The daily witness, 1 février 1900, jeudi 1 février 1900

[" louis à Institute ; Trafalgar Square London SW Pages =% OL Vor.XLINNo.27.\"ANOTHER BATTLE.Rumored in London That Buller has Recrossed the Tugela.LTS ® + ow © \u2014\u2014\u2014 COLUMN IS DIVIDED, And Fight has Been in Progress all Day.\u2014\u2014 BOER REPORT FROM LADYSMITH \u2014DISTRIBUTION OF THE * STRATHCONA HORSE.London, Feb.1, 4.30 p.m\u2014The \u2018St.James's\u2019 Gazett\u2019 says it is reported on good authority that General Buller has crossed the Tugela River at three places and that fighting has been proceeding all day long.The actual news from South Africa [E is of little intzrest.General Buller maintains silence as to his future move ments; but it is generally supposed that he is maturing another attempt to reach Ladysmith.A letter appears to-day, from a Hanoverian oficer, formerly of the 22nd Ger man Infantry; but now among the military advisers of the Boers, which says that nearly ten thousand trained European soldiers, including quite three hundred officers, are among the Boers.Referring to the military situation at Ladysmith, the officer says: \u2018Owing to the strength of our position, on a circle of heights like Sedan, we cannot be brushed aside except by a relief column outnumbering us two to one Owing to the discovery that cotton khaki is insufficient protection for troops sleeping on the South African plains, the government is starting to reclothe the fortes in the field with woollen khaki, ang\u2019 has already ordered 95,000 sui £ t ds : @ Tu \u201c8 Gal shippers have captrsoted \u201cto | > supply foreign agents with four Hundred thousand tons of steam cé6al for shipment abroad has occasioned gemitine un- i easiness.The destination of the fuel is 1 not mentioned, but as coal is exception- a ally scarce in Germany, France and Rus te sia, it is probably going to one \u2018of those F.thre: countries.The vital interest le which the question has for Great Bri- \u20ac tain will be understood when it is rea- 18 lized that Natal is depending on Wales 8 for coal for the numerous ships that L- have gone to Durban, because the col- T onial coal fields have been closed by the war.Some of the newspapers advocate the government placing an embargo on such transactions \u2018n war times.MODDER RIVER FIGHT.; JULIAN RALPH REPEATS THE STORY OF BOERS FIRING ON BRITISH AMBULANCES.\u2014o\u2014tme= London, Feb.1\u2014There is nothing to be gained by creating needless prejudice against the Boers and, indeed, a brave #ldier such as General Buller has refused to cast reflections upon the enemy.jut at the same tithe we cannot ignore the .iacts, particularly when they are presented to us by an independent ob- se, Julian Ralph, an American J alist, writing of the Modder river fight, which he declares to-have been one of the most terrific of history, says: \u2018With my own eyes, béing \u2018upon the scene, I saw the putt-putt gun, and the ire of the sharpshooters trained upon the ambulances three times, and upon our stretcher-bearers on innumerable occasions, in fact whenever they -at- tempted to perform their work.\u201d\u201d The Killing of wounded men, and the snoot- Ing ambulance corps, which are ciearly established, will not increase the Boer 1m public estimation.NAMES TAKEN FROM WAR.BATTLEFIELDS AND GENERALS FIGURE IN ENGLISH GHRIS- TENING CRAZE.Iron, Feb.1\u2014A strange craze has .Saried mn England similar to that of , 5 LAN: Jubilee\u2014the christening of girls \u2018 + cAtce.; .Fw vegistrar, in an interview, tells others with soldier relatives are ë Luz hebles after the battles in which 7 riilers or other relatives have been raed.(Flencoe is a favorite.Modder, really means muddy, also is be- = neh used, while Elandslaagte is al- ¥ \u2018rout .name considerably taken.= \u201cRoberts went out thére bas heen 4-great run on the namie \u2018Bobs\u2019 at baptismal ceremonies.A BOER REPORT.; Hoofd Laager, Ladysmith, Tuesday, Jan.30.\u2014All is quiet here.The Long Toms occasionally fire on Ladysmith.The dedths in Ladysmith from fever and other causes must be enormous, as we clearly see them burying, corpses daily.General Joubert went to the Upper Tugela yesterday.New York, Feb.1.\u2014Advices from Spearman\u2019s .Camp say that General Warren\u2019s retreating force crossed the Tugela river without the loss of a single man; but got away none too soon, a Boer fifteen pounder firing at the cavalry column as it was retiring.The Boers are mounting another big gun to fire on Ladysmith.LEYDS TO AGAIN VISIT VON BULOW.Berlin, Feb.1\u2014The \u2018Magdeburger Zeitung\u2019 learns that Dr.Leyds will in all probability be again received - by Count Von Bulow.\u201cThe greatest sec cy is, however, observed regarding this visit.+ FOUGHT OVER THE WAR.Danville, Ills., Feb.1.\u2014Frank Speicht, a German whq-has an English wife, and William Shoenfhker, an Englishman with a German wife, got, into an argument over the Boer war last night.The injured :\u2014Frank Speicht, stabbed three times with a pitchfork, may die ; Willliam Shoemaker, badly beaten and scratched; Mrs.William = Shoemaker, scratched and hair torn out; Mrs.Frank \u2018Speicht, badly bruised and scratched.At the beginning of the fracas the wo-: men stood valiantly for their own nationality, but as the fight progressed each: forgot country and fought for her husband: .When the police arriyed, Speicht was unconscious and bleeding profusely, while the women were tear ing each other\u2019s clothes and hair.KING MENELIK.REPORT THAT HE IS ARMING CON- © TRADICIED.= New York, Feb.1.\u2014A despatch.from Rurich states that reports that Menelik is arming are untrue apd \u2018the Negus has rejected: the French and.Russian counsel to-attack the British from the.¥éar.'GOEBFL IS GOVERNOR.Frankfort, Xy., Feb.1~Willism Goe-| bel, Democratic candidate for governor of the\u2019 state, whose SEX mp THF \u2018| noon the Court held that defendant had | notified to call upon the police magis | rate, which BLIND CONFIDENCE.THE STRATHCONA HORSE/ ?mem > ORDEE OF DISTRIBUTION OF THE DIFFERENT SQUADRONS MADE KNOWN.Ottawa, Feb.1.\u2014Recruiting for the Strathcona Horse will commence on Monday next.Its distribution will: be as follows: \u2014 - A squadron\u2014First troop, Manitoba, 40; second troop, Moosomin, 40; third troops, Regina, 40; fourth troop, Prince Albert and Battleford, 40; total, 160.B Squadron\u2014First.troop, Calgary, 40; second troop, Edmonton, 40; third troop, MacLeod, 20; third troop, Pinclier Creek, 20; fourth troop, Lethbridge, 20; fourth troop, Medicine: Hat and Maple Creek, 20; total, 160.: C Squadron\u2014First troop, Fort Steele, 40; second troop, Nelson, 40; third troop, Golden, 10; third troop, Revelstoke, 10; third troop, Vernon, 15; fourth troop, Kamloops, 15; fourth troop, Vancouver, 15; fourth troop, Victoria, 15; total, 180.Grand total, 480 men.°° » 4 NOMINAL DAMAGES.JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF HOR- NER VS.THE \u2018STAR\u2019 The long-expected judgment in the well-known case of Edward Herman Hor- ner.vs.Hugh Graham, was rendered by Judge Tellier yesterday afternoon.This will be remembered as.an action for $15,000 damages taken against the ed in that journal, in May, 1895, in which the plaintiff and his business Were: referred to in terms which he considered sufficiently libellous to erititle :him to claim the above-mentioned amount.The plea to the action was that the charges made were true in substance, that they were made in good faith and in- the.public interest, and the plaintiff's bad reputation was also invoked ds a justi fication.Lo .In rendering judgment yesterday aftér failed to prove \u2018that the charges were \u2018true in substance and in fact.It Was falsely alleged that plaintiff had been ; arrested on May 4, 1895, on a charge, of conducting a bogus bond concern.The: fact was that Horner had\u2019 simply béén he did, and -no -arrest fol lowed.| Lo held that the ar > \u201cThe Court further 1 his business and brought.them into :¢on-f: he Generals are also honored, and since who is-itill in -&- critics dition, last night avrcim in \u2018ss\u2019 goversior of: state, © Cie X your eyes, and I will give you a glad surprise.\u2019 i = Ny 15 144 :\u2018 ~ 1 T years ago, while dealing in European | public interest.\u2018Star,\u2019 on account of an article publish- | \u201cticle maliciously ridiculed plaintiff and | r= a ae dre AH AA FL AVIS MS A0 00 0 00 00 10 presuméd to be the-natural or probable consequence of the defendant\u2019s liHéllous article.The defendant was entitled to offer in mitigation of .plaintiffs general damages the general bad character of plaintiff and of his business before the date of the libel.- .The evidence did not show the repu- vious to the article, nor the nature of the business he was carrying on ms broker.a.Plaintiff, at the time, was hardly known in Montreal, except by a few: innocent dupes he had \u2018made here, many Government and municipal bonds, and living in the city of New York.Defendant had established that the plaintiff\u2019s general name, fame and reputation, on account of the business he had carried on in the city of New York, previous to his coming \u2018here, were- so notoriously bad that they eould not be impaired by any fresh accusation, even though undeserved.a Defendant failed to prove that the main purpose of plaintiff was to carry on here the same kind of business as in New York.@ = .Defendant failed to prove that plain- cern, and consequently did not show that the article was published in the On the whole, the Court came to the conclusion that, under the circumstances of the case, the plaintiff could not ges more than nominal damages of $50, and \u2018judgment was rendergd in his favor for that amount with costs\u2018 of a claim for the same sum.Co vert RIOTERS PUNISHED.London, Ont., Feb.1.\u2014Judge Edward Elliott yesterday \u2018 passed sentence on: -six prisoners convicted of \u2018offences in\u2019 connection with the street railway troubles.- Richard Howard, convicted of setting fire to a street car at Pottersburg, -on the night of Aug.29, last, was sen- \u201ctenced to two years in Kingston peni- tentidry.Howard is a young man about twenty years of age.1 à James Barrett, ior throwing stones, waa.sentenced.to.nine months in the - Central prison.- Fred Goodacre,:for rioting snd turning the switch at Lyle street, was fined fifty | dollars and sentenced to two months.in.jail from Dec.16 last.Jn default of \"| opened to-day with the usual formali- out \u2018resort to and recover general damages | tation of.plaintiff; in Montreal, ore-|: tiffs business here was of public con-|- payment of the fine, two months will.be | PARLIAMENT MEETS.Opening was Attended by the Customary Display.\u2014 SESSION SHOULD BE SHORT.Legislative Bill of Fare.Presented is a Distinctly Meagre One, N Eu Corns a RESPECTING THE CONTINGENTS TO SOUTH AFRICA, CANADIAN\" BANKING LAWS AND THE CENSUS.Ottawa, Feb.1.\u2014The fifth session of the Eighth Parliament of Canada was ties.Most of the members as they arrive in the Capital are bemoaning the probable protraction of the.session into the warm weather.Nobody knows just why both Houses should not have the decks cleared of business by, thet first of May, yet curiously enough nobody expects that they will.The majority think that it will take the stifling atmosphere cincts to sbut off further debate.SPEECH FROM \u201cTHE THRONE.The following is the speech from the throne:\u2014 00° Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Commous: It is again my pleasing duty to congra-, tulate you.on the continued prosperity of the Dominion, and on the remarkable increase in the general volume of the revenue, and of the exports and imports of the country.BN \" SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.; materially to the 1 vessels Baving a of midsummer in the parliamentary pre- | and Cold.7 mye Prick ONE CExr.; which hes attended the efforts of my government ¢o promote immigration, Ta I have no doubt that the.greatly increased production of the west will hencef odd owth of the tr whois Dominion.& th ot se \u201cde o£ che While the efforts made te secure increased population for the west have thus been successful much\u2019 aifention has also been devoted to the repatriation of Cana- dlans who in less prosperoustimes have left Canada.You will be pleased to learn t that this work has been attended with att isfactory results.ES RAILWAY LEGISLATION.My government during the recess has been giving its attention to the subject of à railway commission.Valuadle information has been and is still being collected, which when completed will be submitted to you and will no doubt recelve at your hands - the earnest consideration which the importance of the aubject.requires.ce CANAL IMPROVEMENTS.I am pleased connec! Ane raught of fourteen pass from the head of Lake Superior tothe sea.The vigorous and successful construés \"- tion of these works by the government has: already attracted the attention of those ip- terested in western transportation and thers ere good grounds for the hope that when the necessary facilities for the quick and inexpensive handling of ocean traffic are provided and which are now in progress, Canadian ports will control a, much larger share of the traffic of the West.COMING LEGISLATION.Measures will be introduced to renew and amend the existing banking laws, to regulate the rate of interest payable upon judgments recovered in courts of law, to provide for the taking of the next decennial ceneus for the better arrangement of the electoral districts, to amend the criminal code amd the gaws relating to other important eub- PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.Gentlemen of the House of Commons: ; The public accounts will de laid before you and also the estimates for the ming Tet ih bare been prepared \u2018with due ges Dominiear omy and the rapid growth of Honorable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Commons: I commend to your consideration the subjects I have mentioned, confiding in your patriotism and judgment.ns myo ROBSON ELECTED.London, Ont., Feb.1.\u2014Full returns of yesterday's provincial by-élection ia East Middlesex, give Capt.Robson, Conservative, 47 votes majority.The votes stood: \u2014 © _ Westminster\u2014Robron, 440; - McWil- liams, 750.2 5 West \u2018Missouri-Rébapn, 385; McWil- liams, 287.Hostilitles having unfortänately broken \u2018during the.recess \u2018Between Great: Brit- aly.and {hp Sputh Afrécan \u2018Republic; loÿalty of the entire people of the \u2018Sovereign Iams By m is.Empire.4 In this connection it is a matter of pride and\u2019 gratification (to.the.people of this Do- minfon that in\" addftion to the contligenta sent -by the roverument another Canadian force -4s being organized and 'despatched at the personal expense of the High Commissioner of Canada.This generous and patriotic Strathcona reflects high honor ou him and on the Dominion he represents.;__- APPRECIATED BY THE QUEEN.Her Majesty's high appreciation of \u2018the loyalty \u2018an1 patriotism thus.displayed, which, - following .the preference - granted under the present tariff to articles of British manufacture, has had the happiest effect in cementing aod intensitying- the cc1dial- relations subsisting between Canada and the Mother Country.A bill will be submitted for your ap- preva) making provision for the cost of equippicg and paying the Canadian contingents.- : TRANSPORTATION OF FOODSTUFFS.The measures which have been taken \u2018transportation of fopdstuffs to European markets, have resulted in a large increase in the expartation of several, Important.articles - of \u2018 produce; \u2018and \u2018it \u2018nday become necessary -In the éntterest of this very im- rcriant branch of industry to require a mci® careful inspection than has been customary for tlid purpose of \u2018maintaining that high standard of excellence heretofore se- cmed, and which is absolutely indispensable, if the people -of Canada are to increase their large and profitable trade with other countries in these ities.es POSTAL RETURNS.1 am gl:d to observe that the returns from the Post-Office Department aft rd good ground for believing that the temporary Ices of ravenue, cauged by the great reduction recently made in letter postage.crmespondence consequent -thereon.THE WEST INDIES.: Negotiations are iow in progress with aeveral of oir sister colonies ii the West: creasing \u2018and developing our trade.with.these islands, and possibly\u2019 with certain portions of the adjacent continent bfi Soüta \u2018America, Ee © PROTECTION OF RAILWAY EM- \u2019 PLOYEES.\u2019 It F4 - that, in pursuance.of policy whicki -was arefully devised regulations have been adopted applicable to all raflways.and pub- Mc Works within the Federal Jurisdiction, making adequate provision {or the sanitary protection and medical care of workingmen.LABOR TROUBLE.\u201cThe attention of the government has been called to the conflicts which: oqgasionally ripe between workingmen and their employ- \u2018ers.While it may not bé possible to wholly prevent such difficulties .by legislation, my \u201caAn@ Ynstitiftions \u2018of the Brit: |.action upon the part of Lord I have been instructed to convey to you ! from time to time to facilitate the safe - will speedily be made good by ths incr:ased | IL ey which is is hoped may resulv rn dn- | me great pleasure to observe defined at the last: session of parliament | Bh ajorities-West .M -Rob- = \u2018son, 48 majority; Westminster, MeWil- liams, 310 majority; London \u201cTownship, Robson, 317 majority; London.West, McWilliame, 65 \u2018mäjoritr: North Dor chester, Robson, 57 mâjority; total majority for Robson, 47.Ta - KWANG-SU'S RETIREMENT.London, Feb.1.\u2014The Shanghai\u2019 doves pondent of the \u2018 Times\u2019 says: - The } peror Kwang-Su continues to issu\u20ac edicts.* in his own name.Nanking aiid Wu- Chang officials consider that his\" fame: diate retirement is improbable.: Berlin, Jan.31.\u2014The \u2018Lokal Angeiger\u2019 reprints an alleged secret decree issued by the Empress Dowager of China.to the governors of the provinces, exhorting them to strong measures againgt -for- eigners and even to war.\u2018The language is very violent, .\u2018 SCOTTISH RITE MASONS.Hamilton, Ont; Feb.- T\u2014The *tyvren- tieth ahnual reutiion:of the Scottish - Rite.A.F.and A.M., began here yesterday, in the handsome :quarters of the.Scot: tish Riters, in the Magonic Hall.De grees from the fourth to the fourteenth, | ware worked! by Miirton-Yiodge of Perface: tion.Among the visitors regi :80.far are H.LL.Lyman, 30; S: 32, Ottawa; and a: large number à from different pérts-\u2018of \u2018the Kingston, \u2018On: son and Reid, ; \u2018Simpson, Piddin cepted \u201cthe cor could.be.made for the.friéndly Interventi of hoards of gonciliatiod, the Conclusions \u2018of which, while \u2018not.legdlly binding, \u2018would \u201chave much weight with -both \u2018sides : usefu nion to bear on \u2018those.\u20ac pce ou will be invites There was no evidence of special dam ages \u2018or \u2018injury in consequence of.this by \u2018added.: +2 she Te 0e | Whether thé: progiciel, ation.In.this | Wim.H.\u2018Tarling, Wim.Jelfries- and,| majter may not be\" usefully supplemented | .Wm.Hayes were each pondemned to {by an ensgtment providing for the efi) m pay su fine of.twenty-five.dolinrs bad Rev ve \u201csettlement bf sich questions,\u2019 | 0.yi: in il.pial YT Aga 2 TIDE OR RA: oa Sy 8 +: - Albert E MoNamarg wes: bro} 2k La hapgy Re 10 Laudé ta Manle end Aie serial reduced 9 payment a nd fa th nt su a of a fine of-fiîteen dollazs-he: willide re arpedtban-in any Breviots yee, and; od government thinks that many of the dis- | * 1 putes.might.be averted if better provisions | 1d.b friendly intervention | Montreal, 163\" 1 in bainging ea .intelligent.public | winds, fair | 1 - | Bound,\u201d mn below; belé 2.MATHS, MARRGTÉES AND DEATH Noticee of birthe, marriages arv! draths muxi 'nceri- *abiy be endorecd wick the name and address of the -, sender, or.otheritise no natice can be taken of them Birth notices are {nseried for de, morriage notices Jor 800, death.notions for Sho prepaid.The announcement of funeral appended.to death notio:, ?5e extra; other extension to obitusry, sush as snort sketch af Lis two cents per.word extra, emcept, | poetry, which 6e 0 cents per line extra\u2014propaid.Annual subscribers nay Nave announcements of births, marriages and deatkafroithous extended obituary or _ verses) oceurring ix their émmedtiate families, free \"of charge, in which case name and address af sub- .scrtbers should be given BIRTHS.MOONIE.\u2014At Abernethy, N.'W.T., Assa., on : Jan.20, 1900, à daughter to Mr.and Mrs.R.D.Moonie.31 MARRIED.- cot DAVIDSON\u2014HUTCHISON.\u2014At St.David's \u2018manse, Albany Terrace, Dundee, Scotland, on Jan.1, 1900, by the Rev.R.S.Warren, Henry Davidson, E.R.A., H.M.S.\u2018Pem- .broke,\u2019 Chatham, to, Devina Siewart, \u2018daughter: of -Davig Hutchison, rley oFlace, Clepington Road, Dundee.31 FRASER\u2014CONN:-On Wednesday, Jan.24, ., by the Rev.D.J.Graham, of White «Lake, Mr.John 8.Fraser, of McNabb, to *Miss 1da J.Conn, only daughter of Thos.¥Conn, ot Horton, Ont.TON \u2014 STEPHENSON \u2014 On Dec.28, 1899, at St.Andrew's, Thoresby, Alford, England, by.tha Rev.FF.H.Dalby, vicar of Holy 'Frinity, Galasborough, assisted -by the Rev.James Paterson, rector of the.parish, thr Rev.Charles Henry, youngest zon of the late E.C.Lenton, Hornoastio, to Éleauor .Ada\u2018 (Nora), youngest daughter of Leslie W.Stephen- sno, Thorénby.No cards.1 ' DIED.BLEVINS.\u2014At: his late residence, 257 Ger- rard street east, Toronto, on Jan.29, 1900, John Blevins, barrister, clty clerk, 2 native of Armagh, Ireland, in the 71st year of his age.: 31 CAY9 TPELL\u2014On Tuesday, Dec.12, 1899, suddenly, at her home in Bristol, Que.Eliza Isabella Gorden, widow of the late 1 Richard Cdmpbell, aged sixty-four years.1 GRANGE.\u2014At the residence of her son, D'Oyly Grange, M.D., Harrogate, England, on Jan.20, 1900, of influenza, Hellena Maria Grange, widow of the late Major Charles Walter Grange, Royal Canadian Rifles, and eldest daughter of the late Colonel Kingsmill, in her 80th year, 81 LEGGAT\u2014In this ofty, -m Jan.81, 1900, Jenie C.Leggat, deughter of James and Christina H, ILcggat.- \u2014.\u201cFuneral wlll be held from her father's residence, 16 St.Denis strest, on Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.1 MELDRUM\u2014At Bristol, Que., on Dec, 30, 1899, Mary Collins, relict of the late John Meldrum, ia ber eighty-seventh year.MOONIE.\u2014At Abernethy, N.W.T., Assa., un Jan.21, 1900, infant daughter of Mr.and Mrs.R.D.Moonie.- 31 ROSS\u2014On Jan.29, 1900, at 270 Concession street, Ottawa, Rebecca Ross, Deloved wife of Wm.G.Ross, in her 32nd year.IN MEMORIAM.IFERT-Entored into rest,\u2019 at Quebec, sn.Feb.1, 1899, Jean Muga beloved wife \u201c@.BE.\u2018Seifert.AL aa § 2d 44 os | Les TRE ~ > .1 Notices Teceired too late far this page \u2018Tay ros«itly heir time for page & Those sending notices for the abovs column may send edl Gem a list of names af interested JSriends, wlarlul cozies of the * Witness\u2019 containing such Mockse reiil be mand free to any address ia Canada ante?exeepied.