The daily witness, 7 juillet 1899, vendredi 7 juillet 1899

[" called emier, whe- ablish- to his bench in the 8 you and if hard.to ze.t con- imilar judi- in ins.Frank han a 1 two L'fort- aiting | Lon- thara, e has Clair aigua, Barry, Bt ed to 'orma- ed at East night third mt to police t fol- ormed air, in oppins wives, d the police other ; Clair : City, ronto.from nilton, ner of ieties; geliza- inday- re, on ae, On c.Mc- ere in rodue- Angus, 118810D à new ow in al cer- set in © city unt of t was yscrib- re 2 à 810,- > rate would CEN- of the unced, - fund 00 of ealthy 1tribu- shed at sig snd.y Jobo GREAT RAHLW vr ME.W.K.VAXDERSIUT THE MOVING SPIRIT IN THE TRANBACTION.New York, July 7.\u2014The \u2018 Times\u2019 says: The New York Central snd tbe Peansyl- vaois reiiways have entered into » eom- pact unprecedented in railway history.Under its provisions the two great properties become, for prectieal purposes, one systetn.Not only are old rivalries disposed of, but there is & new policy of ctual co-operation.; 4112 ed-out Boston and Albeny deal was his, so is this that is bigger.Wall street and all the railway world marvelled when they heard Prosident Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania, was presented at the Bos ton and Albeny lease meeting of New York Central's directors.as an incidental guest only, though some far-fetched theories bave suggested that he was really doing picket service for the Pennsylvanis Compsny, seeing to it that his corporation was not to be dis criminated à idea too grotesque for consideration outside of Wall street, Mr.Cassatt sat with the board at the prise, however, : big Vanderbilt.holdings of Pennsylvania.Early last year President Thomson learned what the fact: was; and even then official action which looked caging errr: What - trose, as to who should be Pennsylvania's ow president, no ample appreciation anywhere appeared of what was accomplished, or \u2018what the accomplishment m; signify.oe significance, the immediate bearings of the New York Central-Pennsyl- varia deal will show in \u20ac variety of developments; and one of the earliest is Hkely to be.the acquisition, in the joint interest of a number of smaller.subor- linate - railways lying between- the lines of the t-vo systems, and having status in the past as continual challengers of jealousy and disturbance\u2014properties of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg type.It may even be of official record that the board of directors of the Petn- sylvania Railway and the board of directors of the New York Central Railway have by.epecial, formal, detailed resolution, directed and empowered their representative presidents to meet, confer, and act on this line.Ome of these di- rectors- is the authority.of the New York \u2018Times.\u2019 Cheapening competition will disappear.Rate-cutting will cease.One purpose animeting both corporations, one control virtually dominant in both will bring results beyond all precedent\u2014 so the official prophecies.Western connections will not be able to use the two properties against one another henceforth.Philadelphie, Pa, July 7.\u2014A prominent official, close to Mr.A.J.Cuasatt, the president of the Penneylvania Railway, to-day denied the published state, New York Central Rattways bad: eutéred a compact by which the two systems had practically become one.WHAT MR.CALLAWAY SAYS.New York, July 7.\u2014Concerning the report that the New York Centrel and Pennsylvania railway systems were to be merged, Mr.8.R.Callaway, president of the New York Central Railway Company, said to-day that the first be bad heard of the report was through a newspaper article, He had absolutely nothing to say ih regard to it.o'clock by specisi train, sm from the station directly to the palace, where they were rece by the Queen\u2019 and entertained at a magnificent banquet in the palace.At the banquet Queen w helmine proposed a toast-as follows : 1 sincerely rejoice to me aanenrbled acund me to-day the delegates.to the increase THE EMPEROR WILLIAM, ANNUAL NORWEGIAN TOUR BE- GUN\u2014BOARDS A FRENCH - MAN-OF-WAR.\u2014 Berlin, July 7.\u2014The Emperor William, who is beginning hig annual Norwegian tour, arrived at Bergen on the Imperial yacht \u2018Hohenzollern,\u2019 on Wedneaday.On the same day the French training cruiser dred cadets marshalled and filed.past the Emperor, who complimented the captain of the cruiser on their ssamaenlike bearing.This is the first occasion since 1871 that a German sovereign has boarded a French warship.Some newspapers claim thet the visit is of the highest political importance, while others declare that it was merely a courteous recognition of the friendly reception given the two German trein- ing ships which visited French ports in 1808.The incident, however, was arranged by the attachés of the respective governments here and at Paris.Berlin, Norway, July 7.\u2014The Emperor William has invited the officials and sixty cadets of the French training ship \u201cIphigenie, which he visited here yes- y and inspected, and the German cadets.of the training ship \u2018Gneisenau\u2019 to meet at an entertainment to-night on board the Imperial yacht \u2018 Hobenzollern.\u2019 epee GRAND TRUNK ENGINEERS.The representatives of the engineers of .the Grand Trunk bave had several conferences with Mr, Morse, superintendent of motive power, all of which hive been of e friendly character.\u201d The echedule which the comfnittee presented has been considered by the afficisls and This will take some time, and the busi- Tess will not be concluded for, possibly, à weely but there is not likely to be any > * atrived and her captain boarded the \u2018 Hohensoliern\u2019 and made 3 \u2018 \u2018the * Iphigenie\u2019 were.| ARDENT ENDBAVORERS- a 1 the Downpour of Rain.PROGRESS ALL ALONG THE LINE \u2014TRUSTEES AND SUNDAY: FAIRS.: Detroit, July 7.\u2014\u2018Showers of bléming\u201d* end \u2018There\u2019s sunshine in my soul to-day\u201d were the favorite bymns sung by the] their way to the \u2018Quiet Hour in Font SF MONTREAL, PRIDAY, JULY 7, 1899.Christian Endeavorers .this morning: ont - Edition Ja Bahouses, eeylums, institutions for the d and\u201d for the\u2019 deaf, achools and col- |Jeges; among car drivers and motormen, Enthusiasm Rises Superies to jpoti Di n, travelling men, life-savers on | coast, lighthouse employees, in large factories, ete., to the number of over two \u201ci hundred.I have a right to be exulant when I sey that we bave crowed the fif- ty-five thousand lime.The official enrolment is 55,813 societies, with a total membership of 3,500,000.If any Chris tian has lost his enthusiasm, these figures - tilhould be a source of inepiration.In England the Baptists lead in Chrie tian Endeavor, in Australia the Wesleyan Methodists, in Canada the Methodists, and in the United States the Presby- \" THE TENTH LEGION.© The Christian Endeavor \u2018Tenth Legion\u2019 Endeavor.The rains drenched every- of the \u2018Quiet Hour, and Mr.H.G.Smyth, the New York gospel singer, stood on the speakers\u2019 platform, hats on.duging the proceedings; shielding \u201ctéerm- selves with umbrellas from the stréjans of water that dribbled through the réof.The long decorative bands of red and white sagged and drooped like =ppnges, and the banners all looked tirtd.- The] the tent, but the outlook was an expanse of umbrellas.For a long time the pat tering of falling rein on the roof gre: cluded hope of speaking or audible a¥y~ er, so the people sang instead, - by] four brass wind instruments sticking eut from under more umbrellds on the stag After a time there was a short, ; cessation of the downpour aud the \u2018Quiet Hour\u2019 wus carried out, amid surrosnd- ings which made\u2019 the title a mimomer.; THIS MORNING'S DOINGE:*~ The rain\u2019 practically censéd\u201d soofr \u2018after ten o'clock, the tent.seats: becaind parts ally dried and the programme prodested: in of to this matter some time 390, which satisfied all parties» : \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 BRIGHT PROSPECTS.CANADIAN RAILWAYS KEPT BUSY.That both the great railway systems anticipate & great increase of business in the near future may be judged from the number of new freight cars which have been added to the rolling stock of the C.P.R.and Grand Trunk recently.These, in the aggregate, reach into the thousands, and still the capacity is taxed to the utmost.The Grand Trunk states that it has more demands for freight cers than it can supply, while it.has for years past been a complaint on the part of the North-West farmers that the grain crop could not be moved east by the C.P.R.with sufficient despatch.These new freight cars are of almost double the capacity of the former patterns, which have now become obsolete, and large numbers of which have been broken up into firewood.The new make provides for the haulage of thirty tons, but this is not the last word on the subject either of the capacity of the cars or the locomotives.A newer type still of the latter is possible\u2014a type which will be as much in advance of the present pattern as the present pattern is in ad- The first thought of the the C.P.R.and G.T.R.is, not so ranch the making fresh connections or affiliations as providing facilities for the expeditious handling of the business which offers, in order to make, upon a tremendous increase of carrying power, a smail margin of profit.This is the new problem, how\u2014with low rates, which will be kept low, and which the gent systems in the United States 3 will be lower still\u2014to make e profit upon a business quadrupling in volume that which was done ten years ago.The secret is found to lie in the increased ca- pecity, and it is to provide this increased that the shops of the Grand Trunk and C.P.R.are kept busy.With regard to the monster locomotives of the latter, although the order for present is limited to three, others will be added in the near future for the service, and of a still greater This type will be employed in of the grain crops in th A great freight train will the quantity, will.make will be able to meet the farmers with oe F serions dimaveemenit, es- Mr.McGuigan |; ence had ben d# the môsf arbéeble LPS PE arrived at i relation\u2019 to-disputed \u201cpoints 2 commitiee, Mr, Willian E.Sw ver; Uoi.; \u2018New views for She lookout œmmittee\u201d Mr.W.M.Bali, Philadel- hia; \u2018Some new committees,\u2019 Mr.8.J.Dusseas a1 Clark, Toronto, Ont.- The theme af the meeting: in Williston - wes \u2018Best things,\u2019 a practioal achoel of meth- cds, at which the tressufer, Mr.William Shaw, of Boston, presided.\u2018 \u201cTen of the bert things \u2018that can be dene, by the various society committees were described in.brief talks.The Rev.J.H.O.Smith, ¢f Chicago, groke on \u2018Don\u2019t be satisfied with second TRUSTEES MEET AGAIN, Soon after the break of dawn \u2018the trustees of the United Society of Christ\u2019an Endeavor gathered in the Hotel Oudil- lac to discuss several matters loft undetermined at Wednesday's meeting.The most important of these was the con- eideralion of a protest from the Minis | terial Alliance of Toledo against the opening of the gates of the Ohio Centennial on Sunday.After some disqus- sion, and contrary to the expressed wishes of the Toledo.reuresentatives who were present, a general resolution was authorized, nrotesting in the name of the Christian Endeavor Society against opening the gates of any national exhibition or fair on Sunday.Another resolution was authorized protesting against the seating of \u2018Congress- man-elect Brigham H.Roberts of Utah.| Both resolutions were roughly drewn; when completed, the text will be submitted to the general convention for adoption.The consumed some time in the discussion of matters concerning the 1000 convention at London, and.the methods and rates of ocean transporte tion, but adjourned without definite ac- tioi.There is understood to be a plan under consideration for the chartering of: several ocean steamships~to carry the American Endeavorers to England.See- retary Beer says the idea is to make 3 straight fare for all parts of the ship, and have the second cabins and steer: ages fitted up as nearly as possible on an equality with first-cabin statercoms, end also to sllow passengers full privileges of the vpper decks and provide them with all possible conveniences.CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR GROWTH.Continuing his report yesterday Mr.Jobn Willis Baer, secretary of the International Society of Christian Endeav- the or, mid: There are now 979 intermediate societies; 14,180 junior societies, 85 mothers\u2019 societies, and 40 senior societies.Over a hundred societies are to be found upon ships, merchantmen and men-of- Toe Rev.J.Wilbuk, Chapman, Jesder} pra e [ibe oonsiderud x necessary st the Time of wile'étaclixion to\u2019 itiecribe lie title of war; many societies in the soldier?mark 1 comps, and in unexpected places, such as \"now numbers 14,700 members, who are giving not less than a tenth of their in- Navi, | TT EE ion \u2018Endeavor bas ddee much for amissiots in the past, and each year the tide has risen higher, This year has boven ons very best.Nearly nine thous end societies \u2018'n making their annual 1e- ports have mentioned the amount of money contributed to their own missionary boards: : This amount, augmented by what those same societies have given to \u2018other -benevolences, and to their own oburch, is nearly five hundred thousand 8.audience appeared large enough to; fill dollar - (liristian, Endeavor bas in more ways \u2018than those already referred to burne Fruit and is to-day one of many other lagencies for increasing the membership of thé cburches of Christ.During the last ten years over a million and a hall \u201c1 of qur members have joined the Church.Over a million and \u2018a half éhurch members from the ganks of Christian En- deevor in the ten years.Behold what gteat things God hath wrought! {Ten minutes of meditation and prayer followed the presidept\u2019s address, With bewed heads and closed: eyes the great Lcongreg tion sang softly.old familiar with both the great main tents comior hymns, alternating with prayer, led by ably filled.Today's spebking\" wig Bok gi Rev.Dr.Floyd W.Tesnkins; of Phila- wholly from the platform.The hütitee in.: A moment of silent preyer delegates in the audiences hed \u20ac I ve, clos wih the rotation of chances as against the: pulpit oraterd on iNe Ird\u2019s prayer.the stage.They promptly improvediall |.THE CONVENTION SERMON opportunities given by \u2018the open parkisr Mp eonvention.vemos \u2018waa eloquently ments to shout out their e AN |ppesoied by the Rev.Dr.W.Christ in three le intelligehce, profound emotion, will\u2014e combination of all these is neces sary to expreds with any degree of ade- \"1 the island, and a terrific struggle ensued.wae mens, some are Greeks, but most of you have more of the Hebrew in your natures, more of the human heart and Human emotion.It is the hour for the Christisn Endeavor Society to take the language of the Roman, the language of the Greek and the language of the Hebrew, and write, in the name of intellect, the name of resistless will and the name of humanity; \u201cThis is our King, Man's imperialiem and God\u2019s imperialism if not only a strong arm and a powder cart, but it is night thinking and Christian living making for the advancement of civilization.\u2019 Dr.Clark appointed as members of the committee to which shall be referred ail métters of business and resolutions, the secretary, Mr.John Willis: Baer; Mr.C.B.Holdridge, of IMinois, and the Rev.Dr.F.Dixon, of Galt, Ont.The afternoon was devoted to, denominational rallies and to conferences upon lines of work auxiliary to Christian Endeavor.A bible study .conference was led.by Prof.W.G.Moorehead, D.D., of Xenia, Ohio, \u2018À conference of personal Gibb.\u2018A numerously attended conference for Junior Christian Endeavor Society workers and superintendents waa held under \u2018the leadership of Miss Kate H.Haus, of St.Louis, Mo.Mère than thirty denominational ral] lies Were held in as many churches addressed by many leaders, ministerial and lay, upon a great variety of topies.Both of the great main tents owned by the United Society of Christian Endeavor were used last night for the first time during the eighteenth international convention and both contained their.fuil quote of ten thousand people, and se usual, hundreds of others who failed to secure admittance, patiently occupied \u2018standing room\u2019 all around the other edges.Many visiting delegates from long distances\u2019 cime in to-day, swelling the nomber of stranger delegates it is believed beyond: the twenty-thousand \" CANADIAN OFFICIALS.prisons, schools of reform, workhouss, caference, and to be permitied to renew { The following officers were elected for aes to God.This is an increase\u2019 of | 3; us cm tie mt À \"| lenge Cup (fours), Trinity Hall, beat the King of Kings and Lotd of Lords.\u201d | Canada: Canadian council, Mr.G.T.Ferguson, Toronto; British Columbia, the Rev.W.B.Cumming, Nanaimo; Manitoba, Mr.A.H.Bailey, Winnipeg; New Brunswick, Prof.W.W.Andrews, Sackville; North-West Territories, Mr.A.H.Smäth, Moosomin; Nova Scotis, the Rev.Wm.Ainsley, Halifax; Ontario, the Rev.Elliott S.Rowe, Toronto; Prince Edward Island, Mr.W.C.Turner, Cherlottetown; Quebec, Mr.W.L.Shurtleff, Coaticook.\u2014_\u2014 HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA, THE LEANDER EIGHTS AGAIN CARRY OFF THE GRAND CHALLENGE CUP.+ \u2014 Sami ho to\u2019 sll precedent, the Henley Royal Be- gatta promises to pass without rain.The last day opened brilliantly.Enormous crowds were everywhere.All today\u2019s eventa are finals, and promise to be interesting.The racing commenced at 12.30 p.m.In the final heat for the Grand Challenge Cup the Leander Club beat the London Rowing Club.The Leander crew, with a stroke of 41 to the London crew\u2019s 40, were speedily in front and gradunilly forged ahead, winning by a length and a quarter, In seven minutes and twelve seconds.In the final heat for the Visitors\u2019 Challenge Cup (fours), Balliol College, Oxford beat New College, Oxford.Bal- liol and New College both started with 37 strokes, but Balliol promptly went ahead.© When half the distance had been covered the New College \u2018crew lessened the lead.of.their opponent, but their bont commenced.to roll and Bal liol won by a length; time, eight minutes and one second, .| | In the final heat for the Thames, Chal lenge Cup, First Trinity beat the Kinge- ton Rowing.Club.ting away, was a length Court; and a by ter lengthe.CL ahead, at Fawley won by two lengths\u2019 smd a quarter, seven minutes, twenty seconds.a Challenge Cup, fours, Magdalen Oxford, beat the favorite Hammonia crew, of Hamburg.«+ * 1 - In the final beat for the Säver Gobleta mens dar an er Clu e St.Hi pital Club.George's cr In the final heat for the Wyfold Chal- the London Rowing Club.| Trinity Hall was off first, rowing 88 strokes to the London crew's 30.The latter caught Trinity Hall at the top of 7 minutes, 57 séconds.heat for the Diamond Sculls of which Howell is the holder.\u2018 Blackstaffe tried to slip off but Howell \"ponent down, went right ahead.Biack- staffe hung on to Fawley Court, where hé stopped, dead beat, Howell paddied in twenty-six seconds.\u2014\u2014\u2014 © FELL THREE STORIES.MET MEETS WITH A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.she mounted a chair at the window of Eeplanade avenue, and toppling over, was precipitated to the yard below, She pin summoned.No internal injuries were sustained and no limbs fractured, but the child is suffering considerably from the bruises received and shock.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 COKE OVENS ON FULL TIME.Pittsburg, Pa., July 7.\u2014Orders bave day for all coke ovens in the country week will be put on full time, This will be the first time in the history of the full time and means the resmmption of thousands of ovens that have been idle J» portion | Firet Trinity wae the quickest in get- | P\" 1 ve .