The daily witness, 16 avril 1900, lundi 16 avril 1900

[" * 8 pot > pages : Jemma i ar : Vor.XLI., No.89.\"BOERS RETIRING.\u2014\u2014 | news about Mafeking there is no further .that 5 A te retiré in the direction of Woi- Ladysmith Report Says They Have Withdrawn From Elandslaagte.\u2014 WAR OFFICE STILL SILENT.\u2014 Rumors From Wepener of a Conflicting Nature.MORE CANADIANS SENT TO NEI- LEY-ZRSONERS AT PR London, April 16\u2014A special despatch tom Ladysmith, dated April 16, 9.45 am., says: \u2018Native scouts bave just reported that the Boers in the Elands- lLuagte district have retired beyond the Biggarsberg.\u2018Other information tends to confirm the report that the Boers have succeeded in blowing up three important collieries near Wessels Nek, completely destroying the engine houses, and plants.\u2019 CONDITIONS AT WEPENER.OFFICIAL NEWS REGARDING THE SITUATION STILL LACKING.London, April 16.\u20142.10 p.m.\u2014Conflict- ing reports regarding the conditions at Wepener continue.\u2018But at this hour there is no definite or important news from the front.A Capetown despatch says that nearly three thousand horses have been landed there since April 13, which indicates that every effort is being put forth to remedy the great defect in the British organization.The chief Boer delegate, Fischer, ac- compapied by I Dr.Leyds.| visited the | LL etn] COLONEL DALGETY, Who, with a force of 500 of British Horse, has held the Boers at bay at Wepener.President of the Dutth Council at The Hague to-day.The doings of the Boer delagates create little speculation in England.Frederick Villiers, the veteran war correspondent, who arrtved at Southampton to-day from the front, said that he believed the worst of the war was over; but that guerilla warfare would be continued for some time.An official bulletin issued at \u201cPretoria on April 13, reports that the burghers captuied five hundred slaughter oxen at Wepeüer, and \u2018that General Froneman day defeated the \u2018British, causing yerpoort, appésently over the Orange river.The Irish American ambulance arrived at Pretoria on April 13.The Boers report no casualties during the recent fighting at Warrenton.The critics of the afternoon papers cagerly speculate on_ the possibilities of the Boer commandos at Wepener being cut off.This seems quite possible, as the force from Bloemfontein is advancing by way of De Wett\u2019s Dorp.General Chermside -is nearing the objective | with the Third Division by way of Red- dersburg, and Gen.Brabant\u2019s force is moving from Aliwal North by way of Rouxville; and Bdshman\u2019s Kop.General Rundle's division is comcen- trating at Springfontein, Lord Methuen's force is trying, to get to Hoopstad, and it is believed \u2018hat General Hunter's division will strengtieén the British left at Fourteen Streams.The weakening \u2018of .General Buller\u2019s force by the withdrawal of the Union and Irish brigades; now under General | Hunter, is attributed to\u201d the fact that, thé general commanding.it.cided that to force: tivshle, and that he:will merely tn maintain the \u2018siatus quo, uti Boberts\u2019s main advance a open be in great straits.a DELAYED REPORT OF THE FIGHT is reported to have engaged the troops - né-frota méontein : to.Jrabant 8 a8 | our.preyic {a grea ° célumn' a vénicing \u2018towards | up thé river to Ossfontein, where \u201cwe | all else inthe face of recent diskster ig atal.Has de- Tin the matter of the Delagoa Bay rail- d | plementary conference with the view of ad | determining more accurately the nature \u201cUnsettted : Weather 12 RA Ey Es#riouns regarding the early expectation of good information at.Hand in connection with that beleaguered \u2018town, which now must A BOER REPORT.> \u2014 ING AT JIMMERSBERG DRIFT.Brandfort, Friday, April 13.\u2014(Via Lorenzo Marquez).\u2014Fighting with Brabant\u2019s Horse at Jammersberg Drift continues.Commandant Petrus De Wett: Bultfontein, but without decisive results.All the foreign here.attachés are now WEARY BUT DETERMINED.\u2014\u2014 NO THOUGHT OF QUITTING, AND UTMOST CONFIDENCE IN LORD ROBERTS PREVAILS.(New York \u2018Herald.\u2019) London, April 15.\u2014The telegram from Pretoria to the European edition of the \u2018Herald,\u2019 giving a synopsis of the war up to date from the Boer point of view, has created much interest here.I myself have had the advantage of being away from London for nearly a fortnight, and am thërefore in a position to gauge how the British public takes the war.It is just this way:\u2014The people here are awfully tired of the war, but at the same time there is absolutely no thought of \u2018quitting,\u2019 \u2014 to use a sporting term.The stop-the-war party, which is in- finitisimal in numbers, 's smaller to day than ever.Here, there and everywhere you hear of gentlemen organizing rough rider contingents, and should the - government, the absolute confidence Which everyone seems to show in the successful result of the campaign.In place of impatience on all sides you hear satisfaction expressed at Lord Roberts\u2019s courage in not moving until everything is absolutely in order.HARRISON\u2019S DEATH.SUCCUMBED TO AN ATTACK OF ENTERIC FEVER\u2014ANOTHER TORONTONIAN GONE.\u2014\u2014 Toronto, April 16.\u2014The \u2018 Globe's\u2019 correspondent with the first Canadian contingent at Bloemfontein cables under date of April 14 as follows :\u2014 Captain Beattie, Toronto, formerly nf the Queen\u2019s Own Rifles, and Private R.Harrison, Montreal Garrison Artillery, died to-day of enteric fever.Beattie had been ill since March 29.Just before ke was stricken he was transferred to A Company as acting color-sergeant.The following sick and wounded have sailed \u2018for England in addition to those mentioned in my previous despatches .\u2014 By steamer \u2018Doune Castle,\u2019 March 24, Sergeant W.Peppeatt, R.C.A., Quebec Company; Corp, T.E.R.Baugh, R.C.I,, Montreal Company ; Pte.H.J.D.Andrews, 5th R.C.A., Western Company; Privates R.H.M.McLaughlin, R.C.R.L.; -S.M.Ward, Queen\u2019s Own, and James Kennedy, Queen\u2019s Own, of the Toronto Company.By steamer \u2018 Oratavia,\u201d March 31 :\u2014 Corp.J.Smith, 22nd Battalion, London Company ; Pte.A.S.Batson, 5th R.C.A., Western Company ; Pte.J.H.Sutton, Q.O.R., Toronto Company ; Pte.A.MacCaulay, 43rd Battalion, Ottawa Company.Lieut.McDonald arrived here to-day from Canada, and is posted with the Quebec Company.The whole regiment is being outfitted with new clothing and \u2018accoutrements.PRIVATE BLIGHT DEAD.Ottawa, April 16.\u2014A cable received \u2018this afternoon from Lieut.-Col.Otter says: \u2018No.7319, Private W.S.Blight, Queen\u2019s Own Rifles, died at Bloemfontein at midnight on 15th instant, from enteric fever.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014>_ * DELAGOA BAY AWARD.Paris, April 15\u2014The \u2018Memorial Diplomatique\u2019 says that Lord Saligpury, the Britieh prime minister, owing to the pub- \u2018lic disapproval in England oi the-award way, has consulted eminent lawyers as to the advisability of convoking a sup- 1s Capetown heat give the least encouragement - in this dé the 4 AFTER PAARDEBERG.Lights and Shadows of the First Contingent\u2019s Work.| PECULIAR EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUAL MEN.\u2014 | (From the Special Correspondent of the \u2018Witness\u2019 with the first contingent.) ~ Stadskraal, Orange Free State, March 8, 1900.\u2014My last letter was from Koodos Rand, written immediately after the\u2019 surrender of General Cronje and his | brigade, and since then we have had a: stayed two days: The first day we were paraded for roll call in order to find out the exact number of men available for duty and found 687 fit.We have lost about a hundred and seventy killed and wounded, the remainder being sick at different hospital stations through the country.Enteric fever and rheumatism are the principal ailments.| Rather a bad showing, but small when compared with the exposure and hardships we have gone through as well as hard fighting, both with the enemy and .also hunger and thirst.A few are dropping out every day and being sent back to hospitals as soon as passible.The night of Sunday, March 4, was cne which we will not forget for some time.Towards sundown the sky -be- came overcast with great masses of heavy :clouds, purple in color, while bright streaks of lightning flashing through them indicated the approach of an electric storm.Our men clubbed together in threes and fours, using half the blankets to erect shelters from the expected rain, the rest to serve as covers.Directly after dark the \u2018storm broke in all its fury, and had any one been in a position to watch it from a | protected point he would have witness- \u2018ed a magnificent pyrotechnic spectacle.The whole atmosphere above us was fairly ablaze with most vivid flashes, while the thunder rolled in reverberating peals of such volume ae I had never f in bairelfils must have been really a cloudburst.We were camped in a hollow and almost before we had time to realize it we were a foot deep in water with blankets, rifles and accoutreménts generally lying in it, and being trampled on by everybody as we made for the higher ground.For an hour it poured and then we turned to and picked up all the wood or brush within reach, and made fires to dry and warm ourselves, but we could only get little wood, it being a very scarce article in this country.Still, it was some consolation to sit around and look at the bright spot, even though it gave out but litle warmth.Our kits were left where they were for the present as they could not get any worse and indeed it would be impossible for a man to select his own in the darkness from the heterogeneous mass into which they | hud been thrown.Huddled.together for warmth we passed a long night, soaked to the skin, and to make matters worse it turned very cold.However, we made the best of it, and an impromptu concert was organized.and songs and choruses wére sung and recitations given, and this helped to pass the time.We were joined by some men of the \u2018Gordon Highlanders, who were camped close by, and who contributed not a little to the nights entertainment.Our positioh in brigade is alongside the Gordons and a strong friendship has sprung up between the: two regiments (but for my.natural modesty I might intimate that this is only what might be expected from two such crack corps) and a very fine lot of fellows they are.While they will freely anewer any questions you ask them, you never hear a boastful remark about\u2019 their past brilliant record, and indeed\u2019 the same applies to the other regiments.forming the Highland brigade.When Inorning came and the accumulated body of water had soaked away we fished our things out of the mud and spread them out*on the hilldde to dry and by evening we had them in good shape again; our rifles being always kept cleaned and oiled, did not suffer much.Next day a volunteer party of six men from each company was called for (forty-eight in all) and we marched back to the scene of our two engagements and decorated the graves of our comrades who bad | fallen.A fringe of white rocks was placed round the outer edge, also a row ; | of empty artillery shells set on end, à large cross made of stones on top of, the grave and at the head the word \u2018Canada\u2019 in small white stones embedded in the earth.Corner posts were.sunk and a fence of strong wire strung all around, forming a solid fence witch will stand for years if not interfered with a ANOTHER MOVE.: Next day the whole brigade mov- tarough Laing\u2019s Nek.i ge ve 4 8 tb of international arbitration courts.MONTREAL, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1900.-{ good positions, but it turned out -nly \u2018comparatively quiet time > compared with parst i | he landed at Capetown 1,059 strong, and | | most part is flat, orly broken here and ed to Kissfontein, six miles away, We were to move forward at three o'clock next morning and take part in an attack on # large body of the enemy who were occupying a position on a few kopjes seven miles to the eastward.It was expected -that it might be a hard engagement as the Boers were reported to have most of the big guns used at Magersfontein, mounted in a small affair, as the Boers retreated on the appearance of our truops, leaving , cannon and provisions behind \u2018| them.A number of shots were fired by.bur long range guns and a few sent speply by the enemy, but there were y three casualties on our side and fie Boer losses must have been cunsid- frable -as several rhells \u2018were seen to Qu rage Was owe rested mos ny the day, at | ; & the trail hat evening, and two p'elock next, mofning found us here of- r nverly twenty miles\u2019 marching since 'e broke camp at 3 a.m.the previous Pay.We understand that Gen.French's umn is following up the Boers and I suppose will try and cut them off \u201crom the river and compel a surrender from want of water, thus avoiding any un- Decessary loss of life.A despatch rider was captured yesterday carrying a letter from President Steyn to the commander of this last crowd, strongly advising him to surrender; but for some reason, the despatch Fider was not allowed to proceed, as pne would think; but, no doubt, the Commander-in-Chief has good reason for this action.We are now in the best part \u2018of the Orange Free State, and this would seem to be a good agricultural country, if only populated by À progressive people.The soil is a rich, sandy foam, and grows a good crop of grass, jrée from the brush \u2018and scrub which \u2018tharacterizes the country we have pass- d through further back.It is thinly Fu and: cattle raising seems to be he only branch of farming engaged in o any extent.Houses are miles apart, the farms here being at least 20,000 acres \u2018each in extent.The ground for the there by those peculiar kopjes so charae- teristic of this country.Houpes are built of adobe or baked blocks \u2018of mud, as a rule; but every now and then we sce a more pretentious one of brick, or sometimes faced with Le paie © cement: Whén we camp near one af these form houses\u201d.the house and garden is soon\u2019 searched for edibles -of any sort and sometimés a patch of potatoes or carrots, etc., is discovered, but not often.So many troops are passing to and fro that you generally find somebody has been ahead of you.When any are found they are soon boiling over the little fires, the men using their canteens for the purpose.Flour and cornmeal are eagerly looked for and any one finding more than he needs for his own use can dispose of it at \u2018Klondike\u2019 prices.Men who have money don\u2019t see any use in carrying \u2018it around when food can be had \u2018fox it and they are hungry.I will quote a4 few prices I have seen paid\u2014 one shilling for a single biscuit; five.shil- retailing in Montreal at ten cents, three shillings & pound for flour or cornmeal, afl sometimes the Kaffirs make fritters | or.small\u2019 cakes fried in grease and containing about five bites, which they sell promptly at sixpence each; and all other eatables procurable being at corresponding prices.But nobody grumbles at the short rations now, when one looks into it, it is simply wonderful bow things are as well as they are.The trouble is not want of supplies along the railway, but lack of \u2018tignsportation facilities.Mules and waggons are hard.to.get, and the.animals get killed off by hard work, and with at least-100,000 men\u2019 off the railway, eating 2,000 tons of food daily, and then add to thié at least 30,000 more irftluding \u2018Kaffirs who.\u2018are employed as mule drivers, ; destitute: refugees, and prisoners who: have, to be:fed, We-heärd \u2018to-day that the artillery company of the.Second.Canadian Contingent were across the\u2018 river, within two or three miles of us, and we are\u2019 anxioys to-see them.- Everybody knows someone in the company.SOME.INTERESTING EXPERI- | : \u2018ENCES.We are now about fifty- \u201cpiles rom Bloemfontein, and ould march there \u2018by easy stages in three .or.four days.À railway line runs from De Aar to there, \u201cand while this brancn has been in pos- \u2018 aission- of.the enemy.for some time, it is reported to be now clear of them, and a working order, giving direct railway communication between Capetown and J Bloemfontein.I is .now ascertained that the day before Gen.Cronje surrendered his son was killed in the trenches, and his wife, who had stayed with him since.the commencempent of the cam- poi , Was wounded: in the arm by an | éxploding shell.Quite an.experience.) Company, While.stationed on ai outpost a few days after \u2018the first Paardé sent back to thé field.hospital at.the rift, about four miles:away.He start- A adore, à little béfars \u2018dark, \u201cand: mis » the Paardeberg.fight was the, use of the naught,\u201d which\" made.several ascengions god k lings.for a plug of Macdonald's tobacco, |- | said the number of immigrants coming few.days\u2019 work will put it into- good | was.that of Private McDiarmaid, of G| the British camp, he walked into their midst, and was detained as a prisoner.He was with them six days, and was txeated pretty well, only he did not get much to eat.He was given a spade and had to dig a cave for his own protection, and said he had three men guarding him, one of whom was an Irishman.When the surrender came he was liberated, as were also two Imperial officers who had been with them since they evacuated Magersfontein.All this time he was never missed, his comrades thinking he was at the hospital.A similar experience almost befell a man of C Company, who got lost in the dark, and went within a few yards of a Boer outpost before he knew who they were.He was able to crawl away on all fours and soon after joined his own comrades, a much.frightened man.A featurg of Var each\u2019 day, and was able to report\u2019 the exact position of the Boers in the river bed.The balloon was captive, and had telephone communication with the ground, often from a height of over 1,000 feet.It rattled the Boers a good deal to be watched from such a point of vantage, and the more ignorent of them regarded the phenomenon with superstitious awe.A, good many rifle shots were aimed at it; but without inflicting any material injury, as I am told that when the ball perforates the outer skin there is a layer of some soft tissue which is forced by the pressure of the gas inside into the hole, stopping the leak.When the prisoners were being marched through our camp, the Kaffir drivers and employees of the brigade gathered round them and started a demonstration, jeering and drawing their forefingers significantly across their throats, intimating that now they were in the hands of the British they knew what to expect.They had to be drivén back by force.Remembrances of past cruelties exercised towards them by the Boers are still deep in the Kaffir mind, and they rejoice greatly to think that they are getting thrashed.One bad feature of our regiment having to march in the heat is that we have to carry our great coats, and harness on our backs, for want of animals and waggons to haul them.We see no other regiment doing it, and it causes a great deal\u2019 of distress among the men.It is severe work to march in light order, without carrying and a médicine chest apparently oË the crudest description.\u2018Queensland and Australian\u2019 agents are ahead of us in this respect, having ambulance waggons, and proper hospital tents, and beds with which they were fitted.out before leaving their native.soil.These were placed at the di of our wounded at Paardeberg, and the thanks of the people of Canada, as well as the regiment is due them for their kindness and considération in doing so.While rummaging - through the Boer laager I came across the field cornet\u2019s office, or, rather, cave, and got a supply of stationery, which I badly wanted, by tearing the blank pages out of his account books.