o\u2019ciock, Y, M.\u20ac.A.HALL, Reserved Seats, see.Admission, 25c ERAT, Mar 13.= Poeunsion COMMERCIAL : TRAVELLERS ASSOCIATION.SATURDAY EVENING, 13th inst.at 8 o'clock, in the Board Rooms, of Trade.Building.a arge attendance is requdsted, as Resolutions in support of Mr.Fortin\u2019s Insglvency Bill, ih be Introduced.H.W.WADSWORTH, Secretary.MoxDar.Mar 15.M.A.A.A.ANNUAL MEETING.The 18th Annual Meeting of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association will be held in the Club House, 149 Mansfield st., on .MONDAY, May 15th, 1898, commencing .at 8.15 p.m.oS tains: Reception of Directors\u2019 Report, - surer\u2019s Statement, Ton tion of Honorary President and three Directors, and to vote on a notice: of * motion tp \u201cArt.xiv., question 1, to grant privi- {Reading Roo: Lady Associate on one day of cach week from 10 ER ÉaxBerT BROWN, Sec.\u2014Treasurer.THE SOUTHERN RACE WAR.Taronto, May 8.\u2014The Rev.J.C.Coleman, one of the colored clergymen of the.city, was present at the meeting of the.Methédist Ministerial Association today, suid, told of the treatment meted out by the whites to his brothers in the Southern: States.He moved a resolu- tioh \u2018expressing sympathy with the negroes and deprecating the atrocities that have eccurred.there recently, as cruel and \u2018barbarous.The resolution was after some discussion carried, but ome clergyman wanted it understood that he felt that the situation in the South was that barbaritf- was being met by bar- berity and outrage by outrage.He deprecated not only the outrage in the first place, but the treatment that had been afterwards meted out.\u2014_\u2014 ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENT.The Rev.Abbé Romeo Lamarche has been appointed parish priest of Bt.André d\u2019Argenteuil, in the place of the Rev.Abbé O.Dugas, who is going \u2018o \"Manitoba.MR.ROSS BACK IN TORONTO.Toronto, May 9.\u2014The Hon.G.W.Rose called an the Premier, the Hon.A.8, Hardy, at the Parliament Buildings -yesterday.Mr.Roes, who returned on Saturday, from Hot Springs, Ark., where he spent, the last four weeks, looks wonderfully\u2019\u2019 trong and well.\u2014# TO ICELAND.\"London May B.~The- British first-class Snore) rer \u2018Galatea\u2019 has been or dd Cras h ving to recent seizures English ahing ats in contra- _vention\u2019 of the Danish regulatio § + All busin should be addressed *John Dougall & Bon, * Witness\u2019 Office, Moatres!, and all letters to the Editor should be addrossod *Bditor of the * Witness.\u2019 Montreal\u2019 The Daily Witness.TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1899.The Uganda trouble is at last at an end.The British have had a long run of bad luck ands hard times in Uganda and Unyoro, but at last fortune seems to have favored them.Colonel Evatt, the British commander of the East Indian forces employed in Uganda, has dealt the combined rebel forces of both countries a knock-down blow, utterly defeating them and inflicting great losses with a small sacrifice of British lives.But the most satisfactory feature of the affair is that the kings of both Uganda and Unyoro, the wily Kabba Regga, who is the Osman Digna of that whole region, .{ and Mwanga, who is a fool, though a troublesome one.have been eaptured, and that their power to draw .the natives arotbd | m and keép up the war i is gone, Thé du will now det a much needed rest.That Major Marchand has been Killed on his way to the coast near Jibutil is, we trust, and believe, an untrue report.The rumor is probably based upon the apprehension that his party might be attacked by the Somali tribes of the country through which the route lies, as they are fierce and warlike, and have been giving a great deal of trouble of late.The French are engaged in constructing a line of railway from Jibutil to the Abyssinian border, near Harrar, about 275 miles inland.The railway has never got beyond the thirtieth mile, the Somali natives having twice attacked and routed the French railway forces, killing numbers of the laborers.The Caravan route to Jibutil been closed time and.again Fby these tribes, who have the instinct and habits of brigands.Caravans have of late been taking the route to the British port of Zeila, which, though somewhat longer, is safe.The Russian mission which went to Abyssinia to support the French against the British, on its return from ;Harrar, when recalled recently, took the British route, much to the amusement of the British.Of course, Major Marchand would take the French route, and probably it is to the mere apprehension that he would be attacked on his way that we owe the report of his death.It is more probable that with his fine Senegalese soldiers he has punished the Somalis and re-opened th: route, \u2018When we make or buy a machine our whole interest centres in how to make it do most for least money.When we talk of new settlers for the country, the greatest vice the incomers can have is that they can do more for less money than other people.In some way we seem.to have got over our jeétousy of machinery.We have found that it has greatly increased the comforts of our race and eased its burdens.But we have not got over our jealousy of our fellow men.We have a quarrel with them when they do our toiling too cheaply.There is surely something wrong about our reasoning.The same jealousy once existed with regard to machinery.Manufacturers in England-had to get their machines in in the dead of night and under armed guardianship, and they sometimes found them dumped.in the river after all.The error was to suppose fhat there was just a given amount of work to do, and that, if the machine took it from the men, the men would starve.Experi- J was started and the writings of Mr: At | are entering into competition with the THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.TvespAry, Mar 9, 1899.SITAR te to be the case, The machine made work for itself and workmen in England strike to-day against offers of wages two-and three times what their grandfathers thought they were going to be done out of by the machines, The case is the same with the cheap foreigners, with this difference.The man with a femily costs more to feed in proportion to the work he does than the machine, and will thus create demands which the machine does not.The cheaper he can live the faster will he reach, if he is thrifty, a point at which he will not be able to live cheaply.If we are 30 much superior to these foreigners as we think ourselves, we ought to be their employers and only too glad to have them to do work for us at a rate that we cannot do it ourselves or otherwise get it done.' \u2014 .Since the discussion om the pamphlets.issued by the Anti-Imperialistic League kinson refused transmission to the Philip: pines, the papers supporting the McKine ley administration have made a discovery which is attracting considerable attention.It is alleged that the newspapers in the German language throughout the union are, without exception, opposed to the policy of expansion, as they were to the war with Spain.A Chicago paper, commenting on this attitude of the German- Amesican press, says the language in which President McKinley and his foreign policy, as well as American \u2018public men and: affairs, are treated is not always moderate or even courteous.It is also pointed out that, while there are American journals opposed to the President and his policy, there can be no question as to their loyalty, whereas the German press is in perfect accord with the views expressed towards the United States \u2018by the most anti-American journals of Europe, especially of Germany.In nothing, however, is the bitterness of their feelings so openly expressed as in opposition to the friendship with Great Britain.It would thus appear that the assimilation of the German element is not so complete as was imagined.It is significant of the freedom of pinion §id expression allowed in the United States that these foreign-born editorg, na plie the government of the land o \u2018he option, its prenons, and jte polie in a manner whith they coi not ns\u201d süïne in their native land towards the, emperor or his policy without being promptly made acquainted with the interior of a prison.T » + THE MAILS AND GAMBLING.Times are good in \"Canada, businbss is active and profitable, and people have money in their pockets, besides what they spend upon their ordinary liying.SGam- bling concerns bf all kinds are awd¥e to this condition of our people, and are seeking to exploit it for their own benefit.The newspapers.are offered, very profitable advertisements setting forth the plans of men calling themselves stock brokers occupying rooms in very respectable business localities, whereby money.entrusted to them shall be invested im.such a way as to yield three percent per month.Of course, it is manifest to business men that such schemes are frauds, and that those who emtrust their money to such hands are not likely to get much of it back again.In sych schemes the interest is usually paid out of- the capital, and while funds flow in the- interest is thus paid, but when the funds begin to dwindle.while the interest pay- ablé keeps mounting up out of proportion,\u2019 the so-called firm fails or disappears, leaving nothing in the shape of assets bjt a desk and chair in a deserted room littered with torn paper.Over and over; again the Montreal newspapers have chronicled this end of such firms, But \u2018these same newspapers to-day advertise just such firms.though they know perfectly well that they are cheats and that those who trust them will lose.These places are even more disreputable than bucket shops, which also are apt to flourish in such times as the present, being simply gambling places for people of small means, who like to play at the pretence that they are dealing in stocks and \u2018shares and in grain or provisions, or sgme other -commodity, when they are simply betting upon the rise and fai im prices or perhaps of a æt of figures\u2019 \u2018which have little relation with prices.But regular out and out unashamed, unabashed lotteries are beginning to flourish in Canada to such an extent that foreign lotteries home lotteries.The Montreal Royal Art Unidn lottery, which entices the people to gamble under pretence of \u2018introducing art \u2018into their homes,\u2019 is beginning to do quite à busi- nese in Ontario, we are told, as Well as in the Province of.Quebec, which is the gambling.- putchasers:; ; | way employees.A SAE IRON TE ta geen = home of the gamblers and the abiding | 7 place of the gambling spirit of Canada.If the Roman Catholic Church takes up the fight against gambling in earnest, as it seems inclined to do, having stopped it in the churches, gambling will soon become unprofitable and will also be effectually put down by law, for in that case there will soon be legislation against it, and legislation that will be enforced.In tbe meantime the Art Union has been apparently flourishing, and is fighting for its existence against the city authorities.Its saccess has, as we have said, attracted the attention of foreign lotteries.Just now the Canadian mails are scattering broadcast throughout the Dominion the circulars of the \u2018Fourth Royal Hungarian Lottery,\u2019 and are conveying back to this gambling concern registered letters containing remittances of sums ranging from $2.50 to $8.50, as stakes in the lottery.In the same way the country is being flooded with glowing temptations from what purports to be the Chief State Lottery.with its headquarters at Hamburg.The man who promotes it calls himself a banker.It offers 11,764,525 marks in prizes, and of course intends to take a vast deal more than that from its gulls.Its documents are posted in London, taking advantage of the two-cent postage rate, These lotteries, which are cultivating the gambling spirit of the people, preventing the spirit of enterprise and industry, and developing wasteful habits and immoral ways of thinking and acting äs well, are a curse to a young and thriving nation like Capade.If there are no laws against the use of the Dominion mails by lotteries, laws should be passed this session - if there are laws, as we presume there are, the Postmaster-General and the Min- \u2018ister of Justice should immediately put their heads together with a view of enforcing the laws.Laws against the transmission of communications or packages to or from lottery companies by the express companies are also necessary if the prohibition is to be effective, If there is one class of people more than another which is injured by the gambling business it is the sound business men of \u2018the country, the merchants and manufacturers, for gambling drains from the pockets of the people the money which should be spent upon food and clothing and other necessaries of life, and renders people less inclined.as wel] as less- able, ta.Bay their hopest-debts._.Alk business /men\u2018\u2019shouid- therefore tombine \u2018to frown discounitenance lotteries and But we find, \u2018on the con- trdsy, that a great many business men are so short-sighted or so blind to their own interests that they are engaged in introducing the gamblitig spirit into the homes qf their customers.\u201d We hear of confectioners who keep jars of coppers in their windows which go to the customer who guesses their \u2018sum, .guesses being free to of grocers , selling baking powders, each package of which contains a ticket in a raffle for a bicycle ; of tea packages containing cards bering one of the five or six letters which gè :to\u2018 make up the \u2018peme of the tea, and \u201ccards bearing the full mare, of the tea.entitle the holder to .an article of .silyez there ib ont letter of this name Y nich is seldom, if ever, found in a package.There are the prize packages of candies, and the prize sticks of chewing gum.All these educate the people, old and young, in gambling, and arouse the gambling spirit in them, to the detriment of honest business.Busiriess men should, in.their own interests, as well as in the interests .of -the people and out of regard: for morality, refuse to-deal in any article which\u2019 appeals to the gambling spirit of purchasers.down and \u2014 - AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS.The pronounced hostility of railway magnates on both sides of the House of Commons towards the railway legislation of the Salisbury Government, which recently found vent in a rabid manifesto of Lord Claude Hamilton against his political party leaders, has led the British public to inquire more closely into the character and trend of the government's treatment of railway questions.The result, from the standpoint of the general public and of the labor party, has been shown to be most gratifying, and if, for the present, the Board of Trade has de- terminéd not to press the bill compelling the tse of automatic couplings on all the railways of the United Kingdom that body bus every reason to rest satisfied with its record of active intervention on behalf of the travelling public and rail- Railway shareholders, however, who have invested the enormous capital of $5,448,825,000 in the construe- tion \u2018and equipment of British railways can hardly be expeeted to regard with much #pproval a policy which has increased their working expenses from 47 percent of the gross receipts in 1860 to 57 percent in \u20181887.Yet these receipts in the latter year- réached-the huge sum of $468,500,000, an increase of $18,000,000 on those of the previous year.The actual length of railway in operation in the United Kingdom in 1897 was 21,433 miles, and the number of passengers carried totalled 1,031,708,709, representing twenty- five times the entire population of the British Isles.The number of persons employed on this railway system composed an army of no fewer than 465,112.The total number of personal accidents from\u2019 all causes in 1897 occurring to passengers, railway servants and others was 18,601.Of these, 1,225 resulted fatally, a number which included 510 railway employees, while the injured included 4,129 of this class.Nineteen of these were killed and 492 injured in coupling and uncoupling carriages and waggons.It is the necesgity of devising means to reduce \"these last two items \u2018which inspired the Board of Trade with the determination to introduce the automatic coupling system partially adépted on the railways of the United States.Although, therefore, its introduction has been for the present deferred, yet in view of the above quoted statistics and the tendency of recent labor legislation, it is evidently a question of a very short time when it or some equally efficdcious safety system shall be \u2018provided.In fact, the demand for improved facilities by the travelling public, both for convenience and safety, and the general sentiment in favor of providing railway servants with every reasonable means of avoiding the constant dangers of their employment, are on the increase, and are not due to.the policy of any one government ; and, however unpleasant the outlook, railway managers and shareholders have inevitably\u2019 to face in the near future a still further expansion of their working expenses.Meanwhile, the Board of Trade has done good work by insisting upon the general adoption of the block system, now in operation upon 99 percent of the British railway system, and also on the em- ploythent of the methods of interlocking of points and signals, and of improved continuous brakes, 99.4 percent of the vehicles used by passengers being fitted with these latter, Where these improvements -have not been.carried out it has been shown that the want of them has largely \u201ccotitt{buted to the accidents which have occurred.