- Th À 1 ve (eights), Bon beat Pen | ; \u2018bat-Eton: spartèd i] cc In: the.flijal heats for the Stewarfls\u2019: - College, Trinity Hall, however, gradually forged zen ahead, until at the mile they were clear [+ of the opposing oarsmen, and they won | Ty two and three-quarter lengths.Tims, g Howell, the American of Tri nity Hall, Cambridge, bept Bifckstaffe, of the Vésta Rowing Club, n \u2018the final | responded spledidly and, cutting his op- had four lengths ahead, in seven minutes wy LITTLE DAUGHTER OF ALD.OUE |.Marie Rose, the seven-year-old daugh- |.workers was conducted by Mr.H.B.bter of Ald.Ouimet, met with a serious accident last evening While playing} the third story of her father's residence, |Q\u2019 was picked up unconscious and Dr.Cbo-} been issued for the resumption on Mon-f.end all ovens hertofore on five days a|w coke industry that all ovens will be oni\u2019 * Pmicx Oxz Cexr.nes THE GREAT.NORT oR IHERN, ROAD MUST \u201cFULFIL TTS OBLIGATIONS BEFORE IT CAN SE CURE OTHER PRIVILEGES.Ottawa, July 7.\u2014A bill respecting the Great Northern Railway Company, and to change its name to the Great Nor thern Railway Company of Canada, occur pied the attention of the Railway Committee, this morning.A sub-committee which had been appointed for the pur pose reported concerning the claim that the bill should not be allowed to inter {ere with certain rights the Qucbec Gow ernment had to compel the operation\u2019 ¢f the company\u2019s Une.- \u2018This.Dhan avitind oh : je ol wig serv ie the town of St.\" Andrews tliat the come pany should be compelled to operates branch line to timt town, Dr.Russell, on behalf of the sub-committee reported that after getting a $10,000 bonus out of St.Andrews for the branch line to La- chute, the Great Northern had failed: to operate it, and to get out of its obligh tion to operate it, transferred tbe line _ to a sham company, which later made ; another transfer to a similar company.: The sub-committee accordingly recom: ~~ mended that the present bill should met ~~: \u201cii à be allowed to coine into effect, except by .= proclamation of the Governor-Genmeraldm- = | Council, such proclamation to issue or .\u2026« |ypon the company either acquiring the branch or returning to the town of St.Andrews the $10,000 bonus the town had f granted.Mr.Dobell protested against this proposal, claiming that the present owners : of the Great Northern had only.recent] obtained the road.None of the origi nal shareholders were now in the rosd.The Great Northern Railway argued that the people of St.Andrews through their failure to raise any objection to the for Ber.travster had tost.all \u201cclaim upo .eat Northern ponsi 45 this.ut as 4 was instantly killed; dis body was fi o < [- i 1 but, it is supposed that wome part of #8 .An inquest is decmed mecsskin¥, pa ç.} When the members of the crew which | were left unhurt found Perry.Be oi wil be cleared this afternoon.MACHINERY TAX.Arthur, 64, 66 ta, 8 56; Ottawa, T0, 64; Montreal, Quebec, 06, 54; Halifax, 08, \u201854 winds, fair and wan.Saturdwy, vouth end south-wibt winds, showery.,.\u2014 AR vd * \u201cMontrest; Juty T, 1000.Readings by Hears & Harrisen\u2019s Standard Barometer at \u2018500s to-day, 20.80; yestse- _.for years.Many men will be given em- ployment as a consequence. ATG, manne.AND.DEATHS.Netloss of births, marriages and deaths must incari- ably be cudersed with the nome and address of the \u201csender, or otherwise no notics ean be taken of them Birth notices arc inaerted for £Se, marriage notices Jor 50s, death notices fou 230 pregwid.The ee mouncement of funeral appended to death netiee, Pie extra; cther extension to obituary, such as short sketch of life, two cents per word extra, except poetry, vokich ie 50 cents per line axtra\u2014prepaid.Anne! sudecribers may kave axnounecmente of dirfhs, prarriages and dçathe (roithout extended obituary or Trees) vonriqs in thaie fouet pr oo of charge, ln ihich tes ikvu and address © BIRTHS.\u2019 HABTINOS.\u2014At 168a \u2018\u2019 Linster street, Bt.John, N.B., on July 5, 1899, the wife of A.O.Hastings, of a daughter.8 MARRIED.5, 1599, at the TTWOOB-KFE\u2014On July ot 0 Rs y's\u201d pgrenis Urma- town, HY: , M.Dewey, re EEE Fgiret J., oldest es of Matthew Kee, to Albert E.cod, M.A., of Ottaws, Ont.« \u20ac BÉLL\u2014CLEMBNT.\u2014On July 5, 1899, by the Rev.W.Henderson, Farnham, at the resi- dance of the bride's parents Farnbam Cen- er Bebe test dater Of, Mr.e.Myrtlo, 6 ugh! .Mr.tué fre.Apt Clement\u2014there.being 8 E number.n many points NE-\u2014CALLAGHAN-rAt Toronto, on July 3,71899, at St.Mary's Church, by the Rey.Wm.McCann, J.A.Malone, of benville, OBio, to Miss Lizzle Calla- n, davghter of the late Jamres Callaghan, of Montreal.6 MeOUAT-\u2014BRADLEY\u2014On Jnly 5, 1890.at the residence of the bride\u2019s father.Geneva, Que, by the Rev.D.Patterson, D.D,, M.W.McOuat, River Rouge, to Jennie w, daughter \u201cof James Bradley._ DIED.LOPEZ On July 7, 1899, W.P.Lopez, in 81st year.; \u2018Funeral private.7 -RIDDLE.\u2014In this city, où Juiy 5, 1399, Jumes \u2018Riddle, aged 49 years.Funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m.on Saturday, from hig late\u2019 residence, 413 Magdalen street, to Mount Royal Ceme- .Frtends ané\u2026acquaintances.please accept this intimation.8 ROBERT SON\u2014Suddenly, at Elmbank, 1100 Dorchester street, on June 6, 1899, Agnes -w, widow of the lats Andrew Robert- »en, aged 72 years.Funeral from her late residence, Saturday, June 8, at 2.30 p.m.SANGSTER\u2014At Lancaster village, on July 4, 1999, David Sangster, one of the oldest résidents of the village, died suddenly of heart failure while seated at the breakfast table.- 7 SINCLAIR\u2014At ' his residence, \u2018Glénrath,\u2019 Whi Friday, June 30, 1899, lair, aged: 88 years,1l months on T days.SHARPE\u2014AL her residence, 731 Berri st., on July 5, 1899, Sarah Caroline Shaw, Nido of the late Edward Sharpe, aged ears.Notices received too late for this page Tay possibly be in time for page & ADVERTISEMENTS.Special Bargains during July in new and second-hand pianos, at W.H.Lehch\u2019s piano parlors, 2440 St.Catharine street (between Stanley and Drummond streets) open evenings, also Saturdgy af- oons.: - + Tees « co.\u2018E'\" UNDERTAKERS.E 800 St.James ut.8 Telephomes, Main, 337.Uptown, 1508, 6260.+ F : \u2018MUNICIPAL REFORM, .PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE NEWLY- ! FORMED ASSOCIATION.a meeting of the Municipal Reform Asgociaiion in Point St.Charles, held to receive reports of committees, etc., the following .busiress ws transacted: Committee on platform reported the fol- loving, the report being adopted: \u2018Abolition of sll taxes upon industries; taxation of lan&.«sites irrespective of ownership ; Munteipkl \u201côwhership of \u2018ali public mono- polles; general re-organization of the whole civic administration; free public libraries, bathe and playgrounds; promotion according to ability and length of service, in all pub- tic offices; abolition of property qualification \u2018and -the substitution of a cash deposit: weekly wags atet, publicly apd privately wherein possible ; Montreal taxpayers to havé\\preference On all work done for the city; whbèther by day work or contract.\u2019 Affterman- Ames Has consénted to address the.association later.on;.AL from Mr, F.W.Hibbard, advocate, \u2018wishing the association success, was The .secretary \u2018was instructed to obtain a cory of.the proceedings of.the last session of the.Quebec Legislature, and also a copy of the new charter \u2018of\u2019 Montreal.5 to hold office until A ; who, with a committee eomposed of T.B.Butler, D.Scott, T.Doyle, J.Peard, J.Greenwood, C.Sweeney and G.Dawson, will arrange for public meetings and other work when nec: \u2018 It, wag decided to take a determined stand agaiast the imposition of the tax ypon ma- chisiery, also against the \u2018extra taxation placed upon a large portion of the Montreal carters: \u2014 .request has been made to open a branch of the association in the lower part of St.Antoine -Waré (csiled the Swamp), The meeting adjourned until next Tuesday evening when a constitution will be framed.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ODDFELLOWS\u2019 OFFICERS.At the regular meeting of Loyal Victoria Lodge, 1.0.0.F., M.U., held on Wednesday evening, the following officers were installed: P.P.G/M., Bro.Pearson, acting as installing oficert: re PARE AND HOLDEN.SOME LOCAL INCIDENTS THEIR LIVES.Both Paré and Holden are well known IN [to the local police, Montreal having been thé base of some of their operations.Ex- | Chief Detective Cullen relates the foilow- ing facts concerning them :\u2014 Holden is a Montreal boy, and Paré was for some time in this city, his first appearance on the police records dating back a quarter of a century.\u201cThe first time,\u2019 said the ex-chief, \u2018that Paré was arrested here was on a charge of larceny, some twenty-five years ago.We went to his house, and in searching it found some things which I knew had been made in a penitentiary.They were little fancy articles, which convicts make.Paré represented himself as a United States army pensioner, and claimed that he drew his pension on account of having sustained a broken arm.Whenever we got a prisoner of that eort we always tried to find out his history and habits.One night we went to his place, and à couple of detectives watched his house.They saw him and smother man leave the house, and they determined to wait until the two returned and then arvest them.But they were absent such à short time that the detectives thought they could not have done anything, and therefore it waa decided that they would Lot alarm them.Next morning a burglary was reported on Notre Dame street, near the location of the Longueuil ferry, and money was taken.The detectives rushed down to Paré\u2019s house and arrested him and his chum, and lodged them in No.4 station.But Paré made his escape from his cell, left his chum behind, and went over to St.Henri, where he picked up another comrade, and they went off together.The companion that he left behind in No.4 station got fourteen years in the pemitendiary.Paré was subsequently arrested in Manchester, N.H., and was convicted.We notified the authorities there to let us know when his term was up.We rearrested him at the cxpiration of hie sentence, but the pres ent extradition law wae not in force at the time the burglary wes committed here, and he had to be allowed to go.But the warrant that wae then issued stands good for him yet.After that he did not trouble us any more.He is a man who takes a great delight in talking to his chums of his abilities.He is well educated, and time and again he wrote to me.The letters were well penned and well written.\u2018As to Holden, I have known him since he was a boy, in 1843.His mother was a poor, hard-working, honest women\u2014a widow ; and when she was out of work, he was a street arab.1 do not see how be could have any education.He grew up a strong, burly, young men, and hae been in\u2018 and out of jail since he was a boy.His mother is now dead.I be lieve she died when he was in the penitentiary.She left some little money to him, in care of the Rev.Father Dowd, who wanted to put it in the bank for him, but he demanded it, and got it.He wes in many escapades here, and got convicted time and again.He eventually married a widow, and for some time wcrked at his trade and did pretty well.He is a self-taught engineer, and is a good one.He was working on the Wel- lingten bridge, and I bad hopes that he would get on as one of the permanent bridgemen, he was so clever, willing and attentive.He afterwards went to take charge of the engine at the Queen's Hotel, and a small robbery took place, and private detectives, and some of the city police, who were working with them, went to the hotel, saw Holden, told the proprietor his history, and he left.The theft was a small one, and he had nothing to do with it.He came crying to me, and sail : \u2018Mr.Cullen, it\u2019s too bad I'm hounded this way.I want to make an honest living, and I\u2019m not let do so.\u201d It is about three years ago since he left the Queen's Hotel, and since that time he hae not had any regular employment to my knowledge.He seemed to think that everybody was down upon him, and got disheartened.He was in Montreal up to a short time before the bank robbery at Napanee.\u201d : 2 FUNERAL OF MR.W.F.MILNE.The, fupersl of Mr.William F, Milne \u2018chite \u201cwhat! on Tu y Jest, took plac \u2018yesterday afternoon.A brief funeral service was conducted at the house by the Rev.C.B.Ross, at the conclusion of which the remains were brought to the city by train and taken from the Bonaventure station to Mount Royal cemetery, where the interment took place.The floral tributes were very numerous and included some beautiful wreaths from the Lachine Boating Club, the Dorval Junior Boating Club, the La- chine Snowshoe Club, and Messrs.W.T.Benson & Co.The chief mourners were the father and brother of the deceased, and his uncle, Mr.William Milne.The palbearers, all young friends of the deceased, were :\u2014 Meesra.Herbert Troutbeck, Cavie Howard, Alex.Paxton, H.Lucas, H.Nicholls, Frank Eliott and A.Forbes.eee SCOTT\u2014SKEITH.Cornwall, July 6\u2014 Mr.W.Scott, chief designer of the Cornwall Manufaeturing Company\u2019s Woollen Mill, and Miss Bertha W.Skeith, late of the Cornwall public school staff, were married last night at the residence of the bride's father, Mr.Isaac Skeith, corner of Gloucester and Water streets.The nuptial knot was tied by the Rev, Hugh Cairns, president of the Montreal Methodist Conference.The bride was attended by her sisters, Misses Annie and Jennie Skeith, while Mr.Thomas Skeith supported the groom.Only the immediate relatives of the contracting parties were present and after refreshments had been served the happy couple left on the R.& O.steamer for- Toronté and Niagara Falls.SWAYNE\u2014HOPE.Kingston, Ont, July 7\u2014St.John's Anglican Church, Newburgh, was the scene of » very pretty wedding on Wednesday morning, when Miss Jessie Hope, second daughter of Mr.R.B.Hope, was wnited in marrlage to the Rev.G.W.Swayne, rector of Selby.The ceremony was performed by the Rev.Mr.Anderson, Smith's Falls, assisted by the Rev.F.D.Wondcock, of this parish.The groom was assisted by Mr.Stevenson, Omemee, while the duty of bridesmaid was performed by Miss Mamie Hope, sister of the bride.The service was full choral.The happy couple drove to Nap- anee, where they took train for a trip to Montreal and Quebec.\u2014\u2014p-_\u2014\u2014 TAX ON BACHELORS.Bertin, July 6.\u2014The Hessian Diet has a measure requiring bachelors to pay 25 percent more income tax than married men.0 THE \u2018WITNESS\u2019 FOR SUMMER RESORTS.es lea the city for their a ein, the Dally Wit.Hess\u2019 will be mailed at 25c per month.NEW CANADIAN CANAL.AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS THE FUTURE CANAL TO THE SEA.New York, July 5\u2014The announcement made locally that the St.Claire and Erie Ship Canal Company will begin operations in the early fall is of much interest to shippers and others interested in lake traffic.The canal bas been known on paper for about two years, and the stock has been sold in Canadian cities and in London.The company only waite for certain promised legislation in the Provincial Parliament to begin the work of excawation.The canal is known in detail, less to New Yorkers than to the people of Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, and the western lake cities.By lake shippers it is looked upon as an important link in the deep-channel system which is to aid commerce considerably, and, it is boped, extend it, by means of à ship-canal, to the seaboard.The St.Clair and Erie Ship Canal is to cross the Canadian peninsula which lies between the two lakes.The canal is to extend in a straight line from a point opposite the \u2018St.Clair flats,\u201d to a point on Lake Erie, which is in a direct line es the crow flies to Cleveland, It is to have a length of thirteen miles, and the dredged channel in Lake St.Clair to its entrance will be nineteen miles in length.This will give & total length of thirty-two miles, as against one hundred and eleven miles over the course now in use by the lake-carrying trade, through the Detroit River.The building of the thirteen miles of canal proper is said by engineers who have examined the plans to be a matter of comparative ease.Borings have shown that there is no rock within\u2019 several feet of the level of the bottom of the canal as planned.It will be a straight cut through blue clay of great firmness, and can be accomplished under the most favorable circumatan- ces.The canal will be seventy-lwo feet wide on the bottom.The sides will slope in the ratio of 2 to 1, making the water surface 156 feet, with a depth of 31 feet.There will be a berme, three feet wide, five feet above the water.Turnouts or \u2018gars,\u2019 will be provided, besides ample space at each end: The estimate of the engineers for the total cost of the canal\u2014$5,519,620\u2014is alleged to be a conservative one.Through the Detroit River, at present; passes almost the entire traffic of the lakes, the only notable exception bein; that between Lake Superior and tk ports on Lake Michigan.In 1800 the ton) AT - are joun.Ra \"21,684,000 tons, in 1803 it w 23,001,893 tons, and in 1895, 26,165,000 tons.This year it is estimated.that it will certainly increase to 30,000,000 tons, Many of the large ship-building firms are now pressing the work of building large vessels.An order given during the present month was for four of the largest boats ever built for fresh-water service, each more than five hundred feet in length, and with a gross tonnage of 8,000 tons.The estimates of the canal projec tors are that 20,000,000 tons will prefer to pass through the canal, and upon this basis they fix the income in tolls at $660, 000, Two years will be consumed in building the canal.It will be croesed by four existing railways, which will necessitate that number of draw-bridges, and three other bridges will be required for highways.As the difference in level between the two lakes is only three feet, no locks will be needed.but there will be a guard gate at the St.Clair end, for use during construction, and afterwards when repairs are necessary.The entrance from Lake St.Chir is shallow, and to obtain a 21-foot channel through the lake three miles of dredging will be necessary.At the Lake Erie end less than half a mile of dredging will be needed to reach deep water.At this end it is propowed to construct a harbor of refuge, which has long been needd, in which vemels may find protection from the storms of Lake Erie, The canal approaches will be easy of ac cess.At the north end the dredging in Lake St.Clair will be 300 feet wide av the outer end, and this approach will be well buoyed and lighted at night by electricity.At the south end, the entranes to the harbor of refuge on Lake Erie will be 200 feet wide, with an ample besin for waiting or delayed vessels.The whole length of the canal will be electrically lighted with are lamps.At the outer end of each entrance there will be a lighthouse.The draws of all bridges will be operated by electricity.The difficulties of navigation in the Detroit river are the principal arguments upon which (with the saving in time) the projectors base their claim that the canal is a necessity.The government maps of this channel show it to be a tortuous and perplexing one.Lake craft in working through make thirty-four changes of course in the one hundred and ten and three-fourths miles which will be shunned by vessels passing through the canal.In the early days crooked channels and sharp bends caused little trouble to short and shallow-draft veseels.But now that the bulk of the freight is carried in large steamers, many of them over 400 feet in length, and of as deep draft as the chan- els will allow, these sharp turns make navigation difficult and dangerous.Under the most favorable conditions, on account of shoals and bends, the fast est freighters can scarcely make ten miles an hour through the Detroit river; hence the trip consumes a little over eleven hours.The canal route would take five hours\u2014twe through Leke St.Clair and three through the canal.This would be & saving of six hours on each trip, or half 8 duy in the round trip.For vessels of slcwer speed the gain would be even more.If \u2018a steamer and her consort average seven miles an hour, they would be sixteen hours traversing the one hu tnd eleven miles, while they would be but sx hours on the shortér route, thus making a saving -of twenty hours on each round trip.The average number of round trips from Port Arthur or Duluth to Port Colborne or Buffalo is in a season twenty-two, giving from nine to ten days to each trip.Half a day saved on each trip by using the canal would be eleven days saved in a season, or more than sufficient for an extra trip, the receipts for which would be almost clear profit, It is further urged that a very substantial saving to shippers and own- ern will result from lower insurance rates.In 1835, when the first \u2018Soo\u2019 lock was cpened to commerce, the tonnage passing through was only 106,205 tons, there being at that time a depth of only ten feet over the æill.In 1801 & new lock was opened, with sixteen feet over the sill, and the St.Mary's River shoals were deepened.During that year 2,000,000 tona passed through.In 1805 two new locks were.constructed, with twenty-one feet over the will, and in 1806 the traffic had increased to 16,806,781 tons, and in 1998 the tonnage passing the \u2018Soo\u2019 amounted to 2),284,664 tons.To-day the big 400-foot freighters carry cargoes at one-tenth the amount received when the channels were only eight to ten feet in depth.The low.rate of water transportation has also forced the railways to lower their rates on all bulky articles correspondingly; and thus a commerce has been built up which would have been impossible had\u2019 there been no great waterway.It is claimed, therefore, that the new canal will increase materially the yearly tonnage, and will reduce the rates of transportation to a considerable degree.