\u2014\u2014\u2014 tmnt mn MA ee SUR am Re LTS : ps FAIR, so that a visit to it will be both FIVE THOUSAND SAMPLES Thé exhibitors have made arrangements to give away five thousand sari- ples of the goods exhibited and give präctical demonstrations bow te prepare.v@- VISIT THE FOOD FAIR.mS, CARSLEY CO.Limited Montreal's Greatest Store.Feb.1, 1900.«~~~ Notre Dame street.morrôw.tity of many of the items is small, and that the prices are so ridiculously low.loss to the company, but stock-taking comes but once a year and the accumulation of these short but useful lengths velvets, etc., and odd lots of hosiery must be cleared out.THE MANAGEMENT of The Big Store desires to point nut one fact\u2014the quantities being small will not last long, so on, so ladies intending to buy any particular goods will kindly come early to avoid disappointment.SHEETINGS.To-morrow will be a gala day in the Sheeting Store.Regular.Friday.T2-in.Grey Sheeting.$ .154$ .12% 72-in.White Sheeting .21 .16 72-in.White Twill Sheeting .23 .18 LADIES NIGHT GOWNS, 150 Ladies\u2019 White Cambric Nightgowns, tucked yoke, lace neck and front, splendid value at 55e each; special, tomorrow, 42c.MEN'S CLOTH CAPS.Here's a bargain that appeals to your head comfort.Winter Caps, made of pilot cloth, quilted lining, sliding band, bound silk, well finished, worth 45c; sale price, Z7c.MORRIS CHAIRS.Comfort lovers will rejoice at this liberal offer: Only 12 Morris Chairs, left over from holiday trade, neatly upholstered spring or loose cushions, four colors, regular, $5.00; to-morrow, $3.60.IN THE CHINAWARE.- There is always use for Chinawere at these pricés: | ; Regular.Friday.300 Teapot Stands.$ .15- 8 .10 360 Cuspidores.20 13 1200 Decorated Plates.10 .05 150 Bisque Figures.25 Jd J 1765 to 1785 Notre Dame at.END THE FOOD FAIR | AT THE BIG STORE.oo To-morrow there will be special attractions at The Big Stores FOOD Stocktaking Sledge Hammers.The Big Store will make one of its supreme efforts in \u2018Bargain Giving\u2019 to- EVERY ITEM mentioned below is matchless for value.e:S; CARSLEY-CO., Limited 184 to 194 St.James st.Montreal \" THE MONTREAL interesting and profitable.' GIVEN AWAY TO-MORROW, » The quan- it is chiefly on account of that reason To-morrow\u2019s selling will be a distinct of linens, silks, dress goods, flannels, It\u2019s our loss.some half an hour, some one hour, and : MEN\u2019S PANTS.No man can comprehend the marvellous cheapness of these pants unless he sees them.CL 300 Pairs Men\u2019s Tweed Pants, well made, dark gray stripes, splendid value, $1.25; sale price, 68c.: MEN'S COLORED SHIRTS.This is a Skirt Opportunity.Selling.regardless: of their former prices, good patterns, we!l made shirts, special for spring wear, worth 65e and 75c; sale price, 49c.: LEATHER PURSES.There are nearly 150 of these purses to.choose from; they're not to be taken into stock, and must go.: Imitation Alligator Leather, in gray, brown and red, worth 28c; sale price, 18c.SILVER THIMBLES.Sterling Silver Thimbles, beautifully chased, well finished, all sizes, hundreds sold at 25e and 30c each and good value, at that price, sale price, 17e.GROCERIES.- Regular.Friday.Condensed Milk .8 .15 $ .10 Orange aid Lemon Peel.15: .10 Best Stewing Prunes .10 08% English Breakfast Tea.30 .24 Imported Pickles.30 .20 Ready-made Cake Icings.12% .10 \u2018Desideratum Table Jellies.12 10 he THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEB.1.Tm=pg ES & CO.+g UNDERTAKERS, E 300 8, James St.Teleshones, Main, 327.Untown, 1501, 8160.i.WE SELL Fireplace Goods and Wooden Mantels, ete.We are agents for ~ \"M:nton\u2019s Tiles and Mosaics \u2014 \" and-bave a large stock on hand.THE C.R.LOCKER CO.Importers Pottery & Earthenware, 1349 NOTRE DAME STREET DIAMOND RINGS .Genuine Diamond, AE, 2 88, 810, $12, 815.EF\u201d Best valuein thecity.EDDING RINGS.: line of : d weights.kept.constantly in 18 kat, i, Bo OER Tt har Sh to he o i iy yxchangs:.Jewellery repaired and : ; e sn dver.Seba s à repsired.Warranted year, gr b rin; in Bpringand Cleaning, $150.- Corner.St.Catherine and .University sts, Will open ina few days TF ris me Tn mal a = UNG WOMAN'S TERRIBLE : Winnipeg, Feb.1\u2014A dreadful acci- dent-occurred yesterday afternoon on the premises of the Great West Laundrv Cétapany when æ.young woman employed there, named Gndrunr Johannsen, was caùglit by.hér.skirts in the uncovered portion of a-shafi- revolving ahout two Fant from ths floor.\u201d She was whirled | - around by the machinery, her head being _ crudhed and: both her shoulders broken.\u201c The pdr woman only lived twenty mu | utes after the accident.SN pre.BRITISH PARLIAMENT.* DEBATE MARKED BY S/R -R.T.REID'S ARRAIGNMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.London, Feb.1.-\u2014Thére was an utter lack of interest in yesterday's debate in the House of Commons.At no time was the House well filled.\u2018The speeches were academic, travelled in deep worn ruts, and did net touch upon the future, { in wkieh alone the public is much interested.The only sign of animation during the whole session was when Bir Robert Threshier Reid attacked the South African committee, drawing forth cries from the Irish members of \u2018publish.the Hawkesley letters.\u2019 oC Mr.A.J.Balfour, replying to the suggestion of Sir John Henry Kenna- way, Consérvative member for the Honi- ton division of Devonshire, said he regretted that it would be contrary to precedent to curtail the debate, as the amendment was a vote of censure upon which the fate of the government depended.Sir Robert Threshier .Reid, Liberal member for the Dumfries district, bitterly arraigned the government's \u2018recklessness and duplicity,\u201d which, he said, aroused the first misundérstanding with the Boers, and which, fostered and stimulated by the \u2018wickedness and folly of a few men,\u2019 resilted in the war.Amid Qpposition cheers and Ministerial mwumurs, Sir Robert declared that, having regard for the general discredit to Great Britain in the minds of foreigners by the events.connected with | | the Jameson raid, it was the duty of the governitegt.to take up the broken threads and pursue the enquiry to its final end.The parliamentary committee of enquiry, he further asserted, was a scandal and a dishonor \u201cto the House and.there was à suspicion that the raid was organized with the complicity of Mr, Chamberlain.Mr.William St.John Brodrick, Un- | der Secretary of Foreign Affairs, closed the day\u2019s debate.He traversed general : ly \u2018the indictments of the \u201cOpposition, { which he characterized as \u2018 immoral\u2019 at such a time as-the- present.- Ne Con- | &rvative, he added, deféndsd the raid, frem which the government had suffered jvev more than anybody, because when the, raid kad béen precipitated Peemdent: Kany Daily Avituess.| i mecount of his treatment of the\u201cUitlanders, .The House then adjourned.IRISH ATTITUDE.\u2018tether with his own burghers on ac \u2018Commons upon Lord Edmund Fitzmaur- ice\u2019s amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne.It is explained that the Irish members of.parliament will abstain from supporting Lord Edmand Fitzmaurice because.the amendment contains a declaration favorable to the prosecution of the war.' \"GERMAN PRESS.print long reports of the proceedings in the British Parliament, but for the.most part, without comment.The \u2018Boerten | \u2018Courier,\u2019 however, says: \u2018The attempt of the speech from the throne to saddle the war upon the Boers will not deceive anybody outside of England.\u2019 Co THE FRENCH PRESS.Paris, Jan.31.\u2014The French press continues to writicize the speech from the throne and the declarations of Lord Sal\u2019 irbury and his colleagues.The \u2018Journal\u2019: points to\u2018 the fact that the Queen's \u2018speech made no mention of the United\u2019 \u2018States and says that \u2018this silence is re- recent months\u201d ; SE , The \u2018Gäulois\u2019 says that the days of the Salisbury eabinet are numbered.~ .; NEW YORK CANAIS.- ; New York, Jan.31.\u2014The canal \u2018coïi- mittee of the Produce Exchange has] passed a resolution that the Board of\" \u2018Managers of the New York Produce Exchange be requested to adopt.suitable, resolutions sustaining the Governor-: im the matter of enlarging the canals of the state, ' Co _ New York, Feb.1.\u2014General Francis G.Gréene, chairïtnan of the state coui-' mittee on C#nals speaking at the New: York Board of Trade banquet last night\u201d id: \u2018Sinde tlie canals have been in: such condition that they could not cary\u2019 goods \u2018at.huch less than ruilway \u2018rates\u2019 the stale: has began to \u2018lose its.commer cial supremacy and is steadily losing it.If so, then'it is evident that New York's -comtnerdial suprémacy is dependent up \u2018on a cheap witér route to the west.The {fate the rates for transportation: and not] be suppliant for the favor of any rai to New York hee to \u2018spventy cents.& compared \u2018with.$1.50 to $6: per ton how\u2019 prevailing \u2018on \"the fallways, the: enlarged eal $l Bhiry, #4 Toust twenty mithon.tons\u201d of Fetight of \u2018all \u20achises and at à: |'Jan.25.Berlin, Jan.31.~The German papers : \u2018'markable, \u2018after the demonstrations inl | word.{ were too many for adequate expression.state,\u2019 through the camale, should\u201d die=\u2018| rates: fiom Baffälo | toi oni different classes of goods ami; DAILY - WITNESS.© COMBINE IN LUMBER, \u201cVancouver, B.C., Jan.30.\u2014The lumber and shingle manufacturers of British Col- umbie have combined to prevent competition and £onséquent low prices, also , that they may present a united front in asking protection for their industry at the hands of the Dominion Government.The combine will be known as the British Columbia Lumber & Shingle Manufacturers\u2019 Association and already includes every lumber and shingle mill in Vancouver and Westminster, with the practical certainty that the mills in the Kootenay district and on Vancouver Island will aleo join the combination, which will thus comprise thirty mills.The combine will control an annual output of over one hundred million feet of lumber.seen JHIRD OF THE KIND.\u2018Toronto, Jan.31\u2014James Brown, a sectionman, boarding at 24 Draper street, met with a sudden and terrible death last evening on the Grand Trunk tracks at the foot of Bathurst street.This makes the third death of the kind at al- \u2018| most the same place within three weeks, the previous victims being John Powell, on Jan.13, and Joseph Cockburn, on Brown was cleaning out a switch at the time of the accident.A \u2018heavy freight going west filled his ears with ite roar and rattle so that he did not hear a shunting engine and four cars approaching from the east.The driver on the engine evidently did not see him: for Brown was run down and all the wheels on one side of the cars passed over his body.He was instantly killed, and the body was horribly mangled.APPOINTMENT IS POPULAR.Winnipeg, Man., Jan.31.\u2014~The appointment of the Hon.Robert Watson as senator to fill one of the Manitoba vacancies is most popular here and Mr.Watson, who for years fought the Liberal battles in the west almost single- handed, is being showered with congrn- tulations.Many of his friends rnink, however, that he should have remained in active political life.À FATAL FIRE.Winnipeg, Jan.31.\u2014A Cypress River despatch says the house of John Stuart, a few miles south-west.of here, was burned last night, resulting in the death of Mrs.Young, aged ninety years, mother of Mrs.Stuart.Mrs.Stuart was\u2019 badly burned and is not expected to live.The house and contents were destroyed.ester ! \u2018A GIFT FROM THE POPE.- 4 (New York, Jan, 31.\u2014A special ta the : Wééld' from Romé says that Pope Leo -has sent to the Empress of China a col- RTE | ossal and artistic vase, having previously \"received a rich, gift from Her Majesty.\u2018This exchange of presents marks the con- F clusion of the concordat between China ; | and the Vatican.It is announced that the new United | Irish party, at a meeting yesterday.af- |: ternoon, decided to take no collective | part in the division in the Hause of | rs > DEATH OF MR.DUNKLEE.Boston, Jan.31.\u2014Mr.Benjamin Wells | Dunklee, the.originator of furnace heat- .ing, and a man widely known in the religious.world, died at the residence of His daughter, in Newton Centre, to-day.\u2018He was born in Brattleboro\u2019, Vt., and was 78 years of age.THE MOTET CHOIR.The Motet Choir\u2019s concert on Tuesday in the Windsor Hall was attended by a large and fashionable audience, and the frequent applause was sufficient evi- detice that few if any were dissatisfied.\u2018Mr.Bispham, the soloist, won much praise and many recalls, which his work in the main justified.The greatest disappointment was in his singing of \u2018Danny | Deever,) for which the pretentious set- \u2018ting of Damrosch was in a measure ac- -countable.\u2018Musical America\u2019 is au- \u2018thority for the statement that when Kipling, once upon a time, was invited to a coneert where some of his songs with a Damrosch setting were being given for the first time, the soloist being Bispham, \u201cthat after \u2018Danny Deever\u2019 had been \u2018sung, at the end, the poet got up, put on his.coat and left the hall without a It is supposed that his feelings However that may be, it is certain that the music does not suit the words, the latter being direct, virile, even crudely \u201cblunt and purposeful, and lacking all .pretensions to style.Mr.Reyner\u2019s skill as a conduetor has been admired uoon many occesions- and on Tuesday he was.at his.best.His material, however, hardly seemed to be of #0 good a qual- \"ity as some of that which has followed] his leadership in past years, although \u2018this waa only markedly apparent in the: \u2018more dificult numbers.Generally, its work was very pleading and the: concert as -& whole is one long to be remember- \u2018ed with pleasure.The work of the.ac- _companist was a little unequal, but was very setisfactory in the main.The date \u2018of the wext Motet Choir concert will] be eagerly anticipated.esran : TATION TO A MINISTER.2 The C.É.Society of - Hendersonville, à * Huntingdon: County; Que., gave a social où Thursday.evening.of last week, ab the residence of Mr.Alexander Stark, of.Keusimigton, : Que.A.most enjoyable \u2018evening was spent by all-and especially \u2018by.the: Rev.d.A; Dorman, who was the happy recipient, from the Endeavor; CORN EXCHANGE ANNUAL.EY + Association Favors the Frerich River Plan, _\u2014_ MONTREAL'S POSITION AS COMPARED WITH OTHER PORTS DISCUSSED.\u2014 4 At the anrual meeting of the Corn Exchange Assuciauion, held yesterday after- goon in thn C-unoil chamber at the Board of Trade, the retiring president, Mr.Alex.McFee, occupied the ohair, there also prerent Mezsrs.R.A.S.Allan, James Allen, Alfred Chaplin, E.F.Craig, W.W.Craig, James Currie, C.B.Eadalle, N.J.Fraser, W.[.Geal, Auguste Girard, J.H.Huglll, C.A.Jaques, Edgar Judge, W.Marsan, Henry Mason, Robert.Meighen, H.D.Metcalfe, Stewart unn, A.G.Mec- Bean, John B.Mclea, Charles McLean, W.R.Oliver, R.Peddie, Joseph Quintal, R.W.Reford, Frank Rcss Shaw, C.R.John Tcrrance, John Tough, Joseph Ward, Norman Wight and Andrew Young.In the course of his presidential address, Mr.McFee reincrived, that last year the business of this port, unfortunately, was smaller than in the \u2018year previous, alt£cugh it was larger than in any other prevcus year for a long time, with the exception of two years ago.We were loolirg for increased business by the port of Moutreal, the avenues of trade leading to this port were improving.We had three railways successfully competing ageinst the water routes for the oripinating In ihe great West, and there was reason to beileve that these railways would remain in the field at competitive rales.It there was anything we bad to fear, it was the diversion to other ports of the trade that would naturally come here.Ho meant the diversion to Portland, and, with Improved facilities, to Quebec, of the business that would naturallv beloag to Montreal.The incoming committees would probably have to consider what means they could suggest to place the port of Montreal in as advantageous a pesition as any of the other ports for handling traffic.rortland bad advantages that we had not, trafic was transferred from the cars into the steamer at a lower cost than was charged In the port of Montreal.In order for Montreal to compete with these other ports, sownething \u2018would have to be done to place the railways in as advantageous a position as they enjoyed in other ports.He was Inclined to think hat the railways were waiting for subsidies or concessions of some kind, which they were, no doubt, receiving at other ports.Where these subsidies were to come from, he was unable to say; but if we were to judge from the remarks of the railways, they were not very anxious to place Monreal in as favorable a position, as far as terminal charges were concerned, as trade in other ports enjoyed.of the trade, of this port, and they would have to be dealt with in the near future.EXTRA INSURANCE.the extra insurance that was levied on the business via the St.Lawrence, as compared to other Atlantic \u2018 Thodugtion ir the .od: : 1 was PO he adoption.Sf: the report which the secretary, Mr.George Hadrill, read the headings of the geveral Bubjeotd contained in the report.The first had reference to the provision of grain elevators in the harbor.Mr.R.Meighen said that In reading over the report, he noticed a paragraph specially en- couragine the Canadian grain trade by this por ers not embodied that in their agreement with the Conners syndisate.heT syndicates agreed to bring 35,000,000 bushels of grain.a year here, but nothing was said about diverting to the Canadian route the trade noyp going through American territory to Great Britain.We were furnishing fretzht to the Ameri:an transporta*lon companies, and were placing our western men in touch with the American middleman.We were doing our business by the back door; we wanted to do it by the front door.He believed that the Coaners syndicate would probably bring mors than 35,- 000,000 bushels of gra.u a year to Montreal.Ho was of opiuitn that they were identified with parti on the American side of the line, who were able to supply them with a large quantity of grain, but he beloved that the terminal facilities they.were having here wsre for their own special purpose cf handling their own property.It be- hcoved us as Canadians to see if we could rot divert the trade of the right arm of the Dominion\u2014the great North-West.We owned two-thirds of the great wheut-pro- ducing belt of the North American continent.and we ought to be -able, now that Immigration was pouring into that country, to bring Canada out as one of :he great rri#ducers, and supply the Mother Country.The Hon.Mr.Tama \u2018scheme which be was Mkely to carry to a succeesful issue.It Was to be hopzd Lhat the Corn Exchange Association would second his efforts in opening up French River and making North Bay a great distributing point.The Maritime Provincas, which contributed to our carals, hd a right to a through their porta in winter.He wis of opinion that a railway from North Bay wopld be the mode of bringing the grain from the North-West to this port, and he thought \u2018that the Carn Exchange Associa- the grain trude, ought to «ssist the zovern- ment by saying that they were in favor of any system bv which the grain of the North-West could be diverted this way.He agreed \u2018with the remarks of the retiring \u2018president of the Board «f Trade on the previous day, that the best fleld for Can- -ada was to extend her business with the Mother Country.Let us iry and build up a Canadian nationality; let us export our own products\u2019 through our own country.We réfsed t£hè same products as the Amerl- cans, who \u2018were our aggressive competitors in every merkst of the world.Commerce was war: therefore, let us carry the war into Africa; let us develop the resources of this country, aud show the Motherland that we ward.in à position tô supply her with foodstuffs, so that no nation could gtand up and eay if ft withheld its food supplies for a few weeks, England would be starved.- In conclusion, he sald that the government of Canada had set a noble exemple of giving the Englishmen preferential trade.and vredieting that by-and- bye.England would give Canada the like, and thén she would go along by léaps and \u201cbounds.: 11 DEVELOPMENT ONLY BEGUN.=.Mr.A, G.McBean spoke of the immense grain-producing territory nossessad in the Comsdian NorthWest, and expressed he ortnion that\" we bad only just begun to develop it.He believed that in the neaë-fu- ture, instead gf getting -reponts.that Manitoba and the Territories had produced.30.- \u201chave renorts 4n ten years of 100,000,800 to to 150,000.000 bushals .af wheat helng Rrown there.In.conclusion he French Bay sctien cénetdarntlÿ rhor4 rain to Montreal.\u2018Bociéty, of an envelope containing.$35, | ger had almost reached tlie end of His saving Tully \u2018of $18,000,000 Pet pamum.\u201d = Yor the purchase of & fur coat _ Ur.Bôgar Inâge weged that-thé- question of: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY | being Taylor, James Thom, George A.Thomson,\u2019 traffic : its terminal facilities being such that the: Terminal charges were a | very important factor in the development | Another factor that affected this port was.Apparently the Harbor Commission- ; had taken up a\u2019 fair share in return, by working the grain | thon, representing a body of m>rchants in 000.000 £0 760:000.000 bushels a year, ws should | epgka of the.chiefs dh betag Ukely ta pring | Thomas Organs, and the the means by which the trade of Manitoba : | , 1600.\u2014 5 ee could pe brought in this dir ents made throu the : \u2018 instead of throug: New! vou sont pressed upon the Government sul] further We must have cheap elevating faciiites this port.The Conn F3) Syndicate dug nu glve us cheap handi of grain in ne port: we must de.able to compete wees those places where there were no charges for storage or handling the grain ges Mr.John Torrance considered that the had been a great deal more fear expres.§ about the Conn ; A served.ers syndicate than i; ge.ection and ship.Fra must Le MARINE INSURANC When the section of the report cam referring to increase dn ocean marine WP rance rates, the preside id thas oo.committee had made Strong represe et tue to the government showing the me CEST 1 something being done, and he was sai \u2019 0: that the government vas Alive to the Lie ! sity of seeing the insurance rates wore se ports.to what they are at dther Allan: On the motion ot Mr.was made an instruction fommittes of management er UD in all its phases and prec rovernment, in tho Or ors UPCD tho Gible, the absolupe LeEcèssity of = er bos being done.y ome Jo connection with req elevator charges, it was dec\u2019 ir the incoming colmmitt ca to a Te guns up, and to give ët'ention to the re weighing in floating and other terminal or vaters, with special reference ta preve ole- shortages in export grain.\u2019 enting As to the early opening of tue cenals, it was agreed that the incoming committee press upon the government that the neces.