Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 2 août 1898, mardi 2 août 1898

[" Montreal Weekly Witness.\u2014\u2014r PIFTY-THERD YEAR PRINCE BISMARCK DEAD.The Great Statesman Passed Away Unexpectedly on Saturday Night.SKETCH OF HIS EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTING CAREER Berlin, July 30 \u2014Prince Bismarck died shortly befors eleven o'clock this evening.Details of his death are difficult to obtain, owing to the strenuous en- deavore of the attendants of the family to prevent publicity-beirg given to what they consider private details, The \u2018Hamburger Nachrichten' gives the following details of the last days and death of Bismarck.It mys: \u2018On Thurs day an improvement set in in the Prince's condition, in which repeated changes for the worse had occurred since October last, COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, Heed of the Family.and he was able to appear at the table and take part in the conversation, drinking champagne, and afterwards smoking several pipes, which he hed not done lately.\u2018His condition was so mtisfactory that .fichweminger, after the Prince bed Ee to bed, left with the intention of returning on Saturday.His condition was comparatively satisfactory out Friday and Saturday morning.He read tho papers and conversed on politics, particularly referring to Russian affairs.In the forenoon he took luncheon, grumbling jocularly at the small proportion of spirits in his drinking water, Then a sudden change for the worse occurred in consequence of an acute attack of pulmonary oedema, and in the course of the afternoon be fre- qrently became unconscious., besides periods of unususl mental clearnems, the Prince had had in- tervaie of drowsineas, falling into long, sound and beneficial sleep, on awakening from which he would become completely refreshed.\u2018On Saturday evening grave symptoms appeared.Death came easily and pain- lussly.Dr.Schweninger was able to some extent to lighten the last momenta \u201cThe last words Prince Bismarck ut tered were addressed to his daughter, the Countess Von Rantzau, who wiped away the iration from his forehead were : \u201cThanks, my child.\u201d \u2018The whole family were assembled at the bedside at the time of his death.Dr, Echweninger and Baron end Baroness Merek were also present.As no Lreathing movement or pulse was perceptible for three minutes, Dr.Schwen- inger declared quietly and simply that the Prince was dead, Dr.Schweninger telegraphed the news to the Emperor William.\u2019 The Prince lics an he used to sleep, in an easy positivn, with his head slightly COUNTESS HERBERT BISMARCK.inclined to the teft.The expression ou his face is mild an pencefui.In accordance with Prince Blamarck's wish, he will be buried upon the hill of posite the castle in the vicinity of Hirsch sruppe.Prince Bismarck was born April L 1818, Beginning with 18%, the 70th anniversary of his birth, the German people have recognised the let of April as à day for celebration.On that occasion Emperor the old William called où Dis- marck, attended by the Crown Prince and the Princes of the Imperial family, and followed by the Generals of the army.Four thousand veterans and 10,- 000 students went In lon to his house and, at night, 10,000 torch bearers marched down the Linden.The vigor of Prince Bismarck until quite recently was remgrkable, his mental and physl- cal structure being peculiarly proof against wear and strain.The rare aggressiveness of bis nature MONTREAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1808.1 31.00 Peotrpoid 3 iA a Copy.\u2014\u2014\u2014 appropristely named.Retiring from the court-thin was in 18$\u2014he recetved appointment from the Government to the administrative office of referendary, and fo 187 was assigned to work In the Crown office at Potsdam.After a few months he volunteered a3 one of the Sharpehooters of the Guard qud serve! for one year, then secured the local magistracy for Greifawoid, thst ha might give attention to the Pomeranian estates, which had become encumbered through his father's mismanagement.In 188 his fa her died and his estates fell to Otto and his brother.The latter got two of those In Pomerania, Otto getting the third, Knlephof, and the an- central seat Bihoenhausen, which now became his home.It would appear that In making this change he left behind him all fnclination for the graceiess home life he had been leading, and was seized with a yearning for a more worthy ! exiatence, At the home of one of his neighbors he made the acquaintance of vohanna von Puttkammer, who was also visiting there, with whom he PROMPTLY FELL IN LOVER.The young lady's parents were 4 pious persons, and she, herself, - \u2014 monarchy, the member of the Land- tag for whom Bismarck was a deputy was 11, and Blamarck went to Berlin to the Parllament in Ms stead.Tall\u2014 oix feet, two Inches\u2014stalwart and erect.with blonde halr and beard and the keenest of blue eyes, he was one of the striking figures of the Parliament.His attitude toward several of the mensures debated in \u2018hat body attracted the attention of Frederick Willlam IV.and caused him to summon Bismarck for a conference concerning the charter the Crown was about to grant tu the people.Blamarck was opposed to the liberal reforms proposed by the, King ; he would have had the reformers quieted by the army rather than by concessions to their demands.Only when uppssled to as & \u2018sworn vassal of the Crown\u2019 did he yield his opposition snd pledge his support to the King, even In what he foresaw was n hopeless undertaking.om that oc- canion onward Bismarck essentiai- jy an attache of the Prussian throne and its open champlon.It was to defend the interests of the Crown that he had himself elected to the first Prussian Parliament, convcked for the revi.BISMARCK, FROM A RECENT PICTURE was as conspicuous in Otto von Bismarck, the boy student, as in Chancellor Bismarck, the statesman.Twenty- elght duels was his record In 18 months of attendance on the University at Gottingen, and he drew blood from every one of his opponents, receiving himself only a single scar.His antagonist in one of the duels was Dr.Windthorst, the celebrated leader of the Clericals in the Reichstag for years past.All accounts agree that he was, while yet in his teens, something of a PRODIGY 1X PHYSICAL STRENGTH, endurance and accomplishments.He was a great jumper, a swift runner and à strong swimmer.He could row and fence, was a crack shot with both rifle and pistol, and extremely daring on horseback.Hut he was not reputed a studious fellow nor remarkably bright.The seer has never been found who foresaw In the boy Bismarck the future Prime Minister compared with whom only Richeileu and Chatham may be gious, When she returned home it was to confess to them her love for His.marck, who had written them for their daughter's hand.The old man confessed that he \u2018felt as If he had been struck on the head with an axe\u2019 when he read this request from \u2018evil von Niamarck.\u2019 His notorious recent lite forbade their; consent to such a sacrifice of thelr daughter.But when Rismarck presented himself before them, and threw all his intense nature Into ths effort to convince them of hin reformation, their objections were soon overcome.They lived to nee their son-in-law renowned and their daughter both happy and honored.BUSMARCR'S PRACTICAL ENTRY into political life was at the age of 3%, and | practically that entry was by accident, He had been elected vicarious knights deputy to (he Tandtag, or Provinelal Iet of Prunssian Saxony.When Fred- ertek William IV.decreed & quani-par- lament of the elght united diets of the FREDERICKSRUHE, BISMARCK'S COUNTRY SEAT.sion and sanction of the liberal consti- | tution.In this assembly he antagon- | ized every measure of the friends of | progress, including the pi sed _am- ! neaty for political offences.{ia course brought down on him the execration \u2018of the people.lle was hissed at and otherwise reviled when he appeared in publie, and was even stoned hy a mob when seeking rlection to the second Prussian Parliament.In the debates of this second Parliament Pismarck ane nounced the politicnl creed that ever after dominated his policy, Briefly stated, it was a strong Prussian army and a firm Prussian throne, opposing every encroachment of legisiature or of the ballot box, Hea did not believe the Prussian penple capable of deciding the questions vital for Frussia's prenerva- tion and advancement, When Freder lek William IV.declined on April 4, 186, the IMPERIAL GERMAN CROWN offered him by the Frankfort Parliament, Bismarck, fn his capacity spokesman of the extreme right in the Prussian chamber, defended his declination, becauns of the constitutional re atrictions on the (\u2018rown that acco.panied the offer of it.In January.11, King William I, as- rended the throne of Prussia.and in September, 1862, he recalled Rismarck trom his envoyship at &t.Petersburg to take the post nf Premier and Foreign Minister of Prossia.is advent to power agitated the Liberals, who appre henided the inflexible government about to be inaugirated.and which was out.\u2018ned tn hin early utterance © \u201c11 fa nnt be apeechifying ant majarities that tha great question nf the tims wil have th Le decided that wae the mistake mele in 1868 and 1M9-\u2014but by bined and fron.\u2019 He was in 1869 for a strong Prussian army and a firm Prussian throne, opposing every encronchiment of leglsla- ture or of the ballot hox.BISMARCK HAD QUOTED, expression of his uwn convie BISMARCK IN THE REICHSTAG.tions, in 1849, the remark of Frederick the Great that the sky did not repose more firmly on the shoulders of Atiau than the Prussian State on its generals.Even before the death of Frederick VIL, King of Denmark.In November, 182, he was convinced that a conflict of arms with Austria was Inevitably near at band.Hut with the death of the Danish king he made the Schleawig- Molsteln contraversy hla convenient approach to the breach with Austria, which occurred in June, 1866.How well he had planned for it, the events of one week demonstrated.Within that brief space of time not only the army of Austria, but those of her allies, Saxony, Hanover and Hesse-Cassel, hal heen met and beaten by the Prussian army under Von Moltke: the kings of Hanover and Eaxony were fugitives from their domains, the elector of Hense-Cassel.n State prisoner, the capitals of all three in possession of Prus- alan troops and the Hapsburgs dethroned from their leadership in Germany.And the brain that had de vised and directed the plans, now successfully executed, for the ascendency of Prussia in the confederation of German States was that of Otto Von Bis marck.With Bismarck's public career since the battle of Sadowa, In 1865, most renders are familier.The results of that ennflict with Austria made him one of the foremost figures of Europe and of the age, securing the observance of the civilized worid toward his subsequent achievements.Of his magnificent ai- plomacy between 1306 and 1570, with one hand harmonizing and uniting all Germany, and with the other parrying tha efforts of Napoleon 3il.to obtain an equivalent for Prussian aggrandizement, the meanwhile tying the hands of Russia, Austria end Italy against Interference In the struggle, France finally precipitated, only to incur humiliation by Bismarck\u2014of his magnificent diplomacy of that perfod even his hostile erties must speak In eulogy.Of his active participation in the Françco-Prus- creation of the Triple Alllance, his con- vocatton of the Congress of Berlin, and his ohtalning of enormous domains for Germany In Africa and Oceania.He wan Chancellor of the Emplre throughout the reign of his old Sovereign, Wil- heim, during the brief reign of his son, Frederick 11, and for a time under bis grandson, the present Emperor.But dixsensions arose between the Crown and the Prime Minister, and on March 18 18, the wonderful old man laid down the trust that so Jong had been his RECONCILIATION, Four years after his virtual dismissal from the chancellorship, Prince Bis.WZ.2 (F= 5 \u201c f= zr?THE LATE PRINCESS BISMARCK.marck returned to the German capital by special request of the Emperor, and a ublic reconciliation took place.The Emperor met Prince E'srarek at the fout of the gralid staircase.As soon as he descended from the carringe His Majesty Sung his arms around hun and kissed 2 ee z il BISMARCK AND HIS FAMOUS HOUNDS.slt stricte, and the enormous indemnity ha wreatet from France thers is ro nocd of detnll here, File pro .- ment of the Imperial German Crown for the Prussian king, and the latter's testawiment of the princely title and estate on Bismarck In acknowleëg nent of hin exuited achievements.are historical.So, also, is Blamarck's him warmly on both cheeks.He then offered him lis arm to\u2019 ascend the stain cana, conversing in an animated mancer with him ail the time.The Empress and the three eldest princes were awaiting him in the drawing-room of the pal- \" (Contivued on Page 17] \u201cTHE FALSE CHEVALIER.\u2019 BY W.D.LONTHALL Published .AD rights ( by permission CHAPTER XIIIL.\u2014A JAR IN 6T.EL- PHEGE.At noon, on a day late in October, 1776, the Merchant of St.Flphege set nt the pine dinner-table in his kitchen, opposite his wife, resting his wooden soup spoon on ite butt on the table.The windows, both front and rear, were wide open, for one « those rere frag rast golden daye of late sutumn still permitted it.He was listening, with some of the etolid Indian manner, to lim +ife reading Germain'e letter.\u2019 He; rouchsaled oniy one remark, and that a weeks, mon Herantile «06: \u2018Seven Dien ! the quickest mail 1 ever got from | From time to time, whiie | France !\" listened, his eyes glanced owt with contentment upon the possessions with | which he was surrounded\u2014upon the rich- | coisred stubble of his clearings stretching | far as eve couid see down the Às-: sumption, with ther flocks.herds, and | Lrush fences: upon the hamiet to which iva enterprire had givea birth, and where | he could eee, in one cottage.hea \u2018nubo- tis\u2019 hend over their henches adding t» their piles of wenden shows; in others, women at the spinning wheel or loom.making the cloths of which he had im- pr ved the pattern, or vvaving the fine and beautiful arrow saahws, thoes \u2018ceintures flechees\u2019 of which tho art 15 now lat, vet still known as snowshoers\u2019 rerte- ta by the name of \u201c L'Asesmption +1+hes;\u2019 is makers of carved alm-bottom chaire and beef moccasins: and, within\u2019 hes court-rant, the large and well si.cked granaries, furatiis and stores for merchandise contained in his five creat buildings.Hue wife was dressed in cloeh much more after the fashion of the world than the prunella wait, the skirt shot in colors and the kerchte! on the head, which formed the Noeman costume of the women seen through the cottage doors.ler elk stockings and buckled alippens marked à desire to be the gentlewoman.Her dark eves struck :ne as clever.Her firet huebend lad been the buticr of the Manju a de Reau- harnois.when that nobleman was Governor of Canada, and sbe had never ceased to lak hack upon the recollections cf high life stored away in those days in her experience.\u201c There \u2018* ahe exclaimed, as she flourished the letter at the end of Germain's account of the reception\u2014' Presented to the Court ! Laecour, when you said 1 was my bor's nrn, when you grumbled at his shandoming the apnthecury\u2019s shop to go to the seminary and learn fine manners, did 1 not tell you my son was baked of Sevres and not of clay * At the Court of France! and premented to Ms Me Christian Majesty * Among Princes, Counts, Thichcnses and Cardin.slet What do vou say to thet, Le- cour ¥ Her husband's eves twinkled : * That fæ the moment you are (General Mon:- «aim.victorious: though | remind vou that Cieneral Monteaim afterwards had Im Quebec.\u2019 * Quebec ar no, my son is at the Court of France) \u201c1 do not dispute that.\" He began amiduously making avey with his smoking pea-woup.\u2018Let us proceed with the letter, said she, for ahe had indeed shown her gen- eraiship in stopping where she did.\u2018Ah.\u2019 she went on, pretending to scan the next woede for the fin tame, \u2018Germain needs three tiamsand livres.\" \u201cWhat!\u201d \u201cOmiy three thousand.\u2018But he kept three thmisand out of the beaverskins ; the last draft was for nine hundred ; vehither\u2019s this leading ?Have we not to live and earry on the husiness?and you grow more fanciful every day, sa if we were seigneurs and not pre sante\u201d \u2018Certainly wc are not pessante-citi- zens, if you please ; anybody will tell ou that a roerbant is not a peasant.There are citizens who arw noble, Lecour.Why should we not make ourselves seig- peurs?Who is it but the merchante who are buying up the ssigniories and living in the manor-houses to-day ?That is my plan\u2019 \u2018Three or four jackssses.Let them be jackasses.1 remain Francois Xavier Lecour, the peasant.\u2019 \u2018Well, Francois Xavier Lecour, the peasant, my son, the noble, must have these livres.