\u2018There has algo been a material inerease in the wages paid to railway employees, due, not so much to the pressure of workmen\u2019s unions as to the necessity created by the operation of the present government's act dealing with and regulating the hours of labor of the men.Moreover, the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act of-1897 specifically applies to railway companies and their employees.It disregards the cause of accident for which compensation is sought, with the exception of wilful misconduct on the part of the injuréd workman himself, and awards compensation in all cases of accident aris- \u2018ing out of, and in the course of, employment.This compensation is made a charge upon the profits of the undertaking made liable.\u201d \u2018The act will effect the complete extinction of the \u2018Companies Accident Insurance\u2019 arrangements by reason of its sweeping provisions, which.appear to give most liberal protection to \u2018the workmen interested.While, however, railway shareholders cannot hope for any marked diminution in working expenses, the advance in gross earnings prorhises an increase in net earnings more than sufhcient to keep abreast with unavoidable expenditure.DESTITUTE CHILDREN.THE ONTARIO METHOD OF PRO- \u201c VIDING FOR THEM.Mr.J.J.Kelso, superintendent for Ontario of neglected children, waited upon the Mayor and members of the City Council previous to the meeting of the City Council yesterday.He advocated the abolition of the system followed in Montreal, of committing destitute children to institutions.He advocated the placing of them in respectable families until.able to earn their living.In the past five or Bix years nearly one thousand children had thus been sheltered.They never allowed a child to go to jail in Toronto.It is.a comparatively easy matter to \u201cplace the little ones in private Y houses, as one finds many a family without children and ready to adopt an orphan.Thus.the cost to the city is mych reduced.Mr.Kelso suggested the formation of a children\u2019s aid union, composed.of memhers of differemt charitable associations.It would have a general sûpervision over the protection given to neglected young people.He felt that the adoption- of such a system.would save to the city about $15,000 in\u2019 three years.[For the \u2018 Witness.\u2019 LIFE IN THE BUSH.It\u2019s eerie in the forest, When the snaw lies cauld an\u2019 (cep.When every little burnie Is soun\u2019 in frozen sleep, And when the mune is shinin\u2019 On every tree an\u2019 stump, Every shadow seems a bogle, And gaurs the heart gae thump.It\u2019s eerie in the forest, Tae hear the hoolits cry, An\u2019 hear the foxes barkin\u2019 At the \u2018shack\u2019 as they gae by» And tae hear \u2018Mr.Bruin\u2019 A-scratchin\u2019 at the door, Sets a\u2019 yir hair a-risin\u2019, An\u2019 sweat draps frae ilk pore.It\u2019s eerie in the forest, Tae hear the thunners crash, An\u2019 see the jagged lightnin\u2019 Some giant monarch smash, An\u2019 Oh! but it is eerie $ Tae hear the waters swish As they gae rowin\u2019 onward, Past rick, an\u2019 stane, an\u2019 bush, An\u2019 then, ¢\u2019en in the simmer, When life we should enjoy, Were kept scratchin\u2019 an\u2019 a-clappin® At the \u2018skeeters\u2019 an\u2019 black fly.Some folks may ca\u2019 this pleasurt I gie \u2019t a different name, An\u2019 often hae I rued the day I left my Scottish hame.\"Tis true, there is a recompense For a\u2019 thae many ills; When lookin\u2019 o'er my braid fields My heart wi\u2019 pleasure fills, An\u2019 sae I feel contented, Just wi\u2019 :the luck I've got, An\u2019 warmly thank my Maker, E\u2019en for my eerie lot.J.W.ROBERTSON.Fort William, Ont.\u2014\u2014 TAKING STOCK, THE THEME AT THE HUNTER AND OROSSLEY MEETING LAST , , NIGHT.\u2018I wonder how many of us could invite Christ into our home life and our busi: Les life and have him inspect our books,\" seked the Rev.Mr.Hunter, in Centenary M i & het evening.He contended thet if business ai- fairs were conducted in the same haphazard manner ae Christian work 1s sometimes performed, failure would soon follow.In the speaker's opinion it was the duty of Chiistians to find out exactly their condition in relation to God in the same sense es the business man takes abock.To be successful soul-win- ners four necessary essentials were mer ticned, namely, the power of the Holy Ghost, the thorough knowledge of the bible, \"wisdom and prayer.The Rev.Mr.Crossley spoke of the joy in heaven over the repentance of a sin ner, and endeavored to point out how it was possible not only to have joy over one sinner but over many.Heaven is wabdhing what action we take in these services, said Mr.Crossley.Don't critr cise anything that is done in connection with them.Criticiéem undermines piety and the word of God.The singing of sacred selections by Mr.Crossley is one of the interestingiincidents of these services.COMMITTEE APPOINTED.As the Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational and Baptist churches have united for these services, five lay representatives and the pastor from each of these churches met in the parlor of the Centenary Church last evening and appointed committees to look after the various details of work.The arrangement of services for next Sunday will (D.V.), be as follows :\u2014 St.Matthew's Church, the Rev.LE Crossley; Centenary, the Rew.D.R.Hamilton; Congregational Church, the Rev.M.Taylor.DEATH OF MISS FLEMING.Cornwall, May 9.\u20148eldom does the passing away of a young person occasion such genuine and widespreud regret as the death of Miss Caroline May Flen- ing, daughter of Mr.John Fleming, which took place on Saturday.The d- ceased, who was one of Cornwall's most estimable young ladies, had reached her twenty-fourth year, and was very popu lar.Until some nine or ten months ago she was the picture of health, but since then had been gradually failing.The fuperal took place on Monday afterncen from her father\u2019s residence, Beaconsfield.to Trinity Church, and thence to Wood: lawn cemetery.\"The Rev.Rural Dean Houston officiated at the funeral rer vices.A very large number of sorrow: Ing friends followed the remains to their last resting place.\u2014\u2014 FRENCH SHORE QUESTION.London, May 9.\u2014In the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr.Chamberlin Colonial Necretary, said, in answer to 1 question, that he was unable to muke any statement regarding French treat rights on the Newfoundland coast.The government, he said, had the comms sion\u2019s report under consideration./ t.24 TUE: \u2014\u2014 SUN Action THE À BURY The Sb of April Upper H action we The B thought 1 House eh: of session ter which attention, conscience referred leading de tion, ma published seven da Ti kept Sun addition competiti an extens periment way in 1 hindered behavior would mu very muc a large n' lic opinio geod effec that the should be opinion o Convooati therefore \u201cThat thi gret and tain daily and trus puts a g nals to t if allowex extension .eration o lord's D week, ma ly diecou that Chu: this prot , The Bis pared to gladly mec The Bis ject waa and in his to requir ligious m vite jusi- sin ven- man ner Joly joy w it over n is hese Titi tion ety lents the sion t as len 1tng, > de- nost her opu- ago ince The 1001 jeld.ood- Jean row heir of lain, to à nake cat The mis Tuoespay, May 9, 1899.SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.action Taken by \u2018the English Bishops.+i; ARCHBISHOP OF OANTER- BURY'S STIRRING ADDRESS.ihe Sheffield (England) \u2018Independent\u2019 oo April 29, reporte the meeting of the Lier House of Convocation, at which .won was taken re Sunday newspapers.ile Bishop of Rochester said he .ught it would be undesirable that the |1.use should break up the present group ul session without taking notice of à mat- .r which was attracting a great deal of so lention, and he thought affecting the .sciences of many Chmstian people.He 1vierred to the issue by more than one wading daily newspaper of a Sunday edi- ton, making with the edition already published on the other days practically a seven days\u2019 imne-one paper anol day.Tht was making a very considerable ange in the chevacter of the English kept Sundey, and led to a considerable addition to Sunday labor.The stress of competition such as this must lead to an extension of the experiment if the experiment proved successful, and the only way in which the experiment must be hindered was by such an attitude and Lickavior on the part of the public as would make it unsuccessful.He honad very much that what was being done by u large number of people to attract pubr jie opinion on this matter would have a wood effect.(Hear, hear.) He thought that the time had now come when there should be an expression of the collected opinion of the Bishops of the Canterbury (Convocation on the subject.He would therefore content himself with moving \u201cThat this House has observed with regret and apprehension the issue by cer tain daily newspapers of a Sunday edition, and trusts that this innovation, which puts a great pressure upon other jour nals to take a like course, and which, ii allowed to spread, will lead to great extension of Sunday labor and an obliteration of the distinction between the lord's Day and the other days of the week, may be emphatically and effectively discouraged by public opinion, and that Churchmen wild take active part in this protest\u201d (Applause.) The Bishop of Fly said he was not prepared to make a speech, but he would gladly second the motion.The Bishop of Winchester said the subject was an exceedingly important ome, and in his belief nothing was more likely to require the active attention of religious men in the first.decade rof.the observance of the fourth commandment \u2018as it has been observed against us will do timate beforehand.I am not an advocate of a gloomy Sunday, and am very far from desiring to restrict men\u2019s liberty beyond what their own consciences &e- quire them to practice in the way of such restrain; but I think that public opinion ought in such a country as this to maintain as a very, precious treasure the general feeling that now attends the observance of the Lord's Day, and I hope that such a protest as it is now proposed to make will have a very real effect on the public at large.I know a great deal has been said in defence of what is proposed to be done and what has been am tually begun, and I know also that some exaggerated statements have been made; but I do not think that the correction of these exaggerated statements seriously alters the importance of the step that has been taken, nor will the corrections that have been made remove the real danger that attends the innovation.(Cheers.) I shall be very glad indeed if we can adopt this protest unanimously.The motion was then put and carried unanimously.ROSSLAND, SOME OF ITS PAYING MINES.\u2014 \u2018Rossland hea only begun ite history,\u2019 was the comment yesterday of Mr.William Paul, scretary of the Canada West ern (old Mining & Exploration Company, who 1s now on a business trip to Montreal.Mr.Paul regrets that so many worthless properties were palmed off upon Erglish capitalists, both in Rossland and the Yukon\u2014particularly the latter.\u2018ln fact, with regard to the latter, some of the properties which were sold in London did not exist at all.The thing had be come a veritable swindle.Rossland suffered somewbat from this unhappy busi: ness, but is now recovering and there is real work being done and English capital is coming in.You know the history of the Le Roi mine\u2014the most wonderful on record.Then, of course, there is the Caribou, the Alice, the Kamloops, and others\u2014all paying splendidly.During this summer three more properties will be ready to ship\u2014the \u2018Centre Star,\u201d \u2018No 1, and the \u2018Evening Star.