| Sry steps be taken to have the Welani canal opened by Anrii 17 sui the S: Lawrence canal by April 2.Mr.Robert Meighen moved.second v A.G.McBean, that the incoming NNSA bg instructed to continue the efforts towards obtaining a reduction of the terminal charges in this port.The motion was adopted after which the motion for the adoption of the deport waa unanimously concurred in.FRENCH RIVER SCHEME.The following resolution was also adonteg, on the motion df Mr.Robert Meighen seconded by Mr.A.G.McBean: \u2018That this as.gociatlon endorses the proposzl of the hon.Miréster of Public Works to so improve the French river as to permit of navigation bv the largest Jaks vessels, and thus enable our north-western grain to reach (h- Cana.- dian seaboarf by a short and direct route.On the suggestion of Mr.W.I.Gear.the meeting endorsed the recommendations of the Council! of the Board of Trade with rn.1 ference to pllotage matters, which were approved by the annus! meeting of the Board of Trade on the previous day.The scrutineers\u2014Messrs., Alfred Chaplin, N.J.Frarer, and Frank Ross Shaw\u2014pre- sented their report on the electicn for of- fice-bearers, balloting for which closed at 3.30 pm.It was as follows: President\u2014H, F.Craig.by acclamation.Treasurer\u2014C.B.Eedaile, by acclemation.| Committee of management\u2014Geo.A.Thomson, 81 votes; James Carruthers, 80; Edgar» .Judge, 74.John Torrance, jr., 74; Joseph | Quintal, 70; R, W.Oliver, 67; D.W.Camp- i Dell, 53.; Board of Review (by acclamation)\u2014Thos.| À.Cfane (chairman), Augusta Girard, G.| Kinghorn, R.Peddle, J.B.McLea, Alex.McFee, The total number of ballots cast was 91, of which thrée weré rejected, two not being marked and one marked incorreotly.John Torrance, y to the incom: g to taku the : ai action of floating MçeBean moved a very bearty vote of Phat to Mr.McFee for the energy he had displayed in connection with the affairs of the assoclation during the two years that he had presided over it.This was seconded by Mr.W.I.Gear, and supported by Messrs.John Torrance, Edgar Judge and Joseph Ward, and was unanimously concurred in.Mr.McFee fittingly acknowledged the compliment, and paid a tribute to the efi- ciency of the secretary, Mr.George Hadnil.The usual votes of thanks were passed to other officers, after which the meeting adjourned.remettra VOLUNTEER VETERANS MEDALS It may be repeated in reply to many enquiries received, that the Fenian raid medals for the Montreal district are expected to be in the bands of the D.O.Con March 1, or about that time.The late Mr.Peacock, whose funeral on Tuesday wos so largely attended, was in Captain John Porter's company of the Hochelaga Light Infantry, now the 1st Prince of Wales Fusiliers, and served at Isle-aux-Noix in 1866.Captain Por ter attended the funeral.Mr.Peacock's medal will, of course, go to his heir.Brockville, Ont., Jan, 31.\u2014Thirty-nine Fenian raid medals were received today by the licutenanf-colonel of the 41st Battalion, for distribution among Brock ville men, who assisted in the defence of Canada agrinst the Fenians in 1870.pe NOTES AND NOTICES.De Pachmann Will Play the Steinway Piano.\u2014Like all visiting artists of the first rank, De Pachmann will use the Steinway Piano at his concert.in the Windsor 11zll to-morrow evening.While the stress of finances may at times cause the name of a celebrated artist to be temporarily attached to some other p- ano, yet the artistic choice among all great artists of both continents is and has been for many years the Steinway and the Steinway alone.It alone is the instruraent which appeals to the heart.Its notes are the wings on which are carried the unwritten words of the human soul.Those who will hear De Pachmann and his splendid piano on Friday evening will realize the greatness and fitness of both.The piano used by De Pachmann is supplied by the Steinway agents, the Lindsay-Nordheimer Co., 2366 St.Catherine street.- To cure a cold.in one day take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.All drug: | gists refund the money if it fails to cure.28e.B.W.Grove\u2019s signature is on each Layton Bros, 144 Peel street, have built, up their large business.by making friends of customers.Should the piano , purchased from their warerooms not give S178 pe \u2018by another.; Evans Bros, Whaley, Solé agents for Behr Bros.plaver, 11212 2 a AA The retiring boy then requested Bs aie tr BE CRE perfect satisfaction, the mioney would be teturpéd, or the instrument replaced Royce Pianos; Angelus Piago: * °F m2 CE PE Re + Ve by EVR WN WN wr WW lw TTY WW we er ; 3 - 5 TT URE wi .2° Re N \u201c Chattes nuowles, ME oe R.We \u2018Bro.\u2019 8 \u20ac Foster, Khowl- ot.Masopry-R 2 pres.Bd FA bh * Quebec: rest sidäer, Montages R: xu À.Toons, Sherbrooke; R.- W Bro.Spencer, Fre- * | Hghoburg ; R.W.Bro.D: A \u201dManeoû, Man- |.\u2019 | eonville.Co Ty ; inance_M.\u201cWW.Bré.Prank \u2018Edgar, M.«Bro.Fred, Masse; A Re ~Bro.Di } ah, Montreal: RW ;-8ro.Dr.A.Lyon, Ne; R: Ww.|W.H.O'Regin, Suma.\u2018and \u201cosier R.Ww.Bro.-R; Va.Bro.rds Patron \u2018Mont v RaW.\u201ciors Corramponence 4.+ oh ors, Quebec: Rs in \u2018different streets.\u201cThe Court\u201d matic Lu pen | 678.18, and judgment was.rendered: in | Most favor of plaintiffs for that amgunt.47 reg AN INTERESTING CONFERENCE The pretiy parlors of Mrs.-Waycott, | of Elm avenue; presented sh animated |- \u2018W's\u2019 of Westmount gathered to listen |: Mrs.Mclachlan, secretary of the Do- Miss Wiggins complimented her audi- The Young People\u2019 8 Association of the | to the efforts of Mrs.|p In the case: of O.Feher ve.O.Vanier, \\ In rendering | § .Oe ratiar the b bust- {2x LADIES\" WHITE MUSLIN.WAISTS.rer er Ak afternoon, | the reports or\u2019 the verlous ofiosrs and thel of the question of ap \u2018een.though their | 8 3 No.4- Draw sacs sposaosoner 25 Swing Desk'Cabtne : Ne: fr ravers ec veuve! 27 We havéabove in Oak or Walk ung, ei \u2018was An- | 3 For the Entive Stack; Viz.: { era district; Henry, Los Mentreal dis-.| Ket H.B: Pere fs pr die triet; BE.W.ta Te Lough, Ottawa, wx dt ul y ~ ground Boor.Now tn, stock, but\u201d x au only ost a y} roxy be looked for in y The original prices.or?the ie above vend i] ordi amonnt, of work.; James Fyte, M.W.: Bro.Es Hu Stearns: «nd.ha ding se Bet ugbec BW.Bro.A.|8 d Te PERCENT | The Entire Stock of Valuable Remnants of - LORED DRESS GOODS | To be Sold at 33 =3 Percent off.\u2014 GCORSETS- \u2014 C.C.Corsets all Reduced.C.D.Corsets all Reduced.R.& G.Corsets all Reduced.Equipoise Waists all Reduced.Ferris Waists all Reduced.ALSO all odds and ends that are not to be re-ordered, at p5c pair.FURNITURE DISCOUNTS SPECIALS Genuine Mahegany Parlor Suit, Silk Covering.25 Percent.Wire Back Chalr, Tapestry Covering.\u2026 ee, 28.Percen! 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SPECIAL DISCOUNTS 5t 20, 2%, \"50 and 75 perce at 6 ot and \u2018Underwear, for Ladies and: \u20ac hildren.Goods » laid \"Table No.1- -823.50.Table No.2 88,0 RE- ARRAS N \u20ac The Shoë Tables have been ro-artèng oll, af = REO For Ladies; Misses and\u201d On =\" Irreguiéf ising\u2019 .5 py Fpl Ng 3a ET Table Noa TS S ; \u201cTable.No.Gonna DTT 8 X PERS i anon 2 vatisfiotion is NGF ORDERS taken at pri Netty : AMATEUR te, JOHN NILSSON In thoss- x tw> anû threé- wiles, \u2026 Ageaiseion\u2014 \u201cWell wirest en A Notre: Sooo et, utrance, be, 25 cents, ; BRITISH A Z % THEIR EXCELLENCIES Costume Tickets (limited to 800).issued Ripk, and officers of the Montreal Brigade.7 états Twn \u2018Branch, and M.A.A.A ~ THURSDAY.FEBRUARY 1, Christian Alliance * \u2019 Convention.The Christian and Missionsry Alllance will hold a convention lin Montreal! on Thursday and Friday, Feb, 1st and 8nd.The Rev.D, W.Lala Jour, missionary to China, is expected; a the Rev.Henry Wilson, D.D., of New York, and the Rev.John Salmon, of Toronto.The meetings : WHI be held in the Evangelistic Hall, z424 St.Catharine street, at.11 a.m.and 3 and 8 p.m., with the exception of Thursday éven- \u2018Ing \u2018and \u2018Friday morning, when meetings will be Rel.at the: éame hour th Welcome -Hall, 8t.Antbine #treet, near Mountain street.ol Art Association, | PHILLIPS SQUARE.\u2018aand LOAN Exhibition i ay Bvéning.8 to 10.ce Far, FEBRUARY 2.8 EAD lt succes wae Yer : 'DE- PACHTIANN.5 \u2018The Pectof the Plane.+ Thé Greftést Dit \u201cof Chopin.The êftect was heavenly.\u2019 \"_ Boston \u2018Herald.\u2019 *.One Great Recital ,WIDSOR HALL FRIDAY, Feb.2.15.be \u2018Resseved \u2019abata: §T.00.$1.50.Plan now open at Shaw's, 22374 St.Catherine street.\u201céme aâmisgion,.150 < CALEDONIAN SOCIETY ES LITERARY COURSE.er.oe The next 6f the series 4 : of Literary Papers will be JE délivered if St.Andrew's Home, eo.FRIDAY EVENING, Feb: 2nd, at Eight the.REV.as s.0'pioak;; by: MR.N; Chaplain of the.Society.Subjects.Mx Aln Auld Tounm,\" oes members of the Sotlety and their tits, are\u2019 day fhvited.Ee Tees WG, MAS HOP écretary.Sraday-school Union 3 MEETING NS SP nd, at 8 To in Y.M: \u201cMR.:2 LEY, Ph.D, wil}.teach EV.OD RINGTPAL HACKBTY, D.D., ral address the meeti IOHN AND HIS BOOK.hd vier 9 SATURDAY.Feb, 31 = urpose ot 1000 ¥ ban - Éhampion- an, TRIE tHe Goderich ; Hansportation: Company, and one of fhe\u2019 SN RINK {cA 9~AMATEUR EVENTS-9 0.ORICAL MASQUERADE, Under the Distinguished Patronage of THE .COUNTESS oor MINTO, ARENA RINK, \u201cWednesday, 7th Feb.Calendar, 5 \u201cCHAMPIONSHIP.BKATING RACE 8, UNDER tHE AUSPICES OF THE ' SxATÎNG ASSOCIATION.OF CANADA, WILL BE HELD ON THE SATURDAY, Sra Feb.fo encing at 3 Ik, shity vs NORVAL BAPTIE, tek TUE WORLD'S PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.all resarved, 50 cents; Reserved seats for sale at Morton, Phillips & Co, Rubenstein Bros, £87 Cralg street, and M.A.A.A.Office.© LdU1s RUBENSTEIN, Hol, Sedy.A.S.A.of C.East entrance, 35 cents; Halb- EMPIRE COVERNOR-GENERAL free to adult members of the M.A.A.A.\u201cProceeds in Aid of the Canadian and Montreal Patriotic Funds.Spectators Admission\u201475c, b0e, Ste and 25c.rvet Seat \u2018Tiokets for aèle et Mes on.Philips & Ce., 1765 Notre Dame street; ANRTEUR MASSEY, Men.Set.NM.A.AA, Rink, Boxee, 310.00.\u2014\u2014 £52 FEBRUARY «oo S| M{T|{W TI|F|S se [00 06 ee I 2 3 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9/10 11|12|13|14/15/16) 17 18|19/20|21|22|23| 24 25(26|27 28 esos] suBsCRITTION RATES.Dally Witness, Weeks Witness, os ya reductions\u201d to\u2019 be on rthern Ot bent ét Bd oi mii 5 oor 80 en case, to U.8, \"Nad ha Crude sxoepting Mon sep tre es ® ] of the\u2019 Darte WYTESS is de msi the tho city every evening of publication at $4.00 pe ; aout ee ADVERTISING BATES, contract ratés An busiest cosmusleniéns should \u2018be addressed *John Dougall & Bon, * Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal,\u2019 and all letters to the Eaitor should be addressed Editor of the * Witness,\u2019 Montreal Saturday Advertising.advantage, tn secuiing proper \u2018display and classification, to séiid in their orders \u2018early.The * Witness Office is open until 6.50 p.m., and insertion will not be guarantaed on orders \u2018or Saturday received after thak hour on Friday.The Baily Witness, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1.1900.Foreigners domiciled in Canada may sympathize with the Boers and nobody would objett, for a man\u2019s sympathies are | among his, personal prerogatives, but when, as in \u2018Ottawa, they abuse British and Canadian\u2019 \"hospitality and\u2019 mae thefne gelves odious by insulting their loyal .neighbors whose sons and brothers are { fighting in Africa, openly flaunting their rsedition, they shoyld be taught thist | they must respect the flag and.the laws of the country which gives them protec- n-tion.They may not be aware that there +.4 & statute which provides for the pto- :| per disciplining of persons who give : \u2018sympathy, aid or encouragement to ene: mies of the Quiéeri in time of war.If somebody.were to invoke it in their case, they would find themselves in a rather disagréesble position., The appointment of a Russian consul RB in \u2018Cahada/ is à \u2018frténdty\" and significant «| at; and suggests.vast: things to our ad- 8 vantage.The completion of \u2018the Sibe: rian railway is not iagly yea i \u2018off.It Ts always \u201creférred \u201cto \u2018es 8 strategic en- opel, Fey ui Ht 4 fn \u2018rbieh x.pom.So ope tanh \u2018viewed.That | effect, whatever it may be, is, however, the smallest that jt- will achiere, and npn pen of: *he lakes, ath p dint nj \u201cquite substdidry td thé dpening ° up of a ADVERTISERS wili find it to their x, Sorption nd\u2018Hs/étfèot Be.Russian power | in eastern Ass.adr sé.giving Russia ac- | railway is the continuance of the Cana- \u2018dian Pacific.The country it opens up is similar and offefs similar prospects.Westward the star of empire holds its way.Certainly westward is the natural march of the Anglo-Saxon race.We Canadians sre in the van of that prodéswion on the Pacific coast.Woe may linger for a while on the shores of that broad sea, having a dukedom large enough on the hither side of it, but it is inevitable that the sea must be crossed and that our enterprise shall stretch out over the wide fields of a continent hitherto secluded and repressed.The time must come when the penal colonies for which Siberia is best known shall be as much forgotten under the new civilization as that of Botany Bay has long been.\u2018WAR CRITICISMS.It is never fair to judge the participants in a debate by cabled reports, which are apt to accentuate every incongruity and every bore place and to slur over what is normal and healthy.As the reports go, the Liberal Opposition æppears to small advantage in its criticisms on the government\u2019s war record.Lord Kimberley, in the Lords, is made to remark sententiously that it is campaign : it was the government's duty to select men to conduct thesu operations, and it was their duty to support the government.Had this been left unsaid the Liberal leader would not have left the impression that nevertheless he thought he knew better than the generuls in the field what they ought to have done.He would probably find in his olub that there were plenty of peo- \u2018ple under a similar idea to whose views he himself would attach little weight.When operations are unsuccessful every barber can show the generals where they are wrong.There was likewise a good deal of very cheap criticism in the lower house.Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is represented as denouncing the narrow- rations as the cause of the hostilities; and as saying that this feeling was lutgés ly shared by the house.Supposing that Æhis feeling wag rianimons now after the of the house, which was s constantly\u201d ce recating War preparations, and which would certainly have voted against any such appropriations as would have.ade: quately, prepared for the existing emergency, Tot only as running the eountry into extravagant militarism, but as pro: voking the hostilities against which it purported to provide.As a fact, it was the sending of troops to Africa which caused the \u2018declaration of war; and it is presumable that more rapid preparations would only have precipitated the war the sooner and given the Opposition the better ground to find fault.The most inept thing of the whole was the Opporition\u2019s general motion of want -of confidence in the govern: ment for mismanagement of the war end of negotiations since 1895.At such a time to move such a resolution was only to court defeat.The most majestic thing in the debate was the speech of Lord Salisbury, who seems to be able to rise above self and party, and to wonder why other people cannot.The Irish members would seem also to have made a blunder in holding a caucus to declare this a fitting time to blot out Irish differences and to act together.Tt had \u2018too much the odor of the familiar proverb, \u2018Bngland\u2019s extrem: ity is Ireland\u2019s opportunity,\u2019 to further their aim, if that aim is to gain home rule by the action of parliament.Thare | have been among these men too many expressions of kite of hope and desire for | the downfall of Great Britain to make the time spécialiy fitting for a genetal fraternization unless such are the sentiments of them all.Indeed, Mr.Rad- mond, who aspirès to be the leader \u2018of the .united party, opened the business by proclaitiiné as a note of vicjory that British prestige is shattered.The unionist.resolution which he based: on -this happy .state of things was catried \u2018fenlièréd anÿ - parliamentary action, look ing to home rule impossible till it shall | have been forgotten, IP \u2018 se | RUSSIA iv PERSIA.Within ® week we made a quotation | from\u201d a.Hiysainn semi-official newspaper t | in which it wds set forth: that Rugsis | | bad bed: Jesson: enough; in the: futility of miktaker apt ln taking wiolept okies\u2019 | \u201csion: Pod Arthur to repéht: the-erpor | \u2018 , \u2019 a - = CTY - 5.ie u | continent $0.commerve.; The Siberian in Afghanistan or Persia.out of place to criticise the generals in a ness of the government\u2019s military prépa-.unanimously.\u2018The meeting ha.- probably _ DAILY WITHRSS! - Indeed, the resources of the empire were taxed too much in paying\u2019 an undue: amount \u2018of anual interest, in carrying through her railways and canals, and in bringing | her floet up to the standard of modern requirements, to think of wasting means On useless: aggressions in Central Asia.What was the meaning of all this humility ?It now appears that Russia, though she is nothing if not a military machine, knows a trick worth two of military conquest.Her means may be at an end-\u2014indeed, have never been oth- erwise\u2014~but she has never lacked means with which to lubticate negotiations with neighboring potentates and their trusted adviders, and when it becomes fevessary, as in the case of China, for any of these potentates to face an impossible national liability, whoever is without money at such a time, Russia always has it or can get it from her friend, France.So it seems that while Russia was meekly\u2014very meekly\u2014con- fessing her errors and her poverty she was furnishing money to pay off the debts of her thriftless neighbor, Persia, including that country\u2019s debts to Great Britain, being promised in return control of the larger part of Persia\u2019s revenues from which to pay herself.In other words, she has taken advantage of Great Britain's preoccupation to get a mortgage on the most ancient empire on earth next to \u2018China, which she can foreclose at any future day that may prove convenient.We now know what Russia understands \"by peace conferences, arbitration and disarmament.Peace hath her victories no less than war, and they are far cheaper.Was there any need of waiting for Great Britain\u2019s day of preoccupation ?Has Britain any objection to Russia\u2019s possession of.Persia?For the most part no.Persia would be far more prosperous under Russian control than under her own ; her commerce would greatly increase, and, in spite of closed doors, Britain's share of it would probably be greater than what she has now.Russia would not be a more dangerous neighbor because she possessed Persia, probably less so.She now seems to admit that she has become both poor- av und more vulnerable by taking.possas- 7 | sion of Murichuria.Down to à certain poiiit, then, Great Britain - would probably have little to say.It is-long since she cessed to wish to extend her realms except where forced to do so in order to protect her subjects in their existing interests.The mattér is different, however, with southern Persia\u2014that part of the country which surrounds the Persian Gulf and that which intervenes between that \u2018gulf and Beloochistan\u2014all of which has long been practically British.The Persian Gulf is a British lake policed by British gunboats and bearing almost exclusively, British commerce.Its shores and the country mentioned are so remote from the Shah\u2019s capital that they are.Persian only in name and British in fact.Whatever government is exercised is exercised by Britain, whose power is respected, while that of Persia is not.It is likely, therefore, that there will be some discussion before this part of Persia will be handed over to Rus sian control.It is significant enough to notice in this connection that the customs of the Persian Gulf districts are not included in the security for the Russian Joan.The Crear, as well as the Shah, probably understands that these would\u2019 have to be transferred under the grim guns.of British ships.It would appear as though before the plan which Russia has been maturing so quietly and go astutely goes into operation the modern idea of spheres of influence would need to be carefully canvassed and ar- | rangements made by which, when Russia \u2018ghall foreclose her mortgage, Britain will be found in possession of that which has long been all but nominally hers.What Russia no doubt wants most isa.seaport, Hut.there seems to be no derelict port or harbor to give her.The whole coast is predmpted.THE WAR SITUATION.While there is no authentic news as to\u2019 General Buller's plaps, the opinion has how become general in England that de will make anothér and an immediate atbempt;to relieve Ladyamith, This opinion is founded upbn the general tenor and \u2018tone of the \u2018despatehes Hot only! of | Genéral Buller, but those forwarded by | cert] the, special \u2018correspondents\u2019 of the.news: papers who: are With, him.\u2018The spirit.of \u2018General\u2019 + Buller's army : has \u201capparently | X Kop afi ind fais conviticetl ar artes | that in the end Geibral Buller will.sue that success is probable es than oi erwise.Even Mr.Winit ee who has been inclitéà 3, to pr \u2018views, declares that the Doers suffered.\u201cheavily both in lives and apparently in confidence in the late eâcounter, a ceed.In the meantime, General Lyt- tleton\u2019s brigade has not been retired across the.Tugela river, and it seems not improbable that the passage of the \u2018other brigades at or near that point.is in progress.The operation is a safe one, às the crossing is covered L$ the big guns on Zwarts Kop, and retirement in safety would always be possible for the same reason.All fears as to the Boers attempting aggressive measures by crossing the Tugela river seem to have passed.General Joubert is reported from the Boer headquarters to have proceeded to the Upper Tugelà river, which would imply that the position is serious enough ta demand his presence there in front of General Buller\u2019s forces.There is no news as to the operations around Colesberg and Sterkstroom of General Kelly-Kenny, General French, and General Gatacre\u2019s forces.It is very evident that the Boer forces in that neighborhood have been greatly strengthened during the last two weeks, and that they have octupied strong positions, from which it will be no easy task even for two divisions of the army to force them.General Kelly-Kenny's force is apparently divided, one column marching along the line of the railway in the direction of Stormberg.This will prove a very difficult route, as the line threads its way among the passes of the Storm- berg mountains, which afford advantageous positions of defence for the Boers.There is no word from Lord Methuen's forees, probably because all news of the preparations of his force for moving is being carefully concealed.A British force has occupied Prieska, a town on the Orange river 120 miles north-west of De Aar, which has been a centre of Cape Dutch disaffection.Ladysmith apparently continues confident.