* The paper this is written on being part of it, and, as you sec, I am using official Transvaal Government envelopes, secured in the same place.SAM.LL ee\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 MR.PRESTON BACK.Halifax, N.S., April 16\u2014Mr.W.T.R.Preston, who arrived on the new Allan liner \u201cTunisian\u201d on Saturday afternoon, in an interview with a newspaper correspondent, said that he was impatient to reach Ontario in order that he.might meet face to face the men who had been charging him with participation in _eleetion: frauds.All these charges were\" simply slanders, and he was here to challenge Mr.\u2018Whitney on any platform or any court in the country to prove them, \u2018It 48 a wonder,\u201d he continued, \u2018that they: do not charge me also with burning \u2018the ballot boxes \u2018which were destroyed after I left.Ontatio,\u201d I have not loet- any sleep over, the \u2018matter, and now \u201cwhat I want\u2019 ist \u2018the fullest publicity and investigation.\u201d Halifax, N.S., April 16\u2014Mr.W.I.R: Preston :left yesterday for Toronto.- THe to Canadas the next few years would surprise \u2018everybody.of literature sent over from Canada was never opened; and Lord Salisbury was surprised when.told sbout it.UNSETTLED- WEATHER.Toronto, .April 16, 11 a.m.\u2014Victoris, 58, ehifting - to easterly; _enorplng,.rain by night.; BEN 1640 and 1642 Notre.Dame.st, Mopteeal, Fanta voluntary withdrawal of a registered\u201d | of the circumstances shall -be\u2019 furnished \u2018He, said that tons |- 40; Kamfoops, 60, 26; Calgary, 46, 24; Qu\u2019- | y Appelle, 64, 18; Winnipeg, 68, 20; \u2018Port Ar- 1 | thus, \u201844,24; Parry Sound, 53, 2; Toronto, [ Inf 5j, Gé: .Ottawn, 50; 82; Montreal, 50, 36; |?Quebec, 42, 25; Halifax, 5S, 34.Winds.| So \u2018fine until Tuesday | 0! then, \u201cbecoming \u201cungettled, with | PURE MILK SUPPLY., THE MONTREAL MEDICO-CHIRUR: GICAL SOCIETY MILK COMMISSION.\u2014 The matter of the improvement of the Montreal milk supply has been the subject of extended deliberation on the part of the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and, as a result of that deliberation of the society, and of the subcommittee appointed to report upon this subject, à milk commission has been established similar to those appointed by the leading medical societies in New York, COnSUIEENE parts this commission are, Dr.D.McKachran, chief inspector of-the Dominion; Dr.R.F, Ruttan, professor of chemistry, Me- Gill, and chemist of the Provinical Board of Health; and Dr.Wyatt Johnston, assistant professor of Hygiene, McGili, and bacteriologist to the Provincial Board of Health.This commission has already drafted regulations, and this being a matter of general public importance, it is well that the scope of the work of this commission and the object of the same, be generally own.The thorough examination of the milk supply of the city is a matter which under present regulations cannot be ci- fectively dealt with by the Health Department of the city, nor again by the Provincial\u2019 Board of Health, nor, indeed, can any private corporation take up this matter in its entirety.It is, however, possible for a.body such as this newly appointed milk commission, to certify and register those dealers who so desire, and whose milk is found to come up to the requisite high standard of purity.By this means it can become generally known to those most neariy interested, that certain milk supplies in this city are certified by the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society, to be thoroughly sound, and this in: itself will be a distinct step in advance; while, on the side of the milk dealers, the commission will supply wkat, up to the present time, has been completely lacking in.Montreal, iz am {f obtainin reg : SUP the \u2018medigal profession who abe: mem of the soriety, \u2018and to investigate - and make known measures for the improve méht of milk supplies.It will: keep a.register of such milk-dealers, \u2018 iñéluding dairymen, as shall agree to conform to the standard regulations adopted \u2018by the society, who shall furnish «tp: the com- 7 mission satisfactory proof that.they are conforming to these rules.\u201d -\u201d Milk dealers registered with the socie« ty shall be permitted to announce the fact; but not to use any certifitate 3s a form of advertisetnent without the vrit- ten sanction of the commissions.i Any registered milk dealer who shall fail to comply with the eommission\u2019s.requirements shall be\u2019 dropped from\u2019 the regis: ter of the society, upon recoR ndation of the commission.In the case of the dealer who has satisfied _the require; ments of the commission, À certificate.to him by the secretary upon: the Tecon- mendation \u2018of \u2018the commissions \u2018In.the case of a dealer not \u2018registered, \u2018the com- >.missich shall upon the -reqüébt of any\u2019 member of the Medico-Ohiturgical Bo ciety, furnish him with sud y; ihfopmn- tion as to.the supply\u201d as\u201d At may he possible to.obtain.25 = report and such.interim rep be called for, and shall ha ter and the\u2019 record.of it always open to.thé\u201d inspéé bers- of the society.The ested may obtgin copies \u2018of for.his .private : informa charges.in \u2018conneetion- with and\u2019 bacteriological analy erinary inspections shall - Bi ecale- approved by the, : hy Bo à taking the lights st the Boer laser for| Apri 16, 1900\u2014Rowiings by Hesiu 4 Her | Promos berg fight,*he was taken\u2019 so.sick as to bp}?= aidant\": der: at pépne - BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notices of births, marriages and deaths must \u2018nvari- ably de endorsed with the name and address of the sender, or etRirwiss no notice oun De taken of them Birth netics eve inserted for Bic, marriage notéges Jor 50s, death notiess for 25e prepaid.The an- nouncemens of funeral appended to death notice, 950 extra; other extension to obituary, suih as short allletch of UN, two cents per word extra, excepé poetry, which de 50 cents per line extra\u2014prepaid.Annual sudeor {Bere may have announcements of births, marriages and deaths (without extended obituary or verses) escurring in their immediate Jamiliss, fres af charge, in which case name and address of oub- * scriders should de givem.BIRTHS.ANDERSON.\u2014At the manse, Beaubarnois, on Wednesday, April 11, 1900, the wife of the Rev.J.\u2019 Anderson, of a son.14 - MARRIED.CLARK\u2014WELLS.\u2014Mamie Matilda Wells, youngest daughter of the late Joel Lioyd Wells, to Andrew Clark, of the Imperia: Bank of Canada, head office staff, Toronto, by the Rev.R.Douglas Fraser, assisted by the Rev.W.G.Wallace.14 « Allum, cn April 11, 1900, at *he residence of the bride\u2019s father, Tarboiton, Mr.John Hunter, of Michigan, to Miss Mary Wilson, of Tarbolton.16 JOHNSTON\u2014STRACHAN.\u2014 On April 12, 1900, by the Rev.Dr.W.T.Herridge, at the residence of the bride\u2019s mother, 708 Albert street, Wm.T.Johnston to Christina Strachan, Ottawa.McNBIL\u2014CUTHBERTSON.\u2014At{ the ro.dence of the bride\u2019s parents, Norway Bay, on Wednesday, April 11, \u201c1900, by the Rev.J.D.Morrison, B.A., Christopher McNeil, to Janet L.Cuthbertson, all of Bristol, Que.NEWBERRY \u2014 REDPATH\u2014At the ie dence of the bride's mother, on April 12, 1500, by the Rev.A.C.Reeves, B.A., Mr.George Newberry, of Lakefleld,Ont., to.Miss Lillie May Redpath, 3e: \u2018ond daughter of Mrs.Samuel Redpath, of Lakefield, Ont.NEWCOMBE~PRATT.\u2014On April 7, 1906, by the, Rev.James Robert Smith, Louls C.Newcombe.of Duluth, Minn., to Miss M.B.Pratt, of Ottawa, Canada.Mr.and Mrs.Newcombe will reside in Duluth.14 RANDLES\u2014EVANS.\u2014At Kingsey, Que., on April 11, 1900, by the Rev.James Sykes, Roger Topham Randies, of! Wrex- ham, North Wales, Éngland, to Florence Matilda Evans, daughter of the-laté Thos.S.Evans, of Trenholmville, Que.14 SHAW \u2014 SPARLING \u2014 At Toronto, on Saturday, April.14, 1900, by the Rev.Jcreph H.Locke, assisted by the Rev.W.J.Smith, B.A., Abicia Rose, only daughter of G.B.Sparling, M.A., Upper Canada College, to Fred.J.Shaw, of this eity SEMPSON\u2014GIBSON.\u2014 At \u2018Buena Vista,\u2019 Grimeby,Ont., the residence of the bride's mother, on April 11, 1900, by -the \u2018 Rev.John Muir, M.A.Dr.G.Reid Simpson, \u201c of Hamilton, to Elizabteh, daughter of the late Robert Gibson, Esq.4 SPEAR\u2014CLUFF.\u2014On April'11, 1900, at the residence of the bride\u2019s parents, 251 Lyon © sfpeet, Ottawa, by the Rev.Dr.Rose, ; Gorge.\u2018Blake Spear, of St.Louis, Mo., to.Geargina, daughter ot Mr, - eat Mrs.; uff, Qttaws.LE À6 Fig en \u201cof this a : WARRINGTON \u2014 MATHIB \u2014 At Saytale Methodist personage, | on \u2018Aprfi 1i 1800, the Rev.John Fôvwkes, Mr.\u2018James .¥arrington, to Miss Elizabeth Mathte, bctk of Bathuret, Ont.WILKIE \u2014 McNALLEY\u2014On April 11, i900, at the residence of Mr.Baærnett, Arn- prior, by the Rev.John Grenfell, Mr.Alexander Wilkie, won of Mr.James Willie, Arnprior, to Miss Sarah Ann Mec- Nalley, daughter of\u2019 the late Thomas Me- Nalley,~ of Onslow, Province of Quebec.16 WOOLLEY \u2014 WILLIAMS \u2014 At the resi- e of the bride's father, on April 12, by.the Rev.T.G.Williams, D.D., Frank L.Woalley.to Mergaret Mable Williams, both of this city.DIBD.\u2018> BOLLARD.\u2014On April 9, 1800, at Augusta, Georgia, Matthew Scott Bollard, of Ottawa, aged 23 years.14 CLIFFORD.\u2014At Quebec, on April 11, 1900, \u201d &t the age of 67, James Clifford, er., of Her Majesty's Customs.14 DRENNAN\u2014At Lachute, on April 15, 19%, of pneumonia, Helen \u2018MoGibbon, betoved wife of Wm.Drennan.uneral trom thé Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m.on Sunday.: KINLOCH \u2014A¢ Mount Royal Valé, on \u2019 Am 12, , Holy, .Thursday, George, 16 \u2018da dav, : younger son of Wiliam Georse Jim) 4 ue 14 St.Denis etroet,Cape, | Quebec, on Apr 13, -1900, after a short \u201ciHaees, aged 72, Chacles Mackenzie, third Les of the late James Macksutzie, of Le- 16 MoCARTET\u2014At the residence of his sis- tar, Mers.F4 um, street, 2 tame, on hand e- MeCartin Pertes son of John y, + 50 years.16 | fre ais France, Alexander deat son of Dr.Wm.Mackay: by, on April 8, 1900, -Bréemoi Power, sged 2 years, son of .James Power, of Quebec._ 16 THeAt the Royal Victoria Hospital, on April 16, 1500, Margaret Meldrum, (Polly), ~béfovedl daughter of Mrs.Henry L.Smith, aged 17 years and 6 months.yo ineral ; from her \"west s residence, Delo r avenue, on: ueadny, ; - fmstant, at\u201d #0 p.m \u201cFriends and a \u2018qu Alitastes are respectfully forte So - Sr shi ey ou, A iHiriçes, John Swan, aged 71 years months.neral from his late Toe! emce, 41 Paris street, on Tuesday, the 1 instant, at 2 p.m., to Cemenaty Methodiat Church, thence tô Mount Royei Cemet Friends and acquaintances are rebpectfu ly invited to attend.18 sunder, WEBSTBR.\u2014At Melbourne, stralia, Jas.A.Webster, second son of the late James We and brother of Mrs.Colin Sewell, of.Quebec.Notioss reesved Joo late tor the pare ; in time Tor page & HUNTER \u2014 WILSON \u2014 Coy the Rev.Carl | Notre Dame street, EVERYTHING FOR THE Ai -At every point of comparison this business is bigger and better than it?was.to house furnishings.We have an where else.We furnish houses complete, from cellar to garret.trend of values: NEW CARPETS.UNION CARPETS, splendid quality, full yard wide, 29¢ yard.ALL WOOL CARPETS, best quality, oly superfine, 1 yard wide, S0c IMPERIAL, or 3-ply Best Al Woool Carpets, 1 yard wide, $1.05 yard.TAPESTRY CARPETS, fine quality, newest patterns, 23c¢ yard.TAPESTRY CARPETS, in handsome patterns, borders to match, 63c yd.BRUSSELS CARPETS in a fine range of new styles and latest art colors, 89¢ yard.BRUSSELS CARPETS, best quality, five-frame, latest colorings and designs, $1.25 yard.ROYAL WILTON CARPETS in the newest spring designs, $1.55 yard.ROYAL AXMINSTER CARPETS, in the newest and most artistic effects, \"$81.45.FINEST QUALITY ORIENTAL AX- MINSTER CARPETS, with handsome borders, $1.65.ENGLISH OILCLOTH, well seasoned, pretty designs, 23c yard.BEST LINOLEUMS in all the latest patterns, 30c yard.Montreal's Greatest Store.It follows its own leadership and We are trying eech day to show what \\a thoroughly good store shéuld be, with prices on everything ae low as we can properly make them.Apply that fact immense variety to choose from, with facilities for showing goods and compar ing qualities such as you will see no- April 16, 1900.is constantly breaking ils own record.This list shows the \"NEW FURNITURE.DINING TABLES, in hardwood, antique finish, fitted with 5 underlegs, nicely turned and strongly braced, extends to 7 feet, $4.80.SIDEBOARDS, in hardwood, antique finish, fitted with 14 x 24 inch bevel mirror, 2 small cutlery drawers, 1} large linen drawer, double cupboard, well made, nicely finished, $11.00.IRON BEDS, in white enamel finish, 4: .fitted with brass caps and knobs, | #q in all widths, 314 fée, 4 feet, 414 feet wide, $4.00.30 WOVEN SPRING MATTRASSES, heavy hardwood frame, closely woven with copper wire, edge supports, $1.50.MIXED MATTRESSES, with sea grass centre, wool both sides, in heavy sateen ticking, sizes, 3 and 314 feet, $2.90.35 FEATHER PILLOWS\u2014You were told | about these pillows last week; several hundred pairs found satiefied owners.Another lot to-morrow, mize, 20 x 27 inches, covered with \" strong ticking, special, 95c.NEW WALL PAPERS.This season\u2019s Wall Papers far sur pass anythipg we have ever shown in variety, colorings and newness of design.Prices fully 20 percent lower than other stores.SPRING WALL PAPERS.\u2018For the Kitchen,\u201d hundreds of pew, neat and dainty patterns, prices from 3%c to Te.For the Bedroom.Very pretty designs in new colorings.Prices, from 414¢ to 10e.For the Sitting-room.: A host nf new and pretty designs in art colors, from 7c to 15c.GLASSWARE, Cut Crystal Berry Bowls, new and brilliant border, in an entirely fresh flute shape, 9 inches wide, 18\u20ac each.We are now showin \u201c New Adjustable Go-Cart\u2019\u2019 which can be used as a Baby Carriage (in which the baby can lie at full length) or as a Go-Cart.We take pleasure in them.and shall be pleased to have you call and examine NEW WALL PAPERS.For the Dining-room.Handeome, patterns in art gilt borders to match from 8c to 15c.For the Drawing-room .New designs i in all the new spring colorings, from 10c | to 32e.For the Hall.Exquisite designs, new 20c.KITCHEN UTENSILS.Enamel Sugar Bowls and Milk pitcher, regular, 700; special, Be.\u2018a nice assortment of the showing these Go-Carts à RENAUD, KING } 652 CRAIG STREET, SPECIALS res Is.Mere x ose ' = Genuine Slamons Sal 4 Gotu r= $10, $12 and sis, Settings of Bolid 14 Karst Gold.Pilko aad of atgose mired d' made Sn = neraniod fo ae var 1 BY BE Petor at , Opposite ** Witness\u2019 Office Don't trade your old piano and organ untél you know what it's Forth to W.H.Leach, 2440 St.Catherine sticet, near Drammond, on past payment for one of the celébrat:d Morris Upeight Pianos, which range in price from $300 | urchasers.up.Terms to sult p \\, Var HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.| Daring the week \u2018ending \u2018Saturday, \"2 | 14, there were 148 Permanent is inmates et | {] Brasmhone \"1 and 87 permanent | Moore Mmorial Home; 719: sight lodgings 1 were given at the Night Refuge on.Dor.| chester of 90 as aa compsred |.| with the correspondin ng week of laet year.ues of 1o0uaizy wid tho Refus | street, a decreaze of Diamond Rings.| Brery Dimnond | ee onttines pure blue ni ; the & PATTERSON, 2442 ST.CATHERINE ST, =ro or 1 Béford having yout Bathroom Tiled \u2018shop aud get Our prices.R CO, sl same Street, The.C.5 vs ne -OCKE remet ot week to the\u2019 gi Xin and do the homes Matérs.Jus.Fetrter or and | The y visi Longue \u201cpoints are » F: ©.Smith.A FAREWELL DINNER.or Thureday Sue tant the crinal | Qatinis, employees.of ogireal Termin Railway gave a ces dinner to Mr.CG.| rw was present Bei \u20ac pany - sinoe \u2018 ds eotmactiod M \u2019 fcrneccces 30086 JOHN MURPHY & Co.NEW BLACK FANCY BLIST ER.° NEW BLACK CREPONS.NEW BLACK STRIPE CREP NEW BLACK SILK GRENADINE.NEW BLACK FANCY MOHAIR.NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL F AST DYH SERGE.NEW BLACK ALL'WOOL BENGALINE.NEW BLACK ALLWOOL NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL CAMEL'S HAIR.EP ON.NEW BLACK VOILE DE PARIS.NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL GRENADINE.NEW BLACK ALL\u2018WOOL COATING.NEW BLACK ALL'WOOL CHEVIOT.CANVAS.NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL.AMAZON CLOTH.NEW BLACK SILK AND WOOL EUDORA.NEW BLACK PLAIN MOHAIR.NEW BLACK DRESS GOODS Ÿ NEW FANCY BLACK BENGALINE.Ca Moxoar, Ars 16, 1906.{ now, \u2018voluntary, Lefebvre-Wely Loc.a.rer yy) À tion.{the dyké and banks in the hopes of \u2018I'secing a shove, but they were disan- | 1 pointed.The St.Lawrence, full to its 3 publie worship yester Deut \u201cde FIle, when 7 contly 50 pieces NEW FOULARD- on ze at 750 per yard, PER YARD, : New Fancy 8llks\u2014?Leading Lines.\u20ac pe AM the Latest Colors, Pure Silk.We would call SPECIAL ATTENTION q 4 to two leading lines, prices 60c and 65c per yard.NEW BLACK SILK AND WOOL HENRIETTA.NEW BLACK FRENCH ALL-WOOL HENRIETTA.All the Latest Novelties in BLACK DRBSS GOODS now being shown.New Fancy Foulard Silk., set doses; \u2018Pure: SH; .s choice Ad New Washing Silks.| RE In all the cholos new colors, Stripes and Checks, PURB SILK, ONLY 50e of Terms Cash.{ JOHN MURPHY & CO.{ 2343 St.Catherine Street, Corner of Metcalfe Street.|| Telephene de 202 7 FW PY EE EEE EEE SA 0 0 ire rare des Vhe Drily AVituess.MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18.EASTER DAY.\u2018Beautiful Weather Greeted the Numerous Worshippers.\u2014 p CHU RCHES LARGELY ATTENDED colorings, special for halls,\u2019 from 6c ta\u2019! \u2014NEW ORGAN OPENED.\u2014 \u2018Waster Day dawned bright and clear, after two days of clouds and rain.The HP dharches.As thie bout fob, worship | he diffsrent Protestant churches ar- \u2018| rived, the streets in the western section | of the city were thronged with church- | goers and Jarge congregations \u2018gathered | Fin all the churches where Paster music was the rule, to say nothing about Faster hats and new cos tumes.The scene on the streets as the churches were emptied of their large congregations was particularly brilliant, and the display was kept up on Sherbrooke street during the afternoon.Every ome seemed satisfied and joyous, and there was apparently abundant reason for it.To many the occasion with to arouse feelings of reverence and \u2018adoration.Apart from this the fine spring day, the finest of the year, was sufficient to draw out a glad throng.The mounfain was also well patronized, while thé river was a centre of attrac- Many people found their way to banks and blocked with ice piled in every shape, with here and there the turbulent current showing, was worth going far to see.; NEW ORGAN GPENED, \u2014 5 À LARGE CONGREGATIONS AT | ST.GEORGE'S CHURCH.\" \u2014 Easter Day was a memorable occasion which was used for the first time in day, it is in a position to surpass itself.thèré was hardly a vacan§ place.- crately designed leaflets containing e a description of the organ\u2019 and new throughout \u2018the congregation.The ser- {vice consisted of: Preludé, improviza- | tion on 3 ym tune.Hymn\u2019 (before ser- visé); 98, \u2018Jésus\u2019 rie id Tieen to-day,\u2019 Morgan; \u2019Versicles; ain\u2019 song.Easter anthéms, \u2018Chiisé our Papsover, Bip i Cc: \u201cGarrett Foy in Fat tes ete.\u2019 pic np Tight odin: 1 pan pen | |.comsists of four manuals and d sight.draw.> dy Ce organ bés-65 \u2018atops, | \u2018| dans, estern gal | lery on each side of the window, and the its religions significance was sufficient.th 5 groined.désériptionir Whee.in St.George\u2019s Church.Already noted / for ite grand muse, with its new organ, , The congrégs- tion Was.in keeping with the oceasion, and when the firét tones of the organ filed: the \u2018edifice with softest inuste.order of the services for the day, and bells were.prepared, - dnd distributed | ropér plans, ii, 1 song: Te Detim.Lau.