Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 23 décembre 1902, mardi 23 décembre 1902

[" \u2018Montreal Weekly Witness.PIFTY SEVENTH YEAR MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1802 TALK OF ARBITRATION.Venezuela's Difficulty With Britain and Germany.THE POWERS ASK PRESIDENT ROOSBVELT TO ACT AS AR- BITRATOR\u2014DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT London, Dec.16.\u2014The House was erowded this evening when the Vene- [go suelan matter in came up for debate.Mr.\u2018Henry White, the American charge d'affaires, had a seat in the dig: lomatic gallery.Mr.Schwann (advanced Liberal), after having expressed surprise that the government was anx- fous for another war after Routh Af- rien, complained of the paucity of the information concerning the Venezuelan situation, which had been given to Parliament.He said he hoped arbitration would be accepted, because, although President Roosevelt is anxious not to act quickly, the situation is full of danger and the Prenident's hands might be forced by politicians.Lord Cranborne spoke after Mr.Schwann, He reproached this member with a desire to discredit the government, and exclaimed that papers in the Venezuelan matter were very voluminous, and that those issued today were only \u201ca summary.He said that Great Britain had to perform police duty among the nations, and had to prevent Venezuela from breaking the law of nations and the Uni States took the sensible view that Great Britain's insistence that Vene- zicls should meet her engagements was no infraction of the Monroe doe trine.\u2018No country had been more anxious than Great Britain,\u2019 said Lord Cranborne, \u2018to assist the American government in maintaining that doctrine.\u2019 This remark was greeted with cheers.Continuing, the under foreign secrete.y said the British government had displayed great forbearance and that it was only after Venezuela had been thrice summoned to do right that the government had been driven to strong measures to secure the safety, liberty, and property of British subjects in Venezuela, and that in the execution of these measures the t desired to pursue the same course of moderation.Lord Cranborne said also that the blockade would be carried out with every regard for the interests of neutrals.Sir Henry Campbell-Bagnerman, the Liberal leader, then voient his strong dissatisfaction with Lord Cranborne\u2019s speech.He complained of the lack of information about the German and British claims, which, he maid, seemed to be on a different footing.The ker said he was an advocate of the best feeling between the two countries, but in this matter Great Britain seemed to be bound hand and foot to Germany.We can do nothing with regard to our claims, continued the Liberal leader, unless the Germans ure perfectly satisfied with the settlement of their claims.Such sn agreement is contrary to the country\u2019s best interests.The speaker has said nothing about sn important communication received from the United States; there would be universal satisfaction if this communication were of such a nature as to lead to a peace ful solution of what after all seems to be a somewhat squalid diffieulty.Mr.Balfour necuerd the mover and seconder of the motion to adjourn of a desire to discredit the government, and said this was not the way to ap- roach a painful international episode.Premier declared there was no justification for the assumption that the government was prepared to go to war for the Venezuelan bondholders.The erux of the matter wes « series of outrages by Venezuelans on British seamen and shipowners, for which not only had compensation been refused, but Great Britain's remonstrances had been entirely disregarded.It was an intolerable situation, and the Premier denied that the government had been unduly hasty.Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman appeared to desire to co-operate with Germany on his own peculiar terms, but few allies were prepared to act on such a basis.Mr.Balfour, continuing, said that in so far as the financial claims were concerned, the government was prepared to agree to a tribunal to assess them equitably.He also said that the United States government had not suggested arbitration.Anglo-German interests in Venezuela had been entrusted to the American Minister at Caracas, Mr.Bowen, who, with admirable energy, nd protected the lives of German subjects.The Premier said te understood that it was through the United States that the suggestion for erbitration hnd come.On that point fo, rod only say it was unfortunate t Venezuela should not have thought of the advantages of arbitration during the long period covered by controversies, but, on the con- rary, whe should have refused all explanation ar apology until actualy engaged in hostilities, when this idea of arbitration suddenly commended Steel! to the minds of the Venezueluns.The Premier said he would say nothing for or against his iles and re- peated that it had not come from the vernment of the United States.Rir William Vernon Harcourt aad other members of the House then criticized the government for its ae tion, and pressed for.additional infor mation.Mr.Timothy M.Healy (Nationalist) declared that the Irish vote in America had driven the British Government into a humiliating alliance with Germany, and warned the government that it was in a perilous position, owing to the state of political feeling in the United States, Replying to questions, Mr.Balfour said 1faly was sending warships to Venezuelan waters\u2019 but that there was no agreement between Italy and Great Britain, as there was between Great Britain and Germany.Referring to the Anglo-German fleets on the Vene- ruelan coast, the Premier said there was no quistion of seniority, as the two fleets were acting slong different parts of the coast, and independently of each other.During the course of the debate, Mr.Hy.Norman (Liberal) warned the government of the perils which might possibly result from a sudden change in American feeling.He suggested that Great Britain should even now ap- prosch \u2018the United tates, with a re uest for that country\u2019s friendly of- ces.Major Arthur Hamilton Lee (Conservative), who was at one time military attache to the British embassy at Washington, expressed t at An- glo-German co-operation, which, he eaid, would be greatly resented in America.Mr.Bchwann's motion was rejected without a division.HOUSE OF LORDS.Tondon, Dec.15.\u2014Lord Lansdowne, in the House of Lords, this afternoon an- noupeed that the propos) for arbitrs- tion was now under consideration by the itish Government.He : We British .sre tly indebted to the good offices of te United States minister at Caracas in obtaining the release of the British and German subjects.\u2019 Tord Lansdowne had no official infor mation regarding the reported bombardment of \u201cPuerto Cabello.He mid since the parliamentary paper giving the \\'enezuelan correspondence bad been is sued, the government had received from Mr.Haggard a cabled summary of what urporis to be Venezuela's reply to the ritish ultimatum.Therein Venezuela complains that no reparation was offered by Great Britain for the landing of the marines or for.the conduct of the British authorities of Trinidad.This des patch closed by saying Venezuela represented that as her treasury was exhausted it was impossible for the government to meet its debts for the mo ment, but directly peace was declared it would not be necessary to remind the Venezuelan Government of its obligations.BRITAIN'S GRIEVANCES.A parliamentary paper giving the cor- renpondence relating to Fenesuelun nf faire, was isa this afternoon, It be- @ns with a memorandum, which, after recounting the existing causes of com: plaint against Venezuela including the seizures of British ships and the protestation against the Venezuelan consul at Trinidad exacting improper fees for collecting customs dues for Venezuela in Trinidad, of which \u2018no notice was taken enezuels,\u201d says: \u2018Besides these specific outrages and ground for complaint, there are causes in which British subjects and companies have large claims against Venezuela.Venezuelan Government declined to accept the explanations and assurances of His Majesty's Government in regard ta the Ban Righ as in any way modifying the situation.« result the position of His Majesty's legation at Caracas is rend quite impracticable for diplomatic purpores, as all representatioss, protests and remonstrances now remain disregarded and unacknowledged.The correspondence, which dates to Dec.2, shows that so early as July 3, Germany tentatively mentioned the Venezuelan difficulties and Lord Lans downe, the Foreign becretary, replied that he would be quite ready té copter with a view to joint action.On Aug.5, Lord Lansdowne warned the Admiralty to prevare for putting pressure on Venezuela, adding \u201cThe German ambassador, Count Wolff-Mctternich, has suggested that the two powers coucern- ed should partake in a joint naval demonstration.On Avg.1, the British minister, Mr.Hageard, notified Lord Lansdowne that he bad personally presented to the Acting Foreign Minister n mote recording his formal protest against the \u2018intoler- uble conduct of the Venccuelan Government,\u2019 stating that unless prompt com- Juneation were paid the injured persons we should take the necessary \u201ceve to exact reparation.Mr.concludes: .\u201cI'he minister accepted the note quiet: 1p.His final remark was that they were \u201cused to these communications.\u201d ! said that night be the cass, but not from England.\u201d Mr.Haggard, on Aug.4, informed Lord Lansdowne that the Venesuelan Foreign Minister bad definitely stated that \u2018until the Ban Righ matter is settled sutisisc- torily to the interests of both nations the Venezuelan Government cannot en- fortain any question on « different sub- On Sept.27, Vice-Admiral Douglas suggeated to the Admiralty that st would be necessary in order to bring effective pressure on Venezuela to blockade the rts of La Guayrs, Porto Cabello and racaibo tow: the end of November and seize all Venezuelan gunboats \u2018sutil demands are complied with.Lord Lansdowne, under date of Oct.22, says the blockade is \u2018open to some objection,\u2019 but he endorses the seizure of the vessels.In the next communjestion, dated Nov.11, he notified Mr.Buchacan, charge d'affaires at Berlin, that Germany was prepared to join Great Britain in « final warning, and that it had been agreed that the first step should be the seizure of Venezuelan vessels.\u2018As to the joint execution of measures Casi of coercion,\u201d says Lord Lansdowne, \u2018the German Government recognized thst there was & sharp distinction in the character of the British and German claims, but thal nevertheless the two claims ought to stand or fall together, and that we ought to exclude the poesi- bility of a settlement between Venezme- la and one of the two powers without an equally satisfactory settlement with the other\u201d Aîter settling with Germany the mode of procedure and the instructions to be sent to the naval commanders, Lora lansdowne, on Nov.27, informed Mr.Haggard thereof, and gave instructions xs t6 his course regarding the presentation of the ultimatum, und the minis ters\u2019 departure from Caracas, which have been since followed out.The last communication, dated Dee.3, is from Lord Lansdowne to Mr.gard.It instructs him regarding the terms of the ultimatum, which arc known.DISRESPECTFUL TREATMENT OF THE BRITISH MINISTER RANKLES IN THE BRITISH MIND.London, Dec.16.\u2014Judging from state ments given out by the Foreign Sie the Venezuelan situption to-might dos not appear to be any nearer a ne ment.Up to a late hour to-night, no suggestion has been made that Great Britain could eventually see its way to submitting ity claims to arbitration, amd the Foreign Office points out that suela\u2019s offer to arbitrate is extrem vague.sident Castro, in tion in which be expressed hi wlilingness to resort to arbitration, provides nu guarantee that the rights of British subjects iu Venezuela will be re spected pending tbe award.The Foe- eign Office claims that some matters are impossible te arbitrate, instancing the disrespectful treatment of Mr.Haggard, the British minister to Venezuela: To arbitrate the financial claims, however, will meet with no opposition in offici circles in London, uur is there any de sire to stir up opposition bere by continuing unnecessarily the present armed compact with Germany; but, quoting from the Foreign Office, \u2018at the same time there is not the slightest inclination to let Venezuela go unpuni for her repeated insults and injuries.The offer to arbitrate comes very late.We are not seeking a quarrel, but we must ensure ourselves against a recurrence of acts which led to the present situation.\u2019 The Foreign Office appears to be without official cognizance of the attitude of the Washington Government, although it is convinced unofficially that Washington is anxious that further hestilities be avoided.It is known that the Forzign Office has made enquiry as to whether the United tates would be willing to guarantee the fulfilling of Venezuela's pledges, either ut the imemdiate cessation of the present Europzan action, or pending the award of arbitrators.his enquiry resulted in a direct negative from the United States.With the guarantee of the United States the Foreign Office says arbitration io the Venezuelan matters would be an immediate probability, but, with only the word of & government hitherto unreliable, arbitration is difficult of accomplishing even upon the points where international rela.The tions admit of such & method of settle- VINETA'S\u2019 OFFICER KILLED.Porto Cabello, Dec.16\u2014It has been learned here that during the bombardment of Porto Cabello, on Dec.13, by the British cruiser \u2018Charybdis\u2019 and the German cruiser \u2018Vineta,\u2019 that the \u2018Charybdis\u2019 was struck in the bow by = shot fired from a cannon on the Plaza Bruzal.The *Vineta' was struck twice by the Venezuelan cannon fire.je re port which has been in circulation hers thot au officer of the \u2018Vineta\u2019 was Lilled du.iug the bombardment by s rifle tml- le: Lied from the shore app.now te true.The \u2018 Vineta\u2019 left this port sadden's, although it was sup she woule remain here to protec: Geran interests.She is at preneat at Willemstad, Curacao, where she arrived with her flag flying at half-mast.It is_he- Jieved a German cruiser cent to vii lems or t of burying \u20ac body of the des officer there.WHAT 18 A PEACEFUL BLOCKADE?New York, Dec.17.\u2014Mr.Hay has cabled to Mr.Tower, ambassador at Berlin, says the \u2018Worlds\u2019 correspondent at Washington.to ask the German Government to define for this country exactly what in meant by s \u2018peaceful blockade.\u201d Although it has not yet been into ublic expression, the United States vernment contends that thers is no such thing as 8 \u2018peaceful blockade.\u2019 If & state of war docs not exist, the Washington Government will contend at the time, that United States sh! proper ba allewed to gase.The thet ue ben (he Rel Tins: stonmer \u2018 tile [out of custom receipts.next Saturday.If that \u2014l through, es it is expected it will offer shipe from other Dations wi also de- man æ , Al ti blockade\u2019 will become a farce.t- many insiste on its right to blockade peaceably and refuses to let American ships through, then Admiral Dewey's fleet will be sent to Venezuela to convey the American ships through the German and British lines.Admiral Dewey has been told to keep his fleet her.The reason the United States Government made this demand of Germany is because it has in writing, in black and white, the full statement of ny\u2019s intentions in Venezuela.It bas no such statement from Grest Britain.The diplomate of that country were ehrewd enough to make oniy « verbal statement of intent.Benor Lopez Barfalt, Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, has transmitted to Mr.Bowen, the United States minister, 8 document signed by President tro as constitutional president of the republic, and countersigned himself an minister of foreign affairs, m which Mr.Bowen is recogniezd as the only representative of Vznezuela in the matter of effecting u settiement of the present difficulty.FRENCH CLAIMS.Caracas, Dec.18.\u20141t was learned tonight that France has address~d a note to her charge d'affaires at Caracas for submission te the Venezuelan Govern: ment, plating the position she will maintain with reference to claims of her citizens agninst Venezuela.France makes s distinction between claims arising be: fore Castro's assumption of power and those a inc2, The claims of France prior to Castro's administration, it in , are all ready to settled by arbitration.The claims arising since Castro became President are to be adjusted by the French minister at Caracas proper ministerial officers of Venezuela.This was arranged some time ago.In the note sent to Caracas France takes the position that claims srisipg since 1899, when Castro became President, should have as favorable treat.ent as is given to claims of Great ritain, Germany and other countries.As to claims .prior to 1809 France says they shall be met according to the most favored nation treaty clause and be met The mote to courteous and firm.France, it is an- pounced, will make no demonstration against Venesuels.THE ALLIES AND CASTRO.London, Dec, 19.\u2014Grest Britain has a to the United States in re- to the suggestion that the Vene- lan question should be submitted to arbitration.The tenor of the rely, it is expected here, will tend to bring about some arrangement for a satisfactory solution while thoroughly safeguarding the interests of the ers concerned.The note to Reuter's Telegram Company announcing that (ireat Britain had sent a reply to the United States adds : * The statements ispuing from Caracas to the effect thet President Castro has em- wered the United States minister, Mr.wen, to act as the representative of Venezuela are regarded in London as open to question.Any such action on the part of President Castro Would be considered wbolly beside the mark.The powers concerned will desl solely with the United States in the matter of arbitration.The Government of President Castro will not be consulted in am form, not even to the terms om whic arbitration might be acceptable to the powers.\u2019 \u2014 ACTUAL WAR.London, Dec.17.\u2014In the course of a long statement in the House of Cum mons to-day Mr.Balfour said there wny no such thing as a \u2018pacific blockade.\u201d A state of war actually existed with Vene zuels and an intimation of the blocks le would shortly be given to the powure Mr.Balfour added that the blockade will be carried out with as little incon: venience to neutrals as possible.Nothing definite had occurred with reference to the arbitration proposal since his pre vious statement on the subject.The Premier also said the operations were reluctantly undertaken, not to re cover debts, but, after a long and patient delay, to recover compensation for assaults on British subjects and the seizure of British vessels.He believed the Germans also bad claims besides ibe financial ones.Mr.Healy, Irish Nationalist, asked if the United States assented to a blockade which would exclude United States vessels.The Premier replied: \u2018Neutrals sre not consulted when you are in & state of war with a third per, \u2018Is war dec ?asked Mr.Healy.The Premier replied: \u2018Does the honorable member suppose that without a state of war you can take vessels and Dore ee eth u M ng to further questions, r.Balfour said he had nothing to add regarding arbitration beyond what was contained in his previous statement cn the subject.Papers were Leing prepared and would be presented to the lous as soon es i He assumed th would include the communications whic had paseed on the subject of the blockade ween the United States ond Great Britain.Mr.Balfour's statement was made in ply to the desire of the Liberal leader, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermau for information on the Venesuelan situation.After reiterating Lond Lansdowne's bri statement in House of Lords yes terday the Premier continued: \u2018The blockade will be carried out b Great Britain and Germany slong different portions of the coast, and although the two fleets will bave the name hehe t will not act as one force.e never bad intention of landing treops in Vemeroels or of occupying ter- sitery even ter: 4 \u2018Carecas\u2019 arrives at La Guayrs, probably ip sisted, and t v.We do no! think it desirable on either military or other grounds.All the conditions gav- erning such a blockade have been carefully considered and will be published in due tine for the information of neutrals.The government is most anxious that these operationn, the necessity for which we deeply regret, should he ae little inconvenient to neutrals as they possibly can be made.No difference will be made between the vessels of the varius neutral powers.1 think it is quite likely that the United States will think that there cannot be such a thing as à \u2018pacitie blockade,\u2019 and I, naily, take the same view.Fvidently, a blockade involves a state of war.\u2019 Mr.Balfour concluded his statement by saying he could make no announcement an to whether the offer of arbitration from Venezuelu will be accepted by Great Britain.VENEZUELA YIELDING.Caracas, Dec.17.\u2014Indieations here now ave that Venezuela will yield to the demands of the allies.The leading citizens of Curacas have addressed a joint note to President Castro asking him to give full powers to Mr.Bowen, the United Ktates Minister, to effect a termination of the present fficalty.This note was transmitted to President Castro at one o'clock to-day.It is signed by all the leading merchants, bankers and agriculturistsa of Carn- opinion among the business ele ment of thin city.The men who signed the note will meet to discuss ways amd means of obtaining money with which Venezuela can meet her obligations, as well as the guarantees which it will be possible to offer to her creditors.NOTE TO CASTRO.The note is as follows: \u2014 Caracas, Dec.17, 1902.To the President of the United States of Venezuela: \u2014 \u2018Sir \u2014The undersigned have met with the purpose of offering their aid to the Government of Venezuels in the pre.nent conflicting situation which been created by the aggressive attitude of Germany and Great Britain, and upon your request to give our opinions in writing we address you in the following terms: \u2014 \u2018In view of the acts of violence already committed, and of the absolute impotence of Venezuela Lo meet force with force in response to the allied ac- tien pf Germany and Great Britain, in view of the fact that Venesuels has exhausted all the means required by civilization and diplomacy to put an end to the present situation, and the fovernment and people of Venezuela having complied honorably and worthily with the demands of the national honor, we consider, with all due re- pect.that the moment to yield to force has arrived.\u2018We therefore respectfully recommend that full power given to the Minister of the United States of America, authorizing him to carry out proper measures to terminate the present conflict in the manner the least prejudicial to the interests of Venezuela.\u2018We subscribe ourselves your obedient servants, +I.E.Linares, H.I.Boulton, Carlos Santana, Nicomedes Zuloaga, Carlas Zuloags, F.DeSales, Pereze Montauban.M.Chapellin, Juan Herrera, Juan À.A.Travieso y De J.Paul\u2019 In addition to the names given, the note is signed by about 200 other prominent citizens of Caracas.Caraess, Dec.17.~The blockade of La Guayra, notification of which in the names of Great Britain and Germany was communirated to the Venezuela Government Dec.13, went into effect to-day.The order applied to Venezuelan vessels only.Washington.Dec.21.\u2014 President Roosevelt bas proposed to the allied powers that the Venezuelan dispute he submitted to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal.The powers have re- pres with à counter propossl that Mr.oosevelt himself arbitrate the issues.These are the latest developments in the Venezuelan matter, and they deem to justify the prediction that the critical point had been .i Mr.Roosevelt does not wish to act as arbitrator in this dispute, for as such it in felt here he would be at once j , jury snd constable, and would be under the moral obligation to execute bis own judgment.The President feels that a tefercnce to The Hague tribunal would vastly strengthen the cause of arbitration.Still, rather than see the present dispute proceed to extremes, it is probable the President will reluctantly as sume the duties of arbitrator.If an agreement is reached on arbitra: tion, the procedure would be for Mr.Bowen, representing Venezuela, ns a plenipotentiary, to sign with the repre sentatives of the allies a tocol, stating that the case is to be submitted to arbitration; that Venezuela admits the right of diplomatic intervention in behalf of a claimant, a principle she has always re t the details of the arbi: tration shall be arranged in 8 formal treaty, which she pl herself to sign.This treaty will provide in the greatest detail for the security of foreign interests against vexatious and extortionate interference on the part of the Venezuelan Government hereafter, and will ensure the adiministration of exact justice in the settlement of claims, and ally will it relieve foreign residents of Venesucla from forced loans and prosecution in the time of revolutions, status of the arbitration negotistions ss disclosed at the Btate Ptmont was that the pow.} ers were wall for an answer from the {ROT Spy, pes.President to their pro; self undertake to arbitrate the Venasme lan difficulty.CASTRO WILL ACCEPT.| that he him \u2026 21 \u2014In the name of Vous President Castro has ified aon oeptance of the appointment of President Roosevelt to arbitrate the Venezuelsa difficulty.ANSWERS OF THE ALLIES.Berlin.Dec.21\u2014It han been learned here that the government of Germany and Great Britain have adopted detailed answers to the proposal to arbitrate the Venezuelan issues.These communica tions will be handed to Mr.Tower, Brit ish ambasandor here, and to Mr.ite, charge d'affaires in London, to-morrow.e correspondent of the Aseocisted Press bas learned further that the German answer a; in all substantial effects with the Bri answer and makes Do separate reservations in bebalf of the BRITISH FAVOR MR.R $ .ROOSEVELT.cation, Dec, 22.\u2014Provided the dii- juention of guarantee can be satis factarily surmounted, the Londor, nex news agree this morning in esiri Nr Roosevelt to accept the office of are trator.\u2018They fear that if the znatter is referred to The , Venezuela will probably ignore.the award.At the same ime, the President\u2019s reluctance to ne- gent the office is perfectly understood and is motiven respected.It in i that he would have a very Ed use it is said, among other thi that there would be something like = scramble to be heard of the different nations having claims against Venezuela.The hope in generally expressed that a pacific settlement will be reached.Great resen tment is roiced in the press this orning at a report from Port of in, Trinidad, that the crew of the Britak stcamer \u201c were dragged ashore at Porto Cabello at midnight, half clothed, péded mith, bayonets by Venezuelan æoldiers, ro y nm the mol and all imprisoned in one hs room 5 LORD CHARLFS BERESFORD'S VIEWS.London, Dec.20.\u2014Lord Charles Beres.ford has just returned from a visit to Germany.In a letter published in the Times\u2019 this morning he expresses the opinion that & great number of Germans disspprove of the Anglo-German agree vs be.thinks 1 mond have bas me vs be thinks it wo ve much better had the two nations acted inde PNOT BFFICLALLY ASKED YET.Washington, Dec.23.President Roces velt has not yet the position af srbitrutor of the Venexuelan contre er In fact, when y closed be not received officially a request from the powers that he act =» arbitrator of the dispute.These state ments are made or tae highest author ity.MORE WARS] .Halifax, Dec.23 \u2014The as cruiser \u2018Pallas\u2019 and the Italian warship \u201cCarle Alberte\u2019 have sailed for Venezuela.Caracas, Dec.zuela i MR.RUDYARD KIPLING IN HIS LATEST EFFORT HP EMPHASIZES THE ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT.london, Dec.22\u2014 The \u2018Times,\u2019 which strenuously opposes the British alliance with Germany in the Venezuelan trouble, prints 4 poem by Mr.Rudyard Kipling, crystallizing the popular anti sentiment, Under the title of \u2018The Rowers,\u201d Mr.Kipling pictures the men- of-warsmen grumbling st being compelled to join hands with such \"ice, whe were the bitterest haters of Britain dur ing the South African war.The poem contains the following: Last night ye swore our voyage was ne, But seaward still we go.And ye tell us now of a secret vow Ye bave made with an open foe.\u201cThat we must lie off a lightiess And haul, and back a tr, SO At the will of the breed that bave wronged us most, For a year snd a yesr and « year.Having enumerated some of the enor mities ascribed to the Germans, the poet continues: The dead they mocked are scarcely cold, Our wounds are bleefing yet, And ve tell us now that our strength ie 0] To help them press for a debt.\"Neath all the fan of sll mankind, That use upon the seas, Was there no other fleet to find That ye strike hands with these?Of evil times that men could choose, wir fate to fall, \\ broodi udgment let loose, To pick tbe ro of all.7 In sight of peace from the er half fhe world to ran cos With a cheated crew to leagues anew, With the Goth and the shameless un.DEAN OF WINCHFATER DEAD.London, Dec.23\u2014The Very Rev.Wil linm R.W.Stephens.Dean of Winchee- ter, died yesterday from typhoid fever, 1t is supposed that he contracted the dis ense at « mayoralty banquet at South empton, on Nov.10, from enting oysters that were contaminated with .Several of the guests who nttended 04 banquet are ill, and two others have already died.RUMORED VACANCY IN CHAMBLY 1t wos rumored this ing thet Me.Mouriee Perper MPF.fof Chambly, will His seat to the > vin 07 Boputy Minister Publis Wack at Ottawa.\u20ac . WACOUSTA : Or, the \"Prophecy.A BTORY OF INDIAN WARFARE.(Written by Major Richardson, of the British army, in 1832.The author was à grandson ol Mr.Erskine, of the Brit.eh Commisserut Dopartinent, who, when Fort Detroit was bosieged vy l\u2019on- tiac, in 1763, volunteered to bring eup- plies from Albany to Buffalo and from thence across the lake to Detroit, suc after long watching under cover | of a dark and stormy mghe, in throwing into the tori the supplies of which the ont of the Bluck Match ed = tly in need.large tracts of land = uted to hing in reward for Uns satyice and he finally settled on the Canadian chore, opposite Datroit.He had wasried the daughter of one of the turliest settlers from France, whose fum- fly was well known in history.It was from this old ludy, hw grandmother, that Mujor Richardson, when a boy, beard the detailed facts of the Pontiac lan for the caplure ot the two forts of roit and Michillimacimae, and longed to grow up that he might write a book ubout it.When Cooper's story, the \u2018Last of the Mohicans, rared and took the world by storm, these boyish longings revived and the romance of \u2018Waoousta\u2019 was produced and published.It ia thus founded on fact and w to soe cxtest a contribution tu history drawn Original sourves, although the story fuælf is fictitious.) (SUMMARY OF STORY ALREADY PUBLISHED.) The scene of the story Is tbe English Bon of Detroit in the winter of 1768.lodians iu the vicinity are disaffected, and strict guard js kept ou the fort.One midnight, the governor, Colonel de llal- dimar, alarms the garrison with the news that a strauçer entered his apartment as De slept: scarch Is made through the fort, and the sentinels ars questioned without Any result.A party of officers proceed slong the ramparts, and at the rear Sir Everard Vailetort.dimly makiog out a figure on the common, Gres.An answering ; shot kille Lieutenant Muiphy.Adjutant Lawson arrives to ray that the governor's eldest son, Captain de Haldimar, is miss- | ing, the gat: of the fort has been dincover- , ed unlocked, and tbe sentinel, Frank lal- | loway, is being examined by the governor.| At toe ensuing court-martial Halloway declares be te no traitor.and that but for Bis regard for Captain de Huidimar, he would not be in bis prexent position.On * Dis request his trivl is delayed until eight : ©'clock,whea he promises If nothing occurs ( to vindicate his character, be will disclose ; the circumstances to which he alludes.As Le is removed to a vell his wifo's voice 18 Peard thankiuz God for bis repricve, and when the governor barshiy orders the women of the regiment to be kept away from such scenes, she says, \u2018May the hour never some wben my lips shall pronounce their bittere't curse upon your severity.\u2019 The eruor reproves Valietort for having fred n the first !ustance, and retires in hla quaiters.The burtal of Murphy Is then proceeded with.A terrific yell of rage Is now heard from the distant woods, followed by anotbe: of triumph.Captain Erskine interprets th i to mean thst Captain de ilaldimar priscaer with the indians, tempted to escape, and was recaptu the day dawns, Vailetort exclatms timt his | shot must have taken .effect, for he soon a @ark form stretched on the common.But te bis dismay, as the daylight increases, Re recognizes the gay uniform of a British officer, undoubtedly that of de Ifaldimar.Charles de Haldimar, the younger brother, is overrome at the sight.Captala Er- skine.having reported these events to the governor, Is despatched with a company of 80 men to bring in the body.As they are ebout to raise it on &@ litter the hat [alla off disclosiug à sralpless crown.It thus seems evident the officer was killed by the { 1pdians, snd not by Valletort.At this meo-, ment yelling ludians arise in the neigh- toring bomb-proof a from behind the forest trees.A fierce encounter ensues.but the Indians fall back before à fusitisde from the ramparts, an@ the company make ge\u201c their retreat though with casunities.closer examination the corpse is discovered not to be Captain de Haldimar.but his servant Donellsn dressed io the Cap- taln\u2019s uniform.CHAPTER IV.\u2014(Continued.) \u201c1 did,\u2019 replied that officer, with a XP quic that denoted a natural feeling of exuitation; \u2018 but Bombardier Kitson's was the most effective.It was hia shell that drove the Indians finally out of the bomb-proof, and left the coast clear tor your retreat.\u2019 \u2018Then Kitson, and his gunners also, | merit our best thanks,\u2019 pursued Captain Erskine, whose spirits, now that his de- tachmaen t was in safety, were more than ed weusily exhilarated by the exciting events of the last hour.\u201cBut, confound my stupid head ! where are Charles de Hal- dimar and Sir Everard Valletort ?\u2018Poor Charles is in a high fever, and confined t- his bed,\u2019 remarked Captain Blessington, who now came up, sdding his congratulations in a low tone, that marked the despondency of his heart, Advertisements.AU Stuffed Up That's the condition of many sufferers from catarrh, especially in the morning.Great difficulty is experi: off enoed in clearing the head and throat.No wonder catarrh causes headache, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, poliutes the hreath, deranges the stomach and affects the appetite.To cure catarrh, treatment must be constitutional \u2014alterative and tonic, *~T wes ill for four months with eatarrh ia the head and throat.Had a bad cough aod relesd blood.1 had become dis oouraged when my husband bought a bottie dered of Heed's Sarsapariiia and persu ne LT it.1 advise al] to take it.bas and built me up.Mrs.HUGH RUDOLPH, West Liscomd, N.S.Hood's Sarsapariila Oures catarrh \u2014 it soothes and the mucuous membrane and builds upthe whole system.\u2018and Sir Everard I have just left on the rampart with the company, looking, as he well may, the very image of des pair.\u2018Run to them, Sumners, my dear boy.\u2019 said Erskine, bastily addressing himscli to à young ensign who stood near him; \u2018run quicély and relieve them of th:ir error.Say it 1s not de Haldar who has been killed, therefore they need nol make themselves any longer uneasy on that score\u201d The officers gave a start of surprise.Summers, however, han tened to acquit himself of the pleas ing task assigned him, without waiting to hear the explanation of the sinwular declaration, Not de flaldimar !\u2018* eagerly and anx.mly exclaimed Captain Iilessington; \u2018who then have you brought to us in bis uniform, which 1 clearly distinguish: from the rampart ne you passed Ÿ Burely you would uot tamper with us at such a moment, Erskine \u201cWho it is, 1 know no more than Adam,\u2019 rejoined the other; \u2018unless, indeed, it be the devil himself.All 1 do know is, that it is not our friend, de Haldimar; although, as you observe, he most certainly wears his uniform.But you shall see and judge for yourselves, gentlemen.Sergeant Cassidy,\u201d he inquil vf that individual, who now came to ask if the detachment was to to be dismiseed, \u2018where have you placed the litter \u2018Under the piazza of the guard-room, sir,\u2019 eaid the sergeant.These words had scarcely been uttered, when a general hai movement of the officers, anxious to satisfy themselves by personal observation that it was not indeed de Haldimar who had fallen, took place in the direction alluded to, and in ths next moment they were at the side of the tier.A blanket had been thrown upon the corpse to conceal the loathsome disfigurement of the face, over which mpmes of thick cosgulated blood were laid in patches and streaks, that set all recognition at defisice.The formation uf the head alone, which was round and short, denoted it to be not de Haldi- mars.Not a feature was left unde- filed; and even the eyes were #0 cover ed it was impossible to say whether their lids were closed or open.More than one officer's check paled with the miek- ness that rose to hn heart as he ured on the hideous spectacle; vet as the curi osity of all was strongly excited to know who the murderrd man realy was who had been eo unaccountably inducted in the uniform of their lust companion, they were resolved to satisfy themselves without further delay.A basin of warm water ard a spo were procured Irom the guard-room of Ensign Fortescue, who now joined them, end with these Cap tain Blessington proceeded to remove the disguire.ln the course of this lavation, it was discovered that the Cxtraordionry flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound oa the back of the head by the sharp and pon- deroua tomaliawk of an Indian.It war the only blow that had been given; snd the circumstance of the deceased havi been found lying on his face, account for the quantity of gore that, trmekkin downwi , had so completely disguise.every feature.As the eoat of thick encrusted matter gave way beneath tae ire- quent application, of ax moistening eponge, the ue the countenance denot-d the murdered man to be à white.All doubt, however, was soon at an end.The ammunition shoes, the grey trousers, the coarse hinen, and the stiff Leathern stock encircling the neck, attested the rufferer \u2018o be a soldier of the rreon; but it was not until the face rad been completely denuded of ite unsightly covering, and every feature fully sxporcd.that the Soldier was [3 | h recognized to arry an, tiusty and attached servant of Captain de Haldimar._ While vet the cfficers stood apart, pas ing at the corpee, and forming a vanety of conjectures, as vague as they were un- sa in Tepes to their new mystery, Sir Everard Valletort, and breathless with the speed he had need, suddenly spheared among them._ \u2018God of heaven! can it be true\u2014end is it really ini de Haldimer Tam 1 have shot!\u2019 wild asked the agite: youn men.\u2018Who is this, Erkine\u201d he pois tinued, glancing at the litter.\u2018Explain, for pity sake, and quickly.\u2019 \u2018Compose yourself, my dear Valletort,\u2019 lied the officer addresmed.\u2018You see, this is not de Haldimar, but his servant Donellan.Neither han the latter met his death from your rifle: there is no mark of a bullet about him.It was an Tndian tomahawk that did his business: and 1 will stake my head against a hick.«ry nut the blow came from the same rascal at whom you fired, and who gave back the shot and the scalp halloo.\u2019 This opinion was unanimoosly express by the remainder of the officers.Sir Everard was almost as much overpowered with hie joy, as he hed previously been cverwhelmed by his despair, and he and shook the hand of Captain Erskine, who had thus been the means of relieving his conscience, with an energy of gratitude and feeling that almost drew tears from the eves of that blunt but gallant officer, \u2018Thank God! thank God!\u2019 he fervently exclaimed; \u2018I have not then even tho death of poor Donellan to answer for; end hastening from the guard-room, he pursued his course hurriedly and deNzht- edly to the ba rack-room of his friend.CHAPTER V.\u2018The hour fixed for the trial of the pris oner Halloway hed now arrived, and the cers composing the cour: were all met in the mess-room of the garmson, sur rounding a long green table covered with green shot.art, which were, distributed Tere, ink and paper for ng mine of the evidence.ard such notes of the proceedings as the several memhers might deem necrmary in the courre of the trial.Captain Blessington presided; and next bim, on cither hand, were the first in seniority.the twe junior occupying the lowest \u2018places.e demeanor the revera) officers, serious and befitting the duty they were met to perform, was ren- more eanecielly molemn from the renence of the governor, who.sitting a ttle to the right of the president.without the circle, remained cov with his arma folded across his cheat.At a signal given by the resident tn the orderly in waiting, that individual dreun- peu: from the room, and mon afterwards Prank Halloway.strongly |i 89 on the preceding plant, was uh: in by several files of guard, under Ensign Fortescue himeelf, | THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.The prisoner having been stationed s few paces on the left of tho president, that vilicer stood up to administer the customary oath.His example was followed by the rest of the court, who now rue, and, estendiug cach fie right hand upcn the prayer-l , repeat after vremdent, the form of wunie prescribed hy military Jaw.They then, after suo- cemively touching the sacred volume with their lips, once more their seats mi the table.The progecutor was the Adjutant, Law- on, wl ow handed over to the preni- dent a paper, from which the latter off.cer read, in a clear and distinct voice, the following charges, namely: \u20181st.For having on the night of the \u2014th of September, I763, while on duty at the gate of the Fortress of Detroit, either admitted a stranger into the garrisom hamwelf, or suffered lim to obtain admission, without giving the alarm, or using the means necermry to ensure his appre- Lension, mech conduet bring treasonable, and in breach of the articles of war, \u20182nd.For having been accessory to the &bduetion of Captuin Frederick de Haldi- mar and Private Harry Donellan, the divappearance of wiom from the garrison can ouly Le attrila.ted to « wcret understanding exist: frisoner aml the enemy without the walls, such condint being treasonable, and in breach of the articles of war.\u2019 \u2018Private Frank Halloway,\u2019 continue Captain Blessington, alter having read these two ehort Dut important \u2018you have heard what has been preferred against vow, what say fm, : fore?Are you guilty or not gui tey ¥* \u2018Not guilty\u201d firmly and somewhat ex- ultingly rep! the prisoner, laying his bend at the œume time on lis ing heart.\u2018Stay, mir,\u2019 sternly observed the governor, achiresains the president; you have not read all the charges.\u201d Captain Blewungton took up the paper from the table, on which he had carelessly thrown it, after reading the accusations above detailed, and perceived, for the first time, that a portion had been doubled back.His eve now glanced over a third charge, which had previously escaped his attention.\u2018Prisoner,\u2019 he pursued, after the lapse of a minute, \u2018there is a third cha: against you, viz, for having, on the night of the \u2014th Sept.176%, suffered Captain de Haldimar to unclose the gate of the fortress, and, accompanied by his servant, Private Harry nellan, to pass your post without the sanction of the governor, such conduct being in direct violation of a standing order of the garrison, and punishable with Feats The ner started.\u2018What!\u2019 he exclaimed, his cheek paling for the first time with momentary apprehension; \u2018is this voluntary confession of my own to be turned into a charge that threatens my life?Colonel de Haldimar, is the explanation which T gave you only this very hour, and in private, to be made the publie instrument of my condemnation?Am 1 to die because 1 had not firmness to vesist the prayer of my captain and of your son, Colonel de Haldimar¥ The [resident looked towards the governor, but a significant motion ot Be bead was the only reply.He proceeded: \u2018Prisoner Halloway, what plead you Guilty or not guilty?to this charge?see pla ly.\u2019 said Hallowny, after the pause of a minute, during which he appeared to be sumioning all his energies to his aid; \u2018I see plainly that it is use less to atrive against my fate, in de Haldimar is not here, and I must die.£till 1 shall not have the disgrace of dying as 8 traitor, though 1 own I have violated the orders of the garrison.\u2019 isoner,\u2019 interrupted Captsin Bless ington, \u2018whatever you may have to urge, u had better reserve for your defence.Meanwhile, what answer do tou make to the last charge preferred?Are you guilty or not guilty?\u2018Guilty,\u2019 mid Halloway, in a tone of ingled pride and sorrow, \u2018guilty of having listened to the earnest prayer of my captain, and suffered him, in violation of my orders, to pass my post, Of the other charges I am innocent.\u2019 The court listened with the most profound attention and interest to the words of the prisoner, and they glanced at each other in a manner that marked their senne of the truth they attached to hin declaration.\u2018Halloway, prisoner,\u2019 resumed Captain Blessington, mildly, yet impressively; \u2018re- collect the severe penalty which the third \u20ac , no Jess than the others, entails, recall your admission.Be advised v me,\u2019 he pursued, observing bis hesitation.\u2018Withdraw your plea, then, and substitute that of not guilty to the whole.\u201d \u201cCap*ain Blesisngton.\u2019 returned the prisoner with deep emotion, \u2018I feel all the kindness of your motive; and if anything can console me in my present situation it is the circumstance of having presiding at my trisl an officer so universally beloved by the whole corps.Still, and again his voice acquired i wonted firmness, and his cheek glowed with honest pride, \u2018still, 1 scorn to retract my words.Of the two first charges I am as innocent as the babe unborn.\u201d To the last [ plead guilty; and vain would it be to say otherwise, since the gate was found open while J wan on duty, and 1 know the penalty attached to the disobedience of orders.\u2019 After some further but ineflectual remonstrances on the part of the president, the pleas of the prisoner were recorded, and the examination com , Governor de Haldimar was the first wit.Tes.That officer, having been sworn, stated that on the preceding night he bad been intruded u in his apettments by a stranger, who could have obtained admis sion only through the gate of the fortress, by which ales he must have made hin escape.That it was evident he prisoner had been in correspondence with their enemies; since, on proceedin, to examine the gate it had been found unlorked, while the confusion mnnifest- ed by him on being accused, aatistied nil who \u2018were present of the enormity of his guilt.Search had been made everywhere for the keys, but without success.The second charge was supported by Presumptive evidence alone; for al- hough the Li swore to the disap.rance of his son, and the murder of is servant, and dwelt emphatically on the fact of their having heen forcibly ear ried off with the connivance of the pris oner, still there was no other proof of this, than the deductions drawn from the reumatances already detailed.To this diMculty.however, the third harpe had been framed.Ju proof of this the governor stated, «that the prisoner, on being interrogated by him immediately subsequent to his being relieved from his post, had erinced such confusion and hesitation, as to leave 10 doubt whatever of his guilt; that, influenced hy the half promuse of commu: nication, which the court heard as well as himself, he had suffered the trial of the privoner to be delayed until the present hour, strongly hoping he might hen he induced to reveal the share he had borne in these unworthy and treasonable practices; that, with a view to chtoin thin disclosure, no essential to the mnfety of the garrisen, he had, conjointly with Major Blackwater, visited the cell of the prisoner, to whom he related the fact of the murder of Donellan, in the disguise of hin master's ing him, at the mame time, | ed lus own life, and the mfety of those who were most dear to him, to give a clue to the solution of this aywterione circumstance, and disclose the nature and extent of his connection with the enemy without: that the prisoner, however, resolutely denied.na before.the guilt imputed to him, but having had time to concoet a plausible story.stated (doubt.ss with a view to shielding himself from the severs punishment he well knew to be attached to hif offence) that Captain de Haldimar himaelf had removed the kevs from the funrd-roora, opened the gate of the fortress.and.norommani by his servant.dressed in a colored oat, had sallied forth upon the common.And this, emphatically pursy the pavernor, the prisoner admits he permitted, although well aware that, by an order of long standing for the security of the rison, auch a nt dereliction of his duty subjected him to the punishment of death.(To be Continued.) CHILDREN'S CORNER.THE CHRISTMAS PARTY.A long time ago, in a land far sway, Mother Goose gave & party ome bright Christmas day.She marshalled her children in brillinat array, And invited the folk from Fairy-Tale way.There was sweet Cinderella, Dame Trot and her cat; And Jack the Giant-Killer, and Horner and Spratt, There was Little Boy Blue, Aud the Frog who would woo, And the funny Uld Woman who Lived in a Shoe.There wan Little Miss Muffet and Red- Ridingh And Hop-o\"-my-Thumb and the Babes Wood.Cole in the There was jolly Kin, And his fiddlers droll, And a great many more that I cannot enroll.When ee assembled, so history te They heard in the distance a chiming of bells, And, drawn by his eight praveing refn- deer 20 gay, Senta Claus soon appeared in his glittering sleigh.The children all gathered around him with joy, And each one received a most beautiful toy; And\u2014this part of the tale you oan scarcely believe\u2014 Whatever they asked they were sure to receive.Their gifts made them all as happy as kings, But some of them asked for the fum- ndeat of things.The Babes ta the Wood desired new winter suits.Cinderella said she wanted high rubber boots.And Little Boy Dlue was longing, he said, For a nice little bed, With a blue and whites spread, And a soft feather pillow to put \u2018neath his head.Jack Homer requested a silver-pie- ni knife; Jack Spratt said he'd like a new gown or his wife, Then Jack and Jill said That they wanted a sled, With shining sieel runners, and painted bright red.Simple Simon announced he'd like turnover pies, Of various flavors and rather good sise.Mother Hubbard remarked, in quavering tones, That she\u2019d he much obliged for a bushel of bones.Bo Peep said she'd love to have a new crook: The Queen of Hearts asked for a re- cipe-book.And thus Santa Claus went on through the lst; Each had a fine present and no one was missed, Then he jumped into his sleigh and drove out of sight: Merry Christmas,\u2019 he called, \u2018and to all a good night!\u2019 And each guest went home saying, \u201cThis seems to me The ve, best party that ever could \u2014Carolyn Wells, in the Youth Companion.\u2014\u2014 tnt THIRTY MINUTES WITH SANTA CLAUS, A CHRISTMAS STORY FOR CHILDREN.(By Henry Folger, Kingston.) Christmes Eve, Dec, 1901, Dear Boy,\u2014This ia Christmas Eve, Tuesday, .24, 1901.I am eareful to give you thin exact time, because I am going to tell you & story different from what any otber little boy has ever heard; @ narrative of something that has taken place in Jour room, where Santa Claus has just called and talked with me.1 have been very ill for several days and to-night the river is frozen over, ed and the ive thunders and erackles in Every Elgin watch has the word \u201c the cold us you have heard it before when the old river was being nailed down and covered over with ice b Jack Frost.The wind howls aroun the old house, and seems to say: \u2018I have got you now! I have got you now!\u2019 1 could hesr it so plainly, and it shakes the windows of my room so fearfully that I could not sleep there, for the wind is west and strikes that part of the house; and so I came into your old room, where ali is so quiet and still that 1 dropped to sloep at once, but was awakened by a noise on the roof, as if a hundred horses were pawing there, and a big stone fell from the top of the chimney (you know how lurge those stones are).It rolled from the roof, and fell off and struck the balcony in front of your room, breaking a piece out of it.In a minute 1 saw what had knocked the stone off.I was lying on my left side in the bed in your room, with my face turned toward the door, when what do you think i saw?Why, there in the door stood Santa Claus, with a lot of things for you.He esemed surprised when he saw you were not there, but laughed and said to himself, \u2018Ub, 1 Te.member, Bert has gone to Brooklyn, and I will slip over there.\u2019 Ha looked so funny and good natured that I was not a bit afraid of him, and so I let him know 1 was awake, and asked him if he had anything for me.Well, then you ought to have heard him laugh! \u2018You are s nice Mind A «vid to i a present to, guess be iy brings presents to little boys and girls.Well, I guess he thought I was siek and alone, and was soi for me, and 0 Le talked with me a little.He just moved his hand towsrd the bureau with the mirror in ft, that you re member stands in your room, and it moved right to the foot of the bed, and he swung himselt upon it.I found it « good chance to ses him.I can see his back in the mirror as he talks, and so that gives me a great chance to look him over sil around, which I did, so as to tell you all about him.What struck me most wae his laugh.It was soft, as the purring of a kitten, and seemed full of sunshine and the tingling of little bells.His eyes were blus as summer skies, and were bright and sparkling, as if there were an electric light power plant behind goodness, and made me feel all the time as if he were full of fun, and joking with me.His complexion was the nicest you ever saw; just white and pink, fike pretty cranberries.1f you have never seen such cranberries you must have your mother show you some.There was a sweet and restful loo} on his face, full of kindness and intelligence, but quiet and pleasant as the water in front of \u2018Edgewater\u2019 when the moonlight falls on it, soft as melted musie.You have seen his hair in pictures, Well, it is not at all a mass of wool like that, but every of hair seems so perfect and full of lite that it seems to talk.Not eurly, but just a little oringley.I wonder if that Le why they cs m \u2018Nym Cringlet You will remember where the electric light is?Well, he sat right under that, and each haig seemed to be soft as a silken thread, full of light.While he was talking Tuck came into the room, and he said: \u2018Tuck, how are you?It surprised me, and I asked him how he knew her mame.He laughed again and ssid: \u2018Oh, I know a thing or two, and I like the dogs because they are so good to children\u2019 You know how afraid Tuck ai- ways fs of everybody?Well, she seemed to know him, and was not à Lit afraid, and when she jumped up and touche! her nose to his cheek, it seemed as if it would leave a spot, his com: plexion was so perfect.I asked him how be kept track of all the little boys and girls, and how he knew how good and bad they were, and what to give them.Well, fie said, it ie mit generally known, but he was really king of sll the fairies, and every night in the year they brought him gifts for children, and talked over what they were doing; and besides, in some families, the father or mother keeps an account, in which they put down whether the boy ja good or bad.\u2018For instance,\u2019 he said, \u2018Bert's mother fires him three kinses if he fa a good y all day, and if not, she gives him two.Then, when only little she gives him one.She puts this down in a book, so I can see just what Bert is doing every day.\u2019 TI asked him what sort of a boy you were, ard he said, guarmniesd against original defect of watohes will be mulled to you for the asking.ELOIN NATIONAL WATCH COMPANY, Eigia, lilinols, them.They were full of mischief and |j Drczxsen 28, 1902 Ca ELGIN WATCH In\u2019 e ved on the work: every Character.A ne - Sure of its Victim, Dr.D.M.Bye.of Indians Erest cancer speciallst, who has cured over six thousand casos of cancer within lant oixht years with poothiner baies oi that one time he selaclod à list of vo hundred names of persons who hed written to him relative to taking treatmont, but who, from soine cause, hid neglected to do so, and wrote to them several months later inquiriax after their condition ; to his surprise and Coy?h learned that nearly twenty percent had di within five montha from ihe time they ha written their letters of inquiry.If left to lraslf cancer is always sure of its victim, wer 1a, Ind.the Ein a Fpl 505.Tndianapors, Ind.© OY \u2018Oh, there are lots of boys worse than Bert,\u2019 but he did not say there were y better.noticed every time he ke he leughed, and when be laughed his eyes were full of tears, 1 asked him what made that, and he said: \u2018They are tears of happinesss; 1 never waste any of them.1 save them, ant when I find a little boy that is very, very good, I steal up to hii some time when [ find him asleep, and put one of these little tears in his eyss, and it givea him a sight se that he sees the good in everything, which makes him happy all bis life, - \u201cThis he said, \u2018is my best gift.\u201d 1 did not ask him to give you one, but ! hops you will get it, .was going to talk a good deal more to him, Bit he interested me so that 1 wanted Miss Clark, the nurse, who was in the next room, to see him and 1 called her to come.As I did we, he jum, off the bureau and said be would go, as he was too busy on Christmas Eve to hold a reception for ladies.T soticed whan he got off ihé a he was only a little taller than ye are.I asked him to wait a minutes longer, and I would tell Miss Clark not to come in, and he said all right.Then ho said?\u201cWhat can 1 do for you?\u2018Woll,\u2019 1 said, \u2018I think you have done 8 good deal in making me this wall; but it you would just wait a little, while I write to tell Bert of your visit, I will be glad, and then if you will take the letter with you, he css bave it the same time that he does Your other gifis\u2019 He said, \u2018All right, 1 will do it,\u2019 and he is looking at me now while I am writing; but I must not keep him any longer, so I suppose you will have this in & few minutes while you and I are sleeping.I like to know if Jeu get it all right, because it has a ong way to go, sud bave never known a letter before to be sent in that way.There are lots more that I have to tell you about him.We will talk it over when we mest.As soon as he 1 shall call Miss Clark and Tommy, and show them the very spot where he sat, so there will be thres undoubted eye witnesses to this strange story.Your loving GRANDFATHER.\u2014 BEAL HUNTING.(From \u2018Outing.\u201d) .Hunting the seal from the icy stort swept coast of Newfoundland is not sport; it is toil, whereby, in part, \u2018the Newfoundlander wins his scanty measure of bread.The hunt is a slaughter, dull aud bloody\u2014a leap into the whining, scurrying peck and the swinging and thrust of an iron shod gaff; a merciless raining of blows, with a silent waste of ice, ai splashed red, at the end of it.: is no iy ben his, nor ti ear of hu: je harp leads end whines like a child, even while the gaff is falling, but the chase is beset multitudinous and dreadful dangers paut a fending off peri ve.ven and all fen = 0 vast a Teco and ital that recape from their descent is by tbe veriest chance.The wind gathers the ice into floes and ma it against the coast, an immessura- le, expanse of LY Interepers:d ey Btn .hie b' and his t « \u2018grub\u2019 a: SEE at midn may come up with the pack at devra.Bes the wind which sweeps the ice in (nevi tably sweeps it out again, without warning, in an hour, or à day or à week; nor does {t pause to consider the situa: tion of the men, who are twenly miles off shore; it veers snd freshens end drives the whole mass, ing and bey.(5 tar out to set, wi ers it ispecess is nto scparate fragments.The lives of the luntere depend upon the watchluiness of the attenusted line of lookouts, from the women on the heed tance.to the tirst sentinel within signaliiag dia - Dacauaen 28; 1902, LITERARY REVIEW.THE TWO VANREVELS.It is not so very long ago since the old semtimental songs wern the new songs of the day.\u2018Youth was romantic\u2019 in the forties, Mr.Booth Tarkington reminds toy poetry was epidemic whenever a rew deauty came to town, and people were sot above \u2018doing à pretty thing openly without mocking themselves for it.\u2019 It is matisfactory\u2019 that Mr.Driggs has brought out à Canadian edition of \u201cIhe Two Vanrevels\u2019 in time for the Christmas season, as this new book by Hooth Tarkington is one of the very best novels of the year.1t tells of old days in Indiens.The little town of Rouen, settled first by the French in LaSaile\u2019s wake, wus \u2018the leading centre of elegance end culture in the Ohio valley\u2014at least 00 they mid in Rouen; only a few peo- pls in the country, such as Mr.Irving, of Tarrytown, for instance, questioning whether « centre could lead.\u201d Hither old Robert Carewe, the financial and social magnate of the town, brought home bis daughter from the convente school, where she had passed most of ber girlhood.Promptly all the young men fell in love with her, including two who did Dot appear at ber coming-out ball.These two her father designated as the fool snd the knave, Crailey Gray, & very attractive but dissipated young man being the fool, and Tom Vanrevel, Gray's partner, being the knave.The truth \u2018wes that Gray bad been ruined by gambling with old Carewe, and Vanrevel, who loved the talented ne'er-do-weel, bad paid his debts, and asked the old man not to play with him any more.Now, Miss Betty, hearing of young Van- vevel's fine chiructer, began to take a fomantic interest in him, and loathed the bad record of Crailey Gray, but having got the two mixed up, anubbed the good youth in public and allowed the bad one to court her in private.She fo the perfect girl of that period, ber matura! charms accentuated by an educs- tion in graceful accomplishments, her idesly of the highest, her spirit and self.possession equal to every occasion.She saves some young men from s burning building by going up to show them « trap-door, and has no ides that she is keroie in doing so.Crailey Gray un.dortak \u2018es to escort her home from the Bo, to bis fancy, ne they walked, the pace betwee them was hung with brilliant strands, like gossamer chains of gold, already inking them together: every second Sxing another slender, precious fetter,bind- fog them cioser, drawing her nesrer.He vaîteé uuti they passed into the shadows of the deser\u2019sd Carewe street before he spoke.There he stopped abruptly: at which she turned.astonished.\u2018Now that you have saved my life,\u2019 he «id, in 8 low, tremulous tone, \u201cwhat are pou going to do with 1e?\" Her syes opened simost as widely as they Bad at her frst sight of him ln her gar- Gen.\u2018There was a long pause before she Teplieé, an] when she did, !t was to bis consiéerabls surprise.\"I have never seen a play, except the fanny, little ones we acted at the + + + =» + LOS Worthoru Messenger - ag vc oe Me Le ** 10 copies or mors te one address at 90e per copy, AT (Bs above papers seni postpaid to the Dominion, Newfousdiand and United Slates To Great Britain and other Postal Union countries \u2014 * Weakly Witoem® se \"Northern ADVERTISING RATES.WRPKLY WITNESS.\u2014(Casusl mivertisoments Mie par Line por insertion, * Ferme te Rent\u201d Forme for Bale.\u201d cau be inserted forlo » word por insertion from »1bscribers.The lowest raw or non-euteci bers is two cents por word.When Pepin are 10 be midressed in care of the \u201cWit.sun Offs, ac additional charge of twenty-re vats made.In nil cases the full price must accompany each onter.DAILY WITNESS.\u2014100 per lina por insertion.Contracts on fevorshle terms.\u201cEmployment Wanted,\u201d \u201cMtustions Vecaat\u201d et, 10c per inser tion, up to 30 words.Mouey must accompany order, 88 (18 quotation 8 reckuasd om » cash basis.Birtheand Deaths, Be por insertion : Marriages, tle.(Thess must be suthenticatrd by the name snd address of the envier.) 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of dawning singelh all sight ong: And then, they say, no spirit cas walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planct strikes, No fairy takes, mor witch bath power to charm, Bo gracious and so hallowed is the time.When Shakespeare wrote there war still a very real belief in witcheraft, in fairies, and the power of spirits to walk the earth and upon occasion to reveal themselves, and it was a hesutiful thought of his that upon the night when Jesus was remembered all the forces of evil and unrest were stayed.To cur forefathers, Uhristmas wax a sacred and a jucund season, and we of & more scientific and rushing age cannot choose but regret the passing away of much of its picturesque and hoary ceremonial.The belief of the people was coniiding, al though overlaid with much superstition, and devotion ran like a thread of old through the somewhat coarse material of their minstrelsy and mumming.Even to-day, their homely carols are refreshing and they will last while the | language does.Too much, perhaps were that ancient folk given to overeating and drinking.They glorified the custom by the rites which attended each dish, and few ean read of the \u2018Iringing in of the Boar'a Head' and other ceremonies attending the Christmas feast, as described by a Washington Irving.without a wish to blot out à few centuries, see the Yule log blaze on the hearth again, and share in the simpler pleasires and sports of a less sophisticated tine, Then could we have sung with that fine old poet, George Wither, a right English feasting song: Le! now !s come eur joyfull'st feast, Let every man be jolly, Esch room with ivy leaves Is drest, And every post with holly.Now, all our neighbors\u2019 chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning: Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all their spits are turning.Without the door let sorrow le, And, it for cold, It bap te die, We'll bury it in a \u2018Christomae pie, And evermore be merry.Happily, Christmas comes to most of us of tbe Anglo-Saxon race when, as Sack- ville sings, \u2018The wrathful winter, hastening om apace, with blustering blasts has all ybar'd the treen\u2019 It is then when comfortable men gather about great fires and yet are cold, that they can feel most for the homeless and the poor.It is then when we are most impressed with the humble birth sad life of the Baviour of mankind that buman love grows warm and embraces poverty and many a cheerless home is transformed fo an Eden by timely aid and sympathy.But this peculiarly \u2018Christmassy\u2019 feeling, bred more particularly in the colder climes of western Europe, where it marks the tura- ing of the year from darkness to light, has travelled far.Where the wun rises to the right and sets to the left, where the great bear is low and the southern cross is high, and where Christmas is a mid-summer feast our brothers still ; rove the truth of the saying that \u2018they ~hange their beaven but not their heart who cross the sea.