\u2019 Her black eyes flashed.have the poor boy di d in the act of doing you credit ?Look at me, unnatural father, and reflect that your child to experience from you his earliest \u201cWill yon Lecour quailed.His powers of apo- ken argument were not great.He said nothing, but rose, threw off his coat suddenly, and sat down again.Yes,\" she exclaimed, angry tears rolling down her cheeke \"Your wife will sell ber wardrobe and her dowry- little enongh It was\u2014for my son shall not want whila he hes a mother, and that mother owns a stitch.\u201d Tt was when it came to meeting claptrap sentiment that the traders inferior grain showed, and he faltered.\u2018I will go aa far as @ thoueand.sll it fs worth.Ny that weed ha esposed the small aide of an otherwise worthy nature.She 0! to the attack.: ! am 1 linked to a okinflint \u2018A skindlint, forsooth, at a thousand Tivres 1° \u201cYea, she cried In à fresh flood of tears, \u2018A wretch, à miser.You are unworthy, tir, to be linked to « family from whom Te te Had Germain takes bis gentlemanly qualities, he nothing but Jo would be a grovelling hopper today instead of n favorite of kings.Levour laid down his wooden spoon in bis pea-soup-bowl.He phleguatically took his clasp knife from its pouch.hung round his neck by a string, struck pie blade into the piece of cold pork upon tie table and cut off a large cor rer, in defliant adlence.But his heart was heavy.It was no pleasure to wrangle with so able a wife, He had no wish to quarrel.Ouly, he knew the velue of a livre.Germain was really becoming a shocking expense.Île felt that his wife would in the end perwuade him against his better judgment.In truth, be liked to hear vf his sou\u2019s sac vers, but it went against his prudence, There was to him something out of joint in the son of a man of hin condition attempting to figure among the long- lined contemptuous elegants who had commanded him in the army during his youth.The gulf, he felt, was not pam table with security nor credit, Just as he was hacking off the piece of pork, a highapirited black pony dashed into the courtyard, sttached to a calosh driven hy a very stout, merry-eyed priest, who pulled up at the doorstep.Lecour and Madame st once rose and hurried out to welcome him.At the same time an Indian dwarf in Lecour's service moved up silently and took the reing out of the curé\u2019s hands.The latter came joyously in and sat down.\u2018Oho,\u2019 he cried, survering the prepars- tions on the table.\u2018My good Madame Lecour, I was right when [ said an hour ogo | knew where to stop at nuon in my parish of Répentiguy.\u2019 \u2018Father, I have somicthing extm for you this time,\u201d she replied, lsughing, and cromiug to her cupboard, exhibited triumphantly a fine cold roast duck, \u2018You shall have absolution without corfension,\u2019 he cried.\u2018Let me prepare for that with seme of the magnificent pra-voup à la Lecour.Oh, day of dayal\u201d She went to the crane at Lhe fireplace, uncovered the hanging pot, and ladled out a deep bowl of steaming soup, At the saine time she told him excitedly of Germain\u2019s presentation st court.\u201cWhat ! what ! these are fine proceed: ings.The Lecours are always going up, up, up.Our Germain\u2019s distinction is a glory for the whole parish, Lecour here ought to be proud of it.\u201d Flattery from his curé weighed more with Lecour père than busheis of argument.The wife maw ber accidental advantage and took it.\u2018He docs not like to pay for it,\u2019 she remarked demurely.\"What ! what ! my rich friend Lecour.\u2018The owner of seventeen good farms, of three great warehouses, of four hundred cattle, of untold merchandise, and a credit of 200,000 livres in London, the best payer of tithes in the country, the father of the most brilliant son in the province, the husband of the finest wife, & woman fit to adorn the castle of the governor,\u201d cried the ecclesiastic, finigh- ing his soup and attacking the duck, Tecour thawed fast.But he reserved a donbt for the considerstion of his confession.\u2018Is it honest to pass for a noble when one is not one ¥ \u2018I do not see that he has done so.Tt is not his fault, in the manner that he has explain Let the young man en- ioy bimaelf tle and see a little of life We are only young once, and you laies must not he too severely impeceable, otherwise what would become of us granters of almolution.Furthermore, we must not be too old-fashioned.Our people here are getting out of the strict.nem of the old social distinctions.It may be eo, ton, in France, On my advice, dear Lecour, accept every honor to your femily your son may bring, and pay for it in the staticn fitted to your great means, that T may he proud of all the Lecour family when F go to Quebec and boast about my parish at the dinner.table of the bishop.Come) exclaimed he, at length, pusling wside his plate with the ruine of the duck,\u2019 bring out that game of draughts, and let us ses if the honors of Germain have not put new #kill into the play of a proud father.\u2019 Madame brought out the checkerboard.She brought besides for the curé a little alam of imported \u2018eau de vie.\u2019 and her husband, taking out his bladder tobacco pouch, commenced to fill lis pipe, and that of his Reverence, and to smoke Limeelf into a condition of bliss.CHAPTER XIV.~THE OLD-IRON SHOP.An enormous yellow and black coach lumbered and strained along by the ail of six lean horses and many elsborate springs, chains and streps, from ilrt- tany towards Parts, The autumn roads were execratle, for the rina had been lieavy, and the ruts made by the harvest: waggons were deep.The lateness of the evexon intensitied the deserted look of rural France.litte else wwe to be seen along most of the route then rows of polled trees lining the highway, and here and there an old cestle on a hill, or à commune of a few whitewashed cuttages, where the coach would pull up at the ina and perhape change horses.The driver and guard remained the same; but various postillions took charge snd then gave up their charges to others.Travellers of assorted ranks sad occupa: tions got in and out.Of the twelve for whom there were places in the coach some renivned during Jong distances.mme shorter, but only one wae fmithful from Beitizry to the end.He waa a ahort-statured, country bourgeois, whoso wollen wtockinge and faded hat gave to him @ certain look of non-umportance.Moreover, he wae adways wrapped un- aociably in s brown cloak, of which ha ket a fold nver his lwwer face, and in which he kept a fold over his lower face, and in which be mord in his corner, even when all the others jumped up to eécape an upet.After severa! daye the aspect of the ecantry suddenly 1msnense in him, he woods and parks rendered it even more solitary, vet, Strange Lo say, tbe incress- od solitude was evidence that the hugest capital in Kurops wee nesr, [or these were the hunting domaines of the prinow of the blood and great courtiers, which encircled Paris During the night tere was another sudden change.The forest silitudes dimappesred, the horses sped forward on fine broad roads: and aon the cosch dusbed with a triumphant blest int» the hte and etir of Versailles, cromed ita d'Armes and turned again into darkness along the Avenue of Paria At length, in the tiret grey of morning, it rumbled loudly over a stretch of cobbled pave, r~d pulled up at an iron swi- ing inside the city wall.Here the officers of the municipal customs came out.Ome of the first vieked was the bourgeois, and bis dingy black box and sleepy expression received exceptionally contemptuous usage.\u2018 Haste, beast, coum it! Dost thou think 1 have to wait all day ?Take that,\u2019 and the gendarme struck hiv a tap on the side with the flat of his word.For a econd the bourgeois seemed He drew up with such an inbuma®Pgleany in his cadavetous eyes that the custorns man drew back.\u201cQuick, then, a little,\u201d sid the latter, in womething cf an spologetic tone.The nan as rapidly recovered his sell- posscasion.Hie Jeared in a conciliatory way upon the official and pressed a livre into Lis palm.The official pamod the box through the gate.The couch pro- ceedid into the city until it arrived at its heart and stopped at the entrance of that zreat and wide bridge, the Pont Neuf, the mam artery of Paris, where most of the passengers alighted.They found theomelves engulfed in à yelling multitude of porters, win scrambled for Doasengers and bagrage as if they would tear both to pieces, which indeed they had uo aversion to doing.The lcurgcois singled out & tall man who had mingled in the erimmage as if ouly for bis amusement.Cuffing tbe oth.ors aside like puppies with hin long arms, the latter lifted the black box out of the tusde and started away, foMowed by its owner.They plunged into thet maze of tall, narrow, mediseval streets of older Paris which Mervon loved to picture before they disappeared in the improve: ments of Napoleon.They crossed the latin Quarter and thence Wending eastward, entered finally the Quarter of St.Marcel, the wretchedest of the city, and came into a lane numed the Street if the Hanged Man; where dilapidated rook- aries loaned acrom at each other, their upper floors occupied by swarms of hu- mar beings.The bourgecis here stopped alongside his porter and spoke to him in the tone of an intimate.\u2018Is it far now, Hache ¥ It 1e already some distance from the old place.\u2019 \u2018Here we are ; come in quiok,\u2019 Hache.He wes a bold-looking, ck- haired man, red-faced, undhaven, and battered with the effects of brandy- drinking.They turned into a grimy old-iron shop.À woman sitting in s corner fixed her eyes upon them like a watchdog.They stumbled through, climbed a dark stair, and entered & room where the traveller, without epeaking to 1 man who Jay there on a bench, locked the door, and Hache dropped the box on the table with a thud, shaking off « cup and battle which were om it.The men on the bench started at the noise, and got up on his cibow, his eyes opening with an effort.\u201cGreat God, tbe Admiral!\u2019 be exclaimed, \u2018The bourgeois bad thrown off his hat, wig.aud cloak.He wae the visitor to the cavern at Fontainebleau, \u201cIt is I, Gougeon,' he returned, his denth\u2019s-head face smiling.Gougeon wore the gerb of an old-iron grlierer.Hie countenance was unkempt, pale, scowling, with black eyes embedded in it, his hair course aud Jong, his mouth lard and drooping.Ae pushed back the grey toque with which his head had been covered, and without readdressing the Admiral, got up, slowly unwound the cords which bound the black box, and raised the lid.Hache looked on.Gougeon first took out « couple of coarse articles of clothing, and uttered a grunt.His next greep up a brilliant article of apparel.He raised it to examine at the window.The garment shone even in the meagre light.It was a waisicont of flowers, silk sown, with seed-peerls, The Admiral stood by emiling.With the other hand Gougeon pulled out and lifted a megnificent rowe-colored drem-cost with silver buttons, Having gazed at them all round and grunted to his own satisfaction and to that of Jlache, he dived again into the box.where he fumbled sround a large fump covered with linen, and at length drew cut a shining article-a golden \u2018soleil,\u2019 or mm-sha: stand foe display ing the Ton ot the mass Peside ft wae & finely einbossed chalice of silver.His eyes and those of llache were lost in wonder.There came just then s tap ut the door.The articles were whipped back into their box end covered.The woman of the shop below walked in.All recovered od(-poascesion.She bolted the door her old.Gougeon's mate, who thus appesred among them, was a mnall vomun of abcut forty, with the sharp grey eyes of a wild animel.The cost and vessels were displayed to ber by her husband.Adrreral,* she mid, \u2018where do thess come from *' , * The chief ssemed to recognize in her a personage equal to himself.Ile bowed and sid\u2014 \u2018Madore, the soleil and chalice were J THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WFINESS, the Abbey of Poatcalec\u2019s, and were politely removed for wafe-keeping by seven marines of the Galles -on-land\" \u2018And this fine waistcoat ?\u2019 said Madame, smiling.: one of which the owner bad no need,\u2019 be mid, looking at her.indeed,\u2019 abe, returned nonchalantly, \u2018It was a troublesome marquis who ventured home one night by a short cut.He was cae of the fellows who dos not believe in the necessity of a poor man living.He saw a fire of curs in the waste, and what does he do but ride up and over us.Luckily there is no Liood on the waistcoat.\u2019 Madume's smile expanded, She look- od the article over, picked the seed.pearls aud lace with ber little skinny bands, turned out the pockets, and inspected the Hower-putters of the silk.Gougeon held the glittering soleil fast in his handa He could not keep his scowling eyes off it.Hache took up the bottle from the floor, and poured some wine into the chalice, whence be drank it off.Madame lifted the dress-coat, and inspected it with the same feminine closeness an the vest.\u2018It ms good package,\u2019 remarked she.\u2018You have not seen all,\u2019 vivacionaly replied the Admirel, and diving his hand into tho box he drew forth and opened the black handkerchief of the cave of Fontainebleau.Gougeon's hand wnatched the watch of the Prince de Poix.Hache caught up the chalice, and executed a jig round the room while drinking it empty; and Madame arranged her neck to great seif-satisfaction with Cyrenta necklace, while the Admiral told with no small exaggeration the story connected with the plunder, \u201cThis brings us\u2019 he continued, \u2018to the object of my comiug.la Tour, the three taken in the cave, are now in Paris impritoned in the Little Chatelet.What can Le done for them ?* \u2018Nothing,\u2019 suswered Gougeon.\u2018Pa still,\u2019 enjoined bis wife, flashing her eyes at him.\u201cWere it I, 1 would go to the galleys end get away just ss I dd before,\u2019 ax- clsimed Hache, \u2018Hache, you have no head.\u2019 \u2018Not a> good as yours, wife Gougeon, I admit; but I escaped from the galleys.\u2019 \u2018To force the guards is impossible,\u2019 said she epeculating.\u2018Who are the witnesses ?\u2019 \u201cI fear they are out of the question.\u2019 \u201cWho are they ?\u201d \u2018The Prince de Poix.\u201cHe will not appear in tbe matter.It is not like your provincial tribunals\u201d \u2018Several gendarmes\u2019 \u2018Ther have their price.\u2019 \u2018Granted, but another remains, a bed one.\u201d \u2018Whe Ye \u201cTha aristocrat who fell into the cave, Ha is near us\u2019 \u2018His name?\u2018Rapontigny.\u2019 \u20181 will do what I can.We shall wee whet the Galley is good for in Paris\u2019 (To be continued.) * SOCIETY'S BOTTOMLESS PIT.(Rev.F.Docker, in \u2018Alliance News\u2019) CHAPTER XVII.\u2014AN ELIM IN THE DESERT.Leaving the events relating to Inglewood, we return for a moment to Mim Ethel Vaugtan, She had found a haven of rest in the refined Christian home of the Wood- balls.Her varied accomplishments, and her pleasing manner, made her a charming friend and companion to the two young ladies, to whom she scted as grermess.Indeed, quite a misterly af.tion grew up between herself and her two young charges.True, to a large extent her great sorrow hed Llighted her lie ; hut it bad Bot soured her, or made ber salfish in her tof.Bhe had not heard or seen any: thing of Inglewood mince she had received his message in which he craved ber induigence.She strove to obliterate wholly from her mind the sweet parenthesis during which she had delight=d n the rapture of her love.It had faded a8 a delusive, t| deli , dream.The refined home of the Woodbally, with its varied occupations, emabled her to forget her own grief ot a Mrge extent in her service for otbqra.Btill it was evident how greatly her sorrow had told upon her.It seemed as if premature age vas treeping over her, and frosting her hair, while her beautiful complexion retained Re youthful bloom and besuty; it seemed like light mowflakes sifted on the blomows of an early epring.The Weodballs were not privy to her great sorrow, for she never spoke of it to any, but they had an idea 1hat she had be the subject of some great and crushi trouble.The Woodhalls belonged to à noted family of Quaker philanthropists.It was seldom thet the cupscious house of the WoodhaHa was free of some of the leaden and advocates of the different phüenthropic causes in which they had a deep interest.Thirtwell, (be dreamy little Devonshire country town in which their house was situated, was of & charming character.