| \u2018 in F.*Juübüate Déc, TES Quicunges Vult, | C.E.Sté i i cantats) \u20188.| phreys.ir ga a ne rar epee opportunity to display the full scope of the organ, which is now the second largest in the city, but its sweet full tones and great range was well brought out in the numbers rendered, and the great improvement everywhere commented on.The Rev.Dean Carmichael .preached an appropriate Easter sermon from the text \u2018Now is Christ risen.\u2019 Special prayers were also made for the welfare of our soldiers in South Africa | andyfor the success of the British arms, The new organ was presented to St.George's Church by Mr.James Cra- thern, as a memorial of members of his family.It contains all of the latest ingenious contrivances in the way of elec.tro-pneumatic mechanism, for which the clever builders, Messrs.Cassavant Brothers, of St.Hyacinthe, are famous.The new console, à perfect marvel of.intricate and \u2018delicate organ mechanism, | shag); And \u201c18: th Echo and Selo, in whole containing 4,000 pipes.One stop (Tuba Mirabilis) is on heavy wind pry sure.All can be played from the same console, either alternately or simultane.sole has besides the four manuals, 85 drawstop knobs, 16 electric thumb combination pistons, 6 electric foot combination pistons, all adjustable, 2 balanced swell pedals, one Crescendo pedal with indicator, electric wind indicators \u2018for all sections of the organ.Double touch to pedal action, The organ happens to be quite similar .gan recently built for the Norwich Ce- thedral, England.Its entire cost will approximate $15,000.The beautiful mellowness of the instrument, reminding one of the sweetness and purity of tene of one of the old English organs, was commented upon by all who heard it.CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL.The seating capacity of Christ Church Cathedral was taxed to its utmost at: both services yesterday, and Mr.W.J.Mr.Gundlack and Mr.Meineke were.kept busy in seating the large number of strangers.The Easter musie, under the direction of Mr.John B.Norton, Lic.Mus., was rendered with great beauty and power.The grand\u2019 organ long-drawn aisles and fretted vif; th Dealing anthem swells the note Cot praise\u2019 The \u2018Hollelujah Chorus,\u201d from didly in the evening, and \u2018special Easter _servicés.The Rev.Canon Norton, DD, preachied in the evening and péniniord \u2018George's \u2018Society would be prenci \u2018the Cathedral.The Rev.Pro Steen preached in the the morning 8T.JUDE'S .C CHURCH.at St Fide\u2019 a nded\u201d Bothy \u2018fn the - mornibg and evening.Mugic süitäble to thé occasion was rétidered in\u2019 excellent style.At the morning service the 1 folowing sélections \u201cwere es In.with ously, as the organist desires.The çon=|- in size and composition to the great or Learmont, P.R.Gault, Mr.Adams, peals, combined ter Le well.trained Fu Breage] bactrim, Soars & pure tenor voice of -considerable- range, and \u2018Handel's \u2018Messiah,\u2019 was rendered splem- hymns and anthems were \u2018sung at both | : evening.CENT ARY \"BUNDAY-SCHOOL 1 À pla ova service was-held in Cente- that the annual sermon, of \u2018the St.1 nary.Mathodist, Qhareh, last evening, the occasion | ms Kb: » n°54 Pa =, 245, Soham aly C; anthem, \u2018The Lord is my strengti Novello; hymn, Jesus Lives, no oe \u2018The strife is o'er\u2019; conciuding \u2019 Great Praise is due to Mr.Hancock, the choir master, for his untiring efforts and the high \u201ctone of the music.Mr.P.T.Moore, L.A., presided at the organ in his usual efficient way.At \u2018the close of the evening service Mr.J.E.Turton, of Toronto, sang the \u2018Holy City\u2019 in a highly artistic manner.EAST END METHODIST CHURCH.The special Easter services in the East End Methodist Church yesterday were greatly enjoyed by the large congregations.At morning and evening ser vice special music was rendered by the choir, under the leadership of Mrs.Ahern, organist.At the evening ser vice the choir sang the anthem, \u2018Chris: our passover, with bass solo by Mr.R.A.Tarlton ; and Mr.Wilson, baas soloist of Brant Street Church, Brant.ford, sang \u2018Calvary,\u2019 with much efiect.The chur sh was tastefully decorated Laste slies and other flowers, AT THE \"MEN'S OWN.There was a good attendance and un.usuel interest at the \u2018Men\u2019s Own\u2019 meeting in Calvary Church, yesterday after noon, it being the Sunday for the regular quarterly distribution of books to the members.Owing to the recent adoption of a new system, the books to which the members were entitled were not dis tributed yesterday; but in their stead other books were given out extra, and the regular distribution will take place in two months when the books have arriv- A ed from England.The class of books MH.given out yesterday included histories Jo and the poets; works on science, art, L.travel, romance, adventure, religion, ut etc, ete.Mr.T.B.Macaulay presided and the books were distributed by Prof.Ps F.P.Walton, dean of the faculty\" of law at McGill University, and Mrs.Walton.In addition to books given to members who had paid into the book Pt fund, a number of volumes were given + as prizes to persons who had found Jo certain scripture passages previously x quoted.This was considered a good M stimulant to Bible study.Altogether i about two hundred and seventy-five A, hooks were distributed.A choice solo © was rendered in good voice by Mr.R.Ce H.Morrison, Owing to the lateness of the hour when the book distribution was concluded, there were no.addresses given.It was annoynced, however, that Prof.Walton, who was exp to speak, had consented to address the Dext- ÿ 2 A Pee \u2014\u2014 SPECIAL SERVICES AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.\u2014 The first of a series of evangelistic meetings was held in the First Baptist Church last evening.The pestor, the Rev.J.A.Gordon, preached from Genesis xv., 6: \u2018Abraham believed on the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness.\u2019 God's definition ot the great words contained in his revelation, the speaker said, was given in the lives of the.heroes portrayed in the Bible.Thirteen chapters devoted to the history.of Abraham, defined the great idea of faith.Peur noteworthy distinctions of his faith were revealed \u2018for our consideration and imitation, \u2014 it was unquestioning, unhesitating, per sistent, ahd progressive.Mr.Gordon noticed particularly that it was by acting out the grace of faith given to Abraham that this grace became incarnate.The noblest, highest and purest thoughts gathered in our hearts and lived up to | persistently, cannot fail to develop no- l ble, high, and pure characters.In con ° clusion he said, \u2018God does not give more light than a man will use.You know that it is your duty to do something.Act upon it.Never mind if you cannot see the en Added light will be given as You go on in.the light you bave.\u2019 ;.evangeliet, Me: M sings with much sympathy of, pxpression.He will take part in the.es which will bg ~ontinued ye the next three weeks, beginning at eight.o'clock each he oortismation of the anniverssry unday-ach ceremonies.Reports from the secretaries of Cente \u2018nary, Verdun and Hope Chapel schools \u2018Were resd, \u2018end were of an encouraging nature.Addy wee.also delivered by Messrs.Ji.W.Knox and Charles Morton.Feeling deferences were made to the deaths: Suping the year of Mrs.wi Hill-and- Mr.Me John Swan, two of Centennty\u2019s: Told faithful teachers.pistes \u2018 AMONG CONGO CANNIBALS.Sundiy at the: Alneritan Presoyterisd the Rey.P, Whytock, of the Re- Union, London, the Upper 2p a., gion, ided Prof.y\u201d of rs.to book given ound ously good her y-five solo rR à of 1 Was résses that | \u201cto EUR 3 Te [RST listic bptist , the d on m of Teve- 1 the the ealed SILIL hand.Every before pure inches.Price $1.83 yard.vas Cloth, 80c per yard.shades.* hat with double pointed p ting hat on Or taking off.spoil the trimmings.other in a moment.ment.MISSES\u2019 To-day we placed Waists; these come in white, also in dainty Ladies\u2018 Blo\u2018se wear, color ++ 94 +4 D +4 5 + © + > + © + © + © 4 @ 4 © + 44 9 + © + + WOOL.TAFFETA.aterial this spring, and a favorite one Bos i inches wide, only $1.00 per yard.GRACE HAT ANCHORS.No more hat pins, the new fastener wiil hold a lady\u2019s hat in place absolutely under any and ail co n SHIRT WAISTS.in stock a magnificent nssortment of in fine quality Ginghams, Prints, Muelins, Zephyrs, ef fects.all the moet effective and stylish designs, 65e up.OGILV ¥ ndldons.They do not disarrange the hair 4n put- Do not hurt the head, destroy the hat, nor They can be used with any kind of hat; re always d ready for use, and can be tranaferred from one hat an- in place and ready our price, 250 a pair.Exquisite New Ta GOODS.For Beautiful, Stylish Dress Goods, visit our Dress Goods Department.AND WOOI, POPILILINS, t of these beautiful goods in the new Pastalle colors to À ped A dy should examine zhese elegant and fashionable fabrics hasing her new dressy gown.The width of these goods ls is 48 NEW CANVAS CLOTH.At Ogilvys\u2019 you will find a choice selection of the newest colors in Can- \u2018in the new Pastelle They are attached to inside of For sale fn Millinery Depart- Misses\u2019 Shirt Prices from 3c up.ST.CA oon JR le \u2018 GAS FIXTU RES ! Our New Stock of American Gas Fixtures (1900 designs) are now on view.\"FAMINE FUND.INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Canadian Presbyterian Mission.Previousiy acknowledged .$1, 361 Id Addie HUOS8 .\u2026.+.so ss se se ness Unhas Stewart.+ \u2026 + se oo 12-50 Annie L.Jack.es .95 eb 4 +6 ve 10.00 J M.a.re 84 ev we ee cè 1.00 Hi.Lizars Savage.ve a6 se se se ew 1u.0v Joba rawr th ee av nu ve sesessae ® 2.00 L.A.- te ob te be ns se bu ee 5.00 Lhas.Byrd.te se #6 06 06 a» 0000 25.00 Total.$1,331.67 Part of undesignated amounts AR 250.55 $1,582.23 INDIAN FAMINE FUND, Undesignated.Previbus:iy acknowledged.$520.32 A Friend, City .ve eb an .50 A Friend, Chateauguay \"Basin.\u201con 1.00 Joon Anderson, er.5.00 ever Admiring Reader.\u2018Ayimer\u2026 .5.00 Mrs.J.T.W.te re ee et ee ee we 5.00 John Wilson.co ie 1.00 sympathizers, Armstrong, B.C.oe 25.00 A.H.Farnsworth.ve ee 10.00 Chaddie Brenner.1.00 Coliected from Danville Congregational Junior C.B.Society by Mrs, W.H.Stockwell.4.00 Mrs.Richard Stane.+c 0.» 2.00 J.B.M.Lachine.\u2026.+.1.02 James Wilson.\u2026.« .23.00 Mr.and Mrs.R.H.Cowper.\u201cee ee 3.00 Robbie Castello.ve oe 2.00 Riley.« 56 06 6e 48 Bs Be 88 se be 6.00 qe v 3400.) Friend, Me or ESP RE 8.\u2026 Te fs.J.odd.se .\u2026.-e - W.P.vi ++ si es 6e 0» sv sv oe 5.A Friend, city.se \u2026.osu 00 sare 83 2.[riend, City.ee ce es as ve ee 5 TH and W M.M.!! 1 1.5.T E.Hall.«.+.++ +4 ++ ve ve 1 I.=.B.- +.+ en 0 oo.e 1.A Friend, \"Soule, Mich.\u2026 eo ve 23 ae -1 H.W.Cox Smith.ce ve se as bs Mrs.Hugh Blair .co co 00 «0 oo Dady.+.Boysie.4 ve su +0 06 se ve 6e John Tremain.+.ve os oo ov oe Mrs.David Hall .vv v0 +.eo ve Mrs.John Blair.+.so 20 to oo ue Ella Ferris.+.86 ce eo +» uw Se D.M.Ballard.+.od 60 00 se of wb Mrs.H.Shorey.\u2026.ov ve ve ee oo X.Y Zz.+ .ee ew LE J «ee À Thank Ofering.\u2026.sv us es Mrs.A.MoPherson.Ga.A.Baton ve ».\u2026.*e* se 66 ne Se Ov be Donore Sunday-school.Zion Sunday-dchool, Scotland, \u2018Ont.Hickson (Omnt.) Public Sohool.oe Mrs.J.Ellis.For Jesus's Sake.A.R.Trueman.St.Roch\u2019s (Quebec) \"Baptist Sun- day-sehool (French).Etta 11kins .À.- ove »e Lummds .Mies H.Brash te es a.60 we sees Collected db Mrs, où W.Bowes, Carleton Place, Ont.Mr.and Mrs.7 Ww.Bowes canes $5.00 Sarah H.Burns .es .ee se .ee oN John Robertson .eo.1.00 Thiope and Cecilia Bowes vo oo 1.00 Jennie Cowan .sere 50 - \u2014\u2014 Uriah Johnson LH.William \u20188.\"Hoge a.se se 00 Mrs.H.H.HOZE .+c ev 40 on +0 A Sympathizer n.se es eves Joseph Eltaes .vv co eo oo oo on rob the: Hu sd se es es Rivort Dar ee, 6 0 65 de 8.8.se Se eos se BM A Friend, éheniy .v0 +4 ve 6 60.Fred.Bruce Hem _ .Sent by Rev.E .W.\"Crane, Athens Ont.\u2014 | A Friend .+.605 #6 = 66 ve ve $1.00 Mrs.8.Stone Be où 6% 06 où \u2018se 1.00 Mrs.9.Moore .\u2026.«¢ vo oo .» 1.Mrs.L.Lamd :\u2026 .¢¢ oo «oo.1.00 or oo 25 : Less charges, etc.\u2026.ec «0 M.H.P.\u2026.John Hewton .\u2026.vissconcccououe 0e Mrs.L.P.Wonbham «vc .\u2026.+.0.02.Donald Sinclair .+.ca 00 +2 0e W.J.Hunt .Union Sunday-school, Anderdon, \u2018per John Waters, supt.Union Sunday-school, No.\u20182, Malden.= Ie ct.ve be 000% move Ont., per A.M.Atkinson, sec.- treas, .ee ee a Women's \u201cChristian \u201c\u2019Temperance Union of Cardinal, Ont., per Mrs.Thomas Clekind, \u201ctreas.ed es ve eo» Pessie Stewart te 4.#6 sn 66 60 eo 0e Vildert Stewart .\u2026 co av so ee oo se Rev.D.J.Scott .\u2026 22 eo oo as and .Collected by WiHam Keeping and Embert Penny, Murray Harbor, South and White Sands, PH.L\u2014 pin Murdook es .ééoise \u2014 50 ol Bull .ve wo ou be «» - 50 \u2018 P as Moore 0 so es lee 50 A P.Prowse ve ve eo \u2018ed eu Be\u2019 5.00 \u201c TE H.Prowse ce.mous ed Ed 5.00 n.Baily ce av ou.inh eens 2 \u201cargan King - se ts oa es wh ern 2D Flizabeth Hawkins .nosreuuu Co A B.Smith 40 20 se se\u2019 88 ws So ul Mrs.Senator Prowse .0.5.00 poe panenoDS HeoñnbHHHHH HyHHOTS SNIS2 38383332333333333333222838828¢ pie DCL REDS 0 BR roteato MH OT) ob Hic Homo SI : ve DESETEETES \u2018Mark Se | Richard Murley +.00 se vossèe 1.00 William Byrne .«ec oe «ec se oo 50 Neil McKay .66 sw ee 00 66 80 1.00 John Le Lacheur .1.00 John Nicolle .6 60 oe os John 8S.Livingstone .- David Bull .ts es wesw Alex.Van lderstine .Rev.B.Gills .«.Rev.W.C.Matthews .Josiah Roberts .Vere White .+ eo vouvco Philip Strickland se oe +» hoes John McKinnon os .ee se William Sharam Se .o.chèéen Joseph White .- .es, RUSS HERR be 3 I.R.Prowse se os do ve Sap John Herring v.vs vu ve beoses Flora C.McPhee .\u2026 «.Katie Shaw .oe .ee.Nina Lowther .+ .+ ve Samuel Beck .George Beck .+.06 se en Mrs.Thomas Roberts Mrs, G.Billard .A Friend .\u2026.\u2026.William Harris .RE - ee se a.ehzahzing se we oe .ve se de ve ee ee se Be abaugh .William eynolds 5.sv os 4 Hugh Jackson .David Reynolde .+.«ec oo oo Mrs.Chapman .\u2026\u2026.Hedley Penny .Mrs.L.Mcleod Isabel] Penny .Hector Penny .se ve ve Mrs.Hector Penny .Flatcher Jordan .Ziad ta Sn ss we ew o.be seve de 68 eo de NB.se èe ev pe +6 Es ot oe Fe Benjeémsia Jordan es eh eo au HLHRÈRRER Mrs.Qu 7e 7h av glee res iB Jad George WeLaod se ae XY RY YJ LY.FEE .Isamo Stewart 6 we \u2018se »e Bese 50 \u2019 Silas Senocabaugh - sr os 60 40 ee 2% Reuben Cahowp .1.00 Samuel Penny 1.\u2026.«os v0 ve.2B John Cahoon .«¢ oo +0 .B William Irving .30 William Penny .oo oe 20 oo oo 20 Eraest Panny ve 40 sb sw vous 250 Reuben Penny .6 ad ee de 2% Mrs, Ww.8.Hugh ve ce be ve we 50 David Hugh se 46 66 ev sw se 50 Arch, McDonald én bb Be btovtes 25 Mark Roberts se #0 od 66 ov bé 50 George Roberts .os ev op .50 A, \u2019 Clements se ea oe 0 oo .50 Mrs.John Hanley .«.50 Mrs.Henry Machoft «.s vo ov 80 Mrs.Benjamin Sencabaugh.50 Benj.Sencabaugh .« .50 David Brebaut.50 Freeman Reynolds va eu dé 66 es Bo Mrs.John Herring.«4 «4 oo 2s 50 John erring 6 +8 es 04 ou.ee 50 Benja: in Penny ee ce te ed be 2 James Penny .ec vo oo oo oo oo 3D Albert Jordan .ov te se oe 83 Mrs.F.A.Herring té nesouonu 25 Alex.Bell é ve ce sv te ov #6 .30 William Herring .60 ve sé .50 WiIHAM HOrton .ov oo 04 ve oo 40 Benjamin Herring on vs = #0 se .50 Annie McLeod ee ou.té ve 65 ow .30 John Hyde .we 8e ce ab se eo 50 John Cowan ess cc.@ née 1.00 James Le LacHeur « «.s sos oso .50 WilïMam Keéeping «oi ove + 500s 1.00 James Robinson oe sé oo \u2014e6 oo 25 Charles Brehaut .«.coc «os 5 Ernest Brehaut tes oboe see bbb 25 Mrs.Henry J.Brehaut .BH David Brooks Shear soc sod ess 1.00 Mrs.Thos.Clements os 6.soe 1.00 Benjamin Beck se .os use 25 John Johnston +.se ec ov vove 25 Jamea Bell, fr.se oe ov oo ss oo 1.00 Mrs.Daniel Brebaut +.cb so eo 25 Henry Jordan .ae ee .eo.*® 25 Mrs.Howard Mackay to oe de 5 pote Bishop te 4s oe se ve 4» 20 a Wht Harris .vo oo oo oo on 2D White .20 oo 00 oo ve 25 ee Brooks ee 00 00 00 sds 50 5 Ira MaochoD .co oo eo ve ov os 36 James Nicolle eo $6 oo B36 oe do 50 Ww.L.Machon .eo.ee .oe 50 John T.Nicolle ev eco so 60 66 08 .50 George H.Brehaut.\u2026.\u2026.0 Henry Brehaut se ce 6% be ob ob William Beck oe 2p od 6e oe Joseph Bréhaut .o oo oo .25 John Hawking.«.%.ee ve se wo 50 E.S.Harris .«+ +6 ve oo os oo William Howe .ec co oo os 60 Henry Sencabaugh .,.25 John E.Winslos .\u2026.\u2026 20 50 Barth Le Lacheur se de ee 8e 1.50 1.00 50 Charles Le Lacheur \"es es ve J.J.Robin .ve ae \u201cWw be eo .Reuben Machon es ee 4.os ae BU Thomas Davey .«ov vv eo oc oso 50 Charles Machon .66 06 oo 50 A.D.McDonald \"es se ob vo be 50 Herbert Brehaut .\u2026 oe \u2026.2 Thomas S.Brehaut .ve ve 28 Mize Maggio Sencabaugh ve se 2 Henry F.Penny .v0 os oo 28 Embert Penny ct se se a0 00 0» 28 $71.92 Lers charges, ete .32 ie 71,80 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Less divided in proportion to designated amounts received\u2014 To Canadian Presbyterian Mission.$250.58.To Améfican Board | \u2018of Missions .67.10 > To Christian Alliance Mission 274.49 To gouthern Indian Famine, (G.8.Eddy) .91 To Metboaist Episcopal ee .19.07 na] $447.17 \u2014\u2014\u2014 50.93 | INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Christian AlMance Mission in Gujerat.Previously acknowledged .$980.46 Union Sunday school of echool sec- tion No.11, Enniskillen, Lamb- ton County, Ont, per Walter Clark, superintendent .5.00 James Blair .cc.28.00 Férgus, \u2018Ont, Congregational Ch., Sunday achool .wees 8.00 ,011.48 Part of undesignated amounts .174.49 i) $1,185.93 INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Southern India Famine, for Mr.G.S.Eddy, Aseociate College, Y.M.C.A., Becre- tary, Madres, India: Previously acknowledged .$20.00 J.W.Cottingham .+i vv s00ee 2.00 Part of undesignated amounts .9.11 31.11 INDIAN FAMINE FUND.American Board of Missions, Previously acknowledged .$358.a A.J.MacDermid .«on oo .Part of undesignated amounts.a 10 ) $426.37 INDIAN FAMINE FUND.Methodist Episcopal Mission\u2014 \u2018Previously acknowledged.$43.00 Part of undesignated amounts.10.07 0 \u2014_\u2014 62.07 BAST AFRICAN FAMINE PUND.Previously acknowledged a.eu us 31,204.6 nie C.Ives .eo \u201ces ou 68 oe 1.00 A: end, Sydney, OC.B.oe 6 58 88 ce 1.00 \u2018A Friend, Mount Uniacke ve se eo oo 1.00 Mrs.J.Dodds | + ae es ee 0.0 1.50 A Thank Offering ss 6.vu evotracese 1.00 Mrs.A.McPherson .«0 o.o» .50 sire, Edward Williston .25.00 Mrs.J.Bllis .ve vreéte E64 0 Ge sod 2.50 Mrs.Anne J.Anderson .5.00 Élle 0.ee .\u2026.\u2026 ve en »e ete .5.09 Charles Stewart .oo os os.12.80 Well Wieher .1.00 Eliza Adams .cv 2e vie vo or eee.1.00 Women's Christian Temperance Un- fon of Collingwood, Ont., per Mary E.Frame, treasurer .8.00 Total .ov «ov or .eriee.$1,300.69 Collected by Mrs.J.T.Jamieson, Henderson Vale P.O., Que.: \u2018Robert Steward .Robert McKenzle .Mrs.Henry Ralston Ate oe esse oO Miss Mary Coxoft .50 Harmon W.Marshall .25 A Friend .vu 220 Mrs: Robert Marshal! cet bv he 25 Miss Kate BE.McKillop .+.25 Henry Little .Albert B.Little .À ou LX] Roy Foster Little .-« .05 Mrs.Henry Henderson .«+.10 Ada V.Jamieson .+.ee oo 10 Mrs.Thomas Little .25 George F.J&amisson \u2026.+.«ve Mrs.George F.Jamieson .\u2026.25 Gaorge A.Cinnamon .«\u2026 .\u2026.\u2026 25 Robert J.Wright y ec se ve aw 20 \u2014\u2014\u2014 6.63 Total À »e se ow be .À .$1,307.34 t\u2014 Total of all funds .+.+ .$5,042.23 The Rev.Warden, in sending a re- céipt for se 07 additional contributions from the \u2018Witness\u2019 for the Indian Faminé Fund, on behalf of the Presbyterian churches in Canada, mentions the fact that he has D \"«sontinu se Del) Tore poli sémiige Patriot ever.Bro ing me Rave ins.