\u2019 And what does it all mean?Is it a mere recurrence to old immemorial nature worship or has it in it all a genuine belief in the rising of the star which brings the promised day of the Kingdom of Heaven ?Men may see it differently, but ell men see it coming.All men see good winning its way over evil, however, slowly.[by have not ail such an eday ead child-like faith as in the days when a ladder reach ed to heaven, but is it not true, ss s theologian has maid, that men can (nly apprehend God according as their own nioral nature is in correspondence with His, and is it Dot true that men\u2019s moral apprehensions ae à whole are ever rising to a higher standard as the result of Knowing more of God ?Although there is {ar less assurance of creed than there has been, is this not more and more the universal faith and prayer: Thy kingdom come! om earth let discord conse, Ceme thy long Sabbath of tless'd love sad © And so, as they sang of old time, \u2018God rest you, merry gentlemen, lot nothing you dismay.\u2019 \u2014 Mr.Marconi has triumphantly established wireless communication between Canada snd England, and the success of fis system cannot but profoundly affect the world in its most intimate relations.If we may be guided by the precedent of the telegraph, the esble, and the tele phone, the perfection of wireless tel graphy will in time render the means of long-distance eommunication so cheap that all but the very poorest will ues the Marconigram more and more mot only for business, but for social needs, and the letter will be relegated even more than it ie now to \u2018slow work,\u2019 the transmission of \u2018enclosures\u2019 and to the eonveyane | { more than fourtene thousand.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS of affectionate sentiments and of intl mate thoughts.So many marvel lous irventions have been seem by us during the past few decades that our stock of wonderment is pretty well ex hausted, and we take all that happens or can happer more or less as a matter of course.In spite of that, we may re flect that successful wireless telegraphy over thousands of miles of ocean is really one of the most tremendous tlnugs accomplished in any time, Mr.Marconi could not have done the thing three hundred years ago without danger to his life as 8 practitioner of wizardry.The first message was one from Lord Minto to King Edward, and its successful trans mission resulted in Lord Minto telegraphing to Mr.Marconi: \u2018Warmest congratulations on your splendid success.\u2019 In thoes congratulations all the world will join heartily.When the first eable was laid the message of the great Queen was, \u2018There shall be no more sea.\u201d What mying of the ages is equal to the era when deep calleth unto deep not with the noise of tempests but with the still.small voices of clear understanding, and when the hilltops shall no longer signal to each other with the beacon fires of danger, but shall listen to the whisper- ings of kindly intercourse.\u2014_\u2014 The referendum figures to hand bring up the prohibition vote beyond that of 1884.and when the official returns are to hand the shuwing will be doubtle:x even better, as the successive lista of tie- ures which have been published since the referendum vote have invariably in their total further enhanced the temperance majority.In the provincial plebiscite of 184 they were 180.087 for and 108,496 against, and in the national pl biscite for 1808 they were 152,333 for and 114.240 againet.As compared, then, with 1888, the prohibition vote has ac tually increased by over thirty thoueand votes, while the liquor vote has decreassd by twenty thousand.As compared with 1804, the temperance vote has increased more than fourtesn thousand.The ma- and the liquor vote bas decreased by The mn.Jority for prohibition in 1804 was 71,501; : in 1808 it was 33,000, and in this yeor to date 88,353, which is by far the best showing vet.The temperance vote ir 1804 was sixty-two and a half percent of the whole vote; in 1808 it was fifty-seven percent of the whole vote, and in 19% it is very nearly sixty-six percent, or very close on two to one.\u2014 All sorts of historical precedents are being raked up to show how the present situation in Venezuela might easily result in a catastrophe not contemplated by any of the powers.The position of the Spanish republic is compared to that of China, when the allies sent fleets and troops to compel her government to give satisfaction for losses and outrages.It differs in this, however, that China had to submit under threat of partition, while Venezuela is protected from territorial dismemberment by the United States.Again, it is asked, what would happen if the \u2018Maine\u2019 incident should be repeated and a Dritish or German warship blown up?War, certainly; bup what kind of war?Then, it is observed, that Admiral Dewey's fleet has been moved nesrer the secne of operations, ard the situstion is compared to that off the coast of Greece in the year 1527, when the fleets of Britain, France end Russia were watching the combined fleets of Turkey and Egypt.War was not declared, the fleets were merely watching each other, when for some reason never explained, the Turks fired on 8 British ship.Instantly ensued the battle of Navarino, one of the most desperate and destructive naval engagements in history, which only ended when the Turkish-Fgyptisn fleet was completely sanihilated.The power of Turkey was broken and the Christian nations congratulated themselves on the result of a battle not expected and fought by ae- cident, The wrecking of the Maine\u2019 and the battle of Navarino may appesr far-fetched precedents of what may hap- peu off the coast of Venezuela, but they are enough in point to show the serious possibility of disaster.\u2014\u2014 The German Government has won the victory and the tariff bill has passed.It is not & great victory, and, indeed, wo are told that \u2018many friends of the present order see in the bill itself and in the manner in which it was forced through the Reichstag the beginning of industriel distress and of political dis order\u2019 The government, however, has got what it \u2018wanted, \u2018a weapon against \u2018 eommmercial rivals, a tariff schedule so \u201chigh that all who trade with Germany \u201cmust wee for conezssions.\u2019 Well, that may be; certain it is that all who buy food in Germany will have to pay for it through the nose, as the saying is.It would seem that the Agrarians have swe eseded in forcing the government to raise the original tariff schedule so outrageously as to raise the question as to whether it will not defeat their own purpose.The \u2018Voesische Zeitung\u2019 doubts vory much whether parts of it sam bp a, put into effect.But the Agrarigns- that in the landed intereste-\u2014aupported the Emperor's canal and naval policy, and this is the price he has paid for that support.It is a victory for the Ger man landowner and \u2018landlord,\u2019 which will have the immediate effect of raising the prics of food to every artisan and laborer, in many cases to prohibitory figures, if enforced, and which must eventually inersass class antagonism sud strengthen the socialistie if not tbe re publican spirit.Ft will cause distress at home and curtail German trade abroad, exports as well as imports.Jt will drive people out cf the country.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dr.J.T.Reid, who has been working among the Doukhobore for some time under the Presbyterian Church, is now planning as a separate work te open & hospital among them, his object being not only to supply au urgent n°ed, but, without seeking to proselytize, to convince them of the reality of the Chris tianity of the nation among whom they have come to live, and by that means to bring them into touch with the Christian life of Canada, to the benefit, no doubt, of all partiss.He has at the outset received great encouragement, his list having been very cordially headed by Lady Minto with a hundred dollars, followed by two other similar subscriptions.Dr.Reid needs, we understand, « minimum of a thousand dollars before proceeding to build.From what we have heard of the character of the Doukhobors we should suppose that Dr.Reid would only need to convince them that he had not come te make money out of them to have the needs of his work supplied out of their common fund ss far as their simple products would serve that purpose.\u2014 Tt the iron and steel industry fe the great barometer of trade, as is often mid, there is nothing to fear for the next two years, all the big concerns in that line having more orders than they can fulfill in that time.It may be said, however, that the sbundant har- vesta of the last two years are of more importance as a gauge of prosperity.Should the coming harvests fail or fall considerably short, the iron and stecl industry would quickly respond with \u20ac decline.There can be no prosperity for any industry if farming is not prosperous.Thie is where agricultural countries have the advantage.Food production is the first of all industries, and all others depend upon it.This is the true secret of the success of North Americe over the nations of Europe.Countries that have iron and cosl in abundance can become great in manufacturing only by having chesp food.On this continent we possess these prime industrial factors, and, in addition, a vast food- producing srea.These are pelf-contain- ed conditions which no country in Eur ope possesses, and they point to a time when competition in the production of iron and steel by Europe with America will be impossible so long as the existing European system continues.The present state of affairs is abnormal and cannot last.Slowly but surely the bal: ance is going against Europe, and must continue in that way as population in America increases and the ares of cultivation widens, with the development of manufacturing at the same time.Put if by means of protective duties rnd bonuses sll taxed on agriculture food be made as dear in America as in Europe, conditions will tend to equalization on the two continents.This points to the true policy for Canada, which is to keep down the cost of living and not to raise barriers to any trade that may come to us as payment for foodstuffs, for this is primarily a food-producing country.\u2014 The grain blockade in the North-West continues.The Grain Growers\u2019 Associa: tion of Wolseley met recently and memo- rislized the prime minister coneerning the unsatisfactory condition of transportation.The crop of the past year has been so good that the farmers of the Wolseley station have at least a million bushels to market, and of that million bushels they have only been able to sh.p to date eighty-three cars, of which sev enty-three were unloaded at the station with genera! merchandise, leaving only ten empties forwarded solely for the grain trade.As at « corresponding rate of transportation two years would be required before all the present Wolseley crop could be moved out of the country, it will be seen that the Canadian Pacific Railway» present transportation facilities are pot in proportion to the requirements.As many farmers of necessity must market some of their crop at the earliest possible moment, the buyers or elevator men take advantage of thern being hardly any transportation facilities and pay for the wheat from eight to ten sents a bushel less than the market price at Fort William would warrant, Indeed, farmers sslling in car lots get from nine to tem cents more s bushel for their whest the day it is Joad- ed than they would for wheat out of the same gransry sold threugh the elevators.Bir Thomas Shaughnemy, president of the Canadian Pacific, acknowledges that .there has been à demand beyond the ability of the company to supply, and that advantage has been taken of this faet by grain buyers to squrese prices down, but, he says, he hopes that farm- era are passing through the last serious experience of this kind.He assures the Wolseley grain growers that the company during the past eighteen months has built or purchased every possible la- comotive and ear without special reference to cost, and that with the additional tolling stock under contract to be delivered before July 1 next everything may be expected to run along with compara: tive smoothness.The Wolseley farmers, however, are not ao optimistic, and place on 1ecord their opinion that no one company can or will provide the necessary rolling stock to convey to market the neosssary quantity the farmers have of nécessity to dispose of during the first three monthe after harvest.\u2014\u2014 The announcement is made that a rail: way is to be built by an Englishman for the Portuguese Government through Angola, as the Portuguese call their West African possessions, which were known in the old English geographies under the sailors\u2019 name of Lower Guinea.This railway is to run eastward from Lobito Bay, a little north of Benguella, the present end of the principal line of intercourse with the interior.This enterprise is of considerable interest to Canadians as in Bibé, the country through which it must run, numbers of Canadian and United States missionarirs are living, perfectly safe, in the midst of the native rebellion against the scoun- drelly Portuguese traders, who know neither pity nor honesty towards the blacks.\u2018The l\u2019ortuguese do not like the missionaries any better because the natives are entirely friendly to them, and to some who have arrived since the re bellion broke out they have refused permission to proceed to their stations.The primary purpose of the railway is no doubt to bring this fine country under government control.It is to be paid for with mineral rights in the country through which it runs, which are as yet an unknown quantity, but may easily tempt enterprise and commerce rapidly into the country, Mr.Williams, the ccncessionnaire, wants the railway as an outlet for the Southum Congo Free State and Northern Rhodesia, in both of which he already has large mineral interests and railway concessions.In any case there is already business for a railway to take the place of the human carriers who do a large part of the transportation at present.This railway heads directly for the extensive disputed territory be tween Portuguese West Africa and the British territory of Rhodesia.Exactly what the rival claims on this territory are we do not know, but in most British maps it seems to be conceded a preponderance of Portuguese color.If not dieposed of by treaty ita destiny would probably be decided by railway and this Portuguese line is presumably meant to win the race againet tbe Cape to Cairo railway, which will no doubt send off a branch up the Zambesi into this country.\u2014 The French, who have developed the automobile largely as a toy lor ths wealthy and reckiess, are going to experiment with it on ordinary railways, as 8 substitute for the familiar locomotive and train of cars.Here, however, Canadians are shead of them, as à petroleum motor car has been running for some months on the Canadian Pacific Reiiway near Ban as an observation car.The French cars are to hold forty people cech, end to be used for ordinary pawsenger traffic.A high railway nu- thority iz quoted as saying that the new sysicss will prove an absolute rivolu- tion.We can easily believe this, for the ordinary passenger train is highly unsuited to the peeds of suburban traffic.The carrying of men from their homes to their work devolves more and mors on the railways, as the cities grow beyond the reach of the street ears, and for this work the motor car forms a happy me dium between the street car and the express train.Being lightly built, it can be run without the extravagant waste of power that constitutes the chief expense of running a suburben train.The ordinary accommedation train, wander ing along at about twenty miles an bout, with es many stops as a church organ, burns as much coal to the mile as & fast express.The motor car ean slo be started more quickly than the ordinary train, snd when many cars are run instead of a few trains, each car need mot stop at esch station; in these ways a higher average speed can be reached, with less power.Mr.Cornelius Vander bilt, in & recent magasine article, holds that electricity will replace steam as « motive power on the railways of this eontinent, but be does not contemplate much change in the existing system of trains.Railway evolution \u2018of late has been in the direstion of more powerful locomotives, Heavier trains and more soi- idly constructed bridges and roadbrds.A limit, however, is rapidly being reach- od in the sise of locomotives, and if more power le te be obtained it must avoarently be through the trolley.Klec- Drorusza 23, 1902 tricity has many advantages, especially for suburban traffic, but it needs an oe- pensive equipment, and the petroleum motor car is not at all unlikely te make a place for itself and keep it for many years.It is pot, however, likely ever to supersede the locomotive-drawn train for freight and for long distance travel, ree fey .AN men have pedigrees, but with the vast majority family records have been so sadly neglected that few can trace their lineage beyond a grandfather.lo America most people are content to trace their origin to the first progenitor who came across the ocean.Others, more ambitious, trace the line to the county from which that progenitor came, and establirh the antiquity of their families through similarity of names, monuments to the dead and parish registers.Still there are a Inrge number of peopls who cannot secure a pedigree in this way, and these, beirg as anxious as their neighbors to boast of a genealogical tree, a sort of Heralds\u2019 College has Leen estab» lished by private enterprise in New York.There anybody who is prepared to pay the necessary fees can obtain a complete pedigree from as far back as he cares to go, with coat of arms, crest, motto and historical records, all in perfect heraldic order and warranted to defy criticism.This institution has met with such abundant sucecss that it hae its agencies all over Europe, which ean supply all required data on the shortest notice.Bo many families have riven to affluence in recent years and become de- virous of shining in European society, that an ancestry is à necessity to them before they leave home.All they have to do is to give their names and the country from which their forbears came, and the New York office does the rest.If still more ambitious for personal distinction, the same excellent and obliging authority will supply a schedule price list of titles that may be had by per chrec in those principalities where im- recunious potentates derive an income from the sale of patents of nobility af) the way from chevalier to prince.This is a luxury, however, that few Americans have the courage to indulge in, The | eult of nobility is said to have most vn- {aries among the women.Men are more often found with a penchant for learned degrees, and there are colleges which bestow D.C.L.'s, LL.D's, and wo forth, on easy terms for cash down.Bo, if a man is only ambitious enough he cn bloom not only as a person of august achievements in learning and acience and as the descendant of a long line of herecs, but as à nobleman in his own right.meer The following paragraph which appeared, spelling and all, in the Rand \u201cDaily Mail,\u2019 of Johannesburg, is an illustration, somowhat esaggerated no doubt, of the kind of misinformation that a large proportion of newspaper readers feed upon.It quite enriches a paragraph to change three or four hundred Russian Quaker pessants making s demonstration on behalf of their peculiar gospel into something like ninaty thousand half-breed Indisans\u2014 more Indians than ever got together in the world : Cansda has & peculiar question te face with the Doukbabors, who have set out os a piigrimage to find \u2018God.\u2019 The pligrime are 8 tribe of haif-breed Indians, whe ip- babit tue district of Assiniboia, one of these districts forming the government ef the North-Wast Territories of Caaada, and situated between Manitobs and Alberts.te ary close upon 96,000 Inhabitants, Most of whom are converts of the extra- otdinary religion which fe compelling the Pligrimage.Entirely without (ood, im.bred with a fanaticism, the haif-breeds are Yery naturally a cause of some anxiety te tbe Camadlan government.Where the pil- srimage Is to, our cable does not inform us, But it Is very evident that force is to be used to keep the devotees Inside the boundaries of thelr SD ate.cer.ments \u2018t, as 6 ru v Indly oa religious journeys ef this wrt They are apt to end in biood-let: ad @ re liglous fanatic thinks too se of hi own skin to make him a desirable oppea~ sot to the law, \u2014\u2014\u2014 NEIGHBORLY ADVICE.In the press of the United States the opinion is becoming more aceentuated every day that Britain and Germany have not a case strong enough to wars tant them in making war on Venesuela, \u2018That à state of war does exist bas been admitted by Mr.Baliour, who says there can be no such thing as a peaceful block: ade.The situation is full of danger, for it should be borne in mind that two of the most deplorable, costly and prolong: ed, wars of recent times\u2014that between Britain and the Boers.and that between the United States and the Filipinos-be- gan with the ides that a display of supe rior strength would convince the wesker peoples of the folly of trying conclusions in arms with great powers.In Britain this experience has been too recent for the people to look with favor on the se.tion of the government, while the deep- rooted popular distrust of Germany increases the general fesling of dissutisfae.tion.It may be only a suspicion, but the idea prevails that Germany, with her brand new navy, is spoiling for s fight.Ehe begin by sinking a little Haytion gunboat, whose negro admiral displaynd 8 heroism, in going down with his ship, unsurpsesed in the annals of any navy.The sinking of the Veasswelan vessels, F mes A CES Dnouxsen 28, 1902.taken without firing a shot, was still more wanton, and the effect on the public mind in Britain and the United States has been decidedly adverse to Germany.To eripple a_creditor in a poor way of setting about collecting a debt, But it should not be forgotten that in these proceedings Germany has followed the same course as that which Prussia adopted when, in alliance with Austria, she made war on Denmark, wrested Schles- wig-Holatein from that feeble kingdom, then tursed upon her ally, Austria, whom she defeated in a bloody war, and completed her long-plinned imperial programme by the invasion and dismemberment of France.If a historical review be taken since the battle of Vn- terloo it will be found that Pruseis, now the dominant partner in Germany, has always sought alliance for an ulterior purpose.In China her double-dealing should have been a warning to Itritain to keep clear of aseocintion with her in any case.It is significant of the trend of feeling in the United States that the press is almost unanimous in expressing regret that Britain should have been drawn into the present imbroglio by Germany.It ia pointed out that « British statesman was the originator of the Mourve doctrine, and it is assumed, perhaps too readily, that Fritain ie equally concerned with the United Btates in maintaining its integrity.On the contrary, Germany is bent upon flouting it, and, as her policy is always directed in accordance with carefully matured plans for definite purposes, her action towards Venezuela is regarded ns » step forward in her designs on Eouth America.It is natural at least that the United States should be found advising Great Britain to shake herself loose from Germany before it is too late.Such advice will come with a better grace if the United States takes the advice of à Colo- redo senator and implements her obstructive attitude by undertaking to sce Justice done by ber protege.TRE TIDE TURNED.Little wonder that the United States shows ber anxiety at the stream of far mers moving towards what We are accus temed to call the Canadian West considering that many of them are na tive-born Americans of British stock and the very best class of citisens.An ar ticle in the December number of the \u2018Nineteenth Century\u2019 gives the populs- tion of the United States at 76,000,000, including 8,803,535 negroes and 627,204 Chinese, Japanese, Indisns and Kanskas, Besides this, out of the 76,000,000 described as Americans, 10,400,850 are for- algners and 13,600,000 are born of for cign parents.This shows & very heterogeneous population, but the worst indictment the \u2018Nineteenth Century\u2019 makes out against the United Btates is that the native American does not multiply.In these circumstances the loss of about mine thousand of the flower of the people to Canada in 1808, of 11,000 in 1800, of 15,000 in 1000, of 18,000 in 1901, and of at least 25,000 this year, cannet but give our neighbors something serious to think about.The immigration figures thus quoted are not immense st present, but they show an socelerating increase, and the exodus from the United States is believed to have only begun.Since 1882, in which year, according to United States official statistics, 70,219 Canadians settled in the United States, it was a common jibe that Canads was annexing herself piecemeal.This tendency continued till 1890, when, according to the United States census, there were 980,938 United States citisans of British North American birth, and it was estimated that about #8 many more were of Canadian extrac- tios.Those who took broad views, how- aver, saw & reason for this of which the end was in sight.So long as the part of the continent that was inviting migration wes in the United States it was to be expected that all the good openings in life would be in that country.When the valleys of the Mississippi and its af- fleente offered room for the whole population of Europe we bad nothing to face it with but great lakes and inhospitable wildernesses, but now that those wil- detnesses have been overleaped the tables are turned.The \u2018Nineteenth Century\u2019 recognises that during the past eix years Canada bas prospered exceedingly, and that her children now find them to stay at home.Instead of thousands who crossed during the early years of the , thers were 1,323 at the end it, and in 1900 the figures further fell bundreds.It is necessary to bear is in mind to comprehend the full significanes of United States immigrs- tion in the North-West.To tha United tes the loss is a double one.Our rain of population is practically stopped, while that of the United States is beginning.And thoes who profess to fear, from a political point of view, the settling of the Canadian west by the good people now cofhing over the border may rest ageured that \u2018there ie no more poli- \u2018 tical significance in emigration from the \u2018United Btates to Canada than there \u2018was in the emigration from Furope to \u2018the United Bistes.Few of the set- * there are American in the true sense of \u2018the term at all.They are either of \u2018 Kuropesn or Canadian parentage, snd \u201cbecome British in the North-West just \u2018as fast as the British become Ameri \u201ccan in the Republic\u2019 On the Canadian arch in london during the Cor onation was the inscription, \u2018What \u2018the United States was to the nine- \u2018 teanth century, Canada will be to ths \u2018 twentieth.\u2019 Jt was no idle boast.As we pointed out towards the close of the season of navigation, this year, for the first time, there was more grain ship ped to Europe by way of the St, Taw- rence than by way of the United States Atlantic ports, and that we shall before long be the greatest growers of wheat in the world is not disputed by anyone competent to form an opinion.We have kept the faith and we have succeeded, and we are thankful.\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.Montreal will be taking a backward step should the council adopt the recom: mendution of the Charter Committes to abrogate the women's vote.The reasons given in support of this recommendation are various, but the real reason probably lies deeper than most of them.If the aldermen thought it right at bottom that women should vote they would get over many of the objections which they raise.Among these reasons is the alleged fact that while respectable women do mot vote disreputable women do, and that the latter have more votes in proportion than proper women have.Further, tbat the respectable women, by staying sway frum the polls, leave opportunities for personation which is more easily accomplished in their case than in the case of men and that the proportion of personation is larger.But such facts are, wo take it, set forth more as symptoma and evidences that the system itself is wrong thao as themselves constituting the reason for distranchising womankind altogether.Those who see nothing in these reasons probably take the view they do because of an underlying conviction that it is at bottom right that women should vote on the same terms as men, whatever those terms may be.Which view is right?This is not so easily answered as might at first seem to many.To the advocate of universal suffrage for instance, it should go without saying that women should vote.Every argument that he uses for removing all exceptions among grown-up sane men would apply equally to women.Yet it is just among communities with universal, or almost universal, euffrage that there is the moet shrinking from the inclusion of women.When the principle of government by election was develop ing in the mediaeval cities women generally had votes on the same terms as men, The conditions were very restrictive and no one could see why « woman who fulfilled them should not have her vote as will as anybody else.[he more unconditional the suffrage became the more women ceased to have a part in it.We notice that those who differ with the recomimendation of the Charter Com raittee do so very largely on the score that the women who are being disfranchised are taxpayers and that the eric franchise is based on taxpaying.Some of them would not extend the principle to political voting, which ia not similarly based on taxpaying.Nor would they extend it to married women who would vote on the same properties as their bus bands.Still it remains true that, grant- e& the principle of universal suffrage, women should be included, and this is so obvious that in some of the newer civilisations it bas been conceded.Statesmen from New Zea: land say that it has worked mo harm thers, but good.It is obvi: ous that it would be very far from wise on their part to take any other view.We bave, however, never heard anything to contradict their testimony.The ed- mission of women to the vote was demanded largely in the interests of fem- perance legislation under the belief that the women would throw themselves en masse into the scale in favor of good morals on all moral questions.Those who had this hope were, we were informed, disappointed, there having been no perceptible difference in the propor tions of the voting on temperance issues from what they were before the extension of the franchise to women.Bo lcng as women are excluded from the vote it seems to us that the whole doctrine of universal suffrage falls to (he ground.That may, however, be because we never could discover any foundation for that doctrine either in fact or in philosophy, and those who most believed in it have never been able to apply it with any sort of fairness.It is certain that many à boy of twelve is far better fitted to vote than many a man of full age.To grant the privilege to one and not to the other is in its essence unfair to the parties and injurious to the state.The only answer the univers) suffragist can give to this is that it is obviously necessary to have & limit somewhere.This reply cannot be controverted, and ! THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNE®S.-: ÿ nobody ever tried to do ss.The point of life chosen to distinguish between a voter and a non-voter is abeolutely an arbitrary one, but sli assent to it on the ground that there must be a line drawn somewhere, Grant this, however, and it hecomes & matter not of inherent right, but of the best good of the state where and on what principle that line should be drawn.No one has an inherent right to rule except as he pos sesses capacity and moral fitness for ruling, and we cannot see that the line which is drawn at twenty-one years of age has any more sense in it than that which shuts & man out because he has not a bore in the community, or the older one which objected to him because he was not a land-owner or an employer.These distinctions were all fallible and unjust in detsil.Probably s {ar more just line of demarcation, sa it certainly would seem a more philosophical one, would be to confine tne franchise to persons who had passed & given educational standard either at school or at equivalent examinations.The argument was raised against the earlier forms of suffrage that they amounted to class rule.That was certainly sfBcient to condemn them if a better could have been substituted.Bui if the accession of the employed classes to an equal vote did not immediately amount to class rule it wes not because the system of voting did not provide for that result, but becnuse the employed class, which was necescarily in great majority, did not take immediate advantage of its numerical strength.That it will one day do so, and that we shall again have clase rule, there seems no reason to doubt.The question will then be @ fair one whether the world has gained by the transference of power from one class to another.Btill, all this has gone on by a regular process of necessary evolution.It stood to reason that whenever the party that was uppermost eaw that its own views would make gains by am extension of the suffrage such extension would seem to it a matter of obvious righteousness and would be made.Such changes are practically ir revocable.It has been the part of prudence with statesmen of all ages to be on the side of every extension of the franchise, especially after it has taken place.The fact that such changes have always and everywhere moved forward towards universality establishes the proposition with which we began this article, that in abrogating the women\u2019s vote Montreal would be taking a backward step\u2014that is, a step in the opposite direction to that in which the world is moving.If such a step should be taken it would certainly indicate s remarkable lack of public opinion among the Qajority of the people in favor of the privilege which has been attacked, for it is long since euch a backward step has been taken before.As to the underlying conviction or motives which have led the majority to take this ground, we have left ourselves no room here to eur- mise.We are very sure that if the women generally really want the franchise they will not fail to have the legislation necessary to ite abrogation refused at Quebec.efi THE LOT OF THE TEACHER.It is po doubt true as our correspondent \u2018R.,\u2019 who treats of the lot of teachers in Montreal says that the remuners- tion of teachers in the Montreal schools is small in proportion to the honorable nature and exacting character of their task while it lasts; but if it is true that that remuneration is less than the same women would get in other employments equally taxing it must be & new condi tion of things superinduced by the general prosperity.There is no more ex- bausting task than that of the efficient teagher while it laste, but it must be remembered that the teachers\u2019 bours cre short, that holidays sre frequent and vacations long, which conditions are supposed at least to co-ordinate the work of the teacher with that of others receiving similar salaries.It is rarely Mother than s case of bardship when a woman bas to support a family, and cases of this sort doubtless exist among the teachers, and there are no doubt cases where the work iteell is too exhausting for the powers of even a strong woman.Such distresses exist in svery calling.If it be true, however, that instead of having à long waiting list of applicants from which to fill every vacancy the board has now to complain of an insufficient supply, it seems plain that the conditions have become unattractive.The system followed by the School Board may possibly have contributed to the diminution of the waiting list.Instead of employing teschers out right they employ from this list substi.\u201ctutes for teachers who are ill.This is à very good way of learning by experience which are most competent on the principle of the survival of the fittest, a principle otherwise somewhat difficult of sp- plication to the teaching profession.It is, however, an intolerable system for young women who have spent come years in preparivg themselves for earning @ liv ing and who are as à rule ia no position to be hung on hooks till they may pos sibly be wanted.Ve should expect the results to be that only Montreal girls supported by their parents could place themselves on such à list and that Mont real girls would occasionally plan to take advantage of the excellent educational course obtainable at government expense at the Normal School with à fair certainty that they would practicaily escape the necessity of fulfilling the condition of tesching in the province for a few years.We should judge that som such state of things had existed in view o the charging by%the Normal Echool of à differentiul fee to students whose homes are in Montrenl.This fre ie to be looked upon rather as caution mon>y juan as a fee, as, if the teacher when trained leaves home to teach in the country, it is restored to her, It thus helps to equalize the condition of city and country pupils, the latter having to find money to pay board.It bas no doubt, as our correspondent avers, tended to reduce the waiting list and to do away with the complaint that the School Board was overwhelmed with applications.As to the mid-winter examinations, it is certainly not in the interests of education any more than that of the teachers to multiply examinations unduly.We were under the impression that the School Commissioners took this view apd were trying to reduce «xac- tions in this respect.The moral of the whole matter is summed up in our correspondent's final remark, that if our educational conditions are to be put right the board must have increased financial resources.The importance of the task of the teacher has never been rightly appreciated.The salaries should be auch as to\" draw to the work the very brightest minds and most impressive in- dividualities that the community can produce.Moreover, it seems plain that classes of sixty pupils have but hall a chance of getting an education, seeing that the personal element must be largely eliminated end the children simply made part of a machine in which anything like individus) character would probably work to their disadvantage.As « New-Englander once put it concerning similar conditions in his own country: \u2018There is no chance for any of them to \u2018hecome grest; they are all pulled \u2018through the same hole; they sre all \u2018number nine wire! It is plain then that more schools and more school-rooms qnd more teachers are necesmary to give the children anything like s fair chance or the teachers a fair chance to develop them, to say nothing about the teacher's own interests, \u2014_\u2014 THE NEW WEST.The Winnipeg \u2018Commercial\u2019 with some wisdom objects to the title North-West for what it would call South-West, or Central Canada.Under the title, What's in & name,\u2019 it criticises the title of the \u2018North-West Bank of Canada,\u2019 which is now being organized with its headquarters at Winnipeg.The \u2018Commercial\u2019 concludes that the title is as inappropriate à one es could well be imagined for a bank, having its head cf fice at Winnipeg.Manitoba, as the \u2018Commercial\u2019 would have us bear in mind, is the central province of Canada, taking a line across the Dominion from east te west, and it is just as correct to call it the west of Canada as it would be to cal} Staffordshire the north of England.Then, taking Canada from north to south, Manitoba lies along the southern border, and Winnipeg is only sixty miles from the southern boundary, in a country which extends from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred miles from porth to south.Yet the generality of people speak of wheat grown in Manitoba as \u2018North-West\u2019 wheat, and many think vaguely of all the country on the Canadian Pacific beyond Fort William as the \u2018North-West.The states between Lake Superior and the Pacific coast are, with entire correctness, spoken of as the northwestern group of states, but this term is geographically wrong when applied to that portion of Canada bordering on these states.North-western Canads is, correctly speaking, composed of the districts of Yukon and Mackenzie, snd if the Yukon were to organize à bank, which it is quite possible it may do some day, with headquarters at Dawson City, then the title \u201cThe North-West Bank of Canada\u2019 would fit it like s glove.The title North-West, as applied to the great region west of Lake Superior, has undoubtedly the sanction of old and ep- prepeiste umge.The Montreal mer chants who were associated with the old North-West Company were everywhere familiarly known as Nor'westers, à name which was as much s synonoym for wenlth a8 nabob was in spesking of East Indians.The canoes of the Hud: son's Bay Company proceedpd annually in én increasingly north-westerly direction from Lachine to the Mackenzie River, taking what is now Manitoba on the west.When Canada was contined 40 fe banks of the St.Lawrence the title North-West applied correctly enough to what is now but taking the Canada of to-day as a whole the phrase is bardly applicable, and if it is a commercial injury the sooner it is allowed to fall into disuse the better.a MeGILE.The number of students at MeGill University continues to incresse, in spite of the standard of matriculation, which is now so high that levs than half of the candidates are successful.The increase is chiefly in the various branches of engineering, à profession for which there is no better place than Canada.Canada is a country of undeveloped resources, which can enly be turned to profit by the work of engineers of all sorts, and as the best engineer gets the highest salary the university that nets the highest standard will get the most students.Raising the standard is, then, & rather futile device for keeping away students, though it is effective when carried far enough, as in the faculty of law, where on account of the overcrowding of the professiongstrong measures have been taken to keep down the size of the classes.The profession of engineering is on the other hand not at sll over crowded, though McGill's eccommoda- tions for teaching it are, and the university is in face of the absolute neces sity for a larger provision of laboratory space and equipment.This would preferably be done by putting up a vepar- ate building for the electrical engineer: ing department.This brings up the question of funds, for scientific educa: tion is & costly thing.The present science buildings of McGill have cost not much less than a million and a half, to say nothing of the cost of carrying ous the work.The students\u2019 fees cover only a fraction of the running expenses.Princely private generosity has supplied ail this, but is it right that this public necessity should be left to individuals ?Since the dividends of railway, mining and electrical companies are firgely dus to the work of thar engineers, such companies might very reasonably be taxed for the support of education.A very small tax on their dividends would enable the universities to reduce their fees and reise their standards, and to give larger scholarships and prizes.For & country to get the highest profit out of its brain product, the ideal condition would be one in which any one who could pass the examinations would ob tain free tuition so that the poorest could get as much education as he was Bt for.This is impracticable for the present, but a step towards it would be a system of bursaries that would amount to & substantial reduction in fees to all first-class students.Such pro vision for the reduction of fees as Mr.Carnegie provided for in Scotland is \u2018{ especially desirable in the faculty of arts, whose students have none but intellectual rewards to look forward to, and from which in consequence high fees have driven to a large extent all but Montreal men and the students of our theological colleges, who are dwindling in numbers.It is in the highest degree desirable that the students of the professional taculties should take the arts course, which is sn educational course as distinguished from the courses of technical instruction which the other courses are designed to impart.At present it is only the theo logical students with whom it is the rule to take it.These are proverBially poor of purse; yet it is recognised that tbe preacher, if any man, needs a broad education.\u2014_\u2014 THE TRANS-CANADA.\u2018The land grant asked for by the promoters of the Trans-Canada Rsilway seems rather unduly gemerous, not to my excessive.Twenty thousand acres a mile is equal to all the land for fifteen miles on each side of the line.For the three hundred and eighty mile section which lies within this province, it means seven and a balf million acres.This is land -for which an Anglo-American syndicate offered a dolisr and a balf an acre, so that what the railway wants is a gift of thirty thousand dollare a mile, or over eleven million dollars for the section.If the character of the country bears sny resemblance to the descriptions given by the promoters the railway could easily be built for less than twenty thousand dollars a mile, an amount which the company could reise by mortgaging its land.As soon as the line was built, there would be little difficulty in selling the land for « doiler and a balf en acre.This would pay of the mortgage and leave sbout four mil lion dollars for the promoters to divide among themselves, without their ever having to put a penny into the scheme.Any dividends that the road might pay would be found money, as well as any subsidy that might be granted by the Ixminion Government.This is es far as concerne the Province of Quebec only.The road, however, could not end at the Abittibi.The plan in to go to the Pacifie, two thowsand miles further, as the crow flies.Bupposing ite firet embi- tion to be to reach the grain fields, say, fourteen hundred miles, it wold, with the same proportion of land grant, fare otill better, aa it would run through s flatter country, where the cost of building would fall to lem than fifteen thous and dollars a mile, and the value of the fand in the prairie section would.rise considerably.It is evident, then, thad the promoters will be doing very well for themselves if they work out their scheme; it remains to be seen whether they will do equally well for the eountry The Provines of Quebec, for its part, would give them over seven million aeres of land.It is true that this lend is not of any immediate value until it has a railway, but its prospective value is so grest that an Anglo-Amerdican ayadicate Las offered a dollar and a half an aere for twenty-five million acres of it.The syndicate would presumably have had to build a railway, so that the province would have got not only the benefit of the railway, but thirty-seven and a half million dollars into the bargain.The offer was refused, and with some wisdom, on the ground that the land was worth more than the amount offered.Very probably it is, and if so why give it away Jor nothing?The explanation which suggests itself very strongly is that the scheme finds favor at Quecbes because it favors the City of Quebec, and even more, because it discriminates against Montreal.The Icguelatore will favor anything that promises to divert to Quebec the western grain that Sows naturally through Montreal.Under the most iavorable circumstances, however, it would take some years after the rail way was built, to get the country settled, while two or three consecutive years of early frosts, such as might ens- ily occur, would delay the settleruent for a long time.Again, even when the country was well settled, the railway would bave some trouble in competing with the Canadian Pacific.If reduction of distance is the determining factor it would pot be Quebec but Chicoutimi which would get the business, fhe Sag.uenay being upon the direct line of the great circle which the Trans-Canada is svpposed to take.The Trans-Canada scheme undoubtedly has its good points.It is certainly desirable that the more northern parts of Canada should be open- o up, and Tre will not deny that the coun- ry as & whole would profit if the port of Quebec made enough to pay the interest on the money it owes to the Dominion Government.Still, things might perbaps be so arranged as to give the promoters something to do besides pocket 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Cipriano Castro\u2014\u2018Commercisi Advertiser,* New York.The Monroe Daortrine-\u2018Evening Post,\u2019 and Prof.F.De Martens, in \u2018The Independent.\u2019 New York.France and the Moroccan Questions\u2014Frem \u2018La Vie Illustree,' Paris.Condensed.{Progress in Exypt\u2014London correspondence | of the Brookiyo \u2018Daïly Eagie.\u2019 Bpesker Reed\u2014 The Nation.\" New York | Th Orchid\u201d Secker \u2014 Birmingham \"Dally ! .{A Great Preecher\u2014\u2018Daily News,\u2019 London.{ Mr.Duoley'* Christmas Scheme\u2014By F.P.Duune, in the \u2018Ladies\u2019 Home Journal\u2019 Philadelphia.SOMETHING ABOUT THE ARTS.A New Era in Decorative Art.The Art of Watteau\u2014By mbe Sta ley, In \u2018The Connoisseur,\u2019 on.An Artistic Revolution\u2014Foreign correspondence of the New York \u2018Times.\u2019 CONCERNING THINGS LITERARY.A Christmas Carol\u2014By J.G.Holland.A Christmas Letter Avstraila= By Locus Wats he Anat \" ines to 3 op on the aiversary + Re Yeading Day\u2014By Samuel Bishop (s7A1- .A Christmas Song\u2014By William Cer.Bea- nett.Burns as an Buglish Poet\u2014By David Ob in \"The Contemporary \u201cte Murray, view,\u2019 abridged.Doard School Types\u20141V.\u2014The Buiy\u2014ay I Paul Neuman, 1a \u2018The Westminster udget.General De Wet the Late War\u2014Reviqws from \u2018The Bta ards \u2018Dally Chronicle,\u2019 \u2018Daily Telograp! \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 London, HINTS OF THE PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE.Av:ation\u2014\"The Nation.New York.Demming the Nile\u2014New York \u2018Tribune.\u2019 A Hundred Years Aa Allred White man, In \u2018The Siracd Magasine.\u2019 Londea.Pevihere.edcreal, \u2018Soaafaes & be ris- Re- PTS - 10 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.Dxczuser 23, 1002.ONLY A GIPSY.À CHRISTMAS STORY OF MID- MOTHIAN.(Mrs.G.Shaw, in \u2018The People's Jour- \u2018 nal\u2019) CHAVLER 1 It was Christmas Eve.Outside all sree bleak and nuserable.Inside, however, things were quite different.Crags Ball, the residence oi Sir John Gordon, or, as he was generally called, the lard, was brilliantly ht up; bright fires were blaging; the vid-fashioned stately hall was bedecked with evergreens and holly; and for the first time for many years the bouse was full of company.The Laird and bis wife, à delicate Eng: lik lady, usually followed the example of the swallows, and sought à more cou genial chime when winter came; but this ear Lady Giordon, knowing her hus {ends love for bis ancestral howe, had elected to brave the discomforts of a Soottish winter, and spend Christmad io the old way.\u2018I like your Scottish way of Spending Christmas,\u2019 tly lady remarked.It has been selgsh of me to take youaway from home all these years.i \u2018Home was always where you were, the Laird responded gallantly.At thus moment they were interrupted by a knock at the door, and the old butler who had grown grey in the service of the Gordons entered.\u201cIt is & woman, wr,\u2019 be said, address ing his master.\u2018She has à child with her, and veeiis to have come à long way.1 told her :t was too late: but she beg: ged to see you, mr, just for 4 moment.The Laird turned to his wife.\"Should 1 see her, Lotue Co < \u2018Yes, dear, and help her if she is in need.This is Christiuas night; sud she ber a child\u201d LL Following the servant's directions, the Laird entered the hall, where a woman was standing carrying a cluld wrapped in a dack shawl.dhe was a wild-looking creature, but unmistakably handsome.and of decided Komany extraction.She was tall and splendudly formed, with masses of blue-black iar, and brillant muagnetic dark eyes, which at once com: manded attention.\u201cYou are tn trouble, 1 fancy.and re juire my help.the Laid sand kindly.What can | do for you?It is a wid aight for you to be out with a child.\u2018| have come à long way to see you.Bir John Gordon,\u201d she said\u2014and the Laird noted with wonder the purity uf her accent and speech-\"a long way.\u201d she ted, \u2018with my child, to see you.You will wonder why.but À will tell yuu at once.My name as Coralie Gar: don.1 know you will be surprised.and Goubtless very amgry: but | am your brother's widow, and this is his child.The Laird started, but made no reply, and the woman continued rapidiy- - \u2018It was just four years ago Lbat we met, His regimeut was statiuned in tho south of Ireland.We had encamped there, and the officers often came to our camp to have their fortunes told.Your brother came, with the rest at Lirst, and then again and again, until we learned to care for each other, and just before their headquarters were changed we were married privately.\u201cThe sectecy was not his fauit: he wanted to acknowledge me, whatever it ight cost him: to let you and your wife know about the marriage: but | willed otherwise.1 knew he wan well- born and high in station, and that his friends would all despise the ignorant ipsy girl he had made his wife.and wm resolved that the marriage would not be acknowledged till | had fitted myneid somewhat 10 be recognized as his wife, \u201cWe wore happy\u2014on, so happy.and as she spoke the Laird wondered at the marvellous softening of her face\u2014 happy for two perfect years.We had a littic cottage.J studied hard.Douglas came as often as he could, and helped and urged me on.Then our baby, our little Coralie, was born.and Douglas was ordered abroad.[| was not strong enough to accompany him.He wanted to bring baby and me to your home, as ne never seemed afraid of your anger; but J was resolved 1 would not shame him in the eyes of his relations.\u201cYou know the» rest, sir John she cried passionately.pacing up and down the room in her excitement.\u2018You know how he took ill, and died with acarce a warning.and away from all he loved.Douglas,\u201d she moaned.\u201cif I had only been benide yuu at the end.\u2019 The Laird was visibly atfected.His young brother Douglas had been very dear to him and his wife, and they had greatly regretted his premature death, \u2018I have everything to prove my mar- rt Advertisements.A d Sy Proely vegersbie, d reliable, Cause Perfosh ae Pr and healthful reyu- .Por the cure of atl disorders nf the Btomech, .Bowsls, Kidoeys, Bladder, Nervous Dissaset LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACH INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA.wi adr Ps By te\u2019 AE Bro propercies they atimolate the liver in the secretion of Me od Tu discharge through the bil Nour ropulsés the action of the liver and fi » t from these Ainorders Que or two of ee rect rd bilious ver, kowp systems secure healthy digastion.» Pil} sod and | utes 500 por box.Sold by all Bruggists.RADWAY & CO, 54.Belen sty Monireal, riage,\u2019 the girl continued, when calmer.\u2018My certiticates, and algo à letter which Louglas leit to give or send you in any emergency.1 know 1 am only s poor, sgnorant gipay, but I have come to you, uot [or myseii, sir, but for the child \u2018You are very welcome, Coralie\u201d he said, wituply; \u2018but why did you not come betore?Douglas's wife would al viays have found a home with us.Bit] down here by the fire, and À will send\u2019 sou some refreshment.You can rest while | tell ny wile \u2018One moment,\u201d she anid.\u2018It is only for the child 1 crave your assistance, For myvelt I want nothing.| am young and strong, and will go back to my old lie; but Douglas's child must be broughtq She is a lady by bivtls, r know her mother wus ouly a poor gipsy.\u2019 \u2018No, no,\u201d replied the Laird, \u2018you have suffered enough.You must stay with your child; but rest here tll 1 tell wy wie! Left alone Coralie tiordon knelt down by the sleeping child, and hot, hitter tears fell trom her eyes.\u2018My child, my baby, | am gowg to give you up,\u2019 she whispered brokenly.\u2018Never again after to-night will 1 feel your baby fingers, or press you in my arms.Not that À don\u2019t love you, baby.Oh, no! but 1 am guing to leuve you because your father\u2019s child must be brought up as a lady, and never know her mother's race; but, oh, it 1s hard to lowe first my husband and then my child.\u201d She wan still kneeling when the laird entered, bringing with hun his gentle wite, whose eyes bore traces of weeping.\u2018Douglas's wife 18 welcome to our howe,\u201d she said, advancing with outstretched hands, \u2018Your hushand was very dear to me, and tor lus sake so il be his wife and child.\u2019 \u201che woman rose aud locked earnestly at the Laird's wife.Lady, she said, \u20181 will leave you my child.Promise me you will be good to her; that you will bring her up as your LWT 5; Coralie\u2018 she replied quickly.\u2018vou gre the child's mother, and you must not leave her.Stay with us; you are more than welcome.\u2019 ~ Corahe rhuok her head mournfully, yet with decision.\u2018My plans are \u2018My made,\u2019 sbe said.ed far beneath hum, but husband marri his child a lady, and when she grows up she ust not be hampered by the thought of her gipsy mother.Bring her up as your own.You can tell he: she lost her mother when quite young.1t will be quite true, for otter to-night she will never hear of me.1 love her more than life itwelf, but for Douglas's sake 1 will not hamper his child.Promise me,\u2019 she added again.The Laird's wife held out her hand, saying solemnly, *1f you trust her to me 1 promise to bring her up as my own.But, surely, this is needless.Stay with us, Coralie.\u2019 ; Îler words fell on desf ears.Coralie laid the little one on the thick rug, and bending over the child kissed her again and again with wistful passion.\u2018Good-by,\u201d my darling, my baby,\u2019 she murmured, Then with à awiftness which the Laird and his wife could not follow she eped across the room, and was gonc.\u2018Follow her, John,\u2019 cried his wife, as she lifted the atill sleeping child.\u2018Send after her, and bring her back.Douglas's wife must be well cared for.But she wan gone, and the little child.with her striking likeness to the Gor- dons, wan alone left as the result of their midnight visitor.CHAPTER IL * A Merry Christmas, Uncle.\u2019 The Lewd turned in answer to the greeting, und looked udnuriagly at the vonnie iresh face ot the girl e him.dle was in truth fair to look upon, this dearly beloved mece vf the Goruous, tail and slim, with beauutul golaen baw cored high on her weli-set head, clear complexion, and in etrange contfadi- tion, great, brilliant eyes ot darkest hue, capable of expressing a hundred varying emotions.*À Merry Christmas, puss,\u2019 he re sponded, iu answer tu the greeting.\u2018Are you going out ¥ \u20181 am guing to the pond to skate,\u2019 she replied.\u2018Donaid arrived at the Manse this morning tor the Christmas holidays, so we are to spend the atter- noon ou the loch, and have a right jolly tes when we come home.Aunt Lottie says | ain to bring as many ol the skei- crs back with me as | can.\u2019 * You are a witch, Uoraiie,\u2019 cried the Laird, as the girl prepared to leave the room.\u2018Your aunt never refuses you anything.1 am afrmd you are sadly spoiled.The Rev.Donald will bave lue hands tuil with you But the girl bad laughingly left the room, snd the Laird was watching her graceful figure proceeding down the avenue when his wife entered.- * Lottie,\u201d he said, with decison, \u2018 that child grows prettier every day.That combination dark eyes and yellow bair is so uncommon.| remember her mother\u2019s eyes were exactly the same, I viten wondered what became of her.Perhaps she is dead, or married again to some one in her own station.\u2019 * I don\u2019t think so, replied his wife.\u2018I bave the feeling that she 18 still alive and still Douglas'e widow.1 am sure she was & good woman, and certainly a most ooble one.Corske has the eun- shine of our life; but sometimes when I look at her I think on all her mother bas missed.Khe wes an exceptional woman, though gipsy, to make the sacrifice she did.\u2019 Meanwhile Coralie had wended her way to the entrance gute, where she was joined by a tall, muscular youn fellow, whose suit of Tough t di not betoken his ministerial caliing.Still, he was one of Edinburgh's most promis in ung ministers, and nleo à nati% of fem f, where the Gordons resided.Temple is a primitive village, near Gorebridge, away from the beaten track.Nestling among the trees it concentrates in iteelf all that is most characteristic of Scottish scenery.\u201cHow beautiful it all ie\u2019 eaid Coralie, as she joined her companion.\u2018I really think is no place like Temple.\u201d \u201cWhat a bonnie girl you are , said her companion, es if impelled to Tok the girl's reall : dit you get x mother says all and blue-eyed; you have upeet ths.traditions of the race.\u2018From my mother, probably,\u2019 said the girl, a little sadly.\u2018lv you know, Uonald, much as 1 love Aunt Lotus, i can't help thinking bow nice it would have been to have known my own mother ; aud is it not strange that though there are plenty of photographs of papa w the louse, there 1s not & angle one ol my mother?1 spoke tv Auntis about it one duy, and vhe told wie my mother was a very handsome woman and a very noble one; but, sumehow or other, 1 have the fesliug that neither uncle or aunt care to speak sbout her, wo 1 do nut often question them; but she must bave died when | was very youux\u201d \u201cYea, she was s guod woman, dear, replied the young minuster reverently.\u2018Îhe Laird toid me somethiug about her when he consented tu our engagement, but here we are at the loch, tittle woman, Cheer up; see what a crowd is waiting.You were right; the pond is crowded.Coralie and ber sweetheart were soun surrounded by a bevy oi laughing youths und maidens, who declared the ice to be in perfect condition, \u201cCome away,\u201d they cried, \u2018don\u2019t lose any time; put on yolr skates,\u2019 and us Coralie was au anxious us they were to begin she wax soun on the ice skating tv ber heart's content.The short afternoon soon waned, and a2 Donald passed with a rather corpulent lady, whose efforts were a little unsteady, he cried to Coralie\u2014 \u2018Just one more turn, then we'll need to go.It 1s getting late.\u2019 * All right,\u2019 she replied, readily.\u2018I'll Just go the sength of the ice, aud then d'au ready to start.\u2019 Well, don\u2019t yo too far up, as the icv is Lun im some parts,\u201d he suouted; but disregarding the warning, Corshe set What followed Donald Watsen never could reaily describe.There was a scream, a splash, a circle with broken, Jagged edges, and a wild cry of dismay trom the rest of the skaters.Coralie,\u201d he cried, \u2018try and bear up; I'm coming tv you, my darhag.\u2019 Donald and several uthers came ar near the hole as possible, but tound they could not get uear the gel.The we broke at the rlyfitest touch, and Coralie, harupered by her.heavy winter garments, was unable to do much to help herselt, and in ali probabikty was be coming benumbed with the iut:nse cold.Women fated, and s:rong men cried in despair.All their efforts ut rescue were ineffectual, and meanwhile Coralie \u2014bright, light-hearted Coralie, the dar ling of the Laird and bis wife\u2014was drowning in their very udat.Donald groaned aloud 1m his agony, and only tor those standing near wouid vertawmnly have shared Coraiie's tate.OQ God!\u2019 he cried in his despair, \"oh! for help,\u201d and, as if in answer to his prayer, help was at band.A figure was creeping cautiously over the shppery, thin ice, and pushing befors ber a short ladder, which she managed to place over the hole.Willing bands aided her in ber efforts.No one knew who she was; the light was bad, and she was envelop ed in a dark cloak.She ctept nearer the hole than any one of the others had managed and with almost superhuman forts succeeded in helping the now almost unconscious girl to hold on tu the ladder and raise herself up.Tenderly the girl was carried away from the loch to the nearest house.In the first great excitement of the rescue the woman who had n ¢nstrumental in effecting it had been forgotten, but now, when they bad time to think of her, each one ask one.A search was made for her, but she had vanished.\u201c CHAPTER III.There was à merry party gathered at the Gordon's house to celebrate Christmas, lt was a few days after the te ing accident, and Coralie, beyond s slight cold, had fortunately suffered no barm.Tuey were all gathered together in the ball at Craigie, dancing merrily, waen old John, the butler, approached his master with a note in his hand.The squire read it, and then crossed to his wife.* It is a message, my dear, from Bruce, the gamekesper.~The woman who res cued our Coralie is lying ill at bis house \u2014dangerously ill, he says\u2014and wishes to se me.Why, 1 don't know; but 1 will certainly fs Tears filled his wife\u2019e eyes.\u2018Yes, you must [1 she assented.\u2018Nhe saved our Corakie's jife, and must want for nothing arkened room into which the Laird was ushered when he reached the cottage.was in the far corner, and on it lay a woman propped with pillows and panting for breath.She stretched out her hand eagerly, as the Laird bent over her, saying\u2014 \u2018God bless you, my T Woman, tor saving our girl's life, at why did you go away so suddenly, without gni- tion of any kind?We must get the medical advice for vou at once, and have you, removed to the Halle woman smi aintly, but be Nak ah od \u2014 ank you,\u2019 she repli t '.\u2018but it is too late; 1 ow I arg Ae she spoke the Laird started visibly as if her voice recalled nome half-forgot.ten memory.Then & wave of recollec: tion sweeping over him, he cried in amszcment: ; ie, can it be really yo Yes, air.\u2019 she whispered, \u2018it I.Corslie, Douglas's wife, and his child's mother.Bat: I have not come to cause you any trouble; only that I know I am dying, 2 would never have revealed myself.\u2018We have often thought of you\u2019 the Laird said.takin ion of her thin white hand.ey wife and | have spoken of you frequently, what your fate bad been.It was à mis- teke.Coralie; you should have stayed A beside us and the child.She is 1 wan now, and the blemiug of our life.\u2018I hav» seen her,\u2019 the woman ssid, half taising hervelf, and speaking in a tremulous voice, as she thought of her one time little baby.\u2018I have seen her from Vent to year since she was a little child.When we were near this part 1 to watch for a chance and sometimes 1 bave waited hours in the hope of seeing her sweet face.| have uever regretted leaving her.Douglas's child must be always a lady; and the shame of a gipsy mother might have blighted her prospects in life; but the loss has bro! my ieart.1 sent tor you now, Bir John, to see if-\u201d She (altered, and her voice grew wistful in the extreme \u2018to see if on would bring Coralie to sec mie before die.\u201cThat 1 will, said the Laird, with « suspicious huskinevs in his voice.\u2018But we ll not speak about you dying.Please God, you'll get better, and we'll all be happy together yet.I'll go now and bring the child.\" \u2018He moved towards the door, but the gipey held up a warning hand, \u2018Stay a moment,\u201d whe began with an effort.\u2018You must bring her only to rec the poor gipsy woman who tried to help her.She must never know 1 am ber mother.\u2019 \u2018But if it would make you happier,\u201d argued the Laird; \u2018Coralie in too genuine 2 girl not to esteem her mother, whatever her station in lif \u2018No: 1 will not have it\" said the women almost ficrcely.