\u201d The steep, quaint, and tortuous etreets roue In terraces of beauty until the summit of the hill, in the lap of which the town nes- tied, commended a magnificent view of Jandecape and ocean.The narrow lanes, winding between high banks, were fea.tooned with rave [erm and creepers.The oft sunlight sifted through the folisgy of the overarching tress, and imparted à still more dreamy stiliness aed charm Bec, Caron, and : Free away ne the eye ok eth, when the summit of the geived, the evor-deepening blue of the wrinkled ocean ndled in mystic majesty.It seomed as if the eweet bumid atmosphere of the nelehborbood had imparted something of its own soft- Dems ad chaem 10 the Woodhalls.The undemonstrative, bit not the less quiet- ly-fervent, religion of the Friends appeared to agres with the influence of the vurroundings.He that as it may, it is somewhat singular that the more demonstrative forms of religi us belief and pree- tice have never taken decp root in Dev- \u20ac ire.Whether geographic tendencies have anything to do with this, we leave prople wiser than ourmelves 10 determine.Nevertheless, Mr.Woodhall waa none the lewe energetic in all that related to plilenthropic effort to bennfit his fellow-creatures less favorebly placed than himsell.He waa specially dev.ed to the propagation of temperance Peinciplen und lavishly bestowed his gifte, purse and person, their furtherance.He wae pend à noble specimen of inherited temdencies.Generations of abstinence and saimtli- ness cntered into the formation of hia character.He wus an example of the privilege of goodness; snd a splendid specimen of humility he really was.Coming under the iofluence' of such a man, was, to Miss Vaughan, a mental and morsl tonic.She often felt that the home of the Woodbmlls was what \u201cne might imagine a home in the millennium to be.The deeps of her own nature were quietly stirred by his noble conflict with the world's wrongs.As time went on, Mres Vaughan, by her varied gifts, proved a powerful ally in the Tenper- ance work of the nel .Fhe accompanied Mr.amd Mrs.Woodhall, and their friends, on meny missions in different places in the «unty.It had been Mr.Woodball's custom for yeurs to invite different leading advocates of the temperance cause to his house, and making that a contre of operations, they Aucusr 3, 188.st at the open window, busy with some piece of needlework, aud watching the frolicaome glee of the young ladies in the garden.There are nioments when some scene, with which we bare bees connected, photographe itesif wpon the memory to the wminuter detail of ite beauty, because of some event associated - tberewsth.Such a souson wes the morm- ing, of which we now speak, destined to be in contértion with Miss Vaughen's future life.la future years it seomed ss if every detail of the scene, the seas of humid air thet swirled around her, the boneywuckie that trailed around the windows, the flowers that stretched slong the vista of trees and garden walks, the music of nature's many-voiced anthenyall came back to her with vivid distinctness os ascociating themselves with that moe ment of her life.Mise Vaughan was sitting with her face averted from the window, listening intently to the eon- vernation of Mr.Woodhall and his friend.Ever and anon the conversetion waa punctuated with an outburet of laughter, as some happy reminiscence was re enunted, for Mr.Woodball and the Rev.Sylvister Stansbury hed grown up æ boys together, bad attended the seme achoci, and participated in many « bog- ish acrape.Gradually the convermition drifted into the difficulties of temperanes work, and the varied selfish intercets had to encounter, \u2018Did you bear\u2019 asked Mr.Woodhall, \u2018of the slander cise that was trivd 5 latte while ae, petween Sir Jumes \u2018augben, the head of great bremmg firm, and Ingiewcod ?Pthel Vaughan's heart almost stood still at the mention À the names.It wae well that ber face was averted from the speakers, or doubtless ita pallor snd her trembling fiagers, in which her needlework whook, would bave betrayed something of ber secret.\u2018I did see s:me reference to it.replied Mr.Stansbury, \u2018but I never heard the perticuisrs of Lie case, except that Inglewood was mulcted in heavy dar.went into the neighboring towns snd ages villages, and thus conducted an efficient temperance campaign.One of the advocates whom Mr.Woudhall had invited to bis house was the Rev.Rylvister Stansbury.Mr.Scansbury dad returned from South Africa, ae a missionary on furiough.His epecæl mission, in connection with the temperance case, was to plead for the suppression of the drink traffic in connection with the native races of Africa, He powerfully and eloquently advoested the cause of the children of Africa, for he bad seen the awful withermg, moral, spiritual, and physiol blight the drink imported from this city bad been to the native races.He bad seen their numbers decimated and their souls ruined.He had heard their chiefs plead with eloquent tongue and tears in their eyes, that Englishmen weald conse to send out hellish fine water.But # bed been thrust upou them, just se, years ago, tdis country thrust the opium on Chine.Engtend, the mother of nations, tbus became *he prisoner of infant peoples.Her Maxims have done something to clear away these races ; but her drink deluge has done infinigely more.The Rer.Gylvis- ter £ Ty wan oa man of charming personality and his wife, who sccom- panied him during his stay with the Veodhalla, was « woman of like charming manners.Fixtensive travel, and a profound knowledge of men, allied with powerful gifts of speech, gave him a Crest command over an audience.He had addressed many audiences In the neigh- borbood of Thiriwell, and, eo greatly had his popularity increased, that the larg- eat halls would scarcely hold the crowda that came to listen to him.His varied experiences amongst the native races were at times thrillmg, and held his audiences apeitbound.But the one great burden of his depunciatory eloquence was the damning effect of the drink upon the people amongst whom he Jud labored.Passionately be cried on one oc- sion, \u2018You send us out as missionaries to sweep snd garnish these abodes of heathenish wordhip.We clear awsy their fetith worship, and their medicine men.We do a little to free them of their ugly and brutalising eupersti- tions.When we have done that in comes the Englishman with his lLervels of whiskey, rum, and brandy, and teach- ea the poor African to drink.The belp- less child of Nature thus takes to himself arven devils, worse than the first.\u2019 \u2018 Now,\u201d continued he, \u2018all his farmer revolting customs are outdone, Before he was a fsllen being, now he hes become a demon.All the brutalising horrors of his heathen state were not to be compared with whet he now becomes.His former bloody tribal feuds did not decimate his people, us the drink decimates him, and he fal a prey to the Englishman's sordid greed of gold, and Wie firewater.You send out bibles: but, in the same ship send out strong drink.must laugh at the wretched mockery of all!\u2019 : In private life Mr.Stansbury wes as M! attractive ae he wos in public.Ile was a charming talker, and, being full of a fund of anecdotes of a most diverting charucter, he was an excellent cempan- jon.It had been many years since ha had been in England before, sad consequently there was much for him to learn of the progress of the different tlanthropic efforts that lay near to his rt.He had come direct % Mr.Wo-déall's house from the ship that rad brought him to England.Mr.Wood.hall gave him, from time 6 time, an account of the progress of the work, and of the varied ntruggies of the tenmperance cause with the drink interest.One morning they were gathercd together in the wunny «rawing-room which ove looked a scene of charming beauty, It waa esrly summer lime, and Nature mill wore her bridal robs.Mim Vaughan \u2018Yeu, said Mr.Woodhall, edly, \u20181 could never quite make out the ins and outm of the case.There was some strange mystery connected with it, somes thing more, 1 feel pe than appeared upon the eurfaçe.never knew Ingle wood pereonally, but | have heard (rem those who knew him well, that be was a most assiduous ancl eelf-merificing work. himnelf, then alou !, \u2018Let me pee, tla is Auguat.supp ome we try von for the next three months, The work will not be very haru nor the wagon very larme.If we are both mrited Mm the end of that time, | can employ vou for the winter, at a considerable in- creane, How will that do?LL will suit me il right, I think, r.\u2018Very well, then.we will call it a ban gain.1 will write ont a list of your duties for vou now.anl to morrow morn.: EVENGE - ; able, {sun comes i ape FIRST PRIZE STORY\u2014BY E, J.FULTON.ing come to me herp at elght o'clock, and I will give you the keys and show you over the hulding.Jump down, Edie, denr, while papa writes,\u201d added, lifting hin little Jaughter to the floor as he turned again to the desk.Edie begun atonce to make friends with her father's vitor, and, by the time Mr, Forbes had completed hig writing and folded the paper, the child was sit- tiog contentallv on the young man's kner, making \u2018pasty cakes\u2019 with her little dimpled hands on kis Jorge rough ones.\u201cWhy.my little girl has taken quite a frncy to vou\u201c Me.Forbes said, aa be handed the foilel payer to William Brown, \u2018She doesn't often make up w quickly with straugers Have you any little brothers and sinters?\u2018No, sir, I never had any.\u2018 the young man repliel, Lhe améle with which he was watching Edie leaving his face in- sontly.\u2018Are your parents living?\u201d continued Forbes gently.\u2018Ne, my mother died when I wes no older thar your little girl, and my futher a gon] many years ago.\u2019 \u2018Ah! then you have your own way to mike in the world: 1 am glad to be able to teltiend you,\u201d mid Mr, Forbes, bis face full of kindiy interest.It wes one of his hohbice ta help friendion Young mes, and he had, romchew, from the first of the interview, felt that this W {one needed help.\u201cHave you a board ng place looked outff Tie askel, and a= the yonng mam ahook his head in reply.he continued, \u2018Ah! then | can help yon.Mrs.Grey, aves here, keeps a good oomforialide hoarding, house, at resosable rates.1 have Do d.ulx von wouid tind it altogether suit- It is near bere, jusi round the Go down this corner oË the nest mureet.{street lake the first street to the might, then three houses from the corner on the tight side of the sreet \u2018Here, he added, \u2018we can see tire house from \u201chis window.\u201d \u201cThat is all, and remember that Edie anil | shal! always Le your friends Won't we, Fdie?he said, toming the little one ints hie arms.\u2018This is cur private den.We have # away up here on the third floor because the afternoon here so beamtifuily, and we love the on't we, Kdie?The li*tle girl answered by clisping her amme wore oiowely abhout her father's neck, and hiding hor rosy face against the collar of his coat.'Goud-by for the present, my bor,\u2019 he sud, following the soung man to the door of the office and giving him à cordial hand-clasp, \u20181 think we will suit + each other.\u201d \u2018Thank on,\u2019 mid the young man.Thea he went down the atairs and out into the srveet, 8 enricus feeling as of good and evil warring in ins soul.How he remembered the lact time He had stood on that ground.[Tow welt he remembered that November eveting when he had followed the amtalanee that carried his almost dying father out frm the old house, The ame street, and yet the young man fonnd it difRealt to believe that the stately building le had just left really stood in the same place where hia childhood's home had teen; so many were the changes since that November evening so nearly five years ago.Île, tan, was changed.aod, an he knocked at tie door of Mra.tirey's Tinrding-house he had no fears that she would rexogmize him as the pinched faces, ragged boy, who took his father's wrongs a0 passionately to heart, How well he remember], ne she show ol him up the same stairs and into the mmo room, the litter, bitter hours he had spent there.Tho bed stand in the same place; the sme bureau with its large mirror stom by the window, The s~me vacant coraer where, prone on bia face, he had nurned hu litter hatred mminst hin fellow.man and his fierce de- t« rmination to grow to menhond that he might avenge hin father\u2019s wrongs, How \u2018strange that he should be sent there.He shuddered as that old scene came hack.Wis father's face with the aml of death already upon it, his hoarse trembling voice, the shaking finger, the wrip wpm his arm, his father's words, \u2018Five yeers from today you will burn the building that sand< on that ground.\u2019 the threst- ened enrve, hie own pmmése\u2014yes, he remembered it all.Tha! promier he ment to \\eap.Fle looked again from the windorr as he had done almost five years ago, and mw, not the old honee from which men were stripping hoards and timbers, but the stately building with its western windows, wher?mt Edis and her father, bathed in the setting sun.Otd Mr.Forbes was dead.Not on him would [all the vengeance, but on this gonial, kindly man, whose hand-clasp the toy etill felt, and who had promised to be his friend, Arthur Stephens covered his face with his hands and groaned aloud.The promise was guing to be harder to keep than he had planned, but not for & moment did he think of giving up.He had not thought of this, and planned for this, for nearly five years, to give it gp now when the time was so nearly over.No, be could mot live under his father's curoe, The pale moon that August night outlined a dark figure stealing softly through the new cemtery.It stopped at the peuper\u2019s comer and marking where stood a stunted thom tree by the aide of the fence, wvnt forward to a sunkea grave, covered with tangled weeds and grass, and there, until all the town was wrapped in slumber, sat Mr.Forbes's new jeritor, his face buried in ids bands, and neither moved nor spoke, \u2018Papa, tan't Edie do hep Arty mate 8 fire in a furnace ¥ pleaded Edie Forbes, pulling at her father's sleeve.\u201cYeo, T wuppose so.Here, Williams,\u2019 he mid to the janitor, who was leurirg the room, \u2018take this little tyrant of mine with you if she woi't be too much both- ar \u2018She wan't be a hit of bother,\u201d said the young mas, heartily, as he raised the child in his arms, \u201c1 wonder why she calls you Arty?\u2019 coatinued Mr.Fortes, smiling at the dimpled face, playing \u2018peck-s-boo\u2019 at him over her friend's shoulder.\u2018My name is Wilkam Arthor,\u2019 replied the young meu, and fulie couldn't my William, so | taught her to say Arty.They used to call me that when I was little.\u201d \u2018Oh, I sce.I thought the little rogne had mad» it up herwell !* and Mr.Forbes turred again to bis desk.\u201cTo hep Arty mate a fire in a furnace\u2019 was one of the things that Edie delighted in ding.and when the fires were made, to 11d home to mamma on Arty's shoulder, almost made up for having to leave prrm before he went home to ten.The evenings were growing cool and 0ix o'chwek wan too late to keep the child ak the office, for she must \u201cdo with papa\u2019 every afternoon.The bearskin rug in the corner of the office was the best place in the world for an afternoon nap, sa her papa mid, and so wie took her daily ride to the office, and her daily ride home when the sun went down behind \u2018Ariy's house\u201d The three months for which Wiliam Brown had been employed were up, and Merrill Forbes, aithough there vas something abont the young janitor that he could not understand, something that seemed to repel all his efforts to gain the boy's confidence, yet decided to employ him for the winter.His habits were steady, and his work had given entire entisfaction, yet every time bin eyes rest.ed on the man's face Mr.Forbes felt + CHEN HOME TO MAMA ON ARTY'S SHOULDER.\u2018The boy does not trust me yet,\u2019 he said to bis wife, \u2018but I'm sure he needs belp, If 1 only knew how to gain his confidence.\u2019 Nut Edie had evidently found the way to the young man\u2019s heart, and the father hoped that love for his little daughter would yet break down the cold reserve with which the young janitor met all friendly advances Lut bers.Had he known that the strugsle in the young man's soul was really a struggle to smother the affection that was growing Up in his starved heart for the genial, friendly maa who trusted him go thor- ovghly, and had shown him such disio- terestod kindnces, lest this affection should overmaster bis determination to keep his promise to bis dying father, he might have mid the word or done the act winch would have enabled young Ste- Phene to do what he was more than once on the point of doing: tall the whole dark story to his employer before that {ated twenty-third of November should ntrive.As it was the young man fought the battle alone.Sometimes, with Edie\u2019s arma about his neck and her silken curls brushing his cheek, he would listen to the better voice until his mind was all but made up.And then by the side of the neglected grave in the new cemetery, he would call back the old bitter feelings to his heart, and repriach himslf for ever one moment thinking be could forgive.(To be continued.) British Bloodsuckers.(By Grant Allen, in \u2018The Strand Magazine.\u2019) (Continued) The young mosquito remains in the larval form for about a fortnight or three weeks, during the course of which he mouhs thrice.As soon as he in fuil- grown, he becomes a pupa or chrysahe\u2014 Tien Liy, so to apsak, while be ia changing into the winged condition.No.6 isa faithfu! p rtrat of the mosquito in this age of transition, (I borrow the laut phrase frm the jonmalists of my country.) 