\u2019 Possibly the most important function of the new waterway will be its use as a channel for the shipment of coal westward.The transportation of grain and ore from the West and North-West has fallen into the hands of the steamship companies in greater proportion each year.The special value of the St.Clair and Erie Canal in this connection, say the promoters, is because of a singular fact.Across Lake Erie from east of Port Pelee, and the Islands of the South shore, there is an open belt of clear water all through the winter.Here a line of car-ferries could run from Cleve- Jan, Sandueky, and Toledo to the canal with scarcely any danger of au ice jam.Coal eauld thus be transported direct to the canal without breaking bulk the year round, and transferred in cars td the western railways.This would be the tatio] fox.the coal used in yest; + Qui taste = for much tobe tributed in the West, the transportation -of which is now.monopolized by the railways.THE ANCIENT CAPITAL \u2014 FIELD DAY AT LEVIS.Quebec, July 7.\u2014Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, the field manoeuvres yesterday of the troops in camp aly Levis were fairly successful and drew quite a large erowd of spectators.Today all the troops will cross over to the Quebec side for the grand review on the Pleins of Abraham before their Excellencies, who arrived from the Bay des Chaleurs at noon yesterday.AID TO NAVIGATION.The permanent pier at the Upper Traverse, which promises to be so great an improvement for the safe navigation of the St.Lawrence, was successfully plec- ed in position on Wednesday evening on a good solid level foundation.IMPROVED CAR FENDER.The Quebec Electric Street Railway Company has adopted a new patent fen: der far its cars to better protect life and limb.It is a Rhode Island invention, the principal features of which are a spring in the car which, on being prese ed by thé motorman's foot, lets down the fender so @s to barely clear the rails, while an elastic cushion projecting from the car receives any person scooped up and prevents violent contact with the car iteslf.This cushion also extends out & considerable covers the drawbar.~~ NOTES.The Banque Nationale has opened a branch at Montmegny.The unfortunste old man Lemay.who bad to have his leg amputated on Wednesday evening as the result of injuries received by being struck by a C.P.R.Jccomotive whilp walking on the track, died yesterdey morning in hoepital.A Megantic farmer named McKenrie, residing-near Milan, was badly gored by his bull the other day, but the doctors have still Hopes of saving his life \u2014p\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTES AND NOTICES.We are has\u2019en a great hoose cleanin\u2019 i\u2019 th'noa.Whin ye get the carpenter body an\u2019 plasterer in, ye dinna ken whan ye'il get them oot, but we are thankfu\u2019 to say the end\u2019s in sicht, an\u2019 we are gaun tae gie ye a\u2019 a hearty invitation tas the warming o' the pew premises.Keep ver weather ee\u2019 open for oor advertise ment; there'll be lots o' bargains offered, an\u2019 ye mieht as weel tak advantage o\u2019 them.Suit 0\u2019 claithes for men an\u2019 laddies at ric #ma\u2019 prices as will mak ye feel like buying for a\u2019 the men folk o the family.Minna forget Thursday o\u2019 next week will be the first day o\u2019 oor great cheap sale, Allan, the People\u2019s 2 way and completely Hatter & Clothier, 685 Craig street, and 2209 St.Catherine street.* THE DREYFUS AFFAIR.MADAME DREYFUS PAYS ANOTHER VISIT TO HER HUSBAND.Rennes, July 6.\u2014Madame Dreyfus on leaving the prison to-day, appesred in much better spirits than yesterday, and it was evident that her conversation with her husband had been of a more cheerful nature.A large crowd gathered in the hope of witnessing her arrival and departure, but the gendarmes cleared the streets adjacent to the prison, and the crowd caught only a passing glimpse of her as she passed in a clossd carriage to the residence of Madame Goddard.The letter left her house to-day, and took up quarters temporarily at the residence of a relative in another part of the town, in order to allow the Dreyfus family full freedom in using her mansion.' From a point overlooking the prison the correspondent of the Associated Press saw Captain Dreyfus emerge into the court yard to-day for an hour's exer cise.He was dressed in a bilge serge suit, and .wore a soft felt hat.His head was slightly bent forward, so that it was imipossible to gee the features.As he crossed the yard he was preceded and followed by a prison warder.The three passed through anotber door leading to a garden in the centre of the prison, where Dreyfus takes exercise, and disappeared.Paris, July 7\u2014The citizens of Budapest, having sent a valuable begemmed sword of honor for presentation to Col.Picquart, the latter has written through the correspondent of the \u2018Pester Lloyd,\u2019 declaring himself unable to accept the token.He says he is satisfied in possessing their sympathy.\u2014\u2014 NEWS IN BRIEF.The government announces that it will contribute £45,000 to the Antarctic expedition fund.Olog Bosheri, the Bonin chief, has been captured and executed by Lieut.Gab- t.Mrs.May Wright Sewall, president of the American section of the Women's International Congress was elected to succeed the Countess of Aberdeen es president of the congress, which will hold its next meeting 'in Berlin.-_ ORANGE CHURCH PARADE.The Orangemen of this city will have their annual church parade to Dominion Square Methodist Church, on Sunday next, at 4 p.m.The brethren will assemble at their hall on St.Catherine street, at three o'clock.À large turmont \"is expected.\u201d The Roya] Britannia Band will accompany the \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MARK OF RESPECT.The Warrant of Boyne Loyal Orange Lodge, No.401, is draped in mourning, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Rev.Dr.Chiniquy, an old and well- tried member of the lodge, and a Past Grand Chaplain of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Quebec.\u2014a\u2014\u2014 GRAND TRUNK CHANGES.The following changes are announced by the Grand Trunk Railway :\u2014 Mr.W.W.Ashald is appointed train master of the first and third districts and the second district between Richmond and Island Pond, with headquarters at Island Pond, vice Mr.C.8.Cunningham, resigned.Mr.P.J.Lynch is appointed train master #'xth and seventh districts, with headquarters at Belleville, Oni., vice Mr.W.W.Ashald, transferred.Mr.D.J.O'Connor is appointed acting train master at twenty-second, twenty- third and twenty-fourth districts.vice Mr.P.J.Lynch, transferred to eastern division, with office at Stratford, Ont.Upon the Central Vermont road, which is now controlled by the Grand Trunk, the following appointment is announced: Mr.J.W.Shanks.having resigned, Mr.W.P.Elrod is appointed general road master, with office at St.Albans, Vt.ADVERTISEMENTS.D'S 09 ILLS Rouse the tor pid liver, and enmre bilicnsness, tick headache, jaundios naases, indigesf tion, etc.They are to valuable to prevent a cold or break up & fever.Mild, gentle, certain, they ars hy nfidence.Purely vegetable, a be taken = chlidren or delicate = ce, 25c.at à ne 5 ve Ÿ.Hoon & Co.Lowell, Mass.THE ORIGINAL \u201cMEDICAL HALL\u201d BELFAST GHYGER ALE May be known by ita Blas Lady, benring the maker's nya, KENNETH CAMP3ELL & CO.84 ét.Uroain stract, ADVERTISEMENTS.C.P.R.Trains Leave Windsor Depot, at 9.45 a.m.and 4.15 p.m.FOR CALEDONIA SPRINGS.Season Now Fully Opened.TURKISH SWIMMING Baths In luxarieus quarters and by civil and attentive trained attendants.Turkish Bath, 140 to 114 ST.MONIQUE STEUE, RUSSIAN MARRIAGE LICENSES j IBAUED: can STD & BARRON, «0, DUNTON NOTARIES & COMMIBSIONERA, 110 St.James stress COOK'S FRIEND EY oe ton vey DROE te aE te vl SENT Bee Trade Mark on every genuine peditgh COMMISSIONER, Auction Sales Marcoite Bros.Important Sale IN RETAIL, ON THE.PREMISES; \u2014\u2014 Exhibition Grounds an Buildings.\u2014\u2014 By order of Quebec Previncial Gowvern- ment, we will sell on MONDAY aoû TURS- DAY, 10th and 1ith July, at Tes Ofdlock a.m.each day, all the Building Lots snd Bulldings, belonging to the maid ment.The most beautiful site for building purposes on the Island af Street cars run through it: slectrie Nght, drainage, water service, and Mount Royal TERNS: One quarter cash.Balances in three yearly payments, até pomend, For plans and information, - Apply to the undersigsed.Every lot te be cold separately.A.fres lunek Will Se given from one to two o'clock ensh Gir.08 1 sale.1102012 UT ; SNE 26 pres gee Pres mer eu qe: PP RS THE SENATE AND THE LCR.RADICAL AMENDMENT PROPOSED AT THRE CONSERVATIVE CAU- \u201c CUS THIS MORNING.Ottawa, July 7.\u2014Oonsiderable interest still centres in the probable course which the Senate will pursue in connection with the governirient bill for the exten- gion.of the Intercolonial Railway.The Upper House does not seem anxious to assume the responsibility for actually amendments whieh it is very questionable whether the government or the Grand Trunk Railway will care to ac- wept.The amendment proposed this morning in the Conservative caucus was to the effect tot the supplementary menis shell be terminable by the government on three month\u2019 notice and that the government may also withdraw from the \u201cagreement, that pon-routed westbound freight be handed over to the G.T.R.at Montreal while the Drovison COURTS AN INQUIRY.MR.SIFTON ASKS THAT YUKON -» : OFFICIALS\" BOOKS BE INSPECTED.Ottawa, July 7.\u2014The Minister of the Interior bas written an official letter to the Auditor-General asking that an of- ficiad of the latter's staff be sent to Yukon to inspect the books and accounts of the government's officials there.The work will be done on the spot, so that the very fullest scrutiny may be made of all transactions there and that there may /be no questions raised as to the honesty of the administration.m2 AFRICAN FORCES.SOUTH BRITISH OFFICERS TO ORGANIZE THE RESIDENTS FOR AN EMERGENCY.London, July 7.\u2014The \u2018Times\u2019 announces that séveral officers; including Brevet Colonel': Stevens Powell, commanding the Fifth Dragoon Guards ; Captain Lord Edward Cecil (fifth son of the Marquis of ell\u201d 16 pudcebd_ to\" South\" to organise thi residents.as well as the po- Nes and-local forces, at various points on the frontéer.\u2018Additional special service officers,\u201d says and onganization of will be necessary to desyatèti should the negotiations with the Transvaal fail.>.) .London: July 7\u2014In the House of Com- mous.today Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man; Liberal leader in the House, asked the government leader, Mr.A.J.Balfour, if he bad any statement to make on the apparently official communique published in the \u2018Times\u2019 this morning, giving the names of a number of officers said to have, been.ardered to.proceed to South Africa for the purpose of organizing the residents, as well as the poce and local forces, at varidus points on the frontier.Mr.\" Balfour replied that he was not sware that it was \u2018an\u2019 official communique.- He added thet no contingency had yet arisen which in the opinion of {the government necessitates a material increase in the forces now in South Af- ries, He added: \u2018We, however, think it necessary.under the existing circumstances, to take such steps as may bring the present force up ta the proper standing of efficiency and mobility.The War Officé would have been extraordinarily big Tn its mosh obvious duties if it was not prepared for any emergency.\u2019 A YACHT CLUB.MEETING.This: afternoon a meeting of the mailing committe of the Royal St.Lawrence Yaeht.Club was held, when Mr.J.J.Riley, 3r., presided.Prof.Capper, Mr.Bolten and Mr.H.B.Young, secretary; were also present.The meeting was called for the purpose of considering the dasposil of the silver trophy donated by Mr.\"Kirk Greene, for meventèèn and twenty.footere, but as no satisfactory arrangement could be arrived at, it was decided to let the matter stand over until Mr.Greene has been interviewed.Sev- The.approaching.Seawanhaka-Corin- thian challenge cup races now forms the inci topic for conversation at the cub by of the Royal St.Lawrence Yacht Club, and every night the \u2018Specula- takes à turn on the lake preparing for the trial races shortly to take place.The new creation from Mr.Duggan\u2019s design is kept pretty close in the sheds, and been very little out on the lake, but bér owners are almost certain as to her X Al rles - bury Tracy (aeeonsl.son of Baron Sydely),.court thi A SUOCESSFUL SCHEME.The Dominion Commercial: Travellers\u2019 Association\u2019s proposal, published in the \u2018Witness\u2019 the other day, regarding a dé sire for improved hotel accommodation, has met with a cordial response throughout the Dominion.Over four hundred letters have been received at the secretary\u2019s office in this city, all approving of the scheme for hotel improvement, chiefly from leading hotel-keepers.\u2014_ LIGHTNING AND THE PINE.If any person is curious to see the efiect of a stroke of lightning, the splintering of a splendid pine on the Mountain Park road, about fifty yards to the left of the covered way leading down into Mount Royal cemetery, by the stcpe, will furnish an opportunity.It happened during Wednesday night\u2019s storm and the splinters of one part of the tree were scattered in all directions.The tree was split to the very root.\u2014__ THE CIVIC LOAN.Ald.Martineau to-day expressed himself as eurprised that the Finance Committee by its resolution yesterday took the ground that the City Council was only entitled to the correspondence Te ing the loan regularly received by the ittee, and not the correspondence sent direct to the chairman, which Ald.Sadler held the council had a right to be made acquainted with.Ald.Martineau says he will move in council that Ald.Rainville be asked to submit the letters addressed to him as chairman of the Finance Committee regarding the loan.\u2014_\u2014 WEST HURON ELECTION TRIAL.Toronto, July 7.\u2014The West Huron elec tion trial wes again postponed this morning until Sept.5, because of the continued absence of Linklater, the missing witness.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 PERSONAL.Mr.E.P.Heaton, manager of the Guardian Assurance Company, has re\u2019 turned from a business trip to the west ern provinces.Captain W.H.Matthews, president of the Sincennes-McNaughton Company, and Mrs.Matthews, left yesterday for Caledonia Springs.Baroness de Longueuil, who was the guest, of Captain Matthews for some weeks, has gone to visit friends near Bos ton, whre she will spend the summer.COSTELLO DISCHARGED.CHARGE OF WOUNDING MRS.DALY NOT PROVED.Thwmas Costello appeared ip the Police to answer to the charge of having assaurtod answer e of having his mother-lu-lew, Mre.Daig, ith whom he lived at a house in rear of 96 Shaunon street, on the night of June 27.Mrs.Daly, being called, declared that Costello struck her with a hatchet, and ehe | proceeded to tell about going the police station, and being taken to the hospital, from which she came out on July 4.Mary McGuigan said she was present part of the evening, but not at the time the assault i3 supposed to have taken place.She saw no row.They had all been drinking.She believed thete was a little girl there, who slept with Mrs.Daly that night.Dr.E.Abbott, who attended the old woman, had found a clear cut scalp wound.The wound might have been dangerous it not attended to at once.The old woman was suffering from alcoholism and exbaus- tion through loss of blood, when she arrived at the hospital.She then stated that her son-inlaw had struck her with a hatchet, but when she left, she sald she was not certain how the wound had been caus- Lieutenant Fox produced the blood-stain- ed bed-ciothes, a sheet and a pillow, being saturated with the same.He stated that the impression of the woman's head was on the pillow when he arrived at the house and when he asked the little girl, who was there, how it was done, she would not say anything.Costello was sitting on a chair drunk, and with a bottle full of liquor on the table before him.He declared he did not know how the old woman got hurt.He wad been out for about twenty minutes, and had just come back.He did not see her go out.He said his cousin, Mary Mc- Quigan, must have done it, and she was standing by, and said he must have done Lt.The little girl, who is ten years old, was called, and told the Court that Mrs.Daly had fallen out of bed and hurt herself.She had seen no row.The judge decided that the assault had not been proved against Costello, and he was discharged.\u2014\u2014\u2014 SUSPECTS ON TRIAL.\u201cWelly\u2019 Counor and \u2018Billy\u2019 Maher, otherwise Known as Brown and Howard, the latier also giving the namc of Audrews, appeared before Judge Choquet this morniug for trial.Detective Suthergill was the principal witness, and detailed the ctreun:- stances that led up to the arrest of the two men and explained how their names, photos and records had been traced.The accuaed pleaded not guilty to the charge of vagrancy.The evidence for the prosecution was completed, but the defence, which is in the hands of Mr.J.C.Walsh, was not gone into.Mr.Walsh asked for time to preseit some authorities on jurisprudence relating to such cases, and a further adjournment to next Wednesday was made.COMPLICATED CASE.As & result of investigation in the house of Mrs.Buperior, \u2014 Saerbrooke street, on a search warrant yercerday, Dy the detectives, a trunk contr.nlng silks and satins, \u2018both in the piece and made Up, Was Liaëu to the police court and afterwards to the Customs House.The detectives were icok- ing tor some goods which had been sto.en from the store of J.J.Milloy, 2301 SL Catherine street.They did not find what they were after, but believing that the goods mentioned had been smuggled inlo the country, they took possession of them.Judge Desnoyers decided that these goods had nothing to do with the case before him, as they were not mentioned in the search warrant, and the goods were about to be removed to Mrs.Superior's house, when Customs Inspectors H.McLaughlin and 8.H.Carpenter, jr., appeared, took possession of them, and had them removed to the Cus- THE MONTREAL STREET CAR VICTIM, PLEURY STREET THE SCENE OF ONE MORE CHILD FATALITY.Another child was almost instantly deprived of life last evening, being caught at five minutes to nine o'clock by a south-bound Park & Island car at the intersection of Lagauchetiere and Bleury streets.The victim was Walter Jacobs, gix years of age, whose parents live at 680 Lagauchetiere street.Walter was an only child, and the grief of the bereaved ones is on that account the greater.He was on an errand for his father when he ran in front of the car, which, coming faster than he had calculated, pirned him under the right front wheel by an arm and a leg, which were thereby all but severed from the trunk.Unconsciousness supervened immediately, owing to a concussion of the brain.Before the body could be released, jacks had to be obtained to raise the truck, so that it was twenty-three minutes after the accident before the dying child was received at the General Hospital.Here the Rev, Father Driscoll, of St.Patrick\u2019s Church, | who was called by the agonized father and mother, administered the last rites.The sufferer breathed his last a little after midnight.An inquest was opened in the hospitil chapel at two o'clock this afternoon, teeters KINGSTON POST-OFFICE SCANDAL.Kingston, Ont., July 7.