\u2018I have given her up in life, and 1 will not clim her in death.But don't delay.\u2019 she added, \u2018for 1 know the end is near.\u2019 Rearcely half an hour liad passed when the Laird re-entered the little room with Coralie, who had at ouce obeyed her uncle\u2019s instructions to come and see the ipsy woman who had rescued her from drowning, (ne other spectator was present, Coralie\u2018# lover, who, being in the Laird's full confidence, was thoroughly touched by the pathetic drama which wan being enacted.\u201cThe poor woman looks dreadfully ill.uncle,\u201d the girl whispered.and as she spoke the gipsy opened her eyes and gazed longingly on the slender, white.decked figure with its wonderful hair and great, starry eyes.\u2018Be kind to her, Coralie\u2019 whisperel {he Laird.\u2018Remember she saved your ife.The girl bent over the hed and took both the dying woman's hands in her strong young grip.\u2018I am so sorry you are ill.\u2019 she mid \u20181 can never thank you enough your bravery; but, oh! why did you go away.You have suffered so much om aur behalf.What can we do to help you \u2018Nothing, I thank you.\u2019 the woman relied.\u2018I have been'ill a long time, and am only too glad te have been permitted to help you.You can do nothing, only\u2014* she looked half-entreatingly at the Laird, then continued\u2014\"if you could stay with me just for a little.\u201d Of course [ will,\" Cora responded, still retaining the grip, and looking pityingly at the mpsv's wasted face.The woman did not speak for some time.but lay with closed eves, then again turned to the Laird\u2019s niece\u2014 \u2018Lady,\u201d rhe said, ob, eo mournfully, T had once a little child\u2014a tiny, soft Taby \u2014but I lost her.I am dving now, and I am uot sorry, for life has bard, though at one time fair.You say I have done you a service; well, will you gratify a dyins woman's whim, and in the name of the little offe F lost so lo ago.will you kiss the poor gipsy - the other where she had bye The Laird and Donald Watson turned aside as Coralie, in answer to the dying woman's request, and her uncle's assent, bent over the gipsy and kissed her ten derly, pitying tears raining down her cheek as she did so.Ineflable contentinent was on the woman's face as she responded to the girl's fatewell.iod blew and fide vous she said, solemnly, \u2018an ant you a - ous life; and sometimes nthe Faure «ill you spare a thought for the poor gipsy who would have died to save you trom harm?.The children of the Rev.Donald Watson and Coralie, his wife, are deeply interested he grave of the gipsy , e saved their mother's life.The grave is always flower-decked and well tended.To Coralie it is only the grave of the poor gipsy who played the part of her preserver; but to her hus nd, in his fuller knowledge, it is the resting place of one of the noblest and mont self-macrificing of women, though in life, and also in death, she bears the titie of \u2018Only & Gipsy.\u2019 Advertisements.GERNS OF CANCER CAN BE KILLED, The Disease Thoroughly Eradicated and the Patient's Life Saved.I: je no longer a theory, but a demonstrated set that, concer la caused dy germs, Just as truly se small or typhoid fever.Pox 7 Cutting the growth awsy with the knHe, or drawing # out with the plaster, anlv touches the surface indications of tbe dis «ass, and does not get at Its origin.The New Constitutions! 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siso à reading entitled \u2018Bhopying for his Wite\u2019 J.H., Orillia, would consider It a favor Ir ome one would furnish the poem begin- bing r.sheltered vale a mill wheel, Btill tunes its tuneful Iay, My darling once did dwell there, it now she's far away.À ring Ia pledge I gave her, And vows of love \u2018we spoke, These vows sre all fergotlen\u2014 The ring asunder broke.\u2019 A Reader from Abmic Harbor would like to obtain the poem beginning: \u2018Some go to church just for & walk, Scme ta stare and laugh and talk\u2019 A NOBLE DEED, E.B.\u2014Can which ocour \u201cMeaves js not reached by a single bownd But we build tho ladder by which we rise.\u2019 Ass.\u2014The posm, which we reprint, is by J.@.Holland, snd is entit x Noble Deed 15 & Step toward God.\u2019 1 count this thing to be grandly true; That a noble dead is & step toward God.Lifting tb i from tbe common sod, Pe a purer air asd a broader view.We rims by the things that are user our By what we have mastered of freed and By \u2018the pride deposed; and the passion slain; And the vanquished fils that we beurly most Wo hope, we sapire, we resol and trust When ibe motoing calls us de lite and light, But our fest grow weary, asd ere the a Our hearts are trailing the sordid dust.hope, ne aspire, we resoive, we pesy Aude ok we mount the air oa SEES Whi ai cost toute heavy elsy.Wings for tbe angels, bub fest Cor the Wo mar barrow he wiugs to fad the We may hops sad aspire and restive snd Tet Ga foot sonst vie or ve SU out.095 BE LT re But the dream depart and the vision And a sleeper wakes sa Me pillow of stone.Hesven 1s pot reached a single bound, But we buili the vy wtieh we From the weary earth to the vaulted skies; - And we mount ts its summit reuné by round.FLOOR FINISHING.M.D., Michigas.\u2014What do you consider the best method of finishing a hard maple Boor in & physician's operat! room?Ans.~\u2014Perhaps the best way is to have the flosr varnished.This gives a amooth surface, easily kept clean and fres from dust.HOME READING UNION.J.R.~Will you kindly give me ths of the Hecretai of the National Home Readicg Union Ans \u2014We that the Union bas not besn kept wp in Canada.ie In England, the secretary Miss Mondy, Surrey House, Victoria Ex- bankment, Londos, W.C.TO PRESERVE LINOLEUM.FF Fleas say what 1e he best dress log apply on linoleum preserve à prevent erackd Ans \u2014Tle Following 16 Sivan in (be Eharmaceutical \u2019: Yellow wax, § 0s.; oll of tu tine, o8.; amber varnish, § os.Melt the wax, tine, then add the vernieb.Apply with a ras.JAVELLE WATER.M.S.B.\u2014Piesse give lo the \u2018Witnese\u2019 the recipe for Javelle water.Ans \u2014Javelle water ous chlorine into a 10 percent jutlos of carbonate of potash, iptier will absorb no more.way et peepartos for ordinary consists is making a solution of §001 lime chloride in thres pints of ter, with 7 oz.of carbonate of soda (cry: tale) in one pint of wster\u2014érawing off the clear liquid sfter the mixture has settled.It san be bought very cheaply.TO POLISH BRASS.J.0., Columbus.\u2014Piease give ma a recipe for cleaning brass on & brass mounted ive used bath-briez and whi- roper is prepared by passing gmse- aqueous so- until the à readier tary 40a powdered roites stone an Roi with a ofc leather.If this is neglected, the drass will soon tarnish agsin.\u2014_\u2014 MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.Poliy-1 think I have read somewhere that the much-rhymed \u2018Mary had s little lamb\u2019 was founded on a real incident.Can you Mary's Damo was Mary NB.Sawyer.She was born in INS.Mer Boma was on a farm in Massachusetts.suses, it was \u2018brought up by hand.\u2019 Mary made a pet of the lamb, and ft followed ber everywhere.The schosl house teci- \u201cont ed as related.The teatior Mary married a Mr.es.ard lived to be 33 years of age.She ss buried In Mouat Auburn .BOSE This is sccording to a little book ly bosn published, writtes .Dickerson, telling the A ) author gives & bit of history Le Er pr with the lamb.The Geece was shesred cuce or twios, and Mary had stockings hole from the wool.The lamb was injured by one of the farm csttie and died.When the women were raising money to presorve ths famous Old Bouth Church, Mra.Tyler aave the stockings made from the lambs floace.They were unravelled, the yarp cut up into pleces, and nu the poem about \u201cMary and ber lamb\u2019 had caught the pub- lc tancy, the bite of yaro sold readily eno , realising sbout a hundred dollars.COOKING RECIPES, M.F.\u2014Will some one pleass tell- me how to ccok he tenderiolus of pork.also, tripe?Ans.\u2014The following recipes are from the cook book by \u2018Oscar,\u2019 the famous chet of the Waldort:\u2014Slewed Tripe\u2014Wash thoroughly one pound of tripe, bolt it umtll tetider, then drain.Put {wo (ablespoon- fuls of dutter into & stewpan with Lwo ta- biespoonfuls of four.Btir over the b until well mixed, Pour iu by dogress one lut of milk, sod keep stirring une It oils, Put the tripe in the sauce, season to taste with pepper and salt, and bail aently fifteea minutes or so.Turn tripe garnish with serve.Triçe, Foulette syle\u2014lut à blo & tau with à try to 3 good, yellow color.Add a pound of trips cut into squares, season well with salt and of the trips is reduced.tablespoonfuls of flour, end add gradualt suflicie it rich broth to taoisten.tir well until the liquor bolls.parsley, boil two or three minutes, then reno and simmer gontly twenty-five minutes.Remove tbe pleces of tripe, place them on a dish, and keep warm.jeduce the 11- quor, thicken with yolks of eggs, pour over the trips and serve.Roasted loin of rk\u2014Tryss the loin and place io a baking pan with one-halt pint of water, and sprinkle it over with powdered nage, sait apd peppar.Cover the meat with a sheet of buttered paper, and roast it in s moderate oven, basting It frequently.When It has ed for an hour and ten minutes.place a few button mushrooma around It, and baste then with the liquor in the for Then take out the pork, put it on a dish, end garnish it with cooked mushrooms.kim off the fat from the gravy, sdding te it few tablesposnfuls of rich sert, il #t up at once, strain over the tmeat, and serve 8IR FRANCIS HINCKS.Canadienne \u2014Please give a short sketch of Sir Francis Hiacks, man.land, en Dec.14, 1807: died in Montresi on Aug 16, 1885.He was à son of the Rev.Thomes LD.Hincks, of Belfast, sn ewin- est schpisr.In 1083 be settled ts Canada, an a warshouse in York, (To- rente).n 1888 he published the Toronto \u2018Examiner,\u2019 a papsr advocating te- spopsible government snd the seéculariss- tion of the Clergy Reserves.Mr.Hincks wes elected the Reformers of Oxford County & mem of the firet uniou parlla- ment.He became dissatisfied with some of the tactics of his political friends, and in 1842 rest; bis seat in parliaweut, eccopting office as Inapector-Genersl in 1847 he was selected for the third time; and became Inspector-General in the Baldwin- Lafontaine government.On the resignatign of the ministry ln 1, Mr.Hincks was sent for to form a ministry.The Hincks- Morin government subsidized a live of At- lantie steamers, assisted in tbe promotwn of the Grand Trunk Rallway, concluded ® reciprocity treaty with the United States, and initiated .the Intercolonial Railway.A division on the question of secularising the clergy reserves brought about the fall of the government.In 1855 Mr.Hincke was appointed Governor of Barbadoss and the Windward Islands.As goversor be paid considerable attentien to the West Indian labor question aud championed the antislavery party.In 181 he was appointed Governor of British Quians.buighed ln 100%.#lr Francis wne pensioned by the Imperial Government, and, returning to Cansda, entered Sir Jobs A.Macdonald's cabinet as Minister of Fin- tred In 1573, became president of & bask, which failed, trial, which resulted in bis soquittal.THE BOER DELEGATES MISSION.the country with the intentiop of recom merding their fellow untrymen to emigrate to Canada?A After the conclusion of pence, negotl » in South Africa Lord NI their w! and started them on a tour of inspection around the world.They covered practically all Cudada, fr Halllax to Vancouver, aud Mr.@.C.Creeltoan, en- perintendent of Farmers\u2019 Institutes, Who travelied with them through Oolario, says: \u201cThe entire party, consisting of ladies ind Le but one object thering of Infor.\u2019 otiemen, seemed to fe view, pamely: the g matior.which would be useful to them on the farms and at home.Every feature In Ceradian agriculture was closely :ludled, questions wece asked incessantly regariing our method of work and handling of ma- chipery, the care and management of farm an'mais, the method of construeting \u2018arm and care of the ané grasses Eutlalogs, the pléntin, orchard, the varlety of \u2014all of these things Ini each night before retiri ral ested them ond the gentlemen wrote complete digest of the day's woi Thu hile it !s quite possible that dele \"description of Canada may lea to some emigration that was not tbe object 02 thelr visit, ' \u2014 VETERINARY.(Condudod dy D.McEschren, P.RC.V.8J BCRATCHES.Bubscriber,Ont.\u2014Young driver has rough, scabby sores on the back of its (eet, above the boof but below the fetlock joint, which 1 thick were cpused by muddy weather.Ans.\u2014~ condition is commonly called scratches, end is inflammation the se- daceous ds of the skip of the hollow of the past Apply bran poultirs for two day jen rub dry end dress Witu à weak Iodine ointment, 1 to 14 of lard or vaseline, daily.Keep the fest and legs dry and feed or roots occasionally.NAVICULAR DISEASE.J, 8.\u2014Mare, aged 11 re, is Jai coffiu jointe of Ber of hale be fa oF ber shes.Bue Eos front foot; up to ben spring; has deen on the g: wits sn oe- cagicoal run In the buggy in eon- dition.Now she ls very lame, Has she vheumetism or Is it on account of tie wet and mud.Csn you give me a fotlon and advl to relleve her sn she seems in Dal r belnx out and ress her foot on ber ?- able, but cannot she be helped?Al Is probably incurable, as you say.You may he Nec Se It oy Recopier the foot poulticss, thin: the toe shoe.Ki rionkl shorten: n heen cnly on soft land.We agree with you that naviculst disease ls rheumatic In character, but it 10 in advanced stages charer- terlsod by changes ju the done which be- ver wh the an player KR ve (a.over .curable tate.x > , \"A per, and fry uutil the moisture Dredge over two Add a bunch of the saucepan to the side of the five apd underwsut 8 r selected = party of Boers and on reduced rations, giving washes 1 understand It is Jocur.raising the be wbrked surface \u2014ve ey ass MÉDICAL.t£rttore for (hs department show's Le addremé *Midl al Kduor * Wütn-m,\u2018 Montreal!\" Xhouid a oub criber cab any question whiah (a not auétable far publication, 8 reply will be wet by mali (7 à samped addressed envelope and $1, Physician's foe, be enciowd With sudh question.) INDIGESTION.\u2018BSuberriber's Ron\u2019 in 3 man of thirty- thres years of age.lie Is badly rundowm with successive attacks of diarrboes, brought on »y indigestion.It is now eight | vesks aince the Glarrhoea left bim, and be han been troubled with conatipation ever since.His food sours on the stomars an bour or two after eating.For breakfast be takes bread and butter and mutton: for dinner, the same, sud bread and butter for supper.Does not lake any drink with his meals.Toes not seem to be saining strength.Ans.\u2014Your diet © tainiy neads Improving.You are mal a mistake in not taking somethl drink with your meals.\u2018Thin is of Important cause of constipation.Take 8 qu, of weak coffes at break glass of cold water, or Radnor water, dinner, and rwon at supper.Do not take ment fn the morning, usless a little bacon, of awertbread or fish.You will find it an advantge to take s cup of clesr boulllon at dinner.Take coarse vegetables, such as cabbage or turnips very sparingly.A Httly oatmeal porridge should be taken st breakfast, or wome other cereal.Avoid sugar in sll forms at present, and take starchy foods, like sago, taplocs, or ri in strict moderation.Use cil bread toa.ed.Grahem bread would be advisabl ROUND SHOULDERS.\u2018Subscriber,\u2019 Ontario, has à bor with round shoulders.Aske for somet! og to miten the hands.Ans.\u2014The best \u20ac ing you can do is to ask your doctor.Kuc cases sre treated by gymnastic exercisce, but thwe to be arranged to sult the individual care.If the boy is more than ten, 1t le not likely ti he will get any better, although you mi prevent his got- Ung worse.Let him walk around for 20 minutes every day carrying weight on his head proportioned to his strength.few pounds will do.Then he should lle down for same time each day on a hard board with bis cost and vest off.Get him light dumbbells or Indian clubs, and give bim some simple exercises to develop his chest.For the hands, much depends on thelr condition.If you are a working: man, and there are hard callouses on the palma, nothing will take them off so long as you use your bands.It It is for a lady, sume things may be tried.Tf the skin fu thick, vaseline rubbed on night end morn- tog, will soften it.One of the best things iv a mixture of equa! parts of glycerine and water.ITCHINESS OF THE SCALP.\u2018A Reader ot the \u2018Witness\u2019 for Forty Years\u2019 is an old lady of seventy years of age.Two years ago began to be troubled with itchiness of the scalp, which began at the back of the head, and gradually spread ovar the besd and eyebrows.The hoir is very thin and soft, and is falling out.The scalp is clean, and thers ls 10 breaking cut.The itchiness is not present all the time.Js ln preity good health, and lives plainly.Bhe takes three cups of tea in the day.Uses very little butcher meat.Is also troubled with a red noes.It has been getting so for some years, a! the skin is a little rough sud itchy.Aus fhe trouble in the bead ia probably due ehtefiy to your age.Pruritus, or itchiness, is quits cemmon in elderly people.\u2026 Yeu should comb the head frequently wilh a emall-tosthad comb, say, every third Gay; to remave sil dust and scales.When the trouble nomes ou wash the head with very hat water and a little castile soap.[io not cse any other kind of soap.en rub on a litile prre lard (without seit) io woh you bave put a few drops of essemce ot peppermint.For the nose, there is not much to be dome.Do pot wear a veil when out.Apoint with tho lard avery right.LEGAL.ONTARIO.CORONER'S INQUESTS.Inquirer, C.Breton.\u2014We bave to refer you to & lawyer.RATES OF INTEREST.Weetern Ontario.\u2014Csn a person charge treive porreGt on & ° À of seventy-five dollars?limit of interest?An cent per annum Is the at present, but it is open to parties to cou- tract for any bigher rate.PROTECTING A MORTGAGE.A.T.\u20141.B takes » mortgage on A\u2019s pro- takes a second, which 18 nearly due, 's Interest is not pald up and 12 swelling the principal.B won't huy C's.apd C wants peitber B's mortgage nar roperty.Can C foree B to close?2.Wh.A vent to do?C has received t terest reguleriy.1.No.2.U should either buy or obtain > Bs assignment of B's mortgage or have some friend do so.GARDEN TALKS This ent 13 conducted by Mre.Annte L.Jack, Chatesuguay Basin, Que, te whom all questions abould be sent.All questions anewered through the \u2018Witness.\u2019 Christmas is always recognized as the \u2018children\u2019s hour\u2018 (p the little day of our It is for them that mothers pla 0 act of the wise men who broughl ve their gifts to the lowly manger, the spirit of giving has spread till it encircles the whole earth.But too often nowadays the giving is prevented and spoiled by attempting too much.It is not the money value of Lhe gift sure- Ir nor even its beauty, but the thougnt t cur friend has remembered us.Giving and socepting are pisssant reiations to friendship.but it destroys sl.the vatus of the gift to a thoughtful person if an exchange is the main point.As one neigh- Lor said of angther: \u2018You can't give her 8 pickle flour, but she'll send you back = cone,\u201d apd that is sure to take away tbe p.oasure of the first gift.Many yesrs ago when there were ealy twe llttio ones at à certain fireside, the father goltones up « hammer bead and put a new handle Inte it, painted It bright red.\u2019 This w 11 be had for bis 1tttle on Chbristmss morning; while for the , te made n little ol painted and named it, enjoying the secret of hiding these articles during the ova of making and drying.Seeing the happlosss of the children that bright Christmas day, he felt amply repaid, and had given them whet money could not buy.his loving handiwork.And | have oflon thought of this when people ace cemplaining that they éread Christmas, because ne Mach je expected, and gifte cost We chi Ihe te he sememberet, but robot! e MONTREAL, WEEKLY WITNESS, sgainet being owr friend's \u2018last straw,\u2019 or secoptiag a gift that ls not spestansous.Apait from gilts it Is a tune for joy.\u2018Mirth Is God's medicine,\u2019 sald à wise wri- and at this season of the year, grim ; and anxiety and iil-feeling, that forn the rust of life,should be scoured from our emes.A happy Christmas helps to brighten the ecming yoar, and the msm or woman who con resist ita benign influence, is lke 8 waggoa without springs, that jeits over the rond of )ife without seeing what Is fair and beautiful.ives bat And while the Christmas pause gi renewed strength to fight de daily of life, and teaches Ha lesson of ' to men,\u2019 it is the time n° gathering aod gresting.of seeing .in dear faces of the absent ones, aud belpg once more around the family table, laden with gond cheer andl affection's welcome.Too gfton we do not realize how thrice tlessed are these gatherings till they are past, But ft Is the time for home-com- ing and rejoiclug, snd we can refolce with those wh) do rejoice, and In the bappiness 0° others, find our own.\u2018A bright light sbines afore us, A welcome waits us thers: Tho\u2019 thorns and fears sssall us Ah, weel, we dinne care, For thy langest road Is short\u2014 Gin it lends ta hame.\u2019 COAL WISDOM.He came down to the door and looked tn: the fire In the stove was low, and twe rcund knots of wood had besn put on te keep it golug.Coal was very scarce in that house, and thyy had to count the dollars.But this choery, ronnd-faced mun shook his haad as be took in the situstion: \u2018Present heat, but poor economy,\u2019 he said, and coptioued with many jerks\u2019 of the head.\u201cThat wrod mskes the coal fire burn out faster; It busties all the heat out at onre.You need to keep a bed of ashes in the &rste, and keep them hot, and pot rake it down too sharp.Half the folks throw awsy elnders before th re burned out too, and then they use th Ig coni, and rake down the fire too much till the red bot cosls get down, and then they wonder what has warped the grates bars, and spoiled the draught.Nevor let the fire se low that you have to put wood in {f there is n acarcity of coul, for ic is a bis w but save by management of tbe mpars, end Reon the ash pan empty, ff you want the ficor warm.\u2019 He retreated from the door saying: \u2018Your ecal fa too big: you never hear of a miner burning egg cost fn a kitchen range.You've got a lot to learn yet.\u2019 This subject seems far from the garden, perbaps, yet Huxley and others have told us that coal ts furm- ed of club mosses snd ferns, that were decayed vegetable matters agés ago.EUPATORIUM.C.M.J.\u2014You do not give any idea of the flower, and the leaves sent are small, but the plant must be s greenhouse species of Eupatorium.It is a plant that will blossom in the bouss wit! quiring, howaver, « good dea! of water.There are à number of hardy, barbaccous virieties, the best known being Eupatorium Vertoiistum.known ss the herb called Beneset, which has outside of the regular practice of medicine considerable reputation ns & tonic stimulant, snd often the leaves are administered In the form of & sea in cases of Intermittent fevers.Your plant wiil take care of itself If Kept in a dry, cool place, after blossoming, end watered occasionally.It cam be increased (n spring by division of the root.Your letter, with its kindly words regarding these \u201cTalks' ly quite appreciated, a #0 ure many others that come to me from re.And 1 wish you all fn return \u2018The season's es\u201d CROP FOR ORCHARD.H.M.\u2014If tHe orchsrd Is young, and the treca small, it Is a good plan to keep ft io freen crop for a while.But if old and in sed, the up to date metbod ix to au late in the fall, and sow n cover crop next apring.to bs ploughed down later,and then seeded to clover, which must be ploughed under the, following pris But 11 you feel obliged to crop the ground let It be low growing, and not grain, for such as wheat will draw out the moisture from the soll just at the time the trees need it most, and the result will be a short and also a short crop.Garden vegotables that are off the ground early will do less harm than those where the roots go deep into the sof), und are all summer growing before being ba A \u2018 FRITILLARIA.T.A.\u2014It will be Interesting to know bow tbe Fritillarias do that you put in the box?These bulbs ars better out of doors, snd quite hardy.But you can pet them out in sprig 1t they do not succeed when forced.They wilt keop all winter In earth, If kept from beat and light, and out of doors wiil remain in the ground for years.Thank you for kind wishes and for pleasant words of bow jou missed Garden Talks during the weeks tl did net appear.To be appreciated In whatever work one 5 to do Is half the battle toward success.AUTUMN LEAVES.Mrs.C.H.R \u2014TYour letter Las been su- swered by mall, but It may be as well to mention here, that autumn lsaves make the very best compost it gathered !n season, sad left in piles with a ew branches over 1them to keep them from blowing awa; They can be dug into the garden In pr sod make valuable fertilizing mater) our own lawn we bave never left m thick enough to injure the grass, and they are certainly a grest protection ia seasons of frost heavin INFESTED SOIL.Your plsots are gertétoly in a and there Is nothing to do but to from the pots, wash the roots, all the earth befors re-potting.thresd worms bave intro- ever fertilising material you d must be destroyed before 111 do any good.eurs seems radical, but is the most effectual.A MIXTURE.nulce flower lover and very me that she made » good ing plante eut of doors, tt on house plate, by oh cure recommended aad mixing tl together.Sbe said: 1 put two or three handfuls of tobacco stem In d let it stand one LA r À quest, à successful, told remedy for spi and sometimes use taking a little of bore that has been first mix ater.4 er dr 4 kerosene and astable- epoonfut of whale sônp.It 1s all mixed rg, spd when used on tes roses is to third.When applied fn the house à wbisk broom is good if there is No sprayer only the under side of the leaves must be reach- It ed a strong remedy snd | sug- geoted Rat keeping the plants sprayed regularly with warm water woulé prevent the insect pests trom finding io: ot, and that was Detter then à ture.But as sn application to woody stems snd bremches it might be very useful, and in reality equs| kerosene emulsion.PEPEROMIA.Pearl \u2014The plant you wish names je eatied peperomua, aad it does make en ele- sant table pleut.The leaves are thick ond waxy, snd it grows nest and cempact with long spikes white flowers that are very interesting.1 have hesrd it enlled the diuger table font probably for this in use joes got require m a; goed des! of 1! a 1 sage.One q te Ba ft improv ir te your and een remain » long ile in the seme vot.There is a sliver otripnd leaf that La 3 ordinary heat, re- very erpamantal, the color being bright green, while the laterveniag spaces are » metalic white.TREES INJURED BY WIND.\u2018Timber\u2019 asks if wind positively Injures growing trees.Ans.-8tr gales Hay in- Jure trees, though bot producing fractures or separation of parts by causing too rapid evaporation, And, in eonsegûence, chilug the tisswas to much a degree as to retar development, or induce an unbesitby con- It iu sometimes called Anemosis, or discuvered often after the cunuection be- s boing complete- this will cause temporary sterility, snd the tree will not eons Into full leaf yet without apparent cause, HEATIL vde \u2014It 1s too bad your Heath ls with- .bul my own was suffering in the æ way until 1 found that It was the it of the dry air.Take It into tbe Kitch- of bath-room every morning and tiy\u2014better stil) set it Bear 1 ing from its lid pout.The Krica * oath\u2019 is a very intereatug plant, but difficult to Keep in our usualiy hot dry summers.This year mine did well plunged into Ÿ earth under an apple tree, and is now rewarding me with blossoms.TRADESCANTIA.N.~The leaves sent sre named as y than -, They are fins basket rowing well iv a shaded situation, «nd spawer better than mont things in out of the way corners that need Bling up.They grow well in water aoû make a drooping fringe around any pot or bowl, being very rapid in their growth.But ail the varletion are tender and do not stand the frost.LOBSTER CACTUS.M.Æ.asks what ie the propore name of this cactus (hat blossoms so freely in the window garden?Ans \u2014It is rather a long one and is called Epipbylium.These plants possess several good qualities.esch of which would commend them to the amateur.They are gure sud regular bloomers, often the Sowers remain for a month on the plant, and coming in the early winter when flowers are the acarcest, their bright blossoms are very cheerful and attractive.\u2014 SCIENCE TALKING EY SRARON-LIGHT.A new method of wireless telephony bas teen invented, or at least developed, bY @ Gertmae, Professor Rubmer.It has long been known that the mets! selenjum varied la elootrical conductivity according to tbe ameunt of light thrown on It, so that = sound is trapsmiited to a ray of Light \u2018which strikes a selenium plate, a telephone connected with the plate will give back the original sound.A sort of wireless telephone can be made by uslng a mis mirror, on which a ray of sunlight falls, &a a traoamitter, and s selenium receiver, but it is more of a scisutific toy than «oythiog eles.Professor Rubmet, however, w (ts possibilities In connection with another scientific toy, the whetling arc.Au arc light may be made to wbis- tle melodiously, sud even talk rather 1n- distinctly, hy connecting it properly with (elopaore tranemiller.This causes variations in doth the light sad the acund Liven out by the lamp.The sound cam only be heard ae far as tbe ordinary hum- miag of the lamp, but the variations In l'ght.may, through a selenium receiver, be made to reproduce the origivmi sou as far es the light can be throws.By the ues of a esarch-light, it is hoped to maks wireless telephony possible up to a bun- dred mites or so.A public exbibition of this.process was given near Berlin recently, where the sound wae transmitted to & distances of several miles.and further experiments are proccoding.It 1s tole that it may be adopt by the German navy for signalling, +s it is of course muca laster than tbe method, aoû is ai- so more private, ui the message otly be read where the light strikes.sll warships carry search.to Install.As hts, It will be Tt is sid ta be capable af use by day, the use of invisible ultraviolet rays.\u2018The distance !s limited by the curvature of the earth, to a hundred miles or #0.A Brasifian priest, the Rev.Father Lan.dell de Mowru, claims to have invented method of sending sound slong & ray light in euch 8 way that the sound will be heard wherever the light strikes, with the unaided ear.no receiver being necessary.Ho does not give details, ss Dis patents are incomplete.EXPLORING THE DEDP.The 88.- \u2018Aibatross.sent out by the United Stetes Fish Commission to expiore the depths of the Pacific Ocean, has returned to Santa Barbars, Cal, from a» cruise of seven months.A deal of ber work was done with a dredge or trawl! twenty feet wide, which wse dragged along the bottom of the ocesn often as much as 27,000 feet, or almost five miles, below the surface.It is husg by % inch steal wire, and when a few miles of this wire are being swept around by currents in the depths of the oresn, it takes much ekill to keep it frum kinking and bresking.The same wire also cartes 3 water cup, #0 arranged that it stays open all the way down, but closes when IU begios to come up, and brings up a esmple of water from the bottom.It bas to be etroug, for the coa- tained gases of the water exert a pressure of several tons to the equare ineb.It was for a long time impossible to 8nd accurately the temperaturs at such depibs, as ordipary thermometers were either crushed by tbe preasure, or reduced la sise, oo that they registered too high.The thermometere Dow used are doubdle-wasled, the outer wall taking up the premure, snd the thermometer resting safely in a mer- eury-bath.One of the curiosities of the \u2018*Albatrogs' Ja a heavy glass globe filled with r.This hollow glass ball was let down to à great de; in the ocean ut- ul the water pressure ame #0 great that the water was forced through the pores of the gless and the ball was filled.Electric Wgbts sre often used to attract @sh hitherto unknown sad ubodtsinable.Then the light jo 30 or Xf due, = à cot gate sbou t, et 8 owe Toward on the surface of ! en, and from tbe deck of the ship tl eceñe (5 weird indeed.It La a veritable congrems of monaters of the deep that sometimes bers about what te them 19 a wonderful sight.An electrie lignted submarine home is something novel, sven to a tough old ehark.Occasionally s man- eater 1s curious enough to \u2018monkey\u2019 with this electric arrangement, and it the electric current supplying the light bap- pens to de strong the curiosity of the med.&ling shark is soon eatisfied.In fact, the flak te shocked by the modern innovation, Ît dies.The bodies of several such shock- +4 fish bave fionted to the surface.It hae beea noted that the effect of the electric Uaht upon Dig fish bas deen euch that, deadly enemies me See the shark avd the awordn , tbey will ewim up to the fight side by side, and oo smated are they by the wonderful shining bulb that they pear to forget the dendly feud existing tween these piscatorial families and eh do pot rush at each other in mortal com.dat.Other fish that usually Aght on sight its down together, as it were, & lino saa a lamb.THR PHYSIOLOGY OF COLORS.(By James Weir, Jr, M.D.) Thousands of years 899.it was néticel that plants reared is darkasess were coler- leon and of weak snd fraglie hobit.It wae also observed that men who passed their lives in darkness or semi-darkvess 1&0 Bot ss robust as thoss who lived light of Co Bo the geceral conel: was reaci very esriy in the Bistory of world, that the light ef the sum @i- tly influenced doth animal and plaut smmarion's experiments bave shops tbe widely different effects of the red ané violet rays on plants.The plants chosen were of the genus Mimoss or \u2018Bemsitive Plaat, and wees subjected te the same enviren- ments with the exception that soms were reared beneath dark blue glass, and oth- erg beneath red glass.: Ia four months, the plants grows wader the red glass had attained extraordinary development, while thoss subfected to the violet rays had no progress whats ever, ilar effects were noted tn the case of alrawberries, aod puwerous ethef vines, plants and abrabe.The plan's grown beneath blue giase 418 not 4ls, but seemed to remain in à der- mant condition without growth or further dereloptent.Ward, Finsen, Berghold and others have shown that the blue, vioiet and ulten-vioiet rays are fatal to bacteria and that theetb- er colors are not, while Finsen bas made successtul use of hls knowledge iu the treatment of aymotie skin diseases, sud as smallpox, measles and scaristiss.If would appear from these obse: ons thet the red and orange rays have a distinctly favorable Physiologie) action on plants, whil t and ultrs-vislet rays on of the violet rays ea avimal srently, markedly different frous that on vegetable life.But this difference in mere apparent than fects on animal and plant pbdysiolo due tbe same chemical me charges, but while plants succum influenee of the violet rays, animals, bee jug more bighly organized.are able te take advantage of them and Sourish.In 1888, while studying tinctumutation op tbe yotor-chaugl & function in certefo ant- mais, 1 reared a large number of nowts, or salamanders, from the eggs.The egge were placed Io shallow vessels which were ccvered by colored glasses, Liue, orange, green and red.The eggs under the blue glass bateted out first; under the orange, serond: under the red, third; and under the green, last of all.The yeung larvae under the red gises were much more active, at fi that: those under tbe otber glasses, a\" a \u2018The larvae under the Glues glaes, however, grew to be much larger, and In the en agile.Under ere sluggith, | soticed, moreo ror, and of slow growth.that whereas there were no monstrosilies or def~rmed suimals under any of the oth- there were many usiler the distinctly darker than those under other glasses, and, under the mici tbe chromatophores.or color-bearing ro! were seen to be much more numerous.The violet, and ultra-violet rays have 8 pronounced chemical as well as physical ls, effcet on the human body.They Dave, also, in all probability, a dymamie effect, which ix shown by the feeling of well being or otherwise.The \u2018summer girl\u2019 wha, In the early days of her vacailon, cannot stand the sun, will, in the middie ol summer, welcome the embraces of Phoe- bus Apollo and will zeve) in bis kisses! She says she hi accustomed to the rays of the and that she no longer feels them becaue it has become der \u201chadit to walk abroad without bat, parssol or umbrelia.\u2019 Thus she gives credit to the wrong Jgent: for her feeling of weil-belag 1s not due to habit, but to the thia orowm vell of tan which the vielet rays with ever-busy brush have spread out on the œurfi of ber body wherever it has been expostd to them The violet rays thes erect a barrier against themselves, lor they cannot pi the tan.Nature alwaye takes care of her children, that ls, 12 they wili give her time, apd do not, Io :heir igrerance.attempt to hasten der: It Is true that, primarily, the violet rays are superficial in their effect; yet they are, nevertheless, sometimes destructive :n » high degree.Ask the boy who awakes im the night after an afternoon Im t river, and \u2018moans, and moans and moans\u2019 ou #e- ccunt of the intoierable fre between his shculder biades, what te think of the ultra-violet rays; or ask the blind nd helpless traveiler who stumbles acrgss the weary waste of Arctic snows what Le thinks of them?Both sunburc sod swow- blirdress ars due to the violet and ulkra- violet rays.Yet, the violet ra sary in the up-buili tealthy man.Their action must be, take lt, primarily through stimulation the vaso-motor nerves, ie.the nerves which control blood-vessel action.The first effect is dynamic la charseter; there ta à dilatation of the blood vessels with & second increased flow of blood.™ are absolutely neces- ng of the normal, second effect in chemical in aature, irer flow of blood incites the bleod- roducing organs to manufacture new Blood-cel s, consequently the plasmas of these cells differs chemically from the plas ma of the old cells.\u2018There 18, also, increased oxidation and orygenation due te increased flow of blood through the lungs.The third effect is purely physiologioal.Owing to pe; flow of a dl cells to th ues, cell growth is excl and new tl is formed.course, ot waste in going on all the time; the violet rays merely act as a tonic ta nimaleting the organs of the animal economy to: repairment of waste by Trenewiag buildlog u ptissue.These beneficial arc present in diffused daylight, hence direct rays of the sun are not a necessary in order to produce thelr effects on the snimal organism.Direct sun.Hght ts, however, an exceed ly ofbcecl.aus tonte when used moderately snd va- dr ratandingly: thers cab be in however, in the use of svery good that ture has given us.\u2014\u2014 A WARNING AGAINST CROSSED LEGS.(Philadelphia \u2018Record.\u201d) \u2018Uncrose your lege eaid à doctor.\u2018Oh.no!\u2019 sid his son.Whats ee of being so polite sil the time \u2018My boy,\u201d the father not on account of « mere rule of that 1 tell you to uncross your ft in because leg croming is en à thing\u2014a thing as baleful to the health as losing or sa microbes, les un w vou eross your you kneecap of the lower limb into the ave ty under the knee of the upper one.the cavity that vou thus compress there are the two important exterior snd fa.terior popliteal nerves and a number of ands and blood vessels, not act well on thess omgans.numbe them and weukens and ates them.You feel the injury in a nese of the whole leg goes ta \u2018Re with the habrt ; wait Tm I ted Be their » It is only such mon rh, Se Te beautiful limbs.\u2014 ve À \u201che r= Sy Te = aps MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, - Dsouxsua 28, 1902, ~ ue = CHRISTMAS THOUONTS iin, ihe Christ of Debian, ur ro thon wr \u2018god ilar wat Gt RECENT RELIGIOUS piton rater bar pren tribal sgoorsiseminitts SEASONABLE MESSAGES FROM |* TRerslore let us keep the faust.Christmas « blemed realy b accepting PUBLICATION 8 Ne.Berge Wir fe Bork slid HER HUSBAND 4 e 1\u20ac: ris er \u2014 i] lems of e own UC ch, BOME OF THE ENGLISH VERY REV.JAMES CHRISTIE, MOD- Fidle, indeed, Jor aos of whom \u2018 de THR TURNING OF THE TIDE.Sublished by tho Revell, The weather, PREACHERS.ERATOR PRESUYTERIAN he tes.\"| There are many who take for granted cial rosparily, the evangelist, the world, W AS A DRUNKARD _ CHURCH OF ENG : that it is only ignorant and prejudiced the flesh and the devil Rave all come in \u2014\u2014 i for a share of blame, but may it not people who do not accept the conclusions be, Mr.Miller asks, that y \u2018Daily Mail\u2019 ublished a IL.Corinthians ix., 15 :\u2014 Thanks evof marmotte i THE HANDS IN WINTER, à ithe 8 considerable À ho ber husband + [of the higher criticiam.There are many, ohare of the shortage may bs attributed Lady who cures ber hu o sermons Christian themes unto God for his unspeskable git.\u2019 5 helt of the port English preach: Thess are the words of St.Paul, in ors.Some extracte are aren below :\u2014 hich, after jibauking lus converts = \u2014 who without studying these questions for to the fact that the church is not up His Drinking Habits Writes a oa fe can there come Fee.to the beight of gratitude as be CTTAPPING AND REDNESS OF THF, themselves, take for granted that every | date in the devising of methods lo of Her Struggle to But Into no man's life can there coms thanks God for the ait of his Son.SKIN MAY BE AVOIDED.new #peculation is correct because it has duwn-town districts of the cities, the fon Save her Home.} & birthday of hope such a6 Vurietmat vhich he styles an unspeskable gift.wes and is for all.It fulfilled, indeed, Christmas oe season for giving and re- the patient hope of the bygone 1400 (ceiving gifts which strengthen the ties bus it fulfilled it by enriching men with J,\" op lo fl) and remind us of the gift à new and inexhaustible and Ee\" |of God when he vent his Son into cur ing hops.It bids all men always hope d Vorld.Jesus is a world-wide pit, sud bope to be more and more pure ADC |it was surely a leasing fancy of: the true; hope to overcome sn by the grace painters où the Wennissance that thoy of Jesus.Christ; hope to advance ove often re; nted one of the Wise Men tinually in the knowledge and the The of the Kast as à black man, thus tesch- of God, and in the peace he gives.¢ ling bow inclusive and extensive is the hope that was born on the first Christ- love of ; mas Day has rescued those who had The gift of Christ secures the posses- fallen lowest; bas upheld in sorrow: ion of every good.St.Paul expresses stricken lives the gladness of the true lthis in these words :\u2014\u2019 He that spared bearted; has made the world wonder 84 pot his own Son, but delivered him up the strangeness of the salvation of sil lfor us all, how shall he not with him ners; bas kept ever tresh the power ot also fregly give us all things?And recovery; has sent the splendor of bea 1,00\" oni so, but Chriat i he channel ven through the shadow of death.It through which all blessings flow.he authority of some noted name, und saken condition of the pee le who most they never think of the much greater need the Gospel and all that it stands , Oue of the minor ills to which hu- difficult hich ari t y for\u2014while the church has moved away men flesh is heir when winter's chilling conclusions.At the very eng eh ee to more comfortable and atylish quar: A PATHET IC LETTER, blasts search out and discover, weak just that the other side of the question lére-\u2014neede no comment.In th» coun- spots, is roughness of skin, particularly should be carefully studied and books for tTY town we are conducting the church of the hands.this purpose ate now not wanting.A on our ancestors did a century © and The chief reason of this common, but [very thoughtful, well-reasoned volume iu the moral (or immoral) life of the sur- annoying socompaniment of cold {ron the pen of the Rev.John Smith, Founding nent in a feartul com weather is that the skin, | its bo, of Broughton Place Church, Edin- ou to be me of the means elasticity because of a lack of natural PWeb, & man well known for his elo- - \u201cen been written and la ved secretion at a time that atmospheric uence and power of thought.De.Smith por work in creat cities.but fown prob: .says that he waited long for some abler i conditions do not induce perspiration, \u20183 lems have been partly lost sight of; yet pen to take up this labor but waited in .\u2019 ond vo is Hable To arch Fe fontracted vain while the silence grew pamiul and Sheqnifie, Trent of the pastors must and so is liable to crack.It isa tender ominous and respect for revealed religion skin that will do this, because tender was being broken down in the land.a.a th there buators fri bey, skins are thin and delicate and cannot |a class fellow of the lste Professor Rob.practical book which treats of worl stand what rougher ones will.ertson Smith in Aberdeen he early learn.among old and young people, of Prusic, is the birthday of mankind's true hope Another cause is carelessness in dry- ed to admire one who was even then à finances, advertising and of that impor that we are celebrating.; > ing the skin after washing it, partieu- t scholar, and from those early days [tant point, th pod izati Por A : MARLES SPURGEON, |= METOSDIST Carin 1 [lasly If tt is washed immediately bafore he bas been cognisant oi every phase of Lis MBit che Oa ibis \u201cpoint ir.NO THE REV.C ARLES ICE \u2019 > ould going out Into the open air or directly the critical movement in Scotland, a Miller saye :\u2014 \u201c W on .Hurried and burning have re the ore had een after coming in.toovemcnt which he believes i already Bomething like the old circutlt plan, with | vo .inside, sad we eed a cool, quiet pesce\u2014 known, but Joseph and Mary did not Very many persons in cold weather fr Mat HT thin hoor: The tn own ex [fie senior und junior preachers, way yet| I had for a long time been thinking of dare not wash their hands cither before going out or immediately after coming in, for if they do, even though the water they use be warm, their skin will burn #0 as to be painful, and it will look red besides.They irr 4 avoid such an annoyance if they will rub on the hands a little cold cream or camphor ice, allow it to remain on a moment or so and then remove it with a soft, old handker- + ity of ba the solution of the problem of country teyi t F Scripture,\u2019 Dr.Smith gives bnpegrity esangellsation.The ready pastor will of- on rame ere Samaria Prewrly.look to the man in charge of the cara- for Fojocting the critical hypoth, tea able to secure as assintant some drinkin, habits, but I \u201d it .vanserai like guests who would pay very Deena not the Prise too long, well.And so Jesus was not to be born But leaves the end with Thee.\u2019 there.; ; ; Has this cooling rill censed to flow |, And there is Uw ps Jensd a which from the hiils of heaves, and is the poor to the heart and life.At once he seems earth lett to parch with a sore to take the relish from certain pleasures.faver ! y .Has the radiant star which shone out All the fun seems to evaporate from #0 clear in the world\u2019s dark night been : ; ; it eclipsed or extinguished ?Is the earth a lbere ot pay obvious sense in which it y \u201cÀ pence which suffers and is strong, s.T| .2 oot secrated person whose abili ; was afraid he fs ne limes mys, for hurried Pro as en organiser and pastor ana weuld discover that T was giving Bim icne in the courts of the Church.© preacher.There are young men who Fedicine, and the thought unnerved me.United Free Church of Scotland has for weuld gladly give thelr iives to such work, | hesitated for nearly a week, but cone twenty years more or less tacitly permit- and the church frowns upon them because day when he came home very much in- ted this teaching in her coll in the L167 are not adapted to the trying and ver- toxicated and his week's sa! ry nearly hope that this line of thought wight |j8Ule work of the regular ministry.Kx- |.) spent.1 threw off all fear snd deter prove fruitful in some direction and not eue Mere aubriation Association work- 0 too consistent with her creed.Now that .20d int re?ot ati home from the ruin I saw coming, at all D ng , men ue) ng, conclusions have been reached which von- In and others will be found effective hazards.1 sent for your Tasteleas Sa- mined to make an effort to save our wrapped in a sleep too profound to be [pl FEE sbort-sigbted views.In Chief, either of silk or cambric.fict with the profoundest certitudes of urder direction of the town pastor.The maria Prescription, and put it in his ee gts dag a ihe 1926 Tub, it docs pay, end splendidiy.Another delightful emollint for the he do he ye.hon he something che 11310 Tor among.The pois wits \"whom Sieben am ir poxt morning and Rr bs run, J looked , do, 8, | ig ; ¢ oF the inn keeper sve upon 8, arms and neck is fine oatmeal to judgment.What is called for rather, be ponts Det about Deepal, ob ureh noon I gave him more, and also at sup- that they muss the vision of the beaver the Holy Child, to be one of the very - filled with the noise of clamorous fret the, human rece whee pu nnocent quarrellers that the music of the King's yes Bed looked out uj the world, roclamation 1s drowned ?\u2018Peace |! would surely have been pon eave with you, my peace 1 give unie lat a cheap rate by the tow 7 oe macri- you,\u201d was the Lord's iegucy, as it was |g 5 0 to-day, when nan gives * The Father's birthday gift\u2019 when Jesus, |, thing under influence of the lia Sum, was cradled in Bethlehem hid Seas Sin the heart, be does not the fear! of peace from he tiara of eel any poorer for it.\u2018s fair d ter spoiled he heavens fox dave fm?\u2018Send peace, CANON TETLEY OF BRISTOL.Lord.in our time.\u201d Yes, peace, as the Certainly, our own nation ia muiti- meaning of the word signifies\u2014the join plied.What shore so remote that our ing of things in the soul with outward ships do not visit it\u2019 What quarter things and with God, The only true of the globe has not seen the planting and lasting reconciliation.the \u2018pence of the flag?Alike in this island, and in which passeth understanding.\u2019 the Greater Britain, we are \u2018as the sand Aid ail the storma that beat Up | which is by the ees in multitude.\" the life, lashing its ex; ences into me - « .tainous billows.and Pres is gircure, oy give us too, the increases of the sances with the restive \u2018whi jorses of frstfulness and fear, is there no Christ Berpican only She She mong of to walk the waters and say to the, tos surely is found.amid rounding the te wi } at : Dis , A ns ide, in th affairs of men, ace, very poorest, where the childbearing is \u201cGlors to God in the highest, the Femembercd, where men above all clos \u2018King of Peace\u2019 still reigns, and \u2018 His bethink them that the Christ bas Kingdom rul=th over all.\u201d so that he also May it be so with us, that the great rrulea all, and he who has \u2018made Pisce through the blopd of his cross\u2019 is Light may indeed shine on our dar! Put it {ato a flannel bag.buil it, and then place it in the water intended for ablutions; or, it may be kept dry in a jar on the toilet table and some rud- on the hands whenever they are washed.Honey rubbed into the skin while still wet, drying it as the skin is dried, is also a preventive of chapping.If hands were dried more carefully, there would be less roughness of the skin.À good plan is to dry the hands well, after using the towel, with an old, soft, milk bandberchiof, which will absorb any moisture left, Glycerine is an old friend, but as alone it is irritating to most skins fit should be diluted with rose water or pure water; one part of glycerine to three parts of rose water.Ÿ about wne drachm Ch oetie acid used to ome ounce of glycerine, it helps to remqve ay stains Tom the hands, .oY.f a woman is wise she will take the recaution to wear gloves when dust, ng & room or doing any kind of worl that will soil her hands, Not every woman can have a perfect hand, but e woman can bave a beautifully kept hand.The \u2018perfect hand, accor: to Firenzuols, an Ital- is a frank and free discussion in the open lars a year to th k the outli 1 e fever surpected à thing.and uutil the case, from the ride of theory XI be more.thea.veputd Tomes of then botdly Kent right.on, gvisy and religion, which tn any serious sense {08 Dew workers developed by the plan.regularly, as | had discovered something is practically unwrought, as fully end ie crosse pastor is at present bound to that wet every nerve in my body tingling A a unambiguously put as is now the case the week and Thea ex pote to pr ch on = a Be hua Diness, at bol ou on the side of criticism.In this book Sunday as if he epent half his time le pre- _ 4 peaceful, ha; a e, : h Tn the Dr.Smith takes up the \u2018self-witness of poration.The new life of the pastor's ser.things of 44 me ttenties: In revelation,\u201d and the \u2018Critical hypothesis\u2019 as oata alone De wort the outier RK band.sonore., and pr ee dhereto, eonfining bis argu fy lS a enter then mont mont \u201cent dear fon woman's Bears Se my hus roc e Pentateuch and the work bery possess, but till ve do get our eyes off band had told me that whisk was vile 2 simply written and ally mnderstond the Sround we shall never ses the greater muff.and he was taking n dislike to it.ie, , - zædom on earth, It wan only ton true, for before I had _ Se movement Ch ve ar beta PULPIT PRAYER, Gg im the Fl hr dod 7 practical consequences on minute points Owing to the conviction that in many {rinking altogether.but T kept givi 0 î ing infor.theological coll the weakest of him the medicine till it wan gone, an of scholarship or wide weeping infer churck service ner] at part then sent for another lot.to have on ences from uncertain premises, while the ahd that im many theol logical colleges tbe hand if he should relapse, as he had done 1 from promises before.He never has, considerations of historical pro- : ' bability, the true proportions of cause thention dpvoted to training men for and I am rrriting vou this letter to tell .\" t er Sod Such like are tened if they have Lie Kev.Marshal Bing Hc you bor thanktal Fam.Ron De aronto, has prepa a knit \" pot beca overtooked.He states the cave \u2018 Extempore prayer, its principles, pre FREE SAMPLE and pamphlet, giving fon «flore, Then, ls what vre are asked to de.P*Tation and practice\u201d wbich is pub- an4 price, seot tn dit ahs lieve, that during the Exile generally re.lished by the M Co.Mr.Tolling Corresponéenre.saeréaiy\" combacotir mor: & time of depression,\u201d though Bet treats ol prayer in the pulpit, in the [close stamp for reply, Address, THE 8A- rithont.great writers like iei\u2014aod prayer meeting, at the family sitar, by MARIA REMEDY CO.23 Jordan street, while the pation were awakeoed to pro- the de of the sick and\u2019 sisswhere.Toronto, Canada.found penitence for the nast\u2014there were He does not desire to offer à substitute et other writers, who have left no trace, not for the spirituality which is indispensa- told, that in another five years the Ro- touched with the national sense of ain, with ble to power, but to aid beginners in the \u2018° \" \" to feeiing of moral realiti » U5 tO hers in ty will be able to report a total cir- who were filed with the desire at aa; Knowledge which is alm indispensable eulation of 20.006.000 copies.The cen- The Prince of Peace\u2019 unto this dav.that thro h the short winter day Tlearken, then, to the rixtmas } nd to guard inst dangers which must : i chimes :\u2014 that se we may glorify the Father [ian author of the sixteentl century, Soot to glorify the national besinnings.1 guard against dange tenary of the Bible Society, which was f ve the Lord of Peace himself give of us all.\u201c> glory who wrote a \u2018Dialogue on the Beauty que upknows writers, as we have seen, De een, to be avoided.Among other firat Founded.to supply Wales with the you peace always by all means.\u2019 \u2014 = rouen has fingers long, Slender, tateraasls nd a complete ritusl for the preaching, doctrinal, seetamian or politl Seripturss, takes place in 3 | Sunday, \u2014\u2014 CANON HAY AITKEN.tapering somewhat toward the tip.The same but wrought them up with an ar- cq) prayers, and also against denunciat- à is to THE BISHOP OF DURHAM, Is there a ces for this in all its Bails should be transparent, like pale gas Su on orecent pos oe ory and complimentary prayers; also perl Title Bunday snd an cfort nto conve are keeping the birthday of Jesus various forme?May the weary sons of rubles smong ink roses and leaves of sesseû In the J and E necraives when tiey sxpingt Yistorieal proyecs, Far ling Pots.fund by 250,000 guineas.brist.- the ; joues 1 o misquo earth escape the fatal tyranny that cn D a a cri Dot long, aor Datare festivals tor sacrifices.Dovetailing of Scripture.Practical directions That is t fact.For a long ; 7 a course of ages Pow Jesus Christ has Seen flares the will, the cruel chains of evil indeed ower upon the earth.nee ; ; heard of, Face presented to the common autre ze! herald that (Erosiaimed the ennaciousuess of men, the Chriet of the ent « Be hans ae derrified New Testament has bzen à power.What- epherds o leo tn nl e ban ever men's thoughts of him have been, of that belpless infant nothing les t = they have thought of him; they cannot this, and telt this annnouncement be help it.And in proportion as they bave therefore the very best news that thought of him as he in resented could hear.A Dew sod wondertul por t t il i aibility rose fore his phetic visio: fuse oe Free by \"they bave He saw that the Deliverer of humanmty round nor altogether square, but of a fair shape, and with a very little boss, uncovered, clean and well kept, so that, at the base, the little white crescent is visible.: Above, beyond the flesh of the finger, an should be seen as wide ae n small knife is thick, without the smail- est suspicion of black at the tip.And the whole hand must be of a broder, firm surface, as though it were of fine tbess utteriy incongruous materials, they [are given as to voice cultivation and JUSTICE IN MOROCCO presumed to put words in his mouth, amd enunciation, such as the following : to depict thrilling situations Ia which The key to cultured aod distinct artieu- Mcess and the people appeared in seui- abe rests with the consonsat.It mey SCENE AT THE SUMMARY EXECU- subduing reiations to Jehovad.And not appear extravagant to say #0, but it ie nev, TION OF AN ASSASSIN.por Bows ps tac same or ertheless true that \u2018If you take care of the * ° ceptancé es we gladly give to De aes, tor consonants the vowels will take care of -_ ts vivid magioative lotures of a far-cft iDemaelves.\u2019 Accordingly cultivate the| an article describing the arrest and time, but we are asked to belteve that the DPDIt of giving full \u2018life\u2019 te your d's, t's, anatic whe sation took these audacious Imaginiegu\u2014of PH eth's, inB's, eto.exeeution of the Moorish fanatic who WEich none but the coarsest natures, how-| Abont seventy pages are given to s [murdered Dr.Cooper, a British mis ever clever, could be capable\u2014not only for collection of prayers selected from near.Sionary in Fez, on Oct.17, appears in thought of him for their own good.He, from this alien force had actually ap.Lut PHTACS LOCUS BE = truth, but\u2019 for the central reality which |ly t illenni best recor the London \u2018Times\u2019 from the Fes eor- seen, reverenced, worshipped, asaimilat- , that the issue of his life woul or of the softest co lies Behind all outward shows of tne true, 11, 0 Iillenninms of the rded e on \u2018Times\u2019 from , peared f ali barr between _Tapering fingers are indispensable to examples.Each prayer is intended to [respondent of that journal, After men- ed, followed, bas blessed .He has the removal of all barriers between | 5 perfect hand.Beauty often takes fieve \u2018that fus conviction mot éeiy \u2018ace.Mustrate some Principle fnculested or tioning the arrest of the assassin in incaleulably.so as to transform God and man, and therefore the introit, well nigh to create it, the conception duction of a new and healthy life, fresh of wnselfish duty, the very thought of from the + heart of God into the self-eacrificing love.irit of death-doomed sinn eo that The Encarnation, with its sublime se- they need no longer remain the slaves quel of the Cross and the Rising, at of sin and hell.And this seemed indesd once reveals the heart of the Eternal and to him \u2018Glad tidings of great joy.\u2019 the sacredness of this human nature, of .\u2014_\u2014 ours which the Lord came not es ç troy but to restore and glorify.In the PREBENDARY WEBB PEPLOE.; very act of telling us of our ruin, and We live in an age of unequalled acti- of coming to redeem us, he tells th vity, and so great, so exhausting is ; the we were made for God and eternit strain upon those who take TE Sen rer OUT part in the stern battle of kfe that every portion of their being seems to cry : Advertisements, aloud for rest.Physicaily, however, Shin seems to be impossible, and, instead = lesseni: the strain, it is eviduoi LOSING FLESH, that, on a hands, demands fer greater and more strenuous toil are being made.It we would succeed iu any line we nust pis stl GSE fe pmol ors Sere | Win bre a hd ne va, for , \u2014 Bat Kindien a \"nations conaciousnese 1p thought.(Bevel) Torunte 9125.) [the correspondent says: beaut.à to ext 1d on the Sarak he Gresser people of God A GREAT SOCIETY.at een Data the Suites pr ® uty preserved even reme © th this t\u2014whi> , rought into y preserves ° couts nues even to thie day.afer a Thou: \u201cT don't want your Bible, and I don't His Majesty, who was seated ina order to keep the shape und colo | odumiruotiie.wally.\u2018when.sveey bond of S258, Jou Cod.for my god is drink\u2019 chair under a tail archway, in fail 00 aight, wa st might she also wars bo Somme?% PS etes trsnaes Society coiporeur at Merville, * fe EPE of al be viens oficial, andy, ten ttle Ibimble-shaped caps of silver, times the evidence.which critics Rave.4 & Pity,\u201d responded Colporteur Pantel, prisoner to be brought before him.hich k her # A tapering, Prins.and evidence of a different kind \u2018that you do mot imitate your god, for Mr.Hasti d It stood by His hh à her Cngers also.noté pit from any which (bey bossess wd evercoms wine gets better an it pet older, while Majesty's ngs and mye (hat we ight e \u20ac: no el - poor LU the beauty of her hand and arm.Age tion.Men who live in the open air of reality wn Fane more ma the token hear what passed.The murderer was in nowise affected the beautiful curve Sravpiieg rite dard unyleiding fact.end that the reproof had gone home.This |a man of apparently some forty years\u2019 of wrist, which was no je least at- ungerstanding the limits of their faculties.i pi rg t t bellef 3 s ape of the incidents told in \u2018The of age, of tall stature and not un- tractive feature of her remarkable band the Ser Tae um ne a en and arm.- the Now Testament so In the Ol.Gol Book of Sods Ki dom.which la.of pleasing countenance.wi ave given a true revelat m- an ore, .An old writer, talking sbout Mary Self, starting.from a creative begivaing, Bible Society during the past year.dt ing Dr.Cooper bon Seliberntely shoot.Stuart, tells how beautiful and white were her hands, and adds that when great pains to acquire this shape.Mma.Putterson Bonaparte\u2019s hands and arms were celebrated for their beauty\u2014a \u2014 tbe national history, than that bi t - i .- EE, Sa RH ne el EE te Are you losing flesh?If metal ork ST der the éditions la \"run in tecble ora mer jnéament, offenelve ite 27, | ca position met with in many countries does Cooper death had not been received, to, better consult your doctor re ic et ol us now tiv pathetic and helpless against her blac! hve hen piaenrobatt ty, hold actually ven In far dideria, Mr.Davidson notes tO be publicly flogged for his attack ; nerve, {ill they, too, bécome excitediy E0\"N-\u2014N.Y.\u2018Sun.(Revell, Toronto.) how the Bouth African War has tanned (he upon Dr.Cooper, and the man received at once.He will tell you the \\orp'and etrained.dnd 2ven Ser \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BEMITIC SACRIFICE.bers of mlambering intarcations] \u2018pas.several hundred blows from leather cause.We can provide the ations of pleatures Eee often BEWARE OF MONDAYS.Primitive Semitic Religion Today,\u2019 by Socomted by & respectably dressed man Th ered dee rat ces remedy, which is Scott's [ing lo take off oue strain by imposing The superstition of Friday being a Semgel lve Curtios Yo caso Theologt and when the Question was ass wai of His Majesty and the entire court another upon themselves.ally unlucky day Bas been inves.2), S00 strange Syrian peoples who lave oo a Pots, ® Raye replica ic, oe and troops.He bore his th À ï ; Ten with great fortitude, and on its com- toy gal 3 Thelen tl ed 1 SR EES Foe RT Peal rar the 88 4p widens den DE dat he ter bd sl ln eat 26 \u201cRuelis fs rae then ordered to by pubic VHith the \u2018saetern devotion to\u201d carton pony ou LEeTent for India lo found not od Upon donkey and guarded by sal ct er orme Chrletlan or notin: put = we Treinen of Sgucated people hh Mat this moment that the news ally Mobsmmedan.The most interesting in Lahore, Lala Harmarn Dus, has pub- of Dr.Cooper's death was tigated by a Teuton with that thor- ougfness whioh is so marked a char- acteristio of his countrymen.Twkin, the accidents in Prussia duri las year at 9,048, he finde that Friday is responsible for & very small number of mi So ie Bunday, on which 200 accidents happened.Monday, on the other hand, heads the list with 1,674.Bewars of Monday \u2014\u2018Pall Mall 1 li i Where, then, may wa look for Emulsion of cod-liver oil.ary Bers, then, may we, look for pouce + A young woman in Batavia Sel Sel cea bs ised Joi writes us she had lost twenty.fuer mer lo us by the, messager, of five pounds in three months, 08, food {dings of peat sor, The and her lungs were seriously gis precy msi, ta, Ll, affected.She took three bote|til.He does not propose an elysium : on earth, Wha ves (and there Gopette.\u2019 int brought out is that though the pro- lished \u2018Precepts from Holy Bible.A i tles of Scott's Emulsion andre some who can experimental! } the.-\u2014\u2014 Jour on starting out held Robertson lawyer in The Punjab; impressed with hy ue till tested the .d 36 (1) peace thro his blood\u2014namely, Emith'e theory that the original idea of the prevalence in the law courts of brib- th blle exhibition of the ?rderer 4 gained fifteen pounds, and peace of forgiveness and of acceptancs| CRUBADE AGAINST RUDENESS.sacrifice was that of à tribal feast at | ery and perjury, printed extracts from the publie ut ul with God; (2) peace through Xia life\u2014 The Norwegian Government has sp- which the tribal deity was present, he the Sermon on t ount, in Urdu,which to be atoi and, after consultation nd of cer- came to the conelusion that this was a presented to his cliente, with the re.With his virlers, he commanded the to deal esverely he mistake.Everywhere he found that the sult\u2019 that \u2018st any rate they don\u2019t bring man\u2019s immediate execution, requesting was able to resume her work, namely, peace of assurance a pointed a commiesion with incivility to foreign tourists on the tainty of support; (3) peace thro His # -\u2014nameiy, peace of calmness and t of hotel keepers and their rervants.i f blood the important me fraudulent cases.\u2019 and one of the Mr.Hastings and myself to be present, Send for Free Semple, joy in all the struggies of earth's war- Great complaints have recently been Part St of which animals eo PAT most eminent native judges in the Bom- = ther wih all thy viriers.