8- THE PUPA OR CHRYSALIS, BREATHING THROUGH TWO HORNLIKE TUBES Within the pupa-cese which is emal'er than the larva, the inaect is bent double; in this apparently uncomfortable position # begins to develop the wings, the le and the blood-micking apparatus of t i Nevertheless, ill- adapted as such a shape might, seen for locomotion-\u2014with one's head tucked wn- der, and one\u2019s eyes looking downward\u2014 the mosttito in the puna continues to move about freely, instend of taking li%e meanwhile in the spirit of 8 mummy in the mummy ease.By way of change, however, he now ents nothing\u2014having, tn fact, no mouth to est with.But the imet weaderful thing of all is the al- terathm in his method of breathing.The pups no longer breathes with its fail, Avousr 2, 1898.but with the front the two Httle shaped tubes developed for the You sos them in the illustration (No.6), ie taken at the moment when the and locomotive pups hes just come to the surface to breathe, and is floating, beck up, and head doubled under downward, in a most constrained position.The attitude reminds ome of nothing eo much as thet of a bull, with bis heads between hia legs, rushing for se through the pupa-cass the grest dark oyes and the rudiments of the legs ae they forms below it.(To be continued.) 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Just a word about \u2018Reprinted Stories® They sre simply the best stories selected from the \u2018Messenger\u2019 of Sule years ago.They sre printed in large clear type and are well worth repeating.A very large rdition of these stories was published and they were much prized by those who them.\u2018The original price for Stories was fifty cents each.It la à large magazine of most Interesting atoriea for Tova and old, well illustrated and bound too.Those who secured Reprinted Stories when they were first published will be glad to bave this ojportunity of eevuring soother copy if not for thelr own home to give to some friend.Here are somu of the titles of Reprinted Stories picked at random:\u2014A Herse that Counts: A i Read and Heed T Sle Wray's Accld Polson Iv.History of Two Birds N William Witberfe t over A\" Bator Coo A ailor\" Telegram; Helen Diiéulty ; Home-made Telephanea: Yo did it got) Sir John Lub.lock and His Ants; Sea Wonders ; Tom's Told Duet; Tal Carrier Pigeon; Pra 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have been sent the largest sum in unclaimed balances possessed by any i that of the Montreal City and Dis trict Savings Bank, the total of the unclaimed balances in which amcunts to à sm of no less than $80,351.08, The fn.dividual sums unclaimed are worthy of atiention, possessing as they do such remarkable contrasts.One can readily understand that a depositor would not care to go to the trouble of drawing from a bank an unclaimed balance of one cent, and there are many balances of this amount on the lut.Amounts of ten and fifteen cents it is also within the limite of possibility to leave uetouched, ss perhaps tiine would be too valuable to the owner to go to the bank and fetch the same.It is when the balances oar away into the hundreds, and even into the thousands, that one is constrained to wonder why people have not made an effort to claim them.At the Moot real City end District Bavings Bank, for inatance, there is credited to the name of \u2018Bower dit Laderoute, Christine (Mrs.F.Lapierre), of this city, a sum of no lras than $5.340.03, and in the same bank in the name of Mary Duon (Mrs.F.Bcholes), of Cote des Neiges, there is Jeft unclaimed the sum of $4,207.10.It ie not probable that G.C.Longstreet & Co, A.L.Sinclair and others, will claim the one cent standing to the neme of each in the Merchants Bank of Canada, but Mr.D.Watson, of Louis ville, Kentucky, will perhape some day, if alive, or his heirs, should he be dead, inquire as to the $4800 he left in the Dank of Montreal away back in 1863.In the same bank, too, John Grant, of Bilver City, New Mexico, has aix balances to his credit of $250 each and one of 2240.3.The Pank of Montreal has also two balances of exactly $1.02, nine balances of $1,000 and over, one of $2,000, and three of over $2,000, all waiting for their owners to come and claim them.Tn the Hank of British North America 84.804 is waiting for one Colin Stewurt to claim, besides whith there is another urclaimed bhelance of over $3,000, three Aer.Tore f exactly 82,000, two gx of upwards of 41.000.The Montreal City and District Sav.itgs Bank, besides tbe particularly large «um already mentioned, have on hand one balance of upwarda of 82.000, six of upwards of $1,000, and another of within seventeen dollars of the thousand mark, while the Merchants Bank of Can- sda can show an unclaimed balance of Just $2,000, and nix of upwards of $1,000.All these banks mentioned and many of the others possess & number of balances amounting from a hundred up to clos upon 8 thousand dollars, all of which are also waiting to be claimed hy their prover owners or the latter's representatives.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 BOURRONS HAVE HAD THEIR DAY After stating that the European situation shows nothing new, the \u2018Moniteur du Commerce\u2019 \u2014'To wiken up the sleeping Spaniards, a good American lez of some twenty big rhipa armed with big guns, mhou!d go and bombard some of the Spanish parts.There might on perhapa emething new.That Bourbon family, the last ecions of wbich present occupy the throne in Madrid, hes bern fatal to Spain as well as to France.Under the government of the Bourbona, successors of louie XIV, France lost nearly all her colonies, and it has been the same with Spain for the last three-quarters of a century under the \u2018Blancs d'Fapagne.\u2019 Those people forget nothing, learn nothing.and do not want to leum anything, e disastrous part which they Lave played has come to an end, and the sooner ther dimppoar the better it will be, unless, however, the regenerating hero of thet branch, promised by some few hysterical pro- phetoases some two hundred years ago, should eson appear\u201d ADVERTISEMENTS.Lasté Len \u2014 Lathery free a pure, Soap, \u2014 low in price, \u2014highest in quality,\u2014the most economical for every use.A CENSUS OF THE EARTH.There is being developed an international scheme to take a ceneus of the inhabitants of the whole world, as nearly as can be sccomph , in the year 1900, and tn have y the publication of the saine à ycer jeter.It is proposed to send explorers snd cenaus lakare for the purpose to every attainable point ce the globe.It is stated that Chinese officials, whows country will be one of the most difficult from which to obtain reliable estimates, are much interested in the scheme.Of course, it is not expected that anything better tham crude eetic mates or approximatiops cen \\e had in such regions as Central Asin, the Arctic regions, the interior of Africa and other remote parts.Official estimates, on the population of «ll countries, however, as wear a3 such can be made with any degree of certainty, will no doubt he of great use to statisticians and clear up, in a measure, some of the vague reporte now existing, many of which have no basis in even an attempt at investigation.\u2014' Railway Review.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 MARK TWAIN.AN ANGLO-AMERICAN UNITY.\u2018The following interesting letter from Mark Twain to the United States con.wa\u2019 ot Léfpsic is in reply to an invitation to the celebration of July 4 :\u2014 \u2018Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna, \u2018June 23, 1808, \u2018Brainard Warner, jr, Fey, United Btates consul, Leipale : \u2018Dear Sir\u2014I have waited to see if I could defrat my obstructions and come to Leipsic, but have failed.I cannot venture away from my desk lest I fail to finish work in hand and soon due, It costa me à pang to lose this Fourth in mlitude when the fortunate may get on their feet and shout.Ordinarily 1 should not care, but T must care this time, for this is not an ordinary Fourth.On the contrary, it is a memorsble on \u2014the most memorable which the flag hus known in thirty-three years\u2014and there have been but two before it which may claim to rank with it as happy epoch posts in the history of the republie\u2014 1865 and 1776.This one marks the hurial of the estrangement which hes existed so Jong and so perniciously between England and Americs, a welcome condition of things, which, if wisely nursed and made permancnt, can be of inestimable value to both nations and incidentally to the world.\u2018In reverence for liberty, in humanitarian and civilizing irapulses, and in other great things of the heart and the spirit the two nations are kindred as well as in blood, and friendly relations between them mean the forward march of the human race.That old animosity is buried.Let us hope it will stay Huried, and also hope that for centuries to come this cugust funeral will still continue to be celebrated at our Fourth, and that meantime any man who tries to dig up that corpse will promptly be- put in condition to take ila place.\u2018Truly yours, \u2018MARK TWAIN.\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE WOOD BUFFALO.Canada is possessed of two game animals the most remarkable and the most interesting of any beasts on the continent.The United States bas nothing like them, por has any other country musk oxen and wood buffalo.The buffalo are most likely all that are left of tire immense herds that once wwndered in such numbers on the beautiful and verdant prairies of the North-West.A {ow bundred animals from the persecuted herds of the plains have sought refuge wn the unexplored country that lies Le tween Mackenzie river and the Rocky Mountains, and is otherwise bounded by the l'eace river and the Lisrd.There im an eres of many hundred miles over which the animals roaur The region im partly prairie and partly wooded, with much land that i low and wet, and produces ty of coarse gram that dries in the fall like the grass oa the ranches, and serves as winter food for the buffalo.In summer the herds keep an the higher grounds on account of the flies, and st that season pasture is abundant everywhere.Here and there on the low grounds, where gram is found in winter, there are ridges of higher land encircled by willow bushes, while further in the ridges are covered by pine, spruce and poplar.In these thick covers the small herds find shelter at night, and feed during the dey on the dry grass found in the frosen muskegn.Sometimes there are less than à duzen buffaio in = herd, and sometimes as mmuny as Éfty have been noticed in one drove.Great numbers of nrose deer frequent the same wild and unexplored country, and live much as the buffalo do.It is impossible to follow the buffalo in the region to which they have retired.In summer tbe muskegs, beyond which the snimals are supposed to be, are impase- able.The last herd of word buffalo that there ie any account of was diacovered by Mr.Whitney in the fall of 1806.In company with rome Indians, and with two dog teams, Mr.Whitney penetrated far into the wilderness, and, after having That Surprise Way of Wi Clothes makes child's play of wash day Clothes, with easy quick work, Follow the directions.: UT.CROIX SOAP MC O9 .Et, Srepnex ne.travelled many days, eleven buffalos were bi on a ridge amongst small spruce.The trust first notioed was a hpifer that lnoked not unlike a domew- tic cow.An Indian, agsinet orders, hastily fired, but mined; this wasted oll the others, and although the tracks were followed for u day or two, the herd waa not overtaken.\u2014 Western Prairie.\u2019 THÉ MONTREAL GARDEN TALKS.This department 1a conducted by Mre.Annle L Jurk, Chatreuguay Basin.Que.te whem all questions should be sent.AM questions aocswered through the \u2018Wit.acon\u2019 All day # had been showery and the thunder reverborated in threatening monotone.The mist hung low over the valley between the hills, and the little brooks, clear and suggestive of trout, were swollen by recent rain, We jogged slowly on, for \u2018Great Pan,\u2019 our little pony, memed resigned to our slow move ments, and put on a subdued air to suit our erratic minds, For the rad was rough, round boulders bristled in the ruts, and holes guve ua many a jerk.It w.a à query why the roads in this our province are so invariably bad, il not cured for by a corporation or an imtelli- By and by the drive way became sandy and smooth, grams fes green and low on the roadaile, blackberry vines, full of magenta: flowcrs, like wild roses, only of deeper tint, filled up the landscape, and underbrush came between.Lotus and 1 were making our way to soe an old French-Canadian garden, and, nearing our destination, a blue flower Covered the de of the vrooks, and all the byeways.What is it?i asked, \u2018A wild geranium, and he launched out into the merits of ita roots and flowers a8 An satringent.\u2018Wouldn't it be pretty in the garden?\u201d \u201cVea, but it might de- erate into a weed as did the campanu- that apoile the grass.Of course I aoquiencesl to the common sense of Lotus {it should be spelled with a capital) and = the flower was 80 pretty, so intonse in rich royal blue, that I mentally resolved to mtroduce a root of it some day into the garden.Up the steep path \u2018from a spring that flowed through the meadow acroms the rosd'\u2014oiled a weary woman with two pails of water she had dipped from the mountain brook.The blue flowers an each wile of her with their dense beauty were only to be trodden as part of the petimvay to her kitchen, and her face vas duil and Hfelons with overwork.\u2018I'm glad & im\u2019t my wife who has to do that\u2019 murmured Lotus.To which I replied reflectively \u2014\"Your wife just wouldn't do it, she would got the water up there by a windmill.\u201d We turned into a little gatewny bordered by tall phlox and sunflowers, and \u2018Pan\u2019 had à good browse while we waited for the lady of the house to ap- rear.Soon she came from a back kitchen.when a flock of dhrickens scattered At our approach.\u2018Bom jour, madame,\u2019 she was wiping her handa on her apron and bowing with that inimitable grace that no of coutrywomen can accom- Mimh\u2014for there was n native charm of mænner not aequired at a\u201choo!s, and that a duchem might envy, in her cenis) cour tesy.Sweet peas.of secd saved for generations and of the olden tvpe, larkspur with ite own old-fashioned tone of blue and black.two immense hydrangas, in robust flowering: and richhued mar.Koide bordered the warn about the 3 was a winding, steen hr the house, which was of neutral oo © hedged about with trees and flowers an to seem ove-wheimed by them, There was a wonderful fragrance from the bele of balm and mgr and thyme, tnat with the product of the bees, were the chief income of our hostess and her invalid hus band.Borders of parmey and spearmint and eriint ave grown and sold in fins this herb gardener, but the SWEET LAVENDER was the object of my viet.\u2018How do You menage to get À to flower in one season in this climate \u201d ve asked, surveying the adoram plants where the pale bluish flowers were just opening.The old lady laughed, and her brown, wrinkled face wana aH curves and ridges.\u201c Madsnæ would find our way has much trouble,\u2019 she said \u2018 we keep a few plants in our god cellar all winter, then in March we make cuttings and start them ln ®mnd\u2014m boxes homide the kitchen #tove, at that south window, It is a slow, patient burinems, and sometimes we buy the seed and put & in warm water aHl night; then plaat in eand and take care of it like other flowers.It must be coaxed, and kept wet, and transplanted into other boxes befwe time to put it out of dom.now, and gest month 1 wfil cut the flowers and eS] them to the medicine store, snd | make the leaves into little bags.Would madame like to buy one?ing soon with protty sent rechets, made of pale blue ssteen.Furthor questlon- ing revealed the fact that the leaves, nely pulverized, were made up during the winter, and eokl weil at fancy sores, The knowledge that lavender in costa a drawers where clothes wre packed ls sufficient 10 keep the drended clothes moth sway seemed to have.inflnenced ame comtomers, who objected to camphor tar,acd they ondend a yearly mpply.As the whole plant possess this quality, none need be wasted, oven if flowery for dimilled water are scarce, sp during some smsons.Peing à wild plant, in some parts of Firope, it seeme to do well on that stony hiMaide.The soil is light and sandy and the tufre of aromatic leaves booked frosh and growing, without a weod to be sen.We made a purchase of sme sicheta.and drew \u2018Par\u2019 from his bxowsing of late clover and sweet berbs that had wandernl outside, an the son shone.and we took the raturn path.It seemed indeed » leal from Shenstone, as I murmurd- Ang Invender, whoas spikes of azure binom Bhall be cretwhile tn arid dundles bound To lurk amid the labors of the loom, T had forgotten the rest, and intend of \u2018arid tundlen\u2019 the pretty seeot-sachot vus à modern improvement, and wordy of imitation.QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.FERTILIEING À GARDEN.autumn.Ans.sce advocates ou both rides, but autumn fertflizing scenw the most convenient aod gives the quickest results.as rain and snow dissolve and the ground t> reccive food, undess the land is subject 10 flood water in sprmg and liable to have the strength washed sway.HOLLYHOCK8.