\u2018been received \u2018tor $68.30, ond Mr.Frank MH.Wigging, treas.user \u2018of the American Board of C S- sioners for Foreign Missions, the same to be used for the India Famine Fund, and from Mr.H.K.Smith, treasurer of the! Christian Unity Association, Hawleywille, Conn., for $104.63, for the British East Africa Famine Fund.In a letter from Mr.Walter Clerk, superintendent of the Union Sunday school, of school ééction No.11, Enniskillen Township, Lambton County, Ont., in which five dollars are enclosed for the Indim Famine Fund, as the result of a epecial collection at the Sunday school for two Sundays, that gentlathan remmrks that if all the Sunday schools in the Dominion would do likewise, thousands of lives might be saved as a result.The average attendance ih Mr.Clark's school is but fifteen.The Rev.Wm.C.Matthews writes from Murray Harbor, P.E.I., enclosing the sum of $71.92 which has been collected in the community for the sufferers by famine in India He states that he has judzed the \u2018Witness\u2019 to be the most reliable medium through which to trapsmit the amount.tne MY LADY\u2019S NOTE BOOK.PAJAMAS ARE TRIUMPHANT.that have arisen out of the war with Spain the contest between the pajamas and nightgowns ought not to be omitted, says the New \u2018York \u2018World\u2019 And while most of the other issues remain unsettled, this issue has been settled fn- ally and \u2018forever by the triumph of the pajamas.For years the battle between the \u2018newfangled\u2019 pajamas and the old reliable nightgown of our forefathers had been waged with varying success, the pajamas in thé cities of the seaboard and making occasional incursions into the interior, the nightgown holding the interior, and keeping up a harassing guerilla warfare 4n the suburbs of the séaboard cities.Pajamas are undoubtedly the most civilized possible fight dress.In pajamas a man is ready for anything.He is at fire, strange noises in the basément or sudden descent of a foe, whether burglar or Filipino.In a nightgown a man is ready for nothing.' In appearance he is \u2018not in it\u2019 at all In ability instantly lous.In feeling he is wretched.: Next to the habit of the daily bath, pajamas are the most valuable gift of the Orient to the Occident.NOT A KEELEY CURE.- Mrs.Ida Husted Harper tells this story :\u2014\u2019 At our hotel, where some of us were stopping a little while ago, was \u2018a, beautiful young girl, educated, clever, thoroughly up to date.went down on his knees, seid L was \u2018only power on earth that could save In enumerating the unexpected issues | -gaining a strong yet uncertain foothold | once dressed for night emergencies of F to face his fellow-beings he is ridieu- | A \u201chandsome fellow was paying her the most devoted | | attention, whenever he waa sober enough i to do so, and all of us felt very anxious gd lest his attractive manners and lavish diss fg play of wealth should win the girl.One|.evening late she came into my room, and; | settling herself among the pillows of the.EN yin him, and if I = consent to be his wife he should fill a drunkard\u2019s grave.\u201d \u201cWhat did you say !\u201d I asked breathlessly.\u201cWell,\u201d she replied, \u201cI told him that I was not running a Keeley Cure, but if he really wented to be saved I could give: him the addresses of several which I had heard highly recommended.\u201d \u2019 \u201c This senable girl, remarks one of the editors of the Boston \u2018Woman's Jour nal,\u2019 is a representative of a growing type of young American women who believe that their lives can be put to a better purpose than a vain and mis erable endeavor to reform masculine de generates.FOR AFTER DINNER DISCUSSION.An English publication recently offered a prize for the best dozen \u2018sensible humorous\u2019 sub jests written foc discus sion after dinfler.The following ques- \u2018tious were chosen as the ones entitled to the prize: 1.If a cross wife commences to scold her husband, is it good policy for him to commence whistling * 2.If a husband be a few days absent {from home, should he bring his wife a present on \u201chis return ?3.Is it an easy matter bo Vspot an old bachelor in a crowd ?4.Does reading love stories make ladies more inclined to flirt ?6.Supposing you had a few friends whom you knew to be very downcast\u2014 how would you entértain them for an, hour so as to make them give a good, hearty laugh ?8.Why do old bachelors and old maids give their preference to lodgings where there are no children ?7.Should the husband remain at home \u2018occasionally to look after the children, ete, in order to leave his wife free to go to the -theatre ?8.How would you cure the man who stops at his club too late ?9.What means should be adopted to bring a bashful man to \u2018the sticking point ?10.What advantage has the new woman over the old ?11.Are heroes or heroines the more to be admired ?«12.Is it better to marry for love or for riches, or for à compound of both ?\"obama _ ADVERTISEMENTS.MOTHS! MOTHS! nl already received end sent to India this | | your $19,300.\u201cHo further: states that ihe |; a, Gon and Woollen Merchants.Don\u2019 t Feed the Moths with your best Winter Garments.25c Worth of Pieine.will save you many a dollars worth of your \u2018Furs and Woollen goods.Telephone Up, 1094.Simtel JOHN LEWIS, © Manufacturing Chemist.\u20182208 St.CathéHne st\u2026 corner University.OUR.C JLOTHING ° MES Possesses pints 1st The Suite wear well, : 2nd-#The Saits-aré comfortable.\u201c 8rd-\u2014The Suite look well.9 4th\u2014They don't cost much.t Guat y and me SE de ee the Keystone .VINEBERC, i920: Ard 192% vos\u201d Dame street, '.Optosite\u2019 Hermsley's.w TRRORTANT MATTER.The - selection \u2018of \u2018a 1-2 érigiiet who can at all times\u2019 trply and honestly dispense what.hoa been prescribed by the physician is an important matter.We.can assure \u2018fou\u2019 of \u201cdévotion to your tom- bands and interest ; We are woted Toilet.Requ iy a A - Je the best 4 octo CEE 050% oie > 00%, 0, 9 rode, Qoefesdeels feo tete + > >< 40 + +, 9% + * ©, ] Lé, o.+ 0, 0 * 0 00 90 0 00 eee x ©, + ages 0 0, © OO pe 090% 7% ++ +, 02% eo +, ©, God + % e aT ç 9, + rw o> Soaso\u2019 elles 0 + 14 SOO \u201c e ATA roses casses Ee ES recotocouté \u2018 HENRY MORGAN & co, COLONIAL HOUSE, Phillips Square.Engraving STATIONERY DEPARTMENT.Visiting Cards: Change of Address.On all Orders of 100 Cards and over we will have alteration made FREE OF CHARGE.Wedding Invitations.se \u20ac Wedding Stationery.All our Engraving Work is done on the premises by a Competent Engraver.Only First-class Work Accepted.PRICES REDUCHD.Special Purchase \u2014 GOLF CLOTHS.Having secured about 20 pieces ot these fas goods at a very close price, they are now $2.50 per yard.This price tor the best Scotch Goods is very much bélow regular value.4 DRESSMAKING DEPT.+ Ladies are respectfully informed that MRS JEFFREY.has just returned from a business trip to New York, and \u201cwill & be pleased to impart to her customers thé latest information + from the centres of fashion.â MISS FENOGLIO and MRS.JEFFREY are both.fully.Ÿ.equipped with expert assistants and aré now prepared tè $ tenable ered at | 0) .NC Bo oe Butterick\u2019s Patterns and Publications.A large and complete assortment of these relfable patterns constantly on hrnd.Now is the timé to subsèribe to the \u2018\u201c DELINEATOR\u201d which is the largest, Most Representative and thoroughly fp.to-date of ail the Women\u2019s Magazines published.The Colored Plates of Fashion and Mil- linerÿ recently introduced are of immense value to a interested in fash- jonable and correct dress.In the other numeérdors illustrations shown, aH the \u2018prevailing styles are accurately pictured, and the earliest reliable ingor- mation is given in regard.to these Incoming fashions, millinery and Mates als.Lovers of Fancy Work will find 4 larger variety of novel us than it many periodicals dwvolted eolely to the purpose.In general | radio there iz a wide range of topics, touching ou nearly everything of interest ta womien, Cookery, the Care of Children, Hovtebold Duties and Appointmenis, Beauly and Hygiene, Etiquette, Education, Employment and ssions, Handicrafts and Occupations, Entertainments, ete, with a short story bach\u2019 month by a distinguished novelist.Subscription price, $1 a year; single copies, 150 enoh, postpaid.Fashion Sheets given We.Metropolitan Fashions tor Sbring now to hand.Price over the counter, 15e each; PT ma 25¢.\u2018Glass of Jal, ; dôc per year; 7c single copy \u2018The \u2018Tailors\u2019 Review, for Spring and -Summer, 1900, now to hand.NOW IN STOCK An Extenstve High Class Silk Wists.| Range of These goods will be found above the average ; For STYLE, FIT and QUALITY.OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS Are strongly in favor this seasen ; for à dressy \u2018article.b ui, gy in! Black, White, Gray, Black and Whe \u2018Fawn and.ite and Black.Lengths, #6 in.48 in, sd Sain, STATIONERY DEPARTMENT fw SELL vo a te rayer Books, Dainty Binding, Sul Suitable for EASTER Grrts, Instant, at | Weeki Calendar, MoNpAY.APRIL 16.Weekly Calendar \u2014\u2014\u2014 FUTURE MEETINGS.Art Association, PHILLIPS SQUARE.Galleries Open Daily, 9 AM.to 6 P.M.; ADMISSION, 25c.SATURDAY FREE.TUESDAY, APRIL l7.EAST END METHODIST LECTURE HALL Sale of Fancy and Useful Articles, under the auspices of the Ladies\u2019 Aid Society TO BE HELD April 17th, 18th and 19th, 1900, P'AFTERNOON and EVENING.Proceeds in aid of Church Repairs.TICKETS.5 Cents Among Congo Cannibals A MISSIONARY LECTURE Illustrated by Many Unique LANTERN VIEWS.By Rev.P.Whytock, Late y the oper er Congo, Equatorial Afri _ Deputation Secre pions Beyond,\u201d Missionary Union, London, England, \u2014IN THE\u2014 INSPECTOR STREET MISSION, (kindly granted for the occasion) On TUESDAY EVENING: April 17th, A O'CLOCK.A FREE WILL Éferine for the work will be taken.\"ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED.WEDNESDAY.APRIL 18.Montreal Snowshoe Club ANNUAL MEETING.rr INT The 61st ANNUAL PANS MEETING , of the NDR\u201d will be held in the club house, 149 Mansfield street On WEDNESDAY, 18th April, 1900, At.8.15 p.m.sharp.Business\u2014Reception of committee's ro- port, treasurer's statements, and election of officers for \u2018 erfuing year.FRED.D.- ROGERS, Hon.Secretary.V[ONIREAL: PROTESTANT HOUSE OF INDUSTRY AND REFUGE.693 Dorchester Street.The Annual General Meeting of the Corporation\u201d and Governors of this institution will be held in the Board Room on the afternoon of WEDNESDAY, the 18th April hree and half-past three o'clock oe RR The 36th Agnus Meeting § movTHEAL \u201cFouve oY OaENS CHEISTIAN ASSOCIATION, wili \u201cbe held at 896 Dorchester street, [13 WEDNESDAY, April 18th, 1900.Chair to be taken at 3 p.by REV.PRINCIPAL HACKETT È Reports, Musio and Addresses by Rev.T.G.\"WILLIAMS, D.D.\u2018Rev.HUGH PEDLEY, B.A.Tea and \u2018Social Meeting at 4.15.The public is cordially invited.TrursDAY.APRIL 19, - Woman's Art Association.ILLUSTRATED LECTURE \u2018By FRAULEIN STOLLE, THE ART GALLERY, Phillips Square.\u201c Bubject\u2014DRESDEN GALLERY, : fHdes Colored from Originals, THURSDAY, April 19th, 8.15 p.m.: \u2019 Adwstaufén $1.00.Tickets at Shaw\u2019 s Music tore and at the door.© WESTMOUNT, By Special Request, the lecture on the _ BONG8 OF SCOTLAND, is song illustrations, will be repeated by \u201cREV.J.H.BEATT, \u2026 ROÉKBURN, QUE, 7 \u201cta VICTORIA HALL, THURSDAY, 19th oe willy preside.Montreal, Hat Hs \u201cPar toctant, - at 8 p.m > NOIPAL ARNOLD Roël Ladies\u2019 Kdmiselon, %e.= FRIDAY.APRIL 20.GROSSMITH T he King of Entertainers \u2018 Windsor Hall, THREE rrnsonmaxces.FRIDAY, \u2018April: 30th .\u201cSATURDAY, April i} Ac 3,15 Saturday, April sist, \u2018Matinee.Seats, 75¢ and $1.00.Plan opens at Shaw's on Easter Monday, April 16th.MONTREAL { CITY -AND DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK.The Annual General Meetingtof thé Stockholders of this Bank will be held at its , Head Office, 176 St.James street, on ; | TUESDAY, Ist MAY, poxts \u2018at Lo\u2019clock p.m.\u2018for thd reception of the Annuel Reports and Statements, and.the election of Direc- \u201ctors.ander of the Board, By 7.BARERAT, 9 Meme id and to olin other | | be sure that the men who have taken so should be as ready to help the Boers as T.GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATION, MONDAY, April 23rd, WINDSOR HALL.- At 8.35 P.M.In aid of ST.GEORGE'S SOCIETY.A Tour of Britain and Its Possessions, With Song and Story.ARTISTS : Soprano.Miss Ada Francais Wait, Montreal Tenor,.Mr.F.C.Capon,.do Baritone, Mr.Harry Riles.Westmount Baass,.Mr.Miles R.Braceweil, New York Cello.R810 .con .\u2026.Montreal Accompanist.Mr.Emery Lavigne, | Montreal Elocutionist, Miss Ruth Holt,.New York Orator.Mr.Barlew Cumberland, Toronto Chairman.H.A.HODGSON, President St.George's Society.Sale of seats open at.J.W.SHAW & CO., 2274 8¢ Catherine at., eT ahh and April 16th, at 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$John Dougall & Son, * Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal,\u2019 and all letters to the Eaito- should be addressed s Editor of the * Witness,\u201d Montreal MONDAY \u2018APRIL 16, 1900.The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, or, in other words, the medical men of the city in their organized capacity, have appointed a milk commission whose principal purpose is \u2018to aid the.milk dealers in affording thoroughly sound and reliable milk.\u201d This commis gion has issued a code of rules to which if any man conform he can have the cer tificate of the society warranting his milk.We should require more intimate knowledge of the working of this commission than the published statements to understand how these certificates are to be made a trustworthy guarantee that all the milk they cover is good, but we may much trouble to secure that end, and the society whose reputation will be bound up with every certificate, have assured themselves that the thing can and will be done, and that the commission\u2019s certificates will never be put to.shame.Newspapers in the United States are discussing the probability of the Democrats inserting en intervention plank in the platform to be presented for adoption to their national convention to be held in Kansas City on the fourth of July.It has been noted that in his Pacific coast speeches Mr.Bryan is freely declaring that the sympathies of the pation ought to go out to the Boers.He does not say in so any words that the government should intervene to end the wer, byt he asserts that as citizens of a republic the people of the United States Daniel Webster was to aid Greece in its struggle for independence.Should the idea thus thrown out meet with the approval of the meetings Mr.Bryan addresses, its incorporation in his platform may be expected.The Irish and German elements in the electorate: are-strong- ly pro-Boer.To make the former, who ere Democrats, solid and win over the latter, who are mostly Republican, would be sufficient incentives for the insertion of such a plank.Already an indication of its adoption has been -given by the Democrats of Pennsylvania.Spéculation | on this point.however, \u2018may be set at rest and the question removed from thes sp Ver interesting.States by a decisive Britieh victory taking place before the presidential elections come off in November next.Such an event is quite probable, and would be hailed in America as well as in Britain: as the greatest victory for the cause of peace that could be desired.\u2014___ , Mr.Tarte has about as delicate e task in Paris as could be committed to any diplomatist.Many would have shrunk from it, but Mr.Tarte shrinks from rothing in the talking way.Think of a foreign journalist having the assurance to approach a visiting minister of the British Crown with a demand to know why Canada should have hurt the feelings of France by sefiding troops to South Africa.So far as we can see no reply was called for; but granting that he must speak Mr.Tarte stated the case very fairly fron a French-Canadian point of view.The section of the Canadians that he represents is a minority.It is the part of a minority to fall in with the majority whatever its own sentiments may be.The minority may some day be a majority and then this same doctrine will apply differently.This French minority is loyal to the British Empire, which gives it not only complete political liberty, but secures it in all its institutions and preferences, even to the free flying of the tricolor.This minority may be at heart, ninety-nine to one against sending troops to Africa.We bave no reason to doubt the truth of any of these statements of Mr.Tarte\u2014 whatever may be thought of the taste of expressing them: It must be acknowledged that the probability of that ninety- nine to one puts a French political Jead- er in a position which requires great address.It is that nincty-nine votes against one that such a leader has to deal with in the interests of the Crown.Would one who was in no sympathy with them be able to handle them ?Did we not even see Sir Charles Tupper appealing to that ninety and nine against the expenditure of Canadian money on\u2019 Imperial armaments ?did.As for Mr.Tarte\u2019s forecast that the French may one day be the ruling\u2019 clement in*Canada, it is to say the leapt very interes It ig certhinly a.very natural\u201d aspiration.\u2018for.hé rout fot; Fife 4 niñety and nine.0e THE WAR SITUATION.>, The Boer leaders, both political and military, are fighting with great courage and firmness to save the integrity of their states.The political situation in Europe is interesting, perhaps tritical, at the moment.The Boer envoys are said to have made an offer to the European powers to conclude a peace on the terms that they should destroy all their forts and artillery, and thus render their position as independent republics less menacing to Great Britain, but on condition that the freedom amd independence: of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State should be guaranteed by the United States and the European powers.It is said also that they offer to guarantee the safety of the mines and property in which foreigners are interested, and also that an extension of the political franchise to the Uitlander population shall be gränt- I ed.Coupled with this comes the néwas that the Inspector of mines of the Transvaal has had a great many dynamite bor- ings drilled in the mines of Johamnes- burg, and that State Secretary Reitz \u2018declares that unless foreign intervention saves the Transvaal, Johannesburg will be mede as level and as wilderness-like as the rest of the veldt.It is said that President Kruger is opposed to blowing up the mines.- + The reports thet the European powers are inclined to entertain the proposals of the Boer envoys is probably mere conjecture.There will be an attempt to\" get Russia, Germany, France: \u2018end the United States to act together.If all cin be got together there may be an attempt .at joint intervention.If not, there will be no intervention.Italy has declined to join in a combined move which alone would be serious, and has contented herself with the friendly rôle of offering to mediate.A great deal depends upon Germany and the United States.If Frande, the latter will not try to intervene.\u2018That Russia bas threatened to send troops to 'Cabul and Herat unless Great Britain allows the Sonth Ativan republics - to retain their freedom is probably a yellow journal story.All the \u2018European nations have their handg.full region of practical politica\u2019 in the United | at present, and there = will: rep ee THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.India army, with the That was going a good deal further than Mr.Tarte ever.