* SCOTT & DOWNE, Chemise, Toronte are; and \u201c9 peace through bis pro- made ot rudeness and ; na ed.The blood out was « or Presidency D re to teach n a quarter of an hour all was \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 inee\u2014i , xpecta- these x official fear fo wife si e New fion end hope.Bo that no amount of If \u2018ne sess are taken rich tourists if {3 propitiate iris of various kinds and poh ber while bimeelt OVeT- The murderer was shot in the te avert {llluck.Testament resnal squecs, which hed been quick! IN VILLAGE CHURCHES, loved the book sad read i ln his clow rt 1 the Goual crowd of bop The small increase in church mem- reaches land and is constantly in- He remained extraordinarily plusky to bership during the closing years of the creasing.I the present rate, we ere the end\u2019 » avoid the country.The maison has tensive bowers, and can even Toes a hotel convict of cheating or insulting foreigners.labor, distress, or trial cas move the uiet soul from its resting place in hrist.\u2018We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.\u2019 Surely Dore - à er Dnosmeur 28, 1902., a 8 pe (CHRISTMAS INOTHER LANDS I\u2019 HOW THE FESTIVAL IS CELEBRATED IN VARIOUS PARTS \u2018 OF THE WORLD.+ Obristmas day in England is now somewhat shorn of its former ndeur, still the holidsy in the one which in most generally participated in by all classes of English society, Partaking of a religious character, the forencan of the day ia usually passed in church, and in evening the reunited mem! of the mily assemble round the Christman rd There is always an effort to bring absent members of the family home for Be day.Among the expecial customs of the day may be mentioned the Christmas carols, whieh are » by travelling bands of choristers on Christmas eve and on Christmas morning.They ere common in Devonshire, where the custoni is for the singers to pool tha money they make and expend it in a social merry-making on Twelfth Night-a fortnight afterwards.Then old Christmas there is the food tree custom, which has in England ut.although the tained ita perfect Hor, custom existed in rmany for centuries previous to its introduction to Brit ain, end was in fact only introduced after the marriage of Victoria to a German Prince.Now a Christmas tree is set up in the great hall of an Englieh country squire\u2019s house.At nightfall on Christmas eve the children, marahall- ed by the vicar and the village schoolmasters, make their way thither, the tree being meanwhile hidden in the bay win- do A magic lantern performance, irector, pro- wa, of which the squire is the ceeds.After the last view, the curtain w drawn and the tree comes to view, often most elaborate in ita construction snd fantastic schemes.The Christmas et distribution of England is prover- IN PARIS.Christmas eve is à fete in Paris, and the Grand Boulevard possesses à character distinctive of the occasion.Late in the evening the cafes become crowded and the cafe restaurants that are to open all night for the Christmas revillon begin to arrange their tables, many of which have been engaged in advance.The revillon, or Christmas eve supper, at midnight, is more important to the Frenchman than the Christmas dinner, and the indulgence in it way somewhat account for the general atmosphere of almost gloomy abstinence that seems to hang over Paris on a Christmas day.Any one interested in statistics may like to know that balf à million dozen oysters were sold st the Halles on Christmas eve in 1806, and of * etrivisse, à species of crawfish, 60,000 were consumed during revillon.Impecunious clerks and reckiess Latin Quarter students go dinnerless for weeks that they may partake of a proper revillon in a restaurant that is usually closed to them by bars of gold.The thoroughly up-to-date Parisian divides his Christ mass supper into many courses, ng each at a different place, and pe reaching home for the last ce, sexxed in of \u201cpetit dejeuner ?RÜSSLAN ÉURTOME To the rural life of Rusais Christmse eve is an important event.At sunset young and old assemble in the principal street of the milla » pd foring ina procession, visit t buses of the resident noblemen, the mayor, and other village receive coppers querade follows, in transform themselves in return.mas- which the adults into imitation cows, rem igs, goats and other animals, in rance of the nativity in the manger.As soon as the evening stars ap pear above the horizon, a colatzia, or surper, is served, giriding the blessed wafer, a small portion which is given to each person present.This is \u20ac sacred rite, in which none dare refuse to participate.After the supper the pobleman\u2019s ho: nobleman has an: ui hildren, th will distribute small con among the In if Tie NORTH LAND.rai Bo is Christmas more generally observed than in Scandinavia.Peace and good-will are especually em; hamzed, and old feuds are adjusted.retty symbol of the spirit that reigns the Practice of placing in & row eve: i of shoes in each bousehold typify ing far during the year the family ill live to- Be dpe the mary; Sandy via is os] ly the lan 3 kop.of Christmas stories énd legende of = sod Odin.Then in the, ime for nein - eral frolic.It \"ia customary.for Lo every member of the family to take a bath on the afternoon precedi Christmas, and oftentimes this is in all seriousness an annual affair.When the eve comes the Bible is read in nearly every houechold and family service is held.In many candles ure left Dying in the lows all night to give to Kris tine, who brings the gifts.It is also the custom to set a cake of meal out in snow as a Christmns offering.A sheaf of wheat is placed on a pole in front of each house, to provide the birds with food.On Christmas evening there are usual games, which are generally in by various bands of boys, Advertisements, Colored Goods I prefer PEARLINR to any other der Ihave used.Ido not thinkit will injure colored clo whichis more than can say br most other wash.\u201c Mrs.Rev.M.E.M.dignitaries, where they sing carols also The feast begins by 87 Que ob he Mitticas.- who journsy from hearth to ing carols and partaking of general cheer.AMONG THE TE rONS.In Germany the decoration of the house begins on the morning of Dec.Nu.e room, from which all save \u2018die mutter\u2019 are rigidly excluded, contains the Christmas tree and all the presents set in a shining row upon the table, Upon the dining table a great cold supper te served, Family and guests begin to gsth- er at five o'clock.At six the Lree is disc) , whereupok there is a gencral scramble.Everybody kisses everybody élue and there is a gay time generally for some hours.Then the late supper and to bed.Thus the German Christ: mas 1s well over before the day itself arrives.The family anse late in the morning of Dec.28.The day is spent in paying and receiving visits, in which the children compare presents.In the evening there is a dance, IN SOUTH AMERICA.A Christmas celebration in Peru is distinctive.are bewildering scenes of activity ou Lhristaies ove im tbe cities, especially Lims.Gaily dressed people.fill the streets, and asses laden with ruits, liquors and boughs from the mountains, ply in every direction.Ice sialls, provided with chairs and benches, are crowded by perspiring pleasure-seek- ers, who find ice necessary on sultry Christmas.At night there are gay du- ings.No door is closed, and there is music and dancing and the distribution of gifts in every house.To be a stranger is to be doubly welcome.Ali ceremony restraint are absent, and merry pranks carried on by maskd joue folks are the rule.The midnight Il at the cathedral changes all.Every soul attends the mass.Again on Christmas morning the streets are crowded, but at nine o'clock there is another mass, followed by the feast, and games and sports.of which the chief is bull fighting.The Christmas fight is generally the bi of the season, as eight or ten bulls are frequently killed on that day, ides several horses, and not infra quently one or two of the fighting mon.At night there is « grand procession, headed by the priests and monks, followed by the soldiers and people.All are in gala attire, and in the midst there is held aloft the figure of the Madonna, bearing in ber arms the holy child.After a long march the ion is dis banded at the cathedral, and the Christmas day celebration is at an end.Christmas bas lier significance in the holy land, and especially at Bethlehem, the shrine of the Christian religion, the holy ground on which the momentous scenes of the nativity were reslly enacted.; Standing in the midst of surroundings which remain but little changed after the lapse of two thousand years\u2014the story of the birth of the rist-child cains power, à vivid reality, an awe- inspiring impressiveness which cannot be felt elsewhere.À circle six miles in diameter would enclose the two t cities of thi Christian religion\u2014Bethlehem and Je- russlem\u2014in \u2018which began and ended the life of Christ, and in which was conceived and finally consuinmated the divine plan for the redemption of Lhe human Taos.This [ttle expense of ii tory is the great pilgrinage cen of the world.Within itn confines are sitaated not only the Church of the Nativity and Church of the Sepulchre, but the Moeque of Omar, the holy of holies of the Mohammedan religion.The inflax of visitors reaches its climax at Christmas.Only those who have visited the Holy have any adequate conception of Jerusalem as it really appears, The entire city covers only 300 acres of und, and its population is 49,000.It the h its Darvow streets pat thousands o! ilgrima must start their journey to Bat hem in the af oon of Dec.M.The short five miles\u2019 pilgrimage is one of the greatest features of t! celebration.It is marked by the great est pomp, for all the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek and Oriental churches reside in Jerusalem, and their passage from one city to the other is an event of the most solemn importance.The great procession starts from Jeru- ezlem at two o'clock in the afternoon.It is headed by a picked company of several hundred young men.e entrance into the venerable town of Bethlehem in attended with a t outburst of en- thusinem; guns are fired, flags and greens waved, and thousands of onlookers sweil the tumult by cheers and chants.Étreets are literally packed with people.Mouse- tops are comes pd every point of vant, ie occupi eager observ Amotg these onlookers, by far the most interesting are the women and maidens of Bethlehem, ul and gay in boli.day attire, in the great square in front of the Basilica.When the procession arrives Turkish soldiers with fixed bayonets assume to preserve order, the doors leading into de church are opened, and the Vaiting crowd pours in.per are Do seats, and worshippern and spectators either stand or me In full canonicals of cloth of gold and bejewelled mitre, the patriarch enters slightly in advance of the priests, who sre clad in rich, silken vestments, heavy with gold and pearls.The friars, choristers and seminaries follow in tunics of fine white linen, trimmed with beautiful lace.bre me the guests of the convent, nol pilgrims, consuls and consular attaches from Jerusalem and foreign Rilerima.The church is brilliant with the light of thousands of wax candles and olive oil in lamps of ei and silver, suspended by chains.The services are largely choral, and voices are heard that night whose marvellous beauty would win wealth and fame for their owners if these had not sscrificed sll for the service of their church.20° A sudden cessation of the organ tones and the chanting causes an instantaneous 1» thro silence and stillness thro ut the vast arowd.It is midnight, the hour of the holy nativity.A clock begins to ring out twelve rich, clear strokes.À crimson velvet curtain, heavy with gold, is drawn back; the image of an infant wrapped in cloth of gold becomes visible.Tha big bell in the convent tower rings joyously, joolgtes swing censer« of ramed gold and silver; clouds of fragrant incense All the church.Priests, friars and choristers chant in unison the ie , \u2018Gloria, Gloria in Excel- ne mphass ones ot hearth, sing- ern.found it.the great orgen pes) in harmony with the musical sound of shepherds\u2019 reeds in commemoration of the night when shepherds watched over their flocks in the plaine below and heard the songs of the angels.LAST CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM A writer describes how last Christ mas was celebrated in the Holy Land: \u2018Ibe sky pas clear and the air chilly on the day before Christmas.At un early hour ds commenced to stream in from Ji ul lem and ay neighboring towns, y travel rom Europe some even fram America.The Euro- n costumes mingled with the bright riental dresses made the scene varied and vivid with colors, while in throng were seen many fair-faced Beth- lehèm women.At the Church of the Nativity at Betlilehem the Latins, Greeks an menians esch ha place of worship, but the ceremonies which stiracted the thousands were those at the Catholic Church.Throughout the morning crowds flocked to the magnificent church of the Nativility, inclosing the cave believed by scholars to be the actual birthplace of Christ.It was brilliantly illuminated.During the forenoon a multitude of people crowded the great square fronting the Church of the Nati ity, covering the bousetops on either side.\u2018I'he procession then appeared, the patriaroli, escorted by Turkish soldiers, preceded by the Ka- wasses, pr official guard of the Patriarc| and convent, sdvancing to the church.Following the eacerdotal procession came that of the French consul =nd \u201c+ tal in uniform, with an escort of mounted guards, he taking precedence as re] senting France, the recognized uardian of Catholic interests in the Holy Land.Following his entry into the church came the beautiful service of vespers and the benediction.Throughout the evening the church was never without its crowd of worshippers.At eleven o'clock matins were sung, and a few minutes before midnight all was hushed.Then on the stroke of the hour the \u2018Gloria\u2019 arose, kneeling in profound adoration to usher in Christmas morning.Immediately afterward the Patriarch ascended the high altar and commenced to celebrate high mass.Thenceforward throughout Christmas day every altar in the sacred edifice was occupied by priests saying masses.Many devotees who took their places at ten o'clock Christmas eve kept their vigil until eleven o'clock on Christmas day, anxious not to mis one moment of the ceremonies on the site of the birthplace of Christ.A SWEDISH CUSTOM.There is s charming custom, so chey say, never forgotten at Christmas time the Swedish peasantry.At the door every farmer's house, so the story runs, is erected a pole to the top of which is bound a large, full sheaf of grain.This is for the birds, and it is their Christmas breakfast, lunch and din- per oll in one, thoughtfully provided by « thought! fr à in ai at mo eh sll Sweden sits down with ie family to his Christmas dinner till he has first provided bountifully for the birds.This is an attractive phase of the rea! Christmas spirit.It is the giving of gifts for their own sake, wt without hope of return, the spirit whi most blesses the giver.With all humanity the Christmas sentiment is po on esrth sud good will to men.will be, and certainly ought to be, more happiness in the world next Thursday than on any other day in the whole calendar year.\u2014 A BOER ON THE WAR What ir, Viljoen Thinks of the British Army PRAISE FOR \u2018 TOMMY.\u201c.» - (London \u201cExprees.\u2019) Graphic to the last degree are the ictures resenteé DU ee of he Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: \u2018Some years ago à friend of our inati- tions of the Anglo-Boer War, by At mr _ \u2014 sistant Commandant-General B.J.Vil joen, written in Dutch, just published in Amsterdam.From the time when began warlike preparations, on Sept.28, 1890, to his capture by our troops in January of this year, the dashing lead er had as hot a time as anyone who fought in the war.ite To Lt I 44 ndel , and \u2018\u2018no eweet music .After many, hairbresdth = ca] \u20ac man to get away from.sine of the Boer defeat, and joiucd the Boer forces in front of Ladysmith, whers he got the coldest of welcomes from General Joubert.Of the latter Mr.Viljoen bad s very mean opinion.His irresolution cost the Boers many a victory, and of bis \u2018in credible\u2019 superstition the writer re Istes that on one expedition, when two burghers were struck by lightning, Jou- bert saw \u2018the finger of God\u2019 in it, and immediately ordered a full retreat.Lad: ait, in Viljoen\u2019s opinion, would undoubtedly have fallen to Joubert it he had had sense to attack on Oct.30, 1800, when General White had lost more than one thousand six hundred men, killed, wounded and captured.Not only wes no attack made, but the railway to itsburg was not blown up for several days, \u2018giving the enemy the chance of bringing into Ladysmith the naval guns, which fuer caused us so much trouble and loss.\u2019 » Great difficulty was experienced by the author in ying his commando together after the defeat at Elandulsagte.I soon saw that among the burxbers ther was & email up whoee inclination to go on fighting was not of tbe strongest.I therefore asked those of the burghers who had not the courage to return to the fighting line to stand on one side.Some thirty fell ont of the ranks.I gave each of them a pase pod for the journey by railway to Jo- Dannesburg, which pass read as fol- ai M \u2014\u2014\u2014 te Johannesburg on se count of cowardice, fret at the expense of the government.; « Two x Sur, heroes: get Lt slight cree it at s Boer critic.They are General Baden Poral and Mr, Winston Churchill.the former be saya \u201c Snyman .wus the real saviour of lekine.which bad à garri- be With 2,000 men, had not the SISTERS OF CHARITY RELY ON PE-RU-NA TO FIGHT CATARRH, COUGHS, COLDS = Ni WN SISTER BEATRIX.ns ry hy a | \u20ac N A SN ; SNS | ANTS rr A \u201d _\u2014 } A letter recently received by Dr.Hartman, from Sister Beatrix, 410 W.30th street, New York, reads as follows: nes mer am Dr.8.B.Hartman, Columbus, Ohie : 73 Dear Str:\u2014\u2018I cannot say too much in braise of Peruna.Eight botrles of it It het several Sisters of \u20ac to find ome Interesting Letters From Catholic Institutions.In every country of the civilized 1d the Sisters of Charity are known.vor oon Not only do they min- ister to the epiri THE snd intellectual needs of stars the, Charges committed GOO to their care, but they WORK.also minister to their bodily needs.With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and diseuse, these wise snd prudent sisters have found Pe- runs & never-failing safeguard.Tr.Teceives many letters from Catbolio Sisters from ail over the United States.A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in whom bs, courage to attack.The English wrongly gave the credit for saving the town Lo General son of a thousand men, - Baden-Powell He speaks of the easy escape of Winston Churchill and Captain Haldane fren a pack of sleeping guards, \u2018about which they (the sscaped prisoners) have, entire ly without reason, boasted such a lot.\u2018o this day I cannot see what therc was heroic in this escape.\u2019 ; It is a curious picture that be fires us of life and discipline among thw T forces.There was too much praying among the Boers for his taste, and too little centralisation.At the Tugela River, for instance, \u2018! received sometimes in ten minutes four different ordecs from four different generals.\u2019 ; Of the use of the sjambok in the field we have heard before now, but never so definitely as in the following passage: \u201cTo quench an open outbresk of mutiny 1 ne oblige to have « be or stn] of his ui garments and cause him be given teen strokes with the sjsmbok.\u2019 The English phrase most often heard in the was \u2018Hands wp!\u2019 an amusing sec: Viljoen has dote.A mounted Kaffir attendant of! te one of the Boer commandants was hard pressed hy an English lancer, and cried to him \u2018Hands up!\u2019 The Kaffir had so often heard the words ken of that he thought they were ut the onl words in the lish language.e took them for a kind of general phrase im) lying cie and conciliation.W en lancer, in turn, called out, \u2018Hands up!\u2019 be therefore mid again, \u2018Hands up, beas!\u2019 and was astonished io] f, get a lanse-thrust through the arr.He the saw there was some mistake, and bolted, but in_the midst of his pyecipitate flight kept shouting, \u2018Hands up?bands up!\u2019 in the hope of softening he heart of his pursuer, from whom eventuslly made sood bis escape.The eapture of the naval christen- Lad: P Roberts\u2019 by Viljoen led to an of pleasantries between the lat- General Smith-Dorrien.compelled,\u201d Viljoen wrote, to \u201cLady Roberta\u201d from ed \u2018Lady \u20ac ter T vos, NP 1 can assure you that, in her fresh surroundings andnew ompany, cured me of catarrh of the lu: standing, and I would not have been witho Helvetia.he A % four ohare or an; 5 hs.and colds and I Aave ver one case of catarrh that it does not cure.\u201d SISTER BEATRIX.Dr.S.B.Hartman, Columbus, Obto: Dear Sér:\u2014\u201cThe young rd who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngitis.and loss of voice.The result of the treatment was most satisfactory.She ound great relief, and after - tual foun g 1.fter far use of the medicine we to be able to say she is entirely cured.\u201d \u2014 Sisters of Charity.This young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh of the throat, with good te- sults ss the sbove letter testifies.From a Catholic Institution in Central Ohto comes the following recommend from the Sister Sur cine for influenss, caterrh, cold, acd broncbitis® Another recommend from a Cathoitc institution of one of the Central States written the Sister Superior reads as } t \u2018A number of | was called to | ago our attention .Hartman's Peruns, and since then we have used it with | vonderfui results for grip, », code \u2018and catarrhal diseases the head and , *tomech.!_ \u201cFor @nip and winter catarrh especially Jit bas n of great service to the in- , mates of this institution.\u2019 SISTERS OF CHARITY | All Over the United States Use Pe- i ru-na fer Catarrh.a while 1 Perum.request.vice gratis.The Ohio.mains of my old disease slight, I consider myself i intend to continue the use of A recomménd recently received from a Catholic institution in the Southwest reads as follows: A Prominent Mother Superior Says: \u2018l can testify from experience to the efficiency of Peruna as one of the very best Inedicines.and it to add my praise to who have used it.with catarth of the stomach, ail reme- ; dies proving valuelere for relief.pring T went to Colorado, boping to be benefited by a change of climate and while there a friend advised me to try Peruna.After using two bottles I found myself very much improved.ives me pleasure t of thoysands For years 1 suffered Last The re.now so yet for ci 1 am now treating another patient with your medicine.sick with malaria and troubled with eucorrhaea.a cure will be speedily effected.\u2019 These are samplesof letters received by Dr.Hartman from the various orders of Catholic Sin- ters throughout the United States.Address Dr.Hartman, She has 1 have no doubt thas The names and addresses to these letters have been withheld from respect to the Sisters but will be furnished oa One-half of the diseases which affiiet mankind are due to some catarrhal derangement of tae mucous ing some organ or passage of the body.A remedy that would act immediately upon the congested mucous membrane restorîng it to its normal state, would consequently cure all these diseases.Catarrh is catarrh wherever located, whether it be in the head.throat, lungs, stomach.kidoevs or pelvic organs.remedy that will cure it in will cure it in all locationn.If you do not derive prompt and satie- iactory results from the use of Peruns, write at once to Dr.Hartman, giving a full statement of your cese, and be pleased to give you his valuable ad- rane Îin- A one location he will President of Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, \u2014 she is very happy and very contented with her lot\u2019 To which General Smith-Dorrien re plied as follows: \u2018As the lady you refer to is not accustomed to sleep in the of air, I would recommend you to try flan- rel next to the skin\u2019 Moat interesting of all is the author when he criticises our o and men.He gives more than one amusing instance of what he calls \u2018the ordinary hee-haw style of apesking\u2019 of our officers.After Vilj had been eaptured\u2014 hich had got vers mach dimmaena\u2019 \u2018whic! got very muc SA TrTAD, .lerned back in his chair, puffed the smoke from his cigar into the air, and seid, without looking at me, \u201cWell, ah, you are banished, don\u2019t yer know, ah are being sent to, ab, hum, St.Helena, or as they call it, the oh, ha, Rock.\u2018Tis ® nice ship you in, called the ah, let me see, ob yes, sh'\u2018Britannie\u2019 Now pa may proceed to the station, your it, mi it nd in the meantime sign this parole and report yo .m.at the Docks.\u201d urself at 3 muttered in Dutch, \u201cLord preserve us from the Evil One.\u201d\u2019 The British officer, be declares, is gen- erslly one of two extremes\u2014either a gentleman or a cad.The mistakes of off- cers during the war need not necessarily i to stupidity, cowardice or in- retion, to cd thinks, bad a ea en.wi sue ed he cites General Gatacre ss an stance of « man who had mors than his OT Che self acrifics rnd devotio e se em tion to duty of our Tommy, Viljoen peus high- thing outside ordiners maine ee ing outside ordi ro most helpless bei Bare his faith, ulness and patriotism lies the secret of success of the British army\u2014a truth which 1 do not think can be gainsaid.! and of the Tommies that he, met.the r e tol ay better than the others\u201d the \u2018ommy wif is smartness shot, and ous judge distances Det discretion., and egrtainly twice es \" ae he is.lu genera), Tommy is a hy.roane fellow.Town our wounded Tommy wae, as a rule, sympathetic, and was ger to belp a fA enzmy.\u2019 \u201cThe infantry did the beaviest and hardest work of the war.\u2019 Cavalry, he comes across any- |» ; be gould be peibups à perfect eol- imple 9 than a century older, and dates from allegationn and vor for it.ullion and le, in Ine of ° Governor's may have à the early eaom after the guines \u2014 prophesies, will in future wars be a sort of white elephant.Inf, + artilk and mounted.infantry preg forces a the future.The author traverses Sir Conan Doyle's of treachery against the ludes: conc} \u2018Bball the errors of one side wei Leavier than those of the other?Neit Briton is in a impartially of the sins us try to see each other's virtues instead.\u2019 ton to) Toth ride LA L.M.DAVIDSON., half Irish, se, shrimpers catchers still look out for the pieces he wes wont to scatter, or that been Be TRE PROFESSIONAL GUINEA.The question why professional \u2018ces should be in guineas and not in sovereigns bas been asked often, and no more setisfactory answer cam be got than \u2018dat it is a survival of the days when a via of gues was well known in these is lands.A writer in \u2018The Lady\u2019 has omen looking into the history of Sir \u2018Robert Holmes, one of the most Pptureate figures in the annals of the ele of Wight, the guines.was eses, and was made the island by Charles II.it was who, in 1006, oa frie in Schelling Qe: Ca tee nea.coined into goki pieces ramped with elephant, and to o commemorate Ba: dua fr reall, {Half soldier, hall esilor, Laif , wholly loys to the Sir Robert red a golden t consisted of stray gold lost or hiddem in the the time of H VIL laced it, but sor s of the last The guines dis were recoiled ventary, t completely Jazmes's Gasette.4 eevee am 14 Dsonæuna 28, 1908 AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL } Wate communicesions from furmere piuing thotr tupertines on matters insarsating 6e them ve @ oies ; and non enqru -rées, te Which, {ve sannot sameer them sur ative, some of our readers may bs able 10 furnish satis Yostory repites.Questions must aluays De accompaniod dy nous and address, though noi necessarily for publ atlas.) THE MILKING PROBLEM.It is nome three score years since | Brat learned to milk, aithough very few men in that loenlity eould milk, or if they could they would not do it, seeming te think it an unmanly accomplishment.Ut is true that the cows were not very numercus in those pioneering days, when 8 pair of oxen were to be found on almost every farm.The women in those days, good creatures that they were, seemed to consider milking as much a part of their daily routine as were such vocations as bread-making, dish-washing and attending to the various wants and necessities of the youngsters.In addi: tion to the numerous aud varied house: hold duties, the country-women of those times hud to take turus at laborious work.1 have knowa some noble women, long since gone to rest, who, when 1 was & smail boy, were not a bit loath to help their husbinds when outdoor work was crowding and they were quite at home in the haying and harvest-tields and were almost equal to a hired man at reaping and binding grain, raking and forking hay.hoeing and picking potatoes, etc, and the practical use of the axe, the handspike and the ox-gosd was not altogether unknown to them.If the interior of their homely log cabins did not receive so much care and atten: tion as is now convidered to be the proper thing, the moral and religions training of their small children would compare very favorably with the train ing of young Canadians fifty or sixty afterwards, Tone day last harvest, I visited the home of a wealthy farmer, who keeps a large number of milch cows and sends the milk to the city.This man had unusually heavy crops of both hay and grain, but he hod to rely on hired labor to secure it, and he found great difficulty in securing this help at the proper time, although he was willing to ray high wages for the extra help, but if he paid ten or twelve dollars and bowd per week to good men for a few weeks in haying the has some three hundr-d acres in meadows) it would create dis etisfaction and perhaps bring on a strike among his regular handy, who were hired hy the year at from fifteen to twenty dollars per month.He mid that nearly all good farmhands had an aversion to milking cows, and added: \u2018The papers talk of the farmers being very prosperous, owing to the improved prices received for cheese and butter, but if the farmer had to depend exclusively on hired help he would require to be the owner of more than oan ordinarily good farm to keep out of debt, yet Mr.Tarte and the wealthy manufacturers are wanting to mb the farmer atill more by means of increased protection, so-called.A short time ago 1 asked a township farmer if the farmers were making money with their cows, and his reply was to the effect that while skilful farmers, with good help in their ewn families, might make money \u2018vith milch cows, no money could be made hy employing hired help.He then mentioned the names of some large farms that belong to absentee gentlemen, who employ the best of foremen, yet none of these farms pay a moderate interest on the money invested in them, although they are being worked in the hest man- ver, The average farmer's cow mnkes a yearly return of from twenty-five to thirty dollars, so that it would take tem or a dozen of such cows to produce the eat of à hired man, and it would take Mr Advertisem ents, \u2014 THE QUALITY OF PORK The day has Inng gone hy when aslable pers could le made from the huge moun- in of fat that once constituted the farmers\u2019 pig.At the present time the pig must be kill- 4 before he reaches full maturity, six menthe thould be his Ilmit, and during that sfx months a rapid.dealthy growth Must be maintained.If he becomes crippled or stunted from indigestion caused by overfeeding of rich foods, the qualit of the meat, as well as the quantity, will be affected.Rapid growth and early maturi- ire abaoltitely necessary for the pro- fe: uction of really first rien, well pork.Thé regular use of Herba- seu will insure this rapid, healthy growth apd according to many reports from practical men, at least from one to two months time and fect muv be saved 15 this way.very pecu'lar thing about lferbageum- fod pigs is that they always weigh more than their appesrance would indicate, and eten tbe expert pig buyers will invariably underguess their weight.This fact certainly lodicates great solidity of flesh, and solidity of flesh is fast what 1s required for the present day market.Mr.Bémund Cove.of Altona, Ont.writ- fag of results obtained Pr the use of Her- bageum says: \u2018We find Herbageum makes Sr optertul differance in fstianing bogs.obtain as results at five months with ft.ss et six months without ft.\u2018 Messrs.Burns & Co., of Janetville, Ont, write as to the quai of the flesh of Hor- | pe.® quote from thelr letter as follows: \u201cWe used Harhageum Jost season in (aftening pigs.We found t they fmproved faster, and that it made nest pork Sul ever ete Wo are using 4 THE KING'S CHAMPION.\u2018Royal Duke,\u2019 owned by King Edward, was the champion Shorthorn bull at the Royal Show this year.a man much smarter than the ordinary to grow the food and care for and milk these cows and take the milk to the factory, even if he bad the free.use of the farm with all its improvements.Some farmers who work from twelve to fifteen hours in the day manage to make « good living and lay up some money, but no hired help would do it.\u2019 He also added that if all duties on imported goods were abolished and the work people who now work in the protected manufacturies were all pensioned by the government, the farmers wonld gain by the change.Nearly all kinds of farm work have been greatly lightened by the introduction of improved machinery during the past fifty or sixty years, but the milking has to be done in the old tedious manner, which has prevailed for thousands of years.Many attempts have been made to bring out a practical milking machine, and it is said that sn Australian inventor has succeeded fairly well in solving the milking problem, at least in large dairies where there is some kinds of horse or steam power in use, but there in no likelihood that such machinery can be made available on the average farm, and milking by machinery will continne for many years at least, to be the exception.RUSTICUS.tite.CHOOSING A BREED SOME OF THE POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED IN ESTABLISHING A HERD.Tn these days of great activity that is noticeable in the lines of the 1m- proved live stock industry, a question that farmers and stockmen ask themselves and frequently others is, Which is the best breed of cattle for me to raise?says the \u2018Wisconsin Agriculturist\u201d Among the laity this question is made so general that its answer is well nigh impossible, for the inquiry is made to include all the breeds of cattle, whether beef or dairy.As a foregone conclusion in a discussion of this kind it must be admitted that there is good to be found in all breeds, and every breed, by virtue of the environment under which it has been kept, has some point of superiority over the others.The breed that is best for one man under one set of conditions is not necessarily the one that would be best for some other man under different conditions, or even the sams man under different ennditions Then as far as declaring one breed absolutely superior to all others is concerned, that is a great mistake, and after a little thought no one would make the statement unqualified about any of the breeds, no matter how much he thought of it or how highly he valued it.in order for a man to decide what breed he may want, he must first decide whether he wants to raise beef or dairy products.His condition and inclinations will have to settle that question.There are certain ocondi- tions under which dairying is much more profitable than beef production, and again conditions under which the reverse js true.For the man who is in the business for all the money there is in it, then, the conditions surrounding him will be, enough to settle the question of the class of cattle he will keep.Some, however, may be of such a turn of mind that nothing would induce them to be bothered with dairy work, and for theses the selection should be easy, for it is evident that Bo matter if persuaded that there was more money i dairying their dislike for it would be enough, in all proba- bility, to keep them from ng it their best effort, and the ue cess would not be likely to be the result of the undertaking.If à man is situated in a commun: ity where the majority of the farmers are engaged in dairying, and conse: quently have creameries and other necessaries for the successful maintenance of such a scheme, and where the land is divided up into small farms, it is easy to see that the most profitable course to follow is that of dairying.Under such an arrangement it would not be likely that there would be a great abundance of corn to fatten steers, but enough rough feed and some grain would be raised, and what supplementary feed would be needed could consist largely of mill by-pro- ducts.Where great interest is taken in dairying it is necessarily true that pride is taken in turning ont a first class product that woul a high price on the market, the profits realized by all interested would necessarily be larger than where there was less interest, a poorer article was Jrodiced and a lower price realize < In order that the greatest mceess come from dairying it is necessary that the cows given a great deal of care, kept out of bad weather, fed through dry times in the summer, and in the winter kept in warm, light and well ventilated stables.The man who enters the business in this way must be willing to make the comfort of the cows the first consideration, and attend to business faithfully.But every farmer is not situated in this way.There are many who are on farms situated at such distances from a creamery that they are at such disadvantage for handling dairy products that it would be unwise to engage in that branch of the live stock business.Where there is a great deal of corn raised, and where a at deal of field work must be done with rather limited help, the beef animal will fare best and consequently return the most profit.Thus far the battle of the breeds is rather a choice of the right breed to the right condition, but having made the choice between the two dis- tinet clenses, there is a question as to what breed of the class is best adapted to the certain condition.In this there is all kinds of chance for arm ment and dispute, but laying aside likes and dislikes it is true that for certain conditions different breeds have points of excellence that fit them for doing the best there.Taking the dairy breeds first, it is evident that the environment or conditions under wbich the different breeds have been kept for many years and in some cases centuries, will have made in them a great variation as to size, stamina, quality of milk, kind of care required, kind of food best consumed to à profit, and in other points of excellence.For instance, on à large farm where the nature of the soil is such that a great deal of the land best produces pasture and lowland hay, and where rough feed could be produced in greater abundance and cheaper than the concentrades, it is more than likely that after studying the subject it would be found that a large, hardy breed, such as the Holsteis, that had been used to such conditions in ite native home, would give the best results.Then, : Ag ag rae ce was avai le for raie: roug| fred, and the ration must consist largely of the best of concentrated feed, the best of care being given and uality rather than quan ty being the object sought in the product, one of the island breeds, such as the or Guémeey, would probably sen.For what may be called ordinary conditions, where good esre is taken of the stock and the food supply pretty well balanced as to roughage and concentrates, or grain, it Is ible that preference of the breeder will make mors differenes In the malection t anyt , fer any of our standard ets.such ss the Holstein, ; a Jerse oho d command | Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and of those less well known, the Dutch, Telted, French Canadian and Kerry.are all right, and the one the individual likes best and will give the best care will probably give the best returns.When ft comes to a cholce of a beef breed.this same matter of con ditions will have a certain part to play.It has been considered for some time that the Hereford was the best adapted to range conditions, and that the Angus and Shorthorn had the lead in the corn growing states, but [in the feed lot the good ones of any of the breeds are of the highest value and are so noted on the market, See- tional lines are becoming less well defined as far as beef breeds ars considered, and there is certainly room for all.As far as beef form and the most profitable production of the high- vst quality of meat is concerned, however, it is largely a matter of \u2018which or t'other* The winnings of the different breeds at the fat stock shows, and the opinions that the beat and most unprejudiced authorities express id regard to them, makes it evident that the best of any of them are all right, and personal \u2018preference can go a long way in guiding the buyer.The so-called battle of the breeds fs, then, more a matter of selecting the breed that is best adapted to the condition under which it is kept and expected to vield profits than anything else, and in the long run profits must be the thing to finally decide the inne for the individual or the community.\u2014_\u2014 EGG-EATING HENS.One of the most nseful of the peri- odieals exclusively devoted to poultry is \u2018The Feather,\u201d published by George E.Howard & Co, Washington, D.C.from which the following article is taken: \u2014 Some little time since onr attention was called to egg-eating hens.Those hens went about looking for eggs as a cat will for rats; if a hen would cackle the fowls would come running to get the egg.It is not ususlly the hen that lays the egg that eats it; it is more often the hen that does nothing.She is all the time looking for trouble.It is often the fact that hens learn to eat eggs by their being left about to freeze and burst; then the hens will pick at them and soon learn to eat them, When once (he habit is acquired it is most difficult to be rid of it.In the case above mentioned it was necessary to kill for market she entire lot of fowls and begin anew.The hens that have the ezg- eating habit soon teach it to the pi lets, so it is best to be rid of them.The best way to avoid this habit is to have nests for the hens so loented and constructed as to be up ont of sight and away from the hens.They should be sheltered from the strong light so as not to attract the hens as they pass nests that have eggs in them.Keep temptation away from the hens and keep the hens busy, is the best way to avoid all trouble of this kind.Then\u2019 again, when it is cold the eggs should be gathered every few hours to remove all possibility of their freezing, for so sure as an egg is broken open and a fowl sees it she will eat it.When this has been done a few times then trouble begins and no one can tell when or how it will end.It is plain to be seen that about all these troubles sre the results of carelessnens.Kgg-enting might be ealled the trick of an idle hen.Male birds seldom, if ever, lsarn to eat eggs, and hens that are compelled to work hard all day for their food seldom contract the egg- eating habit.If better care were given the hens all over the country the waste that goes on would pay the debt of one state a year if it could be saved, Thousands that die might be saved; many tons of food that are now wasted could be saved, anil so many are frozen, eaten by hens, sad lost under barns and outhouses, that if saved would make us rich.THE DAIRY CALF HOW TO BREED AND FEED FOR THE BEST RESULTS.Before the Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeders\u2019 Association recently Mr, W.¥.Mctparran read an interesting paper on \u2018Breeding and febding the dairy calf\u2019: Twentieth century y and twun- tieth century methods have no abiding place with the jack of all trades, These are times of sty lous operutions, and all toward a definite end.The time of general adaptability in men «nd machinery and animals is passing, Great manu.fucturers Lave ingeniously designed and constructed machines and tools for doing only one thing well.\u2018The oki ahoe mnker with his low bench and assort- nient of awls and por and lasts to fit no foot right, the old village blacksmith, the old wheelwright, the stage-coach and combined reaper and mower are figures of history, Now we have the specul factories for shoes and wagguns and carriages; we have the binder, the rai way fiyver, the automobile, the trolley, the balunced ration, and the trusts.1t is the rule of us wise men irom the east to shake our heads at the befighted farmer and tell him he is slow and dull and behind the tinea, that he is not putting enough brains into his business, and that he must get a wove on or the lurrying and impetuous old world will run over him.ut maybe the old tel- low is putting more brains into his business in a.quiet, unseen way than his critic bas altogether.| am no apologist or no flatterer.1 don't say that things are ull right because my party is shaping the destinies of our nation, or that everything is out of joint and going to the bow-wows because my party 1s not in.But I am à digreesor, and while 1 am off the track [ am going to bump along long enough to record it as my opinion that the tarmer who is educating the girls, buying buggies for the boys, while keeping cxpenses down and the property and hws spirits up, has a pretty Jot of brains, and has them pretty active.We farmers are a large body, and we are taught large bodies move slowly.Thirying ie comparatively new to us.We have always kept cows, of course, as « kind of necessary evil, but to reeog- pue the keeping o then as a distinct ine of agricultural operations grows up to us slowly, and it is well that we look into the matter somewhat when we come together, not thet he who does the talking is of necessity most qualitied to be spokesman, but because there must be some expression.THE FUTURE COW.Why the dairy cali\u2019 Because we want 8 calf that shall grow up into a legitimate and profitable member of the dary.We do not want a cow that is good to look at only, or that burns the candle at both ends and drops the fat into the lire at the same time by ing to make both beef and butter in the same establishment.We want a calf that for generations and generations in the hands and under the care of skilful and oare- ful and patient men has been bred and fed and directed to the single purpose of being a profilable dsiry cow.There are two kinds of dairies\u2014thoss for milk and those for butter.If a large quantity of milk is wanted regardless of its fat content, the business dairyman naturally turns bis heart toward Cy, the animal that will use her feed and her energies for making an abundsace of milk.If cream or butter be the aim of the dairyman, he will not eare if the little cow that gives him from cne to two pounds of butter fat a day gives him a galion of milk.It is not Joy intention to Claborate any argument why the iryman wat dairy cows and not beef animals, for it appears to me perfectly clear that that question is settled, and to thoss who maintain that it is not settled I can omy © recommend investigation.Gi About making a padigree.iven a good sire and © good dam with generative performances well fixed in them.the breeder has a right to expect a good call, Its goodness js not a matter of accident.Its virties have been builded line upon line and performance upon performance.As have said, men in finite wisdom and skill and patience hava brought together the elements to make the improved animal.I do not say the perfect goimal, That Is in the future.Not necessarily because men have evolved this cow that never goes dry nor fails in her diligent good work from the primitive mother of & calf, per, forming the functions of motherhood only till the offspring could spring of from her and turn the edge of hunger on the berbage of the plains, have they made an animal less robust and perfect in its constitutional vigor.have merely brought into barmonious relations the scattered tendencies of life.No man may create anything, it is said, but he may make some beautiful combina tions.He has done only this perhaps in the dairy cow.; What hes been undesirable or unwor thy he has cast out or neutralised.What has been good, has encouraged, amplified and fixed in à type.Again, this is making a Poliaree, NO RULES FOR BREEDING.But it is ever easier to tear down than to build up.Unfortunately the brains and skill of the makers of pedigrees do not go with the pedigrees, and the red lettered pedigree is not always & guaranty of personal excellence in an individual.It in a record of what has been, a promise of what should be, but carries no safeguard inst unwisdom.I muy lay down no hard and fast rules that we may follow in breeding, or announce à formulg for specific results.any more than 1 may give a recipe for writing a poem, or instructions for paint: ing a picture.Cow, poem, they are all works of art, and the greatest of these ie the cow, for in her pro duction man must grapple with the in tangible forces of life; but when he ha: grown the perfect cow, in her he hae also a poem, with its rhyme and its refined mission and Jurposs, and the picture with its beauty to the eye and its inspiration for the mind.Neithrer may one gay this calf, this heifer, this cow must ed va many ol pou of dry matter and protein tos, But th t bread.Fe da into the practices and results of who bave mule n study of the creation ond her living.1 didemtion g + be roper consideration mus ven the cow that ia to Le the mother our dairy calf.Dr.Holmes says a boy's education should begin with bis grand: ther.so with the dairy = we ro moi should begin building for it as ing in the dark unless we the power of heredity.| am sure I would bo only threshing atruw to tell puch wen ol experience und wide reading as compose tus convention how he 00 nearing motherhood should be fi nd Landled, Sutlice it to way [ never practice starvation tactics, \u2018The apps: tits of the cow should be so satisfied ne to insure her comfort and repose.Her feed should be wholesome, nutritious, and luxative.Her quarters should be clean, light, quiet, snd roomy.Too much trvoublesome miuwifery and fussiness on the part of the attendant is not to Le recommended.Good practices differ somewhat among ders regarding the first manual at: tention given the call.Many remove the calf at ounce and dry it away from the dam.Others, equally successful, allow the cali to remain with the dam till the cow\u2019s milk « \u2018good.\u2019 Ths length of that time will depend somewhat generally upon whether the milk is for home consumption or whether it goes to the creamery.Personally 1 am such an agnostic in my habits and thinking that I'am often forced to admit that 1 don't know.\u201d But being à sentimentalist, 1 am inclined to allow the dam to mother her new- for perhaps by the encourageurent of that natural maternal affection I am working toward the more perfect establishment of the refine: ment of bovine .maternity.It be, as 1 may, only a sectimentality ss t ing the her:dity of the calf, but what back to the tottering childhood, would take one of us, looki uncertain days of the loving touch of tu cnoter s band ?and we want ail motherhood possi in a good cow, The careful breeder will watch each calf as an individual, He will guard Against sickness and disease rather than prepared to medicate for them.THE CALF.When the calf is taken from its mother it should be given clean, warm, light quarters.It must be re a.a creation of warmth.There no ns- tural agent so exbaustible of vitality as cold, and just so far as cold is allowed to encroach wu the life of the cslf ao far has Come eath.Jiinerefors She calt muse ve wannt t, an ryness.14 shail not be overfed.\u201d Its food til the time of its birth has been the blood of its mother, and therefore the calf's milk abould be blood-warm.A good cow's milk is richer than ber blood, and therefore again the delicate system of the jours thing must not be disarranged s sudden and radical elemental change of féod.Better a hungry calf than a sick one.The natural food for the calf till it is old enough to rumination is eim- ply whole milk diluted with water.If the calf is not worth new milk till ' 1 ly t ks old, it i i y wo weeks ol iti pot fae dairy animals.ant the whole milk very grad .no graing or meals or mixtures In the milk.Milk itself is capable in reasonable quantities of being directly absorbed and assimilated, byt solid foods should never enter a call\u2019s at without first undergoing itisal rn is the natural complement to skim milk, and all animals like it.Sweet, warm, skim mig, discretionary corn meal, clover bay, and plenty of corn silage make my ration for the dairy titers TESTING THE AGE OF EGGS.When poultry keepers sdhere to a rigid system of controlled nesting and daily collection and marking of , there is little or no trouble about or stale eggs.But where dealers and shippers have to tandie from all quarters, a method of testing for freshness is indispensable.There are various ways of dning this, the holding of the egg to the light being perhapa the most favored.In Saxony « ge ltry breeders\u2019 aseo- ciation has had under consideration what is claimed to be s new method of doter.mining the age of eggs, an ve mn satisfied with it that they have awarded the inventor a apecial medal.The apparatus is based on the physiological property that the air bubble at the blunt end of the °F increases in size with the growth of the Jubryo.When the = is placed in liquid it an consequently an increasing tend a become vertical, with the unt wd u permost.The gpparatué itself consis of 8 glass vessel, ring at the back lines drawn at various angles, each line being marked with the age.The is Aled with some harmiese liquid, in which the to be tested are laid.oh amt Tite ms oe pn and, accordin its age, its lo will be more er leas inclined to the bori- zon, direction of this axis is compared with the lines at the back of the vessel, and the age of the egg off at the line to which its axis is parallel.A new laid egg lies horizontally at the bottom of the vessel.An egg three to five days old rises from the horizontal eo that its azis makes an angle of about twenty degrees.At eight days old this angle hos increased to about forty-tive degrees, nt fourteen days it is sixty-five degrees, at about three weeks it in sev- enty-five degrees, and a four weeka it stands upright on the pointed end.À bad floats.With practice it is stated thet the age can be told to a day, \u2014\"The Agricultural Gazette\u2019 of New Bouth Wales.picture !\u2014 Advertisements FEET wa Dar\u201d MARN'S MAGNETIC INSOLES test onmiort and lammry of modern à Sire under your feud; the foot arm all the sma, even of app lances.THE I.& KARN CO.132 Vistoriabt., Torenta \u2014 us possible, for us breeders we are work .\u2014_ re Dacemsan 28, 1902.CE A FEW SHEEP - EEEY ARE OF GREAT VALUE TO EVERY, FARM.1 before a farm- a = para, of l'ort land, N.D, contains some facis that equally well to farmers ail over continent.He said: \u201cThe direct money return from the in- orsass in the sheep 18 at least ninaty peroent.1 think the return irom tne wool snd the indirect return from the eleaning of the land and the inceease w its fertility will pay for their keep.\"i, mam operating « half seztion farm.1 d» not recommend io any caer w tha Red River valley to keep over winter more than forty to forty-live grown swes for each quarter section of lund be From such a flozk he is almost sure to get ubout fifty lembs.Eighty grown ewes was the highest number I ever kept over, from which I realized 105 lambe.In order to keep up that number with the proper age of my flock I have to keep over about tweuiy ewe lambs each season, making it fully two bundred head during the summer ond fall.I very seldom keep any asleep over six years unless it is an extra geod one which | sometimes keep untii eight years old.\u2018When winter sets in 1 separate the lambe from the flock and every morning and evening clean out all the mang:rs (ea the sheep are very dainty), and throw the rubbish to the horses.They will clean it all up with a relish.leed the Inmbe some kind of screen 1 generally use screenings gathered fiom under the threshing machine, and they do well on it.In case of shortage use barley and bran mixed, care being taken not to overfeed at the beginning.Nothing needs to be ground for sheep.Feed the grain morning and svenig One und per day of the grain f is auf- icient for each head.1 feed them all hay both morning and evening.If there are any poor ones among the ewes, they ure turned in among the lambs.They are all turned out in the daytime if the weather is fine.\u20181 live near the middle of my half section of land.which rune north end south.I commenced seeding the northwest corner to nearly one-third of a mile south, When that pasture was old enough 1 secded down another one-thinl of a mile south of it, and Jett the fe standing every time l moved the jas- ture; and now have come clear around to the north-east corner, so have six large lots fenced.In fencing I get aleng very well with four harbed wires, three feet two inches high.The lowest wire eight and one-half inches high; the mc ond, seventeen inches; \u201cthe third, tweu- ty-seven and a half, and the fourth thir ty-cight inches above the ground.There is no animal on my farm that will jump over the fence even if the fourth wire is off.Net the fain posts four or hve roils apart.uring any kind of a stick for each rod between the posts.Stretch the wire very tightly.\u2018As exampics how the indirect value of sheep comes in and works I mention these: À forty-five acre lot, which lad been a sheep pasture only two \u2018ears, and in the dry eeavon of 1900 was sown to wheat.vielded iw over twenty->ne bushels per acre, while the surrounding tields yielded from three to seven bushels\u2018and the mujority of fields not rat at all, In 1901 that smme tield yiclded aboutstwenty-cight bushels per acre.sol growing all up into struw with only twelve or fifteen bushels per acre a» other summer fallowing and rich lands did that year.- \u2018Severul yeurs ago 1 pastured a fifty- six acre lot for tive years, and them raised two heavy crops of wheat, following with four very heavy crope of octs in succession, with as clean and mee oats as ever can be found.Last year l sowed that same piece of land with five different grains nearly evenly divided between corn, barley, Argentine flax, Siberian millet and Hungarian millet.Each of the lots bad as nice a crop as I Lave ever seen.It is probably fair to state here that « part of the manure was spread on that lot those five years it was in pasture; but think of it, seven wonderfully heavy crops in succession and the longest time oats at that.\u2018I find by July a lamb euts about as much ss o grown sheep, that means & little army of laborers in my stuoble Tields in the fall; the twa last seams t become very fat.Imagine each of bed picking up weeds, wheat, harley and oat twice as fast as a man is able to.They not only gather it, thresh it, grind it, welf-feed it, furnish manure, baul it to the field and spread it very evenly, but do not cha me one cnt for it, even boarding themselves while doing so.comply with and also help me comply with the command: \u201cGuther up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.\u201d ; \u2018I wish to state in conclusion that I have frequently been asked if I did rot consider my land, and land in this valley, as being too valuable for sheep raising.To these enquiries I wish to sy that there is no land here, which I have seen, to produce cereals, but what benefited directly or indirectly Bheep raising ws an indepen- ustry is 8 proposition entiraly my experience.Fertilisers here expensive and will not pay, but proper amount of sheep to the quar- section of land will take the place of lisers and produce a seperate value es.1 Bi fEsige fat In \u2014_\u2014 WATER FOR GARDEN CROPS.What an abundance of water Juring the season of their heaviest growth wi do for small fruits, grains, potatoes, lettuce, cabbages, beets and many other rope, in garden and field, was shown ingly bv the present seasons outcome.We had frequent and moderately heavy reins in spring and summer right Long.The only complaint was ta be: ing much,\u2019 rather than not enough, 8s in average seasons.Low Jands, or lapds insufficiently drained, suffered of- tan severely, or to the extent 9f ruining erops, 1008 corn apd which ete hot and reason- sbly dry weather to an excess of cold end moisture.But what arsin crops 3 i we bavel What spiendid yields of esriy potatoes, the late onen falling tu rome extent only on aceount of the lute blight! What fine, succulent vegetables \u2014lettuce, celery, beets, cabbages, spin ach, carrots, radishes! JVhat large sized pears, even on ground not cultivated: And what a crop of onions! All due, in the first place, to the steady supply ot water in the soil! Buch lessons as these must urge the average tiller to pay more attention to the question of how to best secure and maintain the moisture supply than he has ever given to this iat.ter before.For home garden purposes, J expect to arrange for & supply trom the village waterworks, which furnishes Niagara river water ut a reasonable cost.The mains are to be extended out tu within a short distance from my resi dence, and 1 feel 1 can well afford to incur the expeuse of laying à emall pipe line across the -reek into my grounds.If nothing more, it would be a great convenience when results in vegetables and fruits similar to those of the pres ent year can be necured year after year, it will also pay well in dollars and cents.1 find it reported of à small grower of strawberries and other small fruits, wome- where, that he has tructed a huge tank of wood.and cemented it inside to make it water-tight, into which all the water that falls on his bouse and barn is conducted by leaders; the tank holds water enough to irrigate his five-acre plot.lta construction, with its capacity of fifty thousand gallons, was the expensive part of the work, end f ning to place it so that it would av garden.e a slight elevation above the flat As it stands to-day it supplies ht pressure to the water, rnd the pipes and hose which tap the tank can carry the water to any part of the five acres.During Jong periods of dry weather the man keeps his crops suppii- ed with sufficient moisture to .nake them grow continuously.There has never been à time in the past five years when he lost anything from drought, al though farmers all around repeatedly lost a part or all of their small berry crops, The invention and work certainly pays big interest on the investment, sad should serve to encourage others to make some provision against destructive dry weather, where so much depends upon the results.This same man also tines an additional water gatherers a series of slantmg wood frames covered with canvas in spring to catch the rain water and carry it off in gutters to the tank, where it is kept une til needed.When the crops have been harvested, these frames are taken down and stored for another year's use.\u2014 .\u2018Practical Farmer.\u2019 | \u2014_\u2014 THE USEFUL PIG UOW HE IS NEGLECTED BY MANY FARMERS.The importance of the pig as a rent.earner is certainly not so fully appre ciatzd by tenant farmers in general as it shouid be, says the London \u2018Farmer and Stock Breeder\u2019 Anyone who may inclined to doubt this statement has but to enter into conversation with a num- bar ot these gentlemen gathered together at any market or fair to be cenvinced of its truthfulness.Of course, some few will be met with who go in for this branch of their business, but the majority, although they may have many pigs on their farms, really take but li- tle interest in the treatment they nn ceive.Under such circumstances it 18 not surprising that but little profit is realized, and that no serious atiempt is made to bring the pigs to an equality with other farm stock.Even when pigs are kept in considerable numbers there is but little care bestowed on the matter.\u2018The breeding is carried on in a haphazard way, and the food ie supplied in a maoner that militates against satisfactory results being attained.Little attention is given to the comfort of the animals, which are either badly housed, or have practically such shelter only as they find for themselves in old stacks or unused cowsheds.Parhaps the only care taken is that the farrows shall come in only at times of the year when | they will need but a minimum of care | Lestowed upon tham.In this connec | tion a most important question arises, namely: Is it really wise to restrict breeding in this way ?For by so doing the natural productivencas of the sow is reduced at the lowest estimate by one- fourth, and it is doubtful whether ths! advantage of securing a genial tempera- | ture is sufficient to make up for this.Suppose, for example, that the farmer is keeping some ten or dozen SOWH, | would it not pay him far better to get as many farrows as possible from them?All that is required to prevent a too heavy strain upon the constitution is suflicient feeding.With this, even a specinlly heavy milking sow should not lose flesh to any serious extant during lactation, and should be soon again in condition.Unfortunately, it is a common practice, as sooft as the farrow is weansd, to put the sow upon \u2018short commons\u2019 with the certain result that many weeks are virtually wanted before she is in any sense restored to Ler normal stats as to flesh.Naturally, under such management, it is necessary to restrict the number of farrows, as it would be hardly prudent to put the row to the boar until she has regained her condi tion, to a certain extent at least.Tho time thus lost cannot be made up, and the owner sustains a loss that it woull have n prudent to avoid.The adage, \u2018What is worth doing, ete.\u2019 ly deserves more serious attention than it receives, especially in regard to the management of pigs on the farm.n how many instances do we find them with and sanitary surroundings\u2014 housed in styes, free from draughts, but with plenty of top ventilation * \u2018hen it is almost an exception to find the growing animals kept in such condition sa will enable them to be go} ready for Slaughter within a fortnight or three weeks from the time the final stage of feeding began.With a view to keep down cost, they are allowed to do their growing oftentimes upon fitful and insufficient supplies of food, with the r»- sult that a considerable cost is entailed in getting them ready for the butcher.There ie yet another and by no meana unimportant point that should not be overlooked : it is the length of time that in required for a pig to attein & weight : breeding, feeding and fat stock at (li.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, A ROYAL CHAMPION, \u2018Flord 8th\u2019 owned by Mr.George Ha at the Royal Show this year.rrison, was the champion Shorthorn cow \u2018 of from six to eight score.Tt will be found that when it is compelled to forage for itself, and in given but scanty supplies of food in addition to the yard rele or orchard grass, it will take nearly twice as long to reach the weight as wlien kept in proper condition all its life, and there is nu question as to the superior quality of the carcase of the animal that has always hen plentifully mpplied with food.Time is money, and it may be truly said, the quicker the turnover, the greater the profit.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE INTERNATIONAL, SHOW.! THE ABERDEEN-ANGUS BREED DEFEATED TRE HEREFORDS AND SHORTHORNS, At the recent international show of cago, where the various breeds contest.\u2019 ed not only for the honor of winning ribbons in their classes, but also for the ad- .miration of the throngs of spectators there were in all 3,147 entries, distributed ss follows: Exhibits.Entries.107 8% Pure-bred cattle .Fat cattle .Pure-bred sheep .\u201c% 2: Fat shesp .