\u2018The news from Delagoa Bay to the effect that the Boers intend to dam the Tugela river with the object of ing out.the British- from their shel- an \u2018evidence of the barbarity of \u201cthat! war methods.The rivér runs through | the town, and tha shelter trenghes around it are those used by civilians, who are non-combatants.The quarters and shelter trenches of the troops are, for the most part, on high ground to the south and west of the.city, and would not be greatly affected.To flood | the civilians out of their trenches in order to shell them down would be a barbarous way of making war.There is no further news of Kimberley or Mafeking.POLITICAL ASSASSINATION IN KENTUCKY.The events leading up to the attempted assassination of the Democratic con, testant for the governorship of Kentucky are perhaps worthy of some consideration by political partisans outside as well as inside of the United States, and may prove of general interest should the affair develop into one of national importance.The recently amended election law of Kentucky, which is called, by the way, the Goebel latv, was passed by the Democratic majority of the state legislature with the object of enabling that majority to maintain control of the executive elections.This law \u2018provides phat the legislature shall name a board of three election commigsioners for the state, who shall appoint three election commissioners in \u2018each county, who in turn shall appoint judges and clerks of election in each precinct.The certificates issued by the clerks and judges are first canvassed by the county commis gioners, who in turn send their certificates .to, the state commissioners, who then send théir certificates of the results of the elections to- the officers whom they decide were elected.: This ma: .chinery was.in the hands of the Demo- tres crats, and they evidently counted upon | the various boards appointed by them returning the Democratic \u2018candidate, whatever might be the résult of the count of the real vote.; : The Bohrds évèr,, and, finding that | the\u2019 Tagnsny, Fasavary 1, 1000.hay Bel: nu ae did their iy dôme didus etéction of a governor or a lieutenant.governor.The assembly of Kentucky is Democratic, and the party determined to use its power.there to seat its candidate, and to that end began the contestation.A large number of Republ:- 14 cans from eastern Kentucky, where the Republicans are strong, descended fran the mountains with Winchester rifles iy hand determined, if necessary, apparent ly to overawe the partisan assembly at Frankfort by a show of force.They seem to have not only \u2018occupied\u2019 the town, but to have taken up their quarters in the state house itself, with the Republican governor in his room in their midst.The assembly committee to consider the certificates had about pleted their task, and it was generally known that they would carry out their partisan purpose of declaring the Democratic contestant, William Goebel, elect.com: ed.Thies was the position of affairs on Tuesday, when Mr.Goebel, tle Democratic contestatit, passing the atate house on his way to the assembly.then sitting was shot down by some one, who fired from the window of one of the rooms of the state house.The assembly ad journed hastily, but seems to have me: again and to have declared Mr.Gochel lected and to have issued a certificate to \u2018that effect.He has lived long enough to be sworn in as governor, and if he dies doubtless the Democratic candidate for the lieutenant-governorshin will succeed him.In the meantime.however, the Republican governor hal issued a proclamation to the effect tha the existenes of ar insurrection in Frankfort rendered it necessary to nd- journ the assembly, to meet again in London, a town in eastern Kentucky, in the Republican region of the state.on the sixth of February.The Democratic members of the legislature declare that their lives would not be worth a moment's purchase in London, and de cline to go there.The situation is an interesting one, and it is not without its moral to Canadian political parties, who have taken similar political advantage of one another in regard to election laws, the Conservatives being, however, the grehtest sinners in this respect.We do not lieve.for, on th \"there rats es rant nn.and \u201c{gividugt Veh.\u2018seance are, and have long been, .\" recognized institutions\u2019 in Kentucky, and the resort to them in elections is perfectly natural under the circumstances.Mr.Goebel, the victim in the present case, some years since shot a president of a bank with whom he had a politica! quarrel, and was acquitted of the charge of murder by a jarv.But of the political spirit which by passing base election laws to secure a party advantage attacks the foundation of civil liberty and free government, we in Canada have far too much.It has displayed itself in our gerrymander and election laws, which have been at times not very dissimilar in substance and in working to those whose workings are now attract: ing attention in Kentucky.\u2014 TRUST COMPANY\u2019S MEETING.The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Montreal Trust and Deposit Company was held yesterday at noon in the company\u2019s offices.The following directors vere elected for the ensuing year : ~The annual meeting of the Montréal Hint was\u2019 held.yesttrday afterncon: at \u2018the St, Lawrence Hall.The reports and statements presented were satistactory.THe mem | Dership of the Hunt is filled, and there A - valuable is quite a big waiting list.telescope has recently been presented to the Hunt by Mr.Hugh Paton, and Mt.R.Miller has Lresented a fino oll palnting of the Horse Guards.For both of these gifts a cordial vote of thanks was returned.The election o: officers resulted as Tollows: Master\u2014Major G.R.Hooper.Hon.secretary\u2014Captain F.S.Meighen.om ties Messrs.T.D.Bell, George Gillespie, -B.Macdougall, W.M.Do- bell, A.po Reford v ATHLETICS.A PROPOSED NEW UNION.Ottawa, Jan.31.\u2014There is a possibility of the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union being broken up and a new association, with the same alms and objects, formed.In a few weeks all the big lacrosse teams will apply for admission to the C.A.A.U.and unless they are all admitted the disruption will take place and the new.association be formed.The chief aim of Too new body would be to have every prominent club in the country represented.This would bring all athletes directly under the rule of the amateur law and it would be far easier to punish offenders.\"CURLING.A FRIENDLY MATCH.The first half of the annual friendly curling match between the Heather and Montreal Curling Clubs took place on Tuesday ngiht, when the Montreals won by four shots on the totals.The game was sixteen ends, ~nd the scores were as follows On Montreal Ice.Heather.Montreal.R.Sharp C.Saxe A.Ramsay H.Cameron D.W.Ross, sr.\u2014 Southam W.B.Hutchison, ski,H.E.-Smith, ek.12 13 Heather.Montreal.T.8.Williamson \u2014 Budden D.McCallum W.Brown P.Drummond T.Brown 4 Thompson, skip.J.Brown, skip.On Heather Ice.Heather.Montreal.C.J.Scott WwW.S.Gardner R.B.Rose H.Fry J.L.Eaves \u2014 Mundle M.McLeod, skip.H.J.Millar, skip.un 18 Heather.Montreal.J.A.Lees J.W.Pike J.D.Brown \u2014 Scott Col.E.B.Ibbotson skin, D.A.Macdonald N.K.Macdonald, sjA.F.Riddell, .20 52 56 - The second half was fought out last night.Last night's play gave the Montreals an easy win as the following scores show: On Heather ice\u2014Rink No.5.Montreal.Heather.H.M.Childs J.Balllie C.P.Sclater A.N.Stewart A.Hodgson G.N.Hutchison W.1.Fenwick,skip, Geo.W.Wood, skip, 12 14 Rink No.6.A.J.Darling W.C.Hutchison J.D.McCall Gee, Blackwell G.P.Walker .W.Ross, ir.\u2018 Be VedlLtemeon, - kip.A C.Hutsbisan.skip, | \u201c On Montreal ice\u2014Rink No.7.J.A.Macdonald L.T.Leet + WwW.G.Goodhue G.A.Robertson R.W.Sheppard P.C.Small Rev.J.Willlamson,skJ.H.Smith,skip, 7 14 : 1 Rink Neo.8.T.C.Wilson A.Hamilton C.H.Geale A.L.Robertson C.W.Dean Dr.Scane H.E.Suckling, skip, A.Hurdman, skip, \u2018 eer \u2026 68 Total .\u2026 \u2026.48 A CLOSE GAME.Total A very closely contested match was | played at the Thistle rink on Tuesday night.After thirteen epds had Deen played the score stood a tie\u201412 shots each\u2014s0 the number of ends counted: .J.W.Cook Prof.Walton A.Mackenzie , EE.A.Bernard J.W.Anderson W.Bellingham |W.J.Anderson, skip.R.Adair, skip, 7 ends.\"\u20ac ends: A CHECKERS.MONTREAL CLUB TOURNRY.A meeting of the Montreal Checker Club |.will be held on Saturday evening at eight o'cldck, in the club rooms, 2252 Notre Dame street, to arrange for the annual tournament.rer TEACHERS\u2019 LECTURES.The fifth lecture in the course for teach-' ers will be given on Friday, Feb.2, at the High School of Montreal, when Dr.8.P.Robins, principal of the McGill Normal School, will deliver a lecture on Lakes Ontario and Erle., Like the other Bickmore lectures this one will be illustrated by about seventy-four colored lantern slides.= The lecturer will direct attention to the great physical features of North America,\u201d and show the changes due to mavements of ice in the glacial period as determining the present irregularities of the surface, particularly as exhibited in the forms of tlk great lakes.The region apeclally covered by this lecture will extend through Ottawa, the Chaudiere Falls will be shown, thence to Toronté and along the south shore of the lake, visiting Niagara Falls tn the course of the journey.This lecture will possess spe- | cial value not only because of the great resources with which it will deal, but also of the great historical interest which centres in the region of the great lakes, being connected so intimately with the history of Can< ada .as graphically described: by Parkman The enormous commerce which moves upon these lakes and through the &t.Lawrence and its system of canals finds ifs way to Europe, will also be treated of, Sorat A HEAVY SENTENCE.Zotique Thibaudeau was yesterday found guilty by Judge Desnoyers on three charges of theft and sentonced on one of | them to five years in the peniten:iary.Sen: tence on the other charges stands suspended.The charge was sneak thieving from | slores and residences to which the prisons f er got access on various prretexts, generals | ly as an agent.Books, curtains, apd various other things were recovered, Tai 1 * proved to have Lsen stolen by him.bodeau has a bad record.e has debt convicted for selling liquor without a 1l+ cense, obtaining money on false pretences, - and indecent assault.On the other cha \u2018he was in 1802 sentenced to six years iff After serving peer | \u2018the penitentiary.\u2018two year: he was pardoned upon\u2019 re tercession of Influential lends, mises to do right and rel um of the | ais Gedy - CIVIL ENGINEERS, The Society's Progress Re- Le viewed.BOVEY SECURES THE PRESI- DENCY\u2014OTHER OFFICERS.DR, Mr.W.T.Jennings, in his retiring address before she convention last evening, gave an interesting review of the position of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.The society had now a grand total of 847 members, showing a total net.increase since the year of forma tion of 512 menibers of all grades, while the receipts amounted to $4,548.49.This sum, added to the amount of $5,803,22, brought forward from general and building fund accounts, made a total cash balance at the end of 1809 of $10,441.71, which sum had, however, been largely drawn upon\u2019 for.building account.Referring to the premises recently ac quired by the society, at a cost of $15, 000, Mr.Jennings said it had been stated by some members that the establishment had involved too great an ex- Penditure, and that only local members \u2018would profit by it.He would remind these gentlemen that a lärge proportion of the cost was subscribed by mem- \u2018bers and friends for this particular pur- \u2018pose, and which the society had had in contemplation from the outeet.He \"was satisfied they would do more individually and collectively in this way in the near future, and that they would soon have the pleasing duty of deter mining whether their surplus funds were to- be devoted to the wider distribution L of engineering: information beyond that emanating from papers by their own members, or expend it in addition to their reference library, or, finally, stop the accumulation of funds by decreas ing the annual subscription fee.WANT THE MINING ENGINEERS.The advancement of economic mining had had the effect of attracting experienced mining engineers to the country, and of inducing a large number of stu- \u2018dents to take up that branch of the profession, with the result that a separate socigty, the Canadian Mining In- \u2018etitute, had b suecessfully formed, and, as it was desirable that all branches of engineering should be embraced in \u2018the - Canadian Society \u2018of Engineers, it was hoped \u2018that this valuable branch would be united with them in the near future.Acknowledgment as a corporate body has been.obtained from the tures of the provinces of Quebec lind: Manitoba.{An - effort: \u2018: bad * \u201cbeen pe ; pniraches- im Ahi: mapa direction: :4n the pro ;Xipce.of Ontarip,: but s0 far without pi £éss.It was.hop \u2018that substantial ad- ,vandement \u2018will be made in this respect \u2018during \u2018the éoming session of the Ontario Legislature, and it was not difficult to see that the carrying out of the pro- \u201cvisions in their: bill would not only benefit thé profession and the operative, but posed persons by the elevation of the educational.standard and general proficiency \u2018of*the civil engineering profes sion of this country.In connection with their provincial ineorporation, it had been stated by those opposed to the measure, that their dommon object was to thor oughly entrench themselves behind the act in order that -they might the more .successfully\u2019 wage war on those now practicing who had got thought fit to \u201cto legally enable\u2019 them to exact enhanced fees for services, and generally to place professional or otherwise.In reply to this and other liké statements, he would \u2018cagRal study as a pupil principally car and generally based on theoretical edu \u2018cation of a more or less complete char: \u2018deter, were almost past and gone, and while \u2018recognizing .and upholding wany fear features in.the old system, vet the ear future would find only men in the profession who were graduates of schools of: \"engineering or\u2019 of that society.; BEEK THE STU \u2019 GOOD.While not wishing \u2018to interfere with any 6ne n incarporats in the provinces particularly for the pr of the afin ner: on the first rung of the lad \u2018gon securely laid in the form of \u2018gpod -academical\u2019 education, - and that hig fur- .ther ascent might \u2018ba made under the guano of uty it would b til time and epeñiince in actual service enabled \u2018him -té -bécomie.a full corporate Headache t the iver ta ser > 14 hate jos 9 prions : ubles may fallow.oh \u201cepre- of \u201cHeéadsche an and ait rs tronffles ue ae i Sowers Tact or wel a al 9 bow 3 i Bix do\" not 1 4: SRR organs, | Birman bat have a: \u201calso assist all.intelligent and well-dis | \u201cdEsire for |- ally themselves with | the society ; also |- a curb on free and untrammelled labor, | \u2018briefly point otit-that the old days of | ried out in the offive, field or on works, | \u2018engaged, the society sought | \u2018pose .of placing the foot | \u201cby \u2018insisting that he should | have the foundation work of his profes | ieñced engineers, whose | e to encourage him, -un- |- member, and cémpetent to stand alone | and unaided.As\"to interference.with |.skilled or ordinary labor, he held that the reverse was the case, as by the bet- their engineers they create a competent | force to guide and assist skilled artisans.or mechanits, in advancing their inter ests, either as inventors, operators or overseers of the laboring masses, who thereby could not fail to obtain improved conditions.As an index of this feature, it was only necessary to point to the valuable assistance rendered by this continent, where the ordinary mechanic might, by evening study under engineers, chemists and other suitable professors secure for a trifling sym such knowledge of a scientific character as will enable him the more clearly and effectively to study out and improve upon present machinery and methods of manufacture, and generally bring under the control of the hand of man the powers and material of the physical world.Upon - the conclusion of his address Mr.Jennings was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.The - following was \u2018announced as the result of the ballots cast : President, Dr, Henry T.Bovey, dean of the faculty of applied science, McGill ; vice-presidents, Messrs.G.Herrick Duggan, P.W.St.George and E.H.Keating ; treasurer, Mr.H.Irwin; secretary, Prof.C.H.McLeod ; librarian, Mr.Roberts.Nominating committee\u2014Quebec\u2014Messrs.L.G.Papineau and C.de B.Leprohon ; On- tario\u2014Messrs.C.H.Rust, J.Galbraith and G.A.Mountain ; Manitoba and the North-West Provimees\u2014Col.H.M.Ruttan ; Maritime Provinces\u2014Dr.M.Murphy ; outside of Canada and New- foundland\u2014Mr.L.Skaife.Dr.Bovey was the choice for president of last year\u2019s nominating committee, but the name of Mr.P.W.St.George was also put forward, resulting in an Interesting contest.Dr.Bovey secured a majority of seventy-seven votes.The society before adjourning decided to vote $200 to the Patriotic Fund, Mr.W.J.Sproule introducing the motion, seconded by Mr.L.8B.Parizeau, About seventy members of the society last night boarded the special train for Boston, where they will be the guests of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and where the annual banquet will take place to-morrow evening.LEAVING FOR WASHINGTON.Ottawa, Jan.381.\u2014The Trinidad delegates who have been in Ottawa for some days, are to-day leaving for Washington where they will have a chat over trade matters with \u2018the American authorities.espe | ADVERTISEMENTS.ter apd more systematic education of | schools of technology in Europe and on | al PI.au SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little 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ease, .comfort and perfect success in home dyeing, the Diamond Dyes should \u2018be used at all times.Working, \u2018où \u201cthé.\u2018great yeputation of ous.peer And Every Form of Loaf _ Disfiguring Skin and Scalp Mümors Cured by Jo or Boronghiy = with Hor be the ext ap Har Pigg Pa create great in cure.hd is: a full dose of treatment oh afford Teliet This rest and sleep, and point to os ipoety permanent, t, and economi all else tails.ee Got SE EEE : Dixon Cure at | Belmont Retreat.\"Dr.Mackay, - proprietor of the celebrated Belmont Retreat, \u2018Que- bao, where drunkenness, aipso- munia, opium and morphine habits have bean successfully treatéd for the-past 12 years, announces that La has abandoned - bichioride of.d, jand all similar methods, and va future\u2019 use nothing but the \"DON VEGETABLE CURE.This cure is the safest and surest method of treating all forms of the drink or drug habits, It is purély vegetable in its oFlgin, entirely harmless, and may be taken in privacy, without loss of time.It is invariably succosgful.Convincing \u2018testimonials from - the Aergy, the medical professions, ete, © may \u2018be seen at the office of sx THE DIXON CURE CO.572 St Dents Street, \u201c MONTREAL.~~ =OR\u2014 \u201c Dr.MACKAY, Belmont Retreat, Quebeo © Communicatigts treated confidentially Apples Make Cider.and Pears Makes Soap, but Call and shew.you its gor to the dyer and the materiale tobe colored.See that each packet of dye purchased has the name \u2018Diamond.\u2019 Corner st.Catherine and Univèrsity -ots , Will open in a few days We Manufacture the MILLER Patent .IE LEDGER.PERFECT FLAT OPI Co vice and examine it or have our representative oal ts advanteges, \u2018MORTOH, PHILIPS & 00 t BEANE BODIE MAKEN.no & 1507 Koa BAA] or.Mpnsrent.Whole Wheat Flour \u201c ELECTION DAY.A Cold Day and a Quiet Election, A CLOSE CONTEST IN SEVERAL OF \u2018THE WARDS\u2014CLAIMS \u2018OF THE CANDIDATES\u2019 COMMITTEES.It was a cold election in more ways than one.The mercury was away down below zero, there was a piercing northwest wind blowing, and there was not enough cxcitement in most wards to keep the ward politicians warm.The exceptions were: West Ward, Centre Ward, East Ward, St.Ann\u2019s and St.Jean Baptiste.-The voting for the mayoralty in the principal English wards of St.Antoine and \u201cSt.Lawrence, was, as had been expected, very light.The mayotalty candidate has little or noth- fig in.the way of poll organization and \u2018there\u2019 were few canvassers about.There were no returns of the mayoralty vote made and the mayoralty contest all through was of a spontaneous character, except in one or two wards, where the scrutineers of certain aldermanic candidates looked after the interests of the mayoralty csndidates.\u2018The closest aldermanic contests promise to be in West and Centre wards, where there has been\u2019 thorough organization, and where feeling ran high.WEST WARD.In.West Ward, at twelve o'clock, both committees, so far as they could judge by the canvass, claimed small majorities.Ald.Stevenson was busy all day directing his own campaign while Mr.Smith quietly went to the poll, cast his vote aud returned to his business.ST.ANTOINE SOUTH.At the committeé room of Mr.H.J.Cloran, who is contesting St.Antoine South Ward, against Mr.Raby, it was reported that the voting was light; but still up to the usual average.Canvassers reports were that the polls up to noon gave Mr.Cloran a slight lead.\u2018There was but little telegraphing reported; but, in one case, it was found that the vote of Mr.Alfred Brown, 302 St.Antoine street, had been undoubtedly telegraphed, as the gentleman in question is at present in France.The telegrapher was not caught.At Mr.Raby\u2019s committee room on St.James street it was reported that perhaps.less \u2018than \u2018two-thirds of the vote Nas \u201cbeing polled in that ward.The \u20ac redfier \u2018MudtWe éffeét of keepibg id from exbréising the Pranchis ; \u201ccales: of telegraphing -häd come\u201d to light.The Electoral League has made this very difficult in the case of male voters by furnishing the returning officers with descriptions.It does not appear that women voters are guarded to the same extent.: ST.ANN\u2019S WARD.The election fight in St.Ann\u2019s Ward, \u201cbetween Ald.Kinsella and Mr.D.Tan- :sey, jr.