\u2018tein eouth upon De Wett\u2019s Notel eppitently, and a \u2014 re empire has declared that its future secur ity and peace depend upon the extinction of the republics, and the British Government, including the premier, Lord Salisbury, and Mr.Chamberlain, has declared that no foreign intervention will be tolerated.The British-navy has had plenty of time for preparation, and the British army is stronger than at the opening of the war.Mr.Winstén Churchill\u2019s proposition that British troops should be poured into South Africa till there are at least 250,000 imperial troops, independent of colonial forces, in the field, is a wise one, we think.With overwhelming numbers in South Africa, there will be a shorter campaign and less loss of life, and at the end of the war a splendid army of experienced and confident veterans, well hardened and ready for the most difficult service, will be in existence, and will be a splendid preventive of intervention or invasion of the empire elsewhere.In the meantime the East: could prevent Russia\u2019s forces from getting to Oabul, and perhaps even to Herat.As to Russian occupation of northern Persia, Great Britain is indifferent to that, and she can defend southern Persia from the Persian Gulf and the Indian \u2018Ocean.The significance of the unity of the empire, of the loyalty and devotion of Australia, Canada and East India, has not been lost upon the European powers.The United States will not go further than political exigencies drive them, which will not be far.The military situation in South Africa is becoming clearer, but is not yet very plainly in view.That the main advance will be from Bloemfontein seems now to be certain.Lord Roberts seems to have at Bloemfontein the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth infantry divisions and the cavalry division and artillery brigades with which he made his way there, and in addition he has now the Third, Eighth and Eleventh divisions, and the Tenth from Na- -tal, under General Hunter, is said to be on its way to him.He has also General Hamilton\u2019s division, composed of Canadian and other colonial and South African mounted infantry, the greater part of which is now at De Aer or Bloemfontein.In fromt of him, between Krooms-.iad acid.Sivaledt is Foported | 35,000 Boers, with 90- el sand it is said that there are 9,000 more Boers southwest of Bloemfontein, of whom 2,000 are fighting Colonel Dalgety\u2019s emall detachment of 500 colonials at.Wepener, and 700 are at Rouxville, while 3,000 are posted parallel with the railway between Bloemfontein and Reddersberg, but some distance east, while the rest hold a line stretching from the Bloemfontein water- | works- at the Modder river to Thaba N\u2019Ohu and Ladybrend.For twenty-four hours there has been little news from Bloemfontein, and London is wondering whether the silence is created by the censor owing to the.general advance having begun.This seems unlikely, with General Hunter's division yet at sea somewhere.There seems to be some doubt whether its destination is East London or Beira.There is little news of minor military operations.Colonel Dalgety\u2019s detachment -at Wepener has done more than hold its own, the report of the capture of a gun and prisomers having been confirmed apparently by the \u2018Times\u2019 \u2018correspondent, and it is now said that the Boers are retreating, having suffered severe losses.\u2018General Rundle\u2019s division is concentrating at Springfontein.It is.also reported that General Ohermside has ocoupied Reddersberg, and that General Brabant is \u2018marching upon Rouxville, while a Brit- igh column is.advancing from Bloemfon- Dorp, and that these operations will cut off the retreat of the Boers northward.| At the same time, it is believed that Lord Methuen\u2019s forces advancing eastward from Boshof toward Kroonstad \u201cwill guard the flank of the British column which will sweep around to the west from Bloemfontein, and thus outflank and gét in the rear of the Boer position at Brandfort, while preventing the Boers there from attacking the flank of the British colufnn marching eastward from Bloemfontein.Germany refuses to act with Russia nd | \u201cIn Natal, too, the Boers.seem to.\u2018have become \u2018suddenly aware of some danger lin thet?position, for it is reported that they.are.retreating .again north of \u2018the \u2018Biggaraberg mountains, after having done all the damage possible to the collieries at Wessel's Nek, just\u2019 \u2018north of Flinde.linagie, and to the.farm.houses .of the neighborhood.General Botha, #8 in is said \u2018to \u2018Have | Arf \u2018reports to Pretoria that General Buller .der Colond Plumer, which the garrison gpatched westward on the twenty-third | of March seems to be still a mystery.Afghan \u2018army, | diffu: wBup:1.find it.impossible tof.SOUL aire | keep my.Wakdh, going right (by.ote\u2019 qu Wn from 15,000 to 20,000 Boers there posted along the Biggarsberg mountains between the Drakensberg mountains at the east and the Buffalo river at the west.He has withdrawn his troops from the west near Helpmakaar to Elandslaagte, and | evidently believes that General Buller \u2018will not attempt a turning movement to the west either by way of Dundee or Vryheid.From Mafeking there is no news, but there is no apprehension in Great Brit- alin apparently of its fall, though all hope of its relief by the northern column un- had been counting upon as opening a retreat to the north of all the people of the town has been abandoned.It does not eeem certain that a relief column has \u2018yet been sent.from the south, though the whereabouts of the Kimberley column de- Considerable fortes, principally \u2018of Australian Bushmen, have been despatched to Beira, and General Carrington, with his staff, much equipment and great quanti- \u2018ties of stores, as well as some regular troops, has also been sent from Capetown to Beira.PASSIM LOQUITUR, The post-office clock went on strike for the most of last week, or.per haps it is more correct to say was not on strike.What clock is the authority in Montreal if that one is rot?Yet for months it has shown symptoms of living a very irregular life and is frequently indisposed.Where then are we to look to know whether we are in time for our work or not.In a town in which every clock differs from every other clock, ahd in which we can.never hope to know what the real time is some conventional authority is needed.One would think that with the true time being ticked all over the city fiom one source there need not be this diversity.If clocks were set correctly even once.a day they could not easily get very far out, one would think.The chronometers in the watchmakers\u2019 windows, which all run by McGill time, were supposed.to.have overcome thig | than one of them at.once amd even.that.one is liable.occasionally bo give a corrective jump ' which puta/my reg lation all out.I am furnished.by my tailor with from fourteen to nineteen pockets, according as I lave my overcoat om or off.Tt has always been a matter of wonderment 0 me how women, whose clothes hang far more loosely about them than mine, should never be able to find room for a single pocket\u2014not so much as for a waten in many cases\u2014and should be reduced to carrying all sorts of bags and reticules or to carrying their purses in their hands, a temptation to ruffians.I see a New York thief interviewed by a \u2018newspaper expressing indignation at having been accused of such an unintelligent thing as picking a man\u2019s pocket.He says \u2018There is nothing into it.\u201d That is, not in the pocket, but in the business of picking it.He never, he says, did any business after half-past five\u2019 o'clock and never robbed apy ope .but a woman.All that was nexssary - was to get her | in a crowd and she never could tell who had got her purse.Fourteen pockets, says Ha.I should like to know where they \u2018all are when a woman wants a parcel sarried.You won\u2019t put anything thicker than a postage stamp in any\u2019 of .them for fear of spoiling the | set of your coat: - I have *nown a man carry his handkérchief ap his.sleeve.A woman will .carry.in; her on \u201cpocket.| and in\u2019 the palm -of her glove fore: than & män can.\u201d Neverthoidy 8, Passim, purse\u2019 in his.hand.or his.watch ina girdle or à \u2018bracelet.Wonders are like prophets, they have no henor \u2018in\u2019 \u2018their own country.We go tothe ends of the earth to see such a geyser as could be raised in Victoria Square any day by turning a tap, and, yet, we leave an ice shove such as all the engineering in the world could not produce to the sunfish.Who else,.for that matter, -can get across ComMissioners street in its present condition ?After walking up and.down .several blocks, I found a placé where I could get across: without getting over ' my knees, and then climbed up the ugly dyke, where no woman could have done river, the guard-pier biding the rest.\"But the sight was _magnificent.Solid blocks of ice piled wildly in a mighty, apparently immovable mass\u2014 \u2018then a movemeni-the blocks ground into one another going above or: below their\" fellows or - Tearine: themselves into | he air on end.The force that had \u2018 performed\u2019 such \u2018a feat would, if iit \u2018could be harnessed, drive all\u201cthe: machinery\u2019 in.the world.From all.this \u2018majesty ['turned and saw \u201cthe sunfigh, all sitting With their \u2018backs\u2019 have never seen\u2019 a man\u201d eatryitg hig { it.I could see a far glimpse of the | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1300, be made approadnahle.\" Why not this be a sight that visitors rome from: far to sce ?shou Aou Speaking of attractions to visitors « is reminded of that excellent organ, tion recently formed among bus men for the attraction of tourist, tr Its plan is,'1 believe, to advertise =) charms and wonders of Montreal ou ways that have been adopted by olin cities.Yet far more important he to get people here by advertise, ; would he to send those who do con, home with great tales to tell.As the ice shove, of which we should pois lish striking photographs, we hav.2 arranged that not even ourselves cn see it.We are keeping our strev:.= that the more travellers we get here worse we shall be reported of ; Le what impresses travellers most is ce Btreets.And what about our ho Do summer travellers go away idea that they have got the Worth a: their money ?For one traveller whe.travels just to spend money there are a hundred , possible travellers.who would ÿ dé Bere (if HE\" Goel of the trip : rcareft E mesrine.Yor your \u201cbetel man is Tibble to \u2018asfume tip it is a pomitive kindness to a traveller to make him pay five dollars for an af.terncon rive which by engaging his own cab he would get for half the mon or by careful management for less.In a dozen ways there is a fine field for the tourists\u2019 league apart from advertising the city, but some of ita work would need to be independent of hotel subscriptions.\u2018Ne Nesg av el.tes ne WIth tle We were taking a walk, Obiter and I, in.the first spring sunshine.Hoy we covet that first walk on the day when the first robin whistles from à tree, not yet.able to set foot to the ground, and when the first rossignol sings the tenderest, sweetest note of any bird that flies.How eagerly we look for bare sidewalks stretching out of town.But we had chosen the wrong direction for our first inhalation oi spring air.The weary Willies of the Road Department, I suppose it is, had left a little bit of the board walk un- shovelled\u2014a bit whidh an hours more work would have cleared, and we had to plunge through deep, wet snow.The workers had not even cut coulees to le: the rushing product of the melting snow flow off the boards, so that in places where we had not to plurge we.had to wade.An Outremont man whom we met said that even Outremont set an example to Montreal in the matter of intelligent snow-shovelling.ie The board walk is all right now, but the dump is as bad us ever.Just think of taking one\u2019s first spring walk past a dump.\u2018Ig it inst right,\u2019 said I, \u2018 make a d ground of a park.A least, should the righthand side of the principal entrance be chosen for its unwholesome unsightliness ?Is it right to make a dump contiguous to a hospi: tal where so muny sick people are\u201d \u2018Stop there,\u2019 said Obiter, \u2018has not that particular part of the park been syste matically treated with contempt end humiliation and neglect ?Mayhap the purpose has.been to prepare it to be willingly handed over to the hospitai as a useless plot, disagreeable in its as sociations.\u2019 \u2018I don\u2018t believe it was the pu > said I.\u2018Let us be reasonable.ere\u201delèe could they have carted that snow to, except at unreasonable ex pense When I am eevere in my judg ment \u2018Obtter\u2019s becomes reprovingly gel: | erous and when the grows captious it is my turn to become the indignant de fonder of misjudged virtue.PASSIM.-_\u2014\u2014\u2014 MARKET CLERK ARRESTED.On Saturday, about noon, Germain Tessier was arrested by one of Der ouive Carpenter's men, on a warrant, caugng him with baving stolen $295 marke revenue; which he had collected and failed to account for properly.The ac cused appeared before Judge Desnioyern, 1d was, admitted to na) band tro each\u2019 to appear for cn quete.on April 4, Mr.Tessier» bonds nien were Alfred Charbonneau and H.Chamberlain.\u201d The cotmiplaint was :aid by Mr.O.Dufresne, city comptroller.WOMEN'S \u201cTURN NOT YET.In view of the resolution passed at the last Diocesau Synod, favorable to the admission of women to meetings of vestry, some uncertainty exists as 10 whether they may attend the meeting to be held this evening.It is well to state, therefore, that women are ineligi ble for attendance -until there is 8 change in the Act, which.is not yet, but will be soon., re DEATH OF A PATRIOT.Mr.\u201cModeste Roy, an old patriol, - who took part in the rebellion of 1837, and was wounded at the St.Denis bat tle, died in that \u2018parish, last week, at the age of 88 years.OT ete DEATH ÔF A PRIEST.News was .received yesterday of the death of the - Rev.Wm.O\u2019Leary, paris), priest of Kingsclear, N.B., a former st dent in the Grand\u2019 Seminary, here.F#- ther O'Leary, who has several relatives to it.Can our river front never again: ar Montreal, died.of lockisw.TI Cy I Tx CC ge re eds mre WE Sane a for ub- 80 the for the 19 ?the of he: ald rip at ler af- his 1°y ine of nd ow lay he nol we of ng the rad un- ore \u201che let ow ces We an E8835 nk to At he n- 5 be in ve ng et nd 1C- rs, to n- 1s id he he to gs to ut pt, he Wo ® NE LER etd A MoNDAY, APRIL 16, 1900.ADVERTISEMENTS.ERE | 3253 x china.appetising.SETS.The Tea Table never looks Dainty with odd A nice China Tea Set, with a pretty design, sets it off and makes the food more Everyone can afford a nice Tea Set, if they buy it during our Removal Sale and secure DO.Discount Which we are giving off our entire stock in Tea 20 C0 CRE ARRRKIRS 1 Sets.me JOHN Wholesale, 339 to 341 St.Paul st.) 2 RG RE 29 GRR ST GR ASSIDY ({}, Les.2503 St.Catherine Street, (Cor.Crescent st.) shomemmenaEemo0s À 85 EDIT ST IT IT I ITA ET CD MELVILLE CHURCH.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014As a Presbyterian educated under the auspices of the venerable Church of Scotland, I would inquire whether the courts of the Presbyterian Church of ( anada differ from the Church of Secot- land, as to their powers of interference between a minister and his congregation, and, if so, m what respect and to what extent.1 think it is generally understood that when a minister has been duly inducted, the bond can only be dissolved by the sustained call to another church, or by the accepted resignation of the minister, or by superannuation, or by the presbytery for cause appealable to the Synod end the General Assembly.Is this à correct understanding of the law as-it exists in Canada ?J so, 1 pr otld RéturallP BE ÉhIÿ 1# cété of fery Borant misconduct being.established, causing the decadence of the Church, that serious action, such as the removal of the clergyman, would be entertained by the presbytery against a brother minister, thus forever destroying his character and, so far as they are concerned, throwing him and his family penniless on the world.(Can you inform me if there is any precedent where the presbytery has exer cised this power since the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and, if this power does lie with the presbytery, can you quote the article or section of the Church\u2019s constitution in which such power is sent forth ?The unique position in which presbytery, members and minister of Melville Church, Westmount, are at present situated is being much discussed by Presbyterians generally, and the ultimate disposal of the case is being watched with keen interest by quite .a number of congregations in which there exists more or less dissatisfaction with tbeir respective ministers, particularly as to their sentiments and practices cn temperance and tobacco, and particularly as it is probable that a precedent savoring of Congregationalism may now be attempted to be established by the presbytery.The facts connected with Melville Church seems at present to be as follows :\u2014 Atout two years ago the minister ertered on his charge in the old church, which had a seating capacity of about .ch .\u2026 .500 With a momberehip of about ce es 270 The number of members admitted since, including 23 last communion, amounts to about .Present \u2018membership is.\u2018therefore about .0 Ve cena.A new church hos been erected with e capacity of about .Of which are already occupied \u2018abont.700 The minister's salary was advanced 124 percent after one year's administration, being the amount of .$250 There is at present before the presbytery a memorial signed by 109 members and adherents of the chureh.Previous to the memorial being pre sented to the presbytery one of the leading spirits of the dissatisfied party had preferred sundry specific charges against the minister.These charges the dissat- isfed member failed to substantiate or make proof of, and his complaint was cnsequently dismissed by the presbytery, The memorial was presented by the d I nited States Leather.,.13 12% Po oaicago, and and Pacific.113, ait a 100 & sevsccsocvvce 123% it Fo ul.Minn & Man +.ores, JE 10% Facile.ware seresereesvene cress 18% .Ba Third Avensis \u201cossesssauuees Thresevestes.11 \"182 pion Pacte.PAPER sv\u2026.ebèn secte ; ae cécrstus0.cgutèe 47 : REBAR = Wabash pid.0600000000 e antire cha \u20ac haärge.Ad- oe with volent to P.O.Box 884, ER, WANTED, of dreggmeking for § Thaleanle ng 3 state experiante.Apply G A GIRL, WITH A Knowledge od position in a ri a ON .HARROW- 136 McGIM atreet.16 manufactuT and X., Rig 3 Co \u201cWANTED, YOUNG MAN TO SELL Staple bustier; xtate salar WANTED, 1 INTELLIGENT MAN, vith Neat state salary and references, to M.70, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.16 WANTED, GOOD GENERAL SERVANT.\u2014\u2014\u2014 etre se a ae references required.Apply 68 St.suite an grocers, must speak French Bog ish, have connection, and be a and references, to +40, W \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.: 16 to deliver goods for wholesale firm; te St.Antoine Road, Westmount.1s cal street.WANTED\u2014AN INTELLIGENT YOUTH for an insurance office.\"Adress, A 1 Br \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.WANTED, TEMPORARY HELP in a pri ieh Fire Office, to complete some stätisti- on lee 8 A 0% PY in applicant's hand- r muneration expected, .- Work.Res A HOUSE 1x5 TABLEMAID, where a geaoral servant is kept.Apply with referemces at 248 Mountain street.12 GOOD to tend Éinotypes.Apply at once at tne : \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.u Employment Wanted.TALL BOY, ABOUT 15, WANTED, mo WANT ADS.\u2014FOR THE\u2014 WITNESS May be loft at ' THE WH.DRYSDALE COMPARY, UP-TOWN STORE, 2363 St.Catherine street, Betwgen'Poel and Mansfield Sta.OR WITH , R.TURNER, Grocer, Point St.Charles, 80 Wellington Street, West of Subway, rene eee \u2014\u2014\u2014 ADVERTISEMENTS.\u2018THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.the public confidence.Our stock comprises all that is demanded in a first-class drug store.Our stock of perfumes, toilet requisites and preparations meet with the approval of the most critical modern buyers.The Family Médicine.