\u201cW.CC.\u2019 Valleyfield.\u2014It would be dif- fieuit without seeing the plant, to know why the hoilytiock does pot bloom.When it happens here we simply wait to we if another spring will bring it to blootning.Sometimes the first year, while growing, \u20ac plant will become stunted and fail to wake growth necesary to bring it to flowering.Of n row here of beautiful Chatel hollybocks, one of pale æzaw-color did nct come into blomom umil two weeks after the others.There ia compensation in this, as it will be {redh when the others are past their best \u2018blooming.CHLERT.D.Francis Logan, Alberta, inquires es to the best way to keep celery in wiu- ter and about trenches for tbe ame Ana\u2014It was at one time thought indispensable to have trenches for ceiery.They were formed in well cultivated soil, in straight lines, three feet apert, twelve to fourteen inches wide, and six inches deep.But in these days of hasie and invention people have found out that celery can grown an well without trenvhes, and the labor is much simplified.Celery requires a moist, coo! atmosphere, and answers well as a second crop.It can be grown on a level surface three feet apart as to rows and six inches apart in the row.lt must be kept clean, with hoe or cultivator, un- ti! cool weather, in late August, when it can be earthed up.This requires tok- | ing each plant in one hand whi'e the earth is drawn up closely, taking care that it does not get into the centre of the plant.This handling wil} keep the leaves upright and commence the Lianch- ! ing procesm.Dwarf cclery is most pro- titable, as one does not want coarse out- aide leaves, but the crisp, nutty heart of the plant.It must not get more than two or three degrees of frost in late autumn, being generally barvested after carrots.A frost-proof cellar in such a cold climate is the best place to winter it.Start at the cellar wall, put in à row, with roots on floor, as if for plant ing ; make firm by a board in the front as it is packed ip, and finish by lruving the board when i all tightly packed If very dry sprinkle occasionally.STRAWBERRIES.\u2018An Old Subscriber,\u2019 Chatsworth.\u2014If the kind reader finds a sameness in this heading it must be understood that the subject is of such importance that many readers search for knowledge on the wme lines.The question here is why the fruit does not ripen, but turns into hard, green lumps.We have consulted ¢ \u2018noted botanist on the subject, who coheludes that the plante are only imperfectly fertilized.and recommends planting a perfect flowering variety near the others, Strawherry blomoms are of i two clames\u2014perfect and imrerfect flow- | ers\u2014and if your plants belong to the latter clam they need others for frrtiliza.| tion.If you had known the name of the variety it would have been easier to ide.You cen procure a few plants of Dominion, Parker Earle, Williams, Sharpless or the old Wilson for this pur- in.The it is god | \u2014and she hurried into the house, return: | | pose, and make the experiment.Mean- { while our botanist, who is a practical | horticulturist, does not approve of the use of sawdust to \u2018loomn the mil.\u201d Îiet- lter put on a load or twn of loam or \u2018black muck from the swamps.or leave ) the clay and enrich with manu e, The strawberry is n gross ferdir, and will accommodate itælf to anything that con tains the food it needs, from the soap: ADVERTISEMENTS.A DANGEROUS ENEMY That Threatens the Lives of our Fellow-Citizens.Wide-Bpread T ave re M.Barber's Montreal, July 29.\u2014There are few people in Montreal who have not known the agony of bladder trouble.This complaint attacks four out of every five persons, and, unless it be checked in time, it leads to more serious and dangarons conditions, such as inflammation of the bladder, mricture, etc.Weak or defective kidneys are the cause of bladder troubles.\u2018The one way to get rid of bladder troubles, to cure them for all time, therefore, in to strengthen and heal the kidneys This, like everything else, is cosy to do.if you take the right way, for there is only one way to do it.Use Dodd's Kidney Pilla.Dodd's Kidney Pilis are (he only known remedy that can restore the kidneys to completa health, Thousands have proved thie (act by Xperience.All who have done wo speak in the same terms na Mr.John TL, Barber, of this city.who save : \u2018I have suffered for two years with bladder and Kidoey treu- bie, and could gat nothing to give me rehef.\u2018I euffered_mote than T can tell, till { began using Dodd's Kidney Pile.T used only a few boxes, but they made me à meong and healthy man.\u2018Dodd's Kidney Pills are worth their weight in gold.\u201d Hodd\u2019s Kidney Pills are sold br, all druggists at fifty cents a box, six boxes $2.50, or sent, on receipt of price, by The Dodds Medicine Co, limited, Toe \u2018BE.W.XM.\" asks the best time to fer- + ronto.suds on wasking day to the asves from a wood fre ; but swdust is injurious to plant life and to fruition.At least such is the opinion of our authority on horticultural matters, STOPPING TRAINS.\u2018The plan adopted by the London Underground Railway of atarting and stopping trains by gravity will be adopted hy the Illinois Central Railway Compsay when electric for steam traction in ite suburban service at Chicago is adopted.The track will be dlevated at a grade of about three percent at all stations, and power will be applied along the levei portion of the track between stations.Before arriving the current will be turned off, the force of the trsin carrying it to the top of the grade where brakes will Le set which will be released upon a sig- ral to start being given, and the force of gravity will set the train in mothop ae cepted the empernr, an external power, an the check on lis authority.Referring to Reformation timen, the Khartoum has effected ita prarpose the Chorch Missonary Society will be pre- : pare to «pen up missonant # Fk there.t 14 probable that, in the first pren, à! \u2018peliminary expedition\u2019 will be sent fr mm the Faypt Mavi n to Khartoum, ard! that the aperial form of work undertaken will be a medical mission: lar at pres: | ent evervtier + den cde npg whe the wxiety can get men to go there.| Reed\u201d saye : \u2018Amonget the kernest of the conflicte which acoee nt the Reformu- tion was that ae to the Christian minis.(y, andl na to whether it were oplecn or presbytery which had the of div i ture the orf and previo ters reperiomity of bishops was merely an ov clewinstical arrangement for convenience.This dictum was appealed to by Wa.and clearly influenced the course the FEoglish reformers ; for neither Whit- gift nor Hooker, in their defence of epis- copney, \u2018appealed \u2018to the \u2018argument that it was set forth Jn the New Testament sa the only divine order of church government, and this cautions feching is seen in the opening words of the preface to our (ndinal, and in the words of Lord Bacon, that episcopacy is not oppossd to Keripture.The controversy went vigor- otuly on in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and lias received oon- siderable atumtion of Inte years.In Bishop Lightfoot\u2019s well-known essay, the cnnclusiem was that the episropate waa developed out of the preshyterate, the two terme being originally identical.\u2019 We wivise our readers to make a note of them undomited facta in history, which so entirely upset the modern exclusive claim of semi-R man epincopacy.; Fpiscopacy in its primitive and ample form in quite another thing.\u2014'The News\u2019 (London, Eng.).\u2014_\u2014 , THE GAMBLING HABIT.The Rev.Professor Maccus Lode, D.D., {in a recent magazine artule, lasbes the gumbling babit in this fmeipon.|\" He argues that tho parmon for gamb- j ling aprings (j) from the cruviug for ex- | citement and (2) from the desire to make | monwy without toil, \u2018show that Letting is (1) ungentlemanty, * and quotes this words of the late Charles Kingsley: * Betting is wrong, because it is wrong to take your noightor's money | without giving hin sometiung in retura.\u2019 (2) It sgwiis fpurt\u2014sport 1tsell ceases to be of interest to the man who has staked |a large amount upon the Lsue.\u2018 Hence there gather round all our favorite pas- | times crowds of il conditioned loafers, who have little or no knowledge of the : game.and who are unalie to adinire play for ita own ske\u2019 (3) [i ia foolish.\u201cTo faory that we shall be exceptions, and win where others have lost, that we shall be the lucky ones among the thousand unlucky, is a folly to which we are liable, but it is none the leu a folly.\u2019 (4) «It is productive af crime.\u201cIt is the unanimous verdict of abaplains and gov | snore of prisons that the great propor tion of thewe crimes (of theft and embes- gloment) are the result of betting.\u2019 In conclusion, he says: \u2018HeRing runs directly counter to the most rudimentary ideas of what is due to society and to ourselves as members of society.For, fundamental to the ides of society is the law that every one who enjoys ite advantages should contribute to its well- being.The mao who wins money without producing money's worth .trans grosses this radical law, and becomes 1 mere parasite on the body of the society of which he ought \u201c0 be a helpful men - Ler\u2019\u2014'Christian Work\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 LADY HENRY S8OMFRSFT AND THH SOMERS TOWN ESTATE.{To the Editor of the Manchester \u2018Guardian.\u201d) Sir,\u2014 With refcrence to the curfous cris !ticisma that have been made as to the endition of the Bomery Town estate, I | must, im jumice to mgwelf, make the fois Jowing explanation.I am not, and never have beso, the owner of the free.{hold of the Somers Town estate.The {only interest I ever had fn it was ne fol l'iowva: Under the wül of my late father, Earl Somers, the estate vas vested in trustees on truwb that L ahould enjoy the income theread lor lite, so that my poss tion 1s merely one of tenants for hfe, Furthermore, that income is almost en- _tirely devoud to paying annuities and family charges which have been left : chargeable to the cutate.AlN the proper ty is let on long leases of antecedent date, which will not ex for many years to come; so that both Dy reason of my being only tenant for Life, and by reason of the property being let by my prodocensors on leases, it was sbao~ lutely beyond my power to take any steps on my own account to remedy the {had state of repair into which the property bad fallen.Many restrictions in my father's will made it impossible ir me to buy up leases, as al! anticipation was prohibited; and, eccondly, the pro- i visions made it impoasible for me to raise any eum of money to co-operate with the vemry, and therefore I had no means of getting capital to des] with the Church- way area, nor could T have raised any i mon for the Chapel Grove even if 1 bad been asked by the Vestry to do wn.An regards schemes promoted by pute tie bodies, ! havo always been willing to foin in any plan for the imprivement oi the property, but all ench schemes have to receive the sanction «f the ratato trnstees, an-l ns à matter of fact Tomes coded with great dificulty in carrying through a scheme with the county con vil for the improvement of ane portion of the estate, known as the Ciurchway area, winely work is now fn progres, and will remilt in the erection of mime ex.ceptionaliy fine model dwellings on th ete now acopied by the Churchway aren.Ansther scheme, ap regarde the Ohalton.strest area, waa promoted hy the Vestry, and 1 would gladly have en operated in it, tnd in this canes 1 wae unfortunn sly prove ited, owing to the advice given the surveyor advieng the estate (rates who raparted thot thew amd not rdvime the traumas to ene in the elieme proroest, and ander these ciprenmetances T was abe dutely poverieag in Ve matter.1 therefore fot is Netter too Main permisdon too ee\u2019) the property, © an Twas nnalde te 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changes cannot be made.Ad.ress all letters cortatning subecriptions or advertising: JOHN DOUGALL & SON, \u201cWitness,\u201d Montreal.Vien Atamps are sent to make up a remittance, (he ouly denominations we accepl ave 1 and 3 cents.\u2014\u2014 Acy eutwcriler of the Montreal \u201cWitoew™ wha wookd Lk: to hate o epecumen copy of the Paper sent to à filrnd can le secommnlated by onding 8 on 8 puta} card the name and address 0 wLich be woald Like the paper sent, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1898 .There seams to be a felt want in the hited States of some kind of laurel for deeorating heroes, Instead of making a public hero first a knight and then « peer, as is done in the Hritish empire, they are reduced to making the so'diers and aailern whom they delight fo honor wi doctors of laws.General Grant was largely decorated in this way, but he had the greater title of General, and 20 did not eet to be known es Dr.Grant until he was running the æccnd time for the presidential offi eo, when be was s called :a deriton Ly his opponents.The weapon provel a boomerang, Low.ever, for it wae found that his opponent, llorare Greeley, had a'ro 1m an unguard- ci hour allowest himeclf to be complimented by the same title.So Dr, Grant and Dr.Greeley were much imndied about during the campaim.And pow Admiral Dewey has ben made LL.D.! and the example having teen set hy 0 respectable an institution as the Univer.SUBSCRIPTION RATES.| ment.The terms have the aspect of being too humiliating, in view of the fact that it is admitted in Great Britain that it is owing to the sugar bounty system of the European continental nations that Doaiinics, along with all the other suger producing islands of the British West Indies, is In distromn, What governmen: tal possibilities and tmpomsibilities may complicate the situstion can only be locally knowh.While the sugar-produc- ing colonies suffer so severely from the bounty mem, Great Britain profits from it greatly.The Dominican people are very angty and bitter over the situation.The crown colony project was carried in the Assembly by a umjority composed of seven members appointed by the imperial authorities and ove member elected by & narrow majority, whereas the minority consisted of six members elected by the people of the island.As soon as the bill was passed by the majority the Opposition protested by rising and leaving the Mouse.Do nrinickne prefer annexation to the United States to becoming a crown colony, and the Opposition proposed an amendment to that effect.There would be, if the United States saw her way clear to fall in with this plan, another nice little problem for her in the administration of de pendencies.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BISMARCK'S DEATH.\u2018The death of Prince Bismarck, which cceurred on Saturday night just be fore midnight, will sem sudden to the world, though the aged statesman has been geriously ill for some months, and dunger has never been absent.Of late he had somewhat improved, and immediate apprchension had almost died out, until a8 few deys ainoe his condition again awakened anxiety.His relatives and friends, it seems, knew thy ond was near, but the general public, wbose alarm had been so often awakened, only to be allayed, attached little importance to the deapatches concerning his critical condition, and consequently the announcement of hie death this morning bas taken it by surprise.He has not long outlived us contemporary, the great English statesman, barely three months iaterven- ing between their deaths, he man of blood and iron was, however, the yonog.er man at the time of his drath bw over five years.Although contemporary statesmen, they were not brought much in cottart either es allies or as antago.mate, their characters and policies Leing as wide apart as the poils.It was when the Conservatives were in power in England, and Lond Besconsiell and Lord Salisbury guided Great Rritsin\u2019s for eign policy, that England became entangled enough in continental politics to bring Rritish statesmen within the scope lof the play of Hismarck\u2019s diplomacy.i Whether Jord Beaconsfield and Jord | Salisbury were the tools of Mismarck (n the tournament of the Berlin tresty convention, as Germans chim, or Lond | Reaconafield proved mote than a match { for Bismarck, and secured Cyprus in ad dition to the \u2018peace and homer\u2019 which they brought home with them.it is hard to ray, but certain it ie that Great Brit- at's pomtion in Feypt lias developed as a result of the whole business.Gladetone, it has been said, made Bis marek's career possible : was indirectiy the founder af his fortunes.When Me.Gladetone made the unity and independence of Italy posshle he prepared the way for the downfall of France and the rise of Germany.Rut the end is not yet, and Hismarch'a great work, the Ger- nan empire, dues not today sem n4 strong, as dominant or as certain of the greatest future an it did ten years ogo.sity of Pennsylvania, we may expect a shewer of letters to fall on Shafter and Schley and Sampron and Holwon, and all who fill the popular eye for a time nm connection with successful war.On the whole it would sec a more appropriate thing, and not opposed, so far as we can see, to any principle of democracy, to hare given the admiml who hes given lin awniry so much glory the old guer- Un of knighthood.