\u201cee sa co Pure-bred swi 60 360 Fat swine .15 Us Horses.0 517 3 152 Total .587 4,147 There were in the dressed carcase competition ninety-four entries of cat tle, forty-nine of sheep and twenty-eight of swine.In cat lots of fancy beeves the Angus made rather the strongest showing, with the Shorthorns a very close second.In the breeding classes of cattle the Hercfords and Shorthorns were very nearly equal in point of numbers, | while the Angus, although less in numbers.were perhaps the peer of any in quality of exhibits.Great interest centred round the class for grades and crossbreds.The two- year-olds of this class were not nearly uo strong as last vear, the first and sec.oud prize steers being outstanding winners over anything else in the ring.The Jowa college won first in this class, with \u2018Shatoroeck the steer that was made grade champion, champion of all two- yeur-olds and afterward grand champion of the show.The Iowa college also prr- sented the firt prize yearling and first prize herl, This herd was later made champion herd of the show, The grand champion steer and the grand champion carload of steers sald otter than last year, going at 3 and 1414 cents per pound, against 50 and 12 cents last vear.The next highest price chtained for a car lot was #9.20 for ti, M, Carey's second prize two-year-old Shorthorns.The first prize load of three year-olds, Shorthorns, brought 88.75 and the name figure waa secured by the third prize two-year-old Angus load.The toy rice for & Hereford load was $7.4G, ; ot of good cattl: sold from $3.50 to $7.50.Canadian breedars figured well in the contest.Mr.R.Gibson, nf Delaware, Ont., and Mr.John Campbell, of Wond- ville, Ont., took the bmik of the homors for Shropshires, and the Mon.G.A.Drummond.of Montreal, and Telfer Hros., of Paris, Ont, were well to the fore with their Routhdowns, Mr.Drum- mond capturing the grand champivnship.\u2014_\u2014 EXTENSIVE PRUNING OF TRANSPLANTED TREES, A writer in \u2018Practical Fruit Grower\u2019 thinks abundant pruning of both root and top_advisable wien transplanting trees.He gives h Xperience as fol ows: \u2014 \u2018In the spring of 11 I planted four peach trees, two of them the old way and two by the crowbar method.They were set in my yerd on nearly level und, and were not cultivated, but Érhtly mulched.The two trea planted the old way, with all the roots, started to grow very early, and made a fair growth for so dry a season, but in Au- st the leaves came off and one of them ied; the other died back to the ground and vo had to start from the ground this year.This sesson it hns made a growth of two feet, The crowbar trees were trimmed to a cane twenty inches high, and all side mota were cuf off and the tap roots cut back to cight or ten inches, I made holes for them in the hard gravel land that never was cultivated, with a crowbar, same as I do for a fence post.1 then got a shovelful of nich surface soil and put in the two holes, then with the crowbar made a hole in the middle of this soil, put the trees down and tamped them with x small stick, filling in more éartis until full.Then I poured a bucket of watcr around each tree and mulched them, Results: These two trees just stood there like two sticks stuck in the ground Agr fcultural colleges till about the last of June.when all at once they took a notion to w and they grew until frost killed the leaves.This last spring they began early, and are now as high as my head.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 FRUIT GROWERS MANY INTERESTING PAPERS READ AT WATERLUO.Waterloo, Que, Dec.17,\u2014The Pomo- logical and Fryit- growing Society of the Province of Quebec met here yesterday.Mr.N.E.-Juck, of Chateauguus, pre- Sided, and delivered an interesting address.Mr.J.E.Chapais, of St.Denis, read a peper on \u2018Why fruit trees bloom and fruit does not set\u2019 This was du, he said, to non-fertilwation of the How-rs, caused by high winds, fogs, cold, heavy rains or vigorous growth of the tree.Mr.J.M, Fisk, Abbotsford, speaking on \u2018Noxious weeds,\u201d snd that municipalities should w laws for their suppres sivn.ln the discussion that followed, the Hou.Mr.Fisher said he thought parliament should deal with the imatter, as ost of the weeds were sown with the seed which the farmer bought.There should be laws to prevent weedy reed being sold.Mr.W.Mead Pattison, of Clarence- ville, sent an interesting paper on the protection und encouragement of insec- | in the interest of fruit, fivorous birds e 1 growers.e thought the islature should be asked to give the ee more legal protection, ax war done in Untario, the evening the Hon.Sydney Fisher gave an aduress, telling Lie surmers that they should grow more fruit.There were many in that region who grew it to advantage, and if they gave the matter the skill, Attention and energy that was given to dairying, they could supply al the fruit ured in the Townships.The law passed two years ago against false marking of fruit had done much to improve the quality and reputation of fruit in the English market, but much still remained to be done.Mr.G.Reynaud, of the Trappist cs tablishment at Oka, read a very pra cal paper on the \u2018leaching of luertic ture,\u2019 and he was followed by Professor Macoun, où tbe Central Experisental rm, Ottawa, who gave a talk on awberries,\u201d mentioning the best kind« to cultivate, and the best method of wing them, after which Mr.llarold ones, of Maitland, Ont., delegate vf the Ontario Fruit Growers\u2019 Association, Lraught the fraternal greetings of that y.CONVENTION CLOSED.Waterloo, Que, Dec.18.\u2014The Pomolo- ical and Fruit Growing Society of the Province of tbec closed its annual meeling yesterday, the principal busin at the morning n being the elec.on of officers, which resulted as fol OWN [= Hon.president\u2014The Hon.Sydney Fisher, Brome.Hon.first vice-president\u2014Mr, Auguste Dupuis, Village des Aulnaies.Hon.second vice-president\u2014Mr.C.I.Newman, Lachine Locks, Jiresdent-\u2014Mr.Robt.Hamilton, Greenville.Viea-president\u2014Mr.W, W.Dunlop, Outremont.jeer atary\u2014Dr.H W.Wood, St Johns.Directors\u2014Diatrict No.1, Mr.W.Mead Pattison, Clarencaville; No.2, Mr.J.M.Fisk, Abbotaf 0.3, Mr J.H.Cart>r, Massawippis No.4, Mr.A.D.Verreault, Village des Auln Mr.JJ.C.Chapais, St.Denis; SN.E.Jack, Chatcauguay Hasi LT .Renaud, La Trappe; No.8, Mr.Shepherd, Como; No.9, Mr.It.e de Grace, ey.South Hero, Vt, extended an invitation, on behalf of the Vermont Horticultural Society, which holds its annual meeting at South Hero, on Jan.27 and 28, for a delegation from the Quebce Society to attend that gathering.Mr.Fisk, Mr.Brodie, and the secretary were appointed: MONTREAL FRUIT.In the afternoon Mr.R.Brodie contributed a paper on \u2018Montreal as a fruit centre,\u201d in which he spoke of how the fruit trade of Cana had increased within the past few years, nud said that with improved transportation facilities and cold storage, fruit wan now shipped to Englund that would uot have n attempted a few years ago.From dun 3 to Oct.1 there were brought into Montreal a hundred and fifty cars of fruit, the freight and duty \u201con which cost $1,200 a car.In winter oranges wera rought not only from Californie.but from Florids and Mexico in Inrge quantities.Cargoes of oranges and lemons arrived from the Mediterranean, 160,000 boxes being delivered on the wharves, We had bananas gll the year round, from the West Indien In the pine apples n van.Riser 225,00\" being sold rid ont.oy asset] real, and 200 carloads of small fruit arrived from the United Hfates and Ou tario.\u2018These figures did not inctude the large quantities gruwn by furmers with in» radius of twenty miles of the city, some having from five Lo twenty-five ar pents of strawborries, Asuong our fruits the apple easily took tirst plac: ns a commercial cto for export, and up to Dec.2, 476,733 barrels leit Montreal for Kuropean ports.At the present time there were over 50,00 barrels of apples stored up in Montreal.Although navi- #ation was open until Dec.2, there were not enough whips to take all the apples that were offered, and there sul remained 400,000 barrels in Ontario.The outlook wan good for Canadun apples, for the European crop hud been u tuil- ure, Other papers read were :\u2014\u2018 The fruit experimental stations of the province of ucbee,\u201d by Mr.Auguste Dupuis; he chard notes,\u2019 by Mr.RR.W.Shepherd: and \u2018Fruits in connection with domests science,\u201d by Mrs, E, M.Torrauce, Clu- teauguay To Intel ing and in structive addresses were given, both at the morning und evening sessions, hy Major Whitcomb, manger of the ex crimentul station at Waterloo; Messrs.lacoun, of Ottawa; J.F.Scriver and 4.E.Carey, fruit inspectors, of Montreal i Mr, WW.Craig, jr., of Abbotsford; Mr.L.Dery, fruit Inspector, Montresl; Waugh, of the Va usetts À, : tural College, and Mr, T.L.Kinney, on \"The health of the apnla tree, and what it means the orchardists.\u201d Major Whitcomb sud that the state ment having been notie-d in the press that lerturers were guing to address the Farmers\u2019 Institutes throughout the province, and an one of the Ircturss was on \u201cHorticulture and fruits! nnd the lee tirer came from the Ningara district, where the system was totally different from that in this province», it was decided to request the Minister of Agriculture to send a lecturer familiar with the needs and requirements of the provinces of Quebec.1.MILK FILTERS.A builetin of the Cornell Fxperiment Station says: \u2018While milk drawn under ordinary conditions mes polluted with varying amounts of dirt and duet, i ful precautions will contmin wane fore eign matter, which ix teeming with germ lite.Them: impuritics, consisting mn-1- Iv of dirt and dust, dissolve readily in the warm milk, therefore, if the latter ix not strained promptly little, if any, of the filth ran be strained out.Ît ie then of the greatest importance to reduce the time that elapsæes between the drawing Land straining of milk to a minimam: «ven then it lax been found that about one-half of the impurities gn into salu- tion before the milk reaches the strriner, Attempts have heen made to use strainers or filters that would filter out bne- teria and thus reduce the number of bacteria in milk direetlv.For this purpace, abworbent cotton, paper filters, cellulose, gravel or sand ile, porcelain tilters and many other devices have been tested and with more or less success, In order to thomughly understand the dairying it is well for the dairyman to know that the bacteria nre many times smaller than the fat globules in milk.Bearing this fact in mind, it ix not difi- cult to understand that, as soon as we make use of a filter that is dense enough to prevent bacteria from nenetrating, the fat globules will also he filtered out.À large number of experiments conducted at this station and elsewhere have roved the correctness of this statrment.he fact that the use of filters 1x capable of depriving milk of one of its most valuable constituents, namely fat.and | that such & process of filtering is ea.| vémdingly slow, and therefore imprac- ticalile in dairving, demonetrates « lenrly the imposstbility of purifying mk hae | teriolomenlly by means of any titer now on the market.\u201d \u2014\u2014_ POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.Fecd regularly and water While it is an item to feed hi there is no advantage in feedin Ume more (han 14 eaten up clean.wintering cattle in a 1 thrifty condition it is nearlu alvays necessary to fee! some .the amount 10 be largely determined by the condition of the r.t- tle, which should he one of thrift.1lerc the judgment of the teeder must be used.as the feeding of gram adds considerable tu the cost.There is no successful agriculture today without live atock, ed there con be none.Grain sold trom the firm cireet always has and alwogs will being run and \u201cdisaster.Good from which he derives tull pront from the grain crops by saving both the tecd- ing and manurial values, \u201cThe fertuity ot the farm must be maintained; live stock doen thin and at Lie same time condenses the raw materials of the in priced meat products, mil! cheese.While most any 4 of stack will consume fees! aud make manure ot, only the improved kind anake the best and most profitable use of it, Leeann they possess contorniation and aly ne.quired through funy yrmrs of wreeding.ee Advertisements, MAKING TESTS.What in the use of a man reading of Improved metheda of farming aud fq.ing, If he simply reads as nu pastime, and then continues to farm his [own land, ard feed hin own stock tin the same old way tint his father nod grandfather did before him.Condition ave changed.and if farmlax fa to Le a surcoss, the farmer must keep up to date #nd ure present doy metbndr.Wien you |read of à nw method, have personal cour- jage.and test the matter for yourself Liven if the test prove the new method tn be n Mature, you wili hnve mained knowledge dy the oprratimi, ond kuowledge (a power.Write to the agricultural papers and re.t#rt the recuit of your test, It will give you à new interest, broaden youe life, and desclop yorr powers, and life.without j wntinual scit-deveiopment, is & poor buxi- ness.You read of the g-eat advantage of fred- ing Herdbngeum ta all closes of farm stock.Reports of resulta obtained appear In neer- ly avery tssuegof the farm papers.Again, we would say, bave psraonal courage, test the matter and report the resulta null obtained even with the most care.| value of these filters in connection with} i r Ive stock is the! farmer's finished manufactured § roduc | into high | atter nel ! 18 ABOUT POULTRY.THE VALUE OF PURE BREEDS POINTED OUT.! À writer in on English poultry pager ou the subject of Pure Breeds recom- ; mends that the novice begin with mix- led or mongrel breeds, so that he may {become thoroughly aequainced with the care of u few cheap breeds and then when he gequirex sufficient experience he cau take up the pure Lreeds, being in à position to do wo more intelligent.Iv und with less risk of serious losses than if he had started with the more valunbie bicds, | It is after gaining thin very neces- tarry and useful experience that he [may reasonably give thought to the Tpéestion as te what breed or cross he shall give his preference, ft is agree) that the first cross is (the best to adopt, First crosses as a Vresnlt of judicious mating have produced some exceptionally good layers fund table birds enmbined, Where table i qualities alone are desired they can tot be heaten, Iere, however, the writer cluims the marked wuperiority of the first cross finishes.\u201ccross under the sun ean excel it I; No first though ay equal\u2014the Black Minorea for ing qualities alone, It is esseptial- the fowl for the small poultry keep- r, especially when a town garden or ilaek yard is the only run which can bee spared for the hirds.It may be objected that the Minorea is not a gol winter layer, Then how about the Nilver or Golden Wyandottes?The jexperience of the last few years has amply proved the great value of the Wyandottes an winter layers.Of course winter laying is very much « matter of strain and careful breeding; hut there are certain breeds which almost invariably do well in this direction and of these the Wyandottes is an easy first, Tangshuns ure favorites with those who prefer large birds, and they, too, have earned a first-rate reputation for j their laying capabilities, * Then there are Andalusians, Feu- dans, Plymouth Rocks, ete.Talle qualities do not appeal very much to \u201cthe small fancier.To make this branch \u2018pay a good profit it is necessary to carry on the business on a somewhat large scale.The ane great advantage of pure breeds over their crossbred rivals is the purity of their plumage.\"They lay just a+ well as oross-bresds or even better.They are quite as use ful in the hatching season.They are always good to look upon.And lastly they have a real value in themselves an pure breeds, when it cumes to sellin Iatock in the showroom, all of whic { should not be overlooked.Advertisements.~ Every Woman Should ! Know.| That Prof.W.Hodgson Ellis, Official Analyst to the Dominion Government.has recently made a number of analyses of soaps, and reports that { \u201cSunlight Soap contains that high \u201c percentage of oils or fats necessary \u201cto a good laundry soap.\u201d What every woman does not know is that io common soaps she fre- | quently pays for adulterations at the price of oils and fats.Try Sune light Soap\u2014Octagon Bar\u2014next wash day.and you will see that Prof.Ellis is right.He should know.206 \u2014 rer LIVE STOCK.For advertising In thin department specially reduced prices witi be sent on application, FiSTULA AND POLL EVIL Flemicz's Fistuis and Poll Evil Cure {na new.scientific & certain remedy.NO COST IF IT FAILS.Virite (sday for buportant eireutaz Xe, 67 2 FLEMING BROS,y Chemists, 38 Front St.West, Toronto, Ont.THE PEOPLE'S HORSE CATTLE SHEEP AND SWINE DOCTOR.4be lemand coulinues for this book te wuLu au ratvul ISL LUGUEL We uave Dees wlivs ug Wi Suveral yuars, we feel we | Must ouce mure inciude it ju our Premtuæ | List.Jt bas saved the life of masy à I vaiuuble vest.2s Well as giving those whe bave the core of live stuck a gieat deal of , braclical advice and usalui information.work putaias in four parts cisar and diseases the sa pions of Hor C-tte.Sheep and Bwine, with tte exact doses of medicine for each.: A book of #34 pages on diseusos of domes.ele ani which should present a dese cription Ach disease.and name tbe pre per Died Inr treatment in such con sed form to be withlo the means of evurybody, bas long been recognized as a desideratum.This work appears to cover the grouud crmpisiely.The book embodies the best practice of the udlest veterinariang tn thie ecouotry and Europe, and infor.metion 18 O-TANFE so as to be easily ae- cexsible-en important consideration.Esch uiscage te fret described, then foilows the syn tame by which it may be recognized, ord.lastly.19 given the proper remedies, at diferent tefiedics employed 1n all dine ses, are described.and the doses required ven.Th» book in coplusiy 1llustrats cluding RH showing the shape of Mores\u2019 teeth flerent ages.An vorate fndex Teluable feature.1t 19 prioted clear, good type, on fine apd Is omely ound fo eloth, th Ink side viamp and gold back, and te book which every person ought to Possess 6 «nyibiog lo do with: the ears of ant | No farmer or breeder should be with in vable book.Olven only to \u2018Wi subscribers for one new ebacripuen = the \u2018Weekly Witness\u2019 at 81.08, | postpaid, at % conte « Tr Me .ana A.tle; pases bête.3 (To the Editor of the \"\\Vitness.\") 8ir,\u2014In addition to the kind words of dhe \u2018Witness\u2019 in the intervets of & cottage hospital for the foreigners of the Cenadian North-West, may ! explain that although a few of the Doukhobortsi villages are within twenty-five nules of medical aid, yet the great majority of them are removed from twenty-five to seventy-five miles from the towns where medical aid may be procured.Although a small minority of the Doukhobortsi men are so extremely mystical that they place no dependence upon the huumn agency of medical scieuce, vet there 16 e much untold suffering amongst them which medical aid could prevent that all the young people, all the women sud the great majority of the wen cordially welcome the physician, would cordually welcome the Christian nurse, would give ail possible enco ement to the build: ing of a cottage hospital, and would very highly appreciate that form of ap i Ébristionity manifested by the ristian people of Canada.To them applied Christianity 1 Christianity.To hy the term Christianity means nothing if it does not mean the love of neigh: bor, with the practical manifestation of that love in every-diy life.This form of applied Christiamty would be the most effective way for ve to show the Doukhbobortsi that we are a Christian people not only in name but also in irit, and in deed.We have not ret wa them this.Indeed, in too many ways we have given them cause to eus t the opposite.In the minis of the he Quakers and the wo- ational Council of Women ere the Christians of Uansda because these have not only sympathized with them in their sufferings but have manifested that sympathy by kindly deeds done in the spirit of love.And on the of these no advantage has been taken of (hristian charity by any st- tempts to proselytize them trom their own primitive Christian faith, The consistent Doukhobor thinks he sees in such attempts a desire for ecclesiastical sggrandizement.Such attempts are unnecessary, for thstanding the re cent regrettable fanaticism of a small minority, the Doukhobortsi are a Christian people.Since their arrival in Cane sda only one Doukhobor has been arrested for crime, and at the trial he was proved innocent.\u2018By their fruits ye shall know them.\u2019 In the district where this cottage hospital will be built there are (in addition lo the Doukhobortsi) many Galician and other foreiguers, ail of wbum hava uite recently come to Cava and tre tl ore in as great need and are just as worthy of medical charity as are the Doukhobortsi, and the doors of this cottage hospital will, of course, be open to * oll of every race in the district where it stands.In the interests of all «f these foreigners there should be, of course, a motive higher than the mere desire to assert our Christian civilization.That grace of Christian charity, the manifestation of brotherly kindness to the suffering, is not s mere perfunctory duty but the highly appreciated privilege of Christian peoples.Although these foreigners of the Canadian North-West are at present in poor material circumstances, yet being irdus- trious and frugal they will in the near + future become not only eelf-supporting bot us farmers, fully capable ¢ helping us in the building we, of 6 nation.Any contributions to this cottrge hospital scheme will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged by mail end through the \u2018Witness.J.T.REID, M.D, 19 Homewood avenue, Hamilton, Ont., Dep.18, 1002.* THE SCHOOLS AND THE TEACHERS {To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\"} Sir,\u2014Montreal is not the only city threatened with a dearth of school teachers.Complaints are heard all over the continent thau the profession of teaching has become more exacting, or other avocations offer stronger inducements than they did to young men and women.Probably both explan- stions are founded on fact.As regards young men, it may be said that few or none take to teaching as a life-work.Most of those who adopt it do a0 az a means of livelihood while preparmg themselves for a profession, while bright and intelligent young women become teachers with the desire to be Self-supporti; taining the and to help in main- me, with the natural hope of eventually exchanging the school for homes of their own.In the large majority of cases these ambitions of teachers of both sexes are realized, und, consequently, there is need of a good supply of capable, well-trained persons to fill the gaps constantly ce- curring.Here in Montreal this supply was secured by the inducements leld out by the Normal School, but since the fee of four dollars & month was im- Jord on city students, while those the country were exempted, that supply, too, has diminished, till now the number in sight is not sufficient to meet expectations of vacancies that must oocur in the ordinary course.Thus it is tbat young women, who could manage to take the free course at the Normal School, cannot afford to per the fess, and must turn to other .callings.At the same time the num- der coming from the country is yot re Advertisements.Cancer Curen WITH SOOTHING, BALMY OILS., Tumor, Catarrh, Piles, Fistula, Ulcers, and all Bkin and Wemb Diseases.llustrated Book.Bent free.Address 0B.BYE ESSE Clty, Mo.\u201cNe young women.For some time back, owing to causes over which the school commissioners have no control, the work im ou teachers has been growing harder, in wome instances excessive.Thin is shown by the unusual number of female teachers whose health has broken down within the last few years.In ome instunce brought before the Board this year, it was shown that a teacher, whose health had given way, had a class of sixty boys to instruct and manage.A member of the Board, when the case was presented, was reported as saying that this was a case for the Rociety for the Protection of Women and Children.The Bonrd, how ever, was not to blame.Its schools are congested on acconnt of the pressure of population on its resutirees, and lack of funds and consequent inadequate accommodation both of school room and teachers.But there is une respect in which the Board could make the lot of teachers less difficult and exacting without loas of efficiency.The mid-winter examinations could be omitted.Thess wera an institution of doubtful expediency when they were introduced, and experience has not roved them worth their cost.They bave added enormousty to the labors of teachers who were already hard pressed by classes muck too large, and Rave another reason to young women for avoiding an employment which offered nothing but hard work, small pay, and the prospect of broken health.All these conditions are so well known that they may as well be plainly siat- ed.That they have been wisely taken into consideration by the commissioners is shown by the proposed fifteen percent increase in salaries, but a good deal more will have to be done to make teaching attractive to the right class, if the city schools are to be placed on a proper basis of efficiency, and to begin with, the Board must have increased financial resources.Montreal, Dec.19, 1902.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 STRIKES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\") 8ir,\u2014 Underlying every phenomenon in the universe is a certain fixed principle without which the phenomenon would be non-existent.The human family, with all ita complexity, is but one of the phenomena of the universe, therefore fixed principles underlie it.Gregarious- news is essential to mankind, for love and friendship take ranking positions in his emotions.snd motives.Society in the result.This fact has been recognised by all teachers of philosophy and founders of religions.phocles proclai it about B.C.in the beautiful language: \u2018It is not to hate, but to love one another that we sre here\u2019 In a politi- cul sense and in a religious sense before God ail men are equal.By what calculation, then, do the rich assume to tell workers of the world that they are not equal?men who labor, producing the good things of life, work for the common good, but men who occupy the places of power appropriate the common good for their private uses.Most of the rich are criminals.They alone bribe the public.Foor men never ribe\u2014they bave not the wherewithal to o it.Among the greatest goods \u2018which mau- kind Genres next to life are liberty aud the Tsuit of happiness, to conserve which justice is essential.The relations of capital and labor influence greatly the pursuit of happiness and mightily affects even liberty itself.Naturally, capital end labor are mutually depen: dent; they are natural friends or close kindred, not natursl enemies, as some would have us believe.To-day there is in our land antago nisms between capital and labor.Where lies the blame for this violation of nature?I may with both, in full convie tion.The antagonism of capital and labor is unnatural.and both labor and capital are blamable therefor.Avarice, greed and a reckless lust for gain lie at the bottom of their whole trouble, and have corroded and cank the mo tives of both.Capital often oppress= labor where it can, but in labor altogether guiltiesa?No.Labor is no more \u2018honest\u2019 than capital, and that the \u2018reformers\u2019 and \u2018labor leaders\u2019 know full well.ery out for an \u2018honest day's BY for an honest day\u2019s work.\" That is bor's due.But how often 18 the aim \u2018an honest days work\u2019?Capital in a thousand and one different and cowardly ways goes about satisfying an insatiable .Every one knows them so well tat I need not recount any.Ome of them is through the law.Any corruption of the law is to be condemned, but i capital's corruption of the law more worthy of condemnation than labor's de fiance of law?But the \u2018reformers\u2019 and \u2018lea * say: \u2018Capital makes the laws, and does rot legislate for labor.\u201d Just as aure labor does not, and does not intend to, legislate for, but against, capital.Both have utterly lost sight of justice, and their outcry and actions are prom; by & cold, \u2018calculating, base velfishness.On every hand we hear it announced aa a natural economic condition that a man will purchase in the lowest market and bell in the highest market.That is true, but without sny notion of manipulation by which produces theme markets.Just here the Smooth\u2019 man of modern times gets in his fine work and instructs both capital and labor how to obtain something for nothing.Capital is \u2018shrewd\u2019 in getting fifteen hot.s\u2019 work for eight hours\u2019 pay.Labor in \u2018slick\u2019 in putting in time.Each ir seen trying to uado the other, instead of trying, to procure that mutual confidence and barmonious relation which ought to ever subsist between capital and labor.In a great measure labor has itself to blame; it is not honest enough to be consistent in its own bebait.ith Moulders of opinion wit] might and main to convince farses of an great an untruth as wna ever conceived, that is, that tors have absolute power to set Ra prices upon Products / med there would be mo further trouble\u2019 does.At what point, then, in the evolution does he cease to be the \u2018honest workingman' end become the \u2018soulless capitalist\u2019 * Not « mother's son of them all who have railed against capital but would be rich ss Whifeller or Rockney if he could.The only way present wrong or future grievances can righted is for both Jarties to entertain justice, seek to promote mutual confidence by continual and open worthiness, secure and maintain harmonious relations, honestly ren ing to each his own, promote public an private good, for thus only can we be just, and as Juickly as we demand our own, so quickly let us restore snother\u2019s, remembering always that neither the cal- lcused hand nor broadclothed back makes an honest man.J.W.WEEGAR.Montreal, December, 1902.\u2014 THE FUEL QUESTION.(Tu the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\") 8ir,\u2014There can be no question that there is a shortage of uvailable fuel in this city.Now I an absolutely of the opinion that there is at this moment of writing more fuel goi to waste yearly withiu a radius of 200 miles of Montreal than is required to supply the \u2018domestic\u2019 heat required by all thie people living within that radius All that is necessary, therefore, to remove all fear of a fuel famine, and to put a stop to \u2018waste,\u2019 both econumic evils of the worst kind, is to find some method of making this waste available for fuel and providing for its transportation to the market.The only method so far adopted of turning the product of the forest injo fuel, in Canada, has been to chop it'into cordwood.Thi a most wasteful ure.It costs much in labor to turn trees into cordwood, aud a large amount of the wood is wasted, The resulting product is heavy, bulky, it consists of more water than fuel in the majority of cases.It is therefore costly to Lrans- port by road or rail, costly to handle snd costly to store, and in the end costly to burn.The remedy for all this cost and waste seems to be to adopt the method of the old countries where forests are valuable and are valued.In these countries the waste of the forests is alone used for fuel, and it is all converted into charcoal.If all the farmers owning wood lots within the 200 miles radius were to take their horses (now in great measure idle), go into thelr wood lots, pick up all the fallen branches, and take out the old decayed or semi- decayed trees burn a charcoal pit, and send the product into the cir, about the fuel supply, and if once the householders of Montreal had an opportunity of using charcoal, they would never uss Pennsylvania bard coal again.As à matter of fact, Pennsylvania hard coal is a convenient but # poor snd wasteful fuel.Welsh anthracite is an infinitely more economical fuel, if properly handled, but for domestic use charcaal is the ideal fuel.The saving in the cost of tranship- ment between wood and charcoal would be amply sufficient to lace the waste in burning the pit, and the labor cost of making charcoal should be less than that of making cordwood.PADUS.\u2014 ST.JAMES METHODIST CHURCH.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir, \u2014In re the St.James Methodist Church, I wish to voice the feelings of a great number of the well-wishers of this noble edifice.My place of business is in close proximity to the same, and we have very freqéint inquiries about it from visitors to our city.Many of these visitors have contributed more or less amounts towards wiping off its debt.These tourists find it impossible to see the interior of the churcli, as the doors are cl upon week days.1 have directed them, in many instances, to go around by the side door and inquire for the janitor or person in charge.Now, our Roman Catholic churches are open daily to all, and the principal ones are great! visited, with interest, by bath \u2018atholics and Protestants.Without enlarging upon the subject or taking more space, would it not possible to give our visitors to Montreal the facilities to see and carry away with them tbe 1m- pressions which such a visit would create.At their home church gatherings they would be able to eclighten such vf their brethren as have not had the opportunity by at least a description of this historic church, and, presumably, the most costly Protestant church in Canada?A.M.ALLAN.\u2014 A BROTHER GONE.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014To use 8 common expression, 1 could hardly believe my eyes when 1 saw the heading of an article in yesterday's \u2018Witness\u2019: \u2018The late Dr.Mac- Vicar.\u201d He and I were fellow-etudents in Knox College.During our course we sat every session at the class table, fac ing each other.The class was à pretty large one, but now it is like a \u2018clearing\u2019 of which only two or three trees sre still standing.Boon, the axe of death will cut them down.To changs the figure, not one of our lessors is on this side of the river.Willis and Burns, and Prof.Young, have all \u2018cross ed over.The principal of the Montreal Pro ian College has soon followed 7 Fi hee mth what is suid in the with wi ol t Witness\u2019 of Dr.MacVioar.Ît la there: fore, quite unnecessary for me to praise him at length, and, therefore, I shall not.1 only ssy that be giotified o 16 THRE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.EE \u2014 \u2014\u2014 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 enough to meet the demand, and most of the nd with stupidity the \u2018hon God on the earth, and I believe is now LETTERS FROM READERS of fre refer engagements near thelr ut he wit, = ts it phdity the to where be shall olor him for ever.What - \u2014\u2014 homes.There are other reasons also water milk, sell rt wood, to.\" Doble thing to ve so het to, eave, the A COTTAGE HOSPITAL.why teaching has loat favor with city | he legitimate purpose of be often pare Dr.MacVicar with Col.Ingersoll, was intending to write to the Doctor in a day or two, just to kee, ipod paintanceship.T.FENWICK.\u2018oodbridge, Ont, Dee.17.\u2014\u2014 INDIANA'S TALL MAN.According to reliable statistics the state of Indiana produces the tallest men in the world.This curious fact comes out in the records made in the War De- artment during the War of the Rebel- foe.By carefully prepared statistics it is shown that out of 118,254 soldiers supplied by Indiana, 15,067 were five feet ten inches tall, 8,076 were five feet eleven inches, 6,679 were six feet, 2,614 wsro, six feet one inch, 1,357 were six feet two inches, 406 were aix fest three inches, and 330 were above thia gigantic stature.Dr.Gould, actuary of the United States Sanitary Commission, commenting re cently om these uniqus statistics, said : \u201cIt is evident from our statistics that the Indians men are the tallest of the natives of the United States, and these latter the tallest of all civilised countries.\u201d These digures seem to refute the oft repeated statement that iy the standing armies of oue or two Eurôpean coun- trias the average height of its men exceeds that of any other country in the world.\u2014Chicage \u201cTribune.\u201d AT EVENTIDE When the day is slowly iading And the light is growing dim, Conte, and in the twilight stillness Sing to me an evening hymn.Fit beside me\u2014nestle closely, Let me hold your hand io mine, While the soug in lingering cadence, Tells me of the love divine.Of the pence that passeth knowledge, That will fill my soul with rest, After hours of storm and tempest Have my spirit sorely prest.If the day has been a dark day, Shadowed o'er by sin and strife, Ard temptations have beset me, Sing about the tree of Life.In God's garden ever growing, Frer yielding fruit so fair, Which to him that overcometh, Will be given, over there, When my heart is over-weary Of the battle never won, Tne to me of courage given, Till the need of struggling's done.Help me to remember always, That the battle to the strong, Or the race to the fleet-footed, Do not always lhere belong.\u2018But to him who plodding onward, Keepa the heaveniy gcal in sight, And the\u2019 travel-stxined and heart-sick, Keeps on fighting for the right.Oft my heart in longing sadness, Ponders o'er its secret pain, That no earth friend understandeth, Then sing to me, sing once again Of the man of many sorrows, Who the soul's deep suffering knows; With me he feels each untold heart.peng; For me his tear of pity flows.If the light of love has failed me,\u2014 Farthly lights have failed, 1 know fing to me of thet sweet Homelund, Where love's roses ever blow.Where in selfless, mutual giving, We will Jove as the angels do; Not in doubt, but each the other, Reading true heart thro\u2019 and thro.If perchance, you should be near me, © When life's light is growing dim; When I'm crossing o'er the border, Sing a last sweet evening hymn.Take my hand and clasp it tightly, Till my fettered soul is free\u2014 Let me hear the last of carth\u2019s strains, y In the song \u2018Abide with me.\u2019 For I know if I be faithful, That with Him I shall abide, When no sorrow ever cometh, And no even tide.L.Y.Cornwall, Ont, Nov, 26, 1902, [For the \u2018Witness,\u2019 CHRISTMAS ECHOES.To-day as welcome as of yore, The Christmas-tide comes round; While peace, good-will and happiness In heart and home abound.Ancw we oelebrate the morn, ! That marks the Christ child\u2019s birth, And join the glad hosannas that Resound throughout the esrth.The whole wide world seems clasping hands, In one inclusive ring, Adoring and acknowledgin This little babe\u2014their ing.O beautiful and blessed time, When self is ali forgot, When love and helpfulness alone, Engross our buman thought.When His dear spirit one and all Seem joyfully to share, We look into our neighbor's face And see the Christ child thers.Then ring, O bells, rejoice, rejoice, The Christmas-tide has come And peace, good-will aud happiness Abound in heart and home.MARTHA 4 addressed Chess Editor, \u201cWitness.Montres! December 23, 1902, PROMLEM NO, © (Composed for the rie by H.W.Communications ahoui4 de a to the Black, 4 Pieces.ou ue Nn as 5 White, 8 Pieces.White to play and mate in TWO moves, By HE Dud Se or Ragad) y H.F., Snesex stand.Mldck, Piece.\u201d i B® wr 9K White, 16 Pieces.a ma) pi ed a The problem 1s to start with all the pleces, black and white, on thelr original squares, as for playing a game, and construct & game which will produce the above position \u2018n the fewest possible number of moves.The laws of the game must not be violated, of course.This problem, accompanied by G56 (following), created a vast amount of interest when it first appeared, scme years ago, in a British column, and 1 our readers, players and solvers alike, may get a lot of fun out of beth\u2014more perhaps out of ¢58 thag 084.which last is not so eesy as might appear.Problem No.055.Position ss In diagram of 64 above.\u2018 Problees: White to play and mate in six moves.À spiendid exercise.Problem No.654.n,e dd o|t|e |r ole fal ali |e|T Ts imiojs|8le|h|r mir |Alelr|m| W]e fee [efafafr[e [us| elo 0s] o|ltjrloftimiz) Sv tja[nle This diagram ots & which a pretty aight\u2019's tour bas marked by the letters of a sentence.sending in solutions @ blank diagram should have the tour shown by cennecting tbe cantres of tbe equares upon which the Kt consecutively rests by tbio straight lives.The sentence formed should be written at the bottom of the diagram.i Problem No.657.Mrs.W.J.Baird.White\u2014K at K R 6; B at K Kt 5; Kte et KB6,Q BC; Peat KR 6, K B 6, K 7.Seven pieces.Black\u2014K at K B ?: B at K eg: Po at K 3, 2 Four plecea fte bas just moved.He lu to retract his last move and make unotber, instead, which will immediately mate Black.Problem No.88.By Mrs.W.J.Baird.Whits\u2014K at Q R oq; Kt at Q 1; Ps at X BS Kt 3.Four pieces.Black-K at Q 4: Ps at Q 3, Q B 3.Three Wbite to retract his last move, then lack to retract his lest move, so that White can mste on the move.Neither of thess problems ts any great diMculty, and it sol from the diagram, will tickle the imagination.Problem No.$38.Construct a position showing that the K alone can draw inst a bishop and pawn mutually sup , the pewn not being s rock's pawn.Problem No.68.White\u2014K at Q 2; Bat KE: Pat QBS \u2018Three phoces.Binck\u2014K at Q Kt 8; PsatQR7, Q Kt 2 Thre pieces.Whits to move and win.' Problem No.66L White-K at Q ¢: Peat K Kt 3, K 8 QB QKt: QRS tant « xo tr, » K Kt 4 K B 40 White te play and win.Problem No.683.By T.M.White\u2014K at K Kt 80: R at K se: B B va: Kto at K $% Q 7; Pat QG Kt pieces.Diack\u2014K at K 5; Q et K Kt 3; $: Bast Q B 7: Pat K Kt5.White to play and mate in And a pair of fine gentine for those who do Dot cere for Christmas ~~\" Dscswsrea 28, 1008 , 43-064 inclusive.Fur the best nets ef aoin- tions we offer four prises.x Mason» Art of Chess.'y Principles of Chess.$.The \u2018Weekly Witvess' or the Saterday \u201cWito for one yess.4.A \u2018s subscription to \u2018Checkmate,\u2019 reserving the right to add other prises |: cess of meritorious solution.cass oi solutions of equal morit thoss ted sons- est will have tbe preference.tent date for receiving solutions, Jan.$0.SOLUTIONS AND COMMENT.No.Gti.Btudd.Three moves, Keyl Q\u2014Kt 6; Ht Bx Q Kt x K Poh; B-B & Kt 4; P\u2014B 4, B-Q 7; KR BE PL P\u2014K 5, Q\u2014Q à eto, rrect from H.W.Barry, \u2018one of the most dificult 2-0rs in existence\u2019; BE.W.Allen, Paws, Q.Patterson.No.$43.Colpé.Taree moves, Key: P\u2014K B 6; t{ B x R, Kt\u2014B 7 ch; Ki\u2014R 13 Ktx QP, B xP, Kt\u2014Q 3, ote.Correct from Novice, H.W.Barry, \u2018splendid\u2019; B.W, Allen, Pawn, \u2018tbe third moves are legion; the dey Is Dot too evident\u2019; O.ol, Correct from H.W.Barry, curiosity\u2019; B.W.Allen, Pawn, QG.Patterson, Novice suggests R\u2014K 2, but another look will convince Rim that this will sot kuite do.dirs.F.J.Pentelow.No.84.Prikryl.Two move Key § .Barty, good oonstruce Q\u20144 3.Correct from Novice, H.\u2018easy; meagre variely, but tion and altogether pleasing\u2019; Mrs.P.J.Pentelow, £.W.Allen, Pawn, G.Patterson.SOLVERS\u2019 SCORE TO DATE.The abova problems ciose another month and we have very great pleasure in côn- gratulating Novice on his well sarned vie- will like the littis som.but dosa Dot express, his success.tory.We Bop venir which ma > satistaction a «success ou oy! goes ob .Barry ci», eh Allen (1), 66; Sec.P.Q.C.A., i; Pawn (1), 48; P.Patterson, 62; 2 J.Rose, 13; Mrs.¥.J.Pentelow, 25: belle, 4.NOTES AND NEWS, ° \u2018The first match in the Inter-Club League will be played to-olght betwesn Westmount and St.Denis, in the rooms of the former club.À close contest 1s anticipated.The first rouné In the Falconer Gambit tourney ia the Montreal Chess Club was layed on Monday last and resulted as {ol ows: 1.Stuwe beat Falooner, (Scotch).beat Short (Bl a.3.Kurrie beat Sawyer ( A 4.Anstey beat Cartier (K Kt's) Bleck won in esch case.The gamblits for round 3 sre Kieseritsky and Danish, and for the final the Cunling- New Masters\u2019 Tourney.\u2014It ls announced that special prises for the Monte Carlo Tournament have been given by Prince Da- dian of Mingrella (value £9); Captaln Beaumont (£10), and Prof.lssac da Rice (£10).\u2014~The Dutch Chess Assooiation contemplate bolding a ers\u2019 Tourusment at fcheveuingen next summer, limited to the following eight masters:\u2014Dr.Lasxer, Ur, Tarrasch, Plilsbury, Marocsy, Schibch« ter, Atkios, Jenowski, aud Dr.Jlland.Cresa Masters\u2019 Hobbies.\u2014We learn from the \u2018Cape Times\u2019 that Mr.F.J.Lee has à Ligh opinion of Capetown chess, He says that there are amateur players in the city who could hold their own with any chess club in the world.The \u2018Cape Times\u2019 bas also learned from Mr.Lee that few of the chess masters play chess for amusemest.own hobby Ws music; Dr.Lask bridge; Mr.James Mason plays dom- and so og, but fgom our Ot a .Lasker we believe be prefers ping- pong even to bridge.North South.\u2014Firat \u2018Result\u2014In the North and South C dense mate the first game bas oe in lavor of the North, the winner being Mr.G.Pollard, of Dews- bury.The following is the game, which is a remarkable one for a correspendence same: White.Black.1 P-06 1 PO 4 3 Ki\u2014K B12.2 XKt\u2014QBS 3 P-B3 318-B4 « B-B4 4 P-K3 PKS 8 P~-B 4 ¢ Bx Kt §QxB TQ-Rich T Ki-Q 3 + 8 Xt\u2014K § s QB2 8 Ktx Kt $ K-Q1 10 Ktx B 10 Resigns.Black 1s not able to play 9 Q x Kt on account of B\u2014Kt 5 pioning Black Queen.Av pecullar game.+» Ecgland vs.America.\u2014The City of London Club will undertake the arrangements lo-American cable ma end re hoping that the atch ayed through Marco: tom egraphy, as It i pated that the system will be devel ufficient- ly to render it available for the match, Lelsurs Hour Problem Tourney.\u2014A new \u2018Problem Tourney !s announced in the November number of the \u2018Leisure Hour\u2019 ia the British section four prizes are offered \u2014 #1 lis 64 and £1 in for the best three- movers, and £1 13 and 108 64 fdr the best two-movers.In the Colonial and Foreiga section a prize of £21 1s is offered for the best problem submitted, The prodleme faust be original, hitherto unpublished submitted on diagrams, with complete solution with all variations clearly written out, Both diagram aud solution must be on one piece of paper.There must be the nom ds plume and sealed envelope arrapgemnt.The latter will not be opened till the sward bas bean made.Only one prise to Any one composer.\u2018The entries close on: Jan.14 1905, for home competition, and March 8 for cthers.LOCAL BLINDFOLD GAME.(Game No.578.Played between thres members of {be Montreal Chess Club, White blindfold and playing alone, his opponents ping y to consul odds by bei obliged A also use & pocket chessboard somsthing the worse for wear, (Kieseritzky Gambit.) \u2018White.jack.1 P\u2014K 4 1P-K4 2P\u2014K B4 iPx SK\u2014KB3 3P-K Kté KR4 4P-Kt 8 5Kt\u2014K58 5B\u2014Rt 2 8KtxKtP eP 4 7Kt-B 3 7B x SEARS 8 Cute: naar WK: x Ks 1 Kt x Kt 11 R\u2014K i363 3 E's 4QBzP 14 Kt 4 15 Castles Q R 16 B x Kt Px B 16 B3 17P-K 8 17 Kts 18 B\u2014K 3 19BxzP Dax BP HEE o P-B3 2 Kt\u2014Et \u20ac où 2B x Kt 21QxBc 2 K-Et BQGES 23 KR BQ x Kt ARES BIRS PE Kt %Q-B TR-RS xn ns.Advertisements THERE 18 KOTHING LIKE ADR ue A Duumerams 28, 190% MARITIME FAIR An important Gathering at Amherst Last Week.THE FINE NEW BUILDING TAXED TO ITS UTMOST CAPACITY.Ne such collection of live-stock has ever been gatherwd together as waa seen the Martine Winter elt, at Am- 8, t week.the opening day, in spite of the fact that rales carps down in torrents during the afternoon and evening, the buldiug of the show was filled to overflowing, which certainly speaks volumes for the interest maui fested by the farmers of the Maritime Provinces in agricultural matters, The management of this show were ind:fs- tigable in their efforts to procure the best men on the continent to address the large a\u2019 \u2018iences which filled the large œuditorium | he fuir building.The fied , Mr.Elderkin, on Tues day tern., called the meeting to oder, and congratulated the town of Amberst and County of Cumberland up- oa the magnificent building erected and donated to the Maritime Stock breed: ere\u2019 Association.Mr.Elderkin npolo- i to the audience for the absence of Hon.Mr.Fielding, who it was expected would open the show, and stated that be, with Mesers.L.I\u2019, Farris, Longley and Murray bad been detained.Mr.C.A.Lusby was called upon, who, on bebalf of the citizens of Amherst, and the County of Cumberland, posented the new building to the Fat the a respon The Dre of ift was responded to u Mas sard, of Charlottetown.Professor J.W.Kobertson, in a few well chosen remarks, congratulated the people upon the work they were doing agricultural education and atock- breeding, and declared the maritime fat stock w open, wishing it every suc- cans.| tbe prominent gentlemen wpon the platform were: Prof.W.J.Hobert- son, Archibald McNeilage, editor of the \u2018Boottish Farnier\u2019; Hon.iv.Ross, Hon.T.R.Black, Hon.Josiah Wood, H.J.M.P., Dr.Kendall, M.P., Judge Landry, O.A.Lusby, Jrmident of the Amberst Fat Stock Commission, and Thomas A.Peters.Bbort addresses were delivernd hy J Landry, Hon.Mr.Black, Arch} 4 MacNeilage and others.Jargely st- evening mee vas « tended by LE stars from early ete in the three provinces, and the hall wns filled to ite utmost capacity.The Shairman, Mr.wr Fipes, introduced, Mayor Curry, who extended to all 8 @rdial welcome.He was followed the Hon.William Roes, Archibald Neilage, Hon.J.W, Longley, Hon L.P.Farris, Minister of Agriculture for New Brunswick; Hon.George H.Mur ray, Thomas A.Peters a; Professor Robertson, all referring in glowing terms to the magnificent work accomplisbed by a meeting of this kind.- A banquet was to the visit- Ontario entlemen and the judges.second day of the show sw a larger attendance than was anticipated by its most sanguine and large-min Token.During the morni t was ot Pony e aioe ttl ge and sheep was continued in tha aiter- nog ie Duncan Anderson, of Ra by, .Cumimngs, on ca ; wi F pr ass e looked oe ° repo! ing in the classes before the the animal, owned by Mr.C, A.Archibald, Truro, being a credit to any country.Late in the afternoon the judging of sheep began, and in this clase\u2019 Professor Grisdale was equal to the occasion.Af ter the judging ring was cleared, Prof.¥.of the C, Hare, minion Department of Agriculture, gave an Toetructive and int address on poultry, explaining what the markets of the world required at the present time.y questions were asked, and intelligent answers given by the speaker.Mr.is a practical man, and with the assistance of .Clergue, who is in charge of the fattening station at Nappan, gave an il lutration of killing and plucking poul- ty market, wbich was much enjoyed Pire croise posts he large W'hobrton, Arch Motions, BW: foi LL For a Ee ture was instructive in every de oa Mr.McNailage slso A an on live stock and dai pre ducts as required by the British mar- EA n ago e ound in , and what should be done to remedy the defects.Mr.Hodson confined Dia remarks to organization, an or an example the winter show, which was the result of an organized effort.The building, he mid, was the best for the 15 , which was s great compliment the town of Amherst, who, who cone or ti urgose, upon the aint the show would be held here for ten years.day of the show was the best of the e, as the delegates saw the results, having the awards of the carcass and of the live animal jud, day previous before them.e Judging competition of beef and dairy ca \u2018was engaged in by farmers\u2019 sous under 25 yrars of age.The chicken- plucking competition was one of the best eatures of the show.were delivered in the afternoon by Professor Dean on the dairy cow, illustrating his address with live animals.\u2018esgor Murray, nn seed selection, and Professor à on ility.were well received) and the farmers felt satisfied that the est day of the show could Dardly be imporved upon.Another in- ing part of ths.afternoon pro- me was the fran of sheep produe- 2 the best wa for manufacturers weeds.Cash prises of were awarded by ths new Hewson Woollen Mills, whose president, Mr.H.L.Hew.son, gave a short talk on the most desirable breeds of sheep, which he stated to be Shropshire, Hampehire, and Fle, urged Decsesi - er than and dirs thoroughly tub-wesbed ia warm water and mild soap before its market- wenty Ave buodred people ind the speakers at night to listen the closing addresses of the show.The Uon, T.R.I chairman, introd yo M côîtege oh folk ura who was follow by Professor Grisdale, Mesere.r- son, Arch.MeNeilage and the Rev, Fa: ther Burke, of Prince Edward nd.As these gentlemen are al! strofg speak: ers, the audience was much enthused with the remarks made upon maintenance of dairy , our farms as nation- a] investments, poult raising, dairy cows, and general agricultural improve ment in tae Maritime Provinces.fon.L.H.Farrin arose at the close of the addresses, and in « nest speech re ferred to the good work of fessor Robertson, Mr.Hudson, Mr.McNeilage, and all those who interested themesives in the promotion and carrying out of the programme of the show.is remarks were seconded by Judge Hauzard.The vots of thanks was responded to in au able manner by Mr.McNeilage, of Glasgow, and thus, the winter fair which was in every way succeseful, was brought to a close.\u2014nen RURAL SCHOOLS.IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION UNDER THE MACDONALD RURAL SCHOOL FUND.Ottaws, Dee.16.\u2014Professor Robertson, eommissioner of a ture and dairying, has returned from a visit of investigation and observation to a portion of the State of Ohio, where re- marksble progress has been made in the improvement of rural schools by the plan known as that of consolidation or centralization.He had invited Mr.RR.Cowley, inspector of schools for the County of Carleton, and Prof.Lochhead, head of the department of biology, at the Ontario Agricultural College, to accompany him.Their destination was Trumbull eounty, Ohio, which lies about 30 miles south of Lake Eris, and adjoins the western border of the State of Pennsylvania.This district was chosen because the conditions of the climate, roads, die- tribution of population and character of school system, are not materially different from those of the settled parts of Ontario, The thres travellers in quest of information and experiesce report that they got full measure of both from the moment they alighted at Kinsman station, at half-past three o'clock in the morning.There was no hotel near- nsman village, some two miles distant, by sn unknown road, rendered less beguiling than usual by some inches of mow, mud and slush.A friendly lantern, smoky, out of sympathy with its surroundings, was lent by the eourteous station agent.It lighted the benighted educators into a nearby house, against the only protest offered to their mission that came from a little dog educated to watch against the intrusion of stran- rs.Prof.Robertson sleapily remarked that he bad known men educated into that attitude towards ideas and truth.A driver was found, a typiosl Ameri- ean, good-patured, intelligent, communicative, with a keen sense of humor, and all that after having been routed out of bed by strangers at four o'clock on a wet, wintry morning, in the interests of education.The country in that part of Ohio is - comparatively level.Dairy farming is the main occupation of the people.The chief crops are Indian corn, other cereals, hay snd grass.A little fall whest is grown, but searcely enough for the home use of the farmers.The orchards and fencea were for the most part frail souvenirs of the past.The farm houses, barns and fields were evidence that the ple were fairly prosperous and well-to-do, but not so much eo as in the more advanced rural districts in many counties in Canada.The townships are five miles square, intersected in both directions by central roads.Other roads run parallel to thoss every mile and a quarter in both directions.That marks the country into blocks, each one and a quarter mile square.Six years ago Gustavus township became the pioneer in that part of the United States in the consolidation of rural schools.There were nine school districts in the township and as many small schools.Then the districts were united into one, and a central school was erected at a cost of 83,000.It is a frame building, containing four large well-lighted class rooms, & emall recitation room, and cloak rooms Instead of nine teachers in little isolated schools, there are now a principal at a salary of $85 per month, and four assistant teschers at $32 or $30 per month in the united school.Nine nice- looking vans sre used to convey the children from and to their homes These agp or school vans have comfortable seats, running lengthwise of the vehicle, waterproof canvas covers and spring gearings.Before ron- solidation the average attendance at the schools in that township was 125.On the day of the visit by the three Canadians it was 143 out of an enrollment of 162.The year before consolidation the cost of maintenance of the nine schools of the township was $2,000.Four years afterwards the cost of the centralized schools, including the conveying of the children, was $3,156, being an increase in ex- ture by the township om its school system of $236.However, the ave attendance ot the central school was so much greater than at the single district schools, that the cost of education was decreased $1.59 per pupil on the average attendance.THE MONTREAL.WEEKLY WITNESS.PUBLISHED WEEKLY \u201cWorld Wide.WEEKLY Three publications which supplement each other, and which as a series are acknowledged to supply all the periodical reading necessary.In selecting a publication, don\u2019t let bulk, or cheapness, or premiums outweigh your better judgment.reading are matters to trifle with.Neither the family food nor the family Purity and wholesomeness should be the first consideration in either case.The result will be healthy minds in healthy bodies.\u2018The following rates are as low as is compatible with good quality.The special club offers are remarkable : Subscription Singie Publications.\u201cDaily Witness\u2019 10 39 pages.* Weekly Witness' 20-24 pa * World Wide\" (Putiudo ol 12 pages.80 SPROIAL\u2014Two new subscriptions 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Publications.PIAL mS wo Hoel elo including 6 sabecriptions tour $5.00 \u2018 Weekly Witness,\u2019 * World Wide\u2019 and *Mowsonge?\u2019,.\u201ces .$1.78 1AL\u2014Two such ol SPO adios 6 pletion | Only $3.00 Sample copies of all publications gladly supplied on application.When sending your own address why not send the names of some of your friends as well 7 It costs nothing.They will be pleased.So shall we.And it may help you to get their subscription to send with your own.That means to you money saved, or earned, as you prefer.EE pe \u201cCANADA GAZETTE, Moreover, three years of High School work is earried on in the consolidated school, and the total cost of that is included in the $3,156.The people in five adjoining townships have also consolidated their schools.Those of Gustavus, Kinsman and Johnston were selected for special scrutiny as presenting typical plmses of the system.The schools of Kinsman and Johnston townships have been consolidated for two years.AS Kirsman the enrollment of pupils was 146, and t school vans were en: gaged; at Gustavus, 162 pupils were on the roll, and nine vans were used; at Johnston, 175 pupils attended school, and ten vans were in service.The contracts for eonveying the children to sud, from the schools are given to responsible persons.ese are under bond to provide comfortable covered w ns and to comply with the i lations of the school authorities.\u2018The vans hold from fifteen up to over twen- .The longest route traversed was about six miles.vans arrive at the school at from ten to twenty minutes before nine o'clock, the hour at which the forenoon session begins.The afternoon session closes at balf-past three o'clock.At Johnston school, where the closing exercises were observed, the children were in the vans starting for their homes in less than five minutes afterwards.At Kinsman, the eight vans are en at an average cost of $2.07 per school day; at Gus: tavus, the nine vans, at an average of $1.25 and at Johnston, the ten vaus at an average of $1.27.The price of the pe vans was from $100 to $135 each.All the vans observed were drawn by two borses each.The drivers who were conversed with said they had not known of any injury to any child.They said tions required them to wait the for the children at any house for à per- br iod not exceeding two minutes, that as a matter of fact it was rarely necessary to wait one minute, and that a case where the children missed the van or were left from being late was very un- ccmmon., The average attendance at the schools confirmed ali that.THE BCIIOOL WORK.The scope of the work in all these schools is substantially the same.Inspector Cowley reports that \u2018the three lowest grades overtake the work ordinarily covered by the public schools in Ontario.The highest grade goes as for #4 our continuation class, Grade A being competent to accomplish about three years of High School work.Through the courtesy of Professors Craig, \"ich and Crawford, the principals of the three schools, the self-con- stituted delegation from Canada was enabled to test the system of consolidation in all its essential bearings, obtaining valuable information mot hitherto re corded on state reports.That included.among other things the free expression of the opinions of the pile themselves on the relative merits of the old and the new.is part of the enquiry was followed up particularly by Inspector Cow- , who gives a summary of some of at res percent of the pupil ut five percent of e pupils preferred walking to the old sebool rat! than riding in a van to the new school.Almost without exception these were pupils who now have four to six miles of a drive in place ofa former walk of one mile or less.e mame time these pupils expressed a decided preference for the work of the conso.idated school.The evidence of both pupils and teachers goes to show that nding in the ans is alike comfortable and free from injury to even youngest chil dien, a ha incressed egreliment, of pu- ils and the very percentage of Pegularity in attendance struck the visitors 2 remarkable.For the past thres months t ily average attendance a the Kinemau school, which is in that re spect typical, was 91 t of the number of pupils enrolled.More striking in this connection is the fact that the percéntage of regular attendance among the youngest pupils\u2014those of five, six and seven years\u2014was as high as that of any other class.Although the weather was rainy snd the roads as bad as three inches of snow mixed with mud could make them, the children jumped out of the vans at Kinsman \u2018School with dry clothing and the dry feet.Little boys and girls of six years came three and four miles in comfort.The teachers said [ came re- gulariy in all weathers.nder the small district system in the township of Kinsman two years before the enroll ment at the ools was 110; under the consolidated wystem it has risen to 146, without any appreciable difference in the total numeration n° chitdren of ihe woship.igh percentage young children (six to eight years) snd the large proportion of older pupils (from fifteen to twenty years) were eloquent of the gains in education during the first two and the later years of school life in a rural district.The large class and larger schools seemed to meet the social needs of the children better than the small isolated schools, The older boys and girls grown into young men sud women sad Spportunities for going on with a High School education without going away from home.There was said to be, and there appeared to be, a great deveiop- ment of a spirit of co-operation and of mutual will and friendship from the wider and closer acquaintance of the children of the locality, and from the new interests created and recognized as ing common to all, and for the common good.As far as could be learned there was almost entire unanimity of opinion amo the ratepayers respecting the mark success and superior advantages of consolidation: While the scheme wax ought into effect under vigorous dis cussion and considerable opposition, the wdverse criticistn has disarmed by the results of experience.With few exceptions \u2018the kickers,\u2019 as they are des ignated locally, were ratepayers without children, or persons who leared some depreciation in the value of their own property; or, worse still, some increase in the value of the property nearest to the centralized school.Experience has proven the former of these two fears to be_groundless and childish, Professor Robertson sums up eome of the advantages afforded by the consolidation of rural schools and the free transportation of pupils: (1) 1t results in the attendance of a larger number of children in the locality, particularly of those under the age oi eight years, and of thoes over tiljgen years.(2) It brings about a ntore regular at- relance of Pupils of all grades of advancement.(3) It ensures the engagement and retention of some teachers of higher qualifications and longer experience in rural sci (4) It crestes conditions for a pro claveification, ou pupils, and for fica ing of je schools as permits the Eupile to be placed where they can work to the best advantage for their own improvement.(5) It permits the time-table to be so arranged that teachers can give each class and every pupil in the class more direct help aud supervision.(6) It provides the beneficial influences of fairly large classes of pupils of about equal advancement : (a) By more oon- panionship; (b) by friendly rivalries to excel; {c}) by children learoi from each other ; (d) co-operating under carv- fui discipline, and (e) by class enthu- sianms, {| (7) It makes it convenient for boys and girls in rural districts to obtain a High School education without leaving (8) It leads to the erection of bettsr ll school buildi equipment in all the requisites of à good schoal.(9) It makes it practicable fer ruzsl schools to enrich pupils by training Lu household science, as well as better music; aud for advanced pupils by instruction in agriculture, borticulture, NOK mnlates public interest in acifie t stimulates Pi schools and rings to the people of a township an institution in which can have an equal i (1)It may lead te an improvement ublic roads in the country parts.t would facilitate the rural free defivery of the mail.SUMMARY OF THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED AT THE BACKVILLE Backville, N.B., Dec.19.\u2014The conference held in Sackville is the first from which Dr.Parkins has asked advice for the guidance of the Rhodes\u2019 trustees in forming regulations for the administration of the great bequest which has been entrusted to them, and was therefore a gathering of much importance.Dr.Parkin, the gen Ir ail powers incident to i chairman, mentioned the points upon ta which the trustees sought local advice in framing their scheme.The main object was to establish some impartial system of selection absolutely free litical, sectarian or local bias.He asked tbe conference, in the light of local conditions, to keep always in i 1 ; other resources in view the interests of Canada as à \u201cWe will need the widest po to make the thing pay,\u2019 was the R.official pug the thing to Ge whole, and the lines along which the country would derive the utmost ad: GT vantage from this splendid bequest, ne under which, when the system was in operation, if the trustees confirm ail their present intentions concerning the Dominion, about 24 young Ca would be continually getting an Oxford education.longed sessions yesterday and to-day.The conclusions arrived at after careful deliberation for the guidance of the trustees may be summarized as follows: \u20141.That one scholarship be allotted to candidates from each of the provinces of Nova Scotia, Brunswick and Prince Kdward Island.2.The competition for these scholarships shall be open only to graduates or undergraduates of at least two years\u2019 standing of degree conferring colleges or universities.3.The ordinary age limit of candidates shall be 23 years, provided, however, that in exceptional circumstances candidates whose age does not exeeed 25 may be nominated.Scholars being British subjects shal be selected by the trustees on the nomination of any eol- within the territory to which the larship is assigned.Colleges entitled to make nominations must be equipped to ration up to the standard of Oxford responsions, which is the minimum on which scholars will be admitted.These colleges shall nominate in rotation fixed by the number of un- duates in each.Each nomination be accompanied by a full statement of the school qualification on which the nomination is based, in com- lance with the terms of the Rhodes Note the special offers in the first and third columns above.JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publishers, Montreal, Canada.and more satisfactory a their course for | LEGISLATION, pature study, manual way seeks to pave the way for its pi interest and & wortby The indicate in more t| t the route of the proposed syi \u2014_\u2014\u2014 Fosterly scrous the Dominion to eitber | THE RHODES*SCHOLARSHIPS IPS AN UE, Fass or Peace Hiver Pass, | the present G.T.R,, Toronto t Bay branch, through New Ontario, CONFERENCE.toba, and the Territories.the this main Ene to Winnipeg, pany may wish to tap.of course, be subject to the ap the railways department, witl plans have to be filed before and operate its own under uadian Railwa Grand Trunk Pacific the route, to turn electrici ous uses, to construct i region verse.