\u2019 This means a great benefit to a camp.The people are contented; the miner earns three and a half dollars a day; there is no destitution, and the town is in a prosperous state, Of course, we have a grievance againet the C.P.R.which gave us the go by, with the result that for every two cars of stuff we get over the C.P.R.we get thirteen from the Great Northern, which brings in our supplies from Spor.next.century than tg whale.of fhe.Sun: kane; which.is a; wonderfully.prosperoys day question.in all ite departments and all its bearings on English life.The Sunday newepaper question was only à little bit of it.The arguments which were put forward as to the possibility of issuing a Sunday newspaper without involving Sunday labor were, in his mind, totally inadequate, and although that as sertion was constantly made, and made with great publicity and emphasis by one at least of the newspapers which hed taken part and was responsible for this new departure, he found it difficult to credit that it could long remein true, even if it wae so et present.He had pleasure in supporting the motion.The Bishop of Gloucester cordially sup- Torted the motion.It was plain that if there were seven editions of daily newspapers the labor that was expended in the production and circulation of those newspapers must be increased by one-sev- enth, and no special pleading could pos sibly invalidate that simple, commonsense view.The Bishop of Bath and Wells said the Church ought certainly to awaken to the inevitable consequences of supporting a seven-day paper.A glance at the pages of Bradshaw would convey to the mind the facilities which were given on week uays for the circulation of newspapers into distant parte of the country, but which were not given on Sundays.These traine were not running on Sundays but if these newspapers were to pay it would rcon become à necesgsity for these Sunday trains to run, and it was very easy to anticipate how Sunday labor throughout the country would be increased.He could not say that this was a movement of the democracy, He lived in a very democratic part of the world and in that mart there were certainly no Sunday \u2018rains and no Sunday newspapers, the reason being that the working men who were practically the masters in regulating hese affairs, did not desire to have Sun- dav labor.The Archbishop of Canterbury said : ! im very grateful to the Bishop of Ro- \u201cester and the other bishops who were \u201chave spoken on this point, because I \u201cunk that specially with reference to second reason given in the resolution = discouraging this innovation, namely, * langer of the obliteration of the dis con between the Lord\u2019s Day and the \u201cuer days of the week this subject forms 7 the most serious evils that we can ~~ bly contemplate, I do not know \u201c10 ing which, as things are now, would wore likely to damege the religious e ri the great body of the people than wake them feel as if the Lord\u2019s Day ©! on the same footing as any other \u201c the week.It bas long been my \u201cTu*.ce in all my confirmation addresses \", K\\iriably impress upon candidates \"one of the means provided by God \"nile men to persevere in religious .; iz the studious observance of the 7% Commandment, and I think that ¥:ting which will affect the steady town\u2014of course, very much older than Rossland.We are naturally not sweet upon the C.P.R, which discriminated against Rossland, and favored Nelson, but the boundary district, which is about crow flies, will have an extension of the C.P.R.about September.This will mean a great benefit to that district in which some valuable properties are situated.If you consider that Rossland has suffered from this discrimination by the C.P.R.the progress made has been marvellous.The future of this place is bound to be great.Think of the Le Roi mine being worth ten million dollars.\u2019 Mr.Hall is modest enough about the property controlled by the Cenada Western Gold Mining & Exploration Company, which is situated in Camp McKinney.The mine awaits development, but the survey hae besn made, and the chief dependence is placed upon its location, which is one claim.removed from the femous Caribou group and Minnehaha, Tn faot, the line is even with Minnehaha, and it is corifidently believed that paying ore will be found when once the property has been developed.Camp McKinney is one of the earliest quartz mining camps in British Columbia, and many claims have been held there for years awaiting capital to make them dividend-paying mines.The company is to proceed to work the property\u2014first, by sinking a shaft on the outcrop of the Minnehaha vein, afterwards testing the Caribou vein which runs into the property.Sinking will then follow.Mr.Paul says that he does not want to boast, but he thinks the company has got a good property 4 -developed.THREE RIVERS CHURCH NEWS.Three Rivers, Que., May 6\u2014The Ladies\u2019 Aid Society of the Methodist Church has recently been reorganized, after several years of comparative quiet, and is showing its activity in money- raising to be used, of course, in church and parsonage improvements.At the invitation of the above society the pastor of the church, the Rev, Jas.\u2018Watson, F.T.L., delivered a lecture recently in aid of the funds.The lecture, entitled \u2018 Living thoughts,\u2019 was full of inspiration for thinkers, young or old, and was delivered extempore with all the well-cultivated animation for which Mr.Watson is known here.The United Society of C.E.had a moet enjoyable social on Monday evening last, \u201cin the lecture room of the Presbyterian Church.This society is doing well in attendance and the interest in the ordinary weekly meetings is well maintained.} \u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES To Cure a Cold in One Day.\u2014Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.25c.far more midchiel than we can at al es | fifty-eight miles from Rossland as the} which ld profits when it has been |.WESTMOUNT CO COMMITTEE REPORTS CONSIDERED AND ADOPTED.An adjourned meeting of the West- mount Council was held last night.Mayor Walker in the chair, and all the members present.: The report of the Finance Committee was read recommending that authority be given for the purchase of apparatus for use in the gymnasium of the Westmount Hall, to the value of $200 ; algo, that the Westmount Amateur Athletic Assogiation be given the use of the Westmount Hall gymnasium, including locker and committee room, bath, lighting, heating, etc.till May 1, 1900, at the rate of $200 per year.Adopted.The Road Committee\u2019s report recommended that Messrs.W.M.Knowles & Co.be permitted to establish a public scale at lot 1428 Hillside avenue,.under the obligation to have an official weigher appointed to serve the public.Carried.The committee having considered tenders for the supply of miaterial required by: the department during the ensuing for lumber be divided between Messrs.John Gow, T.Prefontaine & Co., and Shearer & Brown ; for brick, to Joseph Decarie ; for cement, to F.Hyde & Co.; for vitrified pipes, to W.McNally & Co.The council then adjourned and went into committee of the whole for a long discussion on the right and advisability to open a certain street or lane.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.At the thirty-first annual meeting of the Montreal College of Pharmacy, which was held last week at the college building, 595 Lagauchetiere street, the following students were each presented with an independent college diploma : Messrs.A.J.Bedard, A.E.Baldwin, M.Albert, F.J.Lemaistre, H.Guerin, A.Adrienne, Prevost, H.St.Georges, G: Richard and \u2018Allan T.Christie.Prizes were also presented to the following students who had gained the highest points in their respective classes, namely : Messrs.A.J.Be- dard (two prizes), M.Albert, H.Guerin and Jos.Valois.The following gentlemen were elected.members of the advisory board :\u2014Messrs.ble, C.J.Covernton, H.R.Lanctot, J.BR.Parkin, William .S.Kerry, Thomas R.Goulden and R.W.Williams.These, with Mr.W.H.Chapman as president, Mr.A.J.Laurence, vice-president, and Mr.E.Muir, treasurer, will form the college board for the ensuing year, ' PENNY POSTAGE FOR JAMAICA.The London \u2018 Canadian Gazette\u2019 says st-Dr.Ker upon Honor to the Higher fwers \u2014 The Bishop of Huron \u2014 British P**S-MeGHI University Examinations\u2014 25 0 Statutes\u2014Prohibition for Canada\u2014 À sketch of Rev.Archibishop O'Connor\u2014 on Peace Conference\u2014The Alaskan Boun- hy Y\u2014Escape of the Ponton Witnesses, Holden und Paré\u2014The White Man's Burden ~The All-British Cable\u2014Financial, Com- Wercial, ete, B ; RCE IN WRAPPERS, FOR MAILING, FIVE CENTS.IT WAS A PETTY_LACROSSE DIS- _+PUTE.CS : In the case of Lanoix vs.Truteau, the plaintiff claimed $500 damages on the ground of verbal injuries.Lanoix and Tru- teau both attended a lacrosse match and a discussion arose between them with reference to certain players, The defendant admitted that, in the heat of the discussion, he might have used certain injurious expressions, being provoked by plaintiff, and before the action was brought he offered plaintiff $5 damages and $1 for costs of letter.This offer was renewed with the plea, and in rendering judgment yesterday, Judge Langeller held that the tender was sufficient and dismissed the action for the balance.ox ADVERTISEMENTS.PUBLIC NOTICE.Permanent Paving.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Road Committee intend to lay Permanent Paving on ANN STREET, from Brennan Street southwards, WELLINGTON STREET, from G.T.R.Subway to near Magdalen Street.SEICNEURS STREET, from Basin Street to North of William #treet.MAISONNEUVE STREET, from paving to St.Catherine Street.and therefore request all proprietors on these streets to have their water, gas and drain pipes, etc., put in proper order before these works are done, ns permission to open these streets afterwards will be refused, unless a deposit sufficient to repalr the openings made fs left in the office of the City Treasurer.PERCIVAL W.ST.GEORGE, City Surveyor.End of City Surveyor\u2019s Office, cie Hall, Montreal, ay 8th, 1899.9 Road Department THE MONTREAL un DAILY WITNESS.Business Chances.mu RE \" \u2018itdatrénis Vadant.ALFRED WALFORD, ACCOUNTANT AND AUDITOR, Telephone Main 411.14 Piace d'Armes Square.SETH P.LEET, B.C.L, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, de, MECHANICS INSTITUTE BUILDING, 294 St.James street, TELEPHONE 616, ATWATER&DUCLOS Advocates, etc, 151 St.James st.A.W.ATWATER, QC., M.P.P.CHARLES A DUCLOS.JOHN F.MACKIE, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, «dc Bell Telephone Bullding.1760 Notre Dame sé, MO.AL Telephone Main 3123.Brosan, LAMOTHE & ELLIOTT, ADVOCATES, £c.Canada Life Building.189 St, James nt, J.& BUCHAN, J, © LAMOTHE.HK J.ELLIOTT.Tele, Main 603 PATENTS SECURED.FETHEBRSTONTAUGE à CO, Canada Life Batiding, 189 St.James Streei, Montreal, FOR SALE\u2014A GOOD OPPORTUNITY for an energetic and pushing Young Man with small capital, the stock and fixtures, with a lease of shop.in connection with a business now two years established, for the sale of American and Canadian Magazines, Periodicals, Books, Papers, Music, Stationery, et:.; sales Increasing daily ; situated in the central part of St.Catherine street.Apply at 161 City Hall Ave.for particulars.4 Offices to Let.TO LET, OFFICE NO.53 ST.FRANCOIS Xavier street, heated.Apply at No.3 St.Sacrament street.8 To Let.SUMMER RESIDENCES TO LET, AT Hudeon, Furnished Cottage to rent ; a most desirable home for the summer.Apply H.FORSYTHE, Hudson, Que.9 TO LET, AT MONTREAL WEST, COTtage with an acre and a half of ground; eight apartments; near railway station and Upper Lachine Road.D.S.LEACH, Temple Building.9 CACOUNA\u2014TO LET Mrs.ELMENHERST'S Cottage.Apply J.Try-Davies Co., or F.8.Lyman, Q.C.9.TO LET, WESTERN AVENUE, NO.480, Self-contained Cotage, extension kitchen.Apply at 4846.9 STE.AGATHE\u2014TO LET, A NICE Moderate sized Cottage, furnished, occupied one only; situation convenient and de- SMITH, MARKEY & MONTGOMERY, ADVOCATES, BAREISTERS, &c.TEMPLE BUILDING, 183 ST.JAMES STREET.BOBT.C.SMITH.FRED.I.MARKEY.GEO B.A.MONTGOMEMY.Property.FOR SALE, OR TO RENT\u2014Country residence, beautifuily located, twelve roomed House, in Waterioo, modern conveniences, lawn, maple shade, vegetable and fruit garden, carriage house and stable; a bargain.If unsold May 16 will be rented in part or whole, partially furnished.E.D.9 LAWRENCE.FOR SALE, A BARGAIN, DESIRABLE Building lot in Westmount, near Victoria avenue; terms to suit purchaser.Address L.G.W., \u2018Witness' Office.8 Tenders for the Supply ef Macadamizing Stone, Taken From any Quarry in the City of Montreal.SEALED TENDERS, addressed to the City Clerk, and deposited in the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, will be received up to 10 o'clock pn MONDAY MORNING, the 22nd DAY OF MAY, 18%, for the supply and delivery of Macadamizing Stone required by the Road Committee of the City of Montreal.Specifications and forms of tender, together with all information, may be obtained at the office ot the City Surveyor, in the City Hall.No tender will be entertained unfess: sub- \u201cmitted onthe said forms.) The Road Committee reserves the right to reject the lowest or any tender.Said tenders will ba opened by the City Clerk in the presence of the interested parties at the hour and date above mentioned in the Road Committee Room, City Hall.PERCIVAL W.ST.GEORGE, City 'Surveyor's Office, City Hall, Montreal, May 8th, 1899.9 $e Road 5 Department G $5.90, good to chofce at $5.50 to $5.75; common to fair at $1.30 to $5.70; sheep, choice \"to extra at $5 to $56.20; goed to choice at $4.75 to $5; common to fair at $3.25 to $4.50.Hogs\u2014The trade opened fairly active, and so continued for a courle of hours; heavy was quotable at $4: mixed at $4; Yorkers at $3.95 to $4; pigs at $3.75 to $3.80; roughs at $3.40 to $2.50; stags at $2.50 to $2.75; towards the close the market eased up and was 5 cents lower on all but good weight hogs; Yor- kers closed at $3.90 to $3.95; pigs at $3.70.GUELPH MARKET.Guelph, Ont., May 5.\u2014Flour at $1.85 to $2; red wheat at 67c to 68¢; white wheat at 67c to 68c; bran at $14; shorts at $15; mid- dlings at $16; barley at 40c to 45c; oats at 3lc to 32c; rye at 45c to 50c; peas at 65c to 70c; hay at $6 to $7; butter at 14c to 15c; eggs at 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bag, at 73e to 85c; hides at $7 to $8; sheepskins at 50c to 80c; live hogs at $4 to $4.15.HAMILTON MARKET.Hamilton, May 6.\u2014 White wheat, per bushel, at 70c; red wheat at 69c; spring wheat at 69c; pens at 60c to 62c; barley at 42¢ to 46c; oats at 35c to 36c; corn at 40c to 4lc; cloverseed at $3 to $3.50; timothy seed at $1.25 to $1.65; white wheat flour,per barrel, at $3.25 to $4; strong bakers, do., at $3.50 to $3.75; dressed hogs, per cwt., at $5 to $6.25; apples, per bag of a bushel and a half, at $1 to $1.25; dried apples, per Ib.at 4c; potatoes, per bag of 90ibs., at 90c to :{$1; butter,.in rolls, per lb, at 10c to 13c; i butter, in firkins, per 1b., at 8c to 13c; eggs, per dozen, at 10c to 12c.LONDON PROVISION MARKET.-Lonodon, Ont., May 6.\u2014The offerings of butter to-day was large.Best rolls were purchased at from '13c to 15c, \u2018and store tots from lic to 13c per pound.Eggs were Yower in price at from 10c to 12c for frosh laid, and 9c to 10c for store and basket lots.\u2018 Wheat at 70¢c to 70%ec; oats at 34c to | 38¢c; peas: at bic to 60c; rye at 39c: corn at 46c to Blc; buckwheat at 43c to 48c; beans lat 65c to 80c; barley at 48c to boc.Hay sold at from $7 to $8.50 forgoodtimothy.Potatoes at 76c per bag.Apples at $1.50 to $3.50 per barrel, and 65c to $1 per bag.Dressed hogs were in good demand at $5.60.Beef, forequarters, at $ to $5.50.Hind- -quarters at $6 to $7.25; sides at $5 to 35.50; mutton sold at from $6 to $8; veal at from $5 to $7, and lamb at from 9c to 10c per Ib.Chickens at 65¢ to 9c; turkeys at 9¢ to 10c per pound.Live hogs at $4.10; stags at 2¢ to 2c; sows at 2c per lb.; pigs, per pair, at $3 to $5; fat beeves at $4.25 to $4.75.OTTAWA MARKET.Ottawa, May 6.\u2014Althoigh not nearly as large as last Saturday\u2019s market, which was an exceptionally large ons.the market this morning gave general satisfuction.\"There was a large turnout of the householders, and a steady demand throughout in almost every line.The supply of butter has been increasing greatly of late, and has caused a general decline in the price.There Was a steady call all morning for potatoes, but as they were plentiful, the price remained firm at from 80c to 85c per bag.Most of them were in excellent condition.Vegetables were offered very freely and kept the prices rather on the low side in spite of the fact that there was astrong demand for them.Practically no business was done on the hay market, as only one or two loads were offered all morning.Oats were in fair demand and sold for 34c and 85c per bushel.[Eggs as usual vere plentiful and sold at 1lc per dozen.Sale prices were as follows:\u2014Green onions ât 15c per dozen; rhubarb at $1 to $3.