¥ medicine.Our: hh Bare o on the increase à every woek 4 Celery Compound never tts sa ailing and sick.A.D.MANN, Druggist, 201 St.Antoine st.and 304 Hibernia st Montreal We\u201ddo business in a way that merits §, All classes of Canadians make Paine\u2019s | ces.Prin WANTED, JOBBING - GARDENING ot any - kind, by contract, season or hour, by an experienced gardener; first class referen- Call or address, GARDENER, 62 ce Arthur etreét.bad mer .en néss GARDENING\u2014NOW IS AN EXCELLENT tire to bave your pruning done.The advertiser.wi other branchesmpf Address F.S.T., WANTED, A SITUATION FOR THE SUM- good references.Address M.444, Wit- give you satisfaction,having 25 yeals\u2019 practical experience.All sent gardening attended to.ithese\u2019 Office.16 months as General Helper to Invalid or over-worked \u2018Mother ; * Office.bad \u2018 GARDENING.\u2014NOW IS AN EERIE time to have your vartiser will give \u2018you satisfaction, having other branches of gardening attended to.Address F-8.T., Witness\u2019 Offige.9 done.The ad- 25 years\u2019 practical expérience ~ Rooms and Board.» TO LET, A LARGE, BRIGHT Front Room, + duitable for single & : Drummond street.entleman.Avy, 9 | 12 ROOMS AND POARD_TWO LARGE, .bright rooms, comfortably furnished, to \u2018 married couple _ first-class board; oné is a front parlor ; : houes heated by furnace ; not moving: ; Amie.tn 100 Fraser otnpot, fate soil Bi atéâ;-\" hot Water in aie Soon \u2018moderate.Address C., or gentleman, \u201cwith .\u2014\u2014 \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014t to 16¢c; butter, in firkins, 13c to 24e; ogee, 13c to 14c.CANADIAN FOUNDRY co.HAS TAKEN OVER BUSINESS OF ST.LAWRENCE FOUNDRY CO.Toronto, April '13.\u2014It is ennounoced that: the Cenadien Foundry Company, -Limited, a corporation with a capitalization of $1,- 000,000, has taken over the business of the old St.Lawrence Foundry Company, Limited, and will convert the present plant into one of the most modern and equipped establishments of the kind ja the : inion, Upwards of 200 men will be enmipldyed.MICHIGAN LUMBER Co.TO RUN MILLS ON BLIND RIVER, ALGOMA Windsor, Ont., April .12.\u2014Attorney J.H.Bay City, Mich., where he closed a.deal by which the Michigan Land & Lumber Company, of that town, will assume tou trol of the plant and stock of the Shot River Lumber Company, mills at the mouth of the Blind River in the Al goma district of New Ontario.For the plant, the Michigan Company paid $28,000, { and $26,000 for the season's output.= THE MESSIAH, IMPRESSIVE RENDERING OF THE ORA- TOBIO ON GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ab an y's was.Joa x ur once où J! 1 GUOLUS, Wa ce paged ed an.appre.-firet violin, .Thé \u2018orchestra may have ben.somewbeL vu Tire ras comparison not ae hn we chorus, fitted place tu om mai \u2018to render \u2018auch, a1 to have.a end Lhe ms orchèstrs chorus on the pame \u2018level, 4t vou bi prevented.the gudiença Les tearing + to the Dest.effect, MrT, Herr oe he chorus Under coatrol, only two: in their nature, vecurring among bundned.performe noticéable was\u2019 \"the dietthe thet enunciation of | ages every word climax of COUTSe dering of -the grand Hallelujah.o distinctly Daal, \"Tho =.composition.filed audience rose in was far above the - he audiènoe horedih, the 80] & of \u2018the airs,.*0 a ; know that : wy Baden i Livet ; was ois th and.wat, apie Le eviction of a so, Board a di hs Rodd returned \u2018this morning from West | the chorus, for evel in the fortiasiino.pass-| the exultantly victorious etais ; of t \u201ccis * T9 LET, AT \"HUDSON HEIGHTS Que for the summer season, partially furn od: dwelling, with garden grounds; ood .boating and Behing;, a aervice.PARSONE, 1 PRISE TO TET AT CARILLON, ToT ; completed, seven rooms with, kitchen ; ; splendid view; suitable for winter use.Aoiy ox 923 Doh oter street, or J OHN Carllion.: tute.HUDSON TT LET, oo pletely furnished house ' overlooking Lake.Apply room\u2019 B.Mechanlos' Yul 70 T0 LET, AT STE.AGATHE DES MONTS, a fully furnished cottage of ten apartments; kitchen | house the a ut large etope cellar,, croquet lawn, \u201cgarden, \u201chenpery, \u2018hath, boat boat; ive pravided and water Apply oer 5: pm, od Univer.usiness Choos \u2014 sale MONTE eee a Tp \u2014 being placed as da 6 be 3 ro ol des | \u2018 nees in West End; own Te _ Apply: 124 Tup ol.BAW tor sash and door factory.for CARPENTER.Shop.and ret] W.AND PLANING Mi, a or a lot.at, St.Lambert; ge Yard yard, oacpontor shop nd bouches, oom: r contractors\u2019 work, Apply JAMBDS a trifling 3 i One of.the ithe s lings full x ie Nr | FA: feelings full play.i i wo i Be.| TO LET, 74 CITY COUNOILLORE \u201cstreet A884 Notre : | To Lav, a sTONE COTTAGE, NO.4174 cu CC Te ANTHEA ITS Lee © To Let.rm: = TO LET, 211 BLERY STREET, Shop and dwelling; \u2018good location for business, for immediate occupation; $25.JOHN BUR- _RELL, \u201cTemale Building.TO LET, £ SEI CONTAINED, 37 rr street, \u201cside; last one of seven new touges: all on two floors; basement; drawing, dining commuai- cate; extension.kitchen ahd pantry, and extra rcom behind; Daisy heater; stationary tubs; essentially a cosy home.Apply 32 Lemoine street.» LET, 81 CATHCART Street Self-Con- tained house, 7 rooms, bath, etc.; furnace.Apply at 79.TO LET, A STONE COTTAGE, No.4174 st Catherine street, Westmount, basement above ground, plumbing and drains perfect; Daisy furnace; is in perfect order.Apply to MACINTOSH & HYDE, Standard Building.TO LET, 1093 CADIEUX STREET, Six- room Cottage, all modern conveniences, \" thoroughly renovated; beautifully desor- ated.Arply on the premises, or to R.NEVILLE.ir., 38 Waverley stréet, Montreal Anpex.TO BUTCHERS\u2014TO LET,A GOOD STAND, has been a butchers\u2019 shop for many years.Ice house in shop; near Richmond, on Notre Dame street; wil be let with or without residence over shop.Apply British \u2018 Ameriéan Dyelng Co., 2433 Notre Dame \u201cstreet.- 14 TO LET, CHEAP, A NICE RESIDENCE over store, 8 rooms and w.c., and clothes closets; all modern improvements, on Notre Dame, between Guy and Richmond streets.Apply 2438 Notre Dame street.14 TO LET\u2014AT UPPER LACHINE, A DE- * Strable Cottage, bâth, ete., moderate rent.E.W.H.Phillips, Canada Life Building._Tel.M.2603.14 TO LET, 11 BELMONT STREET, Self- contained house, 10 rooms, extension kit.phen, Daisy furrace.Apply 47 Belmont ar TO LET, 23 BELMONT STREET, lower tenement, 7 rooms, Dalsy furnace; coal © cellar, private family.Apply 47 Bel- ment I Park.\u201c12 TO RENT, 2 BISHOP STREET, DAISY furnace; modern improvements.Apply 41 Bishop street.10 STORE TO LET IN ST.PETER STREET \u2018wing of \u2018Witness\u2019 building; aplendid thoroughfare for retail business; brighi and attractive front, Apply at \u2018Witness\u2019 : Office, cntner Craig and St Peter streets, 30 \u2018HOUSE TO LET PLACARDS IN MANY styles; also lease forms, etc.for sale at the \u2018Witneas® Office.\u2019 4 TO LET, $23 A MONTH, Park avenue,new artistic three story - \u201csolid \u2018brick Tesidénce, centaining drawing room, dining room, extension kitchen, six bright bedrooms, sitting room, Wiig ¢loset, handsome mantels and & Rook 18\u201d furnace; con- grete rellat: 14, Temple Bulle, - ing.TO LET, Æ COTE ST.CATHERINE Road, ou remont, solid stone and brick cottage, \u2018rooms, \u201cDaisy furnace, water, large sit with fruit-trees: HENRY BLACH- FORD, 180 St.James street.Tel.Main .12 a Brick Co! Bgooke.5 > 3 ttäges \u2018on: Côlutabla avenue Bi atu, Westmount.* * Apply' to T GILDAY, 808 St.James street.TO LET, AT or.LAMBERT, CLOSE TO the station, \u2018three self-contained houses, 8 to 10.rooms; rent $12 to $18.per month.~ Apply to JOSEPH HORSFALL & &' SONS, = \"1849 Notre Dame stréet.TO: LET, 34 WAVERLEY STREET, A rew seven room.cottage, up-to-date in every respect, baautifully decorated, ele gant mantel.\u201d Apply R.NEVILLE; ir.38 Waverley street, Montreal Annex.12 TO.LET, 28 TORRANCE , STREET, A modern\u2019 lower tenedient, with upper \u2018and lower entrance; seril-extension kitchen, with shed attached; bagk gallery; bath; six.large rooms; all :newly papered and (painted.Apply\u201d 210- Bishop street.LET, mPOUÉLE, UPPER.HOUSE, Np.3 Guiibault 8 rooms, heated by Daisy furnace; the house i» in good order, with large yard and sheds; rent moderate.Ap-.; = to.i C, CLARKE, .25.:;Guilbault sé LET, ON\"ST.DENIS STREET, M Qesivanle dwellings, Fiate, Nos.se a ora feat in deat, wid my large cer cellars, hot water tricity.Also, Desatitul es 4 and - ling, No.913; 0 rooms, and \u201cfret Class bath room and ie w.0.; back stairs; hot water furnace, gas and electricit The whole: finished\u201d first class, vin oli I, modern improvements.Apply to \"ST: LOUIS, \u2018Root 704, New York \u2018Building, or at\u2019 night from 1 to 8 Né, 5 - St.Louis square; oo 10 TO LBT, GOOD- TWO-STALL STALE: large Jog.and coup\u201d Bouse, 300 Aguetuct Nh Catherine wt Westmount, basement above grou: plumbing and drains - foot; Daisy furnace; is\u2019 hE Saat 2 y to MACINTOSH x Hiding.n° À LC 5 taining AéYon.epéréments, .Kitchen attached; rent - Tao deraté further \u2018particulars oo to: J.M TINSON Plumber, Lam \u201cOp BEATTY, J Jeweller, 137 st Peter \u2018opposite the \u2018Witnets*.Klee.\u2018To LT, 5: 32.A MONTH.ow ségty 80 Pane ToD + em oon) = ing pri FOR SALE, A BABY'S \u201cGO-CART, Cheap, .nearly new.Apply;at.6f1a Lagauchetiere street.SQUARE PIANO BY WC YOSE, Boston, Rosewood case, round corpers; splendid instrument; a bargain fer spot cash.Write for particulars.NEEDY, care of \"Wl.ess\u2019 Office, - \u201c FOR SALE, CASH REGISTER, Fixtures and Hardware stock, to \u2018be sold cheap, at J.H.LAMBERT\u2019S, 1544 St.Catherine a gd FOR SALE, A STORE COUNTER, WAL- dut top, with drawers; a bargain.Address 1889 Notre Dame street.14 FOR BALE; BAMBOO BABY\u2019 Carriage, alightly used, bald prioce.Apply 988 St.Urbain street, corner.of Mary Ann A PIANOS\u2014STOVBS ry SALES SQUARE Planos, $20, $40, #0: gone U.right Figho, quite new, $125; 25 1588 St.Cltherine = 2 Gasoline Stopes.FOR SALE, CASH OR CREDIT, HOUSE} hold Furniture, Parlor Sets, Bed Suites, Dining Seds, Curtains, Stoves, bte.St.Lawrence street.KINDLING, FOR THE Err pi Cut Maple, 1.75; seul Bloc $50; cut ei lu i delivered \u2018anywhere in Jet MACDIARMID, \u201cRichm P square.Bar Telaphone Up 2583.INK BARRELS.\u2014A NUMBER oF -DMPTY Barrels; perfectly sound, for sale at ec tment\u2019 0 Nea.= Go Property.etna FOR BALE, À CHOICE Corner Lot, Weet.mount, cornet of Greene avenue aud Dorcheztar stroet; no waste land; every foot available; owner anxious \u2018to sell to.close an estate.Apply to P.J.FLYNN, 85 Manufacturers _Btreet.FOR SALE, PROPERTY AT Vigor Pointe Olaive and Dorval.H.SIMPSON, 29 Canada Life Building.Télephoue Main 3344.Farms For Sale.| v= FOR SALE, GOOD\u2019 WHEAT FARM, 160 acres, 70 improved, five miles from Virden Station, Mnnitoba.For particulars apply.to A.G.\u2018MEDOUGALL, Agent, Virden, Manitoba.- MR : mme Houses Wanted.\u201cig WANTED, FLAT OR UPPER TENEMENT of 8 or 7 rooms; immediate: esstôn ; moderate rental.- Address: Qu CH, whe ness\u2019 ee._ Miscellaneous.= BOYS, ot Lire INSURANCE POLICIES PURCHAS: -ed; advanoss \u2018made thereod; and .an othar securities.Boba, and elaims of all Be WA Children's 5.Of Bt.styles of tatlor-mado or fanty epring nove \u2014.elties.Prices\u2019 \u2018moderata.\u201d 7280 St, UF: bain street.sue __ Personal.PERSONAL \u2014 W.H.LRACH Dealer, 2440 St, Catherine , Stodd, neap Drumitmond (formerly ' twenty\u2019 yenrs \u201cWith, + = WSs) Fe a FEE © patronage: ormer cug an \u2018Slot.Second-hand pianos and.ha of all descriptions accepted in -padt pay tient.for the celabrated- 3-peñaNed Morris upright.pianos, Prices very to suit.Valuations made Fogponal attention given to.1, \u2018write, or teophone ?evenings, N.B;- .3 ufo, ed ca in td oo, ae NYS BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE.LADY BEDFORD'S CONCERTS.Toronto, April 15.\u2014The Baptist (The \u2018Royal Gazette,\u2019 Hamilton, Ber Young People\u2019s Union of Ontario and 5 à Quebec yesterday concduded its two : muda, Marca 10) _ days\u2019 convention.The feature of the On the afternoons of Tuesday and coTnin een criticism by Thursday next,.concerts will be\u2019 given the og A rang pastor of at the Admiralty House, Clarencs Hill, | Bloor Street Church, Toronto, of the in aid of the funds now heing frised |§ political morals of the country.He for the widows and orphans of the offi: vrged that the chief duty of Christian cers of the navy and army who fall in patriots wes to\u2018combat the political cor- the war.The idea of the coucerts or- ruption so rempant in Canada.iginated with Lady Bedford, who has There was, he said, no English-speak- herself worked most esrnexly and de- ing country all the world over the po- votedly.Many willing helpers are ren- litical\u201d tone of which was lower than dering assistance; and there is every that of Canada.The average Canadian Prospect that a substantial sum will be representative vo parliament was elect realized, all the tickets having been | {DOMINION LINE) The Best and Safest Family Medicine MINION LINE| FLEE, IERFSTER | A \u2014 trou senti man Royal mail.Steamships EASTER HOLIDAYS SRCIPROMAN.A 17, 2p.m.ARP Round Trip Tickets at tev em ot i thm rv + er B19 litical constituents old some days ago.FOR ALL \u201cThis: ptcamer does ro, pe passengers.2 oe > vecu something from him.On [learning of Lady Bedford's ef- Ho rain Cabin an upwards aie: BEAVER LINE.ONE- Ww AY Firs t CI ss F Me was not sent vo parliament in order forts the Right Rev.Bishop Utsher Bilious and Nervous Disorders 4! Second Cabin.$35.00 single: $66.60 return.Moyal Mail Steamers weekly sailing be- à dre Steerage to Liverpool, Derry, Lonaun, | tween ST.SON, N.B., and LIVERPOOL, - Queenstown, Belfast and Glasgow, $22.50 to From Liverpool, \u2019 Steamer.From St.John.823.50, accordi eamer.erage out- : 8) fits freriahed free.- = Ste ° Mar.34.08 88, 8 YOLA SUPERIOR.ech ii A rl il 16th.VANCOUVER, from Montreal, April 28th.| Mar 31.\u201cés S.LUSIFANIAUIITA April 18.DOMINION, May 12th.April 7.s.L AKE HURON.on b Ap il 25.that the nation or mankind generally wrote some beautiful and appropriate should be benefited, but to secure spe- lines, which are printed below, dedicat- cial advantages for those who elected IDE them to Lady Bedford and express- him.There were members of the 78 the hope that they might do some- Church and members high up in it who what to attract public attention towards - Sick Headache, Constipation, Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion, Disordered Liver and : : Midship saloons, electric light, spacious These A have First Cabin odati Good to return until April 17th, 1900, be.would barter away their franchise, and the concert and its objzæet.The move- |} Female Ailments.Pre ou heso steamers hare accommodation Good to return unt April 17h, 19 St nt is fortunare !n having the su ; \u2018 urther information apply roit, Mich.a ons t thereof who would then in their meetings con- Tent forty having the support \u2019 « ofl For furth tion epply to any RATES OF PASSAGE.Detroit, Mich.and Statlons Eas den and oérais he idiot pat.of the Rie Kev nit Unters oe [FT Worlds Medicine\u2018 \u2018ais omiafoface.| er amer 2e a ri isin, oor o con J id on.tician,\u2019 falsely assumirg that they were 20d PEN; and we heartily wish to his 000,000 Boxes\u2019 {| 17 5t fscramientst.General Agents, Second Ce Cabin, #510 8 £5 Liverpool or London.CITY TACKRT amd TELEGRAPH OFFIC better than he.nes \u2018For the men who hold Commis {3 Ansiual Sale Exceeds 6, \u2019 Montreal.ER is Loudon or Londo terry, 828 | Hrsg.JAMES 87, next Pot, Otfce, The convention at the afternoon ses- gions\u2019 that success which their inerit 1° / at all Druggistes.* .7 \u2014 pr - reli 4 Pre :.ME, and AVON OTH, sion elected the following officers:\u2014Pre- and their purpose alike deserva.\"'Bescham\u2019s Pills have the largest sale 2 Medicine in the world, and RAILWA a EE 5 } INORG sident, J.F.Hounson, Toronto; vice- FOR THE MEN WHO HOLD COMMIS- A ( - presidents, R.D.Warren, Georgetown; (By th RIONS.JAMAICA, 88 STRATHVENIS.April EASARY Thomas W.Gales, Montreal; W.R.© Right Rev.B.B.Ussher.) Without the publication of tostimoalais New Fine Stearaships, 2,000 tons each.-\u2014 improved Train Service Evans, Téronto; corresponding secre- |p ° ; BOSTON FRUIT CO.ELDER, DEMPSIER à BETWEEN tary, D.A.A tkinson, Toronto; reco rd- or size ree 8 Commissions, abd : Leave Boston every Wednesday at 10 a.m.\u20ac St.Sacrament st.CO, MONTREAL and OTT AWA ing secretary, Gideon Grant, Toronte; For the Officers of Britaln now endangering First-class Return Fare, \u201c$75.Leave Montreal 11.30 a.m.Arrive Ottas t1L2D am treasurer, Rév.C.J.Cameron, Vankleek their Lives, \u2019, Let stop.Hill; editor of supplement \u2018Canadian vire ee EE ae nk a moment when Baptist,\u201d \u2018he Rev.O.G.Langford, How about the gentle lady who is waiting \u2026 D.BATTERSBY, Agent, \u2026 a0spm vu heen 175 St.James St, Montreal.| (RENE MA H ; « 1350 Ron = 5130 ; | a « Oteye Iéldam 2 Montreul 9.50 am Sr } .9 *8.465 a.\u2018 \u201c11.15 a.m .Smith\u2019s Falls.for his pay?, Cement, Drain Pipes, &o.\u201ces ba = Sages Fr a WORK Th ° _\u2014 - The only arrest amt.ond regu: steamship *Daily.tDaily except Sunday.point \u201cAN EXHIBITION OF RK.e nation\u2019s heart is beating with a grati- n w pli ie pr rt ein | ER vas art ui À DRAIN PIPES, CAYADA nd MaNcHRSTER FAST EXPRESS quais ffs : ne on peopie\u2019s soldiers, the sol- B ; Pr a.sions of the McGill Model schools, which apie of the line, Bl vif 2 Ih J 9 ail to dempatoh Ihe steamers of this line Toronto and West.op were | held on poured ay tan.in he mould ri not hare ë shilling from | [| lo a ÿ PORTLAND CEMENTS, SUMMER town Lve.Montreal.Sim S00.m.10 $3 and T ng exhl of man t Oo | a \" Arr.Toronto.5.30 6, 7.15 held in the afternoon, consisting of in-.| | disoetied.Co on Sif Thomas 4-| gy} ei ir y 3 AT LOWEST MARKET FRIORS.|.s5 MANCHESTER OITY.Vivre May § Ar.DADUGL6.30 pm 805 am 4% om ever ; ; 8 ng : i I J = \"88.MANCHESTER COMMERCE.May 15 Arr.Niagara \u2018 dustrial work in the primary depart- 8.w.a FP .88 MANCHE STEE IMPORTER.1.May 2 A Falls 00 8.40 p.m.1019 am 1010 am, ino ; , + - ( oe Ke .ARADEN,.TT.3 - ai ment (Principal, Miss Sloan), carpen:ry But, there's blue blood im fhe od land *& P.CURRIE & Oo, * Fitted with cold storage.DER June 5 4.London.9.50 pom.1L00 am 1100 on Pai for the boys (principal, Mr.Honeyman), flowing \u2018neath a smiling face, 234 McGill Street.- \u201cThe steamers of this li , Arr.Detroit.6.45 am.1.10pm.1.10pm Lfeop and sewing and modelling for the.girls And he: amile, howaver lovely, cannot cover \u2014 FURNES £2 san Arm lesge.2.30p 0 L3pom.SAD tm for b \u2018 .\u2019 e © To \u2014 - B .(principal, Miss Petbles).The work of Ot tne gentlo spirit\u2019s suffering, or tbe heart From From City Ticket Offices, 137 85.James Strest the sewing classes was especially worthy that feels s0 sare Atlantic City N.J.Antwerp.Montreal, and Bonaventure Statton, of notice, including every process from At the presence of the wolf of want, now ye 83.DALTON HAL.0000002000.April NH.May 9 simple seaming | in thie first year + to cut- prowling néar the door.: HOTEL TRAYMORE.= 88 BOLIVI VIA Li a bay 10 © Tans 13 oS ing ing and making an entire gar- .regul r a ment at the end of the third year.Doubled In capacity, Over one hundred private HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE Much really good map-drawing was also Do you ask who are these sentry, that ; like - baths.Handsome new dining room enclosed in glass.From From | x ue a à Spartans bea; r és, | A 2 : D.8.WHITE, JR., Hamburg.Montreal.shoivn, amongst others, the situation in And cover up car thel grievings by the 1 power &6 VICTORIA SQUARE, Owner and Propristor.88.CHERUSKIA .April 19.May 10 900 AN AL Aste DCN, aTws vasa, South Africa bei learly and a _ of r wi : A | WESTPHALIA .AR: 26.May 19 trains will leave anu Arrive a u Tica being clearly a cour thet is?HOTEL SEN KE.88.TEUTONIA.eesese May 10.June 2 Bonaventure Depot, Montréal, as follows: ately depicted.The same attention to Tan EE \"a mood, © ples who bare Orders Now Being Received.rect] the Ocean prt aries atic Cit Through ec ans hii all Canadian \u20ac oon oa Satu de are or Ha ; .