\u2014The post-of- fice investigation was concluded to-day at noon.John Driver, Inspector Mer rick, James Pense and R.J.Gowdey, of the Kingston \u2018Times,\u2019 were examined this morning.Mr.Gowdey was called with reference to a paragraph in his paper charging that lewd women frequen ed the post-office but could give no personal information, He offered to tell the names of the clerks who had told him, but Mr.Johnston objected.In conclusion Mr.Johnston' pointed out that the evidence did not establish the complainte made against the office.Judge Morgans said he would not dlose the investigation premanently.but would find out if the Postmaster-General wished the charges of immoral conduct gone intô more fully.His Honor further stated that he would write to Ottawa advising that Mr.Chamberlain be reinetated until his report was presented to the govern: ment.-\u2014_\u2014 SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OTTAWA LADY.Miss McIntyre, daughter of Me.A.F: McIntyre, barrister, of Ottawa, died.\u2018sud: Qamsiake, where she -had been - staying with Her ¥ather: The Beceamtid wi \u2018tél ty edt ob Age TL no \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 ACCIDENT TO A C.P.R.LINEMAN.Mr.Joseph Commo, a C.P.R.line man, twenty-six years of age, was brought in to the Royal Victoria Hoe- pital this morning, from Farnham, near which place he had met with a grave accident, necessitating the amputation of one leg, the left.His condition is eritical.ee A HEAVY SENTENCE.Caspard Coulllard, 21 years of age,whose home is on City Hall avenue, and who has been for nearly three years a clerk with.L.H.Hebert, hardware merchant, 207 St.Paul street, was arrested yesterday after-\u2019 nocn by Detectives Cote, Guerin and Rio- pel, charged with theft.It is alleged that during the past year thefts have been committed continuously, and probably the full amcunt of goods taken will never be fully known.The dectectives have succeeded in recovering about sixty dollars\u2019 worth of goods, consisting of gimlets, planes, pocket kpives, razors, saws, revolvers, files,- etc., which the accused was sald to have sold to second-hand stores.The accused pleaded guilty before Judge Desnoyers this morning, and was sentenced to three ycars in the penitentiary.As the knives, files, etc., were sold by the dozen, in boxes, or cases, new, it is belleved that the aecond- hand dealers must have known that the\u2018 goods were stolen, and it is probable that further arrests will follow in that connec- on.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014 ANOTHER FEATHER FIRE.About half-past seven o\u2019clock this morning fire broke out in the basement of Mr.J.FE.Townshend's mattrass manufacturing establishment, 2468 St.Catherine atreet, rear Drummond.It appears that Mr Townshend went to the basement \u2018to light the gas, when in lighting a match, the latter broke, and the burning end flew into a heap of jute, tow and other materia} of an inflammable nature, which quickly caused quite a fire.The brigade was called out and soon had an effective stream at work.No great damage was done ta the building, but the loss through water and smoke is estimated at not less than a thousand dollars.Insurance of $2,000 In the Norwich Union Insurance Company was carried on the stock.\u20ac \u2014_\u2014 THEY PLEADED GUILTY.Moise Leclalr, Sam.St.Jean and A, Stephens, alias Etienne, arrested on a warrant for theft, in the Lanctot Burglary case, appeared before Judge Desnoyers this morning and pleaded guilty.They will be sen~ tenced on Tuesday next.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 CARTING WITHOUT LICENSE.There were seven cases In the Recorder's Court this morning of driving without li- cenge.The fine imposed was five dollars, or twenty days.A OBITUARY.Hudson, N.Y., July 6\u2014Wiltam C.Daly, of Chalaam, died this afternoon, at twe o'clock.IIe hud undérgone an operation for appendicitis and gradually sank untf} the end.Ho was State Senator from 1885 to 1597.and was one of Louis E.Payne's chief Jleutenants in politics.He was one ot the leading members of the Columbus toms House.DAILY WITNESS.THE LATE MRS.ROBERTSON.Mrs.Andrew Robertson, widow of the Iste chairman of the Montreal Harbor Commissioners, died suddenly, yesterday afternoon, of heart failure, at her residence, Elm Bank, 1100 Dorchester street.The deceased was one of the oldest members of Erskine Presbyterian Church, being seventy-two years of age.She leaves four sons, Messrs.Alex, John, Andrew, and W.F.Robertson, and five daughters, Mrs.James Johnson, Mrs.Fred.Claxton, Mrs.Hugh Paton, Mrs.J.A.L.Strathy, and Mrs.James Stewart Tupper.The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m., to-morrow, from the family residence.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 HIS EYE INJURED.A young man named Auguste Lamour- eux, aged twenty-four years, employed by Messrs.Tremblay & Co., sash and door manufacturers, 400 William street was taken to the Notre Dame Hospital yes- terdny, suffering from a severely injured right eye, caused by its being struck by a plece of wood.Dr.Ethier hopes to save the aight of the eye.GLENGARRIAN GONE.Lancaster, Ont, July 7.\u2014The funeral of the \u2018late David Sangster took place from his late residence in the village of Lancaster on Wednesday afternoon, and was very largely attended.The ceased \u201chad been in moderate heelth for some time but his end came with tragic suddenness on Tuesday morning while sitting eating his breakfast, The immediate cause of his death was heart failure, He was in the seventy-fourth year of his age.The funeral service was conducted by the Rev.A.Graham.The interment took place at South Lancae ter.\u2018MIDDY AND REGULATIONS.A good story is told about Lieut.Au- pen, one-time torpedo lieutenant on H.M.S.\u2018Orlando,\u2019 on the Australian station.Years ago, when he was a middy, his ship was stationed at Vancouver, and Aupen, being seized with a sudden illness, was invalided just prior to the departure of his vessel on a cruise.The only othen officer then left in port was the chief cafpenter, also invalided.The youngster had deeply studied the Queen\u2019s fiaval regulations, and the time for bis (examination coming round, he applied\u2014 æizing the golden hour\u2014to the only senior officer in tbe port, the chief carpen- ler, to be examined for lieutenant.\u2018This he or any officer is entitled to do when- lever or wherever he may be, if the re- |quisite term of his service be fulfilled.he chief carpenter accordingly exam- ped the lad, and passed him with fying denly at 5,30 this morning at the Hotel for.Aupen immediately thereby became the senior officer on the atation,.impel to England with déspatches, an.Jeréder he obeyel with consummate address apd with all the haste possible, seeing his ship might return apy minute, and Christinas was approaching.He arrived one evening at Portsmouth and \u2018found he would have to wait eight hours for a train to London.Again the regulations came to his aid.Reg.No.so- and-so directs all officers carrying despatches to take every available means to expedite the arrival of same at headquarters.Aupen decided that the Admiralty ought, to have his despatches \u2018forthwith.He ordered a special train to Lopdon, and presented himself before the then First Lord.The great man, who had heard nothing about either Au- pen or his despatches before, requested an explanation, which the lad respectfully gave.He escaped without even a reprimand; he had complied to the letter with the Queen\u2019s regulations, and the whole affair quickly became the laugh of London.The cream of the joke was that Aupen\u2019s despatches contained nothing but a narrative of his own illness, and a glowing account of the brilliant manner in which he had paseed his exam., written by himself.His next ship received him as lieutenant \u2014Shanghai \u201c Daily Press,\u201d June 1.sete TO BE HAPPY, WEALTHY AND WISE.Mr.George W.Childs, the wealthy and successful editor of the Philadelphia \u2018Ledger,\u2019 was once asked what he considered the secret of euccess.He replied in three words: \u2018Industry, temperance, frugality.\u201d It is interesting to know some of the mottos which proved helpful to Mr.Childs during his brilliant \u2018career.He had a great affection for such maxims as \u2018Do the best and leave the rest,\u2019 and \u2018The ideal man is one who has a clear commission, an honest purpose, a bright mind, and a healthy body.\u2019 He was very decided on the question of temperance.He declared that there was no safety in moderate drinking\u2014the man who touches alcoholic liquors at all is in danger.Summing up his advice to young people, Mr.Childs once remarked : \u2018The greatest pleasure in life comes frem doing good to others.Do good constantly, patiently and wisely, and you will never have cauee to say that life is not worth living.\u201d A KLONDIKE LETTER.Constable Gamache, of No.11 police station, has received a letter from his son, who is in the Klondike in which the latter states that he likes the northern country very much, and intends to remain there as long as possible.He worked one of his claims there last winter with encouraging success.He says that Judge Dugas is a great success.\u2018He is llked by everyone and does the greatest honor to his position.He is the most popular of all the officers, and we, his compatriots, are proud of him.The miners have not a better friend nor a County bar and was about 60 years.old.| \u2018more devoted protector.de- | hd his first act of authority waa to orderh Mollie sad COMMERCIAL WITNEes OPFOR July 7, 189\u20ac NEW' YORK STOOK LISE.(Furnished by J.RB.Mosksr.) Opening and Oloslag Prices \u201410 a m.and 3pm.ax dt 10 139% 106 106 4536 48% \"x 11744 Wik \u201cisin 130 A 78 120% 131 i 354 534 54 RS 1% 70% NEW YORK STOCKS.New York, July 7\u2014Wall Street\u2014Buoyant strength in Penna.and New York Central lifted the market at the opening.The former stock jumped two and a halt on buying of some 2,800 shares, and the latter one and a-half on two thousand shares, due to the rumored combination of the two railways.The general railway list resptnded rather freely and showed a dowrward tendency after the opening, Msur- lington dropping 3%; Sugar, Manhattan, and some of the other industrial specialties advanced about a point or over.LONDON CLOSING PRICES.Lorden, July 7.\u20144 p.m.\u2014Closing\u2014Consols for money at 107 1-16; Jo., for the account at 107 3-16.Canadian Pacific at 10114; Erle at 14% ; Erie, first preferred, at 38; Illinois Central at 120; Mexican ordinary at 79%; St.Paul, common, at 134%; New York Central at 144; Penpa.at 70; Reading at 11; Mexican Central, new fours, at 79%; Atchison at 20%: Lcuieville at 73%; bar silver at 27%, money at 2.The rate of discount in the open market for short bills, 21 to 3 percent; do.for three months\u2019 bills, 23 to 4, Grand Tk at 8; Anacondg at 11%.MINING EXCHANGE, Reported by A.W.Morris, Mining Broker, Rocms 62 and 64, Canada Life Building.AFTERNOON SALES.at, don 150.at 46° Ad\" lon\u2014150_ at: 46.\" 2 California 500 at 17%.M48 Golden Star\u2014500 at 43, 500 at 42, 500 at 42.Big Three\u20141,000 at 15.\u2019 CHICAGO MARKETS, + The following table shows \u2018the range of prices in Chicago to-day, and the closing quotations as compared with those of yesterday:\u2014 Yesterday's To-day\u2019s Close.Open.High.Low Close.Wheat\u2014 July 2% 2% 7214 4% 7e Sept.74% 73% 73% 7334 78% Dec.76 75% 5% 75 76 Corn\u2014 July 3314 83% 33% 33% 33% Sept.33% 33% 33% 33% 83% Oats\u2014 July 23% 23% 23% 234 23% Sept.20% 20% 20% 20% 20% Pork\u2014 July 8.35 ein ers cere 8.35 Sept.8.55 8.50 8.55 8.50 8.55 Lard\u2014 July 5.07 5.07 fees cane 5.07 Sept.5.20 5.20 5.22 5.20 5.22 Short ribs\u2014 July 4.80 J aes .\u2026 4.80 Sept.490 490 49 49 4.90 MONTREAL TRADE.UNMARRED BY ANY UNFAVORABLE FEATURE.Dvn's Bulletin of Saturday, July 8, will say of Montreal trade:\u2014 The trade situation at Montreal remains unmarred by any unfavorable features.Failures for the week were seven in number, but in only two cases did labilities exceed $10,000.Retail dry goods paper failling due on the fourth was well provided tor, and general remittances are on the whole of a favorable character.While this vicinity has been visited by several heavy showers, whick have done infinite good, the rainfall has pot been general, aud the hay.cro, in most sections bas suffered from the continued dryness, as well as [rom winter- killed meadows to some extent.There is, however, a considerable stock of old hay in the country which could not be sold at muck beyond $4 during the winter and spring, but which is now being held at muck enhanced prices, so that the evil is not an unmixed one.The general trond of values continues upwards; a decline of two cents a gallon -18 reported in turpentine, but the quotations as amended are still much higher than they have been for years at this season.The London raw wool sales show further advance since the opening last week, and the cheaper lines of woollen suuffs are now beginning to follow the strong lead set in the finer goods some time ago.Though heavy metals are somewhat quieter, there is no weakening In values, but rather the contrary.Pig iron is very firm with difficulty experionced in getting deliveries; tin and Canada plates are showing further strength, the discount from list on large sizes of imported iron pipe is beirg reduced, and ingot tin was quoted in New York the other day at 29 3-10 cents.Hides and leather are seasonably quiet, but stocks are low in the latter line, and prices very steadily held.Of heavy Dongolas there Is said to be a scarcity.and it is reported that an order for 1,000 dozen at a shaded figure was declined a few days ago.In the grocery line sugars show good demand at steady figures.Quotations for new corp are withdrawn by leading Western packers Nuts of all kinds will be rauch.dearer than usual; Tarragona almonds are a very short crop, and a marked advance is shown in recent quotations for new Sicily filberts.In the money market there has been no re- \u201cFripay, Jory 7, TROD.OBJECTED TO THE SCHOOL.Halifax, N.S., July 7.\u2014Uriah Boutilier was arrested by Detective Power charge] with wilfully setting fire to Mushahoun school-house.The accused was arraigne before Stipendiary MeDougall.One wt.nes testified that Boutilier threaten.that before he would pay school taxes ie would burn down the building.The ie wae continued.The building wae a 1.one.Am illiterate class resided 1, :L, district and objected to the exisicn.e ol a school in their midst.° \u2014_\u2014 HURT BY A FALLING POST A man named Robert Nelson met wip, a severe acident this afternoon ar 4, 2.30.He was working at the Cp Lv round-house at the Winds r station on some reconstruction work going on there when a post gave way and full op hip injuring him severely about the chee and thighs.He was taken to ti : eral Hospital.\u2014 PATCHING THE OLD DYKE way), Several men are at work on the ol1 dyke embankment patching the woo.work and putting blue clay ini crevice, It has done such good service keeynz the water from flooding the lower part of the city along the wharves that ji is considered neoeesary to use it until the harbor improvements are completed, \u2014_\u2014\u2014 REMEDY FOR A NUISANCE, People who have suffered annoyance from those inconsiderate individuals whe persist in carrying walking-sticks and umbrellas in a dangerous horizontal pos- tion under their arms may be interesie] to know that in Berlin the people lave adopted a plan of their own for dealing with this dangerous practice.As soon as a man\u2019s stick or umbrella is tucked under his arm, it is smartly struck upwards from behind by any one who happens to be near enough and this reminder is invariably sufficient to bring the offending article into some position where it is less likely to inflict injury.Resentment on the part of the individual whose stick is so jabbed is quite useless, and very rarely indulged, because he knows that public custom sanctions this method of reminding him that he is a temporary source of danger to his fellow citizens.1e Gen- SHIPPING.The Allan Mne SS.Orcadlan arrived lere to-day from Glasgow with a general cargo.Movie, July 7.\u2014Sailed steamer Callfor- nian for Montreal, from Liverpool.Liverpool, July 7.\u2014Arrived, Iran,Norfolk; Ottcmen, Montreal.Aberdeen, July 7.\u2014Arrived steamer Hor- da, Nor., Svendsen, Montreal.Queenstown, July 7.\u2014Arrived Lucania.from New York for Liverpool.Hamburg, July 7.\u2014Salled Bulgaria for New York.London, July 7.\u2014Arrived, Rosarian, Muut- © 88.CAMBROMAN PASSHNGEBRE, .g The Domi Tine 30, armrest ba Liverpool on- June 29, passed Fame Point inward at 11.45 a.m.to-day, due at Quebec to-morrow morning, and Montreal the following morning.She has on board the following saloon passengers:\u2014Mr.J.Davis Allen, Mrs.Allen Mr.F.L.Austruther, Mr.Alfred Bennett, Mr.E.M.Boolll, Mr.J.B.Burris, Mr.Greenwood, Mrs.Greenwood, Master Greenwood, Mr.Fred.John Klrch- ner, Mrs.Kirchner, Miss Kirchner, Mr.R.G.Leckie, Mrs.Little, Mr.D.MacDonell, Miss MacDonell, Mr, F.H.Merceron, Mr.Desmond Sullivan, Mr.R.Windham.\u2014\u2014\u2014>\u2014\u2014_\u2014_ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.The treasurer of the Protestant Infante\u2019 Home acknowledges with many thanks 360, proceeds of a bazaar and ice cream festival held by the children of Argyle avenue, in the grounds of Alex.Ramsay, Esq., June 80, in ald of summer outings for the children of the Protestant Infants\u2019 Home, 5088 Guy street.Financial.W.H.WEIR & SON STOCKBROKERS, 118 St.Francois Xavier St W.1 WEIR P.H.WEIR, Members Montreal Stock Exchange, H.L.PUTNAIT, REAL ESTATE.Mortgage Loans.Valuations.ist Floor, Temple Bullding Tel.Main 3396.TES \u2018 WITNESS PRINTING HOUSE EXECUTES JOB WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, In a thoroughly satisfactory manner at MODERATE RATES, and at SHORT NOTICE.LETTER HEADS, BILL LETTER CIRCULARS, NOTE CIRCULARS WEEKLY PRICE-LISTS, BILLS OF FARR, BUSINES3 CIRCULARS.Particular attention glvem to BOOK ORK, and extra care bestowed as to correctness.Orders from the country promptly attended to and work forwarded immediately by mail or express.WEBKLY OR MONTHLY REPORTS BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, PAMPHLETS, BILL POSTERS, Aa SEVERAL COLORS AT ONE IMPRESSION A SPECIALTY.Try the \u2018Witness\u2019 Job Offices for Printing JONX DOUGALE & SON, ot Proprietors cent variation.Corner Craig and St, Potor Stresie dO BN A bd et Qué mp lier ned vit- ied se lew the ith ut 2 18 fel- 1ere rgo.or - lk; [or- nia, for out- ns.ing at ORT ting.\u2018 Montreal on June 24, with_T18 cattlo and 1,027 sheep, arrived at Liv 1 yesterday FripAY, Jury 7, 1899, \u2014 SHIPPING NEWS The Allan lint SS.Californian, sailed rrom Liverpool for the St.Lawrence on Thursday afternoon with 53 cabin, 45 intermediate and 270 steerage passengers.The Allan line 88 Assryrian,from Glasgow arrived at St.John's, Newfoundland, at 4 am, on Thursday, en route for Halifax, and Philadelphia.Father Point, Que., July 8\u2014The S88.Monmouth, Elder, Dempster line, from Bremea, passed inward at 9.10 a.m.NEW JOHNSTON LINE SERVICE.The Johnston line, which is ruming a regular service between Montreal and Liverpool, is to open a regular line between Newport News and Liverpool.The opening of this line will mark the establishment in the past few years of six lines out of Norfclk, or Newport News, in opposi- ticn to oid established lines out of Baiti- more.The Don:inion line R.M.8 3cotsman, sailed from Liverpool at 5 p.m.yesterday with 65 saloon, 81 second cabin and 130 stecrage passengers.The Dominion line SS.Ottoman, from at 8 p.m.with a loss of nine sheep.The steamer was delayed by fog and ice.R.M.8.DOMINION'S PASSENGERS.The Dominion Line R.M.S.Dominion, leaves here to-morrow morning for Liv- Dis fouewing maison passengees un Dourt: passer on : «Mpa.Argies, Mr.Phillip D.Ahier, Prof.V.