- 25 per dozen; radishes at 30c per dozen : beets al 30c to 40c per bag; carrots at 25c to 30c per bag; parsnips at 60c to 75e per bag; onions at $2 to $2.50 per Wag; potatoes at 80c to 85c per bag; cabbage at 40c to 75¢ per dozen; butter, pail, at 14c to fc | per 1b.: butter, print, at 17e to 19¢c per 1Ib.; eggs, fresh, at 10¢ to 12¢ per dozen; dressed hogs, at 35.75 to $6 per cwt.; beef, at $5 to $6 per cwt.; front, at $5.35 to $6.50 per c¢wt., hinds; turkeys at 10c to 12c per Ib.; geese, at 60c td 80c each; chickens, dead, at 50c to $1 pair; chickens, live, at 45c-to T5c pair; hay, at $7 to $9 per ton; oats at 34c to 35c perbushel; barley, at 50c busbel; buckwheat at 40c to 45c per bush.; straw at $4 to $4.50 per ton.TWIN CITY EARNINGS.The Twin City Street Rallway earnings for the last nine days in April were: 1899 1:7 114 1898 LL.++ ccocannecse 50,650 Increase .rer weeseses $3,617 Increase, percent .7.14 * ADVERTISEMENTS.8 One Dose Tells the story.When your.bead aches, and you feel bilious, constipated, and out of tune, with your stomach sour and no appetite, just buy a package of ¢ Hood\u2019s Pills And take a dose, from 1 to ¢ pills.You will be surprised at how easily they will do their work, cure your headache and biliousness, rouse the @ liver and make you feel happy again.@ 25 cents.Sold by all medicine dealers, $ When the ground was cursed for sinful Adam's sake, well knowing all the is to which human kind would be subject, God made 1t to bear herbs of all-healing- Among these herbs none was more widely distributed, or more potent for good than the Clover The scientists of oldsoon found out the won derful effect on the nervous system exercised by clover root, making 1t one of the chief ingredients in their most successful receipts for Blood elixirs, sleeping draughts.and for the curing of diseases of the skin Women in that olden time had clear, bright \u201ceyes and fine complexions, which lasted until late Because they did not dose themselves continually with medicines, nor use mineral.poisons on their faces to try to in life Why?A NU I Ny cover up the effects of bad, impure blood They had work to do, and must keep themselves well.and did so with these teas made A German from the herbs of the field scientist, one of the leading physicians of the time.has revived the use of Clover in This 18 known as Karl's Clover Root Tea, and 18 a veritable elixir of life.medicine gently stimulating the stomach and bowels, causing them to secrete naturally the various juices needed for the processes of digestion and assimilation of food, and by keeping the bowels open and regular, relieved the body of all waste, poisonous matter, which, if allowed to remain.taints the blood, frequently causing rheumatism.In other words, Karl's Clover Root Tea restores health by making pure blood, without which no one can have either strength or beauty An absolute cure for sick-headache, backache and sleeplessness Your money refunded if it fails to cure.S.C.Well=& Co, 52 Cot- Lure St.Toranto, Ont \u201cGentlemen: ! am so well pleased with Karl's Clover Root Tea, and the good results derived from 1t,that | hardly know how to express myself.For years | ~ have had indigestion and eruptions of the skin, and found ne- relief until 1 began using Karl's Clover Root Tea.\u201cEpGarR P WiLLs, \u201cOmaha, Neb.\u201d Sold at 25¢.and | 50c.throughout the United Statob and Canada, in England at ls.6d.and 24.3d i Gradually Grew Weaker § IN SPITE OF ANYTHING THE DOCTORS COULD DO FOR HIM.Remarkable Case of Mr, Otis Kinne, Edgett\u2019s Landing, N.B., who was Cured by Milburn\u2019s Heart and Nerve Pills.The number of people who desire to tell of health and strength restored throughthe use of Milburn's Heart and Nerve ills is rapidly on the increase.Never were there so many who were weak, run down, nervous, anaemic, suffering from heart disease in some form or another, proclaiming the merits of the \u2018little life savers,\u201d as there are at the present time.One of those who undoubtedly owes his an restoration to health to this remed this alone; 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AT ANY OF OUR, 7-RETAIL STORES\u20147 ing you rejoice.Itned.MONEY IS THE MEASURE of values.When the measure is to your Jik- We make all our customers happy.They never come back dissatisfied on account of misrepresentation.is selected by the best judges of fine work, and our Sterling Silver Is guaranteed the best that is manufactured.Berry Bowls,cut glass, sterling mounts, $10.50 to $45.00.Also in solid silver, gold Simpson, Mall, Miller & Co., 1794 Notre Dame.Our Cut Glass IRE | |! | | WORLD'S BICYCLE MEET.The Atfair Now Entirely in the Hands of the Canadian Wheelmen\u2019s Association \u2014 Public Support Wanted.MONTREAL DEFEATED\u2014LACROSSE \u2014SWIMMING - FOOTBALL \u2014 - GENERAL SPORTS.Yesterday aftercoon a very important meeting of the Board of Control of the World's meet was beld at tho Windsor Hotel when Mr.E¢.Sheppard presided.Mr.T.A.Beament (past president pf the C.W.A.), Hal.B.Donly (secretary C.W.A.), and Watson (chairman of transportation committee), were present, together with President Rubenstein, Messrs.A.B.Ratt- ray, U.M.Dandurand, L.Cbarlebo!s and D.J.Watson, secretary.The first business was the discussion of the contract made with Mr.Dendurand, of the Queen's Park rack Association, which was not deemed satisfactory in some re- specks oo, the matter was thoroughly thras! out.The result was that Mr.Dandurand generousty consented to a new contract being drawn up.This gives evidence that Mr.Dandurand has sacrificed much, aud it now only remains to go ahead and make the meet a success.There can be no difference of opinion ,aë to who is to be benefited by the World's meet, as the matter is now entirely out of the hands of Mr, Dandurapd, and completely under the management of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, and if the bicycle meet can be made a success the men at its head will use their best efforts to that end.Previous to fast night the meet was to a certain extent controlled by the Queen's Park Track Association, but now it is po longer the case and the Canadian Wheeimen's Association look for considerably more support, and there is little doubt that it will be forthcoming.Everything.Is straightened out and there is no further reason why the council, the railways, the hotels and the public generally, should not give it its heartiest support.The local Board of Control will meet to-night to complete final arrangements regarding the race programme, which promises to be a very interesting one.Following is the text of the new agreement:\u2014 Memorandum of agreement made this eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight bundred and ninety- nine, betweery the Queen's Park Athletic Association (Limited), of the first part ; and the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, of the second part.Witnesseth that whereas the parties hereto did, on the first day of August, 1893; enter imto' an agreement in reference to the holding of the World's championship bicycle meet, and it has been agreed to cancel tho sald agreement upon the following terms: Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the premises, the parties of the first part bereby lease, and the parties \u2018of the second part hereby take the grounds apd premises of the said party of of il \u2014 the first part in the village of - Verdun.known as the Queen's Park track, including all stands, tracks, dressing rooms, checking rooms (and ail and every the privileges and advantages connected or used therewith,for August 9, 10, and 11 (all day), 1899, and Aug.12, save and except the evening of the said August 12, which is reserved by the parties of the first part, at and for the price of sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid out of the gate receipts of suid race meeting on August 12, 1899, and upon the following terms and conditions: 1.The parties of the first part agree that no races shall be competed for on said park prior to said date, which have not been first sanctioned by the parties of the second part; and shall also allow the said track to be used by racing men for a reasonable time prior to the said dates.2.The parties of the second part further agree that in case they use tho said park on the nights of the days bereinbefore mentioned, then the parties of the second part agree to pay the cost of lighting the said track.It is also agreed: that the parties of the first part are to retaln and have all privileges of refreshments only, and the parties of the second part may post advertisements on the said grounds so long as they do not cause any damage thereto or interfere wiih advertisements now existing.3.The sald agreement of August, 1898, is hereby cancelied and this agreement is entered into in substitution therefor.In witness whereof the said parties of the first part have executed this agreement by the hand of their secretary-treasurer and manager, and the parties of the second part by the hands of thelr president, and their sécretary-treasurer.THE QUEENS PARK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, LTD., Per U.H.Dandurand, Sec.-Treas.and Manager.THE CANADIAN WHEELMEN'S ASSOCIATION Per Louis Rubenstein, President.H.B.Donly, Sec.-Treas.Signed and executed in the presence of Ed.Sheppard and L.Charlebois.MONTREAL BICYCLE CLUB.A general ineeting of the above club will be held next Thursday evening at eight o'clock to dccide upon the usual trip for the Queen's Birthday.As these excursions are always enjoyed a large attendanco is expected.There will also be other important business brought up at this meet- ng.THE KENNEL.A COMING SHOW.The Canadian Collie Club intend holding its second annual spring show on May 24.The genial president of the club, Mr.J.Reid, has kindly placed Logan's Farm at the dispoeal of the club, which they were not slow to take advantage of, as they have an experience of last year's show as a pro- cedont of Mc.and Mrs.Reid's generous hospitality.A show of exceptionally grand collies is ensured, when such fanciers as Mr.H.B.Hungerford, of Belleville, Ont., is bringirg his best blood for competition; also Mr.R.C.Stdcey, of Brockville, Ont, will be fn evidence with three of his cracker jacks.Mr.John Cumming, one of Canada\u2019s most enthusiastic breeders and fanciers.will be a strong exhibitor with abcut fifteen collins from bis famous Cragkstone Kennels, which he says, will be Irerd to beat.Avchcarnle Kennels will be represented by \u2018Auchcarnie Hieland King\u2019 and \u2018Auch- carnie Pattl,\u201d winner of 35 first prizes in England, Ireland and Scotland, and: four first prizes in Canada.The president, Mr.Retd, is showing, among others, \u2018Apple Blossom\u2019 (by \u2018Auch- Indianapolis .carnie Gun\u2019), winner of ten first prizes, in- cluding a cun for the best colMo in the and Kahoe.At Minneapolis\u2014Minneapolis, 18, Kansas City, 4.At Columbus\u2014Columbus, 5; Detroit, 4.At St.Paul\u2014(Seventeen innings)\u2014St.Paul, 6; Milwaukee, 4.LOOKING FOR GAMES.The Yales would like to arrange matches with the Ramblers, Crescents, Watson Fosters, or Melrose.Any other juvenile base- bal! club in Canada wishing to play the Yales should send all challenges to John A.Donaghy, captain-manager of the Yale Baseball Club of Montreal, #48 City Hall avenue.NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES, At Boston\u2014 R.H.E.Boston .10400000x 5 8 1 COMPANY Limited {Brooklyn .\u201c0500000000 0 5 0 NI ; » \u2018At New York\u2014 .mu Washington .600020000 2 9 5 New York a -10000014x 6 11 1 Montreal December show, 1898, at that time t Plitsburg\u2014 beating \u2018Woodmenstarn Conrad,\u201d the most Pittsburg .110024000 8 15 2 expensive imported collie in Canada.Louisville ,, 0091101200 5 8 1 The success of the show is asaured, sce- et Chicago\u2014 ing that the club have placed the manage- \u20ac; JCBEO.- + 01010 2 013 810 8 ment of the show in the hands of such men eveland .000013120 7 18.1 as Mr.Reid and Mr.Cumming.The presi- STANDING OF THE CLUBS dent has also given special instructions to 2er- \u2018the secretary to communicate and arrange, ,,CINb.Won.Lest.cent.with the clerk of the weather, so, that the ; St.\u2018Louis .12 5 108 lady fanciers of Montreal and district may hicago .14 6 -700 with confidence don their bravest finery.|Lbiladelphia ., .13 8 -884 Brooklyn .12 8 .600 Boston .11 9 350 BASEBALL, Cincinpatt .9 7 526 MONTREAL BADLY BEATEN.! Baltimore 02000 8 1 AA Springfield, Mass., Mav 8.\u2014 Springficld Louisville .ol I = 5 8 11 [421 had an easy thing in Duggleby to-day,while Pittsburg .7 10 412 Pappalau, though hit frequently, kept the \u2018Washington .4 15 211 safe ones well scattered.A triple play, Cleveland .ve eo 8 14 176 with the bases full, in the fifth helped keep Le ; oC \u2014_\u2014 the score dors ere I AQUATICS.eld, - AB R 1B PO A ET POINTE CLAIRE AFFAIRS: Bannon, #s .41 2 1 #41 The annual meeting of the Pointe Claire Dolan, If .5 1 2 4 0-0 ating Club will be held on Tuesday oven- Brown, ¢f .\u2026 \u2026 .5 2 2 4 1 0) CE 3 t in the M.A.A.A.club house, jon Brouthers, 1b .5 2 2 7 2 oiMansfield strest.It will be an unusually Campbell, rf .\"05 1 2 \u20ac o° 1j fpportant meeting in many respects, and Myers, 3b .\"5 0 2 3 0 0 # large attendance is expected.Stuart, 2b .9 9 1 2 à ; The past year bas been an eminzntly rue- Phelps, ¢ Te 1 sp 35 \"gessful \u2018one, in the annals of old Pointe Pappalau, p .4 0 0 171 0 Claire end a number of encouraging re- \u2014 (ports will he presented to the meeting.Totals .39 10 15 27 13 2| This year Pointe Claire ie setting to work Montreal i with renewed vigor, and a record season of AB R IB FO A K \u2018prosperity 1s looked for.The officers etect- Schiebeck, 83 10174410 £d next Tuesday evening will find lots D Barnon MU 5 6 1° 0 0 0 to do, but In so congenial a task, will un- Sheen om oo 5 1 à à 00 doubtedly do their best, and the coming Jhearon, 41 1 50 season nmong F.C.B.C.members is swalted Dacia RUN T4 0 83 à 3 7) with much pleasureable anticipation.Henry, 3b .,.3 0 0 1 1 0, VQ Jecklits, © 2214 0 0 à 3 ol LACROSSE.$, Bangou, et.4 0 3 3 à 1 SHAMROCKS AT PRACTICE.Duggle y P 3 $ 2 à 0 $ \u2018The Shamrocks had a large crowd of , P 1 Flayers at the grounds Just night, twenty | QUE on members turning out and trying to gat in- ee mgs 35 1 11 27 16 2 to condition.a ie three toamee renior, in-.a mediate and junior, play on May 24,and Springfield Ce ee ee 0200558088 from present appearances, they will have cee = strong teams.J.Stinson was out for the Summary.fret time last night.Stolen bases, Shannon (2), Myers; two base hits, Shannon, Myers, Duggieby; first bases on balls off Pappalau, 3; off Duggle- by, 3; struck out, by Pappalau, 2; by Dug- gleby, 2; double plays, Dooley and Schie- beck, Brown and Brouthers; triple play, Pappalau, Phelps, Brouthers and Myers ; passed ball, Jacklitz; time, 2.00; umpire, O'Laughlin.TORONTO DEFEATS PROVIDENCE.Providence, R.I., May 8.\u2014Toronto won to-day after Providence had gained a lead of five to nothing.In the seventh innirg a couple of fielding errors, sandwiched in with some timely and steady hitting, caused Providence to lose a game when the spectators had come to regard as practically won.Score by innings:\u2014 Toronto .ve oo 4.20000025 0x7 Providence - .130100000\u2014 HARTFORD WON.Hartford, Conn., May 8.\u2014Syracuse to-day\u2019 giving the viattors the lead in the seventh inning.Kilroy retffed from the game on account of an injury to his hand.Attendance, 500.Score:\u2014 KR.H.BE, Hartford 104001200 8 2-5 Syracuse .031000410 9 9 4 Batteries\u2014Espert, Crate and Urquhart ; McDermot and Williams.WORCESTER WON.Worcester, Mass., May 8.\u2014Worcester won from Rochester to-day in the best game of the season.Score:\u2014 : R.H.E Worcester .11000410x 7 12 3 Rochester .020010000 3 8 5 Batteries\u2014Viau and Bransfield; Morse and Coogan.- STANDING OF THE CLUBS.Per.Club.Won.Lost.cent.Worcester .6 2 L130 Springfield \u2026.4 2 2667 Toronto .++ +.+ +.5 3 6235 Montreal .+.++ 0.