- .: ji c of u ce n > » 1 corrent \u2018events wäs a noticeable feature and who would not stoop to asking, though on R J.Rooms on suite with bath.*Sun Par.Pacific railway and Grand Trunk railway stations.5 fax, N.S., St.\u201cJona, NB.\u201cand other points of the compositions read.At 3.15 re- their very heert should bleed.Co \u201c| lors: elevator to-Jevel of street.Special Forrates of Frolghit and particulars, apply to any in the Maritime Provinces.freshments were served which had been 5 .A very .-| rates winter and TH COOK & sow.Railway: Ageuts, or to above, Maritisme dally, except points a prepared by the pupils of the cookery : = FURNESS.WITHY &.00.Mmitea, Agents, at 5.30 p.m.arrive y.except on Honda cls, the $3.fora by Miss Brad- Thor à are women gently nurtured; 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S 204 St.James Se .Tel.Main 610, Ados Guide; Hoywood & Oo.ode Sf \u2014 STOTT & \u2018JURY,- eit dy à .\u201ccon For officers, ig wives y\" keep, we're all : NEE Thomas Dixon & Sons,: on, Bettas.- PLAIN AND FANCY XD CONTI ONERY, coreeapandonce regarded, as c y conf - \u2018right glad to- give.SUITE, MARKEY Through Bilis of Lading \u2018sranted by any sue DIES FECTI \u2019 hades 5 | shore ines to dr from t'in-Oansds ar WHOLE WHEAT HEALTH BREAD, dential += ee dome for.soortal know what we, OF MONTREAL & MONTGOMERY, er States.Shy pols BAKED BEANS, BOSTON BROWN ERED, And when we've dole our very best,you've _\u2014 ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, &ec.Forturthierp apply to Henderson Bros.| a voi Ws Fou a 0 Antoine st wi po only got your dus.THE HARBOR COMMIS.+ TEMPLE BUILDING, ited) Xo iraiford, Out, Bchoteld Desvarnt avenue.orm * 185.ST.JAMES STREEF.; Lv + SIONERS OF MONTREAL 0 offer for sale the following : BOBT.© G Sr, 2 2% eon FRED.BA MAREYR | ox , Dipper Dredge, - d ies Io Sa ae 10.Wo reine à secret succor fund, and none .ha; be.dénied, Ne widow tn her feelings burt, when boid- , 4 è acts per prides \u201c Shaye Flat Cars, 3 fi gh Theis of Ergland, be thay on the land = ae ir wl ba.Steet Near of without a JE Im ct tered one ett\u2019 \u2018behind, are re - |EASTER ECCS! 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ADVERTISEMENTS, BBB8B8B YppYPYP 8 3 J J oC Ca @ PSPS APSR IPSPEAT XDRICID ii Janos ; Natural Laxative Water Has Îlerit : Reputation : Superiority -.FOR.Constipation and Hemorrhoids IT IS UNEXCELLED.Beware of Substitutes ! \"IIL î NPE D SILVERWARE REPLATED ke new.No need to use tarnished Just hen 1t only costs $1.78 por dozén for Teaspoons ; $2.50 per doxen for Dessert Spoons and Forks or $3.30 oper dozen for Table Spoons and Forks.Rogers\u2018 Plate.Other goods in proportion.Orders promptly exccnted.SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER & CO.17194 Notre Dame st.Montreal.TRY US AND PROVE US, From business and professional standpoints, we stand betore you ready and willing to be tested.We are second to none in our facilities for the dispensing ci pure and fine drugs, and from our complete stock of druggists\u2019 Sundries and Toilet Requisites we can meet your every want.Makes Sick People Well.Paine\u2019s Celery Compound \u2018Makes Sick Peonle Well.\u201d This statement is vouched for by thousands in Canada.No other medicine can so quickly arrest the ravages of disease.Try a bottle ; we have the genuine.A.DAVIDSON, Druggist, 4205 St.Catherine st.Westmount, P.Q.THE LADY OF THE PRIMROSES.AN EASTER STORY.(By Mabel \u2018Maldon, » \u2018Sunday Com- Lester TUE, U pepen _ Was Bien a.\\ : It.When Ronald entered the vicarage drawing-room there were quite a number of people drinking tea, for Mrs.Tudor had invited all her helpers in to refresh themselves before going home.\u2018Why, Ronald, I began to think you bad missed your train! I am glad to see you!\u2019 And then he found himself near a wll, fair girl, who poured him out some tea and asked if he took sugar and - milk.\u2018The train must have been late,\u2019 she observed.\u2018Mrs.Tudor expected you half an hour ago.That's one of the drawbacks to Forest Royal.Only the slow trains stop here, and they are never punctual.\u2019 \u2018Do you live here ?asked Ronald, not much interested, but feeling that something was expected of him : \u2018Yes ; my stepfather, Mr.Thorpe, was curate here for twenty years, and we have been here about nine.It\u2019s a areadfully dull place.\u2019 Ronald did not \u2018take to\u2019 Miss Leslie.He was glad when the \u2018tea-drinking throng dispersed, \u2018and he was left alone with his sister.Mr.Tudor had been called away on parish business.\u2018You have a lovely home, Clara.\u2019 \u2018Yes, I thought you would like it.\u2018Forest Royal is just the place to charm an artist.1 should prefer a largar sphere myself.The people here are dreadfully narrow and behind the times; they seem to care nothing about female emancipation and the \u2018higher education of girls.\u2019 i \u2018No doubt you will enlarge their views,\u201d He did not mean to be sarcastic.\u2018I hope so ; and we have an estimable curate, a young man fresh from Oxford with all the newest ideas.\u2019 \u2018I did not know there were fashions and novelties in religion,\u2019 said Ronald, almost curtly.He was thinking of the other curate: who, after twenty years spent at Forest Royal in the Master's service, had been given notice because ha vas \u2018too old.\u2019 \u201cYou are always.peculiar,\u2019 said Clara graciously.\u2018And bow go things with you, Ronald ?Any news ?\u2018The Academy have accepted my last picture ; but until I see that it is not \u201cskied\u201d I am afraid to rejoice.\u2019 \u2018And Uncle Armstrong ?This was the.one near relation they Possessed.He was their mother\u2019s eldest brother ; he had .emigrated to Austra- la at a very early age, and Returned (Fo Previous year with a large fortune.He was hardly sixty even now, \u2018but Clara had decided he wotld of course never marry, and that she.and\u201d Ronsld \u2018would be his heirs.In- accordgnee-sfith- this - er she invited the returñied Colenist to) Pay the part of father at ber: yéc and continually axhosied hier Brstpér to | to Mrs.Tudor, the -curate\u2019s first wife \u2018pay him a proper amount of attention,\u2019 advice quite thrown away upon Ronald, who was the last man in the world to make advances to rich relations.\u2018I believe he is well\u2019 said Mervin coldly.\u2018He asked me to dinner about a month ago, and I refused.He came to look at my picture before it went in, and kindly expressed his surprise any one could waste their time spoiling so many feet of good canvas.\u2019 \u2018Ronald, I am sure you rub him the wrong way.\u2019 \u2018I think it\u2019s very likely,\u201d confessed the artist ; \u2018but, Clara, please let this Faster - visit be a real holiday to me, and don\u2019t waste your prudent counsels on me, for it\u2019s no use.\u2018I don\u2019t believe it is.\u201d There were a good many nice families at Forest Royal, buf Ronald Mervin did not take such a fancy to any of them as be had done to the sorrowful, black- robed girl he had met in the churchyard.Clara was always ready to give information, so he found no difficulty in learning all there was to know about Nancy Thorpe.She was just twenty, and had been hopelessly spoilt till her stepmother came home, nine years ago.According died at her birth, and it was the desire that his motherless baby should have a home in the country that first brought Mr.Thorpe to Forest Royal.\u2018I never saw him,\u2019 said Clara frankly ; \u2018but Alfred says he was dreadfully behind the times.When the last vicar died the parishioners actually sent an appeal to the patron to give Mr.Thorpe the living.It is worth eight hundred a year, and had always been meant by Sir Henry for my husband, whe is his favorite nephew.- Alfred was very kind - to Mr.Thorpe, and he wilted x yodir before giving him-notice; eat itrshould look like.annoyance sbout the petition.\u201d .pired ?\u2018Yes; while we were on our honeymoon.His widow is a very pleasant, sensible woman, and her daughters are charming.As for Nancy, she is nothing in the world but a spoilt child, and is always making strife ; but I am really anxious to help Mrs.Thorpe, and so have found the girl a situation.oe Meredith has taken her on my recommendation, and she goes next week.\u2019 \u2018But Mrs.Meredith isn\u2019t a lady,\u201d oh- jected Ronald, who had lodged with the said Matron until Clara\u2019s marriage, when he had moved to rooms where he could have a studio.\u201cShe is a very respectable woman, and beggars don\u2019t be choosers.\u2019 Ronald felt very near a quarrel with his sister ; but he restrained himself by an effort.It was not Clara\u2019s fault that she could not sympathize with other people.No doubt she honestly believed she was doing a kindness both to the overworked lodging-house keeper and the poor little nnfledged orphan.: Ronald saw a good deal of \u2018Nancy Thorpe during that Fastertide.It was strange how often he managed to meet her in her walks.At last, when the next day was to see her departure for Mrs.Meredith\u2019s, he said to her simply : \u2018 London\u2019s a large place, Miss Thorpe, and it seems to me you have no friends i in it.I want you to look on me as one.\u2019 \u2018You are very kind,\u2019 said Nancy.\u2018No cne has ever been so kind to me before.\u2019 \u2018I'm only a low, said Ronald.\u201cbut somehow, Miss Nancy, I think you and I \u2018understand each otter.I.won't say ome ward against Mrs.Meredith, but I want vou to promise me this: If you are unhappy with her, if you feel you ean nev: er be contented in Sydney Terrace, let me know.This is my address.\u2019 And he pressed a card into her hand.\u2018If things go wrong, write a line to me.I know one or two ladies in London who would help you to find another situation.I once lived in Mrs.Meredith\u2019s house, and I don\u2019t think you will like being in ker employ.\u2019 À Nancy sighed.\u2018I used to think I'd give anything to get away from Mrs.Thorpe, but the last few days I have not felt so sure.I am so fond of this place, and London will Seem go strange and forlorn.\u2019 \u2018 There's just the same sunshine there to brighten our lives, and the same Giod to guide us to another.home.But, Miss Nancy, remember, in any trouble, great or small, you have only to let me mow, | and I will do my best to help you.The tears stood in her eyes.\u201cI shall never forget your kindness,\u2019 the whispered.\u2018Ever since, yon met me in the churchyard on Easter j you, \u2018havé tried to make things sl mi wish I could,\u2019 he said hoarsely.\u2018Lit- \u2014 \u2018And he died before the notice ex- I Blundering \u2018sort of fel} RENE Cb Thy name.| I able to remove all the thorns from your | path.\u2019 No suspicion of his meaning came to Nancy as she gave lim her hand.\u2018Good-bye,\u2019 she said, gently; \u2018this has been a happy Easter, after all.\u2019 (To be Continued.) CHILDREN'S CORNER.EVERYBODY'S BUSY-BEE, OR RUTH'S EASTER HAPPINESS.(M.E.Foster, in \u2018Presbyterian Banner.\u2019) (Continued.) Bess looked very splendid on Easter morning, in the new silk which she wore for the first time, and the modest figure beside her was very plain in comparison, but Ruth\u2019s eyes shone with a sweet expectant light, as she repeated the text to make sure she had not forgotten it.As they turned out of the gate, her aunt called : \u2018One of you must come back, after Sunday-school, I am going to church.\u201d > Ruth\u2019s heart sank.She looked towards Bess.She hoped her cousin would offer, and really thought it nothing but right that she should ; for the last time her aunt had made a similar did not believe Bess could care as much about going as she did.\u2018Mamma, I can\u2019t do a thing with Elsie, and she cries the whale time I am with her,\u2019 returned the young lady in the smart gown scowling in a way that was out of keeping with the costume.\u2018Well, then, Ruth must stay.You have seen the decorations anyway, and as for Miss Butler's dinner, of course she will excuse you when she finds that I can go so seldom.She turned away and closed the front door, and her niece went slowly down the street with a lump in her throat which stayed there all during Sunday- school.When the Eirls were seating themselves in Miss Butler's pew, she slipped out, to avoid attention, sore and disappointed.\u2018Ruth\u2019s got on Bessie\u2019s dress fixed over, whispered a girl to another, as the child went down the steps.Tears came in the soft eyes.Once she had worn frocks bought expressly for her.| This one was pretty and comfortable, but the figure was so conspicuous that it could be easily recognized as Bessie\u2019s last year\u2019s dress.\u2018What a glorious Easter surprise !\u2019 eried Bess that night.\u2018Aunt Bess is coming ; the one I'm named after.Oh, goody !\u2019 and she actually | forgot the fine frock.and the.dignity of her fourteen éunced the news.j ie was here five years ago,\u2019 inter rupted Joe, \u2018that was just before she went to Europe.\u2019 ¢ She came to our house when mamma waa sick,\u2019 said Ruth in a choking voice, \u2018but I was too little to remember her.\u2018Is she your aunt, too ?asked Lucy in surprise, for Ruth by no means shared all their privileges, and the little one was loth to share this lovely relative with her less favored cousin.\u20181 think,\u201d answered her father, noting the wistful face of his niece, a little nearer to Ruth than the rest of you.My sisters, Ruth and Besy, were near the same age, and devoted to each other.I was much older.\u2019 His face grew thoughtful as he remembered the little playmates\u2019 who always agreed, and never \u2018fussed\u2019 as some children do.The nieces and nephews could hardly wait till next day ; and most of all Ruth longed to see the auntie who had played with her mamma.things !\u2019 said Joe.\u2018I hope she\u2019ll love me, and let me [ love back !\u2019 thought Ruth.(To be Continued.) BIBLE THOUGHTS, MONDAY, APRIL 16.DESIRING GOD._ The word desire is represented in the Bible by many different Hebrew words.The most common is one which means, \u2018longing.\u2019 - 1.It ix longing after-God.(Isa.xxvi., 8.) All my desire is before Thee.(Ps.xxxviii., 9.) .that I desire beside thee.(Ps.Ixxiii., 25.) Delight thyself in the Lord and 1 He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.(Ps.xxxvii., 4.) 2.In Ps xxvii., 4, the desire is expressed in prayer, \u2018One thing have I asked, That I may dwell in the Lord\u2019s house, to behold His beauty and to inquire (or geek) in His, Temple.God is in Christ.As we ahide in Him we see more and more of the glory of the Father, and we have greater confidenca in asking the things we, desire.Some Greeks came to Philip desiring to see Jesus.May this be our growing desire.- 8.The desires of God\u2019s people find: ae- ceptance.The desire of every living thing is satisfied, much more will He fulfil the desire of them that fear Him.(Psa.elæv., 16, 17.) Whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received, and ye shall have.(Mark xi, 2%.) 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once cage an to try to undo the harm which he had-done in his chil- children,\u2019 a middle-aged man, a stranger, | dren's lives.He began to tell hi# boys, | now growing toward young manhood; of Christ and of \u201chis redemption.\u201cHe tried: - to impress upon them- the great mistake | he had made in living without.\u2018God.and in sin for so many years.\u2019 He also told of | was.in childhood.~The > many fé- | - the Who 1s By example, if not by teach: | ing, wre i their children away from\u2019 ae and Ly 16-918 be tog Tuts 10; | : .a LE A R - .EE = \u201c - EU \u2018them of \u2018the Saviout\u2019s love, and triéd in every way to to-bring them under the same power.which had so his own Jife.\u2018But it was too late.He could.nôt undo, \u2018the evil he had wrought in their lives in infancy and childhood.\"In hig helps | lessnéss .the.father\u2019s heart was.almost 17 broken.with the thought\u2019 of the ruin he - had\" wrought in the lives of his.ore re children: He.pitifully -warhied all fa: | thers that t the time £ save the childrex save them.\u2014Dr.Miller.- tt tastiest BOERS REPULSED.\u2014 Crushing Blow Inflicted by Brabant According to a Capetown Rumor.\u2014 WAR OFFICE SILENT, Has Made no Announcements for Twenty-four Hours.SENSATIONAL STORY FROM MOS COW\u2014CANADIANS RETURN TO DE AAR.\u2014 - London, April 16.\u2014The Capetown correspondent of the \u2018Daily Telegraph,\u2019 telegraphing Sunday, says: \u2018An unconfirmed report is in eircula- tion here that General Brabant has inflicted a crushing defeat upon the Boers at Wepener, capturing guns and taking prisoners.The War Office had nothing to communicate to the public yesterday.It may be taken for granted that the rumor of General Brabant\u2019s victory at Wepener id premature.With the remainder of his troops he left Aliwal North on Saturday for Rouxville, and there has scarcely been time for an em- gagement.There is practically no fresh pews.All the Bloemfontein despatches, however, breathe a confident tone.There seems to be a heavy demand on the railway for so large an army leaves the populace bare of everything save the absolute necessities of life.The despatches announce the approach of winter.The first pinch of frost has been felt at Bloemfontein, where considerable rain has fallen.BOER ' REINFORCEMENTS.London, April 16.\u2014The Bloemfontein correspondent of the \u2018Daily News) telegraphing Saturday, says: \u2018President Kruger attended a conference of the Boer commandants at Brandfort last Thursday.It is believed that a decision was reached to with- : draw.\u2018thie Transvaal forces to the north of Vet river, preparatory to a general retirement across the Vail river if hard pressed, leaving the Free Staters to their own resources.\u2019 The Bloemfontein ocorrespondent of the \u2018Times,\u2019 telegraphing Sunday, says: \u201cIt 1s reported that reinforcements for the Boers, with sixty waggons, have arrived at De Wett\u2019s Dorp on the way to Wepener.This should precipitate an action.\u2018The statement that President Kruger has been south seems to confirm the reports that the Boers.are getting disheartened.This continued exertion of his personal influence appears now to have become a necessity.\u2019 LORD ROSSLYN A PRISONER.A special despatch from Bloemfontein dated April 14, says: \u2018A patrol of Royal Irish, with whom was Lord Rosslyn, Las been captured.\u2018Lord Rosslyn has been sent to Kroomstad.\u201d \u2018Major-General Sir Frederick Carring- ton, accompanied by detachments of bushmen and Scotch scouts, sailed on Satorday from Capetown for Beira.Prince Adolphus of Teck has returned to Bloemfontein after a short visit to Capetown.-Mr.Frank Smith, the well known \u2018wife owner, fell \u2018into the hands of the Bopri: ile driving from Barkly West, : \u201cthe Frank Smith diamond Taie.\u2018The executive committee of the Amer:can Woman\u2019s Hospital Ship Fund: has\u2019 .received a cablegram from Lady Randolph.Churchill announcing that the \u2018Maine\u2019 arrived at Madeira on Sunday morning, and will reach Southampton on April 23.All on board are wel.TRANSVAAL\u2019S ASSETS.How Will the $500,000,000 the War Will Cost be Met.TWENTY-FOUR HOURS\u2019 SILENCE AS TO THE MILITARY SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.London, April 16, 1 e.m.