\u2014 The Drmfniran House of Amembly seceptod the seustance of the Imperial Lovernaent upon the terms apon which only it would be granted, pamely, that the colamy ah-oid enrrender the meamre f repreecntatite government ite peuple Lid tained and revert to the conditdon £8 crown ~leny.It was apon simi.at terms oniv that the Imperial Government would at first consent to the ep.pointment of an impenal conmieinn to examine the affair of Newfoundland with a view to eateting hee, but upon Newfoundlard's refusing the terme, and again requesting the appointment of a commission upon broader growads and with a broader scope.the Impenal Gov: 1 And it is at lenst à matter for argument :whether the prewent isolation of (der.many, which is far more real, and far more menacicg, and far less within her ! power to end, than that of Great lirit ain, which may be ended any day she chooses, is Pot as much, if not mors, the outeome of Prince Wismarck\u2019s utterly un.ecrupnious and forceful methods than | even the consolidation of Germany.It {will be remembered that thew is some {doubt whether Prince Riemarrk wes the : peal suthor of German unity.The Pm.\u2018peror Frederick's journal revealed the : fact that he had most cerainty in 1970 , to urge it upon France Buamarck, as well \u2018as npon the Emperor William, and that \"the Prince thought the eheme preme- {ture @ least, while King Willam re- ,marded ; with 8 good del of reluctance, if not nrugnance, The crown prince's | ambition was, however, pure, and he intended no move than to ercure the jvace {and welfare under Protestant power of the German states ; aggrandisement for j the mke of power for aggresave pur poses he never contemplated, and this vas :n reality the cause of the quarrel ! between hin and Prince Bismarck.who THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.tor to Europe, including Great Britain, jealousy of which be aroused in Ger many.Great as was the part Prince Bismarck played in the building ap of the German empire, it is only too essy, in looking back over the events which marked 114 riæ, $0 exaggerate it.and ascribe the re- wults to foresight and plane which the German statesman, sstute and far-sce- ing as he wus, could never have had.As a matter of fact, the German peoples md ever since the end of the Napoleonic wars heen longing and striving for constitutional liberty and union ; the interests and jealonsies of princes in their war rings with one another sometimes encour aged, sometimes discouraged, the striv- ings of the people, but the people themselves were too unaccustomed to acting strenuously for themselves to assert and establish their political liberty in the face of the opposition of their princes.However, constitutions were obtained by the peoples of the German states, among others by thom of Prussia, which, though set aside at times, formed the basis of rights which afterward became eatablished.Prince Bismarck, then a young Junker, or gountry squire, an up- bolder of the right divine of kings and of nobles and a hater of democracy, a an of great force of character and ability, rough and outspoken.a sort of Cromwell, though in the cause of kings, not of peoples, was s member of the Prussian Assembly of 1885, which ob tained a constitution from King Frederick Willlam, which the young member denounced vigorously, The then crown prince, William, also held the views of Bismarck, and became an exile to England on account of them, where, it is to be hoped, be became convinced by the working of the constita- tional mooarchy that the interests of kings and peoples might, after all, be made identical.When on the death of Frederick William in 1861 he became William I.of Prussis, be almost immediately called to his aid as his first adviser Ott» Von Bismarck.In the words of « great Gerran historian of the Ger | many of our own times, the unity of Germany and the proclamation of the Emperor William were the \u2018issues of à vast series of historical cœurs; but they are indimolubly associated with the name of the Emperor William's grest chancellor, Rismerck, than whom no more remarkable figure has arisen in the history of Germany.A rough, despotic, veliement nature, be was undeterred by scruples which might harass ordinary statesmen.Having set up a goal, he marched to it by the straightest path.The solemn traditions of diplomacy, to the astonishment of Europe, he lnughed cut of court.He respected trestics exactly in so far as they were capable of being defended, and produced by boisterous frankness the effects which other men achieved by mystery and deceit.With little faith in the action of moral causes, he took care to have behind him those big battalions which destiny is said to favor.\u2019 Hin was a bold à resolute nature, with narrow but intense vision, end à will created to go crashing throug difficulties and \u2018to fashion 8 world to its liking.\u2019 The steps by which under bis guidance Prumia, with the assistance of Austria, conquered the Danish provinces and then annexed them, thus increasing her own power and humilisting Austria; by whieh, with the assistance of Hanover and Saxony, Prima overthrew the ascendency of Austria in the German Ihet and secured | her own dominance ; by which, with the i aid of united Italy, Prusma st last over threw Austria and became the acknow- lodged head of the German confeders- thon ; by which, with the belp of the ecnfedemtion, Prussia defeated France, and at Verwmilles consummated the cos- solidation of the German empire, with her king as its emperor, were all taken with the consent and by the direction, if rot all at the suggestion of Prince Bis- | mercé.His owe journals and letters, his own relevations since his fore:d withdrawal from politics] life, bave frankly revealed that be did not stick nt open lving or even at forgery where | be bad what be conedired grent ends | tr secure at surh cost.Île himself bas! told bow he altered & despatoh already , signed by the Emperor William, because he thought the alteration necessary to, bring on the Francotierman war.' DBismarck\u2019s success and hie publie ca! reer ended virtually with the life of the Fanperor Wiilam 1.lle was not in sympathy with the constitutional views of the Emperor Frederick, and made | tronble for him, handily concealing his desire thet the crown prince, William, | should immediately scored the old am | reror.The Fmperor William IT.was as cept that be would not do ss Diemarck told him, but preferred to go his own way.When he dismissed Bismarck all the world stood aghast at his audacity, and Prince Bismarck probably regarded him as an ingrete, and for the first time in his life regretted the death of the Emperor Frederick.But the Emperor William proved that with the advice of Caprivi, en experienced, smfe statesman, even Bismarck could with safety at feast be done without.In bis retirement Bis marck has not shown the dignity and greatness of character that wes expected of him.le has been pecvish and com: Plaining, and has shown à disposition to avenge himself at the expenses of his econtry by making revelations calculated to arouse distrust in her good faith ss an ally.It was in this spirit that he revealed the fact that from 1884 to 15800 Germany and Ruesia hed a secret treaty with one another, in spite of their being members of the opposing dual and triple alliances, and that by this secret treaty Uermany bound herself not to aid Austria in an attack upon Russia, while Kvesia bound herself not to attack Ger many in alliance with France.There can be no doubt thet since that revels- tion the triple alliance bas not bern eo influential or powerful, and that Ger many has been vainly seeking the alliance of both Russia and Great Britain, and her advances have not been met by either.Germany does not now hold the position she did five years ago in Europe.Russi is now the most powerful nation on the Continent ; her influence is dominant.Grest Britain is the one power which stands on terms of equality with her and is not afraid to oppose her.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 OUR NEXT GOVERNOR-GENERAL The announcement which has been an- thoritatively made by & member of the government ia the Imperial Parliament that the Earl of Minto will succeed Lord Aberdeen on the retirement of the latter from the governor-generalship of the Do- ninion, in October next, has been received with general satisfaction by the pecple of Canada, to whom his name and Person are mot altogether unfamiliar, since he was at one time the secretary of a former govermorgenersl, the Mar quis of Laradowne, and served on the staff of General Middleton in the beginning of the second Riel rebellion, and won the good opinion of everybody in both capacities The appointment will set at rest a good deal of conjecture which bas been busy since it was def- pitely known that Lord Aberdeen bad for personal reasons decided to retire this fall, 8 year before the expiry of hia term.Canada bas, since the beginning of the jubilee yemr, been #0 much in everybody's mouth throughout the empire, and indeed throughout the world, that Britons on both sides of the Atlantic became impressed with the difficulty of the task the Imperial Government had before it in finding « man quite big enough to fittingly represent Her Majesty the Queen as the ruler of such en impor tant division of the empire.To impress the world with the importance attached to Canada some illustrious person mvet be chosen, and we think we are wkhin the mark when we my that, short of the Queen herself snd perhape the Prince of Wales, neither of whom could be expected, perhaps, to desert England, there was no personage, however exalt: ed, who was not regardéà as a pomible recipient of the honor.The Duke of Yark, the Duke of Connaught, Lord 8al- icbury, Mr.Chamberlain, Lord Wolseley and many others, were spoken of as being eligible.The last-mentioned was the favorite, perhaps, and certain Cane dian papers cannot account for his not being appointed but by the conjecture that he must be very ill.And indeed it would not be essy to appoint to the governor-generalship of Canada anybody who could add lustre to the position, sloce the Marquis of Lorne, the son-in- aw of the Queen.and the Princess Louise had reigned in her stead here, snd sch statesmen of illustrious families as the Farl of Aberdeen, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Dufferin and lord Stanley, now the Farl of Derby, bave represented her.T4 overa to have been recognised in Great Britain that the Dominion of Can- eds is oo great end important, is so influential and powerful, is so thoroughly and obviously imperial in her purpose and destiny, and bee Canadian rulers so imperial in their policy, that it would be imposible to make soy striking addition to such s galient ship of state.The Harl of Minto will receive rather than impart honor, and this is as it showid be.Fren Lord Dufferin, than whom perhaps no casentially greater Briton lives, gathered no honors greater than those whinh came to him from and «nd since his time Canada's afffance fn the eyes of the world has beeu great.The Bari of Minto will have in Canada, under whatever political changes, able ministers, possessing the confidence of the Canadian people and loyal to the crown and empire, whose advice and guidance he will only have to trust im plicitly so long ss they possess that confidence, in nrder to make his reign a true success.The political parties of Canada would do well if they asd their or gans refrained from advising the gov- error-general as to the course he should pursue in regard to any particular po- lition! question or issue.It bas been too much the habit of the Opposition journals to advise the governor-general to reject the advice of his ministers or to declare that if he accepted their advice under certain circumstances he would be doing wring.The governor-general should be left to his own conscience, his official advisers and bis government in Great Britain.Jt should be taken for granted that the governorgeneral is acting on the advice of hie ministers, and even the ministers should not publicly take amy other position in regard to his action until they resign, and wheo their succemors come into power the responsibility devolves upon them, not upon the governor-general.It is antis- factory to know that the Canadian people have been #0 loyal to their governor.generals, and have understood the working of the constitution so well, thet poli- ticans who overlook or disregard these principles only injure themselves, \u2014_\u2014 IN FAVOR OF A REDUCTION.Many protectionista, as wall ea all tariff reformers and free traders, advocate à reduction in the duties on cotton cloths.They hold that the tarif où these goods is unnecemariy high, from whatever point of view it is regarded.If, as the manufacturers my, they do not take full advantage of the high duties, but œl their goods at an advance of fifteen percent instead of twenty-five or thirty-five percent over the prices in the foreign markets, then there can be no hardship to them involved in the reduction of the duties by fifteen or twenty percent, as above the lower rate the protection is in operative.Then again from a protec tion point of view, raw materia! of all home manufactures should be admitted free, if possible, or be at least as lightly taxed as may be to encourage home industry.Now, cotton cloths are the raw materials of hundreds of manufacturers, being used largely, as they are, in the manufacture of clothing of all kinds, either as linings or as the main material of articles which cover men and women from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet.Bexides these, fur niture manufecturerw, awning manufee- turers, sail- makers, all um large quantities in the production of their goode.not to speak of the great mass of consumers who at home have firft to make up their cotton into the articles they need before it is of any wee, and who form the Greatest body of manufacturers, after all, in the Dowinion.In fact, until cotton cloth is further manufactured it is of little or no use, wo that it is a aw ma- teria] in the eyra of protectioniste, upon which a great doal of the labor of Lhe ceuntry is dependent for employment.Of courve, the strongest argument in favor of the reduction of the duties from the point of view of the moderate pro tectionist is that the tariff is altcgether too bigh, and protected manufacturers «re reeping unduly high profita For years before the Conservatives lost the confidence of the country they saw and acknowledged the nevessity of tariff reduction.Protection was given as a temporary stimulant to foster infant indus tries, and the Conservatives acknowledged that they had given it too freely and perhaps for tov long à period in some quarters, and hence the Conservative tariff commission and Mr.Foster's reformed teriff, in which so many reduc tions were proposrd, though not fully cortied through, In Mr.Foster's tariff cottons were subjected to a duty of twenty-two and a half and thirtyiwo and a balf, not thirty percent, as mis stated in Saturday's paper, which wae a:ill extremely high protection.To the srtonishment of every one, beth Conser vative and Liberal, the Liberal tacifl, which was to he a reform tariff, has maintained the duties on cottons, slightly raising them as against American cottons and very slightly reducing them as to British cottons.Tariff reformers and free traders, as well as consumers generally, will ask themselves if they i have not bean evmewhat too apathetic in : regard to their own interests io view of the fact that they have allowed the protectionists to take the initistive in quar.reiling with the extremely high protee.ernment bas amsented to thé appoint- | wanted to make Germany & sort of dicta | emperse after the heart of Bismarck, ex- \u2018through his connection with Canadas i | tive dutwe maintained on ootton cloths.Avcusr 2, 1898.Te DEIF etre has » (BOF wandiold greater interest in the redue- tion of the duties than the manufactur ers of articles made from cotton cloths Of course, no reduction, even by order in-council, upon any class of goods, bow ever limited, may be looked for until at Joust after the Quebec conference, where, we suppose, the high duties on cottons, with all other high duties againet the United Staten, will be used to barter for reciprocity with the protes tionist delegates who have been placed on the commiasion by the United States But it is to be hoped that the Liberal Government will, in pursuance of its pol icy which was to obtain working red.procity in manufactures, as well as in agricultural products, propess very lib eral reductions of the present high tariff.There is room for the hope that the conference will be sucressful in the matter of reciprocity, aa well as in other affaire, not only because of the better feel ing between the American and British peoples, but because of the fact that Canada is now in « far better position Felatively to treat with advantage to her own interests with the United States than she ever was before.The imperial \u2018preferential tariff must undoubtedly prove a source of great strength in such pegotiations, ewpecially in view of its popularity net only in Canada but in the United Kingdom and throughout the empire.The extraordinary lesps and bounds in Canada\u2019s progress and pros perity during the last two years will also render the United States anxious to secure à coutinnance of the large trade with the Dominion, which hse bought frem her far more than she has sold te ber.