+0 À 3 571, Providence .«.D 4 444 Rochester .\u2026.3 4 .429 Syracuse .+.or .- + 8 6 .338 Hartford .2 6 250 TO-DAY'S GAMES.Montreal at Springñeld.Toronto at Providence.Rochester at Worcester.Syracuse at Hartford.WESTERN LEAGUE GAMES.Buffalo, May 8.\u2014 The Western League season was opened here to-day.Grey's pitching for the home team was phenomenal, not a hit being made off him during \u2018he game.Hickey's error in the second was respon- sible for Buffalo's only run.Attendance, 2,500.\u2019 Score\u2014 R.H.E, Buffalo .01000000x 1 5 2 .6000600000 0 6 1 Batteriese\u2014Grey and Diggins ; Fcreman defeated the home team because of errors, WESTWICK IN GREAT DEMAND.: Toronto, May 8.\u2014That good lacrosse plaw- er, Harry Westwick, Is In great demand this season,and several clubs already claim his services.Ottawa says he will play.with its team; Winnipeg says that he is expected there in a day or two, and will play there, and now come tbe Tecumsehs, who state that Westwick will join them by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest, while Murphy will come later on.Thé Tecumseh story is vouched for by high authority.SWIMMING.ANNUAL MEETING.The annual meeting of the Montreal Swimming CMib was held at the M.A.A.A.rooms last night, when there was a large attendance of members.The principal pusiness was the reception of reports,which ere very satisfactory.A sub-committee was alsb appointed to look after the privileges of wheclmen on the lsland, and see the Parks and Ferries Committeé about the matter.This is something that would come] well within the province 6f the chief consul of the district, and the sub-committee should have an interview with him.After the reading of the treasurer's report, the election of officers took place, and resulted as follows: President\u2014Charles McClatchie.First vice-president\u2014E.H.Godin.Sceond vice-president\u2014C.H.Goulden.Hon.treasurer\u2014Thomas J.Darling.Hon.secretary\u2014G.Normandin.Committee\u2014A.E.Taylor, Dr.Gadbois,G.Diverall, W.H.Percy, D.Selby, H.Demers, J.H.Lefebvre.The secretary\u2019s report was read and considered satisfactory.ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.POINT ST.CHARLES FOOTBALL CLUB.A general meeting of the Point Football [Club was held last Friday evening, when if was formally decided that practice should be on Monday aad Wednesday nights and Saturday afternoons; for special practices, members to be duly notified.the absence of several parties.interested in the formation of a junior league, the matter was left in the hands of the committee.Mersrs.Costello and Echskin, of the Luchine Club, were present.It was also decided to hold an entertuin- ment on or about June 15, to include the usual athlette exhibitions; vocal and iu- .strumental items will also be on the programme.a ; | The fojlowing gentlemen wtilt compose the committee of management for sams:\u2014 | Messrs.W.Young, A.Green, J.Burch- more, J.Mitchéll and G.Burchmore.Pae club have some very heavy \u2018expenses to meet this season, and it is to be hoped that those.interested in football\u2019 generally, will give.all.the assistance they can to | and Celia Austin.\u2018Owing to! Tvrspar, Mar 0, 1899, Aetp the Boys along.The Cab, Sinet Ti inauguratiog,- - beep, 3ycrgdil to Point, avg Det on thé Deld one of t best teams that Montreal ever had, the boys should receive the support of all lovers of the old English game of football.A meeting of the management committen to select the teañr'to play Valleyfield next Saturday, will be held on Wedsesday, at 8 p m.,.sharp, in the club rooms.MISCELLANEOUS.A WALKING MATCH.New York,May 8 The 72-hour go-as-you- please walking match began at one o\u2019'ciock this afternoon sat the Grand Ceutral Palace.The match will continuc until May 13, and will be a 12-hour a day contest.The track is elliptical, is covered with tan bark and sawdust.Frank Morgan started the men going.Dave Holland acted as referee, and Frank Moran as timekeeper.There were twenty-one entries.Among the starters were Oliver Hansen.Chris- tianla (Norwegian); Patrick Igo, Manchester, England (Irish); Sam.Day, London, England; Thomas Dawson, Birmingham, England.The men ran for the most part in the first mile.Tha prizes are $300, $200, $100, STE and $50 for winners in the order named.New York, May 8.\u2014The scores at ten o'clock to-night were: Hegelman, 58 miles; Cox, 55; Gnerrero, 35; Click, 53: Fdwards, 51; \u2018Day, 50; Hansen, 50; Dawson, 49; Jgo, 47; Barneb, 46; Martin, 46; Geary, 46; Craig, 45; Noremac, 43; Tracy,42; Demming (withdrawn).: \u2014_\u2014\u2014 MISS CRAIG'S LECTURE.The {ilus\u2018rated lecture, \u2018Love, Laughter, and Lore of Old Ireland,\u2019 by Miss Martha Cralg, of Belfast, in the lecture hall of St.James the Apostle Church, next Thursday evening, will be a very enjoyable and interesting entertainment.It is in aid of the Church's Ministering Children\u2019s Lesgue, and there should be a large audience.Amongst the musical items, Mr.James J.Touhey, the celebrated irish piper, selected by Lady Aberdezn to play ir the Irish village at ibe Chicago Fair.will play a selection of.national airs.and Mrs.Parratt, Irish harpist, will accompany him.The fact of Canon Flegood, who has so much to tell of Irish wit and humor, presiding, and introducing the fair lecturer, will add also to the interest ot the evening.Great things are said about the eloquence of Miss Craig's interesting lecture, and the beauty of the limeligat views which accompany Ît.\u2014_\u2014 YOUNG PICKPOCKETS.Moses and Solly Levi, aged 11 and 9 years respectively, were arrested on Saturday by Lieut.Trempe and Constable Trudeau for pocket-picking in front of Lepage\u2019s, corner St.Lawrence and St.Catherine streets.The victims were two ladies whose names are given as Mrs.H.Davis and Mrs.Wm.Davis.One lady bad between six and seven dollars in her purse.the other only a few cents.One lady missed her purse just after crossing the street.She remembered seeing the boys near the store and returning asked one of them to give back the purse.One of them had it but the money had disappeared.The boys were given in charge of the police, who got both pocket-books.The other lady got home before missing her purse and whon she informed the detective office of her loss they had already recovered it.The case will be dispoeed of on Friday.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PECULIAR LEASE CASE.In the Recorder\u2019s Court yesterday, a ne- culiar case came up regarding lease rights.A year ago Mrs.Kennedy leased n house to ME.Callahan, j5.Mr.Callahan's parents occupied the house during the year.ere was no renewal of the lease by Mr.Callahan, jr.He even refused when asked to re-lease.Mrs.Kennedy's agent got a new tenant, who is watting to go into the house.Mr.Callahan, sr., contended that as he had not given notice to leave he had a tacit right to remain another year.The plaintiff claimed that the lease with Callahan, ir, gave no such right to Callaban, sr, and as Caliahan, Jr.was two months behind with his rent, he claimed powers of ejectment, if necessary.The Court upheld the contention of thre plaintiff, and annulled the lease of last year.Mr.H.J.Cloran for plaintiff, and Mr.W.A.Weir for defendant.Le THE C.M.B.A.The regular monthly meeting of Branch No.26, C.M.B.A.of Canada, took place last evening at the ball of the branch, St.Alexander street, Mr: D.P.MeGiilis, president of the branch, in the chair.Grand Organizers, W, P.Killackey and J.E.H.Howigon, were present, and made the usual official inspection of the books and reports of the \u2018branch, which were found to be in first class condition.The organizers afterwards each delivered an address to the members of the branch.\u2014\u2014 el RECORDER'S COURT.Sixteen for.being drunk, four for playing ball on the street, and three for being disorderly, fighting and obstructing the sidewalk, made up the Recorder's list yesterday morning.Two, who were charged with being drunk, were young women of about thirty years, and gave the names of Lena Baker a They were also charged with refusing to pay their carter the sum of $2.50.They were foundy guilty and fined $10 or one month each.MINING NOTES.J Cr) vliaalil ila fom iad Ore Shipments and Business on Rossland and Vancouver Exchanges.A BUDGET OF UP-TO-DATE NEWS.ome La = | A meeting has just been held electing the { following gentlemen as directors of Horne- | blende Gold Mining Company, of Ontario, Limited, both Montreal and Toronto being | interested: N.Merritt, Turonto, president, 1 Hy.A.Drummond, Toronto, vice-president; { Hon.A.W.Angers, Montreal, 8nd vice presi: dent; E.T.Bartlett, Montreal, managing di- | rector; Lt.-Col.W.Ingersoll Merritt, Lou- ; dou, Eng.; Charles A.Duclos, Montreal .Randolph Macdonald, Toronto; A.W.Crosby, Toronto; Robt.A.Donovan, Toronto, directors.The capital of the company 1- $900,000, in 900,000 shares of $1 each, und tlie properties owned by the Horneblende people are the Eureka, the Kiss-Me-Quick, the Martin, the Ida, the Eagle and the Grover The above properties are free milling aud are located in the Michipicoten district.Rossland, B.C.,May 6, 1899.\u2014The ore shipments from Rossland camp for the week ending May 6, and for the year to-day, are as follows: \u2014Lerol, 1,795 week, 25.530 year; War Eagle, 1,697 week, 10,437 year; Iron Mask, 18 week, 760 year: Evening Star, year 86; Deer Park, year, 13.Total tons, 3,511 week; 36,782 year.Stock sales of Rossland Exchange officlal: 2,000 Morrison at 17%, 1,000 at 17, 4,000 at 17%; 5,000 Monarch at 15; 2,500 Tamarac at 17; 1,000 Tamarac at 17; 1,000 Minnehaha at 24%, 1,000 Monte Cristo at 1lllg; 2,500 Van Anda at 8%.* LS * .Rossland, B.C.,May 6, 1899.\u2014The ore shipments this week are still below the average.Supt.Hastings of the War Eagle explained to-day that the workings of the War Eagle were Dot cleared of the accumulation of the past three months and the management is hampered in getting out the ore.Mr.Hastings said to-day that the Centre Star would conimence \u2018shipping within the next thirty days.The Leroi is preparing to go down 2,500 feet.Mr.W.A.Carlyle has advised the company tbat the great showing of ore in the mine fully warrants the step.The ore in the main shaft of the War Eagle where the strike was reported last week will run on an average from 20 to 60 dollars.A strike on Virginia was again reported but careful enquiries fail to find any foundation for the report.* - .A Spokane report declares that one of the liveliest stocks on the local market during the past two weeks has been Little Cariboo, of Camp McKinney.This stock began to attract attention the first of the present year,when the development work was started upon it.A strong demand was immedi- being sold in Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and Montreal.As the shaft went down-on the ledge and the ore continued tting richer the price of the stock eréquals moved up until it was in strong demand at 41%.Then the shaft passed through the vein and.the stock began to slump, being quickly picked up by those on the imside as fast as placed upon the market.It went down until it was obtainable at 13% or 2 cents.The news came of the opening up of the ledge by the crosscut from the bottom of the shaft, with the rock showing better values than ever, and the stock is now strong at 3% and 4 with indications of a further rise in the near future.- .» - * Vancouver, B.C,, May 8.\u2014The local brokers\u2019 agsociation began to justify its exist- fence \u2018last week, when it started a call board.Quite a Jot of business was done on Thursday and Friday, but Saturday being a half holiday there was less business.This was, however, due partly to a scarcity of standard stocks.The followiag sales were reported:\u2014Vanada, 1,500, 2,000, 1,500, 2,000, 1,000, 500, 500 at 7%; 1,500 at 73%.Noble Five, 1,000 at 28; 500 at 29.Pearl, 2,000 at 12%.The total output of ore, crushed and shipped from the mines of Ymir, for the four months ending April 30, was 4,600 tons.- * .+ Toronto, May 6.\u2014At a special extraordinary meeting of the directors of the Minne- haha, held in the Canada Life Bullding, Toronto, it was decided to immediately call for tenders for a 10-stamp mill.The fnten- tion is to have the mill in position as early in July as possible.Reports from the mine were satisfactory.The president and directors have been most careful, and have steadily developed the property, until they \u2018have sufficient ore in reserve to justify this, expenditure.At the 100 ft.level the east drift, which has been run about 130 ft.is all in high grade ore, six feet in width.Pending the installation of thelr new compresser plant, the management are pushing work, and tAking out the ore as rapidly as possible with the steam and hand drills.\u2018When the stamps commence dropping on the Minnehaha ore this company, It is hoped, will dispute the position .for first place in Camp McKinney with the Cariboo.Rossland, B.C., May 8 \u2014 Dr.W.E.Deeks, of Montreal, who Is visiting this section of the country at present, and Mr.W.Wallach, of Rossland, have just completed the purchase of a quarter interest in the Hidden Treasure Group of mineral claims situated in the Similkameen district, and comprising eight claims.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.The treasurer of the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge acknowledges with thanks from the estate of the late Mrs.Robert Phelps, per executor, her legacy of , Jess ten percent government duty, $450.John Robertson, Esq., $20; \u2018For His Sake,\u201d $1., - mp ADVERTISEMENTS.MONTREAL COACHMAN'S ASSOCTA- TION.The half yearly meeting of the Montreal Coachmen's Association, will be held tomorrow evening, Wednesday, at eight -o\u2019clock, in their ball, Montreal Veterinary College, No.8 Union avenue.Important business will be considered.All officers and members are particularly requested to be present.THOSE TERRIBLE NERVOUS HEADACHES Rob Thousands of the Pleas ures of Life.Dodil's Dyspepsia Tablets Care Nervous Headache, and Make Life Worth Living - They Remove the Cause of the Trouble Quickly and Complétely.What's the use of suffering from those terrible 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di | gest the food.That's how they cure Nervous Head: acke.Try a Lox and be convinced.To try them is to be cured; to be cured is, sure ly.to be convinced, ately created, large quantities of the stock 2 VU ++e.oeee63+%t+%100604000000400 00e «| 1, -\u2014h | n° eee, $ 3 Ë UN .= ee 9 \u201cuo Cn on PO IN 0 | là QUE OI > ++.+#e.++w4++#\".Turspay, May 9, 1899, ADVERTISEMENTS.Think It | Over And you'll readily see how it will be possible to freshen up the parlor, dining-room and bedrooms.A chair here, a table there, to replace those worn or wearing out, makes a \u201cgreat difference in a room.\"We sell artistic, good, strong and durable Furnitare and \u201ccan save you from 10 to 25 percent.Try our new method.Open Evenings till 10.F.LAPOINTE, The sikmowledged lowest est, cash priced Furniture er in the city.1561 : Old stand 1447:1449 {56 Catherinost Newstand \u2018When our new stores are I., the one located on Montcalm street \"be The One devoted to credit, under Mr.F.Guibord\u2019s management.Until then, credit buyers may call cn this gentleman, 1351 Bt.Catherine street.EI * .ets tee % - ee esta.eo.a OR AE Ce .\u2018CRESGENT * ë i STEEL AGATE WARE % 5 Will not cost you any more than inferior qualities; every piece that our label \u2018\u2018Crescent\u201d 1s guaranteed mot to\u2019 chip o or burn.gals ° 'e\u2019 ~ porte og Sd 4ère > 3» THE THOS.DAVIDSON MFG.Co.Ltd.MONTREAL.a A EE I fA BORDEN SWITCH boede eds 2, * +, Cen be combed in with your own hair and is just.as natural ip appearance.No wire or stems\u2014only hair.Will outwear three ordinary\u2019 Bwitches and al- (3 Ways looks better.K 18 in.Switch, $3.00.20 in.Switch, 54,00, 22 in.Switch $5.00.34 in.Switch, $9.00.Natural Wave $2.00 extra.J.PALMER & SON\u2019 1745 Notre Dame St.pt >.