©.Alâerson, Mrs.Charles L.ASdison, Mim Plorénce Addison, Mr.A.B.Archar, Mr.G.B.Burland, Mrs.Burland, Miss H.L.Bailey, Miss H, F.Batley, Miss Bennett, Miss Brock, Miss E.M.Brock, Mr.Thomas Bilabury, Mr.Arthur Butcher, Mr.Edward Broome, the Rev.Mr.Boyce, Mrs.Boyce, Mr.Thomas J.Blake, Mrs.Blaks, Captain Baird, Mr.E.R.Bollert, Miss Susanna Cocroft, Mrs.A.W.Cameron, Mrs.Cayley, Mr.8.Caldecott, Lieut.Crowley, Mr.Caswell, Mrs.Caswell, Captain W.Clark, Mr.T.H.Chive, Mrs.Chive, Master Chive, Mr.P.Cazenove, Mr.George T.B.Davis, the Right Rev.Bishop Punn, Mrs.Dunn, Dr.George J.Dennis, Mrs.Dennis, Miss Davies, Mr.Frank Dowler, Mrs.Drum- mond, Miss Duncan, Mr.E.A.Duvernet, Mrs.Duvernet, Mr.James E.De Gruchy, Miss E.Edwards, Mrs.Eyre, Mr.Robert Edmunston, Mr.J.C.Edwards, Mr.C.M.Edwards, Mr.Peter J.Feeny, Mrs.Feeny, Master Feeny, Miss Catherine A.Finneran, Mr.James Gardner, Mrs.Gardner, Miss Gardrer, Mr.8.G.Greenwood, Mr.James George, Mrs.George, Mrs.Greenwood, Master Greenwood, Dr.F.W.Gunsaulus, Mr.James Gazeley, Mrs.Gazetey, Dr.Gayford, Mrs.Gayford, the Rev.Brother Finton George, Mr.M.Hicks, Mr.Hicks, -Miss E.Jiyman, Mr.Holdaway, Mrs.Holdaway, Mr.J.B.Hill, Mrs.Hill, Mr.Percy L.S.Herring, Mrs.Herring, Miss Johnston, Miss H.Johnston, Dr.Frank Jay, Mr.E.A.Jones, Dr.Chester A.Keogh, Mr.T.C.Kidd, Mrs.Kidd, Miss Kay, Miss E.A.Loring, Miss Lye, Miss Gertrude A.Lye, Mr.Lamb, Miss Lamb, Mrs.Latham, Mr.Lyons, Miss McGarry, Mr.Archibald Mac- Murchy, Mr.Angus MacMurchy, Mr.Ross Mahon, Mr.Donald Mackay, Mra.Mackay, Miss Mackay, Mrs.Arthur McCormick, Mr.McKay, Mr.Peter McDonald, Miss Marling, Mr.J.G.McIntosh, Mrs.McIntosh, Mr.J.McDougall, Mr.Nagle, Mr.W.Nelson, Mr.Poole, the Rev.Brother Palasis, Mr.George L.Paine, Mrs.Paine, Mr.J.D.Pember- ton, Mrs.C.E.Price, Mr.George W.Paterson, Mr.F.H.Phippen, Mrs.Phippen, Mr.James Park, Mr.W.McM.Rathbun, Mrs.Robinson, Miss Robinron, Mr.Edward Rocney, Mx.Roger Randels, Stevenson, Mr.J.C.Scovell, .[Bouests \u201cMr: Hf F Stewnrt, Mies CunHingliam\u2019\u2019 Stewart,\u201d t Rev.Canon Sanson; Miss Street, Mrs.Geo.B.Taylor, Mr.Thornton, Miss Charlotte Unsworth, Mr.W.BE.Williams, Colonel T.Wood, Mr.Warden, the Rev.J.Ward, Mr.W.Waldron, the Hon.Justice A.Weller, Mr.Samuel Woods.£8.MANCHESTER PORT ARRIVES.There arived in port last evening, the new Manchester liner, the 8.Manchester Port.The Manchester Port is a finely modelled steel screw steamer of about 14,- 500 tons displacerent, and nearly $8,000 deadweight capacity.Her principal dimensions are: Leagth, 467 feet over all, and 432 feet between perpendiculars; beam, 52 feet; moulded depth, 39 feet.She is,therefore, slightly larger than the Manchester City and the Samoa.They are the largest vessels which have yet navigated the ship canal, and_are specially strengthened in excess of Lloyd's requirements for the North Atlantic trade.All the available space under the shelter deck, and along each side under the bridge deck, is fitted in conformity with the American and the Canadian Government regulations, with accommodation for about 700 heal of cattle.The ship has a cellular bettom, which may be filled with water ballast, also four separate water tanks under the engines and boilers to contain a supply of fresh water for the cattle.Water ballast may also be carried in a deep cargo tank, and in the afler peak.giving the vessel a total water lallast capacity of over 2,000 tons.The Manchester Port will sail on Sunday morn-' fog for Manchester with a full general cargo and 600 head of cattle.QUEBEC SHIPPING NEWS.Quebec, July 7.\u2014Many persons witnessed the arrival of the 88 Milwaukee yesterday.Everybody connected with the shipping business was anxious to ree how the splicing procets had affected the ship.Some trouble occurred In the mooring, as an eight inch rope caught in the propeller, the Minnie 8.Hackett, which was bringing the ship in.There was some danger of the ship sheering around and running into the Gallia, which was near the entrauce to Mr.\u2018 æ pe new part of the Miiwau- could\u2019 tall that she Had over been butit In two : whe Xnew-the ahbip Por- Those.merly, aver that she looks better, while the officers say that shé runs better.The chief officer, who was on the ship when she was wrecked, has an Interesting ser- les of photcgrephs showing the position of the steamer on the rocks, before and after the fore part was blasted away and the aft portion of it was towed to port, the now tore portion which was built, and the ship as she rcw stands.The survey of the 8S.Gallia, was com- Tleted yesterday morning, and the official report declares the ship has sustained no damage.THE TUG BRONSON\u2019S FIRE.Xingston, Ont., July 7.\u2014The damage to Ye tug Bronson, which caught fire near AexandPa Bay, has besn adjusted at five feusand dollars.The boat will be re- bit at once, and in four weeks\u2019 time will ar be in service.STEAMER SEIZED FOR $0) FINE.Port Huron, Michigan, July 6.\u2014The str.City of Mount Clamens has been seized by Customs officials and tied up pending the Payment of a five hundred dollar fine im- boeed for violation of the navigation laws.It ls alleged that the eaptalm of the Mount Clemens would stop at Marine City and at Other river ports and load for Carfadian boints without taking out clearance papers It is thought that the owners will contest the fine.: CREW COMPLAINS OF ILL-TREAT- MENT.New York, July 6\u2014A Buenos Ayres- pa- ber erve that the British barque Bessie Mr.Louis | (nis \u201c2 rate Markham, which sailed from Monte Video, June 5, for St.John, New Brunswick, was held for a time by ths authorities upon complaint of some.of the members of the crew of ill-treatment by the master of the verrel.The barque was released upon demand of the British consul, who held that the vessel and crew being British, and the alieged {ill-treatment having occurred eon the high seas, the case was one for the British authorities only.There may be an investigation on the ship's arrival at St John, which shculd be toon now.A DANGER TO SHIPS.The Dominion liner Canada, Captain Maddox, on arrival at Liverpool, from Boston, reported that between three ard four p.m.on June 21, the derelict vessel Sid- carka, timber laden, was passed.and that she constitutes a very great danger to navigation in the Atlantic.The position of the derelict ship, which was accurately nbtaln- ed by observation, was 51.30 N., longitude 18.3 W.She had two masts standing, and her decks were awash.Worked out, this pcsition thus gives the vessel's bearing from the Fastpet as S.84, W.(true), and her distance from that rock, E20 miles.The derelicts floating in the track of the ocean liners are undoubtedly a danger, the seri- \u2018ousness of which, cannot he too strongly pictured, nor the absolute necessity for their removal too strongly urged, and more especially does this apply to the wreck of the Siddarka, which is co near the English coast.Ship masters are of the opin- fon that if a tug was sent to ser to tow her in the sale cf the cargo would far more than repay the cost of the tug.QUESTIONS & ANSWERS.[We invits questions on all possible subjects af general dnterest, to which we shall do our best to obiain correct answers, and shall insert such queries and replies as we can make room for.Toile must not be used, Kuwerer, as an advertising column or as an enqusry ourecy for matters not of public Inferest.Every query must be acoompanied with the name and postal address ar the sender.and no notice will be taken of anonymous com munications.] GENERAL.BURIALS IN MOUNT ROYAL CEMETERY, MONTREAL.G.G., Fredericton.\u2014Te whom should enquiries be made concerning a burial supposed to have been made in Mount Royal, the Protestant Cemetery of Montreal?Ans \u2014Address Mr.George Durnford, secretary- treasurer Mount Royal Cemetery Co., 189 St.James atreet, Montreal.The Roman Catholic Cemetery is called Cote des Neiges, it being situated at that place.Iuquirles as to interments in it should be addressed to La Fabrique de Notre Dame, Notre Dame street, Montreal.There is also a Jewish Cemetery which, like Cotr des Neiges, adjoins Mount Royal; the Roman Catholle Cemetery lying towards the west, the Jewish towards the north.There are small graveyards within the city limits, but they bave not been used for interments Tor the past twenty-five years or longer.HOUSE INFESTED BY FLEAS.W.F.\u2014If a house is so infested with fleas that it is impossible for its occupants to sleep in it will this render the lease pull and void, the house being rented annually?2.If a doctor's certificate be procured stating that tbe house is uninhabitable from this cause might the tenant give up the house?Ans.\u20141 and 2.Nothing of sort can be done except by process of eh the Thots tn » cout of law.\u201cThis, \u2018however, in your case gshonld be an easy matter from your statement of the ease.A doctor\u2019s certificate would be of value in proving your contentton before the judge, but the mere possession of such certificate without legal process would not make void the lease.Nor can you leave the house before taking such legal action unless you can prove the nuisance &o be deleterious to life and health.A lease has recently been declared void because of a tenant being in- tested with other vermin, so that your plea would probably procure you release in a court of law.LIFE AND WORK OF RUDYARD KIPLING.H.D., Sault Ste.Marie, Mich gan.\u20141.Glvs a sketch of Rudyard Kipling's career.2.What are his strong points as an author and poet?3.Quote some of his poetry.Ans.\u20141 and 2.Rudyard Kipling, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, and of Alice Macdonald Kipling, was born in Bombay, India, on Doc.30, 1865.The eldest Xip- ling held for over twenty-efght years \u2018m- portant positions in the Indian Educational Service, and is now upon the retired list.When Rudyard was born his father was architectural sculptor in the Bomnay Scheol of Art, and was subsequently principal \u2018ft the Mayo School ot Art, and curator of the Central Museum at Lahore, 1875- 93.In 1801 Mr.Kipling, senior, published a work entitled \u2018Man and Beast in India.\u201d Rudyard Kipling was educated at the United Services College, \u2018Westward Ho,\u201d Devon (N.), England.From 162 to 1889 he was arsistant editor in India of the \u2018Civil and Military Gazette and Pioneer.\u2019 He has travelled extensively in Africa, Australia, China, Japan and America, having lately resided at Brattleboro, Vermont.Kipling's first publication, \u2018Departmental DItties,\u2019 was published in 1886.1t was pound in the style of an official report, and consisted of eight rhymes (n official life in India; the style being sometimes cynical, sometimes humorcus, and again sad, and then again lively.Copies ot thls publication are now rare and valuable.\u2018Plain Tales from the Hills\u2019 followed in 1887.Then in 1888-88 came \u2018Soldiers Three,\u2019 in \u2018Black and White\u2019; \u2018The Story of the Gadsbys, \u2018Urder the Deodars,\u2019 \u2018The Phantom Riek.shaw\u2019 and \u2018Wee Willie Winkie Life's Handicap.\u201d In 1890 \u201cThe Light that Falled\u2019; 1891, \u2018Barrack Room Ballads\u2019; 1833, \u2018Many Inventions\u2019; 1803, \u2018The Jungle Book\u2019; 1884, \u2018The Second Jungle Book\u2019; 1895, \u2018The Seven Seas\u2019 (poetry); \u2018Soldier Stories,\u2019 1804; \u2018Captain Courageous,\u201d 1897.Mr.Kipling's stories of jungle life told from the point of view of the individual animals, birds, and reptiles, and contributed to \u2018'Mec- Clure's Magazine,\u201d introduced a new style of fiction or fable.For centuries, authors have been writing tales descriptive of the actions and supposed thoughts and feelings of animals.But they have always meade the beasts and birds express the theoghts and instinets of mankind.XKip- ling, on the other hand, attempted an independent representation of animal life, in- trcducing into his narrative a single human being a boy, who, however, bad been reared in the jungle, and who had learned the language of its inhabitants, his most intimate friends were \u2018Ba- 100,\" the bear, and \u2018Bagheera,\u2019 the panther, by whom he had been named \u2018The Man Cub,\u2019 the human race in general being known among the beasts as the \u2018Man Pack.\u2019 All denizens of the jungle are shown to have distinctive and unchangeable habits, except the monkeys, who, under the name of the \u2018Bander-Log,\u2019 are re- od with contempt by the rest of the living creatures, as possessing no defined position amongst the ranks of the brute creation.The human characteristics of the man cub show out in obit the talk of reasoning pow of capacity for design of his friends, \u2018Ba- loo\u2019 end \u2018Bagheera.\u2019 Human pature Is everywhere strongly manifested by Mr.Fip- THE MONTREAL Ung\u2019s characters, whether they move in civil or military life.One critic writing about Kipling\u2019s work, says: \u2018To my own , after «li, it is a question \u2018or \u2018taste, his tales of native Iffé in many ranks, re ligione, and naticns, are his best.The confessions of an opium smoker in \u2018The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows,\u2019 defeat De Quincey on his own ground.\u2018The: Strange Ride of Morrowbe Jukes,\u201d who fell into s village of thisves, who should be dead, and yot lives, is a nightmare more perfect nnd terrible, I think, than anything of Edgar Allan Poe's.\u2019 Mr.Kipling then nas met with great success as a writer of snort stories, and has lately attained to some celebrity as a poet.There 1s a manly ring about his poetry as well as his prose.It remains to be seen whether he will be as successful In the composition of more lengthy works.He himself has said that a man cannot expect to be a successful novel.writer until he is at least forty years of age.It is but stating the truth, however, about Mr.Kipling's work to say that at times it appeals to that admiration for sport which sometimes degenerates 3n- to brutality, and to that delight in physical strength because it constitutes power, power that may sometimes be used in the oppression of the weak.These leas amiable characteristics of Mr.Kipling crop out somewhat unpleasantly in his lines on tne \u2018Battle of Manilla.\u2019 The slaughter of mauy hundred men, who to the best of their juds- ment, were engaged in doing their duty oy their country and their queen; men, too, who held the Christian faith; the wholesale destruction of human life, Mr.Kipling speaks of in a strain which a man or nu- © instincts would not use in speaxing \u20ac the butohery of animals.Publishers \u2018pay 8 high price for Mr.Kipling's work.This year one of the magazines is payinz Rim at the rate of $1,175 each for eight stories; this amount befag paid merely for the English serial right,in addition to which the author receives payment trom India, the United ' States, and other countries, which will, it 1s expected, bring the value of each story up to about $2,500, giving an income for the year of nearly $20,000 from this source alone.These prices are not likely, however, to be maintained.Mr.Kipling is sald to be free and genial in bis manners towards everybody, with the exception of would-be Interviewers, whom he treats with scant courtesy.Ans.3.The following extracts are characteristic of bis work: THE LAST CHANTEY \u2018And there was no more gea.\u2019 \u2018Thus said the Lord in the vault above the Cherubim, ) Calling to the angels and the souls {n their degree; Lo! earth has passed away, On the smoke of Judgment Day: That our word may be established, shall We gather up the sea?; \u2018Loud sang the souls of the jolly, jolly, meriners, Plegue upon the hurricane that made us furl and flee.But the war is done between us, In the deep the Lord has seen us, 7 Our bones wa'll leave the barracout, and God may sink the sea.\u2018 \u2018Then said the soul of Judas that betray- m; - Lord, thou hast forgotten Thy covenant with me?How once a yoar I go, To cool me on the floe?And ye take my day of mercy if ye take away the sea.\u2019 \u2018Loud sang the souls of the Jolly, Jolly mariners, 101 Plucking at their harps, and they pluck- OR \u20ac \u2018the tun¢ 18 somewhat.\u2018we \u201cHt d Doep Ses Chantey, sesmen use at seal\u2019 Ca \u2018Loud sang the souls of the jolly, jolly, mariners, d Crying undar heaven, here is neithef lead, nor lea, Must we sing forevermore, On the windless, glassy floor?Take back our golden fiddles, and we'll best to open sea.\u2019 THE \u2019EATHEN.\u201cThe \u2019eathen ir \u2018ls blindness bows down to wood and stone, 'E don't obey no orders unless they is \u2018is a da own; 'E keeps bis sidearms awful: \u2018E leaves them all about, .An\u2019 then comes up the regiment an\u2019 pokes the \u2019eathen out.\u201d \u2018The young rocruit is \u2019aughty; from none knows where, They bid him show \u2019is stocklns, an\u2019 lay \u2018ie mattress square; 'E calls it bloomin\u2019 nonsense\u2014'e doosn\u2019t know no more, \u2019 An\u2019 then comes up the company, an\u2019 kicks \u2018Im round the floor.\u2019e drafs \u2018The young recruit is \u2019appy; chest to suit, You see \u2018im grow mustaches; you \u2019ear im slap his boot; \u2019E learns to drop the \u2018blocdies\u2019 from every word 'e slings; ; An\u2019 ho ehows an \u2019ealthy brisket, when \u2019e strips for bars an\u2018 rings.\u2019 THE RECESSIONAL.\u2018God of our fathers krown of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose awful hand we hold.Dominion over palm and pine; Lord God of Hoats, be with us yet, Lest we forget\u2014lest we forget.\u201d \u2018e throws a \u2018The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains ard the kings depart, Stil] stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.\"Lord God of Hosts, be with us yes, .Lest we forget\u2014iest we forget.\u201d \u2018Far called our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire, Lo! all our pomp of, yesterday, Js one with Nineveh and Tyre; Judge of the Nations, epare us yee, Lest we forget\u2014lest we forget.\u2019 \u2018If drunk with sight of power, we loose, \u2018Wild tongues, that have not Thoe in awe, Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the law: of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we fcrget\u2014lest we forget.\u2019 \u2018For heathen heart that ruts her trust, In recking tube, ard iron shard, All valiant dust that builds on dust.And guarding calls not Thee to guard, For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy people Lord.\u2019 Amen! TO OBTAIN GOLD FOR A BANK NOTE L.M.S., Mount Forest, Ont.\u20141.May the holder of a five dollar note, say, of the Ontario Bank, claim gold for :t at any branch of that bank?F.C.H., Ottawa.\u20142.Are banks obHged to redeem their notes mn gold?Ans.\u20141 and 2.Holders of Dominton notes can secure ths equivalent amount in gold coin, either British sovereigns, or\u2019 United States eagles or dollars, by presenting the noter at the offices of the Canadian Recelver General, In Montreal, Quebec, St.John, N.B., Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg, or Victoria; the Receiver General be- 40 ode stich\u2019 43 DAILY WITNESS.mes mcst convenient to him.But ne usually consults the convenience of the note holder.Holders of notes or bills of Canadian snke cannot compel thé badus to yedseni their notes in gold; but the holder may ge- \u2018mand that the bank pay mm Dominion Totes, which, as shown above, are easily converted into gold-at the offices of the Re- celver General.As a rule, however, the banks are quite willing to accommodate | thelr customers or note holder».1t i8 con- \u2018renlent for travellers to change their bank notes into gold before leaving for England or the United States, as gold is not subject to discount, is everywhere taken readily, and may at any time be exchanged for tbe paper, silver, or col.per of the national cur- roucy.If the traveller intends to carry with bim sums of over one hundred dollars he will find it convenient to Duy a draft cn some bank of the country to which he is gcing.BANTING\u2019S SYSTEM FOR CORPULENCE.H.McK., Broadview; JACK; and Mrs.J.H.8, Moira, Ont., enquire where Wil- Ham Banting\u2019s book on the treatment of corpulence may be obtained.We have bad other querles as weli as those above mentioned.Ans.