\u2014War news at midnight was at the lowest ebb mark that has been for many weeks.The War Office: not given out a line, not even a casualty list, for twenty- four- hours, and there were so few press despatches that Sunday night war editions were suspended and Fleet Street was content with editing a large budget of mail correspondence from the field.The Wepener garrison bad, apparently, been relieved by the withdrawal of the\u2019 Boer commandos and there was no definite intelligence respecting British success in cutting off their retreat.A benignant Faster calm had settled upon the entire theatre.While there is a complete shrinkage of war news there is much quiet discussion among South Africans in Lon- dén respecting the future of the mining industries after the close of hostilities.Mr.Cecil Rhodes has been conferring with Mr.Alfred \u201cBeit and other large capitalists, but his views are not known.Mine owners are reticent from a good gause, for they know, from the speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the tone of the press, that there is a deliberate intention of bleeding the capitalist, so far as possible, in settling the bill of expenses for the war.There are only two interests in the Boer re- publies which can be levied upon when indemnities are assessed for the cost of tbe war and for damages to property in Natal and Cape Colony.These are the railways and mines.The railway in the Free State is owned by a government, which, as Lord Roberts has declared, nu longer exists.A portion of it, with rolling stock, has been seized by the British army, and as Lord Roberts advances to the Vaal River the remainder of it will fall into his possession.This state railway, with its potential\u201d earnings and resources, may be regarded as a valuable asset in the possession of the British Government.When the Transvaal is invadzd the railways belonging to the Netherlands Company will also be seized, and as these, in time of peace, were compelled to pay eighty percent of their profits to the Transvaal Government,\u201d South Africans assert that their eighty percent will go hereafter to the British Government.The main resource for meeting the war indemnity will be the mines.Well informed South Africans state that the annual expenditure of the Transvaal Government in recent years has been about $22,500,000, and that under British administration at least $7,500,000 can be saved.This margin will allow the payment of interest on an indemnity loan of $200,000,000.But the total cost of the war cannot be less than $500.- 000,000.Without these mines and railways there would be no possible re- scurce for meeting the indemnity.Some of the correspondents with Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein mention that the Boer ammunition is becoming exhausted.On Thursday a conference of the commandants appears to have been held at Brandfort, in the presence of President Kruger, and probably resulted, according to the London \u2018News\u2019s\u2019 correspondent, in the decision of the Transvaalers to withdraw north of Vet river, preperatory to a general retirement across the Vaal river if hard pressed.Winston Churchill telegraphs in a rather pessimistic strain to the \u2018Post,\u2019 with regard to the general situation.He maintains that there are not nearly enough horses at the front, or on the way, and foresees that many thousands of remounts will yet be wanted before the campaign can be brought to a successful conclusion.The Boers, in spite of telegrams to the contrary, appear to be still in the neighborhood of Wepener, but rather contradictory messages are published as to the position there.The \u2018Telegraph\u2019 mentions a Capetown report\u2019 to the effect that General Brabant has inflicted | a crushing defeat on the Boers, while news sent from Bloemfohtein by the \u2018Times\u2019 indicates that the besiegers are being reinforced.KRUGER AT KROONSTAD.CHANGE OF BASE SEEMS TO BE OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE.Bloemfontein, April 14.\u2014President Kruger, who was reported to be at Brand- fort on April 12, is now said to be at Kroonstad.\u2018On Tuesday last a patrol of mounted infantry under Captain Wignam surprised four Boer scouts seven miles north of Karee Siding in a farm®house near Koorn Spruit.The Boers were captured and\u2018 brought here.The next farm, about a mile away, was occupied.by about fifty Boer moynted' police, who.tried to catch the \u2018British patrol, which consisted of.about twenty men.The patrol succeeded in getting back.From the extreme left of the British position on the Houdedebeck mountain, which is strongly held by Lord Roberts\u2019s forces, a Boer laager is plainly visible porte seven miles tb the north-east.There are probably 1,500 Boers there.Richter, the Donker\u2019s Hoek farmer who was supposed to have had some part in the shooting of two Hyséère two days ago, has been arrested.Richter had a non-combatant\u2019s pass at the time of the shooting.A despatch to the \u2018Dail Mail\u2019 from Lorenzo Marquez says that the British consul there has caused the detention of two Maxim guns and a quantity of ammunition consigned to Pretoria.from Germany MR.DAVITT RETURNING.The despatoh adds that Mr.Michael Davitt, an ex-member f \u2018the British House of \u2018Commons, whô, it was stated, had gone to South \"Africa to.act as the correspondent of a newspaper, has booked passage for Europe on the German steamer \u2018Herzog,\u2019 which will sail from Lorenzo Marquez early in- May.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.WEPENER CASUALTIES.BRITISH LOSSES ARE COMPARATIVELY SLIGHT.Aliwal North, Saturday, April .14\u2014 Colonel Grenfell wires that the casualties at Wepener include Quartermaster Williams, Lieutenant Halford, and Lieutenant Duncan, and fifteen men wounded.Sir Godfrey Lagden, resident commissioner at Mazeru \u2018telegraphs that no shelling has been heard from the direction of Wepener to-day.A regiment of British infantry and a battery of artillery arrived on Friday.The \u2018 Northern Post\u2019 asserts that the Rouxville district furnishes 1,000 recruits to the Boer force as a result of the invasion last week.Five hundred Boers, under Commandant Swanepeelw, forced the Royal Irish Rifles to evacuate Rouxville.The former landdrost, who had been =acting for the British, offered to go to the front to prove himself a true Free Stater, and almost to a man the Free Stat- ers who had taken the oath rejoined the Boers.Nearly everyone produced a Mauser.Looting, however, was repressed.It is reported that there are 7,000 Boers at Wepener.Fourteen British sympathizers have been imprisoned.The Boers admit having shot Mr.Guiner, the hotel-keeper, for taking forage to the British.A paymaster with £1,400 ($7,000) was captured.0 BASUTOLAND BORDER, NATIVES PREPARED TO RESIST BOER ENCROACHMENT.Mazeru, Basutoland, Saturday, April | 14.\u2014Sir Godfrey Lagden, British resident commissioner, returned here on Friday from the scene of operations near Wepener.He and the paramount chief have stationed 3,000 armed natives to resist possible Boer encroachments.The orders of the resident commissioners are that the Basutos are not to be allowed to cross the Free State frontier on any pretext whatever.Two natives who | crossed and looted an abandoned Boer | farm are now in custody.Colonel Dalgety\u2019s position is strong and well chosen, but he is completely sur- | rounded.The Boers have their backs against Basutoland, and if they stay much longer they will be hemmed in.The British operations are keenly watched from \u20ac neighborhood.Shelling and snip} g have been, going on steadily during \u20ac last six days.Cy Colonel Dalgety\u2019 s guns are admirably | served, and there is no waste of ammunition.The Boers, when they see \u2018the flash of the cordite, bolt into their holes or behind walls.The ambulances are close to the border, but the killed and | wounded are not removed until nightfall, in order to conceal the number of casualties.their horses are tired and footsore.The Boers attacked fiercely the British northern position on Monday, April 9, but they were beaten back at daybreak.Nothing is known here of the casualties on either side.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ROBERTS PROTESTS.TREATMENT OF {PRISONERS AT PRETORIA AROUSES HIS INDIGNATION.\u2014 Bloemfontein, Saturday, April.14.\u2014 Lord Roberts, in his telegram of protest.to President Kruger, regarding the treatment to which the colonial officers and troops who are now prisoners at Pretoria have been that the Boers have treated them as criminals and confined them in jail.He points out that there are ninety cases of enteric fever and dysentery in the prisoners\u2019 camp at Waterval; that the Transvaal government failed to supply, on demand of the doctor, the necessary medicines ad, medical comforts;: thet the prisoners wers forced to bivouac | on the open veldt; that the sick ; were placed in an open shed; with ad iren * roof; and that it wab only when the new doctor\u2018 threatened to resign that pedi: cines and mattresses were suppli He 'nvites President Kruger to remedy this state of things, and contrasts it with the treatment which the British government gives to the Boer prisoners, sick and wounded, who, as Lord Roberts says, \u2018receive the same treatment as our\u2019 own soldiers.\u2019 Four farmers who had taken the oath to abstain \u2018rom further co-operation \u2018with the Queen\u2019s enemies, were found signalling to the Poers at Karee Siding and have been brought here.REACH DE AAR.CANADIANS UNDER COL.PARSONS COMPLETE THEIR TOUR OF THE DISAFFECTED REGIONS.London, April 5 \u2014Advices from.De \u2018 Aar, under date.of April 14, say the main.body of the Carnarvon field\u2019 force, in command of Col: Parsons, inélading.the Canadien artillery and mounted rifles, arrived here this morning after a The Boers are fatigued, and subjected, complains\u2019 five weeks\u2019 march from Victoria Road by way of Kenhardt, a distance of more than 500 miles.They encountered no active opposition.PRIVATE PADDON\u2019S WOUNDS.Windsor, Ont., April 15\u2014Private Arthur Paddon, in a letter received by his father here, says that his wounds have rendered him urfit for further service in- South Africa, The wound in his right elbow, he says, is not doing well, and that is the reason why he was sent from Capetown to Netley Hospital, at Southampton, England.WILL SAIL FOR HOME.Toronto, April 15 (\u2018Evening Telegram\u2019s\u2019 special London cable).\u2014The following Canadians will leave the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich next Thursday, and will sail for Canada forthwith :\u2014 7467, Pte.J.S.Cairns, of the 2nd Field Battery, C.A., of Quebec, a member of D Company, Ottawa and Kingston ; 7563, Pte.L.C.Walker, of the 16th Field Battery, C.A., of Guelph, a member of D Company, Ottawa and Kingston ; 7965, Pte.John McLeod, of the 71st York Battalion, Fredericton, N.B., a member of G Company ; 5714, Pte.F.Cox, of the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, a member of E Company, of Montreal ; 8096, Pte.J.W.Barnett, of the 93rd Cumberland Battalion, a member of H Company, Nova Scotia.DEATH OF PTE.HARRISON.Ottawa, April 15.\u2014The Militia Department yesterday received a cablegram fiom Colonel Otter dated at Bloemfontein, announcing the death from enteric fever of Private R.Harrison, 2nd Regiment Canadian Artillery.Private Harrison (No.7802) was a member of F Company, Quebec.The department notified Colonel Cote that he may inform Harrison\u2019s friends.NEWS FROM NATAL.REPORT CURRENT IN KIMBERLEY THAT THE BOERS HAVE RECEIVED A SETBACK.London, April 15.\u2014Natives report at Kimberley that Colonel Douglas engaged the Boers near Zwarts Kop on Wednesday and succeeded in driving them back.The British casualties were slight.Elands- \u2018laagte last evening reported that there had been no trace of the Boers in that neighborhood for the past two days.Their progress southward has.been effectively barred by the British occupation of \u2018Jononos Kop on the left and Umbulwani on the right.\u2018The belief that the Boers\u2019 actien on Tuesday was due to restlessness and dissatisfaction in the ranks is .obnfirmed by natives, who say that the Boers have Leen ready for some time \u2018and waited the British to attack then, | The IN order\u2018 to force this the Boers eom- | menced shelling, at the same time sending \"a force to make a flanking movement on the left.The natives also confirm the statement that one of the Boers\u2019 heavy guns was put out of action and the greens gunners driven off.BOER REPORTS.CAPTURE OF FOUR.BRITISH SCOUTS REPORTED FROM LEEMOKOP.- Leemokop, Southeast of Bloemfontein, Monday, April 9.\u2014The Boer commando which is still in the southern district, and which it was feared had been cut off, has rendered a good account of itself with the Basutoland police, who had invaded the Orange Free State.Four Brizish scouts, who were captured to-day, say that Bloemfontein is hard-pressed for water.They add that all the private wells were guarded, and civilians were not permitted to use them until the troops were supplied.News received here from Johannesburg Drift, says a British force of about 1,000 men, mainly composed of Brabant\u2019s Horse, with General Brabant commanding, is still at Robertson\u2019s Mill, with a remote chance of relief or effective resistance.General Botha has returned from the fighting lines at Glencoe and reports that the British have removed their camp in the direction of Elandslaagte.As the British camp has been situated at that place for\u2019 some \u2018time, the significance of General Botha\u2019s statement is not quite clear.'CZAR\u2019S ULTIMATUM.THE MOSCOW STORY STILL LACKS CONFIRMATION.St.Petersburg, April 14.\u2014Extraordin- arily persistent rumors are current \u2018in | \u2018Moscow that on Russian Easter Sunday (April 15, same date,as ours) the Czar will issue a manifesto containing an \u2018ultimatum to Great Britain demanding that she conclide peace with the Boers forthwith under threat of occupying Cabul and Herat if Great Britain fails to comply.is report is connected by some persons, with the fact that no reserves arc at present.allowed to take\u2019 unlimited leave, though the orders to the reserves.probably are connected with the projected summer manoeuvres in the cen-\u2019 tral provinces in which two hundred thousand troops will participate and at which the Emperor William is expecred to be present.- The Czar and Czarina started last evaning for Moscow.London, April 16.~There Was no confirmation of the sensationd] Moscow story respecting the Czar\u2019s ultimatum to Great Britain, and his threat to invade Persia, concerning which the Russian ambassador in London has been strictly reticent.SCHIEL TRIES TO ESCAPE.ATTEMPT DISCOVERED THROUGH THE MISCARRIAGE OF A LETTER.St.Helena, April 15\u2014Colonel Schiel and two other Boer prisoners were landed to-day and sent to the citadel, in consequence of an attempt to escape.It appears that Colonel Schiel bribed a boatman to take a letter to the Dutch cruiser, but the boatman, by mistake, tcok it to the British.crdiser \u2018Niobe.\u2019 A large knife was found in the possession of one of the three.Colonel Schiel walked to the citadel, declining a carriage that was placed at his disposal.General Cronje and his wife, and three members of the staff of the former Boer commandant, who, with other Boer prisoners, arrived here on the \u2018Niobe\u2019 and \u2018Milwaukee,\u2019 on April 10, were landed yesterday, accompanied by Col.Reefe.They were met by the governor and commander-in-chief of St.Helena, His Excellency Robert Sterndale, and Mrs.Sterndale, at the Castle, where the party remained for an hour, afterwards proceeding to the Kent buildings.General Cronje looks well and appears cheerful.E Capetown, April 14.\u2014The transport \u2018Lake Erie,\u201d vith upwards of five hundred prisoners, including French, German and Russian members of the Foreign Legation, captured at Boshoff, sailed for St.Helena to-day.\u2014 WELCOMED HOME.\u2014 THOUSANDS GREET LADYSMITH\u2019S GALLANT DEFENDER AT SOUTHAMPTON.\u2014 London, April 15\u2014The scene which greeted General Sir George White when the steamer \u2018Dunvegan Castle,\u201d on which he left Capetown on March 8, reached Southampton on Saturday afternoon, must have convinced him of the admiration of his countrymen for his gallant defence of Ladysmith during the long and trying siege of that place.From early.morning crowds coilected by thou- panda\u2019 im the neighbor: hood of the docks.buildings in: the vicinity were gaily decorated; and 41\" the public institu tions were covered with Jags.The bar- bor \u2018presented a brillians scene, cond the \u2018\u201cDunvegan Castle\u2019s\u2019 berth at the wharf was resplendent with bunting and ever- re There Lady White, the Mayor and the members of the corporation, in their state robes, uniformed soldiers and \u2018sailors, and a number of guests awaited the gallant defender of Ladysmith.As the steamer loomed up in the distance with General White standing on the bridge, the enthusiasm of the waiting | multitudé broke loose, and a storm of cheering and singing, and the sounding of sirens and whistles intermingled uninterruptedly until Sir George landed at 2.30 p.m.The greeting between husband and wife being over, General White had to undergo much handshaking and the receiving of congratulations from personal friends before he reached the dock shed, where the municipal authorities presented him with.an elaborately illuminated address of welcome, expressing profound admiration at his \u2018noble and successful efforts to uphold and maintain the honor and dignity of the empire in distant Natal, which have won the lasting admiration of the civilized world.\u2019 During the reading of the address the huge crowds in \u2018the vicinity seized every occasion to hurrah, and the enthusiasm was indescribable.Hats, handkerchiefs and flags were waved frantically, and cheer followed cheer in endless succes sion.* General White was ; viaibly moved at, the warmth of his reception.knowledging.the inddfess; Li with \u2018admiration 6 his ant every one of whom, be said, erab Hunter to the brave trumpêter had behaved magnificently.\u201d General White and, Lady White: afterwards proceeded to Netley.where the General will recuperate.Hundreds of\u201d congratulatory telegrams awaited Sir | George on his arrival at Southampton, including one ftom the Queen, making an\u2019 | Messrs.R.Audette, and H.inquiry as to his héalth.NO PLACE ; ¥.$OR VISITORS.SIR ALFRED MILNER TAKES &X- CEPTION TO THE INFLUX FROM BRITAIN.London, April 15.\u2014Mr.Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Col \u2018oniee, has received this despatch from | Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner in South Africa: \u2018The number of visitors.to South Africa\u201d is constantly inéreasing and includes many\u2014especially ladies\u2014who seep \u2018tO have | no particular call of duty os.businéés.if it were realized at home that visitors, who, in ordinary times would be most In .Be- = \u201cfrom \u2018Gen.; I am sure this would nt be the cane | 41 212 Moxpay, APRIL 16.1900.\u2014_\u2014.welcome, may under existing conditions become a serious source of inconv en: ence, interfering with the work of +: the military and civil officers, and puting à strain on our limited means of BCeoy.modation, which are urgently aud for those who have duty to perier 1 bere or who are invalided from CL front.) \u2018A considerable increase in the ex pense of living\u2014at all times very hir\u2014 is caused by this excessisve influ, visitors and this is a hardship to sons of the latter class After saying that there is no plu less suitable for recreation than + Africa at present, Sir Alfred Milger cludes as follows: \u2018Lord Roberts, to whom I have \u201cih mitted this message, authorizes me 10 add that he fully concurs in it\u2019 { oy pe T- © Clty co BRITISH ARMY AGENTS IN To.RONTO.Toronto, April 6.\u2014Major Dent, of the British army remount service, acco, panied by Mr.Phillips, veterinary In