\u201cINSPECTION OF OF HIDES, QUEBEC BUTCHERS WANT THE COOPERATION OF THE MONTREAL TRADE.\u2014_\u2014 A deputation of the Quebec Butchers\u2019 Association, composed of Messrs.Drolet and Verrette, is at present in Montreal to obtain the co-operation of the Montreal butchers in opposing the bill introduced in parliament by the Dominion Farmers\u2019 Association providing for the \"'mpulsory vaccination of green hides.I'he views of the Quebec men have been \u201cYplained to a deputation of the Mont- eal Butchers\u2019 Association, composed of Aid.Lareau and Messrs.P.Bedard, H.Paitras, E.Leduc.A.Leduc and W.Hontpetit, and they will explain the \u201ctuation to the whole association at a \u201ceneral meeting.The Montreal butchers are pretty sure to co-operate with the (Mebec trade in opposing the bill.\u2014_\u2014\u2014.\u2014 \u2014\u2014 NOT A DENTIST.I'he case against Ernest Paquette, who \u201c48 prosecuted under the dental laws of the vrovince, by the Dental Amociation, or unlawfully practicing dentistry [Sen dismissed without costs by aes hoqueite, The (Court held that as Mr.Aquette did not personally practice den- etry he was not guilty of an infringe- \u2018Ent où the law.There was nothing prevent him being the proprietor of o Franco-American Dental Institute, \"nz as he merely attended to the ail management of the business.& (THE ABERDEEN TorResrovbEnGE] ne CPI CERMES SE br fat TE SLE re Sir Charles Tupper Demands That it be Laid on the Table in Parliament.THE PREMIER'S REPLY COURTEOUS BUT.FIRM\u2014OTHER BUSINESS.Ottawa, May 9.\u2014Yesterday was private members\u2019 day in the House of Commons and among the subjects under discussion were propositions for the appointment of a committees cf members to inquire into means of curtailing lengthy speeches in the debates of the House, and for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the capital expended on the C.P.R., and the comparative returns therefrom to ascertain whether the time has not arrived when the country can claim the reduction in freight rates contemplated in the C.P: R.\u2019s charter from parliament.Sir Charles Tupper also renewed his attack upon Lord Aberdeen, late Governor-Gicneral of Canada, in connection with his refusal to act upon the advice of Sir Charles and Lago eagues after the eleations of June, At the opening of the House Mr.Me.Innes introduced a bill to amend the Criminal Code, 1892.The object of the measure is to provide against intimidation by capital and the clergy over clec- tors.NEWFOUNDLAND BAIT.Mr.Borden (Halifax), made further inquiry concerning the alleged difficulty with Newfoundland as to the supply of herring bait.The Minister of Fisheries replied that he had written the Newfoundland authorities for definite information on the question.No reply had yet been received thereto.THE DRUMMOND COUNTY RAILWAY.Sir \u2018Charles Tupper asked whether it was the government's intention to proceed at to-day\u2019s sitting with the resolution regarding the Drummond County Railway purchase, and intimated that it would be dasirahle to have full information laid on the table in relation to the financial results cf the operation of the line.The Minister of Railways replied that a return would ke presented showing the earnings and expenditures of the whole I.C.R.line.THE PACIFIC CABLE.Mr.Aulay Morrison (New Westminster), mmde inquiry as\u2019to whether the government had received from British Columbia notice of the province\u2019s wil- ingness to contribute toward the cost of the Canadian-Australian cable.The Premier replied that a communication to that effect had been received.In reply to a further question by Mr.Morrison as to whether any of the other provinces had taken similar steps, the Premier stated thet no other notices of the kind had been received.PRIVATE BILLS.Bills respecting the Columbia and Western Railway Company, the Quebec Steamship Company, the Canadian Railway Accident Insurance Company and the Home Life Association of Canada were put through the committee stage and given their third reading.CANADA SERVICE MEDAL.In reply to a question by Mr.E.PF.Clarke (West Toronto), the Minister of Militia stated that the government is at a loss to account for the delay in the issue of the Canada service medal author ized by the Imperial auwthofities.The medal is being struck off at the Royal Mint.MARKING OF SEALED PACKAGES.Mr.Ellis made enquiry whether the government proposed introducing legisla tion this session requiring hermetically sealed packages of goods sold in Canada for food to have their weight marked thereon.The Minister of Inland Revenue\u2019s reply was in the negative.Such a law had been passed in 1884 but being found impracticable was repealed the session following.PENSIONS FOR CANADIAN FORCES Lieut-Col.Hughes (North Victoria) presented a resolution \u2018That jn the opin: ion of the House a pension system should be established for officers and mead of the Canadian permanent corps and of the headquarters and district staff who are not under the Civil Service act.\u201d In so doing he pictured the force as carn- prised of industrious and deserving men and stated that some small remuneration of this kind would te but reasonable.The salaries paid to officers and men in the Canadian service was not as large either as the salaries paid in the British or American armies.t was, in fact,) from the very nature of the case, impossible that these men should save money Is was in itself an evidence of the unsat- isfactorv condition of affairs that there should be 8f desertions out of a force of 792 men in five years.Lieut Col.Hughes made reference to the retirement on gratuity of Lieut.-Col.Smith, of London, and the approaching retirement under the age limit of Lieut.-Col.Otter, of Toronto.In neither case was the gratuity to his mind at all commensurate with these gentlemen's services.Mr.Casey (West Elgin) supported the resolution, and in the course of his remarks paid a high tributé to Captain Girouard, the young Canadian officer who has attained such prominence in thé Egyptian service.Lieut.-Col.Prior (Victoria) was in fa- | perliameat.vor of the pension scheme.The Minister of Militia stated frankly that for his own part he agreed in almost all that had been said.If the government was to create a pension sys tem no class of men would better deserve the recognition than those who risked their lives in the military service.A distinction, however, should be made between short service men and those who devoted their lives to soldiering, being thus unfitted on rettrement for any other occupation.He could not see why the military force should be treated dif- férently from the Mounted Police force, which is, under \u2018the existing arrangement, cither pensionéd or superannuated.\u2019 While Canada does not possess a standing army and need nome, her permanent corps serves as a splendid training school for the militia.In connection with the age limit the minister found that sixty: years was the average age at which military officers lost their usefulness.He was quite prepared to acknowledge the hardahip which this involved in certain «ses.Ha had not yet been able to solve the question, but hoped at an early date to have a plan matured which he could lay before his colleagues and that next session he might Le able to present it to It might be possible to create a fund by a small contribution from each man which would entail but a small additional charge on the govern ment.Sir Charles Tupper expressed the opinion that the time was now favorable for the government to make the permanent force more attractive.He suggested that possibly a svstem of land grants might be devised t% meet the case.Lieut.-Col, Hughes withdrew his mo tion without pressing far a vote.THE ABERDEEN CORRESPONDENCE.Sir Charles Tupper moved for copies of all cablegrams, papers, correspondence and despatches or other writing upon which the Right Honorable the Prime Minister of Canada based the statement in the House of Commons on June 10, 1888, as follows: \u2018T have the authority of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to state that: he approves of the principles on which the Governor-General act ed, ag based on the facts set forth in the letter of His Excellency to.Sir Charles Tupper.\u2019 Sir Charles spoke to his motion at some length and reiterated his charge against.the unconstitutionality of the ition assumed by Lord Aberdeen therein.He found fault with the action of the Prime Mmister last session when this subject vas up of quoting from a paper which he ind not laid before the House.THE PREMIER'S REPLY.The Prime Minister observed that the subject was one which had been debated on several previous occasions, With the request for papers be would comply so far as the well known rules of the Colonial, Office permit.In so doing he did not desire to be understood as coneur- ring in the views expressed by the Jeader of the Opposition.On the contrary he held that Lord Aberdeen had on the occasion in question acted quite within his prerogative.Going back to the well known events of 1896 Sir Wilfrid referred to the result; of the general election of that day which had shown that the government of that day no longer represented the people of Canada.Sir Charles had himsetf ac knowledged his defeat in a published in terview, though he subsequently reversed bis opinion on that subject and presumed to tender to His Excellency advice on not only routine matters before the government at the time but to promote new business.The question at issue between Lord Aberdeen and Sir Charles had been referred to the C'olonial Office.The reply of Mr.Chamberlain thereto had been given in substance to parliament already.The Colonial Secretary would not con sant to give his:official \u2018despatch to the Canadian Parliament.The leader of the Opposition should know that secret des patches of this kind are not for the pub: lie.Mr.Chamberlain bad not departed from that rule but had stated that the purport of the third paragraph might be made use of.Therein the Colonial Secretary expressed his approval of the principles stated in Lord Aberdeen\u2019s memorandum of July 8, 1896, as those upon which his action in the matter was based, but in expressing his approval of these principles he observed that their application was a matter for the discretion of the Governor-General, whose duty it should be to decline to a¢t on any recommendations which, in his opinion, did not comply with the principles so set down.Nothing could be clearer than that statement of the case.Lord Ab erdeen had stated the principles upon which he declined to receive \u2018the advice of Sir Charles Tupper when Prime Minister.Mr.Chamberlain had approved of those principles and it seemed to him therefore that it would have been a matter for surprise had any other procedure been followed.It was Sir Oharles Tup- per's own procédure which had been at variance with the well established British precedent.SIR: CHARLES NOT SATISFIED.Sir Charles Tupver, in replying.stated that the Prime Minister had eveded the ADVERTISEMENTS oto els patel ep ooo bo (à How to Cet | Plump.and Rosy Nature meant wômen to be plump, rosy, and well 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Edmanson Bates & Co.++ Fb bb Sb Sebo b rb bb A AAA AE EEE OH and diseased, and woman suffers all the misery caused by the irregularities of her peculiarly feminine organism.You can supply nourishment to both the blood and Toronto.9, * + * - * ef shot Sd od 43 », - ace ASE whole point of his argument.If the case stood thus how came it that the Hon.Alexander Mackenzie and Mr.Laurier, as a member of it, had dared to se- eure from Lord Dufferin, after the overwhelming defeat of the Liberal.party at the polls, the viceregal sanction and approval to more than one hundred appointments to office.Could the Prime Minister, too, pass over the notable case of Lord Perby\u2019s government, which had aveepted the responsibility of office while constituting à parliamentary minority, and even after meeting with defeat at the polls.had tendered advice to the crown till meeting defeat in the House of Commons ?Sir Charles, in conclu- \u2018iin, announced that if it was proved fat Mr.Chamberlain, great and power: {8} as that gentleman was, had lent himself to thus trampling down the constitution, he would not rest till he had eatried the matter to a higher tribunal\u2014 the British Parliament., TO CURTAIL DEBATE.Mr.John Charlton (North.Norfolk) moved a resolution in favor of adopting rules to limit the length of speeches in the House.He referred to the number of speeches of inordinate lemgth which are coming to be the order of each session.Incidentally, Mr.Charlton animadverted to the order of debate in the Canadian Parliament, and expressed the opinion that the standard was higher in the period between 1868 and 1878 than it is today.He was not opposed.in any way to full discussion, but considered that his proposal would solve a very knotty prob- \u201cNr.Britton (Kingston deplored the practice which has grow u ip of members expressing themselves on every possible occasion.; Mr.T.D.Craig (East Durham) considered that the newspapers were in a measure to blame for the evil of long speeches by the prominence which these received ih their reports.Shorter speeches were, he remarked, passed by with a mention.Personally he was of the opinion that it might be better to trust to tie good sense of the members themselves.Dr.Macdonald (East Huron) admitted that he was one of the sinners, but pointed out that while he made one or two long speeches in a session, many other members were in the habit of making themselves heard \u2018on a great \u2018many questions.Messrs.Tisdale (South Norfolk) and Clancy (Bothwell) opposed the proposal.THE PREMIER'S OPINION.The Prime Minister was inclined to think that the evil was a growing one, but did not believe that the remedy lay in a law.Good sense and taste seemed to him the only remedy.Long speeches did more harm to those who made them than to others.The Opposition had on several occasions th: own away its ehances of success by too long speeches, British law of debate was directed rather against obstruction and not to keep down long speeches.The American system had been suggested as a desirable one, but he could only say that the more he saw of that system the stronger became hig preference for our own.He did not want to see Hansard abolished, but threw out a hint to the debates committee that Hen- sard might be shortened by dispensing with some of the discussion.Sir Hibbert Tupper agreed with the Premier's statement as to the futility of any such suggestion as that put forward by Mr.Charlton.On the suggestion of the Prime Minister, the resolution.having served its purpose of evoking discussion, was with: drawn.THE MEAGHER ABDUCTION.\u2018Mr.Cowan (South Esegx), brought to the notice of the House the case of the \u201cFCanadian, Thos.Meagher, who had.been: arrested in August last by Henry Aubry, the deputy collector of customs at Port The Huron, on the Canadian side of the Detroit river, and subjected to brutal ill- treatment.He suggested that the case might be one for which Avery could be extradited and brought to Canada under the provisions of the Ontario act against kidnapping.He also bespoke financial compensation to Meagher for the treatment accorded him.The case js cne in which the Canadian Justice Department has interested itself and with some effect.The papers will be laid before parliament.C.P.R.FREIGHT RATES.Mr, Richardson (Lisgar),propos:d the appointment of a special committee to inquire into :\u2014 (a).The cost of the Canadian Pacific Railay Company's main line and the equipment thereof.