\u2026 for seat -No.2, was keenly con- hrs \u2018 ; ie : Tn tested., Early this morning the friends * of both candidates were astir.The rival- 1Ty between the two/gections was very - bitter, and each side strained every Rebves.to secure success.Ald.Gallery tis taking a keen interest in the out- \"come \u201cof the contest, and working hard on behalf of Ald.Kinsella.The friends of Mr.Tansey, however, were quite confident of electing their man.Up to two o'clock this afternoon considerable personating, in.this ward was reported, butia keen watch is being kept, to de tect, if possible, the pitty parties.Much surprise was shown this morning by the friends of Mr.Tansey, when the returning officer at\u2019 Poll No.8 received the following\" notification from Mr.L.O.PDavid:\u2014 - M.2 SN SE Aux Esq, Returning Officer ; nn\u2019e Ward: pear.SirDeL- potity \u2018you that in view of cir¢umstances, \u2018I am obliged to cancel your appointment and to ask you to deliver all your papers _and doc ts to Mr.Pater- .the bearer, who has been appointed in This notification bas caused much comment.Mr.Bouthillier is at a com- plate logy te agcount for this unexpected 2 Like all enn Baptiste West was ane not much enthusiasm : Ne shown.At some .of \u2018the polls \u201cthe eputy réfarning officers hands, but.very few voters coming to poll.The.distance from down town apd.the strength: and keennè&-of the no doubt: affected the voting.-Ald.dt * 18\u201d generally donsidered as being kay 40 be returned.CANVASS RS\u2019 ESTIMATES.; ard;-at mid day Ald.Rainville\u2019 8 committee claimed a majority n pio, sof fifty, Mr.\u2018Lebenf\u2019s one of half that number.Fast ar \u201cMi.\u201cLamarche\u2019 s com miptep.claimed.eighty majority, Mr.mien, s\u2019s, fifty; and Mr.St.Aubin, \u201cIn: St.Mary's Ward Mesars.Lavallee d Chaussé claiméd- majorities of \u2018two Ë andre at half-past eleven; their op- 4 \"ponents also -claiting to \u2018be ahead, but Mentioning no In - St.Ann\u2019s \u2018Ward, at 12.30, Ald.\u2018Kinsella\u2019s: organization claimed three hundred: amajoriby; Mr.\u2018Tansey\u2019s, over\u2019 a \u201cJn St Antoine.Seth.Mr.Raby\u2019s com mittee: oF 18.claimed four hundred ity; \u201cClass, \u2018two hupidred.Jn; 8b Toa\" Ward Ald.Paqyette\u2019s sciutinsess\u2019 Tefuths \u2018at 1235 gave :\u2014 nN found the time hang heavily on their | Paquette, 750; Savignac, 600; Savignac\u2019s, Savignac, 650; Paquette, 550; and Gagnon\u2019s committee claimed a majority of 350.In St.Jean Baptiste Ward, Ald.Oui- met claimed 150 majority; Mr.Beaudry one of 100.VOTERS SWORN.In all the wards many voters were sworn, this practice being especially frequently resorted to in St.Louis Ward, where Ald.Pacuette\u2019s committee claimed that\u2019 they had proof of an organized attempt to \u2018telegraph\u2019 votes by wholesale.THE CANDIDATES.The candidates who .sought election today were:\u2014 MAYORALTY.William E.Doran, architect ; Prefontaine, advocate.BEAST WARD.Seat No.1\u2014L.Gouin, advocate; F.Mer- cler, carriage merchant; Adolphe Ouimet, advocate.: @aymond G.Marsolais, merchant; C.St.Aubin,agent.CENTRE WARD.Seat No.2\u2014C.Lebeuf, advocate; H.B.\u2018Rainville, advocate.WEST WARD.Seat No.1\u2014C.F.Smith, manufacturer ; A.A.Stevenson, gentleman.ST.ANN'S WARD.Seat No.2\u2014T.Kinsella, bottler; D.Tan- sey, jr., agent.ST.ANTOINE (SOUTH) WARD.Seat No.1\u2014H.J.Cloran, advocata ; Raby, grocer.ST.LOUIS WARD.Seat No.1\u2014P.E, Paquette, merchant; J.R.Savignac, accountant.Vv.Seat No.2\u2014A.Gagnon, accountant ; G.Reneault, manufacturer.ST.MARY'S, WEST WARD.Seat No.2\u2014E.Chausse, merchant ; G.Gauvin, druggist ; H.St.Pierre, merchant.ST.MARX'S BAST WARD.Seat No.1\u2014H.Dupre, merchant; G.F.Lariviere, accoun ST.eri SOUTH WARD.Seat No.1\u2014J.Chevalier, agent; J.C.-La- coste, advocate.ST.JAMES, NORTH WARD.Seat No.2\u2014L.A.Lavallee, advocate; C.A.Prevost, contractor, ST.JEAN BAPTISTH WARD.Seat No.1\u2014J.E.Beaudry, gentleman; L.Ouimet, jr., contractor.- ST.DENIS WARD.Seat No.1\u2014F.X.Prenoveau, contractor; S.D.Vallieres, gentleman.WATCHING \u2018TELEGRAPHERS.Chief Carpenter had little news to give out from the Detective Department this morning.He, however, said that practically the whole detective force was out watching the polls with special instructions to look for \u2018telegraphers.\u2019 JOTTINGS.Ald.Paquette hid a couple of lady canvassers working energetically for him all day.The bar- nels law appeared to be retty cl yrobéetved: - vty polly\u2019 dose.at- five, Go-night, oy Ad.Cléatihue *was actively \u2018engaged in the aldermanic contest in the upper part of St.Louis Ward.Some of Mayor Prefontaine\u2019s friends at noon were betting that Mr.Doran would lose his deposit, The women's vote:.polled to-day \u2018is ex- of the city.\u2014\u2014\u2014a\u2014 CALLED TO TORONTO.THE REV.MR.DAVEY, OF RED BANK, N.J., THE CHOICE OF CHALMERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.Toronto, Feb.1.\u2014At a largely attended meeting of the congregation of Chalmers Presbyterian Church last evening it was decided to extend a call to the Rev.Mr.Davey, of Redbank, N.J.Two names were submitted to the congregation, that of the Rev.J.R.Dobson, of St.Giles, Montreal, and the Rev Mr.Davey.The vote resulted in 148 votes being polled for Mr.Davey, and 141 for Mr.Dobson.It was then: practically unanimously agreed to extend a call to the Rev.Mr.Davey, at a salary of $1, - 700 per year.The Rev.Mr.Davey is a graduate of McGill and is said to be a bright and clever young man, and a convincing and eloquent speaker.0 WAIVED EXAMINATION.Boston, Mass.Feb.1.\u2014Charles H.Cole, formerly president of the Globe National Bank, which now is in the hands of a receiver, charged with .embez- | zling and: misappropriating $900,000, the property of the bank, waived examination before United States Commissioner Fiske in the United States Court, today, and was held in $50,000, for the grand.jury of the district court, which sits ,on March 20.PS\u201c QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES DEAD.New York, Feb.1.\u2014Sadie Evans, queen of the gypsies, died last night at the camp near Elizabeth, N.J.It is \u2018born in England, in 1704.tl ROBERTS WANTS HIS PAY.Washington, Jan.81.+\u2014B.H+ Roberts, | of Utah, who was recently.\"excluded from membership ix Le, House, has made .a forma mang, upon the sers graht-at-aims of the House for his sal; | ary and: mileage, amounting in\u201d all to about 42,000.The and was accom: panied by the eit of papers.relating: to the claimant's: right, and also, | it was.said, with a ; gestion that suit would be begun to'é claim: in case it was: not paid.- Th eant-ate | arms declined to accept se ce o the\u2019 papers.Seat No.2\u2014Joseph Lamarche, plumber ; | pected to be the heaviest in the history claimed that she was 106 years old, being- AT SPEARMAN'S/CAMP, MEN ARE CONFIDENT OF ULTIMATE SUCCESS.London, Feb.1.\u20146.40 p.m.\u2014The War Office has no news of General Buller\u2019s alleged movements, as reported by the \u2018St.James's Gazette,\u201d but the paper says it has no reason to doubt the correctness of its information, although it has not yet learned the exact positions General Buller seized.Spearman\u2019s Camp, Natal, Tuesday, Jan.30.\u2014There is an optimistic feeling in all ranks and the troops are confi: dent of ultimate success.Great enthusiasm was aroused by the Queen's mes sage and General Buller\u2019's speech expressing admiration for General Warren\u2019s and Geazral Clery\u2019s divisions.The natives persist in asserting that General Joubert was killed by a shell out side of Ladysmith.- IN THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.London, Feb.1.\u2014In the House of Commons to-day the government parried\" most of the questions in regard to the war in South Africa.Mr.George Wyndham, the Parliamentary Under | Secretary for War, maintained that the information furnished by the intelligence department was accurate and he added | that the information in regard to the forces remaining in the United XKing-| | dom would be included in the statement which the government would make shortly.Relative to the speech made by General Lord Wolseley, the commander- in-chief, explaining the British rev in South Africa, Mr.Wyndham said that General Wolseley merely intended to convey the impression that the military qualities shown by the Boers were of a higher order than had been anticipated.At this remark the Irish members cheer ed.pres LAST VACANCY FILLED.Quebec, Feb.1 ~The news of the, appointment of the Hon.Joseph Shehgn, Minister in the without portfolio, #ad M.P.P.for \u201cQuebec East, as senator of the Dominion, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Hon.E.J.Price, was received here yesterday from Ottawa.This nomination unquestionably .causes: disappointment in some quarters, but it :is generally regarded as.the: fittest \"that eould.be made: and.is- well veceived.by the.Liberals \u2018of «this: section -and.the Toe ah Be RUE AT RE SENATOR SHEHYN.public at large.Mr.Shehyn occupies one of the highest commercial and social positions in Quebec.He is the local head of the great wholesale dry goods firm of McCall, Shehyn & Co., and an ex-president of the Quebec Board of Trade, while, in public, life, he has filled the positions \u2018of local member for Quebec East for nearly.a quarter\u201d of a - | century, of Treaeurer'of the province under the Mercier Administration, and of minister without .portfolio,: as already said, in-the Marchand Cabinet.As will be seen, he is not only one of the- veterans of the Liberal party, but also.a men of ripe political \u2018experience, besides ssing, a hign.commercial standing and a reputation both as a public man and à private citizen absolutely without stain.J EXPRESS DERAILED.MONTREAL BOUND TRAIN MEETS WITH AN, ACCIDENT.\u2014 St.Flavie, Que.\"Feb.1 While running at a regular speed at an early hour this morning between * St.Moige \u2018and Little, Metis, \u2018the Montreal bound express was badly \u2018derailed.The sleeper, dining.and - first class cari Were, upset \u2018on: the.side, send the: second class car \u2018lost oF \u2018across the.track.The \u2018shock \u2018was fdr: | vrible,, but fortunately no one\u2019 Was in jured.Efforts.were immediately 0 by the employees: for.the comfort: of t he | & passengers.\u2019 eng \u2018mediately obiéred fro &Y rebec Government of \"its _ tricks, and \"was tarned | A \u2018pisenger \"Gar\" Was for the throat and- lungs: J \\ as coughing, A 25c.bottle vil cure o an ordinary cough : \u20183 er coughs will needs 2500.size; the dollar bottle is cheapest i in the Tong: run.\u201cOne of 8 blood with Ff high to ver ek es J very ill.We con ; \"2 à Ans of life in him.The 4 3: ÿ did bim no \u2018Bat Tho dock of ï Poux Cherry ectoral cured bho and : na ved his ive, * C.Q.AxD Nov 10, 1898.Puivata, 8.Write th 9 complaise M Simul er b > mocicai advice, write \"4 Or frosty.5 Ares J.C.Avae.Zowell, Mad, ff: 1 did.ii] mot} forgotten him by\u201c any means, if he | bad ine, Fd béen having a fight for life il too, \u201cbut it didn\u2019t eijiial his.a up there on a Sunday.- il baby | you'd: never KR Kitorn het.She'd Tost, | all \"hep pretty :| shave : turned.\u2018| kind they were | still Pm not getting upto ju wpe to hunt up Harry, for L had-« I got track of Jenny first, and went] I found > the ty low.and as for Jenny, Tolor, and there was a hard, hungry in her eyes.\u2018I mailed a letter to Harry from Lawrence, and inclosed a pindotlar bill,\u2019 \"| telling | im to start fof Boston by train as soon as that re \u2018him, and come | straight: to: ad \u2018wharf: £a He did\u2018 it.He got his breakfast, and, without.even \u201cstuppiig fo get a he - took \u2018the Aral home, \u201cand up here ut five o\u2019cloc .I vow I here abgut fi the poor feller.Why, he\u2019d heen the, nlickest-looking of \u2018| our set, and now I took him for a hobo: ety thétbéid' snre\u2014the kind thé.tr out | of work were thought to be \u2018made up of.I'm inglined to think he was the made up; of, mostly,\u2019 bus} We went right to Tawreries; Bit tHe baby wag.dead before we got.there.:} Hl can\u2019t talk much about that.You .Harry and Jenny have: bei: fust.1 my own folks.for years, and We \u2018baby | was named after me: \u2018Oh, yest: They all.right / pod: Harry\u201d 8 got'à véry-good -plaçe in \u201côur.of | fice, and they've got another flat an afternoon the foreman didn\u2019t take any a \u2014 a énother baby, and they even keep up à their life insurance.But it isn\u2019t the same flat, and it isn't \u2018atthe same Hurry and Jenny, | either.\u201cCHILDRENS CORNER.(By Mrs.Henry Crowe, in \u2018Light in the Home.) \u2018Good-morning, dear mamma!\u2019 .And Muriel Landor threw her arms round pe mother, and kissed her nffectionate \u201cGood \u2018morning, darling.tle piece of news for you\u2019 \u2018Oh!\u2019 Muriel was all curiosity.Yes, Aunt and Uncle Richard are going abroad far six weeks'\u2014glancing at an open letter in her hand.\u201cThey are coming over to-morrow to say goodbye, and will leave Mary with us till they return; the .change will do uncle good, please God.\u2019 | Mary Landor was Muriel\u2019s first coun: sin, a little girl of some twelve years, like herself.They were both the only children of their parents; but whilst the elder brother, Muriel\u2019s father, had made a large fortune in China, Mary\u2019 8 papa, Captain Landor, being disabled by a wound, had to leave the service and retire upon a small pension.This was Mary's first visit at her uncle\u2019s house, as it was at no long period previously that she had returned from India with her parents, \u2018That will be rather nice, mamma,\u2019 replied Muriel, adding, in a patronizing tone, \u2018I shall have so many things to show her.\u2019 \u201cMy child must be very kind to her little cousin, or she will feel lonely\u2014 she has never been separated from her parents before.It is God\u2019s will that poor uncle should now be an invalid, and-he is going to try some waters in Germany, which he hopes may give him relief.\u201d | \u2018Of course I shall be kind to her, mamma.\u2019 And Muriel gave a little toss of her head, and then immediately put up her hand to feel if her curls had been thereby disarranged.Silly little Muriel! - The following day Captain Landor and his family duly arrived.The pleasant hours flew by only too swiftly\u2014as pleasant hours always do\u2014 and then the moment came when Mary bad to bid farewell to father and mother for six long weeks.\u2018God bless my child!\u2019 said papa, as he gave her a last kiss; \u2018rememiber that he is alwdys near you, darling.\u201d Mary tried to give a bright little smile I have a lit- _Ebeÿe.wag a line of men \u2018Way ddwn- he pe the pone, 1 réfgse that I ny gain Christ.(Acts ix., 5.) # to mamma when the carriage rolled ges Dut.the tell-tale tears welled into to make her happy, and she soon.began to feel at home.with them.On saying her last prayar that night she did not forget her father\u2019s words, that\u2019 her Heavenly Father was always near.her.Mary\u2019s arrival in her home .was for a time a matter .of.novelty to : \u201cMuriel, She liked to patronize the little cousin, in \u2018showing her much that Mary hed never before seen.Quaint, curiosities that papa bad brought from China and other countries, some of them of great value, which much interestéd the newcomer.Then there was a rabhit-hutch with six lovely snow-white, pink-eyed rabbits, to be visited; three playful but clumsy wee pups to be admired-\u2018because they are thoroughbred,.you see,\u2019 explained Muriel; \u2018they have black roofs to their mouths.\u2019 \u2018Oh\"\u201d replied Mary, drinking in this | wonderful knowledge on:.her.ecousin\u2019s part with respect, as something to be stored up in her memory.Lastly, there wis the aviary, full of lovely birds of all kinds, and the delight fully-constructed fowl-house, with hens and chickens of all ages and sizes, from \u2018which Mary could hardly tear herself away\u2014\u2018they were so sweet and fluffy; she said; but in this Muriel @id not share her admiration.they give nice eggs.\u2019 As the weeks sped by, Mutiel\u2019s behavior towards her little cousin was Jesw | affectionate than in the first days of her -stav.© (To be Continued.) BIBLE THOUGHTS.THURSDAY, FEB.1.JESUS A PERSONAL SAVIOUR.1.Who art thou, Lord ?I am Jesus.2.I know Him whom I\u2019 \u2018have believed.(II.Tim i., 12) 3.Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.15 (Gal.ii., 20.) 4.Christ Jesus came in to the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.({ Tim i., 15.) 5: For to (Phil.i, 21.) 6.I count all things as - (Phil iii, 8.) .We wait for a \u2018Savioagr, the Lori ann Christ.(Phil: ili, 20.) This personal relation to Jesus should be known by every Christian, indeed, we: ere not Christians without it.Tt # \u2018man is not trusting in Jesis, in Jiving \u2018union with Him, joined.(te Him, and if Christ is not in him, he isnot a Chris | tia It 18 not what we believe, bu \u2018whom.It is not out Riigionsnes, but His shedlenca\u2019 = \u2018righteousness which constitutes Him ou :Baviour.Our selvetion is in knowing.:Bim, being found in Him, Waiting and > | ovaing for iim.Then ve, shall be like | Him, for we shall see Him a8 He is retires ; \u201cWhen the Rev.\u20ac.H.Spi urgson domi the same beby; and, sometimes, I think\" \u2018I think they are stupid \u2018things, only : me to live is Christ and to die i5-gañn As the Best } \u201cHAS B BEEN RECOMMENDED BY ENT PHYSICIANS UNEQUALLED AS A.REMEDY FOR Constipation and Stomach Disorders.Got the Sengisel Common Key Ant, \u201cuncle and Muriel did their: al \u201cRes pou Jher Mother her recovery.\u2018eithër side of my neck swelled : clans could do \u2018ples, poire Liver Pills.and .started derived from those : little pills \u201825¢.a mére h dut of people i in chapel, on pulpit of which.filled by at least two distinguis isters\u2014Dr.- Gill and.Dr, , mère, than a century.would pay, were à mere.a handful!\u2019 preset; 48; doubtless He wan.occasion among others, t Spi it, bere \"aot J > de His \u2018blessed influence.blessing; ; the fo s, and many.89 Ad dnd then to « \u2019menced his ministry in Londôn it was to AT (METRY was Mr.Spurgeon\u2019 s testimony.Sliverware, Jewellery, hai \u2018despaired of - Here is Miss Windrem's statement: \u201cSpme three years ago thé glands on remained so in spite of all the Physi- Then my eyes got sore .\u2018and T waa greatly troubled with pains} = \u2018through my head, particularly the tem- At last I became # weak and run \u2018down that my mother almost des- of my recovery.1 then.heard of Je .The result is, I am cured and 1 cannot speak too highly of the benefit I | ad been Rippon\u2014ter 3 e people Ham Wi handfn!\u2014 sac té ow y But, -oh,- Low they could |.prayV.The prayer-meetings were so | of life and fire that it seemed as i \u2018Angel of the Cavenant -Himself were {- there.was such \u2018them, and all the minister could de was 0 pronounce: the.benediction, and say, i friends, we have had \u2019 the Hon | & 2 to-pight; let us go \u2018home and |- houge was filled | 25 uls.were, sav: 1 a bvays give all the honor first, ng people,\u2019 LIMITED sense will tell you that a company of this magnitude cannot afford to give the.public anything but the very best article that can be made.DUPORTERS oF \u2018 _ Asbestos.and.Tuck's Packings, °° COOYTON WASTE, OI < oo Asbestos Pipe and Botlér Coverings an General.Baglnver.Supplies, No.LA st PÉTER STRERT.MONTREAL., OAKUM, &c- Spoons.Cutlery, etc, Is stlil on at 2174 8t.Catherine Street, the store lately occupied by John Watson, ART ASSOCIATION BUILDING.-BARGAINS IN ALL LINES.~~ No Reasonable Offer Tepisid, as Soods Must Be Sold.| À \u2018Manitoba Tribute \"To Laxa-Liver Pills.| he Windrem, of Baldur, : Use restored to health affer Clocks, St.for Boys, A strong staff ; tho up arid oly to ere tee zur ry; \u2018and Forks, \u201c CHESTNUT PARK,\u201d TORONTO, wi re-open on.MONDAY, JAN.15th, 1900.ugh training ; over-kight, a fine location.Park of .For Prospectus or other iaformation ap- Rev.& BRUCE, D.D., \u2018 \u2019 \u201c Préficipal.Stationery, re 5 AND COLLEGES Andrew's College home.-aoreés taking Blank Book Menuinoiurets.Printers: iy Price.a large min full | UY ot it \u2018the | duté.-On one |.Timms, NOBLE & | | Whdiesnte Staticdeis nd\u2019 Lithograpkeévs.| TER CHATS STREET ar ™ So \u201cthe rl rade re Si FE oy ers:e aig: ne, al by ue fon ot: ds re be simpli : ionize Then |:ea RE hoy on their spirits, yh | 4 no tre \u20ac t inister said d; \u2018Let us be quiet\u201d | They - he mit silence for some moments, i Notice\u2019 ts, Fiery Given \u2018and the Lord.\u201cto oyershadow, 7 the Ti astosn à An Aanérioan BEGINNING EARLY.Visitor (viewisg thé n6w babr)-\u2014\"Na\"a\"the very image of his father.\u2019 - Proud Mother\u2014\"Yes; and he acts just like him, , too.\u2019 Visitor's It possible?Proud Mother \u2014 \u2018Yes; he keeps me up naarly all night.\u2019\u2014Chisago \u2018News.\u2019 We can strongly recommend Robinson's Patent Barley for ail infants up to nine months oid, with an ocvastonal change te Robinson's Patent Groats after that age 16 St.John street, 1 Frank Magor & Co., Montreal.\u2018Do you think those two letters were written by the same person?\u2018I really cculdn't say,\u2019 answered ithe handwriting expert.\u2018Oh, I see.Yon haven't studied them.\u2019 \u2018Yes, 1 have.But I haven't av yet been retained either by the proszcution or the defence.'\u2014Washing\u2018on \u2018Star.\u2019 In cases of extreme debllity, doctors have found Robinson's Patent Barley of great use.It contains all the muscle and bone- forming elements.Ask your doctor's advice \u2014and try the food.Frank Magor & Co., 38, St.John street, Montreal.1 THERE ARE OTHERS.Dolly Swift\u2014\"He is very fond of golf, isn\u2019t he?Bally Gay\u2014'lI do not think ho is as fond of golf as ho is fond of being hought to be fond of golf.\u2019 \u2014\u2018Puck.\u2019 +» Wo mail free 2 sample tlh of Robinson's Patent Barley to all mothers applying direct or by postal.Frank Magor & Co., 16 St.John street, Montreal.1 Weary Wraggs\u2014\u2018Wheh a lady gives me a meal I allis say, \u201cMay your shadow ncy-, er grow less.\u201d ' .Frayed Feeter\u2014Wen a lady gives me a meal I ollus say, \u2018Mag your photographs allus need as life touching up as Gey do | at present,\u201d and git a quarter in addition.\u2019 \u2014'Puck.\u2019 a - Children Cry for CASTORIA.Children Ory for CASTORIA.Children.OF.for 2 6 ape tnt Cre aes crus equal to grand er Blunt Professor\u2014\u2018Ong 3e stage or ad ze box ?\u2014\u2018Pack.> CASTO RIA For Infants and Ohildren.oo RICE'S Photographs : Are making a ni me for themselves n the city.Qu 0 ; The MEZZO is ue popular stylo«nall stxes.\u2018RICE noon a; Cashortas wrens, Montre WHAT Wo don\u2019t want T WE.HAVE Realy\u2019 Framed Pictures cheaper than evon.\"a W, WILLS) est ess ace : in ; É | Clore.OYSTER SL FOR POULTEE:- 04 9 + COTTONS.COTTONS.3,000 yards Remnants White Pique; length from one yard up.During End of Month Sale, 25 PERCENT DISCOUNT OFF ALL LENGTHS.ton Flannel; lengths from one yard up.During End of the Month Sale, 25 PERCENT DISCOUNT OFF ALL LENGTHS.Remnants Bleached Sheeting, plain and twilled, 8-4 and 9-4, worth 25c and 30c; choico- \"of any width or length, 19¢ per yard.* 20 Let pt 2 ep Bre > 9 * e, DRESS GOODS.75 Dress and Skirt Patterns, all wool and silk and wool.During End of the Month Sale, HALF PRICE.Black All Wool Dress Serge, double width.End of the Month Sale, 19c per yard.SILKS.SILKS, 400 Remnants Black and Colored Silks, in lengths from 3 to 43% yards.Discounts during End of the Month Sale, 25, 35 and 50 percent.LINEN DEPARTMENT.25 pieces Bleached Table Damask; best Irish and Scotch makes; choice during End »f the Month Sale at 25 PERCENT DISCOUNT.e, + CL) 9, e 0, ©, + ° ac ae ©, \"% °°, ee o> 08 & 8 SO 00000, ® + + 0,,9.,0 10%\" 030451 0% foe! ° * 0.0 0,000 + this Sale; choice of our stock at 25 PERCENT DISCOUNT.