\u2018AN ENEMY OF PROHIBITION.Where the organ of Mr.Tarte stands on the question of prohibition may be gathered from an article which we translate from the \u2018Patrie.\u2019 The writer takes his text from a Methodist College pria- ciral who flatly refused to endorse the Festoral of a ministerial conference which was sent him to read to a congregation on the ground that, according to his reading of history, prohibition hed nowhere succeeded.How carefully tha \u2018Patrie\u2019 informe its readers may be gathered from its declaration that Dr.Alli son even declared that the Methodist Church was hostile to prohibition.Had Dr.Allison said that, thers would have been no need to consider his otber opinions, as lie must needs have besa a lunatic.\u2018Theres is only one remedy,\u2019 mys the \u2018Patrie,\u2019 \u2018for tbe scourge which it is desired to combat, and it forthwith proceeds to give six.These are, first, the severe regulation of the mle of drinks ; secondly, the rigorous inspes- tion of liquor shops ; thirdly, that the Ucenses of botel-kespers who keep bad bouses and make people drunk should be taken away ; fourthly, that ssloon- keepers should be required to do away with bars end supply little tables such as they use in Paris ; fifthly, that means sheuld be taken to make light wines cbraper.The sixth remedy is an etcet- ere, namely, that all measures that publie interest and good sense indicate be taken.We may at least rejoice that the \u2018Patric\u2019 sees the peed of reform and is ready to codperste in securing it.That in one point gained, and in cese probibi- tion dues not carry we may hope here after to wee the \u2018Patrie\u2019 supporting with all its might and mais its proposed re forma That the Patrie\u2019s\u2019 interest in reform ia, practicnily epeaking, à new one, mé a good result of the prohibition move ment can be gethered from its recom- mendationa These can be divided inte two sections.The first three and the last of these remedies are already in operation, in #0 far sn 8 model license law will gut them in operation.The only thing that is now necded is the co- operstion of public officials, the press and the people.The officiels defy the requirements of the law, the city press ae a rule sides with the liquor interest, and the people are indifferent.Those of the public who do organize to secure the enforcement of the law are insulted by magistrates, jeered at by the press, and regarded with horror by a mwied people.We have just such a law as the anti-prohibitionisia all profess to want, yet the only people who are loyal to it are those who, shaving real ited their failure under it, are now de manding something more drastic.These propomls, then, of the \u2018Patria\u2019 offered as though they were a means of gaining the end, are mere back numbers, sod are offered in eimple ignerance of the facts.The other group of suggestions is that we enccurage the usages of France\u2014of Normandy in particular.Perhaps is would surprise the editor of the \u2018Patrie\u2019 to learn that Mulhall, the greatest of ste - Avause 2, 1808.tistietans, has found that the people of France drink more alechoi per head than any other poeple.Theme whe have Jived 6 Normandy declare some of the towns of that province to exhibit more drunkenness than any.in England.The Istter statement may be challenged as the result of prejudiced observation, but the Sgures are serious for those who think that the home production of liquor is going to regenerate the country.It Is notorious that the injury be ing wrought wpon the people of France by what the French call alcoboliom de coming to ba regarded ss Bo less than alarming, and calling for the attention and action of the French Congress.As for Dr.Allison's ob- jretion, it ie alresdy anewered.Law enforcement is ab least as bed now a it cam be made under prohibition, end under it we have all the open and publicly spproved liquor shops, which we would have under prohibition.Those who know tell us that prohibition wouid be far more easily ea- forced.The sere amount of enforce- went would certainly proauce far grester rests, And the paymge of the law would remove the stain of the mation licensing ard becoming a partoer in à traffic that is bringing desolation on the land .\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNEARNED PROPERTY.À correspondent signing \u2018J.G., responding to the mingle tax propaganda, as repres:oted by Mr.Swinney, of New York, seems to us to omit & very impor tant and essential element of the land problemi-an eleuxot which he must nesds deal with before his reply to the contention of the sing'e taxers cam be considered complete.Ths element in the vaiue of land is what is called by them the uncarced increment.The Lionrge agitation against land ownership bad its rise in California.That state, as is well known, becsme suddenly populous and industrially alive in the middle yoers of the present century by reason of the discovery of gold.Lend thet would not lave brought five cents an agre sold for dollars, and in places where a town or city bappened to appear soid for dollars by the square foot.J.G's\" general assumption that the salue of lend ie due to the diligence of the occu- plier did not apply there at all.The thrifsy, active Anglo-Saxon was forced to onl] poangsts on the sidewalk beososs some Iasy Spaniard with inherited titles to all the land in sight claimed for any foot- bold upon the soil prices which the newcomer coul not pay.The price which the Spaniard demanded was not due to the Speniard\u2019s diligence or that of his forefathers, but to the enterprise of the incoming American and Dritish population, whom he excluded from the use of the land.There ia a question of equity raised here that \u2018J.G.' does not deal with, ana that applies more or less to every piece of land that ws in ues anywhere.This inequity is at à minimum in a pew country, whose land market hae not been forestalled, whose land valies are almost entirely created by the persons setually upou the land, and where the increment on unoccupied land accrues to the public either through the govern: ment or through some corporation which renders in return for the advantage a stated public service, and whose tenure is limited by conditions of actual settle ment, and Japees before it can sink into an abuse.The inequity introduced by the unearned increment lo, on the oth- or band, a very serious element where one proprietor on a street builde a fine hetae, store or factory, while his neighbor leaves his lot in the possession of stares and thistles.The owner of the thistle Jot enjoys both the benefit which accrues from the general growth of the city and that which accrues from the building of a factory on the neighboring property, for neither of which advantagm has be done anything at all.This iff true on & large avale in the case of larger corporations, which keep conrd- erable sreas of city property cut of use, or we i for nominal purposes, such as the euitivation of potatoes or es an oo cosionsl playground.Thess ocotpors- tions are contributing nothing to the geneva) increment of property values, while they are getting the same benefit that these do whose property is contributing to it by being in active use.It is usuel with us to tax the man who has built a factory on all his improve: mente to the highest potch, while the lend-owner next him ie taxed only on his land, and on « minimum valostion of that.The resson for this is that the feetery owner who je in active business can veually find the money, while the land owner ls making nothing out of hia investment, and i is therefore not com system of taxation simply amounts to the community fining the man who makes an improvement for th: benefit he renders it.His neighbee benefits exactly as mush as be does from the increased population and increased industry ead consequent increased velue of land.This increment, which socrues to the landowner, ia net earwed by him a a land-owner, but by the community as a whole.It therefore esems clear that the man who dos nothing Lo create it, but who in the increased value of his land gets as much benefit from it, foot for foot, as tbe man who has built the factory, should psy, foot by foot, at least as much taxes ss his neighbor, or, in other words, that the factory owner should not pay taxes os his factory, only on the land on which it stands.In aoawer to the objection that the land-owmer who does not use his Jand has no revenue, and therefore has no means out of which to pay so large à proportion of the public taxation as would thue fall upon him, the land-taxere answer, let his Jand be sold, then, to somebody who will make a revenue out of it and benefit the public by it.If the selling value of land is lowered by this process so much the better for thoss who really went to use it.What right has any man to play the dog in the manger and keep other people out of land be himeelf cannot wes! We have already said that we look on those single tax theorists who prefer the total abolishment of land ownership as a cure for the world's miseries, to the total abolishment of the drink traffic as straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.All the same, there is at least a good measure of justice at the bottom of ther theory.\u2014_\u2014 18 THE PRESS VENAL?The Orillia \u2018Times\u2019 says there is an anti-probibitionist propaganda preparing matter for the Canadian press, which, though paid for, is to appear as general reading, and warns the public to be sus picious of innocent-looking reading which seems to tell against temperance.When the \u2018Witness\u2019 recently referred to the press as being largely under bonds to the liquor traffic it re ferred to the influence of the advertising columns.When this accuma.tion was bitterly challenged we examined the newspapers reaching our office, and were glad to find that for the most part it did net apply to the rural pres, as almost no liquor advertisements were found in that class of newspapers.For a rewspaper to allow its selections of reading matter and ite tone of the editorial writing to be modified by supposed business interests does not differ in ite essential character {rom the deliberate sale of the reading columns to the surreptitious advocacy of selfish interesis, but the first is a wrong that human na ture could unguardedly slip into, while the other is à crime of which we pre sume few papers in Causda are capable.The Orillia \u2018Times\u2019 thinks that such offers from the liquor interest will prove inter esting to journalists, \u2018who realize that the support they receive from tempor auc people is largely of the \u201cmoral\u201d kind, and not backed even by the dollar-in-ad- vance subscription to the paper, and that when it is à question of bread or seritiment they will take the bread.\" The opirit here attributed to the prees is of the meanest sort.It is not & question of an editor whose convictions agree with those of the liquor-dealer.He has a sentiment of some sort aguinst what he is naked to do, but he :8 paid for it, and, as the \u2018temperance men,\u2019 whoever they are, do not pay bim, he lays aside sentiment asd tekes bread.Sentiment is a lighting word to use with regard to s matter of right and wrong.If it had been called principle one could not talk so jauntily of laying it aside.Of pric.ciple, the \u201cTimes ¥ supposed editor has pone.Even the sentiment attributed to him, if it be a sentiment against pro- Lbibition thet is meant, is apparently not his own.It is the general prohibition sentiment of the community, which in most of Ontario is very pronounced.Other things being cqual, he would govern himeelf by it, but, as opposed to hard cash, he must be expected to meric fice it.He may have some general per sonal sentiments against making hie paper anybody's organ for money, but the \u2018Times's\u2019 writer thinks thet this will melt away in sight of the cash.There are exceptions, this writer says to this supposed venality of the prese\u2014the Omi- lia \u2018Times\u2019 iteell stands out as a noble exception, There would Le more, be thinks, \u2018if the temperance people backed their principles with business common sense.This seems only to mean that the editor who will advocate the less popular side for money will support the aide of the majority if equally well paid.Put who are these temperance people sidered nice to be bard vpon him.This whe may be eupesied to pay veoal edi- - .THE MONTR!.I WEEKLY WITNESS.tors in hard cash for the advocacy of the public good ?It is easy to see how there may Le people whom it will pay to spend money in introducing anti-temperance sentiments, but a demand from the press that some people, called tbe temperance people, should pay it for taking the right side is sbout the most unreasonable we bave ever seen.The liquor men who spend money do it to save their business, What temperance people give is given {rom pure petriotism.They cannot give it to purchase patriotism in the press ; there is far too much need for it to be used in legitimate ways.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.Remarkable progress has been made towards bringing the war to a close.The Spanish Government, through France, opened the negotistion by asking terms of pesce.The United States was prompt and peremptory in stating ita terms, and was particular to my that no armistice weuld be granted pending negotiations.The fear was that Spain's object was aim- ply to gain time.The demands of the United States were moderate, but it was not thought that Spain would accept.Spain, however, has only asked for.one modifiontion, which the American Government has granted, and the agreement is at this writing awaiting Spain's ratifieation.Let us hope that there will be no contretemps.The conditions demanded by the United States were the surrender of Cuba, to be made irto a self-governing country under American protection, the surrender of Puerto Rico direct to the United States, and the cession of à suitable coaling station in the Philippines, with an island large enough to render it self-sustainirg.fpain wus to be held financially responsible for prolonging the war if these conditions are refused.The point cn which there was nstursliy some indecision at Washington wee whet to do with the Philippines.The acquisition of the coal ing station was simple enough, but what wus to be dune with the rest of the is land.What the United States might regard as a sufficient surrender {or Spain and a suflicient result of a war which bas been worth its cost in glory to ber, war not the whole of the question.Bhe had entered into the field of her respon- #ibilities aa a firwt class power and moral force in the world, and it is very much easier to enter on responsibilities than to throw them off.As an illustration of this \u2018Punch\u2019 once bad a rhyme upon en incident of a physician on a railway train to whom a woman had confided her infant while she would go and get its bottle filled, and who saw that mother no more.When the train resched the station : Some went in an omnibus And some went in à cabby, But there sat sill the medical man A nussin of tbe babby.The United States, with the Philippines on ber hands, is very much in the position of this doctor, with the difference that she has borrowed the baby of her own accord.The question practically was how the Urited States could rid bermelf of the charge of hypocrisy if, after going to war for the deliverance of Cuba from Spanish tyranny she, having poaession of the Phil.ippinen, should deliberately baud them back to a condition which has hitherto been at least as bad as that of Cuba ?It would not be pomible for the island- ore to maintain a government of their own.There could be no harmony be tween the countless ignorant tropical peoples which face cach other on those is lands.They have internally none of the conditions of self-government, while externally the powers could do nothing but quarrel over so rich a prize as those