\u2018Witness\u2019 correspondent, in disc to-day.that other railways enjoy.\u2019 to a query why the ians more The conference held pro- Grand Trunk did not itself whether the comPany did reachi connection, this t tention is to use New \u2014\u2014_ CRUEL POVERTY CANNOT RECOVER.Brooklyn hospital, where he wes Tying alo body of his brother Michael, give adequate literary weeks nothing of the brothers, and a coming alarmed, notified tl reoult stated.When Buthren had never sean such a case of smaciation.His recovery is d GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC ASKS FOR Ottaws, Dee.19.\u2014The \u201cCanada zetta\u2019 of to-morrow will contain a of the legislation that the Grand Trumk from parliament Ml] way across Canada to the Pacific const.notice is quite lengthy but docs net ban s very general stem, asks parliament to sanction the of a road from the present G.line at Gravenburst, t., northerly of their notice they could adopt any owe of « dosen different routes.Authorit is also t to construet branches ç gary, and such other points as the com The route of these, as well as the main line, wi 8, The company seeks the right to bwild steamshi ng.All powers that have been granted by parliament to any other Ca- will be sought by the This would mean the right to develop water powers igation works where land needs improvement, to velop the lumbering, ming, pui the i \u2018We will ask for every right hy company efinitely state the exact route i will follow this individual said that the what the exact route would be.depended on the ey reports.fk Montreal or Quebee by a di leman said the fs North and Midlsad connection from Gravenhurst down te the resent Montresl- Toronto main lee for rough traffic to and from the This would not take them so very mi out of their way to the seaboard.TWO BROTHERS SUFFER THB; PANGS OF STARVATION\u2014ONB DIES AND THE OTHER New York, Dee.18.\u2014Jacob Buthrem, 67 years old, has bean removed to & from his ide the thres years old, who is supposed to have died of starvation.The two mes kept a little shoemaker\u2019s shop and did not mix with the neighbors.For twe - bad been seen or who made an examination vi the hospital the doctor said that Le 1.COAL COMMISSION Outrages in the Coal Regions are Disclosed by Non-Union men, THE WORKERS WERE SUBJECTED TO ALL KINDS OF INDIGNITIES BY STRIKERS, Scranton, Pa, Dec.16.\u2014The mine workers, after occupying nineteen days in presenting about a hundred and sixty witnesses, practically closed their case _ before the anthracite coal strike commission yesterday afternvon.They will conclude by selling one important wit.Bess to-morrow, he afternoon session was one of the most important sittings the commission has yet held because the westion of whether the close relation- Sip of the coal carrying railways with the mining companies shall tigure in the commission\u2019s effort to adjust the contro.came squarely before the erbitre- tors.The decision of the commission, if Judge Gray's (chairman) remarks can be so called, was briefly thin :\u2014 That the commission in a general way, is averse to widening the scope of the investigation beyond the terms of the submission of the miners and the operators that in carrying ou the investigation it assumes the coal companies can aiford to pay fair wages; that if the coal companies, in presenting their ride of the ease, maintain they cannot afford to give an increase in wages, then the commie sion will hear what the miners have to say on the ability of the companies to do so, and it a business cannot pay fair we the employer ought to get out 1 These points were ht out during the two hours consumed by the miners ers readi documentary evidence, to the whole which the cosl companies entered specific and general objtc- tions.The mine workers depended a great deal on the evidence they had to pre- sant to show that the coal carrying roads control the coal companies and that the railways charge exorbitant and discriminating freight rates, thus greatly decress- ing the revenues of the mining properties.The miners wanted to present * this evidence in documentary form, but as objection was made to it, and eus i the commission with the above rulings, tbè matter was not pressed.OPERATORS BEGIN THEIR CASE.Scranton, Pa., Dec.16\u2014When the Coal Strike Commission met to-day the chairman, Judge Gray, opened the proceed- inge by saying that the commissioners were impressed with the spectacle of the little girls who were before the commis pion yesterday and testified that they worked all night.He said that citizens of the Commonwealth should not let the {ncid ent out Thin stepe to ve.jalature of Pennsylvania consider the enactment of a law that will prevent the émployment of children At the suggestion of the commission, the statement of the wages of the fathers of two of the girls were presented.Ove earned more a thousand dollars last year and the other over mine hundred dollars.Scranton, Pa., Dec.16.\u2014Notwithstand- ing the fact that the mine workers announced yesterday that they had closed their case with the exception of calling one more witness, the entire two sessions of the strike commission to-day were consumed in hearing thrae witnesses for the men.They were Mr.John C.Haddock, an individual operator; the Rev.Dr.Peters Roberts, who is assisting the miners, and Mr.Samuel Gompers, president of the Amencan Federation of bor, The principal point in Mr.Haddock\u2019s testimony was that be favored giving the mine workers concessions un- er certain conditions.Mr, Gompers testified as an expert in the trades union movement.He created a stir when he strongly implied during.his examination that the coal companies are responsible for bringing immigrants to the coal regions.en one of the lawyers for the coal companies him if he knew it from personal knowledge, be said he could prove it if mecessary.The miners made another attempt toto bave the commission admit as evidence a large mass of testimony tending to show that the anthracite coal- carrying roads charge extortionate and discriminating freight rates, aud that a monopoly exists inthe anthracite mining industry which keeps the wages of men at en unnaturally low level.The commission again decided that the evidence must be limited to the scope of the commission and that if it did take up the claims made in the evidence proposed to be submitted, the justifiableness of the mine workers\u2019 demands would still prvisiox br pay.| Scranton, Pa., Dec.17.\u2014The miners to- 4 day put on the witness stand the fathers of two little girls who had testified on Monday that they worked sll night mn silk mills.The operators yesterday submitted wage statements showing that one of these men and his laborer received $1,681 and the other and his laborer recei $1,410 Inst year, | John ko, father of one of the girl mid four and sometimes aix men hgui in the division of the $1,400, The other Diner claimed four men divided tha $1.- Mr.Everett Warren, of counsel for the operators, endeavored on cross-ex- amination to show this was not the case.Both men promised to take the girls out of the silk mill.After the witnesses Jeft the stand Mr.Gray osked for an explanation from ihe Pennsylvania Railway.which is controll ed by the Erie Railway, repardin the wages of men, a statement of which was handed to the commission some days ago, and which did not indicate that more than two persons in the distribu tion.Mr.W.A.May, general anager of the company, was died to the witness ined that, because of and.He explained system in vogue in the nes mould De diet to shore se how many men shared in one and added that the way they were me sented was unfair, OPERATORS\u2019 SIDE BEGINS.Scranton, Pa, .17.\u2014The miners bere rested, their case, and Mr.Wolv ton formally opened the operator of the controversy by reading a state ment which represented the views of all the la: coal companies.Ira H.Burns, one of the attorneys for the independent operators, presented the opening statement of the individual com- Ponies.It was arranged that the attora representing the non-union men should first call their witnesses.Five witnesses were produced, who testified that strikers bad killed one man, and had more or less seriously injured two other .uen who worked during the suspension.The firat witness was .Jas.Wenston, the wife of the murdered man, and the second was her son-in-law.Mr.Darrow asked the som-in-law who wan paying for the lawyers who were representing the non-union men, and then ensued the liveliest tilt that has cc- curred in the sessions of the commission.Counsel for the witness objected, und Mr.Darrow insisted he and the commission had a right to know who were back of the non-union men, but Judge Gray, the chairman of the commission, ditiered with him.The chairman sai it made no difference if the operators were paying for the lawyers.The col loquy was carried on for some time, «nd finally J Gray consulted his col leagues, and as a result, quietly answered that the commissioners thought it immaterial who was back of the nonunion men.At five o'clock the commis sion adjourned until to-morrow.MR.GRAY USES STRONG LANGUAGE TOWARD THE BOYCOTTER AND INTIMI- DATOR Scranton, Pa., Dec.18.\u2014The coal strike commission listened to-day to further testimony tending to show that a reign of terror existed in the anthracite coal fields during the five and a half months of the mine workers\u2019 strike.About a score of witnesses were called during the two sessions by the attorneys for the non-union men.They told of serious boycotts, brutal attacks by crowds of men, women and boys, and an attempt to burn the house of a non-union man, In most instances the witnesses testified tbat the alleged offenders were members of the Miners\u2019 Union.The lawyers for the miners\u2019 objected frequently to the admissions of testimony on hearry, and sometimes objected because of irrelevancy of certain other statements.Mr.Gray said the commission was not bound by any strict rules of evidence, but asked counsel to coufine themselves, in examining witnesses, as far as possible to direct evidence.The commission, he said, wanted to know whether a reign of terror existed in the anthracite region, and it could rot get that information if the strict rules of evidence were applied.\u2018The coward who will to the storekeepers,\u2019 he said, \u2018and tell them not to sell the necessaries of life to a poor woman, usually seeks the obscurity \u2018*-t the law or evidence throws around him.If a girl is discharged from her position in a store, because she rode in a street car in inclement weather while a street car strike was on, the coward who discharged her is coward enough to refuse to lestify.He recognized, he said, why some merchants will not come forward and tell who forced them to refuse to sell ncces- saries of life to certain boycotted persons, but if he (Mr.Gray) were a storekeeper, he thought he would risk his all in order to assist in breaking up the cowardly business.August Scheuch, of Hazleton, who worked for the Lehigh Valley Company through the suspension, testified that he was attacked by a mob while he and his son were going to work, and that he was severely injured by being hit by stones, that he was stabbed three times, and had five ribs broken.He was acting as a coal and iron policeman at the time, but did not use his revolver because he was afraid of hitting bis son, who waa being beaten by the crowd at the same time.Many of these men, he esid, were strikers.The son of witness corroborated the testimony of the father.Henry Vermilye, of Dorrancetown, said he was forced to join the union by the superintendent of the John C.Huddock Coal Company in order to keep peace at the colliery.This was before the strike began.Later, he left the company because he thought the union was running the place, and went to work for another company while the strike was on.He was lung in effigy, stones were thrown at him while going to and from his work, and storekeepers were compelled to refrain from selling his relatives the neces- sures of life.John Doran, manager of the Wilkes.barre lace mills, testified that because he would not discharge two girls who had relatives working in the mines, the eleven hundred employees went on strike, and staycd out eight wecks until the matter was fixed up.Another witness said he was a member of the union, and while under à physician's care during the street car strike here last year he was com- Ned to ride on a car.Hin discharge was asked for by tho union, but the mine superintendent refused.The union men made his occupation so un- leasant for him in the mines that he fad to quit.He left the union, and | when the strike came on he refused to leave his work.He moved from one place to another, and finully vettiey at Pittaton.At that place the man who owned the house who was n union miner, ordered him out, and be in bad to leave.These witnesses and others that were 4% à + THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS called, testified that their wives were insulted on the streets, the children \u2018were beaten Ly other children, end could not be safely sent to school, that loeal unions requested storekeepers to refrain from selling goods to anyune related to a man working in the mines; that their houses were stoned, that they were stoned, shot at and hung in efigy, and that life erally was made miserable jor them and their families.Most of the witnesses connected strikers with the offences alleged.The lawyers for the non-union men said tonight they would continue onll- ing witnesses to prove that a reign of terror existed during the strike.The commission will adjourn at about noon on Saturday, and will re convene in Philadelphia Jan.8.Scranton, Pa, Dec.19.\u2014Non-union men, some of their relatives and others, to the number of thirty, appeared before tbe Anthracite Coal Strike Commission to-day and told their stories of alleged boycotts, intimidations, dynamiting and violence in various forms during the late strike.Each witnees called was 9 suf- fcrer in one form or another at the hands, they alleged, of union men.Four witnesses maid attempts were made to blow up their houses, one house was badly damaged; many of the witnesses were threatened with bodily harm, sev- cral were beaten, one was shot in the leg, and every oue stoned, boycotied or hung in efligy.(ne school teacher testi- tied to having lost his position bocause his father did not strike.Une man was asked to resign from a Catholic temper- ence society, and another witness was expelled from s local lodge of the Ancient Order of Hibernians after a znein- bership of twenty-six or twenty-eight In because they were classed as un- air workmen.Joseph M.Dugan, the man who was requested to give up his membership in the temperance society, remained at work.doing repair work and acting as a watchman.e mid he had been stoned and otherwise badly treated, and added that a clubbing would not hurt halt as much as the action of the society in throwing hin out of the organization.The boys he had drilled in the societ: stoned him on the highway.He sais e remained ut work eo that the Jumps could be kept in good repair and thus keep the mines from being destroyed.James Mitchell, who was expelled from the Hibernian Society, said he worked during the strike us a repair man and did not consider it unfair, because he did not mine any coal.He had been a member of the society \u2018twenty-six or twenty-eight years, and attended one night during the strike, when the ques tion of unfairness came ug, and the members present unanimously voted tq expel him.He had been paying dues during all these years, and was 1n good standing and further added that he was now and he was out of it.A Polander named Max Lasar, who did not Jue when the strike was inaugu- 1ated, told of how a man threw a quart.bottle of giant powder, to which a fight\" ed fuse was attached, into the parlor of his home, He extinguished the fuse.The powder was shown to the commission.Eugene worker and in mo way connected witl the strike, said be was going along a road at might, and was stakes for a non-union man, and was eo badly beaten that he was laid up for two months.Thomas Kennedy, aged 15 re, said he worl in a drug store in Carbondale.His father was an engineer in the employ of the Delaware & Hudson Company, and did not quit work when the ty, who was not a mine strike started.The manager of the drug store, he mid, was req by the union to discharge him, and rather than have the store boycotted.the druggist told the boy to quit.The father corroborated the story, and added that he had to keep his children from the public schools, as they were being abused.David E.Lewis.a foreman working for the Delaware & Hudson Company, testified to general conditions in Oliphant, and said the authorities of the borough made no attempt to keep the peace.Most of them were mine workers or relatives of mine workers._ John Lewandofski, who worked during the strike for the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western Company, testified as to an attempt to blow up his house with dynamite.The explosives and fuses were produced before the commission.Mr.and Mrs.Peter Cultz, who lived at Derringer, testified to the effect that their house was attacked by union men and boys, and was badly dsmaged b; stones, some of hem weighing thirt pounds.oi pha were produ: showing the damage done.Frank Fidsti, who was a striker, but who was hi a coal operator to watch the home of a non-union man, was shot in the leg by other atrilrers because he would not stop protecting the man\u2019s house.The non-union man who lived in the house und subsequently quit work was called, and produced a letter written by President T.D.Nicholls, of diatrict No.1, in which he stated that the wit- nd had quit work, and was a food union man.and that all should treat him in a friendly manner, \u2018so long as he behaves himself accordingly.\u2019 Jobn Conlin, a mine boss, and si dent of the school boerd of Plains, near Wilkesbarre, testified that à committeo of a local union called on him and asked that school ers w! relatives were working in the mines be not reappointed as teachers.Frank McCarthy, s teacher in Miners Mills.was next cal and sid be was not reappointed, and the only reason given was politics.His.father was a nine foreman, and wan working during the strike.He knew of a female teacher whose father did not strike, who fail- od of reappointment.All the other witnesses testified to having been hung in eftiy one or more times, that grocery, butchers, milkinen and icemen ref io ly them be cause they were tfraid business would be boyootted, and they were se verely beaten and socially ostracized, The commission will meet at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning, and adjourn at 11.45 o'clock tor the holidays.\u201cMost of the commissioners will immediately leave for their homes.\u2018 \u2018 rene, PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE.THE MEETINGS AT QUEBEC CONCLUDED ON BATURDAY.Quebec, Dec.16.-\u2014The inter-Provin- elul Conference did not take place this afternoon as scheduled, on account of the non-arrival of the Intercvlonial train, which had on board Mr.Mur ray, Premier of Nova beotin; Mr.\u2018Tweedie, Premier of New Brunswick, and their cabinet associates.The Halifax express is due to arrive in Quebec st 11.55 s.m., but did not reach Levis until 818 pm.The non-atrival of the Maritime l'remiers caused the opening of the conference to be postponed.In the meantime the Hon.Mr.Roblin, Premier of Manitoba, and the Hen.W.Pugsley, Attorney-Geveral for Now Brunswick, arrived from the west and registered at the Chateau Frontenac.On the Intercolonisl express were also the Hon.J.W.Longley, Attorney- General for Nova Scotia, and the lion.Mr.Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island.They were met and es corted across the river to Quebec and immediately proceeded to the Chateau Frontenac, where they were received by the members of the Province of Quebec Cabinet; when it was decided to hold the opening session in the Cubinet Council Chamber, Parliament buildings, to elect a chairman, ete.Accordingly the inter-Provinclal conference was officially inaugurated this evening, at six o'clock, when the Hon.8.N.Parent, Premier of Quebec, was elected president.There were present at the opening of the session: The Hon.S.N.Parent, Premier of Quebec; the Hon.G.H.Murray, Premicr of Novas Scotia; the Hon.R.T.Roblin, Premier of Manitoba; the Hom.L.J.Tweedie, Premier of New Brunswick; the Hon.Mr.Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island; the Hon.W.Pugsley, Attorney-General, New Brunswick; the Hon.J.W.Longley, Attorney-General, Nova Scotia, and the following members of the Province of Quebec Cabinet:\u2014The Hon.Messrs.Duffy, Pro- viuclal Treasurer; H.Archambault, Attorney-General; A.Robitaille, Provincial Secretary; tiie Hon.A.Tur- on, Minister of Agriculture, and the on.L.Gouin, Minister of Public Works.On the election of the chairman, the Hon, S.N.Parent read his prepared statement, which deals with the Dominion subsidy to provinces, cte.The meeting adjourned immediately afterwards until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, when the members of the conference will convene for the despatch of business.The Hon.8.N.Parent, in conver- sstion with the \u2018Witness\u2019 correspondent, said that the business that will nome before the Provincial Premiers and other provincial members of the oonference will be strictly private until a report is made and forwarded to the minion Government.So far h As he was personally concerned he was of opinion that nothing would be given out to the press unless the other members of the conference de- eide otherwise.The Hou.Mr.Ross, Premier of Ontario, was unable to be present, but had sent a memorandum, which he stipniated should be considered private, until the papers were ull placed before the Dominion Government, and he was of the opinion that the other members of the conference would take a similar view, and he did not see how they could act to the con- teary because it would not be wise to take the public into confidence before the Dominion Government would receive n report of the proceedings, and a copy of the resolutions passed.A reception and bunquet was tender- od the visiting delegates and several prominent citizens at Spencerwood in the evening.OBJECTS OF CONFERENCE.There is no way of learning the business that will come before the Inter- Provincial Conference, but much can be surmised from the present basis of Mo- minion subsidies to provinces, and repre- senlation in parliament in accordance with the last census.The t hasis in regatd to inion subsidies, to which exceptions have been taken for & number of years past is as follows: First a specific grant for civil government and legislation was made to each province at Confederation, based on the census of 1861, Ontario was given $80.000; bee, 270,000; Nova Ecotia.800,00, and New Brunswick, 850,00.These were the four provinces which originally united.At that time the indemnity received provincial members was three hundred dollars a year and other ex of government were in proportion.It was assumed by the Fathers of Confederation that the sums named would be sufficient to meet all expenses of government in the provinces, but Ontario, at the very first meeting of ite legislature, consumed nearly the whole of its grant.The second basis for the grant was eighty cents a head for the population of the province as it exin in 1881.This made no allowance for an increase in population, which has in Ontario from 1,306,001 in 186] to 2,181,000 in 1901, an incresse of eight hundred thousand.And notwithstanding this wth of population, Ontario still rawing the minion grant on the haris population in the year 1861.It ie the same in , and to a degree the same in Nova Scotia and New Brune wick, The Fathers of Confederation seem to bave lost sight of the fact that the ulation of provinces would grow ith mel # made s mistake, «nd inter-provn- cial conference ie d'en correct that mie take.In comparison of the expenditures of 1870 dnd 1902 it is well to give the fol- Jowing instances: In 1861, the grants to education were $247,000; in 1901, they were $780,000 for the Province of On- \\ tario, and in 1861, $146,000 was granted to hospitals and charities, im 1001, $1- ,000, Although the Dominion grants to provinces have not changed in forty years, the Dominion revenue has increased from thirteen million dollars to fifty-two million dollars in 1001, and it is contended that inasmuch as the Dominion takes four times as much out of the provin:es it should give more back.his view was taken in 1887, when the interpre vineisl conference was held, that was convened by the late Iton.Mr.Mercier.It was then affirmed that Dominion grants to provinces should be on a basis of population, and that the Confeders- tion Act should be changed to meet the situation, This is the stand that the present conference will take, and insist on, When the resolutions are passed, that will be forwarded to the Dominion Government, The second question to receive the attention of the conference will be provincial representation in the Dominion rliament.The basis of representation the House of Commons was established by section 51 of the British North Amerioa Act.Quebec was to have six.rive members for all time and the other provinces represented in propor tion to population.The unit of tion for representation was to tablished on the whole population of Quebeo divided by 63, and that unit was to be applied to the population of the various Provinces at each decennial census, and would determine the represeu- tation in the House of Commons from one census period to another.Taking that as a basis, Ontario now loses a few members and the Maritime Provinces two members each.But the relative proportion of the provinces, according to representation by population, is real ly preserved inviolate as fixed at the time of Confederation.The contention of the Liberal rarty st all times was that there should be representation in the Dominion Parliament according to population.The principal does not alter, and, unlike financial basis furnished hy Confederation, was adjustable, and if the basis of subsidy was adjustable according to population, it would be all right.Hon.Mr, Peters, in the course of an interview, states: \u2018As far as Prince Edwards Island is concerned, the subjeut of chief interest would be the action that will be taken regarding redistribution, The people of Prince Edward Island will resist any decrease of representation of the province in the House of Commons.Hon.Mr.Roblin, speaking for Manitoba, enid: \u201cWe will have a million of people between the grent lakes and the Rockies within five years, We have already somewhere pear four hundred thousand.\u201d He is convinced that a readjustment of the relations, tinancially and otherwise, between the Dominion and the provinces will have to be attended to in the near future, All the ministers in attendance at the Inter-Provincial Conference are optimts- tic; they will take no other view, be cause they insist upon justice being done their respective provinces.Quebec, Dec.23.\u2014The Interproviucial Commission sat again on Sat end adjourned their proceedings until Febru ary next.What transpired during the meeting is not known and no information can be obtained.The delegates were in deliberation till five o'clock Saturday afternoon.Two of them, the Hon.Mr.Murray, Prime Minister of Nova Beotia, and the Hon.Mr.Roblin, left by the 1.15 o'clock afternoon C.PB.R.train cn Saturday, three hours before the confer: ence was closed, but the work was practically done at that time.The prime ministers will reassemble mn Ottawa in February, to insist upon their demands being granted.It is reported that the commissioners have agreed unanimously about their demands to the Dominion Parliament.All the ministers have insisted upon justice being done their respective provinces.Resolutions have been drafted and sign: ed by all the ministers representing the different provinces of the Dominion of Canada, which will be forwarded immediately to Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Govern: ment through the Secretary of State.MR.TWEEDIE EXPECTS GOOD TS.It was understood that nothing would be given to the public in to the ectual doi of the conference, uniess the Hon.Prrent, who prended, should subsequently decide to make a | statement; and therefore the on.Mr, Tweedie, the Premier of New Brunswick, said to-day that he conid rot give the actual facts of the conference.This, however, he could say, that the conference was a decided success.It was ably presided over by the Hon.Mr.Parent; no time was lost; and the matters were discussed in À business-hke manner.In regard to the note alleged to have been sent to the Imperial authorities, touching the tened of rep resentation in the case of New Bruns wick and Prince Edward Island, Mr.Tweedie, who was at the Windsor Hotel to-day, said that be could say nothing as to that.\u2018Do you expect anything of nature from the conference?\u2019 \u20181 most assuredly do,\u201d was the ly.\"The return may not be immediate; Tike the answers to prayer, it may be de layed, Dut 1 believe it will conte.\u2019 Mr peaking of the eastern provinces, 3 Tweedie mid that in spite of the fact that the eyes of the people seemed turn ed turned towards the west, the east:rn provinces were prospering.New Bruns wick was certainly going shesd; the lumber industry was thriving, and the Jum- ber industry was not something which was evanescent, for they were tak.ng good care of their woods, and res were almost a thing of the past.They rec: ognized that they had in the woods & great inheritance which muet be con- a practical served, ss the source of wealth, Sr.John was wing, and in ten years from now, it was the opinion of Mr., the able superintendent of the P.R.and oth the lation would be doubled.C.F R.had spent a good deal of money ut the port and the citisaps naturally should and would do their share, but St.John was to be reckoned with as a first-class nort.Mr.TI'weedie said he was not altogether & convert to- the idea of a fast At Jantic passenger service, es he did not Ropule- \u2018| Ducameun 28, 1908 > think for the sake of a day less, that the attraction would sufficient to biog any considerable number of passengers from the New York route; but what he did most thoroughly believe in was a frst- elas freight steam service which should be up to date in every respect and whizh would be an undoubted advantage to the country.He found the city and the Province of Quebec prospering, and was glad of it.\u2014\u2014 PARIIAMENT PROROGUED TROUBLE IN VENEZUELA AND SOUTH AFRICAN WAR TOUCHED UPON IN THE KING'S * SPEECH.London, Dec.18.\u2014Parliament was rorogued this afternoon by Ho; Commission.Only a score of members of the House of Commons were present when Black Rod summoned the Lower House to the House Lords to hear the King\u2019s speech, whieh was an unusually lengthy recapitulation of public events siuce January, including the action taken in connee-' tion with Venezuela, in regard to which the speech said: \u2018I ret that the constant complaints which my ern.ment found it necessary to ress to the government of Venezuela in re gard to unjustifisble and arbitrary acts against British snbjects and pro- rty during the last two years have fees persistently disregarded, and that it has become necessary for = en ernment, sting in concert with that of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, which also has serious causes for complaint against the Republic, to insist on measures of re dress\u201d The speech refers to the conclusion of the South African war, aud adde: \u2018There seems to be every reason to hope that material prosperit; ter than any the Transv « rng River colonies have yet experien: may visit these regions, that all sections of the population may live together in friendship for each other and loyalty Lo She Crown! Paragra; eal with the postponed Coronation, the Coionisl Conference and Mr.Chamberlain's tour, which together are expected to be of the \u2018utmost valua both in respect to their immediate effect and as precedents in the future.\u201d Other topics touched upon were the expedition against the Mad Mullsh and the co-operation of Italy therein, the acceptance by Chili and Argentina of the British boundary award, the Brussels Sugar Convention, and the alliance Getween Great Britain and Japan, \u2018which, I believe, will be of advantage to both countries, and contribute to the maintenance of general pesce in the extreme east.\u2019 Ty Anglo-Chinése treaty te referred to #8 promising \u201c for this country, but for the commerce of the world, valuable facilities and advantages.\u2019 The speech closes with a reference to India, where the anxiety regarding another famine has been averted by & plentiful rainfall, and where the coronation Durbar will be associated with a period of unusual commercial and\u2019 financial prosperity.The speech entirely omits the ussal reference to foreign relations.Parliament was profogued until Feb.17.ee THB EDUCATION BILL IT PASSES A THIRD READING IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.London, Dec] 16.\u2014The Education Bil passed third reading yesterday the House of Lords.7 THE GOVERNMENT ESCAPES DEFEAT OWING TO PRESENCE OF IRISH NATIONALISTS.New York, Dec.17.\u2014A special cable to the \u2018Tribune\u2019 from London ssys the.Lords amendments to the Educatiba Bill were considered by the House of Commons Jgsterday when the Speaker declared that the question of privilege was removed from the Bishop of hester\u2019s amendment by the addition of the Duke of Norfolk\u2019s smendment stating that the cost of irs was not to be à - burden on any publie fond.The amendment was then supported by the % groment and carri LA votes to ».government esca efpat Cwing the return of the Irish Nobo to parliament.IRISH MEMBERS THEY RETURN TO THEIR PARLIAMENTARY DUTIES.London, Dec.16\u2014In the House of Commons today John , the Irish leader, with the majority of his colleagues, who had absented themsblvce lor some time, resumed their attendand and voted with the ministerialist majority in favor of Sir les Dilke\u2019s mo tion to reject the House of Lords\u2019 amend: the Education Bill, IRISH LAND QUESTION A CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS London, Dee.17.\u2014The Exchange Tele- ph Company says it learns officially Bat arrangemente or an Irish land eon- t the and in Dub ference are now complete, and repreventatives of fandlo tenants will meet immediatel lin, Lord Dunraven, the Earl of Mayo, and Col.Everard wiil represent the Innd- lords, and Mesers.Johih Redmond, Wil.\u2014\u2014 liam Brien, rhone Fame = rliament for Land rer Bebia 10s sme ry oo RM 5 - \u2014 secure, Wot only > ° ns ¢ + Dscarsun 28, 1002.THN MONTREAL\" WEEKLY WITNESÉ.\u201d 10 a .church, about ministrations which the served for most of his life es à Pre- and Mr.J.G.MacViear, of the Mont remains f to follow in bis foots! tered upon hrosd view .THE LATE PRINCIPAL.eburches sometimes overlooked, while testant School Domenico becoming Clair Military Academy of New Jersey, and continue as we best can the od of eternal fll and tes \u2014 not a word escaped him which had rela- president of the board in 1679, a duty both hews; and the Rev.Dr.Joha- work which be has so well begun.bliss of a conscious immortality, sad the An Appreciation of the Lite of How modern school buildings or tesch- which he fulfilled with 'charsioteriatle son, af London.The Rev.Dr.haw, principal emeritus miving of the greet probleme of being.ses] and energy until his desth.His of the W es logical College, in the li eternity.Look Dr.MacVicar.7 the bounds of city or province services in hid connection have beeu | The paket views placed Bérectis tn said: I readily respond to the po ward » et ents such a be Dr.Viear was known as one eof the fovaiuable to the eauss of education in foral ae pu oe mourniag drap that on this mours ul oceasion I should could exultingly say: \u2019 \u2014 most eminent Poesbyterians in - lontreal.my » few repreeenti THE FUNERAL ONE OF THE MOST minion.He hed been minister: ho ro.Seversl years Dr.MacVicar re ory arranged in most harmonious Tha eal re repre nun ats Tied doors that lock che carriders REMARKABLE WHICH EVER mained professor and principal of one ceived and declired a call to become the fon, to which the lights gave s soften: which the honored dead belonged, and as Asd bar the awful svenves of spaen: TOO] y = of the most important of the Presby- stor of the Bouth Presbyterian Church, ing tone, for this time the sun had representing the educations interests of |My soul at last «hall pass; and them, + x PLAGE N MONT terian colleges: but he was always the Brooklyn, at a sal of $7,000 à yesr.|sunk bebind = Royal, and the our city and province.Om behalf of Sram sublime, 4 .foremost member of the General As-| In 1881 he was \u20ac moderator of evening shadows were \u2018coming.\u2018The thousands and teus of thousends ot sas upon Thy face.\u2018 _\u2014 sembly.He had been moderatir; he the General Assembly of the Presbyteri- music was a dirge that continued un- Christians of all names 1 pow bri y He could appropriately my with evgy uncement of the sudden death was convener of the most important an Church in Canada.Three times he 451 the people had taken their pluces, tribute of esteem to the memory of the servant of : .D., LL.D, ucipal of the Mont upon the questions of high polity which an councils, held at Edinburgh, 1877; numbers of youth and teachers in our letting in eternsl jan\u2019 College, on the afternoon the Church dealt with in he eallactive Philadelphia, 1800, and Glasgow, 1884.standing until all were seated.Around echoois and Uhheges in whom be was so Let us, my brethres, amid our variens Dec.18, came as a shock to the entire wixdom.° He was always listened to He had been president of the Provincial hing were the Rev.Dr.Warden, of kindly interested.callings whether in publicity or obseurt- country.While bis students were with respect.He often welded the Teachers\u2019 Association; received the hon- (Toronto; the Rev.Dr.Campbell, the That Dr.MacVicar was a man of def- ty, whether in commercial or pre waiting for bim in the lecture room whole assembly to bis purpose.For he orary degree of LL.D.from MoGill, 1870; Rev.Jus.Barclay, D.D., the Rev.Dr.inite opinions and firm convictions every- fessional pursuits, let us seek by the be away quietly, sitting in his had the most intense nal convic- and that of D.D.from Knox Coll in Bhaw, the Rev.Prof.Heri T, Ve body knows, but that be was intolerant divine blessi to be animated by the study, with the manuscript of his lecture tions and he presented them with such a 1883, He was also a Fellow of Gill, Rev.Dean Evans, the Rev.Dr.Clark in maintaining these can be promptly same high ao bo purpose which guid-\" before him.His death was entirely un- feeling of absolute sincerity that his nu- vice-president of the Lord's Day Alliance, Murray, the Rev.\u2018Prof.Coussirat, and denied.He was, I consider, broad: ed and ennobled the long life of Donald - expected.He bad hurried away from : dience felt the wer of the utterance an Donors member of tbe Atheme others.: : , minded in he truest sense of the word.Harvey MacViear.mee a x Chur! ol which came »f rom min: iental 0 A ma: most distinct percep- n man jurebes Sunday oy five o'clock lecture on systema- and heart.Indeed, he veh great deal As an author, Principal MacViear was The Rav.Dr.Warden, of Toronto, tion of apte die te if, not feel rch ibe churche te Dr Mes & theology, and it was while preparing of his time to the ofilcia) interests of the eminently known for his text books, and $POX® sorrowfully of tbe death of his io) ending their divergence they ure Vicars death, : for it in his study that he died.\u2018The Church as a whole, at the same time not wblished lectures.His works included: friend and fellow minster, and the brond and catholie in their mutual sym- \u2014 students waited for about twenty min- neglecling his many other duties as prin- e Office and Work of Elders\u2019; papers blessing and benediction was pronoune- paties and generous in judging each oth: E.A.MACDONALD DEAD ute, then ons of their number went up cipal of the college or chairman the on \u2018Romanism in Canads,\u2019 & paper on ed by the Rev.Robert Bampbell, er then bave they megnanimity.We \u201cue vee if the principal was coming, and Board of Protestant School Commission | \u2018The Catholicity of Presbyterianism,\u2019 D.D.The \u2018Dead March in Ssul' was do well to aim at the greatest latitudin- \u2014_\u2014 found him dead.de Jersey White, ers.Pe worked incessantly.He gave [and of lectures on \u2018Inspiration,\u2019 \u2018Mira: [played on the orgsn, and the last look | arisniam of the bead joined with decided [FORMER MAYOR OF TORONTO Dr.Stewart, and others were summoned, himself no rest.He would travel from cles,\u2019 \u201cThe Constitution of the Church,\u2019 was taken at the features of the dead convictions of the judgment that we may PASSES AWAY AFTER A LIN- The anno Bo.Rev.Donald Harve MacVicar, committees; he was the ohief speaker Was appointed to attend Pan-Presbyteri- the tor, the Rev.Mr.Macksy, departed as well aa on behalf of vast \u2018Life's a debtor to the grave's dark letties, snd agreed that death was dus to heart city to eity for the purpose of lecturing \u201cThe Sabbath Law,\u2019 \u2018Modern Skepticism,\u2019 : be at al to th and tat failure.™ or representing the Church or education: \u2018Moral Culture, \u2018The Teacher in His do od help , me na Shantacle GERING ILLNESS.This wes probably brought on by his al interest: be sat ap late at night pre Study, and Classroom,\u2019 and \u2018Hindrances TE our help in ages Pid WAS looseness and proper latitude of view \u2014 the paring his ures; he concerned himself and Helps to Presbyterianism.\u2019 ue e reading of the tures and sympathy.A mote drifting simlessly Toronto, Dec.18\u2014Mr.E.A.Mae urrying away from the meeting ol a nch Presbyterian Board at Knox with s multiplicity of interests which] \"In My, 1860, just n few monthe after ery Rev.Dean Evans was followed in the wide expanse of the atmowphers donald, mayor of Toronto in 1900, died Church, where he bad been presiding and would have taxed a much younger and bis graduation, he married, Eleanor, the by, prayer by the Rev.Dr.Barclay.|is no \u201cprototype of the best form of be to-night, after « long llinew.Ha was discussing matters of finance with his stronger man.daughter of Mr.Robert Gouldry, who, The Rev.Prof.Serimger followed, |ing.\u2018On the other hand, .the as-|about forty-four years of age.weual r, and seemed to be quite in| Dr.MacVicar was the sturdy cham- | with three sons and two daughters, sur- speaking in slow, measured tones; tronomer has bis telescops firmly Mr.Macdonald was born in his usual health.He was at the meet.fon of Protestantism which, only à vive him.One of the sons is the Rev.We are here to-day as mourners be- bolted and riveted and fastened in {in 1858, coming to Toronto in 1861.for two hours, and regretted having | few days ago, he lamented ap to J.H.MacViear, of Fergus, Ont; av- aide the bier of a dear brother in Israel, its rocky bed, and through it from |had been a conspicuous in muni- to leave before it was fin .He be waning in the large centres where it other is Mr, Norman MncVicar.archi- The leading details of his life are suffi | bis secure foundation, unmoved by any 4 lit oh © stayed as long as ible, and apparent | seemed to be fashionable to be indiffer- tect, of Montreal.ciently known, but it is fitting that we perceptible tremor, hus clear vision seeks pal politics in Toronto for years.He overstrained himself in walking too ent.But while Protestantism with the The spirit of the late principal i ad- should pause à little and pay some try the immensities of space, the vast do- [72% & candidate for mayor on several the steep hill Yo the college.deceased meant a firm insistence upon mirably shown in an article from his bute to his character, especially in this mains of the empire of God.So be occasions, and ia 1900, in a bitter three He often told his students that he the principles of the Reformation, it in pen which appesrs in the December (city, where his whole public life was bas true breadth of view who, firmly cornered fight, defeated his - wished to die in harness, and his wish no wise invaded the liberty of any other number of the \u2018Presbyterian College leq and kis chief work accomplished.He standing on the sure foundation of truth, [ents by a good majority.Mr.was fulfilled.He was one of the most fellow creature.It was because of his Journal\u2019 on \u201cThe Duty of the Church was a man of deep and earneet piety, the Rock of Ages, looks away through donald will chiefly be.remembered as eminent of Canadian Presbyterians, and belief in the sacrednesn of liberty in Relation to Certain Social and Other and gave his life to the Christian minis- the whole range of being sclivity, the promoter of the Georgian Bay his death is & loss to the whole Presby- that he became one of the leaders in Tendencies.\u2019 The closing paragraph sys: try as being the highest calling in which 1 consider Dr.MaoVicar was thus broad Canal, s project whieh, tough Ship terian Church, and has cast « deep gloom the agitation against the Jesuits\u2019 Es-| The duty of the Church in relstion to |s man could serve bis fellow man.He in the truest sense of the word.at at that time, bids fair to res over the college, the students of which tates Act, and incurred, with others, all these tendencies and potent move- |felt a deep sense of responsibilit; Again, I bave often observed ; him almost as a father.He ote displeasure on the part of the dil-| ments is to confront thom not with for the apiritual wellare, of the whole reverent and devout was his ret.ne in the near future.was stern, but kind, and always had detanti, who did not appesr to realize philosophical and scientific theories but world, and threw himself heartily into was not without marked bencfit that \u2018wise c.unsel and sympathy for those who that a vital principle, dear to every man with thoroughly practical measures.She every field for the elevation of mankind.from his youth his mind was im , DEATH OF MR.PAUL FABRE.«ame to him in trouble.in the Dominion, was being fought for.should go down among this squalor and He was rarely absent from any meeting and absorbed with Bree News has been received of the death of el In the death of Dr.MacVicar a strik- The deceased was associated with al- vice with God's sovereign remedy for at which be felt he id be of service, truth of tI reign Mr.Paul Fabre, secretary Cans- figure in the religious and educational most every good work in the city, either human ein and wor the Gospel of ests and was rarely silent when he felt that (roth ruth o phe done ony of God, = dian Paul abre in xi be dirco- ife of the country disappesrs from offcinlly or through personal sympathy.Christ.She should go down in the his speech was called for.He will be some of the sturdiest and noblest char- tor of the \u2018Paris-Canada,\u2019 which occurred view.The deceased was known from one A® 8 scholst, be was broad and cultured; spirit of prayer, self-sacrifice and beroie greatly mised in every organization, acters in history.1 have often hes:d |©7 Thursday last.The deceased gen- end of the Dominion to the other.As na an ducationist, he.was (deal from zeal, with fall Iaith in the saving effi clerical or otherwise, with hich be was him, when animated by this truth, de- tleman, who feu + victim to _sarcoma, inci Presbyterian College, iew of insight sym- cacy\u201d i , With t connected.i ; wing i .Bector was Of the once for D College, pathy; as & citizen he took the noble personal conviction on \u2018the.rt of avery sonality, and in apy calling \u2018woul the painful and à fear growin, for oe in i rs oo ising attitude in regard to the vital Yiew that nothing which concerned his one who declares the truth that God's bave been a jesder.He had the energy authority, for sacred thi sacred phew of the late Archbishop Fabre.He pos + the Christian system, and a fellow-creatures should be indifferent to lword cannot return to him void, that and courage which inspired confidence :n words and places and the ed day of Was only 35 years old.loving nal regard for the students him.Accordingly, he interested himself God's spirit is omnipotent, both able those who were in sympathy with his the Lord.Devout rd for ali at Paul Fabre was born in Quebee in avis taughtee regard so solicitous M social questions.He desired a city and willing to regenerate souls, and that [&lms and made them willing to follow was divine became Phim a babit of 1967.snd, having gone to complete bis that his chief desire was to bring out Which should be notable for righteous- where sin abounds grace shall much his guidance.Those qualities early fecling and life.Moreover, bis miod \"tudies in Paris in 1830, he remained in the personality, to raise the individual ners.He was always willing to appear more abound, until the great moral des- brought him to the front in bis OwD-[ and Reart found satisfaction, I believe the French capital after his father had ill \u2018and judgment to the most august Upon the public platform to advocate re- erts of this world shall me the gar.burch.His co-operation was felt © gy nramely and experimentally, in th been appointed commissioner.He came plane, so \u2018that, mot the opinion or the ferme which m efor the reveral good.den of the Lord.be hecessary on its moat important com recious verities of the Christian religion.[err umes to visit bis gative land, kit sonviction of the teacher should so much ps wl nearest to his _\u2014 - vas never t from bie proved the suffici of the i voyage being in r : heart the union of the churches.supreme court of his church except we rency, vicart many warm frien who will haces soba sag That wea Ji was only the other day that be ox The A Tr Mae EE That The might tends ou seeribee of the Lord Joma Christ daly egret no: Canada, .3 : : 2 .= onc world-wi Tes! Ti \u2018 31 keynota all his teachings wrong premed he ion st Baptist Ticar, principal of the Presbyterian Ali nce, where Je was likewise J prom: common ral bo bave obtained Fe nc1ED TEMPERANCE WORKER DEAD.Ji .5 \u2018hurches mi 1 ite d become al chairman of the at- at 5 was ever à man of \" : hilads hie re, parti the prenais 2 heady ™ Sie would have liked te in: |ant Board of School Commissioners, rong and clear convictions on all moral 9° Protestants, of all names wd nations, Deanitsta rakes of the.Americes Bog: the other head thie bein hie thy Anglicans, buf he was sfravl took place Thursday afternoon, and |nd religious\u201d questions, and he bad no 4nd Le p his faith by bis works \u2018tis: Publication Beclety.died st kis resi.tt remained ff ie being ao that perbapn the latter would not con- was characterized by much simple sol: hesitation in expressing Lhem in all def: He bad 8 devout and intelligent remnd dence 18 his city to-ddy.Mr.Denalisn , ¢ .tion.But .; isitenebs and force.convictions y ea, 1 he 7 an to rea pon nt Bn rit ot prin, Bt mn Sn hr many\u201d mitesation Dr srer Bord no wpa let | nd Spout of pc in tn pu | ESE ME Sd if necessary, all the ing of the other day on the subject, and bot public regre: his own iniallibility, byt solely upon bis and lecture room) he gave so much of time Grané W Patriarch ot Aserice borate lecture, if such teaching agreed.Dr.MacVicar ssid, that| The casket in David Morrice Hall, belief in the infalibility of Holy Berip- life and scholarship and praycrful and Past Worthy Patriarch of the United dot conform to the judgment ani the Methodists and the Presbyterians containing the remains of the deceased ture, as the Word of God.This via thought.He found, I believe, in every States, of tbe Grand Division of 48 Sons fn .d i i i 1; evel 1 in a Onal au! nity.e! Tine Of e ristian system a livi of emperance.a teacher his Freeminent desire was wight Sil done jogeths he i The point prin cipal, Teo surrounded Poise ard he was satisfied as to what be taught, power and personality.1 am of opinion \u2014 d each of the students to think Dr.Shaw and the pa was the di- rings.ket all : tho the question was closed and rarely trou- that no doctrine, however interesting MISE ANNA RYKERD.Jf.By the latter he was much Dr.Sbaw and the miter wos the OF jover the casket all mor ok hall bled him again.Oncé be bad déclared in speculation, is of much value unless, The \u2018Daily Review.\u201d Mankato Mtuoeseta, ] there was a certain brusque FIX 0 UF else, he Ÿ t, vas being repla yh in ervals, and the The himself he rarely changed.The world as it is a living force in shaping Chris | Dec, 9, announces the death of Miss Anns ich concesl thy og 8 heart fa the nature of what was non tial.Tatu of the pe en ng.ne al ys knew where to find him.The tian character and destiny.M.Rykerd, which occurred at the resi- i precseegepget i fee IF, F i i : as ever = > A that a view or a cause was unpopu- i MacVicar's 3204 of her sister, Mra.Lailséort, the re- the young in sll their supra strivings, bres passe She en pouls - \u201cthe mained peaceful, aid had the repeat.lar made iittle impression Upon is mind.name se forever be Dociuied ith vus Dors in Durtam, Que on Feb: a by ©o com ie; no nmi.mee! i : i t WAS always ready tt > 3 23 ho A Seize: the Bible as the re Watform while denounciog wrongdoing, 270%, © lm on \u201ctae o'clock the opportunity presented tect.© Ke.the Lrotestant school system of the pro- The \u2018Review says: .ivini th tlest ot .In th God to man; the divinity Fah 084 of Me tn students, in femiliar |the body lay in David Morrice Hall, after which there Ë vince, and particularly of this city.He! The deceased cams to Mankato thtrty- bad the great advan of beginning six years ago to make ber home with her : ; sister, Mrs.Lulsdor!, and inuous- his career as a public school teacher le i resided here.She was Fa oF ater 2, Lhe state in the ligion vas, Sig bum the oust in- of Christ were t vita octrines\u2014 ; : ereat.othing which did not seem to always fo be.upheld, At the same convermtion, he disclosed charm of bim to be practically related to religion : school teac time he had a genuine tenderness PANDET, © sympet y, a cheeriness of was a solemn public service.It was lor morals couid ever hold him long.He {Ore entering upon his university end ltion, but possessed a kind, for all others who could not ce \u201cTiFit, which will be long remembered, conducted by the Rev.Dr.Campbell, was profoundly concerned about the diviDity studies in preparation for the and lovable nature.Her great comfort in e to eye; a strong desire for har- while the antithesis of tbat stern Scotch senior professor of the college, and mora) and social well-being of mankind, holy ministry.When still in the pas- lifs wan to make others happy, aud there = yo aspect which frowned upon whatever 4 cases were delivered by the Rev.|and he thoroughly beiieved in the Gos torate, in 1909, amid its beavy duties, are many in this city who can testity es mony and unity; a kindly bumor which ignoble untrue was found \u201cbei ; he still found ti to d to the to thu comforts brought to thelr homes bed up thé eye and softened the YS mean or he und Prof.Clark Murray, the Rev.Prof.pel of Jesus Christ as the solution of all io restant schools oi evote the |, th rosl tb aEruptness of epeccb.An ideal toucher In the joke which he loved, the bright C0 of MoGill, and Rev.Prinripai the problems of human society.His Protestant schools of Montreat and lat- Pr M er ait wes upt - story which he loved to tell, the pungent aims were all pre-eminent! i fter the foundi Ë - pec | , the ; ractical.eT, al e founding of the Presty- interest in the welfa .free fhe Tse principal, who all throngh S507, which Be cond ready coro Hil of the Congregational Coleg | He eur denied \"bimmlf VAD he ten Cole of which be ha been fhe mine pod Ju members ch ve ee ve of 2 who mistook rtain « was found in human sympathies, deep procession was then formed of the stal\u201d cause of temperance reform and strongly distinguished principal, he has been able fore stated, when the pew fire statidn was of ape Lie parrown ae ternpess and abiding, and which embraced every [and students of the college, tho city [advocated Sabbath observance; but he to continue this congenial work.He las finished she ftied up the sleeping apart.aspect.for narrowness of sympathy.Piliow-crentire.He fell quickiy npon clergy, the school commissioners and was even more insistent in the cause of been a Protestant school commissioner Ment: with nice fron bedstaads.Shs aise For over a quarter of & century Dr.sleep.which was his desire; the voice others, to conduct the remains to Cres- Christian missions, both- at home and from 1880 to the present day, with the presented the 8 adn apparatus mad = MacVicar was chairman of the ç = ; : 0.A m .; imi which rang out so heartily and cheerily cent Street Church, for the public fun- abroad.Because of his interest in the omission of two brief intervals, or in all, \" fat Board of School | Commissioners.In a few hours ago is silent\u2014 eral at three o'clock.P religions side of life and of his activity twenty-five years.As an educationist Thadly feeling Tawards the \"gre \u201cevs = te arr ¢ community of ont.\u2018Till the morning breaks and the «bs-| Seldom has the public been more | half of it he was often misjudged he was wisely progressive.He alwuys be greatly missed Is hardly expressing it, veal.In otestan usrters it was always dows away.\" widely represented, for every na- «as & mere Churchman.But with him demanded thorougbuess as well as prac- for In er earn they loss a goed, kind, thought that fe wae conservative and Dr.MacVicar was born on Nov.29, y rep , y the church was nothing but à means tu tical utility in the work done in cur |!betghtful friend.whose place in their .; - tionality was in the cortege that |an end.Ifbe preferred to work through schools, and especially high moral tone Girth Ul he Siflout to Mie A, Boel?as a fact, he was broad end 1531, at the Scotch village of ur [left the David Morrice Hall and {it, it was only because he thought Tt \"he on the part both Teachers and pupils, Jou oe TE to eu kat Mine yxert ow oi in regard me attitude and years fsamphe e forail Le red fo Canada, proceeded down McTavish street best means to that end.His cordial On the subject of religion in the schools days.Bue came to Saaketo when yt ee + ; C toward the Crescent Street Church.|co-operation with those of other churches, his idea was that of ail the commission- sinted of a small burg, aud bas watched which should be offered bo Leachers and and settled mer Cu Wham, Ont Be Groupe of people stood and silently in such organizations as the Bible So- ers, and indeed that which underlies the the city grow and advance up to tbe pre- PP vi le province; an enti phtened Ponte Academy, where he completed the watched the hearse as it passed along fer shun antly testified sa the catho- whole Protestant school system of \u2018he me tes nd ons her ve pt champion every reform which made course, and then, after a partial course |in simple dignity, for the solemnity to Beep the © mpathies and bis desire province, that Lhe schools must be Chine those days will know or appreciate tbe or which promised to make for the bens: at Toronto University, be entered Knox of the procession \u2018seemed to add that while bis lifelong interest in popular edu\u2019 lengien on the Protestant School Board and were subjected lo.Cortiaiy few fit of the schools.He was the staunch College as a theologica student od 1855, feature to it, Among the mourners [cation showed that he by no means be- of Montreal have suitably placed on rec: Of the earliest settiers are alive today to friend of the teacher; he was never in-| Two years later he was ordained, 40d werq those who had been the earnest lieved the cburch to be the only means ord their deep sense of loss caused by Fejate thoms incidents.different to the claims ot the pupils; in did mission work at Collingwood until friends of Dr.MacVicar when he came [of elevating the masses of the people.his removal.In our ataff of two hus.Miss Rykerd was an earnest and faithfel the midst of his multifarious duties he his graduation in 1850.He refused 1,5 Cote street.Those who had sided As à religious man, his piety was of the dred and fifty-five teachers many with mea Gurine her younper yom ase Sin traveiled from place to place in the al hd Collis est Brantford, Britian with him in his temperance advocacy intellectual rather than of the emotion.tearfui gorrow will deplore the (RA of a a doris.een Beatdos Mre.United States to se for bimelf the nt, Cm ond tioous call to Knox in the General Assembly were present a ype, and it was Lo the Intellectual [kind and true personal friend who has Luisdort she ia survived by one sister.Mrs either et re or teaching methods in Church, Guelph.He had only been in force, and so were ministers of thé [pealsd.He was a preacher of no > helped dem in (many | a trouble and Jin Riizabeth Sykes, of Holland, Vermont.\u2018 cerely sympa! in their \u2014 hese might i there ear when his ability as s French evangelization branch of the ding; wer, and was highly prized £ \" th ut ot schoo! pa x (plied to reacher ttrncted the attention of the church.The executive of the Quebec bis ear exposition of divine truth But discouragements and financial limita- A RIPE OLD AGE.the pub! y y pi Brockvilie, Dec.19.\u2014The \u2018desth took piece which he regarded with pride for Cote Street Free Church, Montreal, one Equal Rights Association were in [he was much ter as a teacher and |.tions.; ; sn Brockviile Hospital yesterdsy of Mra.efficiency, although always sighing of the leading churches of Canada, which large numbers.Commons and legisla: most of all at home in the class room.Of my personal relations to him, 1/8ally Barnett, relict of the late Jecod Bar- for the realization of bis supreme pid 1\u2014 was looking for & successor to the Rev.[tyre the judiciary, sll were represent.Hundreds of ministers scattered through- should speak with reserve.They nave [net a widely known farmer of Wilterd free education under a common system Donald Fraser, D.D., who went to Lon.ed.As the line passed the High School out Canada bless Sod for having given certainly been, very intimate and such To py: arent had stained the eh od Che delierations of \u2018the don, tied a ee om San building representatives of the Jligb called en to be instractors ne pees 1 \u2018sow bim first in ro this action Born in tbe Towuehig of Band ge tact.This was always 30, 1861.His pestorate lasted almost schools, the city schools, the Baron de He was, however, not only a model when he asked me to take a service in ord ramen lived principals outta .: i the - \u2018Hirsch Institute, and other educational teacher, he was a model princi; as the Cote Street Church, 1 him last acknowldeged.He tried to be and was eight years, and under Lis care the con odies were present in open ranks farina 8, model pri pi of the Street Church.arr him lash | fied.\u2018Mra.\u2019 Barnett bad a distinct recol- A ; A , i b lections of happenings 1 the eat of etre merely gt bere it Eire abled.each school in charge of its principal [high order he concerned himself in every board meeting, he walked and talked ago.ve poe pearly à century there were a moment of irritation or| Jn 1888 the General Assembly sppoint- or head master.he fla, on the |detail of demonstration and allowed noth- about the congenial subject of church - difficulty he remained calm, tolerant and ed him princi and er of di [schools were half-mast high, and the ing to escape his notice.The Presby- union.Through all these thirty-five years Toronto, Dec.17-The death oceurreé ce ole ¢ terian Col- College in this city will ever re- 1 have watched bis career and honored Monday evening, at his residence, 4 Nee.Erde] ro The tor the pom.visiter tee ontrest E college consist.quiet of the boys was on table 22 they main as a great monnment of his work.him for the meadfastness of his princi- Tou sirest ot Rov Dee D Sarre, inte tion.In his death the loss will be re oF principally of a charter and half » Tega ° 54 ng he fri od d His relations with his students were al- ples, the conscientiousness of his actions renset, who vas Biiy seven 7d.Jul De h i ble.For not only did dosen students, the lectures being given of him who been t end and ways of the happiest character.Not and the fidelity of his service.Bad been tn falling wealth for some Une oui irreparat .For ot : y de te nt of Erskine Church, and pioneer of the school commissioners, lesa fortunate was he in his relstions to What a sublime picture, worthy of the 8ad in January last was forced to apply fer brine Tmpetly to bear.dan | ite basen tts present size and effi.Crescent Street Church could not the other members of hin staff.He wan highest art.ie that of the old servant Superannuation, giviog up Bla parish work knowledge, 2 we stared od (hind.an us cengy is largely the it of Princip] contain all who sought admittance; often and widely misunderstood, being f , after so noble and useful n and coming to Toronto to reatde.An aes Dr.MacViear bad kept abreast St the MucViear's energy end ability.For and the sidewalks in the vicinity were thought by [oany to be sen ood an?career, full of years and honors and la- fee We of Loot ore Fottnad wr i times.He did not deal, as many might the last third of & century be has crowded and remained so until long thing could be further from the truth, Dore, a» be sat in his study chair last ia the diocese of Huron where he flied pre- ha i aly tomes, taken sided over the coliege, snd his place will after the hearse had arrived and the tivo = \"| Monday afternoon and quiet several Importent charges.Even ifter from dust Tbrasy, but he read be hard to fill.funeral service commenced.He roids irtonds that iy to away to heaven, the sun setting, coming to Toronto Mr.Caswell's work was a \u20ac » » ; - © ù done, an he ever took & kindly interest omnivorously of the best modern litera: For years prior to his desth he was The chief mourners were: Mr.Norman confidence he was ever most ial and task done, tbe day closing and God not products.as such referred to eduent , ehairman of the Board of French Evan- MacVicar, the Rev.John H.MacVicar, companionable.His ministrations at beckoning bim to rest.\u2018Bo he giveth eau AEA In 0e of on religious in] questions.In the best gelization and the last duty be per ont Mr.Robert the badside of the sick and suffering were his beloved sleep.Lo 3 \u201cgenerally to be found pois of The word, he wan a man of tha formed wns to preside at n mesting of of Fergun, Ont.an reemncd divine; always acceptable, and, once enjoyed, 1 doubt not that while this vast mul.Bet wellgknown \u201d porc of 3 series 5 > church cate.world.That is to say, there was noth.the board.Dr.MacViear always tak.i were always welcome.We can express titude is surrounded by these signe of of charts for tes Too vio) oe ai yeh he was $1 au interest fn thy work of Beene | Mr; Dipald, Guthele, KO brother Bo rugres tht the manner of ha desl moursing snd our roles are huubed by $11, Sola\" tant 13 R Sid concerned about the man on the street, Canadian eva tions, oresnined à de \"botte of Guelph, Ont; the {a2 wich ss lo preclude such ministre.the solemnities of the hour, and a whole giutes, Sydney D.Cauvell, of the the housing of the poor, about pertment in college for the educa.Rephow; Gulp! ; Moss himasif, for it was the desth city end country laments the Joss of à îhe Moisone Bnak, Enewilon: Bebe ~srhieh | would - bring people: to of Tremoh-Cansdian ministers, and Rev.Donald Quthrie, of Baltimore, Bot ment ol ai core, It only great and gpod man, bis spirit has ca see.