(b} The cost of all 'the branch lines constructed and \u201cat presant owned and operated by the company of Canada.(¢) The cost \u2018of all lines acquired by purchase and at present owned and operated by the company in Canada.(d) The cost of all lines at present owned and operated by the company in the United States of America.(e) The rentals or other consideration paid for all lines leased and operated by the company in Canada.(f) The rental or other consideration paid by the company for all lines operated by it or operated subject to its control in the United States of America.(g) The revenues and expenditures of each of these railways as aforementioned, in separate form in so far as such separation of accounts is feasible; the percentage of the profit and net income of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in each year of its operation of the road, to the \u2018 éapital actually expended in construction.\u2019 Mr.Richardson cited the provision in the C.P.R.Company's act of incorporation, by : \u2018which the power of redue- council when.the net income of the company shall have exceeded ten percent per annum.\u201cMr.Richardson quoted the Jarge cash subsidy of $25,000,000, and the land grant of 25,000,000 acres,worth on an average three dollars an acre, also which \"be contended should be deducted from the total value in making the ten percent calculation.He held that the line had been in reality built out of the money granted it by.the Canadian people and that the time has: fully come when the public can fairly ask for the reduction contemplated in the original.charter.The debate; was adjourned on motion of Mr.Henderson (Halton), and the House rose at 11.30 p.m.BAR COMMITTEES.At a meeting of the council of the Bar, held yesterday morning, the committees for the current year were organized as follows :\u2014 Library committée\u2014Messrs.John Dun- lop, J- J.Beauchamp, E.Lafontaine, L.J, Lajoie, Alex.Falconer, P.H, Demers, R.C.Smith, Camille Piché, J.A.Bonin.W.F.Ritchie, Edmund Guerin, Thomas Fortin.F.Mcl.ennan, C.F.O'Halloran, J.A.Drouin, G.A.Marsan, E.B.Bus- teed \u2019 Board of Examiners\u2014Messrs.M.Hut- chineon, P.B.Mignault, H.Gervais.Stenography examiners \u2014 Messrs.M.Hutchinson, L.E.Pelissier, J.A.La- marche, P.O.Lavallée, Arch.McGoun.Viètor Martineau, F.H.Markey.Delegate to the General Council\u2014Mr.L.P.Brodeur.NOTES AND NOTICES.By.choosing your summer resort along one of the Montreal Park & Island railway lines you will be sure of a regular and frequent service into the centre of the city at very low cost.ing rates is given to the governor-in- | INVADED.À SQUARE, POLE PLANTERS MADE TO STOP WORK.A gang of men in the employ of the B.ll Telephone Company set to work yesterday to dig a big hole in St.Patrick's Park, on Wellington street, preparatory to erecting a big pole therein to run a line of wire across the square.The attention of Ald.Gallery, one of the tnem- bers for St.Ann\u2019s Ward, being drawn to the matter, he asked the men to stop their work, and on their refusing he communicated to the Road Department, with the result that Mr.Barlow, the deputy city surveyor, issued a formal order to stop the work, which order was at once.obeyed.The \u2018company claims\u201d ae to erect poles on city property so long as it does not interfere with the public, and claims that a pole in a square is not likely to cause such interference.ee.THERE ARE GIANTS STILL.\u2018Montreal can turn out some tall men, too,\u2019 said Major Hughes, of Montreal West, while discussing the article which appeared in last Saturday\u2019s \u2018Witness\u2019 on \u201cTall soldiers of to-day.\u2019 \u2018Why, I have two close connections in the North-West Mounted Police, each six feet four inches in height, viz, Edmund C, Waller, my grandson, son of my doughter, and\u2019 Gaston Hughes, my grandnephew; son -of Superintendent of Police Hughes, Besides these, I have another grandson, Gordon Hughes, who is six feet two inches in height\u201d The Major might bave added that both he and his nephew, Col.Hl tea SD Beige.LE Hughes, are by no means remarkable; ; for smallness of stature.woe pre CONCERT AT THE POINT.oy A successful entertainment was given in the lecture hall of.Centenary.Metho-.dist Church on Friday night under the aispices of the young men\u2019s bible class and their leader Mr.A.Tattersall.The programme comprised some highly inter- esling numbers and was contributed to by Misses Hall, Taylor and Smith, and Messrs.Horsfall, Tattersall and Jennings Limelight views of scenes of warfare in: the recent, Spanish-American war and of tho exterior and interior of Centemery.Church, by Mr.George Legge, \u2018ofthis.= city, was an additiopal attysction om the\u201d _ programme.Mrs.Legge \u2018and Miss L Clarke also took part.- .TRUSTEE MUST GET THE MONEY.- J Judge Loranger rendered yesterday morning in the case of Henry N.Clement es qual vs.John Cunningham.judgment 2 This was an action by which the plaintiff in his quality of trustee to the & tate of the late John Curry claimed from the defendant, one of the 1 \u2018of de\u201d ceased, the sum of $1,129.deposited by the said John Curry in the Bank Montreal, in the name of Cunningham, ia\" trust.The Court maintained the.action .and held that defendant was obliged - to hand over the amount ¢o the trustee to the estate whose duty if would then to distribute it according to law.we : ER À 3 tft , ,; A REMINISCENCE OF THE ST.CTANUT TRAGEDY.= = \u2018 4 Nd Se On the list of cases inscribed for- a = ing in the Superior Court yesterday that of the mother of Tedore Darich; tye vietim of the St: Canut murder, dai ing the amount of insirance on, pe and also the action of the .i company to have deceased's heirs \u2018debate ++ red from any right under the policy.hall comme pee T= Ee ceci DSP - + » J PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.Annual Meeting Opened at Cornwall.The first session of the annual meeting of the Synod of Montreal and Ottawa opened this afternoon in Knox Church, with a \u2018quiet hour\u2019 This evening at eight the retiring moderator, the Rev.George MacArthur, B.A, of Cardinal, will conduct divine service and constitute the synod.The first business thereafter is the calling of the roll by the clerk, the Rev.Kenneth McLennan, M.A.THE REV.G.A.MACARTHUR.' Modefitor.Mr.Macarthur was born in Middlesex ocunty, and when but a child moved with his father to Kincardine, where he received his elementary education.He worked his own wey up step by step, first teaching and then attending the famous school in Galt under Dr.Tassie, after which he followed the Rev.J.R.McLeod as teacher in Kincardine.In 1875 he matriculated in Queen\u2019s College, taking Sir Hugh Alan's scholarship.As & student he wae eminently successful, obtaining during his course several scholar: ships and exhibitions.He did good work as a miesionary.He was first called to the pastorate of South Finch, and from there called twelve years ago to Cardinal, where he now preaches, doing a grand werk for the Master.He has been the efficient clerk of Brockville Presbytery for nine years.The synod includes within its bounds the six presbyteries.of Montreal, Quebec, Ottewa, Lanark and Renfrew, Brockville, pme I pa\u201d - = [13% 7777 THE CONVEN and Glengarry.charge.and presbytery elders in these utation for its educational facilities and six presbyteries are members of the court.There are in these presbyteries about a hundred and ninety charges, so that there are not far from four hundred embers in the synod.The moet important business of the evening next follows, the appointment of a moderator.This year there seems to be no division of opinion as to who should be chosen.The presbyteries have all nominated the pastor of the] di church in which the synod is to meet, and it is unkikely that any opposition will arise.The Rev.James Haetie has taken a very active part in the business of thé Church and it is almoet certain thet his appointments will be unanémous.After the appointment of the moderator and a few words of address from him the rest of the business for the evening will be the usual routine of report from the business committee as to EL galt ff | ble or treble its present populition.The \u2018| fifteen, hundred more.It is known far | fact that situated there are two large Al] the ministers in \"THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.nti = iste Ly a © À the order of business for the other sed- erunts, and a vote of thanks to our ex cellent ex-moderator.It is nine years since the eynod met last in Cornwall.It met in April then, when the weather and roads were anything but propitious for a good gather ing.The meetings were then held in St.John's Church, a handsome Dew church, which had been opened for service a little over a year.Those who attended the meetings in 1890 have very grateful recollections of the kindness and howpitality of the good people of Cornwall and look forward to a pleasant re union.THE TOWN OF CORNWALL.The town of Cosnwall is pleasantly situated on the banks of the St.Law- | sence, some\u2019 sixty-five mileswest of Mont: \u2018real.It ia Tenched from east.and west by the G.T.' R.aod from the north by the New York and Ottawe Railway.The corporation covers a mile square and within ite limits there is room for dou- assessor this spring reports.about six tl.cueand five hundred people within the \u2018town proper, while.adjoining it east and west in two or three villages are some and wide as \u2018the factory town\u2019 The sobriquet is appropriate in view of the cotton factories, one woollen mill, one ,a- per mill, ¢cne pottery and two grist mills, in which about two thousand people find employment.Cornwall is the capital municipality of the united counties of Stormont, Dun- | das and Glengarry, and there its two judges live.It hms improved in appear ance very much during the last decade.Several new churches have been erected in recent years, while many stores, hotels ard private dwellings, with modern ir provements, have been built or re nrodelled.A street railway was added to its equipment three years ago, whose cars visit all trains.It hee two hoepi- tals, a high school with five teachers, a convent, two seperate schools, while the public school arrangements are all that could be desired.EARLY HISTORY.The pedigree of Cornwall runs back into the previous century.It has pess- ed by several years the century of its birth.In 1784 the town was laid out.and called \u2018New Johmstown,\u201d subeequently changed to Cornwall.Its first settlers were chiefly United Empiré Loyzliets, to gether with some mrilitery men whe took up their abode thete and in its vicinity on the disbandment of the royal troops.NU AN E.a +» i rn | | \\ TION CHURCH.From ita beginning Cornwadl had a rep its church privileges.Long before the present high school system was organized throughout Ontario, Cornwall \u2018grammar school,\u201d where many youths ware educated who subsequently rose to the highest positions of influence in Canada, as lawyers, physicians, statesmen, clergymen, etc.In those days the grammar school was taught by a resident pastor, usually a Presbyterian minister, who ischarged this service with greatæflici- ency in addition to his parochial duties.Simultaneously with settlement, the spirituel needs of the embyro town were attended to by the Episcopal Church of England, by the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and by the Roman Catholic Church.A valuable squire of land was donated to the Episcopal Oburch in the centre of the place, The Presbyterians were particularly fortunate in getting à had a; one of the\u2019 chief business blocks of the town.The Church of St.John still holde the property and draws a good revenue for ground rent from the owners of the buildings thereon, KNOX CHURCH.Knox Church was organized in 1844, as the \u2018Free Church,\u2019 and was a product of the disruption which took place im Scotland in 1843, and spread to Canada the subsequent year.For over half a century Knox Church has minis- as well as St.John\u2019s.\u201d When in 1875 the several branches of the Presbyterian family were happily united, both congregations in Cornwall came into union, but continued their separate organizations, and have worked side by side in hermony and co-operation ever since.The Rev.John Fraser, late of Indian Lands, ministered to it in a private house, more or less regularly from 1844 to 1850, in conjunction with other places.In 1850 an edifice was erected on Secord street, and was later called Knox Church.That | same year-the Rev.J.C.Quinn was inducted, and was succeeded by the Revs.Hugh Cempbeil, M.Lowry, W.H.Hewde Bourck and Robert Binnie.The last- named gentleman died after eleven years of faithful service, and was succeeded by the present pastor, the Rev.James Has- tie, who has been over fifteen years in his present\u2019 ¢harge, which is the longest pastorate the congregation ever had.- A few years after Mr.Hastie\u2019s indue- tion the present commodious edifice was.erected.gregation has largely increased.All departments of work are well organized.and the pestor is assisted by a staff of earnest and energetic helpers, ST.JOHN'S CHURCH.For over half a century prior to the establishment of Knox Church 8t.John\u2019s | was the only Presbyterian Church in Cornwall.This congregation is noted for the few changes in its pastorate during its lofig and useful career.In 1787 the Rev.John Bethune took charge \u2018of: the Presbyteriane in Cornwall along with .several outlying points, and continued to labor faithfully till his death in 1815.He: was succeeded in Cornwall in 1822 by the: Rev.Joseph Johnston, from Ireland, for a few months, when the Rev, Harry Leith was installed.In 1827 Mr.Leith returned to Scotland, and in January of the same year the Rev.Hugh Urquhart; from Scotland, was inducted, and continued there till his-death in 1871.From 1866 to 1868 the Rev.John 8S.Burnet was assistant minister to Dr.Ufquhart.Om Mr.Burnet\u2019s removal to Martintown, the Rev.Neil MacNish, now Dp; MacNish, | was chosen assistant, and succeeded the venerable pastor on Dr.Urquhart's death in 1871.Dr.MacNish became \u2018Bole mjm- ister, and has for nearly thirty-two years filled the position worthily, and is wall known for his ripe scholarship, and.es- pécially his enthusiastic devotion to;Cule tie studies.St.John\u2019s congregation emp tered in 1888 their present handsome church, which was built at a cost of $9&- an up to date building.