islands are.The only obvious solution of the Philippine problem wns the carry ing out of the compact come to between Dewey and Aguinaldo to offer the islanders an opportunity to sttempt eeif-gov- crement under American protection.After giving a special session to the question on Friday last, the United Btates resolved to leave the question to be aettied later between herw!l and Span in some form of joint protectorate.Very naturally, it is assumed that tbe modification asked and granted has ref: erence to this demand.If eo it is greatly to be hoped that no subetantsl sur render has been made.The joint protec.torste would be at least tolerable, as the United States would practically be the ruling force, and, as her demands woud always be the more generous both to the islanders snd to che world at large, they would always have the greater moral weight.Anything lem than that would he intolersble.The United States cannot band the Philippines beck to the tender mercies of Bpain, which are very cruel, without some guarantee that the oppression and tyrusny which bave caused rebellion there, aa well as in Cube, shall cease, and & system of tolerable government shall be established instead.But no system of government which the United States would regard as tolerable would be workable in the hands of Spain or seem a0 to her, and what effes- tive guarantee, other than a right to interfere if and when it seemed necessary to the United States to do so between Spain and the Philippines, could there be, and that would, of course, be out of tha question, as Spein would never consent to it, The United States has determined to swallow Puerto Rico whole, à decision which bas greatiy delighted her own Army aud, as appears, the Puerto Ricans also, who ses nothing but pesce and prosperity before them.Yet Puerto Rico was not in rebellion, while Cuba was.The United States went to war for the emancipation of Cube and not for Puerto Rico.Whatever objection or constitutional difficulty may lie in the way of her annexation of Cuba lies quite au strongly against that of Puerto Rico, with the one exception that the United States, on going to war, declared her intention not to annex Cubs, and, though all other countries were equally imphed, Puerto Rico was not mentioned \u2018nomi- rain,\u2019 as the old law Latio had it.The difference, however, bids fair to be only one of outward form.The Cubana, out of respect for their many years\" struexle for liberty, are to have à tryat seli-guvernment ; but only in strict jead- mgstringe It is plain to everybody but themselves that they cannot welk alone.Spain indeed makes it a primary stipulation that the United States shaii guarantee order and pesce in the island, and the substantial islanders who have anything to lose, Cubane as well ss Spaniards, sectn equally anxious for the «ffoctave continuance of United States power, There is no probability that the United States will be able now or ever to retire from Cuba One omis ton we notice with regret in the discussions of how scores shall be cleared off betwern the United States and Spain, and that is ali reference to the Caroline Ielands.The Carolines, called in the Unite! States, Micronesia, have been Inggeis christianived by missicneries from the United States, the first missionaries hasing been sent by the Hawaiian con.verte oi the American missions to the Sendwich Islands.Not many years ago S,din asserted her latent claim to sovereignty in thos islands, and in Leeping with her usual methods of mis rule, made things uncomfortable for the native Protestants, if the phrase \u2018Protestant\u2019 can be used with regard to people who probably never heard it.Whatever prescriptive right of ancient discovery Spaim may have to these islands, the United Btates has she moral right, and she should amert it now.\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEWFOUNDLAND.It ie to be hoped that one of the outcomes of the present effort to eettie differences between Canada and the United States will be some effort to settle the condition of Newfoundland.That colony.with a population not larger than the eity of Montreal, and just pow a mans of internal and external problems, offers very serious complication of many of Canada\u2019s external questions, and ite statesmen not unnaturally propose to use the diplomatic advantages which her 1m- portant strategic pomtion g.ves her for ail they are worth in coercing both Canada and the Imperial Government.Newfoundland cannot 4ght France, which ie an invader of her soil, but ahe can force Great Britain or some one to tackie France for ber.She cannot pay her deirts, and has even mortgaged her island and all her resources to Mr.Reid, yet she ran demand whatever she chooks at the hands of the mother country and of Canada, neither of which can afford to ignore her.Her present position, while in some ways very weak, is in others almost impregnable.Her demands are not wo dignified as they would be if they were backed by even the means and strength which, but for her recent reckless record.she should have; but she can be fairly imperative notwithstanding.It would be a grest etroke of ststrsmanebip to bring Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation.Her problems are certainly not of a kind which we can wish to adopt as our own, but they are ours any way, with the dis advantage of being contmlied by a community with nothing to lose, and prepared, if need be, to work st crose pur posa with our statesmen.It is alm at sbeurd to have the polilicians of this little community of trading bouscs and fieh- ermen fhreatoring ve with adverse duties, and to hand our trade vith her over to the Americans if we de not do their way.NEWS FROM LONDON.How the English Regard the American Foreign Problem.BRITAIN IN THE EAST.TILE PRINCE OF WALES IMPROV- ING\u2014GOSSIP, (New York \u2018Times\u2019 Cable.) London, July 30.\u2014The consdentions, political, economic, and historical difficulties which the Americans find devolr- ing upon them in their Philippines prob lem are very well understood here, They certainly ought to be, because the cor respondents have been spreading them out, quite regardiess of apace, ever mince M.Oambon'e csll at the White House.Certain of these qualms even secure a kind of sbetract, ethical sympathy from English men who know well what & i» to contemplate some new annexing necessity, suddeuly rising in their im- perisl path, with pious reluctance, Instances of their failure ultimetely to overcome this reluctance are however,extremely rare.You may call this greed or you may call t the courage to face the consequences of one's own acts; but 1t is m the marrow of tle jones of the Anglo-Saxon race, and if at this moment there can be mid to be one preluminant ides in the British mind on the subjcot, it = one of dary incredulity that the Americans are guing to fumble the fortunes of that race in the Malaysian Pacific.It would be imposible to convey to you the and fervor of that feeling here.Ît is the literal truth thee among the members of Parliament.and the hig clam of strong, educated men in the professions, buæness, and the like, who shape final Fuglish opinion, there is more rei] anxiety about Washington's decigiom on the Philippine policy than there ever vas ajout Washington's menacing posture over Venezuela.There is one univerml opinion.T diver no deviation from it mn any quarter.It is that the Americans in the logic of the wurld of politics cannot now ather commit themselves to brlstering up the blood-stained and riddled fraud of Spamsh sovereignty over any purt of the Archipelago, or go away leaving the warted and derrhet remnsats of Eurr- pean civilization to be overvhelined by the browe flood.Dewey's guns created a new condition of affairs in the Pacific, wind is defined and emphasized hy the arrival of Merntt.Frery Engh sers that that condition imposss on Americans the responsibility of ike on- sequences, and that they are not the people he takes them to be if in the eud they tura thir backs on them.A QUESTION OF WIDE IMPORT.1 wm far from suggesting that English opinion should affet American judz.ment, hus in fact the Philippines are one Phase of à very hig and comjilicnted and threatening \u201cquestion, in which England is champiomng American interests quite as much as her oem.This was very clear to the Americana last winter when they cheered the Irish ulttmatum of the open door.That they should mem 1 forge: :£ now by letting the traditions of 2 dead hand instead of the imperative and presa.ng face of today\u2019s world poii- tou t9 desde \u2018he mat momentous girs.tion with which the Pnaieh-epenkina peoples have heen confronted in venrs, weld end a surprised shock through.ent the Kingdom.However, an | have mul.no one here expevis, or even much fers.anything of the kind.The in- exarable lagie of events is what they rely upog to at last shape Amerian ac tim, When the news of M.Cambon's call an the Presxient first came the na tivaal papers greeted it with an ecstasr of headlines abwt \u2018Pesee\u2019in Sight\u201d No bady talks that way now.The opininne of clever men in public life, refiected in these despatches a fortnight sgn.all na- sume that Spain woukl sem put forth à feeler as to terme.but then would enmie s long period of diplomatie fodimg, the wim nbjects bemg to prolong the life of the Ministry at Madrid an! to gain time for a new set of still more di aperste «of: inte to induce the contmental powers to form a combination for the division of the Thikppines into apheres of in.trrest.the whole remaining under the Spanish ar elm tn take mome minor siseals, and leave Mame.Luzon.ete, ta the Spanidh.The message through M.Cembon could have no other object than these plus the natura] desire of continental diplomacy to uncover America's Mainyean plans.As ties is bank beliday time.when even electricity takes \u20ac vacntion, no one in England will know to-night whether they succeeded or not ENGLAND IN THE FAR FAST, Although Mr.Balfour has announced that the goremment enntemplates no discussion on ite Chinese policy, or absence of policy, during the remaining fortoight of the ecssion, it seems un.hkely that parlisment wiil consent to break up without some cleager undere manding on this met vital of pente The present condition of the question ia simply intoierable to \u2018inglisimen.Apparently not even the Yang-tee Valley ia to he saved for British trade.for by a compliested and vet transparent trick the Rumsan contractors have obtained control of the Julian Railway conces- mon.Fogland was warned six montis ago of how this trick was being worked, and a sharp peremptory veto at Pekin would have stopped it, hart nothing waa done.A dosen different Poglish pro.jocks snd enterprises of a minilar nature 9 have been smashed at Pekin, often with heavy peouniary loss to the promoters, by the awtooritio intervention of tbe Russian minister, and Lord Salisbury bes not deigned to ounfort his fellow -u-us- trymen by even a show of personal indignation.This sore of g cannot > on much longer without an explosion.Loree of substantial Tory members talk openly of the probable necessity of revolt.How profound and widespread this fedling is may he gathored from the fact that fully a third of the Tories in the Houso are sid to have rewerved the news of their psety\u2019s tremendous defest at Reading with \u2018A good job, too.\u2019 It was à fight waged simost entirely on the sue of the loreign policy; and for the first tima some of the most important local Tory magnates either stood publicly aloof or helped the Radical candidate 40 his extraondinary majority, PROSPECT OF WAR WITH RUBSIA What mukes the thing more confusing and irritating, of course, is that Goch en's amazing navy speech has practically committed the country to war with Rue sia.Nothing ele can be made out of bis words.\u2018But in Heaven's name,\u2019 Englishmen ask, \u2018il this contest is recognized as inevitable, why indefininely delay it, while Russia perfects her Siberian railway system and ousts the English from all their points of vantage in the Clunese Empire?\" There is still no reason why a sufficient show of the right kind of strength or force of will st Pe- kin, tacked by money and diplomatie skill, should pot recover for England what she has oat in power and prestige there.Hut Englishmen look in vain for any agn nf courage or capacity in those who aro handling the affair in their name, Even the boasted triumph of British diplomacy in securing pledges that the Yang-tae Valley gill he forever malien- able turns out, now that the ~orrespon- dence is printed, to be a dch:sion.TIIE PRINCE OF WALFS BETTER.It is plessant to be able to nota the existence of a much more sanguine view about the Prince of Wales, both profes mional and general, than that entertain- cd a week ago.He has not been deprese- ed or disorganized by the pain snd the confinement, es war feared, and luckily it has been 3 cool, fresh-aired week in town.The original mustake of bringing im to lemdon has been rectified in a very intelligent fashi-m to-day.He always geta great enjoyment out of (lowes, where he meets the net he is most at bume with, and nothing could amuse or rev.vify him nore at this juneture than to be there as a convaieæent.| am told be » gratly impressed and touched by the tokens of jecuiar sympathy which heve Leen showered upon him.The shoals nf tuf-bunting massages of condoi- ence, à cmmderable proportion of which paid Atiantie cable toila, were, of course discounted: bu: the expresmons of xond feelmg from the people at large in all parts of the country were something dif- ferrnt.The balance nf probabilities jeans slightly, T understand, toward his alwars heing lame.There are plenty of examples of complete recovery without operas tion, but they were younger and thinner people.In any came, however, everybody 1a glad row that tire was no ope eration, he most of all.\u2014 THE PRINCE OF WALES.HIS ROYAL HIGHNFSS ATTEND® THE COWES REGATTA.London.July 30.\u2014The Prince of Wales marted §-r the Sclent at 250 this afier- ron, He wae married frm his room in Mariborough House on an ambulance couch, which was placed bodily mn rn hospital amisulunee, The Princesa of Walia then tak a scat beanle her husband, who waa alc) accompanied by a thysiean.Mle party was heartily ~lwered, as the ambulance nas driven away.Similar methods will be obeerved in drandermng the Prise to the train an} irom the latter t~ the ral yacht \u2018iwborne,\u201d and in taking him ashore again.A number of silors have lwen specially trained t+ carry the couch on bored the vachi, which will immediately procece ta (wes Alteratine have won made in the deck house so ae t 5 al- lew the Urnce's chair to pase easily in and out, and @ #;©1al pavilion bas Teen crectai astern, where His Royal Iligh- new will witncws the resmtta, The Princes of Wales will remain on board the vacht.It appears that when the Sukan of Turkey telegraphed has condolence and inquiries at the time of the accident to the 'rince cf Wales, fis Majesty offer ed.an @ special demone ration of his solicitude, to wend the weli-known Turkish surgeon, Djemai Pasha, to atten! the Prince, \u2014\u2014 PENNY POSTAGE.IT WILL GO INTO EFFECT ON THE NINTH OF NOVEDMBER.Toronto, Aug.).\u2014The folowing ie the \u2018Evening Tel gram'e coixe dater} London, Aug 1: The Hon.Wi'ham Mulock, T'ost master-Gieneral of (nuda, has gone to other parte on a va.The penny postige, in the bringing about of winch Mr.Mulock gave such valuable scrvicem, will into force on Nov.9, the Prinee of Wales's hin: oloy \u2014\u2014\u2014 CPR.LAND SALES.Winnipeg, Man, Aug.1\u2014The Cans- dian Pacfic land sles for July aggregate AO acres for the sun of $122,000.The Caoade North-West Land Company sold 6,135 acres for £32,500, 10 LITERARY NOTES.Mr.Richard Harding Davis, the author of \u2018 The Princes Aline * and \u2018A Soldier of Fortune,\u2019 is now in Cuba w a \u2018special\u2019 war correspondent and bia name is to be aven at the foos of tele graphic despatches.A few months ago his book, \u2018Cuba in War Time,\u2019 waa pub lished.This title one would now expect to apply to the war between Spain and the United States: #t however really refers to the war which has been going on for sw long between the Spaniards and the insurgents.Mr.Davis went to Cuba and collected his data by personal observation and from eye-witnesses whom he knew to be truthful.The journey was made apparently regardices of expense or danger\u2014his two travelling companions both died by the way of contagious dis cases.The book is & small one, and though of a transient nature has not yet loat interest for it describes very accur- stely the present conditions of the is | land's inhabitants.The Spaniards hold j all the towns and forts while the insur- Se clearing at all without considerable pre- parstory work.Down along the middle of the clearing runs a double Kos of posts to which is strung a great mangled network of barbed wire.Beside thie fence and at intervals close enough for 4 man's voice to be heard from one to another extend a line of wooden forte and blockhousea.The whole is now