\u2014Banting\u2019s book,price 25 cents, may be ordered from Messrs.W.Drysdale & Co., 232 St.James street, Montreal.Another very good work on the.same subject 1s \u2018Corpulence and its treatment,\u2019 by Eb- steln.The English translation of this work costs $1.25 and may be ordered as above, post paid.BOOKS ABOUT WILD FLOWERS.\u201c D.J.L., Toronto.\u20141.State names end pri- Ces of some works descriptive of wild flowers.2.Where may they be pur ar Ans.\u2014l.A very good work for collectors, -and elementary students is \u2018With the Wild Flowers,\u2019 by Maud Going (E.M.Hardinge).This work, together with its index, bas 271 pages of letter press with 55 illustrations: price of third edition, 1894, one dollar.Another very good work, \u2018How to Know the Wild Flowers,\" by Mrs.Dana, price $2.50.Works dealing moro with potany in general should be consulted at the same time; for instance, works by Asa Gray, \u2018How Plants Grow,\u201d and others; also the later works, by Wood, which may be consulted with advantage by the more advanced student.2.Order from W.Drysdale & Co., 233 St.James street, or W.Foster Brown & Co., corner 8t.Catherine and Mansfield streets, Montreal.TO LEARN ENGRAVING.C.W.1., Picton.\u20141.Which department of engraving would prove the most profitable for a young man who must depend chiefly upon hie own resources for his support,and who has a knowledge of chemicals, some experience in photography, and is dexterous with his hands?2.State the names of any firms which would be likely to receive ap- Pzentices.Ans.\u20141.As we stated In a previous issue, as a rule, those employments which are the least remunerative at first .8enerally prove the most lucrative, and ar- ford \u2018their professors the best social positions in the long run.It is often more difficult for beginners to secure an opening than it is for those having some experience 9 \u2018obtain work.Engraving establishments aye generally more applications trom boys {han from-the skilled workmen, whom they \u2018have a constant demand for.It is diff- cult to offer specific advice in a case of this sort.2.Address one of the following \u2018irm$, namely, Messrs.F.Adams & Co.,120 Bt.Peter street; the Atlas Engraving and Publisting Company, 8 to 16 Little St.An- \u201ctoiné Wiveet, Montreal; the Bishop Engrav- graphing Company, ohds, certificates, etc, o 8 Breet; T.W.Matthews, 288 st.James street; the Standard Photo ®ngraving Co., 8 !St.sHélen streét; Messrs.Desbarats & 0., 73 St.James street, Montreal; photo- 8r4vure, ztiic, line and half tone engraving.Of these firms, address, first, the Canada, the Standard, and the Desdarats Engraving Companies.map, en Ni \u2018THOU ART GONE FROM MY GAZE.Reader of \u2018Witness.'\u2014I noticed in your pager that at the empire concert, on May 22,, the old English ballad by Linley \u2018Thou are gone from my gaze,\u2019 was sung.\u2018If It f# not too much trouble I would like very much if you would give me the words of the song in your paper.I havé tried to get them for a long time but could not sudcéed, THOU ART GONE FROM MY GAZE.(Composed by Thomas Linley, of Bath, in memory of his daughter.) Thou art gone from my gaze Like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain By the meadow and stream; Oft 1 breathe thy dear name ;To the wind floating by, But thy dear voice is mute To my bosom's lone sigh.In the stillness of night , When the stars mildly shine, My heart fondly holds A communion with thine: For 1 feel thou are near, And where'er I may be, Thy spirit of love Keeps a watch over me.Qf the birds in thy bower, Now companions I make, Ev'ry simple wild flower 1 prize for thy sake; The deéb woods and dark wilds Can a pleasure impart, For their solitude suits My sad sorrow-worn heart.Thou are gone from my gare Yet I will not repine, Ere long we shall meet In the home that's now thine, For I feel thou art near, And where\u2019er I may be, Thy spirit of love Keeps a watch over me.LEGAL.(ONTARIO.) DEALING WITH A WILL.014\u2019 Subscriber, Ont.\u2014What steps must be taken in order to make a will lawful?Is there a certain time after death to register a will?Is it lawful after registering it or is there anything more to be done?What does it cost?Would it be lawful to register a will and do,no more?Ans.\u2014Generaliy speaking it is necessary, or at least advisable, to have the will proved in the surrogate court, and the probate registered in the Registry office for the registration division in which the lands affected by such will are situated.And for some purposes it is desirable that a will or the probate of it should be registered within one year next after the death of the testator.But whether it is really requisite to have a will probated, or registered without having been first admitted to probate, or registered at all, depends \u2018upon the circumstances and especial exigencies of the particular case and a soli- citorôught to be consulted about it before the will is dealt with in any way.The cost of registration\u2014that is the registrar's fee\u2014 is regulated by the length of the document and the manner of registration called for, ing at liberty to redeem the notes In either British or United States gold, as may be and ts trom $1.40 upwards.Bograxd ie .Situations Vacant.= | Always bs sure to mention \u2018ha \u2018Witness\u2019 when answering advertisements.Advertisers appreciate it.OFFICE BOY WANTED.Address, No.6 Lemoine street.7 WANTED, A FEMALE TEACHER for the elementary department of the English Model School here, capable or teaching singing and giving calisthenic exercises, Apply to the undersigned, GEO.ADDIE, 8ecretary-Treasurcr,P.D.Schools, Levis.WANTED, A PROTESTANT TEACHER, holding a Model Diploma, to take sole charge of Grenville Village School, for the term commencing Sept.1st, 1899.Balary, $260.00.Apply to THOMAS MORROW, Secretary-Treasurer, Grenville, Que.\u20ac WANTED, A GOOD GENERAL SERVANT.Apply 4084 Tupper street.6 WANT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE \u2018Witness\u2019 may be left at the Wm.Drys- dale Company's Uptown Store, 2365 St.Catherine strect, or with R.Turper, Grocer, Point St.Charles, (01 Wellington st, west of Subway.at the same rates as if taken at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.ANTED.A few good WEAVERS for our Woollen Mill.Apply to PATON MANUFACTURING CO., Sherbrooke, Que.30 Board and Rooms Wanted.WANTED,GOOD BOARD FOR TWO Young Ladies in Ste.Agathe for one month ; terms moderate.Address STE.AGATHR, 0 Classified Advertisements.CASH TARIFF.Situation Vacant.Rooms ToLet + 360 for each addi.Articles Found.tional word, Bix - Secondhand Artl- | insertions fog the cles Wanted or| price of four For Bale 28 20 Property WORDS FOR CENTS or Sale or - To Let.1 unt for eanh Other Articles ores For Bale.tlie price af fous, Personals l 28 FOR 80 Agents Wanted.j WORDS CENTS pees.NOTICE PARTICULARLY.Postage Stamps will be scooped, The above rates are CASH with -ordee, When not prepaid numerous entries have to be made, and the rate is, in consequence, much higher, ne No charge made in our books for any * advertisement of less than five agate JAS.T.CLARK, Room One, No.210 St.James street.CANADIAN JUBILEE POSTAGE STAMPS For Sale, % cent to 50 cent sets, Le cent to §1 sets; also quantities of the 1c, 2¢, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, 1 lines space.oo = pergesee WANT ADS DISCOUNT SALE\u2014MEN'S UNDERWEAR, Cotton, Balbriggan and Woollen, all \u2014FORTHE\u2014 weights; Bicycle Suits and Hose; Sum- WwW mer Vests; Plain and Fancy Cotton M ITNESS Socks.Twenty percent off all this montn.\u201828 be left a$ .THE WM.DRYSDALE COMPAXNY, UP-TOWN STORK: 2365 St, Catherine street, Between Pooi and Mansteid 6;4 or wrra 3c, Be, Sc varieties all unusued.Write at R.TURNER, Grocer, once for prices ,to P.O.Box No.716 FointBr.Charles, Welllugron Se Montreal.8 \u2018eat Bubwag.FOR SALE, A GOOD ST.BERNARD Watch Dog; very cheap.Apply at once to Mr.H.,.236 St.Audre street, 6 to 3 p.m.KINDLING\u2014FOR THE MILLION,Kindling $2, Cut Maple, $2.60; Tamarac Blocks, $1.75; Mill Blocks, $1.50; cut any length; delivered anywhere in the city.J, C.MACDIARMID, Richmond square.Bell Telephone 8353.er Pprsonal.PERSONAL\u2014WILL THE GENTLEMAN that assisted a lady who fell ou Dorchez- ter street, near Union avenue, on Christmas Eve, please communicate with J.BURRELL, 185 St.James street.pen FLATS TO LET.TWO FLATS, 40 x 40 each, adjoln.ng y Stoam.Suitable for Offices, Light Manufacturing or \u2018Warehouse, - .Goods Entrance.Central Location.Apply, JOHN DOUGALL & SON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, To Let.TWO-STORY BUILDING, FORTIFICATION Lane and St.Peter street, to let, suitable for Plumber, etc.Alterations to suit teu- ant.Apply at \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.6 \u2018HOUSE TO LET\u2019 PLACARDS IN MANY styles; also leaso forms, eto., for sale at tbe \u2018Witnass' Office.4 BUSINESS PREMISES TOLE Two flats, size 40 x 40 feet each, heated, suitable for light manufacturing purposes, situated on St.Peter street, between Craig and St.Jamas streets.Apply at \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.WANT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE \u2018Witness\u2019 may be left at the Wm, Drys.dale Company's Uptown 3tore, 2365 St Catherine street, or with R.Turner, Grocer, Point St.Charles, 601 Wellington st., west of Subway, at the same rates as if taken at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.- \u2014 Property.POINTE CLAIRE LOTS.FOR SALE At Auction, in a few days, the beautiful property.known as CEDAR PARK Win be placed on the market shortly, and we have no hesitation In recommending buyers to invest.Every let has an orchard, Every.lot holder will have the right to the water.privilege.Every Tot will be supplied with water from central tanks.Splendid railway facilities.reo retin fares to soe.the pert, way fares s pre y.For plans and information apply to W.QODBEE BROWN, 178 St.James Street.>0T POTTER & MORIN, er ABERDEEN PARK SUMMERLEA Offers the best inducements of any summer resort on (he Island of Montreal, net only for summer residence, but the ease of access malies an -all-the-year-round residence guite in order, - \u2018WANTED TO PURCHASE, LADIBS' ¢ Gentlemen\u201d - Employment Wanted.ALFRED ROY, PRACTICAL Landscape Garaener.All kinds of jobbing promptly attended to; prices reasonable.Special attention given to the care of lawns, dur- irg holidey season.7 SITUATION WANTED, BY A YOUNG MAN - baving a good \u2018experience in designing snd drawing; can produce references, -Ad- dress or apply at 12 St.Martin street, to H.SALMON.6.WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE Widow, washing by the day, splendid washes.Apply personally or by mall.198% St George street.- in wholesales orastall ore; WANTED, BY MARRIED FAHRMER, goed, -\" all-round man, experienced 1n dairying, - stock ralsing and mixed .farming; good, eX Tt\u201d Tyo WANTED, SITUATION BY A BESPRCT- able girl of 21, to assist with ho without washirg or ironing, in a small\" family; would be willing to do all house- country; ready for new plaob on the 7tb | of this month.Anew etc., to IMMEDIATE, WANTED, BY GARDENER, ALL KINDS of garden work, day, bour or jou; erate; city references.G.28 Anderson street.WANTED, SITUATION, ALL KINDS OPen werk, pruning plants, sbrabe, flowers, laying out gardens, of gardens by hous, day or sedsom, Apply 72.Hypolite street,.oe.£7 Ontario avenue, Gardeners\u201d box.Rooms and Board.\u2014\u2014\u2014\" TO LET, PLEASANT ROOM ON FIRST floor of new cottagh on the Dorchester terms moderate.Address HOME, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.Co &: Wanted.= °° | eel WANTED, A SECOND- Engine, with angle Han buy; mediate, MARCEL, 565 Grand Trunk,Point St.Charles, city.+ s t-off .pets, Housshold Furaiture = all.desorfp- street.Post-Office Box 428, £: 569 Craig atres WANT Btors, with R.Turner, Catherine street, or west of Subway, at the same rates as.Hi taken ut the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office._ x Business Chanoes.- FOR SALE A FIRST CLASS Well Estad- .lished por! Je NOTICE\u2014MRS.ELEANOR WHIGHT, OR \u2014.Warner, and Mr.John Ai ong, 5 both have children in the Protestant Ih.fants\u2019 Home, 508 Guy street, are reguest- ed to call there at onca 7 6&-cent fare.VO minutes\u2019 ride.14 1 H.FAWCETT HARTLAND, Real Estate and Loans, 207 Bt.James Bt., Montreal, 7 a er, statiné wages, \u2018 \u2018Witness\u2019 mcs.Co k packing and butonsring basirn-i- Less; reason for selling, parties Poe - from business.\u2018For particulars, spply\u2019 781 Main street, Winnipeg, Man.SY Notices, 1 7 20 10 groin Poo 20 ff \u2014 ir MAN), RPRTA- 1,7 ms CF am \u2018fecommiéndes.\u2018À to JAK.| (CURRIE, 75 Inspector péropt, Mine 4 + \\ milker, plovghman and borsumad; can \\ do carpentering and keep machinery in - repair.Address A., \u2018Witness\u2019 Offiax.- 3 = ina work; also would be pleased to go 10 the .J ARDENES, ot taking care ee.street level, near St.Catherine street cars, - -: with or without board; family private ; _ a wh ren mr Sn: D DENT, ; \u201clock; nics must be in good-vrder.\u201cAddrèss Ts 777 ticoc; Pictures, Paintings, Musical Instrg- we ments, Firearms, Bicycles; best pricks\" paid.Address, M: 4022 : enr, Pcint St.Charles, 831 Wellington\u2019 Ry ns \u201cten OTICE.rev bos F.LAV y Ge Boots and Bhoes made to ONMeT ei paired; also a full assortiment of well made goods at low prices.4 À À 9 TT a Ta a TIRED 5 A yer, Aso ean RE rm Er = e Boys.| Puzzles.Friday is our puzzle day.Answers should be sent an to the Editor of the Boys\u2019 Page not later than next Wednesday.These answers, together with the names of those who find them, will be published on the following Friday.AN AGGRAVATING UNCLE.An uncle with a turn for figures, Pr sented his youthful nephew with a box of soldiers but made it a condition that be, should not play with them till he comld discoven,.on arithmetical princi ples, how many the box contained.He was told that if he placed them three in a row, there would be one over; if he .them four in a row there would two over; if five in a row, three over; if six in a row , he would have four over.The total number was under a hundred.a gr mar ne sobdiers did the box con- ©.\u201d FUMBLED SNAKES.(By F.Otnim.) 1.Drade.2.Ynhotp.3.Pevri.4.\u2018Boare.Rearrange the letters in the above jumbles, and the name of a certain kind of snake will be had in each case.PICTORIAL PUZZLE.them and sold them at ten for.twopence, expecting to get her money back again, but found to her surprise that she had lost twopence over the transaction.The explanation is as follows:\u2014 By the time she had sold 20 lots at and six of the other), the 120 cheaper apples are exhausted, while she has only 80 of the dearer.So far, she has neither gained nor loet, but she has still on band 40 of the dearer apples, worth, at cost price, tenpemce.By selling these e.at 10 for twopence she only gets eight- pence, leaving a deficit of twopence.Answered by: Alex.Hall, Lulu Reich- ling.B PUZZLE.The diagram shows how the PB Each of \u2018there pictures represents an English word.What are the two words ?DIAMOND PUZZLE.(Sent by Lulu Reichling.) 1.A vowel.2, A place where travel lers stop.3.A kind of corn.4.Goods brought.into .a country.5.Something that flies iri all parts of the world, 8.F6 cohtiect.unit in cards.central letters down and across spell the name of something that.flies in all parts of the world.SQUARE WORD.(By Harold F.Grey.) A metal.A tsate dress.A musical instrument.* A necessity.CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT?\u2018The * Boys\u2019 Own\u2019 for this month notes gurious fact, aaking readers for an ex- \u201cThe ory requisites for the experiment are à winegless, some water, and a box, of pins.First FILL the glass with pins; vod FLE the pins on to the table glass with water up to the b Then take the pins and drop re in cerefully by twos and threes, so 88 not to splash the water over, and you will find, strange to sey, orient diario The best explanations received will be published next Friday.\u2014\u2014 Aaswers to Puzzles in June 23.Only a very few readers could find time for puzzles a fortright ago when examinations were not only a hideous tions, results and prizes are all things of the past and our friends are more or less people at leisure we shall expect to mee some of the old names reeppearing in the answer lists.ANSWERED ALL PUZZLES.(Honor List.) Ida A.A SERIOUS LOSS.It will be remembered that the woman bong 120- apples at four a penny and 199 more at six & penny.She mixed circles bave bean moved so as to have three in every line, : Answered by: \u2018Family Circle.\u2019 A BUNCH OF KEYS. key for the poultry yard\u2014turkey.A key for the servant\u2019s ball\u2014lackey.A key for a ride\u2014donkey.Answered by: Alex.Hall, \u2018Family Circle,\u201d Lulu Reichling.DIAMOND PUZZLE.1, J; 2, leg; 3, fifty; 4, confirm; 5, Jefferson; 6, courege; 7, music; 8, lot; 9, n.Place these words and letters in the form of a diamond; the central letters down and across will spell the name \u2018Jefferson.\u2019 Ansawered by: Alex.Hall, \u2018Family Cir cle,\u2019 J.Kerry, L.Reichling.EQUARE WORD.OPAL PANE ANNE LEEK Answered \u2018by: Alex.Hall, \u2018Family Gir- cle\u2019 J.Kerry, Luin.Reighling.WHAT DO YOU THINK 1.Several boys are seated ina classroom waiting for the arrival of the master.A pet rebbit escapes from a desk, and is seen close to the master's table.Three lads make a dash for it, but just then the step of the master is heard outside the door.What will the boys do to es cape detection?Only .a very few readers came to the rescue of the three lads.Perhaps they predicament except by telling or acting à downright lie, and so concluded it was the better course to let the lads suffer the results of their foolishness in bringing in the rabbit at all.Lulu Reichling suggests that \u2018the boy who sat nearest the door could hold it, until the other boys teke their places, and while the master would be pushing, the boy could let go and take his place quickly.Of course the master would fall, and likely he would not be able to find out, because the boys never tell in school.\u2019 Ida A.saye: \u2018All actions within the schoolroom are performed noiselessly and hurriedly.the door, taking care not to touch the knob.Another boy seizes the rabbit and gives it to the boy who lost it and who immediately stuffs it into his desk.The boy holding the door leaves it go and the master comes in, thanks them for opening the door and all the boys go to their seats.\u2019 PUZZLES RECEIVED.From Lulu Reichling (the \u2018orchard\u2019 and \u2018dividing land\u2019 \u2018puzzles have already been published in these columns.) : i Brkers and Oonfectioners.=.» PLAIN AND FaNCT RREAD RAKER AND .NFECTIONER.\u2019 Whole Whent Health Bread, » Once tried, always wed, onery and 4 lei riety of cakes I iar: moibing but rascoriels te] My only at corner of Riad su Nt.Antoine fit, and ray only telephone is \u2014 Builders and Carpenters.mr =\u2014\u2014\u2014 |CHARLES FYFE, Carpehter and Builder, 38 CATHCART ST.Tel.Up, 2407.Consignees\u2019 Notices.eee NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.The Dominion Line 88.CONCORDIA, Abernethy, Master, from Glasgow, la entered inwards at the Custom House.Consignees will please pass their entries without delay.The ROBERT REFORD CO., Limited, Agents.10 for twopence (four of the one kind se.REFORD AGENCIES.DONALDSON LINE.vanes 4,500 tans 88.Keewun.Alcides.88.Amaryuthia.3,500 88.Lai 88.Kastalis/coïà Now Étontaer Hililine\u2026 7 ow Bullding.srso00s a.\u201c New Steamer Batldbag.111211011111 Tn THOMSON LINE Weekly London Service.From PORTLAND.88.STRATHMORE .suss.KILDONA.ots.58.HURON {odd storage July 7 DS.OAR ADEACA sor Tai 19 E tee furs 88: DFR Ona Aug.9 NA re £5 Sg 2 4e Ha md RES Lm go dome gry css QOFENTED Ba.= É Ppa - \u2014 - A ad Din- faritime and St dontres! ager.Agent, nt, liding.Mont.THEEND OF THE FEUD (J.Hammer Qual, in \u20185.8, Times\u2019 {English.) (Concluded.) George Sandford opened the door.A domestic stood in the passage.The girl beckoned to him to come out and spenk with her.\u2018I'll be back in a minute, mother,\u201d he said, turning to his mother, and then following the girl a few yards along the passage: \u2018What is it, Ellen?he asked eagerly.\u2018Please, sir, Miss Hastings is at the door.She wants to speak to you, What shall I do?\u2018Miss Hastings!\u2019 The name fell upon his ear like a death + A knell.