\u201cJe Besides the two Presbyterian churches, which are about equal in numerical strength, Cornwall has two Anglican churches, two Roman \u201cCatholic, one for English-speaking people and one for French, one Methodist, one Baptist, one French-Protestant Church, and one Salvation Army corps.Last, but not least, the fourth estate is represented in Cornwall by two weekly journals, the \u2018Freeholder\u2019 (Liberal), and the \u2018Standard\u2019 (Conservative).with an affection for each other usual among rival party organe.Both papers are ably conducted, and do credit to themselves ayd to the interests they represent.A SYNOD OF TORONTO AND KINGSTON.Toronto, May 9\u2014At the \u2018opening of the Presbyterian Synod of Toronto and Kingston, last evening, the annual sermon was preached by the Rev.Henry Gracey, of Owen Sound, the retiring moderator.The Rev.Alex.Gilray, of College Street Presbyterian Church, To- TON was elected moderator {or the ensuifg vear.The sessions are being.held in Knox Church.Over two hundred delegates are in attendance (nd the convention will likely last three days.CANADIAN FLOUR IN THE WEST _ INDIES.at the Trade and Commerce Department this morning dealing with the, suitability of \u2018Canadian flour for export to the tropics and more particularly 10 the West Indies.High testimony is borne to the excellence of Canadian flour by a couple of the largest dealers in Trinidad.Ome of these states that.given dry well-ventilated and lighted stores, there is no reason why Canadian flour should not be kept for months.with safety.The trouble, of course, comes with the wet season, when the prevaient dampness is apt.to sour the grain.The trade to the British West Indies reaches about half a.million barrels, annually, and is practically in the hands of the United States dealers exclusively.~ BRAKEMAN'S DEATH.1 Toronto, May 8.\u2014Michael Shaughnessy, a well-known brakeman on the Grand Trunk Railway at this.point, was squeezed to death yesterday morning while making up a train at Scarboro Junction.He was about to move the tongue in a Jenny self-coupler to prevent it coupling, when the slack of the train came back and pinned him between thé two cars.\u201cHis body was very little marked, but the grip had been a tight one, and he expired in\u2019 piece which turned out to be on the EY Main street, and which has long been | tered to the spiritual needs of the town, | The membership of the con: |.000, and are enjoying the advantages.of | Ottawa, May 8.\u2014A report wes received: OOM PAUL.President of the Transvaal Riding Hard to His Fall, CRISIS BEGINNING TO OVERSHADOW ALL OTHER TOPICS.OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN LONDON, London, Many 8.~The crisis in the Transvaal is beginning to overshadow all other topics of public interest, and there is no doubt that there reigns an uneasy feeling in official circles.Despite the fact that Mr.Chamberlain is known not to suffer from any indisposition, he left town suddenly, an unusual thing for him to do.His private secretary strictly concealed his destination.The secretary\u2019s absence causes no end of speculation in Parliamentary circles.The general opinion is that the country has reached the limit of tolerance of Oom Paul\u2019s diplomacy.It is felt that some thing must be done to terminate the present unbearable situation.A prominent Transvaaler, now in London, granted an interview to a correspondent, in: which he said: \u2018If the South African Republic is pushed to extremes by Great Britain, it will mean the fall of President Kruger.The latter obstinately refuses to listen to the grievances of the Uitlanders, and defiantly resents the overtures of the British High Commissioner, believing that Great Britain will not resort to extreme measures.President Kruger suffers from chronic irritation, and he believes that the Orange Freon State will co-operate with him against Great Britain.DR.BRIGGS.ACTION OF DR.DE COSTA PREVENTS HIS ORDINATION FOR THE PRESENT.\u2014 New York, May 8.\u2014Bishop Potter received to-day a second letter from the Rev.Dr.B.F.de Costa, which, it is thought, thay effectually prevent the ordination of Dr.Brigge without a formal investigation of the charges against him.The latter says :\u2014\u2018I1 beg to say that I am p _ to bring a specific charge against Dr.Briggs of teaching contrary to the standards of the Protestant Epis- éopal Church, and that I claim my right to a hearing before a committee empow- efed to investigate public remors.® .In speaking of the letter, Dr.de Costa said that it was his camoni¢al right to be \u2018heard and he added that he did not spedk for himself alone, but for others.BRITISH POLITICS.LORD ROSEBERY\u2019S RECENT UTTERANCE DISPLEASES SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT.London, May 9.\u2014The \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 announces that Sir William Vernon Har- court, the former leader of the Liberal party in the House of Comons, at' the dinner of the Welsh members of the House last Saturday evening, delivered a \u2018resentful and outepoken reply\u2019 to Lord Rosebery's references to the state of the Liberal party in his speech last week, at the banquet a \u2018the City Liberal Club, at Walbrook, London.Harcourt, according to the £ Daily Mail,\u2019 declared that the Liberals had ho occasion to turn backwarde,and that it ill Decanié one of Mr.Gladstone\u2019s colleagues to advocate wiping out .the whole inheritance Liberalism had received from that illustrious statesman.MEAT INSPECTION: REICHSTAG COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS.;WILL.KILL AMERICAN TRADE.Berlin, May 8.\u2014It is authoritativety stated that the committes of\" the Reïchs- tag to which was referred the meat inspection bill, which waa substantially agreed upon between the Impérial Cab: net.and the United States Ambassador: here, Mr.Andrew D.White, has reported against the measure and in favor of a bill so hostile to United States interests that the government will prob- - ably refuse to sanction it.The moat unfortunate circumstances, as regards American interests in the matter of the meat inepection bill, was the: fact that there were insistent declarations in the United States that embalmed and poisonous meats had béen supplied to the troops in Cuba.Representatives of the German land-owning interests loudly declared that if the Americans sent, poisonous meat to their own soldiers, they would certainly send it to the Germans.A bad result is that the bill, as reported back, provides for such examination and inspection .of American meats ae it.will be impossible to enforce without utterly destroying American trade with Germany.\u2019 The bill as remodelled by the Reichs tag committee aleo proposes to exclude from importation hams, hard and soft sausage and chopped meats, and prescribes that fresh meats must come in whole carcéses or contiguous parts.The less than three minutes, without speak- ,ing again, J United States Embassy and the German Government still hove that better coun- sels will prevail when the bill cores up for discussion- in tle open Reichstag on its second reading, though the chances for the enactment of the government measure are very shim.THE SUPREME COURT.Ottawa, May 8.\u2014In the Supreme Court to-day the last appeal on the Maritime \u201clist, Macpherson versus Fraser, was taken up.- Plaintiff, a married woman, brought action for conversion of her property by the present appellant and recovered judgment in the trial court.This decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New Brunswick en banc, .and defendant now appeals, raising questions of title under the married woman's property act, and alleging conveyance between husband and wife in fraud of creditors.Gregory, Q.C., for appellant.McCready for respondent.Judgment was reserved and the court adjourned till May 16, for hearing of Quebec appeals, \u2014 DEWEY TO RETURN.WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY \"ADMIRAL WATSON AT MANILLA.\u2018Washington, D.C., May 8.\u2014The Navy Department has selected a successor for Admiral Dewey to command the Asiatic stations.Orders were issued to-day detaching Rear-Admiral Watson from the command of the Mare Island Navy Yard, and ordering him to report to Admiral Dewey at Manilla, to relieve that officer when he feels that he can be spared there.New York, May 8.\u2014Admiral Dewey hss cabled to the city his acceptance of an invitation to a banquet to be given in his bonor by 10¢ prominent and pub- lic-spirited citizens, says the \u2018Herald.\u2019 The Admiral\u2019s cablegram of acceptance was received by Alfred Chassead, who is secretary of the committee.It is likely that Admiral Dewey will return to this country as soon as peace negotiations with the insurgents have been concluded.\u2014 UNITED STATES TARIFF, QUESTION AGAIN BROUGHT UP IN PARLIAMENT BY MR.COGHILL.London, May 8\u2014In the House of Commons to-day Mr.Douglas Coghill, Conservative, again asked the government \u2018whether, considering the injury done our trade by the present United States tariff, the Foreign Office will enter specific commercial negotiations with the United REAR \u2018States with a view to obtaining favorable treatment for British manufacturers, or propose retaliatory measures ?\u2019 The Under Secretary of State for For eign Affairs, the Hon.William St.John Broderick, replied that any opportunity occurring for making more favorable arrangements regarding the tariff would be taken advantage of, but that the government could not promise immediate action.PEACE CONFERENCE.UNITED STATES DELEGATES WILL ADVANCE THREE PRINCIPLES OF SETTLEMENT.London, May 9.\u2014The Berlin correspon: dent of the \u2018Standard\u2019 says : \u201cThe United States delegates to the Peace Conference -at The Hague have instructions to advance three leading principles\u2014the institution of courts of arbitration, the extension of the declaration of Paris of 1856 to the non-confiscation of all cargoes not contraband of war, und the extension of the Geneva convention to war by sea.\u2019 TEMPLE'S PERIODICAL COMET.Cambridge, Mass., May 8.\u2014Dr.J.F.Keeler; director of Lick Observatory, announces through Harvard College observatory the discovery of Temple's periodical comet by Mr.Perine, an assistant at Lick.The position of the object, which is described ae \u2018faint,\u2019 in May, 6.9077, Greenwich rhean time, right ascension, 18 ours, 82 minutes, 57.8 ses 5 declination south four degrees, 32 minutes.19 seconds.KINGSTON.\u201d PENITENTIARY WAR- DENSHIP.Kingston, Ont., May 8.\u2014It is current rumor that Dr.Platt, ex-M.P.for Prince Edward County, is to be appointed warden of Kingston penitentiary in succession to Mr.J.H.Metcalfe.Mr.C.H.Cerbett, Kingston, is a candidate for the post.BY-LAW ADOPTED.Durham.Ont., May 8.\u2014A vote wus taken here to-day on a by-law granting a loan of $10,000 to the Durham Furniture Company; Limited.The by-law was carried by a vote of 224 to 209.CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION.A wellknown resident of Compton county said yesterday that at the Conservative convention on May 24, to be held at Sherbrooke, over four hundred delegates would attend from that county alone, while all through the Eastern Townships great enthusiasm was being displayed regarding it.Extensive arrangements have been made for a tremeu- dous gathering at Sherbrooke.Sir Charles Tupper is to be the principal speaker.Tvrspary, Mar 9, 1899, pas THE FRENCH CHAMBER, Scene Over a Question Respecting M, De Freycinet\u2019s Resignation, DOWNFALL OF THE CABINET FORETOLD \u2014 MM.PICQUART AND GONZE.Paris, May 8.\u2014 In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M.Georges Berry, Nationalist, questioned the government as to whether the resignation of the portfolio of war by M.de Freycinet was due to a disagreement between the minister and his colleagues, or if M.de Frexci- net had resigned because he desired no longer to protect the chiefs of the army, M.Berry also asked why the portioliy of public works, had been given to M.Monestier, who bad voted against trans farring revision of the Dreyfus case fro: the Criminal Court to the whole Co oÉ Cassation.The Premier, M.Dupuy, replied that the motives which M.Berry alleged were p y imaginary.There was not a shadow of disagreement, he said, with the cabinet.Regarding M.Monestier, M.Dupuy said his appointment did \"ot indicate any change on the part of ths Roverrment i revision, which, moreover, could not be regarded as the Jivot of Republican policy.M.Lavy, Nationalist, inquired if the accord in the Cabinet was not due to the exchange of sharp letters betwcen M.de Freycinet and the minister of foreign affairs, M.Delcassé, concerning the Paleologue incident.Amidst a great deal of uproar, M.Du- puy replied that the suggestion was unfounded.M.Lavy interjected that M.Delcassé was the possessor of cheeks incapable of {lushing, even from smacks.Great uproar and excitement ensued.Finally M.Lavy was formally censured, and the subject was dropped for the order of the day, which the government accepted.The vote was 444 to 67.M.Delcassé entered the Chamber of Deputies after the vote on the order of the day had been taken, and made a statement corroborating what had been \u2018said by M.Dupuy, adding that it bad needed all his self-sacrifice and patriotism to accept the management, of foreign ef faire in the circumstances under which he had taken office.He believed, he said, that he had served the country well.The statement was received with hearty cheers.London, May 8.\u2014The Paris correspondent of the \u2018Daily News,\u2019 says there is no doubt that the withdrawal of M.de Freycinet from the Ministry of War is the beginning of the end of the Dupuy Cabinet.The correspondent predicts that the Prime Minister will resign in three or four weeks, seeking defeat on some insignificant question, because to- fall on the Dreyfus question would mean the end of his political career.M.Dupuy recognizes that when the tremendous shifting of opinion which will \u201cinevitably follow a revision of the Dreyfus case occurs, the Chamber of Deputies will never forgive him for ob structing revision to the last.Paris, May 8.\u2014The \u2018Figaro\u2019 publishes to-day a letter from Col.Picquart to M.Mazeau, first president of the Court of Cassation, under date of April 13, re plying to the deposition of General Gonze and contradicting the latter in many important points.He declares that the late Lieut.-Col.Henry knew Dreyfus before 1804.Col.Picquart asserts in this communi cation that he was not absent in October and November of 1896, but \u2018hat he saw General Gonze daily for three months.Gonze, he says, took possession of the dossier before the end of October and not after.On Nov.1, Henry rced- ed the dossier, in order to forge a docu ment which he handed to General Gonre the next day.Picquart formally contradicts Genze's assertion that Picquart never told bim the document was forged.\u2014\u2014 GREATER BRITAIN.\u2014 * KIRALFY EXHIBITION OPENED BY THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.hp rT London, May 8\u2014The Duke of Cam bridge to-day opened Imre Kiralfy's Greater Britain exhibition at Bar's Court, in the presence of a distinguished company, which included representatives of several colonial governments.In the course of his speech \u2018the Duke of Cam bridge emphasized the fact that he and other members of the royal family de gired to do everything to strengthen the ties between Great Britain and the colonies.His Grece said that it was à singular fact, that with all the talk nf peace all the nations were going ahead with armaments.1f the Czar's confer ence resulted in any steps tending to lex sen the burden upon the people and to irsure peace, these suggestions would be sircerely welcomed by Great Britain.At the same time the Duke of Cambridge said he congratulated his audience upon the preparedness of the country and the undoubted loyalty of the colonies.TRE DAILY WITNESS is printed and published at the * Witness\u2019 Building, at the corner of Craig and St.Peter streets, in the city of Montreal, by Jobo Redpath Dougall, of Montreal.All business should be addressed Jobn D ugall & Son, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montresl.and ¢' letters to the Editor should be Editur of the * Witness,\u2019 Montreal ; T s 3 drt td APIA rd HS ow bom HME ENE ere \\ \u2014 Sud op hd BY ly dN FY, DD orb oh Prd Md HD OAD OD eet Sh Hn es ph A a Oy hi i py - .y .BE ng ru me pA.free Ee ®