©, ve.ete > 9.lo?Don\u2019t forget our.great Sale of Enamel Ware.Every piece guaranteed first quality, no seconds.ered with bargains.are Tea Pots worth 45c, for 25c.Long Handled Dippers, worth 25c for 10c.Pudding Pans, worth 20c, for 8c.85 HALL LAMPS, full sized globe, brass chains.and fittings, complete with fount, burner, chimney and wick, in assorted colored globe, ruby, amber and green.Regular price is $2.25.Your choice for '$1.50 each.0 29249, 999%\" ® - o20egs ifeeieads of Carto 203008 \u2018| a 09 Pao 9, % TRA \u201cÉOUNCIL OF WOMEN, \u2014 =~ - \u2018 IMPORTANT PAPERS READ BY PROMINENT MEDICAL MEN.\u2014 The public meeting held in the assembly y of the High School, Pesl street, yester- afterngon, under the auspices of the treat Local Council of Women, was fairly \u2018well attended.The chair was occupied by Mrs.J.F.Stevenson,president Y.W.C.A.With her on the \u2018platform were Madame Thibaudeau, Mrs.H.Scott, Mrs.Learmont, Mzs.Waiton, Miss Reid, and the speakers of+the afternoon; Dr.Craik, Dr.Adami and Dr.Lachapelte.- : The minutes of the last meeting of the council were read by Miss Reid, recording secretary, who also gave au excellent summary of the work done since October by sub-sections of the council.The sub-com- mittee on Home and \u2018Éducation, reported progress of the Social Science Club.The sub-committee on Hygiene had arranged a course of heilth talks to be given in different sections of the city throughout the wintër.The committee on Philanthropy reported, work done in carrying out the idea of a Joan fund to the Doukhobors to give them present essistance in their need and to promote village industries.Montreal .had raised $421.83, besides a gift of 12 looms which bavé already been sent.During the week.of prayer $88 had been collected, which in.be épant in purçhasing stoves.\u2018Wool d ckitËing hud alsn\u201dbeen distributed.= tés: \u2018réport Gf \u2018the charity organization.- committee showed that $1,550 had been subscribed.Further work had been.done in the\u2018 matter of-public bars, pure literature, the shop act, maternity boarding houses, and much, ie, spent on the Canadian pont read &; dota tron sy 6 \u201cA, Drumihond,\u201d who Fra \u2018absent In - in \u2018whicli \u2018gle\u2019 wpols encoutagingiy of the prospects \u2018and ciency of the Charity Organization Soclety.ca Adan resid a puperion \u2018Milk and Dis- He deplored the fact that in spite ot Sdhiane information disseminated by méans: oY \u201cFhe: the: ordinery bouse- Keepér \u201cmade no.\u2018practical usé of the means at.her disposal for: preventing the dangers ipefgen 40> the \u2018use al\u2019 raw milk.He quéted' statistics : Sowisé ie Yrighton mot- taljly \u2018every.yèer among young children frorp\u2026.nie Bed Face this éat\u201d case, i: \u201cIn a phy ature a eingl illus would ineréassto 6,770,000 at - the: eid of 24:houis.A small.quantity.of infect t to pollute a \u2018large: fod, In nn ve ed milk is suffie Santi.po 2.puze terdii.hecesmary hs sete eyphoël toe od oper bY ira.Dune Siticitfr, of a typh Léoking at A the.thought Zaimal discharge: deco FE rats \u2018The ster! ng process Le tiara bane aris 26,168 Ter: sufMcieni.ta.© conclusive, prop£*j > Sh dacâse is\u2019 nearly 0e ! 1,500 yards Remnants Unbleach2>d Can- Great Renaissance Lace Sale during Seven tables cov- A few examples + \u201c| means: \u201c| vice.«tou S| fatal complication bad time to set in.An admirable vo | f ekin presents to all shoppers, will soon be at an end.SKIRTS.SKIRTS.50 Ladies\u2019 All Wool Dress Skirts, bandsom2 Tweed effects; regular price of these Skirts, $6; while they last, price only $3.69.BLOUSES: BLOUSES.Ladies\u2019 Flannelette Shirt Waists; Al fitting and best quality Flannelette; worth $1.25; to clear, price only 69c.SHIRT WAISTS.In Plaids, Cashmere, Flannel and Mercerized Goods; all to be placed on a table at one price; soïd regular at $2.85, $2.45 and $2.25.They must be sold; price only $1.49.WHITEWEAR.olightly soiled, imciuding Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s Night Gowns, Corset Covers, Chemises, Drawers, Skirts and Aprons, 25 off regular prices, 25 off.JACKETS.JACKETS.Ladies\u2019 Elderdown Dressing Jackets, worked in silk and wool.Sold hundreds during the season at $1.65; dark and light colors; price enly §1.19.WRAPPERS.Flannelette, worth $1.25; price 79c.Also Eiderdown Wrappers, worth $2.50; price $1.25.MANTLE DEPABDTMENT.We have decided to clear several lines comprising Jackets, short and : three- HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA, for 10c.2,000 CAKR TINS, with loose bottoms, five shapes, regular price 12¢ end 14c.Sale price, 5c each.COFFEE STRAINERS, large size, worth 10c.Sale price, 2l4c each large bottle Tr Ben Fa me ey kil] the géried without perceptibly altering \u2018the taste.Migk-dealers should ba entour- aged to do this\u2019 before delivering to thelr customers; as one dealer: In:Monireal had already.done.It would, be sald, be a good scheme to have a list of\" \u201ccustomers Haff nished to the preper officials, in order that when a case of infectious disease was reported on a milkthan\u2019s route, the distribution might at onee be stopped.Dr.E.P.Laghapelia real an instructive paper on \u2018La Prophylaxit de la Tuberculose.\u201d The doctor fifst explained the nature of tuberculosis.The disease, long believed to be hereditary, was now proved to be con- tagioue, avoldalile, and curable.There might, it was tide, be a predisposition to contract the disease, but -even this might be corrected.The :doëtor called attention to the frightful ravages of the disease.In this province \u2018about 3,000 people sûccumb to it annually.That it might be cured in its.first, and even in its second stage, was: proved.Tbe diseasé was usually contracted bythe entrance of \u2018the tuberculose microbe through the air or the food channels into organism alpeady weakened by predisposition of by bad byklénic \u2018surroundings.To prevent its appearance it was hecessary to guard against contagion, and also to strengthen the general: \u2018system s0 \u2018as to overcome any predisposition to the disease.A «child with this tendency should both at \u2018home and at school \u2018Be placed in the most favorable condition for establishing a normal conditdon.He should have plenty of physical exercise, regular meals, mental rest out of school hours, well \u201cventilated apartments.al all times, with change of climate occasionally, In\u2018 some European countries philanthropists had established places in the country or near the sea, to give the childrén of the poor with scrofulous and debilitated tendencies, a chance for.their lives.The doctor explained how the disease is chiefly disseminated by the bacclli which abound.in the expectorations of the tuberculous patient.In conclusion, Dr.Lachapelle spoke of the excellent results of treatment sip satatoriume;; Dr.Craik.then gave: a clear and practical address on the treatment of sumnrer com-\u2019 plaints.He :deséribed/ the different forms of microbes which are.ET vers some of Nous gro harmilées o very digestive ir 1 ula Tiare.& ay.ors a ane £ e tr ireu ition, _pthers «axe spe- cifie \"di ee?\u201cdovhor déscritet : the oti or died {forms of the trouble, and pointed out Mpeans- for.ita relief.\u201cThe cause of \u2018the im cre in usually be found in some article of diet taken.This must be \u2018at onée .discontinued, as wel as other articles In which ter nta- tion -or \u2018putrefaction \u2018microbes ursily work, such as starchy\u2019 $6084; row fn butchers\u2019 meat.\u201d All milk used by rods tiént must be fbolled, The pores.of he should be opened by means of a tepid The patient should rémeain in a hori- { zontal position \u2018to keep the digestive, organs at rest as much as; Ost.cases, the tro able would yield to Ton simple rolônked, Boweyer, medical ad- \u2018at née bo sought\u2019 before any ACP.R: EMPLOYEES FUND.\u201d A movement is on foot among: the gy ployges of the: C.P.R.from\" the \u2018Atlantic to | the Pacific to subseribe « \u2018half-days pay towards\u2019 the: Canadian Patplots Reile?Fund.| From the firat.s a\u201chave-been taken up Amongst -a number- ot ths employees | in thé different departments; But the movement has become.a cbimbined.one among | those who have not previbusly aubecribed | to the fund.It is called the Canddian Pa-: cific Rallway employees voluntary subsorip- tion to \u2018the Canadian \u2018Patriotic Reliet Fund.JOHN MURPHEY & Co.quarter lengths, in Black and assorted colors.AN this season\u2019s goods.Also, large lot of Capes in.Black and Colors; Beaver Cloth lined and trimmed Brald and Fur, at HALF PRICH.LADIES\u2019 COSTUMES, all reduced, from 20 to 50 percent.Fine Tailor-made Costumes, worth $9, for $5.00.SHAWLS, all reduced.He line, Heavy Wool Wraps, for 1.60.WINTER CLOTH, all reduced.; Special line, Heavy Beaver, worth $1.7 for $1.00.- \u2018Remnants of Cloth and Tweeds marked LBSS THAN HALF PRICE.FURS all reduced from 20 percent.Special lot of Fur Trimmings and\u2019 Fringes, to clear at 16¢ per yard.MILLINERY\u2014The balance of our Trimmed Hats and Bonnets at HALF.PRICE.\"MEN'S FURNISHINGS.Unlaundered White Shirts, sizes 12 to 1614; only two to each customer; Sale price 19c.HALF-PRICH ! { HALF-PRICE ! Sample White Shirts, Colored Shirts, odd lines and samples, to clear at Half-Price; $1.00 ones for 60c; $1.50 ones: for Silk Ties, all styles and colors,to clear \u2018at once; regular prices, 35c, 0c and 60c; Sale price, 1234¢.SPECIALS IN BASEMENT.TIN PEPPER AND SALT SHAKERS, worth 5c for lc each.DOVER EGG BEATERS, the genuine Sale price 8c each.Dover.GLASS BERRY \u2018BOWLS, six patterns, .160 each.ES Eh hd a UED.The evangelistic services ; which have | been \u2018in progress durikg the past two weeks in Sherbrooke -Street- Methodist Church, still prove attractive.hight quite a number were present.The Rev.Dr.Antliff gave a most impressive address, the subject being, \u2018Beloved, \u2018now are .ye the: sons of God.\u2019 .He.dwelt on the efficacy of prayer, meditation and help of class meetings.God will \u2018keep you if you let him.To those who continue patient in well-do- ing he will give eternal life.Deter: mination of character was essential.Be firm.At the close of the address several held up their hands for prayer.The meetings will be continued to-night and, on Friday night, with a great gathering on Sunday morning and evening.Co at \u2018thé meetings this evening and on Friday night.=\u2014 .; A JURY TRIAL.- A -trial by jury.came up for hearing before \u2018Judge Davidson, this _mbrning, fm the ease of Archibald McArthur es gual.vs.the Dominion Cartridge Company.This is an action for $10,000 damaes \u2018taken by the tutor of a young lad named injuries from an explosion: which.took place while he was working in the qom- pany defendant's factory, at Browns.burg, in the month of June, 1898.ripe A PRESENTATION.' The\u2019 .éx-president of the Board of Trade, Mr.Chas.F.Smith, has pre sented Mr.George Hadrill, the secretary; with \u2018a -.valuable diamond ring, as & mark of his appreciation of the services rendered by Mr.Hadrill' during : Mr.Smith\u2019 s term of office.SLIPPERY SIDE WALKS.Judge Loranger\u2019 rendered judgiient; this morning, in the case of Napgleon \u2018Forget vs.the city.This was an ac \u2018tion \"for damages\u2019 oh account of plaintiff having broken his leg by falling on ta slippery sidewalk of St.Timothee \u2018street.es and: condemned it to pay.plaintif 2 eee EXPROPRIATION EVALU : ATORS.Mayor.Prefontaine yesterday appointed Mr.Dillon, chairman of the Board of \u201cAstessors, and Mr.Lamontagne, as- \u2018sesso, to valuate the property the city \u2018is to expropriate \u2018this year.a COUNTY ORANGE: LODGE.The annual meeting of the County Orange Lodge for: the election of po hell and other, business Will b§ held | in the Orange\u2019 \u2018Hall, St.Catherine street, où Tuesday \u2018evening next, Feb.6, at eight o'clock, It is expected\u2019 that there \u201cwir be a \u2018very large attendérite.' \u201cis a sufficient indication that our Great Annual Clearing Sale, and the money-saving opportunity it Every department, for many reasons, is anxious to clear out stock, and the following list will therefore be found literally packed with genuine bargains : sx Every Item Means .Money Saved to the Purchaser! ; \"customer; only a limited quantity; sizes JEWELLERY DEPARTMENT.?\" Jewelled Rings, : Pearls, etc; regular $1.50 and $1.25; Sale EITHER VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL.SPECIAL SALE OF TABLE LAMPS, 25 2343 sT.CATHERINE STREET, ' Corner Metcalfe.Street.al TERMS \u2018CASH, Last | Rev.W.P.Boshart, B.D., will.speak | Hector McArthur, who received.severe |.real residents.The Coiirt held the city.respon-: PE Ls * 3 TREFOUSSE SLOUVE.$1.95 a Pair for 89c.Never have they been offered at this © price; color Green; only one pair to each * eséotreteatentoete à 40000 5% to 6%; regular $1.95, for 8dc.Ladies\u2019 Beautiful Pearl! Watch Fobs, with fine Rolled Plate Mountings.The latest; regular $2.50; Sale price, 97c.300 Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s handsome Opals, Turquoises, Dos Le price, 59c.FANCY GOODS.Two Special Tables, 10c and 25c ones.Bric-a-Brac, China, Photo Frames, Glassware, etc., many pieces, worth up to $1.00.HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.300 Women\u2019s Natural Ribbed Merino Vests, with ribboned necks and fronts; worth 30c; Sale price, 17c.SHEET MUSIC.¢ Sheets tor Sec.1 CHILDREN'S LEGGINGS, Black Cloth or Corduroy, $1.00 and $1.10; Sale price, 77e pair.500 STEEL\u2019TIP HATCHETS, good size, worth 25¢.Sale price, 126 each.KNIFE SETS, three knives in set,bread knife, cake knife and parer.Worth 30c.Sale price, 20c set.100 CHINA TEA SETS, 56 pieces in set, good China, two decorations to select from, Mlac and pink, worth $5.50 set.Sale price, $3.98 set of 56 pieces.LEMON SQUEEZERS, only 5c each.WHITE EGG CUPS, oaly 1%c each.percent discount.Telephone, Up 938.Sot * C.P.R.CONDUCTORS.Yesterday the semi-annual meeting of the_board of adjustment of the railway.conductors of the Cânadian Pacific Railway system, representing every sccidents.The average of typhoid fever cases had been reduced \u2018to.ten.There were seventy- four ambulance runs'and 3,048 free consultations minor opérations and presérip- tions filled.The report concludes with a strong appeal for more funds for.the hospital work in view of the: large in crease of late in expenses.ere TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL.An elderly man named Alfred Gauthier, sixty-two years of age, living on Maisonneuve street, was taken to the Notre Dame\u2019 Hospital last night suffer ing from cerebral hemorrhage, Gauthier.was a hight watchman in, the employ of the Leveille Manufacturing \u2018ompany, on St.Joseph lane, \u2018and was found on the \u2018premises in an \u201cunconscious state! Io.js \u2018hardly thought that he will I recover.i DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS, poorer SONNNU EDEN oes | emm\u2014 re METHODISTS \"ARE \u201cOPPOSED TO THE IDEA, AS ARE BAP- .TISTS AND PRESBYTERIANS.Toronto, Jan.3L\u2014In response to a request by the Anglican clergy to consider favorably the establishment of voluntary schools, the Methodist clergy have adopted the following resolution : \u2018We fully agree with the expressed desire of the Anglican deputation to secure an increase of moral and religious instruction, and would not be averse to a harmonious effort on the part of all classes to secure it.We, however, believe that the separation of the youth of our country during the formative period, the years of keenest susceptibilities, would militate against the feeling of unity that we all wish to see developed in our country.The Methodist clergy of the city are, therefore, opposed to the project.\u2019 The Baptists and Presbyterians have also declared against depominational schools.The single parochial or church school now in operation is an Anglican one, and it fs only slimly attended.HOME MISSIONS» CONGREGATIONALISTS INTERESTED IN THE RELIGIOUS NEEDS OF THE GREAT WEST.\u2014 Toronto, Feb.1.\u2014At an important meeting, held in the Northern Congregational Church, Church street, on Tuesday night, attention was directed in éloquent addresses to the claims of Western Canada on Congregationalists.The meeting was presided over by the Rev.T.B.Hyde, pastor, and addresses were delivered by the Rev.J.H.George, D.D., principal of the Congregational College, Montreal; the Rev.J.A.Macdonald, editor of the \u2018Westminster\u2019; and tire Rev.A.F.MacGregor, superintendent of Congregational missions in Canada.The pastors of the various Congregational churches of the city were present, as also were several pastors from the outside.The Rev.Dr.George referred to the relation of the college to an advanced missionary movement in the great North-West and British Columbia.The Rev.J.A.Macdonald in a speech.characterized by grasp of thought and enthusiasm, called attention to the moral and- spiritual needs of the great West, and the kind of men which the churches should Send re to work there.The.Rev.A.F.MacG ] ported thai contributions to \u201cthe 1 Weet fund had not.been made pe ou within.a few days.Already amounts given and pledged totalled Te 000.As soon as a sufficient amount is contributed to warrant the home missionary society sending men into needy places the work will be vigorously begun.The meeting of Tuesday evening was the first held in connection with this new work, and its représentative character, as well as the spirit of interest manifested, gives promise of a successful advanced missionary movement.\u2014 JUBILEE YEAR.EXPLANATION FROM ROME REGARDING THE SUSPENSION OF FACULTIES.Ottawa, Jan.31.\u2014Mgr.Falconio, apostolic delegate of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada to-day communicated the following letter, received by him from Rome, to the bishops throughout the Dominion: My lord,\u2014I have just received the following letter from Rome, which I hasten to inform you of: \u2018To His Excellency D.Falconio, Apostolic delegate to Canada: \u2018Your Excellency,~In your letter of Dec.23 last, Your Excellency informs me of the dispositions of the constitution Quod \u2018Pon- tificium, regagiling the suspension of faculties during the Jubilee Year.I lose no time.answer received \u2018is, that all facultie aries, remain in force for the Jubiles Year.\u2018Regarding\u2019 the faculties pro foro interno, granted by propaganda, the Holy Feather, in-an audience given on the 6th inst.has graciously declared that these faculties already hed « circular prepared\u2019 for all the bishops to \u2018meet thelr doubt on this subject.Meanwhile, Your Excellency may make known the above decigion to \u2018the bishops of Canada.\u201c1 pray Ged to have you in His keeping, \u201cYour Bxtellency's most devoted servant, (Signed), \u2018M.CARD.SEDOCHOWSKI, , \u2018Pref.Sl.Suigl Veeola, Sec.\u201cMy lord, begging your -prayers, believe me to romeo, youre faithfully in Christ 81 D.Faloonio -\u2018Arch.of Lacissa, Apostolic delegute.\u201d \u2014 MARQUIS oF QU.BENSRERRY DEAD.Londan, Feb.1\u2014The .Marquis of Queensberry, who was - -born.\u2026 July 20, is dead.fries.\"Volunteers, 1869-71.Te | OO a Sh, BEER uncertainty which may arise from certain | g in letting you.\u2018know that, havihæ consulted | the Sacred Pen! tentiary on.the subject, the: | ff: ès -pro:|.faro externo granted- to bishops änd ordin- might be used even during.the time of the jubilee \u2018in casu gravis incommodi.\u201d\u2019 I.have: 1844, and succeeded to the title in 1858, pa des \u201cJohn Sholto Douglas, eighth.Marquis s of Queensberry, » was, representative peer | for Scotland, 1872:80; Lieut.-Col.Dum-{ 5 \u2018He- \u2018owned : about 183,800 acres 8 of Joud.: He 3 was mare) Eu ried twice, in 1856 to a daughter of Alfred Montgomery, and in 1893 x daughter of Mr.E.C.Weedon, of East.bourne, Sussex.Both marriages Were disolved.Deceased\u2019s heir is i las, born in 1868.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ATTORNEY-GENERAL TAKES ACTION, Toronto, Jan.31.\u2014The Army and Navy veterans have for several days beey making it decidedly unpleasant for the coroner, who permitted the remains of Kenrick Connell, an old pensioner found dead on the ice in the bay, to be handed over to the students for dissection, althcugh Connell had eight dollars in his possession, enough to bury him.The veterans carried their complaint to the Attorney-General to-day and (0) (ribson ordered that the college authorities, why still have the body in the pickling vat, hand over the remains to the veterans for burial.me DECORATED THE STATUE London, Jan.30.\u2014The annual decor tion of the statue of King Charles 1, Trafalgar Square (the anniversary of hin execution in 1649), took place to-day Numerous wreaths from Legitimist clubs, including one from the American Society, bearing the ins-ription, \u2018Amer ca remembers her Martyr King, were placed on or about the statue.res ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.Toronto, Jan.31.\u2014The Ontario legis lature will meet on Feb.14.a RAFFLES ARE ILLEGAL.George Clarke, of Point St.Charles, waa arrested recently by an officer of the Canadian Secret Service for \u2018obtamn- ing money under false pretences,\u2019 or, in other words, selling raffle tickets for a suit of clothes worth $15.In the en quete, which was held yesterday afternoon and this morning, several persons testified to having bought tickets irom the accused, at various prices, during the mohth of December.At the conclusion of the enquete, this morning.Clare pleaded guilty, and asked for an immediate sentence.Judge Choquet, ac cordingly, sentenced him to a fine of $25, or two months imprisonment.Fe paid the fine.The arrest took place while Clarke was on his way to the City Hall to file his nomination papers for alderman for St.Gabriel Ward.lf DE PACHMANN.There was a wonderful scene of enthusiasm when De played in the Massey Me Hell, d'orouto, on Monday last : before .a e audi- nee \u201cHall.The.cial.Advertiser\u2019 saye: Ne Tork Dottie a is dainty.It continually reminds one of \u2018old fine lace, of \u2018the softest of sliken vel: vets, that are as.soothing to thc touch, aud so restful to the eye.He bas in his fingers a cortwin magic which can bring from the instrument tones of \u2018alluring softness, which are ~overed with a veiled qua- ity, that in the human voice, bas been called \u2018hidden tears.\u2019 - \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 - CITY ITEMS.Judge Doherty yesterday dismissed tha action taken to set aside a deed of donation in a case of .Dame-A.Lenoir dit Rolland vs.Lenoir et al.The Court ot Review yesterday confirmed the judgment of the Superior Court condemning the defendant to ragder an account for $450 on \u2018a trust fund placed in his hands in a \u201c¢abe of Darne Virginie Barron va.Archambault.