° , £ MR.MARCÇONI.Teiemph ot the Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy has Come.MESSAGES PASS BETWEEN THE \u201c KING AND LORD MINTO.New York, Dec.21.\u2014The following despatch from Mr.Marconi, dated Glace Bay, N.8, Dec.21, has been re- eeived by the Associated Press: \u2014 \u2018I bag to inform you for circulation that I have established wireless tele- Jom communication between Cape ton, Canada, and Cornwall, England, with complete success.Inaugu- messages, including one from the vernor-tleneral of Canada to King Edward VII, have already been transmitted and forwarded to the King of England, and also the King of Italy.A message to the London \u2018Times\u2019 has also Leen transmitted in the of its special correspondent, Dr.Parkin, M.P.\u2018G.MARCONI\u2019 NEWS AT OTTAWA.Ottawa, Dec.21.\u2014Wireless tele- as a means of communication across the Atlantic is an established success.There is no longer any doubt about the value of the Marconi eys- tom as a means of transmitting messages over long distances without the use of wires.The Italian inventor's efforts have been crowned with success that seems to be complete.A telé- gram was sent to-day from the station at Table Head, Cape Breton, to the station in Cornwall, England.It was a me of & co tulatory character addressed by the Governor-Gen- ersl to His Majesty the King, and had been at the Table Head station for some days awaiting transmission whenever communication should be satisfactorily established.The instruments at Poldhu, Cornwall, and Table Head were brought in complete mag netle sympathy to-day, and the m of Lord Minto duly transmitted.His Excellency accordingly received the fol- Jowing message from Mr.Marconi this afternoon: \u2014 \u2018Glace Bay, N.S, Dec.21, 1902.\u2018To His Excellency the Governor-Gen- \u2018eral, Ottawa: \u2014 \u201cHave the honor to inform Your Excellency that your message to His Majesty bas now been transmitted by me from Cape Breton to Cornwall by wireless telegraphy, and has been forwarded to its destination.\u2018MARCONI* The text of the message of Lord Minto to His Majesty is not available.addressed to the King, it can only be made public by His Majesty's express command, but, as stated, it is understood to be a brief message of s congratulatory nature, LORD MINTO REPLY.To Mr.Marconi's telegram Minto replied: \u2014 \u2018Ottawa, Dec.21, 1902.\u201cTe Marconi, Glace Bay, N.8.:\u2014 \u201cDelighted at our message, just re aired?Warmest congratulations on your splendid success.\u2018MINTO.The le of Canada will have additional \u2018reason for elation at the success of wireless ocean telegraphy from the fact that it was from this country thet Mr.Marconi received his first substantial encouragement on this side of the Atlantic.London, Dec.21.\u2014 The London rete the reeeipt o a mer wireless tel rom Mr.Morons, at Cape Brecon, \u2018ova Scotia NEWS IN ENGLAND, Londoa, Dec.22.\u2014Telegrams from Halifax, Ottawa and New York announce that Marconi has successfully transmitted messages his wireless Cem of selegraphy, from Lord Minto, vernor-General of Canada, to King Edward, aod from himsell to Ki Täward, and King Victor Emmanuel.The texts of the messages are at present unknown to the public.The \u201cTimes\u2019 announces that it has received mail from Poldhu, Cornwall, where the Marconi station is situated, the following Marconigram from its correspondent at Glace Bay: \u2014 \u2018Being present at its transmission in Mr.Marconi\u2019s Canadian station, I have the honor to send through the \u201cTimes\u2019 the inventor's four wireless trans-Atlantic messages of greeting to England and Italy.AN INVITATION.Otawa, Dec.22.\u2014Mr.Fielding, while in Nova Beotia, intended visi the Marcon! station at Glace Bay, but was unable to do so.The Minister of Finance received the following telegram yesterday from Mr.Marconi:\u2014 Glace Bay, N.S., Dec.21.\u2018Hom.W.8 Fielding, Minister of Fi- \u2018nance, Ottawa:\u2014 ble \u2018Regret you were una to visit station here.The Governor General sent me a message for lesty, which I have already been ie tranemit to England by wireless tele- un wit complete, success.Should send © messages from Canadian Government if desired.1 leave here very shortly for my Cape Cod station., (Bigued) \u2018G.MARCONI The Hoa.Mr.Fielding roplied as fol lows: \u2014 Ottawa, Dec.22, \u2018G.Marconi, Glace Bay: \u2014 M from Government has already been sent.Accept my warmest congratulations on the success of your om week.I rejoice that Caneds has Lord besa able to co-operate with you im sueh a epleadid achievement.7 (Si ), \u2018W.8.FIELDING.MESSAGE TO KING OF ITALY.Rome, Dee.22.\u2014Kii Victor Emmanuel this morning recelved a wireless message from Marconi, forwarded from ton, via Cornwall, and sent a atulator: reply.E \u2018TIMES'S\u2019 MESSAGE.London, Dec.22.\u2014The second edition of the \u2018Times\u2019 to-day prints the text of à wireless message received from the Canadian Government, as follows: \u2014 \u2018Ottawa, Dec.21.\u201cThe Government of Canada, through the \u2018Times,\u2019 desires to congratulate the British people on the accomplishment by Marconi of the greatest feat modern science has yet achieved.{Signed), \u2018CAKTWRIGHT, \u2018Acting Premier.\u2019 FROM THE KING.Ottawa, Dee.22.\u2014The King's reply to Tord Minto's message, sent wireless elegraphy, was received to-day ss fol- t lows:\u2014 Teo.22.I am much interested by the wireless memage which you bave sent me, and am delighted at the sucoses of Digoor Marconi's great invention, which a Great Brita's and Canada into still closer connection.(Signed), EDWARD R.\u20181 never doubted the ultimate trium of Marconi.I have been with him for three years and a half; [ watched his workings; I found that \u2018ve thought upon lines which no other human being thought on; call him inspired, call him a seu if you will, but he bus succeeded, as knew he would, from the start.This is the statement of Major Pool- Page manager and director of three of the companies which have been ostab- lished to operste the new aystem.The major was at the Windsor Hotel to-day on his way from the south to rejoin Mr.Marconi, whom he had left about three weeks ago.In conversation Major Pool-Page said that the triumph was complete, There had been mewsages over long distances ; there had been messa between ships; but there bad now complete an: satisfactory messages between this country and England; the King had received a message which annoui at everything had turned out as it had been on- ticipated.; You will now proceed to establish \u2018That will take some time, of course.You ve to get your macdinery, which is very elaborate, in readiness; but, course, that will be the next step, to establish à commercial business.\u2019 \u201c And this = Det interfere a Ml with present e nées, will it ?\"Not a bit of it.When the C.P.R.first entered into competition with the Grand Trunk the latter did not, perhaps, quite like it; but there business for the two companies, su: will be business for two more.shall do a new business; ulation u growing; the world\u2019s are incress- ing all the time.\u2019 Will your rates be a considerable reduction upon cable tes ¥ \u201cNot a doubt of it.\u2019 \u2018 You will not think of absorbing cable companies 1 \u2018We are too feeble a folk for that at present.But we shall have all the business we want.Of course, we could send our messages over land as well as across the ocean, but at present Marconi is devoting himself to trans-oceanic business.am going to spend Christmas with him.\" MESSAGE TO BIR Ottawa, Dec.22\u2014The fol mes sage was sent ay from Glace Bay to Sir Wilfrid) Laurier by Mr.Mar- em: \u2018 Have the honor to inform you that I have now established wireless tele graphy communication between Cope ton station and Poldhu, Cornwall, , and that I have y trans mitted several messages to destinations in Europe, including one from the Goy- ernor- to His Majesty.Permit me to congratulate you upon the success and again to thank your government for the cordiality of its encouragement and for its co-operation.\u2019 tf ESTATE OF A MISER MONEY OF ELI HYMAN, THE TORONTO JEW, DIVIDED AMONG RELATIVES.Toronto, Dec.20.\u2014The estate of EH Hyman, the miser, who died the other day, will have to contribute 95,000 in sne- cession duties.Mr.Samuel King, solicitor for the widow, has tendered sa bond for $10,000 to the solicitor of the Treasury Department.Temporary sdminis- tration of the estate has been ted.Five percent must be paid to the + fay Tot ft mil ited 5 ia Hyman, and the balanee will go to the children.They are said to be in Californis.There are two girls and a son, the issue of the first marrisge.The marriage has not been established, however, and the children will be forced to make the necessa showing.There is no record of suc marriage, but many Jews in the city are sure that Hyman a ly before be married Mise Milton, the wife known here.Thin proraise to develop sv uit, especially if a prior marria, Le tablished, aly the present \u2018Mrs.Hyman cannot show & divorce.From something the old miser tried to teil Rabbi Jacobe in bis dying moments, the rabbi thinks Hyman 8 large amount of money se- \u2014 BLONDIN GUILTY HE IS CONVICTED OF WIFE MURDER.Boston, Mass, Dec.15.\u2014 Murder i second.degree was the etn nb tonight aginst 3 Wiltrid Blondln, who or more than two jl charged with vile murder he ry wes out al six hours.Bloadin howed kesu dissppointment, Tered bs would De moque re le there i We oretly hidden that has not pond Tod but the been ac- THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.| HUMBERTS ARRESTED THE NOTORIOUS PARIS SWINDLERS FOUND AT A HOTEL IN MADRID, Madrid, Dee.20.\u2014Madame Humbert, other members of the llumbert family, and M.and Madame D'Au , the brother and sister-in-law of Mad: ame Humbert, who became notorious in connection with the great safe frauds in Paris, have been arrested at an hotel here.They have been in Madrid since May.9.The interest of all Paris was oms- tred May © last, on sn empty safe at 65 Avenue de 1a Grande Armee.It was supposed to contain $20,000,000, left by Mr.Robert Henry Crawford, said to be \u2018ax American millionnaire\u2019 This sum was alleged to be held in trust by Madame Therese Humbert, who, under Mr.Crawford's firat will, was eon- stituted his sole legates, and who, on the strength of her title to the fleti- tious vast estate, succeeded in horrow- ing $12,000,000 from bankers, mone lenders and others in France and Bel gium.Eventually an investigation was started, the Humberts and others connected with them in the operations fled from Paris, and May 9, when the chief of the detective department of Paris, M.Cochefort, opened the safe, it brought to light the greatest swindle of the century, for the safe was found to contain nothing but an old jewel box, some old papers, and the official senls which had made the swindle possible, the fortune having, under the terms of the second will, been represented as being held in trust until Mile D\u2019Aurignae, Madame Humbert\u2019s niece, attained her majority, when all the heirs mentioned in the two wills were To come to an amicable agreement for an equitable division of the property.Madrid, Dec.22.\u2014The police made a clean haul of the whole family, Madame Humbert, her husband, Eva Hum- bert and the three d\u2019Aurignacs, Romain, Emile and Marie.The police sus- ed a bouse on the Calle Ferray.me time yesterday Romain d'Aurig- nac was seen to enter the building.À search warrant was obtained, and the house surrounded.After some difii- culty the police were admitted, and arrasted the long-sought-for defaulters.The prisoners protested that they were the victims of infamous , proceedings.They threatened to \u2018get even\u201d with certain persons in France, and said they had come to Madrid direct from Paris.Mlle.Eva became hysterical, and Madame Humbert clasped Marie d\u2019Aur- e and her daughter in her arme, pleading with the police, \u2018for the love of God, not to separate me from my daughter.\u2019 .The police made an inventory of the contents of the apartments, and found a parcel of jewels valued at $2,000, a couple of lottery tickets, and about $115 in cash.Seals wers then attached to the house, and the whole family was removed to jail and placed at the disposition of the French ambassador.The police suspect the Humberts of having disposed of important papers in the levatories while delaying the entry of the officers.The family tried to es cape by the windows but failed, as the house was cordoned.At the police prefecture, it was found that the prisoners had $850 in their pockets.The prefect said he had known of their presence here for a week, but delayed taking action un- il he was assured that he had the whole party caged.The Humberts maintain that they are innocent; declare they have been victimised, and say they desire to return to France and defend themselves inst the charges.\u201cHie women of the party were much distressed and wept continuously.When Mme.Humbert and others of the Humbert family were arrested, one of the family banded a package eon.taining $46,000 to some people who lived in the same house with them.This package bad been sent to the French consulate.Inspector Caro, who made the arrests, has been promoted.The Humberis are being weil treated in prison.As first-class misdemean- ants they are permitted to have their meals sent in from a neighboring restaurant.They ail occupy separate cells, are carefully watched and are not allowed to receive visitors.The prisoners passed à rather restless night, but this morning they seemed rather more resigned.The ladies were leas tearful.All the male members of the party have aitered their appearance by letting their beards grow.A maid servant, employed by the Humberts in Madrid, asys that they allowed nobody to enter their house and started in apprebension at every ring of the bell.ey assisted in the housework themselves and the men of the party never went out except at ni LL DISCLOSE THE TRUTH.Parle, Dee.22.\u2014The Madrid corres ent of the \u2018Temps\u2019 had an inter view on Saturday with the arrested members of the Humbert family.Madame Humbert reiterated her desire to return immediately to France for trial.She was annoyed when told that the trial was likely to be de layed, and said that she and the other members of the family had made up their minds to disclose the truth and to \u2018confound the authors of their misfortunes\u2019 M Humbert and Romain d\u2019Aurignac are confined in a separate room.They also say that they re to return to and asserted that their only France, jobieet in taking fight was te isscape from imprisonment during the \u2018| Jbninary investigation of the fie.They said they intended to return eventually for trial.JAPANESE PROTEST The Arrest of Countrymen im British Columbia Objected to A DELAY OCOURRED, BUT ORIENTALS WERE RELEASED FROM OTTAWA.Ottawa, Dee.10.\u2014Although no oM- olal information to that effect has t reached the State Department, it s known that Mr.Nosse, consul-gen- eral for Japan in Canada, has made formal protest to the British Foreign Office against the arrest of nineteen of his countrymen in British Columbia because they could not read and write in any Furopesn language.Doubtless the State Department will ultimately be apprised of the protest, but in the meantime the incident will have been closed by the release of the prisoners.\u2018The record of the esse shows that on Thursday morning, when the Hon.R.W.Scott, Becretary of State, read the special despatch from Victoria, telling of the arrest of the Japs on the British Columbia fromtier, and their imprisonment under sentence for transgressing the provincial law, he immediately wired to Lieutenant-Governor Joly de Lotbiniere informing him of the matter and stating that as the act in question had been disallowed, \u2018the action of the police istrate seems to require explanation.\u2019 To this Sir Henri Joly replied by telegram from Victoria to-day, that \u2018motice of the disallowance of the act on Dec.5 only left Ottawa on the llth, and reached here to-day and was acted upon at once.\u2019 The explanation of the five days\u2019 delay in forwarding notice of the disal- lowance from Ottawa is that His Excellency was at the time in Montreal and the order-in-couneil bad, of course, to await Lord Minto's approval However, the British Columbia papers of the Oth inst.contained the news from Ottawa that the Oriental Immigration act had been disallowed, so that while Mr.Corbould, the magistrate, acted strictly within his legal right in imposing sentence under the act, not having been officially notified of its dis allowance, it is held here that a more judicious proceeding would have been to at least postpone the trial of the Japs until the press reports of disal- lowance had been officially confirmed.A prominent legal authority was asked if action for da by the im- \u2018| prisoned Orientals would lie under the circumstances, the reply was in the negative.The law in regard to dis- allowance of provincial acts by the federal authorities, he said, neema to be on all fours with that governing the disallowance of federal acts by the imperial authority, which fs in effect that the act is valid until its disal- lowance is formally signified by proclamation in Canada, It will, therefore, be the duty of the magistrate who sentence upon the Japs now to reverse his judgment and order their release.\u2014_\u2014 FOREIGN MISSIONS ANNUAL REPORT OF AMERICAN BOARD, Boston, Maes, Dec.17.\u2014The ninety- second annual report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis sions, made public to-day, shows receipts for the year of 845,106, The report states that indemnities for proj stroyed in China in 1900 have n pail and adjusted under conditions satisfac tory to the missionaries and in most instances to the native Christians, and \u2018which also admit of the reopening of mis sionary work in all forme.It been decided to re-establish the North China College at Tungchau, and a site nearer the city than the former premises has been purchased.The first new building for the college is in process of eon- struction.An enormous demand for the Bible and translations of all Linda of western whicl sprung ur- ing the last two years, has been felt in abecfately impounble to wpm hee absolu im; e mand at times.y \u2014 TRANSPORTATION MR.GREENWAY BELIEVES THAT 18 THE GREAT PROBLEM OF THE WEST.Winnipeg, Dec.16\u2014The Hon.Thos.y de- Greenway, addressing a meeting of the Yo! Liberal Club here to-night, dis- out transportation, saying it was the question of the day, sud apparently an insolvable one.He said all the grain purchased within the last two months was still in the elevators, and thirty million bushels was still in the farmers\u2019 hands.Next year there would be 25 percent incresss in the crop production of Manitoba, and 100 percent in the Territories, and the situation would be atill worse.If the C.P.R.should double-track the lime from Brandon to Fort William if would be some relief; so would another trans continental Jine, but be believed that & road to Hudson Bay would be of wore utility than two transcontinental lines.He believed the Hudson Bay route em- tirely practicable.There should aiso be a railway from Manitoba direct to Duiuth.He strongly censured the Roblin Government for barring out the Northern Pacifie.He said thet while br Cana outlet oe prima meses Ae slty was to get it out.He touched oa Dominion issues, and aid be was glad te know his interview last summer in the \u2018Globe\u2019 had had some: thing to do in bringing on the agitation which had ended im Mr.Tarte's retirement from the government.So far as his influence went, he would oppose all public men who preached pro- ection.In the course of the h he formally denied that it was hia intention to retire from the leadership of the party before slection.The party, he ssid, had asked him to continue b leadership, and he would do so as long as he had atremgth to discharge its duties.Mr.Greenway had & most en- thusiastio reception.: mp0 THE HARTOPP CASE DIVORCE SUIT ENDS IN VERDICT OF \u2018NOT PROVEN.London, Dee.17.\u2014The verdict In the Hartopp case was resched late this after noon.After thirteen days devoted to bearing the testimony, and the sumining up by the counsel and Mr, Justice Barnes the jury found that from the evidence presented no one had been guilty of anything.That is to say, Lady Hartopp had not been guilty with Earl Cowley, Sir Charles Hartopp had not been guilty of cruelty to lady Hartopp and Bir Charles Topp had not been guilty of misconduct with Mev.Sands.It was what would be called the Scotch verdict of \u2018not proven,\u2019 and it is safe to say that the ouly one of the principal actors who derived any degree of matisfac- tion from the jury's finding is Mrs.Sands.This remarkable woman, knowing that her not too correct life would be fully ventilated in court, went willingly into the witucss box to disprove the charge that Sir Charles had maintained inti mate relations with her.Mr.Justice Barnes said her mode of life did not necessarily imply she did not tell the truth, and the jury agreed with him.When the court opened there was the usual crowd present but Sir Charles Flar- topp was the only one of the chief ac tors present.\u2018Sir Charles and bis wife\u2019 eid Mr.Justice Barnes, in summing up, \u2018during their married life did nothing else than engage in pursuit of pleasure and amuse: ment, each going his or her own way.It was not unnatural to expect that trouble would arise over such & condition of things.\u2019 As to the cruelty charged, Mr.Justice Barnes did mot find the evidence very a te ibe test b la to t imony given relatives and friends, including the Duke of Devonshire, that outwardly Sir Charles and Lady Hartopp were on good terms with each other, it did not prove such to be the case, but simply demonsirated that when people went to stay in the country house of à distinguished nobleman or gentleman, the husbend did not begin by assaulting his wife over the dinner table or in the presence of others.Regarding the evidence of the servants sbout the relationship of Lady Har topp and Earl Cowley, Hia Lordship sp- parently did not expect the jury to place much faith in it.As to the charge that Bir Charles misconducted himself with Mrs.Sands, all id concerned in the case were weil n in society, yet there had not been any evidence against Bir Charles from any one who was acquainted with him.They muet have been known in restaurants and public places, where, it was mid, they had been dining together.While Mr.Justice Barnes was sume ming up, Mra.Sands came into court.She wore a much admired heliotrope dress, and took her seat by Mrs.Far- quhar, Sir Charles Hartopp's sister.Une of the ladies of the Wilson family sat on the same bench.It was remarkable to see outside of the Law Courts the large crowd of people standing for hours wwiting for the verdict, eir interest was grest, to judge from the conversatioi tt is doubtful whether any one of them had speaking acquaintance with sny member of the society in which the Hartopps and \u2018Wilsons move.One interesting feature of the trial has been the big increase in circulation of the daily newspapers, particularly the morning newspapers, which have given columns to the reports of the proceed: ings.I am told that one of these had an increase of sixty thousand copies in te Song net 2 appeared.@ expenses wil amount to seventy-five thousand dol'ars.\u2014 CIVIL SERVICE.HONORS mas» NO DECORATIONS WILL BE CONFERRED UNTIL NEXT SPRING.Ottawa, Dee.17.\u2014There will be no decorations for the members of the Ca- Badian civil service before next spring.A few ago it was announced that an order had been instituted by the im- ial sutborities in London L which colonial civil servants of long and distin- fished career would be raised.It appears t from all the colonies together there will be something like a hundred ap- intments, that including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the other colonies.But of the Canadian civil service, exclusive of those in the \u20ac the provins there are something like two hundred and fifty individuals eligible under the terms of the order for appointment thereto.If the provinces be taken in, and the Federal Government has already decided that this must be done, as there are many government usomss 38, 1608 BRITAIN AND GERMANY The Partæership Unpopular in Londen SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCES PROM BERLIN\u2014UNITED BTATES' RE SPONSIBILITY FOR SOUTH AMERICAN WARDS\u2014BO- VINE TUBERCULOSIS = AND MAN.(Cable despatch to the New York Evez- ing Post.) London, Dec.20.\u2014The British minis ters can Bo longer be blind to the une popularity of he Venezuelan parier Ei le Rae ais mit e pros of Venesuels to reuson would have been much brighter had there been no Any German co-operation, for \u2018the United Staten would have given us a much froee hand bad we stood slone in seeking to en- lorce our own just claims.ie ei ai sbinking roen fat, as Mr.snid a the Eighty Club last night, ogiend should bind herself to support the claime of another when did not know what those cluime were, England feels, as Mr.Bryce added, quite able to do the york herselt if it h n° be done, This issatisfaction with the ng! ermal Dllinnce ln crested rather t Jessamed tl rlin_telegrame to-day, .ing that the Germans also are uote with the joint action, while s Derlin despatch to the Times\u2019 concludes with thi astounding sentence, as 8 reflection current German feeling: \u201cThe peril of situation is not so much that it may Jen to immediate friction with Amerioa +8 that it may eventually entail the resliza- tion of the new popul man sm bition of exercising a kind of general dip: lomatie control or inspection where pure ly A American relations are cone cerned.\u2019 If that indeed be the populse German sentiment, po further proof needed of the utter incompatibility Anglo-German co-operation the most elementary English notions.Not without its influence upon Englis% feeling is the fact, made clear re (Cable despatch to the New Yorl en- week, of Ce nan cartoons, that G Germa: papers, lil uf \"a \u2018 a De po da i upon British policy, {icting Mr.Chamberlain as a kind oloch, glorying in devastation murders of women and children, with Boers in chains leading his triumphal march through Bouth Africa.But apart from this widening of the A: ) breach.the most no y feature to-day\u2019s situation is the almost universal English acceptance of the United States \u2018in loco parentis\u2019 towards the South American republies.The Washington correspondent of the \u2018Times\u2019 is most anxe ious to insist that the British Govers- went does not know Mr.Bowen, as nominee of Venezuela inl the matter of arbitratip , but knows only the Uni States Government here.the Times sys, it is an affirmation of the Monroe doctrine, \u2018which in this country frank.Ir accepted aa 8 carding 1 principle of \\he nited Btates policy.It also that the American sense of equity and ee sibility recognizes both aspects of thal doctrine.\u2019 1t may be mfely said that the idea of the United States responsibility will be much heard of in future Anglo-American discussions.land, for the moment, lan tandle just apeedily 15 possible n tangle just as # y as A he snemnies of trades ynioniem are in glee over yesterday's decision of % fo in the High Court, holding the Amalgamated Society of Railway Ser vants and its officials, including Mr, Richard Bell.M.F.r masible Joe dam ages e Al way Compan; hich ars estimated at 350k.and wire ca a conspiracy produce 4 strike of the employees.The strike arose becausk the company refused to accent the intervention of the society, and an- sisted upon transferring a distance box signalman, who was a prominent ita.tor.7 jury find that the ety maintained a system of terrorism to compel a strike, and prevent the employment of \u2018blacklegs,\u2019 that is to say, nom pre ES tou, Tne cannot fail the critics are over-hasty in that trades-unionism bas\u2019 met i death-blow.ralty mean to keep the British navy to date, in the fact that twenty vot are being wld a8 obsolete, with a tive displacement of 56,000 tons.Eight bave been powerful battleships or tue ret ships.e only torpedo ram in the navy, \u201cPolyphemus,\u2019 which was not pronounced success, is also to be sold.Dr.Borrell, chief of the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, has d on Dr.Gernault\u2019s four mon ments undertaken to dt fallacy of Prof.Koch's theory t bovine tuberculosis is not comm ble to bu- man beings.Dr.Garnault's experimen Shpear to show that a man with a fragment of a tuberculous a cow is affected with local tul limited to the point of tion, Dr.Borrell confenses that it is impos sible to draw a definite conclusion, mere MR.TARTEAT WESTMINSTER ! AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THR LATE MINISTER WILL ENTER THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.Te .Tole servants of d ished career in the 's\u2019 | London cable mnt Ta provincial empld?.the list of Canadians an article on \u201cThe colonies parie eligible for the decoration will be ment,\u201d Man h says long.Under cireumastances like these it that Canadians in London i i is moins to be & very undesirable duty to rumor that Mr.J.Israel Tarte in make selection of those whose naines tends to abandon bis poli career in e shall Le, Submitted.The vork 2 one from wi any government w nat vrslly prefer to be freed, nevertheless it is something, whether pleasant or other wise, which must be done.As nil pominations will be forwarded to the Secretary, it would be idle to returns from will met Mr, Tarte could easily assume s position of importance, It would be an adven- peek rom: experience on, mario effet.») rom experience op ma: ing the colonies, Mr.Blak, a x] ne 4 « + No t Daceuazz 28, 1902, LW CATTLE EMBARGO More Attempts Made to Injure Canada's Tréde A SERIOUS RUMOR GIVEN AN EM: PHATIC DENIAL.According to rumors from Ottawa last weck the British Government determined to prombit the importation into England of all Canadian cattle from the port of St.John, vn the ground that des foot and mouth disease bas spread to Canadn, This action was ssid to have been brought about by a statement which been cabled ! to England from New York\u2014u statement which imagined the lying story that Canada suffered from the disease.The Hon.Mr.Fislier wan ropresented as doing his best, through ford Strathcona, to lift this naw em- rgo, but without much chance, apparently, of success.Dr.McEachran, who bad Jearned of the recent action of the Imperial authorities, exp: his astonishment that wo severe a measure couid be provoked hy & mere nswipaper paragraph, for which there wes not a tittls of toundation, It had beon demonstrated again sud ugain that there was no foot and muuth du ease in this country.He believed, of course, in precaution, but to kill a trude by the stroke of the pen was a very serious matter.He Lad soms fifteen hundred cattle which he wanted to ship in the spring, and others, of course, hai their herds, and the rule was a great hardship.He knew that once the ewn- baco waa placed on Canadian cattie how It it was to lift it.They had seen that in the case of Argentina.At the same tune, Dr.McEachran had noted for some time past that the da- sire of the British suthorities was to compe] the Dominion to go into a dead meat business.Of course, this could be done with a profit.Winnip:g could be made a B= centre\u2014a second Chicago, in fact, for the Dominion.A FLAT CONTRADICTION.London, Dec.12, 1002.Fisher, ORawa:\u2014 \u2018Following telegram from Montreal fn \u2018Morning Post\u2019 to-day: \u2014\u201cFoot and mouth disease has spread from New England into Canada.Number of eattle along border are suffering and feared infection will spread through Dominion.Ottawa authorities blamed for not establishing effectual quarantine, but how disease entered country eannot be traced.Said at Ottawa must have come in before New England embargo declared.Rigid watc established on infected quarter and expectation Canadian cattle will not be prohibited.\u201d Please cable fuil pat ticul (Sgd.), \u2018STRATHCONA.Mr.Fisher enbles In reply: \u2014 \u2018Ottawa Dee.13.*Strathoona, London: \u2014 ; , t ing, Pat, Montreal.No cable sent \u2018that Paper from there for a fortnight.Untonird reports being publish: malteiously.Increased staff officers of my department cover whole New England frontier in addition to regular officers of customs department and others es pecially a ed, who both act also as quarantine officers.My whole veterinary force in every part of Dominion alert, watching for disease.If case should oecur anywhere in Dominion my department would be immediately sotifi Win kee you advised mean: while.Deny all damaging reports.( Yn \u2018FISHER\u2019 fRICAN APPROPRIATION.Washington, Dec.15.\u2014The House to-da an urgent deficiency bill which carried among other items an appropriation of $500,000 for eradicating the foot and mouth disease in New England.OFFICIALS IN GREAT BRITAIN ARE BATISFIED WITH PRE CAUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.London, Dec.18.\u2014Dr.Wray, 8 vet ori surgeon, who re] nts ; United States Agricultural Department at the Deptford cattle depot, ssid today that since the probibition of the import of cattle from the New England States the British officials bad not found even a icious case among American cattle, and that they were perfectly sated with the precautions taken by the American Government to stamp out the foot and mouth disease.Dr.Wray add ed that be believed that if the outbreuk had occurred in any other country but the Upited States the British rd of Agriculture would have placed an «m- bargo on the whole country, but it was satisfied with the United States precautions, and was convinced that they would be promptly and thoroughly\u2019 en: forced.Wray was confident that the Jrotibition would have little effect on total of United States exports to England which are very heavy thin week, there being dus to arrive 3,348 cattle and 2,448 sheep.CATILE DEALKRS COMPLAIN.Toronto, Dec.19.\u2014The dealers at the Western Cattle Market have a ne grievance concerning what tb term rank injustice in connection With the shipment of their co ents from St.& n, N.B.These cattle, bound for the Id Country, are carried to St.John over the G.T.R.and 1.C.R., since the cars are not allowed to go through thu State of i which is at pres When the cattle arrive at St.Advertisements, XMAS to all who will send for Specialiat and 11- y fice artists.It cannot fall to help sore ons suffering from e disonse.It costs you nothing and may g¢in you jenith.ddress gertect .rl 7 to 13 Dodane ; Flnir yesterday on || stock yards at West St.John.an will be uj John they are put off at the government wha, where the local eattle m: claim they arc well cared for at the Intercol- oninl terminus.The steamers come in, it is claimed, and unload at the government wharf, and then move across the harbor, and refuse to come over sgain to load on the Canadian eattle.\u201cFo carry them n distance of à few hundred yards,\u2019 said an official of the Canadian di\" Rtock Denlers\u2019 Ansoci- tion to-diy, \u2018the Canadian Pacitio charges us A a car, and all that they do is to push them across the bridge to the other wharf from which the vessels refuse to move.We pay $37 'to $38 a car to transport our cattle all the way to St.John, and then we are forced to pay $7 a car extra to shunt them a short distance.1 telegraphed the Ton.À.G.; hall of the Cana- dinn Live Stock Dealers\u2019 Association, protesting against this outrage and asking the minister if we could not have woe redress.and we are anxiously awsit- ing a reply from him.Personally, I of- tered to let the railway have my cattle at seven dollars, the car profit; no that one can easily see the imposition which: is being practiced.We are in hopes that the Minister of Railways will be able to do something for us.\u201d MR.BOSWORTH REPLIES.Mr.Bosworth, fourth vice-president, replied to the foregoing as follows: \u2018The statement made by the representative of the Canadian Live Stock ers\u2019 Association that the Canadian Pacifie charge per car for hauling oattle a distance of a few hundred yards is entirely incorrect.The Canadian Pacific is obliged to pul the cattle seven miles.that being § e distance from the Inter colonial ilway terminals st St.John to the stock yards at West Bt.John, and the charge is 85 per car, which ip- vludes the free return of the empty cars: that is, a total haulage of the ca four teen miles for the nominal sum of 45 per car.In addition to this, the St.John Bridge Company, a private corporation owning the bridge, makes an extra charge of 81,25 per car, but we have no meana of controlling this, e Canadian Pacific give also the full use of their It 1s not presume, that the Canadian v sul cattle cars for the In.tercolonial Railway fourteen smiles, and give the use of their stock yards for nothing.It is a questian if the charge made even equals the actual cost to this company, and, an a matter of fact, we would prefer that the cattle should he unloaded and delivered to the steamers on the St.John side.We only handle the eattle for a nominal rate as 8 matter of convenience to shippers and steam- chips.At Boston a terminal charge of per ¢ar is made by the Boston & nine Railway, and at Portland the Grand Trugk charges, #0 per car on live stock received from connecting lines, the haulage in both cases being less than between §t.John and West St.John.\u201d BRITISH BOARD HAS PLACED NO FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON CANADIAN CATTLE.Toronto, Dec.19.\u2014An \u2018Evening Telegram\u2019s\u2019 London special cable says :\u2014 The board of agriculture, which con- trole - the situation, has mot, raport to the contrary notwithstanding, placed any further restrictions on the importation of Canadian cattle, nor will any steps to that end be taken until the board first informs Lord Strathcona, Canadian High Commissioner, of the unds upon which it procesds, and has heard evary- thing that Canada has to submit to the contrary.UARANTINE HAS expected, | Pacitic will THE STRICT HAD THE DESIRED EFFECT.Washington, Dee.21.\u2014Mr.Wilson, secretary of the Board of Agriculture, believes that the danger of the spread rt the foot and mouth disease from New England to other states has passed.Ue says in a few weeks every animal infected or exposed to the bave been destroyed.A BILL FOR REMOVAL TO BE INTRODUCED BY MFMBER FO ABERDEENSHIRE, 1 ele Toronto, Dec.22.\u2014The \u2018Eveni m'a\u201d special cable from Gl ow mys: Mr.R.Farqubarson, M.P.for Aber deenshire, promised yesterday at Aber deen to introduce a Hi for the removal of the restrictions on the importation nf Canadian cattle.The measure, he mid, would be ly backed.\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u20ac.E.CONFERENCE WORLD'S EXECUTIVE OFFICERS VISIT TORONTO.Toronto, Dee.10.\u2014The Christian En- deavorers of this district welcomed the three world\u2019s executive officers here at a conference yesterday afternoon, and attended a mass meeting addressed by them in Cooke's Church last night.The president of the Dominion Christian Endeavor executive, Mr.Geo.Tower-Ferguson, and Mr.H.G.Hawkins, the first president of the Toronto exccutive, too rt in the afterroon conference, which was addressed by » number of the pastors, also by the Rev.A.C.Crews, general secretary of the Epworth League.The pastor of Cooke\u2019s Church, the Rev.Mr.Esler, in a fervid address, extended a welcomexto the international officers.The Rev.C.E Eberman, international field secretary, gave practical hints upon local junior Christian Endeavor union work.Mr.Wm.Shaw, treasurer of the United Society, spoke upon local Christian Endeavor plans.The Rav.Dr.Clark, founder of the Christian Endeavor movement, cus ducted a Christian Endeavor conference, in which the Rev.A.C.Crews consented fo assist, in a plan for rebuilding the Toronto Christian Endeuvor union, which had formerly been com-.of sixty societies, but had diminished to 16.The reorganization n « federation Christian Endeavor basis.The mass meeting last nighd was receded by 8 bright song service.The Riternational officers dealt with var- fous phases of the movement, the Rev.Dr.rk delivering an inspiri address uvop Christisn Endeavor ig THR MONTRBALY WEEKLY WITNESS GERMAN TARIFF BILL \u2014 MEASURE PASSES ITS THIRD READING IN THE REICHSTAG, Berlin, Dee.18-\u2014In the Reichstag yesterday Chancellor Von Bulow opened the discussion of the third readi of the tariff bill, saying the alli governments had a on the bill as it passed its second reading and would also accept the abolition of the municipal octrois, now that the date of its taking effect had been fixed for 1910.The government also had agreed that at a future date a pension fund be established for widows and orphans from the proceeds of the tariff revenues, and The accepted the Herold motion, according to which animals snd meats will not have minimum duties and the duties on ins as changed from the committee's figuras to those of the government, except malting barley, the duty on which is raised from 75 eents to $l, and that other barley will be without s miai- mum duty.When the Chancellor proceeded to explain that the government, ia se eepling the increase of the minimum on malting barley, did not act incon- alstently with its previous declarations, which applied merely to barley in general, the Bocialists laughed ironieslly, whereupon the Chancellor begged to be heard quietly, adding: \u2018I sat here on Thursday listening \u201cpatiently and behaving decently du: ng Herr Hebel's long, emical speech.shall thank you if you adop® a similar attitude when 1 , As the Socialistes continued their laughter, President von Ballestrem rang his bell and asked the members of the House to hear the Chancellor quietly.The Bocialists replied jeering- ty: y, we are only laughing.\u2019 The Chancellor then proceeded, saying the customs officers easily distio- guished malting from feed barley, and closed by saying: \u2018The allied governments hope this high house will bri about unison between the Bundesrat and the Reichstag and thereby complete the great work of tariff reform for the welfare of the fatherland.\u2019 While the government's original figures on grain are restored, the committee\u2019s increases in other sections stand, including heavy advances on animals and meat, above the government\u2019s figures.The former, therefore, become a general tariff, which will be enforced, except where commercial treaties may be made, Some of the meat duties adopted compare sa follows with the government's :\u2014Bacon, #0 per metric 100 weight agninst 87.50; simply prepared ments, $15, aguinst $8.75; meat delioacies, $30, against $18.75; oysters, 825, against $1250.After Herr Richter and others had spoken, Dr.Barth made a sharp attack 0 Chancellor von Bulow, who replied, praising the patriotie spirit of the majority ties, and admitting that he had taken an active part in effecting a compromise on the tariff bill in the form of a practical basis for arranging efficie commercial treaties, which would surely be reached with the good will of both sides.On Herr Spahn\u2019s proposal the House proceeded to the ballots on the tariff bill.The introduction of the proposal created great disorder, but the debate was closured and the mo tion adopted.The talloting lasted until 4.15 this morning, when the bill hy read a third time by 202 votes to 00.\u2014 THE EMPRESS DOWAGER THE PRESENT RULER OF CHINA 1S BECOMING UNPLEASANTLY AGGRESSIVE AGAIN.Pekin, Dec.17\u2014The return of the Court after four months\u2019 stay at the Summer Palace reveals several new features of the situation in China.Une of these i the Dowager Em Tes is again apprehensive regarding the Em- yeror, woo has been closely imprisoned in the Summer Palace all the time and who was surrounded by an cnormous guard on the route to Pekin during the return journey.Another feature in the return of the Court Sons a different eeling on the part of high governmen official, officers surrounding the Court, and members of the Grand Council towards foreigners.For the first time since the return of the Court from Sianfu, after the Boxer (troubles had been settled, foreigners who assembled along the route traversed by the Court on its homecoming were ill-trested.Some were arrested, commanded to make obeisance to the Court before the natives and detained under a heavy military until the royal cavalcade had.MORE BOXER TROUBLES.Victoria, B.C., Dec.17.\u2014Mail advices received from Changing, in the Brechu- an province of China, report that bosh the cities of Mei Chou and Kiatingfu have had their gates closed and a state of siege declared, owing to the numerous bodies of armed Boxers in their vicinity.it being feared by the officials that the insurgents may take the cities by surprise.Froope were sent to raise the sieges but failed.It is reported from Pekin that Yung Lu, First Grand Secretary of China, who, since Li Hung Chang died, is the most powerful man in ina, la anxious to resign.The Dowager to abdicate pext year and Yung Lu wishes to anticipate the event placing himself beyond the range consequent complica- CHINA WILL PAY IN SILVER.\u2018Washi , Dec.17\u2014Unaficial ad- vives Dave venchod hore that Chine ia.tends to pay the next instalment of the Boxer indemanity in silver.The reports indioste that China ie driven to this coursa by the fact that all of ber revenues are payable in silver, and the great internal financia} «train makes it impossible to obtain gold.ren GEO.W.ROSS THE PREMIER OF ONTARIO ISSUES A PAMPHLET TO ELECTORS.HON, Toronto, Dec.15\u2014The Hon.G.W.Ross has issued a pamphlet addressed to the electors in tha conatituencies in which by-elections are to be beld.The address states that this course is adopted because it will be impossible to hold publie meetings at this season of the Jo first part of the Premier's address deals with the cha: of sepruption made and emphasized by Mr.Whitney during the campai since.courts are reviewed to show that no evidence been adduced supporting Mr.Whitney's charges, nor has any evi: dence of manipulation of ballots been found, although over 62,000 have been scrutinized by the courts, and these in cases where the Opposition expected to disclose irregularities.Such a large number had never bean scrutinized be- ore.Mr.Ross deals with particular cha regarding North Grey And quotes J Fe quotes à MacLennan\u201d: ents.examinati , Spider in the Nor folk case; Mr.T.H.Carscallen, in Len- nox, and Mr.Herbert Lennox, in North York, each of whom admitted they had received funds from a general Conservative campaign fund.The latter part of Mr.Rose\u2019s address deals with the progress in New Ontario since May last.TANI TOBA ALLIANCE.AGGRESSIVE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCE c & PROHIBITIONISTS.Toronto, Dec.15.\u20141he secretary of the Manitoba Alliance, the Rev.B.H.Spence, who spent the lust two weeks of the Ontario Referendum campaign doing platform work in this province, has been recalled to Winnipeg owing to the urgency of the Manitoba situation.Speaking to the \u2018Witness\u2019 correspondent regarding the Prairie Province, Le explained -that, owing to the importance of being prepared for the provincial elec- ticns it was not possible for him to remain here to spend the Christmas holi- duye, us he would have desired, with his \u2018Toronto relatives.His description oi the work of the Manitoba Alliance in face of the critieal condition of affaire there regarding prohibition was as follows: \u2018Our campaign has for its object the election of men in both political purties who are known, true and tried ton nce men.We recognize that the machine, which in the worst element in both parties, and is at present dominent will not, of its own free will, put for- tward candidates acceptable to temperance people.We are therefore taking the matter of nominations into our own hands and putting forwhrd candidates representative of the best and lar section of their respective parties Alliance opened permanent central headquarters in Winuipeg.It is posed to publish a monthly paper.I every constituency candidates will be secured who can definitely be relied upon to give Independent support to prohibition legis- ation.\u2014 SIR WILFRID LAURIER no.THE PREMIER IS WELL AND IN THE BEST OF SPIRITS.Ottawa, Dec.17.\u2014A letter recvived in the city to-day from a visitor to Hot Springs, Virgitua, says: \u2018You have no i how well T found \u20ac Sir Wilfrid, He has improved wonderfully since he arrived here.It is marvellous to see how Quickly he recovers.He will return at the od, of the, month, and I am, ure eve ly wi surprised im se different from what he waa before leaving Ottawa.He is happy over the results of his cure, and I never saw him in better spirits.\u2019 Toronto, Dec.19.\u2014Sir William Mulock han returned to the city from Hot Springs, Va, where he bas been in company with Sir Wilfrid Laurier.He will speak at Brampton to-morrow and at Meaford on Monday.Sir William reports that the Premier is enjoying ex- ceilent health and bas gone to St.Augustine, Fla.A THOUSAND KILLED.TOWN IN RUSSIAN TURKESTAN TOTALLY DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE, Askabad, Russian, Jura Dec.20.to! ijen, na ro roment, was totally.destroyed by an e number of bn Le earthquake to-day.ri talities is not yet ascertained.population is threatened with starvation.Shocks were felt in New Mar and surrounding villages and a railway at Andijan was destroyed for a considerable distance.Food and clothing is being sent to Andijan.London, Dec.10.\u2014A special despatoh from 8t.Petersb eys thousand persons were Title > the earthquake at Andijan, Russian tral Asia, on Dec.16.ey were mostly native Turcomans.Andijan is « town of Ri Central METRE dE a population uf and six hundred.w \u2014 A ROYAL BIRTH TO THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, À SON.London, Dec.20\u2014The Princess of Wales gave birth to a son to-night.Both mother and child are doing well et last april an \u2018The proceedings in the election po RAILWAY DISASTER TEN PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES IN A COLLISION IN CALIFORNIA.Byron, Cal, Dec.21.\u2014Ten persons wers killed and 27 injured in s eol- lision last night between the southbound Los Angeles \u2018Owl\u2019 train and the Btockton fiyer.It was & rear-end collision, the engine of the local loughing its way into the rear coac 5 \u2018he Swi \u2018whieh was filed with Freano people.The ers who esca death were hurled to the for- warl part of the coach, snd crushed in the mass of debris, Their suffer ings and dangers were intensified by the clouds of sealding steam that ured out from the shattered boiler of the Stockton engine.After the \u2018Owl\u2019 left the Oukiand Mole a leak in the flue of the engine was noticed.This increased to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to stop hers and take a freight engine for relief, The train officials knew that the Stockton local train was following « balf hour behind and « flagman was sent back along the track to give wars.ing of the presence of the \u2018Owl\u2019 It is said that the Stockton train got the warning signal in due time and frre the usual! response with whistle last.Why the train was pot checked, however, has not been explained thus far as the men who could give pi dues are among the badly inured.Relief came quickly to the injured ngers and every effort was made to alleviate their sufferings.None of the passengers of the Stockton train were injured and all the crew of the \u2018Owl\u2019 escaped unhurt.Of the ten killed it was only possible to identify one person.The others were not known to their fellow-passengers and nothing was found on their persons to furnish a clue to their names or residence.The dead include six men, three women and a baby.\u2014\u2014 THE LYNCH INDICTAENT.TRUE BILL RETURNED AGAINST THE COMMANDER OF THE IRISH BRIGADE.London, Dec.19.\u2014The grand jury summoned to consider the indictment of Col.Arthur Lynch, member of parliament for Galway, who was arrested on June 11 on landing in England from the Continent, on the charge of high treason in conuec with the part he took in the South African war, where be is al 1 to have commanded the Irish brigade, returned a true bill to-day against the defendant.The Lord Chief Justice, Baron Alvergtone, in charging the jury, remarked that it was siity-two yeare since a grand jury had to deal with such a charge, which was the highest crime wn in law.Col.Lynch\u2019e trial at the ber is expected to begin on Jan.20.\u2014\u2014 THE QUEEN HER MAJESTY IS GODMOTHER TO THE HEIR OF THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER.London, Des, 17.Alexandra today acted as godpot] er at the christen ing of Lord ndeville, the heir of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, in the Chapel Royal, St.James Palace.Her Majesty signed the register with the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Marquis de Soverall, the Portuguese \u2018Minister; Count von Mendadorff, secre! of the Austrian-Hungarian em! ; 1 de Grey, Lady Lister-Kaye, and others.The Queen's present to her godehild was a silver bowl and spoon, inscribed : \u2014 \u2018To Alexander George, Viscount Mande- ve from Alexandra Regina, Dec.17, ffs PRIVATE BANK ASSIGNS THE SUICIDE OF MR, HOWARTH AND FAILURE OF HIS FIRM BRINGS TROUBLE TO ANOTHER.Toronto, Dec.18.\u2014The inte banking firm of G.M.Anderson Co., Oakville, ign tL.R.C.run on has been forced to Clarkson as the result oF a their bank following the recent troubles of the firm of Andrew & Howarth, foll .ick The Bank oi Hamilton refused to further assist the firm.It is expected that the list of de- itors will be a big one, as the firm's inbilities last iar were given at $80,000, The assets include much fromerty about Oakville, and wo i Palmerston Electric Light Works.\u2014\u2014 DR, ADOLPH LORENZ THE AUSTRIAN SURGEON IS DOING GOOD WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN IN NEW YORK.New York Dee 16.\u2014Dr, Adolph Lor ort ic surgeon of Viemna, jy conducted his second clinic in this chy at the Polyclinic Medical College and Hospital.Two little sufferers fro hip dislocation were operated by Dr.Lorens, and he expressed satisfactiof at the results.One of the children operated cn was suffering from bi-lateral dislocation, or dislocation of both hips.It was the first case of this kind that bas been resented to Dr.Lorens since he hes Len in this city.The dislocation of the left hip was reduced in four minutes and that of the right was reduced in four minutes, After this operation, Dr.Lorens held an informs] reception in the ting room, wl be met à number prominent surgeons.New York, Dec.18.\u2014Dr.Lorenz hes for the first time since his arrival in New York, operated oa a club foot.The patient was s four-year-old girl.Dr.\u201d Lorens knetded and twisted the crippled foot until it was as soft and \\ nv Pllable aso Pleo oe Tropa » tly moulded it inte its proper fosm, and announced that the éperation was completed, and a plaster cast was fit ted on the foot.doctor maid that the child should be allowed to use her foot as much as she could after four or five days, and that it would be necessary to keep the cast on for six or seven months, after which she could walk.NEW POSTAGE STAMP.ONE OF SEVEN CENT VALUE WILL DE FOUND USEFUL FUR POSTAGE AND REGISTRATION, Ottawa, Dec.18.\u2014The Post-offise Department announces that on Dec.24 it will be ia a position to supply a seven cent postage stamp to accounting post- offices throughout Canada.This stamp, which is of a yellow eoloz, will be es ily eonvenient for postage aud re fietration fee on single letters, whilst t may also be used for other postage purposes to the extent of its face value.Non-accounting offices can obtain their supply through the city post-offices.\u2014 TENPERANCE PLEDGR CRUSADER HONOR ROLL Fer Week Ending Monday Night, Doc.19 ELEANOR A MALCEDAT, Plerson, Mas.SYLVIA SHAW, Kingston, Mich.HARVEY McNEVAN, Ri ses SHERBROOKB STREET METHODIST 8.8., Montreal, Que.ssssere REV.J.W.TOTTEN, Tweed, Ont MRE, J.T.BIRCHARD, Linden Vaileÿ, Ont, G.NcHAE, West Port, Col.ANNIE BOYLE, Brooklyn Corner, N.& MRS.H.McLEOD, Vasey, Ont.ETHEL PICK, White Rock, N.BALI'ERTA TOFFLEMIRE, Harrow, Ont.NETTIE 1.JOHNSTON, Westwood, Man.ANNIE DE LANEY, Central Grove, N.S.messes MERS.A.TRACY, W.C.T.U.; MRS, A.BOYER, W.CT.U.: MRS\u2019 GR BURT, W.CT.U., Hartland, N.B, * 0.\u201cERNEST WILSON, Wardeville, Ont MINNIE ELLIOTT, Kingston, Mich.J.A.MITCHELL, Saltford, O.*FRANK HAWKEY, Wardsville, Ost Total Bignatures to date 56,072.1,040 Pledges Received Since Last Issue.SAIL those with this mark after thelr rames have sent in at least forty Jigoatures to the pledge.Each sdditional fist twenty names entitles the sender to an sd- ditional © ELEANOR A.HALLIDAY, Plerson, Man.heads this list, as his list was the first received for the week beginning Tuseday, PLEDGE CRUSADE.The Rev.J.B.Saunders, M.D., D.D, of the Methodist Chureh, Co- tinh, Tem nce Pledge A sumple plan was adopted in securing Bos mas number of signatures.PI were printed and distributed in pews, Dr, Saunders preachsd on the subject, and the congregation were to sign the pledge forms and put them on the plate in the evening.The teachers in the Sunday-school were supplied with a pledge for ench member of their classes, and the superintendent spoke on the subject and collected the cards.Dr.Saunders says he is having the names copied in & voll, to be framed and hung up in the church.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Advertisements, IT pars TO CASE FUR YOUR HORSE.la: Pull mickel plated Mt anp- plied instraight NATIONAL GALL CURE Is the only speedy sod sre oure fu GALLS, GORE BAOK AND SHOULDERE CORNS, SORATOHES, MUD S0ALDS, EVO.National Gell Cure 1s wonderful is i effoct, no other preparation in the world ean equal it, and It dere tte work write Ie horse is working: Foe sore toats on cows 18 gives imme «æû certain ours, ressipt of 80 cn con vas ps of Nation) Gall Ours = are sold at 25 cents each, and « full fitted bit es hows in above liustratien Mooney refunded if net found entistacteus Nationa! Gall Oure ie for sale he all dead os When trons we, frend address y and ae ENGLISH EMBROCATION CSL le St Paul atrost Montres.|; ç INEWS OF THE PROVINCES.ONTARIO.R.G.Mo druggut, at the Liberal convention to run in the Liberal interests at the forthcom- by-election in Vancouver, | he firm of C.W.anderson & Son, ivate bankers, Oukvills, have gone in L % E.KR.liquidation and have assigu C.Clarkson, of Toronto.Tire at East Toronto on Tuesday morn- \u201cng destroyed the premises of Carnahan Broe.\u2026, sts, and Richard Garland, grocer, including storzs, dwellings and contents.At a mass meeting of North Norfolk Liberals at Simcoe on Dec.17 Mr.A, M Little was chosen tu contest the riding in the coming by-election for the Ontario islature, .Miss anie Hose, Toronto, has jaaued writ inst the Rev.Thomas Geoghe ° , rector of St.Peter's Church, Hamil- eo for alleged breach of promise.Thu Rev.Mr.Geoghegan was recently mar- On Wednesday evening Henry W.Gill, town collector of North Bay, was ar rented in St a Falls, Ont., at the instance of the American Surety Company of New York, which was on his official .The prisoner, who is charged with embezzling #850 municipal funds, (was taken to North Bay, where he (Waived examination and was committed Sor trial.__'The special committee of the Toronto City Council charged with an investiga- ion into the Assessment actment lly and the conduct of Mr.R.J.ing in particular, has presented a report completely exonerating the As sessment Commissioner, and stating that the department is conducted able and efficient manner, value for the expenditure.is along the following lines: Maris Tanner, of Aleuburg, Welland Ceunty, who has been totally blind fo- the last ten years, is once more able to see, owing to a successful o tion, which was formed last week by an optical specialist from Paris, France.Mr.Geo.C.Heintzman, head of the Heintzman & Co.hrm of piano manufacturers, has sent Charles A.E.Harriss a cheque for a thousand dollars as a do- pation towards defraying the u fn connection with his cycle of musical festivals of the Dominion of Cauada, which Sir Alexander Mackenzie will con- duet in the spring.On Wednesday shortly before noon a gang of men was engaged in the construction of a sewer at West Toronto Junction under the superintendence of the contractor, Mr.Samuel Thompeon, 27 Hoakin avenue, when the sewer caves in, burying pot only Thompson, but two of the wo en, Edwa: Holmes, of Churchill avenue, and George Heard, nf ia street.The work of rescue com- .Holmes and Hearn were extri- sie but both were found to be dead.mpeon was alive, a fortunately pot very seriously injured.Both Holmes and Hearn are married men, the former having a wily.A despatch _to \u20ac Winnipeg \u2018Tele gram\u2019 from Neepawa says: \u2018A petitio resent over twenty-five percent ol resident Voters, was submitted to the council on Friday night last, asking that u vote be taken with a view to repealing the local option by-law in town fourteen years ago.The civic solicitor iving geod e report was instructed to prepare a by-law in accordance with the petition and pli it to the council.sixty t of the vote cast must be favorable to a re peal of the present law, it is not anticipated that the petition will avail anything in view of the strong sentiment against the introduction of a licensed saloon in Neepawa.\u2019 Mr.Banker R.Paine, manager of the Ontario Power Company, had an ister view with the Minister of Railways last week, and submitted to him plans for the delivery of electric energy in Toronto from Niagara Falls.Mr.Paine save that at the end of a year the company will be able to furnish the city with 15.000 horse power more if ne .A dou ble pole line will be built from the Falla to Toronto, so that if one should be dis abled, there would be no interruption in the service.Mr.James Wilson, the company\u2019s engineer, who was with Mr.Paine during the interview, stated that the Ontario Government and the Niagara Falls Park Coinmissioners ha ready approved of their plans.DOWN BY THE SEA.Me.M.A.Bullard, a former Magox citizen, died at Salida, Cal., on Nov.À.r.W.W.Miner, of Granby, has sworn in as the collector of customs for that port.Mr.Hi Barter, an old resident of Richmond, died last week at the age of = ean.srmers around Trenholmrille are bauling wood to Richmond, and selling it advil or try station, and recently 500 dressed chicks ere England.shipped from it to Fred Lambswood, a native of Broad Cove, St.John's West, Nfld., was killed on Tuesday morning m the slope at Dominion No.4, Glace Bay.Two children of Stepben McNeil, Ben- acadie, Sydney, went through the ice in sight of their home on Batarday.Their mother noticed them and went to their assistance, and dhe also perished.\u2018The three bodies were carried under the À fatality occurred near No.4 blast furnace of su Domtnion Iron & Steel Company, , on Tuesda .> whic Michael D.MeN un employes of the company, lost his life.\u2018He was found on the railway track near thé furnace covered with snow and ice, and it is that, while walking past, à heavy fall of snow and ice fell off the slanting roof of the furnace sheds strik- McNeil and Durying him beneath it.was about thirty-five years of nge, leaves a wife family of five small children.He fornwerly longed in The number of vessels which pansed through Chambly canal during the past two sessons and revenue is es follows: In 1901 the number of boats was 1,377, and the tolls thereon amounted to $13,400.99.In 1902 the number of craît or through the canal was 1,958, while een collected were only $4,488.81.The falling off in revenue is attributed to the cos! 4 ~ in a most § strike and the cesmtion of ' ! the coal traffic, and though the number of boats inwards and outwards shows a ) considerable increases in 1902 over 1001, , these were mainly small craft fetching in stone for the St.Therese power works and apple boats, ou which the tolls were very hight.An interesting case 1s before Ju.Dodd, at the Sydney County Court.The pins are Ross Brothers, a wholesale i liquor firm of New York, and the de ; fendant is H.R.Morrison, liquor dealer, North Sydney.The plaintiffs are suing the defendunt for a liquor bill, end the defence is that the tranmction was an illegal one, because the liquor was bought to be sold in a Scott act county.u a previous case of the same nature.Judge Dodd decided against the brewery The case hinges on whether plaintitts Lnew that the liquor was to be sold illegally in a Scott act county.A peculiar gunning accident occurr:d at St.Duvid Ridge, six miles from St.Stephen on Thursday.Lloyd Budd, son of Uvborn Budd, aged twenty-two, was out guuning nnd came to a brook that had to be crossed on a narrow log.In crossing Le used the gun as a cane to maintain his balance, letting the lrutt of it strike on the ice.At one place the butt went through the ice in such a way that the ice struck the hammer of the gun snd discharged it, the bullet entering the young man\u2019s right arm.He was taken to the Chipman Memorial Hospital, where it wes found necessary to _amputate the arm at the shoulder.The Rev.Geo K.Macdonald, pastor of the East Avenue Baptist Church, of Leng Island City, who created a sensation some three weeks ago presenting his rerignation in « sermon in which he charged members of his congregation with inducing him to drink wine, formerly belon; to Pictou, N.S.As a young man he was employed in a bakery.ming converted by a travelling evangelist, he went to the United Stats, where he entered thw Baptist ministry.In his cesignation sermon the Rev.Mr.Macdonald stated that it was in the house of cne of the members of the congregation at Long Island that he first tasted anything stronger than water, tea or coffee, The Rev, W.8.Covert passed fully to rest at hin home, Wereiol street, Digby, on Tuesday last, aged @ Jars.The dece was born in New mswick, and was for yvesrs rector fi Grand Manan, Owing to ill health, he gave up that parish about four yearn ago, and moved to Digby, where he has since resi He leaves à widow, five sons, W.H., barrister, of Sydney; Dr.Archibald, of Lakeville, King's county.NS; John and Daniel, of Cleveland, Ohio; George, of New York; and three daughters Margaret, of Newton, Mass.; J and Jemie, who reside at bome.The deceased had made many friends during his stay at Digby, and as an en- thumastic temperance worker he will be frothy missed in Union Division, Sons af \u2018em nce, of which be beglt permitted, a regula attendant.At a meeting of 1] alifax i\u2018resby- terian College Board on Friday an app: cation from Queeen\u2019s College, Kingston, was considered.It waa asl that the Rev.Dr.Gordon be relieved from duty in Halifax at once in order that he might take up his duties as principal of Queen's.The matter was fully discuss ed and the decision was arrived at that he be aliowed to to Kingston at the beginning of March.This will be two months before the close of the collage session here, and is said to be a compromise between the requirements of Halifax and the necesssitics of Queen's.A meeting of the college board has been called for March 3 to consider what shall be done to fill the vacancy caused the retirement of Dr.Gordon irom the Halifax College.The close of balf a century in the Cliristian ministry on the part of the Sev.Dr.Allan\u201d Pollok, principal of the Presbyterian College, lifax, was celebrated on Thursday last.An address was presented and the degree of LL.U., was conferred by Dalhousie College.