\u2018Mgis Hastings! to see me!\u2019 he exclaimed, incredulously.\u2018Yes, sir.\u2019 He stood for a minute, thinking.\u2018I'll see ber, Ellen.Show her into the front room and I'll come,\u2019 he said to the girl.She burried away, and left him pacing loom in which she ususlly received visi- I'don\u2019t know anything as to the rights or wrongs of it, but I know that trouble over it killed your father and my father.I went to ask if it can\u2019t be at an end for ever.Oan*t we make friends?There\u2019 only ome return we can make on our part.- It is.to hand you these deeds.This is the mortgage.\u2019 Miss Hastings took a bundle of deeds from a small bag and laid them on the table by George Sandford.Setting her beg down, she took another document from the beg and tore it to pieces, page by page.It was the mortgage.« Collecting the fragments, she hended them to George Sandford.\u2018There! You've: got your house and land again.It's all the return we can make, My sister Norah has always been sgainet this quarrel.* It was she who turned me against it and advised what I have just done.Will you be friends?to realize what her words meant.\u2018The .quarrel is over, is it not\u201d she asked, beseechingly.\u2018Yes\u2014yes\u2014quite, he answered, confused.\u2018Oh, I'm so glad.We can go now with peace of mind.We have decided to ey the house, for neither Norah nor I care about the farm.Good efternoon.\u2019 She again held out her hand.This time he took it quickly and pressed it varmiy.\u2018Good-by!\u2019 she said.The next moment she had gone.He stood there like a statue.He was trying to realize all that Mies Hastings brief visit meant to him and kis mother.Gathering up the deeds snd the frag: ments of the tom he went to tell her of what had taken place.- It was sometime before Mrs.Sandford could compose, herself sufficiently to give an intelligible opinion upon the matter.At last she realized what had been done, and what the possession of thowe deeds and the destruction of the mortgage meant, \u2018Go straight to the house,\u2019 she mid, with ther emotion; \u2018tell the young ladies how thankful I am that the quarrel] is at end.I began to think there was no God in earth or heaven.I've prayed so.long for this and it did not come.But it has come at last.\u2019 ADVERTISEMENTS.Annuel Sales over 6,000,000 Boxes prés, FOR a; AND NERVOUS DISORDERS such as Wind and Pala in the Stomach, Giddinese, Fulness after meals, Headache, Dissiness, Drowsiness, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, Costiveness, Blotches on the Skin, Cold Chills, Dis- tirbed Sleep, Frightful Dreams and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVB RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES.Every sufferer vill acknowledge them to be - A WONDERFUL MEDICINE BEECHAMN\u2019S PILLS, tkea 25 frected, will uickly restore Females to emplete healt ey promptly remove rior agli ssl he ee ind eure Sick Headache.For Weak Stomach Impaired D igestion Pe Disordered Liver IN MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN Beecham\u2019s Pillip are: - Without a Rival LARCEST SALE on °f any Patent Medicine tm tho Weed, at all Drug Stores, Ÿ papried.Air long end troubions pour] over , * which he discoursed for some time on God.the wonderful love of God in sending his prehended the pra which had come over their prospects and -their home.George Sandford hestened away to Clarence House, and in a brief interview with the two sisters expressed his mother's thanks to them, and begged them to stay and let him farm their land in re turn for what they had done.Sybil and Norah Haetings deejded to accept George Sandford\u2019s offer and remain at Clarence House.He was over joyed to learn of their decision, and entered upon the superintendence of their land with a lighter heart than he had known for many 4, year.I was he time of hay harvest.George Sandford had called at the Hastings\u2019 one evening to acquaint the sisters that the last load of hay had been brought home.Sybil wes alone when he reached the house.He was shown into the sitting- tort, \u2018Fi à few words he stated what bed the farm.\u201cYou're very good, Mr.Sandford.My sister and I are greatly obliged to you,\u2019 she said, sweetly.\u2018Not at all, Miss Sybil, It's the other way.We owe everything to you,\u2019 be said, ardently, \u2018Oh, no; we've only done our duty( and too late, I f \u201cPeace on earth \u201d is our p inciple,* \"Ne said, softly, \u2018Mother and I owe you everything.Indeed, 1 don\u2019t think I've made you all the return 1 ought to.\u2019 He approached close to her and took her right hend.\u2018There's one other return I might make you,\u201d he said, speaking with emotion.She looked at him with an uneasy and enquiring air.\u2018Yes; it's a duty undone, and I can hardly bear the thought of it\u2019 he went on with increasing fervor.\u2018What do you mean?\u2018Sybil Hastings asked, timidly.\u2018I want to ask you if you will accept\u2014 me\u2014if you will have me (and be my wife?There, I've told you.Will you have me, Sybil?Her head sank; and she made no answer.She was recalling the many attentions he had paid her for weeks past.He asked her again, and then he poured out his soul.He remainded her of how lonely she and Norah were; \u2018of how the quarrel had deprived them of their father; of how he might be their protector; of how the position of their properties suggested a marriage, and of how he had grown to love her as hi bad loy- od no othe.woman, It was this \u201clast the Angel of Peace spread its wings the two families now made one by the mariage of George Sandford and- Sybil.To them at last there was peace on earth.CHILDREN'S CORNER.CLAUDIA, \u2018 A.D.60\u2014A SHORT STORY OF EARLY BRITAIN.(B.W.Ward, M.A.if the \u2018Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Companion.\u2019) (Concluded) \u2018 I have come to talk to you of a living God, who loveth all mankind,\u2019 r plied Linus.\u2018Then thou comest not from Rome, the city of oppressors, the very sound of which is hateful in our ears.And from whence sail our would-be conquerors?demanded the Druid.\u20181 ¢ome trom Macedonia, sent by one Paulus, the great apostle of the Gentiles, and therefore of the Britons,\u2019 replied Linus in a voice so loud, and yet so musical withal, that he at once disarmed the easily-aroused suspicions of his hearers and captivated their senses: \u2018But art thou not afraid to trust thyself alone amongst armed strangers?asked the Druid.\u2018Nay,\u2019 replied Linus, who easily spoke the native tongue.\u2018The God in whom I.trust\u2019\u2014looking reverently upwarde\u2014\u2018is able, as he has promised, to defers] me from all dangers.\u2019 tir Briton, \u2018we: will hear .May: this {be fie will send us deliverance frem the Roman swordsmen.\u201d Bidding the Christian missionary Linus follow, the Druid now retired with all his eager crowd to a wide clearing in the forest, in the centre of which grew a magnificent oak.Here, beneath its spreading branches, with his audience gathered in a rough semicircle, Linus (after first breathing thanks to God for mercies hitherto vouchsafed him), read fervently the Lord\u2019s Prayer, inthe language of the andient Britons, amidst a scene of solemn sileace, which was broken only by the whispered comments of his hearers.Then from his precious manuscript be read the opening verses of the fifty-first Psalm, after Son as the -of lost mankind.Many amongst his.audience were not only favorably impressed by the earnest words he uttered, but were stirred to the depths of their souls.\u2018All men must eome to God; he continued, \u2018through faith in a risen Saviour.faith ye shall remove mountaina.Faith is the great moving force in \u2018the world.Away, then, with idols\u2014' ng \u2018greater as she com-|éd @ \u201cIf said:anotber.elder- that be so, then,\u201d fr ot he they, and or sa the Britons, in a sudden Susan | = algacus, one of \u2018the Britons\u2019 feated the Romans more than \u2018once, \u2018Let the stranger perish, even like the former one,\u201d cried several voices, whose owners were quivering with rage, whilst spears were poised to pierce him through, \u2018Nay,\u201d murmured Claudia, a beautiful young woman of the tribe, who for some reason or another had adopted a Latin name, and who hed regarded him with much interest from the first, \u2018be not so wrath and slay not an innocent man.\u2019 as though he would rend Claudia in twain.\u2018Shall our idols suffer insult at the hands of a foreigner?Away with him to the grove.\u2019 No sooner were these words spoken than Linus, who- maintained a composed |, the shouts of the tumultnous , he was hurried through a full summer verdure, till a dark, dismal spot was reached, shadowed on every side by dense woodland.Here he was chained He was then left alone, save for the threats, curses, and howlings of the infuriated mob as they retired from the gloomy place, that was haunted by the records of previous crimes.Great though his faith was, even he was startled on looking round to discover, in various stages of decomposition, the remnanta of many a human sacrifice offered to idols.Though bound and helpless, he 1 nevertheless prayed for deliverence to the God |- who is ever ready to hear.Thus the weary hours dragged on, and the shades of evening began to fall over the forest.\u2018Hist,\u2019 said a voice that came from a élosely- muffled figure, \u2018speak not, but obey my directions, and you shall presently be hidden in a place of safety It was Claudia, who quickly\u201d began to file away the shackles that held the, prisoner.Though the task was a.difficult one, it was finished at last, when the missionary, following his deliverer in silence, was conducted by her to a still more remote part-of the woodlands.By glade, where a hermit in later times might have pitched his habitation; Linus was bidden by Claudia to repose himself in a but made of green boughs.\u2018Here at least you will be safe from my countrymen,\u2019 - she declared, bringing forth some pad! dried ve t soon it may\" Briton | \u2018when that time arrives Claudia will visit you agin.\u2019 She.vanished as she spoke, leaving?the late captive in a happy,thankful frame of mind.Three days passed away, and then so suddenly changed was the mood of.the Britons that, with Claudia at their head, they \u2018approached \u2018his hiding-place, and to the sounds of barbaric music escorted him with every token of honor to their chief village, where they gladly listened to the words of the joyful gospel for the sake of which he had undergone \u2018such great peril, BIBLE TRIPLETS FRIDAY, JULY 7.A GREAT NEED FULLY SUPPLIED.1.A Great Want.\u2014 There was no water\u2019 (Ex.xvii., 1).Eastern desert, for two raillione \u2018of people, besides much cattle.But the people were there by God\u2019s command.We are always in the right place when we are where he has brought us, and there, we may expect, he will supply every need.Our need may be very great, but not greater than he can meet.2.Two Great Faults.\u2014 When we are in trouble we are apt to commit two faults : First, to look at circumétances ; d nou bear thes np further -} er ledged leaders, and who exercised great = Fo influence over .their minds, having de- sudden in your impulses.Abate your : \u2018Innocent!\u2019 shouted the Druid, looking | silence, was seized, bound, and led away 5 to the place indicated by his arch-epemy.| Wek ovens forest glade, now putting.on its + to an oak sapling that grew in the midat.[ the side of à purling stream in a sylvan Ro $16 McG Street.|, A serious want, in an | \u20ac da Lite Butldt | J,&-BUCHAN, H.J.ELLIOTT, J.K.EENKEDY | routes.OR COUNTRY?The Publishers of the \u201cWitness\u201d bave again opened the SUMMER RESORT INFORMATION BUREAU, at the PRINTING HOUSE, corner of Craig and st Peter streets, where those contemplating going to a Summer Resort may, at their leisure, look over interesting Booklets, Pamphlets and Cards, descriptive of the leading Sumimer Resorts of Canada, and the United States, time tables of Railways and Bteamboats reaching these resorts, together with descriptions of the interesting points along the various A oordial invitation is extended to all * Witness\u201d readers to consult the Bureau, which is open during regular office hours.\u201c WITNESS\u201d Also ABENAKIS HOUSE, Abenakis Springs, Que.§ pens for theSeason June 1, 99 THE MOAT DELIGHTFUL SUMMER, RESORT Under the Be ipa is Apes Springs ABENAKIS MINERAL SPRING WATER TAIN CURE FOR mena cIndigoiion, Kidney an General Debility, æe MINERAL WATER BATHS.How to got to Abenakis Springs, FRIDA CURSIONS.Eee iy or ev en a à Pr nil ABENAKIS URE.oats Ea AEAREE se, YFÈE, Agent Riche So, Fo tario Nav.Co, Tobe Jomes Bt, - Hotel Ponce de Leon, TLANTIC CITY, N.J.House is lpoated on ine first-class, Mpec rates uvti.5 K.BWKENY, opt and Owner 4 Market rf, iday, at 1 p.m, for Culs duly 10.LEADING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Woodstock ~- \u201c\u20ac e + Government Agrees to Grant an Inquiry Into the Brockville and West Huron Vote.THIRD READING OF THE REDI TO-DAY\u2014THE INTERCOLONIAL.Ottawa, July 7.\u2014The government et yesterday's sitting of the House of Commons frankly acceded to the request of the Opposition represented by Mr.Borden (Halifax), for an investigation by the committee on privileges and elections of the methods by which the Liberal candidate had won success in West Huron and Brockville.The Redistribution bill was proceeded with in committee and will probably be put through the Lower House to-day.The leader ef -the \u2018Opposition announced that ne iniciiiimonte, will\u2019 be offered in commit too ands rely upon their friends in the Semate to throw out the bill.\"MR.BORDEN\u2019S ACCUSATIONS.Before the orders of the day, Mr.Borden (Halifax) proposed his motion to command the attendance of the clerk of the Crown in Chancery bringing with him the poll books and all papers in connection with the late elections in Brock- ville and West Huron.His intention, he.explained, wes to refer these mat tess to the committee on privileges and D Mr.Borden to the precedents for bis action in this matter, calculated to show that the question was eminently one for the searching investigation of the House it- several consid- self.Mr.Borden instanced erations upon which his call was based.At one poll in Goderich the return showed forty vates cast for Mr.Robert McLean, the Conservative candidate, and seventy-two votes for Mr.Robert Holmes, the sitting member, while between -fifty and sixty men bad sworn thet they voted for Mr.McLean at this c .In another case a bal- od by a party ; and shown to the deputy returning officer, who, tore it up.Another poll Mr.MeLean; had signed solemn sworn to, that they ba showed thirty votes for while forty-three parties declarations, properly d voted-for that Comstock.Again, it was said that returning officers was Mr.Com- Eee ne depui lusion of the returning or deputy returning officers.After referring to the \u2018machine\u2019 whioh had come to be understood as a fraudulent institution existing between the Federal Government and ita \u201cright army\u2019 the Hardy ministry, it was apparent that the same corrupting agencies had been at work in West Huron and West Elgin and had brought the eatest\u2026 di it upon the name of Caneda end which called, moreover, for tiié most searching scrutiny and investigation.He felt sure that his reques would commend itself to the favor of the government.- THE PREMIER CONCURS.\u2018The Prime Minister observed that a principle of the Liberal party had always been to guard at all costs and haz- ase.the purily of our elections.He would say at once that so far as West a very Heriot the he 4 a would.not offer afiy objection to this matter being included in the inquiry before the committee on privileges and But if it were the caee that sothe officers in these elections had shown themselves over zealous and had acted ai partisans, there seemed to be every evidence from the tone of Mr.Borden's remnzks that he would be guilty of the some fault of partisanship in his hand- Ting of the case as a member of the committee.À SIR CHARLES TUPPER.\u2018Bir Charles Tupper followed in a speech of extrmordinary tone, into.which he erowded a geries of charges against the Liberal party of Canada and of Ontario, which he made no attempt to substantiate.He set out by congratulating the Prime Minister upon his action itr this matter, but so bitter was the tone of the baronet\u2019s remarks that it would almost seem as though he were facing a refusal instead of an acceptance to concur in the request of the member for Halifax\u2014es though Sir Charles had prepared his speech for a certain contingency, which had not eventuated, and did mot care about withholding it.Sir Charles spoke of corruption as the staple commodity of the Libbral party, W en dealing in undisgui ONTARIO BY-ELECTIONS.+ pe sé t-tà N 3 ès EC es cross-petitions, and it had happened Montreal + ithe hope that his followers would reattempts at tribery; of the hydra-headed monster of STRIBUTION BILL EXPECTED threatened public rights; of the odious machine of corruption by the Liberals in Ontario.Sir Charles amused the House by what he called « prediction of Sir Richard Cartwright in 1882, of electoral corruption becoming common in Ontario, and claimed that the realization has come to-day.At this point Dr.Landerkin (South Grey), broke out into a loud laugh.The leader of the Opposition turned upon him fiercely with the startling declaration that Nero laughed while Rome burned.; A voice\u2014I thought he fiddled.- The Speaker had to-call Sir Charles to order for an irrelequnt reference to the Mowat Redistribution bill.His reply was: I am sorry, Mr.Speaker, that your mind is of the kind that it eannot, see the relevancy of thie question to the motion before the House.\u2019 (Cries of order.) SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT.Sir Richerd Cartwright was given an unusual ovation on rising.He, in his thirty-five years\u2019 parliementary service, had beheld many curious spectacles, but the spectacle of the honorable senior member for Cape Breton (Sir Charles Tupper) rising to expose corruption, was one which he had never to ere, As Carlyle had very aptly maid, it was à aighit to make the angels and the very weep.