\u201cThe new chancel of the Church of St.James the Apostie will be used for the first timé for tho.serviees on Sunday.The buiiding is now ready to receive the mag- Hificent organ under épnscruction, and it 1s \u201choped.the installation will take pisce at \u2018an early date.- at Pe \u2018annual meeting of the sharshol- © Amherst Park Land Company.on Wédrerday, Jan.31, 1900, the following.gentlemen were all re-elected direc- tora and, officers of the company: Messrs.as Gauthier, president; Fred.E.Nel.fice Thea-presdnic .A.Halg Sims, S.Sii- & Prefontaine, dire®ors, and re : Bouttier, secretary treasurer.ADVERTISEMENTS.\u201cNOTICE in + \u2018bpreby Kiven hat \u2018under \u2018The Companies Act.\u2018lotters patent have : been issued under he; Great Sil of of Canada, bearing date the day of.Jaruary,:.1900, .: Imo Joli} ir Gen Jeman; gorge R.2 up, RORY Hamad MeGibbon.x Coms Fistor \u201cK.\" Mitchell, Ad- A.Prevost, Manager, all of the Hrd of Montreal, in.the\u2018 trovince of Que- bac,! for.the TéllowinE- purposes, viz.:\u2014To aoqyire.al \u201ca Koing .concérn the cab and ! \u2018now conduétéd.in Montres, te.e.of.The .Arlington Pri Fats Ca stables : to:© et and carry -0k An Mot : Siw Nore: in Canada.45 vate bic Sab.and carriage gh : to aa e:And lease-eabs, car- utamobiles, and other Lo oa 5 ot Sot ited.© thou- ded: into wo .thousand decora- ps I, in of his to-dav, titimist erican Ameri- \u2019 Were Legis- de Charles, Heer of obtain- or, in h for a the en- r after- ergons s from ing the clusion Clarke imme- t, ac- fine of - He place to the papers rd THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.its Historical and Spiritual Position Defined.\u2014 PLAIN REASONING AGAINST THE CLAIMS OF ROMANISM.\u2014 Martin\u2019s Church, on Sunday Rev.G.Osborne Troop dis- historical and spiritual relation of the Church of England to our Lord.Jesus Christ and the Word of God.\u201d The Church was completely filled, chairs having to.be placed in the isles.\u201cir, Troop read St.John, xiv.6: \u2018I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me\u2019 St.John xvifi, 37: \u2018Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.Matthew xv., 89, R.V.: \u2018This people honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men,\u2019 and- St.Peter\u2019s words concerning Christ, Acts iv, 12: \u2018And in none other is there salvation; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.\u2019 The speaker premised that what truth might compel him to say against the church of Rome, was addressed, not against Roman Catholics, but against Romanism.He would use the word \u2018Cathôlie \u2019 in its true sense as including the Universal Church, not in its limita- ion as applied to the Roman Catholic lhurch.He spoke not as a special pleader; not as a trained casuist, skilled in making \u2018the worse appear the better reason\u2019; but as a plain man and a humble Christian, desjring to set forth the truth as far as he knew it.He would consider : \u2014 (1) The claims of leme; (2) the historical position of the \u2018\u2019hurch of England; (3) ihe spiritual position of the Church of England.1.The peculiar doctrine of Roman Catholicism was clearly stated by the late Dr.Littledale in his \u2018Plain reasons against joining the Church of Rome,\u2019 viz., that \u2018the prime and essential condition of salvation is to be in communion with the Pope of Rome, as heir and successor of St.Peser, first Pope of Rome, and therefore supreme vicar of Christ and head of the Church on earth\u201d The foundation of this extraordinary claim proved upon examination to be \u201cthe merest heap of guesses, \u2018It is little more than a guess,\u2019 says Dr.Littledale, \u2014\u2018though, no doubt, one with much in its favor\u2014that St.Peter was ever at Rome at all; for there is no first hand or con- temaporéneous testimony te the fact, whether in Scripture, * or -elbewhere, whence.it.is clear that G5a, has.not.) considered it important: en to be certified for us, as.being a\u201cmattér of At Bt.evening, the cussed \u2018The faith; it is only a guess that.he was | _ ADVERTISEMENTS, QUEBEC ONCE MORE A Young Lady of St Justin Writes of Her Experience with Dodd's Kidney Pills.Miss Anna Cholette was a Safferer from i Chlldhood- Doctors Gave her up as a Chronic Invalld\u2014Te-day in Superabundant Health from use of Dodd's Kidney Pills, St.Justine, Que., Jan.31.\u2014Miss Anna Cholette, of this place, has been an invalid, owing to Kidney Disease, all her hie until quite recently, when she began to improve.Her many friends were de: lighted at the change and she met with congratulation and encouragement on all sides.It was not generally known, however, thut the cause of Miss Cho- lette\u2019s improving condition was due to Dodd's Kidney Pills, and it was not until the other day that.the fact was given out.But such is the case, and Miss Cholette acknowledges the.benefit she hag d:1ived from Dodd\u2019s Kidney Pills in the following letter, giving full details of her case for the benefit of other suf- lerers, c : \u2018Since the age of eight years I have suffered with inflammation.of - the kidneys., I am to-day ~twenty-four \u2018years: old.I hasten to write you, therefore, to give you the full details of my cure.I commenced to be sick when.going to school.I was not able to bear the fatigue of study.One day mother fell sick and the doctor profited -by-tlre: oc-' casion to attend me also.He came often to see me for.six months when he: told me it was not necessary: 16 come any more; my trouble would right iteelf- as I grew older.He made nothing of the months 1 had been unwell already.The trouble continued comstdntly af: \u2018er that.I suffered greatly: and was bed-ridden almost continuously: : At this\u201d time I was under the consultation of: \u2018wo doctors.They said I had.been suf:- ening this long time of inflammation ot the kidneys.They gave me.many medicines, and I was under their treat-] ns for two years.They gave \u2018me no Tenet.\u2018My parents were greatly pained at \u2018\u2019eing me suffering so, and as for my- «if 1 felt that I could never find plea- \u2018Te again in this world.- - .\u2018My father one day read in a \u2018news raver of the good effeets of Dodd\u2019s Kid- \u201cev Pills.He bought \u2018three hdxes of \u2018em to try and they gave me some re- \u201cer.He bought me a dozen more boxes end now I am.perfectly well and over- Lowing with life and spirits.\u201d 4 ever bishop of Rome, and for this there is very little evidence of any kind; it is only a guess that he had the power to appoint any heir to his special privilege, whatever that was; it is only a guess: that he did so appoint the bishops of Rome; and for these two guesses not the smallest scrap or tittle of evidence ever has been produced, or can be so much as reasonably supposed ever to have existed; yet if all these points be not clearly proved by plain and convincing Scriptural and historical evidence, there is mo basis whatever for the huge fabric of papal claims which is in truth the most vague and uncertain of structures.\u2019 Archbithop Kenrick, of St.Louis, in his speech prepared for, but not delivered in, the Vatican Council, and published at Naples in 1870, declared that Roman Catholics could not establish St.Peter\u2019s supposed claim from Scripture, because by the creed of Pius IV.they are bound to interpret Scripture only according to the -unanimous consent of the fathers.The archbishop added that | these fathers give five different interpretations of St.Matthew xvi., 18: \u2018 Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.\u2019 » Of these fathers, seventeen teach that Bt.Peter is the rock ; eight fathers teach that the twelve apostles constitute the rock, represented by Peter as chief ; forty-four fathers teach that St.Peter's faith is the rock ; sixteen fathers teach that Christ is the rock; other fathers, not numbered, teach the rock is the whole body of believers.The archbishop sums up in these words :\u2014 If we are bound to follow the greater number of the fathers, then we must hold for certain that the word Petra (rock) means not Peter professing the faith, but the faith professed by Peter.The preacher said that St.Augustine\u2019s mission to Saxon England, (A.D.597), was a memorable event in Church his tory, but the Church of Rome of that date was vastly different from the Church of Rome of to-day.The worship of the Blessed Virgin Mary was at that date known only to be condemned as a novel heresy, virtually dethroning Christ and revolutionizing the Chrig- tian faith.Such a thing as withholding that cup from the laity, which the Lord himself had commanded all Christians to receive, was a thing unknown in the Catholic Chureh.when St.Augustine led his Italian mission to the Saxons.Four Popes condemned this withholding of the cup as heretical before, at the Council of Constance (1415), the Roman Church at last dared to put forth impious hands and to withdraw from the laity the sacred cup in the very face of the Master's dying command.This act in itself should forever prevent any communicant of \u2018the | Chyircli fof England: going to Rome.I 307 the papal supremacy was pressed upon \u2018the British Church (only to be sternly rejected), but the papal infallibility of the nineteenth century was a thing not dreamed of.The infallibility decree not only deprived the Roman Church of all true claim to the title of \u2018Catholic,\u2019 but conatituted her the most modern of dissenters.Rome's hoast was that she was \u2018ever the same,\u2019 but | this was chiefly true in her constant] readiness to embrace and proclaim heretical novelties.It was enough for the Word of God to command (as in the case of the sacramental cup) for Rome to forbid; for the word of God to forbid (as in the case of Mariolatry) was enough to lead the Roman Church to command.2, Turning to the History of the Church of England the preacher pointed out that in its origin the British Church was apostolic, royal, national and independent.He quoted Blackstone as saying that \u2018the Ancient British Church, by whomsoever planted, was a stranger to the Bishop of Rome, and all his pretended authorities.He pointed out with Gerebrard that \u2018the glory of Britain consisted not only in this, that she was \u2018the first country, .which \u2018in a national capacity publicly, professed herself Chris \u2018tian, but that she made this confession when the Roman Empire itself was pagan, and a cruel persécutor of Ohristiani- ty.\u2019 He quoted from Atrebas, a learned Callican divine, that \u2018the cradle of \u2018the Ancient British Chiirch was a rgyal one, herein béing distinguished from all other.churches; for it proceeded from the daughter of the British King, Caractacus, who afterwards was the wife of - Aulus\u2019 Rufus Pudens, the Roman senator, and the mother of a family of saints and.martyrs\u2019 He said that there was io.mean authority for the statement that.Britain gave to Rome her first bishop, Linus, -and her first Christian emperor, Constantine.Ceeada ; À \u2018\u2019Fhe\u2019 preacheri.referred to the well: known fact of the-Baxon invasion driv-\" ing the British Church: into Wales, Cornwall, Devon and Somerset; where Augustine found it: established with at least seven bishops: wheén he: landed \u2018in 567.\u2018He stated that hoble as: Syas.Auguss tine\u2019s work, he was not really the \u2018apos tle of England, but: rather was-that title due to Ailam \u2018of Toiin; who thirty yeary \u2018after Augustine's death: evangélized: the greater part of-Saxor Engläñd/ He ad \u201cmitted that under Theddote, and \u2018subse- .quently, the British Chuich wés gradu-| \u2018that the present Church of Englamd\u201d 61 ] iginated \u2018with Henry VIIL, only to thar: tion before intelligent wien 3 What Wid the -meaning,\u2019 he \u2018Sked;> \u2018of \u201cthe Claudia \u2018Rufina, & royal virgin, the sams | > actérize it he too absurd\u2019 te tied yefita- I very\u2019 | Dongld and Palmer, with several\u201d word * \u201creformation™?\u201d \u201cPlat foulz\u201d net] thèms by \u2018the choir; \u201cafter \u201cWhich thE | {ii cise.istence.The previously existing church of the nation manifestly reformed herself.As to the question of orders, the preacher felt that he stood-on solid ground.\u2018English orders are all right,\u2019 | he.said, \u2018and Rome .well knows that they are all right.That is the very rea gon she is so troubled about them.\u2019 Rome did not trouble about other Protestant Christians, because she knew that the English Church was the \u2018bulwark of the Reformation.\u2019 Well were it for Protestant Christians in general if they, instead of uniting with Rome in the vain effort to discredit the continuity of the Church of England, were will ing to acknowledge, with a noble Baptist minister of fifty years\u2019 standing in England, that \u2018the national church was like a great breakwater, behind which the Nonconformist fleets could safely ride at anchor.\u2019 The Reformed Church of England indeed did not claim Rome\u2019s un-Catholic sacrificial priesthood.The Church of England Prayer Book knew no altar save the cross, and its priest was a simple presbyter.The Engtish Chureh and nation were closely identified.Neither Church nor State could tolerate foreign interference; though the fusion of different races produced the nation, and the fusion of different types of Ohris- tians produced the Church as it now is.And as it had been, so it would be.When the Italian flag replaced the Royal Standard on Windsor Castle, then, and not till then, would the Papal flag float over Westminster Abbey.3.In conclusion, the preacher pleaded earnestly for living union with the living Saviour as the one essential to the salvation of the soul.No history, however inspiring, no continuity, however unbroken, could possibly in itself save the sinner.English Churchmen.like Newman and Manning, had gone to Rome in their despairing search for some authority on earth to which they could commit their consciences.But the word of God written was ställ the only final court of appeal, and the real representative and true vicar of Christ on earth was God the Holy Ghost, given to.the Clu:ch to interpret that word to the believing soul, The Church was only the \u2018witness and keeper of Holy Writ,\u201d and whenever \u2018Catholic tradition\u2019 (so-called) \u2018was at variance with Serip- ture the Church was bound to reject the tradition, on pain of being convicted of high treason.There was one God, one mediator also between God and raan, even Jesus Ghrist.Through Christ, the one sacrificial priest, every believer had free access to\u2019 the Father.Neither was there salvation in any other.\u2018No man cometh unto the Father but by Me\u2019 In spite of their syst true-hearted, Romianists_ hé {RUE Pound\u201d Christ as their all in all.In the ultimate issuë Romañist; Anglican, or other Protestant Christian must alike depend upon Christ crucified and Christ alone for salvation.~The cross alone could cast out our fear and bring rest and peace to the conscience.Now, a8 well as in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, the enlightened soul would ery\u2014 Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling.AN ORDINATION SERVICE.Melbourne, Que, Jan.20.\u2014The ordination and, installation of the Rev.D.D.Hambly, B.D., of the Montreal Congregational College, \u2018as pastor of the Church here, took place to-day.In the afternoon he appeared before a council composed of the Reva, F.J.Day, Sher brooke; Thos.Hall, Island Pond, Vt.; A.W.Main, Danville; G.H.Craik, Waterville; and Mr.L.G.Channell, of the Sherbrooke \u2018Daily Record\u2019; at which the Rev.Mr.Hall was appointed | moderator; and Mr.F.J.Day, scribe.The Rev.Mr.Hambly was called upon THE REV.D.D.JAMBLY, B.D.to .answer the ordination questions, which he did with ease, reflecting great : credit on the college from which he has just recently graduated.At the even\u2019 ing service the installation ceremonies vers performed by the ministers pre- sen - * à passage of Scripture, after which the] Rev.F.J.D dress, followed by the ordination prayer by the Rev.T.Hall, assisted by the.above named ministers.à welcome to the pastor was read.by the: ally Romanided,\u201d in common ull A.W.Main.of Danville, who al i : hati cite bat \u201cfon ibaa] Sow 11, Pain, of I , also gave-| = ; F western y Cnristianity, but a To] him the hand of fellowship.The Bs | ii ee Perpetua _ protests, \u2018cilplitit EE ae T.Hall and A.W.Main gave humey-| 1% pastor, referring to thé sterling of the Rev.Mr.Hambly.Instr \u2018tal music wus furnished by Widses\u201d X - dence by all the.officers under him: | not werth counting ih most casés.The \u2018 service commenced by the : À e towns Rev.W.Smith, of Richmond, resduig |.man .of standing Jay read the opening adr jhe The -address.of | © eading ed, the congregation on securing.such a § QUEBEC LEGISLATURE.ON FAVORABLY.Quebec, Feb.1.\u2014Among the petitions presented to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, was one from the trustees of the American Presbyterian Society of Montreal, praying for amendments to their act of incorporation; and another from certain ratepayers of the town of 8t.Laurent, praying that no amendments, as asked for, be made to the charter of the said town.The pe- \u201ctition for the Montreal city bill was reported favorably from the standing or- on the Ri bills committee reported .that: they had organized wit Mr.Tessier (Rimouski), as chsirmau.A few unimportant\u2019 and private bills were then introducéd, and a long string of questions, referring to the different items of the public aécounts, te survey, to eälaries-of fire-wardens for forest protection, to books published and distributed, to the legislation divisions .in which the cadastre is in force, to the fisheries service, ete., were put by the leader and other members of the Opposition, and answered by the Ministers.The debate was then resumed on Mr.Chicoyne\u2019s.resolution to declare it opportune to.pass legislation depriving municipal corporations of the power to bonus industrial undertakings, when the Hon: Mr.Dechene moved an amendment that it was expedient, before the House expressed any opinion on the subject; to refer it to a sclect committee eomposed of the Hon.Messrs.Stephens, Parent, Duffy, and Nantel, and Messrs.Chicoyne, Leslsis, Robitaille, Lalonde, Dessaulles, Bedard and I\u2019Auteuil, to thoroughly investigate and study the question, and to repert upon it.This amendment was finally carried, and Mr.Chicoyne\u2019s motion, as amended, then passed.Another discussion followed in the committee on the government's mining\u201d compaities\u2019 bill, in the course of which the \u2018Hon.L.D.Pelletier ipciden- tally referred to the appointrhent\u2019 of s member of the ministry (the Hon.Jos.Shehyn), as a Dominion Senator, saying that, if the papers were to be.believed, the appointment had been\u201d made, and that he.congratulated Ÿhe hon.gentleman\u2018 upon this: néw hohor\u2014d staterient whick\u2019< was received with général applause.Finally, the committeé rose, to further consider the bill = to-morrow.Before adjourning at 0.30, the .House cleared off nearly all the second readings of private Bills, on the order papér, 1n order- to send them to committee with out delay, = oo AT pUTY ON PULPWOOD.Mr.fonicoyne p notice th -errtfiidey next hé AIT ASE whèther 4 iswthves intention of thé\" goveriiment fo | Mi impose tbe duty of $1.90 per cord on pulp-wood, cut \u2018by bona fide settlers, settled on \u2018Crown lands?He will also move for a statement showing approxi- matbly the quantity \u2018of lind suitable for cultivation \u2018and of that\u2019 unsuitable for of the public domain at present sub-di- IN WELLINGTON'S DAY.IT WAS JUST THE SAME AS NOW.The criticism of the British generals in the field has led to the publication of the''following extract fram'an officer's letter written from'tdie Peninsula\u201d showing that \u2018the great Duke\u2019 himself was not regarded either\u201d with love or confi- PFronteira, March 14, 1815.Lord Wellington ix'sôw dis 'sefére is he was.before lenient and orders a general Court:imartial for the elightest aHeged.of- tences; his popularity, amongst the Army at adit, \u2018is nearly et an end; and his reputation: gs\u2019 & genéral has suffered material diminution, as.it is notorious to every ofi- cet ju this country that he = as most, com-.piételÿ out-inarioeuvred by.Soult, and that 1hié \u2018disparity of force.was by no means so gndat us represented.ju tho despatches: This was written March 14.2813, Wellitigton ' défesited \u201cSoult \u2018ori the Pyrenees, July 28,.1813, and again at Toulouse (final), April 10, 1814, The writér of thé above \u201chad béén in the Rgenos Ayres expedition of 1807 ahd the Walcheren expedition of 1809.the adverse criticisms of commanders, even- by officers, at.the.front, -need.not ticisms of the newspaper warrior it is kink = are reeordéd of two venerable residents of Fronténac County, \u201cWilliam M nell, of Sunbiry, aged nipsty-six,.rely and Pregbyterinms and MONTREAL CITY BILL REPORTED; has given moti that | Æ cultivation, respeetively, within the arc | \u2018 vided into lots, which - \u2018area comprised | # } 7,020,425 acres on Dee.31, 1899, | : - ptosis aime je.A It in remarked in this connection that | : be taken too seriously.As fof the erir| =m VENERABLE KINOSTONIAKE GONT | À Kingston, .Oit., ; 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PE sige.TL Pr TS mee CS \u20ac dû pat something tastetai and cuil value | 3 $ I 3 SALE OF Come in and get ; For Business \u201c§ Wear.Our regular prices $1.00 and $1.25.Also, White Shirts, with Colored Fronts.\u2018and Cuffs.Rugulat price $1.00.es : 5 5 AN NL be refoiraed which had mo Previous ex\u2019 pastor pronounced the benediction.| - 0 9 - _ Ee | a Bb.; AEE CE 5 LINN à 8 Coe ae, A a : They are BARGAINS and.all Good Colovings BUrIPOs.mia UT CU | = § me \u2018 > : 5, c Li Corner of Craig and Bleury-Sirecta In Le IB 1} il 5 A D f Ë HN a ) AS XSI re Er AC Va SE RX i a SS COR EIOeY Tr Atteinpt to be Made to Force Garrison Into the Open by Flood.+ LAURENTIAN\u2019S * FAST RUN, Reached Cape Verde Islands Yesterday, Tem Days Out.BRITISH LOSSES TO DATE.St.Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, Jan.81 \u2014The Allan Line steamer \u2018 Lauren- tian,\u201d from Halifax, Jan.21, for Capetown, arrived here this afternqon.She carries the First Artillery section of the second Canadian contingent of volunteers \u201cfor.service in South Africa.The men \u2018were all well, but fourteen horses had died.London, Jan.21.\u2014The War Office has issued an additional casualty list of the battle of Spion Kop, Jan.24, and of the engagements at Venter\u2019s Spruit.The additional list numbers 139 men killed, 391 wounded and 63 missing, a total of 583.With 174 additional casualties fiv- en for the fighting at Venter\u2019s Spruit, the total loss since the beginning of the war is placed at 9,658 men.The supplemental lists fill two columns in nonpareil type in the morning papers, making 1,300 reported thus far for General Buller's operations north of the Tugela.The \u2018Daily Chronicle\u2019 estimates that the total exceeds 2,000.The forty percent loss at Spion Kop is greater than any British force ever suffered except possibly at Albuera.CALLS MORE NAVALS.The Admiralty has warned all half- pay naval officers to hold themselves in readiness for service.This, with the fact that able seamen not thoroughly experienced have been withdrawn \u2018rom the Channel squadron, is taken to indicate the early mobilization of the reserve fleet, especially A division.At a meeting of the army and navy members of the House of Commons yes- sera, a \u2018resolution expressing absolute f'a home defence force.