\u2018I'wo cvents in particular marked the occasion.One of these was the presentation to Dr.Pollok of a cheque for a thoueand doi- lars, which be announced he wuuld de vote to found a lectureship in church history, homileties and practical theology.ides this he was presented with æ silver salver.The other event was the presentation to the cullege by Miss Jessie Fraser, of Halifax, of a cheque for a thousand dollars to found a bursary at Pine Hill in memory of Dr.Pollok's wife, his daughter snd granddaughter.THE WESTERN PROVINCES.It is believed that Mulvey, in jail 1 Regina for stealing a fur coat at Hoore- jaw, is the man named Miller wanted.The Hon.W.W.B.Mclnnes, provincial secretary for British Columbia, wus elected on Moi for North Ne- Raimo by a majority 1,033.A Salmon River Indian reported at Zantalus that & couple of weeks ngo two Indiens on the Upper Pelley had mbbed a trader's store, and killed two white men.The authorities of the Mounted Police believe that Mulvey, serving a 's imprisonment at Regina for stealing a fur cos: at Moosejaw, is really Muller, who is wanted for a triple murder at Brook- field, Muna.Chief of Police I , of Rowland, has succeeded in the collection of a large number of poll tax dues from Chi- Es by means of a sudden raid oa Kwong ing Chong\u2019s Chinese joint st s time whe it was full of Celestials.Rev.James A.Elliott, rector of St.Michael's Church, Vancouver, will become editor of the \u2018Church ! interests of the Church of England in Canada.Mr.Elliott will take up his residence in Toronto early in January.Mr.George Anderson's rt on the Yukon has been published the Department of Trade and Commerce, and throws considerable light on the conditions in that part of the Dominion.A striking feature is the statistical information showing that Canadian goods have in a large measure 0 American ucts from the distriet.Last yeur ,100,187 worth of Canadian goods in, as against $1,192,308 of ern - | one of the papers to be devoted to tha h Word has been received at Victoria that the Privy Council has overturned the judgment of the adian courts on the question of the validity of the British Columbia Act, which excludes naturalized Japanese from the right to vote, and has held that the Japanese cannot register in British Columbia, whether naturalized or not.The action which went to the Privy Council was called the Fomey Homma case, Homma being a naturalized citizen, who was vot permitted to register when he applied to to The Canadian Pacific Railway handled two trains, totalling in valus $2,000,000 last week from Vancouver by way of Carleton-Junction.The trains are ioad- ed with raw eilk from Japan for New York and were transferred to the New York Central at Prescott.Thos silk was shipped from Japan by the steamshi; \u2018Emprees of India\u201d one of the C.P.RL big steamers.This is the second shipment of silk from Japan to be led by the C.P.R.within the past six weeks.The last train consisted of six carloads and was valued at $1,000,000.There was also a carload of sealskine on the same train.In the refrigerating departments of the steamer \u2018MAorangi\u2019 is a shi] t of nearly a thousand hogs to be forwarded south by the B.C.Cold Storage Com- pony, of this city.The shipment is the second and will be the largest which the company will have made, Tak: en in connection with the shipments made from other points it indicates the growing importance of the Australian market for Canadian pork.The company has engaged space on euch of the Cana- dian-Australian steamers sailing during the next several months and is not only developing the pork market, but also making regular shipments of other \u201cproduce, now in demand in Australis in consequence of the drought.QUEBEC.In a fire which destroyed the dwelling af Mr.Louis Archambault, a farmer and cheesemsker, at Grondines, his two-year- old mon was burned to death.An important meeting was held at Quebec on Monday night of à sub-com- mittee of the Council of Public Instrue- tion.The committee will recommend that the office of inspector of public schools be abolished; that the model schools be under the supervision of the elementary school inspectors, and that, with the consent of the government, a strong man be added to the office staff of the department who will inspect the in connection with the death of Michael Devaney, GTR.brakeman who di of injuries received in a wreck at Morrisburg two weeks ago.Robinson and Welsh were conductor and brakemun respactively of 8 train which was stopped between stations, ow:ng 10 a mishap.They ne glected to send back to flag the line and the train on which Devaney was working dashed into the rear end.Me engineer of Devaney\u2019s train, James Mur- gh was killed instantly.Robinson and Welsh are held for trial.At Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday mori the Kev.Herbert Charters, BA, Whe Kev.EH.Croby, B.A, the Rev.J.Douglass, B.A., the Rev.C.KE.Jeakins, B.A,.the Rev.J.M.Meyer, B.A, the Rev, F.L.Whitley, B.A, au the Rev.T.J.Wilton, B.Â., were admitted to the priesthood, and Mesers.Hector Mount, B.A., and Iguatius Fimu- theus Trebitech to the disconate.TI Bishop Coadjutor ordained the deacons, and asked the questions of the candidates for the priesthood, while His Grace the Archbishop laid his hands on the latter.Mr.Trebitsch is s young Jew who embraced Clristisnity some years ago.The Government of Brasil is anxious to make anuther effort to develop com: mercial intercourse between that country and Canada, and the position of consul-generul for Brazil at Montreal, which existed for a few years is to be restored.Mr.J.C.Alves de Lima, of St.Paolo, who was some years ago Bra.silian consul in Montreal, has been inted to the new position and sa rom Bt.Paolo about Christmas.Mr.Alves de Lima, writing to a Montreal friend, says he is delighted to return to Canada, snd anticipates s considerable extension of trade n the Dominion and Brazil.He says that Brazilians have a opinion of ada, the service of the St.Paolo electric railway, which is a Canadian concern, being even more efficient than that of the Montreal Street Railway Mr.Weldon, manager of the Windsor Hotel, in receipt of & letter from Colonel V ljoen, late commander in the Hate , poking hat Ey) Weldon t of the pi of a lecture in Montreal on the late war.He said he had been received enthusiastically both in England and the United States.He made no immoderate statements in his lecture; he will not indulge in any bntter- ness of feeling, and he would be glad if Mr.Weldon could assure him of an aun i in describing the events of the he increased majorities OUTLOOK IN ONTARIO Much Energy and Enthusiasm Displayed in Movement for Government Action DEPUTATION CHOSEN ASK FOR DEFINITE RESTRICTION OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.Toronto, Dec.17.\u2014The news from prohibition circles in Ontario indicates that the enthusiasm which characterized the closing weeks of the Referendum campaign is being rivalled, and promises to eclipsed by the movement for governmental action.This enthusiasm is incited by the tidings of for prohibition which mark every return.As the former liquor strongholds, now happly liguor strongholds no longer, bave been heard from, the completion of the returns will continue to swell the temperance majority.The still incofaplete returns demonstrate that a victory equivalent to that of 1804 has been achieved, and the figures may fully equal that vote.In 1894, when supported by the \u2018Globe\u2019 and Liberal party press, with all the conditions favorable to the temperance party, the male vote registered was: for prohibition, 180,087; against, 108,404; majority for, 71,803.The present returns give a prohibition vote of 170,838, and an increased majority of 80,528.When the vote in 1804 was announced, the \u2018Globe,\u2019 Sir Oliver Mowat, and the Hon.G.W.Ross freely and fully ac cepted it as a clear mandate and sufi: clent majority.The question now arises: If a vote of 180,087 was suffi- cienf for the Hon.Mr.Ross in 1804, when the constitutional question was in doubt, why is not an equivalent vote in 1902, with the conatitutional question settled, oqually a demonstration of publie sentiment?This question depends upon a measurement of the factors affecting the Referendum.The point that both the Liberal organs in Toronto and some others in the province this time opposed the adoption of the liquor act is not to be overlooked in gauging the strength of public sentiment behind the yes vote.The conclusion is that this sentiment is at 22 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, Dresusen 28, 2008.| Welsh Wont Durham, West York, N routs, West Toronto, and West Y stated that their associations were dete mined to maintain the fight until legislation as prohibitive as that contaited in the act voted upon on Deo.4 is oa the Ontario statute books.The Rev.Principal Caven, in an impressive address, declared himself to be in favor not only of provincial bug siso of national prohibition.He counsel prudence on consideration of the situb- ion, and unity of action.Mr.8.Holland, Grand Worthy Pa arch, Sons of Temperance, said that Grand Division of that Order was of the view that the vote given on Dec.4 was a sufficient expression of publie sentiment in favor of provincia Prohibition, The Rev.Wm.Kettlewell advocated standing firmly by the decision of the July convention in favor of complete pre- vincial prohibition.v.Dr.Courtice, the Rev.J.W.Cooley, Dr.Watson, the Rav.C.L.Is- glis and others discussed \u2018methods of ealing with the remnané of the trafo not covered by the abolition of the bar room and the club licensss.ouffi- Bound, Halton County, wn gene of the 4 Hofrendam pote ve efly discussed.r.Cy.ed if 182,000 was accepted Ty the Hen a, W.Ross in 1864 as a demonstration of sufficient public sentiment for the ea- actment of provincial hibition, how much more than 176,000 plus six tuencies to hear from was required now?The Rev.J.H.Heetor declared that his tour of the province convinced him that the people wanted total prohibitzon.A motion to appoint a committes formulate a deliverance was interrupted , efor a few moments by the adoption of a motion moved by the Rev.wil liameon, of the ton County N seconded by Mr.Jesse Gibaon, of Inger soll, placing on record the high apprecis- tion of the meeting of the services rendered by the secre! of the Ald.F.8.Spence, during the recent campaign, that much of the credit for the great victory attained was due te him for his untiri and zeal, wise generalship, and splendid devotion to the cause which has placed the temperance workers of Ontario under lasting obli tions to bim, and trust thatghe may long spared to serve in this hoble work for God and humanity.Mr.Spence, in acknowledging the vote, said that it was as \u2018unexpected as it was leasant.While the work entailed some riction at times, it was, on the w > a pleasure to discharge the duties of his office.The chairman nominated this tee on resolutions :\u2014Mr.G.M.erich; Mr.R.Gorman, Ottawa; \" | .\" .least as strong, indeed much stronger, Rev.Jno.You Hamilton: x HOSP VSV OGL OSI SV LPL NPL LOIS ISI 00:0 nor (han then It is hard to ses how Wa, Ketilewol), Slovo Fosse: Me WW.IN à public man, who placed himself eo |F.Laurence, je; the Rev.W.A.unreservedly om \u2018record in 1804, and Mek PP» Woodstock; Mr F.Out.who now faces a parallel, although [f3™.*ort Hope; - Dr.our, What a Kansas Paper Says.Sow à deûnite situation, can without Nisgers Falls; Sra.Mey R.Thornley! compromising himself, do otherwise dent of the Dominion W.G.TU: the We have been personally aequainted with the \u2018Witness\u2019 than accept the mandate as promptly Rev.Prof.Goodspeed, the Rev.&.8.publications of Montreal, Que., for about twenty years, and as now as he did then.It is a moot Bates.D.D, the Rev.\u2018Principal \u201cCaven, compared with other news rs they stand as a peer among point whether Mr.Ross has anything the Rev.A.Carman, D.D., president of them.To such of our Canadiat subscribers who may be looking to gain in the present Sxtremity in the Methodist Ge: Conference; the for a reliable and clean newdpaper, giving the news of the day which his government finds itself by Bev.5.pc D.D., temperance ssc- without the prevalent sensationalism, and also giving independent temporizing.That the manly snd roux of the Met hodist (leneral Confer: and able editorials on the toplas of the day, with other interest- cou: us course of now making good 7.Courtice, DD.Le Inglis, TA ee ing and instructive departments, we would recommend the his words of 1894 would rally to his 20 Mr.Georg pence, Mr.5.Hol \u2018Weekly Witness.\u201d The other publications issued from the Wit- support the best elements, and as was |land, Mr.J.À.Austin, grand coun- ness\u2019 office are the \u2018Daily Witness,\u2019 $3.00 per year; \u2018The North- shown on Dec.4, the most influential cillor Ontario Ro: Templars of Tem.ern Messenger,\u2019 30 cents a year, a weekly paper for the child- is a certainty.perance Mr.W.W.Buchanan and Ald.ren; and \u2018World Wide,\u201d a weekly publication, in which are repro- It is not to be overlooked that the Whepence.duced the best articles that appear during the @eek in the great liquor vote was & most fraudulent one.men hen ao committee reported an ublications of the world in general.The price of the \u2018Weekly While its diminished total makes its [hy Mr.FP, W.Daley, ey Trebibition Witness\u2019 is $1.00 per year and \u2018World Wide' is the same, or quality of less importance, it is not candidate in London at he\u2019) rovincisl both weeklies for $1.50.\u2014'Evangelical Visitor.\u2019 unimportant.This was recently allud- elections.The amendment wba for an ed to in connection with the interest- application to the government for the ing letter of the Rev.G.G.Huxtable.immediate (introduction of bill in the .1000: 000.0 8000000: 000:000:000:000:000: Abundant evidence is now forthcoming terms of the prohibition clauses of S00: \u2019 ©.\u2019 \u2019 \u2018 \u2019 \u2018 0e justify that gentieman\u2019s adjectives.Liquor Act of 002.committes \"© The personation cases in London, |POTE Wes toen Voted upon, 8 unani he pe » [mous and hearty agreement upon it ar- .Kingston, St.Thomas and Toronto rived at.It presented a majority and academies and at the same time by his, war.Colonel Viljoen sent his card, {leave no doubt upon that point.Hired minority report, the latter, however, be- office work will enshle Dr.Parmelee to which Mr.Weldon at once sent upstai personators from adjacent United |ing waived, majority , the do more in furthering the interests of in a jocular spirit, to Major Cameron aud 3¢ateq cities were imported, and about adoption of which was moved by the the elementary school.several other officals who had fought in, score of them were caught.Some Rev.W.A.McKay, D.D., president of anne as ait have pleaded guilty had their fines the Ontario Alliance, and supported by MONTREAL NEWS.their expense.Mr.Weldon was not | paid by liquor men.rs have jump- tion moved in the committee by tbe Rev.sure of the reception which might be |ed their bail.In connection with the\u2019 4 Carman, D.D., seconded by the Rev.Lo LL .__{ tendered the gallant colonel in Montreal, fraudulent liquor vote the Ontario Principal Caven, as follows :\u2014\u2018That is In connection with the gigantic series but will write him to his hotel in New Government has n duty to perform in view of the recent expression by the elec- of election frauds in St.James division, | York, where is at present staying.the investigation of the ballot stuffing tors of the province of Ontario in favor Mr, Joseph Brunet, M.P., was yesterday E.A.Leifeld, jeweller, of Washington lly in South of tbe Liquor Act of 1002, we deem it declared unseated and disqualitied.D.C., was arrested at the St.James Ho- which was rampant, especially ul advisabl a i de § te On Sunday morning burglars broke tel \u201cIn this city, on Tuesday, by | Toronto, and which has been attested at upon te Pp ea to event into the wholesale coffee and spice estab- tive Trudel, of the city detective depart.O8 oath by prohibition serutineers and that effect be So to the said vote by lishment of Mesars.R, Herron & Co.585 ment, on & charge of theft.Leifeld is in several cases admitted to have oc: (he abolition Fe publie bar, the trest- St.Paul street.and got away with about wanted by the \\Vashingtun police for curred.ing system, snd treating in clubs, and twenty dollars in carb, part ner {he alk : A theft of a Juntiy of jewel-| The prohibition electors have their the imposition of uch other restrictions 4 ery, including diamon wa ete.i on tl iquor traffic as effes- ued at about fifty dollars, They Lelifeid arrived bere on Tuesday ane duty plainly marked out for them.1 tively cliquer ite operation and remedy % val ined entrance through a side window.Because burglars have already once blown the safe in the office, it is now left open, and thus what few valuables they secured came very easily Lo the thieves.\u2018The Hon.A.B, Morine, leader of the position of Newfoundland, was in Montres) last week.Previous to his departure he exy the opinion that the terms of the new Bond-Hay treaty were favorable for the colony of Newfoundland.The terms of the treaty, are so favorable, he thought, that the United States Senate will not hesitate à moment about refusing to ratify it.fle said: \u20181 should be very much surprised, indeed, if the treaty ever becomes a > \u2018The Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacifie are ting an unprecedented influx of immigration in the spring former company has discontin ing freight cars at the Hochelaga and is now entirely on passeng>r coaches.Thirty first class cars, and two parlor cars are now under construction, while at the Grand Trunk ehops they are working on ten first clase cars, and have just completed an order for ten second class.The Grand Trunk is also busy on freight cars, a (Iperimenting wit high tension, uency electric currents.Doctors G.P.Girdwood and Higgins have found that in guineas pie at t, these cur rents arrest or .lelay the progress erculosis in a marked way.Guines- pigs, inoculated with the disease and treated electrically lived almost twice as long as those inoculated and not treated.Dr.Girdwood wil lay tbe resalts gf hiv experiments a ore i spl Society, and believes that the treatment will be very beneficial The build shops, hee sflicted with consum) Money Let returned a rar of mansie ter against ~ William Robinson and nial regis! at the St.James Tlotel with his wife as Von Wallick.Dari the day he tried to dispose of some the stolen in several of the pawnshops.When arrested Leifeld denied his identity, but afterwards admitted it, and was taken to detective headquarters.Several watches were found on him.He told Chief Carpenter that he had visited Toronto and other puces where he had i of some of the goods which he is charged with having stolen, beforo reaching Montreal.It is not expected that hé will tight extradition, e ac cused said that he has only been a short time in the United States; that be was formeriy a lieutenant in the German army, and saw service with @ detachment in China during er outbreak.He ala claims to have travelled around the world on & bicycle.REMARKABLE LONGEVITY MRS.ESTHER D.JONES PASSES AWAY AT THE AGE OF 106 YEARS.There passed away, Thursday, in this city, at the se of 108 years and six months, Mrs.Esther Duun Jones, mother of Messrs.Maurice, Arthur and Patrick Jones.She was born in Kil- dare, Ireland, in 1797, and has becn a resident of Montreal for fifty-five years.She had lived in three centuries and under the reigns of five sover- eigne\u2014Ki: Geo: and IV, Wil- lism IV, Queen \"ictoria and King Edward VIL Mrs.Jones had siweys to enjoyed good health until four wee ao, when she was able to walk to church.Her eyesight was so good that she did not have to wesr glasses is to make their influence potent the by-elections as they were called upon to do in the provincial elections by the Ontario Alliance, by the election of candidates who can be depended upon to vote for prohibition the Legislature regardless of party.From the present indications of prohibition activity they are likely to prove thus equal to the occasion.A COMPARISON.Jes.3, 1064.Men.Women.Total.Fer prodibition .190,067 12.403 192,480 Against probibitien .108,494 2226 110,720 Total votes polied \u2014\u2014z0658t 14.608 205,200 Ms).for probibition.71,683 10,178 61,700 Sept.39, 1806.Protbitics Against.a use af mie .Dec.4, 12.2E bites it.Mitr ol A Apa , 176,000 9 CN 3.50 vo BAR-ROOM MUST GO.Toronto.Dec.17.\u2014Owing io the large number of prohibiton represanta.ives wh ariive¢ from all parts of ihe jiru- vines yerierday to attend the conference summoned by the Dominion Alliance, it was held in the lecture hall of Knox Church instead of at the Alliance offices.The con! to order at two o'clock .G.F.Marter, ex- M.P.P., chairman of the Alliance executive.The proceedings wers enthusias- tie, differences being only upon mat ters of detail, and al up on the n of action finally adopted.The conftrence was most comprehensive.Prominent members of the Anglican Roman Catholic, snd various svangeli churches were among those partiipet ing.Delegates Ottawa, Brant, Nest Suncoe, London, West Huron, Pa \u201c| ia New Brunswick sad since then ita evils.\u201d After an agreement had been arrived at upon the toregoing, it was, oo motion, decided that those forming the ence should form the deputation te government, the date to the Alliance secretary.On the suggestion of Mr.J.A.\u2018 Austin the conference pledged itself to unite in à vigorous campaign to ensure the ensct- ment of the legislation demanded.In addition to the Alliance executive conference was officially atten by deputations from the i ral Assembly Committes ie Life and Work, the Temp:rance Commit .tee of the Methodist General Conference, Congregational Union, Baptist Conyea- tion, and Toronto Anglican Diocese.four hours devoted to the discussion the policy to be adopted wers without an acrimonions utterance, The delegntes warmly congratulsted each other upon tbe outepme.: THE REFERENDUM PROHIBITION VOTE OF 134 HAS BEEN BEATEN.Toronto, Dec.18.\u2014The prohibition vote of 1804 bas been exceed: returns ra ceived y, which hibtion vote, 182,425; liquor vote, 94 Prohibition majority, 8,383, with constituencies to hear from.\u2014 REV.GNORGE BURNS DEAD.Woodstock, Ont, Dec.35.\u2014The death toox place on Saturday of à pioneer Bap- tlst minister in the person of the Rev.George Burns who for forty-seven held various charges in Ontario and New Brunswick.Deceased bad reac the of eighty-six years.His first pre Re EASE es ee maa 1 \u2014~\u2014 ne \u2014 ag EE ae Te WW PTE TT = ext came 1.000 shares at from common so was Twins, but mainéer of the market was te dre barely steady.MORNING BOARD.©.R.\u2014300 at 138%, 100 at 195%, 2:0 at 10%, 100 at 106 at at 129, Coal sommea\u2014800 at 196, M at treal Power\u20143% at 83%.City\u201450 at 114, 0 at UY, TB at 10 at 114% it Ry.\u201450 at 76 et 4.Totton Sele, bet I.Neva Seotis\u2014% at Molesns Bank\u20143 at îté.Dem Bteel pfé.-80 at $4.17 at 1 AFTERNOON BOARD.J 2 ¥ .3 Sat ! \u201c5 at sreçatie A il aN.» \u2014r rt i.if.Pacife\u2014its at 120 1-6, 60 at 1204, 8 200 at 130%, TB at 130%, 19 ot 13e comfcon-! ss, 186 at ot 120%, 7 ot 58%.3% nt 56%, 9 1-8, 155 at 88%, À.ane 2 À w Moe a Th M4 Detrott \u201c88 » Paar BY dw 8 Fl = AR.mm my Im we 10 ie 100 10 Toronto Bt.1134 i i - De.now , 190% 1111 Twin .pmo ld A DA ble .1T8 ITB 175 173% 125 Me pouee 1» 5 5 By sn Dom.Irey .3% =~ 5 oe Be ot ne Bn 24» \u2018a ta on ame WB 1 mn AE RRR, ES BE 1 = w BE Man Ù pans moe 6 06 95 SN erchants .161 1601 1 161 \u201c Commerce .168 100 100 180 3 Hecholags .106 13 IN 18 a Total sales, ohares \u2026.\u2026 oe ber oo ION 5000 holiday trade te in fuil NEW YORK STOCKS, WALL STREET FIRMER; MORE ACTIVE THAN FOR SOMB TIME.New York, Dec.22, Wall Street\u2014-The mar- Xt epqned active and higher, led by tbe stocks that have besa recent favorites.Louisville, 8t.Paul, Can.Pac., and Sugar, elivanced 1%, and there were large holiday goods 1te fractional gains in Reading, Erie, Roek 18- land, Kauses and Texas preferred and U.8.Steel, the last named on heavy desilngs.\u2018Noon\u2014The quick decresse of offerings om slight reaction reflected the improvemwat in epéculative sentiment.Missouri Prcific took thea rise of 2 1-5 over Raturday = in ly high- rh Sg A i Mesars.J.D iets traders.° B < H During the second .load with : Rock Island the specialties, Cot.Oil jumped 3% with 8 jesction of 3; Gemersi Electric 744, and quleter again at noon.Colorado Fuel, 3.Pleken & Co.have recety- Pi, .\u2018London extent, but sales were in the Vans orang: while strong asd morning.while »° active, was ote professional la publie w- toll sense vances wers mainiy the only opponente few bearisbly in- was not « feature was especially streng.nos, asd galos run with & few, specialties ling eves higher.pg leg ER fel J Kansas and Temas, orfolk and Weatern, EER Ro is 4 percent; do., 1» 8 15-16 to 4 percent.COMMERCIAL.Montreal Wholesale Prices \u2014 The local whoissaie markets 66 not pre- seut any apprecisble change as wily last week, There is not anything 1k¥ the activity ussally displayed on such Bear approach to Christmas, and most lines In grain there lu seme enquiry for eats, dut at prohiditory prices.Other lines are neglected.In Sour, feed and provisions there ja a fair trade doing and the same be asid of poultry, butter and eggs.Prises are teally unchanged, GRAIN\u2014No.1 Manitoba hard wbeat, Tic; Ne.1 northern, 8c in store, Fort William, Dec.; peas, 73c high freigh oste, No.3, in store here, 36c to 3530; rye, $8%0 east; buckwheat, bic east, in store.FLOUR\u2014Manitoba parents, $4.20: otrun bakore, 8180; Ontaric rtraight rollers, at 81.50 to 83.65; in css at #17 to $1.78; patents, 63.70 to $4.10.ROLLED OATS\u2014Aillers' prices te jobbers, §3 in bags, and 84.25 pe: berral IDD \u2014 Manitobe bran, $17.5¢ to $15; shorts, $39, bage meludol; Ontario bran in bulk, $16.50 to $17.50; sborts in bulk.$19.HAY No.1, $8 to 310.Ni .00 to 98.76; clover, 26.20 to 57 18 ar BHANB\u2014Quotatiras are vominat at $2 In cars on track.FROVISIONS tise Canadian short eut pork, 826 : ligh prod eut, $34 ;compound refined lars, to 9%e¢: pure Canadiss lard, ile; finest lard, 120 to 12%c; hams, 13 te iS4e; bacom, 130 to lio; dressed Doge.37.50: fresh killed, abattoir, 89.75 per moe 0 0 Moc: wrsiont recor 1 to 19; No.à Wie.HONRY \u2014 Best clover fm sections, Île te 18 per section; in 10 lb.tins, ¥ to 100; tn bulk, Se.he ASHES \u2014 Potash fi 41.15 to 34.95: aetonds, $3.05.35 per 100 Ibs.Fo rl, ts offered for Hmited gusatiiles.POULTRY\u2014Turkeys, 1c to 13%e per 1b.; dueks, lle te lilge; young chickens, 19%e to Lie; fowts, Se per ib.; geess, to Sheet per BM.1 HESSE\u2014Ontario, 12%e.ané-Fornehipe, BUTTER \u2014 Fancy Townships creamery.Me: êne Creamery, te: Tata creammery, le; dairy butter, Tc for selections; Western Ontario rolls, 1Sc.BRADSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW.Colder weather has stimulated the de- mani for winter goods at Montreet, ana bas uleo helped trade in other directions.There has beem sn active demand for boliday goods the past week, and the sales of provisions generally have been large as in usual when the temperature drops.The pe year's business in the wholesale trade as been exceedingly satisfactory.There has been a good incresss in many éepart- ments, losses Lave been comparatively light owing to the smaller number of the failures, snd payments have continuod wood.A fénture of trade has besa the steady markets for msnufsctured goods, which was btoaght about by the increased demand for staple n, the scarcity of skilied labor, and limited capacity of fuctories and mille.Money is in demand, mercantile discounts, § to 7; time, Up: call, 8 to 6%; New York funis, %.lesale trade at Toronto has moderatel yactive this week.Wholesalers are busy receiving and shipping spring eoods.\u2018The boliday trade has been generally a little better than It was last year, aithough not as as was expected 8 few weeks ago.fe is partly due to the heavy lonses local speculators in New York stocks.atry paymeats have been fair.Money frm.At Quebec, business is active, and there is a big demand for seasonable goods.The Zon re i are reported very fair.In \u20ac ers are making a good display.on ma aufactarers are busy, and & number re- rort orders ahead until April next.The outlook fe encosraging.and there have been no failures in the district to speak of during the week.The activity in the holiday trade was the feature in business at Pacific Coast distributing points this week.The two export mills af the province have shipped $0,000,000 feet of lumber the past year, getting a return of $1,000,000 The effects of the bcuntifut crops in the felt st present by dealcrs neing the best demand for ever seen et Winnipeg.There te à g>od déemasd for grain, and the movement js limited only by tbe scarcity of cars.There have been heavy purchases of 1an3, both by new settlers and by the farmers already eettied, Increasing thoir holdin, Ottawg and Hamilton report s satistactory week and a promising outlook.DUN'S BULLETIN, Dun\u2019s Bulletin says of Montreal trade: Good smow are now general in the Montres district, and geod retail business se reported in Doth country and city, dut \u2018wholesale trade le naturelt Jule wi x near approach o ays.oc- tions, as @ whole, are only four failures are reported for the week, in city and district, three of them being of quite am insignificant character.No vary important changes are reported in the markets.A reduction of five conts Is announced fu wire nails, the figure for car lots betug mew $1.40, and ntities, $3.45, exactl as for eut naîle stock and low values fn the American markets, sad à Seeline of half à cent announcsd to take effect next week.other (lines there are mo special changes.West are bein, wha are expe: CHICAGO MARKETS Mestre.J.8.Bache & Co, No.16 8.it clesing tbe [continues light; street, report the prices High.Low.Clos.mw om om qos 8 st 5 A He 2600 He Hi We un \"ne im ss am 18 sa ve 837 8.Pg a a se Es Fr bs Dec.30.\u2014~The higher prices ruling for all kinds of farm produce brought out very large offerings this morning.\u2018The Attendance of sellers was the largest ia many months.Householders aud dealers were aisa out in strong numbers.The of- iorigs ia dressed not large, and all the offerin steady de mand at $1.80 to $7.75 per r .Di beef under fairly large offerings sold at us to $8.50 for hindquarters and $3.60 to .60 for fronts.The demand was urgent for turkeys that quotations sdvanced and several lots changed bands at lsc, although the roling price was in the neighborhood et 18e to per Ib, Chickens were in 1ib- eral supply and the fesling was steady o@ choice lots.Sales were made at fron To to #1, according to sise and Fatty, Oeese were In steady demand at 1 to §1 each, and ducks nold at #6c to Pe pair.Fresh of were quoted at per dozen, and held stock to Zac paf doxeu.Print butter brought from 1c Lo 266, and roll putter, 2c to 22c per 1b.Hay sold at from to $10.60 per ton.Oats sold at 3lc to 33a per bushel; buckwheat, 480 tO &0c per bush 81.26 te 3L50, and Potatoes ol; 3 barley, G0c to 666 per bushel\u2019 og tn excellent demand ut Bic to Sc per Lendon, Ont.Dec.22.\u2014Good sleighin made the Saturday market the biggest ot the yesr.Every available foot of the square was crewded with farmers\u2019 sloighs, laden with goed things for Christmas.The srain deliveries consisted chiefly of oats, shih brought 29%c to Wc per bushel.Wheat, 66: to 6bigc;: pess, 85c to 92c: Corn, Ec to 61%4c.rye.{Tc to BOc; barley, dle to 4c; deens, $5.10 to $3.35.buckwheat, Hay offerings small, $5.00 to $3.50 pel Dairy produce\u2014The doliv- erles Jf butter snd eggs wore quite large, Eggs steady at 1c to Mc per dosen strictly fresh laid, and 1% to 21c per dos.for crates.Butter firm, best rolls, ive to Mc: crocks, 170 to 19c: do., creamery, 210 te 2e.Honey, strained, i0¢ to 11e; do.comb, 13¢ to 13¢.Poultry was bere.tbere sud everywhere.Turkeys and geese the call, with chickens a close third.latter ranged from ic to 78¢ per pair: ducks, Tw: to $1.10; geese from 7c to Bc per 1b.; turkeys, 10c to lic per Ib.Spring chickens, alive, 48c to \u20ac0c.Live bogs, at 36.60 offered for to-day's deliveries for the choice Bacon hogs.to 96.50.beets, per bushel, $c to ag, 25¢ to 30e: doc; carrots, per bag, 15 to Ic; celery, per dossn, Mc to 0c; cabbages, do., 0c to 49°; ions, per bag, Eôc to 60e; parsley, per lozen, 15c to 20c: parsnips, per bag, 45\u20ac to Loc; sage and savory, per dozen, fe to XX: vegetable marrow, per dozen, Zc to 0c; pkins, each, Bc to 9c; squashes, per m, 86c 10 $1.50, Roars.per buabel, \u2018Lie 5c; apples, bag, te boc; barrel, 70: $1.20.Dressed meats, pork, per cwt.' 00 to $7.50; beef, by quarters, $1.08 .to $8.50; veal: to $8.a, $1 .$310 §7.Lamb, by the carcass, ic to Se.Hides and tallow nominally unchanged.Toronts, Dec.23.\u2014Wheat\u2014{asier than a week ago.There is a fair demand for milling, but apparertly not very much inquiry for export.No.2 red and white are quoted at @8%c to 6c cast, and Gc to site midio freights.Goose is nominal at Ce for No.2 east.Épring wbent Pa steady at #¢ for No.1, and 88c for No.2 enst.Manitoba wbeat ia ateaûy nt sle for No.t hard; 78e for No.1 northern, Port Huron and Owen Sound, and Gc more, grinding in transit, and 85e for No.1 hard, täc for No.1 northern, all rail, North fay.Flour\u2014The market is duil and easier: local exporters are quoting $3.70 for ordinary shipping brands of Ontario winter patents in their bags.east and middle freights and $2.65, January shipments.Choice brands are held 15c to 20 higher.Mill Feed\u2014Steady at $16 for cars of shorts, snd $14 for bran in bulk east or middle freights.Barley\u2014The better grades are scarce and firm.No.3 extra is quoted at 45c to I6c, and No.3 at 42: east and west.Buckwheat\u2014Steady at tlc for No.2 cast, 50e bien freights west, and Sic middlg freights.Ryc\u2014Strady st 60c for No.3 east and at ic west.Ccrn\u2014Steady at 5c to #c for new Canada yell>w west.American is lower than a week ago.Cars qf oid No.3 yellow are quoted st fic: new No.3 mized at Si, and how No.2 yellow at Bc, on the track, To- rento.Oute\u2014ln fair demand and steady.No.2 white are q at 3c east, 2c high freights west, and 30%c middie freights.Peas\u2014Steady at Tic for choice No.à for milling cast and middle freigbls, and ordinary No.2 for export at 72c to Tic eact, and 7âc middle freights.Butter Tha recipt of choice dairies there Is & good demand for both that class of butter snd for the choice creamery for this market, and the prices are stesdy.Medium and low grades are dull and unchanged.Cream- ory prints, 3c to fic: do, solids, new, 22 to Me; de, solids, old, Me to Sic; daify, tubs, and pails, choice, Hc ta lfc; do.tvbs and pails, medfum, lic to 15¢; dairy, tubs and pails, common, 13c te léc; do, round rolls, 17c to 19c; do, large roils, 166 te 17e.Ess»\u2014The offerings of strictly fresh gathered are very Isir for this season, lio mild weather having the effect of kesping the hens laying.ere is à good demand, and prices are steady at 1c to Mc for tae strictly fresh gatbered; lic to 15e for the mplits: 13e to lbs (of seconds, and 180 for | 85 Hogs\u2014There in à fair éamand, end the market for cars of dressed ou the track here are rather firmer than & week ago at 17.40 to $7.60.Farmers\u2019 lots on the sireet market here sre quoted at $7.50 to $3.Live bogs were to-day reduced in price ten centa per hundred, end choice bacons are now quoted at $5.99, heavy light fats at §.65 per cwt.led Hay\u2014The offerings are demand je Hot very active, and the market is steady.Cars of No.1 timothy oo tbe track bere are quoted at #0 to $9.38 per tom.Beled Btraw\u2014Bteady, cure on the track here are quoted at 35 to K.50.Poultry\u2014The *eceipts are not lsrge, hold.ors baving beld back their offerings tilt this week.The offerings to-morrow are ex to be beavier, the mild weather the demand tbe past lew weather to-day has kept down days, and the unfavorable was a disappointment to dealers.Prices prices.are steady to firm for the best choice fresh killed young turkeys ove quoted at 11%c to 1%e, spd mediura grades at llc to 1; reve, 8! 10c to 1lo per Pigs, per pair, $5.00 2 PARMERS' MARKET PRICES, Dec.¥.\u2018There was a fair attendanne of the fer- mers at the markets to-day, but the Bus- lars wore nat as large ns might be es- pected with the near approach of Christmas and ouh azosllent ighing.Beef and pork were *he only articles that coulé be called abundant, thers being over me hundred farmers\u2019 sleigh with best or pork on them for als in the vicinity of the Bonsécours market at 10.30 this forenoon.On the other hand.the supply of turkeys «a much too small, prioss are wn- urually high, The buyers were out io crowds, snd a brisk trade was done At firm prices in nearly all cases.(sts were ether scarce, and sold nt about 85e the buckwheat, Le $1.10 do.; potatos go; 3 car 25 the barrel; parsaips, $1.88 .onions, $1.38 to 61.76 do.cabbages, f9e to 00: do.; celery, to 40° the éonen: dressed hous, 7e te Bléc per Ib; beef hindquarters, de to Ga do.: de, forequarters, 3%c to dic do.; sheep's muttom, 8e do.; lambe, 7c to Se 4o.; turkeys, 12e to 1e gosse, to lle do; chickens, 132 to 18: do.; tub fie do.: prin butter, Be to tag: se \u201d butters, 18 to 2c do.; fresh I to $c the dosen; older « cold storoge eggs, 20e the barrel; Valencia ora lemons, the barrel; Almeria grapes, % to small barrel; bananas $l to $1.40 hay, $6.89 to #8 per U8 bund aw $3.50 to $4.50 por 6 LIVE STOCK MARKET.Dec.15.Theres wers about 00 head ef butchers\u2019 cattle, 15 calves and 200 sl and lambs offered for sale at the Bast End Abattoir to-dey, The butchers were present in Jarge numbers, but trade was slow, owing to scarcity and very bigh prices asked for all prime Dboarts, which brought neatly one- quarter cf a cent per Ib.higher than on Monday.George Nicholson dougbt three Christmas beeves at Go 1b.; be alwo bought seven hend y ay at Fac per Ib, and eix very choice cattile om Mon- G.Martel bougnt A remarkably fine beifer from the Townships was sold dt To per Ib.Pretty gooa cattle sold at from 3%c to near Sc per Ib.and tho commen stock at from 3%c to I%c per 1b.Calves sold at from $3 to $3 each, ut they were not choice veals.Sheep sold at from 3c to Ic, and lambs at from 2c to 4%¢ per Ib.Good lota of fat hogs sell st about bo per 1b.weighed off the cars.LIVE STOCK MARKET, Dec.23.\u2018There were about 700 head of butchers\u2019 cattie, 20 calves and 600 sheep and lambs offered for sale at the Nant End Abattoir to-day.More than four-fifths of the cattle were common, aod some of them rather ioferior beasts, and thers were not in demand, and & large number will not be sold to-day.There wers a few bead of choke Christmas beeves offered, but the butchers were not prepared to pay fancy prices them, and contented themselves with tbe prime animals, for which they pald about £c per 1b; pretty 2004 beasts sold at from #%e, and common stock from 2c .The calves sold at frow $3 to $10 esch, or from ic to 3c per Ih Sheep sold at trom 3c to 3%c, and lamba at from 3Ke to 4kar per Ib.Good lots of RE hogs sold at about oc per 1h, weighed the cars.- \u20ac TORONTO CATTLE MARKET.Yoreata, Dac.19 Trade at the, Toronte cattle market was less ive, an We offerings ved rather slowly.The sesmation of the keen demand for Christmas fanttie bas brought business within s emall- wr ares, and export catis were the chief ealiers.The quality of the stock was (air se « few gooû loads sold at bigh prices tendency was toward a lower range of quotations, fiowever, and an eas ytons pre- valled.Prices of exports were steady, aud and butchers were in Iniriy good demand.Rough to common stuff was dull.Butchers and stockers were quiet, and there was very littie enquiry in bulle.Milch cows were pleatiful, and they sold well.Sheep were steady; lambs were lower, and calves snd hogs were unchanged.The total run was 70 cars, including eattie, 1,3%4 sheep and lambs, 13 calves and 3,050 hogs.Export cattle, choice, owt.$8.00 to $5.30 do.medium 440 to 4.85 Butchers\u2019, export 47 to 5.124 do., picked .440 to 4.70 do., good to choice 3145 to 4.35 do., fair to medium 35 to 300 do., rough to common .\u2026.23% to 3.00 Feeders, chort-koep .+.4.25 to 4.50 ., medium .es caer 3.78 to 4.98 do, light .31% to 3.7 Mich cows, each 36.09 to 51.00 Export ewes, cwti.3.00 to 3.35 Bucks, per cwt.200 to 380 Lambe, butchers 3% to 4.55 Calves, each .to 10.00 Hogs, select, per cwt.6-09 to 0.0 âo.fat, por cwt£ \u2026.\u2026 \u2026\u2026.835 te 0.00 do, light, per cwt.- 6.15 to 0.00 \u2014_\u2014 steers 51.99 to $200 to $4.40; cows, $1.00 to $8.5: cab] quoted live cattle selling at 13%c to 13%c: Christmas steers, 140 to ic dressed weight; sheep steady; refrigerator beet, 10c; shipments to-morrow, 1,605 cattle, #47 sheep and 4,400 quarters of beef.Caives-He- ceipts, 258; venais, slow ; about steady for prime and westernu lower ; vouis no choice here; little calves, $4: western and southern de, $8.13% to $3.50.few barnyard do, $3.13% ; city dreséed vealn slow at llc to lic.and lambs \u2014Roceipts, 7,193; sheep, 16c to 3c lower ; be to 9c; sheep, Ca to $4; few extra sheep, $4.50 : 1 34.75 to 96.10; culs, 32.00 whe chandiss lambs, $5.76.Hoge-He- 2,908 ; ler ; \u2018wetern hogs, few uate Doss ES at Ge: lacet extreme.Kart Buffalo, Dec.19.\u2014Cattie\u2014 800 head; demand light: barely Veale\u2014Racelpts, 478 Bead: strong, fc hi or; Lops to $9.3; comunon to good, to $0.78.gs ,006 head; slow.19e te 18c lower ; heavy, 3.3 to i mized, $4.35 to : Yorkers, $8.18 BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.Bdiodurgh, Dec.0.~\u2014Messrs.John Swan & fons\u2019 weskiy report on the live ateck : The number of fat cattle co ol a Tal uality thirty average, gene: q geod.The dempnd throughout bas bees about the same as on the previous week, al gh ta some instances à alight reduction ef prices weuld require to be taken.Ebeep hsve been shown In smaller uum- bore, and & general advance of #ein is,a8d in some canes 33 & head been obtained.Pat calves in smail supply, ond very dear, while pigs have maintained previous A very small of store sheep, generally of an Mmferior class.Anything of a fair description got easily and we rclé.There wis a Ama pl of store «atsle, for which there was @ fair jutry, and 8 fairly totai clarautt ol ected thew of a BLE and included larger proportion ef prime quality, trads for which was fairly frm a late rates.Butchering cows and bulls met less enquiry, dut prices unchanges.Arri- vals-21 Sooteh, irish, 378 Norfoik, Suffolk snd Essex, 1,648 mm home sod western countim.40 Devon.Increase of 830 in sheep market, including few lambn.Trade for wedders «low, but firm in value; rwes, owing to colder weather, occasionally 4 per $ Ibs more money; lambs sold trade stow., 104 to 4s Bd; lam Ga 34 to Ge sd ibs.Total au : aad jambe 6.5%; ».Liverpea , Dec.8.: 7 4.908, beasts, 6%d to bo second, te 84; third, 4%44 to bid.ta , TRe to TMA; other sorts, 844 to Td.D in- ciense of 152 eattle and a decrease of 1,183 Fair demand for fat stock; otbars slow; young finished sheep demand slow; otbers neglected, about late rates; #8 dairy cows sold £18 :o £2.CHICAGO CATTLE.Chicago, Dec.13.\u2014Cattle\u2014Recsipts, 14,- many of them have done up to ; or tm | pate.striated © i : [in muni ties, 1.te >on followin, counties: \u2014 Ottawa, Rieb- .; 2 to ns mond, Rimouski, Shefford, Bt.Mau- , \u201c 6.6 rire, Terrebonne, Temiscouats, Wolfs, og recois to-day, 26,000 : higher ; Montreal City, Quebec City.= and butchers, $5.96 to $8.35; to To meet the exigencies of this preva\u2019 po saute PE NS OR dE lence of smallpox, the Board bas only.sales, $6 to $6.30.oe three officers, of whom only two, the Sheep\u2014 Receipts, 19,000; steady.Good to Ins; r and the Assistant-Inspector, pole waters, HE Lo 4.0; astire lambs.are available to visit infected localities.NEW TORONTO ABATTOIR.Toronto Juuction, Ont, Dec.20.\u2014The (a- timation given by the Hon.John Drydes, at the Guelph mid-winter fair, that » great 4 mest trade would, in the near future, be established in Ontario, is likely to bs soon realised.Torosto Junction is the piace selected as the destination, and negotiations with the Union Stock Yards Co.have been about completed, whereby the latter has arranged to grant twenty acres to the west of their yards to an American firm.The erection of buildings will be started shortly sfter the mew year.The new company will erect abattoirs and otb- ory necessary bufidings, which will cost between $100,000 and $500,000.The bufld- ings and yards will cover twenty acres of land, with unexcelied railway facilities.It fs expected that about 900 hands will be employed.\u2014\u20142\u2014\u2014 HOME RULE HON.JOHN COSTIGAN WILL 1N- VITE PARLIAMENTARY SYMPATHY FOR IRISH CAUSE.Ottawa, Dee.18.\u2014The Hon.Jehan Cce tigan, M.P., says that he will invite the Canadian Parliament, at its forthcoming session, once more to express its ayim- with the Irish cause\u2019 in & resolution to be forwarded to the Imperial an thorities in London.\u201cThis will not be a new matter to the Canadian Commons,\u2019 remarked Mr.Cos tigan, \u2018im fact, it 1s a very old question on which our national assembly has al- \u2018ready more than once exp: its ecn- viction.My resolution will not differ materially from that which has Jecured endorsation in previous sessions, onl we judge it wise that the men who represent the Canadian public at Ottawa should renew their motion of sympathy with the cause of home rule and the right of the Irish tenautry to the ovn- ership of the soil they have tilled for so many generations.\u2018The land question will probably receive special mention in my resolution, as that is & very live is sue to-day.Moreover, it is my opinion that if it were satisfuctorily settled by the perliament at Westminster the Byit- ish public's opposition to home rule for Ireland would soon disappear.The lond uestion could never be properly han- ed Ly the local parliament Ireland.At auy rate it could be settled for all time to come by the Imperial Houses of Parliament and there would pot be the opposition to the valuations placed upon properties for compensation that would surely crop up if the determining body was the Irish House.\u2018My resolution of twenty years ago was passed without a vote in the Commons nt Ottawa.Binos that day cur legielators have been requested to reaffirm their view of the Irish question and have carried the resolutions cech time with\u2019 substantial majorities.1 was asked last session to bring this matter vp but was advised again that it could better be left over till the next meeting.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014 LITTLE MISS CARNEGIE SHE WILL NEVER BE TAUGHT THAT SHE HAS \u2018GREAT EXPECTATIONS.! New York, Dee.18\u2014The \u2018Evening Post\u2019 to-day saye:\u2014\u2018In our real estate columns of yesterday, in our reference to the sale by Mr, Carnegie to Mr.Burden, of certain lots in the Highlands of Fifth avenue, we ke of Mr.Carnegie\u2019s own house, which is to ta be « Christmas gift to his little ed be ter.This item had been printed before and we took it to be an undisputed fact.We now learn that it has no foundation whatever, and that nothing could be less in harmony with the ideas of Mr.and Mrs rnegie and that their daughter should now be overburdened with grest wealth.Least of all is she to be taught in youth that she has \u2018great ex) ations\u2019 or any expectations at all beyond & moderate competence, Neither of her parents deem great wealth a desirable posses ion for the morning of life, or for any part of life, or except it may be employed for the sdvancement of the human race.IRISH M.P.GOES TO JAIL.Dublin, Dee.19.\u2014Mr.Jon Roche, member of Parliament for East Gel way, was sen by the Crimes Court at Roscommon to-dsy to = month's imprisonment in default of bail, on the charge of walawful assembly.palities The dangers least it palities against An = Province Grested NEW prescrip! $ being entarrh, alent in so many rsunidpalities st winter, has again this fall, shown full setivity, and ns matters stand te- day, we foresee that every distriet of the province will be fnvaded unless municipal suthorities take more ef- cacious measures than what s It means that these two inspectors ean- not visit all the infected m ties and shanties, stationed in them to take the direction of the municipal work.\u2018In such cireumstances the earnestly Appeals to munici ties and ca Board does not deceive itself; it will not obtain the co-operation of all municipalities without excep! after the sbeolutel: and foree them to do their duty.Legal proceedings have already beem takem ther actions sre actually ressiving the attention of the Board, it being evident that in certain quarters it the only argument that has any t> The circular proceeds to give detail instructions as to how the spread of the disease may be checked.THE MOST NUTRITIOUS.EPPS'S COCOA its nstural quaiities fitted to bulld up and maintain robust hesith, snd te resist winter's extreme cold.le 4, EPPS A Cae.Ld., Ho! .Chemists, London, En .EPPS'S COCOA QIVING STRENGTH & VIGOR.TTENATH UBLIC NOTICE Dorval will apply to the Legisiature of the \u2018ebec, for an Act to erect the Village into Town, and to grant it also certain amenéments te ts (ncorporatiem sct, to extend its limits, to obtain new powers to Impoñe and cellect taxes and licenses, to modify its berrowing REFORD AGENCIES DONALDSON LINE.THOMSON LINE London Weekly Services.From PORTLAND, Ne, VON À too storage sad onel Dea.SE A verras and so au 88 KILDONA Thomous à Sea, CASADA OR WESTREN ETATES Ei NE TR RE Bead B \u201c THE sMALLPOK PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH TO SECURE CO-OPER- , ATION OF ALL MUNICIPALITIES.The Provinela] Board of Health has issued à ciroular urging aspen mune 3 the importance of taking swer- por § Getic measures Lo prevent the spresd of smallpox during the present winter.The drcular says, ia x part: \u2014 smallpox epidemis which was ote and still less be Board 1 authori- their attention to the which threaten them.The tion, but at would desire to have to look obstinate munici- only, to ter watch them several municipalities, and fur- Advertisements, admirable food, with afi / Seld fins, labeficd JAMES ithic hereby given that the Village of of Qu at_is next Attorney for Village of ole) Boa.feoki storage nad cool air).Dea tbe above Nees ty say of = % or trem aly Ce.Rémitets MONTRBAD CONSUNPTION CUBS Sarvelions Besalt of Preatment of \u2018 Fred.Hammass by Vienne Specialist.New York, Dec.\u2014 \u2014.Fred Hammans, « patient with hasty coneum lected by the New York \u201c the Vanderbilt Clinie from 100 ethet® cases, and sent at the \u2018Jourmal\u2019s\u2019 expense to Professor Hoff, thé eminent specialist at Vienna, to prove to the worid that the disease is corable, has returned home ee Se 2 = the medi and rem ps and Book, containing the \u201c frarnal\u2019 se cure as it of the , vent out free to consamptives all sufferers from bronchitis, asthma by the \u2018Jourmal\u2019 Research Amerie Tract Building.Now City.; A THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS & Dxosunza 28, 1903, IMMIGRATION Dver 31,000 Settlers in Canada During the Past Year Were Americans.-§HE TOTAL NUMBER OF NEW COLONISTS WAS 80479.Ottawa, Dee.19.\u2014Arrivals in Canada from ou , not including returned Ca- nadiane, or the eleven months of the Fear to the end of November on Salons 70.Of these, 56,000 were tled in Manitoba and the Territories, pot} 24,000 in ters Canada.Those who moved from our own Eastern Pro vinces to the western country in the same period were 14.300, makiug the total addition to the population of Manitobe and the Territories for the eleven months 70,290.The Immigration Department Sports that 31,489 of the new settlers in the west were from the United States.There have been twenty-one thousand nted in the a half times free homestead entries or two an SOMALILAND ITALY GRANTS PERMISSION TO SEND BRITISH TROOPS THROUGH HER TERRITORY.Roms, Dec.16.\u2014The \u2018Messa; ays that Italy has granted en te to land troops at ports on the ir coast, in Italian Somaliland, and \u201coud troops through Italian territory against the forces of the Mad Mullah.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 TARINE DISASTER FIFTEEN OR MORE SAILORS LOSE THEIR LIVES ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST.Boston, Dec.22 \u2014The fishing schooner \u2018Manhasett arrived here early today, having on board the survivors of the wrecked schooners \u2018Frank A.Palmer\u2019 and \u2018Louise E.Crary,\u2019 which were in colision on Wednesday night off Thatcher's Island.Eleven or more sail: ors were either killed in the collision, drowned, or died from exposure.After the accident eleven or more men from either vessel took a small boat.The \u2018Louise B.Crary\u2019 was a five- mastei, and the \u2018Frank A.Palmer a four-masted schooner.Both were coal laden, bound for Boston.At 8 am.Yesterday, when the \u2018Manhasett\u2019 was forty-five miles off Highland Light, the lookout sighted à small boat Hying sign signals of distress in a heavy sea.he \u2018Manhasett\u2019 changed her course and bore down on the distressed little craft, which proved to be the \u2018Crary\u2019s\u2019 boat.Of the fifteen men who had started, four were dead, and one, crazed \u201cby exposure, Saturday night, shout e top of his voice that police were r him, jumped Overboard and disappeared.The ten survivors were in a pitiable condition and several of them may die.All were frost bitten, and some ro.bably will have to have their and hands amputsted.The \u2018Manhasett' came into the harbor early this morning showing signals for assistance, and by the time she arrived at a wharf ambulances were ready to transfer the sailors to the hospital.Only six of the men could be remov however.They were taken to the Relief Hospital.The other four were in such a critical condition that it was not thought advisable to remove them from the vessel.DETAILS OF THE WRECK.Boston, Dec.22.\u2014Little can be learn- éd from the men taken to the hospital as to their experience in the open boat.\u2018Their mental condition is such that their talk is wild and incoherent.From what could be gathered by the crew of the \u2018Manhasett,\u2019 it appears that the collision cccurred at 5.30 on Wedues- day evening, several miles off Ca Ann.The night was clear, but a stiff gale was blowing and the sea was running high.The members of the *Paimer\u2019s\u2019 crew claim that the \u2018Crary\u2019 was on the wrong track and, in at- fempti to cross the \u2018Palmer's\u2019 bow, wtruck her on the bow.cutting her nose uarely off.The vessels became d in the wreck.The anchor and bowsprit of the \u2018Palmer\u2019 sank away from the wreck, while the anchor of the \u2018Crary\u2019 bécatre entangled in the fore- ng of the \u2018Palmer\u2019 and broke off the foremast.The vessels began to fi.The \u2018Palmer\u2019s men managed to lower n boat.There was no time to rocure provisions or additional cloth- Le ng.As the men cleared the wreck of thelr veasel they saw the \u2018Crary\u2019s\u2019 men in the same plight as they had been, and made room for as many as could reach the boat.Pifteen were in the small craft when it finally pulled away.Both captains were among those who ses A few moments later both schvoners went down, carrying wita them six men.For the survivors a battle which lasted three days and four nights had begun.One third.of the number succumbed in the fight, snd \u2018of thore who finally reached shore none wéte able to tell the story.The \u2018Louise B.Crary\u2019 was compar: atively a new vessel.Fhe was built at Bath, Me., in 1900, and was one of the * finest schooners on the eoast, havi nef tonnage of 1908.Her on tain, W.H.Potter, hails from Orient, L.I Her cargo consisted of 3,702 tons :¢ bituminous coal, consi to this rt.The vessel was only partial) sured.Her rer carn, wi yurmactsd woven was fully insu Pumer was the larg: [3 structed.Bhe was built at Bath, Me.in 1807.She sailed from Newport News on Dec.\" 4, with 4,700 tone of cosl for Boston.BIRTHS, RIAGES AND DEAT! Wotices of births, marriages deaths muet fevariably be endorsed with the name au addresa of the sender, or otd- erwise no notice wlil de taken of them.Rotices are inserted for Mo, mar Tinge notices for 80, death noticæs for Be, The announcement of funerd] sppended to death notlos, Me extra; other extension to obituary, such as short sketch of life.two cents per word s.tra, sxoept poetry, which is 50 Der lise extra\u2014prepald.@snual aubesribers may have announcements of births, marringes and denthe (without estendion obituary or verses) feurring ta heir immediste families tree sf charge, ta which case name anû address of subscriber sbould be given.BIRTHS.BULLOCK \u2014 At Roxton Pond, Que, on Dec.11, 1902, a son to the Rev.and Mre.W.8.Bullock.COBBS \u2014 At Baldur, Manitoba, on Dec.12 1902, tbe wife of George Cobbs, of & son.FLEKT \u2014 On Dec.16, 1901, at 482 Charte- a street, Mr.ané Mrs.W.L.Fleet, a son.GORDON \u2014 On Dec.19, 12, & ron to Mr.and Mrs.George B.Gordos 1: 3t.Lawrence street.JAC KMAN.\u2014At Granby, Que., on Dec.11, 1902, a son to Mr.and Mrs.O.M.Jack- man.LAMBTON \u2014 In this city, ou Dec.19, 1902, at 172 Champlain street, the wife of J.W.Lambton, of a son.McPHEE \u2014 At 'Braemar,' Vankleek Hill, on Wednesday, Nov.3%, 1902, x daughter to Mr.and Mrs.W.8.McPhee.ROSE.\u2014At 466 Rivard reat on Dec.15, « son to Mr.and Mrs.SEALE \u2014 At Morin rout, ue.on Dec.11, 1968, à daughter to Mr.and Mre.JE.Seale.SMITH \u2014 At Ottawa, on Dec.39, 1902, the wits of Dr.Ernest A.Smith, Shediac, N.B., of à sou.STEWART \u2014 At \u2018Boeky Dell,\u2019 Kingston, on Dec.19, 1902, to Mr.and Mrs.A.W.Stewart (née Levors Ferguson),a daugh- MARRIED.BEDAL \u2014 WADR \u2014 At the residence of the bride's father, on Dec.17, 120%, by the Rev.J.C.Wilson, Mr.Harry A.Bedal, to Miss Genevieve, youngest daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Joba Wade, all of Brighton Townsdip, Ontario.BROWN \u2014 MORRISON \u2014 On Dec.17, 1963, Susan Morrison, of Forest Fotis, Ont, tv Howard Brown, of New York.DODD \u2014 LEE \u2014 At Greville, Que, on Dee.17, 1902, by the Rev.M.F.Bou- dreau, Edward id and Sarah Jane Dod Les, both of Greavills, P.Q.FEILDE \u2014 ANSDELL \u2014 At Grace Church, Waterdown, Ont., on Dec.10, 1542, by the Rev.Robert, Corduer, Mr.Jobu Ausdelt, of Winons.\u2018 to Mise Adala Gertrude Feilde, o?W FERGUSON \u2014 FERGUSON \u2014 At Thamcs- ville, Ont., on Dec.17, 193, by the Rev.J.Mclants, Hugh Ferguson, of Ridge- tewn, to Elisabeth Ferguson, youngest daughter of James Ferguson, Thumes- vil FLEMING BOLTON At the residence of he bride's mother, Bolton, Oat, on Dec.1901, by the Rev.T.McLachlan, Albert W.Fleming, of Sandhill, to Louise.fav bter of the late Lambert Robert mn.FLINT \u2014 JONES \u2014 At Banff, Alberta, on Dec.10, 1962, by the Rev.Dr.T.Ward- law Taylor.William G.Flint, B.8c., son of George H.Flint, Montreal, to Eleanor Patterson Jones, B.A.daughter of the late T.C.Jones, Winnipeg.FREEMAN \u2014 DIMMA \u2014 At \u2018Willow Dale,\u2019 Cedar Trove, the residence of the bride's mother, on Dec.17, 1302, by the Rev.E.L.Pidgeon, Nellls A youngest daugb- ter of the late James Dimma, to George Milze Fresman.of Bos Grove, Ont.JONES \u2014 HICKS \u2014 On Dec.13, 190%, at Christ Church, Petrolea, Ont., by the rector, ths Rev.Wm.Craig, B.D., Charles A.Jones, of Petroles, to Loulse, youngest daughter of the late J.P.Hicks, of Kincardine.LLOYD \u2014 BTEVENSON \u2014 At Barrie, Ont, or.Dec.16, 1902, by the Rev.D.D.Mc- Leod, D.D., Fred.Norval Lioyd, son of Mr.David Lloyd, Newmarket, to Edith Zilla, daughter of Mr.J.McL.Stevenson, Barrie.McDONALD \u2014 MURRAY \u2014 At the resi- ior of the bride's parents, on Dec.17, 902, by the Rev.W.Robinson, of Keg, assisted by the Rev.Mr.Back, of Maj Flossie, eidest daughter of Mr.Isaac Murray, of Teston, to Mr.William 0.McDonald, of Purpleville, Ont.NEILSON\u2014MORROW.\u2014 On Dec.17, 1902, » the Rev.G.C.Poyser, John George ellison, of Grand'Mere, to Miss Clara Morrow, of Three Rivers.WRIGHT \u2014 TASKER STEELE \u2014 At Bt.Thomas\u2019s Church, Hamilton, Ont, by the Rev.Canon Forneret, on Dec.11, 1902, at 4 o'clock, Davies Ernest Wright, son of the late John Wright, Toronto, to Mu- rie) Tasker.odly daughter of Mr.and Mrs.R.Tasker Steele, of Hamilton.DIED.AGCETT\u2014At the residence of his brother, Jobn T.Aggett, 69 Collier street, Toronto, où Dec.1962, William G.D.Aggett, aged 48 ALLISON \u2014Buddeniy, at the manse, Stay- ner, Ont.cs Dec.13, 1908, Josephine Le- sors, inf t daughter of the Rev.W.T.and Josephine Allison, aged eix months.ASHENDEN.\u2014At ber residence, 170 De- grami street, Toronto, Mrs.Thomas W.Asbenden, on Friday, Dec.13, 1962, aged 75 years.DELL.\u2014At Lachine, Que, on Wedctsda; 11, Fanny Gatbraith, beloved Ler ar 0 Betl, Baq., aged 6 years aud 2 months.BOLGER \u2014 In Cleveland, on Dec.M4, 190%, Arthur P., eldest surviving mon of the laty T.O.Bolger, Kingston, Ont.BONBLL \u2014 At Rat Portage, Out., on Dec.16, 18, G:irge, eldest son of Amos Bonell, Ottawa, In his 20th year.BOUTHILLIER.\u2014On Dec.17, 1902, Olympe Prevost, wite of C.C.E.Bouthillier.BUBTEED \u2014 A Bordeaux Point, Honaven- ture County.P.Q., on Dec.1902, Mar- ret Botaford, tier of ihe late Alex.ustesd, ar\u2026 nge 74 years.Interred at Athol, N.B.CAMPBELL.~On Friday night, 190%, et his Tate residence, in eon.of Roxborough, of Glenelg.iaverness- 81 yedrs, § months, je copy.CASAULT \u2014 At \u2018Bondesir\u2019 Quebec, on .16, 1902, Marie Joscphise Anne Bu- ET dan = Dee.OLEMENTS \u2014 Suddenly, et he Tesidence of his son-ia-lew, b.© it, M.D.of Muskegon, kita.Uoknr Sa Dec.30, Sewell Clements, formerly of Jo- listte, Que., at the age of 76 years.CODY \u2014 Aru 30 Church street, Newmarket, Ont.on Dec.14.:2, Hoaunak June R.Cody, the ae wife of Lenjemin Cody.CORNU \u2014 Dec.1903, at Carouge, Geneva, Bwitrerinnd, Su Jean Corgu, fur- merly of Montreal, aged 86 years.CUEVIBR-\u2014At St.Lambert, oz Dec.16, 1908, J.D.Crevier, aged 61 years.DUVAL\u2014 At Ottawa,on Dec.30, 1962, Cyril Archibald, only som of A.J.W.Duval, BM Bauk street.FLEMING \u2014 At Tovonts, on Dec.15, 1902, Robert Fleming, In hin 7th year.GRAHAM \u2014 At 88 Worsley etrest, Barrie, Ont., on Dec.11, 1902, Alex.Grabam,aged 7 years.HADRILL \u2014 On Dec.19, 199% at 04 Fort street, Emmeline Lillan Copland, wife of George Hadrill, aged 3 years.HAIRE.\u2014At T93 Cadieux strest, on Dee.17.1902, Hazel Eva, infant daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Wm.J.Haire, aged 8 months and 23 days.HARRIS \u2014 In this city, oa Dec.17, 190% Marie Marguerite, daughter of J.W.Her- ris, of Lessard & Harris, aged six years and ons month HUMPHREYS.\u2014Entered into rest, oa Dee.id, 131, after twenty years of suffering borne with Christian fortitude, Alfre Humphreys, aged bé years and 1 moath.HYLAND \u2014 On Dec 17, I at 34 Bouser- or street, Ottawa, John Hyland (painter).aged 48 years.KAY \u2014 Entered Into rest, on Uec.11, 1902, Rev.Wm.Kay, M.A., of Toronto, tn the th ve, of bis age.\u2018Blesssd pre the pure in heart for they shall vee God.\u2019 LOVE.\u2014In thig city, oa Mec.14, 190% John, youngest son of the late Matthew Love, and brother of Mr.Thomas M.and Robert Love, at the age of + pt MacVICAR \u2014In this city, on Dec.16, Donald H.MacVicar, D.D., principal Presbyterian College, aged au yours.MAISON \u2014 In Kingston, Ont, on Dec.15.193, Samus! Maison, aged 79 years.MARSHALL \u2014 On Tueslay, Dec.16, 1503, at 88 Wellington street, Norman Por- rester, infant son of Mr.and Mrs, Chas.N.Marshall, aged 1 month and 2 days.MARTHUR \u2014At Brockville, Ont, on Dec.12, Wm.McArthur, aged @5 years, McDONALD \u2014 At the family residence, Baliallan, Scotstown District.Murdoch MeDonalé, on Dec.10, 1902, à native of the parish of Loche, Lewis, Scotiand,aged 62 years.\u2018His end was peace.\u2019 Scottish papers please copy.McGER \u2014 Suddenly, at 111 :Sollege Toronto, on Dec.15, 1802, Mary L.secod daughter of the late James McGes.McINTYRE \u2014 On i'riday, Dec.13, 1963, at her residence, 3it \u2018irand avenue, Chi cago, Anns Maris Dobbie, formesly ot Lanark, Ontario, beloved wife of Dr.C.J.Mcintyre, aged 4 years.MEIKLE.\u2014After a short tliness at bis late residence, 33 Robert stfest, Torouts, the Rev.Wm.Meikle, in his $6 year, MILNE.\u20141In this city, en Dec.16, 1982, Leonard A.Milne, aged 16 years, spoon son of George Milne, Pointe Cl Claire.Winnipeg papers please copy.MCORE.\u2014At bis late Feuidence Baal street, Toronto, on opens Moers, broker, tomer of Louies, \u20ac MONDRS.\u2014At Napayes, Ont, on Dee 1, 1902, Priscilla Ann Mowers, rellot of the late\u2019 Robert Mowers, aged 81 years.NEELANDS \u2014 On Dec.14, 1902, at the residence of his son-in-law, Wm.Howg Newman, Owen Sound.Oot, Andrew Neciand, in bis 83th year.OSWALD \u2014 At 211 Drummond street, suddenly, on Dec.16, 102, Graham Campbell Greenshields, widow .: the late ia R.Oswald, and daughter of the late John Greenshlelds.PLATTEN.\u2014At 6 Brunswick avenus, To- Tonto, the residence of C.A.Bender, Esq.on Dec.16, 1902, Maria, widow of the late Thos.L.Platten, Port Perry, Ont., mother of Mrs.8.J, Sb and Mrs, .A.Bender, of Toronto, and Mr.Joha \u2018W.Platten, of New York, aged 65 years.READ\u2014At bis home, 349 Wellington street, Montreal, on Tuesday morning, Dec.16, 1903, the Rev.Fran Winter Reed, B.A., ager] 43 years, son the late Joba Read.of Romsey, Hampshire, Englund, mi sionary of tbe American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Angola, West Africa.\u2018He giveth His be- icved alee.\u2019 + REID \u2014 In this efty, on Dec.18, 1962, Geo.Reid, native of Aberdeen, Scotland, at he age of 38 years, brother of Jas.Reid, Outremont; W.G.Reid, of Hamilton, Ont; Sir Hugh Glizean Reid, of Lon- doo, England, rod Mrs.Robert Beattie, of Detroit, Michigan.RBIFFENSTEIN \u2014 On Dec.318, 1962, at his inte residence, 644 Rideau street, Ut- tawa, George Charles Reiffensteln, 1u nin 7th year.ROCHON.\u2014At 128 8t.Patrick street, Otta< wa, on Dec.14, 1902, of cerebral parbiysis, Flavien Elie Rochon, sculptor, 1a his th year.RUTHERFORD.\u2014At 2% Grenville street, Toronto, on the morning of Dee.18, 1962, et pneumonie, Annie the late Andrew Rutherford.SPENDLOW.\u2014At Ottawa, on Dee.14 1907, Catherine Smith, wife of Wm.Speudiow, aged 65 years.TREE Ah fir NEW TERM Ara née.Line PSS ughtar of : From January 6th ta sil depart- ly © wa + rayon ~ on Tmtey, tec nm.| & CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE this city, Frantis Joslyn, son of O.Stewart Taylor and Katbarine Taylor, aged § yours.New York papers please copy.TROTTER ; \u2014_ a Joyceville, Ont, en Nov.15, 1902, Jobs Tretter, aged 74 years.VANALSTINE.\u2014 In Nepanes, Ont, (Rob- Un's Hill), on Dec.10, 10.Jom, Miss Lydia Vasalstine, aged MW y: WALDRON \u2014 Ia Kingston, Ont, at his iats residence, Alfred street, on Dec.D, 2902, Gordon Waldron, aged 63 years and 1 montts., WALKEM,\u2014At Victoria, B.C., on Des.& 1908, Sophia Béith, wife of tbe How, Juss tice\u2019 Walkem, of the supreme court, Brite Ish Columbia.WILSON.At 764 Palace streef 1903, Jobn M.Wilson, aged WISEMAN \u2014 On on Dec.46, years., formerly Newfoundiand papers please copy.WRIGHT \u2014 At 16 las rond, Toronte, 151008, \u201cVaries Tas DCR OB bon of the Inte Tp rea Ximonréipe, aged 3 years, | ¢ Pa.COLONIAL HOUSE, MONTREAL.wn CARRY A FULL LINE OF WINTER SPORTING GOODS SKATES, SNOWSHO (ios illustrated Chi TOBOGGANS.NO.3-\"COLONIAL,\" a v cures in top, put together wit sou nu en ee ages q Length, 3' q Length, 4 fest to arch, each ngth, 5 fost to arch.each NO.2e LONIAL,\u201d, with dat wesd PE TOBOGGAN CUSHIONS.| D and fast dobossan With Curved tn \u201ctop q Ca 10 ing per each foot ot lm, per each foot ef -Corduroys, 4 SNOWSHOES.Children\u2019s, fancy or plain, 9x2 inches, per pair.$ q Youth\u2019 ane or plain, 10x88 inches, per patr.9 fancy or plain, 12x3¢ inches, per pair .ta plain, 12x43 inches.per pai Mso's Trampers, plain, 14x42 in:bes, per Men Hunter d Lamp-wick strings for d Thongs, per pair .,.d For Moccasins, ses Loot snd fhoe extra large and iron SKATES.HOCKEY BOXING STICKS =X GLOVES, and PUCKS, Etc.handeome toboggan with runners, brass screws, wood Blot LL 11 11 Le 2 au 00 $ fost, with cusved ia WP ., INDIAN MAKE.Length, 144 fost to arch, each .oo oe 89 Length, 3 feet to arch, osch » Toot to Arch.euch Gretonnes, per each foot ot length, %: to per each foot of length, 60 to Materials may be selected, and samples will be sen 's, plain, 18x43 soghes.per pai SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS.8, OBOGGANS, ETO.tmas Ca.niogue.) of the best pore vaseonce 000 ing ao \u2018extra strong re, length, fhe to .length.application.8 | pair.pe 8.16x42 10.per pair.r 1 Department.Farm and Other Lands OVEK 400 FARM Y FOR SALB IN Fronton » Ontario, \u2018the Garden of Candids.\u2019 for our list.WESTERN RRAL neTATE EXCHANGE, Limited, Londen, Out.FOR GALE \u2014 A NICE CALIFORNIA Home, very cheap.120 acres, wall improved, house, outhouses, ete.L.MAR- NO, Escondido.California.FOR SALE \u2014 FARM, 100 ACRES, West, lot, #3, con.3, Eupbemia, Lamiten ny beautitully siluetod.one rom Shetland, church, school, roller mi otc, three miles from Florence; 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