(Laughter.) Sir Charles Tupper (looking around),\u2014 I fail to see the angel.Sir\u2018 Richard said that when he spoke as he did in 1882 it had not been with any prophetic instinct; but from long experience of the honorable gentleman\u2019s methods, culminating in 1891, in the spectacle of a quarter of a million dollars of public money being expended by a colleague in debauching some fifteen or twenty constituencies in Quebec.With, out any further atiempt at recrimination he would say that the actions of this government would bear very favorable comparison with those of their opponents.In the cases of West .Huron and Brockville, it was well known that it was within the power of the Conservative party to have tested the purity of the elections; but for reasons best known to these gentlemen they fit to do se \u2014 because, that men who went for wool returned bome shorn from the election courts.However, he had no fault to find with Parliament making its own investigation.In matters.of this or any other Kind direct charges would find the government quite ready to grant investiga- ition.Mr.Geo.E.Casey (West Elgin) referred to Sir Charles Tupper's methods of dealing with the electorate.After a few observations from Dr.Sproule, the motion was adopted.THE REDISTRIBUTION BILL.The redistribution bill was taken up in committee.Dr.Sproule asked what were the general principles upon which the government had acted and why had Hamilton and Ottawa been left untouched ?The Prime Minister stated that the government in the present measure had not aimed at dealing with the correction of the more salient features of the Conservative gerrymander of 1882 and 1892 If the bill had any flaw it was in mot going far enough, for it might have gone much forther.Dr.Sproule wanted information as te what arrangements wère being made in connection with -the board of judges for the delimitation of the ridings.In re ply the Prime Minister promised a statement later.The leader of the Opposition expressed frain from proposing any smendment to this.bill.It was wrong.in principle and framed in utter- disregard of the eonsti- tution, and, holding that.view, he did not intend offering any amendment.The Minister of Customs argued that from this statement it was apparent that the Opposition were coming to appreciate the wisdom of the proposed legislation.The evening sitting of- the House was devoted mainly to a further appeal on the part of Toronto for better representation than she now enjoys.ernment\u2019s reply to this proposition was that Toronto is to have one more.member under the rearrangement than the late government gave her.sar.gennett suggested that one more merrher might he given Simcoe by uniting Kingston and Frontenac.The commitiee rose at 12.25 a.m.IN THE SENATE.SITTING DEVOTED TO AGAIN DISCUSSING THE INTERCOLONIAL EXTENSION.In the Semate yesterday af.ernoon Senator Allan presented the report of the Banking and Commerce Committee on the usury bill.desirability of some legislation in this better to have postponed the considers- had not seen |p; 5, they The gov-, While believing in the THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.tion of the subject until next session.The report.will be taken into consideration to-morrow.or Senator Ferguson drew attention to a telegram sent from Ottawa to the Mari sime Provinces stating that he was endeavoring to oust Sir Mackenzie Bowell\u2019 out of the leadership of the Opposition in the Benate, and that there would be a split iñ the Tory camp over the matter.The was, he said, utterly devoid of troth.No two public men could possibly see more eye to eye than he and Sir Mackenrie Bowell.Neither now nor at any other time had he ever attempt: ed to undermine his honored leader.The debate on the Grand Trunk agree ment bill was resumed by Senator Ferguson, who thought brighter days were in store for the Intercoloniai.but did not think any of that brightness was due to the extemsion to Montreal.Nor did he think any part of the increased traffic was due to the high: freight rates introduced on the road by Mr.Harris.The government hed been very careful to collect these high freights, and as equally careful to return the increase to the people of New Brunswick just previous to the last local elections in that province.Dealing with the Drummond County end of the bargain, he eaid that it was some other consideration that the public interest that induced the government to adopt the scheme.The organizer for the Liberal party, -Mr.Greenshields, had purchased an interest in the road for $24, 000, upon which he stood to win $400,000 if the bill of 1897 had passed.Even as it wae under the present bill he stood to win $236,000.The.announcement that this agreement had been reached had the effect of eending the Grand Trunk stock up with a bound, and Sir Charles.Rivers-Wilson had boest- ed that the company would get its Victoria bridge extended and improved for nothing.So far as the proportion of user of the Grend Trunk berminels by the government was concerned, he thought every one would admit that the traffic of the Grand Trunk was more likely to grow than the traffic of the government road.The result would be\u2019 that the position of affairs so far as better- ments were concerned would be made worse instead of better as time went on.Taking up the supplemental traffic.agreement, he went into ite history.' It was dated February, 1808, a lite while before Mr, Blair had appeared before the Drummond County Railway investigation last session and took an oath to tell all the truth.In the course of a very lengthy statement, for the minister did not wait to be asked questions, Mr.Dlait had not said a word about this agreement.The only allusion to the agreement was to be found in Mr.Wainwright's evidence.This session when the bill was introduced in parliament the traffic agreement\u2019 \u201cas not with it.During the debxte Mr.ir referred to it and read the sebtion ) Md\u2019 trafiie to the In A .That was all he had*fésd, Because that clause gave the gûvernment a very decided advantage.\u201cThe other seven clauses of the agreement were ail quid pro quos to the Grand Trunk.\u2014 The government press had been - inspired to say that the Senate had'\u2019been | aroused to action with regard to uthis agreement by the C.P.R.As a mat ter of fact, the C.P.R.was blissfully ignorant of the existence of the agreement until Sir Mackenzie Bowell put a notice on the paper in the Senate in connection with it.To .the Senate was due\u2019the credit\u201d of unearthing this agreement, a discovery which the supporters of the government in their hearts were not sorry for.: He read Mr.Wainwright's evidence before the investigating committee last scs- sion to show that the handing ovér of the Grend Trunk eastbound freight at Montreal was a part of the first bargain paid the company were compensiition.This being the case he.thought that when the bill reached the committee stage clause forty should be amended po as to give the Intercolonial the handling of .the east-bound freight irrevocably.The next clause of this agreement provided \u2018that the goverñment road should hand over- all New England freight to the Grand Trunk at Levis, but this meant the ruin of the Quebec Central railway.This was an important point and it was a question whether it wae right that to obtain an advantage for the Interetdomial the: Quebec Central Railway should be injured.Dealing.with the clause providing that the\u201d TCR.should hand over all unconsigned westbound freight controlled by the road to the Grand Trunk at Montreal he contended that upcomnsigned freight included ocean-borne freight as well as domestic.This freight must, under the terms of the agreement, be handed over to the Grand Trunk and its western connections.They hoped that in time-all the iron goods used in the country would be made in Cape Breton and all this traffic would have-to be handed over to the Grand Trunk at Montreal and the traffic sent out of the country on the Grand Trunk connections.Ninety pereent of the total freight shipped, -he said, was unconsigned.Senator Templeman denied this, and said that he had been told by Mr.Wainwright that there were ten tons of consigned to one ton of uncongigned freight.Senetor Ferguson said that Senator Templeman had evidently madé üp his mind what kind of a reply he wanted before he asked the question.This a heavy subsidy.The effect\u2019 of the clause was that all trade from England for which concession the rentals to be |- clause was going to militate against the success .of a fast Atlantie service, for which the government would have to pay had to be handled over the Grand Trunk consigned.He decounced the differentials given to the Grand Trunk in the matter of mileage -to Halifax and Bt: John and said that it was quite evident thet in making this agreement Mr.Blair bad not known what he was doing.Between every line of the contract could be read credit and glory to the Senate for its action in throwing out the first contract.Sir Mackenzie Bowell asked if it was the intention of the government before going into committee on the bill to sub mit any amendment to clause forty.The Hou.David Mills replied that he understood that Mr.Wainwright aad seen Sir Mackenzie and expressed the willingness of the Grand Trunk to accept an amendment to the clause which provided that the traffic agreement should continue in force for ninety-nine years, giving the government the optios of terminating it at any time on one year's notice.He read a very lengthy amendment to be submitted in committee providing that within ninety days of the passage of the bill the Grand Trunk should enact a further agreement by which it would consent that the government might terminate the traffic agreement, and on the execution of this &greement a proclamation should issue bringing both agreements into force.Senator Ogilvie asked if this change was made without any claim for damages and the Hon.David Mills replied, \u2018Certainly!\u2019 .Senator Wood wanted to know if this amendment meant that the whole or any part of the traffic egreement could be altered.The Hon.David Mills replied that either the whole or any part of the traffic agreement could be altered.It was a great concession to the government of the day to be permitted to alter tne traffic agreement or terminate it alta- gether on one year\u2019s notice.Senator Power read a note from Mr.- Wainwright saying thet Senator Ferguson was mistaken when he said that he had stated in evidenc that the Gremd Trunk could borrow money at three per cent.; In answer to Senator Perley, the Minister of Justice said that he had communicated the amendment to Sir Mackenzie Bowell and it had been the sub- -ject of correspondence between them to tee if it was not acceptable to the Sen- Sir Mackenzie Bowell thought this statement might lead to a misapprehension of the course he had taken.After his speech on|the motion for the second reading of the bill he had been seen by Mr.Hays and Mr.Wainwright, when the former expressed his surpriee Pat the course he (Sir Mackenzie) had taken, Mr.Waiiwright had asked if clause forty was the source of the ob- 1.They had read a notice to him the oné now.read by the.Minister.of Justice.The only correspondence that ad taken place between himself and the nister of Justice, was & note asking hin if he fntended moving an amendment or accept this one, and an amswer stating that he was not going to move an\u2019 amendment and that this one was not satisfactory.He had also written to Mr.Wainwright and that was all {he correspondence.The Senate resumed at 9.15 pm.when only the Liberal senators were in their places, the Conservative senators: being engaged in caucus.Senator Power moved the adjournment of the debate.MILAN SHOT AT.\u2014 WOULD-BE MURDERER UNDER AR- RE REST, \u2018Belgrade, July 7.-~Former King Milan, King Alexander's father, narrowly escaped assassination here last evening.The swould-be murderer, who is about twenty- eight years old, is under arrest.has not yet been identified.He fired four revolver shots, one of which slightly grazed His Majesty, mnother wounding the hand of Adjutant Lukitch, wao was with him.At the time the attack was made, King Milan was driving through Michael street in an open carriage.: | SAD FATALITY.BOY SHOOTS HIS MOTHER AND SISTER WHILE.PLAYING.SOLDIER.Topeka, Kas, July 6.\u2014Willie Porter, aged nine years, of Coats, Kansas, was playing soldier with a pistol he found in the hired man\u2019s room.\u2018I'l shoot you,\u2019 he said to his baby sister, whé was in her mother\u2019s arms.Then he pulled the trigger, the bullet passing through the baby and the mother, killing them in- stantlv.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.Cornwall, Ont., July 6.\u2014News comes from Massena of the accidental shooting of January Blair, who lives a mile above Messena Springs.Nelson Blair, of Nor- wood, and Thomas Lelonde came along in a buggy and January Blair was standing by the side:of the road talking with them.Lalonde had a 22 calibre revolver which he wae attempting to \u2018load, when the weepon was discharged the bullet striking Blair in the stomach.Dr.McFadden was called, and endeavored to locate the bullet, but did not succeed.He ran a probe in about nine inches, but could not feel the ball.\"Blair is in a critical- condition, and his | owner of the famous horses, died at his He Simeon E.Baldwin, of New Haven; E.ROBERT BONNER DEAD.New: York, July 6.\u2014Robert Bonner, publisher of the New York \u2018Ledger\u2019 and à home in this city to-night.Mr.Bonner has been 'ill for some months, but was abla to be about until about ten days ago.Death was due to a general breaking down of the system.Mr.Boaner was born in Ireland in 1824.Be IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS AMENDMENT EXCLUDING WOMEN COUNCILLORS ADOPTED.London, July 7.\u2014After the closure to the debate on the Military Works bill, the House of Commons yesterday passed the second reading of the measure by n vote of 159 in favor to 53 against, and in the evening rejected the amendment to the London government bill proposed by the Right Hon.Leonard Henry Courtney, Unionist member for the Bod- min division of Cornwall, permitting the election of women as councillors, by a vote of 246 against the amendment to 177 in its favor.The House of Lords amendment providing for the exclusion of women from the office of councillor was then formally agreed to.WAVE OF PROSPERITY.IT HAS EXTENDED TO NEWFOUNDLAND.St.John\u2019s, Nfid., July 7.\u2014Mr.Morine, the Minister of Finance, to-day presented the budget to the Colonial Legislature.The revenue for the fiscal year ended on June 30, was the largest in the history of the colony, except in 1893, when the increase was due to imports designed to replace the property destroyed in the St.John\u2019s fire, The government claims that this marked improvement is due to the general prosperity of the colony.Very few tariff changes are proposed.ee CONGREGATIONAL COUNCIL.INTERNATIONAL GATHERING TO TAKE PLACE IN BOSTON NEXT SEPTEMBER.\u2014 Boston, July 6\u2014The International Congregational \u2018Council will meet in Bos- ten on Sept.20 next.In all it includes » Fripay, Jory 7, 1899.A DOUBLE DEFEAT.Liberals Capture Both Conger.vative Seats in Oldham, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, ONE OF THE DEFEATED CANDIDATES.\u2014 London, July 6.\u2014The Liberal party gained two Parliamentary seats, to-day, in the by-election held in the double-bar.relled constituency of Oldham, to fill the dual vacancy caused by the death last month of Mr.Robert Asher veuves and the subse of his Conservative colieague, Mr.Francis Oswald, who he ost pac pointed by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, to po steward and bailiff of the Mopar Northstead.\u201camor of The following are polls:\u2014Mr.Alfred Emmett, Libera Radical, 1,076; Mr.Walter Benn?Liberal and Radical, 12,770; Mr.Winston Spencer Churchill], Conservative, 11,477; Mr.J.W.Maudsley, Conservative, 11.449; Messrs.Oswald and Ashcroft at the time of their election, polled respectively 12,465 and 13,085 Conservative votes.Today\u2019s election therefore, is a distinct Conservative reverse.Mr.A.Emmett, the successful Liberal and Radical candidate, who holds the poil f1 to-day's election in Oldham,is a wealthy cotton-spinner of Oldbam.He is a cou sin of Mr.J.Emmett Barlow, Liberal member for the Frome division of Somer setshire.His brother married Lady Constance Campbell, daughter of the Duke of Argyll.Mr.Walter Runciman, the other successful Liberal and Radical candidate, is also a local man.He it 29 years of age, and a son of My.Walter Runciman, of Newcastle, He is a member of the firm of Walter Runciman & Co., of London and Newcastle.WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.An election for member of Parliament was held yesterday in the Osgold Cross division in the West riding of Yorkshire, Sir John Austin, Liberal Home Ruler, who had resigned his seat in the House of Commons, owing to differences with the Liberal Association regarding local veto, was re-elected \u2018over Mr.Roberts, Independent Liberal, the vote being:- Austin, 5,818; Roberts, 2,893; majority for Austin, 2,925.At the general Par Hamentary election in July, 1895, Sir John Austin received 5,119 votes, and Mr.J.Harding, the Coneervative candidate, received 4,054: oft, Conser.quent resignation the results of (pe Yi \u201c States, 108 from Great : Britata, 20 from Canada, 10 from Australis, and one from Japan.Of the British, 28 are from London alone, while the other large cities and the counties are well represented.Among the names best known in this country are those of Principal Andrew M.Fairbairn, of Oxford University, the Rev.Dr.Alexander Macken- ral, of Bowdon, in Cheshire; Prof.John Massie, of Oxford; Mr.A.J.Shepheard, of London, who will be one of the vice- presidents; the Rev.Prof.Andrew 1\".Simpson, of Midlothian, and Prof.A.S.Wilkinson, of Manchester.The Canadian delegation includes the Rev.Principal J.H.George, and the Rev.Dr.Warriner, of Montreal, and from Australia, one of the delegates is the Rev.Llewellyn D.Bevan, of -Melbourne, who will be one of the vice-presidents.The Japanese delegate is Isuneteru Mi- yagema, of Osaka.When it comes to the delegates from the United States the list includes many well-known men.In the number ai Lyman Abbott, Dwight L.Moody, Wash* ington Gladden, Newman Smyth, Judge W.Blatchford, of Chicago, who was vice- president of the American Board when the Rev.Dr.Richard 8.Storrs was president; Mr.Justice David J.Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court; Mr.Samuel B.Oapen, of Boston; the Rev.Dr.Francis E.Clark, president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor ; Ljieut.-Gov.Murray Crane, of Massachusetts; Rowland G.Hazard, of Peacedale, R.1.; the Bev.Dr.Henry A.Hazen, sec- Council; the Rev.Henry Hopkins, of Kansas City, Mo., son of the late president Mark Hopkins, of Williams College ; Samuel Johmeon, of Boston; the Rev.Dr.Charles M.Lamson, of Hartford, Conn., president of the American Board; the Rev.John K.McLean, of Oaldand, Cal., who will be one of the vice-presi- dents of the council; the Rev.Dr.F.A.Noble, of Chicago; Judge Henry C., Robinson, of Hartford, Conn.; ex-Sena.tor Arthur H.Wellman, of Malden, Mass.; and G.Henry Whitcomb, of Worcester.a.OFF.TO CAPE BRETON.Halifax, N.8., July 6.\u2014~The warships \u2018Crescent,\u2019 \u2018Indefatigable,\u2019 and \u2018Proserpine,\u201d and the torpedo destroyer \u2018Quail,\u2019 started this morning on their cruise to Cape Breton, and Newfoundland, Vice- Admiral Bedford is on board the flagship \u2018Crescent.eral VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY QUESTION.: I*aris, July 6.\u2014The Venezuelan arbitra: tion commission resumed to-day.Sir Richerd Webster, the British delegate, THE NIGER CO MR.CHAMBERLAIN EXPLAINS WHY HE VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE TRANSFER.- London, July 6.\u2014Mr.Joseph Chamber lain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, made a personal statement in the House of Commons to-day with reference to the comment which has been aroused by tho fact that though a ehareholder in the Niger Company, he had voted in fevor of the transfer of thet corporation\u2019s territory to the British Government.Mr.Chamberlain ssid, in effect, that his interest in the Niger Company was three thousand pounds, and that when the question of the revocation of the company\u2019s charter arose, he asked the Marquis of Salisbury and his colleagues in the government to relieve him of any participation in the negotiations.In ac cordance with this request the negotie- tions have been entirely in the hands of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer.Mr.Chamberlain added tlat he had voted for the resolution of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, which was only formal, but that he would not partic pate in any future discussion or vote.If, Mr.Chamberlain concluded, he voted 88 a shareholder he would vote against the trensaction.A DENIAL FROM SIR HIBBERT.\u201cVançouirer, B.C., July 6 \u2014Sir Hibbert Tupper arrived last night from Ottaw: The Martin organs have claimed that he came out at \u2018the invitation of the Minister of Finance, Mr.Cotton, to be come a member of the Provincial Cabinet: Gir Hibbert mid to-day tbat he hed no communication from Mr.Cotton on any question since the latter became a minister.He declared that he had not the slightest intention of resigning his seat for Pictou to take part in pro vincial politice.0 HAD YELLOW FEVER ON BOARD.New York, July 6.\u2014The United States trevsport \u2018McClellan\u2019 arrived to-day from Santiago, and was detained at quarantine.The surgeon of the transport reports thet three of the passengers have yellow fever.Two of these are cabin passengers.One is Miss Clendennang, daughter of the surgeon in charge at Santiago, whose death from yellow fever is reported.TRE DAILY WITNESS is printad and published st the * Witnes* Building, shibesurser of Oralg | Bt.Peter streets, in the city of Maentaeal, by td Redpath Dougall, of Montreal 0 All business communications should be sdidressed John D mgall & Son, * Ofios, Montresl, and @ letters to thé should be addsesred continued his argumept om behalf of direction, be thought it would have been corruption, the octopus whose tentacles line from Montreal west if it was un- recovery is doubtful.Great Britain.Hait.e of the \u201cWinn, Montsesl "]