\u2018Lord Salisbury has called another Cab- inct :council which will meet on Friday or \u2018Saturday to.consider the situation.ANOTHER BLUE BOOK.A Blue Book has been published containing a quantity of correspondence relating to the defence of Natal.It contains urgent letters and telegrams from the Natal Government, from dates as early as May last up to the outbreak of hostilities, asking reinforcements.On Aug.3, Mr.Chamberlain wired : ¢ Arrangements, to send 2,000 troops are in progress.\u201d \u2018The Natal ministry grew more alarmed and on Sept.:6 implored the Imperial Government to avoid a rupture until further reinforcements had arrived.; Five thousand seven hundred men were ordered from India.The corves- pondence shows that Sir William Penn Symons thought 4,000 men would be enough to secure the.integrity of Natal, and ;this.view was.apparently concurred in by the Natal authorities.\u201cThe Prince of Wales has sent the cdl- Jection of.bamboo walking sticks which he mac , during the Indian tour, for thé \u2018neiof dnvalided and wounded sol- dee | the Capé.\u2019S OF WILKINSON.\u201cMr.Spenser Wilkinson, in the \u2018Morning Post,\u201d describing the military situation, takes.it for granted that General Buller intends to make another attempt to relieve Ladysmith.He seizes the sion: to express the greatest admira- ; @huntless: spirit of the Brit- \u2018a\u2019 regret that the main ing, namely, propér \u2018leader- \u201cBé\u201ctays+\u2014 \u201cThe whole manhood of the nation is moyxed by the same spirit that stirs the troops on p the.Tugela.Cannot the rov- : it] pluiel up heart to lead like men 4.\u2018nation \u2018of mien; to drop the past and té: plan Qn à: proper scale, arming the Einpire: for whatever struggle may be fi tore P| _ Mr.Winston Churchill, in a despatch tothe \u2018 Morning Post, which describes he: \u2018Fécrossing of - the Tugela, says :\u2014 he .\u201cBE is exasperated, not defeat- a Buller: will persevere, and all will py right iri.the end.\u2019 LORD ROBERTS'S REPORT.Field Marshal Tord Roberts has author- id \u2018the feporter\u201d of the Associated Press at: Capetown te.say th at as a result of his.nection o À of the hospital service heïé \u2018he is pefret isfied that every- medical; aki - a id comfort: vof the sick and \u2018wound- she: ones.He is satisfied that: .és \u201canthoiitiés are sending ' out \u201cthe.nupscs) who\u201d will possibly be \u2018re- Benji dos \u201c31>\u2014De.; Leyds,.in the course of conversation to-day, says :\u2014 \u2018The heavy lossés the Germans have sustained in: the Transvaal are due to their rashly expssing themselves, but BOER PLANS ALTERED | and the Snfdence wit with war.Fully 5,000 colonial: Dutchmen have joined the eneniy.The Boers, ¢-| However, believed that du number : would be multiplied ten: iid Conse: quently the Afrikander | orid is pow execrated at \u2018Pretoris and Blèem- they have now adopted the tactics required by the topography of the land.Recently German, Dutch and Scandinavian volunteers haye been meiged in Boer regiments, so that such losses in the future will be impossible.\u2019 THORNEYCROFT\u2019S ACTION.TIMELY RETIREMENT PROBABLY AVERTED A DISASTER.London, Feb.1.\u20141.00 a.m.\u2014General Buller made full amends yesterday to Colonel Thorneycroft, who had ordered the retirement from Spion Kop after Major-General Woodgate was disabled.His extended despatch received at the War Office on Sunday left it an open question whether the unnamed officer in command would not share the fate of Colonel Long in being gazetted in due time as the evil genius who had brought about a British reverse by his lack of judgment at a critical stage of the operations.General Buller has named Ma- jor-General Woodgate\u2019s successor in command on the kop, but only to praise him for his coolness, gallantry and sound judgment.timed, since Colonel Thorneycroft\u2019s immediate command is a provincial one, and the commendation bestowed upon him will have a stimulative effect upon the recruiting of the colonial forces and the development \u2018of their fighting powers.The phrasing of General Buller\u2019s despatch confirms the general impression that the British garrison at Spion Kop was in a critical position, and that disaster was averted by a timely retirement.The press despatches are still filled with fragmentary descriptions of the | fighting, which was most desperate from dawn to dusk.The casualty lists are now fairly complete.The losses in the rank and file of Major-General Warren\u2019s division and the colonial contingent are 596, only 50 being unaccounted for as missing.This makes the total casualties of the fighting around Spion Kop a little over 900, but there are very few prisoners.General Buller\u2019s despatch was dated yesterday at Spearman\u2019s Camp.That was decisive proof that the army had not withdrawn from the Upper Tugela, although it had crossed the rivér.General Baller\u2019s reported address to the army with the assurance that he would be in Ladysmith within a week, was regarded by the officials here as a vagary of sensational journalism, Despatches are published this morning from Ladysmith describing the fortitude with whicli the tidings of General Buller's -second.failure had been received which his; ne movement\u201d was awaited The A his 5 is witnessing the swarming of Pour Te- inforcements towards Potgieter's Drift and Colenso, but does not lose hope while the naval guns remain at Mowat Alice.News is light from every quarter.\u201d At Kimberley the Boers are reported to be reverting to sniping after a desultory bombardment, and one of their guns is said to have \u2018burst.The commandeering of British subjects i in Dutch districts of Cape Colony is going on.Rumors are again plentiful that Mafe- king has been relieved, but they lack official confirmation.It appeats from parliamentary papers issued last night that Major-General Hunter concurred with General White on Oct.10 that the troops at Glencoe were dangerously exposed, and ought to be withdrawn to Ladysmith, but Gen.Symons was quite confident that he could hold his own.THE ENEMY\u2019S PLANS.\u2014\u2014 ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO FLOOD LADYSMITH.London, Feb.1.\u2014The correspondent of the \u2018Times\u2019 at Lorenzo Marquez, telegraphing yesterday, says :\u2014 \u2018Information has been received here from the Transvaal that the War Department, convinced that it would be useless to storm Ladysmith, -and that the bombardment will continue ineffective, has decided on a change of tactica, Huge quantities of timber and sand bags and hundreds of Kaffirs bave been sent from Johannesburg and Pretoria for the purpose of damming the Klip river, some .miles below Ladysmith, the idea being to flood the town and drive the soldiers: atid inhabitants out of the bomb-proof cäves, so as to expose them to shell fire.\u201d : THE CAPE DUTCH.London, Fab.1.\u2014The Capetown cor: respondent of the \u2018Daily News,\u2019 says:\u2014: \u2018Evidence is accumulating.that something beyond a tacit understanding ex-; isted between the Boer: executives, and\u2019 the inner circle of the\u2019 Afrikander Bond concerning what should follow the ripening rebellion at the outbreak of the fontein.\u2019 A despatch to the \u2018\u2019Fimes\u2019 from Pie- termaritzburg, dated Sunday last, says: \u201cColonel Thorneycroft had.& narrow,escape last\u2019 week, He went to meet a Boer flag of truce, which asked a parley; but, becoming suspicious, he told \u2018the This act of justice is well | iP they.wi -tween the republics.Boer commandant.that be would not A TRUE PATRIOT.Mr.Bull, (to Lord Strathcona)\u2014Four hundred men, fully equipped; at your own expense! Egad, my lord, yours is the blush some of my wealthy ones at something like en -offer\u2014it will put to home!\u2019\u2014West of England \u2018Mail\u2019 parley.Both retired, and the Boers fired a volley; the colonel only escaping in consequence af their bad shooting.\u2019 Capetown, Jan.31.\u2014A correspondent has interviewed several of the leading Cape politicians.on the subject of defeat of General Buller.They are all of the opinion that the: repulse \u2018will have no effect on the Cape Dutch\u201d beyond causing them to redouble their: efforts to bring about peace, They \u201cde: fined the attitude of the Cape Dutch: as follows :\u2014\u2018 They desire no chante ià the government, but strongly _ sympetiÿize with the Transvaal\u2019s derire fo for etre] dence.While the : Bo .épnfint.thei tempts to assure peace.: British are successful it-will be toc- .ate for the Cape Dutch to move.Appeals for peace \u2018however, will not be listened to.Peace now would fatally \u201caffect British interests throughout South Af- | riea.de i BOER METHODS.~~ WOULD PLACE .ANY EUROPEAN ARMY AT A DISADVANTAGE.\u2014 Berlin, Feb.1.\u2014An article has -\u2018appeared, written by General Von Schmel- ling, confessing that the astonishment that be.originally felt at the British reverses.and\u2019 his conviction that such reverses could not have happened to the Germans, have vanished after studying a book by Major; Francois, tf in German South-West Africa, who: plains the.fighting methods practiced by the Boers for two centuries, which are copied from the natives.General Von Schmelling now believes that any European army would have ta.buy experience unless previously trainéd on the spot in the same methods.STEYN 1S UNPOPULAR.GROWING \u2014\u2014\u2014 THAT HE HAS SOLD OUT THE.ORANGE FREE STATE.: Chicago,\u2019 Jan.20.\u2014The \u2018Recorder\u2019 I the following special: \u2014 Durban, Jan.25 (delayed in transmission) \u2014Arrivals from Johannesburg.report that-the [Transvaal Government has decided to Telease a large number.of | British sirisoners.From the.same.source comes the in-\u2019 formation thät beyond doubt Président Steyn has become most unpopulas\u2019 with\" the people of- \u2018the Orange Free \u2018State, there being a growing sentiment that be: has sold out\u201d the Free State : to thè Transväal.His: actions since war broke out also\u2018hiave \u2018etigendered bad\u2019 feéliig De: He is said \u2018virtü- ally to have resided in Pretoria for wome' time and recently to have paid a secret visit to Johannésburg,.where he ws reo: ognized \u2018at -ahotel.A serious, accident: bas caused thsclos | ing dow: of the foundry of Thombs Beg bie & Co.,.Johannesburg; which will prevent for some; me the.puemrlsctarinE of shells for he Boer army.Ù iis e, \u2014s Fike BRITISH.OCCUPY PRIES IESKA, - Capétown, \u201cFax.31,\u2014A \u201cBritish A nes with.artillery\u2019 is\" \u2018reported to have ocen- vied Prieska and -is, now encamped there.Whenot the.Prieska is on the Orange river, a hundred miles.below Orange river station, and west of Kimberley.MAJOR DENISON APPOINTED \u201c AIDE-DE-CAMP TO LORD ROBERTS.:- Toronto, Feb.1, \u2014A special cable ta on Mr.Frederick Hamilton, at Belmont, dated Cape Colony, South Africa, Jan.31, says :\u2014Major Septimus J.A.Deni- son has been appointed aide-de-camp on the personal staff of General Lord Roberts, and will be the representative of the Canadian contingent.Major S.J.A.Denison is an officer in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry and: had personal charge of the recrüiting for the first Canadian contin- MAJOR DENISON.gent.He was appointed quartermaster of the battalion at Quebec, and has acted as such until the present time.Major Denison is a Toronto man, a member of the well-known Denison family, and nephew \u201cof Colonel George T.Denison.His \u201cselection for #8: distinguished a no- sition is\u201d a subject for \u2018congratulation among his numerous friends i in Toronto.\u201cc FIELD BATTERY.Kingston, Ont., Feb.1.\u2014The date now set for the departure of C Field Battery from\" Kingston is Feb.10, or 12, Exfergeant-Instructor T.Newnham is anxious to go to the front with C Field Battery.self with A Field Battery.He has been in journalism \u2018for several years.CADET KEITH TAKES ONE.\u2019 - Kingston, Ont, Feb: 1.\u2014~Nothing definite can be stated regarding the com- ; missions offered the seniors at the \u2018Royal Military College.The - young men are consulting: their parents.only one tô- formally- accept à commission in the Royal Horse Artilery.{Cadet LANDERS.rofessor of eng gineering, .about to leave.the\" Royal lege, sailing on: Feb.14 for England, don Highlanders.TORONTO MAN HONORED, If a vacancy cannot be found.for him he will likely again connect him-: So'far, Cadèët Keith, Halifax, is.the Keith has léft for his home in Halifax top prepare for his; departure for Eng.WILL JOIN THE GORDON HIGH Kingston, Ont, Jan.31\u2014Lieut.Cal.| Burney, is] \u2018Military \"Caf- thence to South Africa, to join thé Gor- DR, DOYLE'S.PATRIOTISI, WILL GO TO THE FRONT AS.A SURGEON.New York, Jan.31.\u2014The intensity of the patriotic spirit that has been aroused by the South African war in England among all classes of the Queen\u2019s subjects is well exemplified by a letter just received by Mr.William Gillette, the actor, from Dr.A.Conan Doyle, the famous playwright and novelist, who some time ago accepted the invitation of Mr.Gillette to visit America.\u2018I am off to South Africa,\u201d says he in his letter, \u2018to try to be a little help.You will forgive my desertion in consideration of the motive.It is impossible to sit still in an armchair while such things are doing.I will start about the middle of February in the unheroic capacity of surgeon, with a field hospital of a hundred beds.\u2019 Dr.Doyle, who is one of the most successful of the story writers of the day, and whose income from his literary works must ameunt to tens of thousands of dollars, is giving up everything to go to the front.He feels that every able- bodied British subject has a duty to per form to his Queen and.to his country in the present crisis.He feels that only the drones can\" sit quietly at home and enjoy the comforts of their own fire sides, when every cable flash brings news of the hardships and trials of the brave fellows who are fighting for the flag in far off Africa.Dr.Doyle does not class himself among these drones, and he does not propose to be one of the stay-at-homes.His Place, he declares, is in the field.He is a surgeon, and it is as such he will best serve his country\u2019s cause.His offer of service has been accepted by the authorities, and he will soon sail for Capetown with a field hospital of one hundred beds.BATTLE OF SPION KOP.BRITISH RETIRED AS THE GUNS WERE BEING BROUGHT UP.London, Feb.1.\u2014Accounts of the battle of Spion Kop continue to filter in.All testify to the terrific Boer fire.Several estimate that the total losses of General Buller\u2019s turning movement will amount approximately to 1,500.\u2018When reinforcements arrived, the | troops were much cramped on the.top of Spion Kop.= Preparations were made below to secure the position, guns were \u2018ments.\u2026 Colonel Thorneyeroft - was not : aware of this -when he ordered the retirement, ond he actually met the artillery coming \"General Woodgate was wounded about two o'clock in the afternoon.' Even then he protested that he was all right, and had to be held down on the stretcher.- It is reported that the Boer commander at first insisted on the release of some Boer _ prisoners before he could permit the British to collect their wounded.A curious incident is related of the fighting on Jan.24.The head of one of the Lancasters, while firing from the | prone position, was taken clear off by a shell.To the amazemént of his comrades, the headless trunk quietly rose, stood upright a few seconds, and then fell.AFRICAN WAR INCIDENTS, see A PRIVATE ON BOER TACTICS.Private G.Shallow, of B Company, 1st Suffolk Regiment, writing to his parents, says: \u2018We are at Naauwpoort, waiting till our brigade is fully horsed.It would be all right if the Boers would come out and fight, but they won\u2019t move till compelled.No one knows what sort of a country this is unless they've \u2018been \u2018here.- The hills are not so much in height as in number, and the enemy rin from one to another when shelled or charged, and as soon as you ean turn them out of one hiding they are at the back of shelter on another hill.I don\u2019t know how we should go on if it was not for cavalry and artillery.The women think the English are all being kill- \u2018ed; they'll think differently when they know their own kith and kin are lying on the veldt dead.The lies are simply to keep the Free Staters fighting.When they know the truth, they'll give up.\" : THEY FIGHT WITH THEI + COATS OFF.Private Seeker, of the 60th King\u2019s Royal Rifles, who has been invalided home.from Ladysmith, and has five near relatives serving in South Africa, .says: :Only the: State Artillery and Kruger\u2019s bodyguard are in uniform, the rest being dressed.like .workingmen.They always fight.with their coats of and sleeves rolled up above the arm.A novel form of forti cation was the filling of soldiers\u2019 kits with sand.The Boer.shells are Lombard's ) > some , of the enemy\u2019s own Fos be fired back, and behaved.splendidly.\u2018o\u2014 < SOME WONDERFUL, ES( SCAPES.\u201cSome wonderful \u2018éscapèt\u201d are telited.entered the window of his room, over the bed a few inches above him, | Taurspay, FEBRUARY 1, 1900, Natal\" Naval Voluntee came and relieved us, and we all went ' on the way, and: \u2018engineers had: 3- heer orf oo ai] the Globe \u201cfromsibs; ower \u2018érrespordent\u201clderet\"up-\"to -stren ; Jibei rd to the command of thé High- \u2018the 92nd\u2014Macdonald, as is well known, - Remember, \u2018more here to send on.Among the prisoners we had one boy\u2014a very good, but the fuses are bad.At _ i 3 TI HE , While a man was lying in bed a shell {\u201c- and buried itself in the floor, throw; it up and wrecking the woodwork of th house.A carbineer was sitting on .box outside his tent, when a large ir ; ment of a shell passed between his len destroyed the box and smashed th = rifles within the tent.A trooper st re between two horses, both horses \u2014 killed, the man was unhurt, A boll pierced the wall of a room w her \u201c civilian was shaving.Tt passed or : two feet of the man, wrecked the ro but left him with scarcely a scratch L permit Correspondence London THE SAILORS AND s ; à SNIPER.THE ome few days ago a ce ° at Ladysmith described the snips 2! dencies of two old Boers, who w x \u2018a the habit of going out in the mo nn With their lunch- baskets and Mans and sniping all day.Ope of these pe Veterans was nicknamed by the garri en \u2018Old Mortality,\u201d and the other Bluebeard.\u201d Ina message this morning Mo Nevinson announces thgt the Boer | ; ers along Bell's Spruit, to the north De the town, were taken in hand by a rs wi pounders,\u2019 with the ret \" uheir three.others the famous sniper \u2018Old Mortality: has ended his shooting for the season, \u2014London \u2018Chronicle.\u2019 A TERRIBLE BURIAL SCENE.Mr.M.H.Adcock, of Charlton Kings, a suburb of Cheltenham, has received a letter from his son, a sapper cf the Rayal Engineers, with the Kimberley relief column, in which the writer Says: \u2018I witnessed one of the most horrible scenes that ever a lad could witness last night.About eight o\u2019clock some officers of the Army Medical Corps came along, and \u2018asked for volunteers to bury the dead.About twenty of us turned out ad\u2019 went.We -had to walk about a mile to the place.At last the officers took off their caps as a sentry challenged us to halt.Well, we passed all right, and then a sight which I cannot describe or ever forget, met my gaze\u2014 rows upon rows of dead.Well, the first grave we dug was about thirty feet long and three feet deep, and\u2014would vou be lieve it?\u2014we put fifty-three Scotsmen into it\u2014thirty-four of the Black Watch alone.It was something horrible, and every man of us was crying all the time we worked; and when after we had plac ed them all in, the burial service was going on before we covered them oy er, three or four fainted, while the others cried so loudly that you could hardly hear the minister.After the bagpipes had played the Dead March, we covered them over, and started on another grave, when some of our gallant sailors back-to our train.crying.\u2019 \u2014 Todt os sé Éd ES ; sy ÉQUAL TO AN MP, 0 Gi General Hédtoé-Maodonald Who land Brigade with Lord Methuen in South Africa, was made a sergeant in having risen from the ranks\u2014bis colonel addressed him as follows: \u2018Corporal Macdonald, we have no fault to find with you.You have behaved well, and I am going to make you a sergeant.a sergeant in the 92nd Highlanders, is equal to \u2018a member of Parliament, and \u2018don\u2019t forget\u2019 it.and your many responsibilities.\u201d \u2018And I never did,\u2019 said the gallant officer when, as Colonel and the hero of Omdurman, he told the story.\u2014\u2018Westminster Gazette.\u201d .A BOER BOY PRISONER.One of the men of the 2nd Cornwalls, writing under date of Dec.20 to his father at Plymouth, says: \u2018We have sent several trainloads of Boers as prisoners to Capetown, and now we have got fifty I went to Capetown with a party of twenty-eight Boers.They seem a decent lot, and, in fact, could not do \u2018too much for the six of us who were forming their escort.But they seemed very glad to be taken pris oners, and thoroughly sick of the war.Boer boy.The poor little fellow is not more than twelve years of age, and has been fighting.He has had both legs broken and shot through.It is very pa- thetio; but what u pity it is to see the poor Fttle chap suffering.You bet he is being well attended to by us.His father was killed in the same.enigage- ment, and he has « brother still fighting\u201d A BRAVE \"GRENADIER.Amongst the many -individual acts of bravery displayed by our men in South Africa, that cf Private Fitzmaurice, of the Grenadier Guards, stands out prominent.During the thick of the fight at Belmont, Colonel Crabbe, \u2018commanding the Grenadiers, became detached from bis regimeiit, \u2018and was immadiately sur rounded by Boers.Seeing his colonels danzer, Fitzmaurice rushed to his ns sistance.He shot two Boers, hayonet- ted a third, and amidst \u2018he ring «ar ried Colonel Crabbe to the ambulance waggon.The Colonel was shot in the wrist and injured in the thigh, and these were the wounds he: described as scratches when wiring the result of the battle to Windsor.He was soon about again, and recommended Fitzmaurice for the Victoria Cross.Fitsmaurice.was onc of the first Grenadiers: who volunteered from Windsor to: join the 3rd Battalion.\u2018DAILY WITNESS \u201cjs \"printed ana t the \u2018Witness juliding, at at Es 3 no in in the alt of Montreal, br: Joba Bedpech Dougail, of Montrsa pires 4 à "]